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Hayley Peterson
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Hayley Peterson is the news director for Insider's business division.
She was previously a chief correspondent and wrote breaking news, analysis, and in-depth investigations on large public and private companies, with an emphasis on retailers including Amazon, Walmart, major grocery chains, and department stores.
Hayley won an honorable mention from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2018 for "defining the retail apocalypse" through her reporting on retail job losses, the decline of Sears, and the impact of store closings on bond holders.
Prior to joining Insider in 2013, Hayley was a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner based in Washington, D.C.
Amazon's top spokesman blasts politicians and 'elite newspapers' for falsely accusing Amazon of 'taking over grocery in America'
Jay Carney made the remarks after the Federal Trade Commission announced an antitrust probe into acquisitions made by Amazon and other tech giants.
The SoftBank-backed company that sold everything for $3 is abruptly shutting down, refusing orders, and laying off employees
"I'm proud of what we created at Brandless and the hard work and dedication of everyone on the team," Brandless CEO Evan Price told Business Insider.
Take a look inside Amazon-owned Whole Foods' newest store, with self-pour beers and a fresh-cut-pasta bar
I visited the 47,000-square-foot store this week to see if the Amazon-owned grocer is testing any new strategies or layouts in its newest store.
An Amazon Prime Air partner is laying off nearly 3,000 workers as Amazon brings more jobs in-house
Texas-based Pinnacle Logistics plans to lay off thousands of workers in Rockford, Illinois and Baltimore, Maryland.
An Amazon delivery company is laying off more than 400 workers after Amazon cut its contract
Los Angeles-based Greenwich Logistics is laying off 408 delivery workers in California and Pennsylvania after Amazon cut its contract.
Best Buy CEO Corie Barry will remain in her role after an investigation that was prompted by an anonymous letter
"Ms. Barry fully cooperated with the review, which has now concluded," Best Buy's board of directors said Tuesday.
Macy's is closing 125 stores, cutting thousands of corporate jobs, and shuttering offices
The store closings represent about one-fifth of the retailer's locations. The company will also cut 2,000 corporate jobs.
More than 2,200 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here's the full list.
Pier 1, Sears, Papyrus, Forever 21, A.C. Moore, and Express are among the retailers that are planning to close stores this year.
The grocery wars are intensifying with Walmart and Kroger in the lead and Amazon poised to 'cause disruption'
Walmart and Kroger remain the top grocery leaders in the US with roughly 30% of combined market share, according to a new UBS report.
Intense demand for a lifelike $350 Baby Yoda replica crashed its seller's website upon its debut
The Baby Yoda replica, which stands nearly 17 inches tall, won't be shipping out to customers until August 2020 at the earliest.
Hallmark stores are closing in 12 states. See if your local store is on the list.
"It's just not a viable business any longer," one Hallmark store owner said, citing pressures from e-commerce.
Publix and Aldi want to take over these 11 closing grocery stores
Publix has offered to buy five closing Lucky's Market stores in Florida in Clermont, Naples, Neptune Beach, Orlando, and Ormond Beach.
Walmart is laying off e-commerce employees as the company focuses on bringing more jobs in-house
Walmart is laying off employees at New York-based Allswell, an e-commerce brand of mattresses and bedding that the company launched two years ago.
Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns
"The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck," the Amazon employee said of Ring.
Gap closed dozens of stores in 22 US states on Sunday. Here's the full list.
The closings are part of Gap's previously announced plan to shutter 230 stores over the course of two years.
Nike calls Kobe Bryant a 'beloved' member of its family after his tragic death in a helicopter crash
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Pier 1 is planning to close roughly have its stores, or about 450 locations, in the upcoming months.
Lucky's Market confirms that it's closing most of its stores, and reveals the 7 that will remain open
Lucky's Market plans to keep seven stores in operation in Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Florida, and Colorado.
Fairway Market files for bankruptcy and plans to sell its stores
Fairway said its stores would remain open during the bankruptcy process. Village Super Market has offered to buy some stores for $70 million.
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Chin Baptist Pastor Abducted by the Burmese Army Still Missing
09/23/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – An ethnic Chin pastor in Myanmar's Mandalay was abducted by the Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) on the morning of September 16. He has been out of contact with his family for a week.
Rev. Thian Lian Sang who leads Falam Baptist Church in Shwe Mandalay, was arrested by armed men in plainclothes in front of his house last Thursday. Along with the group, there were three military vehicles and approximately 20 armed soldiers.
According to the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), following his arrest, members of the State Administration Council (SAC) entered Rev. Sang's home. They confiscated 400,000 kyats (215 USD) which the family had received for the funeral of Rev. Sang's father that had been held on August 25, 2021. These members of the SAC also confiscated five cellphones, including the phones of Rev. Sang's wife and mother.
At the time of his arrest, Rev. Sang was continuing to recover from COVID-19, and the family is gravely concerned for his health and wellbeing. The location of Rev. Sang's imprisonment remains unknown.
BWA, a Christian worldwide communion representing 49 million Baptists in 126 countries and territories, sent a joint statement on September 20 calling for the immediate release of Baptist Pastor Rev. Thian Lian Sang.
The group also calls for those who shot dead Rev. Cung Biak Hum to be held legally responsible, and asks for restoration of the homes burned by the military. Baptist pastor Hmun, also ethnic Chin, was killed by the Tatmadaw on September 18, after an airstrike hit more than 19 homes and he was attempting to help put out fire.
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Female Excellence in Advice Award sees record number of applicants
2017 - August 23, 2017
The record number of applications for the Female Excellence in Advice (FEIA) Award indicates that as more women enter the advice industry they are making a greater impact on their customers' experiences.
A joint initiative by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Australia's leading life insurance specialist, TAL, the FEIA Award celebrates women in financial advice who are making a significant contribution to their profession, their community and their clients.
42 female financial advisers applied for the 2017 FEIA Award, which is a 40% increase on last year. The majority of applicants own and run their own businesses under a dealer group.
Niall McConville, General Manager, Retail Distribution at TAL said the standard of applicants has remained consistently high since the Award was established in 2011.
"As one of the award judges, I've really enjoyed seeing the standard of entrants improve over time as female participation in the industry changes. While we still have a long way to go in our journey to reaching equal gender representation in the financial advice industry, it's encouraging to see more female financial advisers come forward and promote their achievements, which can inspire others to follow their lead."
The FEIA Award 2017 semi-finalists are:
Amanda Pond, Financial Adviser/Lifestyle Money Coach, Puddle 2 Pond Financial
Amie Wild, Director & Financial Adviser, Avanti Advisers
Christina Cabrera, Founder, Wisdom of Wealth for Women
Kath Orman, Senior Financial Planner, Goals & Dreams
Katherine Hann, Financial Adviser & Practice Principal, Financial Wisdom
Lea Schodel, Founder, Wellthy
Nicole Heales, Principal Adviser & Broker, Nicole Heales Financial
Sacha Burchgart, Founder/Managing Director, Burcheart
Simone Richardson, Director, Tall Poppy Wealth
Susan Morris, Financial Adviser, Northern Wealth Advisory Group
Tracey Sofra, Principal Financial Planner, Sofcorp Financial Services
"We congratulate all of this year's semi-finalists, who had phenomenal submissions. Their entries were clear standouts in terms of the successes they've had in running their businesses as well as the contributions they've made to the community," said Mr McConville.
