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"Prophet of Discontent" Looks at MLK's Criticism of Capitalism and Militarism
King called for a "radical revolution of values."
By Patrick Darrington
Another year, another Martin Luther King Jr. Day, when social media will be flooded with the usual photos of the civil rights icon and posts about judging people by their character and not the color of their skin. Liberals and conservatives alike will pay lip service to King's dreams — but what did those dreams really entail?
Over the past decade, revelations about King's more radical history have seeped into the mainstream discourse. King wasn't just a dreamer, although his imaginative capacity is so crucial to his legacy; he spent his career being on the ground with working-class poor people across the country, fighting structural racism and economic inequality. He was a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War, and he called militarism "the final phase of our national sickness."
In their new book Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism, authors Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins make it clear that King was a socialist who thought "something is wrong with capitalism." King, they argue, should be firmly situated within the Black radical tradition.
This conversation comes at an important time. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a historic milestone that, Loggins explains, has been stripped of its true meaning, framed by some as just another step in a since-completed march toward equal rights. Not quite, the authors say. Our country is still very much shaped by police brutality, school segregation, voter disenfranchisement, a racial wealth gap, health inequity, and anti-Black racism.
Teen Vogue catches up with Douglas and Loggins over Zoom to talk about their book, the co-optation of King's legacy, and how we can realize the radical values that King championed.
Editor's note: This conversation has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
Teen Vogue: For those unfamiliar with the concept of racial capitalism, can you please explain it? Also, what is King's critique — economic and political — of this system that y'all talk about in the book?
Andrew J. Douglas: The concept of racial capitalism helps us think about how racial violence and inequality are integral to how capitalism works. They are what enable and sustain profitability, growth, private wealth capture. The idea is that we can't have capitalism without racism, and we can't be antiracist without being anticapitalist.
In the book, we turn to contemporary discourse on racial capitalism in an effort to reconstruct King's critique of capitalist society. King, of course, didn't use this language, but it can be applied to his life's work remarkably well. King famously called for a "radical revolution of values" and dreamed of a more just, more compassionate, more loving world. But he understood that we can't value one another in more just or loving ways when we're embedded in a system of private-property relations, when we're compelled to commodify ourselves and others, when we're forced to accept whatever values markets will bear.
Jared A. Loggins: Racism is an essential feature of capitalism. We wanted to show in the book how capitalism requires, as a matter of course, the reproduction of racial animosities, inequality, and domination via slavery, segregation, exploitation and super-exploitation, violence (state sanctioned and extra-legal, gratuitous, and reasoned), colonial control and imperial conquest.
King's greatest fear was that this system destroyed the possibility of human flourishing. As the poor and working classes are locked into the very worst forms of exploitation and servitude, they are effectively denied the ability to breathe. King himself acknowledged as much when he traveled to Newark and remarked to some of his confidantes, in the spring of 1968, that capitalism was "choking the breath out of our lives." He saw that when a system finally decided it had no use for people, it deemed them surplus, caged them or left them to die.
This was all consistent with where King was headed in his thought. Over the course of 1967 and 1968, he gave variations of a speech titled "The Other America," where he said to his audiences that "the ultimate logic of racism is genocide." He saw that as racial capitalism ran its course in the ghettos of Harlem, Chicago, and Newark, among other places. It solidified the idea that under capitalism some people should be condemned to vulnerability or death.
TV: Got it. So, King was an anticapitalist. He saw color for the people who believe that we're now in our colorblind era. He was anti-imperialist. He talked about the issues with militarism. What does it mean, then, that his legacy has been defanged? Can you speak to how his words have been so misunderstood?
JAL: It is so shameful that an avowed socialist like King has been contorted by the cruelest forces one can imagine. Even the speech that American conservatives and members of the Democratic Party's neoliberal wing parade around as proof-of-concept of his colorblind liberalism, the "I Have a Dream" speech, depends on essentially erasing its radical economic message and context.
Thousands of people did not go to Washington in the sweltering heat of August 1963 simply to contest the virulent racism of segregation. That was obviously part of it, but they also went to contest its material effects, which played out in immiseration across the color line, the extreme brutalization of Black lives, and the systematic denial of the right to breathe. The backdrop of King's dream was a nightmare that needed to be ended by a mass coalition.
AJD: We often think of King, rightly, as a critic of war or a critic of racial segregation or a critic of poverty. But we don't always connect all the dots. This creates openings for a co-opting of his legacy. It allows certain portions of his work to appear more compatible with capitalism than they really were. It actually serves an ideological function, legitimizing and reinforcing the public commitment to capitalism.
King has become such an authoritative, canonical figure in the national consciousness and memory that his name lends a certain legitimacy to whatever it's connected to. And if we connect the King name to antiwar politics without seeing how his stand against the Vietnam War was an indictment of capitalist imperialism, or if we connect his name to the fight against racial segregation without seeing how, for King, this was necessarily a fight against the conditions that enable and sustain capital accumulation and profit, then we just reinforce the very infrastructure that produces the outcomes we're trying to change.
TV: What does that mean? That King wouldn't have liked that President Obama got elected because he dropped countless bombs on foreign countries that we're occupying, oversaw mass inequality, the bailing out of Wall Street?
AJD: Because King was so involved in the mainline Civil Rights Movement, so tied to the Voting Rights Act and efforts to bring the Black political class into existence in a new way, there is a tendency to hang his legacy on a handful of Black elected officials. But, again, this reduction of his legacy doesn't jibe with the full breadth of King's structural critique. He was deeply suspicious of the nation-state and its imperialism, its policing functions, the ways in which it serves circuits of capital accumulation and structurally dis-serves the needs and interests of working people and Black people.
Once we unpack the fullness of this suspicion of the state, we see how disingenuous it is even to imagine that King would put much stock in the idea that an elected official, a state officer, could remake the state into something dramatically other than what it has always been. King didn't discount electoral politics, by any stretch, but he understood that electoral politics are only as good as the social movements that build, sustain, and hold them accountable.
JAL: I think it is vital to insist, over and against a political discourse that thrives on misdirection, that Obama and King are not of the same political tradition. Of course, Obama tried desperately to narrate his political rise as the logical extension of King's dream, and he generated a lot of political capital from those who were seduced by his hopeful vision (including myself and many other young people coming of age at this time). But his intensification of the War of Terror and the surveillance state, his refusal to rein in corporate greed, and his call for the expansion of the police place him well outside of King's company. King, it must be said over and over again, was a socialist, anti-imperialist, spiritual warrior calling for a revolutionary community of equals.
TV: The book interrogates the narrative of King as a nonviolent figure. King had a deep understanding of the violence the state enacted upon the populations that it extracted, colonized, and brutalized; he himself was targeted by the FBI. How much of his nonviolent stance was a response to that?
AJD: King once said that the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" was his "own government." I mentioned earlier that we have to connect his antiwar politics with a broader critique of capitalist imperialism. For King, state violence — whether domestically in the US or militarily in other parts of the world — has to do with creating and maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation: cheap, docile labor inputs; access to resource extraction; expropriation of territories and shipping channels; new markets for endless consumption. None of those conditions for capital accumulation appear spontaneously. They have to be created, often violently through imperial aggression. Projects of racial formation are crucial here as well, as racist narratives normalize and legitimize so much of that imperial violence.
JAL: Some of King's position on violence and nonviolence is influenced by a deeply held theological view that to do violence against another person is to do violence against God; some of it is influenced by the kind of practical considerations you get at in your question, Patrick.
On a philosophical and theological level, King believed there was something fundamentally corrupting about violence in terms of what it does to our sense of self. The idea is that after one goes down that road, one is on a slippery slope in terms of marking out what is and is not justifiable, morally speaking. On a practical level, he saw violence as impractical in a country in which the state has a near-total monopoly on its uses. In this respect, he was concerned with reaction from the state and from racist white citizens.
But as he famously put it, "the riot is the language of the unheard." As King witnessed urban rebellions unfold across the country, due in part to capital flight and disinvestment, as he saw the struggle for civil rights in the United States buckle under the weight of global forces, he was careful to mark a distinction between violence against persons and the destruction of property. Of course he never encourages riots in his speeches and sermons, but he does note that it is a perfectly rational response for oppressed populations who have nowhere else to turn to fight back against their enclosure.
TV: How can we achieve the "radical revolution of values" that King talked about? Instead of always asking what King would do, how should we — organizers, everyday people — go about achieving the "beloved community"?
JAL: In contemporary American politics, there is a trend to think about democracy as the aggregation of individual preferences. King had something altogether different in mind. Democracy is also about how we are oriented to one another. It is about how we cease to live in competitive relations to one another. It is about how we strive to help one another flourish in pursuit of beautiful and finite lives. This is what King meant by the beloved community. This beloved community cannot exist under capitalism. We need socialism. We need non-acquisitive relationships to each other and to the planet. We need the abolition of prisons and police.
AJD: I want to stress, too, this is ongoing work. When we talk about the need to move beyond capitalism or to abolish prisons and build socialism, we're not talking about a one-off event, like some revolutionary rupture after which things will be all good and fine.
One of my good colleagues at Morehouse, the political philosopher Preston King, describes the beloved community as a "rising tumult of aspiring mutuality." I've always loved that way of capturing the idea. The beloved community is not some state of affairs that we're going to bring into being, but is rather a movement; a messy, difficult, ongoing struggle that we always have to figure out how to recommit ourselves to.
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Cersei Lannister Will Win Season Eight Because This Is Game of Thrones
The Mad Queen's list of vanquished enemies is vast. And it's about to get longer.
By Madison Vain
When Cersei Lannister first walked into Winterfell in Season One of Game of Thrones, she was a Queen Consort—the wife of King Robert Baratheon, and a woman with no ruling power. But she had her secrets that would shake the foundation of the Seven Kingdoms. She was enjoying an illicit affair with her brother Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard, which resulted in three bastard children raised as Baratheons to be heirs to the Iron Throne. She played the game of politics to keep it quiet—a game she'd known her whole life. In fact, it was the only thing she knew her whole life. She was selfish. She was cutthroat when it came to getting her way and keeping her secrets. She watched Jaime push Bran Stark out a window and she oversaw Ned Stark's beheading.
From there, Cersei Lannister only became more dangerous.
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Cersei now rules the Seven Kingdoms (at least three are in open rebellion, but still) and commands a powerful army. It's a position she usurped through actual mass murder via wildfire, when she blew up the Sept of Baelor.
Despite her most evil acts, it's possible to have sympathy for Cersei. From the moment Maggy the Frog prophesied her doom, Cersei's life has been marked by tragedy and pain. All three of her children are dead, Jaime has left her to fight in Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen's war against the dead, and her other brother, Tyrion, is coming for her throne, serving as the Hand to the Mother of Dragons. Tyrion, before absconding from the family ranks, killed their father with a crossbow. She has lost all of her allies, save for the blood-thirsty pirate Euron Greyjoy of the Iron Islands and an undead Mountain. At her worst moments, she was paraded naked through the streets—humiliated—and in one of Game of Thrones's most controversial scenes, raped by Jaime.
Such remarkable loss and misery has not softened the Queen. Rather, her need for revenge consumes her. "I lie in bed and stare at the canopy," she admits in Season Seven after taking Ellaria Sand and her daughter captive, "and imagine ways of killing my enemies." Shortly after, she poisons Tyene and leaves Ellaria to not just watch her die, but then also live alongside her decomposing corpse until her own death.
Cersei will get her way in Season Eight, make no mistake. When Game of Thrones wraps, it will do so with the Mad Queen still in power.
For her entire life, Cersei has been treated like a pawn. First, her father wanted to marry her off to Rhaegar Targaryen, then he successfully paired her with Robert Baratheon, and following the king's death, tried to match her with Willas Tyrell, hoping to safeguard his house's stature via the men who might marry his daughter. What he failed to recognize—and what the patriarchal society that surrounded her refused to allow—is that out of his three children, Cersei is actually his best fit heir. She is cunning, a master of politics, and ruthless. Her vision is absolute; her commitment to winning never wavers. Like Tywin, House Lannister is at the forefront of her mind at all times.
Cersei was one of the first villains on Game of Thrones. While Jaime and the Hound—also fan favorite antagonists from the beginning—have spent the last several years growing a heart, Cersei has settled into, and expanded, her role as the villain. Because of that, she doesn't have many fans cheering her to victory in Westeros or in the real world. That's just fine with Cersei. She's never craved adoration. In fact, no other character is willing to be as uncompromising and absolute, public perception be damned. As such, few in Westeros have a longer list of vanquished enemies. Ned Stark, Tyrion, Stannis Baratheon, the High Sparrow, the Tyrell House in its entirety, to name a few.
To be perfectly honest, Jon and Dany are too good to win, anyway. Westeros is hardly your average fairytale kingdom. Good doesn't go far in this brutal land, and pure intentions are rarely rewarded. Both Jon and Dany are willing to sacrifice themselves and their armies in the fight against the dead. Meanwhile Cersei is happy to sit in King's Landing, drink her wine, and let them die while she strengthens her position in the South. It's not the decision that will bring her glory in the history books, but it's a smart move from a military commander like Cersei.
It's also important to remember our source material. This is Game of Thrones we're talking about. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire rarely gives its readers what they want. He refuses tidy endings, instead favoring near-exhausting brutality. (Never forget the shock you felt when Ned's head actually fell or when The Mountain killed Oberyn Martell or the Red Wedding.) Cersei said it best in the seventh episode of Season One: "When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
And remember: Cersei has wildfire.
Long live the Queen.
Madison Vain Madison Vain is a writer and editor living in New York, covering music, books, TV, and movies; prior to Esquire, she worked at Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated.
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The Dusit Thani hotel opened in early 1970 and, at 82 metres, was one of the tallest buildings in Bangkok and certainly the tallest on Silom Road for several years. The Chokchai Building on Sukhumvit Road, which opened the year before as Bangkok's first high-rise office building, was only slightly taller. Construction of the hotel had begun in January 1967. It's top floor was, until the early nineties, the home of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. It remains as one of Bangkok's major landmark hotels.
The Dusit Thani was the tallest building in the area until the late eighties, but the last two decades have seen considerable construction of office buildings and condominiums in the area of Silom, Sathorn and Rama 4 Road.


