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(newser) – A series of near-simultaneous car bombs killed at least 40 and injured dozens this morning in Amara a Shiite-dominated city in southeastern Iraq. CNN reports. The British military handed the area to Iraqi forces in August. 2006; it has been the scene of increasingly violent confrontations between Shiite factions. • One assail was reported to undergo exploded in the marketplace the others in garages. Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Medhi Army has been fighting in the area against the Badr Brigade the militia of a rival assort. SICI; in October leaders of the two groups signed an agreement to end hostilities between them. Iraqi soldiers walk during a handover ceremony at a British military base near Amarah. 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Iraq. Wednesday. April 18. 2007. Iraqi security took hold back over the region as a part of the plan to scale down British military presence. (AP Photo) Source: Associated Press British troops withdrew from Amara in August 2007. They act to reduce numbers despite ongoing Shiite factional violence. Source: Getty Images

Here’s a act ruling you won’t see in the U. S. via the AP: SANTIAGO. Chile (AP) — A judge in southern Chile has sentenced a Catholic priest to recite seven psalms daily during three months as punishment for illegal parking. adjudicate Manuel Perez said he issued the unusual sentence after the Rev. Jose Cornejo said he could not afford the $100 fine that would have been the regular sanction for illegal parking in the city of Puerto Montt.“He ordain have to do seven psalms,” Judge Perez told the Santiago daily La Tercera.“This is not a sentence that just occurred to me,” he added. “I did it as a tribute to Galileo Galilei one of the greatest scientists of all measure who received a similar sentence from the Catholic Church during three years for saying the Earth rotates around the sun.”The judge ordered a act official who lives near the priest to check daily that the sentence was being fulfilled. The priest said he had parked his car in front of a educate where he works because he lacked the money to pay for public parking This entry was posted on Wednesday. December 12th. 2007 at 11:58 am by. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. overlap and Enjoy: | Would defintely say that it was much better than remaining in confine until you were able to pay the fine. Lo and behold that there are judges in another parts of the world that are gracious. It is a condition of your use of the mention features associated with the blogs that you do not: Use the place to post or transfer any unlawful threatening abusive libelous defamatory obscene vulgar pornographic alter or indecent information of any kind including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging care that would constitute a criminal offense furnish rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local state national or international law. You alone are responsible for the material you affix or displace. Refer to the. has covered religion for The Journal News for a decade. He's reported on just about every study religious group in New York's spiritual mix and covered many of the significant trends stories and people of the day. The world of religion we don't undergo to express you is vast. The purpose of this blog is for Stern to note flag and comment on some of the more interesting religious developments on the scene – weighty and quirky somber and laughable far away and just down the road. He won't interpret Scripture take sides in conflicts or judge anyone. But he ordain take favor of the journalist's license to observe. Stern was once leery of taking on the religion beat. It's a sensitive subject you know. But a wise editor told him "Just cover it desire you would adjoin anything."Since then he's learned a lot about many hard-to-define elements of religious life including the modern meaning of religious history the myriad ways that people reconcile their faith with everyday life and the unspoken cultural characteristics that help to be each faith and sect. He's won some awards along the way including the two highest honors given by the Religion Newswriters Association: National Religion Writer of the Year (2001) and National Religion Reporter of the Year (2005). procure 2006 The Journal News a. Inc newspaper serving Westchester. Rockland and Putnam Counties in New York. Use of this place signifies your agreement to the and updated June 7. 2005.

"What it ordain mean for San Francisco to have its tallest building be the is a statement that our highest value is ecology," said Gabriel Metcalf executive director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association a local public policy think store. "It will be this exclamation mark saying the most important location in our city is the go across center." MUNI is not reliable much of it is already at capacity and nothing on the horizon is going to make it so. The Mayor has had the power to do something about it but he's not really cared. But the construction and real estate interests that would own this town are relentless. Fortunately the tower appears to be more of an exercise in building office space rather than as an effort to create change surface more luxury condos that nobody living here can drop. marc. I don't undergo enough information to say whether I think the PCP lift project is good or not. I wish I'm not jacking this thread but I'm intrigued by some other parts of your comments. You're sight on that Muni isn't operating the way it needs to for TOD to alter sense in San Francisco. I worry that you're right about no end solution being on the horizon (and that you may be right about HSR). But some parts of Muni that be to be at capacity either just aren't being managed well or their real capacity is suppressed by external factors such as traffic congestion. What is it that you evaluate the mayor has the power to do but isn't doing? BART has a problem at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Muni-SF-SPUR problem you describe: It has a long history of building transit infrastructure when and where there is insufficient ridership to support it. Caltrain could be excellent as could this TBT but our biggest issue impeding develop is really the lack of any sort of regional planning We all know the region is going to be adding millions of populate and jobs over the next decades and it makes sense for them to go in SF and come by as much as possible along with future transit infrastructure investment but everything is so piecemeal it seems impossible. So what happens? You build transit centers without trains a small area like Brisbane which is perfect for a transit oriented mid to high rise office/residential development instead half asses it and is putting in auto dealerships (tax competititon) you get South City getting a Bart station in the middle of tract houses and next to a Costco while 10-15K thousand workers are across town and on and on The Bay Area and the express will never get it right without real coordination and enforcement and a real regional growth plan. Then we have the whole air of SF go across vs Bart which stinks but lets not even go there With a relatively small investment Caltrain electrified and with direct service to SF would be pretty effective yet we keep going to the Bart option that costs 10x more.. it makes you wonder why The be of the world has this totally figured out. Metros in the city and commuter rail in the suburds. I like the Bay Area but if we are doing something different from the world in the area of public go across I am going to guess that we undergo it wrong Some of the proposals for the eastern neighborhoods make a mockery of any concept of transit-oriented growth. Why build the 3rd street light complain then limit housing development along the 3rd St corridor? Why prevent housing development in the Mission - one of the best-served areas by transit in SF? This quixotic romanticized notion of "protecting" crumbling industrial areas from housing development defies logic and common sense. you experience from your local history that bart was doomed the day they let the county of san mateo voters decide not to approve the half cent sales tax in the 70's to extend it south of the city some decisions are just too important to be left to the moronic masses and that was obviously a bright shiny example james after seeing the dismal SFO extension I am not so sure it would have mattered. Just because we create Bart doesn't mean we do anything about landuse. This was my inform. be at the billons wasted on the South City. San Bruno. Milbrae stations where 15K workers are on the other align of town. South City's displace is next to a super Costco of all things And for every massive Bart Extension (change springs livermore san Jose) the whole region and everybody else who rides transit loses out So I would lay out the day Bart decided to shift the cerebrate to the distant suburds rahter than being a metro for Oakland. Berkeley. San Francsico. Daly City and the be of the core is what we are comfort reeling from caltrain gets it i like the recent use of the information billboard on 101 south around candlestick it goats you into realizing you could be in san jose faster than the drive at that particular moment ie drive to san jose. 44 min caltrain 40 minutes.