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Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kareena Kapoor
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Rajeev Masand, CNN IBN: 2.5/5
'RA.One' is flawed but ambitious ... Complete review
Mayank Shekhar, Hindustan Times: 2/5
Raw one ... Complete review
Taran Adarsh, BollywoodHungama.com: 4.5/5
RA.ONE is a solid entertainer, no two opinions on that. It's not merely a great looking film, but also has soul, which is so essential to strike a chord with the avid moviegoer ... Complete review
Komal Nahta, ETC & Koimoi.com: 3.5/5
Definitely watch Ra.One for the superlative performances and the grand visual effects and the 3D effects ... Complete review
Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India: 3.5/5
Small quibbles, actually, since Ra-One is sure to usher in a crackling Diwali at the box office and give the audience paisa vasool entertainment, with fine performances by both Shah Rukh and Kareena ... Complete review
Sonia Chopra, Sify.com: 2.5/5
Aiyyo! This superhero falls short ... Complete review
Raja Sen, Rediff.com: 1.5/5
What a letdown! ... Complete review
Mayank Shekhar, Hindustan Times: 2/5
Raw one ... Complete review
Naresh Deoshi, ApunkaChoice.com: 3.5/5
'Ra.One' is an awesome 3D spectacle! ... Complete review
MovieTalkies.com: 3.5/5
'RA.One', Superhero Shah Rukh Khan's Diwali Dazzle ... Complete review
Martin D'Souza, GlamSham.com: 3/5
For teenagers, this should definitely be a delight ... Complete review
Karan Anshuman, Mumbai Mirror: 2/5
RA.One is a film that indulges the public's perception and his kids' impulse. It is designed not to be memorable, but to make money ... Complete review
Shubha Shetty-Saha, Mid-Day.com: 2.5/5
'RA.One' fails to impress ... Complete review
Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express: 2/5
It is a superstarry slurry sludge, with just the occasional consolatory sparkle ... Complete review
Spicezee Bureau, Zee News: 2/5
'RA.One'- Not your usual SRK film ... Complete review
Kaveree Bamzai, India Today: 3.5/5
Ra.One looks like a big party where SRK plays the host and everyone is invited ... Complete review
Swati Rohatgi, NowRunning.com: 2/5
The works of Ra.One lie in its visuals. If you are looking for a story this isn't the film for you. ... Complete review
Aniruddha Guha, DNA India: 3/5
Ra.One is a half-baked attempt that entertains sporadically ... Complete review
Khalid Mohamed, Deccan Chronicle: 4/5
Quite a thrill ride ... Complete review
K K Rai, Stardust: 3.5/5
It is certainly better than anything bollywood has offered so far and is more in consonance with standards of Hollywood ... Complete review
Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV: 3/5
RA.One is like a colourful Popsicle that looks tantalising, tickles the palate while it lasts, but leaves no particular after-taste ... Complete review
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— Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are continuing to prescribe tranquilizers such as Valium and Xanax to veterans diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, despite VA guidelines advising against their use for the condition.
Almost a third of veterans being treated for PTSD are prescribed benzodiazepines, a class of sedatives commonly used to treat insomnia, anxiety, seizures and other conditions. Researchers found that benzodiazepine prescriptions by VA doctors for PTSD patients declined from 37 percent to 30 percent between 1999 and 2009, but it remained at 30 percent through 2012.
The VA health care system experienced a huge increase in the number of veterans being treated for PTSD, increasing three-fold in 10 years to about a half-million patients in 2009.
Benzodiazepines have been around since the 1960s when they became the sedative of choice and replaced barbiturates which carried a high risk of overdose and abuse. Benzodiazepines have become the preferred PTSD drug treatment because of their usefulness in managing anxiety and insomnia.
The current clinical practice guidelines for managing PTSD, co-authored by the VA and Department of Defense, caution medical providers against using benzodiazepines due to lack of data and growing evidence for the potential risk of harm. Studies, however, have not shown benzodiazepines as effective treatment for what are called the core PTSD symptoms of avoidance, hyper-arousal, numbing and dissociation. In fact, the drugs may impede other effective treatments for PTSD. Mounting evidence suggests that the long-term harms imposed by benzodiazepine use outweigh any short-term symptomatic benefits in patients with PTSD.
Studies that compared the use of a benzodiazepine called "Alprazolam" and a placebo for alleviating PTSD symptoms find that the slight reduction of anxiety was offset by withdrawal symptoms after only five weeks of use.
The use of benzodiazepines is especially problematic in PTSD patients who also have substance abuse disorders or mild traumatic brain injuries. The DOD/VA guidelines especially caution their use with patients suffering from combat-related PTSD because more than half of such patients abuse alcohol or drugs.
Once initiated, benzodiazepines can be very difficult, if not impossible, to discontinue due to significant withdrawal symptoms compounded by the underlying PTSD symptoms.
Most of the VA prescriptions for benzodiazepines for PTSD patients are made by mental health providers rather than primary care physicians, who should be more aware of the VA/DOD guidelines, according to a study published in March in the journal Psychiatric Services. The study analyzed VA prescription records from 2009 of 357,000 veterans with PTSD. Findings also suggest that these particular providers contribute considerably to the misalignment between guideline-based care and actual practice.
This study did not determine the causes of such misalignment but offered a few possible reasons. Many mental health providers inherit patients who previously received benzodiazepines from other clinicians, creating an immediate tension as the clinician seeks to balance individual patient factors with the need to provide guideline-supported care. Further studies are needed to determine whether the high prescription rates for benzodiazepine are due to ignorance.
The majority of PTSD patients in the study were Vietnam War-era veterans who perhaps began taking benzodiazepines years before guidelines were in place. Newer studies involving Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are in the works.
For all concerns contact a VA Regional Medical Center or personal physician.
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It didn't take winning big on "The Price is Right" to persuade seasoned Sonoma County waiter Daniel Byrne that he lived a fortunate life.
Byrne savored Wine Country cuisine, singing karaoke in Guerneville, his garden, his friends, his Santa Rosa cottage festooned with antiques and curiosities, and any excuse to take a scenic drive.
The 1966 Montgomery High graduate and co-creator of the school's Viking logo died Saturday. He'd gone into Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital several days earlier with acute symptoms of a lung condition that deprived him of oxygen.
The former longtime waiter at the Sonoma Mission Inn was 64.
The greeting on his telephone answering machine was the voice of a TV game-show announcer beckoning, "Daniel Byrne! Come on down!"
For years, he watched Bob Barker and "The Price is Right" with his late mother, Edith. Before she died she urged him to try to get onto the show as a contestant.
Byrne took a shot and in 2003 made the cut. He had the time of his life on the show and came home with one of the richest prize packages it had ever awarded: a Cadillac coupe, a Ford pickup, a trip to Ireland, a pair of designer wristwatches, a fancy telescope and a big TV.
He sold the cars and bought a Saab to replace his beloved old VW.
Byrne was a good-humored character well known in Sonoma County hospitality circles for much of his life. He said in 2009 that he got his start as a kid wrapping baking potatoes in foil at the Sizzler in 1965.
He went on to wait tables at the Mark West Lodge, Los Robles, the Fairmont in San Francisco, The Hilltopper, John Ash and the Sonoma Mission Inn.
Said friend Valerie Stanfill, "He waited on the Duchess of York at the Sonoma Mission Inn. He presented me the apron that he wore that day."
A second longtime friend, Bob Wishard, said that for some time Byrne was assigned the landmark Sonoma Valley inn and spa's most prominent patrons — among them, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
"He took pride that he would always get the toughest table," recalled Wishard, who retired from many years of tending bar and cooking at one of Byrne's favorite haunts, Willie Bird's Restaurant.
Stanfill and Wishard said their friends took great delight in decorating every inch of his English tea cottage in Santa Rosa's South Park neighborhood with mementoes, art, second-hand store treasures and such.
