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White Evangelicals Discuss Intersection of Faith And Political Leadership
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:
This Easter Sunday, we wanted to take a moment to take stock of one of the largest and most influential groups of Christians in American society, evangelicals.
According to polling by the Pew Research Center, people who identify as evangelical make up about a quarter of the U.S. population. Under President Trump, evangelical leaders say they have unprecedented access to the White House, but the movement's apparent alignment with Trump has caused many Americans, both inside and outside evangelicalism, to scratch their heads and ask how can a group of people known for emphasizing family values back a twice-divorced, sometimes vulgar and racially divisive figure like Trump?
So we've gathered a panel of evangelical leaders with a range of perspectives on this issue. And I should note that, today, we're talking primarily about white evangelicalism. As well discuss, evangelicals are often divided along racial lines in their political views. Joining me in our studios in Washington, D.C., is Johnnie Moore. He has informally served as an evangelical adviser to President Trump.
Thanks for coming in.
JOHNNIE MOORE: Really glad to be here.
MCCAMMON: Karen Swallow Prior is an English professor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and has been critical of President Trump. Welcome.
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR: Thank you.
MCCAMMON: And evangelical activist Shane Claiborne joins us from his home in Philadelphia. Hi there.
SHANE CLAIBORNE: Hey. Great to be with you.
MCCAMMON: You know, a lot of people have asked why evangelicals would tolerate from President Trump some of the same sins that evangelical leaders criticized President Bill Clinton for back in the '90s - for example, the current scandal involving Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump while he was married. Evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr. have defended Trump. His father was a vocal critic of Bill Clinton for many of the same kinds of reasons. How do you square that?
MOORE: You know, I can't speak for everybody else, but I can speak for myself, and I could say in my case, I was never under the illusion that Donald Trump was a saint. I have a set of values that guide me personally. I think evangelicals have a reputation for having certain beliefs on certain things, and we don't believe in a theocracy. We don't believe that our political leaders have to meet the same standards as a pastor of a church. I mean, it's always a type of bargain in the public square. I think the mistake comes when conservative evangelical leaders speak exclusively for issues like religious liberty or their pro-life stance and fail to speak about the broader issues of life. So I just think it's more complex than people want to make it.
MCCAMMON: While we're on that topic, Johnnie Moore, how do you advise the president when issues like - whether it's morality or immigration - you know, potentially fraught issues - when those come up, how do you advise him?
MOORE: Well, I think the key is that we're advising the Trump administration. We're not advising the president of the United States. I mean, this is a government with hundreds and hundreds of employees, you know, within the White House alone. And so, you know, we are mainly committed to privately expressing our concerns and publicly praising the achievements of the administration but not exclusively so. I mean, we were publicly critical of the omnibus spending bill, you know, and the Charlottesville incident. I was on Twitter within moments, you know, condemning bigotry. And I even said the president's press conference - I critiqued it, you know, as being insensitive and the wrong thing at the wrong time. It's just that the nuance of the public discussion, you know, often is sort of lost in the noise of politics in this country.
MCCAMMON: Karen Swallow Prior, you're at Liberty University, of course, a place where the president, Jerry Falwell Jr., is a supporter of Trump. You know, I'm curious. You spend time around millennial and even younger evangelicals. What are their priorities when it comes to interaction with politics and culture?
PRIOR: Sure. I think the students at Liberty University really reflect what's happening with the millennial generation and in general, and that is simply that there is sort of a disillusionment and disengagement from the political process. I think some of that is born of disappointment and from the past election and just distrust of the political process in general. And I see that as probably a healthy counterbalance to the generation that I came up in. I was part of the religious right and part of the culture wars, ethos from a few decades ago where we probably did place too much faith in politics, and we're bearing the fruit of that now. And this is just a counterbalance that I see, and it's healthy and corrective and good.
MCCAMMON: In addition to being more racially diverse, the younger generation, according to the polling I've seen, is, you know, more concerned about issues like social justice, more open to accepting LGBT relationships, for instance, than their parents. How do you think that the church should respond to sort of the differences in priorities that we're seeing from the younger generation?
CLAIBORNE: Well, first of all, I think that it should grieve us that when people hear the word evangelical, they think anti-gay, anti-women, anti-environment, pro-guns, pro-military, pro-death penalty. And we've become known often for what we're against more than what we're for. And Jesus says when you welcome the stranger, you welcome me. When we welcome the immigrant or the refugee, we're welcoming Jesus. And I look at the policies of Donald Trump, and I think that the gospel of Donald Trump looks very different from the gospel of Jesus.
And what has happened, I think, to many evangelicals is they've lifted up Donald Trump above Jesus. I mean, Donald Trump is a symptom of a much bigger disease. And you know, it's been said that Donald Trump did not change America. He just revealed America. And I don't think that Donald Trump has changed evangelicalism, but I do think he's revealed it. And what we are seeing, to me, is very troubling because our Christianity looks very unlike our Christ. And I think young, millennial Christians are seeing that.
MCCAMMON: I hear you all saying that evangelicalism - it's not just about what you think of President Trump. And I hear you there. But at the same time, we are in a moment where President Trump is a divisive figure, and a lot of, I guess, observers of evangelicalism have expressed surprise, and we hear a lot of internal criticism from people within the movement about the alignment with the president.
So I'm curious, for all of you, what does this political moment - what does it mean for the future of the movement? Johnnie Moore?
MOORE: Yeah. I mean, from my perspective, I really think that, you know, the issues are persistent and yet, this current cultural moment doesn't reflect the strength or weakness of the church. It does, however, serve as a reminder of the areas in which the church still has work to do, you know, principally, on issues like racial reconciliation, on advocacy for the poor. It's a huge indictment on the church if evangelicals are perceived as not being compassionate. That's something we have to work on. That has nothing to do with politics. You know, if a church is compassionate in their community and compassion around the world, their reputation transcends all of these things.
MCCAMMON: So where does it - where does all this go? I mean, what does evangelicalism look like in 10, 20 years? We know it looks less white. But what do your churches look like in a decade or two?
PRIOR: Well, I think that this is a moment of revelation for the church, and even more than that, as a moment of refinement. And refinement is hard, and it hurts. Let's not forget that, you know, if 81 percent of people had voted for the other major party candidate, we still would've been exposing hypocrisy of our values because that candidate doesn't represent evangelical values either. So I think that there is much to examine, much soul-searching that is taking place concerning our hypocrisy, our racism, our sexism. It's difficult, but I see a bright future going forward simply because we are grappling with some things that have been hidden for a long time.
MCCAMMON: That was Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Liberty University who joined us via Skype. We also heard from Shane Claiborne, an evangelical activist and Johnnie Moore, an evangelical adviser to President Trump. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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 Rickmers Holding, eine Reederei-Gruppe in Hamburg
 Rickmers-Lloyd, ein Dockbetrieb in Bremerhaven
 Rickmers Reederei, Werft, Reederei und Reismühlen in Bremerhaven
 Rickmers Reismühle, ein Reismühlenunternehmen in Bremen

Rickmers ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Andreas Rickmers (1835–1924), deutscher Werftbesitzer, Reeder und Reiskaufmann
 Bertram Rickmer Clasen Rickmers (* 1952 in Bremerhaven) ist ein deutscher Manager und Reeder
 Erck Rickmers (* 1964), deutscher Reeder und Politiker (SPD)
 Johann Rickmers (1881–1923), deutscher Putschist
 Henry Peter Rickmers (1919–2013), Ehrenbürger von Helgoland
 Paul Rickmers (1873–1946), deutscher Reeder und Werftbesitzer

 Robert Rickmers (1864–1948), deutscher Werftbesitzer, Reeder und Reiskaufmann
 Willi Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965), deutscher Bergsteiger, Skipionier, Forschungsreisender und Sammler
 Wilhelm Rickmers (Willy Rickmers; 1844–1891), deutscher Werftbesitzer, Reeder und Reiskaufmann

