Jesus had instructed his disciples to remain in Jerusalem until they should receive power, until they should receive the Holy Spirit. They were to be witnesses. They had the vision of the kingdom as their agenda. But they were to be more than visionaries and more than workers to erect the kingdom by their own efforts. The one who promised the reign of God in peace and justice also promised the enabling gift of the Spirit: John the Baptist's prediction of a baptism by the Holy Spirit would come about in their own day. In advance of the day when the great vision would be fulfilled, God would already send the Spirit, the gift traditionally expected in the last days according to Jewish expectation.
The Spirit belongs to the kingdom, as the breath of God also belongs to God's being and his reign. The Spirit, the breath, the wind of what is to come already blows. The vision sets the agenda and by the Spirit, as it were, turns its pages and brings it into reality. Today we look at Luke's account of the coming of the Spirit, which is the life of the kingdom to come and the life of the kingdom now, the Church.
Luke is not the only New Testament writer to tell of the coming of the Spirit. In John's gospel on the evening of the day of resurrection Jesus breathes on his disciples and commissions them: "As my Father has sent me; so I send you." Paul does not mention an event, but he does sometimes use a term for the Spirit, which indicates its relation to the kingdom promise. He calls it arrabon, advance instalment. Luke is different again. Those who passed on the tradition to him had associated the coming of the Spirit with the first major pilgrim festival after Jesus' death and resurrection, namely the feast of Pentecost, traditionally the festival of the gathering in of the harvest, associated also with the giving of the Law to Moses on Mt Sinai. Jerusalem had been crowded again. The scene was set for a mass gathering of people curious about the continuing Jesus movement. Something of major importance happened in the Christian community and Luke's generation looked to it as the fulfilment of the promise.
Luke's tradition probably told of an overwhelming awareness in the group of the presence of the Spirit coming upon them in a way that led to ecstatic and joyous praise, including glossalalia, speaking in tongues. Luke takes this tradition and with the skill of an artist reshapes it so that its abiding significance is there for all to see. The crowd has come together from all the nations around about. All hear the gospel in their own language. Here the curse of the tower of Babel is overcome. There human pride and ambition built a tower, only to see it collapse and people come to be scattered and no longer able to understand one another's language. Here the barriers of language are broken down, communication is restored. The Spirit creates the miracles of unity.
This may have been in Luke's mind as he wrote. We shall never know. He leaves no particular clues in this direction. We are on surer ground however when we look at other symbols of the story. Jewish tradition had it that at the giving of the Law on Sinai a great flame came from heaven and divided into 70 parts, one for each nation of the world and all heard and understood the Law in their own language. Luke uses the imagery of this event to give profound symbolic colouring to the event. Here is the Christian feast of Pentecost. Here the tongues of flame alight on the 120 and the message of the Word of God is heard by Jews from every land. It is folly to read the story literally and worry about burnt hair or wonder why they didn't simply use the language all the visitors would have understood, namely Greek. Luke is saying that the coming of the Spirit is as epoch making as the giving of the Law, the scripture on Sinai and more. Here is the Word of God for God's people Israel in every land wherever they have been scattered and through them for all people everywhere to the uttermost parts of the world. The Spirit will make all this possible.
These symbols spoke more powerfully to Luke's churches still grappling with their Jewish roots than they do perhaps for us. They would have recognised the imagery. They would have read of 40 days of appearances and thought of Israel's 40 years in the wilderness. They would have immediately seen the symbolism in the number 12 and the number 120. Here was the new turn in Israel's destiny. God's people, Israel, was indeed to be Abraham's seed in which all nations would be blessed. Jesus was Israel's Messiah. Peter makes this plain: by raising him from the dead, "God has made him Lord and Christ or Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified." Praise God for his promise to restore the kingdom to Israel. Praise God that already now he has poured out this advance instalment, the Spirit. These ecstatic men and women are not drunk as you might think. They are full of the joy of the promised Spirit.
But this is much more than the celebration of the earliest Jewish Christians at the Pentecost festival. It is also the Church's festival for Luke's day and it is our festival. In it we celebrate the coming of the Spirit, then and now and in every age. The word Spirit has a fascinating range of meanings: breath, wind, spirit, soul. The mighty rushing wind plays on this range of meaning. At the creation the Spirit moved over the face of the waters. That may be a correct translation. An alternative is to say: there was a tremendous storm over the deep. Spirit is about power, force, energy, life giving power. Spirit may also connote breath, life giving breath. God breathed into the human being; it became a living person. In Ezekiel's vision God's breath blows upon the dry bones and they live.
Spirit is not ghost, not a spirit, like a good demon, a good angel. Talking about Spirit is talking about God, God in power like the force of a wind, God in intimacy like breath. Sometimes the power of divine presence overwhelms us; we may shudder and shake quite literally; we may shout and cry aloud; we may sing for joy; we may extol God in tongues of praise; sometimes the power of divine presence brings to us a stillness, silences us, takes from us all forms of speech. It doesn't matter when or how we respond to the Spirit. It matters that we respond to the Spirit. As the Spirit of creation produced a bewilderingly diverse creation, so the Spirit who comes to us produces a rich diversity of responses in human beings. The Spirit by which God drove Jesus into the wilderness and then back into the poverty of Galilee, the Spirit that came upon Jesus enabling him to announce the vision of the kingdom and to live out its agenda during his ministry; this same Spirit takes us to the place of testing and directs us to the world's Galilee; this same Spirit lifts our eyes to the vision and our hearts and hands to its agenda of love in the world. The fruit of this same Spirit in Jesus and in the Church is love, is the living out of the agenda of the kingdom.
Not the how nor the when matters. The Spirit strikes us in many ways; and the time of the Spirit is always. It is the what that matters: namely, that we live in openness to the vision of the kingdom and to the power and intimacy of the Spirit of the kingdom manifesting itself in love. Ultimately to talk of the Spirit is to speak of God and to speak of being filled with the Spirit is to talk of being filled with God. Or to put it in other words, to let God rule fully now in our lives, to let the kingdom of God be what it needs to be now in us and among us.
Paul said: "Where the Spirit is, there is freedom." Yet Paul also knew that where the Spirit is, the flesh, the craving for human power and glory, the Babel tower building, will reassert itself. There are a number of ways in which this may happen and they were issues for the early Church as they are for the Church today. Many of them will be familiar, but let us name them and by the power of the gospel of Jesus exorcise them. They are all forms of idolatry and cover the spectrum of theological persuasion.
The first is to glory in the events or experiences related to the Spirit and not in the Spirit, in God. I say "events and experiences related to the Spirit", because this brings together both the genuine events and experiences which people have as a result of the impact of the Spirit on their lives and the phoney trumped up events and experiences sometimes associated with the Spirit. In Matthew's gospel we hear Jesus speaking to the Church: "Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and perform many miracles in your name? And then I will confess to them, I never knew you. Depart from me you workers of lawlessness." And Jesus' teaching ministry concludes, according to Matthew, with the warning that only those whose lives are marked by caring for the needy as if they were caring for him shall be saved. Paul has similar stern warnings for the Christians at Corinth for whom the gifts of the Spirit have become the centre, who count them and crave them and glory in them, and do not have love. They've got religion and they've got nothing.
Paul is not attacking miracles or tongues or powerful manifestations in themselves. But these manifestations, responses to the Spirit, can just as easily become sins. Yes, he says, you can sin by speaking in tongues. Using an old law of ecstasy he says: the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. In other words, you are in charge of your own religious experiences and abilities. Use them to God's glory, not for your own, nor in ways that are destructive of the community. I can no more justify my action by appealing to the Spirit having moved me than could Jim Jones in Guiana. I am responsible for my response to the Spirit.
It would be easy to launch a tirade here against massive abuses of Christianity by media preachers, but that would not help us here. The form in which we face the issue is when people have been told, and believe and peddle the notion that the Spirit comes in certain packaging. Usually this is associated with a certain range of feelings one should have, an ability to point to enough extraordinary things having happened to you to assure yourself and others that you're God's. Mostly Jesus, especially Jesus in Gethsemane, fails these criteria miserably. A broken figure on the cross comes pretty well down in the super radiant Christian stakes.
This packaging of the Spirit not only prescribes very subtly how the human side should look, but also develops theories about how the Spirit is marketed. The Spirit is made to seem like a substance, which God dishes out piece by piece, a little bit at baptism or conversion, a maxi second helping at some later stage, and then, according to your theory larger doses or special doses on special occasions. But God does not come to us in bits and pieces. The message of the gospel is that God is fully there with all God's love. God is not a commodity. God is there in fullness. It is we who come to God in bits and pieces; it is we who hold back. God does not hold back. Sometimes when we stop holding back we are overwhelmed. Words fail us. We want to dance, shout, sing for joy in the Spirit. The gospel is not about Jesus giving the first course and the Spirit the second. Jesus is the bread of life. And the Spirit the Paraclete takes what is already his and declares it to us. Luke describes the impact of the Spirit upon people in a variety of ways. Sometimes the impact hits them after they believe, sometimes as they believe, sometimes before baptism, sometimes after baptism. Luke wasn't interested in protocol. All that mattered was the break through of the Spirit into people's lives.
When we stop putting God at the centre and start putting our experiences there, we are putting ourselves in the place of God. When we put our experiences in the place of God, we delude ourselves about our power. We have God under our control. We manage God. We turn God on and off. We have made God in our own image; we have descended to idolatry.
But putting religious experiences at the centre is not the only way we practice the ancient art of idolatry. It is equally idolatrous to imagine that we have captured God in the structures of our institution. If the only time we talk of the Spirit is in the words of the corporate liturgy, or in the words at baptism or at ordinations, then we are in effect saying that the Spirit has become locked into the Church. That, too, is a deluded power play. For we control the institution; we control the doctrine and the practices. In the name of the kingdom we keep the Spirit captive in the manageable. The Spirit of the kingdom becomes the spirit of the church with a small "s". "These people are not drunk as you suppose." This is a statement based on social and cultural norms. Cultural norms are extraordinarily powerful, both as negative and as positive forces. Tolerance, acceptance, let alone enjoyment, of culturally different forms of worship from our own is difficult at the best of times. But the Church is beset with cultural monopolies especially in the realm of spirituality and worship. I speak here as a white middle class Australian male with a university education and an aesthetic preference for c1 European music and art. What a qualification! It's not difficult to appreciate the worship of a completely different and distant culture from my own. If the contrast is sufficiently great I shall have few difficulties. We have majored in the Uniting Church on multiculturalism and intercultural sensitivity.
But I wonder how far we have considered the significance of subcultures within, for instance, white Australian society. I fear that mono-culturalism is rampant here. I see it in two directions. One is the tendency towards mono-culturalism in our worship, in our liturgies, in their language, their style, even the fact that they are printed or how they are. I am really looking forward to the availability of Uniting in Worship and to the second phase of the Commission's work on contemporary worship. but what I am addressing is wider than this.
There is a complex network of cultural norms operating in the world where I feel most at home. Attitudes towards emotional display or self disclosure; group behaviour: style of conversation; musical and artistic taste; the roles of men and women. I find it almost impossible to transcend this my cultural norm and almost inevitable that I become subtly imperialistic about it. Do I not shape ordinands in this particular direction? Yet I can also recognise, sometimes to my horror, how very relative my culture is, how very sick it is at some points and strong at others. We may not face the problem as directly as my Anglican friends who are at least aware of the struggle against being the outposts of English better society; but I wonder if we ever face it at all. What an odd thing it is that churches have organs, for instance. I love them. But what is this cultural option doing? Is it any wonder that the other subcultures scream out against the imperialism of our spirituality, my spirituality? Is it any wonder that the Uniting Church in many regions is the Church which serves those who are not quite Anglican and just a bit more than Baptist and Pentecostal? We need to look over our subcultural fences and hear a voice from on high tell us: these people might not be drunk as you suppose.
I do think the charismatic or so called renewal movement also deserves mention here. It is surely in part the fruit of protest against the staid mono-culturalism of mainline protestantism. But so also are a range of other largely American inspired adventures in greater freedom of group relationship and self disclosure. The problem is that such groups can be just as mono-cultural and imperialistic. The charismatic renewal has all the hallmarks of being a legitimate cultural phenomenon responding to a strongly felt need. There is a common way of speaking, behaving in public; a similar pattern in leadership and organisation; preferred patterns of spirituality and music. When it becomes imperialistic, at its worst, it wants everyone else to join it and be enculturated into the same corporate and individual spirituality. It has in reality no monopoly on spiritual growth and maturity; nor has any other of our spiritual subcultures, including mine. All of them can be imperialistic and go off the rails. All of them can coexist in the rich diversity of the kingdom. Spiritual mono-culturalism is another idolatry and tackling it in the Church, just in our own Church, is an enormous challenge and task. It is not that I can ever really transcend my own cultural identity; but I can stop kidding myself I'm somehow the norm and I can stop declaring others drunk.
The Church of the Kingdom has to be the Church of the Spirit. A lively and diverse spirituality is its life blood. This doesn't mean anything goes. Corporate worship is the occasion where people are led to focus on God, to respond to God in openness, in confession, in pain, in hope, and to hear God through the witness of scripture and tradition, to receive God's blessing in fellowship and communion, and to be sent by God out into the world in love with the agenda of the kingdom and the power of the Spirit. This is a recognisable pattern. Where it happens, there is worship; where it does not happen, something else is taking place but it is not worship.
In the Pentecost story Luke underlines for us what it means to be the Church. We are the people called to live with the vision of the kingdom of God as our agenda. But this is only possible as we are open to the breath of the Spirit. Cultivating that openness is not searching for experiences: it is not confining Spirit talk to the formal phraseology of the institution and assuming control; it is not cultural monopoly and the imperialism of our aesthetics. It is openness to the many languages of love. It is letting this love burn on our heads and in our hearts. It is making our way to the temple courtyard and being one with an odd assortment of pilgrims who we know are also praising God in their own language. It is surrendering control and power to love. Ultimately it is to face the Spirit and pray: your kingdom come.


