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'In Scientology, we believe that man is a spirit and when a body dies, the spirit lives on,' Hoden said.
Hubbard's ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean Saturday, Hoden said.
The church legal counsel said Hubbard, believed to have amassed a fortune from his writings, provided 'generously' for his wife and children but 'left his entire estate, which is very, very substantial,' to the church he founded in 1952.
Church officials said Hubbard, a science fiction writer who claimed to have written more than 125 books, died of a cerebral vascular accident -- a brain hemorrhage -- in his sleep Friday night at his home near the San Luis Obispo County community of Creston, about 175 miles north of Los Angeles.
There have been various reports for years that Hubbard was dead, and he had not been seen in public for several years despite efforts to force him to appear in court in a series of lawsuits. Disgruntled former church members had filed lawsuits claiming he led a cult that brainwashed its followers.
Hubbard, a native of Tilden, Neb., was a science fiction writer of moderate success until his book 'Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health' appeared in 1950. It was a best seller, and Dianetics - a kind of amateur psychotherapy -- became a national fad. Medical authorities dismissed Dianetics as hokum.
In his book, Hubbard claimed that man's path to freedom was blocked by negative experiences and that the process of auditing, by which Scientologists retrace their lives, allowed followers to free themselves of those negative experiences.
Born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on March 13, 1911, he was the son of Ross and Dora May Hubbard.
States can limit vehicle emissions of gases that contribute to global warming despite the Bush administration's refusal to do so, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the auto industry's challenge to a Vermont statute and spurring optimism among supporters of a pioneering law in California.
In a 240-page decision, U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Montpelier, Vt., emphatically rejected automakers' central argument against the laws in both states - that the only way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to increase fuel economy, an area regulated exclusively by the federal government.
"Nothing in (federal law) indicates that Congress intended to displace emission regulation by California that would have an effect on fuel economy," Sessions said, noting that Vermont's law is identical to California's 2002 statute. He also denied the industry's claims that state regulation would make cars unaffordable and unsafe.
The ruling raises the stakes in a separate review of California's law by the Environmental Protection Agency. Sessions noted that the laws in California, Vermont and 10 other states that have followed the California model will become unenforceable if the EPA denies California a waiver allowing the state to impose stricter controls on air pollutants than the federal government does.
The EPA has been considering California's request for nearly two years. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to sue the federal agency unless it acts by Oct. 25.
"Today, we won in court, and yet the victory will be a hollow one if EPA succeeds in stalling and ultimately denying our request," said state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who argued California's case to the federal agency earlier this summer.
In light of the ruling, "the EPA is going to be hard-pressed to say that the (state) regulations aren't feasible or are too costly," said David Doniger, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council who helped to argue the Vermont case and is taking part in a similar lawsuit in California.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii of Fresno has scheduled a hearing Oct. 22 on a suit by car manufacturers, who make the same arguments that they raised in Vermont. Although Sessions' ruling is not binding on Ishii, it should be persuasive, said Doniger and other environmentalists backing California's position.
"This decision should put the nail in the coffin of the failed arguments of the auto industry," said Sierra Club attorney David Bookbinder.
Schwarzenegger said in a statement that the ruling "marks another important victory in the fight against global warming. California and other states will no longer be blocked by those who stand in our way."
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said it was considering an appeal. The organization's president, Dave McCurdy, renewed the argument that the state laws are the equivalent of miles-per-gallon standards and thus should be trumped by federal standards.
"Automakers support improving fuel economy standards nationally, rather than piecemeal," McCurdy said in a statement.
The business-sponsored Competitive Enterprise Institute said the ruling would force automakers to produce smaller and lighter cars that were less safe. The "real victims will be consumers, some of whom will pay with their lives," said Sam Kazman, the institute's general counsel.
Both the Vermont and California laws require makers of cars and light trucks to begin reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - considered by the mainstream scientific community to be a cause of global warming - with the 2009 models and to achieve 30 percent reductions by 2016.
The lawsuit by auto manufacturers and dealers argued that the Vermont law conflicted with federal laws on air pollution and fuel economy and, by injecting states into an international issue, interfered with the president's authority over foreign policy.