Services for Jacquelyn "Jackie" Dawn Adams, will be Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 2:00 PM at Hilltop Church of the Nazarene with burial at Bascom Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday, January 7, 2019 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at Lloyd James Funeral Home.
Jacquelyn Dawn Herron Hinshaw Adams, 42, of Tyler, Texas, took her last breath among her children, mother, father, pastor, and friends at 3:30pm, January 4th, 2019, at Mother Frances Hospital. After 10 years of battling cancer.
Jackie was born on February 8, 1976, Tyler, Texas to Bobby Mack Herron and Lisa Dawn Evans. Her loving Step-father, Derral Washburn, came into her life when she was three.
Jackie loved and made so many friends at her beloved school, Chapel Hill. Jackie was as they say-"Once a bulldog always a bulldog." She was a High School Drum Major, was in National Honor Society and attended classes at Tyler Junior College.
Jackie met and fell in love with Gary Hinshaw. They have a handsome intelligent son, Cole Hinshaw, of 16 years old. Jackie also has four children from her second marriage. Madison is 13, Miley is 10, and the twins Marleigh and Brody are 7.
Jackie was a fantastic mother. She often went without, so the kids could have things. She wanted more than anything for the children to have a home they could call their own. This wish has become possible, though she won't physically be there, her spirit will be there.
Jackie was an avid Komen Race for the Cure Race Advocate. She spoke at last year's race of encouragement, faith, and determination. Things Jackie knew of first hand.
Jackie made friends easily and kept in touch with almost all. She loved her family, her church family, and her friends. But most of all, she loved her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Jackie is survived by parents, Dawn and Derral Washburn; brother, Wesley Washburn; sister, Michaela Spradley and husband Will; children, Cole Hinshaw, Madison, Miley, Marleigh and Brody Adams; grandmothers, Colleen Hicks and Barbara Washburn, all of Tyler.


