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it was implemented following a detailed review by federal agencies.

Trump’s first travel ban aimed at seven Muslim-majority countries, issued soon after he took office in January, was blocked by courts following chaotic scenes at airports.

The second ban, targeting six countries, was blocked by lower courts and partially revived by the Supreme Court in June.6, has life-threatening allergies to peanuts, walnuts and bee stings and suffered an anaphylactic reaction when he was a toddler. The experience was a wake-up call for Bowen and her family and she has since encouraged others to recognize the signs and symptoms and realize how to quickly get appropriate and immediate medical care when anaphylaxis occurs. Get Schooled in Anaphylaxis is releasing a new online book narrated by Bowen called "The Adventures Of Ana and Phyl Axis: The Carnival" to help children and their parents better understand the cause.

Bowen discussed her involvement in the campaign, her love of Nilla Wafers and much more with HuffPost Celebrity.

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My guilty pleasure is probably a combination that involves my couch, it involves maybe “Project Runway” and Nilla Wafers,


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LPGA Power Rankings: The Top 20 Players of the 2000s

LPGA Power Rankings: The Top 20 Players of the 2000s

The last decade of LPGA Tour Golf has revamped the entire landscape of women's golf.

They're younger, longer off the tee, craftier around the greens and more hungry for victory than ever before.

One might argue that Annika Sorenstam, undoubtedly the most talented and successful female golfer of the modern era, ushered in this monumental transition. Sorenstam's consistent dominance was a call to arms for women worldwide to challenge the best in the world.

An array of exceptional golfers not only rose to the occasion, but exploded onto the scene, generating a newfound, fervent captivation with the LPGA.

Here are the top 20 LPGA players of the 2000s.

Annika Sorenstam

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Annika Sorenstam wasn’t justthe best LPGA player of her decade, but one of the greatest to ever play the game. In this one decade, she earned 54 victories and eight of her 10 major championships.

The Swede held the No.1 ranking from 2001 to 2005, a streak evocative of her male counterpart Tiger Woods.

Her success fused physical and mental dominance with a ceaseless dedication to consistency. To illuminate this fusion, just consider how she won the LPGA Championship three consecutive times (2003-2005), did not finish outside of the top 20 once between 2000 and 2006 in the majors and had seasons of multiple wins from 1995 to 2008.

From eighth LPGA Player of the Year Awards to setting records (only LPGA player to shoot a tournament round of 59) to breaking down barriers


(competing on the PGA Tour multiple times), Sorenstam was simply the best LPGA player of the modern era.

Lorena Ochoa

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What Lorena Ochoa accomplished in just seven years on the LPGA Tour often requires an entire career for the most outstanding LPGA player.

Twenty-seven victories, two major championships and four Player of the Year awards are just a few of Ochoa’s most notable accolades.

She began with a sensational rookie season, carding eight top 10s and finished ninth on the official money list. Then, Ochoa went on a tear like Kobe Bryant trailing in the fourth quarter. Five of her next six years on Tour were multiple victory seasons, highlighted by her eight-win season in 2007, including the Women’s British Open.

But three years to the day she was named No.1 in the Rolex Rankings, Ochoa shocked the golf world when she announced her retirement from professional competitive golf. It was her wish to finish her career in her native Mexico at a tournament she had won three times, the Tres Marias Championship, at the pinnacle of her career.

Karrie Webb

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Undeniably the best player at the turn of the millennium, Karrie Webb won 20 tournaments over the decade.

Webb is a fervent competitor, constantly putting herself in the mix to win golf tournaments. In 2000, not only did she win seven tournaments, she also finished in the top 10 17 times in 22 events.

Her swing is deliberately slow and methodical on the uptake, then followed by a powerful down swing, generating power from her lower body. Webb has


excellent control with her irons, which allows her to play aggressively and attack pins.

From 2000-2003 she won 12 tournaments, but fell into a bit of a slump, especially wrestling with her touch on the greens.

But in 2006, Webb fought back, sparked by a phenomenal comeback Sunday at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Webb holed a 116-yard shot from the fairway to eagle the 18th hole and then birdied the same hole in a sudden-death playoff to beat Lorena Ochoa and win her seventh major championship.

Se Ri Pak

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Se Ri Pak shined in her rookie season like the Kevin Durant of the LPGA Tour. After she won two major championships and two others on the season, Pak was crowned Rookie of the Year and established a palpable presence oncurrently the No.1 player in the official rankings and has fought tirelessly to reach this coveted position.

Whereas players like Ochoa, Sorenstam, and Webb won far more tournaments on a consistent basis, Kerr refused to be overshadowed and made a name for herself as a constant, competitive presence down the stretch in tournaments, especially in major championships. Kerr finished in the top 10 17 separate times in the majors over this decade.

She also made history this year after making a mockery of the field at the LPGA Championship, winning by dozen strokes. Her record-breaking victory remains one of the greatest feats in LPGA history. The only player to ever win by such a vast margin of victory was Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2000,


Creamer is just 24 means she has both the time and experience ahead of her to elevate her game.

Angela Stanford

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Angela Stanford’s career coincided with the launch of the new millennium and has been an ebb and flow whirlwind of both success and defeat.

Though she has just four wins over her career, her first came in 2003 and was followed by an enormous slump until she claimed victory twice in 2008.

Similar to a player like Cristie Kerr, Stanford has a knack for finishing in the top 10, notching over 35 top 10 finishes over the last four seasons.

Suzann Petterson

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Over the last decade, Suzann Petterson has revealed her volatile demeanor, exceptional power off the tee and relentless drive to be the beston the LPGA.

After turning pro in 2001, Petterson found her first six seasons to be an arduous, uphill climb. She went without a single victory and carded just a few top 10 finishes each season.

Then, in 2005, she had a breakthrough season highlighted by five victories and six other top 10s. In that 2007 season, she also won her first, lone major at the LPGA Championship.

Since then, Petterson has struggled to get back in the winner’s circle, but has definitely found her rhythm competing on Tour. This season she stormed through the gates with eight top 10s in her first 12 events.

Jiyai Shin

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How is it possible that Jiyai Shin has more worldwide victories than she does years on this earth?

Well, she’s just that good.


any scoring titles or Player of the Year awards.

But, she did win seven major championships and 31 tournaments on the LPGA Tour. Much of her success was pre-2000s, but she made a substantial dent winning nine times, including two majors, between 2000 and 2005.

Meg Mallon

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Similar to Inkster, Meg Mallon played some of her best golf prior to the 2000s but was still a competitive presence during this decade.

She earned seven victories and two majors between 2000 and 2004. Mallon won her first U.S. Women's Open in 1991 and her second in 2004. That 13-year gap is the longest period between wins in the event’s history.

She was also the first LPGA player to post a score of 60 in competition.

Yani Tseng

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YaniTsang is as unflappable on the golf course as Brian Wilson closing out the World Series.

Just 21 years old, Tsang won her third major championship and second of the 2010 season at the RICOH Women’s British Open and made it look like a stroll across the fairway. In each of her last three seasons, Tsang has missed just one cut, won a tournament and finished in the top 10 five or more times.

Some think she’s the future of the LPGA Tour, and her performance thus far points to such a conclusion. However, what she has done over the last three years, especially her terrific play in the majors, is almost unheard of. Not since Tiger Woods has such a young player excelled in the golf world and on


the most pressure-filled stages—the majors.

