THE TWO FEMALE KOREAN HEROES OF THE SEWOL FERRY DISASTER TO BE HONORED WITH THE FOUR CHAPLAINS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION AWARD–AS PARK JI YOUNG AND CHOI HYE JEONG SACRIFICE SAVED LIVES –THE AWARD FOUNDED BY PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN IN 1951

Two heroines of last year's ferry disaster will receive commemorative medals from a U.S. non-profit organization in recognition of their sacrifice to save others.  The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation said it decided to award this year's gold medals to Choi Hye-jeong, a teacher at Danwon High School, and crewmember Park Ji-young. 

The foundation was established in 1951 by U.S. President Harry Truman in honor of four chaplains who gave their life jackets to other passengers when the U.S.A.T. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II.
Previous winners of the gold medals, the highest honor of the foundation's annual Prize for Humanity, include former U.S. presidents such as Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.  This is the first time a Korean has received the award. 

http://www.koogle.tv/media/news/two-heroines-honored-in-us-for-heroic-efforts-during-sewol-ferry-tragedy/

THE MUSLIMS ARE AT WAR WITH EVERYONE IN THE WORLD EVEN JAPAN AS IT WILL NOT STOP ITS BARBARIC TANTRUM OF SERIAL KILLINGS AS TWO JAPANESE JOURNALISTS ARE ITS NEXT VICTIMS–KENJI GOTO AND HARUNA YUKAWA–WHEN WILL THE WORLD WAKE UP TO THE HATRED OF THESE MUSLIM EXTREMIST IS UNSTOPPPABLE WITHOUT TAKING THE FIGHT TO THEM

Militants with Islamic State are demanding ransom for two men believed to be Japanese. They have released an online video saying they will kill the hostages unless they receive 200 million dollars in the next 72 hours.

It's believed the 2 men in orange jumpsuits are Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa. Goto, who is a freelance journalist, said on Twitter in early October that he was in Syria. Yukawa is believed to have been captured last year.

The masked man says although Japan is located more than 8,500 kilometers away, the country has decided to voluntarily join the crusade against Islamic State. He says Japan's prime minister has pledged 100 million dollars to kill Muslim women and children and destroy houses. He says Japan's leader has also decided to pay 100 million dollars to train soldiers to try to prevent the spread of Islamic State.

The masked man also says the Japanese government has made a foolish decision to fight Islamic State. He says in order to save the two men, the Japanese public has 72 hours to put pressure on the government to make a wise decision and pay the ransom. The man says otherwise his knife will be a nightmare.

The authenticity of the video has not been confirmed.

Japanese government officials are analyzing the video and gathering information through diplomatic channels.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now in Israel as part of his Middle East tour. He held a press conference in Jerusalem and said this incident is an unforgivable act of terrorism. He added the government demands the release of the 2 Japanese captives.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/worldupdate/20150120.html

LG TO STAY WITH AND KEEP RELEASING THE SNAPDRAGON QUALCOMM OCTA CORE FOR ITS FLAGSHIP SMARTPHONE

LG Electronics said it will release its new flagship handsets as scheduled, dismissing growing concerns over the stability of key processor chips manufactured by Qualcomm.
"The system overheating problem is not just dependent on the performance of the central processing unit (CPU), but it also depends more on how it can be optimized in the device. The G Flex 2 has completed various kinds of tests about the overheating and is ready to provide optimal performance to customers," said Woo Ram-chan, vice president at LG's handset unit.
He made the remarks at a press conference to unveil its latest G Flex 2 smartphone.
Unlike Samsung Electronics, which has its own processor chips, LG Electronics is entirely sourcing processors from Qualcomm, meaning that any technology troubles involving Qualcomm could delay the release of LG's flagship handsets.
During the conference, LG executives declined to comment on whether it plans to release its new flagship mobile device ― tentatively named the G4 ― during this year's Mobile World Congress exhibition.
LG is said to be delaying the launch of the G4 due to the continued overheating-related issues of Qualcomm chips.
Woo said the company is well aware of the concerns about the overheating issue of the Snapdragon 810 in the market.
Right after the company showcased the new mobile phone at this month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, it faced concerns about technological issues about Qualcomm's chipset used in the model.
It reportedly overheated at certain voltages and performance degradation was caused by memory controller problems. Its clock rate, an index representing a processor's performance, was also estimated to be lower than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 805.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/01/419_172269.html

THE FIRST LADY OF MARYLAND IS YUMI HOGAN A KOREAN AMERICAN WHO HAS MADE HISTORY–AS HER HUSBAND THE GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN WON THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MARYLAND–A STRIKING FIRST - CONSIDER THAT YUMI IS FIRST AN ARTIST PAINTER UNLIKE THE FIRST LADY OF OLD WHO WERE LAWYERS BORN IN POLITICS–CONGRATULATION TO THE FIRST COUPLE OF MARYLAND

They met at an art show.