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 R. C. Rickmers, deutsche Fünfmastbark
 mehrerer Schiffe namens Maria Rickmers, siehe Liste von Schiffen mit dem Namen Maria Rickmers
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Simple question. Solely from an ignition perspective, a backfire out the inlet manifold is that ignition too advanced or retarded?
I was trying to fire up a 4.6 Thor on starter fluid with Edis in default mode and while the engine is trying to start it is backfiring big time through the inlet manifold. It does not have petrol on it as yet but does have an old style LPG system but before I try to get the engine to run on the LPG I want to make sure it is not going to backfire on me.
I feel that the engine is advanced more than the default 10 degrees and will need to adjust the timing but just seeking advice whether a backfire through the inlet manifold has timing too advanced or retarded.
I'd guess at quite a bit too much advance - did the engine seem to kick back too?
Did you set the trigger wheel and sensor with the engine in the car? I got that rather wrong too first time round. Think I then drew things out so I could check it was at least where it was supposed to be, using the MegaSquirt instructions. And even then, a timing light showed it was a few degrees out.
You probably know this, but EDIS doesn't like a modern posh timing light were you can advance where the flash occurs. I had to get my basic strobe back from my brother. So old it has a direct connection to the plug terminal.
Dave - Thanks for the response. No kickback just a big backfire on the first start and later smaller ones on subsequent starts. Engine was wanting to fire but also farting back out the intake.
This vid was taken last year with the carbs on the engine so running petrol but starting on starting fluid with EDIS in default. The trigger wheel etc has not been touched since this start. The difference this time is the Thor manifold on the engine - ignition is unchanged and petrol not connected. As you can see in the vid starts and ran fine back then.
I need to drive the vehicle a few km to get a gas inspection done and I was hoping it would move under its own power for this on LPG (not injected). If it is backfiring like it is now I am definitely not going to let any LPG near it. If I can get the engine to start and run a second or two on the starting fluid with no backfire I will switch the LPG on and see if the engine will continue running.
Re the timing light - yes I am aware of that issue and have both timing lights. I did put a light on it last year when running on edis in default mode and I got 13BTDC not 10BTDC so I came to the conclusion that my home made timing pointer was out (I had to find TDC via the indicator down the No 1 spark plug etc. I wasn't too worried as I figured I could sort it all out when I MS3 on but that hasn't happened and I have to get this gas inspection done before the end of the month.
I will adjust the trigger wheel sensor tomorrow to take some of the advance out of it and see how we will go.
firing order most likely wrong.
Thanks Steve- yes considered that. I actually got the firing order diagram from Dave and is what is in use in the above video so Dave's diagram that he sent me is correct.
However only two hours ago I rechecked that I had put it in the correct way and it is.
I thought the trigger wheel, EDIS thing was supposed to be straight forward but is not working for me . Hence my other thread about a dizzy timing cover.
Ok - gotta come clean as I found out something yesterday.
I had wired the coils the wrong way around - previously when the engine ran all the wiring was just jury rigged and somehow doing the permanent wiring I got it all wrong. Now it was not that I had plugged in the plugs into the wrong coil, but I had actually sent the wires for the left coil to the right coil and vice versa - the harness to the right coil is a lot longer than the one to the left so I had not just plugged in the wrong plug to the wrong coil - I completely stuffed it up - so late yesterday, I cut the cables and reconnected them the correct way.
Well the engine fired on first start (it will not run on the carbs) but with a dribble of starter fluid going into it I managed to get it to do a reasonable idle for two minutes - so now I know I have reasonable ignition and just need to sort the carbs that have been sitting for 2 years so just might need a clean out - I will see if i can get it to run on the LPG this week before playing with the carbs.
So it has taken a little while but with all your help I have been able solve this little mystery - and cause myself a little embarrassment .
Ultimately this engine will be injected and running on MS3 with no EDIS but what this issue has reminded me is that it is best to deal with one issue at a time.
So the plan is now to leave EDIS as it is and get the engine running on the carbs (where I was 2 years ago). Buy a Megajolt ECU so that when still on carbs I have full ignition control. When I have that I will pull the carbs off and put on a 14CUX injection manifold and get it running on its ECU with Megajolt ignition. Then bring in the MS3 to start on ignition or fuel then both and do away with EDIS - then sell off EDIS, Megajolt, 14CUX ECU etc. I dont want to be sorting fuel or ignition at the same time - it is too stressful.
It's why I tend to buy the correct colour wire when modifying an existing loom. Or alter the schematic to show the wire colours actually used. Easier to alter a drawing than a loom. And after building a new loom, use a continuity tester to make sure everything goes to where it should do.
You make a very valid point though.
No auto wiring supplier? But a loom from a scrap car can be a decent source. I tend to use one from a hotwire Range Rover to supply the wire for an MS one. But the main thing is to have enough colours (of the right wire gauge) to differentiate in any loom. And note down what they are and do.
When I bought wire I could not get wire that matched so I got the closest I could. The reality of living in Aust you have to buy most of your non mainstream parts from overseas.


Noble laureate James Watson who co-discovered the structure of DNA visited the Salk Institute in La Jolla and gave a lecture on oxidants and antioxidants in cancer and diabetes Thursday morning.
James Watson, who earned the Nobel Prize for helping figure out the structure of DNA, said Thursday that sequencing genes isn't proving to be particularly useful in fighting such diseases as cancer and that much of the research being done on the subject is irrelevant.
Watson made the remarks during an interview with U-T San Diego that was conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, where he joked about the intelligence of the Irish and got into a testy public argument about research with University of California San Diego Nobel laureate Roger Tsien.
In 2007, the iconoclastic Watson was forced to resign as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y. after he suggested to a British newspaper that blacks are not as smart as whites.
Watson, 84, visited the Salk to give a public lecture on the roles that oxidants and anti-oxidants might play in cancer and diabetes. The Salk is deeply involved in cancer research, and it has plans to spend millions of dollars on new sequencing machines to better explore how mutant genes contribute to disease. La Jolla has become a major research center, in part, because Watson and Francis Crick resolved the structure of DNA in 1953, opening up genetics and molecular biology. Watson also was the first director of the Human Genome Project.
About five years ago, Watson was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He began to take metformin, a comparatively inexpensive drug that is widely used to treat diabetes. Watson says that metformin could be useful in fighting cancer.
Watson talks with Salk biologist Ron Evans (right) before Thursday's lecture. The man in brown in the second row is Nobel laureate Roger Tsien. To his left is Salk researcher Inder Verma, who is considered to be a potential Nobel winner.
His comments are partly based on the work of Reuben Shaw, a Salk biologist who recently published a widely-noted paper that says phenformin, a derivative of the widely-used diabetes drug metformin, decreased the size of lung tumors in mice and increased the animals' survival.
Watson cited Shaw's work during an hour-long public lecture in which he spoke with certitude while criticizing the work of other scientists. The remarks didn't go over well with UCSD's Tsien, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that greatly advanced science's understanding of how cells work.
Salk biologist Ron Evans stepped in, easing the tension with his own take on exercise research. Watson then brought the lecture to an end with an off-hand remark about the waning days of the late French critic and essayist Marcel Proust.
Watson's sharp remarks weren't limited to cancer research. Early in his talk, he recounted that he had difficulties in the early 1990s with Bernadine Healy, the first woman to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health.
Healy died of brain cancer in 2011. She was 67.
It also can be difficult to tell when Watson is joking. He was asked Thursday what he thinks of the news that the family of the late Francis Crick -- who spent much of his career at the Salk -- intends to auction off his Nobel medal.


