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Dublin — The US would not agree to any trade deal with Britain if future Brexit arrangements undermine peace in Ireland, US house of representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday during a visit to Dublin.
Reaffirming a message of US solidarity with Ireland first delivered in a speech on Monday in London, Pelosi said it was vital to keep a “seamless border” between the Irish Republic and British-ruled Northern Ireland after the UK exits the EU.
Her comments are likely to irk some members of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party whose insistence on a “clean” break with the EU’s customs union and single market have raised the prospect of new border controls on the island of Ireland. They also want a new trade deal with the US.
How to keep EU-member Ireland’s 500km border with Northern Ireland open after Brexit is proving the most intractable issue in Britain’s tortuous efforts to leave the EU.
Much of the opposition to May’s deal within her own party is centred on fears that it would not provide a clean enough break to allow the UK to forge new trade deals around the world, especially with the US.
Democratic congressman Brendan Boyle told the Irish Times newspaper that pro-Brexit Conservative legislators the congressional delegation had met in London this week “were not exactly pleased with what they heard from the US side”.
Democrat Richard Neal, another visiting member and chair of the congressional committee overseeing trade, sounded a similar warning in February when Ireland’s deputy prime minister visited Washington to ask members of Capitol Hill’s powerful Irish-American caucus for their support on Brexit.
ROMNEY: I’d be willing to consider the President’s plan, but he doesn’t have one. That’s right: In over three years, he has failed to enact or even propose a serious plan to solve our entitlement crisis.
Instead, he has taken a series of steps that end Medicare as we know it. He is the only President to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare. And, as a result, more than half of doctors say they will cut back on treating seniors. He is destroying the Medicare Advantage program, eliminating the coverage that millions of sen...
To control Medicare cost, he has created an unelected, unaccountable panel with the power to prevent Medicare from providing certain treatments. The result will be fewer treatments and services available to patients in need, and nowhere else to turn.
That doesn’t mean that it solves all of our health care cost problems. It doesn’t and Obama has proposed accelerating some of the law’s cost-control mechanisms to further lower the growth of spending. But Romney has labeled such efforts “rationing” and is offering an alternative “premium support” scheme that transforms...
LA PAZ – President Evo Morales inaugurated this weekend the seventh line of the world’s highest-altitude and most extensive cable car system.
The new line, which opened on Saturday, takes around 12 minutes to complete a one-way trip and has the capacity to transport as many as 8,000 people per hour in both directions.
The project is part of the Morales administration’s plan to develop “150 public works” by July 16, in time for the commemoration of the 209th anniversary of the independence uprising in La Paz.
He also said that three additional lines are currently under construction, set to link to the already existing lines, which connect to neighboring El Alto, the second most populated city in the Andean nation.
“It has been 366 days and the line is already operating,” state-run operator Mi Teleferico manager Cesar Dockweiler said, adding that the time it has taken has been among the shortest.
The inauguration event was kicked off with an offering to “Pachamama” or Mother Earth, which included the lighting of a bonfire, in one of the stations of the new route.
Morales himself pushed the button activating the new line, accompanied by Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, as well as several other members of his cabinet.
This network of cable-car lines will be the first of its kind to have a terminal in the middle of a city and it will link to three other lines operating in south and east La Paz, which also connect with neighboring El Alto.
In April this year, the state company that operates the system under the leadership of Cesar Dockweiler celebrated providing service to 125 million commuters since 2014.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, now has her own comic book available for download on iTunes.
Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In, works to inform professional women how to be more successful in their professional lives while leading fulfilling, personal ones. The story behind the American businesswoman (the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook), her book, and her success is as compelling as any self-help book and a...
Bluewater is also expecting to launch comics based on the lives of other tech titans such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Zuckerberg.
One thing we noticed was that Sandberg seems to be wearing a top that exposes her midriff on the cover which doesn't seem like something an executive at a tech company would be wearing. Let's hope that she gets to wear more clothes inside the comic book.
The Epiphany Falcons women�s soccer team concluded their regular season with a 2-0 victory in Fayetteville against Freedom Christian on May 3. Freshman Coley Bayliss and eighth-grader Carson Jones scored the only goals for the Falcons.
