Republicans spent a generation bludgeoning Democrats with those dreaded "wedge issues." Maybe it's time to give the GOP some of its own medicine.
Though it now seems likely that the Republicans will retain—and perhaps expand—their narrow majority in the House of Representatives, the House GOP caucus remains riddled with vexatious regional and ideological divisions. The din of presidential scandal may have kept Democrats from exploiting those divisions in this election season, but the fissures are real and are sure to grow. To hear Republicans tell it, such divisiveness is just the price of being the majority party. But there's a problem with this "big tent" view of the GOP. Every governing coalition is built from multiple and even conflicting constituencies; but their effectiveness depends on how they are able to hold together and act in concert. And on that count the current Republican Party comes up very short. The last several years have shown that the modern conservative coalition is not only unstable, but inherently so.
Thus the party's problems are neither the abrasive personalities of its leaders nor the over-exuberance of a newly elected majority. They are, rather, rooted in the origins of the modern conservative movement itself—specifically, the way the coalition was constructed in opposition and exile during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Because of the particularities of that history, the cleavages within the GOP will likely grow more pronounced over time. And liberals would do well to learn to exploit them.
Seemingly, the congressional Republicans learned their lesson from the debacles of 1995 when the GOP got blamed for shutting down the government. They reined in their more obstreperous members, took the hard edge off the message, and settled into a more congenial and thus sustainable center-right legislative agenda. But that's not what's happening today on Capitol Hill. Rather, on one side there are approximately 40 moderate Republicans from the Northeast who envision a centrist Republican Party based on a judicious cultivation of regional interests, prudent fiscal policy, and a moderate cultural message. At the same time, another group of roughly 70 conservative diehards (who dub themselves the Conservative Action Team) are now publicly discussing the possibility of forcing another government shutdown this winter, counting on President Clinton being so weakened politically that he will have no choice but to capitulate to their demands for a new round of tax and spending cuts. And all the while James Dobson, Gary Bauer, and other grandees of the religious right are threatening fire and brimstone if the congressional Republicans don't start to deliver on the Christian conservative agenda. The party's several constituencies are not just distinct; they are mutually hostile to one another, if not irreconcilable.
Most deliniations of GOP taxonomy begin with the basic division between economic and social conservatives and then further parse divisions within these two groups. The most detailed and systematic of these sketches was put forward shortly after the 1996 election by Bob Dole's former pollster, Tony Fabrizio. On the basis of two comprehensive surveys, Fabrizio divided the party into five basic groups: Deficit Hawks (25 percent to 30 percent), Supply Siders (20 percent), Cultural Populists (25 percent), Moralists (20 percent), and Progressives (5 percent to 10 percent).
But a deeper central fault line in the Republican Party divides the modern conservative movement into reactionary and reformist wings. The reactionary core of the American electorate can be traced, with relative continuity, at least back to the first decades of this century. It was conspicuous in many of the most vitriolic attacks on Franklin Roosevelt and the most spirited defenses of Joe McCarthy. It includes those who fundamentally oppose the modernism and secularism of American society, the internationalism of its foreign policy, and not just "welfare" but the entirety of the welfare state. Nowhere has this continuity been more vividly demonstrated than in the successive candidacies of Patrick J. Buchanan, who has unearthed 1930s conservative isolationism almost intact.
There is also a somewhat larger and more amorphous group for whom the language of conservatism has operated less as a consuming ideology than as a rhetoric of discontent—discontent with the function of the welfare state, not necessarily its goals. Many in this latter category hold to a worldview still broadly congenial to the underlying presuppositions of the post–World War II liberal-moderate consensus, including the need for public education; the federal government's regulatory role in ensuring basic health and safety at home and in the workplace; the federal guarantees of social insurance in the form of Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance; and the principle of progressive taxation. These voters are not hostile to government per se; they just don't like much of what government has done lately. These voters constitute what we might call "reformist conservatives." These are the voters who abandoned the GOP during the shutdown battles of 1995 and who despise Newt Gingrich almost as much as Democrats do.
What I am describing is not simply the standard division between a party's committed ideologues and its fuzzy periphery. Most political coalitions succeed because, at the end of the day, even committed ideologues are willing to compromise. What makes the conservative coalition so fragile is that the two sides often turn out to be talking about two different things entirely.
For the last 30 years, the unique coalitional arrangements of political conservatism have allowed Republican politicians to conflate the very different agendas of reactionary and reformist conservatives. The southern strategy, which Richard Nixon inaugurated and Ronald Reagan cemented, congregated all the most reactionary and abrasive elements of the American electorate within the Republican Party. Yet it did much more than simply gain their votes. The language that appealed to the ideological diehards cast a broad penumbra. It also appealed to a much broader group who were defecting from the Democrats in the early 1970s, a larger group of the vaguely discontented.
This kind of coalition, however, could maintain coherence only in opposition, only in motion. Once this tense, largely rhetorical coalition came to power and was forced to deal with substantive questions, it was bound to break apart. Republicans got significant mileage out of using wedge issues against the Democrats at a time when they themselves had few concrete alternatives to offer. Resentment against the dependent poor allowed Republicans to implicitly challenge middle-class social entitlements without ever attacking those entitlements directly. As inflation pushed ordinary taxpayers into ever higher brackets ("bracket creep"), Republicans were able to sell a flatter tax code without having to challenge progressivity directly.
Conservatives were very much in power during the first six years of the Reagan presidency, but Democratic control of the House provided a significant brake on implementing an affirmative conservative agenda. Just as significantly, the conservative coalition was newer, and its reactionary core was more willing to see its pet issues go unattended. This fault line only came out into the open in the tumultuous government shutdowns of 1995 and 1996. The events of 1995 unhinged the two groups, splitting apart those who want to dismantle the welfare state from those who are frustrated with its inefficiencies and had been using the radical language of the right to express their discontent.
The Republicans did achieve a great deal in the 104th Congress, but only at a severe cost in popular support. What did the greatest damage with swing voters were the GOP's proposed cuts in education, attacks on the most elemental forms of environmental protection, and a political climate that clearly exposed the equation between tax cuts for the wealthy and benefit cuts for the middle class. They retained their majority only by spending much of 1996 retreating from their original legislative agenda. They eased off on their plans to cut Medicare; they agreed to support the labor-backed minimum-wage increase; and they even retreated on their earlier efforts to shut down institutions like the National Endowment for the Arts and the Public Broadcasting Service, which are so hated by the right. Since then, plans for a flat tax—so dear to conservatives—have been kept off the table for fear of running into a similar debacle.
In his recent article in the Atlantic Monthly on "The Southern Captivity of the Republican Party," Christopher Caldwell, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, argues that the Republicans' problem is not simply that they are captive to a constituency that is "too extreme" or "too far to the right." It is rather that they are beholden to the peculiar traditionalism of one regional subculture—that of the South. He argues that this reliance on and betrothal to southern cultural politics, which helped the GOP so much in the past, has now reached what he calls the "tipping point"—the point at which it alienates more voters outside the South than it gains within it. But there is something more to it than that.
There has always been a reactionary core of the American electorate located disproportionately, but by no means exclusively, within the South. The difference, however, is that in past party configurations that reactionary core has tended to be divided across partisan lines or submerged within larger coalitions with broadly reformist impulses. In fact, for much of this century, both parties contained within their ranks deeply conservative elements. In the North they tended to be Republicans; in the South they tended to be Democrats. Another way of expressing this is that there have always been sizable segments of the American electorate that want to teach creationism in the public schools or believe that Kofi Annan is sending black helicopters to steal their lawn furniture. But seldom have they been so politicized on the issues that separate them from the bulk of the national electorate or been so singularly identified with one political party.
For some time, many Republican Party regulars and politicians outside the South have wanted to come up with a way in which the party could shore up its national dominance while shedding its identification with and dependence upon the more abrasive elements of the conservative movement. This was, to a degree, the project of the Bush presidency—the message behind his election-year call for a "kinder, gentler America." But as the Bush years demonstrated, Republicans have great difficulty energizing or communicating to a mass electorate without appeals to the sort of socially divisive issues that most Americans find repellent. The recent GOP-inspired California ballot initiatives to end affirmative action and penalize illegal aliens have galvanized crucial constituencies and helped elect Republicans. But they have also tarnished the party's reputation in the nation as a whole. Conversely, the moderation typified by George Bush failed dismally to energize the party's reactionary base. Reagan, in that respect, may have been unique. His substantive policies appealed to the true reactionaries, while his persona communicated reassuring moderation. It's hard to think of another Republican politician with Reagan's magic, and it's possible that even Reagan's ability to span the divide was rooted in a very particular historical moment.
The difficulties in reinventing Rockefeller Republicanism are now being faced by what remains of the moderate wing of the Republican Party—the saving remnant of roughly 40 moderate Republican congressmen from the Northeast such as Jack Quinn of New York, Michael Castle of Delaware, and Nancy Johnson of Connecticut. Many of these representatives hold views that would make them almost indistinguishable from moderate Democrats in other parts of the country—especially in the South. Most were early supporters of the 1996 minimum-wage increase and dissenters from the GOP leadership on campaign finance reform; most are pro-choice. Take the example of upstate New York's Sherwood Boehlert. Boehlert has a sterling record on the environment, opposes school vouchers, talks up PBS, and even voted for Bill Clinton's ill-fated 1993 stimulus package. The most he is willing to say on taxes is that there should be "less rather than more."
When I spoke to Boehlert he argued that the "moderate point of view is prevailing" among House Republicans, and he pointed to the minimum-wage in crease, laws that protect the environment, and even the fact that the NEA is "alive and well." Jack Quinn, another GOP moderate, makes a similar argument and claims that the moderate wing "saved the majority" for the GOP in 1996. There is some truth in these statements—particularly the second. But the general optimism is misplaced. As the moderates themselves frequently point out, they have functioned like an electoral canary in a coal mine for the House GOP, signaling the leadership, through their defection, when the legislative agenda becomes too noxiously rightist for the country as a whole.
