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November 18, 2019 · 12:03
IP in the balance
This weekend, roughly 25 hours ago, the Washington Post released a story regarding the F-35, now there are a few stories about that crazy bird in circulation, yet this one was particularly fetching. The article (at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/16/power-struggle-over-f-fighter-jet-comes-head-lawmaker-threatens-hold-up-contract/) called 'A power struggle over the F-35 fighter jet comes to a head as lawmaker threatens to hold up contract' starts with "the complicated IT system supporting the fleet's maintenance infrastructure still falls far short of expectations" is an eye opener, but it is not the IT systems (no matter how defunct they are) that is the issue, it is the ownership of certain IP systems in the plane, the patents themselves that are now the issue. It is not "some lawmakers criticized the terms of Lockheed's arrangement with the government, saying overly generous intellectual property agreements threaten to lock Lockheed into a wasteful long-term profit machine with limited accountability" even though it is certainly an issue that is the setting, no it is "Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) threatened to hold up a multibillion-dollar contract if fundamental questions aren't resolved" that is the issue, yes having multi billion dollars in sales held up is one part way to go, for some of these buyers with a few billion in their pocket, looking at alternatives will be the coarse course they could be sailing, this gives additional problems for Lockheed Martin and the US government is setting the stage as it has the inner lane in this skating race, the problem for Lockheed Martin is that the opposition they face are Russians (who are coming with the Su-35 and the Su-57), apparently NATO sees the Sukhoi Su-57 as a bit of a felon, so anything can happen. China is coming with the J-31, according to some it is a copy of the F-35 (source: Business Insider) yet it comes without IP and Patent battles, so the copy will be out without a politician stopping production on elemental questions not being answered. In addition, its unit cost is $70 million, whilst the F-35 is between $77 million and $108 million, the cost price of the more expensive version implicitly states 'including engine', so there is that to consider as well.
There is however a more serious note to the F-35 and the Washington Post gets there when we see: "Carolyn Nelson, a Lockheed Martin spokeswoman, said the government is working on a new technical data package that was not a part of the initial F-35 contract, as well as a separate "performance-based" contract for logistics support", you see the issue we see here is not merely IP and patents, it is the situation where government is yielding the floor to local business. If we accept the mess that the US has made in regards to 5G and Huawei, whilst we accept the words of Alex Younger (MI-6) "Alex is giving us the national need and the premise that another government should not have ownership of infrastructure this important", something I mentioned in 'Tic Toc Ruination' (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2018/12/06/tic-toc-ruination/) almost a year ago. That setting is crucial, as such when you have a national product called 'Defence' why on earth would you let that reside with a global player like Lockheed Martin? I get the idea that the avionics are a bit of a call, yet the IT systems are a larger debate, basically America has large needs with Lockheed Martin, so what happens when the well dries when the US debt becomes a noose around the nations neck? Do you think Lockheed Martin is sitting still? I do not expect that Russia or China ever having a piece of Lockheed Martin, but the UAE, Saudi Arabia? If we take premise to the situation 'the premise that another government should not have ownership of infrastructure this important' the point of view I am taking is a lot less theoretical, is it?
And when we consider: "Air Force estimates that most of a given aircraft's long-term cost actually comes from keeping it flight worthy. Manufacturers are keenly aware of this, with companies such as Boeing launching whole business units focused on maintenance and repair" we should be wondering why the Air force is striking out, not out like in 'too bad, let's try again' but in the way that the batsman asks 'where on earth is the playing field', I get it, some jobs are too specific, but is that not the Air force focal point? That in light of the procurement: "the Pentagon has been buying jets in greater quantities in order to get the average price down. They recently finalized a $34 billion agreement that defense officials described as "the largest procurement in the Department's history." The deal brought the F-35's price per plane below $80 million ahead of schedule", so when you consider that buying 2400 planes (at the very least) got the price down, what math was done on fixing and maintaining these birds? 2400 planes imply 100-250 squadrons, it implies no less than 200-500 repair and maintenance teams, it implies that these people need to be schooled and as they come up short, the move of Boeing starts making sense in a real way, so how much additional costs are involved there? Let's not forget that the US is currently at minus $23,000 billion (-$23 trillion), we might see the victorious 'Yohza' on them reducing the price of a bird, but how much debt, interests and cost of maintenance was seemingly overlooked?
In all this, the Government Accountability Office was seemingly not heard clearly enough, we get this when we consider "the program is having trouble keeping the F-35's mission-capable, an odd problem for a brand new fleet. The overall F-35 fleet was capable of performing all of its tasked missions only about a third of the time" and that is before we consider the maintenance staff, their training and the setting of spending money before the elements are all adjusted for. So as the article ends with ""if we are missing parts and can't get our jets airborne, our ability to deliver combat effects on this aircraft is significantly diminished," said Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, the Pentagon's F-35 program executive", I merely wonder what other options were overlooked, that's fair is it not?
You see when we are considering the upgrades and the adjustment to technical flaws in the hardware, the IT systems become a very real part of it all, oh and any person telling you that the IT is OK and there are not issues, will be my reason to introduce you to a liar. For that you merely have to look at DELL and their setting of laptops, I have had two laptops, both delivered on the same day, and both needing separate upgrades before I got them delivered to their respected users, not different systems, no identical systems! So when we see "we are missing parts and can't get our jets airborne" in light of software glitches, it becomes a very real thing, the F-35 might be the final straw of short sighted management, whilst asking for the moon. Even as in the past operators like Boeing and Saab decided not to play along in light of bias towards the F-35, we see an evolving matter where they will grasp the events that surround the F-35 as a way to show nations that they have what it takes, in addition, there are outstanding offers from France (Dassault Aviation), it was the initial offer to a much larger degree to train technicians in the fields of service, training and operations that might swing previous missed hits, and no matter how we slice it, Lockheed Martin might be looking at the US as a sole customer soon enough, what a change IP and IT systems can make, even in two-seater planes.
I believe that the over grasp in the 2004-2014 era is now coming back to bite the eager who signed certain agreements. In light of the fact that the F-35 fleet is mission capable only 30% of the time should worry Lt. Gen. Eric Fick a little.
And even as the F-35 might be the odd duck out, the words of Loren Thompson stating "The struggle over IP between the government and defense contractors is likely to go on indefinitely. If you own the information, you can largely shape the future of the system" might be valid in the commercial world, but Lockheed Martin is in the defence world, the rules are a little different there, feel free not to believe me, but in light of The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and their push to "prevent a future situation like the one now facing the F-35 program — and by extension, American service members and taxpayers", here we see that the letter to congress by POGO executive director Danielle Brian might become a swing and a Jack, so whilst POGO seeks the optional "It would also allow the government to seek alternative suppliers should the original contractor fail to live up to expectations", we see more than a victory, the entire Huawei issue might push for this solution, which would make several nations queasy on the F-35 solution they heralded.
The F-35 is showing me the one solution that mattered to the wrong people, it was greed overjoyed and that is about to gain the sunlight and limelight others wanted to keep out of consideration.
Filed under Finance, IT, Media, Military, Politics
Tagged as Alex Younger, Boeing, Carolyn Nelson, Danielle Brian, Dassault, Dassault Aviation, Eric Fick, F-35, France, GAO, Government Accountability office, Huawei, J-31, John Garamendi, Lockheed Martin, Loren Thompson, MI-6, pentagon, POGO, Saab, Saudi Arabia, SU-35, SU-57, Sukhoi, The Project on Government Oversight, UAE, UK, US, Washington Post
Uber driving facts
It seems that people do not like Dara Khosrowshahi that much, it all started with Jamal Khashoggi and now ever the Guardian staff member Edward Helmore adds to this with: "Khashoggi, a Saudi national resident in the US, and a severe critic of the Saudi regime who wrote for the Washington Post, was murdered in Istanbul last year after visiting the Saudi Arabian consulate there. His body was dismembered and disposed of", it is the part 'His body was dismembered and disposed of', that part cannot be proven and in light of that we also have 'was murdered in Istanbul last year after visiting the Saudi Arabian consulate there', at best we can use these sentenced with the added word of 'alleged'. That is the foundation, anything else is a joke, we have laws and we seemingly (at least the media) uses the law to hopefully get better interviews by incorporating slander (as I personally see it), by using the name of Aggy Calamari, UN essay writer the writer thinks he can just marginally add the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia into this mix by stating: "His death has been described by Agnès Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, as a "deliberate, premeditated execution" that warrants further investigation into the responsibility of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman", you see, there is no evidence of killings. I am not digressing; I believe that a bad fate has befallen Jamal Khashoggi, although one can argue that he is 97% more known after than before is long term absentee. When we in what is (laughingly) called the free west, can we claim that part when we just apply laws on a mediocre level? By the way, the article is (at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/11/uber-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-mistake-dara-khosrowshahi)
And the part where Aggy makes a jump from Istanbul to a Saudi Crown prince with "warrants further investigation into the responsibility of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman", even as the article did not reminiscent on it, the truth is that the report is using: "The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, the Washington Post has reported. The Post said US officials expressed high confidence in the CIA assessment, which contradicts Saudi government assertions that he was not involved." something a collection of papers have been using since that report was given freedom to fly anywhere. You see, I have an issue with "US officials expressed high confidence in the CIA assessment", now we can bid high and low with the CIA, but they are the people who instigated the silver briefcase tour with Colin Powell, at least they had graphics in that assessment, can anyone tell me where those Iraqi WMD's were? And why was it by some laughingly referred to as Operation Whatever? So before we give any level of certainty to the CIA, we better be sure that the right people are looking at that data.
