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Attorneys representing the Diocese, the Trustees and the Diocesan churches were given 30 days to create a three-page document describing the testimony given in court which explained the procedures they followed to legally separate from TEC, (such as amending their by-laws, giving notice of meetings, properly taking votes, etc.) They were then to send those documents to the Court and to TEC and TECSC whose attorneys will have 30 days to respond in a similar fashion.
In essence, the judge's last words reiterated what she said throughout the trial: The case will be decided on neutral principles of law, which means that the judge must apply the law to this case as it would any other – making no adjustments because it involves a religious organization. TEC and TECSC have opposed the application of neutral principles; essentially arguing that the judge should defer to their view on the issues since they are a religious organization.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Parish Ministry Stewardship * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * South Carolina * Theology
This theory, however, had a hole in it so wide that one could drive a truck through it, and it was a simple matter for Bishop Lawrence's counsel, on their cross-examination of Prof. McWilliams, to discredit it completely. First Prof. McWilliams conceded that there was no language in the national governing documents – even if they had been incorporated into the articles by the brief reference to them – which forbade a diocese from seceding, or from amending its articles in any manner whatsoever. And with that concession, any effect Prof. McWilliams might have had with his testimony was finished. For he next had to concede that the Diocese was wholly within its rights under South Carolina law when it amended its articles so as to remove its language of accession to the national Church.
After that major concession, the case for ECUSA and its rump group never regained its momentum, and their attorneys became ever more desperate in their tactics as they tried to recoup lost ground. On Day 8 they tried to call an expert witness they had not bothered to disclose by Judge Goodstein's deadline, and she blocked the testimony after giving the hapless attorney trying to introduce it a good tongue-lashing for disregarding her rules.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal - Anglican: Analysis Episcopal Church (TEC) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori TEC Conflicts * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Parish Ministry Stewardship * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * South Carolina * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
But I need to say, and can hardly say it enough, undergirding it all—felt at times in palpable ways—the prayers and intercessions from tens of thousands of the saints within the diocese and around the world upholding us in prayer. Some of these intercessors came to the courtroom to pray while testimonies and cross-examinations were taking place. Others of you prayed from home, perhaps on a lunch break, or while driving to and from your work place. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Stewardship * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * South Carolina
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July 6: A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Mark Lawrence Regarding the Upcoming Trial
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July 26: South Carolina Diocesan Trial Day 14—Drama Ends with the Testimony of Bishop Mark Lawrence
July 26: An AP Article on the South Carolina Episcopal Court Case as it Wound up this week
July 26: New TEC Diocese in SC offers More Reports from the trial in Dorchester County
July 25: Diocese of South Carolina Trial—Jeremy Bonner gives an account of Yesterday's proceedings
July 24: Trial Day 13: Expert in Religious History Allen Guelzo Testifies TEC Holds No Control Over Dioceses
July 24: Diocese of SC Day 12: TEC Uses Bishop vonRosenberg to Claim Dioceses Can't Leave
July 23: Diocese of SC Trial Day 11-TEC Spends Day Making Arguments Judge Rules Irrelevant
More articles follow by clicking on the "read more" link below...
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: South Carolina TEC Polity & Canons * Admin Featured (Sticky) * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * South Carolina
Read it all[pdf]. h/t Stand Firm
Note: An article with important background to today's decision is here.
UPDATE: Don't miss Allan Haley's analysis of this decision at Anglican Curmudgeon
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: Quincy TEC Polity & Canons * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues
At the session that took place on the 14th of July 2014, the General Synod of the Church of England made a decision allowing women to serve as bishops. The Communication Service of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations is authorized to make the following statement in this regard:
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) CoE Bishops
The Commonwealth Bank's court action includes a summons against the diocese's former bishop, Richard Hurford.
This action involves Bishop Hurford and eleven other defendants.
Another summons calls for a joint levy on all parishes, schools and other organisations to help repay the diocese's debts.
The summon documents also call for assets, including the All Saints College in Bathurst, to be "realised" or sold if enough money cannot be raised or the parishes do not cooperate with a demand to prioritises the sale of assets
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Anglican Church of Australia
She delighted in her ministry but also wanted a husband and children in her life. The husband she couldn't do much about — he just hadn't stepped into her life.
"But it was clear to me that I was going to do everything in my power to realize my dream of becoming a parent," she said.Read it all.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Ministry of the Ordained * Culture-Watch Children Marriage & Family Religion & Culture Women * International News & Commentary America/U.S.A. * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology Pastoral Theology
The Fixed Point Foundation asked members of the Secular Students Associations on campuses around the nation to tell them about their "journey to unbelief." Taunton was not only surprised by the level of response but, more importantly, about the stories he and his colleagues heard.
Instead of would-be Richard Dawkins', the typical respondent was more like Phil, a student Taunton interviewed. Phil had grown up in church; he had even been the president of his youth group. What drove Phil away wasn't the lure of secular materialism or even Christian moral teaching. And he was specifically upset when his church changed youth pastors.
Whereas his old youth pastor "knew the Bible" and made Phil "feel smart" about his faith even when he didn't have all the answers, the new youth pastor taught less and played more.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Youth Ministry * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture * Religion News & Commentary Other Faiths Atheism * Theology Apologetics
These are the opening words of letter 28 year old George Hever Vinall sent to his parents in July 1917 which tells the story of how he survived an artillery attack at the Frond and later found a bullet from the attack lodged in his Bible. It stopped at the verse in Isaiah which reads, 'I will preserve thee'. George Vinall was so convinced that God had saved him, he became a Bible translator after the war.
Read it all and then read the whole letter about it and watch the accompanying Vimeo video.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Books Children History Marriage & Family * Economics, Politics Defense, National Security, Military * International News & Commentary England / UK * Theology Theology: Scripture
Of course it would be foolish to recommend that the British version of state/church relations be accepted in other countries—as foolish as to expect other countries to adopt the very distinctive American form of the separation of church and state. However, as I have suggested in other posts on this blog, the British arrangement is worth pondering by other countries who wish to combine a specific religious identity with freedom for all those who do not share it. For starters, I'll mention all countries who want legislation to be based on "Islamic principles" (not full-fledged sharia law); Russia, struggling to define the public role of the Orthodox Church; Israel trying to define the place of Judaism in its democracy; India, similarly seeking to fit hindutva into its constitutional description as a "secular republic". In a globalizing world, cross-national comparisons can be surprisingly useful.
Read it all from the American Interest.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal - Anglican: Commentary Archbishop of Canterbury --Justin Welby Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) CoE Bishops * Culture-Watch History Law & Legal Issues Church/State Matters Religion & Culture Women * Theology
First of all, they need to respond with steadfast witness to Christ and the truth of the Gospel. The Book of Revelation is concerned with how the powers of evil that assault God's people are defeated and what it tells us is that this is achieved through Christians remaining faithful to Christ to the point of death. 'And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death'' (Revelation 12:10-11).
Secondly, they need to pray. As Revelation also makes clear, it is ultimately God who sustains his Church and defeats its persecutors and so Christians need to take seriously Jesus' injunction to 'ask, seek and knock' (Matthew 7:7-8) and pray hard for those who are suffering because of the activities of Isis. The charity Open Doors, for example, has asked for prayers:
for God to change the hearts of those who are persecuting Christians;
for God to uphold Christian refugees who are weary and exhausted through the support of the body of Christ;
for God to give wisdom and strength to the government in Baghdad to resolve this crisis.
