Last Sunday during the Gathering we talked about self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is important to being faithful, especially if you feel that you are unworthy of love. Everyone is worthy of love, and everyone whom God has called has a place at the table. Unfortunately, as we identified, the church does not always pass on that message; often, people are told that they're not worthy because of who they are. This led me to make the point that often when the church points its finger at someone, it says far more about itself and its own insecurities, then is does about the other person or you.
I reiterate that point, because this Sunday we are celebrating the World Communion Sunday on both services, and I think that is a very important place to start. One of the things I learned from reading through the materials I received at the Multicultural Institute was how quick we are to discount people who are not part of the majority, or do not speak loudly. Anyone who has studied sociology understands that the dominant voice often shapes culture.
The problem is that at times the dominant culture does not always have the best answers or ways of operating. One needs to look no further back than the tyrannous leaders who have plagued the news over the past 40 years, probably more, but . . . Sadly, often when the dominant culture is forced upon minority cultures, important aspects of wisdom are lost.
This was seen early in the history of American Colonialization, as the White European communities settled, and often pushed out the indigenous people. Initially the colonies did not listen and also did not make it through the winter, later they worked with the indigenous people, and survived the winter. Unfortunately, the prevailing wisdom began to see that there was a threat hidden within the strange indigenous people, and the colonizers spent the next few centuries working to destroy and defeat the indigenous peoples.
This is the history of colonialization, not just in America, and Christianity played a big part, with the stories of converting the heathens or pagan peoples. While it did convert some, much was lost. But what also was lost were some unique understandings of God and nature, many which we suffer from today.
After graduating from high school, I spent the summer in mission on a reservation in South Dakota. There I was blessed to work with Sid Byrd, a Dakota man by tribe, Presbyterian Pastor, but grew up on a Lakota reservation and sent to an "Indian" school where they tried to teach out the "Indian" ways. As Sid describes this you could see the pain, and for the first time I understood how easy it is for people to discount or abuse their power.
In a conversation once he said that the lore told them that the people who were here knew that someday others would come, but never knew if they would come with a handshake or a gun. They came with a gun. Granted. he said it more eloquently than I just stated, but he went on to say that because people had come with the Gun, we lost so much. He then went on to talk about how poorly the Europeans had treated the land, dividing it up, taking ownership, abusing it. He said that because we did not learn the land we are going to lose it, not to invaders, but to its abuse. It has been fascinating for me to see the prophesy in his words. But it also makes me think of how different our environmental situation would be if early on we had listened to those who were here before us, and followed their insights?
This Sunday at the Gathering we are going to think about how we listen to each other. I am hoping that we can share our insights about God for our different cultures, and even bring in readings that help each of us understand our perspectives better.
I bike the same roads nearly every day, but I am always fascinated by how different each ride can be. Some days it is easy, other days it is hard; usually that has to do with how well I slept the night before! Some days I am floored by how courteous the drivers are and others, well, you can guess where I am going with that! Interestingly, each time I ride I tend to notice one thing new, something I had not seen before or a realization of something that I had never thought of; sometimes I even get that thought that seems to bring understanding to things that I have been struggling with.
For me, this tends to be true of being active. Many years ago when I was swimming every day, the guy who I always ended up sharing my lane with would often comment: "so you were working on your sermon again?" He told me he could tell by the way I was swimming that my mind was elsewhere. And we would laugh, and I would let him know that when I am moving, thoughts seem to come to me. He said, "that makes sense; when you exercise you are keeping all of the things that distract you busy so your mind can relax and work." I later found out he was a psychiatrist!
I cannot tell you the number of times people have come to me asking for help clarifying who God is. My comment back is usually a pastoralized version of, if you're searching for God, you're never going to find him. I know it sounds like dating advice. But think about it, outside of "spiritual conferences" and things like that, when we try and go out of our way to find God, we often get frustrated because the signs we are looking for often are not there. Even at the Spiritual Conference, the "awakening" that happens over time often becomes fleeting.
A friend of mine once called these conferences "the Christian version of Drugs" they give you a high, so high you pursue it over and over, often not achieving that high again. Granted, there was not negativity or moral disapproval to that analogy, but there was the danger that when we pursue God, often the God we are chasing is the God we like, not necessarily the God we do not. Therein lies the problem. God is bigger than anything, and often when we look for God in myopic ways or in ways which are comfortable for only ourselves, we are blinded from seeing God because mostly we are seeing ourselves.
The Bible is very interesting when it comes to God. And when we read the Bible, we tend to pick up on God based on our own constructs. If you want to refute God, you could read into him that he is a mean, even evil, being out for vengeance. You could also equally read the Pollyannaish version that God is Love. Both versions do not hold up to either the biblical witness or the contemporary witness of God. God may show us love, but God is much more than just love. God can be vengeful, but often that is because of things we have done to ourselves.
The thing is that anytime we try and categorize or limit God into something that works for us, often it gets harder to see God. I know that is hard to believe, but think of it like a lost set of keys. When you are searching for them, the more intensely you search, often the harder they are to find. This is often why when people come to me seeking God I often recommend to stop seeking and let yourself just be one with the world around you.
The thing is, is that God is all around us and ever-present through the Holy Spirit. If we are seeking, we are often working too hard and need to take a step back so that we can see things a bit clearer. We need to occupy ourselves in different ways in order to witness and open our hearts to new realities and understandings.
In a passage like we have this Sunday we must remember that it is not our place to judge other people; that is for God. I start there because for many, historically, this passage has been use to signify who is in and who is out. At times with some crazy definitions and understandings. But this is one of those passages that is meant to hold a mirror up to the reader and ask what is more important, your words or your actions.
In the first half of the passage Jesus is being challenged by "the chief priests and the elders" about his authority. So Jesus brings up the question about John and his baptisms. John was a very well known person, seen by many as a prophet and others as an agitator. Regardless, he was doing his baptism in the name of God. So Jesus throws them a "trick" question: Was what John was doing of heaven or of human origin?
So Jesus, always taking advantage of the teaching moment, tells the parable of the two sons. One who tells his father he will not work the land, but later, for whatever reason, chose to do as his father asked. And the other who says the right things, but never shows up to work the land. Jesus uses this to say to the chief priests and the elders that people can spend their lives saying the "right" things, but being committed to God is something more than what we say, it is what we do. This means that even those who are at the lowest rung of society have the capability of changing their ways and turning to God.
Interestingly, the focus is not on the group that changes. What this passage is attempting to do is to hold a mirror to the chief priests and the elders and say to them that they are far too worried about themselves and how they look to others than they are to God. This means that their faithfulness is based far more on their own desires of looking good than serving God. Like the son that says he will work the field and does not. He made his father happy, saying the right thing, but the only one he served was himself.
I said earlier that it is important not to see this passage as judgment. I say this because it really has nothing to do about others and has everything to do with how we chose to live our lives. The chief priests and the elders made a conscious choice to live in a pious way. They worked to be seen well and heard on their appearances, but it was mostly for status and themselves. As we know from this and other passages, what is most important is what we do, not what we say.
Moreover, another forgotten aspect is the fact that God allows change. This is important since what Jesus is doing with the chief priests and the elders is that he is trying to challenge them to accept him and accept God by showing them the fault in their own approach to faith. For us, when we read the passage, we should take that mirror and ask ourselves if our words are more to do with how people see us, or if our actions are about how we are connecting with God.
One of the main reasons I don't drive to the church most of the time is that I am not a patient driver. Inevitably catching every red light or getting behind a car going 10 miles an hour under the speed limit makes me go bonkers. Especially when it turns a 7-10 minute drive into something closer to 25-30! It is a weak area for me. I don't know why, though, but I always seem to have more patience when I am on the bike. Granted, the slow cars are not an issue, but the lights still are. I've been thinking about why I can be patient on the bike, even thankful, and not the car, and I think it really has to do with the state of mind.
I genuinely hate to drive. While I love to go from place to place, driving to me is really just a necessary evil. I think because I don't like it I have to work twice as hard to find patience, whereas when I ride, I am usually genuinely happy to be biking.
I believe everyone is patient with something. For instance, if you're an accountant you better be patient with yourself in order to get the right information; otherwise you'd get yourself in trouble, or if you were a teacher without patience with children you'd begin to hate your job. If you think about it patience is inherent to who you are. If you like something or have that skill or gift, you tend to have far more patience than you do without that skill.
One of the great difficulties we often have in connecting with others on a personal level is that often if there is not an apparent connection or shared experience we often lose patience and even find frustration. The terrible thing about this is that with such a globalized community, we tend to not develop patience with others who are different because it is easier to connect with those who are similar, and since you know them, like you know your skill or whatever, you can be far more forgiving and patient than you would be with someone who was foreign to your would.
A continual Christian theme is one of patience; early on it was that God would provide, then that God would provide a Messiah, and now that God has promised a second coming. But it is not just patience in that way, God calls us to be patient with the Holy Spirit who is at work among us. More importantly, as we saw in last week's lesson, God calls us to be patient with the new believer.
It is hard to be patient with someone who is making mistakes and does not do things the way you want, but often when we back away or disengage because we are not patient. Or conversely, because of our impatience we push or carouse; we often are doing more to repel the message of God than to build it up.
Often, we have to give the room God requires us to breathe and allow the Spirit to work. For many of us this is the worst thing for patience, because the hardest impatience to overcome is the impatience concerning an unknown future. Especially when the future is always so unknown.
