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"The Bishop is heartbroken not only for his flock in Peoria but also for the many supporters of the Sheen Cause from throughout the world who have so generously supported Peoria's efforts," the statement continued.
In response, the Archdiocese of New York pointed to Sheen's and his family's desire to keep the body in New York. Communications director Joseph Zwilling also said that the Holy See hasn't yet approved of the move.
Both archdioceses have a claim to the would-be saint. Peoria is where the popular priest was raised and ordained. But it was in New York that Sheen rose to the national spotlight in the 1950s with his syndicated television show, "Life is Worth Living," that drew up to 30 million viewers every week, RNS reports.
Four years ago, an Illinois mom claimed that Sheen intervened from beyond the grave to save her baby boy, who was stillborn at birth. The Holy See recognized the miracle, but Vatican medical experts are currently conducting an investigation into the incident.
The Archdiocese of New York said that it would be happy to take over Sheen's sainthood push if Peoria suspends it.
First-class relics, such as hair, blood, and parts of the body, aren't necessary for beatification, the NC Register reports, but preferred. Although it's European custom, Dolan has said he's firmly against dismembering Sheen's body for relics. But Sheen's family is reportedly "at peace" with the idea of recently collecting relics from his coffin "without disturbing the body."
Zondo pushes for an even earlier start of 09:00, but gives Pretorius the option of the 09:30 start, with proceedings then running later than usual.
Pretorius tells Zondo he prefers the latter.
Zondo adjourns. Proceedings will pick up again on Thursday morning at 09:30.
Zondo proposes that proceedings should then start earlier on Thursday and Friday morning, in an effort to make up for lost time.
Pretorius suggests 09:30 as a starting time, and says McBride's opening statement should take between 1-2 hours, but he will endeavour at aiming to keep it to one hour.
Zondo grants the postponement of McBride's testimony until Thursday, and the postponement of Booysen's testimony until Monday.
As a result, Zondo says in a sombre tone, there will be no hearing of any evidence until Thursday morning.
"That's not acceptable," Zondo tells Pretorius, while referring to the previous postponement of McBride's evidence in February, for this same reason.
Pretorius tells Zondo there are also "logistical challenges, which we needn't deal with in public..."
Pretorius: "...provided an implicated party has ample time, at least two weeks, and in this case it will be more, to consider his or her position, brief counsel, or seek assistance from the commission itself to prepare an application for cross-examination or to lead evidence, either personally or through other people, any prejudice involved can be avoided."
Pretorius says on the basis of this application, as it relates to McBride's testimony, any serious prejudice can be avoided.
By the same token, the testimony of former KZN Hawks boss Johan Booysen, meant to follow McBride, would also be postponed.
Pretorius earlier mentioned the "failure" of the commission's legal team to duly notify implicated parties, with regard to McBride's testimony.
Pretorius says the postponement of McBride's testimony is to allow implicated parties to be notified, as per the rules of the commission.
Pretorius now cites the various rules pertaining to this decision.
Pretorius addresses Zondo on a point of postponing the testimony of Robert McBride until Thursday.
Adv Pretorius hand over copy of application for postponement of the evidence of Mr Robert McBride.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo takes his seat and greets everyone.
He is now addressed by Advocate Paul Pretorius, head of the commission's legal team.
Claims of attempts to capture the SA Police Service, the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are expected to take centre stage on Thursday when former IPID boss Robert McBride testifies before the state capture commission of inquiry.
McBride, former Hawks head Anwa Dramat and former Gauteng Hawks boss Shadrack Sibiya separately held meetings with the commission's investigators previously.
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) head Robert McBride believes that Police Minister Bheki Cele's decision to not extend his term for another five years is political and that putting an acting head in his place will be bad for ongoing investigations into powerful people.
"The citizens of our country are rightly alarmed and concerned about the level of corruption that is plaguing our country," said McBride in his motivation to Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police for why his term should be extended for another five years.
"This concern will be exacerbated should this committee take an unjustified decision on the renewal of my appointment – particularly if the committee places reliance on submissions from the minister that are based on refuted or withdrawn allegations, and that are informed by political motive."
