text:
Mary Lee Brady, Ph.D.
We decided to free associate our website targeting gifted and talented youth of African heritage. Associated with all written above is our realization the last two of our beloved Kennedy brothers and sisters (Senator Edward Kennedy and Sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver) have now passed over from what we saw and heard in our own lives. Their lives in pursuit of goodness very much defined the essences of cherished virtues and values "the least of us" can live 'by and by' as we attempt to understand why goodness comes and goes again and again often unnoticed.
In fact, we would argue the pursuit of goodness is not about glory as might occur in a Hollywood movie scene but rather the worth of generations yet to be born. Imagine how, if you will, Lewis Emmet Lowry Robinson- Martin, born abt 1924 referenced on site was also related to Ted Kennedy, not by color or politics but in the spirit? Many believers believe the future belongs to brothers and sisters in the spirit of goodness some call Christ, Hosanna, Messiah, Messawa, Savior, etc. They were both trained lawyers and soldiers in the same cause of goodness in family, community and country!
An honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Edward Kennedy to a hearse at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., Thursday (AP Photo/Stew Milne
Our belief is that we saw and heard a model family with moral worth inherited from multi-generations in pursuit of goodness, ... beyond personal lives, liberties and pursuits of happiness (feeling good)? Our theme on this site is that even the best and brightest of any age are part of a far greater generation and regeneration process by mothers of: faith, hope and love facilitated by functional fatherhoods in belief and courage.
As individuals, Kennedys were not perfect but as family they willingly chose to be our brothers and sisters in Christ even before they knew about any or many of us who were naked and hungry. The ones we came to know were believers in goodness greater than themselves. They were not pretentious aristocrats. Jeffersonian Overview
We were pleasantly surprised to learn the story of John F. Kennedy, like our own, was very much a product of the great Emancipation War that reestablished the United States as one nation, under God, for the people, of the people and by the people. The Kennedy's were born of faith, hope and love that included the courage of Fitzgerald and Kennedy ancestral kin in Massachusetts in the Union forces of good during the American Civil War; and enlightened and educated African-Americans at Harvard and other bastions of learning ought never allow their patriotism to be unlinked from the courage we saw and heard in the brothers that spanned our lifetimes.
The critical endorsement and support by the Kennedys for Senator Barrack Obama to become the Democratic Party's nominee for the office of President of the United States was about a lot more than political considerations but rather a continuation of their cause to help make right matters that have been wrong. We want youth to know that Kennedys required a lot of family heritage courage to undergo the hatred vented against them for their outreach to us.
The first generation of them in Massachusetts and serving in the Union Army likely knew feelings of resentment at being categorized lesser human beings than descendents of early Pilgrims or "lace curtain Irish." Their second generation saw and heard religious bigotry against Roman Catholics, ... and the third generation overcame it all for themselves and "the least of us." There are many self described Puritans and even middle-age tea-party pretenders who view the Kennedy brood as unappreciative traitors to their inherited class of wealth (there are an estimated 400 billionaire families in the United States of which the Kennedy's could be one of them if they ever wanted to. With their kind of brains, charm and energy a single team of them on wall street could have quickly out performed their fabled "Papa Joe."
Kwame N'Krumah and Martin Luther King, Jr. bonded as brothers in the body and spirit Christ long before most activists in the 1960s comprehended they were intellectual giants with a common cause to help uplift "the least of us" with the philosophy of Jesus, not the ideologies of left or right-wing political strategies. They both welcomed youth generations of the day to join them in a journey both comprehended would be longer than their lifetimes. After all is said and done, men and women, regardless of how gifted and talented are only flesh and blood if not empowered with the energy to lift up and fly like an eagle. Believers like Shirley Chisholm personified the cause of Black women professionally trained social workers in high and low places, ... not socialism as an academic excursion of various ideologies with no measureable beneficiaries among "the least of us."
We offer this critique to those who would believe that after our experiences into, during and up from slavery, persecution and segregation: we should never allow or be silent in the face and place of those men or women who rationalize capitalism, conservatism, communism, fascism, feminism, liberalism, Limbaughism, Marxism, materialism, Mobutism, nationalism, racism, socialism, tribalism or any ideology that seeks to ignore or replace our ancestral beliefs in a living Christ.
More than just ministers still believe that without something miraculous, we would never have gotten up from where our ancestors had fallen! For non-believers, we urge them to examine the historical facts rather than putting their faith in faithless talking heads who seek to reason into existence something that never was or will be in generating goodness.
For absence of a better teaching point, we suggest that scholars help preachers look at the Fitzgerald-Kennedy lineage of goodness to comprehend that Joe, John, Robert and Edward may have been vessels in the passage of goodness that existed even before they were conceived and born. For African-Americans in particular they were all shinning lights atop the hill in march of Christianity that lifted us up to behold the wonders and mysteries of faith held by some (not all) among "the least of us." The ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also embraced the Kennedys.
We invoke the memory of Dr. King to remind scholars that he rejected the notion that violence against or within the most powerful nation ever on earth, ... could bring about beneficial change for "the least of us." Both the Civil War and wars of the 20th century proved his point the U.S. Government ought not be challenged to be violent. Ask the Japanese! Ask Black Panthers like Huey Newton, Bobby Seales and Elbridge Cleaver?
It was always sheer nonsense by the uneducated and unenlightened in imagining that young men who could not even organize and sponsor baseball teams and leagues for boys, would somehow recruit, train and pay equally uninspired young men to pursue goodness to help "the least of us."
We should not go to our graves allowing urban fiction writers and demagogues to proclaim and claim desires or powers Black Power Movement that never existed in bringing about changes we hold precious and dear. It was never a force or functionary of young men helping to raise up a new and better generation by integrating a greater society of virtues and values paid for with the blood, sweat and tears of generations that Dr. King saw and heard. And, in his lifetime, even the under-educated such as Malcolm X came to understand that Elijah Mohammed (former Baptist preacher) was wrong in his vision of racial separation.
Born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the sixth of thirteen children to William Poole, Sr. (1868-1942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (1873–1958), a homemaker and sharecropper. There were twenty-seven young men enlisted in the U.S. Colored Troops using the surname Poole during the Civil War. There is no evidence that they or the other approximately 200,000 men of color imagined they were fighting to establish a nation separate from people of Native or European heritage, nor on the basis of color as even slave plantation owners could not always do.
There were some White people of the same color and characteristics of slaves they owned. The faulty logic of separating human beings (in order to rule) on the basis of color, hair, sex and even names and places of birth had been tried over and over again since at least the slave owning Roman Empire. But, many minds died trying to do so usually isolated and surrounded by a few diehard followers.
World War II confirmed the world or nations cannot be separated by race since genetically there is only one ... the human race. Too many scholars, failing to analyze the functions and factors of real power that can be measured by methods and means of proven analysis, ... are allowing themselves to lend creditability to illusions about power rather than relationships with believer generations like the Kennedys spanning over a hundred and fifty years. By researching and reading only about a single person or place in the name of scholarship we exclude realities that matter most, ... the spiritual existence of a goodness not often seen but self-evident by the second or third generation.
Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Moslem and most other gifted scholars about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. now generally concede the philosophy of life ushered into the world by Jesus is amazing to contemplate in looking closely at change that has occurred in not only America but also Africa and the Caribbean.
Judeo-Christian Doctrine
Our story we want the world to not forget is that of young John F. Kennedy before and after he became the President of the United States and declared to the world that segregation was morally wrong. Doing so required a kind of courage not common at all among world leaders and even less so in presidential politics. We are compelled to believe President Kennedy was one of many in a long line of believers with the courage to act in their faith.
No President, King or Queen since Abraham Lincoln had the courage to make such a statement of doctrine, ... mindful that most Christians and Jews believed their moral values in the eyes of God for five centuries should not be challenged.
Prior to the racially defined realities in World War II, most Americans viewed African-Americans as a minority race in the United States. Very few viewed "the least of us" as part of Judeo-Christian majority embraced in moral doctrine the majority lived by. As Dr. King noted, eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings were the most segregated hours in America; and very few priests or preachers challenged the doctrine that made it so.
Along Timber Ridge Trail
Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley among many self-styled conservatives and libertarians both renounced the new doctrine pronounced by JFK as liberal attempts to dictate morality and an infringement on American liberty. But the new doctrinal pronouncement impacted and moved sufficient activists among Christendom and Reformed Judaism already shaken by Martin Luther King's letter from a Birmingham jail.
Letter From A Birmingham Jail
And before President Kennedy declared racial segregation was morally wrong, ... he had already signed executive orders that made it possible for our current president Barrack Obama to be conceived and born in the United States; visualized not only the Civil Rights Acts to tear down entrenched evil such as apartheid in America; but also fathered the Peace Corps to help Africa transcend into modern nationhood. Before his death he initiated affirmative action that opened the doors of public policy making by thousands of people with African heritage backgrounds such as Thurgood Marshall. And though millions of men and women in America and abroad would condemn and even hate him for his Christian activism (liberalism), ... he and his family members did these things and more for "the least of us."
AFRICAN HERITAGE INCLUDES A CENTURY OF KENNEDY COURAGE, FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE OF CHRIST
As an example, we can cite but not sufficiently reason as to why President John F. Kennedy affirmatively acted on behalf of "the least of us." Political scholars have tried for more than fifty years to analyze the man without understanding his functional faith inheritance, not to be confused with organized religious participation. Indeed, Clarence Thomas with no apparent inherited faith up from slavery or projection into the future, ... is also a Roman Catholic but certainly not of the same affirmative virtues and values as the Kennedy brothers and sisters. For Thomas any initiative by government not authorized in the constitution is unconstitutional (including Jefferson's Preamble Declaration that all men are created equal and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves). He is not alone for there are millions who historically profess to be believers but devote their lives in reasoning judgments that disrupt actions to help uplift "the least of us."
We want new generations to understand historic adversaries to generations of goodness. Their opposition is very much unlike the Kennedys who joined reasoning with their faith, which is not easy to do even for great philosophers and for jurists like Clarence Thomas. Thomas mindsets (with no history of ever helping anyone but themselves) among others who call themselves conservatives have the audacity to imagine generations of goodness before them, (including all the Kennedy's, both Martin Luther Kings' and Thurgood Marshall) were philosophically and constitutionally misguided. Such men and women never explain what they would have done or even now do, ... in situations of past, present or future confronting "the least of us." Which ones if any would have joined arms with the republicans like Everett Dirksen and Earl Warren in combating injustice?
Consolation of Philosophy
Gifted and talented writers can surely imagine that without Gasa and Kumana, ... there would not have been a Congressman Kennedy, Senator Kennedy and President-Elect Kennedy and future Attorney General "Brother Bobby" in 1960. There would have been no one to call the Birmingham jail and warn Alabama officials to not allow beating, lynching or otherwise traditional harms to Dr. Martin Luther King. Can anyone imagine Richard Nixon and his prospective Attorney General (John Mitchell) taking such an initiative had he won the election of 1960? Without the Kennedy brothers, the historic civil rights march and Dr. King's inspirational message at the Washington Mall in 1963 would never have gained official permission to occur. There is no way that President Eisenhower would have approved the request for such a gathering. Ike would have feared and acted to prevent a cause for the breakdown of law and order?
One might argue in theory the fate of Martin Luther King, other African-Americans and that of Africans everywhere flowed from the uniquely Christian faith of a gifted White man and two Black men in the Solomon Islands who overcame their fear of the Japanese who routinely executed anyone caught doing anything suspicious. It is almost unthinkable that had Jack Kennedy not been elected President in 1960, ... any of the events initiated by him would have been successfully pursued by Black Republicans like Arthur Fletcher. Fletcher designed and implemented Nixon's affirmative action plan to generate a relatively few Black millionaires via government contracting that annually generated many thousands of White wealthy businessmen and women.
Arthur Fletcher
Many courageous Black Republicans like Jackie Robinson, Arthur Fletcher and Bill Atkins may have tried to influence President Richard Nixon during critical era of 1960 - 1968, ... but to little or no avail without the Kennedy brothers in the Senate winning friends and allies for the same. Bill Atkins was a close friend of Whitney Young, worked closely for the moderate Republican Governors William Scranton and Raymond Shaffer; and knew many in his party aligned with Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. He later observed that few, if any, republican leaders had the willingness or political courage to do what the Kennedy's did. Roy Wilkens
In those days, progressive African-Americans born into Lincoln republican families up from slavery such as those of: Roy Wilkens of Kentucky, Whitney Young of Missouri, William Beverly Carter of Pennsylvania and Edward Sexton of Kansas, ... greatly admired the courage and Christian beliefs of Robert F. Kennedy. In private, they referred to Black democrat friends as "Brothers on the other side" and to Kennedy as "Brother Bobby." RFK was their kind of Christian, both courageous and rich; and the fact that he was not a republican never overshadowed the moral centrist they saw and heard.
Ed Sexton and his family were republicans a long time before most African-Americans switched to the Democratic Party, and a century longer than White southern democrats who decided to become republicans. African-American republicans in Kansas and Michigan such as Paul Lawrence Reeves Wilson Brady, born 1927 (appointed to the federal bench by President Nixon) were born into families long engaged in anti-racist causes and organizing; and welcomed Christian fellowship with the Kennedy brothers even though registered in different political parties. Everett M. Dirksen
