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Rule Title: Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education Standards and Industry-Driven Benchmarks
Department: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division: State Board of Education
Chapter: SPECIAL PROGRAMS I
History Notes: Rulemaking Authority 1001.02, 1003.4282(12), 1004.92(2)(b)3. FS. Law Implemented 1004.92(2)(b)4., 1003.4282 FS. History–New 10-30-78, Amended 10-23-79, 5-29-80, 7-9-81, 7-6-82, 5-29-83, 6-14-84, 7-10-85, Formerly 6A-6.571, Amended 7-9-86, 7-22-87, 8-30-88, 7-31-90, 7-31-91, 7-31-92, 7-31-93, 7-31-94, 4-30-96, 1-23-00, 7-21-08, 4-21-09, 5-3-10, 10-25-11, 6-18-12, 5-21-13, 5-18-14, 5-19-15, 6-23-16, 4-25-17, 4-30-18, 9-18-18, 6-25-19, 6-16-20, 2-16-21, 7-14-21, 11-23-21.
References in this version: Ref-13211 Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Ref-13280 Architecture & Construction
Ref-13281 Arts, A/V Technology & Communication
Ref-13282 Business, Management & Administration
Ref-13283 Education & Training
Ref-13284 Energy
Ref-13285 Finance
Ref-13286 Government & Public Administration
Ref-13287 Health Science
Ref-13288 Hospitality & Tourism
Ref-13289 Human Services
Ref-13290 Information Technology
Ref-13293 Marketing, Sales & Service
Ref-13294 Engineering and Technology Education
Ref-13296 Additional CTE Programs/Courses
Ref-13297 Adult General Education
Ref-13763 Law, Public Safety & Security
Ref-13764 Manufacturing
Ref-13765 Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
6A-6.0571 To adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture & Construction," .... 25421583 1/11/2022
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6A-6.0571 To adopt new postsecondary lower division career and technical education programs that institutions may offer effective Spring 2022. This will include the adoption of 2 new career certificate programs: Industrial Machinery .... 25072383 9/28/2021
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6A-6.0571 To adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture & Construction," .... 24935807 9/2/2021
6A-6.0571 To adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, F.S., and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture & Construction," "Arts, A/V .... 24430534 4/22/2021
6A-6.0571 This amendment will adopt three revised postsecondary programs (Barber; Nails Specialty; Facials Specialty) to satisfy newly adopted revisions by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), the .... 23957271 12/10/2020
6A-6.0571 To adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture & Construction," .... 23946698 12/2/2020
6A-6.0571 To adopt secondary pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs which shall satisfy high school graduation requirements (one credit in fine or performing arts, speech and debate, or practical arts or eight credits in electives) .... 20659465 7/17/2018
6A-6.0571 To adopt secondary pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs which shall satisfy high school graduation requirements (one credit in fine or performing arts, speech and debate, or practical arts or eight credits in electives) .... 20619113 7/3/2018
6A-6.0571 To adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture & Construction," .... 19839718 12/15/2017
6A-6.0571 This amendment adopts the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," "Architecture .... 17364569 3/31/2016
6A-6.0571 To adopt the "Career and Technical Education Programs, Academic Year 2016-2017 Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster" and the "Adult General Education Standards and Curriculum Frameworks 2016-2017". 16877532 12/11/2015
6A-6.0571 The purpose of this amendment is to adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," .... 15755436 3/9/2015
6A-6.0571 The purpose and effect of this rule amendment is to adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92, Florida Statutes and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, .... 14317896 3/14/2014
6A-6.0571 To adopt the "Career and Technical Education Programs, Academic Year 2014-2015 Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster" and the "Adult General Education Standards and Curriculum Frameworks 2014-2015". 14012637 1/6/2014
6A-6.0571 The purpose and effect of this rule amendment is to adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Sections 1004.92 and 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food .... 12772783 3/18/2013
6A-6.0571 The purpose of this rule development is to adopt the "Career and Technical Education Programs, Academic Year 2013-2014 Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster" and the "Adult General Education Standards and Curriculum Frameworks .... 12483141 1/9/2013
6A-6.0571 The purpose and effect of this rule amendment is to adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Section 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," .... 11370939 4/13/2012
6A-6.0571 The purpose of this rule development is to adopt the "Career and Technical Education Programs, Academic Year 2012-2013 Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster" and the "Adult General Education Standards and Curriculum Frameworks .... 10798542 12/22/2011
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6A-6.0571 The purpose and effect of this rule amendment is to adopt the secondary and postsecondary career education programs prescribed in Section 1011.80, Florida Statutes, and listed as follows: "Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources," .... 9827766 4/15/2011
6A-6.0571 The purpose of this rule development is to adopt the "Career and Technical Education Programs, Academic Year 2011/2012 Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster" and the "Adult General Education Standards and Curriculum Frameworks .... 9635512 2/4/2011
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...... Special Programs for Students Who Are Speech and Language Impaired, Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education Standards and Industry-Driven Benchmarks, Charter School Applicant Training .... 8401672 3/19/2010
6A-6.0571 The purpose of the rule amendment is to adopt the curriculum frameworks for Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education Programs for 2010-2011. The effect is to ensure that school leaders have the updated .... 8264223 2/12/2010
6A-6.0571 The purpose of this rule development is to adopt the curriculum frameworks for Career and Technical Education and Adult General Education Programs for 2010-2011. 8241040 2/5/2010
6A-6.0571 The purpose of the rule amendment is to adopt the updated standards, benchmarks and frameworks for career and technical education and adult general education for 2009/2010. The effect is to ensure that school leaders have .... 6774400 2/13/2009
6A-6.0571 The purpose of the rule development is to review and proposed updates to the "Standards, Benchmarks, and Frameworks for Career and Technical Education " and the "Curriculum Frameworks Adult General Education," for the academic .... 6654993 1/23/2009
6A-6.0571 The purpose of the rule amendment is to adopt the revised standards, benchmarks, and curriculum frameworks, delete obsolete language, and correct statutory citations. The effect will be a rule which incorporates the current .... 5598857 5/16/2008
6A-6.0571 The purpose of the rule development is to review the Standards, Benchmarks, and Curriculum Frameworks for career and technical and adult education to determine what changes must be initiated. The effect will be current curriculum .... 5515631 4/18/2008
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dir_name = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))

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    file_names = utils.get_all_files(include_dir, ["*.hpp"])
    file_names.sort()

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    header_tmp = header + ".tmp"
    with open(header_tmp, "w") as header_file:
        header_file.write("""// Copyright (c) 2018 Chris Ohk, Youngjoong Kim, SeungHyun Jeon

// We are making my contributions/submissions to this project solely in our
// personal capacity and are not conveying any rights to any intellectual
// property of any third parties.\n
""")
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        header_file.write("#define ROSSETASTONE_ROSETTA_HPP\n\n")
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    else:
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    main()

