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Public opinion is swinging overwhelmingly in favor of Chief of Staff Gen. Raphael Eitan in the controversy over his reduction of the prison sentence imposed by a military tribunal on a former paratroop officer convicted of murdering four Lebanese civilians during Israel's invasion of south Lebanon in March, 1978. Since Sheli MK Uri Avneri demanded Eitan's resignation for allegedly lying about the case, petitions and messages of support for the general have been pouring in.
Eitan appeared today before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee where Mapam MK Meir Talmi raised the question of why he reduced the sentence of former Lt. Daniel Pinto from eight to two years. But the committee did not take up the matter. On the suggestion of former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, a leader of the opposition Labor Party, it was decided to defer discussion until Defense Minister Ezer Weizman returns from Washington.
The Pinto case was obscured by military censorship until last weekend when foreign newspapers published a version of the events that led to his conviction. That version, accepted by the courts which tried the 24-year-old paratrooper in closed session, was presented to the Knesset by Avneri last July.
But it was deleted from the Knesset record due to the sensitive nature of the subject. Supporters of Eitan now accuse Avneri of leaking the story to newspapers abroad in violation of security Avneri has denied this. But the tide of public opinion has turned rapidly against the Knesset member and his small, leftist faction.
Support for Eitan has come from groups of reserve officers, retired senior officers, paratroopers, including a legendary war hero, Meir Har-Zion, from various student groups in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and others. Local authorities in the Jezreel Valley sent messages of encouragement to Eitan. The student organization at the religious-oriented Bar Ilan University is collecting signatures on a petition in his support.
Similar petitions bearing the signatures of hundreds of students and paratroopers have already appeared. Some circles are demanding on investigation of who leaked details of the Pinto case to foreign correspondents.
Pinto was convicted of torturing four Lebanese civilians under interrogation in Ein Baal village and then killing them. The courts rejected his claim that he acted in self-defense. Eitan, in reducing his sentence, said he accepted the officer's version but reversed himself several days later, saying he accepted the court's guilty verdict. Nevertheless, the Chief of Staff maintained that the circumstances warranted the reduced sentence. Avneri charged that Eitan was fully aware of the gruesome nature of Pinto's crime.
Meanwhile; it was announced today that Eitan will visit the U.S. shortly to meet with senior American officers and tour military bases and military industry plants.


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The continuous rain we've been seeing in our area is causing a direct effect on the Savannah River.
As we've been reporting, high water is starting to spill onto docks, and flood places water usually does not hit. News Channel Six's Dee Griffin is covering tonight's big story.
The Savannah River's high water means flooding for most areas along her banks. But for Roscoe Peace it means a possible flood of food for the avid fisherman. He says, "It depends on what you're fishing for. I'm fishing for catfish so I like the water to be high when I'm fishing for catfish." The water may be bringing fish but also a flood of problems."There is no flood retention left at any of the lakes. What falls has to come down. So any time that it rains it's just going to make this problem worse over the next couple of days," says Savannah Riverkeeper Tonya Bonitatibus
Over a matter of hours, the effects of rain and a controlled release from the lake could be seen at the Savannah River. The fast moving water was rising rapidly and bringing large debris with it. Even the Savannah Riverkeeper's office is in danger of possible flooding, so employees are preparing to move to higher ground. Riverkeeper, Tonya Bonitatibus, says its best not to wage a battle of wills against the water. "If you're on this river you need to get off of it. If you live on a creek like Jones Creek and any of those areas in Columbia County, Stevens Creek you guys really need to watch out because this water is going to start rising pretty quickly backwards," Bonitatibus explains.
As the river continues to rise so do concerns by the city. So as a precaution, they've closed down this riverwalk area to all pedestrians until further notice.
While the river isn't expected to pose a problem for the city yet, more rain could pour on the possibilities of flooding. Bonitatibus cautions, "our big problem is going to be if the river gets up so far that the water can't get out and it continues to rain in downtown Augusta or if the canal overflows. If the canal overflows that will flood downtown Augusta."
In the meantime, Roscoe Peace says he will just watch and wait while enjoying the overflow of food from the murky waters. "Times right now when it's a little bit rainy a little bit the fish tend to bite a little more," he says.


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I'm 3 months post-op and my breasts look and feel fine, but the outer side of my right breast hurts when lying down. It is uncomfortable and painful when I'm sleeping and when getting up from lying down. They don't hurt at all during the day, but the nights are very uncomfortable. PS said is the muscle and told me to stop massaging but the pain persists. Is it normal that it hurts when I'm lying down? Will it dissapear? What should I do? I'am starting to worry. Thank you so much!!!
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Lateral pain 3 months after surgery when lying down may be nerve pressure
It is possible there is an irritated nerve on the side that is pressed on more when lying, since the implants tend to fall laterally when you lay down. This causes more lateral pressure on the capsule and nerve over it, compared to standing up. You may have success with B1 (thiamine) as well as vibration treatments on the area that hurts.
Breast Pain when Lying Down
I am curious as to whether the pain occurs if you lie down during the day. It is not uncommon for "minor" aches to be present all day, but not noticed while we are distracted, but bothersome when we try to sleep and are otherwise not distracted.
At any rate, I would suggest a 10 day course of Alleve (naproxen), a long acting anti-inflammatory. Often, this short course can be enough to break the cycle.
Discuss with your surgeon. All the best.
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lokhor: Tasker is pretty great but it requires a lot of geekery to get it to do what you want. it's also available for any Android device, many of which are a lot better than the SGS out of the box.
I think if you manage to upgrade to a newer 2.2.1 build using Kies then a stock rom might be bearable.
I imagine it would be a nightmare trying to update multiple phones with kies. Would be better off just doing it all with odin, only a couple mins per phone.


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Later this year, Electronic Arts and developer DICE will give gamers their first taste of Frostbite 3.0 in Battlefield 4. Said to be even more impressive than Frostbite 2 (which was pretty darn impressive), Frostbite 3 will become the flagship graphical engine for EA — supporting games like Mass Effect 4, Dragon Age III: Inquisition, and the publisher's upcoming slate of Star Wars games.
