Is God Speaking for Our Times?
Many people in the recent years have said they heard voices speaking from God, Jesus, or what they have been told are "Ancient Masters" from previous ages. Twenty some years ago an elder from a large, wealthy Presbyterian church came to me with a book titled, "Conversations with God." The author, Neale Donald Walsh, of whom a movie of his life was produced, "Conversations with God", had written a book based on what a voice, calling itself God, told him to write. Since then he has written several others, one of the later called, "Tomorrow's God," which I listened to while on retreat a few days ago.
There is another popular book, not as much perhaps as the above, called "A Course in Miracles." It was given through a Voice named Jesus heard by a research psychologist at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Her name was Helen Schuman. The Voice continued almost nightly over a seven year period from 1965 to 1972. Again, this is a fascinating and interesting read.
But why doesn't God or these Celestial Masters choose to speak to church leaders? Why hasn't the Pope or the leaders in our denomination heard such voices? Why are they given through children like Samuel or to "outsiders" such as the above? No doubt most organized, traditional religions would spurn or denigrate such "voices." Yet millions are reading these books.
The Bible says Jesus called simple fishermen to be his chosen disciples. They no doubt were peasants as Himself, one from Nazareth where no one expected good to arise any more than from out of a slum prison.
Maybe God might be calling and speaking to us today. Such Voices aren't just from long, long ago. We "professional" Eli priests probably don't expect it either. We hardly practice listening in silence or meditation. We are too busy reading, calling, doing all the things religious leaders must do. Years ago I mentioned to a Presbytery Executive my discovery of silence. I even wrote a doctoral dissertation on it. But she said, "You realize that Presbyterians are uncomfortable with more than 7 seconds of that stuff!" So maybe God turns to children, or a down and out radio disc jockey, or an "atheist" researcher, or peasant fishers.
Since the 4th Century, some have said the "talking God" ceased. After all, the scriptures taken from various letters, some "tweaked" somewhat, were then "canonized" as the final Word of God with two creeds written to end further discussion, speculation or inquiry beyond these "holy conclusions" for our lives. But now in this "post modern, post-Christian era" God seems to be speaking again, and people are hearing it. What is the summary of these Voices, what are they saying, what might be the messages for our times?
I summarize these voices as saying, "You and I are all God's children, sons and daughters, and God the Father/Mother/Creator wants us to be happy, free, and empowered to energize and bless others." The "secret" is we all have God's Power within us and we can manifest wonderful blessings on a world heading toward self-destruction." The messages say that God is One with many different names but this God is Love and wants us to discover this Love within and see it in all others.
As Jesus didn't choose his followers from those in high seats of religious authority, maybe God is doing the same today. People like Walsh, the Hicks, teachers of Schuman's Course, and others, are traveling all over the world telling people they have personal power to make choices; choices to be happy, kind, forgiving, compassionate toward others, and to change the world! And a central point is that unless we change our inward world from one of fear, hatred of others, guilt and joylessness, we will never see or promote a world of peace outside of ourselves. It is a message saying God's justice declares we all are winners not sinners. In God's vision, there are no winners and losers but all win as God's Children. Pogroms, crusades, burning stakes, wiping our villages and groups in God's name can stop, must stop!
Most of the "old religions" have been operating so many centuries teaching an "us versus" them mentality. It teaches people to say "we believe…." and them become suddenly a member of an elected, select group which is loved very specially by God. The others, if they don't join or become elected, will suffer eternal death." The trouble with this, however, is the luxury of such thinking highly risky in today's overpopulated world filled with weapons of mass destruction. The God of Tomorrow would like to show us a common denominator within each of us, called "Spirit", which is the same forever despite our colors, sizes, sexes, and religions.
God's Voice of "the Presence within" does appear to be making new empowerment inroads into minds and hearts. Once a person hears anew the old message of Jesus, the "Kingdom of God" in already in you, they begin to recognize it and see it in others. So while authorities in religions and governments tend to miss it, people are beginning to live it. One can see it in the proliferation of "house churches" across Europe and America. One can see it in the sadness people feel toward teachings of the "Gods of Specialness" of "us against others", that has so dominated most organized religions. Some even moved into "interdenominational" relationships and others into "Inter-Faith" discussions.
Do you hear it? Do you feel it? Aren't you tired of always feeling guilty for not doing enough, for not be truly forgiven and accepted, with a sense of being overwhelmed that you "can't do anything" about your life or the world's?
God sees you, God loves you; lonely fisherman, busy housewife, businessman with too much money to spend, pious tired minister—let God meet you alone in silence and show you how to treat each one you meet as a "holy encounter." The sense of hope, peace, and ultimate Reality will be within you, around you, before you, and behind you! Join the millions of others who have heard and "seen" it!
I often see church signs saying, "God still is speaking!" And so it is. Are you listening? Despair, worry, hopelessness are unknown entities of the Divine Creator. God IS speaking today! The old religions, the Gods of division, hatred, distrust, constant judgment, guilt and fear are being overrun by a grassroots awakening! No, these folks aren't occupying a lot of churches today, but they are occupying offices, theaters, colleges, trucks and homes around the country, feeling empowered to love, make choices of equity, and push toward a new world of common love and respect for all. And once in awhile, they even show up in old churches. I hope we are one of them.
Talk given January 15, 2012 at the 1st Presbyterian Church of West Seneca, 2085 Union Road, West Seneca, NY. Comments, questions, suggestions always welcomed.
Summary of today's talk in "Home Studio".


The 46-year-old musician, who left KORN in late 2006, sued his former bandmates in February 2015, claiming that his exit from the group was merely a hiatus and that he was rebuffed when he tried to return to the band in 2013. Silveria said he still had ownership interest in KORN and asked a judge to force the band to reveal how much money they've made since he left so that he can get his rightful share. KORN countersued and the two sides reached an agreement in 2016 that called for Silveria to give up his rights to KORN royalties going forward in exchange for a lump sum.
Silveria, Dorame and Taback previously played together in CORE 10, which "imploded" last year after releasing a couple of singles and playing a number of local shows.


Life is like a puzzle. Sometimes it's hard to figure out the things that you're dealing with. Most of the time you get confused if the moves that you're doing is right or wrong. But life is about taking Risks. They say that the greatest risk in life is when you don't take a risk at all. And yes I believe on that saying, because if you don't take a risk at all you wouldn't grow as a person. My father used to tell me that the troubles that we encounter in life are the one that molds as a person. These troubles are the ones that make us stronger if we survived it. As they say,"what won't kill you will make you stronger. If you don't undergo this troubles and failures you wouldn't learn anything in life. You can't learn everything from the book. They say that the best teacher in life is experience, and yes I can that it is true. In life you couldn't win every time, sometimes you need to make those mistakes and failures for you to be a better person. But in our society, we have tended to look on the person from the mistakes that they have done in life rather than the things that they have learned from their mistakes. Giving a person a chance to prove that he has changed and learned his lessons is not bad at all; especially if we really know this person from a long time. Giving them a chance will help them to stand up from the mistakes that they have done. Most of us learned from the mistakes we have made but only few get a chance to prove that they have changed.