As Christians we are called to be examples, and one of the ways is to be a witness for others when it comes to our patience, or be able to name and work on our impatience so that we can learn to welcome and accept all people, recognizing that usually the frustration we feel has far more to do with us then it does with them. It is just like when I drive; my impatience has much more to do with my dislike of driving, or being in a car, than it really does with the slow driver or annoying lights.
If you want to see something interesting, line up a group of people in a single file line saying "I am the front of the line, line up behind me." Once everyone is sufficiently placed, look at them and walk to the other end of the line and lead them from there. You'll be interested to see the frustration, especially if there was a rush to get to the front (btw you can probably witness this to a certain degree daily at the airport).
You may have guessed the theme this week is the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is a wonderful and great reminder of the way in which God works. In the early church, as was evident from last week's scripture, there was a problem: people felt that time in the faith, be it Judaism, or in Paul's case just followers, that they had more of a right to the faith and salvation than others. In other words, they were more righteous than the newcomers.
They had good reason for this: they worked hard and kept faithful and felt they were owed something. Though they also felt that they were owed something more because they had been there the longest. Problem is, that for God, this is not the way to look at it.
The passage this week is one of the harshest to deal with this issue. The Parable is about the owner of a vineyard that needs to harvest his crop. He started his day "early," most likely at day break, hiring day laborers. But throughout the day he continued to bring in more and more until he brought in the last group at the end of the day. All day, with each additional group, those who had been called early were getting excited because they thought they might be getting more than what was originally promised. But when the end of the day came, the last were paid the same as the first, which really irked the people who worked all day. But the owner reminded them that they got what was agreed to, and essentially it was none of their business if he wanted to be generous.
Honestly, I could feel the same as those who worked all day. Especially being tired and weak. But there is something missing for the workers; their complaint was about fairness in relation to themselves, their hopes, their ideas, etc; it had nothing to do with the landowner or even the other men, but that is whom they blamed.
Jesus says this is an analogy about God; it is in the same vein as the prodigal son. However, here Jesus is driving a point that when it comes to the grace of God it does not matter when you come to faith, only that you do. Moreover, that no matter what works are engaged, each soul is regarded equally. So it does not really matter who is first and who is last; in the end they are all equal.
It is like the line getting onto a plane, no matter how fast you get on, you are still going to all leave at the same time and get where you are going at the same time. With faith, we come to it at different phases of our lives and from different places, but what is important is that we come to it, we live it, and we go forth and spread it, and not the rewards or payment or anything else, but out of the Joy and celebration of being Faithful to God.
Soon after I was ordained, I got a call from the pastor of the church where I was baptized. He was called right about the same time my parents moved from Des Moines to Naperville. There is a tradition among some clergy that upon retirement, the bulk of one's library is bestowed upon a newly ordained pastor. There is no ceremony, but it usually comes with a lunch and a long day of the retiring pastor telling the stories of the books. It was a really neat day.
I began to laugh as I read these books that ranged from the difficulty of re-engaging young adults (20-40) to the changing nature of the pastorate. The funny thing was that according to that retired pastor's library, there was a crisis going on in the global church where there were cosmic shifts and the church was perceived to be so far out of whack that they were on the verge of closing. For the record, the mainline church was not wiped out; actually, the decreases of the seventies lead to a rise in membership in congregations is the 80's.
It sounded harsh when he said it, but since then I have seen this to be true. In fact, as I went back and read all of those books from the "being the church in changing times," (all copyrighted between 1965 and 1975) all of them said essentially the same thing: forget about size, money, what you did before and even what you want to do, and look at how you are connected with your community and how you are guided by God. Interestingly, 40 years later, the most recent texts on church health and growth say the exact same thing.
Interestingly, I read things like "the crisis of the main line church" and predictions of its demise. Those are always valid to a certain extent, but the problem we face when we let those take over is the question that Christ is perpetually asking, "who do we serve?" The truth is when churches are asking the right questions "who do I serve, how am I serving my community?" churches always seem to grow, though not always in number, they always grow in faith and strength in their community.
Last week I was having a conversation with someone, laughing about how quickly things become standard in the church. In my last congregation, the third Sunday I was there, I changed something slightly in the service. While she was not protesting, my Choir director's initial response was, "but you always do it the other way." To which I responded, "I've been here three weeks!" We had a good laugh. It is funny how quickly things change and how often we get sucked into following traditions rather than the message or Word of God.
Early in the church people were creating these traditions. On of the biggest, at least through reading Paul's letters, was the determination of who is in and who is out. Obviously this was important because as a new sect of Judaism, the early Christians were carrying with them an understanding of a very ordered life. Even non-Jewish converts, who were most likely the bulk of Paul's community, carried with them the systems that predated Christ, since the scriptures and teachers were grounded in Jewish thought and tradition. The problem with a carryover like this is that often it interfered with the message of Christ and instead of sharing and evangelizing; it became overly focused on the way in which people live.
Remember, when Christ came into this world he said that he was bringing with him a new paradigm. This radically changed what it meant to have a faith-filled life. Thus, it had less to do with the prescribed ordering of life, and more to do with constantly asking how we are faithful to God.
This was one of the big issues the church had with monasticism. There is a fun article I read back in seminary about how the reformers denounced the Gregorian Chants. Back in the 90's Gregorian Chants were a big thing. Anyhow, the issue that the reformers had was not only with the Gregorian chants, but with piety and other ascetic lifestyles, is that, in their internal self-focus they cannot be faithful to God because they are too focused on themselves.
In both readings this coming Sunday, we see the new ordering. For the Romans passage, Paul reminds the church that their job is to welcome people and NOT judge. Continuing on the tradition laid out in the previous section on loving your neighbor, Paul takes this one step further by asking us who is actually served when we judge? The answer, especially when we think about it, is typically ourselves. Whether that be comfort or safety or something else, usually there is a selfish motive to our Judgment.
In the parable of the unforgiving servant, the wealthy king went on a mission of collection to his servants. After a heartfelt plea, the king forgave the servant, only for the servant to turn around and not forgive the debts of those who owed him. While there are many lessons in this story, the standout in this passage is how self-focused the servant was. Instead of living into forgiveness, he lived into himself, his needs, his wants, and so on.
Both passages bring to light the new paradigm that Christ talks about. When we live for Christ, we are constantly looking for how we can connect with God, how we can connect with others and how we can move forward in faith. In Romans, Paul is remarking on how it is impossible to bring people to a relationship with God if judgment is part of the church. In Matthew, Jesus is remarking on how impossible it is to be a faithful person if we cannot forgive one another as God has forgiven us.
Together, both passages are asking how we put God first and not ourselves. I really do not know much about the Gregorian community and even less about monastic life, but I know one of the great struggles that Christianity has today is a cult within the church that places the self over God and an individual's needs over the community. A cult that can claim that some are "true Christians" and others are not. As a denomination, this is one of those great battles that we fight and interestingly, whether conservative or liberal, consistently we fall on the side of rejecting rules and traditions which force a judgment on one another or accept a graceless reality in our lives.
It is funny, I have a little saying that pops up in my head when times get tough "Why do you doubt that God exists when you know God Exists." It is a derivation of a line from the movie Dogma where a fallen angel is putting doubts about God into the mind of a nun. I am no angel, but without a doubt I know God exists, but at the same time when things get really tough or I feel very alone, a creeping thought comes into my mind. That "what-if," which at times scares me, also surprises me. More than that, it is usually a sign that something needs work and I need some grounding.
As we finish this series on faith, we do so with the shortest section of Hebrews 11, and because I cannot help myself we will go into the beginning of Hebrews 12. All of the previous weeks have set up a reality that the perseverance of faith which the forefathers had was all leading and preparing ultimately for something bigger. As you may guess, that "something bigger" is Jesus Christ, famously introduced through the beautiful passage in Hebrews 12, which is often referred to as the cloud of witnesses passage.
As with much of the Bible, this passage is pointing to something more than a temporal issue or singular understanding. It is a concept that our faith resides in a continuum from the beginning of time. In other words, we have faith today because of the faith and faithfulness of those who came before. They also become a "cloud of witnesses," a group that tell us and show us who God is.
Many times people will come up to me seeking and looking for God. Often when people do this I notice that they have cut themselves off from the community and the world around them. This past Sunday I got into a conversation with a friend from the community. As he was relaying how thankful he was for our event Sunday, he said something really interesting (though he used more technical language than I will relay). He said that as we get more involved with connecting online and by other digital means, we are losing a sense of our community and are becoming increasingly individualized, which is destroying the fabric of society.
Granted he was talking about this in a secular sense, but it is not that far off from a faithful expression. We cannot fully realize faith devoid of community. While we can try, if we are honest, self-spirituality and spiritual journeys devoid of community often devolve into narcissism and often will brings us to nihilism. This is because we become blinded to the ways in which God is actively working in our lives since we have removed ourselves from the cloud of witnesses.
As I said last Sunday, our English language limits us when we talk about faith since the word itself has become so broad. But when I talk about faith, I am talking about the singular relationship that we have with God. This is really informed by Hebrews, and has become a cornerstone of how I move forward in my faith. If left to my own devices I could allow myself to believe my way was the only way. I could accept that God exists as some social construct or psychological necessity. But like I said at the outset of this article, I know God exists, and I know God exists because of the cloud of witnesses, the communities I am part of, and the challenges all of these place on my faith.


