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Pirelli fear processional racing in 2017
How are Pirelli's amazing powers of prediction? Judging by last year's predictions during the season of how the tires would be used and the fastest strategy around each track, I would say they are there or thereabouts if I'm honest. They do a really good job of predicting how their tires will perform and what teams will do with that performance.
Pirelli have avoided predicting individual team results but they are concerned about the ability for the teams to be more competitive with each other in 2017. While the new increase in aerodynamic downforce has us slightly concerned about this element canceling out the other elements intended to create better racing, it's the performance delta between teams that has Pirelli concerned. Pirelli motorsport boss Paul Hembery said:
"I think the drivers will enjoy it – because with that level of performance, you are going to feel it aren't you? That will give them a physical challenge they haven't had for a while," he told Motorsport.com.
"But the true impact of overtaking will be down to the [relative] performance of the cars.
"If the performance of the cars is close together, then there might be chances.
"If they aren't then it will be a procession."
Hembery may very well be right in that the more grip and higher speed corners could mean less braking even though the company has reduced the thermal overheating characteristic of the tire which prompted high degradation.
"It asked us to do that [high degradation tyres] back in 2011, and now we are being asked to do something else.
"We are just trying to deliver what we have been asked to deliver.
"On any of these subjects, there are always some pros and some against.
"I think we will know after five or six races what we have done and if it is right or wrong."
Hembery at least believes Pirelli's contribution to the 2017 rules will be good for overtaking even if other elements of F1's revamp hamper the action.
"The thermal overheating is significantly reduced and wear levels are reduced, so the drivers in overtaking situations can push harder and not go into an overheating scenario," he said.
"That needs to be combined, of course, with the aero changes that reduce the level of disturbance of the air that arrives to the front of the following car.
"That, combined with the tyres, should enable people to make more aggressive overtaking manoeuvres.
"But on the other side there are going to be more corners flat-out, and that is not going to help overtaking because people won't be backing off as there is no braking."
Some of the public discussion about the new, wider tires and aero levels have pundits suggesting that the corners will be neutralized and even McLaren's head brains said that what was classified as a corner may now be a straight in 2017.
I find those comments a little strange because I don't really care how much grip you have, the drivers are going to brake for La Source. The drivers will brake for Ascari chicane, the drivers will brake for Mirabeau. What they may not brake as much for is the medium-speed corners but to be honest, there was never much passing in those kinds of corners over the past few years since DRS was introduced so why the concern now?
With DRS, the drivers will simply wait for the long straights with DRS zones to pass so dovetailing with Hembery, if the disparity in performance is still baked into Mercedes with their power unit coupled with DRS zones, I'm not sure how much impact the new regulation will have beyond reliability issues via the 4-engine rule and more physical experiences for the drivers with reduced lap times and higher G-forces.
Of course, for the fans sake, I hope Hembery and I are wrong and that the new, less degrading tires will provide drivers like Max Verstappen enough grip to pass at will where ever he feels compelled regardless of the presence of a DRS zone.
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Fifty new HIV diagnoses at Dean Street linked to caps on IMPACT study
20 May 2019. Related: Conference reports, Prevention and transmission.
One of the most sobering posters at BHIVA 2019 was able to directly link recent HIV infections to the NHS block on access to PrEP.
This was a retrospective case notes review of all new HIV diagnoses during 2018 (n=177) at 56 Dean Street. Of these, 28% (50/177) had visited the clinic during the previous year.
These were almost exclusively gay men (one women, one MSW). Median age was 33 years (IQR: 27 to 37) with median of three partners in the previous three months (IQR: 2 to 11) and median of two HIV tests (IQR: 1 to 4) during the previous year.
Many of these men were engaged with healthcare and at high risk of HIV. They easily fulfilled criteria to access PrEP if it was available: one-third had previously used PEP, 38% disclosed chemsex with 10% injecting, 50% had had rectal gonorrhoea or chlamydia and 30% had early syphilis.
Only 12% had previously used PreP, but 56% had a documented PrEP discussion.
The poster noted that although PrEP was discussed with more than half of the people who later became HIV positive, there were no places on the IMPACT study for the majority of the study period.
These cases – in a context when PrEP was clearly indicated, but also blocked given the limited places on the unnecessary PrEP IMPACT study – warrant a public interest legal case against the NHS, and questions in parliament, similar to the legal challenge many years ago that generated access to PEP.
THE UK PROUD study unquestionably proved PrEP efficacy in the UK in 2014 when the study was rapidly unblinded to offer immediate PrEP to all study participants in 2014 and with full results published in The Lancet in September 2015. [2, 3]
The IMPACT study itself – too little, too late – is controversial for limiting access to PrEP after clear data supporting efficacy and safety were established. This should have been an open access service based on demand, without caps on enrollment.
Even when expanded places were announced for the IMPACT study in January 2019, these have still not been made available to London clinics.
Woolham D et al. New HIV diagnoses in a London sexual health clinic: missed opportunities?
BHIVA 2019. Poster abstract 99.
https://www.bhiva.org/file/5ca73250e7009/P099.pdf (PDF)
UK PROUD study to provide PrEP to all participants earlier than expected: planned follow-up to continue to two years. HTB, December 2014.
http://i-base.info/htb/27593
McCormack S et al. Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the acquisition of HIV-1 infection (PROUD): effectiveness results from the pilot phase of a pragmatic open-label randomised trial. The Lancet. Sept 9 2015. Open access.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00056-2/fulltext (full text)
NHS England doubles places on IMPACT PrEP study to 26,000. HTB: 21 January 2019.
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Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of "Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship".
Initially both my mother and Leslie's were nervous about our friendship. "Does the Manson Family have to have our address?" my mother moaned when I once had a letter sent there. And in 1998, Leslie commented to The Baltimore Sun in a long profile of me that she "found it ironic" that her mother and supporters initially "were concerned" for Leslie, as "if knowing him could somehow hurt my reputation." But over the years our mothers softened and grew used to the idea. Leslie's mother went to see Pecker and my mother needle-pointed me a pillow that says "Leslie". As our parents got older and poor health struck, Leslie and I commiserated on how lucky we were to have parents who had lived long enough so we both could make peace with them over our notorious pasts. "None of this" was her parents' fault, Leslie told a parole board. And when Mrs. Van Houten died in 2005, Leslie wrote her friends a great tribute admitting it was "very hard for me not to be there for her at this terrible time (of her illness) just to fix her hair, read to her, just be near her. As it is, I cherish all the qualities of her that are alive in me. She lived a good life. She was a world-traveler, helped in unionizing the L.A. teachers, she was part of the Mothers Marching Against Vietnam and was very proud of that. Mama liked Hillary Clinton and wrote her support letters. So I share with you, my friends, the life of Jane Louise Edwards Van Houten. A woman who was a good mother who I loved dearly. We worked our way over very hard times and came through with sincere tenderness. She was pleased you were my friend. Take a moment to say, 'Hear, hear,' for a life that was well-lived."
But, yes, I know the La Bianca kids don't have a mother around anymore partly because of my friend Leslie. No matter how patient Leslie or her supporters are, we know this terrible fact will never change. But when, if ever, will there have been enough punishment? Vincent Bugliosi, the original and fairest Manson Family prosecutor and author of Helter Skelter, originally predicted in his book that the "girls" would serve "fifteen to twenty years" and called Leslie "the least committed to Manson", but later told The National Enquirer, "I want Leslie Van Houten to remain in prison for the rest of her life." He once admitted to Larry King after hearing Leslie speak on the show, "I was impressed by her. In defense of her I can say this, she seems to be a model prisoner and everyone seems to say she is very remorseful for the murders." But Stephen Kay, who prosecuted Leslie in her later trials and has argued against her parole many times since, seems even more confused on how much time she should serve. Admitting "I've always said she [Leslie] was the smartest and maybe the most normal of them all," he also commented in The Los Angeles Times, in 1980, that he didn't feel Leslie Van Houten should be locked up forever but it was "too soon to release her now." He would rather "wait until she was at least forty years old." Sixteen years after that, a Court TV reporter asked him, "Will you always fight Leslie Van Houten's parole?" And he answered, "Always is a long time. I'm not saying she will never be suitable for parole, I've not said 'never.'" But when the old National Enquirer comes around he encourages their readers to send in coupons against her release and claims, "Leslie Van Houten should never be let out."
The Parole Board can be equally confusing when it comes to sending signals to Leslie about a possible release. After eighteen parole hearings, some members praised her -- "You've come a long way," "You're closer [than] you might realize" -- while denying her a date always citing "the enormity of the crime," the only thing she can never change. It is painful to watch Leslie sit there year after year, her face lined in sorrow in long Warholian close-ups on Court TV as she listens to the same gruesome details of her crime that they read into the record at every hearing. No matter how much progress she's made, how good the psychiatric reports, she is forced to re-describe or come up with new details of that terrible night or be accused of "not opening up" to her part in the crime and then is punished as the prosecutor takes her honest memory of the insane Manson reasoning and uses it against her in future hearings. As Christie Webb, Leslie's last parole defense attorney, so succinctly put it in 2004, "Deputy D.A. has proved that Leslie Van Houten was a danger in 1971 and, yes, she was. She was when she was with the Manson cult. She tried to explain her relationship to Manson -- how she would die for him, how she would kill for him. She tried to explain that and told that to psychiatrists in 1970 and 1971 when she was still under the influence of cult indoctrination and then it's used it against her 38 years later."