Ed was a friend of U.S. Senator Robert Dole and had access to Senator Everett Dirksen who was the Senate Republican Leader, and helped write and push forward the Civil Rights legislation that many Blacks, Whites and even women who benefited from it, ... now proclaim as undesirable liberalism. Sexton also admired Robert F. Kennedy, said so to the electorate in Kansas, and was elected to the State Senate before becoming Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee during Nixon's first term.
He was not afraid to pronounce in a political speech that ... "the party of Lincoln" his ancestors joined during the Civil War was "for the people, of the people and by the people" whichever came first. African-Americans like Sexton were born into families with long histories of opposition to color coded causes and passions predating the Civil War when Kansas was an ideological battleground before the war finally erupted. His ancestors sided with Christians helping rather than enslaving "the least of us;" ... and put their lives on the line for freedom and liberty, while most African-Americans directly affected simply watched and/or "waited on the Lord."
It was certainly that way during lifetimes of the Kennedy brothers we observed. Some did something helpful to "the least of us" while most did nothing to help themselves or others; but, in the spirit of Christ were certainly equal to receive the blessings some may even have prayed for. Indeed, it is a mystery of our faith that so many who owe so much to so few should not be enlightened and educated to know who they are. We want African-Americans to preserve memories of those who came in HIS name even though they died doing so. The Kennedy brothers certainly did, and whether republican or democrat we ought not let ideology of the right or left obscure their truths in being believers. Now that they are all deceased, African-American youth need to be told their story in the context of our own beliefs in a living Christ, not pretentious faiths or ideologies.
Ambassador William Beverly Carter
William Beverly Carter was absolutely impressed when RFK not only went to South Africa but proclaimed the racist government therein his beliefs that apartheid was wrong and immoral. Not even the powerful Nelson Rockefeller would have displayed such courage. After his death, many made clear they would have voted and even campaigned for him had he lived to win the Democratic Party nomination for President and a near certain election to the presidency. In fact, these men of means that mattered did not see RFK or even JFK as democrats so much as they viewed contents of their character to be in the moral center of political life at home and abroad. Almost to a man, they all cared about "the least of us" in Africa, ... not due to political ideology but rather like the Kennedys because Christ asked that we do so. Many went into Africa at every opportunity, and it is very symbolic to African-Americans that not only did Dr. Dubois die in Africa on the eve of Martin Luther King's famous address in 1963; but also Whitney Young in 1971 who passed away in waters off Nigeria that likely had brought his ancestors from West Africa to America.
Federal Judge Paul L. Brady
It is most ironic that so many Republicans of African heritage like Judge Brady with ancestry links back to the beginnings in the Party of Lincoln were not only overlooked by the modern party of mostly people who know little or nothing about the history and actions of the generations and causes that preceded them. There is an obvious difference between opportunists like Thomas versus the Kennedy faithful who for over fifty years have demonstrated that joining one's faith with reasoning is not easy but can be done. Thomas by his own admission makes no effort to do so, but merely looks to see if a matter is addressed in the constitution, ... not the preamble, bill of rights, legislative discussion or any other factors, including the philosophy of Christ.
Most enlightened and educated African-Americans up from slavery are morally obligated to remember brothers and sisters in Christ that helped lift us up, not embrace make believe ideologies without historical substance or facts. Prior to the current generation of opportunists claiming to be and wanting to be imitators of life, ... Black republicans were sincerely conservative about preserving the virtues and values of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and thousands of others that paid the price and bore the burden of actions exemplified by the Kennedys.
"But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. [John: 34]"
Years before he died, Clarence Pendleton literally shocked Christian believers by coining the phrase "bleeding heart liberals" Truly, the man was a heathen to have uttered such a contemptuous remark. Yes, many of us raised up in the faith of our ancestors up from slavery shed buckets of water seeing Jackie Kennedy holding the head of JFK as his life ebbed away. And, what believers did not cry seeing images of preachers like Andrew Young cry as they watched Martin Luther King die in Memphis at the Lorraine Hotel. And, we cried again when seeing images of rich and famous Roosevelt Grier on left shed tears of remorse and prayer as he held the head of Robert F. Kennedy following the fatal shooting that occurred in Los Angeles.
Rosey was a Christian believer who loved the Kennedys because they too were believers in his Lord, not because they were rich and famous. He seemed never to forget who died for him and "the least of us" including rich, handsome and privileged Kennedys who did not have to do what they did. As Joe Kennedy senior once remarked, "each has enough money to do as they please."
Clarence Pendleton
How did a man like Pendleton graduate from an institution like Howard University and not hold onto the faith that espoused affirmative actions by believers? Pendleton exploited every affirmative action program in sight including the Baltimore and San Diego Model Cities programs that paid him well above what he was earning as a swimming coach at Howard University. Like Judas, he betrayed those who had tried to love and honor him with trust. What he experienced in the Baltimore Model Cities program was a wakeup call that urban conditions and decay were worst than imagined even ten years before Congress finally enacted laws to help the helpless. But, rather than helping he did what others would do, ... denounce the incompetence, immorality and waste laid before his feet. And, when the public money to pay him was ended by President Nixon in July 1973, ... he like hundreds of others decided to become a republican to get a job. Ed Sexton said his phone was ringing off the hook, ... wanting help to send their resume to John Erlichman at the White House or any other place that would put them on the payroll. And, we do not criticize those who took advantage of opportunities to do so; but, rather our contempt is for men and women who did so by embracing anti-Kennedy ideologies of resurgent racism against "the least of us."
We are confused and often wonder, who are these new comers in the cause of who, what, when, where, why and how, ... minus the philosophy of Christ? How is it that so many gifted and talented athletes, of all educated African-Americans, ... seem no longer to care or carry the torch that lighted their way. Even in places like Washington, D.C. wherein during the 1950s, the graduates of places like Cardoza, Dunbar and Spingarm High Schools with outstanding athletes like the Baylor, Swann and Wills brothers, ... the spirit of goodness espoused by the Kennedys was self-evident. There were many athletic souls from therein who took their gifts and talents into Africa and the Caribbean to find and help "the least of us" learn and love the sports in which they had excelled. And, men and women in the urban centers abroad learned to call them coach and great words in the faith like "sister and and brother."
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
All who saw and heard about the Kennedys knew it was likely that the greatest would be the least as they, like Jackie Robinson, made way for the coming of an ever greater champion. Elgin Baylor certainly sensed the coming of Magic Johnson to the Los Angeles Lakers. He was from Cardoza High and knew the clock was forever running on him and all great athletes. It was not enough to be the best of the best on the fields of dreams but also when the games were played and won; and careers as players ended to devote some time and resources to finding and integrating "the least of us, boys and girls" into love of the game and each other. The real story behind the stories about the Kennedy Brothers and Sisters is that all loved the sport of life by living believers. They knew their turn had come and would go to make way for the coming of others, ... perhaps making the least of them among the greatest of us as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Logic of Ideology
The superficial ideal of individual worthiness is a selfish cop-out by men and women who have no history or intent of helping anyone other than them and theirs. O. J. Simpson comes to mind as a successful man without any plan to "help somebody." Labeling themselves as Black conservatives does not erase the stench of Black hypocrisy that smells just as bad as that generated by Whites with the same attitudes and behaviors towards "the least of us." Several of the most wealthy of Black millionaires have died during the past decade generating funerals that families were hard pressed to find and write about anyone helped by their existence. One prominent Black billionaire lawyer, known to be selfish, before avoiding the Vietnam War and making his first millions, ... died unexpectedly and most former undergrad classmates and fraternity brothers avoided the funeral. A few noted that he had refused to help historically Black Colleges and Universities with dire needs but instead gave his money to Harvard that did not need it. They compared him to Willie Gary, also a former athlete and graduate of a historically Black institution, just as rich and financially frugal, ... but much more liberal in his attitudes and energies devoted to helping "the least of us."
Attorney Willie Gary
Robert F. Kennedy was a rich lawyer who had no self serving reasons to be liberal but he certainly was when "the least of us" needed voices in the wilderness like Thurgood Marshall, ... that would not have been anywhere near America's federal court system without the Kennedys. Certainly Marshall would not have reached the Supreme Court as a predecessor to Clarence Thomas who imagines that "he just happens to be Black." By contrast to Justice Thomas, both below men who "just happened to be black and Christian" were also sworn to live and uphold the same constitution. The below souls covered two different generations under the same constitution and Christ that Thomas claims to believe in. But Davis never did throughout official segregation, color-coded silence treatment at West Point World War II, ... separate his reasoning about America from that of faith in Christ. Young Milton Olive whose greatest ambition in life was to become a minister of the gospel in Chicago with guys like the young dynamic Jesse Jackson, ... did not separate reasoning from his faith in Christ even unto death and wanted to be what Clarence Pendelton referred to as a "bleeding heart liberal." African-Americans owe a lot, if not everything, ... to liberal thinking about the life and lives of others. What is liberal?
Kennedy's philosophical moorings were in the philosophy of life given by Jesus, ... not Plato, Socrates or Aristotle as many classical thinkers tried to espouse. Facts are that Kennedy's spiritual existence cannot be explained by classical thinking. He not only inspired a nation to land men on the moon but to do so righteously with thousands of inventions that have benefited "the least of us." He accomplished more goodness between 1944 and 1964 than many of the great philosophers, excepting Jesus, achieved in their lifetimes. Like Jefferson before him, Kennedy read and understood the classics and Shakespeare too. He understood that "to whom much is given (power), much is expected." He did not seek the Presidency for purposes of enriching the wealthy class or restraining "the least of us."
Had the Kennedy brothers not come along to affirmatively see and hear "the least of us," ... counter strategies to advance aspirations of young Black men like Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes on left would not have occurred in the circles of political powers. Both men avoided serving in the U.S. military on the flimsy excuse they had high lottery numbers but were supportive of the war without volunteering. They were clearly too selfish to be liberal do-gooders; and decidedly non-liberal minds would have had no need for them to negatively critique Jesse Jackson and other young Black ministers (also opposed to the war in Vietnam) preaching in the streets of hopelessness and despair.
But, Jesse and other civil rights proponents were not hypocrites like Thomas and Keyes who avoided it, ... and then years later claimed to be one with conservative ideology that generally supported it as "a war against the communists." Before his death, President Kennedy had made clear his intention to withdraw American military advisors from Vietnam wherein factors included a small Roman Catholic minority attempting to rule a country wherein the vast majority were Buddhists. And the national hero in North and South Vietnam was Ho Chi Ming, ... who had been an ally in helping America and Great Britain defeat the Japanese in Indo-China. America had been duped by the post-WWII French connection.
Much more useful and important to the least of us in Africa and America, ... the spirit of goodness espoused in the courage of Robert F. Kennedy condemnation of apartheid in South Africa would not have occurred in the persons of few other significant politicians in the era. And, President Reagan in the 1980s would not have cared to hear Keyes at the United Nations condemning efforts by "the least of us" to condemn investments by Americans in upholding the economic system of apartheid. Guys like Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson would not have been able to develop a listening audience among African-Americans or anyone else to give a damn about Blacks in South Africa. Self-styled Black opportunists like Keyes, by abandoning and avoiding any efforts to help Nelson Mandella, a devout believer, ... were in effect abandoning the Catholic faith of men like Robert F. Kennedy having reasoned it was in their self interests to voice the views of men and women who called themselves conservatives.
It is amazing indeed that anyone, especially those up from slavery, could claim on one hand to be believers in Christ and on the other embrace ideology devoid of his philosophy. We are most fortunate for the Kennedy brothers and sisters, ... never so arrogant as to supplant classical reasoning over their faith as many hypocrites do. We can bet our last dollar that without the Kennedy intervention, Martin Luther King would likely, exactly like Nelson Mandella across the sea, ... have been charged and found guilty of communist instigated sedition with a subsequent sentence of 20 years to life imprisonment.
The Southern Christian Leadership Movement would not have died but like the African National Congress in South Africa, ... it would have been categorized as a communist front organization linked to similar activities in places like Ghana where N'Krumah's functional Christianity (government provided health care and schools for future mothers) was viewed with suspicion by Americans "fighting communism."
JFK would have been knowledgeable and impressed that so many Ghanaian young men had struggled and sacrificed their lives in the great Pacific war against the evil Empire of Japan. Jack Kennedy would have known that Kwame N'Krumah lived at Burma Camp in Accra named in honor of Ghanaians who died in Burma while fighting Japanese aggression in Asia and the Pacific. He would have known that many Africans had served the British Empire in fighting and dying against the evils revealed in Fascist Germany and death of his beloved brother and sister.
We now know that had he lived it is very doubtful the United States Government would have sided with forces conspiring to destroy N'Krumah's influence in Africa. N'Krumah's bottom-line, as we now know and understand was always to generate a better generation of mothers to generate better generations of young men and women to change Africa for the better, not foreign ideologies of the east or west though both sides may have claimed to embrace the spirit of goodness such as health care and education for "the least of us."
Kennedy did not fear African, African-American and African-Caribbean liberation initiatives as having hidden Marxist beginnings. It was only after JFK was gone that media pundits, like ideology driven William Saffire of the New York Times, gained influence and power interpreting both men as cold war adversaries rather than Christians trying to be useful to the Christ they believed in. Our concern is that so many youth lacking geographical or historical knowledge up from the past of human degenerations, denigrations and persecutions including slavery and polygamy, ... have not been enlightened enough via education and their environments to understand how we got up to the moon or beyond the cotton curtain and ideologies of non-believers in "the least of us."