There is, however, little reason to believe that House conservatives have reconciled or will reconcile themselves to Boehlert's "moderate point of view." By analogy, it would have been great for Democrats if they could have legislated the integrationist civil rights agenda in the 1960s and still held on to the votes of southern segregationists. But politics tends not to work that way. The counterweight of the northeastern moderates may be necessary to keep the GOP viable as a national party. But even if conservative politicians were inclined to make a cynical move in the direction of moderation, they would still be dependent on the votes of core conservatives who would find such a stance anathema. Not only is the Republican Party dependent on the votes of core conservatives—who make up a substantial proportion of the Republican electorate—but they are just as dependent on these core conservatives to impart energy and motion to the Republican Party. Without the ideological diehards, the Republican Party really is little more than a party of the country clubs and the suburbs—a big ship on a flat sea.
Some imagine that all the Republicans need to secure the Revolution of 1994 is a Republican in the White House or veto-proof majorities in Congress. But that ignores their more deep-seated dilemma. As long as they hold the reins of power, they are faced with a stark alternative: they can act on their basic agenda and alienate public opinion, or they can pull their punches and condemn themselves to permanent rebellion and antagonism on their right. Larger GOP congressional majorities won't solve their problem; they will only make it worse.
Many of the "wedge issues" that worked so well for the Republicans in the past now present them with problems similar to those discussed above. Nowhere is this more the case than in the Republican Party's relationship with Hispanic voters. Democrats would certainly be wrong to assume that Hispanic voters are natural Democratic voters. Republicans could devise a message that played to Hispanic traditionalism on moral and social issues. The only problem is that sustaining Hispanic support in states like Texas and California would require avoiding conspicuous attacks on immigration, affirmative action, and the Spanish language. It is true that not a few Hispanic voters support reasonable limits on immigration, oppose affirmative action, and even dissent from the multicultural orthodoxy on bilingual education. But the electoral punch of these GOP wedge issues is not really rooted in disagreements about the economic utility of open immigration or the relative efficacy of bilingual education. It's driven by voters who resent the increasing prominence of Hispanics in American public life.
To think otherwise is simply to ignore the racial politics that undergirds GOP strength. The Republicans' bind with Hispanics is not unlike their problem with blacks. Consider the example of Jack Kemp, who has spent much of his career since leaving Congress arguing for a more inclusive Republican Party that could build beyond its base of economic and social conservatives and reach out to traditionally Democratic constituencies. Kemp is, of course, an extreme supply-side conservative on economic issues. But his repeated political failures and his increasing estrangement from powerful segments of the party have been rooted in his seeming inability to appreciate the deep gusts of racial animosity that fill the sails of so many Republican public policy crusades. Most Republicans know that enterprise zones and other nostrums presented as alternatives to "failed" liberal social policy are window dressing. Kemp's problem is that he takes the window dressing seriously, but none of his GOP colleagues have the heart to tell him.
The Republican Party has not, as Kemp would have it, ignored blacks and other minorities. In the last 30 years the Republican Party has increasingly relied on the support of constituencies that feel embittered and resentful toward minorities and the poor. The party's mounting strength in the 1970s and 1980s was based on making inroads among conservative southern whites and appealing to the resentments that Democratic northern, working-class ethnic voters felt against school busing and affirmative action. Thus, the GOP's problem with minorities isn't incidental; it's fundamental. Any genuine effort to aid minorities or the poor would instantly alienate a substantial portion of the Republican base. It's an electoral bind, inexorable and fixed. The Republicans can't be the party of both black opportunity and anti-black resentment, no matter how big the tent. The Democrats tried it; it didn't work.
The Republicans' dilemma on questions of race and minorities is distinct from its reliance on the abrasive cultural politics of the political right. But there is a deep, underlying symmetry. So the task of liberals and Democrats is to push the Republicans in ways that expose these fissures and the coalition's inherent tendency toward breakdown. For whatever the GOP's vulnerabilities, the party can sustain them as long as they are not explicitly attacked.
This disarray within the Republican ranks may create a situation for Democrats not unlike what Republicans faced in 1967 and 1968. In one sense, at the nadir of their political fortunes they were also witnessing political and ideological realignments that would shift the balance of political power to the South and Southwest and thus ensure their dominance for a generation. The key for liberals is to appreciate the nature of the divisions within the Republican Party and to learn how to exploit them. The Clinton administration has been most successful in probing GOP weaknesses on issues like choice, gun control, and environmentalism—issues where Republicans seem wedded to extreme positions that alienate not only Democratic regulars but also affluent suburbanites. The GOP is also vulnerable when Democrats openly contest the politics of taxation and wages. Though Democrats are often cowed in the arena of tax policy, the winning politics of the 1996 minimum-wage increase could be successfully employed against Republican flat tax proposals and other efforts to squeeze still more progressivity out of the tax code.
Democrats often face a natural difficulty attacking the reactionary core of the conservative electorate because the reactionaries use a language of ideas and institutions to which most Americans are deeply attached: Christianity, the family, and so forth. What makes the reactionary voters obnoxious to many Americans, however, is not the idea of church and family but their unstated cultural and religious claims. Democrats should be able to articulate a critical language that distinguishes between Mom-and-apple-pie values and the more ominous cultural aspirations of the reactionary right.
Of course, focusing on ways to isolate the harsh and abrasive elements in the Republican Party is not a complete substitute for propounding an agenda of your own. But the two are complements. One of the cardinal rules of partisan political combat is to make your opponents pay a price for their crazies. Republicans know that rule well enough: they spent the better part of the two decades winning election after election by making Democrats pay at the ballot box for the various excesses of 1968, images that rattled in the public imagination long after the hot glow of the counterculture and the antiwar movement had faded from the Democratic Party. Liberal Democrats should give conservatives a taste of their own medicine.
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Fobi to provide their CheckVax™ digital proof of vaccination to UNLV to help keep Rebel fans, student-athletes, and staff safe as well as improve the attendee experience by speeding up entry to the Thomas Mack Center for games
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fobi AI Inc. Inc. (FOBI:TSXV FOBIF:OTCQB) (the "Company" or "Fobi"), a leader in providing real-time data analytics through artificial intelligence to drive customer activation and engagement, is pleased to announce the Company has entered into an Agreement with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to provide Fobi's CheckVax™ proof of vaccination solution. CheckVax™ will be utilized to improve the customer experience by speeding up entry and to keep fans, student-athletes, and staff safe at all Men's & Women's basketball games at UNLV for this coming season. The season kicks off with the first Men's game on Wednesday, November 10 th . Fobi will earn revenue on this deal through an initial setup fee and monthly Wallet pass license fees.
The Thomas Mack Center, home to Nevada men's and women's basketball, has a capacity of 19,522, so UNLV has a clear need for a proof of vaccination solution that can enable them to keep their fans, student-athletes, and staff safe and speed up entry for the fans who will be attending the games.
The UNLV men's basketball program has a rich history as one of college basketball's premier programs. UNLV has played in the NCAA tournament 20 times, made 10 Sweet 16 appearances, four Final Four showings, and won the national title in 1990.
UNLV also has a long and impressive history of success over its 47 seasons of competition in women's basketball. The Lady Rebels have recorded eight trips to the NCAA Tournament and have advanced to the Regional Semifinals once (1989).
Michael Newcomb, Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas stated: "We have been so impressed with Fobi's CheckVax™ solution and how it will improve the attendee experience at our games. It's easy to use, it can handle people coming from different regions and the customer service from Fobi has been excellent. We're excited to kick this off on Wednesday."
UNLV chose Fobi's CheckVax™ solution over other solutions for two key reasons. The first is that CheckVax™ is easy to use for users and requires less staffing and resources for manual verifications from UNLV. The second and most important reason is that CheckVax™ can verify vaccination and Covid test results across multiple jurisdictions and regions in advance, speeding up attendee access to the venue which creates a far superior customer experience and increases revenue, as fans stuck in a lineup outside can't spend their money in the venue. This multi-jurisdiction and multi-region pre-verification is something that other solutions are just not able to do.
Fobi CEO Rob Anson stated: "We are very excited to sign this deal with UNLV, one of the premier College Athletic programs in the US. This goes to show that CheckVax™ is the premier digital proof of vaccination and Covid test solution available on the market today."
The agreement with UNLV follows on the announcement of the deal for CheckVax™ with the University of Nevada, Reno last week. Fobi is seeing increased interest in the CheckVax™ solution from various organizations who are looking to adhere to vaccination mandates and keep their various stakeholders safe, ranging from sports teams and venues to restaurants and other hospitality companies, and also from corporations who are looking to get their employees back into the office safely.
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Detroit has one of the largest amounts of halal-certified restaurants in the county. It also has one of the largest Islam communities as well, with multiple Mosques located around the greater Detroit area.
Detroit has recently become a destination for immigrants coming to the United States. Due to the affordable price of living, many immigrants are moving to Detroit making it one of the more diverse cities in the country. Originally Detroit was a destination for European immigrants seeking affordable living costs. However, the populations of most of the other people groups in Detroit have been on the rise over recent years.
The largest ethnic group in the Detroit area is the Arabic people. Detroit is home to the largest populations of many of the immigrants from Arabic countries such as Yemeni, Jordanian, and Lebanese. The metro area has the largest Iraqi populations in the country at approximately 36,000 immigrants, and the second largest Muslim populations outside of the Middle East in the world. Dearborn has the densest Muslim population in the area and is primarily comprised of Shiite Muslims.
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Refugees and Immigrants in Detroit- A good website for information on immigrants and refugees in Detroit.
Detroit information- A good place to start for getting to know about the city.
Islam in Detroit- A website about the Islamic community in Detroit.


