A woman sank her teeth into a car roof after a roadside argument on a night out, a court has heard.
Rhian Jeremiah, 26, left teeth marks in the bodywork of a white Fiat 500, causing £220 of damage. She had been drinking at a memorial night for her late boyfriend, Simon Jones, who drowned off the coast, Aberystwyth magistrates was told.
Jeremiah, of Cardigan, Ceredigion, was given a 12-month community order after being found guilty of criminal damage.
Car owner Selina Day told the court: "She came up to the car and tried to rip the door open. I couldn't understand what she was saying - she was very drunk and was abusive.
"There was a bit of an argument and she sunk her teeth into the part of the car above the window. I could hear metal crunching. I had never seen this lady before in my life. I didn't know what she was talking about."
David Folland, defending, told the court the incident was "not quite like" the scene involving the character Jaws in a James Bond film.
He said: "My client was the worse for drink that night. She was clearly upset."
Jeremiah had denied causing £220 criminal damage to the car by biting it but was found guilty. She admitted assaulting two police officers who were called to arrest her for biting the car.
Jeremiah, who is unemployed, was also told to attend 20 alcohol abuse help sessions.
Chairman of the bench Professor Ian Roffe told her: "You have used alcohol inappropriately to deal with your issues."
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Fiats are apparently made of a high percentage of plastic? Electroplated Plastic? Italian design, Italian manufactured....plastic cars. Euro money is made of plastic too, I hear...all those zlotys and farfels and blottos with pictures of poets on it.
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I'll have an Abarth pls.
The crowd went silent, suddenly the Prius looked down-scale. The serve-yourself solenoid bar emptied quickly. A smell of burnt Castor-oil came from the back, the LucasMen panicked and we waited forever. I hate do-not-drive-thrus.
Like a fool, he staggered along the top of the sea wall, arms extended, yelling, "Watch this!", as Rhian clapped her hands in delight. Over he went, drowned off the coast. Darwin prize, lost generation.
[DAWN] Facebook has spread like an infectious disease, but we are slowly becoming immune to its attractions, and the platform will be largely abandoned by 2017, say researchers at Princeton University.
The forecast of Facebook's impending doom was made by comparing the growth curve of epidemics to those of online social networks. Scientists argue that, like bubonic plague, Facebook will eventually die out.
The social network, which celebrates its 10th birthday on Feb 4, has survived longer than rivals such as Myspace and Bebo, but the Princeton forecast says it will lose 80 per cent of its peak user base within three years.
John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from the US university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
The charts produced by Google Trends show Facebook searches peaked in Dec 2012 and have since begun to trail off.
"Ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out, and have been successfully described with epidemiological models," the authors claim in a paper entitled "epidemiological modelling of online social network dynamics".
"Ideas are spread through communicative contact between different people who share ideas with each other. Idea manifesters ultimately lose interest with the idea and no longer manifest the idea, which can be thought of as the gain of 'immunity' to the idea."
Facebook reported nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users in October, and is due to update investors on its traffic numbers at the end of the month.
While desktop traffic to its websites has indeed been falling, this is at least in part due to the fact that many people now only access the network via their mobile phones.
For their study, Cannarella and Spechler used what is known as the SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model of disease, which creates equations to map the spread and recovery of epidemics.
They tested various equations against the lifespan of Myspace, before applying them to Facebook. Myspace was founded in 2003 and reached its peak in 2007 with 300 million registered users, before falling out of use by 2011.
Purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for $580 million, Myspace was at one point valued at $12bn. It was sold by News Corp for just $35m.
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I guess I'll have to find another way to swap photos of amusing cats with friends & relatives.
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Facecrook and other similar social venues are doomed because of privacy abuses. Few people voluntarily create a personal dossier so that the government, criminals, lending institutions, or their employer can monitor or exploit their activities.
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I'll make sure I don't pay for it past 2016 then
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Never undrstood h people ould want to be on facebok. And for twitter... who in ho sane mind ould want to _read_such trascendental texts like; "Iwasjust inthe toilet Used three sheets of paer"?
#5
Princeton should go eat a sock. Saying Facebook will go away because Myspace did and disease models?
Like that whole watching movies at home thing would go away?
The technology will change and improve, people will continue to work from a social media.
Second, how many stores use facebook as a virtual mall store? Something will have to come about to create enough buzz to attract that bloc of business and people will still not close out their facebook.
If you plug the Facebook numbers into a nuclear chain reaction model, it blows up way before 2017.
