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The study can’t prove conclusively that being called by a chosen name directly reduces depression or suicide risk. Also, the authors admit, while it included one of the largest samples of transgender youth to date, the study was still a small one. And although the youngsters came from three major cities, “there’s no ci...
Denny David, deputy director at LYRIC, a LGBTQQ Youth Center in San Francisco, emphasized the importance of honoring a transgender youth’s chosen name.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2qb6n6D Journal of Adolescent Health, online April 5, 2018.
"We are representative of Catholics across the nation who support policies that enable women to make decisions about whether to become pregnant, or whether to continue a pregnancy. As Catholics, we also strive to support parents who find themselves facing hard times, giving them access to the resources they need to pro...
This week, Catholic state legislators from across the country sent a Dear Colleague letter to members of the US House of Representatives, urging them to endorse the "Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act" introduced by Catholic US Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT...
State Representative Suzanne Bassi, a Republican signatory from Illinois stated, "Families in our districts are facing unprecedented challenges. Budgets are tight and the endless partisan and ideological battles continue to get in the way of passing legislation that could make a difference. These Catholic legislators c...
The need for contraception, comprehensive sexuality education and affordable childcare and healthcare is heard from every corner of the United States. Access to contraception provides men and women with the resources they need to lead happy and healthy lives and income level should never be a determinate of who does an...
State Representative John Lesch, a Democratic- Farmer-Labor signatory from Minnesota, said, "Public officials at the state and local levels are doing all they can to support constituents hurting from the economic crisis. As Catholics, we see a particular need to help the poor and the disadvantaged, who are often also t...
The open letter also notes, "We are your fellow legislators and your constituents. We will do our part in the states, and urge you, our colleagues in the US House of Representatives, to do yours. This is an opportunity to show that the cynicism about government is not well-founded, to show that we can stand together de...
Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice and sponsor of the ad, said "This is a well-balanced bill that will help to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies and support women and men who want to have children. In line with Catholic social teaching, Catholics for Choice believes in a universal healthcare s...
In addition to this letter, constituents from across the country have been reaching out to their federal representatives urging them to cosponsor this bill and help move it through Congress, reminding them that the health and well-being of people across the country depends on this vital legislation.
Obama's Dilemma - Support Catholics or Abortion Groups?
Why is the Vatican Newspaper Backing the Pro-Abortion Obama?
15 mar - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Deborah Seward of the United States as Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels. She assumes her duties on 14 March.
A field office of the United Nations Department of Public Information, UNRIC provides services to Andorra, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, in addition to the H...
Ms. Seward has more than 31 years of experience in public information, communications and international relations, acquired at the United Nations and externally. Prior to her latest appointment, she served as Director of the Department of Public Information’s Strategic Communications Division in New York beginning in 2...
Before joining the United Nations, Ms. Seward took on progressively responsible assignments with the Associated Press, serving as Chief of its Moscow bureau between 2000 and 2003, Chief of the Paris bureau from 2009 to 2010, International Editor in New York from 2003 to 2005, and Assistant Managing Editor in New York f...
Holding an honours degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States, Ms. Seward was also a Nieman Foundation Fellow at Harvard University, and is fluent in English, French and Russian.
She is married and has a daughter.
Gerry Adams, the president of the Irish republican party Sinn Féin, is set to release a collection of his bewildering tweets.
When u come 2 the end of a lollipop. 2 the end. 2 the end of a lollipop. When u come 2 the end of a lollipop. Pop goes ur heart. Xo TGBE.
He presses send, and he leans back in his chair, taking his own advice (“TGBE” presumably stands for “Tóg go bog é,” a phrase which means “Take it easy” in his native Irish). He watches the likes and retweets roll in, and he is, for all we know, at peace.
Given his surface inscrutability, the cliché about not judging books by their covers might as well have been coined in reference to Adams himself. As it happens, though, a fairly accurate idea of this book’s over-all affect can be gleaned from the image on its cover: a selfie in which a goat rests its affable head on t...
Considered in isolation from the controversies and ambiguities that surround Adams like a mephitic haze, the text itself is undoubtedly weird, but hardly interesting on its own terms. The most interesting thing about it is that it was published at all, given that the target readership for Adams’s tweets will presumably...
Another photo depicts a rubber duck recently added to what seems a truly prodigious collection of same; this particular bath toy is a London tourist souvenir, wearing a headdress in the style of Big Ben’s iconic roof. The text of the tweet—“Tick Tocky ár lá”—might need some unpacking for international readers, to whom ...
The book, with its routine dispatches from Adams’s extracurricular activities (“Pilates. Aaaaaahhhhh”; “1st Pilates of 2015 . . . ”; “Seriously overstretched myself @ pilates”) and its endless jokily plaintive references to overdue household chores, creates a vacuum of significance so total that you wonder whether you’...
This suspicion, that Adams is displaying his whimsical side for un-whimsical reasons, is reinforced by the timing of the book’s publication: “My Little Book of Tweets” arrives just three weeks before Ireland’s general election, on February 26th. The country is badly in need of a strong left-wing opposition to the presi...
