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After terror attack, Russia sees U.S. role and claims it is at war with NATO

By Robyn Dixon, April 3 2024 at 2:22pm

The Russian flag flies at half-staff on March 28 in memory of the victims of a terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow. (Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

RIGA, Latvia — In the aftermath of last month’s terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow, Russian officials not only have blamed Ukraine but also have repeatedly accused the West of involvement — even though U.S. officials insist they gave Moscow a specific warning that the Islamic State could attack the venue.

If the U.S. warning was so detailed, it raises further questions about Russia’s failure to prevent the country’s worst terrorist attack in two decades. But rather than publicly confronting questions about their own actions, Russian security officials have disregarded the claims of responsibility by the Islamic State.

Instead, they have insisted that U.S. and British intelligence were involved in helping Ukraine organize the strike.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment Wednesday on a report in The Washington Post that U.S intelligence specifically warned Russia that Crocus City Hall could be a target for terrorists. The New York Times published a similar report shortly after The Post.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Wednesday directly blamed Ukrainian security services for the Crocus City Hall attack, in which at least 114 people were killed. Patrushev also hinted at Western involvement.

A day earlier, he accused Western intelligence of using terrorist groups to attack adversaries.

“They are trying to make us think that the terrorist attack was perpetrated not by the Kyiv regime but by followers of radical Islamic ideology, possibly members of the Afghan branch of [the Islamic State],” Patrushev said at a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, of security council secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization nations. He said it was more important to identify the “masterminds and sponsors,” squarely blaming Ukrainian security services. He added that numerous hoax bomb threats have emanated from Ukrainian territory since the attack.

“It is also indicative that the West began insisting on Ukraine’s noninvolvement in the crime as soon as the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was reported,” Patrushev said.

Russia’s blame game comes amid increasingly confrontational anti-NATO rhetoric from top security officials who insist that the U.S.-led alliance is fighting a “war” against Russia. Several of these officials have hinted repeatedly about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons.

NATO officials continue to assert the alliance’s right to supply Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend its territory.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow in 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

Since the Crocus City Hall attack, Russian officials have subtly framed the violence as part of that “war,” while barely mentioning the Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch, Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, which U.S. intelligence officials have said was responsible.

U.S. intelligence also warned last month that terrorists could attack a Moscow synagogue. A day after receiving the warning, on March 7, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had prevented an attack on a Moscow synagogue by an ISIS-K cell.

Asked if the United States warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a possible target for a terrorist attack and whether a U.S. warning helped the FSB avert the synagogue attack, Peskov on Wednesday declined to confirm the report.

“Okay, I see,” he said. “This is not our competence because such information exchanges are conducted at the level of specialized services, and the information is transmitted directly from service to service.”

The spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Wednesday alleged a disinformation campaign by Washington and said the U.S. government should prove that the reports in The Post and the Times were true by disclosing when and to whom the detailed warning was given.

At least two members of the cell that planned the synagogue attack, based in the Kaluga region, were killed by FSB agents when they opened fire during arrest, according to the agency, which reported that the cell was planning to attack the synagogue using firearms. Kazakhstan confirmed that two of its citizens were killed in the raid.

Four days after the Crocus City Hall attack, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov blamed Ukraine and said Western security services were involved.

“We believe that the action was prepared by radical Islamists, naturally, Western security services contributed to it, and Ukrainian security services bore a direct relation,” Bortnikov told reporters.

Patrushev told the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that Washington used NATO as a tool to carry out hybrid wars “to undermine and disorganize the system of state administration of countries that do not agree with the policy of the Anglo-Saxons.”

“At the same time, the alliance does not disdain using terrorist organizations in its interests,” he said. NATO, he said, “has been a source of danger, crises and conflicts for many years.”

Three days before the Crocus City Hall attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin had dismissed the U.S. warnings, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.”

Putin and other Russian officials have made no mention of the U.S. intelligence supplied in relation to the planned synagogue attack.

In an interview with Argumenty i Fakty published on the morning of the Crocus City Hall strike, Peskov said NATO was waging a war against Russia, repeating a linchpin of Kremlin propaganda used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to mobilize Russia’s population behind the war.