All issues that Aggy Calamari should have been aware of, yet her report was laden with CIA elements.
And now we get to the attack on Dara Khosrowshahi "In an interview with Axios on HBO, broadcast on Sunday, Khosrowshahi was asked about the Uber board member Yasir al-Rumayyan, a director of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which is the company's fifth-biggest investor", which is followed by another assumption "He was seized, killed and dismembered by a Saudi hit squad", we cannot prove any of that, and why is that? There is no body, all matters are subject to supposition, the Guardian refused to follow supposition when it came to Grenfell, the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), you know that building where 'Grenfell Tower blogger threatened with legal action by council after writing about safety concerns', coming from a warning letter from solicitor, Vimal Sama, dated 25 July 2013 and addressed to Francis O'Connor, accusing him of "defamatory behaviour" and "harassment.", I reckon that the entire matter is off hand as the building looks a nice charcoal black, you know that building in North Kensington, yet when it comes to one journalist, and one the bulk of the planet does not give a hoot about, we see supposition on top of supposition.
One could even argue that HBO, after the finale of Game of Thrones, HBO needed a new channel for emotions, and Axios seemingly provided. My point of position I clear, I do not know who did what, because Jamal Khashoggi was never found, we can assume that he was killed, at present he is merely missing (murdered requires additional evidence) but we cannot prove any of it. In case of Axios, there is a simpler situation, the setting was loaded before the interview and Dara Khosrowshahi has handed a curveball that he tried to 'laugh off' or diminish. It was his interview on HIS Company, on this there was mention of one of his board members, a Saudi individual named Yasir al-Rumayyan, director for the Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The entire article that was on the interview of Dara Khosrowshahi was washed into another article (trying to) slap the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia around, I think that the articles writer Edward Helmore made a few mistakes, getting into Journalism might be one of them. So whilst we reminisced on 'American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed' my request becomes simple 'Can we please see that evidence?', because not unlike the entire WMD issue that was apparently happening in Iraq, I will be able to punch holes into this issue as well.
Oh, and I was not talking about that flimsy piece we saw in Aggy's essay, I want to see all the raw data available, perhaps I will be turned around, more likely than not, we see the need for turning heads away from other matters, we have seen it before, but I am willing to investigate the evidence (curiosity killed this cat, miaow).
The fact that makes this entire matter so interesting is that this one cat Jamal Khashoggi gets all the capture and the 231 journalists have been arrested after July 15, 2016 in Turkey get ZERO words from pretty much ANY newspaper around the world. Whilst Mehmet Akif Öztürk was jailed for 8 years and nine months in February this year, his colleague Turgut Usul (presenter) has been jailed since January 2018 pending trial. Oh and perhaps someone can find out what crimes Nazlı Ilıcak did, he was sentenced to life in prison with solitary confinement. I wonder how many journalists are out there what crime a publisher/journalist has to undertake to find himself in a lifetime of solitary confinement. Perhaps Axios could look into that, they seemingly need an emotional side in there broadcasts now that HBO has ended its game of thrones.
I wonder how long it takes form the people to wake up shouting some stupid slogan involving Jamal Khashoggi whilst there are issues out there that are a lot worse and in light of the diminished value of journalists, the entire mass is getting crazy shouting: 'A pigeon is pooping on the street' whilst one corner from that place someone is shooting pigeons left, right and centre. I wonder if the who is shouting the claim so that no one is watching the one shooting all the pigeon's one street further.
I wonder if Jamal Khashoggi realises that his value allegedly dead is seemingly 1000 times higher than when he was still writing some column in the Washington Post.
Filed under Finance, Law, Media, Politics
Tagged as Agnes Callamard, Axios, Colin Powell, Dara Khosrowshahi, Edward Helmore, Game of thrones, HBO, Jamal Khashoggi, Mehmet Akif Öztürk, Mohammed bin Salman, Nazli Ilicak, Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Crown Prince, Turgut Usul, UN special rapporteur, Vimal Sama, Washington Post, Yasir al-Rumayyan
It started with a meme
Yes, I ignored the impeachment news for the longest of time, until the act is there, there is no impeachment. Just for the numbers people, this would be the 5th presidential path to impeachment, John Tyler (10) got his overturned 127-83, Richard Nixon (37) resigned before proceedings began and we got Andrew Johnson (17) and Bill Clinton (42) who both did impeached, by the way, I will forever have issues with a girl who keeps a sperm covered dress out of the laundry unless it was intentional the fact that she intentionally kept it for 9 months, and that is all I have to say on that subject. Now we get to the 45th President Donald Trump. When we look beyond the 'grabbed her by the pussy' issues, we see a stage of bad decisions again and again, oh and I am a Republican at heart, so I am not giving you democratic rhetoric.
The first one is his inability to use social media correctly, even if we ignore the grammar issues on covfefe (aka coffee), we see the foundation of a person who apparently states his own frame of mind in all the wrong ways. In addition to this we see his choices on what to tweet, GQ magazine gave us in addition 'The CIA Reportedly Pulled Its Top Spy From Russia Because Trump Can't Keep His Mouth Shut' (at https://www.gq.com/story/cia-pulled-russia-spy-because-trump), this is actually the very first moment when impeachment became a reality, when an elected official cannot keep proper national security in line, the entire presidency becomes an issue and doubly so when the transgressor of national security is the President himself. Even if he did not do it, the stage of 'is it more likely than not' has been met and for national security that is enough.
Musical chairs with clowns and politicians
The meme did not strike a chord because of John Oliver, even if he is a well-deserved comedian with a critical side towards politics. It was Jon Steward with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund bill (at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/29/trump-sign-9-11-victim-compensation-fund-bill-first-responders/1835550001/), where he addressed a nearly empty congress. The idea that congress would not be there to give support to a bill where firefighters knowingly met certain doom is just beyond acceptable, from my point of view; those who were not there should be named and shamed for years to come. It must be mentioned that President Trump signed it into law and that might be the best thing he has done in his presidency.
The impeachment process continues as I get only an hour ago: "House investigators heard from Fiona Hill, the White House's former top Russia adviser", the Washington Post also gave us: "Trump renewed his call to unmask the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry", the fact is not that he wants to know the whistle blower, it will be about the materials that the whistle blowers (plural) are bringing. The additional fact that we get: "Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who is scheduled to appear Thursday under subpoena" that the mess is a lot larger, the mess that hits the media is not a mess that we could avoid, the issue is that this mess should not have existed in the first place. The call from the democrat from Massachusetts is not to be taken lightly: "Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) shared a link to an article about Cheney's comments. He argued that within the past week, Trump has "endangered our troops," "allowed ISIS to regroup," "abandoned our allies" and "empowered" the leaders of Russia and Syria. McGovern used another name for the Islamic State", basically his own fat tweeting fingers got him into this mess. The foundation of what a fashion magazine brings (GQ) is the cornerstone for a much larger issue, the fact that the president of the United States of America is the national security issue is something America has (as far as I can tell) never faced before.
It all comes to blows with "Republicans have seized on a ruling that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) cannot participate in Monday's deposition of Hill as they continue to argue the process should be open to the public", for those in the dark, watch the movie called the Post, this is a direct stage where Republicans wanted things out of the media, there the issue was: "With help from editor Ben Bradlee, Graham races to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spans three decades and four U.S. presidents", the Pentagon papers showed levels of folly never before imagined, and there was a need to go public, however, the Pentagon papers was about a stage 4 years after the war, in the end proving that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress" source NY Times. this time it is different, these are events now playing out, even as the Russian news got out AFTER the agent was safe, the fact that the president is part of a national security danger is just too unacceptable and before this goes to the public, the sources must be heard and vetted behind closed doors, I fully agree and I see the wisdom in that, even if the current president and the current administration does not.
I believe this administration made massive errors in the US China trade wars, and even more errors in the entire Huawei ban, the most visible one is that no evidence was ever presented that Huawei is a national security risk, because of the unproven accusations they are wrong, this is different in the UK where the head of MI6 (Alex Younger) gave the clear premise that no government should be dependent on essential infrastructure from foreign suppliers, which does make sense, but then they order their hardware from Finland and Sweden, so there is still some level of issue in place. the entire matter comes to blows in different ways as the larger group of EU nations (Germany being the latest) has kept the doors open for Huawei, now we get to the stage that America feared, Huawei will enable these nations to make faster headway in Europe, expected losses for the US will go between $5 Billion and $8 Billion in the next three years alone. My own expected IP would be available for implementation by Q2 2021 (if Huawei accepts), implying that there will be a boost to the 400 million small business owners outside of the United States, leaving an optional $4 billion out of reach of the US in that time frame alone, the moment my projection is proven values should double, in addition to that the entire telecom service model will change to a larger degree, giving the small business owners a lot more options to choose from, that part is also part of the impeachment.