We believe the world is without ending so long as believers like Adam Crosswhite below believe in the trans-generational power to keep it. Men like him embraced the Kennedys long before we ever knew them and their kind of believers. By faith? Hope? Preachers? Sheriffs? Lawyers? Or all of them who came in the pursuit of goodness in whom they believed. People like him believed that "beliefs come first" followed by courage and faith. Was he wrong? Ignorant of money?
The Kennedys we saw and heard were about 19th and 20th century trials and tribulations in the living flesh with blood, guts and tears beyond any scenes that could fit into a Hollywood movie script; ... but, yet can be one of many stories that ought to be written above and beyond urban fiction writers who have talent but need better purpose in their life's work. The opportunity exists to not only remember Kennedy brethren for their pursuit of goodness; but also to tell youth why we, as believers, ... believe the spirit of goodness is not confined to or defined by a single life or generation or cause seeking it.
The Kennedys were not about a single event such as the fabled spiritual raptures that afford many lowly educated folks to escape the realities of living and learning about real disciples that help uplift "the least of us." It is philosophically unhealthy for so many to know so little about the geography and parameters of the faith they weekly profess and pay to believe in.
One's world view is very much influenced by geography and people observed, and too often limited by writers and actors to make-believe fiction about places and persons generalized to be the same as, less than or more than others. The only certainty is that not all believers believe or behave alike. Our hope is to help encourage African studies programs seeking knowledge about experiences and memories before, during, up from and beyond plantation and ghetto matriarchies, ... in the light of real people and places (including air, land and seas) in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. We want youth to understand that people of African heritage, even in the Solomon Islands, are not now or have ever been monolithic but "the least of us" had and have a common spirit with "exemplary believers" like the Kennedys.
We are very concerned that too many youth of African heritage in America and abroad are not being taught about the geography and other functional aspects of virtues and values that helped uplift their ancestors. Youth are being told too many fanciful tales by a lot of writers/rappers without knowledge. And, too many, even most priests and preachers, have removed themselves to the comforts of the upper room rather than going out into the multitudes of youth hungry to be seen and heard about matters that matter to them, ... such as other people seemingly living lives above and beyond, or below their own.
How did this faith factor come to be with vast majority of young Black males utterly contemptuous of Dr. King's (and our) faith up from slavery? Who are their mothers? fathers? grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, coaches? teachers? preachers? parole officers? Why are vast majority of young Black men unfit to serve in families, communities, sports, the military services or any organized endeavors that require attitudes and behaviors for service to others? Why do the heathen rage and imagine false things? Is urbanized Black motherhood dead? Who do they emulate? TV characterizations?
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed." John F. Kennedy
Gifted novelists like James Baldwin born in the same generation #65 (births 1920-1949) as us did not see what we saw. Unlike Baldwin indoctrinated in beliefs about beginnings after the facts of human birth, nurture, inspiration, motivation, education, and expeditionary living, ... we chose to begin with spirit of Christ existing before the religious rapture by folks who want to believe goodness falls down like "bread from heaven."
Our purpose with this site is the regenerations of our own paternal and maternal ancestors up from slavery, ... rather than bible-belt generalizations and pretentions by past, present and future preachers citing bible scriptures rather than observations that might encourage youth to believe "We Shall Overcome." We want new generations to embrace the philosophy of life generated by Jesus (not simply organized religion worship rituals), and have knowledge and understanding as to what some believers in older generations think we saw and heard about Kennedys and times spanning at least three generations for goodness sake beyond pretentions about it.
We cite the Kennedy characteristics as an example of multi-generation pursuits of goodness rooted in family values as compared to novelty individualism of the me, my and mine images of goodness imagined by novelists and screen-writers. They are a contrast to many Christians, ... who do not perceive themselves in the context of past (excepting Christ), present and future generations. We cite the Kennedys as an example that knowing one's ancestors and lives they lived is important in understanding how progress is generated, regenerated and measured in spirit and flesh rather than the "fools gold" of degenerated attitudes and behaviors imitated from many rich and famed lives and fashions.
The Kennedy existence helped Christians remember what a family is in the context of generations of goodness (not dynasties of the rich and powerful such as the Medici, Rothschild, etc.) that matter to "the least of us." They helped reaffirm for many millions of Americans that families seeking goodness, not simply money and power ... matter most in the long-term pursuit of goodness. The Medici and Rothschild helped finance conquest and plunder of much of the known world; and considered themselves good Christians and Jews. In both families, multiple generations in pursuit of wealth was required to achieve the horrors made possible by their financial investments and lending for ruthless ventures in South America and Africa. The long march away from such attitudes and behaviors has generated new and better generations of families such as the Kennedys.
fresco in the Medici family
From all that we have read about the Christian Era (C.E.) to-date, even the genius of William Shakespeare never imagined the best was yet to come with believer families like the Kennedys helping to change a world for betterment of "the least of us." And it is their dream that lives on into the future of generations not yet born. Our story about the Kennedys is not a fable such as The Swiss Family Robinson or other make-believe screen plays about 19th century virtues and values of courage, faith, hope and love "for goodness sake" to emulate in overcoming adversities. The Robinson generations we knew and know required more than a single lifetime or cast of characters to achieve goodness for themselves.
Non-believers (and old testament pundits for dead prophets) believed President Kennedy and brother-in-law Sergeant Shriver acted to combat the spread of communism or wasted their time instead of awaiting perfection promised in the new kingdom to come, ... by Jove, Jehovah, and the many other names for God in virtually all cultures and languages including those in Africa. It is amazing indeed that so many who owe so much too so few souls like the Kennedys have the audacity to minimize and even criticize them for daring to seek goodness in overcoming evil.
Yet, we know it has always been that way with many claimants of knowledge who imagined "The Fire Next Time" and other empty rhetoric but "So What?" [trumpeter Miles Davis]. Enlightened and educated African-Americans heard and long remembered a voice trumpeting in the wilderness (Senator Robert F. Kennedy) ... seeking to prevent a fire-storm in the face of heathen rage by ghetto minded youth following assassination of Dr. Martin Luther. The Kennedys were miles ahead of most Christians we knew, ... with virtues that most readers and writers like Baldwin did not integrate (such as risking life to help others).
Some critics of the Kennedys habitually find fault with facts that so many millions of Americans and other believers throughout the world express love of them, ... despite their faith the end is not near for new generations yet to be born. We believe the best Kennedy kind of human beings are yet to come forth from the wombs, ... venturing for knowledge and understanding of many worlds throughout the universe of multiple solar systems and planets. Robert F. Kennedy posed the challenging question: "Why not?" The Kennedy-Shriver world view included the moon and "least of us" and differed from ideologies most commonly propagated around them about the poor as unworthy especially so in under-developed nations and territories like New Guinea.
We would argue their actions were consistent with Philosophy of Life espoused by Jesus for functional outreach to mothers and children. Past decades of Christian missionaries had proven that sending bible quoting preachers to far corners of the earth was not enough (pouring old wine into new bottles). They wanted functional help for new generations to gain knowledge in pursuit of a better life such as local health clinics, crop rotation, mosquito eradication, schools, bridging, roads, rain water storage and rodent control. These brothers and sisters in Christ had seen the light, and knew more than preaching and teaching was needed and necessary in a world threatened by totalitarian doctrines and strategies including degenerates like Mobutu Sese Seko embraced by the Nixon administration because he professed to be anti-communist but in reality was and ruled as:
Bula-Matari.html
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." John F. Kennedy
A lot has been published about their political legacy but not enough about the spiritual based philosophy that seemingly is their guide and rock of ages many folks believe in. Long before President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had any idea of someday being President of the United States, ... he wrote about matters that youth ought to consider and not sleep through issues about realities of the 20th century that proved reasoning alone even by the best educated, wealthy and most proficient men and women, is not enough. JFK was a student just like many of you when he applied his great mind and energy to issues that would soon pit the forces of good versus evil.
In addition to the six million European Jews that perished, more than 20 million Russians and approximately 10 million Germans died because the lights for goodness went out all over the world as political leaders fell asleep after World War I. Over 50 million lives were violently ended between approximately 1922 when dictator Benito Mussolini launched the ideology of fascism which appealed to many would-be dictators, ... and year 1945 when the Axis Alliance was ended.
Scholars of African heritage ought not dare (or allow others) to imagine that Black men did not have a dog in the brewing fight for life, liberty, land and lusts for power including oil, gas, rubber and all the potential mineral wealth of Africa and Asia. Black men in the Caribbean and African colonies of European nations were in the fight from its very beginning and died in place, often unknown, as battles raged with thundering intensities never known in human history. Preachers who pretend to predict Armageddon is coming never saw or heard what did come by any other name. And, the end of the world did indeed come for a lot of souls, good, bad and indifferent including farmers standing in the fields of Poland and all the others kinds of people imagined in the Book of Revelations predicting end of the Roman world. Young men like the Kennedy brothers, far better enlightened and educated than most preachers pretending to be prophets, ... saw and heard the lightning and thunder of bombs and guns of a world ended for many souls.
More than 50 million people were killed during World War II (not including millions more under-counted in Africa and Asia), ... in a relatively long years of international combatants including the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and Italians that conquered Ethiopia. If the suffering that occurred was not called Armageddon, ... so what? And non-believers who did not believe cited beginnings other than Nazi bad news, ... most certainly were "born again" by war's end in 1945 to know evil is not restricted to race, color, sex, religion or geography? But, many old testament preachers did not see or hear the second coming that awakened youth like the Kennedys. But, as with all times of war, even when David was on the throne, ... many if not most people sought to avoid the coming horror. Voices of great men and women cried out, "Who shall we send?" "Send us" said the Kennedys. And when the storm came, Winston Churchill said it in year 1940: "Never did so many owe so much to so few."
Why England Slept
So far as we know, the family that generated and inspired the Kennedys we knew, ... had everything many folks wanted: fertility, education, enlightenment, intelligence, good health and looks, liberty, friendships, and a lot of money to save, invest or spend. They did not have to do anything to help anyone, ... even in the worst of times and places in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed, why would well educated and enlightened Harvard men of means risk their lives when they could have stayed safely out of harms way like Richard Nixon and many other Kennedy adversaries and critics? In the reasoning of many envious men of letters and lesser endowments, ... the Kennedys were irrational, reckless and driven by "impossible dreams" like the Man From La Mancha. But the dreams of great minds like Abraham Lincoln, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy have been made real by our own existence as believers that even though evil men may slay our dreamers, ... they cannot destroy the dreams we inherited from them for goodness sake. The Kennedys are now many, many more and greater than ever before! And the dreams live on!
The Impossible Dream Lyrics
Rose Fitzgerald (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) on right was born of Christian generation #64 and became a mother that mattered a lot in generating goodness that benefited the "the least of us." We are reminded in our faith that without mothers, goodness can not come into existence except by the womb of mothers as it was in the spiritual beginning celebrated as Christmas. She was a gold star mother that suffered the loss of a beloved son and daughter in horrors that pitted the forces of evil against Allied forces in Africa, Asia and Europe. But, like the challenges and skills in playing the game of baseball, ... it was not easy for the Kennedys to pursue goodness, nor can we decide who was first or last in the body and spirit of Christ.
The non-believers would surely ask: "Why would your loving God take away the lives of a faithful woman's first-born son and first-born daughter?" We do not know but have observed the Kennedys "never were alone"! In fact, it took a team (mother and father) for each of them to be conceived and born, and in all things that mattered what we saw were people united, whether in fun or functional endeavors to help themselves and others. They all, always, teamed up with others to find, face and overcome adversities whether in the home, education or professions. And, the same holds true for other believers even like Bill Gates whose life and success is bound up in teaming with others especially his father and wife.
The individualism and fame sought by so many among the least of us was not found in any of the Kennedys we saw and heard. Our concern is that so many youth are being indoctrinated by movies and television to see and believe individual achievement is by standing, thinking and acting alone, as though some type of fabled Greek god or John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Michael Jackson. We want them to understand the Christian doctrine of "two or more" applies in all matters seeking goodness even entertainment and sports. Too many preachers are ignorant of Christian doctrine that a young man or woman has to "get up, suit up and team up to win for goodness sake." Doing goodness alone is an absolute fallacy!
But we dare to believe that since birth of Jesus as the Christ to many believers, ... virtues of courage, faith, hope and love for "the least of us" have amazingly transcended generations past, present and future. And, those virtues have been displayed by many people and places such as the Fitzgerald-Kennedy families of Massachusetts since at least the American Civil War. It is hoped that gifted and talented in new generations will grasp the concept and evidence that even in the best of families and lives, ... goodness is without endings so long as believers exist.
Sort of like a professional baseball game with famed players, competing managers, base coaches, many umpires, billions of fans and unlimited innings. And, like all patriots before and after them in Massachusetts they were born of mothers, like Abigail Adams (and the unknown enslaved mother of Crispus Attucks), ... seeking goodness in their faith. Indeed, without faith there was no beginning of goodness in Kennedys.
[ Home ] [ Up ]
Email: Editors, More Mary Matters bradyenterpriseassociation@gmail.com
with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2010 Brady Enterprise Association, Inc.