Along with console support, however, EA is also looking to position Frostbite as a graphical engine for iOS and Android devices. While the spectacle and destructive capabilities of Frostbite will likely be paired down, the idea of a Frostbite-powered mobile game is still an intriguing possibility.
On EA's Frostbite website they outline a new project called 'Frostbite Go,' which is "a mobile division empowering EA game developers with Frostbite's proven excellent workflows and features to bring true Frostbite experiences to all major mobile platforms." In other words, EA wants to cultivate an ecosystem where Frostbite becomes the norm on all platforms, including mobile devices.
As was previously mentioned, Frostbite 3 will make its big debut with Battlefield 4 this Fall, but there's no word on when the first Frostbite Go title might hit. EA likes to hold special demos of their upcoming mobile games at E3 every year, so perhaps we might get a taste of Frostbite Go at the event next month. If not then, we surely will have seen something Frostbite Go related by the end of 2013.
The mobile space has been growing exponentially over the last few years, and with each new advancement, the capabilities of what were once just telephones becomes greater. As well, gamers are becoming more accustomed to the idea that a mobile game isn't just some fleeting experience, but that it can be just as engaging as any console or dedicated handheld title. Sure, Angry Birds will always be there when you need to pass the time, but pretty soon gamers will be able to play a fully-fledged Battlefield title right on their 6-inch screen.
What do you think about Frostbite Go? What Frostbite-powered game would you like to see come to mobile devices first?


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The American Scholar: Castles in Space - Michael Dirda: The other day, while roaming through the book-sale room at a local library, I spotted eight or nine issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. All of them were from the early 1960s, with the muted, matte covers of that era, most of them with illustrations by the late Ed Emsh (whose wife, Carol Emshwiller, is one of the greatest living writers of fantasy and sf). Each digest originally cost 40 cents, but now—50 years later—they were only a quarter apiece, and I bought them all.
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It may not feel like it right now in snowy Edmonton, but bikini season is just around the corner.
With that in mind, fitness expert to the stars Kathy Kaehler offers the following five tips to flatten your belly:
1. Skip the soda and the wine — anything you can do to reduce the calories and any bloating. One easy way is to up the plain flat water. Flush, flush, flush and this will help flatten out your mid-section.
2. Reducing your calories everyday is easy when you make a meal replacement shake from USANA. The Nutrimeal shakes are low-glycemic so you don't get a sugar rush. They are also a good source of fibre, so you are full. Fewer calories means a flatter tummy sooner.
3. A fantastic exercise that I get all my celebrity clients to do on a daily basis is the plank. Borrowed from yoga but fits into anyone's fitness routine. Hold it for at least one minute or build up to that. It works the muscles from top to bottom and inside out. Super strong core means belly is pulled in.
4. When you want that belly to fit into the clothes for a particular night or outfit, keep the veggies at bay hours before then. Less gas and bloating.
5. Walk walk walk. Get in enough cardio exercise to keep your weight maintained. Walking is the best exercise. It works all over. You can do it anywhere, anytime. I have all my clients walk, including Julia Roberts. Whether we are outside or on a treadmill, walking is one way to trim the body, keep you at your ideal weight and because you use most of your muscles you are adding more lean body weight, which burns more calories and that helps you stay lean.
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SPEMack618, I can't say for a certainty what he did while deployed to Bahrain, but having worked at 5th Fleet HQ a decade ago, I can make a reasonably educated guess as to the upper limit of Rambo-ness he could have experienced.
He might have had some role with harbor security, but a mobilized Reserve O-3 would be in a primarily administrative function with them. They might occasionally let the LT ride around in a boat, once in a while.
He might have had some role with EOD, but again since that was not his specialty, he would have been administrative. They might have taken him on the occasional range day, if they liked him.
From what I read, he was qualified Expert in pistol, but only Marksman in rifle. That does not indicate high speed, low drag. I qualified Expert in rifle the first time the Navy let me shoot one, which was a decade into my career. Not many specialties get much rifle time in the Navy; those that do would all qualify higher than Marksman - or they really should.
I have also read a couple comments from unnamed LA law enforcement types that indicated Dorner had some aviation training. If so, that would imply that he had washed out of either Pilot or NFO training at some point; if that is so, he would likely have been administratively separated due to over-manning, and thus entered into Reserve status as an unspecialized line officer.
Back when the budget could support it, a lot of aviation wash-outs would get sent out to aircraft carriers to be admin/clerk types in Air Operations. Students that couldn't handle some aspect of aviation training, but who worked hard and earned the respect of their instructors, would sometimes get better billets - we sent one that I recall off to Intel school, where he thrived; another went to SWOS. Most just ended up unspecialized and, career-wise, dead in the water.
Of course, I am just speculating based on limited information in news articles, and the implications of what little was said.
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From the NY Times profile of "fashion murder mystery" writer Kate White:
The problem with revenge, of course, is that it is hard to throw your pie and have it, too. Will anyone care, for instance, when the author of "The Devil Wears Prada," the tell-all roman à clef patterned on Anna Wintour of Vogue, publishes a fully fictional novel, "Everyone Worth Knowing," this fall?
Not so Kate White, who has been clever enough to have it both ways. As the editor of Cosmopolitan, which now has more than 50 editions (Cosmo Serbia, Cosmo Estonia and Cosmo Kenya are the latest), Ms. White might be described as a leader of the free world.
That's a mighty big might.
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Number four lawsuit target in all of Kazakhstan; or, Kazakhs Gone Wild
It was bound to happen, wasn't it? From CNN:
Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie. . . . The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States. . . . After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said. The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said.
In a lot of ways, this story echoes the complaints made about that other cultural icon, Girls Gone Wild. It's widely known that that dubious company makes its products by paying minor compensation to inebriated women in exchange for permission to photograph them in various states of undress. The process is highly manipulative and coercive. It was examined in a very critical Los Angeles Times piece, which dwelt on the low age of the women, the alcohol consumption prior to signing a release form, and the subsequent embarrassment of the participants, many of whom did not believe that their image would be used in particular ways. The process has led to a number of lawsuits, which seem awfully similar to the Borat suit. As the LA Times story notes:
It seems like Francis spends a lot of money on lawyers. I guess that comes with the territory of filming strangers who take off their clothes. More than a dozen women have sued him, alleging that his company used images of them exposing their bodies on "Girls Gone Wild" videos, box covers and infomercials without their permission. Only a few have convinced the courts that they were unwitting victims. For the most part, judges and juries have sided with Francis' 1st Amendment argument that the plaintiffs' images were captured in public places and that the company was free to use them as it pleased, particularly in light of the fact that the women had signed waivers.