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Q: Find the range of $f(x)=\cos(\sin x)+\sin(\cos x)$ Find the range of $$f(x)=\cos(\sin x)+\sin(\cos x)$$
My try:
Evident that $f$ is $2\pi$ periodic.
Let us assume $\cos x=t$ $\implies$ $t \in [-1,1]$
So the equivalent function of $f(x)$ is now:
$$g(t)=\sin t+\cos\left(\sqrt{1-t^2}\right)$$
Case $1.$ Let $t \in [0,1]$
Now $$g'(t)=\cos t+t \times\frac{\sin\left(\sqrt{1-t^2}\right)}{\sqrt{1-t^2}}$$
$\implies$ $g'(t) >0$ So $g$ is increasing from $\cos 1$ to $1+\sin 1$ in $t \in [0,1]$
Case $2.$ When $t \in [-1,0]$
I came to know from the graph of $g(t)$ that it is decreasing. But how to prove it is decreasing formally i could't do it.

A: $$f(x)=\cos(\sin x)+ \sin (\cos x) <2. $$, is bounded periodic with period $2\pi$, $f(x)$ is an even function. So it would suffice if we study it in $[0,\pi]$.
$$f'(x)=-\sin (\sin x) \cos x-\cos(\cos x)\sin x \implies f'(0)=0, f'(\pi)=0. $$
$f'(x)=0$ also implies
$$\frac{\sin(\sin x)}{\cos(\cos x)}=-\tan x,$$
that is satisfied by $x=2.4488=x_0$
$$f(0)=1+\sin 1, f(x_0)=0.1071, f(\pi)=1-\sin[1]=1.8414$$
indicating local max, min and max at $x=0,3\pi/4, \pi$.
Therefor the range of $f(x)$ is$$ [~0.1071,~1+\sin 1 ~]$$
See the fig for $f(x):

A: You really only need to worry about $x \in [0, \pi/2]$. As you said, the period is $2\pi$, so let's only worry about $[-\pi, \pi]$. Since the function is even, it follows that we can just consider $[0, \pi]$. That said, for each $x_1 \in (\pi/2, \pi]$, consider $x_2 = \pi - x_1 \in [0, \pi]$. We have $\cos(x_1) \in [-1, 0)$, hence $\sin(\cos(x_1)) \in [-\sin(1), 0)$ and so
\begin{align*}
f(x_1) &= \cos(\sin(x_1)) + \sin(\cos(x_1)) \\
&= \cos(\sin(x_2)) - \sin(\cos(x_2)) \\
&< \cos(\sin(x_2)) + \sin(\cos(x_2)) \\
&= f(x_2)
\end{align*}
Therefore, every point in $(\pi/2, \pi]$ is lesser than some point in $[0, \pi/2]$, hence the maximum must occur in $[0, \pi/2]$, where $t \in [0, 1]$.

A: Show that $f(-x)=f(x)$. So you have an even function, and that handles your case 2.

A: It's not decreasing on $t \in [-1, 0]$ actaully. There are at least 2 intervals $[-1, t_0]$ and $[t_0, 0]$ (maybe more). On the first one it's decreasing and on the second one it's increasing. If you take a $\lim\limits_{t \rightarrow -1} g^{'}(t)$ it would be equal to $cos(-1) - 1$ (because $\lim\limits_{y \rightarrow 0} \frac{sin y}{y} = 1$). And that's a negative value. Then $g^{'}(0) = 1$. And finding a point where $g^{'}(t) = 0$ doesn't look like an easy task. I'm not even sure it can be done analytically. There are always some problems with in analytical derivation with transcendental function.

A: What I am gonna present isn't a very rigorous mathematical solution, but some intuition-based and observational approach.
First of all, the function is continuous and differentiable in its domain.
Second, it is an even function, i.e. it is symmetric about y-axis. Every even function, which is differentiable, has zero slope at $x=0$. Otherwise, it would have a sharp corner at $x=0$ which would render it non differentiable. So $x=0$ is a critical point.
Now, to find the other critical points, we need to take the derivative and equate it to zero, i.e.
$$\frac{d}{dx}\left(\cos\left(\sin x\right)+\sin\left(\cos x\right)\right)=0$$
Which yields this beautiful equation
$$\frac{\sin\left(\sin x\right)}{\sin x}=-\frac{\cos\left(\cos x\right)}{\cos x}$$
The points where $\sin x$ is zero satisfies the equation(here is is an indetereminate form but in the original derivative, it would yield zero)
Analytically, on plotting the function, the points that correspond to sinx=0 represent local maxima, out of which $x∈2n\pi$ represents the global maxima.
The points of minima are almost equal to $x∈(2n+1)\pi±\frac{\pi}{4}$ but not exactly.

$$f(x=2n\pi)=1+\sin 1$$
$$f(x=(2n+1)\pi±\frac{\pi}{4})=\cos\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\sin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)$$
On plotting $y = \cos\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\sin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)$ along with the function and with $y=1+\sin 1$, we get the the following graphs

However on zooming in,
SO for approximation purposes you can assume the minima to be $y = \cos\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\sin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)$, depending upon your error tolerance.

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Q: Enum: need to get the name of the enum, not its int value, as a string I have an enum with a whole bunch of values (only three shown here):
public enum LookupType
{
   Alignment,
   Language,
   ReEmbedBehavior
}

I then have a method that gets data based on a varchar field called LookupType...what I want is to limit callers of this method to only the lookuptypes that are in the database...so at the end of my WHERE clause, I want the enum name as a string, not the integer value of it.
Callers would then do something like GetLookupsByLookupType(LookupType.Language) and my method would make the call as "where lookuptype = 'Language'"
public List<Lookup> GetLookupsByLookupType(UnicornMedia.Core.DomainModel.Enumerations.LookupType lookupType)
        {
            var lookups = new List<Lookup>();
            string SQL = String.Format(@"Select id, name, value, lookuptype
                                         from lookups
                                         where lookuptype = '{0}'", lookupType.ToString());

            ...<snip>...
        }

It's probably something simple but I seem to bump into this from time to time and instead of figuring it out, I end up just using a Dictionary...anyway, there it is, thanks

A: Simply doing a .ToString() will get you the enum name as a string value.