Then came the waiting game.
The Falcons recently found out they are the No. 3 seed in the North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association playoffs. It's the highest seed the girls' program has ever received.
They earned a first-round bye and will host Grace Christian, from Sanford, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Epiphany's final win of the regular-season brought its record to 8-5, and tied it with Greenfield and Wayne Country Day for first place in the Coastal Plains Independent Conference with a record of 6-2.
The Falcons� only two conference losses came from two heartbreaking, 1-0, losses to rival Wayne Country Day.
The latter of the two losses went into overtime.
Because Wayne Country Day lost twice to Greenfield, and Greenfield lost twice to Epiphany, the teams shared conference title.
�This just goes to show how competitive our conference is in girls soccer,� said Epiphany coach Greg Coverdale. �I am proud of our accomplishments during the regular season, but I am looking forward to seeing how the girls play in the playoffs.
As a testament to the success of the Falcons in the conference, Coverdale was named the 2013 CPIC Coach of the Year.
Senior captain Dana McLaughlin wasn�t surprised to hear Coverdale had won the Coach of the Year Award.
In addition to this honor, four of the Falcons were named to the 2013 CPIC All-Conference team. Junior Erica Neibaur and sophomore Katie LaGuardia, two of the Epiphany's key defenders were elected. Eighth-grade striker Avery Davis and senior goalkeeper Dana McLaughlin were named to the all-conference team. It's McLaugh...
A plan to privatize five failing New York City schools suffered a more stunning defeat than either side anticipated, with 80 percent of the parents who voted rejecting it, according to the tally released yesterday.
Of the 2,286 parents who cast ballots over the last two weeks, 1,833 voted against the plan to allow a private company, Edison Schools, to run the five schools, Board of Education officials said. Only 453, just under 20 percent, voted in favor.
Edison executives, who had expected to win contracts with at least two of the schools, expressed shock yesterday at the margin of defeat. They blamed the outcome in part on teachers in the schools, who they said campaigned aggressively against the plan in the weeks before the vote. The United Federation of Teachers pri...
In the weeks leading up to the vote, Edison complained that the opposition, led by the community group Acorn, was spreading lies about the company and its intentions. Indeed, some parents interviewed at the polls last week said they had voted against Edison because they had been told that the company would charge tuiti...
The resounding defeat did not sway Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a longtime proponent of school privatization. In a news conference yesterday, Mr. Giuliani said that the chancellor should try a different tack, by selecting 20 other schools, privatizing them by contract, and offering parents the choice of leaving children ...
Mr. Levy, backed by lawyers at the Board of Education and the State Department of Education, said last night that it would be illegal to hand over schools to private companies without a vote by parents.
The turnout in the Edison vote proved just how high that hurdle is. Even if a majority of the parents who voted had supported the plan, it would have been defeated at most of the five schools because fewer than half of the parents cast ballots at all.
Two of the five schools -- Intermediate School 111 and Middle School 320 -- have been on the state's list of failing schools for so long (12 years and 7 years, respectively) that they are required to be reorganized, with new teachers and administrators. Mr. Levy has pledged to pour more money and resources into the thr...
''My ultimate goal at the end of year 2 is that parents will be knocking down the doors to get their children into these schools,'' Mr. Levy said.
Senior Jared Fiegl earned three end-of-season awards.
At its annual postseason banquet Saturday, Cornell men’s hockey announced its team-voted postseason awards. Freshman goaltender Matt Galajda added yet another award to his rookie season, earning the Nicky Bawlf Award as the team’s most valuable player.
For the second consecutive season, senior forward Jared Fiegl won the Ironman Award. This season, Fiegl battled a number of injuries and flu symptoms. He repeatedly drew praise from the award’s namesake, head coach Mike Schafer ’86, for his gritty play.
Fiegl also earned the Cornell Hockey Association Award for contributions that don’t show up in the box score.
Fiegl, who won three awards, was joined by junior Mitch Vanderlaan and sophomore Connor Murphy as a recipient of the Wendall and Francelia Earle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, presented to the member of each class with the best GPA.