It is said that Borat is brilliant social satire; and we can take judicial notice of the fact that Girls Gone Wild is merely exploitative trashiness. Still, isn't there an underlying similarity between the allegations, the likely defense, and the concerns at issue?
If we're opposed to a media producer who plies young women with alcohol in order to exploit their images for prurient purposes, shouldn't we have the same concerns about a media producer who plies young men with alcohol in order to exploit their images in satire?


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You can be talked into quitting smoking.
Smokers' rights could be at risk once again: a medical expert is currently advocating for some drastic regulations that would make it mandatory for all smokers to obtain a smoking license.
A North Carolina man lit up a cigarette after he accidentally drank gasoline, burst into flames.
In a 29-page decision on Monday, US District Judge Richard J. Leon blocked the implementation of a law on graphic cigarette photos. It would've required tobacco companies to include explicit photos detailing the dangers of smoking on cigarette packages.
The 36 images proposed by the Food and Drug Administration include a picture of diseased lungs next to healthy lungs, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat, and a male cadaver with chest staples down his torso.
TV reporter Brad Woodward picked about the worst time possible to be caught taking a smoke break.
The five-year veteran of KHOU news in Houston was happily puffing away when the anchors cut to his coverage of an oil fire.


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I heard it from a man who,
heard it from a man who,
heard it from another…
ok, it was an e-mail, but it confirmed the strange tale I had been told.
NASA is about to do a Mad Max on its Science Missions.
Five missions enter, one mission leaves. Literally.
NASA has many houses. Within one is the Science Mission Directorate, which does space science, including Earth observations, Solar/Magnetosphere, Solar System Planets and "Astrophysics" (formerly known as the "Universe" division).
Space Science missions are housed within the divisions, and not always where you'd think.
Within Astrophysics there is a program, "Beyond Einstein". It was a 2003 Presidential Initiative, specified as a request in the State of the Union address…
Beyond Einstein originally envisioned three lead-off flagship missions, two intermediate followons, and then several long term major followup projects.
The flagship mission concepts are:
Constellation-X – a multispacecraft spectroscopic x-ray mission. It is a relatively low risk x-ray light bucket, for doing high resolution low energy x-ray spectroscopy. Primary targets accreting black holes. Con-X has undergone some
derescoping recently. No international partners.
LISA – the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. A joint mission with the European Space Agency. 3 spacecraft modules flying in open formation, an equilateral triangle 5 million km on a side. It will detect low frequency (~ 1 to 100 milliHerz) gravitational radiation, from compact stellar binaries and supermassive black holes.
Joint Dark Energy Mission – a wide field optical imager to look for and measure type Ia supernovae in the distant universe. Mission goal is to get a precise measurement of the acceleration parameter of the universe, and if possible its derivative, getting a measure of the equation of state of dark energy and its evolution with cosmic time. JDEM is formally a competed mission concept with several different proposals in the pipe, but SNAP is the original dominant concept; a large mission co-sponsored by the Department of Energy. I heard rumours SNAP has solicited an international partner, and also rumours that this was a tactical error…
Inflation Probe – is conceived as a followup to WMAP and Planck. It would do more precise measurements of the microwave background, including high precision polarization measurements.
It was conceived as a second generation Beyond Einstein mission and is pre-phase A, no detailed mission concepts are competed yet.
Black Hole Finder – another second generation mission, conceived as a high resolution x-ray imaging mission. It would do wide field high angular resolution imaging in hard x-rays to spatially locate black holes, including dust and gas shrouded black holes.
The technology for this is cleary doable, it relies on natural advances of know technology, mostly.
This summer, word was that two of the three big missions would fly, first in ~ 2016, the next in ~ 2021, with the third to be terminated, and any followons indefinitely postponed. Final review and selection looked to be ~ 2010 plus or minus.
Now, very suddenly, all has changed, again.
An NRC committee is being convened, recommendation for membership by September 20th, first meeting in november, followon meetings in spring and summer and a decision one year from now.
Decision is on which of these five missions has priority, with science, technology, cost, risk and "other" all factors in the decision.
The committee can recommend priority for the next mission, but reading between the lines, this is an all or nothing deal. One mission will be selected, the rest die or go into suspended animation for a decade or more, or until the NASA budget changes drastically. NASA, as I understand it, will take the recommendation under consideration but is not bound by it. They could go with second choice, or completely ignore the recommendations, although that might not be prudent. But, stranger things have happened…
Rumour is that the DoE pushed for this, hard, and personally. They want an up-or-down on JDEM/SNAP right now. Oh, and they want it to be SNAP that is selected of course.
The weird thing is that this is competing apples and oranges: the missions are different in size and at different development stages. LISA has passed critical design review, has a Pathfinder mission about to fly for final technology qualifications, and there is a formal letter of agreement with ESA about launch and decision mechanisms. ESA will explode if NASA unilaterally cancels or further postpones LISA (caveat: I have some interest in LISA, but am not a LISA science team member).
Con-X is a mature, conservative concept, but I hear rumours the tech teams are fading away in frustration; in particular some x-ray tech people seem to have been re-assigned to Department of Homeland Security projects (looking for faint Pu-239 emission line signatures in shielded cargo and such like) and are quietly bailing as fast as they can.
JDEM has not formally competed for which mission design would be selected. SNAP has been on the boards for a number of years as a DoE concept and has done a lot of technology development and science concept studies, but they have not space qualified or gone through CDR as far as I know. I think they did go through a Technology Assessment Review relatively recently.
The Inflation Probe has undergone some concept studies (like EPIC, not to be confused with the other EPIC (planet observer concept)), but there is nothing there yet. The technology is not developed, it is barely conceptualised, and there has been no design review. As far as I know.