She was a painter displaying her abstract landscapes, a single mother of three daughters who’d grown up on a chicken farm in South Korea. He was a wealthy bachelor with more interest in politics than art who had stopped by the show in suburban Maryland on a whim.

His eyes didn’t gravitate to the paintings.

“I was more interested in the artist than the art,” he said.

He gave her his phone number, but she never called. Still, he didn’t give up. They eventually met again, fell in love and married several years later, in 2004.

For Hogan and Rutherford, inauguration day opens with interfaith prayer service

New Gov. Larry Hogan and his lieutenant, Boyd Rutherford, are sworn in after an interfaith prayer service.

They made history this week, moving into the Maryland governor’s mansion as a mixed-race couple in an increasingly diverse state — and as novices in wielding political power. Larry Hogan, a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, had never held elected office before he won a stunning upset in November.

(Hogan: From regular guy to governor)

The love story of Larry and Yumi Hogan received scant attention during last year’s contentious race for Maryland’s governorship. But as they ease into their new roles — Yumi will hold her first official event Sunday — their late-in-life relationship will continue to help shape their public image and personal lives.

For Yumi, Larry’s insistence that she finally chase her own ambitions led her to art school and a job teaching painting — a role she intends to keep while making the arts a priority as first lady. For Larry, Yumi’s devotion to family rounded out the rough edges of a climb-the-ladder life, softening him and giving him an instant family.

“She helped me appreciate the important things in life,” the 58-year-old governor said in an interview. “I would not be the governor without the love and support of my wife and my daughters. They’ve been an incredible inspiration.”

The couple is moving into the mansion as empty nesters, bringing along Yumi’s special kimchi refrigerator; the family dog, Lexi; and the multicultural values of an extended family they say represents Maryland’s present and future. Two daughters are Democrats. One is a war veteran. And two of the three married men who aren’t Asian, including one of Puerto Rican descent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-gov-elect-larry-hogan-and-his-korean-born-wife-yumi-are-a-historic-first-couple/2015/01/23/1f788004-9d9c-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html

VITAMIN D OR JUST PLAIN SUNLIGHT CAN AFFECT MUSCLES, BONES, AND THE IMMUNITY– AS EXPERIENCED BY MORE KOREANS FROM A MERE 2,027 TO PRESENT 18,637 SEEKING MEDICAL HELP

A growing number of Koreans are seeking medical attention for vitamin D deficiency, a common condition among those who do not get enough exposure to sunlight, a government report showed.
According to the National Health Insurance Service, the number of Koreans who sought medical help for vitamin D deficiency increased ninefold from 2009-2013 ― from 2,027 to 18,637.
“More people are now aware that vitamin D deficiency can affect one’s muscles, bones and immunity and is even associated with cancer,” said Lee Sang-hyun, a doctor at the National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital.
“On top of the increased number of people who spend a lot of time indoors, many also choose to be proactive about the condition since they know what risks it carries. These are some of the reasons why the number of patients increased so dramatically.”

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150122000688

NORTH KOREA BEGS FOR SOUTH KOREA TO END SANCTIONS SINCE 2010 AFTER SINKING A S KOREA NAVAL VESSEL FROM A TORPEDO ATTACK THAT KILLED 46 SAILORS

North Korea demanded the lifting of sanctions, imposed by South Korea after a 2010 attack on one of its naval vessels, as a condition for resuming dialogue.

It was the first official response to the South's offer to talk, including discussions on resuming reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 civil war.

After a delegation of high-level North Korean officials made a surprise visit in October last year to the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, South Korea said it was willing to discuss the sanctions as a way to move forward.

The measures, imposed in May 2010 after a torpedo attack against a South Korean navy ship that killed 46 sailors, cut off most political and commercial exchanges with the North. The North denies it was responsible.

"If the South Korean government is sincerely interested in humanitarian issues, it should first remove the ban that was imposed for the purpose of confrontation," the North's KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as saying.

The South's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said that lifting sanctions would first require "responsible action" from the North.

"It is regrettable that North Korea has linked the purely humanitarian issue of separated families to the May 24 measure, which is completely irrelevant," the ministry said in the emailed statement, referring to the South's sanctions.

North Korea, already heavily sanctioned by the United Nations for its missile and nuclear tests, is technically still at war with the South after the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-urges-south-lift-sanctions-talks-begin-085308705.html

WHEN THE POTUS BHO CHAOS FAILS TO MEET WITH BIBI TIME AFTER TIME AND PUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THE LEFTIST DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION AGENDA OF ANTI ISRAEL–THE ONLY LAWMAKERS WILLING TO MEET WITH BIBI IS CONGRESS THUS BIBI GOES TO MAKE PLANS TO SPEAK WITH CONGRESS AND NOW THE POTUS BHO CHAOS NOW FUMES IN DISGUST SINCE HE ALONE HAS MADE THE BED HE NOW SQUALERS IN–THE NATURAL BORN LIAR JUST KEEPS ON GIVING

The White House’s outrage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to speak before Congress in March — a move he failed to coordinate with the administration — began to seep through the diplomatic cracks on Friday, with officials telling Haaretz the Israeli leader had “spat” in President Barack Obama’s face.