Massive conclusion to Pink Day, FHC will hold its first function of the year, a "P" themed party on Saturday 9th May. We hope to see you all there in your "P" gear.
PreviousROUND 3: Women storm home with a 5-4 win vs MCC. Men drew 2-2.


"PRIME SOLUM" you likely have never heard of but "William Hill" you have. Bill Hill started developing vineyards in 1974 and hasn't stopped. He also developed and then sold the William Hill Winery that bears his name to Allied Domeq. It is now owned by Gallo and is now making the best wines made there since Hill sold it. Hill, in the mean time, has continued to develop vineyards (click here for a list) and make wines under other names. Currently, he is involved in Expression and Tetra but his newest wine is Prime Solum from his home Brokenrock ranch in southern Napa Valley. As noted below, I like the wine a lot but I am on record in telling him the package could be better – just saying.
A 14.5% alcohol blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and 9% Petite Verdot grown on a southwest facing hillside in the southern part of Napa Valley (just south of Stags Leap District) planted at 2,312 vines/acre with a yield of 3.0 lbs per vine. Whole berry sorted and gravity-fed into small (1-3 ton) closed-top fermenters for a 5 day cold-soak followed by a hot fermentation with a combination of punch-downs and gentle pump-overs. Malo-lactic fermentation and aging 20 months in French oak barrels (40% new). Purple in color with well formed legs; dry, medium-full-bodied with balanced acidity and chewy phenolics. Elegant, lovely, tobacco leaf Cabernet. Lots of red and some black fruit. Black pepper and a bit of cedar. Classically Cabernet. Long and elegant. Lovely. I want it with dinner. BS: 94.
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Super Falcons star Asisiat Oshoala scored a marvellous goal in the first 15 seconds of her first appearance for Barcelona Femeni.
She joined the female side on loan from her Chinese team, Dalian Quanjian FC. In the first game for her new club, Oshoala scored Barcelona Femení's fourth goal in their win 4-0 away at Rayo Vallecano in a Primera División game on Sunday, 10th February.
What a fabulous start to her time at the club.