"He had art glass and tissue-thin porcelain tea cups, the most incredible stuff," Wishard said. And there was an organ.
On his friends' birthdays, Wishard said, "their phones would ring and they'd pick it up and it would be Dan, playing 'Happy Birthday' on the organ. He never missed, whether you wanted to hear it or not."
Byrne also was fond of singing karaoke, often at taverns in Guerneville. "He'd always sing Kay Starr songs," buddy Wishard said.
Perhaps Byrne's favorite activity was eating out at Sonoma County's envied array of restaurants. In a 2009 interview with The Press Democrat, he offered an insider's tip for getting good service:
"When the server first greets you, tell him or her, 'Don't worry about us. We're fine, take your time.'"
In addition to his friends, Byrne is survived by his brother, Tim Byrne of Santa Rosa.
No funeral service is planned. Friends may pay their respects from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday at Daniels Chapel of the Roses.
Memorial donations are suggested to the American Diabetes Association, 1900 Powell St., Suite 285, Emeryville 94608.
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To Boost STEM Education, Companies Need to Change How They Hire
Jamai Blivin, founder and CEO of Innovate+Educate, says that the pathway from education to employment is evolving – and companies need to adapt to hire the best and the brightest candidates.
Science, technology, engineering, and math may be the keys to maintaining an innovation economy in the United States. But traditional STEM education alone may not be enough to keep the country competitive, some experts say. Instead, companies themselves need to find new ways to challenge the status quo.
[READ: Are Teachers' Unions Bad for STEM Education?]
"I think it's critical that all students and job seekers get STEM skills and education," Jamai Blivin, founder and CEO of Innovate + Educate, told U.S. News & World Report in a recent interview. "But not everyone will get them from a traditional education-first path. You can get them on the job. The employer's role could be to create a foundation for STEM."
"STEM is of utmost importance to our country," she adds. "We think that 90 percent of all jobs in the country really require STEM skills, with mathematics being key to success in the workplace."
[READ: Highlights from the 2013 U.S. News Stem Solutions Conference]
Blivin founded Innovate+Educate in 2009, to help close the national skills gap and align STEM education and workforce development. She says that the pathway from education to employment is evolving – and that companies need to adapt to hire the best and the brightest candidates.
"Not everyone has the opportunity or the time or the financial ability for four years of school right after high school," she points out. "So we believe a new world of work is a pathway that can go from internships to an early level job then to community college, for example -- a different pathway that we have to have so employers recognize that not everyone comes out with a four-year degree immediately."
"A degree is a label," she adds. "A degree says, 'I went to this college and got this certain degree.' Enough with the labels."
To encourage companies to consider new ways of hiring and training employees, Blivin launched the Hire Awards, a competition to encourage employers to address their own challenges, create a bigger and better talent pool, and provide new opportunities for job seekers. (The competition was created in conjunction with U.S. news & World Report.)
"With this competition we're looking at new ways the companies are saying, 'How can we find talent and human capital, how are we really working to advance human capital?'" Blivin says. "It could be total online course training. It could be employers recognizing that employees got training in a non-traditional way, like through experience in the Army, for example, where they went right from high school to the service and gained lots of skills, but are somewhat invisible because they don't have that label of a degree."
The winners of this year's Hire Awards will be announced Nov. 6 at the Close It Summit in Washington, D.C., where they'll be featured in the conference's Idea Exchange exhibit and profiled in the November 2013 edition of "The Innovation Intake." (There is still time to attend the Close It Summit , and companies can submit an application for the Hire Awards until Sept. 30.)
"The Hire Awards is a specific contest for companies with the most innovative hiring strategies," Blivin says. "So, whatever they're doing to hire in new ways -- internships, externships, working with regional partnerships -- it's really looking at what companies do to address their own hiring needs. We anticipate that this will be an annual contest, and that we'll really get to see what companies are doing."
"We believe that really the change has to happen in the hiring," she adds. "So this summit is specifically focused on the internal changes the companies are making and are willing to make to look at new ways to hire. That's really what the focus is."
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"Bella Italia" will feature music to be performed by the San Antonio Mastersingers and the University of Texas at San Antonio Concert Choir in Italy, May 12–21. The program begins with Giovanni Palestrina's "Ave Maria", "composed for St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in Rome, where we've been invited to sing a Mass during this tour," says John Silantien, conductor of the groups.
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio performs their annual Spring Song this Sunday at 3 p.m., with a theme "The Magic Within."
Artistic Director and Founder Marguerite McCormick is excited for the program.
The Texas House has passed House Bill 21, which sets up a statewide database to track the location of repeat offenders that have been convicted of family violence.
The bill, which is authored by Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio, sets up a registry of anyone convicted three times on charges of family violence and/or child abuse.
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It appears that regardless of what passes or doesn't pass in the legislature this month, the San Antonio city ordinance on payday lenders in San Antonio will remain.
According to Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption advocacy nonprofit, payday lenders had more than $3.7 million in donations to state lawmaker campaigns since 2010.
The organization says the payday loan lobby is fueling a "tepid" set of reforms.
The city is in the middle of a week-long list of events to motivate residents of all ages - from elementary to high school and beyond - to go to college.
On Monday, Mayor Julián Castro reminded people on the steps of City Hall about the city's commitment to education.
"San Antonians set a bold goal," he said. "That goal was to make the biggest turnaround in educational achievement any big city has seen in a decade."
Update: (May 2, 3:20 p.m.) Allen was sentenced to three months confinement, reduction to the grade of E-3 (Airman First Class) and hard labor without confinement for 30 days.
Allen's is the 18th completed courts-martial in the ongoing Lackland sex scandal involving military training instructors.
Two Senate lawmakers and the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court are asking the state to look into the possible disparity of minority children being criminally ticketed for misbehaving in the classroom.
"An estimated 300,000 misdemeanor tickets are issued in our state's schools each year," said Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. "We are criminalizing our children for non-violent offenses."
Much like laws in the other states that ban restaurants and food eateries from using trans fats, Texas senators are now considering a similar measure in House Bill 1359.
"The bill prohibits the use of any trans fats above .5 grams, and it doesn't have any enforcement provisions in it, but it does allow the food inspection department to provide some grading on the restaurants using or not using trans fats," said Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, who authored the bill.
There is a lot of attention being paid to Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." The ballet caused a riot at its premiere back in May 1913, and 100 years later is still gathering audiences. San Antonio audiences saw the Joffrey Ballet perform it on tour with pre-recorded music back in March.
In response to a request by state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has issued an opinion on domestic partner benefits.
Abbott said cities, school districts and other "political subdivisions" who allow benefits to domestic partners are in violation of the Texas Constitution.


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In other business, the Ada City Council:
• Approved several items related to upgrading the water tower on Townsend Street.
The council authorized the city to seek a $90,784 federal grant for the project and hired the company Millie Vance Inc. to apply for the funds and administer the grant. The city will supply $251,123 in matching funds to the project, which carries an estimated price tag of $341, 907.
• Scheduled an Aug. 5 hearing on whether the city should annex property south of the J..A. Richardson Loop on Kerr Lab Road.


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With a vibe greater than the BMO Harris Bradley Center during a Bucks game, high school basketball fans took part in a long-awaited game Tuesday night.
It was the undefeated Brookfield Central Lancers versus the undefeated Germantown Warhawks. Not for a title but for bragging rights. Some called it the classic David versus Goliath.
"No. 1, No. 2 teams both undefeated. Doesn't get much better than that," Jonathan Bertram said.
Sure they're the top two boys high school basketball teams in the state, but this game was about more than that.
"Got a different vibe to it than most games," Brookfield Central High School Athletic Director Todd Sobrilsky said.
In a way, it was a game of payback. Early last season, Brookfield Central almost beat Germantown. If they would have, this game wouldn't even make headlines.
"We had a close game last year, and that's still fresh in their minds," Lancers varsity basketball coach Mark Adams said.