“We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us.

“There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price,” he said.

Officials in Washington said that the “chickenshit” epithet — with which an anonymous administration official branded Netanyahu several months ago — was mild compared to the language used in the White House when news of Netanyahu’s planned speech came in.

In his address the Israeli leader is expected to speak about stalled US-led nuclear negotiations with Iran, and to urge lawmakers to slap Tehran with a new round of tougher sanctions in order to force it to comply with international demands. The Mossad intelligence service on Thursday went to the rare length of issuing a press statement to deny claims, cited by Kerry, that its chief Tamir Pardo had told visiting US politicians that he opposed further sanctions.

Haaretz reported that Obama h

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-spat-in-our-face-white-house-officials-say/#ixzz3Pf5pHksN

THE US F-35 HAS BEEN THE TARGET OF CYBER ESPIONAGE BY CHINA AS 50 TERABYTES OF DATA HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US DEFENSE AND GOVERNMENT NETWORKS–AS THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING THE SHOW THESE PAST 6 YEARS ARE TOO BUSY THESE DAYS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY

China obtained more than 50 terabytes of data from U.S. defense and government networks, notably the Joint Strike Fighter’s stealth radar and engine secrets, through cyber espionage, according to newly disclosed National Security Agency documents.

A NSA briefing slide labeled “Top Secret” and headlined “Chinese Exfiltrate Sensitive Military Data,” states that the Chinese have stolen a massive amount of data from U.S. government and private contractors.

The document was made public by the German magazine Der Spiegel in a two articles detailing how NSA in the mid-2000s was capable of conducting global cyber intelligence-gathering by tapping into the networks of foreign intelligence services and stealing the data they were collecting from others.

The unique capability of spying on the spies was described in a series of documents that were stolen in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, currently a fugitive in Russia.

For the F-35, according to NSA the Chinese were able to obtain digital design information on several different types of radar modules used by the fighter.

Northrop Grumman, the jet’s manufacturer, built the AN/APG-81 active, electronically scanned array radar for the F-35. The high-tech radar uses small, solid-state transmitter and receiver modules that allow the jet to avoid detection by enemy radar, a key stealth feature.

Another Northrop radar on the F-35 is the AN/AAS-37 electro-optical distributed aperture system the company says provides pilots with “unique protective sphere around the aircraft for missile warning, navigation support, and night operations,” according to Northrop’s website.

On F-35 engine schematics, the Chinese stole data on the methods used by the turbine to cool gases, along with leading and trailing edge engine treatments and engine heat reduction data—also key elements of its stealth design.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/nsa-details-chinese-cyber-theft-of-f-35-military-secrets/

US HOUSE OF CONGRESS CHAPLAIN PRAYER FOR THE WEEK JANUARY 2015

Opening Prayer

01/21/2015
Most Reverend Richard Pates

Blessed are You, Lord God of all creation. You bless us with life. You fill each lengthening day with more light, a generous light which shines on all people.
We seek Your light, O God, in our midst this day, for each woman and man of this House, each entrusted to cooperate in the making of just laws which promote the flourishing of human freedom.
Let Your light break forth among these, our public servants. Give us faith that as each new day is bright with promise, so too is Your spirit's power to transform blame and bitterness into concord and unity, for the sake of the common good.
To You, therefore, generous Spirit of God, we commend our work this day, that we might walk freely in Your light, one people whose future is filled with hope.
Amen.

http://chaplain.house.gov/archive/index.html

 

Thought of the Week

“The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness—
on them light has shined.
You have multiplied the nation,
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with joy at the harvest,
as people exult when dividing plunder.
For the yoke of their burden,
and the bar across their shoulders,
the rod of their oppressor,
you have broken as on the day of Midian.”

—
Isaiah 9:2-4

http://chaplain.house.gov/archive/thought.html

PRAY THIS DAY AMERICA 2015 FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.
But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh;
rather, serve one another humbly in love.

Galatians 5:13 (NIV)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3249784/posts

SAMSUNG WILL GO IT ALONE WITH ITS OWN OCTA CORE MAYBE THE EXYNOS 7 OCTA SERIES ON ITS LATEST GALAXY S

Samsung Electronics Co. will use its own microprocessors in the next version of the Galaxy S smartphone, dropping its use of a Qualcomm Inc. chip that overheated during the Korean company’s testing, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, tested a new version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, known as the 810, and decided not to use it, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue hasn’t been discussed publicly. Qualcomm shares fell on a day when the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index gained.
The decision is a blow to Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors used in phones, which has been supplying Samsung with chips that run the company’s best-selling handsets. The South Korean company, the world’s second-largest chipmaker, is trying to become more self-reliant and boost its own processor-making division as it spends $15 billion on a new factory outside Seoul.
The new Galaxy S will be equipped with Samsung’s most advanced chips, one of the people said. A spokesman for Qualcomm declined to comment. Samsung declined to comment in an email.
“Samsung may release the next Galaxy S as early as March, and it can’t dare to take the risk to use any of the chips in question for its most important model,” said Song Myung-sup, a Seoul-based analyst at HI Investment & Securities Co.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150122000894

