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The government has on Monday vowed to intensify the war against contraband and smuggling as part of the comprehensive strategy on countering terrorist financing.
Speaking during a high-level security meeting at the Government Guest House in Garissa County, Interior CS Dr Fred Matiang’i lamented that the vice is hurting businesses in the country.
“This is not a trade. It is fueling the death of Kenyans. Those who engage in it are al-Shabaab’s foremost supporters and funders, and will be handled like the terrorists,” he said.
Matiang’i announced that a multi-agency team will immediately launch a security operation and sustain surveillance along the borders to stop and deter the flow of illicit goods, services, and immigrants into the country.
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The team will provide weekly updates to the Cabinet Secretary for necessary actions and responses.
Matiang’i warned the vice has offered a loophole for terror groups to get funding for their activities.
At the same time, he directed the National Government Administrative Officers to engage the local leaders and residents in gathering intelligence to deal with radicalization and terrorism.
“Terrorists and their sympathizers have no place in Kenya. Once again, we will make no distinction between the two categories. Those who harbour terrorists will be treated with the same veracity we treat terrorists,” the Interior CS said.
His tour comes following renewed attacks in Garissa County with the latest incident being the killing of 4 pupils of Saretho boarding primary school on 7th January,2020 and the brutal murder of 3 non-local teachers in Kamuthe a week later.
Matiang’i met Garissa County Governor Ali Korane and Mandera Counterpart Ali Roba who handed him a memorandum following recent security meetings they held in their respective counties.
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Applications are now open for the Fifth Annual New York Portfolio Review, sponsored by The New York Times Lens blog and the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. We are again gathering 150 photographers and 75 of the most influential editors, curators, gallerists and book publishers for two days of private photo critiques on April 29 and 30. A list of reviewers is below the application form.

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Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia (DD) arises from a deficit in phonological processing, emerging evidence suggest that DD could result from a more basic cross-modal letter-to-speech sound integration deficit. Letters have to be precisely selected from irrelevant and cluttering letters by rapid orienting of visual attention before the correct letter-to-speech sound integration applies. In the present study the time-course of spatial attention was investigated measuring target detection reaction times (RTs) in a cuing paradigm, while temporal attention was investigated by assessing impaired identification of the first of two sequentially presented masked visual objects. Spatial and temporal attention were slower in dyslexic children with a deficit in pseudoword reading (N = 14) compared to chronological age (N = 43) and to dyslexics without a deficit in pseudoword reading (N = 18), suggesting a direct link between visual attention efficiency and phonological decoding skills. Individual differences in these visual attention mechanisms were specifically related to pseudoword reading accuracy in dyslexics. The role of spatial and temporal attention in the graphemic parsing process might be related to a basic oscillatory "temporal sampling" dysfunction.
Ruffino, M., Gori, S., Boccardi, D., Molteni, M., & Facoetti, A. (2014). Spatial and temporal attention in developmental dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00331

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In order to provide a better water supply and a better sewerage network across the national capital, new pipelines and sewer lines will be laid by the Delhi Government in various rural and urban areas of the city.
Regarding this, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia approved various projects of Delhi Jal Board for laying pipelines and sewer lines in Delhi. The total cost of all these projects is worth Rs 16.79 crore. After the completion of these projects, the water supply of the said areas will improve radically.
Talking about the project, the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister said, “Delhi Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is committed to ensuring a better water supply to every citizen in Delhi. The government is working round the clock and in a phased manner to ensure 24×7 water supply in the capital through various initiatives. Project to replace the old pipelines with the new and stronger ones is one such initiative taken by the government in response to the current situation.”
Simultaneously, Sisodia directed the officials that during the entire process of replacement of water pipelines and sewer lines, all standards of safety, security and quality should be ensured with commitment and these works should be completed within the given time span to avoid any inconvenience to the residents.
The Delhi government has approved the replacement of old damaged water lines in Hasanpur village, Khera Dabar village of Matiala, Pandwala Khurd village, and Sarangpur village.
Apart from this, the water supply will also be improved by replacement of water lines in Nangli Puna, Jharoda Harijan Basti, and Kamal Vihar of Burari.
The old sewer lines will be replaced by the modern HDD system by the Kejriwal government. Under this, main peripheral sewer lines from Mangal Bazar Road to Vikas Marg trunk sewer in Laxmi Nagar, from Ganesh Nagar-II to Madhuban Chowk, from South Ganesh Nagar to Ganesh Chowk and Shantiniketan sewer line of RK Puram will be replaced with the help of HDD system. Excess excavated soil will be used for levelling the ground in parks and nurseries, wherever required.
Sisodia said there are many areas where pipelines were laid 25 to 30 years ago and now as they are old, they have become weak and dilapidated. He said by replacing the pipelines, there would be no shortage of water for the people living in these areas and there would be an uninterrupted supply of water here.


The Blue Earth Area School Board held their first meeting of the year on Monday night.
Superintendent Evan Gaugh said the first meeting of the year is the organizational meeting for the Board. The Board chose Jesse Haugh as Chairman for 2018 and Frankie Bly was selected to serve as Vice Chairman.
The Board also approved a resolution directing the administration to make recommendation for reductions in programs and positions, which according to Gaugh is something the Board does every January to keep the budget on track. The Board is expected to approve the revised budget in March.
During the public input portion of the meeting, several people voiced their concerns over disciplinary action taken against four students involved in an incident involving students that did not occur on School District Property.