Same with the Black Hole Finder, concept studies and power points, no real technology development or mission studies. Funding just hasn't been there yet to do anything serious. To fold IP and BHF in with the more mature missions is senseless, I can't see how they can compete for the launch slot, at best they could be prioritized for a followon slot in the 2020+ timeframe if a formal decision is made to kill two of the flagship missions.
So, my reading is that this is a power play by the Department of Energy crowd, they want to force the issue and eliminate the competition. Throwing in all five missions just confuses things, it is a Thunderdome match between SNAP, LISA and Con-X.
Con-X has a huge science and NASA staff constituency, x-ray astronomy is a big thriving field which is really blossoming. Killing Con-X would destroy the scientific careers of a large fraction of that community, especially the younger researchers.
LISA is the opening of a new field, it has passed design review, it has a major cost sharing international partner (of course that could be a negative in the current climate), but it has a small constituency with fewer old time NASA scientists involved.
SNAP is popular with the physics crowd, has DoE support (although how much real $$$ DoE can ante up is not clear) and has friends within NASA. A significant science constituency could be attracted to a high end wide field optical imager looking at extragalactic stuff. Good secondary science. But formally it is JDEM, not SNAP being competed, and there are (cheaper) alternatives to SNAP in concept study.
Inflation Probe and Black Hole Finder have no chance to be ready for a first launch slot, there is no detailed mission design or tech review. At best they could be recommended as a priority for the second launch slot, if there is one. [Well, ok the EXIST crowd could probably make a case that they could be ready for an early launch, from what I've heard. Could be the dark horse that pips everyone at the line].
The next year will be interesting – potentially the careers of a couple of thousand scientists are at stake, if two major missions are permanently downselected then a lot of people are out. Both within NASA and at major universities. By my counting half-dozen+ major universities staked serious internal resources on high energy astrophysics and space based cosmology being a going concern for the next decade or two, and that could be coming to an abrupt end.
Now, everyone tries to hedge their bets, diversify, ride out the hard times. But, at some point some of the Deans and Provosts will blink, and major departments will stop playing. They will pull out of sectors of space technology development and instrumentation and disband the labs. Then game is over and the US would have to rebuild, or buy from Europe, the expertise needed for entire sub-fields of science. That takes 2-3 decades, historically.
Prioritization is important, so is allocation of sparse resources. What worries me is the all-or-nothing mentality; the rush to make a decision under pressure, changing the timeline again with no warning; and the apparent lack of comprehension that if you want to do the science any time in the future you need the core competency to be protected. MBA mentality, the thinking that you can just buy in and ramp up the expertise when the time comes.
Doesn't work that way. If nothing else there just aren't that many PhDs and engineers who know this stuff, and if you let them rust or change, they very rarely come back. Apparently they go get a life.
Oh, the predicted outcome: easy
First Rule of Committes – the Committe Conclusion is a Function of Who is on the Committee
Look who ends up on the NRC review committee, and you will know with high confidence what its conclusion will be.


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MILWAUKIE, Ore. - Police have again arrested a man on charges he sold bad hearing aids to senior citizens for thousands of dollars.
KATU viewers, in fact, helped bring the new cases against Roy Taber to light.
One of those viewers, Sharon Spencer, hoped the hearing aids she received from the charismatic, quick-talking Taber would make a difference. They did, but not in the way she hoped.
"I didn't hear better, I heard worse," Spencer said.
Her documents show she paid Taber $3,400. But under the lining of her "new" hearing aid case she discovered that it was rusty. And the sound of her husband's puttering became unbearable with the devices in her ears.
"When he would put something away, it would drive me nuts because it was so loud and scratchy," Spencer said.
As for Taber she says he disappeared with her money. She saw him next in a news story on KATU, accused of stealing money from elderly people by selling them bad hearing aids.
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She and other customers contacted the KATU Problem Solvers as well as detectives. And now Taber has been indicted on five new cases - a total of 13 counts of theft.
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Oh man, former Oakland manager/current Mets coach Bob Geren was once on Family Feud! Let's all watch the whole thing.
Highlights as I go.
Highlight No. 1: One Robinson daughter is called "the hearthrob." The other is, awkwardly, not.
Highlight No. 2: Bob's brother-in-law is named Dude?
Highlight No. 3: When the Robinson patriarch says "negligee," then makes this face:
Highlight No. 4: When Bob's sister-in-law must name a country-western singer, can't think of one, and guesses "Van Walen." We should really all be watching more Family Feud, guys.
Highlight No. 5: When it's not his turn, Bob Geren sings a song to himself.
Highlight No. 6: Grape Pie!
Highlight No. 7: Do you suppose that every time the A's got a hit Bob Geren did this:
All in all, a strong Feud player, stealing two rounds and staying calm and focused during the bonus round. Strong job, Gerens. Enjoy your $1,000 apiece.
H/T to the radio broadcast of today's Mets game.
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TAMPA — Two mothers stood at the finish line, feeling an emptiness in a crowd of thousands. Wishing their sons were here in sneakers with the rest of the bunch. Wishing those last two flags didn't bear the men's names.
Officer Jeffrey Kocab.
Officer David Curtis.
The young Tampa police officers were shot to death during a traffic stop in June. Their names joined 29 others— one for each Tampa police officer killed in the line of duty — at Saturday's 16th annual TPD Memorial Run in downtown Tampa.
"I can guarantee that when David was here last year, he never thought his name would be up there," said Curtis' twin sister, Autumn Stradley.
Their widows, Kelly Curtis and Sara Kocab, ran alongside police Chief Jane Castor and Mayor Pam Iorio in a record crowd of 2,673 participants, up from about 700 the year before.
"This just lets us know that our sons were loved," said Curtis' mother, Cindy Warren. "What it doesn't do is close the hole in our hearts. We haven't found anything that seals the hole yet."
Warren, who lives in Alabama, met with Jeff Kocab's mother, Sandy Kocab, as soon as Warren arrived in Tampa this week. Through their shared grief, the women have become close friends, Warren said.
"Not friends," Kocab corrected. "Family."
On Wednesday, they went together to their sons' graves.
At the race, they said emotions were mixed. They clapped and smiled as the first few runners made it back, then cried as a group of Sheriff's Office cadets marched through in unison.
"After everything that's happened, it's hard to see people still wanting to risk their lives for this job," Sandy Kocab said.
