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Jhansi: Historical Wonders
Jhansi is a city located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India and is of great historical importance which has found its way into textbooks and folklore alike. A fort that was built here on a rocky hilltop in 1610 gave birth to this city that is a witness to India's independence struggle as well as the onslaught of Islamic invaders. The remnants of civilization here can be traced back to the 9th century when the ruler of Rajput Chandela dynasty of Khajuraho reigned over the city. The city saw the constant Islamic invasions in the 1700's which resulted in a treaty between the Marathas and the local Bundela rulers. After thwarting the Mughal attacks, the city came under the British imperialist yoke in 1853.
The historical events that took place here have not only left behind monuments, forts and cenotaphs but also the names of people who struggled against injustice and fought for the freedom of their country. The district of Jhansi was ruled by Raja Gangadhar Rao in the 1830's who married Rani Laxmibai but subsequently died without leaving an heir. The East India Company, under Governor-general, installed the Doctrine of Lapse and annexed Jhansi, leaving Rani Laxmibai penniless. When words and letters failed to persuade the East India Company to return the territory to Rani Laxmibai, she launched a brave albeit naïve attack against the East India Company. Her inevitable martyrdom took place near Jhansi near the city Gwalior after two days of battle on 18 June 1958.
Jhansi Fort:
This fort is one of the most important edifices that laid the foundations of this city and was built in 1613. Located on the outskirts of Jhansi, it is built on a huge hilltop called Bangara and was the residence of Rani Laxmibai. The fort is unique in nature, in that it has several temples and ten gates along with a cannon that was used in the uprising of 1857. The Jhansi fort is located near the Rani Mahal which roughly translated means the "residence of the queen", which is also worth a visit. The fort itself is sprawled over 15 acres and is a colossal structure about 300 meters in length and 200 meters in width.
Rani Mahal
The Rani Mahal was built in the late 1700's by the Nawalkar family and became one of the residences of Rani Laxmibai. This two storeyed building has a fountain and a courtyard. The palace itself has numerous small rooms and is adorned with arches and the Durbar Hall is decorated with paintings of flora and fauna. Even though the arches are embellished with peacock and rosette patterns, most of the art and architecture was destroyed during the war for independence.
Deogarh is a small village located about 123 Km from Jhansi and has numerous Jain and Hindu temples. The monuments which are known as Gupta monuments are located in a fort on the banks of the Betwa River and have exquisite and intricate carvings of Hindu Gods and goddesses. Deogarh is located near the border of Gwalior and is famous for its Dashavatara temple which is adorned with numerous beautiful carvings of Hindu gods and goddesses. Many epic stories involving the various gods have been portrayed in these carvings and although much of the temple is in a dilapidated condition, the art is mesmerizing and striking.
The fort is a circular structure the west gate and the east gates are the most notable monuments that adorn the fort. There are three Ghats which approach the Betwa river and have immense archeological significance. Sculptural activity from the 6th century is present here in the form of Matrika statues which are considered to be an important archeological find. The eastern part of the fort has numerous Jain temples and according to the Archeological survey of India, there are 31 Jain temples of different sizes. However, many temples and carvings were destroyed by Islamic invaders and also fell prey to neglect and now lie in a dilapidated state. However, there are many carvings which are important archeological finds that makes this place unique in nature.
Orchha is a town that lies on the banks of the Betwa river and is only 15 Km from Jhansi. It is famous for its palace fort and cenotaphs or chattris. The fort is a structure made up of connected buildings which were built during various periods. The most notable are the Jahangir Mahal and the Rajmandir; the latter has projecting windows with domes along the summit and the former is said to be one of the most beautiful specimen of Hindu architecture.
Jhansi is a city that has been a mute witness to many struggles including imperialism, Islamic invasion, and famines. However the ability to overcome these hurdles has made the city a place of historical importance and archeological wonders. The fact that the famous Khajuraho temples are also located approx. 100 miles (which attract thousands of tourists every year) from this city makes Jhansi a must-visit destination in India.
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Overview
--------

The mod_wsgi package provides an Apache module that implements a WSGI
compliant interface for hosting Python based web applications on top of the
Apache web server.

Installation of mod_wsgi from source code can be performed in one of two
ways.

The first way of installing mod_wsgi is the traditional way that has been
used by many software packages. This is where it is installed as a module
directly into your Apache installation using the commands ``configure``,
``make`` and ``make install``, a method sometimes referred to by the
acronym CMMI. This method works with most UNIX type systems. It cannot
be used on Windows.

The second way of installing mod_wsgi is to install it as a Python package
into your Python installation using the Python ``pip install`` command.
This can be used on all platforms, including Windows.

This second way of installing mod_wsgi will compile not only the Apache
module for mod_wsgi, but will also install a Python module and admin
script, which on UNIX type systems can be used to start up a standalone
instance of Apache directly from the command line with an auto generated
configuration.

This later mechanism for installing mod_wsgi using Python ``pip`` is a much
simpler way of getting starting with hosting your Python web application.
In particular, this installation method makes it very easy to use
Apache/mod_wsgi in a development environment without the need to perform
any Apache configuration yourself.

The Apache module for mod_wsgi created when using the ``pip install``
method can still be used with the main Apache installation, via manual
configuration if necessary. As detailed later in these instructions, the
admin script installed when you use ``pip install`` can be used to generate
the configuration to manually add to the Apache configuration to load
mod_wsgi.

Note that although MacOS X is a UNIX type system, the ``pip install``
method is the only supported way for installing mod_wsgi.

Since MacOS X Sierra, Apple has completely broken the ability to install
third party Apache modules using the ``apxs`` tool normally used for this
task. History suggests that Apple will never fix the problem as they have
broken things in the past in other ways and workarounds were required as
they never fixed those problems either. This time there is no easy
workaround as they no longer supply certain tools which are required to
perform the installation.

The ``pip install`` method along with the manual configuration of Apache
is also the method you need to use on Windows.

System Requirements
-------------------

With either installation method for mod_wsgi, you must have Apache
installed. This must be a complete Apache installation. It is not enough to
have only the runtime packages for Apache installed. You must have the
corresponding development package for Apache installed, which contains the
Apache header files, as these are required to be able to compile and install
third party Apache modules.

Similarly with Python, you must have a complete Python installation which
includes the corresponding development package, which contains the header
files for the Python library.

If you are running Debian or Ubuntu Linux with Apache 2.2 system packages,
and were using the Apache prefork MPM you would need both:

* apache2-mpm-prefork
* apache2-prefork-dev

If instead you were using the Apache worker MPM, you would need both:

* apache2-mpm-worker
* apache2-threaded-dev

If you are running Debian or Ubuntu Linux with Apache 2.4 system packages,
regardless of which Apache MPM is being used, you would need both:

* apache2
* apache2-dev

If you are running RHEL, CentOS or Fedora, you would need both:

* httpd
* httpd-devel

If you are using the Software Collections Library (SCL) packages with
RHEL, CentOS or Fedora, you would need:

* httpd24
* httpd24-httpd-devel

If you are running MacOS X, Apache is supplied with the operating system.
If running a recent MacOS X version, you will though need to have the Xcode
command line tools installed as well as the Xcode application. The command
line tools can be installed by running ``xcode-select --install``. The
Xcode application can be installed from the MacOS X App Store. If you are
using older MacOS X versions, you may be able to get away with having just
the command line tools.

If you are running Windows, it is recommended you use the Apache
distribution from Apache Lounge (www.apachelounge.com). Other Apache
distributions for Windows aren't always complete and are missing the files
needed to compile additional Apache modules. By default, it is expected
that Apache is installed in the directory ``C:/Apache24`` on Windows.

If you are on Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system and can't
or don't want to use the system package for Apache, you can use ``pip``
to install mod_wsgi, but you should use use the ``mod_wsgi-standalone``
package on PyPi instead of the ``mod_wsgi`` package.

Installation into Apache
------------------------

For installation directly into your Apache installation using the CMMI
method, see the full documentation at:

* http://www.modwsgi.org/

Alternatively, use the following instructions to install mod_wsgi into your
Python installation and then either copy the mod_wsgi module into your
Apache installation, or configure Apache to use the mod_wsgi module from
the Python installation.

When using this approach, you will still need to manually configure Apache
to have mod_wsgi loaded into Apache, and for it to know about your WSGI
application.

Installation into Python
------------------------

To install mod_wsgi directly into your Python installation, from within the
source directory of the mod_wsgi package you can run::

    python setup.py install

This will compile mod_wsgi and install the resulting package into your
Python installation.

If wishing to install an official release direct from the Python Package
Index (PyPi), you can instead run::

    pip install mod_wsgi

If you wish to use a version of Apache which is installed into a non
standard location, you can set and export the ``APXS`` environment variable
to the location of the Apache ``apxs`` script for your Apache installation
before performing the installation.

