Inquiry

From The Jakarta Post : Members of the House of Representatives have moved to establish a special task force to investigate U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 (Namru-2). The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) proposed the interfaction fact-finding team because of allegations the U.S. laboratory is engaging in espionage and the lack of apparent benefits to Indonesia from their research, said senior PDI-P lawmaker Sidarto Danusubroto. "We propose the House form a task force to investigate the lab to reassure the public that it isn't spying on us and that it really benefits the country," he told The Jakarta Post. Sidarto, a member of the House's Commission I on security, defense and foreign affairs, said the team would urge the laboratory to be transparent in

Molds are fungi that cause spoilt food and some diseases as well. Not all of them are dangerous; some even lend a hand in degrading food and other natural wastes. Other types of mold are also instrumental in making beverages, food and medicine. More: continued here

The British House of Lords turned down a request from mothers of soldiers fighting in Iraq for an inquiry into why their children were sent into battle. The women argued there was failure on the part of the Blair government to ensure in advance the war was lawful and justified. “That duty,” said their lawyer, [...]

This is a Response to a good friend’s exploration of when it is someone becomes a Christian and acheives salvation: An inquiry in response to yesterday’s Morning Light’. I hope you can find some time to read it all. Biblically Speaking: An Inquiry: Upon repentance from sin, is this something separate of Christ? Or does repentance come upon [...]

A Canadian judge is currently hearing final arguments at the inquiry of a medical doctor and expert witness who was once considered to be the leading mind in the field of pediatric pathology. Dr. Charles Smith previously testified at the...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last night ruled out any further investigation into allegations of corruption involving a Kenyan mobile phone company of which Vodafone holds a 40 per cent stake.The decision came as thousands of Kenyans lined up to buy shares in the public flotation of the company, Safaricom, after opposition calls to delay the biggest ever state selling of its sort in east Africa were defied.The Kenyan government owns 60 per cent of Safaricom, the most profitable firm in the region. The other 40 per cent is owned by Vodafone Kenya – which itself is 87.5 per cent owned by the British-based mobile giant, with the remaining 12.5 per cent owned by a mysterious Guernsey-registered firm called Mobitelea.The owners of Mobitelea remain unknown despite enquiries by Kenya's investm

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has rejected requests for an overall inquiry into the origin and conduct of the war in Iraq on grounds that such an investigaton would “disract” from the current war going on. He insists any inquiry should take place when the “work is over” in Iraq. But, a number of Britain’s former [...]

Richard Gage AIA, the founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and hundreds of other industry experts' call for a new investigation into the collapse of the WTC twin towers and Building 7 is gaining strength following revelations of falsification and cover-up in relation to the FEMA-funded inquiry into the destruction of the buildings on 9/11. As we reported earlier, the American Society of Civil Engineers - an organization that was funded by FEMA to investigate the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11 - has been accused of engaging in a cover-up to protect the government, with critics charging the organization falsified conclusions that skyscrapers could not withstand getting hit by airplanes. In a recent sit-down video interview conducted by Alex Jones, Gage gave

Airing of Spitzer Inquiry Is Sought - New York Times-soares.html?_r=1&ex=1364184000&en=c1ab15ea0305380f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=sloginExcerpt:"Gov. David A. Paterson has been asked by the Albany County district attorney, P. David Soares, to grant waivers that would allow a full airing of the district attorney’s findings in its latest investigation of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration.The request was made in a letter sent by the district attorney to the governor on Monday and a response was requested by 5 p.m. today. This morning, Mr. Paterson’s office sent a letter to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo seeking a legal opinion."

Okay, so last week I presented my senior thesis research at BYU’s Inquiry Conference (mentioned in a previous post). Everyone said I did well, although I feel I did better the week before when I presented at the Utah Conference for Undergraduate Research. If you are bored enough to want to watch my presentation then [...]

This week has been a hell week...Projects that I've neglected in the past has now returned and started haunting me...This includes my two Thesis. One is for Methods of Research entitled "Online Writing and Blogging as a Good Source of an Alternative Income" and the other one is for Thesis B the Flash Game I will be doing later up to tomorrow (yup I will sit on it the whole evening). Hope I can catch up and complete my requirements in order for me to finally graduate on April 11.I would like to apologize to my readers (yes, I am talking about you) for my inactivity during this week. I usually post three to four blog posts per week (excluding the surveys) but as you've notice this is the only personal post I had for this week. Hope you can understand my situation.Oh! there's another thing. A

