who here is planning on going to the harry potter convention in chicago this summer? I want to go i am currently trying to pursuade my parents to take me. Also does anyone know the best way to get to chicago from New York City?
The website of the convention is
http://www.terminus2008.org/
just fly your broom
The Security Council calls upon states interested in the security of maritime activities to take part actively in the fight against piracy on the high seas off the coast of Somalia ,in accordance with international law, as reflected in the Convention.(2).
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9467.doc.htm
So, what is an international law?
Generally speaking, each country is responsible for it’s immediate coast . . . international waters are defined from mileage to shore but can vary depending on circumstance . . . gambling must be 10 miles off shore in Florida but oil deposits can be mined if they are more than 50 miles off shore . . . the Coast Guard operates within 10 miles off shore unless there is a national crisis and then they can operate 100 miles off shore . . .
My larger point is that international waters as far as legal enforcement varies on the situation . . . but since Somalia has made no effort of securing their portion of "water" the responsibility falls to the international community.
this is significant and unprecedented . . . because the world is now acknowledging that if a country fails to protect it’s maritime borders they forfeit their sovereignty over such waters.
But in 1995 the SBC finally admiited it was wrong about slavery and racism. If the SBC was completely wrong about slavery and racism, then is it possible that they might be completely wrong about the pressing moral issues of today? The SBC has always used the bible to justify its position. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention
I have never seen slavery condemned in the Bible. My opinion of them hit zero in 1995 because it was typical Liberal pandering to blacks.
My org will hold its annual convention this coming March. We want to take advantage of the bar codes found in students’ IDs for faster registration procedures. We’re planning to borrow barcode scanners from our school’s IT dept, but they might be unwilling to let us use their software for security purposes, and also licensing purposes. What software can my org use that would be easy to use, complex enough for registration, but not too complex that we won’t be able to understand how it works. Thanks!
Try this:
http://www.tec-it.com/en/software/data-acquisition/twedge/keyboard-wedge/Default.aspx
Get free support:
support@tec-it.com
Where Al Gore will emerge at the last minute as the "dark horse" candidate and win?
For those of you that don’t know what a "brokered convention" is click on the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention
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Lettie…
Gore is a loyal democrat, if he’s drafted by the party I think he would do it. What better way to enforce & implement his views AND save the planet.
actually, I do. He has proven his electability against the toughest GOP opponent in a long time. Bush I and Bob Dole were pushovers. Bush II could raise money AND rally the right wing. McCain cannot do either. And somehow, we have to politically correct choices that are not actually correct to beat McCain. I think Gore could win with 60 percent of the vote, and at least 400 electoral votes. America realizes why they voted for him in 2000, and why more of them should be able to rectify their mistake if they voted for Bush.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
It’s ratified into US law. It essentially gives children various freedoms, such as religious freedom, information, etc.
I agree with it fully. Do you?
What’s not to like about it?
Who is here is planning to go to terminus2008 (HP convention)?
who here is planning on going to ther harry potter convention in chicago this summer? I want to go i am currently trying to pursuade my parents to take me. Also does anyone know the best way to get to chicago from New York City?
The website of the convention is
http://www.terminus2008.org/
Yeah, but no thanks XP
10 pts to the best answer (with best link or referecne)
find where in the geneva treaty, the killing of civilians is outlawed. please be as detailed as possible. im looking for facts, not your opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
im not sure what to think of that answer. I just had a long discussion about the treaty with someone and they said there was no justification for civilian deaths during war according to it, so im asking the y! answers community to prove it. Show me where it says, anything about civilian deaths in the treaty.
Will someone please tell me where the Geneva Convention covers terrorist/guerilla groups like the Democrats shout about?
As soon as I find a link to that one dealing with the context of this war, I’ll let you know.
The independent website "Adherents.com" has this chart (abbreviated and columns switched):
http://adherents.com/adh_rb.html#International
Religious BodyNumber of Adherents
…
. 16,811,519 Seventh-day Adventists
. 15,597,746 Jehovah’s Witnesses
. 12,275,822 …Latter-day Saints
The webpage had a footnote on Jehovah’s Witnesses:
[quote]"** Jehovah’s Witnesses: This 15+ million figure is the approximate number of adherents — intended to reflect all those who consider Jehovah’s Witnesses their preferred faith, regardless of current activity status. Figure is based on reported once-a-year memorial attendance (adjusted). Actual number of publishers was 6 million worldwide in 1999. Worldwide, the number of practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses may actually be higher than the number of practicing Anglicans."[unquote]
At one point do we start calling Jehovah’s Witnesses a mainstream religion?
