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The 11 -- which were among 50 he closed over 15 months, beginning in 2009 -- had appealed their closings to Rome. In March, the Vatican ruled in favor of the parishes, saying Lennon did not properly follow canon laws when he closed them.
The bishop had 60 days to appeal, but in April he announced he would reopen the parishes, saying it was time for peace and unity in the diocese. He has been meeting with parishioners from the closed churches in recent weeks, but so far has not announced the assignment of pastors.
In a recent interview with The Plain Dealer, the bishop said he hoped to have all 11 churches reopened by August, though he acknowledged he was facing a daunting task.
"I've got to somehow figure out what is feasible," he said in the interview. "It's not just open the doors and turn on the lights."
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UNP Colombo Mayoral candidate Rosy Senanayake yesterday complained that most men found it difficult to accept that both male and female candidates should be treated with respect, and that it was really unfortunate that female contestants were being subjected to violence during election campaigning.
She told The Island that the violence being perpetuated against women candidates was consequent to the political culture in the country for many years.
Senanayake said that time had come to change the mindset that violence and intimidation were unacceptable, and that having more women in local government bodies would also help the society get used to seeing more women at decision-making levels.
Commenting on female UNP candidates’ experience, Senanayake said that so far they had been free from trouble and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had told everyone in no uncertain terms that female candidates had to be treated with respect and they were equal to their male counterparts.
Senanayake added that in her campaigning she had received the backing of her male colleagues.
Speaking of Ravi Karunanayake’s removal from the campaign, Senanayake said it was a step in the right direction as, due to allegations against him people had been pre-occupied with them instead of concentrating on issues pertaining to governance at the grassroots level.
Lee Zeldin was given a golden opportunity Sunday.
Appearing on Fox News two days before being sworn in, the freshman Congressman from Shirley was asked about a speech that current House majority whip Steve Scalise had given years earlier to a group of white supremacists in Louisiana, while he was serving in that state’s House of Representatives. Mr. Zeldin, who throug...
Instead, he blamed the media.
This, to me, is a reasonable response considering Mr. Scalise had, in fact, shown contrition when he called the speech a mistake that he regrets.
Considering Mr. Scalise’s apology, as many have called it, and comments by folks like Ms. Love, I’d have figured our own congressman might offer a similar sentiment when questioned by talk show host Chris Wallace.
Then he opened his mouth.
“It’s unfortunate that so many news reports don’t even mention the fact that this was a dozen years ago and don’t mention the fact that this was about a very specific issue to reduce wasteful spending,” said Mr. Zeldin, echoing comments made that same morning by former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on another news...
It’s a conspiracy theory statement that might appeal to a portion of the public that shares a general distrust for the American media. It’s also a mostly untrue response.
For starters, I searched the Internet archives of many major American newspapers this weekend and could not find a single example of a media report that failed to mention that the speech took place in 2002. The Washington Post and The New York Times, the leading mainstream political newspapers, went so far as to state ...
The issue of what the speech was about is also completely irrelevant. It’s not a story today because of what Mr. Scalise said 12 years ago; it’s news because he said it to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Apparently, Mr. Zeldin doesn’t agree.
“I think that there are many in the mainstream media who look for any opportunity to try to tear down Republicans to help back up the President of the United States and the Democrats in Congress,” he went on to tell Mr. Wallace.
Suffolk Times editor Michael White asked Mr. Zeldin about his remarks the following day in an interview he’d begun setting up days earlier to talk about the congressman’s plans for his first term in office.
The author is the executive editor of Times Review Media Group. He can be reached at [email protected] or 631-354-8046.
MADERA, Calif. (AP) — A newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found by a newspaper carrier in the middle of a rural road before dawn in near-freezing temperatures.
Sheriff's officials say a man walking around 4:30 a.m. Monday was approached by a woman in a white SUV who asked him to take her baby. He refused and suggested she take the newborn to a fire station or hospital.
Oh, this weird box at the center top still baffles people. Is it where you search? Is it where you submit blackmail? What sort of comments go in there? Find out in this week's edition of Gizmodo's Tips Box.
Of course tips aren't the only thing you can submit through that box since it leads you to the wonderful land of tag pages, but let's focus on the hot-hot-hot tips that came in through it this week, shall we?
We got introduced to something oddly tasty looking called the BatterBlaster by mhsrebelguy06. (Warning; Some sound plays automatically on the linked site.) Speaking of mhsrebelguy06, he also taught us about how women are amazing firewalls.
We also got to see a neat infographic shared by dfp3050 that breaks down spending and religious beliefs.
That's some of the craziness that we've sifted through this week, but we encourage you to add to it—both silly things and serious tips.