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Whoopi Says She Doesn't Have Trump Derangement, Proves Herself Wrong
Two Americas
Peter D'Abrosca
Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View" proudly exclaimed before a friendly audience that she did not have Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), which Judge Jeanine Pirro of Fox News claimed during a segment.
She quickly proved otherwise after the segment. "
".@JudgeJeanine on what @WhoopiGoldberg did off stage: "I was leaving and she said 'F you' in my face – literally spitting at me, 'F you, get the F out of this building,' wrote reporter Ryan Saavedra on Twitter. "And I said to her, 'did you just say that?' She said that's what I said, 'get the F out of this building.'"
.@JudgeJeanine on what @WhoopiGoldberg did off stage: "I was leaving and she said 'F you' in my face – literally spitting at me, 'F you, get the F out of this building.' And I said to her, 'did you just say that?' She said that's what I said, 'get the F out of this building.'" pic.twitter.com/sEMtyrwCNN
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During the segment, Goldberg accused President Donald J. Trump and his supports of beginning every sentence with "Mexicans are liars and rapists," evidence enough in itself to prove Pirro's TDS claim.
"I've never seen anyone whip up so much hate," Goldberg said. "I've never seen someone be so dismissive.
Apparently, Goldberg forgot that her co-host "whipped up hate" against Christians just recently, saying that hearing God's voice was a "mental illness." She also clearly has not been paying attention to the violent leftists who take every opportunity to threaten the life of the President, and harass his supporters.
"You know what's horrible? When the President of the United States whips up hate, for people to beat the hell out of people," Goldberg said as the audience roared.
The problem is, that has literally never happened.
It has happened on the violent left, though. Big League Politics reported:
"A Republican lawmaker is calling for the resignation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) after her recent rhetoric encouraging harassment of supporters of President Donald J. Trump.
"[Waters' comments] do not become somebody who's in Congress," said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). "So we just introduced it, we have some co-sponsors, but what she did was to basically incite people to come after and attack members of the president's Cabinet. And also spread that out to more people."
Waters has been publicly screeching for days about stepping up the "resistance" against Trump.
"'And I want to tell you,' [Waters] said in the interview, 'for these members of his Cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant, to be able to stop at a gas station, to be able to shop at a department store. The people are going to turn on them, they're going to protest, they're going to absolutely harass them until they tell the president: 'No, I can't hang with you.'"
BLP Passage Ends.
Goldberg made no mention of Waters' stirring up violence against Trump supporters, and any of the other herd leftist Antifa members who have physically assaulted Trump supporters i the street on several occasions.
Perhaps she should get checked out for Trump Derangement Syndrome after all.
City of Denver Unanimously Votes to Rename Columbus Park "La Raza Park"
There might come a time when nothing in the US is named after Christopher Columbus.
Evan James
The Denver City Council unanimously voted to rename Columbus Park last week Monday, and now it will be named "La Raza Park."
"La raza" is Spanish for "the race," which has connotations with Latino identity politics. A Denver Post article tells us that the phrase "viva la raza" (long live the race) was the "rallying cry of the Chicano movement in the 1960s and '70s." The Chicano Movement encouraged Mexican ethnic and cultural solidarity with a particular emphasis on their indigenous heritage. The movement, however, rejected assimilation and thus the term "Mexican-American," essentially branding themselves as the Hispanic version of the Black Power movement.
Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval claims that the unanimous vote was an act of officially naming a park that has "always" been unofficially called by its new name. "La raza is a word of unity and about celebrating community," she said without a hint of irony.
The reason for officially renaming the park is about what you'd expect, namely because Christopher Columbus is irredeemably associated with colonialism and genocide and is thus not fit to be honored in any way, shape, or form.
Arturo Gonzalez, a retired professor, said that "Mexican Chicanos and Indigenous peoples have suffered genocide over the last 500 years. We live with that trauma. We continue to live with that trauma."
Renaming parks, buildings, and schools that were previously named after so-called "problematic" or "white supremacist" historical figures is nothing new, of course, but the practice has accelerated over the past several months due to the hysteria following the George Floyd riots.
Big League Politics has covered many instances of this phenomenon. One of the most recent instances included a San Francisco school district renaming Abraham Lincoln High School because black lives apparently "didn't matter" to him:
Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco to be Renamed Because Black Lives Apparently Didn't Matter to Him

