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Rhymes ReasonsEdward Rhymes (8,802)      Edward Rhymes    Christian Cultural Proficiency Institute The Khat Drug: Is This The New Designer Drug like Cocaine, Ecstasy or Crystal Meth?Posted Saturday, November 21, 2009 (4 hours 5 minutes ago.) Viewed 8 times. Khat also known as kat , qat , qaat , quat , gat , jaad , chat , chad , chaad and miraa , is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Khat contains the alkaloid called cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant which is said to cause excitement, loss of appetite and euphoria. In 1980 the World Health Organization classified khat as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence. The plant has been targeted by anti-drug organizations like the DEA. It is a controlled/illegal substance in many countries, but is legal for sale and production in many others. What is the significance of this drug? A couple, in Thornlie, Australia, was recently charged with possessing the prohibited drug with the intent to sell or supply and attempting to possess the drug to sell or supply. While it's not illegal to grow the trees, it is illegal to possess the leaves for use as a drug. Australian anti-drug authorities are concerned that the use of the drug, being promoted through communities and groups on social networking sites like Facebook, can rapidly spread among students --- the rise in the use of this drug can also be attributed a new Khat derivative, also called MM-Cat, is a deadly cocktail of drugs which, when expanded, becomes Mephedrone. The new hybrid version is being referred to as "a cross between cocaine and ecstasy." The drug is officially banned in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Israel and Sweden. But in Britain, which is the main exporter of the drug, it is still legal. The drug is priced at $6300 for 1000g and is available at 40 different international websites, most of which are based in the UK. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's website lists some of the consequences of khat use:
Permalink Comments (2) The Ohio State Michigan Game 2009: Looking Back To Woody Hayes and Bo SchembechlerPosted Saturday, November 21, 2009 (5 hours 22 minutes ago.) Viewed 9 times. This game isn't what it used to be. Ohio State has beaten Michigan six straight times (counting today's 21-10 victory), its best winning streak and the longest in the series since the 1920s. The Buckeyes who entered this game ranked ninth in the nation (10-2, 7-1 Big Ten), have clinched an outright Big Ten championship and will play in the Rose Bowl with a five-game winning streak. Michigan (5-7, 1-7), on the other hand, is stuck in another miserable year – coming off a school-record nine-loss season – and was a nearly a two-touchdown underdog this Saturday at home to guarantee consecutive losing records for the first time since 1962-63. Once upon of the time this game was the crown jewel of Big Ten competition. Bo Schembechler was 18 years old when he first met Hayes, as a freshman football player at Miami of Ohio where Woody was the head coach. Over the next 40 years their lives and careers was inextricably connected --- besides playing for him, Schembechler would coach under him and coach against him as the coach of Michigan. No one sat on the fence when it came to Woody Hayes. Even in Columbus where he won five national championships, everyone seemed to have an opinion about Hayes. On the field he ruled with efficiency and precision. His offense was dubbed "three yards and a cloud of dust," which suited Hayes fine as it was a personification of the attributes he held in the highest esteem --- strength, power, courage and consistency. Bo Schembechler referred to their ten career meeting as the "Ten-Year War." Of the 10 meetings between these coaching legends, Michigan won five, Ohio State won four and they tied once. During that period, Michigan and Ohio State shared six Big Ten titles, won two each outright and split 10 Rose Bowl appearances. As one who grew up in Big Ten country, Illinois, these two teams have caused me a great deal of consternation over the years. Nevertheless, when Woody and Bo where at the helm of Ohio State and Michigan respectively, they never failed to provide dynamic football theater when they met.
Permalink Comments (0) The Shroud of Turin: Has the identity of the imprinted face been confirmed as Christ?Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 (1 day 6 hours ago.) Viewed 74 times. Has the Shroud of Turin be authenticated as belonging to Jesus? Vatican researcher Dr Barbara Frale believes so. She says, "I think I have managed to read the burial certificate of Jesus the Nazarene, or Jesus of Nazareth." She said that she had reconstructed it from fragments of Greek, Hebrew and Latin writing imprinted on the cloth together with the image of the crucified man. The shroud, which is kept in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral and is to be put in display next spring, is regarded by many scholars as a medieval forgery. A 1988 carbon dating of a fragment of the cloth dated it to the Middle Ages. However Dr Frale, who is to publish her findings in a new book, La Sindone di Gesu Nazareno (The Shroud of Jesus of Nazareth) said that the inscription provided "historical date consistent with the Gospels account". The letters, barely visible to the naked eye, were first spotted during an examination of the shroud in 1978, and others have since come to light. Dr. Frale disputes the claims that the shroud was from the Middle Ages because the text written on the cloth refers to Jesus as "the Nazarene" and not the Son of God (which would have been considered heresy in medieval times). The letter could only be properly deciphered through in negative photographs (sort of like a backwards writing being complete understood when held up to a mirror. Dr Frale told La Repubblica (the second largest-circulated Italian daily) that under Jewish burial practices current at the time of Christ in a Roman colony such as Palestine, a body buried after a death sentence could only be returned to the family after a year in a common grave. Dr Frale said that the use of three languages was consistent with the polyglot nature of a community of Greek-speaking Jews in a Roman colony. Best known for her studies of the Knights Templar, who she claims at one stage, preserved the shroud, she further stated what she had deciphered was "the death sentence on a man called Jesus the Nazarene. If that man was also Christ the Son of God it is beyond my job to establish. I did not set out to demonstrate the truth of faith. I am a Catholic, but all my teachers have been atheists or agnostics, and the only believer among them was a Jew. I forced myself to work on this as I would have done on any other archaeological find." She says, "I think I have managed to read the burial certificate of Jesus the Nazarene, or Jesus of Nazareth." She said that she had reconstructed it from fragments of Greek, Hebrew and Latin writing imprinted on the cloth together with the image of the crucified man. The shroud, which is kept in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral and is to be put in display next spring, is regarded by many scholars as a medieval forgery. A 1988 carbon dating of a fragment of the cloth dated it to the Middle Ages. However Dr Frale, who is to publish her findings in a new book, La Sindone di Gesu Nazareno (The Shroud of Jesus of Nazareth) said that the inscription provided "historical date consistent with the Gospels account". The letters, barely visible to the naked eye, were first spotted during an examination of the shroud in 1978, and others have since come to light. Dr. Frale disputes the claims that the shroud was from the Middle Ages because the text written on the cloth refers to Jesus as "the Nazarene" and not the Son of God (which would have been considered heresy in medieval times). The letter could only be properly deciphered through in negative photographs (sort of like a backwards writing being complete understood when held up to a mirror. Dr Frale told La Repubblica (the second largest-circulated Italian daily) that under Jewish burial practices current at the time of Christ in a Roman colony such as Palestine, a body buried after a death sentence could only be returned to the family after a year in a common grave. The death certificate was glued to the face of the deceased so that the body could be later recognized and retrieved. Dr Frale said that the use of three languages was consistent with the polyglot nature of a community of Greek-speaking Jews in a Roman colony. Best known for her studies of the Knights Templar, who she claims at one stage, preserved the shroud, she further stated what she had deciphered was "the death sentence on a man called Jesus the Nazarene. If that man was also Christ the Son of God it is beyond my job to establish. I did not set out to demonstrate the truth of faith. I am a Catholic, but all my teachers have been atheists or agnostics, and the only believer among them was a Jew. I forced myself to work on this as I would have done on any other archaeological find."
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