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Home > Journals > The Journal of Arachnology > Volume 35 > Issue 1 > Article
1 April 2007 SOSIPPUS REVISITED: REVIEW OF A WEB-BUILDING WOLF SPIDER GENUS FROM THE AMERICAS (ARANEAE, LYCOSIDAE)
Allen R. Brady
Allen R. Brady1
1Department of Biology, A. Paul Schaap Science Center, 35 East 12 Street, Holland, Michigan 49423, USA. brady@hope.edu
The J. of Arachnology, 35(1):54-83 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1636/H06-02.1
The systematic status of the wolf spider genus Sosippus Simon 1888 is reviewed. Males of four species: S. placidus Brady 1972, S. janus Brady 1972, S. michoacanus Brady 1962 and S. agalenoides Banks 1909 are described and fully illustrated for the first time. A cladistic analysis based upon twelve morphological characters resulted in two distinct species-groups within Sosippus. One species-group of the genus occurs from Georgia and Florida in the southeastern United States, westward along the Gulf Coast to south Texas. A second species-group occurs in Arizona and California, and is found in Mexico and Central America as far south as Costa Rica. A new key to the ten species of Sosippus now recognized is presented and updated to include male characters and other features. Collections and observations since earlier studies have provided new information about the social behavior and more widespread distribution of Sosippus janus. Maps have been reconstructed to update the ranges of all species. A preliminary cladistic analysis of the nine species of Sosippus for which both genders are known is presented. Additional critical drawings are provided to illustrate features in the character analysis and facilitate use of the key.
Allen R. Brady "SOSIPPUS REVISITED: REVIEW OF A WEB-BUILDING WOLF SPIDER GENUS FROM THE AMERICAS (ARANEAE, LYCOSIDAE)," The Journal of Arachnology 35(1), 54-83, (1 April 2007). https://doi.org/10.1636/H06-02.1
Received: 28 January 2006; Published: 1 April 2007
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A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Phylogeny and Biogeography of Heterostylum (Diptera Bombyliidae) Evidence...
Rumikiru, n. gen. (Scorpiones Bothriuridae), a New Scorpion Genus...
Supplement to Revision of New World Chaenusa Haliday Sensu Lato...
Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra...
Miliusa pumila (Annonaceae), a new species from S Thailand
Allen R. Brady "SOSIPPUS REVISITED: REVIEW OF A WEB-BUILDING WOLF SPIDER GENUS FROM THE AMERICAS (ARANEAE, LYCOSIDAE)," The Journal of Arachnology, 35(1), 54-83, (1 April 2007)

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Rev. Randy Lee Jeffers, 69, of Hampton, Georgia, formerly of Oneida, passed away August 30, 2014, at Vitas Innovative Hospice Care in Stockbridge, Georgia.
Born in Oneida, April 20, 1945, he was preceded in death by his parents, James Hoyal and Jean DeBord Jeffers; and in-laws: Cecil and Lila Irene Terry Blankenship, and Freda and J.W. Blankenship Smith.
He was a member of Woolsey Baptist Church, a veteran of the USAF retiring after 20 years, having served during the Vietnam War, and served as a member of the Honor Guards.
He was known world-wide for his amazing carvings of staffs, canes, and woodwork; served his Lord and Savior by pastoring two churches, and serving as a Deacon and Sunday School teacher. He traveled on several mission trips to Uganda where he served on the board of directors for the Uganda Royal School and Orphanage, and the Josh McDowell Ministries to Russia and Ukraine, and joining the Bill Glass Prison Ministry.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Etta Marie Blankenship Jeffers; sons: Tyler Lee Jeffers of Oneida, and Travis Randy Jeffers of Hampton, Ga.; grandchildren: Braeden Michael Jeffers, Connor Thomas Jeffers, and Addison Leigh Jeffers, all of Oneida; brother, Roger H. Jeffers of Oneida; sisters: Terrie J. Cross and Cathy J. Burke, both of Oneida, and Doris J. (John) Clayton of Gatlinburg; in-laws: Milton (Linda) Blankenship of Whitley City, Ky., and Terry Willard (Nancy) Blankenship of Fairfield Bay, Arkansas; a host of nieces and nephews, and many other relatives.
Memorial service was conducted September 5, at Woolsey Baptist Church with Pastor Chuck Chambers officiating. Interment was conducted at East Tennessee State Veteran Cemetery, Knoxville, with full military honors. Memorial service will be held at New Haven Missionary Baptist Church in Oneida, at a later date. You may sign the online guestbook at www.westmurleyfh.net.
Obituary provided courtesy of West-Murley and Jones & Son Funeral Homes.


Tha duaisean Royal Television Society (RTS) na h-Alba a' gabhail àite a-nochd agus tha sinne aig MG ALBA fìor mhoiteil gu bheil trì prògraman BBC ALBA air an ainmeachadh air a' gheàrr-liosta.
Chaidh an geàrr-liosta fhoillseachadh sa Ghiblean: ag aithneachadh sàr-mhathas agus ùr-ghnàthachas thairis air ioma diofar ghnè de phrògraman ann an Alba. Seo an treas cuirm dhuaisean aig RTS na h-Alba agus am-bliadhna 's iad Catriona Shearer agus Sanjeev Kohli a bhios gan lìbhrigeadh anns an Òran Mòr, Glaschu.
Tha dà phrògram a riochdaich purpleTV airson BBC ALBA, 'Tartan Pride' agus 'Jim Baxter', air an ainmeachadh air a' gheàrr-liosta agus tha iad a' dol an aghaidh a chèile sa ghnè: Prògram Spòrs as Fheàrr. Choisinn purpleTV duais airson am prògram aca 'Jock Stein' san aon ghnè an-uiridh agus bhiodh e anabarrach math nam b' urrainn cuir ris an t-soirbheachas sin am-bliadhna. Shuas airson Iar-riochdachadh as Fheàrr: Gearradh, tha Vilte Vaitkute a tha na deasaiche aig media co-op. Chaidh uairean a thìde de chlàraidhean airson prògram 'Pìobairean Beaga Bhaile Ghobhainn' a ghearradh sìos gu h-ealanta, le Vilte, gus prògram uair a thìde a lìbhrigeadh, a chuireadh gàire air d'aodain, chithear clip an seo.
Mo mheala naidheachd air media co-op agus air purpleTV: 's e euchd air leth a th' ann faighinn air a' gheàrr-liosta agus tha sinn an dòchas gun soirbhich leotha a-nochd. Bidh tàlantan a' ghnìomhachais Albannach air an taisbeanadh aig na duaisean agus nach sinne a tha moiteil gu bheil prògraman BBC ALBA air an comharrachadh am-measg an stuth as fheàrr ann an Alba. Cumaibh ur sùilean air Twitter agus Facebook agus leigidh sinn fhaicinn dhuibh ciamar a gheibh iad air adhart.


