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WASHINGTON, July 9, 2007 – In the month after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Mike Talleda was searching for a way to help the country and motivate others to do the same. His answer was the “9-11 HelpAmerica Foundation.” “The 9-11 HelpAmerica Foundation’s mission is to recognize and support the families of … fallen and wounded warriors,” Talleda, the foundation’s president, said. “(It’s) huge for families to know that people have not forgotten their sacrifice.” For the past six years, the foundation has focused on providing monthly financial support to wounded servicemembers and families of the fallen. That support...

A Japanese robot maker on Tuesday unveiled what it called the world's first prototype of an artificial hand with "air muscles" that can do even delicate work like picking up a raw egg.

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2007 – The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation is lending a helping hand to those serving in the global war on terrorism, a foundation official said The group was founded in December 2001 to assist servicemembers and military families who face financial issues due to predatory lending. Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation is a member of America Supports You, the Defense Department program established in November 2004 to directly connect military members to the support of the America people and to offer a tool to the general public in their quest to find meaningful ways to support the...

Warning for Muslim WPc who refused to shake Met chief's hand By Ben Fenton Last Updated: 12:35am GMT 22/01/2007 Scotland Yard said yesterday that a Muslim woman police who refused to shake hands with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at her passing-out ceremony would be dismissed if she did not "engage" with people as other officers do. Sir Ian Blair personally congratulated all 200 recruits at a ceremony in London last month, but shook hands with only 199 after the woman specifically requested that she should not be required to do so, apparently for religious reasons. She also asked...

A Muslim woman police officer has sparked a new debate by refusing to shake hands with Britain's most senior police chief for religious reasons. The incident happened at a passing-out parade where Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair was inspecting a line-up of 200 recruits. In addition to refusing a traditional congratulatory handshake from Sir Ian, the WPC - who wore a traditional Muslim hijab headscarf - also declined to be photographed with him as she did not want the picture used for 'propaganda purposes'. The woman had earlier insisted that it was contrary to her religious teaching for her...

Spc. Carrielynn Spillis (left) of Toledo, Ohio, a medic with Company C, 210th Brigade Support Battalion attached to 4-31, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, examines a young Iraqi girl. Spc. Chris McCann, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs. RUSHDI MULLA -- The first few were hesitant, coming in by ones and twos, but soon the floodgates opened and the citizens here came from all over town to receive medical care for a variety of ailments Oct. 19 at a Multi-National Division - Baghdad medical operation. The Soldiers of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division,...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer, authorities said.

A resident of Jiff Jaffa casts his vote during the Agricultural Union elections on Sunday. Department of Defense photo by Army Cpl. Michael Molinaro, 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div. FOB KALSU -- Mimicking other recent success stories in Babil province, on Sunday farmers from the city of Jiff Jaffa held elections for their Agricultural Union board at a primary school in town. The election comes as a further demonstration of the concepts of democratic governance taking root around the country, this time with a commercial twist. Seven members were elected to lead the union into the future and help farmers...

Israel gives army a free hand as Lebanon seeks withdrawal By Patrick Bishop (Filed: 08/08/2006) Diplomatic efforts to stop the war in Lebanon failed to slow the bloodshed yesterday as at least 32 civilians were killed in Israeli air raids. Air raids on a crowded area of Beirut that had so far escaped the violence killed at least eight people Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said no limits had been placed on the army's actions and leaflets warned Lebanese living south of the Litani river not to remain outdoors after 10pm. Targets in south and east Lebanon were bombed...

Islamic group bids to fill power vacuum But risks underestimating Israeli resolveJERUSALEM—There are multiple reasons why Hezbollah chose precisely this moment to throw an already turbulent Middle East into cartwheels of even greater turmoil. But for most observers, none stands larger than the militant Shiite Muslim movement's overarching quest to elevate itself as the pre-eminent defender of the pan-Arab realm. Whatever secondary reasons may come into play — and there is no question that for Hezbollah's sponsors in Syria and Iran the new crisis presents a convenient diversion from the critical issues confronting them — Arab-Muslim pride is paramount. Scan...