In the same way a map is not the territory, a model is not the thing being modeled. I don't doubt that Facebook adoption and epidemics share an S-shaped growth curve, but that does not mean they end the same way.
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My son the entrepeneur is getting paid by his company for the first time in almost 3 years of existence. His company has just hired another 4 people to bring the total to ~16.
His company, Social Made Simple, is an interesting idea that provides services and software to make connecting to Social Media for businesses easy(ier). He started with his knowledge of the Real Estate business and it's growing from there.
He's currently working a pilot partnership with Constant Contact that seems to be growing well.
How many body parts can a father cross? He always wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 40, he's got nine years to go.
This week's insanity from the gun grabbing left comes from Connecticut, where last January 1st every owner of an "assault weapon" by the newly expanded legal definition had to be registered. At the time I wrote that the rumor was that the participation rate was somewhere around 10 percent. Just a rumor at that point, with the photo of a few Connecticut serfs standing in line to register their firearms circulating about the Internet.
Last week it came out that a total of 50,000 of those weapons had made it in in under the deadline. Two years ago Connecticut state police STASI, according to TheTruthAboutGuns.com stated they estimated about 370,000 AR were in the state. Other numbers bandied about included around 250,000 to 100,000 of the SBRs (Scary Black Rifles) were in private hands. Going on by the most liberal estimate of the Connecticut state STASI, participation rate stands at about 13.5 percent, and under the most conservative estimate it stands at about 50 percent. BearingArms.com says the participation rate is around four percent.
It is unclear which number is the case, but even with the most optimistic estimate, it is clear the law has failed, which is a good thing. But news is that now Connecticut STASI are checking their records to identify which gun owners have failed to comply.
Given what we know about the failed Canadian gun registration program, and the attitude of nearly every AR owner on the planet, the participation rate may be half what BearingArms.com says it is.
The question then becomes, what does Connecticut do? They have three choices
1) They can move to repeal the law
2) They can double down and move to the next phase of gun confiscation (which I believe will happen eventually while this is state law)
3) Do nothing and allow state level law enforcement to jail whomever they can and leave the legal situation en situ.
From Gateway Pundit comes the news that the Obama Department of Veterans Affairs is sending out letters to disabled veterans warning them they may not be able to possess firearms. The letter appears to be a clear cut case of a violation of the 2nd Amendment right, but then I remember, we have no law in this country now with a presidential administration all too willing to pull new law out of its ass to suit its supporters' agenda.
In a case of accidentally speaking the truth, one of the terminally fascist tweeted a statement that Oregon firearms owners are "pigs" and "need to be put down with your own ammunition". This is the main problem I have with those who would employ, happily, the national security apparatus against those who refuse to comply with their agenda goals, such as gun confiscation. Do you know what you become when you advocate using the raw power of the state against your fellow citizens? A target.
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Ammunition for pistol ammunition was mixed. Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for all classes of used firearms were mixed to mostly higher.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, No Label, reloaded, brass cased, .32 per round (Unchanged)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (Unchanged, 3 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang it Ammo, No Name, reloaded brass, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Jack Ross Ammunition, No Label, reloaded brass, .32 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each )
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: -.06 Each (!) (After unchanged for 2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Brown Bear, steel cased, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, No Label, Reloaded, .24 per round (Unchanged 2 weeks)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: +.04 Each (After unchanged (Two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Wideners, Federal CCI, reloaded, .44 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 Rounds: Bulk Ammo, PMC, .56 per round (From last week: +.03 Each)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.04 Each (-.05 Each over 2 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Bulk Ammo, Brown Bear, HP, steel cased, .30 per round (Unchanged after +.02 Each)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.05 Each (Unchanged 6 of 7 previous weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Prvi Partizan, brass cased, .64 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Prvi Partizan, brass cased, .65 per round (Unchanged from last week)
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each (Unchanged previous 4 of 5 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Alamo Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: The Sportsman Outdoor Super Store, Wolf, steel core and case, .22 per round (Unchanged)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Last Week: +.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila Superextra, .12 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila Superextra, .17 per round (From Last Week: + .05 Each, (After unchanged previous 3 weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $782 Last Week Avg: $770 (+)
California: Bushmaster (Carbon Fiber): $750 (same Gun)
Texas: Mixed Build (PSA Lower): $800
New York: Mixed Build: $900
Virgina: Palmetto State Armory: $660
Florida: Bushmaster XM-15: $800
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,400 (!) Last Week Avg: $1,100 (+)
California: DPMS: $1,400
Texas: Bushmaster: $1,300
New York: None Available
Virginia: Smith & Wesson M&P10: $1,400
Florida: DPMS: $1,500
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $690 Last Week Avg: $755 (-)
California: Saiga: $700 (possibly same gun)
Texas: CAI M-92: $800
New York: WASR: $800
Virginia: CAI VZ-58: $500 (!)
