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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ? Georgia's Culture Ministry says that a monument to Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin taken down three years ago will be restored.
The ministry's spokeswoman, Elena Samkharadze, said Tuesday that the monument in Stalin's birthplace of Gori will be restored by Dec. 21, his birthdate.
The statue was torn down in 2010 amid a crackdown on Soviet-era monuments launched by pro-Western President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Its restoration is part of a rollback of Saakashvili's legacy after last fall's parliamentary vote that his party lost to a coalition headed by Russia-friendly billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who became the prime minister.
Saakashvili's presidential term does not end until October, but his authority has been further weakened by a constitutional reform that has shifted powers from the presidency to Parliament and the prime minister.
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ATLANTA (AP) ? Jason Heyward might be staying in the leadoff spot.
Heyward homered and drove in two runs to help the Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis 5-2 on Sunday night, capping their first three-game sweep of the Cardinals at home in 10 years.
Heyward hit leadoff for the second straight night and only the third time this season. He has nine homers, including two in the series between NL division leaders.
"I'm getting more comfortable in general," Heyward said. "The more you move, it is hard to get comfortable."
When he moved Heyward to the leadoff spot on Saturday, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said he was "just tinkering." After Sunday night's game, Gonzalez said he's sticking with Heyward atop the lineup "right now, the way we set up."
Gonzalez said the "common denominator" in the three-game sweep was dominant starting pitching.
Following strong starts by Mike Minor and Julio Teheran, Kris Medlen (7-10) allowed two runs on eight hits and a walk in six innings to snap his three-game losing streak.
The three wins came after Tim Hudson, the leader of the staff, sustained a season-ending broken right ankle Wednesday night in New York.
"Nobody needs to be Huddy," Gonzalez said. "Nobody needs to be the ace or that kind of label. Believe me, I'm going to fight that the next two months when we're pitching well. Collectively, I think, as a unit you circle the wagons, you go out there and you get those three performances that we had."
The Cardinals, who lead the NL in batting average and scoring, were held to three runs in the series.
"Obviously, going in we had confidence that we could control their lineup, but knowing the kind of lineup that they have, I'm trying to avoid saying that we were surprised they scored only three runs in the series," Medlen said. "I just think it's how good we are as a staff and as a bullpen. Mike Minor and Julio did a great job and I just wanted to continue that."
The Cardinals aren't accustomed to such meager offense.
"Their guys threw well," manager Mike Matheny said. "I think we probably weren't as locked in as we've been a good portion of this season either, so that makes for a tough combination."
The Braves broke a 2-all tie with two runs in the sixth inning off rookie Shelby Miller (10-7) and two relievers. Pinch-hitter Joey Terdoslavich drove in Chris Johnson with the go-ahead run. Heyward added another run-scoring single.
Miller allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits and two walks in 5 2-3 innings.
The Cardinals were swept in a road series for the first time this season.
"You never want to go into a place and get swept," Miller said. "We were battling the whole time. I don't think we had a terrible series, we just didn't come out on top in any of the games."
The Braves finished their first three-game sweep of the Cardinals at Turner Field since April 2003.
Atlanta relievers Luis Avilan, Jordan Walden and Craig Kimbrel combined for three scoreless innings. Kimbrel pitched a perfect ninth to take the NL lead with his 31st save.
Johnson singled with two outs in the second, moved to third when the ball bounced past Carlos Beltran in right field for an error, and scored on a single by Andrelton Simmons. Heyward's line-drive homer to the front row in right field pushed the lead to 2-0 in the third.
The Cardinals pulled even with two runs in the fifth. Back-to-back doubles by Pete Kozma and Miller produced the first run.
With two outs, Beltran hit a fly-ball single to left field that fell between Evan Gattis and Simmons, who sprinted into the outfield from his shortstop position. Gattis, a natural catcher, was playing deep for the power-hitting Beltran and was slow to break on the ball.
The Braves' two-run sixth began with two outs. Johnson, who entered the night tied with Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina for the NL lead with a .332 batting average, singled for his second hit and moved to third on Simmons' second single. Terdoslavich and Heyward followed with run-scoring hits.
Johnson added his third hit, a double, off Fernando Salas in the eighth to push his average to .338. Reed Johnson reached on an infield single, and Chris Johnson scored on a throwing error by Kozma from shortstop.
Reed Johnson pulled up with an apparent injury after running to first and was replaced by pinch-runner Jose Constanza.