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Maine Warden Service disputes latest story on sting operations
The agency also serves a 'cease of harassment order' on one of the hunters featured in the article, accusing him of making 'repeated harassing phone calls' to a game warden.
By Edward D. MurphyStaff Writer
The Maine Warden Service is again disputing a Portland Press Herald story that raised questions about the agency's law enforcement tactics.
It also has served a "cease of harassment notice" on Richard Sanborn Sr. for allegedly making harassing phone calls to a game warden. Sanborn, a hunter from Parsonsfield, talked to the paper for a story published Friday about an undercover operation run by the warden service in York County.
The Maine Warden Service said Richard Sanborn Sr. of Parsonsfield, who says he was caught in an undercover operation in 2014, was served with a "cease of harassment notice" by state police Friday "for repeated harassing phone calls to the game warden." Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
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The wardens' statement, sent Friday night under the heading "Maine people see through media's attempt to smear wardens," followed the article in Friday's newspaper that said an undercover warden has been accused by the targets of three investigations of drinking excessively in their presence, plying suspected illegal hunters with alcohol, urging them to commit crimes and committing some of the same crimes for which the subjects of the investigation were later prosecuted. Most of the accused hunters were convicted.
The response issued by Cpl. John MacDonald, the spokesman for the Maine Warden Service, said Friday's article was "another one-sided story challenging the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife," of which the warden service is a part.
He accused the newspaper of "surgically" picking words from a Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling in another case that found that the undercover warden's actions were "repugnant," but "not so outrageous" that charges against Licensed Maine Guide Lawrence Perry of Fryeburg should be dismissed.
The quotation from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court was referenced early in Friday's story and ran in its entirety in a section about Perry's prosecution.
MacDonald said other parts of the opinion should have been included, such as a finding that the warden was trying to infiltrate himself with the targets of the investigation and that the warden, William Livezey, testified that he tried to avoid committing crimes himself.
Sanborn, one of the hunters who recounted his experiences in Friday's article, said Livezey drank regularly and sometimes heavily with the hunters who were later convicted. MacDonald said Sanborn was served a "cease of harassment notice" by Maine State Police Friday "for repeated harassing phone calls to the game warden." MacDonald did not name the warden, but the statement appeared to refer to Livezey.
Sanborn reported to the York County Jail in Alfred at 8:30 a.m. Friday to begin serving a 22-day sentence for his violations of game laws. MacDonald said the notice was served on Sanborn Friday afternoon by the Maine State Police. It was unclear whether that occurred at the jail.
It wasn't possible to contact Sanborn because inmates are only allowed to make phone calls when they are out of their cells and must make collect calls, a jail officer said.
An email to MacDonald seeking information on when the alleged calls began and how many were made, as well as the cease of harassment notice served on Sanborn, was not returned Friday night. Stephen McCausland, the spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a phone interview that he had no information about the notice and how or when it was served on Sanborn,
The newspaper first reported about allegations of improper activities of undercover wardens Sunday. That story dealt with a two-year undercover investigation in northern Maine that culminated in 2014 with a large-scale raid that was filmed for the "North Woods Law" television series that focuses on the wardens' work. The article was reported and written by Staff Writer Colin Woodard. Friday's article was reported and written by Staff Writer Scott Dolan.
MacDonald accused the paper of having "an agenda," and said the articles were "a result of the ongoing character assault by the Portland Press Herald and Colin Woodard."
"The career of a game warden is dangerous," MacDonald said. "We conserve natural resources and we save lives. Maine people are tuned in, nearly 400,000 of us on our social media alone."
MacDonald's statement Friday night also mentioned that as of 5 p.m. Friday the Press Herald had not made "a headline" about two police officers being shot in New Hampshire early that day.
"It would seem they would rather focus on their attempts to smear rather than report on newsworthy events," MacDonald said.
The story about the shootings was posted to the newspaper's website at 8:03 a.m. Friday.
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Q: How to authenticate native application against a Web Service? I need to find a solution to make sure my app, which will be distributed as a native App on mobile devices, and ONLY my app can acces my Web Service hosted some place else.
In other words, my Web Service should only accept request through legitimate usage of my application, on not by any other means.
The solution i thought about is the following, please tell me if you think there is a better one, or if this one is not adequate:
Counter-Synchronyzed One Time Passwords (CS-OTPs):
The basic idea is that each side (the WS and the App) holds a hard-coded secret key, and a synchronized counter.
Each time the client app sends a request to the WS, it produces a hash with the secret key and the counter value.
The back-end WS does the same and compares the hashes, if they are identical, the authentication succeeds, and both sides increment theirs counters to keep them synchronized.
Since the counter is incremented after every successful attempt, the hash will each time be different (thus the name 'One time password').
Why do I think I need a one-time password?
Because if the password, or the hash, stays identical, it could be intercepted very easily by the client App user, which could then forge request by himself without the need of the App.
Tell me what you think about that solution.

