Today's Temecula Valley News (May 2, 2008) says:
Though no witnesses have come forward with information, the police are investigating several suspects. [Underlining is mine.]
Frank
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142JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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Does Religion have any place in the modern world?
by Fisherman inceremoneys, costumes, spending time in church listenning the same thing again and again, forced to believe in things that cannot be proven.
code or mindset that seperates you from others, wars, violence,....
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A few years ago the Chicago Sun-Times reported the findings of two separate studies. Researchers in both studies concluded that church attendance and belief in God tend to reduce the severity of Alzheimer's disease and to reduce feelings of depression among minority populations. Other research has shown that elderly adults who attend church regularly tend to live longer. Adults active in church life spend less time in hospitals and have healthier immune systems. They are also less likely to suffer from alcoholism or depression or high blood pressure.
The Child Trends Data Bank has researched the effect of religious participation on children. They found that teenagers active in church life are less likely to enjoy danger, get in trouble with the police, skip school, be suspended, expelled or sent to detention, engage in violent behaviors, use illicit drugs or abuse alcohol, or have high levels of sexual experience. Children who regularly attend church services are more likely to be physically active, volunteer and participate in student government.
There is no end to such studies. In Bowling Alone, a widely acclaimed book by Harvard professor and sociologist Robert Putnam, he argues that church attendance is a powerful inducement to social participation. He wrote that participation in religious activities is closely linked to participation in community projects and to the giving of time and money to charity. "Religiosity," he said, "rivals education as a powerful correlate of most forms of civic engagement."
Religion won't disappear easily. It's a universal part of human life. In almost every century it's been opposed by outspoken enemies, but a large percentage of the population never abandon it completely. People devote untold time and wealth to religion. Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world are sacred places. People are often ready to suffer torture and to die for their religion. They fast, deny themselves pleasures and comforts, go on expensive pilgrimages, and cross national boundaries and oceans in order to bring their message to other people.
Most governments of the world provide for religious freedom and make it part of their constitutions. Life is generally unpleasant and cruel in countries where there is no freedom of religion. Let's never forget what a disaster the Soviet Union turned out to be, a land with an abundance of resources but that banned religion.
Perhaps the biggest reason religion won't go away is that there is something to it. Without it, there is no explanation for answered prayers, for the consolation that comes from knowing accurately that we are not alone in this expansive universe, and for the solid answer to why we are here. -
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Were Any of the Apostles Baptized?
by freydi inand if so, which baptism, and why?
plz cite scripture with answers.
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John must have baptized all the apostles. Acts 13:24 says "John the Baptist preached the need for everyone in Israel to turn from sin and turn to God and be baptized." Before John was born, it was prophesied: "He will precede the coming of the Lord, preparing the people for his arrival." (Luke 1:17) And so, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus." (Acts 19:4) The apostles could not have become ready for Jesus except through John's preaching and baptism.
There is no evidence that Jesus or the apostles were baptized twice. Christian baptism was introduced following Jesus' resurrection. But Jesus' disciples who had accepted him before Pentecost were not commanded to be re-baptized. Instead, he commissioned them to baptize others "in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19)
John's baptism was not the same as Christian baptism. Christian baptism is tied to the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Following Pentecost, persons baptized by John had to be re-baptized if they until then had lacked an understanding of these things pertaining to Jesus. For example, in Ephesus Paul found some disciples, "And he said, 'Into what then were you baptized?' And they said, 'Into John's baptism.' Paul said, 'John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.' When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." (Acts 19:3-5)
It doesn't seem that John the Baptist was baptized by anyone, and apparently John's disciples who accepted Jesus before Pentecost did not have to be re-baptized.
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JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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Dive team searches man-made Temecula lake for evidence in slaying
10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
By SARAH BURGE
The Press-EnterpriseThe Riverside County Sheriff's Department dive team spent Wednesday combing the lake in the Harveston neighborhood of Temecula for evidence in the killing of a 40-year-old Murrieta woman.
Murrieta police Sgt. Jim Ganley said divers were looking for the weapon that inflicted at least 11 blows to the head of Isabelle Jarka, who was found fatally wounded Monday morning in her bedroom on Tamarisk Street.
Investigators have yet to release any information about any possible suspect in Jarka's killing.
Jarka's husband told police that he went out to run errands Monday morning and when he returned less than an hour later, the side door to the garage was forced open, the house ransacked and his wife unconscious.