New poll findings reveal that the liberal media, who applaud abortion “healthcare” as “moral,” are out of touch with nearly half of the United States. And so, while the media readily cite polls supporting their agenda, it’s doubtful they’ll report this one.
While only 20% of Americans say abortion should be “totally illegal,” 48% of Americans agree that abortion is “morally wrong,” according to Gallup findings released Thursday.
Other polls indicate likewise. While support for abortion varies greatly, a majority of Americans want limitations on abortion and oppose taxpayer funding.
Over two-thirds of conservatives in fact think abortion is morally wrong, but the majority of that group still says it should be legal, at least in some circumstances. Specifically, 41% of conservatives are in the ‘morally wrong but legal’ category, well above the average of 29% among all Americans. Another 28% of cons...
Big businesses in Middlesbrough have lined up to object to plans by Sainsbury's for its huge, empty supermarket.
The supermarket giant had asked for permission to split the cavernous Middlehaven building into five smaller shops - so it could bring in Argos, B&M and Iceland - as well as a gym.
Middlesbrough Council has yet to make a decision on the proposals, which could see the white elephant building finally opened more than three years after it was built.
Sainsbury's put together an assessment of Middlesbrough's shopping scene - which argued the proposed development would not harm a town centre it described as in 'good health'.
But Teesside Live can reveal what leaders at the proposed snow centre and some of the town's biggest businesses think.
The property consultant wrote on behalf of the town's four main shopping centres, the Cleveland Centre, Hill Street Centre, Captain Cook Square and the Dundas Arcade.
It said the proposal was a "very real threat to the vitality and viability of the town centre at a time when it is fragile and extremely vulnerable to competition from further out-of-centre retail development".
It said the owners of the Dundas Arcade had received permission to turn the former Potters Bar into a gym and were ready to spend £500,000 renovating it - but the operator is not unwilling to proceed due to the Gym Group's interest in the Sainsbury's site.
It also said there is a "likelihood" of B&M - Dundas' main anchor store - closing if a new B&M store was to open on the new development.
Concerns were also over the impact on the redevelopment of the former Kwik Save store on Ormesby Road, which has planning permission for eight new stores.
The commercial property firm acts on behalf of the developers behind big future projects like the Centre Square offices project and the snow centre, as well as the owners of other big businesses including Psyche.
It said it had "significant concerns" the application would have a "detrimental effect" on town centre retail, which is in an "extremely vulnerable state".
The firm worries that the proposals "fundamentally change the nature of the development into a retail park" which would "directly compete with the town centre".
"We have serious concerns that... this would be the 'thin end of the wedge' and it would make it more likely for further sub-divisions in the future, similar to what has happened at Teesside Park in recent years," the letter said.
It continued that Sainsbury's may look to attract further leisure and food and beverage uses which "would further undermine the viability of the snow centre development", saying a gym operator could not commit to the snow centre site due to the Gym Group's interest in the Sainsbury's site.
It also criticised Sainsbury's town centre report, prepared by WYG, as "failing to correctly assess the current health of the town centre".
Will new shops at the empty Sainsbury's at Middlehaven hurt Middlesbrough town centre?
Concluding, its submission said the town centre is "already facing the fight of its life to survive".
Rachael Howson, of Cool Runnings, the company behind the proposed snow centre at Middlehaven, also objected.
She said the application would "open the flood gates" for names to leave the town centre, and be a "short term answer" that would lead to a "massive detrimental effect" in the future.
The objection said the current 850 space car park "would not be needed" for the proposed stores - making it likely that further applications to build more units would be likely.
It also said the development would "undermine the letting space" at the proposed snow centre, which could have "major adverse implications for the impending regeneration of Middlehaven".
Cable Properties and Investments, which has "a significant amount of holdings and interests in Middlesbrough town centre", said it was "hugely concerned" by the proposals.
It said in an objection letter: "We believe this will have a significant detrimental impact on the town centre at a time when it is in an acutely fragile state."
It said the town centre market was "as weak now, in our opinion, as it has ever been" and called a report commissioned by Sainsbury's which argued the retail sector in the town centre was in good shape, was "fundamentally flawed".
The letter also said it would be "naive in the extreme" to believe retailers like Argos, Iceland and B&M would not close town centre stores if they moved to Middlehaven.
It said Middlesbrough - like all town centres - is suffering with the closure of big name retailers. It fears that if the application was granted, it would "create significant pressure" to expand into the huge car park at the site.
It also raised the possibility of traffic jams heading into the site, and the potential impact on the future regeneration of Middlehaven.
From the perspective of a smaller business, Rounton Coffee Roasters, which runs Bedford Street Coffee, said it was "very conscious of the fragile economy" in the town, and the development's impact "will inevitably be a further loss of employment" as small firms struggle.
Asda were given permission by Middlesbrough Council to build a superstore on the site now occupied by the vacated Sainsbury’s in 1997, but later withdrew their application after a High Court challenge by Redcar and Cleveland Council and Morrisons.