“We are in a state of war. Yes, it started out as a special military operation, but as soon as that bunch formed there, when the collective West became a participant in this on the side of Ukraine, it has already become a war for us. I am convinced of that. And everyone should understand this, for their internal mobilization,” Peskov said.

Putin alleged a Ukrainian link to the Crocus City Hall terrorists the day after the attack when he told Russians in a speech to the nation that “a window was prepared for them from the Ukraine side to cross the state border.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on a screen onstage in Moscow's Red Square last month. (Reuters)

Top pro-Kremlin propagandists, including Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the RT news channel, ramped up attacks blaming Ukraine and the West. In a post on social media, she asserted that Western intelligence clearly played a direct role in the Crocus City Hall attack because it had identified the perpetrators.

“They knew who the perpetrators were. Before the detention. That’s direct involvement,” Simonyan posted, later adding that the source of the attack was “not ISIS,” but Ukraine.

Likewise, Russian lawmaker Alexander Yakubovsky claimed that “the Nazi terrorist regime of Ukraine is behind this terrorist attack, possibly using radical Islamists, but without Western intelligence services it is impossible to pull this off.”

Another hard-line Russian lawmaker, Pyotr Tolstoy, posted on Telegram that the attack could not be seen apart from “the war with the collective West for the peaceful futures of our children.”

The Kremlin’s effort to blame Ukraine and the West for the attack appears to have succeeded in mobilizing Russians around the war effort. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that 1,700 Russians a day were signing contracts to fight in Ukraine, many of them, it added, motivated by the Crocus City Hall attack. In the past 10 days, 16,000 people have signed contracts, it announced.

Shortly after the U.S. warnings were shared with Russia, the authorities did tighten security at Crocus City Hall, according to a 15-year-old coat-check boy, Islam Khalilov. He told Russian media: “We were warned a week ago that there might be attacks. There was training. They told us what to do, where to lead people. I was ready for it in principle. That week there were the toughest checks, with dogs.”

But just days later, on a busy Friday evening, four gunmen rampaged through Crocus City Hall, shooting concertgoers and setting the hall on fire without any resistance, according to video from the scene.

It remains unclear why security was loosened again. Russian officials — and pro-Kremlin news outlets — have steered clear of the question, instead focusing on blaming Ukraine and the West.

Putin, speaking at an Interior Ministry meeting Tuesday, called for increased security at concert venues, shopping centers and other places where crowds gather.

“It’s important above all to bring law, order and security at crowded places, at sports and transport facilities, shopping and recreation centers, schools, hospitals, colleges, theaters and so on up to a new level,” he said.

Russia’s foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, claimed Tuesday that U.S. intelligence on the Crocus City Hall attack was too general to be of help.

“Indeed, the FSB did receive information,” he said. “The information was too general and did not allow the ultimate identification of perpetrators of the horrible crime.”

Shane Harris in Washington and Natalia Abbakumova in Riga contributed to this report.

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President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Military Glory and honoured the memory of the fallen soldiers with a moment of silence. He also laid flowers at the grave of Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the USSR Vasily Chuikov, commander of the 62nd Army (8th Guards Army as of April 1943), which valiantly fought for Stalingrad for six months, eventually defending the city in fierce battle.

The event was also attended by Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov and Governor of the Volgograd Region Andrei Bocharov.

The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943) went down in history as one of the longest WWII land battles, involving the highest number of troops. It marked a major turning point in the war and became a symbol of a moral victory over fascism.

On February 2, commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of Soviet troops defeating the Nazis in the Battle of Stalingrad are held throughout the country. Every year, the Volgograd Region becomes the centre of a national celebration. In 2011, the Battle of Stalingrad State Historical and Memorial Museum and Reserve was recognised as a particularly valuable cultural heritage site of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

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On This Day in New York City History January 8, 1790: President George Washington delivers the first Annual Message aka the State of the Union Address. The address is given at Federal Hall to the members of Congress. The speech covered defense, the economy and foreign policy among other topics.