A: Have you tried Enum.GetName?
Actually, the following snippet shows that simply calling ToString works as well.
enum LookupType {
    Language
}
public class Program {
    public static void Main(string[] args) {
        string str = string.Format("{0}", LookupType.Language);
        // str = "Language"
        Console.WriteLine(LookupType.Language);
        // output: Language
    }
}

A: Try the following
string name = System.Enum.GetName(typeof(LookupType), LookupType.Language);

A: You can use the GetName method (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.enum.getname.aspx):
Enum.GetName(typeof(LookupType), lookupType);

A: You do not need GetName...
LookupType.Alignment.ToString();

or
just as you have it in your code...
lookupType.ToString()

A: Your code should work just fine. I ran the following and the string returned the expected results.
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        LookupType lookupType = LookupType.Language;

        Console.WriteLine(GetLookupsByLookupType(lookupType));

        Console.Read();
    }

    public static string GetLookupsByLookupType(LookupType lookupType)
    {
        string SQL = String.Format(@"Select id, name, value, lookuptype from lookups where lookuptype = '{0}'", lookupType.ToString());

        return SQL;
    }

}

public enum LookupType
{
    Alignment,
    Language,
    ReEmbedBehavior
}

Make sure you are not passing your SQL string as you have it displayed above. Either put the string together on one line, or use the following:
        string SQL = String.Format(@"Select id, name, value, lookuptype from " +
            "lookups where lookuptype = '{0}'", lookupType.ToString());


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Q: How do you initiate a "refresh" by pulling values from Redux Store? I have a set of data that pulls updated values correctly from a Saga API (shows correct in console.log()), however it doesn't update the values in the UI when pulling to refresh the page.
I've tried to manually reassign the new updated JSON from the refresh to override the old data, however it's just returning null values
   // Scroll View
    <ScrollView
      refreshControl={
        <RefreshControl
          tintColor={'#E4E4E4'}
          refreshing={this.state.refreshing}
          onRefresh={this._onRefresh}
        />
      }
    >
      {exchanges.exchanges.length > 0 &&
        exchanges.exchanges.map((exchange, index) => (
          this.renderExchange(exchange, index)
        ))}
    </ScrollView>

 // Render Exchange
 renderExchange = (exchange, index) => {
 const { account, exchanges } = this.props
 const { balances, exchangeArray } = this.state
 const { selectedExchange } = exchanges
 const { status, symbolPriceTicker, dayChangeTicker } =
 selectedExchange
//this.setState({ balances: exchange.balances })
//AlertIOS.alert('I got here')

if (balances.length > 0 && exchangeArray.length > 0) {
  for (let i = 0; i < exchangeArray.length; i++) {
    if (exchange === exchangeArray[i]) {
      for (let j = 0; j < balances.length; j++) {
        console.log('Updated Balances: ' + JSON.stringify(balances[j]))
        console.log('Exchange Balances: ' + JSON.stringify(exchange.balances))
        exchange.balances = balances[j]
        balances.pop()
      }
    }
  }
}

return (
  <View style={screenStyles.container}>
  <ExchangeBox
    balances={exchange.balances}
    displayName={exchange.label}
    symbolPriceTicker={symbolPriceTicker}
    exchangeIndex={index}
    onSend={this.onSend}
  />
  <View style={screenStyles.largerContainer}>
    {symbolPriceTicker && dayChangeTicker && exchange.balances && (
      <ScrollView
        style={screenStyles.walletContainer}
        horizontal={true}
        showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}
        decelerationRate={0}
        snapToInterval={100} //your element width
        snapToAlignment={'center'}
      >
        {Object.keys(exchange.balances).map(
          symbol =>
            COIN_INFO[symbol] &&
            symbolPriceTicker[`${symbol}USDT`] && (
              <CoinContainer
                key={symbol}
                symbol={symbol}
                available={exchange.balances[symbol].free}
                price={symbolPriceTicker[`${symbol}USDT`]}
                dayChange={dayChangeTicker[`${symbol}USDT`]}
              />
            ),
        )}
      </ScrollView>
    )}
  </View>
</View>
)
}

fetchData = () => {
  const { exchanges } = this.props
  const { balances, exchangeArray } = this.state
  // Needs to fetch information to refresh
  if (exchanges.exchanges.length > 0) {
    exchanges.exchanges.map((exchange) => (
      balances.push(this.props.getBalances(exchange.balances)),
      exchangeArray.push(exchange)
      //console.log(exchange.balances)
    ))
    this.setState({ refreshing: false })
  } else {
    this.setState({ refreshing: false })
  }
}

componentDidMount() {
  this.fetchData()
}

_onRefresh = () => {
  this.setState({ refreshing: true })
  this.fetchData()
}

Is there any way I can successfully reassign these values or is there a better way in doing this refresh?

A: your fetchData is not fetching data, I don't understand this method.
But I see that you are changing state incorrectly without using setState.
So I just tried to fix it with minimal changes.

fetchData = () => {
  const { exchanges } = this.props
  // you need to make new arrays, thats why we are using slice.
  const balances = this.state.balances.slice();
  const exchangeArray = this.state.exchangeArray.slice();

  if (exchanges.exchanges.length > 0) {
    exchanges.exchanges.map((exchange) => (
      balances.push(this.props.getBalances(exchange.balances)),
      exchangeArray.push(exchange)
      //console.log(exchange.balances)
    ))
   // we need to update the state using, setState, and passing our 2 arrays.
    this.setState({ refreshing: false, exchangeArray, balances })
  } else {
    this.setState({ refreshing: false })
  }
}


