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Isaiah Stewart II (born May 22, 2001) Nicknamed "Beef Stew" is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies. Listed at  and , he plays the center and power forward positions.

Stewart attended McQuaid Jesuit High School in New York in his first two years of high school, after which he transferred to La Lumiere School, a prep school in Indiana. He was a consensus five-star recruit and was ranked among the top players in the 2019 class. Stewart earned McDonald's All-American honors and was named Mr. Basketball USA and Naismith Prep Player of the Year.

Early life
Stewart was born in Rochester, New York. He grew up playing soccer and boxing. Starting in fifth grade, Stewart focused on basketball, which he was drawn to because of his size and athleticism. He played organized basketball for the first time at age 10, while attending elementary school in Rochester. At age 12, Stewart stood around .

High school career

Stewart attended McQuaid Jesuit High School in his first two years of high school. When he was 14 years old, as a freshman, he stood . In his freshman season, Stewart averaged 18.5 points, 12.4 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game, recording two back-to-back 40-point games, and was named Rochester City Athletic Conference player of the year. In October 2016, he broke his tailbone during United States national under-16 team tryouts and consequently missed most of his sophomore season. On February 2, 2017, Stewart returned to the court, posting 35 points, 14 rebounds, and six blocks in his season debut.

Entering his junior year, Stewart transferred to La Lumiere School, a prep school in La Porte, Indiana with a prestigious basketball program. In 19 games, he averaged 19.8 points, 11.2 rebounds, and 2.4 blocks per game, leading his team to a 25–4 record. Stewart earned MaxPreps Junior All-American honorable mention recognition. In his senior season with La Lumiere, he averaged 18.1 points, 11.3 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks per game, helping his team to a 30–1 record. Stewart won the Naismith Prep Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball USA awards. He was named to the USA Today All-USA first team and MaxPreps All-American second team. Stewart played in the McDonald's All-American Game, Jordan Brand Classic, and Nike Hoop Summit.

Recruiting
Stewart finished his high school career as a consensus five-star recruit and top-five player in the 2019 class. On January 21, 2019, he committed to playing college basketball for Washington. The other finalists to land him were Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State, and Syracuse. Stewart was drawn to Washington because of his longtime relationship with Mike Hopkins. He knew Hopkins, a former Syracuse assistant coach, since his time playing for McQuaid Jesuit.

College career
Heading into the season Stewart and teammate Jaden McDaniels were projected as potential top 3 picks for the 2020 NBA Draft and possibly going first and second. In part to this, Washington also received a lot of hype. Stewart made his college debut for UW against the Baylor Bears in the 2019 Armed Forces Classic, recording 15 points and seven rebounds, including the game-winning basket in a 67–64 victory for Washington. At the conclusion of the regular season, Stewart was named to the All-Pac-12 first team and the Freshman Team. Stewart posted 29 points and 12 rebounds against Arizona in the Pac-12 tournament. He averaged 17 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game as a freshman. On April 1, 2020, Stewart declared for the 2020 NBA draft, forgoing his remaining college eligibility.

Professional career

Detroit Pistons (2020–present)
Stewart was drafted 16th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2020 NBA draft. On November 22, 2020, Stewart, Trevor Ariza, and a conditional future first round pick were traded to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Robert Covington. On November 24, Stewart, Ariza, a future second round pick, and cash considerations were traded to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Christian Wood, a protected future first round pick, and a second round pick in 2021. On December 1, the Pistons announced that they had signed Stewart to his rookie scale contract.

On November 21, 2021, Stewart was ejected in the third quarter after getting into a scuffle with LeBron James during a 116–121 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. James initially hit Stewart in the face, which led to Stewart charging at James multiple times. Stewart had to be held back by multiple game officials and players. The next day, it was announced that Stewart would be suspended for two games for his actions.

On March 9, 2023, the Pistons announced that Stewart was diagnosed with a left shoulder impingement and would be sidelined for at least three-to-four weeks.

National team career
Stewart played for the United States at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup in Argentina. In seven games, he averaged 11.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. In the finals, Stewart led all scorers with 15 points and nine rebounds in a 95–52 win over France to capture the gold medal.

Career statistics

NBA

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| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Detroit
| 68 || 14 || 21.4 || .553 || .333 || .696 || 6.7 || .9 || .6 || 1.3 || 7.9
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| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Detroit
| 71 || 71 || 25.6 || .510 || .326 || .718 || 8.7 || 1.2 || .3 || 1.1 || 8.3
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| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Detroit
| 50 || 47 || 28.3 || .442 || .327 || .738 || 8.1 || 1.4 || .4 || .7 || 11.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 189 || 132 || 24.8 || .501 || .328 || .721 || 7.8 || 1.1 || .4 || 1.0 || 9.0

College

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| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20
| style="text-align:left;"| Washington
| 32 || 32 || 32.2 || .570 || .250 || .774 || 8.8 || .8 || .5 || 2.1 || 17.0

Personal life
Stewart's father Dela Stewart, who is a native of Jamaica, emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s for farm work. Later on, he moved to New York, where he met Stewart's mother Shameka Holloway and began working in construction. Stewart's paternal grandfather, who was a Jamaican fisherman and farmer, stood . Stewart has worn the number 33 basketball jersey in honor of Jamaican former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Patrick Ewing.

References

External links

Washington Huskies bio
USA Basketball bio

2001 births
Living people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
American people of Jamaican descent
Basketball players from New York (state)
Centers (basketball)
Detroit Pistons players
La Lumiere School alumni
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Portland Trail Blazers draft picks
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Rochester, New York
Washington Huskies men's basketball players