The Sunshine Coast's rich and diverse history and its prospects for the future have helped to shape the first set of street names for the Maroochydore city centre, which were unveiled today.
Mayor Mark Jamieson revealed the new street names onsite, with many of the names chosen likely to be easily recognisable to our residents.
Mayor Jamieson said the announcement was a key milestone with the layout of the first stage of the Maroochydore city centre development now taking shape.
"The Maroochydore city centre is a landmark project for the Sunshine Coast, with new streets, cycle paths, walkways and an urban square all underway, providing a civic heart for our region," Mayor Jamieson said.
"It is exciting to see the extent of work underway on site.
"With extensive networks of underground infrastructure now installed, there is no doubt that momentum is building around this ground-breaking project.
"The unveiling of the network of new street names within stage 1 is another step towards bringing to life our vision for Australia's only greenfield CBD at this time.
Divisional councillor John Connolly said council had worked closely with a number of key community stakeholders to create a list of suitable names that would complement one another and help tell the Sunshine Coast story for decades to come.
"Fairway Drive acknowledges the site was the home of the former Horton Park Golf Course, while Sunshine Coast Parade acknowledges the recent 50 year commemoration of the naming of our region.
"Likewise, Future Way reflects the city centre's future prospects, while Festival Parade reflects the celebration, creativity and events which will all take place in our new CBD.
"And how could we go past Lightning Lane – a name which reflects both the energy of the new city centre and celebrates our region's first national sporting team.
Construction of the first buildings on site is expected to start later this year.
An acknowledgement of the 50 year commemoration of the naming of the Sunshine Coast region.
Acknowledgement of Kabi Kabi people. Mundoo is the Kabi Kabi word for spine/bone and ridge, bringing together geology, movement and cultures. It also speaks of the first bones of a strong skeleton for a new city, with the park-lined boulevard being a preeminent roadway within the development.
Reflects the prospective characteristic of this part of the precinct – one of celebration, creativity and events.
Reflects both the energy of the new city centre and also celebrates the establishment of the region's first national sporting team being the Sunshine Coast Lightning netball team.
Reflects the city centre's future prospects and that the expanded Maroochydore city centre is a key part of the region's future.
Acknowledgement of Kabi Kabi people, with Gaba as the Kabi Kabi word for the small, brown native bee and its honey. Name suggests of the idea of a hive, of living together in a community.
An acknowledgement of the contribution of the South Sea Islanders across the Sunshine Coast.
Reflects the location in the heart of the commercial / business precinct.
An acknowledgement to the former Horton Park Golf Course.