AFA CEO Phil Kewin said the award process is not just about winning; it is also about the tremendous value gained through the process, which is why TAL and the AFA introduced an additional feedback component to give unsuccessful award applicants advice on how they could improve their applications.
"Our aim is to make the overall award process a constructive and rewarding experience for everyone involved. One of the ways we can do this is by offering individual applicants additional feedback from one of the judges if they want it.
"We are excited to progress the semi-finalists to the next round of judging, which consists of in-depth interviews to help us determine the finalists," he said.
The finalists for the FEIA Award will be announced in September 2017, with the winner announced at the AFA National Adviser Conference on October 11-13.
The Winner of the Award will receive a $15,000 tailored education package, courtesy of TAL. TAL and the AFA will work with the winner to tailor the package to the winner's requirements in furthering their professional development.
For more information on the award, visit: AFA Female Advice.


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Actions at the margins
Kin Chi LAU
Department of Cultural Studies
The article presents a profile of the women's rights initiative 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Price 2005, renamed PeaceWomen across the Globe. Details are given discussing women's roles in alternative economic development in the 21st century, highlighting the actions of PeaceWomen to promote the accomplishments of minority and underrepresented women. The particular example of the Chinese woman Wang Pinsong is then given, describing her work to improve her rural Chinese village. Concluding remarks are given asserting the importance of inspirational women in global development.
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LAU, K. C. (2011). Actions at the margins. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 36(3), 551-560.
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The Nagamaki Sword – The God of War and His Nagamaki Elite Guard
Posted on October 23, 2018 by Katanas For Sale
The Nagamaki Sword
One of the least known Nihonto used by the Samurai in the Warring period of Japan is the Nagamaki, The Nagamaki is distinguished by its considerably longer handle that sometimes can match the blade length.
The Nagamaki translates to a long wrapping. It is a kind of nihonto or classically-made sword and as it translated name suggest, its main feature is a very long handle.
This traditional Nihonto was primarily used around the Kamakura, Muromachi, and Nanbokucho eras. On average, its blade measured around 60 to 120 centimeters while the tsuka measured around 45 to 90 centimeters in length.
The Nagamaki's Exterior & Features
A Nagamaki is known to be a long sword with a blade that could reach around two to four feet, while its handle was usually 2/3 of its blade length.
Commonly, its blade featured a single edge which resembles the naginata's; however, the difference between these can be seen in the manner of mounting the blade: its tsuka was not a simple wooden shaft and was crafted similarly to that of the katana.
The name of this piece has been utilized due to the traditional handle wrapping of the weapon. Its tsuka is usually covered with silk or leather cords. These are fixed in a criss-cross fashion which is similar to a katana.
The Nagamaki is said to have evolved from the odachi or nodachi swords. These weapons were described in numerous 14th-century pictures and literature.
The Nagamaki was often compared to the naginata even though it was more similar to the tachi. With that, the weapon could be characterized as a tachi on a stick.
The two weapons had a similar sugata or overall form since the Nagamaki blade was often based on that of the tachi. When it comes to the shinobi ana , these were usually found close to the nakago-jiri (tip of the tang). Additionally, the Nagamaki did not feature a hooked curve which was present in the naginata.
The Nagamaki's Use
Just like many other Japanese swords and weapons from feudal Japan, the Nagamaki required its user to wield it with both hands.
Because of its construction, the Nagamaki was suitable against enemies on horseback. Generally, it was specifically made for the infantry and was designed to fight cavalry units.
The best and proper way to hold the Nagamaki was specific. The wielder needed to hold this in a fixed position just like how they would with a katana.
Compared to the naginata, the position of the wielder's hand on the Nagamaki does not change. He would have his right hand positioned closest to the blade. This Samurai weapon eventually reached its peak of usage in the years 1336 to 1600 AD. This was the middle of the Muromachi era.
The Nagamaki was specifically designed to execute large slicing and sweeping strokes; it also functioned well as a spear-like weapon. Traditionally, crafting this blade required more materials and time than the naginata or spear. This is why it was not widely spread.
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Measurements of the Nagamaki
The blade of a Nagamaki varies greatly though its nagasa, or blade length, can be categorized under the katana or Tachi profile. Usually, it would start around two shaku which is roughly 2 feet long.
The tsukamaki or hilt wrap is extremely vital when used on the hilt. Its cord aids in improving the hilt's grip while simultaneously offering structural integrity to its handle made of wood.
As for creating the weapon, there are no specific rules for this. Unlike the Wakizashi, Katana, and the tanto strict measurements, the Nagamaki had varying measurements for its tang, blade, kissaki style, and more.
A Peek in the Past
The time and person who crafted the Nagamaki still remains unknown. However, it is assumed that the weapon appeared around the Kamakura era. By the middle of this period, the Nagamaki became extremely popular; however, its use eventually declined when warriors began favoring other classic nihontos.
It is also possible that this weapon may have been produced in the years 794 to 1185 of the Heian period. Unfortunately, there are no physical samples of the Nagamaki that dates from the mid-Kamakura era.
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It is vital to know that the weapon was greatly unrestricted by the government. And while Japan's officials placed numerous restrictions on other swords like the Wakizashi, Tanto, and the Katana, no restrictions were set on the Nagamaki. Because of this, a large number of swordsmiths began designing the weapon. This was all based on their own preferences, and without really having to worry about any government-imposed regulations.
The God of War and his Retainers
In the history of Japanese warfare, the name Uesugi Kenshin was very well-known. He was born with the name Nagao Kagetora and was a daimyo who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku era.
Aside from being known for his excellent skills in battle, Uesugi Kenshin was generally known for leading a group of special troops. All the members of this unit were armed with the Nagamaki which they used for winning various battles. This special troop was made up of a couple of famous generals during that time. These warriors were Kakizaki Kageie and Naoe Kanetsugu.
Kakizaki was a general under Kenshin and was known for being an extremely ferocious warrior. He was among the swordsmen who engaged in three of the battles of Kawanakajima. He also led the God of War's vanguard force during the 4th battle.
When it comes to Naoe Kanetsgu, he was known as a chief retainer of Kenshin who functioned as a top adviser. Naoe was also regarded as the best logistical tactician of that period, thus, leading most of Uesugi's success during his career and presence.
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A Japanese historian named Arai Hakuseki claims that even the best and well-known warriors of history made use of this sword. Most of them carried these types of swords that were about 4 to 7 feet in length. Oda Nobunaga, a very popular warlord who broke out of the Owari province, armed his soldiers with this type of sword for efficient battling. He believed that the efficiency and strength of the Nagamaki was excellent against his enemies.
Today, a real version of this sword features its blade shortened or reshaped. This is to make the piece suitable for use just like the wakizashi or the katana.
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The Nagamaki Jutsu
There are a couple of dojos that teach a variety of sword techniques as well as Nagamaki jutsu to the students. This is specifically relevant to those wanting to master this skill. Even contemporary dojos greatly believe in this piece since it incorporates special moves since the weapon is long.