Rajesh "Tony" Gupta allegedly told former Free State MEC Mxolisi Dukwana that he was a trustworthy man who would drive to the house of ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and Duduzane Zuma, the son of the former president, to deliver a million rand in cash every month.
Dukwana was testifying at the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture on Friday.
He told inquiry chairperson, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that Magashule introduced him to the controversial Gupta family, who are accused of using their relationship with former president Jacob Zuma to loot the state around 2012.
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule will not appear before the party's integrity committee unless its national executive committee (NEC) decides he should do so.
This is according to integrity committee chairperson George Mashamba, who told News24 that the committee had no powers to summon him in order to assess the impact that claims made against him had on the governing party.
His comments follow a decision by the NEC to refer its entire list of candidates nominated to serve in the National Assembly and in provincial legislatures to the integrity committee.
Gillingham manager Peter Taylor says supporters should be more understanding of their recent form.
The Gills sacked Martin Allen last month after a dismal start to their return to League One and are currently two points above the drop zone.
"I don't think they're helping the cause," Taylor told BBC Radio Kent.
"There are too many who want to have a go at the manager, whether interim or not, or the players and that is not helping the players settle."
He added: "They could be a touch more patient."
Taylor took interim charge at Priestfield Stadium following Allen's sacking and was appointed until the end of the season earlier this week.
Results have been mixed for the 60-year-old, who led the Gills to promotion to the second tier during the 1999-2000 season.
The Kent club have won two and lost two matches in the league while a late Bradley Dack equaliser against Conference North side Brackley Town earned them a replay in the FA Cup first round.
Taylor admitted last week that Gillingham are currently in a relegation scrap and has called on his players to improve their performances.
However, he has warned fans to remain positive rather than criticise the team.
"The players have got to hold their hands up as well," he said.
"Some of the performances haven't been good enough, and they'll be honest with that. But just having a pop at them, that's not going to be helpful.
"The most important thing is the players work hard. If they didn't work hard I'd be as critical as anyone.
"But there's no lack of effort there. There's a lack of quality, but there's no lack of effort.
"When a team are going through bad times, every time a certain supporter says something they say it's the worst performance they've ever seen.
"No it's not. It's not that every week. You've got to be realistic."
September 5, 2014 A senior State Department official says the flight from Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan was rerouted because of a "bureaucratic issue." The State Department says the plane has now landed in Dubai.
August 21, 2014 The State Department lauded the fundraising phenomenon, but said the participation of high-profile diplomats, such as ambassadors, violates internal policy.
July 29, 2014 A U.S. judge says an order she gave late Monday to impound a tanker carrying $100 million in oil off the coast of Galveston, Texas, cannot be enforced.
July 27, 2014 The State Department says the photos show burn marks from the firing of multiple rocket launchers inside Russia and resulting craters on the other side of the border.
July 24, 2014 The problem in the U.S. State Department system could cause problems for millions of people worldwide who are awaiting travel documents.
April 18, 2014 Federal agencies are getting more time to review the controversial project, the State Department says, given an ongoing legal battle in Nebraska over whether the pipeline could pass through.
March 3, 2014 President Obama said that if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, were truly interested in protecting Russians in Ukraine, then the U.S. would back deploying international monitors to the region.
August 2, 2013 Few details have emerged about the U.S. plan to shut down embassies that would normally be open this Sunday. A senior State Department official says that the U.S. facilities may close for more days, as well. The closures are described as "precautionary steps" taken "out of an abundance of caution."
August 1, 2013 The State Department said it made the decision "'out of an abundance of caution." It said that there is the potential that the closures could extend.
July 9, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry's wife suffered "seizure-like symptoms" over the weekend. Doctors have ruled out heart attack, stroke, or a brain tumor, the State Department says. Heinz Kerry is 74.
Super Street Fighter IV's Yun And Yang Also Delivering To Consoles?
