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Before leaving football for ministry, Rocky Seto sought out another who had

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NewsHubRocky Seto says he first felt the call to become a minister while he attended a Christian school growing up in southern California.
“It was always in the back of my mind,” he said.
It was a feeling that continued to grow through is days as a player at USC, and as an assistant there under coach Pete Carroll.
When Carroll left USC following the 2009 season to take over the Seattle Seahawks, Seto thought about staying in the Los Angeles area to become a minister.
Instead, he headed north, becoming a vital part of Seattle’s defensive coaching staff. He helped groom the Legion of Boom as an assistant defensive backs coach and then defensive passing game coordinator from 2012-14 before spending the last two years as the assistant head coach/defense. In that position, Seto helped devise weekly defensive game plans with defensive coordinator Kris Richard, who took over that spot after Dan Quinn left for Atlanta following the 2014 season.
But despite a steady stream of promotions in his football career, Seto said that with each season the pull to leave the sport and become a full-time minister grew stronger.
Last August, he said, he all but decided that the 2016 season would be his last with the Seahawks.
“I just had an overwhelming desire to do this,” said Seto, who on the day after the end of the regular season told Carroll he would leave the team.
Before Seto made his final decision, he did some research trying to find others who had made similar moves in their lives.
“How do you know for sure? ” Seto said of walking away from a job that carries the kind of prestige and glamour as does a high-level assistant for an NFL team two years removed from making the Super Bowl.
In his research, Seto ran across the name of an NFL running back whose career he had followed but who he didn’t really know – former Washington Husky standout Napoleon Kaufman.
After becoming a first-round pick of the Oakland Raiders in 1995, Kaufman walked away from the NFL six years later at the age of 27 to become a pastor in Livermore, Calif., a post he still holds.
Seto called Kaufman one day and said Kaufman told him a story of a game his final season with the Raiders when he was introduced as a starter before kickoff and looked into the famed Black Hole cheering section.
“He said he started weeping,” Seto said. “He wanted to minister to them so badly. And this is right before kickoff when your mind is usually on something else. And he said he felt right then ‘I have to do this.’ That resonated with me that he was so clear about it that he could walk away from his position and his contact and never look back. That really helped me to get perspective on it. ”
Seto said he has had talks with Carroll through the years about becoming a minister so he said the coach wasn’t taken aback too much when Seto told him of his decision (Seto has been talking seminary classes through Liberty University and has preached at schools, prisons and churches over the last few years).
Still, Seto said telling Carroll wasn’t easy. It was under Carroll that Seto got his first full-time coaching job at USC in 2003. He served as a graduate assistant for two years when Carroll first took over the Trojans in 2001.
“That was the hardest thing about leaving the Seahawks was not necessarily the game plans or the games or the practices, but the relationships that you have and especially with coach (Carroll),” he said. “We have always had a very open relationship and we have talked about this possibility. ”
Seto wanted to keep it a secret until the end of the season, not telling the team until he spoke to them as a group on the day after the divisional playoff loss to Atlanta.
Seto said it was then that the emotion of the decision hit him and “I kind of broke down. ”
Seto says he has no doubts it is the right move.
Seto and his wife, Sharla, have four children from the ages 5 to 11 and Seto said having more time to spend with them “is another positive” of his decision (while he has accepted a position as a minister, Seto asks that it not be revealed where yet since it has not been announced officially).
He said he hopes to stay in football in some way, possibly consulting with teams about a pet project of his – rugby-style tackling.
But Seto, who will be 41 in March, says he’s sure he’s found his life’s work.
“That’s really why I got into coaching is the influence that coaches have on people,” Seto said. “It’s kind of similar in that vein of shepherding and helping people along. A pastor is very much more specific in teaching about Jesus Christ and teaching about the bible. But it still comes down to teaching, it’s just the content will be different. It’s still about relationships with people. “

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Guttenberg kehrt zurück: Alternative zu Merkel?