Hi Folks, I am reasonably new to 944's.
I have an '84 944 that has recently had some work done to it, 48k service, new belts, new water pump, ignition leads, new battery etc.
I decided to go for a drive, so after switching on the battery isolator switch I heard a weird hissing sound coming from underneath the car for a few seconds, I didn't think much of it as it stopped and I thought it's something I just hadn't noticed before, the car seemed fine and started up and drove fine.
A few days later after not using the car again, I turned on the battery isolator switch and heard the same noise, car started fine, I rolled out the garage and left it idling on my sloped drive for 5 minutes while I put some bits back in the garage and then got in and as I rolled down my drive I realised I still had the handbrake on so as I was stopping at the bottom of the drive to release it, I suddenly heard a loud continuous high pitched whirring motor noise and after quickly turning off the engine it continued making the noise at a high pitch, so I quickly lifted the bonnet and noticed a lot of smoke coming from the rear of the engine bay, just below the windscreen, I immediately isolated the battery and the sound stopped but in my panic I couldn't pinpoint where it had come from, I left it a few minutes and started the car back up and everything was fine. Took the car out, no problems at all, drove fine, temp fine. I thought maybe something was maybe just sticking and it needed a drive.
Which leads me to today, a few days after the last incident. Removed trickle charger, switched on the battery, heard a louder hissing almost sparking sound from underneath to the rear of the engine bay, louder than last time, saw a small puff of smoke rise up from rear of the engine bay. Left it a few minutes, nothing else happened. Weird. Started up the car and it struggled to idle and cut out. Started it again and the idle was all over the show with the battery light flashing as it tried to regulate the idle, it just would not stay running, turned it off, got out and went to investigate the engine bay for smoke but didn't see any but did notice a melted area on the plastic cover below the windscreen. The resistor inside it was warm/hot to the touch but the plastic was cool. This may have caused the smoke from my previous incident.
I looked under the car and noticed the starter had a small single drop of water hanging from it as well? Yet the car is in a dry garage.


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Although it looked bad, it wasn't intentional. Boye was knocked off balance and tried to use his legs to regain his balance. No card was given.
Dempsey came off the field for a just a minute to nurse his injuries and was back playing for the remainder of the game.


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Presentation is Preparing Students for Success
What makes one high school student more successful than another? What makes one college graduate more attractive to an employer than another? According to the Making High School Count and Making College Count programs the difference is all about the choices students make while in high school and college.
Mary Ann Willis, a College Counselor at Bayside Academy in Daphne, Alabama, whose school has had both programs, agrees. "It's reinforcement from the real world," she said. "The program basically lets students know that they're in charge and that they have to steer the ship," said Willis.
Making High School Count and Making College Count, student-interactive presentations, are helping thousands of students nationwide achieve success by presenting winning strategies to attack school with the right attitude. Developed to reinforce the motivating efforts of school counselors and teachers, Making High School Count provides freshmen with information on how to make the most of their high school experience; while Making College Count helps seniors understand how to effectively concentrate on academics, extracurricular activities and work experience to make the most of their college experience.
According to Charles Knippen, Program Manager of the Making High School Count programs, although the programs take messages that counselors and teachers have been giving students for some reason having a third party come in makes the messages click for the students.
Knippen believes that one of the key reasons for the programs success is the presenters don't tell students what they have to do, rather they explain "the choices you can make, the things you can do."
Currently, one of the only national programs is offered free-of-charge to schools. Making High School Count and Making College Count has reached over 400,000 students this school year and is scheduled to reach 2.6 million students next fall. "We provide a resource to help high school students make the most out of their high school and college experiences," said Knippen.
The messages presented to students are based on Patrick O'Brien's book Making College Count: A Real World Look At How to Succeed In and After College. "The idea for the book and the program came from a conversation he had with his sister about college," said Knippen.
Those who have experienced the program believe that it empowers students while impressing upon them that they have the capacity to build on something. According to Willis, the best college applications happen in the freshmen year with an actively engaged learner who is significantly immersed not only in studies, but also in his school and community. "With each step in high school, a new opportunity arises and [the] message of taking charge of one's destiny empowers students to accept responsibility for themselves and to know that all of life's options are about choices, responsibilities and consequences," said Willis.
According to Knippen, one of the messages the program tries to impart to students is that school is a full time job, specifically in college and students need to develop the 9 to 5 mentality. In college, if students commit themselves to the 40 hours per week of work they can break school down into 16 hours of class with 24 hours left as potential study hours. "Universally we give the message of success and empowerment," said Knippen, who believes that freshman year, regardless of whether its in high school or college, serves as a students springboard for success.
Making High School Count and Making College Count were both programs of Student Success, which has recently merged with College Link, the online college application service. According to Knippen, the affiliations College Link has with colleges and universities combined with the affiliations Student Success has with high schools has increased the merger is a perfect fit for both entities. It has increased the amount of resources the Making High School and College Count programs have.
If you're wondering whether or not to make room in your school calendar for these programs, Willis recommends that you do. "Every school should do this," said Willis. "It's a great resource."
Charles Knippen, Program Manager of the Making High School Count programs
Mary Ann Willis, a College Counselor at Bay Side Academy in Daphne, Alabama


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WHAT IF I'M A FLEET BUYER OF ABOVE 5 VEHICLES PURCHASES FROM 1 DECEMBER 2017?
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE INCLUDING CLUB MEMBERSHIP IF I SELL MY MITSUBISHI VEHICLE PRIOR TO THE 12 MONTH EXPIRY?
WHAT HAPPENS IF I MOVE INTERSTATE? DOES THE CLUB MEMBERSHIP MOVE TO DIFFERENT AUTO CLUB?
Club Membership will remain in the same State/Territory at the time of issue. Club Membership will change when the vehicle is next presented to an authorised Mitsubishi Dealership for an eligible scheduled service under the Mitsubishi Capped Price Service Program and the membership is renewed. This is dependent on you providing your new details to your Dealership so they can update Mitsubishi Motors system to ensure that you receive relevant Club Membership.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I LIVE ON THE BORDER OF TWO STATES/TERRITORIES? WHAT AUTO CLUB CAN DO I JOIN?
1New private retail buyers and ABN holders with a fleet size of five vehicles or less. Excludes government, rental and national fleet Customers. In the event that we are unable to verify your contact details, the driver will be eligible for Roadside Assistance without Club Membership. An eligible customer profile includes Name, Address, Phone number, DOB and Registration. Roadside Clubs require your DOB for security reasons. Mitsubishi Motors will attempt to contact you to collect your contact information but if we are unable to complete your profile you will be ineligible for Club Membership until your details are provided. For more information please contact us.


