This section gives the sense in which we use the terms in this report.
A text is a piece of human language communication in the broader sense, that one has reason to consider as a whole.
A representation of a text is a material transcription of a text. It can be a paper printing, an electronic form, an audio recording, etc.
An interpretation of a text, or collection of texts, is any information added to a text. There are degrees of interpretation: at one end of the continuum is interpretation for which there exists widely accepted criteria, such as the labeling of a part of a text as a title or paragraph. On the other end is interpretation of a more debatable or subjective nature, such as the provision of linguistic annotation or the identification of the presence of a given topic in some part of a text.
A text plus its interpretation itself satisfies the definition of text, and therefore can be considered as a new text. For example, the editor's annotations of an original manuscript can be viewed as a part of a new text comprising the edited version. Similarly, a text plus part of speech annotation can itself be seen as a new text.
Encoding is any means of making explicit some interpretation of a text or collection of texts.
a semantics (rules defining what constitutes a valid marked-up text in some universe of interpretation.
legal ways of interspersing markup and content.
Syntactically well-formed texts are not necessarily semantically valid. For example, the sequence <word>New York</word> might be syntactically well-formed in some markup scheme, but this does not ensure that "New York" is a word in a given universe of interpretation. Note that in some universes of interpretation, the interpretation of "New York" as a word would be valid, while in others it may not. Semantic rules define which syntactically well-formed texts are valid in different universes of interpretation.
A markup metalanguage is a set of rules that formally describe the form of the syntactic rules of a markup scheme.
Semantic rules are very often not formalized in a markup scheme. In many cases semantics relies on common knowledge about, for example, what constitutes a title or a chapter. This leaves room for confusion in the way markup is applied.
local processing, including data capture, as well as various applications such as text editing and formatting; search and retrieval; linguistic, semantic, metrical, etc. analysis; text collation; etc.
data interchange between individuals or sites.
The CES is intended for data interchange. A standard for interchange is desirable, so that only translation between a single markup scheme and a local format is required to use an externally-acquired text, rather than pair-wise translation between all possible local formats. A standard for local processing is not possible or even desirable at this point, given the wide range of application domains and platforms.
An interchange standard must necessarily be domain, application, and platform-independent, and therefore maximally general. Ideally, it must be as expressive as any local format in order to enable translation of all local formats into the interchange format with no loss of information. Therefore, before an interchange standard can be developed, it is necessary to identify a set of common text categories and a common text model. The existence of a standard set of categories and a common text model will contribute to the convergence of existing local practices and provide a framework for the development of local processing formats in the future.
We distinguish three levels of text standardization. The successive levels are increasingly prescriptive in terms of the markup conventions that must be used to conform to that level of standardization. Each level requires standardization at the preceding level as a prior condition. In addition, the three levels of standardization are interdependent; that is, decisions at one level will affect what can be done at the next level.
Because each of the three levels imposes increasing uniformity of encoding, the data become more and more reusable as standardization is tightened. At the same time, the application areas within which the data are reusable typically become more and more restricted. Thus, there is a trade-off between generality and reusability as the level of standardization is increased.
Standardization at the metalanguage level regulates the form of the syntactic rules and the basic mechanisms of markup schemes. It does not specify the markup itself (tag names, allowable sequences of tags, etc.).
SGML (ISO 8879:1986; see also Goldfarb, 1990; Bryan, 1988; and van Herwijnen, 1991) is unique in that it is a standard at the metalanguage level only. The SGML reference concrete syntax defines the forms of tags (including internal attributes), the base character set, naming rules, reserved words, allowable features (e.g., omission of end tags), etc. It does not define actual tag names or rules for their use in a marked-up text.
Using the SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) mechanism, the user can define tag names and "document models" which specify the relations among tags. This constitutes the syntactic level (see below).
Standardization at the metalanguage level does not fully achieve the goal of universal document interchange, since it is possible, for example, to have entirely different document structures and markup even though the texts are encoded using the same metalanguage specifications.
A more powerful way to standardize texts is to specify precise tag names and syntactic rules for using the tags (i.e., the context(s) in which they can legally appear), as well as constraints on content (for example, by specifying that a tag can be associated with numeric data only). Most familiar markup schemes are at this level: they provide precise tag names and rules for using the tags (i.e., the context(s) in which they can legally appear). SGML documents are standardized at this level if they have common DTDs.
Conformance to a syntactic standard can be checked by parsing; that is, there are formal means to verify that a given text follows the markup syntax rules.
Standardization at the syntactic level does not guarantee that markup has been consistently applied with the same interpretation. For example, even if a tag such as <word> appears in a legal syntactic context in a given interchanged text, it is possible that the sender and receiver do not have the same understanding of the content marked by that tag. This impairs immediate reusability of the data, since, for example, even a simple word count or the content of a lexicon created from the text could vary considerably depending on the definition of a word.
Markup semantics are typically informal, usually relying on the user to apply a given tag appropriately. For example, a tag such as <title> is likely to be used to mark those things which humans more or less agree upon to be titles. This kind of semantics is typically specified in accompanying user manuals; TEI P3 is an extensive example of the specification of tag semantics at this level.
Standardization at this level requires more precise definitions and constraints on the content of markup. The CES aims to standardize at the semantic level for those elements most relevant to language engineering applications, in particular, linguistic elements. Although it is not always possible to provide precise formal specifications for markup semantics, we attempt to identify a definition or set of definitions for linguistic elements that best serve the needs of language engineering applications.
We distinguish three broad categories of information which are of direct relevance for the encoding of corpora for use in language engineering applications.
similarly, it should not allow encoding options which are not appropriate for this application.
Therefore, the CES has been designed to include a small but adequate set of elements for corpus-based work. In some instances, this has meant including only specific TEI elements where more general tags exist; and in other cases, the reverse is true. In each case, the choices are made on the basis of what is required for corpus-based language engineering research and applications.
An encoding scheme should be built around consistent principles to determine what kind of objects are tags, what kind of objects are attributes, what kind of object(s) appear as tag content, etc. A well-thought out system with strong principles (for example, tags for structural and logical pieces, attributes for properties, etc.) ensures the intellectual integrity and coherence of the encoding scheme and provides a basis for those who modify or extend it. Conversely, a lack of such a principled basis leads to practical problems in processing an encoded text, for example, for validation, search and retrieval, etc., since different encoding styles can be mixed within the same document. Consistency is also essential to facilitate the mapping of the SGML encoded text into other formats, for example, data base formats.
For more discussion and examples, see excerpt from MUL/EAG-CES 3: Corpus Encoding Standard: Background and Principles.
When a text is encoded from a printed or electronic source (typesetter's tapes, etc.) the ability to recover the source text from the encoded version--that is, to distinguish what was in the source from the markup and potential additional information--is often desirable. There are a number of different ways to define what is to be recovered from a source text, (e.g., a facsimile of a particular printed version of a text, layout, typography, etc.). For many purposes (comparison and validation between the source and the encoded text, operations such as word counts, search, concordance generation, linguistic analysis, etc.), it is sufficient to recover the sequence of characters constituting the text, independent of any typographic representation.
Recovery is an algorithmic process and should be kept as simple as possible, since complex algorithms are likely to introduce errors. Therefore, an encoding scheme should be designed around a set of principles intended make recovery possible with simple algorithms. Processes such as tag removal, simple mappings are more straightforward and less error prone than, say, algorithms which require rearranging the sequence of elements, or which are context-dependent, etc. In order to provide a coherent and explicit set of recovery principles, various recovery algorithms and a related encoding principles need to be worked out, taking into account such things as the role and nature of mappings (tags to typography, normalized characters, spellings, etc. with the original, etc.), the encoding of rendition characters and rendition text, definitions and separability of the source and annotation (such as linguistic annotation, notes, etc.), linkage of different views or versions of a text, etc.
Validation is the process by which software checks that the markup in a document conforms to the structural specifications given in a DTD. SGML validation software checks that tags have legal names, are properly nested, appear in the correct order, contain all required tags, etc.; that attributes appear when and only when they should, have legal values; etc.
The ability to validate is important because it enables trapping errors during data capture. It also enables ensuring that the encoded text corresponds to the model given in the DTD, thus providing a possible means by which the adequacy of the model itself can be verified.