It's the reason Kocab said she prays out loud each time she hears a siren: God protect the officers. Amen.
The nearly $60,000 collected at the race will go to a memorial fund that benefits fallen officers' families, annual scholarships and upkeep of the fallen officers' memorial at police headquarters, said race director Jim Contento.
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BROOKSVILLE — Since red-light cameras came to Brooksville, the number of traffic violations and revenue have gone up.
The Brooksville Police Department said Tuesday that it projects collecting nearly $1.1 million in revenue in the first year of the city's red-light camera program. Because of the windfall, police Chief George Turner has asked the city for permission to add three full-time traffic officers.
"The whole idea is to make it a safer city," Turner said. "We're obviously busy and we're working hard to keep up with things."
Turner deliberately laid out his case for a new traffic enforcement unit Tuesday night at a city budget workshop. During his 45-minute presentation, Turner offered some statistics from the first few months of the red-light camera program and then followed with his pitch for the traffic officers.
Four traffic cameras have been installed at some of the city's busiest intersections since March, and a fifth one aimed at the southbound lane of Cobb Road and West Jefferson will start operating within the next 30 days.
Red-light runners are ticketed $125, with camera vendor American Traffic Solutions getting $40 and the city receiving the remaining $85. Motorists are photographed by the cameras twice, as they approach the light and then while crossing the intersection. The cameras also shoot a video, which is available for the violator to view online.
ATS screens the pictures and videos first and sends what they believe to be legitimate violations to the Police Department. An officer then reviews the images and determines whether the motorist ran the light. The fines are civil penalties and do not cause points to be added to a motorist's license.
Since April, Brooksville has issued 1,524 citations — not including the 30-day warning period that follows installation of each camera — with more than 580 violations still awaiting review. Nearly 70 percent of the citations have been paid, according to Brooksville police.
Dating to Friday, the city has collected $120,987 in citations minus $17,720 that was paid to ATS. The Police Department projects that — adjusting for changes in the driving habits as motorists become aware of the cameras and the addition of a fifth camera — the program could bring in more than $1 million by March.
With that money, Turner would like to create three positions for a new traffic enforcement team.
Turner said each officer would cost around $43,528 in salary and benefits and then about $220,000 would be spent on a patrol car and equipment for each officer.
Additionally, Turner has plans to create a part-time position for an officer who would review red-light violations and to retain the services a hearing officer who would handle citation appeals. The positions and the related equipment are estimated to cost about $32,000 a year.
That would leave a balance of more than $690,000 a year, according to Turner's figures.
"We'll be saving the taxpayer some money and increasing the safety of the city," Turner said. "It's a win-win situation."
Council member David Pugh liked the idea of having a new traffic unit.
"It looks like it would pay for itself," Pugh said.
And if revenues from the traffic cameras were ever to run low, Turner said he thinks the city would have more than enough in leftover balance to keep the traffic officers on the staff. Some critics of the program have cautioned that a steep decline in tickets could mean layoffs.
"People will never stop running red lights," Turner said. "The numbers might go down. But there will be enough to pay for the officers."
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Gears and Tire size with Auto and 6 Speed
To potentially stop this current influx of threads about the same subject everyone tune in here... If any of this is wrong please discuss and prove me wrong...
You guys are not listening to what we are saying just by reading some of these responses.... 3.73's or 4.10's in a STANDARD 6 speed transmission is just fine... You will get around 15 in town and 17-20 interstate depending how you drive.... This is not applicable with the AUTOMATIC transmission... An auto with 3.73's or 4.10's is going to be a dog with bad gas mileage... check out this chart...
-An automatic with 35's would have to gear to 4.56's just to get to the performance of a standard tranny with 3.73's and 35's.
-An automatic with 35's would have to gear to 5.13's just to get to the performance of a standard tranny with 4.10's and 35's.
-An automatic with 35's would have to gear to 5.38's just to get to the performance of a standard tranny with 4.88's and 35's.
-A standard tranny with 35's and 3.21's is a dog...
-An auto tranny with 3.21's does not exist...
-A standard tranny with 35's and 3.73's is a doable set up (not a dog).
-An auto tranny with 35's and 3.73's is a dog...
-A standard tranny with 35's and 4.10's is a decent set up (lower end of stock performance)
-An auto tranny with 35's and 4.10's is a dog...
-A standard tranny with 35's and 4.56's is a good set up (higher end of stock performance)
-An auto tranny with 35's and 4.56's is a doable set up (not a dog)
-A standard tranny with 35's and 4.88's is an ideal set up (lower end of high performance set up)
-An auto tranny with 35's and 4.88's is a doable set up (close to stock)
-A standard tranny with 5.13's should be running 37's (getting to the highest end of high performance)
-An auto tranny with5.13's has just gotten to a stock set up (the lower end of stock)
Catch my drift?
Even some of these calculations are giving the auto the benefit of the doubt...
I have 3.21 6 speed with 34 inch Goodyear MTRs which measure the same size as a lot of 35s out there. It is ok on the highway and around town, not great, I would describe it as livable and not that annoying. Off road it is a pain in the arse. It takes quite a bit of skill crawling rocks and keeping momentum going up steep hills. BUT it is doable. That being said I am regearing to 4.88s to get more off road performance. I just thuoght I would add some personal obervations involving 3.21s and 34-35s. a lot people make it sound like 3.21s with 35s will be like driving your jeep with square tires. It is not as bad as some make it out but is certainly isnt ideal. When I went on a jeep jamboree the guides kept asking me if I was in 4 wheel low. I had to explain it to several people that my gearing sucks.
Nice thread. To add to it:
The 6 speed manual offered in JK's is the NSG370. It's a Mercedes-sourced unit that was also used in 05-06 TJ's.
Gear ratios:
1st - 4.46
2nd - 2.61
3rd - 1.72
4th - 1.25
5th - 1.00
6th - .84
Reverse - 4.06
The 4 speed auto used in the JK's is the 42rle. It was used in 03-06 TJ's as well.
