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I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,1 Corinthians 2:3(NASB)
Corinth was a city of great orators and intellectual philosophers. It was a place where credibility was founded on one's academic ability, educational prowess, intellectual stature, and oratory skills. Paul however, had determined that he would not speak to the people in Corinth about God with flowery words or convincing arguments. He did not proclaim the gospel with great wisdom or politically persuasive rhetoric. Paul determined to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Paul was a man who was educationally and intellectually equal with the great debaters of Corinth. He was a knowledgeable Pharisee who had studied under some of the greatest teachers of his day, but he had been brought low before the Cross of Christ and dared to break with the accepted traditions of the day. Paul had learned that human wisdom and worldly power was of no consequence when compared with the infinite wisdom and eternal strength of the almighty Creator.
Paul did not approach these intellectuals with a know-it-all attitude or a barrage of carefully thought-out words. He did not try to share the gospel with persuasive words or clever innuendos. Paul was prompted to share the simple truth of the glorious gospel of the Cross clearly and plainly, and so he simply taught the truth - that the eternal God came to earth as the incarnate Son to be the sacrificial offering for the sin of the world - so that by His death He could take the punishment for our sin upon His sinless shoulders - so that by His resurrection the sting of death was removed for all who would believe.
Sometime earlier, Paul had attempted to use his oratory skill to persuade the high-brow Athenian philosophers on Mars Hill of the gospel of grace... but he discovered that there is no human wisdom or counsel that can prevail as effectively as the plain truth from the Word of the Lord. And so Paul determined to speak God's way, and not by means of words taught through human wisdom. Paul spoke those things as guided by the Spirit of God - communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.
Paul had learned that when self remains crucified and the indwelling Spirit of God is permitted to lead and direct the steps of a man, then God's grace is sufficient - for His strength is made perfect in our weakness. And so in humility of heart and with a deep love for his Lord, Paul abandoned His philosophical training and spoke to the Corinthians simply, in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
From a human standpoint, Paul's preaching was pitiful and pathetic. He appeared as a weak, ineffective, fearful individual, compared with the high-flying intellectuals of Ephesus. But from God's point of view, Paul was His chosen vessel to preach the word of truth to a lost and dying world... and Paul was permitted to write a significant portion of New Testament Scripture.
Paul knew the dangers of man's prideful wisdom and was determined that no one should enslave believers by means of philosophical argument, or the worthless deceit of human wisdom according to the tradition of men. He knew that the wisdom of the world is according to the elementary principles of the world and does not come from Christ.
Paul learned that the wisdom of man is foolishness to God, but that in His strength we are to preach Christ crucified. The message of the Cross may be a stumbling block to the Jews and seen by the Gentiles as foolishness. Nevertheless, we rejoice to know that the foolishness of God is wiser than man... and the weakness of God is stronger than man.
How important that our faith is not based on human wisdom, academic ability, educational prowess, intellectual stature, and oratory skills, but on the truth of God's Word and in His mighty power. May we follow in the footsteps of the apostle Paul who did not teach the Word with the superiority of speech or with human wisdom, but in weakness, fear, and much trembling.
Let us like Paul, teach Jesus Christ and Him crucified... for Jesus said, "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
Heavenly Father, what a wonderful example of a man of humility and grace who did not seek to use His own wisdom, academic ability, intellectual stature, or oratory skills in his ministry, but recognised his own human limitation and instead, became a living sacrifice unto God. I pray that I will never seek to elevate my own importance in the eyes of man but present my life as a living sacrifice, holy to the Lord - so that in Your power I may be enabled to share the simple gospel of grace to a lost and dying world, not in my own strength, but through the power of Him Who called me out of darkness into His glorious light. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.
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Control Structure (CS) Diagram is a one of the first steps to building a STPA. You use a CS diagram to construct and visualize the control structure and relationships between the Components that will help you understand the control actions of each component and identify the unsafe or potential inadequate control actions of the system.
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A young Newry man has been left traumatised after his car was broken into and thrashed in a late night attack on Monday.
The man, who only started a new job on Monday, also had items stolen from the car in the O'Neill Avenue area of the city.
City Councillor Valerie Harte said that those involved in the vandalising of the man's car and subsequent theft of items from it were "heartless".
The Sinn Féin representative made her comments after liaising with family members of the victim.
"I have just spoken with the mother of a young man from O'Neill Avenue here in Newry who has been left traumatised after discovering that his car had been broken into last night and thrashed and items stolen from it," she commented.
"This young man had only started a new job yesterday and to go out to find that this had happened this morning is deplorable.
"Once again a community has been violated by heartless thieves, we don't need these acts of wanton vandalism in our communities."