There is a tension between the generality of an encoding scheme and the ability to validate. Over-generative DTDs allow many tag sequences which, for any given text, are not valid. In addition, the use of abstract, general tags also constrains the ability to validate; for example, the use of a general tag such as <div> to mark hierarchical divisions of a text (corresponding, for example, to book, chapter, section, etc.) disallows constraints on what can appear within a given text division, making it impossible to ensure that tighter structural constraints for a given book are observed, (e.g., that titles do not appear within chapters, or that a paragraph does not appear outside the chapter level, etc.).
capture of the text itself, either by hand or via OCR, acquisition of word processor output, typesetter tapes, etc.; we assume that by-hand capture is not very likely for applications, although it is not excluded.
addition of markup. Fully automatic markup is rarely possible; markup is typically achieved either by hand or semi-automatically, via format translators, annotation programs such as POS taggers, etc.
The scheme should accomodate the various levels of analysis of the text and provide markup for both very crude element designation (which can be much less costly to achieve) as well as more precise tagging. For example, markup indicating that a word or any arbitrary segment appears in italics already exists in many texts (such as typesetter's tapes), and it is therefore virtually cost-free to mark it as such; to determine more precisely what the italics mean can be much more costly, since italics can indicate any number of things (title, caption, quotation, emphasis, foreign word, term, etc.). Similarly, it may be cheap and sufficient for many applications to make only a gross distinction between the main text (to which one may want to restrict linguistic analysis, e.g.) and auxiliary text (titles, divisions headers, captions, tables, footnotes, bibliographic references, etc.).
The scheme should be refinable, by providing tags at various levels of specificity together with a taxonomy identifying the hierarchical relations among them. For example, a word marked in italics could later be further analyzed and identified as a highlighted word, and later more precisely marked as a term, and still later further identified as a foreign term, etc.
Minimum requirements for conformance to the standard must be made in view of the costs of capture. Minimum requirements cannot include tagging that is actually or even potentially costly. For example, requiring that italics are disambiguated to the lowest level of the hierarchy would result in high costs for data capture since it requires substantial hand intervention. Even seemingly simple tagging, such as tagging paragraphs, can be costly depending on the input, if, for example, line breaks are not differentiated from paragraph breaks (as in electronic mail, etc.).
The CES must take into consideration processing considerations and needs, such as the overhead of use of SGML mechanisms (e.g., entity replacement, use of optional features), as well as concerns such as the ability to (efficiently) select texts according to user-specified criteria; also, the need to use special mechanisms, such as inter-textual pointers, linkage of related texts or other sub-corpus segments, vs. constraints their use may incur (e.g., the use of inter-textual pointers may demand that the entire corpus be available at all times for processing).
A related concern is mappability to internal representation schemes that may be used for local processing or special applications. Although ideally an encoding standard would serve both the needs of interchange and local processing (which will be eventually ensured by the coordinated development of a standard encoding format and specifications for tool development), for the near term it is likely that researchers will continue to use local formats. In addition, existing commercially available SGML software is scarce and typically expensive, and is therefore not widely available to the research community. Although mappability to local formats cannot be a driving criterion for encoding design, where possible it can be taken into account.
Absolute completeness of any markup scheme is impossible to achieve. Therefore, it is essential that any encoding scheme be extensible.
As mentioned above, there is a tension between validatability and generality. If the goal of validatability is served, DTDs will be more restrictive, and the need for extensibility will be even greater. Therefore, it is essential that systematic means for extension of the scheme are developed, which will ensure that extensions are made in a controlled and predicatable way.
SGML is often criticized for its verbosity, since document size can be dramatically increased by the addition of SGML tags. This is a particular concern for annotated corpora, where each word (and possibly each morpheme) can be marked for part of speech and/or other information, often increasing file size by a factor of 10 or more. This can cause problems for various kinds of processing (e.g., retrieval) as well as for interchange, since in the state of the art it is still often problematic to transfer large files over data networks. However, the costs and difficulties of handling large files are being reduced every day, so compactness is not necessarily an overriding concern for CES design, but may be taken into account as a secondary criterion.
non-SGML notations, involving the use of private, less verbose non- SGML schemes within tags or as attribute values.
For more discussion of these mechanisms and examples, see excerpt from MUL/EAG-CES 3: Background and context for the development of a Corpus Encoding Standard.
Each of these methods for markup reduction has drawbacks. For example, tag minimization can cause problems for some users without sophisticated software; the use of entities results in considerable processing overhead; some features such as DATATAG are not implemented in all SGML processors; private notations require the use of special software for processing, etc.
an assessment of the the advantages and drawbacks of the various minimization methods for reusability within the corpus research community.
There are two points of view concerning readability. One assumes that the text will be captured, displayed, or in general dealt with using processing software which could make the markup either invisible or human-readable; therefore, readability need not be a concern. However, it can be argued that such software is not readily available, or that no software will ever answer all the user's needs. Therefore, there will always be a need for dealing directly with the encoded text.
Note that readability is related to compactness in two ways, in part dependent upon the object to be read: i.e., the original text or the text plus markup. When minimization techniques are used to reduce or eliminate markup in an encoded text, readability of the original text is likely to be enhanced. Minimization may even facilitate the readability of the text plus markup in some cases. On the other hand, when the object to be read includes text plus markup, in many cases minimization techniques will decrease readability.
In general, readability is a secondary concern among encoding criteria, to be aimed at only when other concerns are adequately addressed.
The CES is conformant to the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (referred to as "TEI-P3" or the "TEI Guidelines") developed by the TEI. The CES is instantiated using the TEI.2 DTD and the TEI customization mechanisms.
documents containing links indicating alignment between two documents.
For convenience, we also provide a version of each of these three TEI instantiations as a stand-alone DTD, together with a means to browse the element tree as a hypertext document.
make choices among encoding options, with an eye toward satisfying the criteria outlined in section 1.5, above.
extensions to the TEI Guidelines to serve needs of language engineering.
precise values for some attributes.
required/recommended/optional elements to be marked.
detailed semantics for elements relevant to language engineering.
We constrain or simplify the TEI specifications as appropriate to serve the principles outlined in section 1.5, primarily in terms of element content, which is substantially simplified in the CES. Depending on the particular needs for encoding corpora, we constrain or extend legal and required attributes and attribute values specified by the TEI.
We adopt the TEI use of element and attribute classes, implemented using SGML parameter entities. However, these element classes are simplified, forming a shallow hierarchy with no overlaps among classes.
We do not rename TEI elements except where confusion may arise; also, three TEI-specific names are renamed to reflect their use in the CES (i.e., <TEI.2> becomes <cesDoc>, <teiCorpus.2> becomes <cesCorpus> and <teiHeader> becomes <cesHeader>).


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Natasha Jean-Bart
Scramblelock Answers
As Lockunity what would you say are the 10 most important steps in building a Locking/or dance community?
Patience – It takes some time to build a scene and there will be ups and downs. Stay the course!
Show up at other styles events – get down in the circles, represent!
Put together a locking showcase to perform at an event
Organize events – battles and parties – both are equally important. But start small
If you are going to teach, you need to still keep up with your learning. Take classes too! Especially when out of town dancers come to teach
Practice needs to be effective. Sometimes in front of the mirror, sometimes in a circle
Persistence – If you hold a practice on a Tuesday night, you need to be there early to set up and leave late to clean up!
No man is an island! Try to form a core network of like-minded dancers and build together. Have meetings, etc
Be accepting of all levels and all viewpoints of dancers. It's ok to agree to disagree at times!
Drop any egos and be willing to build with dancers who have different views. Sometimes when you work together you can build something more powerful
Respect the local elders/OGs – Don't get offended if they offer advice
Keep communication open. If there are problems, handle it direct/face to face….avoid internet chat, talking behind the back or not talking at all!
Build with other lockers. Not just at practice but go out, chill, party!
As individuals what has Locking done for you?
It changed my life! More than anything, it helped me build confidence in myself. It taught me a lot about music, in terms of listening and feeling it in different ways. The culture and code of the streets, where locking originates from, has taught me a lot about respect for elders, OGs and other dancers in general. If it wasn't for locking, I wouldn't have been able to meet so many amazing people from around the world. I've been to parts of the world I never thought I would have been able to visit if I wasn't dancing. I certainly feel in debt to the dance and I guess that's why I'm so passionate about keeping this dance alive and carrying on the legacy and teachings of the pioneers and elders who have shown me the beauty of this dance!
As a collective how do you create your shows?