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This contest is to search the Web for higher traffic blogs that talk about Amazon EMR ([login to view URL]) and collect the blogger information and email addresses. The result should be delivered as an excel sheet with the following columns.
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On March 17th 2011, The Tesoro High School Boys Lacrosse Team located in Las Flores, CA held a "Green Out" night for all the fans in attendance. Fans attending the game were encouraged to wear Green to show support of the "HEADstrong Foundation," which was a great tie in with the game falling on St. Patrick's Day. The Tesoro Boys and Girls Lacrosse teams are proud supporters of the HEADstrong Foundation. All 105 players have signed up to participate in the Score for a Cure program with a goal of raising $20,000 this season. All the players know about Nick, understand his cause and are dedicated to make a difference to help raise awareness and funds for the Foundation.
"We are so excited for the boys & girls of Tesoro High School to get involved with The HEADstrong Foundation, they are able to play the sport they enjoy and give back at the same time. We will be Relentless in our efforts to conquer our Score for a Cure goal of $20,000." – Randy
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The HSA consists of a FDIC insured, interest-bearing bank account and an investment account. An HSA works in conjunction with a lower cost High Deductible HSA compatible Health Plan. You can use your HSA to pay for current and future qualified medical expenses tax free.
You must be enrolled in one of the County's High Deductible HSA-compatible Health Plans and cannot be covered by another medical plan. You also cannot be enrolled in Medicare, be a dependent on another person's tax return, or have received VA medical benefits at any time over the past three months.
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The composition of its typical SP-4 laboratory growth medium.
WholeCellKB currently contains a single database of Mycoplasma genitalium, an extremely small gram-positive bacterium and common human pathogen. This database is the most comprehensive description of any single organism to date, and was used to develop the first whole-cell computational model.
WholeCellKB has several major differences from previous databases such as BioCyc and BiGG. First, WholeCellKB was designed to represent every cellular process including well-studied processes such as metabolism as well as less well-understood processes such as DNA damage and repair and RNA and protein degradation.
Second, whole-cell modeling requires model organism databases which explicitly define the participants of each molecular interaction and chemical reaction. WholeCellKB addresses this need by representing the specific molecules involved in every molecular interaction and by requiring structures for each molecule. For example, WholeCellKB represents the specific RNA and protein species involved in every RNA and protein modification reaction and the specific proteins folded by each molecular chaperone. In comparison, most previous databases only explicitly represent metabolic and transcriptional regulatory interactions.
Third, where available WholeCellKB contains not only structural, but also quantitative functional descriptions of each molecule and molecular interaction. For example, WholeCellKB contains chemical reaction rate laws and kinetic parameters, RNA transcript expressions and half-lives, and cellular and growth medium chemical compositions.
Species specificity: where possible we based the database on research conducted in M. genitalium.
Comprehensiveness: to develop a fully comprehensive database, where necessary we curated M. genitalium based on studies of close relatives such as E. coli and Bacillus subtilis. We determined homology by bi-direction best BLAST.
Accuracy: where possible we catalogued multiple relevant research reports and based our annotation on the consensus of these reports.
Molecular specificity: each piece of information was annotated to a specific molecule or set of molecules, each with a defined chemical structure.
Quantitativeness: where possible we curated the numerical properties of each molecular and molecular interaction including for example, the thermodynamics and kinetics of each chemical reaction.
Transparency: we catalogued the source of every piece of information as well as the researcher who curated it and when.
The M. genitalium database was curated from over 900 primary research articles, reviews, books, and databases over four years by a team of researchers at Stanford University.
First, we curated the overall structure of M. genitalium including its size, shape, subcellular organization, and chemical composition based on several experimental studies including Morowitz et al., 1962. We also curated the chemical composition of mycoplasma laboratory growth medium to the level of specific metabolite species based on analyses provided by Solabia.
Second, we curated the structure of the M. genitalium chromosome including its sequence, the location, length, and direction of each gene and its transcription unit organization based on the Comprehensive Microbial ResourceGüell et al., 2009. We curated the location of each promoter and the expression, degradation rate, and essentiality of each gene product from studies by Weiner et al., 2000, Weiner et al., 2003, Bernstein et al., 2002, and Glass et al., 2006, respectively. We curated DNA-binding protein binding sites and transcriptional regulatory interactions from several sources including DBTBS.
Third, we curated the structure of each RNA and protein gene product. We curated the post-transcriptional processing and modification of each RNA transcript from several sources including Peil, 2009. We curated the signal sequence, localization, chaperone-mediated folding, post-translational modification, disulfide bonds, subunit composition, and DNA footprint of each protein and macromolecular complex from a large number of primary research articles, computational models, and databases. We curated the chemical regulation of each gene product from several sources including DrugBank. We used ExPASy ProtParam to calculate the pI, extinction coefficient, half-life, instability index, aliphatic index, and grand average of hydropathy of every protein species.
Fourth, we curated the specific chemical reactions catalyzed by each gene product starting from the CMR, GenBank, KEGG, and UniProt genome annotations and the RNA and protein maturation pathways we had already curated. To maximize the scope of the database and to fill gaps in the genome annotation we expanded each gene product's annotation based on primary research articles we identified by systematically searching PubMed and Google Scholar for each gene and its homologs. We consulted BioCyc, KEGG, two flux-balance analysis models of bacterial metabolism, hundreds of additional primary research articles to curate the stoichiometry of each chemical reaction. We curated the thermodynamics and kinetics of each chemical reaction from several databases including BRENDA, SABIO-RK, and UniProt.
Lastly, we curated the M. genitalium metabolome. We included any metabolite involved in any curated reaction or molecular interaction as well as any metabolite present in M. genitalium biomass or in typical mycoplasma growth medium. We curated the empirical formula, structure, and charge of each metabolite based on several databases including BioCyc and PubChem. We used ChemAxon Marvin to calculate the molecular weight, volume, pI, logd and logp of each metabolite.
The supplementary information to Karr et al., 2012 provides a detailed discussion of the curation process and sources.
WholeCellKB separately versions each entry. Each entry's page displays two properties: created and last updated which indicate each entry's version history. Similarly, entries exported from WholeCellKB contain two properties created_date and last_updated_date.
Customization: enable modelers to rapidly develop custom data models and views.
As described above, the goal of WholeCellKB is to enable modelers to rapidly develop the databases needed to build whole-cell models. Consequently, we chose to implement WholeCellKB in Python using the Django web framework. This design enables modelers to rapidly develop custom data models and validation without any knowledge of relational database design or SQL and minimal programming. This design also allows WholeCellKB to provide modelers generic views for editing, batch editing, and exporting WholeCellKB entries, further enabling modelers to rapidly develop databases. Because WholeCellKB is built on top of Python, modelers can also easily perform scientific calculations on WholeCellKB entries using SciPy, NumPy, and Biopython for data validation and simulation. Furthermore, these theoretical calculations can easily be displayed alongside curated data in the WholeCellKB user interface.
WholeCellKB was implemented entirely with free, open-source software. WholeCellKB runs on Apache, an open-source web server using the open-source module mod_wsgi. WholeCellKB is stored using the open-source relational database MySQL. Full text search was implemented using the open-source libraries Haystack and Xapian. Batch Excel import and export were implemented using OpenPyXL. The RESTful JSON and XML interfaces were implemented using simplejson and xml.dom. PDF export was implemented using xhtml2pdf. Several bioinformatics calculations were implemented using Biopython.
Documentation for the source code is available here. Additional documentation for the data model is available below.
wid: unicode identifier for entry. wid's are unique within a species.
name: unicode representing the name of each entry.
comments: unicode representing comments for each entry.