The Braves made two strong defensive plays. Simmons went to his right, falling to his knees, to snag a grounder by David Freese before throwing to second to start a double play in the second. Freddie Freeman leaned over the railing in front of the Atlanta dugout to catch a foul popup by Matt Holliday to end the eighth.
NOTES: Cardinals GM John Mozeliak said the team is "not close to doing anything" before Wednesday's trade deadline. Mozeliak said he is reluctant to trade prospects "for short-term gain." ... Molina had two hits, leaving his average at .334. ... The Braves' last three-game sweep of the Cardinals was May 11-13, 2012, in St. Louis. ... Braves RHP Brandon Beachy, returning from Tommy John surgery, will make his first start of the season Monday night when he faces Colorado's Jorge De La Rosa. The Cardinals open an important NL Central series at Pittsburgh when Jake Westbrook faces Francisco Liriano.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/heywards-homer-helps-braves-sweep-cardinals-5-2-031641981.html
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What began as a united front by women senators to end military sexual assault is turning into a political battle of wills with Democratic lawmakers forcing colleagues to pick sides amid heated rhetoric.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Claire McCaskill of Missouri have staked out competing positions as they court allies in the Senate and within the Pentagon for separate plans aimed at halting what has become an epidemic for the military.
Adding to the pressure is growing discord among former military prosecutors, senior Pentagon officials and victims of sexual assault who have taken sides against one another in their allegiance with congressional opponents. For all involved, the stakes are high. The Pentagon is eager to show that it is responsive, lawmakers are determined to fix what they see as a broken system and survivors want guarantees that the risks they took to speak out were worth it. And time is running out as Congress completes debate on the defense spending bill where real changes can be implemented.
Earlier this year, all 20 women senators?the highest number ever serving in that chamber?spoke with pride of working together, across partisan lines, to end what President Obama has called ?a scourge.? But amid the politicking and lobbying, that unity has begun to unravel. Without action after the August recess, military women may have to wait another year for the chance at Congress relief.
Gillibrand has gathered the support of 44 Senators?Republicans and Democrats?for her Military Justice Improvement Act. The bill would remove the prosecution of serious crimes, such as sexual assault, from the chain of command. Servicewomen have long argued that having a commanding officer preside over a complaint of abuse between two subordinates has often favored the attacker over the victim.
As Gillibrand gets closer to the 51 votes she would need to add the MJIA as an amendment to this defense spending bill, advocates for a competing plan championed by McCaskill have pushed back hard. At a press conference Thursday, McCaskill appeared with several retired female commanders, non-commissioned officers, and members of the Judge Advocate General?s office who all support retaining the current system.
John LaBombard, a spokesperson for McCaskill, told MSNBC that Gillibrand and McCaskill both support a wide range of reforms that are included in McCaskill?s proposal, including ending retaliation against those who report and requiring a dishonorable discharge for those convicted of sex crimes. While both senators have vowed to continue fighting for survivors of military sexual assault?regardless of which reforms end up in the spending bill?the fundamental disagreement over how to fix the system remains.
McCaskill isn?t Gillibrand?s only foe. At an Armed Services Committee hearing in June, at which Democrats were responsible for determining the lion?s share of the witnesses, a dozen members of the military?s top brass testified against the fundamental elements of Gillibrand?s proposal regarding chain of command.
Carl Levin of Michigan, the Democratic chair of the Armed Services Committee chair, made clear where he stood. He killed Gillibrand?s ideas and had McCaskill?s measure approved. Then on Tuesday, Levin went further, releasing two letters from top military officers in an attempt to discredit Gillibrand?s argument that commander involvement in prosecutions prevents cases from being pursued. ?The power to initiate a court martial is perhaps the strongest weapon commanders have to back up efforts to change climate in their units,? Levin said in releasing the letters to the public, a move that was widely seen as undermining Gillibrand.
As Gillibrand has long stressed, the defense department?s own statistics show that the vast majority of unwanted sexual contact in the military is not even reported, perhaps for fear of retribution. Of an estimated 26,000 incidents in 2012, fewer than 3,000 were reported, and only 302 were prosecuted. McCaskill and her supporters have argued that commanders must retain the authority to be involved in investigations and convene courts martial in order to ensure accountability and to protect against retaliation. Her, and Levin?s position, is exactly what the Pentagon leadership is pushing for.
Such voices have long held sway over much of the Armed Services Committee which is tasked with oversight, and not accommodation, of the military?s top brass.