Gear ratios:
1st - 2.84
2nd - 1.57
3rd - 1.00
4th - 0.69
Rev - 2.21
Now look a little deeper. The OD on the 42rle is 15% higher than the NSG370. So, for any given tire size, RPM's will be 15% lower. This is why the axle gearing needs are very different for the two transmissions. Just saying "you need 4.88 gears for 35" tires" doesn't do it. You're missing out on half the story. Axle gearing is simply a function of engine, transmission, and tire size. The NSG370 also makes use of a much lower first gear, which is awesome for crawling. Lastly, it has 2 more gears before OD, so the RPM drop between gears is reduced considerably compared to the 42rle, helping the engine stay in its powerband. Combine all of that and the numbers speak for themselves--4.10's and 35's are very liveable with the NSG and not even close with the 42rle. To give you the same performance as an equivalent JK with the NSG, you should gear ~20% deeper with the 42rle.
Sure don't. The JK is still a Jeep with solid axles at both ends. Everything is transferrable. Having the same transmissions as TJ's doesn't hurt, though.
I'm an advocate for applied physics, geometry, and just going by the numbers. Numbers don't lie. It doesn't matter if we're talking about YJ's, TJ's, JK's, XJ's, etc. If you understand the fundamentals, those are just letters. Math and physics doesn't change. Your thread does a good job of explaining that. The problem is most people don't view things in black and white like that....the JK section especially.
PS, the gearing charts are excellent. I'm glad someone else got as fed up about gear threads as me.
And here I was about to start another thread!!
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I plan on running 46s one day. Can you find a better chart that has my size on it?? :D
...ok I will stop now. This is good information; nice work.
I think if that Tranny chart was a sticky it would help Military JK. When I 1st started looking at JKs I didn't understand the difference b/t the auto and the 6sp. Knowing the stock differences b/t transmissions is huge when you are picking gear and tire sizes. When I drove my 6sp with 4.10s home for the 1st time I was freaked out and thought I had made a big mistake until I did a little more research.
I would add another line at the bottom of your opening post for auto tranny with 5.38 gears. It is still only "acceptable" based on your chart, and I would agree with that. 5.38 gears are acceptable, but not great by any means. For performance gearing, or high altitude, in an auto tranny Jeep, you need lower gears than 5.38. 5.86 gears or 6.17 gears would be more appropriate for performance, and or high altitude use. Too bad they don't make 5.86 or 6.17 gears for our axles.
I live at 6000 feet elevation, at the base of a mountain that is 11,000 feet elevation, and I have 35" tires with 5.38 gears in my auto trans Rubi. Hate to say it, but it is still a dog. My Jeep downshifts just to make it over a freeway overpass. Another hundred horsepower under the hood would help.
so then why does my stock JK rubicon fall into the yellow?
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SB Nation's The Good Phight, one of the most popular Phillies blogs around, recently posted the results of their fantasy baseball draft. There were 25 rounds with 18 players each, for a total of 450 players selected -- clearly one of the deeper leagues around. I was interested in comparing TGP's draft results, particularly those involving the Phillies, to the ESPN averages.
I went through and picked every Phillie out of TGP's draft and logged their place in the draft, and compared it to ESPN. Almost across the board, Phillies were taken more quickly than compared to drafts across ESPN's vast array of leagues. The following chart illustrates the matter concisely. (Click to enlarge)
I have said a few times in my columns here that there is more to success in fantasy baseball leagues than knowing the numbers. You need to know your opponents as well. Just as in Texas hold'em poker, you can understand the odds better than anybody, but the player who picks up on tells can have just as much, if not more success.
TGP's draft clearly shows a Phillies bias. Only three of 11 Phillies with an ESPN draft average were drafted later than the ESPN average: Ryan Howard (-3), Roy Oswalt (-19), and Brad Lidge (-30). Seven Phillies did not have an ESPN draft average (read: they are not popular), but were drafted in the TGP league: Ryan Madson (194 overall), Domonic Brown (229), Joe Blanton (233), Raul Ibanez (246), Jamie Moyer (301, still befuddling), and John Mayberry (420). Obviously, at least the latter three picks have more to do with the deepness of the league than bias, but it is still interesting to note.
Additionally, one player ("The Phrozen") drafted seven of the 18 Phillies, or nearly 40 percent. Identifying these biases can not only help you make decisions on draft day, but it can also help you complete favorable trades during the season. The biases can extend beyond team allegiances as well. If you play in a league full of Saberists, players like J.A. Happ are going to be underrated while players like Mike Minor will be overrated -- generally speaking.
Be observant on draft day and take notes. It can pay off manyfold during the season!
Full listing of Phillies drafted and their ESPN averages:
Bill Baer is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Thanks for noticing and thanks for thinking about and critiquing the draft. The record needs some additional information to be better fleshed out, though.
Mar 14, 2011 12:26 PM
I disagree with you on every point. It is not necessary to compare to average draft rankings only for drafts that use the same categories, unless the Phillies have some innate characteristic which enhances them relative to everyone else for a specific statistic. The examples given do not show that (it is clear why Madson's was picked much higher, but not Halladay, Lee, Utley, Hamels, Victorino, Rollins, or Ruiz). 2.) Players taken by autopick are either ordered by the owner (would indicate bias) or by a known, pre-draft rank, which could perhaps be more favorable to Philadelphia players, but would go hand-in-hand with knowing your enemy (or your enemy's default-ordered list). 3.) If you knew that someone WAS working with the CBS rankings, having a measure of the differences in valuation (either by position or perhaps statistic) could be useful, but more often than not someone who was working off an ESPN list would not care about the variance between their list and a list they were not using.
Mar 14, 2011 13:51 PM
"It is not necessary to compare to average draft rankings only for drafts that use the same categories, unless the Phillies have some innate characteristic which enhances them relative to everyone else for a specific statistic."
Mar 14, 2011 15:54 PM
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Your scoring system should penalize Phils' starting pitchers, if anything (no wins). But I have to say this seems like a pretty random, borderline useless BP article (trying to show that one draft has a home team bias)...
Mar 14, 2011 17:27 PM
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Not sure how it's useless. There's no reason not to identify these trends -- they can only help you. All human beings are biased in one way or another.