Florida: Romak: $650
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,545 Last Week Avg: $1,495 (+)
California: Romak PSL: $1,689 (Same Gun)
Texas: None
New York: None
Virginia: None
Florida: Romak: $1,400
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $518 Last Week Avg: $624 (-)
California: Rock Island Armory: $450
Texas: Girsan MC1911SHC-G2: $440
New York: Remington Rand: $750
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $450
Florida: Regent 1911 (Stainless): $500 (Same Gun)
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $395 Last Week Avg: $450 (-)
California: Ruger P85: $375 (Same Gun)
Texas: Ruger (94: $320
New York: Glock 19: $405
Virginia: Glock 26: $450
Florida: Ruger P95: $425
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $442 Last Week Avg: $425 (+)
California: Glock 23: $485
Texas: Bersa Thunder 40: $450
New York: Ruger P94: $400 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Smith & Wesson: $450
Florida: bersa Thunder: $425
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Regarding CT, the number of people who chose to register their mandated firearms & magazines remains to be determined. Most people were hoping for a court decision prior to the 1/1/14 deadline and waited until December to submit the paperwork and given the minimal staffing of the State Police unit handling the paperwork, it is unlikely they have even opened all the mail yet. Additionally under CT law, any purchase of a firearm from a FFL results in the state police and the town you live getting a DPS-3-C form listing the make, model, serial # of the firearm you just bought. That makes tough to non-comply unless one is willing to risk a SWAT team excuting a search warrant and then being convicted of a felony.
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Then I guess it boils down to the willingness of the Connecticut state police to spend state resources enforcing an unenforceable law, and its citizens' willingness to drain the state of those resources through trial and jail time.
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@8 That's the big question, isn't it. I've heard rumors that some police have said they won't comply, but like most rumors it is hard to substantiate. The question is how far is the Governor and other senior members willing to go to further their agenda and will the pending court case overturn what they passed. Given the make up of the CT population, I don't see it being a red state anytime soon.
[An Nahar] South Sudanese government and opposition troops fought "sporadic" battles after a ceasefire came into force Friday, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said.
A front man said the number of people who have sought refuge from the five-week-old conflict in U.N. bases has now risen above 76,000.
A ceasefire between followers of President Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar took effect at 1730 GMT.
"The U.N. Mission in South Sudan says that sporadic fighting took place in parts of the country today," including after the ceasefire, U.N. deputy front man Farhan Haq said.
South Sudanese rebels accused Kiir's army of attacking their positions ahead of the ceasefire, which was brokered by East African nations and agreed on Thursday in Addis Ababa. But the government army said it knew nothing of any fighting since the deal was reached.
"It is critical that both parties implement the cessation of hostilities agreement in full and immediately," the U.N. front man said.
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[Egypt Independent] Looters in South Sudan have stolen more than 3,700 tonnes of food, enough to feed 220,000 people for a month, the World Food Programme said on Friday.
The U.N. agency's warehouses in Malakal had been almost emptied, spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told a UN briefing in Geneva. The agency was working to recover lost stocks wherever possible and trying to protect remaining stocks, she said.
The loss will hamper efforts to feed the 73,000 civilians who have taken refuge in UN bases as well as more than 200,000 refugees who have been relying on UN support in Upper Nile and Unity states since before the latest crisis began.
A total of 494,000 people have been uprooted across South Sudan, the UN says.
South Sudan's government and rebels signed a ceasefire on Thursday to end more than five weeks of violence that divided Africa's newest nation and brought it to the brink of civil war.
"In this kind of situation it's very difficult to protect food stocks," Byrs said, adding that she had no details on how the looting had happened.
The ceasefire is expected to be implemented within 24 hours of the signing, but there were doubts from diplomats that the depth of the ethnic, political and personal grievances would be easy to overcome.
WFP is seeking $57.8 million for emergency food aid for South Sudan, and expects to need to ask for more in future.
WFP has reported no looting of its food stocks so far in another African crisis, in Central African Republic.
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"In keeping with current trends in the region" .....as we used to say.
[An Nahar] Several people died Friday when lightning triggered a huge blast in a military munitions dump in a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , a government front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Several losses of human life have been reported" in the kaboom in the central city of Mbuji-Mayi, the front man, Lambert Mende, said in a brief statement.
