a hero. "I just wish Katie didnt have to go through this experience," she says.

Within five minutes, URI Emergency Medical Technicians Shad Ahmed of Warwick, Jeffrey Tagen of Narragansett, and driver Amy Swiencki of West Kingston arrived and raced Weiss to South County Hospital.

Paul called Weiss parents in New York and, was joined at the hospital first by Chris Dupuis of Manville, R.I. and later by Tagen. When Weiss parents arrived, the URI students helped update them before they visited Weiss in the Intensive Care Unit. Weiss lingered in a coma for three days. Doctors told her family they were unsure if she would wake up. When she did, she was so groggy she couldnt speak clearly. All of her rescuers kept watch over Weiss progress until shewas transferred to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx on Dec. 18. There doctors warned that she might not fully recover.

Paul, Swiencki, and Dupuis visited Weiss in the New York hospital on Dec. 29, the day before she was released.

After fully recovering at home, Weiss returned to URI on January 20 in time for the spring semester. With the exception of a note taker because of her new medication, Weiss is back to hitting the books as usual.

Weiss continues to be a volunteer member of URIs Emergency Medical Services, run under the sponsorship of URIs Health Services. The service provides emergency services and transport for the URI community.

"I really got lucky," the 19-year-old says. "Theres no brain damage. And I owe 100 percent of it to my friends."

Her parents


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Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was only 11. G.G. groomed Sara two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete and he forced her into prostitution. Sara and the other girls who G.G. exploited were out on the streets


from 6pm to 6am, every night. Twelve hours a night, seven days a week, for three years, Sara was raped by strangers so G.G. could profit. After three years, she snapped, and she killed him.

Now 32, Sara has spent half her life in prison as a model prisoner, and has asked Gov. Schwarzenegger for clemency. Sara was arrested and tried in 1994, before anyone was using the term "human trafficking" and when the country was still struggling to understand issues like domestic violence and pimp control that give one person coercive control over another. So there was no expert witness at Sara's trial to explain how her years of repeated rape, trauma, and abuse had affected her actions. There was no expert to tell the jury that with(CBSNews.com) - Hurricane Sandy made landfall Thursday in southern Cuba, just west of Santiago de Cuba, where residents boarded over windows and cleared drainage gutters ahead of the strengthening storm that had roared across Jamaica and left two dead in the Caribbean.

As of 11 a.m. ET, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sandy, which had strengthened to a category 2 hurricane, was moving toward the Bahamas at 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was expected to pass to the west of the U.S. naval base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, where pretrial hearings were being held for a suspect in the deadly 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen. The military warned the 5,500 people living


on the U.S. base to be ready for the storm. Officials said there was no threat to the 166 prisoners.

Cuba's Communist government, known for its quick response to natural disasters, announced the evacuation of about 450 tourists from beach resorts near Santiago, according to Cuban state media, though hotel workers told The Associated Press they were not expecting any major problems.

Sandy "is a complex of strong rains, very intense," said civil defense Col. Miguel Angel Puig, adding that the rains could affect 200,000 people in Cuba.

The hurricane center had said Sandy was expected to produce total rainfall of 6-to-12 inches across Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and eastern Cuba.

"These rains may produce life threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially in areas of mountainous terrain," the center said.

Eastern Cuba ismountainous and home to independent and state farms growing yucca, sugar, corn, coffee and fruit, among other crops.

Fishermen on the Gulf of Guaranayabo, where Manzanillo is located, moved their boats to safer ground.

People in Manzanillo, a city of 132,000 some 465 miles east of Havana, said they were worried about the impact, particularly after a wet summer that left sub-soils saturated.

"Given the condition of my house, I don't know if it will withstand the force of a hurricane, but we are prepared," said Emiliano Lopez, a 62-year-old who lives near Manzanillo's seaside boulevard.

In Santiago, Cuba's second largest city, heavy rain was already falling late Wednesday night.

"We're well prepared for the storm," said Mayte Cuesta, an employee of the Hotel Melia Santiago. "It will affect us, but we don't


think there is any danger."

As Sandy crossed over Jamaica on Wednesday, an elderly man was killed by a boulder that crashed into his clapboard house, police said. In southwestern Haiti, a woman died in the town of Camp Perrin after she was swept away by a river she was trying to cross, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country's civil protection office.

Jamaican authorities closed the island's international airports and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting. Cruise ships changed their itineraries to avoid the storm, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon near the capital, Kingston.

In some southern towns on Jamaica, several crocodiles were caught in rushing floodwaters that carried them out of their homes in mangrove thickets. One bigcroc took up temporary residence in a family's front yard in the city of Portmore.

Stranded business travelers and a smattering of locals rode out the Category 1 hurricane in hotels clustered along a strip in Kingston's financial district. Some read prayer books or novels, while others watched movies or communicated with loved ones on computers.

Cris Hopkinson, a Toronto woman who was on a business trip, said she hoped to catch a flight off the island Friday once the stormy weather cleared.

"For now, I'm just hoping that the glass in the windows doesn't shatter from the winds," Hopkinson said in the dining room of the Courtleigh Hotel.

About a mile away, in the rough neighborhood of Grants Pen, where shops have been ransacked in the past during storms, a number


of young men ignored the curfew, riding on bicycles or walking in small groups in the steady rain.

Cecile Graham, a mother of two teenagers, said she was worried about the possibility of burglaries or looting at the small markets and shops that line the main road.

"I hope that all the police are out and we won't have the looting that has taken place before," she said.

Far out in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Tony posed no threat to land. The storm had maximum sustained winds of about 50 mph and was moving east-northeast at 25 mph). Its center was 1,060 miles west-southwest of the Azores.the tasleem, and in the narration of Dhul-Yadain narrated by Abu Hurairah, it is recorded that the Prophet (saws) made the two prostrations after the tasleem.
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Schiller’s exit would come at a time when Trump is losing some of his most loyal aides as Chief of Staff John Kelly tries to bring some order into a chaotic White House.


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Dr. Dianne BoardleySuber, the Tenth President and First African American Female President of Saint Augustine's College Presided Over the Commemorative Stamp Unveiling For Anna Julia Cooper. This Event Was Held on the Campus of Saint Augustine's...

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people in ther federation has worked hard and this is probably one of the rewards well earned.”

Photo and quotes courtesy Terence Yaw.

Now the men’s final takes place on the Bowling de Provence lanes, again best of three game matches.

The opener featured 2005 World Cup champion Michael Schmidt against 2006 Men’s World Championships Masters gold medalist Biboy Rivera of the Philippines.

Schmidt was a formidable opponent, taking the first game, 247-215, and earned his place in the final by taking the second, 252-202, totalling 499 over the pair of games.

Up stepped Matt Miller of England, determined to give his home country their first World Cup win since 1973, when Bernie Caterer stepped on top of the podium after defeating Canada’s Glen Watson.

Miller stamped his authority on the final by takingCup has come to a close and somehow the officials, competitors, coaches and supporters have to get back home through a flood of strikes across France. There will be many tales to be told of the difficult journeys.

Bob Johnson has received more national writing awards than any other bowling writer — close to 70 over the course of his 40-year career. He began at age 16 as a staff writer and then assistant editor for the weekly Pacific Bowler newspaper in his native California, and within three years was writing feature stories for Bowlers Journal. He has written for the magazine ever since, except for a five-year span when he was hired as the founding editor of another magazine. He moved to Chicago in 2000 and spent 13


years in the Windy City, including five as Bowlers Journal’s Editor. In 1975, Johnson received the Robert E. Kennedy Award as California’s top undergraduate high school journalist. Five years earlier, on the lanes, he had shared the Bantam Division Doubles championship in the Orange County Junior Bowling Association Championships. Today, he continues to work full-time for Bowlers Journal as its Senior Editor, to write his popular “Strikes Me” column, and to edit Luby Publishing Inc.’s weekly business-to-business Cyber Report.Gary Barlow and Benedict Cumberbatch are to feature in YouView's £10m launch advertising campaign this weekend, as the long-delayed video-on-demand service attempts to convince consumers that it represents the future of TV.