In 2002 a California Supreme Court judge realized that a rejection of [her] parole was made "without any explanation of reason" and ordered the parole board to get back to him in ninety days to show "some evidence" of why Leslie should not be released and what she must do to rehabilitate herself. In November of that same year Judge Bob Krug said of the parole board's finding, "I cannot find any indication where Miss Van Houten has done anything wrong in prison. They can't keep using the crime forever and ever. That turns her sentence into life without parole. If I was Ms. Van Houten I wouldn't have a clue what to do at the next hearing."
"Unreasonable risk to the community" is another reason used to turn down Leslie year after year. "I don't want anyone to wake up and find Leslie Van Houten is the next door neighbor," Stephen Kay argued in 1986, conveniently forgetting that Leslie had had next door neighbors when she lived peacefully on parole between her second and third trial. An even more persuasive argument against this reasoning was the successful parole and release of Steve "Clem" Grogan a.k.a. "Scramblehead", one of the most brainwashed men in the Manson Family. Grogan was convicted (along with two other defendants) in a separate trial for the murder of ranch hand Shorty Shea, because Charlie thought Shea was a snitch. Sentenced to life in prison but released after serving fourteen years (maybe because there was at least a reason for this type of murder that someone could understand), Mr. Grogan commented to the parole board, ""I still haven't gotten over the emotional part... the atrocity I did." Grogan, who was certainly as committed to Manson's lunatic cause as Leslie was at the time of the crimes, has never been heard from by the law since. Away from Manson, he got his life back together, found employment, and now lives lawfully and quietly out of the eyes of the press, crime historians, or Manson groupies. Contrary to what Charlie preached, sometimes sense does make sense.
"Not taking responsibility" is another charge thrown at Leslie each time she comes up for parole. Because she once said she stabbed Mrs. La Bianca after she was already dead, the D.A. always brings up the fact that Leslie doesn't "come clean" to details of her involvement. But Leslie has already stated that "earlier in my incarceration, in my sobriety, in my coming to terms with what I had done, I used to find a lot of relief in thinking she was dead. But really honestly looking at it, it is of no consequence whether she was or not. The action was reprehensible." "Each day I wake up," she told the board, "I know why I'm waking up where I am." "I feel a great responsibility for what I did to the world," she sadly stated at a 1991 hearing, "I carry this crime with me as if I was the only one," she said in 2000. "Each act we did in that house, I take responsibility for," she testified in 2004, adding, "I can't...place the blame on someone else. It was me."
Naturally, the victims' families' words and anger are incredibly strong and hard to argue against. What they say can actually never be wrong. If Leslie had killed my mother, could I forgive her? For many years the La Bianca children did not come to Leslie's parole hearings. "You may have wondered why I haven't attended," wrote Leno's oldest son in 2004, "let me tell you why. When confronted with the nightmare at the time, I decided to put my faith in the legal system. I tended to my wounds privately, knowing that if I let my parents' death define me the rest of my life, then those who killed them would have gotten me, too." But when it looked like Leslie had a real chance at parole in 2000, Stephen Kay encouraged La Bianca's nieces and nephews to attend and their words were devastating. "How many times must we come!?" asked an indignant La Bianca nephew, frustrated at having to appear yet again, given what he thought was Leslie's iron-clad life sentence. Seeing the family testify on TV, I kept thinking how they didn't want to have to be there. How they had to take off work. Drive to the prison. Pay for gas. Buy an outfit they knew they'd be photographed in. How painful an ordeal this intrusion on their attempt to come to terms with their tragedy. "We lost our privacy and suffered untold depression, frustration, anxiety and financial ruin," a La Bianca relative testified, calling the hearing a "sacrilege to Leno's memory that the family has to be confronted with parole hearings of these individuals." A resentful La Bianca niece continued, "I don't personally support execution but I feel life in prison is an adequate punishment for what was done." Sometimes the family's words were so terrible they could have come from a horror movie: "The house was a family sanctuary... one of the murder weapons used was the carving fork that was used for our holiday festivities. I saw, as a youngster, my grandfather Leno and my father use these instruments of joy that were turned into tools of torture and death. We are stained for life." It doesn't matter that Leslie herself never touched this fork; it was her co-defendant Patricia Krenwinkle who plunged it into Mr. La Bianca's neck after "Tex" had already stabbed him to death. But what awful details to keep straight! Who cares who did what? Leslie knew they weren't going trick-or-treating when they went into that house. And she has to pay for everything that happened. Every single gruesome detail.
Even I am sometimes still horrified. To me, almost more incomprehensible than the murders is the fact that my friend Leslie, after stabbing Mrs. La Bianca, changed into her clothes before hitching back to the Spahn ranch. "How could you!?" I once asked Leslie, who looked back at me stricken with disgust and humiliation. "I know," she mumbled, "Tex made me change my clothes and I told him I didn't have to." "Did you actually pick out one of her outfits?" I whispered, horrified to imagine fashion decisions in the time of such bloodshed. "No," she gasped as she lowered her eyes in horror that I would even think of such a thing, "I just grabbed the first thing I found!" What a terrible, terrible question to have to answer!
At the parole hearing, a La Bianca niece testified she was outraged to have "never heard from Leslie Van Houten, not by phone, email or letter. She should apologize to me," she added with anger. But Leslie wasn't even aware of these nieces and nephews until they came to parole hearings decades after the crimes. She knew about "two children" but not cousins. Leslie had earlier told a parole member that she had wrestled with writing a letter of apology because she thought "how I would feel if it had been my own mother and father -- not sure I would have wanted the perpetrator to have contacted me." In 1994 Leslie told The Washington Post that she had written dozens of apologies and never mailed them because they would amount to a request for a favor.
When the La Bianca nieces and nephews first appeared at Leslie's hearing, Leslie said, "I am relieved that family members came forward...it's really hard to live with the murders when no one was there. It was incomplete dealing with it." And she had apologized to the unseen La Bianca family many times at earlier parole hearings. "I feel great shame and remorse when I think of the La Bianca children and their family today...when I think back on the night of August 10th, all I think about is the horror these two very innocent human beings were subjected to. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."
Leslie has agreed to meet with the victims' relatives, but only if there is no tape of the meeting to be exploited by the media. "If the family works with the Institute I certainly would welcome a chance to apologize to them in a personal way." In other words, not on Court TV, not on videocassettes bought and sold on line on Manson groupie websites and not for the whole world to see. "A virtuoso performance," a commentator blurted on TV after seeing footage of Leslie baring her soul at a parole hearing. And this is exactly the kind of "entertainment" value she is trying to avoid.
"She cannot repay," a La Bianca nephew told the Board before turning to Leslie and saying, "Therefore accept your punishment and pray for the good Lord's forgiveness in the hereafter." Worse yet, Patty Tate, sister of Sharon, who is not allowed to testify at Leslie's hearing because Leslie is not convicted of the Tate murders but is allowed to be there in "victim support," told the news media outside the hearing her feelings about all the convicted Manson Family members. "I have no animosity," she reasoned, "I want these people to flourish within the confines of these [prison] walls. I want them to be productive and have lives within the confines of these walls right here."
Yet, forgiveness can seem insane, too. Susan Le Barge, the born-again Christian daughter of Leno and Rosemary La Bianca, outraged her family and Sharon Tate's mother by appearing at Charles "Tex" Watson's 1990 parole hearing and testifying that the man who stabbed to death both her mother and father should be released. "I believe twenty-one years of imprisonment and his having to live with the memory of what he did is punishment enough," she told a startled and disbelieving board. "It's my belief Charles could live in society peacefully and should be given a parole date," she concluded as "Tex" Watson sat there seemingly stunned.
Knowing the schism Susan Le Barge's testimony must have caused with the La Bianca family, Leslie never tried to hop on board this almost ludicrously forgiving bandwagon but I'm sure she felt some relief to hear one of the victims' family trying to get past their hatred of her. Leslie must have been encouraged to read the words of the father of murder victim Myra Opshal, who was killed in a bank robbery committed by the Patty Hearst-kidnapping Symbionese Liberation Army. When one of its members, Kathleen Soliah, was about to be released on bail for taking part in this crime, he was angry but expressed hope, according to The Los Angeles Times, "that Soliah can emerge from jail to offer society some productive years. I hope she [Soliah] has learned something from this," he continued, "and can go out and be a good citizen and contribute to the community where she lives. And she'll have some life left to live."