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Trump Prepares To Send U.S. Troops To Mexican Border
President Trump announced today that we will guard the southern border with the military until the wall is finished being built. This is in response to a caravan of more than 1,500 illegal immigrants making their way through Mexico to get into the country through Baja, California or Texas. The Lone Star state has already mobilized the National Guard on the border and the President will be ordering they take up residence to cover the entire length of it. California will be ticked and will fight it, no doubt.
At the meeting on Tuesday, Trump said that U.S. immigration laws were being "laughed at" by other countries, promising to change them. "We have immigration laws that are laughed at by everybody," he said. "And it's going to be changed, we need the wall, we need protection and we're going to change our immigration laws at the border and elsewhere." "If it reaches our border, our laws are so weak and so pathetic," Trump said. "It's like we have no border."
"We're going to be doing things militarily until we can have a wall and proper security." Trump said. Trump's comments came as he sat next to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, who was reportedly at the White House for discussions around immigration. However, a defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity had no immediate details as to how many troops would be used, or what authorities they would have. Speaking later in the day, Trump indicated Mattis would be part of an afternoon meeting to figure out how to address the "horrible, horrible, very unsafe laws" for the border with Mexico.
The defense official noted one option could be similar to the 2006-2008 patrols U.S. military personnel conducted under Operation Jump Start. In that operation, President George W. Bush called for up to 6,000 National Guard members to secure parts of the border. Eventually 29,000 military personnel from all over the country were involved in the mission, which had a projected cost of around $1.2 billion.
In 2012, President Barack Obama deployed Army forces from Ft. Bliss to the Tucson, Arizona and El Paso, Texas areas for Operation Nimbus, a joint operation between U.S. Northern Command and Customs and Border Patrol. Per an Army press release at the time, military forces conducted "day and night reconnaissance missions using the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System to detect, recognize, identify and geo-locate possible incursions, which they would then report to Border Patrol agents. Avenger Soldiers, using the Forward Looking Infrared system, and Soldiers monitoring Sentinel radar, also augmented border air incursion detection efforts."
According to a memo obtained by Fox News and discussions with officials, one area where the Pentagon could contribute immediately is the Air Force's Barry Goldwater live-fire range, which shares a 35-mile border with Mexico in southern Arizona. The Defense Department is already offering some support to the border, including U.S. Navy ships patrolling waters to seize drugs as well as missions involving over 100 personnel from U.S. military's northern command — including eight planes and a drone — to help border patrol.
About 80 percent of the caravan are Hondurans and Trump has already warned Mexico to not let then charge our border. Mexico acted as if they would deport them and then let them through as I understand it. President Trump wasted no time in making his announcement today in light of this development. "We are going to be guarding our border with our military. That's a big step," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court." This has never been done before on this scale and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Having military on our border is the right move here, but it's a fine line to tread constitutionally. Trump attacked Mexico via tweets yesterday and today for allowing the group of immigrants to march towards the United States. He has already threatened to scuttle NAFTA over the incursion. I wish he would. That's been a disastrous deal for Americans since the start. He also demanded Congress pass tougher immigration legislation and back his plan for a wall along the Mexican border. All steps in the right direction, unlike signing that monstrous omnibus bill that actually expanded the Catch and Release program.
.@POTUS: "Until we have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military." pic.twitter.com/jccz2f9dqi
Trump has also announced that DACA is now dead and that it is the Democrats fault for playing obstructionist to a deal that he offered. Frankly, I'm glad it died. It should not be allowed. That would give amnesty to at least 1.8 illegal aliens who should not be here.
"As ridiculous as it sounds, the laws of our country do not easily allow us to send those crossing our Southern Border back where they came from. A whole big wasted procedure must take place," Trump tweeted Monday. He's also seeking easier deportation measures to kick illegal aliens out. Again, I wholeheartedly support that. "Mexico & Canada have tough immigration laws, whereas ours are an Obama joke. ACT CONGRESS," the President wrote.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto insisted that despite disagreements over illegal immigration, the NAFTA trade talks should go on. "We have been conducting serious negotiations," he said, according to Agence France-Presse. I disagree. They should be cut off until this is resolved. Hold Mexico's feet to the fire over this. Nieto expressed hope that "this spirit of positivity, mutual respect and cordiality" will continue. No such thing exists as long as they are invading our country.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, are the radicals who have organized the caravan of immigrants. They are doing so they claim to support immigrants who are fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua because of poverty and threats from criminal gangs. They started their trek on March 25th from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The Mexican government has had police stand down to allow them through. Heck, they are even feeding them. By Monday, the caravan had reached the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Mexico's government issued a statement yesterday that describes the caravan as "a public demonstration that seeks to draw attention to the migratory phenomenon and the importance of respecting the rights of Central American migrants." I call them an invading force that want to breach our sovereign borders. Mexico said, however, "it is not the responsibility of this government to exercise immigration decisions of the United States or any other nation."
Towns along the way have been welcoming the immigrants, providing them food and shelter, despite President Trump calling for the Mexican authorities to stop them. They are playing with fire here. Even those helping them don't want them to stay. "The authorities want us to leave their cities," Rodrigo Abeja told Reuters. "They've been helping us, in part to speed the massive group out of their jurisdictions."
In a statement issued March 23rd, Pueblo sin Fronteras stated "Refugee Caravan 2018" is demanding that the U.S. and Mexico "respect our rights as refugees and our right to dignified work to be able to support our families." They are demanding both Mexico and the U.S. "open the borders because we are as much citizens as the people of the countries where we are and/or travel." No, they aren't. The statement begins: "We are a group of people from different nations, religions, genders, gender expressions, and sexual orientations migrating and seeking refuge. We seek to to become one collective, supporting each other shoulder to shoulder and demonstrating that by uniting we can abolish borders." They are an invading force, period and should be treated as such. They also issued a list of demands of Central American countries, including "an end to political corruption" and "an end to violence against women and the LGBTQIA community." Good luck with that.
This is the right thing to do and the Border Patrol should work with the military securing the border. It's a matter of sovereignty, survival and national security.
The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our "Weak Laws" Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2018
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President Trump – Fight Fire with Fire
By: Thomas Wigand | New Zeal
We're coming for your country. All of it. Hand It over! Now!
In the months leading up to the 2016 elections we had waves of "unaccompanied minors" (a/k/a "the children") flamboyantly crossing our borders. They're still here.
Now in the months leading up to the 2018 midterms we have entire "families" flamboyantly approaching the border in "caravans" – organized, aided and abetted by some group calling itself Pueblo Sin Fronteras. Presumably it is another of the AstroTurf groups funded by George Soros et als. (Query why these groups U.S. operations aren't being prosecuted for conspiracy? Paging Attorney General Sessions …Hello? Hello? Is anybody home?)
Keep in mind that this all fits the usual Leftist / Progressive tactic of escalation. This latest wave is a test, and if even only partially successful — even if that initial "success" is only to create a media controversy for the "mainstream media" to gin-up Democrat turnout in November and take the House (if not the Senate too) — more waves will follow. Ever-larger waves. Tidal waves. Tsunamis of illegal aliens engulfing our country.
This first horde approaching the U.S. border is being trained to ask for "asylum" and request "refugee status." In the "catch and release" model – recently expanded by the Ryan-McConnell omnibus bill – they will be released into the United States, without "extreme vetting." Some years from now they'll be summoned to court to process their refugee application. As asylum seekers and "refugees" they become "legal" residents of the United States – able to work (those that choose to) and get "benefits" (welfare).
It seems certain that this is a deliberate effort to reenact the Muslim-into-Europe "refugee" model of storming the borders and demanding (and getting) "refugee" status – forever after to inhabit, culturally occupy and irreparably change the host (targeted) country. And to live off of its welfare teat as this is being accomplished. Barack Hussein Obama's dream from his father of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America" would be accomplish by weaponizing demographics and deliberate hobbling of our immigration laws. Obama and his fellow Progressives ultimately want open borders and mass amnesty — effectively citizenship on demand for anyone who walks across our unsecured borders and thus paving the way for the dissolution of the United States of America in all but name.
Club Gitmo. The walls are already built. Oh, and what beautiful, effective walls they are.
We must nip this in the bud. It's time to fight fire with fire. Invoke our anti-terrorism laws and use our military. Declare that each "undocumented" "migrant" crossing the border has to be processed as a potential terrorist, and treat them accordingly. As these invaders cross the border, with the so-called "mainstream media" tipped-off to exact arrival points and cameras at the ready, the Border Patrol should be instructed to "catch and release" them – right on to C-130's waiting to transport the "refugees" for housing at Gitmo. There we can engage in "extreme vetting" to screen for terrorists that may have infiltrated their ranks … and then to hold all of the rest as they await their court dates some years hence. Once Gitmo is at capacity, tell the U.N. to ship some refugee camp tents to our southern states, and we'll set up barbed wire enclosed "refugee camps" to "extreme vet" them, and then house them until their court hearings some years hence. And the millions of illegal aliens waiting in the wings will be forced to reconsider whether they want to "seek asylum" and "become refugees."
Club Gitmo? Sí, se puede!
Mr. Wigand is the author of Communiqués From the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, which is available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions. Comments or questions for Mr. Wigand may be sent to: [email protected]— he will make every effort to personally respond to every email.
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It Was An Ugly Day
By: Kent Engelke | Capitol Securities
Does history repeat itself? In early 2000, the NASDAQ was making daily highs, led by Microsoft, Cisco and Intel. The 1970s term, led by GE, Nifty Fifty was resurrected, defined as all one has to do is buy and hold fifty stocks and all would become gazillionaries.
The headlines were filled with stories of which company — Cisco or GE — will become the first $750 billion company.
Fast forward to today, of these 50 stocks, about thirty five are no longer around, a vast majority — led by GE — are still down 50% from their apex and only one has rebounded to a new high — Microsoft.
Today the markets are dominated by five companies, five companies that comprised a record 14% of the capitalization of the S & P 500. The S & P 500 technology index was just at a record 25% to 27% of total capitalization of the S & P 500.
All must remember the S & P 500 is a dollar weighted index, defined as companies that have a greater share price that have an outsized impact on the averages. Gains or losses of the various indexes are greatly magnified by the higher priced companies.
Yesterday, for the first time since January 2016, the S & P 500 violated its 200 day moving average. Violations historically occur annually, however to the best of my understanding this is the longest period that this pivotal moving average line was not violated.
How will the markets respond given that according to the SEC, 50% of trades are now done algorithmically and another 40% are done by indexing. By definition, both utilize momentum not security analysis.
In my view, the combination of mega-priced/capitalized issues coupled by speed of light trading where speed — often measured in terms of a millisecond or one millionth of a second — has created a dangerous environment.
Depending upon the index, equities at one time were posting declines in excess of 3% to 4%, but managed to recover some losses to end lower between 1.9% and 2.75%.
The catalysts for the decline were fresh presidential criticism of Amazon, retaliatory tariffs from China and concerns about economic strength and inflationary pressures.
What will happen today?
Last night the foreign markets were down. London was down 0.33%, Paris was down 0.56% and Frankfurt was down 1.07%. China was down 0.84%, Japan was down 0.45% and Hang Sang was up 0.29%.
The Dow should open nominally higher. Will the upcoming earnings season support equities? All popular trades have broken down including the fail-safe momentum trade. The cross-correlated trade ended several months ago. The WSJ wrote Saturday, the proverbial safe haven trade is virtually nonexistent, perhaps the result of structural changes in market mechanics from technology based trading and excessive monetary policy.
The 10-year is off 7/32 to yield 2.77%.
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When you need money to pay your rent, utility bills or get through a difficult time, there are 168 utility payment and rental assistance programs in the Bowie, Maryland area.
Provides food to all Prince George's County Residents who qualify Financial assistance for the residents of the City of Bowie.SERVICES:1) FOOD PANTRY: Gives out non-perishable food items to Prince George's County residents who meet income guidelines. Application form and documents required.2) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: Financial assistance is available to City of Bowie Residents. Priority given to seniors, disabled or families with children. Assistance is one time only in an emergency situation. Available for utilities, mortgage, rent, and water bill assistance.
Eligibility is based on federal low-income guidelines. Financial assistance available only to Bowie residents who meet the qualifications.
Provides emergency food, clothing, financial and holiday assistance. SERVICES: 1) EMERGENCY FOOD: Pantry open Mon-Fri. Can be utilized once every 3 months. Appointment required.2) CLOTHING: Clothing available for the entire family. Can be utilized once every 3 months. Appointment required. May include personal care items. 3) CHILDREN'S/ INFANT SUPPLIES: Offers baby food, formula, diapers, and wipes, and other infant supplies. Call for availability. 4) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: When funds are available, assistance with rent/mortgage, utilities, temporary shelter, prescriptions, and burial expense. Call for appointment. 5) HOLIDAY ASSISTANCE 2011:CLOSEDo THANKSGIVING: Food baskets provided for families with children living in the Waldorf/ White Plains area. Must call 301-645-1561 to sign up. Starting 10/19/2011.o CHRISTMAS: Connection Partner, sign up through local DSS office.o EASTER 2012: Call to sign up for baskets for children up 10, limited number closes 4/1/12.6) SCHOOL SUPPLIES 2012: Offers free school supplies/bookbags to Charles County Public School children, K-12. Call starting 7/17 to register. Must bring ID with current address and child's last report card. Distribution is 8/18. Will take names until list is full.7) DONATIONS: All items accepted, including clothing, shoes, toys, bedding, diapers, wipes, personal care items, school supplies, non-perishable food, house wares, etc. Large furniture may be accepted, donors must call office first to confirm.
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LEGAL: Provides assistance with civil (non-criminal) legal problems. Categories can include:o Family and domestico CINAo Housing problemso Public benefitso Consumer problemso Institutional problemsHelps disadvantaged elderly with problems concerning:o Social Securityo SSIo TDAP o Medicare benefitso Landlord/tenant issueso Utility turn-offso Employment issueso Nursing home problemso Will also provide mortgage foreclosure counseling and representation.
