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War Room: Too Much Rebuking of Satan?
Date: March 22, 2016Author: Craig Truglia 2 Comments
Recently I Red Boxed War Room and I was surprised how good the movie was. The premise of the movie is pretty simple: prayer is very powerful because God is all powerful. It's secondary message was just as good: we do not try to fix our spouse–we submit our interests to our spouse and love him/her sacrificially. We leave it to God to change the spouse's character.
Both points are so true, and so compelling from a Reformed perspective, that I cannot imagine who would warn others not to see this movie over peripheral issues.
I'm afraid that people that struggle with pride, like me, feel in some sense superior to other Christians by nitpicking everything they see as wrong. Then, they go on their high horses and snobbishly view everyone who disagrees with them as sinful, unchristian, or committing grave error.
I have been trying hard to commit myself to not doing this. One reviewer, Justin Peters, who I presume is Reformed because he quotes from John MacArthur and Charles Spurgeon totally lambasted the movie over several issues. I do not know anything about him, but I am going to use elements of his review as a leaping off point to speak about the movie's theology and reflections on proper Biblical interpretation. By quoting his response and offering counterpoints, my hope is to give us all reason to show more restraint when condemning someone else's theology unless it is clearly wrong.
"The term 'repent,' for example, was used but never fleshed out."
To the contrary, the movie had a very clear Gospel presentation (quoting Rom 3:10 no less) and the whole plot is about a husband and wife repenting of their sins. In fact, the drama of the closing act (other than the jump rope competition) pertains to the husband returning merchandise that he had stolen, even though he had completely gotten away with it. So, to say the idea is not "fleshed out" confuses me a little.
"Elizabeth worked outside of the home as a real estate agent."
While the reviewer would be correct in saying that it is unbiblical for a woman to prioritize her career over her children, husband, and household he would be incorrect in saying that the movie's protagonist did these things. In fact, I rather saw the opposite. She had a job, sure, but also she was home for breakfast, home for dinner, home for doing the laundry, home for her daughter's play dates with her friend, waiting for her husband when he came back from work…Even if the job was full time, it did not preclude her from fulfilling her household responsibilities even before her repentance.
Being that the husband boasts one point in the movie that he makes "four times more" than his wife, and then later in the movie he takes a job as the head of a community center that "pays half" as much as his old job, we must conclude the protagonist makes half of what a community center director makes. I am going to guess that down south, even in a very rich community that might be $60K-$80K. This means the protagonist makes half that amount selling real estate, which I would guess would be approaching full time hours but not quite, especially considering everything else we see her do in the movie.
Now someone reading this might wonder why I would delve so deep into the imaginary universe of the movie. I am merely saying that if one is going to pass judgment on a movie's character for putting an unbiblical emphasis on her career, I am simply showing that based upon the internal logic of the movie such an accusation might not actually make sense. In fact, it can be argued that the protagonist evolves into a Prov 31 for the 21st century kind of woman.
Now, I'm just as much of a dinosaur as the next guy who would like to see wives submit and proudly take on traditional roles, but selling houses is not something unbiblical. In fact, it is one of the few jobs that women have in the Bible (Prov 31), alongside making tents and selling purple cloth.
[War Room] "totally gets out of order the Holy Spirit's work of regeneration in a person with the fruits of regeneration."
The reviewer strangely enough suggests that Ms. Clara (the old lady who prays for everyone) was wrong in asking someone to pray without knowing whether that the person was already regenerated by the Spirit. This, my friend, is hyper-Calvinism.
When I speak to strangers or hit the streets with Gospel tracts, it is not my job to know whether or not the person is unsaved or predestined. Why not tell unbelievers about the power of prayer? That's like telling children about long division–neither know anything about it, and even if they cannot apply it properly it is not bad to tell them something factual. Sometimes, in conversations with strangers, we cannot cover every detail of the Christian faith with them–nor is it appropriate. We have to be free from the constraints of being TV pitch-men who have a whole sales routine that we have to go through. Maybe I can only talk about repentance. Maybe only prayer. Maybe only the Gospel, with only brief mention of repentance. Maybe only repentance when someone says that God forgives everybody without conditions. I'll talk to anyone about whatever I can.
Further, the reviewer takes issues with things like the the protagonist praying for her husband's heart to "turn back" to God. He rightly points out that such a prayer is theologically incorrect, because the husband never knew God to begin with.
However, should we take such a prayer as a theological affront to sound doctrine? Maybe both of these people in the movie grew up as nominal Christians and they do not have a high-falooting understanding of Christian theology, so when they actually turn to Christ they really think they are returning after being wayward. So what if they are wrong? Is that such a big deal? I am not watching Red Box movies for their nuanced view of soteriology.
"There was no mention anywhere in the film of the wrath of God that our sin incurs."
This is a good point, as the wrath of God is offensive to people. The idea was mentioned here and there, but the characters were more heart broken over their personal problems than the realization that they have wronged God. However, the premise behind the protagonist being better to her husband was her realizing that she sinned and did not deserve God's grace. So, she in turn was gracious with her husband even when he sinned against her. Other than this idea, the movie lacks the extra "umph" in this department.
When the husband asked his wife why she is being so good to him when he does not deserve it, she could have clearly told her husband, "I love you the way Christ loves us–that when we were still sinners He laid down His life for us, though we wronged Him, He blesses us. I know how to love you, because Christ showed me what real love is." That would have sufficed for me, as a movie about fearing the retribution of God probably would have not fit the plot.
"First, Satan is not in Hell…Secondly, and more significantly, we as believers are not to be addressing Satan.
The reviewer takes issue at an emotional tirade the protagonist has, yelling at Satan in her house and telling him to go to Hell. Now, we can get all technical and say that Satan technically does not live in Hell, but I am not sure that we were supposed to take the scene in question as a serious, theological statement. After all, "Go to Hell," is a pretty common saying among regular people to those they do not like. Saying the same thing to Satan is no big deal.
Further, this idea that believers are never to be addressing Satan in emotional outbursts is a teaching that I find just as questionable as going out of one's way to rebuke Satan. Rebuking Satan has a long history in Christianity. Luther would rebuke Satan when trials and temptations would come his way. However, I think it would be safe to say Luther was not always in the soundest state of mind, especially when we look at a lot of the excessive things he supposedly had said and done.
So, what exactly is the reviewer talking about in his condemnation of rebuking Satan? He writes:
Consider that in Jude we have the record of Michael the archangel disputing with the devil and arguing over the body of Moses. Jude records for us that when he disputed with the devil, Michael the archangel "did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'" Think about that for just a moment and let it sink in. If Michael the archangel – the archangel – did not "dare" to rebuke Satan then I think it's probably a safe bet that we should not do so either.
I find it strange that one would condemn a movie because of a scene portraying an emotional outburst based upon an inference from Jude 9. The reason we should not make a regular practice out of anything (such as rebuking Satan) is simply because the Bible never tells us to do so. But, to outright condemn the practice due to inference yet not condemn other practices such as women wearing jewelry (as they do in the movie), even though the Scripture is explicit in its condemnation of this, seems to me very inconsistent hermeneutically. How can we selectively make serious doctrinal statements based upon inferences in some parts of the Bible, but ignore explicit teachings that were meant to be taken literally in other parts of the Bible?
Further, is such an inference justified? Let's read the context of what Jude actually wrote:
[C]ertain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed…These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage (Jude 4-13, 15).
In short, Jude is talking about what appear to be antinomian teachers who show little sexual restraint. By doing so, they reject the Christ who bought them. Jude buttresses his point with two Biblical examples, and two extra-biblical legends. The Biblical examples are the destruction of a generation of the Jewish people who failed to enter the promised land because of their unbelief and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah for sexual immorality. He then compares these two Biblical examples to widely known Jewish legends.
The first Jewish legend as recorded in the Book of Enoch (which Jude later quotes in verses 14 and 15) is that angels left heaven and committed sodomatic acts with women. Their leaving of heaven ("not keeping their own domain") appears to be paralleled with the Jews not wanting to enter the Promised Land with Moses, where they belonged However, many Israelites wanted to turn back around and return to Egypt. Hence, both both failed to keep to their specified domain. Further, the sexual immorality of these angels with a strange flesh (humans) is compared to the men of Sodom who likewise pursued strange flesh (the angels visiting Lot).
So, the first point is clear: the false teachers are not keeping to their own domain, the Church, as evidenced by their sexual immorality. They are like those angels that left heaven's abode, in which the visible Church stands as an Earthly analogue.
Jude then says that these men defile the flesh and reject all authority, comparing them to unreasoning animals. They have no self-control. It is within the context of this point we have to understand Jude's invoking of another Jewish legend, the Assumption of Moses.
In this legend, Michael the Archangel did not rebuke the Devil. But, these out of control hedonists that Jude speaks of slander true Christians for not being antinomians like themselves. By doing so, they rebuke those who hold to orthodox doctrine. All the while, they themselves do not even understand what doctrine ought to be.
In light of this, what is Jude really condemning? He is not condemning rebuking the Devil. Rather, he is showing how the antinomians show no restraint in rebuking people wrongly, while Michael showed restraint by not rebuking someone whom he had every right to rebuke.
The passage is not about rebuking the devil, it is about showing restraint. This is why there are so many parts about sexual immorality throughout the whole passage that verse nine finds itself in the middle of. If we were to argue that the passage is saying both this and banning rebuking, then in order to be consistent we would have to dictate that the passage bans both rebuking the devil and for that matter, rebuking After all, the lack of rightful rebuking is being approved while the wrongful rebuking is condemned. It's a two way street. This would then make what Paul did to Peter in Antioch, Jesus did to the moneychangers, Elihu did to Job, and many other examples of righteous rebuking in fact wrong. Clearly, applying the inference from Jude 9 that rebuking is bad leads us to an incorrect conclusion, so much so, it becomes clear that the inference has to be wrong.
So, what can we learn about all of this? In order to properly extrapolate doctrines from the Scripture we need to do many things. We have to look at themes that come up repeatedly in all different books, explicit truth claims (i.e. Jesus is God, we are saved by grace through faith and not works, etcetera), and many other things. But, in this case, we see that when trying to draw a doctrine from an inference, it was first necessary to understand the internal logic of the passage itself. To read a passage that revolves around sexual immorality and a lack of self control, and then read the passage about Michael and Satan as some sort of misnomer talking making a completely unrelated point is not sound exegesis. We need to be Christians that extrapolate doctrine on the entirety of passages, not sound bytes and out-of-context proof-texts. In fact, people that draw doctrines based upon out of context inferences of singular passages often come to heretical conclusions, such as soul sleep, unitarianism, works-based righteousness, and other wickedness.
So, there can be more said about the movie. For example, I am not entirely sold on the idea that Christians even ought to be praying for 10 or 20 minutes, or even an hour as we see in the movie. Other than Jesus praying all night, we do not see examples of such lengthy prayers from those of us that are not God. After all, the Scripture says we ought not to keep babbling on like the pagans do (Matt 6:7). In his comments on the same passage Luther wrote, "The fewer the words, the better the prayer. The more words, the worse the prayer. Few words and much meaning is Christian. Many words and little meaning is pagan."
However, I think my review and coverage of some topics that arise from it is sufficient without saying more than this. We need humility when judging the works of others, humility when approaching the Scripture, care when interpreting the Scripture, and fervent prayer with confidence that God will answer in accordance with what is right ad good.
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About the Global Effective-O-Meter
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Cases from Azerbaijan and Brazil to FIFA and Malaysia have shown how corrupt networks are able to open bank accounts, transfer funds across borders and acquire prime real estate and luxury goods in global capitals.
Since 2014, a global anti-money laundering body called the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has been assessing whether countries' measures to stop dirty money are actually working in practice – whether they are effective – in addition to the extent to which laws are in place on paper.
To date, FATF and its regional offices have assessed 70 countries across the world. As the Effective-O-Meter shows, average global anti-money laundering effectiveness stands at just 32 per cent. There has been no change since the last edition of the Effective-O-Meter in February 2018, which covered 46 countries.
In simple terms, on average all countries assessed so far are failing to effectively prevent corrupt individuals and their professional enablers from stealing money and getting away with it, at enormous cost to citizens.
Overall, just nine countries score above 50 per cent: Australia, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
However, even these relative high-scorers are at the 70 per cent mark or below. In addition, anti-corruption NGOs in the top-rated jurisdiction, the UK, have expressed their dismay at the high ratings, pointing to multiple shortcomings in FATF's review.
Since 2014, Transparency International has been calling on FATF to listen to the views of civil society experts during its country visits, precisely to reduce the risk of critical information being ignored.
As of February 2019, global effectiveness at stopping money laundering stands at 32%.
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Moderate effectiveness (ME): 1;
Substantial Effectiveness (SE): 2;
High Effectiveness (HE): 3.
The unweighted average effectiveness score for each country across all 11 FATF immediate outcomes has been expressed as a percentage of the highest possible score (3: high effectiveness). The global effectiveness score is an unweighted average of the scores for all available countries.