If you are using Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system, and you
don't have Apache available, you can instead install mod_wsgi using::

    pip install mod_wsgi-standalone

When installing ``mod_wsgi-standalone``, it will also install a version
of Apache into your Python distribution. You can only use ``mod_wsgi-express``
when using this variant of the package. The ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package
follows the same version numbering as the ``mod_wsgi`` package on PyPi.

If you are on Windows and your Apache distribution is not installed into
the directory ``C:/Apache24``, first set the environment variable
``MOD_WSGI_APACHE_ROOTDIR`` to the directory containing the Apache
distribution. Ensure you use forward slashes in the directory path. The
directory path should not include path components with spaces in the name.

Note that nothing will be copied into your Apache installation at this
point. As a result, you do not need to run this as the root user unless
installing it into a site wide Python installation rather than a Python
virtual environment. It is recommended you always use Python virtual
environments and never install any Python package directly into the system
Python installation.

On a UNIX type system, to verify that the installation was successful, run
the ``mod_wsgi-express`` script with the ``start-server`` command::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server

This will start up Apache/mod_wsgi on port 8000. You can then verify that
the installation worked by pointing your browser at::

    http://localhost:8000/

When started in this way, the Apache web server will stay in the
foreground. To stop the Apache server, use CTRL-C.

For a simple WSGI application contained in a WSGI script file called
``wsgi.py``, in the current directory, you can now run::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server wsgi.py

This instance of the Apache web server will be completely independent of,
and will not interfere with any existing instance of Apache you may have
running on port 80.

If you already have another web server running on port 8000, you can
override the port to be used using the ``--port`` option::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server wsgi.py --port 8080

For a complete list of options you can run::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server --help

For further information related to using ``mod_wsgi-express`` see the main
mod_wsgi documentation.

Non standard Apache installations
---------------------------------

Many Linux distributions have a tendency to screw around with the standard
Apache Software Foundation layout for installation of Apache. This can
include renaming the Apache ``httpd`` executable to something else, and in
addition to potentially renaming it, replacing the original binary with a
shell script which performs additional actions which can only be performed
as the ``root`` user.

In the case of the ``httpd`` executable simply being renamed, the
executable will obviously not be found and ``mod_wsgi-express`` will fail
to start at all.

In this case you should work out what the ``httpd`` executable was renamed
to and use the ``--httpd-executable`` option to specify its real location.

For example, if ``httpd`` was renamed to ``apache2``, you might need to use::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server wsgi.py --httpd-executable=/usr/sbin/apache2

In the case of the ``httpd`` executable being replaced with a shell script
which performs additional actions before then executing the original
``httpd`` executable, and the shell script is failing in some way, you will
need to use the location of the original ``httpd`` executable the shell
script is in turn executing.

Running mod_wsgi-express as root
--------------------------------

The primary intention of ``mod_wsgi-express`` is to make it easier for
users to run up Apache on non privileged ports, especially during the
development of a Python web application. If you want to be able to run
Apache using ``mod_wsgi-express`` on a privileged port such as the standard
port 80 used by HTTP servers, then you will need to run
``mod_wsgi-express`` as root. In doing this, you will need to perform
additional steps.

The first thing you must do is supply the ``--user`` and ``--group``
options to say what user and group your Python web application should run
as. Most Linux distributions will predefine a special user for Apache to
run as, so you can use that. Alternatively you can use any other special
user account you have created for running the Python web application::

    mod_wsgi-express start-server wsgi.py --port=80 \
        --user www-data --group www-data

This approach to running ``mod_wsgi-express`` will be fine so long as you
are using a process supervisor which expects the process being run to remain
in the foreground and not daemonize.

If however you are directly integrating into the system init scripts where
separate start and stop commands are expected, with the executing process
expected to be daemonized, then a different process is required to setup
``mod_wsgi-express``.

In this case, instead of simply using the ``start-server`` command to
``mod_wsgi-express`` you should use ``setup-server``::

    mod_wsgi-express setup-server wsgi.py --port=80 \
        --user www-data --group www-data \
        --server-root=/etc/mod_wsgi-express-80

In running this command, it will not actually startup Apache. All it will do
is create the set of configuration files and the startup script to be run.

So that these are not created in the default location of a directory under
``/tmp``, you should use the ``--server-root`` option to specify where they
should be placed.

Having created the configuration and startup script, to start the Apache
instance you can now run::

    /etc/mod_wsgi-express-80/apachectl start

To subsequently stop the Apache instance you can run::

    /etc/mod_wsgi-express-80/apachectl stop

You can also restart the Apache instance as necessary using::

    /etc/mod_wsgi-express-80/apachectl restart

Using this approach, the original options you supplied to ``setup-server``
will be cached with the same configuration used each time. If you need to
update the set of options, run ``setup-server`` again with the new set of
options.

Note that even taking all these steps, it is possible that running up
Apache as ``root`` using ``mod_wsgi-express`` may fail on systems where
SELinux extensions are enabled. This is because the SELinux profile may not
match what is being expected for the way that Apache is being started, or
alternatively, the locations that Apache has been specified as being
allowed to access, don't match where the directory specified using the
``--server-root`` directory was placed. You may therefore need to configure
SELinux or move the directory used with ``--server-root`` to an allowed
location.

In all cases, any error messages will be logged to a file under the server
root directory. If you are using ``mod_wsgi-express`` with a process
supervisor, or in a container, where log messages are expected to be sent
to the terminal, you can use the ``--log-to-terminal`` option.

Using mod_wsgi-express with Django
----------------------------------

To use ``mod_wsgi-express`` with Django, after having installed the
mod_wsgi package into your Python installation, edit your Django settings
module and add ``mod_wsgi.server`` to the list of installed apps.

::

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'django.contrib.admin',
        'django.contrib.auth',
        'django.contrib.contenttypes',
        'django.contrib.sessions',
        'django.contrib.messages',
        'django.contrib.staticfiles',
        'mod_wsgi.server',
    )

To prepare for running ``mod_wsgi-express``, ensure that you first collect
up any Django static file assets into the directory specified for them in
the Django settings file::

    python manage.py collectstatic

You can now run the Apache server with mod_wsgi hosting your Django
application by running::

    python manage.py runmodwsgi

If working in a development environment and you would like to have any code
changes automatically reloaded, then you can use the ``--reload-on-changes``
option.

::

    python manage.py runmodwsgi --reload-on-changes

If wanting to have Apache started as root in order to listen on port 80,
instead of using ``mod_wsgi-express setup-server`` as described above,
use the ``--setup-only`` option to the ``runmodwsgi`` management command.

::

    python manage.py runmodwsgi --setup-only --port=80 \
        --user www-data --group www-data \
        --server-root=/etc/mod_wsgi-express-80

This will set up all the required files and you can use ``apachectl`` to
start and stop the Apache instance as explained previously.

Connecting into Apache installation
-----------------------------------

If you want to use mod_wsgi in combination with your system Apache
installation, the CMMI method for installing mod_wsgi would normally be
used.

If you are on MacOS X Sierra that is no longer possible. Even prior to
MacOS X Sierra, the System Integrity Protection (SIP) system of MacOS X,
prevented installing the mod_wsgi module into the Apache modules directory.

If you are using Windows, the CMMI method was never supported as Windows
doesn't supply the required tools to make it work.

The CMMI installation method also involves a bit more work as you need to
separately download the mod_wsgi source code, run the ``configure`` tool
and then run ``make`` and ``make install``.

The alternative to using the CMMI installation method is to use the Apache
mod_wsgi module created by running ``pip install``. This can be directly
referenced from the Apache configuration, or copied into the Apache modules
directory.

To use the Apache mod_wsgi module from where ``pip install`` placed it,
run the command ``mod_wsgi-express module-config``. This will output
something like::

    LoadModule wsgi_module /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mod_wsgi/server/mod_wsgi-py27.so
    WSGIPythonHome /usr/local/lib

These are the directives needed to configure Apache to load the mod_wsgi
module and tell mod_wsgi where the Python installation directory or virtual
environment was located.

This would be placed in the Apache ``httpd.conf`` file, or if using a Linux
distribution which separates out module configuration into a
``mods-available`` directory, in the ``wsgi.load`` file within the
``mods-available`` directory. In the latter case where a ``mods-available``
directory is used, the module would then be enabled by running
``a2enmod wsgi`` as ``root``. If necessary Apache can then be restarted to
verify the module is loading correctly. You can then configure Apache as
necessary for your specific WSGI application.

