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Vick, Goodell to meet
New York ? Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will get a chance to explain himself to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, although no date has been set for a meeting.
The first thing Vick may want to tell Goodell is why he lied to him at the draft on April 28 when he denied any involvement in dogfighting. In fact, he told Goodell, "I love dogs.":shrug:
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed on Tuesday that Goodell expects to meet with Vick "at some point in the future" but nothing has been scheduled. Aiello would not say if the meeting would take place before Vick is sentenced Dec. 10, but that would seem likely.
Goodell suspended Vick indefinitely last week, shortly after Vick's signed guilty plea was submitted to the court in Richmond, Va. Vick is expected to be sentenced to 12-18 months in prison then face a more definitive timetable on an NFL suspension. It is anticipated Goodell will suspend Vick for at least one season following his release from prison, which means the earliest he would play is 2010. It's possible Goodell could suspend him longer, but review it after one year. And depending on what is uncovered by the NFL in the gambling aspects of the case, Vick could be looking at a lifetime ban.
"You are now justifiably facing the consequences for the decisions you made and the conduct in which you engaged," Goodell wrote in a harshly worded letter to Vick last week. "Your career, freedom and public standing are now in the most serious jeopardy. I hope that you will be able to learn from this difficult experience and emerge from it better prepared to act responsibly and to make the kinds of choices that are expected of a conscientious and law-abiding citizen.":scared
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Man up before you go in that meeting dude
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New York ? Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will get a chance to explain himself to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, although no date has been set for a meeting.
The first thing Vick may want to tell Goodell is why he lied to him at the draft on April 28 when he denied any involvement in dogfighting. In fact, he told Goodell, "I love dogs.":shrug:
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed on Tuesday that Goodell expects to meet with Vick "at some point in the future" but nothing has been scheduled. Aiello would not say if the meeting would take place before Vick is sentenced Dec. 10, but that would seem likely.
Goodell suspended Vick indefinitely last week, shortly after Vick's signed guilty plea was submitted to the court in Richmond, Va. Vick is expected to be sentenced to 12-18 months in prison then face a more definitive timetable on an NFL suspension. It is anticipated Goodell will suspend Vick for at least one season following his release from prison, which means the earliest he would play is 2010. It's possible Goodell could suspend him longer, but review it after one year. And depending on what is uncovered by the NFL in the gambling aspects of the case, Vick could be looking at a lifetime ban.
"You are now justifiably facing the consequences for the decisions you made and the conduct in which you engaged," Goodell wrote in a harshly worded letter to Vick last week. "Your career, freedom and public standing are now in the most serious jeopardy. I hope that you will be able to learn from this difficult experience and emerge from it better prepared to act responsibly and to make the kinds of choices that are expected of a conscientious and law-abiding citizen.":scared
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Man up before you go in that meeting dude
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Scientists: Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 yearsStory Highlights
Scientists working to create the first cell of synthetic life
Artificial life could be used to fight diseases, climate change
Some worried creating life could "run amok"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
That first cell of synthetic life -- made from the basic chemicals in DNA -- may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it.
"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new life on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."
And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste.
Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:
A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.
A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.
A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.
One of the leaders in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step -- creating a cell membrane -- is "not a big problem." Scientists are using fatty acids in that effort.
Szostak is also optimistic about the next step -- getting nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, to form a working genetic system.
His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over.
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.
In Gainesville, Florida, Steve Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is attacking that problem by going outside of natural genetics. Normal DNA consists of four bases -- adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (known as A,C,G,T) -- molecules that spell out the genetic code in pairs. Benner is trying to add eight new bases to the genetic alphabet.
Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.:scared
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why cant they just leave well enough alone.
Eventually they are going to do something that will kill us all.
Scientists working to create the first cell of synthetic life
Artificial life could be used to fight diseases, climate change
Some worried creating life could "run amok"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
That first cell of synthetic life -- made from the basic chemicals in DNA -- may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it.
"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new life on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."
And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste.
Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:
A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.
A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.
A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.
One of the leaders in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step -- creating a cell membrane -- is "not a big problem." Scientists are using fatty acids in that effort.
Szostak is also optimistic about the next step -- getting nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, to form a working genetic system.
His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over.
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.
In Gainesville, Florida, Steve Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is attacking that problem by going outside of natural genetics. Normal DNA consists of four bases -- adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (known as A,C,G,T) -- molecules that spell out the genetic code in pairs. Benner is trying to add eight new bases to the genetic alphabet.
Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.:scared
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why cant they just leave well enough alone.