Inbee Park

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Inbee Park has a knack for showing up in the biggest events of the year. Not only did Park win the Women’s U.S. Open in 2008 at the age of 19, but in 2010 alone, she finished in the top 10 eight separate times, four of which were in the major championships.

Park has enjoyed a great deal of success at a young age of just 22 years old. She has become a consistent contender on the LPGA Tour over the last three years, due especially to her constant under-par presence. In 46 rounds, Park has scored under-par 28 times, ranking her ninth on Tour in 2010.

But Park has competed on the LPGA Tour on an exemption once a yearsince 2004. At the ages of 16 and 17, Park played just one event on the LPGA and finished in the top 10 each time. That’s no joke, that’s just pure game.

Ai Miyazato

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Ai Miyazato, the 25-year-old Japanese sensation, has held the No. 1 Rolex World Ranking two separate times in 2010 and is eager to regain her reign.

She has undeniably had a breakthrough year, winning four separate times, which is more than any of her peers on Tour. Miyazato has yet to win a major championship, but has recorded at least one top 10 finish in a major every year on Tour since 2005.

Michelle Wie

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Michelle Wie was playing in professional events on exemptions from 2003-2005 and causing absolute chaos. As a teen,


she wasn't just participating, but actually contending with the best in the world.

When she joined the Tour in 2006, Wie finished in the top five in three of the four major championships. It looked like she would redefine the world of women’s golf. In 2006, Michelle Wie was named in TIME Magazine as “one of the 100 people who shape our world.”

That season and worldwide fame may have jinxed her.

Between 2007 and 2008, Wie looked like she had no business playing on the LPGA, not qualifying for a single cut in 14 events.

Then in 2009, Wie found her groove. She made 17 of 19 cuts, earned eight top 10s and entered the winner’s circle at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. This year was another year of growth for Wie,who made 16 of 17 cuts and grabbed another "W" and two top 20s at the majors.

In-Kyung Kim

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Since joining the LPGA Tour in 2007, In-Kyung Kim has been rapidly ascending up the ladder of progress.

In her rookie season, she earned four top 10 finishes, and then in 2008, she doubled that number and won her first professional LPGA event.

In 2008, Kim also finished in the top 10 at both the Women’s U.S. Open and Women’s British Open. Since then, she's finished in the top 10 in four of the eight majors.

Seon Hwa Lee

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After joining the LPGA in 2006, Seon Hwa Lee has been one of the most impressive players on the women’s circuit. As a rookie, Lee won the ShopRite


Classic and took home two top 20 finishes at the major championships.

In 2007, she claimed her second LPGA Tour win at the HSBC Women's World Matchplay Championship, defeating Japanese up-and-comer Ai Miyazato in the final match.

Lee had a breakout season in 2008, when she not only finished in the top 10 in two major championships, but also won two separate events.

Anna Nordqvist

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In just her second season on Tour, Anna Nordqvist made 17 of 17 cuts, won two events, including a major championship (the LPGA Championship) and finished in the top 10 five times.

She has one of the most unconventional swings on Tour, getting in a semi-squat position in her backswing, only to lift up swiftly on her down swing and pummel the ball.

She refusesto take the conservative route and instead plays aggressively, attacking pins and never leaving putts short. Nordqvist is still young and needs to gain experience in the pressure-filled atmosphere of the LPGA Tour before ascending to golf's elite, but she is well on her way.

Brittany Lincicome

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Brittany Lincicome has been one of the most prominent and promising players on the LPGA Tour throughout the 2000s.

In 2007, just 22 years old, Lincicome finished in the top 15 of all four majors, including a T2 and T6. At this point in her young career, she’d already earned three professional victories.

Her most substantial win came last year at the Kraft Nabisco where she captured her first and only major championship. Her Achilles' heel has undeniably been consistency. Though


The Miracles of the Church website is devoted to the extraordinary miracles that have occurred in the Catholic Church throughout the centuries including miracles of the Eucharist, miracles through the intercession of the Saints, blood miracles, incorruptable bodies of the Saints, the crucifix of Limpias-Jesus comes alive, miracles during the appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary and many others. The author endeavors to be always faithful to the Catholic Church and its teachings.

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The miracle of the Eucharist in Santarem, Portugal (1225) -An ongoing miracle
Around the year 1225 there was a woman living in Santarem, who was very unhappy with her marriage. She was convinced that her husband did not love her, and was unfaithful. She initially tried numerous things to win back the affection of her husband, butto no avail. As a desperate last attempt, she went to a sorceress. The sorceress promised the wife that her husband would return to his loving ways, if the wife would bring her a Consecrated Host.

This of course greatly frightened the woman, because she knew it was sacrilege, but nevertheless she finally gave in. She went to Mass at the Church of St. Steven, and received Communion, but did not consume the Host. Instead, she left the Church immediately, and took the Host out of her mouth, putting It into her veil. She then went to the sorceress.

Along the way, the Host began to bleed inside the veil. The wife was not aware of it until passersby brought it to her attention, thinking she herself was bleeding. Panic


struck the woman and instead of going to the sorceress’ house, she rushed home. She then put the bloody veil containing the Host into the bottom of a trunk, not knowing what else to do. When her husband came home, she said nothing.

Later in the night they were awakened by mysterious bright rays of light coming from the trunk, penetrating the wood and illuminating the entire room. The wife then confessed her sin to her husband and both of them knelt in adoration for the remaining hours until dawn, when the parish priest was summoned.

News of the mysterious event spread quickly and attracted countless people who wanted to contemplate the miracle. Because of the furor, an episcopal Church investigation was promptly organized.

A miracle upon a miracle
The bloody Hostwas taken in procession to the Church of St. Stephen, where it was encased in wax (to contain the blood and the Host) and secured in the tabernacle. Some time later when the tabernacle was opened, another miracle was discovered. The wax that had encased the Host was found broken into pieces, and the Host was found miraculously enclosed in a crystal pyx, along with the precious Blood. This was later placed in a gold and silver pear-shaped monstrance with a "sunburst" of 33 rays, in which it is still contained today.

After the investigation and approval by the Church authorities, the Church of St. Stephen was renamed "The Church of the Holy Miracle." The little house where the miracle occurred was on Via delle Stuoie in Santarem.

From the


time of the miracle until now, every year, on the Second Sunday of April, the incident is re-enacted by local actors. The actual Eucharistic Miracle is processed from the house, which was converted into a Chapel in 1684, to the Church. Miraculously, after 750 years, the precious blood still remains in liquid form, defying the natural laws of science. The Host is somewhat irregularly shaped, resembling real flesh with delicate veins running from top to bottom, where a quantity of blood is collected in the crystal.

The miracle of the Eucharist in Amsterdam (1345) –Thrown into a fire, the Eucharist miraculously is not burned
In 1345, Amsterdam was a tiny fishing village consisting of four streets and a few alleys lined up along the main canal. There were small modestfishermen's huts, a church, and a monastery. The monastery was the largest building in the city. The Eucharistic Miracle given to this tiny village on March 13, 1345, was the beginning of the growth for which Amsterdam is now famous. In fact, on the 600th anniversary of the miracle, March 13, 1945, the Dutch Catholics attributed all the growth and progress of their city to the Eu¬charistic Miracle which we will now present.

The Eucharistic miracle occurred in a house on Kalverstreet where a fisherman named Ysbrant Dommer on his deathbed called for a priest to come to his home to give him the last rites of the Church and Holy Communion. After having heard the man's confession, the priest blessed him with the oils of Extreme Unction, and


gave him Communion.