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At the Lynch School, a community of mathematicians and educators come together to mentor beginning teachers, bolster math curricula, and improve the substance and quality of math teaching in high-need, urban schools.
Lynch School Associate Professor Lillie Albert and two Boston College math department colleagues in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences were awarded $1.6 million in 2013 by the National Science Foundation to train, support, and help retain math teachers in Massachusetts' public schools.
Their project, "Exemplary Mathematics Educators for High-Needs Schools," is part of the Lynch School's efforts to prepare qualified and effective math and science teachers and of the mathematics department's interest in improving K–12 math education. Solomon Friedberg, the James P. McIntyre Chair of Mathematics, and Associate Professor of Mathematics Chi-Keung Cheung are project co-investigators.
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Could This Be the Case to Finally Overturn Roe v. Wade? Mississippi Goes All in at Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and allow states to decide whether to regulate abortion, the office of Mississippi's Republican attorney general argued in papers filed Thursday with the high court.
"Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions before viability? Yes. Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion," Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and four of her attorneys wrote in the brief.
The arguments are a direct challenge to the central finding of the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and its 1992 decision in a Pennsylvania abortion case. Both rulings said states may not put an undue burden on abortion before an unborn baby is viable. The Mississippi attorneys argue that those rulings are "egregiously wrong."
NEW: In major abortion case at the Supreme Court, Mississippi is explicitly asking in court papers filed today for the justices to overturn landmark Roe v. Wade ruling pic.twitter.com/jqrscxE1I6— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) July 22, 2021
The Mississippi case is the first big abortion-rights test in a Supreme Court reshaped with three conservative justices nominated by former President Donald Trump.
Pro-life groups had positive reactions to the news of Mississippi's filing.
"Just read AG Fitch's brief in the Dobbs late term abortion case," SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser tweeted. "It makes it clear SCOTUS' abortion jurisprudence is hopelessly unworkable and ungrounded in history or facts. It is long overdue for the Supreme Court to let the abortion debate move forward democratically."
Just read AG Fitch's brief in the Dobbs late term abortion case.— MarjorieDannenfelser (@marjoriesba) July 22, 2021
It makes it clear SCOTUS' abortion jurisprudence is hopelessly unworkable and ungrounded in history or facts.
It is long overdue for the Supreme Court to let the abortion debate move forward democratically.
The National Right to Life Committee welcomed the Magnolia State's action.
"We thank Atty. Gen. Fitch for standing strong for the right to life and for the right of duly-elected state legislators to protect the most vulnerable among us," Carol Tobias, the group's president, told the Los Angeles Times.
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One pro-abortion group leader believes half of the states would ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court.
Nancy Northup is president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is defending Mississippi's only abortion clinic in its challenge of the 15-week abortion ban.
"Today's brief reveals the extreme and regressive strategy, not just of this law, but of the avalanche of abortion bans and restrictions that are being passed across the country," Northup said in a statement.
As CBN News reported in May, the court with a 6 to 3 conservative majority said it will consider arguments over a Mississippi law that would ban abortion at 15 weeks. Justices are likely to hear the case this fall and could rule on it in the spring.
The Mississippi 15-week law was enacted in 2018, but was blocked after a federal court challenge. The state's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, remains open and offers abortions up to 16 weeks of pregnancy. Clinic director Shannon Brewer has said about 10% of its abortions there are done after the 15th week.
The Mississippi law would allow exceptions to the 15-week ban in cases of a medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality. Doctors found in violation of the ban would face mandatory suspension or revocation of their medical license.
"That law rationally furthers valid interests in protecting unborn life, women's health, and the medical profession's integrity. It is therefore constitutional," the Mississippi attorney general's office wrote in its Thursday filing.
Also in the filing Thursday, the Mississippi attorneys wrote that if the Supreme Court does not overturn the standard that abortion restrictions should face heightened-scrutiny, the court "should at minimum hold that there is no pre-viability barrier to state prohibitions on abortion and uphold Mississippi's law."
The Mississippi attorneys wrote that circumstances for women have changed since the 1973 and 1992 Supreme Court rulings. In fact, science has revealed much more since then about the amazing development of preborn babies, and expectant mothers are able to see the humanity of their baby though 3D ultrasounds and fetal heartbeat monitors.
"Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability," the Mississippi attorneys wrote. "States should be able to act on those developments."
Court watchers will have their eyes trained on Justice Clarence Thomas. Following the June 2020 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Louisiana abortion law that was designed to ensure the health and safety of women, Thomas in his dissent bludgeoned his fellow justices.
He said none of the Court's pro-abortion decisions are supported by the U.S. Constitution. He labeled them "a creation that should be undone."
He went right after the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and the rulings that followed it, writing, "Despite the readily apparent illegitimacy of Roe, the Court has doggedly adhered to (it's core holding) again and again, often to disastrous ends."