Joining Vanderlaan on the honor roll was his co-captain: senior Alex Rauter. Rauter earned the Sam Woodside Award for overall career improvement by a senior. The captain played just 26 games in his first two seasons in Ithaca, before emerging as a key player on and off the ice for the Red beginning in his junior season...
Pittsburgh Penguins prospect junior Anthony Angello, who will not return to Ithaca for his senior season, won the Crimson Cup award, for his hat trick in the Red’s 3-0 win at Harvard.
Freshman Morgan Barron won the Greg Ratushny Award for the most promising rookie, and senior Trevor Yates won the Bill Doran Sportsmanship Award.
Cornell has played at Madison Square Garden nine times, sporting a record of 4-3-2.
The church alleges that holy manuscripts in the university's collection were stolen from a Greek monastery in World War I.
The four ancient manuscripts arrived at Princeton University through a German auction house.
The school purchased the first, dated to the 16th century, in 1921.
The other three, all from the Byzantine era, were donated to the school by a Princeton trustee in 1942.
Princeton has maintained that the religious works were properly acquired.
But in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New Jersey last week, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church alleged that the manuscripts were stolen from a Greek monastery by Bulgarian guerrillas in World War I and disseminated to dealers, book sellers and auction houses across Europe.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, among the plaintiffs in the suit, is now seeking their return.
Michael Hotchkiss, deputy spokesperson for Princeton, wrote in an emailed statement that the school has reviewed the claims and conducted its own research on the origins of the manuscripts and does not believe they were stolen.
The plaintiffs cite the university’s own book, “Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue,” as evidence of the church’s rightful ownership. The 2010 book, written by Princeton employees, states that manuscripts in the university’s collection were removed from the monastery by ...
Tsougarakis also points to Greek catalogs prepared in 1885 and 1887 that included the manuscripts as further proof that the works were in the monastery’s possession for some 300 years.
The Eastern Orthodox Church previously secured the return of a ninth-century handwritten manuscript of the New Testament from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2016. The 337-page book was the most valuable piece owned by the seminary and is also believed to have been looted from the same Greek monastery.
James Nieman, president of the seminary, said the school returned the manuscript on moral grounds.
Nieman said he wanted his school’s good deed to exert moral pressure on others, including Princeton.
Tsougarakis said the successful return of the Lutheran School's New Testament has bolstered Patriarch Bartholomew I's confidence in the return of the manuscripts housed at Princeton.
“He believes in the power of love, in the power of resurrection, in the good of all people, and he believes very strongly that we’ll get them back,” Tsougarakis said.
Jared Trantina and his Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley teammates aren’t resting on their laurels as the Falcons begin their state title defense tonight at rival Paxton-Buckley-Loda.
GIBSON CITY — Jared Trantina enjoyed an ice cream cake two days after Thanksgiving.
The reason had little to do with the holiday — and more to do with celebrating a state football championship, an accomplishment Trantina and his Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley teammates achieved last November.
So Trantina, a fullback and linebacker on last year's undefeated team, indulged himself.
Only for a little bit, though.
"Two weeks after the state title," Trantina said, "I got back on my nutrition plan and started working out really hard."
GCMS is done resting on last year's accomplishments. A 14-0 record, a dynamic offense led by Mitch McNutt, a stout defense consisting of quality playmakers throughout and a second-half rally in the Class 2A state title game against Maroa-Forsyth culminated on Nov. 24, 2017, with downtown Gibson City filled to the brim ...
The march toward another possible state title begins at 7 p.m. today when the Falcons — The News-Gazette's No. 1 team in its preseason poll — make the short trek across Ford County to open their season at rival Paxton-Buckley-Loda.
"We're ready to play," GCMS senior Bryce Barnes said. "Paxton has been on our calendar for a while. They've been saying they can do it this year, but we're ready to show them."
Barnes & Co. showed what the Falcons could do last season. With key returnees like Trantina, Barnes, senior Nathan Garard, senior Ryland Holt, senior Josh Bleich and others, expectations haven't dimmed this fall around the GCMS program.