Note that because in this scenario the mod_wsgi module for Apache could be
located in a Python virtual environment, if you destroy the Python virtual
environment the module will also be deleted. In that case you would need to
ensure you recreate the Python virtual environment and reinstall the
mod_wsgi package using ``pip``, or, take out the mod_wsgi configuration
from Apache before restarting Apache, else it will fail to startup.

Instead of referencing the mod_wsgi module from the Python installation,
you can instead copy the mod_wsgi module into the Apache installation. To
do that, run the ``mod_wsgi-express install-module`` command, running it as
``root`` if necessary. This will output something like::

    LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi-py27.so
    WSGIPythonHome /usr/local/lib

This is similar to above except that the mod_wsgi module was copied to the
Apache modules directory first and the ``LoadModule`` directive references
it from that location. You should take these lines and configure Apache in
the same way as described above.

Do note that copying the module like this will not work on recent versions
of MacOS X due to the SIP feature of MacOS X.

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Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Listen to Something For Nothing
Roaring out of the southern Indiana foothills comes Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band playing a brand of Americana and Blues that stands alone - Delta blues and hillbilly fervor combine with musical acuity sharp as razor wire - best know, this trio is a force to be reckoned with. The growl of a good truck engine, the fiercest passion for his country home and family and an uncanny ability to breathe new life into old forms of music give them a pedigree many Americana acts would kill for and an ironclad work ethic keeps them on the road 250 dates a year, playing for the people with hurricane force. Locked in with an audience, the band create their own community and welcome the crowd into it, transporting them away from their troubles to joyous release, the way great musicians have done for centuries. The Rev. J. Peyton, his wife Breezy and distant cousin Aaron "Cuz" Persinger are a living breathing embodiment of the traditions and hard work ethic native to their Brown County, Indiana home. Their new album Between The Ditches is a chronicle of this lifestyle.
With a reputation for their incendiary live shows well established, The Big Damn Band set out to make the album that would finally capture the same heat. Recorded at White Arc Studio in Bloomington, Indiana, the album was produced by The Rev. Peyton and Paul Mahern (John Mellencamp, Iggy Pop), and mastered by Brian Lucey (Black Keys, Dr. John, Shins). For previous albums, the band had recorded live, straight through in the same mode as a live show. Between the Ditches came together more slowly, with care. "We approached it saying we were going to make a record this time, not just a recording," explained the Rev. He used a different guitar set up on almost every track, employing two '30s National guitars, a cigar box guitar, a custom shop Gibson flattop 1929 L2 and an Airline map electric guitar. The primary amps are custom Weber amps made by Weber speakers – both are one of a kind.
Their fifth album, Between The Ditches features a new level of craftmanship in both recording technique and songwriting. The Rev. feels that it's their best album to date."I'm very proud of this album, the songwriting and the playing." The guitar playing alone should put the Rev. in the same class with his much revered idols. The songwriting boasts an added maturity and runs the gamut in subject matter from the barn burning, tongue in cheek, "Shut the Screen", (where "It's too dang hot and the bugs are too dang mean") to the evils of strip mining, an issue close to the hearts of this Indiana born and bred band in, "Don't Grind It Down". There seems to be a theme expressed throughout the album and stated clearly in their first single,"Devils Look Like Angels": "Devil don't live down in hell, the devil's right here doing very well".
" Burn up some backroads, drive up to the store
They just don't make 'em like this anymore"
Rev Peyton's first introduction to music was his father's record collection of blues-oriented rock. At age 12 his father gave him a Kay brand guitar, eventually purchasing a Gorilla amplifier once he learned to play. And play he did. He became infatuated with pre-World War II country blues, and a desire to learn the fingerstyle picking of artists like Charlie Patton. Fingerstyle refers to using each of the right hand fingers independently in order to play the multiple parts of a musical arrangement that would normally be played by several band members. Bass, harmonic accompaniment, melody, and percussion can all be played simultaneously when playing fingerstyle.
Keith Richards has said that the first time he heard Robert Johnson's recordings he asked "Who's the other guy playing with him?" Of course there wasn't one. When you listen to the songs on Between The Ditches you will be hard pressed to believe it is only one guitarist.
"Nothing's really free
It all comes with a fee"
Misfortune struck the Rev. early on in the form of a dehabilitating condition that caused excruciating pain in his hands. Doctors told Peyton he'd never be able to hold his left hand in fretting position again. But he persevered and when the bandages were removed, Peyton discovered a new flexibility and greater control in his fretting hand that enabled him to play in the fingerstyle that he longed to play.
"If it's me with you
Then we'll get through"
It was during his convalescence that he met his wife to be, Breezy. "I was crazy in love with her right from the start". He credits Breezy with installing a confidence in his playing and his life in general that he had previously lacked. Breezy Peyton's explosive washboard playing, sweet back-up vocals and striking good looks didn't hurt their live show either.
Completing the trio is cousin Aaron Persinger on drums. "He's a human metronome", says the Rev. Persinger's drum kit gives new meaning to the term 'stripped down' and features a plastic 5 gallon bucket, for which he has a sponsorship deal for replacements. With their line-up finalized the band sold everything they owned in a garage sale and headed out on the open road.
"I've been broke down (BROKE DOWN) from sea to shining sea
You've been everywhere, I've been broke down there
And three times in Tennessee"
In 2009, they toured opening for Clutch, an extensive headlining tour of Europe and began their relationship with the Van's Warped Tour, playing 12 dates in 2009 on the Kevin Says stage. They were on the entire 2010 Van's Warped Tour on the Alternative Press stage and they received the Best Band of Warped Tour award, voted by the crew, bands, and promoters. They've also toured with Flogging Molly, Rev. Horton Heat, Derek Trucks and Mofro just to name a few.
"Keep it between the ditches"
This band is fun sure, a lot of fun, but they are for real. From virtuoso musicianship to great songwriting, Between The Ditches has got it all. All from a little Brown County, Indiana band that's got the nerve (and the right) to call themselves, Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band!
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The show at Continental Club on Friday, March 15
7:00PM Kool and Together
8:00PM The Whiskey Sisters
9:00PM Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
10:00PM Jason D. Williams
11:00PM Jon Dee Graham
12:00AM Carolyn Wonderland
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I am wrapping up my second interim this week and will probably start another interim later this summer. What a joy to serve among the people of Christ the Servant and I am excited to see how they move forward in ministry with the leadership of their new pastor.
Her question plucked a emotional string within me. At one time in my ministry I definitely wanted to have "my own church." The thought appealed to my ego and my desire to be in charge. However, when I had the opportunity to lead a congregation, I discovered that though I liked the title and some of the challenges in leading a congregation, my heart was restless and troubled. Upon prayerful reflection, I learned that I was "over-identifying" with the congregation and tying my personal worth into the successes and missteps of the congregation. When the congregation felt good, I was good; if the congregation felt down, I was down.
When I stepped into interim ministry I was able to detach these emotional strings that I had created. As an interim pastor I have a "lighter" touch on the congregation, relying heavily on the lay leadership to guide the congregation. I am both a consultant who comes from the outside and can observe the current behavior and mission of the congregation while also being a pastor who steps into the community to shepherd them during the interim. As my trainer said, "An interim pastor has one foot in the system and one foot outside the system." Also my heart is not as restless and my mind is more fully engaged in the community. I believe that this is my calling from God for this stage of my ministry.
I am thankful that God has provided a variety of gifts within the church. I am thankful for those pastors, deacons and lay professional who can faithfully serve many years in one congregation, guiding them into deeper levels of vital ministry. I am also thankful for the calling I now have, to guide congregations through the transitions between such settle pastors. The body of Christ needs all the gifts to be healthy and vibrant.
How are you using your spiritual gifts?
This entry was posted in Spiritual Emotions, Uncategorized, vocation and tagged Christ the Servant, interim ministry, pastor, Spiritual gifts on June 21, 2017 by Pastor John Keller.
Recently I posted on my decision to leave as Lead Pastor of Resurrection. Today I am writing about my decision to train for interim ministry.
I was introduced to transitions twenty years ago with William Bridges book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life Changes. Bridges describes every transition as having three parts.
Each part needs attention. For example, right now I am in the midst of an ending as I prepare to leave Resurrection. Ending always have some element of grief and pain, even when they are chosen endings. Bridges writes "Those who had chosen their transitions tended to minimize the importance of endings, almost as if they felt that to acknowledge that an ending was painful would be to admit that the transition was a mistake." Leaving a group of people who you love is hard.
The second part of a transition is often neglected in our instant society. People and congregations like to rush immediately to the new beginning. "Let's call a new pastor as soon as possible!" Sometimes a congregation is ready to call a new pastor. Often they are not.
Before rushing to the new beginning, individuals and congregations need to pause and assess where they are and what God is doing. Bridges calls this time "The Neutral Zone." I prefer to call it "The Wilderness Time," remembering both the wilderness stories of Exodus and Jesus. The Israelites spent forty years between the time they left slavery in Egypt and prior to their new start in the land of Canaan. They wandered in the wilderness. Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness after his baptism. His was a time of intense prayer as to what his ministry would be.
Intentional Interim Ministry is for the wilderness time in a congregation's life. When a long-tenured pastor leaves, an interim pastor is hired to serve a short contract (6-18 months) to shepherd the congregation through a time of assessment as it prepares to call a new pastor. These "temporary shepherds" may need to deal with certain issues (past conflict, neglect, staff concerns to name just a few) as well as help the leadership prepare for their next pastor.
I sense a call to this kind of intense but short-duration ministry. My own prayer life is centered on the phrase, "Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10. During an interim a congregation needs to be still and discover whose they are. I believe I have the wisdom, experience, patience and pastoral skills to assist congregations during their transition. Time will tell.
I will start the specialized training for Intentional Interim Ministry on Monday, October 26. Prayers appreciated.
This entry was posted in Beginnings, ending, Jesus, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Uncategorized, vocation and tagged interim ministry, transition on October 6, 2015 by Pastor John Keller.
Martin was a cobbler, a man who made shoes. Most of us take shoes for granted, especially if they are work shoes or everyday shoes, the kind Martin made. Oh he could make your fancy dress shoes, your party shoes, your "lets-get-everyone-to-notice-me" shoes but he preferred to make simple, dependable shoes. Now don't get me wrong, his shoes were not ugly. In fact they were quite beautiful in a simple, unadorned way. And they were popular. Martin had plenty of people coming to his shop everyday to buy his shoes and he enjoyed his work.