SMARTPHONE VERSUS PC VERSUS INTERNET VERSUS MOBILE PHONES–AND THE DECLINE OF LANDLINES AS PC MAYBE GO THE SAME DECLINE

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150121001176

THE AUSSIES ARE MAKING A DENT AGAINST ISIS AS 6000 ARE KILLED BY US STRIKES WITH AUSTRALIA’S HELP AS SECRETARY JOHN KERRY TRIES TO TONE DOWN THE SUCCESS

IN TOWNS, desert camps and cyber space, Islamic State will be wiped-out, a core coalition of nations vowed yesterday as they revealed half the terror group’s top command have been killed.

And Australia’s assault on terrorism both at home and abroad was singled out by US Secretary John Kerry as an example to other nations of the commitment to the now global fight against the jihadi group and its sympathisers.

Mr Kerry was joined by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and officials from 20 “core” countries including Australia for a closed-door high security meeting at Lancaster House in central London.

The American said the fight was being won, but the meeting of core Coalition nations aimed at refining the coordination of the assault on the terror group.

He then gave a detailed snapshot of the “multiple lines” of attack on ISIS including revealing that 50 per cent of its commanders had been killed along with thousands of their fighters both on the ground and through nearly 2000 precision air strikes by the coalition including American and Australian fighters.

http://www.news.com.au/world/us-officials-thank-australia-for-helping-kill-6000-islamic-state-fighters-including-half-its-commanders/story-fndir2ev-1227194558168

DEMOCRAT SENATOR HARRY REID (D-NV) JUST CANT BE STOPPED AT 75 YEARS OF AGE AFTER LIVING OFF THE TAX PAYERS MONEY AS A LAW MAKER SINCE 1969 ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF HIS LIFE HAVING GROWN HIS WEALTH THROUGH THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE–WILL NOW GET A SURGERY TO GET FIXED–THE CAPTION CAPTURE OF WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE FAT CATS HUNGRY FOR POWER REGARDLESS OF LAWS SINCE THEY WILL MAKE THEM UP AS THEY GO

Calling it “a necessary step to assist in recovering full vision,” doctors for 75-year-old Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid say he will need surgery following a recent accident said to have happened while he was exercising at home.

The statement went on to say Reid is not expected to be hospitalized long and would be released “quickly” after the procedure.

He suffered the eye injury as well as broken ribs on New Year’s Day, when a piece of exercise equipment he was using broke and sent him smashing into cabinets at his new home in Nevada.

The Nevada Democrat has said the injuries won’t prevent him from running for a sixth term next year, and his office has worked hard to emphasize that he is continuing to work while he’s been recuperating.

It released a photo of Reid meeting at his Washington home last week with other members of the Democratic leadership, and recently announced federal funding for his home state of Nevada.

The statement also said Reid “will continue to maintain a busy schedule next week as his right eye heals.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/21/reid-eye-injury-requires-surgery/

ITS ALREADY BY LAW THAT ABORTIONS ARE NOT TO BE FUNDED BY TAX PAYERS AND YET ANOTHER LAW GETS PASSED IN THE HOUSE 242-179 TO STATE ONCE MORE THAT KILLING BABIES WITH TAX PAYERS MONEY IS ELLIGAL–BUT THEN THE LEFTIST LIBERALS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH FOLLOWING LAWS AND GO RIGHT FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD THE FRONT FOR ABORTIONS AND THE DEMOCRATS LIKE THE SAME POTUS BHO CHAOS IS FIRST IN LINE WITH A SACKFUL OF FUNDING IRREGARDLESS

House Republicans on Thursday passed an alternative anti-abortion bill after pulling their originally planned legislation from the floor in a last-minute scramble.

The new bill, unveiled less than 24 hours earlier, would prohibit taxpayer funding for abortion. Passage fell largely along party lines by a vote of 242-179. Rep. Richard Hanna (N.Y.) was the only Republican to oppose the measure, while three Democrats — Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Dan Lipinski (Ill.) and Collin Peterson (Minn.) — voted in favor of it.

GOP leaders scheduled the vote for the same day as the annual March for Life, when thousands of anti-abortion-rights demonstrators descend upon the National Mall on the anniversary of theRoe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

But leadership yanked the original measure slated for a vote after complaints from House GOP women and centrists who objected to language granting the victims of rape an exception from the ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy only if the rape was reported to police.

GOP women led by Reps. Renee Ellmers (N.C.) and Jackie Walorski (Ind.) lobbied leadership to change the rape language. The Justice Department estimates that nearly 70 percent of rapes go unreported, often due to victims' fear of retribution.