"We're definitely confident," said Garard, the 5-foot-10, 185-pound quarterback for the Falcons. "Being able to play those extra five weeks at the end of the season last year, it was more practice time for guys that are going to fill in spots this year, and it was more practice time for the starters, too. We were able ...
Garard threw for 1,044 yards and 16 touchdowns last season out of the Falcons' wing-T offense.
Gone from that is McNutt, The News-Gazette's Player of the Year in 2017 who rushed for an area-best 1,693 yards and 32 touchdowns. But veteran coach Mike Allen knows he has a solid replacement at tailback after Trantina (5-8, 200) rushed for 1,577 yards and 26 touchdowns the last two seasons.
"He's a natural tailback," Allen said of Trantina. "He's been a fullback for a couple years and doing what's best for the team. He never argued and never complained about it. He did his job. Now, it's his turn to shine, and he's ready for that."
Senior Layne Harden (5-10, 160) and junior Daniel Jones (5-6, 155) are in the mix to get carries at wingback, with senior Austin Spiller (6-0, 200) and junior Payton Kean (5-9, 195) vying for time at fullback.
Holt (6-4, 200) and Barnes (6-2, 225) are the Falcons' top two returning receivers, with Barnes hauling in the game-winning touchdown pass from Garard on an acrobatic catch to seal the 38-32 win against Maroa-Forsyth and deliver GCMS a state title.
"Since that game, I've probably seen it about 10 times," Barnes said with a slight grin. "I try not to watch it as much because it was last year, but it's still nice to watch."
Senior Lane Short (6-2, 205) and junior Tanner Cribbett (5-9, 135) are other options Garard could throw the ball to behind a robust offensive line.
Senior Hayden Workman (6-3, 270) is expected to anchor the offensive line after starting last season, with Bleich (6-3, 235), senior Joe Allen (5-10, 230), senior Garrett Wright (5-10, 240), junior Jordan Lee (5-9, 240) and junior Keegan Kutemeier (5-9, 230) all expected to contribute.
Bleich (100 tackles, five sacks in 2017) and Barnes (82 tackles, seven sacks) are the leaders of the defensive line, with Workman and Joe Allen expected to chip in.
Trantina is an outside linebacker the Falcons will rely on, with Spiller, Kean and Kutemeier in competition for time at inside linebacker. Garard, Short and Lance Livingston all return in the secondary.
Rounding out the talent for GCMS is a solid kicker in senior Ben Freehill (6-0, 170) who can change field position with one of his punts or kickoffs while giving GCMS a consistent presence in extra points and field goals.
All of which makes the thought of GCMS going on another memorable playoff run there for the taking.
"We want to move on," Mike Allen said. "And these guys did. I'm telling you what, and people maybe don't believe it, but I've never seen a more humble group. They won a state championship for the first time in school history, and the next day, four of them are playing in a basketball game. As a coaching staff, we could...
Or their diets. McNutt became well-known for his strict food intake, and Trantina follows that example. Almost.
"I'm not as crazy as Mitch," Trantina said with a laugh, "but we pretty much have the same nutrition plan. It's little to no sugar and not a lot of bread. It's just high-protein stuff. Making those sacrifices really gives you that confidence on the field."
Trantina will likely sacrifice taking a bite out of an ice cream cake for the next three months. But if the Falcons win a state title on the Memorial Stadium turf in Champaign the day after Thanksgiving this year, chances are he — and the rest of the GCMS community — will enjoy another sweet celebration.
"Certainly there is a little pressure to try and repeat, but pressure is a privilege," Trantina said. "I'm pumped up. Everybody is pumped up. I just can't wait until (tonight)."
Originally Published: October 9, 2018 3:30 p.m.
DENVER — Seven U.S. states in the Southwest that depend on the overtaxed Colorado River have reached tentative agreements on how to manage the waterway amid an unprecedented drought, officials said Tuesday.
The announcement was a long-awaited step toward preserving the river, which supports 40 million people and 6,300 square miles (16,300 square kilometers) of farmland in the U.S. and Mexico.

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