Labor candidate for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters, has today called on the State Liberal government to sign up to the Federal Labor government's Better Schools Plan so that Bendigo and Central Victorian public schools do not miss out on urgently needed funding.
"Right now, the only students and schools in our region who will not benefit from the $9.4 billion Federal Labor Government's Better Schools Plan are our local public schools."
"It's simply not fair that these students and their schools miss out. Every child no matter where they live or what their parents earn deserves a decent education for the best start in life."
Yesterday's announcement that the Federal Government and the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) have reached a historic funding agreement comes just weeks after an agreement was reached with the Independent Schools.
The agreement reached with the Independent Schools Council of Australia earlier this month means that local schools like Girton Grammar will also have their funding increased.
"Federal Labor's Better Schools Plan will ensure that every Australian child, irrespective of where they live, which school they attend or their family background, gets the best possible education. It will mean more individual attention for students who need it most."
The Federal Government has already extended the deadline for the Victorian Government to sign up to the Better Schools Plan.
"My message on behalf of students, their families and our local public schools is simple: Denis Napthine, it's time to sign!"


text:
Shehab News
Palestine News
COVID-19 In Palestine
Israeli forces raid homes, arrest several Palestinians in West Bank
Palestinian worker injured by Israeli gunfire in southern Tulkarem
Israeli occupation forces arrest 3 Palestinians in West Bank
22 corona deaths, 928 confirmed cases, 1355 recoveries within 24 hours in Palestine
News in Picture
Shehab+
New report: Hundreds of Palestinian teenagers arrested from their beds in the middle of the night
Reports: Palestinian shot and injured by Israeli soldiers at an army checkpoint near Jerusalem
European Union missions note with concern ongoing Israeli demolition of Palestinian structures
bts light stick ver 4bts light stick ver 3bts dollsbt21 plushiesbts hoodiebts jacketbt21 hoodiebts shirtbt21 shirtbts
The trio – Palestinian activist Majed Abusalama and Israeli activists Ronnie Barkan and Stavit Sinai – are facing trial for their involvement in a June 2017 protest against Israel MK Aliza Lavie at Humboldt University [Stavit Sinai/Twitter]
Germany: 3 BDS activists on trial for protesting Israel MK
March 5, 2019	BDS, World News
Three activists who protested against an Israeli politician yesterday appeared in a German court, facing trial for trumped-up claims of trespassing and assault.
The trio – Palestinian activist Majed Abusalama and Israeli activists Ronnie Barkan and Stavit Sinai – are facing trial for their involvement in a June 2017 protest at Humboldt University, in the German capital Berlin, against Israeli Knesset Member (MK) for the Yesh Atid party, Aliza Lavie.
Lavie had given a speech at the university during which she downplayed Israel's ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories (oPt) and its treatment of Palestinians, as well as expressed her support of Israel's 2014 war on the already-besieged Gaza Strip. The activists disrupted the talk and challenged Lavie on her opinions, but are now facing charges of trespassing and assault for their actions.
However, lawyers representing the activists – who have become known as the Humboldt 3- argue that there is "no clear evidence of criminal activity and that the charges are disproportionate to what actually happened," the Electronic Intifada reported. The lawyers have also charged that putting the trio on trial violates their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, adding they are "worried that the case could set a precedent by conflating criticism of Israel and Zionism […] with anti-Semitism".
The activists have however hit back at the charges, writing in a statement that "having criminal allegations leveled against activists is a common and standard practice in Germany." They added:
We are, however, determined to use our relative privilege in order to turn the tables against Israel and take it to court. We do not concern ourselves with the consequences, but rather with the opportunity of challenging Israel along with Germany's complicity in crimes against humanity.
The statement continued: "Where, if not in Berlin, should we be able to speak up against such immoral and criminal practices?"
In the 18-months since the protest, Abusalama, Barkan and Stavit have been targeted by German and Israeli media in what they have called a "coordinated slander campaign". They claim that the "special relationship" between Germany and Israel means the two countries' respective media institutions have "parroted the lies [against them], even though there is video evidence to the contrary […] while we were physically attacked and we were referred to as [Nazis]".
The legal action against the trio will be seen in light of Germany's efforts to crackdown on criticism of Israel and anyone affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In an interview with US-based news site Truthout, the Humboldt Three said that a number of public relations victories for BDS in Germany – including a number of artists pulling out of Berlin's Pop Kultur Festival – "angered Israeli authorities to the point of bullying several leading German politicians", including the mayor of Berlin, who was pressured into halting municipal financial support for BDS and supporting the case against the activists.
In October, Israel's Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze'ev Elkin, attended a conference in Belgian capital Brussels in a bid to convince European political parties to brand BDS anti-Semitic. The move was seen as the latest escalation of Israel's war against BDS, for which it has reportedly set aside a war chest of $72 million and which has seen a number of smear campaigns launched against activists affiliated with the movement.
Previous Jewish calls to convert Al-Rahma Mosque into a synagogue
Next 'Racially profiled' British student interrogated by Israeli embassy at UK campus
Israeli occupation forces arrest 22 Palestinians in West Bank
Sabra and Shatila Massacre is a reminder of the Israeli barbaric crimes
Israeli Soldiers Abduct 28 Palestinians In The West Bank
Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Confiscate Lathe Machines, In Nablus
Illegal Colonialist Settlers Uproot Palestinian Farmlands In Nablus
Palestine Israel West Bank Gaza coronavirus Jerusalem Prisoners UN News Palesitne corona US GreatReturnMarch Pubg Prisoner EU GazaProtests Buy Great Adsense How World How Can I War Great Return March