created_date: datetime when the entry was created.
last_updated_date: datetime when the entry was last updated.
Through the CrossReference, Synonym, and User classes, all entries also contain lists of cross-references to other databases, synonyms, and the identity of the users who created and last updated each entry. The Python classes for each entry type add additional properties.
In addition to the Entry subclasses which represent WholeCellKB entries, the WholeCellKB data model contains a second type of class derived from the EntryData superclass. These classes do not correspond to WholeCellKB entries, but rather are used to encode relationships among WholeCellKB entries.
The diagram below shows the WholeCellKB data model. Click the diagram of the link here for a high-resolution version. See also the source code documentation.
WholeCellKB is also accessible via a RESTful API which mirrors the content of every HTML page in Bib, JSON, PDF, and XML formats. See below for further information about the available export formats. Please use the following URL patterns to access the API with the format query argument set to one of "bib", "json", "pdf", or "xml".
Finally, the URL fragment QueryString can be set to any string.
We welcome additions and corrections to the version of WholeCellKB at https://www.wholecellkb.org. Click the icon located at the bottom-right corner of most pages to email us additions and corrections to WholeCellKB.
Alternatively, you can download the WholeCellKB source code and content to create and customize – including the content, data model, and user interface – your own model organism database. After you've installed and logged into your own version of WholeCellKB, the icons will direct you to web-forms which will enable to you to edit your model organism databases. Additionally, after you've logged in you will have access to a batch upload page which will enable you to use the WholeCellKB Excel interface to more rapidly edit your model organism databases.
See below for more information on creating your own model organism databases with WholeCellKB.
The content of WholeCellKB can be downloaded here.
This format provides all of the references cited by the selected entries in BibTex format. See Wikipedia for more information about the BibTex citation format.
This format provides the selected entries in a tabular format, with separate tables on separate worksheets for each entry type (eg. Metabolite, Reaction, etc). Entries correspond to rows in the exported tables. Properties correspond to columns. Properties which represent many-to-many relationships among entries are presented as comma-separated lists and JSON-formatted strings.
This format returns an HTML-formatted table containing the WID and name of the selected entries.
title: String which describes exported species.
comments: String which describes how and when the data was exported.
copyright: String which describes how and when the data was curated.
data: Array which contains the selected entries. Each element of the array is a JSON-serialized version of a single WholeCellKB entry, and contains several properties including wid, name, created_date, and last_updated_date. See the data model section above for more information about the properties of each entry type.
See Wikipedia for more information about the JSON data format.
This format returns a PDF-formatted table containing the WID and name of the selected entries.
This format returns an XML object with one property, objects, which contains a list of the selected entries, each represented by an XML object of type object containing XML objects of type field which represent their attributes including the WID, name, creation date, and last updated date. See the data model section above for more information about the properties of each entry type. See Wikipedia for more information about the XML data format.
Entries exported in BibTex, Excel, JSON, or XML format contains two properties created_date and last_updated_date which indicate each entry's revision history. See above for further information.
The WholeCellKB source code is freely available at SimTK. Documentation for the source code is available here. Additional documentation for the data model is available above.
Want to develop your own model organism database?
To create and customize your own model organism database download and install the WholeCellKB source code at SimTK. See the Developer's Guide for detailed instructions on installing the WholeCellKB software, creating new model organism databases, and customizing the data model and user interface. See also the source code and data model documentation.
WholeCell was specifically designed to enable comprehensive, dynamic whole-cell simulations. Please see Karr et al., 2012 Data S1 for information about how WholeCellKB can be used to develop whole-cell simulations.
The best ways to get started are to browse or search WholeCellKB using the menu or the search box at the top of this page. See the tutorial for additional help getting started.
Please use the icon at the bottom right of each data page to suggest edits to the content of WholeCellKB.
Please contact us at wholecell@lists.stanford.edu with any questions and/or comments about WholeCellKB.
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Tonal Beats
The Art of Roel Jovellanos
Disposable Art in the Attention Economy
"Why did Tom post that same image on Instagram again? It was cool the first time, but come on, he's wasting my time with the same shit, un-follow!" - Instagram Person
Big deal, Tom posted the same piece of art twice. Why is it such an offence? Why is there a feeling of underlying resentment when someone thinks their art is worth a second viewing? Why is time so precious to you that Tom went from respected to hated in half a second? Or was the reaction elicited one of cringe? Embarrassment for Tom. He doesn't understand how social media works. Or, if Tom's crime was especially egregious, Norma Desmond comes to mind. A washed up Golden Era actress replaying the movies of her past over and over again.
Now maybe you're Tom and you realized your mistake. You're new to the whole social media thing, but you're a quick learner. You figured out that you need to feed the beast. That's what you've come call Instagram, The Beast. It has a voracious appetite and doesn't want the same meal twice. So you make sure to produce art that is easily executed but flashy. It has to be flashy. It also has to be trendy. So you follow other artists and do what they do. You copy styles and techniques. You don't consider it stealing. Everyone does it. And maybe you're just copying a little bit. It doesn't matter, because no one knows the origins of anything anymore and no one cares. So you do the same shit everyone else does. If you're the best at it, you do it faster and flashier. You become the master of craft and now you're ready for a Youtube channel.
Welcome to the Art of the Attention Economy.
Art has shifted from the attainment of timelessness in the form of an artifact to the attainment of attention in the form of social approval, a "like". Artists during the Impressionist period attempted to capture the fleeting moment into a forever space, the canvas. Artist's in this Attention Economy use an image to capture a portion of a viewer's finite resource, time. The more pieces of time acquired from more people, the more successful. The more followers, the more legitimate. You'll get rewarded monetarily in the Attention Economy's many reward systems. Youtube ad revenue, Patreon subscribers, Twitch donations and subscriptions, etc. All the rewards and popularity has a price though. Everything and anything created has become disposable.
Your art is disposable.
You may not find anything wrong with that. You feel you are a piece of the bigger collective and your likes and followers are all that matters anyways. It's all about expression and being creative. It's the act of "doing" that matters. Joy in the process. You don't really think that do you. It's what your rational self tells you to think and it's all bullshit.
You're not a Sunday painter, you're not a craftsman, you're not a designer, this isn't a hobby. You know this because of the dark hole of emptiness and frustration that looms over you and always has.
You wonder if you are Bipolar.
I have a feeling you know what that means. You've lived with it your entire life. The moment you said to yourself this is all that I can be. It's not much but at least it's a certainty. Emotional swings of grandeur, doubt, and mania are as routine as the seasons but as uncertain as the weather. But you still give it your all because there's light. You don't have bipolar, you're just an artist.
The hashtag is the gateway to doom.
The hashtag extinguishes the light. Your art is the light. The piece of work that you put everything into. The hope that you have created something that will connect you to someone on a sublime level of mutual understanding. You naively post the piece on Instagram. It is then consumed, discarded, and forgotten. What's worse, you hashtagged it to many of the artists communities where the vultures swoop in. There is something in it that will get them more follows and likes. They copy, steal, and tear anything original out of it. Your hardest efforts and work, consumed by the Borg.
Slow down. Do art that takes time and sweat
Create a higher stakes game to where the thought of your work becoming disposable is unbearable. It will force you to seriously consider how you choose to show, share, and sell your art. Think twice about the importance of followers, likes, and social media. Is a hashtag worth the quick feedback reward? The artists' struggle against disposability in this era is the most important battle happening in art today. Be relevant, be remembered, spend your life trying.