Most likely Leslie would be inspired by the forgiveness the Amish community showed the gunman who insanely shot to death five school girls and severely wounded five more before killing himself in a one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. A year later a local historian gave a speech on the anniversary of this horrible event called "Why the Amish Forgave a Killer." "The Amish community believes forgiveness is about giving up," he said, "giving up your right to revenge. And giving up feelings of resentment, bitterness and hatred, replacing them with compassion toward the offender and treating the offender as a human being."


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Waikoloa Beach Resort is just 18 miles north of the Kona International Airport.
From the airport, turn north (left) on Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway (Hwy 19).


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RED RIVER GORGE — Miscanthus sinensis is one of the worst offenders.
It takes advantage of our nourishing climate, and repays the kindness by smothering the locals.
The ornamental grass, which also goes by the alias Chinese silverplume, was planted at Natural Bridge State Resort Park in the 1930s, but it soon escaped and now is at large in the state.
It was one of the priority targets listed by the Forest Service last week when the agency asked for input on a proposed war on weeds in the Daniel Boone National Forest.
The 700,000-acre forest "is facing an ecological crisis," as native species are crowded out by the foreigners, the agency said.
The Forest Service plan calls for treating as many as 1,400 acres a year by various means, but actual numbers will depend on how much money is appropriated each year for the work. The proposal contains no cost estimates.
There have been efforts to combat invasive exotic plants in Lexington parks, at the Arboretum on Alumni Drive and in state parks and nature preserves. But the effort at Daniel Boone, which covers portions of 21 counties, has the potential to be the largest attempt so far to take back acreage for native species or at least stop the spread of exotics.
"Every acre lost to these invaders is a loss not only to our native plant species' diversity, but also displaces wildlife food sources and habitats," the Forest Service said.
More than 70 species are causing problems, the Forest Service said. Most of the offending weeds came here from Asia or Europe. They spread rapidly because they left behind whatever diseases or insects kept them in check back home.
The best-known invasive is kudzu. It can be found in the Boone, but it's not among the worst invaders.
The agency proposes to get rid of weeds by pulling, mowing, burning or spraying them with herbicides.
It issued a report asking for comments from the public. If the proposal is approved, work could begin next June.
The Forest Service says it wants to concentrate on areas, such as wetlands and cliff lines, where sensitive native species are found and invasives can do the most damage.
In some cases, the Forest Service says, it wants to work with landowners to remove invasives on private land that is adjacent to public land in the fragmented forest.
The two wilderness areas in the Daniel Boone — Clifty and Beaver Creek — are not included in the proposal, but the public is invited to give opinions on whether they should be.
Joyce Bender, president of the Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council, welcomed the move against invasives.
"I know they've had to go through a lot of processes to get to this point, so this is good," she said.
The Forest Service proposal uses what the agency calls "adaptive management, which allows it to react more quickly to new infestations. Bender said that is important, because "if they didn't give themselves the option to switch gears, they might not be as successful."
Bender also is a branch manager for the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission. She said she could not speak for that agency about the Forest Service proposal because she had not yet consulted with colleagues.
Jim Scheff, the director for the environmental group Kentucky Heartwood, said he was glad to see the Forest Service dealing with the invasives problem. But he said he is concerned about an over-reliance on herbicides to control the weeds.
"A site-specific, case-specific argument can be made for herbicides, but they should be a last resort," Scheff said.
He also said that when the Forest Service approves a logging road or a gas or oil well on the forest, it creates openings where invasive plants can move in.
"While they're looking at spending a lot of money and spraying a lot of herbicides to combat invasives, they're also engaging in practices that spread them," he said.
As part of a federal lawsuit that Heartwood is pursuing against the Forest Service, it argues that the agency hasn't considered the overall impacts of using herbicides. Scheff said he would like to see such an analysis as part of the invasive-plants effort.
David Taylor, the forest botanist for the Daniel Boone, said he expects comments from the public about herbicides.
"We know that is controversial for many people, but prepared properly, it is very effective," he said.
Taylor also acknowledged that logging and other resource extractions efforts can be an invitation to exotics.
"Our national direction is that we will do certain kinds of management," he said. "So we're trying to do a better job of mitigating after we do something."
Exotics can also come in when new trails are built, he said, or when a wind- or ice-storm knocks down trees.
"Many of these species like disturbances," Taylor said. "They follow disturbances."
To explain how ubiquitous exotics are in the national forest, Taylor walked along the Pinch-em-Tight trail head off Tunnel Ridge Road. Here's some of what he found in just a few yards:
■ On the edge of the parking lot was a large Elaeagnus umbellata, or autumn olive, that has small berries that are eaten and spread by birds. The autumn olive was often planted on reclaimed strip-mine land because it grows quickly, holds the soil and attracts wildlife. Now it's a nuisance.
"A lot of these plants that we consider weeds were brought in with good intentions," Taylor said.
Pointing to one of the many berries that were turning from green to red, he added that "because birds like them, every one of these is a potential new plant somewhere on this ridge."
■ Growing alongside the road was Microstegium vimineum, or Japanese stiltgrass.
It was first noticed 90 years ago near Knoxville, Tenn., and now is found through most of the eastern United States. It is so widespread that the Forest Service proposes to just keep it from spreading, not to reduce its numbers.
It isn't doing any real harm just growing along Tunnel Ridge Road, Taylor said. But seeds are washing into the woods and over cliffs, and the plant is moving into rock shelters that are a favorite spot of a native called white-haired goldenrod. That species is so rare that it is found only in the gorge and nowhere else in the world.
■ Rosa multiflora, or multiflora rose, was found. It was introduced to this country as a natural fence that also held soil.
"It made some pretty tough fences that kept cattle in place," Taylor said.
Now it's making thorny barriers in places it shouldn't be.
■ Miscanthus sinensis, the Chinese silverplume mentioned earlier, is an attractive plant that can be seen waving in the wind along the Mountain Parkway.
But with seeds that spread on the wind, it has overtaken thousands of acres, mostly in Eastern Kentucky. Many people plant it in their yards all over the state.
Besides pushing out native plants, the dried blades of grass from previous growing seasons pose a severe fire hazard, Taylor said. A small leaf-litter fire will hit a patch of the grass and become such an inferno that firefighters can only pull back and watch, he said.
"It's pretty and you can understand why people would want to plant it," Taylor said of the plant. "But it produces a lot of windblown seeds and if it gets a little ground, it goes."
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Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb removed a party official from his post Thursday after a recording surfaced of him making offensive remarks about the shooting of U.S. Rep Steve Scalise.
Kleeb removed Phil Montag on Thursday morning as co-chair of the state party's technology committee after The World-Herald sent her a link to the recording on a black advocacy website.
In the recording, Montag said he wished Scalise was dead, and he called the Louisiana Republican obscene names. The conversation took place in a private home in Omaha between Montag, Nebraska Democratic Party Black Caucus Chair Chelsey Gentry-Tipton and a friend of hers. In an interview Thursday, Montag said that he was "horrified" by the shooting of Scalise and all gun violence, that he "absolutely" did not wish Scalise was dead and that the recording had been edited to take his words out of context.
Scalise, the House majority whip, and four other people were shot June 14 at a Washington, D.C., area baseball field as Republicans practiced for a congressional baseball game. The gunman was shot and later died. Scalise's injuries were life-threatening; he is still hospitalized and listed in fair condition.
On Thursday, Kleeb acted immediately upon hearing the recording.
Kleeb said she reported the recorded conversation to the police because she viewed Montag's remarks as a possible death threat.


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Posted on: Apr 9, 2015
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Social media has been abuzz over the past few days… who exactly is the enigmatic Agent XXI who's been teasing us ahead of the XXI Annual South African Music Awards on Sunday, 19 April 2015? Well, he's now stepped out of the shadows and we can reveal that it's none other than HHP!
That's right: Hip Hop Pantsula (aka Jabba, aka Jabulani Tsambo) will be taking to the stage as the official host of the XXI South African Music Awards at Sun City, and he now has an extra alias to add to his list of nicknames: Agent XXI.
The internationally acclaimed Motswako rapper will be keeping the Superbowl audience and television viewers entertained between performances and awards presentations at the glittery ceremony, and what makes the occasion particularly special is that the Mafikeng-born musician will be doing so in his home province, the North West.
The awards have been without a host for two years (previous hosts include none other than Trevor Noah, who has just landed a plum gig hosting The Daily Show in the United States), but HHP is no stranger to charming television viewers, having won the third season of the reality dance show Strictly Come Dancing.
It's fitting that someone who has made such a rich contribution to the South African music scene (not to mention outside our borders, having snagged a coveted MTV Africa Music Award for Best Video in 2009) has been chosen to host South Africa's most prestigious music awards event.
Catch HHP on stage at the XXI Annual South African Music Awards on Sunday, 19 April 2015, broadcast live from the Sun City Superbowl on SABC1 from 20h00. It's going to be Jabba-licious!
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Tickets to the awards ceremony and VIP after-party are also available atComputicket. For more information, visit www.samusicawards.co.za and find the nominated albums at iTunes.com/SAMA
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"The Canada Revenue Agency will no longer allow Canadians to benefit from financial relief when they disclose unreported income in cases that involve offshore dealings or sophisticated tax-avoidance schemes, federal officials said. Starting in March, the federal agency will restrict the incentives offered to late-filing taxpayers under the Voluntary Disclosures Program," wrote Daniel Leblanc for The Globe and Mail on December 15, 2017.
