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Ascension Girl Scout volunteers receive recognition – Weekly Citizen

Posted: April 15, 2017 at 5:48 pm

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Volunteers are the heartbeat of Girl Scouting. Girl Scouts Louisiana East recognized its adult volunteers as well as outstanding principals and religious leaders at the councils Annual Meeting on April 1, with special council-level recognition going to a select few. Among those honored were Ascension Parish residents Monique Brown, Brenda Shuff and Brandi Stallings.

The Years of Service Pin is given to adult members registered with Girl Scouts of the USA for 20 or more years of active volunteer service. Shuff received this award because of her commitment to Girl Scout for 25 years within multiple councils.

They also received the Volunteer of Excellence award, which recognizes those volunteers who have contributed outstanding service while partnering directly with girls in any pathway to implement the Girl Scout Leadership Experience through the use of the National Program Portfolio or who have contributed service in support of the councils mission delivery to girl and adult members.

Brown, a Junior Girl Scout troop leader, is described as a leader who exhibits calm and positive energy. Her girls are excited to complete badge work and projects because she allows them to make the activities their own.

Known as a Gem by her parents, Shuff allows her leadership skills to shine through and inspire her girls to become notable leaders as well.

Stallings was nominated for this award because she eagerly stepped in to a leadership position when their troop lost a leader. She is pegged as providing her girls with the necessary tools needed to succeed.

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LeVert’s Ascension in Shortened Rookie Campaign – Nothin’ But Nets

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Apr 2, 2017; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert (22) puts up a shot against Atlanta Hawks in the second quarter at Barclays Center. Nets win 91-82. Mandatory Credit: Nicole Sweet-USA TODAY Sports

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Going into the 2016 NBA Draft, general managers were hesitant toselectCaris LeVert due to his foot injuries and subsequent foot surgeries. So hesitant in fact that the Michigan senior wrote an open letter on the Players Tribune reassuring general managers around the league of his potential.

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LeVert was selected with the 20th overall pick by the Indiana Pacers. The Brooklyn Nets would trade Thaddeus Young to Indiana for the rights to the Michigan prospect, and the Nets would have their first-round pick.

Going into that draft, Brooklyn did not have a 2016 first-round pick due to the infamous trade with Boston. Interestingly enough, Young, who was essentially traded straight up for LeVert, was acquired in a one-for-one trade that shipped Kevin Garnett home to Minnesota. So the Nets, in essence, got one of their picks back from that disastrous trade.

After making his professional debut in December 2016, LeVert would go on to play in 57 games and start in 26 of them. He averaged 8.2 points on 45 percent shooting from the field, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 21.7 minutes per game for his rookie season.

The final month of the season was the rookies most impressive. LeVert averaged 12.3 points on 47.8 percent shooting from the field, 3.7 rebounds and two assists per game inthe month of April.

In the rookie rankings, LeVert finished 10th in points per game, 10th in rebounds per game, sixthin steals per game and ninthin minutes, behind fellow rookie Isaiah Whitehead, who finished eighth. Interestingly enough, the self-described point-slash-shooting guard also finished 14th among rookies in assists per game. Not bad for the guy who was selected20th.

The 22-year-old has been so impressive that it is widely believed that next year, he will be in the teams starting rotation. Whether he is starting at shooting guard or small forward, its clear the Nets rookie has shown versatility. He can either initiate the play and create offense, or play off the ball on the wing.

LeVert could be considered the first piece to general managerSean Marks foundation for the Nets future. When Brooklyn is on the clock during the 2017 NBA Draft, hypothetically, are they not selecting a player they believe will play well withLeVert?

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GIGABYTE Marines complete reverse sweep against KL Hunters, face Ascension Gaming in GPL Spring 2-17 Finals – Inquirer.net

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April 15, 2017 Miguel Dela Cruz

Fans enjoyed extra League of Legends as the second match of the day also went the full five games. Vietnams GIGABYTE Marinescompleted the reverse sweep against Malaysias KL Hunters. The Marines will be joining Ascension Gaming in the Finals on Sunday at the Samsung Hall in SM Aura.