Non-domestic cases: Mon, Tues, Thurs, 2-4PM. Domestic cases: Wed, 2-4PM. Spanish cases: Tue & Thur, 2-4PM. Senior hotline: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, 9:30AM-3PM; Thur, 9:30AM-1PM & 6-8PM.
Helps families become independent of welfare support through work, personal responsibility, and community involvement FIP has a 5-year lifetime limit for benefits Clients are required to participate in work activities for a minimum of 25 hours per week, in exchange for temporary cash assistance, child care, training and emergency assistance.SERVICES:1) EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN (EAFC): Provides emergency cash assistance to families with children It assists with court-ordered evictions, foreclosures, utility cut-offs, security deposits (must be homeless of have been evicted for the last 60 days), and burial assistance (up to $650) and may be used only once in a 24-month period Also available are funds for those who have experienced an official disaster (hurricane, flood or fire). 2) WELFARE AVOIDANCE GRANTS (WAG): Client, at caseworker's suggestion, can receive 3-12 months of cash assistance to avoid need for TCA.3) TEMPORARY CASH ASSISTANCE (TCA): Effective 14 days after application No increase in benefits for birth of another child. Child Specific Benefit will be provided through a 3rd party payee to purchase items for child's needs. NOTE REGARDING SANCTIONS: Non-compliance with program requirements can result in loss of entire cash benefit Cash can be restored upon compliance The family does retain Food Stamps and Medical Assistance during this time.4) WORK ACTIVITIES: Includes job search, unsubsidized or subsidized employment, work experience, on-the-job training and/or community service Education activity for adults must be approved; required for minors with infants Exemption from work activities: adult of child under 1 year of age; teen mother with child less than 12 weeks; severely disabled adult or child (SSI application required).OFFICE LOCATIONS:1) TEMPLE HILLS OFFICE: 4235 28th Avenue, Temple Hills, MD. 20748, 301-316-7700.2) LANDOVER OFFICE: 425 Brightseat Road, Landover, MD 20785. 301-909-6330. (Additional office on Brightseat Rd.)3) BELCREST ROAD OFFICE: 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20783, 301-209-5000.
Families with a minor child and pregnant women are eligible. Must be a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant who resides in Maryland, has applied for Child Support Services and participates in work activity.
Provides housing options to those who qualify.SERVICES:1) PUBLIC HOUSING FOR SENIORS/DISABLED: For persons ages 62 and older and single adults with medically certifiable disabilities which prevent them from sustaining gainful employment. 301-883-5489. 2) DOWNPAYMENT AND CLOSING COST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM:Provides downpayment and closing cost assistance to eligible home buyers. 301-883-5570.3) RENTAL ASSISTANCE (SECTION 8): Issues certificates to low- income families which enable them to locate housing of their choice. Program is not accepting any new applications. 301-883-5572.FEDERAL INCOME LIMITS: 1 person: $49,200 5 persons $75,9002 persons: $56,200 6 persons $81,500 3 persons: $63,250 7 persons $87,150 4 persons: $70,250 8 persons $92,7504) SINGLE AND MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAMS: Provides a variety of housing rehabilitation loan programs for single family homeowners and owners of multiple dwelling properties, which are rented to low-income tenants. 301-883-5570. * Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program Recipient. Reinvested funds into existing programs.
Provides referrals, counseling and financial assistance to residents living in their catchment area.SERVICES:1) INFORMATION & REFERRAL: Provides referral for emergency shelter, childcare and food assistance.2) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: When funds are available can provide financial assistance to prevent an eviction or utility shut-off. Can also assist in purchasing bus/metro token or assisting with medication expenses.3) PASTORAL COUNSELING: Offers pastoral counseling.4) EMPLOYMENT: Provides job counseling and referrals when needed.CUCE is an ecumenical ministry helping those in need. Eighteen area churches make up CUCE and have pooled their resources and have an executive director who works directly with people in crisis on the churches' behalf.	Donations and personal contributions can be made directly or through your local church or service club.
*Crisis Intervention Fund Recipient - - OVERVIEW: Provides Housing Counseling, Financial Services, Food Pantry assistance, First-time Home Buyers Program, Seniors Program and Neighborhood Development (Rehab Homes). - - SERVICES: - 1) HOUSING SERVICES: Counsels applicants on budgeting and money management. Will also intervene with creditors to help applicants restructure their monthly debt repayment. Assists with first month's rent and emergency delinquent rental and mortgage assistance. - - 2) EMERGENCY SERVICES: Provides a 1 time per year emergency rent grant of up to $1000 to those facing a court-ordered eviction (will not assist with subsidized housing). Individuals must provide information in regards to a hardship and proof that their income will be able to sustain them after assistance. Also provides up to 3 days of emergency food, every 90 days to individuals and families, and refers applicants to the Housing Services counseling programs for training in budgeting and debt restructuring. - - 3) COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: Lobbies for legislation to improve services to the poor and remove barriers of economically-based discrimination. Also supports community initiatives that enhance living conditions in the County. - - 4) FOOD PANTRY: Provides non-perishable food items and occasionally offers perishable food. Appointment required. - - 5) SENIOR PROGRAM: Provides activities for seniors. - - 6) FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS PROGRAM: Provides home ownership education for first time home buyers. - - 7) NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: Assists in stabilizing communities that suffer from foreclosures, abandonment and vacant homes. Provides green, affordable, healthy energy-efficient homes for low-to-moderate income homeowners. - - 8) SHEPHERD'S COVE EMERGENCY SHELTER: Provides Emergency Shelter for women and children in Prince George's County, Maryland. The 100–bed emergency facility is a clean, safe and supportive environment operated by caring professionals. Individuals interested in gaining admittance in the shelter must contact the Prince George's County Homeless Hotline at 1-888-731-0999. Shelter residents will be eligible for three balanced and nutritious meals every day, free fully–equipped day care (for children 6 weeks – 5 years old), after–school program (for children 5 – 12 year old), permanent & transitional housing assistance, education & employment services, transportation assistance, assistance with medical needs and substance abuse support.
Eligibility requirements for specific programs vary based on funding. Emergency Services are extremely limited and only open to individuals who are currently employed, clients must call for complete eligibility requirements.
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Label of the month: Life and Death
Big hooks, big hits: The Italian imprint isn't as big as Hot Creations, Visionquest or Crosstown Rebels...yet. RA's Todd L. Burns explains.
Tale of Us are late for our meeting. They are also 23 hours early. Earlier this month, I received a panicked phone call about a lunch meeting from Matteo Milleri: "We're on our way! Sorry!" Having just finished my lunch and knowing that we were due to meet the next day, I wasn't sure what to do. "OK! See you in a bit..." It was only after having finished my second lunch of the day that they seemed to figure it out. "Hey...wait a second. Is today Wednesday?!"
You can't blame Milleri or Carmine Conte, the duo who make up one of the hottest house music groups of recent vintage. They've had a meteoric rise over the past 18 months. Their debut EP on Visionquest remains the only original release to their name, but alongside their ubiquitous remix of Thugfucker's "Disco Gnome" it's been enough to earn them a punishing gig schedule. Like many in their position, they haven't turned down many offers in the early going—eager to showcase what they can do so that fans will be even more interested in what happens next. But it comes at a price. Like knowing what day it is when you return home to Berlin. Or finishing up their long-gestating full-length.
"Yeah..." Matteo starts, trailing off. "We're almost there."
Almost?
"70%. We're going to be taking some time off soon to finish it up."
Time. It's the one thing that Tale of Us and the rest of the crew behind the label that they run, Life and Death, simply don't have these days. Ever since that remix of "Disco Gnome," it's been a bit of a whirlwind. It's only now—nearly two years later—that things seem to be coalescing again, and the next phase will begin.
"We want to be a bit like Warp I guess," explains DJ Tennis, AKA Manfredi Romano, one of the brains behind the imprint. At the end of a long brunch, we've finally gotten to the heart of where he wants to take the label. "Warp" is shorthand for an electronic music label that isn't necessarily tied to the dance floor. Or even electronic music for that matter. As Romano explains it, the label is moving slowly toward a place where electronic and pop are indistinguishable from one another—and the imprint has a few bands on the rosters as well.
Although Warp is a good reference point for Romano's vision for the label, a more accurate one might be Kompakt—an imprint whose approach and sound quite closely resembles Life and Death. (Milleri counts Kompakt as one of his all-time favorites, citing the fact that Tale of Us took their name from a Supermayer song.) All of the six releases on Life and Death so far could have easily appeared on the Cologne imprint's Kompakt Pop sub-label. It's a catalogue full of big, warm synthesizers and—in most cases—even bigger vocal hooks. It comes as no surprise, then, to see that Kompakt not only distributes the label, but also recently tapped DJ Tennis for a single.
Support, however, has come from all sides. And that's no doubt partly down to Romano's day job as a booking agent in Italy for a host of acts. He's a guy who has his hand (and ears) in a lot of different scenes. Growing up, though, he was first attracted to punk and hardcore. Black Flag, DOA and fIREHOSE were some of the bands he was seeing when he first starting going out, and he's always maintained a hugely open-minded outlook when it comes to music in general.
As a result, he's become somewhat of a musical mentor to Tale of Us. "He introduced us to Boards of Canada," remembers Milleri, "and it was like whoaaa..." The wealth of influences that Romano and Thugfucker—Greg Oreck and Holmar Filipsson, also electronic music vets—have clearly informs the music that they're picking out for the imprint. When asked what drew Romano to Tale of Us, he says it's the music (of course) but also the sensibility. "They are really young.... But you can hear in the way that they pick tracks and the way that they produce this US post-hardcore/post-punk stuff to Ninja Tune '90s trip-hop stuff to very psychedelic '70s things. They just have fun playing with sounds."
You'd be forgiven for suspicions about the direct impact of post-hardcore on Tale of Us' sound, but listen again to their RA podcast and you'll hear an unmistakable guitar loop from Fugazi's "Sweet and Low," enhanced with what is credited as live keyboards from "Life and Death." Similarly, you get the sense that when the label goes far afield to commission a remix—Photek and Larry Heard have thus far appeared, with more promised—it's not just "the name" that they're after. It's also a genuine interest in broadening what "Life and Death" can sound like.
This issue is something that both Tale of Us and Romano are keenly aware of. The word hype gets thrown around by Milleri with surprising frequency, and he's eager to prove that they will remain relevant after clubbers stop requesting they play their remix of "Disco Gnome." Something that will go a long way towards establishing their distinct identity will be their imprint's first full-length, an as yet untitled work by Clockwork due later this year. It's wide-ranging in the ways that you'd expect. One of the highlights—"Running Searching"—features a future garage beat underpinning a synth line reminiscent of the Junior Boys, and a majority of the tracks favor breakbeats rather than the 4/4 house that they've released thus far. It's a melancholy affair, but it's one that will no doubt go down well in headphones—something that both Clockwork and Life and Death seem intent on focusing on now and for the foreseeable future.
Tale Of Us are unsure if their eventual album will end up on the imprint. It may come to pass, after all, that a bigger label might want to sign them. (And who could blame them if R&S or Kompakt came calling?) Whether or not it comes out on Life and Death is a bit immaterial to what the label is aiming for it seems, though. Not exactly the "family affair" that many labels tend to build in their early days, they're keen to bring in good music—wherever it comes from. A various artist EP due to be released soon will see Christian Löffler, Ryan Crosson and Roland Appel (among others) make their label debut. So will a lot of others, if all goes according to plan. And, above all, if they can find the time.
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Playing favourites: Peter Van Hoesen
Todd L. Burns kills an afternoon flipping through the Belgian techno artist's record collection.
Breaking through: Ryan Hemsworth
The Canadian hip-hop producer is experimenting with emotional samples and melodies to stunning effect.
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Label Of The Month: Analogue Attic
Andy Webb meets the founders of a label specialising in uniquely Australian electronic music.
Label of the month: Rephlex
We go deep on Grant Wilson-Claridge and Richard D. James's trailblazing record label.
Label of the month: Kimochi
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Label of the month: Sähkö
We tell the story of the Finnish outlet with one of the most distinctive discographies in electronic music.
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Holly Dicker goes deep on the label that put Holland's techno scene on the map.
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Malloy launches express job-growth program with South Windsor company
South Windsor — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used one of the new job creation tools Wednesday that state lawmakers authorized during last fall's special session, tapping a South Windsor company to launch the new Small Business Express Program.
Oxford Performance Materials, which is expected to be the first of dozens of firms to receive assistance within 30 days of appealing to the administration for help, is to use $300,000 in state funds to add 12 jobs and expand its production of skeletal replacement parts using advanced polymers.
Gov. Dannel Malloy and Catherine Smith
Malloy, who announced the award at the company's headquarters on South Satellite Road, said state agencies were breaking new ground with the express program. "They're learning a new way of doing business," he said, adding that when it comes to responding to business requests for help, "that means getting to 'yes' in record time."
"Small businesses are critical to re-inventing Connecticut," the governor said. "Little by little, we must harness the can-do attitude of our state's small companies so that their success will spur our state's recovery."
To help spur that recovery, Malloy and legislators from both parties launched several initiatives last October, including borrowing $100 million to fund the express program, which is designed to provide aid to companies within a month of first contact to help grow jobs.
Oxford will receive a $200,000 loan, repayable over five years with an annual interest rate of 2.5 percent, as well as a $100,000 grant that doesn't have to be repaid. The company has agreed to double its work force and move forward with plans for a $1.8 million expansion.
"This project is critical to our success and has resulted in immediate hirings," Oxford President Scott DeFelice said.
Catherine Smith, Malloy's commissioner of economic and community development, said her office has received about 200 requests for express program aid to date. The $100 million in bonding authorized for the program is supposed to be divided evenly, with $50 million allocated this fiscal year and the remainder in 2012-13.
Smith said if express proves extremely successful, the department has authority to replenish the program with funds from the existing Manufacturing Assistance Act program. Smith didn't indicate Wednesday how much might be drawn from that program.
"Right now we're trying to help as many companies as we can," she said. "Tell your friends and family, we are here to help."
Malloy said that while the program was designed to provide assistance in quick fashion, that doesn't mean state investments will be made recklessly. "It is an expedited review, but it is a review nonetheless," he said.
Sen. Gary D. LeBeau, D-East Hartford, co-chairman of the legislature's Commerce Committee, praised the administration for launching the express program with the South Windsor company. Though it lies within LeBeau's district, the East Hartford lawmaker also noted that it typifies the cutting-edge business that state economic development programs ignored too often under prior administrations.
"This is a great example of the new technologies we're talking about," he said. "This is the future."