The priest had no sooner left than the sick man began coughing violently. His wife ran over to him in an effort to help him, but the husband, gagging and choking beyond control, vomited the contents of his stomach, including the Host, still intact. The wife reacted instinctively. She swept up the Host and threw It into the fireplace. She soon realized her grave mistake, but the fire was raging, and she was not about to put her hands into it for fear of burning herself. That night she slept fitfully, tossing and turning. She was afraid she had committed a terrible sin and had nightmares about the Sacred Host that she had thrown into the fire.

The following morning, as soon as she got out ofbed, she went over to the fireplace. The fire was not extinguished yet, and the coals were still quite hot. She stoked the coals, looking for the Eucharist. To her amazement she suddenly saw the Host sitting atop a burning ember. It was not burned at all. It had not even turned color. The Host was fresh and brilliant, lying among the coals. She immediately snatched the Host from the fire, and carefully wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in a chest for safekeeping.

She then called the priest who had been to her house the previous night and told him the story. The priest then placed the Host into a pyx and washed the cloth in which it had been wrapped. He then carried


the Host to the parish church of St. Nicholas. The priest thought it best not to tell anyone about the incident, so as not to stir up gossip involving the woman or her husband. He took the Host, wrapped in the cloth, and returned It to the church, where he placed It in the tabernacle.

The following morning, the priest found the pyx empty to his amazement, but the Host was soon discovered by the same woman when she opened the chest to remove some linens. She was stunned and confused as she knew the priest had taken It away the day before. Had she committed such a terrible sin, that the Lord brought back the proof to punish her with the sight of It? She ran to theChurch, and explained what had happened to the priest. Again the priest placed the Eucharist into a pyx and returned it to the church. Then, after yet another disappearance and discovery, the priest contacted other members of the clergy for consultation. All agreed that the occurrences were a direct proof of God's intercession, and apparently a sign that the miracle should be openly honored. Jesus wanted to use this miracle to awaken His sleeping people. The Miraculous Host was a light which was to shine all over Europe.

The priest told his fellow friars about the miracle, and the story of which soon spread about the town and the surrounding countryside. When the priest formed a procession to go to the fisherman's house for the Sacred Host, a huge


crowd followed him and his fellow priests. They carried the Sa¬cred Host back to the church of St. Nicholas affording Our Lord the honor He deserved for giving such a rich gift to these humble people.

Another wonderful element to the story is that the fisherman who had been dying, the one whom the priest brought the Eucharist on that first night, didn't die. To the contrary, he recovered, thanks be to God. However, when word of the miracle reached the ears of the townspeople, and those from other villages, they all went to the fisherman's house to see where the miracle had taken place. It soon became sort of a shrine, and soon afterwards, a Chapel.

Official inquiries were made by the civil magistrate and also the city council,and upon investigation all were satisfied with the truthfulness of the witnesses. They affirmed the occurrence as fact and also endorsed the miracle in official City documents. The Church authorities, too, headed by the Bishop of Utrecht, held an extended inquiry before permitting the clergy to spread information about the event.

In a Pastoral letter, the Bishop officially declared that an authentic miracle had occurred in the little town of Amsterdam. In the same pastoral letter, he authorized veneration of the Eucharistic Miracle of the Host. The little house of the fisherman was soon converted into a Chapel, called Nieuwe Zijds, or Holy Place and the Miraculous Host was placed upon the main altar, for the adoration of the people. The fireplace of the fisherman's hut was kept intact,


and became a permanent part of the new shrine.

Miracle upon Miracle –The second miracle of 1452
A second miracle took place 100 years later. Amsterdam had grown considerably in the century since the first miracle had taken place. On May 24, 1452 the entire city of Amsterdam was engulfed in fire. Most of the buildings were destroyed by the blaze. When the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament (the former fisherman's hut) caught fire, some of the parishioners made an at¬tempt to save the Miraculous Host from destruction by the flames. They tried to force open the tabernacle. The Host had been placed in a beautiful monstrance, which was inside the tabernacle. The heat of the Church was becoming unbearable. The workers worked feverishly, but to no avail. The heatof the fire had made it impossible to get the door open. As the roof of the Chapel began to cave in, the men ran out of the Church to safety, their mission a failure.

The entire Church collapsed and burned to the ground, including the tabernacle. Upon seeing this, there was a great sadness among the faithful of the city, especially those who had tried in vain to rescue the Eucharistic Miracle. The next day, they sifted through the ashes of the Church, hoping against hope, that something remained of their precious Host. Their grief turned to joy as soon they spotted the Monstrance, completely unscathed, there among the ashes of the Church. Even the silk veil which covered the Monstrance had been saved from the fire. So,


once again the Lord saved the same Host from fire in the same house in Amsterdam.

Soon afterwards, a new chapel was built, more elaborate and more beautiful than the previous one. The fame of the Eucharistic Miracle of Amsterdam, now recognized as a twofold miracle, spread beyond the Netherlands to all of Europe. The Hapsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Maxmillian, went to Amsterdam in pilgrimage to the Eucharistic Miracle. He prayed for a healing at the shrine, which was granted to him because of his faith. He showed his thanksgiving by donating beautiful gifts to the Chapel of the miracle. Amsterdam and the Eucharistic Miracle became a major place of pilgrimages and processions.

In 1665 the city council authorized Father Jan Van der Mey to convert oneof the houses of the former convent of the Beghine into a chapel. After completion, the precious monstrance was transferred, but unfortunately was shortly afterwards taken by unknown thieves. Even today there is perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in memory of the miracle. The only objects that remain from the Eucharistic miracle are the case that contained the Sacred Host (pictured in the photo to the left), the documents that describe the miracle, and some paintings housed in the Historical Museum of Amsterdam. Every year there is a silent procession (Stille Omgang) in honor of the miracle on the eve of Palm Sunday.

The miracle of the Eucharist in Offida, Italy (1280) –The Story of Newlyweds, a Sorceress and a Mule.
The Eucharistic miracle of Offida actually took place


in the city of Lanciano, the site of another extraordinary miracle not related to this one. This miracle, which is now kept in Offida some 60 miles north of Lanciano, occurred in 1273 to a newlywed couple named Ricciarella and Giacomo (James) Stasio, their mule, and a witch.

The Eucharistic miracle of Offida has similar beginnings to that of Santarem Portugal as they both involved wives who were seeking to get more love and affection from their husbands. Unfortunately the newlyweds marriage was not off to a very good start as Giacomo was not very affectionate towards his new bride. Ricciarella, the wife of Giacomo Stasio, was deeply afflicted by her unhappy marriage, and she tried everything possible to win the love of her husband. Finally someone suggested sheperform this horrible act. Eventually she worked up the courage and she set out for the church to take part in the Holy Mass. In desperation for relief from her sad situation, Ricciarella received the Eucharist, and secretly let the Host fall from her mouth into the top of her dress. After taking it home she placed it on a coppo, which is a semi-circular tile. She then placed the tile over a fire. As soon as the sacred Host was heated, instead of turning into powder it began to turn into a piece of bloody flesh. Horrified at what was taking place, Ricciarella attempted to stop the process by throwing ashes and wax onto the tile, but without success. The tile soon bore a huge smear of


blood, and the flesh remained perfectly sound and blood came forth from the Host turned flesh.