Sessions, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1995, held a 16-day, nonjury trial this spring. He then put the case on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the Bush administration's claim that the EPA lacked authority over greenhouse gas emissions from cars.
The high court rejected that view in April, ruling 5-4 that the emissions were air pollutants and that the EPA must regulate them unless it comes up with scientific justifications not to act.
Sessions cited the Supreme Court ruling in Wednesday's decision, noting that the court found no conflict between regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards. He also said automakers have other ways to reduce the emissions besides increasing gas mileage - for example, using alternative fuels and other technological innovations.
The judge likewise dismissed industry arguments that the state controls would conflict with federal consumer and auto safety regulation by making cars more dangerous and less affordable.
The industry's expert witness testified that the state laws would increase car prices by $5,000 and force General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Ford to stop selling cars in the affected states, but those assertions were unsupported by the evidence, Sessions said.
"It is improbable that an industry that prides itself on its modernity, flexibility and innovativeness will not be able to meet the requirements of the regulation," the judge said.
He cited testimony that increased fuel efficiency prompted by emissions regulation would save the average car customer $5,000 over the vehicle's lifetime, at current gasoline prices.
Sessions also said industry claims of interference with U.S. foreign policy were unfounded because the Bush administration, in presentations to international agencies, has cited efforts by California and other states as evidence of U.S. progress on global warming.
The ruling: A federal judge in Vermont upheld states' authority to regulate vehicle emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, considered causes of global warming.
The California case: A similar suit by automakers, raising the same challenges to an identical California law, is pending before a federal judge in Fresno. Environmental groups said Wednesday's ruling shows there is no need for a trial in the California case and that the suit should be dismissed. A hearing is scheduled Oct. 22.
The EPA: For nearly two years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been considering California's request for a waiver that would allow the state to enforce its emissions law, which is more stringent than federal standards. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the EPA's argument that the agency lacked authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to sue the EPA if it doesn't act on the California waiver by Oct. 25.
Formed in 1917, during World War One, with numerous British and National Championship titles, the band’s constant success remains legendary.
The band’s titles include that of 16 Brass in Concert Championship titles.
Luxuriate in a colourful euphoric bubble of laughter, beauty, glitz and music. Wonder Women celebrates with appearances including Cher, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Diana Ross, Pink, Shirley Bassey and Wonder Woman.
This latest production stars Claire Furley, who recreates Karen Carpenter vocals. Combined with svideo projection and arrangements from eight live musicians. Featuring all the hits.
Who else is ready for ‘The Muppets’?
Just last month I posted the full trailer for The Muppets (opening November 23rd) and now here’s a look at the final one sheet movie poster! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am for the return of the Muppets franchise. There really hasn’t been a proper Muppet movie since 1984’s The Muppets Take Manhattan, which I still adore to this day, it’s seriously hard to believe that movie is already 27 years old! I hope this new film starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams lives up to my many expectations and very high hopes. Who else is with me on this one, are you excited for a new Muppet movie?!
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
Gabriela wants us to 'Let It Go'!
‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ has some new teasers!
Too many times over the last few years, Liberty State Park has been a green space under siege, its advocates and supporters having to work overtime to stave off unwanted and wrong-headed development that would change the park’s very identity and its special character that help to make it the most visited park in New Jersey.
Now, however, the cavalry could be on its way. As Scott Fallon of NorthJersey.com and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey reported, legislation introduced this month would seek to stave off those most egregious development plans, and to safeguard this heroic urban open space. Indeed, the whole reason Liberty State Park is such a popular draw for visitors is because it provides escape; it is an oasis of sorts in one of the most overdeveloped metropolitan areas in the country.
To be clear, Liberty State Park is not some abandoned strip mall or office complex in need of reviving in the name of profit, or in the hope of pulling in more ratables. It is precious and preserved land, a gateway to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Certainly, the 1,200-acre park in Jersey City already has two restaurants and a marina, but it should be immune to large-scale development, such as Gov. Chris Christie’s short-lived plan in 2016 to see if a hotel, conference center and amusement park might be right for the park.