The launch campaign will focus heavily on TV advertising. Spots have been bought during ITV1's The X Factor on Saturday with ads running simultaneously on Channel 4 and Channel 5, supported by a national newspaper and poster campaign.

YouView's TV ad features stars and characters from the biggest shows the venture partners air – including The X Factor's Barlow, Sherlock's Cumberbatch, Doctor Who's Daleks, , Dallas's Larry Hagman and Downton Abbey – seen projected on buildings across the UK.

"This is YouView hitting the public airwaves," said the YouView chief executive, Richard Halton. "The brand is well-known in the


media village but now it is about the public. The scale of the marketing budget is pretty heavy from launch. TV is still the biggest medium for reaching a mass audience, especially for launching a brand no one has really heard of."

A series of press and poster ads aim to reinforce YouView features such as recording shows, catch-up TV and on-demand content.

A prime target for the campaign is the 10m-plus Freeview households that might be persuaded to upgrade to an enhanced TV service.

The ad campaign runs with the strapline "Extraordinary for everyone".

YouView's marketing budget was officially set in late 2009 at £48.4m up to the end of four years of operation, according to BBC Trust documents. The partners agreed to invest up to £115m between them over theChallenge Cup

The 32 individual winners of the BBC’s Songs of Praise Challenge Cup choir are in the final stages of preparation for their big moment in the Wembley spotlight this weekend. The winners, who were selected from entries from Rugby League clubs

Warrington Wolves coach Tony Smith has revealed that former England footballer Stuart Pearce will give his side a pre-Wembley pep talk ahead of this weekend’s Challenge Cup final. Pearce is a notorious rugby league fan and is a big Warrington

Fullback: Motu Tony After lifting the cup with Hull in 2005, Tony played on the wing in their major final appearance against St Helens in the Grand Final the following year, eventually finishing his career at Wakefield. Tony is now

Almost 70,000 tickets have already been sold for the


Challenge Cup final between Hull FC and Warrington Wolves. Demand for tickets has been incredibly high since the semi-finals, with the RFL confirming that they are being sold at a record

Hull FC are one win away from ending their Wembley hoodoo after winning a pulsating semi-final against Wigan 16-12. Two tries in four second-half minutes proved to be the difference, as Lee Radford’s men came from 8-2 down to take

Ashton Sims admits the pain of last year’s shock Challenge Cup semi-final defeat to Hull KR is still fresh in his mind as the club looks to avoid another upset this Saturday to make it back to Wembley. Widely considered

This column originally appeared in Rugby League World. Get your copy every month in stores, or alternatively, purchase an onlineLisa Knapp

One of the most inventive musicians around, Lisa Knapp pushes boundaries with her radiant interpretation of traditional folk music. Here, she performs with her band in support of her latest album, Till April is Dead – A Garland of Ritual & Love songs in the Month of May.

The month of May is the focal point for an eruption of traditions, rituals and celebrations across the Northern Hemisphere: summer is coming, the weather is warmer and the promise of long, light evenings provide a perfect excuse to sing, dance and celebrate.

Till April is Dead brings together some of the most beautiful, strange and beguiling ‘May’ songs inspired by weird and wonderful happenings across Britain, as well as folklore hailing from here and distant shores. Alongside these ritualistic ‘May’


to the highest level of racing during the 2013 Spring Racing Carnival.

Rain Affair started his spring campaign with a dominant five and a half lengths win over a small field in the Group 3 Missile Stakes (1200m) and was beaten as a short-priced favourite in the Group 2 Warwick Stakes (1400m) before finishing a disappointing sixth in the Group 2 Theo Marks Stakes (1400m).

Trainer Joseph Pride is hopeful that Rain Affair can break his Group 1 drought in the autumn and told Racing Ahead that the six-year-olds entire preparation would lead up to a tilt at the richest sprinting event in the world.

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A gripping collection of six stories of terror -- including the novella The Visible Filth, the basis for the upcoming major motion picture -- by Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado -- ''one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there'' (The Verge).

In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his ''piercing and merciless'' (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives -- both real and imagined: ''What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition'' (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Now, in Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Ballingrudfollows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in ''The Visible Filth'' -- to the search for the map of hell in ''The Butcher's Table,'' Ballingrud's beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.

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Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts in 1970, but spent most of his life in the South. He studied literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of New Orleans. Among other things, he has been a cook on oil rigs and barges, a waiter, and a bartender in New Orleans. He now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter in an apartment across from the French Broad River.

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Nathan Ballingrud is one of the best writers working today. Full stop. His stories are heartfelt, evocative, and transcendent. They'll burrow into yourskull and come crawling out, altering the world around you. The stories in his second collection, WOUNDS, won't just haunt you, man--they'll TRANSFORM you. They can be as charming and imaginative as the Hellboy and BPRD universe of Mike Mignola (and his many, many collaborators), but as visceral as Clive Barker. There's nothing quaint about Ballingrud's imagination. He cuts, gouges, pries, and warps reality to pull you in and make you believe in the wonders and horrors of his vision of Hell. I'm a fan, so I might be biased, but my reactions to Ballingrud's fiction are honest. Every story in the collection is good, but the lead, "The Atlas of Hell," has been my single favorite short story since I first read it in FEARFUL SYMMETRIES, knocking


Losing donors and enrollment, West Liberty University may be a harbinger of things to come for universities that double down on knee-jerk liberalism.

Why would a cash-strapped liberal arts college in West Virginia turn its nose up at $1 million in grants? University officials wouldn’t say it explicitly, but the reason couldn’t be more obvious: the money came from classically liberal and libertarian foundations. Even in a fiscal crisis, that simply would not do.

Last academic year, faculty and staff at West Liberty University (WLU) went on the ideological warpath to oust its center-right president simply because he was politically right of center. The public fallout of their acrimonious demands plunged the university into an enrollment and budgetary shortfall as the staff and faculty aired their disdain in public. Turnedanswer, citing a lack of majors in the program. However, several other programs on campus have fewer students.

The sole purpose of the grants was to expose students to the ideas of free markets, liberty, and equality rightly understood.

When I offered to help offset some of the departmental costs from the nearly $1 million in grants I secured, the administration balked. So, there must have been another reason they wanted to terminate my contract. My position on campus did not fit their ideological biases. As a result, I had to go.

I taught one of the few classes on campus that was dedicated to the classical liberal arts. It was, in part, funded by the generous grants from BB&T, Koch, and the Institute of Humane Studies at George Mason University.


It also funded grants and scholarships for promising students to offset the cost of books and tuition. The sole purpose of the grants was to expose students to the ideas of free markets, liberty, and equality rightly understood.

None of the students were required to agree with the virtues of the free market. Many even wrote research papers criticizing that idea, and did so eloquently. Even though the class included broad readings from Nietzsche and Marx, along with Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and the American Founders, it was not good enough for the provost, who told another member of the faculty that he “wished there was different ideology represented on campus” than the one I proffered.

What was the provost so incensed by? That students might merely consider diverse ideas.Grenzer out on ARO duty. (Since I was going first I was hoping to be able to leverage Sally to clear any multiple ARO entanglements).

Clockmaker went in with the link and a zond bot went on the far side of the board behind a rocky outcrop to keep my deployment options open. The puppeteer and Mary both went on my right as the taller buildings kept the lanes of fire shorter, hopefully letting them leverage their SMGs better.

Zagdag set up his unidron link mostly in total cover behind and inside the unpainted Comanche building. The notably exception being the ML standing on the stairs on the front of the building staring down my Grenzer. The Nexus was hiding in the second floor of that building. The Overdron was


set behind the middle building facing forwards. Then Zagdag and WiseKensai shooed me away for hidden deployment.