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The National Archives today refused the request of aWashington non-profit public interest group to declassify secret records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in time for the 2013 50th anniversary of that tragic event.
The Archives reversed a commitment by Assistant Archivist Michael Kurtz at an Archives public forum in 2010, at which time he stated the remaining secret Kennedy assassination records would be released by the end of2013. The Archives today said Kurtz "misspoke" when he made that commitment to the public.
Kurtz' promise to process the secret JFK related documents fulfilled President Obama's expressed desire that his administration be the most open in history. Today's reversal to release these records defeats President Obama's pledge that his has be the most open administration in history.
The National Archives states that it does not know the extent of secret files in its collection related to the Kennedy assassination, but that CIA is withholding 1,171 classified documents related to the assassination. The Archive's acknowledges that in 2006 the CIA speeded up releases of documents with release dates through 2010, but that CIA declines to do so for the remaining documents due to "logistical requirements" even though, according to the National Archives, only 1,171 CIA documents of undetmined volume remain to be declassified.
The request for release of the secret documents was made by the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), a Washington, D.C. non-profit public interest group in a letter signed by several of its board members and attorneys Mark Zaid, Charles Sanders and Prof G Robert Blakey; who served as the chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The letter made the point that the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in 2013 will result in widespread discussion and news coverage, and that government documents related to the assassination should be made public in order for a fully informed discussion.


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ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former shelter dog has been honored for saving his new family from a Long Island house fire.
Bear the 150-pound Mastiff mix was honored Wednesday at a ceremony in Islip (EYE'-slihp).
Officials presented him with a 12-inch dog biscuit in the shape of a "key to the town." He ate the attention — and the treat — right up.
Town officials say Bear saved Carol Swinson and her 9-year-old grandson, DJ, during the recent fire in Brentwood. He jumped on Swinson to wake her up.
The family had adopted Bear just two weeks earlier. He'd been at the shelter two months.
Bear also received dog toys to replace the ones he lost in the fire.
Town officials say Bear represents other deserving shelter pets still waiting for adoption.


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CHICAGO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic Center to officially kick off the city's celebrations for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The opening ceremony featured Chinese cultural performances including traditional music, dance, and Chinese martial arts, to usher in the Year of Horse according to the Chinese lunar calendar.
The event will not only help local residents have a better understanding of China and Chinese culture, but also enhance the image of Chicago among Chinese people and attract more Chinese tourists, said Zhao Weiping, the consul general of the Chinese Consulate in Chicago,
Macy's Department Store displayed through its windows the rites of the Chinese Lunar New Year in a form of a shadow play, a traditional Chinese art.
"I know it's the Year of the Horse. I think it (the performance) looks pretty good," a local resident Zach Wardlaw said, standing by the window.
"The art of Asia really intrigues me, like the culture itself," said the other resident.
"I know San Francisco has a humongous celebration so it's time for Chicago to ramp it up and let' s beat San Francisco," said another resident.
The Art Institute of Chicago organized an exhibition of its collections from China to help visitors learn more about the country.
Bloomingdale, an upscale department store, dispatched Chinese red envelope and limited-edition Year of the Horse tote bag to customers.
The 15-day celebrations, running from Jan. 31 through Feb. 14, is part of Chicago's efforts to attract more Chinese tourists, city officials said. It will showcase Chinese dance, music, martial art, as well as Chinese cuisines.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel told Xinhua Thursday that he hoped Chinese tourists could "feel welcome and at home coming to Chicago."