The couple's two children, a 12-year-old girl and 6-month-old boy, were not home when their mother was killed. They had spent the night at their grandparents' home across the street, Ganley said.
The Harveston neighborhood is just a few blocks south of the Jarka home, which sits near the city limits.
Neighbors and a family of ducks milled along the shore Wednesday afternoon as the divers worked.
Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Morin said the divers had to feel their way along the bottom of the murky, man-made lake, which is the centerpiece of the Harveston subdivision and is ringed with homes. At its deepest, the lake is about 14 feet -- too shallow to launch the boat that carries the team's sonar equipment, Morin said.
By early afternoon, the team had marked two promising objects for removal from the lake, which turned out to be unrelated junk.
The team planned to continue its search into the evening, Morin said.
Reach Sarah Burge at 951-375-3736 or [email protected] -
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JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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The Latest:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Last modified Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:57 PM PDT
MURRIETA: Autopsy finds woman suffered 11 blows to the head
By JOHN HALL - Staff WriterMURRIETA ---- There were at least 11 separate blows to the head of a woman found dead inside her Murrieta home, authorities said Tuesday.
A Riverside County coroner's autopsy performed Tuesday revealed that Isabelle Jarka, 40, had injuries all over her head ---- as well as defensive wounds to her arms and hands, Murrieta police Detective Sgt. Jim Ganley said.The coroner's office has yet to release a cause of death pending the results of further toxicological testing.
Murrieta police detectives have not said how Jarka was killed, why they believe she was killed, or who may be responsible for her death. She was pronounced dead at 9:08 a.m. Monday.
No arrests have been made in connection with the case.
The victim's husband, Kelle Jarka, called 911 at 8:45 a.m. Monday, saying he returned home from a 45-minute shopping trip to find that someone had broken into and ransacked their home and his wife was unconscious in the upstairs master bedroom, police said.
Murrieta police declined Tuesday to release a copy of the 911 call, saying it is still part of their ongoing homicide investigation.
Isabelle Jarka was a devoted mother, wife and member of her church, her sister said Tuesday afternoon.
"She was a really good person; very generous," Laura McGraw said while standing in the street just outside the two-story home on Tamarisk Street where her sister's body was found.
Wearing dark sunglasses, the La Verne resident fought back her emotions as she talked about her younger sister.
"She was a really happy person and very involved in her church," McGraw said.
Jarka was a Jehovah's Witness and had many friends from her church, she said.
Isabelle's parents live across the street from the Jarka home and McGraw was with them Tuesday. The family is taking care of Isabelle's two children, a 12-year-old daughter and a 6-month-old son, she said.
"Everybody's still in a state of shock," McGraw said, including her young niece.
"She cries, then she's fine. Then she cries and she's fine," McGraw said.
Her sister and Kelle Jarka had been married almost 20 years and lived at the Tamarisk Street home for about six years, she said.
McGraw described Kelle Jarka as a "really good husband."
"He'd do anything he could for my sister," McGraw said.
Kelle Jarka returned home late Tuesday afternoon for the first time since his wife's slaying. Prior to that, the home was still considered a crime scene and cordoned off with yellow police tape.
At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, more than two dozen adults and children gathered for a vigil in the driveway of the Jarka home, some leaving flowers and candles as well as a stuffed bear holding a balloon.
None of them knew that Kelle Jarka was inside his home as they gathered outside.
Jarka did not come outside until just before 7:30 p.m., after most neighbors had dispersed. Two other men came out with him.
Saying nothing as he left, Jarka, carrying a bag, got into a new white Toyota pickup and one of the other men drove him from the neighborhood.
Before the vigil began, Isabelle Jarka's family across the street also drove away, declining to take part in the gathering.
Earlier in the afternoon, a Murrieta police officer had been posted outside the Jarka home where the garage door stood open.
There had been two sport utility vehicles parked in the Jarka's garage on Monday as detectives investigated the homicide. On Tuesday, both were gone, having been towed away by police.
Inside the garage, there was a dart board on one wall with several large coolers nearby. The back wall was lined with a refrigerator, storage cabinets and about two dozen white plastic chairs stacked from the floor to the ceiling.
The chairs may have been used by the Jarkas for church meetings that neighbor Lorna Tan says were held at the home on Wednesday nights.
Tan, 51, who lives next door, said the Jarkas "seemed to be a very nice family."
Isabelle was always smiling when she saw her, Tan said.