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South Korea's KF-16s gain further enhancements
Jr Ng
The Republic of Korea Air Force's (RoKAF's) fleet of Lockheed Martin KF-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft is set to receive advanced identification friend or foe (IFF) and datalink systems under the United States Foreign Military Sales (FMS) mechanism.
Sale of $194 Million
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on 30 March that the State Department had approved the sale of Mode 5 IFF and Link 16 Tactical Datalink (TDL) for the RoKAF's F-16 Block 32 aircraft worth an estimated $194 million. The sale also includes associated equipment, training, and logistical support.
The DSCA stated that the proposed sale will improve the RoKAF's interoperability with US Air Force (USAF) and other coalition forces through an enhanced datalink and Mode 5 IFF, resulting in "a more effective alliance for its F-16 fleet".
$1.2 Billion Contract
The latest upgrades add to an ongoing modernisation effort being implemented across the service's KF-16 fleet by Lockheed Martin, which was awarded a $1.2 billion contract in late 2016 to install new capabilities such as an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System II (JHMCS II) helmet-mounted display, as well as modern avionics systems such as a large-format, high-resolution centre pedestal display and a high-volume and high-speed databus.
Upgrade work is expected to be completed by 15 November 2025.
Peace Bridge Upgrade programme
The RoKAF had also earlier upgraded some of its KF-16s under the $250 million Peace Bridge Upgrade (PBU) programme, which was also completed around late 2016. This effort expanded the range of weapons that the aircraft could deploy including the AIM-120-7C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) and the GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).
South Korea is also looking to expand its stocks of AMRAAM missiles, with the US government approving a possible FMS of up to 120 AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAMs with associated support for an estimated cost of $253 million in October 2019.
"This proposed sale will improve the ROK capability to meet current and future threats by increasing its stocks of medium range missiles for its F-15K, KF-16, and F-35 fleets for its national defence," the DSCA announced.
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Information security is one of the key areas of IT domain and it is offered as a service to businesses and organizations of all scales. The nature of technology used for storing and transferring information and the value of the information that businesses deal with has made information security a necessity for companies. Ethical hacking is one of the services under information security and is offered by experts on receiving legal authorization from the company. So what is ethical hacking and what role does it play in information security? Why do businesses need ethical hacking? Read on to learn.
The aim of an information security company is to see that all networks and systems used by client organization are safe. By protecting the networks and systems of businesses, the information security company creates a shield against the risk of information being lost, stolen, modified, destroyed or disrupted. But how can one be sure that the networks or systems are safe? Although security measures are in place, it is only when one actually thinks and works like a hacker can he/she be able to find loop holes in the security offered to the networks and systems. This is where ethical hacking comes to picture.
Ethical hackers work like normal hackers but the intention behind do things that they do is to check the vulnerabilities of the security system in place and recommend suitable measures to prevent the information from being misused. Ethical hacking takes place in a legal framework and the client company authorizes the specialists to do the testing.
There are two key activities to check how secure systems and servers are. Assessing the vulnerability of a network or systems in a network is one of the activities of ethical hacking. The activity normally involves use of an automated scanning process which fetches information related to the vitalities of the network such as the version of operating system used in the computers, the software products etc. This information is used to check for vulnerabilities in the network. The test provides results to show how vulnerable the system or network is but does not indicate how much risk is associated and how it can affect the network or systems. This is where penetration testing comes to picture.
Penetration testing is done to show the impact of vulnerabilities in the network or systems. The aim of the test will be to take advantage of the vulnerabilities to gain access to systems cracking passwords to confidential folders. Ultimately the ethical hacker uses the test to show CEOs, CFOs and other heads of an organization the level of risk to the information because of vulnerabilities in the network. This can help the business heads make informed decisions about information security requirements of the company.
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Thailand's Plastic Bag Ban Puts Manufacturers On The Brink Of Closure
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Environment / Ecology
The ban on distributing free single-use plastic bags in shops, malls and convenience stores in Thailand put into force on January 1 this year has not only positive effects. Dozens of plastic bag manufacturers are now at risk of closing their businesses altogether if they get no support from the government, according to the president of Thai Plastic Industries Association, Somchai Techapanichgul.
He said that almost 500 plastic manufacturers represented by the association expect to stay in this industry only until April if the government refuses to step in. The association estimates that the ban on single-use plastic bags has already cost the industry 24.3 billion baht ($782 million).
"We may need to shut down our businesses, which employ about 7,000 workers," Somchai said, adding that "they are now living with a dim and uncertain work prospect."
Plastic bag orders down by 90 per cent
Orders have shrunk by 90 per cent since the government introduced the campaign. As a result, production has been scaled down and work-hours have been cut drastically. Staff who depend on daily wages topped up by overtime, have begun quitting their jobs.
However, the association noted it was not against the ban as such which had favourable effects on the environment and was reducing enormous amounts of plastic waste in the country, but just asked for more time to adjust to the new demand situation.
Somchai claims the government reneged on an agreement to phase out single-use plastic bags only by 2022, which would have given the industry enough time to adapt their production lines to manufacture alternative products such as multi-use, more durable plastic bags which also can be recycled. The production of plastic bags thicker than 40 microns are currently allowed by the Pollution Control Department and not covered in the ban.
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Barerra Emerges Victorious Over Monaghan
By: Sean Crose
Two men met in their quest for a light heavyweight title opportunity on Saturday night in Brooklyn. Only one man advanced. That man? Miami – by way of Cuba – fighter Sullivan Barrera (22-2). Barrera's opponent, popular local fighter Seanie Monaghan (29-2) of Long Beach, held on until the last bell and fought gamely, but the experienced Barrera proved to be the more skilled on the two men on his road to a smart UD win. Although Monaghan, who was essentially the hometown hero, lost the battle, the fans at the Aviator Sports' Center got their money's worth, as both fighters clearly went into the ring intent on winning.
Barrera has been on the radar as a serious contender for quite some time. After stopping Kato Murat within the distance back in 2015, the fighter earned a shot at Andre Ward the following year. Although Barrera came up short against the pound for pound great, he went on to win four straight against the likes of Joe Smith and Felix Valera before ultimately coming up short against Dmitry Bivol last March, getting stopped within 12 at Madison Square Garden. A win Saturday was essential for the 36 year old veteran.
Monaghan, on the other hand, was fighting for the first time in almost a year. After working his way up through the ranks and making himself known within the fight world, the New Yorker was stopped by Marcus Browne in 2017 at the Nassau Coliseum. Monaghan fought once since then, a UD win over Evert Bravo later that same year. Against Barerra, Monaghan had to bring his A-game, which the serious professional certainly did. Barerra, whose habit is to start slow, ultimately proved to be too much for Monaghan, however. The final scores for the ten rounder were 99-91, 99-91, and 98-92, all for Barerra.
"He was a strong guy," Barerra said afterward. "I told the guys before the fight, he's a tough light heavyweight." Although he won soundly, Barerra claimed he had wanted to win by knockout. "I know his face, he was a little bit tired. I tried to knock him out, but he's a strong guy," he stated. As for the future, Barerra said he's ready to take a shot at the top again. "We are ready for everyone," he said. "I proved tonight I'm a tough light heavyweight."
The bout was streamed live on Facebook.