Thomas also wrote, "Abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled."
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Found this in another article posted by Vector. This base/listening post is closed now, but why was it there in the first place. State sponsored terrorism perhaps?
Cuba's Lourdes Radar Base, Terrorist Mohamed Atta and the KremlinDr. Alexandr Nemets and Dr. Thomas Torda1. New Data
Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001
According to the Russian news agency Ria-Novosti and the Pravda-run website, on Aug. 14, 2001, Russian Deputy Prime Minister (in charge of defense industry and arms trade) Ilya Klebanov and Minister of Defense (MOD) Sergei Ivanov denied media reports of a possible closure by December 2001 of the Russian radar data processing center a well-known spy hub in Lourdes, a suburb of Havana.
During his visit to Cuba this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Fidel Castro, visited the Lourdes center of the Russian MOD. At a meeting with center specialists, Putin noted that their work is very much needed, "not only by the military, but also by the political leadership of the country."
Putin said at a press conference in Havana that both Russia and Cuba are currently interested in continuing the operations of the Lourdes base. According to Putin, this center serves the interests of the Russian military and also provides some information obtained for appropriate Cuban government agencies.
In a separate report, published by NewsMax and widely carried on U.S. websites, Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat of the Center for the Study of a National Option wrote on Sept. 20, 2001, that Cuban President Fidel Castro, during a visit to Iran, Syria and Libya in May 2001, held talks in Tehran with Iranian Supreme Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Castro stated that "America is extremely weak today" and promised students at Tehran University that "the imperialist king will finally fall" because "Iran and Cuba have reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the USA."
The Castro regime, this report continues, has continued to harbor international terrorists, pursued a strategic alliance with terrorist states to create an 'anti-Western' international front, and directly engaged in terrorist attacks and espionage against Americans. In particular, Cuba's close relationships with Iraq and some Middle Eastern terrorist groups are well known.
Cuba today, Gutierrez-Boronat writes, continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among trans-national terrorist organizations, including Colombian and some European-based groups.
It is also known that Cuba is active in bioweapons development. In October 2000, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage and the Iranian Vice-Minister of Health participated in the groundbreaking for a biotech R&D facility outside Tehran. Experts expressed doubts about the supposed medical objectives of this installation.
The report says that there are links between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, the Iranian government and the Castro regime. Castro and bin Laden have worked hard to build a common front to bring down the U.S. and to develop biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In February 1998, bin Laden announced the creation of an "international front" against the U.S. According to a document obtained by the PBS program "Frontline," bin Laden "regards an anti-American alliance with Iran and China as something to be considered."
But there may be more to the Castro-bin Laden connection than the Iran link. In a story dated March 4, 2000, the Associated Press reported that a young Afghan who had trained during the previous winter at a camp in Kunar Province, in northeastern Afghanistan, said he saw men from Chechnya, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Cuba and North Korea. "The North Korean," he said, "had brought chemical weapons."
A third report, from the December 2001 issue of Moscow-based Sovershenno secretno (Top Secret), excerpted here, indicates that al-Qaeda has sleeper agents and sleeper cells all over the world. This organization has copied KGB tactics and has high-ranking protectors in several "countries of concern."
The following points from this report are of particular importance:
- Baghdad protectors For many years, Saddam's regime was the most serious supporter and protector of al-Qaeda. Baghdad knew everything about the Sept. 11 attacks in advance.
- Iran has supported al-Qaeda in the following areas: joint planning of terrorist actions; training of al-Qaeda fighters in camps in Iran, Syria and Libya; financial support; and providing fake documents, telecom gear and explosives. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, leader of the Iran-financed extremist organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad, became not only the closest associate of bin Laden, but also his successor and as judged by U.S. investigators chief planner of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. CIA analysts now have no doubts: Tehran knew in advance about the 9-11 attacks.
- The Balkan track and "Borodin dungeon" The notorious "Pal Palych" Borodin, long a Kremlin insider, also has had a definite connection to al-Qaeda, via a Swiss businessman of Albanian origin named Bedget Pakkoli.
- Why did they close Lourdes? The Lourdes spy center was the largest such base in the Western Hemisphere. It allowed Russia and Cuba to keep the entire North American continent under electronic surveillance and to have access to phone conversations, other telecommunications, and the databases of the U.S. and its neighbors.
Former Russian Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were much more pliable than Putin, but they didn't give up the Lourdes spy center. Putin himself, as a member of the intelligence community, knows perfectly well the value of the Lourdes base, but he had very strong arguments in favor of closing this station. The decision to close the center was taken just after the 9-11 terrorist strikes and wasn't accidental by any means.