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Book Review: Forged In Fire by Juliette Cross
She didn't know the demon world existed. Now she just wants to survive it.
Genevieve Drake has never been the helpless kind of girl. Never needed a man to come to her rescue. That is, not until her twentieth birthday when some dude nearly chokes her to death in an alley and a hot stranger splits the guy in half, rips a monster from inside, and incinerates it into ash.
The hot guy? Jude Delacroix—Master of Demons. Now her guardian, whether she likes it or not. But she's seriously beginning to like it.
The dude choking her? One of many demons from the underworld trying to abduct or kill her. As the prime target of the demon prince, Danté, who has all kinds of lascivious and sadistic plans, she has no problem accepting Jude's protection.
Why Genevieve? She's a Vessel, one who is born to serve the Light but can be corrupted and used as a weapon for darkness. Until that fateful night, she had no idea this world even existed. Now, she just wants to survive it.
Genevieve just turned 20 and now she's a vessel that the demons want to inhabit. But Jude comes to her rescue and explains to her what's going on. It takes a little while for her to fully believe him and understand exactly what's at stake but she does finally get it.
Genevieve's vessel powers start manifesting and demons can see what she is and they start hunting her, wanting her Vessel for themselves. When a demon tries to kill her, it's Jude that comes to her rescue and kills the demon. From that point forward, her life is not her own.
Jude is the Master of Demons and when he rescues Genevieve from a demon, he takes it upon himself to train her, teach her and keep her safe from the demons who want her for themselves.
Genevieve doesn't truly understand what kind of danger she's in after she's attacked the first time. Jude didn't really explain things very well at first and so when someone comes up to her that looks like Jude, she doesn't resist him at first. But he bites her and she realizes that he wasn't Jude. Dante is a dark prince and wants Genevieve for himself. He comes after her a few times and the danger is serious.
This book starts off pretty good but I found myself getting a little bored towards the end. I like Jude but he was hard to get to know. I did like how Genevieve has real world problems along with learning her new powers.


