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What's Happening in Space Policy April 15-21, 2018 – UPDATED
By Marcia Smith | Posted: April 15, 2018 12:26 pm ET | Last Updated: April 16, 2018 10:06 am ET
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of April 15-21, 2018 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session this week. [Updated with weblink for VP Pence's talk on Monday]
During the Week
It's another busy week, starting today (Sunday) with pre-launch briefings for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). There are two, at 1:00 pm ET and 3:00 pm ET, from Kennedy Space Center. They will be livestreamed. TESS will hunt for planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets) that are close to Earth. TESS is scheduled for launch tomorrow (Monday) at 6:32 pm ET.
Also tomorrow, the Space Foundation's annual Space Symposium gets underway at its usual venue in Colorado Springs, CO. Vice President Mike Pence will speak at 2:00 pm ET (12:00 pm local time at the conference). Pence chairs the White House National Space Council. The Council's Executive Secretary, Scott Pace, hinted last week that there will be some type of policy announcement during the talk. The White House told us that Pence's speech will be livestreamed, but we don't have the link yet. We'll post it on our calendar as soon as we know. One POSSIBILITY is that it will be on the White House's own livestream website. [UPDATED: Yes, it will be livestreamed on the White House website, beginning at 1:55 pm ET instead of 2:00 pm ET.]
Also out in Colorado this week, NOAA will hold its annual Space Weather Workshop all week in Westminster, which engages government, industry and academia in discussions about the "remarkably diverse impacts of space weather on today's technology."
Back here in Washington, on Tuesday the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will mark up a FY2018-2019 NASA Authorization Bill. The draft bill is posted on the committee's website. The markup is at 10:00 am ET and will be webcast. Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the 2017 NASA Transition Authorization Act last year. This new one addresses some of the changes since then, including NASA's transition plan for the International Space Station and the proposed cancellation of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
Authorization bills are significant for their policy provisions, not funding, since the funding numbers are just recommendations. They don't actually provide any money. Only appropriations bills do that. But further to our discussion last week, the debate over whether to rescind or "claw back" some of the $1.3 trillion that was appropriated for FY2018 is still alive, though there is Republican as well as Democratic opposition to the idea on the Hill. Nonetheless, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney is said to be writing a proposal to do just that — request Congress to take back money it appropriated in excess of what the Trump Administration said it needed. No details have emerged on what programs in which agencies would be affected, but it seems highly likely that the cuts will be directed at the non-defense portion of the federal budget, which includes NASA and NOAA. Mulvaney's proposal is expected to be ready at the beginning of May.
No specific national security space hearings are on tap this week, but three might touch on space issues. Mike Griffin, now the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, will testify to both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees (HASC and SASC). The HASC hearing on Tuesday is on promoting DOD's "culture of innovation." Griffin will be joined by Eric Schmidt, chairman of DOD's Defense Innovation Board. The SASC hearing on Wednesday is about "Accelerating New Technologies to Meet Emerging Threats." Griffin is the only witness at that one, which is before SASC's Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee. HASC also has a hearing on Tuesday about missile defense and defeat programs.
Congress is working on another export control reform bill. This one, which will be marked up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesdsay, is quite sweeping. It would "modernize U.S. export control regulations of dual-use items," beginning with repeal of the 1979 Export Administration Act (EAA), which lapsed in 2001.
Those and other events we know about as of Sunday morning are shown below. Check back throughout the week for others we learn about later and add to our Calendar.
Pre-launch Press Conferences for the TESS Launch, Kennedy Space Center, FL (livestreamed)
1:00 pm ET, Mission Status
3:00 pm ET, Science
Sunday-Monday, April 15-16
Space Generation Fusion Forum, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO (in conjunction with Space Symposium)
Sunday-Friday, April 15-20
U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Subcommittee (continues from last week), Vienna, Austria
Vice President Mike Pence Speaks at Space Symposium, Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO, 2:00 pm ET (12:00 pm local time)
Launch of NASA"s TESS Satellite, Cape Canaveral, FL, 6:32 pm ET (NASA TV coverage begins 6:00 pm ET)
Monday-Thursday, April 16-19
Space Symposium (Space Foundation), Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO
Monday-Friday, April 16-20
Space Weather Workshop (NOAA), Westin Hotel, Westminster, CO
House SS&T Committee Markup FY2018-2019 NASA Authorization Act, 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, 10:00 am ET (webcast)
HASC Hearing on Promoting DOD's Culture of Innovation, 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, 10:00 am ET (webcast)
House Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Export Control Reform Act, 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, 10:00 am ET (webcast)
MSBR Luncheon Featuring STScI's Nancy Levenson, Martin's Crosswinds, Greenbelt, MD, i1:30 am – 1:30 pm ET
HASC Hearing on Missile Defense and Defeat Systems, 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, 3:30 pm ET (webcast)
SASC Hearing on Accelerating New Technologies to Meet Emerging Threats, 232A Russell Senate Office Building, 2:30 pm ET (webcast)
Public Lecture by STScI Director Ken Sembach on "Is Astronomy Ready for JWST," National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, 8:00 pm ET (webcast)
Commercial Sector and Norms for Responsible Use of Space (SWF and Space Foundation), Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, CO, in conjunction with the Space Symposium (invitation only)
Thursday-Friday, April 19-20
National Academies Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy, Beckman Center, Irvine, CA (some sessions are closed)
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The National Secular Society
December 22, 2015 Garry Otton	Leave a comment
National Secular Society President, Terry Sanderson
The National Secular Society (NSS) is 150 years old this year. It is fitting that it is awarded the 2016 Aikenhead Award for services to secularism. The award is named after Edinburgh student Tom Aikenhead who was hung for blasphemy outside Edinburgh at the behest of the Church of Scotland on 8th January 1697.
Scottish Secular Society's Aikenhead Award
The National Secular Society's birth is as much a result of challenging the privileges bestowed on Christianity as it is on the enquiring minds of the brave freethinkers who played a part in its establishment. Garry Otton takes a look back.
The term secularism was attributed to George Holyoake in 1851 who, like many freethinkers at the time, were Owenists; followers of the social reformer Robert Owen who treated workers fairly at his mills in New Lanark.
Robert Owen was the founder of infant care in Scotland.
Holyoake was inspired by men like Richard Carlile who supported the abolition of monarchy, secular education, the emancipation of women and spent nine years in prison for his troubles. Carlile published The Lion which campaigned against child labour, argued that "equality between the sexes" should be the objective of all reformers and in 1826 published Every Woman's Book advocating birth control and the sexual emancipation of women. Carlile was prosecuted for blasphemy, blasphemous libel and sedition for publishing Tom Paine's Common Sense, The Rights of Man and the Age of Reason (which criticised the Bible and the Church of England). In October 1819 Carlile was found guilty of blasphemy and seditious libel and sentenced to three years in Dorchester Gaol with a fine of £1,500. When he refused to pay the fine, his premises in Fleet Street were raided by police and his stock was confiscated. While he was in jail he continued to write articles for his paper The Republican which was now published by his wife Jane. Thanks to the publicity it even outsold pro-government newspapers like The Times.
George Holyoake speaking on his recent internment for blasphemy
As well as being an Owenite lecturer at Glasgow University, George Holyoake edited atheist magazine The Oracle of Reason when its first 27-year-old editor Charles Southwell was sent to prison for a year for blasphemy. Like so many of the magazine's editors, Holyoake also ended up in jail for blasphemy and saying God should be put on half pay. From his Central Secular Society in London Holyoake laid down a secularist doctrine that declared science as the true guide of man; that morality was secular and not religious in origin and that reason was the only authority. His doctrine declared support for freedom of thought and speech and, owing to the 'uncertainty of survival', advised directing efforts to this life only. By adopting Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism and French philosopher of Science Auguste Comte's Positivism he tried to replace the cohesive function of traditional religion with secularism as a 'religion of humanity'. And so, a new working-class movement was born.
Unsurprisingly, there were no shortage of Christian zealots who would oppose such impudence from secularists of any ilk. The Rev. Brewin Grant made it his personal mission to defeat secularism frequently engaging George Holyoake in head-to-head debates. Another of Rev. Grant's debating opponents was a more confrontational 25-year-old man called Charles Bradlaugh.
Charles Bradlaugh, 1833 – 1891.
While Holyoake later formed the British Secular Union in 1877, his conservatism, love of secular psalms, prayers, hymns, ritual and desire for religious appeasement proved less popular and clashed with a more direct approach from secularists like Charles Bradlaugh who thought religion was a retarding influence on human life and society and saw 'freethought'' as an alternative. As a young man, Bradlaugh had clashed with his parents over his atheistic views and went on to clash with established churches throughout the whole of his adult life.
Risking their livelihoods, Secularists were regularly assaulted. After Bradlaugh tried to deliver a debate on the merits or otherwise of the Bible in Devonport, brandishing the Riot Act, the local mayor went along with the military and a baying crowd of Christians from the Young Men's Association to break it up. The judge, Sir Edward Parry described it perfectly well in his book, My Own Way (1885): "Bradlaugh walks quietly towards the Gate, steps into a little boat, rows out to a barge moored a little distance from the shore and there nine feet without Devonport Jurisdiction, delivers his lecture: 'Pocket your Riot Act, friend Mayor: Right About, hence to Barracks, ye Military. Home, home, and gnash your teeth in seemly privacy ye Young Christian Men.'
This is not, it seems a man to be easily persecuted, to be trampled underfoot, or to be whiffed off the face of the Earth by plugshot volleys of dull Bigotry"
Police escorting Charles Bradlaugh MP from Parliament in 1881.
Before the National Secular Society was formed, Charles Bradlaugh co-edited The National Reformer and wrote under the pseudonym 'Iconoclast'. The paper openly supported birth control, a controversial issue at the time.
Secularism was booming: Eclectic societies, Zetetic Societies, Rational societies, Owenite societies as well as Secular societies mushroomed across the nation. In Scotland there was a Secular society in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Perth, Paisley, Greenock, Hawick, Motherwell and Glasgow, which was attended by Keir Hardie's parents. Glasgow even had its own secular Sunday School.
The National Secular Society was formed by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866 to promote human happiness; fight religion as an obstruction; encourage parliamentary action to remove disabilities; establish secular schools and instruction classes; offer mutual help and fund the distressed and attack legal barriers to Freethought. There were some early victories for the NSS with the removal of newspaper duties or 'taxes on knowledge' and the repeal of the Security Law which was aimed at proprietors of periodicals, forcing them to provide financial security against blasphemy prosecutions.
National Secular Society Camberwell Branch meetings, January 1888.
In 1871 a protest organised in Trafalgar Square against grants to the royal family was forbidden. Bradlaugh warned the Home Secretary serving under Gladstone that the threat of force would be resisted. The Government caved-in half-an-hour before the start of the protest.
In reality, Christian privilege was too deeply entrenched in the establishment and constitution for secularists to make any substantial progress.
After Mrs Annie Besant had won legal separation from her husband, a minister of religion, she devoted her time to distributing pamphlets and gave talks in support of secularism. Her views prevented her winning custody of her child and at one meeting she was stoned (in a way more attributed to traditional Christian practice). At another meeting, Charles Bradlaugh had to speak against the noise of windows being smashed and bottles being broken. In the same year, in 1873, much to Holyoake's disapproval, Bradlaugh and Besant published the American, Charles Knowlton's pamphlet, advocating birth control. The two were arrested, tried and sentenced to six months' jail sentences before their conviction was quashed. Championing birth control, their The Fruits of Philosophy was a bestseller.
The Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant.
Another renowned secularist from the Isle of Arran who worked as assistant editor at the Edinburgh Evening News by the name of J. M. Robertson heard Bradlaugh speak and was inspired to join the NSS.
By 1880, secular funerals were legalised and Bradlaugh was elected as an MP for Northampton but was unable to take his seat in the Commons after his request to affirm rather than take a Christian oath was refused. His subsequent offer to take the oath was also snubbed. Bradlaugh was physically beaten, locked in the Clock Tower under Big Ben, prosecuted for blasphemy, sedition and consistently refused his seat in Parliament despite winning repeated elections by the people of Northampton to stand as their MP. He was bullied on all sides from sanctimonious members of his own Liberal Party; MPs from the Conservative Party like Lord Randolph Churchill, Charles Newdigate Newdegate, Lord Chancellor, Hardinge Gifford; the Archbishop of Canterbury and other leading figures in the Church of England and Catholic Church. Bradlaugh was an advocate of trade unions, republicanism, Irish Home rule, women's suffrage and birth control and years ahead of his time.