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4/21/2018 Armenian falsification In English , In English
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The Azerbaijani historian told why the capital of Armenia - Yerevan - can not be 2800 years old, and whom in fact historically this city belongs to.
The fairy tale that was invented fifty years ago is presented today as part of the history of Armenians and the city of Yerevan, which is supposedly 2800 years old, director of the Center for Caucasus History, senior researcher of the Institute of Law and Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Rizvan Huseynov told Sputnik Azerbaijan.
In an interview with the influential Italian newspaper La Stampa, former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan stated that in the autumn of this year the Armenians will celebrate the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan.
Huseynov recalled that the fact of total destruction of the medieval Muslim city of Erivan (Irevan) made public long ago. According to him, if you look at the images, engravings of the medieval Erivan, you can see that it was an ordinary eastern city with minarets, baths, caravanserais and fortresses in the Muslim style.
The scientist pointed out that the Muslim pupulation lived in this city. All this can be learned through archival materials, written heritage, and even photos made in tsarist Russia, which joined such a Muslim city in those years.
However, he said, the situation changed at a time when the Armenians first gained independence and asked the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic (ADR) on May 29, 1918 for the city of Erivan (Irevan). They asked the National Council of ADRs to concede to them this city in order to make it the capital of the Ararat republic they created in those days.
"Why Ararat? Because the Armenians planned to create their own state on the territory of Turkey," Huseynov said.
But the disastrous events of the First World War, the retreat of the Caucasian Front, the offensive of Turkish troops - all this prevented Armenians and their external patrons from realizing the idea of creating an Armenian state around Mount Ararat and further into Turkey, Sputnik said.
Nevertheless, according to Huseynov, the idea of creating a republic did not leave Dashnaks and Armenian nationalists, and in this connection they decided to temporarily create the Ararat republic on the territory of the Caucasus. Proclaimed its independence in Tbilisi. But they had nowhere to go.
"The thing is that on May 26 Georgians proclaimed the independence of the Georgian Republic with its capital in Kutaisi, and the Azerbaijanis proclaimed the independence of their republic with a temporary capital in Ganja, since Baku was occupied by the Bolsheviks, and Armenians simply had nowhere to go," he said.
First they wanted to make their capital Tbilisi, but Georgians said they will not yield their city. There was also an idea to make the capital of present-day Gyumri (at that time Alexandropol), but the Turkish army had conducted a successful offensive by that time, this city fell and passed into the hands of the Turks, the expert said.
And so, with the powerful pressure from the Entente countries and other states on the ADR, the National Council of the ADR, although not in its entirety, agreed on behalf of Fatali Khan Khoysky to concede the city of Erivan (Irevan) to the Ararat Republic, he stressed.
After the Ararat Republic fell and the Armenian SSR was established in its place, which became part of the Soviet Union, the Armenians finally realized that there would be no republic in Turkey any more, and the whole history and mythology Armenian people shifted to the territory of the Caucasus, to the territory of the newly created Armenian Republic, "Sputnik said.
Then, according to him, the gradual destruction of Islam, the medieval eastern heritage, the expulsion of Azerbaijanis from these lands began, which went on throughout the twentieth century. In parallel with the eviction, the city of Erivan (Irevan) was also destroyed.
In the 20 years of the last century, a master plan was adopted, which began to be implemented as early as the 1930s. So, in 1936 the city was renamed into Yerevan. The demolition of the historical center of the city began.
However, in Yerevan they decided that they do not need a historical city. It was demolished, built up with new buildings, first of all, governmental and administrative. But after a while they needed to come up with a legend that Armenians from ancient times live in this place, Huseynov stressed.
"The chaotic search for evidence began, and the remains of the Urartian fortress, which has nothing to do with Armenians, nor their history and culture, were found in the vicinity of Yerevan," he said.
According to Huseynov, massive excavations were launched in early 50s. The Urartian fortress was restored, and actually from nothing, on the basis of invented sketches. And after a while they found a cuneiform tablet there, which in itself is very strange. According to this exhibit, the Armenians for some reason decided that the city is 28 centuries old.
After that, the date was invented, and in 1968 they celebrated the 2750th anniversary of the fortress of Erebuni. The scientific commission that arrived from Moscow at the time, headed by Academician Isaak Minets, was surprised by what he had seen. Scientists asked - "what kind of fortress is it, and who invented it?". To which the Armenian side replied that "this is a temporary museum props, so that the population and tourists would be interested to know about the history of the city," the expert said.
"However, after a while, further strengthening and expansion of the fortress began, and today new falsification created right in front of our eyes.Five years ago a fictional fairy tale was presented as part of the history of Armenians and the city of Yerevan, which is supposedly 2800 years old," he stressed.
At the same time, Huseynov noted, Armenians for some reason forgot the real history of the city of Erivan (Irevan). According to handwritten and other sources, this city appeared in the beginning of the XVI century. More precisely, between 1504 and 1511 years the foundation of the Urartian fortress was laid, which had strategic and defensive significance.
The city was laid at the strategic point between Safavid and Ottoman by commander Revan Gulu Khan, who was sent to this territory by Shah Ismail Khatai. Then there were the Safavido-Ottoman wars and it was strategically important at this point to build a fortress, which later passed from hand to hand. Ottomans more than once captured this city, built it, then the Safavids again released it and also completed, the scientist said.
"In short, the whole story of Erivan (Irevan) has nothing to do with Armenians, they were only allowed to settle around the city, engage in trade and crafts. Also there were several churches, including Echmiadzin," he said.
According to the bill of sales, stored in Echmiadzin, Echmiadzin was bought from Azerbaijani beks and the documents indicate that this area is in the country of Azerbaijan or, according to the Armenians -Torpatokal, the interlocutor of Sputnik concluded.


