I had posted a couple of days ago on Male Harassment and Helpline numbers.
I am posting now information on Males who survived Rape from Women/Men.
Story:
A 19-year-old man has come forward and reported his own sexual assault that took place March 30 in Toronto. The report singles out four women as the assailants, highlighting not only the brutality of the assault, but the bravery of the victim to come forward in a world where sexual assault against men is rarely reported.
Allegedly, the victim was alone the night of the assault until he met the women at a nightclub. They offered him a ride home, drove a few blocks away to a parking lot, and sexually assaulted the man. When they were finished, they drove him a few blocks further and let him out of the car.
The Fifth Estate, an unlikely thriller that chronicles the emergence of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and its enigmatic founder Julian Assange, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
English actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Assange, called the debut at Toronto the “perfect marriage” of a festival, known for its popular participation, and a film, about what he called “people journalism.”
The festival is also considered a harbinger of the awards season. Films that have fared well in Toronto, like Slumdog Millionaire, have gone on to win best picture Oscars.
Some 366 films, including 146 world premieres, will screen over 11 days. Transparency and secrecy in the Internet age have emerged as prevalent themes in the programme, led by The Fifth Estate.
The film, made and distributed by Disney/Dreamworks, was chosen to kick off Toronto weeks after former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked US surveillance data with the help of WikiLeaks and Assange.
“As we have seen in the Edward Snowden case, this is a story that continues to be central, and we have also seen that people of great intelligence and goodwill disagree,” director Bill Condon told the Toronto audience.
Condon said The Fifth Estate was not a judgement about WikiLeaks or Assange, but a portrayal of a complex issue that raises more questions than answers about the struggle between transparency, privacy and the security implications.
Julian Assange has hit out at a Hollywood film about his secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, calling the movie “a massive propaganda attack”.
Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University by video link from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Mr Assange revealed that he had acquired a copy of the script for The Fifth Estate, due to be released in November.
“It is a lie upon lie. The movie is a massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff,” Mr Assange said to the university’s Oxford Union debating club.
HOLY SEE – In a shocking press conference Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI revealed to the world that he will be stepping down from the Catholic Church’s highest office. “Through prayer and reflection over the past years,” the world’s holiest man began, “I’ve realized that Allah is the one true God.”
Amid clattering camera shutters and roaring reporters, Pope Benedict patiently answered questions, citing traditional Muslim folklore as well as passages from the Qur’an to explain his decision. His session was interrupted only once, when he swiveled South-East to face Mecca, stooped to the ground, and recited the Asr, one of the five daily prayers central to Muslim belief.
According to a message that has been circulating for several months, previous Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI actually resigned his post in February 2013 because he converted to Islam and could therefore no longer play his role as head of the Catholic Church. The message claims that Pope Benedict made the decision after years of prayer and reflection and because he came to realize that “Allah is the one true God”.
But, not surprisingly, the claims in the message are utter nonsense. Pope Benedict has certainly not converted to Islam. The message began life as a story published on the “news” section of the satire and humour website “Dead Seriousness” in February 2013. The website specializes in satirical – and entirely – fictional articles, many of which are couched as news reports.
Most site visitors who have a careful read of the articles will quickly realize their satirical and humorous nature and will not take them seriously. However, partly because the site does not include a disclaimer on its articles explaining that the reports are untrue, at least a few readers are duped into believing what they read.
Moreover, the above article fairly quickly escaped the confines of its original home and began circulating via email and social media as a stand-alone “news” story, thus duping even more recipients. Amusingly, the story has generated a good deal of often angst-ridden commentary about the Pope’s supposed decision.
The message is reminiscent of another widely circulated satire article that falsely claimed that the Pope had come out as gay. This message also escaped from a satirical website.
UK : Former Wardlawhill Church in Rutherglen (Scotland, United Kingdom) is reportedly Sri Sundara Ganapathy Temple now.
Before the Temple organizers purchased it, Wardlawhill Church was affiliated to Church of Scotland, majority church in Scotland, whose aim is “to worship God by following the teachings of Jesus Christ”. It was then renovated and refurbished into a Hindu temple.
According to reports, on the opening day, following the Milk Abhishegam ritual for Lord Ganapathy, the deity was carried in a decorated palanquin on shoulders of several young men in a procession from the City Centre to the Temple hall through the Main Street with police escort, which included chanting and music. A Hindu priest from London conducted the opening ceremony, which included various ancient rituals, prayers, bhajans to the accompaniment of drums and manjeeras, lamps lighting, etc. An auction of sarees was held for temple development fund.
