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Did Donald Trump become a born-again Christian?
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[UPDATED JUNE 29, 2016] If you want to have an interesting, perhaps even heated discussion, bring up Donald Trump with your friends.
People either love him or hate, there is little middle ground. But it looks like he is the Republican's presumptive nominee for president and will be facing off with Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for the Democrats.
Dr. James Dobson, founder of the Christian organization Focus on the Family, recently reported that Donald Trump has become a born-again Christian. Dobson did not lead Trump to Christ but is reporting that he personally knows the person who did, but is not giving his name.
In a meeting with several Evangelical Christians, Dobson said, "I don't know when it was, but it has not been long. I believe he really made a commitment, but he's a baby Christian."
In reference to Trumps language and rough edges, Dobson added, "You have got to cut him some slack. He didn't grow up like we did."
Because of the interest in the news about Trump's conversion, Dobson released a bit more information on his website which seems to tone down his earlier statements made in an interview with Michael Anthony of GodFactor.com.
Dobson writes:
Only the Lord knows the condition of a person's heart. I can only tell you what I've heard. First, Trump appears to be tender to things of the Spirit. I also hear that Paula White has known Trump for years and that she personally led him to Christ. Do I know that for sure? No. Do I know the details of that alleged conversion? I can't say that I do.
But from a Biblical perspective does Trump or any leader need to be a Christian to be an effective president?
Throughout the Old Testament we have a number of kings described as God's anointed. This included Jewish Kings and surprisingly even secular ones.
One who stands out in the latter regard is King Cyrus of Persia (600 – 530 BC). The prophet Isaiah described Cyrus this way:
"It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My shepherd!
And he will perform all My desire.'
And he declares of Jerusalem, 'She will be built,'
And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"
Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the right hand,
To subdue nations before him
And to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: (Isaiah 44:28 – 45:1 NASV)
In the verses that followed (Isaiah 45:1-7), God says that He was raising up Cyrus even though he did not know Jehovah (v 4). Because of God's anointing, Cyrus was going to subdue nations and receive "the treasures of darkness."
When Isaiah called Cyrus God's anointed, the prophet used the Hebrew word "mashiah," from which we get the word "Messiah." The word means simply "anointed" or the "anointed one."
The term was used to describe a number of Israel's kings such as King David (2 Samuel 12:7). The word was also applied to prophets (1 Kings 19:16) and priests (Leviticus 4:3).
God anointed people to carry-out certain tasks — be it ruling (leadership), prophetic or priestly duties.
So in the case of Cyrus, God had anointed the Persian king to do a particular job, in this case to restore Jerusalem and rebuild the temple (Isaiah 44:28).
From archaeological records, Cyrus was a very unusual king. He is described as being fair and treated his subjects well in comparison to other self-serving despots who ruled at the time.
Though he expanded his empire by invading and conquering other countries, Cyrus was often welcomed with open arms because the people were freed from the despots who ruled and abused them.
He respected customs of all the nations he conquered and set up an administrative system that benefited and protected his citizens.
He would eventually defeat the Babylonians and according to the archaeological records, the Babylonians jubilantly welcomed Cyrus as their king.
When Cyrus took over Babylon, he made significant changes. Where the Babylonians forcibly removed people and sent them into captivity in other countries, Cyrus reversed that policy and allowed them to return to their homeland.
He even provided financial help to those returning to rebuild their devastated cities.
So when Cyrus gave the edict and financial aid allowing the Israelis to return and rebuild Jerusalem and the temple (2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 1:1-11; Ezra 6:2-5), this was completely in character with how he ruled.
It may even be a bit ironic that God describes Cyrus as "His Shepherd." According to Greek historian Herodotus, Cyrus was born to a Persian king Cambyses who ruled part of the empire of his father-in-law — Astyages.
However, Astyages had a dream that he would be killed by his grandson Cyrus and ordered one of his servants to kill Cambyses's son.
But according to Herodotus, the servant instead sent Cyrus away to be raised by a shepherd and his wife.
When Cyrus eventually returned to his family, he quickly rose up in the ranks in Cambyses's army and took over his dad's kingdom when his father died.
He would then launch an attack against his grandfather's Media empire deposing him as ruler forming what would become the Persian-Media empire.
Cyrus eventually built one of the largest empires the world has ever seen and because of the generous way he treated his subjects, archaeologist and author Patrick Hunt describes him as one of the great men in history.
So yes, God can and will raise up leaders to accomplish His will.
'Dr. James Dobson calls Trump 'a baby Christian': WND.com
"A baby Christian': Evangelical leader suggest Donald Trump has become born again: National Post
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Luis Ledesma has established himself as a singer with powerful, yet refined vocal and theatrical gifts. His career already includes appearances in several international opera houses around the world, including Teatro alla Scala (Luisa Fernanda), the Liceu in Barcelona (Alphonse in La favorite, Riccardo in I puritani and Marcello in La boheme), Klangbogen Festival in Vienna (Leoncavallo's La boheme), Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Escamillo inCarmen), Semperoper in Dresden (Marcello in La boheme), Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia), Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Marcello in La boheme), Macau Festival (Sharpless in Madama Butterfly), and Graz Oper (Escamillo in Carmen).
In the United States, Mr. Ledesma has sung with many companies, including Houston Grand Opera and Portland Opera (Escamillo in Carmen), Indiana and Connecticut Opera (Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni), Opera Pacific (La bohemeand Carmen), Palm Beach Opera (Scarpia in Tosca), Opera Carolina (Tonio in I pagliacci), Memphis Opera (Scarpia in Tosca and the High Priest in Samson and Dalila), Minnesota Opera and New York City Opera.
Mr. Ledesma frequently portrays the heroes and villains of Puccini and Verdi in addition to performing the important bel canto roles of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His growing repertoire includes many roles in the French repertoire and has extended to the verismo composers such as Leoncavallo and Giordano.
In the 2008-2009 season opened with Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West with L'Opera de Montreal, Germont in La traviata with Florida Grand Opera, EnricoLucia di Lammermoor with Mobile Opera. Upcoming engagements include Marcello in Lisbon, Portugal (Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos), Scarpia with Arizona Opera, Valentin in Fresno, and Lucia (2009) and Carmen (2010) with the Savonlinna Festival. In addition, he will return to San Antonio for Sharpless and to Nashville Opera for Scarpia and will sing Escamillo with New Jersey Opera and Madison Opera. The spring of 2010 features Rigoletto with Florentine Opera.
In the 2007-2008 season, engagements included Marcello (La boheme) with Madison Opera, Gerard in Andrea Chenier for Mobile Opera, Scarpia (Tosca) for San Antonio Opera and Escamillo (Carmen) for Austin Opera (inaugurating their new opera house).
Additionally as a concert artist, Mr. Ledesma has performed a variety of orchestral repertoire, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Mozart'sCoronation Mass, Faure Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana. Most recently he sang Carmina Burana with the Louisville Orchestra and a series of Christmas concerts in Hannover with the NDR Radiophilarmonie.