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Styling in the City, Part I * * * Model: @carmenmasana * * * f/1.8 || 1/40s || ISO 50 || 75mm #model #portrait #vsco #newyorkmodel #sonyportraits #dopeports #moodyportrait #primeshotmag #raw_people #portraitofficial #sonya7ii #sonymirrorless #sonyalpha #shotonsony #alphacollective #igportraits #portrait_shooterz #nycprimeshot #followingnewyork #postthepeople #portrait_vision #sonyimages #seeyourcity #portraitpr0ject (at Federal Hall National Memorial) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLlqtJgQ07/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Cleveland Mall

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The Cleveland Mall, a roughly T-shaped mall area between E. 9th and W. 3rd Sts., is a landscaped public park in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. One of the most complete examples of City Beautiful design in the United States, the park is a historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Mall was conceived as part of the 1903 Group Plan by Daniel Burnham, John Carrère, and Arnold Brunner as a vast public space flanked by the city's major civic and governmental buildings, all built in the neoclassical style. Many of those buildings were built over the following three decades, including the Metzenbaum Courthouse (1910), Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912), Cleveland City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library main building (1925), and the Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education building (1931). Other buildings include Key Tower, the Global Center for Health Innovation, the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

In the spirit of the City Beautiful movement, formerly seedy areas were transformed into a "magnificent civic center," which was supposed to be crowned by the Union Terminal at the north end of the mall, on the shores of Lake Erie. However, the location of the station was eventually moved south and west, to Public Square, where it was finally born as the Terminal Tower. Even though the plan was never fully carried out, it was one of the few City Beautiful plans to be realized to a large extent, and remains one of the most complete examples in the country. The Mall is divided into three sections, known as Malls A, B, and C. Mall A, the southernmost, is officially named Veterans' Memorial Plaza, and Mall C was dedicated as Strawbridge Plaza in 2003. The Memorial Plaza, between Rockwell and St. Clair Avenues, is the site of Marshall Fredericks' Fountain of Eternal Life, also known as the War Memorial Fountain. The Cleveland Convention Center was built underneath Malls B and C in 1964. The Mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975.

Cleveland Public Art sponsored a series of temporary public art installations on Mall B. In 2004, New York artist Brian Tolle installed For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. The work featured eight nine-foot-tall styrofoam neoclassical urns standing atop pedestals, warped to reflect actual wind data collected from Lake Erie. The sculptures were taken down in 2006. In May 2008, Peter North and Alissa North of North Design Office in Toronto installed a work titled The Verdant Walk. It featured plantings of native grasses and seven fabric-covered sculptures. The sculptures were illuminated at night via a solar-powered LED system. They remained in place until 2010.

In 2010 the county purchased the underground convention center from the city as part of a project to completely rebuild it in conjunction with constructing the Global Center for Health Innovation and the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel on the former site of the Cuyahoga County Administration Building across from Mall B. After the reconstruction of the Mall, Stephen Manka's sculpture City of Light was installed on Mall B. The illuminated steel sculpture was created for the 2013 National Senior Games. Manka described it as intended to "simulate the flames of the classic games with a wash of programmable light" and "part petal of a flower, part heavy duty turbine." The new Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland opened in 2013 and has underground connections to Public Auditorium and the Global Center for Health Innovation. The Hilton officially opened in June 2016. Mall B and Mall C reopened after construction as predominantly grassy areas, with Mall B reaching 27 feet above sidewalk level over the entrance to the Cleveland Convention Center along Lakeside Avenue.

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Pearl Moore (born March 16, 1957) is a basketball player who played for the Women’s Professional Basketball League. During her career at Francis Marion University, she had one of the most prolific scorers in college history, male or female, and is the all-time career-scoring leader in women’s college basketball. In 1979, she began her WBL career, playing with the New York Stars, the following season, she joined the St. Louis Streak. She played the final season of her professional career in Venezuela.

Born in Florence, South Carolina, at Wilson High School where she was in the starting line-up for all four years, earning the MVP award at the 1975 and 1976 AAU Junior Olympic Games. She commenced her collegiate career with Anderson Junior College for one semester, transferred to Francis Marion University, and, because of AIAW rules, she was eligible to play the remainder of the season.