Eventually they are going to do something that will kill us all.
Kobe Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, were at Friday night's grand opening of BLUSH Boutique Nightclub at the Wynn in Las Vegas, when he saw poker player Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari kick in for two bottles of $1,400 Cristal champagne. According to sources inside the club, Kobe wasn't about to be shown up by some puny little card player -- and kicked in for five bottles. Antonio, who's used to upping the ante, then switched his order to ten! Go big or go home! Kobe ended the competition when he purchased an astounding 15 bottles -- and then left the club! Just to put Bryant's baller status into perspective -- Kobe's $21,000 bill still doesn't cover what NBA and gambling legend Charles Barkley drops on one hand of blackjack! -- TMZ
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alot of people dont even make 21 k a year and Kobe is making a statement with a poker player buying Cristal .
Man - get up and leave , go to the nearest homeless shelter and plop down 21 k to help feed the people.
These ****ars make me sick
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alot of people dont even make 21 k a year and Kobe is making a statement with a poker player buying Cristal .
Man - get up and leave , go to the nearest homeless shelter and plop down 21 k to help feed the people.
These ****ars make me sick
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My fellow listeners (for, unlike some speakers, I listen to myself while I speak), let me ask, ?What is spoiling American politics?? And let me answer myself: ?The stump speech.?
Candidates travel from town to town delivering the same speech over and over, four times a day. We demand that John Kerry discuss his heroic battles in Vietnam at every public appearance the same way we insist Celine Dion perform her well-known hits at every concert. Political advisors invariably tell candidates to ?stay on message.? Oy! If Charlie Parker had stayed ?on message,? bebop would never have been born!
I am the only candidate to go defiantly way off message. No other candidate will say (as I am about to):
?Let hot dogs consume themselves!?
In fact, I will say it again:
?Let hot dogs consume themselves!?
I am also the only presidential seeker who will shout to George W. Bush: ?Hey, Anglo Muttonpuff! Vacate the White House right now and let me sleep in the Oval Bed, beneath the mirrored ceiling (a gift from Cyprus)!?
Other candidates claim to speak the truth. I go beyond the truth, to speak the unknown.
Excerpt from"Why I Am Not President", by Sparrow, The Sun Magazine, January 2006
Candidates travel from town to town delivering the same speech over and over, four times a day. We demand that John Kerry discuss his heroic battles in Vietnam at every public appearance the same way we insist Celine Dion perform her well-known hits at every concert. Political advisors invariably tell candidates to ?stay on message.? Oy! If Charlie Parker had stayed ?on message,? bebop would never have been born!
I am the only candidate to go defiantly way off message. No other candidate will say (as I am about to):
?Let hot dogs consume themselves!?
In fact, I will say it again:
?Let hot dogs consume themselves!?
I am also the only presidential seeker who will shout to George W. Bush: ?Hey, Anglo Muttonpuff! Vacate the White House right now and let me sleep in the Oval Bed, beneath the mirrored ceiling (a gift from Cyprus)!?
Other candidates claim to speak the truth. I go beyond the truth, to speak the unknown.
Excerpt from"Why I Am Not President", by Sparrow, The Sun Magazine, January 2006
A great post except im not sure raymond belongs on the list.. he has a huge rep but where is the production? not bashing just saying he is having an off year...or two..
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Thought I'd jump in. The thought of playing "mind games" [in this story] really got my posting juices flowing...
Former wrestler on trial in forced prostitution case
The Associated Press
ATLANTA --
Former pro wrestler Harrison "Hardbody" Norris Jr. is on trial on federal charges that he kept nine women as sex slaves in his two north Georgia homes.
Prosecutors contend that Norris, 41, lured homeless women with offers to train them as wrestlers, then forced them - sometimes by violence - into prostitution. He is charged with violating an anti-human trafficking law.
In a trial that began last week, prosecution witnesses have testified about bloody head butts, mindgames and forced orgies in which women had to have sex with up to eight men at a single gathering.
Norris has contended the women willingly entered his two Cartersville homes - living with his wife and one of his three children - because they wanted to train as pro wrestlers. He says many of them arrived on drugs and left in the best shape of their lives.
Acting as his own attorney, Norris has cross-examined his alleged victims and successfully lodged objections.
One woman testified that Norris wouldn't let her leave until she paid off debts, including money he spent on her diabetes medication. Several witnesses have said no matter how much they prostituted themselves, they never managed to clear up their debts to Norris.
They say Norris pimped them out at Latino nightclubs, trailer parks and parties until three of them ran to police during a shopping trip in Smyrna.