But Gillibrand has the backing of servicemember groups that strongly disagree with the Pentagon view supported by McCaskill and Levin. Taryn Meeks, Executive Director of Protect Our Defenders and a former member of the Navy JAG corps, noted in an interview that a commander is accountable for far more than just prosecuting criminal offenses. Unit cohesion?the concept of maintaining a positive atmosphere within a unit?can trump the desire to punish one member of the unit over another.
?Commanders are responsible for maintaining a healthy ?command climate,? which includes all sorts of matters from physical readiness, to professional development, to a workplace free of hostility and harassment,? Meeks said.
Meeks? group, Protect Our Defenders, sharply criticized McCaskill in an open letter from an assault survivor printed in a Missouri paper earlier this week. The Service Women?s Action Network has also backed Gillibrand?s plan as the only way to start solving the problem.
On a conference call with survivors of military sexual assault held Wednesday, Gillibrand once again compared the fight against military sexual assault to the fight to end Don?t Ask Don?t Tell, the law that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly. ?We?re hearing a lot of the same excuses? for a lack of progress, Gillibrand said, but added that she was ?hopeful? that change is possible. Yet if her measure fails when the Senate debates the defense authorization after the August recess, the next best chance for serious reform won?t come again until next year?s bill.
In a hearing in the House last week on how to improve care for veterans who suffer from military sexual trauma, Gillibrand found extra support from a longtime House ally. Rep. Jackie Speier, the California Democrat who tried to move a companion bill to Gillibrand?s in the House, asked four assault survivors testifying if they believed prosecution should be removed from the chain of command. All four raised their hands immediately.
Source: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/25/democratic-unity-splinters-in-debate-over-military-sexual-assault/
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Here are some things that will give whatever might be on your mind at the moment a little perspective.
You?ve probably seen these images plastered all over the Internet already. But seeing as I blogged about the new pale blue dot before it was taken, here they are:
That?s Saturn, the Earth and moon as they were last Friday evening. I quite like this raw version too:
On the topic of space images, there was a great blog post this week about the term ?false colour? and why we all really need to stop saying it. Dr Robert Hurt explains why he doesn?t like the connotations of deliberate misrepresentation that come with the term, and how ?false? colour images are actually pretty useful in helping us appreciate, for example, the haze of Neptune that we wouldn?t see with our own eyes.
I especially like his point that it?s rather arrogant to call what we see ?true? colour, and visual representations of the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum ?false?:
The idea that out of the entire vast spectrum of light, from gamma rays through radio, only the tiny sliver of light seen by our eyes, sliced into the three filters shared by most humans represent the true colors in the universe is? almost unspeakably arrogant.
There is wonderment to be found in the colors accessible to human eyesight, a fantastic three-dimensional color space of hue and value. I just think it is good to remember a little humility and acknowledge that the particulars of our vision are shaped by a number of accidents of evolution and are no more a ?true? representation of the universe than myriad other possibilities.
(Go read it in full.)
So remember ? we?re on a tiny dot of a planet, and our eyes only allow us to see a tiny slice of the universe. Happy Saturday?
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Most drivers share the same frustration when comes to the construction that's been done on Union Chapel Road.
"I think people want it to be open and everyone wants construction to be done," said Tim Johnston, who works at Parkview Regional Medical Center.
"When is it going to get done? That's the biggest thing," said Ryan Ott, administrator at Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Ott and Johnston are either affected or know workers that have been affected by the over year-long project. The $13.9 million project started April 2012. Indiana Department of Transportation officials said they understand driver's frustration, but the end is in sight for the two separate projects along Union Chapel Road.
"The northbound ramp for I-69 is scheduled to be complete at the end of August," said Mary Foster with INDOT. "Just east of there at Diebold Road and Union Chapel Road, there's an intersection roundabout going in. That's actually scheduled to open on the 31st."
Johnston said the construction has caused affected traffic around the hospital. He said he's witnessed more crashes because of how congested it gets along Dupont?Road by the I-69 interchange.
"Dupont and I69 interchange was, in my opinion, overwhelmed," Johnston said. "There was just a lot more, I assume, employees reporting for work, a lot more visitors coming out this way."
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Foster with INDOT said the project is on schedule, even with some delays throughout the year. The contract to have the projects completed is September of this year.