Leblanc continued, "The changes to the VDP are part of a federal clampdown on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance, especially in cases involving the use of tax havens. The Liberal government has been scaling back the financial benefits of owning private corporations, but there is growing pressure on Ottawa to maximize the revenue from wealthy individuals and corporations with access to sophisticated tax lawyers and accountants.
Under a new "limited" VDP that will apply to wealthy taxpayers involved in complex schemes as of next year, the CRA will offer immunity from criminal prosecution and waive "gross negligence" penalties to successful applicants. However, to qualify under the newly configured program, individuals and companies will have to pay all owed taxes, full interest and late-filing penalties – amounts that were frequently lowered or waived under the existing program."
Morneau's tax revisions for small-business
"The Liberal government is making further concessions to small-business owners even as a Senate study has concluded that Finance Minister Bill Morneau should scrap his controversial tax plan entirely," wrote Bill Curry for The Globe and Mail on Wednesday December 13th.
Curry continued, "As members of Parliament bolted for the exits for a six-week recess, Mr. Morneau stood in the House of Commons foyer to announce his latest revisions to tax changes he first proposed in July. The latest adjustments include new exemptions for certain family situations, but the minister is sticking with his plan to have the new rules take effect on Jan. 1.
Mr. Morneau said family businesses will have enough time to decide how they want to handle issues such as dividend payments to family members under the new rules, given that taxes for 2018 are not filed until 2019."
815,000 Canadians affected by Uber data breach
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"Uber Canada said late Monday that 815,000 Canadian riders and drivers may have been affected as part of its worldwide data breach announced in November," wrote The Canadian Press posted by CBC News on December 12, 2017.
The Canadian Press continued, "The disclosure came the same day the federal privacy commissioner said it had opened a formal investigation into the data breach, which saw the theft of information from some 57 million Uber accounts globally in October 2016.
Uber said the information taken includes names, email address, and mobile phone numbers from the accounts, but that its investigation has not identified any location history, credit card numbers, bank account numbers or dates of birth were downloaded."
Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day shows health benefits vs harm
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"People who drink three to four cups of coffee a day are more likely to see health benefits than harm, experiencing lower risks of premature death and heart disease than those who abstain, scientists said on Wednesday," wrote Kate Kelland for Reuters published by The Globe and Mail on November 23, 2017.
Kelland continued, "The research, which collated evidence from more than 200 previous studies, also found coffee consumption was linked to lower risks of diabetes, liver disease, dementia and some cancers.
Three or four cups a day confer the greatest benefit, the scientists said, except for women who are pregnant or who have a higher risk of suffering fractures.
Coffee is one of the most commonly consumed drinks worldwide. To better understand its effects on health, Robin Poole, a public health specialist at Britain's University of Southampton, led a research team in an "umbrella review" of 201 studies based on observational research and 17 studies based on clinical trials across all countries and all settings."
Passive income rules for small businesses could bring in $6-billion a year
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"The Parliamentary Budget Officer says Ottawa's planned changes to passive income rules for small businesses will eventually raise up to $6-billion a year, but the spending watchdog supports the government's claim that only a very small percentage of small businesses will be affected," wrote Justin Tang/ The Canadian Press for The Globe and Mail on November 23, 2017.
Tang/The Canadian Press continued, "Providing the first cost estimate of the proposal, the PBO expects the plan would raise up to $1-billion a year during the first two years. This would rise gradually to up to $6-billion once the policy has been in place for 20 years.
Overall, the report estimates that about 2.5 per cent of incorporated small businesses – officially known as Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs) – would be affected."
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Lucette Taero is a politician from French Polynesia. In 2001 she became the president of the Assembly of French Polynesia, the first woman to hold the position.

Biography
Taero served as a government minister under President Gaston Flosse for five years prior to becoming assembly president. In 2008 she resigned from the party she belonged to, Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party.

In 2004, Taero punched an opposition Member of Parliament during an assembly session.

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AFC South Coaches on Marcus Mariota: "He is a nightmare"
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the NFL, no team knows quarterback Marcus Mariota better than the Tennessee Titans.
Teams in the AFC South are next on line, like it or not.
After seeing Mariota play during his rookie season, coaches in the division know they have a challenge on their hands for years to come.
"He is a nightmare for you,'' Colts coach Chuck Pagano, speaking at the NFL owners meetings this week, said of Mariota. "He is wired the right way. His DNA is spot on. He is a winner, a tough guy, a competitor, and he's smart. All the intangibles are there for him to be a really good football player.
"What makes him tough is he can beat you in so many ways. He can beat you with his arm, and he can beat you with his feet. And he is going to do nothing but get better. And they're going to get better as a team."
Titans Online talked with the head coaches from all the AFC South teams at the owners meetings.
Mariota faced the Jaguars twice in 2015, and the Colts once. Mariota missed both games against the Texans because of injuries, and he missed the season-finale at Indianapolis because of an injury.
Texans coach Bill O'Brien said he's plenty familiar with Mariota, however.
"I really liked him when he was coming out (of college at Oregon),'' O'Brien said of Mariota. "We interviewed him at the combine and he was excellent. He's a very bright guy, a very sharp guy. And then when you watch him play, I think he has a lot of tools. Obviously he can run, so he is a really big threat to take off and run.
"But I think the big thing about him is over the years, from college to this past year, his passing has really improved. He is an accurate passer. So I think there is a lot of things you can do with him. Plus, he has a really good disposition for that position. He is a leader, he's calm. He is a winner. He has won a lot of games. That guy is a big, big challenge for teams."
Mariota broke rookie records for most touchdowns (19), completions (230), passing yards (2,818) and passing attempts (370) in his first NFL season.
He also ran for 252 yards and two touchdowns on 34 attempts, including an 87-yard run for a touchdown against the Jaguars on December 6. He had three runs of 20-plus yards, including a 23-yard touchdown run in Jacksonville on November 19 on a Thursday night.
"I think his ability to extend plays is something that is a big concern,'' Jaguars coach Gus Bradley said of Mariota. "To come in as a rookie and play with the poise that he did. I think in the red zone, he had unbelievable success. The situational football deals that come up in a game, to see him perform at a high level, that's impressive. But he can really hurt you running the football.
"And it is only going to get better for him. But his ability to extend the play and make good decisions I think are his two highest qualities."
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Pagano said Mariota's maturity reminds him of his own quarterback, Andrew Luck.
Mariota completed 27-of-44 passes for 367 yards, with two touchdowns and two interceptions in the game against Indianapolis last season, in week three.
"He is a great, great talent,'' Pagano said of Mariota. "He is a great athlete. He has great arm talent, and can make all the throws. His decision making is top notch. From an athletic standpoint he can extend plays.
"Now that he has a year under his belt, he is going to be better next year than he was this year. And he is mature like Andrew coming in, mature beyond his years. He's going to be tough to deal with not only because of his arm and his smarts, but when the play starts to break down, he has the ability to extend plays. That really makes it tough. It is hard chasing those guys around for two and three seconds, let alone five or six seconds."
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ST. LOUIS, July 19, 2010 -- After an IM Anna Zatonskih draw in round nine, IM Irina Krush won a wild one against WFM Abby Marshall to clinch the 2010 U.S. Women's Championship title with a score of 8/9. This is her third U.S. Women's Championship title, and her first since 2007.
FM Warren Harper bounced back from five straight losses to upset GM Ray Robson, which seemingly dashed his hopes at a repeat, but a late draw by Parker Zhao and a victory by IM Sam Shankland created a three-way tie atop the Junior Closed leaderboard at 6/9. An Armageddon showdown will be used to determine the Junior Closed Championship.
The playoff, which will take place at 10 a.m CDT, on Tuesday, will feature a unique set of rules. Robson, by virtue of being first on tiebreaks, has elected to receive a bye in the first round of the playoff. Zhao and Shankland will play a game to determine who will play Robson for the championship.
In this game, both players will bid on how much time they are willing to start with, up to 45 minutes. Whoever bids the lesser amount of time has the option to choose his color, with the black pieces getting draw odds (meaning that in the case of a draw, black is declared the winner). Whoever loses the bid will receive a full 45 minutes, with both players receiving a five-second increment for each move.
The winner of that game will have his choice of color in the championship game, with black again having draw odds. This means that Robson will almost certainly have to play for a win with White. In the championship game, each player will have 45 minutes with a five-second increment for each move.
At the start of round nine play, tournament announcers GM Ben Finegold and WGM Jennifer Shahade said each thought the women's event was more likely to go to Armageddon playoff than the Junior Closed Championship. As both of the top seeds in the Women's Championship event had White in the final rounds, a rematch of the controversial 2008 Armageddon playoff between Krush and Zatonskih seemed imminent.
