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JABHAT AL-NUSRA RELABELED AS JABHAT FATH AL-SHAM
by david July 28, 2016 · Al Qaeda / Global Jihad / Syria
The Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat Al-Nusra – Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ash-Shâm – in Arabic "The Front of Support for the People of the Sham (Greater Syria), is a branch of Al Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon.
The group announced its creation on 01/23/ 2012, during the Syrian Civil War (see – SYRIAN 2011 UNREST). Since then it has been described as "the most aggressive and successful" or "one of the most effective rebel forces" in Syria. The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, the USA, Australia, UK,and Turkey.
The leader of Jabhat Al-Nusra goes by the name of Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani (or Joulani) which implies that he is from the Golan Heights (al-Jawlan, in Arabic) occupied by Israel since 1967. Very little is known about him, with even his nationality unclear.
The group is made up of Sunni Islamists, many of them fought in Iraq a decade earlier under the command of Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Its goal is to overthrow the Assad government in Syria and to create an Islamic state under the Sharia (Islamic law) and aims to reinstate the Caliphate. In early 2014 a top Sharia official in Al-Nusra, Dr Sami Al Oraidi, acknowledged that his group is influenced by the teachings of Mustafa Setmarian – known as Abu Musab al-Suri.
Jabhat Al-Nusra is accused of attacking the religious beliefs of non-Sunnis in Syria, including the Alawits. Some analysts and diplomats believe that Al-Nusra Front (and also I.S.I.S) appear less focused on toppling the Alawite Assad regime than on establishing a zone of influence in Iraq and Syria and eventually establishing an Islamic territory under their administration.
At least one Arab government has accused Qatar of helping Al-Nusra. Jabhat Al-Nusra has also been materially supported by multiple foreign fighters. Most of these fighters are from Europe and the Middle East, as pipelines to Syria from those locations are better established and navigable. However, as of 11/2013, there were also 6 publicly disclosed cases of American citizens and permanent residents who joined or attempted to join Al-Nusrah in 2013 alone.
In 04/2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of I.S.I.S, announced that his group had merged with Syria's Jabhat Al-Nusra and announced the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Sham in Arabic). Al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani acknowledged a relationship between the two groups, but he denied there had been a merger and publicly pledged his allegiance to Ayman Al Zawahiri.
But Ayman Al Zawahiri, now the new Al Qaeda leader ruled out that the Islamic State of Iraq I.S.I and Al-Nusra should operate as separate entities, according to a letter released to Al-Jazeera. al-Baghdadi had "made a mistake" by announcing a merger "without consulting us", he said. It is assumed that the ambition of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish a new Caliphate with him as the Caliph and the spiritual head of all Sunni Muslims is the heart of the controversy between Zawahiri and al-Baghdadi. Zawahiri also opposes the stand of al-Bbaghdadi to brand the Shiites, all of them, "infidels" and to fight them rather than to focus the efforts on fighting the "Crusaders" – the Western powers (see also – Hassan Ghul 's letters ).
Al-Baghdadi, however, dismissed al-Zawahiri's ruling and took control of a reported 80% of Jabhat Al-Nusra's foreign fighters, about 4,000 of them citizens of the Western Democracies. In 01/2014, I.S.I.S expelled Jabhat Al-Nusra from the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor in the Euphrates Valley of Eastern Syria. Hundreds of fighters were killed in the clashes In 02/2014, Al-Qaeda disavowed any relations with I.S.I.S.
** Following the success of the Syrian army to establish an effective siege on Aleppo, by late 07/2016, and the splits within the Islamic opposition in Syria, mainly between Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State fighting each other, the Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Joulani appeared, distributed through the web on Thursday 07/28/2016, in a rare footage announcing group's split from al-Qaeda (after an earlier confirmation of Ayman al-Zawahiri, "We declare the complete cancellation of all operations under the name of Jabhat al-Nusra, and the formation of a new group operating under the name 'Jabhat Fath al-Sham (The front of Mesopotamia)', noting that this new organisation has no affiliation to any external entity," he said .
The announcement is aimed to bypass the general embargo and sanctions policy against al-Qaeda and to pave the way to greater coordination and cooperation between all Islamic militias. Including between the two bitter rivals fighting each other – al-Nusra and ISIS ( see also – Jund al-Sham ).
The split from al-Qaeda will enable Gulf Emirates, Turkey and other Sunni Arab countries to increase their support to the new "Jabha (front)' and to other sunni groups fighting the Iranian backed Shia Alawite regime in Syria .
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Q: What preposition should be used with "cache"? Which is most grammatical?

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I find myself gravitating towards "to" but I'm not sure - I feel like "cached" implies some kind of attachment.

A: To cache is to store something away for future use (especially if in a hidden place).  You could store things in a box or on a shelf but I can't think of any situation in which you'd store something to somewhere. One normally talks about storing things on a particular computer/disk/memory stick so I would use the same for cache.

A: To cache something means to store it away, so I think the most natural preposition is in. Cached on is also fairly common.
Cached to is very uncommon, but appears to becoming more popular in software contexts. I suspect this is because non-software caches usually require you to be close to them, but software caches are often remote so that the act of caching involves sending data to another server. Because your phone is not a remote server cached to is an unnatural choice.
You can see the relative uses of these prepositions with Google Ngrams.

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breaking: Oklahoma lawmakers vote against minimum wage hike
Del City bible class teacher faces numerous sex crime counts
by Kyle Schwab
Published: Mon, January 11, 2016 10:05 PM Updated: Mon, January 11, 2016 10:07 PM
Donnie Ray Schultz
A sex offender convicted in 1995 has been charged with dozens of sex crimes against a 14-year-old girl who, investigators say, attended a religious course he taught at a Del City church.