This morning, it's a bit cold but sunny. I woke up at 8 and found my way downstairs. I had setup my Rancilio Silvia to start up at 7 so it would be nice and warm. Sadly enough, the timer device I used is broken.. So after half an hour I made some very nice espresso to finally wake up.
I missed my regular train, so I took the next one which forces me to change trains twice. The train was broken.. it kept on activating the emergency breaks.
Finally I got to the station in Diemen (close to Amsterdam). This station is directly under one of the major flight paths to Schiphol airport. I got out and the sun was shining on my face.. I took a deep breath and smelled the kerosene. I made me think of Pisa aeroporto and some visions of beautiful Italy passed by. I walked to the office, which is directly next to the train station. There isn't much green in Diemen, except for the small park like area on the other side of the office. I passed by some bushes and trees between the station and the highway exit and heard the birds singing. The sun was warming up my face and I was listening to the sweet tones of a nice piece of music by Fabrizio de Andrè. Live can be so beautiful...Then I entered the office building. Warm, dry air hit my face. I tripped over a piece of loose carpet.. dust everywhere. Why are we working inside these offices again?
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KUMC Rev. Joe Fort, Jr. promoted to district superintendent
Written by Mary Kelly Bumbaugh
Rev. Joe Fort, Jr. relinquished his pastor position at Kingwood United Methodist Church in August to accept a promotion with the Methodist Church Texas annual conference in the western district. He said he is most thankful that his 12 years in Kingwood enabled him and his wife Margaret to have their four children grow up there. "I'm most proud of the congregation because it grew deeper spiritually while I was there and it's gratifying to see people in a deeper walk with the lord. Now I'm a regional overseer of 87 churches and more than 60 pastors, and looking forward to building-up the life of the churches in a 75-mile radius around Bryan-College Station," Fort said. "The gifts God gave him are rarely seen in just one person," said lay leader Halene Crossman. "He is an outstanding preacher, and compassionate pastor counselor, stemming from his own life experiences; and an excellent administrator. He has a wonderful new ministry and service opportunity, an honor and privilege." Crossman said Fort's sermons often focused on special needs children and increased awareness in the congregation of the value of planting new churches through local and global missions. KUMC recently pledge more than $100,000 to help make Lakeside United Methodist Church in Summerwood a reality; and has given on-going support for the Society of St. Stephen in Kingwood, a nonprofit outreach mission. Fort's leadership influenced the expansion of the United Methodist Army, a youth and adult summer mission project that rebuilds and repairs low income housing. He oversaw KUMC building fund and left it free of debt. Between his administrative duties at the church and inspiring local mission work, he still had time to help his church members become active in global missions, and with a gift of $150,000, the congregation funded the construction of the first Methodist church in the capital of Tanzania. During his stewardship in Kingwood, all his children graduated from Kingwood High School and three went to college. One child lives at home with his parents. Because Fort and his family were so cared for by the parishioners, they presented him with him special farewell gifts of a framed portrait of himself in his ecclesiastical robes, a pen and ink drawing of the church by member Gaye Farr and an enlarged photograph of the Sea of Galilee at sunset, in recognition of the two trips to the Holy Land he led for church members. The KUMC congregation looks forward to continued growth under the leadership of new pastor Rev. Jim Welch. For more information, visit www.kingoodumc.org Photo: Rev. Joe Fort, Jr., Fellow of the Society of John Wesley, continues his mission with the Methodist Church of Texas Western district.


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Just for you, we gathered all our Another Voice bloggers in one place to take a group picture. It took much coordination and effort as those from Palestine came through checkpoints, and those from the coastlands and the northern part of the country traversed the crowded highways. We met in a lovely, cozy, festive and well-decorated Jerusalem home to talk about the blog and how to present ourselves to you.
From all of us to all of you, may you have a blessed holiday season with your loved ones.


So I'm taking it easy this evening, and am about to get caught up on the latest episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Studio 60, a-la the magic of the iTunes Store. In addition, I am downloading the first 5 episodes of Heroes based solely on a recommendation by vickyandnorm. They were the ones who got me hooked on House and I trust their TV show judgment implicitly. I don't know how far I'll get tonight, but you can be sure I'll post what I think of that series once I've seen a few episodes.
It's cool here and the wind is blowing, and I'm looking forward to crawling under the covers and getting started on all of these episodes. I've got 6 hours worth of TV to watch. Fortunately, we turn the clocks back tonight so I get an extra hour's worth of time.


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package collector

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"reflect"

	"github.com/go-kit/log"
	"github.com/go-kit/log/level"
	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
	"github.com/prometheus/procfs/nfs"
)

const (
	nfsSubsystem = "nfs"
)

type nfsCollector struct {
	fs                                nfs.FS
	nfsNetReadsDesc                   *prometheus.Desc
	nfsNetConnectionsDesc             *prometheus.Desc
	nfsRPCOperationsDesc              *prometheus.Desc
	nfsRPCRetransmissionsDesc         *prometheus.Desc
	nfsRPCAuthenticationRefreshesDesc *prometheus.Desc
	nfsProceduresDesc                 *prometheus.Desc
	logger                            log.Logger
}

func init() {
	registerCollector("nfs", defaultEnabled, NewNfsCollector)
}

// NewNfsCollector returns a new Collector exposing NFS statistics.
func NewNfsCollector(logger log.Logger) (Collector, error) {
	fs, err := nfs.NewFS(*procPath)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to open procfs: %w", err)
	}

	return &nfsCollector{
		fs: fs,
		nfsNetReadsDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "packets_total"),
			"Total NFSd network packets (sent+received) by protocol type.",
			[]string{"protocol"},
			nil,
		),
		nfsNetConnectionsDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "connections_total"),
			"Total number of NFSd TCP connections.",
			nil,
			nil,
		),
		nfsRPCOperationsDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "rpcs_total"),
			"Total number of RPCs performed.",
			nil,
			nil,
		),
		nfsRPCRetransmissionsDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "rpc_retransmissions_total"),
			"Number of RPC transmissions performed.",
			nil,
			nil,
		),
		nfsRPCAuthenticationRefreshesDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "rpc_authentication_refreshes_total"),
			"Number of RPC authentication refreshes performed.",
			nil,
			nil,
		),
		nfsProceduresDesc: prometheus.NewDesc(
			prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, nfsSubsystem, "requests_total"),
			"Number of NFS procedures invoked.",
			[]string{"proto", "method"},
			nil,
		),
		logger: logger,
	}, nil
}

func (c *nfsCollector) Update(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) error {
	stats, err := c.fs.ClientRPCStats()
	if err != nil {
		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
			level.Debug(c.logger).Log("msg", "Not collecting NFS metrics", "err", err)
			return ErrNoData
		}
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to retrieve nfs stats: %w", err)
	}

	c.updateNFSNetworkStats(ch, &stats.Network)
	c.updateNFSClientRPCStats(ch, &stats.ClientRPC)
	c.updateNFSRequestsv2Stats(ch, &stats.V2Stats)
	c.updateNFSRequestsv3Stats(ch, &stats.V3Stats)
	c.updateNFSRequestsv4Stats(ch, &stats.ClientV4Stats)

	return nil
}

// updateNFSNetworkStats collects statistics for network packets/connections.
func (c *nfsCollector) updateNFSNetworkStats(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *nfs.Network) {
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsNetReadsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.UDPCount), "udp")
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsNetReadsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.TCPCount), "tcp")
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsNetConnectionsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.TCPConnect))
}

// updateNFSClientRPCStats collects statistics for kernel server RPCs.
func (c *nfsCollector) updateNFSClientRPCStats(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *nfs.ClientRPC) {
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsRPCOperationsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.RPCCount))
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsRPCRetransmissionsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.Retransmissions))
	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsRPCAuthenticationRefreshesDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
		float64(s.AuthRefreshes))
}

// updateNFSRequestsv2Stats collects statistics for NFSv2 requests.
func (c *nfsCollector) updateNFSRequestsv2Stats(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *nfs.V2Stats) {
	const proto = "2"

	v := reflect.ValueOf(s).Elem()
	for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
		field := v.Field(i)

		ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsProceduresDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
			float64(field.Uint()), proto, v.Type().Field(i).Name)
	}
}

// updateNFSRequestsv3Stats collects statistics for NFSv3 requests.
func (c *nfsCollector) updateNFSRequestsv3Stats(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *nfs.V3Stats) {
	const proto = "3"

	v := reflect.ValueOf(s).Elem()
	for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
		field := v.Field(i)

		ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsProceduresDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
			float64(field.Uint()), proto, v.Type().Field(i).Name)
	}
}