In the evening he would walk home and he would get a kick spotting his shoes on the people he passed. "There is a pair," he would say to himself "there is another." He felt a certain satisfaction that his work kept people happy.
On Sunday, Martin would go to church with his family, as was his custom. He sang, he prayed, he talked with fellow members. Occasionally he would spot a pair of his shoes. Martin was grateful to God for this community of faith. He found strength and comfort in being with other Christians.
One Sunday, while in church, as he listened to the sermon, he felt a sudden inspiration. He had always wanted a way to express his faith in Jesus in a more tangible, direct way. Words were always awkward for him. He knew he was no preacher. Still he wanted to do something for God.
The next day he got to work. He tried different styles and materials for the cross. He tried copper and iron, wood and leather. He tried big crosses and little crosses. He put them on the front of the shoe and the back of the shoe. He wanted the cross to be perfect because he wanted to express his love of Jesus in that cross.
As he added the cross to his shoes, he expected his customers to comment or ask questions about the shoe cross. Only a few did. Most customers asked about fit, comfort and durability, questions they always asked when they bought shoes. Still Martin would not be deterred. He continued to invest time and thought into the crosses he made. He wanted to make a good impression.
But he was particularly struck that many of his fellow church member were not wearing his shoes. Were they offended by the cross? This gnawed at him for several weeks, until finally after church one Sunday, he asked one of his former customers , Pete.
And then it dawned on Martin. He had become so focused on making crosses for his shoes that he had cut corners on the shoes themselves. He checked this out with other former customers and they concurred with Pete. Martin's shoes were not as good as before.
The next day Martin took all the elaborate crosses he had made and put them in a bottom drawer. He refocused himself on making simple, comfortable, durable shoes. And inside each pair, hidden from view, he sewed a simple leather cross, to remind himself that as he served his customers he was serving Jesus.
This entry was posted in story, Uncategorized, vocation and tagged cross on March 21, 2014 by Pastor John Keller.
When I was called to Resurrection Lutheran Church two and a half years ago, the call committee had a key question for me, "how will you handle the present staff?" They were concerned that as the new lead pastor I might want to make immediate radical changes to the staff. I told the call committee that I wanted first to discover the staff's unique gifts and contributions to the congregation before any changes.
I quickly discovered that the staff was and is talented and dedicated. They each had something to contribute. Perhaps the most notable was the only other full-time employee, Sarah Storvick.
Sarah started working at Resurrection part-time as the Director of Children's Ministry in April, 1998, overseeing the Sunday School ministry. She brought great creativity and compassion to her work. She cared about each of the children who attended, calling them by name and encouraging their growth in grace. She coordinated Vacation Bible Adventure, First Communion instruction and Camp Wapogasset participation. Over the years her responsibilities grew and she has expanded into confirmation and adult ministries. She not only embraced the mission of calling all people to a Vibrant Life of Faith in Christ, but exemplified what the Vibrant Life looks like. She became a full-time employee in 2010 and was most recently commissioned as the Minister of Congregational Life.
The executives who ignited transformations from good to great did not first figure out where to drive the bus and then get people to take it there. No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it (Good to Great, p. 41).
The first thing the apostles did after Jesus ascended into heaven was to select who would take Judas' place as one of the twelve apostles (Acts 1:12-26). They needed to determine who was on the bus of Jesus' continued mission.
I am so thankful to have Sarah on the bus of Resurrection. Her steadfast commitment, her dry sense of humor, her compassion and vibrant faith all contribute so much to the ongoing mission of Resurrection. She has even gracious written for my blog when I was away. Tomorrow (Sunday, April 21) Resurrection will celebrate Sarah's ministry during our Sunday morning worship. Thank you, Sarah, for faithfully serving our Lord Jesus among the people of Resurrection. We are blessed to have you in our midst.
Lord Jesus, thank you for the ministry of Sarah Storvick.
This entry was posted in Jesus, Resurrection Lutheran Church, service, vocation and tagged Acts 1, Good to Great, Jim Collins, Sarah Storvick on April 20, 2013 by Pastor John Keller.
Yesterday was Youth Sunday at Resurrection and I was a very thankful pastor as I watched our youth sing, pray, read, welcome and preach. Here are my top five reasons for celebrating Youth Sunday.
1. The opportunity to celebrate talent. The youth of Resurrection are blessed by God with incredible talent that needs to be shared. Like any member, they could do this any Sunday, but Youth Sunday gives them the excuse or reason to do this with their peers' support. The whole congregation, young and old, can celebrate together.
2. Parents can rejoice with their children. Parents of high school youth know that their children need to start the process of differentiation – separating from their parents. This includes making their Christian faith their own. But this can be painful for the parents to watch. The celebration of Youth Sunday gives parents a moment to see the faith being handed down to a new generation without directly pushing their children into it.
3. Young children are given aspirations and models. Young elementary age children see older siblings/peers/teenagers participate in a special way within the life of the church. This participation can spark such aspirations in them to perform in the worship band or read scripture or present the children's message. Also parents of young children see and hear how the ministry of this congregation has impacted its youth, giving them reasons for their family to be actively involved.
4. Mentors share their gifts. Yesterday was a real celebration for John Moore, a member of our worship team, who for the past six months has coached and directed the youth band as it prepared for yesterday's worship service. He and the band did an outstanding job. Our youth director Hannah Koehler also had the opportunity to directly mentor students as they participated in leadership roles in worship.
5. Pastor try-outs. This one is personal for me. As high school junior I had the opportunity to preach at my home congregation. Though my preaching on the "Population Bomb and Environmentalism" was strange and controversial, the affirmations I received were part of my process of discerning my call as a pastor. Though our youth can serve God's kingdom in a wide variety of vocations (see here), the church will need good pastors, youth directors and music directors in the future and I am praying that God will call some of the youth of Resurrection Lutheran Church to serve in this way. God continues to call forth his servants to serve among us.
What are some others reasons to support Youth Sunday?
Lord Jesus, I am thankful that you call all ages to follow you, including our youth.
This entry was posted in Preaching, Resurrection Lutheran Church, vocation, worship and tagged Parent, pastor, Youth Sunday on April 15, 2013 by Pastor John Keller.
Yesterday was Resurrection Lutheran Church's annual Faith In Action Day. Over 200 volunteers worked on a wide variety of service projects. From making snack kits for children-in-need and kitchen packs for families in transitions to serving meals at local food shelters, we honored and celebrated one part of our mission statement: To Serve the world God loves. I wrote about my first experience with Faith In Action day here.
It was a day that both encouraged and humbled me as a pastor. I was extremely proud to see children, youth, and adults using their gifts, talents and dependable strengths to help their neighbor. I felt like a cheerleader, supporting all the good works. I was also humbled because I realized that so much of the good that members do does not require a pastor, but rather the power of the Holy Spirit. I am so thankful for the team of lay members, led by Terri Dokken, who coordinated the fifteen projects we worked on.
In my sermon, I talked about two kinds of good works. The first is the kind we experienced on Sunday, volunteer good works. As volunteers we do something directly to help our neighbor in need. We pack food at Feed our Starving Children or pound nails at Habitat for Humanity. These are valuable experiences where we learn about the needs of others and actually practice service in a tangible way. Plus it builds a sense of community and identity as old and new member work side-by-side.
But there is the second kind of good work, the daily good work, where we love our neighbor in our daily activity. A mom or dad who taxis the children to their daily activities, a nurse or doctor who treats patients, a social worker who aids families in caring for an aging parent: all of these can be considered good work. Some good works become our vocation or career. Hopefully as Christians we see our career as a way to serve others, either directly or indirectly. I have written regarding daily work on other posts: here and here.
Lord Jesus, help us to walk in the good works you have prepared for us.
This entry was posted in Bible, Resurrection Lutheran Church, service, Uncategorized, vocation and tagged Ephesians 2:10, Faith in action, good works, Volunteering on April 8, 2013 by Pastor John Keller.
This week starts a new ministry at Resurrection called Four Square, named after the popular playground game. The four squares of the ministry are explore, play, serve and grow. The children will explore the Bible, serve various needs in the community, play games like four square, and grow in their faith and relationship. Today they actually painted a Nine-Square court in the church parking lot for all to use.
The "play" part of Four Square made me think of a comment that I explored somewhat last year. The idea is that in our American culture we confuse worship, work and play. We worship our work, work at play and play at worship. I know that I can be guilt of each attribute at times.
First we tend to worship our work. Especially men in our society can make their careers the center of their lives. Our whole identity can revolve around our careers and how successful we are within it. Careers often have a clear hierarchy of who is moving up the ladder and who is not. Though God calls us to work in God's creation, God does not call us to place our career success at the center of our lives. I confess that I can place MY pastoral status ahead of my faithfulness to God's mission and calling. "Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be yours as well" (Matthew 6:33).
Second we can work at our play. In our American culture, we can turn our leisure into a new work obsession. Whether it is fishing, hunting, golf, running, tennis, gardening, woodworking or biking, we can turn what is meant to be restful and renewing into competitive, stressful work. I know that I have at times turned my love of running into an obsession when I am training for a marathon and my whole life begins to revolved around a rigorous training schedule. I have this elusive goal of qualifying to run in the Boston Marathon someday, but my fixation can rob me of the joy of simple running. My recent use of the Phil Maffetone training method has helped me slow down and to enjoy the playful act of running.
Finally we can play at worship, or, in other words, turn worship into entertainment. We measure how effective worship is by how popular the worship service is or how people felt during the service. We get confused about the focus of worship. Worship is not about the worshippers, but about God being central to our lives.
God is not my "cosmic therapist" who makes me feel good about myself, but rather my Creator, Savior and Guide before whom I bow in wonder and adoration. God is God, ruler of the universe. True worship helps me remember and live with God at the center. "God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).
So today, let us live with God at the center, in our work, play and worship.
Lord Jesus, remain Lord of my life in my work, play and worship.
This entry was posted in Body Mind Spirit, Jesus, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Running, Uncategorized, vocation, worship and tagged Four Square, play, work on June 27, 2012 by Pastor John Keller.