Donnie Ray Schultz, 45, of Del City, was charged Monday in Oklahoma County District Court with 19 counts of second-degree rape, 31 counts of forcible oral sodomy, one count of manufacturing child pornography, one count of possession of obscene material involving the participation of a minor under the age of 18 and engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses in two or more counties.
Investigators reported Schultz, also known as Shultz, became friends with the girl through the bible class he taught at Calvary Christian Church and later began a sexual relationship with the girl.
The girl, now 16, told "a teacher at Del City High School … that she felt brainwashed by the suspect Shultz," Del City police reported.
The sexual relationship began July 29, 2014, and the sex continued until as recent as Nov. 15, police reported.
"The victim stated that over the course of 16 months, she and the suspect have had sexual intercourse 20-30 times and had oral sex numerous times," Del City police detective Michael Gray wrote in a report.
Reportedly a self-employed handyman, Schultz allegedly had sex with the girl at "homes where the defendant would do home repair," Gray reported.
In a request for a search warrant of Schultz' home, Gray wrote that the girl revealed other locations where sex acts took place, including the church and their homes.
The girl also told police that on multiple occasions Schultz would film them having sex with his home computer and smart phone, reports show.
Gray also reported the FBI examined Schultz' computer. Illicit photos of the girl and Schultz together were obtained, Gray reported.
In another request for a search warrant, a special agent with Homeland Security reported Schultz would pick up the girl from her high school during her lunch break then take her to his house or to an Oklahoma City storage unit for sex.
Del City police Maj. Jody Suit said Schultz could face separate federal charges for child pornography. Suit said police believe there are more victims.
Schultz was convicted of second-degree rape in 1995 in Cleveland County. He was a registered sex offender until 2013, police reported.
Schultz was arrested Dec. 18. He is in Oklahoma County jail with bail set at $500,000. Police reported he is married with at least one child.
'A complete shock'
A Calvary Christian Church spokesman responded Monday saying "the allegations came as a complete shock."
"While (Schultz) led a small group Bible study on church doctrine, he was one of seven members who took turns teaching the class. The class was for adults only, but apparently some participated in the class before they were eighteen," said spokesman Jason Sharp. "(He) was never in any paid, employee relationship with the church. He (led) the discipleship class as a volunteer."
The spokesman said Schultz has attended the church for almost 19 years. Before Schultz joined, the pastor from his previous church reached out to Calvary Christian Church.
Calvary church officials were informed Schultz was a sex offender but were told they should allow him to join and that they could trust him, the spokesman said.
Kyle Schwab
Kyle Schwab has been a reporter for The Oklahoman newspaper since 2013. He currently covers Oklahoma City courts. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a major in journalism. He lives in Edmond. Read more ›
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If you are really short on time and just looking for something simple to bring to work for lunch or heat up at home, I would recommend Freshly which delivers fully prepared meals. I'm very intrigued by Munchery which will deliver fully prepared meals (some under $10) OR cooking kits to your home–the company has a charitable mission as well and has delivered over 2 million meals to food banks. Finally, Chef'd lets you search a database of meal options and order meal-specific ingredients to be delivered. I would love to know if any of you have tried these or other options!
I know all the options of meal and/or ingredient delivery are overwhelming when we are just trying to find a way to make our lives easier. I've been using Hello Fresh intermittently for about 8 months, and so far I have really enjoyed it. Each week, you are given a list of possible menu choices for the following week. On Mondays, I get ingredients for my 3 chosen meals delivered to my house with everything included and pre-measured with easy to understand cooking instructions. All you need to have on hand is basically olive oil and cookware. It's so nice if you want to have someone over for dinner and can give them options of which to prepare, and I love knowing that I won't starve during the week. Living in LA, I eat a lot of meals in my car and it can be stressful to try to go out for lunch during work so I definitely take advantage of bringing my own food to work or my MBA classes. Each week, as we many of us eat lunch or dinner during class, my classmates were always intrigued and impressed by what entree I had for the day. The plan I have costs $69/week for 3 meals with 2 servings each, which comes out less than $12/meal. See below for what the meals I've made end up looking like.


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Our 9.18 show with Doctor of Doctor & the Medics is up
Podcast (feed-2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:14 — 124.1MB)
Our 9.18 show podcast/syndication edit is up and available at the bottom of this post. The good Doctor, leader of Doctor and the Medics,is out guest Revenge of the 80s Radio. The band has a new lineup and recently recorded a cover of "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)." They, along with Sobel Promotions, are working on a new version and remixes of their mid-80s international hit, "Spirit in the Sky." We will also discuss the bands' history, how the band was formed, respect for music and the group's fans, whether there will be more new music in the works and that someone still owes the Doctor £5.
Our conversation takes place during hour 2 of our program
We also play classics from Altered Images, Strawberry Switchblade, Bad Manners, Midnight Oil, Player (1)and more.
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I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.
there is announcement on global ingame chat that tournament is 18th.
... and Malware-free banner too!
Please post replay commentarys in this thread.
If this is on the 18th, you can count me in!
Because he's the hero Wargame deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hate him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, fact checking our posts in the night. A watchful protector. A White Knight.
Pvt.Ryan wrote: If this is on the 18th, you can count me in!
Though Rang's voice is a bit quite so sorry for that.
For some reason the in game chat header advertised this to be on the 18th.
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God of Hosts, we bow before your glory, and bend the knee of our hearts before You.
In humble supplication, we ask You to forgive us all our offenses, and set new hearts within us, fixed on doing your will. With your saving hand lift us up, O Holy One, that we may be a holy people wholly dedicated to You. Nourished by your word and strengthened by our meditations, may we serve You this day with gladness. May we carry the banner of your salvation and peace into the world, serving the cause of Christ to proclaim your reign.
Loving One, send out your Spirit to bless and inspire us, and guide us in our journey to your truth. Draw us within your embrace, Lord Christ, and grant your peace to those we now name.