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Sermon for Evensong on the Third Sunday of Easter, 22nd April 2018
Exodus 16:4-15; Revelation 2:12-17
Salvation. What is it to be 'saved'? After the glorious Easter story of Jesus' resurrection, it seems logical to move on from celebrating his, Jesus', triumph over death to his promise that we too will be 'saved', to a life after death. In the Book of Revelation, we find a vision of what that might look like. I'm often rather dismissive about heaven being a place above the clouds where you meet a kindly old man with a white beard. But actually the beginning of the Book of Revelation is one source of that quaint image of the divine. This is how the book begins.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; ….
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. … one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt … with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; … out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength [Rev. 1:10-14]
But even if it comes from the Bible, that picture of heaven is just a best effort to imagine something beyond the scope of human knowledge. There are rational objections to the idea of heaven being above the clouds – not least the evidence of the early astronauts, who didn't bump into angels or anything like that. The Book of Revelation is, I'm sure, spiritually inspired, but I don't think we're meant to take it literally.
But it's a vision of heaven, of what life after death might be like, the seven churches in Asia meeting Jesus the Judge Eternal, who decides what he likes and dislikes about them.
The church in Pergamum almost gets a clean bill of health. They are steadfast. They stood up to persecution, and one them, Antipas, became a martyr for the Gospel. But
'I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel'.
This is a reference to an episode in the story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, in the Book of Numbers, chapter 22.
'And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land' …
The story of the Exodus from Egypt and the entry into the Promised Land is a great one. Parting the waters of the Red Sea; annihilating the Amorites. And a constant theme is that the Israelites must keep their covenant, their contract, with God, so that He will protect them, will save them.
If you remember the story, the Israelites didn't really appreciate where they were going. They 'murmured' among themselves. They hadn't got enough to eat. Why did they leave Egypt? And Moses put their complaints in prayer to God, and God sent vast numbers of quails for them to eat. I'm not sure how they were presented, these quails. I've always imagined them arriving ready cooked, sort of chicken-in-the-basket. And then God sent manna, the divine bread.
What was it that the Judge Eternal thought was reprehensible about Balak and Balaam? You'll remember that Balak, king of the Moabites, wanted Balaam to curse the Israelites, to curse Jacob, because he thought that there were too many of them, too many likely to come in as immigrants. '
'Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me'.
The Moabites didn't want immigrants to come into their country.
'[B]ehold, they cover the face of the earth', they said. Keep them out. Vote for Brexit. Maybe support UKIP.
Well, remember what the Judge Eternal felt. He was quite happy with the people from the church at Pergamum, except to the extent that they followed the
' …doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel'.
You'll remember the story of Balaam's donkey, who pulled up in awkward places because she could see an angel, holding a double-edged sword, blocking her path. But it was all right for the Israelites, who were refugees, to come in, to be immigrants.
It makes a difference whose point of view you adopt. If you're with the Israelites, you are entering the Promised Land – and you don't want to mix with the people whom you'll find there.
The people like the Amalekites and the Moabites, the Palestinians, are being turfed out, displaced, by the Israeli settlers. They not unnaturally don't want the Israelites to come in and displace them.
How difficult it is to find the right answers here! Are immigrants, asylum seekers, a good thing? Are they going to overwhelm the indigenous population?
'Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.'
As they discovered with their encounter with the Amalekites, the Israelites were following a fierce, tough God. The fierce God wanted them to exterminate the Amalekites in their quest for Lebensraum in the Promised Land. So much for controlled immigration. You remember: God blamed Israel, because Israel had spared a few people, a few Amalekites. God was angry not because they had gone on a killing spree, but because they hadn't; they hadn't exterminated the Amalekites. [1 Samuel 15]
Nowadays surely we find that story strange, and challenging. Surely God would be merciful? But no, He is portrayed as wanting to kill every last Palestinian, or rather, Amalekite. It doesn't look right. It doesn't look fair. But it was the Promised Land. And they were rewarded with celestial food, manna from heaven.
There's an echo of that in the Book of Revelation. The churches who prove faithful, and don't fall for the temptations of illicit sex and other bad behaviour, will get the 'secret manna'. That must be "I am the bread of life' in St John's Gospel, chapter 6. Jesus is the bread of life. 'Feed on Him in your hearts by faith with thanksgiving'.
So what about immigrants? Are you on the side of the Israelites, or of the Moabites – or even the poor old Amalekites? Are you running away from slavery, in Egypt – or Syria – or are you upholding a policy of 'creating a hostile environment' for immigrants?
As the shocking cases of the 'EMPIRE WINDRUSH migrants' show, creating a 'hostile environment' for immigrants is practically impossible to do in the way apparently intended here, to deter people who are not deemed to be 'worthy' immigrants. Unless you set up barriers which challenge all who seek to come in, it will be a lottery whether you catch the ones you want to. But if you set up that hostile barrier, you will obstruct many people who are perfectly legitimate. It also seems that the only class of people who have been consistently mistreated by the 'hostile environment' policy are black people.
There haven't been any dreadful miscarriages of justice involving white people who came over from Australia, or Canada, or South Africa 50 years ago, and never bothered to keep hundreds of documents just in case, 50 or even 70 years after they arrived, got jobs, paid taxes, and raised children here, somebody challenged them to prove they were entitled to be here. There don't seem to be any of those cases against white people.
The big irony here is that even today, the story of the Promised Land is still controversial. The Palestinians who lost their homes after the Balfour Declaration, and who have been pushed out even more by the foundation of the 'settlements' in modern Israel, can be excused for being negative about immigration. But people who stand up for them against the Zionists find themselves labelled as antisemitic.
What would Jesus do? Where is the salvation here? I think that to be 'saved' here doesn't just mean getting up there with the Son of Man with his white robe and snowy beard. It surely means also being 'saved' from being deported to a country you've never seen; it surely means also finding a better balance between today's Moabites in Palestine, worried about being overwhelmed by Zionist immigrants, and the people on the run from civil war in Syria, who so desperately need places of refuge.
Manna from heaven? Well, food for thought anyway.
Tags Brexit, EMPIRE WINDRUSH, hostile climate, immigration, Israeli settlements, Israelites, Jesus, Moses, Promised Land, racism, refugees, UKIP, white commonwealth, zionism
After the Easter Eggs
Sermon for Mattins on the Second Sunday after Easter, 15th April 2018
Isaiah 63:7-15, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
I've been wrestling with some contrasts in the last day or two. Obviously the civil war in Syria, the apparent poison gas attack: and then the attack on Syria by the Americans, the French and our RAF. 104 missiles, apparently, of which 8 were ours.
And the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech. An actor read it again on the wireless last night – although I didn't listen to it. Perniciously, some its ghastly racism still comes back. References to black people as 'smiling picaninnies' and the cod classical reference to 'the Tiber red with blood' are still awful.
And the 70th anniversary of the voyage of the 'WINDRUSH' from the Caribbean, bringing people who would become postmen and nurses and drive taxis and do all the jobs which we couldn't find people to do, whom we had advertised in the Caribbean for. Some of them have been here for most of that time, bringing up children and working hard – but now our frankly nasty Home Office is trying to throw out some of the ones who never applied for a passport, back to the Caribbean, where they haven't lived for decades. On appeal, the Home Office's 'be extra beastly to immigrants' policy has been overturned in about half the cases. What's that about? Putting Granny on a plane to Jamaica because, as a British citizen – but a black one – she had no idea that she should keep any old documents to prove her right to be here.
The contrast was with the Easter sunshine yesterday, as lots of people came back from Easter holidays, expecting the usual murky weather back home, and found real, warm sunshine. The contrast was with our Easter happiness in our church, as we celebrated Christ's resurrection. The story of Doubting Thomas is such a good one for us, because we sometimes feel that the miracle of that first Easter is just too much. But – 'My Lord and my God!' said Thomas, he, a person like us, was convinced – and we feel Jesus came back for us too.
But. But just as the Easter story is overlaid with the terrible sadness of the crucifixion, so we can't help feeling that those simple Galilean fishermen are an awful long way away now. How can what happened so long ago, in such a different world, give us anything useful about the violence in Syria: how can the Easter story make any difference to the message of 'Rivers of Blood' which people like Enoch Powell, people like Nigel Farage and perhaps even Theresa May, when she was Home Office minister, gave out, any difference to the message that there is something wrong with people coming to live and work in our country, with immigration?
Actually, not just living and working here, but joining their relatives here. And where children are concerned, there are still a couple of thousand – really, not just a few – just across the Channel in France, who can't get here. Theresa May, when she was Home Office minister, arranged a disgusting advert displayed on the back of vans, driving around advising immigrants to 'Go home'. And she went to church faithfully all that time. Apparently, she saw nothing wrong in her deterrent vans.
What use is Easter against all that stuff? Can we learn from the early church? One thing about learning our Christianity from St Paul's letters, is that we have to imagine what the other side of the conversation might be. So what was St Paul responding to when he wrote to the people in Corinth?
