Democratic reform in Egypt has taken a distressing turn for the worse with President Mohammed Morsi's recent move to give himself sweeping new powers, German commentators say on Monday. Many fear that it is the first step in the Islamization of the country.
Violent protests have rocked Egypt since Thursday when President Mohammed Morsi issued controversial decrees that granted the leader far reaching new powers.
Clashes between supporters of Morsi's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, opposition parties and police have been reported across the country since Friday, resulting in some 500 injuries. The first death in the unrest was reported on Sunday, when a 15-year-old boy was killed and 40 others were wounded as anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the political offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Damanhoor.
Amid the ongoing clashes, the Egyptian stock market index reportedly dropped 9.59 percentage points on Sunday, the first day of trading since the edicts were announced. The steep drop was among the biggest since the uncertainty surrounding the toppling of former autocrat Hosni Mubarak early last year.
There are signs, however, that Morsi may seek a compromise to ease tensions with his opponents. In a statement issued on Sunday evening, his office said the decrees were necessary for a proper transition to democracy and stressed that they would not be permanent. "The presidency reiterates the temporary nature of the said measures, which are not meant to concentrate powers," it said.
Morsi, who came to power in the country's first democratic elections this summer, is also scheduled to meet with senior judges on Monday to calm their fears about giving himself immunity from judicial review until a new parliament is elected, a move that had prompted many judges and prosecutors to boycott courts around the country. But the country's top judicial body, the Supreme Judiciary Council, asked them to return to work on Monday, saying it would try to convince Morsi to limit his immunity to "sovereign matters" like declaring war. The courts, which already dissolved the elected lower house of parliament, had also reportedly been considering doing the same to the heavily Islamist assembly currently writing Egypt's new constitution -- a situation that justified Morsi's move, his supporters say.
Opposition leaders, including prominent Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, have refused to cooperate with Morsi until the edicts have been scrapped. "He grabbed full power for himself," he told SPIEGEL in an interview published on Monday. "Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. This is a catastrophe -- it a mockery of the revolution that brought him to power and an act that leads one to fear the worst." Fractious opposition groups are also reportedly attempting to band together to increase resistance to Morsi's edicts, widely seen as an unprecedented power grab.
The move came directly after Morsi was praised for helping to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, ending eight days of violence in the Gaza Strip. German commentators on Monday say that Morsi has used that momentum to sieze greater powers, which could endanger Egypt's transition to democracy.
now combines executive, legislative and judicial powers in one set of hands -- his. Not even his toppled predecessor Hosni Mubarak had such an abundance of power."
"The reason for Morsi's clumsily handled grab for complete power is obvious. The new Islamization of Egypt, the pet project of the Muslim Brotherhood, has arrived.
The mistakes of the revolution are taking their toll: the divided opponents of the Islamists, time pressure, vague guidelines for the new constitution, and the lack of police reform. And then there is the good faith in the fundamentalists who have kidnapped the revolution and are now working to build a Sharia state."
"When it comes to relations between the United States and Egypt, it seems everything has remained the same. The Egyptian government is committed to representing the interests of the West in the region. It is mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, and attempting to find a solution to the conflict in Syria. The goal is stability. President Morsi has proven that he can and wants to fulfill this role. For this he is praised by Washington and Europe. And they are overlooking the fact that on a domestic level he continues to deviate from his promise to lead Egypt to democracy."
"Many Egyptians fear that Egypt is now headed directly into a new dictatorship. They feel let down because the West is allowing Morsi's power grabbing at home to go on because their interests are being met. It was no different under Hosni Mubarak's government."
"That Morsi has chosen exactly the moment in which he is being praised internationally for his role as mediator in the Gaza conflict to grant himself new powers shows just what a cold power-monger he is, regardless of how he might try to justify his behavior in the face of the angry protests against it. It should be noted that the rebellion against autocrats and dictators from Tunis to Cairo has not created a wonderland for Arab democracy. That can't happen overnight. The process of restructuring is complicated and is not immune to setbacks. But it would be bitter if it led to single-party rule for the Islamists."
"There is cause for concern about the democratic process along the Nile.
But Egypt is not Iran. While Morsi wants to expand the dominance of the Islamists, opposition groups have found unprecedented unity. The protests against Morsi becoming a 'new Pharaoh' and against the Islamization of society have brought them together. In the battle for Egypt's future, everything is at stake. The outcome remains uncertain. But at least there is hope that given the poor economy and lack of economic output under the governing Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptians will reconsider and avoid blindly following Morsi."
"The Arab Spring certainly has not cooled into an Islamist winter, though this danger has by no means been eliminated. But it was naive to think from the beginning that after a successful revolution against the dictators in the Arab world that market economy-oriented and liberal democracies would emerge right away."
"The people in Tahrir Square must fight for this. And the West should finally ask itself how it can actively help without being patronizing."


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DO REVENGE, Flabby Viola, Sally Field and THE FLYING NUN
An e-mail asks what did I think of Viola's Warrior King or whatever the crap title is?
I'm not seeing that. I was serious about how fatty is wrong for an action film. I don't want to look at her flabby gut and pretend she can do action. She can snarl and she can hiss. Seeing some flabby, hagged out actress pretend she's Douglas Fairbanks? Nope, not interested.
If she wants to do another WIDOWS, I'd probably see it. But she's not an action actor and she can't overcome her physical liabilities.
We watched NETFLIX tonight to see Sarah Michelle Gellar's movie. DO REVENGE is a really strong movie. It's an update on STRANGERS ON A TRAIN -- Alfred Hitchcock's classic has been updated many times including with THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN. This one is set in high school. SMG has a small supporting role but it's an important one and she is excellent. The movie is also very good. And it's a strong film. Again,, it's on NETFLIX.