Capcom's official Japanese-language blog posted a few screens of new characters Yun and Yang in their Arrange Costumes, where they change from a mere skateboarder and rollerblader into a skateboarder chef and a rollerblader waiter.
Additionally, EventHubs got a tip that new achievements for Super Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 show Yun and Yang coming to the game's console version. (They're confirmed only for the arcade version, which releases in Japan next month.) This batch also shows an Evil Ryu. Grain-of-salt territory: I have no idea of these images' authenticity. But it's not too much of a stretch to assume Y&Y will come home at some point.
Everyone is invited to participate in the upcoming Kahuku programs, offered April through June 2014, in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. Free! Palm Trail, People and Land of Kahuku and ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua are three of the hikes scheduled.
Protect the Hawaiian ecosystem from invasive, non-native plant species by volunteering for “Stewardship at the Summit” programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
Park rangers at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park closed a section of Chain of Craters Road below Kealakomo due to a landslide beneath the Hōlei Pali.
“We are pleased to again report an increase of visitors eager to enjoy Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, a World Heritage Site,” said Park Superintendent Cindy Orlando.
A new National Park Service report for 2012 shows that the 1,483,928 visitors to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park spent $113,376,400 in communities near the park.
Figure skating champion Kim Yu-na made her first appearance in an ice show in four years on Sunday.
She performed a special gala program at the “All That Skate 2018” ice show held at Seoul’s Mokdong Ice Rink.
No jumps were carried out but Kim mesmerized the audience during the three-minute show.
Skating in a flowing white dress dotted with dainty flowers, Kim executed her trademark Ina Bauer and spins with elegance.
The rest of the show featured figure skaters including Sochi Olympics silver medalist Patrick Chan from Canada, 2018 Olympic bronze medalist Kaetlyn Osmond, and rising Korean skaters Choi Da-bin, You Young and Lim Eun-soo.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint of a U.S.-backed force in Syria early Tuesday in the northern town on Manbij, killing seven fighters, an official with the Kurdish-led group said. A war monitor blamed sleeper cells of the Islamic State group.
after midnight at one of the entrances to Manbij. He said the "martyrs were carrying out their mission of protecting Manbij."
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said members of an IS sleeper cell carried out the attack, and that three other Manbij Military Council fighters were also wounded.
The Beatles' struggle to finish "The White Album": How bad did it get?
"They must have done ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ five nights running and it’s not exactly the most melodic piece of music"
Before the Monday night session mercifully concluded, McCartney had revised his vision for “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” yet again—this time, opting for a Latin American feel in place of the track’s earlier reggae sound. Amazingly, the next evening the song finally began to come together, with the bandmates enjoying a convivial session, complete with pervasive laughter and inside jokes. With “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” holding steady for a change, George and the Beatles turned back to “Revolution 1”—only John had something else in mind for his composition. Since early June, he had maintained that “Revolution 1” should be the band’s next single. But Harrison and McCartney, in particular, vetoed the idea. “They said it wasn’t good enough,” Lennon later recalled. To his mind, they “were resentful and said it wasn’t fast enough.” And Martin, perhaps inadvisably, had taken Harrison and McCartney’s side in the ongoing squabble. As engineer Geoff Emerick later recalled, “In the early days, George Martin had picked the songs that would comprise the A-side and B-side of a Beatles single. But by this point in their career, it would be the group’s decision; George might offer some input or suggestions, but it was their final call.” John’s solution to the dilemma was obvious to his way of thinking—call their bluff, speed up the song, and release it as the next Beatles single posthaste. With the Maoist revolution in full flower and the Vietnam conflict raging overseas, Lennon felt that the Beatles were duty bound to join the political fray, to take advantage of their bully pulpit and comment on the international malaise.