He was pointing out that, if one ignored God's commandments, the Ten Commandments, God might not keep on forgiving them. The Old Testament is full of stories of the Chosen People, Israel, disobeying God. And it brought bad consequences on them. Plagues of snakes. And St Paul thought it was all pretty symbolic. For him, the Old Testament story of Moses in the wilderness after God had parted the Red Sea and they had escaped from Egypt, was deeply significant. Not everyone made it, because they fell away, they forgot God.
St Paul, in counselling the Corinthians, reminds them of the story of Moses and the Israelites coming out of Egypt. Even though the Israelites were God's chosen people, it didn't give them a complete licence to behave any way they wanted. Each breach of a commandment had a price. 'Fornication' brought a death sentence for 23,000 in one day.
At first sight, this doesn't seem to square with the idea that God is our friend, that He cares for us. For if he really did, surely He wouldn't be so fierce and judgmental towards human failings – because after all, He made us the way we are.
So why does St Paul offer these cautionary tales? It isn't a question of 'Be good and you'll be welcome in heaven' – and the converse, if you're not virtuous. That if you're bad, you'll be going down.
It's much more a question that God does love us, unconditionally; but we mustn't fail to reciprocate. Perhaps the 'other half' of the dialogue between St Paul and the Corinthians was some idea that the Corinthians had, that becoming a Christian sort-of inoculated them against the consequences of bad behaviour. Once you'd been baptised and confirmed, perhaps they thought you could give full rein to your baser instincts. St Paul is pointing out that God may still take a dim view if the people who are receiving His blessing, go out immediately and do things more befitted to their old lives, before they saw the light.
St Paul's point is, that if you are 'saved', you won't want to fornicate and do all the other things, having riotous dinners and 'putting God to the test'.
But my thought is that, if you are full of the Easter spirit, if you are a good Christian, it won't just be a question of your avoiding fornication. There will be other signs of your being a Christian. And this is where I get back to my contrasts. How to be full of the spirit of Easter, and at the same time rushing into following Pres.Trump in attacking Syria before the United Nations weapons inspectors have even started? How to be full of the spirit of Easter, but sympathetic to Powell's racism – as surveys have shown 70% of the British population were at the time. How does that – did that – work? Can you really be a Christian and support have a racist view of immigration? What about things that Nigel Farage has said really recently?
What about us here at St Mary's? Why don't we have any black people in our church? Some of us must have black neighbours; we must be more friendly to them, and see if we can get them to join us. It's part of our vision, a vision of inclusion, of openness. As we start our befriending programme, let's be open to inviting people who look a bit different to join us and become our friends. Let's not just think of Easter as a quaint story 2,000 years ago, without any practical effect on us. Let's show that Easter has made a difference to our lives.
Tags Caribbean, church, Easter, Enoch Powell, God, Isaiah, Jesus, Moses, Nigel Farage, racism, Resurrection, Rivers of Blood, St Paul, Theresa May, Trump, WINDRUSH
Nigra Sum
Sermon for Evensong on the 10th Sunday after Trinity, 20th August 2017
2 Kings 4:1-37; Psalm 90; Acts 16:1-15
'Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men'. That's what we've just sung, in Psalm 90. It means, return to the dust, out of which you were made. Psalm 90 is sometimes used at funerals, and describes the insignificance and fleeting existence of human life when compared with the creative – and destructive – power of God.
There's a powerful novel by P. D. James called 'Children of Men'. It's a dystopian vision of the future – just as 1984 suddenly wasn't in the distant future, in this case, the future is 2021 – not long now.
Gradually, no more children are being born. The human race is dying out. Then, years after the last person was born, a woman becomes pregnant. Now read on! I won't spoil it for you. There's a film of it too, which is also good, but rather different.
One little switch. No more babies. And that's it for the human race. It's perhaps more frightening, as being rather more mundane, more feasible, in a way, than a nuclear holocaust.
There has been a school of thought – perhaps as a result of too much reading of the Old Testament – that if God does take steps against mankind, it must be to punish them for something they've done wrong.
So now, for people who think in that way, it will be likely to be rather a worrying time. We have the President of the USA completely failing to condemn white supremacists and Nazis – saying there are 'some very good people' among them; in this country, all of sudden, it's not beyond the pale for people openly to want to shut out from this country anyone who isn't a white, English-speaking person with useful skills and plenty of money.
Nearer to home, did anyone even think for a minute whether it was right to chase away the travellers, the gypsies, who came and camped out on the Leg O'Mutton field in Cobham? Remember, Hitler exterminated Gypsies as well as Jews. How should we treat them? What would Jesus have said?
Now again, instead of seeking closer union with our neighbours in Europe, we have set our faces against them with the vote for so-called 'Brexit'. 'Sovereignty', whatever that means, is supposed to be more important than the brotherhood of man.
I think that Emily Thornberry was right, although she got into hot water for saying it, about the house with a white van parked in the drive, festooned with English flags. That flag is not benign: it is meant to say, 'England alone!' Go away, everyone else. Black, brown, foreign people: go away from our 'crowded' island. The crowds are, I would suggest, a myth. There is plenty of room in the UK. The hidden, evil message is that there are too many of the 'wrong sort of person' – people who are not like us.
I still remember the first time I went to Bombay – the first time I went to India – and walked down the street. I was the only white man. The only white man among thousands of brown and black faces. I began to imagine what it must feel like to be a black person in England sometimes. No wonder that black people may congregate in places where there are already significant numbers of black people. We have a certain innate small-c conservatism, all of us, I think, which makes us easier with people whom we know.
Obviously in a country of nearly 70 million people, we can't know everyone, so I suspect that we fall back on what people look like. If they look like us, fine. If not, there might be a reservation, a hesitation, a query in our minds.
This isn't good. Xenophobia, racism, white supremacy. No thought for the idea that we are all equally God's creatures, God's children. God, if He cares about us in the way the Old Testament describes, might well send some plagues down on us for being so awful.
Yet so far as I know, God hasn't worked that way recently. Taken as a whole in the Bible, in contrast with the various chastisements in the Old Testament – and Psalm 90 is said to be a Psalm of Moses, inspired by the complaining of the Israelites in the desert – there are many stories of healing and salvation.
Elisha's two miracles described in our first lesson are cases in point. The first one is a sort of self-help example with a miraculous element, a bit like feeding the 5,000, in that the oil never ran out, and the resurrection of the Shunammite woman's daughter is like the raising of Lazarus or the resurrection of Jairus' daughter – 'damsel, arise' – in the New Testament.
We don't know how these miracles worked – or else they wouldn't be miraculous. Maybe these stories are just mythical. It's striking how similar the miracles done by Elisha are, in these two cases at least, to Jesus' miracles.
The 'rose of Sharon', the beautiful girl, in the Song of Solomon, 'nigra sum sed pulchra,' in the Latin words of the beautiful canticle in Monteverdi's Vespers, is said to be a 'Shulamite', or a Shunammite. Perhaps there's a link with the 'great woman' in our lesson from 2 Kings. She was kind to the man of God, Elisha, and 'constrained him' to eat bread. It's a bit reminiscent of Mrs Doyle, Father Ted's housekeeper, pressing ever more cake and sandwiches on her hapless priestly charges: 'Oh, go on, go on, go on …!' Maybe she was Abishag, the most beautiful woman in Israel, who went to comfort King David in his old age – she too came from Shunem.
But even in the beauty of Monteverdi there's a wrong note. 'Nigra sum sed pulchra' sings the girl – although often, for mysterious musical reasons, it's actually a male counter-tenor singing – meaning, 'I am black but beautiful'. To sing 'but' beautiful is awful – but in 1610, when the Vespers was written, that kind of casual racism was unfortunately there. I feel that if we can change the words of the Lord's Prayer so that we 'forgive those who' trespass against us, instead of 'them that' do it, we could change 'nigra sum, sed' (black, but …) to 'nigra sum et pulchra'. 'And' beautiful. Perhaps you, Robert [Prof. Robert Woolley, Director of Music at St Mary's], could speak to Harry Christophers or Sir John Eliot Gardner about it.
The disciples with St Paul – (including St Luke, who most likely was the author of the Acts of the Apostles as well, and who was an eyewitness with the Apostles, at least for some of the time, which we think partly because of the passage which was our lesson tonight, in their journey, where it says, 'We': 'We came with a straight course to Samothracia', and so on) – well, he and the disciples went to pray, not just in the synagogues, but in Philippi they went to a part of the river bank, where people went to pray; actually, not just any 'people' went there, but a group of women. And there they met and got to know Lydia, who, like the Shunammite woman with the man of God, Elisha, invited them to stay with her. She 'constrained them' too; she was another Mrs Doyle!
Shunammite women, blacks, and the women worshipping with Lydia on the river bank: all a bit different, according to the lights of the time then; but all variously blessed. To be with Elisha, and with the apostles – and of course, with Jesus – we should be celebrating diversity and welcoming the people who are shut out – shut out by polite society, but also because they are black or strangers or refugees. Let us not shelter behind false distinctions between 'genuine' refugees and 'economic migrants'. Whatever they are, they are here; they are human beings like us; they're just as good as us; and if they are refugees, they need our welcome, our love, and our help. 'Come again, ye children of men.'
Tags 2 Kings, Abishag, apostles, Bombay, Brexit, Children of Men, Donald Trump, Elisha, Emily Thornberry, Father Ted, Gypsies, Harry Christophers, Hitler, Jairus' daughter, jesus christ, king david, Lazarus, Lydia, Monteverdi, Mrs Doyle, PD James, racism, refugees, Robert Woolley, Rose of Sharon, Shunammite, Sir John Eliot Gardner, St Luke, St Paul, Travellers, Vespers 1610, xenophobia