// updateNFSRequestsv4Stats collects statistics for NFSv4 requests.
func (c *nfsCollector) updateNFSRequestsv4Stats(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *nfs.ClientV4Stats) {
	const proto = "4"

	v := reflect.ValueOf(s).Elem()
	for i := 0; i < v.NumField(); i++ {
		field := v.Field(i)

		ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(c.nfsProceduresDesc, prometheus.CounterValue,
			float64(field.Uint()), proto, v.Type().Field(i).Name)
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Online buying continues to grow in acceptance. Sad to say for many standard forex traders this has in fact suggested that buying about the high streets or centres is taking a tough economy lately. To the customer they have caused it to be much easier than before to call for some time and do their research before they buy. When requested, men describe off-line purchasing as demanding, they dislike holding out at the take a look at, motor vehicle auto parking the car and being unable to entry guidance once the desire it. In comparison on the net getting appears to awaken some sort of interior consumer, they really feel powerful, they wish to research and look at the testimonials, it assists them pick precisely how best to spend their dollar.
Advances in the internet suggest that you could see on the web tact watches retailers while being in the convenience of your property. Whatever time this is the retailers is going to be available, there is not any excitement to satisfy a due date, whether or not that be hurrying returning to operate following your lunch or dinner crack or which makes it to the take a look at prior to shutting time. You could potentially invest some time as you look for your ideal timepiece.
When you go to merchants or shopping malls face-to-face, unless you have basically assigned a couple of hrs and so are prepared to invest important time and motivation looking into as numerous stores that you can, your decision is probably to get limited.
If you evaluate the price of tact watch review on and traditional, oftentimes you might definitely see you could make cost benefits on the web. Much like off the internet purchasing you can expect to certainly typically see diverse fees in one web site to another, take a look close to and you will uncover some huge amounts.
As mentioned above, when you shop online you get to evaluate charges, watch the photos and evaluate the product or service explanations. During my practical experience on the list of essential advantages is you be able to review buyer is assessments. You have the chance to see other people consider nicely as in depth details with regards to your significantly-loved designs and companies. Regardless if you are seeking hypo-allergenic properties, something which a Tact watch Titanium Watch could give or perhaps a trendy design to increase your extras, the world wide web really is a fantastic spot to search for a wrist watch.
It is hard dealing with a pain. Joint Pain could have unfavorable impacts because it can restrict your know-how to curve or move, for instance, you used to. It triggers lots of discomfort. You won't be also all set to do what seemed to resemble little tasks essentially because they will look like difficult core commitments because of the worry. Research studies have actually shown that about 30 percent of people who see specialists every in 2015 will often have Joint Pain. The general populaces who are basically influenced by Joint Pain are athletes; however there are a couple of succeeding individuals that are genuinely impacted by this problem additionally. Among the crucial variables behind this discomfort are sudden and also jerky movements. Gamers, extremely, will possibly have fast developments that might use climb to improvement of discomfort from the joint territory. Thinking about that the joint is actually a joint, it is extremely inclined to pain as a result of the fact fast relocations May potentially end product straight right into a real effect which might trigger crucial pain.
An added routine wellspring of Joint Pain is damage. Things like awkward arrivals, drops, takes a trip regardless of mishaps can motivate joint issues. Gaming's competitors are genuinely at risk of joint wounds because they are generally practical. Hockey players, for instance, are incredibly vulnerable against foremost curiae tendon ACL which occurs when the tendons which are located in the shinbone and also thighbone are wrecked. Individuals that perform duplicating, traumatic timetables like backfiring jacks without having resting similarly stand a high possibility of obtaining pressures in their flexogor gel. Tendon stress is an additional element that might create serious Joint Pain. Osteoarthritis, which is truly a degenerative issue that is sometimes felt by people that are 50 years old or a lot more, is one more key explanation behind Joint Pain. It is really a particular concern and also it similarly consistently happens because of wear and tear of your ligament as a result of continual make use of.
The joint is really a pivot, and subsequently it motivates the body weight of the physical cosmetics by making use of an advancements that is definitely dramatically a lot more compelled when contrasted and different joints. It should be secure and also yes it will have the ability to grow altogether to deal with the leg. In case this has restricted development the muscle mass tissue requires entirely holding alternate areas of the body, you will come across discomfort over the joint location. There might similarly be a ton of anxiety on the ligaments in the celebration the joint totters forward and in reverse and hence it will trigger a great deal of pressure and also pain from the joint location. To stop Joint Pain using joint vibrant additionally, you must quit taking part in routines that trouble discomfort whether it is in a fraction of a second or after time. In the celebration the discomfort is due to private damages you got lately, making use of adaptable gauze might assist minimize that discomfort? By utilizing an adhere to move down you when you end up strolling also may help lessen the discomfort. You can make application of the stick around the opposing area in the joint or even in the fingers that goes to the edge of the excruciating joint.


This video clip is just the latest documentary short from the Manchester Vision project, run by Manchester production company Riverhorse. This one focuses on the work of the Ancoats based charity The Mustard Tree, others are equally revealing and inspiring.
Mancheter Vision is a not-for-profit initiative that produces monthly films on people, organisations and campaigns that are seeking to create positive social change in the wider city region. The Mustard Tree charity is one such initiative.
A link to the Manchester Vision project is here.


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La chiesa della Visitazione di Maria Santissima è la parrocchiale di Malborghetto, frazione del comune sparso di Malborghetto-Valbruna, in provincia ed arcidiocesi di Udine; fa parte della forania della Montagna.

Storia

Nel 1560 a Malborghetto venne costruita una chiesetta di modeste dimensioni. Nel 1809 si decise di edificare una nuova chiesa, più grande, che incorporasse il precedente edificio.

La struttura riunisce, sotto lo stesso tetto, due chiese, quella cinquecentesca e quella del 1809.
Nella prima metà del XX secolo fu eretto il campanile.

Note

Voci correlate
 Parrocchie dell'arcidiocesi di Udine
 Malborghetto-Valbruna
 Arcidiocesi di Udine

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Chiese di Malborghetto-Valbruna
Visitazione di Maria
Malborghetto
Malborghetto-Valbruna

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Media TV
KMSB Hands Over Their Newscast to KOLD
Posted By John Schuster on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Fox affiliate KMSB Channel 11 will abandon the in-house production of its nightly newscast on Feb. 1—but that doesn't mean news will vacate the 9 p.m. timeslot. Instead, KMSB's 9 p.m. newscast will originate from KOLD Channel 13's studios.
KMSB on-air and production staff members were told about the changes during a meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 15, where they were also told their employment status is uncertain, at best.
As part of the arrangement, Belo, KMSB's parent company, will maintain a sales staff, but the hiring of talent and production personnel will be made by KOLD and its parent company, Raycom.
Additionally, KOLD will create a morning-news show to air from 7 to 9 a.m. on KMSB, according to sources.
It was suggested during the meeting with KMSB staffers that KOLD would need to make hires in order to produce the two additional newscasts—but there were no guarantees that the likes of news anchor Lou Raguse, weather personality Gina Trunzo or sportscaster David Kelly would be part of the transition. All told, the change affects about 20 people in front of the camera and behind the scenes who work on KMSB's news product.
"Under the agreement, KMSB and KTTU will continue to control, manage and program the stations and sell all on-air advertising," according to a press release. "KOLD-TV will, by contract, provide certain services to support the operations of KMSB and KTTU (TV 18), including producing local news in high definition, in-depth weather, traffic and sports, and website administration."
This is the latest in a tumultuous series of events since Bob Simone replaced Tod Smith as Belo's Tucson general manager two years ago. Simone came into the market with lofty expectations, and early in his tenure, he announced plans to launch a four-hour, locally produced morning-news block. That goal never materialized.
He also approved the funding for news-studio improvements at KMSB's Sixth Avenue offices. The studio has been built, but was never actually used. As a result, the KMSB news product looks low-budget when compared to the market's other three local-news operations. KMSB has also endured a number of personnel departures on the news end within the last few months.
This is KMSB's second shared-news arrangement. When KMSB announced it was launching the nightly newscast, it entered into a shared-content deal with KVOA Channel 4, but that was severed shortly after Bill Shaw took over as GM of the NBC affiliate.
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Bermudian designer, Catherine Quin announced a collaboration with local artists for her fashion showcase which will take place at Hamilton Princess on June 12th during the America's Cup.
The immersive event will launch Quin's pre fall collection through an innovative, large scale art installation. The Hamilton Princess marina will be transformed into a unique and dynamic space, where guests will get an intimate look at the collection with models transformed into living art.
The garments will be available for immediate purchase at Luxury Gifts as part of a 'see now, buy there' promotion, allowing guests to get closer to the brand than ever before.
Quin believes the surroundings of the Hamilton Princess provide a great backdrop to the show case and pays homage to the art that inspires her designs.
Quin started her line two years ago after leaving behind a career in law where she practiced in both London and Bermuda. Pursuing her passion, she launched her collection on the global stage of London Fashion Week as part of the official British Fashion Councils designer's showcase at Somerset House.
The line is stocked globally in the major fashion capitals of New York, London Tokyo and LA. She continues to showcase her collections at New York and Paris Fashion Weeks in line with the international fashion calendar but this season decided to launch her new pre collection on her home turf of Bermuda.
Born and raised on the island, she remains committed to having a positive impact on the local community and will feature local models of varying ages, in addition to collaborating with local artists, in an effort to promote local talent on an international scale.
On the relationship between her brand and the island, Quin sees the relationship between her brand and the island as an "organic partnership" and comments that "there is a tremendous amount of talent in Bermuda which needs to be nurtured and celebrated'.
The show case will be held on June 12th at the Hamilton Princess and the featured looks are available for purchase between June 12th- June 21st at Luxury Gifts. For more information or to register your interest in attending, e-mail paradisethirtytwo@gmail.com.