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INDOT has another project planned along Union Chapel Road. It will be shutting down Auburn Road at Union Chapel Road to put in a roundabout there. INDOT said it would shut down that intersection early August. The project should be done by February 2014, but if weather permits, it could be done as early as December of this year.
Source: http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local/union-chapel-rd-project-should-be-completed-within-the-month
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At his court hearing, Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro said he understood he would never be released from prison under the terms of his plea agreement and added, "I knew I was pretty much going to get the book thrown at me."
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of imprisoning and raping three women for a decade, pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to serve life without parole ? sparing the city an agonizing trial and perhaps the women from reliving their nightmare on the witness stand.
Under a plea agreement, Castro will avoid the death penalty, and a trial that was to start in two weeks will be canceled. Castro agreed to a term of life plus 1,000 years in prison.
?He?s never coming out except nailed in a box or in an ashcan,? said Timothy J. McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor.
Castro must also forfeit the house that investigators say he turned into his personal torture chamber. The county plans to tear it down.
In a hearing that lasted more than two hours, Castro told the judge he was addicted to pornography and was once a victim of sexual abuse himself.
He pleaded guilty to more than 900 criminal counts, including kidnapping, rape and attempted murder. That charge was brought by Ohio prosecutors after one of the women told investigators Castro impregnated her and forced her to miscarry by punching her in the stomach.
Told by a judge that he would be classified as a violent sexual predator, Castro said he objected to the word ?violent.? He said he understood that he was signing away his right to a parole hearing, and to any hope that he might get out of prison before he dies.
?I knew I was going to get pretty much the book thrown at me,? Castro told the judge, Michael J. Russo of Cuyahoga County court.
Castro, 53, was accused of abducting the women ? Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight ? from the Cleveland streets between 2002 and 2004. They were freed in May after Berry broke partway through a door and screamed for help while Castro was out of the house.
Investigators say he beat them, raped them and sometimes chained them in the basement. Castro fathered a daughter, now 6, with Berry, authorities have said. On Friday, when he was asked by the judge whether he had anything else to say, Castro answered: ?I miss my daughter very much.?
They will have the chance to address their admitted captor at a formal sentencing Wednesday.
The women said in a statement through a law firm that they were relieved and satisfied with the guilty plea, and grateful for the support of family and friends and for the $1.2 million that the Cleveland Courage Fund has raised to help them.
?They continue to desire their privacy,? the statement said. ?They do not wish to speak to the media or anyone else, and they thank people for continuing to respect their privacy as they grow stronger.?
The women broke their silence in a three-minute video July 9. In it, Knight said: ?I may have been through hell and back, but I am strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face, and my head held high, and my feet firmly on the ground.?
While they appeared poised in the video, McGinty, the prosecutor, cautioned Friday that it would take a long time for the women to fully recover from their decade of captivity.
?These ladies were held longer than the prisoners of Korea and Vietnam,? he said. ?We are so impressed with their progress so far.?
Castro had pleaded not guilty July 17 at a hearing in which the judge had to ask him to keep his eyes open. Prosecutors said they were considering the death penalty but never announced a decision.
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This story was originally published on Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:50 AM EDT
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GREENSBORO -- Once upon a time, The Wyndham Championship, the Greensboro PGA Tour stop was ailing. Sponsorship was tough to maintain, the date on the calendar was less than favorable.
Those days are over, with the Wyndham Championship now flourishing. News 14 Carolina's Mike Solarte had the chance to visit with Tournament Director Mark Brazil on Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club to cover some of the tournament bases, starting with the greens at the course, switched over from bent grass to bermuda 10 weeks before the start of the event in 2012.
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As reports have come out saying the train that crashed in Spain, killing 78 people, was going twice the speed limit, the train's driver had earlier posted photos bragging about speeding on Facebook. NBC's Keir Simmons reports.
By Alastair Jamieson and Becky Bratu, NBC News
The driver of a Spanish train that derailed causing the deaths of 78 people is being investigated for "recklessness," police said Friday, as a Virginia mother who died was remembered as "very sweet."
Stephen Ward, an 18-year-old who survived this week's train crash in Spain that killed 78 people, described the incident saying, "It felt like a roller coaster."
A judge in Santiago de Compostela requested that police interview 52-year-old Francisco Jose Garzon, as investigators focused on excessive speed as the cause of the accident, one of Europe?s worst rail disasters.
Security video showed the eight-car train derailing after speeding around a tight curve, hitting a wall with such force that one car caught fire and another mounted an embankment and came to rest on a nearby road.