When the economic models under this administration fail, the democrats will add that entire cart (whether valid or not) to the blame game. Whether we consider this or not, the current president will to some degree be blamed for not being a Guardian of the Economy. The Huawei and China trade pacts are merely one part in this. This administration has pushed the American deficit to the highest in history, even if we accept that the bulk of that failure are the American corporations who became complacent and flaccid, it is more likely than not that the democratic party will voice this in another way. In addition, the guilty of life for Americans have only gotten worse. At present it seems that the current president failed in at least 6 of his 7 roles, as far as I can tell the other impeachment had less on those presidents, we can argue that an adulterer is supposed to lie about those actions, so let's not go there.
Chief Diplomat. Failed, the China trade war, I believe that the acts against Iran were justified.
Chief Legislator. Undecided
Party Leader. Failed, his racist tweets are a clear example and they are not the only one.
Chief Executive. Failed, openly hostile to challenges, his manner towards the National Security Advisors as well as his issue with academic opposition makes him a failed chief executive, He used 4 National Security Advisors in ONE term, which is a record as well.
Chief of State. Failed, the G-20 summit, as well as his dealings with the media gives him a fail mark.
Commander in Chief. Failed, the actions in Syria call his military insight and decision making into doubt to the largest degree.
Chief of Guardian of the Economy. Failed, Chinese trade war could have been prevented, outside factors (like iterative corporations merely added to the failure) and of course there were a few fiscal blunders as well.
The entire national security issue, as well as the connections that are being investigated should have sparked impeachment well over a year ago, perhaps the entire CIA matter ended up being the straw that broke the impeachment camel's back. #Justsaying
Yet this entire matter is far from over, the Guardian reported: "Donald Trump's secretary of defense said on Sunday the Pentagon would cooperate with the House's impeachment inquiry, while cautioning that Trump may try to restrict his disclosure of information", whilst CNN gives us "Democrats also face extra scrutiny over their strategy as they race to prove that Trump abused his power by seeking election dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden from the President of Ukraine", the question becomes why focus on strategy? Are the actions valid or not? Can a case be made or not? That is the mother lode of impeachment. Yet the fact that even Republicans are now more and more in support of the Ukraine investigations are making the map of red a hazardous place, it means that not only is there every chance of the next elected president being a Democrat, they have a real chance of winning both congress and the senate in 2020, this would push republicans out of play for 4 years, 4 years on the sidelines with their only option to play interference to some degree.
This was a race with growing chances; the entire impeachment matter merely hastened the shift from red to blue. At present there are numbers giving rise to the chance that the republicans will lose 7 senate seats, with an additional 4 unknowns that could optionally make the next election the biggest loss for Republicans in the Senate since 1936. In that year Democrat Joseph Robinson ended with 74 seats, I am willing to wager my last $1 that there is an option that the Democrats are at present optionally in a position to get 75 seats; it would be a new record. Republican Nebraska has one small advantage as Ben Sasse was openly critical of President Trump, in 1936 they were independent, this time around there is a chance for Chris Janicek to become Senator for the Democrats if he gets the right support, and of course if he plays his cards right.
Impeachment did no start with a meme, but my look at the shift of comedians and politicians did, when national wisdom and honour comes from a man like Jon Steward (never my favourite comedian) we stop and pause to reassess our values and we look at what we hold to be endearing and holy to us, holy values are not religious values, our family tends to be holy, our achievements are enshrined, but the steps we take to enable the next generation (usually our kids) are our step towards holy grace, we all want to leave something behind that lasts and when the clowns are running the asylum (congress) and Donald McDonalds has a large white Kentucky Fried Chicken mansion on Pennsylvania avenue (a little upstream from the FBI building, we see the folly of choices and we tend to demand change, in the case of America it took almost 4 years to figure out the folly beyond the minimum required degree.
When we seriously consider replacing Donald Trump with Jon Steward as President of the United States, at that point we realise that our values need to be restored, and we will elect whoever will give value to the values that truly matter, social media be damned.
I believe that there is a larger need; not merely the separating from church and state, the separation from corporations and state is now becoming a larger imperative, especially with a national debt that at present exceeds $22.8 trillion dollars with absolutely no plan in sight to repay any of it.
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Tagged as 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund bill, Alex Younger, Andrew Johnson, Ben Sasse, Bill Clinton, China, China trade war, Chris Janicek, CIA, CNN, Donald Trump, FBI, Fiona Hill, Gordon Sondland, GQ, Huawei, Jim McGovern, John Tyler, Jon Steward, Joseph Robinson, Massachusetts, MI6, National Security Advisor, Nebraska, NY Times, Pennsylvania avenue, President Trump, Richard Nixon, Russia, Syria, the Guardian, Ukraine, USA today, Washington Post, White House
Update to include monsters
I was thinking of some of the old games I used to play, especially one I never mastered. The game was released in 1985; I played the Atari ST edition. The game was called 'Balance of Power' and it was basically the east versus the west and through the interface you could interfere (take control of) the balance of power between east and west. In the end I got overly comfortable to the expression "You have ignited a nuclear war. And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air. We do not reward failure", yes diplomacy was never my forte. There was an update 5-10 years later when the 1990 edition was launched, I never played that edition.
I believe that the world is ready for a true update of that game. When we add the atrocities by Turkey only a few days ago, when we add the Khashoggi debacle and the impact of social media and spin doctors at the heads of media outlets we see that the world has changed to a much larger degree and the impact of what actually could happen is perhaps worthy of a new game. We need to see and play with the impact of ISIS minded forces as political parties play with the impact on a global stage. The fact that the USA is no longer a real superpower and the fact that the treasury of Saudi Arabia, the consumer base of India as the technology footing of China are much larger influences than foreseen; we get to debate a much larger spectrum of what the balance of power looks like. I believe that when the people see the impact of these elements, we see that the world reshapes almost like some Sim City version with larger repercussions. When we consider the global powers of Google and Facebook we see that the game of world politics gets filtered by economic markers. The evolution of what was once regarded as the 'Balance of Power' is optionally now the stage for a larger form of balance (or is that a forum of balance) staged in a collection of seesaws where one resets the balance of two others. the old balance of power staged on the bear and eagle are outdone, less valid, the entire proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran clearly shows that and the impact of the media as they filter the news is also a larger impact and we have never been able to truly look at the impact there is, hence the idea of a new Balance of power, optionally called: 'the Power to balance powers', the optional new truth that Turkey is the fourth power to instigate multiple genocides (America as it degraded the population of Native American tribes to zero, as well as the Catholic powers who removed well over a dozen civilisations, and Russian combined actions in 1931 and 1932) is something we need to consider in a much larger scope.
It is this stage where we look at the news and we are confronted with 'The Kurds' commander in chief explains why his forces are finally ready to partner with Assad and Putin', I have no way of seeing how this plays out, but there will be larger repercussions on many stages. It is time that the youth takes a serious look at the large issues that their parents are dumping on their doorstep, we need to figure things out and it is time that this is done out in the open, no longer hidden behind a screen of media filters and silencing diplomatic teams as they are trying to remain 'non-accountable' towards actions chosen.
The problem is not merely that we ignore the actions; the larger stage is that all kinds of 'compromises' are being made for the long term and the next generation needs to learn what those repercussions are and I believe that the right video game could do this. The previous generation was apparently taught that evil should never be allowed to win, yet 25 years after WW2 we all became complacent and we thought that evil was gone, evil never is and we all have optionally become part of evil as we condone the actions of many, hide behind the shallow needs that social media offers and we remain unaware as the news is decided by the wealthy (read: corporations) as they became the shareholders, stake holders and advertisers; they get to tell the media and the news what is important, what is filtered out. That is the stage where the balance of power can educate a lot of people just how dangerous our status is at present, not dangerous as if a war comes, we are beyond that, I mean dangerous as we have set the stage for multiple generations of anger, hatred and feelings of revenge, and a growing lack of tolerance towards one another. It is almost like a 4 seat seesaw and each of these seats is the balancing point for another seesaw, it becomes a game of trying to stay balanced, it also means that there is a lack of movement available, which implies that some parties will be about claiming actions when none (or that specific one) was not available.
when we see the media, we are pushed to the question 'What is the omitted Information that Remains Missing?', this is a spin on two levels, the first is 'Which question should have been asked?', which brings us to 'Has a quote or testimonial been taken out of context?' this is harder to answer, but it is an influence, which gets influenced by: 'Is someone approaching the issue from a different set of values?', as well as the stated answers 'Are the claims supported by well-done research as well as based on reliable sources?' and that is the foundation for merely looking at the media how it filters information, the entire stage becomes a much harder game to program, yet should it not be done because of that?