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He competed for Israel at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, at the age of 25, in Shooting--Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres, and came in tied for 29th, in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, and came in 43rd, and in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, and came in tied for 51st.
He competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, at the age of 21, in Shooting--Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres, and came in 8th (his 582 score was 5 points behind the bronze medalist, and established a new Israeli national record by 10 points), in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, and came in tied for 39th, and in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, and came in tied for 49th. He competed alongside his teacher, Yair Davidovitz.
He won at least one of the three shooting categories in the Israeli shooting championship every year from 1977 through 1991.
Yitzhak Yonassi (also "Itzhak" and "Itzchak"; יצחק יונסי; born October 18, 1962) is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter.
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ISIS Khorasan has seized control of several key provinces in Afghanistan and crowned a new emir. The new regime is poised to wrestle control of the nation from the NATO-established government and is more brutal and deadly than the Taliban and Al-Qaeda had ever been. A covert intelligence gathering unit has infiltrated the landscape and cultivated a network of spies from within Khorasan's network.
Meanwhile ISIS looks to enact massive brutality over the Afghan government and its American overlords. As the body count rises, Damien and his team are in a race to find the emir and end his new reign of terror. Little do the Afghans know that the team, select members of Joint Special Operations command, and other shadowy units are operating covertly in their neighborhoods, trying to stop ISIS Khorasan's influence from spreading like wildfire into Kabul and the northern provinces.
Failed State takes readers from the domesticity of the United States and the chaos of Afghanistan to the glamor of Dubai and the terrorist networks of Turkey and Germany. Readers will bond with Damien and his colleagues and feel the full impact of America's war on terror, both at home and abroad, with every page.
The author takes you inside the world of the Joint Special Operations Command's mission and the use of integrated contract assets to fight the war on terror. The pace and his depictions of the people, targets, and missions are as real as it gets.
One of the most exhilarating, on-the-edge-of-your-seat books of the year. Andrew puts you right in the operator's boots.