SINGAPORE, June 22 (Reuters) - Copper prices were on Friday poised to decline for a second week, pressured by fears that trade conflict between Washington and Beijing would hit demand in China, the top consumer of industrial metals.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange had risen 0.2 percent to $6,800 a tonne by 0348 GMT, while the most-traded copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange was largely unchanged at 51,750 yuan ($7,956.64) a tonne.
For the week, LME copper is down 3.1 percent and prices in Shanghai have dropped 3.3 percent.
Fears of a full-blown trade war with the United States have magnified concerns about China’s economic outlook following weaker-than-expected growth data for May.
China’s economy is starting to cool under the weight of a multi-year crackdown on riskier lending that is pushing up borrowing costs for companies and consumers, with data pointing to a broad slowdown in activity in May.
* TRADE TENSIONS: U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to hit $200 billion of Chinese imports with 10 percent tariffs if China retaliates against his previous targeting of $50 billion in imports.
* COPPER PRODUCTION: The global refined copper market had a surplus of 55,000 tonnes in March and 87,000 tonnes in February, the International Copper Study Group said. Chinese data, meanwhile, showed refined copper output rose 15.5 percent in May from a year earlier.
* CHINA ECONOMY: In a bid to keep growth steady, China will use targeted cuts in banks’ reserve requirement ratios and other policy tools to boost credit support for small firms, state radio quoted a cabinet meeting as saying.
* PHILIPPINES: A government panel cleared 23 of 27 Philippine mines that were assessed for compliance with state regulations, easing uncertainty about potential supply disruptions at the world’s No. 2 nickel ore supplier.
* Asian shares were under pressure on Friday on signs U.S. trade battles with China and many other countries are starting to chip away at corporate profits, with oil prices choppy ahead of major producers meeting to discuss raising output.
You wouldn’t know it from all the media coverage focused on streaming video and streaming music, but recent Nielsen data shows radio actually has the most reach among American media consumers. 93% of adults listen to the radio each week as compared to 87% who watch TV, a substantive difference.
In terms of the American population, this means that 243 million people over the age of 12 are listening to old-fashioned broadcast AM/FM radio every week. It may all come down to the fact that as long as we have cars, we’ll be listening to the radio. And since I can’t see a time coming when that won’t be the case, it’...
In this sense, radio is the true “mobile” medium despite what technology companies will have you believe. Recent research shows that most of our time spent on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) actually takes place at home or in the office – not when we’re mobile at all! But radio listening occurs when we’re out ...
Americans are a completely captive audience during this time. Sure, they can switch the station or even turn it off, but we all know that more often than not there’s some programming on in the background, even during conversations.
It follows that a new survey demonstrates how effective radio can be at converting awareness into sales in specific circumstances.
“The greatest Amazon Prime Day purchases occurred among millennials, households with children and those with a full-time job – precisely the profile of the American radio listener,” said Pierre Bouvard, the chief marketing officer of Cumulus/Westwood One.
Marketers are increasingly focused, as we know, on targeting specific audiences. In that regard, the wide variety of radio formats is a dream for advertisers because radio is so targetable.
Take men for instance, one of the most elusive targets for advertisers. We know from Neilson data that NFL games on Westwood One reach one out of every five men ages 18-49 and one out of every four men ages 35-64. That’s a huge audience full of the demographic marketers have been hunting for years.
Furthermore, despite how often the media reports on newer forms of advertising, it is in fact free broadcast radio – yes, a mass market medium that’s been around since the 19th century – that often most effectively reaches and truly influences consumers.
The implications of results like these are profound for the communications and advertising industries and as a marketing professional with over 35 years of experience, I found this data nothing short of fascinating. It’s quite clear that we should all be paying more attention to radio, its reach and potential to help o...
Studies show that deaths from hepatitis C (HCV) infection among US adults outnumber AIDS fatalities. And while greedy pharmaceutical giants advertise new drugs that cost a fortune, Oxford dons claim success in developing anti-HCV vaccine.
Hepatitis C virus, or HCV, causes serious liver infection which can eventually lead to fatal liver scarring (cirrhosis) and liver cancer. It passes with infected blood, and therefore, most people contract the disease in medical facilities through improperly sterilized medical instruments, blood transfusion, organ tran...
Up to 80 per cent of all cases end with chronic infection, when the virus persists for many years, quietly damaging the liver and rarely causing any noticeable symptoms.
However, hepatitis C can turn deadly very quickly, especially when alcohol is involved on a regular basis. Another piece of bad news is that HCV is extremely difficult to get rid of, as well as it is the only type of hepatitis infection which cannot be prevented by vaccination.
Up to 170 million people are estimated to be infected with HCV worldwide, says the World Health Organization. However, the fact that the virus lacks visible symptoms could mean that the real figure is much higher. In Egypt alone, staggering 22 per cent of the population is HCV-positive, making it the world’s worst-aff...