A fresh £25m proposal from Asda is submitted in 1999.
Middlesbrough Council’s planning committee backs Asda’s plans in 2001 for the superstore development, which would include a petrol station and a park and ride facility.
But again, Redcar and Cleveland Council object due to the impact on Asda’s South Bank store, that would have closed had the plans gone ahead.
After a public inquiry into whether an Asda should be built in September 2003, the Government delivered what was described as a “double hammer blow” by rejecting the Middlehaven store and a separate application by Tesco for a new store it had earmarked for Cannon Park.
That decision was taken by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in July 2004.
More than 15 years after the original plans are put in, developers Terrace Hill announce proposals for the Gateway Middlehaven project in July 2013 - including plans for a KFC, Marston’s pub and a coffee shop, which was eventually opened by Costa.
Sainsbury's current Wilson Street store would be transformed into a £20m “contemporary retail environment” as part of the scheme.
Sainsbury's announces it is closing its nearby store in North Ormesby by the end of 2014.
Work starts on the Middlehaven site in September 2014.
Questions are first raised over the development as Sainsbury’s announced it’s reviewing the move before construction is complete in January 2015.
Later that month, planning permission changes are “pushed through” despite doubts over whether the store will ever open - as Sainsbury's said it did not have time to wait for a planning committee to rule on the application.
The plans, which were agreed by the council, were to divide the site to provide two further smaller units.
By August 2015, despite work on the new store being largely completed, Sainsbury’s confirmed it would not be moving to Middlehaven and would stay in Wilson Street saying it was “no longer viable” to open the new store.
Sainsbury’s confirm it is looking for interested parties to fill the empty supermarket - but turn down pleas from Boro fans to open the giant, 850 space car park on match-days.
And Teesside Live revealed in 2017 that Iceland was looking to open one of its new concept stores, The Food Warehouse, at the site.
Middlesbrough Council announce in July 2018 they have been in discussions with Sainsbury’s on new plans for the white elephant store.
Teessiders say they would like to see an IKEA open - but the Swedish furniture and homeware store says it has no interest in moving to Middlehaven.
Sainsbury’s submit a new planning application to split the store into five new shops and a gym - and claim that Argos, B&M with a garden centre, Iceland and the Gym Group are on board.
Sainsbury's plans to fill its £200,000 a month ghost store were rejected after councillors heard it would be catastrophic for Middlesbrough .
On Friday, councillors voted to turn down Sainsbury’s planning application which would have seen its giant, disused Middlehaven supermarket split into six units, which would allow B&M, Argos, an Iceland concept store and a new gym to move in.
Sainsbury's revealed it is paying £200,000 a month to keep the store empty.
But council planners listened to objections from town centre retailers - who said a new development would kill high street footfall and business - and rejected the proposal in January, 2019.
Sainsbury's wants the 80,000 sq ft Middlehaven store to be split into five shop units and a gym.
The supermarket chain decided against moving from its Wilson Street home in 2015.
It said its application could create 180 jobs, and see an Iceland 'Food Warehouse' and a B&M garden centre could open alongside other "warehouse retail stores".
The giant, 854 space car park - which has never been open to traffic, despite pleas from Boro fans looking for somewhere to leave their cars when heading to the Riverside - will remain unchanged under the proposal.
The maximum stay is likely to be three hours “to restrict the potential abuse of the car park” - but that will be limited to 90 minutes on a matchday.
While a decision has yet to be made by Middlesbrough Council on the main planning application, a smaller matter has already been refused.
Sainsbury's lodged a "non-material amendment" to the original planning permission it received for the new store, which was back in January 2015, to make changes to the building's lobby space as well as relocate delivery doors ahead of any redevelopment.
But that application has already been rejected by planning officers.
When asked for an update on the progress of the proposals, Sainsbury's told Teesside Live: "We can confirm our existing planning application still stands."
Now is a time when a bit of post-Christmas charity can make a big difference for the needy in Ennis.
Speaking to the community as a whole now, it’s time for us to step forward and put what support we can toward one of the most important annual nonprofit campaigns in the area.
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NOEL GALLAGHER has promised that OASIS and the BLACK CROWES will perform together onstage on their forthcoming TOUR OF BROTHERLY LOVE.
Speaking to MTV news in the US, Gallagher said it would be “rude” not to jam with the Black Crowes on their tour across the US, due to start in Las Vegas on May 11.
When the Black Crowes performed a low-key show at the London Scala earlier in the year, Gallagher joined the band.
He said if given a choice, he would like to cover ‘Stairway To Heaven’ by Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones‘ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ or The Beatles‘ ‘Yer Blues’.
This was the first publicly released photo of a prototype of the MEADS missile defense system surveillance radar. It was designed and developed at the Lockheed plant in Salina for the U.S. Army. The surveillance radar can search 360-degrees for incoming missiles, planes and drones and be hauled around on the back of a ...

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