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Martin Gugino at a Witness Against Torture protest. (WAT)
The world needs more 'agitators' like Buffalo protester Martin Gugino
While Trump lies about the 75-year-old man police shoved to the ground, Martin's friends know him as gentle, principled and undaunted in his belief in nonviolent resistance.
Jeremy Varon	June 9, 2020
This story was first published by Witness Against Torture.
I too reacted with horror at seeing the video of a 75-year-old man bleeding from the head after being shoved to the ground by Buffalo police. My stomach turned tighter when I realized, "Wait, I know that guy." And now the president has tweeted about him, spinning the grotesque falsehood that his fall and terrible injury were somehow a set up.
The man is Martin Gugino. For years we worked together in Witness Against Torture, a close-knit group dedicated to closing the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo and opposing torture. Our community is beside itself.
None of us is surprised that it was Martin meeting the police line in a posture of nonviolence. Martin is gentle, principled and undaunted. Allied with the Catholic Worker tradition, he is also deeply committed to a tapestry of causes, from fair housing to immigrant rights. Guiding his activism is belief in the sacred power of nonviolent resistance to injustice. If that makes him an "agitator," as Buffalo's police chief slandered him, then the world needs more agitators.
The video of Martin is already part of the iconography of our times, in which every disturbing visual seems a metaphor for something bigger. Eulogizing George Floyd, Rev. Al Sharpton used the image of the policeman's knee on his neck as a symbol for centuries of anti-black oppression.
Each video clip of police brutalizing protesters points to a much larger system of law enforcement abuse, endemic in communities of color. I saw in my friend's vulnerability and the scene surrounding him other meanings as well, useful for understanding our troubled society.
A galling aspect of the video is how rows of officers strut indifferently past an aged man lying still and wounded, as if dead. It made me think of the tens of thousands of elder Americans needlessly lost to COVID-19 and the callous disregard shown them by the Trump administration. Its catastrophic response to the virus has entailed the seemingly willful sacrifice of our seniors to Trump's strongman fantasy of a virile nation. Shove the old, decrepit people out of the way. Step over them. Don't help them. They were going to die anyway.
COVID-19 is as also an infuriating story of race, with black people far more likely to die from the virus than whites. The death of black seniors — often in poorer health and homed in under-resourced facilities — feeds that disproportion.
The shared root of the twin crisis of COVID-19 and racism is the stunning disposability of certain lives in America, no matter its capacities and ideals. The difficult lesson of the current protest movement is to think about that failure in a new way. The police have not lapsed in their mission to serve and protect. For many communities, the police are built to dominate and abuse. Our health care system has not failed to keep us healthy. It is designed to keep only some of us healthy, while lining corporate pockets.
Martin's abuse signals as well the perverse priorities of our current government. Among the state's solemn obligations is to protect the lives and well-being of its people. So too, it must protect the nation's ideals. For America, the true meaning of "national security" must be the defense of life and liberty. And yet, rather than tirelessly working to mitigate the virus and safeguard our freedoms, the Trump administration has declared the urgent need to rid public space of the people exercising basic rights. Like in Buffalo, police departments have gotten the message.
My last thoughts about the video are linked to the anti-torture activism Martin and I shared. In his eulogy for George Floyd, attorney Benjamin Crump named what was done to him as "torture." It was a striking description I had not heard before. Floyd's lynching needs no added indignity to stir our outrage. But torture has a special sting, both because of its willful cruelty and its supposed alienness to America.
For years, we in Witness Against Torture vigorously protested what was in fact America's systematic use of torture after 9/11. Like other human rights groups, we wanted the detained men to be subjects before the law, with basic protections and access to U.S. courts. In our work, we did not think much about race.
Yet Black Lives Matter and other activists impressed on us an uncomfortable truth: that many of the abuses in War on Terror prisons, like solitary confinement, are routine in America's domestic prisons, holding predominantly people of color. Access to the law, moreover, is no guarantee of justice. Sometimes the law is the problem.
We began to see torture as part of a continuum of state violence, including in its racial aspect. Almost exclusively, the victims of post-9/11 torture have been brown-skinned Muslim men, demonized with the label "terrorist." Despite the innocence of most of the men historically held at Guantanamo, the law has been all but useless in freeing them. No one responsible for their torture has been held to legal account, including during the Obama administration. Going forward, our group sought to highlight the parallels between domestic and overseas abuses in a vast system of dehumanizing violence.
Dismantling anti-black racism is today's urgent priority. But abuses of power crave synergies, making other causes relevant. Recall that President Trump is an avowed supporter of torture. His former lawyer John Dowd wrote a bizarre letter, tweeted out by Trump, describing the peaceful protesters cleared from Lafayette Park as "terrorists." Trump's own tweet branding Martin as a member of antifa is of a piece with this nonsense that uses baseless fears to justify repression.
Such rhetoric makes an enemy of the American people, threatening to sic on them the tactics of the War on Terror. It seems, as yet, more a sign of desperation than strength — like heavily armored police pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground and the president lying about it. Martin will get up, God-willing, and be back on the streets. The more of us who are there, the more pitifully desperate and disarmed those opposing the tides of change will become.
Jeremy Varon
Jeremy Varon is an organizer with Witness Against Torture and a professor of history at The New School.
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This story was first published by Witness Against Torture.