House of Commons: Deputy arrests atheist Mr Bradlaugh for refusing to leave the Chamber.
Following Bradlaugh's death in 1891, George W. Foote served as President of the NSS. Foote had also spent a year locked up in Newgate Prison for blasphemy after publishing French cartoons mocking religion in The Freethinker. On receiving his sentence from Mr Justice North (a devout Catholic), Foote famously told the Judge, "My Lord, I thank you; it is worthy of your creed." Prisoner of Blasphemy, 1886.
George W. Foote 1850 – 1915
After Foote's death, Chapman Cohen became the new President and the The Freethinker's new editor in 1915.
Chapman Cohen, 1868 – 1954
1917 saw one of the most important religious legal cases in England: Bowman vs Secular Society. It established that blasphemous libel existed only in scurrilous or profane attacks on Christianity, not in temperate or reasoned criticism and a denial of the truth of Christianity did not render a person or organisation unable to claim the benefit and protection of civil law. It began in 1908 when Charles Bowman died. His will bequeathed a portion of his estate to the Secular Society Ltd. Bowman's next of kin disputed the validity of the gift to the Society, arguing that the objects of the Society were unlawful insofar as they constituted a blasphemous libel and therefore the gift was contrary to public policy and invalid.
It is clear that the efforts of secularists were clearing the way for the sort of climate that would permit Prof. Sir A. Keith, in his presidential address in 1927 to the British Association to attack the Christian doctrine of Special Creation and defend evolution.
The NSS still faced many challenges from religious bigotry. In 1932 at Birkenhead a lecture hall hired by the society was cancelled at short notice under religious pressure, a subsequent court case ruled against the secularists. In Durham, students demonstrated against the NSS while the police attempted to stop further secularist meetings. In parliament in 1936, Ernest Thurtle MP unsuccessfully made an attempt to introduce a bill to repeal the law of blasphemy, campaigned for Sunday cinemas and against the new restrictive Sunday Trading Act. Two years later in 1938, the NSS held an Annual Conference in Glasgow and was given a civic reception by the Lord Provost and Corporation of Glasgow.
Ernest Thurtle MP, 1884 -1954.
Of course, the BBC's Chairman Lord Reith's strict Presbyterian religious convictions were never going to win any friends at the NSS. In 1955, the Home Service broadcast talks by Margaret Knight, a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen where she argued that scientific humanism, founded on atheism, would be better for children than Christian teaching. Christian managers at the BBC, working under the assumption that the Corporation had a leading role in evangelising Britain, were aghast. The broadcasts prompted outrage and resulted in Knight being hounded and pilloried by both press and public. The former labelled her 'Unholy Mrs Knight' when she appeared on TV in 1957 flanked by three Christian representatives. The NSS acted as a focus for complaints against the BBC's excessive religious output at a time when the society was busy protesting against the exemption of vicarages, presbyteries and manses from having to pay rates.
Margaret Kennedy Knight, 1903 – 1983.
After the Second World War there was a cultural war between Christianity and the Establishment on one side, and on the other, a growing demand for change from the nation's youth.
BBC's Songs of Praise from The Salvation Army, 1970.
In its 1966 centenary brochure, playwright Harold Pinter wrote: "The fact remains that children are still indoctrinated in schools at public expense, the Blasphemy Laws are still on the Statute Book, and many humane and rational reforms remain opposed…The work of the National Secular Society remains highly important".
BBC's Songs of Praise, Easter Day from Guildford Cathedral, 1967.
NSS protest against banning of adverts for Family Planning Association on London Underground after religious pressure in 1961.
In 1961, the NSS organised a protest against religious pressure which led to a ban on advertisements for the Family Planning Association on London's Underground.
David Tribe and Barbara Smoker were notable presidents before the NSS elected Terry Sanderson as its new President in 2006. Sanderson joined the dots between a group now most persecuted by religion and the role the NSS could play in taming religious excess. Sanderson was a popular contributor in Gay Times writing a monthly MediaWatch column. His acerbic style, ridiculing the expressed homophobia and sexual conservatism in the U.K's media ignited the passions of post Gay Lib activists.
Terry Sanderson's MediaWatch, Gay Times, April 1991.
As President of the NSS, Terry Sanderson wrote: "I would like us to position ourselves as a purely secularist organisation with a focused objective, that will not only champion human rights above religious demands, but will also accept that religion has a place in society for those who want it, but on terms of equality, not privilege". With his Scottish partner, Keith Porteous Wood, the pair brought a new dynamism to the NSS.
Gay 'martyrs' led to flogging posts in protest by Outrage at enthronement of Archbishop of Canterbury in 1991 over Church's persecution of gays.
It was long after the Gay News blasphemy trial in 1977, led by zealous moral campaigner Mrs Mary Whitehouse, that the Government finally caved-in to NSS demands for the repeal of the blasphemy laws in 2008.
Keith Porteous Wood
In 1996 Keith Porteous Wood was appointed General Secretary, later Executive Director and took the campaign for secularism to the European Union. In 2007 he received the Distinguished Service to Humanism Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union for his work in building up the NSS and campaigning for secularism both nationally and internationally.
With the growth of the Scottish Secular Society before the Scottish referendum for independence in 2014, the NSS continued to work to promote secularism in Scotland with its Scottish spokesman, now NSS Vice-chair, Alistair McBay.
The NSS continued its efforts to remove the religious privileges still entrenched in the constitution, law and education clearing the way for secularism to gain a new political and moral significance. With successive governments pushing for an increased role for religious groups – despite diminishing numbers of religious believers and the rise in religious fundamentalism in a multi-cultural, multi-faith society – secular values became more relevant than ever. It was against repeated catcalls of 'aggressive secularism', that the NSS continued to insist: "Secularism is the best chance we have to create a society in which people of all religions or none can live together fairly and peacefully."
In the light of recent events like the Charlie Hebdo massacre, who could disagree?
Annie Besant, 1847 – 1933.
"I crave for every man, whatever be his creed, that his freedom of conscience be held sacred. I ask for every man, whatever be his belief, that he shall not suffer, in civil matters, for his faith or his want of faith. I demand for every man, whatever be his opinions, that he shall be able to speak out with honest frankness the results of honest thought, without forfeiting his rights as citizen, without destroying his social position, and without troubling his domestic peace…"
Annie Besant, 'Civil and Religious Liberty' (1882)
Garry Otton, 2016
Further reading: –
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Man shoots deputy in Templeton in suspected suicide by cop
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
Christopher Straub
A North County man and convicted felon, who was believed to have been suicidal, ambushed San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies in Templeton Thursday morning, shooting one deputy in the leg, prior to being killed by law enforcement officers.
Chris Straub, 38, had broken up with his girlfriend within the past day and was also experiencing car trouble, acquaintances of his told CalCoastNews. Acquaintances suspect Straub's death was a suicide by cop.
SLO County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said at a press conference following the gun battle that the suspect was a member of white supremacist gang. Straub, of Templeton, also had an outstanding warrant and an extensive history of weapons charges, according to the sheriff's office.
"He knew he was potentially going to prison and did not want to and had made statements that he intended to shoot it out with the police," Parkinson said at a news conference Friday morning.
At approximately 10:20 a.m. Thursday, deputies noticed Straub's car in the 3400 block of Theatre Drive. The deputy attempted to detain Straub, who fled by foot.
One deputy gave chase, and a second joined in the search. Straub ran through a nearby vineyard to Templeton Cemetery, hid and then ambushed the deputies.
Straub fired multiple rounds from a handgun, striking Deputy Richard "Ted" Lehnhoff once in the leg. The deputies returned fire.
Deputy Richard "Ted" Lehnhoff
Again, Straub fled, this time attempting to return to his vehicle through the vineyard. But, more deputies arrived at the scene and intercepted Straub before he could reenter his vehicle.
Shrub was still armed with a handgun, and a gun battle ensued. Deputies shot Straub, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
A CHP helicopter airlifted Lehnhoff to a local hospital. The wounded deputy is in stable condition.
Following the gun battle, deputies seized several firearms from Straub's vehicle, at least three of which were loaded, Parkinson said during a press conference Friday morning. Straub was apparently trying to get to at least one rifle at the tine he was shot and killed.
Additionally, investigators seized firearms from Straub's Templeton home. It is suspected Straub manufactured some or parts of the firearms found at his residence.
The Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit is conducting an investigation into the incident with help from the CHP's Multi-Disciplinary Accident Investigation Team. The Sheriff's Gang Task Force had been conducting a criminal investigation into Shrub's activities prior to the shooting.
No additional suspects were involved in the incident.
Weapons recovered from Straub's car
Weapons recovered from Straub's home
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Francesca Bolognini
It is illegal for convicted felons to even own a weapon, let alone be up to his shaved head in such a business. Parkinson also admitted that they had already been "under investigation". This, after insisting publicly that there was "no racism in SLO county"! Sounded a bit chagrined when he had to admit to the truth. I, for one, do not appreciate being lied to about something as serious as this.
So, the media here intends to spin this story as a poor, distraught white guy, rather than the tip of a scumbag ice berg he was. Why are some people so intent on portraying these armed thugs, who are throwing their weight around at demonstrations around the country, as heroes, when they are more often the ones perpetrating the violence and even killing LEOs ? Don't take my word, research this with the FBI. It is not as if they are distributing the guns for suicide purposes. It is about killing people.
Know the truth, because now you know they are here. One can only hope that this little incident leads to cleaning out the whole nest of methed up vipers and their wanna be associates. Or however many there are in the area.
I am not amused that there are heavily armed people like this in our county who have it in for our law enforcement and our non-white population and spreading illegal arms for their cause. That is sickening news, although, to be honest, not surprising. Just keep giving them permission to hate "the left" or any other non-Fascists, and the number of incidents like this will multiply. But I guess if one does not actually wear a uniform or is not of color, why care?
I am very glad to hear that the officers who had the courage to challenge this dude all survived and that the injured officer is stable. They need to watch their backs, as this could lead to serious pay-back attempts The FBI has officially listed groups like this, for the last 10 years, as more of a threat to our national security than Al Qaeda. Wake Up SLO County. They're here.
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I don't think Parkinson claimed there wasn't a single racist in SLO county, he claimed there wasn't a racism problem. Do we have a gang problem, no…do we have gangs, yes. Obviously, someone with a family member that was killed by gang violence would argue it is a problem. However, it not an endemic problem in the county…neither is racism or bigotry. SLO county is rather tolerant…any race, gender, etc appears to feel safe walking the streets of any SLO county town at any time. I'm also not quite sure who you think is giving these extremist morons "permission" to hate "the left" or other "non-fascists." These are far-right extremists, they are not classic conservatives, they are nut jobs…they are no different than "far-left" Antifa anarchists, which do not represent classic democrats, or even progressive democrats. Your FBI claim is based on Wray's statements to congress…during which he provided no numbers. He also did not claim it as the largest threat to our national security, he stated this,
"Within the domestic terrorism bucket, the category as a whole, racially motivated violent extremism is, I think, the biggest bucket within that larger group. And within the racially motivated violent extremist bucket, people subscribing to some kind of white supremacist-type ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that,"
The releases FBI bulletin also does not support your claim, it states this,
"Based upon current information, we assess the greatest threat of lethal violence continues to emanate from lone offenders with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideologies and [domestic violent extremists] with personalized ideologies,"
The reason this career criminal was loose was not a result of social injustice, but as a result of political injustice in our state…Prison reform AB 109, Prop 47, and Prop 57. Everyone will complain about how bad this guy was and how horrible it is that he was in our society….all while voting again and again to reduce prison sentences and "reform" the system! The cops are doing their jobs, it's the legislators & voters that need to step it up.
Thank you to the deputy sheriffs who went into harm's way to confront and stop this dangerous man.
I don't think this was a suicide by cop. This man was actively attempting to retrieve a rifle so he could increase his firepower and engage the deputies. That is what a suspect would do if they want to win the gunfight and escape.
Thank God he didn't succeed. If he had there is no telling how many innocent people would have been put in danger by this man.
Next time somebody talks about defunding the sheriff's office remember this event and the one a few weeks ago in Nipomo.