Normally there's one person who's in charge of the choreography and come up with the idea for the show. We then get together and build the routine. Once the skeleton of the piece is made, we all give some input/tips/advice for staging, costumes any changes to detail, etc. There are always plenty of jokes and fooling around which makes working on the shows pretty fun!
Where do you see Locking in the future?
This dance made a comeback in the late 90s/early 2000s and since then there have been some ups and downs. A lot of events have been cutting locking from their lineup and yet the amount of people currently locking around the world is steadily increasing. In the future this dance is going to continue to grow and evolve. As more people receive the education and knowledge of locking, the level is going to rise and this dance will gain more recognition and popularity!
Is there one question or more relating to Locking history you feel hasn't been clearly answered. If yes what is that question?
It's not really a question but it is certainly a topic that many people talk about and it may be very helpful for a locking history timeline to be created. A few have been made in the past by individuals, but it would be really cool to see a complete locking history timeline with as many gaps filled in as possible. Starting from the creation of locking in the late 60s/early 70s till the present. A lot has happened and I feel the stories of those who contributed through the 80s and 90s still need to be heard.
What and who drives you to go session?
The desire to constantly grow and learn new things is a strong motivation for practice. Lifelong learning on that martial arts tip yo!
Knowing that every Tuesday Lockunity has practice, the other local lockers motivate me to go to session. The fact that everyone is responsible for forming the vibe at practice and we all push each other once we are in that circle means you have to bring a strong level and carry that vibe on your part too.
When I practice on my own it's the desire to be fully in the music and zone out that motivates me!
What would you say is necessary as a beginner locker?
Be a sponge! Learn from everybody, ask questions, be OPEN and ask more questions. When I first visited LA in 2004 I met Richie Rich and he told me "Never let anyone tell you you are doing anything wrong, but be open and learn from everyone!" I really took that advice to heart and it holds true even 10 years after!
Respect is also something necessary for a beginner. Respect of everyone who has come before you: from 2 years, to old school, to OG pioneers. Because if it wasn't for them you wouldn't be here learning locking today!
What is necessary as a mature locker?
Respect is even more important as you mature in the dance. Because you still have to respect your elders and teachers but also you have to be respectful of the younger generation. With great power comes great responsibility, so as you become more mature in the dance scene, you have a lot more responsibility to make sure you are passing information down to the next generations without letting the ego get in the way. Younger dancers may not always listen to what you have to say, but be patient and stay open to communicating!
Why do you think locking always brings the house down in jams and competitions, yet the locking worldwide is so slow to grow?
I think there are several reasons for this. One of the main reasons is the music played in battles. DJs who are hired for locking battles need to be aware of the full funk spectrum and not be afraid to take risks and throw in some music from the 80s/90s/2000s….funk is so diverse, we need to expand the battle playlists!
Dancers who enter the contests need to be prepared for hearing songs they never heard before and open to music from all eras. Also if you are entering battles, be prepared to battle! Know the difference between a battle, a party and a show. (This goes for DJs too!)
It's been slow for locking to really develop in North America as compared to Asia but I think there are cultural reasons behind this as well. Trendy dances come and go in North America. It seems in Asia locking is held in higher regard despite it not being the current trendy dance at the moment.
What is the biggest obstacle a locker faces when learning the Art?
Access to information. Even though there are plenty of videos on YouTube right now, to really understand locking you need to learn this dance from someone in person. It takes time, energy, $ to travel and meet other lockers. If you are really serious about this dance, consider it an investment because in the long run, the knowledge and experience gained will be much more meaningful than watching a video!
What is the selection criteria for anyone wanting to be part of Lockunity?
Lockunity is not a crew. It's a collective of lockers living in Montreal.
If you are serious about locking, want to learn more about the dance, come to the weekly practices, represent at events, you can be down!
What creates the disconnect in locking in general? Give an example.
I think one of the biggest issues is a lack of communication in the locking world. Even with the internet forums/groups that have been made in recent years, there is still a lot of miscommunication that takes place. Many lockers have various views on the dance, its history and its fundamentals. Over the years the division between views has led to the formation of different "camps". I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing, everyone is entitled to their own views and opinions. But I think what is important is a degree of respect among groups. In my opinion, discussions face to face tend to clarify a lot of the differences created when posts are made online, where it's hard to tell the tone of the writer. In the end, the scene is still relatively small and we should all do our best to support one another, even if we may not agree at times.
If you had a message for the creator and the pioneers what would you say?
THANK YOU! You have all paved the way for what locking is now and we would not be here today if it wasn't for what you all contributed. We hope to carry the torch of locking to future generations and never let this dance die.
If you had a message for the new generation of lockers what would you say?
Many of the OGs and old school pioneers are still around. Learn from them while you can! Once they are gone, it's going to be a lot harder to carry on the dance so learn as much as you can now!!! Always have respect for those who came before you but push the dance to new heights as well. Don't be afraid to be yourself and bring something new to the table. Keep one foot in the past to keep you grounded and another foot in the future to move you forward and stay balanced. Always question knowledge you receive. Fact check and cross reference in order to formulate your own educated opinions especially when it comes to credibility of historic knowledge (That's the scientist in me!).
What is your motivation as a collective and as individuals ? What or who makes you want to get better?
I think as a collective the motivation for us is each other. We want the locking scene to grow in Montreal and Canada so we are trying to up our level, teach more students and build an overall stronger locking community.
How did Triforce come about?
I met Boombeast at a bboy event in Toronto in 2004 and Treklock in 2005 at Funk Fo Yo Feet also in Toronto. When I moved to Montreal in 2006 I knew it was going to be dope with these two great lockers in the city. We would always battle each other at the early Bust A Move events and so there was a bit of competitiveness between us, which I think pushed our levels up and brought us closer together. Trek and Boom were repping together a lot and they did Juste Debout together in 2007 and some great shows as "Trek! Trek! Boom!". After an event in 2008, Monstapop suggested me and Trek team up for a battle and so we started practicing at Urban Element studio on Tuesday nights. Boom also joined us and that was really what set it all off. Our weekly practices started to grow and eventually the practices in The Cove, the small side studio at Urban Element, had to move into a larger space. But Triforce is really the result of a perfect storm of the three of us being in the city at the same time, having the same love for locking and the suggestion of other dancers/mentors (Adesola, Tash, Boot Camp Pat, Gemini, Monstapop) to work together and build something as a unit!
Anything you would like to express to the locking or dance community worldwide?
There are a lot of locking events around the world. To organizers of these events: Canada has a lot of dope lockers and we're down to represent at these major international events too!
Who or what inspires you?
When it comes to locking I have to give mention to all those teachers/elders/OGs who have shared their knowledge of the dance with me. My first teachers: Licorice Lloyd and Boogaloo Storm of the Fantastic Poppers in Toronto. They were the ones who first showed me a tape of The Lockers and broke down the basics of the dance for me. Disco Dave was the first locker I met outside of Toronto. Richie Rich was the first old school locker I met when I visited LA in 2004 and he continues to teach and mentor me to this day. He is like an uncle and isn't afraid to tell it like it is, even if it may be hard to swallow. That is something I have really learned to appreciate over the years. Don Campbell, Greg Campbellock Jr, Fluky Luke were the first of the OGs I met and I learned so much from them. Gemini has been an incredible teacher/inspiration/mentor sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience and for that I'm very grateful! OG Skeet has shed light on a lot of the roots and history of locking, especially from the street perspective.
There have been many others I have learned from and I feel they need to be mentioned too. Much love to them all: Tony Go Go, Loose Caboose, Anthony Thomas, Flomaster, Sugapop, Sundance, Toni Basil, Scooby Doo, Mr Pengiun (RIP), Shabbadoo, EB Skeet (RIP), Slim the Robot, Peek-A-Boo, Boogaloo Sam, Poppin Pete, Mr Wiggles, Jazzy J, Tornado, Adesola, Klown, Shallow, Sugar Foot, Pat Cesar, Jimmy Williams, Tony Three, Jr. Boogaloo, Neo Boog, Bonez, Funk Mystic, Sirreal, Popsikal Pete, Loose Canon, Lockadelic, Fon, Treklock, Boombeast, Quantalock, Apachapoulilock, Lounes, LockUnity, Baby L, Funky Miko, Monstapop, Venom, 2 Marvelous, Sam I Am, Namo, Locking Sun, Vancity Lockers, LMC Lockers, Firelock, Hurricane, Shock-a-lock, Tash, Mikey Disko, Shyguy, Ill Kosby, Lockin Fossil (RIP), Rick Slade, Bag of Trix, Boogie Brats, Supernaturalz, RBP/MEC/FAM, Ground Illusionz, Stylordz, Canadian Floor Masters, Treble, Tabu, Lazy Legz, Flow Rock, Fresh Format, Rubber Soulz and my bboy crew: Illmask.