It’s not clear whether the bill could have passed the House without being changed.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/230416-house-approves-anti-abortion-bill-after-gop-rift

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WOULD BE SO PROUD OF THIS DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO–WHO ONCE AGAIN SHAKES OFF WITH A TEN FOOT STICK ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU WASHINGTON MEETING VISIT–WE JUST KNOW THE LEFTIST AGENDA LIKE THE POTUS BHO CHAOS IS FOR TERRORIST JUST LIKE BILL AYERS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned trip to Washington in March is kicking up a diplomatic dust storm in the nation's capital.

On Thursday, the White House said President Barack Obama would not meet the prime minister when he comes to the U.S. to address a joint session of Congress. The official White House explanation was that Netanyahu's visit fell too close to the Israeli election and the Obama administration wanted to avoid the appearance of taking sides.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_NETANYAHU?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-01-22-12-11-08

THE THIRD WORLD LIKE CORRUPTION THAT HAVE TAKEN OVER AMERICA WHICH WHAT WAS ONCE A LONG TIME AGO THE LAND THAT HAD MORE HONOR AND DOERS OF THE RIGHT WAY THAN THE WRONG HAS NOW BECOME THE HOUSE OF CORRUPTIONS–NY ASSEMBLYMAN ACCUSED OF $4 MILLION BRIBERY–THE MOTTO OF DEMOCRATS FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF THE SAME DEMOCRAT TAKING THE HIGHEST OFFICE OF THE LAND THE POTUS BHO–OH NO HE DIDN’T–BUT YES HE DID

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver declared his innocence Thursday after facing bombshell federal corruption charges of soliciting $4 million in dirty money over the last 15 years.

“I am confident that after a full hearing and due process, I will be vindicated of these charges,” a relaxed Silver announced after his release on $200,000 bond following a Manhattan Federal Court hearing.

Silver, spied earlier taking an uncomfortable ride to the courthouse alongside an FBI agent, made his brief appearance after U.S. Attorney Preet Bhahara blasted him as the epitome of a corrupt politician.

EDITORIAL: Speaker Silver has been laid bare as a polite extortionist

“For many years, New Yorkers have asked the question, ‘How could Speaker Silver, one of the most powerful men in New York, earn millions of dollars in outside income without deeply compromising his ability to honestly serve his constituents?’” said Bharara.

“Today we provide the answer: He didn’t.”

The stunning five-count criminal complaint accused the Manhattan Democrat, an Albany power broker for decades, with pocketing millions in bribes and kickbacks in return for wielding his massive influence.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/assembly-speaker-silver-arrested-report-article-1.2087758

SOUTH KOREA IMPLEMENTS MORE CCTV-AS ALL DAYCARE CENTERS WILL NOW HAVE CCTV FOLLOWING THE PHYSICAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN BY A DAYCARE WORKER

Surveillance cameras will soon be required at all daycare centers in Korea as lawmakers have agreed to enact such a policy in an effrot to prevent child abuse.
The political accord came after liberal lawmakers shifted their position on the issue and decided to pass the bill during the provisional session of the National Assembly next month.
The law is expected to take effect in March and some 45,000 daycare centers across the country will be affected by it.
"We recognize the need for surveillance cameras at daycare centers," Rep. Nam In-soon from the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy told reporters Thursday. "We will pass the bill in February to make it mandatory for them to set up surveillance cameras and to kick out child abusers from the facilities for good."
After a series of recent child abuse cases in Incheon, politicians have been pushed to come up with measures to stop such instances.
Lawmakers from the ruling Saenuri Party have already supported the idea, saying it was the "least protection" for children.
Party floor leader Lee Wan-koo said he will discuss the details of the law with rival party lawmakers.
Poor working conditions for daycare center employees are also expected to improve. On average, they work 9.3 hours a day and receive 1.31 million won ($1,200) a month. Critics have said it is difficult to attract qualified people for the job with such poor conditions.
"We cannot prevent child abuse only by monitoring children and punishing child abusers. We have to improve the working conditions for those who take care of children," Nam said. "By law, we will reduce their working hours and improve their salary level."
Meanwhile, local governments plan to offer financial support for the new policy.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it will offer daycare centers up to 2.4 million won for setting up surveillance cameras. In Seoul, 2,553 of the 6,787 centers have the cameras in place.
The city government also plans to send counselors to daycare centers regularly to help relieve employee stress.
Gyeonggi Province Governor Nam Kyung-pil said his administration will spend 13.7 billion won. He believes the budget will be enough for all 13,380 facilities in the province.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/01/116_172230.html

NEW ENFORCEMENT RADAR CAN PEER THROUGH WALLS TO SEARCH FOR PEOPLE PLACES AND THINGS SINCE 2012

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/

CAN IT REALLY BE THAT LESS SLEEPS MEANS STRONGER BONES OVERALL- A RESEARCH IN KOREA KYUNGHEE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SAYS IT IS SO–WHEN LYING DOWN VERSUS STANDING PROVIDES MORE PRESSURE WHICH MEANS MORE BONE GROWTH