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Free Zion! Our new defiant slogan.
I was reading an article in the Jerusalem Post about the nearly discovered Pilgrimage Road. This is the pathway that Jewish pilgrims took to the ancient Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
They stumbled across this site by accident.
A rusty water pipe had burst in Silwan, a place where, after 1948, Arabs had moved into the homes of Yemenite Jews forced to flee by marauding Arab rioters and the invading Jordanian army as the nascent state of Israel perilously held on to territory by its fingertips when aggressive Arab armies launched a war of annihilation against the new Jewish state.
In the 1880s, the Jews of Yemen had begun to make their perilous way on foot to Jerusalem, a messianic journey drawn by the magnet of the Jewish Temple. Their pilgrimage trek took them half a year. They arrived destitute but elated to make their new homes in Silwan within touching distance of all that was sacred to their soul by the Old City walls.
By 1910, they had sufficient money to purchase a scratch of ground on the Mount of Olives to bury their dead. They lived in relative peace alongside their Muslim and Christian neighbors until the deadly Arab pogrom initiated by the infamous Jew-hating Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Over a three-year period between 1936-1939, hundreds of Jews were killed and many more injured throughout pre-state Palestine.
Living under threat, the Yemenite community in Silwan were evacuated for their safety by the Jewish National Committee and, by 1945, no Jews remained in Silwan.
When the Jordanian Army conquered Jerusalem, they forced the Jews out of the Old City, including the Silwan Jews, and destroyed synagogues and yeshivas. The Jordanians dug up the Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives and used them as paving stones in Jerusalem.
Arab families began to occupy Jewish homes, including those in Silwan. Properties and farming land were stolen from absentee Jews by the Arabs without registering ownership.
The area remained under Jordanian occupation until 1967 when Israel succeeded in liberating the territory when yet another war of Arab aggression was forced on the Jewish state by Arab armies.
Today, it remains a contentious area as Jewish organizations fight to re-establish Jewish ownership and a Jewish presence in Silwan. Part of that effort includes the extensive archeological projects that constantly uncovers startling evidence of a three millennia Jewish sovereignty including the City of David, the residence of King David, the water channels that provided water to the Old City and to the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, and the pools that were the cleansing stations for Jewish pilgrims before their ascent to the holy shrine.
The most recent discovery is the Pilgrimage Road, the walkway that took the masses from the mikveh known as the Pool of Siloam in Silwan up to the Jewish Temple. It was along this road that ancient Jewish scholars strode to fulfill their religious obligations at the Temple. Jesus must have walked along this road.
The site was opened with great fanfare on June 30, 2019. It further enhances Israel's justified sovereignty over Jerusalem. The archaeologically-proven site is further evidence of the Jewish presence two thousand years ago, before the start of Islam.
Documentary narration of a history has been verified by artefacts found at the site, including catapult projectiles used against the Jewish rebels as the Romans were killing Jews and destroying Judaism's most holy site.
A significant discovery was made at the site in November 2016. Coins minted during this period was uncovered. These coins were minted by Jews about to do battle against the mighty Roman invaders.
The coins feature a menorah and bore the inscription, "Two Years to the Great Revolt," a message that the struggle for Zion was not over. This was the clarion call of the Jewish rebels to defy and oppose the foreign rule of Rome. More such coins have been found recently in the archeological excavations at this site with the slogan "For the Redemption of Zion" emblazoned on them.
The coins have come to be called the "Free Zion" coins.
This is the spirit in which the Pilgrimage Road and everything connected to the contemporary Jewish struggle to re-constitute not only the Jewish narrative but our Jewish sovereignty on this land and in our capital is based.
It is also the cry for our battle against our haters and delegitimizers, the contemporary versions of the Romans.
Compared to the evident presence of Jews dating back three millennia to today, evidence that we were the ones that created, not conquered or destroyed ancient artefacts as the Jordanians and the Palestinian Arabs have done in Jerusalem, but cherished and preserved them, no matter what dynasty they are.
The Palestinians, despite their bluster, have no history of sovereignty, no ancient deeds of ownership. Their "history" is a myth, a fiction dredged up by dark malevolent minds to block the light of inspection onto genuine Jewish legitimacy and heritage.
Today, there is a call to "Free Palestine." They advance the argument that this Palestine must be "from the river to the sea." Yet they cannot find one ancient coin, one artefact, one proven fact to show that a sovereign Palestine ever existed, anywhere.
Against their history bluster there is only one crystal clear answer. Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, going back in history as far as you can go, there was only one other legitimate sovereignty in the land of Israel, and that was Judea. Judea, where the word Jews derives.
Today, Israel is the third Jewish state to exist in this geographical area. There has never been a non-Jewish sovereign state in the Land of Israel. All other rulers and occupiers were foreigners, including the Arabs. In fact, the Jewish people established their nationhood in the Land of Israel two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The last sovereign power to rule the Land of Israel before the current State of Israel was established in 1948 was the Davidic dynasty, hence the added importance of the recent discoveries in the City of David.
So today we must raise the cry that is found on that tiny coin that speaks to us from two thousand years ago.
Free Zion!