But a neighbor, Cindy England, testifying for Norris, said she saw the women come and go as they pleased. She invited some over to swim in her pool. None seemed unhappy, looked abused or told her they wanted out of Norris' grasp, she said.
Norris has argued that he was already wealthy and didn't need to pimp. Norris, who is black, [is this funny to anyone besides me?] - was part of a discrimination lawsuit against Atlanta-based World Championship Wrestling in 2000. He settled out of court for a sum his family says was upward of $1 million.
Harris was indicted in 2005 after federal agents raided his homes. He could face 20 years in prison.
Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Former wrestler on trial in forced prostitution case
The Associated Press
ATLANTA --
Former pro wrestler Harrison "Hardbody" Norris Jr. is on trial on federal charges that he kept nine women as sex slaves in his two north Georgia homes.
Prosecutors contend that Norris, 41, lured homeless women with offers to train them as wrestlers, then forced them - sometimes by violence - into prostitution. He is charged with violating an anti-human trafficking law.
In a trial that began last week, prosecution witnesses have testified about bloody head butts, mindgames and forced orgies in which women had to have sex with up to eight men at a single gathering.
Norris has contended the women willingly entered his two Cartersville homes - living with his wife and one of his three children - because they wanted to train as pro wrestlers. He says many of them arrived on drugs and left in the best shape of their lives.
Acting as his own attorney, Norris has cross-examined his alleged victims and successfully lodged objections.
One woman testified that Norris wouldn't let her leave until she paid off debts, including money he spent on her diabetes medication. Several witnesses have said no matter how much they prostituted themselves, they never managed to clear up their debts to Norris.
They say Norris pimped them out at Latino nightclubs, trailer parks and parties until three of them ran to police during a shopping trip in Smyrna.
But a neighbor, Cindy England, testifying for Norris, said she saw the women come and go as they pleased. She invited some over to swim in her pool. None seemed unhappy, looked abused or told her they wanted out of Norris' grasp, she said.
Norris has argued that he was already wealthy and didn't need to pimp. Norris, who is black, [is this funny to anyone besides me?] - was part of a discrimination lawsuit against Atlanta-based World Championship Wrestling in 2000. He settled out of court for a sum his family says was upward of $1 million.
Harris was indicted in 2005 after federal agents raided his homes. He could face 20 years in prison.
Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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smurph you have never commented if that is you in the milkman picture and it hurted my feelings.
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that milkman looks like a young humphrey bogart.
...nobody has ever said that i look like humphrey, so i don't think it's me. I did a lot of things for money that I don't remember, however, so I would not rule out modeling for milk ads as a possible gig in my past.
I am sorry that I hurt your feelings. I have deep regret over anything I did or din't do to cause that.
...nobody has ever said that i look like humphrey, so i don't think it's me. I did a lot of things for money that I don't remember, however, so I would not rule out modeling for milk ads as a possible gig in my past.
I am sorry that I hurt your feelings. I have deep regret over anything I did or din't do to cause that.
He looks too slight in features. And I look A LOT like my supposed real father, so I have a hard time making that argument. Really can't rule anything out though. Thanks for your research and good luck with your plays.
...damn those friggin eyebrows and that smirk are pretty dead on now that i look closer.:shrug: He's got little Peyton Manning shoulders though.
...damn those friggin eyebrows and that smirk are pretty dead on now that i look closer.:shrug: He's got little Peyton Manning shoulders though.
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Them clothes got laundry numbers on 'em. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends the night in the box. These here spoons, you keep with ya. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playin' grab-ass or fightin' in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playin' grab-ass or fightin' in the building spends a night in the box. First bell is at five minutes of eight...Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends a night in the box. There's no smokin' in the prone position in bed. If you smoke, you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smokin' in the prone position in bed spends the night in the box. You'll get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top and the top sheet on the bottom. The bottom sheet you turn into the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one will sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sittin' on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud-talkin' spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me...Any man don't keep order spends a night in the box.
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Fancy that! 'Sex with a fence' man walks free
20 November 2007
A DRUNKEN West End reveller who tried to have sex with a fence has walked free from court.
Daniel French, 24, of Verity Way, Stevenage, had clambered into a locked park when he made "sexual motions" towards iron railings and proclaimed to police: "I'm going to have sex with a fence."
Asked at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court whether he made the bizarre comment he denied making a pass at the metalwork, saying: "That's disgusting."