Thirdly, they need to give to support those in need because of Isis' activity, such as the Christians who have been forced to flee their homes in Mosul.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal - Anglican: Commentary * Culture-Watch History Religion & Culture Violence * Economics, Politics Foreign Relations Politics in General Terrorism * International News & Commentary Middle East Iraq * Religion News & Commentary Inter-Faith Relations Other Faiths Islam Muslim-Christian relations * Theology The Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who seton foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 10
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Parish Ministry Ministry of the Laity * Culture-Watch Books * Theology Eschatology
Today it is known as Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq. And last week, almost unnoticed amid the horrific stream of news about violence in the Mideast, a fresh casualty of Islamic extremism was the towering structure that contained the tomb of Jonah. Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham who blew up the prophet's tomb either didn't know or didn't care that it was Muhammad himself who, in the Quran, described Jonah as "a righteous preacher of the message of God."
It is remarkable that Jonah achieved significant importance in the religious traditions of all three major monotheistic faiths. His biblical book is short, all of four chapters, totaling 48 sentences. In the Christian Bible, it is found in the section called "The Minor Prophets." In the Jewish version, Jonah is lumped in with 11 others in the work known as "The Twelve."
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch History Religion & Culture Violence * International News & Commentary Middle East Iraq * Religion News & Commentary Inter-Faith Relations Other Churches Other Faiths Islam Muslim-Christian relations Judaism * Theology Theology: Scripture
The prayer moved me, in part because I'd been going through my own period of loneliness, but also because it reminded me that the movement for gay marriage is absolutely right to demand that the institution be made more inclusive. Where it goes wrong is in supposing this can be done by asserting a free-floating right to marriage, rather than by insisting on the duty of every marriage to become a place of welcome. We can't and shouldn't redesign marriage under the illusion that it can directly include everyone. We need more than one form of solidarity.
Despite my eccentric evolution on gay marriage, I've been fortunate enough to enjoy a certain fugitive solidarity with those whose paths differ from my own. A strange portion of the intellectual discovery and growth in friendship I've enjoyed these past years has come about not despite, but because of, the vexations of the gay marriage debate. Those with whom I disagree have helped me see how the strands of the Christian sexual ethic combine to form a great tapestry, the patterns of which would be much more obscure had they not prompted me to think through how sex intersects with Scripture, nature, culture. For this, I owe them a great debt. I hope that in the years to come I can do something to repay it.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch History Marriage & Family Philosophy Psychology Religion & Culture Sexuality --Civil Unions & Partnerships * Theology Anthropology Ethics / Moral Theology Pastoral Theology Theology: Scripture
As John Dryden described Henry Purcell, who died when he was just one year older and equally in the full flood of his creativity, John Hughes was a "matchless man." It is now up to those who knew him to ask him and all the saints to assist us in dealing with this new lack in our lives. We can envisage this lack as being like guilt, since John had a strong New Testament and Patristic sense that sin and death are bound up with one another - are indeed in the end but one abyss.
Therefore we can apply his words in his Lear essay on the recognition of guilt also to the recognition of lack: "Properly, the recognition that the judge may be as guilty as the thief can be understood, not as universal innocence, but as the universal need for forgiveness and transformation." We are all both lacking and guilty, but beyond this negative diagnosis of much secular existential and social critique, and consequent illusions as to either "natural" innocence or incurable anxiety and ferocity, lies the faith that alone allows us to build each other up once more.
This was the Christian Socialist vision of John Hughes. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Death / Burial / Funerals * Theology
The Evangelical Episcopal Church's Bishop in Israel & the Palestinian territories, Dr Hani Shehadeh, and four other churchmen from the Holy Land wrote to the Church Times this week urging Christians to pray for peace.
They urge all Christians to stand up for the rights of the Christian family in the Middle East: "Lobby your parliament, speak up in your media, and pray for the well-being and safety of Christians facing persecution." The letter said that the latest conflict in Gaza meant that "the Christian community of this corner of the Holy Land faces extinction."
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Archbishop of Canterbury --Justin Welby * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture Violence * Economics, Politics Defense, National Security, Military Foreign Relations Politics in General * International News & Commentary Middle East Israel The Palestinian/Israeli Struggle * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic Pope Francis * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
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--The Pastor's Prayerbook (slightly edited)
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--Acts 2:1-4
Filed under: * Theology Theology: Scripture
"We do not know at this time when the patient will arrive," Emory said in a statement. The university also did not say whether the patient was one of two Americans battling Ebola infection in Liberia – charity workers Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly.
"Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases," the hospital said. "It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Health & Medicine * International News & Commentary Africa America/U.S.A.
Meanwhile, paedobaptists could work harder to understand credobaptist concerns and consider re-baptism as completing infant baptism rather than totally rejecting it. And they would do well to emphasize more strenuously that baptism itself does not save the infant. Similarly, they should not relegate children of credobaptist believers to the status of covenantal outsiders.
Both groups should look beyond their differences and focus on a bigger problem: the growing neglect of baptism among people who call themselves Christians. As followers of Jesus, we must prevent Christ's call to follow him fully from being drowned out.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry * Theology Sacramental Theology Baptism Theology: Scripture
Russians' attitudes could reflect the stronger position they may feel their country is already in after Russia's seizure and annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in March. Although the U.S. and other Western powers largely condemned the action, imposing sanctions and other penalties against specific individuals and businesses in Russia, nearly all Russians (95%) who are following the news about Crimea say they support Crimea joining Russia.
The earlier sanctions did little to dampen the average Russian's enthusiasm for the country's leadership, with President Vladimir Putin's popularity in Russia vaulting to its highest level in years, and record-level confidence in the country's military, the national government, and the honesty of elections. The previous sanctions also did not appear to affect Russians' views of their country's economy, with more Russians seeing their economy as getting better now than has been the case since 2008.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Violence * Economics, Politics Defense, National Security, Military Foreign Relations Politics in General * International News & Commentary Europe Russia Ukraine
"Our government has declared this now as a humanitarian crisis that is above the control of the national government," Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia's assistant minister of health, told CBS News, adding that, "This virus, if it is not taken care of, will be a global pandemic." Nyenswah is calling for more international aid to stop the spreading of the disease.
With no cure and a mortality rate as high as 90 percent, the Ebola epidemic serves as a grim reminder that even with the advent of modern medicine, the spread of deadly infectious diseases is not relegated to history.
Read it all.
Update: In the span of four days, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa claimed 57 more lives and has resulted in 122 new cases says the WSJ--read it all also.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Globalization Health & Medicine * International News & Commentary Africa Guinea Liberia Nigeria Sierra Leone * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
The Diocese, which filed suit against the church in January 2013 and maintains that it legally broke away from the church in 2012, brought suit against the church in January 2013 over who is the rightful owner of the Diocese name, seals and symbols – and some $500 million in property and assets.
The Diocese has for some time disagreed with the national church on matters of theology, morality, and polity, which ultimately led to its decision to break away from the Episcopal Church in 2012, according to Diocese officials. While such issues as same-sex unions and ordination of gay clergy have caused some friction, Diocese officials say it left the church only after the church attempted to remove Lawrence from his post as Bishop of the Diocese -- some nine years after the church appointed its first openly gay Bishop – an action the Diocese believed to be outside of the church's authority.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Parish Ministry * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * South Carolina * Theology
It's called volunteer tourism or "volunteerism." And it's one of the fastest growing trends in travel today. More than 1.6 million volunteer tourists are spending about $2 billion each year.
But some people who work in the industry are skeptical of volunteerism's rising popularity. They question whether some trips help young adults pad their resumes or college applications more than they help those in need.
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"One cannot simply protect the victims, and bring the victims into a place of safety, if one doesn't do anything to change the underlying cultural assumptions that help create and foster this slavery, this exploitation, if one does not change the underlying economic assumptions that treat people as commodities," Luis CdeBaca, the U.S. ambassador at large for trafficking in persons, said July 29 via video conference.
