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You might expect to see cameras taking pictures of beautiful scenic shots at a park. But installing surveillance cameras to prevent lewd behavior would be a first for the city. Last year, nearly 300 people were cited for indecent exposure in various Metro parks. So common are the complaints, it's earned Cedar Hill a reputation. "This is about families taking their children to feed the ducks in the afternoon and being accosted by men doing things that you and I wouldn't even talk about on TV,” said Metro councilman Michael Craddock. But that hasn't stopped the talk at city council...

I just broke down and bought a 26 inch HDTV/LCD Monitor. This thing has everything. DVI/PC/AVI/Svideo. Two inputs and outputs for everything, 800 to 1 contrast ratio, Game modes, Stereo. I'm watching TV in the lower right corner while surfing the net. Walmart actually had one I could afford...sort of. It’s a PC monitor. It’s a TV monitor. It’s the only screen you’ll ever need – the IT-23M1U LCD IT-TV. The possibilities are amazing. Work on your PC and watch your favorite TV show or DVD at the same time, courtesy of multi-screen functions. Or enjoy the wide-screen TV via...

BAGHDAD, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A female Western journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday and her translator killed, police said. They said she was on her way to a meeting with a Sunni Arab leader when a car carrying an unknown number of gunmen blocked her vehicle in the Adel district near Malik bin Anas mosque in west Baghdad. The gunmen shot dead her driver, an Iraqi journalist who also worked as her translator, abandoned their car and drove off in hers. There has been a spate of kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq over the past few months...

A former U.S. Senate majority leader says he never agreed to let the Bush administration eavesdrop, without court approval, on phone calls that cross U.S. borders. Democrat Tom Daschle contradicts President Bush, who says Congress granted him the authority in legislation authorizing the use of force against al-Qaida after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post Friday, Mr. Daschle says lawmakers granted the president extra powers to pursue al Qaida, but specifically turned down a White House request to use those powers inside the United States. President Bush last week confirmed he secretly...

Former US President to Monitor PA Elections 00:55 Dec 06, '05 / 5 Kislev 5766 (IsraelNN.com) Former US President Jimmy Carter is expected to arrive in the region ahead of the Palestinian Authority (PA) elections in January. Carter will head the election supervisors who will be responsible for ensuring the election is held in a fair and transparent fashion. Also expected to join the foreign observer force is former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Friday, November 11, 2005 16:24 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS PA: Israel may not monitor our compliance By Ryan Jones November 11th, 2005 The Palestinian Authority objects to Israel being able to directly monitor its compliance with signed agreements to prevent the smuggling of terrorist arms into territories under its control, particularly the recently Jew-purged Gaza Strip. Ongoing dispute over Israel's insistence on being able to watch the Rafah Crossing along the Gaza-Sinai border via live video feed is holding up a deal on reopening the crossing. Their track record of non-compliance notwithstanding, the “Palestinians” are adamant the cameras would be...

Tomorrow (22 September) the Christian Science Monitor has a story by Alexandra Marks entitled “A louder drumbeat for independent Katrina probe.” The Monitor is one of the nation’s ten best papers. But the article entirely misses the point. Senators Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton also missed the same point. The article featured a photograph of them with a caption referencing their “calls” for such a “commission.” Why do we have a Congress. Let’s review. When the First Congress met in 1789, it had certain obvious duties. Write the first laws. Provide for the first officials and judges. Pass the first...

Overview: According to the document released by the Iranian government, a polling station for the presidential elections in Iran was located near me in Tucson, Arizona at the Southern Arizona Association for Visually Impaired (SAAVI). I drove there around 9am and the receptionist confirmed that, indeed, voting would be from 3pm-7pm. I arrived back on the scene around 4pm with my camera and notepad in hand and entered the polling station. After a brief look around, I asked the man in charge, the “poll monitor,” if I could interview him about the polling process, telling him that I am a...

On April 22 I was presented with the 2005 Media Award by the New Jersey Family Policy Council at their annual banquet. While honored to receive such recognition, upon deeper reflection, I can’t help but ask myself the question: Was there no one else more qualified? Is there really such a dearth of professional, family-friendly journalists in newsrooms across our state that the Family Policy Council felt compelled to award a businessman moonlighting as a columnist? Apparently the answer is yes. A University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy study found that journalists who were surveyed picked Democrat John Kerry...