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NewsHubDie CSU will einen radikalen Wechsel in der Russland- und in der Flüchtlingspolitik. Die Partei sieht sich durch Donald Trump gestärkt – und bringt mit Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg einen Hoffnungsträger zurück, in dem manch einer in der Union schon eine Alternative zu Merkel sieht.

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Tears and detention for US visitors as Trump travel ban hits

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NewsHubFamily reunions were blocked, refugees from war-torn countries were turned away and border agents detained scores of unsuspecting travelers at airports as the U. S. began a chaotic implementation of President Donald Trump’s plan to fight terrorism by temporarily stopping citizens of seven nations from entering the country.
By Saturday night, a federal judge in New York had issued an order temporarily blocking the government from deporting people with valid visas who arrived after Trump’s travel ban took effect. But confusion remained about who could stay and who will be kept out of the country in the coming weeks.
Among those caught in limbo: Iraqis who had been promised a life in America because of their service to the U. S. military, frail and elderly travelers from Iran and Yemen, and longtime U. S. residents traveling abroad who don’t know if they will be allowed to return home.
“What’s next? What’s going to happen next? ” asked Mohammed al Rawi, an Iraqi-born American citizen in the Los Angeles area, after his 69-year-old father, coming to visit his grandchildren in California, was abruptly detained and sent back to Iraq after 12 hours in custody. “Are they going to create camps for Muslims and put us in it? ”
Large protests erupted at airports throughout the country where travelers were being held, a day after Trump signed an order banning travel to the U. S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. Trump also suspended the U. S. refugee program for 120 days.
Thousands of sign-waving people chanted and demanded that refugees be made welcome in the United States as lawyers and representatives of aid groups tried to assist people.
An official with the Department of Homeland Security who briefed reporters by phone said 109 people who were in transit on airplanes had been denied entry and 173 had not been allowed to get on their planes overseas.
No green-card holders had been ultimately been prevented from entering the U. S. as of Saturday, the official said, though several spent long hours in detention before being allowed in. Abdollah Mostafavi, 80, was released six hours after his flight arrived in San Francisco from Frankfurt.
“I’m so happy he’s finally out. He says he’s very tired,” said his daughter Mozhgan Mostafavi, holding back tears and speaking Farsi with her father.
Hameed Khalid Darweesh, a translator and assistant for the U. S. military in Iraq for 10 years now fleeing death threats, was among at least a dozen people detained at New York’s Kennedy airport their arrivals Friday and Saturday.
He walked free midday Friday after his lawyers, two members of congress and as many as 2,000 demonstrators went to the airport to try and gain his release.
“This is the soul of America,” Darweesh told reporters after gaining his freedom, adding that the U. S. was home to “the greatest people in the world. ”
Others were less lucky. Parisa Fasihianifard, 24, arrived after a long trip from Tehran, Iran, to visit her husband, only to be detained and told she had to go home.
“She was crying and she told me she was banned to come inside and go through the gates,” said her husband Mohamad Zandian , 26, an Iranian doctoral student at Ohio State University. He was hoping to get her out of the country on a late night flight to avoid her being jailed until Monday.