In the last month, we've already started to see a few sunny days and more are sure to come! Winter is often associated with unhealthy habits and quickly forgotten gym memberships. This lack of motivation is noticeable in the workplace as well and you've probably observed particularly lethargic employees. Well, spring is finally here and with it an excuse to get healthier. You'll be surprised how much more productive your small business will be when your employees (and you!) put in a little effort to spring clean.
Clean all your spring clothes and blankets you're taking out of storage before you wear or use them again.
Get rid of all the dust that's been storing up in your air conditioner vents. Replace the filter and, while you're at it, wipe down the ceiling fan blades before you turn it on.
Try to get to the things we seldom remember. Your mattress cover is probably a good place to start.
Toss out the old. Go through your medicine cabinet and throw out any medications, grooming products and cleaning supplies that are visibly old or expired. Not only are they less effective when expired, certain products can become harmful.
Get organized. During your deep clean, develop a system to tackle everything. This saves time and gives you ease of mind throughout the process.
Shop local. Take advantage of all the local healthy produce options available this spring. Portland and the surrounding metro area has a ton of really great farmers' markets, you're bound to find one in your neighborhood.
Get a check-up. Schedule all your doctors' appointments now. It's easy, and typical, to hide away during a particularly rainy Oregon winter. When the sun starts shining on the Willamette River, though, it's time to come out and get things done. Call your dentist, dermatologist and chiropractor to bring your health out of hiding too.
Take a walk. While you're outside, walk around. Portland, OR is a wonderful place to be during the spring. Vitamin D can be hard to find from November to March so embrace the wide open spaces our city has to offer, from Mount Tabor to Forest Park.
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The politics of fear is dying out in Africa
By Netsanet Belay*
FROM LEFT: President Uhuru Kenyata, former President Jacob Zuma and former Prime Minister Hailemariam
Lenin was once quoted as saying, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." This could perfectly describe the past week in Africa. Across the continent, a number of game-changing political developments have followed each other in quick succession in one of the most tumultuous weeks of any decade.
In South Africa, Jacob Zuma resigned after a presidency marked by corruption and impunity. Shortly after, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn stood down following months of intensifying public protest. In the same week, Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's long-standing opposition leader, passed away after a lifetime spent challenging human rights violations under former President Robert Mugabe.
The pace of these successive changes has been significant, but the ground has been stirring for some time. Last year Africa bid farewell to its three longest-serving leaders: Yahya Jammeh of Gambia (22 years), José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola (38 years) and Zimbabwe's Mugabe (37 years) — all leaders of governments known for their brutal repression of dissent.
Given the scale and long history of the repression enacted by these governments, many thought they would not live to see their end. In Gambia, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, recent developments were unthinkable — until they happened.
Who could have imagined that the gates of Ethiopia's notorious prisons would open so widely, allowing thousands of prisoners of conscience to walk free? That Eskinder Nega, the courageous journalist who spent seven years behind bars for criticizing the government, would finally be reunited with his family?
Who in Gambia would have believed that Ousainou Darboe and Amadou Sanneh, two former Amnesty International prisoners of conscience who spent years in jail for speaking out against repression, would be ministers in the new government?
Who would have dared to question the reign of dos Santos and see his family lose its grip over Angola's oil industry and wealth?
The growing resilience of people standing up against repression and demanding respect for human rights is a cause for hope in uncertain times. It suggests the politics of fear may finally be withering away.
Since 2016, mass protests and people's movements — often articulated and organized through social media — have swept the continent.
#Oromoprotests and #amaharaprotests in Ethiopia, #ThisFlag in Zimbabwe and #FeesMustFall in South Africa were some of the most powerful manifestations of this growing defiance. These protests were often spontaneous, viral and driven by ordinary citizens, in particular young people who bear the triple burden of unemployment, poverty and inequality.
This trend continued in 2017. From Lomé to Freetown, Khartoum to Kampala and Kinshasa to Luanda, people went out to the streets in large numbers, ignoring threats and bans on protests and refusing to back down even in the face of brutal clampdowns.
The triggers for these protests vary. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was delays in publishing the electoral calendar that got people out on the streets; in Chad it was an increase in the fees charged to traders at the N'Djamena Millet Market; in Togo it was hikes in oil prices; in Kenya it was frustrations over the electoral process.
But what unites them is the strength in defiance and the demand for change, inclusion and freedom. While some of these protests had violent elements — mostly in reaction to heavy-handed clampdowns — the majority were peaceful and driven by a demand for basic rights and dignity.
And there is every reason to believe that this trend is unstoppable.
Amnesty International's report on the state of the world's human rights documents how 2017 saw the arbitrary and brutal suppression of the right to peaceful protest in more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including through unlawful bans, excessive use of force, harassment and arbitrary arrests.
But this did little to silence dissent despite the best efforts of those who want to crush and silence dissent. In fact, it is becoming clearer that failing to respect freedoms and fulfill human rights obligations is ultimately self-defeating.
This should serve as a wake-up call to all governments that the solution to lasting peace and stability lies in guaranteeing more freedoms, not less. Political shifts mean nothing if they don't result in greater respect for human rights. People who care about freedom and equality are ultimately concerned not with which leader is in power, but whether or not they respect human rights.
Only time will tell what these political changes will truly mean for us Africans — especially for the poor, the young, the marginalized, the repressed and silenced.
But what is clear is that people across the continent are not willing to wait decades to find out.
*Culled from CNN.Netsanet Belay is Amnesty International's director of Africa research and advocacy. The opinions in this article belong to the author.