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Neymar Ends Nike Partnership To Join Puma as Brand Ambassador
Neymar ends Nike partnership to join Puma.
Neymar recently announced that he is ending his 15-year partnership with Nike to start a new journey with Puma. Puma is a German international brand that manufactures and sells sportswear and accessories like sports shoes, sports jerseys, tracksuits, and many more. They even sponsor many big teams such as Manchester City, Italy National football team, and so on. The Brazilian posted on his twitter saying that before each season he thinks of doing something new and creative. He often thinks about his past like how he joined this sport to create history like some legends namely Pele, Maradona, and many others.
Puma also posted on its social media and welcomed Neymar by the hashtags like 'The King is Back' and 'Welcome to the family Neymar Jr'. The PSG forward was associated with Nike for 15 years before this. He also had his own section with his own Nike logo. It is known that only four people knew about this deal that just happened including Neymar and his father. This is not a deal that took place in a day but took several months before the signing of the contract. Puma has already come up with a logo for Neymar and it is very unique. Many stars and footballers who are already associated with Puma welcomed Neymar through their social media.
Welcome @neymarjr to the @PUMA family 🙌🏿🙌🏿 pic.twitter.com/XM9gPWgcBC
— Usain St. Leo Bolt (@usainbolt) September 12, 2020
Who is Neymar Jr?
Neymar Jr. is a footballer who plays for the Brazil National Football Team and the Ligue 1 giants, Paris Saint-Germain. He is a great talent and is considered as one of the top three footballers of all time. Neymar became the most valuable player in 2017 when he signed for Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in a world breaking the record of €222 million. Everybody thought that this was Neymar's biggest mistake, but he proved them wrong after showing his recent performance for Paris. He has won three Ligue 1 titles with PSG and even led the team to the Champions League Finals for the first time in the club history. On 24th August, they played Bayern Munich in the finals but lost with a score of 1-0.
A still of Neymar during the UCL Final 2020.
Neymar is a great example of hard work as he was from a poor family that stayed in Sao Paulo. He is a really skillful player, especially with his foot that led him to joint Futsal and Street Football. After all the hard work, he joined his first club Santos FC. Then, he moved to Barcelona where he won his first Champions League. Neymar is said to be a magician when it comes to football and shows the most impressive skills on the field.
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When people gaze at real scenes, their visual attention is driven both by a set of bottom-up processes coming from the signal properties of the scene and also from top-down effects such as the task, the affective state, prior knowledge, or the semantic context. The context of this study is an assessment of manufactured objects (here car cab interior). From this dedicated context, this work describes a set of methods to analyze the eye-movements during the visual scene evaluation. But these methods can be adapted to more general contexts. We define a statistical model to explain the eye fixations measured experimentally by eye-tracking even when the ratio signal/noise is bad or lacking of raw data. One of the novelties of the approach is to use complementary experimental data obtained with the "Bubbles" paradigm. The proposed model is an additive mixture of several a priori spatial density distributions of factors guiding visual attention. The "Bubbles" paradigm is adapted here to reveal the semantic density distribution which represents here the cumulative effects of the top-down factors. Then, the contribution of each factor is compared depending on the product and on the task, in order to highlight the properties of the visual attention and the cognitive activity in each situation.