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Posts Tagged 'eli weinberg
The Cold Record
Categories: Documentary, Events, Festival, Music, Performing Arts, Reviews and Theatre
Tags: alexandra bassiakou, brisbane festival, eli weinberg, headphone verbatim, horizon festival, kirk lynne, livid, punk, the cold record, verbatim
Horizon Festival
Brisbane Festival, The Old Ambo, ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Black Box Theatre, The Old Ambo, Nambour
August 28 – 30 2019
Kirk Lynn (Rude Mechs) wrote a story about a 12-year old boy who tries to set the record for the most days leaving school sick; during the process he falls in love with the school nurse and punk rock. Director of The Cold Record, Alexandra Bassiakou has fine-tuned Eli Weinberg's sensational performance without losing the raw edge of reality. There's an immediate and intimate connection between actor and audience, which comes from Weinberg's easygoing manner, and our proximity to him, but also from the headphone verbatim approach to the production. In this country at least, Roslyn Oades is probably best known for this evolving performance form (her headphone verbatim piece, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday toured extensively, and received critical and audience acclaim). We sense the same spirited energy here from just one dynamic performer.
Weinberg greets us in the foyer of The Old Ambo and leads us to the show's secret location. We're invited to enjoy a non-alcoholic beverage or local craft beer – Larry's from Your Mates – and create a mix tape together, sharing the long-lost stories of our pre-selected punk rock song. Our mixtape on opening night comprises hits from the likes of Blondie, The Jam, The Sex Pistols and Blink 182. There are satisfied nods and some cool modified mosh pit moves, some long-lost memories that spark some other memories (LIVID 1994 in Davies Park, anyone?), lots of laughter, especially about the patience, and the intricate timing and precision required to record our favourite childhood/teen era radio tracks on old-school cassette recorders with the simultaneous push of two buttons, and general agreement that post-punk is a legit choice, as is Blondie. We're thrilled that our listening and life choices have been validated, and that we'll get to hear the mixtape in its entirety after the show, when the link appears in our inbox. The question arises, "What about all the other mix tapes from all the other shows?" Can we look forward to a Rude Mechs Cold Record Spotify playlist at some stage? The conversation is relaxed, and fun – but there's more to the show, in fact, it hasn't really started yet. Except it has… The nostalgic, casual lounge party vibe puts us at ease, almost dulling us into a false sense of security before Weinberg begins throwing us curve balls. And then there's the ending.
Weinberg is super relaxed and personable throughout, expertly manipulating the mood over the 28-minute arc of the show to take us on his rollercoaster ride through the final year of elementary school. We rally with him against the world of adults and unreliable friends. The group's support is something of a special communal theatrical thing; people are visibly affected and because of our close proximity we can properly sympathise. Our eyes rarely stray from Weinberg's, his 12-year old innocence a piercing gaze, challenging us to respond honestly to his musings about life, death and love, or not at all. Throughout, Weinberg wears the headset with the sound of Lynn's voice in his ears, in real time telling the entire story a beat ahead of his own performance.
The lasting impact of this performance is something interesting. While the story belongs to one young boy, the intimacy of its telling gifts his lived experience to each of us. We're given the time and space to recreate, in minds and hearts for a moment, our own private version of first love, lost love, friendship, family, victory, grief, and getting up and getting on with it, without necessarily relieving or healing any wounds along the way, however; in the moments between we become aware of these feelings, and simply let them be what they will be until we make time to sit with them (or walk or run or dance with them). Neither live performance or life promises a quick or easy fix.
Are there wounds that only music can heal? Is there music that only keeps us crying, bleeding, dying?
The Cold Record goes to Brisbane Festival after this weekend and if you're near, you'd be crazy to miss it. In fact, if you think you don't have the time or the need to experience this neat, sweet, completely surprising and captivating one-man show, it's likely the thing you need most.

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import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
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import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver;

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@Configuration
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	@Bean
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Infant dies after found unresponsive at Oklahoma daycare
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Police say a 3-month-old boy died after being found unresponsive at a home day-care in northeastern Oklahoma.
Broken Arrow police say in a news release that officers were called shortly before 10 a.m. to the home on the city's northeast side and the infant was taken to a hospital where he was dead on arrival.
Police say the state medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death and the Oklahoma Department of Human Services was called to the home.
The name of the daycare operator and the number of children in the home were not released and police say n...


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The Muslim Man
A Blog for Today's Muslim
You can't please all the people all the time, but you can please Allah with worship and good deeds and the rewards from the Almighty are much more worthwhile.
A man, his wife, and their donkey were traveling through town on their way to the market. The man and his wife were both walking beside the donkey when someone shouted, "Look at these two fools! They have a donkey but they are not riding it. What's the point of the donkey!?" Upon hearing this the man helped his wife on to the donkey and they carried on their journey. A while down the path they heard another person say, "Look at this man! Talk about whipped. His wife rides on the donkey like the Queen of Sheba while her tired, old husband has to walk alongside." The wife didn't like that so she told her husband to ride on the donkey whilst she walks for a bit. Then they passed by a lady and she said, "Look at this lazy man making his wife walk whilst he rides on the donkey. How lazy!" By now the husband and wife were a bit confused on what to do so they chatted for a while and decided that they should both ride the donkey together. So they carried on their way confident that nobody would have any further objections, but then they passed a group of people and they started muttering amongst themselves, "Look how they abuse that poor old donkey! How do they expect the donkey to carry them both!"
Moral of the Story: You can never please the people. No matter what you do someone will find fault with it. So what should we do? Instead of trying to please the people, instead change your focus to pleasing Allah, because Allah, the Most High, said:
"The enjoyment of (worldly) desires—women, children, treasures of gold and silver, fine horses, cattle, and fertile land—has been made appealing to people. These are the pleasures of this worldly life, but with Allah is the finest destination. Say (O Prophet), 'Shall I inform you of what is better than all of this? Those mindful of their Lord will have Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there forever, and pure spouses, and the pleasure of Allah.' And Allah is All-Seeing of (His) slaves." (Aali Imran:14-15)
And He, the Almighty said:
"As for those who believe and perform good deeds, then the Most Merciful will bestow upon them love." (Maryam:96)
And this hadith of the Prophet ﷺ explains how that love will be bestowed upon them, he ﷺ said:
"If Allah, the Most High, loves (His) slave, He calls out to Jibril, 'Indeed, Allah, the Most High, loves so and so, so love him.' So Jibril will love him and he will call out to the people of the Heavens, 'Indeed, Allah loves so and so, so love him' So the people of the Heavens will love him, the Allah will place the acceptance (of his love) on the Earth." (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
The way to achieve Allah's love and pleasure is through obedience and acts of worship, Allah, said:
"Indeed, those who believe and do good—they are the best of (all) beings. Their reward with their Lord will be Gardens of Eternity, under which rivers flow, to stay there for ever and ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. This is (only) for those in awe of their Lord." (Al-Bayinah:8)
And the Prophet ﷺ said:
"Allah, the Most High, says, 'My slave will continue to perform voluntary acts of worship until I love him, and if I love him then I will be his hearing that he hears with, his sight that he sees with, his hand with which he reaches out, and his legs with which he walks.'" (Al-Bukhari)
And sometimes pleasing Allah means that you will have to upset some of the people of the Dunya, even if those people are your closest relatives and friends. Allah said in the Quran:
"You will never find a people who truly believe in Allah and the Last Day who are loyal to those who oppose Allah and His Messenger even if they were their parents, children, siblings, or extended family. For those believers, Allah has instilled faith in their hearts and strengthened them with a spirit from Him. He will admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there forever. Allah is pleased with them and they with Him. They are the party of Allah. Indeed, Allah's party is bound to succeed." (Al-Mujadilah:22)
So do not despair at the critics criticising or the haters hating. These people cannot be pleased; they have a disease in their hearts that makes it impossible for them to be happy at the sight of someone working hard to succeed. Ubadah bin Samit reported that the Prophet ﷺ took an oath from a number of the Sahabah that they would stand for the truth where ever they are without fearing the blame of the blamers (Al-Bukhari).
The Muslim man knows his religion and practices what he knows with confidence. He is a man of principles and he unapologetically stands by those principles even when it is not the status quo or the popular opinion. The Prophet ﷺ said:
"The religion started off as strange and will return to being strange, so give glad tidings to the strangers." (Muslim)
The popular opinion isn't always the right one, but those who have the courage to stand by what is true and what is just will be loved and remembered for it in the long run, even if they are attacked and misunderstood at the time of their stand. Those who cowwer, apologise and seek to appease the critics will be dismissed and forgotten.
The Prophet and his followers were attacked and slandered for their beliefs only for his attackers and slanderers to then accept his teachings and embrace Islam within less than a decade.
Imam Ahmad was imprisoned and tortured because he refused to say that the Quran was created. Today he is remembered better than the rulers who imprisoned him, more than a thousand years after his death and his madhhab is followed by millions of Muslims worldwide.
Martin Luther King was attacked and criticized for standing up against the oppression of blacks in America only for him to become one of the most revered figures of American history.
Nelson Mandela was labeled a terrorist and was imprisoned only for him to go on to become the president of South Africa after his release.
Muhammad Ali was convicted, stripped of his boxing titles, and banned from boxing for 4 years because of his opposition to the Vietnam war and the white establishment only for him to become one of the most beloved and respected athletes of all time.
Stay true to your beliefs, don't sacrifice your principles for the sake of acceptance, and don't fear the blame of the blamers.
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Honesty is Always the Best Policy
The Muslim man is always honest. It pains and sickens him to tell a lie.
The Muslim man is always honest even when it is to his own detriment. Allah, the Most High, said:
"O you who have believed, stand firm for justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives." (Nisa:135)
Very few habits can destroy a man's honor faster than lying. When a man is caught in a lie once it puts doubts in the minds of his family and companions and cause them to question everything he says. The liar isn't believed even when telling the truth. Muhammad bin Ka'b Al-Qurdhi said:
"The liar only lies due to contempt he has for himself." (Rawdatul Uqala)
Lies may seem small, but one lie often needs to be followed by another and another, and lies give the liar permission to do as he pleases, as the Prophet ﷺ said:
"Be honest, because honesty leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man continues telling the truth and trying hard to tell the truth until he is recorded with Allah as a truthful person. Refrain from lying, because lying leads to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Fire. A slave (of Allah) continues lying and trying hard to lie, until he is recorded with Allah as a liar" (Muslim)
A man who is honest at all times is a man of courage and honor, but a man who frequently lies is cowardly and untrustworthy. In fact the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ informed us that frequent lying is one of the characteristics of a hypocrite.
A man can become conditioned to lying until the lies roll off the tongue with ease and without thought. The only cure for this is to first ask for Allah's help and forgiveness and then, with determination and consistency, train the tongue to tell the truth. The tongue is a muscle and like any muscle in the body it can be trained and exercised until what was previously hard becomes easy. The important thing is to train it and condition it to speak only the truth.
Remember Allah only forbids us from things that are harmful, so if He, the Most High, has forbidden us from lying then it must be detrimental to our well being, whether we realize it's harm or not.
I will close with a saying from our righteous predecessor Umar bin Abdulaziz:
"I haven't lied since I learned that lying adversely effects the liar."
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Lucas Bacmeister, o Jovem (Rostock, 2 de Novembro de 1570  Güstrow, 12 de Outubro de 1628) foi jurista, compositor de hinos e teólogo luterano alemão. Era filho de Lucas Bacmeister, o Velho e de sua esposa Johanna Bording (1544–1584), filha do professor de medicina Jacob Bording (1511-1560). Depois de frequentar os primeiros estudos em sua cidade natal, estudou na Universidade de Rostock (1587) e depois na Universidade de Estrasburgo, onde ficou durante três anos.