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The longtime "60 Minutes" commentator made his final regular appearance on the program on Oct. 2.
Former 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney remains hospitalized after a minor surgery last week.
CBS News said the 92-year-old journalist is in stable condition and remains under medical care because he suffered serious complications from the operation. The medical reason for the surgery has not been disclosed, and the Rooney family asks that their privacy be respected at this difficult time, notes the network.
Rooney gave his last 60 Minutes commentary on Oct. 2. He had been with the show since 1968 as a writer and his "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" segment had been a fixture on the show since 1978.
At the time of his retirement from the CBS weekly newsmagazine, Rooney had clocked in 1,097 appearances. His rants ranged from his expressing concern because he had no idea who Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga or any of the bands are that are dominating the Billboard charts were to wondering if Bill Gates and Microsoft were making our lives harder.
Rooney told viewers in his final 60 Minutes commentary that his retirement was a moment he wasn't looking forward to. "This is a moment I have dreaded," he said. "I wish I could do this forever."
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Assuming direct replacements, where is currently the absolute cheapest way of getting a new set of tyres?
Anywhere else I should be checking? Looks like mytyres are cheapest but I've tried to buy from them twice before and both times it's been awful, used Event-Tyres once and they were perfect.
Will also check with a dealer.
Go to your local ATS, Kwik Fit they are usually doing deals. I pay £210 fronts and £230 rears at a my local ATS.
Got my last set of rears from there.
Does anyone know if the AM9 homologation is necessary? My tyre of choice would be a Michelin PSS, but obviously not AM homologation.
My local tyre fitters did my rears (AM9 spec) for £270 each, failing that I was looking at Camskill.
Can you get Michelin all round in the right sizes?
There website seems to be suffering (or at least my connection is hitting lots of dead pages after adding tyres to basket) - what are their delivery prices like? The tyres themselves are £16 fronts and £19 rears less but I imagine after getting them shipped and then fitted it will cost more than the Event-Tyres man coming around.
Still haven't called any local places or dealers.
Camskill are very good. £6 delivery for 2 tyres, £12 for 4.
I couldn't get Michelin PSS in sizes that worked, but that might just be a supply problem in Canada. I ended up putting a set Continental ExtremeContact DW on my DB9 (245/40F 285/35R). I found the old worn RE050s were pretty harsh on bumps and were losing grip badly in wet/cold weather.
I went up 10mm in size F&R, and that makes the tire about half an inch taller (trivial speedo error) but I wanted that little extra bit of ground clearance, and a little extra width on the road. They also seem to fill the wheel arches a bit better to my eye. The Conti's are definitely more compliant over bumps, but I don't consider them to be soft. The grip seems very good and test scores put them well ahead of the RE050s.
That's good to know. Thanks for posting your experience. Going to 245/40/19 on the front would increase the rolling diamter by 8mm - so not much. Problem is, I'm not sure if that would disturb the ASM computer unless the rears were increased by a very similar amount, but that would mean going to 285/35/19 which don't exist in the PSS either!
Just had a look at the Michelin site and the 235/40/19 and 275/35/19 both exist in PSS. The former must have been a recent addition to the range. I think I will go this way when it is time to change tyres unless anyone can give me a good reason to stick to AM9 homologation?
Dare I ask what are the benefits of the Michelin PSS vs the Bridgestone Potenza?
I have just had very good experiences of the Michelins on other fast cars that I have had. Their grip is phenomenal, dry or wet. I also find them very long lasting.
I paid £983.00 for a full set on 17th December from Chessington Tyres, Surrey. Supplied, fitted and nitrogen filled.
They're part of one of the bigger chains.
Jet Wheel & Tyre in Essex. Tough to beat their prices.
I work for etyres and I am also an AM owner. I hope this doesn't break forum rules to reply to this with prices.
The Bridgestone tyres that we supply definitely are the AM9 variant.
We also have the Michelin Pilot Super Sports in the correct sizes, although the fronts are not on our website we do definitely have them in stock.
We offer mobile fitting and electronic balancing included in the price. Where abouts in the country are you?