A special shout out to Son of S.O.U.L., Alan Cross, Frank BLVD, Cholo B, We Funk Radio, Ruby Jane and all the Toronto and Montreal funk DJs who have been a huge musical influence.
What other dance styles do you think can improve your locking dance Skills technically and artistically?
Learning other dances will make you a better all around dancer for sure! It will open you up to new movements and feelings and help develop your own personal flavour. Any dance style can be applied to locking too, but in order to do that you have to have a solid base for the skills and techniques fundamental to locking first! In my opinion if you are to incorporate another dance style into your locking, it needs to be done with the locker feel! For example, some b-boys like to incorporate salsa into their top rock. The ones who incorporate it well will still keep the bboy feel to their dance and not look like they are suddenly switching dance styles.
What helps you feed your creative juices?
Food, cooking, music, graffiti art and other art exhibits, photography, city walking, travelling, record digging. There is creative inspiration all around. Just got to go out and explore!
Favorite music or artist to get down to?
Prince. See him live and you'll understand everything! He is a genius!
As for music in general though I love getting down to funk. But keep in mind when I say funk, I mean the FULL SPECTRUM of funk. That is; music from the soul era of the 60s/70s, to that raw 70s funk, to the 80s electronic funk and into the 90s with HipHop and New Jack Swing and now the 2000s with all the current artists who are making amazing music. I currently visited New Orleans and it opened me up to JAZZ: the roots of funk! I tend to be pretty open when it comes to music.
If you could go back in time… What year and date would you want to time travel to? (Why)
Probably into the future to ask my future self advice on what I should be doing in the future!
Do you have another training regiment aside from dancing?
It's super important to train outside of dance, especially as you get older. I'm really into the Beachbody programs like P90X and Insanity. Those programs have helped improve my cardio, strength, flexibility and balance. I highly recommend them!
Favorite jam, event or competition worldwide?
-Bust A Move! This event has a personal connection to me. Since I moved to Montreal in 2006, I saw how this event has grown. Spicey has done such a great job building it and it's part of the reason why Locking is growing in Canada! 1st weekend of May, come to Montreal!!!
-The Chocolate Jungle parties organized by 2Marvelous (Boogieman Linx and Leah McFly) are 90s themed parties that also take place in Montreal. The vibe is incredible and is a true example of what a Montreal party is and why I fell in love with this city
Any of you play any instruments?
I don't but I'd love to learn bass guitar
What other styles do you excel at? Or any special skills people don't know about you?
Well I've been bboying since 1998 and I still rep. It's my roots and in my blood!
As for other skills, well I have a Master's degree in Chemistry and I currently work as a Science, Math and Hip Hop Education teacher.
I also enjoy Graffiti Art and cooking!
What other dance styles would you like to start learning?
I'm currently learning hustle dance and it's super fun dancing with a partner! But, if I were to start learning a new dance right now, I think it'd be cool to learn Pantsula!
If you could pick anyone's brain for a whole day in this world, who would you choose?
There's a lot of people who have been working to help bring HipHop Education into the classroom in schools around North America. I would love to take some time to talk to some of those educators to discuss this because this is an area I'm very passionate about and working towards building more on right now.
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I'd love to travel to other parts of Canada to share and help build locking in other cities! I also want to visit South America and spend more time in New Orleans! Most importantly my long term goal right now is to work towards building HipHop education programs in order to bring them into the classroom and give students to learn in an alternative way.
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Shocking photos: Kids lie on man dressed as woman at 'Drag Queen Story Time'
10-year-old girl suspended for asking to be exempted from LGBT school lesson
Pro-lifers in court for resisting arrest while trying to save babies inside abortion center
CORRECTED: Pope Francis to celebrate private Mass for migrants and those who help them
Fr. Martin at gay 'pride' Mass: Pope has appointed 'many' pro-LGBT cardinals, bishops
Alaska gov to state Supreme Court: The abortion funding you mandated is coming from your budget
Midway through aborting, pregnant woman changes her mind and saves her twins
Petition supports girls who don't want to race boys who identify as 'girls'
Even McCarrick's investigators are covering things up
Pope's letter to Germans on 'synodal path' is open to many interpretations
The drag queen who was allowed to have children lie on top of him at Multnomah County Library, Portland, Oregon, October 6, 2018. Multnomoah County Library / Flickr
News Gender, Politics - U.S. Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 7:57 pm EST
drag queen story hour, drag queen story time, drag queens, education, homosexuality, lgbt tyranny, oregon, portland, propaganda, public libraries, transgenderism
Multnomah County Library schedule of Drag Queen Storytime events, Fall, 2018. Multnomoah County Library / Flickr
July 2, 2019 update: Multnomah County Library has deleted from Flickr its photos of children lying on top of the drag queen. LifeSiteNews has preserved the photos and they can be found here [WARNING: Link leads to images of child abuse].
PORTLAND, Oregon, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A west coast public library "Drag Queen Story Time" has evolved beyond drag queens reading pro-gay and pro-transgender books to kids to permitting children to frolic on the floor and lie on top of a man dressed as a woman.
Photo evidence of children having inappropriate contact with drag queen Carla Rossi at Portland, Oregon's St. John's Library last October has been brought to the attention of LifeSiteNews. The photos are posted on the Multnomah County Library's own Flickr account (Note: photos have been removed after LifeSiteNews published this report. The photos can be found here WARNING: Link leads to images of child abuse).
"I wouldn't let my kids crawl on top of random strangers no matter how said strangers are dressed," commented Kaeley Triller Harms on Facebook.
"Even as a day camp counselor 15 years ago, we were pretty carefully trained about not giving kids piggyback rides or letting them sit on our laps," continued Harms. "And if they asked for hugs, we took the side hug approach."
Photos posted by the library also reveal toddlers and young boys dressed in feather boas at the event.
"The goal is to normalize abnormal, sexually deviant homosexual behavior by enticing children to first: question their sexuality," profamily activist Georgia Kijesky recently told LifeSiteNews. "The more children see men dressing up as women, the more normal it will become."
Go forth and sin some more!
Not only has the Multnomah County Library system hosted drag queen Rossi multiple times, but the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," a group of men dressed up as nuns for the purpose of mocking the Catholic Church, have also presided at Drag Queen Story Time. The event that remains on a PDXPipeline schedule of events for last fall was confirmed by an employee of the Multnomah County library system.
LifeSiteNews previously reported on the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" conducting Drag Queen Story Time at the Boston Public Library.
"The men call themselves 'queer nuns,' even though the anti-Catholic group is openly devoted to promiscuity," wrote Fr. Mark Hodges in 2017. "Their slogan is a ridicule of Jesus' words to the woman caught in sexual sin. Instead of 'Go, and sin no more,' the men 'queers' have created their trademark slogan as, 'Go forth and sin some more!'"
Other drag queens participating in Drag Queen Story Time at various Multnomah County libraries include "Poison Waters" and "Meesha Perú."
St. John's Library also has a "teen drag workshop," to be conducted by drag queen Rossi, scheduled for Saturday, Sep 21, 2019:
Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi (with intellectual support from her human avatar Anthony Hudson) attempts to chart the vast abyss of drag and its potential, addressing how drag's many varieties, flavors, and houses correspond to the unchartable spectrum of genders and sexuality - with supporting looks at its legendary elders, artists, and ancestors, from Two-Spirits (and other-gender shamans of the pre-settler North American continent) and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Marsha P. Johnson, Leigh Bowery, Elvira, RuPaul, and Christeene.
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News Faith, Gender, Homosexuality, Politics - World Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 7:52 pm EST
education, homosexuality, lgbt tyranny, propaganda, transgenderism, united kingdom
PETITION: Support pre-teens suspended for asking to be excused from LGBT lesson. Sign the petition here.
LONDON, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A 10-year-old who was suspended from school for a week after asking her teacher permission to be excused from participating in a "Pride Month" LGBT lesson has gone on the record to explain the real dangers of the invasion of LGBT ideology in her school.
"Before anybody knew what LGBT meant, everybody knew what gender they were," explained Kaysey, who, along with her classmate, Farrell, was suspended from the Heavers Farmer Primary School, located in Croydon, South London.