For sale: old, second-hand graves. £3,000 each, many careful owners By Stephanie Condron (Filed: 04/07/2006) A cemetery is offering second-hand graves, with "refurbished" monuments including headstones, obelisks and crosses, to be used again. Recycled burial plots, complete with the original memorials, still contain the remains of those who died at least 75 years ago - the names of the dead are simply scoured from the monuments to allow new inscriptions. The City of London cemetery is selling 1,000 such plots advertised as "traditional-style graves" to be "adopted" by families willing to pay £3,000 to lease them for 50 years. The...

Cold hand of KGB haunts oil-rich wasteland By Adrian Blomfield in Nefteyugansk (Filed: 22/06/2006) Even by the desolate standards of Siberia, Nefteyugansk is a forbidding place. Last winter temperatures sank as low as minus 58 Celsius. Summer brings with it a sapping humidity, melting the ice and turning the area into a vast, mosquito-infested swamp. No one in his right mind would want to live in Nefteyugansk. Indeed, until the 1970s, no one apart from the local Khanti people did. Yukos is now owned by Rosneft Yet this stretch of Siberian marsh is now perhaps Russia's most valuable piece of...

6/16/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- It's been more than eight months since Hurricane Katrina displaced thousands of people. Veterans who stayed at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Miss., were among those who had to leave. More than 400 of the 600 residents were evacuated to the AFRH here and have been without most of their personal belongings since September. "The only thing I brought with me was three shirts, two pairs of pants, two pairs of shoes and a towel -- that's it," said Leonard Drozal, a World War II Marine Corps veteran. "I miss my computer." Since...

It was the only part of John the Baptist's body that Luke the Apostle could take away from the village where he was buried, and it has since been cited as the cause of miracles. It was given to the Russian royal family in St Petersburg to protect it from Napoleon's advancing armies and then whisked away to central Europe when the Bolshevik revolution broke out.Now, as part of the Kremlin's bid to forge a national identity, John the Baptist's right hand, which Christians think baptised Jesus Christ, has returned to Russia for the first time in 89 years.The return...

A Plantation man who was mowing his lawn this morning accidentally cut off his hand in the process, officials said. The man, who lives behind the Jacaranda Golf Club in the 9600 block of Conch Shell Manor, was taken to Broward General Medical Center on trauma alert, said Joel Gordon, spokesman for the Plantation Fire Department. More details will emerge as the investigation continues.

U.S. Troops Restore Base to Hand Back to Iraqis U.S. soldiers are restoring the main palace on Forward Operating Base Courage in preparation to hand it back over to the Iraqi people later this summer. By U.S. Army Spc. L.C. Campbell 138th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment MOSUL, Iraq, May 26, 2006 — U.S. soldiers assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team are restoring the main palace on Forward Operating Base Courage, Mosul, Iraq, in preparation to hand it back over to the Iraqi people later this summer. From squad automatic weapon gunners, to rifleman, to grenadiers, these soldiers...

U.S. Army Dr. (Maj.) Steven Bauer (right), brigade surgeon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, instructs Iraqi Lt. Ceasar Hamed Hassan on how to close and open his newly received prosthetic hand, May 4, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Edgar Reyes Injured by Vehicle Bombs, Iraqi Gets Prosthetic Hand The Iraqi soldier lost his left hand when his vehicle collided with two separate vehicles loaded with bombs during a routine patrol. By U.S. Army Pfc. Edgar Reyes 2nd Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Division FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, May 24, 2006 —...

USS UNDERWOOD, At Sea (NNS) -- USS Underwood (FFG 36) Sailors are making efforts in counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean Sea during the month of April as part of Partnership of the Americas. Underwood deployed March 24 from Naval Station Mayport, Fla., to conduct counter-narco-terrorism operations (CNT-OPS) in the western Caribbean to stop illegal drugs from reaching the United States. “We‘re out here with other units patrolling in search of drug smugglers as part of our nation’s continuing war on drugs,” said Cmdr. Roderick Fraser, commanding officer of Underwood. Sailors along with an attached U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement detachment...