I propose that a banner is raised. A banner carrying the image of that defiant Jewish coin and the words "Free Zion!"
This banner, badge, flag, emblem, icon, should we displayed by every Zionist, every pro-Israel activist be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, secular supporters of truth, of Jewish self-determination, and the right of Israel to exist in peace in our historic and legitimate land.
Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy Director at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies,
He is a write, speaker and author of 'Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism,' 'BDS for IDIOTS,' and '1917, From Palestine to the Land of Israel.'
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Amiram Kupfer 17 July 2019 at 23:22
I Agree with this article. And propose start demanding and asking Israeli government to stop calling arabs palestininans, to stop calling East or west Jerusalem because it is united city, capital of Israel, etc.
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Prince Harry has put some of the blame for his infamous decision to wear a Nazi uniform to a party on his brother Prince William and his sister-in-law Kate. Sources claim Harry has detailed in his tell-all memoir Spare that the pair "howled with laughter" when they saw his bad taste outfit choice in 2005.
The Duke of Sussex was lambasted when the The Sun newspaper published a front page picture of him wearing the German Afrika Korps uniform outfit featuring a swastika on his left arm.
Before attending the 'Native and Colonial' themed party Harry allegedly tried on the regalia and showed it to William and Kate.
According to Page Six sources claim that Harry wrote: "I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.
"They both howled. Worse than Willy's leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point."
Following appearing in a six-part Netflix series, and several tell-all interviews, Harry's new book Spare is expected to go into even deeper detail about his relationship with his brother and other senior royals, including the Queen Consort, Camilla and his sister-in-law Kate.
In the wake of the scandal in 2005 Harry made several damage-controlling trips, including to see the then Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and a Holocaust survivor.
Shortly after the picture was published, Harry issued an apology, saying: "I am very sorry if I have caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise."
Harry expressed regret over the Nazi uniform gaffe in the third episode of the Netflix series Harry & Meghan.
Speaking on the series he said it was "probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life"
He said: "I felt so ashamed afterwards. All I wanted to do was make it right.
"I sat down and spoke to the chief rabbi in London, which had a profound impact on me. I went to Berlin and spoke to a Holocaust survivor. I could have got on and ignored it and made the same mistakes over and over in my life, but I learned from that."
The duke's extraordinary book claims come after the release of a teaser trailer from an ITV interview in which Harry said he wants his father and brother back.
The interview, due to be released on Sunday, will be broadcast two days before Spare is published around the world.
In a series of clips from the duke's ITV conversation, Harry tells presenter Tom Bradby: "It never needed to be this way", and refers to "the leaking and the planting" before adding: "I want a family, not an institution."
He also says "they feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains" and "have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile", although it is unclear who he is referring to.
Filmed in California where the duke now lives, ITV said Harry: The Interview will go into "unprecedented depth and detail" about his life in and outside the royal family.
Mr Bradby, a former royal correspondent and current presenter of ITV News at Ten, is a friend of the Sussexes and previously interviewed them for a documentary about their 2019 Africa tour.
But in a separate interview with CBS News, set to air the same day, Harry also criticises Buckingham Palace over an alleged failure to defend him and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, before they stepped down as senior royals.
The duke also reveals to the US broadcaster that he would not return to the institution as a full-time royal. Both CBS and ITV have released snippets of the duke's conversations ahead of the full interviews being televised.
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Need to Know is a surveillance thriller sim that tests your ability and integrity within the shadowy, cutthroat world of a modern intelligence agency - the Department of Liberty.
You must spy on citizens, pick apart their private lives, and determine their threat level. You can also resist these suffocating privacy invasions by aiding underground groups and leaking internal reports to the media. Or, you can just use all of that juicy classified information for your own gain. Your call.
Need to Know emphasises story, and will sculpt the crushing growth of our real-world surveillance society into a meaningful, gripping journey. It critiques the system by passing the uncomfortable (or too comfortable?) mantle of power onto your shoulders, to test which choices you'll make. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sweat bullets under the searing blaze of an interrogation lamp.
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Quincy is the technical director for Need to Know, and so he is handling the majority of programming and technical design for the game. A long-time fan of story-driven games like Final Fantasy, Uncharted and To the Moon, Quincy will also step in to assist with other aspects like writing and design.
IN addition to his work on Need to Know, Quincy is a former final-year University student, majoring in Computer Science, who is interested in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and, of course, game design and development. With Need to Know successfully funded, he has postponed his studies so he can devote as much time as possible to development.
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Creative Director, Writer • November 2014 - Present