Oh, it didn't show up when we pulled NETFLIX up on the TV. So my girlfriend searched "Sarah Michelle Geller." And it didn't show in the results. So she searched "DO REVENGE" and it came up. Currently, if you pull up the cast information on NETFLIX, it doesn't even have SMG's name in it. I'm talking about the page where you give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
Now I want to note this from an interview with Sally Field at DEADLINE:
The first time with Norma was such a shock from the moment that an audience saw it, which was in Cannes. And the reaction to it and I won the Palme d'Or (for Best Actress there) and I could almost not feel anything for that whole awards season. And luckily those award seasons then in those days, I'm sure you know, weren't anything like they are now. They were very much more subdued. But still I couldn't quite feel it, and when I won the [Oscar] I was so numb. It was so hard to get there, so hard. I had been, and I felt I was a nationwide joke in The Flying Nun. But you know lots of people come up to me and say "I loved The Flying Nun. I loved The Flying Nun." I say, "That's good. I don't really understand why you did, but that's okay." I was 19, 20 and 21 and it was just not where I wanted to be. So it just was a battle that I didn't know that I would really win. So I said to myself. "If I ever get here [the Oscars] again, I am going to own it. I am going to do it. I am going to let it be mine." So that is how that happened.
THE FLYING NUN was a great show -- see my "Really pissed off by Sally Field" -- and GIDGET sucked. She was Shirley Temple with little boobies cooing to Daddy.
THE FLYING NUN wasn't Shakespeare, I get it. But for me, as a little kid, watching it Monday through Friday (syndication, I wasn't alive when it was originally aired), it was pretty amazing. And I was excited by that show as I was by the 60s BATMAN show and more excited than I was by George Reeves' SUPERMAN. It was a great show and that's why it continues to air.
It's amazing that this is that hard for Sally Field to grasp in a century that has made so much out of Captain America, Iron Man, et al. Those are not great dramatic roles. But with a solid actor, they are characters that we respond to.
Friday, September 16, 2022. We note the fluff parade that still has ended over a recent death, Iraq remains mired in the stalemate and the US Senate talks monkeypox.
Senator Patty Murray: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. now has over 21,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox -- more than anywhere else in the world, and my home state of Washington has over 500 cases. I've heard from families who are rightly concerned by how bad this has gotten. And public health officials -- including back in Washington state -- who are frustrated to see our response run into issues we should be prepared for by now. That's why I continue to push the Biden Administration about my concerns with the monkeypox response, and urge quick action: on testing, treatments, and vaccines, and on clear guidance to the public, health care providers, and state public health officials. So it's reassuring to see we are making progress. On testing, capacity has increased one thousand percent, and FDA just approved a faster track for additional tests. On vaccines, BARDA is helping to stand up a new vaccine fill and finish site in Michigan, HHS is working to expand the number of distribution sites in states, and the Administration's advice for splitting doses has greatly stretched our vaccine supply. On outreach, the Administration has started working with states to make vaccines available at events with many people from the LGBTQ+ community in attendance. And perhaps most importantly -- the rate of new cases is going down. Now that is all encouraging news, but let me be clear -- we must remain vigilant in our response. And these promising improvements don;t excuse the issues I have been hearing about from communities, state health officials, and advocates from the start of this outbreak. Patients have spoken out about how hard it is to get tested -- some even waited days, despite having clear symptoms. Providers have had to jump through hoops to get their patients treatments. And I'm constantly talking to public health officials in my home state of Washington, who have told me how communications with states could have been far clearer -- and faster, and how the challenges in accessing tests and vaccines have delayed our response. I know states have especially struggled with the federal government's decision to forgo the system we typically use to distribute vaccines, the one we are already using for COVID vaccines. When it comes to vaccine distribution, some shipments have been sent to the wrong state, and even spoiled after storage at the wrong temperature. There have been issues with vaccine supply too -- like when thousands of vaccine doses were delayed because FDA had yet to inspect the new plant they were from, or when the Biden Administration missed an opportunity to procure more vaccines at a crucial point in this outbreak. And again, we are seeing inequities worsen this outbreak for some communities. Advocates in the LGBTQ+ community -- who have faced the vast majority of cases -- have also made clear they feel they are being overlooked, or in some instances stigmatized. We need to keep focusing and improving on outreach and on getting information and resources -- like vaccines-- to those who are most in need, and most at risk. And that must include communities of color, who we know don't have equitable access to vaccines. This is especially important as early data suggest Black and Latino communities are disproportionately burdened by this outbreak. We must do better. We need to be applying what we learned from the COVID response, and providing the resources communities have made clear they need. Of course, there is an enormous difference between this and the COVID pandemic, which is: thanks to decades of investment in smallpox research, we already had tests, treatments, and vaccines ready to go before this crisis even began. That should serve as a reminder to all of us about the immense value of investing in public health preparedness. But it's also why the stumbles in getting these tools deployed were especially frustrating and inexcusable. To learn from this, we need to be clear-eyed about what went wrong. Not just on challenges we faced in the last several months, but that we have faced for decades --challenges that, to be frank, have spanned many Administrations, not just this one. For example, we had over 20 million vials of smallpox vaccine in our national stockpile -- but they weren;t replaced as they expired over the course of a decade. I know I join my Ranking Member and members of this Committee when I say we have to do better -- not just on COVID, not just on monkeypox -- but on public health threats, period. Because we know there will be more. Just last week New York declared an emergency due to polio -- yet another public health risk we need to watch closely. So I want to hear from our witnesses today about not just what they are doing right now to improve our response to the monkeypox outbreak -- and fast -- but also how we can fix this in the long term and make sure the stumbles of the past couple months never happen again. I want to know what you and the Administration are doing to make sure we have enough tests, treatments, and vaccines for this outbreak-- and get them where they need to go while also maintaining an adequate stock of supplies for any smallpox threats. What are you doing to improve outreach to the LGBTQ+ community, address the disproportionate harm to Black and Latino communities, fight stigma and misinformation, and right the inequities we[ve seen in our response so far? How are we making the most of new research to develop promising vaccines and