And that is all before we get to the political and diplomatic stage on "If the answer is not helpful, can we change the question to make it so?" these two elements interacting in media causes all kinds of communication (read: presentation) issues whilst both sides remain intentionally ignorant to the equation. The next generation needs to be educated on what a mess this generation is creating. That part is seen (only in part) with: '12 Hours. 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed. One Culprit: Russia' (source; NY times), with the quote "The Russian Air Force has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria in order to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad, according to an investigation by The New York Times", which was set to events on May 5th 2019, many newspapers gave that information when it happened, the repeat from the NY Times gives us the quote "Russia's position as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has shielded it from scrutiny and made United Nations agencies reluctant to accuse the Russian Air Force of responsibility", this is important as the United Nations Security council is now presented as an umbrella that offers a shield from actions it was supposed to stop, a stage we knew existed, but not to the degree we see now.
So when we see the NY Times quote: "Nabad al Hayat Surgical Hospital in southern Idlib Province served around 200,000 people before being destroyed in a Russian airstrike on May 5" which comes with assisted high resolution graphics of 40 mega pixels or better whilst we look at the exploding hospital, we wonder how lucky that photographer was, or perhaps someone knew in advance what would happen, we are left with too many questions and no real explanation that fits the morality and values within us.
It is becoming more and more important that we see the world as it is now being pushed by the monsters among us, we like to set the stage to merely Iran, Turkey, ISIS and Hezbollah, yet the real monsters are the ones claiming to fight the atrocities and in the end merely facilitate to it, it goes beyond the wear events, the technological feats we see in regards to 5G is also a global impact, and we can go on and on on all the events that are part of the stage, and it would soon become too complex. Perhaps that too would be the strength on any new version of 'Balance of Power' the fact that too many issues are intertwined for several reasons. Yet when we add greed to the mix, the game becomes awfully transparent, add to that the actions by some making claims that they cannot prove; the created stage of carefully phrased denials, all out in the open and when we ask specifics we are left with half-baked answers that are not answers at all. This is a part that plays a role in all this, we seem to forget that governments have a duty to properly inform us, yet in the listing from government, through corporations to media to the viewer, we forget that there are three iterations of information, all bound by their own personal issues. It is almost an applied variation from Mark M. Lowenthal 'Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy', the application of stages towards the drive of any policy (governmental or not) is also baked into the media and is subject to what we are allowed to see. Consider that impact, as well as the impact of data on the whole, it might become a massively complex new game, yet when we are able to show the impact of these elements to the people, we would optionally get a much more informed person, one who ends up asking the right questions, the questions that politicians, CEO's and CFO's fear. When that part comes out in the open, we get a first stage to truly fix things.
Yet with my sense of humour, we should make a lot more space to include the stages that Darrell Huff introduced us to when we were given 'How to Lie with Statistics', and this gets us to today, we know that the balance of power is not merely what we have, what we get and how we get there. There is an internal stage where political power is also set to the stage of people in jobs (as enabled consumers) that was proven ages ago. Yet how that stage is managed is an entirely different matter. the pushed stage where enablers, facilitators and consumers become the 'have group' the rest will be the 'have not' group.
As we got told today (source: the conversation), we see this stage in Australia, "Centrelink generally requires evidence of looking for 20 jobs per month in order to keep receiving Newstart", that sounds fine in theory, yet in the applied practice we see that the job search government links to a job search collector, whilst the seeding player of this group is another matter. So when we look at IT jobs in Sydney we see: '594 jobs with 715 positions', with the largest bulk (over 90%) being Adzuna, yet the reviews from some are stating that this source is riddled with 'scam' mentions, as well as overly positive claimed stages. There is a larger issue afoot and there is not enough scrutiny, even as the people can go to really valid places like Indeed, LinkedIn and Jora; the choice we see in the governmental site calls for question of scrutiny.
Why on earth did I mention that?
We see that the balance of power is set to what is done and what can be achieved, yet when we are confronted with a stage that is not available or realistic, how will we interact? When we are set in a stage of age discrimination on a stage where our issues are not heard, or set in a long winded stage of registration where the IT parts fails too often, the government gets to optionally report that no complaints were received. In Australia the mess with Centrelink data matching, the failing Biometrics Identification Services, the UK failures on IT in the NHS and the list goes on where the costs keeps on adding billion after billion, that directly impacts a government, its budget and its waning options, very much issues on a larger scale and the claim we see with "aggressive ICT outsourcing has led to agencies being left at the mercy of external vendors", whilst there is no proof that growing the internal options would not have resolved the issue. It is a stage where corporations have a hold over the government, pushing cheaper solutions (another reference to age discrimination get pushed to the backbench and no solutions come forward. this is a direct application of the earlier mentioned 'in the listing from government, through corporations to media to the viewer, we forget that there are three iterations of information, all bound by their own personal issues', which in the application of the Balance of Power means that corporations have a much larger option to disable or limit government actions. That is what the impact of corporatocracy is. In the original games there was no real corporatocracy, nowadays there is. The US is perhaps the strongest example and the impact we see in the FDA and DEA (see yesterday's article) as well as the ATF limited through the powers of the NRA and by corporations addressing attachments to governmental needs we see a larger impact of where governments show limitations on the world stage.
Yes, the entire game has become a lot more complex which in the end leads us to the question, is any application of the 'Balance of Power' still actual and realistic? That is partially seen in 2013 when the NY Times gave us: "Eight major companies, led by Google and Microsoft, are calling for tighter controls on surveillance of their customers' data by governments", yet the opposite was never put in place, the existence of Cambridge Analytics, the application of selling consumer data as well as the abuse of data collection through apps has never been stopped. We get all kinds of options to market through mined data giving a larger rise to corporatocracy, whilst the media remains silent on the dangers of corporatocracy. So when we see 'This is what happens when corporations run the government' (Washington Post, March 2019) and 'Australia's march towards corporatocracy' (the conversation Feb 2017) we see merely two mentions on Google search page one, whilst he situation set the stage that there should have been dozen of clear mentions and investigations, yet the media seemingly have almost zero mentions, how is that? I think that there is a clear stage where corporations do not want to see any mention if possible and as I mentioned earlier 'in the listing from government, through corporations to media to the viewer, we forget that there are three iterations of information, all bound by their own personal issues', and here we see how 'through corporations to the media' is directly inhibiting exposure. The Balance of Power would be an awesome game if we can incorporate it into a new game, especially when we see how the media and corporations make sure that a lot of the information will not be shown, active censorship in nations that proclaim freedom of speech and freedom of expression, when you own the printing house you get to tell the people what they care about, we apparently forgot about that small part again and again.
It is the beginning of a rigged game where the next generation gets to pay for the screw ups of the current generation, feel free to ignore or deny that, yet when we consider the US with a debt of $21 trillion, the EU has around € 10.1 trillion and on a global scale we see that the Global debt had reached an all-time high of $184 trillion in January 2019, we see that the Balance of Power is a term that has become debatable, a stage where banks are basically in charge, limiting or directing the options that any government is allowed to consider. The original game never anticipated that reality, but there you have it. John Perkins tried to inform the audience with 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)', yet even after Berrett-Koehler published it, gaining an instant bestseller, whilst the major U.S. media refused to discuss Confessions or the fact that, because of it, terms such as "EHM" and "corporatocracy" were now appearing on college syllabi. A stage where the media claiming to advocate freedom of speech, whilst we see that its absence is allegedly corporation controlled, a direct (still alleged) piece of evidence showing that whatever balance of Power we envision, when it is set to nations and governments we get less than 50% of the players in view, making a larger injustice to the people.
In this, I wonder who exactly the real monsters are; are they identified by the acts of nations like Turkey, Iran and North Korea, are they the acts by organisations like ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas, or are the corporations and the media they control a lot less innocent in all this. Will the next generation be ready for what we, the current generation have facilitated for?
I honestly do not know.
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Not a small house for boys
Yes, we all have moments when we want to avoid events, the call to ignore the European Song Festival in Tel Aviv, The Summer Olympics, 1980, the British Empire boycott (1764-1766), some become successful, and some do not. the problem is that it is not always possible to prove its validity up front, in one case, only after that disgruntled clambake (1764) did the boycott succeed and the United States of America were born. Yet when we see the Dutch times (at https://nltimes.nl/2019/10/08/mp-wants-netherlands-boycott-g20-summit-saudi-arabia) are we confronted with: "SP parliamentarian Sadet Karabulut wants the Netherlands to boycott the G20 summit in Saudi Arabia next year", with the most outstanding reason "The Saudi regime is too controversial, Karabulut said, referring to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi", all whilst evidence of Saudi governmental evidence was never shown, merely implied (by that well known UN essay writer).