<p>Though the war on terror continues, the U.S. government has left the public completely exposed to the aftermath of a radiological attack. There is no better evidence of this than the actions of the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS is very focused on interdiction, government continuity and infrastructure protection, but it has not yet prepared for civil defense, which is the protection of civilians in time of war or disaster.</p>

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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR IS REPORTING THAT A SOVIET "TEST KIT" WITH SARIN SAMPLES WAS FOUND BY IRAQI ARMY PERSONNELL, BUT THAT MORTARS FOUND NEAR IT SHOWED A POSSIBLE INTENT TO WEAPONIZE IT. !!!! BREAKING NEWS: NPR REPORTS SARIN GAS POSSIBLY FOUND IN FALLUJAH. EMBEDDED NPR REPORTER ANN GARRELS REPORTS A MARINE UNIT IN FALLUJAH FOUND WHAT THEY BELEIVED MAY BE SARIN GAS. GO TO    AGAIN, GARRELLS SAYS THAT THE EXPERTS HAVE NOT EXAMINED THE FIND AS OF YET. WE'LL UPDATE ON THIS AS WE HEAR ANYTHING. New rebel tactics emerge in Fallujah. Marines faced a tough fight...

The 2004 presidential election has come and gone with nary a hitch. The problems that mired the 2000 election, some of them real but most of them fabricated, were practically nonexistent this go-around. Of course, there were a few blips and minor kinks that surfaced, but we can rest assured that these too will be corrected. Why? Because our electoral system is a certified thing of beauty. It places accountability at the local level, thereby empowering citizens to effectively police themselves and solve any unique problems that only they can diagnose. Score another one for our Founding Fathers. The only...

"About 60 mainly European election observers have taken up their posts in six states, including Florida and Ohio, saying they hope their presence will serve as a "preventative to the shenanigans" during voting tomorrow." .................The OSCE rules do not allow observers to do much more than make sure that local rules are followed. If they see someone burning ballots in the alley, they are not permitted to interfere. Nor are they supposed to criticize the army of lawyers, negative advertising or simplistic campaign speeches that many of them seem to find jarring. Nevertheless, the observers hope their presence will serve...

Independent Election Observer Team Arrives in U.S. Fri Sep 17,12:34 PM ET Jim Lobe, OneWorld US WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 17 (OneWorld) - A team of 20 independent democracy experts from 15 countries and five continents has arrived in the United States in order to observe this year's presidential election campaign. The election monitors, who have been brought here by the San Francisco activist group "Global Exchange," will be fanning out in the coming days initially to research how the election preparations are being conducted in five states. They will then return just before the actual polling November 2. The five...

To all those computer geeks out there. Can anyone tell me why one corner of my monitor is a red as opposed to blue (which is the background color)? Thanks alot.

Proposal to Have U.N. Monitor Elections Ends in Partisan Clash By Dan Morgan House Republicans view a recent move by 11 Democrats to have United Nations observers monitor U.S. elections as a politically motivated stunt, and last week they moved to nip the idea in the bud. But after an unusually rancorous skirmish that brought proceedings on the House floor to a standstill late Thursday, the issue may have received more publicity than even Democrats hoped for. It pitted Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), author of an amendment to the 2005 foreign aid bill aimed at blocking U.N. involvement in U.S....

HOUSE MEMBERS WILL DISCUSS REQUEST TO UNITED NATIONS TO MONITOR ELECTION Rep. Johnson Spearheads Effort to Invite International Body Washington, D.C. - The request by several Members of Congress to the United Nations to send observers to monitor the upcoming Presidential election has sparked interest around the globe. At this juncture a dozen House Members have signed the letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Thursday morning those Members who have signed the U.N. letter will hold a news conference on Capitol Hill to discuss the ramifications of their request. ”We are hoping that our action will alleviate the nation from...

CAPE CORAL -- Gregg Klowden and Zach Reffner wage war against lizards. BIG ones. In the battle to rid Southwest Florida of the 7-foot invader known as the Nile monitor, speed is essential. "The lizards can climb a tree like a shot out of hell, swim like a fish and outrun a man," said Klowden, a University of Florida-trained biologist. "They do everything but fly." These über lizards, first spotted in Cape Coral in 1990, have taken to the Florida sun so well that they're thriving. Because the rapacious reptiles are such skilled hunters, biologists worry they will devastate endangered...

Maverick Lawmaker Accepts Damages Over Newspaper Claims He Accepted Iraqi Money Mar 19, 2004 By Jane Wardell/ Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) - Outspoken British lawmaker George Galloway accepted undisclosed damages and a public apology from the Christian Science Monitor newspaper Friday over an article it published alleging that he took money from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. Julia Schopflin, a lawyer for the newspaper's publisher, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, told the High Court that the Boston-based publication accepted that allegations made in the article were false. The report was based on documents that later proved to be forgeries,...