Understandably Ricciarella panicked. She didn't know what to do. Frantic for a way to dispose of the evidence of her sacrilege, Ricciarella took a linen tablecloth decorated with silk embroidery and lace and wrapped it around the tile and the bloody Host. Carrying the bundle outside, she went to the stable and buried it in the place where garbage from the house and filth from the stalls were heaped.

When her husband returned home that evening accompanied by his work mule, he noticed that the mule was acting more stubborn than usual. The animal did not want to go into the stable. Giacomo tried pushing the mule, and then slapping him, all to noavail. Finally he got a whip and began beating the animal. The pain being more than the mule could endure, he reluctantly went into the barn, all the while staring at the dung heap. The animal fell prostrate near the dung heap, almost in a position of adoration.

The mule had never done such an extraordinary thing before and Giacomo knew for certain that something was causing this mysterious behavior in his mule. Giacomo then accused his wife of placing a spell on the stable that made the animal fearful of entering it. Ricciarella, of course, denied everything and remained silent about the cause of the difficulty.

For seven years the Blessed Sacrament remained hidden beneath the garbage, and for that period of time the mule and the other animals


went in or out facing the dung heap, keeping their attention to the heap of refuse. For Ricciarella, this was the beginning of living hell. She felt great pangs of conscience for her sin. She came to realize more and more the seriousness and consequences of her actions. She was instead tormented day and night with remorse for her sin. Finally she decided to confess what she had done to a priest from the monastery of St. Agostino in Lanciano, Prior Giacomo Diotallevi, a native of Offida.

After Ricciarella confessed her grave sin to the priest, he accompanied her back to her home. They went into the stable, and dug through the dung which had accumu¬lated over the seven years. When the friar pulled the table cloth out, anduncovered it, he found that the contents of the tile, the bleeding Flesh and the Host, had remained incorrupt over the years.

He took the tile and the table cloth containing the Host with him and he returned to his monastery. Initially he told no one of the incident. Ricciarella was relieved because her scandal would not be spread all over the province, and her deteriorated relationship with her hus¬band would not worsen. No one is sure what the friar's motives were but he wanted the Eucharistic Miracle taken away from Lanciano, that is known. Was it because he was sincerely afraid that if the miracle were revealed, Ricciarella would be implicated? Or did he want the glory of an incorrupt Eucharistic Miracle to be given to his home


town Offida?

On a pretext, the Friar received permission from his superiors to leave the monastery. He left Lanciano in secrecy a few days later. He took the Sacred Host to a Fr. Michael Malli¬cani, who was the prior of the Augustinian monastery of Offida. Father Mallicani embraced the miracle as the property of Offida, and immediately created a sanctuary for It in that town. This was in the year 1280, seven years after Ricciarella had committed the Sacrilege.

Father Mallicani moved quickly. He and another friar went to Venice in the same year to have a beautiful reliquary built which was to become the home of the Eucharistic Miracle. They commissioned a silversmith to do the work under secrecy. For this reliquary a large amount of silver was donatedand it was decided that the reliquary would be made in the shape of an artistic cross, and it was to contain not only the miraculous Host, but also a piece of wood from the true cross of Christ.

After he had finished the beautiful reliquary, and the priest had placed the Eucharistic Miracle inside, the friars left by boat to return to Offida. It was then that the silversmith decided to tell the local Duke of Venice what had transpired.

The Duke, anxious to get hold of a genuine Eucharistic Miracle for his own province, ordered a ship to intercept the one carrying the two friars back to Offida. But in the end it was the Lord who intercepted! As the Duke's ship was about to overtake the friars,


the Adriatic Sea became violent, allowing the friars to disembark at Ancona, and return safely to their monastery in Offida. The reliquary was installed in the Church in Offida and it remains there to this day. And so it is that today atop the main altar of the Sanctuary of Saint Augustine in Offida, also known as the Sanctuary of the Miraculous Eucharist, is found silver cross containing the miraculous Host. The tile on which Ricciarella heated the Host, still showing the smear and splotches of blood, is kept in a rectangular glass-sided case. The tablecloth in which the tile and the bloody Host were wrapped is also kept under glass. Paintings depicting the events of the miracle can also be found within the beautiful Church.

There is anotherIt’s mid-June, and Longhorn baseball fans are jubilant over the team’s record 36th appearance in the College World Series. They have good reasons to be happy. Over the last 108 seasons, the team has had but five coaches: Billy Disch, Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson, Augie Garrido, and second-year coach David Pierce (Blair Cherry stepped in for Bibb Falk for part of World War II and coached the team from 1943 – 1945), who have collectively compiled six national championships and more than 70 conference titles, a unique and remarkable achievement in college baseball.

For the veteran fans who fill the stadium seats each spring, the team’s history, coaches, and names of players who went on to the major leagues are all familiar. But almost no one remembers the senior


UT student whose quick – and perhaps desperate – actions saved the baseball program from being cancelled outright. The achievements of UT baseball might never have happened, or at least would have been delayed, if it hadn’t been for Maurice Wolf.

In early January, 1906, the prospects of a baseball season were dim. The University’s Athletic Council, chaired by math professor (and future UT president) Harry Benedict, had officially adopted a policy of “no cash, no schedule.” While football had been marginally profitable, other sports were usually in the red, and baseball was the worst offender. A $1200 deficit plagued the ledger. In the past, faculty and alumni members of the council often donated out of their own pockets to keep the athletic ship afloat, but Benedict was determinedstrolled down Congress Avenue. The University Band, dressed in white jackets and colorful buttons, posed as a musical group from Italy. Behind them, UT co-eds, dressed as “Duchesses from Marseilles” and carrying parasols, rode in a decorated automobile. Ahead of the band in the horse-drawn cart rode Maurice Wolf, who concocted the idea as an athletics fundraiser. Click on the image for a larger view.

With the parade finished, the public made its way to the campus and Clark Field, the University’s first athletic field, where the O’Donnell Building and the Gates-Dell Computer Science Complex stand today. There they found a “promenade of curiosities,” where for one thin dime a person might get a glimpse at the bearded lady, the human frog, “Ana Conda Baby,” the wild man (who


some discovered was actually baseball umpire Speilberger in disguise), a living mummy from Egypt, and other wonders. Refreshments could also be had at modest prices.

The circus proper began at 8 p.m., as more than 1,200 onlookers stood, sat on the ground, or packed the single, inadequate set of stands. The acrobats were in top form, the wild animals knew their routines, the chariot races across the field were exciting, and the clowns kept everyone in stitches. After the acts, the University Band and Glee Club gave a performance, and everyone reluctantly left for home sometime around midnight.

The hero of the day was Maurice Wolf, who had devised, engineered, and produced the spectacle, and the results were gratifying. The Varsity Circus raised enough funds to retire the athletic debt,at trial.
Anabelle admitted it was difficult for her to talk about the prior molestation,
that she would rather not participate in the proceedings, and for the first
portion of her testimony she denied knowing or recalling much about her
2007 interview. When asked if she remembered talking about the three
different incidents between her and Puente, as she had relayed during the
interview, Anabelle repeatedly said she did not recall.

¶13             At that point, the State confronted Anabelle with specific
questions about what she said regarding each of the three separate
incidents with Puente during the 2007 interview. When confronted with
prior statements she made to Detective Bell in 2007, she recalled having
made statements that both she and Patty did touch Puente’s penis. On re-
direct


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And then—before even we got a chance to really enjoy ourselves (except for making the baby boom happen)—it all went to pot. The Red Army occupied the majority of Eastern Europe, and made it obvious that they had no intention of leaving. Relieved of life under the previous despot, the Poles, Romanians, Czechs, Hungarians, and Bulgarians now had a new one.