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Voice Actor Justin Cook Interview
He's the voice of some of your fave anime characters and he dropped by to chat with you in Kidzworld's Chat! Find out what voice actor Justin Cook had to say about his fave roles, Yu Yu Hakusho and a whole lot more!
Kelvin: How did you become a voice actor?
Justin: I became a voice actor when I started up with FUNimation Productions as an ADR engineer, which is actually not the voice actor but it's the guy who records the voice actors. And for about a year and a half I worked with Chris Sabbat, who was our voice director, and he kind of trained me on everything I needed to know and he eventually asked if I'd audition for a role and I did. The first role I got was the role of Dende on Dragon Ball Z and then from there I just kept putting in my auditions and keeping my fingers crossed.
Gerry: How are you able to change your voice to do different characters?
Justin: I think it's an immense pychotic behavior. Lol. No. I guess I look at it and say, 'Oh, it's easy.' But it's probably upon getting into the character. A character like Yusuke I can kind of get into his excitement and his charisma and where he wants to go and that kind of indicates where the voice is going to be. His voice of course if very close to my own, but then with a character on Dragon Ball Z like Raditz or Super Buu where we've got more of a villainous character, I can just kind of draw on, well I hate to say that I have a whole bunch of evil inside of me, but you know, I can just draw on some of the more barbaric mannerisms if you will.
Rayreilee: How did you get interested in Yu Yu Hakusho?
Justin: This is kind of funny... Cuz there really wasn't anything else to get intersted in. The honest truth of it is, at the time, FUNimation was really mainly just producing as far as anime was concerned, Dragon Ball Z. But we got two new shows in about the same time, one was called Blue Gender, which was a 26-episode sci-fi story, and Yu Yu Hakusho. I had kind of been given a bit of a promotion to test the water and see how I would do on directing a show and Yu Yu was the show that I was asked to work on. And so that being the first thing I ever got to work on I really gave it the extra effort if you will and I kind of just fell into the show upon trying to do some simple research and I just kind of ended up obsessing over it.
Rayreilee: Did you know that you would play Yusuke when you started producing the show?
Justin: No, I didn't have a single clue. As a matter of fact, in my mind it wasn't even an option. It just kind of fell in my lap the next day during auditions. My producer, Barry Watson, was in the room with us and upon having a long day of auditions with having nothing really jump out and grab us as the character voice for Yusuke, Barry had asked me to jump in the booth and so I did and then he sent me out of the room for about three hours or so and after a couple more auditions he came out and let me know that he wanted me to play the role as well as direct the series.
goku2: Is it hard to balance directing and acting on the same show?
Justin: Well, any time you're putting on multiple hats it's going to be a little bit more difficult that doing just one. To say that it was an ultimate challenge or super hard or anything like that would be most certainly an overstatement. It's just important to keep your wits about you and know what you're getting into and be prepared when you hop into the session. Otherwise, you're just wasting time.
mechie: What other voices do you do other than Yusuke?
Justin: Uhh, well it's kind of a list. In Yu Yu Hakusho I'm the voice of Yusuke Uremeshi, I'm the voice of Chu, I'm the voice of Kuro Momotaro. On Fruits Basket, I'm the voice of Hatushara Sohma "Haru". On Dragon Ball Z, I'm the voice of Raditz and Super Buu and Teenage Dende. On Kiddy Grade, I'm the voice of Cesario, and I guess that about it.
jade: Do you have a favorite of all the characters you do?
Justin: Yusuke by far! With Haru from Fruits Basket running a close second.
Phia: Do you like directing and writing or voice acting better?
Justin: To try and say I like something better, would also imply that I like something worse, and not just that I'm trying to be politically correct but also just that it would be really hard for me to try and... It would be like trying to look at two kids and saying you like one more than the other. And parents can joke around with their kids, but they love their kids just the same. Does that make sense? So there are thrills that I get out of directing that I don't get out of acting but there are also thrills that I get out of acting that I don't get out of directing. So between the both of them they are kind of equal children.
Matt: How did you get the role of Raditz for the Dragonball Z Budokai games?
Justin; By default actually. Raditz was originally recorded in Canada where the original dub of DBZ was first made back in the late '90s, and upon bringing it to the States, around episode 67 of Dragon Ball Z, they would run into flash back scenes where they would have to come up with a voice. And if I'm not mistaken, Sonny Strait, who was the voice of Krillin, was the first Raditz flashback character. And eventually through time, Sonny was given the role of Bradock, who is Goku's father in the storyline and just to diversify and keep the voices a little different they put me into the Raditz role.
Marissa: What was your favorite ending theme song on Yu Yu Hakusho?
Justin: Daydream Generation. I think that's the fifth closing theme song.
Elizabeth: What channel can you see the show on?
Justin: Cartoon Network! You have to wait for it to come back on the air, but I'm not sure when that's going to be. But they most certainly are on DVD.
Kenusuke: When you learned that you were going to voice Yusuke, what was your first impression of him? Did you already know that you were going to have a blast voicing him or did you think he was a boring character?
Justin: My first impression of Yusuke came when I was reviewing the show. I would watch probably 25-40 episodes a night - which is a pretty long evening. And as a director and having worked with a lot of the actors prior in the series Dragon Ball, I would see characters and have ideas of at least four to five people who I would think would be really good at that character and who I wanted to give it a shot at. The one character who I just didn't have a clue of what actor should play it was Yusuke. So my first impression of Yusuke was this is going to be a real pain to cast.
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In life we're always told to DO DO DO. This is a list of the 'don'ts' you should follow daily to lead a healthier and happier existence overall. Sometimes NOT doing is the best thing for us.
Don't live in the black and white world when you can exist in the wonderful gray.
Don't hum a tune when you can sing out loud.
Don't question the universe when it only has what's best for you in store.
Don't resort to small talk when you could open yourself to new people, interesting conversations, and challenges to your own thoughts.
Don't doubt yourself in things you've never even attempted before.
Don't take for granted the people who lift you up, hold them close to your heart.
Don't ask for things you deserve, demand them.
Don't break yourself just to fix others.
Don't go your whole life without watching the sunrise or sleeping under the stars.
Don't underestimate how much you have to give when your strength is so much greater than you know.
Don't hide behind your clothes, let them accentuate the beauty that's already inside you.
Don't forget to take risks. Playing it safe all the time makes for one boring life.
Don't have a 1/2 cup of Ben & Jerry's, have the whole pint!
Don't let anyone tell you that you're not good enough or that you can't do something. Be undeniable and resolute with your self-confidence and inner splendor.
Don't try to always play the hero. We all need a little rescuing of our own.
Don't go a day without laughing or giving someone a hug.
Don't forget to rest. Your body AND mind deserve a break.
Don't hold grudges. Especially with those who will be present throughout your entire life.
Don't think negatively about someone before allowing yourself time to get to know them.
Don't shut out opportunities because they seem impossible, open your heart, open your mind, and believe in your potential.
Don't shake hands like a wet fish. Shake with confidence and firmness.
Don't short-change yourself, you have so much to offer the world.
Don't think negatively about yourself before allowing yourself time to discover who you truly are.
Don't strive to be smaller, embrace the space you take up in the world.
Don't have a bite of cake when you can have the whole slice.
Don't race through life when you can walk slowly and really take it all in.
Don't overreact in the moment, take a deep breath and think through your next action.
Don't waste time skimping on important things, spend a little money to do things the proper way.
Don't dwell on yesterday, look to tomorrow where a new beginning lies.
Don't say I can't when there is so much 'can do' within you.
Don't wallow through the day and just bide time. Approach every moment with enthusiasm and zeal for what's to come next.
Don't wallow in body shame. Accept and embrace it for what it is and all that it does for you.
Don't just serve yourself, serve others at the same time.
Don't waste time comparing yourself to others. You'll never be them and they'll never be you.
Don't let others deny your worth, bask in the glory of all that makes you YOU.
Don't close your eyes out of fear, open them to the possibilities.
Don't go to bed angry, you won't wake up happy.
Don't go for adequate when you can go for your best.
Don't stand at the edge, take the leap.
Don't aim for perfection when being yourself is the ultimate triumph.
Don't live your life in accordance with what others deem important, follow your own intuition, passions, and perspective.
Don't be part of yourself…BE THE WHOLE YOU.
No questions today…just tell me one 'don't of life' that YOU believe in!
Thank you so much Britt! You're the best!
Excellent and inspiring thoughts for a guide to life. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & Tweeted!
Thanks sweet friend! I am glad you liked this post!
Thank you lovely! Glad you liked the post!
My biggest don't has to be don't EVER think something is impossible – there's always a way.
Thanks love! Let me know if you do! I'd love to see it!
Thanks lovely! Glad you liked the post!
This is the biggest struggle for me – it's something I'm always working on. It's definitely important advice to impart to everyone.
I like the don't hold a grudge one. That took me too long to learn and I have been so much happier since I stopped doing it.
Thanks for sharing at Healthy Vegan Fridays. I'm pinning & sharing. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
THANK YOU! I definitely try to live these out. Like you, I still struggle with some, but we are all a work in progress and that's why I thought it was important to share these. They're a good reminder for me too!
Some excellent reminders for all of us, I'm sure!
Yes for sure! Thanks for reading!
I love every item on this list. You certainly have learned a lot in your short years. It took me much longer to learn most of these, and some of them I'm still working on. Good for you and thanks for sharing, this is a list I can come back to again and again.
Thank you Nikki! It's something I look at over and over again too!
I can't read your post too well b/c the orange share buttons are in the way!
I love your post though…I'm visiting some links. This is my first time on WayWow. Your pic & title drew me in to visit.
I can so identify with a lot of your points…well, all of them really. I hate the weak fishy handshake…inwardly I'm going UGH.
I loved "not going to bed angry b/c you don't wake up happy." That is SO true & I've done it.
The one about small talk is great! I always say I hate social events where I have to engage in small talk, so I avoid them.
And I'm so guilty of judging negatively before I get to know a person. When I do, my opinion is changed 180.
Sorry about the share buttons…not sure what's going on! Thanks for reading the post and stopping by!
I love this! Life is too short to do these things!
What a lovely list! 🙂 <3 The more open our minds and hearts are, the better our lives will be!
Thank you for sharing at #bloggerspotlight! Don't forget to come link up tomorrow night and see how was featured!
Thanks friend! I'll be back!
Kaila, I love your list. Lots of wisdom there. Of course, for my own version of the list I'd have to add the words "once in a great while" to your "Don't have a 1/2 cup of Ben & Jerry's, have the whole pint" and "Don't have a bite of cake when you can have the whole slice." 🙂 And this from a food blogger! 😀 You might enjoy the post I just put up. "Sugar – Toxin or Treat?" http://www.delightfulrepast.com/2016/09/sugar-toxin-or-treat.html in which I try to tell my readers about my opinion of sugar as someone who definitely uses the stuff!