And it does not end there, Socialist party member Sadet Karabulut was (fortunate for me) rather stupid to boot, when we see: "Crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman is most likely responsible for cutting journalist Jamal Khashoggi into pieces", it is an assumption, there is no evidence at all that he was responsible, there is no beyond reasonable doubt, moreover, there is no evidence of the 'cutting into pieces bit' in any way as the body was never found. We just do not know what happened, and to let some socialist party hack decide what a nation does and what a nation attends, especially as this (if ever proven) was the act of an individual, yet not of any government (it cannot ever be proven), the stage is merely that of a Dutch Socialist of Kurdish origins that sets the stage of a boycott without proper staging in evidence. In addition, the Netherlands had only been invited as a courtesy, the EU is a member, the Dutch are not, in previous years, HRH Queen Maxima was invited as a representative for her work for the United Nations. more important, the Netherlands are merely one of 27 participants and even as the complete EU decides to boycott it, it would in the end be a really stupid dick move (as the expression goes), however I am quite willing to attend (in their place) and set the stage to get construction jobs away from Dutch players, as well as jobs currently with Smit Tak as well as Nedlloyd (via Maersk) and hand them over to Salini Impregilo and the Evergreen group. I do not think that the Dutch government will mind, and if they do, they can ask Sadet Karabulut to explain herself (phone: +31 88 243 5555). It is time that wannabe limelight seekers like Sadet Karabulut learn that there is a cost of doing business, especially when they make claims that cannot be proven in any way. In addition when you consider that she was elected in 2013, where was her call to boycott the G20 in 2015 (G20 Antalya summit), we can accept that her Kurdish origins would oppose any international stage towards thousands of murdered Kurds, as well as dozens of executed journalists would call for that boycott of the Turkish G20, yet Google search does not reveal anything there, does it?
Boycotting an event is one of the harshest actions there are, even if they are not always successful, they do tend to give a larger rise to awareness and to some degree that is fine, yet when this is done in a stage where evidence is not there, when the case is too largely based on speculation and tainted presentations the entire matter falls apart and at that point a boycott could work in a very different direction. consider that companies like Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Smit Tak (aka Smit Salvage), P&O Nedlloyd (part of Maersk shipping), Unilever and a few others all have sizeable interests in Saudi Arabia, I personally think that politicians better have their facts, ducks and lack of cluelessness clearly on a row. The Dutch brainless rambles of politicians like JanMaat need to be a thing of the past. When the bad thing happens and two of more of these larger players get asked to leave, whilst their competitor walks in, that loss is massive and runs into the billions over time. There is at this point not one economy that can take a hit of that size and to that degree.
We might all shout that it is not about business and you are not wrong, yet when you falsely accuse a party and that evidence cannot be presented, you the presenter become the problem. Even as we can state that Sadet Karabulut was merely seeking the limelight does not mean she cannot get it, I believe that there is great limelight to begotten when Maersk (P&O Nedlloyd) loses the Saudi jobs and they are given to Evergreen shipping, do you think for one minute that Maersk, P&O Nedlloyd, and Smit Salvage directors will be appreciative of the brainless actions of Sadet Karabulut? It's a sellers' market in this unstable economy and the Persian Gulf is a treasure trove for several players, and when unfounded actions are called for whilst the outstanding hypocrisy can be proven several times over it all becomes a much larger problem. We can argue on the fine lines in the accusation, yet the fact is that most likely nothing will ever be proven, the lack of evidence is just too big a deal, and whilst you consider the life of one journalist, consider how many died in Turkey, how many are in prison in Turkey and why they ended on one pile or the other. In all that Saudi Arabia should not be a blip on anyone's radar in that regard.
I can understand that the choice: "Last year the Netherlands cancelled a trade mission to Saudi Arabia due to Khashoggi's disappearance", yet there is a difference between a trade mission and a G20 summit, the stakes are a lot higher and when we decide not to attend a place where optional informal deals could be made and informal changes could be proposed, not being there also implies that no success will follow. You have to be in it to win it, the simplest of premises. When you have to hide behind 'most likely responsible', and 'It is believed' you have nothing to work with. You can decide to boycott, but when it is on unproven actions, you better be ready to accept what happens afterwards, after being in office for almost 13 years Sadet Karabulut should have known better. However, I am most willing to see who wants to take over the Dutch interests all over the Persian Gulf (as an unofficial non-elected global participant seeking coinage for services).
And whilst we see another wave of 'Justice for Jamal' new messages on the New York Times, the Business Insider, The Guardian and a whole range of papers, consider the murders of Naji al Jurf, Firas Hammadi, and Ibrahim Abdulkader. They were all clearly murdered (cadaver available) on the 27th of December 2015 in Turkey. The NY Times claimed 6 days ago that Jamal is still owed Justice, what about these three murdered journalists? Why are they not in the NY Times, the Washington Post and a whole range of newspapers every day? Can anyone explain that and in that same regard, why is Sadet Karabulut not speaking out for boycotts regarding these three journalists. Merely three of a much larger list, several dead and many in jail, where are their advocates?
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Support for Spring's application context concept in a portlet environment, including ApplicationContext implementations and various utility classes.
Interface to be implemented by configurable portlet application contexts.
Interface to be implemented by any object that wishes to be notified of the PortletConfig (typically determined by the PortletApplicationContext) that it runs in.
Interface to be implemented by any object that wishes to be notified of the PortletContext (typically determined by the PortletApplicationContext) that it runs in.
Convenience methods for retrieving the root WebApplicationContext for a given PortletContext.
Convenient superclass for application objects running in a Portlet ApplicationContext.
PropertySource that reads init parameters from a PortletConfig object.
PropertySource that reads init parameters from a PortletContext object.
PortletContext-aware subclass of PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver, able to find matching resources below the web application root directory via Portlet API's PortletContext.getResourcePaths.
Scope wrapper for a PortletContext, i.e.
Portlet-based implementation of the RequestAttributes interface.
WebRequest adapter for a PortletRequest.
Environment implementation to be used by Servlet-based web applications.
Static Portlet-based ApplicationContext implementation for testing.


Bangalore: VMware, a global cloud infrastructure and business mobility solutions provider today announced the release of new version of its Virtual SAN solution keeping in view Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC).
The next-generation hyper-converged software enables simple, high performance infrastructure designed for SDDC. With the latest VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 release supports all flash hyper-converged solutions at $1 per usable GB pricing.
Along with the low pricing, company is offering other key capabilities including new data de-duplication and compression with erasure coding (EC) (RAID 5/RAID 6) – a data protection method, where data is broken into pieces and then expanded and coded before it is stored across locations or storage.
The new quality of service (QoS) capabilities will provide increased visibility, control and reporting of the IOPS consumed by each virtual machine helping to eliminate noisy neighbours. Also it offers enhanced performance, capacity and health monitoring benefits.
Since the release of Virtual SAN, VMware has over 3000 customers in past two years or so and it continues to hold an edge in the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software space.
With HCI systems becoming the core foundation of SDC, the segment is expected to grow to $1.5 billion in revenues in 2016, according to IDC. And the combination of software-defined compute, storage and networking capabilities with off- the- shelf x86 hardware, HCI systems simplify IT operations and increase performance while lowering IT capital and operating expenditures.
VMware's hyper-converged software, consisting of VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN and vCentre Server transforms x86 servers and direct-attached storage into simple and robust HCI systems that help organizations reduce IT costs and management complexity while achieving breakthrough performance.
In conjunction with its expansive partner ecosystem, VMware offers its hyper-converged software on the broadest set of consumption options from turnkey HCI appliances developed jointly by VMware and EMC to certified platforms in the form of VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes available from 11 OEMs.
"VMware's hyper-converged software is gaining customer traction due to its simple, cost-effective and high-performance architecture that enables customers to rapidly and predictably deliver infrastructure to meet business needs," said Yanbing Li, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage and Availability Business Unit - VMware.
"We anticipate that today's launch of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, which delivers up to 10x greater storage efficiency, will further accelerate customer interest in hyper-converged infrastructure powered by VMware software to build out their software-defined data centres," added Li.


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Towards a circular food chain
Chapter 4. Food poverty: the on-going fight
By Mark Varney
"Instead of playing down the problem of food waste, businesses are proudly publicising the volumes of surplus food they're diverting to good causes."
It's no surprise that businesses and governments are waking up to the problem of food waste, especially when you consider the resources involved in growing, preparing and transporting food, often halfway around the world.
FareShare redistributes edible surplus to good causes from almost every stage of the supply chain: farms, factories, suppliers, packers and retailers. Through a UK-wide network of regional depots, we forward that surplus food, which is still perfectly good to eat, to more than 10,000 frontline charities feeding almost a million people a week.
It's a simple solution and one that – in one fell swoop – turns potentially wasted food into a resource of immense value to the voluntary sector. And the environmental benefit is considerable. Redistributing surplus food to feed people instead of diverting it to anaerobic digestion plants currently reduces CO2 equivalent emissions by 3.7 tonnes.
FareShare now takes food from more than 500 UK companies – and the amount we've been able to redistribute has almost tripled in five years. So what's behind this growth? A decade ago food waste was rarely discussed. Tesco's 2013 decision to publish its own food waste data marked a shift in the culture of the UK food industry. What isn't measured can't be managed and, in 2017, the supermarket announced that 24 of its biggest suppliers would also publish their food waste data.
Publicly addressing food waste, once unthinkable, became the norm and by 2020 half of the UK's biggest food companies will have committed both to measure and reduce their food waste. Government is also taking the issue seriously: committing to an annual £15m fund to offset the costs involved in redistributing surplus food to charities and community groups, as well as appointing its first food waste tsar.
But despite large food businesses pledging to tackle the issue, we're still only scratching the surface when it comes to the volumes of food we could be accessing. WRAP estimates 270,000 tonnes of perfectly edible food in the food supply chain is wasted and could have been redistributed – and FareShare and other food redistribution charities are handling less than 10% of that figure.