I spent a great deal of time thinking about where to deploy Sally. I thought about behind the rocky outcropping to shoot down the Unidrone ML from in cover. This location was good because of the helper bot, but risky because there was no total cover to retreat too. It was also a very open location and fear of at least one notifier ML made me hesitant to deploy there. I also considered using the forward deployment 1 granted by the mission and deploying in front of the rocks but with the tower directly between Sally and the ML, the plan being to close to under 24 inches, and engage from coverit has appointed
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Times Energy (FT Energy) has
announced the winners in all 13 categories of the FT Energy Global Awards
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Earlier this month, China voiced its unhappiness with North Korea for firing four Scud missiles into the Sea of Japan. Beijing had suspended all coal imports from its neighbor earlier in February. Pyongyang responded by accusing Beijing of “dancing to the tune of the U.S.” This was not the first time North Korea had thumbed its nose at China. However, Beijing was in for a surprise when several Chinese strategic affairs experts went up in arms and demanded that China “abandon” North Korea.

In recent times, neither escalating tensions in Sino-Japanese ties nor uncertainties in Sino-U.S. bilateral relations have been the focus for the Chinese. Instead, public opinion has centered on “Fatty Kim the Third” — as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is unflatteringly called in the unofficialand social media in China — making for a debate fraught with controversy and confusion. To its utter dismay, however, the party-state in Beijing is completely at a loss today in coming to grips with the North Korea problem.

Currently, there are three schools of thought dominating the discourse on Sino-North Korean relations in China’s strategic affairs community. First, there are scholars who uphold the view that North Korea remains ideologically and geopolitically crucial for China, for two reasons. One, by maintaining solid ties with North Korea China will not be alone and isolated in the game the United States, Japan and South Korea are playing in the Korean Peninsula.

Two, with North Korea standing by its side, Beijing will be in a better position to deal with worldwide anti-China


the president's anti-drug campaign.

In October last year, the president announced that he is cutting ties with the US, which he also retracted after a few days.

READ: Duterte says he won't sever ties with US

The ambassador said that the Philippines and the US should focus on making sure that their economic engagement remains strong.

"I think what's more important is what we actually do together," he said.

Kim also said that he was not surprised that the Philippines is seeking to improve its relations with China.

"The fact that the Philippines would want an improved relation with China is not surprising and does not, in any way, undermine our relationship with the Philippines. I think, in fact, all countries in the region would want to have smooth relations with China," Kim said.

Theambassador added that he believes the Philippines and any other country should pursue an independent foreign policy.

Washington's top diplomat—Kim's superior—is set to arrive in Manila next week to attend the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to raise various issues including human rights concerns, the Marawi conflict and terrorism with his counterparts in the Philippines at the sidelines of the ASEAN-related meetings.

RELATED: Philippines open to address US human rights concerns


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of Fugglestone St. Peter, including Quidhampton and Burdens Ball, and Ditchampton. ... of Quidhampton and the fee of Burdens Ball lay in Fugglestone and are described ... road continued through Great Marsh to...The UK's arms deals with Saudi Arabia make it "utterly complicit in the destruction of Yemen," according to Campaign Against Arms Trade's (CAAT) Andrew Smith. The activist was speaking on RT's Going Underground.

The government has signed off on billions of pounds worth of arms deals with Saudi Arabia, one of the UK's largest weapons importers. The kingdom is leading the coalition that is conducting an air-and-sea campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen. The fighting has led to 10,000 deaths and left millions more in need of humanitarian aid.

The relationship is such that the kingdom's powerful 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman will visit the UK on March 7. Bin Salman's visit, which will also include being entertained by the royals in Windsor, is expected to be the precursor


for further UK-Saudi arms deals.

CAAT is one of several groups organizing protests against the crown prince's visit. In the interview with Afshin Rattansi, Smith attacked the UK foreign secretary for hypocrisy, stating: "Even Boris Johnson has called it [Yemen] the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, yet it's a humanitarian crisis caused in part by weapons licensed by Boris Johnson and his colleague."

The damning indictment comes as the UK faces accusations of hiding the extent of its support for Saudi Arabia's bombing of Yemen. A significant increase in the number of arms-export licenses from the UK to Saudi Arabia has been revealed by the Middle East Eye.

Since 2015 and the start of the war in Yemen, the UK has reportedly used standard arms licenses to sign off onGibraltar: as of the first day of 2018, the Digital Ledger Technology Regulatory Framework has been in effect. This means that providers of cryptocurrency are now officially regulated in the British overseas territory.

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, the financial regulator of the peninsula, committed to regulating ICOs back in October 2017. With the initiation of the new system on the first of January, it is now on the way to doing so.

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Nicky Gomez, head of risk and innovation at the GFSC, said: “We are really excited to finally welcome applications from DLT Providers. The team expect to be very busy in the coming months, and are


looking forward to working on some interesting and innovative ideas with applicants.”

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What about initial coin offerings?

ICOs were big news throughout 2017. The blockchain-based funding drives were almost completely unknown at the beginning of the year, but by the end of it they had raised almost 6 billion USD for almost 900 different projects, according to ICODATA.io. This success came despite the fact that financial regulators the world over spent all year issuing warnings to people in their jurisdictions to refrain from investing in them, largely because they still can’t decide exactly how to regulate them.

They have been banned in China and South Korea, and several other countries are considering doing the same.

Even Vitalik Buterin, founder ofthat Latin American nation, quickly escalated the range of options for addressing the crisis in that country. Venezuela is in the midst of a political and socioeconomic crisis that includes rampant crime, exorbitant prices for basic necessities and a lack of jobs.

Mr. Trump announced he will be returning to Washington briefly on Monday, when he will give his first major solo press conference since February 16. It's unclear what he will be addressing, or why he has decided to hold a press conference now.

Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro, has said he wants to meet Mr. Trump, as the U.S. weighs slapping economic sanctions on his socialist administration. Mr. Trump has already slapped sanctions on eight of Maduro's allies, accusing them of violating human rights and democratic norms. Vice President


‘Still in a stalemate,’ top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — America's top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, told NBC News Thursday that the war here remains in a "stalemate," but that President Donald Trump's new strategy has reversed a decline in the U.S. position.

"We are still in a stalemate," Nicholson, a four-star Army general said in an exclusive interview. "We are only 90 days into this new policy, but with the U.S. forces that will be arriving, with the new authority that we have been given, put the pressure on external enablers, with the fact that we are condition based and not time based, we've set all the conditions to win."

Nicholson also called out Russia and Pakistan, specifically, for enabling the Taliban andenemy that we had lost our will to win, and now with a new policy as of August, we are going to win. And winning means delivering a negotiated settlement that reduces the level of violence and protecting the homeland."

As Trump considered his options in Afghanistan this summer, he became frustrated with the lack of progress and even suggested that he might fire Nicholson for failing to win the war. Instead, he reversed his previous calls to pull out of Afghanistan and followed the advice of his military advisers.

Now, Nicholson said Thursday, he believes the president has confidence in him.

That's "because of the authorities I've been given and the policy we've received" in August, he said. "It's everything I asked for."

Nicholson's had less luck with Pakistan, a powerful


player in the region that has provided support to the Taliban. He said that has to be resolved at the diplomatic level.

"That's up to the senior leaders of our government," he said. "It's a political conversation between our two capitals, and here on the ground we are hoping to see a reduction with that support. The bottom line is the Taliban cannot win."

Similarly, the U.S. hasn't been able to prevent Russia from providing aid to the Taliban, even though Nicholson said the two countries have common interests in fighting ISIS and cracking down on the flow of heroin out of Afghanistan.

"The Russians themselves have legitimized the Taliban," he said. "We see indications that the Taliban themselves and the open media talk about Russians giving them fuel, and raisedocumenting the progress of the work at hillington square

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Great to see Brian Tuck in the Lynn News on Friday – Brian who has lived in Greyfriars House for almost 43 years was one of the first residents to move into Hillington Square. Read more about him over on the Lynn News website here.


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Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk is again under fire for making racially-charged comments, this time for questioning the military service of his Democratic opponent’s family.