Conventional wisdom says an average of seven to eight hours of sleep a day is ideal to maintain good health, but this does not apply to the bones, according to a recent study. For those who are 60 or older, bones will be stronger if they sleep less.
A research team led by Choi Hyun-rim at Kyunghee University Medical Center analyzed the correlation between sleeping time and bone density. The data was gathered from a health survey of 2,679 men and women aged 60 or over from 2008 to 2010.
The result showed that women who slept fewer than eight hours a day had higher bone density than those who slept more. The less they slept, the higher the density was. The results were consistent for groups that slept an average of five, six, and seven hours a day.
"There is less pressure on the bones when lying down compared to standing up," Choi explained. "The more you lie down, the less stimulated bone cells become and the less they make bone."
For the same reason, people who weigh less tend to have less bone density than those who weigh more.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/10/16/2014101601639.html

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLLYWOOD DOES NOT EVEN WARRANT THE NOMINATION OF SELMA THE MOVIE ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING–MAYBE FOR LACK OF EXPERIENCE FROM ITS DIRECTOR

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and given the context, it is an interesting moment to ask whether it really matters that the Motion Picture academy failed to nominate the black director and the black lead actor of “Selma,” the King biopic, for Oscars.

After all, it lands fairly low on the list of indignities visited on African-Americans: No unarmed people died, no innocent citizens were patted down or jailed.

But yes, it still matters. The news continues to be full of all manner of pathology and victimization involving black Americans, and when a moment comes to celebrate both a historical giant and a pure creative achievement, it merits significant and broad recognition.

Many would say that it should suffice that “12 Years a Slave,” a film by a black director about black history, won best picture last year, and “Selma” was nominated this year, and that any grievance is a conjured one. I disagree.

The director of “Selma,” Ava DuVernay, is a black woman who found the studio backing to make a movie that is great cinema, not a history lesson. And no club in the United States — over the last several years, the academyhas been around 93 percent white, 76 percent male and an average of 63 years old — is in more need of new blood than Hollywood. The academy tends to recognize the body of work of directors, not just a single film, and this is just Ms. DuVernay’s third narrative feature, so that may have played a role.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/business/media/why-the-oscars-omission-of-selma-matters.html?src=twr&_r=0

SAMSUNG TO RELEASE IN KOREA A BUDGET SMARTPHONE–THE A5 5 INCH AMOLED 1.2 GHZ QUAD CORE 5 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA–TO COMPETE WITH CHINA XIAOMI

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone-maker by sales volume, is scheduled to release a series of mid- to low-end Android-based smartphones, including the Galaxy A5 and A7, in Korea this week in an effort to maintain its grip on the global smartphone market.
Boasting Samsung’s first fully metal smartphone body, the A5 features a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, along with a 5-inch high-definition super AMOLED display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and 2,300 mAh battery, industry sources said. 

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150118000327

WHEN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN THE EU DON’T WANT TO INTEGRATE TO FOLLOW THE WESTERN CULTURE AND SETUP THEIR OWN MUSLIM ENCLOSED COMMUNITY WITHIN A CITY NO AMOUNT OF TALK OR SPEECH FROM THE POTUS BHO CAN FORCE THESE COMMUNITIES TO INTEGRATE–AND WHEN IN AFRICA NIGERIA, AND IRAQ AND SYRIA THOUSANDS ARE KILLED BY ISLAM FOR RELIGION SAKE NO AMOUNT OF CONVINCING BUT ONLY CAN FIND THAT HOUSTON INDEED WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE WHEN THEY SERMONIZED KILLINGS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS THUS WITHIN AND THE POTUS BHO CAN SPEAK AND POINT TO EVERYTHING ELSE BUT WOULD STILL SWING AND MISS EVERYTIME–SINCE THE LEFTIST POLICY IS IGNORE TO FOLLOW AN AGENDA

US President Barack Obama on Friday urged European governments to try to better assimilate their Muslim minority populations as they respond to extremist attacks like last week’s shootings in Paris.

At a White House news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, his first foreign guest since last week’s Charlie Hebdo massacre, Obama said the allies would stand by France.

But he also warned that the answer to the recent violence must not simply be a security crackdown.

“I know David joins me when I say that we will continue to do everything in our power to help France seek the justice that is needed, and that all our countries are working together seamlessly to prevent attacks and to defeat these terrorist networks,” Obama said.

Obama said the Paris attacks “underscored how terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) are actively trying to inspire and support people within our own countries to engage in terrorism.”

The US leader said the 2013 Boston marathon bombing showed that the United States was not entirely safe from Islamic militant cells, but suggested that it had had more success than others in integrating minorities.

“Our biggest advantage, major, is that our Muslim populations feel themselves to be Americans and there is this incredible process of immigration and assimilation that is part of our tradition,” he said.

