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President Nelson dedicates Sapporo Japan Temple

Edit Deseret News 22 Aug 2016
Each temple “stands as a symbol of our membership in the church, a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families,” said President Nelson, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ... He noted that in 1949, Elder Matthew Cowley of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited Japan to dedicate the first building acquired by the church after the war....

Sapporo Japan Temple is a fulfillment of repeated prophecy

Edit Deseret News 22 Aug 2016
Before the temple dedication, President Nelson, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said each temple “stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.” ... Lee, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, made a similar promise to the Latter-day Saints in Sapporo....

Typhoon Mindulle Bears Down on Tokyo, Set to Make Landfall Today

Edit Bloomberg 22 Aug 2016
The typhoon was located about 190 kilometers (118 miles) south of Tokyo as of 8 a.m ... The weather agency issued heavy rain and flood warnings for all 23 wards of central Tokyo, while the Prime Minister’s Office warned of possible landslides and damage from strong waves. Japan Airlines Co ... ....

Louisiana Flood: What The World Doesn’t Know

Edit Inquisitr 22 Aug 2016
Devastated local residents still find the flood baffling as the rainfall didn’t seem comparable to the flood waters that damaged so many homes ... In the days that followed, rainfall continued but the flash flood warnings ceased as water receded rapidly. The extensive damage has impacted approximately 110,000 homes statewide which totals an estimated $21 billion in damaged residential and commercial real estate....

LEADING OFF: Tie for NL batting lead, Strasburg vs Bundy

Edit The Washington Times 22 Aug 2016
A look at what's happening all around the majors Monday.. ___. EVEN RACE. DJ LeMahieu has a chance to take sole possession of the NL batting lead when Colorado opens a series in Milwaukee. LeMahieu and Washington's Daniel Murphy are tied at .345 - both are 150 for 435 - ... ....

Games' legacy: bizarre, brilliant

Edit Times Union 22 Aug 2016
... in a grass skirt as a DJ performed, reprising a moment that captured attention when he carried the flag for his country during the opening ceremony....

Girls behind Decks

Edit Skiddle 22 Aug 2016
Cargo in London. Monday 22nd August 2016 ... Minimum Age. 18 ... We’ll have our top female resident DJ’s spinning old and new tracks throughout this night of soul searching and go-to tunes ... ....

Walker church among those providing aid after Louisiana flood

Edit The Times Picayune 22 Aug 2016
WALKER, La ... and conducting prayer services ... The Baton Rouge area got thunderstorms with at least 2 to 3 inches of rain Sunday, said the National Weather Service, which posted a flash flood warning for part of the day ... Officials are setting up a temporary bus system to help people in and around Baton Rouge whose vehicles were damaged by flooding ... Because of the damage, he said they'll start over, as will many others affected by the flood....

High toxin level in Rock crabs, shellfish prompt warning

Edit The Oklahoman 22 Aug 2016
The warning applies to mussels, clams and the internal organs of scallops caught in the area....

Analysis: Flooding heaps new financial woes on Louisiana

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 22 Aug 2016
While FEMA will reimburse much of the cost of rescue and recovery work, the price tag for the state's share could still be sizable — tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars — because the flood damage is so extensive....

Ex-Cub LeMahieu, NL batting leader, ‘happy’ how trade worked out

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 22 Aug 2016
DENVER – DJ LeMahieu doesn’t play the what-if game after more than four seasons, even when the Cubs come to down, even as the best team in baseball, even when asked. “I’m certainly happy where I’m at right now,” said the Rockies second baseman, who doubled during Colorado’s eighth-inning comeback Friday night and went 3-for-4 with a home run Sunday during the Rockies’ rout of the Cubs to win the three-game series ... “Yeah,” he said ... ....

Typhoon Dianmu kills seven in VN (NCHMF - National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Aug 2016
Some 252 trees were uprooted and strewn across streets, and in some cases damaged adjacent buildings and vehicles parked under them. Fourteen bridges across the affected provinces were severely damaged ... Blackouts occurred in a number of areas due to fallen power poles and damaged transmission lines ... They caused damages of more than VNĐ6.7 trillion (US$297.7 million), according to the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development....

Teachers displaced by flood pose challenge to Louisiana schools

Edit The Times Picayune 22 Aug 2016
So far, six schools there have been deemed too damaged to reopen, spokeswoman Adonica Pelichet Duggan said ... That damage was extensive in eight schools, and one-third of employees are displaced, he said ... Reopening school buildings damaged by the flood is taking long days and lots of legwork ... That afternoon, a single student and a small group of staff members gathered in the school library, at the heart of the damage....
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