Margaret Thatcher funeral guest list
The funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to be held at St Paul's Cathedral next Wednesday.
The Queen and Prince Philip will be at the service. Downing Street has sent 2,000 invitations out to foreign dignitaries, UK politicians and family friends of Baroness Thatcher.
Those who will receive invitations to the 11am ceremonial service include ex US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Confirmed guests so far include her successor Sir John Major, Tony Blair and wife Cherie, Gordon and Sarah Brown and current Prime Minister David Cameron.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson Wholesale Bags and London mayor Boris Johnson will also attend.
Former South Africa leader FW de Klerk, singers Dame Shirley Bassey and Katherine Jenkins, composer Lord Lloyd Webber and wife Madeleine and Lord Jeffrey Archer with wife Mary will also be in the congregation.
Former Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, actor Michael Crawford most famous for his roles in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and Phantom of the Opera, and Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the world wide web have accepted their invitations.
Singers Dame Vera Lynn and Elaine Paige, actors Sir Michael Caine and Robert Hardy and veteran wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenborough will all be at St Paul's.
Others on the guestlist are Olympics supremo and Joan Collins, broadcasters Sir Terry Wogan, Sir Trevor McDonald and Sir David Frost, fashion designer Anya Hindmarch, sitcom queen June Whitfield and lyricist Tim Rice.
All surviving former US Presidents Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush a Reagan family representative, and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were invited to the event. But President Barack Obama announced a Wholesale Handbags Presidential delegation would be sent led by George Shultz and James Baker III, Secretaries of State from the Thatcher era. Also part of the delegation are Barbara Stephenson, Charge d'Affaires at the US Embassy in London, and Louis Susman, former American Ambassador to the UK and Northern Ireland. Former US vice president Dick Cheney and ex secretary of state Henry Kissinger will also be there but not as part of the delegation.
Germany leader Angela Merkel was invited but is instead sending Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy is also staying away. Argentina's ambassador has turned down his invitation.
Ten members of staff from the Ritz hotel, where Lady Thatcher died on Monday, have also been invited to her funeral as thanks for the care she received. The 87 year old had been staying at the five star hotel since Christmas.
Family, friends and colleagues will also be at the ceremonial service, which will take place with full military honours.
Other confirmed attendees include:
Michael Portillo and his wife CarolynLord Charles Powell, Lady Thatcher's former private secretaryLord Carrington, Margaret Thatcher's first Foreign Secretary and later head of NATOCanadian Prime Minister Stephen HarperFormer Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulrooney, who was in office from 1984 to 1993Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and wife Janette, representing AustraliaLord and Lady Harris of Peckham.
Invitations will be sent out on Friday 12 April. The white VIP invitations will see guests seated under the Cathedral's famous dome. A red or green stripe will show whether they are to sit on the port or starboard side. Other invitations are colour coded relating to where guests are to be seated in the cathedral.
Guests at the funeral will be asked to wear full day ceremonial dress without swords, morning dress with a black waistcoat and Cheap Sunglasses black tie or dark suit, day dress with hat. Medals and decorations may be worn.
A spokeswoman said: "Those invited include family and friends of Lady Thatcher, those who worked with her over the years, including all surviving members of her Cabinets, former Chiefs of Staff, Conservative associates, peers and MPs, members of the Cabinet, peers and MPs, members of the Order of the Garter, members of the Order of Merit, foreign associates and dignitaries and representatives from the wide range of groups she was associated with.
"In agreement with Lady Thatcher's representatives, around 200 states, territories and international organisations are being invited to send an official representative to the funeral service.
"We have invited those countries and institutions with whom we have normal diplomatic relations. In addition, there are invitations being made in a personal capacity to some current and former Wholesale Sunglasses world leaders as well as others from overseas who had a close connection to Baroness Thatcher."
Mikhail Gorbachev will not be attending due to ill health, and Nancy Reagan whose husband Ronald worked closely with Thatcher as the Cold War drew to an end, has said she cannot attend due to her age.
Lord Kinnock, Labour leader during most of the Thatcher years, will not be there as he had already promised to go to the funeral of a councillor in his old constituency.