American special services have information that terrorist Mohamed Atta, the key figure behind the 9-11 attacks, had connections to the Cuban intelligence services and in spring 1999 met with their high-ranking representative in Miami, Fla. not far from the site where the future suicide squad got its flight school training.
The Lourdes base, in addition to secret missions, was also tasked with active tracking of air flights of all kinds throughout the U.S. The center had a full set of flight codes for the U.S. Air Force and civilian airlines. Once, in 1999, the center broke into the U.S. air traffic control system and sent with the help of a powerful, 1,500-kilowatt transmitter a fake flight signal, which almost caused a serious accident in the air.
In short, the Lourdes center had accumulated a huge database on U.S. civilian airline routes, schedules and procedures. Cuba very likely shared this information with al-Qaeda which may explain the devilish professionalism behind the 9-11 attacks.
It seems that Putin understood that U.S. investigative teams could acquire or had already acquired data on the "Lourdes/Castro/al-Qaeda" connection, which became the decisive factor in the closure of the Lourdes facility. It should be mentioned here that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has close ties with Saddam's regime as well as with Putin and Castro and has been known to exchange warm greetings with leading terrorist Carlos "The Jackal," originally from Venezuela.
2. Conclusions
The following conclusions are clear: Information needed to carry out the 9-11 attacks went from the Lourdes center, via Cuban secret agents in Miami, to Atta and other members of his suicide squad. This became the decisive factor in the successful realization of the 9-11 strikes. The Kremlin knew in advance of this horrific plot and blessed the operation. Tehran also knew everything in advance from its agents in al-Qaeda and from Castro himself.
In September-October the authors published in NewsMax, articles showing that the Kremlin and Russian Duma (lower house of Parliament) knew about the forthcoming terrorist strikes on the U.S. as early as July, and that the Duma's Economic Commission held hearings to prepare Russia for the "fall of America" the title of an article published by Dr. Tatyana Koryagina in Pravda on July 12, 2001 and to get as much benefit as possible from this foreknowledge.
(See Expert: Russia Knew in Advance, Encouraged Citizens to Cash Out Dollars and Russian Expert Who Predicted Attacks Warns of New Ones.)
Now it is easy to find the source of the Kremlin's knowledge. Moreover, we conclude that Putin, Castro and Ayatollah Khamenei knew everything about the coming terrorist attacks by May 2001 or even earlier. And what of the source of the anthrax letters that terrified America for months?
The authors feel that now, with the Afghan war almost over, the Baghdad regime should become the next target of the global anti-terrorist campaign. It remains for Putin and Co. to show where their real support lies behind President Bush, or behind Saddam.
Dr. Alexandr V. Nemets is a consultant to the American Foreign Policy Council. He is co-author of "Chinese-Russian Military Relations, Fate of Taiwan and New Geopolitics."
Dr. Thomas J. Torda has been a Chinese linguist specializing in science and technology with FBIS, and a Chinese/Russian defense technology consultant with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
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The No. 4 Missouri Valley College men's soccer team played No. 2 Oklahoma Wesleyan in the 2020 NAIA Men's Soccer National Championship Final Monday evening at Blanchard Woods Park, north of Augusta, Ga. The Vikings took the lead late in the first half, then used a late goal to seal a 2-0 victory, and claim the program's first National championship.
Both teams created chances early in the first half, with the first shot on goal coming with nearly nine minutes played, resulting in the first save of the contest for Sophomore Goalkeeper Dusan Milosevic (Belgrade, Serbia). The first shot on goal for Missouri Valley came two minutes later, but the attempt from Junior Forward Ruben Jimenez (Barcelona, Spain) was saved. Just over one minute later, Senior Midfielder Luka Gluscevic (Belgrade, Serbia) added another shot on goal, which was saved. Both teams traded possession over the next stretch of play, and Milosevic came up with another save midway through the half. Sophomore Midfielder Kainan Dos Santos (Sao Paulo, Brazil) added a shot on goal just over one minute later, but his attempt was also saved. With six minutes remaining in the half, Dos Santos produced another chance, and put a rebound attempt past the Oklahoma Wesleyan keeper and into goal to put MVC in front, 1-0. Freshman Midfielder Aleksa Cobanovic (Belgrade, Serbia) and Sophomore Forward Paulo Alves (Curitiba, Brazil) nearly increased the lead with three minutes to play before the break, but Missouri Valley went into halftime with a 1-0 lead.