During a July 9 session, Lennon led the other Beatles on a new recording of “Revolution 1,” with the faster, hard-rocking version to be titled simply “Revolution.” Lyrically, the compositions were almost identical but for a single word. As John later recalled, “There were two versions of that song, but the underground left only picked up on the one [the faster version] that said, ‘count me out.’ The original version, which ends up on the LP, said, ‘count me in,’ too; I put in both because I wasn’t sure.” After rehearsing a basic track featuring Harrison and Lennon’s electric guitars, McCartney’s bass, and Starr’s drums, they remade the song on July 10. That evening, Martin produced a searing version of “Revolution” for the ages. As the producer later remembered, “We got into distortion on that, which we had a lot of complaints from the technical people about. But that was the idea: it was John’s song and the idea was to push it right to the limit. Well, we went to the limit and beyond.” As Phil McDonald later noted, George captured the blistering sound by feeding the guitar signals through the recording console. “It completely overloaded the channel and produced the fuzz sound,” McDonald reported. “Fortunately the technical people didn’t find out. They didn’t approve of ‘abuse of equipment.’” After capturing “Revolution” in ten takes, the bandmates applied overdubs to the recording, including a series of handclaps and a sizzling, double-tracked lead vocal from John. The next evening, Thursday, July 11, witnessed an additional overdub courtesy of keyboard session man Nicky Hopkins, who superimposed a magnificent electric piano solo onto the track. And with that, Lennon’s “Revolution” was complete.
He had met, if not exceeded, his self-imposed burden of imagining a faster version of the song, and in so doing he had duly presented “Revolution” as the lead contender for the next Beatles single.
In many ways, the ball was now in Martin’s court. While the Beatles had clearly taken ownership of their artistic direction, even assuming a greater role in the production of their music from ideation through remixing, the band’s producer was often forced to weigh in with his own perspective in order to settle their differences of opinion. And “Revolution”—a song to which George himself was clearly partial—was setting up the Beatles and their inner circle for a showdown. As mid-July came and went, George and the bandmates completed several more tracks, including Ringo’s “Don’t Pass Me By,” which had been waiting in the wings.
During the week of July 15, the tensions that had been brewing among the bandmates and their production team finally came to a head. The Monday night session in Studio 2 began, ominously enough, with McCartney returning yet again to “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” for which he recorded a new lead vocal, eating up considerable studio time in the process. Working until three o’clock in the morning, the Beatles then devoted more than two hours to rehearsing a new Lennon composition titled “Cry Baby Cry,” with its nursery-rhyme lyrics and somber tones. But earlier that same evening, all hell had broken loose during McCartney’s efforts to perfect his vocal. Only this time, the fireworks weren’t emanating from among the Beatles, with Yoko in tow, as always, down in the studio. Strangely, the blowup occurred upstairs in the control booth, and the central player was Geoff, the timid and unfailingly respectful sound engineer for the Beatles’ most innovative recordings. And perhaps more importantly, he was Martin’s right-hand man throughout the ups and downs along his journey with the group.
The next afternoon, as George was making preparations for the upcoming session, the engineer made his intentions known. After having tossed and turned the night before, a sleepless and dejected Emerick walked into the control room. “I took a deep breath,” Geoff later wrote, “and at last the words came out. ‘That’s it, George,’ I announced. ‘I’ve decided I can’t take it anymore. I’m leaving.’” For his part, Martin was thunderstruck. “You can’t leave in the middle of an album,” he told the engineer, who replied, “I can, George, and I am.” With Martin hot on his heels, Emerick made his way to Alan Stagge’s office to announce his decision to quit working Beatles sessions. With George openly sympathizing with Geoff’s frustrations, the studio head asked Geoff to finish out the week before rotating to another artist. But Geoff wouldn’t hear of it. With no other choice, Stagge gave him the rest of the week off and pressed Ken Scott into service as his replacement. For Geoff, the mere notion that he had been liberated from the toxic atmosphere with the Beatles was sweet relief. But for George, as he made his way back to Studio 2, the situation had suddenly been rendered even bleaker than it had been before Geoff’s desertion. Until that point, Martin had been able to hide behind his newspapers and allow the moveable feast of the Beatles’ discontent to roll on without him. But now, with Emerick gone, he was suddenly very much alone up in the booth. When he made his way down into the studio after Emerick had bade farewell to the band, Martin supervised ten takes of “Cry Baby Cry” and even pitched in with a nifty harmonium part.