Lord God, You call us into a new creation with You, and call us all each by name in love and tenderness. May we always seek to take You by the hand in all our ways, that we may never stray from your paths of mercy.
Light a fire within us to build up your kingdom, and to establish a sure foundation of justice within our lives. Empower us with wisdom to work in the name of your love and hope, that we may truly live in peace and plenty before your throne.
Cast your blessings like spring rain upon those who call your Name, and envelop us in a mantle of compassion and service to all. Bend near to all who are in distress or anxiety, O Healer, and place your hand of benediction on those we now name.
Glory to You, Loving One, glory to You: we rise to sing your praise. All things come into being at your Word: let all I do and all I am be inspired by You. You have molded all creation to work in harmony: let our love and obedience be a witness in the world. You abide with us in faithfulness even when we falter: may we seek you always in our need. You hold all our times in your hand: be with those who laugh and those who weep. May your Spirit rest upon those whose needs are known to You alone, and those whom we now name.
O Holy One, may we stand before your courts, and hear and obey your call of love and faithfulness.
May we open our hearts to welcome the good news from your prophets and messengers, O God, who sing out your salvation. May we hear your call and respond as your humble servants, eager to serve You and each other.
Make us vessels in whom your truth overflows, for your love so great that we cannot contain it. Send us forth to do your will, to build and heal and comfort in the Name of the Lord. Press upon us the seal of your Spirit, and commission us to serve You with all our hearts.
Draw us within your courts, O Almighty, and place your blessing upon those we now name.
Our praises rise to our Creator and Protector, whose mercy endures forever!
At your command, O Holy One, all things come to be, now and forever: we give You thanks for our manifold blessings. Some put their faith upon the power of fortunes or of princes, but we rest upon the love of God as our sure foundation.
May we put our trust in the light of the God Who Saves, whose way is straight and sure. Loving One, be the wind at our backs that sends us upon our journeys, and guides us upon your way. Draw us within your embrace, O Light of Light, that we may dwell forever in the household of the Almighty.
O God, our shield and our refuge, watch over us in all our ways, for you call us to paths of righteousness and peace. Place all who call upon You within the broad plain of your mercy, O Lord, and bend tenderly over those we now name.
Almighty God, we lift our hearts to You as your children, and place our hands in yours to be led into your presence.
May we fill our hearts with your love and wisdom, and drink deep of waters of peace and justice which flow from your throne. Refresh and replenish our souls, O Holy One, that we may spring up from our resting places and do your will today.
Keep us as the apple of your eye, and make your face to shine upon us, that we may be instruments of peace and compassion to all. Guide us into the paths of righteousness, that we may walk gently upon the earth and seek companionship with all creation. Pour out the oil of blessing upon all who seek your truth and call upon You.
This was also posted at The Episcopal Cafe's Speaking to the Soul on March 22, 2015.
Bonhoeffer imagines the church "under the cross." So too our gospel reading for today turns our faces toward the cross and dares to reimagine what it means, just as we are being called to reimagine the Church and what it means in this time and place. The gospel reading for today, which explores the paradox of how death can bring life, is the hinge upon which the good news of the gospel of John is proclaimed. This is the point at which, as Jesus says, "the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified." What caused this hour to finally come at this particular point? The world—in the form of some "Greeks," which means us—has come to Jesus. And soon, soon, Jesus is going to be exalted—lifted up—on the cross and beyond the cross, held up to bring all of the world to God. What is considered by the world to be a sign of shame is instead going to be the means of exaltation.
In the gospel of John, this is the point where Jesus moves from his ministry toward his exaltation—and when we come to Jesus. Victory can push through to us at the darkest of times. For John, the crucifixion brings victory, because the cross brings the world to God. We don't usually think of it this way, but the metaphor of the grain of wheat helps us remember this too. Jesus speaks again in paradox. In order to live we must die to all that separates us from the love of God. Those who die to themselves will finally have a full life.
How do we (and John) understand the paradox that the cross is a symbol of victory and power rather than dishonor and disgrace? A death which is a sign of torture is instead a triumph. This was a scandalous idea at the time it was formulated, as it also is for us. Crucifixion was the means of execution for rebels and for murderers, and it was a terrible, lingering way to die.
But by casting back to the events of the history of Israel, John sees that the saving power of the cross has already been hinted at. Last week we heard the story of the people of Israel being saved by looking upon a symbol of a serpent (or seraph, depending on how you translate the original Hebrew) raised up on a pole, and looking upon that sign saved them from death. The reading from John's gospel last week started off making explicit the connection between this sign and the lifting up of Jesus on the cross.
Jesus is usually presented as being unafraid of the cross throughout John's gospel. However, our reading today includes acknowledgement that Jesus admitted that his "soul was troubled." Jesus is human. We always have to remember that, because if Jesus is not fully human, how can he save us and show us a better way to live that we ourselves can emulate? The love of God that we understand through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus lifts us all up and calls us to transformation.
There is a message here for us, as Christians and as Episcopalians, as well. Unless we as individuals are willing to be transformed—to let go of our old life of suspicion, and hardness of heart, and fear– we can have no trust in the love Jesus has for us, and we cannot be true servants of Christ. We have to break through the rocky soil of our own hearts to allow the seed of the promise of God's love to grow. Likewise, unless we as the Church are willing to let go of how we have always understood ourselves, we too cannot break through to new life and new growth.
Fairest Lord Jesus, draw us before your altars today, and feed us with your word and sacraments. Strengthen us in bonds of love, faithfulness, and charity, propelled by hope to build your reign in our hearts.
May the shade of your blessing overspread us, and the peace of your fellowship bind us firmly together in your name. May we drink deeply of the living water from the wells of salvation, bought by You in your love for us. May we join hands across all that we allow to divide us, and see your face, O Beloved, in each one we see around your altar.
