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Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through county courts or the country's High Court, a part of its Supreme Court system.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.

Politicians and church leaders expressed concerns that this could mark the beginnings of a “parallel legal system” based on sharia for some British Muslims.

Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422661,00.html

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Remember when....

Today should always be a day that we look back and remember what happened to our country and what could happen in the future if we are not careful. How easy it is to forget how we felt when things were at their worst when now things are seemingly better. Take the chance today out of respect for those lost to remember where you were that day and how you felt.

Here is my story...

September 11th 2001
Punto Fijo, Venezuela

I remember getting up like every other day as a fairly new missionary. I had been in Venezuela at this point for almost a month and I was feeling more confident with the language. One thing I noticed was that any time I could here a radio as we passed a house I couldn't always understand it because a radio announcer's voice is a lot different than listening to someone in person. My companion and I (Elder Martinez-from Boston) were headed over to an appointment we had in another area for a baptismal interview. I remember getting off the bus and walking by a bodega (little store) that had a radio on. I heard the announcer say something about a tower and a plane in New York. Thats all I understood. When we arrived at the house of the investigator he was shocked to see us there... he told us a plane flew into a tower in New York. We figured it was the air traffic control tower and thought it was a small prop plane. We left thinking it was a shame. When we arrived at the house of a member a few minutes later she was visibly upset. She said she had been crying about what happened in New York. We didnt react the way she thought we would so she asked us if we had seen what had happened. Of course we hadnt so she took us back to the TV room and showed us. I just remember being in shock seeing the towers on fire like that. Both towers by that point had been hit but had not fallen. I remember feeling patriotic and sad and nervous to be away from home all at the same time. Throughout the rest of our day we tried to catch glimpses of what was going on. I remember feeling really distracted that day. People would stop us in the street and apologize to us for what happened. When you are american in another country they assume you are directly affected by any news that comes from the states... in this case we were. The following days were different, we prayed as a mission for our home and for those affected by the attack. When more information came out about the attacks some chose to mock us. The retaliation and war that proceeded all happened while I was gone. Venezuela had its own share of political issues from month long strikes, riots, to overthrowing their president all of which made being away even more stressful. On my return flight home I remember feeling goosebumps when we flew over the american shoreline in Florida. We were all feeling pretty emotional to be back in the states since the attack. The majority of us stopped at a gift store in the airport and bought american flag lapel pins to show our reverence for being back in this great country.

Where were you? Please share your experience...

I am so glad someone did this...

I found this online today... I have always wondered why people call soda (what I use) in different areas of the country... see for yourself. (click to see the enlarged map)

When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink.

The article was written by Luanne von Schneidemesser, PhD in German linguistics and philology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. And although there might be weightier issues in life (or even in linguistics) than the preferred terminology for a can of soft drink, there’s nothing trivial about this part of the beverage industry.

“According to an article last year in the Isthmus, Madison’s weekly newspaper, Americans drink so much of the carbonated beverages sold under such brand names as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and 7-Up that consumption averages 43 gallons per year for every man, woman, and child in the United States,” Von Schneidemesser begins her article. “The Statistical Abstract of the United States (1994) confirms this: 44.1 gallons per person in 1992, compared to the next most consumed beverages: beer (32.7 gallons), coffee (27.8 gallons), and milk (25.3 gallons).”

It must be that ubiquity of soft drinks that has made this pop vs soda map the single-most submitted map to this blog, sent in by over 100 contributors. The map details the areas where certain usages predominate.

• coke: this generic term for soft drinks predominates throughout the South, New Mexico, central Indiana and in a few other single counties in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. ‘Coke’ obviously derives from Coca-Cola, the brand-name of the soft drink originally manufactured in Atlanta (which explains its use as a generic term for all soft drinks in the South).
• pop: dominates the Northwest, Great Plains and Midwest. The world ‘pop’ was introduced by Robert Southey, the British Poet Laureate (1774-1843), to whom we also owe the word ‘autobiography’, among others. In 1812, he wrote: A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because ‘pop goes the cork’ when it is drawn. Even though it was introduced by a Poet Laureate, the term ‘pop’ is considered unsophisticated by some, because it is onomatopaeic.
• soda: prevalent in the Northeast, greater Miami, the area in Missouri and Illinois surrounding St Louis and parts of northern California. ‘Soda’ derives from ‘soda-water’ (also called club soda, carbonated or sparkling water or seltzer). It’s produced by dissolving carbon dioxide gas in plain water, a procedure developed by Joseph Priestly in the latter half of the 18th century. The fizziness of soda-water caused the term ‘soda’ to be associated with later, similarly carbonated soft drinks.
• Other, lesser-used terms include ‘dope’ in the Carolinas and ‘tonic’ in and around Boston, both fading in popularity. Other generic terms for soft drinks outside the US include ‘pop’ (Canada), ‘mineral’ (Ireland), ‘soft drink’ (New Zealand and Australia). The term ‘soft drink’, finally, arose to contrast said beverages with hard (i.e. alcoholic) drinks.

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