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Missing: Fathima Rifqa Bary
Fathima Rifqa Bary
First, from the The Jawa Report:
Girl Who Converts to Christianity Goes Missing in Ohio
I’m not sure I have all the fact in the Fathima Rifqa Bary case. Here’s some of the info I’ve read and have been told about.
The 16 year old girl lives in a Muslim household, but recently made some professions that she was converting to Christianity.
She was last seen on July 19th. Her facebook account has been closed and her cell phone deactivated. Her friends are worried and claim this isn’t like her.
There is a missing persons report out on her, so I’m assuming that it was the family that filed the report.
There may be nothing in this related to her recent alleged conversion to Christianity. She could be just a kid that ran away from home for the normal reasons that kids run away from home. Or worse, the victim of an abduction.
Then this from 10TV News:
After Nearly 2 Weeks, New Albany Teen Still Missing
Police on Friday were still looking for information about a central Ohio teenager who vanished nearly two weeks ago.
Investigators said there is no evidence that Fathima Rifqa Bary, 16, is a victim of foul play, but they could not rule out that she is not in danger, 10TV’s Maureen Kocot reported.
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Investigators said Bary is affiliated with two central Ohio churches: one on Cleveland Avenue and the other near the Ohio State University campus.
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Anyone with information about the case was asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
Prayer Request: Fathima Rifqa Bary
Caregiving and Medical Emergencies
From CarePages, this observation:
Caregiving for someone who is seriously or chronically ill is a daunting task, and an emergency can be frightening. Taking steps in advance will help you handle a crisis, should one occur.
They proceed to give some emergency preparedness tips with these 5 Basics Steps to Emergency Preparedness:
- Take a CPR class.
- Learn the Heimlich maneuver.
- Maintain a well-stocked first aid kit.
- Create a medical provider list and keep copies handy.
- Buy an automatic blood pressure cuff.
So obviously some sort of caregiver training is important. Anyway, after giving some elaboration on each of those, they give these 4 Steps to Take in an Emergency Situation:
- Assess the situation.
- Call 911.
- Loosen any tight clothing.
- Comfort and communicate.
In conclusion, “For a caregiver, an emergency can be both alarming and frightening, but when you’re prepared, you can make a tremendous difference in your loved one’s well-being.”
So there you are, caregivers: A few ways to reduce caregiver stress.
August 1
1980 — Ruby and I say “I do” and were declared Mr. & Mrs. Mark Roth, which we still are.
Meanwhile, in other August 1 “news” you may have forgotten….
1492 — Spain drives out its Jews.
1619 — Jamestown, Virginia “welcomes” their first African slaves.
1774 — The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time. Huh?!
1834 — Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
1876 — Colorado becomes the 38th US state.
1902 — France sells the United States the rights to the Panama Canal.
1914 — Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
1941 — The first Jeep rolls off the assembly line.
1944 — Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1966 — Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin.
1967 — Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1988 — Rush Limbaugh hits the national airwaves with his radio show.
2008 — George W. Bush is still President of the United States, so he signs a sweeping global AIDS relief bill that includes language repealing the US ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors and immigrants.
2009 — At 10:46 pm I spotted some friends who also attend our home congregation! If it weren’t so late, I’d make it a separate post here. The lady in the foreground is ITF‘s sister Hope! I’ve eaten in that café — I even posted about it last month.
Radio Ads
Some radio advertisements I like; some I dislike; the majority I tune out.
Among the ones I dislike….
- The ones advertising male enhancement products — is the economy so bad that radio stations must help further in the mainstreaming of shamelessness?
- The ones with the “fine print” read at high speed — they must be trying to hide something.
- The ones that present men as…well…pick your own less-than-complimentary term — I thought we’d agreed that fatherhood and manliness need promoting in our culture!
- The ones related to politics — that season is getting awfully close again already.
- The ones trashing competitors — hey, can’t you guys sell us on the strength of your product and your service and your people!
- The ones that don’t identify themselves, but offer grand benefits for calling them — what are you hiding, incomeathome.com?
Now a closing note to Advanced Auto Parts — please bring back the guy you had before the guy who’s on now. I actually enjoyed your ads then, even though I don’t buy from you.
Oh, about #1 — at least I no longer have to listen to Steve from Lake Oswego (Oregon) give his testimonial!
Made Personal: Outs
Bailouts, Buyouts, Cashouts — can they be personalized somehow?
Of course!
I thought I had two vehicles that qualified for the Cash-for-Clunkers program. Turns out only one of them qualifies, thanks to the miles per gallon criteria. (My Honda is old and has over 300,000 miles on it — but it still does better than 18 mpg.)
It also turns out the program has been mayhem. And has apparently already run out of money.
But never fear — I hear it may be re-funded with twice the original amount. Maybe they’ll also change two key provisions:
- The program applies only to those buying brand new vehicles.
- To qualify, a vehicle must get less than 18 mpg.
Actually, I think I would prefer it became a true Cash-for-Clunkers program — just give me a flat $4000 for my clunker and be done with it. Now there’s a buyout I could consider! No wait — better yet, cancel all such programs and slash my taxes.
Speaking of buyouts, maybe someone could buy out my business also. I launched it on the first of January way back in 1998 to support my family as I worked at my online ministry, which I started in mid-1995. Well, my business has boomed to the extent that my online ministry has pretty much gone dormant. So now I have a vision (I think): Sell my business for enough to pay off my debts and leave us with money for six years of No-Income-Needed living. Then move to “our” mission in Mexico (to help out in the church there as well as to increase the volume of the bang for my buck) to operate my original online ministry.
Seems like I had more to say on this Outs subject back when I first thought of it, but I don’t remember anymore. So I’ve grown tired of this post.
Time out.
Bye.
Update: Speaking of freebies and handouts, I see I still haven’t won $1000 from Circuit City. In fact, nobody from Oregon has. What’s with that?!
The Highest Rate in Thirteen Years
I read that expression over at Mexico Today a week or so ago:
The National Geography and Statistics Institute said that unemployment reached 5.24 percent of the Economically Active Population in the second quarter, the highest rate in 13 years. (Comment: What I don´t understand is that the US unemployment rate is higher than Mexico’s. If this were true, wouldn’t there be waves of people coming down to Mexico to find a job… Any job?)
That struck me as a potentially interesting search term. Alas, it turned out to be a dud for for current results.
Here’s one of the results, via Forbes.com:
What’s more, the U.S. normally runs a negative savings rate, which means consumers spend more than they have and live off credit. Now, with the economy cratering, Americans are stashing their cash and have boosted the savings rate to 5%, according to the Commerce Department, the highest rate in 13 years. That’s bad news for state governments, as money being saved instead of spent cannot be taxed.
With less money coming in, and less to do, maybe that means tax men will be America’s next round of mass layoffs, a cause for which citizens are unlikely to support a bailout.
PS: “In thirteen years” produced some current news results, though.