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The Chicago-based aerospace giant said Wednesday it will produce the 787-10 - the largest version of the popular, back-ordered commercial jetliner - exclusively at its factory beside Charleston International Airport.
The expansion won't result in any new jobs or new buildings, a company official said. But at least one aviation analyst says the airplane manufacturer will have to boost its work force to meet increased production goals while introducing a new line.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Globalization Travel * Economics, Politics Economy Consumer/consumer spending Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market * South Carolina
Lord Fowler raised the case in the House of Lords of Jeremy Pemberton, who had his licence to preach revoked after marrying his partner.
He called on the government to "see if there is anything that could be done to help reconcile the difficulties".
Gay marriage is legal in the UK but the Church of England has not accepted it.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion) * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues Marriage & Family Religion & Culture Sexuality --Civil Unions & Partnerships * Economics, Politics Politics in General * International News & Commentary England / UK * Theology Anthropology Ethics / Moral Theology Theology: Scripture
I've been reading the Times religiously (a paradoxical adverb, right now) since 1969. I just cancelled my subscription, and told the nice clerk who processed my cancellation that the Times's smug prejudice toward traditional religious beliefs had just become too much. When asked what I liked about the Times, I told her the arts coverage and the seriousness of its international news. But those assets no longer outweigh its characteristics as (as Alasdair MacIntrye characterized it in 1988) "that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory liberal enlightenment."
For a while, I enjoyed Stanley Fish's NYT blog, in which, honest postmodernist that he is, he attempted to gleefully deconstruct the untenability of Enlightenment reason. It was fun watching the altar guild huff and puff at his sacrilege. For a while.
Rod, thanks for defining a tipping point.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Media Religion & Culture * International News & Commentary America/U.S.A. * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
It has never been friendly to conservatives, of course, and that's just part of the deal. But the Times plays things reasonably straight — except on coverage of social and religious conservatives. This is not just my view; it's the unapologetic view of Bill Keller, the former executive editor....
Even though I care about culture and religion more than anything else, I gritted my teeth and read the paper anyway. It was worth it. Besides, they employ David Brooks and they hired Ross Douthat, and that counts for a lot in my book.
I've noticed, though, that as gay rights became more prominent in the public square, and as the Times took on a no-holds-barred advocacy role (it's not just me saying that; two former NYT ombudsmen have made the same observation; I don't have the links available to me, but you can easily look it up), it's attitude toward religious believers anywhere to the right of the Episcopal Church left became increasingly nasty. Now the Times not only didn't try to be fair, it seemed to go out of its way to be hostile. Look, I expect the Times to give ample coverage to gay issues, given the particular prominence of the gay community in NYC, and among the creative elites the paper keeps its eye on. I'm not sure when it happened, or why it happened, but at some point I started to think that the Times really does hate social and religious conservatives. I mean hate.
Read it all (emphasis his).
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Read it all and take note to breathe hard if you choose to read the Timothy Egan piece which I debated posted on the blog but decided to leave aside.
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This is rather shocking. Barro is no angry blogger writing manifestos in his basement. He is a respected reporter from a prestigious newspaper that prides itself on equanimity in the face of heated debate. Yet he seems, by any reasonable measure, to be fomenting a campaign to rout out all dissenters from the sexual revolution. Erick Erickson wrote a brief response to Barro's tweet, to which Barro replied that he thinks that "we should make anti-LGBT views shameful like segregation. Not saying we should off people."
Okay. But "stamp out," intensified by the qualifier "ruthlessly," means something quite a bit stronger than inviting your interlocutor to tea and crumpets to discuss differences.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Media Religion & Culture
Yes, it does matter that the school's own community seems to be divided — anonymity is crucial — over these doctrines. This is common. That is why it's crucial — in terms of journalism ethics — for the Times team to quote people on both sides of this debate, even inside George Fox and similar institutions.
Why not cover both sides of the debate? Because, under "Kellerism," error has no rights, even if that means changing the basic rules of the American model of the press....
Simply stated, many traditional religious believers — even if they are long-time supporters of the Times — are being forced out of the doctrinally defined community that is the church of New York Times subscribers.
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In an address to the nation posted on the presidential website, Mr. Koroma said the emergency would "enable us take a more robust approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak."
Mr. Koroma said he had been planning to attend a United States-Africa summit meeting in Washington, but would instead go on Friday to Guinea to discuss a regional response to the outbreak. The other two countries accounting for many of the 672 killed by the disease in recent weeks are Liberia and Guinea.
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--The Pastor's Prayerbook
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One slipped in among students gathered Wednesday at a notice board of a college campus in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. She detonated a hidden bomb, killing herself and at least five others, wire services reported.
On Sunday, a 15-year-old female suicide bomber blew herself up near a temporary university site, with no other casualties. Another pushed into a queue of women buying kerosene at a fuel station Monday, detonating a bomb that killed herself and at least three others. Hours later, an 18-year-old woman approached a shopping mall and detonated a bomb. She killed only herself.
No group has claimed responsibility for the rash of daily attacks in Kano, but experts say they bear the marks of the Islamist extremists led by Boko Haram. Police in adjacent Kastina state arrested a 10-year-old girl wearing a suicide vest Tuesday, government spokesman Mike Omeri said Wednesday. Two other Boko Haram suspects were arrested, he said.
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More than 250 years ago, their confessions of sin were dutifully logged by the minister of the church here, alongside records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, notes about meetings heated and routine, accounts of finances, texts of sermons, and, in some cases, personal accounts of conversion experiences from young adults.
Now, in a regionwide scavenger hunt, a pair of historians is rummaging through New England church basements and attics, file cabinets, safes and even coat closets, searching for these records of early American life. The historians are racing against inexorable church closings, occasional fires, and a more mundane but not uncommon peril: the actual loss of documents, which most often occurs when a church elder dies and no one can remember the whereabouts of historical papers.
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One day after rejecting the district's contract offer, dozens of Seattle teachers went straight to Superintendent Jose Banda's office to deliver a message.
They held signs signed by teachers that read, "Superintendent Banda: We call on Seattle Public Schools to bargain a fair contract that respects staff and supports a high quality education for our students."
The sticking points include adding an extra half hour to the work day for elementary teachers, using test scores in evaluating teachers, and not reducing the amount of work that therapists, psychologists and nurses face.
"I watch not only co-workers on the therapy staff, but other ESA's, psychologists, speech and language pathologists whose case loads keep going higher and higher and higher and they're holding on by the skin of their teeth," said Carolyn Kelly, an occupational therapist.
Kelly Riggle Hower, a kindergarten and first grade teacher, said the issue over a longer work day isn't about the money.
"It's really not about, 'This is too much work for us.' It's really about moving the focus from where it needs to be and it's disrespectful," said Hower.
Nearly all 1,500 teachers voted last night to reject the district's offer. Both sides are back at the bargaining table today.
"There have been negotiations that have gone all night long and we're willing to do that. Our team is willing to do that. If we have to stay here all night long, we're willing to do that," said Phyllis Campano, Vice-President of Seattle Education Association.
The next vote takes place on September 3 at the Seattle Education Association members meeting.


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Ages ago, we reported that the Japanese had built a Jurassic Park-themed sex hotel. You may have thought, "That's hot!" or "That's... hot?" You may have even planned a trip to visit. Well, pretty soon, you can stay with the dinosaurs domestically - and in a far more family-friendly setting.
The folks at the Best Western Denver are remodeling the hotel from the ground up with a fully jurassic theme. The groundbreaking is taking place today, with a projected finish date of Summer 2013. Among the planned renovations are a heated pool with a Cretaceous sea mosaic; fossil exhibits and other prehistoric curios; themed lounge and meeting rooms; and the star, Stanley, a 45-foot stegosaurus statue whose trek across the country has been chronicled on the hotel's Facebook page. The Denver hotel is located near the paleontologically-rich Great Plains region of Colorado, where the first stegosaurus fossils were discovered in 1877.