Seriously, who is this woman?
Celebrities change their look a LOT, but some transformations are definitely more dramatic than others.
When Glamour magazine posted a sneak peek of their November cover star Demi Lovato yesterday, their followers were in for a total shock. For her cover shoot, Demi let her natural freckles shine through and rocked super sleek straight hair; she looks completely unrecognizable, and absolutely gorgeous.
It's a more mature look for the singer, and it looks like the fans are feeling it too; the comments section is filled with heart eye emojis and an abundance of exclaimation points. Demi must be loving her more natural look too, because she posted a bare-faced selfie on Instagram a couple days ago and captioned it, "Freckles."
Be honest - you probably didn't even know Demi had freckles. But are you feeling her new look?


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Q: Google Drive Api stops working after publishing app in Google Play In my app I'm using the Google Drive API but I'm getting the following message when the app is installed via Google Play:
  com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden
    {
      "code": 403,
      "errors": [
        {
          "domain": "usageLimits",
          "message": "Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup.",
          "reason": "dailyLimitExceededUnreg",
          "extendedHelp": "https://code.google.com/apis/console"
        }
      ],
      "message": "Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup."
    }
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.a.b.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:2)
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.a.b.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:1)
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.b.a(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:5)
        at d.f.b.a.c.p.a(HttpRequest.java:88)
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.c.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:3)
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.c.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:1)
        at d.f.b.a.b.d.c.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:1)