Philip Lemoine, prosecuting, said French had been drinking all night when he was spotted by police in Leicester Square Gardens in the early hours of Sunday morning.
"The gardens were locked and police asked French to leave. He was drunk and there were some sexual motions - drunken silliness - to the railings.
"He said words to the effect of: 'I'm going to have sex with that fence'.
"'He was with two girls who were trying to calm things down. Police realised he was drunk. French said he had a relative who was a solicitor and would teach the police a lesson."
But French, who admitted on Monday afternoon to being drunk and disorderly, said the police were bullying him.
He protested to magistrates: "That's not right at all about the fence. I was surrounded by three big police officers. I felt I was being bullied and wanted to go home. They were pushing me against the fence and trying to provoke me.
"The suggestion that I was trying to do something sexual to the railings is disgusting."
French has a previous conviction for shoplifting. {Obviously, shoplifting is a gateway activity to fence-sexing... :shrug: }
Magistrates sentenced him to the time he had spent in custody since his arrest.
20 November 2007
A DRUNKEN West End reveller who tried to have sex with a fence has walked free from court.
Daniel French, 24, of Verity Way, Stevenage, had clambered into a locked park when he made "sexual motions" towards iron railings and proclaimed to police: "I'm going to have sex with a fence."
Asked at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court whether he made the bizarre comment he denied making a pass at the metalwork, saying: "That's disgusting."
Philip Lemoine, prosecuting, said French had been drinking all night when he was spotted by police in Leicester Square Gardens in the early hours of Sunday morning.
"The gardens were locked and police asked French to leave. He was drunk and there were some sexual motions - drunken silliness - to the railings.
"He said words to the effect of: 'I'm going to have sex with that fence'.
"'He was with two girls who were trying to calm things down. Police realised he was drunk. French said he had a relative who was a solicitor and would teach the police a lesson."
But French, who admitted on Monday afternoon to being drunk and disorderly, said the police were bullying him.
He protested to magistrates: "That's not right at all about the fence. I was surrounded by three big police officers. I felt I was being bullied and wanted to go home. They were pushing me against the fence and trying to provoke me.
"The suggestion that I was trying to do something sexual to the railings is disgusting."
French has a previous conviction for shoplifting. {Obviously, shoplifting is a gateway activity to fence-sexing... :shrug: }
Magistrates sentenced him to the time he had spent in custody since his arrest.
i always thought that with your eyebrows you look more like lauren bacall than bogey...but that's just me..
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- Leaders of the Seminole Tribe of Florida -- the first U.S. tribe to offer high-stakes gambling -- have spent millions of dollars from the group's vast casino income on themselves and their relatives, according to a report.
The spending has triggered audits by federal regulators and complaints among Seminoles that the gambling profits benefit certain members at the expense of the rest of the tribe, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Sunday after a review of thousands of pages of tribal documents including audits, budgets and Tribal Council resolutions.
Phil Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, which regulates tribal spending of gambling profits, told the Sun-Sentinel that the spending practices "cry out for some inquiry, and they will receive that."
Each of the tribe's almost 3,400 members receives about $120,000 annually in profits from Seminole enterprises, mostly casinos. However, since 2000, Tribal Council members have spent more than $280 million from discretionary funds they control on travel, lavish homes, luxury vehicles, boxing rings, basketball courts and even cosmetic surgery, the newspaper said.
Under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribes can spend gambling profits only in five broad categories, including government services and "for the general welfare of the tribe." Spending on individual members must be through programs such as housing and recreation, with criteria typically tied to financial need, the newspaper said.
Council member Max Osceola Jr. said leaders and their families have received the same assistance available to all Seminoles.
"I'm responsible for every Seminole member," Osceola said. "It's not who my blood family is, it's not who my clan is. It's the 3,320 Seminoles I'm responsible for."
The Seminoles recently purchased the Hard Rock International hotel and restaurant chain for nearly $1 billion. They also recently signed a 25-year agreement with the state that will allow it to offer Las Vegas-style slot machines, blackjack and baccarat at its six casinos.
The Seminoles opened their first gambling enterprise, a bingo hall, in 1979. By 2005, members of the Tribal Council were overseeing a $1 billion-a-year empire.
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Money is truely the root of all evil.
Even the indians cannot control their greed.
The spending has triggered audits by federal regulators and complaints among Seminoles that the gambling profits benefit certain members at the expense of the rest of the tribe, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Sunday after a review of thousands of pages of tribal documents including audits, budgets and Tribal Council resolutions.
Phil Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, which regulates tribal spending of gambling profits, told the Sun-Sentinel that the spending practices "cry out for some inquiry, and they will receive that."
