California university shooting: 7 dead, suspect detained

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

OAKLAND: A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three more, before being captured in a nearby city, authorities said.

The gunfire erupted around midmorning at Oikos University in Oakland, police said. Television footage showed heavily armed officers swarming the building in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport.

The footage also showed bloodied victims on stretchers being loaded into ambulances. Several bodies covered in sheets were laid out on a patch of grass.

Myung Soon Ma, the school's secretary, said she could not provide any details about what happened at the university, which serves the Korean community with courses from theology to Asian medicine.

'I feel really sad, so I cannot talk right now,' she said, speaking from her home. 'No one can go there because the access is restricted right now.'

Police believe the shooter acted alone, though have not discussed a possible motive.

Police spokeswoman Cynthia Perkins said the death toll was seven on Monday afternoon. She did not release any other details about the victims, but said officials planned a news conference later.

The suspect was taken into custody in the neighboring city of Alameda, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Officer Johnna Watson said the suspect is an Asian male in his 40s, but would not confirm if he was a student. She said most of the wounded or dead were shot inside the building.

'It's a very fluid situation and an active investigation,' Watson said, declining to discuss details of the arrest or a possible motive.

KTVU-TV reported that the shooter was a student and opened fire in a classroom.

Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, told the Oakland Tribune that the shooter was a nursing student who was no longer enrolled. He did not know if the shooter was expelled or dropped out.

Kim said he heard about 30 rapid-fire gunshots in the building.

'I stayed in my office,' he said.

Deborah Lee, who was in an English language class, said she heard five to six gunshots at first. 'The teacher said, 'Run,' and we run,' she said. 'I was OK, because I know God protects me. I'm not afraid of him.'

Angie Johnson told the San Francisco Chronicle that she saw a young woman leave the building with blood coming from her arm and crying: 'I've been shot. I've been shot.'

The injured woman said the shooter was a man in her nursing class who got up and shot one person at point-blank range in the chest before spraying the room with bullets, Johnson said.

'She said he looked crazy all the time,' she said the victim told her, 'but they never knew how far he would go.'

According to its website, Oikos University also offers studies in music and nursing. A telephone message left on the university's main voicemail was not immediately returned.AP

California university shooting: 7 dead, suspect detained

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

OAKLAND: A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three more, before being captured in a nearby city, authorities said.

The gunfire erupted around midmorning at Oikos University in Oakland, police said. Television footage showed heavily armed officers swarming the building in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport.

The footage also showed bloodied victims on stretchers being loaded into ambulances. Several bodies covered in sheets were laid out on a patch of grass.

Myung Soon Ma, the school's secretary, said she could not provide any details about what happened at the university, which serves the Korean community with courses from theology to Asian medicine.

'I feel really sad, so I cannot talk right now,' she said, speaking from her home. 'No one can go there because the access is restricted right now.'

Police believe the shooter acted alone, though have not discussed a possible motive.

Police spokeswoman Cynthia Perkins said the death toll was seven on Monday afternoon. She did not release any other details about the victims, but said officials planned a news conference later.

The suspect was taken into custody in the neighboring city of Alameda, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Officer Johnna Watson said the suspect is an Asian male in his 40s, but would not confirm if he was a student. She said most of the wounded or dead were shot inside the building.

'It's a very fluid situation and an active investigation,' Watson said, declining to discuss details of the arrest or a possible motive.

KTVU-TV reported that the shooter was a student and opened fire in a classroom.

Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, told the Oakland Tribune that the shooter was a nursing student who was no longer enrolled. He did not know if the shooter was expelled or dropped out.

Kim said he heard about 30 rapid-fire gunshots in the building.

'I stayed in my office,' he said.

Deborah Lee, who was in an English language class, said she heard five to six gunshots at first. 'The teacher said, 'Run,' and we run,' she said. 'I was OK, because I know God protects me. I'm not afraid of him.'

Angie Johnson told the San Francisco Chronicle that she saw a young woman leave the building with blood coming from her arm and crying: 'I've been shot. I've been shot.'

The injured woman said the shooter was a man in her nursing class who got up and shot one person at point-blank range in the chest before spraying the room with bullets, Johnson said.

'She said he looked crazy all the time,' she said the victim told her, 'but they never knew how far he would go.'

According to its website, Oikos University also offers studies in music and nursing. A telephone message left on the university's main voicemail was not immediately returned.AP

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Visions of Ecstasy released in Europe

03 Apr 2012

The controversial short film Visions of Ecstasy has been given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC), after being denied one for 23 years and becoming the only film banned in Britain for 'blasphemous libel'.

Visions of Ecstasy contains a scene, as the BBFC describes it, 'in which a figure representing St Teresa of Avila interacts sexually with a figure representing the crucified Christ'. This was enough for it to fall foul of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (designed to take 'video nasties' out of the market place), and the film, directed by Nigel Wingrove, subsequently became a cause celebre for censorship campaigners, but ended in failure at the European Court of Human Rights in 1996.

However, the BBFC remained inflexible until 2008, when the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act abolished the blasphemy and blasphemous libel offences. Wingrove was invited to resubmit his film. He told the Guardian at the time: 'I was gobsmacked by the reaction. I can see why some people might have been offended, but it was pretty mild stuff really.'

Wingrove told AP that the furore had destroyed his aspirations as a film-maker: 'It was my second self-financing film and had it not been banned I would have continued to make films, but that all got knocked sideways and had a huge impact on my career.'

Wingrove subsequently set up the video distribution label Redemption Films, which specialises in occult and fetish horror.

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Visions of Ecstasy released in Europe

03 Apr 2012

The controversial short film Visions of Ecstasy has been given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Certification (BBFC), after being denied one for 23 years and becoming the only film banned in Britain for 'blasphemous libel'.