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Te Araroa, 3000 km across New Zealand on foot!
Volcanic Plateau
Nelson Marlborough
Mt Cook Nat. Park
Mt Aspiring
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South Canterbury
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Short Intro to a Long Walk
Te Araroa (The Long Pathway) is a 1800 mile hiking trail across New Zealand. From the Cape Reinga at the top of the North Island to Bluff at the botom of the South Island. It crosses varied terrain from wind swept sandy beaches to think jungly forests, crossing huges rivers and climbing high mountain passes. For more information on the trail, vist the Te Araroa Trust.
We're Nicky & Cookie, welcome to our adventure!
Walk the length of a country? You're barking mad. 3000km on foot… me? Er, seemingly impossible! But somehow, we made it :) This blog will take you on a truly epic journey through the thick jungle, extreme temperatures, deep mud, clouds of biting insects, freezing flooded rivers, and exposed mountain peaks we faced as we clambered across, and slept wild in some of the most beautiful places on earth. Did we survive the parrot attack? Would Bear Grylls be proud? Have a look see ;)
With a Canon 5D and iPad we blogged our way across New Zealand. Notching up over 800 posts, documenting in juicy detail our daily discoveries, disasters and victories! Start from the top, to follow the full blood-sweat-and-tears adventure. Alternatively, check out a region on the map – jump to the best bit – Mt Cook! Or simply skip to the finish-line champagne :)
If you just want to see the photos check out our Flickr set, or if you just want to see the video check out our Vimeo album.
Thu 14th Oct
Across New Zealand in 3 and a half minutes!
I've just finished this short highlights video of the Te Araroa. It's roughly in chronological order from the Top of the North Island to the bottom of the south, unfortunately I don't have any footage of us getting to the end due to a memory card malfunction… Song used: Bow Wow by Tommy Bass
Flickr photo set – I've edited our mountain of photos down to reasonably easy to flick through 200 photo set of the highlights. And then a slightly longer 1000 odd photo set that covers the trail in a bit more depth.
Cookie Nicky Video Walking
Te Araroa Trail Maps
Update: There's now an official printable map set from the Te Araroa Trust, you're best using these for the most up-to-date and accurate route info.
If you're planning on doing the Te Araroa trail in New Zealand, or just fancy having a closer look at what me and Nicky are going to be doing for the next 6 months, then here's all the maps (268.4MB)! I can't guarantee the route I've drawn on is accurate, the route itself is constantly changing, but also expect a fair amount of human error! If you use these maps follow your judgement and common sense, over the orange line. I didn't get around to making all the map notes I'd of liked too.. but I've run out of time now and need to get on with other stuff. My plan is to check for the latest route descriptions and read people's journals to find out info about the next section as we go and then doodle these notes onto my printed out maps. I've left a space on every page to be used for this purpose.
I always enjoy the pre-walk planning and mapping stage, although I've never bitten off anything even remotely as complex or long as this before.. Got to say a big thank you to Land Information New Zealand who made all the 1:50,000 scale topographic maps and hats off to you for making them all freely downloadable :) The Te Araroa Trust for building the trail in the first place and providing all the route descriptions on their site. And most importantly to Geoff Chapple who founded the trust 16 years ago and who has been spearheading it's development ever since.
When you're following a pre-defined route, there's always the temptation to work out a few variations that suit you're own preference of terrain etc. While mapping the trail I managed to rack up more than I was expecting, 57 maps worth in total! I've got no idea how many, if any of these we'll do, those sort of decisions usually make themselves at the time. But if you're interested, these can be downloaded too (164.9MB).
Word of warning though – I've never been to New Zealand, so have absolutely no personal experience whether these are any good or not. I think they are all probably longer and more difficult than the official route.. But they do follow the same numbering as the official route maps (just with a 'b' after the number) so you can see where they fit into the trail.
Fri 15th Oct
Maps Top Tips
After an epic week, we finally caught our plane to New Zealand..
We'd been looking forward to this day for so long it felt bizarre that it'd finally arrived. Suddenly I found myself on a plane after days of rushing around packing boxes, cleaning the house, hectic weddings, and several boozy doo's kissing friends goodbye… And so, kicked out the house, we set off to become the homeless hobo, foreign immigrant tramps we'd been dreaming about ;) Goodbye hair dryer. Goodbye showers. Goodbye comfy bed. We were off!
24hours of shear teeth pulling hell lay ahead in the form of an airplane torture chair, or so we thought. But you know what? It wasn't too bad. In fact, the food was amazing! Lamb curry and fry up in proper little plates. Toy story 3 and Predators movies kept us going, as did a 3 hr marathon MahJong session. Air New Zealand gets a thumbs up from me. And it wasn't too bouncy either considering they were flying us just ahead if a super cyclone about to hit the Phillipines and Hong Kong? Awesome work pilot for getting us there safe and vomit free. Thank you! :D
Oh yeh, the other weird thing. Time travel! We managed to get on on Saturday and land on Monday, get 2 mini days and nights in, but all in 24hrs. So I think basically Sunday didn't exist…? Whatever, but it makes your body feel a bit weird I can tell you! Doctor Who must have had a strong composure is all I can say :)
Flights = 1, Sleep = 0, Lamb =1
Sun 17th Oct
So far we've slept a lot, drank a lot, and ate fish & chips at the oldest pub in Auckland… And bought an iPad…
Day one in Orc-land.. I don't remember too much about arriving. Me brain was a mush and it felt like someone had stuck some Rohypnol in that Lamb Curry. And so blurry eyed and greasy haired we stumbled our way through BioSecurity being meticulously checked, not for explosives and red or blue wires, but instead we were frisked and inspected for terrifying things such as soil and ham sandwiches… I have my suspicions I may have hallucinated the whole thing…
And when I'd started to take in the reality that we were suddenly revealed to be on the other side of planet earth, I opened the curtains of the hotel room to be confronted by an Independence Day style space ship casually parked up in the middle of town… No one seemed to be batting an eyelid, and so I returned to my previous theory of sleep deprivation, ignored the impending alien invasion and collapsed into a comfortable coma on the bed.
Note to self: Never fall asleep to a background movie of 28 weeks later, if you've gone without sleep for more than a day. It's a sure fire way of vividly experiencing being eaten alive by your co-workers and friends. You won't know what the f**** going on when you wake up.
Mon 18th Oct
Gasp! Where's the baked beans ?? … D: (horror!). Actually Ronnie's breakfast was pretty good, and welcome fuel in the fight against jet lag. But i suspect the sausages may never have uttered an Oink in their past life – slight chance they may have shouted Baaaah …. But definitely contents 'unconfirmed'…
Happy to see breakfasts are the same over here :D
Tue 19th Oct
Food Towns
Bungle in the Jungle
We didn't expect to be fighting our way through thick jungle today, only went to find the local DOC (Department of Conservation) office! Word of warning to anyone else using google maps to find it, this is where they've put the pin and there's certainly no office here..
Wed 20th Oct
DOC Forest Nicky Towns
Frame 'n' ek!
Got a feeling there's going to be a lot of funny signage as we make our way across New Zealand :)
Funny Signage
On our way to Kaitaia (The Far North)
Tiny little plane that flew us up to Kaitaia, check out the view from my seat here, never actually seen the pilot in action before.
Nicky Plane
Sound advice?
Some words of wisdom spotted outside the vets in Kaitaia. He clearly has to handle something more formidable than your average rabbit. Picturing a caged lion in there getting a root canal or something!
So now we're finding it quite poinient on our last night before the big day ( being dropped off at the remote tip of a country in the wind and rain! ). So wish us luck… We might need it :)
In a way I guess you could say we've run away from the world for a bit. But as the big drop-off day draws closer I think the alternate meaning is resonating more ;)