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Girl, 10, misses three years of school as council 'can't find her a place'
Sabrina JohnsonThursday 18 Nov 2021 7:19 pm
Lisa Riley says her daughter Layla Fielding hasn't been in regular education since she was expelled (Picture: Steve Allen / MEN Media)
A mum claims her 10-year-old daughter has been out of school for three years because the council hasn't been able to find her a suitable place.
Lisa Riley says her daughter Layla Fielding hasn't been in regular education since she was expelled in Year Three.
However, Bury Council disputes the claims and said it has consistently provided a school place for Layla but her mum deemed it unsuitable.
Layla, from Bury, has special education needs, with her mum saying she also has ADHD, sensory processing disorder and anxiety.
In the past, she would run out of the school when she felt overwhelmed and has even escaped school premises when things became too much.
But it is now almost three years since Layla had any regular classroom time, something which is having a 'devastating' effect both on her and her family.
Layla told the Manchester Evening News: 'I think I've missed out on a lot by not going to school. I've been missing out on learning, socialising and everything like that.
'I feel like I haven't got any friends now and I feel lonely sometimes.'
Layla said she felt like she was 'missing out' on learning and making friends (Picture: Steve Allen / MEN Media)
Layla did attend St Joseph & St Bede's for a few weeks in January after she was excluded from a school in Rochdale.
But her mother says her 'flight or fight response' was triggered – and she managed to escape the school grounds.
Lisa added: 'It was the same scenario, Layla couldn't cope.'
Layla now sees an alternative education provider, but this is only for three two-hour sessions each week.
Lisa said it was 'no substitute for the formal education her daughter deserves' and she was worried Layla was falling behind.
She said she believed that with the right support Layla would be 'more than capable' of having a formal education in a normal school.
Lisa said: 'Almost three years in, we need a suitable place for Layla to attend.
'And it's not just the academic life and learning, it's the social, the emotional, making friends, feeling part of a group and community that Layla is missing out on and has missed out on.
Bury Council said it had provided a school spot for Layla and had worked 'extensively' with Layla and her mum (Picture: Getty Images)
'And really I just find it staggering to think the council can't accommodate or find one single place to suit Layla.
'My daughter deserves better than the council are delivering for her.'
A spokesperson for the council said: 'We always strive to ensure that all children, whatever their circumstances, are provided with the education that is most appropriate for them and in the right setting.
'We have worked extensively with Ms Riley over many months to find the solution that is best for her and her daughter. At all times Layla has had a school place.'
They said after Layla was excluded a primary school place was provided for her at a school in Bury in 2019 and a plan was drawn up to help her reintegrate into school but this broke down.
The spokesperson added: 'In January 2020, the council agreed to fund full-time provision with an approved alternative provider to continue to work with Layla and reintegrate her back into her school environment.
'Her mainstream school found it challenging to meet Layla's needs, but Ms Riley was of the view that a school had to be a mainstream school and special provision would not be considered.
'Unfortunately, this has delayed reaching an alternative arrangement for Layla.
'Layla has a place at her primary school and is currently being provided with education offsite with an approved alternative provider as Layla has struggled to adapt to her school environment.
'We are consulting with a range of primary mainstream schools and considering specialist provision alongside these options in order to identify the most suitable setting for Layla.'
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School of Health Professions > Clinical Laboratory Sciences > Bachelor's in CLS > What is a medical laboratory scientist?
Clinical laboratory sciences (also known as medical technology or medical laboratory science) is a biology/chemistry-based bachelor's degree that prepares students for exciting, challenging and dynamic careers in places such as hospital labs and clinics, forensic labs, veterinary clinics, industrial research labs and molecular biotechnology labs.
Professionals in this field analyze blood, urine, tissue, and other body specimens. These test results play an important role in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
Laboratory scientists are in high demand. And with future growth predicted to be above average for all professions, laboratory science provides solid job security.
Considering a career in laboratory science?
Learn about career preparation, educational requirements, scholarships, salaries and job opportunities at LaboratoryScienceCareers.com.
The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science asked laboratory professionals, "What do you love about your career?" Here is what they had to say.
Do you like solving puzzles and problems?
Do you excel in handling multiple tasks?
Do you like a fast-paced and challenging environment?
Do you like hands-on science?
Do you want to find a science-based degree that prepares you for advanced studies in science or applied sciences such as medical school?
Do you want a career that develops skills and provides experience to be used in a variety of employment settings?
If you answered yes to most of these questions, clinical laboratory science may be a good choice for you!
Earning a degree in clinical laboratory science opens doors to a wide variety of career opportunities. The majority of graduates sit for the national certification examination that grants the credentials of medical laboratory scientist, or MLS. Formerly known as a clinical laboratory scientist or medical technologist, the MLS is a "disease detective," helping to pinpoint the cause of disease through the examination and anaylsis of blood, tissue and other body fluids.
Specialty areas of laboratory science include clinical chemistry, hematology, transfusion services, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology and the emerging field of molecular diagnostics.
The field of laboratory testing has evolved. With the appearance of sophisticated automated analytical instruments, laboratory scientists find themselves in the role of making decisions about the validity of data to be used by physicians in medical decisions. It is estimated that 70-80% of a physician's medical decisions on any one patient are a direct result of laboratory test data.
This type of analysis requires extensive knowledge of normal and abnormal physiology, correlation of laboratory data to specific disease as well as extensive knowledge of instrumentation and individual test principles.
A degree in laboratory science can lead to exciting career opportunities. The opportunities are virtually unlimited in hospital laboratories, clinics, forensic laboratories, veterinary clinics, and in medical, biotechnology and industrial research laboratories. Other areas include cytogenetics, cytotechnology and histology.
With advanced education you may also find rewarding careers in medicine, teaching and management.
In high demand, clinical laboratory science offers rapid advancement, multiple employment opportunities, and a competitive salary. It's a great career opportunity!
Excellent employment outlook – one of the Top 20 best jobs and number 10 in the medical occupation category (Forbes, 2015).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 5,210 new laboratorians needed each year from 2014 to 2024. This figure is almost double the number of newly certified graduates each year.
10% national average vacancy rate, with a higher vacancy rate in the Western U.S. states for current positions.
Projected retirements 2014-2019: 20.3% (AJCP; 2015) cannot be filled by current graduation rates.
2011-2015 average: 3,420 graduates per year.
Interested in CLS? Here's a brief intro to the field.
Sign-on bonuses: $1,000 to $5,000.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology's 2014 Vacancy Survey of Medical Laboratories in the United States. Edna Garcia, MPH,1 Asma M. Ali, MS,2 Ryan M. Soles, MA,2 and D. Grace Lewis. Am J Clin Pathol September 2015;144:432-443. PDF document at ajcp.oxfordjournals.org visited May 17, 2016.
ASCP Vacancy Survey Reveals Laboratory Workforce Shortage Expanding, American Society of Clinical Pathology Vacancy Report 2014, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015. Webpage at www.prweb.com visited May 17.2016.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians; online at www.bls.gov visited May 17, 2016.
A good first step is to talk with someone who is a clinical laboratory scientist or medical technologist. If possible, "shadow" an MLS for a few days.
The most obvious place to find an MLS is in your local hospital laboratory – keeping in mind that hospital laboratories do not reflect the nature of all laboratory science work opportunities.
The molecular biotechnology specialty can be found working in areas of research, industrial, and forensic laboratories for example as well as in medical laboratories.
The KU Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences is happy to help answer any questions at clsed@kumc.edu or call 913-588-5220 (711 TTY) to schedule an informational visit or have a personal tour of the KU Medical Center campus in Kansas City, Kansas.
High school preparation should include as much math and science as possible – minimally biology, chemistry and physics and math through calculus. Students having completed high school but without the necessary math and science courses may need to take preparatory courses before enrolling in the standard college level biology, math, and chemistry classes. Most community colleges offer these preparatory courses.
Even though the clinical laboratory science degree is awarded through the School of Health Professions following completion of the student's junior and senior years of college, the prerequisite course work is taken at any accredited post-secondary educational institution. At KU, these first two years are offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Lawrence campus. The first two years of the degree consist of traditional academic course work such as a biology, biological sciences, chemistry and math.
It is strongly recommended students seek advising from the department as early as possible in their college career to get assistance in selecting appropriate courses and to minimize additional expenses and/or scheduling conflicts.
College gradutes may be able to enter an accredited laboratory science degree program if the necessary prerequisites have been completed.
Students who have entered their sophomore year of college and anticipate completion of prerequisites by the end of the second academic year may apply for admission to the KU clinical laboratory science program (see How to Apply).
The last two years (beginning in August each year) of clinical course work and practicum are taken in the metropolitan Kansas City area primarily at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
During the senior year, students may choose to pursue the traditional clinical concentration or enter the molecular biotechnology concentration. These concentrations will differ in the course work and practicum taken during the last semester of the senior year. Both groups of students will rotate through a series of affiliate sites, both medical and non-medical, to gain experience in the application of the skills and knowledge acquired during the program (see curriculum for details).
These practicums also provide exposure to a wide range of potential employers and work settings. Most of the clinical sites for practicum rotations are located within two hours of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Students need to be aware of the possibility of relocation during the final semester. Housing and meals are the responsibility of the student.
After graduation, students are eligible to take the national certification examination. In most medical laboratories, certification is a requirement for continued employment (as well as advancement and optimum salary). Some states have a separate licensure process as well. Kansas does not.
Specific information on the certification process will be provided by KU to students during their senior year in the program. The American Society of Clinical Pathologists administers certification examinations for both the traditional medical laboratory scientist and the molecular biolotechnologist credentials.
Most of the students from the University of Kansas program have received employment offers by graduation or shortly thereafter. Prospective employers may recruit actively on campus or send notifications of employment opportunities to the department to be distributed to students.


