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Today is the last day of Pascha for Christians of the Byzantine tradition. Each major feast on the Church calendar has an Apodosis that comes, normally, at the end of the octave. The hymns for Matins, the hours, Vespers, Compline, and the Divine Liturgy are repeated as on the first day of the feast. For Pascha, however, the Leave-Taking is on the vigil of the Ascension, but, with the exception of the changed lectionary, the services are the same as for Easter Sunday. Two years ago, Orthodox blogger, John Sanidopoulos, had a nice reflection on the reason for an Apodosis:...

The Republic of Ireland players were booed as they took the knee as their game against Hungary kicked off. Stephen Kenny’s men played out a 0-0 draw against the Hungarians in Budapest on Tuesday night. As the referee blew the whistle to get things under way, the Ireland players took the knee in support of the anti-racism movement in football. However, the Hungarians stayed standing, pointing the UEFA’s “Respect” badge on their sleeves, while the home fans booed. …

Author Ed Husain visited places of worship across UK for Among the Mosques Would turn up unannounced to the largest weekly gathering, Friday prayers Spoke to taxi drivers, business owners, Imams and worshipers about religion Islam in Britain is dominated by ultra-orthodox sect promoted by the Deobandis Control over half of Britain's mosques, and gave birth to Taliban in Afghanistan One person described 'Bolton, Dewsbury and Blackburn' as 'different universe' Books for sale detail how women should be banned from leaving the house Mosque in Didsbury, in converted church, has a sign for the 'Sharia Department' White men revealed 'no-go...

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Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert trolled Kamala Harris over her persistent refusal to visit the border by placing a cardboard cut out of the vice president at the wall. While Harris was in Mexico meeting President Manuel Lopez Obrador 500 miles away, the freshman Colorado congresswomen visited McAllen, Texas, and 'took the VP to the border' herself.... ...Boebert released the video on the day Harris faced renewed pressure over why she has snubbed visits to the border, despite mounting criticism and invitations. On Tuesday afternoon she snapped at reporters during a briefing in Mexico for allowing the border crisis to overshadow...

An Alabama man was arrested Thursday and charged with crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.Jonathan Walden, 46, of Birmingham, is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, aiding and abetting as well as entering and remaining on restricted grounds.Walden was arrested in Chilton County according to the US Attorney’s Middle District of Alabama Office.According to a statement released by the FBI, Walden allegedly sent a message to co-defendant Joshua James sometime before Jan. 5 looking to join the quick reaction force team set to provide military-like support at the breach. The message...

New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the Kalvestene grave field, a renowned site in Scandinavian folklore.The archaeologists from Flinders University conducted detailed surveys to determine whether a 17th century illustration of the site completed by the famous Enlightenment antiquarian, Ole Worm, was accurate, as part of the first survey since the National Museum of Denmark discovered and restored 10 tombs on a small island off the eastern coast almost a century ago.The burial site is made up of monuments that, according to legend, commemorate...

The researchers from the University of Cádiz (UCA) found well-preserved Roman baths with walls more than 13 feet high at the Caños de Meca beach in Spain's Andalusia region, the university said in a statement.Only two rooms have been excavated so far, with most of the site remaining untouched. UCA said the site is estimated to spread over 2.5 acres.The walls of the two excavated rooms had been covered by sand "after their abandonment in Late Antiquity," UCA said.Some medieval ceramics from the 12th and 13th centuries were also found near the baths.At a separate UCA excavation on Andalusia's Cape...

This is a HUGE development! Three different states toured the Arizona Audit floor on Tuesday afternoon. Representatives from Georgia, Alaska and Colorado toured the facility! Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado to tour the AZ election audit today. — Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) June 8, 2021 On Tuesday Morning, OAN’s Christina Bobb reported that delegations from Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado are inside of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum for a tour of the historic Arizona audit process. They are now on the floor for a deep dive into this process and it’s logistics. The Gateway Pundit reported Monday that Georgia would tour the Veterans...

Tomorrow, The Committee will bundle up Joe Biden, titular president of the United States, and take him for a nice ride across the big, big ocean in a very shiny airplane. Weeee! No details have been released yet about what flavors of ice cream he will enjoy, but The Committee’s press arm has been full of stories with titles like ‘Three things to watch on Biden’s first foreign trip’. This is not a difficult assignment. The big boys and girls who arrange Joe’s play-dates have told all his favorite friends in the media exactly what to say. And just a...