As Need to Know's creative director, Tristram will ultimately decide the fate of all who dwell within it. The hero, idealistic but ethically tenuous. The dangerous, charismatic mentor. A frightened world allowing itself to be bound and gagged by shadows. Tristram controls it all...kind of like a god (or so he thinks).
He is obsessed with narrative in all its forms, and loves how games sculpt our thoughts and emotions like no other medium- from Shadow of the Colossus to KOTOR II to Dear Esther. He will infuse a huge range of influences- from games, films, and literature- into a story that only Need to Know can tell.
Tristram has experience as a writer, director, editor, and creative director with his production company, Torchborne Screens, but will also assist with programming and design.
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Composer and Sound Designer • February 2016 - Present
Byron is a composer who has done a lot of freelance work with composition and sound design on both games and some film before coming to Need to Know. Byron also is a music tutor for Trumpet (on which he is also a session musician), on drums and music theory. Inspired by ethnic music from all cultures and composers such as Ennio Morricone and Motoi Sakuraba, he is determined to bring a unique flair and immersive soundscape to Need to Know.
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Use the BlackSheep System to identify a person's suspicious activity, and choose an outcome.
Choose whether to use intel and powers outside of work, whether to help others, for financial gain (not, strictly speaking, legal), or even in romantic encounters (not, strictly speaking, moral).
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Early Clearance Levels only allow you access to a target's metadata or browsing history. As you progress, you bore deeper into their lives, with geo-tracking, shopping patterns and more.
If your decisions are accurate and effective (or sometimes just helpful to the Department's goals), you will be promoted. Higher ranks mean higher-stakes assignments with higher-profile suspects, access to more invasive surveillance, and greater authority.
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Each new Clearance Level exposes classified data, much of which will help you with assignments, and in your crusade against (or for) the Department.
The Department doesn't discriminate in its abuse of privacy, so you'll encounter people from all economic backgrounds, locations, ages, and cultures. Not every profile is immediately accessible though, and you need to advance further to snoop into the lives of the wealthy, powerful, and truly despicable.
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As well as desktop, on which platform(s) would you be interested in playing Need to Know?
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You can generally take as long as you like to look at suspects. On average, and based on your experience with the alpha, how long would you like to examine each suspect for before moving to the next one?
Given that generated suspects will likely be more generic than handcrafted suspects, where would you strike the balance between more replayability and more handcrafted suspects?
Which in-game metric(s) are you most interested in seeing?
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Which in-game phone app(s) are you most interested in using off-duty?
Which recent major news thread(s) would you most like to see incorporated into Need to Know?
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What did you most enjoy about the alpha?
Which parts of Need to Know interest you the most?
What kinds of off-duty 'mission' are you most interesting in playing?
Which forms of evidence interest you the most?
Which types of mission are you most interested in playing?
Once again, we had some great responses from backers who selected 'Other' in Backer Poll 2. Some ideas were "Seemingly unimportant missions (ie tutorial) that come back later", "bonus missions with previously gotten intelligence" and "Lots of poking around in ('innocent') peoples business". There were also at least 4 comments about severely limiting timed missions, and we're definitely taking note.
Which types of suspects/profiles do you most want to see in the game?
In Poll 1, the 'Other' option provided us with some great ideas, and too many to list them all here! Suggestions included "International government agencies (i.e. competitors to DoL)", "Just regular people with some veeery shady secrets?", "Foreign nationals/spies", and the ever-popular choice: "Everyone". Thanks for your responses - we'll have them in mind as we continue writing!
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Kansas Tabbed to Finish Eighth in Big 12 Preseason Poll
IRVING, Texas. – Kansas women's basketball was voted to finish the 2014-15 conference slate in eighth place by the Big 12 coaches as announced Wednesday morning.
Texas took the top of honor of being named the 2014-15 preseason front-runner, which hasn't happened since 2004-05, with five first-place votes. 2013-14 Co-Big 12 Champions Baylor and West Virginia were voted in second and third place, respectively, with two first-place votes each. Oklahoma State was selected fourth and received one first-place vote. Oklahoma was next at No. 5, followed by Iowa State in sixth place. TCU, Kansas, Kansas State and Texas Tech rounded out the poll.
The 2013-14 campaign marked the fifth-straight year the Big 12 led the nation in percentage of teams in the NCAA field. The conference has led or tied for the nation's top spot in seven of eight years dating back to 2007. The Big 12 also led the nation in average home attendance for the 15th-consecutive year.
The Jayhawks return four starters from a year ago including Preseason All-Big 12 selection Chelsea Gardner and 2013-14 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honoree Natalie Knight. KU has seven letterwinners returning to the hardwood along with welcoming five newcomers.
Kansas opens the season with an exhibition contest against Fort Hays State on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m., inside Allen Fieldhouse.
2014-15 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Preseason Poll
Texas (5) 73
Baylor (2) 71
West Virginia (2) 66
Oklahoma State (1) 63
Iowa State 42
TCU 33
K-State 16
Texas Tech 12
(first place votes in parentheses; coaches not allowed to vote for their own team)