Missouri Valley created the first shot on goal in the second half, coming with nearly 14 minutes played, but the chance from Steven Milosevic was saved. Midway through the half, Junior Forward Aleksandar Trujic (Brcko, Bosnia & Herzegovina) and Cobanovic each had shots saved. Oklahoma Wesleyan followed with pressure, and eventually forced Milosevic into another save. Moments later, the Eagles had a shot hit off the post. Oklahoma Wesleyan held the better of possession over the next several minutes, but Missouri Valley earned a penalty kick with 14-minutes remaining in the game. The PK from Gluscevic was saved, and the MVC lead stayed at 1-0. The Eagles could not produce another quality chance until just after the 83-minute mark. Milosevic earned another pair of saves, but the Vikings had one more chance to seal the victory. Alves and Trujic set up Dos Santos from 12-yards out from goal, and gave the team a 2-0 lead with four minutes remaining in the contest. Milosevic made one more save in the closing moments, and Missouri Valley earned a 2-0 win, securing the program's first National championship.
Dos Santos led with two goals, and finished the season with 18 goals and 43 total points. Dos Santos scored five goals and added four assists in the National postseason tournament. Alves added his seventh assist, and Trujic assist No. 11 on the season. Milosevic made seven saves in goal and secured his sixth shutout of the season, and second of the National tournament.
Four Vikings were named to the All-Tournament Team. Gluscevic, Dos Santos, Trujic and Senior Defender Gianmarco Donnini (Florence, Italy). Donnini was named the Most Outstanding Defender of the Tournament, Dos Santos was named the Most Outstanding Offensive Player of the Tournament, and Gluscevic was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament.
The win finishes puts the Vikings at 18-4-2 to end the season, and Oklahoma Wesleyan falls to 21-3-1 with the loss.
The Missouri Valley men's soccer team secures the program's first National championship, and is now 1-2 all-time in the National championship match. Head Coach Vladimir Simic wins his first National championship, and now has a 20-8-2 overall record in the National tournament in 10 appearances.
The soccer program becomes the fourth program in school-history to win a National championship, joining men's wrestling (1996-97, 2003), cheer (2001, 2013, 2018), women's wrestling (2001) and football (1947).


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New Beginning: Epilogue- 'Jamie Conlan saved Irish Boxing!'
Jamie Conlan has saved Irish boxing.
A bold statement perhaps, but the reverberations after his dramatic victory at the National Stadium on Saturday could be felt for years to come.
Before the fight, Matthew Macklin had proclaimed that MGM Promotions can help to 'end the Civil War in Irish boxing.' If that is the case, Saturday night at the Stadium was the beginning of the Reconstruction that always comes after a civil war – and it was crucial that 'New Beginning' was a success.
Make no bones about it, Conlan losing would have been disastrous – not just for himself, but for MGM and Irish boxing in general.
Macklin envisioned holding up to six televised shows a year on the island but it seems unlikely the Frank Warren and Boxnation would want to return had the show went badly.
An apt comparison is the Matchroom-promoted Matthew Macklin-Jorge Sebastian Heiland card last November. Billed as 'The Return of the Mack', the fight ended with the headliner being knocked out and there was a real sense of gloom surrounding the outcome.
Many thought, and were proved right, that Eddie Hearn would not be putting on a show in Ireland for the foreseeable future. Indeed Hearn will most likely wait until Luke Keeler and Jono Carroll have the ability to fill the 3Arena before he returns to Dublin.
Suddenly though, out of nowhere, big time boxing was given a second chance by MGM Promotions to become a fixture on the Irish sporting scene. Again, it looked like it would be turfed back into the wilderness but, spurred on by the 2,000 in attendance, Conlan showed the heart of a hundred Mexicans to get off the floor in the seventh and, hopefully, solidify a bright future for Irish boxing.
If this is to be the case, the way Conlan slammed the floor and rose to just beat the count after the second knockdown has the potential to become part of Irish boxing lore – The moment and eight stone man from Belfast showed the biggest set of balls imaginable to drag himself, and Irish boxing, through a period when it looked like we should be out for the count.
While Conlan and MGM Promotions deserve plaudits aplenty, the Irish fans who packed out the coliseum that is the 76 year old venue on the South Circular Road also require kudos. Without them roaring him on, Jamie Conlan would have found it tough to get up after being hit by multiple kitchen sinks by Junior Granados.
Before continuing I should clarify that, of course, big time boxing exists on the island.
There are Carl Frampton and Cyclone Promotions, who have been putting on unbelievable events in Belfast. However they now plan to fight in the Titanic City just once a year as they take the logical next step with their man and look to break America. While Frampton cards have bone-chilling atmospheres and feature the best pound-for-pound boxer on the island – Irish boxing needs more than one big show a year.
Despite what Rugby Teilifís Éireann may have you believe, boxing is far and away our most successful sport – but avid supporters have spent too long in the shadows, attending shows in leisure centres and hotel function rooms. Don't get me wrong, small hall shows are invaluable for boxing on the island, and messrs Magee and Dunlop deserve much adulation for what they do, but both fans and fighters deserve regular large scale events.