History of Abilene Christian University
Barret and Charles Roberson were riding in a buggy near Barret's home in Discount Bags Denison, Texas, on their way to a gospel meeting when Barret first said to Roberson, "Let's build a school in West Texas."
That was in 1903. Barret soon moved west and traveled by buggy with his wife and friends to raise more support.
Col. Childers, a leader in the Abilene church, agreed to sell Barret some land he owned west of town and deducted about $2,000 from the price of the land on the condition that the school would be named in his honor. The Childers Classical Institute opened its doors in the fall of 1906 with 25 students enrolled for classes.
The five acres occupied by the institute included the old Childers mansion, a two story frame house used as the president's home and girl's dormitory. Boys boarded in private homes approved by the president. An eight room administration building was constructed on the site for $8,000.
Only the 11 primary and secondary grades were offered that first semester. College courses were not accredited for eight years. By the end of the first school year 85 students were enrolled.
Childers' first years were difficult for everyone, particularly the students. Cold classrooms, crowded living conditions and a water shortage necessitated hard work and ingenuity on the part of everyone. Whiteside, and James F. Cox, who served another term as president from 1931 1940.
To complicate matters, Col. Childers hired an attorney to collect on a note he had retained on the land and mansion. The school had to borrow money at 15 percent interest to pay the debt, making it difficult to meet operating expenses.
1912A good businessman was needed and found in Jesse P. Sewell, who became the president Cheap Handbags in 1912. Sewell declined the offer of a salaried position as president, opting instead to run the school as though it were a personal business enterprise. Sewell certainly didn't get rich in the deal, but the college benefited from approximately $60,000 donated to the school by the Sewells during his 12 year presidency.
With Sewell's new approach came a new identity for the school. Since its beginning the Institute had been commonly referred to as Abilene Christian or the Christian college in Abilene. When Sewell became president, the school began using the name Abilene Christian College in its catalog and other printed materials.
Lawrence Smith explained that the original deed to the Childers land required that the school be named after the colonel. Childers' heirs threatened to sue if the name were changed. In 1920, the school paid the family $4,000 and formally changed its name to Abilene Christian College.
Sewell's leadership brought the college out of debt. The campus was enlarged by four new brick buildings, an enlarged administration building and six frame structures, and an increased enrollment of about 300 students during his final term. Sewell's reign also resulted in accreditation as a junior college in 1914 and as a senior college in 1919.
1924Batsell Baxter became the young school's sixth president when Sewell resigned in 1924. Baxter initiated more relaxed restrictions on the social privileges of students, and student activities and organizations increased in importance.
Continued growth demanded more space, and in 1927 the Board of Trustees appointed a committee to investigate new locations for the school. San Angelo made an attractive offer of two sections of land and $50,000 for building, to which the Abilene Chamber of Commerce responded by raising $75,000 to help keep the college from moving. With this contribution, the college trustees decide to purchase 680 acres on a hill one mile northeast of Abilene known as the Hashknife Ranch. Nearby residents donated 75 additional acres.
1929Life on the original campus continued as usual while construction began on the Hill. Then on Jan. 28, 1929, the old administration building caught fire. Smith, then an employee in the business office, served as fire marshal and instructed the firemen to soak the southwest part of the building so the records could be saved. A human chain was assembled to move the library books, and some holdings were salvaged, but most of the building was gutted.
Opening of the new campus was scheduled for Sept. 5, 1929. To Cheap Replica Handbags meet the deadline the contractor put three shifts to work. New facilities included an administration building, two dormitories, an education building that housed the elementary and high schools, a dining hall, a president's home, a gymnasium and an auditorium. Only six weeks later, the stock market crashed on "Black Thursday," Oct. 29, 1929. The Depression plunged the college deep in financial debt.
Loans kept the school from closing each semester, and salaries were cut in 1930. President Baxter and Dean James F. Cox took 15 percent salary cuts. Faculty salaries were cut 10 percent. The next year, all salaries were cut in half.
Financial struggles worsened in the early 1930s, and by 1933 many bonds were coming due. John G. Hardin, also a major benefactor of Hardin Simmons University, helped alleviate many of the growing financial pressures with a gift of $160,000 in bonds. Later the school borrowed $40,000 more from Hardin to retire some urgent notes.