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Wounded veteran, family break ground on their new home
Tena Lee
tlee@mtcngroup.com
Retired U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Joseph James received a hero's welcome to the neighborhood he'll soon call home on Wednesday as more than 100 people gathered in the Millstone subdivision for a groundbreaking ceremony to honor the wounded veteran.
Armed with shovels, James, wife Jarin and their three young daughters tossed around dirt that will soon support their new mortgage-free, custom-built home courtesy of the nonprofit organization Operation Finally Home and local home builder Goodall Homes.
The two organizations surprised the family with the new home announcement during a Titans game at LP Field in August.
"For us, this is just a real blessing," said Goodall Homes CEO Bob Goodall Jr. "This is our way of giving back. We're very honored by the opportunity to do this."
This is the second Operation Finally Home house for Goodall Builders, who built a similar home in Lynnville, Tenn. It's also the second Operation Finally Home project in Hendersonville.
U.S. Army Spc. Brad Wilson and his family moved into a home in the Creekside subdivision off Long Hollow Pike thanks to the nonprofit and Pulte Homes and Mahindra USA last June.
Rusty Carroll, executive director of Operation Finally Home, said the organization has built around 80 homes in 29 states — five of which are in Tennessee.
Established in 2005, the Texas-based nonprofit provides custom-built, mortgage-free homes to military veterans and widows by partnering with corporate sponsors, builder associations, builders, developers, individual contributors, and volunteers.
Carroll listed James' accomplishments and said he serves as an inspiration to others.
Deployed three times to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and once to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, James has been awarded a Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal and four Army commendation medals.
Five months into a 15-month tour, a Humvee he was riding in was struck by two improvised explosive devices.
As a result of the explosion, James had to have both of his legs amputated.
Even after enduring 18-20 surgeries on his legs and back that was also injured, James remains active in his military community and family, Carroll noted.
"He has never let that get in the way of who and what he is," he said.
Several city officials also attended Wednesday's groundbreaking, including Mayor Scott Foster.
"Welcome to the City by the Lake," Foster said. "We are so very blessed that guys like you stand on the front lines for us."
James said he was grateful for the support of others.
"I thank you so much for the opportunity to be involved in something that shows so much love to our veterans," he said. "The love that this country has is amazing. I'm completely honored by the gratitude I've heard from all of you — and the support to other veterans and wounded warriors."
According to Rachael Overall, director of marketing for Goodall Homes, the builder plans to hand the keys over to the family in September.
The two-story, 2,853-square-foot home in one of Hendersonville's newest subdivisions will have four bedrooms and three bathrooms, she added.
Reporter Tena Lee can be reached at 615-575-7116 and on Twitter @tenalee1.
For more information about Operation Finally Home, go to OperationFinallyHome.org.