My code follows the example from Google:
final GoogleAccountCredential credential =
                GoogleAccountCredential.usingOAuth2(
                        this, Collections.singleton(DriveScopes.DRIVE_FILE));
        credential.setSelectedAccount(googleAccount.getAccount());
        final Drive googleDriveService =
                new Drive.Builder(
                        AndroidHttp.newCompatibleTransport(),
                        new GsonFactory(),
                        credential)
                        .setApplicationName(getString(R.string.app_name))
                        .build();

        mDriveServiceHelper = new DriveServiceHelper(googleDriveService);

mDriveServiceHelper.queryFiles()
                    .addOnSuccessListener(fileList -> {
                    // Logic to load the data

                    })
                    .addOnFailureListener(exception -> {
                        Log.e(TAG, "Unable to query files.", exception);
                        // This is where it fails
                    });

I'm able to Sign In the user but then when trying to retrieve the files, it fails with the reason dailyLimitExceededUnreg.
I've looked at several examples such as:

*

*Google Drive Api stops working after publishing app

*Google sign in not working after publishing in play store

*Google Sign In Service not working after publish on PlayStore
I've created OAuth Tokens with the App Signing Certificate from Google Play and the SHA1 is also included in Firebase, which I've included in the project. I've created also new API Keys, the application hasn't exceeded the daily limit.
The app works locally successfully, I'm assuming due the to the debug certificate, but not sure why it is not working when downloading from Google Play.
Any suggestions?

A: This may be due to different SHA key of your android app on Google Play. You must must have enabled Google app signing while uploading your app to playstore which results in a different SHA key of the app on playstore. You can get this SHA key from Play console. Add this key to your firebase project and app should work fine.

A: I had this error because of enabled minification:
        release {
            minifyEnabled true
            shrinkResources true
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }

Julio's link helds pro guard rules that fixes this issue.

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Still Athwart History
April 12, 2018 By David B. Frisk
This review appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.
Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty
By Lee Edwards
(ISI Books, 2017)
Skirmishes
By Neal B. Freeman
(National Review Books, 2017)
A year into his presidency, the question of American conservatism's proper stance toward Donald Trump remains unresolved. Some right-of-center intellectuals continue to voice uncompromising hostility toward him, as if conservatives, contrary to the most basic common sense, have no stake in his success as president. Yet fear for the right's future, which partly underlies anti-Trumpers' anger, cannot be cured by Trump enthusiasts' grandiose talk of a populist revolution for which there is little evidence. The undeniably negative perceptions of the right among our nation's elites, obviously exacerbated by Trump's rise, are too important to be dismissed by claiming that only "the people" really count in a democracy. For one thing, this claim is simply false. For another, the people elected Barack Obama twice, and more of them voted for Hillary Clinton than for Trump. Such facts don't prove the existence of a liberal majority. But they're enough to disprove a conservative or coherently populist one. And Trump's persistently low poll numbers are another massive inconvenience for those who think he's the answer to the right's accumulated weaknesses.
All of these questions call for thought, not tribal zealotry. Abraham Lincoln once remarked that the challenges he faced as president were "too vast for malicious dealing." Without in any way comparing those troubles to ours, the same is true today. It is among the responsibilities of a political movement's elder statesmen to promote intelligent discourse on crucial but easily cheapened questions. After the deaths of founders William F. Buckley Jr., William Rusher, M. Stanton Evans, and Phyllis Schlafly, the entire right should heed, although not necessarily agree with, the senior figures who remain. Two such presumptively wise veterans are Lee Edwards and Neal Freeman, authors of the new books Just Right and Skirmishes.
After heavy involvement in Young Americans for Freedom and the Goldwater campaign in the early 1960s, Edwards spent two decades helping to launch and publicize a multitude of conservative projects and organizations, and also played a significant role in the first years of the populist New Right of the 1970s and '80s. After he earned a PhD at the Catholic University of America came what Edwards calls his second act, as a "writer, teacher, and lecturer on modern American conservatism." Among his more than twenty books are a history of the conservative movement, a major biography of Barry Goldwater, and Missionary for Freedom, a detailed biography of an extraordinary leader in the anti-Communist cause, longtime Minnesota congressman Walter Judd. Now the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, Edwards can be said, with little exaggeration, to have interviewed every "important" living conservative for one or another of his books.
Freeman, who provided financial support for my book on National Review publisher Bill Rusher, is probably less widely known. As a young Yale graduate with a promising career in publishing, he impressed Buckley and was hired away to NR for a time, although he later returned to mainstream journalism. He was WFB's aide in his famous 1965 race for mayor of New York and, the following year, more or less launched Buckley's talk show Firing Line. A good friend of Buckley and Rusher, Freeman was a member of the NR board for thirty-eight years. He also became both a powerhouse in documentary television production and a player in the communications technology revolution of the 1980s. More recently, he has served as chairman of the Blackwell Corporation, an advisory firm with clients in the communications, defense, and wealth-management fields. With his combination of entrepreneurial, corporate, and movement political backgrounds, Freeman has long been centrally involved in the cause of "donor intent"—that is, educating wealthy right-of-center people about how easily the foundations they set up as philanthropic legacies can be diverted to liberal agendas and how to prevent this outcome.
Anyone wishing to evaluate carefully the conservative movement after 2016 can be grateful that Edwards and Freeman are neither Never Trumpers nor definite admirers of the new president, and that their lifetimes of activism are palatable to nearly all conservative readers. While there's no difference in their credibility as political counselors, there is a clear difference in their discussions of the Trump issue. Freeman ultimately sides with Trump, while Edwards sides only with the conservative movement, passing up opportunities to criticize it that the past decade's developments have so clearly provided. Most readers, I assume, will naturally incline toward one approach or the other. They should give due consideration to both.
The beginning of wisdom on the Trump question is perhaps to admit its difficulty, even if such acknowledgement risks offending other conservatives who hold adamant views to the contrary. It's hard to disagree with Edwards's simple point that the implications of Trump's nomination and election for conservatism's future "remain difficult to discern." He adds, also reasonably, that Trump represents "an opportunity for conservatism." But Edwards doesn't elaborate except to reiterate the old article of faith that "the conservative agenda has the best solutions to the problems that led so many Americans to vote for the radical change that Trump promised." It's unclear whether Edwards would like conservatives to stand mostly against Trump as a political leader or is counseling them to stand mostly with him—or believes no such choice is necessary.
Freeman, a Tea Party sympathizer, strong dissenter from NR's support for the Iraq War in 2003, and staunch fusionist conservative who opposed Trump's nomination by the Republican Party on a variety of grounds, does not reprint any anti-Trump pieces in Skirmishes. Although the only substantial comments on him in the book date from just after the election, they are noteworthy. Trump, Freeman allows, "has a puncher's chance to break the grip of the iron triangle that controls our political culture: the one-party government bureaucracy; the pay-to-play rent seekers; the tax-exempt Left; and the symbiotic media class." He cites two reasons for optimism: Trump is both "instinctively anti-bureaucratic" and "highly skilled in the recriminative arts."
In addition to his appreciation of the new president as an antagonist to the Deep State, Freeman endorses another essentially pro-Trump argument—that a narrow perspective has blinded the conservative establishment to many of the voters who nominated and elected him. Freeman argues that "conservative intellectuals have failed them, redundantly, on the issue of immigration. The first-level effects of [pre-Trump immigration] policy, both cultural and economic, fall on rural America, border America, and deindustrializing America. . . . My view has long been that the core mission of the conservative movement is to protect the inherited culture and bolster the opportunity economy. We blew it."
Freeman says leaders and institutions on the right have two options in responding to Trump's rise. "The first is to withdraw to the castle, pull up the drawbridge, and labor to defend market share in what has become a tax-privileged and well-upholstered Conservatism, Inc." Alternatively, they can "recognize that the game has changed, thanks in part to the inadvertent contribution of Donald J. Trump." Freeman urges his fellow conservatives to focus on Trump's voters rather than on Trump himself. In his view, Trump "has identified and at least semi-organized a large constituency previously unreachable by Conservatism, Inc. . . . pro-family, pro-enterprise, and pro-America—pretty much the kinds of people our movement has claimed to represent these many years. . . . It's the kind of coalition-building opportunity that comes around once in a generation."
The cautious, scrupulously evenhanded Edwards has less to say about the Trump moment. But the lifetime of service to organized conservatism that he recounts in Just Right is both an inspirational yet somewhat unsettling reminder that anti-establishmentarian work—as distinct from posturing—is slow, incremental, and demanding. Coalition-building requires far more commitment than our new age of instant political gratification seems to encourage. As Edwards's memoir demonstrates, the story of conservatism from the 1950s through the 1990s is almost the precise opposite of today's smash-mouth punditry, reflexive accusations of "fake news," and quick hits on social media. As Freeman, with a touch of his trademark irony, reflects in the introduction to Skirmishes: "Alongside my cherished allies in the conservative movement . . . I have been part of what amounts to a permanent insurgency. There is no rest, it seems, for the ideologically tendentious."
One example: Edwards has been the moving force in the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and its statue honoring those hundreds of millions of victims, which was unveiled in downtown Washington, D.C., in 2007. Such step-by-step projects cannot be tweeted and require hard, disciplined slogging. This is even more the case, one imagines, with the VOC Foundation's envisioned museum of communism, to be placed "as close to the Mall as the National Park Service and Congress will allow." Conservative stalwarts in Edwards's and Freeman's generations, like their heroes Buckley and Ronald Reagan, have untiringly played the long game.
It's this passion for the long game that now seems most lacking on the right. What better explanation is there for its high-profile participants' frequent unwillingness to engage in conversation of any depth with non-conservatives? Skirmishes includes an especially thought-provoking 2014 speech to the Philadelphia Society. Before an intellectual forum founded more than half a century ago, Freeman lamented that "amid the several blessings of talk radio and internet bloggery, we have created for ourselves one very large rhetorical problem. We have learned to savor the many satisfactions of talking to ourselves, while forgetting how to talk to people who do not yet agree with us. That is a luxury that Bill Buckley and the founding brethren never enjoyed. . . . We must acknowledge that 'condemn and assert' won't cut it. We will have to learn once again how to 'beguile and persuade.' "
It might occur to the reader that such remarks, delivered a year before Trump announced for president, point both away from this strange man and toward him. In one sense, Trump does seem to talk only to himself and his fans, as Freeman has accused conservative activists of too often doing. In another sense, however, we know that isn't quite true. Many Trump skeptics listened to him favorably in 2016 and went on to support him. Similarly, it's entirely fair for Trump's opponents, on the right and elsewhere, to accuse him of indulging in the "mindless repetition" that Freeman warned against. Yet one cannot deny Trump's knack for "the plain and powerful speech of Main Street," with the stress on "the concrete over the abstract," that Freeman recommended.
The Edwards and Freeman books should be read together. Richly representing two compelling careers and two valid sensibilities on the right as well, they are excellent reminders of conservative leaders' obligation "to think, and to write; and occasionally to mediate." The words are Buckley's in National Review, from his nonendorsement editorial on the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy race. Nixon wasn't good enough for that endorsement, as Rusher seems to have argued successfully against one of Buckley's intellectual mentors, the more pragmatic senior editor James Burnham. Buckley, however, didn't leave it at that. "Our job today," he told readers, "is surely to remind ardent members of the conservative community that equally well instructed persons can differ on matters of political tactic, and that it is profoundly wrong for one faction to anathematize the other over such differences." Buckley's advice remains essential.
David B. Frisk, a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, is the author of If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, "National Review," and the Conservative Movement (ISI Books).


