Third Annual National Bullying Prevention Awareness

 Week, Oct. 5 - 11, Calls on Communities to Unite

Families, students, schools, organizations and other groups can unite with PACER to prevent bullying in several ways. Activities and materials such as contests, toolkits, and online bullying prevention training are available on to help reduce bullying in schools, recreational programs, and community organizations. 

Your elementary school students can take an oath against bullying, and you can print a certificate for them! Click www.pacerkidsagainstbullying.org for the oath, and for lots of great information.

The tour will be rolling through Toronto tomorrow night, Friday, October 3rd, and into the Bloor Cinema on Bloor Street West. The video will kick off at 9:30 p.m. with pro riders Marc Frank Montoya, Romain deMarchi, Gigi Ruf, Annie Boulanger and JP Solberg all in attendance. Following the film, Monster Energy is taking over Pauper's Pub on Bloor St. for the official after-party featuring MFM on the turntables.

Check out the event page on Facebook for all the details.

W porównaniu do FibreCAT SX80 i SX88 zwiększona została pojemność dyskowa. FibreCAT SX wspiera aż 8 wnęk rozszerzeń, umożliwiając montaż 108 dysków twardych. Jest to aż o 4 wnęki więcej niż w urządzeniach poprzedniej generacji i pozwala w przypadku zastosowania dysków technologii SATAII osiągnąć pojemność dla danych do 108TB !

Ulepszona technologia kontrolerów pozwoliła na większą wydajność. Oferuje ona możliwość używania 4 portów na kontroler, co stanowi znaczny wzrost w porównaniu z 2 portami w urządzeniach poprzedniej generacji. Dzięki temu 4 serwery mogą być redundacyjnie połączone do SX100 przy trybie pracy DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

FibreCAT SX100 daje możliwość wykonania do 244 kopi migawkowych (tzw. snapshotów), jest to aż 6-cio krotnie więcej niż w przypadku poprzedników. Dodatkowo oferuje funkcjonalność przydatną w przedsiębiorstwach – m.in. replikację (replication ready).

Tak jak w przypadku poprzednich modeli z serii, FibreCAT jest wyposażony w wiodące na rynku technologie – takie jak FibreCache i FibreCap. FibreCache zapewnia zwiększoną wydajność poprzez bezzwłoczną synchronizację zawartości cache’y obydwu zintegrowanych kontrolerów, FibreCAP zapewnia podtrzymanie zawartości pamięci podręcznej kontrolerów bez stosowania elementów typu akumulator/bateria. Sprzęt bazuje na technologii Fibre Channel o przepustowości 4 Gb/s .

FibreCAT SX100 może być wyposażony w dyski SATA II oraz SAS – mogą być łączone w jednej wnęce. Dodatkowo, cały system jest wyjątkowo niezawodny, wszystko dzięki temu, że ważne elementy (kontrolery RAID, wentylacja, zasilanie i dyski) są wspierane redundacyjnie. Moduł bazowy jak i wnęki rozszerzeń są wykonane w postaci modułów o wysokości 2U, instalowanych w szafach standardu 19”.

Zamówienia na FibreCAT SX100 można już składać od 1 września. Dostarczenie systemów będzie odbywać się od 1 listopada 2008.

Więcej informacji o produktach z rodziny FibreCAT można znaleźć pod adresem:

https://partners.fujitsu-siemens.com/com/products/storage/online/fibrecat/fibrecat_sx

We arrived at the church and upon seeing the facility, worship team and such I was fairly certain we would not be asked to do anything. However, to my great surprise Pastor Tim asked right off if we would like to contribute anything to the service. Don told him we had a song and dance to share. Ahhh!!! Feelings of almost relief turn into ones of panic. You know those ones you get the first time you have to give a speech in front of a crowd....Frantic, I ran to the van to retrieve my guitar. It was out of tune, and I was out of breath. A bad combination. I tuned quickly, put my guitar on stage, then sat down sipping some water.

They did worship, the pastor prayed for a few people, then he introduced us and invited us up. Needless to say, I was not prepared. I began. (The wrong key is something you never want to start in. Especially when on stage) I started in the wrong key! I was praying under my breath. Brianna was wondering what was going on. And I'm sure the pastor was thinking the same, and praying under his breath. Once I started singing, the song carried through fine. Brianna performed beautifully as usual.

That I can recall, I have never played the guitar in front of a crowd or congregation as poorly as I did that day. When the service was over, many people approached Brianna and I saying how much they loved the song and dance. I was still a little embarrassed...I get a daily scripture on my phone. After church the scripture I received was Ephesians 4:2 and it starts out saying "be completely humble and patient!" Ok God, not by my strength, but yours. God has given us gifts to use and bless people. We are to be ready in season and out of season. I encourage you to practice and develop the gifts God has given you, so, that when the time comes you can minister with confidence and power, remaining in humility.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state
of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war
is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

~ John Stuart Mills

We war, don't we
We warriors
We worriers for the world

You, Red Death Warrior
You mobilized
You sanitized
Purified to perform ancient rights of battles
And to stake patriot claims of fragile freedom
In hearts alien, hearts eternal,
Hearts ignorant of all you know

You know
You know

You know, noble warrior,
While you wander through the heaven of Hell
Raking the shit scattered pieces
Of bitter and broken promises
Into neat, heaping piles made ready
For the devil's dusty full bin,
I, Warrior of The Forgotten Peace
Arming my chair of flaccid command
Long for the glory fight that I never had
The fight I will never know
The fight you will never forget

You know
You know

LOS ANGELES, September 24 (Compass Direct News) – An evangelist imprisoned since 2006 for his Christian activities is receiving especially harsh treatment because of his ministry to inmates.