A: Many ways to achieve this, my method is to create an encrypted token from the client to server using a secret key as you suggest.  I would also include in this encrypted key some information that will aid validation.  Include things like IP address, expirey date/time, current time etc.  So someone trying to replay traffic would have to come from the same ip address, within a certain time period etc.   YOu can vary to suit your own needs.  Hope this helps.

A: I believe as long as a native application is under control of hacker, he may debug your application and steel your secret. No matter what the secret is. If you give the secret, you give it to the person not to the application.
You may give a unique secret to each instance of the application, then at you may block sb. who behaves strange. This gives you kind of authentication.
You may try to mangle the code to make hacking harder, but it is only the additional cost for the hacker. However "only" may be enough.

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"""Configuration for the job submission application"""

import os.path

from desktop.lib.conf import Config, coerce_bool
from desktop.lib import paths
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

# Deprecated! To remove in Hue 3.
# All of the config is now in Oozie app.
REMOTE_DATA_DIR = Config(
  key="remote_data_dir",
  default="/user/hue/jobsub",
  help=_("Location on HDFS where the jobsub examples and templates are stored."))

LOCAL_DATA_DIR = Config(
  key="local_data_dir",
  default=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "data"),
  help=_("Location on local filesystem where examples and template are stored."),
  private=True)

SAMPLE_DATA_DIR = Config(
  key="sample_data_dir",
  default=paths.get_thirdparty_root("sample_data"),
  help=_("Location on local filesystem where sample data is stored."),
  private=True)

# Deprecated! To remove in Hue 3
# These configs were moved to desktop liboozie.
# If liboozie is not configured these settings will be used.
# They also have priority if liboozie defines them.
OOZIE_URL = Config(
  key='oozie_url',
  help=_('Deprecated, use liboozie.conf.OOZIE_URL instead. '
         'URL of Oozie server. This is required for job submission.'),
  type=str)

SECURITY_ENABLED = Config(
  key="security_enabled",
  help=_("Deprecated, use liboozie.conf.SECURITY_ENABLED instead. "
         "Whether Oozie requires client to do perform Kerberos authentication"),
  type=coerce_bool)


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Q: Loop through elements and get value from a child I have a html table with rows like this:

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            https://tobier.de

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i am iterate through all rows and want check the  value.
so my iterate looks like this:
jQuery('.linkObj').each(function (i, obj) {
    //if span value == 'https://tobier.de' do this:
    obj.style.setProperty("display", "none", "important");
});

all my attempts to access the span from the object failed, can you help me get the content of the spans?

A: To access the span within the tr, you can use find() within your each(). Then you can perform the check on the text() of that element and call hide() on the tr, like this:
jQuery(function($) {
  $('.linkObj').each(function() {
    if ($(this).find('span.analyse_url').text() == 'https://tobier.de') {
      $(this).hide();
    }
  });
});

Note that you can make this slightly more succinct by providing a boolean value to toggle():
$('.linkObj span.analyse_url').each(function() {
  $(this).toggle($(this).find('span.analyse_url').text() != 'https://tobier.de');
});

A: $('.linkObj .analyse_url.ziel').each(function (i, obj){
    //if span value == 'https://tobier.de' do this:
    if(obj && (obj.innerHTML == 'https://tobier.de')){
        obj.hide();
    }
});

A: It is very important that you put the tag TR inside a TABLE otherwise it does not work. And that's the code.
$('.linkObj span.analyse_url').each(function(i, element) {
        var obj = $(element);
    if (obj.text() == "https://tobier.de") {
        obj.hide(); // hide the span
      obj.closest(".linkObj").hide(); // hide the entire row
     }
});