Are you tired of people not listening? Have your subjects become unruly, maybe even disrespectful? Have you grown tired of having to say "Off with their heads!" If you answered yes to any of these questions you might have a problem on your hands. Don't worry, YOU are not the problem. The problem is your scepter! Or maybe lack thereof.
You see, a scepter is one of the most important pieces for a Queen. Sure, a throne makes for a great place to sit, and a crown looks pretty, but what are you going to wave around when commanding your people? That's where the scepter comes in.
This scepter comes in at 13" tall and has a silver heart top set with a fake gem. This was literally made for a Queen of Hearts costume, after all. You'll find that it's light handle, paired with a heavier set end, makes for optimal swing force. You will love this scepter, no doubt about it.
This scepter is the easiest way to get your people back into line. Just gather them all, and let them see you waving it about. Next thing you know, even the rebels in the crowd will be bending the knee.


The Tabard I've been using is the Tabard de l'Expédition cénarienne. I am using the full 277 version. I am also using Cape de tueur du caveau des Ombres for my cloak <--- since its the cloak that drops in heroic icc for rogues...I personaly wish they would have made a better cloak for this set. Overall I think this set is one of the worse rogue tier sets.
If you're weird like me and you still think that by Patch 5.4 this set looks the most awesome for Rogues (heck this set is the entire reason I made a Rogue in the first place) then I will tell you the fastest way to get the set.
You need: A total of: 4690 Justice Points.
(However 2 pieces (Hands & Legs) can be obtained from Vault of Archavon (10-man). reducing the JP cost down to: 2895 Justice Points. Which can be nice if you aren't level 90 yet like me and want the set ASAP.
3. To then run 25M Heroic ICC for Vanquisher's Mark of Santification (Normal) and also Vanquisher's Mark of Santification (Heroic) You will need 5 (of each) of them (1 for every piece of gear) which are obtained easiest from ICC 25 Man Heroic.
4. Buy the Justice point Tier 10 set, then use the 10 marks (5 Norm & 5 HC) to upgrade through to the 10.5 and 10.5 HC sets.
There is also a Shadowblade's Battlegear (Lookalike) which looks the same as this 10.5 Tier set and it can drop from bosses in ICC 25 Man Heroic. However it doesn't have the set bonus (useless for Transmog anyway) so you can mix and match if you get lucky enough to see a few pieces drop whilst farming for the 'Marks'.
Then you're done. Keep the armor so you can always re-transmog it. It's amazing. Thankfully at least this set does have a set of boots, but like the other guy I still need to find a cape that matches.
Please bear in mind I don't know all the info about this set but this is about as much as I do know.
EDIT: Updated info and fixed errors.
Looks so good on my Forsaken Rogue.


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Q: Why using kafka with flink I'm currently discovering the domain of Stream processing with flink. However, most of the specialized articles, I read so far, talk about flink AND kafka. However I did not find a clear explaination why this duo seems so logic and  explaining what kafka does that flink can not and vice versa.
So far I found the following:
- flink can not PROCESS_CONTINUOUSLY with readCsvFile and kafka could support in this aspect,
- kafka can do stream aggregation but it seems limited (not sure) compared to kafka.
So, please don't hesitate to add your knowledge AND experience you had so far with these systems. Thank you very much in advance.

A: It is true that at first sight the difference is not obvious.
Apache Kafka is a solution to deal with real-time information and route it to consumers in a quick way, meaning it is a message broker.
Apache Flink is a stream processing framework. It involves data in-memory distributed computing.
That being said, basically, Kafka will have the role of the message router, and Apache Flink will process the data.
As you can see on the example schema below, Kafka would allow to publish messages from heterogenous sources and Apache Flink will process these data by applying windowing or reduce functions.

If you look into the Kafka documentation, they introduced a new feature on top of Kafka called Kafka Stream (which is not part of the original Kafka). This is also a stream processing framework which have the ability to process data as Apache Flink do.