During Thursday night's debate between Kirk and challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Duckworth spoke about her desire to be in the Senate as a voice of reason and referenced her family's history of service, saying, "My family has served this nation in uniform, going back to the Revolution. I'm a daughter of the American Revolution. I've bled for this nation. But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound. Because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be


of service on his coat. "My mom is an immigrant and my dad and his family have served this nation in uniform since the Revolution," Duckworth wrote.

My mom is an immigrant and my dad and his family have served this nation in uniform since the Revolution #ILSEN pic.twitter.com/ehEBHswFMs — Tammy Duckworth (@TammyforIL) October 28, 2016

Duckworth's late father, Franklin, served in World War II and has "traced his lineage back to an ancestor who fought in the American Revolution," according to a 2012 Mother Jones profile on Duckworth's run for Congress.

"Sen. Kirk's statement speaks for itself, as does Tammy's response," Matt McGrath, Duckworth's deputy campaign manager, said in an email to NBC News.

On Twitter, the response to Kirk's comment was swift:

To be clear, GOP Sen. @MarkKirk just questioned theRevolutionary War service of Tammy Duckworth's family because she is of mixed heritage. — Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) October 28, 2016

Wow, Sen. Mark Kirk really flubbed his debate tonight with Tammy Duckworthhttps://t.co/bcjLMckP2D — Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) October 28, 2016

My jaw dropped watching the video of @MarkKirk insulting remark about @RepDuckworth's family. Kudos to her for being all class in response. — Lisa Hinchliffe (@lisalibrarian) October 28, 2016

The comment also drew a fierce rebuke from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, with spokeswoman Lara Sisselman calling it “offensive, wrong, and racist.” She also pointed to the fact Kirk exaggerated his military service on his campaign website, describing himself as a “veteran of the Iraq War,” while he only served in the Navy Reserves and was never deployed.

“Senator Kirk has been caught


Minor league game erupts in not one, but two epic bench-clearing brawls

Scott Moe

FOX Sports

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The final week of July typically means one thing and one thing only in the South. Football is almost here.

Certainly, the Jacksonville Suns and Birmingham Barons are well aware of the calendar, because on Friday night they either did their best impression of the dog days of training camp, or took "fighting for the sport fan's attention" to a new (and literal) level.

In the top of the ninth inning of a rather uneventful game at Jacksonville's Bragan Field, the Southern League (Double-A) rivals got into not one but two bench- and bullpen-clearing brawls that, along with a mini-manager-meltdown, lasted a total of 19 minutes and resulted in six ejections, according to thefederal law," Krikorian said.

Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, both Republicans, also came out against the ruling.

"Instead of wasting taxpayer resources filing a lawsuit against Arizona and complaining that the law would be burdensome, the Obama Administration should have focused its efforts on working with Congress to provide the necessary resources to support the state in its efforts to act where the Federal government has failed to take responsibility," they said in a joint statement.

The Justice Department issued a statement saying the court "ruled correctly."

"While we understand the frustration of Arizonans with the broken immigration system, a patchwork of state and local policies would seriously disrupt federal immigration enforcement and would ultimately be counterproductive," the statement said. "States can and do play a role in cooperating with


the federal government in its enforcement of the immigration laws, but they must do so within our constitutional framework."

While officials and their staff issued statements, a small group of activists in Phoenix expressed how they felt about Arizona's law in a traffic-stopping way.

Four protesters wearing hard hats and work boots climbed a crane high above the streets of downtown Phoenix and unfurled a banner that read "Stop Hate."

The banner also had a black mark through the number 1070. That was the number assigned to the immigration measure when it was introduced in Arizona's legislature as a bill.

Capt. Scott Walker with the Phoenix Fire Department called the four protesters experienced climbers and said they would be arrested when they came down.

Reaction to Wednesday's ruling on the Arizona law wasnot limited to the United States.

Applause erupted at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City when a speaker announced the judge's decision.

"I think it is a big victory, and it is the start of many more," said Sergio de Alba, president of the National Confederation of Workers and Farmers Organizations.

Minutes earlier, he had called on Mexicans to boycott products from the United States in protest.

Protesters attached signs to a gate in front of the Embassy, with one slogan saying, "Boycott Against Arizona-Nazizona, home of hunting migrants and the Ku Klux Klan."

Opponents say the law will lead to racial profiling, which is illegal. The government's lawsuit, however, didn't use that rationale in it's lawsuit. It argued that Arizona was usurping a federal authority.

Supporters point out that the


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a criminal terrorist organization.
This conclusion is shared by the United States government. CAIR was named an unindicted
co-conspirator in a massive conspiracy to fundraise for, and otherwise
pursue, the terrorist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestine
Committee, a public relations and fund raising arm of Hamas in the
United States.[ Specifically, CAIR was named as one of the organizations formed by the
defendants and co-conspirators to create the appearance of legality in
the effort to raise funds and public support for Hamas and its jihad
abroad. As the evidence in the HLF trial demonstrated, these
plans were part of a Philadelphia planning meeting carried out by
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas operatives, a meeting which the FBI
secretly recorded pursuant to a lawful court order, the entire
transcript of which was introduced into the record at the HLFtrial. Two of the key participants at this Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas planning meeting were Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad. Ahmad co-founded CAIR, along with CAIR’s executive director Awad, in
1994 soon after this meeting. Ahmad served as CAIR’s chairman of the
board until 2005 and Awad still serves as CAIR’s executive director.

Further, the federal prosecutors successfully resisted every effort
by CAIR to have the public designation of CAIR as an “unindicted
co-conspirator” removed from the court record and concluded as follows
in its brief to the court:

This group is applauding the attempt to restrict free speech. Are you surprised?

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2013 —
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy
organization, today applauded federal officials who were heckled last
night in Tennessee by an anti-Muslim "mob."

At an event sponsored
by


the American Muslim Advisory Council, a large group of protesters
heckled and interrupted speeches by Bill Killian, U.S. Attorney of the
Eastern District of Tennessee, and by Kenneth Moore, FBI special agent
in charge of the Eastern Tennessee District.

[....]

"We applaud the federal officials who, while defending First
Amendment freedoms, stood up for the right of American Muslims to be
free from bias-motivated attacks and intimidation," said CAIR National
Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "The mob mentality demonstrated
at last night's event should be a wake-up call to all Americans who
value religious tolerance."

Hooper said last night's hate protest
was organized by Pamela Geller, regarded by many as the nation's most
notorious Islamophobe. She is head of the hate groups Stop Islamization
of America (SIOA) and American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI).

ADL: Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)

Southern Poverty Law Center Profile ofUnited States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al., 3:04-cr-00240-P (N.D. Texas) (“HLF”).

The evidence shows that CAIR is a criminal terrorist organization.
This conclusion is shared by the United States government. CAIR was named an unindicted
co-conspirator in a massive conspiracy to fundraise for, and otherwise
pursue, the terrorist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestine
Committee, a public relations and fund raising arm of Hamas in the
United States.[ Specifically, CAIR was named as one of the organizations formed by the
defendants and co-conspirators to create the appearance of legality in
the effort to raise funds and public support for Hamas and its jihad
abroad. As the evidence in the HLF trial demonstrated, these
plans were part of a Philadelphia planning meeting carried out by
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas operatives, a meeting which


the FBI
secretly recorded pursuant to a lawful court order, the entire
transcript of which was introduced into the record at the HLF trial. Two of the key participants at this Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas planning meeting were Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad. Ahmad co-founded CAIR, along with CAIR’s executive director Awad, in
1994 soon after this meeting. Ahmad served as CAIR’s chairman of the
board until 2005 and Awad still serves as CAIR’s executive director.

Further, the federal prosecutors successfully resisted every effort
by CAIR to have the public designation of CAIR as an “unindicted
co-conspirator” removed from the court record and concluded as follows
in its brief to the court:

This group is applauding the attempt to restrict free speech. Are you surprised?

WASHINGTON, June 5, 2013 —
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), the nation's largest Muslimcivil rights and advocacy
organization, today applauded federal officials who were heckled last
night in Tennessee by an anti-Muslim "mob."