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Q: Content Detail pages host Salesforce CMS content. If you want content on the B2B_Pharma_Store1/views/newsDetail.json, add this site as salesforce CMS When deploying a digital experience via Metadata API I am receiving the following error:
Content Detail pages host Salesforce CMS content. If you want content on the B2B_Pharma_Store1/views/newsDetail.json, add this site as a Salesforce CMS Channel
Anyone had this issue?

A: I've commented on a similar post in the past here and it worked for some.
You need to add the sites as channel by following the steps in the article and add the Content to the channel

*

*In Lightning Experience, from the App Launcher, open the Digital Experiences app (previously named Salesforce CMS).

*On the Digital Experiences Home tab, locate the workspace in the All CMS Workspaces table.

*To add a channel to a CMS workspace, take these steps.

*Open the workspace and click Channels.

*Click Add Channel.

*Select or create channels. To save a channel to the CMS workspace, click Add. You receive an email when your channel is available.

A: Thanks everyone i was able to resolve this, we have removed the newsDetail.json as looks like salesforce is adding this component by default & which is not needed, after we removed & then deployment went sucessfull without any issues

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World's Best 10K
Spring migration to Puerto Rico
by Dave Kuehls Published: Jun 1, 2008
February 24, San Juan, PR
Each winter, the migratory pattern of many of the best distance runners in the world takes them here -- to the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge. This winter, the field for the 11th edition of the World's Best 10K contained perhaps the largest numbers of Kenyans and Ethiopians at a race outside their native countries, plus a smattering of top runners from the rest of the world.
And then there was Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands. The reigning world cross and world road running champion, Kiplagat returned to San Juan virtually unbeatable, the winner of four in a row and five total. Four years ago Kiplagat handed Paula Radcliffe a rare defeat on the roads here, the year after Radcliffe had set a world record on this very course. And last year, Meseret Defar found it hard to keep up with Kiplagat, even for half of the race.
This year's rivals included Ethiopia's Ejegayehu Dibaba (fit again after foot surgery last spring) and Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse (who reportedly was in 30:30 shape after many quick track sessions). Both were in a line of six behind Kiplagat at 3K (9:06), but as they turned back onto the bridge and Kiplagat pressed the pace, only Ethiopia's Mestawet Tufa could maintain contact. Kiplagat, in orange socks and sunglasses, bounced through 5K in 15:03. Her last race had been a DNF at the Dubai Marathon in January because of a problem with her right calf. Yet at a press conference before the race she said she was both healthy and fit. She also said that the secret to her success in San Juan was the way it made her feel. "Every time I am here I feel good because of the weather, and I relax before the race," she said. "I get here a week early, and it's very nice and relaxing."
Yet as they came off the bridge with "Carmina Burana" blasting from banks of speakers and the sun beginning to set, Kiplagat disposed of her sunglasses, and the expression on her face was anything but relaxation. Tufa, a head shorter, was not going away. Back in August, the Ethiopian had dropped out of the IAAF World Championships 10,000 meters final with an Achilles problem, but the week before San Juan, she had placed third in Ethiopia's rugged world cross trials. Tufa's strategy, according to her coach, Theo Joosten, was to stay off Kiplagat's shoulder, then try and out-kick her.
Which, when dealing with Kiplagat, is easier said than done. But the closer they got to the finish, the better Tufa's chances looked for an upset; Afterward, Kiplagat would say only her 2004 duel with Radcliffe was a harder go.
At 9K, Kiplagat surged again. This time Tufa pulled even with her, then just ahead -- and slowed. There was a near collision, Kiplagat appeared to use that moment to re-energize herself, and she surged again. "The last kilometer I wanted to sprint, and she came upon me and we almost hit," said Kiplagat. "She wanted to slow me down, but I realized she had no power anymore and I went by her." The gap ended up at 10 seconds: 31:02, Kiplagat, to 31:12, Tufa.
In the men's race, Gilbert Okari was back to defend his title but, early on, Ethiopia's Deriba Merga took control. Merga led until he was in sight of the finish line. At that point, Kenya's Silas Kipruto began a furious charge and went by him, seemingly assured of a victory, a sub-28 minute clocking and the $10,000 bonus that goes along with it.
Then a strange thing happened. Kipruto accidentally followed a lead motorcycle toward the starting line on the other side of a fence from the finish line. By the time he realized his mistake and backtracked to the right side of the fence, it was too late. Merga had the race in the bag. Merga's time was 28:04, one tick ahead of Kipruto (28:05).