Depois, fez uma viagem de estudos pela Suíça, Alsácia e Alemanha Superior. Mais tarde, estudou nas Universidades de Heidelberg, Jena, Leipzig, Wittenberg, onde assistiu aulas com Ägidius Hunnius, o Velho (1550-1603), Salomon Gesner (1559-1605) e David Runge (1564-1604) e em Helmstedt, onde frequentou aulas com Johannes Caselius. Em 1590, voltou para sua cidade natal onde estudou direito. No entanto, quando morreu seu irmão, Jacob Bacmeister (1562-1591), que era teólogo e hebraísta, seu pai pediu para que prosseguisse os estudos teológicos.

Em 1594, recebe em Rostock, seu grau acadêmico de Mestrado em filosofia. Em 1598, estudou na Universidade de Lovaina onde entrou em contacto com Justus Lipsius. Durante seu período de estudos, teve algum patrocínio do Senhor de Ebeleben. Em 1599, o Duque Ulrich de Mecklenburgo, o nomeou como professor de Teologia para a Universidade de Rostock, depois da morte de David Chytraeus. Em 1604, foi nomeado Superintendente de Rostock por Carlos, Duque de Mecklenburgo. Em 1605, torna-se doutor em medicina e em 1612 foi nomeado Superintendente de Güstrow pelo duque João Alberto (1590-1626). Em 1613 foi incumbido de combater as tendências calvinistas da Igreja. Morreu com 68 anos, sendo sepultado na Catedral de Güstrow.

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 Disputationes contra Decreta Concilii Tridentini
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 Disputationes Theologicas 23. oppositas decretis Concilli Tridentini
 Explicationem VII. psalmorum poenitentialium, necnon Ps. XVI & XXII. Explicationem typortum veteris Test
 Fasciculum Quaestionum Theologicarum Disput. 13. de Lege Divana atque Decalogo. De SS. Coena contra Jo. Rhuclium Reform. Encoenia vel Renovalia Gustroviensia
 In threnos Jeremiae
 Leichpredigt/ Bey der Volckreichen und ansehnlichen Begrebnuß des Weiland Edlen/ Gestrengen und Ehrnuesten Tessen Von Parsow/ Fürstlichen Meckelnburgischen bestalten Obristen und geheimen Rath/ auff Parsow und Vpall Erbgesessen. Jochim Fueß, Rostock 1614
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 Lucas Bacmeister, o Velho (1530-1608)
 Jacob Bacmeister (1562-1591)
 Lucas Bacmeister (1605-1679)
 Lucas Bacmeister (1672-1748)
 Jacob Bording (1511-1560)
 Johannes Caselius (1533-1613)
 Justus Lipsius (1547-16060)