It's fresh because the Lancers had a chance to end a streak of winning games by the Warhawks. It's a streak that sat at a state record 69 going into Tuesday night's game.
"This is high school athletics at its best," Sobrilsky said.
And the fans were there in droves. Two thousand tickets released Thursday were gone in just over five hours.
"It gives our area a chance to see some big time basketball, which we haven't seen in awhile," said Christopher Teague, who went to neither school.
And predictions were for both sides.
"I'm going with the Lancers tonight," Mike Doyle said.
"I have a high regard for their winning streak and wouldn't mind seeing it continue," Mark Zaborske said.
But that was not to be on this night. The Lancers got their revenge from last season, stopping the streak.
The final score of the game was Germantown 58, Brookfield Central 68.


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Gator Women's Tennis Avenges Loss/ Advances to Sweet 16
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The Florida Gator women's tennis team beat Florida State in the second round of the NCAA championships on Sunday, avenging a loss to the Seminoles earlier this season. In earning the 4-2 victory, the Gators advance to the sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament for the 15th time in the past 16 years. The Gators will now face Georgia, a team that has split the previous two meetings with the Gators this season.
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WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. —
The IU Southeast men's basketball team eclipsed the century mark for the second consecutive game on Saturday, defeating host Point Park 108-75.
The Grenadiers, ranked 17th in the latest NAIA Division II Top 25 poll, had five players score in double figures.
Junior guard Cameron Mitchell led IU Southeast (11-3, 2-0 Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) with a game-high 25 points. Mitchell also recorded a game-high eight rebounds and three steals.
Teammate Jake Simpson posted 22 points, while Grenadier senior guard Haris Batalevic recorded 14 points and a game-high six assists. Also for IU Southeast, Jeffersonville High School product Kegan Clark had 13 points, four assists and two steals and sophomore Tyrell Means tallied 12 points, a game-high eight boards, a game-high four steals and two assists.
IU Southeast will host Miami (Ohio)-Middletown at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
• Grenadiers fall at Point Park: IU Southeast suffered its third loss in the last four contests on Saturday with a 63-56 setback at Point Park.
Heather Wheat, the reigning KIAC Player of the Week, paced the Grenadiers (7-7, 0-3 KIAC) with a game-high 27 points. She also had five rebounds and a game-high three steals.
New Albany High School graduate Tionna Peters was the only other IU Southeast player to score in double digits. The freshman had 13 points.
Point Park led by as many as 16 points in the second half. But Peters hit a jumper with 34 seconds in regulation to pull the Grenadiers to within five at 61-56.
But Point Park's Emily Schartner sealed the victory with 16 seconds remaining by nailing a pair of free throws.
IU Southeast will travel to Brescia on Tuesday, Jan. 8.


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Last summer in Paris I saw croissants in every pâtisserie and boulangerie I visited-- and I visited many! I'd remembered savoring their flaky, buttery goodness in college days and on subsequent visits to the city of lights. But this time around I noticed that the ones I consumed tasted just like the kind I buy in a bag at the local grocery store. In talking with one of the friendlier shop owners (and friendly Parisians can be hard to come by) I learned that many shops now bake premade frozen croissants and put them into their cases each day. Still, they tasted good and I was pleased to know that we in The States are eating just as well as the Parisians in the croissant department.
You may be surprised to know that croissants are actually the French version of an older Austrian pastry called Kipferl. The French version is a little lighter and flakier, and named for its crescent shape.
Today is National Croissant Day. Croissants are readily available everywhere from drive-thru breakfast sandwiches, to the coffee shops on every corner, to our local groceries. You can even make them from scratch. The recipe isn't difficult, but it is time consuming, so I tend to buy mine at the supermarket. But when I want to make a quick and easy dish using croissants I buy a tube of crescent rolls from the grocery refrigerator case, and roll my desired fillings inside of each triangular piece of dough. I stuff them full enough that the fillings become the star of the meal. The process is fast and the result satisfying, though unlikely to win any food awards.
I'm using this quick process to make the Ham and Cheese Croissants from Easy Weekly Meals for College Students pictured here. Give it a try if you'd like a fast, yummy, and inexpensive way to enjoy "home-baked" croissants for National Croissant Day. Or, like our Facebook Page today to receive a free copy of that recipe.
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"Drive My Car" was the opening track to the Beatles 1965 album "Rubber Soul," which was ranked as the fifth best album of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003.
The song is one of the Beatles more lighthearted songs and it's hard not to get a smile on your face if it comes on the radio while you are out cruising around.
Just try to avoid shouting along with the "Beep beep'm beep beep yeah" parts. We dare you.
Best lyrics:
I told that girl I can start right away
When she said listen babe I got something to say
I got no car and it's breaking my heart
But I've found a driver and that's a start
No. 7: "Low Rider" by WAR
"Low Rider" is a 1975 song that chronicles the practice in auto culture of installing hydraulics to a muscle car's suspension system, making it a "low rider."
The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also featured on the soundtrack to the 1995 film "Dazed and Confused," a movie about a bunch of teenagers that like to drive around and go cruising in the 1970s.
Listen to it a few times, and you will wish you were right there with them.
Best lyrics:
All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher
Low rider drives a little slower
Low rider is a real goer
No. 6: "Pink Cadillac" by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen used auto imagery in many of his songs, but probably never more famously than in this top 10 hit from 1984.
The Boss has said that he was inspired to become a musician after seeing Elvis Presley on television when he was 7 years old. While the owner of the pink Cadillac in the song is a woman, it's difficult to imagine that it wasn't at least partially inspired by Elvis Presley's famous pink Cadillac, which is still preserved at Graceland.
As you listen to the song's soulful saxophone whine, we bet you won't be able to think of anything but the open road.
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But my love is bigger than a Honda
It's bigger than a Subaru
Hey man there's only one thing
And one car that will do


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By Jeanne LeFlore
Staff Writer
McALESTER —
The Grand Avenue Methodist Church is for sale with the anticipation that buyers will not destroy the historical building but keep the memory and the culture of the church alive.
"We are asking $250,000," said Dr. Charles Neff senior pastor.
"The hope is that the church won't have to be demolished," Neff said. "My hope is that if there is not a church that wants it, that an individual or group of individuals can use the building to form a museum or cultural heritage center that the community would benefit from."
The church, with more than 40,000 square feet, is in good repair, according to Neff and will be sold with "some but not all furnishings." He said church has been properly maintained and there are no structural problems that he is aware of.
The giant pipe organ is for sale with a $25,000 asking price and the stain glass windows will be removed and reinstalled into the congregations new church on 13th and MacArthur across from Mike Deak Field.
The doors are set to close in the next few months but in January of 1924 the people of McAlester waited to enter to see the magnificent building from the inside.
They watched and waited for a year as the church was constructed and finally on Sunday morning, January 6, 1924, the church opened it's doors "to a warm and royal welcome to all" with special music by the choir as Reverend R.C. Taylor preached to the new congregation, ccording to the News-Capital.
The paper reported that "The church is not only a model of beauty, but it is complete in every detail of modern appointment from basement to auditorium. Built of a dark rough-surfaced terra-cotta brick and trimmed in Carthage stone with massive Doric columns of Carthage stone in front, it embodies in one of the Roman, Grecian and Southern type of architecture."
The church was not entirely complete when the doors opened as the pipe organ wasn't yet shipped.
"When it is entirely completed including the installation of the giant pipe organ it will have cost approximately $125,000," according to a 1924 News-Capital article.
The original congregation was a combination of two churches, when members of the Mary Phillips Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church and the Grand Avenue Methodist church united and moved into the Grand Avenue Sanctuary.
One of the first building campaigns began in 1919, when the Rev. Walter Douglass pastor of the Mary Phillips Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South told his congregation that in order to grow, they would need a new modern church.
"It is impossible to do church work as it was done fifty years ago," Douglass said. "Business and social life and every phase of life has revolutionized within the last few years. The church is not keeping pace with the business world."