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man, He admits man, so reconciled, of the evils and wants of the soul, to the high privilege of mental inter- which becomes its relation to Him course and communion with Him, i. e., who knoweth all things, and which they who have attained to the belief could not possibly admit the intrusion that the blood of Christ, as a pro- of another mind. pitiatory victim, blots out human 3. We have the consciousness of transgression, do realize, as the bles- God's providential government and sing consequent on pardon and re- care. Inspired Scripture tells us what conciliation, a friendly approach to God is. The believing acceptance of God, so as to commune with Him in that declaration brings us into direct acts of intelligent worship and in and real intercourse with the Divine prayer. The direction of the mind mind, and then we gradually acquire to God is not an inert, formal, and a distinct and intelligent perception useless service. It is a blessed and of His providential dealings towards satisfying reality. “We have access us; so that those events which to an to God,” says St. Paul, “ through unbelieving mind appear to be casual Christ, by one Spirit.” And again, and fortuitous, are clearly traceable we have “ boldness to enter into the in their connexion with the state of holiest by the blood of Jesus.
the soul, with its moral consciousness new and living way, which he hath in the sight of God, and with the seconsecrated for us, through the veil, crets of this intercourse and its requithat is to say, His flesh, let us draw site in prayer. A real Christian can near with a true heart in full assurance thus trace God's dealings with him. of faith.” And this is our actual ex- He can tell when God in His properience if we are Christians, that vidence is restraining, correcting, or prayer is real communion with God. encouraging; we can see a rational When we approach God thus, in His bearing of His appointments upon Son's name, we become sensible that our character, and its defects, weakwe are not occupied about a mere nesses, or excesses; so that the discifigment of the imagination, but that pline of an earthly parent, as adapted we are actually communicating with to what he knows of his child, is not the great God of the universe, the more evident or intelligible than is the benevolent Father of our spirits, and discipline of God's providence to His the Guardian of our interests. And people. He gives, or He withholds, whatever we have seen Jesus Christ just as is good for us. He marks out to be in His life on earth, as merciful the bounds of our habitations. He and gracious, such we regard that raises up, or He brings low; and all mysterious immensity of power, and this has a manifest and interesting wisdom, and goodness, revealed to us connexion with the facts and the through Him. Jesus, the friend of character of our secret intercourse sinners, is the development to us of with God. Whatever we know of the mind of God; and the commu- those secret workings of our mind, nion, therefore, of the believing soul on which no other eye rests but that with God acquires all that openness, of the Eternal, we find the events of unreservedness, and confidence which life falling out in marvellous accordthe benevolence of Jesus inspires; and ance with them, and sometimes the an entire admission and development most extraordinary turnings and inGod;
terpositions occurring either for our source of his happiness. “Thou art relief, or for our salutary discomfiture my portion, O Lord.” Yes, if we are and disappointment; and in all this, Christians, we have looked with calm we have, without doubting, the hand and rational deliberation on the whole of the unseen Sovereign to whom a
range of things; all that the visible gracious access has been given through world numbers; and all in which a Christ.
fertile and brilliant imagination can Such is the christian knowledge of indulge itself; and we have found
and it is most convincing, so that there is nothing in facts or ficthat he who has it, and honestly and tion which presents such prospects of properly cultivates it, can say, as- solid and satisfying joy, either in the suredly, that he has not followed a next world or in this, as the revelation cunningly devised fable, but that of our Creator, through Christ Jesus, God, in the glory of His holiness, as a reconciled God. and His mercy in the manifested Even abstractedly considered, this mystery of the human soul's redemp- is wise ; for God, who made and gotion, is the most satisfying reality verns all things, is infinitely superior that he has found. In a world of
to everything else, for He has all fleeting changing shadows, this is the things in His hand, and can effectuonly substantial resting-place. ally overrule them all as seemeth best
Then observe, secondly, that there to His godly wisdom. Life and death, is in the Christian an evidence, ac- the whole range of the things of time ceptance, and choice of God, as the or the things of eternity, are wholly true and satisfying choice of the soul. subservient to His bidding. This is Each man has his preferred objects, to essential to the idea of God; therefore which he devotes himself, in the ex- if we have found the knowledge of pectation of deriving happiness from God; if we have a way by which we them. We are formed to seek happi- can know Him and devote ourselves ness, rest, fulness; to crave after en
to Him; (and of this there is no quesjoyment. And you will not find a
tion, for the Christian's practical exsingle individual who has not his no- perience is convincing;) then it were tion about it, and who is not practi- madness to do any other than cordically and really devoting himself to ally to devote the soul to His service. something, out of which he thinks he But the Christian's choice is made on can extract the most gratifying por- something more than the mere abtion of good. It is lamentable to stract grounds; it is made on actual think how debased some minds are in experience. For as there is unquesthis respect, and to what mean and tionably an evil bias in the soul, leadmuddy channels they will stoop to ing it powerfully away from God, so it drink. That is not, however, now our has pleased God to disclose Himself, object; we merely make the remark, and to offer Himself to our attention with a view to the fact before us, that in a way peculiarly suited to our as other men have made their choice, needs; and our choice therefore of - whether wise or foolish, elevating or God for our portion, is founded on the degrading, and likely to be successful experience of the rich suitability and or ruinous,-the Christian has in the practical efficiency of the provision of same way made choice of God as the
grace to our wants. We find that says
God in Christ is able and willing to knowledge of God, the increasing disdeliver us from all the evils by which covery of His love, and the peace, we are oppressed; from sin, and all its and
and joy, which He pours melancholy consequences. In the through faith into the soul, we have a midst of change, and uncertainty, and perpetual spring of delight, to which disappointment here, we find present the unbelieving mind is a stranger. repose in the actual sense and assu- And it is as the result of this experirance of the love and favour of God. ence, that a Christian says to God, as And amidst the darkness which na- an act of deliberate choice, “Thou art turally overhangs our lot, and closes my portion, O Lord.” in with impenetrable thickness over There is something desolate indeed the grave, we find the knowledge of in the state of a rational creature, God as a reconciled Father opening broken off from intercourse with the to us the vision of eternal realities, Great Being who made him : and such and cheering us with the assured is man in his fallen state. It is a hope of perfect holiness and peace forced and unnatural state; a state of with Him for ever.
punishment, of exile, of alienation. In proportion to the sincerity and The Christian has felt this. His heart ardour of our devotion to the means has yearned for a better country; it of christian knowledge, and of reli- has longed for home. “They seek," gious experience, these results are
St. Paul, “ a better country, even brought out more distinctly. We go a heavenly." And having once really with all our guilt, sinfulness, and im- known the happiness of that rest purity, to God, through Christ, and which remaineth for the people of we find that we have in Christ an Ad- God; that gracious, perpetual sabbath vocate with the Father, and in God a of repose upon God's covenanted and sin-pardoning God. We go with all manifested love; he desires this suour sorrows, and trials, and discomfi- premely; and whatever either delusive tures, to Him, and we find that He is imagination or corrupt nature may able to deliver, and will deliver; that put into the opposite scale, cannot if we cast our burden upon the Lord, weigh against it. " Whom have I in He will sustain us; that if we commit heaven but Thee? and there our way unto the Lord, He will direct upon earth that I desire beside Thee.” our path. We go to Him when the This is the true language of the fear of death has fallen upon us, and awakened and enlightened heart ; a horrible dread hath overwhelmed and though there may be struggles, us; when nature recoils from dissolu- and difficulties, and conflicts, and oction, and from the sleep and corrup- casional failures and inconsistencies, tion of the body under the sod; and yet when God has spoken in the heart, we find that He is able to deliver us the choice is made. The language of from our fears, and to cheer us with a David is the language of every true hope full of immortality,—a hope that believer's heart: “I cried unto the entereth into that within the vail. We Lord; I said thou art my refuge and go to Him under the practical con- my portion in the land of the living." viction that earth is too scanty to It is a real preference of the knowmeet and satisfy the natural cravings ledge, love, and worship of God, to of the soul, and in the increasing everything else, expressed sincerely to God, in communion with Him, and take again the submissive portion of a openly and unreservedly expressed helpless and dependent creature, and before men; and being not a mere to take God for his portion. And this pretence, or a scenic exhibition got change, which we state hypothetically up for effect, but the deep-seated con- in his case, because we do not know viction of the soul, in that solitary his history, must be a reality in every depth fathomed only by God, and one of us, who is brought, through the where there is no hypocrisy.
revelation of God's redeeming mercy Then, thirdly, notice the effect pro- in Christ Jesus, again submissively to duced on the character and conduct. acknowledge that our happiness is in Such a deliberate and hearty choice God, and not in ourselves. This is of God as the portion of the soul, ne- the crisis of the fate of the human cessarily has a powerful and manifest soul, the end of its wanderings; like influence. Whatever choice we make the dove, it has returned to the ark. of an object to which we look for hap- One manifest effect, therefore, of piness,—whether it be fame and noto- this choice is, the termination of all riety, wealth, or sensual pleasure, or that restlessness, which arises out of any mixture of these different ingre- the unsatisfied cravings of a selfish dients in any walk of life,-it colours nature. Look through the world, and and influences the whole of a man's you find the great mass of men all doings. And so it is with the chosen restlessly on the move, seeking for of God. If we have really truly felt something, but they hardly know that the enjoyment of God, both here what. This world is not their rest, and hereafter, is the essence of true but they are trying to make it so. happiness; and that for this every They are seeking their own honour thing else should be held subservient, and aggrandizement, and not the and nothing admitted to occupy the honour that cometh from God. Let attention that is found practically to us look into our own hearts, in their interfere with this one great object; natural propensities and workings, then it cannot be, but that all those and we will find the same thing there. habits in which we formerly indulged, But if we have exchanged a finite for when God was unknown and disre- an infinite object; if we have turned garded, must undergo a very material from self and from vanity, to Him, change. If Adam had always felt the who has a Maker's, and a Monarch's, will of God supremely valuable, he and a Father's, and a Redeemer's never would have declined to his own, claim to the heart; then this restlessand criminally set up his independent ness subsides; the wicked and trouauthority; and if, after he rebelled, bled waters of human passion become he was mercifully led again to see the still; we have found One on whom infinite goodness of God, and the ne- the soul can repose with confidence; cessary dependence of His creature on whose fulness it can feed without on Him for happiness, then that satiety, and in whose excellencies it haughty and miserable independence may delight without excess. which he had sought to establish, The calm and quiet of the christian would have given way, and, renounc- mind, is one of the characteristic feaing the impious thought of being a tures of a sound, and safe, and sancGod himself, he would be content to tifying orthodoxy. The religion that
leaves a man as restless and as self- saved. But we must not deceive ourseeking as it found him, has some de- selves; God is not our portion, unless fect in it. It is cankered at the root. goodness becomes our element. We
Another effect of this choice is, the do not love Him, nor prefer Him, diligent and steady seeking for the whose will we habitually contradict. increasing manifestation of God's The Psalmist says, “Thou art my favour. It is the peaceful discovery portion, O Lord: I have said that I of God to the mind, that is now its would keep thy words. ... I thought happiness; and this may be commu- on my ways, and turned my feet unto nicated to an inconceivable, to an thy testimonies. I made haste, and infinite extent. For this commu- delayed not to keep thy commandnion, as superior to all other bless- ments. ... I am a companion of all ings, , the soul waits and pleads. them that fear thee.” Now here are The writer of the psalm says, “I the natural and legitimate evidences entreated thy favour with my whole of a preference; we can understand heart ; be merciful unto me, ac- in such a case the sincerity of such a cording to thy word.” And such declaration, “Thou art my portion.” must be the Christian's habit; he God is not a mere name, nor a mere cannot, in his present contracted dispenser of privilege, but a ruling experience, amidst the shadows of a power ;-ruling in holiness, searching life of faith, know all that he would the heart and trying the reins, and wish to know of infinite goodness, or making His creature's happiness to enjoy all that nearness of communion run parallel with his duty; and all the with the source of blessing that he richest mercy of His system of rehas learned to desire. If, therefore, demption, is the agency by which He God is our portion, then, as far as we raises the degraded sinner to holiness have realized it, we are enjoying it again, and, restraining all the excesnow, and finding subordinate happi- sive tendencies which sprung into ness in friendly and filial intercourse being at his first rebellion, sets him with Him. And, besides this, as the free again to serve with all filial affecson, while he is under tutors and go- tion his compassionate and redeeming vernors, looks forward to the full ad- Lord. Whatever some may say, mission to the privileges of the inhe- therefore, of the anti-evangelical leritance, so do we calculate upon a gality of evidences, and the darkening time of far more elevated enjoyment: effect of looking for fruits, rest aswe wait for the full “manifestation of sured that the visible results of a sinthe sons of God,” the redemption of cere profession that God is our porthe body, and the complete emanci- tion, will be found in the subduing of pation of the soul.
the feverish restlessness of our proud And a third effect of this choice is, and selfish hearts; in the habitual an effectual struggle for obedience. yearning after nearer intercourse with If God is my portion, obedience is my God, and in the strenuous and victodelight. There is a great deal of mo- rious endeavour to do His will. dern theology, which aims at drown- Let us then apply these statements ing these two ideas, and allowing the to our individual case. Every man professing Christian the privilege to must judge for himself. If y make sin, as well as the privilege to be a christian profession, then you say,