Way back in the spring of 1969, amid Apollo launches and Lennon/Ono bed-ins, the Canadian government appointed a commission to look into the recreational use of drugs by its citizens. The Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, also known as the Le Dain Commission as it was chaired by Gerald Le Dain, was completed in 1972. FYI, Mr. Le Dain was a lawyer and World War II vet who after the completion of the commission went on to become a judge and eventually work his way up to sitting on the Supreme Court of Canada for four years.An interim report, consisting of 557 pages + appendices, was released in 1970. I found a copy in a bookstore this afternoon. It is set in what appears to be Courier typeface, with wonderfully extravagant leading and tracking. Based on a quick skim th

I speak with many people. Often many people will say they are asking themselves “who am I” or “what am I”, and some will say they have been asking that question for years or they have been working on it bit by bit. This tells me they are mentally trying to figure out who they are. Self inquiry isn’t so much mental as kinesthetic. Just be aware of what is right now…with the curiosity to find out who/what you are. There is no need to work on this for years or even bit by bit…just look. Ask just once…sincerely and whole heartedly…”Who am I” or “What am I” and stop (do nothing) for just one second…just be aware of what is. Ask the question and let it go (sending it out) and then just look (not trying to do anything)…aware of what is (the response). N

Below is an email response to an inquiry my wife made to Horizon Organic about the presence of any gluten in their products. Since she has severe Celiac disease associated with the skin problem Dermatitis Herpetiformis she is extremely sensitive to even minute amounts of gluten that may be hidden in foods or be encountered as the result of cross contamination. The email response illustrates a couple of important problems or challenges those of us trying to follow a gluten free diet encounter. First, gluten like grain proteins are found in barley and rye, not just wheat. Wheat is required to be disclosed on foods but barley, rye and gluten are not. Second, there is not yet a U.S. recognized and accepted definition of "gluten-free". The FDA is working on this issue but there is a political b

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO (From The New York Times)Published: December 14, 2007BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's new president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, lashed out at the United States on Thursday for meddling in Latin American affairs after American prosecutors in Miami alleged that a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 was intended to be a secret contribution to her campaign. Cristina Kirchner"There is some garbage in international politics that holds back development and seriousness in international relationships," Mrs. Kirchner said from the presidential palace here.On Wednesday, just two days after Mrs. Kirchner was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president, American officials arrested three Venezuelans and one Uruguayan on charges of acting and conspiring to act as agents of a foreign government within the United States, without prior notification to the attorney general.According to the American criminal complaint, the four individuals, and a fifth who is still be

It is nice to see that we exchanged one incompetent Attorney General for another. This is the latest saga in 'As the Justice Department Turns'.The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented "significant risks" to its own preliminary investigation into the matter.The department is taking an even harder line with other Congressional committees looking into the matter, and is refusing to provide information about any role it might have played in the destruction of the videotapes. The recordings covered hundreds of hours of interrogations of two operatives of Al Qaeda.The Justice Department and the C.I.A.'s inspector general have begun a preliminary inquiry into the destruction of the tapes, and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said the department would not comply with Congressional requests for informati

Cosmologists also study: * whether primordial black holes were formed in our universe, and what happened to them. * the GZK cutoff for high-energy cosmic rays, and whether it signals a failure of special relativity at high energies * the equivalence principle, and whether Einstein's general theory of relativity is the correct theory of gravitation, and if the fundamental laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe

Folks! Do you know that HarakahDaily is currently running a great online poll on the above mentioned subject? They have named 5 great local personalities that they think have the credibility to lead the Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate all allegations that had arisen after the exposure of the sensational Lingam Tape video and they are leaving it up to their readers to select the best from the rest. One of the selected personalities is of course DYTM Raja Muda Perak Darul Ridzuan Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah. :-) I am not at all surprised to see that as of time of writing His Royal Highness has garnered the highest votes! I guess the common people just like me have a lot of faith and respect for His Royal Highness. :-) Courtesy of HarakahDaily Dot Net Perhaps you folks would like to participate in the online poll. Go ahead, folks! MalaysiaKini and Malaysia Today should consider running online polls from t

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Episodes: 16 Genre: Romance, comedy Broadcast network: KBS2 Synopsis Moo Yeol is a taekwondo instructor who falls for Eun Jae at first sight when she comes and asks him to help her find gold treasures at the agency. Hee Kyung is a tarot card master and Yong Soo is a manhwa shop owner who passes his days with no dreams nor hopes but gets involved in the gold hunting simply for fun. Moo Yeol, Hee Kyung, and Yong Soo gather together at the empty Inquiry Agency office and they discover a dead corpse in the basement. The four of them later decide to start a treasure hunting project. This is also a drama without a love story. Cast Lee Min Ki as Moo Yeol Ye Ji Won as Hee Kyung Ryu Seung Soo as Yong Soo Lee Eun Song as Eun Jae Extended Cast Park Hee Soon as Baek Min Chul