"I bring you this message, This church will erect an adequate building and train it's leaders for service or the coming generation will be lost."
A 1919 advertisement said, "Visualize a $75,000 church and Christian center on the northwest corner of Third and Grand ... don't think that because you are a non-member or even a non-believer that you will be missed in the canvass." The newspaper reported that the lot of the old C.B. Stuart home for the church was purchased by the church for $10,000.
Today the church still stands in its original glory with some changes, according to Neff.
"There is an elevator to all four floors a balcony has been removed. He said the opera style seating chairs were replaced with pews in the 1970s. The pianos have been sold or given away to those also in ministry,
Neff said the church began entertaining the idea of a move since Easter of 2008 when as a group they decided to relocate and first phase of the new First Methodist Church of McAlester is expected to open in August with a Grand Opening in September.
To say good bye to the old and to welcome the new is nothing new as members of another church moved to it's new sanctuary in 1924, according to the News-Capital.
"And though the entire congregation looks forward now to the pleasure and high anticipations to their entrance to the splendid new edifice of Grand Avenue, yet with all the older members there is a golden flood of hallowed recollections to be stored away in memory's casket as the say 'Good Bye Phillips Memorial.'"
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[JURIST] After a tense two-hour meeting Tuesday evening, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) appears to have won the support of some important GOP peers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, seemingly securing the committee chairmanship that will open when term limits force the resignation of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) in January. Specter's comments cautioning President Bush against the appointment of anti-abortion Supreme Court justices ignited controversy recently, with some conservative groups and religious organizations calling for GOP leaders to block Specter's ascension to the chairmanship. Following Tuesday's meeting, Hatch affirmed his support for Specter as his replacement, and stated that he expects his five-term Senate colleague to have the support of the committee. The Pennsylvania Republican is expected to release a statement reassuring conservatives of his support for the president's judicial nominees. Knight-Ridder has more. See a previous story on JURIST's Paper Chase detailing the backlash over Specter's comments.
[JURIST] Filling the vacancy left when Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced his resignation on Monday, President Bush will nominate domestic policy advisor and longtime confidante Margaret Spellings to fill the top post in the Department of Education, according to White House sources. Spellings was Bush's education advisor for six years in Texas, putting together programs focusing on student accountability and early reading initiatives which became the foundation for the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which Spellings also helped construct. An official announcement is expected Wednesday. AP has more. See Spellings' White House bio. A recent online White House Q&A hosted by Spellings on education policy, No Child Left Behind, and her White House service is available here.
[JURIST] In Tuesday's environmental law news, Greenpeace, the international environmental activist group, was allowed to speak for the first time Tuesday before the UN General Assembly. Today is the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the group used the occasion to challenge a proposed resolution that would call for a review of oceanic bottom trawling, arguing instead for an immediate condemnation of the practice. The speech is not yet available online. It is unknown whether Greenpeace will be welcome to make comments in the future. The Greenpeace press release has more.In other news, Bhutan will enact a full ban on the sale of tobacco and tobacco products beginning tomorrow. While some countries have begun to impose limits on smoking, the small Himalayan country is the first to impose an outright ban. Bhutanese who bring tobacco into the country for personal use face a 100% tax. Foreigners will be treated as smugglers. The UK Independent has more.... The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced an interim rule, effective immediately, that quarantines a section of Los Angeles CA as infected with the Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel). Outbreaks of the pest have been known to cause complete loss of crops and severe economic losses. The quarantine, made in accordance with the Plant Protection Act [PDF], limits the sale and transportation of harvested fruits, nuts, vegetables and berries from leaving the area. The quarantined area is mostly residential which should result in minimal impact. Background on fruit fly infestation and containment programs can be found here. APHIS welcomes comments on the quarantine until January 18, 2005 here.... The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) seeks comments on a proposed rule that would prohibit fishing on the Grammanik Bank between February 1 and April 30, 2005. The Bank is located south of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, and is the expected site of yellowfin grouper spawning. The closing is done under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and hopes to protect the overfished, slow-growing grouper. Comments can be made under December 1 here.
[JURIST] A British high court hearing became the first ordinary legal case to be filmed by TV cameras in the UK Tuesday. The court heard the appeal of former council leader Jim Speechley from a misconduct conviction. Footage from the appeal is being used by the Royal Courts of Justice for evaluation purposes, but will not be generally broadcast. The cameras focused on the lawyers in the case and then on the appeal judges. At present no British court proceedings are televised, with the exception of House of Lords rulings read out in Parliament's upper chamber. Britain's Department for Constitutional Affairs has a consultation paper [PDF] on court broadcasting. BBC News has more.
[JURIST] New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who launched an investigation into insurance companies including Marsh & McLennan, told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Tuesday that more criminal pleas related to bad practices are coming. Spitzer is urging Congress to take a stronger look at the insurance industry. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told the committee that state insurance laws should be redone to combat fraud, illegal steering and bid-rigging and that whatever legislation Congress proposes should not weaken state regulation. Insurance companies are in support of legislation which would create a uniform standard for the entire industry. View the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing information here. Read a transcript of Spitzer's testimony to the committee here [PDF]. AP has more.
[JURIST] A partial recount of the New Hampshire presidential vote sought by independent candidate Ralph Nader is set to start Thursday. The Nader campaign filed for the recount November 5, citing the inaccuracy of optical scan vote-counting machines. The request covers 11 of the state's precincts that use Diebold Inc. Accuvote optical scanning machines to count paper ballots and came after some of the Accuvote machines gave President Bush up to 15 percent more votes than had been expected from exit polling. Nader will wait to see the results of the recount before asking for recounts in other states. Read the Nader press release here. A release on the original recount request is here. AP has more.
[JURIST] BBC News is reporting that President Bush has officially selected current National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to fill the secretary of state post, as reported on JURIST's Paper Chase Monday. Current Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation Monday. A live webcast of the White House press briefing will begin at 12:45 PM ET.1:05 PM ET - An AP story is now available online; European officials' reactions to Rice's nomination have been mixed.4:20 PM ET - A transcript of the announcement ceremony is now available online from the White House.
[JURIST] The Pacific Legal Foundation has initiated a challenge to plans by the government to designate four dozen endangered species for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The foundation notified the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service Monday of its plans to challenge the agencies' action. The foundation claims that the government underestimated the economic impact of preserving habitat for the species based on a district court decision [PDF] in California. The Endangered Species Act requires advance notice before a lawsuit is filed. Read Pacific Legal's 60-day notice [PDF] of its intent to sue and a press release. AP has more.
[JURIST] In Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. has not been defeated as top shareholders in PeopleSoft are split on whether to accept the bid. Capital Guardian Trust Co. will tender its 10% stake to Oracle while Private Capital Management LP will not vote its 9.3% stake because PeopleSoft may be worth more. Oracle which will pull its offer on November 19 says 70% of PeopleSoft shares are up for grabs. Oracle has more on its offer for PeopleSoft here. Bloomberg has more.In other news, Fannie Mae missed a regulatory filing deadline as the mortgage giant's outside auditor KPMG refused to sign off on its third-quarter earnings report. Read the Fannie Mae press release here. AP has more.... Hollinger International Inc. will sell The Jerusalem Post to Israeli media company Mirkaei Tikshoret Group Ltd. for $13.2 million. Canada's largest newspaper publisher, CanWest Global Communications Corp., will take a 50 percent interest in the newspaper as part of the deal. Read the CanWest press release here. AP has more. In other Hollinger news, Conrad Black's company Ravelston is attempting to buy out Hollinger and take the company private. Reuters has more.... Enron's bankruptcy proceedings are likely to cost up to $1 billion in legal fees. The Billings Gazette has more.... Two Merrill Lynch analysts, who had been put on paid administrative leave for writing that J Sainsbury had told them that their forecasts in the food retailing sector were too high, returned to work after being cleared by an internal review. The Financial Times has more.... A flight attendant union is calling for a nationwide strike by its members over what they feel is a concerted effort by airline management to wipe out union contracts and deprive employees of their livelihood. The strike could affect up to 26 airlines including US Airways. The Washington Business Journal has more.... The boards of French defense company Thales SA and European aerospace consortium EADS have not submitted merger proposals despite reports the French government wants EADS to take over Thales which in effect would create a rival to Boeing Co. AP has more.... Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner testified in a shareholder suit over the severance package paid to former president Michael Ovitz. Eisner testifed that he reviewed Ovitz's employment agreement with the full board of directors. Courtroom Connect has coverage of the shareholder trial here. AP has more.... As previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, A federal judge has refused to overturn the fraud and conspiracy convictions of Adelphia Communications founder and former chairman John Rigas and former CFO Timothy Rigas. Bloomberg has more.