BAGHDAD, April 17, 2006 — Last week I flew to Fallujah to meet the men and women of the 5th Regimental Combat Team. As I do with all units, I shared the words of T.E. Lawrence, "Do not try to do too much with your own hands … it is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them." This powerful theme, consistent with our motto, "Iltizam Mashtarak – United Commitment", guides our joint vision for success in Iraq. Iraqis are determining their future according to their Constitution. Together the people, the government, and the...

AP) VENTURA, Calif. Part of a teacher's hand was blown off when a 40 millimeter round the instructor used as a paperweight on his desk exploded in his classroom. Robert Colla struck the round with an object Tuesday afternoon while teaching 20 to 25 students at the Ventura Adult Education Center.

BARWANAH, Iraq (March 29, 2006) -- When 22 year old Cpl. Jeff Globis taped a picture in his Kevlar helmet of his wife, he did so knowing it would be the only way he could see her for seven months. “I think of her all throughout the day,” said the team leader from Winthrop Harbor, Ill. “It was hard to say goodbye to her, but my Marines are my family and I can turn to them for support.” Globis is deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with hundreds of Marines and sailors from Lima Company, 3rd Battalion,...

Man uses machete to chop off hand in front of Diet building A man almost completely severed his left hand with a machete in front of the National Diet Building on Tuesday, apparently to protest policies toward North Korea, police said. The 54-year-old man approached the front gates of the building by car, stepped out, silently placed his left hand against the hood of his car and swung the 40 centimeter blade down across his left wrist, according to Tokyo police official Hideyuki Yoshioka. The man, who identified himself as a member of a right-wing organization, then mumbled a few...

From the reviews of Crunchy Cons Sometimes, it is said, one must be cruel in order to be kind. "Architecture, trees, foodstuff...[Let's] discuss the case for regulating sprawl or the deep pleasures of Humboldt Fog cheese". He calls himself these days a "crunchy Republican" and has written a book to that effect in the hopes that the Wizard can give such a creature a brain and maybe help recapture some who have rightly become morally very uneasy with GOP schizoid "values". So why not transvalue them altogether, he asked himself? Put them in jeans and a log cabin and take...

PRETORIA, South Africa - Bolivia's leftist President-elect Evo Morales extended a conciliatory hand to the United States on Wednesday, saying he forgives past humiliations and welcomes dialogue even as he believes U.S. officials may be plotting against him. Bolivia's first elected Indian leader criticized Mexican President Vicente Fox, telling The Associated Press in an interview that Fox was hostile toward him and all indigenous peoples in the Americas, including those of Mexico. Morales said he believes claims by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that the United States is plotting to overthrow Morales, but welcomes reports that U.S. officials are interested in...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (Dec. 6, 2005) -- Approximately 115 athletes and nearly 120 Marine and civilian volunteers participated in the annual Special Olympics of Onslow County Fall Basketball Games in the New River Fitness Center gym Dec. 2. The Special Olympics offers year-round sports training and competition for more than one million children and adults with intellectual disabilities. According to Laura Quinn, SOOC public relations director, the athletes for the Fall Basketball Games were students from 11 area schools, including Brewster Middle School aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and Carobell, Inc., which provides 24-hour care...

11/2/2005 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- Airmen here gave up their free time help their neighbors during Make a Difference Day Oct. 22 and 28. Residents of Bob Hope and Theresa villages and Eglin’s Thrift Shop benefited from these Airmen’s labors. The annual event is the most encompassing national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. In 2004, three million people cared enough about their communities to volunteer on that day, accomplishing thousands of projects in hundreds of towns. Staff Sgt. Jeff Henson, 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron’s Intelligence Directorate, said Make A Difference...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Sept. 17, 2005) -- As East Coast Marines wade through the aftermath of Louisiana’s deadly flood zones, left by Hurricane Katrina’s path of destruction, survivors slowly begin are bringing their lives back to some kind of normalcy. The West Coast Marines of Recruiting Station Sacramento found it in their hearts to lend a helping hand in what seemed to be a nationwide effort in assisting Katrina victims to regain some of the simple comforts of home, despite their losses. All 14 stations throughout RS Sacramento’s area of operation decided to take a break from their usual mission of...