Games 1 and 2 went the way of Kuala Lumpur Hunters. Their momentum from the group stages carried over on to the playoffs. After strong performances from Qaspiels Rengar and Shiros Renekton, Hunters looked to close out in Game 3.

Going into GPL, the GIGABYTE Marines were the favorites to win. With their 12-0 season inVietnam Championship Series A and 3-0 finals against Young Generation, they were the team to watch.

Game 3 was where the Marines threw a curveball at the Hunters. They drafted up a 4-AP team comp with Kennen top, Zilean mid, Ziggs APC, and Karma support, rounded out with a Graves jungle. This threw the Hunters off guard and the Marines took the win.

In game 4, although Shiro got his Renekton and Qaspiel was on the Rengar again, it was not enough asthe Marines dominated 19-7.Stark finished 3/0/6 on Rumble, Levi finished 8/1/5 on Graves, Optimus finished 2/1/9 on Leblanc, and Slay finished 6/1/6 on Caitlyn.

With Silver Scrapes playing for the second time around, tensions were high as the series was tied 2-2. Both teams looked to draft compositions they were comfortable with, and what they thought the enemy was not prepared to fight against. Hunters Shiro picked up a Fizz and Arrhedge was on Taliyah. Marines answered with Talon on Optimus and Archiee on Sona.In the end, Optimus went off in a 15/0/5 performance and the Marines took the win.

The GIGABYTE Marines head off into the finals where they will face off against Ascension Gaming. The finals take place Sunday April 16 at the Samsung Hall in SM Aura. The winner goes on to represent SEA at the Mid-Season Invitational in Brazil.

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NASA to rely on commercial partners for deep-space exploration – Fox News

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Responding to mounting criticism over inadequate funding and technical planning for sending astronauts to Mars, NASA leaders say they are counting on commercial participation as one means toward a sustainable strategy to explore the solar system over the next two decades.

The reference to long-term reliance on commercial partners for cargo rockets came in response to a report released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations inspector general, who expressed criticism of agency timelines and cost estimates foreventually putting humans on Mars.

NASAs statement is the most direct agency indication so far that projected U.S. government funding may need to leverage private-sector investments and commercial expertise in order for crews to fulfill the agencys target of reaching Mars by the late 2030s and establishing settlements there by the 2040s. NASA said it also expected to persuade some foreign governments to participate in crewed voyages to Mars.

William Gerstenmaier, the head of NASAs human-exploration office, wrote to the inspector general that efforts to use private cargo rockets as part of the overall drive to send crews to Mars are continual and will also be reflected in the exploration road map slated for delivery to Congress at the end of 2017.

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US warplanes prepare for WW3 battle in extreme warning to North Korea – Daily Star

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FOOTAGE of US warplanes preparing for combat is revealed as Donald Trump prepares to strike North Korea.

In the clip, US air force planes line up in a dramatic show of strength amid growing tensions over North Koreas nuclear weapons.

President Trump appears to be ramping up his military capabilities after dropping a Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) on ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the US unveiled a new devastating super weapon that nothing can survive.

The powerful tungsten-based missile dubbed the Kinetic Energy Projectile (KEP) can be fired at three times the speed of sound and destroys everything in its path.

And the US threat comes after warnings from top experts that North Korea will have as many as 60 nuclear weapons in just three years unless urgent action is taken.

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It is believed Kim Jong-un is in the final stages of preparing for his sixth nuclear test, bragging that the secretive state would ruthlessly ravage the US if Washington attacked.

Currently, North Korea is believed to have 33 kilograms of separated plutonium and up to 645 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium.

This alone is enough to build between 13 and 30 nuclear weapons.

But in Kadena Air Base in Japan a combat-ready US Airforce wing has been showing off its aircraft believed to be a clear warning to tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un.

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New satellite images show in great detail how Kim Jong-un is escalating North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

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Figure 1. Event locations (approximate) vis--vis tunnel portals with conjectured tunnel projections.

Fox News reports the 18th Wing conducted a surprise military exercise amid growing fears the North is set to test a nuclear bomb.

A group of HH-60 Pave Hawks, F-15 Eagles, E-3 Sentries and KC-135 Stratotankers all took part in the exercise, the report said.

The United States, China and North Korea have all made clear they are preparing for the prospect of World War 3.