She posted a single-game record of 60 points in a victory over Eastern Washington State College in the 1978 AIAW Small College National Tournament. She scored 42 points against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to break the previous record of 4,045 career points. She averaged 30.6 points per game during her stint at Francis Marion, scored a total of 4,061 points in an era where the three-point arc was not incorporated into women’s basketball, and helped lead the Patriots to three national championship appearances. She always scored in double-figures and posted fewer than 20 points in only 18 of her total 128 games. It remains the most points scored by any AIAW basketball player. After big-named schools moved to the NCAA in the early 1980s and a federal antitrust lawsuit, the AIAW dissolved, but their records never died.

She graduated from Francis Marion with a BS in Sociology.

She coached high school teams. She has received recognition for her accomplishments in women’s basketball with her induction into the FMU Athletic Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. She currently hosts her girls’ basketball camp. She was selected to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth

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Spring--here--now???

January 16, 2024

“Of course history is the humbling story of our misbegotten inflations, and truth is the corrective story of how we return to exactly who we are.” —Mark Nepo

Dearest Richard,

Our nation was honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday yesterday. Most federal and state employees had the day off. A potential time for reflection on where we now ride as a country. Bringing much up close and personal for me. Finding just cause for actions taken and falling short. Leading with the right foot arcing itself towards a more perfect world. I stand here in this moment claiming the roughness of intent towards actions taken. Humility is being eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. What is lost and continuously seeks to be gained? What can be learned from our ancestors mistakes? This is the present question riding up for me. Continuing to learn, being held accountable for what I miss and need to amend. Staying humble throughout the process. Anything that alters the “good” that is possible in a moment. It is something personal in the sense of my own responsibility in how I react. It isn’t because of somebody else, but it is about me in particular. Being personal because it is something between me and God. If I, for my entire life lean myself towards God’s divine design that is within me, then I experience a lot of writing on life’s chalkboard and then erasing. Trying again and erasing again. Not feeling shame, just feeling that I have a goal that I am working on and I need to practice more each and every day. Grounding down my innate imperfections over and again. This is what I am learning.

“Where did this all come from?” you might wonder. Getting sidetracked—yup, but please stay with me for a bit. It makes sense in my head and I am anticipating this thinking will eventually bring me back around to where I need to continue heading out from. Learning something new can be messy and with no clear map it is easy to get off road. That can be where some of the most profound understanding can be found or it might just be a way to use up more gas. To get closer to running on empty. But that is the risk. I am presently game to take it and I hope you are too. For it seems more alive and open to the expanse of what life continues to offer me when I keep my eyes wide open.

So here goes— an explanation of my brain’s thoughts, as tangle webbed as they may seem. As part of your archived papers saved by Martha Jane, I was reading through the Gethsemane Parish Visitor weekly newsletter telling of events for the week of October 5, 1945. It was where the notice of your upcoming memorial service was circled. To be held the following Sunday: “Open to all who wish to come,” the notice read. In the leaflet there was a smattering of details about the number of parishioners in the pews that previous Sunday, the schedule for an upcoming Boy Scout meeting and the next speaker for the Youth Group. Mr. John Sinykin would be speaking about his project for training seeing eye dogs. Sounds interesting. There was even an ad for a jewelry store, White & MacNaught nearby at 812 Nicollet Ave., “offering a solution for my gift problem.” Huh.

Reading further along. Thinking about how the everyday details were interspersed in along with your memorial service notice. There was a congratulating shout out to Betty Anne Weitzel for having just, the previous Wednesday, graduated from St. Barnabas nursing school. There was a welcome home for Walter Hall who was returning from overseas following his honorable discharge from the army. Dang. There that wordless pain can thwack one in the face. I am glad Walter was returning home, but what about you? You needed to return home too. So I continue to read and on page 3 I come across this article by John Wall of Virginia. This is part two of his article. Part one was on the previous week’s bulletin, but this is the key sentences that caught my attention:

“They [African Americans] have seen a world at war over ideas and ideals. They have learned that equality of economic, educational, and social opportunities is the right of every citizen regardless of race, creed, or color. No longer will they accept a second-class citizenship role.”