When did the Cold WarOn Sunday, an attorney for the head of American Media, which owns the Enquirer, said that the information for the story had been provided by a "reliable source" well-known to Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. The source had provided information to the company for at least seven years, Elkan Abramowitz, an attorney for American Media Inc. chief executive David Pecker, said on ABC's "This Week."


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The shadow Attorney-General, John Quigley, has described allegations of misconduct against WA Police over a murder conviction in 2007 as 'a very serious perversion of justice'.

The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) is investigating possible evidence tampering at the scene of a 2007 murder in the south-west.

Scott Douglas Austic was sentenced to 25 years in jail for the wilful murder of Stacey Thorne after she died of multiple stab wounds at her Boddington home

Mr Quigley says the CCC is investigating claims a cigarette packet stained with Ms Thorne's blood is visible in later crime scene photos but not the originals.

"Who put the packet of cigarettes with the blood smudge, there is the first big question of this investigation," he said.

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After teasing a new album extensively on Twitter, Killer Mike and El-P have finally announced the next Run the Jewels album. The follow up to last year's Run the Jewels is called RTJ2, and it's out October 28 via Nas's imprint Mass Appeal. That's the full version of the previously previewed track "Blockbuster Night Part 1", above.

It was previously hinted, and now confirmed, that the album features contributions from Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

Unlike RTJ1, the new one will also get a wide physical release on CD and LP. In a press release, El-P said, "We can make no promises about the safety of any animals involved in the creation of this record." Killer Mike said,


separate terms of one year and up to five years, each term to run consecutively with the other portions of the sentence. The defendant has raised ten separate issues for consideration on appeal. Those issues relate to the preliminary hearing, the pretrial stage of the prosecution, the errors alleged at trial, and the post-trial imposition of sentence. After summarizing the evidentiary and procedural facts, we will deal separately with the issues in each of the foregoing categories.
During the trial, the defendant admitted killing his grandfather. He maintained that he should be convicted only of manslaughter because he was under extreme mental and emotional disturbance due to his relationship with his mother and her pressure on him to commit the murder. The defendant testified that his mother, Frances Schreuder,feared that the victim, Franklin Bradshaw, would disinherit her and her family. The evidence showed that the defendant purchased a .357 magnum pistol in Midland, Texas, on July 22, 1978, flew to Salt Lake City the same day, and *267 shot his grandfather on July 23, 1978, at 8:30 a.m.
Richard Behrens, a resident of New York and an acquaintance of the Schreuder family, testified that Frances Schreuder had asked him several times for the name of a person who would kill her father, Franklin Bradshaw, for a fee. Behrens also testified that the defendant had told him that he had killed his grandfather at Mrs. Schreuder's insistence and that the defendant had described the manner of the killing and told him that he had brought the gun back


to his mother in New York. According to Behrens' testimony, Frances Schreuder gave the gun to him and he subsequently delivered it to Marilyn Reagan, Mrs. Schreuder's sister, who eventually delivered it to the New York City police.
The foregoing testimony was given by Behrens at the preliminary hearing and again at trial. In December of 1980, however, after the preliminary hearing and before trial, Behrens made two sworn statements that Marilyn Reagan had killed Bradshaw and that she had kept the gun all along. Behrens said at trial that these statements were untrue and that he had given them to the defendant's attorneys because he had been frightened by statements made to him by Frances Schreuder indicating that he was an accessory to murder because he had concealedthe gun. After Utah prosecutors brought charges against Behrens for obstructing justice, Behrens returned to his original story as told at the preliminary hearing.
The New York City police delivered the gun to the police in Salt Lake City, who in turn delivered it, together with two bullets taken from Franklin Bradshaw's body, to a ballistics expert named Peterson in California. Peterson test-fired the gun and compared the markings on the test bullet with those on the bullets taken from the body. He testified at the preliminary hearing and at trial that the striations on one of the bullets taken from the body matched those on the test bullet. His testimony was inconclusive as to the other bullet.

I. ISSUES RELATING TO THE PRELIMINARY HEARING
The defendant has raised three issues


excepted in the Constitution and not prohibited by law...." (Emphasis added.) Thus the circuit and district courts have concurrent jurisdiction to conduct preliminary hearings.
B. Admission of expert ballistics testimony at the preliminary hearing. The defendant objected at the preliminary hearing to the admission of the opinion testimony of the ballistics expert on the ground that there was inadequate foundation to permit proper cross-examination. Peterson, a ballistics expert with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, testified that he had compared a bullet fired from the alleged murder weapon with bullets taken from the body of Franklin Bradshaw, the victim. Peterson testified that his comparison showed that the test bullet and one of the other bullets matched in their caliber and in the striations created by the passagein substance, that when a material witness in a prosecution in Utah is in a state with procedures for permitting enforcement of process, the Utah courts may issue a certificate requesting the foreign state to ensure the attendance of the witness at trial. The state of New York has reciprocal provisions for honoring such a request from the Utah courts and compelling a material witness in New York to attend and testify at trial in this state. On June 12, 1982, the defendant petitioned the trial court to issue a certificate to secure the attendance of Frances Schreuder at the trial to testify on his behalf. The defendant represented that he expected Frances Schreuder's testimony to support an insanity defense and that she would testify about mitigating factors


A 60-year-old man has become the first French victim of the coronavirus in the country, the health ministry announced Wednesday.

The man died overnight after being rushed to a Paris hospital in serious condition on Tuesday evening, bringing the total death toll in the country to two, said the ministry’s deputy head Jerome Salomon.

In a televised statement, Salomon said a 60-year-old French man in a very serious condition was tested at Paris’ Pitie-Salpêtrière hospital late on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately (he) died during the night,” Salomon said.

The man was among three new cases of the virus announced in France on Wednesday.

One of the others was a 36-year-old man who had made repeated trips to the Italian region of Lombardy, but he doesn’t have any severe symptoms, Salomon said.

The other is a Frenchmanin the northern city of Amiens who is in intensive care, and an investigation is underway into where and how he contracted the virus, Salomon said.

The French government has asked citizens returning from Lombardy and the neighbouring Veneto region to avoid “all non-essential outings” and keep their children home from school.

The same recommendations have been issued for people returning from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and South Korea.

France has reported 17 cases of the virus, including two deaths.

The first victim was an 80-year-old Chinese tourist, who died in mid-February.

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"He's a friend. He's a good guy. And I don't throw my friends under the bus."

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media application, Justice Jane Kelly agreed to release the damning court documents on Oct. 22: "He was an exemplary member of my (2010) campaign team, where he displayed exceptional leadership skills and worked hard both in and out of the campaign office," Ford wrote in the June 4 reference letter.

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Reached on his cellphone, Ford had just a few words for the Sun's Joe Warmington: "This is nuts."

* * *

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Surely, now would be the time for the mayor to throw himself on the mercy of the city, confess his sins and check himself into rehab. Surely this was finally the scandal he couldn't bulldoze his way through.

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Henry Exall, intended to develop into a residential community called Philadelphia Place. But the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1893 slammed the brakes on those plans.

Armstrong sired more than just the town. He also had two daughters, Minnie and Johnetta, whose respective husbands, Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather, became business partners with their father-in-law. Their Flippen-Prather Realty Company continued the development of Highland Park after Armstrong’s death in 1908.