Everything from mass evacuation plans and details on dealing with nuclear fallout are being prepared.

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Trump Syria: President to ‘send in 150000 ground troops as WW3 fears hit all-time high’ – Daily Star

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DONALD Trump is preparing to send up to 150,000 troops into Syria in a move, it has been claimed.

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Blogger and theorist Mike Cernovich claims Trump's security advisor General H.R. McMaster was planning on sending as many as 150,000 to the region in his latest effort to stamp out the threat from ISIS.

But two sources within the White House reportedly told Eli Lake, a commentator for Bloomberg, the real number will be anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000.

Lake claims that Gen. McMaster has been pressing the US President to take decisive action and invade Syria in a massive show of force to both ISIS and Russia.

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The Lockheed Martin HULC is an exoskeleton that allows soldiers to carry loads of up to 200lbs for long distances

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He claims there are plans being discussed for a possible partnership with Kurdish freedom fighters in Syria who are battling to destroy the death-cult once and for all.

Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general who is close to McMaster, believes a ground war is the only way to defeat ISIS.

"The president wants to defeat ISIS, he wants to win, what he needs is a U.S.-led conventional coalition ground force that can take Raqqa and clean out the Euphrates River Valley of ISIS all the way to the Iraq border," he said.

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"Handwringing about U.S. ground troops in Syria was a fetish of the Obama administration. It's time to look honestly at a winning military strategy."

The news comes with international tensions at an all-time high.

This week Trump launched a massive airstrike on a Syrian airbase in response to a deadly chemical weapons strike believed to have been carried out by the country's president Bashar al-Assad.

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The airstrike enraged the international community with Russian leader Vladimir Putin calling on the UN to investigatethe president's actions.

Trump also launched a deadly airstrike on a massive group of ISIS fighters in Afghanistan on Friday.

The strike used the "Mother of all Bombs", the most powerful non-nuke in the world, and killed over 36 militants in an apparent show of force.

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The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack despite a warning from Russia not to get involved.

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The US has fired dozens of cruise missiles at Syria in revenge for a chemical weapons attack

In a shocking warning, Lake said: "It is now up to Trump to risk starting World War III in Syria by sending some 50,000 'boots on the ground' to start with.

"This number will only grow in direct proportion with the casualties that emerge as this proxy world war enters its final, most destructive phase."

Trumps troops have already been carrying out massive exercises near the DMZ in Korea as fears of a war in the east are also growing.

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World War 3: Nuclear war will explode on ‘THIS’ date – and it’s just DAYS away – Daily Star

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A "MESSENGER of God" who accurately predicted the major events leading up to World War 3 has sensationally revealed the exact day war will begin.

The self-proclaimed "supernatural being" has revealed to Daily Star Online his visions and study of the Bible and prophecies has resulted in a date on which the nuclear war will fall.

Clairvoyant Horacio Villegas envisioned Donald Trump becoming US president as far back as 2015, predicting he would become the illuminati king who will bring the world into WW3

Chillingly he also prophesied the leader would attack Syria which later happened following a chemical attack and that it would bring Russia, North Korea and China into the conflict.

And just days ago the Catholic follower, who lives in Texas, US, had a dream in which I saw balls of fire falling from the sky and hitting the Earth.

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He told how people everywhere were running around trying to hide from this destruction, and that: I believe these were symbolic of the nuclear missiles that will fall on cities and people throughout the world.

Now the truth-seeker, who claims God has kept me single, and with no children just to focus on his message to the people has come up with D-Day.

It will fall, he says, on the 100th anniversary of the visitation of Our Lady of Fatima the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus which is May 13.

This was the day, according to the Catholic faith, that Our Lady visited a village in Portugal to warn people that if her requests to convert Russia to the faith were not followed, God would use the country to wreak havoc on the world.

She warned: Russia will spread her errors throughout the world raising up wars and persecutions against the Church, the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.

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It is said Our Lady visited the same village in Portugal on six occasions, and on her last visitation on October 13, 1917, she announced: The war is going to end, and the soldiers will soon return to their homes.

Horacio believes this October date to be the day World War 3 ends, but warns it will be too late for many.