A follower of Jesus expressed his deep desire to encounter his Lord, the living God, in the same way that the other disciples were privileged to encounter Jesus, and it took a week.
For someone who is struggling with their faith, sometimes even a week seems like an entire lifetime.
Where was Jesus that he could not just show up right away when Thomas returned from whatever he was doing and joined the other disciples in their little hiding space in the upper room? Why the wait? Why make him wait Jesus? Why make us wait Jesus?
Easter, with its loud music, proclamations of "He is risen," and bright colors is great and all, but for some of us, it is not something in which we can easily participate.
Though our neighbors seem to be sharing their love for the risen Lord, some others of us feel like it is all a little too fake. We feel like we are somehow removed from the situation, in a different room even, like we have missed something; like we have missed someone.
For some us, it is as if Jesus appeared to our faithful neighbors in their times of struggle and fear, but we somehow missed the big event. Our neighbors run up to us and say, "We have seen the Lord," but their words are too few and are not convincing.
"Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe," faithful Thomas cries out on our behalf.
"Faithful," you may ask? "I always thought he was doubting Thomas," you say.
But, do not forget, that it was Thomas who was the one who encouraged the other disciples to follow Jesus back to Judea to heal Lazarus even though they feared they would all die on the journey because of the trouble they had stirred previously.
Thomas was the one who outright asked Jesus to know the way to the Father when Jesus implied that they already knew the way.
Thomas is the one who sticks out his neck in the face of confusion and danger to follow Jesus. He is the one who is out and about and is not holed up in a tiny upper room out of fear of the Judeans who may or may not be searching to kill the followers of the crucified one. Thomas is the courageous, faithful one.
So, why is he forced to wait during this time of loss and struggle after Jesus' death?
This just is not something you can force yourself to do. Others can say to you, "I have seen the Lord," but unless you get to experience the scars in his hands and the wound in his side…unless you have an encounter with the divine yourself, all of the words trying to convince you will always come up dry.
You cannot get water from a stone unless God is there to make it happen. You just cannot.
God made Thomas wait. And, sometimes, God makes us wait. That is just a truth of life. And, in that time of waiting, we may struggle to believe.
Why a week? Why did he have to wait a week? Why could not Jesus just show up right away and alleviate all the pain and struggle? Why a week?
Maybe, John, the gospel writer, is trying to give those of us with a dry faith a hint of where we might find some of that living water.
It was the first day of the week when the disciples met together. The first day of the week; that would be Sunday.
The disciples were gathered together on Sunday, and there the risen Lord met them with words of promise and forgiveness.
On Sunday, even 2000 years later, the people gather, the Word of God is proclaimed, the bread is broken, and Jesus shows up.
This all happens on Sunday.
Thomas was not there that first Sunday. He missed out. In all of his working, and his wandering, and his searching away from the others who had experienced Jesus in the upper room, he missed the Lord. He simply was not there on that first Sunday.
Therefore, it was during the next gathering of the disciples, one week later, that Jesus finally showed up, showed Thomas his hands and his side, and Thomas was finally able to confess with a whole heart, "My Lord, my God." It was in the gathering of believers that Jesus came to his beloved Thomas…a week later.
I know, I know. Some of you have been coming to the gathering of believers for a very long time, and still struggle to proclaim "My Lord, my God." I know.
But, do not give up. Your neighbor has a little bit of Thomas in them too. I promise. Faith ebbs and flows like the waters of the ocean. Sometimes it is inspired and rises tall in a great wave, and sometimes it subsides and meets the sand below. But, that is OK. That is the way of faith.
Keep coming, to gather together with other believers and to hear the promises of Jesus.
Your wait will come to an end. Each and every Sunday we come to hear God's word which was written so that we may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing we may have life in his name.
Be patient, Jesus will come. Brothers and sisters of Thomas, Jesus will come.
As Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were going to the tomb, a great earthquake shook the entire scene. This was the second earthquake in just a few days.
The first shook the moment Jesus gave up his last breath. That earthquake was so powerful that it even split the curtain that separated the Holy of Hollies (the residing place of God in the Jerusalem temple) and the courtyard in which the people worshiped and gave sacrifice.
The foundations of the world were shaken by the death and resurrection of Jesus, and so too were the foundations of our lives shaken.
If you have ever experienced an earthquake, you know already know what a bazaar experience to can be.
For those who have not, let me explain. No matter how hard you try, you cannot escape from an earthquake.
With the building shaking, you deem it wise to run outside, away from the potential for ceilings and walls to come down and crush your body. But, what you realize when you run outside is that the ground does not feel any safer than the inside of the building.
As you gaze across the landscape, you realize what you had always thought was solid ground is, in fact, simply particles of dust lying on a trembling plate. The ground moves in waves like a brown ocean and heaves up into the air like a child bouncing a pie tin of sand on his knees.
The shaking, if it lasts long enough, can make boulders rise to the top like gold rising out of the dust in the pan of an old prospector. The ground liquefaction can raise coffins straight out of the ground.
In fact, we read in the bible of the tombs being broken open and the bodies of the faithful rising from the dead during the earthquake that was spawned by Jesus' last breath.
There is something about Jesus that disrupts the foundations of the world and shakes up all that we assume to be true.
So, what are the truths of the world that seem impenetrable?
How about the powerful getting their way? Insurance companies and their investors always seem to win in the end and leave the everyday guy or girl broke. The rich seem to have more of a pull in the decisions that governments take than any of us. Bombs force the hands of those who battle with guns. And, even a paid ticket on an airline is no promise that you will stay on your plane un-wounded and un-bloodied for your flight.
The powerful get their way. That is a rock solid reality.
What other truths are impenetrable?
How about the fact that when you are in a hurry and cannot spare even a moment of time, that is when you lock your keys in your house, or in your car, or even lose them in your refrigerator. Really, it can happen.
The worst, most time consuming thing will always occur when you have the least amount of time to deal with it. That is a rock solid reality.
How about death? Death and taxes (which you better be getting done very soon I might remind you) are impenetrable realities. Death especially. It is possible to cheat on your taxes and get away with it, but I have not seen a single person escape the reality of stress, suffering, and eventual death.
Just as sure as the sun comes up, so does the darkness of death eventually take hold.
And, all of that can lead to dark nights where we stare into the black emptiness, our minds buzzing and spiraling down into a well of hopelessness. "Sometimes no matter how hard you try, you just can't win," you think. The powerful will take your spot on the plane, you will then be locked out of your car, home, and refrigerator, and you will starve to death right in your front lawn. That pretty much sums up life, and you resign to the inevitable.
But here is the thing; when the ground quakes you see things you never saw before. You see that those things that you always thought were rock solid truths are just dust shaking up and down on a plate. What you thought were the foundations of reality, are false, flimsy sorts of ground. The real foundation is found below.
When the earth quakes below Mary Magdalene and the other Mary's feet, Jesus' tomb opens wide and reveals the true foundation of the world where suffering, pain, and death are not the last word.
Those are not so rock solid after-all.
"Jesus is not here, for he has been raised," the angel announces. "Just as he said," the angel continues.
"Just as he said." We've heard it all before after-all on previous Easters.
We know that suffering, pain, and death are not the last word. We have heard before that the darkness of life is not the true foundation of reality. Rather, Jesus, the giver of new life is the foundation of all reality. "He has been raised!" is the last world inscribed on the bedrock.
The possibility of new life…eternal life is the true foundation that lies solid underneath the dust of death that God simple blows away.
We have heard it before, many times, but we forget because sometimes the darkness is just so dark.
That is why we are hear this fine Easter morning brothers and sisters. That is why we cry out, "Alleluia, Jesus Christ is risen. He is risen indeed! Alleluia!" We shout it to the heavens because in God's created world, if it is spoken aloud, it is so.
Because, he is not in the tomb any longer brothers and sisters. The foundations of the world have been shaken, and what we find at the core of the world is not death but life; new life that breaks open our tombs and gives us a fresh start.
Today, you have a fresh start brothers and sisters. The world is not the same as it was yesterday. The resurrections has shaken and blown away the dirt of death from yesterday.
And, what we see revealed under the dust is the heart of God. God's heart gives new life, new love, and forgiveness.
So, take a step on that newly settled soil. Take a step forward on the good soil of the Lord. Take a step forward into a new world, until you see Jesus waiting for you in Galilee or Towanda, or Wysox, or Hawaii…Hey, I figure why not try to find Jesus in Hawaii?
In the beginning, there was a garden. It was a garden filled with good things like fruit of every kind. There were clear waters that fed the garden and springs rose up to water every living plant.
A man and a woman were fashioned from the clay of the earth and they were given the garden to enjoy. They were given the garden of the Lord, and it was all good.
Well, it was all good for a little bit, and we all know that it went downhill from there. It all spiraled down into sin and rebellion, but we are not going to talk about the serpent and the temptation to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil this morning. No, all that I want you to see is that gardens are planted at the beginning of stories.
Consider that your own garden is the beginning of a new story for your summer. As you care for the tender seedlings this time of year, you can already taste the freshness of the tomatoes, and feel the crisp crunch of the carrots in your mouth. The cucumbers are already foretelling their refreshing juice in the mouth, and the tender lettuce that is already starting to pop up in our tiny, plastic greenhouses already tempt us to have a tiny salad. They may only be an inch out of the soul in their tiny plastic trays, but the garden is already writing a new story for a new year.
And, a garden is where Mary finds herself. In John's gospel, Jesus is not buried in a typical cemetery with in a newly carved tomb. Rather, he is buried in a garden. He is buried in a place, not where stories end, but where stories begin.
After hearing her name spoken aloud, Mary recognizes the risen Lord, and starts a new life with her teacher.
It is not the same as the old life. She is not allowed to keep clinging onto him and holding onto that last, bodily vestige of the former life with her savior. Rather, Jesus instructs her to let go so that he may ascend to the Father, and her new life filled with the Spirit of Jesus may begin.
Letting go. Letting go of the old in particular is not an easy thing to do. The old is just so…well…nice, and familiar. And, though the old may even tell a story with some pain and suffering, at least the old way of life is well known.
Had it been her choice, I'm sure Mary would still be clinging onto that last vestige of Jesus today. But, she was not given the choice to do so.
She was in a garden after-all, and gardens are not about what grew last year. Gardens are about what will grow this year and bear goodness for others to eat. Gardens are found in the beginning of stories. Mary's life of sharing the good news of Jesus is just about to start.
It is Easter, and we have a new garden, and it is the beginning of a new story for you as well. Jesus has brought you into a new story. He has redeemed you and forgiven you, and your old story has faded into the dust. There is new love, and new possibilities sprouting out of the ground in the new garden in which Jesus has placed you. The old has died, and the new has arrived.
So, what are you waiting for? Run from here! Run from here! Run bearing the good news of old lives no longer controlling your destiny.
Run, bearing the good news of Jesus Christ who has put your old life to death and raised you up to a new life of love and peace.
Run from here with joy in your heart because gardens are always the beginning of a new story. Start your new story bearing the heart of Jesus' grace today. Run along…run along with the resurrected Jesus in your heart.
"I can't believe God did this to me!" the man shouted loudly after I asked to enter the hospital room.
That was my introduction to the Jewish faith.
As a young, chaplain who had never talked to a Jewish person before, I proceeded to the room with fear, not knowing what a Christian could possibly say to a Jewish man who had suffered the crippling trauma of a car accident. And, as I entered the door, every single fear that I had run through my head came true with his instantaneous shouting. As he screamed, "I can't believe God did this to me!" I searched for an easy way to exit the room again.
I considered the excuse of suddenly needing to use the toilet.
Not only was that my introduction to the Jewish faith, it was also my introduction to Jewish humor.
The rest of the visit went much better. I made certain his rabbi or cantor had been to visit. I made certain his family were aware of his situation. And, I did the one thing we were trained to do for anyone, no matter what their religion: to simply sit and listen, keeping my mouth shut.
As he talked through his struggles, he circled back to his first shout.
"You know, I really am mad at God. Things were going great for me for the first time in my life. My job was great, my girlfriend was perfect, I had just bought that nice car, I had just lost a bunch of weight and was sporting a great look, and now look at me."
The guy held a terrible resemblance to his former self.
I did not know what to say on response to that, so I said nothing.
"You know, in the Jewish religion, it's OK to be mad at God. Too often you Christians will say, 'Don't worry God will make it all better.' Maybe that is true, but that doesn't mean I can't be mad about it. Thank you for not telling me that everything will be just fine," he smiled.
As he talked, I thought about Mary and Martha on that day when Jesus arrived too late to be of any help, or so they thought.
When their brother Lazarus was sick, Mary and Martha had sent for Jesus to come and give Lazarus some healing.
Jesus chose not to come.
Hear that again. Someone was in pain. Two people believed in Jesus and believed that Jesus could do something about that pain. Even with all of that, Jesus chose not to come.
He had his reasons of course. We, who can read the end of the story realize that, but the women did not know the end of the story and they were furious and hurt.
This was not Jewish humor, this was Jewish anger. They were angry at God. They were angry at Jesus for not showing up. They were angry, and guess what Jesus did about it?
When you are in pain, so is Jesus.
When you feel forgotten, Jesus understand what that is all about. And, though God may have other, bigger plans like an amazing resuscitation from the dead of a dead brother, that does not mean you are simply a pawn in a bigger scheme.
You are a real soul, with real pain, and Jesus does not back away trying to defend himself. Rather, he weeps.
He shares the pain. He takes on the pain. He carries it to the cross, where it too will die allowing space for new life to come on the third day...or the fourth day...or the whatever day.
And, as I search the scriptures, I find that not only does God have broad shoulders, but God has empathizing ones as well. Far from getting mad at our anger or upset at our pain, Jesus joins in shedding tears for our pain.
Of course, Jesus does not stop there. When the time is right, Jesus walks with tear-filled eyes and orders the tomb of darkness and death be opened so that the fresh air and bright light of new life might enter in.
Jesus walks to the tomb so that Lazarus might be returned to those who love him, and that he might be unbound from the strips of cloth that encase his arms and his legs.
In Jesus we do find life again. Jesus does not stop at the weeping. He is able, as Psalm 30 proclaims, to transform our weeping into dancing. He is able to bring us from death into life.
And, that is where we are different than Jesus. As disciples of Jesus, we are not able to bring people out of their pain and darkness. That becomes painfully real for anyone who has ever tried.
We are not the divine light in the darkness. We are not the way, the truth, and the life. We are not the saviors of anybody's world, but we are able to point to the one who is, Jesus Christ.
Not only can we point to Jesus, but when Jesus is taking longer than expected we are free to share in people's anger and tears.
"I am through with this faith stuff," another man yelled at me, pain dripping from his eyes. Even after working with a faith-based marriage counselor, this guy's wife literally walked out of his life and the life of his children with a slam of a car door. Unfortunately, it was the door of another man's car. She drove off into her own dark, self-made sunset.
He broke into uncontrollable sobs right there in the office of my internship church. I could not help it. As I listened to his heart-breaking story, I could not help but cry with him. So, there we were, two grown men crying, alone.
He continued to come to the church and prayed with us. One Sunday he whispered to me after worship, "Don't be alarmed, but during the prayers I kind of swore at God."
And, as he shared his pain with me, one more someone was standing between us: Jesus. Jesus stood with us, tears in his eyes, waiting for the right time to bring new life. And, he did. The man and his children were, indeed, given their resurrection at the right time, in God's time.
But, in the meantime, it was OK to be angry.