After an appeal from civil liberties lawyers, U. S. District Judge Ann Donnelly issued an emergency order Saturday barring the U. S. from summarily deporting people who had arrived with valid visas or an approved refugee application, saying it would likely violate their legal rights.
Staff at U. S. agencies that resettle refugees were scrambling to analyze the situation. They girded for wrenching phone calls that would have to be made to the thousands of refugees just days away from traveling to the U. S. Donnelly’s order did nothing to help those people gain entry.
Several staff who spoke to The Associated Press burst into tears as they contemplated the future for people who had waited years to come into the country.
“It’s complete chaos,” said Melanie Nezer, policy director for HIAS, one of nine refugee resettlement agencies that work with the U. S. State Department.
Meathaq Alaunaibi, a refugee from Iraq who was settled with her husband, a son and a daughter last August in Tennessee, was had been hoping to be reunited soon with her twin 18-year-old daughters who are still in Baghdad. Now, she’s unsure whether they will be able to come.
“They are so worried and afraid because they’re stuck there in Baghdad,” Alaunaibi said Saturday. “They are young and they are strong, but I am crying all the time. I miss them. ”
An Iraqi in Mosul, an Iraqi city where the Islamic State group had seized control, despaired at word that what he had thought was an imminent flight to safety in America was now canceled, indefinitely.
“If you can write to Mr. Trump or find any other way to help me reunite with my family, please, I am dying in Iraq, please,” the man, whose identity was withheld because he is still in danger in Iraq, wrote back to his U. S. lawyer by email.
The order also caused confusion for longtime, legal U. S. residents traveling abroad.
Kinan Azmeh, a clarinetist born in Syria who has lived in the U. S. for 16 years, left his home in New York City three weeks ago for a series of concerts that included a date with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Now, he doesn’t know if he will be able to return home.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” Azmeh told The Associated Press by phone Saturday from Lebanon. “It is home as much as Damascus,” he said of New York City. “I really don’t know how to react. ”
Before Trump signed the order, more than 67,000 refugees had been approved by the federal government to enter the U. S., said Jen Smyers, refugee policy director for Church World Service. More than 6,400 had already been booked on flights, including 15 families that had been expected over the next few weeks in the Chicago area from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran, Syria and Uganda.
The bulk of refugees entering the U. S. are settled by religious groups, who organize churches, synagogues and mosques to collect furniture, clothes and toys for the refugees and set up volunteer schedules for hosting duties. All that work ground to a halt after Trump signed the order.
In Massachusetts, Jewish Family Service of MetroWest had been coordinating a group of doctors, community leaders, a local mosque and other volunteers to resettle 15 Syrian families, including a 1-year-old and 5-year-old who arrived Tuesday.
Now, two fully outfitted apartments remain empty and it’s unclear when, if ever, the other refugees will be allowed to enter, said Marc Jacobs, chief executive of the Jewish service group.
Nour Ulayyet of Valparaiso, Indiana said her sister, a Syrian living in Saudi Arabia, was sent back after arriving from Riyadh at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Saturday and told she couldn’t enter the U. S. to help care for their sick mother. Ulayyet said some officials at the airport were apologizing to her sister, who had a valid visa.
“My mom was already having pain enough to go through this on top of the pain that she’s having,” Ulayyet said.