therapeutics, and then make them more quickly available -- while continuing to uphold the gold standard of safety and effectiveness? And are we getting schools and colleges everything they need to stay open and keep students and the school community safe? I'm glad CDC has provided guidance for K-12 schools -- and fortunately the science tells us elementary and secondary school kids are not at high risk right now, and CDC has also released resources for colleges which is critical with students returning to campus this fall. We need to make sure colleges and universities are equipped to prevent potential outbreaks as students move into dorms and live in close quarters with each other. I realize you've got your work cut out for you on all of this, especially with COVID still raging -- but there's no reason for us to fall behind. So I'm going to keep pushing you here, because families back in Washington state and across the country are counting on you to get it right. That's also why I'm going to keep pushing my colleagues here in Congress about the need for funding to support all this work. I know I'm not the only one here with concerns about the monkeypox response but we can't just say 'this isn't working' without providing the funding to end this outbreak and build the public health system Americans deserve. So I will continue to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and push to deliver the resources that will help get families the testing, treatments, and vaccines they need. And I'm interested in hearing from the witnesses on what the needs are when it comes to investing in our monkeypox response. It is also important to me we continue to keep our eyes on the horizon when it comes to future outbreaks and pandemics, and build a stronger public health system for whatever threat comes next. As the saying goes -- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That starts with building a world class public health system, rather than one that lags behind our peers. Our communities deserve to be as safe as anyone in the world, which is why Senator Burr and I are continuing to work to pass our PREVENT Pandemics Act. Our bipartisan legislation implements the lessons from our COVID response and improves our policies and processes on issues like strengthening supply chains, improving management of our national stockpile, modernizing data systems, and other items which would address many of the challenges we've faced with monkeypox. But a strong public health system also requires strong investments. Because our public health system was underfunded before COVID struck -- and it has been overwhelmed ever since. We have to end the cycle of crisis and complacency by making sustained investments that allow us to build, and maintain, robust public health infrastructure at all levels. And I'm going to keep pushing for all of these steps, because we should all know by now just how much is at stake. I can tell you, families in Seattle know, parents in Spokane know, nurses in Yakima know, workers in Olympia know, people across Washington state, and across the country, know: COVID was never going to be the last public health crisis we face -- and neither is monkeypox. The question is not whether there will be a new threat -- it is when it will strike and whether we will be ready. The truth is, the monkeypox response so far has not been encouraging -- but there are some clear signs of progress, and there are clear steps we can, and should, take to improve. And I don't just want to hear today about the steps you will be taking -- I want to see action. And you better believe I'll be watching closely.
She was speaking Wednesday at the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Appearing before the committee were Dr Rochelle Walensky (Director of the CDC), Dawn O'Connell (Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response), Dr. Robert Califf (FDA Commissioner) and Dr Anthony Fauci (NIH Director). Murray is the Committee Chair, Senator Richard Burr is the Ranking Member.
Committee Chair Patty Murray: [. . .] I say, frankly, too many missteps were made early on in the response and a couple hundred cases turned into 21,000. It is unacceptable to communities who already experience barriers to accessing healthcare like the LGBTQ+ and the Black and the Latino communities that are hardest hit by this outbreak. Access to testing was an early challenge in the monkeypox response with many people reporting significant delays in both accessing the test and learning their results. To continue to have these challenges around testing is just simply unacceptable. So, Dr Walensky, let me start with you. How is the CDC working to make sure that tests are more accessible and results are available earlier?
Dr Rochelle Walensky: Thank you, Senator, for that question. One of the big challenges that we had in terms of access to testing was both patients understanding that they were presenting with a new infection and providers understanding that this was a new infection that they had to test for. Indeed, another important clinical consideration was that people were coming in requesting a test when they had no symptoms and they had no rash. As Dr Califf noted, the test for this infection is a swab of the rash so if there is no other FDA approved test, we need to have a rash in order to conduct those tests. So much of what we've done -- and I should mention that we've always had more capacity than we've had tests coming in -- to date, we've used about 14 to 20% of our capacity. But to address these access issues, we had to work with clinicians, we had to work with patients, we had to do an extraordinary amount of outreach so that providers would understand how to test, patients would understand when to come in for a test and our public health partners would know not to gatekeep those tests. And so that was a work that we did early on.
Yes, Walensky, and that is your job. That is your defined job. That's what the CDC does. Stop making excuses and pretending you were suddenly tasked with new responsibilities.
Chair Patty Murray: Dr Califf, Secretary [Xavier] Becerra recently declared that FDA can use the emergency use authorization pathway for monkeypox tests. How will that improve the availability of new tests and what steps are you taking to improve on the progress that you've made?
Dr Robert Califf: First of all, let me concur with Dr Walensky, there's never been a shortage of tests but there's been a shortage of access to tests because of inefficiencies in the system so the EUA authority has enabled us -- we've given one EUA already but we also have five commercial labs which are offering the tests at this point and we issued a guidance just the other day which, uhm, makes it clear that individual institutions that are developing laboratory developed tests should proceed ahead and we've given people clear guidance templates for developing their tests and figuring out if they work. So I'd say, on all fronts, the gates are open under a watchful eye because we also must keep in mind that one of the lessons from COVID was that when the gates were open a lot of the tests turned out to be not so good, got a lot of them out there and we had to reign them back in.
Chair Patty Murray: I -- Well, look. I'm encouraged by the declining cases. But it really is imperative that we remain vigilant. And despite efforts by HHS to increase access to vaccines, some people in my home state of Washington still go to great lengths to get one -- including crossing the border into Canada to get one. Now people, understandably, want to be vaccinated before they get exposed but that means we need more vaccines. Ms. O'Connell, some serious stumbles were made this year when it came to our vaccine supply. What have you done to make sure that never happens again? And what are you doing to increase the supply and distribution of vaccines right now.