That is why on Saturday, Irish boxers the length and breadth of the island will have been raising their glass to Jamie Conlan – the man who has ensured them television opportunities and places on big cards.
The war on Saturday was a definite Fight of the Year, and one of the best ever to be shown on Boxnation. Frank Warren will certainly have been licking his lips seeing the show Jamie Conlan put on, as well as the passion of the Irish fans. He now knows for sure that MGM Promotions are on to something.
Big time boxing is viable. Big time boxing is back.


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Wild winds wreak havoc in Warren, at Italian fest setup
By WILLIAM K. ALCORN
Storm Damage In Warren
A fast moving storm downed trees and dumped rain on Warren today.
Storm hits Warren
A fast moving storm hit downtown Warren downing trees on Courthouse Square and dumping heavy rain.
Pasquale's Concession was setting up for the 35th annual Warren Italian-American Heritage Festival when Tuesday's severe wind and rainstorm hit downtown Warren, including Courthouse Square, Tuesday afternoon.
"Everybody was trying to hold the tent down," said Randall Rickard of Niles, owner of Pasquale's.
Rickard and his wife, Susan, and daughter, Rachael, and their employees successfully held the tent in place, but it still sustained significant damage.
"It was a little shocking to see this kind of weather at this time of year," Rickard said.
Eric Wilhelm, meteorologist for 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator's broadcast partner, estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour when it hit the downtown area around 2:30 p.m., knocking down trees and cutting off power for a period of time. Doppler radar estimated rainfall of 1⁄2-1 inch of rain in Warren and upwards of 2 inches in the Howland and Vienna areas.
Unfortunately, Thursday's opening day of popular festival may see some of the same type of weather.
If the storm had struck Thursday afternoon, there would have been hundreds, if not thousands, of people on Courthouse Square who could have been in harm's way from falling trees, tree branches and blowing debris.
On Tuesday, several tents were severely damaged, and even a portable toilet was upended.
City crews worked to clean up several large fallen and damaged trees in Courthouse Park and a very large tree that ended up leaning against the south side of the Mahoning Avenue Bridge next to the Reeves Apartments.
Thomas Kosan of Warren was behind the Warren Hot Dog Shoppe at the corner of West Market and Tod Avenue Northwest when the storm came through.
"People were running for their lives," Kosan said.
"This is as bad as I've seen it, weatherwise, coming up on festival week," said Lee DeJacimo of Warren, a long-time member of the festival committee who ran the boccie tournament for many years.
Surveying the damage in Courthouse Park, DeJacimo praised the power company and city operations crews for doing "a great job" cleaning up the damage.
The storm also left several downtown streets flooded with up to 6 or 8 inches of rain water, particularly along East Market from Trumbull Memorial Regional Hospital through the downtown area past Park Avenue.
And though the festival's opening day may see some of the same type of severe weather, Wilhelm said the good news is, the forecast calls for fantastic weather Friday and over the weekend.


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Occasionally, Blogger decides that it doesn't want to share all of the posts that should appear in my feed. This leads to me missing an awesome card that someone pulled, trade bait being offered up that I would love to have or just an overall awesome post that would have made my day better just by reading.
Earlier today, I clicked on the latest post from Mark's Ephemera in which he shares his gratitude for making Night Owl's Top 12 "always read to the bottom" blogs.
He was also grateful for being nominated for Best Blogger at it's like having my own Card Shop. In giving thanks, he also mentions a few new blogs that he is following because of the nomination. He mentioned my blog, which, unbeknownst to me, had been nominated at Dan's blog for Best New Blog.
I'm truly speechless.
I never saw the posts by Dan because Blogger evidently thought I shouldn't see them. Evidently, Blogger isn't as big of a fan of my blog as some of you are.
Dan, I truly appreciate the honor of being nominated. To whoever nominated me...I'll spot you $50 when I find out who you are!
In all seriousness, I am truly honored and appreciative of the nomination. When I started this blog, I didn't think anyone would read. I did it more for me to have an outlet to write - I have two degrees in journalism and mass communication that I don't use professionally, so I need to keep my skills sharp. The fact that people not only read it but like it is....well, it's beyond me. So, thank you to everyone who has ever read My Cardboard Habit.
And thanks to Mark for giving me a bit of time on his blog and for letting me know I was up for an award! I owe you!
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It's amazing what a few kind words or gestures can do to make an individual's day. That's what I try to model for my students. Keep up the great posts and best of luck on the Best Blogger nomination.ReplyDelete
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|The Vilnius cathedral was built on the site of a destroyed pagan temple in the 1200s, and has been rebuilt many times over the centuries. Most Lithuanians are Catholics, but some had a curious pride in being one of the last European areas to convert.