Mar 15, 2011 00:26 AM
I live in NY and play in a fantasy league with mostly NY to Boston fans. I make a conscious effort to avoid NY and Boston players, unless they really fall in drafts, because:
Mar 14, 2011 14:29 PM
I do exactly the same thing in my draft here in the Hartford, CT area. Many guys in the league are either Sox or Yanks fans and they have at least a small preference for one or the other. More importantly, they've heard so much more about the players on both teams that they almost default to them after we get to the middle rounds. This extends to the whole American League. New England fans just don't see a lot of games with NL players and so they tend to devalue them a bit. A savvy fantasy player can often turn this to his advantage at the draft.
Mar 14, 2011 15:23 PM
I love the dreamy comment about Hamels. If there was any question about bias before...objectively speaking, we all know it's Curtis Granderson who's the most dreamy player in the league...
Mar 15, 2011 02:15 AM
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Chapter 11 (v.1) - Bloodied Altar
Lord Bloodthorne's Musings
May the spirits forgive me for what I have done. Or, if the gods and goddesses that rule over us all, even the ethereal beings, can show mercy. I beg of any. Let me take her place! The blood, the blood! Too much of it. I cannot stem the flow. The wound is too deep, much too deep. By God! What have I done?! Tuomas told for me to stay back, to let him work. But all was in vain. Too late, much too late. Damn him! Damn Nicolae and his lies! The blood is pure, yes, but spilled now. Too much of it and too soon. He planned this, that accursed fiend! Damn him, and damn me as well.
Even as I write, the blood is still upon my hands, my entire countenance covered in all she gave. She is gone. Moved on to the realm of the eternal.
Still, it is only right that I give an accurate account of what has transpired. If nothing else, it shall serve to remember her last moments.
I followed behind her as Tuomas led our way down the twisting staircases. All light failed us in the gloom of these stone passageways. At the last, there was only the dull glow of those infernal crystals. The same gems by whose light I now pen these final times.
She remained silent during the whole of the journey, head humbly bowed. The proverbial lamb without blemish. Ah, I should have known in that instant. I should have paused, taken her away by force if I must. Still, the time for such has long since passed.
We pressed forward, once more entering the room of crystals and the dreaded altar. It all was familiar to her, even though she had only stepped foot here once before. She followed the long path to the altar and the largest crystal rising up just beyond it. No word was said, no ceremony or processional. She simply lay down on the altar, seeming to know full well what I meant to do. What I did. God help me! I can scarce bare to pen it further. But I must continue, even if the ink be the last of the blood.
Tuomas looked about wildly, knowing yet fearing it. His blue eyes spoke volumes to me in those few moments. He pleaded silently, urging me to seek another method. Any save for this.
I could not.
Till the last, he strove against me until I glared down at him. He recalled his place. A servant. He bowed low and stepped away towards the entrance. He could not watch, and I did not blame him. If only I had listened. If only I had yielded to his wisdom. Schooled by the greats, and tutored by the stars. Yet I did not, I could not. Blame Nicolae as I might, I wanted to know if it was possible. Her blood had miraculously sprouted such crimson blossoms prior to this. Could it be done again? Perhaps the method lies in excess. Would a larger bloodletting allow the blossoms to run rampant. 'The blood is the life.' Over and over again in my mind, those words ran their course.
'The blood is the life. The blood is the life.'
I made my approach to the altar, steps matching pace with the beating of that fearful heart. She knew what was to come. She knew what I was to do. A final glance to me. Her crimson eyes betraying her knowledge, and something else. That final look, what was that emotion? It haunts me even now as the body grows colder upon the altar and the candles flicker over the still form. What did she wish me to see in those eyes? What was she telling me?
Forgiveness? I wish it. Forgiveness for my folly, my accursed actions.
I took hold of the dagger. That sharp instrument in my grasp, capable of unlocking the music of pain, agony. An orchestration of despair. Symphony of it all to weave forth this tale of tragedy. The crystal's glow and mingled firelight clearly shone upon the sharpened metal as surely as my will had grasped it. I held it aloft. Her eyes closed, the long lashes gracefully falling upon the high cheek bones. I swung it down with all my might.
God! Hades! Oh, what I have done!
The feel of the flesh giving way. The warmth of the liquid that welled up around it, spurting the lifeblood. Not a sound from her. Not even a whimper. That terrible deed. May I be condemned to the deepest pit for this. I am not better than he, my brother for my treacherous action! Damned!
And yet, the very instant the heart stopped it's feeble beating, the lungs silencing their strenuous attempts to breathe. Even as the blood still flowed around the altar and spilled into the pool of the ancients; their came a deep and angry cry that shook the very foundations of the sacrificial room. One I could only recognize as him. Nicolae! The cry continued to ring out, feverish and wrathful.
"No! It is not over! Not done with you yet, foolish girl!"
A black cloud rose up from the pool of blood, thick and menacing. I saw within the shape of my brother rearing back before plunging headlong into the still body upon the altar. Ah, what is the meaning of this?
Tuomas and I wait anxiously to see.
- Katsuto
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Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve juts into Lake Erie, just east of downtown Cleveland. Although the site is entirely artificial - created originally as a dredge spoil impoundment - it has morphed into a fabulous refugia for wildlife. I've spent many an hour on that peninsula, and have seen many an interesting bird there. Back in the day, when we knew the place as "Gordon Park", and it was still muddy unconsolidated spoil, CLNP was a magnet for shorebirds. I saw my first Ohio Piping Plover there, and Ohio's first state record Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, way back in 1984.