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Letter to President Clinton Concerning Lebanon and The Peace Process
Lebanon After the Israeli Withdrawal
U.S. Catholic Lutheran Dialogue Begins Round XII, Theme: Ministries of Teaching
Father John Crossin Named Head of Bishops' Ecumenical, Interreligious Secretariat
West Coast Muslim Catholic Dialogue Focuses On Scripture Interpretation
Questions and Answers on "Marriage and Religious Freedom" Letter (Jan. 12, 2012)
Documents Produced by the Midwest Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
Documents Produced by the Mid Atlantic Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
Documents Produced by the West Coast Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
Religious Leaders Urge New Attention To Middle East Peace
Midwest Catholic Muslim Dialogue Begins Report on Role of Religion in Civic Life
Religious Leaders, Youth to Meet in 'Generations of Faith' Interreligious Encounter
In Message To White House, Religious Leaders Say Peace Is Possible
West Coast Catholic Muslim Dialogue Compares Sacred, Pious Writings
Mid Atlantic Catholic Muslim Dialogue Nears Completion of Interreligious Education Guides
Hindu Christian Dialogue Discusses the Hiddenness Of God
West Coast Muslim Catholic Dialogue Discusses Prophets In Ongoing Comparison Of Sacred Texts
Sikh Catholic Consultation Discusses Four Levels Of Dialogue
Print Ready Flyer on Aid Agencies in the Holy Land (PDF)
USCCB President Addresses Israeli, Palestinian Presidents
WASHINGTON – Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, this week told the presidents of Israel and the Palestinian Authority that leaders of the Catholic Church from around the world will continue to work for a just peace in the Holy Land.
"At this important moment, we seek to encourage and support all who strive for justice and so pursue peace and those practical steps that will enable the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to live in this Land, with dignity, in two states, in security and equity," Bishop Skylstad said to the two presidents in separate meetings.
Bishop Skylstad was chosen to speak on behalf of the members of the Episcopal Coordination for the Holy Land, meeting in Bethlehem this week. The Episcopal Coordination for the Holy Land is an informal working group of the Catholic bishops' conferences of North America and western Europe as well as the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe and the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Latin America. Established at the urging of the Holy See, the Coordination arose out of a 1998 meeting of the presidents of the bishops' conferences in Jerusalem where they had gathered to discuss the situation of the Church in the Middle East. It exists to advocate on behalf of the shrinking Christian community in the Holy Land, to press for a peaceful resolution to violence in the Middle East and to communicate to the wider Catholic Church about the conditions of the Church in the region. Leaders of the member organizations have met annually since 1999.
"We will work for a just peace in this Land and seek to engage our local Churches and countries in this task," said Bishop Skylstad. "The entire world has a stake in justice and peace here."
Delegates of the Episcopal Coordination for the Holy Land met with Israeli President Moshe Katsav on January 11, and with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on January 13.
The full texts of Bishop Skylstad's remarks are attached.
Remarks to
President Moshe Katsav
of Israel
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to meet you.
We come in the footsteps of two pilgrims to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II. We are completely united with the Christians of the Holy Land as they affirm the teaching of Pope Paul VI that peace is brought about through justice for all, and as they stand resolutely with Pope John Paul II in his consistent rejection of any form of violence as a road to peace.
We visit you at a time of great political potential. We know our native countries have helped to shape the history of this Land. We are determined that the issues which touch the lives and hopes of all in the Holy Land shall not be neglected. On our return, we will use every opportunity to share with our own communities and governments what we have heard and seen in parishes, in Bethlehem's wonderful university—whose story is followed with great interest in many countries—and in schools and hospitals, as well as in Galilee.
At this important moment, we seek to encourage and support all who strive for justice and so pursue peace and those practical steps that will enable the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to live in this Land, with dignity, in two states, in security and equity.
We affirm and stand with the Church in the Holy Land, with the Patriarch, the pastors and people, in their unique witness to the faith we share with them. With the whole Church, we are committed to the survival and vitality of the Christian community in this Land where Jesus was born, died, was buried and rose again.
The importance of the Fundamental Agreement between Israel and the Holy See is clear to us, and we urge its full enactment and implementation without delay.
We will work for a just peace in this Land and seek to engage our local Churches and countries in this task. The entire world has a stake in justice and peace here.
At this hopeful moment our prayers are with all who share this Land: Israelis and Palestinians, Christians, Jews and Muslims, that we will very soon see decisive action and courageous steps to bring an end to violence and injustice and accomplish peace and reconciliation in the Land we all call Holy.
Thank you, Mr. President, and Shalom.
President Mahmoud Abbas
of the Palestinian Authority
The importance of the Basic Agreement between the PLO and the Holy See is clear to us, and we urge its full enactment and implementation without delay.
Thank you, Mr. President, and Salaam.


As Big Ag flourishes, this massive waterway suffers.
A boycott of gold jewelry might solve the problems caused by mining.
The U.S. Forest Service believes there is a clear patch of land in Montana that affords a clear view of the future's enlightened forestry. The problem is, the agency's own past sometimes sullies the view.
Missoulian reporter Richard Manning told how the logging business in Montana had taken a brutal turn that would punish the land, the local economy, and the small-time loggers and mills.
As a result of four months of negotiations between unionized lumber mill workers and a	coalition	of conservationists, separate accords have emerged drawing wilderness boundaries for two of the state's 10 national forests.
At first it looked like simply another battle over trees, but this particular environmental war in Montana has a political twist.


To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Cornell in Washington program will host a special series of guest lecturers and a special celebration with both alumni and students in the program.
The Cornell in Washington program provides students with the opportunity to spend a semester living in Washington, D.C., and divide their time between taking classes taught by Cornell professors and participating in an internship. Since its inception in 1981, the program has brought more than 28,000 students to Washington and has grown substantially throughout the years.
"Originally, the program began with two to three professors in Washington, D.C., with students they grabbed off the streets in Ithaca, but now we are a program with its own residential and academic building that hosts 40 to 50 students," said David Silbey, associate director of Cornell in Washington.
Sibley said he believes the program has been successful for so long because of the draw of the nation's capital.
Throughout its 30-year history, the program has evolved, and students in Washington now develop a thesis and research paper that applies to their internship with the guidance of a resident advisor.
Many students said they enjoyed opportunities in Washington that will prepare them for future careers.
What is a neutrino and how is it possible that it could travel faster than the speed of light? A neutrino is one of the particles that according to our best theory of Nature (called the Standard Model) is elementary, that is, fundamental.


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It's been 32 years since best-selling author and Zhejiang native, Mai Jia, last set foot in his childhood home. His first stop is the ancestral village temple, a hall rich with some 400 years' worth of history, and a sacred space which has heard the hopes and dreams of generations. He surveys the scene with nostalgia in his eyes.
Mai Jia, born Jiang Benhu, is perhaps the most famous person to hail from Jiangjia Village. Known affectionately as A'hu, he guides me on a tour of his hometown, which boasts some 600 years of history, and apparently an equally impressive literary tradition. It is informative.
The structure has long since been abandoned. Fifty years ago, six households lived there together. Mai Jia and his family, seven persons in all, lived in one room. It was in the confines of this small space that he honed his creativity, imagination, and sense of urgency.
Mai Jia's grandfather and father were both victims of political persecution. The circumstances of which gave his family – everyone in it – a tinge of contamination. The subject changes the character of Mai Jia's nostalgia.
Throughout childhood, Mai Jia kept looking for a way out and a way of life that suited him. While the period known to history – and as it was propagandized at the time – as Reform and Opening-Up would not immediately reestablish his family's reputation, or their fortunes, but it would be the stage upon which Mai Jia began to open up.
Mai Jia studied hard. He graduated from high school in 1981 and was admitted to a military academy. After graduation, he became a respected officer, and the pride of Jiangjia, but celebrity, or perhaps redemption, was a long way off.
Mai Jia's preference for introspection seems to have begun as an effort to transcend the village, his family's infamy, the congested confines of their home, and the silence of his embittered father.
After graduating from the military academy, Mai Jia was assigned to work in a confidential unit in a remote mountain area. It's there that he picked up his pen and wrote. Lonely, his emotions, his depression, found a voice in his novels.
Mai Jia's style was influenced by both European and American modernist literature; Hemingway, Faulkner, Krakow, and Kafka. A mild seismic shift came when he encountered Latin American magical realism. After encountering the works of Argentinean writer, Jorge Louis Borges, Mai Jia says his silent but unstill ruminations about his craft became much deeper.
After years of hardship and rejection, Mai Jia brought his novel, Plot Against, to completion in 2003. It quickly became a bestseller, one which he himself adapted as a teleplay. The success of the series he created triggered a wave of contemporary Chinese spy thrillers, earning him the sobriquet, China's Ian Fleming. The lonely road that began with poverty, sadness, and failure, has now led to accolades and awards in both literature and television. Mai Jia is currently one of the most famous and wealthiest writers in China.
In 2008, Mai Jia returned to his hometown in Zhejiang Province. He has a studio in Hangzhou's Xixi Wetland. This year, he was elected chairman of the Writers Association of Zhejiang Province. He still worries about those struggling to get out from under, and make names for themselves; and so the dreamer turned darling and doyen of the literary world established a writing base for young writers, one that focuses mainly on those facing the greatest challenges. As a chairman of the provincial chapter of the Writers Association, Mai Jia has to attend all kinds of conferences and social events, which he does, but what he wants most, he says, is to live in peace.
He is currently writing a love story. A story, he says, he has never shared before. The novel, a departure from the genre for which he's now best-known, will likely shed some more light on Jiang Benhu. Fans and critics are sure to want to engage it and decode it.
Translated by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne.
Never before translated into English, Decoded tells the story of a maths genius who becomes China's greatest code-breaker, only to be driven mad by the unfathomable darkness in the world of cryptology. With the pacing of a literary crime thriller, it combines elements of magical realism with historical fiction and state espionage. The fact that it takes place in a fully characterised shadowy world of the Chinese secret security, where Mai Jia worked for decades, makes it all the more unfamiliar, intriguing and authentic… Decoded was published in 2002 and became an immediate success. There are over 3,000,000 copies in print and it has won several awards.