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Robert Fripp - That Which Passes
1995 Soundscapes Volume III
SKU: DGM9507
SummaryCUSTOMER REVIEWS (2)
Completing the trilogy from Robert Fripp's 1995 season of live improvisation. A collage of cut-ups and studio treatments using concert recordings from Argentina, California and New York. New sonic possibilities from Guitar Player magazine's Best Experimental Guitarist of 1995.
Robert Fripp: guitarist
John Sinks: FOH sound, sound technician
The earlier soundscape CDs have presented the music as live performances, as a series of improvisations and responses to the moment. On this album we have compiled and edited the soundscapes, using them as musical materials fashioned in real time. So, although the music is taken from live performances, it would not have sounded like this in any one performance - although it might have done.....R.F.
A Ton Prob Production by Robert Fripp & David Singleton for Discipline Global Mobile.
Digital editor and mastering engineer: David Singleton
Cover picture: Orange over Cadmium Yellow by John Miller who, contrary to common practice in the art world, owns the copyright in his work. Design ©1996 Bill Smith Studio
- Reviews -
Creative lounge music, without the threat of a catchy tune to invade the brain.... The Wire
The final track, A Time To Die, comes as a reward to the patient listener. Seemingly more 'conventionally' structured, it's a beautiful piece of dreamy, modern classical music.... Rock 'n' Reel
No one could ever accuse Robert Fripp of pandering to the masses.... Total Guitar
- Robert's Comments -
The solo Soundscapes were supported at all the performances by Los Gauchos Allemanes. As in the Californian Soundscape tour of January 1995, where the California Guitar Trio were supporting, Los Gauchos were encouraged to "blow me off". Those generous members of the public who have read the liner notes to "A Blessing of Tears" might recall that: "I would come onstage and play for some 20 - 30 minutes the kind of whirring, bleeping and droning sounds, a selection of which are presented on this record. Then the (generally polite and patient) audience would gratefully embrace something more recognisably musical from ..." during this week, Los Gauchos Allemanes.
The Buenos Aires Guitar Craft Circle, and Crafties from elsewhere in Argentina, provided substantial help and assistance throughout the week. This included busking the queue before the shows, busking the foyer after the shows, and joining myself and Los Gauchos in the middle part of the performance to surround a sizeable proportion of the audience and test its patience, generosity of spirit and listening capacities.
Musicians will find support in the community if they provide music which is either needed or wanted.
The current dominant strategy of the music industry is to persuade the public to want a particular piece of music. This is the hard sell. Typically, the artist is engaged in a series of promotional events, such as interviews and personal appearances.
My own view is that Soundscapes aren't much in the way of a product line which accommodates itself to a hard sell. As a musician, I am unable to perform where the performance is only a piece of promotion: this degrades the performance in a subtle way, insults the audience and humiliates the performer. As a professional musician, I am prepared to pretend to powerful creatures of the industry that a performance is promotional. But when I believe it, music will have died inside me.
And it seems rather silly that I should undertake a series of interviews when I have nothing to say; and when 26 years of interviews, two King Crimson Box Set Scrapbooks, numerous lengthy articles and several books provide readily available answers to almost all the questions which are ever asked of me.
Another approach, and a soft sell, is to allow the music to speak for itself. Then, the music reaches its audience gently over whatever period of time it has value or significance. Not all conversations are best carried out by shouting. This approach assumes an informed, alert and enquiring audience; that is, an audience a musician would wish to have. Simply, the music protects itself, its performer and its audience.
Soundscapes continue to surprise, excite, educate and instruct me. They are quite amazing. They have the characteristic of being true to the moment in which they are performed. That is, they honour this key principle: act in accordance with time, place and person.
Towards the end of the week at the Goethe Institute, Soundscapes were developing in a way which was beginning to alarm me. The audiences in Argentina have been as generous and supportive as any I have known anywhere the world, and more than most. As the week unfolded its surprises, I began to be concerned that the generosity of the audience was being tested. This is an unfamiliar music, improvised, presented without guarantees, sometimes unpleasant and often very hard to listen at, to and through. It is not a music which of itself would claim to be entertaining. Rather, it presents challenges to both performer and audience.
I resisted the way in which the Soundscapes were developing, while noticing and acknowledging that this was the way, but went with them. Saturday night was the evening when Soundscapes had moved on, to where you may hear on "Radiophonics": it was irresistible.
When, as punters, we buy a ticket to see a musician we often know some of their professional history; we assume a measure of competence and experience, some training (whether formal or informal) and a sufficient ability.
What may the musician assume of the audience's training, facility and experience in listening?
Clearly, there are different qualities of performance. Equally clearly, there are different qualities of listening. Simply, what we hear is the quality of our listening.
Without attention, we fail to hear what is being played: we hear what we believe is being played. This is automatic listening: we listen AT the music. If our interest is aroused, or attracted, then we may shake hands with the music: we listen TO the music. If we go beyond this, by making the decision to listen THROUGH the music, we invite it into ourselves. Conscious listening is where we stand face to face with music; creative listening is when the music and audience get married - music listens to itself through the ears of the audience, from which it is not apart.
It is unnecessary, for deeper listening, that we like the music. Actually, it is easier to listen when the music is challenging or unfamiliar: our ears are free of seduction. The practical issue, then, is our attention span. Attention does not develop by accident. The greater our capacity to pay attention, the greater our possibility to enter the world of music. Or, to put this another way, the greater the possibility of the world of music entering us.
To be a listener, to become a member of an audience, requires as much training as to become a musician. Listening is active, and our instrument is the ears. How we use our ears is part of the craft of listening.
Music MUST be heard to become real.
A musician of any experience is aware, often painfully so, that few audiences cohere to the point of being a unified audience. In any audience, different worlds of listening capacity and hearing competence are present simultaneously.
The atmosphere which surrounds a performance is a subtle envelope which protects the musical event unfolding within it. The energy which is generated in the performance is contained, and intensifies. Then, the performance may shift and lift, and become a very different quality of event.
The audience may, or may not, be an audience. An audience is single, a whole body of people using two ears. A dispersed, fractured audience is a crowd.
Each member of the audience hears their own world of hearing. Within the audience, these different worlds impinge upon each other and interpenetrate. So, in my own solitary deafness, I hear very little of your world of deeper listening. But as it opens to you, it also becomes available to me, and I may find myself suddenly within it. Once I enter this clearer place, I hear with different ears: actually, I am listening through yours. Then, this world of deeper listening grows stronger from my presence within it. In a sense, my discovery of this world re-creates it, and it continues to be in continuous creation for as long as I am able to remain within it.
The subtle atmosphere which surrounds a performance is easily damaged. It is maintained by the contributory presence of the audience and performers and, I must say, the muse. (Hence the aphorism: you can't take the muse out of music). Any act which violates the integrity of the performance punctures the atmosphere and prevents the performance from achieving its potential. In our performance culture many violations, small and great - such as unauthorised photography and recording - are widespread and commonplace.
Where the artist has clearly asked the audience to refrain from trying to capture the event and nail it to the earth, bootlegging (however well-intentioned) is a violation. It is not innocent and offers violence to the performance, artist and other members of the audience. The bootlegger, or surreptitious photographer, place themselves outside the performance and the world in which the performance has value. Then, they are no longer present to the performance. This disrupts the atmosphere and limits the possibilities otherwise available.
Up to a point, the performance is handicapped. Beyond a point, the performance dies. This is written from experience.
Expectation is inevitable. It is also a prison. It has the characteristic that we neither hear what we expect to hear, nor what is available to be heard. Unless we are able to hold our expectations lightly, and then drop them, we fail to enter the present moment in which the performance unfolds. If we are fortunate enough to enter this moment, we discover it is the eternal moment in which all performance is present.
Those of you kind enough to have read this far may, or not, have a sufficient interest to read much of the large and growing library relating to theories of and commentaries upon performance, the philosophy of music, musical semiotics, the anthropology of music, the psychology of music, the sociology of music, the politics of music, the business of music, the physics of sound, the physiology of hearing, the creation of environmental soundscapes, noise pollution, the function of music, music of different cultures, music sacred and profane, the history of music, music of the conservatory and of the vernacular, even formal musical texts, music criticism and analysis, and textbooks of ear training, harmony and composition.
I have yet to find, in a wide reading over many years, much which approaches the subtleties of performance which are the focus and concern of my own life as a performer. Very little academic literature, while sometimes sharing the same questions, addresses the finer points of my experience. It is probably impossible to prove a subtle action to (even) an enquiring and sceptical audient. This is because subtle action doesn't "exist" in any easily measurable way, or even "exist" at all. Fortunately it is possible, and much easier, to experience the realities and qualities of performance than to provide proof of them. The experiencing is direct and immediate; it is always available, providing we are available to the performance.
Guitar Craft, for example, is one approach which aims to make available direct experience of the musical world to anyone, of whatever level of experience, who is prepared to make an effort to be available to music.
We assume that our artists see things directly and then, through their art, convey to us their insight and their act of seeing. We demand of our artists honesty, and hope for clarity. Their rationalisations and explanations are not as compelling. If any culture is to be healthy, and vital, the opportunity to see through our artists' eyes and hear through their ears is a necessity. But it is not a necessity that we give attention to how our artists rationalise their seeing.
A poet presents their poem, not an essay on what the poem might mean. The listening public who attends live performances may, by consulting their own experience, judge whether any of these remarks resonanate for them.
These comments are presented by a guitarist and aspiring musician, and I apologise to any who are offended by them.
Any culture whose artists are directed or controlled by commercial interests is in mortal danger.
The people of Argentina have been exceptionally kind to me, far more so than I deserve, and the generality of the Argentinean press have made exceptionally generous comments. There have also been two negative reviews of Soundscape performances, coincidentally both from reviewers who arrived at the theatres accompanied by photographers who were not admitted.
Sr. Federico Monjeau, the reviewer and lecturer upon contemporary music, reviewed the Monday performance at the Goethe Institute for the Buenos Aires Clarin of Saturday 8th. April. Sr. Monjeau considered that Fripp's "rigidity and control are not at the service of musical impulses" and concluded that "so much discipline and control seem to be an end in itself rather than a way to achieve an innovative music... Even though they may seem different, there is something in these Soundscapes which still resembles the primitive synthesisers of so-called symphonic rock, with those held chords which once seemed justified by a fascination with technology but which today appear unbearably vulgar".
Sr. Monjeau kindly and generously overlooks my other many weaknesses. Following the publication of Sr. Monjeau's review we promised to present the public of Buenos Aires with an opportunity to confirm his view, assuming their sufficient interest. The Soundscapes on this record, although five days later in the series, meets this commitment.
We perceive our perceptions. That is, what we hear is the quality of our listening. We can only understand to the extent of our understanding. Similarly, the reviewer reviews themself. Some critics are able to see into the heart of a performance and present their seeing: objective, impartial, unbiased and clean. These are good friends to the performer.
These comments were written at the Claymont Mansion, Charles Town, West Virginia, during the fourth Guitar Craft (Application & Assimilation) course, during August 25 - 30th., 1995.
I have been involved in the Claymont project, in various ways, for nearly 21 years. This property was home to the early Guitar Craft courses, beginning in March 1985, for which I am deeply grateful. Claymont was a great place to make mistakes, and an even better place to learn from them. For this I am especially grateful.
At the final meeting of GC (A&A) IV, at 21.53 local time and shortly before the completion of the course, I announced the formal conclusion of my relationship with Claymont.
Average Rating: (From 2 Reviews):
Evocative and challenging Soundscape
From Andrew Mather of LANCASHIRE, England on 8/22/2007 .
Decent Collection of Sounds and Moods
From Joseph McFarland of Manassas, Virginia on 12/8/2005 .
Robert Fripp - The Gates of Paradise


