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The Reliant, an action film coming to select theaters on October 24, is not a typical faith-based film and the secular community is taking notice. It was made apparent when the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating. Although it had no foul language or sex scenes, and less violence than Disney movies given a PG-13 rating, the screenwriter and producer of the film, Dr. J. P. Johnston, had to appeal to the MPAA to get it changed. The hate mail the producers have received and the trash articles written by those opposed to the film’s nod...

A WORD FOR THE TRULY RELIANT DRESSED IN OBEDIENCE AND THE FATHER’S LOVE ! My orchestrating moments are now yours as you walk in my will and release the breath of My voice for you are an utterance of My throning glory set apart to speak My will into life and I have ordained you through your utter obedience onto me alone . For you have not forsaken my illegitimate children of wrath but allowed the stiff knecked and rebellious to go the way of Cain and Korah . So do not look back as Lot's wife but besiege the...

Migrants 'reliant' on benefits By Duncan Gardham Last Updated: 1:56am BST 01/10/2007 The degree to which new immigrants rely on benefits and council housing has been revealed by a survey that looks at how much foreigners contribute to the economy. The league tables have been compiled by the Left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research on behalf of Dispatches, to be shown on Channel 4 tonight. The figures come from the census and the quarterly Labour Force Survey. Somalians rely heavily on benefits, according to the statistics - 80 per cent live in social housing and 39 per cent claim income...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S.-based electricity producer Mirant Corp. (NYSE:MIR - News) has begun seeking bids for its multi-billion dollar power plants in the Philippines, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Mirant has sent out a short sale document on the asset to potential bidders, including some Japanese firms and financial investors, the sources, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. Mirant is selling its ownership interest in three generating facilities in the Philippines -- in Sual, Pagbilao and Ilijan -- that account for 2,203 MW in generating capacity. Banking sources say the Philippine asset, estimated by some...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - America's corporate chieftains would prefer that Enron just go away. But four years after the company's ignominious collapse, Enron's former top executives are about to head to a climactic criminal trial later this month, serving as a reminder that changes in the behavior of many American companies have been more muted than many once expected. Despite an array of new and expensive laws and regulations that were adopted to tighten corporate oversight after the wave of scandals earlier in the decade, serious accounting problems continue to trouble publicly owned companies. In the last year, a record...

I spent my Labor Day at the Reliant complex. I spent time in all three shelters (Astrodome, Reliant Center, Reliant Arena) and most of what I witnessed is impossible to describe...at least with the limited writing skills I possess. Here are a few observations I am able to express; the rest remain my own. The Good:The number of volunteers When I arrived (and finally figured out where to go), my orientation class of volunteers was between 200 and 300 people. At the same time as our class, the staging area was filled with roughly 500 people receiving job assignments. I...

Lockyer alleged overcharging during crisis.A federal appeals court Tuesday tossed out several lawsuits brought by California's attorney general accusing energy companies of overcharging state power customers millions of dollars during the energy crisis. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said federal law allows claims for refunds through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, not the courts. In July, the circuit issued a similar decision when it said Attorney General Bill Lockyer could not sue Reliant Resources Inc., Dynegy Inc. and other firms on allegations they double billed energy customers. (Excerpt...see source above for entire story)

RELIANT ENERGY SERVICES, INC. AND FOUR OF ITS OFFICERS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL MANIPULATION OF CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY MARKET San Francisco Grand Jury Returns Six-Count Indictment Against Houston-Based Energy Company and Traders, Charging Conspiracy, Commodities Manipulation and Wire Fraud WASHINGTON, D.C. - Houston-based energy company Reliant Energy Services, Inc., and four of its officers have been charged in connection with a federal criminal investigation of the manipulation of the California energy markets, the Department of Justice announced today. A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned a six-count indictment today against Reliant Energy Services, Inc., a subsidiary of the company now...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Reliant Resources Inc. subsidiary and four of its officers were indicted on charges of manipulating California energy markets, the Justice Department announced Thursday.</p> <p>The indictments, issued by a grand jury in San Francisco against Reliant Energy Services Inc. and four of its employees, allege actions designed to drive up the price of electricity in June 2000, during the California energy crisis, the department said.</p>

HOUSTON (AP) -- Federal prosecutors plan to indict a unit of Reliant Resources Inc. and four current and former workers in what would be the first criminal case against a company accused of manipulating power prices during California's energy crisis, the company said Monday. Reliant said the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California in San Francisco notified the company Friday of its intention to seek the indictments. The charges are based on allegations that the subsidiary, Reliant Energy Services, manipulated the prices for two days in June 2000 by curtailing Reliant's electricity generation. The subsidiary is...