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The file photo, taken on July 24, 2017, shows President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte gesturing as he delivers his state of the nation address at Congress in Manila. (By AFP)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that his signature anti-narcotics campaign will be even harsher in the future, signaling no let-up in a bloody crackdown that has alarmed the international community.
Duterte won the presidency by a wide margin in 2016 on promises of eradicating drugs and crime, and recent opinion polls indicate broad support for him and for the crackdown, despite widespread allegations of police cover-ups and summary killings resulting from weak intelligence.
Duterte said the drugs problem was a national security issue.
"I will not allow my country to end up a failed state because of drugs," he said in a speech.
He did not elaborate on how he would intensify a campaign that had already seen more than 5,000 people killed by police since he took office.
The file photo shows anti-government demonstrators during a protest to coincide with President Duterte's state of the nation address in Manila on July 23, 2018. (By AFP)
Human rights groups say many of those deaths were executions of people suspected of selling or using drugs, which police deny, insisting the killings were in self-defense.
Critics, including the Catholic Church, say the campaign has overwhelmingly targeted the urban poor and left drug kingpins largely untouched.
Asked by reporters later if the crackdown would be bloodier, Duterte said: "I think so."
A poll last week showed that about two thirds of Filipinos believed there were fewer drug users in their community now than last year. Most respondents said it was vital for police to arrest suspects alive and believed police agreed.
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Big Wall Street banks face an uneasy future after U.S. regulators on Tuesday finalized the Volcker Rule, a measure that attempts to curtail big bets on certain financial instruments. But in a potential concession, the banks themselves largely will be responsible for determining whether they're in compliance.
As Wall Street, Washington and the lawyers that advise them digested the rule, investors appeared to brush off concerns that the final version would dent banks' profitability. Share prices of banks seen as most vulnerable to the rule rose.
Named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the idea began in 2010 as a simple effort to ban short-term speculative trading and investments in hedge and private equity funds by financial institutions that enjoy federal deposit insurance. Over the last few years, regulators had struggled to define what constituted speculation and what was merely the accumulation of financial instruments meant to be sold to clients, such as asset managers or other large investors.
More than 18,000 comment letters to the five federal agencies charged with developing the rule further clouded regulators' efforts, and the rule became a symbol of whether the Obama administration and financial supervisors in Washington would rein in big banks or succumb to relentless industry pressure at a time when calls to break up the biggest banks appear to be growing.
Officials said the final rule attempts to straddle the line between banning so-called proprietary trading -- trading by banks for their own account -- but preserving big banks' abilities to hedge their risks and buy and sell securities in order to serve their customers, otherwise known as market-making.
The rule promises unprecedented surveillance of big banks' trading operations, mostly through documentation requirements that force banks to justify trades and strategies and to keep running tallies of whether their activities conform to the rule.
Regulators largely missed the increasing risk in the financial system that preceded the 2008 crisis and the linkages between institutions that pushed many perilously close to failure when markets began to tank. They also failed to spot or reduce risk-taking at JPMorgan Chase in early 2012, when traders led by the so-called London Whale caused the bank to lose more than $6 billion on wrong-way bets.
"No one will really know whether regulators, who have failed so abysmally in the past, have learned from the crisis and will start regulating the banks for real by aggressively enforcing the Volcker Rule," said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit group that advocates stringent rules on big banks.
Regulators ban trades that result in a bank's exposure to "high risk" assets or trading strategies, but they declined to specify what constitutes "high risk," Raskin noted. That further increases the importance of front-line examiners who would be charged with determining whether banks were violating the provision.
Raskin voted to finalize the proposal as President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and the heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fed, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. all praised the rule for generally making the financial system safer.
"The Volcker Rule will make it illegal for firms to use government-insured money to make speculative bets that threaten the entire financial system, and demand a new era of accountability from CEOs who must sign off on their firm's practices," Obama said.
Business and financial industry groups were more reserved, warning that the rule risks driving up costs for bank customers, investors and businesses that depend on banks for capital. The three Republican commissioners at the CFTC and SEC voted against the rule.
Regulators said the Volcker Rule was toughened in a few key areas from their 2011 proposal. It contains tighter language that now specifies that banks must link trades to specific risks they're trying to mitigate -- rather than simply being allowed to claim that large batches of trades reduce their risk -- and a requirement that banks' board of directors and chief executives annually certify the effectiveness of their compliance regimes.
The provision requiring banks to specify risks they're trying to hedge is largely a result of the London Whale episode, in which traders at JPMorgan Chase tried to reduce the bank's exposure to certain hypothetical losses by taking on outsized risks in other categories that eventually cost the bank billions of dollars in losses and its reputation as a well-managed institution.
The CEO requirement was previously recommended in January 2011 by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Treasury Department-led group of financial regulators charged with protecting the U.S. economy from risks in the financial system.
In other ways, the final rule was relaxed from previous versions and earlier recommendations from FSOC were ignored.
For example, rather than solely allowing for banks to trade U.S. Treasuries and some municipal debt for their own short-term profit, regulators expanded the list of permitted securities to include all forms of municipal debt as well as obligations of foreign governments.
Regulators also expanded the list of funds exempt from restrictions that limited banks' investments in them.
The FSOC recommendation that regulators require banks to measure the amount of trades initiated by their customers relative to trades they initiate on their own went ignored. Instead, regulators asked banks to measure the share of trades involving their customers compared with trading with other counterparties. But the final rule left open the possibility that banks may count other banks as their customers, casting doubt on the potential effectiveness of a measure intended to help determine whether banks are trading to benefit their own bottom lines or for the benefit of their clients.
Banks will have to collect data measuring seven key figures that ultimately will determine whether they're complying with the Volcker Rule. The measurements begin next year. Banks won't have to comply with the rule until 2015.
Maxant cautioned that regulators may be more likely to check for compliance only after banks experience big trading losses.
Raskin suggested that the approach favored by regulators may fall short, and that more intrusive oversight may be needed. For example, she said, although the rule specifies that bank employees can't be paid in a way that encourages prohibited trading, regulators won't know for sure by relying on banks' own statements.
"It seems to me that if we're serious about minimizing financial instability in the context of the Volcker Rule, then we have to engage in some scrutiny of the design of compensation plans and ask ourselves whether various pay arrangements are thwarting the rule's goals by inducing traders and others to accept excessive levels of risk despite the existence of compliance plans, metrics and CEO attestations," Raskin said.
"It is important to keep in mind that the Volcker Rule is not a guarantee that firms we supervise won't lose a lot of money in their trading operations," said Mark Van Der Weide, the Fed's deputy director of bank supervision.
The rule doesn't prevent banks from speculative long-term trading, nor does it limit short-term trading in loans, currencies or other assets beyond certain securities and derivatives, Van Der Weide said. It also exempts what he called "some of the most common forms of securities that banks trade in" -- namely U.S. Treasuries and securities and obligations of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In anticipation of the Volcker Rule, which became law in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank reforms, banks already have begun to shutter or rename their proprietary trading units and sell off their stakes in various hedge funds.
Kelleher said that one way in which the public can gauge whether the Volcker Rule is working as intended is to measure the number of traders leaving big banks, the decline in compensation for the traders that remain, and the fall in banks' revenues from so-called FICC trading, which stands for fixed-income, currencies and commodities.
"This is not a perfect rule, but none are," Kelleher said. "But make no mistake about it: regulators now own the Volcker Rule.
Speaking at a press conference Oct. 6, 2011, to urge Congress to pass his jobs bill, President Barack Obama weighed in on the Occupy Wall Street movement, saying the protests express the frustrations of the American people. "We had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country ... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place," the president told reporters. "The protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration with how our finance sector works ... The American people understand that not everybody's been following the rules." In an interview with ABC on Oct. 18, Obama said the Occupy Wall Street protests aren't that different than some Tea Party protests. "Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government," said the president. "They feel that their institutions aren't looking out for them."