At an event sponsored
by the American Muslim Advisory Council, a large group of protesters
heckled and interrupted speeches by Bill Killian, U.S. Attorney of the
Eastern District of Tennessee, and by Kenneth Moore, FBI special agent
in charge of the Eastern Tennessee District.

[....]

"We applaud the federal officials who, while defending First
Amendment freedoms, stood up for the right of American Muslims to be
free from bias-motivated attacks and intimidation," said CAIR National
Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "The mob mentality demonstrated
at last night's event should be a wake-up call to all Americans who
value religious tolerance."

Hooper said last night's hate protest
was organized by Pamela Geller, regarded by many as the nation's most
notorious Islamophobe. She is head of the hate


found that 47% of the European respondents have looked into alternative payments providers.

"There is a shadow of non-bank competition [in treasury payments]," Nick Brewer, director of product strategy for Misys, observed. "Banks need to combine the different views of different businesses into a single sign-on portal... to serve the corporates the data that they're looking for. That's where banks can make a really sticky relationship with their corporate clients."

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Association of Reoviridae particles in an enteric syndrome of poults observed in turkey flocks during 1988.
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“Significant” maybe–but not in a good way. The House vote last weekend deserves to go down in history as a capitulation to the health care robber barons in defiance of overwhelming public support for real reform. If it does, liberal Democrats like Baldwin–who vowed to fight for strong legislation, and then provided the margin of victory for this outrage–will be remembered as the ones who let it happen.

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BEFORE THE injury of the final vote on the


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marriage, July 12.So how did the error occur?Incorrect information sent to Data-on-the Spot, the electronic voting services provider contracted to manage the voting by clickers, led to the mistake, according to Archdeacon Michael Thompson, general secretary.The vote to change the marriage canon (church law) to allow the solemnization of same-sex marriages required a two-thirds majority in each of the Orders of Laity, Clergy and Bishops, but the original count of the vote on the night of July 11 showed the motion had failed to pass by one vote in the Order of Clergy.The error, according to Thompson, originated with an Excel spreadsheet compiled by his office, which listed him and General Synod Chancellor David Jones as being non-voting members of General Synod. The spreadsheet had listed Thompson as“clergy, non-voting.” According to the Constitution of General Synod, both the general secretary and the chancellor have full voting privileges.

From Western North Carolina-A church building that has been used to serve the Bouchelle Street community in Morganton for decades needs a new servant-minded occupant.St. Stephens’ Episcopal Church currently sits vacant in its spot where members congregated from 1949 to 2014. In 2014, the church combined congregations with St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, located on St. Mary’s Church Road, and became known as St. Mary’s and St. Stephens’ Episcopal Church, according to the church rector, the Rev. Jim Dahlin. The combined congregation now meets at the St. Mary’s facility.Church members do not want to sell the St. Stephens’ building, but are looking for another church, ministry or nonprofit organization to


partner with them in using the building as a base to make a positive impact in the immediate community, said church member Allen Fullwood.

One sits in the high desert surrounded by mountains and the other is a sprawling blue-collar city, but the Rev. Canon Daniel Gutierrez says the similarities between his native Albuquerque, N.M., and Philadelphia are greater than the differences.

Gutierrez, 51, said the problems his parishioners faced in the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, based in Albuquerque, are universal - problems he will also face after he is ordained Saturday as bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania at New Covenant Church in Germantown. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m.

"I've fallen in love with Philadelphia and the Diocese of Pennsylvania in a relatively short time. Whena child is crying and suffering in pain, it's up to the church to reach out and touch them," Gutierrez said Friday afternoon at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral in University City. "There is so much hope and potential here."

From Mississippi-The Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr., a civil-rights advocate and retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, died Friday. He was 89.

Gray died at his home in Jackson after having been in hospice care, said one of his sons, Lloyd Gray of Meridian. He said a funeral will be at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, but plans were still pending.

As rector of St. Peter’s Church in Oxford in the autumn of 1962, Gray called for calm as violence broke out in response to the court-ordered integration


of the University of Mississippi in that city. Gray had been a chaplain on campus until 1961 and was known to students. According to Episcopal archives, Gray held onto the statue of a Confederate soldier near the main administrative building on campus and implored people not to riot.

Friday, July 15, 2016

From The Guardian-The Reverend Hubert Brasier died in a car accident on a notoriously dangerous stretch of dual carriageway on the fast-moving A40 approach to Oxford. On his way to take evensong at the tiny Norman church of St Nicholas the Confessor, in the hamlet of Forest Hill, Mr Brasier edged his Morris Marina out of the slip road, not noticing the Range Rover speeding towards him. His daughter, Theresa, was 25 at the time. Mr Brasier hadnamed her after a 16th-century Spanish nun who went on to become a great reformer of the Carmelite order. I wonder how long before cartoonists start depicting the new prime minister’s face superimposed on Bernini’s notorious sculptural depiction, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?

The parish of St Mary the Virgin in Wheatley (pictured), where Theresa May’s father was the vicar, is deep in the Anglican heartlands and a place of agreeably slow-moving traffic. A mile up the hill is the sleepy village of Cuddesdon, where generations of Anglican clergy have trained for the priesthood (me included) and which one former archbishop, Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, has described as the nearest thing to heaven this side of death. But Mr Brasier trained at the distinctly high church college of Mirfield


in Yorkshire. And, to many, that made him Father Brasier.

From The CBC-A passionate divide within the Anglican Church of Canada doesn't threaten its unity, officials say, after a dramatic vote first appeared to reject, but then approved, same-sex marriage earlier this week.

"As long as there's been a church there's been a controversy somewhere in it," Archdeacon Michael Thompson, general secretary for the church, told CBC News, citing as examples past debates about contraception and the ability of divorced people to remarry.

It was actually Thompson's vote in favour of the resolution to allow same-sex marriage that was miscounted in error, leading to an emotional roller-coaster of elation and despair for church members on both sides of the debate. The church appeared to have rejected same-sex marriage after the mistakeon Monday night, but a recount led to the reversal that supported the same-sex marriage resolution.

The California Supreme Court on July 13 “declined to review” a decision made in April by a state appellate court putting an end to eight years of litigation and awarding 28 properties worth an estimated $50 million to the continuing Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin.“Accordingly, the original judgment in favor of the Diocese and ordering the return of the properties and funds (approximately twenty-eight properties, including ECCO and the Cathedral, and various Diocesan funds) stands,” said Michael Glass, diocesan chancellor, in a July 14 statement to the diocese.“It is my belief that the leadership of the Anglican Diocese intends to work with the Diocese to provide for an orderly, thoughtful, and pastoral transition


of the properties,” he added.

Old news from The New York Times-Edmond L. Browning, who as the presiding bishop in the United States welcomed women into the hierarchy of the Episcopal Church, supported a role for gay and lesbian congregants, and lobbied aggressively for civil rights and against the nuclear arms race, died on Monday at his home in Dee, Ore. He was 87.

His death was announced by the Episcopal Church.

When he was elected in 1985 to lead the 2.8-million-member Christian denomination, which broke from the Church of England after the American Revolution, he immediately set the tone for his 12-year tenure by declaring, “I want to be very clear: This church of ours is open to all — there will be no outcasts — the convictions and hopesparliamentary aide, so he has a grasp of rules and process, the guy in the crowd who reads the fine print.

But when regional denomination leaders meet Saturday, they will face the next worst thing: the demands of two dissident congregations to split from the Presbyterian Church‑USA to join the newer, more conservative ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.If the Presbytery of New Covenant, governing body for 95 Southeast Texas congregations, votes to "dismiss," Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church and Missouri City's Southminster Presbyterian Church will become the 11th and 12th area churches to leave the denomination in recent years.

From Arizona-An Arizona church that found itself dropped in the center of all the “Pokemon Go” hubbub is welcoming players with open arms and Wi-Fi.

Father Tim True, the rector at


small groups meeting in private and synod members urged to stay off social media.