Highland Park was not Armstrong’s first stab at residential development. In 1887, he and business partner Thomas Marsalis bought 2,000 acres on the western banks of the Trinity River that they called Oak Cliff. But their partnership dissolved after a dispute, and Marsalis’ further exploits as a developer were halted by the same crisis that derailed the plansfor Philadelphia Place.

Before they set their eyes on Oak Cliff, Armstrong and Marsalis were two of the businessmen who created the Dallas State Fair and Exposition, a precursor to the State Fair of Texas. According to his obituary in The Dallas Morning News, Armstrong was the fair’s president for two years.

“Beginning in 1888, when the Fair was new and in a very shaky condition, it is said, he opened the exhibition once with his own financial backing and his courage was wonderfully rewarded,” the obituary said. “He placed the enterprise upon a solid basis and its credit has never since been questioned.”

Armstrong died at the age of 57, after he “was attacked suddenly with a sinking of the heart,” according to his obituary. Although his residence was at


the corner of Ross Avenue and Pearl Street, he died at the Prathers’ home.

“Mr. Armstrong’s last hours were spent in the beautiful Highland Park addition north of the city,” his obituary said, “upon which he was in the process of expending more than $300,000 in making it one of the most modern and attractive suburbs.”

In 1914, six years after his death, the Highland Park Independent School District opened its first campus. A painting of the school’s namesake (shown here) still hangs in the back of the auditorium.

Oh, one more not-so-fun fact for Mr. Jones: Armstrong Elementary’s mascot is an eagle — a green eagle.later, thanks in large part to Dolce & Gabbana.

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True, it was Cher's spangled Bob Mackie gowns that usually made headlines, but in 1974--the first year she attended the Academy Awards without Sonny--she didn't wear much. She wrapped a bit of sheer, tropically printed fabric across her chest and waist and painted her eyelids to match with shimmering shades of blue and purple.

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Davis might have naturally curly hair, but there's no doubt the side-flipped ringlets she donned to accept her Best Actress Oscar for The Accidental Tourist influenced a good number of girls to indulge in the decade's favorite treatment: a perm!

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This now iconic look of Barrymore's launched thousands of daisy


yourself known as an ally. In order to come to you for help, students need to be able to recognize you as an ally.”

According to GLSEN’s latest National School Climate Survey, which reports on the experiences of LGBTQ young people in schools, nearly 9 in 10 LGBTQ students were harassed or assaulted at school. Allies can play a critical role in identifying the bullying and exclusion of LGBTQ students, and some of the most important allies are educators. Holding the dual position of controlling classroom environments, and often having a voice to advocate on LGBTQ students’ behalf to school administration, educators maintain an invaluable role in creating positive learning environments. They are also the direct actors in implementing LGBTQ content in class curricula or serving as a facultyof properly distinguishing the issues, and the case proceeded to trial.
The charges arose from an incident that began on October 1, 1985, when Richard Johnson, a Snohomish County deputy sheriff, stopped Jeppesen's vehicle in south Everett for expired license tabs. After exiting his marked patrol car, Johnson walked up to Jeppesen's car, informed Jeppesen that he had been stopped because of an expired license tab, and requested Jeppesen's driver's license. Jeppesen replied that he did not have a driver's license and that driver's licenses were unconstitutional, and directed Deputy Johnson to send him the citation by mail. Jeppesen then drove away, proceeding southbound on I-5.
Deputy Johnson and police units from several jurisdictions chased Jeppesen southbound on I-5 through Snohomish County and into King County, unsuccessfully attempting to box


Jeppesen's vehicle in with patrol cars. During the course of the chase, Jeppesen fired a series of *234 shots at his pursuers from a revolver and rifle, wounding one officer. Jeppesen was eventually captured following a gun battle near the 65th Street N.E. overpass in Seattle.
At trial, Jeppesen admitted committing the charged acts, but claimed that he acted in self-defense. Jeppesen explained that he was a member of an ultra-secret organization known as the "Ums,"[1] a group dedicated to preventing the antagonistic Rothschild and Rockefeller families from starting World War III.[2] In the week prior to October 1, Jeppesen was repeatedly warned in a series of coded messages that the Russians "were out to nail me" because of his familiarity with a new class of gigantic amphibious troop-carryingRussian submarine as well as his knowledge of particle beam technology. Jeppesen was informed that the Russians most likely would bribe several police officers to kidnap him; the officers would immobilize him with a stun gun and place him on a plane to Russia, where he would then be tortured.[3] Jeppesen asserted that it was not wrong to shoot at the police because he had the right to defend himself.
*235 Jeppesen explained that his strategy in fleeing from the Snohomish County officers was twofold. First, he hoped to reach the relative safety of the Roxbury police station in King County, since the Russians "aren't going to hire the whole police department or pay the whole police department off ..." Report of Proceedings, at 387. In the alternative, Jeppesen


fired shots at his pursuers, hoping to force them to fire back and wound him severely enough to require hospitalization rather than kidnapping. Jeppesen reasoned that the Russian agents would not "get paid for supplying a dead corpse." Report of Proceedings, at 396.
In addition to Jeppesen's testimony, the defense presented testimony by two clinical psychologists, Dr. Kenneth Muscatel and Dr. Fred Wise. Dr. Muscatel and Dr. Wise agreed that Jeppesen was motivated by a genuine belief that the pursuing police officers were Russian agents. The two also agreed that Jeppesen suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and that he met the test for legal insanity on October 1, 1985. During cross examination, both psychologists opined that Jeppesen was dangerous to society and required further treatment.
At the close of the defendant'sIran's revolution bridged sectarian rift before deepening it Iran's Islamic Revolution initially transcended the region's Sunni-Shiite divide, until the rivalry with Saudi Arabia made it worse

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Inspired in part by Iran's Islamic Revolution, a young Egyptian army lieutenant emptied his machine gun into President Anwar Sadat in 1981, killing a leader who made peace with Israel and offered the shah a refuge after his overthrow.

The assassination carried out by Khalid al-Islambouli and others from a Sunni Islamic extremist group showed the power of Iran's Shiite-led revolution across the religious divides of the Muslim world.

Islamists initially saw Iran's revolution as the start of an effort to push out the strongman Arab nationalism that had taken hold across the Middle East.

But those divisions now feel inflamed


by the sectarian bloodshed that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Syria's long civil war and the regional rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

It may seem as though the Middle East has always been divided between Sunni Islam, which represents about 85 percent of the world's more than 1.8 billion Muslims, and Shiite Islam. But that divide, stemming from a disagreement centuries ago over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad, owes much to the political rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran after 1979.

Long before the Islamic Revolution, Islamists had wanted to wed governments to their faith. One of the most prominent was the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni group founded in 1928 in Egypt that spread across the Arab world. Another was the Iranian Shiite Islamist group"Devotees of Islam," who assassinated pro-Western Prime Minister Ali Razmara in 1951.

The aftermath of World War II instead saw the rise of pan-Arab nationalists, chief among them Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Military strongmen took power, pushing for rapid modernization that shunted religion aside.

The nationalists "see themselves often as critical of religion because religion is 'backward.' It's what's been holding the Arab world back," said Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University. "That's kind of the dominant divide, and Islamists of all stripes are pushing back against this."

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who returned to Iran from exile after the departure of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, made a point to keep Shiite ideas out of speeches.