Turn our hearts to your truth, and turn our feet to walk in paths of mercy, following the footsteps of saints and disciples who have gone before us. Shower us with your blessing, O Holy One, and stretch forth your hand of healing and comfort to those we now name.
This was also posted at The Episcopal Cafe's Speaking to the Soul on March 21, 2015.
The above is a collect written by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, whose feast day we celebrate today, more than five hundred years after his martyrdom. Much of the Book of Common Prayer bears his imprimatur, even if many Episcopalians and Anglicans are barely acquainted with him. Because Thomas Cranmer was the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of the separation of the English Church from the Roman Church, he ended up shaping the first prayer books in use in the Anglican Communion even to our own 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Some of the greatest hits of the prayer book are his: "O God, make speed to save us; O Lord, make haste to help us." "We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts…." "Give unto your servants that peace which the world cannot give…." The collect above is one of my favorite collects right from the start, since it touches upon a subject near to my heart: prayer.
"Almighty God, you are always more ready to hear than we are to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve…." How often many of us feel that we do not know how to pray, or what to say when we pray. Sometimes we get frustrated with defaulting too soon to what have been called "wish-list" prayers: God, watch over my mother and my father; help me get through this coming week; help heal Aunt Jeanne's cancer, those kinds of things. At other times we get frustrated that this kind of prayer is all we seem to pray, other than the Lord's Prayer. Yet Cranmer put his finger on an important truth: God is ready to listen no matter how much we stumble over words in our prayers. Yet perhaps sometimes we should just cut ourselves a break. My United Church of Christ brothers and sisters like to say that "God is Still Speaking." We Episcopalians, people of the Book of Common Prayer, should always try to remember that God is always listening, lovingly and patiently, even if we feel we cannot find the right words. If in prayer we are not ready to speak, we can make ourselves ready to hear. Ironically, Archbishop Cranmer himself has provided us hundreds of the right words when we seem stuck, in his beautiful collects and prayers which he either translated or wrote himself.
"Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask …." Here, Cranmer touches upon the ideas of mercy and grace. Even during Lent, we Episcopalians do not like to think very much about sins—unless it is about those sins committed against us. We also do not think very much about salvation and how that works. Yet one of the most overwhelming realities we seek to grasp as Christians is God's unending love for us. God's love is one that seeks us out again and again and never rests when we hold ourselves aloof in our relationships with both God and each other. Abundant mercy, amazing grace—two different sides of the same coin. Mercy is shown in not punishing us as justice would demand but instead forgiving us. Grace is granted in GIVING us the blessing of salvation, right here and now, which we can never earn. Cranmer helps us ask God to pour out both grace and mercy over us, forgiveness and blessing, the weft and warp of our lives seeking God.
"…[E]xcept through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our savior, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen." It is through Jesus and his incarnation, as God-with-us, that we have an advocate and guide in living our lives as a holy people, beloved of God. One of the things Christians do is pray in the name of Christ, our Friend and Companion—literally, "he who breaks bread with us." When we gather around the altar at Eucharist, we gather with each other and with Christ, who feeds us, body and soul, satisfying our deepest longings for meaning in a world in which all too often we can feel adrift.
Cranmer's latest biographer, Diarmid MacCulloch, notes in his introduction that Archbishop Cranmer was intensely private, yet his words live on today to touch and shape our most public expressions of faith through our liturgy. Thomas Cranmer is, in many ways, the bishop who still teaches us how to pray, and reminds us that God is ready to hear.
Cathedral of St. Michael and All Angels, Barbados.
Holy One, may we be centered within You today. With each moment, let us breathe in your wisdom, and breathe out your love. May we know that peace which only You give, and may we build our lives on a foundation of justice and compassion. May the Spirit of truth and righteousness envelop us in light eternal, that our paths may follow your word. Precious Lord, we hold within our hearts the needs and concerns of those who call upon their hope in You: bless and preserve those we now name.
Lord Jesus, whose arms are eternally stretched wide to embrace us, be with us this day, and teach us. Teach us to embrace your call to repentance and renewal, that we may be brought before You as little children. Teach us to embrace this day and its beauty, rather than worrying about tomorrow. Teach us to embrace the poor and the outcast, for we are one in body and spirit. Teach us to embrace love, regardless of the cost. Teach us to embrace obedience, to empty ourselves so that You may fill us completely. Teach us to embrace those who do not understand us or reject us, and to love them wholeheartedly anyway. Precious Savior, place your hand of blessing over those we now name, drawing them to You in your mercy.
At the Osage Forest of Peace in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
Holy, holy, holy Lord, we lift our hearts in praise to You, Our savior and our redeemer, who calls us into unity with You and each other. We humbly confess before You our failures and inaction, our silences and our hurtful speech: forgive us, Lord. May we turn our hearts to You as a flower turns toward the sun, and clothe ourselves in the splendor of your love. Help us to be true ministers of your gospel of compassion and hope, rejoicing in your call to us to be your people. Accept the fervent prayers of your people, O God Most High, and send your angels to watch over us as we seek to serve You. Grant, we beseech You, your unfailing peace and strength to those we now name.
Holy One, open our eyes to see the wonders and signs of your power all about us. Stretch your mighty hand over us, that we may be led in paths of righteousness and compassion in our journeys today. Fill us with your wisdom, O Spirit, and preserve us in your grace, for we are prone to go astray and turn our hearts to foolishness. Feed us with your truth, Lord Christ, and encircle us in your embrace. For You, O Companion, are with us always, in sunshine and shadow, and call us into the broad and verdant land of your peace. Tenderly wipe the tear of those who mourn, and ease the burdens of those in pain, for your love's sake. Bless and keep those who call upon You, especially those whose names we place before you.
