| Feed the Minds asks Christians to support female literacy for Lent
Christian international development charity Feed the Minds (FTM) is appealing to the Christian community to lend its support to female literacy for its 2008 Lent Appeal. The charity currently supports literacy projects within 20 countries across the Globe, designed to help women gain basic literacy skills that will benefit the individuals, their families and wider community. One such project is based in Afghanistan, where under the Taliban regime there was no female education, girl's schools were burned down and women were forbidden to work. Today, women's literacy in the country stands at only 12.5 per cent. Feed the Minds has developed literacy programmes centred on health and hygiene, with the most vulnerable in society, such as orphans or widows, selected to participate.
LAS VEGAS STOP: Clinton pitch hits home Democratic hopeful goes door ...
Gilberto Santana, left, and his wife, Elizabeth, talk with Hillary Clinton in their home Thursday in Las Vegas. Clinton was joined on her walk through the neighborhood by state Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen, second from right, and her daughter, Chelsea.
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SF Jazz Fest Offers More Musical Giants
SFJAZZ, the largest non-profit jazz presenter on the West Coast, brings another expansive and explosive line-up of artists to the Bay Area for the 25th annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. Finishing an eclectic, almost three-week series of concerts spotlighting a wide range of jazz legends, groundbreaking young groups and intriguing world-music acts, the Festival has once again shown why it is hailed as one of the greatest celebrations of jazz in the world. .
Supreme Court will hear challenge to campaign finance law amendment
Davis, a Democrat, wanted to commit his fortune in 2006 to challenge Republican incumbent Thomas Reynolds for a congressional seat in upstate New York. Under the millionaire's amendment, Davis and other self-financing candidates must declare their intention to spend more than $350,000 of their own money, which he and others argue gives incumbents valuable intelligence. Davis, a businessman, ultimately spent $1.25 million of his own money, but Reynolds spent more than twice that and beat Davis by 52-48 percent in a heavily Republican district. Davis argues that the campaign finance provisions violate constitutional guarantees of free speech and equal protection. Last August, a Washington-based appellate panel disagreed. "It places no restriction on a candidate's ability to spend unlimited amounts of his personal wealth to communicate his message to voters, nor does it reduce the amount of money he is able to raise from contributors," Judge Thomas Griffith wrote for the U.S.
Artists and drugs
Jackson is alleged to have received shipments of steroids at his mansion in Farmington, Conn. in July 2006 an order was mailed to his residence under the name "Michael Jordan" and also at a residence on Oakmont Drive in Los Angeles. Steroids in his name also were mailed to the office of a Long Island chiropractor. Jackson's representative did not respond to a request for comment. Timothy Z. Mosley, Timbaland, 35
Mosley was born in Norfolk, Va., and began his musical career in the mid-1990s emerging as a top rap artist. Mosley has become a major record producer and two years ago founded his own label, Mosley's Musical Group. The label's debut, Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" featuring Timbaland, reached the top of the song charts. Mosley allegedly received shipments of human growth hormone and anabolic steroids between October 2005 and September 2006 at his Miami residence and at the office of a Long Island chiropractor.
Sakhalin Region
Sakhalin Region is spread over 59 islands. It was formed within its present boundaries on January 2, 1947, out of the former Sakhalin Region, Khabarovsk Territory, and territories that became Russian possessions after the victory over Japan in the Second World War. The region includes Sakhalin Island, the adjoining small islands, and the Kuril Islands. It is located on the eastern shores of the Eurasian mainland in the transition zone between the continent and the Pacific Ocean.
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