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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 3D
What is it with America and cults? When they’re not rebooting the Bible with added chapters, taking out alien insurance or faking moon landings, they’re championing fourteen year old boys into the very heights of celebrity and bursting into tears of dubious lust every time he dares to brush hair out of his eyes. As Bieber is chased down the street by his own personal Children of the Corn, one thing quickly becomes clear: Bieber has everything, and he can bloody well keep it. Skipping the Mickey Mouse club and serendipitously landing himself in Usher’s tutelage, there is no denying that Bieber is genuinely talented, a small fact that lends this extra dimensional cash-in some much needed credence – even if not fully justifying the movie’s titular cod-philosophy. Never, young millionaire, is an awfully long time.
First and foremost might I say that there is no reason for this biopic to be in 3D. Dropped by An Inconvenient Truth‘s Davis Guggenheim so that he could focus on promoting Waiting for “Superman” with some semblance of dignity, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never was instead directed by Jon Chu, who had recently finished bringing Step Up 3 into the third dimension. While there are some nice moments generated by the singer’s confetti-strewn My World Tour and a quirky visual flourish that gives twitter its long overdue close-up, the sheer amount of archive footage jars distractingly with the specialist camera’s pristine 3D miniaturisation.
Elsewhere, however, Jon Chu does a decent enough job, playing to his target audience without ever surrendering to the phenomenon itself. More of an unofficial biography than a warts-and-all documentary, Bieber’s interaction with the camera is minimal, leaving his entourage of friends, family and peers to humanise the tween idol on his behalf. While we learn that Bieber likes the colour purple and isn’t the biggest fan of his vitamin supplement, the singer spends more time on stage than he does off, displaying about as much personality as one of his golden microphones.
Unlike This Is It, Bieber’s presence isn’t as fundamentally stamped on his docu-concert, Bieber remaining the butter-wouldn’t-melt wunderkind throughout. The truth is that Chu simply doesn’t have enough life experiences to draw from, the year-long struggle endured by all in Beiber’s rise to stardom referenced but never felt. Alive for all of five minutes, Never Say Never is a strangely drama-free This Is Your Life – a brisk greatest (three) hits that deprives the singer of a believable underdog story of his own. While the biopic may refrain from pulling punches with Bieber himself, however, it wastes no time in showing his many would-be suitors for the drooling obsessives they really are.
While I remain immune to Bieber fever or conjustinitus or whatever it’s called, I was by no means unentertained by Never Say Never. Though the content is consistently terrifying, as a stadium full of devotees link their fingers into a million desperate hearts, and cheesey, as the entire outfit engage in ritualistic prayer, the harmless direction is suitable consolation. Though not as unexpectedly memorable as last year’s Michael Jackson tribute, Never Say Never does catch something in its well structured countdown to the Madison Square Garden concert that marks it out as a cut above Disney’s own documentary phenomena; it’s just a pity that that something is genuinely frightening child hysteria.