But tough opposition from WGM Sabina Foisor stymied Zatonskih's chances at a three-peat, and Krush's dynamic yet solid play helped her capture the crown.
After a disappointing 2009 U.S. Women's Championship, Krush brought an upbeat, positive and focused mentality to this year's event.
In round nine, Krush got the benefit of playing with White against Marshall, who had a disappointing tournament going just 0.5/9. Initially, it appeared as though Krush would simply steamroll her opponent.
Krush pulled the aggressive 14.Qd4, stopping Marshall's ability to fianchetto her bishop on g7. The book move, according to Krush, is to play Rg8 to prep Bg7, which attacks the queen and controls the long diagonal, but Marshall instead opted for 14...b5.
But Marshall defended well, as she attempted to play the spoiler and salvage a win in her first U.S. Women's Championship.
Krush said after 23...Bc3, she was able to capture Marshall's knight on d7 and a pawn on c7, which ultimately broke open the position to give her a winning advantage.
Although Krush called her game against Marshall her worst game of the tournament, she was able to convert the full point to clinch the victory, a victory she said she badly wanted.
Krush said an impromptu vacation may be in the works before she begins preparing for the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
Although they will be teammates in Russia, Krush's main rival in this tournament, Zatonskih, never got the opening advantage she needed to overwhelm a tough opponent in Foisor. Although she said she prepared for the a6 Slav, Zatonskih differed from the main line of 6.Bg5 with 6.g3. Foisor responded with 6...c5, a response that took Zatonskih by surprise.
Following a queen trade, each established a solid position, but Foisor did not allow Zatonskih to once again work her endgame magic. Numerous times throughout the tournament, Zatonskih demonstrated her uncanny ability to grind opponents down in a long, grueling endgame, often turning the slightest of advantages into winning positions.
Zatonskih, who found herself in time pressure frequently this tournament, went at least 50 moves deep in five of her nine games, including a grueling round four win against WIM Alisa Melekhina that lasted 82 moves.
Zatonskih said she missed a lot of opportunities in this tournament.
Her 7.5/9 performance was good enough to tie for second place with WFM Tatev Abrahamyan, who had another stellar tournament performance.
In the Junior Closed Championship, Robson needed only to draw with Black against Harper to ensure at least a playoff for the title, if not the outright victory. He began the day just a half point ahead of Zhao, and his opponent, Harper, was in the midst of a five-game losing streak.
Robson once again tried to surprise his opponent by pulling out the King's Indian, but Harper said he looked over those lines in preparation after seeing Robson use it earlier in the tournament.
First, Robson tried to break open the position with 16...Bxh3, sacrificing his bishop to maneuver his Knight to f3, which forked Harper's king on g1 and rook on d2. After trading the two pieces for the rook, the pivotal move, 23...b5, allowed Harper a passer on the a-file. Robson countered by marching his c- and h-pawns down to the second rank, but Harper had too many pieces, ultimately queening his a-pawn (39.a8=Q) and forcing Robson's resignation.
A dejected Robson appeared resigned to the fact that his hopes of repeating as the tournament champion were all but finished.
Harper said this was the most difficult round-robin tournament he had ever played.
"Nobody beats you six in a row," joked Finegold.
After Robson's loss Zhao needed a full point to claim the 2010 Junior Closed title. After an 0/3 start, FM John Bryant had scored 4/5 and continued his solid play this round to prove to he is a formidable opponent. Although Zhao appeared to have the advantage for most of the game, Bryant managed to successfully defend with just his king and knight against Zhao's king, bishop and two pawns.
As the seconds ticked down Robson and Shankland, who pulled off a brilliant round-nine victory, were crowding around the board to see if Bryant could stave off Zhao's attack. Finally, with time pressure too great, Zhao acquiesced to a draw.
A draw by Shankland in round eight seemed to shut the door on his chances at the title. After losing his first two games, a despondent Shankland, who announced he will soon be retiring from chess, seemed like he had all but given up on his final major tournament. After a remarkable turnaround, however, Shankland managed to score six points in his final seven games to qualify for the Armageddon playoff.
In round nine, Shankland blew his opponent, FM Conrad Holt, off the board in a game that truly demonstrated his elite ability.
Zhao and Shankland will have to bid on how much time each is willing to start with in order to win the ability to play with Black and draw odds in the first round of the Armageddon playoff. Then, the winner will have to take on the tournament's only grandmaster for the title.
FM Darwin Yang drew tournament surprise Eric Rosen in a hard-fought game. If Yang could have pulled off the victory, the Junior Closed would have had a four-way tie for the lead.
The playoff begins tomorrow at 10 a.m. CDT. To follow the action live or for more details, visit www.uschesschamps.com.
Katie Baldetti contributed to this report.


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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Unicode Version 7
The Unicode standard is an encoding platform, published by the Unicode consortium. It t translates every written number, symbol, character, or emoji into different world writing systems. It encodes every written character, no matter what the language is and no matter what the device or application is. It is adopted by almost every software provider. It provides the compatibility of transferring the data without corruption. This topic is about version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard. Version 7.0 is the major version and was an important release of the Unicode Standard.
The Unicode version 7.0 was released in June 2014. This version of the Unicode standard adds a total of 2834 characters out of which 23 were new scripts, many symbols, and new characters. Significant additions in the character set include the new currency symbols: the ruble which is used in Russia and many other countries, and the manat which is used in Azerbaijan. Many symbols including geometric symbols, emoji symbols, ornaments, arrows, web dings, and wingdings set. And 23 new scripts for languages of China, India, or many other Asian countries, North America, and Africa. And the inclusion of letters used in Teuthonista. It also includes a new notational set of Duployn.
Some of the important updates in the Unicode version 7.0 are as follows:
It features a new page size tailored for easy viewing for mobiles and e-readers.
It features a new significant reorganization of chapters.
It has some alignment with updates to the Unicode Bidirectional algorithm.
It features improved clarity and further classification of Numeric types.
The addition of a new 3000 Cantonese pronunciation mark has been made in this version.
There are significant updates to the Unihan Database.
Major improvements to the Indic scripts properties were also added in this version of the Unicode Standard.
The Unicode version 7.0 contains a total of 112,956 characters. 110,187 characters were existing in this list of the total. And 2834 characters are a new addition to this version. The new 2834 characters consisted of 250 new emoji characters with new scripts. This version of the Unicode standard was also synchronized with the latest version of ISO/IEC. Version 7.0 also adds the inclusion of the U+20BD Ruble sign.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Unicode version 7.0
There are advantages and disadvantages to everything. Just like that, this version of the Unicode standard also comes up with some advantages with slight disadvantages. Following are some of the advantages and disadvantages of this version:
The one disadvantage of this version is the addition of scripts. It only adds 23 scripts in total. But this version is full of advantages. It adds a total of 112,956 characters. 2834 characters are newly added in this version. It has significant addition in scripts including Ruble and Manat. This version is added with a lot of updates and changes over its previous version. Moreover, there are significant updates to the Unihan database. For easy viewing, there is a new page size tailored made in this version. It also includes the publication of the U+20BD ruble sign.


E-1 ... pray. Lord Jesus, when we leave this morning can say our hearts burned within us, because He has spoke to us along the way. We thank Thee for this grand opportunity that's--that's been--that's come our way, that we could assemble here with these people, Thy children, and enjoy this moments of fellowship. And we pray, heavenly Father, that Your blessings will rest upon us as we journey to different places and meet others.
We thank Thee for every testimony of this fine Christian atmosphere here this morning, and for all these ones that's been a long time in the way, and for this young man that's just crossed over Jordan to see what it really means to live. We can all appreciate that, Lord, knowing that one time we were on the other side too. But no more of the old life now--it's--it's only--it's back in Egypt.
Now we pray that You'll bless our fellowship together as we read Thy Word, and speak a few words from this great Word of God that we all believe in. And bless it to our hearts now, to continue the service. In the Name of Jesus Christ we ask it. Amen.
E-2 Brother Leo, Brother Gene and pilgrims, I--I deem this one of the grand privileges that I've had to come here to see for myself what you have here on these grounds. It's a... I have been blessed as I moved across the little creek there, and see this court. And I... One time when Brother Leo was making tapes, and I told him that surely there was something greater in life for him than to make tapes... And of course tape-making is something we must do, but... It--it blessed us. But there's something else. We're all cut out for different things to do.
And to come here this morning, and look at this fine little Jerusalem setting out here, a little, what I called it Goshen, I believe, when we come over this morning. You remember, Goshen was one of the places that they worshipped, one of the first places the tent was pitched. And to meet old friends, and--and new, and to have this time allotted to us, I just... It seems like that--that you just don't want to leave. There's just something that wants to hold you. I can see why you people would want to stay here. See? It's something that grips you.
E-3 I don't believe I was ever in any sweeter worship and fellowship as these songs and things that... I set there and biting my lips, and shake my feet, and try to hold myself back from screaming out, when I hear those old songs sang in the way that they ought to be sung--and that's sung in the spirit. That's what we--we... Paul said, "If I sing, I'll sing in the spirit."