Lecturers of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife have embarked on mass annual vacation to enable them have rest and recharge for maximum productivity.
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by Dr. Ulrich Scholten
Mar 24, 2017 10:37:43 AM
The Turing Gateway to Mathematics at Cambridge University at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences hosts a series of informative events in 2017.
These educational presentations are designed for academic students and professionals who enjoy sharpening their math skills, which can help improve a wide variety of industries from manufacturing to finance. These workshops and consultations feature globally known math experts as guest speakers.
Events planned for 2017 include:
Environmental Modelling in Industry Study Group (April 3, 2017-April 6, 2017 at Isaac Newton Institute) - Working with Professor Onno Bokhove
Developments in Healthcare Imaging – Connecting with Academia (April 19, 2017 at Isaac Newton Institute) – working with Dr. Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb & Professor John Aston
IMA Conference on Inverse Problems from Theory to Application
Data Sharing and Governance (June 27, 2017 at Institute of Child Health) - Working with Professors Patrick Wolfe and Sofia Olhede from University College London
2nd Edwards Symposium (September 6, 2017 - September 8, 2017 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences) – A tribute to the life and work of Professor Sir Sam Edwards FRS, one of the great scientific minds of the 20th Century.This event is being delivered with Professor Mike Cates (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics), Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld & Professor Mark Warner, FRS.
Professor Onno Bokhove - He teaches Applied Mathematics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. His research interests include design and testing of various laboratory configurations, such as weather prediction and hydraulic solutions for hyperbolic systems.
Dr. Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb - She is the head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University of Cambridge. She is also convenor of the European Women in Mathematics Association.
Professor John Aston - Not only is he a member of the board of directors at Alan Turing Institute, he is a Professor of Statistics. His focus is on Applied Statistics, Statistical Neuroimaging and Statistical Linguistics. Prior to Cambridge, he held academic positions at the University of Warwick and Academia Sinica.
Patrick Wolfe - He works as Professor of Statistics and Honorary Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He is also a Royal Society Research Fellow in Mathematical Sciences.
Sofia Olhede - She is a Professor of Statistics at University College London and holds an honorary chair for its Computer Science department. Some of her key interests include Big Data, Ecology, Finance and Oceanography. She also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on Signal Processing.
Professor Mike Cates - At University of Cambridge he is the 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Prior to his arrival in 2015, he served as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main interests are in the studies of soft matter and has worked on theories of active matter.
Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Blumenfeld - He is a Physics teacher and holds MSc and PhD degrees in Physics at Tel Aviv University. He specialisation is Theoretical Physics and works on soft matter.
Professor Mark Warner, FRS - He works with the Theory of Condensed Matter Group with a focus on Liquid Crystal Elastomers. He is also interested in unusual mechanics and differential geometry.
Professor Sir Sam Edwards Tribute
Known throughout the world as one of the most brilliant minds in physics, Edwards lived from 1928 to 2015. He made huge contributions to quantum field theory following his research on condensed matter physics in the 1950s. He went on to pursue theoretical study of complex materials, leading to the current quantitative understanding of polymer matter.
During the 1970s he was Chairman of the Science Research Council and was knighted in 1975. In 1984 Edwards was named Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge University, where he remained through 1995. He received a Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 2001, along with several other awards.
https://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/
Email: info@turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk
Photo: "Mathematics", Courtesy of Robert Scarth, Flickr, (CC BY 2.0)