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Q: How to update the cherry picked commit on gerrit? I made a commit A to a branch. It's not merged yet. My friend cherry picked my commit and made a new commit B. Now they form a relation chain right? So, If I amend my commit A, What is the best way to get my new changes in my friend's branch?
PS: On amending the commit, the commit hash will change and create a new patchset.

A: It's not a good practice cherry-picking a commit from a open change, but if this was needed, now it's necessary to cherry-pick the new commit, amend the original commit and push to Gerrit, creating a new patch-set.

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package org.cache2k.io;

import org.cache2k.Cache;
import org.cache2k.Cache2kBuilder;
import org.cache2k.CacheEntry;
import org.cache2k.DataAware;
import org.cache2k.DataAwareCustomization;
import org.cache2k.annotation.Nullable;

import java.util.EventListener;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;

/**
 * Alternative interface to {@link CacheLoader} for asynchronous operation.
 * There is also version with bulk support, {@link AsyncBulkCacheLoader}.
 *
 * @author Jens Wilke
 * @since 2.0
 * @see CacheLoader
 * @see AsyncBulkCacheLoader
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface AsyncCacheLoader<K, V> extends DataAwareCustomization<K, V> {

  /**
   * Starts an asynchronous load operation.
   *
   *
If this call throws an exception, it is assumed that the load operation was not
   * started and the callback will not be called.
   *
   * @param key key of the value to load
   * @param context additional context information for the load operation
   * @param callback interface to notify for load completion
   * @throws Exception an exception, if the load operation cannot be started
   */
  void load(K key, Context<K, V> context, Callback<V> callback) throws Exception;

  /**
   * Relevant context information for a single load request.
   *
   *
Rationale: Instead of a rather long parameter list, we define an interface.
   * This allows us later to add some information without breaking implementations
   * of the {@link AsyncCacheLoader}. The context does not include the cache, since the
   * loader should not depend on it and do any other operations on the cache while loading.
   */
  interface Context<K, V> extends DataAware<K, V> {

    /**
     * The cache originating the load request
     */
    Cache<K, V> getCache();

    /**
     * Start of load operation
     *
     * @return Time in millis since epoch or as defined by
     *         {@link org.cache2k.operation.TimeReference}.
     */
    long getStartTime();

    /**
     * Cache key for the load request. Although the key is a call parameter
     * it is repeated here, so users can choose to pass on the key or the
     * whole context.
     */
    K getKey();

    /**
     * The configured executor for async operations.
     *
     * @see org.cache2k.Cache2kBuilder#executor(Executor)
     */
    Executor getExecutor();

    /**
     * The configured loader executor.
     *
     * @see org.cache2k.Cache2kBuilder#loaderExecutor(Executor)
     */
    Executor getLoaderExecutor();

    /**
     * Current entry in the cache. The entry is available if the load is caused
     * by reload or refresh. If expired before, {@code null} is returned.
     * If {@link Cache2kBuilder#keepDataAfterExpired(boolean)} is enabled, also
     * an expired entry is provided to the loader for optimization purposes.
     * See also the description of
     * {@link Cache2kBuilder#keepDataAfterExpired(boolean)} and
     * {@link Cache2kBuilder#refreshAhead(boolean)}.
     *
     * @return the current entry if a mapping is present in the cache, or {@code null}
     */
    @Nullable CacheEntry<K, V> getCurrentEntry();

    /**
     * Operation is refresh and not an immediate client request. This can be used
     * to execute the operation at a lower priority. The {@code CoalescingBulkLoader}
     * is using the flag to delay refresh requests and combine them into bulk requests.
     */
    boolean isRefreshAhead();
  }

  /**
   * Callback for async cache load.
   */
  interface Callback<V> extends EventListener {

    /**
     * Called to provide the loaded value to be stored in the cache.
     *
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the callback was already made
     */
    void onLoadSuccess(V value);

    /**
     * Called if a failure happened. The exception is propagated to
     * the clients accessing the associated key.
     *
     * @throws IllegalStateException if the callback was already made
     */
    void onLoadFailure(Throwable t);