If George felt a sense of hollowness in the wake of Geoff’s sudden absence in his life with the Beatles, it may have been—in retrospect—decidedly short lived. For his part, Scott acted as a kind of emollient for the tension that had overwhelmed the bandmates’ atmosphere. Easygoing and unflappable in contrast with the bashful, high-strung Emerick, Scott may have been just what Martin and the Beatles needed to finish off their new long-player. “I was much more of a basic rock and roll type engineer than Geoff was,” Ken later recalled. To his mind, it was clear that “they wanted more of a rock and roll album. With me coming in at that point, it worked out perfectly.” There were still “moments of tension” with Scott in the engineer’s chair, to be certain, “but the majority of the time we had a blast. It was such good fun!” Scott added, suggesting that his participation “gave them what they were looking for at that point, so they could relax and have more fun.” George certainly wasn’t averse to having more fun with the Beatles in the studio. But by this point, the heady days of making Sgt. Pepper seemed like a distant memory.
Kenneth Womack is the author of a two-volume biography of the life and work of Beatles producer George Martin. He is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University.
Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, today announced Myanmar as the latest country to be included in their existing agreement to bring Wikipedia Zero to Telenor customers in Asia and Europe.
Telenor is supporting the country’s ambition of connecting its 60 million people. Through this agreement, Telenor’s future subscribers in Myanmar will be able to access Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base free of mobile data traffic charges when Telenor begins services in the country.
“The Wikimedia Foundation imagines a world in which every single person has free access to the sum of human knowledge. By working with Telenor, we are able to put this knowledge in the hands of the masses, helping to close the knowledge gap between developed and developing countries. Today’s announcement will pave the way for Telenor to offer all the knowledge that comes with Wikipedia Zero to its customers in Myanmar,” said Carolynne Schloeder, Director of Mobile Programs at the Wikimedia Foundation.
The partnership between Telenor and the Wikimedia Foundation was established in February 2012, and was founded on a shared commitment to bring Wikipedia to Telenor customers free of data charges. The initiative is part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mobile strategy, which focuses on reaching the billions of people around the world whose primary opportunity to access the Internet is via a mobile device. Following the agreement, special versions of Wikipedia for mobile phones were launched in Thailand, Malaysia and Montenegro. In addition, Telenor aims to launch Wikipedia Zero in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Serbia in 2014.
“Access to high quality telecommunications tools and affordable services plays a substantial role in developing societies. To Telenor, this partnership enables us to provide a strong support to local communities by promoting the exchange and sharing of open knowledge. Offering Wikipedia free of traffic charges also helps introduce internet to mobile users, often for the first time. I am satisfied that our cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation will now include Myanmar,” said Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO of Telenor Group.
On 27 June 2013 Telenor was announced as one of the successful applicants for a telecommunications license in Myanmar. Following the process described in the auction guidelines, the company is now in discussions with the Myanmar authorities regarding the final terms and conditions of the license agreement. Telenor aims to launch services in Myanmar within eight months after the final license agreement is signed.
The extension of this partnership was celebrated today in Oslo when Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, met with Jon Fredrik Baksaas and Rolv-Erik Spilling, Head of Telenor Digital to participate in an event announcing the expansion of service. Mr. Jimmy Wales was also a keynote speaker at the “Digital Winners” conference hosted today by Telenor Digital at Telenor Headquarters, where he shared his views on crowdsourcing for the common good.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (comScore, September 2013). Available in 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 29 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
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Mayor Bloomberg has set an ambitious agenda for his final two years in office. No, not finally fixing the schools, reforming the pensions or redeveloping Willets Point. Those are the easy ones.
Gotham has delivered Gehry some notable failures, particularly the new Times headquarters and an East River Guggenheim, and the World Trade Center performing arts center, where he first met the Signature team and where the Joyce still plans to go, continues to languish. Still, New York boasts more Gehrys than any city outside of California, including another of his performance center at Bard, just a MetroNorth ride away.

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