The school year starts in less than a month in Koro. Ibrahima is pushing the builders to have the new classrooms ready for the middle school students by then. It will be close, but he is confident that it will be ready. It will be so amazing to have the 7th, 8th and 9th graders in a brand new building that is fully owned and paid for on our own land. In addition to the classrooms, the administration building is next door and is nearly complete. There are also three restrooms: one for girls, one for boys, and one for adults.
Like construction projects in the US there have been surprises, challenges and setbacks. There has been a severe drought in addition to the seasonal dry months that brought brick making to a standstill. Too much water in July caused different problems. Even a sand shortage at one point was overcome. But in the end we are going to come in under budget and on time.
The 1st through 4th graders will return to the rented rooms that Grace Private School has used for several years. But with only four classes at that location instead of six no one will have to be outside in the makeshift grass wall classes. Every year a new grade is added. With the addition of 4th grade for 2015-16 we are only two years away from offering all nine years of primary school.
With the new building our monthly operating budget will increase. Some of this will be covered by the tuition that the families pay, but we wouldn't be able to have this wonderful school without help from our great supporters. Please consider becoming a monthly donor. Every little bit really helps. $180 a year will cover tuition for a student that otherwise might not be able to attend. $600 a year brings us 1% closer to the next 3 classrooms. We feel that the education that is offered at Grace is the best in town. Small class sizes, well-trained teachers, and a Christian education have all been successful in encouraging parents to entrust their children with us. Please keep Grace Private School in your thoughts and in your prayers this season.


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BorgWarner Inc
About BorgWarner Inc
https://www.borgwarner.com
3850 Hamlin Road, Auburn Hills, MI, United States, 48326
BorgWarner Inc. provides solutions for combustion, hybrid, and electric vehicles worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Air Management, E-Propulsion & Drivetrain, Fuel Injection, and Aftermarket. The Air Management segment offers turbochargers, eBoosters, eTurbos, timing systems, emissions systems, thermal systems, gasoline ignition technology, smart remote actuators, powertrain sensors, canisters, cabin heaters, battery modules and systems, battery packs, battery heaters, and battery charging. The E-Propulsion & Drivetrain segment provides rotating electrical components, power electronics, control modules, software, friction, and mechanical products for automatic transmissions and torque-management products. The Fuel Injection segment develops and manufactures gasoline and diesel fuel injection components and systems. The Aftermarket segment sells products and services to independent aftermarket customers and original equipment service customers. This segment provides a range of solutions, including fuel injection, electronics and engine management, maintenance, and test equipment and vehicle diagnostics. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers of light vehicles, which comprise passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, vans, and light trucks; commercial vehicles, including medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks, and buses; and off-highway vehicles, such as agricultural and construction machinery, and marine applications, as well as to tier one vehicle systems suppliers and the aftermarket for light, commercial, and off-highway vehicles. The company was formerly known as Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc. BorgWarner Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jdbc.informix.interceptor;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.DatabaseInfo;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.MethodDescriptor;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.ParsingResult;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.SpanEventRecorder;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.TraceContext;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.interceptor.SpanEventSimpleAroundInterceptorForPlugin;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.jdbc.DatabaseInfoAccessor;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.jdbc.ParsingResultAccessor;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.jdbc.DefaultDatabaseInfo;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.jdbc.UnKnownDatabaseInfo;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.util.InterceptorUtils;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;
import com.informix.util.AdvancedUppercaseProperties;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jdbc.informix.InformixConstants;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jdbc.informix.interceptor.getter.InformixDatabaseNameGetter;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jdbc.informix.interceptor.getter.InformixConnectionInfoGetter;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.jdbc.informix.interceptor.getter.Informix_4_50_ConnectionInfoGetter;

/**
 * @author Guillermo Adrian Molina
 */
// #1375 Workaround java level Deadlock
// https://oss.navercorp.com/pinpoint/pinpoint-naver/issues/1375
//@TargetMethods({
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int[]" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "java.lang.String[]" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int", "int" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareStatement", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int", "int", "int" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareCall", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareCall", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int", "int" }),
//        @TargetMethod(name="prepareCall", paramTypes={ "java.lang.String", "int", "int", "int" })
//})
public class InformixPreparedStatementCreateInterceptor extends SpanEventSimpleAroundInterceptorForPlugin {

    public InformixPreparedStatementCreateInterceptor(TraceContext context, MethodDescriptor descriptor) {
        super(context, descriptor);
    }

    @Override
    public void doInBeforeTrace(SpanEventRecorder recorder, Object target, Object[] args)  {
        DatabaseInfo databaseInfo = (target instanceof DatabaseInfoAccessor) ? ((DatabaseInfoAccessor)target)._$PINPOINT$_getDatabaseInfo() : null;

        if(databaseInfo == null) {
            databaseInfo = getDatabaseInfo(target);
        }

        if (target instanceof DatabaseInfoAccessor) {
            ((DatabaseInfoAccessor) target)._$PINPOINT$_setDatabaseInfo(databaseInfo);
        }

        recorder.recordServiceType(databaseInfo.getType());
        recorder.recordEndPoint(databaseInfo.getMultipleHost());
        recorder.recordDestinationId(databaseInfo.getDatabaseId());
    }

    @Override
    protected void prepareAfterTrace(Object target, Object[] args, Object result, Throwable throwable) {
        final boolean success = InterceptorUtils.isSuccess(throwable);
        if (success) {
            if (target instanceof DatabaseInfoAccessor) {
                // set databaseInfo to PreparedStatement only when preparedStatement is generated successfully.
                DatabaseInfo databaseInfo = ((DatabaseInfoAccessor)target)._$PINPOINT$_getDatabaseInfo();
                if (databaseInfo != null) {
                    if (result instanceof DatabaseInfoAccessor) {
                        ((DatabaseInfoAccessor)result)._$PINPOINT$_setDatabaseInfo(databaseInfo);
                    }
                }
            }
            if (result instanceof ParsingResultAccessor) {
                // 1. Don't check traceContext. preparedStatement can be created in other thread.
                // 2. While sampling is active, the thread which creates preparedStatement could not be a sampling target. So record sql anyway.
                String sql = (String) args[0];
                ParsingResult parsingResult = traceContext.parseSql(sql);
                if (parsingResult != null) {
                    ((ParsingResultAccessor)result)._$PINPOINT$_setParsingResult(parsingResult);
                } else {
                    if (logger.isErrorEnabled()) {
                        logger.error("sqlParsing fail. parsingResult is null sql:{}", sql);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void doInAfterTrace(SpanEventRecorder recorder, Object target, Object[] args, Object result, Throwable throwable) {
        if (result instanceof ParsingResultAccessor) {
            ParsingResult parsingResult = ((ParsingResultAccessor)result)._$PINPOINT$_getParsingResult();
            recorder.recordSqlParsingResult(parsingResult);
        }
        recorder.recordException(throwable);
        recorder.recordApi(methodDescriptor);
    }

    private DatabaseInfo getDatabaseInfo(Object target) {
        final String url = getURL(target);
        final String dbName = getDatabaseName(target);