  }

}


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Q: Running main project in Netbeans 7 with ivybeans I have configured my projects to use ivy in Netbeans 7.0.1 with ivybeans 1.1.3 plugin. If I open the main class and choose "Run file (shift + F6)" then the application starts without any problems. However, if I set the project as main try to "Run Main Project (ctrl + shift + F11)" then I get ClassNotFoundException.
What am I missing?
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1I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
4For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
19Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
· Psalm 10 has no words at the top about David or music. This is not usual in a psalm by David.
· Hebrew words that David did not often use are in Psalms 9 and 10.
· Psalms 9 and 10 make one acrostic.
Acrostic psalms use the Hebrew alphabet. The first bit starts with the first letter. The second bit starts with the second letter. This happens until the alphabet finishes. Look at Psalm 9 below. Then you will understand. We have used English letters. These are not the same as Hebrew ones. After a time some of the letters became lost or mixed up! Also, the Jews decided to make them into 2 psalms. Some Christians have put them back together as one psalm, for example, some Roman Catholics.
It is difficult to write an acrostic psalm. The words sometimes go in a strange order. This makes them hard to understand. It may give you help if you change the order of the words. In verse 3 you could say "My enemies went back" instead of "Back my enemies went". It means the same.
The leader (must use the music) 'Death to the son'.
v1 All my heart sings 'thank you' to the LORD.
I will tell (people) of all your wonderful work.
v2 I will be very happy with you, (LORD). I will rejoice in you.
I will sing praises to your name, Most High God.
v4 because you judged that what I did was right .
You sat on your throne. You made a righteous judgment.
v5 Clearly you judged the nations and destroyed the wicked.
People will never remember their names.
v6 You caught the enemy. You killed them.
You knocked down their cities. People will just forget them.
v7 Evermore the LORD will rule.
He has built his throne. On it he will make his judgments.
v8 He will make righteous judgments for the world.
His government will give justice to the people.
v9 For the LORD is a place where the oppressed can hide.
He will be a fortress in times of trouble.
v10 Everyone that knows your name (LORD) will put their trust in you.
LORD, you will never turn away from anyone that looks for you.
v11 Go to the LORD with praises. His throne is in Zion.
Tell all the nations all that he has done.
v12 (God) will remember the people that somebody murdered.
He will not forget the oppressed people that cry to him.
v13 Have mercy on me, LORD.
See how my enemies make my life very difficult.
Make me safe from the gates of death.
v14 Then I will tell your praises in the gates of Jerusalem.
I will rejoice that I am safe with you.
v15 Into the hole that they dug the nations fell.
They caught their own feet in the net that they hid.
v16 You will recognise the LORD by his justice.
The enemies of God will catch themselves in their own nets.
so will all the nations that forget him.
v18 Know this: God will not always forget the poor.
The oppressed will not have to hope for evermore.
v19 LORD, stand up! Do not let men become too powerful.
Let the nations find justice before you.
v20 LORD, make them afraid.
Make the nations know that they are only human.
The psalms are Hebrew poetry. Poetry is when people write the words in a special way. They sound very beautiful. The Jews had a lot of rules for writing poetry. One was to make the ends of the words sound like each other. We call this "rhyming". Another rule was to make the ideas sound like each other. Look at Psalm 9: 8. The 2 parts of the verse mean the same. This often gives us help to understand and to translate a psalm.
Another way the Jews wrote poetry was to use an acrostic. This often made the words come in the wrong order, like Psalm 9: 3. Not many of the psalms are acrostics. The most famous one is Psalm 119. The others are 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, and 145. We do not usually translate them into English as acrostics, because there are 26 letters in the English alphabet. There are only 22 in the Hebrew alphabet. We have done it with psalms 9 and 10 because some of the letters are missing. This makes it easier for us!
v1 LORD, why are you standing so far away?
v2 In his pride the wicked man tries to catch helpless people.
I hope that wicked people catch themselves with their bad plans!
v3 The wicked boasts about what he wants.
He says good things about those that want more than is fair.
He says very bad things about the LORD.
v4 In his pride, the wicked does not look for God.
He will not even think of God.
v5 Everything that the wicked does always works well.
He puts the rules of God far from him.
He laughs at the people that do not like him.
v6 He says to himself, "There will be no trouble for me.
Nothing bad will ever happen to me or to my children".
v7 His mouth makes bad promises.
It is full of words that are not true.
He says that he will do very bad things to people.
There is evil on his tongue.
v8 He hides behind the bushes near the villages.
He watches in secret for people to hurt.
He jumps out and murders people that have done nothing wrong.
v9 He lies like a lion under the cover of a bush.
He waits to catch someone that is helpless.
He does catch him and takes him away in his net.
v10 He beats the helpless man.
The helpless man fails and falls under the stronger man.
v11 He says to himself, "God forgot.
He hid his face. He never saw what happened".
v12 Rise up, O God! Lift up your hand.
Do not forget the helpless people.
v13 Why does the wicked man say such bad things about God?
Why does he think, 'God will not do anything about it'?
Decide what to do about it.
The helpless puts his trust in you.
You give help to the fatherless.
v15 The arm of the wicked and evil man . . . break it (LORD)!
Tell him to explain what he has done.
He thought that you would not discover it!
v16 The LORD will always be king.
The nations will not remain in his land for evermore.
v17 You hear, LORD, what oppressed people want.
You listen when they pray. You give them something to hope for.
v18 You care for the fatherless and the oppressed.
People from the earth will not frighten the poor again.
Not all the letters of the acrostic are here! D is not here. Perhaps somebody changed some words into other words that meant the same.
If you find the acrostic difficult, here is some help.
Psalm 9: 1 – 6: David is very happy. He says, "thank you" to the LORD. Why? Because David beat his enemies. David knew that God gave him help. It was God that really beat the enemies, not David on his own! God judged that David was right and the enemies wrong. The enemies were probably the Philistines. Goliath was a Philistine.
· look for the LORD: if we do this, the LORD will find us!
Many people will not like this! As they made life difficult for David, so they will for us. So we must pray, 'Have mercy on me, LORD'. These are the words that some Churches still pray in Greek: KYRIE ELEISON. God's mercy is when he is loving and kind to us, and not angry.
When there is trouble in your country, pray to God about it. Your country may fight another country. Pray to God about it. Pray for your government and your soldiers. Some of them may be Christians. Pray for justice. It may not matter which country wins. What matters is that God still rules the world. When you pray, talk to God in your own words.
You can see that the acrostic is incomplete. "Incomplete" means that it is not all there. The psalm is all there, though. A few words became changed. They still mean the same thing.
Psalm 10: 1 – 7: In Psalm 9 we read about the enemy of God. He was also the enemy of David. The enemy was probably a foreign country. In Psalm 10 we read about the wicked man, or the wicked. They were people that lived in David's country. Perhaps some of them were women. They wanted more that it was fair for them to have. They made plans to take things from people that were helpless. Some of these helpless people were people of God. Sometimes they felt that God did not care any more.
Psalm 10: 8 – 11: The wicked man is like a wild animal called a lion. They kill for what they can get. In Psalm 10:11 we do not know if "he" is the bad man or the helpless man. The Hebrew Bible just says "he" . Both people felt that God was not looking.
When there is trouble pray to God about it. There may be unrest in your own country. Pray to God about it. You may feel frightened. You may not feel safe. Pray to God about it. Then read Psalm 10:16-18. Believe that one day it will be true. That is the promise of God to you.
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, UPON MUTH-LABEN. A PSALM OF DAVID or TO HE WHO GRANTS VICTORY, IMMORTALITY FOR THE SON, A PSALM OF DAVID.
SON, EVEN MY FIRSTBORN>> [Exodus 4:22].
FORTH ALL THY MARVELLOUS WORKS.
<>: In Hebrew "Odeh" meaning acknowledge.
NAME, O THOU MOST HIGH.
WICKED, THOU HAST PUT OUT THEIR NAME FOR EVER AND EVER.
of ALL ISRAEL in a collective sense.
THOU HAST DESTROYED CITIES; THEIR MEMORIAL IS PERISHED WITH THEM.
MINISTER JUDGMENT TO THE PEOPLE IN UPRIGHTNESS.
When you are in trouble and you pray to the Almighty He will help you.
somehow direct oneself towards the Almighty.
THOU, LORD, HAST NOT FORSAKEN THEM THAT SEEK THEE.
If you search you will find and be helped and be of help to others.
AMONG THE PEOPLE HIS DOINGS.
ourselves and our own survival and that of our family.
HE FORGETTETH NOT THE CRY OF THE HUMBLE.
corresponding duties laid upon them.
Judah and Israel is the enemy of the Almighty.
DAUGHTER OF ZION: I WILL REJOICE IN THY SALVATION.
NET WHICH THEY HID IS THEIR OWN FOOT TAKEN.
Our enemies will fall in their own traps.
WICKED IS SNARED IN THE WORK OF HIS OWN HANDS. HIGGAION. SELAH.
is eternal life but through sin this can be forfeited.
OF THE POOR SHALL NOT PERISH FOR EVER.
wants you to be with Him in both this world and the next.
[Psalms 9:19] ARISE, O LORD; LET NOT MAN PREVAIL: LET THE HEATHEN BE JUDGED IN THY SIGHT.
THEMSELVES TO BE BUT MEN. SELAH.
A collection of 150 psalms, whose Hebrew name is "The Book of Praise." Authors of individual psalms include David, Solomon, Moses, Asaph, and others who are anonymous. The variety and unity of Psalms have given this book a unique place in the devotional life of the individual and the Church. Almost every aspect of man's relation to God is depicted in these poems, simple trust, the sense of sin, appeal to a higher power in time of trouble, and the conviction that the world is in the hands of a loving God.