A handful of conservative evangelicals opposed to any compromise with homosexuality boycotted the talks. Most evangelicals and many on the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church remain resolutely opposed to accepting the validity of same-sex relationships. The issue has also come close to splitting the Anglican Communion, with conservative Churches particularly in Africa seeing it as a test of biblical orthodoxy. The Episcopal Church in the US remains suspended from the Communion because of its backing for same-sex marriage.

Thousands of people in Juba have fled their homes and are seeking sanctuary in the city’s Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals and other places of worship as fierce gun battles rage around them.The general secretary of the SouthSudan Council of Churches (SSCC), the Rev. James Oyet Latansio, reports that many areas – including the SSCC compound – are effectively no-go areas. The area around the SSCC compound is “under control of the SPLA Government Forces,” he said.The SPLA is the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, and the current clashes are between the official South Sudanese army – the SPLA government forces – and opposition SPLA forces. The United Nations’ Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has condemned the violence between the two groups and called for calm.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

But on Tuesday, questions about the integrity of the voting process emerged — leading to a stunning reversal of the result, just hours after several bishops, including Toronto Archbishop Colin Johnson, declared they’d move ahead with same-sex marriages


to the media. Another, Bishop Larry Robertson, of the diocese of the Yukon, suggested that commenting on the divisive issue would only rub salt into fresh wounds.

“It’s caused too much pain already,” he said.

Signs of this pain weren’t hard to see in the aftermath of the vote. Within minutes of its announcement, several members walked out of the conference room rather than take part in the Evensong that followed the vote. In the corridor outside, a female youth delegate collapsed, sobbing, on the floor. Several bystanders came to her aid. Other members headed toward their rooms with swollen eyes and tear-stained cheeks.

From Anglican Journal-Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is the spiritual leader of The Episcopal Church (TEC), a U.S.-based province of the Anglican Communion, which counts an active membershipof 1.8 million.The first African-American to hold the position, Curry has been active in anti-racism and social justice work throughout his ministry, which began when he was ordained a priest in 1978 and continued with his consecration as bishop of North Carolina in 2000.

Elected presiding bishop in 2015, Curry was installed in the months following the church’s ground-breaking decision to allow same-sex marriage, and it fell to him to navigate the fallout of that decision at the meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion in January 2016.

A passionate and charismatic orator, since his installation Curry has frequently challenged the church to see itself not as an institution, but as the “Jesus Movement.”

Robert P. Jones seems to be making a bold claim in his new book, The End


blessing such unions at the church's triennial conference.

More than 200 delegates attending the six-day General Synod 2016 north of Toronto narrowly rejected the resolution after more than 60 speakers made their points, with most speaking in support of the resolution.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since 2005, and Monday's vote puts the Anglican Church — the third largest in Canada — out of step with most Canadians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who recently took part in a gay pride parade in Toronto.

In order for the resolution to have passed, it required two-thirds support from each of three orders — the lay, clergy and bishops.

The bishops voted 68.42 percent in favor of the resolution, and the lay delegates voted 72.22 percent in favor. However, the clergy voted66.23 percent, just missing the percentage needed by a single vote.

Monday, July 11, 2016

THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Most Revd Michael Curry, has spoken of a “time of great pain and turmoil for us as a country” after the recent shooting incidents in America.

Bishop Curry was responding to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, who were shot and killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St Paul, Minnesota, and the subsequent attack on police officers in Dallas, Texas, which resulted in the deaths of five police officers and the injuring of seven others.

The shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota sparked protests around the country — including in Dallas, where the police officers were attacked. The protesters, under the


banner “Black Lives Matter”, say that black people are more likely than white people to be shot and killed by police officers.

From ENS-Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, the 24th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, died on July 11, 2016. He was 87 years old and was living in Oregon.Browning served as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1986-1997. Browning’s election as presiding bishop in 1986 was seen as a reflection of the church’s broadening diversity due to his extensive international and multicultural experience.Browning hoped to encourage a growing awareness of diversity in the church. He was well-known for his quote, “no outcasts in the church.”“The Episcopal Church is faithfully seeking to truly become, ‘a house of prayer for all people,’ as Jesus said quoting the Hebrew prophets,Andrew White has been suspended from the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, where he sits as president, pending investigation of the case.The charity is also being investigated by the Charity Commission, according to Anglican News. The inquiry into FRRME was opened on June 9.

The organization refused to comment on the issue while the inquiry is ongoing.

From The Wall Street Journal-Conservative and liberal prelates in the Catholic Church have put forth sharply different readings of Pope Francis’ teaching on divorce—a situation complicated by the pontiff’s own ambiguity.

In April, Pope Francis published “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), which responded to a turbulent meeting of bishops on family issues by urging a more lenient approach to divorced Catholics, in effect encouraging priests to grant some of


art, crafts and other related artifacts acquired by Miki Sawada (1901-1980), the founder of the Elizabeth Saunders Home orphanage in Oiso. The museum is built in a corner of the premises of the orphanage.

From The Telegraph-When the Church of England Synod meets in high summer, its thoughts inexorably turn to love - or rather, to same-sex relationships: the perennial pachyderm in the Anglican room.

As members gathered on Sunday to discuss the intractable topic, the minds of some may have drifted longingly towards the hearty thwack and ping of the Murray/Raonic final. Alert to wandering attention, David Porter, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s former director of reconciliation, urged his colleagues to “prepare yourself for Wimbledon withdrawal”.

Reconciling the schism between sport, sex and spirituality was the least of the participants’ challenges.to get angry."

Weber-Johnson and other ministers pledged to talk about the good Samaritan this Sunday. In the parable, Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan who helps a man who's been beaten and robbed. It's a story about loving one's neighbor, and even one's enemies. The Dr. Rev. Brian Herron, pastor at Zion Baptist Church in Minneapolis, says it's an apt message during today's troubling times.More here-

From Business Day-ARCHBISHOP Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s voice will always be the voice of the voiceless‚ the congregation heard during a special thanksgiving service‚ celebrating his four decades of episcopal ministry‚ on Sunday.

The service‚ held at St Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg‚ presided over by his close friend‚ Reverend Barney Pityana‚ saw a joyful Archbishop Tutu moving and singing during songs of worship and


praise.

"I can barely put it better‚ I think‚ than the late President Nelson Mandela did when he paid tribute to Archbishop Desmond — sometimes strident‚ he said‚ often tender‚ never afraid and seldom without humour.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

From The Anglican Journal-When Archbishop Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, addressed General Synod on July 9, he thanked the Anglican Church of Canada for its many contributions to the Communion. He did not indicate how Monday, July 11's vote on whether to allow the solemnization of same-sex marriages would affect Canada’s place in the global Anglican body.

But Idowu-Fearon did note its repercussions for some provinces of the Communion.

Although he praised the “typically Canadian and commendably transparent process” that led General Synod to the marriage canon vote, heThat CBA, negotiated in 1987, guaranteed continued employment for the 388 members of the union's Engineering Bargaining Unit ("EBU") until the CBA's expiration on October 27, 1992.

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Acknowledging that the CBA could be modified only through negotiations with the union, Mack arranged a meeting with union representatives.   Ensuing discussions resulted in an agreement that satisfied both parties.   Under this agreement, the sixty-nine most senior employees to voluntarily leave Mack's employ would receive a lump-sum payment of $75,000 and one year of continued benefits.

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On December 18, 1989, the union held a meeting at which it presented the buyout plan to EBU members.   Pursuant to an apparent agreement with Mack, the union did not inform its members of the buyout plan's 69-employee limit.


Instead, the union implied that the buyout plan was available to all employee applicants.1  At a second meeting on December 20, 1989, a union representative and a Mack representative answered questions about the buyout.   Again, the employees were not told about the buyout plan's numerical limit.

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A total of 144 members submitted applications for the buyout before the January 3, 1990 deadline.   In light of the unexpectedly large response, the union asked Mack to consider exceeding the agreed-upon 69-employee limit.   After some discussion, Mack agreed to permit an additional eight people to participate in the buyout, bringing the total of employees to be bought out to seventy-seven.   On January 8, 1990, Mack and the union held a joint meeting atwithin the meaning of ERISA.   Fontenot's complaint had charged that his employer, NL Industries, had violated ERISA by excluding him from a senior executive severance plan.   The Fontenot plan had provided for a lump sum cash payment "as well as a three year continuation of certain benefits" to executives terminated within two years of a change of corporate control.  Id. at 961.