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Trump – Putin – Merkel. O czym rozmawiano?

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NewsHubPracowita sobota prezydenta USA Donalda Trumpa. Amerykański przywódca odbył szereg ważnych telefonicznych rozmów. Wśród jego rozmówców znaleźli się: premier Japonii Shinzo Abe, prezydent Francji Francois Hollande, niemiecka kanclerz Angela Merkel i prezydent Rosji Władimir Putin. Co było tematem telefonicznych dyskusji?
Kanclerz Niemiec Angela Merkel i prezydent USA Donald Trump zgodzili się w przeprowadzonej w sobotę rozmowie telefonicznej, że NATO ma “fundamentalne znaczenie” dla relacji transatlantyckich i dla zachowania pokoju – podano we wspólnym oświadczeniu. Ponadto Trump przyjął zaproszenie do udziału w szczycie G20, który odbędzie się w lipcu w Hamburgu.
– Oboje są przekonani, że NATO musi stawić czoła wyzwaniom 21. wieku i że wspólna obrona wymaga odpowiednich inwestycji w wojsko i sprawiedliwego wkładu wszystkich sojuszników w kolektywną obronę – czytamy w komunikacie opublikowanym wieczorem na stronie internetowej urzędu kanclerskiego w Berlinie. Przypomnieć należy, że Trump podczas kampanii wyborczej poddawał w wątpliwość znaczenie NATO, a sam Sojusz nazywał “przestarzałym”.
Przywódcy Niemiec i USA postanowili zintensyfikować współpracę w walce przeciwko terroryzmowi i stosującym przemoc ekstremistom. Oba kraje będą także współpracować na rzecz stabilizacji Bliskiego i Środkowego Wschodu.
Prezydenci Rosji i USA w rozmowie telefonicznej, która przebiegła w “pozytywnym i rzeczowym” duchu, mówili o koordynacji działań w celu pokonania Państwa Islamskiego w Syrii, o kryzysie na Ukrainie, a za priorytet uznali połączenie wysiłków w walce z terroryzmem – głosi oświadczenie Kremla. – Ta pozytywna rozmowa stanowiła ważny punkt wyjścia w procesie naprawiania relacji pomiędzy USA i Rosją, czego one bardzo potrzebują – donosi komunikat Białego Domu.
Omówiono “aktualne problemy międzynarodowe, w tym walkę z terroryzmem, sytuację na Bliskim Wschodzie, konflikt arabsko-izraelski, sferę stabilności strategicznej i nierozprzestrzeniania (broni jądrowej), sytuację wokół irańskiego programu jądrowego i Półwyspu Koreańskiego”, poruszono również “główne aspekty kryzysu na Ukrainie”. W komunikacie podkreślono, że priorytetem dla przywódców jest “zjednoczenie wysiłków w walce z głównym zagrożeniem – terroryzmem międzynarodowym”. Ustalono nawiązanie partnerskiej współpracy “w tych wszystkich, a także w innych kierunkach”. Podkreślono nastawienie “na aktywną wspólną pracę w celu ustabilizowania i rozwoju współpracy rosyjsko-amerykańskiej na konstruktywnej, równoprawnej i wzajemnie korzystnej podstawie”. Nie poruszono jednak tematu sankcji wobec Rosji, wskazano jedynie na „wagę odnowienia wzajemnie korzystnych więzi handlowo-gospodarczych pomiędzy kręgami biznesowymi, co byłoby dodatkowym impulsem w rozwoju stosunków między obu krajami”.
Putin i Trump uzgodnili podtrzymanie regularnych kontaktów i wyrazili chęć osobistego spotkania, wskazując, że należy opracować termin możliwego spotkania.
Trump rozmawiał także z premierem Japonii Shinzo Abe, którego zaprosił 10 lutego na spotkanie w Waszyngtonie, oraz z prezydentem Francji Francois Hollande’em.
Pałac Elizejski poinformował, że Hollande zwrócił uwagę na konieczność wzmocnienia współpracy transatlantyckiej, zwłaszcza w zakresie obronności. Podkreślił też znaczenie ONZ w rozwiązywaniu konfliktu syryjskiego oraz wagę porozumienia paryskiego w sprawie zmian klimatycznych. Prezydent Francji przestrzegł swojego rozmówcę przed protekcjonizmem w sferze gospodarczej oraz apelował o poszanowanie zasady “przyjmowania uchodźców”.
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Trump official justifies travel ban with attack that would not have been stopped by new rules

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NewsHubWashington (CNN) A senior Trump administration official on Saturday pointed to the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, to justify the President’s order to ban US immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations.

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Arrogate dominates Pegasus; California Chrome bows out 9th