"But now people are confused," continued the precocious 10-year-old, "and they're saying that they're bisexual and trans because they're confused."
"Before this happened, they were completely confident of who they were but now they're not," she added.
"It's really affecting other kids," explained Kaysey, "because now they're losing confidence in [them]selves and looking at [them]selves and asking, 'Why am I this person? Why can't I be someone else?'"
"Before all this happened, people knew who they were," said Kaysey. "School children are now facing the choice of what gender they are by the age of four."
Teacher reported to school authorities
Susan Papas, the head of Heavers Farmer Primary School, Croydon, South London, who banned the children from the school for five days for alleged anti-LGBT comments, has been reported to the local authorities for what amounts to an unlawful act.
Christian Concern, an advocacy group seeking to restore the United Kingdom to the Christian faith, recounts the incident that led to the two students' suspension:
On June 20, Farrell, sitting next to his friend Kaysey in class, asked his year 5 class teacher, "Sir, please may I not take part in this lesson?" when the teacher handed out LGBT material for colouring. The teacher refused permission saying that the LGBT lesson was part of the curriculum.
After class, the form teacher is said to have accused Farrell of using "homophobic language" for allegedly saying, "LGBT sucks and LGBT's dumb," which the child denies.
Farrell, who was sitting with female pupil Kasey says he is a Christian and told a "visitor teacher" he did not "accept LGBT" because of his religion.
The teacher asked the two children, "Do you want them to die?" "We said no," Farrell replied. If, however, they went back to their countries, they would be punished for being gay, Farrell told the teacher.
The teacher asked Farrell where he was from. Farrell said he was of "African Jamaican" heritage, and because there "everybody is Christian and Catholic, so they don't accept LGBT."
Later, Ms Papas shouted at the two children in front of the class, according to Kaysey. "How dare you? You are a disappointment to the school," Papas told the two children outside the classroom.
Papas then put the children in different rooms and asked Kasey [sic]: "How dare you say that you want to kill LGBT people?" Kasey [sic] replied: "I didn't say kill." Papas then shouted at her and said, "Yes, you did, and don't lie."
Kaysey, a pentecostal Christian, says she was kept in detention for five hours from 10am to 3pm.
Kaysey's and Farrell's version of the story, which differs widely from what their teacher and the head of their school alleged, has been corroborated by their classmates.
Watch a 10-year-old child's view of the damaging impact of the LGBT agenda in schools. Kaysey was manipulated, bullied & unlawfully excluded by her headteacher for alleged anti-LGBT comments. Kaysey categorically denies the allegations and she is backed by children in her class. pic.twitter.com/8GPCZwumyn
— Christian Concern (@CConcern) July 1, 2019
'Heavy-handed' LGBT tactics against 10-year-olds
"This is why parents are beginning to see the dangers of the imposition of the new sexual and gender ideology that does not permit dissent even from innocent ten year old children," said Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which is aiding the two students and their families in this matter.
"This incident highlights again just how aggressive and intolerant the LGBT agenda can be," continued Williams. "An ideology that has to resort to such heavy-handed tactics to force ten-year-old children to accept something that instinctively they do not, only highlights how life-crushing that ideology is."
"Here we see the fragility of this whole sexual agenda imposed on our children and unable to withstand the challenge of innocent ten year old children," noted Williams.
"When bullies know that right is not on their side they resort to coercion and intimidation. That is exactly what is being played out in Heavers Farm Primary School," Williams added.
Police carry Will Goodman out of Women's Health Center of Flint Martin Barillas / LifeSiteNews
abortion, lauren handy, matthew connolly, michigan, monica migliorino miller, patrice woodworth, red rose rescue, will goodman
FLINT, Michigan, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Four pro-life activists who entered an abortion center in Flint, Michigan on June 7 and peacefully resisted arrest while trying to save babies will appear before a Michigan District Court judge tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
The four nonviolent protesters who entered the Women's Health Center of Flint and conducted the Red Rose Rescue were Lauren Handy, Matthew Connolly, Will Goodman, and Patrice Woodworth. Red Rose Rescues, inspired by Canadian pro-life hero Mary Wagner, involve pro-lifers entering and refusing to leave abortion facilities. They risk arrest to counsel and offer practical help and red roses to abortion-minded moms.
Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center will represent the pro-lifers during the hearing, which will be overseen by Judge Vikki Bayeh-Haley at the 67th District Court of Genesee County, located at 630 S. Saginaw Street in Flint. The rescuers are charged with a felony count of resisting arrest.
Judge Bayeh-Haley will review the evidence presented by the State and will decide if the felony statute doesn't apply, a move that would dismiss the charges altogether, or move the case to the circuit court for a full review.
Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, the veteran pro-life activist and Red Rose Rescue leader, said in a press release that the defendents "will testify that all they did was merely exercise passive resistance." Dr. Miller also said "it is nearly unheard of in the history of the pro-life movement that defenders of the unborn in clinic sit-ins and rescues are charged with such a crime!"
LifeSiteNews' Martin Barillas was on location when the rescue occurred. According to his eyewitness report, there were approximately six mothers in the waiting room when Handy, Connolly, Goodman, and Woodworth entered. When the rescuers made themselves known, the abortion staffers whisked the mothers further inside and barred anyone from entering.
A female staff member at the center cursed and shouted at the rescuers in the waiting room. The staffer also touched and shoved the rescuers. Three of the rescuers could be seen praying and singing hymns from the abortion facility's entryway. There were two women in the waiting room who had appointments but subsequently left.
Woodworth was kneeling in prayer when a state police trooper arrived. Approximately 12 police officers were on the scene. The officers entered the facility and began lifting the prayerful, non-violent defenders of the unborn out of the building and onto the scorching hot pavement next to their vehicles. Pro-life protestors held signs on the sidewalk nearby.
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, a Michigan-based organization led by Dr. Miller, has published a press release about the rescue, explaining:
At approximately 9:00am they entered the facility and spoke to women scheduled for abortions, offering assistance and words of encouragement in an attempt to persuade the mothers to choose life.
By refusing to leave the clinic when told to do so by law enforcement, they intend[ed] to offer an act of non-violent defense of unborn children about to be aborted and were placed under arrest. In addition to misdemeanor charges of trespass and disturbing the peace, the pro-lifers unexpectedly were slapped with a felony count of resisting arrest. They will testify that all they did was merely exercise passive resistance.
The press release also said:
Since when are people who engage in completely non-violent passive resistance charged with a felony? The Red Rose Rescuers were involved in a life-saving mission, an act of social justice on behalf of the vulnerable, namely the unborn about to be aborted, and all they did was go limp and had to be carried out of the abortion facility. Passive resistance is a time-honored practice and it is nearly unheard of in the history of the pro-life movement that defenders of the unborn in clinic sit-ins and rescues are charged with such a crime! The evidentiary hearing will show that the charge is unwarranted and we hope the pro-lifers will prevail.
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News Catholic Church, Politics - World Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 6:05 pm EST
carola racketa, catholic, gian carlo perego, human trafficking, italian deputy minister, lampedusa, mass, matteo salvini, migrants, pietro parolin, pope francis, refugees, st. peter's basilica
July 2, 2019 correction: An earlier version of this story suggested that Pope Francis was celebrating a Mass for activists involved in human trafficking. The Mass, however, will be celebrated in honor of those who accompany and welcome migrants and refugees. While the Italian press has referred to some of these migrant helpers as "traffickers," they do not appear to be involved in the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor or sexual slavery. LifeSiteNews regrets this error.
ROME, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Just a day after Italian authorities arrested the skipper of a ship taking illegal African migrants to Europe, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis will celebrate Mass at St. Peter's Basilica for migrants and those who accompany and welcome them.
According to a release from Vatican press officer Alessandro Gisotti, Pope Francis will mark the fifth anniversary of his visit to Italy's Lampedusa island, where authorities have received thousands of mostly African migrants who have been detained while crossing treacherous Mediterranean waters in fragile watercraft.
The statement from the Vatican said 250 "migrants, refugees and those who are committed to saving their lives" will be in the congregation for the Mass. The Pope is expecting the Mass on July 8 will "encourage those who strive, every day, to support, accompany and receive migrants and refugees."
While the Mass will be celebrated at the high altar of the historic basilica, only those persons invited by the Vatican's office on Migrants and Refugees of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development are to attend and to which accredited media are not invited.
