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

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Aside from using text messaging, you can make a Dropcard via your iPhone, or the web.

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Oleh: Rilles Eko Prianto

Pernahkah Anda mengalami kejadian ini, seseorang mengirim email kepada Anda, tetapi Anda tidak tahu kapan email tersebut sampai. Sudah ditunggu-tunggu, tak kunjung nongol juga email tersebut. Sampai akhirnya Anda pun lupa. Baru keesokan harinya Anda mendownloadnya dari server (itu pun kalau ingat). Bagaimana kalau email itu sangat penting?

Supaya tidak mengalami kejadian seperti di atas, email client kita (seperti Microsoft Outlook dan Outlook Express) harus di-set supaya bisa mendownload sendiri email-email yang masuk tanpa harus menunggu Anda meng-click tombol Send/Receive terlebih dahulu. Mau tahu caranya? Ikuti langkah-langkah berikut.

1. Buka program Microsoft Outlook. Kemudian  menu Tools→Options. Akan tampil sebuah window Options.
2. Pilih Tab Mail Setup, lalu click tombol Send/Receive… Akan tampil window Send/Receive Groups.  Beri tanda centang (√) pada kedua option "Schedule an automatic send/receive every" dan pada kotak di sebelah kanannya isi berapa menit sekali Outlook akan mendownload email secara otomatis (misalnya 5 menit). Perhatikan! Di situ ada 2 option yang sama, yang satu (atas) untuk kondisi normal, sedangkan yang bawah apabila Outlook dalam kondisi Offline. Jumlah menit boleh berbeda, tergantung selera Anda. Click Close jika sudah selesai.
3. Kembali ke window Options. Sekarang tutup window Options dengan meng-click tombol OK.
4. Selesai. Mulai sekarang, Microsoft Outlook Anda akan mendownload email Anda (dan juga mengirim email yang masih berada di Outbox)  secara otomatis setiap 5 menit (atau sesuai angka yang Anda isi tadi). Anda tidak akan pernah kehilangan momen berharga lagi. Tetapi harap diperhatikan!! PROGRAM MICROSOFT OUTLOOK HARUS TETAP DIBUKA (boleh di-minimize), sebab kalau Anda tutup, percuma saja. Apa yang Anda harapkan tidak akan terjadi. Selanjutnya, setiap kali Outlook selesai mendownload pesan (email) baru yang masuk, di sebelah kanan bawah layar biasanya ada baloon tips yang akan memberi tahu Anda. Gampang bukan? Selamat mencoba!!

]]> http://aaarticles.wordpress.com/?p=147 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:05:24 +0000 kashaan143 http://aaarticles.pl.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/adding-drive-to-the-sendto-list/ I have recently found that if you want to send something from A: drive or from any where to any drive, you can just make a short cut of that drive in subdirectory SENDTO.
For example I have two hard drives, a Floppy Drive, and a CDROM
After I have make a copy of each of my drive I will be able to send a whole directory of E:\XXX from the CDROM drive to A: drive or any other drive that i have had made the short c t in the SENDTO subdir of WINDOWS.

In other news, all readers of post-it poetry are encouraged to send in their own poems for a special readers-only post! Send in your poems to bailey.postitpoetry@gmail.com by Tuesday, Sept. 16 if you would like your poem featured!

This is all true!

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.asp

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_082106

Warning to all dog owners - pass this on to everyone you can.

The letter states:

"Last Friday evening, I arrived home from work, fed Chloe, our 24 Lb. dachshund, just as I normally do. Ten minutes later I walked into the den just in time to see her head inside the pocket of Katie's friend's purse. She had a guilty look on her face so I looked closer and saw a small package of sugar-free gum. It contained xylitol. I remembered that I had recently read that ANY sugar-free gum (or sugar-free baking products or sugar free items like cough lozenges!) can be deadly for dogs so I jumped on line and looked to see if xylitol was the ingredient. I found the first website and it was the one.

"Next, I called our vet. She said to bring her in immediately.

"Unfortunately, it was still rush hour and it took me almost 1/2 hour to get there. Meanwhile, since this was her first case, our vet found another website to figure out the treatment. She took Chloe and said they would induce her to vomit, give her a charcoal drink to absorb the toxin (even though they don't think it works) then they would start an iv with dextrose. The xylitol causes dogs to secrete insulin so their blood sugar drops very quickly. The second thing that happens is liver failure. If that happens, even with aggressive treatment, it can be difficult to save them. She told us she would call us. Almost two hours later, the vet called and said that contents of her stomach contained 2-3 gum wrappers and that her blood sugar had dropped from 90 to 59 in 30 minutes. She wanted us to take Chloe to another hospital that has a critical care unit operating around the clock. We picked her up and took her there. They had us call the ASPCA poison control for a case number and for a donation, their doctors would direct Chloe's doctor on treatment. They would continue the iv, monitor her blood every other hour and then in 2 days test her liver function. She ended up with a central line in her jugular vein since the one in her leg collapsed, just as our regular vet had feared.

"Chloe spent almost the entire weekend in the critical care hospital.

After her blood sugar was stabilized, she came home yesterday. They ran all the tests again before they released her and so far, no sign of liver damage. Had I not seen her head in the purse, she probably would have died and we wouldn't even had known why.