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MLB betting handicappers have tight races in the AL East and Central divisions while Texas has dominated the AL West baseball betting online race.
The New York Yankees have led the American League East for nearly all summer after the Tampa Bay Rays cooled off following a blistering pace at the start of the season.
The defending World Series champion Yankees will entertain the slumping Detroit Tigers this week and then host the last place Seattle Mariners over the weekend, which gives them a chance to pad their lead.
Tampa Bay leads the wild card race that includes top contenders Boston and Chicago. The Rays have had a tough go of it lately as they lost 7 out of 10 games and had their lead in the wild card race over Boston cut to 4 games. They were still in the AL East race just 2 games behind the Yankees.
Tampa Bay hosts a tough series against the Texas Rangers this week before traveling out to Oakland to play the pesky Athletics over the weekend.
The Boston Red Sox will host the fading Los Angeles Angels, who must catch fire with the MLB odds fast as they trailed Texas by 7.5 games and were not a realistic contender for the wild card race. Boston will host the Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend.
The Minnesota Twins ripped first place in the American League Central back from the Chicago White Sox after beating the baseball lines in 8 out of 10 games. Minnesota will host the White Sox in one of the top series of the week in a 3-game showdown that begins Tuesday at Target Field.
Minnesota will then host the Angels over the weekend while the White Sox will travel to slumping Kansas City to face the last place Royals.
After playing at Tampa Bay the Rangers will stay on the road with a weekend MLB betting series at Baltimore against the Orioles and their former manager Buck Showalter.
The Rangers are coming off an intense home stand that featured big crowds with big name opponents New York and Boston in town last week and there could perhaps be a layover effect.

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The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney and Enterprise Ireland have today launched two new programmes with funding of over €63m, focused on supporting Irish innovators and research.
The programmes are administered by Enterprise Ireland, and co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which aims to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion across all European regions.
The Managing Authorities for the ERDF in Ireland are the Northern & Western Regional Assembly and the Southern Regional Assembly.
Enterprise Ireland says the new €30M national initiative has the objective of developing a series of immersive, needs-led innovation training programmes.
These training programmes will aim to identify unmet market needs within specific sectors of growth in Ireland.
The Innovators’ Initiative programmes will be hosted in Irish publicly funded Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) – mainly third level institutions - or within a consortia of RPOs.
Applications are now being sought from publicly funded RPOs from areas of sectoral importance to Ireland.
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney said, "These two new funding programmes, which are worth €63m combined, signal a major vote of confidence for both innovation and research in Ireland. We have a very strong and well-earned reputation for our capabilities in research, innovation and knowledge transfer, and this will enable us to build further on that success."
Head of Research and Innovation at Enterprise Ireland, Marina Donohue added, "The programmes will enable those active in this space to investigate, establish and develop new ideas. Both initiatives will accelerate the development of innovation capability in Irish enterprise across all regions and we look forward to supporting the projects involved."


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Cardinal to receive Italian literary prize
May 03, 2016
The Italian government will present its 2016 penna d’oro (golden pen) prize to Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the president of the Pontifical Council of Culture.
Established in 1957, the prize honors writers and journalists who have brought honor to the nation. Last year’s recipient was Eugenio Scalfari, a journalist who has interviewed Pope Francis.
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TomS the brewpub reviews are much appreciated.
I should add re: Mission that, while I didn't prefer the amber a LOT of people were drinking it so it may be that it's just not to my taste. None of the beers were bad, and if I had been in a hoppy mood I might have been happier with the IPA and double IPA. It's also worth mentioning that the place is unfinished. They have no refrigeration so the beer was a bit warm and they were icing kegs before putting them on. I really liked the place, very friendly staff too.
When you get to the area, I recommend finding a copy of the West Coaster SD
, a local free beer rag. The last page has a map listing breweries, restaurants, and good beer bars. We went to a few of the places and had great experiences everywhere. It's been an excellent guide so far.