The United States of America just wrapped up a long and tiresome election season.
No matter what side you're on, it ended with a bang. I didn't vote for the winner. I spent the days leading up to the election praying and meditating that the person who inevitably won, wouldn't. I was so nervous and stressed election night that I couldn't concentrate. I tried to watch anything but election news, but kept peeking on social media and never finished watching a single program. The worry was cramping my stomach. This was the Cubs World Series winning night all over again. I finally put myself to bed.
When I awoke the next morning, I was heartbroken, upset, frustrated and angry at the results. I was in mourning, in a state of absolute grief. I wasn't surprised. As a Black woman in America, I have seen how ugly this country can be. But you still hope for the best and the prayer is that what is right, just and makes the most sense will always prevail. In my opinion, that's not what happened on Tuesday.
On the Wednesday following the election, I cried a total of four times. Slowly I have emerged into acceptance. From this position of grief, I can resolutely yell the praises and shout about the importance of safe spaces. I knew and understood the idea of a safe space, but never outright gave that title to my friends and family. Then it occurred to me that that's exactly what they are and I take it for granted daily.
The morning after the election night, around 7 am, I started receiving texts from my book club girlfriends. The group text we usually used to confirm the date and address for our book club meetings, had become a safe forum for us (all Black women) to vent, curse and express our honest feelings. We texted non-stop, almost until 9 pm that same night and then commenced texting throughout the next day, sharing ideas of how we can help and what could be done. We supported and encouraged each other. We helped put into words what some of us were feeling, but could not fully communicate. We even laughed at funny memes that were shared. We were there for each other.
In between book club texts, each of my parents called and comforted me and stressed the importance of not talking about the election or politics at all at work — that it might bring out the worst in people. How it was important for me just to do my work and come home. How they would check in on me later that evening. The sound of their individual voices sent more tears. No matter how old you are, your parents just know you.
I knew and understood the idea of a safe space, but never outright gave that title to my friends and family.
It was also the morning after that I asked my co-worker if he wanted to walk to Starbucks with me. It's just a block away from our job, but we barely spoke. When we did, it was small and quiet admissions of how hurt we were. He had wanted to stay home but feared that that would make him more depressed. We didn't say much, but we didn't need to. I thanked him for walking with me, and he thanked me for the invite. Later, I brought something to another co-worker's office. I made a dry joke, she chuckled and then we immediately hugged each other for a long time and cried. Without words, we both knew. She closed the door, and we talked between sniffles.
The next day, a friend of mine texted to check on me. He said he wanted to reach out to all of his friends he had not heard from since the election results were announced. He was making sure we were all okay. It was during this text exchange that I realized that I had many safe spaces all around me.
This thought came full circle when, last night, two of my girlfriends and I sat around my living room and discussed our unfiltered thoughts and concerns about the past eight years and what is to come. We didn't all agree, but we knew we could share without being attacked. Your safe space does not have to be a forum or a club centering around a specific idea; it just needs to feel safe. Healing takes time, yes, but the process can be expedited with the right community and support.
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How do you discover your safe places?


Featuring the voice of Harlan Ellison as Delapore. Also appearing are Berl Boykin, Thomas E Fuller, Bill Jackson, Joyce Leigh, Brad Linaweaver, Lee Millman, and Brad Strickland.
Adapted by Brad Strickland. Produced and soundscaped by Henry Howard. Foley effects by Daniel Taylor. Directed by Thomas E Fuller.
Recorded live on stage at Georgia Fantasy Con in 1990. In addition to Delapore, Mr. Ellison also portrayed one of the shepherds… and the cat.


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Q: Where to set headers for SharedArrayBuffer in React? I'm running a website created with create-react-app on localhost on Windows10. When I try to use ffmpeg in my website, I get the error

"SharedArrayBuffer is not defined"

in Firefox. To fix this I seen everywhere that I have to add COOP and COEP headers "in my top document".
The thing is I don't understand what "top document" is and where can I find it.
I tried to add:
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in my index.html as I seen it somewhere but it is not working.
Could you tell me please what is that document in which I have to add my headers and where to find it?

A: From the HTML Living Standard, there are only certain values which may be set in the http-equiv attribute of a meta tag.  These are content-language, content-type, default-style, refresh, set-cookie, x-ua-compatible, and content-security-policy.  Since neither Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy or Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy appear here, these HTTP headers cannot be set (according to the HTML specification) using the http-equiv attribute of a meta tag.  You will need to add these as HTTP headers, rather than as meta tags to your HTML document.

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