The Mass will be transmitted live by Vatican Media, however. According to the release, Pope Francis wants the Mass to be in the service of contemplation and in recognition of those who have lost their lives fleeing war and misery while also encouraging those who serve them.
The announcement came after German skipper Carola Rackete was arrested at Lampedusa after allegedly ramming the "Sea Watch 2" into a coast guard vessel. The vessel had weathered two weeks on the Mediterranean while ferrying 20 crew members and 40 migrants. Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, a devout Catholic, ordered all Italian ports closed to ships carrying immigrants in order to combat human trafficking and reduce illegal immigration. Last week, Salvini said Sea Watch's "hostile act" of approaching Italian shores was reason enough to demand other European countries take in the newcomers.
The Sea Watch 3 NGO flies a Dutch flag but is operated by a German nonprofit. It is one of several similar efforts by Europeans to ease the dangerous transit of the largely African migrants who cross the sea.
According to Italian daily Il Corriere Della Serra, Captain Rackete said, "I had to dock. I feared that some migrants might commit suicide."
Claiming that some passengers tried to self-harm, Rackete said, "I was afraid. We were taking turns for days, even at night, out of fear that someone might throw themselves into the sea. For those who don't know how to swim, it means suicide. I feared the worst."
Rackete's case has been greeted with a divided Europe. Some observers have accused Sea Watch and similar groups of engaging in human trafficking while others have offered praise for the group's charitable acts. On Saturday, Cardinal Pietro Parolin vehemently disagreed with the Italian government and its arrest of Racketa.
"I think that human life must be preserved in any way. This must be the North Star that guides us. Everything else is secondary," said Cardinal Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State, in a press conference.
Archbishop Gian Carlo Perego of Ferrara declared his support for Rackete, comparing her favorably with Giuseppe Garibaldi, a socialist who warred to bring down the Papal States in the 1800s and form modern Italy. "Disobeying the law to save lives is a Christian principle, and it's fundamental from a human point of view. It's what this woman captain has done." He even proposed to rename the port of Lampedusa in honor of Rackete.
On Monday, a spokesman for the German foreign ministry demanded that Italy release Rackete, and France is also pleading for her release. Philanthropists have contributed more than $1 million for her legal defense. Rackete could face three to 10 years in prison and thousands in fines if convicted.
According to various reports, Pope Francis has refused to meet Deputy Minister Salvini because of the latter's immigration policies. In April, L'Osservatore Romano — the Vatican's official newspaper — said migrants who overpowered the crew of a rescue ship had become "hijackers by necessity," thus giving evidence of the politicization of Church's response to the migrant crisis. Pope Francis himself has been a critic of President Donald Trump's reinforcement of border security, comparing it with the Berlin Wall that divided free West Germany from communist East Germany for decades.
News Abortion, Gender, Homosexuality, Politics - U.S. Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 4:14 pm EST
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News Catholic Church, Homosexuality Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 3:03 pm EST
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Screenshot of Fr. Martin's twitter page showing he 'liked' the tweet of gay 'married' couple Chasten and Pete Buttigieg
NEW YORK, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In advance of one of the world's largest homosexual "Pride" parades, Fr. James Martin, SJ celebrated a pre-parade Mass during which he told "LGBT Catholics" to be hopeful because Pope Francis has "LGBT friends" and has "appointed many LGBT-supportive cardinals, archbishops, and bishops."
Fr. Martin is a consultor to the Vatican's communications office who campaigns for greater acceptance of homosexuality within the Catholic Church. The Jesuit offered the "Pre-Pride Mass" at St. Francis of Assisi parish in New York City, known for its "LGBT ministry" that flouts Church teaching on sexuality, on the evening of June 29. One of the leaders of this "ministry" has fundraised for Planned Parenthood.
Martin said that "LGBT Catholics" should be "tough" in response to criticisms about LGBT ideology. Offering a gloss on the words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St. Luke, Martin sought to expand on the definition of Christian discipleship. Calling on homosexual and transgender-identifying Catholics to "be tough," he said that recent years have seen "many positive steps for LGBT Catholics."
Speaking of "two big trends," Martin said one can be "summarized by two words: 'Pope Francis.' His five most famous words are still, 'Who am I to judge?,' which was first a response to the question of gay priests and then expanded to LGBT people." Martin said that the current pope is the first to use the word "gay," adding, "He has LGBT friends. And he's appointed many LGBT-supportive cardinals, archbishops, and bishops."
For the Jesuit, another positive trend is that "more and more Catholics are coming out and being open about their gender identity, they and their families are bringing their hopes and desires into their parishes, and slowly the culture of the Church is being changed."
Despite this trend, Martin lamented that this is a "hard time to be an LGBT Catholic." He referred to the firing of "LGBT employees who are civilly married" by Catholic schools who require Catholic teachers to espouse and model Catholic teachings. He claimed that Catholic schools show a double standard when it comes to "straight Church employees" who keep their jobs even when they do not follow "various Church teachings," inadvertently making a point many faithful Catholics have long maintained.
Leaders in the Church, he said, continue to issue documents and statements that "betray not the slightest evidence that they have listened to the experience of LGBT people or their families." Martin also denounced "homophobic pastors, pastoral workers, and parishioners."
"All the more reason to be like Jesus: that is, tough," said Martin. He said that LGBT Catholics and their parents and relatives are "as much a part of the church as the Pope, your local bishop, your pastor, or me. Root yourself in your baptism and claim your place in your church."
Paraphrasing Jesus, Martin said that doing so will be hard.
"Sometimes your family may misunderstand you, as Jesus's family did. Sometimes you'll feel unwelcome in places, as Jesus did in Samaria. Sometimes it won't feel like you have a home, like Jesus felt," he sermonized. But disagreements, he said, are "all part of the journey. It's part of being with him."
"LGBT people should fully expect to participate in all the ministries in the church," said Fr. Martin. "Not just being welcomed and affirmed and included, but leading."
He concluded by promoting the idea that God creates people to have a homosexual identity: "Be proud to be Catholic. And for my LGBT brothers and sisters and siblings, be the LGBT Catholic whom you are called to be by Jesus Christ himself."
The Jesuit kicked off June 2019 by wishing a "happy Pride Month" to "all my many Catholic LGBTQ friends." His homosexual activism has included supporting letting boys in girls' bathrooms and vice versa; accepting an award from the dissident New Ways Ministry; authoring Building a Bridge, a book endorsed by several left-wing prelates which urges the Church to be more accepting of homosexuality; retweeting a complaint that priests can't "bless" same-sex unions; and many pro-gay statements in speeches and media appearences.
He supports gay men kissing each other during the sign of peace at Mass, says a Catholic attending a same-sex "wedding" is like attending a Jewish wedding, and suggests that his critics are secretly gay themselves.
In June 2018, Martin was the speaker at the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families. Anthony Murphy of the Lumen Fidei Institute told LifeSiteNews that having the Jesuit priest speak at the event "must sicken the heart of every faithful Catholic." Pope Francis also attended the event, which was held in Dublin.
Last week, Fr. Martin "liked" a tweet by Chasten Buttigieg, the "husband" of homosexual 2020 Democrat presidential contender and abortion supporter Mayor Pete Buttigieg. The tweet showed a silhouette of the two men, with Chasten adjusting Pete's tie. "You've got this. I love you," Chasten tweeted.
Commenting on Martin's sermon, author Rod Dreher opined in The American Conservative, "Father James Martin is an exceptionally good preacher. But what he's preaching here is directly contrary to Scripture, and to the Catholic Magisterium."
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy Gov. Mike Dunleavy / Flickr
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ALASKA, July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has a message for the state's Supreme Court: If you're going to force taxpayers to fund abortions, that money is coming out of your budget.
The Alaska Supreme Court has continually ruled that the state must fund abortions, so Dunleavy slashed the amount it has been spending on the deadly practice from the state judiciary's budget.
Via a line-item veto, Dunleavy reduced the budget of the state's courts by $334,700 – the amount of public money spent on elective abortions annually.
"The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to state-funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on state-funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court," the governor's office explained of its fiscal year 2020 budget. "The annual cost of elective abortions is reflected by this reduction."
"The Federal Government also prohibits any federal funds paying for elective abortions," the document notes.
"The Alaska Supreme Court has a long history of extremist rulings on abortion," Alaska Family Action (AFA), a division of the Alaska Family Council, posted on Facebook when Dunleavy finalized the budget. "But until today, they never suffered any real consequences for it. Now they will start feeling the pain of their own arrogance. Every dollar the state spends on killing unborn children will be cut from their budget."