        DatabaseInfo databaseInfo = null;
        if (url != null && dbName != null) {
            databaseInfo = new DefaultDatabaseInfo(InformixConstants.INFORMIX, InformixConstants.INFORMIX_EXECUTE_QUERY, url, url, Arrays.asList(url), dbName);
        }

        if (databaseInfo == null) {
            databaseInfo = UnKnownDatabaseInfo.INSTANCE;
        }
        return databaseInfo;
    }

    private String getDatabaseName(Object target) {
        if (target instanceof InformixDatabaseNameGetter) {
            return ((InformixDatabaseNameGetter) target)._$PINPOINT$_getDatabaseName();
        }
        return null;
    }

    private String getURL(Object target) {
        if (target instanceof InformixConnectionInfoGetter) {
            Properties connInfo = ((InformixConnectionInfoGetter) target)._$PINPOINT$_getConnectionInfo();
            String url = connInfo.getProperty("IFXHOST") + ":" + connInfo.getProperty("PORTNO");
            return url;
        }
        if (target instanceof Informix_4_50_ConnectionInfoGetter) {
            AdvancedUppercaseProperties connInfo = ((Informix_4_50_ConnectionInfoGetter) target)._$PINPOINT$_getConnectionInfo();
            String url = connInfo.getProperty("IFXHOST") + ":" + connInfo.getProperty("PORTNO");
            return url;
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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"There will be more Jewish brothers and sisters coming to Cuba to interact with their peers on the island, resulting in increasing help coming from the Jewish Federations."
Cuban Jews are looking forward to closer ties with their American co-religionists, a former leader of the Havana community told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
"Together with the new era of the relationship between Cuba and the US, there will be a flourishing of the relationship between the Jewish communities from the two countries," said William Miller, the former deputy chairman of the Cuban community.
"With the opening on the licenses opportunities there will be more Jewish brothers and sisters coming to Cuba to interact with their peers on the island, resulting in increasing help coming from the Jewish Federations and Jewish congregational systems in the US," he said.
Members of both countries' Jewish communities celebrated the release of American Jewish aid worker Alan Gross from a Cuban prison on Wednesday as part of a reset in relations between Havana and Washington in which President Barack Obama agreed to normalize relations after more than five decades of hostility.
In Havana on Wednesday, Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, who leads the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in New York, celebrated Hanukka with members of the local community.
"We're here in Cuba to celebrate with the Cuban people this overcoming by spirit. Not by might and not by power, but by spirit. That verse from the Prophet Zechariah that spirit will prevail in the world and you feel it all around us here. Everyone is celebrating, everyone is dancing and there is a possibility of freedom that awaits, which is so important," he said.
Dina Siegel Vann, director of the American Jewish Committee's Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, said Gross's release and the opening of ties with Cuba is a boon for Jews: In addition to the benefits accrued to all Cubans from open relations, Cuban Jews "will have stronger ties to Jewish organizations, they will be much more in the open," she said.
Improved US-Cuba relations would have a rollover effect, removing obstacles to US ties with other Latin American countries – and this in turn would remove tensions that have affected Jewish communities, Vann said.
There are between 5,500 and 6,000 Cuban Jews within the Florida Jewish community, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Executive Director Jacob Solomon told the Post.
"They are very pleased about Alan Gross's release. They think it's been an extraordinary affront to decency that he has been incarcerated for so long and they are universally happy that he was released," Solomon said.
Much of the current work undertaken by Jewish organizations from the United States to aid co-religionists in Cuba will likely continue as it has done for some time, he said.
"There are probably no more than 1,000 or 1,500 [Jews in Cuba] and some people think that estimate is a little too large. It depends on how you define who is a member of the community.
So in terms of human, social and financial capital, I think it's a kind of tenuous community. I'm not saying it's going to stay like that. I think for the time being, this change is not suddenly going to make them a world player of Jewish communities.
Any democratic gains made by Cubans in general will certainly affect the Jewish community, he added.
The relationship between Cuba's Jews and organized American Jewry has been "very close," Kohn said.
Both B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee have been active in Cuba, bringing books, medicines and other supplies and even rabbis and teachers, he said.
Reuters and JTA contributed to this report.