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NewsHubArrogate validated his victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic with a convincing win over California Chrome and 10 others Saturday in the inaugural $12 million Grade I Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Arrogate, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Mike Smith , took control on the far turn and prevailed by 3 1/2 lengths over Shaman Ghost with Neolithic third. California Chrome, the No. 1 all-time money earner in North American history, ended his racing career by fading to ninth under jockey Victor Espinoza .
It was revealed after the race that California Chrome suffered a right knee injury.
Arrogate paid $3.80 for a $2 win bet as the 4-5 favorite and covered the 1 1/18 miles in 1:47.61 in the world’s richest horse race to earn an estimated $7 million.
It was expected to be a match race between Arrogate and California Chrome, who finished second to Arrogate in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in their first meeting. California Chrome was the 6-5 second choice in the wagering.
“We used the first turn to our advantage,” Smith said after breaking from post position one with California Chrome leaving from post 12. “I noticed Victor nudging on (California Chrome) and thought, maybe he wasn’t there today. Chrome just didn’t fire.
“I was able to tip out and he was gone after that. ”
Arrogate was fourth on the first turn as Noble Bird and Neolithic were first and second, with California Chrome looming third on the outside. Noble Bird set a solid pace of 23.46 seconds through the first quarter and 46.12 for a half mile as the leaders’ positions remained unchanged.
It appeared Arrogate might get hemmed in along the rail, but found an opening when California Chrome began to drop back. Arrogate easily passed the tiring pacesetters as Shaman Ghost moved into a non-threatening second down the stretch.
“I’m so relieved,” Baffert said. “Down the backside he was trapped in there. When he started making that move I knew right there… what a superior horse he is.
“I feel bad about California Chrome. He didn’t run a great race today so that matchup never came about. ”
Said Art Sherman, California Chrome’s trainer: “He didn’t break as sharp and then he got wide. He didn’t have the umph. He looked like he was listless. This is the first bad race he’s every run for me. ”
Arrogate burst onto the scene last summer by winning the Grade I Travers Stakes for 3-year-olds at Saratoga by 13 1/2 lengths in a track-record 1:59.36 for 1 1/4 miles. Arrogate’s only race between the Travers and the Pegasus was his stunning half-length victory over California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5 — also at 1 1/4 miles.
Arrogate, who ran his winning streak to six since finishing third in his first career race, won the Eclipse Award as the 3-year-old champion. He had never raced at 1 1/8 miles until Saturday.
Despite his loss to Arrogate, California Chrome claimed his second Horse of the Year award by winning 7 of 8 races in 2016. The 6-year-old earned his first Horse of the Year in 2014, when he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
He missed winning the Triple Crown by 1 3/4 lengths with a fourth-place performance in the Belmont before finishing third by a neck in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
The Pegasus was the brainchild of Gulfstream Park owner Frank Stronach. He sold the 12 spots in the starting gate for $1 million apiece in May. Only California Chrome, though, was being pointed toward the race when the slots were originally for sale.
Stronach purchased a slot in May and his horse — Shaman Ghost — earned an estimated $1.75 million. Neolithic earned some $1 million, with the other nine starters receiving $250,000 apiece.
California Chrome retires to stud at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky with a record of 16 wins, four seconds and a third in 27 starts. His official earnings entering the Pegasus were $14,502,650.

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Трамп и Меркель затронули в разговоре темы Украины, РФ, Сирии и НАТО

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NewsHubПрезидент США Дональд Трамп и канцлер Германии Ангела Меркель обсудили в субботу в ходе телефонного разговора, длившегося 45 минут, отношения с Россией, украинский кризис, НАТО и сотрудничество в области борьбы с терроризмом, сообщает Белый дом.
По информации пресс-службы Белого дома, Д. Трамп и А. Меркель согласились с тем, что НАТО представляет для трансатлантических отношений “фундаментальное значение”.
Отмечается, что лидеры двух стран во время продолжительной беседы обсудили ситуацию на Ближнем Востоке и в Северной Африке, отношения с Россией и кризис в Украине.
Д. Трамп и А. Меркель договорились углублять американо-германские отношения и укреплять сотрудничество в борьбе с терроризмом и насильственным экстремизмом.
Глава США принял приглашение А. Меркель на экономический саммит “двадцатки”, который пройдет в июле в Гамбурге.
Президент США с нетерпением ждет визита канцлера Германии в Вашингтон, подчеркивается в сообщении.
Тем временем, германская сторона выпустила зеркальный пресс-релиз по окончанию разговора двух лидеров.