Most of those who proficiently teach the proper use of this sword are people who have reached higher level dans. This is specifically in different types of martial arts practice.
Some of the best teachers are those who carefully and thoroughly layout step by step processes. This allows even beginners to be able to follow the tips perfectly, allowing the teacher to provide a wider range of techniques on how to adequately utilize the weapon.
Decline of the Nagamaki
The Nagamaki was continuously used in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, when warfare began to prevail due to mass formations in the early 14th and late 15th century, the efficiency and effectiveness of the Nagamaki began to falter. Additionally, due to the sword's size, measurements, and intended use, the space required to achieve these formations and tactics was generally incompatible.
Despite the limits during those times, it still remained popular, especially during the Sengoku era. It was favored by numerous warrior clans like the Oda and Uesugi who often deployed their soldiers wielding the weapon.
Although it was favored by numerous warlords, the popularity of the blade still continued to decline. Not only that, but a large number of these were cut and refurbished as short and regular swords. The process of restoring the piece was called the Nagamaki naoshi. This was also utilized for the nodachi and the naginata.
Since the cutting down of the blades made the sword more efficient, a lot of these were directly crafted as if they were cut down Nagamakis or naginatas. Because of this, the refurbished swords weren't necessarily considered as this type of weapon
Modern Nagamaki Swords
Today, the Nagamaki is crafted using high carbon steel that is tempered with a polished exterior. Its length provides excellent leverage to boost the ability to slice and cut. Also, this blade is not merely for display since it is a fine, functional piece used in the past and even in the present.
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Devil in the Detail - What's the plan for social housing in the New Lodge, North Belfast?
In this investigation we use Freedom of Information requests to take a closer look at the Minister for Communities' announcement of a £37million housing regeneration project for the New Lodge. FOI requests have also been used in an effort to track responses to fire safety recommendations at the tower blocks. Right to a Home | Tue Jan 25 2022
ON 22 October 2021 the Minister for Communities, Deirdre Hargey, announced a £37million housing regeneration project in the New Lodge, North Belfast.
Minister Hargey said;
"I am delighted to announce this £37m regeneration project for Upper New Lodge Belfast. This scheme will deliver high quality, affordable and sustainable homes."
The New Lodge has long been an area of acute housing need and local residents and campaigners have highlighted the poor quality and lack of housing provision for decades, drawing the attention of international human rights insitutions at the United Nations and Council of Europe.
In response to our Freedom of Information requests, the Housing Executive confirmed that at the time of writing (December 2021) the Carlisle / New Lodge area as a whole had 681 social homes, 17 of which were void.
It said that redevelopment of the Upper Long Streets, including the area between Hillman Street and Stratheden Street will see demolition of 85 NIHE-owned social homes and 2 housing association-owned social homes, along with a large number of privately owned homes. Given the planned construction of 123 new social homes, there would be a net gain in that area of 36 social homes.
Currently, 382 of the New Lodge's social homes are located in the Seven Tower blocks. Under the Housing Executive's Tower Block Action Plan of March 2019, Óisín House (50 social homes, of which 8 are voids) is slated for demolition in the next five years, although the Housing Executive response indicated that this may be reassessed due to Upper Long Streets demolitions.
Two more New Lodge tower blocks, Finn (49 social homes, 1 private) and Fianna (50 social homes) are set to be demolished in the next six to ten years.
The information provided by the Housing Executive indicated that the cleared land from these three demolitions would be used for new build social housing, an estimated 96 units, subject to change. At 96 units, this would mean a net loss of 45 social homes in the area against current levels.
According to the Housing Executive response to our Freedom of information requests, there are plans to refurbish the other four tower blocks: Gráinne House beginning in 2023/2024; Maeve House in 2024/2025; Cúchulainn House in 2026/2027 and Eithne House in 2027/2028.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tragedy in 2017 and subsequent revelations of systemic flaws in fire safety controls and building regulations, residents of the Seven Towers in the New Lodge worked with independent experts to produce a report focused on fire safety issues in the New Lodge tower blocks. In January 2018 the Housing Executive established the Independent Reference Group into Fire Safety in Housing Executive Tower Blocks which produced fire and building safety analysis for all of Housing Executive tower blocks, including those which had had cladding works.
Since that time PPR has submitted numerous Freedom of Information requests to try to track the response from the Housing Executive and Department for Communities to safety recommendations contained in and annexed to the report, particularly with regard to cladding and related building works to Eithne and Cuchulainn Houses.
On 10 January 2022 Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, wrote a letter inviting developers to agree a settlement with government that "will restore confidence and ensure the industry that caused the problem [of unsafe cladding on 11-18m buildings] pays to fix it". The government's new approach would see funding to remediate unsafe cladding on such buildings, in addition to ones over 18m as agreed previously.
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The G7 – LG's second flagship phone.
LG have been releasing new versions of their G-Series and V-Series phones yearly in recent times – and looks to continue doing so this year with the launch of the G7 sometime in spring (no date confirmed yet).
The rumours are rife with this new "G7" as even the name is not confirmed; there are stories that report "LG's mobile division is delaying the release of the G7 in order to re-evaluate its performance and design." We will just have to wait and see what happens in regards to these.
In terms of looks, the G7 will most likely be a more refined version of the G6 meaning an all screen front, waterproofing, drop protection and the glass and metal design. LG will either opt for a circular fingerprint sensor, or another biometric security feature following the likes of Apple with the iPhone X.
Following on from the trends of last year (previous few years in fact) of ever-growing Smartphone screens, LG look set to feature a display between 5.7inch – 6inch with a 18:9 aspect ratio instead of the previous 16:9. It is likely to be OLED and have support for HDR, also using a Quad HD+ as a minimum.
Software wise is interesting for the G7, as Samsung are rumoured to have been given first access to Snapdragon 845 – possibly paving the way for the 845 to feature on the G7. Following on from the G6 again, expect the G7 to have at least 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory with of course the microSD support for more storage. It is also expected to launch on Android Oreo in place of the previous Android Nougat.
Most of these are rumours at the moment, so we'll have to wait and see what LG's next moves are.
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by Sharon Rondeau
This image was released on April 27, 2011 on the White House website, purported to be the scan of a certified copy of Barack Hussein Obama's long-form birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health. A criminal investigation by the Maricopa County Cold Case Posse revealed in 2012 that the image is a "computer-generated forgery."
(May 30, 2016) — On Monday, Atty. Larry Klayman posted a second press release reporting that he will give a press conference outside of an Arizona courthouse following a civil contempt hearing in Phoenix on Tuesday morning.
The hearing commences at 9:00 a.m. local time and was scheduled as a result of a finding of civil contempt against Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio for reportedly violated a federal judge's temporary injunction arising from an underlying lawsuit, Melendres, et al v. Arpaio, et al.
On Saturday, Klayman reported that he filed an emergency petition to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of his client, Dennis Montgomery, who worked for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) as a confidential informant for approximately 15 months.
Montgomery is a former CIA and NSA contractor for whom Klayman obtained immunity in two FBI agreements in August and November 2015 as "a material witness for the government concerning a criminal investigation under 50 U.S.C. § 1809."