Now, I can't imagine the spirit as being screaming to the top of our voice. I--I think the Spirit of Christ is love, and gentleness, and peace, that--that brings something to our souls that feed us. And I think that's the way them songs should be sang. And to be here with you a dedicated people to a cause--the cause of Christ; there's just so many things that I could say that the time wouldn't permit me.
E-4 I--I come for... I thought, "Well, I'll run up and visit Brother Leo and the church up there and a portion of the body of Christ that's waiting for the--for His coming, and a part of the bride that's sojourning here."
And how you've separated yourself from the rest of the world, and--and come over here to live this way. I was thinking even the little creek you're on this side of Jordan now, you're--you're in the--the land here. You're--you're----you've come over an exodus, a coming out of the world into a place to where you can congregate yourself together and--and worship God, really according to the dictates of your conscience.
And that's what we stand for as a democracy, as a nation. We stand for this very thing, that each man can worship. And it's just too bad we don't have more like this (See? That's right.), where that--let the world be in their place and God's people be in their place--where we can have this.
E-5 And I certainly had... If I said, "Amen," and walked out the door, I'd say it would pay me every Sunday to drive up here, or--or have my children even to come up to--to set under an atmosphere like this, because it's always the atmosphere that brings the results.
You can lay a seed out there in the ground. No matter how much that seed's germitized, and lay it there, it's got to have an atmosphere to make it live. See? That sun has to come to a certain power before--bring it to a certain atmosphere. An egg has to have an atmosphere or it won't hatch. No matter how fertile it is, it's got to have that atmosphere.
E-6 And I think that in a group like this, Christians hatch out, are borned again in such an atmosphere as this. This is the kind of atmosphere I was borned under. No matter where I go and visit the cold world in mission fields and so forth, I can even stand and close my eyes and think of this atmosphere.
This reminds me, when I was just a boy preacher and just starting out; we had little groups that met from house to house. We separated ourselves from the things of the world too. That's what made my heart the way it is today in love with Christ.
Where we can dwell together... I believe the Scripture said, "How sweet it is that brethren can dwell together in unity." It's like the anointing oil that was on Aaron's beard, that ran to the hems of his garments. And there's just so much could be said. I--I... Maybe the Holy Spirit will interpret to you after I'm gone what it is.
Wished I could stay all afternoon, and just forsake meals and everything else, just set here and hear you sing (See?), hear you sing, and talk, and testify. It means so much.
E-7 My daughter graduates tonight, or it's just the baccalaureate service tonight, and I have to hurry back. And I didn't know that, that it was to be this--baccalaureate service was to be until just last night. I'm kind of busy, and don't notice it.
And visiting with Brother Leo and Brother Gene, as they come down, I've longed for the time to be here, wondering, just really. I heard people say, "Well, they've got a lovely trailer court. They're over on one side; the world's on the other. And on this side's all dedicated lives and things."
I thought, "I'd like to see that. I'd just--just like to see what it really is." And you all are blessed to be here.
E-8 I want to read just one verse out of the Bible, and I think just reading this one verse will absolutely make a complete service. But I--I have... Coming up here, I had just a few comments that I thought I would say. It won't take me but just a few minutes. And then I would like to say these comments to what I--what I feel now.
I have become a fool in glorying; yea... compelling me: for I ought to have been commended of You: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
I would like just... If I would call this a text... I--I think the Holy Spirit's just among us. And we... It wouldn't be just to read a Scripture. He... That's what He lives on. And every word is given by inspiration, and it's fitting for time; it never ends. It's like a chain. It just keeps going on. It never ends, the Scriptures.
E-9 And I thought while reading this, and thinking of this little place up here, this come on my mind, Paul saying, "I have become a fool." See? Now, that's a very strange thing for an apostle to say. "I have become a fool."
Now, a fool is a person that really isn't in their right mind. And how would this apostle say such a thing as this, "I become a fool"? And then, thinking of--of this group, no doubt that in the eyes of the people on the other side, you've become a fool. You have become what we would call today, "the oddball." No doubt but what people think that of you. And remember, that on the other side, they're oddballs too. See?
So--so you have to be somebody's fool; so I'd rather be a fool for Christ. See? I'd be a... God said His people were a peculiar people, odd, a chosen, elected, a royal priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices to God that is the fruits of our lips, giving praise to His Name.
E-10 Some time ago, this little sense of humor... I hope it doesn't break the fine spirit that's in here. Just come on my mind. It was a Brother Troy of the Full Gospel Business Men, was telling about this... I was thinking of this for this young singer here, that's just come to the Lord.
When he--he was working in a... He was a meat cutter, and he was working at a butcher shop, and--and there--there was a German there. And he just kept talking to him about the Lord. And this German couldn't talk English very well. So he--he said, "Well, come on to the meeting." He said, "You need the baptism of the Holy Ghost."
So the old Dutchman wanted him to know that he was a Lutheran. You see? that he was--he was all right--he was a Lutheran.
He said, "Well, you come on up, and visit us once."
And so they come across a--a bunch of, perhaps, oddballs too, as we call it. You see? And that night this German man received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the next day he was cutting meat, and speaking in tongues...?... he was having him a regular jubilee.
And so, after while the boss of the factory come by, and he said, "Henry," said, "what's the matter with you?"
And he said, "Why," he said, "where you been?" Said, "You must have been down there with that bunch of nuts," he said.
He said, "Yes, glory to God." He said, "I was down there with the bunch of nuts." He said, "You know, if you didn't have the nuts," said, "you take like the automobile. It comes down the road. And you take all the nuts out of it, and what you got but a bunch of yunk!" That's just about right.
E-11 And you take the--the--the nuts out of anything... Now, it takes that to hold the things together. The world gets in such a place in a turmoil, and the church gets so sewed up in worldlyism, and--and denominationalism, and so forth, till it takes sometimes a nut to hold the thing together. That's right. If we don't have it, we don't have it... We don't have the church.
Now, we can think of that subject just for a few moments. Paul said, "I have become a fool (or a nut) just for..." Now, you have to be somebody's nut. You can either be a nut for the world, or a nut for Christ.
One day in California, I was walking down the street, and there was a man. He had a sign in the front of him, like this. Said, "I am a fool for Christ." And on his back he had a sign that said, "Now, who's fool are you?" ...?... so they asked on it. So he had to be somebody's fool.
E-12 So Paul here had chosen to be a fool for Christ. And you can imagine how the world thought of him at that time, and not only the world, but the church. That man had been trained to be a priest. He was trained under Gamaliel, a great, one of the greatest scholars and greatest teachers of that day. And when he had had maybe say, his Bachelor of Art and his--his Doctor's degree, and--and was ready for to be called into the priesthood, and maybe someday, with the possibility with the enthusiasm this young man had... And then to change that all at once, all because something happened... He met Christ on the road to Damascus. And then to the world he was a fool, and to the church he was a fool. To the--the denominational church he was actually a fool. That's what he said here: he had become a fool. He was a fool to those people, but he was the instrument that God used to hold the church together, to hold the body, as it was in that day, together. He'd become a fool for that--for that sake.
E-13 We can imagine of Noah, as the brother sang of him here, "while God sent His love on the wings of a dove," one of my favorite songs. And I've always wanted to get somebody that could play that. I wanted to speak on it.
One time I read a story of some soldiers being pinned down, and the enemy (Germans in the first World War) had them pinned down. And they had a--a little pigeon to take a message. And when the... That's a form of a dove, of course it's one variety of dove. And when they put the message on the little pigeon, he flew up in the air. And bullets shooting at him every way, 'cause they knowed what it was. It broke his legs. His little legs was hanging down crippled, and his wings had the feathers shot out of it. He was turning sideways, and everything, through the air. But he dropped right in the camp where he was supposed to, and they got help. You know what I mean from there on. See?
So we were in that kind of shape one day too, you know. And He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquity, but the message got here just the same. He got the message to us.
E-14 And Noah in his days, I can imagine a man of his caliber, a prophet that was vindicated of God... And--and God spoke to him one day. What a strange thing it was, in a great scientific age. Perhaps could shoot the moon with their radar, and they could build a sphinx, and the pyramid.
And--and God spoke to him and said, "Noah, it's going to rain water down out of the heavens." Could you imagine a man of his caliber, a prophet of the Lord go out with such a silly message as that, and say that... It had never rained, remember, from the heavens in them days.
God watered the earth, the Bible says, by irrigation through the ditches and so forth: springs. It had never rained a drop. There was no water up there. So they could prove there was no water up there.
E-15 And then, a man come out with a message. And not only that, but separated himself from the rest of the world. He become a nut to the world. That's right. He was a nut of his age. How a man with such a crazy message would try to bring a people out into a little trailer, or an ark, or whatever it was they--they were building up there. And--and he was--he was actually a foolish man. But what did he do? In doing so, he was the nut that saved the believing church in that day. That's just what happened. He had to take them out from the world. But he was preparing a place that he knowed that Christ could come to and would take them. He become a nut.