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Luke Kennard, No. 17 Duke rally past Wake Forest

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NewsHubWINSTON-SALEM, N. C. — With an unlikely chance to win based on how Saturday afternoon’s game unfolded, Duke was going to get the ball to Luke Kennard on the final possession.
It couldn’t have worked out better for the No. 17 Blue Devils.
Kennard’s 3-point basket from the right wing with 6.6 seconds to play gave Duke an 85-83 comeback victory against host Wake Forest at sold-out Lawrence Joel Coliseum.
“He delivered,” Duke interim coach Jeff Capel said. “He was in such a rhythm. When you have a guy going like that, you have to keep going to him.
Kennard, a sophomore guard, finished with 34 points for the Blue Devils (16-5, 4-4 ACC), who trailed 81-71 with four minutes to play. He shot 11-for-14 from the field, including 6-for-6 on 3-point attempts.
“We shared the ball well,” Kennard said. “I was just kind of feeling it. ”
Grayson Allen added 19 points for Duke, which was in danger of suffering its fourth loss in five games.
“The way our team fought and battled it meant something today,” said Kennard, who poured in 30 points after halftime. “The second half, that’s the team we want to be. ”
Wake Forest guard Bryan Crawford tallied 26 points, John Collins had 20 points and Keyshawn Woods finished with 15 for Wake Forest (12-9, 3-6). Crawford missed on a baseline runner in the final second with a chance to tie.
There were 50 fouls called in the game, with Duke in the most serious foul trouble.
“It was such a disjointed first half and we were in such foul trouble,” Capel said. “I was real proud of how we fought and stayed together and pushed each other. ”
Within 63 seconds, Duke forwards Jayson Tatum, Harry Giles and Amile Jefferson picked up their fourth fouls, with the stretch ending at the 12:56 mark.
Yet Duke was within 59-56 with 11:23 to play and later had the deficit down to one. The Blue Devils were called for 25 fouls in the first 31 minutes, so seldom-used Antonio Vrankovic was summoned. Tatum fouled out with 6:58 left with eight points.
A scrum near the Duke bench with 4:34 to play led to an extensive official review. Brandon Childress of Wake Forest was assessed a technical foul, but a subsequent Duke turnover left the Demon Deacons up 79-71.
Woods bagged a banked-in jumper with 2:09 to play after Duke closed within 81-76 before Kennard, who produced nine consecutive points for his team, answered with a 3. A shot-clock violation gave the Blue Devils another chance and Allen’s 3-pointer made it 83-82 with 53 seconds left.
Woods missed a jumper, setting up a timeout and Kennard’s go-ahead 3. Giles set a screen to spring Kennard for his final basket.
“We went with our matchups that we went with and he made shots,” Wake Forest coach Danny Manning said of Kennard.
It was a devastating finish for the Demon Deacons, who led for more than 30 minutes.
“Getting on one another and holding each other accountable,” Manning said of the needed remedy.
Wake Forest built a 42-32 halftime lead by scoring seven of the last eight points of the half. Crawford and Woods combined for 16 of the team’s final 18 points before the break.
The Demon Deacons shot 50 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes. Meanwhile, Duke was 5-for-16 on first-half 3-point attempts, enduring a stretch of eight consecutive possessions without scoring.
The leading scorers for both teams had two fouls in the opening five minutes, with Kennard and Collins both going to their respective benches. Collins played only 4 1/2 minutes before halftime.
Allen and Kennard returned to the starting lineup for Duke after reserve roles in the loss to North Carolina State on Monday night.
NOTES: Duke leads the series 168-78, including five victories in a row. … Wake Forest hasn’t defeated a ranked team this season, falling to 0-6 in those situations. … The last time the Demon Deacons defeated a ranked team at home, it came against then-No. 5 Duke in 2014. … G Grayson Allen led Duke in scoring in the previous three meetings with Wake Forest. … Duke was also without coach Mike Krzyzewski on the bench in 1995, when the Demon Deacons won three meetings. … Wake Forest entered the game averaging 87.9 points per game at home. … Duke goes to Notre Dame on Monday night while Wake Forest plays Tuesday at Boston College looking for a season sweep.