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The lead changed five times but a dominant final quarter produced 15 points to give Ulster Schools a comfortable 41-26 victory in the Schools' Inter-Provincial series against Irish-Qualified Rugby at University of Limerick.
Ulster, the defending champions, were seven points down after three minutes when Sean Bunty ran in from seven metres for Dan Aldwinkle to convert.
Ulster out-half Nathan Doak converted tries by full-back Conor Rankin and scrum-half Conor McKee, and kicked a penalty, but the Exiles fought back to take a 21-17 interval advantage.
The Exiles were then awarded a penalty try before Michael Cooke converted following a Michael Dykes try.
Two minutes into the second period Doak converted a try from winger Jude Postlethwaite, but once again their opponents regained the advantage with a Jacob Whelan try.
Ulster then dictated the terms and Doak brought his afternoon's tally to 16 points with a second penalty and conversions to tries by flanker Jonathan Agnew and winger Robin McIlween.
Leinster overcame Munster 53-12, so the scene is set for the decider in Limerick on Sunday after the Ulster players have returned home where some will have received their exam results.


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This article explains how to obtain a copy of your lost Deed Poll (also known as a Change of Name Deed) or a lost Statutory Declaration. If a copy is not available, the article explains how to apply for a replacement.
If you require a copy or replace your Deed Poll, please read the following three subsections to determine which applies to you.
If you ordered your Deed Poll direct from us and you returned your Deed Poll to us for our Legal Copy and Archive Service (available since May 2000), we can provide you with a legal copy (certified copy) of your original Deed Poll document from our archives. To order a legal copy of your archived Deed Poll, please click here.
If you did not order our Legal Copy and Archive Service, we do not have a copy of your Deed Poll. This is because you did not return your signed Deed Poll for us to place a scan of it into our archives. All you can do is order a replacement Deed Poll, for which you will receive a fee reduction as a previous client. However, before you apply for your replacement Deed Poll, please read section 4 below, which tells you how to complete your online application form.
If you had your Deed Poll prepared elsewhere in the United Kingdom (at a solicitors for example) or was issued before May 2000, a copy of your Deed Poll will only be available if you had your Deed Poll entered in the Enrolment Books of the Supreme Court of Judicature, which is located within the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, London. Enrolled Deed Polls are held for about five years at the Royal Courts of Justice and then moved to the National Archives in Kew, Richmond, Surrey.
Please note, if you paid less than about £200 for your Deed Poll, you would not have paid to have your Deed Poll enrolled. In which case, no copy of your Deed Poll will exist and all you can do is order another Deed Poll to act as a replacement. Even if your Deed Poll was enrolled, the expense of obtaining a copy (you have to physically attend and search for your Deed Poll at either the Royal Courts of Justice or The National Archives) usually means it is much cheaper to order a replacement. We issue many Deed Polls every day to people who have lost their original - this is the accepted practice.
Before you apply for your replacement Deed Poll, please read section 4 below, which tells you how to complete your online application form.
Statutory Declarations are usually issued by solicitors. The signed and stamped document issued to you would have been the one and only original, so no copy will exist. Furthermore, there is no central register of Statutory Declarations so if you have lost your original Statutory Declaration, you have no alternative but to obtain a new Statutory Declaration, which you will need to swear before a Commissioner of Oaths or a Justice of the Peace. However, a Deed Poll is a perfectly adequate replacement for your lost Statutory Declaration. In fact, the Deed Poll process is far more popular and a much more convenient method of changing a person's name (because a Deed Poll does not need to be sworn before a Commissioner of Oaths or a Justice of the Peace). Furthermore, the problems some people experience with the acceptability of their Statutory Declaration does not occur with a Deed Poll because of its popularity.
Before you apply for a Deed Poll to replace your Statutory Declaration, please read section 4 below, which tells you how to complete your online application form.
We can only issue a legal copy of a Deed Poll from our archives to the person named thereon. However, for a child's Deed Poll, we can issue a legal copy (if the Deed Poll is in our archives) to anyone with parental responsibility for the child or to the child (but only of the child is now 16 years of age or over). If you are not the parent that applied for your child's Deed Poll, we will need to see documentary evidence that you have parental responsibility e.g. your child's birth certificate, marriage certificate or a court order. We suggest you call our Helpline to determine what documentary evidence will prove you have parental responsibility. Alternatively, click on the following link to read section 4 of our article about changing children's names, which will enable you to determine if you have parental responsibility for your child. Please click here (opens new window) to go to section 4 of the article.
If you are researching your family history and you are looking for evidence of a family member's past name change, please click on the following link to read the answer to question 10 on our Other Frequently Asked Questions page. Please click here to go to our Other FAQs page.
If you have not changed your name since changing your name using the Deed Poll or Statutory Declaration you have lost, when you enter your name details on the online application form, you should enter your former name in the current name boxes and your current name in the new name boxes. The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost Deed Poll or Statutory Declaration.
Because your replacement Deed Poll cannot be back-dated, we can modify your new Deed Poll to include a declaration that says you have been using your current name for all purposes since a particular date. This modification explains to those you show your new Deed Poll to that it is not for a recent name change. If you would like this modification made, which we recommend, please complete section 5 of the online application form.
If you have changed your name since you changed your name by Deed Poll (the one you require a copy of), please do not complete an application form. Instead, email us with the details of all your name changes since birth including when and how your name was changed. We will then advise you how to apply for a Deed Poll, which will be drafted by our Complex Deed Poll Team to suit your circumstances.
To apply for your Deed Poll, please click here.