PUC wants market details from Reliant By JANET ELLIOTT Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- The Public Utility Commission wants more information before allowing Reliant Energy Retail Services to more actively compete for small-business customers. The commission had been expected to make a decision on Thursday. Instead, it set a Dec. 30 hearing to get updated market information. "The commission wants to have the best information available up to the end of the year," said Terry Hadley, a PUC spokesman. Reliant Energy Retail Services, a subsidiary of Reliant Resources, said it has lost 40 percent of its...

How Reliant Robin could save us from Armageddon By Charles Arthur 13 September 2003 Forget the Hollywood muscle men if the Earth has to be saved from an asteroid on a collision course: the sensible solution would be to send up a Reliant Robin to push it out of the way. Dr Matthew Genge, an earth scientist at Imperial College in London, has calculated that the three-wheeled vehicle running for 75 days could exert enough force to divert the most dangerous asteroid presently known to humanity - a billion-ton rock known as 1950DA, which is on course to hit the...

'Last piece of puzzle' secures finance packageReliant Resources and its bankers agreed Monday to a $6.2 billion financing package that should put to rest any bankruptcy fears surrounding the Houston power company. Mark Jacobs, Reliant's chief financial officer, called the package -- the vast majority which doesn't come due until 2007 -- a landmark transaction. "This is really the last step that we needed to take here to stabilize our capital structure," Jacobs said in an interview. "This is really the last piece of the puzzle." The company announced the package around 10 p.m. Monday. Last year, the main power...

FERC takes broad action on Western Energy Markets Statement of Chairman Wood, March 26, 2003 [pdf] Commission Readies Tough Action, March 26, 2003 [pdf]Commission Expects Jump In California Energy Refunds, March 26, 2003 [pdf]Show Cause Orders Address Manipulation, March 26, 2003 Press Release [pdf] | Order 1 [pdf] | Order 2 [pdf]Staff Report on Western Markets Investigation Part I [pdf]Part II [pdf]Appendices [pdf]Presentation on Report [pdf] Findings at a Glance, March 26, 2003 [pdf]   

<p>WASHINGTON(AP) - Reliant Energy agreed Friday to refund $13.8 million to settle claims that employees withheld power for two days to drive up prices in California, the latest evidence that energy companies manipulated the state's power supply, federal energy regulators said.</p>

<p>Power The energy company says a claim that they could have been avoided is false.</p> <p>SAN FRANCISCO – Reliant Energy officials disputed a report by state regulators that said nearly all of the blackouts that swept through California in 2001 could have been avoided if energy companies had bid all their available energy.</p>

NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - Shares of Reliant Energy Inc. (NYSE:REI - News) and its Reliant Resources Inc. (NYSE:RRI - News) unit, which is under investigation by federal regulators for sham trades, plunged as much as 46 percent in Wednesday trade. ADVERTISEMENT The declines come on top of big hits companies in the industry have sustained this week, as cash and credit woes called into question the viability of some of its major players. The day before, Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN - News) said a downturn in trading and lower power prices forced a cut in its cash flow forecast,...

Reliant Resources Inc. restated its earnings Friday for a three-year period during which the company said it engaged in trades that artificially inflated its revenues by more than $7.8 billion. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, Reliant said "round trip trades" the company engaged in during 1999, 2000 and 2001 should not have been reflected in its revenues or expenses. The trades added $6.4 billion to the company's revenues during that period. Federal regulators are investigating Reliant and numerous other energy companies for the so-called round trip trades, in which electricity is bought and sold...

<p>Folsom, California, July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Dynegy Inc., Williams Cos. and 10 other electricity suppliers were fined $122.1 million for failing to deliver enough supply during California's energy crisis in 2000 and 2001, the agency that manages the state's power grid said.</p>

Reliant Responds to FERC's Industry-Wide Questionnaire About Alleged Manipulation of California Electricity Market HOUSTON, May 22, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Reliant Resources, Inc. today submitted its response to the U. S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's request for information related to the trading practices described in a series of Enron memos released earlier this month.The Reliant submission denies that the company engaged in trading practices comparable to the practices detailed in the Enron memos during the period 2000-2001. For certain types of transactions the submission also seeks to explain the basic market structure that existed in California at the time,...