In the moments after the crash, the driver told train operator's emergency service: "I should've been going 80 [49 mph] and I was doing 190 [118 mph]," according to a report in El Pais the newspaper.?NBC News could not confirm the report.
Regional police chief Jaime Iglesias said Garzon was being treated as a suspect, The Associated Press reported, but he added they had not yet been able to question him because of unspecified injuries he sustained in the crash.?Garzon was under a police guard at a hospital.
Iglesias said?Garzon was being investigated for criminal behavior in causing the accident and "recklessness," Reuters reported.
A spokeswoman for the supreme court in the Galicia region told the news service that Garzon had not yet been charged and evidence including the train's "black box" was being assembled.
"We're collecting elements to be used as evidence, videos, audios and all the technical work that is being done on the train," she said.
State train company Renfe said the driver was a 30-year veteran of the firm with more than a decade of train driving experience. ?
His Facebook account included a March 2012 picture he had taken showing a cab speedometer marking 124 mph, according to El Pais.
CCTV video captured the horrifying moment that a train derailed in Spain Wednesday, killing dozens of people and injuring scores more.
Ninety-five of the injured were still being treated in hospitals Friday, 32 of them, including four children, in a serious condition. Police revised the death toll downward from 80 to 78 on Friday.
As workers removed the last of the blackened, twisted cars from the scene Friday, survivors told of the horrifying moment when the train, packed with people heading to Galicia for a regional holiday, left the tracks.
"It was like a scene from hell,? 18-year-old Mormon missionary Stephen Ward, from Utah, told the U.K.'s?The Daily Telegraph?from his hospital bed in Spain. ?I thought I was dreaming. There was blood everywhere, my own and other people's. And bodies were being carried out ? Some were already dead and others looked like they were about to die."
Among the dead was American Ana-Maria Cordoba, 47, who worked for the Catholic church as a benefits specialist for the Arlington Diocese in Virginia, just outside Washington D.C., NBCWashington.com reported.
"She was very well-liked... [and] very helpful.?She had a deep faith and was so very sweet,? diocese spokesman Michael Donahue said.
Cordoba was traveling with her husband and daughter, who were both listed in stable condition at a local hospital.
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American crash victim Ana Maria Cordoba was traveling with her husband and daughter.
They were among many Catholic passengers bound for Santiago de Compostela for the city?s annual St James festival, which had been due to take place Thursday.
A State Department official confirmed she had died, saying ?we extend our deepest condolences to her loved ones.??
Among the American survivors were Robert and Myrta Fariza of Houston, Texas, who had been on their way to their daughter's wedding.
Robert Fariza said their car flipped over. "It became chaos, things flew and everything, it was sudden darkness and I was kind of thrown on one side of the train and that's why I'm kind of all kinds of beaten up here, and my wife, unfortunately, she was sitting on the side where the train flipped over, so everything kind of fell on her," he said.
"There were dead people everywhere, unfortunately, and right next to me there was a young man who had died right there.?
As Spain absorbed the aftermath of Wednesday night?s crash, stories emerged of heroism during the rescue effort ? and heart-break as relatives waited in hospital for news of their loved ones.
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A fireman prepares to take an injured girl from Abel Rivas, a local man who has been hailed a hero after carrying a number of victims from the mangled wreck of the train.
Newspaper La Voz De Galicia reported that local resident Abel Rivas, 29, had been hailed a hero after carrying a number of victims from the mangled wreck, including a five-year-old girl.
He acted ?instinctively,? he told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, El Pais gave an account of how a simple wedding ring had reunited a distraught couple with their seriously injured daughter, who survived the crash.
It said the couple had been waiting to meet Veronica Martinez Vazquez, 39, less than three miles up the track at Santiago de Compostela station.
When news of the accident broke, the couple spent more than 12 hours calling every local hospital, as well as the sports center that was used as a temporary morgue, but could find no news about their daughter.
Eventually one hospital said it had a female patient in a coma, whose injuries were so bad she could only be described by her gender, height, approximate age and that she was wearing an engraved ring.
The couple said a hospital doctor told them the inscription on the ring was "Finisterre, 2012" ? which they immediately recognized as the time and place of Veronica?s wedding.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he and his wife Michelle were ?shocked and saddened? by the derailment.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
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Scores are killed and injured in a train derailment in NW Spain.
This story was originally published on Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:27 AM EDT
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