"Ultimately, our goal must be to ensure that no agency of state government is paying even one cent to destroy life," AFA continued. "The best way to accomplish this permanently is to amend our constitution to make it abundantly clear there is no right in the state constitution for abortion, or abortion funding."
"But while we work on that long-term goal, Governor Dunleavy deserves credit for calling out the court on their radical record. In defiance of the constitution, liberal justices have pretended they have the power to appropriate money, even though appropriation power is expressly reserved to the Legislature. Now they will deal with the consequences of exceeding their authority. As we read in the book of Proverbs (16:18), 'Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.'"
There is no legal limit on late-term abortion in Alaska.
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News Abortion, Culture of Life Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 10:14 am EST
a preferred women's health center, abortion, abortion pill, abortion pill reversal, charlotte, culture of life, mifepristone, misoprostol, north carolina
July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Twin babies were saved when their mother changed her mind after beginning the process of a chemical abortion.
"Alexis" was around six weeks pregnant when she sought an abortion at Charlotte, North Carolina's busiest abortion provider, A Preferred Women's Health Center.
During an ultrasound, the technician casually remarked, "Oh, twins," giving her pause, because she had always wanted twins.
While she processed the fact she was carrying twin babies, Alexis, a pseudonym, was given the first of two drugs in the chemical abortion process, along with the second dose to be taken in the next 48 hours.
As she left the abortion center, a sidewalk counselor was able to reach Alexis through her state of bewilderment and initiate the process of saving her twins.
"It might not be too late for you," the counselor told her, "AbortionPillReversal.com, they can still help you save your baby."
After Alexis left the abortion facility, she pulled into the nearest parking lot and searched on her phone for the website mentioned by the counselor and called the helpline, which coordinated assistance for her at a local pregnancy center.
"We got her started on the abortion pill reversal treatment extremely fast," said Courtney Parks, abortion pill reversal coordinator for HELP Pregnancy Center. "It was a matter of hours."
Alexis's story was recently published by Pregnancy Help News and picked up by FoxNews.com.
The "abortion pill," or RU-486, refers to a chemical abortion that uses two pills: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is taken first, destabilizing the pregnancy by blocking progesterone receptors and reducing progesterone levels in the mother's blood. The abortion is then finished when misoprostol induces labor, forcing the mother's body to expel the baby.
Abortion pill reversal treatment works by giving the mother extra progesterone up to 72 hours after she takes the first chemical abortion pill.
HELP medical director Matt Harrison and California physician George Delgado developed the reversal treatment over a decade ago.
The Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) includes 450 professional health care providers in the U.S. and 11 other countries that assist women who call the helpline that Alexis had called. The helpline is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is a project of Heartbeat International, a global network of 2,600 pregnancy help organizations.
Acting within that 72-hour window is crucial, and Alexis was fortunate to make contact with the helpline early enough in that timeframe. Her twins are two of the 750 babies who have been saved by abortion pill reversal.
Once at her appointment with HELP Pregnancy Center, Parks and HELP sonographer Kelly Byrum gave Alexis what the abortion facility did not: the opportunity to see her babies on an ultrasound.
"They were tiny, little babies and they had beautiful, little heartbeats," Parks said. "I just remember sitting with her in that ultrasound room and her crying, and just hoping that this would work for her so that she could save her babies."
Parks saw to it that Alexis had follow-up ultrasound scans in the following several weeks, to be certain the babies were still healthy and thriving.
The abortion pill reversal protocol worked, and roughly a month later, the center connected her with a doctor who provided her with prenatal care for the remainder of her pregnancy.
Parks and his HELP team kept in touch with Alexis, throwing her a baby shower along with another ministry.
"She has had everything that these babies need for several years provided for her," Parks said. "She told me, 'If I had known what I know now and I had seen how the Lord has provided for these babies, I would have never even walked into that clinic.' So she's just been overwhelmed with just how good God has provided for her throughout this."
HELP Pregnancy Center has seen four babies saved by the abortion reversal protocol.
The rest of Alexis's pregnancy was otherwise uneventful, and she delivered her babies early this year.
Parks said Alexis is thriving as a single mother, and she has the support of her own mother, who moved in with her to assist with the twins.
Alexis "is just head over heels in love with these babies," Parks said.
Byrum is glad for the awareness created for abortion pill reversal by Alexis's story.
"It's really neat that it's getting some press now and people are becoming aware of it," she said. "We have heard women come out of this [abortion] clinic that have told us that they told them inside that once you take this pill, there's nothing you can do to reverse it, that it's just not
Parks, one of 800 clinicians in the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, concurred.
"We really just hope that this brings awareness to abortion pill reversal and the fact that it does save lives," she said.
The abortion reversal helpline number is (877) 558-0333. More information is available at AbortionPillReversal.com.
Selina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, Connecticut. The Daily Signal
News Gender, Politics - U.S. Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 8:55 am EST
alliance defending freedom, connecticut, petition, selina soule, sports, title ix, transgenderism
PETITION: Keep Girls' Sports For Biological Girls ONLY - #IStandWithSelina. Sign the petition here.
June 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A petition supporting a female athlete who now must compete against biological males because of Connecticut's law requiring that boys who identify as "girls" be admitted into girls' sports competitions has been launched by LifeSiteNews. The petition supports Selina Soule and her discrimination complaint lodged with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Soule, a female high school athlete from Connecticut, has had her sporting career jeopardized by a state policy requiring that boys who call themselves "girls" be admitted to girls' sports competitions.
Selina competes in track at Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, Connecticut. She wasn't able to qualify for the 55-meter event in the New England regionals because two spots were taken by boys, as The Daily Signal's Kelsey Bolar documented in a recent video report on the 16-year-old's situation.
Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal aid group, said the organization filed the complaint to bring justice to Selina's situation.
"Alliance Defending Freedom, on behalf of Selina and a couple of other brave female athletes, has filed or is in the process of filing a Title IX complaint asking the Department of Education to step in, to investigate, and to restore a level playing field for Selina," Holcomb said.
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights enforces Title IX, the federal law that "protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance," according to the agency's website.
If the two boys who consider themselves "girls" had not been allowed to compete with the girls, Selina says, she would have placed sixth and had the opportunity to run the 55 in front of college coaches at the New England regionals.
One of LifeSiteNews's campaign coordinators, Scott Schittl, was encouraged by the amount of traffic Selina's story has been getting over the last week. "With over 400,000 pageviews over the last two weeks, this has been the biggest story for LifeSite in recent months."
"That's because people know that there is fundamentally something wrong with boys playing girls' sports," Schittl went on to say. "They know it's about safety. They know that when boys compete in girls' sports, they win because they have a natural advantage. It's scientifically proven, and it's also common sense."
Competing with boys crushes the motivation of girls who have worked hard to compete, only to enter into competitions they can never, or rarely, win, despite all of their efforts.
It also puts girls into harm's way in contact sports, and it deprives female athletes of the chance to compete for college scholarships and other accolades.
That's why this petition supports Selina's complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on the same matter.
Thank you for READING and SIGNING this petition, TODAY!
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori. Lisa Bourne / LifeSiteNews
Fr. Gerald E. Murray
Opinion Catholic Church, Homosexuality Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 9:01 pm EST
catholic, homosexuality, michael bransfield, sex abuse crisis, theodore mccarrick, william lori
July 1, 2019 (The Catholic Thing) — It has now been one year since the Archdiocese of New York announced that it had received a credible accusation that the retired Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, had, as a priest, sexually abused a high school seminarian in the basement of St. Patrick's Cathedral. This stunning revelation led to a series of further revelations about McCarrick, and about bishops who knew about McCarrick's immoral behavior, which have shaken the trust and confidence of Catholics in the Church, and specifically confidence in her hierarchy. McCarrick was found guilty of multiple grave crimes and was expelled from the priesthood by Pope Francis. Was this sufficient punishment?
McCarrick has never publicly admitted his guilt in the face of the overwhelming evidence of his crimes. He has not asked forgiveness of his victims, not made monetary reparations to them for the grave harm he inflicted upon them. He remains in a Kansas Capuchin friary adjacent to a parochial school as a non-paying guest; his expulsion from the priesthood has not resulted in any change in his Church-provided living arrangements.