That message slapped up against my more recent finding about your dad and his land development company condoning racial covenants on land he was subdividing in this city where both of us were born.

Here is the legalese from a document I had of some of his loan transactions. Selling only to the “caucasian” race. Learning more as more is uncovered. Trying to find room for what prejudicial actions look like and where we move from what is known and accepted. Or at least not spoken against to stop. So here he is, possibly sitting in a Gethsemane church pew, reading this article. Knowing there was movement that the war unlatched. Your dad, having worked in said position for decades now. Having raised a family. Moved out of the family home. Not certain if he was employed at this time or not. I don’t know what was in the mix but I just wondered if there was movement toward change for him? Was he a single bystander doing whatever everyone else was doing in the real estate business during the 20’s, 30’s and early 40’s or was he more of a ring leader? Knowing the power of silence can hold the crime of harm in place as much as overt actions can.

Just wondering. Stirring up the pot. Adding more ingredients into the mix.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Martin Luther King Jr.

With deep love and incessant curiosity,

Your Niece ❤️

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Our Local Tamassee-Salem SC Area News each Monday except holidays Contact: [email protected] Distributed to local businesses, town hall, library. Volume 7 Issue 6 Week of January 15, 2024 https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/oldsalempost-blog Lynne Martin Publishing

EDITOR: Church and friends can challenge us for new year changes. I knew a lady who lived by the word “Joy” for a whole year. She had pictures, plaques, and scriptures around her home that included the word “Joy.” A sweet message at church yesterday challenged me to pick a word to help me through life’s changes, challenges, and the insane ways of this world. “Trust” is the word. Proverbs 3:5 ( KJV) says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” LMartin

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday is a federal holiday recognized the third Monday in January. Born January 15, 1929, the 2024 observance falls on what would have been his 95th birthday. King is remembered for his nonviolent activism for civil rights. His most famous speech was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28th,1963 in hopes to end racism: “I have a dream...that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal…”

TOWN of SALEM: * Visit the Downtown Market every Sat 8am-12pm. * Next Town Council Meeting Jan. 16th at 5pm. We will be swearing in Leigh Roach, new member on Town Council.

SALEM LIBRARY: January is National Blood Donor Month. Oconee County Public Libraries will be hosting blood drives at each of our locations in January, per the following schedule: Tuesday 1/16/24 10:00a-2:00p Walhalla Monday 1/22/24 10:00a-2:00p Seneca Monday 1/29/24 10:00a-2:00p Westminster Please give, if you are able. Sign up for an appointment. You may call the Blood Connection 864-751-1168.

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Jottings from Miz Jeannie by Jeannie Barnwell Harvard and Plagiarism I am not one to brag, but did you know that I taught English at HARVARD for 18 years! (That's Harvard on the Highway-- or what we called Greenville Technical College, situated on HWY 291!) Here is the LEAST that a student needs to know about NOT COMMITTING PLAGIARISM. 1) If you use another person's exact words, you need to put quotes around the words. Then in parenthesis, list the name of your source referring your reader to your Works Cited page for complete information. 2) If you are paraphrasing the words of another person, then follow this example: Jesse Watters said that Claudia Gay's dismissal as Harvard's president was Not Racism; it WAS racism when Harvard hired her. Happy 2024!!!! Miz Jeannie