In the United States, HCV appears to be killing more people than HIV – the virus that causes AIDS. The shocking results were published on February 21 in Annals of Internal Medicine by the team led by Dr. John Ward of the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Their data show that in 2007, hepatitis ...
Another alarming conclusion is the trend. While HIV-related deaths have declined between 1999 and 2007, the recorded data for hepatitis C has shown a significant increase. Moreover, because these figures are based on death certificates, they almost certainly underestimate the real scope.
"The big issue is that most people with chronic infection are still not identified," Dr. Harvey Alter, a researcher with the National Institutes of Health told Reuters.
Approximately two thirds of all chronic HCV infections in the US are found in people born between 1945 and 1964, so-called “baby boomers”. Such predominance can be explained by the widespread injection-drug use between 1960s and 1980s, and a common practice to share needles.
Other routes for the infection included blood transfusion and organ transplantation, before the universal screening was introduced in the United States in 1992. It is worth mentioning that many countries still do not screen blood donations for hepatitis C due to the cost.
On the bright side, screening programs among risk groups, such as baby boomers in the US and Europe, could make big difference in fighting this disease, provided recent advances in treatment. CDC estimated that screening baby boomers would uncover extra 808,580 cases of hepatitis C in the US alone.
Helpless before the virus as recently as 20 years ago, medicine announced tactical victory when a combination of two medications – interferon and ribavirin – was found to cure between 45 and 80 per cent of patients, depending on the viral genotype (with genotype 1 – the most common in Americas and Europe – being the m...
In spring 2011, the US health authority, FDA, approved two new oral drugs that could send the cure rate in hard-to-treat genotype 1 patients from 45 to impressive 70 per cent, if combined with interferon and ribavirin. The life-saving medications are boceprevir (trade name Victrelis), developed by a pharmaceutical gian...
“Great!” you may think, “Then what are they waiting for?” Apart from their own citizens, the human-rights-concerned United States could now help the people of Egypt, to begin with, provided that health is one of those fundamental human rights democratic societies stand for. But in the real world, exporting NGOs to back...
With Incivek costing nearly US $50,000 for the course and Victrelis ranging between US $26,000 to US $48,000, depending on the duration of treatment, the future without hepatitis C may prove to be a more distant perspective – especially for those without access to first-class medical insurance.
Still, every cloud is supposed to have a silver lining, and every infection is better to prevent than to treat. Despite the fact that anti-HCV vaccine has not yet been developed, early clinical trials have yielded promising results, according to a team of Oxford University researchers.
Forty-one uninfected patients were given the vaccine, which the scientists said created a strong immune response for a year or more without any significant side effects. In their recent publication in Science Translational Medicine, researchers say the next step will be to give at-risk members of the population the vac...
Due to the fact that hepatitis C virus can only be contracted by humans, it was so far proving difficult to design a vaccine as animal trials are not an option.
In July last year, on the back of social media speculation, the Democratic Alliance released a statement of condolence for the death of former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. The problem was, he wasn’t dead. And so the party was forced to retract, and issue an apology instead.
Kaunda was not, what you might call, a committed liberal democrat. He turned Zambia into a one-party state, manipulating various elective processes and state patronage in such a way that only he would be nominated and elected as president. A highly autocratic socialist, he banned all opposition parties and his “planned...
“On behalf of the Democratic Alliance (DA), I wish to express my deepest and most sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of freedom fighter, African liberator, and the founding father of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, who has passed away aged 93. Kenneth Kaunda remains a prominent figure in the fight for independenc...
It was an ahistorical narrative typical of the way the DA cherry-picks history to drive a contemporary agenda. And it’s eagerness to be on the record, in “the right way”, was no doubt driven by the same impulse. The manifest ignorance in the DA today, populated as it is with young, politically correct zealots, has prod...
There was, of course, no need to condemn the man, a statement of condolence is by necessity and design a humane and compassionate endeavour. Nevertheless, on a matter of principle, it would have been worth recording in a respectful manner, where the DA agreed and disagreed with Kaunda. At the very least, because if you...
Certainly an opposition leader venerating a man who literally banned all opposition is a curious state of affairs. But it is a risk the DA seems to take at every opportunity.
That said, the party is very good at condolences. Search the DA website and, like most political parties, there are a raft of them. The majority are what you might expect – celebrities (Joe Mafela, Mandoza); artists and prominent intellectuals (Hugh Masekele; Adam Small); victims of tragedy at home and abroad (the fami...
Anyone with any vestige of prominence or public importance, in their own right or as a metaphor, is commemorated. But there are a number of condolences offered that, as with Kaunda, seem so devoid of the necessary context or consideration, the purpose can only have been political as opposed to compassionate, or some co...
“The DA joins fellow South Africans in sending condolences to the family of former Bophuthatswana leader, Lucas Manyane Mangope”, the DA in the North West said in January this year. It was another statement devoid of any reservation or context, something you would think essential in understanding someone as controversi...