Dawn O'Connell: Chairman Murray, thank you so much for that question. What's most important to us is that those who need access to this vaccine get it. So if you continue to hear from constituents that are unable to access the vaccine or having to cross the border, please let us know. We are in the business right now of knocking down those hurdles and making sure the vaccine can be accessed. We did take a very small stockpile that was intended for small pox that was eventually intended to be lyophilized -- freeze dried -- for small pox and converted it to this active monkeypox response. And that required a couple of challenging problems to solve. We moved the fist 372,000 vials, as I mentioned in my opening statement, immediately. We needed FDA to approve -- and they were terrific partners moving quickly -- to approve that second manufacturing line that began, uh, drew the 800,000 vials we were waiting for. That's what it manufactured on. We needed that approval to happen before we could deploy those. FDA worked quickly and we got those out in July. We have also ordered an additional 5.5 million vials of the bulk drug substance that was intended to be lyophilized for small pox -- we have ordered that to be filled and finished and shipped to the United States. And the 2.5 million of those will be manufactured in the United States.
The hearing can best be summed up with one statement from Ranking Member Richard Burr, "You failed on vaccines."
There's no real progress here and things haven't changed much since Senator Murray sent the following letter last month:
The Honorable Xavier Becerra
Dear Secretary Becerra:
The United States is reporting a historically high number of monkeypox cases with over 1,970 cases confirmed in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.[1] As I have raised on multiple calls with the Administration, I am concerned with the state of the U.S. response to monkeypox. The spread of monkeypox is a reminder that our work to protect families and strengthen our preparedness and response system is far from complete and cannot end with the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities across the country are relying on you to do everything you can to protect them from the threat of monkeypox. I write to request a briefing from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department) on the domestic response to the monkeypox outbreak, including understanding how it is applying the lessons learned from the COVID-19 response, as well as the additional resources and authorities it needs to respond to and stop the disease from spreading further.
The global monkeypox outbreak was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2022, and today, 13,340 cases related to this outbreak have been detected in 69 countries.[2] Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only highlighted the dangers of a fragmented, understaffed, and underfunded public health system, but has put an unprecedented strain on our front line public health and health care workers, who are now being tasked with addressing yet another emerging public health threat. It is critical that lessons from COVID-19 are incorporated into our monkeypox response.
HHS has already taken a number of steps to respond to the domestic monkeypox outbreak, include activating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emergency Operations Center, releasing updated guidance and training for health care providers, mobilizing the Laboratory Response Network and working with commercial labs to expand testing capacity, deploying medical countermeasures, and releasing a vaccination strategy for close contacts.[3],[4]
However, it is clear more work is necessary to ensure that public health officials at all levels have the information and resources they need to respond quickly to this outbreak.
Various reports indicate challenges at the local level, with some patients and providers stating they do not have the information and resources necessary to understand, test for, or respond to the disease, which is now presenting with uncharacteristic features.[5],[6],[7],[8] Since the disease spreads through close, intimate contact, some patients are seeking care at sexual health clinics, which are frequently under-resourced despite providing critical services to underserved communities, including the LGBTQ+ community.
Ensuring the public health system responds appropriately to monkeypox will require both decisive action from the Department and its state, local, and Tribal partners, as well as robust, sustained investments in public health. History repeatedly shows the critical importance of providing long-term investments in our public health and medical response systems to ensure the U.S. is prepared to respond to a variety of threats. The global eradication of smallpox, a virus in the same family as monkeypox, is a public health success story – and is a credit to sustained, bipartisan investment into the research and development of medical countermeasures. The federal government stockpiled countermeasures, practiced responses with state and local health departments, and educated the public about smallpox.
While this investment in countermeasures has been sustained over decades, funding for the broader U.S. public health system has instead been subject to a cycle of crisis and complacency. That lack of consistency is why I have pushed for passage of the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act[9], which would provide the sustained funding we need to handle emergencies such as monkeypox or COVID-19. Additionally, to ensure HHS has additional tools to respond efficiently to public health emergencies, I have worked with Senator Burr on our bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act.
Given the continued spread of this virus and the need to ensure that all public health officials have the guidance and resources necessary to respond, I request a briefing by August 2, 2022 to better understand both HHS's immediate response and the additional resources and authorities it needs. Specifically, I request updates on: (1) HHS's plan for responding to the current domestic monkeypox outbreak, including the guidance being provided to state, local, and Tribal health departments and to health care providers; (2) the current status of monkeypox vaccines, tests, and therapeutics, including their manufacture and guidance on the distribution of those countermeasures; (3) an overview of how the Department is applying lessons from the COVID-19 response to the monkeypox response; and (4) what additional resources or authorities are needed to respond to and stop the disease from spreading further.
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter. Please direct correspondence pertaining to this request to Jane Bigham at Jane_Bigham@help.senate.gov or Greg_Carter@help.senate.gov.
Maybe the next hearing can find witnesses less eager to pat themselves on the back and more willing to offer apologies to the citizens of this country for the lousy response.
THE WASHINGTON POST's Dan Diamond Tweeted this regarding the hearing.
Kicking off Senate hearing on monkeypox, retiring GOP
@SenatorBurr
praises FAUCI — comments that weren't in Burr's prepared remarks. BURR: Tony, I can't thank you enough for your years of service. It's been incredibly beneficial to the American people… I hate to see you go.
9:44 AM · Sep 14, 2022
Turning to Iraq, at FOREIGN POLICY, Ahmed Twaij offers an analysis of the ongoing stalemate:
The catastrophic spiral of events that peaked with parts of Baghdad turning into a war zone was triggered by a largely overlooked statement by a religious leader. On Aug. 28, the Iraqi Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri shockingly announced his retirement from his position of religious authority with immediate effect. More surprisingly, Haeri proceeded to ask his followers to back Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei instead. Although Haeri is unknown to most outside Iraq and even to some Iraqis, he is a highly influential spiritual leader (marji) for Sadr's supporters.
