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Anti-Defamation League Joins The Bigots..Opposing Ground Zero Mosque
The ADL has joined some of the worst bigots in America and is opposing construction of the Islamic community center at the site of the World Trade Center. I have nothing to add to this story from The Tablet. (The Tablet, a Jewish publication, ...
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Gingrich: Park51 Community Center is 'Hostile to Our Civilization'
Oh, brother.According to Newt Gingrich, we should refuse to let Muslims build mosques in America until they let us build our churches in Mecca. Sounds like a good solid Republican position make the US more like Saudi Arabia! Yeah!
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Imam retracts statement over fatwa on singing
AN IMAM, whose voice helped him become the first black Saudi to lead prayers at Mecca's Grand Mosque, has said he was wrong to speak against a fatwa prohibiting singing, i
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Pizzeria Caters to N.Y. Cravings
San Jose pizzeria A Slice of New York is a Mecca for East Coast grwho are homesick for Big-Apple-style pizza.
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Proposed Olympic Course Is Part of Wisconsins Cycling Mecca
A road course was part of Chicagos failed Olympic bid, but riders know there is a lot of great cycling there.
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New S'pore shopping concept
SINGAPORE is already known as a Mecca for shopping, but one local company plans to add more variety, and larger discounts, to an already crowded market. To stand out from the crowd, 42 Ventures, a Singapore-based incubator and early-stage venture ...
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Second batch of Palestinian pilgrims cross Egypt's Rafah crossing
The second batch of Palestinian pilgrims arrived at Egypt's Rafah crossing on their way to Saudi Arabia's Mecca to perform their pilgrimage, an official said Saturday. Eight buses carrying 360 pilgrims arrived at the Egyptian side of the crossing, ...
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Religious Silliness of the Week [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
From the "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" department comes news that Indonesian Muslims have been shooting their prayers off in the wrong direction. For more than 200 million Muslims in Indonesia, Mecca just moved. Instead of facing ...
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Enders swoops in (at Financial Times)
Former German paratrooper Tom Enders swooped into the FT annual aerospace dinner in South Bank midweek, where he fielded questions from industry leaders including Alberto de Benedictis, the UK boss of Italian defence group Finmeccanica.
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CLICH WATCH: Comic-Con: 'Geek Mecca'
San Diego Comic-Con is the beloved (or at least formerly beloved )annual meet-up for comic book nerds and fanboys of all stripes. The forty-year-running festival is fun, and San Diego is a nice place to spend aweekend. It's a four-day get together ...
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Mott's Workers Strike After Company Threatens Pay Cuts
Something's sour in the idyllic, apple-picking mecca of upstate New York. More than 300 workers continue to strike this week at a 100-year-old Mott's plant near Rochester to protest salary and benefit cuts demanded by Mott's and its parent company, Dr ...
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Which way to Mecca?
An embarrassing slip-up by Indonesia's top religious authority: A cleric from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) admitted the bodymade a mistake last March when calculating where Muslims should turn towhen praying. He said new instructions had ...
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Pearl Corp. Orders 30+15 Sukhoi Superjets
FARNBOROUGH, UK --- SuperJet International, a joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica Company, and Sukhoi Holding, signed an agreement with Pearl Aircraft Corporation for the sale of thirty Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, plus fifteen ...
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AW139 SAR Training Center Planned for Sweden
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica Company, and Osprey Training of Sweden are pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement for the establishment of a fully integrated Search and Rescue Training Centre in Sweden, based on the AW139 medium twin ...
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Lockheed Martin to Pursue International Airborne ISR Opportunities
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Italian-based Finmeccanica [FNC: IM] and L-3 Communication Systems-West to pursue international airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business.
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AgustaWestland Unveils New AW169 Twin
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is proud to unveil the AW169, a new generation multi-purpose twin engine light transport utility helicopter designed in response to the growing market demand for higher mission flexibility and multi-role ...
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Monsters of the Midway: The Chicago Bears According to Madden NFL '11
With EA Sports NCAA Football 2011 releasing, it means one important thing, which is Madden is on the way. For die-hard football fans and gamers, Madden is the mecca of sports gaming. It's serious. Tournaments, leagues, and rivalries against friends are ...
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Gowalla Goes to Comic-Con with Blackberry Beta
Location based check-in app Gowalla will be joining the the throngs of furries , Star Wars superfans, comic book aficianados and Joss Whedon devotees at Comic-Con 2010 , the yearly mecca of all things drawn, digitized and generally geeky. As many of us ...
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First AW139 Helicopter Reaches 5,000 Hour Mark
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that an AW139 medium twin helicopter operated in the Netherlands by the CHC Helicopter group of companies is the first to achieve the milestone of 5,000 flying hours. CHC is the largest ...
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Italy reduces Eurofighter order
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 21 (UPI) -- Italy shocked Europe's military industry Tuesday when it announced a major cut in the number of Eurofighter Typhoon jets it will order. England - Eurofighter Typhoon - Italy - BAE Systems - ...
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Religion and Geography
(Eugene Volokh) The New Zealand Herald reports,Instead of facing Islams most holy city, a clerical error of astronomical proportions has seen the faithful [among the 200 million Muslims in Indonesia] directing their prayers towards Kenya and ...
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Japan Coast Guard Orders Six More AW139 Helos
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace are pleased to announce that the Japan Coast Guard has signed contracts for six more AW139 medium twin helicopters. These aircraft will be deployed at Japan Coast Guard bases ...
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Indonesian Muslims change prayer direction
Jakarta- Indonesian Muslims have been praying in the direction of Africa instead of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, forcing religious authorities to issue a new edict correcting the miscalculation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday. In March, the Indonesian Ulema ...
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First batch of Palestinian pilgrims cross Egypt's Rafah
The first batch of Palestinian pilgrims arrived at Egypt's Rafah crossing borders on their way to Saudi Arabia's Mecca to perform their pilgrimage. Mohammed Shaath, a Palestinian official at the Rafah crossing borders, told Xinhua on Monday that a ...
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Saudi Fossil Skull Has Both Ape and Monkey Traits
A partial skull of an early primate, some 29 million years old, found near Mecca in hills overlooking the Red Sea, could help paleontologists answer questions about the life of primates in a period that until now has provided few fossils . ...
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More Glimmers of Good News
Times are dreary in the economy, in the national mood, overseas. Isnt anything positive happening? We tried hard to find better news out there.
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Fossil Skull Fingered as Ape-Monkey Ancestor
The rust-coloured plateau above Mecca in Saudi Arabia may soon attract pilgrims of palaeontology. The hills, which overlook the Red Sea, have disgorged the 29-28-million-year-old partial skull fossil of an early primate that possesses features both of ...
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Joe Biden update: Visits Grand Ole Opry, but it's closed
Before another political speech, the VP watches flood repairs at the country music shrine in Nashville
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Indonesian Muslims Told To Change Prayer Direction
Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had...
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Sustainability: The Secret Ingredient for a Successful Restaurant
I don't know firsthand how hard it is to have a successful restaurant, but living in San Francisco, a foodie mecca, I would imagine that it's really tough. There is so much good food and so much competition. The same is true in cities elsewhere. So ...
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