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Q: Type of static subclass method types in Typescript In Typescript I'm trying to get part of the type of a static getter class.
Here's a concrete example, where I'm trying to figure out how to get CSSTypes:
class View {
  static get css (): Record<string, any> {
    return {}
  }

  get jss (): CSSTypes {
    /* return JSS-created CSS class names.
       Equivalent in type (but not in practice, since we defer to the JSS library) to:

       return Object.assign({},
         ...Object.keys(this.constructor.css).map(k => {[k]: `${k}-css-class-name`})
       )
     */
  }
}

I want CSSTypes to be a map of string keys of static get css to another string.
class WebComponent extends View {
   static get css () {
      return {
        list: {
           display: 'grid'
        }
      }
   }
}

Here's what we get from the console:
>>> wc = new WebComponent()

// wc.jss should have one key, `list`
>>> wc.jss.list // === something like 'WebComponent__list-0-0-1'

If I were to take a stab at what we'd need, it'd look something like (which obviously doesn't work but kind of illustrates the idea):
class View {
   ...
   get jss: Record<keyof typeof this.constructor.css, string> {...}
}

Context
For this example I'm using JSS with Knockout/TKO and we have hundreds of web-components, and since the documentation of what CSS variables exist from the jss getter is present (as the keys that are returned from static get css) we're hoping there's some magic Typescript that can figure it out without having to duplicate anything.
We use this.jss many thousands of times, so adding a type to that would be challenging, so we are hoping that we can add a type to get jss.  Ideally we'd only modify the super class  getter for jss.  The jss getter is never modified i.e. exists only in the super class, but static get css is specific to every component.
To save memory and increase performance we (generally) have only one JSS style object per class type, hence static css.
This seems outside the scope of what Typescript ordinarily documents, and well outside my competence with it, but I'm hoping it's achievable since it theoretically seems possible.