Under Baxter's leadership, and later during the presidency of James Cox, the college survived the Depression.
1940Don H. Morris, Replica Handbags then head of the speech department, took office as president in 1940. A sparse student population through World War II was followed by unprecedented enrollment increases after the war. Housing posed the biggest problem. Army in the spring of 1946, were moved to the Hill to house students and provide additional classroom and office space. The college was officially accredited Dec. 6, 1951, by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The postwar prosperity allowed several new buildings to be constructed to accommodate the increasing student body, which passed the 2,000 mark in 1955. Between 1940 and 1961, five dormitories, a science building, a president's home, a cafeteria and both wings of the administration building were completed.
In 1957, Morris recommended that a planning committee be appointed. The following February the board of trustees appointed a master planning council "to study academic, financial and plant problems facing the college."
1962From among board members, the Advisory Board, administration, faculty, alumni and students, 24 individuals were appointed to the council, which then established 10 subcommittees to study specific areas or problems. Four years later, in April 1962, the "Design for Development, Abilene Christian College, 1962 72," was adopted by the board of trustees.
Those 10 years produced $10.8 million in gifts and brought many changes to the campus, including Brown Library, McGlothlin Campus Center, Moody Coliseum, Gibson Health and Physical Education Center, Sherrod Residential Park, the Don H. Morris Hall, Smith Adams Hall and Sikes Hall. In his final chapel speech Sept. 27, 1973, Chancellor Morris said, "This is no ordinary college."
1969Morris became chancellor in 1969 when Dr. John C. Stevens, historian, World War II chaplain and former Abilene City Councilman, was named president. Stevens' 12 year term was marked by upgrades to campus housing, improvement in the school's financial aid program for its students, and more enrollment gains. ACC had enrolled 3,000 for the first time in 1965, and it passed the 4,000 mark in 1977.
1976"ACC" officially became "ACU" Feb. 22, 1976, by vote of the Board of Trustees. A committee chaired by trustee Jack Pope, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, recommended the change. Trustees, under the leadership of Ray McGlothlin, Jr., unanimously approved the new name.
1981ACU's endowment grew from $18 million to $56 million in the presidency of Dr. William J. Teague, former assistant to Morris and corporate and university executive who returned to ACU to succeed Stevens as president in 1981. The decade of the 1980s produced $78 million in gifts to the university, and Judge Ely Blvd. was moved east to accommodate construction of new buildings for Bible and business administration.
ACU added its School of Nursing in 1981, and in 1986 the NPR affiliate KACU FM was launched. Teague had said in his inaugural address, "One individual with conviction can and does make a difference in our world."
1991Enrollment rebounded in the 1990s during the presidency of Dr. Royce Money, Bible professor and licensed family therapist who took office June 1, 1991. ACU attracted students from all 50 states and 60 nations and endeavored to take its place as a national leader in Christian higher education. Money acknowledged that ACU is not the church, but he added, "ACU will remain loyal to the Biblical and historical principles that have distinguished our religious history."
Brain Injuries Raise New Concerns for Young Athletes
For almost a decade, Jacob Bell was living his dream: making millions playing professional football, starting 100 games for the Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams.
But every season, he took thousands of hits to the head, and he worried about the toll it might be taking on his brain health. Then came a moment of truth: the suicide of longtime NFL player Junior Seau.
"Seau's death rocked everybody. It rocked me a lot," Bell said. "The fact that there is a chance it was football related and the fact that I was a football player, it hit home with me."
And so he quit the NFL, walking away from a free agent contract with the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this month.
"We're getting so much money, so much glory, so much fame; we're boosting our egos so much by playing a sport red bottom shoes that's violent and could later on risk our lives," Bell said.
He said his plan now is to act as an advocate for players, alerting them to the dangers of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. First discovered about a decade ago in the brains of former football players, it's a degenerative disease linked to symptoms like dementia, erratic behavior, and suicide. The small cadre of doctors who study CTE have diagnosed it in dozens of now dead NFL players.
The issue of head injuries has cast a dark shadow over football for several years. But a string of louboutin replica recent events, including Seau's suicide, left many wondering if the risks of football are worth the rewards.