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    inline = True
    body = "[built-in]"

    def __init__(self):
        pass

class Apply(Node):
    def __init__(self, func_name, parameters, token):
        self.func_name = func_name
        self.parameters = parameters
        self.token = token

    def free_variables(self):
        r = set()
        for param in self.parameters:
            r.update(param.free_variables())
        return s

    def check(self, gctx, lctx):
        """
        Attempt to check function call with lctx types and gctx function (signatures)
        """
        if self.func_name not in gctx:
            yield self.token, "Could not resolve function named %s" % self.func_name
        return

    def infer_type(self):
        return gctx[self.func_name].return_type

    def evaluate(self, lctx={}, gctx={}):
        """
        Attempt to evaluate function call with lctx values and gctx functions
        """
        return gctx[self.func_name].evaluate([p.evaluate(lctx, gctx) for p in self.parameters], gctx)

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.func_name + "(" + ", ".join([repr(j) for j in self.parameters]) + ")"

class Variable(Node):
    def __init__(self, name, token):
        self.name = name
        self.token = token

    def free_variables(self):
        return set(self.name)

    def infer_type(self):
        return lctx[self.name].infer_type()

    def evaluate(self, lctx={}, gctx={}):
        return lctx[self.name]

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.name

    def check(self, gctx, lctx):
        if self.name not in lctx:
            yield self.token, "Variable not defined in local context"

class Boolean(Value):
    def __init__(self, value):
        if value in ("True", "true", "1", 1, True):
            self.value = True
        elif value in ("False", "false", "0", 0, False):
            self.value = False
        else:
            raise ValueError("Unable to convert %s to boolean" % value)

    def __repr__(self):
        return "True" if self.value else "False"

class Nat(Value):
    def __init__(self, value):
        value = int(value)
        if (value < 0):
            raise ValueError("%d is not natural number" % value)
        self.value = value

    def __repr__(self):
        return str(self.value)

    def evaluate(self, lctx={}, gctx={}):
        return self.value

class Conditional(Expr):
    def __init__(self, expr_if, expr_then, expr_else=None):
        self.expr_if = expr_if
        self.expr_then = expr_then
        self.expr_else = expr_else

    def free_variables(self):
        return self.expr_if.free_variables().union(self.expr_then.free_variables().union(self.expr_else.free_variables()))

    def __repr__(self):
        return "IF " + repr(self.expr_if) + " THEN " + repr(self.expr_then) + ((" ELSE " + repr(self.expr_else)) if self.expr_else else "") + " FI"

    def evaluate(self, lctx={}, gctx={}):
        if self.expr_if.evaluate(lctx, gctx):
            return self.expr_then.evaluate(lctx, gctx)
        else:
            return self.expr_else.evaluate(lctx, gctx)

    def check(self, gctx, lctx):
        for d, err in self.expr_if.check(gctx, lctx):
            yield d, err
        for d, err in self.expr_then.check(gctx, lctx):
            yield d, err
        for d, err in self.expr_else.check(gctx, lctx):
            yield d, err