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Privinvest: A World Leader in Naval Shipbuilding
Written by on October 5, 2019
Privinvest is an international ship builder company that has been established as a world class leader when it comes to naval shipbuilding. This globally acclaimed company that is sought after by a multitude of countries' national defense councils was founded by Iskandar Safa, along with his brother Akram Safa, a little more than twenty years ago.
The primary focus of Privinvest is to build innovative ships that are equipped with the latest technological enhancements. Aside from producing mega yachts for the rich and famous, they also produce commercial vessels that help facilitate shipping and trade. On top of that, they are responsible for providing the fleet for many naval forces around the globe.
The primary headquarters of the Privinvest company is located in the Middle East. Apart from that, they also have cutting-edge facilities and building yards strewn in United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Mediterranean. Privinvest is proud of the diverse skills set that their team is equipped with. To date, their company is comprised of over two thousand five hundred employees working around the globe.
All of their people come to work to collaborate on the design and construction of the various kinds of ships. They also work on supplying integrated systems to help the new owners navigate their new vessels with ease once it reaches their home port. Privinvest has support programs for the naval fleets. On top of that, they are generous when it comes to sharing their tips and tricks to other countries that hope to establish their own shipbuilding industry.
Iskandar Safa is happy that the company he works so hard in establishing has reached greater heights. What started out has a mere vision has exceeded his expectations. The reality now is that they are responsible for the world's most successful and recognized ships like the recently lunched "Sailing Yatch A", which is a sail-assisted motor yacht produced for a Russian billionaire with a price tag that is well over four hundred million dollars because of its sleek exteriors and state-of-the-art equipment. Of course, all of these are made possible, because of Privinvest's expertise in building the finest ships that traverse the oceans.
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NewYorkUniversity
LawReview
Visual Rulemaking
Elizabeth G. Porter, Kathryn A. Watts
Federal rulemaking has traditionally been understood as a text-bound, technocratic process. However, as this Article is the first to uncover, rulemaking stakeholders—including agencies, the President, and members of the public—are now deploying politically tinged visuals to push their agendas at every stage of high-stakes, often virulently controversial, rulemakings. Rarely do these visual contributions appear in the official rulemaking record, which remains defined by dense text, lengthy cost-benefit analyses, and expert reports. Perhaps as a result, scholars have overlooked the phenomenon we identify here: the emergence of a visual rulemaking universe that is splashing images, GIFs, and videos across social media channels. While this new universe, which we call "visual rulemaking," might appear to be wholly distinct from the textual rulemaking universe on which administrative law has long focused, the two are not in fact separate. Visual politics are seeping into the technocracy.
This Article argues that visual rulemaking is a good thing. It furthers fundamental regulatory values, including transparency and political accountability. It may also facilitate participation by more diverse stakeholders—not merely regulatory insiders who are well-equipped to navigate dense text. Yet we recognize that visual rulemaking poses risks. Visual appeals may undermine the expert-driven foundation of the regulatory state, and some uses may threaten or outright violate key legal doctrines, including the Administrative Procedure Act and longstanding prohibitions on agency lobbying and propaganda. Nonetheless, we conclude that administrative law theory and doctrine ultimately can and should welcome this robust new visual rulemaking culture.
The Mechanism of Derivatives Market Efficiency
These are not your parents' financial markets. A generation ago, the image of Wall Street was one of floor traders and stockbrokers, of opening bells and ticker symbols, of titans of industry and barbarians at the gate. These images reflected the prevailing view in which stock markets stood at the center of the financial universe. The high point of this equity-centric view coincided with the development of a significant body of empirical literature examining the efficient market hypothesis (EMH): the prediction that prices within an efficient stock market will fully incorporate all available information. Over time, this equity-centric view became conflated with these empirical findings, transforming the EMH in the eyes of many observers from a testable prediction about how rapidly new information is incorporated into stock prices into a more general—and generally unexamined—statement about the efficiency of financial markets.
In their seminal 1984 article The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency, Ron Gilson and Reinier Kraakman advanced a causal framework for understanding how new information becomes incorporated into stock prices. Gilson and Kraakman's framework provided an institutional explanation for the empirical findings supporting the EMH. It has also played an influential role in public policy debates surrounding securities fraud litigation, mandatory disclosure requirements, and insider trading restrictions. Yet despite its enduring influence, there have been few serious attempts to extend Gilson and Kraakman's framework beyond the relatively narrow confines in which it was originally developed: the highly regulated, order-driven, and extremely liquid markets for publicly traded stocks.
This Article examines the mechanisms of derivatives market efficiency. These mechanisms respond to information and other problems not generally encountered within conventional stock markets. These problems reflect important differences in the nature of derivatives contracts, the structure of the markets in which they trade, and the sources of market liquidity. Predictably, these problems have led to the emergence of very different mechanisms of market efficiency. This Article describes these problems and evaluates the likely effectiveness of the mechanisms of derivatives market efficiency. It then explores the implications of this evaluation in terms of the current policy debates around derivatives trade reporting and disclosure, the macroprudential surveillance of derivatives markets, the push toward mandatory central clearing of derivatives, the prudential regulation of derivatives dealers, and the optimal balance between public and private ordering.
State Courts and the Promise of Pretrial Justice in Criminal Cases
The Honorable Eric T. Washington
Brennan Lecture
Referees of Republicanism: How the Guarantee Clause Can Address State Political Lockup
Jarret A. Zafran
Our Government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed, generally measured through our elections. When incumbent powers create structures and rules for our politics that entrench the status quo and limit voter control, however, the legitimacy of that consent is tested. For more than fifty years, and in spite of the "political question doctrine," the Supreme Court has adjudicated challenges to franchise restrictions, gerrymandering, ballot access provisions, and more. In doing so, the Court utilizes doctrinal frameworks that focus on harms to individual rights and not on structural harms to the competitiveness, accountability, and responsiveness of our politics. This myopic view leaves systemic entrenchment and political lockup largely untouched. Scholars have identified these doctrinal deficiencies, but have not suggested an alternative textual basis for judicial intervention in these cases. This Note offers a potential solution in the Guarantee Clause. It argues that the Clause embodies a promise of popular sovereignty in the states. I contend that the Guarantee Clause can and should be revived to unburden the courts from the deficiencies of existing doctrine and provide a textual basis for addressing the problems of political malfunction.
The Validity of the Clean Power Plan's Emissions Trading Provisions
Jessica M. Wilkins
In June 2013, President Obama issued a memorandum directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use its authority under Sections 111(b) and 111(d) of the Clean Air Act to address carbon pollution from new and existing power plants. Over two years later, the EPA issued the final rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, and a proposed federal plan that will be implemented in states that do not submit their own plan under the Clean Power Plan. Both the Clean Power Plan and the EPA's proposed federal plan rely heavily on emissions trading programs to reduce carbon emissions in a cost-effective manner. Emissions trading programs set a cap on the total amount of a pollutant permitted and allow sources to buy and sell allowances based on how much of the pollutant each source is reducing or emitting. Opponents of the Clean Power Plan and its trading provisions are challenging the rule on the grounds that it is beyond the EPA's authority under the Act.
This Note suggests that these emissions trading provisions are valid for two related reasons: first, the EPA has successfully implemented emissions trading programs under Section 110 of the Act in the past that demonstrate the agency's longstanding history of using these programs; and second, emissions trading has been upheld by the Supreme Court as permissible under Section 110, and Section 111(d)—under which the Clean Power Plan was promulgated—contains two substantive references to Section 110. Taken together, the EPA's past use of emissions trading programs and the statutory references in Section 111 suggest that the trading provisions in the Clean Power Plan and the proposed federal plan are a permissible exercise of the EPA's authority.
Once More unto the Breach: The Constitutional Right to Informational Privacy and the Privacy Act
Caleb A. Seeley
With the rise of the internet and computer storage, the loss and theft of individuals' private information has become commonplace. Data breaches occur with increasing regularity, leading some to question if the current statutory and regulatory schemes properly incentivize the maintenance of adequate security measures amongst federal agencies. This Note argues that inadequate data security practices by government agencies implicate the constitutional right to informational privacy. While the Court has previously upheld intrusive personal information collection programs, the Privacy Act, which plays an essential role in the Court's decisions, has been weakened significantly by recent interpretation of its damages provision. Given this change in the effectiveness of the statutory protection of private data, lawsuits alleging a violation of the constitutional right to informational privacy might succeed and could help incentivize optimal levels of data security amongst government agencies.
Ably Queer: The ADA as a Tool in LGBT Antidiscrimination Law
Alok K. Nadig
Being queer—like deviating from the norm in any way—can be socially disabling. So why not turn to disability law for redress? After a nationwide same-sex marriage ruling from the Supreme Court, many are devoting more attention to the current absence of uniform, federal employment discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As Title VII has grown friendlier to claims made by LGBT individuals, people are debating the merits of cognizing anti-LGBT bias as sex discrimination in the law. Meanwhile, the Equality Act, introduced in Congress in 2015, would ban discrimination on the basis of LGBT status throughout the country. But while vital, Title VII and the Equality Act could leave a gap through which queer people whose identities are not legible within the gender binary and are not politically stable as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender are left out. This Note argues that LGBT people should challenge their current exclusion from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through constitutional litigation to fill this gap. Through its disavowal of traditional identity politics, the ADA offers an additional comparative advantage that has transformative potential for queer plaintiffs: Its foundation on the social model of disability topples the LGBT rights movement's historic emphasis on respectability to enable unrestrained self-determination.
Death and Its Dignities
Kristen Loveland
Dignity has been associated with death in two very different areas of constitutional jurisprudence: assisted suicide and the death penalty. This Note seeks to analyze what the concept of dignity means in these two contexts: who is the subject of dignity and what are dignity's requirements? It argues that assisted suicide foregrounds the subjective dignity of the individual; what dignity involves is largely, though not wholly, a question of what an individual considers a dignified way to die. By contrast, the subject of dignity in death penalty jurisprudence is the collective and not the individual. Inasmuch as the jurisprudence claims to speak to the dignity of the individual, that dignity is objective and extends no further than collective dignity's reach. As a result, what constitutes dignity in execution is almost wholly determined by what appears dignified to society. This Note ends by critically assessing how the two constitutional areas that link death and dignity may fruitfully inform each other. It suggests that assisted suicide's individualistic dignity includes not just a right to decide how to die, but also a responsibility to collective society to consider how the nature of that suicide may impact collective dignity. In turn, in the death penalty context, states and courts should import subjective individual dignity considerations and reconsider whether their invocation of "dignity" in fact reflects a collective valuation of dignity or merely assuages social sensibilities by masking the reality of death.
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Federal prosecutors claimed in a filing Tuesday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortWhy did Mueller allow his investigation to continue for two years? Manafort transferred to minimum security federal prison Poll: Nearly half of Republicans say no one on Trump campaign committed a crime MORE's ex-son-in-law violated his plea deal by committing further acts of fraud and using illegal drugs while in prison.
Jeffrey Yohai, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in February 2018, allegedly committed new instances of fraud while out on bond before reporting to prison.
Those allegations include instances of home rental fraud, fraudulently selling passes for the Coachella music festival that he didn't have and pawning musical instruments stolen from a man renting one of Yohai's properties.
The document, first reported on by Politico, also states the Yohai used cocaine and methamphetamine while in prison. It says that he tested positive for both substances and admitted to authorities that he used them.
Yohai's lawyer pushed for his client to be released so he could seek treatment at a drug rehabilitation facility, according to the filing, but lost that argument in court.
The document also states that another filing under seal alleges that Yohai committed other violations of his plea agreement.
If a judge finds that Yohai did violate the agreement, it opens the door to him facing further charges and a harsher sentence.
Prosecutors wrote in the filing that the plea deal included an agreement to not reveal certain information about Yohai that would have impacted his sentencing.
"If the Court were to find, however, that defendant breached his plea agreement, then the government would be free to provide all the information it possesses to the Court at sentencing," the filing reads.
Yohai was a former business partner with Manafort. He married Manafort's daughter Jessica in 2013, but she filed for divorce in 2017.
Yohai was referenced during Manafort's trial in the Eastern District of Virginia last year, but was not charged in the case and did not testify.
Manafort was convicted on eight felony charges in the case, including a bank fraud charge tied to Yohai.
Politico also reported that Yohai did not cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE's team, which prosecuted Manafort, but that a former Mueller prosecutor is working on Yohai's case.