Blessed Savior, You are our armor in times of trouble: hear our prayer. Awaken in us a desire to love and praise You, for You are our companion in times of joy and in times of trouble.
Guide us by your Strength, O God, and preserve us by your Power, that we may always walk before You.
Instruct us by your Wisdom, and protect us by your mighty Hand as we seek to be your disciples.
Direct us by your Way, defend us by your Shield, and send your angels to guard us night and day.
Be with us, before us, and in us, Lord Christ, and send us out with a zeal to serve You with our whole heart.
Fill us with a Holy Fire to spread your gospel of love and forgiveness to friend and foe, and place your blessing upon those we now name.
Another detail from the windows at St. Stephen's in Ferguson.
Blessed Savior, bring us into your pastures of plenty today, and spread the shade of your right hand over us. Let us joyfully labor in the name of truth and love, for they are the foundations of your kingdom. Let us sing forever a praise song of your abundant mercy, recounting the horizon of grace that You stretch before us. All creation testifies to your glory and revels in your love, Most Holy God; may we join in the song forever. Tune us to the melody that binds the world together, that we live in fellowship with all the Earth. Turn our eyes to behold your wonders, O Creator and Comforter, for we know You are with us always. You heal the broken-hearted and give rest to the weary: make us vessels of your peace, filled to overflowing. May the light of your countenance shine upon us, and especially on those for whom we pray.
Most Holy God, we kneel before your altars, humbled by your grace, thankful for your mercy, united by love of You. May we open our hands and our hearts to those around us, knowing that we are called to be one people united by your love. May we remember that whatever diminishes one, diminishes all, and never use others for our own gain. May we seek to be healing hands within the world, and treasure your creation as our beloved home. Lord Christ, may we lift you up in our lives, that we may look upon You and be healed of all that separates us. Holy Spirit, give us a fire within our hearts to serve the glory of God in all our thoughts and ways. Holy One, spread your awning of blessing over us, and especially over those we now name.
Another detail from a window at St. Stephen's in Ferguson.
Blessed Redeemer, lift me up by your love, abounding in mercy, that I may sing your praises from the depths of my heart. Draw me deeper into the mystery of your grace, O Holy One, for my soul longs for You. Search me out and rescue me when I have gone astray, for You are my Hope and my Shield. May your Word be a lamp unto my feet, and your grace a guide to my heart. Hear me when I call to You, and pull me from the shifting sands, for You are ever tender in your care. Give me a zeal to serve You by serving your gospel, and a heart to love others as I love myself. Loving One, be our companion in the way today, and broadcast your blessing and your peace to all who seek You.
14Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
First, a bit of context: Nicodemus is a Pharisee and as identified in verse one of chapter 3 as "a leader of the Jews." He has come to Jesus "by night," possibly in order that the other Pharisees will not see him talking to this arrogant and rebellious self-styled teacher from the hinterland who is causing them so much trouble (remember last week? Yeah, not an act that is likely to win friends from the Pharisaic camp).
As we have discussed previously, light and darkness are important themes in John's gospel: Nicodemus comes in the night also because he lacks true understanding of who Jesus is, but at least he is straining toward the light. Right now, he sees Jesus as a sort of faith-healer. Nicodemus points to certain signs—and signs are very important in the gospel of John. He is willing to admit that Jesus is a healer, a miracle-worker, and a teacher-- but that is as far on the journey of faith that he is willing to go. Will he eventually commit to Jesus and have true faith? Yet Nicodemus is beginning to be drawn to the light of Christ, for in v. 2 he states: "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who is coming from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God." Nicodemus is a man torn between two worlds, just as the converts in Ephesus were, and he recognizes the delicate situation he is in. Following Jesus will probably cost him everything that has been important to him thus far in life, including his reputation and position within society. And Jesus doesn't make it easy for him, speaking and what must've seemed like riddles, as Jesus is prone to do throughout much of the Gospel of John, in particular. Jesus talks of the necessity of being born again in vv. 3-8, and Nicodemus takes the metaphor literally, much to his confusion, and Jesus acts as if he is amazed that a teacher of Israle could not understand what he was saying. It must have been a long, humbling night for Nicodemus.
The verses right before our reading is significant: "If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man" (vv. 12-13). Jesus then connects himself as the Son of Man to the incident in Numbers 21:6-9, when people bitten by poisonous snakes were able to look at a likeness of a snake on a pole and live. The snakes had been sent by God in return for the people's disobedience and rebelliousness. Likewise, the Son of Man will be lifted up on a pole—the cross— and that action will also bring salvation (vv. 14-15).
Verse 16 is probably one of the most quoted verses in all of scripture, but it is also the link that holds together all of today's readings. God's gift of Jesus to the world, as God's son, can draw those who truly see this sacrifice to a life with God if they believe in Jesus—only through faith, not by virtue of birth or anything else beyond our control (vv. 16-17).
Let's return, then, to the figure of Nicodemus. Nicodemus, as a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin, the ruling body of Israel, has a lot to lose by allying with Jesus in the light of day. Nicodemus may have been "born of water" as a son of Abraham, but he cannot yet consent at this point to be born of the Spirit—to let go of any concerns about position and logic and to just have faith in Jesus as the Son of Man and the Son of God. To be born of the Spirit is to be not just "born again," but to be—more importantly—"born from above." Until we are ready to have that faith, we are like ones still in the womb. But once babies are born, they emerge from the waters of birth into the light of reality. Jesus invites Nicodemus-- and all of us-- to emerge from the darkness into the light of faith.
A detail from an Emil Frei window at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ferguson, MO where I am doing an internship. Please pray for peace and justice in Ferguson.