One central doctrine in Shiite Islam is the concept of marjiya, which is the need for every Shiite Muslim to have a selected spiritual leader whose edicts and fatwas are unquestionably followed. In order to become a marji, a religious cleric must go through decades of religious studying, as well as earn the support of fellow senior clerics, before being given the title of ayatollah. In Iraq, it is Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani who yields the greatest influence over spiritual decrees, and he chooses to maintain a distance from politics. In Iran, however, the marji is the country's supreme leader, Khamenei, who is very much involved in ruling his own country and attempting to influence its neighbor Iraq.
Moqtada's father, Ayatollah Mohammed al-Sadr, did have the qualifications to be both a spiritual leader and political leader. But upon the elder Sadr's assassination in 1999, his loyalists split their political and religious allegiances. As the younger Sadr is not a qualified marji, his supporters—duty bound, according to Shiite Islam, to follow another cleric on matters of belief—turned to Haeri, who had earned the elder Sadr's endorsement, for religious guidance.
Haeri's decision to resign from religious authority is unprecedented in the marjiya system. The role is one usually held until death, regardless of age or well-being. Sistani, for example is 92 and continues his duties. Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah continued on as a marji despite his multiple hospitalizations, right up until his death in 2010. It is also not common for a living ayatollah to appoint his successor, much less for an Iraqi ayatollah to recognize the religious authority of Iran's clerical city of Qom over the Iraqi city of Najaf. For Haeri to ambiguously claim health-related issues at the age of 83—the same age as Khamenei—and to endorse Khamenei as his successor suggests Iran's political influence was at work in his decision, with an aim toward reducing Sadr's influence.
Let's note this Tweet from John Pilger:
The dark power of royalty. In 1971, the Chagos Islanders were expelled by the British to make way for a US base. This was made possible by a meeting of the Queen's Privy Councillors (advisers) and approved in person by the Queen. Using the same power, Blair invaded Iraq in 2003.
And that brings us to the topic of the fluffing that never ends over the 'shocking' death of a 96-year-old -- so young!!! Taken so soon! Robert Stevens (WSWS) notes:
Amid the mind-numbing eulogies to Queen Elizabeth II, it is frequently asserted that she was "one of us" and "everyone's grandmother".
Commentator Andrew Marr, a pillar of the media establishment, wrote a fawning comment the Times, headlined, "Queen Elizabeth II: the majestic enigma who was one of us". He went as far to declare, "During the rawest, roughest years of the Thatcherite experiment, the Queen even seemed dryly oppositionist."
This claim has been made throughout the media and parroted in ruling circle everywhere. Nothing was ever further from the truth. The queen heads a family of billionaires and lived a life of fabulous and unearned wealth and privilege. She ended her reign at Balmoral Castle, her £140 million private residence, as over 14 million of her "subjects", including over 4 million children, live in poverty.
As well as Balmoral, Sandringham, valued at £600 million, was also privately owned by the queen.
Everything she and her family and relatives possesses is thanks to centuries of pillage and plunder by her forebears. Moreover, most of this staggering wealth is assiduously protected from taxation by the state.
The fortune of the monarch is shrouded in secrecy, but it runs into the many billions of pounds.
According to the Sunday Times Rich List, the queen was personally worth around £370 million. But this was only identifiable wealth. The Paradise Papers, leaked in 2017, show that among the queen hidden dealings, via the Dutchy of Lancaster estate she owned, was the parking of millions of pounds in a Cayman Islands fund. Part of that fund went to a retailer, BrightHouse, cited for exploiting poor UK families through its hire-to-own scheme.
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The Church of St Margaret
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St Margaret's Church is a great survivor. For 1000 years or so, this church and churchyard have been holy ground. Now, phoenix-like, St Margaret's rises again from the ashes to offer herself in service to the community.
The first mention of the church is in a document of 1165-75, in which Walter, son of Fragenulf, granted the two churches of St Margaret and St Mary to St Peter's, later St Leonard's Hospital. The dedication is probably to St Margaret of Antioch. According to a 5th-century legend, she was a priest's daughter, a shepherdess, who resisted the blandishments of the local pagan governor and refused to become his wife, for which obstinacy she was finally beheaded. Her popularity revived considerably at the time of the crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries, perhaps by association or confusion with Queen Margaret of Scotland who died in 1093 and was canonised in 1250.
Of the original 12th-century building, all that remains is the piece of wall between the west wall and the first pillar of the arcade, which formed the north-west corner of a rectangular church that was probably the size of the present nave.
In 1308 the parish of St Mary's was united to St Margaret's, after which the church was rebuilt and enlarged, adding the tower at the centre of the west wall and the north arcade, which provided a narrow aisle. The east windows of the nave (one of which had a stained-glass window with the name of the 1399 rector) and that of the north aisle are decorated in style. The north and south windows are perpendicular, 15th-century.
The sanctuary was at the east, enclosed by a wooden screen; the parishioners worshipping in the western part. The high altar, with two latten candlesticks bequeathed in 1515, stood beside the existing piscina, where the sacred vessels were washed after the mass. Members of the parish formed themselves into a group or guild, to honour Our Lady, setting up an altar and statue, probably at the west end. There was also an altar to St Bridget of Sweden and 'lights' - candles - kept burning in front of statues of St Nicholas and St Loy (Eligius), the patron saints of sailors and blacksmiths.
Unlike its neighbour St Denys, St Margaret's was poor in endowments and has no rich stained glass. Nonetheless, in the first half of the 15th century it could afford accommodation successively to two anchoresses in the churchyard - perhaps the vestry on the south side was built for that purpose. Adjacent to its doorway is a fragment of a gravestone with a Latin inscription that translates: 'Pray for the Soul of Agnes . who died September MCCCCCII [1502]'.
The Reformation began a series of changes in church life. The side altars, 'lights' and sanctuary screen were removed and a wooden table replaced the stone altar. In the parochial reorganisation, the church of St Peter-le-Willows was sold and the parish united with St Margaret's.
Between 1670 and 1675 the steeple collapsed on the nave. The tower was not rebuilt until 1684, when extensive brickwork was used in the repair. In 1700 two bells cast by the York bellfounder Samuel Seller were installed in the belfry; a third by Dalton was added in 1788. About this time the parish also acquired a silver chalice and paten made by Marmaduke Best, a local silversmith. But the greatest acquisition was the south doorway that came from the church of St Nicholas, which had suffered severe damage in 1644, during the Civil War.