(Pakistan Hindupost.blogspot.in)
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indu activists have converted an 18-year-old church into a temple at Bhojpur village in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh. They have also forcibly re-converted 300 Dalit Christians by making them go through the yagyopaveet ritual.
According to the Hindu Jagran Vibhag (HJV), an outfit belonging to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), despite regular re-conversions by Hindu organisations in rural India, the number of Christian converts have been growing, especially in the rural parts of western Uttar Pradesh.
HJV provincial head Rajshwar Singh says his outfit has set up a team of 600 Hindu activists to investigate the reasons for the growing number of Dalit Christians in the region. This team has recently submitted a report that points out the existence of a number of churches without a single Christian around.
(indianchristians.in)
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Next month, a Swaminarayan temple will be thrown open to devotees in Los Angeles, California. While there are many Hindu shrines the world over, a majority of them built by global Gujaratis, the consecration scheduled on July 22 is special. For, this abode of Lord Swaminarayan was once a run-down church.
The 80-year-old church was acquired for $1.3 million by Swaminarayan Maninagar Gaadi Sansthan (SMGS) last year.
SMGS has acquired five such old churches in Canada, the US and the UK. A fortnight ago, the sect acquired a 121-year-old heritage church building in Toronto, Canada for $1.6 million. While the building is now being converted into a temple-ashram, SMGS plans to retain carvings and glass paintings which are of great heritage value.
2. Niagara Falls formed at the end of the ice age, 12,000 years ago, and has eroded the 1 m (3 ft) per year over a distance of 11 kilometers (7 miles) to the current location.
3. The first person to go to Niagara Falls in a barrel was Annie Taylor, a 63-year-old teacher in 1901 and survived.
4. Jesse Sharpe, 28-year-old from Tennessee, went to Niagara Falls with a kayak on June 5, 1990. Robert Overacker, 39-year-old from California, using jet skis to go to Niagara Falls on October 1, 1995. None of them survived.
5. On October 20, 2003, Kirk Jones, 40-year man from Michigan accidentally went toNiagara Falls without any protection and survived. He swam at the bottom of the waterfall.
6. More than four million KW of electricity per hour generated by the Niagara River.
7. During the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain, more than 80% where the fighting took place along the Niagara River, and the river is witness to the events of the war.
8. On December 24, 1814, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent, called the Peace of Christmas. The treaty is a treaty of peace.
9. Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario homes for Parliament. The first anti-slavery law passed in this place in 1793.
10. The first railway bridge in the world founded on the Niagara River in 1848.
Those who saw Final Destination, I am sure would have been intrigued by the self-doubt, as to’ why I have not thought of this ‘
As we enter a New Birth Day, we inch closer to Natural Death.
(As an aside, Hindus, till recently were not in the habit of celebrating the Birth Day;Ayush Homa is celebrated every birth day till the Fifth year of the child;then sixtieth Birth Day,Shastiapthapoorthy ,Sathaabhisekam, 80 Birth day and in rare case the completion of the hundredth year.It is of of interest to note that according to Hindu Sastras, the Human Life Cycle for the present Aeon,Kali Yuga, is 120 years;Shastiapthapoorthy being the exact half of this Life cycle is celebrated with pomp)
Life is the process of nearing Death every day,Biologically.
In essence it is a struggle to avoid death,Life is.
As essayed in Final Destination,Death catches up with you even if you try.(as though it were possible)
The incidence reproduced below reminds one of Final Destination.
Read it in her WordPress blog, though she is no more.
Ms.Ghawi
‘Ms. Ghawi, an aspiring sports journalist known professionally as Jessica Redfield, was at a Toronto mall in June 2012 when a gunman killed a 25 year old male and injured seven others. In a blog entry – the last she would ever write – she describes how she went to the mall to get sushi but changed her mind at the last minute and got a burger and fries instead. She then made a purchase and, according to the entry, ‘felt funny… a feeling that was overwhelming enough to lead me to head outside in the rain to get fresh air instead of continuing back into the food court to go shopping at SportCheck.’ Either event may have saved her life. The gunman started shooting at 6.23pm, minutes after Ms Ghawi’s purchase was made at 6.20pm. One of the victims was found in the same place where she would have been if she’d ordered sushi.
A month later, Jessica Ghawi was living in Denver and working as an intern for a local radio station. On July 20, 2012, she attended the ill-fated midnight screening of The Dark Knight and was killed when a gunman entered the theatre and opened fire. You can read her chillingly prophetic blog entry'( Listverse)
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