Argentine football hero Diego Maradona has said he is unrepentant about using his fist in a controversial goal against England in the 1986 World Cup. Speaking on his TV show, Maradona said the intervention, which he nicknamed "The Hand of God", was justified. "The truth is that I don't for a second regret scoring that goal with my hand," he said on the programme. The footballer apparently defended his goal as his response to Britain's claim to the Falkland islands. He said he wanted to let Argentines and the whole world know the truth about a key moment in football...

http://soft-vision.com/only/ ( either join so you can post or when you get to the login screen click on : back to blog. ) Former PoW's from both sides of the issue are encouraged to post their view. But note, to say NO ONE was left behind is ludacrist ( what ever) and unproveable, yet below, in Sen. McCain's own words he admits ... just a "tiny hand full".. well I feel as a majority do, ONE is to many to leave, ONE is a father, a brother, an uncle and on and on.. who should have the right to the...

N.C. study: Germs can't fight soap, water Researchers test hand-washing methods The Associated Press Posted on Sat, Mar. 12, 2005 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Mom was right. A new study by infection-control specialists at UNC Hospitals confirms that the best way to get germs off your hands is with plain old soap and water. The researchers tested 14 hand-hygiene agents plus tap water against specific bacteria and viruses applied to the hands of 62 adult volunteers. Soap and water, or microbial soap and water, proved the most effective at removing viruses and bacteria. "Based on these findings, I'd put my...

Does USSOCOM allow PDAs? SOTECH brings you the answer and what industry is doing to make handheld devices useable in harsh environments where speed of information can win the day. As SOF demonstrated time and again in Iraq and Afghanistan, small forward-deployed teams can control territory that once would have required a whole company or battalion. Laser-range finders, cameras, sensors and instantaneous communications enable the individual SOF operator to call in precision-guided ordnance delivered from elsewhere. The technology that allows these and other capabilities is getting smaller, lighter and better. And now, much of this technology is getting consolidated...

The Neo-Catholic Dead End! by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D. The Wanderer, a periodical that has done some good work over the years chronicling the antics of an American hierarchy almost too contemptible to be worth discussing, is attacking traditionalists again. Many readers will remember the attacks of Stephen Hand two years ago, inanely comparing traditionalists with modernists because both criticize some of the actions of the hierarchy. Chris Ferrara and I responded to each of his articles with essays of our own, and we were gratified to find that quite a few people became traditionalists as a direct result...

CHARTED: Yoko Ono, 71, has the No. 1 single on the dance chart, "Every Man Has A Man Who Loves Him"/"Every Woman Has A Woman Who Loves Her," a mix of techno beats and her somewhat off-key vocals that delivers a message in favor of same-sex unions. "This is a victory not just for me but for all Americans who are against the administration's decision to ban gay marriage," Ono says about the success of the tune, as quoted by the BBC.

Re 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Where is the outcry about Kerry and the DNC? What about the trail by which these forged memos got to CBS? Here’s what Rush Limbaugh had to say yesterday about the route by which they arrived at CBS: "This story from the Prowler at the American Spectator: "More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Colonel Jerry Killian. The opposition researcher claimed the source was a 'retired military officer.' According to a DNC staffer, the documents were...

A boat party in an exclusive area of Long Island Sunday night was interrupted - when a severed human hand mysteriously dropped out of the sky onto the deck of a boat, police said yesterday.

Earlier today, I was among the two hundred or so who were present for the first public showing of "Remembering Saddam," the documentary produced by Don North, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. The documentary chronicles the story of eight Iraqi men who had their right hands surgically amputated for using U.S. dollars in money exchange activities. The documentary, which ran for just under an hour, was an emotional experience. They ran clips of some of the amputations. These men underwent the "procedure" with minimal anesthesia. The doctor who assisted in fitting their new prosphetic hands said he was...