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Build the Black River Junction - part 2
How to lay and wire track and set up a DCC system
A Baltimore & Ohio Fairbanks-Morse switcher clatters over the crossing at Black River Junction.
Bill Zuback photo
A key part of building a successful model railroad is that the project keeps your interest. One way to stay "hooked" when building a layout is to make sure you can run some trains as quickly as possible. Even if you're building a large layout, completing a small portion of the track so you can run a train or do a little switching every so often is a good idea. It keeps your interest fresh and gives you something to show visitors.
For our Black River Junction project railroad, getting things running quickly wasn't difficult. Since we were building the layout in a week, our schedule called for having the track laid and the Digital Command Control (DCC) system wired by the end of the day on Tuesday. While Model Railroader's editor, Terry Thompson, installed decoders in our locomotives (see page 90 in the February 2007 Model Railroader), senior editor Carl Swanson was busy laying track on the layout. Then, executive editor Andy Sperandeo got to work installing the DCC system. We'll take a look at how the MR staff laid the track and wired the Black River Junction for running trains with DCC.
Testing the track plan before gluing anything to the layout is a good idea. To get started, Carl pieced together the entire layout's worth of track to test the fit.
Be extra careful that the rails are properly seated in the rail joiner when connecting track sections. This photo shows a rail that has ridden up on top of the joiner, which will be difficult to fix once the track has been secured.
To make the wire connections nearly invisible, we used Unitrack terminal joiners with the feeders already attached. Carl drilled holes through the layout surface, fed the wires through the holes, clipped the feeder joiners to the track, then glued the track in place.
We softened the sharp edge of the Unitrack's roadbed profile by adding Kato's matching ballast. As shown in the photo, the ballast gives the roadbed a more-natural appearance, blending it into the surrounding scenery by removing the sharp, straight edge.
Trackwork
We used sectional track to speed tracklaying. The newer all-in-one-style sectional track snaps together quickly and includes plastic roadbed. The molded roadbed resembles the crushed rock ballast used to hold ties in place on real railroad track. Unlike flextrack or traditional sectional track, no ballasting is necessary – although we found that adding a layer of appropriately colored ballast to the shoulders adds realism and takes little effort. Several companies make all-in-one track, including Atlas, Bachmann, and Life-Like, Märklin (not compatible with 2-rail operation), and Trix.
After considering our options, we decided to use Kato Unitrack. This track features good-looking roadbed and robust joiners for solid mechanical and electrical connections between track pieces. Unitrack turnouts are made in no. 4 and 6 sizes and feature hidden built-in switch machines. These machines have a design that's unique to Kato and requires a constant-voltage DC power supply. Kato also makes a DC converter that connects to the AC terminals of a power pack. In either case, you'll need only one to power all the turnouts on your layout.
Hiding the switch machine under the turnout is clever, but the machines can be damaged by water or liquid glue when making scenery. We made sure to keep our turnouts dry and had no problems.
Opening the packages and organizing the pieces took more time than laying the track. To make sure everything would fit properly, I snapped all the track together and, according to David's plan, set it in place temporarily.
Knowing exactly where the track would go allowed me to mark the locations of the power feeds. I removed the track, drilled small holes in the tabletop for the feeder wires, and installed several Kato no. 24-818 terminal UniJoiners. Terminal joiners take the place of standard joiners and are easy to use since they have feeder wires already attached.
The standard joiners attached to the track can be removed with a plastic tool that Kato packages with terminal joiners. The track sections have a molded plastic ridge in the roadbed behind the joiners. To make room for the wires, I broke away the ridge with needle-nose pliers before clicking the new joiners in place.
Kato's terminal joiners have a blue wire and a white wire, and I was careful to be consistent in keeping the same color wire going to the same rail all around the layout.
It's possible for the end of a rail to ride over a joiner when connecting track pieces (see the middle photo), so I checked each joint by sliding a finger along the rails – the track is correct if the joint feels smooth. Finally, using dabs of PL300 construction adhesive, I glued the track in place.
We thought the assembled track looked a little too manicured to be realistic, so Cody Grivno, Terry, and I applied Kato's no. 24-039 ballast to soften the shoulders of the roadbed (bottom right photo). Working on a few inches of track at a time, we poured on the ballast and arranged it using a soft brush. Then, using a spray bottle, we misted the ballast with a 50:50 mix of rubbing alcohol and water. When the ballast was wet, we used an eyedropper to flow on Woodland Scenics Scenery Cement. – Carl Swanson
Andy kept the wiring simple by routing all the feeders on the main layout section to a bus made with two stranded 16AWG wires.
To attach the feeders to the bus wires, Andy used Scotchlok "suitcase" connectors. Simply slip the wires into the appropriate holes in the connector, use pliers to squeeze the metal "knife" down flush, and snap the plastic cover (the suitcase lid) shut to protect the connection.
Because the staging yard is removable, we needed an easy yet temporary way to connect it to the main bus. Banana-type plugs and sockets, commonly used with stereo speakers, are perfect for this job and easy to use.
Because we planned to use Digital Command Control (DCC), we wired the Black River Junction as one electrical circuit with no blocks. We nevertheless used several sets of feeders to avoid voltage drop and loss of the control signal. There are many rail joints in any kind of sectional track, and they're all potential trouble spots. The multiple feeders minimize the effects of loose rail joiners and bad connections. The feeder locations are shown on the track plan on page 61.
Under the table, the track feeders connect to a power bus formed by a pair of stranded 16-gauge wires, one red and one black to be consistent with the color coding of DCC systems. However, as Carl noted, the terminal joiners come with blue and white wires. I didn't bother to change them, but simply made sure to connect all the blue feeders to the black bus wire and all the white feeders to the red bus wire.
To make fast, secure, and insulated connections on the bus, I relied on 3M's Scotchlok insulation-displacement connectors (IDCs), popularly called "suitcase connectors" because of their hinged lids. With IDCs there's no need to strip, solder, and tape splices, so the work goes quickly and the results are neat.
The "run" or through side of the red no. 558 IDC fits around the 16-gauge bus wire. The 22-gauge feeder wire goes into the "tap" or single-ended side. Then you squeeze the metal "knife" flush with the open top of the IDC, so the knife cuts through the insulation of both wires and bridges them together.
Robo-Grip cam-action pliers do a good job of squeezing the knife into place; Channellock pliers also work. When you snap the suitcase lid closed, it covers and insulates the knife. In the time you've now spent reading about IDCs you could have made at least two or three connections on your layout.
The two bus wires connect to the track terminals of the DCC command station. I made this connection through banana stereo speaker plugs so we can quickly disconnect the command station, but you may not need to bother with that. I also used another set of banana plugs to connect the bus wires to the removable staging yard. – Andy Sperandeo
The Digitrax DCS50 Zephyr command station sits on this shelf and is held in place with hook-and-loop type fastener strips. All of the connections to the command station unplug so we can easily store it when moving the layout.
Andy mounted two plug panels in the layout fascia for the walkaround cabs. The UR91 shown here doubles as the radio receiver for our UT4R radio cab.
Digital Command Control
A DCC system gives the Black River Junction easy-to-use multiple-train control, along with the capability to use wireless walkaround throttles and sound-equipped locomotives. We selected the Digitrax Zephyr DCS50 as our DCC system. This is a good starter set that's easy to expand.
The DCS50 command station includes a keypad with a digital readout that you use to select locomotives, program decoders, and control decoder functions. It has one set of speed, direction, and "brake" controls, and a "jump" feature that lets you use one or two conventional power packs as additional DCC cabs.
Instead of the jump option, we added a couple of Digitrax handheld cabs, a UT4 tethered cab and a UT4R wireless walkaround cab with a radio link. Using 6-conductor data cable and RJ-style connectors, we installed a Loconet cab bus to tie these components together. We ran a 4-foot cable from the command station to a Digitrax UR91 receiver module we installed nearby in the front fascia (one cable). We then connected the receiver module to a UP5 plug panel installed on the opposite side of the layout using a 6-foot cable.
The UT4's tether can plug into either the radio panel or the plug panel, so it can be used on either side of the layout. The UT4R wireless cab can also be plugged into either panel to assign or de-assign a locomotive (more on that in a bit), then unplugged for walkaround tether-free operation.
We mounted a power strip under the layout and then used plastic ties to hold the power supplies for the command station and the radio receiver in place. For the sake of portability, we didn't let any of these components extend below the framing. The cables run directly from the power supplies to their respective devices.
From looking at the number dials, this UT4R radio throttle has been set to locomotive address 1884, our Trix Mikado. The operator can now plug the cab into the Loconet to acquire the engine and then unplug the throttle to run no. 1884.
With the trackwork, wiring, and DCC system installation complete, MR's managing editor Dick Christianson takes a moment to test-run a train over the staging yard tracks before we begin scenery construction.
Operating the system
Once you have the components set up, it's time to run some trains. The Digitrax instruction manual provides information on how to get the most out of your DCC system, but to get you up and running quickly, I'll explain a few of the key elements.
When you turn on the power to the Zephyr, it doesn't immediately supply power to the rails. You need to turn on the track power from the Zephyr's panel. You do this by pushing the "power" key, located in the left-hand row of buttons. The DCS50's track status light will come on when the track power is on.
The next thing you'll want to do is try running a locomotive. To acquire a locomotive's address from the Zephyr, begin by pressing the "loco" key on the panel. Then, enter the address number of the locomotive and press the loco key again. You should now have control of that engine. If you want to run a different locomotive, repeat the process.
If you're using either the UT4 or UT4R walkaround throttles, these have a slightly different procedure for acquiring a locomotive. Before plugging the throttle into one of the layout's plug ports, set the four number dials to the address of the locomotive you wish to acquire. If the number has fewer than four digits, such as engine 480, use zeroes in place of the missing digits (0480). Next, plug the throttle's cable into the Loconet cab bus, and you should have control of the locomotive. When you want to switch trains, bring the engine to a stop, disconnect the throttle, and then set the dials to the next address. – Andy Sperandeo


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If President Donald Trump isn't comfortable being the target of jokes, comedian Michelle Wolf gave him and others plenty of reasons to squirm Saturday night.
"It's 2018 and I'm a woman, so you cannot shut me up," Wolf cracked, "unless you have Michael Cohen wire me $130,000."
No, Trump's personal attorney wasn't there. And, for the second year, Trump himself skipped the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, preferring to criticize journalists and others during a campaign-style rally near Detroit.
Wolf, the after-dinner entertainment for the White House press corps and their guests, was surprisingly vulgar for the venue and seemed more at home on HBO than C-SPAN. After one crass joke drew groans in the Washington Hilton ballroom, she laughed and said, "Yeah, shoulda done more research before you got me to do this."
As he did last year, Trump flew to a Republican-friendly district to rally supporters on the same night as the dinner. In Washington Township, Michigan, the president assured his audience he'd rather be there than in that other city by that name.
"Is this better than that phony Washington White House Correspondents' Dinner? Is this more fun?" Trump asked, sparking sheers.
"I could be up there tonight, smiling, like I love where they're hitting you, shot after shot. These people, they hate your guts ... and you've got to smile. If you don't smile, they say, 'He was terrible, he couldn't take it.' And if you do smile, they'll say, "What was he smiling about?'"
Wolf's act had some in the audience laughing and left others in stony silence. A slew of cutting comments about press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders came as Sanders sat just a few feet away.
Among Wolf's less offensive one-liners:
—"Just a reminder to everyone, I'm here to make jokes, I have no agenda, I'm not trying to get anything accomplished, so everyone that's here from Congress you should feel right at home."
—"It is kinda crazy that the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia when the Hillary campaign wasn't even in contact with Michigan."
—"He wants to give teachers guns, and I support that because then they can sell them for things they need like supplies."
The dinner once attracted Oscar winners and other notable performers in film and television as well as celebrities in sports and other high-profile professions. The star power dimmed appreciably last year when the famously thin-skinned Trump, who routinely slammed reporters as dishonest and their work as "fake news," announced he wasn't attending. He was the first president to skip the event since Ronald Reagan bowed out in 1981 as he recovered from an assassination attempt.
Unlike last year, when Trump aides also declined to attend, the Trump White House had its contingent, including counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Former administration officials were on hand, such as onetime press secretary Sean Spicer, ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and political aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman.
At least one Trump antagonist attended — porn star Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, who tweeted that he and Conway had a "spirited discussion." And there was comedian Kathy Griffin, who last year posted controversial video of herself holding what appeared to be Trump's bloody head; she later apologized.
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Апостольский викариат Вьентьяна () — территориально-административная единица Римско-Католической Церкви, приравненная к епархии, с центром в городе Вьентьян, Лаос. Апостольский викариат занимает провинции Лаоса Сиангкхуанг, Хуапхан, Вьентьян и большую часть провинции Борикхамсай.