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The long road to justice for the Bloody Sunday victims
50th Anniversary of Derry's Bloody Sunday
» Mitchel McLaughlin
Mitchel McLaughlin tracks the development of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign and also highlights some of the key events on the road to that tragic day on 30 January 1972
He shows how the seeds of Bloody Sunday were created in three key events: the introduction of internment on 9 and 10 August 1971; the Ballymurphy Massacre by the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment a day later; and the Civil Rights march to Magilligan Internment Camp on 22 January 1972.
Operation Demetrius was a British Army action in the Six Counties on 9 and 10 August 1971. It involved mass arrests and internment of people suspected of being Republicans. This draconian response to modest civil rights demands was proposed by the Unionist government and supported by the British cabinet. Armed soldiers launched dawn raids and arrested 342 men in the initial sweep, sparking four days of violence in which 20 civilians, two IRA members, and two British soldiers were killed. All of those arrested were Irish republicans and nationalists.
Loyalist paramilitaries were very actively conducting acts of sectarian violence, directed against Catholics and Irish nationalists. Collusion, always a constant issue in the North, meant that no loyalists were included in the sweep.
Ballymurphy massacre, 11 August 1971
In Ballymurphy, 10 civilians were shot and died between the evening of 9 August and the morning of 11 August, while another died later of heart failure.
Members of the Parachute Regiment claimed that they were shot at by Republicans as they entered the Ballymurphy area and returned fire. The British Army press officer, Mike Jackson, later to become head of the British Army, includes a false account of these shootings in his autobiography, stating that those killed in the shootings were Republican gunmen.
Finally, on the 11 May 2021, a coroner's inquest declared that the 10 civilians were innocent, and the use of lethal force by the British Army was "not justified". The circumstances of the 11th death were not part of the inquest, since Paddy McCarthy died from a heart attack, after being subjected to a 'mock execution' by paratroopers.
Magilligan Internment Camp, 22 January 1972
A Civil Rights march was organised to the internment camp at Magilligan Prison. Up to 1,500 people, mainly from Derry, took part in the march.
The perimeter fence of the internment camp was being patrolled by the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment. Less than six months previously, this regiment had murdered eleven civilians in the 'Ballymurphy Massacre'.
As the marchers approached the camp, the 'Paras' fired rubber bullets, then baton charged the crowd. According to Derry doctor Raymond McClean, who was on the march:
"… the soldiers charged forward with batons waving, smashing into everyone in sight. The crowd broke in panic, and we started running back across the sand, through water, sand, seaweed and whatever came in the way."
The marchers retreated back to the safety of their buses, battered, bruised and shocked in their first encounter with the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment.
Bloody Sunday, 30 January, Derry
NICRA had called on people to come to Derry to protest against internment without trial, and on that bright, crisp wintry afternoon, 15,000 people gathered in Creggan to march to support that call.
The 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, responsible for the Ballymurphy Massacre and the attack on the peaceful marchers at Magilligan, had been drafted into the city.
These preparations went largely unnoticed by the marchers, aware that the IRA had given assurances that they would stay away from the march. The marchers' expectations of a peaceful day was evidenced by the large numbers of women and children who took part.
As the march approached the army barricades at the bottom of William Street, the lorry leading the parade and the bulk of the marchers turned towards Free Derry Corner. A group of several hundred, mostly young people, continued along William Street and came to Barrier 14, which was blocking the road into the city centre.
What followed was the standard Derry riot; stones and bottles against rubber bullets, CS gas, and water cannon. This was an almost daily occurrence in Derry at the time, and as the platform speakers prepared to start the meeting, the stone-throwing eventually petered out. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, just another ordinary day, with an ordinary march and an ordinary riot, just another day in Free Derry.
But that day was anything but ordinary. Soldiers of 1 Para opened fire with live rounds and in less than half an hour, in an area not much larger than a football field, British Army soldiers had killed 13 unarmed men and wounded two women and 16 men, one of whom would later die of his injuries. All but the first two casualties had been shot in a devastating assault which lasted less than 10 minutes.
On 30 January 1972, Derry and the world awakened to a new day just like so many others but for many families in Derry that day would change their lives forever.
By teatime on that Sunday afternoon, thtree women would be widowed, 19 children would lose a father, 20 parents would lose a son, 99 siblings would lose a brother. A week later, another child would be born, never to see his father and, a few months later, another woman would lose a husband to the tragic events of that day.
General Ford, Commander of the British Army in the North, went on television almost as soon as the shooting stopped. He claimed that his soldiers had only fired four shots and that if there were any more than four bodies, they must have been shot dead by the IRA.
Captain Michael Jackson, then adjutant of 1 Para, later to become General Sir Michael Jackson, the most senior officer in the British Army, prepared a list of shots fired by the Paras, in which he claimed each shot was aimed at a clearly identified gunman or nail bomber and that four of the dead were on the British Army's 'wanted list'.
This was the version that went to the media around the world, courtesy of the British Information Service.
Jackson had been present in Ballymurphy and had provided an identical explanation of the murderous assault on civilians in West Belfast. As in Belfast, the voices from Derry trying to speak the truth were drowned out by British propaganda.
On 1 February, British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced that a public inquiry into the events of the day would he held, to be chaired by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery.
The Bloody Sunday funerals on 2 February were massive events, attended by political, civic, and religious representatives from around the world.
The Widgery Tribunal opened on 21 February, closed in March after just 17 days of hearings, and exonerated the killers. Widgery decided not to sit in Derry and set up shop in the County Hall in Coleraine. The Tribunal heard evidence from 114 witnesses, of whom only 30 were Derry civilians despite the fact that hundreds of witnesses had given statements to NICRA. Widgery accepted the doctored statements provided by the Paras and concluded:
"There would have been no deaths in Londonderry on 30 January if those who organised the illegal march had not thereby created a highly dangerous situation in which a clash between demonstrators and the security forces was almost inevitable".
Protest Marches to Justice Campaigns
In 1987 after reviewing the years of protest since 1972, a small group of relatives, Sinn Féin members, and campaigners came together to form the Bloody Sunday Initiative in an attempt to reopen the subject of Bloody Sunday in the wider public consciousness, outside of its traditional republican support base, and to place it in the context of wider human rights issues. Key to this discussion was agreement that the families should provide the leadership with ongoing support from Sinn Féin.
The Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee was established to take on responsibility for the annual commemoration.
As part of a major series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of Bloody Sunday – under the theme of One World, One Struggle – a meeting was organised in Pilots Row to which members of the Bloody Sunday families and others were invited to discuss the way forward. Out of that meeting, the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign (BSJC) was born.
The BSJC had three demands:
1. That the British Government should publicly and unambiguously acknowledge that all those killed or injured were totally innocent.
2. That the British Government publicly repudiate the Widgery Report in its entirety.
3. That those responsible for the Bloody Sunday murders and attempted murders be prosecuted.
For the next six years, the BSJC campaigned relentlessly for the truth to be told about the events of Bloody Sunday. A seemingly hopeless campaign at times; it had its high points as hitherto secret documents came to light exposing the British Government and Army's intentions on Bloody Sunday and afterwards and the wider media began to take an interest in the story. Slowly, support for the campaign began to grow well beyond its Derry base.
By the latter part of the 1990s, the campaign was beginning to gather an unstoppable momentum. On the 25th anniversary, 40,000 people marched in support of the BSJC. In the same year, the publication of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday by Don Mullan placed the original witness statements taken by NICRA and NCCL back in the public domain.
The Bloody Sunday Trust (BST) was set up to aid the families' campaign and it commissioned Professor Dermot Walsh to write 'The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry: A Resounding Defeat for Truth, Justice and the Rule of Law', an unanswerable destruction of Widgery and the soldiers' evidence which again showed the Widgery Tribunal up for the farce that it was. The Irish Government came on board and in the summer of 1997 presented their own analysis of Widgery and the new evidence that had come to light to the newly elected Labour Government in Britain.
On 29 January 1998, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the setting up of a new inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday. It was an unprecedented move – never before in British legal history had a second inquiry been set up into any event.
The inquiry, under the chairmanship of Law Lord Mark Saville, held its first hearing in the Guildhall in Derry in April 1998. It heard its last witness at the same venue in January 2005 and was the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.
On 15 June 2010, the report was finally released. The thousands of people gathered in Guildhall Square that day to support the families listened as one by one each victim was declared innocent. They heard the British Prime Minister apologise for Bloody Sunday and describe the events of that day as "unjustified and unjustifiable."
The family members and their supporters, the years of campaigning finally vindicated, left the Guildhall knowing that they had achieved most of what they had set out to do; the Widgery Report was in the bin, their loved ones innocent in the eyes of the world.
Mitchel McLaughlin is a former Sinn Féin MLA and National Chairperson and Assembly Speaker.