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GRB 970228 was the first gamma-ray burst (GRB) for which an afterglow was observed. It was detected on 28 February 1997 at 02:58 UTC. Since 1993, physicists had predicted GRBs to be followed by a lower-energy afterglow (in wavelengths such as radio waves, x-rays, and even visible light), but until this event, GRBs had only been observed in highly luminous bursts of high-energy gamma rays (the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation); this resulted in large positional uncertainties which left their nature very unclear.

The burst had multiple peaks in its light curve and lasted approximately 80 seconds. Peculiarities in the light curve of GRB 970228 suggested that a supernova may have occurred as well. The position of the burst coincided with a galaxy about 8.1 billion light-years away (a redshift of z = 0.695), providing early evidence that GRBs occur well beyond the Milky Way; this was proven decisively two months later with a subsequent burst GRB 970508.

Observations
A gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. GRBs were first detected in 1967 by the Vela satellites, a series of spacecraft designed to detect nuclear explosions.

GRB 970228 was detected on 28 February 1997 at 02:58 UTC by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) and one of the Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) on board BeppoSAX, an Italian–Dutch satellite originally designed to study X-rays. The burst lasted around 80 seconds and had multiple peaks in its light curve. Gamma-ray bursts have very diverse time profiles, and it is not fully understood why some bursts have multiple peaks and some have only one. One possible explanation is that multiple peaks are formed when the source of the gamma-ray burst undergoes precession.
Within a few hours, the BeppoSAX team used the X-ray detection to determine the burst's position with an error box—a small area around the specific position to account for the error in the position—of 3 arcminutes. The burst was also detected by the Ulysses space probe.

About one and nine days later, optical images of the error box were taken with the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma; comparison of the images revealed a fading point source located at a right ascension of  and a declination of  , providing the first arcsecond-accuracy localization of any Gamma-ray burst.

Later images after the point source faded revealed a faint galaxy at almost the same position, the presumed host galaxy of the burst; a chance position coincidence was unlikely but possible, so the cosmological origin of GRBs was not conclusive until observations of GRB 970508 about two months later.

Afterglow
In 1993, Bohdan Paczyński and James E. Rhoads published an article arguing that, regardless of the type of explosion that causes GRBs, the extreme energetics of GRBs meant that matter from the host body must be ejected at relativistic speeds during the explosion. They predicted that the interaction between the ejecta and interstellar matter would create a shock front. Should this shock front occur in a magnetic field, accelerated electrons in it would emit long-lasting synchrotron radiation in the radio frequencies, a phenomenon that would later be referred to as a radio afterglow. Jonathan Katz later concluded that this lower-energy emission would not be limited to radio waves, but should range in frequency from radio waves to x-rays, including visible light.

The Narrow Field Instruments on board BeppoSAX began making observations of the GRB 970228's position within eight hours of its detection. A transient x-ray source was detected which faded with a power-law slope in the days following the burst. This x-ray afterglow was the first GRB afterglow ever detected. Power-law decays have since been recognized as a common feature in GRB afterglows, although most afterglows decay at differing rates during different phases of their lifetimes.

Optical images were taken of GRB 970228's position on 1 and 8 March using the William Herschel Telescope and the Isaac Newton Telescope. Comparison of the images revealed an object which had decreased in luminosity in both visible light and infrared light. This was the burst's optical afterglow. Deeper follow-up observations using the New Technology Telescope showed that the afterglow coincided with a distant, small galaxy: the first evidence of the extragalactic, cosmological nature of Gamma-ray bursts. After the gamma-ray bursts itself had faded away, very deep observations taken with the Keck telescopes showed the underlying galaxy to have a redshift of 0.695. The predicted radio afterglow was never detected for this burst. At the time of this burst's discovery, GRBs were believed to emit radiation isotropically. The afterglows from this burst and several others—such as GRB 970508 and GRB 971214—provided early evidence that GRBs emit radiation in collimated jets, a characteristic which lowers the total energy output of a burst by several orders of magnitude.

Supernova relation

Daniel Reichart of the University of Chicago and Titus Galama of the University of Amsterdam independently analyzed GRB 970228's optical light curve, both concluding that the host object may have undergone a supernova explosion several weeks before the gamma-ray burst occurred.