Regular CNN viewers will have noticed that since Tuesday, CNN's New Day and a number of other CNN shows have been displaying an on screen tabulation of the number of mass shootings and deaths from mass shootings so far this year, in much the same style the network had been using to keep track of COVID death statistics.This latest wave of liberal activism on the gun issue may have been the result of the liberal network's law enforcement analyst, retired police chief Charles Ramsey, who recommended such media activism to pressure politicians on the issue, as he appeared on CNN,...

Brexit and university cutbacks are fuelling a crisis in recruitment of skilled workers

The brainchild of progressive President Woodrow Wilson, the modern administrative state is rooted in a preference for rule by an enlightened clerisy. “Trust the experts.” Then came COVID-19. The virus dealt an irreparable blow to the credibility of our ruling class and its ­appeal to its own authority as a ­coterie of highly credentialed and capable experts. No single person exemplifies this fall more than Dr. Anthony Fauci . As Steve Deace and Todd Erzen detail in their new book, “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History,” Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself throughout the pandemic ....

The brainchild of progressive President Woodrow Wilson, the modern administrative state is rooted in a preference for rule by an enlightened clerisy. “Trust the experts.” Then came COVID-19. The virus dealt an irreparable blow to the credibility of our ruling class and its ­appeal to its own authority as a ­coterie of highly credentialed and capable experts. No single person exemplifies this fall more than Dr. Anthony Fauci . As Steve Deace and Todd Erzen detail in their new book, “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History,” Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself throughout the pandemic ....

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday will take on extra urgency this month with the news that at least six previously undocumented vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild. Details on the active attacks are scarce but clues from some of Microsoft’s newest bulletins suggest these were part of extremely targeted APT malware campaigns. Kaspersky zero-day hunter Boris Larin, who was credited with reporting two of the in-the-wild discoveries -- CVE-2021-31955 and CVE-2021-31956 -- says the attacks were part of a sophisticated cross-browser exploit chain that also hit flaws in Google’s flagship Chrome browser. “These attacks exploited a chain of Google Chrome...

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday that archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman basilica established by King Herod. Unearthed in Ashkelon National Park, the basilica, found with a nearby odeon (ancient theater), is the largest structure of its kind in Israel... The basilica he erected stood at the heart of Ashkelon—then a major seaport with a thriving trade economy—and functioned as a hub for all aspects of public life. In the Roman Era, it was common for citizens to conduct business and legal affairs, to socialize, and to attend religious ceremonies and performances there. The massive public building contained...

Three poll watchers have sworn under penalty of perjury that the ballots looked fake. Concerns from a polling manager in Georgia's Fulton County about the unusual uniformity of mail-in ballots is the basis for the court-delayed inspection effort that is expected to resume in the coming weeks. Polling manager Suzi Voyles says that when counting absentee ballots for the 2020 presidential election, thousands of them, perhaps tens of thousands, for then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to have been photocopied. Voyles' observation and similar ones from at least three other poll workers prompted them to come forward and swear under...

Mardonios had urged the King not to abandon the enterprise even after the debacle at Salamis. According to Mardonios there was a way to invade the Peloponnese even without a ferry and he argued with the King that he could proceed to that invasion the following year if he had 300,000 men, that is, half of the army that had come to Greece in 380 B.C.Mardonios marched with the King's army up to Thessaly and there he went into winter quarters. The following spring he was joined by 40,000 men under Artabazos who had followed the King in his withdrawal...

To limit pollution and traffic congestion in Beijing, officials in 2011 imposed a citywide restriction on the number of automobiles residents can purchase annually. That policy has helped limit car sales and emissions. But the system has a loophole: Beijing residents have been going elsewhere in China to purchase cars, then bringing them home. As a new study co-authored by MIT scholars finds, this policy "leakage" reduces the intended impact of the car-restriction system by about 35 percent. So, while Beijing adds fewer new cars per year than it once did, and its aggressive policy action has had an impact,...

GEOLOGIST BIRGER SCHMITZ doesn’t just look for ordinary rocks. The Lund University professor trots the globe in search of millions or billions of year-old dust from space. His travels have recently taken him to California, Sweden, China, and Russia, collecting 10,000 kilograms of cosmic sedimentary rock from 15 different windows of time over the past 500 million years of Earth-fallen meteorites. Schmitz tells Inverse that the purpose of this extensive search was to trace the origins of meteorites. Instead of finding answers, though, Schmitz and his colleagues only came up with more questions. And it’s causing a re-think to the...