Any development of that order has no place at Liberty State Park. The park contains a natural beauty all its own, beauty that need not be soiled by a grotesque intrusion that would transform it from a public park space to just one more office park or conference center. New Jersey has a good many of those already. It certainly doesn’t need one more at Liberty State Park.
“Most parks don’t require this type of extra protection, but it has proved truly necessary at Liberty State Park,” said Greg Remaud, head of NY/NJ Baykeeper and a longtime park advocate.
The bill introduced this month by state Sen. Sandra Cunningham and Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, both Hudson County Democrats, would allow only "small-scale commercial activities" such as bicycle or kayak rentals, food concessions or a temporary winter skating rink at the park. It would bar any concessions or leases within the 235-acre natural restoration area in the interior of Liberty State Park that is undergoing an environmental cleanup, and at Caven Point Peninsula, an undeveloped beach where a nearby golf club has tried to expand its course.
As we have stated before, the “environment vs. development” fight that has come up so often regarding Liberty State Park shows no sign of abating. The proposed legislation might prove a lifeline that would stave off protection on a more permanent basis. In the meantime, park advocates and friends, the general public, and Phil Murphy’s administration must be vigilant about protecting Liberty State Park from large-scale development.
The dollar could be a curse for America Dollar’s reserve currency status will allow U.S. to spend, spend, spendThe global appetite for dollars permits Uncle Sam to run the printing presses but that is not an unlimited warrant.
Alcon Stock Deserves a Long, Hard Look Newly spun off from Novartis, the eye-care giant has strong growth potential and is better off as an independent company.
China, Japan tout ‘recovered’ economic ties amid global uncertainty Officials discuss new investments, joint projectsChina and Japan have the opportunity to “take charge of the economic field” during a time of worldwide uncertainty, Japan’s foreign minister said Sunday, as trade pressures from the United States have prompted both countries to seek alternative markets.
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SHERWOOD, Ore. — A trash collector in Oregon is making national headlines after someone on his route witnessed a simple patriotic gesture.
While on his route, Jeremy Fischer spotted something that deserved more attention than a piece of trash.
“There’s a lot of sacrifice, there's a lot of hope, a lot of other stuff that is the American flag. I figured since so many people have died for that the least I could do was pick it up,” Fischer told KATU.
While cameras on the truck were rolling, Fischer did not tell anyone about the flag. However, Nancy Neet was watching.
Fischer said he would do it again just like he learned in Boy Scouts. He also said the gesture was not about getting attention, but rather about doing what's right.
“Honestly, if I had my way I wouldn’t be on TV,” Fischer said.
True patriotism, and a great example for the rest of us to follow! Thanks for appreciating OUR country! Semper Fidelis!
Your name is quite appropriate for you and your rude comment. Positive stories like this is exactly what this world needs right now.
KOTA KINABALU: Two Malaysians are believed to be among 13 suspected Islamic State militants killed late Thursday in battles between the Philippines military and gunmen who have taken over Marawi City in Central Mindanao, Philippines since Tuesday.
Intelligence sources identified the Malaysians as Ustaz Abdurahman Asmawi from Kelantan and Dr Kamsa Yahya from Kedah.
The sources said that Indonesian Shei Ayman Marjuki and Saudi Arabian Sheikh Ahmad Belfaki were also among those killed so far in skirmishes at various villages in the city which is widely seen as the first city taken by IS in South East Asia.
Another Malaysian, former Universiti Malaya lecturer Dr Mahmud Ahmad, is also believed to be in Marawi City, working with Basilan Abu Sayaff leader Isninon Hapilon to push for the creation of the Islamic State in South East Asia.
The sources did not say how many other Malaysians linked to the IS are in the city.
The sources said that the Philippines military have gained ground to flush out the militants who numbered between 200 and 500 members.
Philippine security forces started bombing residential areas in Marawi on Thursday as they battled Islamist militants who were holding hostages and reported to have murdered at least 11 civilians.
An initial rampage by gunmen, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, through the mainly Muslim city of Marawi on Tuesday prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to impose martial law across the southern third of the Philippines.