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SALEM SCHOOL NEWS, OCTOBER 23, 1963 - (The following items were in the "Salem School News" column in the October 23, 1963 Keowee Courier). . .The Salem Chapter of Future Farmers of America met and organized October 9 for the 1963-64 school term. Officers elected were: president, Lynn Smith; vice president, Leland Talley; secretary, Roddy Smith; treasurer, Jackie Rankin; sentinel, Walter Hines; reporter, Kenneth Porter, adviser, John J. Rankin. The Salem chapter consists of 34 members. . .Linda Barker of the fifth grade and Harry Strickland of the third grade were crowned queen and king of the Halloween Carnival Saturday night. . .Our first grade children are working toward 100 per cent participation in the polio immunization program to be held at Salem School on Sunday afternoon, October 27. Old people and young people, we ask you to come get your Sabin oral polio vaccine. There are 37 boys and girls in our grade and each of us has a normal body. We ask you to help us keep it that way--help stop polio. . .The sixth grade has completed the annual "Progressive Farmer" magazine subscription sale. Over $100 was collected, which is the most of any of the past three years. . .Leon Patterson of the sixth grade had the misfortune to get an arm broken on the playground, but he hasn't allowed this to keep him out of school a single day. Maybe all of us need some of Leon's perseverance. . .Barbara Burgess of the second grade broke her leg Tuesday while playing at recess. . .Accidents seem to plague us. One of our teachers has a broken arm. . .Report cards were given out Thursday, and one little boy in the second grade went home crying because he made a "C." His family finally managed to calm him down, and he said, "I guess I'll have to study harder."

EAGLES NEST ART CENTER 2024 UPCOMING EVENTS Tea Party in Winter? Sure! You are Invited to a Cinderella Tea Party at Eagles Nest Art Center January 18th, 12pm-2pm. Hosted by Freda Tobias and friends. Call 864-280-1258

January, 20th, 7pm Oconee Mountain Opry Join us for Roots music on tap with a dose of cornball comedy as Dave Donor brings a set of Cajun music, Singer Songwriter Laura Jones plays some original tunes, and Ageless Acoustic brings a mix of timeless hits from the sixties and beyond. Enjoy old fashioned comedy skits between the rotating sets. This is our own hometown variety show of local and regional artists like no other. Doors open at 6 show at 7pm. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at eaglesnestartcenter.org or at the door the day of the show. Feb 3rd, 1pm-4pm Women Encouraging Women. 2nd annual Afternoon Retreat for women to refresh and encourage your faith. Feb. 10, 7pm Trial by Fire, A Journey Tribute, $20 advance tickets $25 day of show March 2nd, 2pm-5pm Second Annual Alumni Gathering 2pm-5pm March 16th, 7pm Oconee Mountain Opry $10

ENAC will host the House of Raeford Farms Chicken Sale: You must preorder online in order to pick up your fresh chicken on Saturday, March 2nd between 9am and 12pm. Type in House of Raeford Farms, Greenville, SC and scroll down to the preorder section.

*Visit our website at Eaglesnestartcenter.org for more 2024 events and ticket information.

The Eagles Nest Treasure Store be open every Saturday morning 9am-12pm. We are accepting donations during that time or call 864-557-2462. Information on sponsorships, events, volunteering, donations, or rentals call 864-280-1258.

CHURCH NEWS Bethel Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 580 Bethel Church Rd Walhalla, 29691, worships at 10:30 a.m. . Like us on Facebook: Bethelpresbyterianchurchwalhalla Love to sing? Love to be in charge? Come lead! All worshipers are welcome. Boones Creek Baptist Church, 264 Boones Creek Road, Salem invites you to join us for regular worship service on Sunday morning with Sunday School at 10am and followed by worship at 11am. Salem Methodist Church: 520 Church Street, Salem. 9am for breakfast, 9:30am for Sunday School, and 10:30am for Worship. You may tune in to our live service on Facebook or view it later on our website.

11th Annual BELLFEST 2024: FRIENDS OF LAKE JOCASSEE will host BellFest 2024 at Devils Fork State Park on Saturday, March 16 from 10am-3pm. Celebrate the rare Oconee Bell, Shortia galacifolia, local harbinger of spring. Learn about its history and view it blooming in the park. Interpretive Bell Trail walks* Oconee Bell story presentation* Music each hour* Exhibits* Local vendors* Food Trucks* Kid and Family activities* Silent Auction to benefit FOJ * Park entry fees apply $8 Adult, $5 SC Senior, $4 Children age 6–15, 5 and under free. Find us www.friendsof jocassee.org or email us at [email protected] Happy Birthday Freda! LRM