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William, Harry Issue Statement Amid UK Royal Family Rift
by Frank Augstein and Danica Kirka .
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and from left, Meghan the Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Prince William and Kate the Duchess of Cambridge watch a flypast of Royal Air Force aircraft pass over Buckingham Palace in London. (Source:AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to hold face-to-face talks Monday with Prince Harry for the first time since he and his wife, Meghan, unveiled their controversial plan to walk away from royal roles — holding a dramatic family summit meant to chart a future course for the couple.
The meeting reflects the queen's desire to contain the fallout from Harry and Meghan's decision to "step back" as senior royals, work to become financially independent and split their time between Britain and North America. The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, made the announcement Wednesday without telling the queen or other senior royals first.
Before the extraordinary session, Princes William and Harry took the equally unusual step of issuing a statement challenging the accuracy of a newspaper report that there was a severe strain on the relationship between the two brothers.
"For brothers who care so deeply about the issues surrounding mental health, the use of inflammatory language in this way is offensive and potentially harmful," the statement said.
The meeting at the monarch's private Sandringham estate in eastern England will also include Harry's father Prince Charles and his brother Prince William. It comes after days of intense news coverage, in which supporters of the royal family's feuding factions used the British media to paint conflicting pictures of who was to blame for the rift.
William is expected to travel to Sandringham from London and Harry from his home in Windsor, west of the British capital. Charles has flown back from the Gulf nation of Oman, where he attended a condolence ceremony Sunday following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
Meghan, who is in Canada with the couple's baby son Archie, is likely to join the meeting by phone.
Buckingham Palace said "a range of possibilities" would be discussed, but the queen was determined to resolve the situation within "days, not weeks." The goal was to agree on next steps at Monday's gathering, which follows days of talks among royal courtiers and officials from the U.K. and Canada. Buckingham Palace stressed, however, that "any decision will take time to be implemented."
One of the more fraught questions that needs to be worked out is precisely what it means for a royal to be financially independent and what activities can be undertaken to make money. Other royals who have ventured into the world of commerce have found it complicated.
Prince Andrew, for example, has faced heated questions about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew, the queen's second son, has relinquished royal duties and patronages after being accused by a woman who says she was an Epstein trafficking victim who slept with the prince.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also face questions on paying for taxpayer-funded security. Home Secretary Priti Patel refused to comment, but said safety was a priority.
"I'm not going to provide any detailed information on the security arrangements for either them or any members of the royal family or for any protected individuals — that's thoroughly inappropriate for me to do so," she told the BBC. "At this moment in time, right now, the royal family themselves need some time and space for them to work through the current issues that they're dealing with."
The meeting will comes amid days of days of discussions about the future of the monarchy following the surprise announcement. Senior royals were said to be hurt, Harry and Meghan's friends have told Britain's media that the couple were being pushed aside because of the desire of the Windsors to concentrate on the core of the royal family and focus on those in the line of succession — Prince Charles, William and William's son George.
Tom Bradby, a TV journalist who is close to Harry and Meghan, warned in the Sunday Times that the royal family badly needed a peace deal to prevent "a protracted war" that could damage the monarchy.
With much at stake, the talks could be a step toward a changed monarchy.
"This is a seismic moment in royal history and British society,'' Kate Williams, a historian at the University of Reading, wrote in the Observer. "It tells historians of the future much about our society, its self-perceptions, prejudices and fears. And most of all, it should mark our realization — as we didn't learn after (Princess) Diana — that those who marry into the royal family are not our dolls to attack and throw around as we please."
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By Rebecca S. Araten and Juliet E. Isselbacher, Contributing Writers December 5, 2018
Asma Khalid, a political reporter for NPR, introduces panelists at an event discussing the 2018 midterm elections Tuesday afternoon in the Knafel Center at the Radcliffe Institute.
Photo: Kathryn S. Kuhar
Four panelists — coming from academic, political organizing, and consulting backgrounds — discussed the unprecedented number of female candidates in this year's midterm elections with an audience of more than 100 Harvard affiliates and Boston area residents Tuesday.
The event, entitled, "The Meaning of the Midterms: Who Counted? Who Voted?" took place in the Radcliffe Institute's Knafel Center as this year's Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture.
Asma Khalid, a political reporter for National Public Radio, moderated the panel discussion, which focused on recent voter turnout, the changing electorate, and the 2020 presidential election.
The event's speakers included Aimee Allison, president of the political organization Democracy in Color; Sarah Lenti, a political consultant; Katherine J. Cramer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Robert O. Self, a professor of American history at Brown University.
Government Professor Daniel Carpenter, director of the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute, said he chose the panelists out of a desire to look at the elections from a wide variety of standpoints, like "people looking at voter conversations, people looking at data, people looking about history, people looking at ethnography."
"So it was really just an attempt to diversify the conversation," Carpenter said.
Khalid opened the panel by acknowledging how widespread and exhaustive media coverage of the midterm elections has been, but said she believed there was still plenty to learn.
"Candidly, I think some of us feel we've been in this rut in reporting on the midterms for so many months," she said. "But I think there are lots of lessons to learn about what happened in 2018, that can help us try to decipher what will happen in 2020."
Allison's takeaway from the midterms was that "women of color won the elections." Though all women candidates of color, like former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, may not have secured the seats for which they ran, they still managed to "reinvent the playbook" for a game in which their "opponent is the referee," she said.
In her remarks, Allison said Abrams had people on the ground, knocking on doors and registering eligible voters, instead of accepting the electorate as a static body and running television ads to reach her base.
Fellow panelist Lenti, who left the Republican party in 2016 for what she called "obvious reasons," had a takeaway that some audience members said they found sobering. She explained that the results of midterm elections have not historically determined the winning party in the next presidential election.
"Despite the fact that the Dems just won the midterms, [Trump] might win in 2020," she said. "Midterm results have little to no bearing on upcoming presidential elections."
Sarah E. Freedman, a Boston resident who attended the panel, said she felt disheartened by Lenti's assessment of potential political realities.
"It was very upsetting to hear that it's just as likely [Trump] will be president and that the midterm elections mean absolutely nothing," she said.
Other attendees said they believed the panel came at an important moment to continue conversations around the midterm results and their ramifications.
"I feel like right after elections, all the coverage is just about how it was revolutionary in terms of women in power and how Democratic states won, but I feel like because it's been weeks after, there is more analysis now and more significance about why it matters, other than it just happened," Boston University freshman Carina Y. Wang said.
Allison said she is hopeful about the prospects of women of color in the 2020 elections.
"Women of color, who showed such tremendous power at the polls, I believe will lead, because they're creating a country of love and justice and belonging," Allison said.
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HOMEBOY FIRING HIS BOW ON THIS ONE — lowtide.
Homeboy Sandman destroying the mic on this one. Titled Arrows, his intricate, and formulated rhyme style is such a presence its pleasing to listen to. The way he flows his words and delivers his rhymes, makes this song one to keep listening to. His message is always very indirect and direct, which for me, makes Hip Hop.