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England: Read the Queen's Indifferent Reaction to Meghan Markle's Family Drama
How Africa September 3, 2018, 12:06 pm
Following the numerous attacks on Meghan Markle and her new status, Queen Elizabeth II did not remain indifferent.
Since the announcement of her relationship with Prince Harry, it is the tension within the family of the former actress. After the marriage of Meghan Markle, her family granted several interviews with negative comments against the new Duchess of Sussex.
However, a source close to the royal family told US Weekly that the Duchess has the full support of Queen Elizabeth.
"Meghan is absolutely devastated by this tragedy. It is impossible for her to have a relationship with her father or to come into contact with him to prevent him from speaking. She knows he will record their conversation and sell it. She has great anxiety and wonders if it will last forever. "
"What may come as a surprise is the support Her Majesty is giving Meghan Markle to the problems she is facing with her family. Meghan is in a difficult situation and the queen knows she is completely out of Meghan's reach. She only has sympathy for what has been a difficult and painful situation for her, "revealed another source who requested anonymity.
Although the two women come from two different backgrounds, Queen Elizabeth has great admiration for Meghan Markle. They became close after their first meeting. The queen admires her intelligence, politeness and willingness to learn.
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This is the stage of hysterical post-election Democratic butthurt where Don Corleone finally slaps Johnny Fontane in the face. You can act like a man.
But don't laugh too hard. Given how predisposed Trumpers were to believe that the election would be rigged, we'd probably be on Day 10 of Trump's "Hillary cheated" media tour right now if Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania had ended up tipping the other way.
Interestingly, when you ask a similar question — "Will you accept Donald Trump as the legitimate president, or not?" — the numbers are similar for some groups but … not so similar for others. Republicans, for instance, split 97/3 on whether the election was fair or rigged and 97/2 on whether they'll accept Trump as legitimate or not. For independents, though, there's a discrepancy. They split 82/18 on the "rigged" question but just 71/12 on the "legitimate" one, with another 17 percent saying they're not sure. The discrepancy is bigger for Dems, who divide 58/42 on "fair or rigged?" and very narrowly at 43/40 on Trump's legitimacy, again with 17 percent unsure. Why are the numbers so different?
The eye-popping (but unsurprising under the circumstances) number is that fully two-thirds of Democrats are now onboard with scrapping the electoral college. But note that there's respectable support for the idea among indies too, with a narrow plurality in favor. The left has been so thoroughly devastated at the state level in the age of Obama that there's no need to worry right now about them trying to change the system, but winning the popular vote while losing the presidency twice in 16 years will stick in their craw. Ten blue states plus Washington D.C., collectively worth 165 electoral votes, have already agreed to a scheme that would award their electors to the popular-vote winner if enough other states agree to do the same to ensure 270 EVs for that person. Democrats have already picked the low-hanging fruit in convincing various legislatures (California, New York, etc) to adopt that plan and now need to convince some larger swing states that are rich in electoral votes to join the compact too — which will be difficult, since deciding the presidency according to the national popular vote would dilute a swing state's influence over the election. But if public opinion changes enough and Democrats make a comeback in state legislatures, and they will in time, this is something to watch. It will not be lost on them going forward that, if not for the electoral college, they never would have spent a day being governed by George W. Bush or Donald Trump, their two least favorite Republicans of the modern age.
To put that 40/35 number in context for you, 58 percent of the public said they were optimistic after Obama won in 2012, 71 percent said they felt that way after his 2008 win, and 60 percent said so after Dubya's contentious victory in 2000. Trump's way off the pace. Maybe that's a reflection of the low confidence in him personally or maybe it's a byproduct of an increasingly hyperpolarized age, but it is what it is.
One last quirk about the numbers above. When ABC/WaPo asked Hillary voters last week if they view Trump's win as legitimate or not, there was a huge divide between whites and nonwhites. Just 18 percent of whites said it was illegitimate versus 51 percent(!) of nonwhites who said so. I took that to be evidence of varying sensitivity, even on the left, to "voter suppression" measures. In YouGov's poll, though, the racial numbers are more complicated. Democrats generally are actually less likely to see Trump as legitimate than blacks are: Blacks split 45/32 while Dems split 43/40. Even if you account for the fact that some blacks voted for Trump, you would think per the ABC/WaPo data about nonwhites that blacks overall would skew heavily towards seeing Trump as illegitimate. On the other hand, when you ask whether the vote was "rigged" or not, blacks are more likely to say yes than Dems overall are. They split 53/47 while Democrats generally split 58/42. Maybe that's where the racial difference on "voter suppression" is showing up.


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Catalans take to the streets in support of independence vote
Thousands rally in Barcelona amid Spanish government threats over illegal referendum
Mon, Sep 11, 2017, 20:30
Guy Hedgecoe in Barcelona
Thousands of people carry a giant Catalan independence flag and a banner reading 'Referendum is Democracy', in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Roser Vilallonga/ Catalan National Assembly/EPA
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans filled the streets of Barcelona on Monday to assert their right to stage an illegal independence referendum, despite the central Spanish government's threat of legal action over the vote.
Catalans traditionally celebrate every September 11th, the date of their Diada, or national day. However, since 2012, when the Catalan independence movement entered the political mainstream, the date has taken on added meaning, with nationalists using the day to express their anger at Madrid and desire to vote on separation.
This year, the date fell shortly before the referendum the Catalan government is planning for October 1st and which it hopes will lead to an independent Catalan republic. However, Mariano Rajoy's Spanish government has promised to block the vote, deeming it unconstitutional, and has already taken steps to thwart it.
Thousands of people gather for a rally on Catalonia's national day, in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters
"We've been fighting a long time, we think now is the moment," said Gérard García, a dreadlocked 19-year-old who had come to Monday's event with friends. "We want democracy, we don't want dictatorship and we are fighting for freedom."
García and his friends closed their eyes and raised their fists as they joined crowds in the street to sing the Catalan anthem, Els Segadors.
Participants formed a massive human cross in central Barcelona and many wore lime-green T-shirts with the word "Sí" ("Yes") on the front, in reference to the upcoming vote.
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Félix Villar was wearing the red-and-yellow striped Catalan independence flag as a cape and on his head, while his partner had also covered their baby's pram with the flag. "We want to show the rest of Spain that despite what is sold to them in the media, this is the reality," he said.
"They say that there isn't a [pro-independence] majority, that Catalans don't really want independence, that it's something the Catalan government decided. That's not true – the people decided to do this."
Divided opinion
A Metroscopia poll published on Sunday showed that 38 per cent of Catalans want the Catalan government to continue with its plan to stage a unilateral referendum, while a majority wants it to negotiate with Madrid. Other recent polls have shown Catalan support for independence to be slightly lower than support for a united Spain.
People march during a demonstration celebrating Catalonia's national day, in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Sandra Montanez/Getty Images
Last week, in a contentious move, the region's pro-independence majority altered the local parliament's schedule to push a law paving the way for the referendum through the chamber. It also approved another Bill laying out the framework for an independent state. The central government responded by appealing against both measures and warning it will take firm legal action to prevent the vote from taking place.
Then on Saturday, the civil guard searched the premises of the publication El Vallenc in the town of Valls for allegedly harbouring electoral material, although nothing was found.
"Today we have once again given an example of civility and democracy, that's six [massive mobilisations] in a row," said Jordi Sànchez, of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), which organises the Diadas, on Monday.
"The seventh will be October 1st," he added. "We know where the voting ballots and slips are, we know where you will find them. You have to go on October 1st to a voting station and you will find them there."
When asked, Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont told reporters that he does not expect to be arrested before the vote. "I'm not afraid because that's not going to happen," he said.
The Socialist mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Núria Marín, reprimanded Mr Puigdemont on Monday for telling Catalans to pressure their political representatives to allow them to vote. "Let's see if you leave us mayors in peace," she told him, when the two met during an official ceremony.
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Changing times bring creativity and collaboration for this new Dublin collective.
Ireland is in a constant flux of transition, and cultural shifts bring endless inspiration. When societies mold, mesh and change, it allows an explosion of coalitions, collaborations, and creativity. As new scenes and influences blend into society, they impact musical journeys.
Meet Word Up Collective – a new platform to promote the urban music scene in Ireland and to change how musicians interact, promote, develop and push themselves onto the Irish and international music scene. They take inspiration from overseas collectives and groups, fellow artists, as well as from immigrant influences on Irish music and society.
With a rock-solid roster of artists, led by music industry heavyweights Phil & Annette Udell, it's clear that Word Up Collective is something uniquely special.
Describing themselves as "a Dublin-based collective of like-minded souls working in hip-hop, spoken word, R&B, rap, pop and related genres" – they believe no man is a musical island. Word Up Collective are heavily influenced by each other – it's a symbiotic up down relationship. There are endless opportunities to learn, collaborate or jump on stage with each other (as can happen at their monumental Bello Bar gigs). What makes Word Up Collective a sustainable success is the marrying of the creative and business elements within the music industry. There are lessons here for the Irish music scene – not just the urban music genre.