He told us: The main message that people need to know in order be prepared is that between May 13th and October 13 2017, this war will occur and be over with much devastation, shock and death!

The truth-seeker told us that before that day, however, a major false flag will take place that will be very very devastating, and he also has a time range for this.

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He warns that this occasion which sees attacks carried out to spark conflicts based on false information will takes place between April 13 and May 13, and that as well as Syria, North Korea will also be involved.

He told us: The reason I feel the coming false flag might be during this Holy Week is because just as Christ suffered on a Good Friday at one time, the world is about to enter its Good Friday moment as well and it would fit in Gods timeline as to the start of this dark period in human period in human history that this war would be sparked near Good Friday 2017.

Horacio, who has published a series of books over the last 12 years on his claims, told Daily Star Online he believes the chemical attack in Syria was a false flag by the USA, adding that it just so happened to occur days after John McCain visited the area.

He added in his blog North Korea will be next on the USAs hit-list, saying: Russia is already being baited into war through Syria, just as the zionists were seeking and China will be baited through North Korea.

While tourists are free to visit the secretive state as part of strictly controlled tour groups, they are told to never take photos of soldiers by their handlers. These images taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue show the truth behind North Korean military service: a life of hard physical labour with the perks of visits to the nation's capital

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Many soldiers are used as a labor force to compensate for the ineffective North Korean economy, so the army is not only about military organization.

The Roman Catholic follower told Daily Star Online he has also used prophets in his studies, including Nostradamus, who was a French physician and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become widely famous.

Among Nostradamus prophecies is: Mabus will soon die, then will come, a horrible undoing of people and animals, at once one will see vengeance, one hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

Horacio says having long suspected Mabus might be Obama, it could now be the president of Syria, Assad, as there is now talk that Trump will target Assad for removal.

If Assad is bombed and killed, this could very much fulfil this prophecy because afterwards all hell would break loose.

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Despite publishing his books for over 10 years, Horatio told us he has been trying to get the word out (of WW3) for years, but most people doubted these things.

He added: Last September I even sent out copies of my books to Catholic bishops and cardinals in an attempt to warn them so that they could warn the people, and they ignored me too!

But, 15 months before Trump won, I wrote that Trump was being set up to win and would win in August of 2015.

No one believed me then, until it happened.

The revelation comes after Daily Star Online reported that a biblical prophecy claims the world will end once Syria's capital city of Daascus is destroyed.

Tensions between the USA, North Korea and Russia, have continued to rise, and just yesterday the US dropped a huge bomb on an ISIS tunnel target in Afghanistan.

It is widely reported thatKim Jong-un is preparing to launch a nuclear bomb on Saturday to mark its national Day of the Sun.

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Author Who Coined the Term "Cyberpunk" Opens Up About CD Projekt RED’s Trademark – PlayStation LifeStyle

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CD Projekt REDs trademark application for the term Cyberpunk recently sparked quite a bit of controversy. It actually prompted an official response from the developer who attempted to quell fears of misuse and for the most part, fans have been understanding. However, some took their concerns toBruce Bethke, the author who is accredited with coining the term in the early 1980s.

Speaking to World Trademark Review,Bethke said that hes not an expert on the subject but doesnt believe its possible for companies to trademark certainwords to prevent their use for any other purpose elsewhere. He referenced some failed attempts by companies to do so in the past but also said that he had a few concerns about CD Projekt REDs application and wishes the studio would contact him to address those.

My understanding of American trademark law is that trademark depends on context. While you can trademark a logotype or a unique variation eg, as I recall, R. Talsorian Gamestrademark was specificallyfor a role-playing game named Cyberpunk 2020 you cant just trademark a word for all purposes everywhere. Hence when some company back in the 1980s tried to claim a trademark on the word cyberpunk because they were publishing a Cyberpunk comic book, well, tough it didnt hold up.

I do rather wish someone from CD Projekt RED would contact me, though, to clarify a few of my concerns.

Bethke went on to voice his frustration at people expecting him to guard the trademark. He wants to focus on what hes doing at the moment as opposed to something he did 37 years ago.

What do our readers think of Bethkes comments?

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Analyst Activity Jefferies Group LLC Reiterates Hold on Stryker (NYSE:SYK) – Market Exclusive

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