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Ah, the other greatest time of the year. Experts' picks.
Just kidding. Picks by the experts of the sports world mean absolutely nothing and they have 0 impact on the outcome of any given game, unless of course your Tom Jackson.
However, with that being said, it is noteworthy that of the assortment of 12 ESPN hockey analysts and writers making their picks for Round 1, all 12 picked your Boston Bruins to come out on top over the Detroit Red Wings.
The Bruins over the Wings is the only unanimous decision from the panel given in the eight playoff series' to be played.
But that's not to say they all think the series will be a cakewalk; all 12 on the panel have the series going either six or seven games, which most fans would probably agree with.
It all starts Friday at 7:30 pm at The Garden.


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Manchester based psych aficionados ‘W.H Lung’ have unleashed a seriously infectious track in the guise of their debut single ‘Inspiration’, a blistering motorik slice of experimental modern day psych. The band released the track back on November 25th via their own label ‘Hed Glo Inc’. The track is available via Apple Music, etc etc and as free download via the bands soundcloud page, although it is limited to the first 100 people!
‘Inspiration’ enters into earshot on a repetitious instrumental drone before the bass frequencies build and the motorik rhythms take hold. The percussion swirls as hypnotically undulating synth swells usher in those hard hitting vocals underscored by tremulous guitar squall and swathes of reverb to collectively meander through sonic peaks and troughs and on into the musical ether. This is a triumphant debut single from a band who we will definitely be watching going forward into 2017.


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Dick Cheney has gone on the TV to defend torture:
Dick Cheney, who as vice president was a powerful sponsor of the brutal interrogation tactics used on detainees suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda, on Sunday escalated his counterattack on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report, which found that the C.I.A.’s now-defunct program violated American values, was incompetently run and produced no useful intelligence that could not have been obtained in other ways.
“I would do it again in a minute,” Mr. Cheney said in a spirited, emotional appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He denied that waterboarding and related interrogation tactics were torture, noting that three of the last four attorneys general had agreed with his view.
“Torture is what the Al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11,” Mr. Cheney said. “There is no comparison between that and what we did with respect to enhanced interrogation.”
Mr. Cheney was also pressed to answer questions on detainees who had faced lengthy incarceration before being found not culpable. The former vice president responded that, in his mind, the greater problem was “with the folks that we did release that end up back on the battlefield.”
Let’s look at what the Cheney had the US do:
Dilawar died on Dec. 10, seven days after Habibullah died. He’d been hit in his leg so many times that the tissue was “falling apart” and had “basically been pulpified,” said then-Lt. Col. Elizabeth Rouse, the Air Force medical examiner who performed the autopsy on him.
Had Dilawar lived, Rouse said in sworn testimony, “I believe the injury to the legs are so extensive that it would have required amputation.”
That’s not the CIA, but this was:
Autopsy photos show lacerations and multiple bruises on Jamadi’s feet, thighs and arms. His most significant injuries — five broken ribs — are not visible in the photos. There were no bruises in that area, leading military medical examiners to say that the fractures were probably caused by a slow, deliberate application of force, such as someone kneeling on his chest.
As was this:
More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison.
Inside a chilly cell, the man was shackled and left half-naked. He was found dead, exposed to the cold, in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002.
I had a bit of a run-down on torture here.


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Godlewska, A. and N. Smith, eds. 1994. Geography and Empire. Cambridge , MA : Black-well.
Aspaas, R. 1998. "Heading Households and Heading Businesses: Rural Ken yan Women in the Informal Sector." The Professional Geographer 50(2): 192-203.
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Donald K. Clayton, Sr., 80, Platteville, died on Saturday, Aug. 25 at Southwest Health in Platteville.
A Memorial Mass will held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Cuba City. Father Dave Flanagan will officiate. Immediately following the service, there will be a time of lunch and fellowship at St. Rose Catholic School. Burial will be at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Mineral Point, at a later date. Visitation was from 4–8 p.m. Tuesday at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory in Platteville. There was a rosary at 3:45 p.m. Visitation continues from 10 a.m. until the time of mass on Wednesday at the church. Memorials may be made to the Donald K. Clayton Memorial Fund. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com.
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Big Mac lovers rejoice! McDonald’s has just unveiled a Drive-Thru restaurant that comes to you!
Sadly, the slightly ludicrous driveable burger van is only in Brazil, and was an initiative of the creative agency DPZ&T to try and highlight how accessible the burger chain is.
Known as the Drive-Thruck, apparently it’s a play on the idea of a Drive-Thru and a truck. Check it out below:
Commenting on the stunt, DPZ&T’s executive creative director, Sergio Mugnaini, said: “It was an irreverent way of reminding everyone that there is always a Drive-Thru along their way, and also anywhere in Brazil.”