This remarkably fine but now much decayed Romanesque doorway dates from the end of the 12th century. The outer band of the arch (the 'label') depicts the astrological signs of the zodiac in 12 oval medallions, and the Labours of the Month in 12 circular ones. The heads of the capitals include stories from Aesop's Fables. It is hard to recognise many details, but the sign of Pisces (the fishes) and Scorpio (the crab) can just be identified, with the help of 18th-century engravings. The doorway would have been all the more striking in its original bright colouring.
There were still fields beneath the city walls and along the river Foss at the start of the 18th century. That gentle way of life is reflected in several elegant memorial tablets, the style of the Lord's Prayer beside the East window, and the charities recorded on the Benefaction Boards near the door.
However, the 19th century brought a large increase in the size of the population, with many Irish labourer immigrants, for whom St George's Roman Catholic Church was built. In 1851 as St Margaret's various alterations were made: a western gallery was set up and a window pierced in the south wall. At the same time, the north aisle was increased in size and a new font placed at its west end. The congregation was given pitch-pine pews, a new pulpit and choir stalls (facing north and south) were built, and an organ installed. The architect was Thomas Pickersgill, who became City Architect, Engineer and Surveyor in 1865 and who also restored St Denys' Church. He designed the churchyard gates for St Margaret's, which were cast at the nearby renowned foundry of John Walker.
As the 19th century proceeded, Walmgate as an area deteriorated. At the start of the 20th century plans for rehousing and rebuilding were initiated. But progress was slow. The number of service men commemorated on the War Memorial indicates the size of the population. It was to take many decades before the rebuilding work was completed and the area redeveloped. Throughout this period the church continued its work: its very survival depending on the generosity and zeal of a decreasing number. One aspect of its ministry was the development of 'uniformed organisations', epitomised by the stained-glass window on the north side, which depicts St Margaret commissioning a boy in scout uniform. But perhaps the spirit of the time is best instanced by the small tablet on the westernmost pillar, which records the death of a sidesman after a Sunday evening service.
The church was declared redundant in 1974 and the parish united with that of St Denys. For a number of years the building was used a store for props from the Theatre Royal. Now it begins a new life as the National Centre for Early Music.
So music returns to St Margaret's. In the beauty of music many are made conscious of, and experience, the Divine. Perhaps prophecy of St Margaret's future can be seen in the stained glass window in the south side, which depicts King David the Psalmist, holding his harp, alongside St Gregory, the 'originator' of church music. Whatever, the future as the home for the National Centre for Early Music seems an excellent and very happy choice for the Church of St Margaret.
SOUTH DOORWAY
In its decayed state it is hard to imagine that from the mid 18th-century onwards the South Doorway of St Margaret was, perhaps, the most frequently drawn and engraved architectural feature in the city. Yet even in its decline it adds some distinction and interest that this building would otherwise not have.
This is a very remarkable Romanesque doorway of the mid twelfth century originally part of the fabric of the church of St Nicholas' Hospital which stood outside the walls on the south side of what is now called Lawrence Street. The origin of the hospital is obscure but it appears to have been a royal donation in the reign of King Stephen. The style of the carving is French in feeling and this king had contacts with that country and its craftsmen. Unusually, it seems that the chancel of this building may have been used as the chapel for the inmates and the nave for the people of the parish.
The civil war in 1644 caused much damage to the fabric; and the parish was subsequently united to St Lawrence's. It is probable that, in 1684 when St Margaret's was being repaired after the fall of the spire, the doorway was dismantled and reassembled here. At the same time the similar fine but smaller doorway at St Denys' may have been removed there from St Nicholas'. The bells from St Nicholas' were rehung in St John's, Ouse Bridge End in 1653 and building stone reused to repair Dunnington Church in 1717.
In 1885 St Margaret's again under went considerable repair. The porch stones were taken down one by one and rebuilt. In the process a number were displaced; hence the order is not the same as in many early engravings. The polluted air of the last two hundred years, in particular the last fifty, has taken its toll on the carving and even the 19th' century yellowish stones are disintegrating. However, the engravings, particularly those by John N. Carter (1791), Joseph Halfpenny (1807), and John Browne (1826) and early photographs have recorded this doorway in considerable detail and much can be reconstructed from them. Perhaps the wonders of digital photography may one day be able to reproduce an impression of what the original carving may have been like.
The doorway consists of four orders and a label. Each one has a distinctive pattern. The columns on either side have a zigzag chevron pattern. The capitals are restorations. An unusual feature is the two niches on either side. These might originally have contained statues but are more likely to have been a fashionable detail inserted when the doorway was moved here in the 17th century.
At a purely practical level, the purpose of a doorway is to enable a person to go from one space to another. But the significance of the place entered affects the understanding of the doorway. In theological terms, to pass from the churchyard to the church is to pass from this world to another world, from earth to heaven. Mortal man may enter into the I-Jails of Paradise. For this is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.
Sometimes, therefore, such doorways have the figure of the Lord in Judgement to reveal how God welcomes the good into Paradise but sends the wicked to Hell. But at St Margaret's the signs of the Zodiac and the Labours of the Month, which could once be seen on the label, seem to teach that the Lord is the Lord both of the months of the year and the Lord of all that the farmer does every month of the year in his field and his farm. Within the other orders there are different patterns. The vine can be seen scrolling next to the calendar symbols, proclaiming the Lordship of Christ, the True Vine. Perhaps the grotesque heads represent the evil spirits which prey on Christian souls. There are many small carvings on the innermost arches that seem to be derived from illustrations from bestiaries of the period and some even, in their original appearance, related to stories from Aesop's Fables. For example, one of the capitals on the eastern side had a carving of the fable of the Fox and the Stork, which could well have inspired the woodcut on page 215 of The Fables o/Aesop by Thomas Bewick, 1818.