Credit : A Lit Of Credit Cards That Dont Make A Hard Inquiry When TheyReview Your Application ?!!!Can someone find me a list of credit cards that don't make a hard inquiry when they review your application? Maybe one that would just check my w-2 and current pay stub and even take a copy of my credit report? Thanks for your time.The Answer : Most credit cards are going to do a check. There are all kinds of offers that come in the mail and are posted on the internet. There are quite a few banks/companies that will give you a card with a limited or secured amount to use. However, most of these cards ask for a annual fee, plus the interest rate is high, and there may be a monthly maintenance fee as well. They are all over the place it shouldn't be to hard to find. But, remember that any app you put in will hit your credit score and lower the number for each hit.

Seattle Judge Seeks Inquiry Into Dallas Lawyers' Alleged Conduct. Source: Texas Lawyer Publication Date: 01/15/2007 Author: Robbins, Mary Alice COPYRIGHT 2007 American Lawyer Media L.P. Byline: Mary Alice Robbins The Letter A Seattle judge's allegations that an attorney with Waters & Kraus in Dallas may have eavesdropped on jury deliberations in an asbestos suit have blocked the firm from practicing in that judge's court and could affect the firm's efforts to practice elsewhere. About two weeks ago, a defendant in a separate asbestos case pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Department 42, called the California court's attention to the concerns that Superior Court Judge Sharon S. Armstrong, chief asbestos judge in King County, Wash., had raised about the alleged actions of Scott L. Frost, of counsel at Waters & Kraus in Dallas, and Mark H. Iola, a partner in Dallas' Stanley, Mandel & Iola in Lott v. Saberhagen, et al. Armstrong had notified W

Episodes: 16 Genre: Romance, comedyBroadcast network: KBS2Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-08 to 2007-Nov-27Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)SynopsisMoo Yeol is a taekwondo instructor who falls for Eun Jae at first sight when she comes and asks him to help her find gold treasures at the agency. Hee Kyung is a tarot card master and Yong Soo is a manhwa shop owner who passes his days with no dreams nor hopes but gets involved in the gold hunting simply for fun. Moo Yeol, Hee Kyung, and Yong Soo gather together at the empty Inquiry Agency office and they discover a dead corpse in the basement. The four of them later decide to start a treasure hunting project.CastLee Min Ki as Moo YeolLee Eun Song as Eun JaeYe Ji Won as Hee KyungRyu Seung Soo as Yong SooExtended CastPark Hee Soon as Baek Min Chul

A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry has been launched in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt into allegations that police failed to deal effectively with neo-Nazi attacks.A spate of crimes, including racially-motivated assaults, has left some politicians worried about their region's reputation.Last month, a group of Indians were attacked in the small town of Muegeln in the neighbouring state of Saxony and in June, police in Saxony-Anhalt came under fire over their response to an attack on a troupe of actors.The inquiry will focus on the police leadership in the city of Dessau-Rosslau. Several newspapers have quoted an officer there as advocating "turning a blind eye" to right-wing crimes.Far-right violence is on the rise in Germany. Last year, it reached its highest level since reunification in 1990.Groups who work with crime victims have long said that the country's right-wing culture is institutionalised and criticise police and prosecutors for being slow to bring cases to court."We must

I have done very little adjusting on this photo; tone curve, clarity, vibrance, white balance, and sharpening in Lightroom. In Photoshop I did a little cloning to a layer as this rose is a little aged but not much. A few marks stood out too much and didn’t add to the flower. I believe this would make a gorgeous watercolor as the background looks like a watercolor wash. Robert Henri once said, “Plainly you are to develop as a seer, as an appreciator as well as a craftsman.”   With that said, what is your opinion of this rose? Is there something you would change? Are the mid-values too dark? Is it too saturated? Would you throw it in the trash? Is the composition pleasing? Remember I’ll be painting it so I could do minor adjustments, just nothing major. I’ve learned my lesson and care not to revisit those trials some hours of toil working to fix what was already broken. I look forward to your insights with candid anticipation. Thank you each and everyone for stopping b