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Call the White House for carry out
by NMT - November 23, 2009 November 23, 2009 1
If you think you can influence Obama to get out of Afghanistan, by all means CALL THE WHITE HOUSE NOW! That's 1-202-456-1111. Rita Ague reports: "Hi Sisters and Brothers in Peace and Justice Movements: After many attempts, I got through to the White House at 12:45 PM Mountain Time. I said I spoke for many in Colorado and for numerous organizations, including my fully disabled vet brother. I mentioned how many are unable to get through on this heavy call-in day. "I identified myself as an Old White Woman for Obama, said I'd worked my tail off for him during the campaign, and, like so many, many others, want the U.S. to get out of war mode. End the wars rather than sending more troops. I finished with asking that the Pres. listen to Colin Powell who recently warned about the "terrorism/industrial" complex. I ended with: HEALTH CARE NOT WARFARE! The volunteer at the White House was most receptive to what I said. I sensed smiles and nods of approval. Rita Ague" From the UFPJ: While some news reports suggest President Obama is likely to send additional troops, there is still time for the American people to influence this decision! The President must know that there is NOT support for continuing this war that is costing billions of dollars, thousands of lives and increased hardship both in Afghanistan and here at home. The first step is to not send more troops. The next step must be the withdrawal of the troops currently there. This is the moment when we can have an impact. Call the White House - 202-456-1111- and tell President Obama: � No additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan. � Start the withdrawal of U.S. troops. � Begin serious diplomacy and dialogue with all parties to the conflict, internal and external, as well as independent Afghan women leaders, without preconditions. � Redirect the tens of billions of dollars spent yearly on Afghanistan war funding to human needs in Afghanistan and at home
Marching orders from Vets For Peace
by Eric Verlo - November 11, 2009 November 12, 2009 0
Veterans For Peace are stepping forward to plan the unplannable: how to protest the regularly postponed announcement of an escalation in Afghanistan? I forgot how we picked March 19-21 to demonstrate against the attack on Iraq. Did we protest its beginning, or did it start afterward? Bush snuck the "surge" past public outcry, and that's how Obama will surge Afghanistan. Vets for Peace suggest activists be ready this time with a "March of the Dead" immediately when Obama decides. A MARCH OF THE DEAD requires dark cloths, preferably robes or hoods, and plain white masks with eyes and mouth backed with black gauze. Generic masks are available here, for example. Already this year Obama has doubled US troops in Afghanistan without having to announce a decision. As far as planning protests, it's been easy to forecast the thousand-mark milestones of US soldier deaths, and the anniversaries of the wars. How are we to project when a decision is coming? The administration keeps setting back the date for Obama's decision, owing to the complexity of the issues. Afghanistan may be so complicated, it will never be answered. Participating in the Veterans For Peace call to action are: Military Families Speak Out, the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, National Assembly, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, United for Peace and Justice, and World Can't Wait. Let's add Coloradans For Peace march for the dead. Our mission, should we chose to accept it: 1) Within the next few days, ideally prior to any decision from President Obama, conduct any of a wide range of local activities -- from calling Members of Congress to nonviolent civil resistance and everything in between -- demonstrating our opposition to and disgust with any decision to widen the war in Aghanistan. To show unity of purpose, we suggest local "March of the Dead" to Federal Buildings, local Congressional offices and government buildings of any sort. 2) On the day immediately following an announcement to escalate the war in Afghanistan, respond again in a variety of ways. To show unity of purpose, we suggest: a) making an appointment that day with at least one group that you're not already a member of -- a church, union, civic group, etc. -- to go and speak with them about the war b) return to the streets and again conduct any of a wide range of local activities -- from calling Members of Congress to nonviolent civil resistance and everything in between -- and be prepared to comment to the news media about the escalation of the war.
Obama reneging on promises to pull US troops out of Iraq
by Tony Logan - February 27, 2009 February 27, 2009 5
Obama won the presidency based on the fact that most Americans found him to be credible on his promise to get US troops out of Iraq, whereas they didn't think John McCain had any commitment to do so. They got tricked and it appears that Obama today will merely restate the Bush promise to the Iraqi puppet government to get US troops out of Iraq by January 1, 2012. Look for numerous press reports to misstate that Obama is actually going to do nothing new in a manner similar to this one... Obama to Announce U.S. Troop Withdrawal in Iraq ...Read the details and you can see that it is basically the Bush plan gift re-wrapped for more liberal Democratic Party voters acceptance of it! What can be seen by this continued glue to the Bush program in regards to Iraq, is that the Democrats have no confidence that Iraq will not fall into a fight for power the minute US troops leave. The puppet government is that unstable, and in fact there are real and credible fears that civil war might now break out even with US troops still inside the country. Simply put, Barack Obama is fearful of changing Bush's game plans for Iraq, so he's sticking to the basic Republican program and sugar coating for his unmotivated Democratic Party constituency. Yes, the Democratic Party 'Peace'crats have kept the lid on all protest coming from their groups nationwide. The national coalition of these votes, the UFPJ (United for Peace and Justice) are refusing to unite with ANSWER in calling for Spring demonstrations. They simply really don''t want them with Abraham Obama in office.... he's going to free the White Middle Class liberals from their slavery under Rush Limbaugh and Fox News! Not only is Obama sticking with the Bush program directly promising to keep US troops in Iraq until 2012, he continues to carry out the Bush-Cheney game plan by expanding occupation in Afghanistan, and aggressively threatening Iran and Syria with war. Add to that the Democratic Party in no way has changed from giving Israel green light to continue their ethnic cleansing program against the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere (inside Israel itself). Meanwhile the 'Peace'crats stand around with their thumbs up their asses and mumbling CHANGE... SPARE CHANGE, PLEASE. It's very sad to see people debase themselves in this manner. One can only feel sorry for the Iraqi population, too. They have no guarantee that the US under Barack Obama as CIC will actually stick to the promises to get out by 2012. All sorts of excuses to justify the idea that that cannot be actually done when the time comes can be made up under the usual fire of events, and Barack Obama is just the man in the US Presidency to do just exactly that. Three
UN Ambassador speaks of the hidden genocide against the Somali people
by Tony Logan - December 22, 2008 December 22, 2008 0
The UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, has said there is a "hidden genocide" taking place in the country. Left unsaid is that it is the United States of America that is responsible for this genocide, but at least the reality of the massacre was broadcast to the world so that hopefully some action might be taken, Somalia facing 'hidden genocide' What does it say about the character of the American people what they have done to Somalia? Here in Colorado Springs, there is a group of pacifist liberal voters for the Democratic Party organized in the so-called Pikes Peak Justice and Peace commission. They have agitated through public rallies for more US military intervention into Africa despite being nominally a 'Peace' organization. They have done this saying that more US intervention into Africa was necessary to stop genocide from taking place! So one asks what have they said about this genocide against the people in Somalia where their own US government has been responsible for? What have they done to stop it? The answer to both these questions is that they have totally ignored what was going on. It has been of no interest to them. Something very similar to this has taken place on the national level at the United for Peace and Justice 'Peace'crat group, and all their local affiliates. What does that say about the character of the American liberal community? It really says to the general public that their supposed 'protestations' for 'Peace' should be taken with a big grain of salt. It also says that when these same people get onto the band wagon talking about genocide in regions of Sudan where the US government is itching to get further involved for multiple reasons all having absolutely nothing to do with stopping any sort of mayhem, that one should also weigh their inaction about not caring the least about people in Congo and Somalia, not to mention the continent of Africa as a whole. After all, the US government has been responsible for the destruction that is now causing this genocide in Somalia, but the liberal 'Peace'crat voice is on MUTE. The best we in the US can do to stop world genocides from taking place, is simply to understand the negative role ALL Us government intervention plays in creating world war zones. Their is not a positive role the US military has to play as long as we have a government run by the military-industrial-government complex. To call on this complex to do nice and decent things is just absolutely the worst thing to do. The call should be to eliminate this monstrous danger to the world, not advocate for its use somewhere or other. UN Ambassador Abdallah's voice will be ignored by the Powers that caused the hidden and silent genocide to
Obama's Afghanistan Surge and the 'Peace'crat picnickers
What's that silence out there? It's the silence of all those supposed peacniks who turn out to be nothing but picnickers for the Democratic Party cons who are behind adding more US troops into occupying Afghanistan. You won't see them out protesting this new 'Surge' for war, or even talking about it. In fact, the 'Peace'crats main group, the UnUnited for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) has decided at its recent small and semi-national December Christmas picnic to try to change the whole subject from one of war to American economy. They will not be uniting with antiwar groups for building united Spring antiwar demonstrations, but will go it alone talking about how bad the economy is instead, and blah, blah, blah.... Whirled PEAs.... Feel free to go to their YES, We Won't site and read their usual babble about what they won't be doing. And much better to get the real dope on this outfit of 'Peace'crat misfits, check out this reportage about their national get together ... Antiwar organizing in the Obama era by Ashley Smith and Eric Ruder reporting on the debates at the national convention of United for Peace and Justice.
'Patriotic' pacifists and 'Peace'crats to hold UFPJ lobbyfest gathering in Chicago
by Tony Logan - December 2, 2008 December 3, 2008 0
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) will be holding a gathering in Chicago next week to start their plans for a 2009 Lobbyfest of Barack Obama. They still haven't figured any of it out and most likely never will. Ostensibly the UFPJ has not decided on doing anything just yet and the gathering is for the group to supposedly decide just what should be done? That's all a big joke since the Democratic Party and liberal Christian group controlled leadership of the UFPJ has but just one strategy, and that is to try to make themselves 'heard' by the Powers that be (though they refuse to try to mobilize any power of their own). They are like beggars of a sort, who will be pleading with Barack, Hillary, and Gates for some bones of recognition. They promise not to talk too much about imperialism, Afghanistan, Somalia, and anything else of dispute, say like... torture use by the US military, the US threatening Russia with nuclear weapons, Iraq, or US military made pollution... and the list goes on of none issues to these people., or the issues they just plain out want people not to be talking about. The UFPJ are the 'patriotic' Democratic Party liberal middle class voters and churchly pacifists, whose 'eyes are wide open' onto the boots of several thousand US soldiers, but not much on the damage these soldiers actually did to other peoples. They voted for 'change', but they're not too pressured about when it comes, where it comes from, or even if it will ever come? A pretty word or two from their Democratic Party gurus will keep most of them totally satisfied for years. YES, the UFPJ will want to go lobby this new year, and that's what they will project doing though they will smokescreen it with some sort of 'national week' of blah, blah, blah, etc. These are the very same folk that always say that large demonstrations don't work, so just go out and vote DP. Don't expect a change of heart from them, or any insight. How happy they are at the success of that profoundly absurd strategy they must be with the New Administration? The more abjectly they get thrown to the side by Power, the more committed they get to their own masochistic policy of turning out the vote.... to always vote for those who will ignore them, piss on them, and marginalize them as much as they can. The UFPJ has even been offered a challenge by other antiwar activists to give up their sectarianism and come together with others to help build national and unified demonstrations against the war. That is anathema to the UFPJ leadership though, and we should expect absolutely nothing from them that would help bring that about. They're sticking with the Democrats come rain or shine, and come the