This passage hit me hard today. The notion that so many souls have lost (or never found) that thing which fills the heart and makes it want to continue onward in spite of difficulty is devastating. That so many among us really do require "psychological shots" just to keep going is absolutely terrifying.
We put everything we have out there for the world to approve, and then die a little inside when they don't. Take a shot.
We spend money that we don't have on the latest fashions we think will satisfy us, but they don't. Take a shot.
We travel to the far corners of the earth but it's never far enough. Take another shot.
I am in awe of a culture that has acquired so much knowledge and information and yet is totally devoid of any wisdom or useful truth. We follow the well-beaten path to happiness only to find out it's a dead-end. We pop the pills the commercial says will make us less depressed and we feel worse. I was talking with my boys yesterday about the importance of just being in community and helping people out. The gist of the conversation was that we are blessed when we bless others, tis better to give than receive, etc. It sounds cliché, but the truth is that until we understand we are created for more than the seeking out of our own happiness, we are doomed to a life of futile searching.
This thing that Tozer writes about, the idea of being unable to live without the constant stimulation of the world, the little 'shots' of temporary happiness, this frightens me. We are addicted to all the wrong things and are conditioned to crave temporary fixes. People charge ahead, taking hit after hit of their drug of choice and eventually just smack right into a wall. It's that abuse of the harmless things and the neglect of the necessary ones that has us so desperately mixed up.
Now, to each his own in the entertainment department and I realize you shouldn't judge a book by its cover and all that, so I looked up the synopsis for the this little gem on the left: "The sinister mystery of how a teen girl named Brooklyn became the epitome of evil in this terrifying prequel to the series MTV calls "Mean Girls meets The Exorcist." Please note to what group of readers this is marketed towards. And we wonder why kids are so nasty, so mean, so utterly lost.
Friends, we are absolutely created to enjoy life, but not at the expense of our souls. We are created to live from the inside out, not the outside in. No amount of stimulation from any outside source is ever going to satisfy that proverbial "God-shaped hole" in our souls. Our hearts can be downright deceitful at times and lead us off to follow after the wrong things (Jeremiah 17:9). We are not meant to go at it alone, not ever. It's natural that we hunger and thirst and seek… but we have to go hard after the thing that will fill us and steady us in an unsteady world.
Some will say that following Jesus is too simplistic for todays problems. Others will find the burden of picking up ones cross and following entirely too complicated. The truth though, is that it's the only cure for what ails us.
We can't overcomplicate it, nor can we underestimate the power Christ has to infuse lasting joy into our sin-sick hearts. Take delight in Jesus first and foremost, and He will satisfy those deepest longings (Psalm 37:4).
You've probably heard Paul's encouraging words in 2 Corinthians 4:17 reminding us "that our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." It's a reminder that the hardships we face here on earth really are small and temporary compared to our promised eternity with Christ.
Although not a specific response to that verse, the words of Tozer here elevate my heart a bit. Taken alone, Paul's words are a bit of a hard pill to swallow. While being completely true, they beg the question 'what about now?' The Bible is clear that we aren't just supposed to be hanging on until we get to heaven, scraping by while the world runs us over and leaves us for dead… not at all. We are to fight the good fight while keeping our eternal perspective. Paul understood this well and each earthly problem he encountered was kept in check by the weight of the truth of a far greater reward.
Those chilly blasts from the world hitting our human hearts… they hurt. We can't prevent them, but we must be people who know how to handle them.
My husband coaches boys lacrosse a few times a week. He had a boy quit recently because he was being picked on by some fellow teammates. They were swiftly dealt with, he spoke to the team, and tried everything to get this kid to finish out the season, but his eleven year old heart just couldn't handle it. Our hearts broke for him. We had an interesting talk about it all, wavering between two opinions: do you pull him out of a bad situation to protect him from these boys or make him stay and finish out the season and challenge him to stand up for himself? Not an easy answer.
As believers, we need to understand that the world is not always going to be on our side. In fact, if it is, there is probably something a little too worldly about us. Following full speed ahead after Jesus means bullies, harassers and general pain in the you know whats are going to hit us up at times. Jesus didn't sugar coat things when He told us we would have to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). Our hearts need to get accustomed to a harsh wind, not to the point of becoming hard, but they must become stronger.
Every time I puff my way up the hill, I am in awe of this thing. Oh the storms it has endured! As I look at it even now I can't help but think how there are times we just need to stand our ground and grow deep roots. No, we aren't going to look as elegant as the other trees, but the other trees wouldn't last a second up there. Let's be honest with ourselves and those we are trying to reach with the Gospel message. It's not a cake walk. If you want easy, go to the hothouse where the delicate flowers are. They look awesome but they have to stay inside or else they wilt. As Christians we have to embrace the uncomfortable idea that we aren't much use if we stay in the hothouse. We are created to withstand the winds, not alone, but under the wings of our Protector. I'm afraid we are learning that every uncomfortable circumstance is something to be avoided, but it's not true. I know I run for the hothouse a little too often when God wants me to stand up to be winds.
Jesus has deprived the world from its power to harm us. Paul's message is more than a "chin up buttercup" encouragement to grin and bear it through hard times. His words remind us that though the winds blow, they can't blow us over. Amazingly, that's the "realistic view" Tozer was encouraging us to have. We don't always get to escape difficulty, but we can avoid succumbing to it. The whole truth of carrying our cross includes cold winds, but it also includes them being used for our good!
This is a bit of a crude example, but are we signed up for the all-you-can-eat buffet or are we dining à la carte in our spirit lives? Jesus came that we may have LIFE and have it ABUNDANTLY and that includes living in great freedom. He's like the whole buffet, drink refills and Jell-O desserts included. Paid for in full, and have at it.
We seem to struggle with this. Some people seem to be tangled up more than others. It isn't that Christ has freed some more than others, it's that some of us haven't fully accepted and appropriated what He's done in our own lives. He's purchased the buffet for us, but we're stuck still trying to buy things off the menu. There isn't some extra-supersized version of freedom that some get and some don't… He came and freed us all from every sin that ensnares (Hebrews 12:1). All of us. Every sin. Every struggle.
The dots don't always connect, though. Sure, Jesus came and died for our sins and we're going to heaven… that's our big picture. But setting down each little habit, temptation or struggle and accepting there is something better… it's hard. We waste so much time slogging through the mud thinking 'oh well that's just life' while all the time Jesus is saying 'no, it's actually not… I freed you from this already!' We accept certain little sins and allow them to set up shop in our hearts.
Before we can walk this out, we have to realize this is what Jesus came and died for. We don't need to beg or beat our fists at the skies, our ticket has already been bought and paid for. If we aren't experiencing it, it's because we haven't fully accepted it and are trying to do something in our own power. Jesus is at the buffet! It's all been provided for us!
If we are fearful or fretful it's because we aren't accepting what He's already provided. Jesus didn't die for our sins so we would be panicky Christians holding on to our lives with clenched fists trying to figure our next move. When we try to work things out with our intellect or strength we are limiting ourselves to the à la carte menu, which we all know is a huge rip off. Sin makes us freak out, it makes us irrational, and it makes us do really dumb things quite frankly. The enemy wants to keep us there as long as possible, thinking that spirit filled life is unattainable.
In a world where everyone is sick, yes it is unusual to be healthy. You stand out, and that's a good thing. It isn't abnormal, though to be well. Not in Christ's eyes at least. We aren't perfect, but we are well. Of course sin is sin and we make mistakes, but we also realize we don't need to be ensnared over them. We have a ticket for the buffet and we are not going to settle for a small plate.
Tozer advises us to just meditate on that for a bit. Don't fret. Don't go out and do a bunch of things to fix yourself… just go see what Jesus says about it. He's quite patient actually and more than willing to show us the way to the buffet.
It may not be perfect, but it can be well with our soul if we will just accept what He's already purchased for us. Be WELL, friends!