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But Lopez, however, declined to give any further details as investigation was still going on.
UN assistant spokesperson Farhan Haq confirmed that the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has received an allegation of sexual exploitation against two military personnel serving in the peacekeeping force in DRC.
"An investigation is currently being conducted," Haq said.
"As due process must be respected, once the investigation process has concluded, we will be in a position to provide more information. It was not possible to say how long the investigation would last, Haq told PTI adding when the UN had completed its investigation it would refer the matter to the national authorities.
A senior official at the Indian mission to the UN noted that cases of different kinds of misconduct were regularly referred to the Indian authorities once a "prima facie" case against the accused had been established.
The Indian military then followed up with an investigation.
No case of sexual misconduct had been referred to the Indian mission here in the past three months, according to the Indian mission here.
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If you've been plugged in to the Android community for the past few months, you have probably seen that there's been a growing controversy over the gestural navigation system coming in Android Q. Google's implementation of the back gestures essentially breaks the ability to open up a common feature in apps using a swipe: the left-hand navigation drawer.
You can still tap the "hamburger" button, of course — and that's what more than 90 percent of Android users do, according to Google — but the 3 to 7 percent of users who slide their thumb over to open those drawers are finding that a common thing they do hundreds of times a day suddenly doesn't work anymore.
That gesture now maps to back, though Google has tried to make some affordances to make it possible to open the drawer without reaching up to the button. Those affordances are, well, pretty bad.
I got on a call with a few Google product managers yesterday to talk about this issue, and I came away better understanding the company's reasoning behind these changes. Later today, the company will also put up a blog post explaining its thinking. Like much of the Android community, I'm not sure I fully agree with the changes Google is making. Unlike much of the community, though, I don't think Google has gone too far. Instead, I think Google hasn't done a good enough job of communicating why it made these changes and — more importantly — standing behind them.
If you're not following the Android blogs, you might say this is a tempest in a teapot. But what's brewing in this seemingly small teapot is the future of the operating system used by the majority of people today — one that's bigger than the iPhone and bigger even than Windows. So although it will take some time for Android Q to arrive on most phones (Android updates are a whole other controversy), it will eventually.
You hate to see it, especially since it was totally predictable. I specifically worried about it when I received the very first demo for Q back in May. It was also predictable because, generally speaking, the internet hates interface change. Twitter's web redesign is just the latest example in a long history of hating new layouts. The Android community is particularly fertile ground for this kind of ire since it's made up of technical people with strong opinions on what phones they prefer, which is a byproduct of having way more options than iPhone users.
There are other reasons beyond the back button that have caused consternation. The speed and quality of Android's animations throughout the beta process hasn't been great, but I think things have improved quite a bit over the past few months. Google has also been tweaking the gesture for bringing up Google Assistant as well as the visual indicators for that gesture over time. They're much better now, but it took a few months to get there.
The beta process itself has also partially caused this reaction. Google changed the look, feel, and behavior of its gestures several times over the course of various Q betas, which has led everybody to wonder where it'll end up. It also led everybody to hope that if they express their opinions loudly enough, it will force a change.
That's all for the good. It's how betas work, and it's especially how Google's betas work. A philosophy of openness and being responsive to user feedback is great, but in this case, Google should have been clearer in communicating and much more confident in standing by those changes. By trying to make everybody happy, the company is achieving the opposite effect.
Let's talk communication first. I learned a ton from my chat with Google's product managers, and I understand some of the changes far better now. Some of the recent changes could have been put in a much clearer context.
For example, the latest beta has a "Back gesture sensitivity" option. Adjusting it changes the size of the area on the sides of your screen that are sensitive to the back gesture. I assumed it was there as a response to all of this foofaraw, but it's not that at all. Instead, the huge diversity of Android phones out on the market means that some of them simply have different sensitivities on their screen edges. The reason it's a user-facing option and not just a default setting is because of phone cases. If you have a case that covers the edge of your screen, you might want to change that setting to make it easier to hit back.
The other recent addition is a "vertical app exclusion limit." Essentially, app developers can choose to have a portion of the edges of the screen disable the back gesture. Many thought that was meant for app drawers, but no. Lots of apps have swiping actions like galleries or sliders that you need to be able to grab all the way at the edge of the screen. So developers can disable back next to those areas to ensure the back button isn't accidentally triggered.