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
package networkdb

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/hashicorp/memberlist"
	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

type nodeState int

const (
	nodeNotFound    nodeState = -1
	nodeActiveState nodeState = 0
	nodeLeftState   nodeState = 1
	nodeFailedState nodeState = 2
)

var nodeStateName = map[nodeState]string{
	-1: "NodeNotFound",
	0:  "NodeActive",
	1:  "NodeLeft",
	2:  "NodeFailed",
}

// findNode search the node into the 3 node lists and returns the node pointer and the list
// where it got found
func (nDB *NetworkDB) findNode(nodeName string) (*node, nodeState, map[string]*node) {
	for i, nodes := range []map[string]*node{
		nDB.nodes,
		nDB.leftNodes,
		nDB.failedNodes,
	} {
		if n, ok := nodes[nodeName]; ok {
			return n, nodeState(i), nodes
		}
	}
	return nil, nodeNotFound, nil
}

// changeNodeState changes the state of the node specified, returns true if the node was moved,
// false if there was no need to change the node state. Error will be returned if the node does not
// exists
func (nDB *NetworkDB) changeNodeState(nodeName string, newState nodeState) (bool, error) {
	n, currState, m := nDB.findNode(nodeName)
	if n == nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("node %s not found", nodeName)
	}

	switch newState {
	case nodeActiveState:
		if currState == nodeActiveState {
			return false, nil
		}

		delete(m, nodeName)
		// reset the node reap time
		n.reapTime = 0
		nDB.nodes[nodeName] = n
	case nodeLeftState:
		if currState == nodeLeftState {
			return false, nil
		}

		delete(m, nodeName)
		nDB.leftNodes[nodeName] = n
	case nodeFailedState:
		if currState == nodeFailedState {
			return false, nil
		}

		delete(m, nodeName)
		nDB.failedNodes[nodeName] = n
	}

	logrus.Infof("Node %s change state %s --> %s", nodeName, nodeStateName[currState], nodeStateName[newState])

	if newState == nodeLeftState || newState == nodeFailedState {
		// set the node reap time, if not already set
		// It is possible that a node passes from failed to left and the reaptime was already set so keep that value
		if n.reapTime == 0 {
			n.reapTime = nodeReapInterval
		}
		// The node leave or fails, delete all the entries created by it.
		// If the node was temporary down, deleting the entries will guarantee that the CREATE events will be accepted
		// If the node instead left because was going down, then it makes sense to just delete all its state
		nDB.deleteNodeFromNetworks(n.Name)
		nDB.deleteNodeTableEntries(n.Name)
	}

	return true, nil
}

func (nDB *NetworkDB) purgeReincarnation(mn *memberlist.Node) bool {
	for name, node := range nDB.nodes {
		if node.Addr.Equal(mn.Addr) && node.Port == mn.Port && mn.Name != name {
			logrus.Infof("Node %s/%s, is the new incarnation of the active node %s/%s", mn.Name, mn.Addr, name, node.Addr)
			nDB.changeNodeState(name, nodeLeftState)
			return true
		}
	}

	for name, node := range nDB.failedNodes {
		if node.Addr.Equal(mn.Addr) && node.Port == mn.Port && mn.Name != name {
			logrus.Infof("Node %s/%s, is the new incarnation of the failed node %s/%s", mn.Name, mn.Addr, name, node.Addr)
			nDB.changeNodeState(name, nodeLeftState)
			return true
		}
	}

	for name, node := range nDB.leftNodes {
		if node.Addr.Equal(mn.Addr) && node.Port == mn.Port && mn.Name != name {
			logrus.Infof("Node %s/%s, is the new incarnation of the shutdown node %s/%s", mn.Name, mn.Addr, name, node.Addr)
			nDB.changeNodeState(name, nodeLeftState)
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Is it Time to Make Wembley Special Again?
As is increasingly common in the modern footballing world, positive stories have been a little hard to find these last few weeks. Increased crowd trouble, Championship clubs heading towards a near half a billion pounds loss for one season alone, the bar room brawl that passed itself off as the Old Firm derby and the dispiriting increase in moronic racist abuse are just some of the downers flowing through the media.
Interestingly however, two more positive news items may have a connecting thread that needs the FA to have a rethink about its crown jewel, Wembley Stadium.
The first item was that of Raheem Sterling's gifting of 550 tickets to pupils at his former school, London's Ark Elvin Academy, for City's FA Cup semi-final with Brighton. Now Sterling isn't the most popular of figures, primarily down to the manner of his move from Anfield to the Etihad. However, it's a positive sign of his continuing maturity that he is so keen to get involved in speaking out against the racist abuse he and many of his colleagues continue to suffer, while at the same time trying to give something back to the community where he spent his education. Noting that it was a visit to Wembley to watch Chelsea take on Manchester United that pushed him in the direction of a footballing career, it's a shame more players with his levels of personal wealth don't follow suit.
However honourable Sterling's approach, the secondary impact of that story is why such tickets were available. The immediate thought would have been that money talks. Sterling has plenty to go around, so had somehow skipped the ticket queue containing ordinary Joe Public and used his contacts to get the kids' tickets. But that isn't the case. In reality, Manchester City couldn't sell their allocation, so nobody went without in order for the youngsters to enjoy their day out.
Indeed City, whose Etihad home is packed to the rafters with around 55,000 fans every game, returned a significant number of tickets to the FA unsold. In fact there were nearly 19,000 empty seats on Saturday. Nothing unusual for Coventry matches at the Ricoh, but rather strange for a club with such a following at an occasion so close to a trophy. So why the lack of appeal for the FA Cup semi-final?
City have of course already been there and done that. League Cup final triumph, plus journeying to London to visit Tottenham means that maybe the appeal has gone. Quite likely there will be more appetite for the final, but it does raise the question of whether Wembley should now be ditched as a semi-final host.
Six days prior to City's semi-final win and Sunderland and Portsmouth packed into Wembley for the Checkatrade Trophy final. Two sides who have experienced dizzy heights in their distant past are just two of the many down-on-their-luck ex-Premier League teams in need of a morale boost. As such, more than 85,000 took the opportunity to show just how good a showpiece venue Wembley can be when it is more of a novelty.
The other positive news item was Tottenham's opening league match at their new home. Opening significantly later than planned, it seems the occasion was worth the wait. The beaming smiles of the first goal-scorer in their new home, the seemingly ever-happy Heung-Min Son, were matched by the Spurs faithful who now can justifiably claim to being able to call their new home one of, if not the, best in the world.
Now ask any fan of Watford and Wolves, who made a rare visit to Wembley for their semi-final, and they would most likely argue that they will have loved their day out. But is it time Wembley was allowed to be just a bit more special once more?
With the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium containing such grand things as an on-site craft brewery and a long overdue responsible approach to tackling the problem of single-use plastics, allowing semi-finals to be played at such a venue could be argued to be giving fans an even better day out than Wembley can offer.
If 71,000 is the best a semi-final at Wembley can muster for Manchester City's visit, now could very well be the time to turn back to neutral venues. The Etihad itself, along with the improved Anfield and of course Old Trafford, offer ample options for the northern half of the country, while Cardiff, Tottenham and Arsenal offer opportunities for those in the southern area. It's a cheaper day out for travelling expenses, and arguably a more enjoyable experience than Wembley, which remains a difficult place to access in comparison to some of its peers.
Wembley Stadium's owners, having failed to sell the ground to raise money allegedly for grass roots football, may well argue that the venue needs to maximise its fixture list in order to recoup the rebuilding of the famous stadium. But familiarity breeds contempt. With Spurs now back in their own home, and so many fine alternative venues for semi-finals, perhaps the wonder of making it to Wembley should now once again be reserved for those now contesting a final showpiece.


The RTI Problem-Solving Team is a multi-disciplinary group of educators that create intensive, customized intervention plans for struggling general-education students who have not responded to lesser levels of academic or behavioral support. This full-day workshop provides guidance to schools to set up effective RTI Problem-Solving Teams in elementary and secondary buildings.
a structured, efficient 8-step process for running an RTI Team meeting that identifies the student academic or behavioral concern and matches that student to evidence-based interventions.
the specialized roles assumed by RTI Team members (i.e., facilitator, recorder, time-keeper, case-manager, coordinator).
strategies for interacting in an accepting, collegial manner with teachers who refer students to the RTI Team documentation forms for recording information from the RTI Team meeting and monitoring the student's progress on an intervention plan.
ideas for engaging parents (and—when appropriate—students) to fully participate in the RTI Team process.
methods that the RTI Team can use to monitor the quality ('treatment integrity') of student intervention plans.
The training also prepares participants to anticipate and avoid common Problem-Solving Team 'pitfalls'. The workshop concludes with a review of free web resources to assist RTI Teams in their work. NOTE: This workshop can be offered in an elementary-level version (grades K-6) or a secondary-level version (grades 7-12).
describe the central role of the RTI Problem-Solving Team in assisting schools to create customized, intensive academic and behavioral intervention plans.
Implement the steps and scripted roles of an RTI Team meeting.
intervention plans and monitor the integrity with which interventions are carried.
avoid common 'pitfalls—such as limited data collection—that can confront RTI Teams.
use strategies for interacting in an accepting, collegial manner with teachers who refer students to the RTI Team.