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New Castle's teachers have decided not to participate in a federal grant program for teacher evaluations.
That means a $147,000 federal Race to the Top grant probably will have to be forfeited by the New Castle Area School District and be allocated to other school districts, according to Terence P. Meehan, assistant to the superintendent.
The decision by the New Castle Federation of Teachers executive board yesterday afternoon came as a shock to Meehan last night. He said that after a meeting Friday with the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV and the union, he felt that a lot of misconceptions had been cleared up.
Don Runyon, president of the 250-member teacher federation, said the executive board is comprised of a representative from each of the district's schools.
After Friday's meeting, the executive committee members fielded concerns from teachers about student absenteeism, assessment testing and behavior.
"Those are things we have no control over," he said. "Some red flags were getting us some calls."
A bigger issue before the committee, however, was the timing between when the district applied for the grant and when it involved the teachers union, Runyon said. The union contends the district applied for the grant in January 2011.
"We could have discussed it during collective bargaining, and now is not the time to do it," Runyon said.
The new teachers contract was ratified last March and was retroactive to July , 2011, when it expired. The teachers worked under the previous terms for nine or 10 months during negotiations.
Meehan countered that the district did not apply for the Race to the Top money until April or May last year, and didn't hear anything about it until October. When the administration was notified of the grant, it involved the teachers right away, he said.
The initiative involves training for teachers, who must become more effective and uniform in teaching core subjects by 2015, Meehan explained. If the district returns the funding, the district won't have the staff development money when the training becomes a requirement.
The money was to be used for training teachers to establish a way of teaching so their lesson plans are approached in a way that will be embraced in Pennsylvania, Meehan said.
"The Race to the Top funding is available for each state to implement the teacher evaluation process that is to be used for uniformity in education. It's supposed to help us raise the levels of our teaching to meet the common core standards," he said, adding "It's (President) Obama's spin-off of No Child Left Behind."
According to Meehan, the district's allocation is the highest of any the school districts.
"We didn't create this in New Castle," he added, emphasizing that Race to the Top is a legislative mandate.
"Any funds we can bring to New Castle, I hate to turn them down, they're so hard to get," he commented. "Now someone else in this area will get our money and that's hard to swallow."
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Bryan County High School senior Tiffany Howard added a fourth-place finish in the 800 on Saturday to her third place finish Friday in the triple jump at the girls' state Class A meet in Albany. Howard jumped 35-feet, 10 inches. The winner was Wesleyan's Landyn Duley, who jumped 36-03 1/2
Richmond Hill High School had little trouble dispatching Warner Robins on Wednesday in the first round of the girls' state Class AAAA soccer playoffs.
The dream of a state track and field title is still alive in Bryan County. On both ends.
Richnond Hill High School went on the road in the opening round of the Class AAAA boys' soccer playoffs and came away winners on Tuesday, knocking off host Bainbridge 4-0.
Richmond Hill High School senior Nikki Shields is a step closer to competing for a state title after she won the Region 2-AAAA 400-meter crown last week in Waycross.
Playing with an adjusted lineup on Tuesday night, Richmond Hill defeated Evans High School to grab the No. 3 seed in the Class AAAA soccer tournament. The Wildcats won, 6-4, in a penalty-kick shootout after two five-minute overtime sessions.
Game day
Richmond Hill High School fell 3-1 to Evans in the second game of a doubleheader Friday night. The loss ends the Wildcats season.
Bryan County High School's girls' track team has made a habit of winning Region 3-A meets in recent years.
No. 2 seed Richmond Hill High School will host region 2B-AAAA third seed Evans High School from Augusta in a best of three series starting Friday at 3:30 p.m. The winner secures a spot in the state tournament.
There's a new wrinkle in track and field competition this year.
Bryan County High School closed out the 2012 baseball season on a positive note, pulling out a 7-6 win over Savannah Country Day on Thursday in Savannah.
Brian Strahan pitched three-hit baseball into the 7th inning and Richmond Hill High School beat Glynn Academy 5-3on Tuesday to set up a game against Ware County on Friday for the top spot in Region 2A-AAAA.
Strahan struck out found and didn't give up an earned run and Nathan Ward drove in two runs in the sixth inning that put the Wildcats up 4-1.
Richmond Hill High School beat Brunswick 8-4 on April 6, setting up a Friday night showdown at Ware County to decide the Region 2A-AAAA championship.
After losing to Calvary on Tuesday at their home field, and with the season quickly dwindling down, the Redskins returned back to the field again on Wednesday searching for their first win of the season.
Former Lady Redskins softball and track standout Sierra Newman hasn't slowed down since graduating from Bryan County High School in 2012.
Richmond Hill Baseball will host its 1st Annual Alumni Baseball game at 5 p.m. Saturday at Wildcat field.There is a $3 gate fee with all proceeds going toward The Richmond Hill Homerun Club.
Georgia Game Changers Running Company and a number of other Richmond Place Plaza's businesses, including Jalapeno's Mexican Restaurant of Richmond Hill, and the Hale Tea Company, will be hosting what is sure to be one of the area's 'hottest' summer road races Saturday.
Lady Redskins moving up
The Richmond Hill swim team competed July 12 at the Savannah Coastal Swim League City Meet in Savannah.
For Bryan County High School softball coach Al Butler, the Lady Redskins' upcoming Fourth Annual Summer Slam accomplishes two things.
Georgia Game Changers and the Coastal YMCA are hosting a three-day running camp for teens beginning Monday at the Richmond Hill YMCA. The camp is for kids ages 13-18 and will be from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For more information call the YMCA at 756-5856.
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KINGSVILLE — Eleanor C. Leeman, age 96, a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio, died Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at the Ashtabula County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born July 9, 1917, in Ashtabula, she was the daughter of Robert and Chlotilde (Novelli) Cusman.
Ms. Leeman worked at Molded Fiber Glass and retired from Rockwell in Ashtabula.
She was a member of St. Joseph Church and, later, of Mother of Sorrows Church in Ashtabula.
Survivors include her brother, Amadeo Cusman of Ashtabula; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Clarence Cusman; and sisters, Adeline Beckman and Mary Cusman.
Memorial Service will be 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28th, at the Chapel of St. Joseph Cemetery with burial to follow.
GUERRIERO FUNERAL HOME, 1550 W. 19th St., Ashtabula, will be handling local arrangements. Obituary and condolences at starbeacon.com.


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Leftover stuff from Saturday's college action, and some baseball......
-- Middle Tennessee 49, Georgia Tech 28. Can't be good for the ACC's power rating. Option-loving Tech actually threw the ball 26 times.
-- Derek Carr threw for 536 yards in Fresno State's 52-40 win against San Diego State; Carr's older brother David is backup QB for the Giants.
-- Oklahoma State has 66 players on its roster from Texas.
-- Braves beat the Mets, their 23rd straight win with Kris Medlen as the starting pitcher. Odd thing is, his first 2012 start wasn't until July 31.
-- Detroit Tigers won 2-1 in Minnesota, now have a 3-game lead over the freefalling White Sox in the AL Central.
-- Yoenis Cespedes broke a 2-2 tie with an 8th-inning homer as the gritty Oakland A's beat Seattle 5-2; their seemingly-impossible dream of making the playoffs is close to becoming a reality.
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Mitt Romney Will Go Anywhere but the Inauguration
For the first time since 1989, the losing presidential candidate will not be attending the inauguration.
History notes that Michael Dukakis ate a tuna sandwich and watched the '89 proceedings on television, most likely dressed in an oversized tank gunner's helmet.