Sources said Teame Weldegebriel is on the brink of despair as he languishes at the Mai Sirwa Maximum Security Confinement prison.

“It seems that hell has broken loose on me,” Weldegebriel told Compass sources. “Please tell the brethren to continue praying for me. I am not sure I will see them again.”

Prison authorities consider Weldegebriel dangerous because of his boldness in sharing his faith. The Rhema Church evangelist has been proclaiming Christ to other prisoners, and many have converted to Christianity.

“This has made him to be in bad books with the prison wardens,” one source said.

Weldegebriel’s family is worried about his health after trying repeatedly, without success, to get permission to visit him.

Inmates at the prison often go hungry and are said to be feeding on leaves.

In Eritrea, a nation with a government of Marxist roots where about half of the people are Muslim, two or more people gathered in Jesus’ name can be imprisoned for not practicing their faith in one of the government-sanctioned Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran or Muslim bodies.

More than 2,000 Christians in Eritrea are imprisoned for their faith, including a Christian from a Full Gospel Church who was arrested in 2001. His wife last saw him in June 2007. She and her two minor children were rounded up from a prayer meeting in mid-July and placed in a metal shipping container until their release last month, she said.

“I was arrested with my children while having a prayer meeting with 20 other Christians,” said the woman, who requested anonymity for security reasons. “They locked us up at a military concentration camp, inside metal ship containers. I remember the horrible ordeal I went through with the children. After three weeks I was released with my two children, while the other Christian soldiers remained locked in the prison cells.”

The government views leaders of large unregistered bodies like the Full Gospel Church and Rhema Church as threats, according to Christian sources in the country. Eritrean officials fear the church leaders will expose the abuses and conditions in the prisons. Hence it is extremely difficult for relatives to see those in prison, and inmates are not allowed to send or receive letters.

“The government has been transferring them from one prison cell after another,” said one Christian source in Asmara.

In May 2002 the government criminalized all independent churches not operating under the umbrella of the Orthodox, Lutheran, Catholic, and Muslim religious structures.

Arrested for Talking

In the seaport city of Massawa, police in June arrested a man and a woman, both Christians, who were talking to Muslims about Christ. Members of Kale Hiwot Church, the two were discussing their Christian faith when four plainclothes policemen arrested them.

“It took about 30 minutes talking about Jesus before they were both arrested by the police – they had witnessed about Jesus and the faith for a long time to some Muslims,” another source told Compass. “I watched the two Christians whisked away by the police. They were taken to join more than 100 Christians imprisoned in Waire prison about 25 kilometers [16 miles] from Massawa.”

A previously imprisoned evangelist with the Full Gospel Church in Asmara who requested anonymity told Compass that God is at work in Eritrea, with many people converting to Christ and receiving divine healing.

“For sure Christians are getting imprisoned, but God’s word cannot be imprisoned,” he said. “I am ready for any eventuality, including being imprisoned again. On several occasions, prison wardens warned me to stop preaching, though they still loved me. Indeed Jesus loved me. They saw God in me.”

The U.S. Department of State notes in its 2008 International Religious Freedom Report that Eritrea has not implemented its 1997 constitution, which provides for religious freedom. The state department has designated Eritrea as a Country of Particular Concern, a list of the worst violators of religious freedom, since 2004.

Many of the more than 2,000 Christians under arrest in police stations, military camps and jails across Eritrea because of their religious beliefs have been incarcerated for years. No one has been charged officially or given access to judicial processes.

Reliable statistics are not available, but the state department estimates that 50 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim, 30 percent is Orthodox Christian, and 13 percent is Roman Catholic. Protestants and Seventh-day Adventists along with Jehovah’s Witnesses, Buddhists, Hindus, and Baha’is make up less than 5 percent of the population.

Report from Compass Direct News

Okay, time for some fun and games...

I saw this ready made sculpture in front of a boutique or gallery in Paris last year. Can you guess what/who it represents?

HA NOI — Defending champions Viet Nam are upbeat and ready for action as the second International U-21 Football Tournament kicks off today in the ancient city of Hue.

The young players have been put through their paces in the run up to the competition, which is also known at the Thanh Nien Newspaper Cup.

Coach Luu Quoc Tan expressed his satisfaction with his players’ fitness levels and abilities, and said this was the best squad the country has ever had.

Viet Nam, the defending champions, are in the same group as Thailand and Myanmar. Tan said Viet Nam were lucky not to have been drawn in the same group as Iran, the tournament favourites.

Deputy skipper Duc Thien said his ankle injury was healing well. He took part in training sessions and is expected to be fit to play.

Meanwhile, midfielder Kien Trung is nursing a minor knee injury and goalkeeper Nguyen Thanh Nam is suffering back problems. However, the team doctor said they were fit to play.

Skipper Van Khai said: "I feel very honoured to play for the national U21 team at an international tournament with five foreign teams participating. "My teammates are all waiting eagerly for the kickoff to show off our skills. This is an opportunity to vie for the pride of the nation.

"We are all happy to be here to fight side by side for our country. We will surely play as many exciting matches as we can."

Trong Hoang, who was a member of the Vietnamese team that won the title in the first tournament last year, said: "We must try harder this year as Iran’s young players will be there – they are one of Asia’s best young teams.

"Young players from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Myanmar are also strong and have a desire to take home the title this year. The Vietnamese players are going to have a hard time.

"However, we have a bit of an advantage over the other competitors because we are playing at home. We will seize the advantage to win. I believe we will have strong support from Vietnamese fans, especially fans in Hue City," Hoang said confidently. —