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Kard. Dziwisz kawalerem Orderem Orła Białego

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NewsHubEmerytowany metropolita krakowski kard. Stanisław Dziwisz uhonorowany został najwyższym odznaczeniem państwowym – Orderem Orła Białego. Nadanie orderu odbyło się w sobotę, 28 stycznia w kapitularzu katedry wawelskiej, bezpośrednio po uroczystości ingresu abp. Marka Jędraszewskiego. Podczas ceremonii nadania orderu prezydent Polski Andrzej Duda przypomniał, że został ma on głęboką symbolikę związaną z wolną Polską i jest nadawany za znamienite zasługi dla RP. – Całe dotychczasowe życie było znamienitą zasługą dla Rzeczpospolitej. Ta służba, którą Eminencja rozpoczął wstępując do seminarium, była drogą służby dla Boga, Kościoła, bliźniego, ale przede de wszystkim dla narodu Polskiego – powiedział Andrzej Duda. Prezydent wskazał szczególne znaczenie posługi Kawalera Orderu Orła Białego, jako sekretarza Jana Pawła II, zwłaszcza w momencie zamachu z 13 maja 1981 roku, kiedy to kard. Dziwisz podejmował decyzje, które papieżowi ocaliły życie. Prezydent podziękował za 11 lat posługi krakowskiej oraz za zgodę na pochowanie w podziemiach katedry wawelskiej ciał prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego i jego małżonki. Kardynał Dziwisz przyznał, że nadane mu odznaczenie przyjmuje jako wyraz uznania dla spraw, które dokonały się podczas minionych lat, również dla dobra Polski. – Służąc Chrystusowi i Jego Ewangelii, zawsze miałem świadomość, że w ten sposób najlepiej służę człowiekowi, a także Polsce. Przecież nasz naród od ponad tysiąca lat, mniej lub bardziej wiernie, rzeźbi swoją tożsamość na fundamencie ewangelicznych wartości dobra i miłości, godności człowieka stworzonego na obraz i podobieństwo Boże. Ta sama świadomość towarzyszyła mi podczas wieloletniej pracy u boku Jana Pawła II w Watykanie – powiedział arcybiskup senior. Purpurat przyznał, że posługa w Krakowie była zobowiązująca, gdyż podwawelski Gród z jego dziedzictwem nauki i kultury, wiary i świętości, jest wspaniałym klejnotem w koronie Rzeczypospolitej. Hierarcha wspomniał również dzieła, powstałe w czasach sprawowania przez niego biskupiego urzędu: Centrum Jana Pawła II “Nie lękajcie się”, Muzeum Domu Rodzinnego Ojca Świętego w Wadowicach oraz nowy Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II. Przypomniał, że w lipcu w Krakowie odbyły się Światowe Dni Młodzieży. – To wydarzenie odsłoniło przed światem piękno Polski, bogactwo jej kultury i sztuki. To było nasze wspólne dzieło. Wyrosło one ze zgodnej współpracy Kościoła, władz państwowych i samorządowych miasta Krakowa, regionu małopolskiego oraz władz centralnych, a także wielu wspólnot, środowisk, instytucji i pojedynczych osób. To był sprawdzian drzemiących w nas pokładów dobra, pragnień i zdolności – powiedział kard. Dziwisz. W uroczystości nadania Orderu Orła Białego kard. Stanisławowi Dziwiszowi wzięli udział marszałkowie Sejmu i Senatu oraz premier Beata Szydło. Kard. Stanisław Dziwisz w 2006 roku mianowany został przez Benedykta XVI na 76. biskupa krakowskiego. Rezygnację z pełnienia posługi metropolity złożył po ukończeniu 75. roku życia, w maju 2014 r. Ze względu na odbywające się Światowe Dni Młodzieży w Krakowie w lipcu 2016 r., pozostał jednak na swoim stanowisku jeszcze przez dwa lata. Jego rezygnację przyjął 8 grudnia ub.r. papież Franciszek, ustanawiając jego następcą abp. Marka Jędraszewskiego. Order Orła Białego to najstarsze i najwyższe odznaczenie państwowe Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Nadawane jest za znamienite zasługi cywilne i wojskowe dla pożytku Rzeczypospolitej najwybitniejszym Polakom oraz najwyższym rangą przedstawicielom państw obcych. Działy:

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‘Alternative facts’ let Trump pick his own reality

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NewsHubBy Clarence Page
Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 | 2 a.m.
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said more than a little bit when she described President Donald Trump’s press secretary as offering “alternative facts.”
That may well be the most startling description of our new president’s promotional style that I have heard since his best-selling “The Art of the Deal” said his most useful promotional tool is “truthful hyperbole.”
Sure, it was probably a slip, yet also too on-the-nose in its accuracy to warrant a correction.
Conway, a counselor to the president after managing his election campaign, was in a heated exchange with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, defending an inaccurate claim by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
The issue started the day before when Spicer yelled at reporters for allegedly “sowing division” and “deliberately false reporting” of Trump’s inauguration crowd — which he called “the largest audience to witness an inauguration — period!”
Unfortunately for Spicer, there was no evidence to support his claim. Trump’s inauguration crowd was much smaller than President Barack Obama’s in 2009, and he drew fewer television viewers in the United States (30.6 million) than Obama did in 2009 (37.8 million) and Ronald Reagan did in 1981 (41.8 million), according to Nielsen figures reported by The New York Times.
Figures for online viewership were not available, although Spicer expressed confidence that the final count would reveal that more eyeballs witnessed this inauguration than any other.
The fact-checking later grew even more interesting on “Meet the Press” when Todd challenged Conway about Spicer’s promoting “falsehoods.” Conway disagreed:
“You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and … Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that,” Conway said.
“Alternative facts?” Call me old fashioned, but is that a euphemism for lying? I’m just asking.
Or maybe Conway, who has described herself as “a fully recovered lawyer,” is simply thinking like a lawyer and spin doctor. Courtrooms and political campaigns are arenas for dueling narratives. Each side has its set of facts and the other side has its, well, alternative facts.
But why is Team Trump so determined to argue on behalf of their president over something seemingly so trivial as his crowd count and television ratings? Because they represent Donald Trump, the unlikely candidate whose aspirations to greatness have left him disappointed that more Americans don’t think he’s all that great.
So he turns for reassurance to favorable numbers — such as crowd size, TV ratings and poll numbers, especially when they show him “winning.”
But his desperation is showing. His efforts to minimize the significance of the Women’s March and Obama’s inaugurations only served instead to glorify them with more attention — well deserved, in my view.
Even on Monday, The New York Times reported that the new president used part of his first official meeting with congressional leaders to rehash his old and false claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority. He also reportedly talked about the size of the crowd for his inaugural address.
Donald, let it go.
But even after his swearing-in, his inner salesman will not be contained. It is still hard at work, giving us a hard sell to prop up his legitimacy, perhaps in his own mind as much as anyone else’s — even if he has to inflate a few numbers here and there.
“The final key to the way I promote is bravado,” he says in “The Art of the Deal,” co-authored by Tony Schwartz, who says he made up the phrase “truthful hyperbole” and Trump approved it. “I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
Welcome to the zone of alternative facts, where your fantasies will be pandered to.
Trump’s bravado challenges our traditional notions of the presidency. George Washington never told a lie, according to legend. But would he tell an alternative fact?
Or would alt-facts make “Honest Abe” Lincoln less honest? In today’s politically cynical times, maybe not so much. But I wouldn’t call that progress.
Clarence Page is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

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