In a 162-page opinion issued on May 13 finding Arpaio and several staffers in contempt, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow implicated Montgomery in allegedly committing "a fraud" on the sheriff's office by producing valueless information while being paid as a confidential informant.
On page 64 of the opinion, Snow wrote, "Mr. Montgomery committed a fraud on the MCSO." In paragraph 361 of the same page, Snow claimed, "…Sheriff Arpaio and Mr. Montgomery shared the same attorney and had shared this attorney since at least November 2014."
On page 65, Snow said there is "overwhelming evidence of Montgomery's fraud" which he alleged motivated Arpaio not to hand over 50 hard drives produced by Montgomery when Snow ordered it last year.
While Klayman represents Arpaio in a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court brought by 26 states challenging Obama's executive actions on illegal aliens, he does not represent Arpaio in Melendres. Last summer, Klayman filed a petition requesting intervenor status for Montgomery in Melendres which Snow denied.
Montgomery claims that Snow "has spread groundless criminal allegations against Montgomery and others while blocking him from exposing how they are false. Snow is using those falsehoods to concoct a case against Sheriff Arpaio."
According to sworn testimony by Michael Zullo in the civil contempt hearings last fall, Montgomery had said that data which he possessed, once organized, would show that approximately 150,000 Maricopa County residents were victims of data breaches by a government entity. Montgomery reportedly told Zullo, who was assisting in overseeing the project, that Snow and Arpaio were among the victims.
Klayman's second announcement issued on Monday, while reiterating his objections to Snow's implicating of Montgomery in "a fraud," also reveals that "Montgomery worked on many different projects with MCSO, including a forensic analysis of Barack Obama's birth certificate."
For nearly five years, Zullo has led an investigation begun into the authenticity of Barack Hussein Obama's long-form birth certificate posted on the White House website on April 27, 2011, commissioned by Arpaio at the request of more than 200 constituents after experts reported that the image was fraudulent.
In September 2011, Arpaio delegated his Cold Case Posse, one of many volunteer posses associated with the MCSO, to analyze the image. After several days of investigation, Zullo informed Arpaio that the image could not have emanated from a paper document.
The posse's investigation continued, with Zullo and Arpaio declaring at a March 1, 2012 presser that probable cause existed that both the long-form birth certificate and Obama's purported Selective Service registration form are "computer-generated forgeries."
A second press conference on July 17 of that year revealed more details as to how the posse's conclusions had been reached and stated that the bar of probable cause had been surpassed in regard to the forgery of the birth certificate.
Klayman has long contended that Obama is a Muslim hailing from Kenya, not Hawaii, as Obama has claimed. Obama, his wife, surrogates and the Associated Press have related differing life narratives of his life, and other news reports have said he was born in Kenya or Indonesia.
Arpaio and the posse have not yet revealed what the motive might have been in the White House's release of a forgery bearing Obama's name nor the Selective Service System's release of a fraudulent registration form to various citizens placing FOIA requests beginning in 2008.
Zullo's November testimony mentioned the "birth certificate" investigation in connection with Montgomery's work for the MCSO, although it was not the focus of intense questioning posed by Atty. Stanley Young, who represents the plaintiffs in Melendres.
Following that testimony, Zullo told this publication that some of the information Montgomery produced for the MCSO was found to have value. "Montgomery did have some things," Zullo told us on December 3.
Klayman said that the Ninth Circuit will review Montgomery's emergency petition "at its next calendar in case no. 15-16440," although a date is not provided.
The Post & Email contacted Klayman's media representative with questions but did not receive a response prior to publication.
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This week, multiple cities, including New York and Washington DC, banned public schools from using Zoom, and the FBI issued a warning about the videoconferencing tool's privacy and security breaches at the end of March. As the world adjusts to social distancing, there's no question that Zoom has become an integral part of our lives, from business meetings to yoga classes to happy hours. But Zoom's incredible surge in popularity (daily usage grew from 10 million people in December to 200 million in March) has resulted in security incidents like Zoombombing, where trolls disrupt meetings and share offensive content. Meanwhile, misleading information from the company about Zoom's encryption capabilities and a vaguely-worded policy had people worried that Zoom could mine messages and files shared during meetings.
Zoom's CEO has apologized and said that the company plans to focus on privacy and security but, as evidenced by the FBI and others, the damage might already be done. Here are three things we can all consider when using videoconferencing and other communication services to keep our information secure and private.
Check on the Encryption.
The kind of encryption we use for different scenarios matter. For a book club or yoga class, transport encryption (explanation below) could be sufficient, but for sensitive situations such as a business meeting or a conversation with a healthcare provider, end-to-end encryption is a must. Perhaps Zoom's most glaring discrepancy is that they claimed that one of its features was end-to-end encrypted meetings, when what it actually offers what is what's often called transport encryption. Transport encryption protects your video and audio content during a meeting from anyone spying on your Wifi but doesn't keep it private from Zoom, meaning Zoom could access it. This might be sufficient for more casual situations but when all is said and done, end-to-end encryption is best.
Make Sure You Are in Control of Your Meeting.
After a meeting or discussion is finished, we need to be able to rest assured that the information we've discussed can't be shared further. This week, researchers found thousands of private Zoom recordings exposed online, with recordings covering elementary school sessions that showed students' faces, therapy sessions and business meetings that included financial details. When it comes to security and privacy, we need to think beyond encryption to consider who has access to the information shared and whether it could be compromised.
Pick a Trusted Provider.
Perhaps the overall takeaway from the current Zoom situation is that businesses must be transparent with consumers about privacy and security. Zoom was consistently vague about the privacy and security they offered – from claiming end-to-end encryption, to a poorly-written policy that suggested they could mine information for ad sharing, to sending data to Facebook without notifying users. The company has since clarified their encryption features and updated their policy. But they are also now facing a class action lawsuit over the data sent to Facebook. Look for businesses that are upfront with consumers and have been thoroughly vetted.
As we consider what tools we use to communicate for business, healthcare and with loved ones, we should look for tools that offer strong security and privacy, protecting our information at all times. Communication over Vaporstream is always end-to-end encrypted and any information you share cannot be forwarded, screenshotted, saved or stored. We know how important it is for you to trust your provider, which is why we're proud to share that mobile security experts NowSecure chose us as a recommended tool for remote collaboration.
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Big Sky's Amy Miller Awarded Educator of the Year for 2019-2020
At a raucous end of semester assembly at Big Sky High School on Friday, The Missoula Education Foundation awarded their annual Educator of the Year.
"This teacher has gone above and beyond for her students every day," said a member of the MEF Student Board. "She is loving and kind and always holds her students to a high standard. The winner of the 2019-2020 Educator of the Year is, drum roll please, AMY MILLER! (cheers)
Miller, an English teacher at Big Sky for the last 22 years, said she was shocked but delighted to win the award, especially after all the nominees had been announced.
"I was absolutely blown away," said Miller. "They rattled off the list of all the people who were nominated and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, there's such a great group of educators here and I'm just lucky to work with all these people, and then I felt honored just to be on the list, and I about fell out of my chair when they named me at the end."
Miller, who is in a wheelchair and accompanied by a service dog, reflected on what she has tried to do to help her students.