Tan had already left for work about 7:20 a.m. Monday so she wasn't there when Kelle Jarka says the break-in must have happened. But Tan's 14-year-old daughter was still home and says she didn't hear screams or any other noises from next door.
"She was actually just walking to school when the police came driving into the neighbor," Tan said.
The neighbor on the other side of the Jarka home, Maria Giorgianne, 68, said she also heard nothing unusual Monday morning.
She described the Jarkas as "very quiet, very conservative people."
Kristine Scott, 37, lives a few doors away and said the Jarkas seemed to keep to themselves.
"I don't think anyone in the neighborhood even knew she'd been pregnant and had a baby," Scott said of Isabelle and her 6-month-old son.
Scott was one of the neighbors who organized the candlelight vigil for the woman they really didn't know.
"That's part of being a neighborhood, supporting this family in this horrible time," Scott said of the vigil. "Neighbors are a part of our daily lives as we come and go."
"My heart really goes out to those kids," Scott said several hours before the vigil.
Scott described the trauma she saw Isabelle's 12-year-old daughter going through the day her mother was killed.
"When they removed her body from the house, the little girl was across the street in her grandparents' house," Scott said.
"She saw what was happening and started screaming "I wanna go with my mom, I wanna go with my mom!'" Scott recalled. "It was horrible.
"I just don't understand how this could happen. Now, those kids have to live with this for the rest of their lives."
Contact staff writer John Hall at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2628, or [email protected].
Friends and neighbors of Isabelle Jarka, who was found slain Monday, put flowers, candles, and stuffed animals on the driveway of her Murrieta home during a vigil Tuesday in remembrance of the mother of two.
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JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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fjtoth
That name sounds very familiar but I don't remember his name as an elder from the hall I went to.
His name is Kelle L. Jarka.
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JW Mom killed in house
by Wordly Andre inhttp://www.pe.com/localnews/murrieta/stories/pe_news_local_s_sdead29.4016de2.html
murrieta - a 40-year-old mother of two was killed in her murrieta home monday morning, authorities said.
coroner's officials identified the woman as isabelle jarka.
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KCBS, Channel 2, Los Angeles, California
Apr 28, 2008 11:01 pm US/Pacific
Murrieta Man Questioned In Murder Of His Mrs
MURRIETA: Police say that a 40-year-old Murrieta man told them that he returned home from an early morning shopping trip to find his wife murdered in their bedroom.
Police confirm the woman, whose name was not released, was the victim of foul play.
She was found dead in the couple's bedroom in the 36000 block of Tamarisk Street, according to Murrieta police Lt. Dennis Vrooman.
The woman's husband called police just before 9 a.m. Monday. He told them that he returned from a 45-minute shopping trip to find his garage door forced-open and his wife unconscious upstairs, Vrooman said.
Medics were called to the scene but the woman was pronounced dead at 9:08 a.m., the lieutenant said.
Investigators took the husband to the station for further questioning, Vrooman said.
The couple lived in the house with their two children -- a 12-year-old girl and 6-month-old boy -- but neither child was home when their mother was murdered.
The children reportedly spent the night at the home of their maternal grandmother who lives across the street from the victim and her husband, police said.
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"StumbleUpon"
by JoyNichols indoes anyone else here ever use stumbleupon?
i've been using it for a couple of months (when i can get my network adapter to work.
yesterday i found the coolest image of a glass frog using stumbleupon.
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fjtoth
. I'm with you. I think StumbleUpon is really great. I usually start playing around with it before going to bed, but I find some nights I just can't stop and I keep going for an hour or more. I never get tired of all the experiments, tutorials, great articles, fantastic graphics and a host of excellent websites that open up with the click of a button. There can be amazing surprises every minute.
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News Flash! Letter from Governing Body announcing meeting schedule changes
by mizzarco inthe watchtower meeting (this congregation meets on sat) that i just listened to via phone conference was cut 10 minutes short to have a letter read to all the congregation.
here are the highlights:.
- the governing body realizes that the pressures of this system of things are getting heavier on his people.. - just like the governing body of the 1st century, we do not want to add additional burden to you either.
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News Flash! Letter from Governing Body announcing meeting schedule changes
by mizzarco inthe watchtower meeting (this congregation meets on sat) that i just listened to via phone conference was cut 10 minutes short to have a letter read to all the congregation.
here are the highlights:.
- the governing body realizes that the pressures of this system of things are getting heavier on his people.. - just like the governing body of the 1st century, we do not want to add additional burden to you either.
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