We don't know how Mitt Romney is spending his time today, but we do know that he has gone plenty of places in the past few months–places that are, apparently, more important than the events in Washington.
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Mitt Romney Really Missed His Calling as a Democratic Nominee
What is it with these Massachusetts liberal presidential candidates?
There must be something in the Perrier.
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I waited an hour and 15 minutes to vote this morning in Park Slope, Brooklyn. For those of you who have never been to Park Slope, it is serious McCain country. I believe the descendants of the lesbians who invented the bootstrap still live there, weaving hemp American flags every noon to dusk on the corner of 5th Ave. and DeGraw St.
Standing on line behind a young couple and their seriously amped up three-year-old reminded me of my first conscious memories — being dragged along to vote with my father in 1988. On the way home I asked him who he voted for. He said, "Michael Dukakis." I said, "Is he going to win."
He said, "No."
Does anyone else have a voting-before-you-could-vote story that dryly amusing? I'll bet not.
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The Specter of Michael Dukakis Rears Its Ugly Head
Wow! For a guy who's been off the political radar for about twenty years, you certainly have seen Michael Dukakis' name in the news lately!
The former Massachusetts governor and former Democratic nominee for president has been pretty much off the radar screen since losing to George H.W. Bush in 1988. Served on the Amtrak Board of Directors, a little college teaching… you get the idea.
But now he's back!
First off in countless articles previewing tonight's scheduled debate, which unfailingly mention his botched response in a 1988 debate to a bizarre question about the hypothetical rape and murder of his wife.
Then there was the harsh Christopher Hitchens piece in Slate, titled "Is Obama Another Dukakis?" and subtitled "Why is Obama So Vapid, Hesitant, and Gutless?" Ouch!
And finally there was a comparison of Obama to Dukakis by… Dukakis himself!
Seems he did an interview with PolitickerMA.com in which he warned the Democratic nominee against getting the same "Willie Horton" race-bating smears he suffered in 1988.
The only appropriate way to cap off this media blitz would be to take one more ceremonial ride in the tank!
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Chickens, cattle and crops… meet a farmer who does it all
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Sitting under a tobacco shed as the rain trickled down the sides of the barn, I caught a glimpse of what life looks like to one Halifax County farming family.
Scott Crowder grew up around farming and is one of four generations of farmers. It's something that comes as natural to him as his good-natured attitude. He's the kind of person who would give you the shirt off his back, which could probably be said for most of our local farmers. Farming to him is a "family thing," and something he's always wanted to do.
At 19-years-old, he began farming his own tobacco while also working another job. Farming was something that held great importance to him because of his family history of it.
His goal at 19 was to keep the farm in the family.
Crowder said, "You have to have a love for it. Farming isn't something you get into for the money. It's something that's in your blood."
His grandparents and great-grandparents purchased the farm in 1935 during the Great Depression. He understands the hardships they went through and wants to preserve it for generations to come.
"I want to preserve what the people before me worked so hard for," he said.
After 15 years of working in the public sector and farming on the side, Crowder took the leap to become a full-time farmer in 1987.
Crowder credits his wife's grandfather, Carter Owen, for helping him buy the family farm.
"I wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for him. He took a gamble on a young man that most banks wouldn't dare touch."
In 2002, he also added two poultry houses contracted through Perdue to his ever-growing list of agricultural products. Currently, he raises about 25 acres of flue-cured tobacco, 55 head of beef cattle, 50 acres of small grain and 100 acres of hay, along with managing two poultry barns.
The chicken houses are together about 25,000 square feet, and they house about 12,000 birds. Roughly 8,000-10,000 breeder eggs are harvested every day. These eggs are transported to a hatchery where they will be hatched and grown as meat birds. Bio-security is highly important in the chicken houses. Each time anyone enters, they are required to "shower in."
Just like with hog farms, one showers in and showers out. The goal is not to bring any outside or foreign bacteria into the barns. This is for the safety and health of the birds.
Crowder also currently serves as the president of the Halifax County Farm Bureau.
"It's a great experience, because you meet all kinds of people, and you get to hear what everyone does. There's a lot of networking and learning new things from people," he said.
Another endeavor Crowder is involved in is the H2A program, which brings migrant workers each year from about April until the last part of October or first of November. He has four workers who he shares with another producer.
Crowder provides housing and transportation for the workers, several of which have been coming back and working with him for several years.
"They are the best help I've ever had," he said.
They work an average of 60-70 hours per week during the busiest part of the season. There are times though, during slower parts of the season where they may only work about 30 hours.
"It all evens out in the end."
Crowder Farms is certainly a family affair. On Nov. 21, 1992 Scott married his wife, Marcia, and they welcomed their daughter, Ellen, on July 16, 1996.
Marcia also has a history of farming in her family, with her grandfather, Carter Owen, being a dairy farmer and other grandfather, John Lovelace, raising tobacco. She lived on the dairy farm with her mother and father.
She recalled, "Mama says I would sit in the stroller and wave at the cows."
She also has memories of helping her granddaddy Lovelace with tobacco.
"I remember getting up the leaves that fell off the sticks," she said.
Their daughter, Ellen, who is a junior at Halifax County High School and serves as the current FFA president, said, "It's a unique experience growing up on a farm, because our family is so close. We're all in this together, and we're all affected by it."
Her favorite part of the farm is the livestock. She enjoys showing livestock and took home the grand-prize steer in last year's Halifax County Junior Livestock Show.
She also enjoys working with her father on the farm.
"I like riding with him when he spreads the chicken litter and going with him to sell the wheat and tobacco."
When asked about the future of the farm, Ellen said, "I'll never sell it. All my childhood memories are here. I definitely want to raise cows and hay and maybe tobacco."
So what does a day in the life of a farmer who raises chickens, cattle, tobacco, wheat and hay look like?
In the busiest parts of the year, the day begins around 4:45 a.m. checking on the chicken houses and making sure the feed, which is automated, has been run.
Crowder hits the tobacco field around 5:30 a.m. working until lunchtime, after which he again returns to the chicken houses to check on things. The afternoon consists of more work in the fields.
After the tobacco is in the barn, it's back to the chicken houses for another check.
Dinner time comes, and then it's out one more time to the fields to get everything prepared for the following day.
"Some days you start at 4:30 a.m., and you're not done until 10:30 p.m. It's just the way it goes during the busy season."
When asked about the future of agriculture, Crowder said, "Our world population is growing, and agriculture has a bright future. Right now, less than 2 percent of the population is growing food for the entire world. With the population expected to double by the year 2050, farmers will need to produce twice as much food. We're already seeing with commodity and beef prices, that the market is rising. We're seeing prices we've never seen before."
Even with the high prices, though, input costs are rising as well. It can be hard earning a living farming.
"Some years you profit and some years you lose. These days it's a struggle because of the input cost," he explained.
Crowder is quick to add, "There are more good days than bad. You have to have humility in what you're doing as a farmer. Sometimes what you try works, and sometimes it doesn't, but you can always learn from the experience. There is a lot of opportunity in agriculture… it just takes time and devotion."
He continued, "There are a lot of things we can go without, but the one thing we can't is food. It is the one thing that society has to rely on. There is no culture without agriculture."
This is the first of an occasional series of articles relaying the history and daily lives of local farmers.


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Tonight I'll be at Canisius as the Crusaders host Bishop Timon-St. Jude at 6:30 p.m. in a major matchup in not just the Monsignor Martin Association but the large school top 10.