Retaining Gates slam dunks the deluded USA liberals
by Tony Logan - November 25, 2008 November 25, 2008 1
Oh those poor deluded liberals! All that 'hope' for 'change' and look what it got them? Obama asks Gates to stay at Pentagon No talk of getting out of Iraq now, and the Democratic Party 'Peace'crats simply don't have a Plan B beyond turning out the vote again and again for DP politicians who always give them the shaft once they are elected. No talk of a rejection of the Bush Administration's criminality and use of torture from Barack. He just rubber stamped it all OK with his choice of Robert Gates being allowed to continue in the position provided for him by Dubya. No change at all. You can shoot down rapproachement with the Russians, too, since it simply was no fluke when Georgia was prompted to attack the Ossetian allies of Russia. The Democrats were on-board all along with the Republican Administration initiated aggression. Hello, New Cold War. What is left for the Democratic Party liberals to hang onto now? Sure, they can continue to play the fools (though they do not play the fool so much as they just simply are fools), and most will continue to look for some sort of sugar coating on the policies of the Democratic Party Administration, but there is none really. The chumps that told us to vote Democratic Party like it was some sort of religion of theirs will simply be inactive, inactive, inactive in the weeks and months ahead. They have nothing really much left to say. This was all so easy to see ahead of time, but the 'Peace'crats don't want to stand out of the American crowd, and actually denounce US foreign policy in an effective manner. They wanted to just go out and vote even though the voting is rigged to keep power in power. The voting is rigged to just rotate back and forth between the Democrats and Republicans, both of which do mostly the exact same things. The US Left needs to just say goodbye to the duplicitous intellectual leaders that now control the Antiwar Movement. It's time to say goodbye to the United for Justice and Peace Democrats and build an effective Antiwar Movement that will build large and continual national mobilizations against The War that just keeps on going, and going, and going. I told you so. Hate me for that if you want? Voting when The System has rigged the vote before hand, is simply not really voting. It takes action to do that, and action that is outside of electorialist play acting.
'Peace'crats refuse to be 'United for Peace and Justice'
United for Peace and Justice is the national group that pretends to be the leadership for 'Peace' inside the US, yet they cannot even bring themself to speak out against the US war upon the people of Afghanistan! I call them 'Peace'crats because they talk about PEACE in the abstract all the time, yet remain totally tied to the Democratic Party and do not actively oppose the war of US occupation of Afghanistan or speak out forcefully against it! They don't want to embarrass Barack Obama and the Democratic Party and that is important to them above all else. Go to the UFPJ website and see what I am talking about? Didn't see the mention of Afghanistan there, did you? Go to their 'Ongoing Campaigns' link and then link again and check out their mealy mouthed, non-opposition to withdrawal from the US War waged against Afghanistan. Is this what you call an antiwar position? Peace? I call it their UFPJ Democratic Party apologist line of crap. On it, you will read this sort of BS... What is the US responsibility to Afghanistan? How have US interest over the past few decades, including support for the Taliban, contributed to the destabilization of Afghanistan? How do we best fulfill our obligations to the Afghan people? What is the role of the US peace movement in advocating US tax-dollars to be used in ways that promote peace, stability, and international cooperation? What nonmilitary solutions can we offer?' YES, and blah, blah, blah. No call for US withdrawal from Afghanistan here! Barack Obama is against it, that's why. Here on the local Colorado Springs scene the local 'Peace'crats are even worse. Most of them play so dumb they would not admit to being able to find Afghanistan on a map and be proud about that, too! Their folk do have the local police telephone # handy, in case anybody would like to bring the subject up? That would be trespassing! And at the national fan club for the 'Peace'crats, a website called 'CommonDreams', well they just target your computers ISP address and keep you from reading their comments, or commenting on what they are pushing. Afghanistan is best kept off the list of hot topics to discuss these days now that Barack Obama's Democratic Party team is in the process of taking over fighting the US War on Afghanistan away from the Dubya crowd. YES, the 'Peace'crats refuse to be 'United for Peace and Justice'. They're only united for the Democratic War Party when push comes to shove. Afghanistan? Please don't mention it!
ARD, Tent State surrogate for DNC cops
by Eric Verlo - August 28, 2008 August 28, 2008 0
DENVER- Accounts of the Wednesday march from the Colosseum to the DNC are only getting half the story. Can I recount my small part? We were at the Pepsi Center entrance, laying the groundwork for the arrival of the IVAW parade and became concerned when workers positioned large dump trucks to block the way, to corral the marchers into the fenced gauntlet traversing the Auraria campus. When I caught up with the already diverted march, I found out the coordinators had been on the lookout for me. Legal observers informed me that marchers were being forewarned of a man with a green banner who would be trying to instigate trouble. The message was being spread as if coordinators had intercepted this information from police scanners. In reality this was deliberate disinformation being given them by their police liaisons. The common goal being to keep out of trouble. Well it wasn't disinformation, because I most definitely wanted to disrupt this surprising and disastrous turn. I sought to prevent the march from being led like sheep into a dead end. But the ARD collective had clearly promised an uneventful march, and they were bent on delivering it. At every turn, at every temptation, they policed the march so the police didn't have to. Stay on the sidewalk, stay off the grass, go this way unless you want to be arrested, etc. Like overly cautious boy scouts. Navigating the Auraria enclosures, the coordinator monkeys would circulate alongside their restless marchers admonishing them "Hey guys, let's keep the focus: on the vets and off the fence." So let me be less harsh in my criticism of the IVAW. A number of them are bright, well-motivated guys, but they are governed by committee decisions made by the predominant lessers, some about as daft as soldiers can get. On the Wednesday march too often the bullhorn was in the wrong hands. I have no sense yet of what their dressed-to-the-nines Marine official spokesman was thinking. But the other corrosive element in the event was mentioned in a comment to my previous post on this subject. Tent State/ARD. Tent State idealists helped coordinate the Rage concert and the march. The parade monkeys who kept everyone in line were Tent State/ARD workers bent on civil disobedience minus any trace of disaffected incivility. Who do they think they are, telling angry constituents that they must accept their lot in the police state? If Tent State has any role in the planned RNC protests, we must forewarn the activists in Minneapolis. They're collaborator scum, every bit as fraudulent as the Democratic Party of good cop to the GOP bad cop. If we can salvage anything from our Debacle in Denver, it's to ferret out these Quislings. Tent State, ARD, UFPJ, Code Pink and the Greens. Derelict saboteurs. I love the spirit and wit of Code Pink, they show determination and stamina, but ultimately no savvy. Their I MISS AMERICA gag is dead on, but it's a lament, isn't it? She's gone, their America. Where the occasion
August action: STOP WARS FOR EMPIRE
COLORADO SPRINGS- In light of accusing Russia for what the US is actually trying to do in Georgia, in light of the naval buildup against Iran, in light of worsening stability in occupied Afghanistan, we thought we'd expand the Iraq Moratorium message to address US War for Empire. An officer informs us we are not to place any permanent sign. Although we were already taking this one down.
When preaching 'nonviolence' promotes violence
by Tony Logan - August 1, 2008 August 2, 2008 3
The division in Denver amongst groups supposedly building protests at the Democratic Party National Convention offers us a prime example of how excessive preaching of 'nonviolence' in a religious manner can actually encourage police violence against the protesters who are the most critical of the dominant political establishment. Groups allied with the United For Peace and Justice coalition split off from Recreate '68 claiming that the leaders were not sufficiently committed to being nonviolent. By doing so, they gave the police rhetorical backup for anything they might do at the DNC to protesters that come to protest the politics as usual agenda of the Democratic Party. This split was a divisive blow against having a united Left political organization focusing on advocating Progressive ideas at the big event, which the DNC represents in the US, and those who arrive to protest will find themselves in the streets with a split organizing leadership, all due to the rather sectarian religious rhetoric of the 'nonviolence' preachers. The truth is, the Democratic Party tied leaders of the United for Peace and Justice don't really want that much of a real protest at the DNC because most of these UFPJ leaders' are tied to the philosophy of voting for the so-called lesser of two evils. They plan to encourage people to vote for the Democratic Party candidate. The non-violence issue has allowed them an excuse to make the protest against the Democratic Party smaller, divided, and inconsequential. Further it allows them to label their political opponents in the Peace Movement, those not tied to the Democratic Party like they are, as being unreasonable agitators who want confrontation, which is actually how the corporate press of this country wants to portray all protesters. The reality is that there are no members of the Recreate '68 coalition that are violence prone, and everybody wants the protests at the DNC to be nonviolent. However, the 'I am more nonviolent than you' preaching from the Alliance for Real Democracy crowd has obscured that, something that can only help create greater police violence and not less.
The People-Call-For-Change PC4C wants to keep at-risk activists off the streets
by Eric Verlo - July 29, 2008 August 1, 2008 0
THE PEOPLE CALL FOR CHANGE (PC4C.ORG) is asking to be added to the ARD collective and wants their activities endorsed and publicized. What are they doing for the DNC? The PC4C has scheduled forums during the convention, it would appear to keep folk off the street. Compelling subjects, but to what end? To energize people about what needs to be done, while the opportunity to do it is knocking/passing outside? Is values-based PC4C a social justice group? Is "change" a social issue? Why does it remind me of Obama rhetoric? In Search of Values for a New Society Saturday, August 23rd at 6:30pm to about 8:15pm Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church, 11th and Fillmore, Denver Panelists: Dr. Vincent Harding, Gabriela Flora and Reverend Paul Kottke These panelists will discuss the spiritual values, from both secular and religious traditions, that form the bases for the positions taken by progressives. They will show how these values are applied to domestic and foreign policy issues, laying out, in effect, a positive vision for our society. Beyond Iraq: Creating a Just Foreign Policy Monday, August 25th at 7pm to about 8:30pm Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church, 11th and Fillmore, Denver Panelists: Leslie Cagan, Hari Nam Khalsa and Dr. Ronald Forthofer The panel will focus on foreign policy issues with an emphasis on Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and trade issues. They will discuss the current situation, what can be done, and what a values-based foreign policy would look like. Following the panel presentation and q and a, there will be an opportunity for audience members to voice their ideas in a visioning session using Let Us Rise materials. From Corporate Control to People Power Wednesday, August 27th at 7pm to about 8:30pm Park Hill UCC at 2600 Leyden St, Denver Panelists: David Cobb, Dr. Richard Williams and Dr. James Hoffmeister This panel will examine how corporate power and big money influence our government to the detriment of the people. A vision of an values-based alternative approach will be considered. In addition, some concrete steps that can be taken to rein in corporate influence on government will be presented. Following the panel presentation and Q and A, there will be an opportunity for audience members to voice their ideas in a visioning session using Let Us Rise materials.
The DNC Alliance for Real Democracy is a counter-protest Fifth Column
by Eric Verlo - July 25, 2008 August 31, 2008 4