The following is a brief description of what the carvings on the label were:
Janus with two heads (January)
Pisces (February)
Man warming himself (February)
Man with a spade or pruning (march)
Man weeding ? (April)
Woman holding branches
Man with scythe (June)
Three leaves
Man filling sacks (August)
Man among foliage (September)
Man and pig in trees (October)
Man and pig and axe (November)
Man feasting
The best that can be discerned to-day are:
on the inmost arch, stone 3, two birds in a tree.
on the second arch, stone 6, a centaur holding up a rabbit or hare
stone 9, a mythical creature playing a stringed instrument
and stone 14 an animal playing a wind instrument
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Henry Stapleton 24 July 2000


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Born in Ellwood City on October 29, 1935, Rose Ann was the daughter of the late Frank and Lena DeVite Sulia. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas R. Dunning on April 30, 2014. They were married on September 3, 1955. Rose Ann retired in 2010 after 41 years of service as secretary to the superintendent in the Ellwood Area School District. She was a member of Holy Redeemer Parish and the Christian Mothers of the Church. She was also a former CCD teacher at Holy Redeemer and also a Eucharistic minister. A 1953 graduate of Lincoln High School, Rose Ann was a member of Municipal Women's Club and the Professional Business Women's Association. Rose Ann was also past president and manager of the Ellwood City Girls Softball League.
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Cell towers, or cell sites, are constructed by a company to expand the reach of their telecommunication network, thereby providing a superb reception for the subscribers in a specific area.
This structure is built with antennae and other electric communications devices to be used for wireless communication equipment like radios and cell phones.
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Polytechnic of Leiria at Summer Universiade for the first time
For the first time in the history of the institution, 3 student-athlete from the Polytechnic of Leiria are part of the Portuguese Mission to compete at the 30th edition of the Summer Universiade, taking place in Naples, Italy, from July 3 to 14.
Under the guidance of former marathon runner Susana Feitor, 72 student athletes in 10 modalities represent Portugal: athletics (13), female basketball (12), male volleyball (12), taekwondo (8), swimming (8), judo (6), fencing (5), tennis (4), artistic gymnastics (3) and rhythmic gymnastics (1).
We are incredibly proud of the participation of our students in such important competition. Her names:
Evelise Veiga ( Management Bachelor | School of Technology and Management): long jump and triple jump
Joana Ferreira ( Physiotherapy Bachelor | School of Health Sciences): 5,000m plans
Joana Pontes ( Physiotherapy Bachelor | School of Health Sciences): 20,000km march
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The Polytechnic of Leiria encourage and support the practice of sports among their students offering more than 30 modalities. Every year, Polytechnic of Leiria distinguishes its student-athletes in the Sports Gala, awarding the best of the best.
In the last years, Polytechnic of Leiria has improve their sports results and participating, achieving the high level of the main institutions of higher education in Portugal. In the sports history of Polytechnic of Leiria, we count more than 60 national university awards. It is also worth mentioning the participation in 12 European university championships, in representation of Portugal.
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2016 Arizona Wildcats football season countdown: No. 13 individual record
Posted on August 21, 2016 by Javier Morales in 2016 Top 100 records countdown, Arizona Football, U of A
CATCH UP ON THE COUNTDOWN BY VISITING: ARIZONA'S TOP 100 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
Only 13 days separate us from the start of Rich Rodriguez's fifth season, when the Arizona Wildcats football team plays Brigham Young on Sept. 3 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
As is customary on this Web site, we will count down the days with an interesting element associated with each day. This year the topic is the top 100 individual records in Arizona's storied football past.
In past years, we have counted down the top games and highlighted players and some of the top plays in Arizona Wildcats football history. A couple of years ago in our top 100 countdown, we showcased the 1914 team that was responsible for Arizona becoming the "Wildcats".
Back to this year's countdown of the top 100 individual records in the 117 years of Arizona football:
Nick Foles is the only passer in Arizona Wildcats history to throw for more than 4,000 yards in a season with 4,334 as a senior in 2011.
ARIZONA MOST SEASON PASSING YARDS
4334 Nick Foles 560 387 2011
3793 Anu Solomon 540 313 2014
3683 Willie Tuitama 524 327 2007
3620 Matt Scott 499 301 2012
3327 Jason Johnson 410 239 2002
2520 Tom Tunnicliffe 328 176 1982
2516 B.J. Denker 381 233 2013
Most Passing Yards, Season: 4,334, Nick Foles, 2011 (12 games)
Pac-12 record: 4,714, Jared Goff, California, 2015 (13 games)
NCAA record: 5,833, B.J. Symons, Texas Tech, 2003 (13 games)
Nick Foles rates as the No. 7 passer in Pac-12 history in terms of passing yards in a season with his production in 2011.
Remember when Tom "Terrific" Tunnicliffe held the Arizona record for passing yards in a season for 20 years?
From when Tunnicliffe passed for 2,520 yards in 1982 until the year 2002 his name stayed atop the record book. Arizona coaches Larry Smith and Dick Tomey mostly utilized running quarterbacks in that 20-year span — the exception pocket-passer Dan White at the height of the Desert Swarm defense era.
White was more of a quarterback who tried not to make mistakes and allowed Tomey's running backs the ability to eat up yards and give the Desert Swarm room to work with. His most passing yards in a season was 2,181 in 1994.
Jason Johnson, one of the lone bright spots of the John Mackovic era, connected with Bobby Wade often during the 2002 season to top Tunnicliffe's mark and become the first Arizona quarterback with more than 3,000 yards in a season at 3,327.
Since Johnson, six times has an Arizona surpassed 3,000 yards passing in a season, including Anu Solomon's 3,793 as a redshirt freshman in 2014.
Nick Foles is the only one with more than 4,000 yards, compiling a school-record 4,334 as a senior in 2011. That record seems to be untouchable, at least for a while, inasmuch as Foles needed to average 361.2 yards a game (also a school record) to achieve that mark. Passing for that many yards in a 13-game span (if Arizona goes to a bowl) is difficult to comprehend.