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Davido’s Song, ‘FALL’ Has Gone Platinum In The United States
Davido, a household name in Nigeria, has achieved another milestone by selling more than a million copies of his famous song “FALL” in the US.
By Omotayo Olutekunbi
The Plug, a music distribution, and talent management firm, said on Friday, January 20, 2023, that Davido’s 2017 hit song “FALL” has sold over a million records and received an RIAA platinum plaque.
The song, which renowned music producer Kiddominant created, is the second in a string of four great hits from 2017—”IF,” “FALL,” “Like That,” and “FIA”—that have gained popularity both in the UK and the US.
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With his platinum award, Davido will become the fifth Nigerian musician to get an RIAA platinum plaque, after CKay, Tems, Burna Boy, and Wizkid.
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High-level envoys mulled how to revive diplomacy aimed at securing a deal by July to rein in Iran's bomb-relevant nuclear activities, Reuters reports.
Finalizing a long-term plan before the expiration of an interim atomic accord was the goal of the Thursday gathering in Brussels, which brought together representatives from China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The looming cutoff is forcing participants in the talks to consider any ground they may offer in a bid to secure an agreement, according to Reuters.
The five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany -- represented in the discussions by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton -- are seeking limits on Iranian activities they fear could support arms development. Tehran insists its nuclear efforts are nonmilitary in nature, but has expressed openness to potential restrictions in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
Ashton spokesman Michael Mann said Thursday's meeting "affirmed the determination of the [six nations] to reach a comprehensive agreement by July 20," when their six-month interim agreement with Tehran is scheduled to lapse. The "P-5+1" nations are slated to launch their next meeting with Iran on July 2.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed worries that the six powers may concede too much to Iran in their push for a compromise, the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.
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Re: how to fix the volume on RCA tv..
Look on back of tv see if there is a switch for internal & external speakers see if it is on or off ,if not go to menu in audio see if speakers are turn off or on.If this does not work you may have bad speaker or audio output ic. ThankYou for trying FixYa. Have a Nice Day.
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Look at the section: Using Optional Audio Components.
Assuming your TV has an RCA audio output or headphone output, connect to the PC In. You might have to get an adapter. Select PC In to hear it. make sure the TV's internal volume controls are sending a "Fixed" audio output or its volume control will affect the output. Mute the TV or turn its speakers down.
Without knowing anything about your TV receiver all I can assume is that the TV has a least an RCA analog audio OUT. Run that to any available analog input on the HTS. make sure the TV's audio controls (hidden in a menu somewhere) is set to Fixed so the TV volume won't affect the HTS volume. Then you can turn the TV speakers off and still listen through the HTS.
You'll only get stereo this way. Ideally, you would have a digital audio source for the TV audio signal.
Audio can usually go either way to a TV. In or Out. Why someone would want to hear external audio through a TV's marginal audio electronics and speaker(s) is beyond me, but sometimes that is what they want.
Take the audio from the receiver via whatever unused Tape or Video function connectors you like to the TV's Audio L & R IN. Anything the receiver processes will be audible through the TV as long as you DON'T select that function for listening on the receiver.
Listening to TV-related audio through the receiver and its (presumably better) speakers makes much more sense, but again, the TV's marginally audio capabilites place a serious limitation on sound quality expectations. In your case, stereo is as good as it could be.
If your TV has Audio Out jacks, just run them to any convenient Line Level input (NOT Phono). If your TV has internal audio controls for volume, set it to Fixed so the TV's volume control doesn't affect the sound going out to the Kenwood.
A better TV-related audio solution would be to connect the BEST audio of whatever source you're watching directly from that source to the receiver. Cable, DVD/BD, SAT always have 2-channel analog RCA connectors as well as (unusable on the Kenwood) digital audio outputs.
VIDEO from the Kenwood to the TV:
You describe your TV having Composite (3 -RCA-style cables). The Kenwood is limited to Composite (Lower-quality, single Video RCA-style cable). Check your TV for a single Video In connection and run THAT from the Kenwood's Monitor Out so you can pass other video through the receiver.
In its day this receiver was pretty high-end but to really enjoy modern multichannel audio from video sources you might consider an upgrade to a true multichannel Audio Video Receiver. For one thing it would support digital audio and probably Component and HDMI video. You could still use the Kenwood's amplifiers to drive speakers or as a secondary system.
Headphone output is usually dependent on the source's volume setting and are not a good way to transfer signal between devices. RCA is the way to go as it is independent of the volume control. Many TV's have a setting for the audio output to select variable or fixed (independent of the TV volume setting). Look for it.


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Each of Eugene Mayor Lucy Vinis’s State of the City addresses has discussed housing and homelessness. Vinis highlighted those topics again Wednesday night, noting that several plans developed in 2019 will take shape in 2020.
Mayor Vinis emphasized “investment” throughout her speech, in reference to the time the City Council has taken to understand complex issues, and the money any changes will require. She said after a year of studying homelessness:
Vinis: “In 2020, we will establish a low-barrier shelter, implement mobile outreach teams, develop a landlord engagement program.”
The homelessness plan is set to roll out over five years. Vinis emphasized that the City’s wish list is bigger than its budget, and there will need to be some compromises.
Vinis also said Eugene has lacked adequate public safety for decades and acknowledged the troubles some businesses have had with vandalism and trespassing.
Vinis: “A year of work brought council to a decisive and courageous vote to approve a payroll tax to support expansion of our public safety services.”
The tax revenue won’t be available until January, 2021. It will finance more police officers and first responders, and support at-risk youth. She said Lane County and the City will work together to establish a mental health crisis center.


