Christian schools sue over lack of loudspeaker for football prayers

Edit Orlando Sentinel 30 Sep 2016
TALLAHASSEE -- A dispute over whether two Christian schools could use the loudspeaker for a prayer at a football championship game held in Orlando last year is headed to federal court after one of the schools filed suit against an organization that manages high school sports in Florida. The nonprofit... ....

Tampa Christian School Files Lawsuit Over Pregame Prayer Denial

Edit Inquisitr 30 Sep 2016
A Tampa Christian school, Cambridge Christian, has filed a lawsuit against the Florida High School Athletic Association for denying the school’s request to use loudspeakers to deliver a pregame prayer ... As such, FHSAA states that it could not legally permit the schools to use the loudspeakers for prayer....

Dutch man charged with insulting religion in Burma

Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Sep 2016
A Dutch citizen who allegedly unplugged an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel in Burma is due to appear in court charged with insulting religion ... Share Go To. Police officer Kyi Soe said ... A crowd gathered to protest after the loudspeakers were turned off mid-sermon ... It is common for Buddhist groups to broadcast sermons by loudspeaker at very high volumes ... AP. ....

Dutch man due in Myanmar court on insulting religion charge

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 30 Sep 2016
Haytema was staying at a hotel with his girlfriend when a crowd gathered to protest having the loudspeakers turned off. Local media reported that Haytema had apologized to authorities, but he could still face up to two years in prison and be fined if he is convicted of the charge in the predominantly Buddhist country ... ....

Vehicle owner fined Rs 1 lakh by Pune RTO

Edit The Times of India 30 Sep 2016
PUNE. The Regional Transport Office (RTO), Pune, has imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on a vehicle owner who allegedly modified his vehicle to install heavy music and loudspeakers in it. The Chandannagar police had seized the vehicle on the Ganapati immersion day, i.e ... RELATED. From around the web....

Security strengthened at vital installations in Punjab

Edit Deccan Herald 30 Sep 2016
High alert has been sounded on all airbases of the region, including at Chandigarh, Ambala, Bathinda, Adampur and Halwara near Ludhiana ... Punjab shares 553-km border with Pakistan ... Heads of local gurdwaras and temples, sarpanches and the police reached out to people using loudspeakers, asking them to start evacuation at the earliest in the light of escalating situation between the two countries ... ....

NAVRATRI TIMES - Diplomats warm up with garba before Vibrant Gujarat summit

Edit The Times of India 30 Sep 2016
AHMEDABAD. Diplomats from 11 countries will reach Ahmedabad by Saturday to witness the world's longest dance festival -the Navratri ... Cops have asked garba organizers to instal CCTVs, doorframe metal detectors and deploy sniffer dogs and private security personnel.In a notification issued on Thursday, the city police commissioner has stated that the deadline for all garba venues to wind up garba, and stop loudspeakers is 12 midnight....

Franklin Graham answered FBI's call to save lives, he testifies during Oregon standoff trial

Edit The Oregonian 30 Sep 2016
The Rev. Franklin Graham testified Thursday that he flew his own plane from North Carolina to Oregon in February to try to save lives, concerned about the four holdouts occupying a federal wildlife sanctuary as well as the FBI agents trying to get them to surrender ... Feb. 11, federal agents ferried Graham in a federal armored vehicle to an access road overlooking the last occupiers' encampment and gave him a loudspeaker ... "Guys I'm here ... ....

Keikyu to test instant-interpretation megaphone at train station in Tokyo

Edit Japan Times 29 Sep 2016
Railway operator Keikyu Corp. will test a megaphone that purports to make instant audio translations at Haneda Airport International Terminal Station in Tokyo. The Panasonic Corp. loudspeaker will be tested at the station for seven days from Saturday. The station is often thronged with non-Japanese speakers tumbling off red-eye flights. Keikyu will find out if appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Restrictions lead mandals to cancel events

Edit The Times of India 29 Sep 2016
Another mandal which held dandiya celebrations at Tilak ground in sector 28 atVashi for the last 22 years had also cancelled since last year due to the 10pm time deadline and restrictions on loudspeaker ... RELATED....

LoC Villagers Asked to Stay Indoors

Edit Kashmir Observer 29 Sep 2016
Srinagar. Authorities have asked people within the target of Pakistani troops to restrict their movement. Though we were not directed to leave our villages, but asked to restrict our movement, a resident of border town of Gurez, Mohammad Yousuf told UNI over phone ... Local authorities used loudspeakers of gurdwaras to announce to residents in the border villages to leave their homes and villages and move to safer zones ... ....

Ecommerce companies prepare to beat festive season stress; food, yoga, gaming in offing for staff

Edit The Times of India 29 Sep 2016
BENGALURU. Deepti Agarwal has an unusual problem. For over a couple of weeks now, the senior engineering manager at India’s largest online retailer Flipkart has been coaxing her 40-member team to pack up and leave for home at the end of the working day ... Every morning loudspeakers pipe in music to wake up sleeping employees at the suburban office in Bengaluru where meeting rooms are now stacked high with mattresses and pillows....

Uterqüe unveils its new store concept, inspired by contemporary art (INDITEX - Industria de Diseño Textil SA)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. INDITEX - Industria de Diseño Textil SA). Contemporary art and the Mid-Century movement of the 1950s inspire the new image devised for the firm's establishments. Art and fashion join forces to inspire Uterqüe's new store concept ... Uterqüe's logo is evolving in parallel ... The new Uterqüe image will, moreover, serve as a symbiotic loudspeaker and ally for contemporary artistic creation ... New image and logo ... About Uterqüe ... (noodl....
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