Sri Ramana’s (1879-1950) central teaching is: Self-inquiry. Instead of wanting to know this and that, seek to know the Self. Ask ‘Who am I?’ instead of asking about a hundred other things. Self-inquiry ought to be the easiest of all tasks. But it seems to be the most difficult because we have become strangers to our Self. What one has to do is simple - to abide as the Self. This is the ultimate Truth. This is one’s eternal, natural, inherent state. On account of ignorance we identify ourselves with the not-I.The most subtle of all these identifications is with the ego. Let us search for the root of the ego. Where from does this pseudo-I arise? At the end of this quest we shall find that the ego disappears letting the eternal Self shine. So the best discipline is the inquiry: ‘Who am I?’ This is the greatest japa. This is the true pranayama.. the thought ‘I am not the body’ (naham) is exhalation (rechaka);. the inquiry ‘Who am I?’ (koham) is inhalation (puraka);. the

THE Pakistan Cricket Board has set aside a $US5000 ($6190) fine on controversial paceman Shoaib Akhtar, ordering a fresh inquiry into an alleged breach of discipline. "Akhtar's appeal has been accepted and the fine is set aside as Akhtar was not properly served the notice on the right address," said Moin Afzal, a member of the appeals committee. "The case has been remanded back to manager Talat Ali for a fresh inquiry," he said. The fast bowler was earlier fined 100,000 rupees ($1650) for leaving a training camp in Karachi earlier this month, and 200,000 rupees ($3300) for snubbing a subsequent disciplinary hearing. But Akhtar said he had not been given advance notice of the hearing, having only been told after the fine was imposed. He also pleaded that he had told captain Shoaib Malik that he was leaving the camp. Malik accepted Akhtar's assertion but said he had informed the paceman to also tell Ali, who was the senior official in charge.   Agence France-

Hardbeatnews, ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Weds. Aug. 22, 2007: A one-man commission authorized to investigate allegations of financial wrong doing by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has wrapped up its investigation three years after it was launched.

Secret Court Asks For White House View on Inquiry - ACLU Seeking Rulings Issued On Warrantless WiretappingExcerpt:"A secret U.S. intelligence court has ordered the Bush administration to register its views about a records request by the American Civil Liberties Union, which wants the court to release a series of pivotal orders issued earlier this year about the National Security Agency's wiretapping program.The move is highly unusual, because the court -- which approves warrants for electronic surveillance within the United States by intelligence and counterterrorism agencies -- operates in almost total secrecy and has made only one ruling public in its 29-year history."Read Story

The new issues of Design Research Quarterly is about to appear. This issue features an important article by Linda Drew titled "Designing the Interface Between Research, Learning and Teaching."DRQ is both a quarterly peer-reviewed journal and a membership bulletin distributed to members of the Design Research Society.The editor -- Dr. Peter Storkerson -- is developing an exciting new series of articles for which we now seek submissions.Call for Papers:Design Research Quarterly announces a new series of articles:Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry'we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory'Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities and types of problems, and we have many differing, often incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve differences.Many regions of d

The new issues of Design Research Quarterly is about to appear. This issue features an important article by Linda Drew titled "Designing the Interface Between Research, Learning and Teaching."DRQ is both a quarterly peer-reviewed journal and a membership bulletin distributed to members of the Design Research Society.The editor -- Dr. Peter Storkerson -- is developing an exciting new series of articles for which we now seek submissions.Call for Papers:Design Research Quarterly announces a new series of articles:Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry'we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory'Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities and types of problems, and we have many differing, often incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve differences.Many regions of d

Here's Christopher Hitchens being interviewed on Point of Inquiry about his latest book, God Is Not Great. Technorati tags: Christopher Hitchens • D J Grothe • God Is Not Great • Point of Inquiry

Christopher Hitchens is this week’s guest on Point of Inquiry. He discuss ‘God is Not Great’ with D.J. Grothe. He explains his aims behind writing the book and how it fits in with the current wave of atheist bestsellers. I do like his point that if you want to see something that’s marvelous and awe inspiring, take a look through the Hubble telescope, once you have, you can’t really be impressed by the ‘burning bush’. As he says: “We do have a need for the transcendent but that doesn’t mean we have a need for the supernatural.” He also talks about the immorality of the Bible, how religion is bad for one’s health and the war between the West and Islamism. You can subscribe to POI podcast here or listen to the MP3 here. christopher hitchens, god, islam, relgion