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The Fifth Circuit, relying on Fort Halifax and the ERISA holding in Wells, affirmed the district court's summary judgment in favor of NL Industries.   In doing so, the court emphasized that the one-time obligation of NL Industries to provide a severance payment to departing employees had not necessitated the creation of an ongoing administrative scheme and therefore had not implicated


of this commonwealth....  (2) Except as otherwise prescribed by general rules, or by order of the United States court, such transfer may be effected by filing a certified transcript of the final judgment of the United States court and the related pleadings in a court or magisterial district of this Commonwealth.   The pleadings shall have the same effect as under the practice in the United States court, but the transferee court or district justice may require that they be amended to conform to the practice in this Commonwealth.

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 Section 301(a) of the LMRA provides:
Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization ... may be brought in any district court of the United States....
29 U.S.C. § 185(a).   Although section 301(a)is ambiguous, and Anderson signed the buyer's order form on which the waiver of warranty was written above his signature. However, evidence is lacking that the waiver of warranty was brought either to the purchaser's attention or explained to him.
Anderson testified he was told that the entries on the retail buyer's form pertained to the purchase price, the monthly payments and the accessories on the automobile. Anderson stated further he did not read that part containing the waiver of warranty and was told by the salesman that his, plaintiff's, signature on the document showed him only to be the purchaser. According to plaintiff, the waiver of warranty was not pointed out or explained to him. Anderson reiterated that he had never heard of a waiver of warranty, and


nothing was said to him about the waiver. It was brought out in evidence further that plaintiff is the beneficiary of only a 7th grade education and was employed at the New Orleans Passenger Terminal loading and unloading mail and baggage from trains.
Our evaluation of this testimony leads us to the conclusion that Anderson did not waive the warranty when he signed the buyer's order.
The trial judge concluded that plaintiff had difficulty with the automobile. The record clearly supports a determination that the defects complained of were of a redhibitory nature.
Anderson received delivery of the car on January 29, 1969. His daughter was driving from New Orleans to Tuskegee, Alabama, in March, 1969, and after having traveled approximately 100 miles, was forced to return to New Orleans becauseof a loud noise or knock in the motor. The automobile had been driven at that time 4,105 miles. According to the plaintiff, the automobile was returned to Bohn on this occasion. He stated he returned the vehicle to Bohn approximately ten times; however, the problem was not corrected. Anderson testified the automobile remained at Bohn on one occasion as long as a week and on another for three or four weeks. During this time, plaintiff was provided with a loaned vehicle.
Plaintiff further complained that the automobile stopped running twice, requiring the use of a tow truck. When Bohn was apparently unable to correct the complaint, plaintiff sought assistance from the Ford Motor Company Representative in the New Orleans area. Anderson has refused to accept the return of


be resurrected by Mike Baldwin in a depraved Haitian voodoo ritual. The cast are reported to have bitten the heads off an incredible 200 chickens during filming at a secret moorland location. The reanimated Stan, originally played by Bernard Youens, will reprise his legendary role by sitting motionless in an armchair for seven years while his dinner is brought to him on a tray. While many will welcome Corrie's return to core values, it's unlikely that Ogden's return from the dead will cause many sleepless nights at the BBC.

For Albert Square,it will shortly fall under Islamic fundamentalist rule as Taliban forces sweep to power in Walford. Under their brutal regime, Eastenders cast and crew will come to terms for the first time to life under the oppressive heelDid the breakout of laurentia turn gondwanaland inside-out?
Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively. Late Proterozoic fragmentation of the supercontinent centered on Laurentia would then have been followed by rapid fan-like collapse of the (present) southern continents and eventual consolidation of East and West Gondwanaland. In this scenario, a pole of rotation near the Weddell Sea would explain the observed dominance of wrench tectonics in (present) east-west trending Pan-African mobile belts and subduction-accretion tectonics in north-south trending belts. In the process of fragmentation, rifts originating in the interior of the Late Proterozoic supercontinent became the external margins of Paleozoic Gondwanaland; exterior margins of the Late Proterozoic supercontinent became landlocked


Roger Dingledine is an American computer scientist known for having co-founded Tor Project.[1] A student of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering,[2] Dingledine is also known by the pseudonym arma.[3] As of December 2016, he continues in a leadership role with the Tor project, as a project Leader, Director, and Research Director.[4]

The Tor Project develops and maintains ... The Tor Browser system, also known as The Onion Router ... a free, open source and sophisticated privacy tool that provides anonymity for web surfing and communication

as well as developing and maintaining other software tools and applications.[5][6] As of December 2016, Dingledine continues in a leadership role with the Tor project, as a Project Leader, Director, and Research Director.[4] Shari Steele acts as the Tor project's Executive Director, formerly ofthe Electronic Frontier Foundation. She joined in December 2015.[5]

Dingledine was named as one of the 2006 thirty-five Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, for his work on internet anonymization technologies through the Tor Project.[1] The Review described the importance of the work in this way:

A dissident in China uses Web-based e-mail to contact a journalist in Canada. An intelligence agency wants to surveil a foreign website. Like every operation on the Internet, these activities leave tracks. Online anonymity measures provide a way around this problem; one of the most advanced is Tor, or the Onion Router. / Computer scientist Roger Dingledine developed Tor ...[1]

Dingledine has drawn attention after the leak of NSA documents by Edward Snowden, and public disclosure of the rules guiding the operation of XKeyscore,


the NSA's collection system, given XKeyscore's targeting of Tor Project onion servers, including the one Dingledine runs at MIT, which serves a directory authority for the system, as well as being the base of operation of the MixMinion mail service, and host to various gaming and other websites (from which the NSA might be collecting IP addresses).[7]

^As described by the MIT Technology Review at the time of the launch of The Tor Project, its function at the time was as follows. "To disguise Internet traffic's origins, Tor plots a route through any three of more than 700 volunteer-run Onion routers around the world. It sets up a two-way link between the sender's computer and the final router in the chain; data passed between them is encrypted in threeresearch faculty, library faculty, and special professional faculty, are eligible to apply.

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SAN FRANCISCO—Thanks to its usage in hot products like smartphones and media tablets, the market for mobile DRAM chips is projected to grow to a record $6.56 billion in 2012, up 10 percent from 2011, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.

By contrast, the market for standard DRAM is projected to grow by merely 3 percent, according to IHS (El Segundo, Calif.).

Ryan Chien, analyst for memory and storage at IHS, said through a statement that mobile DRAM is growing impressively as mobile operating systems, streaming apps and games require more memory to handle sophisticated tasks. "Crucial features like multitasking, media decoding and decompression, data synchronization and background operations are all driving DRAM needs—and new phones and tablets are meeting those


Gb to 8.33 Gb, according to IHS.

Revenue growth for standard DRAM chips is expected to be weak this year due to lagging sales of PCs, IHS said. And while mobile DRAM average selling prices have been falling over time in line with the overall memory space, prices remain relatively firm for mobile DRAM chips because of a number of factors, including high demand, a smaller supply base and healthy density growth, IHS said.

While both Micron and Elpida had similar DRAM revenue in the first quarter, Elpida's mobile DRAM revenue—$218 million—was more than twice Micron's, IHS said.

"Despite its financial ruin, Elpida in the first quarter had an outsized portion—nearly 20 percent market share—of the total mobile DRAM industry revenue of $1.8 billion," Chien said. "The increasing ubiquity of mobileThe victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over longtime Democratic congressman Joe Crowley of New York inspired some hysterical punditry. We were told that the 28,000 people that voted in a district of more than 600,000 had decided the fate of the political universe. Ocasio-Cortez, in this telling, heralds the coming of Democratic Socialist, multiracial, female-dominated America. The 28-year-old bartender and community activist is the Democrat of the future—according to no less an authority than the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And in a polarized media climate, with hyperbolic insinuations of "civil war" and calls for the harassment of political opponents, one is tempted to believe that romanticism and extremism grow ever stronger.