"I really work hard to make connections with students," she said. "I feel that they need people in their educational world that they can trust, and I really try to make every kid feel valued and to let them have that place, whether they're in my classroom or not. I welcome all the students to be part of my Big Sky family and I think that's what helps me connect with all of them."
Students are invited to nominate their teachers and the MEF Student Board goes over the entries and chooses a winner, and this year it was Amy Miller.
Miller received a $1,000 check from Stockman Bank as well as several gift cards from businesses throughout the community.


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Boom California	on December 23, 2015
by Jim Hinch
from Boom Winter 2015, Vol 5, No 4
The postcolonial cosmopolitan future of evangelism
Saturday mornings, as the sun rises over the master-planned streets of the city of Irvine, a fleet of dusty pickup trucks bearing peaches, carrots, tomatoes, bok choi, and other farm-fresh produce trundles into the parking lot of one of California's largest evangelical megachurches.
Therein lies the future of American Christianity.
The farmers in the trucks set up stands for the Irvine Certified Farmers Market, staged weekly by the ninety-eight-year-old Orange County Farm Bureau. The market—the largest in Orange County—moved to the church in December 2014. Before then, the farmers had leased a shopping center parking lot across the street from the nearby University of California, Irvine, where for two decades well-heeled customers "in everything from burkhas to bikinis," as market manager Trish Harrison put it, stocked up on produce grown on local farms. Harrison said the shopping center welcomed the market in the 1990s, when the city was half its present size. But the market grew and the city grew until "people were saying, 'I can't find a parking space, I'm going home.'" Merchants complained. The shopping center complained. "I knew we had to move," Harrison told me.
The farmers couldn't afford to move. "It's a high-rent district, let's be honest," Harrison said. She tried the university. "So much bureaucracy." She considered a nearby high school. Too small. Then, one day, Harrison thought of a parking lot that "looked like Disneyland." The 2,100-seat space, tree-lined lot sloped gently from a fifty-acre landscaped campus of glass and steel buildings arranged around a lake, a stream, waterfalls, and a playground with a climbable Noah's Ark and a smiling life-sized whale opening its mouth to swallow little Jonahs. The lot belonged to Mariners Church, one of the most influential evangelical megachurches in the United States, with more than 13,000 members, four worship centers in Orange County, and a network of global church partners in Kenya, Uganda, Congo, China, Egypt, Haiti, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Germany. Harrison checked out the lot one Saturday morning and noticed something else. "They have tons of bathrooms.. . . We [wouldn't] have to wait to pee."
Harrison told customers that she was thinking of calling the church. "They said, 'You will not get an appointment with them. They will not speak to you.'" Harrison called the church. A few days later, she was touring the parking lot with senior pastor Kenton Beshore and some other staff members. "You want this lot?" they asked. "I said that would be perfect. They looked at each other and said, 'Let's do it.' I almost fell on the floor."
There is nothing outwardly remarkable about a farmers market in a church parking lot—not even a Southern California farmers market, with its requisite nonsectarian kaleidoscope of aging hippies, Persian soccer moms, skate punks, Vietnamese restaurateurs, immigrants in minivans, and real estate flippers in Audis. Mariners Church doesn't profit from or proselytize at the market, although church volunteers do run a free miniature train ride for kids. What is remarkable in this scenario is the chain of events that led to Kenton Beshore's casual "Let's do it." A few years ago, no one at Mariners would have seen the point of welcoming a secular institution onto its grounds. But that was before the missionaries arrived, and before Mariners, once dubbed by a Los Angeles Times reporter "the Dallas Cowboys of churches," began modeling itself on a thriving, social-service-oriented megachurch in a middle-class neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. The story of that unlikely transformation—which happened to prove fortuitous for Trish Harrison and her farmers—is a California story, a story of America's immigration bellwether showing the nation's churches a possible path forward in a rapidly secularizing nation. "God is throwing a global party, and it's in the southern hemisphere," Beshore told me when I asked him about the immense changes Mariners has undergone since the day eight years ago it hired a young Kenyan pastor to help with missionary work. Actually, the global party has been coming to California for years. That an evangelical megachurch noticed and decided to throw open its doors to the multitude might give the rest of America's beleaguered Christians something to celebrate—and emulate.
By evangelical megachurch standards, Mariners is a venerable congregation. It began in 1963 as a Bible study group in a Newport Beach tract house. The study group grew, expanded to other nearby houses, and then hired a full-time pastor in 1967. The church took its name from a local elementary school where early services were held in an auditorium. The congregation was classic Orange County—white, well-to-do, informal, fond of worship services at the beach, and prayer breakfasts with the mayor and city officials. The church remained medium-sized until 1984 when Kenton Beshore, a native Southern Californian who had arrived at Mariners six years earlier as a college pastor, was promoted to lead the church. Beshore, who at the time looked and talked like the star of a 1960s surfing film, transformed Mariners into a magnet for spiritually seeking baby boomers. The church joined other notable innovators—including Saddleback Church, also in Orange County, and Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago—dubbed by a 1996 Atlantic magazine story as exemplars of an emerging "Next Church" movement. These churches, super-sized with thousands of members, had experienced spectacular growth by sweeping aside fusty church traditions to make way for up-tempo music, sleek sanctuaries, and a seven-day-a-week menu of activities and programs designed, in Beshore's words in the Atlantic, to give people "what they want." By the early 2000s, Mariners had more than 10,000 members and a multimillion dollar budget.
It was then that Christian Mungai, born in a village in Kenya and raised near a Nairobi slum, appeared in Mariners' 3,400-seat worship hall as part of an African gospel group called Milele. The five-year-old group, modestly successful on the African gospel circuit, was touring American churches to sing and, in Mungai's words, help American evangelicals "learn how to do missions" in twenty-first-century Africa. Mungai had recently returned to Nairobi after earning a divinity degree at Claremont School of Theology in California. His time in America, he said, had solidified his view that many American evangelicals' understanding of contemporary Africa was woefully out of date. "It's a form of neocolonialism," he said of some Americans' approach to missionary work. "For someone to come and think they can bring the gospel and God—previous generations of Western missionaries already did that. They did their job and raised up leaders. We don't need people coming to do that anymore. Why not support the leaders already there?"
After their concerts, Milele's members—Mungai and three childhood friends—sat down with host pastors and urged them to shift the focus of their church's missionary work toward supporting African-led efforts to ameliorate the continent's problems. The message was not well received. "It's hard for Americans to learn from other people," Mungai said. Mariners Church was the last venue on Milele's 2003 tour. Given the chilly reception the group had just received at nearby Saddleback Church, Mungai said he was not surprised when Mariners' pastors politely told him they saw no need to alter their approach.
Mungai returned to Kenya discouraged but unwilling to give up. He remained in contact with American pastors and booked more concerts, including a 2004 reappearance at Mariners recorded live for a music video. As before, Milele's music was more warmly received than its post-concert lectures.
Then, in 2006, Mungai learned that Mariners had hired a new director of international missions, a thirty-three-year-old pastor named Matt Olthoff. Mungai emailed Olthoff to ask if he'd like to meet. Later that year, the two sat down in Olthoff's office. To Mungai's dismay, even this new, young pastor was uninterested in pursuing partnerships with African-led Christian social-service initiatives.