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NWSL International player roundup: Women's World Cup Qualifiers and Friendlies
Jodie Taylor, Rachel Daly and England qualify for the 2019 World Cup, Costa Rica and Raquel Rodriguez advance to CONCACAF Championships. Plus, France and Canada host international friendlies in this latest FIFA international break.
By Felix Hernandez September 3, 2018 1:33 PM
With the NWSL on FIFA break, some international players continued their 2019 Women's World Cup qualifying campaign in Europe and in Central America. August 30 thru September 1 was the first set of the final qualifying matches for UEFA. Eight NWSL players took part in the first set of games this weekend. Raquel Rodriguez of Sky Blue FC was the only NWSL player to play in CONCACAF Central America qualifying tournament for Costa Rica. While World Cup qualifications were going on, international friendly matches were played in Canada and France.
UEFA World Cup Qualification
Jodie Taylor and England traveled to Wales to faceoff against Seattle Reign FC teammate Jess Fishlock for a spot in the 2019 Women's World Cup. Houston Dash forward Rachel Daly was also called up to join Taylor with the England Lionesses. England would beat Fishlock and Wales 3-0 to punch a ticket to their fourth consecutive Women's World Cup. Taylor played 77 minutes before begin subbed out. She may have taken a knock and will not travel to England's last qualifying match. Daly did not get the start but saw the field in the 88th minute to finish the match. Jess Fishlock played all 90 minutes for Wales. Wales will have to wait for the September 4 results to see if they qualify for UEFA's second place tournament.
Utah Royals FC defender Rachel Corsie and Scotland hosted Switzerland in their second to last World Cup qualifier. Scotland needed a win to stay in the hunt to win the group. Scotland's captain Corsie played all 90 minutes to hold off a powerful Switzerland attack to edge the Swizz 2-1. The teams are now tied for the top spot with Switzerland holding the first tiebreaker on head to head goal differential. Switzerland will travel to Poland while Scotland will travel to Albania for their last matches of their qualifying campaign. If Scotland do not qualify directly, they have earned enough points to be in good position for the second place playoff tournament. Portland Thorns FC Ana Crnogorcevíc was scheduled to start for Switzerland but was injured during warmups.
Rachel Corsie will hope to directly qualify for the 2019 Women's World Cup on September 4th. (Photo by Jeff Holmes/PA Images via Getty Images)
Seattle Reign FC defender Theresa Nielson played all 90 minutes for Denmark in their qualifier against Croatia. Denmark needed a win or a draw to keep up with group leader Sweden. Down 1-0 late in the match, former Portland Thorn FC striker Nadia Nadim tallied in the 92 minute to save Denmark's chances to win the group. Now only two points behind Sweden, Nielson and Denmark will face Sweden in the final match on September 4. Winner will go to the 2019 Women's World Cup, while the other will be in good position for the second place tournament.
North Carolina Courage midfielder Denise O'Sullivan earned an assist with the Republic of Ireland in a 4-0 win against Northern Ireland. O'Sullivan played all 90 minutes in the match, but is eliminated from competition.
Utah Royal FC and Iceland midfielder Gunnhildur Jónsdóttir were defeated by Germany 2-0. If Iceland had won, they would have qualified for the 2019 World Cup. With the loss, Jonsdottir and Iceland will look to qualify for the second place playoffs. Germany will most likely win their next match and secure their World Cup spot. Iceland's next match will be against Czech Republic on September 4. Iceland will need a win or a draw to be in position for the second place tournament.
CONCACAF Central American qualifying competition
Sky Blue FC midfielder Raquel Rodriguez and Costa Rica took on El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama in the CONCACAF Central American qualifying competition. The top two finishers would advance to the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship. Costa Rica took all nine points, winning all three matches and outscoring their opponents 18-2. Rodriguez scored a goal and three assist against El Salvador. Against Nicaragua, Rodriguez scored a 61st minute goal in a 4-1 win. Finally, Rodriguez scored 2 goals and registered one assist in a 3-1 victory over Panama. Rodriguez four goals earned her the top goal scorer for Costa Rica in the competition.
Sky Blue FC Kaitlyn Johnson and Chicago Red Stars Christina Murillo of Mexico traveled to France for an international friendly. France took the game 4-0. Johnson and Murillo both started the match and were subbed off. Murillo in the 63rd minute from a tough collision and Johnson came off in the 83rd minute.
Canada vs. Brazil
Portland Thorn FC Christine Sinclair of Canada battles against Orlando Pride players Camila (6) and Monica (21) of Brazil. (Photo by Sean Burges/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Portland Thorn FC forward and Canada's captain Christine Sinclair hosted her Portland teammate Andressinha and Brazil in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Saturday afternoon. Houston Dash forward Nichelle Prince scored the lone goal, off a Janine Beckie free kick rebound, to beat Brazil 1-0. Allysha Chapman (Houston Dash), Diana Matheson, Desiree Scott (Utah Royals FC), Shelina Zadorsky (Orlando Pride) all appeared in the starting lineup. In the 70th minute, Rebecca Quinn (Washington Spirit) came on for Scott, Adriana Leon (Seattle Reign FC) came on for Beckie and Matheson was also subbed off. With the substitution, Leon made her 50th appearance for Canada's National team. Goal scorer Prince was eventually subbed off in the 80th minute. For Brazil, Monica, Camila (Orlando Pride) and Debinha (North Carolina Courage) got the start for Brazil. Debinha was subbed off in the 71st minute while Andressinha got to see the pitch in the 77th minute. FIFA's Best 3 finalist Marta did not travel to Canada.