I remain skeptical. For one thing, New York politics is sort of the equivalent of the Las


Vegas party scene—what happens there tends to stay there. Crowley was boring and out-of-touch; Ocasio-Cortez is appealing and a tireless campaigner. Her picture of democratic socialism is all rainbows and unicorns, platitudes and aspirations. And the numbers involved in the primary were so small that randomness has to have played some part in her 4,000-vote win. Ocasio-Cortez is neither a threat to America nor to the American right. But she is representative of the transformation of the American left.

The only civil war happening at the moment is within the Democratic Party. The old-guard corporatists are under attack from activists with radical goals and immoderate tempers. You can trace a line from Occupy Wall Street in 2011 through Black Lives Matter in 2013 through Bernie Sanders in 2016 throughthe Women's March a year later, Tom Steyer and Maxine Waters's impeachment campaigns, the growing prominence of Democratic Socialists of America, and the movement to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement today.

How long Nancy Pelosi remains Democratic leader is an open question. During a recent telephone town hall, activists demanded Chuck Schumer stop President Trump's Supreme Court pick (he can't) and back up Auntie Maxine (he'd be crazy to). The intellectual energy is on the farther reaches of the left: Jacobin and n+1 are the hot journals, Chapo Trap House is the podcast the cool kids listen to, Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig defends the socialist ideal in Jeff Bezos's newspaper, and the New York Times recently announced that Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, will be


responsibility on Obama, who raised the hopes of a generation that the waters would cease to rise only to hand over command of the ship eight years later to Donald Trump and become a Netflix producer. Still, it is important to recognize that the collapse of the center-left is not limited to America. It is a global phenomenon. Obama and Clinton may have broken the Democratic Party, but don't hold them responsible for the destruction of the French Socialists, the fall of the Italian Democratic Party, the takeover of Labor by Jeremy Corbyn, the worst result by the German Social Democratic Party since World War II, and the triumph of López-Obrador in Mexico.

If there is a common denominator to these electoral shakeups, it is the politics of migration.The overthrown establishments all benefited from the economics of illegal immigration and used migrants as chits in a humanitarian sweepstakes in which the leader who signals the most virtue wins. Migration became a symbol for the "flat world" of globalization where not just people but also cultures, goods, and investments flowed freely, borders had little meaning, and sovereignty was pooled upwards to transnational bureaucracy as identity was reduced to racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual characteristics. The fantastic wealth produced by the global marketplace enriched the center-left to such a degree that its adherents became walled off from the material, social, and cultural concerns of the working people they professed to represent. And so middle-class workers who believe a country's leadership ought to be accountable to a country's citizens


excess weight of at least 20% relative to the ideal weight. The phenomenon continues to worsen particularly in regions of the globe where economies are modernizing. In the United States, the number of obese people has escalated from 25% at the end of the 70s to 33% at the beginning of the 90s.
Obesity considerably increases the risk of developing cardiovascular or metabolic diseases. It is estimated that if the entire population had an ideal weight, the risk of coronary insufficiency would decrease by 25% and that of cardiac insufficiency and of cerebral vascular accidents by 35%. Coronary insufficiency, atheromatous disease and cardiac insufficiency are at the forefront of the cardiovascular complications induced by obesity. For an excess weight greater than 30% the incidence of coronary diseases is doubledtime restricted tour), we were told that there were houses, barracks, a church and a small town square. Almost hard to believe. It was all a bit confusing as we were lead around the winding path to the fort on the top of the hill. It was a place that people were born and grew up, where people were married and lived happily and then with a few more turns of the road, a place where teenagers were dragged in handcuffs and locked in cells.

Just as quickly it turned back into a military operation and it wasn’t difficult to imagine soldiers running through the narrow corridors of the gun room, loading shells and farting about with cordite. Then back outside into the bright August afternoon and it was


A small Island.

Master Shoren was surprised as a baby wound up on the doorstep of his hidden martial arts dojo, on a small island off the coast of Brazil. Taking it in, Shoren decided to raise him as his own. Looking around the basket the baby was found in, he found a name tag that read, Clancy Jones. Clancy grew up as Shoren's son, watching the master teach his secret techniques to his students. Clancy begged to learn them, but Shoren refused. However, his adoptive father knew about the burning desire to fight. With some hesitation, the old man let Clancy watch his classes, eventually bringing him in as a student. Clancy was allowed to visit different city across the world, during his training. His favorite was NewYork City, where he gained most of his brawling style fighting techniques. As Clancy grew older, he grew stronger and continued to stay home until his father mysteriously disappeared one day. The next day, Clancy received a mysterious package, labeled, 'To Clancy. From a friend.' The gift was a red, white, and blue uniform. Clothing that was basically clad in the American flag. This was soon to become Clancy's most prized possession.

An invitation to a strange place

A few days afterward, Clancy received an invitation to the Arcadian Institute. He'd never heard of it before, but had nothing better to do, really. He was amazed, when he got there. Clancy hoped to make new allies, and maybe even some enemies at this new place.

Personality

Though shy at first, Clancy's personality


is a mix of relaxed and cocky. He has a slightly brash attitude when it comes to fighting, which lets him put a little bit of street fighting techniques into his martial art style. Clancy is slow to make friends, but he is gaining them through his time at the institute.

Fighting Style

Clancy is slowly learning his father's unique style of Kung Fu. While he is knowledgeable of every discipline of his Kung Fu style, Clancy incorporates the brawling techniques that he grew fond of during his time in New York City.

Attacks/Techniques

Bengal Aura- While in his Tiger stance, Clancy's aura can unleash a chi attack that resembles the claws of a Bengal Tiger. The impact of the attack may leave the opponent with scars that look like claw marks.

BlazingSky-A physical attack started from Clancy's Phoenix stance. He leaps into the air, before flipping over to the opponent and delivering a powerful kick to the neck.

Mantis Suplex- In his Mantis stance, Clancy is able to toss his opponents airborne and follow up with a suplex.

Nán Fāng Zhū Què- A ki attack in the phoenix stance which takes the appearence of a Phoenix, shooting comets from it's wings.

Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ- A physical atttack from the tiger stance. Involves several rapid strikes and kicks at the opponents rib cage.

Star-Spangled Beatdown-A physical attack in his Eagle stance, Clancy gains a short burst of speed to execute a series of punching and striking attacks. During this short time, the only thing you see of him are the colors of his


clothing.

Fourteen Warriors of Justice: Stances One and Two- Clancy pumps up his ki and shouts out two attack names;Bernardo O'Reilly and Gorōbei Katayama. The first attack sends a ki bulletdirectly into the opponent's right shoulder, paralyzing them. The second sends a ki arrow to the opponet's left shoulder, also with the possibility of paralyzing them.

Fourteen Warriors of Justice: Stances Three and Four- Half ki attack, half physical. Clancy shouts out two more names: Harry Luck and Katsushirō Okamoto. The first attack is ki attack where Clancy takes to his Eagle stance and fires a shot of ki fireworks into the air. The fireworks rise up a bit, before they descend down, targeting an opponent below. The second attack is a bum rush, that causes Clancy's opponent to collidewith his fist.

Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng- A physical attack from the Dragon Stance where Clancy begins a string of combos. These hits may range from seventy up to the two hundreds. Like the Star Spangled Beatdown, this attack is executed with a short burst of speed. It fatigues him heavily complete this attack in full.

Crane's Balance- When taking the Crane stance, Clancy's ki attacks get an increase in accuracy.

Panther Aura- A ki attack in the Panther stance. An updated form of his Bengal Aura, Clancythrows a giant ki blast in the shape of a panthers claw's. When used, properly, it cuts opponents badly.

Fourteen Warriors of Justice: Stances Five and Six-An physical attack that Clancy masters with great skill. It is slike a chain combo. Clancy shouts out two