"The Iranian revolution in the beginning was portraying


itself as the start of a pan-Islamic revolution," said Toby Matthiesen, a senior researcher at St. Anthony's College at the University of Oxford who is writing a book on Sunni-Shiite relations. "It was even seen like that by a lot of the Sunni Islamic movements."

Khomeini also made a point to embrace the Palestinians in their fight against Israel. Yasser Arafat, the leader of the overwhelmingly Sunni Palestinians, returned the favor by becoming the first leader to visit Khomeini.

"The Iranian revolution gave us a strong belief that the tyrants can be brought down," said Ahmed Yousef, one of the founders of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic political party and armed wing that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 with Iran's backing. "Following that big victory, the Islamic Jihad wasestablished here in Palestine and few years later Hamas was founded too."

The pan-Islamic Iranian inspiration perhaps reached its height on Oct. 6, 1981, as Islambouli and his co-conspirators rushed out of a truck at a Cairo military parade and assassinated Sadat, who had made history by signing the first Arab peace deal with Israel. At trial, Islambouli famously clutched a Quran and shouted: "It was I who killed the Pharaoh!" Iran venerated Islambouli, naming a street in Tehran after him and issuing a postage stamp in his honor.

But by this time, Saudi Arabia, fearful of Iran's growing influence and the 1979 extremist attack on the Grand Mosque at Mecca, began pumping money into spreading its ultraconservative view of Sunni Islam throughout the world and dismissing Shiites as apostates.

"The


Saudis really put a lot of money into the 'Dawah' machine to try to out-compete Iran around the world," Byman said, referring to the kingdom's proselytizing efforts. "There's a real panic and concern then."

Pan-Islamic admiration for Iran waned as it supported destabilizing attacks across the region, such as a failed 1981 militant coup in Bahrain and a 1985 car bombing targeting the emir of Kuwait. Iran's eight-year war with Iraq deepened that rift.

Iran at the same time found perhaps its greatest success in helping create the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, which still holds sway over much of the country decades later as both an armed group and a political party. In October 1983, a bombing at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 231 American troops— the bloodiest day for the armed forces since World War II — and a U.S. federal judge blamed Hezbollah and Iran for the attack. Iran has long denied any involvement.

Sectarianism exploded in the region with the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Iran backed Shiite militants implicated in deadly roadside bomb attacks against U.S. forces and sectarian assaults on Sunnis. Sunni extremists repeatedly targeted Shiite civilians, and when the Islamic State group rampaged across Syria and Iraq in 2014 it massacred Shiites and other minorities. Iran intervened again, reactivating the militias to help Iraqi forces eventually defeat the extremist group.

Syria's civil war further fueled the split, as Iran and Hezbollah provided crucial military aid to President Bashar Assad, who comes from the Alawite religious minority, while Sunni


Gulf countries and Turkey supported the mainly Sunni opposition.

And yet even today, the role of the Iranian revolution in stoking Sunni militancy cannot be ignored.

"The Iranian revolution played a significant role in the birth and the growth of the jihadist movements in the Arab World, as it raised the awareness of the role of religion in political change in the region," said Adnan Milhem, a Palestinian historian at al-Najah University. "The Iranian revolution affected the political thinking in the region in terms of introducing religion as a changing tool to fight oppression and corruption."

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Associated Press writer Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed.MOBILE, Alabama - Mobile BayBears' players swept the Southern League's weekly awards this week, with Jake Lamb selected the Player of the Week and Charles Brewer the Pitcher of the Week, the league announced.

The BayBears won the South Division's first-half championship last Friday night and finished off the first half with two more games against the Pensacola Blue Wahoos at Hank Aaron Stadium over the weekend. Lamb and Brewer offered their help along the way.

This marks the first time Lamb has earned Player of the Week honors this season, though he has put together a solid year thus far. He will hit third in Tuesday night's Southern League All-Star Game for the South Division, right in front of teammate Jon Griffin who will bat clean-up. The game will


be played at AT&T Field in Chattanooga.

Lamb is batting .325 for the year, which ranks second in the league. He also has 11 home runs, a league-leading 25 doubles, 56 runs batted in and 79 total hits. Last week, he batted .476 in seven games with three doubles, two homers and 11 RBI.

In April, he was batted just .244 in 25 games. "I was kinda giving into the pitcher's plan ande chasing too many pitches out of the zone,'' Lamb told MiLB.com. "I usually have a good idea of the strike zone. I wasn't doing that the first month of so. I just took a big, deep breath and told myself to focus on my approach at the plate and that I'm going to get my pitches andmake sure I don't miss them. It's been working ever since.''

Brewer was 2-0 last week with a 1.50 earned run average in two games, both starts. He threw for a combined 12 innings, allowing six hits, two runs (both earned), no home runs, walking six and striking out 21 batters.

He struggled at Class AAA Reno early this season. There, he posted a 7.28 ERA and walked 20 batters in 47 innings of work. Since arriving in Mobile his results have been much better. Against Huntsville, which won the North Division title, he held the Stars to one hit and struck out 13 batters in six innings of work. He also picked up the win Sunday against Pensacola, giving up two runs over six innings while striking out eight.


No one else in the minor leagues struck out more than 17 batters last week.

The BayBears return to The Hank on Tues., June 24 for a five-game homestand against the Jacksonville Suns. They begin the second half of play following the All-Star Game on Thursday at Montgomery, the first of five games against the Biscuits.Newsroom

Sports Medicine And Sports Science Gets Boost From Collaboration Between SSC And CGH

Sports Medicine And Sports Science Gets Boost From Collaboration Between SSC And CGH

Singapore
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16 Feb 2007

Sports Medicine And Sports Science Gets Boost From Collaboration Between SSC And CGH

Singapore, 16 February 2007

The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today with Changi General Hospital (CGH) in a collaborative effort to develop world-class Sports Medicine and Sports Science (SMSS) capabilities in Singapore for high-performance athletes.

This collaboration will open new frontiers for Singapore SMSS capabilities and move it to higher levels of excellence.

Allowing for the integration of resources, one of the aims of this collaboration is to bring about an enhanced SMSS delivery system with the establishment of a service-delivery and professional network.

"To groom and support


will continue to work together to meet the athletes' needs. By coming together with SMRC, we can concentrate our resources in research, clinical care and teaching so as to achieve the vision for Singapore to be a centre of sporting excellence."

The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is Singapore's lead agency tasked with developing sports in Singapore. Its vision is to create a Sporting Singapore where Sports is a way of life. SSC aims to develop sports champions and create enjoyable sporting experiences for Singapore through the three strategic thrusts of cultivating a sporting culture, achieving sports excellence and creating a vibrant sports industry. Formed on 1 October 1973, SSC is a statutory board under the umbrella of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

About Changi General Hospital

Changi Generalenergy grids. It may
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World Cup 2018 Qualifiers : Peru beats Uruguay 2-1

LIMA, Mar. 28, 2017 (AMP) — Russia 2018 (South American Qualifiers) : Peru defeated Uruguay by a score of 2-1 (halftime: 1-1), in a qualifying game for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (Qualifying Tournament) on Tuesday night at the National Stadium in Lima.

Sánchez opened the score in the 30th minute, before seeing Peru catch up in the 35th minute thanks to Guerrero. 1-1 at half time. The Peruvians eventually won the game in the second period with with a goal by Flores in the 62nd minute.