But then again, all of Rich Rodriguez's quarterbacks have reached the top 10 in Arizona passing yards in a season: Solomon's mark in 2014 that rates behind Foles' record, Matt Scott's 3,620 in 2012, B.J. Denker (yes, Denker, a running quarterback, is in the top 10) with 2,516 in 2013, and Solomon's 2,655 in an injury-marred season last year.
With the way Rodriguez likes competition at the quarterback spot — despite Solomon being a two-year starter — the splitting of roles may get in the way of Solomon (or Brandon Dawkins for that matter) reaching the 4,000-yard mark and threatening Foles. A development to follow.
Previous Foles records at Arizona listed in this countdown:
39. Consecutive Games Throwing Touchdown Pass, 17, from Nov. 6, 2010, to Nov. 26, 2011
44. Most Passing Yards, Career: 10,011, 2009-2011 (933 of 1396, 33 INTs, 67 TDs)
48. Most Touchdown Passes, Season: 28, 2011, tied with Willie Tuitama, 2007, and Anu Solomon, 2014
51. Most Touchdown Passes, Career: 67, 2009-11 (35 games) tied with Willie Tuitama, 2005-08 (40 games)
56. Highest Completion Percentage, Career (Min. 500 att): 66.8, 2009-11 (933 of 1396)
71. Highest Completion Percentage Season, More than 200 attempts: 69.1, 2011 (387 of 560)
77. Most Passes Completed, Season: 387, 2011 (12 games, 560 attempts)
81. Highest Completion Percentage, Game: 78.4, vs. Stanford, Oct. 17, 2009 (40 of 51)
82. Fewest Passes Had Intercepted (Pct. of Attempts), Career (500 att): 2.36 percent, 2009-11 (33 in 1,396 attempts)
91. Most Pass Completions, career: 933, 2009-11
97. Total Offense in Career: 9,712 yards, 2009-11 (10,111 passing/-290 rushing/-9 receiving)
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West-side residents demand crosswalk after Transit Windsor bus critically injures 4-year-old girl
Horrified west-end residents who saw a four-year-old girl suffer critical injuries after being hit by a Transit Windsor bus say a crosswalk needs to be installed on busy stretch of Prince Road near Mic Mac Park.
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Ken Oriet sits on his porch on Prince Road, where a 4-year-old girl was struck by a Transit Windsor bus Saturday evening. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
Horrified west-end residents who saw a four-year-old girl suffer critical injuries after being hit by a Transit Windsor bus say a crosswalk needs to be installed on a busy stretch of Prince Road near Mic Mac Park.
"It was awful. I can't get the picture out of my head," said Ken Oriet, who lives across the street from the site of Saturday's crash and phoned 911. "We need to do something or someone is going to get killed."
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The collision occurred shortly after 6 p.m. where Barrymore Lane ends at Prince Road, next to a wide cobblestone entrance and path into Mic Mac Park. Oriet's wife, Sandy Haidy, said the little girl darted "out of the blue" into the road and was violently struck by the driver's side bumper of an eastbound Transit Windsor bus.
"She just flew and plop on the ground," said Haidy. "It was disgusting. It was just sick."
The girl was rushed to hospital, where she remains in critical condition. The Windsor police accident reconstruction unit was on the scene for several hours and continues to investigate.
In a press release Monday, Windsor police said an initial investigation indicates the child was not familiar with the area, and may have darted out into oncoming traffic.
"I'm not a religious guy but I prayed for that little kid," said witness John Fry, who agreed with Oriet that something needs to done about fast-moving traffic in that corridor. "We're just lucky that nothing happened until now. It's sad that is has to be so tragic."
Yellow caution tape is seen in a trash receptacle where a 4-year-old girl was struck by a Transit Windsor bus on Saturday night. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
Fry said that stretch of road is like a "speedway" because there are no stop signs or stop lights from Peter Street to Matchette Road. Police have not said whether speed was a factor in Saturday's accident.
Mic Mac Park is on one side of Prince and residential neighbourhoods are on the other, so there is heavy pedestrian traffic, particularly children, especially when the warm weather hits, said Oriet. A steady stream of youngsters waited for gaps in traffic and crossed into the park Sunday afternoon.
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Oriet said it's hard to enjoy his front porch because he's seen "so many near misses over the years" including another close call Sunday. When he saw a silver car almost hit a young boy on a bicycle, he picked up the phone and called Ward 2 Coun. John Elliott.
"I've wanted a crosswalk there for 30 years," said Oriet. "We need something to slow these people down. How hard is it to put up a flashing amber light?"
Julie Tanner, left, and John Fry stand on the corner of Prince Road and Barrymore Lane, where a 4-year-old girl was struck by a Transit Windsor bus Saturday evening. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
Julie Tanner lives across the street from the site of the crash and described the aftermath as a chaotic scene, with crying children, police and paramedics, and at least one man yelling at the bus driver. She said the driver yelled back that the girl had jumped in front of the bus.
"I feel bad for the little girl but I also feel bad for the bus driver," she said. "It's not like the bus driver did it on purpose."
Pat Delmore, the executive director of Transit Windsor, said he couldn't comment on the collision because of the ongoing police investigation.
"We are co-operating fully with Windsor Police Services and our hearts and prayers go out to the child and the family for a fast recovery," said Delmore in an e-mail.
Tanner said that stretch of Prince is like a "race track" and that officials would have addressed the problem by now if it was located in another part of Windsor.
"We're the west end. What do they care? That's the attitude," she said.
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The intersection at Prince Road and Barrymore Lane, where a 4-year-old girl was struck by a Transit Windsor bus Saturday evening, is shown on Sunday, May 27, from Mic Mac Park. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
The intersection of Prince Road and Barrymore Lane, where a four-year-old girl was struck by a Transit Windsor bus Saturday evening, is shown on Sunday, May 27. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star
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