Tom Brady, Sr., the father of Superbowl star Tom Brady, told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday that he would be "very hesitant" to let his son play football if he had to make the decision today knowing what he does now about CTE.
"This head thing is frightening for little kids," he said. "There's the physical part of it and the mental part it's becoming very clear there are very serious long term ramifications."
He was responding to a recent remark made by former NFL player Kurt Warner, who told a radio show that the idea of letting his own children play football is a "scary thing."
The NFL released a statement in February, saying that the league "has long made player safety a priority and continues to take steps to protect players and advance the science and medical understanding of the management and treatment of concussions." In 2010, the league donated a $1 million grant, no strings attached, to Boston University School of Medicine's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), which researches brain disease in retired football players.
But there is increasing evidence that the way the game is played is leaving a trail of invisible injuries, even among amateur athletes who have never sustained the kind of knock out concussions often seen on the NFL gridiron.
According to research published in this month's issue of Neurology, a football player could sustain 8,000 hits over the course of a four year high school and a four year college career combined.
Owen Thomas is one of the youngest players ever diagnosed with CTE. It was discovered in his brain after he committed suicide during his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the captain of the football team. He was 21.
His mother, Katherine Brearley, had struggled to find a reason why her son, whom she described red bottom shoes cheap as upbeat and vivacious, would suddenly take his own life.
"I thought, there has to be smoking gun here," she said. But she had never heard of CTE when Chris Nowinski of the Sports Legacy Institute, an organization that studies the link between trauma and brain health, contacted her about donating her son's brain for research.
"I was astounded because when they asked for his brain to louboutin shoes replica analyze his brain for concussion effects. I said, 'Well, he never had any concussions'. I didn't think that they would find anything. I was sure they wouldn't find anything," she said.
Palo Verde grinds out big victory
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You are hereHome SportsPalo Verde quarterback Parker Rostlooks for running room against the Arbor View defense during a football game at Arbor View High School in North Las Vegas, Nev. Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. (David Cleveland/Las Vegas Review Journal)
Palo Verde quarterback Parker Rostbreaks free from Arbor View defender Luke Thompson (41) for a touchdown score during a football game at Arbor View High School in North Las Vegas, Nev. Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. (David Cleveland/Las Vegas Review Journal)
The numbers show that Palo Verde's defense completely shut down Arbor View on Friday night as the seventh ranked Panthers clinched the Northwest League title with a 21 7 road win over the No. 4 Aggies.
While the Palo Wholesale Fake Sunglasses Verde defense was stout, the unit got a huge assist from the offense. Palo Verde (8 1, 5 0) held on to the ball for 18:51 of the second half to help ensure Arbor View never had a chance to find a rhythm.
"The plan was to come out, keep grinding them in the run game and then score," said quarterback Parker Rost, who ran for two scores and threw for another. "It just so happened that we just kept control of the ball and kept getting first downs. That's our game, to just keep running the ball and moving it down the field. It's all about just getting positive yards and first downs, and that's what we did."
Arbor View (7 2, 4 1) managed just 38 yards of offense after halftime and 127 in the game.
"I'm just proud of the kids," said Palo Verde coach Darwin Rost, the quarterback's father. "We've been preparing for them for three weeks. Our kids know the double wing, but (Arbor View) does a great job."
The Panthers led 14 7 at halftime after Rost ran in a 6 yard touchdown with 1:47 left in the second quarter. Palo Verde took the opening kickoff of the second half and kept it for 14 plays before a missing a 25 yard field goal.
Arbor View tried to capitalize and worked the ball downfield with two completions and a pass interference penalty, but Dallas White intercepted an Andrew Cornwell pass at the Palo Verde 14 yard line on the second play of the fourth quarter and returned in 21 yards to halt the Aggies' only second half threat.
Palo Verde went right back to work, deliberately moving the ball downfield on a 12 play, 65 yard drive capped by Rost's 22 yard TD run.
"We put that offense in because it keeps our defense off the field, and we can grind, grind, grind, too," the elder Rost said. "I'm proud of the kids for executing and hanging on to the ball. You can't turn the ball over in a game like this. You just can't."