Galama analyzed the light curve of the burst and found that its luminosity decayed at different rates at different times. The luminosity decayed more slowly between March 6 and April 7 than it did before and after these dates. Galama concluded that the earlier light curve had been dominated by the burst itself, whereas the later light curve was produced by the underlying Type Ic supernova. Reichart noted that the late afterglow was redder than the early afterglow, an observation which conflicted with the then-preferred relativistic fireball model for the gamma-ray burst emission mechanism. He also observed that the only GRB with a similar temporal profile was GRB 980326, for which a supernova relation had already been proposed by Joshua Bloom.

An alternative explanation for the light curves of GRB 970228 and GRB 980326 involved dust echoes. Although GRB 980326 did not provide enough information to definitively rule out this explanation, Reichart showed that the light curve of GRB 970228 could only have been caused by a supernova. Definitive evidence linking gamma-ray bursts and supernovae was eventually found in the spectrum of GRB 020813 and the afterglow of GRB 030329. However, supernova-like features only become apparent in the weeks following a burst, leaving the possibility that very early luminosity variations could be explained by dust echoes.

Host galaxy
During the night between 12 and 13 March, Jorge Melnick made observations of the region with the New Technology Telescope. He discovered a faint nebular patch at the burst's position, almost certainly a distant galaxy. Although there was a remote chance that the burst and this galaxy were unrelated, their positional coincidence provided strong evidence that GRBs occur in distant galaxies rather than within the Milky Way. This conclusion was later supported by observations of GRB 970508, the first burst to have its redshift determined.

The position of the burst's afterglow was measurably offset from the centroid of the host galaxy, effectively ruling out the possibility that the burst originated in an active galactic nucleus. The redshift of the galaxy was later determined to be z = 0.695, which corresponds to a distance of approximately . At this distance, the burst would have released a total of  assuming isotropic emission.

Notes

References

 Costa, E. et al. (1997a) "IAU Circular 6572: GRB 970228; 1997aa". International Astronomical Union.

 Fox, D. W. et al. (6 May 1997) "IAU Circular 6643: GRB 970228; 1997by". International Astronomical Union.

 Groot, P. J. et al. (12 March 1997) "IAU Circular 6584: GRB 970228". International Astronomical Union.
 Groot, P. J. et al. (14 March 1997) "IAU Circular 6588: GRB 970228". International Astronomical Union.

 Hurley, K. et al. (8 March 1997) "IAU Circular 6578: GRB 970228". International Astronomical Union. Retrieved on 23 February 2010.

 Pedichini, F. et al. (22 April 1997) "IAU Circular 6635: GRB 970228; C/1995 O1". International Astronomical Union.

External links
Gamma-ray Burst 970228
BeppoSAX follow-up observations of the region of the Gamma-ray burst GRB 970228

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Purchasing your first pontoon boat is an exciting time and making the decision to buy used can be a smart one if you take the time to do a bit of research as well as gain knowledge of what to inspect prior to purchase.
Before shopping begins, determine the budget that you want to stay within as pricing can vary based on size, engine, and accessories included and getting caught up in the purchase or being overwhelmed can happy easily.
Decide how many people will be using the boat as well as the size of the body of water the boat will be generally used in as this will determine the size of pontoon boat that should be purchased. Pontoon boats can be as small as 15′ and as large as 30′ – the larger the boat, the larger number of people it can hold and the better it will hold up in rough waters. Bigger isn't better but it does determine what you can do with the boat. Also decide what type of purpose the boat will be used for – recreational, fishing, both? Knowing the answers to these types of questions will help determine what accessories you want to look for as part of the used boat purchase or if these items will need to be purchased separately.
Hull: The most important things to inspect is the hull, or the body of the boat. If the boat is sitting in the water, ask for it to be removed to sit on a trailer so that you can thoroughly do an inspection by walking around the boat and being able to look at the bottom. Look for any cracks or areas that appear to be "fixed", which could eventually lead to leaks and eventually breakdown of the hull.
While inspecting the hull, pay attention to the pontoon logs to make sure they are straight.
Engine: Ask the owner how many hours the engine has on it and request to take the pontoon boat out for a test drive. While out, pay good attention to how the engine sounds and feels when running the boat. While driving, check the gauges and make sure they are stable and not bouncing. Stop and restart the boat to make sure it performs as expected. Physically look at the engine to see if there is any corrosion or indication of oil leaks.
Turn it on: If there a switch, test it. Make sure the bilge pump is working, the lights come on, sound comes from the stereo, etc.
Upholstery / Furniture: Are there any cracks or tears in the upholstery or the stitching edge starting to or is undone? Does the fabric look as though it is sun rotted? If so, all these could mean that the boat was not stored properly when not in the water.
Deck / Flooring: Look for mold or mildew on the deck of the boat as well as any soft spots.
Buying used can save a fair amount of money and if purchasing a pontoon boat for the first time, can be a rewarding purchase for years to come. Plan to spend an adequate amount of time inspecting the boat so that you have peace of mind that the boat is in sound order.


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Author Archives: Timothy Kirk
Sting and Branford Marsalis: "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7GOCzJCCQ
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2013 by Timothy Kirk.
"Why Women Are Leaving Men for Other Women" – Mary A. Fischer
Oprah and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: An Example
Interestingly, the essay begins with the story of how Macarena Gomez-Barris fell in love with Judith Halberstam, but the full import of the text performs a recognizable "homonormalizing" permutation of heteronormativity that provides a compelling example of what Puar describes as "U.S. sexual exceptionalism." Quote:
Sexual exceptionalism also works by glossing over its own policing of the boundaries of acceptable gender, racial, and class formations. That is, homosexual exceptionalism does not necessarily contradict or undermine heterosexual sexual exceptionalism; in actuality it may support forms of heteronormativity and the class, racial, and citizenship privileges they require." (9)
In Terrorist Assemblages Jasbir K. Puar contends that "State of exception discourses
rationalize egregious violence in the name of the preservation of a way of life
and those privileged to live it," and in her summary of Giorgio Agamben's work,
she highlights the intersection between a "biopolitics [that] continually seeks
to redefine the boundaries between life and death" and an American empire's
conception of itself as both "unique" and "universal," a "paradoxical claim" that
has, according to Amy Kaplan, "taken American exceptionalism to new heights" in
its frenzied "war on terror"—to an insidious place that Agamben likens to a
Möbius strip:
The temporality of exception is one that seeks to control itself; the frenzied
mode of emergency is an alibi for the quiet certitude of a slowly normativized
working paradigm of liberal democratic government, an alibi necessary to
disavow its linkages to totalitarian governments. The state of exception thus works
to hide or even deny itself in order to further its expanse, its presence and
efficacy, surfacing only momentarily and with enough gumption to further
legitimize the occupation of more terrain. Agamben likens the externally
internal space of the state of exception to a Möbius strip: at the moment it is cast outside it
becomes the inside" (9).
I Stop Writing the Poem
to fold the clothes. No matter who lives
or who dies, I'm still a woman.
I'll always have plenty to do.
I bring the arms of his shirt
together. Nothing can stop
our tenderness. I'll get back
to the poem. I'll get back to being
a woman. But for now
there's a shirt, a giant shirt
in my hands, and somewhere a small girl
standing next to her mother
watching to see how it's done.
Tess Gallagher
Thought this was interesting . . .
The symbol for Relationship Anarchy (RA, sometimes known as "Radical Relations") was created by the Swedish radical art collective "Interacting Arts" in 2006 as a symbol for those who reject normative ideas of how relationships "should" be organized.
Genderqueer Identities
I came across this website today and thought it was pertinent to our continuing dialogue about "queer identities" with "no fixed referent."
http://genderqueerid.com/gqhistory
Ferron's "Shadows on a Dime" – interview
Halberstam – What's That Smell?:
"Ferron's songs have always been about time passing, about her place in time, her sense of her career in music as 'moving forward by holding back." I want to end with a closer look at one of her most famous songs, 'Shadows on a Dime,' to track the performances and performers who lie somewhere in between the 'then' of historical time and the 'now' of performance, the temporal drag and lag that allows some pieces of history to simply fall away and remain lost to narrative. Ferron represents what can be lost even for white lesbians in the relentless urge to universalize white lesbian culture and represent it as historically continuous" (183).


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Angel's Fantastic Journey, which is WIP. The purpose of this project is to create a kid-friendly themed MMO (for PC and Tablet) that offers gameplay elements available in current MMORPG games. It is in a pre-alpha state with many updates coming. This project is developing by a single person.