История
14 июня 1938 года Римский папа Пий XI издал буллу «Ad regnum Dei», которой учредил апостольскую префектуру Вьентьяна и Лаунг-Прабанга, выделив её из апостольского викариата Лаоса (сегодня — Архиепархия Тхари и Нонсенга).

13 марта 1952 года Римский папа Пий XII издал буллу «Est in Sanctae Sedis», которой преобразовал апостольскую префектуру Вьентьяна и Луанг-Прабанга в апостольский викариата Вьентьяна.

1 марта 1963 года апостольский викариат Вьентьяна передал часть своей территории для образования нового апостольского викариата Луангпрабанга.

Ординарии
 епископ Giovanni Enrico Mazoyer (17.06.1938 — 1952);
 епископ Etienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt (13.03.1952 — 1975);
 епископ Thomas Nantha (22.05.1975 — 4.04.1984);
 епископ Jean Khamsé Vithavong (7.04.1984 — 2.02.2017, в отставке);
 апостольский администратор — кардинал Луи-Мари Линг Мангкханекхоун (2.02.2017 — 16.12.2017);
 кардинал Луи-Мари Линг Мангкханекхоун (16.12.2017 — по настоящее время).

Источник
 Annuario Pontificio, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2003, ISBN 88-209-7422-3
  Булла Est in Sanctae Sedis

Ссылки
  Данные об Апостольском викариате Вьентьяна

Католические епархии Лаоса

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Youth justice in Australia 2015–16
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There were about 5,500 young people (aged 10 and older) under youth justice supervision in Australia on an average day in 2015–16, due to their involvement, or alleged involvement, in crime. This number has decreased by 21% over the 5 years to 2015–16. Around 4 in 5 (82%) young people under supervision on an average day were male. Most (84%) young people were supervised in the community and the remainder were in detention. Indigenous young people continued to be over-represented in the youth justice system: young Indigenous people were 17 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be under supervision on an average day.
ISSN: 2205-5010 (PDF) 1446-9820 (Print)
Cat. no: AUS 211
Almost half (48%) of young people aged 10–17 under supervision on an average day were Indigenous
4 in 5 (82%) young people under supervision on an average day were male
The rate of youth supervision ranged from 14 per 10,000 in Victoria to 57 per 10,000 in the Northern Territory
Indigenous young people aged 10–17 were 17 times as likely as non-Indigenous young people to be under supervision
Youth justice supervision in the states and territories
Youth justice supervision in the states and territories - expandYouth justice supervision in the states and territories - collapse
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Imports L2Crypt

Public Class L_LoginCrypt
    Private key() As Byte = {CByte(&H6B), CByte(&H60), CByte(&HCB), CByte(&H5B), CByte(&H82), CByte(&HCE), CByte(&H90), CByte(&HB1), CByte(&HCC), CByte(&H2B), CByte(&H6C), CByte(&H55), CByte(&H6C), CByte(&H6C), CByte(&H6C), CByte(&H6C)}

    Private updatedKey As Boolean = False
    Private rnd As New Random()
    Private cipher As BlowfishCipher

    Public Sub New()
        cipher = New BlowfishCipher(key)
    End Sub

    Friend Sub updateKey(ByVal _blowfishKey() As Byte)
        key = _blowfishKey
    End Sub

    Public Function decrypt(ByRef data() As Byte, ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal size As Integer) As Boolean
        cipher.decipher(data, offset, size)

        Return veryfyChecksum(data, offset, size)
    End Function

    Public Function encrypt(ByVal data() As Byte, ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal size As Integer) As Byte()
        size += 4

        If Not updatedKey Then
            size += 4
            size += 8 - size Mod 8
            Array.Resize(data, size)
            encXORPass(data, offset, size, rnd.Next())
            cipher.cipher(data, offset, size)
            cipher.updateKey(key)
            updatedKey = True
        Else
            size += 8 - size Mod 8
            Array.Resize(data, size)
            appendChecksum(data, offset, size)
            cipher.cipher(data, offset, size)
        End If

        Return data
    End Function

    Private Function veryfyChecksum(ByVal data() As Byte, ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal size As Integer) As Boolean
        If (size And 3) <> 0 OrElse size <= 4 Then
            Return False
        End If

        Dim chksum As Long = 0
        Dim count As Integer = size - 4
        Dim check As Long = -1
        Dim i As Integer

        For i = offset To count - 1 Step 4
            check = data(i) And 255
            check = check Or data(i + 1) << 8 And 65280L
            check = check Or data(i + 2) << &H10 And 16711680L
            check = check Or data(i + 3) << &H18 And 4278190080L

            chksum = chksum Xor check
        Next i

        check = data(i) And 255
        check = check Or data(i + 1) << 8 And 65280L
        check = check Or data(i + 2) << &H10 And 16711680L
        check = check Or data(i + 3) << &H18 And 4278190080L

        Return chksum = 0
    End Function

    Public Shared Sub appendChecksum(ByVal raw() As Byte, ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal size As Integer)
        Dim chksum As Long = 0
        Dim count As Integer = size - 4
        Dim ecx As Long
        Dim i As Integer

        For i = offset To count - 1 Step 4
            ecx = raw(i) And &HFF
            ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 1) << &H8 And &HFF00L
            ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 2) << &H10 And &HFF0000L
            ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 3) << &H18 And &HFF000000L

            chksum = chksum Xor ecx
        Next i

        ecx = raw(i) And &HFF
        ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 1) << &H8 And &HFF00L
        ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 2) << &H10 And &HFF0000L
        ecx = ecx Or raw(i + 3) << &H18 And &HFF000000L

        raw(i) = CByte(chksum And &HFF)
        raw(i + 1) = CByte(chksum >> &H8 And &HFF)
        raw(i + 2) = CByte(chksum >> &H10 And &HFF)
        raw(i + 3) = CByte(chksum >> &H18 And &HFF)
    End Sub

    Public Shared Sub encXORPass(ByVal raw() As Byte, ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal size As Integer, ByVal key As Integer)
        Dim [stop] As Integer = size - 8
        Dim pos As Integer = 4 + offset
        Dim edx As Integer
        Dim ecx As Integer = key

        Do While pos < [stop]
            edx = (raw(pos) And &HFF)
            edx = edx Or (raw(pos + 1) And &HFF) << 8
            edx = edx Or (raw(pos + 2) And &HFF) << 16
            edx = edx Or (raw(pos + 3) And &HFF) << 24

            ecx += edx

            edx = edx Xor ecx

            raw(pos) = CByte(edx And &HFF)
            pos += 1
            raw(pos) = CByte(edx >> 8 And &HFF)
            pos += 1
            raw(pos) = CByte(edx >> 16 And &HFF)
            pos += 1
            raw(pos) = CByte(edx >> 24 And &HFF)
            pos += 1
        Loop

        raw(pos) = CByte(ecx And &HFF)
        pos += 1
        raw(pos) = CByte(ecx >> 8 And &HFF)
        pos += 1
        raw(pos) = CByte(ecx >> 16 And &HFF)
        pos += 1
        raw(pos) = CByte(ecx >> 24 And &HFF)
        pos += 1
    End Sub

    Public Shared Function MD5Encryption(ByVal Data As String) As String
        Dim x As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider()
        Dim data_Renamed() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data)
        data_Renamed = x.ComputeHash(data_Renamed)
        Dim ret As String = ""

        For i As Integer = 0 To data_Renamed.Length - 1 'XOR hash
            data_Renamed(i) = data_Renamed(i) Xor &H3
        Next i
        For i As Integer = 0 To data_Renamed.Length - 1
            ret &= data_Renamed(i).ToString("x2").ToLower()
        Next i
        Return ret
    End Function
End Class


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