I too reacted with horror at seeing the video of a 75-year-old man bleeding from the head after being shoved to the ground by Buffalo police. My stomach turned tighter when I realized, "Wait, I know that guy.” And now the president has tweeted about him, spinning the grotesque falsehood that his fall and terrible injury were somehow a set up.

The man is Martin Gugino. For years we worked together in Witness Against Torture, a close-knit group dedicated to closing the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo and opposing torture. Our community is beside itself.

None of us is surprised that it was Martin meeting the police line in a posture of nonviolence. Martin is gentle, principled and undaunted. Allied with the Catholic Worker tradition, he is also deeply committed to a tapestry of causes, from fair housing to immigrant rights. Guiding his activism is belief in the sacred power of nonviolent resistance to injustice. If that makes him an "agitator," as Buffalo's police chief slandered him, then the world needs more agitators.

The video of Martin is already part of the iconography of our times, in which every disturbing visual seems a metaphor for something bigger. Eulogizing George Floyd, Rev. Al Sharpton used the image of the policeman's knee on his neck as a symbol for centuries of anti-black oppression.

Each video clip of police brutalizing protesters points to a much larger system of law enforcement abuse, endemic in communities of color. I saw in my friend's vulnerability and the scene surrounding him other meanings as well, useful for understanding our troubled society.

A galling aspect of the video is how rows of officers strut indifferently past an aged man lying still and wounded, as if dead. It made me think of the tens of thousands of elder Americans needlessly lost to COVID-19 and the callous disregard shown them by the Trump administration. Its catastrophic response to the virus has entailed the seemingly willful sacrifice of our seniors to Trump's strongman fantasy of a virile nation. Shove the old, decrepit people out of the way. Step over them. Don't help them. They were going to die anyway.

COVID-19 is as also an infuriating story of race, with black people far more likely to die from the virus than whites. The death of black seniors — often in poorer health and homed in under-resourced facilities — feeds that disproportion.

The shared root of the twin crisis of COVID-19 and racism is the stunning disposability of certain lives in America, no matter its capacities and ideals. The difficult lesson of the current protest movement is to think about that failure in a new way. The police have not lapsed in their mission to serve and protect. For many communities, the police are built to dominate and abuse. Our health care system has not failed to keep us healthy. It is designed to keep only some of us healthy, while lining corporate pockets.

Martin's abuse signals as well the perverse priorities of our current government. Among the state's solemn obligations is to protect the lives and well-being of its people.  So too, it must protect the nation's ideals. For America, the true meaning of "national security" must be the defense of life and liberty. And yet, rather than tirelessly working to mitigate the virus and safeguard our freedoms, the Trump administration has declared the urgent need to rid public space of the people exercising basic rights. Like in Buffalo, police departments have gotten the message.

My last thoughts about the video are linked to the anti-torture activism Martin and I shared. In his eulogy for George Floyd, attorney Benjamin Crump named what was done to him as "torture." It was a striking description I had not heard before. Floyd's lynching needs no added indignity to stir our outrage. But torture has a special sting, both because of its willful cruelty and its supposed alienness to America.

For years, we in Witness Against Torture vigorously protested what was in fact America's systematic use of torture after 9/11. Like other human rights groups, we wanted the detained men to be subjects before the law, with basic protections and access to U.S. courts. In our work, we did not think much about race.

Yet Black Lives Matter and other activists impressed on us an uncomfortable truth: that many of the abuses in War on Terror prisons, like solitary confinement, are routine in America's domestic prisons, holding predominantly people of color. Access to the law, moreover, is no guarantee of justice. Sometimes the law is the problem.

We began to see torture as part of a continuum of state violence, including in its racial aspect. Almost exclusively, the victims of post-9/11 torture have been brown-skinned Muslim men, demonized with the label "terrorist." Despite the innocence of most of the men historically held at Guantanamo, the law has been all but useless in freeing them. No one responsible for their torture has been held to legal account, including during the Obama administration. Going forward, our group sought to highlight the parallels between domestic and overseas abuses in a vast system of dehumanizing violence.

Dismantling anti-black racism is today's urgent priority. But abuses of power crave synergies, making other causes relevant. Recall that President Trump is an avowed supporter of torture. His former lawyer John Dowd wrote a bizarre letter, tweeted out by Trump, describing the peaceful protesters cleared from Lafayette Park as "terrorists." Trump's own tweet branding Martin as a member of antifa is of a piece with this nonsense that uses baseless fears to justify repression.

Such rhetoric makes an enemy of the American people, threatening to sic on them the tactics of the War on Terror. It seems, as yet, more a sign of desperation than strength — like heavily armored police pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground and the president lying about it. Martin will get up, God-willing, and be back on the streets. The more of us who are there, the more pitifully desperate and disarmed those opposing the tides of change will become.