“There are parts of Europe in which that’s not the case... it’s important for Europe not to simply respond with a hammer and law enforcement and military approaches to these problems.”

And he added: “There also has to be a recognition that the stronger the ties of a North African or a Frenchman of North African descent to French liberties, that’s going to be important over time.”

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MUHAMMED IN HIS ERA ORDERED THE EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANS FROM THE ARABIAN PENINSULA AND TODAY THIS 21ST CENTURY HIS FOLLOWERS CONTINUE THE SAME ALLAHU AKBAR ON CHRISTIANS AND INFIDELS IN AFRICA SOON TO COME TO YOUR WESTERN EU SHORES–AS 2,000 AFRICANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BUTCHERED IN NIGERIA AND THE MAJOR CITY OF 1 MILLION IS IN ITS PATH–THE STORY OF THE 300 OF GREECE SEEMS TO REFLECT ONCE AGAIN THE STRUGGLES AND THE CROSSROAD OF THE WEST AGAINST ITS ENEMIES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST–WHERE WILL THE WRITING ON THE WALL FALL THIS TIME

Genocide isn’t new to Africa or the Middle East so they put it down to local tribal conflicts. Terrorism isn’t new to America or Europe, so they blame political extremism. Like the elephant and the blind men who touched its trunk and thought it was a snake, they respond to the local manifestation of Islamic genocide by seeing a familiar local phenomenon; tribal war, political extremism or minority problems.

And anyone who sees the big picture is instantly denounced as an Islamophobe.

But what if the Muslim genocide of Hindus and Buddhists in Asia and the Muslim genocide of Christians and Jews in the Middle East are part of the same phenomenon?

What if the Islamic State killers in Nigeria who shout “Allahu Akbar” during their massacres share a motive with the 9/11 hijackers who were told to “shout ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers”?

What if a common bloody thread of Koran verses runs through the massacres of non-Muslims in the Philippines and Kenya, in Israel and Australia, in France and China, in Thailand and Syria?

What if the acts of terror on the evening news are not random events, workplace violence, mental illness and political extremism, but the beginning of another global Islamic genocide?

The rise of Islam was not based on faith, but on mass murder.

Within a few centuries of the time that Mohammed had ordered the ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula, the massacre of millions of Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists was underway across the Middle East through India and as far as Afghanistan.

The Islamic Holocaust was the greatest act of mass murder in human history. And it is still taking place today over a thousand years later.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana wrote.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/suppose-islam-had-a-holocaust-and-no-one-noticed/

KBS TO RELEASE A TWO PART TV PROGRAM ON KOREAN SEX SLAVERY DURING WW2 BY THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN TO BE RELEASED ON MARCH 1ST 2015–S KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY - CALLED GIRLS WINTER

KBS is making a two-part TV program about Korean sex slavery victims ― also known as "comfort women" ― during World War II, to commemorate Independence Day on Mar. 1.
Written by Yoo Bo-rah and starring Kim Sae-ron, 16, the program, entitled "Girl's Winter," will be shown on Feb. 28 and the national holiday.
The two episodes will keep "sensitive scenes that may provoke anti-Japanese feelings" to a minimum, program director Ham Young-hoon said as quoted on an online news outlet on Saturday. The program would instead have a "poetic style," he added.
Ham said Yoo had been following the comfort women issue closely, attending weekly campaigns calling for truth about the wartime atrocity committed by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Korean and Japanese governments have been at odds over the issue, with Japan claiming it never happened.

www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/01/511_171953.html

AS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FALLS AND THE COST TO TRANSPORT THEM FALLS DESPITE ALL OF THIS THE CONSUMER STILL GETS STUCK WITH THE HIGH COST OF MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS–THE FOOD INDEX ROSE 0.3% IN SEPTEMBER 2014

Despite a decline in the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) in December, the food index increased and the price index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs hit a record high, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

According to the BLS, “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) declined 0.4 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 0.8 percent before seasonal adjustment.”

“The gasoline index continued to fall sharply, declining 9.4 percent and leading to the decrease in the seasonally adjusted all items index,” said the BLS.

“The fuel oil index also fell sharply, and the energy index posted its largest one-month decline since December 2008, although the indexes for natural gas and for electricity both increased,” said the BLS.

“The food index, in contrast, rose 0.3 percent, its largest increase since September.”