DENVER, COLO.- The Alliance for Real Democracy (ARD), formed to counter the scrappily-named Recreate 68 at the DNC, is in reality an unwitting fifth column, set up by Democratic Party allies to temper protest in Denver. The UFPJ and other sundry "non-violent" progressives are funneling their members into the less populist ARD actions to divert participation from the major DNC demonstrations. But the aforementioned underwriters aren't providing any funding, surprise! Leaving the ARD to protest exactly what it's supposed to: nothing. I think it's heartbreaking to watch earnest young activists, representing the organizations comprising the ARD coalition, trying to organize activities without any commitment from their national affiliations. And some of the more outspoken national leaders, keen to make appearances at the DNC rallies, are beginning to smell a rat. They're making backup arrangements to coordinate with the boots on the ground, R-68. A Fifth Column refers to a group of partisans, usually spontaneously organized, which forms behind enemy lines as a conquering army approaches. It is the additional "column" of civilian fighters which an attacker might count on to stab the defenders in the back. Franco boasted of his fifth column in the Spanish Civil War. The French Resistance represented a fifth column for the Normandy liberators. America's antiwar movement has had its steady divisions, between UFPJ and A.N.S.W.E.R. most notably, but the rift has become more critical with the advent of another hopeful Democratic election win. Four years ago it was Kerry, with groups like Moveon.org trying to tone down the antiwar rhetoric. This year it's Obama, and the appeasers are out in battalions. As usual, it's done in the name of "nonviolence," where too vigorous protest is seen as insufficiently nonviolent for the Democrat's fragile delusions. When R-68 began the groundwork for DNC protests, they were vilified for evoking the Chicago 1968 police riots. R-68 repudiated the violence, but not surprisingly those statements have yet to be reported in print. Meanwhile the bad press gave UFPJ and other nonviolence apostles the opportunity to break away and form their holy alliance to give their members sanctuary from the ruffians, re unpredictable young people. But will it really? The R-68 group includes Unconventional Denver and Disrupt 08, but neither have violent plans. Black Block script-kiddies will turn up no matter whose event. Police agent provocateurs will instigate violence no matter how pious your crowd. Code Pink, IVAW, Veterans For Peace, and UFPJ are among the national endorsers of ARD. Tent State, SFPJ, and Students for a Democratic Society are examples of young activists getting caught in their elders' tar baby. Because it's not enough to vote for Obama, you have to quash dissent for Obama. It's the Alliance For Real Democracy For Obama. Naturally Denver protest organizers, whether ARD or R68, have found themselves having to confer about time slots and permits, out of respect for the success of each other's activities. As a result, the national head of UFPJ, Leslie Cagan, issued an email decreeing that no ARD organization member would participate in the
Colorado Springs Don't Bomb Iran
by Eric Verlo - July 18, 2008 July 19, 2008 3
Our IRAQ MORATORIUM message could be seen from the Uintah intersection. DON'T BOMB IRAN was so visible, we invited the attention of three unwanted parties. First a representative from the Parks and Rec Department told us we had to stop because we were "hindering progress." Asked what that meant, she would only repeat we were "hindering progress" as if it was the only talking point she had been given. Mark regaled her with court rulings which have upheld our right to do what we were doing. She spent the rest of the time on her cell phone. Two CSPD officers joined her on the periphery but left after a half hour. Next came an altercation with two young men and a woman, one of the men claiming to be a soldier, who were very belligerent and tried to tear down our peace flag. Rita bravely made them back off. Later, two gentlemen emerged from a dark SUV, donned orange jackets and hardhats and come to inform us our sign was not permitted by Colorado statute. They claimed that we posed a safety hazzard, unless approved ahead of time. We challenged the idea that we were a safety concern, "approved" or not. Now that they'd observed us, did they think we presented a safety problem? It was not theirs to decide. We assured them we were going to carry on and promised certainly to leave nothing behind after we were finished. The two left without further incidence. Naturally all this attention gave us incentive to prolong our action until after 2pm. We received the usual honks and loud truck blasts of support. Our extended stay reached thousands of motorists. Not only did they see we were against the war, but against the next war.
UFPJ Iraq Moratorium bannering on I-25
by NMT - July 18, 2008 July 18, 2008 0
The third Friday of the month has come around again. Time for the IRAQ MORATORIUM with a JULY message: DON'T BOMB IRAN. Meet on the I-25 pedestrian overpass at Monument Valley Park NOON to 1PM. Visit United For Peace & Justice for more info or check Iraq Moratorium about the other JULY 18th actions nationwide.
Ped overpass UFPJ bannering 6/20 noon
by Eric Verlo - June 19, 2008 June 19, 2008 0
This month's 3rd Friday IRAQ MORATORIUM will be held bannering on the I-25 pedestrian overpass at Monument Valley Park NOON to 1PM. Visit United For Peace & Justice for more info or check Iraq Moratorium about JUNE 20th actions nationwide.
UFPJ Iraq Moratorium April and May
by Eric Verlo - May 22, 2008 July 29, 2008 0
Beware Raytheon!, Third Friday in April, Colorado Springs. Third Friday of May, Raytheon, Colorado Springs.
Iraq Moratorium comes up against Feds
by Eric Verlo - February 15, 2008 February 16, 2008 1
I just got back from an invigorating Iraq Moratorium street- side demonstration. The cold wasn't so bad, the IVAW boys held down a corner, one participant traveled a ways to be here, a Gazette reporter came with a photographer, and we were deluged with the usual honks of support. Then two supervisors from the nearby Post Office visited to tell us whichever of us had parked in their lot better move our cars or expect to be towed. I stepped forward but noted the parking lot was only a third full, plus by coincidence I had a time-dated receipt from their counter. No matter they said, the parking was private, and/or you can't protest on government property. They incorrectly asserted plenty more, finishing with "sue me" but wouldn't give their names. One called out for security as I entered the post office to stand in queue, shouting to everyone that I was likely to cause a scene. The clerks volunteered the info I needed: Jim Hickle and Bill Schafner, big-for-their-britches USPS supervisors of customer relations, wannabe feds. I'm always perplexed by the politics of the postal worker. I regard a number of them as my friends actually, whom I see everyday, including the late John S, about whose horrible political ethics I've already written. Why are workers, who benefit mightily from the APW Union, and who more likely than not are veterans, stand so passionately behind the right-wing? Postal workers are losing their jobs to privatization, their jobs are as blue collar as any, they come face to face with so much of the local community. Why would their personal opinions be so regressive? UPDATE: After I left, another activist of our group was sitting in his car, having taken medication which called for a pause before he could begin driving. He was parked, as I had been, at the extreme north of the lot, far from any customer traffic. The same two postal authorities, Jim and Bill, approached his window and insisted he had to leave. My friend explained that we was quite willing, but that he was required to wait until his medication permitted it. They insisted he leave immediately or they would call the police. My friend complied, in a hallucinogenic state, and thankfully he made it home safely.
Iraq Moratorium monthly rendezvous
It's time again, February 15th, to meet at the intersection of Academy and Fountain Blvds, where US tax dollars meet the military industrial industry. Join UFPJ, PPJPC and CSA on Friday at noon. We'll assemble at all corners with banners, flags and chants to remind the major war profiteers that the American public would appreciate another line of work. It is the war merchants who stand between humanity and peaceful co-existance. It is they who dictate what our politicians offer America as its options. It is they who work in pools of the blood of millions of innocent peoples. Wear boots.
Academy Blvd public opinion still with us
by Eric Verlo - December 15, 2007 December 29, 2007 0
PPJPC members braved the cold for this month's UFPJ Iraq Moratorium, held this time at the intersection of Profiteer and Death Merchant Blvds. A reprise of our popular 9/11 protest, we bannered at all corners to a chorus of supportive horns. Due to the cold, and the difficulty of using walkers to cross the snow, some of us chose to park in a nearby vacant parking lot, until a security guard arrived with lights flashing. He told us "By the way, I'm on your side, but I have to ask you to move your cars." We did, but three police cars converged anyway.
END THE WAR Dec 14 w/ UFPJ – PPJPC
by NMT - December 14, 2007 December 14, 2007 0
With United For Peace & Justice and Iraq Moratorium.org.
Whose war?! OUR war!
At the demonstration last week to mark UFPJ's Iraq Moratorium we marched from City Hall to the IVAW guard tower installation in Acacia Park. On the way we chanted a call: "WHOSE WAR?!" with the response: "BUSH'S WAR!" It was not the time to quibble between protesters, but should it really not have been "YOUR war?" It is OUR war now isn't it? We are engaged in it, the Democrats in congress are funding it, we support the troops who are fighting it. It's OUR war. We might prefer to say it belongs to the idiots among us, but now they're pointing the finger back at us. It's our war, YOUR and MY war unless you have an alibi. It seems to me the antiwar effort can no longer even be about THE war, nor just about Iraq or Afghanistan. The objective now is to resist empire. Repudiate imperialism. It's no longer about extracting our boys to bring them home. We're over there for keeps, to share the fate of the victims of the destabilized hell we have unleashed. Now the antiwar pacifist message has become defeatist, by imperialist standards. We must ask our soldiers now to take their fingers off their joy sticks, quit playing the conquering occupiers, become a repentant reconstruction force, and serve their time working to pay off our nation's war debt.
PPJPC throws in with UFPJ Denver action
by NMT - October 28, 2007 April 14, 2008 0
Protest the Iraq War in Denver Saturday
Uncategorized by Tony Logan - October 26, 2007 October 26, 2007 4
It's just a short trip up to Denver and back, so combine the demo with some other activities and protest the continued occupation of Iraq by American troops. October 27, Saturday: Regional protest set for Denver Colorado Springs peace activists will travel to Denver on Oct. 27 to join a nationwide action calling for an end to the Iraq war. The protest will demand an immediate end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. People from all walks of life will gather in 11 major cities around the country in a national expression of the breadth and depth of antiwar sentiment in this nation. Colorado Springs residents will gather at the Justice and Peace office at 214 East Vermijo for a carpool around 9 a.m. For further details, contact Pete at dynamic@ppjpc.org
National Peace Action fails to mobilize large numbers
Uncategorized by Tony Logan - September 16, 2007 September 16, 2007 0
Reports are hard to come by as the US corporate press has done its very best to disappear this action, but it appears that somewhere between 20,000 to 80,000 protested against the war yesterday in Washington D.C. This is a very low turnout that hardly even begins to correspond with the very real opposition the US Occupation actually has against it. Why such low numbers then? The main reason this mobilization failed to gather more participants, is simply that the leadership of this political movement for Peace is splintered and totally uncooperative with each other. In addition, one must question the motives of organizations like MoveOn that have a gigantic membership, yet fail to encourage people to participate in anything much other than voting for Democratic Party political hacks. That is their main interest, and the antiwar aspect of their work is most marginal. Add to that, the UFPJ (United for Peace and Justice) boycotted this action while calling for their own actions (which they are failing to build properly) in late October. The UFPJ preferred to be sectarian once again, rather than uniting in joint action with ANSWER, the organizers of yesterday's action. Many Americans continue to misplace their faith in the Democratic Party and still see this party as wanting to provide some future salvation for them rather than continue their current participation in the neo-con game plans. However, the Democrats silence in regard to the Bush-Cheney open plans to attack Iran and Syria show that this is absolutely not the case. They have failed to provide any real opposition to Republican militarism, and instead have enabled it. We need for the national groups to increase the mobilizations of people in protest and into the streets, and not just twiddle their thumbs and pretend that this activity is inconsequential. If the leaderships of MoveOn and UFPJ continue their abstentionism, then people will not be mobilized as they well could be, and should be. Let's hope for better next month when once again their is a national call to mobilize. Unfortunately, this call comes from UFPJ leaders who feel that all they should much do is get proPeace people arrested at the offices of Senators and Congressmen nationwide. The future doesn't look good unless a new leadership begins to emerge from the ranks.
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La American Eagle è una casa motociclistica statunitense, attiva dal 1966 al 1971. Fondata da Jack McCormack a Santa Ana, è considerata la prima "azienda virtuale" moderna nel campo motociclistico.