He did not give a death and casualty toll.
A regional governor, Alphonse Ngoy Kasanji, told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that "several houses" were destroyed by the blast, but normal activities had now resumed in the city.
A witness speaking by telephone said the lightning strike caused several kabooms and a fire in the army camp in the center of Mbuji-Mayi.
He estimated that the number of dead was more than 10.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Keeping hundreds of school-kids hungry and waiting in queues for hours, Bagha upazila Awami League accorded a reception to new State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam in Rajshahi yesterday.
The kids were kept standing on both sides of the road directing to Bagha High School where the ceremony was held.
The kids starved and burnt under the sun while Rajshahi 6 (Bagha-Charghat) politician Shahriar got a gold-made boat and coat pin from his fellows at the reception.
Local municipality Mayor Akkas Ali handed over the golden boat to the politician and ward 8 Awami League President Kawser Hossain gave him the coat pin.
The state minister in reply requested his fellows not to give him such gift in future and declared that he would donate money (in comparison with the gifts' monetary value) to a local handicaps' organization.
The ruling party men also constructed over 50 ornamental gates in Charghat and Bagha upazila sponsored by his fellows, education and business organizations.
The students who were kept standing said they were asked to attend their respective schools before noon and around 2:30pm they were taken to the venue.
"I came to my school having breakfast and teachers took us here before lunch time. They gave us nothing to eat," said a sixth grader Sohrab Hossain of Harirampur High School.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday appointed ASM Feroz as the chief whip and five newcomers as whips of the 10th parliament, dropping her nephew Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury who was one of her lawmaker-relatives to pile up huge wealth during the last five years.
Feroz succeeds former chief whip Abdus Shahid.
Hasina has chosen newcomers for the posts of five whips apparently because the seven whips of the ninth parliament could not maintain order in the House, causing difficulties in running parliament.
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[Dhaka Tribune] BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... called upon everyone to become united against the government which has pushed the country's democracy towards death.
In a statement on Friday, the BNP chairperson said, "We have to take an oath of serious movement to oust the government which has established Bakshali rule (one party rule) in the country."
In the statement signed by Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jonny, Khaleda Zia said democracy and basic human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... were not safe in the hands of the Awami League.
On January 25, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established Bakshal, a government of national unity, through the 4th amendment of the constitution, the statement said.
BNP along with like-minded parties observed January 25 as the day democracy was killed.
At that time, the Awami League passed an undemocratic law on the basis of muscle power defying the opinion of the opposition and the spirit of the Liberation War, the statement said.
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The left wants the minimum wage lifted so they can destroy the fast food industry. They do not like the food, the pay and the choices available to the public.
It never occurs to the left to fix the reason why someone would see fast food work as the only available opportunity and they never see the valuable experience the fast food industry provides first time workers.
#3
..nah. Too many union contracts tied to minimum wage as in x3 or x4 the rate. Also minimum wage as it is doesn't generate enough union garnishment opportunities to support union apparatchiks in the manner they expect. So kick that puppy up to get their brothers out organizing for more rent seeking opportunities for the tribe.
#5
As Bill alludes to, the middling class kids who get some basic educational skills will still get a job of some sort, though fewer. It's the kids in the lower strata who've been abandoned by the teachers unions et al who'll be tossed to the 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here' abyss.
#6
Minimum wage tells American workers, or would be workers, they are legally prohibited from competing in the global labor market. If you're gonna have a global market you must allow your workers to compete in it or else there will be, already is, high unemployment.
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Minimum wage is also a leading cause of inflation, the very phenomenon it is ostensibly designed to counteract. If a fast food restaurant has to raise wages, it will also have to raise prices. The employers are not going to take a hit in the profits so they won't have many other options.
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How many Union Wages are tied to the Minimum Wage? I keep hearing about it, but I don't see nuttin. But I looked so there is some truth there.
#9
The 'living wage' rhetoric sounds great to the low-information voters. That's a prime reason why the Left pushes it.
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Other than the obvious that he is right - he can read a balance sheet. He knows that for a program to work, it has bring in more money than it spends. Maybe he believes in social programs and knows they must be funded. Maybe he plays democrat to avoid the shakedowns.
But either way he wins. I heard microsoft has already developed software which would almost completely automate a shoe store - sizing on touchscreen floor panals, computerized inventory and selection screen, commercial about the shoe while the robot retrieves the style and size, card swiper.
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#8 - the reference is usually those damm gubbamint workers is making extra every time the minimum wage goes up. I have never seen/heard that in practice
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[Egypt Independent] Ukrainian protesters erected more street barricades and occupied a government ministry building on Friday after the failure of crisis talks with President Viktor Yanukovich, pointing to a further hot weekend of protest.