[JURIST] A video obtained in Iraq appears to show that Margaret Hassan, an aid worker of dual British and Iraqi nationality taken hostage last month, has been murdered, her family and the British government said Tuesday. Hassan, who was director of CARE International's Iraq operations, was kidnapped Oct. 19 while on her way to work. Several videotapes were released in which her captors threatened to kill her if the UK did not withdrawal its troops from the counrty. Hassan was later shown on video making an appeal for the release of all female prisoners in Iraq. It is still unknown what group was responsible for her kidnapping and murder. Read CARE International's statement on Hassan's apparent death. Hassan's family released a statement after viewing the video:
Margaret was a friend of the Arab world, to people of all religions. Her love of the Arab people started in the 1960s when she worked in Palestinian camps, living with the poorest of the poor and supporting the refugees. For the past thirty years, Margaret worked tirelessly for the Iraqi people. Margaret had only goodwill towards everyone. She had no prejudice against any creed. She dedicated her whole life to working for the poor and vulnerable, helping those who had no-one else. Those who are guilty of this atrocious act, and those who support them, have no excuses. Nobody can justify this. Margaret was against sanctions and the war. To commit such a crime against anyone is unforgivable. But we cannot believe how anybody could do this to our kind, compassionate sister. The gap she leaves will never be filled.
[JURIST] BBC News is reporting that a Spanish court has sentenced a 16 year-old boy to six years in jail after he admitted handling explosives used in the Madrid train bombings. The sentencing is the first in connection with the March 11, 2004 terror attacks that took almost 200 lives.12:50 PM ET - BBC News now has a story available on the sentencing, as well as more on other suspects in the Madrid bombings. From Spain, El Mundo has local coverage.
[JURIST] Mark Thatcher, son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was charged Tuesday along with seven others for alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. Reports differed on whether 51-year-old Thatcher, who is currently being held on charges in South Africa, would be tried in absentia or extradited to face the charges. A defense lawyer for Thatcher reported that he would be tried in absentia, while anonymous government sources in Equatorial Guinea said the country would seek his extradition. Equatorial Guinea has accused Thatcher and others of financing an attempted coup to overthrow the current president of the oil-rich African country. BBC News has background on the alleged coup plot. AP has more.Previously on JURIST's Paper Chase....
[JURIST] A federal judge has refused to overturn the fraud and conspiracy convictions of Adelphia Communications founder and former chairman John Rigas and former CFO Timothy Rigas. The pair were convicted of one count of conspiracy, 15 counts of securities fraud, and two counts of bank fraud for looting the company and lying about its finances. US District Judge Leonard Sand rejected defense arguments that the convictions should be overturned and a new trial granted because the prosecution didn't present enough evidence and the judge made errors during trial. Bloomberg News has more. AP has background on the convictions.
[JURIST] The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has released a report on US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales concluding that while he recognizes First Amendment interests in newsgathering and reporting, his record as a Texas Supreme Court judge and as White House counsel advising the President on such matters as Presidential papers, the Cheney energy task force and proceedings against Guantanamo detainees suggests he will favor strict regulation of access to government and executive-branch information. The RCFP ominously notes that "If confirmed, [Gonzales] will have an even greater role in setting the standard for public access to government information." Read the RCFP report and this press release. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the Gonzales nomination.
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former UN war crimes chief prosecutor Louise Arbour issued a statement Tuesday expressing "deep concern" over the situation of civilians in Fallujah and calling for an investigation into possible violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law:
There have been a number of reports during the current confrontation alleging violations of the rules of war designed to protect civilians and combatants. The High Commissioner is particularly worried over poor access by civilians still in the city to the delivery of humanitarian aid and about the lack of information regarding the number of civilians casualties. The High Commissioner considers that all violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law must be investigated and those responsible for breaches -- including deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the killing of injured persons and the use of human shields -- must be brought to justice, be they members of the Multinational Force or insurgents.
Unequivocal orders for the proper treatment of unarmed and wounded insurgents must be issued or reinforced to all US and Iraqi military and civilian personnel. US and Iraqi forces should be clear that under international law they have an obligation to protect and provide necessary medical attention to wounded insurgents who are no longer posing a threat, as well as to civilians.The deliberate shooting of unarmed and wounded fighters who pose no immediate threat is a war crime under international law and there is therefore an obligation on the US authorities to investigate all such reports and to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable before the law. Such investigations should be open and transparent and the findings should be made public. Any potential witnesses should be protected.
[JURIST] The UN Security Council arrives in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday in preparation for its official meetings on the peace process in Sudan on Thursday. The meeting marks only the fourth time that the UN Security Council has ever held official proceedings outside of the normal New York City headquarters. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will also be attending the meeting in effort to produce real possibilities of a final resolution to the conflict, along with the presidents of several African nations, including Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya. The current peace talks, suspended for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, are scheduled to resume November 26. Human Rights Watch, a human rights NGO, published a report Monday that called on the UN to impose sanctions against the leadership of the Sudan and enforce an arms embargo against the pro-government Arab militias that have been responsible for a large portion of the conflict and displacement of local citizens; Amnesty International filed a similar report Tuesday. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the conflict in the Sudan. The Sudan Tribune has more on the UN meeting and more on the HRW report.Bosnian-Serb police officials announced Tuesday that they have detained 8 suspects currently named on the wanted list of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The arrests mark the first time Bosnian-Serb national authorities have detained those suspected of committing war crimes. All other individuals currently held by the ICTY either surrendered to or were apprehended by NATO peacekeeping forces. The arrests follow one day after government officials of the Serb entity Republika Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina published a new report Monday on the actions of Bosnian Serbs against Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the report, saying that it would go a long way toward's healing the region's wounds. Annan also said that he expected concrete results to occur based on the report, either in national courts, or in the ICTY, which is tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity arising out of the civil and political upheaval in the region during the 1990s. Reuters has more on the arrests. Read the official statement from the Secretary-General's office on the Srpska report here. The UN News Centre has more.Juan E. Mendez, UN Special Representative on the Prevention of Genocide, warned Monday that the actions of the government in Cote d'Ivoire were deepening xenophobia in the area and were creating an environment conducive towards the violation of human rights and humanitarian norms. Mendez said that the already appalling situation that included torture, arbitrary detention, disappearances and sexual violence was being exacerbated by the government's actions. Mendez announced that he had submitted a written report to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling for reform by the goverment. Specifically, Mendez called on Cote d'Ivoire to limit the propaganda and hate speech through official goverment media outlets, warning that failure to comply could result in the situation being referred to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The report follows the imposition of sanctions by the UN Security Council against Cote d'Ivoire Monday. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the situation in Cote d'Ivoire. The UN News Centre has more.Trial proceedings began Tuesday in the court martial of Major General Carlos Garcia of the Philippines. Garcia is charged with violations of the Philippine Articles of War, Provisions 96 and 97, conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and conduct prejudicial to good conduct and military discipline, to which he pleaded not guilty early Tuesday morning. The charges follow allegations of corruption uncovered during the push for tighter enforcement of anit-graft laws by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The next hearing is scheduled for November 23. Garcia also faces civilian criminal charges of corruption and bribery rising to the level of plunder under the country's new stringent anti-graft laws following the completion of the court martial. A guilty verdice of plunder in the Philippines is punishable by death. JURIST's Paper Chase has background on the allegations agains Garcia. The Philippine Daily Inquirer has more.