While I'll have updates from that game, tweets to the hashtag #preptalkscores will also automatically show up in the live blog. So if you are a game tonight (there are some key 6 p.m. games in the Yale Cup like Hutch-Tech at McKinley and East at Riverside) and you're updating via Twitter, be sure to include that hashtag. I'll have periodic tweets updating the game at @KeithMcSheaBN, but most of my updating will come in the live blog.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Dozens more whooping cough cases have been confirmed in Texas in the week since state officials issued a health alert.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reports 2,160 pertussis cases this year as of Tuesday. Spokesman Chris Van Deusen said Wednesday that whooping cough has been relatively widespread with no big area of concentration.
DSHS on Sept. 3 announced Texas is on track for more pertussis cases than any year since the 1950s and urged vaccinations. Nearly 2,000 cases were reported at the time of the health advisory.
Officials say the state's annual total for cases linked to the bacterial infection will likely top the recent high of 3,358 cases in 2009.
Two infants with whooping cough died this year in Texas, while six people died statewide in 2012.
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Just wait until we have a foot of snow or more next winter and consider how they are going to plow that absurd roundabout. They may have to do it with a cadre of folks with snow shovels. I suppose the island will sprout a forest of uprights so that folks can find the island. Next most annoying is the bump out by the park that makes folks wanting to go straight wait for everyone wanting to turn, but it will force folks who want to go to the park to go all around the block! Every time the bridge closes in the summer, there will be a huge traffic jam and scads of folks with incipient road rage. Short sighted —long suffering. It will take years, if not decades, to correct the problems. I expect what with the rebuilding of the Whittier Bridge and the ridiculous roundabout that getting to Newburyport will be so difficult that I'll have to start doing my grocery shopping in Seabrook!
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Rosendall agrees he started working with FBI very shortly after the pulled him over on Jan. 22, 2008.
Shea says you met with feds at least weekly. "On a weekly basis," says Rosendall. Rosendall agrees he had quite a few meetings.
Shea hands Rosendall a document to read. Report for August 2nd 2008. Shea asks if that refreshes his recollection as to when he was referred by Bernard to Rayford. Rosendall says it does not.
Rosendall does agree that he may be wrong about it only being a week or two after meeting Bernard that he was referred to Rayford.
Shea asks if Rosendall asked Bernard to set up meeting with Mercado in early 2004.
"I may have, yes," says Rosendall. But he doesn't recall exactly.
Shea hands Rosendall another document. Shea asks if that refreshes his memory about meeting request.
"I did request a meeting, yes" says Rosendall after reading the report.
Looking at a text exchange between Mike Tardiff, mayoral aide, and Bernard on February 18th 2004.
Tardiff: Cool hey jr was wondering if you could set up a meeting with victor early next week.
Bernard: I am working on that now.
Tardiff: Let me know if I can help.
Bernard: will do.
Feb. 19, 2004 between Rosendall and Tardiff.
Rosendall: Anything from Victor or BK yet?
Tardiff: Victor is setting something up for next week. His people are working on it.
Synagro had an issue with "BK" being too close to the mayor, agrees Rosendall. Synagro was concerned that from a PR standpoint it wasn't a good idea. And that's the reason why says Shea about taking on Jackson.
"That and BK," says Rosendall.
Rosendall says he discussed it with Bernard and he understood.
Shea says even when Rosendall was referred to Jackson, Bernard maintained a financial agreement with the deal. There was an arrangement between Jackson and Bernard. Shea says so witness came to understand it was a 50/50 agreement. Yes says Rosendall.
Shea says that even when Jackson came on board, Bernard remained in a background sense. Rosendall agrees.
Shea mentions that in the Southern Fires recording, Bernard can be heard saying that Jackson didn't have the contacts with the DWSD and administration that he did.
Shea says that Bernard was doing what he could to move the deal forward.
Shea says at the time you lived in Grand Rapids.
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Most of us love sports because it can provide great theatre and a platform for truly special accomplishments to unfold. David can beat Goliath but also get crushed by him. Teams can be on the verge of greatness, only to see it snatched away at the last moment. Athletes can be inspired to rise from obscurity to become instant legends. And when the lights are the brightest and the pressure the most intense, that's when great performances often in occur. Over the last few weeks, the post-season tournaments provided great drama and storylines for area sports fans to experience.
The baseball team dedicated its season to coaching legend , who passed away in October. tossed a no-hitter on his birthday, then the Eagles went on a remarkable run, culminating with an FCIAC championship. Trumbull, just 14-8 at the time, beat Greenwich who had been undefeated (22-0) and the number one ranked team in the state.
never won a a South-West Conference softball championship, in fact, they had never even made it to the championship game. However, they authored a brilliant story, riding the powerful arm of to glory. Guillette, just a freshman, went 19-2 and beat Brookfield in the championship game to help secure the Tigers' first ever title.
Stratford legend inspired his team to the NCAA baseball tournament. With a losing record and having to win the conference championship to extend its season, Sacred Heart University went 11-4 down the stretch, then swept through the Northeast Conference tournament to earn an automatic berth in NCAA tournament.
of Fairfield wasn't on the radar screen of great goalies in college lacrosse before this season. The sophomore who attended Avon Old Farms, earned the starting job for the Greyhounds and was very consistent during the regular season, going 14-1. But when the NCAA tournament started, Runkel elevated his game to a whole different level. He was brilliant between the pipes and in the NCAA championship game against Maryland, Runkel made several spectacular saves and allowed just three goals in helping Loyala become national champions.
Thehit the low point of their lacrosse season on April 17 when they got destroyed by arch-rival Darien, 13-3. Their record stood at 3-3 and there were grumblings about coach Alex Whitten and his job security. Instead of falling apart, New Canaan got ram tough and went on a remarkable run. They ripped off twelve straight wins before meeting Ridgefield in the FCIAC championship game. The Rams trailed by four goals at halftime, but with the same resolve and determination that they showed after that humiliating loss to Darien, they rallied to beat the Tigers, 11-9, to capture their first FCIAC title since 2003.
The Los Angles Kings barely made the NHL's post-season tournament as the eighth seed in the Western Conference. However, when you have a red-hot goalie, David can often slay Goliath and he did in the first-round of the playoffs when Milford native stonewalled the Vancouver Canucks. Quick put the Kings on his back and the former and Avon Old Farms standout, has Los Angeles in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1993. If Quick leads the Kings to the title, he very well could end up as the winner of the Conn Symthe trophy, given to the playoff MVP. That's the award Cheshire'swon after leading the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup in 1994.
Jess Harkness of (Milford), like Quick, put her team on her back and carried them to a championship. The sophomore pitcher has been spectacular this year, posting a 20-1 record. She was on the mound last Saturday when the Lions beat Amity High School, 7-6, to secure Foran's first-ever SCC championship in softball.
Few teams in the area rise to the occasion during the post-season like the girls lacrosse team. The Nighthawks beat New Fairfield last Friday 18-13 to win their eighth consecutive South-West Conference championship. Sophomore Meaghan Brophy had five goals while Kristie VosWinkel and Erin Kenning chipped in with four goals apiece to lead the team to another title.
was in the midst of a dream season before playing Newtown for the SWC championship. The Panthers had won 21 consecutive games and authored three no-hitters in the span of eight days. But they lost their magic against Newtown, losing to the Nighthawks in the title game, 18-1. It was Pomperaug's first loss since April 4.
The softball team at flexed its muscle in a battle of superpowers. Facing Westhill (20-2) in the FCIAC championship, the Blue Wave rode the strong arm of Jessica DeMaio to beat the Vikings 8-5. Darien is the first team from the conference to repeat as champions since 2008-2009. The other team to accomplish that feat? That's right, Westhill.
The post-season often allows us to appreciate true greatness. The boys volleyball team at is etching their names in the annals of Connecticut High School sports. Last Thursday, the Rams beating Xavier to win the Southern Connecticut Conference tournament. Cheshire is 20-0 in 2012 and dating back to last season, they've won an incredible 42 consecutive matches.