L'intuizione commerciale di McCormack - già responsabile vendite per gli Stati Uniti di Triumph, Honda e Suzuki, nei primi anni sessanta - fu quella di riuscire a formare una gamma completa di motocicli, dal ciclomotore alla maximoto, da vendere con il proprio marchio, senza avere alcuna struttura produttiva. Allo scopo, grazie ai contatti precedentemente acquisiti, riuscì a coinvolgere nel suo progetto diverse aziende europee e giapponesi, scegliendo quella che era considerata la produzione d'eccellenza per ogni categoria di cilindrata.

A partire dal 1966, strinse accordi con la giapponese Kawasaki, l'inglese Sprite e le italiane Laverda e Italjet, per la fornitura di veicoli con marchio "American Eagle" e con varianti specifiche per il mercato USA, concepite dallo stesso McCormack.

Grazie alla sua capacità commerciale, riuscì a raggruppare un centinaio di concessionari in molte città americane, tanto rapidamente che la Honda si vide costretta ad inviare una circolare alla propria rete di vendita, dichiarando l'incompatibilità di un duplice mandato con la American Eagle.

Per alcuni anni la American Eagle ebbe un discreto successo di vendite, anche aiutata dall'iniziale apporto del celebre stuntman Evel Knievel che, per qualche tempo, funse da uomo-immagine presenziando a saloni motociclistici e inaugurazioni di concessionarie e, in seguito, anche tentando alcune imprese a bordo dei modelli America Eagle-Laverda.

Alla fine del 1970, avvertendo i primi segnali della crisi di vendite nel campo motociclistico, oltre alle forte concorrenza di altre aziende che avevano seguito il suo esempio, Jack McCormack decise di chiudere la American Eagle.

Tra le realizzazioni più riuscite, la "350 Cheeta" su base Kawasaki A7SS Avenger 350 e i modelli "150 Renegade" e "750 O.H.C SS", entrambi su basi Laverda.

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So why were the tour leaders looking at me like I was crazy 'do you have a jacket? Gloves?' they asked. 'Erm no, I'm sure I will get hot once I get moving on the bike' I replied. They looked a little confused and nodded while Straws (Andrew) went off in search of spare clothing.
Photo with fellow bloggers from left, me, Helen In Wonderlust, Independent Travel Help, Todds Travels, Runaway Jane and Nerds Travels.
We hopped in the van with our takeaway hot drinks and headed out of Newcastle. I thought I had vaguely heard Steve, another leader mention we would be cycling all the way back to the Cycle Hub, but as the van continued to go for miles out of the city I thought this couldn't be true. We wouldn't be cycling 'that' far on a leisurely cycle on a Sunday afternoon… would we?!
Well the answer was yes, in around 5 hours we cycled 30 miles from Parkhead Station back to the centre of Newcastle. I don't really know what I expected when I signed up to a mountain biking afternoon, but somehow the idea of a long journey on a hangover hadn't really crossed my mind. Perhaps I should have signed up to afternoon tea or glass blowing after all?!
We arrived at Parkhead station in the middle of nowhere in the moors and the van had to be moved so we could open the doors it was SO windy. They registered 45mph winds and just moving from the van to the little restaurant B&B had us being pulled all over the place, not to mention soaked by the lashing rain.
Thank goodness Andrew had a bag full of spare clothes, gloves and jackets for those of us who were less prepared. I couldn't stop laughing at my initial terrible level of preparation, but the surprise, the extremity of the weather and the adventure that lied ahead only got me more excited for the cycling to begin.
The journey we were doing is the final part of the coast to coast cycle trail. Thousands of cyclers each year get to the Parkhead Station knowing they have almost arrived at their final destination. The restaurant and B&B was completely renovated from what was once a train station and has now become a hub for cyclers from across the world to re-energise with hot food and drink and even a bed for the night. Even in this terrible weather there was still a handful of people digging into hot broth and beef sandwiches.
If a cyclist turns up without any money they won't refuse them and are sure to give them a quick drink to keep them going. When they shut for holidays they even leave a selection of tea bags, coffees, a kettle and a few nibbles in a hut for cyclists to take shelter and restock. Aww!
After layering up we headed out into the wild outdoors. The first leg of the journey was the most extreme yet the easiest. Wind was lashing at our faces and you had to lean into the wind to stop yourself from being blown off your bike (some more successfully than others). Thank goodness the wind was blowing in our direction, we didn't even need to peddle we were just blown along!
The journey took us over moors, through woodland, villages, past valleys, down old train tracks and along the Tyne. Once we dropped down further the wind subsided and the sun raised its head again and it was easy cycling the whole route home. Well apart from a few small hills which had my legs screaming. By the end of the journey I had never been so ready for a hot cup of tea and a soft cushion to rest my bottom on!
The team at Saddle Skedaddle and The Cycle Hub looked after us all so well. I could not have survived without the extra kit I wore, the packed lunches helped keep us well energised throughout the journey, their knowledge of the different historical and cultural points along the route added to the journey and as bloggers we wouldn't have survived without Steve as our personal photographer along the way.
I went on a cycling tour with Saddle Skedaddle and The Cycle Hub as part of the Traverse 14 Conference I attended on behalf of Netflights.
It was my choice to write a blog about this adventure and all opinions are 100% true of my experiences.
haha actually I am not a fibber… they originally told us it was 26 but the map monitor thingy (technical term?) he had on his bike showed we had done 30 miles… well 29.86, but that doesn't make for a very good sentence. haha. It was quite a hilarious day.
Well done you, thank goodness you were able to add some layers or you would have been really really cold.
This looks like a fun experience. Perhaps next time I am in Newcastle I might be up for a ride.
wow 30 miles, that's awesome! I'm so out of shape, I'm not sure I could do that right now!
It was easier than you think. Especially the first part where the wind just pushed us along, I kept thinking how cool it would be if my bike could just turn into an arm chair. Haha.
Such a great day! Had so much fun with you!
I love this blog. I want to go Mountain biking down south with a few friends in a couple of weeks. You're welcome to come down and do it with us.
Nice! This looks like so much fun!
You should come and cycle in the Lake District! Amazing routes around Derwentwater and around Keswick.