"Three vets told me this weekend that they were amazed that I even knew about it since they are first learning about it too. Please tell everyone you know about xylitol and dogs. It may save another life."

www.wow.lk - Dialog, Tigo, Mobitel - But you have to send a request to other party before you send SMS, then you need to wait until he accept it, and also you cannot use your real phone number. And clearly very slow site almost impossible if your internet connection is slow. But useful once accepted, not for emergency. 143 character limit http://www.iguys.org/index1.html - similar to wow. headache but faster than wow. 120 character limit

smstosrilanka.ananmanan.com/ - This is a nice site to send an SMS at an emergency. But only to Mobitel. You don't need to register. use this if you send sms to mobitel. But not from your mobile number - 144 character limit. www.cutelanka.com/sms/ - 120 character limit. www.openarc.lk/sms/sendsms.html - NO character limit same as other

sms.kaputa.com/ - you can send free SMS to Dialog, Mobitel once typed the random text. But not from your mobile number. - 120 character limit

www.mulpituwa.com/freesms/sms.php - Do NOT USE THIS, you might face privacy issues. not sure any one can see your phone number it is saved in a text file called 'mulpi_tuwa_s_m_s.txt'. my number also I found saved there, after my try. I recommend you to NOT try. And my SMS also did not send successfully. Once I download the text file it was around 2.22MB imagine how many phone numbers in a simple text file.

But the best site I recomend you is the one Danesh given me. It's

www.wadja.com - you have to register here. But its not slow as WOW or it does not need to send pending acceptance requests. Registration only takes 2 mins at most. coz I used for an emmergency after fed up with wow. The problem is 90 character limit. But you can register your phone number free and without any cost of money, it will appear as sending from your number to the other party.

Hope this information would helpful for some one trying to send free SMS in SriLanka

Please see the presentation below to know how this component works.

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// Client Program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

#define BUFFSIZE 256
#define SERVER_PORT 6401

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int sock;
struct sockaddr_in echoserver;
char buffer[BUFFSIZE]={0};
unsigned int echolen;

int received =0;

if(argc<3)
{
printf("Usage : cli <serverip> <String> \n");
exit(1);
}
if((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP)) < 0) {
perror("Failed to create socket \n");
}

memset(&echoserver, 0, sizeof(echoserver));
echoserver.sin_family = AF_INET;
echoserver.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(argv[1]);
echoserver.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);
if(connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *) &echoserver, sizeof(echoserver)) < 0) {
perror("Failed to connect with the server \n");
}

memcpy(buffer,argv[2],sizeof(buffer)-1);
echolen = strlen(buffer);
if(send(sock,buffer,echolen, 0) != echolen) {
perror("Mistmatch in bytes sent \n");
}
close(sock);
}

// Author : Amit Sahrawat

// Server Program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define BUFFSIZE 256
#define MAX_PENDING 10
#define MAX_CLIENTS MAX_PENDING

pthread_t clients[MAX_CLIENTS];
#define SERVER_PORT 6401

void *ClientData(void* arg)
{
int sock = *(int*)arg;
char buffer[BUFFSIZE] = {0};
int received = -1;

fd_set fds;
int maxfd;
int nready;

maxfd = sock + 1;

while(1)
{
FD_ZERO(&fds);
FD_SET(sock,&fds);

nready = select(maxfd,&fds,0,0,0);
if(FD_ISSET(sock,&fds))
{
if(( received = recv(sock,buffer,BUFFSIZE-1, 0)) <0 ) {
perror("Failed to receive additional bytes from client \n");
}
if(received >0){
printf("Received Buffer : %s \n",buffer);
}
if(received < 1)
{
printf("Closing this client\n");
close(sock);
pthread_exit(NULL);
}
memset(buffer,'',sizeof(buffer));
}
}
close(sock);
}

int main()
{
int threadCount =0;

int sock,clientsock;
struct sockaddr_in echoserver,echoclient;
char buffer[BUFFSIZE] = {0};

if(( sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_TCP)) < 0 ){
perror("Failed to created socket \n");
}

memset(&echoserver, 0, sizeof(echoserver));
echoserver.sin_family = AF_INET;
echoserver.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
echoserver.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);

if(bind(sock,(struct sockaddr *) &echoserver, sizeof(echoserver)) < 0) {
perror("Failed to bind the socket \n");
}
if(listen(sock, MAX_PENDING) < 0) {
perror("Failed to listen on server socket \n");
}

while(1)
{
unsigned int clientlen = sizeof(echoclient);

if(( clientsock = accept(sock, (struct sockaddr*) &echoclient, &clientlen)) < 0) {
perror("Failed to accept client connection \n");
}
fprintf(stdout,"Client Connected : %s \n",inet_ntoa(echoclient.sin_addr));

if(clientsock > -1)
{
if(threadCount<MAX_CLIENTS)
pthread_create(&clients[threadCount++],NULL,ClientData,(void *) &clientsock);
}
}
}

// Makefile for compilation of server/client

GCC=gcc
LIBS=-lpthread
CFLAGS=-g
all:server client
server:
$(GCC) server.c -o server $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS)
client:
$(GCC) client.c -o client $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS)

clean:
rm -f client server