text:
The Artificial Intelligence tutorial provides an introduction to AI which will assist you understand the concepts behind Artificial Intelligence. In this tutorial, we have also discussed various popular topics like history of AI, applications of AI, intensive learning, machine learning, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, Q-learning, intelligent agents, various search algorithms, etc.
Our Artificial Intelligence tutorial has been prepared from primary level so that you can easily understand the entire tutorial ranging from basic concepts to high-level concepts.
In today's world, technology is growing very fast, and we are exposed to various new technologies day by day.
Here, one of the growing techniques of computer science is Artificial Intelligence which is set to bring a new revolution in the world by making intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence is all around us now. It is currently working with a variety of subfields, ranging from general to specialized, such as self-driving cars, playing chess, proving theorems, playing music, painting, and more.
AI is one of the fascinating and universal fields of computer science which has a lot of scope in the future. AI has a tendency to cause a machine to function as a human.
Artificial Intelligence is made up of two words Artificial and Intelligence, where Artificial defines "man-made," and intelligence "thought power", so AI means "man-made thinking power."
So, we can define AI as:
It is a branch of computer science by which we can create intelligent machines which can behave like a human, think like humans, and able to make decisions.
Artificial intelligence exists when a machine can have human-based skills such as learning, reasoning, and solving problems
With Artificial Intelligence you don't need to preprogram the machine to do some work, yet you can build a machine with programmed algorithms that can work with it's own intelligence, and that's the strangeness of AI .
AI is not believed to be a new technology, and some people say that according to Greek myth, there were mechanical men in the early days who could act and behave like humans.
Why Artificial Intelligence?
Before we learn about Artificial Intelligence, we should know what is the importance of AI and why we should learn it. Following are some of the main reasons to know about AI:
With the help of AI, you can create software or tools that can solve real world problems very easily and with precision such as health issues, marketing, traffic issues, etc.
With the help of AI, you can make your personal virtual assistant, such as Cortana, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.
With the help of AI, you can build robots that can work in environments where humans may be in danger of survival.
AI opens a path for other new technologies, new tools and new opportunities.
Goals of Artificial Intelligence
Following are the main goals of Artificial Intelligence:
Replicate human intelligence
Solve Knowledge-intensive tasks
An intelligent connection of perception and action
Building a machine which can perform tasks that requires human intelligence such as:
Proving a theorem
Plan some surgical operation
Driving a car in traffic
What Comprises to Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is not just a part of computer science even it is very vast and requires a lot of other factors that can contribute to it. To create AI, we must first know how intelligence is designed, so intelligence is an intangible part of our brain that is a combination of reasoning, learning, problem-solving perception, language understanding, and more.
To achieve the above factors for a machine or software Artificial Intelligence requires the following discipline:
Neurons Study
Component of Artificial Intelligence
Following are some main advantages of Artificial Intelligence:
High accuracy with fewer errors: AI machines or systems are prone to fewer errors and higher accuracy because it makes decisions according to prior experience or information.
High-speed: The AI system can be very high-speed and fast-decision making, as the AI system can defeat a chess champion in a game of chess.
High Reliability: AI machines are highly reliable and can perform the same action multiple times with high accuracy.
Useful for risky areas: AI machines can be helpful in situations such as defusing bombs, exploring the ocean floor, where it may be risky to employ humans.
Digital Assistant: AI can be very useful for providing digital assistant to users such as AI technology is currently used by various e-commerce websites to show products as per the requirement of customers.
Useful as a public utility: AI can be very useful for public utilities such as a self-driving car that can make our journey safe and hassle-free, facial recognition for security purposes, with human in human language Natural language processing, etc. to communicate.
Every technique has its disadvantages, and this name is named for Artificial Intelligence. With such a profitable technology still in place, it has some disadvantages that we have to keep in mind when building AI systems. The disadvantages of AI are:
High cost: The hardware and software requirement of AI is very expensive as it requires a lot of maintenance to meet the current world requirements.
Can't Think Out of the Box: Even We Are Making Smart Machines With AI, But They Still Can't Work Out Of The Box, Because Robots Will Only Do The Work They Are Trained For, Or Programmed Huh.
No feelings and emotions: AI machines can be an excellent performer, but still do not have emotion, so it can not have any kind of emotional attachment with a human, and some time when users are not properly taken care of. Can be harmful to
Increase dependency on machines: With the advancement of technology people are becoming more dependent on equipment and hence they are losing their mental abilities.
No Original Creativity: Since humans are so creative and can imagine some new ideas, but still AI machines cannot beat this power of human intelligence and cannot be creative and imaginative.
Next Topic Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Tagged Advantages of Artificial Intelligence, Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence, Goals of Artificial Intelligence, What Comprises to Artificial Intelligence?, What is Artificial Intelligence?, Why Artificial Intelligence?


FAIRFIELD, NJ - A part-time Inside Sales / Telephone Sales position is immediately available at National Commercial Capital, an independently owned specialty finance company, founded in 2002. The business is located at 165 Passaic Avenue, Suite 303, Fairfield.
The applicant will be expected to make calls to the company's existing customer base and will receive an hourly salary plus commission. The position will entail about 20 to 30 hours per week, Monday through Friday. Those interested should be detail oriented, self motivated and have excellent communication skills. All applicants should be very comfortable with all Microsoft Office products. Experience is preferred but not required. Any necessary training will take place on the job.
this is not a full time position,"
commented a company spokesperson, Bob Altiero.
to discuss the opportunity or you can also send your resume to raltiero@nationalcommercialcapital.com."


If you are living with tinnitus, contact the Sound Relief Hearing Center. We are the tinnitus experts you need to experience the best possible outcome with your tinnitus treatment. To learn more about us, please browse our website or give us a call at 720-259-9962. You can also schedule an appointment online to meet with one of our tinnitus specialists. We look forward to hearing from you!


text:
by admin | Jan 2, 2021 | Church Wide, LifeGroup Guide
SERIES: Straight to the Heart
Week #1: Kingdom Partnerships
This Sunday begins our new teaching series, Straight to the Heart. In one sense, every church has
the same mission. In another sense, every church is like a snowflake – unique in the way it
advances the Kingdom and serves King Jesus. Over the next five weeks, we are going to look at
the unique heart of Bay Area Church; who we are and what we are all about.
We saturate the 4B area with the gospel by restoring people, families, and churches.
Why this focus?
People: bear God's image.
Families: reflect God's design for community and generational multiplication in the culture.
Churches: serve as embassies for the Kingdom in the culture.
We know that we as a church can't restore people, families, and churches alone. We need
Kingdom Partnerships.
A KINGDOM PARTNERSHIP is a relationship formed to advance the Kingdom of Jesus on
earth as it is in heaven.
We work with others to accomplish the priorities of King Jesus, for the work of His Kingdom, locally
and globally. We seek out and establish partnerships valuing Kingdom over competition for the
glory of Christ.
WHY KINGDOM PARTNERSHIPS?
A. We Seek the Kingdom First (Matthew 6:33)
Matthew 6:10 ESV "Your Kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
B. Kingdom Partnerships Advance the Kingdom (Philippians 1:3-6)
Philippians 1:3-5 ESV "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every
prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in
the gospel from the first day until now."
C. Kingdom Partnerships Restore People, Families, and Churches
HOW CAN YOU BE A KINGDOM PARTNER?
A. Philippians 1:6 ESV "And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring ti to
completion at the day of Jesus Christ."
B. Three Ways:
Partner in Serving.
Partner in Giving.
Partner in Restoring.
A. What if, as a follower of Jesus, you lived life on mission to partner with Jesus and this
church on the mission of restoring all things?
B. Think of the people in your life. Think of the families in your life. Think of the church in your
C. How can you live as a Kingdom Partner today?
Think back to this same Sunday one year ago. Could you have ever imagined all that you would
face and experience in 2020? Life is very different in some ways than it was a year ago. We have
all been through many challenges, struggles, and difficulties over these past 12 months. In the
midst of it all, God has been a present help and has been working both for His glory and our good
– even when we didn't see it! Talk through the following questions as you begin your time this
Q: What will be one thing you will never forget about 2021?
Q: What is one specific way God met you and/or worked in and through you during the past
twelve months?
Q: What is your biggest uncertainty, challenge, or concern as you move into 2021?
For many, the start of 2021 is a much needed and anticipated one. While the simple changing of
the calendar from 2020 to 2021 doesn't remove our current circumstances, it can remind us that
God's meets each new day with the mercy and grace we need to face whatever may come our
way. Read the following verse to your group:
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV "The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never
come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
We have no idea what 2021 will bring to us. But what we can know is the truth of God's Word –
that His mercies are new each and every day and that He is a faithful God. Let's all be reminded
that there is nothing we will face that is greater than Him, His Power, and His promises to us.
Take a moment to pray for this next year. Pray for the uncertainties, challenges, and concerns that
were mentioned. Ask God to work in and through our lives for His glory and for our good!
Q: Read Philippians 1:3-6. What was Paul's attitude when it came to the church in Philippi?
Q: How can partnership with others bring us similar gratitude and joy?
Q: How was the Philippian church partnered with Paul for the sake of the gospel?
Q: What is the danger of one person or one church trying to go it all alone? Has there ever
been a time when you witnessed or experienced this?
Q: How would you define a Kingdom Partnership based on the message from this
weekend?
Q: What other examples of Kingdom Partnership can you recall from the Bible? How did
these partnerships help bring the Kingdom and advance the Gospel?
Q: What did you learn from the message about how our church engages in Kingdom
Partnerships?
Q: What was most encouraging about our partnerships and the work that is being done for
the sake of the gospel in our area and around the world?
Q: How have you personally been engaged with or impacted by one of these kingdom
partnerships? Tell us a little about this.
Q: What is your personal "take-away" from this week's message? What is one specific thing
the Lord spoke to you this week?
Q: What is one specific "action step" you are going to take this week to apply what Jesus
has taught you today?
As is true whenever we study scripture, to take this message and study to its fullest we have to
move to from information and inspiration to application. Just defining Kingdom Partnership and
knowing about how our church seeks to live this out is not enough. We all have a part to play and
need to look at how we can take the practical step of partnering for the Kingdom and Gospel of
Jesus Christ. Let's look at a couple of final questions:
Q: What are some practical ways you and your family can engage in a Kingdom
Partnerships to restore people, families, and churches?
Q: What are some practical ways our LifeGroup can engage in a Kingdom Partnerships to
restore people, families, and churches?
Give each person a few minutes to pray and think about each of these questions. Have those who
are willing share their thoughts about how they and their family can engage in Kingdom
Partnerships. Then have group members share their ideas of how your LifeGroup could take steps
to begin (or continue) to partner with others to restore people families and churches in the 4B area
and possibly around the world. List out these ideas and commit to emailing them to the group this
next week. Encourage the group to pray through these ideas and be ready to continue the
conversation in the weeks to come. Close in prayer for individual group members and for your
group as a whole – that the value of Kingdom Partnership would become even more central to
their lives and the life of the group.
**Make the commitment as a group leader to not let this conversation go, but to revisit this and
take a practical step to make Kingdom Partnership a regular part of your group's life and rhythm.
 Philippians 1:3-6, Matthew 6:33 & 6:10
UPCOMING MESSAGES:
1/3/21 Kingdom Partnership Philippians 1:3-6
1/10/21 Gospel Transformation Revelation 21:5
1/17/21 Hands-on-Service John 13:14-16
1/24/21 Relentless Love John 3:16, Romans 5:8
1/31/21 Spirit and Truth Empowerment John 4:23-24