Open our hearts, O Blessed Savior, that we may be filled with fire for your call to love and repentance. Accept our heartfelt remorse for all our sins; for our actions, and for the times we did not act in the face of wrong. May we dedicate ourselves to building your kingdom: to empower, to encourage, to work for enlightenment and peace. May we seek to be healing hands in an aching world, Lord Christ, grounded in true love and faithfulness. May we plant peace where there are now barren fields, and may we start within our own troubled hearts. Make us a people for others, embodying generosity, humility, kindness, and wisdom, working peace in your name. Holy One, we lay before You our cares and concerns, trusting in your mercy, rejoicing in your steadfast love.
You give us rest, wholeness, and security.
Lord Christ, You open your arms wide for us on the cross: may we run to your embrace and walk in righteousness beside each other. May the words of our mouths and meditations of our hearts be always pleasing to You, O Holy One, and help us grow in grace and wisdom. May we be steadfast in opposing evil, resolute in rejecting oppression, and hopeful in working for the common good. Gift us with the presence of your healing Spirit, O God, that we may be cleansed of all our sins and healed of all our infirmities in body, mind, and spirit.
A waterfall in the Yosemite Valley creates a rainbow.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: may my heart sing out the praise of God, and give thanks as I rise. Holy One, with humble hearts we turn to You, seeking your guidance and protection as we live out your ways. Give us perseverance to run the race set before us today, and to follow in the path our Savior set before us. May we soak in your wisdom as a spring field opens its arms to the rain. May we raise our song in praise of your unbounded love for us, and reflect that love into the world. Accept our prayers as we lift them before You, that we may be drawn closer into communion with You. Almighty One, You know the inmost reaches of our hearts: send out your Spirit to envelop those whom we now name.
Prayer 775- The 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday"
Blessed Savior, lead us and guide us this day, and strengthen our resolve to be your disciples in word and deed. Let us walk with saints and martyrs for peace and justice, that every step be a testimony to your call to righteousness. Let us march joyfully toward your kingdom, remembering your call to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before You. Let us forge everlasting bonds of brotherhood and peace, and put our shoulders under the yoke of your love. Help us to bridge the chasms of fear and intolerance that divide us and lead us to anger and sin. Bring us through the winter of discontent and bitter tears to the vernal warmth radiating from the Beloved Community. Strengthen the weary, Lord Christ, and let the hearts of all be filled with blessing, compassion, and contentment. Seal us with your Spirit, and gather within your embrace those we now remember.
Be our light in the darkness dear God, and our guide as we seek our way. May our prayers of thanksgiving and praise rise with the morning sun, for You are our God. Forgive us our sins, O Merciful One, for the times we have blamed others for our own faults. As the sun peeks over the rooftop, may hope rise within our hearts, that we may bring honor to your Name. May we remember that the quest for justice begins with truly loving others and loving You, our Redeemer. Bring us into the orbit of your wisdom, O Christ, that we may always sit at your feet and be filled with your truth. Bend near to those who call upon You, O Spirit of God, and shade them with your outstretched hand.
Light of Light, we kneel before your glory, grateful for your care and guidance. Forgive us, Most Merciful One, for our failure to love You and each other, and accept our repentance with our whole hearts.
Blessed Redeemer, renew in us a spirit of peace and forbearance, that we may live in justice and contentment. Help us to honor your image in each other, and humbly serve each other in constancy and devotion. Help us walk gently upon the earth, that we may wonder at your love for us springing up from creation. Strengthen our determination to be your disciples in word and deed, that we may proclaim your goodness and love in all we do.
Draw under the shadow of your wings all who are troubled in body, mind, or spirit, and smooth their sorrows and pain away. Unite us within the bonds of your love, and let your blessing come down upon us like the rays of the rising sun.
Holy One, set us upon the broad and verdant plain of your mercy, that the hills may ring with our songs to Your glory.
Forgive us our weaknesses and fears, of the times we have fallen short of your Love.
May we use our words to the praise of your Name, to build up those around us and to speak truth to power.
May we use our hands to provide help to the oppressed and to bring healing and compassion into birth.
May we use backs to share the burden of those bowed down, and to build a more just society.
May we use our thoughts to pray unceasingly, that all we do be good and right, seeking your guidance, O God. Lord Christ, encircle us with your outstretched arms of mercy, that we may orient our hearts toward your service and the service of others. Holy Spirit, alight upon the souls of those who call upon You, and lighten the hearts of those who pray.
Let us join our hands and join our hearts within the holy assembly, praising and worshiping our God in a spirit of peace and charity.
Make us constant in our love for You, O God; may we cling to the Rock of Our Salvation. Bring all things into unity before the welcoming hearth of your love, Most Merciful One. You are our Redeemer, Holy Lord: may we always humbly abide under the shelter of your grace.
Give us a spirit of compassion, that we may earnestly serve You in all we meet today. Give us a spirit of longing for truth, that we may fill our hearts to overflowing with your wisdom. Give us strength to carry your banner in word and in deed, that we be joyful disciples of the gospel.
Bear us up on the wings of your mercy, especially those whose needs we bring before You.
Holy One, fill us with your peace, and center us with your love throughout the day. Accept our penitence for the times we have faltered, O God, and refresh our hearts to hold fast to faith. Awaken our spirits to the glory of your truth, and let them overflow with your love. Give us minds hungry for your wisdom, and discernment to follow your ways. Let us seek to make ourselves holy and pleasing unto You, that we may serve You in a spirit of joy and faithfulness. Precious Lord, place within your keeping all who seek You, and send your Spirit of healing over those who call upon You. Hold those we now name within the palm of your hand.
The Hubster gazes across the valley at Yosemite National Park. We need to get to Yellowstone.