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Arab societies suffer from deep misogyny, but the problem is not as particularly Arab or Islamic as you might think.
Women pray at Hussein mosque in the old city of Cairo. Reuters.
Picture a woman in the Middle East, and probably the first thing that comes into your mind will be the hijab. You might not even envision a face, just the black shroud of the burqa or the niqab. Women's rights in the mostly Arab countries of the region are among the worst in the world, but it's more than that. As Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy writes in a provocative cover story for Foreign Policy, misogyny has become so endemic to Arab societies that it's not just a war on women, it's a destructive force tearing apart Arab economies and societies. But why? How did misogyny become so deeply ingrained in the Arab world?
As Maya Mikdashi once wrote, "Gender is not the study of what is evident, it is an analysis of how what is evident came to be." That's a much tougher task than cataloging the awful and often socially accepted abuses of women in the Arab world. But they both matter, and Eltahawy's lengthy article on the former might reveal more of the latter than she meant.
There are two general ways to think about the problem of misogyny in the Arab world. The first is to think of it as an Arab problem, an issue of what Arab societies and people are doing wrong. "We have no freedoms because they hate us," Eltahawy writes, the first of many times she uses "they" in a sweeping indictment of the cultures spanning from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula. "Yes: They hate us. It must be said."
But is it really that simple? If that misogyny is so innately Arab, why is there such wide variance between Arab societies? Why did Egypt's hateful "they" elect only 2 percent women to its post-revolutionary legislature, while Tunisia's hateful "they" elected 27 percent, far short of half but still significantly more than America's 17 percent? Why are so many misogynist Arab practices as or more common in the non-Arab societies of sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia? After all, nearly every society in history has struggled with sexism, and maybe still is. Just in the U.S., for example, women could not vote until 1920; even today, their access to basic reproductive health care is backsliding. We don't think about this as an issue of American men, white men, or Christian men innately and irreducibly hating women. Why, then, should we be so ready to believe it about Arab Muslims?
A number of Arab Muslim feminists have criticized the article as reinforcing reductive, Western perceptions of Arabs as particularly and innately barbaric. Nahed Eltantawy accused the piece of representing Arab women "as the Oriental Other, weak, helpless and submissive, oppressed by Islam and the Muslim male, this ugly, barbaric monster." Samia Errazzouki fumed at "the monolithic representation of women in the region." Roqayah Chamseddine wrote, "Not only has Eltahawy demonized the men of the Middle East and confined them into one role, that of eternal tormentors, as her Western audience claps and cheers, she has not provided a way forward for these men." Dima Khatib sighed, "Arab society is not as barbaric as you present it in the article." She lamented the article as enhancing "a stereotype full of overwhelming generalizations [that] contributes to the widening cultural rift between our society and other societies, and the increase of racism towards us."
Dozens, maybe hundreds, of reports and papers compare women's rights and treatment across countries, and they all rank Arab states low on the list. But maybe not as close to the bottom as you'd think. A 2011 World Economic Forum report on national gender gaps put four Arab states in the bottom 10; the bottom 25 includes 10 Arab states, more than half of them. But sub-Saharan African countries tend to rank even more poorly. And so do South Asian societies -- where a population of nearly five times as many women as live in the Middle East endure some of the most horrific abuses in the world today. Also in 2011, Newsweek synthesized several reports and statistics on women's rights and quality of life. Their final ranking included only one Arab country in the bottom 10 (Yemen) and one more in the bottom 25 (Saudi Arabia, although we might also count Sudan). That's not to downplay the harm and severity of the problem in Arab societies, but a reminder that "misogyny" and "Arab" are not as synonymous as we sometimes treat them to be.
The other way to think about misogyny in the Arab world is as a problem of misogyny. As the above rankings show, culturally engrained sexism is not particular to Arab societies. In other words, it's a problem that Arab societies have, but it's not a distinctly Arab problem. The actual, root causes are disputed, complicated, and often controversial. But you can't cure a symptom without at least acknowledging the disease, and that disease is not race, religion, or ethnicity.
Some of the most important architects of institutionalized Arab misogyny weren't actually Arab. They were Turkish -- or, as they called themselves at the time, Ottoman -- British, and French. These foreigners ruled Arabs for centuries, twisting the cultures to accommodate their dominance. One of their favorite tricks was to buy the submission of men by offering them absolute power over women. The foreign overlords ruled the public sphere, local men ruled the private sphere, and women got nothing; academic Deniz Kandiyoti called this the "patriarchal bargain." Colonial powers employed it in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and in South Asia, promoting misogynist ideas and misogynist men who might have otherwise stayed on the margins, slowly but surely ingraining these ideas into the societies.
Of course, those first seeds of misogyny had to come from somewhere. The evolutionary explanations are controversial. Some say that it's simply because men are bigger and could fight their way to dominance; some that men seek to control women, and particularly female sexuality, out of a subconscious fear being of cuckolded and raising another man's child; others that the rise of the nation-state promoted the role of warfare in society, which meant the physically stronger gender took on more power. You don't hear these, or any of the other evolutionary theories, cited much. What you do hear cited is religion.
Like Christianity, Islam is an expansive and living religion. It has moved with the currents of history, and its billion-plus practitioners bring a wide spectrum of interpretations and beliefs. The colonial rulers who conquered Muslim societies were skilled at pulling out the slightest justification for their "patriarchal bargain." They promoted the religious leaders who were willing to take this bargain and suppressed those who objected. This is a big part of how misogynistic practices became especially common in the Muslim world (another reason is that, when the West later promoted secular rulers, anti-colonialists adopted extreme religious interpretations as a way to oppose them). "They enshrined their gentleman's agreement in the realm of the sacred by elevating their religious family laws to state laws," anthropologist Suad Joseph wrote in her 2000 book, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. "Women and children were the inevitable chips with which the political and religious leaders bargained." Some misogynist practices predated colonialism. But many of those, for example female genital mutilation, also predated Islam.
Arabs have endured centuries of brutal, authoritarian rule, and this could also play a role. A Western female journalist who spent years in the region, where she endured some of the region's infamous street harassment, told me that she sensed her harassers may have been acting in part out of misery, anger, and their own emasculation. Enduring the daily torments and humiliations of life under the Egyptian or Syrian or Algerian secret police, she suggested, might make an Arab man more likely to reassert his lost manhood by taking it out on women.
The intersection of race and gender is tough to discuss candidly. If we want to understand why an Egyptian man beats his wife, it's right and good to condemn him for doing it, but it's not enough. We also have to discuss the bigger forces that are guiding him, even if that makes us uncomfortable because it feels like we're excusing him. For decades, that conversation has gotten tripped up by issues of race and post-colonial relations that are always present but often too sensitive to address directly.
Spend some time in the Middle East or North Africa talking about gender and you might hear the expression, "My Arab brother before my Western sister," a warning to be quiet about injustice so as not to give the West any more excuses to condescend and dictate. The fact that feminism is broadly (and wrongly) considered a Western idea has made it tougher for proponents. After centuries of Western colonialism, bombings, invasions, and occupation, Arab men can dismiss the calls for gender equality as just another form of imposition, insisting that Arab culture does it differently. The louder our calls for gender equality get, the easier they are to wave away.
Eltahawy's personal background, unfortunately, might play a role in how some of her critics are responding. She lives mostly in the West, writes mostly for Western publications, and speaks American-accented English, all of which complicates her position and risks making her ideas seem as Westernized as she is. That's neither fair nor a reflection of the merit of her ideas, but it might inform the backlash, and it might tell us something about why the conversation she's trying to start has been stalled for so long.
The Arab Muslim women who criticized Eltahawy have been outspoken proponents of Arab feminism for years. So their backlash isn't about "Arab brother before Western sister," but it does show the extreme sensitivity about anything that could portray Arab misogyny as somehow particular to Arab society or Islam. It's not Eltahawy's job to tiptoe around Arab cultural anxieties about Western-imposed values, but the fact that her piece seems to have raised those anxieties more than it has awakened Arab male self-awareness is an important reminder that the exploitation of Arab women is about more than just gender. As some of Eltahawy's defenders have put it to me, the patriarchal societies of the Arab world need to be jolted into awareness of the harm they're doing themselves. They're right, but this article doesn't seem to have done it.


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Japan must foster its own approach to the Myanmar crisis
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October 28, 2018 in Geopolitics, Japan geopolitics, Japan news, Myanmar news.
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