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Q: Can i have a CollectionView and a TableView in same View Controller I actually have a view controller in which i am showing product attributes in a table view in the lower half of the View Controller and was showing product thumbnail in table view header. But then i realised that a product can have multiple thumbnails so i should add a collection view in upper half of view controller to show all those thumbnail (scrollable horizontally). I added both datasource and delegate for Collection view (UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate) and wrote functions to return number of section, number of rows and cellAtIndex but these functions are not called.
So my query is can i have both collection view and table view in same view controller? If yes, then how?
I am using iOS 8 SDK with swift

A: class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var collView: UICollectionView!
@IBOutlet weak var tblView: UITableView!

var arrMain = NSMutableArray()
var arrDays = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"]
var arrSunday = ["No Data Available"]
var arrMonday = ["1","2","3"]
var arrTuesday = ["A","B","C"]
var arrWednesday = ["a","b"]
var arrThursday = ["d","e","f"]
var arrFriday = ["5","6","7"]
var arrSaturdsay = ["X","y","z"]

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    arrMain = (arrSunday as NSArray).mutableCopy() as! NSMutableArray
}

}
extension ViewController: UICollectionViewDelegate,UICollectionViewDataSource{
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

    return arrDays.count
}

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {

    let cell = collView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "collCell", for: indexPath) as! collCell
    cell.lblDays.text = arrDays[indexPath.item]
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Mideast US Iran (NR)
Israel calls for countries to stand by US
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Dateline: Jerusalem - 20 June 2019
Jerusalem - 20 June 2019
1. Wide of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taking group picture with New England Patriots (US football team) owner Robert Kraft and Patriots players
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"In the last 24 hours Iran has intensified its aggression against the United States and against all of us, and I repeat my call for all peace loving countries to stand by the United States in its effort to stop Iranian aggression. Israel stands by the United States on this. Thank you."
3. Netanyahu talking to media
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for "all peace-loving countries" to stand by the United States' efforts to curb Iranian aggression.
Speaking on Thursday at a reception for the New England Patriots (US football team) owner Robert Kraft, Netanyahu said that "in the last 24 hours, Iran has intensified its aggression against the United States and against all of us," adding that "Israel stands by the United States and its military."
The escalating tensions between the US and Iran have been fueled by American allegations of recent Iranian attacks, raising fears of a war between the two countries.
Israeli officials have welcomed Washington's mounting pressure on Tehran, but steered clear of calling for a conflagration that would put Israel in the line of fire.
Government and politics , NFL football , Professional football , Football , Sports
Benjamin Netanyahu , Robert Kraft
Israel government, New England Patriots, AFC East, American Football Conference, National Football League
West Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel


This week I learned that the holiday lights start appearing on the buildings in downtown Rochester in mid-October. Mid-October! I'm not ready for that time of year yet and am trying to block out all references to it that I'm starting to see (I'm steadfastly one of those "It's still fall!" people). Downtown Rochester did otherwise give off autumn vibes when I was down there Monday evening, with pots of mums on display and fallen leaves skittering about on a brisk wind.
The reason I was in downtown Rochester Monday was to take a re-take photo of Chomp, a restaurant I visited for lunch a few weeks ago and where I enjoyed a ridiculously good sandwich, The Nolan, an amalgamation of – get this – turkey, bacon, Brie, fig jam, arugula, and pear. It was HEAVEN. I mean, a turkey sandwich with rich Brie AND sweet fig jam AND peppery arugula AND juicy pear AND bacon – are you kidding me???? It was fantastic.
Chomp's menu in general abounds with amazing-sounding sandwiches, wraps, quesadillas, and burgers that I need to return and sample more of. Raw juices and smoothies are also offered.
The restaurant is a casual establishment. You walk up and order at a counter, then can take a seat in the dining area, and your sandwich will be brought out to you. Our food was delivered promptly on the day I was there, despite the fact that a sizable lunch crowd had descended upon the tiny establishment.
I believe the best restaurant meals are the ones that make you think about them for days after eating them. The Nolan was certainly on my mind after my encounter with it; I mused about recreating it at home but have yet to do so. But I know that with months of cold weather and waning daylight setting in, I'll be looking for things like that sandwich to be bright spots in my day (because inevitably it's the little things that brighten life, isn't it?). And if I can't recreate that bacon-Brie-arugula-pear-and-fig-jam turkey sandwich, well, I certainly know where I can find it.


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Will Hoge Finds the Drive to Succeed by Filming His New Video Himself
Watch "Even the River Runs Out of This Town"
by CMT.com Staff 6/22/2020
A fixture on Nashville's rock 'n' roll scene, Will Hoge has been making music his own way for decades now. He took that DIY work ethic to heart while making his new music video, "Even the River Runs Out of This Town." The fledgling filmmaker even named his upcoming album Tiny Little Movies — a title that suits his gift for showmanship, writing sweeping melodies, and crafting character studies in song.
Country fans may already know Hoge's name from his empowering single, "Strong," and as a co-writer on Eli Young Band's enduing hit, "Even If It Breaks Your Heart." Take a look at "Even the River Runs Out of This Town," then read our interview below the player.
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What do you remember most about the shoot for this video?
It was shot driving around East Nashville. Perfect weather and lighting. The performance shots are just me in my bedroom.
How does the video bring your song to life?
I hope it captures the feeling of letting go. Knowing it's difficult but still for the best.
What message do you hope your fans take away from the video?
I really hope they dig it enough to listen to the whole album and then I hope at some point, they can come see the band play it live.
How did it feel to see the finished product for the first time?
Satisfied. I'd never shot, edited, or directed a video. I see minor things I'll do better for the next songs but I was really happy that I took the leap to just do it and not listen to those that said I couldn't.
Songwriters: Will Hoge, Rob Snider, and Jonathan Singleton; Director: Will Hoge
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Ocean View Senior Apartments, Pacifica, Calif.
Bridge Housing has completed the renovation of Ocean View Senior Apartments, a 100-unit community in Pacifica, Calif. The nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable housing acquired the property in 2015 with a view to preserve its affordability and make capital improvements.
The makeover of the 1971 property was led by architect was Marx Okubo Associates and general contractor Deacon Corp. The rehabilitation included the enhancement of the building's physical condition and systems and the installation of solar photovoltaic panels for increased energy efficiency. Property amenities include a clubhouse, two outdoor courtyards and newly created community garden beds. Residents now have access to improved on-site services such as free-of-charge wellness and nutrition classes and referral services.
Located at 555 Crespi Drive, the community is just off Route 1 and Pacifica State Beach. A shopping center anchored by Safeway and Ross is within walking distance. Financing for the $34 million recapitalization was provided by the County of San Mateo Department of Housing, the Housing Authority of the County of San Mateo, Merritt Community Capital Fund XVII, the California Housing Finance Agency, Heart of San Mateo County, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee and the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee.
Other recent affordable initiatives in the Bay Area include Community Development Partners $21 million affordable veterans community in Vacaville, Calif.