Rost ran for a game high 79 yards and accounted for all three touchdowns.
"Arbor View beat us for the league championship on our field last year, and Parker held that in the back of his mind. It motivated him in the weight room and everything, so he really wanted it really bad," Rost said of his son. "He's a student of the game. He's been around the game since he's been born. He really wanted this one bad, and he's worked hard to get there. He said, 'Coach, give me the ball. I want it.' He was telling me all week, on the way to school and the way back home. Everywhere."
Palo Verde had control from the very beginning after Arbor View's Anthony Smith fumbled on the opening play and the Panthers recovered at the Aggies' 29. Rost threw to a wide open Jake Ortale for a 19 yard touchdown pass three plays later.
Arbor View took advantage of a short field to tie the game midway through the second quarter as Salah Boyce ran for a 3 yard TD just a few plays after Rost fumbled in the backfield on a broken play and set up the Aggies at the Palo Verde 14.
Arbor View will host Legacy in the Sunset Region quarterfinals on Friday. Palo Verde will host Cimarron Memorial.
Centennial 28, Legacy 17 At Centennial, Lantz Worthington's 91 yard run in the fourth quarter helped the Bulldogs erase a 17 0 deficit and sparked a key win to secure the Southwest Division's No. 2 seed.
After the Longhorns scored all of their points during the first Michael Kors Cheap quarter, Centennial (5 4, 4 Cheap Michael Kors Outlet 1) capitalized on four Legacy turnovers to score 28 unanswered points over the last three quarters.
Worthington finished with 125 yards on 13 carries, while Hunter Brown intercepted Legacy's Devin Williams in the third quarter, then recovered a key fumble by Williams in the fourth quarter for the Bulldogs.
Centennial quarterback Coll Thomson scored twice, both on 2 yard runs.
DeMichael Walker ran for 110 yards and a touchdown on 20 attempts for Legacy (6 3, 3 2), while Casey Hughes rushed for 72 yards and a touchdown on 13 attempts.
The win means Centennial will host Northwest No. 3 seed Shadow Ridge next week, while Southwest No. 3 seed Legacy will face Northwest No. 2 seed Arbor View in a rematch from earlier this season, when the Longhorns won the annual Battle of the Bulls game, 7 0 at Arbor View.
Bishop Gorman 69, Desert Oasis 7 At Desert Oasis, the Gaels scored 69 points on 29 plays and cruised to a win a over the Diamondbacks and another Southwest League title.
Randall Cunningham Jr. completed all five of his passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns for Bishop Gorman (9 2, 5 0 Southwest). He also scored on a 50 yard run. Alize Jones caught two passes for 64 yards and a touchdown and returned a kickoff 64 yards for another score.
Bishop Gorman racked up 305 yards on 18 plays, maintaining possession for only 6:07 of the first half.
CPD Officers Shoot Suspect Believed To Be Connected To Carjackin
A man suspected to be connected to the Dublin carjacking incident was shot by two Columbus police officers in west Columbus.According to Dublin chi flat iron website police, two male suspects ran from responding officers. One of the suspects was immediately arrested. The second suspect, identified as Charles Gollihue, 37, ran from officers and allegedly carjacked a woman in a black Pontiac Grand AM at gunpoint in the area of Frantz Road and Tuttle Blvd.An alert was issued for the suspect and stolen vehicle, that had Ohio registration with the license plate number FOX8776. An unknown amount of cash was stolen during the robbery.Columbus police said Dublin police told investigators that they had developed information that the suspect may have been returning to the area of West Broad Street and Hague Avenue.Two undercover officers responded to the call, and proceeded to enter an abandoned garage that the suspect had entered.The suspect was shot multiple times during the confrontation that ensued.Police said they found a pellet gun and cash at chi hair straighteners the scene of the shooting, but that the suspect did not fire at the officers.The man was transported to Mount Carmel West Hospital in critical condition. No other injuries were reported.Police have not confirmed that the suspect who was shot is chi hair products Gollihue, but Columbus police said chi flat iron official website the shooting is related to the carjacking.A witness told NBC4 she heard six or seven gunshots, and then responding police officers told her to get away from the area as they secured the perimeter.
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