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The open drama of loft living meets the privacy of traditional residential design, united by an exquisite level of craftsmanship and quality of materials overseen by acclaimed designer Thomas Juul-Hansen. Generous entertaining spaces framed by highly efficient, oversized glass casement windows. Spacious ceiling heights. Direct elevator access. Custom, eight-inch-wide rusticated plank flooring. Three-, four-, and five-bedroom layouts, all with en-suite bathrooms.
Downtown-inspired great rooms Loft-like and light-filled, characterized by oversized windows, expansive ceiling heights and wide plank flooring.
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Every bedroom includes an en-suite bath.
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A Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed private spa is included in each townhouse residence. A multi-sensory experience, finished in floor-to-ceiling imported stone. Outfitted with a steam room, sauna, and rainforest shower. Lounging and exercise zones. All anchored by a custom 50-foot stainless steel pool with a glass wall.
Two extraordinary Penthouses. One remarkable vision by Thomas Juul-Hansen. Duplex indoor and outdoor living, connected by a custom crafted bespoke staircase, accentuated by oversized great rooms and expansive outdoor terraces for entertaining. Atop a pre-war, fully amenitized, loft building thoroughly reengineered by BKSK Architects on one of the best blocks where Tribeca meets SoHo. Introducing the 11 Beach Penthouse Collection.
Family living is emphasized by the eat-in kitchen with a culinary island and a separate window-walled media room. The bedroom wing includes three bedrooms, all with en-suite baths, plus the private master suite with two-exposures, an oversized bedroom flanked on each side by dual-windowed bathing and wardrobe retreats and a private pantry.
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RTD Financial Advisors, Inc. Review – A Top Rated Wealth Advisor
RTD Financial Advisors, Inc. was recently ranked by AdvisoryHQ News as a top rated financial advisory and wealth management firm in Philadelphia, PA.
AdvisoryHQ is a fast-growing online news media that provides coverage, detailed reviews, and objective rankings of financial firms and wealth managers across the U.S., U.K., and Canada.
Overview of RTD Financial Advisors, Inc.
RTD Financial Advisors, Inc. is a wealth management firm in Philadelphia with offices in Atlanta, GA; Bonita Springs, FL; Mt. Laurel, NJ; West Chester, PA; and Johnstown, PA.
RTD was founded by Roy T. Diliberto in 1983.
The company prides itself in being one of the original independent advisory firms and is credited with pioneering Financial Life Planning™, a unique approach to comprehensive and holistic financial planning based on the Kinder Institute model, which separates client priorities into three segments: "Heart's Core," "Ought To," and "Fun To."
The firm has received numerous accolades and awards over the years, including being recognized as one of the top advisory firms by nationally acclaimed publications such as Money magazine, Worth, Philadelphia Business Journal, and Barron's.
And many more…..
Key Factors That Enabled This Firm to Rank as a Top 2016 Wealth Advisory Company
Below are key factors that enabled RTD Financial Advisors, Inc. to rank as a top 2016 wealth management firm in Pennsylvania.
Open, Transparent Fee Structure:
RTD carries all the features that we look for in top financial advisors in Philadelphia. Namely, it is fiduciary, independent, and operates under an open, transparent payment structure.
And it's that structure in particular that makes RTD unique.
While providing fiduciary duties to clients, RTD uses a very unique (among its peers) definition of what constitutes a fiduciary obligation; it's one that goes far beyond the letter of the law in demonstrating a responsibility to openly discuss points of potential conflicts of interest, such as advising a client on whether to pay off a mortgage early, which could cause a depletion of funds under the advisors' management.
Because of such inherent potential for conflicts of interest, RTD has chosen a compensation model that is based on a flat retainer fee, where the client's fee is adjusted every three years instead of based on the assets under management.
This differs significantly from other fee-only advisors who charge based on the value of assets under their management.
RTD utilizes this model for four primary reasons:
It reduces conflicts of interest: Firms that operate on a percentage-based scale would see their bottom line decrease if a client chose to move money from their investments with that firm elsewhere (say, to pay off a mortgage or purchase a business). RTD sees this as a conflict of interest: your money should work for you, not for them. That is why RTD implements a flat retainer fee based on a transparent scale.
It emphasizes holistic financial planning: By charging a flat retainer, RTD can ensure that all of its services are accounted for within your personalized financial plan. Firms that charge a percentage of AUM do so regardless of whether or not you receive multifaceted wealth management advice. A flat fee gives you more bang for your buck.
It pays advisors for what they can control: Obviously, increases in the market cannot be controlled by advisors. However, it's very common for financial advisors to benefit from market increases despite their inability to influence the market. RTD feels that a percentage of AUM in these instances creates a conflict of interest in the advisor's fee structure. Conversely, a flat-fee structure guarantees that you won't face such conflicts with your RTD advisor.
It de-emphasizes risky asset allocation: Since RTD doesn't earn more when your portfolio does well, it avoids the conflict of interest from excessively risky investments. RTD doesn't stand to reap a windfall if a risky investments pay off. To that end, it recommends investments that protect your wealth and grow it safely over the long-term.
RTD's fees (also pasted below) can be viewed on the fee structure page of its website.
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Learning About You to Make Your Plan Personalized:
RTD advisors strive to create a financial plan that addresses what they see as the three biggest areas of your life. These include:
Heart's Core: your core values
Ought To: your responsibilities and commitments
Fun To: your goals and dreams
To map out a customized approach that addresses these concerns, your RTD advisor walks you through a three-step process of financial planning, which includes the following:
Discover: True to its name, this stage involves your RTD advisor getting to know you. They learn who you are, what you want to do with your wealth, your goals for family or business, and so on. Considerations, such as cash flow, financial health, taxes, and insurance, among others, are included.
Plan: After the Discover phase, your advisor builds your plan. Every possible consideration is included during the plan's construction, all with an eye toward making your financial goals, both short- and long-term, a reality.
Live: As simple as it sounds. Once you and your advisor agree on the specifics of your plan, it is finalized and implemented. You then get to experience life to its fullest. No worrying about whether you're adequately preserving your wealth or on-track to meet your goals.
Expert Education:
RTD has accrued an impressive list of designations. We like that RTD employs advisors who have such a breadth of knowledge on industry-related policy. It helps RTD as a firm to provide you with deeper levels of service than you'll find with many Philadelphia wealth management firms.
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Some of these designations include:
Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)
Certified Financial Planner (CFP®)
Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®)