Woolmer's death is no longer being treated as suspicious It is believed that Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, who died on March 18th, was not murdered as first suspected but died of natural causes. The Daily Mail claims a source close to the investigation has told them that Jamaican police will call a press conference early next week to confirm that murder has now been ruled out. "Mr Woolmer was not a well man. It is now accepted that he died of natural causes," said the source. It was initially thought that Woolmer's death could have been linked to match-fixing as he died the morning after Pakistan's shock exit from the World Cup at the hands of Ireland. Police believed Woolmer had been strangled, though there was no sign of a struggle, so toxicology investigations were carried out to see if the 58-year-old had been drugged as well. These reports and further investigation seem to suggest that Woolmer was not murdered at all and that police had been hasty in their initia

Call for Papers: Design Research Quarterly announces a new series of articles:Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry'we want to hold a discussion on how research steers theory'Call for Papers:Designers use the term 'design' to cover a wide range of activities and types of problems, and we have many differing, often incommensurable and opposing models of design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a result, we also have have a history of lively debates over specific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve differences.Many regions of design are not well defined, and in such situations, researchers can find that apparently straightforward problems can lead to fundamental questions about the nature of design, what kinds of philosophical and theoretical positions that can frame the research and ground the methods, and their implications with regard to knowledge: what kinds of knowledge are possible within the frames needed to do the research.In short,

In his battle against reserves overestimation, Rosprirodnadzor deputy chief Oleg Mitvol won’t confine to Imperial Energy in particular or oil producers in general. The gold companies with stocks quoted on AIM are also within eyeshot of this bureaucrat. So, today’s intention of Russia’s environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, is to check suspicious subsoil operators that carried out IPOs since

Kaiser inquiry: Sunkuli lamentsStory by FRANCIS THOYAPublication Date: 2/22/2007Daily NationFormer minister of State Julius Sunkuli took the dock yesterday denying killing Mill Hill missionary John Kaiser, seven years ago.Testifying in an inquest, the former minister said allegations that he had a motive to kill Father Kaiser were untrue, adding that such a story was mooted with a sole purpose of damaging his reputation and ruining him politically.“Although we had differences with Fr Kaiser, I had no reason to kill him,” Mr Sunkuli told principal magistrate Maureen Odero.In a private prosecution, the Catholic Church has insisted that Mr Sunkuli plotted to kill Fr Kaiser. The church says the differences related to the minister’s acts of sexual molestation against school girls in Kilgoris and his involvement in the tribal clashes in Trans Mara.Sexual scandalYesterday, Mr Sunkuli said the Fr Kaiser and the Federation of Women Lawyers’ (FIDA) push to implicate him with sexual scand

A Book Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (Amazon Astore UK | US) by Daniel Dennett (Author of Breaking the spell: Religion as natural phenomenon: UK | US) written for Free Inquiry*: First things first: since Richard Dawkins and I are allies on several fronts, and friends, and since we have both recently published books on religion, the normal presumption of a disinterested reviewer must be cancelled. It is not that I couldn't write an objective and impersonal review if I tried but that such an effort would be misplaced. No protestations of impartiality could, or should, dislodge the ambient assumption that friendship disqualifies one from the task. Moreover, what readers of Free Inquiry presumably would like to know is how our distinct but overlapping projects developed and what I make of the results. Are we playing good cop/bad cop? We cite each other frequently; did we plan a division of labor in advance, and compare notes as we worked? No. We discussed our projects in

These are difficult times for educators who believe that learning is worth pursuing for its own sake and that the chief purpose of school is the nurturing of students as whole human beings. Higher test scores seem to be the order of the day. To accomplish this aim, administrators strain to meet political agendas, teachers respond by teaching to the test, and students in turn react by cheating, taking "learning steroids" (legal and illegal pyschostimulants), or just not caring in order to cope with the demands placed on them in school. The adventure of learning, the wonder of nature and culture, the richness of human experience, and the delight in acquiring new abilities all seem to have been abandoned or severely curtailed in the classroom in this drive to meet quotas, deadlines, benchmarks, mandates, and targets.- - -The most destructive legacy of NCLB may turn out to be that it hijacks the dialogue in education away from talking about the education of human beings and toward a fo

Police have said a 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of five women in Suffolk. He was arrested on suspicion of murdering Gemma Adams, Anneli Alderton, Tania Nicol, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls who worked as prostitutes. Tom Stephens, 37, was arrested on Monday at his home at Trimley St Martin, near Felixstowe. The second person, who has not been named, was arrested at a property in Ipswich early on Tuesday morning.Second man held in murder inquiry - full story via bbc news     Murder suspect 'sad and lonely'Technorati TagsNews Tom Stephens Ipswich Suffolk Killer Myspace Tesco