The scale of the opportunity is staggering. A recent report from the NEF thinktank found that by redistributing surplus food to charity and community groups, FareShare creates approximately £50.9 million of social economic impact each year. This is made up of £6.9 million in social value to the beneficiaries themselves and £44 million in savings to NHS, the criminal justice system, schools and social care. If FareShare and other charities in the food redistribution sector scaled up their operational capacity to handle just half of the surplus food available across the UK supply chain, the value to the state could be as much as £500 million per year. It's ambitious, but achievable. The tide is already turning, and the rise in 'wonky veg' boxes and zero waste lifestyle bloggers shows the food waste movement gets consumers' backing too.
A renewed focus on food waste delivers other benefits. For a start, measuring surpluses forces businesses to look for ways to reduce the amount they produce in the first place.
Finally, and this is something we've heard time and time again: when companies are able to share stories from the charities who receive that food and can talk about the impact it's made, this motivates employees and helps to create support for other food waste prevention activities. Being proud of the difference your company makes in the community plays a big part in building loyalty and boosting productivity and morale.
With consumers, investors, governments and shareholders all insisting that companies are transparent about their sustainability performance, now is the time for business to demonstrate leadership and act on preventing food waste.
Mark Varney is Director of Network Development at FareShare, leading the team responsible for FareShare's partnerships with food manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and logistics companies in the UK food industry.
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How are you scheduling your volunteers? Post a comment and let me know what kind of method(s) you use to coordinate your volunteers for your children's ministry workers, door greeters, ushers, Sunday School leaders, small groups, and anything else church-related.
We are using a web2.0 program to schedule some things in the church, ie. our elders serving communion.
The program is called Doodle, no bells and whistles.
But I would be curious to see what others are using, particularly something Web2.0 based.
I just started helping in the soundbooth and we are scheduled for a month at a time. So, I'm on EasyWorship this month for the second service and next month I'll get familiar with the sound board. The main sound guy works every other Sunday so I'll probably eventually start rotating with him every other week.
Nothing formal, just based on need and about 4 or 5 of us are willing and available.
I started it in Apple's Iweb, but changed it to Wordpress so more staff could actual generate posts.
We use a Wordpress blog to schedule volunteers also. We make a post for who is scheduled for a given weekend. We also have made pages that list dates so volunteers can comment their availability for any given weekend.
Hi. I'm in children's ministry and scheduling volunteers was an issue for us for a long time. It was hard to get people to volunteer, they often didn't show up, etc. Today, volunteerism is still tough of course, but the quality of our volunteer staff has become awesome. For our youngest classes, our volunteers serve 1 time each month — say, the 1st Sunday of every month during a single service, the 2nd Sunday of every month, etc. Here it isn't as important for the kids that they see the same face every time they come. As the kids get older, though, that definitely changes. In our preschool classes, volunteers serve a month at a time, but in our Kindergarten and elementary classes, we are blessed to have almost all of our volunteers serve every single week! This is just great for the kids (and volunteers) because they really build some fabulous relationships and that rapport allows a lot more information to sink in to each child. We do give these volunteers the summer off while we do a summer-long VBS.
We administer our volunteer staff using Flockhound, a new sofware product for children's and youth ministries. In addition to managing check-in and a whole bunch of other things, it allows us track volunteer background checking, manage volunteer name tags, and schedule volunteers. If you want it to, it will also print a post card to remind each volunteer when they serve. We print them a week in advance, and I think this greatly helps our volunteer consistency. The cards print mail-ready or you can drop them in family mailboxes like we do. The website for Flockhound is http://www.kingdomhound.com.


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I can echo this! Don't let today define you!
Course credit received for high school course?
Yup, you would check of the course credit box. Although do you have more details on the experience?
Posted in the other thread but wanted to let people who stumble across this know that I don't mind helping people with application editing if Canadian_Med_Dream has already had 15 people come for help! I also applied broadly last year and had no interviews. This cycle my GPA + MCAT were the same but I redid my descriptions for UBC and other schools and had 8 interviews with 3 offers. I'm also not doing much this summer so I'd like to be useful if I can. I will try and help as many people as I can depending on time etc. but I do have a lot of time haha.
Also, I don't mind helping people with application editing if Canadian_Med_Dream has already had 15 people come for help! I also applied broadly last year and had no interviews. This cycle my GPA + MCAT were the same but I redid my descriptions for UBC and other schools and had 8 interviews with 3 offers. I'm also not doing much this summer so I'd like to be useful if I can. I will try and help as many people as I can depending on time etc. but I do have a lot of time haha.
Is there a way to find out a specific school's match list?
I know the UBC med magazine fall edition typically has the list at the end but the online available ones only go till 2015/2016 or something like that.
So you need to submit all grades/transcripts for med apps but for what its worth, I took a few summer courses at a diff school during my undergrad and never got around to transferring the credits to my original school and it was never an issue. However, this was the summer after my first year at my original school and I technically acquired a letter of permission to do so. In your case, if you just submitted both transcripts, I doubt anyone would question it and you're not really hiding any grades from your professional school apps. School 2 probably wouldn't be too happy if they found out you didn't submit school 1's transcript when you applied for your transfer but you've already got your degree and its in the past now.
My advisor said the acceptance email was enough to complete the process and release all funds. Just that I have to get a proof of enrolment letter to him within 30 days afterwards.
Jordan at Scotia was great!


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Crymych
Station Road, Crymych
Location within Pembrokeshire
1,739 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference
Principal area
Ceremonial county
Mid and West Wales
Preseli Pembrokeshire
List of places
51°58′19″N 4°38′53″W / 51.972°N 4.648°W / 51.972; -4.648Coordinates: 51°58′19″N 4°38′53″W / 51.972°N 4.648°W / 51.972; -4.648
Crymych ( Welsh pronunciation) is a village of around 800 inhabitants[2] and a community (population 1,739) in the northeast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated approximately 800 feet (240 m) above sea level at the eastern end of the Preseli Mountains. It stands astride the old Tenby to Cardigan turnpike road, now the A478.
The village developed around the former Crymmych Arms railway station on the now-closed Whitland to Cardigan Railway, nicknamed Cardi Bach (Little Cardi).
Crymych, which is twinned with Plomelin in Brittany, has an elected community council. The village has given its name to an electoral ward of Pembrokeshire that encompasses the villages of Crymych itself and Eglwyswrw.
3 Worship
6 Other amenities
7 Nearby settlements and structures
The name Crymych translates into English as crooked stream, referring to the River Taf which rises in the high ground above the village and takes a sharp turn in the valley at the north end of the village.
Evidence of prehistoric occupation in the community is the Megalithic burial mound known as Crymych Wayside Barrow.
First mentioned in an account of the Cemais Hundreds of 1468, Crymych has for centuries been an area of livestock farming.
Crymych Arms
Other than the Crymych Arms public house, which dates from at least 1861 but possibly as early as 1812, and remains open to this day, little existed at the spot before the extension of the Whitland and Taf Vale Railway to Crymych in 1874.[3] The community then grew rapidly as a service and transport centre for the surrounding uplands, and acquired a reputation as the "Wild West of West Wales', reflected in the tongue-in-cheek appellation of Cowbois Crymych by which residents are sometimes known.
The village was sometimes referred to as Crymmych Arms, after the name of the station, for example in a report of an Eisteddfod in 1876.[4]
The agricultural show was first held in 1909,[5] and was equally successful in subsequent years.[6] A regional livestock market existed in the village for many years; a new purpose-built site was developed north of the village, also accommodating a number of other traders.
Crymych War Memorial, which covers Eglwyswrw, Blaenffos, Llanfyrnach, Hermon and Glogue, records the names of 50 people who lost their lives in World War I and 17 in World War II.[7]
Crymych Market Hall was opened in 1919; its present capacity is 500 (standing) or 250 (seated). It was built as a result of the formation of the Market Hall Company Ltd in 1911. During World War II it functioned as an evacuee centre, a shooting range for the Home Guard and a social centre for American troops stationed locally while they trained in the Preseli Mountains. In 1944 two Cardigan schoolboys were killed near Crymych by unexploded ordnance.[8]
Ysgol y Preseli
Crymych's status as "capital" of the Preselau was confirmed in 1958, when Ysgol y Preseli, a secondary school covering a wide district, was opened. In 1996, the school became Pembrokeshire's first Welsh-medium comprehensive school, and the number of pupils on its roll has doubled since its launch. In spite of a large influx of English immigrants to the area since the 1970s, Crymych retains a strong identity based on the Welsh language and Welsh culture.
Ysgol y Preseli has about 1,000 pupils. The school had a GCSE pass rate (based on 5 GCSEs, grades A-C) of 72% in 2002, according to Estyn. The corresponding figure in 2000 was 75%, which put it in 7th place in the country. It is consistently in the top 10% of secondary schools in Wales. It is also the best performing secondary school in Pembrokeshire.