This is remarkable. How many other forcibly laicized priests found guilty of sexually molesting young men would be given this consideration? Why has he not been shown the door and told to come clean by the Holy See or the Bishop of Salina or the Capuchin superior?
Is it not clear that this passivity in allowing this man to remain in the friary is correctly seen to be a further insult to those he victimized over the years? McCarrick used his authority as a priest and bishop to commit horrendous crimes, financing his criminal lifestyle with the money donated by the faithful to promote the works of the Church. He has lied to the Church and to the entire world about his evil acts. He coerced innocent youths into acts of depravity and pretends to this day that nothing happened.
The Catholic Church should never tolerate a situation in which a once powerful man who committed grave crimes is treated as if he were still a powerful man who can be allowed to escape the consequences of his punishment. Does anyone think that any American diocese would offer free room and board in a rectory or convent to a laicized priest who almost certainly has sufficient money in the bank to live on his own?
McCarrick's current situation is emblematic of the paralysis that has descended on the Church following the revelations of what McCarrick did. He is allowed to live an untroubled life in a Church facility. The decree of laicization has not resulted in his living as an ordinary layperson, responsible for himself. His conviction has been met by his silence, which is a spiritual danger for his soul. Only public repentance and public penance, including monetary reparations, will benefit his victims and his own soul.
The Holy See has dragged its feet on issuing a declaration on the internal review of documents in its archives related to the McCarrick matter. The review that began last September is still ongoing. How many files and documents can there be? Ten months is a long time to go through a finite number of documents. The American dioceses where McCarrick worked have likewise not issued any declarations about their own internal investigations. When will the Catholic people be told the whole story about McCarrick's sexual depredations that were known for many years in both the United States and the Vatican?
The recent revelations of the sexual abuse and financial irregularities committed by a McCarrick protégé, the former Bishop of Wheeling, WV, Michael Bransfield, were truly shocking. Shocking also was the failed attempt by the man assigned to investigate Bransfield, Archbishop William Lori, to hide in his report to Rome the names of bishops, including his own, who received large cash gifts from Bransfield.
The Washington Post obtained both the original unexpurgated report with the names of gift recipients and the sanitized final version. The recipients of these gifts were not accused of being aware that Bransfield was embezzling money from his diocesan coffers by instructing his financial people to reimburse him for the amounts of these large personal gifts, which were plainly meant to buy favoritism from influential bishops and cardinals. Lori apologized for editing out his name and the names of other bishops who received these large cash gifts.
This attempt by the investigator to hide the personally embarrassing results of his own investigation was foiled by a leaker who cooperated with The Washington Post. This self-serving editing happened in the time of promised transparency and accountability. In fact, the transparency of telling the whole truth would not have occurred unless someone with access to the original report had not gone to the press.
I suspect that in many institutions in our society, a revelation in the press that the person in charge of a high-profile investigation excised his own name from the final report would result in either a resignation or a firing.
Lori tried to hide something that he feared would make him and some of his fellow bishops look bad. So much for pro-active transparency. There is obviously a culture of concealment in the hierarchy — we see it in the long history of McCarrick's crimes, and we see it in the Bransfield-Lori investigation.
It is high time for the hierarchy of the Church to reveal to the faithful the whole story of McCarrick and of other bishops who were wolves in shepherds' clothing, inflicting harm on the sheep, either as sexual molesters or as their enablers and protectors.
Published with permission from The Catholic Thing.
John-Henry Westen / LifeSiteNews.com
Blogs Catholic Church, Homosexuality Mon Jul 1, 2019 - 7:31 pm EST
catholic, german bishops conference, homosexuality, pope francis, synodal path
July 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – On Saturday, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the German Bishops' Conference published a 19-page letter written by Pope Francis, in which he touches upon matters such as evangelization, synodality, and conversion in light of the German "synodal path" as it is currently being set up. The letter is not addressed to the German bishops, as is usually the case, but to the "pilgrim people of God in Germany."
However, since Pope Francis wrote in a more general manner and chose not to mention any specific topics of the new "synodal path" – such as the questioning of priestly celibacy and of the Church's teaching on sexuality – the different camps in Germany all interpret his letter in a way pleasing to them.
For example, Cardinal Reinhard Marx – the head of the German bishops – and his lay counterpart, Professor Thomas Sternberg – the head of the German lay organization Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) – both welcomed this papal letter, thanked the Pope for his "encouraging words," and state that they, "as bishops and lay representatives," feel "invited to continue the process that we have started." They agree with Pope Francis that such a "synodal path" should not concentrate "on structures," but, rather, on "a spiritual orientation." Pope Francis, they continue, invites us "to a new form of listening to one another, so that we, as part of the Universal Church, serve the Faith with all our creativity, spirituality, and passion."
However, for Cardinal Rainer Woelki (Cologne) and General Vicar Michael Fuchs (Regensburg), the papal letter is clearly a sign that the "synodal path" as planned cannot be continued. Cardinal Woelki, in his June 29 statement, points out that the Pope has spoken of the "crisis of faith" in Germany and of the "primacy of evangelization." For Woelki, this means that "we have to be a missionary Church" and that the Church should not "adapt to the Zeitgeist," in the papal words. Cardinal Woelki thus expresses his gratitude to Pope Francis.
General Vicar Fuchs, in his own lengthy statement, points out that "the situation is dramatic" and says, "certainly, after this letter of the Pope, there cannot be a 'let's keep going' concerning the 'synodal process.'" Fuchs believes that "the direction and the intensity" of the demands that have been expressed in light of the upcoming "synodal path" "must have urged the Holy Father to write this letter." The prelate stresses that Pope Francis pointed in his letter to the loss of faith in Germany.
Fuchs goes on to say that the Pope warned against a "fragmentation" and instructed German Catholics to be attentive to unity with the Universal Church. Indeed, Pope Francis repeatedly mentions the words "Sensus Ecclesiae" and insists that it is important to avoid polarization and fragmentation. Fuchs also quotes Francis as saying that "the particular churches live in and from the Universal Church and would weaken themselves, spoil, and die, should they be separated from the Universal Church." The "community with the whole body of the Church," the Pope continues, "needs to be kept alive and effective."
Pope Francis, in his letter, also warns against a sort of "gnosticism," which makes people believe that they are "more advanced," pretending "to go beyond the 'ecclesial we.'"
Comments Fuchs: "Obviously, it did not remain hidden from Pope Francis that some demands of the initiators of 'synodal path' . . . go beyond, or do not take sufficiently into account, the foundations of the Catholic faith – as they are valid worldwide."
With reference to this papal letter, General Vicar Fuchs asks himself: "Have we in Germany, therefore, lost the primacy of evangelization … the joy of faith?"
Thus, for him this papal letter calls upon German Catholics to come up with a "completely new concept of such a [synodal] process that is to be oriented toward evangelization and spiritual renewal." This "synodal process," therefore, should not "adapt," but, rather, concentrate "on God."
Joachim Frank – a German Catholic journalist who is sympathetic with some of the reform plans of the German bishops – says that the new papal letter "gives free" the "synodal path" as approved by the German bishops in February 2019, just adding some "signposts." In another article, he comments that "the recipients deal with the papal letter to the German Catholics like with a bag of jelly beans." He means with it, that everybody picks out the parts of the letter that are pleasing to him.
What is striking to Frank is that the "contested topics" such as "sexual abuse, sexual morality, female ordination, [and] celibacy" are not even mentioned in the text.
"On the other hand," Frank continues, "Francis once more argues like the conservatives in the Church."
Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, the vice president of the German Bishops' Conference and a leading voice in the progressivist camp, shows himself relieved. He stated: "First of all, he [Pope Francis] is in favor of the synodal path. That was for me the relief. Nothing is being withdrawn here. That is to say, that we can move forward, that we can go on a path." The journalist who reports these words, Tilmann Kleinjung, entitled his article: "A papal letter with many interpretations."
In a similar manner, the German Catholic journalist and commentator Peter Winnemöller asks: "[Are there] several letters from Pope Francis?"
One theologian, who spoke with LifeSiteNews under condition of anonymity, said that the Pope's letter is "written in a way that everybody can accept it."
"Alfredo Peron," he continues, "who is himself also known for trying to embrace contradictory positions, would like it very much." However, adds the theologian, "the fact of the letter itself is surprising and thus might more benefit Catholic forces who wish to set limits to the 'synodal path.' In this respect, the letter is to be welcomed, even if it unfortunately does not make any concrete comments on any of the questions of content."


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