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I’m a somewhat regular opinion columnist for a couple of media outlets. You can find my writing with Boston’s local NPR station WBUR, the national Religion News Service, and Leadership Education at Duke Div’s magazine Faith & Leadership. I really enjoy writing meditative, spiritual reflection for a broad public audience. If you are interested in hiring me as a writer, reach out through the contact page. Here are a few of my recent favorite columns:
At WBUR’s Cognoscenti:
Maura Healey, ‘first of her name’: May she be unabashedly herself Nov 9, 2022
Before last night, of the 75 people to serve as governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over the past 242 years, only one had been a woman; and no woman had ever been elected to the post. Yesterday, that changed.
There’s room for all of us on the Celtics bandwagon June 16, 2022
Fandom should not be like the coolest band you’ve never heard of: inaccessible and smug. This city has far too much culture that is unapproachable by class, race, gender or social location. What these Celtics have offered as a team is a broad invitation for everyone to get on board.
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Respect for marriage, reconciliation and being seen on the White House lawn December 15, 2022 co-authored with Jeremy Burton
Visibility has a cost, and enormous power. On Tuesday (Dec. 13), we stood together — Jeremy in his rainbow kippah, Laura in her clerical collar — on the White House lawn to bear witness as President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law. We had traveled from Boston, foremost as friends, but also as leaders in our respective Jewish and Christian communities. We were there to see this law be signed, and to celebrate, but also to be seen.
The spirituality of mending April 10, 2019
In practice, most Americans know very little now about mending. I have set out to learn with my hands what I longed for in my life: to repair what is torn.
At Faith & Leadership:
Working online from home is fraught for queer clergy July 26, 2022
Now, in the halting reopenings and the murky mix of in-person gatherings, I worry about a return to “normal.” I fear a reversion to a previous norm in which the church breached our boundaries without consent. It is an act of violence to take what you have not been given.
My Feminist Strategy for Dealing with Criticism as a Christian Leader April 4, 2017
Instead, I have stumbled into a paradoxically feminist strategy for dealing with the pain and isolation of criticism: not “get a thicker skin” but “feel deeply”; not “ignore it” but “share your pain.”
Humanity & Vulnerability:
The Associated Press took a ride with me in Boston.
“Bicyclists have the experience of knowing our own vulnerability, and knowing that in some ways our safety is dependent on the actions of others,” she said.
Read more here: https://apnews.com/5a078edb655c45ac81e82f61482c2537
Bicycles & New Ways We Gather:
I gave the keynote sermon for the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, with the exceedingly smart Angie Thurston, Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and On Being.
My day job is as executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. But by night, I get to turn into a neon-clad cyclist traveling the streets of Boston. None of this was intentional. I fumbled into this ministry. I began riding a bike as my primary form of transit because my car died, and I was in a bible study on economic discipleship with some other Christians who convinced me that it was cheaper and more fun to travel by bike. These bicycle evangelists taught me how to ride in the city and fix a flat on my own. I fell in love with my city by traveling it by bike.
Over all those miles and through the rain, snow, and sleet of Boston, I’ve discovered the deep convictions of cyclists. Historically, monastic communities would call this a “Rule of Life,” a set of patterns and norms that govern communal living. Practical cyclists aren’t so much rule-bound to never take a car or a train or walk. Rather, in the sense of a “Rule of Life,” the bicycle becomes the regularizing frame for other decisions.
You can watch the whole sermon here:
Ministry in the Bike Lane:
I’m featured in the June 2016 Sojourners Magazine article, “Why Some Pastors are Taking Up Bicycles to Better Love their Cities, ” by Steve Holt.
“Everett is one of just a handful of ministers across the nation- from New York City to Minneapolis to Denver- whose parish extends outside of traditional church structures to include bike lanes and cyclists. She says cyclists know the risks of the road and yet choose to bicycle- “a rule of life that many pastors would give their right arm for.”
“These are people who have said, ‘There’s an easier path, but I’m going to do this,’ she says. ‘That’s remarkable.”
If you’re a Sojo subscriber, read it here, otherwise here.
The Spirituality of Bicycles:
I spoke at Harvard University’s Memorial Church on “The Spirituality of Bicycles”
The idea that every mundane thing, even bicycles, can be a pathway to God has not always been well received. Back during the turn of the previous century’s cycling boom, New England’s religious conservatives did not appreciate the spiritual potential of bicycles, especially when they were ridden on Sunday. At the time, Harvard President Charles Eliot countered by saying, “God delights in every innocent pleasure. I ride a bicycle or a horse for pleasure on Sunday, without feeling that I have desecrated the Sabbath Day.”
You can listen to the sermon here: https://soundcloud.com/memorial-church/laura-everett-mdiv-04-september-23-2016-morning-prayers?in=memorial-church/sets/morning-prayers
I’m quoted in this Boston Globe article about the emergence of the “Ghost Bike” as a memorial ritual to cyclists killed in cities.
The memorials are coordinated by a private Facebook group made up of dozens of cyclists who see communal mourning, and the resulting protest against unsafe streets, as a sacred responsibility.
“For me, it’s a funeral guild,” said the Rev. Laura Everett, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches and the officiant at the vigil for Phillips, which drew perhaps 250 people. “These are the faithful people who are committed to memorializing the dead.”
You can read the entire article here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/30/urban-ritual-marks-life-loss-and-love-cycling/bp8y6ROmwiWvJgwZ40UBJM/story.html
I wrote for the Christian Century’s blog on praying with the words of the arrested.
I believe the city is full of scripture, words that guide us closer to the one full of infinite compassion and perfect justice for the innocent and the guilty. Yet the arresting words are not just about others, but also about me; they condemn my complicity in a system that criminalizes poverty and addiction.
I’ve prayed with these words over the past few weeks, as part of learning to pray for the whole of my city. Meditating on these arresting words challenges me to pray for the person so broken that they’d say to a child, “Pick a bullet for you and me and mommy.”
You can read the full essay here: https://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2016-04/voices-arrested
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I write a lot for Faith & Leadership about how I’m learning to lead a vibrant institutions. You can read my essays here: https://www.faithandleadership.com/people-news/writers/laura-everett
Two essays that get requested often:
The sacramentality of tattoos: https://www.faithandleadership.com/laura-everett-sacramentality-tattoos
Ecumenical awkwardness as a spiritual discipline: http://fteleaders.org/blog/ecumenical-awkwardness