On this day in 1872, President Ulysses Grant signed the law establishing Yellowstone National Park in what is now Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. With this action, for the first time, the United States government set apart a large wild space, and declared it sacred. We declared that this beautiful place would not be seen as merely something to be used—that we wouldn't look at the forests and geysers, and start calculating how much value we could extract for them on the open market, but would instead declare the value of these things merely in their beauty and existence. In setting aside Yellowstone, we listened to "a voice crying out from the wilderness"—and acted, placing it upon an altar of preservation, and we later followed that with other great wonders, such as Yosemite, the Painted Desert, Biscayne, and Acadia. We responded to the truth that some places had enough value solely in feeding the spirit. This was a somewhat surprisingly foresighted act by a nation which was at the same time setting out on its rapid and sometimes heedless race toward industrialization, a race that threatened other natural wonders such as this. Yellowstone and her sisters are sanctuaries made by God— and on March 1, 1872, we declared that we recognized that they needed to be preserved and set apart by humanity as a deliberate act of will and honor.
In the etymology of the word, "sacr" means "holy, set apart," and "ify" means "to do or make." Thus, at its basic, building-block level, a sacrifice is something that makes us holy. It is also something that is set apart from the common world, and held up as different in a special way. That is the meaning of the word when we talk of the Eucharist as "a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving." What if we looked at the season of Lent less as a time to give up things (of which we are usually only mildly fond anyway), and more as a time in which we are called to set ourselves and our view of time apart? What if we looked upon Lent not as a time of denial or appeasement, but instead as a joyful time to try to make ourselves holy and to seek to please God?
In looking at Lent in this way, we also have to acknowledge that we are not always perfect in our attempt to set ourselves apart—far from it! We were not always perfect in our attempts to preserve beautiful places. Many other beautiful places disappeared before the approaching wave of industry and modernization. The Arkansas River, which is wild and exultant in its power near the place of its birth in Colorado, has been dammed and channeled so many times by the time it reaches my hometown of Tulsa that it is, in most spots, a sand-choked, muddy trickle in all but the wettest season. Even within Yosemite in California, we at times faltered in our resolve to preserve its wild, sacred beauty: the legendarily lovely Hetch Hetchy Valley was flooded to create a reservoir to slake the thirst of rapidly expanding cities far to its west. Yet, with Yellowstone, we began, for the first time in world history, a counter-cultural drive to stop our heedless rush to remake creation in our image, and instead, we sought to both preserve and provide access to a wild and beautiful place. In so doing, we were, in a way, perhaps hoping that this preservation and protection of Yellowstone's rivers, geysers, and varied terrain would make US holy. That's what a true sacrifice is: something that makes us holy. Something that sets us apart, and deliberately places us upon a different path.
One of the objectives of observing Lent is to look again at how we promise to set ourselves apart in the baptismal covenant that we rededicate ourselves to periodically, and to examine how we can improve our adherence to those promises. As we begin Lent, some of us may have recited The Great Litany. Others of us may have prayed the Litany of Repentance in the Ash Wednesday liturgy itself. Both of these beautiful prayers serve to remind us both of the pitfalls and sins we need to avoid, but also of the ways in which we are dependent upon God. They also remind us that, as Christians, we have promised to set ourselves aside, to set our very selves apart, in order to be a holy people, a priestly people, sacrificed and sanctified and made holy by God and by our commitment to God.
Lent can perform the same function in a different way—it is not a place, it is a period of time. It is a period of time—40 short days, some of the shortest of the year, usually—in which we remember the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, himself being tempted, as we read in last Saturday's gospel reading from Mark 1:9-15. It is a time when we ourselves may recognize that we need a time in the wilderness—a time to strip away all the layers of daily concerns that often serve to separate us or distract us from the call we receive as Christians to reorient our lives in a Godward direction. On this day in 1872, we recognized that we all need time in the wilderness, to set ourselves apart. May Lent be such a time, a time not just of giving up some things, but more importantly a time to hallow and consecrate ourselves anew to God.
Holy One, we worship You with all our hearts, rejoicing in your care of us throughout the night. Protect and preserve your children as they seek shelter from the cold and snow. Place the protection of your love over those who travel, and keep them safe. Remind us that You are always in our hearts wherever we are. Watch and keep all those who are in pain or anxiety, and give your angels charge over them. Merciful God, bless and keep those we now name.


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From Toulouse to New Zealand: Thoughts on the New Zealand Terror Attack
by Seth Frantzman
https://www.meforum.org/58011/from-toulouse-to-new-zealand-thoughts-on-the-new
From the moment that the news of the New Zealand terror attack emerged, it has been denounced and confronted, in keeping with the tragic learning experience the world has had through dealing with similar attacks. This is a multi-layered approach that blends the desires of law enforcement and the challenges facing social media giants.
But that is all after the fact. A day after the attack 49 people were dead and 39 still in hospital.
This is an unprecedented mass murder/terror attack in New Zealand and one of the worst of its kind in a Western country. It is also one of the worst of its kind against a mosque, and appears to be the worst of its kind against a mosque in a non-Muslim country.
The Associated Press made a list of similar attacks on places of worship. The worst on the long list include the 2010 bombing of a Catholic church in Baghdad, killing 58; the 2015 bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in Pakistan that killed 71; an ISIS attack on a mosque in Yemen the same year that killed 137; and an ISIS attack on a mosque in Sinai in 2017 that murdered 311. Numerous attacks on mosques in Nigeria have killed hundreds.
The terrorist in New Zealand joins a growing list of right-wing extremists who have targeted Muslims. Brenton Tarrant, the man charged with the attack in New Zealand, had decorated his rifles with names of other far-right extremists and those that it appears he considers heroes of history who fought Muslims.
For instance, a TRT investigation shows that he included the name of Alexandre Bissonnette on his rifle. In 2017, Bissonnette murdered six people at a mosque in Canada. He also added Anton Lundlin Pettersson – a student who murdered two migrant children in Sweden – onto the stock of the gun. According to Italy's The Local, he also added the name Luca Traini onto one of his clips of ammunition. In 2018, Traini injured six people in a racially motivated attack on black people in Macerata.