Worship[edit]
Chapel and butcher's (the latter now closed) in 2007
Crymych stands at the meeting point of three (formerly Anglican) parishes: Llanfair-Nant-Gwyn to the north, Penrydd to the east and Llanfyrnach to the south. Of these, only Llanfyrnach parish (now Church in Wales) remains active.[9]
The two chapels in the village are Antioch Welsh Independent Chapel, built in 1845 and restored in 1874 and 1927,[10] and Seion Welsh Baptist Church, built in 1900.[11]
Crymych and District Choir[12] performs locally, nationally and internationally. Bois y Frenni is another local choir whose history dates from World War 2. There is a thriving and successful youth activity group in Aelwyd Crymych whose activities range across the whole spectrum of the arts.[13] Crymych is twinned with Plomelin in Brittany.[14]
Sport[edit]
Terrace in the main street (2007). The Rugby Club is on the right.
Crymych is home to Crymych RFC, a rugby union team formed in 1984 and a cricket club which fields sides in the third and sixth divisions of the Pembrokeshire Cricket League. "Ras Frenni"[15] running road race (over 4 and 8 miles) was held for the 23rd time in July 2014.[16]
Other amenities[edit]
Crymych Market Hall
Aside from the livestock market, Crymych has a Post Office, fire and police stations, doctor's surgery, pharmacy, petrol station and numerous other businesses, shops and trade premises.
Crymych Market Hall is used regularly for concerts, eistedfoddau, meetings, fairs and auctions.[17][18]
A major redevelopment of the former market site, Bro Preseli, was completed in 2014 and includes accommodation for the elderly, a medical centre and a day centre serving the wider community.[19][20][21] The complex is a joint venture between Pembrokeshire County Council, Hywel Dda Local Health Board and Family Housing Association Wales.[22]
Since the closure of Crymych's railway station to passengers in 1962, and freight the following year, the nearest station has been at Clunderwen, 10 miles (16 km) to the south. There are bus services to destinations in Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire.
Nearby settlements and structures[edit]
To the southeast of Crymych, near the hamlet of Glandwr, is Lammas Ecovillage, a low-impact housing development. Other nearby settlements are Eglwyswen, Hermon, Pentre Galar and Hebron.
About 1.8 miles (2.9 km) SSW of Crymych stands a TV mast[23] which, at 235m tall erected on land which itself is some 350m above sea level, can be seen from several counties away on a clear day.
Crymych (electoral ward)
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Is that why Jesus came? to bring us sinners to the table of communion and to eat with Him and to make us be at home in His presence? To experience mercy, love, forgiveness, renewal of who we are and accept the invitation that enables us to become new? New life, new purpose, new hope.
And yet, there always seems to be a group, a denomination, expressions in communities that do not dare follow Jesus in His love and acceptance of the so called "sinners".
Who are the sinners in our community? in our families? in our work places? are they us?
Are the so labeled "sinners" feeling at home with us? can they be in our presence and enjoy a meal, laugh, contribute to the conversation, feel the embrace and welcome of God?
Have we allow our lives to become so sacrificial in our following of Jesus that the mercy He came to share has become foreign to us? Are the acts of Mercy celebrated, recognized, and even practiced in our day to day interactions with others?
- Lord, teach me mercy and forgive my judgmental and proud heart that often assumes I am "better than they". Teach me to be approachable to anyone who I am in contact with you and deliver me from selective company. I want to follow you and be like you and I pray for opportunities to practice mercy.
Surrender is based on love and trust and not based on duty and obligation.
I want to know the love of God in depth, having the ministry of the Spirit active in my life, where the unmeasurable love of Christ is dwelling in my heart, and I become free to live out from this place of trust and love, turning my face towards God and not away from him. I want to discern the realities of my soul, my inner world, being in tune with how I am operating, if with peace, having an internal rest and settledness in God, or living with distress, in agitation, being preoccupied with self and having anxiety. These feelings are directly connect to who is at the center of my life, who am I living ultimately for, who is my source of love, security, and purpose, and the answer can only be God or myself. !
be and to receive love and receive from you. I can give, I can sing, I can pray, I can talk, but I confess that the receiving part is difficult for me. Often I feel that when I speak or teach, I do so from learned knowledge and not so much experiential knowledge. Jesus, I want to know you experientially and walk with you in such a tangible way, with growing awareness of your presence and discerning your will.
Surrender is taking up our cross daily.
Our daily cross is the place where we die and resurrect in union with Jesus. I want to take up my cross and welcome God's transformative ways and no longer navigate through life with my own efforts, needing affirmation and recognition, wanting to be a part of big things and getting burdened by my own expectations and interpretations of what others would expect of me.
Prayer: Jesus, Oh how I need this death and resurrection that you require of your followers. I pray, Spirit of God, that you would come deeper into my soul and show me the desires that are out of order in my heart. Sanctify my life and my motives, oh Lord! May I please you in my living! I cast out all my burdens and all that I have carried that have taken away the joy in serving you and brought dryness into my life and relationships. Restore your life in me and bring me to a place of resurrection.!
I will end with mentioning an invitation of Jesus found in Matthew 11:28 - 29 that has come back to me over and over these days. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.!
Prayer: Jesus, I picture you in front of me, addressing me, looking into my eyes, saying these words with arms opened and a soft voice that assures my insides that you are trust worthy. I bring to you all the things that have become burdensome to me, my preoccupation with family, pressures in ministry, dynamics in relationships, and questions regarding the future. I bring all of these things to your feet Jesus and refuse to continue to flirt with ways of escape and to operate out of a sense of obligation, without joy.!
As I sat in stillness before the Lord, being aware of his presence with me, a question came to mind: Anna, where do you see yourself? My answer to his question came as a surprise to me for I saw myself outside the circle of Trinitarian fellowship. Then I saw Jesus coming and grabbing my hand. I saw his back and his arm as he reached and took my hand and brought me in. I came as I was and stood before the Lord, with my head feeling a bit scrambled and insecure, and I said: - Jesus, I desire you. I heard him say to me: - and I desire you. As I sat there I began to hear the words joy and strength. I want to know the joy of the Lord and have Jesus strength and live a life of continuous surrender to my loving God.
Surrender facilitates my presence in the Trinitarian fellowship as I am found in their love and embrace. This love wins me over and I become motivated to respond by choosing God's will instead of mine, following his ways and living loved and free to be loving. !
My prayer: Jesus, I want to participate in your union with the Father in a way that I have not yet entered in. I pray, Spirit of God, that you would open my eyes to see who I am and what I am a part of in this communion with the Godhead. Jesus, give me a greater revelation of you being in my place and I being in yours. The word says you are not ashamed to be calling me your sister. I do not yet know how to relate to this truth. I want to cry out Abba Father from within, with an overwhelming recognition of your unconditional and sacrificial love. I want to hear the Father call my name, say that I am his delight.!
Surrender is having no other loves before God.
The importance of being aware and examining our hearts daily to recognize if there is anything keeping me from living in this union with God, something that is competing with the love of God and my willingness to follow him and his ways. Personally, I recognize that I easily give in to pressures from my work and ministry, from needs in my family and these pressures often become the priority of my attention and affections. I still find a pull within myself to please people and to put their needs in front of the place of God in my life, causing me to live out of my kingdom of self rather than the kingdom of God, responding to his presence.!
Prayer: - Jesus, I recognize I am blind to the embrace of the Father. I have moments where I taste of your presence and I know that deep inside, my heart's allegiance is towards you. Yet, I find other loves drawing my attention and I am caught up in activities that take me away from your embrace. I distract myself often to not face you and after a while I find myself in agony and in need of you. I pray, break in Spirit of God, and set me free, so I may know you, know my Father, know Jesus, my older brother, and know you, Holy Spirit, and receive your help to become free as your daughter. Father, forgive me for missing you, for missing the moments and the longings for intimacy that you wanted to share with me. Forgive me for compartmentalizing my relationship with you, separating work from pleasure. Free me of my own expectations, where I act with willfulness, out of duty and obligation, and not with willingness, with love and desire for you. Deliver me from my stubbornness and create in me a clean heart and a new disposition, willing to discover your love and will.
Surrendering is aligning ourselves with the heart and will of God.
My understanding of surrender has to do with the relational outcome of my union with Father, Son and Spirit as I grow in awareness of their presence, in love and trust, receiving revelation of who I am in Jesus, sharing in his life, experiencing being loved unconditionally which motivates me to willingly consent to being aligned to the will of God. The understanding that God is always present and that I am the one who is often unaware of this reality in my day to day activities. I confess I am more aware of God's presence in times of worship, when reading the Word and I still face the reality of how much I am in control of my life and how my choices are still serving self instead of God.
God's will is always loving and always after my transformation into becoming what I was created to be. God's will is the reflection of the character of the Father, the Son and the Spirit, their love, purposes, dreams, not only for my life, but for all of humanity and the world. As I willingly consent to doing the will of God everyday, in all my circumstances, I learn to discern his ways and grow in awareness of his presence thus becoming more and more motivated to choose love in all my actions.
Surrender begins with understanding of the One we are surrendering to.