[JURIST] A group of dissident PeopleSoft shareholders have asked a Delaware judge to order PeopleSoft's board to negotiate with Oracle, the rival software maker trying to acquire PeopleSoft, according to a Tuesday Wall Street Journal report. The shareholders have asked Vice Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. to reopen a lawsuit against PeopleSoft and to order the PeopleSoft board to drop a "poison pill" anti-takeover measure blocking Oracle's efforts to acquire PeopleSoft. Chancellor Strine is also considering a request from Oracle to order PeopleSoft to lift the anti-takeover provisions. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] A group of five prisoners who were held in special segregation units in Scottish jails is suing the Scottish Prison Service. The segregation units are used to hold prisoners that cause problems within the mainstream jail. The group's lawyer will argue in a hearing Tuesday that being kept in the segregation units, where the prisoners are kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, violates the prisoners' human rights. The group will also argue that the prison service was aware of the problems caused by segregation units but failed to act. In an interview with BBC Radio Scotland, lawyer Tony Kelly said that removing a prisoner from the mainstream prison to segregation units "represents a gross detriment." Kelly said that "the prisoner is locked in a cell by himself, in some cases slopping out, for 23 hours a day. When he does get out for one hour, he's in a concrete pen within the segregation unit that is very small and hung over by a wire mesh." Justice spokesman for the Scottish National Party Kenny MacAskill has said that although prisoners forfeit their liberty, "they are still entitled to be treated with some dignity and some respect," and questioned the treatment of prisoners. BBC News has more.
[JURIST] US District Judge Thelton Henderson has stayed his own ruling that UPS violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by barring deaf and hearing-impaired workers from driving delivery trucks. After handing down his opinion in October, Henderson had given the company 30 days to change its policies, but Henderson has now issued a stay so that UPS can appeal to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Read Henderson's opinion [PDF] that UPS violated the ADA. AP has more.
[JURIST] Franco Frattini (profile from BBC News), the new Italian nominee for the EU Justice, Freedom and Security portfolio, faced his second day of hearings before European Parliament committees Tuesday. As reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Frattini was named to the slate of incoming European Commissioners when controversial nominee Rocco Buttiglione withdrew his name after receiving harsh criticism for expressing conservative views on homosexuality and marriage during his review hearings. On Monday, Frattini faced questioning from the Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties. Although most of the questions dealt with immigration policy, several MEPs did ask questions about Frattini's views on gender and sexual orientation discrimination. Frattini only said that is he is now "a representative of Europe," he would be bound by the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Read a summary [PDF] of Frattini's testimony. EUobserver.com has more. Tuesday morning, Frattini was questioned by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee. Frattini's written answers to questions posed to him before the hearings are available here [PDF].
[JURIST] The US military said Tuesday that it "is investigating an allegation of the unlawful use of force in the death of an enemy combatant." A US marine was videotaped by a news camera crew this weekend shooting a wounded, unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a Fallujah mosque who was said to be pretending to be dead. NBC News reporter Kevin Sites witnessed the incident:
Sites saw the five wounded men left behind on Friday still in the mosque. Four of them had been shot again, apparently by members of the squad that entered the mosque moments earlier. One appeared to be dead, and the three others were severely wounded. The fifth man was lying under a blanket, apparently not having been shot a second time. One of the Marines noticed that one of the severely wounded men was still breathing. He did not appear to be armed, Sites said.The Marine could be heard insisting: Hes f---ing faking hes dead hes faking hes f---ing dead. Sites then watched as the Marine raised his rifle and fired into the mans head from point-blank range.Well, hes dead now, another Marine said.When told that the man he shot was a wounded prisoner, the Marine, who himself had been shot in the face the day before but had already returned to duty, told Sites: I didnt know, sir. I didnt know.
The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether the Marine acted in self-defense, violated military law or failed to comply with the Law of Armed Conflict. The Marine has been withdrawn from the battlefield pending the results of the investigation. Based upon the investigation, the convening authority will determine the appropriate course of action. "We follow the Law of Armed Conflict and hold ourselves to a high standard of accountability," said Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, I Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General. "The facts of this case will be thoroughly pursued to make an informed decision and to protect the rights of all persons involved."
[JURIST] The British government unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would ban smoking in most enclosed public areas, including offices, factories, cafes, restaurants and most pubs in England. Only private clubs and pubs that do not serve prepared food would be exempt from the ban. In addition to the ban on smoking in public places, the government has also proposed to place tighter restrictions on advertising of tobacco. The proposal for England comes a week after the Scottish Executive unanimously approved a ban on smoking in enclosed public places (see this previous report on JURIST's Paper Chase). Read the UK Department of Health white paper on Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier, which contains the proposed smoking ban. BBC News provides a summary of the report's key recommendations and has background on global efforts to curb smoking. Finally, BBC News has more on the proposed ban in England.
[JURIST] Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Tuesday, November 16.On Capitol Hill, the US House and Senate both reconvene for legislative business today after being in recess since October. AP has more.... The Senate will meet at 12 PM ET and after a period of morning business will consider the nomination of Francis J. Harvey to be Secretary of the Army. Watch a live webcast (via C-SPAN).... The US House meets at 2 PM ET. Watch a live webcast (via C-SPAN).... The US Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a 9 AM ET hearing on judicial nominations. Watch a live webcast.... The US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security will hold a 10:30 AM ET oversight hearing on insurance brokerage practices, including potential conflicts of interest and the adequacy of the current regulatory framework. Witnesses include NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Richard Blumenthal, CT Attorney General. Watch a live webcast.The US Sentencing Commission will hold a 1 PM ET public hearing on possible changes to sentencing guidelines. Read the hearing agenda.The trial of Fatmir Limaj and his co-defendants continues Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Watch a webcast of the trial beginning at 9:30 AM local time (3:30 AM ET); the webcast is on a 30-minute tape delay. The ICTY has background on the case.... The defense phase of Slobodan Milosevic's trial will resume Tuesday. Watch a webcast beginning at 2:45 PM local time (8:45 AM ET); the webcast is on a 30-minute tape delay. The ICTY has case information.At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 9:30 AM ET and will discuss the situation in Timor-Leste.... The General Assembly will meet at 10 AM ET for a debate on oceans and the law of the sea. Watch a live webcast.The European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Franco Frattini as EU Justice Commissioner. A recorded webcast of Tuesday morning's hearing will be available at 1 PM local time (7 AM ET). JURIST's Paper Chase has background on Frattini's nomination.
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I was pretty calm, His Majesty told the players when the newly-crowned world champions paid a visit at the Royal Palace in central Stockholm just 12 hours after they had beat Switzerland 5-1 in the final.
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Two elections calling for emergency district annexations passed overwhelmingly, though voters in one of the proposed annexation areas split on whether to accepting that district's existing debt.
The annexation vote of ESD No. 7 to bring areas of Cool and Garner into the Millsap-Greenwood fire district passed easily, with 79.5 percent of 288 ballots in the proposed annexation approving along with 80 percent of the 360 ballots within the existing district's boundaries also in support. Likewise, the questions put to voters in both areas on the acceptance of the district's existing debt passed by similar margins.
In the ESD No. 3 annexation to bring in a portion of Annetta North territory, 81 percent of the 407 ballots counted in the district's current boundary and 83 percent of the 24 ballots in support of the annexation. On the question of accepting the district's current debt, 81 percent of the voters in the existing district voted in favor, while the 24 voters in the Annetta North area proposed for annexation split on that question, 12-12, with one under ballot not counted.
Across the county, the Parker County Elections Office reported 6,243 ballots cast overall. Of those, 2,194, or about one-third, were cast during the early voting period.