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Col. Charles C. Ross
Published 6:04 pm Tuesday, January 4, 2011
After bravely battling blood cancer for the past year, Col. Charles Coolidge Ross, U.S. Army retired, passed away on Christmas Eve, 2010, surrounded by family. He was 86 years old. The immediate cause of death was congestive heart failure. During his final week of life Col Ross and his family were gently and ably assisted by the Hospice staff at Elizabeth House in Hendersonville, N.C.
Col. Ross was born Nov. 6, 1924 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the son of Gen. Morrill Ross and Catherine Coolidge Ross. Chuck enlisted a few days after his 18th birthday, was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1943, and joined the 26th Infantry Division in Europe, shortly after D-day. He flew 85 missions as a forward air observer, directing artillery fire from light aircraft. Chuck retired from the military as a full colonel after 27 years of active duty, which included serving in the Korean Conflict; teaching tank gunnery at Ft. Knox, Ky.; writing the U.S. Army Tank Gunnery Manual; serving with an armored battalion and at division headquarters at Scoffield Barracks, Hawaii; graduating from the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Ks.; teaching at the college; commanding a tank battalion in Germany and service at the Pentagon. &bsp;
Among Col. Rosss military honors are two air medals, the Army Commendation Medal and the Legion of Merit, the Armys highest award for service, given upon his retirement. In his military career, Chuck most valued his selection for and three-year service as a professor at the Command and General Staff College and his experience as the commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, 37th Armor, in Germany (1964-66). Always a proud and deeply patriotic veteran, in 2009 Col. Ross was a guest of the Tryon Rotary Club in the Honor Air Flight to Washington, D.C.&bsp; For the 12 years prior to his illness, Col. Ross volunteered once a week attending patients at the Veterans Nursing Home in Asheville, NC.
After retirement, Col. Ross, who has a B.A. in history from Park College, taught courses in world, American, and military history at Isothermal Community College for over 20 years. An avid horseman, Col. Ross also served as the master and huntsman of the Ft. Leavenworth Hunt, president of the Tryon Riding and Hunt Club, field master of the Greenville County Hounds, chairman of the Block House Steeplechase, and technical delegate for the Dressage and Combined Training Association.
An elder and Sunday School teacher at Tryon Presbyterian Church, Colonel Ross was also a member of the Second Wind Hall of Fame. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Julia Moore Ross; two daughters, Dr. Catherine Ross of Tyler, Texas, and Lauri Ross, RN, of Columbus; one grandson, Matthew Charles Ross; and his two brothers, Lt. Col. Morrill Ross and Jon Ross, both of San Antonio, Texas.
A memorial service and interment, with full military honors, will be held at Tryon Presbyterian Church, Harmon Field Road, on Jan. 7, 2011 at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in his name to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Elizabeth House (the Hospice facility at 581 South Allen Road, Flat Rock, N.C. 28731) or to a charity of your choice. &bsp;
An online guest register is available at www.mcfarlandfuneralchapel.com.
McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon.
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"Save Me" is a single by American rock band Hinder from their album Welcome to the Freakshow. It was released on August 30, 2012, by Republic Records. The song debuted on the Active Rock Chart at number 23.