Authorities said ending the crisis was proving extremely hard because, although there were only 30 to 40 remaining gunmen, the militants were moving nimbly through homes, had planted bombs in the streets and were holding hostages.
Intense gunfighting could be heard constantly throughout the day, according to an AFP reporter in the city, and the military said it had dropped bombs on residential neighbourhoods.
”We are using surgical airstrikes,” local military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera told reporters in Marawi shortly before big clouds of black smoke rose from a bombed area near the provincial government building.
TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - There was no doubt in Nora Guthrie’s mind where the final repository of her famous musician father’s legacy would be.
The Woody Guthrie Center opened on Saturday in Tulsa, allowing visitors to see the folk singer’s handwritten lyrics to “This Land Is Your Land” and thousands of other lyric sheets, letters, postcards, artwork, photos, manuscripts and journals.
Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, about 60 miles (97 km) from Tulsa, in 1912 and spent his early years there. He gained fame in the 1930s for ballads that drew attention to the plight of Dust Bowl refugees, migrant farmworkers and others dispossessed by the hard times of the Great Depression.
Guthrie’s papers were stored in boxes for decades following his death from Huntington’s disease in 1967, just after interest in his life and work had been rekindled by Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, and others during the 1960s folk music revival.
It was not until the early 1990s that Nora Guthrie started poking through the boxes that her mother, Guthrie’s second wife, had carefully packaged.
She recalled pulling out the lyric sheet to “This Land Is Your Land” and asking an archivist what she should do to protect it. A cup of coffee was nearby, Nora Guthrie said, and the archivist carefully placed it and the lyrics a safe distance apart before explaining some of the basic points of archival storage.
The decision to move the archives from New York City to Oklahoma came about a decade ago. The Guthrie family had lost track of where Woody’s mother, who died of Huntington’s disease in 1930, was buried but rediscovered it in Oklahoma while a touring exhibit on the singer’s life was visiting the state.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation in Tulsa bought the archives two years ago and agreed to transform a brick warehouse into the Woody Guthrie Center.
On Friday, before the center was opened to the public, one of its first visitors was Guthrie’s first wife, Mary Jennings Boyle, 96, of Riverside, California. Sitting in her wheelchair, she watched a multi-media presentation that depicted her marriage to Guthrie after they had met in the Texas panhandle town of Pampa.
She had no objections to be being part of a museum exhibit and said her memories remain fond despite Guthrie’s wanderlust, which left her at home with their three kids.
“His relevancy today is as rich and vibrant today as when he was crisscrossing America writing songs about it,” he said.
A variety of recording artists have been invited to browse the Guthrie archives to set his unpublished lyrics to their own music.
The center also features a theatre and a classroom for educational programs, but Guthrie’s leftist political views will not be pushed on anyone, said Deana McCloud, an English teacher who has been hired as the center’s executive director.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Sent off with a 21-gun salute, George H.W. Bush left his beloved Texas for the final time Monday, headed to Washington as the nation paid tribute to the 41st president for a lifetime of public service that began in the Navy during World War II, ended with four years as president and was characterized throughout by what admirers say was decency, generosity and kindness.
A long motorcade accompanied the hearse carrying Bush’s remains from a Houston funeral home to nearby Ellington Field for the trip to the nation’s capital on an aircraft that often serves as Air Force One. Military artillery fired the salute, and servicemen carried the casket to the plane.
Former President George W. Bush, the eldest of the four Bush sons, and his wife, Laura, along with brother Neil Bush and his family, boarded the plane for the cross-country trip to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington.
Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are to attend. Bush’s family has not said who will speak at the service. Former President Jimmy Carter also will be there.
Bush’s casket was to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon aboard the U.S. military airplane. The crew was tasked by Trump with carrying out “Special Air Mission 41,” a reference to Bush’s place in the roster of America’s presidents.
One of Bush’s major achievements was assembling the international military coalition that liberated the tiny, oil-rich nation of Kuwait from invading neighbor Iraq in 1991. The war lasted just 100 hours. He also presided over the end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union.