Statewide, Texans approved dedicating $2 billion to the state water plan on Tuesday in the first election where officials checked voters' photo IDs.
Early voting was nearly double what it was two years ago, prompting Republican officials to declare concerns about the voter ID requirement were overblown. Despite those figures, only about 1 million out of 13.4 million Texas voters were expected to cast their ballot.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Elliott Avent went around shaking hands with anyone whod reciprocate. He offered to buy reporters the finest Omaha steaks in a town known for them. He spoke about Carlos Rodon with emotion, like he was a son.
It was Fathers Day on Sunday, and Avent, the N.C. State coach, acted like a proud papa in the moments after his teams 8-1 victory against North Carolina in the College World Series. Avent had waited his whole life for this, his first game coaching in Omaha on college baseballs grandest stage.
The Wolfpack had waited 45 years, its first CWS appearance since 1968. And Rodon, well, hed been waiting, too.
Last week, just days away from the most important start of his life, Rodon appeared cool and calm. He promised that would change come Sunday, though, and that his intensity would match the magnitude of the moment. It did. And so did his performance.
Rodon, the Wolfpacks ace left-hander, pitched a complete game. The sophomore allowed five hits, one run, struck out eight and then acted like it was no big deal. Asked why he has a penchant for pitching his best when the stakes are at their highest, Rodon provided a simple explanation.
You know, this is the College World Series, he said. It doesnt get any better than this, so why not bring your A game? When I come out, Im going to compete. And stages like this, Im going to compete even more give it more than I can.
The victory puts N.C. State in the winners bracket in its four-team, double-elimination pool in the College World Series. The Wolfpack (50-14) will play Tuesday night against either Louisiana State, the No.4 national seed, or UCLA.
The Tar Heels (57-11), the No.1 overall seed for the first time, will have to advance through the losers bracket if they are to win their first national championship in 10trips to Omaha. N.C. State, and UNC could meet this week in an elimination game.
Rodon wasnt perfect Sunday. He walked the Tar Heels leadoff hitter. And in the ninth inning, he lost his shutout. In between, though, he was what he routinely has been against UNC during the postseason: unhittable and unflappable. And this time, he had run support.
Any time youre facing Carlos Rodon, as good as he is, getting behind is one of the worst things you can do, UNC coach Mike Fox said. Weve been successful against them in the past (from the) win/loss perspective, just because weve been able to hang in there with him and match him on the mound on our side, and just kind of outlast him.
Rodon pitched nine scoreless innings against UNC during the ACC tournament last year in Greensboro. He allowed one unearned run in 10 innings against the Tar Heels last month during the ACC tournament in Durham. But the Tar Heels won both those games in extra innings, the most recent one ending in 18 innings.
This time, the Wolfpack provided Rodon with more than enough support. N.C. State scored one run in the first inning, and then chased UNC starter Kent Emanuel with four runs in the third. Emanuel, the ACC Pitcher of the Year, labored through his second consecutive short start.
His past two starts have been the shortest of his collegiate career. Emanuel lasted 21/3 innings in his start against South Carolina last week in a Super Regional game that UNC eventually won, and he lasted 22/3 innings Sunday.
I wouldnt say he was really struggling or something wasnt working for him, said Brett Williams, N.C. States center fielder whose double drove in one of the four runs during the third. I feel like we did a great job with our approaches today swinging at pitches in the zone and getting the barrel on it and finding holes.
Williams and his teammates were especially good with two outs. Six of N.C. States eight runs came with two outs, including the one in the first and all four in the third.
It made a difference, Rodon said, having all those runs. He said he became more comfortable. After a leadoff walk, Rodon retired the next 14 batters. He didnt allow his first hit until the fifth inning and didnt allow a runner past first base until the seventh.
There are times when Rodon knows he has it, and Sunday was one of those times. Someone asked how he knew.
When I can put that fastball anywhere I want it, he said. Thats when I know.
He did that for most of the game against the Tar Heels. And when his fastball command began to slip, he relied on a slider that broke late and hard. In the dugout, Avent looked for small signs: How Rodon located his fastball. His breathing.
I watch his breathing a lot, Avent said. I try to see. Because he can get upset a little bit.
Once again, though, Rodon frustrated the Tar Heels. This was the third time UNC faced Rodon this season, and Colin Moran, the Tar Heels best hitter, said last week he hoped the familiarity would make a difference. It didnt.
After it ended, Rodon checked his phone outside the locker room. A bevy of text messages awaited. Avent held court with reporters. He cracked one-liners and reveled in perhaps the greatest victory to this point of his career.
I cant wait to go home and watch the U.S. Open, and then get ready to watch LSU, he said. And theres a steak somewhere in Omaha waiting for me, Im sure.
Hitting star: N.C. State center fielder Brett Williams helped break open the game in the third inning with his double down the left field line. The hit came in the middle of three consecutive run-scoring hits for the Wolfpack, and Williams double drove in Grant Clyde to give N.C. State a 3-0 lead against North Carolina. A couple of batters later, and Kent Emanuel, the Tar Heels starting pitcher, was out of the game. Williams also scored two runs. Pitching star: What more can be said about Carlos Rodon and his mastery of North Carolina? The Tar Heels are one of the best hitting teams in the nation, but once again they were nearly helpless against Rodon, who pitched a complete game and allowed five hits and one run while striking out eight. After walking UNCs leadoff hitter, Rodon retired the next 14 hitters in a row and never allowed the Heels to get going.
Quote of the day: I think he was subpar. I dont think he was that good today. No, Im just kidding. He was good as Ive seen all year. N.C. State catcher Brett Austin, on Rodons pitching performance
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Buster head football coach Matt Miller is anything but complacent after Garden City Community College's 67-0 drubbing of Independence in its season opener.
"I just expect us to be better than we were last Saturday," Miller said about the Busters' upcoming road contest at 7 p.m. Saturday in Cisco, Texas. "As a coach, I know it's cliche . . but it's the truth. We made some mistakes on offense. We were by far anything from perfect at all positions on offense."
Garden City compiled more than 500 yards on offense against Independence, but also turned the ball over twice, including once at the Pirates' 3-yard line.
"That's what's good, though," said Miller. "You can put 67 points on the board and still have a lot to work on."
He was not so sure how much improvement the defense could make, though, after holding Independence to eight total yards.
"Defensively, when you hold a team to (that few yards) I don't know what to say about them other than . . . 'our defense gave up (so few) yards. That's a great job. Great job, young men,'" said Miller with a grin.
The Busters will again face a young offense led by a first-year starter at quarterback in the Wranglers' Jacorey McQueen. McQueen is a 6-foot-2, 195-pound red-shirt freshman from Manor, Texas.
Yet, Cisco head coach Scott Taylor was confident his young signal caller was capable of attacking the Busters' defense, calling McQueen a good kid who can scan the field well.
McQueen threw for more than 3,000 yards and 28 touchdowns as a senior at Manor High School. He also ran for more than 800 yards and 13 more scores.
McQueen will lead what Taylor called a multiple (set) offense with both I-pro and two tight end sets to wide-open four receiver sets. However, McQueen is surrounded by youth on the offensive side of the ball. Up front, four freshmen will help protect McQueen and three of his top four targets on the outside are first-year players. McQueen's only returning weapon on the outside is sophomore receiver Jared Mapps, who caught 12 balls for 131 yards and a touchdown last season.
The Wranglers are much more experienced on the defensive side of the ball, returning seven starters from last year's squad. The Wranglers' defense is led by outside linebacker Brian Hine, who tallied 35 tackles in six games last season, is implementing a true 3-4 defense this season after being very multiple in 2012, according to Taylor.
There is not many changes for the Busters this week after coming away from the blowout win over Independence without any major injuries. Yet, they did add some talent to the defense.
Despite the fact the Busters won by 67 points, they added more talent by bringing in their final two out-of-state players — Ralphael Bernard and Eric Wester, Jr. — to meet their 20 out-of-state player roster limit.