I had missed a spectacular sunset the night before. We had cloudy skies the next day as well, so I decided to go out and shoot. The photo has the Suisun Harbor Lighthouse against a background of Twin Sisters mountain at sunset.
The image is a blend of 3 different 32bit HDR photos taken throughout the sunset. One photo, taken early on, had the rays of sunlight beaming through the clouds. A little later, the sky turned pink and orange. And one final photo, to blend in the lights of the Lighthouse as they finally turned on for the night.
Afterwards, it had started raining. In California! But only a little bit.


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Married in Name Only er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1917 af Edmund Lawrence.

Medvirkende
 Gretchen Hartman som Madeline Francis
 Milton Sills som Robert Worthing
 Marie Shotwell som Mrs. Worthing
 Dora Mills Adams som Mrs. Francis.
 William Desmond.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Stumfilm fra USA
Amerikanske film fra 1917


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package mireka.filter.builtin;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

import java.io.IOException;

import mireka.ExampleMailData;
import mireka.MailData;
import mireka.MailDataWithSameContent;
import mireka.filter.Filter;
import mireka.filter.FilterChain;
import mireka.filter.misc.RejectLargeMail;
import mireka.smtp.RejectExceptionExt;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.Matchers;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.subethamail.smtp.TooMuchDataException;

public class RejectLargeMailTest {
    @Mock
    private FilterChain chain;
    private Filter filter;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);

        RejectLargeMail rejectLargeMail = new RejectLargeMail();
        rejectLargeMail.setMaxAllowedSize(3000);
        filter = rejectLargeMail.createInstance(null);
        filter.setChain(chain);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSmallMail() throws TooMuchDataException,
            RejectExceptionExt, IOException {
        filter.data(ExampleMailData.simple());

        verify(chain).data(exampleSimpleMail());
    }

    private MailData exampleSimpleMail() {
        return Matchers.argThat(new MailDataWithSameContent(ExampleMailData
                .simple()));
    }

    @Test(expected = TooMuchDataException.class)
    public void testLargeMail() throws TooMuchDataException,
            RejectExceptionExt, IOException {
        filter.data(ExampleMailData.mail4k());

        ArgumentCaptor<MailData> producedMailDataArgument =
                ArgumentCaptor.forClass(MailData.class);
        verify(chain).data(producedMailDataArgument.capture());
        MailData producedMailData = producedMailDataArgument.getValue();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[5000]; // larger then allowed
        producedMailData.getInputStream().read(buffer);
    }
}


A religious worker seeking to enter the U.S. to pursue work in his or her field may qualify for an R-1 visa if the religious worker has been a member of a religious denomination, which has a bona fide nonprofit religious organization in the U.S., for at least the two years immediately preceding the application. The religious worker must be coming to the U.S. to work in one of the following capacities: (1) as a minister of the denomination; (2) as a professional for the bona fide nonprofit religious organization; or (3) in a religious vocation or occupation for the bona fide religious organization or a bona fide organization which is affiliated with the religious denomination.
An individual can hold R-1 status for a maximum of five years. The initial admission of an individual in R-1 status cannot exceed thirty months. However, towards the end of the first thirty-month period, a thirty-month extension can be requested. After five years in R-1 status, an must depart the U.S. and remain outside the U.S. for at least one year in order to be eligible for another five years of R-1 status.
Evidence that the sponsoring religious organization is Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt.
Evidence that the intended religious worker has been a member of the religious denomination for at least the preceding two years. This is best accomplished by a letter from the religious leader where the intended religious worker has been worshiping. The letter should state the length of membership and in what ways, if any, the R-1 applicant has participated in that place of worship.
Letter from the intended U.S. employer confirming that it belongs to the same denomination of which the R-1 applicant is a member, the name and location of the organization in the U.S. where the R-1 applicant will work, a complete description of the job including the duties to be performed, an explanation of how the job fits the criteria of one of the three qualifying employment categories listed above, the intended religious worker's qualifications and the salary to be paid.
Due to the prevalence of fraud within the religious worker category, it is likely that a site visit by the USCIS' Office of Fraud Detection and National Security ("FDNS") will occur sometime after the R-1 petition has been filed. The FDNS will likely want to see employment and membership records and will want to verify the identity of the person who signed the Form I-129 and letter of support.
Evidence that the Machine-Readable Visa Fee of $131 has been paid.
The I-797 Approval Notice, copy "A "or "B" for the R-1 petition. The original is preferred, and certain consular posts will only accept the original Approval Notice.
If the R-1 applicant was in the U.S. at the time of filing the R-1 petition and was granted either a change of status or an extension of status, the R-1 applicant will need to obtain an R-1 visa at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate when he or she next travels outside the U.S.


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The Food Fair Market is undergoing some major refurbishment and may not resurface as the same store and the Chop Suey must have been one of Chinatown's bars a long time ago - so long ago that I can't even find references for it in Google.