Visions of Ecstasy contains a scene, as the BBFC describes it, 'in which a figure representing St Teresa of Avila interacts sexually with a figure representing the crucified Christ'. This was enough for it to fall foul of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (designed to take 'video nasties' out of the market place), and the film, directed by Nigel Wingrove, subsequently became a cause celebre for censorship campaigners, but ended in failure at the European Court of Human Rights in 1996.

However, the BBFC remained inflexible until 2008, when the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act abolished the blasphemy and blasphemous libel offences. Wingrove was invited to resubmit his film. He told the Guardian at the time: 'I was gobsmacked by the reaction. I can see why some people might have been offended, but it was pretty mild stuff really.'

Wingrove told AP that the furore had destroyed his aspirations as a film-maker: 'It was my second self-financing film and had it not been banned I would have continued to make films, but that all got knocked sideways and had a huge impact on my career.'

Wingrove subsequently set up the video distribution label Redemption Films, which specialises in occult and fetish horror.

NSS against fifth ministerial post

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Changanassery: NSS has come out against giving a fifth ministerial post to IUML and said it will hit the state's communal structure. The UDF should not yield to IUML's adamant stand, said NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair.

The UDF should take the issue seriously and delaying the swearing in of Anoop Jacob, who won with a huge majority, is like cheating the Piravom voters.

Sukumaran Nair also added that the ongoing tiff between R Balakrishna Pillai and Ganesh Kumar would be resolved soon.

NSS against fifth ministerial post

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Changanassery: NSS has come out against giving a fifth ministerial post to IUML and said it will hit the state's communal structure. The UDF should not yield to IUML's adamant stand, said NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair.

The UDF should take the issue seriously and delaying the swearing in of Anoop Jacob, who won with a huge majority, is like cheating the Piravom voters.

Sukumaran Nair also added that the ongoing tiff between R Balakrishna Pillai and Ganesh Kumar would be resolved soon.

12 die in Moscow fire

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Moscow: At least 12 people died early Tuesday in a fire at a market in southern Moscow, a police source said.

The blaze burned down a building being used as a living quarters for market vendors, the source said.

The blaze erupted at the market at about 04.50 a.m. and swept over 50 square meters.

The fire has been extinguished, the emergencies ministry said.

iPads could replace books in China school

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Beijing: Students in a Chinese school may soon carry iPads instead of books to their classrooms as the management is planning to allow the use of the gadget.

The Jinling High School in Nanjing city has already allowed three students to bring iPads to their classrooms on a trial basis once their new term begins in September.

The policy has been discussed extensively and will possibly be extended to all students, the management said.

The iPads can set students free from the burden of carrying school bags, said Xin Qihua, vice director of the school's international department.

It can also improve interaction between the students and teachers who can ask questions through the device and review all answers from the students immediately, said Xin.

The gadget can also give students access to foreign educational resources, which will contribute to their preparation for the SAT, TOFEL and AP exams, Xin added.

It can also help save up to 90 percent of their expenditures on teaching materials.

The measure was hailed by many young people. 'I am so jealous. I have an iPad too, but I am not allowed to take it to the classroom,' said a blogger on Sina Weibo.

However, some expressed doubt. They worry that the gadget may spoil the students.

'Although it is worth trying, children who lack self-discipline may waste time in playing games,' Xinhua quoted another blogger as saying.

'The teacher has technical control over all the iPads, and students will be prevented from installing any games,' Meng Qun, a teacher at the school, as saying.

To lighten the load on students in primary and high schools, local governments have been pondering the idea sometime whether to allow students to use devices like laptops.

However, Yin Fei, professor with Nanjing Normal University, said: 'It is a fallacy to reduce students' burdens by introducing electronic devices.

'The excessive burden on students' shoulders is not from the weight of school bags, but the flawed educational system itself.'

12 die in Moscow fire

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Moscow: At least 12 people died early Tuesday in a fire at a market in southern Moscow, a police source said.

The blaze burned down a building being used as a living quarters for market vendors, the source said.

The blaze erupted at the market at about 04.50 a.m. and swept over 50 square meters.

The fire has been extinguished, the emergencies ministry said.

iPads could replace books in China school

Posted on: 03 Apr 2012

Beijing: Students in a Chinese school may soon carry iPads instead of books to their classrooms as the management is planning to allow the use of the gadget.

The Jinling High School in Nanjing city has already allowed three students to bring iPads to their classrooms on a trial basis once their new term begins in September.

The policy has been discussed extensively and will possibly be extended to all students, the management said.

The iPads can set students free from the burden of carrying school bags, said Xin Qihua, vice director of the school's international department.

It can also improve interaction between the students and teachers who can ask questions through the device and review all answers from the students immediately, said Xin.

The gadget can also give students access to foreign educational resources, which will contribute to their preparation for the SAT, TOFEL and AP exams, Xin added.

It can also help save up to 90 percent of their expenditures on teaching materials.

The measure was hailed by many young people. 'I am so jealous. I have an iPad too, but I am not allowed to take it to the classroom,' said a blogger on Sina Weibo.

However, some expressed doubt. They worry that the gadget may spoil the students.

'Although it is worth trying, children who lack self-discipline may waste time in playing games,' Xinhua quoted another blogger as saying.

'The teacher has technical control over all the iPads, and students will be prevented from installing any games,' Meng Qun, a teacher at the school, as saying.

To lighten the load on students in primary and high schools, local governments have been pondering the idea sometime whether to allow students to use devices like laptops.

However, Yin Fei, professor with Nanjing Normal University, said: 'It is a fallacy to reduce students' burdens by introducing electronic devices.

'The excessive burden on students' shoulders is not from the weight of school bags, but the flawed educational system itself.'

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