Bernard, a 6-foot, 290-pound sophomore defensive lineman from Raleigh, N.C., will immediately insert into the starting lineup, while 5-10, 184-pound freshman Wester from Fort Myers, Fla., will provide depth in the secondary. Bernard originally enrolled at Garden City in 2011, racking up 36 tackles and four tackles-for-loss in nine games. He did not play in 2012. Wester is a two-star cornerback recruit out of South Fort Myers High School.
Both players will be suited up for Saturday's contest with the Wranglers, a team Garden City held on late to beat 24-19 a year ago. The game will be Cisco's season opener.
Know the foe
Who: Garden City C.C. at Cisco College
When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
Where: Chesley Stadium, Cisco High School
Last Meeting: 2012, Garden City 24, Cisco 19
Garden City
League: Jayhawk Conference
Mascot: Broncbusters
Coach: Matt Miller, (1st year)
Probable Starting Lineup:
T--Dontavious Blair, 6-7, 275, So.; Ryan Johnson, 6-5, 330, So.
G--Mitch Moore, 6-2, 275, Fr.; Colby Hamel, 6-3, 305, So.
C--Jason Carreon, 6-2, 295, So.
TE--Alan Kramer, 6-2, 215, So.
WR--Nile Daniel, 6-2, 200, So.; Brandon Snell, 6-1, 205, Fr.
HB--Tyreek Hill, 5-9, 190, So.; Mike Gerst, 5-11, 205, So.
QB--Akeem Jones, 6-3, 207, Fr.
PK--Tyler Peterson, 5-11, 180, So.
E--Richard Obi, 6-3, 255, So.; Ralphael Bernard, 6-0, 290, So.
N--Dondre Elvoid, 6-4, 315, Fr.
MLB--Errol Clarke, 6-3, 240, Fr.; D'Vonta Derricott, 6-2, 235, So.
OLB--Dalton Gantz, 6-0, 210, Fr.; Darius Jones, 6-2, 230, So.
CB--Wonderful Terry, 5-10, 180, So.; Tim Hill, 5-9, 190, Fr.
S--Sam Green, 6-2, 210, Fr.; Makail Grace, 6-3, 205, Fr.
P--Tyler Peterson, 5-11, 180, So.
KR--Tyreek Hill, 5-9, 190, So.; Nile Daniel, 6-2, 200, So.
PR--Nile Daniel, 6-2, 200, So.
2013 Schedule
Aug. 24--INDEPENDENCE, W 67-0*
Aug. 31--at Cisco, Texas
Sept. 7--at Hutchinson*
Sept. 21--AIR FORCE PREP
Sept. 28--at Fort Scott*
Oct. 5--BUTLER*
Oct. 12--HIGHLAND*
Oct. 19--at Dodge City*
Oct. 26--COFFEYVILLE*
*--Denotes Jayhawk Conference game
Cisco College
League: Southwest Junior Collee Football Conference
Mascot: Wranglers
Coach: Scott Taylor, (5th year)
Probable Starting Lineup:
T--Hayden Vinson, 6-6, 300, Fr.; Austin Morris, 6-5, 315, Fr.
G--Chris Flowers, 6-6, 340, Fr.; Chris Cooper, 6-3, 295, Fr.
C--Zach Byers, 6-2, 295, So.
TE--Kyle Rammage, 6-1, 230, Fr.
WR--Jerad Mapps, 6-2, 220, So.; Malique Elliot, 6-4, 185, Fr.; Pat Bohannon, 6-2, 195, Fr.
HB--Airron Cowthran, 5-9, 190, So.; Dorian Lowery, 6-0, 205, Fr.
FB--James Revada, 6-0, 235, So.
QB--Jacorey McQueen, 6-2, 195, Fr.
PK--Jacob Harlar, 6-2, 220, So.
E--Merviel Lufuluabo, 6-0, 235, Fr.; Navante Williams, 6-0, 240, Fr.
T--Wyatt Egan, 6-2, 285, Fr.
N--Devvon Miles, 6-2, 320, Fr.
OLB--Nic Sierra, 6-0, 200, So.; Brian Hine, 6-1, 235, So.
MLB--Benson Chidester, 5-10, 225, So.; Webster Jones, 6-1, 210, So.
CB--Mario Henderson, 5-9, 180, So.; Deon Price, 6-2, 190, So.
S--Shelton Sessions, 5-10, 180, So.; Marquis Elder, 5-9, 180, So.
P--Felipe Para, 5-10, 195, So.
2012 Results (3-6, 2-4 SWJCFC)
Sept. 1--at Garden City, L 24-19
Sept. 8--at New Mexico Military Institute, L 34-7
Sept. 15--at Navarro College, L 56-14
Sept. 22--TRINITY VALLEY, W 19-17
Sept. 29--KILGORE, L 29-14
Oct. 6--SOUTHEAST PREP, W 48-10
Oct. 13--at Tyler, L 84-28
Oct. 20--NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA A M, L 49-21
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The deadline to register for Practical Peacebuilding, a new joint program of Candler and The General Theological Seminary (GTS), has been extended to November 15.
Practical Peacebuilding, which will be held January 9-12, 2013, at the Desmond Tutu Center on the GTS campus in New York, is an ecumenical program designed for clergy, other church leaders, and anyone interested in learning practical skills in conflict transformation.
Two Candler faculty will lead the program. Luther E. Smith Jr., professor of church and community, is a renowned expert on congregational renewal, community activism, and the spirituality of theologian Howard Thurman. Ellen Ott Marshall, associate professor of Christian ethics and conflict transformation, is a leading authority on religious peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Bernard LaFayette Jr., Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Candler, will deliver the closing keynote address. Lafayette is a longtime civil rights activist, organizer, and an authority on nonviolent social change.
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PERRIN – Not in the 11 years head coach Brad Hutton has guided the Perrin varsity football team have the Pirates ever began a season at 3-0.
But after victories over Meridian, Gorman and Friday over Fort Worth Lake Country the Pirates find themselves at 3-0.
Hutton said the 3-0 start has excited the Perrin community.
The Pirates, about to celebrate their 100th-year anniversary on Homecoming Night on Sept. 27, have reached the playoffs just five times in school history.
"Our kids, teachers, coaches and even our superintendent are fired up," Hutton said. "Any time Perrin goes 3-0 it's a huge deal around here."
The Pirates are led by a young yet tenacious defense that has surrendered just three touchdowns all season.
Almost half of the defensive starters are sophomores, and Hutton has seen his young team grow each week this season.
"I am not surprised because we have good athletes in our sophomore class," Hutton said. "I guess I am a little surprised that they have held it together for four quarters in every game.
"They are maturing each week, and I hope that continues. Staying healthy and continuing to mature will be what this team needs to keep doing as it builds toward district play."
The Pirates are also ranked No. 33 in Class A. Perrin has not been ranked that high since a Top 20 ranking in 2008. The last time the Pirates qualified for the playoffs was 2009.
Despite the excitement, Hutton played down the recent success.
"We are honestly taking each game one game at a time," he said. "We are actually 0-0 in (district) games that count.
"We have to be playing well when we open district against Munday (at Perrin on Oct. 11). But so far, so good, and again, we are very excited around here."


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HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Texas prison officials have executed a registered sex offender for the rape, robbery and slaying of a woman abducted from a San Antonio bus stop 11 years ago.
Ramon Torres Hernandez was one of three people convicted in the killing of 37-year-old Rosa Maria Rosado. She was pulled into a car Hernandez was driving after she refused to let go of her purse during a drive-by robbery.
The 41-year-old Hernandez was on parole at the time of his arrest in Rosado's death. He also was a suspect in the slayings of three teenagers and a 12-year-old girl.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last month to review Hernandez's death sentence. A late appeal in the state courts was rejected several hours before the Wednesday evening lethal injection.
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