Global Financial Steward™ (GFS®)
Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst™ (AIFA®)
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst™ (CDFA™)
Personal Financial Specialist (PFS)
Certified Pension Consultant (CPC)
Enrolled Retirement Plan Agent (ERPA)
Registered ParaplannerSM (RP®)
Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®)
Accredited Estate Planner® (AEP®)
Professional Plan Consultant™ (PPC™)
Chartered Retirement Plans SpecialistSM (CRPS®)
Comprehensive Financial Planning Services:
RTD's services can be divided between its Primary Services and its Comprehensive Planning Services. Between the two categories, it can create better, more customized plans that address a wider range of client needs.
Its Primary Services are as follows:
Financial Life Planning™
Its comprehensive planning services, for both individuals and businesses, include specializations in:
Cash flow planning
Business, 401(k), and other retirement planning
Philanthropy and charitable giving
Stock option planning
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25 New Songs Out Today
BrooklynVegan Staff Published: January 13, 2023
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So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
LIV.E - "FIND OUT"
Neo-soul singer Liv.e has shared a woozy new single from her upcoming sophomore album Girl In The Half Pearl, and it's keeping our anticipation for this LP very high.
ALLBLACK & CURREN$Y - "PELICANS"
Bay Area rapper ALLBLACK follows his recent Dusty Locane collab "Burpees" with "Pelicans," a hazy yet subwoofer-rattling track that features permastoned New Orleans rapper Curren$y.
ARMANI WHITE - "GOATED" (ft. DENZEL CURRY)
Philly rapper Armani White follows his breakthrough single "Billie Eilish" with the very fun, bouncy "GOATED" featuring Denzel Curry.
OFFSET & HIT-BOY - "2 LIVE"
Offset of Migos taps producer Hit-Boy for the loud, booming, instantly-satisfying single "2 Live."
LOGIC - "WAKE UP" (ft. LUCY ROSE)
Logic is off Def Jam, and his new album College Park will be independently released on February 24. Lead single "Wake Up" finds him as devoted to '90s-style rap as ever.
ULTHAR - "SACCADES"
Oakland black/death metallers Ulthar will follow 2020's beloved Providence with two albums this year, Anthronomicon and Helionomicon, both out 2/17 via 20 Buck Spin. Your second taste comes in the form of the intense "Saccades" from Anthronomicon.
GRAPHIC NATURE - "HEADSTONE"
UK nu-metalcore band Graphic Nature will release their debut album, a mind waiting to die, on February 17 via Rude Records, and new single "Headstone" will induce a lot of nostalgia for the early 2000s.
AARON STAUFFER (SEAWEED) - "GOLD VS. SALT"
Seaweed's Aaron Stauffer continues to drop new solo tracks on his Bandcamp, and today's is "Gold Vs. Salt," which Aaron himself describes as "The Zombies vs Johnny Thunders."
ROYAL BLU - "ARTILLERY" (ft. ROE SUMMERZ & THE AUTOS)
Reggae singer Royal Blu returns with "Artillery," a dark, political song that "shines a blazing light on the rampant crime and social malaise plaguing his home."
MEMORIAM (ex-BOLT THROWER) - "TOTAL WAR"
Memoriam, the British death metal band fronted by Bolt Thrower's Karl Wiletts, will release new album Rise to Power on February 3 via Reaper Entertainment. New single "Total War" is a brutal ripper that Karl says "draws reference from what is happening in the world right now, specifically relating to the war in Ukraine. It seems that after writing lyrics about 'war' for the past thirty years, they seem more relevant now than they have ever been."
PARTYNEXTDOOR - "HER OLD FRIENDS"
Drake collaborator PARTYNEXTDOOR kicks off 2023 with this new syrupy R&B single.
MYA BYRNE - "IT DON'T FADE
Mya Byrne will release new album Rhinestone Tomboy on April 28 via Kill Rock Stars Nashville, making the first release by KRS' new sister label. The album was produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan, and the first single is the breezy country rock of "It Don't Fade."
LIARS ACADEMY - "I'M BEING FOLLOWED"
Baltimore's Liars Academy (who have shared members with Cross My Heart, Strike Anywhere, and more) released two albums on Equal Vision before breaking up in 2007, and now they're set to release their first album in nearly 20 years, Ghosts, on February 24 via Steadfast Records. It was recorded with drummer Eric Fauver before his 2015 passing, and the first taste is the riffy, hard rock-infused post-hardcore of "I'm Being Followed."
KING SLENDER - "STINT"
Philly post-hardcore/screamo band King Slender will release their debut LP Gold Days on February 3 via Tor Johnson Records, Chumpire, Killer Tofu Records, New Granada Records, and strictly no capital letters, and lead single "Stint" is an appealing, raw, very '90s-style song.
JAMES BARRETT - "LOVELY"
James Barrett shares the slowcore-ish single "Lovely," out now on Refresh Records.
KELE (BLOC PARTY) - "TRUE LOVE KNOWS NO DEATH"
Block Party leader Kele has announced The Flames pt. 2 which wil be out March 24. You may remeber Pt 1 featured cover art with a burning copy of The Smiths' The Queen is Dead, and this one has him burning Bloc Party's Silent Alarm. "Since the pandemic I've been spending a lot more time at home, walking around my neighbourhood a lot more, and noticing people that I hadn't really noticed before," Kele says in regards to the EP's first single. "This song is an ode to the people that I see everyday, people that are living on the edge, choosing to live outside of society, for better or for worse."
PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE - MAGIC IS POCKETED EP
Peel Dream Magazine are back with this EP featuring four songs from the same sessions as last year's Pad, full of more warm vibes reminiscent of the High Llamas.
OLIVER COATES - AFTERSUN SOUNDTRACK
One of the best-reviewed films of 2022, Aftersun (which stars Paul Mescal) features a score by Thom Yorke collaborator Oliver Coates.
THE NUDE PARTY - "RIDE ON"
"It started very literally with a teary-eyed old man telling me about a bull rider he met down in Mexico named Alfredo," says The Nude Party's Patton Magee of the lead single from their upcoming album Rides On. "I took note of the conversation because it felt powerful somehow. Shaun in the band had written this great arrangement of chords and when the two came together, the story just kinda poured out. You always hear people say things like, 'oh, the Rolling Stones should just hang it up… they're way over the hill.' I feel bad for people who think that way. I'm saying exactly the opposite. If you're alive, then live. No brakes. Ride on."
VENAMORIS (SLAYER) - "LET ME BE"
Venamoris is the new collaborative project of married couple Paula & Dave Lombardo, and their debut album comes out in February via Three One G. Read about lead single "Let Me Be" here.
GREEN DAY - "ALISON" (ELVIS COSTELLO COVER)
Green Day have shared the previously unreleased cover of Elvis Costello's "Alison" that they recorded while demoing 1997's Nimrod, which will appear on the upcoming Nimrod box set. Read more about it here.
SEAR - "III"
Sear share members with Charleston screamo band To Forget, but their own music is grindier and more metallic, taking influence from such bands as Portrayal of Guilt, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Slint. Read more about their new song "III" here.
TRUTH CULT - "HEAVY WATER"
Baltimore post-hardcore band Truth Cult have announced their new album Walk The Wheel, and you can read about its great new single "Heavy Water" here.
THE POMPS - "HEART FLIPPER"
The Pomps--the Boston ska band led by Big D and the Kids Table's Alex Stern that also features members of Westbound Train, Have Nots, and Stray Bullets--will release new album Bottom of the Pompshere.
MILEY CYRUS - "FLOWERS"
Miley Cyrus has shared the first taste of her upcoming eighth album Endless Summer Vacation, and you can read about it here.
Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive.
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