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IN 1950 WHEN COMMUNIST CHINA AND NORTH KOREA PUSHED BACK THE UN FORCES IN DECEMBER 1950–THE PLIGHT OF NORTH KOREAN CHRISTIAN REFUGEES WAS IN PERIL ALONG WITH US FORCES–UNTIL ANOTHER CHRISTMAS MIRACLE SAVES THEM THROUGH THE NOW KOREAN WAR HERO HYUN BONG HAK IN DECEMBER 19-24–AS A KOREAN MOVIE ODE TO MY FATHER MAKES THE TRIBUTE TO THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE FOR THE MANY IN DANGER

United Nations forces fighting North Korea and China had their backs to the icy waters of the East Sea in Heungnam, a town in North Korea’s South Hamgyeong Province. It was mid-December 1950, at the height of the Korean War.
Thousands of beleaguered U.S. Army soldiers, marines, their South Korean counterparts and thousands more refugees fleeing the onrush of communist troops gathered at the port, to be evacuated by sea to Busan. Top Allied commanders feared disaster.
But Hyun Bong-hak was determined to save the troops and the refugees. The 28-year-old medical doctor was the Civil Affairs deputy and a translator for Maj. Gen. Edward Almond, commanding officer of most of the encircled troops there.
Hyun’s efforts, combined with those of sympathetic U.S. officers and the U.S. Navy, resulted in the Heungnam evacuation.
From Dec. 19-24, 1950, approximately 105,000 troops and 98,000 civilians were rescued in what is remembered by some survivors as a “Christmas miracle.” The last ship to leave port, the Meredith Victory, took 14,000 refugees to safety. 

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When we were little, Christmas meant decorating the tree, making holiday cookies, singing Christmas carols while our older sister played the piano, and most of all, receiving presents from Santa Claus.
By the time we were adolescents, Christmas became more like Thanksgiving ― a time for reflection and gratefulness. Our father, the late Dr. Hyun Bong-hak, always brought home foreign students who didn’t have a place to go for the holidays.
Our father didn’t talk about growing up in Korea ― other than telling us he was poor and had to walk miles to school in cold weather. It wasn’t until years later that we discovered that he conceived of the Heungnam Evacuation, which saved the lives of 100,000 civilians.
During the Korean War, our father served as a civil affairs Adviser to Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond to help rebuild Hamheung, North Korea. Christianity had a strong foothold in Hamheung, so when the Americans liberated Hamheung from the communists, they were embraced by the locals.
Shortly thereafter, the U.N. forces began to retreat. This was disastrous for the Christians, local government leaders and anyone working for the U.N. Forces, as all would be tortured and massacred by the communists. Our father advocated for a civilian evacuation, stating, “It didn’t seem fair to me that those who had risked communist retaliation by cooperating with the Americans should be abandoned so readily.”

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ONLY A DEMOCRAT LIBERAL FIXATED ON THE WAR ON WOMEN WOULD CONTINUE TO BRANDISH HIS POINTING FINGER AGAINST WOMEN AND CONTINUE HIS DEFIANT RAPE TOUR ACROSS THE USA–BILL COSBY DOES HIS BEST TO DENY, IGNORE, COVER UP, AND EXPLAIN WHAT IS IS TO AMERICA AS TO HOW TO GET AWAY WITH BEING AN ACCUSED RAPIST JUST LIKE BILL CLINTON AS BILL COSBY LAUGHS IT UP AGAINST YOU THE WOMEN OF AMERICA FROM LA TO COLORADO

About 100 protesters chanting “Rape is not a joke!” and “No means no!” protested outside a theater in Denver before comedian Bill Cosby took the stage on Saturday.
Shortly before his performance at the Buell Theatre, one woman held a news conference at a hotel in the city to accuse him of sexually assaulting her in 1986.
Beth Ferrier said during the gathering called by Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred that Cosby put drugs in her coffee when she went to see one of his shows in Denver. She said the next thing she remembered was waking up hours later in the back of her car “practically naked.”
Ferrier has said previously she was assaulted by Cosby. Ferrier went public on June 23, 2005, alleging that as a model in New York in 1984, she met Cosby and they had a brief affair.
The 77-year-old comedian is facing sexual assault accusations from at least 15 women, with some of the claims dating back decades. He has denied the allegations through his attorney and has never been charged with a crime.
Cosby is slated for two shows in Denver on Saturday night amid the protests.
On Friday, Cosby performed at a packed show in Pueblo. About 25 demonstrators gathered outside that show, chanting “no means no” and “Colorado believes the women.”
But inside the venue, the crowd warmly welcomed Cosby. Making his first appearance in Pueblo since a 1996 show at the Colorado State Fair, he was embraced by a mostly middle-aged and older crowd.
On Thursday, Cosby released a statement thanking his fans and saying he’s ready to perform in Colorado.
“I have thousands of loyal, patient and courageous fans that are going to leave their homes to enjoy an evening of laughter and return home feeling wonderful,” he said. “I’m ready!”
He finished his statement with references to his “Fat Albert” character’s trademark line and to his 2013 television special ― “Hey, Hey, Hey ― I’m Far From Finished.”
On Wednesday, a model who claims Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 met with Los Angeles police to pursue criminal charges.
Chloe Goins’ attorney said that his client is the first woman accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct whose case may fall within the statute of limitations.
Cosby’s attorney, Martin D. Singer, said Friday the comedian was in New York the night Goins claims she was accosted.
Cosby is scheduled to continue his tour Sunday in Turlock, California.

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