Walking out of the meeting, Mungai wondered whether he was partly to blame for his lack of success. "I went in with an agenda just like the Americans do," he said. "I needed to lead from a place of relationship."Impulsively, he called Olthoff back and asked to meet again—no agenda, just to get to know one another.
Olthoff, it turned out, had just gone through a divorce. "I was broken, feeling isolated," he said. Mungai, thirty-two at the time and single, was and remains an ebullient personality, with a ready smile and a head sometimes shaved, sometimes topped with finger-sized dreadlocks. Sitting in the Mariners' campus café, Olthoff found himself telling Mungai the story of his divorce. Mungai, in turn, shared his frustrations about American missionaries.
"Who else talks like you, about a new Africa?" Olthoff asked.
Mungai mentioned the pastor of his church, a rapidly growing Nairobi megachurch called Mavuno, which had expanded in part by encouraging its members to become what the pastor, Muriithi Wanjao, called "fearless influencers of society"—people who solve local problems by harnessing the resources of the church. Mungai said he wished more American evangelicals were willing to learn what churches like Mavuno were already doing and join them in that work. "Americans offer strategy and resources," he said. "But Africans offer a sense of resilience. They are the most resilient people in the world. They love music and culture and dance and family and community, things that in America are breaking down." Mungai said to Olthoff: "I can help you. Come to our church and see what we're doing."
A few months later, Olthoff was in Nairobi. He spent time with Mungai and met Wanjao. Taken aback by the size of Mavuno Church and the number of members who had committed themselves to social service projects, Olthoff impulsively offered Mungai a job. "I'm like, what if we brought Africa to Mariners?" he recalled. "We're always sending people to Africa. But that person would change our church forever. I remember thinking I was new on the job and I was going, 'I don't know how to do African ministries. Wouldn't it make sense to bring someone who knows the culture? Wouldn't that make sense? Maybe this is crazy.'"
Mungai said yes. "I literally went home and cried," he said.
Mungai started work at Mariners in November 2007 as coordinator of missions to Africa. Soon after, Muriithi Wanjao, pastor of Mavuno Church, invited Kenton Beshore and other senior Mariners leaders to visit Kenya and learn more about how Mavuno worked. A group of Mariners pastors, including Kenton Beshore and his wife, Laurie, traveled to Nairobi in early 2008. Arriving amid widespread violence following a contested election, the pastors were as struck as Olthoff had been by Mavuno's size, rapid growth, and level of spiritual commitment. They were even more surprised when the Kenyan pastors delivered a blunt lecture about the changing power dynamics in global Christianity. "Churches in the western hemisphere are dying," one of the pastors said. "But in the global south they are growing. Shouldn't it be that we should be the ones sending people your way and revitalizing your churches? Your world is post-Christian. We are growing."
Oscar Muriu, the Kenyan pastor who delivered that message, was in fact not from Mavuno, but rather was the leader of another even larger church called Nairobi Chapel, which had spun off Mavuno as one of numerous start-up congregations a few years earlier. Beshore and the other Mariners pastors realized that the megachurch they had come to visit, growing faster than their own, was just a small part of an even larger and more rapidly growing Christian network.
"Kenton felt like Oscar slapped him," Mungai recalled. "He says to me, 'I have never heard anything like this.'" The Mariners pastors attended raucous worship services at Mavuno. They met church members who had started a micro-finance loan network in a nearby slum. Beshore said he realized Mavuno thrived not by giving its members what they wanted, but by demanding from them a total commitment to Christian life, especially Jesus' call to serve others. "They have things we don't have," Beshore told me. "They're killing it doing what they're doing." At the end of the visit, Beshore invited Muriu to come to Mariners to show him how to make his church more like Mavuno. "It's so arrogant to say we're the best country in the world," he said. "It's so unattractive. And it's not true."
Beshore's—and Muriu's—assessment of global Christianity is correct. Roughly 60 percent of the world's Christians now live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of the world's religious populations.1 That share is forecast to grow to nearly three-quarters by 2050. Meanwhile, in the United States, Christianity is steadily contracting. Just two-thirds of Americans are expected to be Christian in 2050, with a quarter of the nation claiming no religious affiliation at all. Already 35 percent of Americans born after 1980 are nonreligious. The unchurched are America's fastest growing religious demographic.2
American Christianity is changing as it shrinks. Smaller, older churches, especially those affiliated with once-dominant Protestant denominations such as the Southern Baptists and various Presbyterian groups are struggling. Catholic dioceses in the Northeast and Midwest are closing parishes and schools. Only two kinds of churches continue to grow: those that attract immigrants, such as Pentecostal congregations and Catholic parishes in the Southwest; and megachurches, whose big budgets and robust programming have drawn Christians fleeing smaller, dying congregations. Studies by Leadership Network, an evangelical research organization specializing in large churches, show that over the past decade megachurches have grown and remained financially stable even as smaller churches shrink and struggle to make their budgets.3
The trend toward consolidation has been good for megachurches but not for Christianity as a whole. Megachurches have proven adept at wooing Christians dissatisfied with traditional forms of religious expression. But like evangelicalism itself, megachurches mostly have not adapted to America's rapidly changing demographics and cultural mores. More than four-fifths of megachurches are majority white, according to a 2011 Leadership Network study.4 Hispanics and Asians—America's fastest-growing demographic groups—are underrepresented in American evangelicalism by wide margins.5 Millennials are the least likely of any age group to be Christian.6
At a time when America and Christianity are globalizing, most evangelical churches are organized to meet the needs of an older, whiter population that, in a few decades, will no longer be the American majority. "The West has the money, but the numbers are in the non-west. That's our context," said Ryan Bolger, professor of intercultural studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
A decade ago, Mariners Church was mostly indistinguishable from America's other successful megachurches. The budget was big, the programming was robust, the worship services were high-tech, and the congregation was mostly white and financially well-off. Mariners differed from other megachurches in supporting a robust array of local community service initiatives both at the church and in four church-run community centers in low-income areas of Orange County. The initiatives were largely overseen by Laurie Beshore, wife of Kenton, the senior pastor. They were popular in the congregation but not central to the church's agenda. "The irony is, my husband doesn't have a big heart for the poor in the community," Laurie told me. She meant Kenton's focus at the time was on bringing people to Jesus, not solving Orange County's economic problems.
When Oscar Muriu arrived at Mariners with several other pastors from Nairobi, he brought with him an approach to Christianity that is difficult to categorize in American terms. According to historian Philip Jenkins, who has written extensively about the global shift in Christianity's center of gravity, African Christians combine beliefs and practices that straddle—and sometimes transcend—Western churches' often debilitating divide between liberalism and conservatism.7
African Christians have supported repressive anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda and practiced forms of spiritual healing that, to Western observers, verge on witchcraft. But churches in Africa also have played prominent roles in struggles against colonialism, and they continue to view themselves as engines of social and economic development for their communities. The unifying thread is their wholehearted response to the Bible—to Scripture's traditional sexual mores, its call to redeem the world, and its assumption that God is powerfully active in everyday life. That unreserved embrace of faith as a means of both personal and social liberation has contributed to explosive growth in non-Western churches.