Each of the tribe's almost 3,400 members receives about $120,000 annually in profits from Seminole enterprises, mostly casinos. However, since 2000, Tribal Council members have spent more than $280 million from discretionary funds they control on travel, lavish homes, luxury vehicles, boxing rings, basketball courts and even cosmetic surgery, the newspaper said.
Under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribes can spend gambling profits only in five broad categories, including government services and "for the general welfare of the tribe." Spending on individual members must be through programs such as housing and recreation, with criteria typically tied to financial need, the newspaper said.
Council member Max Osceola Jr. said leaders and their families have received the same assistance available to all Seminoles.
"I'm responsible for every Seminole member," Osceola said. "It's not who my blood family is, it's not who my clan is. It's the 3,320 Seminoles I'm responsible for."
The Seminoles recently purchased the Hard Rock International hotel and restaurant chain for nearly $1 billion. They also recently signed a 25-year agreement with the state that will allow it to offer Las Vegas-style slot machines, blackjack and baccarat at its six casinos.
The Seminoles opened their first gambling enterprise, a bingo hall, in 1979. By 2005, members of the Tribal Council were overseeing a $1 billion-a-year empire.
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Money is truely the root of all evil.
Even the indians cannot control their greed.
CNN) -- Sudan has arrested a British teacher for insulting faith and religion, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
An undated amateur photo shows Gillian Gibbons.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being held by police in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and has not been charged, British officials said.
Numerous media reports say Gibbons was arrested after allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
That could be seen as an insult to the Prophet Mohammed, the reports said.
Blasphemy is punishable with 40 lashes under Islamic Sharia law, Britain's Press Association news agency reported.
Gibbons asked the children to pick a name for the bear as part of a lesson on animal habits at Unity High School, PA said.
A British Embassy spokesman in Khartoum was quoted as saying the naming of the bear did not cause immediate trouble.
"The children chose the name because it is very common here," the spokesman told PA.
"This happened in September and the parents did not have a problem with it."
Unity director Robert Boulos told Reuters news agency that Gibbons was arrested Sunday at her home on school grounds after a number of parents made a complaint to Sudan's Ministry of Education.
He said she had since been charged with "blasphemy," an offense he said was punishable with up to three months in prison and a fine, Reuters.com reported.
Gibbons left the northwestern English city of Liverpool for Sudan in July, PA said.
A family spokeswoman told the agency: "I have spoken with her children and they do not want to say anything and aggravate the situation over there."
Boulos told Reuters he had decided to shut the school until January for fear of reprisals. The school on its Web site calls itself a "British international school" teaching children aged 4 to 18.
"This is a very sensitive issue," Boulos was quoted as saying on Reuters.com.
"We are very worried about her safety," he added. "This was a completely innocent mistake. Miss Gibbons would have never wanted to insult Islam.
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Can this world get any stupider.
A teddy bear gets you 40 lashs.
An undated amateur photo shows Gillian Gibbons.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being held by police in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and has not been charged, British officials said.
Numerous media reports say Gibbons was arrested after allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
That could be seen as an insult to the Prophet Mohammed, the reports said.
Blasphemy is punishable with 40 lashes under Islamic Sharia law, Britain's Press Association news agency reported.
Gibbons asked the children to pick a name for the bear as part of a lesson on animal habits at Unity High School, PA said.
A British Embassy spokesman in Khartoum was quoted as saying the naming of the bear did not cause immediate trouble.
"The children chose the name because it is very common here," the spokesman told PA.
"This happened in September and the parents did not have a problem with it."
Unity director Robert Boulos told Reuters news agency that Gibbons was arrested Sunday at her home on school grounds after a number of parents made a complaint to Sudan's Ministry of Education.
He said she had since been charged with "blasphemy," an offense he said was punishable with up to three months in prison and a fine, Reuters.com reported.
Gibbons left the northwestern English city of Liverpool for Sudan in July, PA said.
A family spokeswoman told the agency: "I have spoken with her children and they do not want to say anything and aggravate the situation over there."
Boulos told Reuters he had decided to shut the school until January for fear of reprisals. The school on its Web site calls itself a "British international school" teaching children aged 4 to 18.
"This is a very sensitive issue," Boulos was quoted as saying on Reuters.com.
"We are very worried about her safety," he added. "This was a completely innocent mistake. Miss Gibbons would have never wanted to insult Islam.
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Can this world get any stupider.
A teddy bear gets you 40 lashs.