The result put the Uruguayans third in the group with 23 points. Peru is 8th with 15 points. In their next game, Uruguay will meet Argentina at the National Stadium on August 31, while PeruProfessors from the University of St. Thomas School of Law are among the primary drafters and organizers of a friend-of-the-court brief in a case involving the protection of working pregnant women that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

The impact of the case could mean fewer abortions, according to Teresa Stanton Collett, who with fellow law professor Tom Berg was counsel on the amicus brief.

A third St. Thomas law professor, Elizabeth Schlitz, also made contributions to the brief, according to a news release from the Twin Cities university.

Collett, who is director of the University of St. Thomas Pro-life Center, and Berg, a board member of Democrats for Life, filed the brief on behalf of 23 pro-life organizations in support of Peggy Young, a delivery driver for UPS whose request


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To be honored with the award, a team must display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team GPA. Alabama is one of seven SEC teams to earn the award.

Last season, 16 members of the Crimson Tide earned SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades, including CoSIDA Academic All-American Leah Lawrence .

The AVCA has posted record-setting numbers in the award every season since 2006-07 and has been presenting the award since 1992-93. The award honors collegiate athletes of all levels as well as high school athletes, as a record total of 973 teams took home awards


this season across Division I, II, III, NAIA, two-year colleges, NCCAA, collegiate men, high school girls, high school boys and college sand volleyball.

For the latest information on Alabama volleyball, follow the team on Twitter (@AlabamaVBall) and Instagram (alabamavball) or like us on Facebook at Alabama Volleyball. General athletic news can be found @UA_Athletics on Twitter and Instagram and Alabama Athletics on Facebook.334 BC and Alexander, King of Molossia and leader of a newly-formed Epirote alliance, is eager for conquest. Over the past eight years he has completely transformed his kingdom into one of the most powerful realms of the time; the Kingdom of Molossia had never been stronger.

Having already achieved great success, Alexander now eagerly awaits his opportunity for a glorious conquest in the West: across the Ionian Sea to Southern Italy and beyond. The opportunity he has been waiting for is about to materialise.

Background: Southern Italy in 350 BC

To the West of Epirus, across the Ionian Sea, lay the rich coastline of Southern Italy, famed for its lucrative waters and fertile lands. There, many colonial Greek cities had prospered for centuries – cities such as Tarentum, Neapolis and


Croton – taking advantage of the area’s abundant natural resources.

At their height, these Italiote-Greek cities had become some of the most famous Hellenic settlements in the whole of the Mediterranean, attracting merchants and exotic trade from across the Ancient World. By 350 BC, however, this Italiote-Greek ‘Golden Age’ was fading; and it was fading fast!

Uneasy neighbours

The Greeks were not the only peoples to inhabit Southern Italy at that time. Further inland, the territory was divided among a host of battle-hardened native Italian tribes. Relations between them and the Greeks had always been uneasy; war between the two was always just a breath away.

Envying their economic prosperity, many of these neighbouring Italic powers would see these cities as ideal targets for raids and plundering. Open conflict flared between thetwo cultures, quickly becoming a frequent occurrance. And soon, the constant military hostility started to take its toll.

By 350 BC, the abundance of hostile raids on their lands and cities had caused great suffering for many of the Greek communities. The Italian coastline that had formerly been called ‘Great Greece‘ was not looking so great or powerful any longer. Yet there was to be no respite for these Italiote-Greek cities; more suffering was to follow.

The Alliance

In around 350 BC, coincident with the death of the great Tarentine statesman Archytas, a new even greater threat emerged in Southern Italy.

Putting aside their petty differences and recognising the inherent weakness of the Italiote-Greek cities, two of the most powerful Italian tribes in Southern Italy, the Lucanians and Bruttians, formed a military


alliance. United, they descended on the Greek cities that remained, intending to crush them once and for all. The odds looked heavily in their favour; Greek power in Southern Italy was as low as it had ever been, with many of its cities having already fallen to previous ‘barbarian’ onslaughts. The remaining Italiote-Greeks were in peril.

The Call for Aid

Realising their desperate situation, Tarentum, the strongest remaining Greek city in Southern Italy, decided to take action. It’s citizens sent out a call for aid on behalf of all the Italiote Greeks. They sought a heroic general who could turn the tide of war for them, one eager to prove his worth and gain great glory on the battlefield. By 335 BC, one such general had already attempted to tryhis luck and lost his life in the process. Yet the Tarentines remained undeterred. Keeping to this policy, they searched for another general from the Greek World. They did not have to look far. They found Alexander.

And so it was in 334 BC that the moment Alexander had been waiting for finally arrived. News reached his court of this call for aid from the Greeks of Southern Italy; they desperately needed help.

Alexander sets sail

For Alexander, this was the pretext he had been yearning for. His great expedition to the West could now finally commence. Accepting the call for aid, the Molossian King proclaimed to the Greek World that he would subdue the barbaric Italian tribes and revive Hellenism in the West. With all haste he set sail for


Acheron were places in Epirus. He therefore hastened his departure to Southern Italy, intending to escape his fate. It would come back to haunt him.

Alexander in Italy

Arriving in Italy with a large Epirote army (we do not know exactly how large), Alexander witnessed first-hand the dire situation of many of the Italiote-Greek cities. Militarily weak and exhausted from constant war, their use to him, Alexander realised, would be limited.

Yet Alexander remained undeterred. His revolutionised Epirotes were some of the greatest soldiers in the Greek World, matching even the famed Macedonians of his nephew. The ambitious Molossian king knew that with him as their leader, his force would be more than a match for even the most battle-hardened Italians. He would put them to the test soon enough.

Very quickly,Alexander set about removing the great barbarian threat from the remaining Greek cities – the first step towards making his dreams of western conquest a reality. No longer would Alexander allow the Greeks to remain bottled up in their coastal enclaves; no longer would he allow them to hide behind powerful walls as their lands were quickly overrun. Now, it was time to go on the offensive.

Early success

The success Alexander rapidly gained was phenomenal. From Sipontum in northern Apulia all the way to Terina in Southern Bruttium, Alexander achieved great successes against his enemies. Greek cities were liberated, Italian cities were stormed. Any attempt to resist proved futile. Samnites, Bruttians, Lucanians and Apulians – all these powerful Italian tribes now found themselves bested time and again by the


arrival of this formidable Molossian, culminating in a defeat at Paestum in 332 BC. The power of the native Italians appeared to be waning; Alexander and his Epirotes looked unstoppable.

Within two years of arriving in Southern Italy, Alexander and his powerful army had completely turned the tide of war between the Greeks and native Italians of Southern Italy. Yet Alexander had no intention of stopping just yet.

Diplomacy

Fresh from many great successes, Alexander now began to come into contact with Italian powers further to the North. One such power was Rome, arriving at Alexander’s court to seek friendly relations with the Epirote. Cementing his position in Italy yet further, Alexander accepted the offer. Little did he know, that within 60 years, this central Italian power would have made SouthernItaly their own.

Great success was now very much in reach for Alexander. Having won countless battles, the Molossian could taste victory. His first step towards creating an Empire in the West was almost complete. Yet it would be now that his dreams would come crashing down.

The Dispute

Meanwhile, the mood in Tarentum was changing. On Alexander’s arrival they had rejoiced. The powerful and skillful Molossian king had answered their call for help, bringing with him a great army. His subsequent victories, too, they had celebrated, congratulating themselves as they saw their policy of calling for foreign aid bearing fruit. The threat from the native Italians was apparently diminished. Yet by 332 BC, this gratitude to Alexander was running thin.

At the height of Alexander’s success, the Tarentines began to appreciate