In the theatre of sports, we sometimes to get to see truly impressive individual efforts. In victory over Barlow in the SWC championship game, Trojans goalie Grant Limone not only made 16 saves, but he ran the length of the field, weaving through Barlow defenders, and fired one past the opposing goalie. It was a key goal in Weston's 8-6 victory and a remarkable play by Limone, who just happened to be named MVP of the game.
Austin Pokluda had never started a game for but in the biggest game of the season, he found himself on the mound. Pitching for the tradition-rich school, Pokluda shut down Shelton in the SCC championship game. He gve up just one run on two hits in the 2-1 victory.
Pokluda is just another example of what makes the theatre of sports so great.


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PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) -- The Republican presidential candidates are focusing on Wisconsin, and front-runner Mitt Romney is appearing more and more confident that he's closing in on the nomination.
He's concentrating entirely on President Barack Obama during campaign events across the state, which holds its primary on Tuesday.
Rival Rick Santorum is trying to raise doubts about Romney's conservative credentials on the last weekend of campaigning before the critical showdown.
It's Santorum's last chance to prove his strength in the industrial heartland, where he's said he can challenge Obama, but where Romney has beaten him consistently.


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This is the first in a series of position-by-position looks at the Bears' personnel entering the 2011 offseason. We begin with an analysis of Chicago's QB situation.
Overview: Lost in the loud chorus of harsh criticism — much of it unfair — that QB Jay Cutler received during and after the Bears' loss in the NFC championship game was the fact that Cutler performed well in some difficult circumstances for much of the 2010 season. He was learning Mike Martz's complex offense, playing behind a porous offensive line and lacking a true No. 1 wide receiver. Despite that, he threw 23 TD passes and 16 interceptions and had a completion percentage of 60.4. A decent year ended badly with an awful showing against Green Bay, before he left with an MCL tear, and it will be intriguing to see how he responds next season.
The team will have to make some decisions about the personnel behind Cutler on the depth chart, as his backups, Todd Collins and Caleb Hanie, both have contracts that will expire this offseason. Hanie is due to become a restricted free agent and Collins will be unrestricted. Collins, 39, who was signed to a one-year deal in late August after Martz pushed for him to be brought in, is not expected to be back. Hanie, who earned some points with his play in relief of Cutler and Collins the NFC championship game, could return.
Here's a breakdown of each of the quarterbacks on the roster:
Jay Cutler: Some league observers have said that Cutler's improper mechanics — he throws off his back foot at times — are one of his main flaws, and Martz has admitted that they could use some work. No one questions Cutler's athletic ability, though. He has plenty of arm strength and mobility. Cutler used his considerable improvisational skills to his advantage frequently last season, rushing for a career-high 232 yards (4.6 yards per carry). His decision making is still questionable at times and he takes huge, ill-advised risks that sometimes result in turnovers. Cutler will need to improve in that area — he has thrown 43 interceptions in his 33 games with the Bears, including the playoffs. The injury he suffered against the Packers was supposed to take 3-4 weeks to heal, so that shouldn't be an issue for him going forward.
Todd Collins: Collins was dreadful when he had opportunities to play last season. He didn't throw a touchdown pass, was picked off five times and finished with a QB rating of 5.9. The passing game was a nonfactor when he was under center and he didn't show the veteran poise that was expected from him. His career is likely over.
Caleb Hanie: We still have a very small sample size to consider — Hanie had 14 career regular-season passing attempts before entering the NFC championship game late in the third quarter. He did spark the offense on a big stage against Green Bay, but he also threw two picks, including one that was returned for a TD by NT B.J. Raji. Overall, that performance boosted Hanie's stock and he could become a top backup somewhere, if not in Chicago.
Bottom line: Cutler is not going to win many popularity contests away from Halas Hall, but the Bears are behind their franchise QB and they need to surround him with a better supporting cast on offense this offseason. Hanie has made a solid case that he's ready to be a No. 2 QB in the league and we'll have a better sense of where he'll fit next year if and when the Bears tender him this offseason.


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WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Spring Valley High School went on lockdown Monday afternoon after a Facebook threat was reported.
Superintendent Mike Ferguson tells WSAZ.com that the reported threat, from one student to another, was made on Facebook.
Ferguson says the students involved, and their parents, have met with school administrators.
Ferguson says the Wayne County Sheriff's Office and West Virginia State Police are also investigating.
Ferguson also tells WSAZ.com that administrators followed the safe school's plan. They asked for a lockdown so authorities could bring in a dog to sweep the school.
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I think I've finally gotten to the point in my life where there isn't anything material I want for Christmas.
I've gradually made that journey from crying over getting a brown sweater when I was 7 to caring more about the look on the 7-year-olds in my family when they open their presents.
Call it inner peace, experience or whatever, but my attention has turned toward seeing the joy of Christmas with others instead of myself.
I have all that I need right now. I guess the only thing I'd want is for that to continue. For the health of myself and my family to remain stable. For my job situation to remain stable. For life to stay on an even keel.
I know that isn't a gift one can get, but if the jolly man in the red suit made it happen, I'd be grateful.
What I end up feeling more than anything during the holidays is hope.
Hope that we can feed the hungry. Hope that we can end wars. Hope that we can give each person what they need as the year draws to a close.
Like a New Year's resolution, that hope is quickly broken, but it exists nonetheless. Each senseless shooting by madmen tears away at the hope. Each foolish conflict where people are persecuted for a certain religion peels off another layer of hope.
Each corrupt politician who thinks power trumps all melts the hope away.
During the year, the hope fades, only to come back again each December. If I could ask for anything. it would be that the hope never fully disappears.
So it appears that the things I would like are neither physical nor likely to happen. That's probably where the concept of the "Magic of Christmas" comes from.
Everything is possible, if even for a glimmering moment. In a world where we increasingly hear about unprovoked mass killings, abuses of power and a general mistrust of everyone, moments of magic are needed.
It might be sappy. It might be fictional. It might be illogical. I don't really care.
If a little hope keeps from becoming a cynical, depressed pessimist, then I'll take it. I don't have to be a kid on Christmas, but it sure is fun.
Let's keep it that way.
You can reach Scott at firstname.lastname@example.com to say Merry Christmas with pride.


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From OpenwaterpediaGuillermo Bértola (born 26 December 1989) is a professional marathon swimmer from Cordoba, Argentina.
Bértola participated in the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China and the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. He competed on the 2012 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit and the 2012 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix pro circuit where he placed sixth overall.
2012 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix Rankings
1. Trent Grimsey (AUS) 95 points in 5 races
2. Damián Blaum (ARG) 71 points in 7 races
3. Andrea Volpini (ITA) 45 points in 7 races
4. Evgenij Pop Acev (MKD) 45 points in 6 races
5. Edoardo Stochino (ITA) 37 points in 5 races
6. Guillermo Bertola (ARG) 27 points in 4 races
7. Anton Pilipas (RUS) 14 points in 4 races
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Samsung vs Apple : Why Apple had to sue Samsung Now?
Recently, Apple sued Samsung for violation of intellectual property rights. Since Samsung was commonly known as the representative of manufacturers copying Apple, this action roused big issues in and out of Korea. Then, let's talk about this issue from my point of view.
The parts for which Apple sued are the violation of the property right in the exterior, location of buttons, and UI/UX design. There will be many arguments, but I think that Samsung had copied Apple. However, I have a different view on calling it a simple 'violation.' The infringement of patent itself would be a fact, but since iPhone created the original form of smartphone, they need some consideration for the newcomers. Currently, all manufacturers of smartphone are using the same smartphone structure, not just Samsung.
And it is difficult to see that it is the product of only one side's unilateral copying. Between Samsung F700 and iPhone that are known to have similar design in UI structure and the design of full-touch phone, Samsung was few months faster for introducing the product.