In an earlier post, I wrote about how the only constant in life is change. Oxymoronic, I suppose.
Take a pencil. Hold it out in the palm of your hand. Is your hand steady? Does it shake? Does your hand wobble a bit, up and down. Your muscles aren't able to hold something steady like that. Not really. They are pulling both up and down at the same time. Your brain and your eyes tell your your muscles dozens of times a second how to move to keep your palm up and in the same position holding that pencil.
I think life is sort of like that, too. We are always forced to adapt to new things, new changes, new experiences, new conditions that make up our ever-changing world. The trouble comes in when we resist those changes. We fight tooth and nail (figuratively, of course) to keep things as they were, but things are never as they were. That's the big joke. The more we fight it, the more miserable we are.
There are certain people in my life who are unable to come to terms with the fact that I am not the same person that I was a few years ago. Circumstances and a desire to grow as a person have caused this change. What used to be the norm for me has changed and it's hard for them to come to terms with that. What's really hard for them to see is that this new me is a more healthier me. Maybe one day things will click.
And now that I think about it, I wonder if they themselves haven't changed somewhat. Hard to say, really. I can't assume anything either way. Not until I think about this some more.
In any case, life has something planned for you. Be ready for it. Big or small, it will require of you an adjustment. I guarantee it.


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Two Year Prison Extension
Posted on June 7, 2002 (5777) By Rabbi Yissocher Frand | Series: Rav Frand | Level: Intermediate
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly Torah portion: Tape # 77, Prohibitions During Times of Crises. Good Shabbos!
The Two Year Prison Extension: Theory of Relativity
Our Parsha begins with the words, "And it was two years later, and Pharaoh dreamt that he was standing by the Nile" [Bereishis 41:1]. The obvious question is: what happened during this two year interval? At the end of last week's Parsha, Rash"i quotes a Medrash that tells us what happened during this period.
Rash"i says that because Yosef put his trust in the Butler, by asking the Butler to put in a good word for him with Pharaoh, Yosef was punished. For the two words he spoke — "u'zchartani, v'hotzaisani" (and remember me and take me out), Yosef's stay in jail was extended for two more years.
Rash"i alludes to a very enigmatic Medrash [M. Rabbah] at the beginning of this week's Parsha. The Medrash says: "'Happy is the man who places his trust in G-d…' [Tehillim 40:5] — this refers to Yosef; '…and turned not to the arrogant and to strayers after falsehood' [ibid.] — whose sentence in jail was extended for two years because of the two words he said to the butler."
This Medrash contains an internal contradiction. At first it singles out Yosef as the prime example of a person who places his trust in G-d. Then it turns around and says, because he asked the butler to put in a good word for him and did not trust G-d sufficiently, he was punished with two extra years in jail.
Which way is it? Is Yosef the "Truster" par excellence, or is Yosef a person who puts his trust in people?
There are two basic approaches used to answer this question. Rav Eliyahu Lopian, the Beis HaLevi, and many others use the approach that Bitachon [trust] is a relative concept. It depends on a person's level.
For instance, the Ramba"n states in Parshas Bechukosai that the Talmudic teaching [Brochos 60a] which tells us that it is permitted to seek medical treatment, and for doctors to practice medicine, based on the verse "and he shall surely heal" [Shemos 21:19], is only a permission for "everyday people." However, those individuals who live on such an exalted level that they put all their trust in G-d, should not go to doctors. They can (and perhaps should) rely on miracles. {Certainly, the Ramba"n says, a normal person who conducts himself in all matters "based on the laws of nature," must use a doctor.}
Similarly, we find in Brochos [35b] a disagreement between Rav Shimon bar Yochai and Rav Yishmael regarding how a person should balance his obligation to learn Torah with his need to support himself and his family. Rav Yishmael says that a person should work, and set aside regular times for learning Torah. Rav Shimeon bar Yochai says no: a person should sit and learn, and G-d will send him a livelihood. The Talmud says that many people followed the teaching of Rav Yishmael and were successful, and many people followed the teaching of Rav Shimeon bar Yochai and were unsuccessful. The level of Rav Shimeon bar Yochai was not appropriate for the masses. There are individuals who are on that level, and for them G-d will send them their livelihood – but this is not to be common practice.
Bitachon, say Rav Eliyahu Lopian, is a relative concept that depends on the level of the individual. If one clings to G-d, does everything for the Sake of Heaven, and is perfectly righteous, then it is true that G-d will provide for him. G-d will take care of his sicknesses, and He will feed and sustain him. The person will not have to make any human effort.
However, if one is a normal human being, not only is he allowed to make an effort (hishtadlus) for his living and his health, but he is obligated to make that effort.
This is the interpretation of the Medrash. "'Happy is the one who places his trust in Hashem' — this refers to Yosef." Yosef was of such a stature that he put his entire trust in G-d. He was a Tzadik, who was a pillar of the world. Therefore, commensurate with the type of person he was, he was obligated not to make an effort. He should have remained at his level of trusting in G-d alone and not seeking human intervention (by the butler). For Yosef to step down from this level was in fact a sin, says Rav Eliyahu Lopian, and so he was punished with two extra years in jail.
The Two Year Prison Extension: Theory of Cause and Effect
There are, however, those who understand that the two year prison extension was not a punishment. Yosef did no sin in asking for the butler's intervention. The other approach to the above-quoted Medrash is that what we have here can be called 'the natural consequences of a person's actions.'
This means as follows: there was absolutely nothing wrong with Yosef exerting effort by seeking human intervention to gain freedom. The two extra years in prison were not a punishment. They were, however, the natural consequence of his actions.
If one wants to conduct himself with G-d in a manner that rises above nature (l'maale m'derech haTeva), and this is how the person always conducts himself with G-d, then G-d will respond to him in the same way. But if one lives his life according to the way of nature, then G-d's response to him will also be according to the way of nature.
The Baal Shem Tov offers a beautiful parable to illustrate this concept. It says in Tehillim [121:5] "G-d is your shadow next to your right hand." The Baal Shem Tov explains the metaphor. When one raises his hand, one's shadow raises its hand. When one jumps, the shadow jumps. When one goes fast, the shadow goes fast. The relationship a person has with G-d is like that of a shadow. However one conducts him/herself with Him is reciprocal. That is how G-d will conduct Himself with the person.
If one conducts himself in such a manner that he places all his trust in G-d, there will be a reciprocal relationship — that trust will be well placed. But if one conducts himself through "normal channels," the conduct of normal human beings, then that is how G-d will conduct Himself with the person.
The reason Yosef had to spend the extra two years in jail was not a punishment. Rather, by virtue of the fact that Yosef went through the channels of normal human beings, and asked the Butler to intervene for him with Pharaoh, G-d allowed nature to take its course. It is quite natural that if one asks a person to do a favor, the person forgets about the favor and remembers two years later.
The Key To Confession: No Buts
It says in the Parsha that Yosef told his brothers "If you are truthful people, one of your brothers must remain here as a prisoner…" To which the brothers respond among themselves, "Indeed (Aval) we are guilty concerning our brother, inasmuch as we saw his heartfelt anguish when he pleaded with us and we paid no heed; that is why this anguish has come upon us." [Bereishis 42:19-21]
The usage of the word 'Aval,' over here, is somewhat troubling. Literally the verse means "But, we are guilty." How does 'but' fit in here? Rash"i quotes the Targum that, over here, the word 'Aval' does not mean 'but', rather it means 'Indeed.' Rash"i then cites a Medrash Rabbah that the interpretation is in fact 'but.' If so, our original question returns, how does 'but' fit in this context?
We see that there are a number of connections between Yom Kippur and the sale of Yosef. On Yom Kippur we read the narrative of the Ten Martyrs, who were an atonement for the sale of Yosef. Furthermore, according to Kabbalah, the reason we do not wear shoes on Yom Kippur is that Yosef's brothers (according to the Medrash) took the money they received from the sale of Yosef and bought shoes. Finally, the Ramba"m in Hilchos Teshuva [2:8] defines the essence of Confession (Vidui) on Yom Kippur as the recital of the formula "But we and our fathers have sinned" (Aval anachnu v'avoseinu chatanu). These are almost the same words that we have in our Parsha "But, we our guilty" (Aval ashemim anachnu).
We see that there is a link between the confession that we say on Yom Kippur and the confession of Yosef's brothers. Beyond that, there is a link between the whole incident of the sale of Yosef and the service of Yom Kippur.
I saw a commentary who explained this homiletically as follows: The brothers are saying "Our sin was 'aval' — the word 'but.'" They said, "We weren't maliciously trying to hurt Yosef." They felt that it was self-defense. They thought Yosef was trying to kill them. They had all sorts of calculations. Their crime was not one of malice, but of rationalization.
"But… he's trying to get us." "But… father loves him more." But… if we don't do something, this will be the end of us." "Our sin," the brothers said, "stems from the fact that we said 'but.'" By saying 'but,' one can rationalize anything.
Rav Yitzchak Breuer says that there are three types of senses. There is the animalistic feeling that a person has, there is the human feeling that a person has, and there is a prophetic or profound feeling that a person can have. If a person only has the first two senses, he can take those urges and rationalize that anything is not only permissible but that it is a mitzvah. A person needs, not only the human feeling, but he also needs the prophetic vision to know whether this is really what G-d wants of him.