While visiting Mariners, Oscar Muriu immediately asked why the church's community outreach initiatives were not center-stage. "Why do you have Laurie where you have her?" he said, referring to Laurie Beshore's social service ministry. "She should do things at an all-church level." (Laurie now serves as a senior pastor alongside her husband.) Muriu preached at Mariners' weekend services, telling the assembled Orange Countians what he had told Kenton Beshore in Nairobi: "There's a global party, and the American church has not been invited." Beshore warned the congregation to expect changes. "I want to be part of this global party," he said. "I don't want to be left behind." Muriu received a standing ovation.
Change in the church world, especially at large churches, is generally slow. Churches are inherently conservative institutions, run by governing boards of longstanding members often wary of innovation. By these standards, the changes at Mariners following the arrival of Christian Mungai have been rapid and far-reaching. A year after Muriu's first visit, Mariners implemented a spiritual development program pioneered by Mavuno Church called Mzizi, a Swahili word meaning "rooted." For ten weeks, Mariners members met weekly in small groups to help one another discern how they were being called by God to serve their community. The goal was not simply to produce a new crop of soup kitchen volunteers. Mungai said Mariners wanted its members to "become known for their radical generosity. You give and there are no strings attached to people who never give to you or don't have an ability to give to you. We want people to say, 'I'm a fearless influencer of society wherever I am.'"
The church began offering no-strings-attached money and volunteers to local nonreligious service organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club, a local public continuation high school, and a nonprofit called Women Helping Women that helps formerly drug-addicted or incarcerated women find jobs. Two Mariners members, one a former Muslim, formed a group to visit local mosques and forge ties with Muslims. The group helped to stage a series of forums about Islam at Mariners and at a mosque in Mission Viejo. Mariners then partnered with mosque members to feed the homeless in downtown Santa Ana. When the pastor of Templo Calvario, a Spanish-language megachurch in Santa Ana, asked Laurie Beshore if she and Kenton would consider joining a national group of evangelicals to lobby for comprehensive immigration reform, the Beshores said yes, breaking a longstanding vow Kenton had made to himself to keep Mariners out of political debates. "It's a dangerous subject, no doubt about it," Laurie told me. But conversations with the Kenyans had changed the Beshores' view of advocacy work. "Our strategy is to serve, starting with the poor, the marginalized, and the forgotten," Kenton said. "In this church, there are lots of wealthy people. I tell them, 'You need the poor more than the poor need you. You're poor in spirit.' People who come to this church think money and power is the solution to everything in this world. Jesus said by being willing to get down and serve, you're transformed."
Mungai began taking groups of Mariners members to visit Mavuno Church. Some were initially confused when Mungai told them they would not be bringing money, food, school supplies, or any of the other donation items typically offered by American evangelicals traveling to Africa. "I had to say, 'This is not just what you're going to do. You have to ask what is God going to do in you?'" The Mariners visitors attended services at Mavuno, learned how the church worked, and met laypeople who had started successful community service initiatives. Bob Drobish, a technology startup CEO and member of Mariners' board of elders, recalled his surprise meeting Daisy Waimiri, a Mavuno member and mother of three who had started a thriving community-based micro-loan program in Kibera, Nairobi's—and Africa's—largest urban slum.
"Isn't she a force of nature?" Drobish said of Waimiri. The loan program, called Maono ("Vision"), grouped local businesspeople—hairdressers, coal sellers, sweepers—into accountability groups who borrowed and repaid collective loans together. Waimiri said she conceived of the program after attending Mavuno's Mzizi classes. "My church has this thing. . . they take you through trainings, and at the end they expect you to go to the community and do something," she told me via Skype. Waimiri's first investor was her husband. When she met Drobish, she told him she needed more investors to expand the initiative. Five years later, with help from Drobish and other Mariners' members, Maono has loaned roughly $100,000 to more than one thousand businesspeople in Kibera. "They haven't imposed anything on us," Waimiri said of her Mariners partners. "They don't tell us what to do. Even when they give the money they say, 'You're on the ground, you know better.' Which is very rare with Western donors."
Robyn Williams, a forty-three-year-old former corporate publicist who attended Mariners as a child, said she remembered returning to the church after college in the 1990s and thinking, "Everyone here drives a Mercedes. . . they're not really doing much for the poor." Williams was one of thousands of Mariners members who signed up for the Rooted spiritual development program, inspired by Mavuno Church's Mzizi program. In her Rooted meetings in 2011, Williams began "exploring what has God created me to do and how am I going to make an impact on other people's lives in the community?" She joined Christian Mungai on one of his trips to Nairobi, where she met a Mavuno member named Ken Oloo, a marketing executive who had helped children living in Kibera earn money as videographers by supplying cameras and teaching the children how to use them. Suddenly, Williams said, her work for a mid-sized Orange County public relations company seemed disconnected from social justice by comparison.
Returning home from the Nairobi trip, Williams began looking for a new job. Through a banking client, she met the CEO of Women Helping Women. A few months later, Williams was hired as the nonprofit's program director, working longer hours for less money but feeling "at the end of the day, what brings me the most joy and reward is that I'm making a difference and helping someone else become who God created them to be." She has returned several times to Nairobi, where she says she now hopes one day to start an equivalent of Women Helping Women. Earlier this year, Williams was in the Women Helping Women booth at a clinic in Anaheim where mostly Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq were offered free medical care and job assistance. The clinic was a partnership between Mariners and an Anaheim Arabic-language church. "My friends tease me and say I'm half Kenyan," Williams said. "What's exciting is, it's not just happening in Nairobi. It's happening in Newport Beach."
Encouraged by the results of exchanges between Mariners and Mavuno, Mungai sought out other international church partners. Those partnerships—now with nine churches on three continents—are not structured like traditional missionary relationships. Mariners' members visit partner churches and help with local service initiatives. But the partner churches also send members to Mariners. A residency program Mungai started two years ago invites pastors of partner churches to live and work at Mariners for one year, mostly for the purpose of broadening Mariners' international perspective. It was one of those visiting clergy residents, a Mexican pastor named Daniel Nuñez from a church near Tijuana, who happened to remark one day last year, "I can't believe the grass at Mariners is always so green."
Puzzled, Mungai asked what Nuñez meant.
Nuñez said that in Mexico, no church lawn stays green for long because it is always being trampled by "people playing, eating, and doing community."
Mungai gazed with embarrassment at Mariners' immaculately landscaped grounds. "What he was saying is that to have green grass means it's not being used," Mungai said, "Whereas to us it means beauty. It's a totally different mindset. We realized we have to use our campus for community."
Not long after that exchange, Trish Harrison from the Irvine farmers market called looking for a parking lot.
Mariners has lost some members since it began its Nairobi-inspired transformation. Volunteers have left the missionary program because "they've resisted working alongside African leaders. They want to be the leaders," Mungai told me. Kenton Beshore said "a few hundred people" walked out of the church when an evangelical immigration-reform activist was invited to preach. Three years ago, when Beshore and other Mariners pastors joined the national evangelical immigration-reform movement, enough Mariners members withdrew financial pledges that the church ended the year with a $500,000 budget shortfall.