Friday 26th September The Morning Show with Declan Meehan 10- 11am Declan was joined in studio to celebrate 20 years of broadcasting with East Coast fm with Journalist Barbara Scully and Former Rugby International Shane Byrne, Producer Claire Darmody and News Editor Garth Farrell. We were also joined in studio to celebrate with Paddy Cole and Mary Coughlan. 11- midday We were also joined in studio by Luan Parle ahead of her gig in Conary tonight and Broadcasters David Harvey, Robbie Irwin, Aidan Cooney and Ian Dempsey also all dropped in to talk about working with Declan over the last 40 plus years. Irish Times Wine Correspondent John Wilson dropped in with some champagne to taste.


We are the Gloucester and District Christian Choir!
We are an ecumenical christian choir with members drawn from many different churches and denominations in Gloucester and the surrounding areas. We are not a classical choir – we sing all kinds of modern songs and music, all with an underlying Christian message.
Have you ever thought about joining a choir? Have you ever been told you cannot sing but you would love to have a go?
Come and and meet us and find out if we are what you are looking for. There are no auditions and it is ok if you do not read music – just turn up any Monday night and join in. You will be made very welcome.
The choir practises on Monday nights from 7.45 to 9.30 pm (except for Bank Holidays or when we are at a performance) at St Marys Congregational Church; which can be found on the corner of Pitt Street and Archdeacon Street.
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While PES have been championed as being more effective than earlier people-oriented strategies in balancing both conservation and human development needs, its current practice has been criticised for lacking empirical studies to evaluate its effectiveness. This study evaluates PES implementation in a village in Paraguay by using a statistical model to examine the effects of various factors, in addition to PES, on the land area used for agriculture.
To ascertain agricultural land use change since the implementation of PES, the agricultural land area per household will be determined by analysing Landsat images at two points in time: 1) just prior to PES implementation in 2009 and 2) 5th year of PES implementation in 2014. Agriculture land area change per household will then be used as the response variable in the construction of a linear model, which will test the following factors for any possible effects on agricultural land area change: amount of PES received, type of technical assistance received, no. of people per household, mean age per household and aspiration indicator. The aspiration indicator reflects household desire to improve material standard of living and will be generated by a questionnaire with a Likert response format. Information regarding the other factors will be obtained either from records kept by PES managers and/or interviews with households.
This study is still ongoing and is expected to finish in July this year. The linear model will show whether PES amount significantly affects agricultural land area change and also whether other factors have any significant effects too.
This study will contribute empirical data to the debate on whether PES alone is sufficient to modify human behaviour to achieve conservation outcomes. It will suggest whether current PES implementation in the village should be retained, supplemented or replaced with other intervention measures in order to halt forest clearance for agriculture.


The Global and Local Matrixes within Cinema 4D can be both lifesavers and death eaters at the same time. A recent project forced me to learn more about them, and I thought I'd pass along some of that knowledge to you.
The first thing I discovered was that you can can convert a Normal Vector into a matrix by use of the Vector2Matrix xpresso node found within the xpresso nodelist under New Node –> Xpresso –> Calculate. Robert Leger has a fantastic guide on the node, which you can find here.
But a problem quickly arose: when I set this new matrix as the Global Matrix of an object, the object locked itself to the origin of my scene (position 0,0,0).
After spending many hours consulting the C4D Python help guide and experimenting on my own, I figured out both the cause of the problem and a method of fixing it.
In Cinema 4D, a matrix is composed of three vectors named V1, V2, and V3. When used as a Global or Local Matrix, these three vectors contain the rotation and scale values associated with the object. In addition, every Global and Local Matrix contains a fourth Vector called 'Offset' (abbreviated as 'off'); this Vector contains the position values of the object.
Therefore, if one converts a normal vector to a matrix, and wishes to use said matrix as the global matrix, the Offset Vector needs to be changed.
To accomplish this task, I created the Matrix Splice xpresso node.
The node is very easy to use: first, feed your current matrix to the 'Matrix' input of the node, then feed the Global Position value you'd like to splice into the matrix into the 'Position' input. Your new and improved Matrix can be accessed from the "New Matrix" output tab.
To install on OS X, drop the XMA file into the following location: User –> Library –> Preferences –> MAXON –> Cinema 4D [Your Version] –> Library –> xgroup.
Once it's placed in that folder, you can access the node within your Xpresso Editor window by clicking on File (the 'File' button in your Xpresso window, not the 'File" button located at the top left of your monitor) –> Load X-group.
If you have any trouble with it, let me know.


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RULES and QUALIFICATIONS for ARTISTA nueva del AÑO
All nominations are being verified and tabulated.
Top nominees in each category will be announced when all nominations are verified and tabulated.
Voting for this category will be open to all Tejano Music fans.
RULES and QUALIFICATIONS
These are the Rules and Qualifications for La Segunda Entrega de Los Premios Tejano Mundial 2022 for ARTISTA NUEVA del AÑO :
The Artist first release MUST be between January 1 2021 and December 31 2021
The following will disqualify the Artist in this category:
* An Artist who has previously won or has been nominated for New Artist;
* An Artist with more than one Album released; and
* An Artist who was a lead vocalist for a group and left to start his/her own group.
Most importantly… this is an equal opportunity award.
There will be only ONE New Artist of The Year.
That's it! We'll see you February 20 2022 for
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In this session, you will discover how the undervaluing of L&D has led to a crisis in confidence. You will learn strategies for combating the skepticism around the validity of the work L&D does at your organization. You will learn about the link between this devaluation and the prevalence of impostor syndrome within L&D, and you'll discover how self-doubt may be impacting your ability to earn a seat at the table. Whether you are experienced or new to L&D, you will benefit from this session providing science-backed evidence and techniques that will enable you to address skepticism, manage self-doubt, and become a stronger business advisor.


It looks like Google are taking a serious look at how fast websites perform. There has been a lot of website chatter about whether Google are going to use website speed as one of the factors that can affect your ranking in the search engines.
It's not clear at the moment whether Google are going to use speed as a ranking factor, but it still makes sense to ensure your site is quick. Users just don't have the patience to hang around while your beautiful webpage loads. And your competitors are just a click away if your site has a poor user experience, such as slow loading pages.
With that in mind, here are some tips to get your site whizzing along.
1) Images – Ensure that your images are optimized for the web. This is quick and easy to do if you have a software package such as Photoshop or Fireworks. Images can be shrunk in size with very little loss of quality.
2) Use a Quality Webhost – Choosing a free or 'budget' host for your website can be a false economy. As they try to cut corners, the responsiveness of your website could suffer. Also try to steer clear of shared hosting where your site can be slowed to a halt if another website on your server gets lots of traffic.
3) Use External CSS Files – using CSS can greatly reduce the amount of code that needs to be written for the page to display. It also means that the user's browser can cache the styles used in the page instead of having to read every tag used for formatting. On the flip side, do not use lots of separate css files. Using more files increases the number of HTTP requests needed to load a page which can increase loading time.
4) Web Server Modifications – If you're technically minded or have a good webmaster, you can use some server side modifications to speed up your site. For instance if you're on an Apache server (the most popular type), you can use mod_deflate to compress files prior to delivering them to the client's browser. This is particularly useful for high traffic sites, as your bandwidth can also be reduced.
5) Use Image Sprites – Instead of creating lots of separate images for commonly used parts of your design (like menu backgrounds and icons) place them all in one file and use CSS to only show the relevant part of the image. This reduces the number of HTTP requests and means your page can be displayed much sooner.
6) Use CSS Page Layout – There has been a long standing argument in web design circles about the relative benefits of CSS and table based layouts. There has been a movement away from table based layouts to CSS over the last few years. One of the benefits is that CSS is quicker to load. This is especially important if you have a complicated layout with nested tables – these can be frustratingly slow for users.
7) Testing – You can use a free Firefox plugin called Page Speed from Google to test specific pages on your site and get detailed advice on how you can improve page load times. You will need to have the free plugin Firebug installed as well.