Canine family tree reflects human hand Last Updated Thu, 20 May 2004 17:34:55 WASHINGTON - Most genetic variation in modern dogs was introduced by humans through selective breeding programs, researchers have found. This is among the surprising findings of a comparison of dog and wolf DNA by researchers building a canine family tree. Researchers took DNA samples from 414 purebred dogs representing 85 breeds to see how the canine genome accounts for the smallest Pekinese, curly poodle or herding border collie. Some modern breeds are less than 200 years old Scientists used a computer program and statistical analysis to identify...

BREAKING NEWS: Human Body Part Found on Airport Property Jacksonville, FL-- JSO Homicide Detectives are investigating a human hand found on Jacksonville International Airport property. The hand was found off Pecan Park Road. Homicide Detectives are on the scene at this hour. Police have blocked off the area where the body part was found. Stay tuned to First Coast News at 5:00 for the very latest on this developing story. Created: 5/20/2004 2:02:11 PM Updated: 5/20/2004 2:21:03 PM Edited by Karen Salajko, Executive Producer

Afghan warlords hand over 100 guns and vehicles By Hamida Ghafour in Kabul (Filed: 16/01/2004) The warlords of Afghanistan handed over more than 100 armoured vehicles and heavy artillery pieces to the Kabul government yesterday, the first major step towards demilitarising the capital. A convoy of armoured troop carriers, ground-to-ground missile launchers, anti-tank guided missiles, and multiple rocket launchers, nicknamed "city killers" because of their ability to destroy an urban block with one salvo, lined up facing the shell-scarred Darlaman palace, a ruined royal palace. But while the weapons being handed over were Russian-made, the Afghan capital itself was destroyed...

Don't want SARS? Wash hands after wiping September 16 2003 at 07:09AM Chicago - There's nothing like the fear of catching a dangerous infectious illness, it seems, to make people do the right thing after using the bathroom. A survey of hand-washing habits in airport restrooms found that travellers were exquisitely fastidious in Toronto, which has just endured an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Elsewhere in North America, though, people were just as slovenly as ever. The survey, released on Monday, is the third conducted by the American Society of Microbiology, which has long campaigned - with little apparent...

    'Cleaned' hard drives reveal secrets   14:32 16 January 03 Will Knight   Discarded and recycled computer drives can reveal financial and personal information even when apparently wiped clean, MIT researchers have found. Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, analysed 158 second hand hard drives bought over the internet between November 2000 and August 2002. They were able to recover over 6000 credit card numbers, as well as email messages and pornographic images. The pair wrote a program to scour the disk drives for any trace of credit card information. They found card...

The hand of a human, that was found today (Wed.) at the city garden of Rishon Le Zion, belongs as it look to a suicide terrorist that blew himself up in the city a few months ago, police officials believe. This strange story began in the morning hours, when a few city workers who were working in the public garden show a group of cats that were dragging something on the ground. When they got near, they saw it was a hand of a mature person, which is in extensive decomposing conditions. To the place were called up the people...

Monday, 8 July, 2002, 12:53 GMT 13:53 UK Malaysian state passes Islamic law A state government in Malaysia has approved a bill to bring in Islamic criminal laws, including death by stoning for adultery and cutting off hands and feet for theft. The bill on hudud law - the Islamic penal code - was proposed by the government of Terengganu, a rural state in the north-east run by Islamic party PAS. Although our penalties are harsh and terrifying, we must realise that these offences and sins... are truly evil and despicable Abdul Hadi Awang, Terengganu's chief minister The bill...

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The WorldBy William Ross WallaceBlessings on the hand of women! Angels guard its strength and grace, In the palace, cottage, hovel, Oh, no matter where the place; Would that never storms assailed it, Rainbows ever gently curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Infancy's the tender fountain, Power may with beauty flow, Mother's first to guide the streamlets, From them souls unresting grow-- Grow on for the good or evil, Sunshine streamed or evil hurled; For the hand that rocks...