Yanukovich's Party of the Regions confirmed reports that two months of anti-government protests were spreading to other parts of the country, particularly the west, where "extremists" had seized regional administration buildings.
"The situation has grown sharper throughout the country," the party said in a statement in which it called on people to disregard the calls of "radical troublemakers" to turn out for protest rallies.
Opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko, who with two other opposition leaders failed to wring any concessions from Yanukovich late last night, said the only way out of the impasse lay with international mediation.
"Any discussion of how to settle the crisis in Ukraine must take place with the involvement of the international mediators of the highest level," a statement from his Udar party quoted him as saying.
"Instead of shifting to solving the situation by common sense, Yanukovich has declared war on his own people. He is trying to hold on to power at the price of blood and de-stabilization of the situation in the country. He has to be stopped," the boxer-turned-politician said.
After news emerged on Thursday night that talks had been fruitless, about 1,000 demonstrators moved away from Kiev's Independence Square in the early hours of Friday and began to erect new barricades closer to presidential headquarters.
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[An Nahar] Malaysian Christians must obey rules forbidding them from using the word "Allah", the country's leader was quoted saying Friday, breaking his silence in a festering row that has raised fears of religious conflict.
The comments by Prime Minister Najib Razak met with immediate dismay from Christians, who have called the issue an example of growing Islamic intolerance that threatens to tarnish the Mohammedan-majority country's moderate image.
Mohammedan conservatives including the country's king have recently stepped up demands that Malay-speaking Christians not use the Arabic word to refer to the Christian God, saying it is reserved for Mohammedans.
"Allah" also is used by the Mohammedan ethnic Malay majority in Islamic worship.
The issue sparked a spate of attacks in 2010 on places of worship, mostly churches.
Najib's government in 2011 announced a compromise that allowed limited use of the word by non-Mohammedans.
But on Friday he said the so-called "10-point agreement" was subservient to other laws and royal decrees.
"The 10-point agreement is subjected to federal and state laws," Najib was quoted saying by news portal Malaysiakini.
As tensions have resurfaced in recent weeks, Christians have called on Najib -- who portrays himself as a moderate -- to speak out in support of minorities' constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship as they see fit.
"Of course we are extremely disappointed," Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, said of Najib's comments.
Malay-speaking Christians say they have used "Allah" to refer to their God for hundreds of years.
Shastri told Agence La Belle France Presse churches would continue to do so in their services and in Bibles.
"We are going to take it up with the government again, that they are going back on their word."
Malay Mohammedans make up 60 percent of multi-ethnic Malaysia's 28 million people. About 2.6 million people are Christians.
Malaysia has an array of state-level laws and religious decrees against non-Mohammedans using the word, but they have historically not been strenuously enforced.
The current dispute was sparked in 2007 when Najib's Mohammedan-dominated government ordered a Catholic weekly newspaper to stop printing the word.
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Don't use the word Allan Or we Keeel you!!!
Where was it again where Obama's mother used to live? She got pregnant there for some reason. Does anyone know who the father was? WHY was she in Malaysia? What is in Malaysia ? Malaysia is famous for what? I missed that.
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Hmm' not using the word Allah? Ok. How about Moongod worshiped by followers of a mad Arabian pedophile? Doesn't exactly flow, but it does convey where "Allah" comes from.
The Sheikhul Islam Office (SIO) has denounced a group of anti-government protesters over inappropriate behaviour inside a mosque in Trang's Palian district. In a statement issued yesterday, the organization said, "A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims and is very sacred to them. It is a pillar of peace for the community and should be above all political conflict."
On Monday, about 300 protesters told the Islamic Ismailiyah Foundation School to close in an attempt to get people to join their protest against the Thai government. The demonstrators showed up while Muslims were attending classes and some were praying at the adjacent mosque.
According to the SIO, some of the demonstrators appeared to be drunk and some even fired gunshots into the air. The organization stated, "It is not appropriate for any group to threaten or close a mosque. Doing so is an act of violating basic religious rights."
The SIO also implored Muslims to be patient and not react adversely to opinions on the subject to avoid violent conflicts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[DAWN] Facebook has spread like an infectious disease, but we are slowly becoming immune to its attractions, and the platform will be largely abandoned by 2017, say researchers at Princeton University.
from using the word "Allah", the country's leader was quoted saying Friday, breaking his silence in a festering row that has raised fears of religious conflict.