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Hinder songs
2012 songs
Songs written by the Warren Brothers
Songs written by Cody Hanson
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Alternatives to Violence Project
Founded in and developed from the real life experiences of prisoners and others, and building on a spiritual base, AVP encourages every person's innate power to positively transform themselves and the world.
AFSC is a Quaker organization which has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building, social justice, and youth in the United States, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Offers advice about countering harassment to parents and children, address to educators, and frequently asked questions and answers about Arab-Americans.
Annenberg Classroom
Annenberg Classroom offers a wide array of educational resources under a single umbrella. Educators can find curricula, lesson plans, multimedia programs, and other teaching materials all indexed and in conformance with the educational standards of their state. Search by keyword, by subject area, or by state standard to find one of the richest sets of teaching aids available in a single location.
Offers activities to help educate about and challenge prejudice and discrimination, including 101 ways to beat prejudice, and discussing hate and violence with children.
Beyond Diversity 101
Diversity training has traditionally been based in models driven by guilt and blame. We believe that if the goal is to become a more whole society, such trainings are highly ineffective. We need to move beyond the vicious cycles that are embedded in these old "Diversity 101" models. We can, in fact, abolish systematic discrimination within and without. It requires recognizing, taking responsibility, shifting mindsets while continually building and utilizing effective skills. Beyond Diversity 101 is for all who choose to transform systems of separation and power-over. It is for those who want to work toward wholeness — within and without.
Bolivian Quaker Education Fund
A Friends Council on Education Affiliate Member Organization
The mission of Bolivian Quaker Education Fund is to strengthen ties between Bolivian Quakers and those of North America and Europe through programs that improve the education of Bolivian Quakers and of Quaker schools in Bolivia and neighboring countries. The organization grew out of visits to Bolivia organized by Quaker Study Tours beginning in 1995, and out of a visit to US Quakers in 2001 by two young Bolivian Quaker teachers, Loida Cutipa and Cecilia Paco.
Children's Creative Response to Conflict
This program was established in 1972 by the New York Quaker Project on Community Conflict and is now incorporated as Creative Response to Conflict. As a result of years of nonviolence training, the staff realized that the seeds of violence are often planted in children at an early age. They began adapting, for young children's skills, the methods used with adults, starting with weekly workshops in New York City public schools. Now, tens of thousands of CCRC workshops have been conducted in the New York area, North America, Europe, Asia, Central and South America.
Connecticut Center for Peace Education
Pax Educare links educational and community practitioners (pre-K through higher education, scholars, activists, religious and community groups) and institutions to materials, curricula, research and training in peace and conflict studies including: nonviolence; mediation; cultural, gender and other issues around diversity; human rights; and ecology and the environment.
Council for American Private Education (CAPE)
Primary Advocate for American Private Education The Council for American Private Education (CAPE) is a coalition of national organizations and state affiliates serving private elementary and secondary schools. There are 33,740 private schools in America; in fact, one in four of the nation's schools is a private school. More than six million students (11 percent of all students) attend them. CAPE member organizations represent about 80 percent of private school enrollment nationwide.
Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education
The Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education is a non-profit organization working to help schools integrate spiritual and ethical education into the curriculum.CSEE sponsors workshops and publishes a newsletter.
Educators for Social Responsibility
Offers programs to help build a more positive school climate, create a safer, more respectful, more personalized learning environment, and integrate social and emotional learning, conflict resolution, and diversity education.
Friends Association for Higher Education
Friends Association of Higher Education provides support and a link with tradition in the work of Quaker higher education.The organization an annual conference with a theme around a topic of critical importance to Friends Education that to connect all who share Quaker ideals of higher education, whether at Quaker or non-Quaker institutions.
Friends Center is a hub for Quaker activity in Philadelphia and around the world. The Friends Center campus houses an active Quaker meeting; local, regional, and international Quaker organizations; and like-minded groups working for peace and justice. Friends Center also serves as a meeting place, providing a quiet area for 2 – 3 or space accommodating up to 700 for lectures and events.
Haverford College's Special Collections Department
The Quaker Collection is a collection of more than 30,000 printed volumes some dating back to the 17th century. Much of the material consists of family papers including letters, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, etc.
Henry J. Cadbury Library of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
This library, located at Friends Center, Philadelphia, Pa., and searchable via the web, has an extensive collection of 18,000 books and audiovisual items. A large proportion of the circulation is distributed by mail. Over 100 booklists are available on the major subjects of the collection. The entire book collection is available to all Friends school teachers and librarians.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, community development and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. Videos available for lean or purchase - extensive collection of titles on peace education, social awareness and global issues.
National Association for Independent Schools
The National Association of Independent Schools, governed by a board of trustees and staffed by approximately 40 individuals, is a membership organization and the national voice of independent education. NAIS represents approximately 1,400 independent schools and associations in the United States, and affiliates with independent schools abroad as well. The organization offers a broad variety of services and products.
Situated on Philadelphia's historic Independence Mall—just a block from the Liberty Bell—The National Museum of American Jewish History offers a range of uniquely engaging and interactive visits for students of every age. NMAJH presents educational programs featuring primary sources, and original artifacts that inspire in people of all backgrounds a greater appreciation for the diversity of the American Jewish experience and the freedoms to which Americans aspire. Our object-based lessons provide students with opportunities to develop skills in comprehension and critical thinking through close engagement with primary documents, historic artifacts, maps, and interactive visual and audio displays. Students learn to observe, listen, and participate effectively in group discussions. These lessons can serve as compelling topics for project-based curricula and individual research projects.
Nobis Project
Empowerment Through Social Action
The Nobis Project is a non-profit organization that supports youth, educational and community leaders in building skills to critically analyze issues that impact our society and take actions towards instigating positive change. The Nobis Project creates life-long learners who are empowered to improve lives and communities, locally and abroad.
Outlaws and Justice
(Out)Laws & Justice was developed to capture the attention and vibrant energy of youth using educational drama and compelling primary source documents to deliver a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum of American history and English language arts. By studying the conquest of the West, students confront and compare the contested grounds of the frontier and the contested urban grounds where they live today. They then dramatize what they learn in original plays they write and perform on stage.
Founded in 1986, following a suggestion by Vietnamese Zen teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press is the publishing division of Unified Buddhist Church, Inc., dedicated to publishing books on socially engaged Buddhism.
Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill is an adult center for study and contemplation, set on 23 acres near Philadelphia. It was founded in 1930 by the Religious Society of Friends and is open to people of all faiths. Pendle Hill offers a variety of workshops, discussions, and retreat programs. Many workshops sponsored by the Friends Council on Education take place at Pendle Hill. Pendle Hill is an affiliate member of the Friends Council on Education.
Quaker Religious Education Collaborative (QREC)
A grassroots network of Friends holding a sense of stewardship for life-long Quaker faith formation through religious education. We include Friends from all branches of our international Quaker family. We welcome all Friends involved in religious education. Join us in forming a community of practice to share resources, skills, gifts, questions and insights, and to support each other in the ministry of Quaker faith formation.
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)
Since the Quaker UN Offices were established in the early days of the UN, issues concerning the maintenance of peace and security have been at the forefront of their work. Although the particular initiatives have changed over the decades, QUNO continues the struggle to rid the world of weapons and promote the peaceful prevention and resolution of armed conflict. QUNO's work on peacebuilding and disarmament is grounded in the historic Peace Testimony of Friends.
Quaker.org
Quaker.org is a comprehensive gateway to Friends organizations and web sites.
Resources for Peace Website
The Resources for Peace Page can help you find alternatives to war and violence. The links page includes more than 150 links to peace and social justice groups. A featured group page gives a link to an outstanding peace and justice group. A featured service page links you to a helpful resource for peace and justice work. On the commentary page you will find a thought-provoking essay on war, and on our film page you will find a list of recommended films. On this site you will also find information on how to order our publications on peace and alternatives to violence. Site provided as a public service by Desktop Resources.
www.givewings.com/peace/index.html
Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund
Funding source for Quakerism in-service and Literature
The purpose of the Fund is to support the understanding and practice of Quaker faith in schools, and to support the growth of a "life lived in the Spirit" by members of the school communities. All Friends schools across the country are eligible to apply. Generous funding from the Sue Turner Fund through Baltimore Yearly Meeting makes it possible for many Friends schools to attend Friends Council programs and purchase literature on Quakerism and Quaker pedagogy. The Fund is intended to be used for: materials, lectures and consultants, workshops and retreats, and programs and activities which help to explain Quaker faith and practice to members of the school communities, to be brought into the schools for individual or groups from the school communities to attend workshops, classes or retreats on Quaker faith and practice and spiritual development and for the creation and distribution of materials related to these issues by members of the school communities.
T. Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund
The T. Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund supports Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends who have felt the call to teach at the primary or secondary school level, or those who need financial help to complete their preparation for this work. Others come to us for help with financing further study or improving their training. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting teachers in other than Friends schools are also eligible to receive funds. The Fund is primarily attentive to the needs of teachers in our smaller schools. Those schools are often unable to afford educational assistance grants to their teachers and the Fund gives these teachers first consideration for available funds.
Teaching for Change
Building Social Justice, Starting in the Classroom
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future. Teaching for Change is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, DC.
A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is a magazine and E-Newsletter that is truly rich with resources, booklists, weblists, articles, classroom activities, and examples of anti-bias work for teachers. The magazine is published twice each year, and the E-Newsletter comes out each month.
The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Born in 1962, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. The organization works towards that vision with our sister UN agencies in Rome -- the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- as well as other government, UN and NGO partners. WFP website has a Student and Teacher Action Center, featuring lesson plans, educational video games, maps and other resources on hunger.
Vihiga Friends Council on Education
An association of Friends schools in Kenya. Interested in creating relationships with Friends schools in the United States. Vihiga Friends Council on Education is an affiliate member of the Friends Council on Education.
Director: Joseph G. Kisia
Vihiga, KENYA
(254 0722 294 666)
William Penn House
A Friends Council on Education Affiliate Member
Quaker seminar and hospitality center on Capitol Hill, Washington DC. William Penn House has a special ministry to youth — each year we host hundreds of young people as they journey to Washington, D.C. to explore the nation's capitol, get their hands dirty in service projects or attend rallies, seminars and gatherings. The William Penn House offers programs open to youth of various ages, including Washington Quaker Workcamp program.