E-16 You... Could you imagine Moses in his day, a man going down to a great intellectual [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... They'd conquered the world at that time. And their scientific and their--their art and stuff, really I guess exceeded ours today, and their master art, and their mastership of buildings, and so forth, and the great things that they did then in--in that day.
And could you imagine a man coming down there and said he met a God that they didn't even believe in, in a burning bush. And he came down on a... Being a military man to begin with and been trained in all the maneuvers of--of military world. And we find that he comes down there with a stick in his hand to take and deliver a people out of a nation that had held the world captive.
E-17 Why, to Pharaoh he was a nut--that's all. He was crazy. Said, "Let him do it, go ahead, rave on. He'll declare himself insane." Well now, really to Pharaoh, and his great scientific world, he was a oddball. He was a nut to--to them. You see? He was.
But what did he do? He delivered the people, because he was sent of God. It took... It takes something peculiar, something that's different from the rest of the world. You see, the world is so one way on the great--their great scientific achievements, and so forth. And when a man is led of God to do something that's odd to that, he becomes a fool. He's crazy. But see, it takes something like that to hold the thing together.
E-18 Now, we think of Elijah in his days, when Ahab,... And Israel at that time had every nation under heavens fearing them under this Ahab's reign. And Ahab was a great man. It was a great day, something on the order we have now. The church had all become fashion. See? It was Jezebel's paint, and--and Ahab's worldliness, and compromising, and they tore down the altars of God. "Oh, just you serve a god, what difference does it make?" See? "We'll go up to the groves, and you can serve any god you want to."
That's just about the way it is today, see, all fashions, and--and--and dressings, and clothings, and things of the world. And, "Oh, if you want to belong to this, belong to that, belong to this, belong to that, it's all right. See? Just as long as you go to church, it doesn't make any difference."
It does make a difference what I belong to, and what God I serve, and how I serve Him. He's got one way to me serve Him, He's got that wrote out here in this Word, and that's the way we're to serve Him. See? Now, It does make a difference.
E-19 But when Elijah came out there with such a message as he had, could you imagine? He became a nut to--to--to Pharaoh, or to (pardon me) to Ahab. He became a regular... separating himself... But, you see, there was seven thousand among those people (See?), that could be saved. See? And he came for them. He had to become a nut to the world in order to catch them. So did Noah had to become a nut to the world to catch eight souls with himself. See? He had to become an odd sort of--of a person.
E-20 Amos, in the days when he brought his message, and he prophesied... And we find out that when he come into--to--to Samaria, which had been given over to the world. And the women in the streets had become almost public prostitution, and the fashions, it was a modern Hollywood. When this little unknown bald-headed fellow raised up over the mountain one morning, and looked down upon Samaria and saw it in sin, and why, I'd imagine his heart almost failed.
Only thing he'd knowed, he'd been a herdsman. He--he wasn't really... The Lord just give him this message, and sent him down there. And now, he had no sponsorship; he had--he had nobody to back him up. But he was led of God to go bring this message to the people and to call them out from judgment. Well now, I'd imagine to the great scientific age, and the age of glamor, something of the order today, Amos became a oddball. See? He became a fool, and they--they wouldn't want nothing to do. But yet, he had THUS SAITH THE LORD (See?), and he delivered what could be delivered.
E-21 John the Baptist, when he came in his days, that great religious world, coming out in--of the wilderness like this, out of the rocks and things in the--in the wilderness of Judaea. And he wasn't dressed like a priest. He wore the rough clothes of a working man, perhaps, with a garment around him, not some great theological seminary teacher or so forth. But he--he was just a common man that could work with his hands, or anything. And when he--when he came down out of the--the wilderness there, and the sheepskin wrapped around him, he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, for he knew that the time of the Messiah was then.
He could thoroughly identify himself in God's Word. He said... For remember, he identified himself in Malachi the 3rd chapter (See?), as the messenger to forerun the coming of the Lord. He knowed the coming was so close until he--he had to come out. Why, the people thought he was a wild man, just a--a--a--a fool (See?), a nut, we'd call it today.
The reason I chose that word "nut," it sounds flat. But yet, it--it's a good word for what I want to use it for, because that's the way the street expression would--would use it today. "Just a common nut," we'd call him.
E-22 Well, here is John the Baptist. He's just simply staying out there in that wilderness, preaching his little sermons up and down there on the--on the Jordan, walking up and down that banks of the river, crying, "The--the hour is at hand, and come out and separate yourself. The Messiah's coming." Why, I'd imagine the priests and all them... He'd become just a regular nut, that's all. See, that's all he was, just a oddball. And them that followed him become oddballs, just simply fools.
Do you know our Lord was declared the same thing when He come: a mad man? See? He didn't go over into the cities and--and in their great, or--or joining the--the great organizations, and things. He was calling a people. He was calling them out. And He was considered by the religious of his days a regular nut.
E-23 Just like Paul was in his days, a trained man, and yet would--would do such a thing as he did, separate himself from the rest of the world and from the denominations, and--and try to call a people. He was an apostle to the Gentile church. He is our apostle; we--we know that, to the Gentile church. He was the nut that brought the Gentile church out of Roman heathenism, and pagan worships of the day.
E-24 Martin Luther, he was a nut to the Catholic church. See? Could you imagine a priest that had--had throwed his--all of his teachings away of the church, and refused to give this communion because the church said, "It is the body of Christ"? And he knowed he--the nuns and them had made that kosher up in there. He--he knew that wasn't Christ; that was a piece of bread (See?), a little sugar wafer. And he knew that--that wine wasn't no literal blood of Christ; it only represented it. So he--he threw it down in his honest conviction, and he wanted nothing more to do with it. See? He--he was through with it.
E-25 Now, the--probably the Catholic church said, "Oh, let him alone. Look what a little group he's got out there. What is it he's got? Just a, oh, false... And us a big church. That's all it is. It's just the thing..." But you see, he was the nut (See?), that was holding it together (See?) in reformation. He brought forth the reformation.
E-26 And now, then we come on after his time, and the great Wesleyan age passed over, and then we had the Baptists from John Smith, and then we had Alexander Campbell, and--and then we had Buddy Robinson of the Nazarene. And finally it just kept waving off away from the real stem. And then God raised up another bunch of nuts: Pentecost. And they become a nut to the people. They're crazy to the world. But what did they do? They did a great work; they certainly did, the Pentecostal age.
Brother Leo led to come up here, and there was... You had little children that has to be trained up. See? You got women, young ladies here, that--that don't like to walk in the way of the world. You got men here, that's aged and retired. They want a place to where they can settle down, and--and feel at home, dwell among their own kind of people. Well, and... See? I think that God can raise up something to take care of that. Don't you think so? I--I believe that with all my heart. And He does that.
E-28 Now, we find out it's time now. Notice, the nut always was what pulled them together. Like all Americans today, we find so much worldlyism and things, in our churches and our denominations, and things. Let something raise up on the Word... See, they got off to the creed and not the Word. Let something raise up with the Word, you know, they say, "Well, the people think you separated yourself."
I talked to your pastor here, and our Brother Leo. And someone said, "Well, why don't you come and come into this, and come in that?"
He said, "No, no." See, he's--he's sold out to one thing, the Word (See?), to the Word. See?
E-29 Well, now look. If there is a nut sent, there's got to be a bolt for it to fit on. Is that right? Now, God sends nuts. Don't you believe that? You say... I'm--I'll explain this in a little bit. But to make this point: there's got to be a bolt, and that bolt's got to be threaded to fit the nut. I'm so glad to be threaded with the Word. I'm so glad that there's a bolt that's threaded the same way. And what's it to do? It's to draw out the bride from the world, set it aside for something different. Yes, friends. We may be a nut to the things of the world, the people of the world, but we are only drawing out, that which is threaded for this.
E-30 Noah was threaded in his day, and the rest of the prophets, and down through the age. And the righteous men was threaded because He sent it. What would be the use of having a bolt, a nut if you didn't have a bolt for it to go on? And what is a bolt and a nut together? It's--it's to draw something together. See?
E-31 Something was in you, something in your heart threaded you. I might say this morning, "Who is Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal Assemblies, this, that, and the other?" There'd be all kinds of hands go up here, and forty or fifty people. See? There would be that made--everybody different. But what makes you set here? Why are you here. See? It's because you were threaded to something. See? And when it begin to come, it makes sense to you.
If you try to put a certain thread upon a bolt of a certain kind that wouldn't fit, it doesn't make sense to you. You see, it--it won't go on. See? But when something comes along that fits just exactly, it pulls you from Chicago, from New Orleans, or wherever you come from, to here. See? And now, you see, you become oddballs, sure enough, to the world. But don't let that bother you. See? Don't let that bother you.
E-32 Now you say, "How do I know I'm threaded right?" Watch the Word. See? Now you know whether you're threaded right, whether we are nuts for Christ, or whether we are nuts to the world. Now, the world also has received their--their nut. Exactly. I had a little something wrote down here I wanted--didn't want to forget the--the... And we... it said here, we become bolts--nuts to the world (That's exactly.), that we might hold the Kingdom of God together on earth (See?), the Kingdom of God together. All right.