Google also hasn't been very public in communicating what will happen with non-Pixel phones and third-party software. Lots of phones — especially Samsung and Sony — use the edges of the screen for their own custom features. Google will allow that to continue, but only if there's a visual indicator for the sliding action and only if it's kept to the top portion of the screen. Similarly, Google's gesture navigation system doesn't work with third-party app launchers yet, but that's a technical issue that should get worked out soon.
when implemented well, gestures are far superior to buttons for navigation
Communicating all of that more clearly would have resolved a lot of the complaints, but not all, and that's where I think Google should have communicated more forcefully. It's vitally important that Google enforce consistency across the entire Android ecosystem. It can't allow the core way you get around to be different across Samsung and OnePlus and Huawei and LG and whatever.
Using gestures to get around is simply better — as long as it's well-implemented. There are a ton of benefits to it: it's more intuitive and easier than tapping a button; you can make a big, broad movement instead of hitting a little touch target; you get more screen real estate for your apps. The iPhone may have popularized this trend in recent years, but it was coming either way.
Here's something I learned from Google: the back button on Android is used 50 percent more often than the home button. It's a wildly important feature, so it has to work the same everywhere. That's why Google is reserving the entire left- and right-hand sides of the screen for it. Any confusion with going back would mess with the most commonly used core navigation feature on the most popular operating system on the planet.
If Google had simply said that the right and left edges of the screen were reserved for back, and that was that, we'd have grumbled and written some hot takes and then, eventually, just accepted it. App developers would eventually adjust their apps to work better in the new system, too. If Google is right that fewer than 10 percent of users even used a swipe to open the app drawer, it would have been better just to hold the line.
Gestures need to be consistent and clear; Google's explanation for them has been anything but
Instead, Google has tried to add a confusing and poorly implemented "peek" gesture, where you are supposed to be able to hold your finger down on the edge of the screen to make the drawer "peek" out, then slide your finger to open it instead of going back. It's finicky and should be scrapped.
Google's decision to allow the traditional three-button layout as an option in addition to this gesture system is a concession to everybody who dislikes this new system. But to me, that's just another avenue for angst. Android is all about choice, and being able to choose allows you to imagine something better. A side effect is that choice can actually make you feel more dissatisfied.
Samsung, OnePlus, Huawei, Apple, and now Google all have different takes on how gestures work to navigate around on a phone. I don't fully know if I think Google's take on it in Android Q is better or worse, but it's obvious that it is necessary. There's a grammar to gestures on touchscreen computers, and it's fast becoming our common language for getting around on them. Swipes are replacing buttons everywhere.
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Allah's mercy is beyond belief!
As-salam wa-alaikum MATW fam!
I spoke to a friend recently who was feeling weighed down by his sins, he felt that his chances of making it to Jannah as slim to none! This brother had all but lost hope, and we talked for almost an hour about Allah SWT and His mercy and forgiveness.
First off, Allah SWT has carved into His own throne words that will stand for all time, they will never be changed. He has put "My Mercy Overcomes My Anger" above His own throne.
What does that mean? That means if Allah SWT has a reason to be angry with you, but He also has a reason to have mercy on you, the mercy will ALWAYS overcome and prevail over the anger. This is an unbreakable rule that all of creation is built on.
113 out of the 114 chapters of the Quran start with "In the name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Especially Merciful" – so without even reading the chapters, you know that Allah SWT is reminding you 113 times of His mercy. Actually is 226 times, because He says "Arrahman" and "Arraheem".
But here is a hadith that gives me so much hope, for myself and for us all!
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On the authority of Uqbah ibn Amir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
I heard the messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Your Lord delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag, gives the call to prayer and prays. Then Allah (glorified and exalted be He) say: Look at this servant of Mine, he gives the call to prayer and performs the prayers; he is in awe of Me. I have forgiven My servant [his sins] and have admitted him to Paradise. It was related by an-Nasa'i with a good chain of authorities.
This about the example of this simple Shepheard. All he did was stand on top of a mountain with his flock of sheep, and the time for prayer came. He made the call to prayer, and completed his compulsory prayer. He went back to tending the flock, he probably had some lunch at some point, and he went home that day and slept in his bed like he always does. That day may have been nothing special at all in his mind. But something special did happen that day, that the shepheard will never realise until the day of judgement. In that moment, Allah SWT decided to forgive all of this man's sins and admit him to paradise. Subhan Allah!
So never lose hope in Allah's mercy. His mercy is something that cannot be measured or counted, except by Him.
And don't forget the engraving above the throne… So if you do feel that it's too hard, or that it's hopeless, all you have to do is give Allah SWT one reason to forgive you. Do one good deed immediately. SMS your mother to say that you love her. Say hi to your neighbour. Or make a quick donation to someone who you'll never meet who hasn't eaten for days.
We never know what small act of good might make Allah SWT give us an "instant pass" and you can go straight to Jannah in sha Allah.
Do as much as you can! Click here to start with one simple act of kindness.
Ahmed Bassal
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