It is so important that we get our Gospel right, that we know the story of God and who our God really is. We come to Christ with so much baggage, life experiences and we often carry pain, mistrust and voices of influence that shape our view of God and hinder our receptivity to his love. We can project ourselves and our experiences unto the face of God thus diminishing his reality, his power and place in our lives. God is so much more than we could ever imagine. God is always good and in him there is no evil.
My prayer: - Jesus, I recognize you are so much more than just my savior who died on the cross for me. You are the maker of the universe, you are the living Word who became flesh and in you all things are held together. Jesus, everything that I am is yours. I surrender all my life and the right to my life. I want to lay all at your feet, all the burdens of being me, being a daughter, a sister, an auntie, a niece, a cousin, a friend, a servant, a leader, a visionary, a preacher, a teacher, an influencer. I often recognize how much striving is involved in living out these roles in my life and how I operate from my kingdom of self, instead of relating to others from the outflow of my living interactions with you.
It has been a while since you last heard from me. So much has taken place in these last months following my father's death. I am so grateful I could be home with mom and dad during the two months of his illness, as well as his death and the weeks that followed with all the paperwork and legal stuff needed. I have written some thoughts about my two months with my dad and what a gift that was to me personally. You can see it on the pdf file attached here if you are interested.
I also wanted to share a couple youtube videos on vulnerability and shame by Dr. Brene Brown, given on Ted talks. Just so aware of how our lives have to do with relationships and our deep connections with others who are significant to us. We are wired for connections and closeness but so much in our lives keep us from that and from being true to who God made us to be.
I am in South Africa at the moment for two weeks of intensive classes in Studies program I ma taking with the University of the Nations on discipleship and Christian formation. This module I am in has to do with understanding humanity, how we are made from a relational God to be relational, to him, others and to have the right understanding of ourselves. (Most important of a llm Jesus said: To love God, love others like we love ourselves). In order to do all three we need to re-visit our life story and recognise the good and the bad that have contributed to forming us and to involve God and others in the process of moving forward in our lives, to being wholesome and fully human, free of shame, guilt that so hinder us.
This two weeks intensive is about connection/ going deeper in intimacy, vulnerability, dealing with shame, learning about family Systems and how that is the foundation of our lives in how we are shaped, through our experiences within our families, especially with our parents. So you can imagine what is surfacing and how deep God wants to go with us.
Anyway, this first week of class already has been a gift to me as my emotions are so fragile and I am still very much in the process of grief. Two of our main speakers are professional counsellors who are in YWAM and have had decades of experience in helping people grow. So I appreciate your prayers this week, especially in this season I am in.
I wanted to share two Ted Talks with you that we watched earlier this week. This woman is amazing and incredible truth.
Tenha Fé pelo Amor de Deus!!!
A fé quando tida por crença se torna até impessoal. A maioria do povo diz que tem fé. Ter fé quando se é sinônimo de acreditar gira em torno de algo. Ter fé quando é sinônimo de confiar, essa gira em torno de alguém. Essa diferença parece não fazer sentido mas se pararmos para ver a implicação da diferença, perceberemos que involve o nosso amor para com Deus.
Uma coisa é ter fé para conseguir algo de Deus e outra coisa é ter fé afim de ter uma vida com Deus. A poucos dias perdi o meu pai e antes dele nos deixar aqui na terra tive momentos maravilhosos e de muita convivência que marcaram a minha vida. Eu me declarei muito a ele, do meu amor por ele, o valor que ele tinha em minha vida, o quanto ele era exemplo para mim, de vida, generosidade, caráter, integridade, etc. Ele ficava tão lindo ao receber esses elogios, as vezes até tímido e sem jeito, porém eu percebia que ela gostava demais de ouvir e se derretia todo.
Um dia lhe perguntei: - "Pai, você gosta de receber esses elogios, declarações do meu amor e palavras de gratidão e ternura?" e ele com um grande sorriso respondeu que sim. Dai eu perguntei: - Imagine se eu só vinhesse a você com pedidos, quando estivesse em sufoco, "aperriada" (como dizemos no Nordeste do Brasil), só atrás de dinheiro, "presentes" ou "bençãos", fazendo barganhas com você...Se você me der isso, eu faço isso... - Como você se sentiría como meu Pai?
Não existe nada melhor de que sentir a presença de Deus, ser renovado em Seu amor, ouvir Sua voz a nos falar, deixar fluir este amor em nosso ser, provar do seu perdão e ser perdoado, limpo de coração, ter consciência limpa e desejo de imitar o exemplo de Cristo no dia a dia. Tenha fé pelo amor de Deus!
Hoje em dia a ênfase do Evangelho tornou-se a salvação, confissão de pecados, aceitar a Jesus afim de ir para o céu. Precisamos conhecer a história completa de Deus. O porquê Ele criou a humanidade, começar em Gênesis, o relacionamento e parceria no cultivo da terra com o homen, nos criando para assumir a responsabilidade e propriedade da terra.
O pecado entrou no cenário, colocando o homem no centro, separando-o do relacionamento com o Pai, o Filho e o Espírito Santo. A consequência do pecado, independência de Deus nos levou a ruínas, quebrando-nos e levando-nos a operar com medo e inseguranças.
A história de Deus descrita no Velho Testamento não é sequer visitada por cristãos hoje, pois só pensamos em salvação e como viver afim de receber as bênçãos de Deus. Para entender a história do Antigo Testamento é necessário perceber as conseqüências do que o pecado trouxe a humanidade, o que Deus fez em seu chamado a Abraão e Israel para ensinar e trazer a humanidade de volta para Ele, ensinando todas as nações a respeito de Deus e como viver com ordem e justiça.
Israel falhou em viver a relação com o Criador, tornando-se pior do que as nações vizinhas que deveriam ensinar e influenciar.
Nós não vemos o amor, a bondade e a fidelidade de Deus na história do Antigo Testamento pois nossa percepção de Deus é alterada e distorcida ao deparamos com a desobediência sangrenta, culpando a Deus pelas tragédias, em vez de reconhecer as influências e responsabilidades naturais e não-naturais envolvidas no contexto da histórias mencionadas lá.
Deus fez uma promessa de enviar o seu Filho, o Emanuel, Deus conosco. A Santa Trindade fêz morada na terra e habitou entre nós, e Jesus, nascido de uma Virgem, tornou-se um homem como nós.
Mesmo Jesus sendo Deus, Ele não usou seus poderes de Filho de Deus quando na terra (Filipenses 2), mas viveu como Filho do homem, aprendendo como humano, sendo tentado, passando tempo com o Pai e sendo guiado pelo Espírito Santo.
Agora nós, como seguidores de Jesus, cheios do Espírito Santo e na comunhão com o Pai, o Filho e o Espírito Santo, devemos viver de tal forma, como filhos e filhas do Deus vivo, livres do engano do pecado e poderes do inimigo, demonstrando o que significa ser vivo e ter uma relação com Deus.
Devemos imitar a Jesus, o Filho do homem, em nossa sociedade, em nossas famílias e comunidades. Me pergunto: o que Jesus faria se elefosse eu hoje, em meu lugar? vivendo no meu contexto e história? como é que eu iria viver, amar, agir e tornar-me presente na sociedade e agir?
Devemos orar: Venha a nós o Vosso Reino. Seja feita a Vossa vontade, assim na Terra como no Céu.
e agir em obediência e em linha com a Palavra de Deus, liderados e motivados pelo amor de Deus e do Espírito Santo que está em nós.
So much emphasis of the Gospel has become about salvation, confessing our sins, accepting Jesus, going to heaven. We need to know the full story of God, why he created humanity to begin with in genesis - relationship, partnership in cultivating the earth/ taking responsibility and ownership of the earth.
Sin entered the picture, put mankind at the center, outside of relationship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It ruined us, broke us and made us operate out of fear and insecurities.
The whole story of God in the Old Testament is not even visited by Christians today, who only think of salvation and getting God's blessings. To understand the Old Testament story is to know the consequences of what sin did to humanity, and what God did to teach and bring humanity back to him and His calling of Abraham/ Israel to be able to teach all nations about God and how to live.
Israel failed in living out the relationship with the Maker, becoming worse than the neighboring nations they were to reach, teach and influence.
We fail to see the love, goodness and faithfulness of God in the Old Testament story by getting stuck with the bloody disobedience and consequences, blaming this tragedy on God instead of recognizing the natural and not-natural influences and responsibilities involved in the context of the stories mentioned there.
He long promised of sending out his Son, Emmanuel, God with us. The Trinity would "earth" themselves to dwell amongst us and Jesus, born of a Virgin, became a man like us.
Even though he was God, he did not use his powers as son of God (Philippians 2) but lived as Son of man, learning, being tempted, spending time with the Father and being led by the Holy Spirit.
Now we as followers of Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit and in the communion with Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are to live in such a way as sons & daughters of the living God, free from the grip of sin & powers of the enemy, and we are to display what being alive and in relationship with God look like.
We are to imitate Jesus, the Son of man, in our society, families, communities - what would Jesus do if he was us, in our shoes today? living in our context and story? how do we live, love, act, and become present in society and bear fruit that last?
We are to pray: May you kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven and act in obedience and in line with the Word of God, led and motivated by the love of God and the Spirit who is in us.


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