E-33 Remember, the world, they--they... The outside world, they have their nuts also. Satan gives them a nut in the days of this great thing. See, it all works it pro and con. See? Now in the days of... The world had a nut, and that was Pharaoh, in the days of--of Moses. There were... See, there had to be. The--the--the devil has his nuts too. Well, there was Pharaoh. See? Now Israel... And Moses standing down to draw those people out was a nut to Pharaoh. But also Pharaoh was a nut to them too. See? And so, it has to be that way. So you're somebody's nut. I'm so glad to be wound in the Word, aren't you, with the--with the thread of that?
E-34 Somebody will teach that... Ahab, he was a nut (exactly) to Elijah, and the seven thousand, and all his group out there. Jezebel in all their fine, fancy fandangles and things they had out there, that was a nut to that seven thousand that never bowed their knee to Baal. And so was Elijah a nut to them (See?), the same thing.
We find out in the days of Herod, John was a nut (See?), and Herod was a nut also. The world had one.
All right. In the days of Jesus, He was a fool to the--to the world (See?), to Pilate. But Pilate was a nut also to turn Him down. That's right. See? He wasn't threaded. He had a opportunity. But when he had his opportunity to accept it, he wanted some kind of a clown, some kind of a trick, some kind of a magic rabbit to bring out of a hat, you know, or something. He said, "I would see you do some tricks," you know, or something like that. He was a nut himself. See? He had a chance to receive it, but he didn't.
E-35 The Sadducees also, and the Pharisees was the same thing in that day, by not accepting Paul, the one that said he become a fool to the world. See? But the church has its nuts too. See? And the world has its nuts. Christ has His. See?
Now whose are you? The only way you can know... You say, "How do I know this is right, Brother Branham?" "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Therefore, the Word still is here. So if we're threaded with that (See?), know we--though we be a nut to the--the world, if we're threaded in Christ's Word, and Christ's showing that the way He's pulling it together (See?), pulling his church together... Let them raise and do what they want to.
Don't come say, "Oh, there's--there's--there's a nut." You see? You see, he's got to be... he's got... When the threads was cut in the bolt, it's got to be cut in the nut the same way. See what I mean? It's got to fit. See? And the elected, therefore, you see, it won't tighten up with anything else. It's just got to come to Christ. You see? It's the only thing that'll fit. See? And that's where we stand today. Thanks be to--to God, and--and... All right.
I notice this fine little bunch of ladies, that sang over there a few minutes ago. Boy, I wished I had that song. Get that on tape for me, will you, these songs? When you all sing here, make up a song some time. I'll pay you for the tape. You see? I'd like to have it. See? That was beautiful, that real sweet worship like that.
Now. You know, there was a... The young--the women of today, they--what's so-called Christians, the women who--who go to church, they--they wanted something to--to satisfy. They knowed that they have--they wasn't getting it just going to church. But they want to maintain their testimony just the same. See? They want to hold their testimony. "I'm--I'm Methodist, Baptist. I'm--I'm Christian," You see? They want to strip their clothes off of them. They wanted to wear shorts, and bikinis, or what you call them, and all this. You see?
E-38 A human has to worship. You have to worship something. It--it's just in you to worship. So a human has to worship something. So they had no worship in their church, so God raised them up a nut, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone. They still hold their testimony, Elvis Presley, a Pentecostal, Pat Boone, a Church of Christ. See, a absolutely nut to fulfill Jesus' words here, it would be so close it would deceive the very elected, if possible. Still maintain, sing hymns on Sunday, and rock-and-rolls on Monday. See? To us that's--that's a nut. See? It--it really is.
E-39 Now, but you see, in there He had some fine women, also, that wanted to act like ladies. They had decency in them. They wanted to be what Christ wants them to be. So He sends the person along with a message, that--that to that church that they belong to, is foolish. He becomes a nut. But you see what it is? It fits just exactly.
When you talk about long hair, and looking like a lady, and dressing like a lady, and acting like a lady... Instead of standing here like these girls this morning... I was watching a little girl there, her eyes looked heavenly (what I mean, glassy), as she looked up like that, singing something in her heart, what's in here. As them young ladies sang, I thought, "O God. Well, what if--if a Hollywood star could--could get that in their heart?" They'd be the same thing. See?
E-40 But what is it? Why did they go that way? You couldn't pull one of them girls in Hollywood. If you'd give her ten thousand dollars a day, she wouldn't go. Why? She's threaded different. That's exactly right. She's threaded different. That's right.
You couldn't pull Leo, Gene, and them into some organization. Why? Couldn't pull you fellows into one. Why? You're threaded different. See? So if you're threaded, there's got to be a nut to hold...?... right here to--to hold that together. Isn't it right? See, then it's complete.
Thanks be to God, like the little Dutchman said, for the nuts. If you take them out, it becomes a bunch of junk. What have you got? A bunch of denominationalism, a bunch of cold formalism, no Christ in it at all, no Word in it at all, just a bunch of creeds, and so forth. And what have you got? Take the nut out, you got a bunch of junk (That's right.), nothing in the world but firewood, something that's waiting for the blazes and punishments of God to judge and to burn up at some day.
E-41 So I'm thankful this morning to fit right in up here (See?), where you might be an odd person on this side of the river. Even some of your people might think that you are odd. I know they do. I've had letters from them (See?), that said you were odd, you were different, what in the world happened to you? I just chose this little thing to say to you this morning. See? Sure, you're a nut. That's right. But I'm glad to be one. But if I'm not tight with this Word, then I'm yunk. See? I'll just be a nut for Christ.
Yes, I get letters from many of your people. Some of them come by and say, "Do you know what happened?"
"This odd guy so-and-so went up there, and done so-and-so."
I said, "Wait just a minute." It depends on what you're wound on. See? So may the Lord Jesus Christ, the Shepherd of the flock, ever keep your hearts so wound into Him, that when the great Shepherd does appear you'll appear with Him. Can we pray?.
E-42 Heavenly Father, seeing that time has run out, and I'm just rushed... Such a lovely, sweet bunch of Christians, and such a rude text, but in the room the other day, and thinking of what I'd seen on letters, and what I'd heard people say, when I... Your little servants here asked me to come up, visit them, and fellowship with the little flock, now, this rude text of being a nut, I thought I'd use that, so I could get the--the thought over to them, they--and would understand what I think too.
We have become a fool, like Paul, to the world. But yet, Lord, we want to be so tightened to You and Your Word, that when the rapture comes, we'll--we want to be with it, Lord. So help us to ever have our hearts knitted and bound together in the love of Christ.
E-43 Bless Brother Leo, Brother Gene, and Brother Daulton, and all these fine men and these lovely women in here. Hearing their testimonies, happy, happy, contented, walking the room up there, where one that's paralyzed, and to see the smiles... No wonder our Brother Leo said it's a bit of sunshine to walk up here. No wonder. To see even when the man, not even a bit of relation to her, or nothing, but concerned, that they'd take her trailer and make it so she could be happy. See, Lord, the thread works just right. Walk into that home, and see someone who really could be grouchy, and fussy, and nasty because that--that they're not out and able to run and dance and--and cut up, like many women. But she's happy to be here with her kind. And to be here with the Word of God, where It can be preached, and not any creeds tacked to it--just truly unadulterated Word of God to worship in Spirit. Come into a little place like this, there's a little trailer where we meet together, and it's the church. "Wherever two or three are assembled, I'm in their midst." And we know You're here, Lord. And we worship You, and we praise You.
E-44 I pray, God, that You'll keep sickness away from them. Keep the enemy across the river. May this great exodus... It may be in a minor form. But, Lord, someday it's going to grow. And I pray, Lord, that this little exodus here, that You'll be with them as You did with the--Moses and them, as they crossed the--the Jordan, and Joshua, as he went into the promised land.
And I pray that You'll help them, Lord, and keep their hearts genuine, true to You. And bless the--them as they teach the Word. And may they live long, happy lives. And someday, if we're around here, Lord, living on earth when You come, may there come a shout from this side of the branch out there, and the church go up. Grant it, Lord, because somebody wasn't--was foolish enough to the world to become a nut to hold it together, Lord, until You come.
E-45 Then, as John of old, in the days gone by, as the little ladies and them sing, he was separated, and how he had to be alone. But when he did, the little church that he'd drawed together... When he seen Jesus, he said, "Now my work is over. He increases; I decrease."
Father, I pray that You'll ever keep us happy and healthy. May we meet many times more upon the earth, and loving, and serving you. May Thy Divine blessings rest upon this service, upon the services that shall follow.
And may we all live such in this life, and the life to come, we'll have Eternal Life in the great age to come, over in that great millennium reign where we shall see Him and look upon His face and see Him. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
God bless you, my people. I am so sorry that I to--I--I--that I took a text something like that (See?), such a rude thing. But you get what I meant. So when anyone they say you're odd, you know why you're odd, don't you? God bless you, Brother Leo.