I checked two websites, and apparently there are now more associated with Jehovah’s Witnesses than with the Southern Baptist Convention!
16,383,333 Jehovah’s Witnesses
16,270,315 Southern Baptist Convention
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
http://www.lifeway.com/common/clickthru/0,1603,Art=162352,00.html?X=/article/?id=162352
Are there any published figures to compare these two religions?
This seems astounding.
Most people I know consider us to be part of a mainstream religion. I think when people refer to us as a cult or our beliefs as unchristian they do not know what the terms "Christian" and "Cult" mean. Then again some others are simply misinformed as to our beliefs. I have seen so many answers and questions on here that show that people either do not know what we believe or are just lying about our beliefs. Religion is a hot button issue. Those who are actually willing to listen to us( and not just believe rumors, lies, misinformation, and misunderstood info) I think probably consider us mainstream. Those who do not wish to see us for what we are (people striving to serve Jehovah and follow the principles in the Bible) may never be willing to see us as mainstream.
who do you think they voted for in the late 60s? Dems?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention
but didn’t Nixon work to end the war, which was the goal of the protesters?
So, Nixon may have been "less war" but not anti-war… did protesters just not vote or vote for the lesser of two evils in their minds for Nixon (ironic calling Nixon lesser of two evils)?
or it was just all crazy and there wasn’t any real consistency?
From personal experience… the protestors THEN were the SAME ONES protesting TODAY… just LOOK at Hanoi Jane! She’s STILL at it… why? Cuz they HATE AMERICA… period! They think that America is the GREATEST EVIL that ever existed on the face of the planet Earth.
How do you figure they were not the Democrats? Are you ASSUMING that a protestor at the Dem convention HAS to be of the opposing party, the Republicans??? I’m afraid you’d be dead WRONG at that!
As with today, these protestors were LIBERAL WACKOS who were NOT HAPPY that the Democratic party wasn’t as WACKO leftist as THEY were. SOUND FAMILIAR???
Just LOOK at the list of the "Chicago Seven" (actually eight!) protestors:
Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Dave Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Black Panther Bobby Seale
I do NOT see a Republican among THEM!
You say, "Didn’t Nixon help END the war?" Yes, he did. But you have to ALSO realize that MANY Republicans were NOT HAPPY with Nixon, and many Nixon biographers will tell you that Nixon was a LIBERAL-Republican. Don’t you realize he was a Quaker… and Quakers are known for being "non-violent"? Nixon felt it was expeditious for him to end the war in Vietnam partly to save the country from what many felt was being torn assunder from within. He was attempting his best to bring peace to the USA as well as ending the war in Vietnam. The riots, the protests, the utter violence on the streets and campuses of the US scared a whole LOTTA people! Nixon felt that if he ended the war, he would also end the division the war was causing in America… thus saving America from utter destruction.
But what, then was the TRUTH about Vietnam and the anti-war protestors? Here is what the great Russian author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn thought….and I quote from the wikipedia article cited below:
In his commencement address at Harvard University in 1978 (A World Split Apart), Solzhenitsyn alleges that many in the U.S. did not understand the Vietnam War. He argues that although many antiwar proponents were sincere about stopping all wars as soon as possible, they "became accomplices … in the genocide and the suffering today imposed on thirty million people there. [in Vietnam]" He rhetorically asks if the American antiwar proponents now realize the effects that their actions had on Vietnam by inquiring, "Do these convinced pacifists now hear the moans coming from their Vietnam?"
Well? Does this sound FAMILIAR today with Iraq and the anti-war protestors????? Are we AGAIN DOOMED TO REPEAT HISTORY because we HAVE NOT LEARNED FROM HISTORY about the TRUTH of Vietnam??????? HOW MANY MORE will be killed and slaughtered if we pull out of Iraq as happened when we pulled out of Vietnam??????? WHERE is the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for today???
Have a right-wing day.