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George Washington, American general and politician, first President of the United States, was born on February 22, 1732.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade NDLEA intercepts Europe-bound cocaine the International Airport The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives attached to courier companies in Lagos State have intercepted consignments of cocaine and methamphetamine. The Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the consignments were been transported to Europe and Saudi Arabia. Babafemi explained that the NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations(DOGI) attached to courier companies intercepted the consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. He said that the operatives intercepted 1kg methamphetamine concealed in containers of body cream going to New Zealand on Sunday, Oct. 15. He added that the officers also intercepted another consignment of 2.5kgs Cocaine and phenacetin hidden in walls of a carton heading to Saudi Arabia. “Two more seizures: 112grams of Dimethyl Sulfone and 583grams of Cocaine and phenacetin were made at another courier company in Lagos on Wednesday, Oct. 18. “While the Dimethyl Sulfone was concealed in the hollow of a motor driving shaft going to New Zealand, the consignment of Cocaine and phenacetin was packed into a bottle of body cream heading to Saudi Arabia,” he said. Meanwhile, Commands across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory equally continued their War Against Drug Abuse(WADA) with sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, work places and others. Babafemi said this include WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Ogborhill Secondary School, Aba, Abia and Nana Aisha Memorial Islamiyya Secondary School, Buba-Shongo, Gombe State. “WADA sensitisation lecture at Awe High School, Awe, same at Smiles and Surprises Academy, Onna, Akwa Ibom; WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Sango High School, Ijoko, Ogun state. “While Zone C Command of NDLEA along with Kwara state command also had WADA sensitisation town hall meeting with principals of secondary schools from five local government areas of the state,” he said. (NAN) #NDLEAinterceptsEuropeboundcocaineattheInternationalAirport

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wmhd · 7 months

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Sensationalism Or Sensitivity—Do Words Matter? The Importance Of Communication.

The National Alliance for Mental Health-India is organising the 6th J. K. Trivedi Memorial Lecture in collaboration with the World Federation for Mental Health to recognise World Mental Health Day 2023. Dr. Miriam Issac, FRCPsych, who is Chair for deaf LD steering group for the North of England will be addressing the subject, ‘Sensationalism or sensitivity—do words matter? The importance of communication’. The event was held in LRC Hall, Department of Psychiatry, Pushpagiri, Thiruvalla, Kerala, from 7th August.

#behavioural therapy #India #behavioural science #World Federation for Mental Health #conferences #world mental health day

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mynormsposts · 10 months

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United States of America

Federal Hall was used as the first capital building of the United States. Previously named Pierre L’Enfant, the building was remodeled and renamed into Federal Hall. The current Federal Hall is not the original as the original building was demolished. The current Federal Hall opened up at a later date in 1842. This building is a very important piece of history due to the documents that were presented and led the pathway for the United States that we know today. The Bill of Rights was introduced in this very building. These first 10 amendments are the foundation of the United States. These rights to Freedom of Speech and Press, the right to bear arms, no soldier shall enter a home without consent, and so many more. James Madison wrote the basic human needs and protections for generations to come and introduced the Bill in this building. On July 18, 1776. On the steps of Federal Hall people from all over gathered to hear the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence. Followed by taking the King’s coat of arms off the walls and burning them. It also covered another long lineage of important American history that is still practiced to this day, our first President. George Washington took the oath of becoming the first President of the United States of America in Federal Hall. The new Federal Hall is opened to this day, it has survived for over 150 years and is currently being used as a museum. The Museum is open seven days a week and admission is free. The National Park service overlooks the preservation of this marble building, still letting it be seen and explored by the public. The Federal Hall building stands for democracy, freedom, and is the foundation of the United States and the ideas that came to fruition because of it.

Carmody, Deirdre. “Federal Hall Memorial Is Reopened as Museum.” The New York Times, 21 Oct. 1972, www.nytimes.com/1972/10/21/archives/federal-hall-memorial-is-reopened-as-museum.html?searchResultPosition=8. Accessed 15 July 2023.

National Archives. “The Bill of Rights: How Did It Happen?” National Archives, 14 Dec. 2018, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/how-did-it-happen.

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