This was the sin of the Yosef's brothers. 'But, we have sinned.' Our sin came about because we did everything through rationalization. We rationalized our jealousy and our hatred and the hidden feelings we had toward him. We went ahead and put it in the guise of a mitzvah.
This is what we try to do on Yom Kippur. We state that we are not people that are maliciously bad. We are not wicked or intentionally evil. What then is the nature of our sin?
"Aval, it's too difficult to learn every night. But, it's too difficult to give maa'ser. "But, but, but, but…" Ours are sins of 'but.' That is why we read the incident of the Ten Martyrs. That is why we take off our shoes. To remind ourselves that they sold him and took the money to buy shoes… because with 'aval' one can rationalize anything. We take off our shoes to remind ourselves what can happen when one lets rationalizations take over.
Therefore, this is the text of our Confession — but, we and our fathers have sinned. We say 'but' too often. We rationalize everything. This is the tikun we seek on Yom Kippur.
Bitachon — trust (in G-d)
Parnasah — means of (earning a) living
Tzadik — Righteous person
mussar classic — literature focusing on perfecting human ethical and spiritual behaviour
mitzvah — a Divine command
ma'aser — (giving) a tenth (of one's earnings to Charity)
tikun — correction; improvement
Personalities & Sources:
Rav Eliyahu Lopian (1872-1970) author of Lev Eliyahu, a modern mussar classic. Kelm, Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London), Kefar Hasidim (Israel).
Beis HaLevi — Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (1820-1892); Rosh Yeshiva in Volozhin, Rav in Slutzk and Brisk.
Ramba"n — Rav Moshe ben Nachman (1194-1270), Gerona, Spain and Israel.
Baal Shem Tov — Rav Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), founder of the modern Chassidic movement, Mezhibuzh.
Rash"i — Rav Shlomo ben Yitzchak (1040-1105); Troyes and Worms, France.
Targum — Authorized Aramaic translation of Torah by proselyte Onkelos (around 90 C.E.)
Ramba"m — Rav Moshe ben Maimon (1135-1204), Spain and Egypt.
Rav Yitzchak Breuer — (1883-1946) Frankfurt, one of founders of Agudas Yisrael.
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This week's write-up is adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Torah Tapes on the weekly Torah portion (#77). The corresponding halachic portion for this tape is: Prohibitions During Times of Crises. The other halachic portions for Miketz from the Commuter Chavrusah Series are:
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Evangelical Christians once were saved. After Trump, they're lost.
Trump did more than capture white evangelical Christians' votes: He in many ways became the face of white evangelicalism.
Supporters of President Donald Trump pray during an "Evangelicals for Trump Coalition Launch" at King Jesus International Ministry on Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Michael O. Emerson, Joel Edward Goza
(RNS) — For reasons that have to do with our reading of the Bible, the both of us moved as adults from our middle-class white worlds to poor Black communities: Michael and his family from all-white small towns of Minnesota to the largest African American area of Minneapolis, and Joel from a white suburb of Houston to that city's poorest neighborhood.
We were then and are now both white Christians. Our faith and our faith communities were and are our lives. Little prepared us for what we found in our new neighborhoods. We had been baptized into a brand of Christianity that blends white middle-class assumptions with the logic of conservative talk radio into a finely cooked soup for the soul.
When we moved into places that had been ravaged by poverty, our worlds did not just turn upside down. They died.
Our worlds — or rather our worldviews, in the parlance of evangelicalism — died because almost everything we knew about poor Black communities was rooted in uninformed caricatures and lies. We had trusted in the political rhetoric white Christians loved, the rhetoric of law and order, of the war against drugs and the welfare state, the war to save America's exceptional soul.
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For much of the last four years, Donald Trump has put this rhetoric at the center of his message. Trump will be remembered as a president who did more than capture white evangelical Christians' votes: He in many ways became the face of white evangelicalism.
In this Sept. 1, 2017, file photo, religious leaders pray with President Donald Trump after he signed a proclamation for a national day of prayer to occur on Sept. 3, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
The irony is that, unintentionally, Trump's morality — or more accurately, his lack thereof — has forced many white evangelicals into a long overdue reckoning with their culture's indifference to systemic racism and its unholy alliance with partisan politics. We once were saved. Now we were lost.
That journey began not with Trump's election in 2016, but some 40 years ago, when white evangelicals allied with Ronald Reagan. Any careful reading of the history of America's public policies shows our nation's economic and racial crises were manufactured by both parties. But the marriage between white evangelicalism and the modern version of the Republican Party made these crises worse.
As detrimental were the lies we told ourselves. Reagan talked about the character of "welfare queens" and the threat of inner-city crime, and we believed he was telling the colorblind truth. We had been trained to believe the true sources of racial inequality reside in those communities: Black criminality, Black sloth, broken Black families and a lack of Black brilliance.
At the same time, white Christians carefully crafted a form of the faith that made our racial and economic sins invisible to us. The self-interest of free market capitalism magically harmonized with the self-sacrificial love of Christ. The fight for racial or economic justice, in fact, were already won — at least if you believed, as Reagan affirmed for us, we lived in a nation that was a city on a hill and a light for the world.
We believed these fictions because we never knew Black America. But as Black communities and churches became our homes and Black people became part of our circle of friends and family, we came to see that nearly everything we "knew" about Black people, white people, poverty and the basic principles of Christianity were shaped by lies with lethal racial edges.
President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally in Minneapolis in 1982. Photo by Michael Evans/Creative Commons
Despite our racist beliefs about Black people's work ethic, we kept encountering people working double shifts. Despite our racist beliefs that Black people in poor communities were often criminal and violent, we kept encountering churchgoing folks praying for peace. Despite our racist convictions about Black people's misplaced priorities, we kept encountering family-oriented people focused on getting education for their children and loving our country despite its sins.
In our new environments, we learned what we should have known all along: When white Christians fail to stand in solidarity with Black people and immigrants, there is really nothing Christlike about our Christianity.
As we formed new commitments to communities of color, we were ostracized from the faith community that baptized us. We once were saved, but now we were lost.
Millions of evangelicals now find themselves lost as well, as one of the least Christlike men to lead the country is now nobody's president, but is their leader. This didn't happen four years ago or in this election, but decades ago: Trump is the price of the evangelical church's rejection of the vision of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders who demanded we address America's original sins of racism and greed.
It is the price of not listening when Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells called for white Christians to stand in solidarity with their suffering, knowing if they did, white Christians — and our nation — would be reborn.
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Unless white evangelicals radically reorient their political commitments, Trump will continue as the face of white evangelicalism. To move in a different direction, white evangelicals must begin questioning their assumptions and begin to champion racial and economic justice.
Coming from the evangelical tradition, we imagine what our nation could be if evangelicals expand from being simply pro-birth to holistically pro-life. As we move forward, evangelicals have the opportunity to understand individual sinners really can create sinful systems, laws and policies.
The time is now to imagine what our nation could look like if evangelicals invest in an honest reckoning with our nation's racial sins and our role in perpetuating them. The time is now to imagine what it would look like for white evangelicals to stand in solidarity with the people — Black, poor and sick — who our willful blindness and our nation's policies crucify.
(Michael O. Emerson, a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago, is co-author of the award-winning book "Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America." Joel Edward Goza is the author of "America's Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics." The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily represent those of Religion News Service.)
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By Michael Edwards
Delta are a band who have spent the better part of their careers being messed around by the music industry. They've released a wealth of singles and two albums, all of which received critical acclaim in their native UK (including ending up on a few year-end lists), yet their multiple label shenanigans and other setbacks have stopped them from being a musical force to be reckoned with. Delta formed in 1993 by James and Patrick Roberts who had previously flirted with fame as jangly indie pop band the Sea Urchins. And anyone who remembers the glory days of their former band won't really be terribly surprised by Singularity, but they will get wonderfully warm and fuzzy feeling inside because there's absolutely no denying that the Roberts brothers still have that elusive "it." They sound like a mix of that other great sibling-dominated band Shack, and the Verve with a healthy dose of Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds thrown in. Despite the fact that these 16 songs are from almost a decade ago, they still sound remarkably fresh. The majority are taken from singles released between 1993 and 1995, but there are also some unreleased tracks to help offer value for money. They are at their best when their songs are given enough time to stretch their legs (like the wonderful "All My Life") although the shorter tunes simply hint at what is just around the corner. Singularity is enough of a triumph that it should simply be a matter of time before Delta's complete discography is available on this side of the Atlantic. (Elephant Stone)
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