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text: Kanawha board divided, 3-2, on children of teachers attending same school if it is full By Mackenzie Mays July 8, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What is the definition of capacity?That was the question asked at the Kanawha County Board of Education Monday, where board members disagreed about whether children of teachers should be allowed to attend the school where their parents work if that school is full.Superintendent Ron Duerring has already sent letters to about 20 out-of-area students who requested to transfer to George Washington High, but now two teachers at the school are asking that their children be able to attend the long-overcrowded but high-achieving school.School board members recently put their foot down after dealing with years of congestion in the South Hills-area schools, which have some of the highest test scores in the state. Last month, the school board announced that GW is closed to transfer students due to program capacity -- the second year in a row it has had to implement a moratorium on transfers."We have denied 20 people in Kanawha County -- some with real hardships. There is no way I am going to vote to overturn the policy of this board. I think if we do that we're setting a terrible example," said board President Pete Thaw, who has long supported allowing students to attend the school of their choice, regardless of the district they live in."You've got two classes of people here: some that can and some that can't. I'm not going to say only a select few are allowed."School board member Becky Jordon, who lives in the South Hills area and had children attend GW, was outraged by the thought of not allowing teachers' children to attend the same school as their parents and accused the board of micromanaging one high school."I'm tired of GW being singled out, and now it's the only high school that can't do something nice for our staff. I hope we close all of the high schools in this county to transfers and don't let anyone go out of district. Go where you live," she said. "There are two kinds of rules in this county: the GW rules and the other high school rules. Quit it." Board member Jim Crawford, who has worked in the Kanawha County Schools system for more than 50 years, said schools have always accommodated teachers and their children, and to change that practice now would be unfair.However, board members Robin Rector and Bill Raglin said that the board should stick to its guns, and worried that allowing teachers' children in would lead to some sort of recruitment tool, with more and more teachers moving toward GW."We don't have two sets of rules. The only rule I thought we had was that we wouldn't transfer students into a school that was already full. How in the world can we justify letting anyone else come in?" Raglin said.Rector said she supports a policy that allows teachers' children to attend their parent's school regardless of whether they live in the district -- but only if that school is not at capacity."I was empathetic to the teachers. I understand how that could be a hardship. But it feels a bit hypocritical. I have no issue with honoring a teacher's request until the school is at capacity. Then it becomes a little trickier," she said. "The bottom line is what's the definition of capacity? If we're at capacity, I don't see how we can add another student, period."The board did not vote on the matter at Monday's meeting, but called it a 3-2 show of "guidance" for Duerring to make the decision."You have a single parent that wants to take their child with them to school and it makes it difficult," he said. "But we've done a lot of working through that [transfer] policy, and I do understand the idea of capacity and overcrowding." Reach Mackenzie Mays at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-4814. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Chuck McGill: Barry Switzer takes a special interest in former George Washington star 3 SBA board OKs canceling Logan's construction management contract 4 Parole board seeks report on Lavigne for possible release from prison 5 Congressional opioid investigation targets drug wholesaler Miami-Luken Five remain hospitalized after Antero gas blast Previous Story Chesapeake Bay restoration is slow going, analysts say Next Story


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Sudan: UPDATE - Refugee churches forced to close
08 March 2016
Sudanese authorities have closed the meeting places of churches catering for refugee communities in the capital, Khartoum. These closures follow a Ministry of Internal Affairs order, issued at the beginning of February, which forced the congregations to register by 15 February.
"On Friday, refugee churches that used to meet at the Presbyterian Church compounds in Jerief and Suq Arabi areas learned that their meeting places have been closed-off and sealed with new locks," a source - who remains anonymous for security reasons - told us. "The Presbyterian Church in Gerief was also closed for services to Sudanese Christians. At least six churches were unable to conduct their main services on either Friday or Sunday."
Concerns for registered churches
For the refugee churches in Khartoum that have submitted their applications, they now have to provide additional information that includes:
- The name and address of the senior pastor
- Legal documents (passport/residence permit) for church leaders
- Contact details of all church leaders (telephone, email, post boxes)
- Name and address details of church governing bodies/elders
- Total number of members and their names
- Exact place of meeting
Pastors have expressed concern over this move, saying that they fear the government will gain information about their operations, and yet still deny them registration - a method used by the government in neighbouring Eritrea, where persecution against Christians is extremely high.
Churches affected by this move include those ministering to refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Philippines, among others.
Persecution increases
The Sudanese government has been exerting increasing pressure against Christians in Sudan. Currently, two Christian pastors who were arrested in December 2015 are being held incommunicado, with no formal charges or access to legal support. There is mounting concern for the wellbeing of the two.
Please join us in praying for this very worrying development.
Please pray:
- For the Lord's miraculous intervention in this situation and that the Church will find a way to continue ministering to believers, despite the efforts by the government to thwart their work
- That the Lord would grant courage to all church leaders and Christians affected by the church closures
- That these circumstances would work to unite the Church in Sudan instead of drive them apart.
- That the Lord would give believers the wisdom to respond to these difficulties in a way that glorifies his Name and brings his people into a closer relationship with him.
Refugee churches may be forced to close
15 February 2016
Representatives from Sudan's Ministry of Internal Affairs have convened leaders of refugee churches in Khartoum to tell them to stop their services until they have registered.
The churches affected are those started for refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Philippines, among others.
If they have not registered by 15 February, they may be closed.
One refugee pastor said: "We don't know what to do. Leaders from the refugee churches are discussing what the next move should be ...We have asked the Sudanese churches who share their compounds with us for church services to [advise us].
"We know that currently the Sudanese churches leaders are [under a lot of pressure] after the arrest of some of their senior leaders."
Some of the pastors fear that once they apply for registration, the government will have a lot of information about the churches but at the same time fail to grant permission to continue, as happened in neighbouring Eritrea.
The sources explained that this may be another indication that the government of Sudan is busy with a wider crackdown against Christians in the country.
"We are praying and asking God to help us in this situation," one church leader told an Open Doors contact.
Source: World Watch Monitor
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- For wisdom in knowing whether to register
- For courage in the face of these difficulties
- For unity among the Christian community.
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You have cancer. Now what? Now you are a survivor.
One of our country's most visible cancer survivors, Lance Armstrong, educates the public through the Lance Armstrong Foundation. He states that "a survivor is anyone battling cancer. A survivor might be the person diagnosed, a spouse, a child, a friend or any caregiver. Survivorship begins at diagnosis, the moment your battle with cancer begins." Is this language descriptive of the experience of having cancer?
Some people living with cancer report they can't be survivors at diagnosis, as this title doesn't imply any milestones such as completion of treatment or years of being disease free. The distinction of survivorship at diagnosis is intended to be a powerful title. It informs others that a cancer diagnosis means you are living with cancer.
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California Congresswoman Maxine Waters puts her foot down by reclaiming her time.
T.I. may not have had the highest approval rating during his most recent prison stint, but his clothing line was high in demand! According to TMZ, a rep for AKOO clothing says the company's sales soared by 25% in the last year, coincidentally, the same time T.I. was locked up.
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