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Built in brick and standing three-storeys tall, the Traveller's Hotel exemplifies the Edwardian style, particularly that of a commercial building during this period, with its symmetrical aesthetic and brick façade. The building also hearkens back to Victorian architectural aesthetics with its heavy exterior cornices. Its careful details demonstrate the economic prosperity that the town had enjoyed in the preceding decade. Between 1900 and 1912, when the town was a major coal hub, Ladysmith's economy experienced a boom due to the great quantity of coal that was shipped in and out of the town.
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Jacob Pebley will make his individual debut on day 6 in the men's 200 back.
Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte has opted out of competing in the women's 200 breast on the final day of competition.
Lithuanian born swimmer, Rūta Meilutytė, has the distinction of being the first and only swimmer in history to win all achievable swimming titles in all age groups. In 2010, at just 13 years old, she broke her first Lithuanian swimming record in both the women's 50 meter and 100 meter breaststroke.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 19, 1997 to Sauilus Meilutis and Ingrida Meilutienė. At the age of four, Ruta's mother was killed in a car accident. While her father lived abroad, Ruta was raised by her grandmother until she reached her teens. Ruta begin swimming at the age of seven and while she is not considered tall, her feet have always been like flippers, now wearing a size 44 shoe, which is equivalent to a size 13 women's in the United States. In 2010, she moved to Plymouth, England (the south west of England), with her father, a nurse for people with different abilities, and her two brothers, Margiris (age 20), a law student, and Mindaugas (age 24). Meilutyte first burst on to the scene in 2010 when she broke the Lithuanian records in the two sprint breaststrokes at just 13 years old.
In 2012, Meilutyte became the youngest Lithuanian swimmer to be selected for their Olympic team. In her first event at the Olympics, she broke the Lithuanian record and the European in the 100 meter breaststroke with a time of 1:05.21. In the finals she won gold, but did not lower her preliminary time. While she did not make the finals in the 50 meter freestyle, she set a new Lithuanian national record of 25.55 seconds. She also competed in the 100 meter freestyle.
For all of her success, Ruta was named 2012 best European young athlete of the year by the European Olympic Committee.
At the 2012 FINA World Championships, Meilutyte continued her rise to stardom winning the 50 meter breaststroke (short course meters) with a time of 29.44. Each time she swam that event, preliminaries (29.56) and semi-finals (29.51) and then finals, she lowered the European record and the Championship record.
She also swam the 100 meter freestyle, setting a Lithuanian National record of 53.54 seconds. Although she made the semi-finals of the 100 meter freestyle, she withdrew because it was too close to the 50 meter breaststroke final.
Once again, Meilutyte lowered the 100 meter individual medley national record three times. In the heats with a time of 59.33, in the semi-finals with a time of 59.15, and in the finals with a time of 58.79, winning the silver medal!
Her last event of the meet, the 100 meter breaststroke, she broke the Lithuanian national record in the heats (1:04.69) and then shattering it in finals (1:03.52) to win her second gold medal.
At the 2013 World Championships, Meilutyte won gold in the 100 meter breaststroke and silver in the 50 meter breaststroke. In the semi-finals of the 100 meter breaststroke, Meilutyte broke the Lithuanian, European and Championship record with a time of 1:04.35, becoming the first record holder of the championships. In the finals, she captured gold, just missing her earlier record swimming the time of 1:04.42. Meilutyte became the first Lithuanian athlete to break a swimming world record (after gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1990).
Meilutyte also competed in the 100 meter freestyle, though she did not progress to the semi-finals. She chose not to swim the 50 meter freestyle, and concentrated on the 50 meter breaststroke. In the semi-finals, Meilutyte broke the world record with a time of 29.48. In the finals, she swam a very fast 29.59 and finished with the silver medal, behind Yuliya Yefimova (Russian swimmer).
Ruta Meilutyte won gold in the 50 meter breaststroke (30.14), gold in the 100 meter breaststroke (1:05.39), and placed fifth in the 100 freestyle with a personal best of 55.17.
Meilutyte competed in only two events, the 50 meter breaststroke and the 50 meter freestyle. In the 50 meter breaststroke semi-finals, she broke the Championship record in 50-metre breaststroke, finishing with a time of 29.88 seconds, and then went on to capture gold nearly repeating her time with a 29.89.
Having won the 50 meter breaststroke in swimming's major events (Olympics, Youth Olympics, Fina World Championships, European Championships, Junior Championships, and Swimming World Cup) achieved the Aquatic Grand Slam, the first Lithuanian to do so, and the first Lithuanian to win a gold medal in the long course European Championships.
At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Meilutyte competed in the 100 breaststroke where she won the silver medal with a time of 1:06.36, losing to Russia's Yuliya Efimova in the finals. In the 50 meter breaststroke, Meilutyte failed to make the podium finishing in 4th place with a time of 30.14.
In September of 2015, Meilutyte fell off her bike and broke her elbow which required surgery to repair. While she was set to make her return during the 2016 Euro Meet, Meilutyte withdrew from the competition citing complications from her elbow injury. With the 2016 Olympics quickly approaching, Meilutyte has some last minute rehab to complete to be at top form.
At the Edinburgh International Meet, Ruta impressively topped the field in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, proving the time off and healing from surgery has done little to affect her swimming. Her 1:05.82 was almost 2 full seconds ahead of the rest of the field and was the second fastest time that season.
Rute advanced to the final heat of the 100 breast in a 1:06.44 out of semis, but fell to 7th place in the final, touching in a time of 1:07.32.
Meilutyte finished fourth in the 100m Breaststroke with a 1:05.65. She was well off her previous World Record time of 1:04.35, which was broken by Lilly King, who swam a 1:04.13. She also finished 4th in the 50 breast, touching in 30.20 to just miss the medals again.
Meilutyte returned on the top of the podium as she won the 50 breaststroke in 29.36. She was still 0.55 seconds off of her best time but this was her first European Championship title since 2014. On day four, Meilutyte won the 100 breaststroke going 1:03.79. She was the only swimmer under 1:04 as Finland's Jenna Laukkanen took second with the time of 1:04.25.
Ruta swam the 50 and 100 breast in Glasgow. She finished 2nd (1:06.26) behind Russian Yulia Efimova in the 100, and touched 4th in the 50 (30.46), just .05 outside of medaling.
In Hangzhou, Ruta medaled in the 50 breast, touching 2nd in a time of 29.38, only behind Jamaican Alia Atkinson.


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