text:
Places to Live Hillsborough County
Town0
Overall Grade
Town in New Hampshire
Working in the Area
How are grades calculated?
View Full Report Card
Hillsborough is a town in New Hampshire with a population of 5,956. Hillsborough is in Hillsborough County. Living in Hillsborough offers residents a rural feel and most residents own their homes. Many families and young professionals live in Hillsborough and residents tend to lean conservative.
Area Feel
Based on the housing stock, population density, and the proximity of amenities of the area.
Sponsored Mortgage Options for Hillsborough
$0 Lender Fee on Home Loans Limited Time Only
Biggest Home Loan Sale Ever. Low interest rates. Get a quote today!
Niche may be compensated by the third party lenders and others who place ads on the website. Niche is not a lender and does not endorse the products of these advertisers. Fees that Niche receives for ads do not affect the terms you may be offered by the lender you choose. There are many additional borrowing options available.
Explore Hillsborough Real Estate
View More Homes in Hillsborough
View Places to Live Rankings
Based on violent and property crime rates.
Calculated annually per 100,000 residents
Based on ethnic and economic diversity.
<10 years
Some college or associate's degree
Less than high school diploma
More About Hillsborough Residents
Working in Hillsborough
Based on employment rates, job and business growth, and cost of living.
Search for Jobs in Hillsborough
Places to Work in Hillsborough
Farmsteads of New England
More about Jobs in Hillsborough
Top Public Schools Serving Hillsborough
Kearsarge Regional Elementary School - Bradford
Hillsboro-Deering High School
Hillsboro-Deering Middle School
Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School
See All 6 Public Schools in Hillsborough
Top Private Schools in Hillsborough
Hillsboro Christian School
Places like Hillsborough
Wilton Town
Hillsborough Reviews
All CategoriesCommunityCrime & SafetyOverall ExperienceReal EstateThings To Do
Hillsborough is a quiet town in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire of approximately 5500 people. It has many good restaurants and has a couple stores including a Shaw's Supermarket, with one of the only vehicle light-bulb factories in the US, Osram Sylvania, which employs a good number of the town. Right now Walmart is trying to move in as well. Hillsborough has a somewhat quiet history as well, despite the fact that the 14th US President Franklin Pierce spent his first 35 years in the town and the town has always been the economic hub of the region. The town itself has many young people, though a critique coming from the youth is that the town could use more opportunities for entertainment and work, perhaps a movie theater or a bowling alley.
Current Resident
Start Your Review of Hillsborough
If you're looking to purchase a home and don't mind commuting about 30 minutes to the major towns of Keene, Concord, Manchester, then this is a great place for you to get great value with a great home.
Mostly mom-and-pop shops, no chain restaurants except McDonald's. Has a Shaw's, Rite Aid, Dunkin Dounts, and many gas stations.
Niche User


67 Queensbridge Drive is a 4 + 1 bedroom, 4 washrooms home with 2000-2500 sq feet of living space. This Detached 2-Storey home is located in the Patterson neighbourhood of Concord, Vaughan, in the York Region municipality of Ontario and has a postal code of L4K 5T1. This property is listed for $999,888 and has been listed on enterhome.ca for 18 days. Estimated monthly mortgage costs on this property are $3,371 per month (based on 20% down, 1.95% rate and 25 year amortization).
I would like to inquire about the property located at 67 Queensbridge Drive.


The other problem that could arise is that your ex and your current spouse could end up in a protracted legal battle over your assets if your will and the information attached to your account are in conflict. Your widow or widower will spend down the remaining assets in court trying to straighten out an avoidable mess.
Here's a short list of the types of accounts you need to check on a regular basis. Every January, or any time you've had a major life change, is a good time to go through these accounts.
All retirement accounts from every job you've ever had. If you haven't rolled those into one account, you'll need to check the beneficiary for each one.
All Individual Retirement Accounts. If you've ever started an IRA, or rolled up old 401(k)s into an IRA, you'll need to check those beneficiaries, too.
All bank accounts. Checking, savings, retirement, Christmas Club, business accounts, credit union – all of it. Check the beneficiary on each account, and also check to see who is listed as having access to the account.
Handling these seemingly small details is crucial to easily settling your estate and keeping your family out of court. It's a gift you can give your family that will pay off for years to come.
If you have questions about estate planning, wills or probate, please contact me, Beth McKinney, at emckinney@elpolaw.com or (270) 781-6500. Our firm, English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, works with families on estate planning often and will be glad to help you.


text:
Individual issues
Your voice in Parliament
Organ Donation: Opt-out System
Excess winter deaths
Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
Never Forget. Never Again
"Holocaust Memorial Day provides us with an opportunity to remember the victims of the Holocaust and genocides which have taken place around the world.
It is also a vital opportunity to reiterate our commitment to stand firm against antisemitism, racism and bigotry.
posted by Admin | 8sc
A Challenge Across Generations - Speech to A-Level Politics Conference
One of the great privileges of serving as an MP is to get the opportunity to be a part of days like today, and to hear from young people such as yourselves.
posted by D J Admin | 5sc
The Patriotic Choice for a More Secure Britain
I want to begin by thanking Siobhain for her welcome. Since 1997 she has served as MP for Mitcham and Morden, working tirelessly for her constituents and it's a great pleasure to be in her constituency today.
I would also like to thank Ross Kemp for his kind introduction. We are particularly grateful that today you have joined this campaign.
Demos speech: By the North, For the North
Salford, 10 March 2016
posted by Nikki Belfield | 5sc
Speech to A-Level Politics Conference
On Monday 30 November Dan addressed the annual A-Level Politics Conference at Westminster Central Hall. The conference was an opportunity for students to hear from a variety of figures from the world of politics. Dan talked about what brought him into politics and some of the great politicla challenges facing their generation.
Here is a copy of his speech..
Oxford Union Remembrance Debate
On Thursday 5th November Dan took part in a debate on remembrance at the Oxford Union.
The debate was on the motion 'This House would not wear the Red Poppy.' Below is Dan's speech against the motion, closing the case for the Opposition. The motion was defeated by 241 votes to 93.
A More Powerful Britain - speech to IPPR North
Speech by Dan Jarvis, Labour MP for Barnsley Central, to IPPR North #StateOfTheNorth conference in Sheffield.
Dan's tribute to Lord Roy Mason
In April we were saddened by the passing of Lord Roy Mason - Barnsley's former Member of Parliament and one of the last surviving Cabinet Ministers from the Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governments.
Roy Mason was coal miner who became a Labour MP for Barnsley (and then Barnsley Central) from 1953 to 1987. During this time he held several ministerial positions, including Defence Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary.
On 5th June a speical service was held in his honour in Barnsley. Here is a copy of the speech Dan gave in his memory:
Speech - My #MakeWorkPay Private Members' Bill
Earlier this year I won the chance to introduce a Bill into Parliament on any subject of my choice. It marked the start of my campaign to strengthen the National Minimum Wage and make work pay. You can read my Bill in full here.
On Friday 28 November my Bill was scheduled for discussion in the House of Commons. The debate never took place however because two Tory MPs - who have both previously campaigned to undermine the Minimum Wage - spoke for over two hours to sabotage a seperate debate on a bill to tackle revenge evictions. This sadly meant there was no time for my Bill to be considered.
My Bill will be scheduled for debate in Parliament again in the New Year. With the Tories having blocked its progress today though, the Bill now has virtually no chance of becoming law.
Had I had the opportunity to make my case, this is the speech I would have made:
Speech to the Youth Justice Convention 2014
As Shadow Justice Minister for Youth Justice, on Wednesday 19th November I had the pleasure of speaking at the Youth Justice Board's annual convention in Telford. The event brought together youth charities, justice experts and Youth Offending Teams from across the country.
I spoke about the new challenges in youth justice, about the Government's ill-thought through approach, and Labour's ambition to stop youth crime before it starts by tackling the issues that destabilise the lives of all our young people.
Here is my speech in full.
Tweets by DanJarvisMP
Dan Jarvis
Subscribe to Speeches with RSS
To keep up to date with my work, sign up here.
Follow @DanJarvisMP on Twitter
Sign up for updates from Dan Jarvis
We will place cookies on your computer to help us make this website better. To find out more about these cookies, see our privacy policy.
Use of this site confirms your acceptance of these cookies.
NationBuilder website by Film & Campaign and rib-design based on a cStreet theme.


text:
Mumiy Troll Releases Appbum for iPhone
. Russian "rockapops" band Mumiy Troll continues its experiments with new formats for the band's music, with the English language EP Paradise Ahead previously released in MP3 format now available as Appbum (APPlication alBUM) developed by FlySoft for iPhone.
Appbum displays Mumiy Troll's videos, photos and lyrics from Paradise Ahead, the band's history and discography and allows users to communicate to other Appbum listeners.
Mumiy Troll has long been noted as a technology-forward band, being the first in Russia and one of the first in the world to open its own social network, Ikra.tv. Appbum Paradise Ahead is the next Mumiy Troll's step in friendly technologies that will make the band's music even more accessible.
Mumiy Troll will be performing at Sullivan Hall in New York City on March 10 and at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX March 17-21.
Appbum Paradise Ahead is available for $4.99 at:
http://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/id348367549
Preview and Purchase Mumiy Troll CDs
Mumiy Troll MP3 Downloads