Elsewhere, the DA is careful to pay regular and often unqualified homage to fallen ANC and PAC icons and heroes. Not just the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s, Steve Biko’s and Chris Hani’s, the mainstays of the liberation pantheon, but its more humble servants and demigods too. The likes of Ronnie Mamoepa and Phillip Kgosa...
Remarkably, it does this often at the expense of its own heroes. Last year, Helen Suzman’s 100 year anniversary forced the party into some sort of, fairly limited public recognition (compared to the ANC’s year-long commemoration of OR Tambo, who also would have been 100 in 2017). Outside of that, the most famous member...
So adept is the DA at offering condolences, it has gone so far as to publically “offer its condolences” to the family of Clive Derby-Lewis, the man imprisoned for his role in Chris Hani’s assassination. Not that they are underserving of them, only, given how carefully the DA treads the political waters, this was except...
“Mr Derby-Lewis was an extremely controversial political figure who drove South Africa nearly to the brink of civil war through his actions. And I think it is moments like this that all South Africans reflect on our constitutional values of peace and democracy and that I hope is the lesson that we learnt from the Derby...
With regards to its own family, the Democratic Alliance, the DA takes time and careful effort to commemorate internal tragedy. Many DA activists and members, some killed in terrible circumstances on the front line, are commemorated and remembered.
It was an act of sympathy the party has extended to other political leaders too. “The DA extends our deepest condolences to the Mbeki family on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, mother of former President Thabo Mbeki”, Zille herself said in a June 2014 statement.
All of this said, then, it is difficult to understand why the Democratic Alliance issued no public statement of condolence for Judge Ramon Leon, father to former DA leader Tony Leon, when he passed away last weekend.
Here was an opportunity for the party to show some genuine public compassion and sympathy for Leon’s family and one of its own; as opposed to, say, the eagerness with which it was ready to commemorate Kenneth Kaunda or the bipartisan way it reached out to Thabo Mbeki, when he lost his mother. But, nothing.
Then again, perhaps it is not so difficult to understand. Ramon Leon’s passing, thanks to years of slander and poison spread by the ANC propaganda machine was unfortunately mired in controversy. For years the ANC had attacked Tony Leon for being the son of the ‘hanging’ judge who convicted and sentenced MK cadre, Andre...
And while some in the DA came to his defence, none of it was matched with any official public display of empathy from the party or attempt to define, in positive terms, who Ramon Leon was, what he stood for and why his loss was something to be recognised. Their anger seemed mostly directed at the quality of reporting. ...
“My Dad who earned so many honours in his lifetime has been somewhat - by both the rabid revisionists who populate social media and spew forth their fake facts laced with genuine vitriol and others who have a duty to speak but choose to remain silent – dishonoured in death.
Leon deals too with the Andrew Zondo case.
This is not to suggest there is none. No doubt, behind the scenes, many in the DA will have personally expressed their condolences. Yesterday, a memorial was held for Leon and you can be sure many in the DA will have attended. But this is about the DA’s public attitude to death and loss, and the manner in which it has ...
Perhaps the failure to publically acknowledge Ramon Leon was an oversight. That is not a good excuse, it speaks to lack of awareness and compassion, but it is at least an excuse. You get the sense though, based on how the DA treats this sorts of things, particularly when they are political, Ramon Leon was simply consid...
If that is the case, it is both despicable and sad. And of those two things, it is the sadness that is the most important. What has become of the DA, that politics has come to usurp loyalty, solidarity, truth and sympathy, for one of its own? What is the point of any political party that will supress such things, in th...
Kenneth Kaunda is still alive today. So the DA will have time to revise its statement. But it is doubtful the party will. On the rare occasion, such as with Clive Derby-Lewis, it seems brave enough to rise above politics and be humane but, for the most part, death is just a means to an end. All political parties tend t...
The company behind a multi-million pound shopping complex in Bradford have been successful in removing a group of demonstrators - who had taken over the Broadway site.
Occupy Westfield said they set up camp in the area known as the Bradford hole because they wanted to force the council to get on with building work. The area was cleared in 2006 to make way for a shopping centre, but has remained undeveloped since.
Westfield Shopping Towns previously wrote to the campaigners to say their actions are counter productive and could put off retailers. Today demonstrators have been forced to move but say they are now transferring to another area near the site.
With reference to the remarks made by former MP Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara in connection with skeletal remains recovered from the Mannar grave, the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) said it had consistently been of the view that carbon dating was one of the several aspects upon which a multi-disciplinary examination...
It said a comprehensive report must be devised based on such an approach. It said the statement made by Mr. Weerasekara he claimed that the OMP prematurely dispatched bone samples from the Mannar mass grave, contrary to advice from the forensic archaeologist.

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