And yet, the changes continued. Today, bolstered by new members offsetting the departures, Mariners is larger and more ethnically diverse than it was a decade ago. (The church does not track the ethnic identity of members. Pastors I spoke to estimated the church's nonwhite population at anywhere from 20 percent to 35 percent of the congregation.) Church staff members speak Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Swahili. Mariners remains a leading partner in the Evangelical Immigration Table, a national coalition of evangelical churches and para-church organizations advocating comprehensive immigration reform. "We got crazy tight Republicans to change their views," Beshore told me. While volunteering at Mariners' outreach centers, "They get involved with kids and the kids grow up and their parents get deported and they say, 'This isn't right.' They've had a change in their world view."
It is a change that could happen anywhere in America but was most likely to happen in California. Orange County today, like neighboring Los Angeles and California's other major immigrant landing zones, is a spiritual gazetteer, one of the most religiously diverse places on Earth. The county is home to one of America's fastest growing Catholic dioceses, where three-quarters of parishes celebrate at least one mass in a language other than English; one of the nation's largest mosques; Buddhist temples and a Buddhist university; Korean- and Spanish-language megachurches; and a predominantly Asian megachurch, called NewSong in Irvine, started by a half-Korean pastor who envisioned a Christian community that transcended race entirely. The ideas brought by Mungai and his mentors from Nairobi felt revolutionary when they arrived. But, really, they were inevitable. What historian Philip Jenkins calls the "Next Christendom" has been taking shape in Orange County for years. The Kenyans simply helped the rich, white Christians at Mariners Church wake up to their new demographic reality.
Now it is Mariners' turn to help. Three times each year, the church hosts a conference teaching other congregations how to implement their own Mzizi spiritual development programs. To date, roughly fifty churches, some from Southern California, others from as far away as Wyoming, have attended the conference. Mariners' partner churches abroad also have adopted Mzizi programs. Last year, inspired by Mariners' example, Concordia University, a conservative Lutheran college in Irvine, began hosting annual gatherings of international clergy and scholars to teach students how to minister in a globalizing America. Christian Mungai, Pastor Wanjau from Mavuno Church, and historian Philip Jenkins headlined the inaugural gathering. This year, speakers included the director of research for the Southern Baptist Convention, the pastor of one of Orange County's largest African American churches and the director of faith formation for the Catholic Diocese of Orange.
"Our engagement with the global south has taught us that we don't have all the answers, that there's much to be offered by the rest of the world," Mungai said. "It's not from west to east. It's from everywhere to everywhere.. . . The vision for the church starts with the vision of a lost world, and the church is not for the church but for the world.. . . The Kenyan way of looking at discipleship is a lifelong process. It's not a few weeks and you're done. It's a whole life transformation."
Photographs by Matt Gush.
1 Pew Research Center, "The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010–2050," 2 April 2015.
2 Pew Research Center, "America's Changing Religious Landscape," 12 May 2015.
3 Warren Bird and Scott Thumma, "A New Decade of Megachurches: 2011 Profile of Large Attendance Churches in the United States," Leadership Network, 2011; Warren Bird, "The Economic Outlook of Very Large Churches: Trends Driving the Budgets and Staffing Activities of North America's Biggest Congregations," Leadership Network, 2013.
4 Bird and Thumma, "A New Decade of Megachurches," 7.
5 America's evangelical population is 76 percent white, 6 percent black, 2 percent Asian, and 11 percent Hispanic (Pew Research Center, "America's Changing Religious Landscape," 52). By comparison, according to the U.S. Census, the United States as a whole is 62 percent white, 13 percent black, 5 percent Asian, and 17 percent Hispanic.
6 Pew Research Center, "America's Changing Religious Landscape," 70.
7 Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), especially chapters 1 and 2.
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Ancelotti and Bilic name unchanged teams for Gameweek 2 opener
It's as you were for both Everton and West Bromwich Albion in the opening match of Gameweek 2.
Fresh from a 1-0 win at Spurs, Carlo Ancelotti has gone with the same XI that impressed there.
That means another start in the front-three for James Rodriguez (£7.5m), who was highly sought-after in the Fantasy Premier League transfer market this week.
The Colombian international is joined at that end of the pitch by Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.1m) and Richarlison (£8.0m), both of whom scored or had chances to in Gameweek 1.
The midfield trio of Allan (£5.5m), Abdoulaye Doucouré (£5.5m) and André Gomes (£5.5m) gets another chance to dictate proceedings in front of an unchanged back-four.
Lucas Digne (£6.1m) is at left-back, Seamus Coleman (£5.0m) on the right-hand side of Michael Keane (£5.0m) and Yerry Mina (£5.5m).
Considering his slight personnel issues, Slaven Bilic has named a five-man defence once again, despite conceding three times at home to Leicester last time out.
Branislav Ivanovic (£4.5m) is not ready for involvement yet, so Kieran Gibbs (£4.5m) and Darnell Furlong (£4.5m) sit either side of Dara O'Shea (£4.5m), Kyle Bartley (£4.5m) and Semi Ajayi (£5.0m).
Grady Diangana (£5.5m) and Matheus Pereira (£6.0m) provide some additional width in midfield with Romaine Sawyers (£5.0m) and Jake Livermore (£5.0m) operating centrally.
For the second week in a row, Callum Robinson (£5.5m) has been named as the lone centre-forward.
Everton XI: Pickford; Digne, Mina, Keane, Coleman; Doucouré, Allan, Gomes; Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin, Rodriguez.
West Bromwich Albion XI: Johnstone; Gibbs, O'Shea, Bartley, Ajayi, Furlong; Diangana, Sawyers, Livermore, M Pereira; C Robinson.
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London Fashion Week Features Satanic 'Black Mass' Fashion Show At St. Andrew's Catholic Church In London
For her show on Monday night, Dilara transformed St Andrews Church, in London, into a graphically satanic runway. Fashion insiders lined the front row as models strutted their stuff down a checkerboard catwalk. The set was dominated by a towering backdrop packed with symbolism from tarot card imagery. Dilara's occult influences were evident in the ensembles she unveiled. One model looked eerily pale as she appeared in a shredded cream outfit inspired by a corpse bride.
Turkish designer Dilara Findikoglu's Spring/Summer 2018 Collection, which was showcased at the altar of a Catholic church, had an element of Victorian Goth combined with satanic imagery.
"Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." Jude 1:13 (KJV)
EDITOR'S NOTE: As shocking as these photos are, we should not be surprised to find a demonic "fashion" show taking place in one of England's most famous Catholic churches. All of the Devil's "heavy hitters" were on display at this show as we see Illuminati, Masonic and occult imagery and symbolism all over the place. The priests at St. Andrew's church seem quite pleased with the show, and of course, the revenue it generated. Exactly what you might expect from an organization the Bible refers to as the "**** of babylon" in Revelation 17.
Rapper Brooke Candy and drag artist Violet Chachki were within her troupe of heavily made-up models that strutted to the soundtrack of 80s dark wave and traditional belly-dancing music.
The Turkish creative made a name for herself two years ago at Central Saint Martins when she held a guerrilla presentation for the students whose work didn't make it into the official press show.
Growing up with Muslim parents in Istanbul she admitted wanting to explore constantly. She told Vogue magazine that became fascinated with parapsychology, the occult and 'magic stuff' – which clearly shows in her unusual designs.