Also, one interesting point is that although Apple could have sued all smartphone manufacturers, it sued only two companies, HTC and Motorola. Why not sue all but just two companies? Therefore, the point of attention is not that Samsung was 'sued' by Apple, but 'why' Apple had to sue Samsung?
Galaxy S was truly the smartphone best seller. It was a big hit that it sold three million in Korea and 14 million around the world. Its sales record was # 1 in Samsung, being the moneymaker product. As a result, in Android OS smartphone category, Samsung's status increased pretty a lot. Even in early last year, it got pushed by its competitors and became the second to Motorola or HTC. But this year, it grew to be the front-runner of the Android OS smartphone market. Therefore, I cannot say for sure that Apple is thinking of Samsung as it competitor, but it is clear that Apple has begun to notice Samsung.
Of course, Samsung has much of Apple's basic structure of smartphone and the original technology of UI/UX. But when we get in further, things change a bit. There are quite many numbers of patents that Samsung possess in the category of communication technology, processor, and storage device. There has been a prediction that it won't be a hard fight even if Samsung counter-sued Apple regarding the wireless technology patent, and sure enough, Samsung counter-sued Apple for that just recently. Its main content is that Apple infringed 10 patents, including the patents on divided transmission of data, efficiency of transmission, and wireless data communication. For example, Samsung has HSPA telecommunications technology for transmission optimization and the reduction of power usage during data transmission,WCDMA telecommunications technology for reducing date transmission errors, and technology for tethering a mobile phone to a PC to enable the PC to utilize the phone's wireless data connection.
Moreover, the relationship between Samsung and Apple is a bit strange. This is because, unlike HTC and all, Samsung is not just a smartphone manufacturer, but it is a company that manufactures important components of smartphone such as SSD and CCD. Actually, in 2010, Apple purchased 57 billion dollars of components, becoming the second largest customer of Samsung after Sony. As for Sony, most of the sales had been from purchasing TV LCD modules through the S-LCD collaboration company, which is not much, and then Apple is the real big customer and buyer of Samsung. One manufacturer suing its biggest component supplier for infringement of patents—isn't that interesting? This is the main key of looking into this case.
Personally, I think that Apple is currently in a stalemate because the perfection of its launched products are too high. As to speak for Apple's situation, there were many news that the introduction of iPhone 5 would be delayed until September. This might speak for Apple's technological crisis. Also, Apple must sustain the rational price, as well as the surprising design and innovative technology because that is the reason that the customers seek Apple. However, as I've told you above, Apple heavily leans on Samsung for supplying the components. They can do nothing but always sit at a difficult negotiation table with Samsung. Recently, there has been news that the unit price of Apple would increase according to the increase of semiconductor price. In order to demonstrate its lead in such negotiation table, Apple needed the suit— it is a quite convincing story.
Just looking at the surface of this case, it might stop at that Samsung is having a hard time regarding the patent infringement. However, the reality is slightly different. That is why it's interesting. With this event, Apple might get a better hand in the negotiation with Samsung, and Samsung would gain the image that it is Apple's competitor. Maybe this will turn out to be a win-win game for two companies.
Not long ago, Samsung's Galaxy S2 was launched, and the reviews from in and out of Korea eulogize it. Especially, Engadget selected Galaxy S2 as the best smartphone ( Edgadget Link : Samsung Galaxy S II review ). And Apple is planning to introduce iPhone 5, following after. What ending would these two competing companies create? I shall watch them with interest.
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North Murray's first running play only went for 2 yards.
All the ones that followed seemed to go for much more.
The Mountaineers piled up 441 yards on the ground en route to a 37-14 season-opening victory at home against Southeast Whitfield.
North Murray's all-senior backfield — quarterback Brady Swilling, fullback Christian Bukle and running back Jacob Mays — caused the majority of the Raiders' trouble. Swilling had 229 yards off 18 carries, Mays had 113 yards off eight carries and Bukle tallied 84 yards off 11 touches. The trio combined for four of the five North Murray touchdowns.
The Mountaineers ran the ball 47 times and only threw it twice in David Gann's first game as coach.
"That's coach Gann's style," Mays said. "If a play works one time, then he's going to keep running it."
The Raiders were still in striking distance heading into the second half, only trailing 16-7. However, North Murray got the ball to start the third quarter and went on a nine-play, 80-yard drive capped off by Mays' 33-yard touchdown run with 6 minutes, 51 seconds remaining. With the score 23-7, Southeast never rebounded.
"We've got a lot of work to do offensively and defensively," Southeast coach Sean Gray said. "We've got to do a whole lot better job of coaching. I'll take a lot of the blame for that. I didn't do a very good job on my part. We've got to be better prepared."
The only other person to score for North Murray was John Chastain on a 2-yard burst with 3:15 left in the third to give the Mountaineers a 30-7 advantage. Bukle finished North Murray's scoring off with his only trip to the end zone, a 37-yard run with 7:39 left in the game.
"Me being an offensive lineman when I played, that is what I want to do," Gann said. "We kind of give it to our horses and run behind our offensive line."
This is North Murray's first win since 2010 and only the second win in the young program's three-year varsity football history. It is also the first time the Mountaineers have had a winning record — North Murray won 35-21 against Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe in the fifth game of the 2010 season.
Gann said he "didn't think about that" until asked how it felt. Mays, who started as a sophomore and experienced first hand a 1-19 two-year stretch, had the description down.
"It's awesome," he said. "It feels really good."
On the Southeast side, not much went right. The Raiders only gained 182 yards from scrimmage compared to North Murray's 444. Blake Foster, who made his first start at quarterback, went 4 for 19 passing for 9 yards, although Gray said he saw some positives from the junior.
Already trailing 16-0 after an Izzy Hernandez field goal and a pair of touchdown runs from Swilling, Southeast got on the board in the second quarter off an 11-yard touchdown run from Foster with 8:06 remaining, a drive aided by a pass interference call on the Mountaineers. There were 15 penalties total — eight on North Murray and seven on Southeast.
Both coaches were not pleased with the number of flags thrown against their side.
"We were inches away a lot of times," Gray said. "We had a lot of penalties. It seemed like every time we had a big play it got called back. ... Hats off to them. They did a good job. Their coaches did a good job. (Swilling) played great. He had a lot of big plays. We just didn't get anything going."
Gann had his list of problems ready to go.
"Kick coverage we've got to fix," he said. "A lot of stupid penalties. We had some alignment problems. We had to waste several timeouts because we couldn't get lined up properly."
Southeast's bright spot came from running back and kick returner Rhett Harper. The junior tallied 252 all-purpose yards, including kick returns of 45 and 90 yards, with the latter going for a touchdown in the fourth quarter to end the game's scoring.
"He had several big plays. He had the kickoff return for a touchdown and the reverse for a long gain," Gray said.
North Murray only gained 3 passing yards as Swilling finished the day 1 of 2 through the air — a completion that went to wide receiver Matthew Clayton.
Southeast Whitfield 0 7 0 7 — 14
North Murray 10 6 14 7 — 37
First Quarter
NM — Izzy Hernandez 23 kick, 6:28
NM — Brady Swilling 18 run (Hernandez kick), 2:27
Second Quarter
NM — Swilling 74 run (Hernandez kick), 11:40
SE — Blake Foster 11 run (Abel Mendiola kick), 8:06
Third Quarter
NM — Jacob Mays 33 run (Aaron Mendez kick), 6:51
NM — John Chastain 2 run (Mendez kick), 3:15
Fourth Quarter
NM — Christian Bukle 37 run (Mendez kick), 7:39
SE — Rhett Harper 90 kick return (Mendiola kick), 7:25


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