The alleged terrorist in New Zealand also created a 74-page "manifesto" which he posted before his murder spree. According to those who have seen it, one of the names mentioned frequently is Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who murdered 77.
There appear to be some similarities. Breivik and the New Zealand killer dressed in military-style outfits and had a variety of weapons, despite living in countries known for their relative lack of gun violence. Both created a manifesto based on a far-right anti-immigrant world view that blended sources from around the world. Both expected that they would become martyrs or examples in some kind of global revolution.
Both sought to surrender to police at the end of their attacks, not willing to shoot it out with authorities.
Both also seem to have planned multiple incidents. Breivik bombed Oslo to distract from his attack on the Utoya summer camp. The New Zealand perpetrator attacked two mosques while uploading footage of the attack, and had a car full of gasoline which indicates he had other plans.
How should we weigh this attack and what can we learn from it? Authorities in New Zealand indicate that the perpetrator had five guns, including two semi-automatic rifles. He was stopped by police 36 minutes after the first emergency call was made. That is not extremely fast, but it's faster than many other terror attacks have been stopped.
In 2016, it took three hours to stop the mass murder in Orlando, Florida, by an ISIS-inspired terrorist, where 49 people were killed. In 2015, it took four hours to find and take down the San Bernardino, California, terrorists, who killed 16 people. Also that year, it took two days to stop the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attack in France. The perpetrator of the Toulouse and Montauban shootings evaded police for a week, during which he attacked a Jewish school, filming the murders, on March 19, 2012.
Despite criticism of social media for spreading the initial video that the New Zealand terrorist live-streamed, the reality is that authorities and social media worked hard to stop the shooter and also to contain the spread of links to the video. In fact, they may have gone too far in attempting to scrub the Internet of the perpetrator's presence, making it more difficult to understand how he was radicalized.
This has become a typical response to terror in recent years, especially when confronting the far Right. Robert Bowers, the perpetrator of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in October, was active on the social network Gab, which came under criticism for hosting hate after the attack.
Social media companies have been quick to take down accounts of perpetrators, such as Nasim Aghdam, who attacked YouTube's California headquarters last year. Also in 2018, Facebook and Twitter suspended accounts linked to Cesar Sayoc, who was accused of mail bombs.
But it's not entirely clear what motivates the decision to remove these accounts. Is it really to prevent the perpetrator's ideas from spreading? In many cases the perpetrator is dead or in prison – so is the concern that their account will be visited by like-minded copycats? Or is the real motive to hide the role that social media giants play in radicalizing these extremists and also to quickly remove the network of "followers" these people have, which gives them anonymity to move on to follow other extremists?
The latter is an important question, and the public is largely being excluded from a say in demanding more transparency and information about these attacks. The group-think after the New Zealand attack was to not share any video or details associated with the attacker – certainly not his "manifesto" or the footage of the murder, and also not even to say his name.
But is this really a good way to confront the hate that fueled him? If you just stopped mentioning the KKK or Hitler, would that mean that there was no KKK or Hitler? Don't we usually want to learn from the crimes of the past to prevent their re-occurrence?
There must be a middle way between using the tools available to confront hate online while not making heroes or martyrs of the perpetrators. For instance, according to a 2018 report in Fortune, Twitter has suspended 1.2 million terrorist-supporting accounts since 2015. Between July and December 2017, it removed 275,000 accounts. We don't know what percent of these are Islamist or ISIS-supporting accounts, but it's clear that after 2014, social-media giants have worked to reduce the ISIS presence online.
This is after they did very little to prevent ISIS recruitment in 2014, and likely helped fuel the rise of the genocidal extremists. I recall seeing ISIS videos of mass murder of Yazidis readily available online in 2014. Today under new guidelines, those theoretically shouldn't be there. "Please know we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage," YouTube wrote on March 15 in the wake of the attack.
Major legacy media have also tended to shield us from terrorist-produced content. This is a major change from the 1990s and 2000s. Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber" – who killed three and injured 23 – mailed his manifesto "Industrial Society and its Future" to publications in 1995. Oddly, the FBI accepted that it should be published under the theory it might help find the suspect. The manifesto was published by The New York Times and The Washington Post that year. Today, the notion is that such manifestos should be hidden away; even links to the one the New Zealand murderer wrote are immediately taken down by social-media giants.
It wasn't so long ago that major television channels had a different view about terrorist videos showing corpses, beheadings and all the other propaganda and horrors they wanted to show the world. For instance, as recently as 2014, Variety reported on the debate in newsrooms about showing terrorist videos.
"It's clear that these videos are having a big impact on different countries, on government policy [and] on overseas policy, and it's not for CNN to say therefore [that] viewers shouldn't see them," Tony Maddox told Variety that year. So ISIS videos ended up on CBS, and CNN aired audio recordings of the terrorist group. Videos from executions, but not showing the beheadings themselves, were aired on numerous channels.
Fast-forward to 2019 and the theory is that seeing any footage, seeing any social media account – seeing anything – will lead to more attacks. But it's not necessarily clear that is the case. Showing images of the crimes of the KKK, like the horrid photos from 1916 of the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, has not inspired more KKK violence.
In fact, there is evidence that the transmission of these horrid images helped turn the tide of public opinion against the KKK. From a time 100 years ago when up to 10,000 would gather to cheer a lynching in the US, we have now stopped those kinds of crimes.
It's not clear if far-right extremist terrorism, like in New Zealand, or far-right ISIS terror – like we saw in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere – is reduced or fueled by seeing images of the crime.
It appears that sometimes, governments want to hide the images for fear that they might "inflame" the public. But then what lessons are learned from these attacks? The man who attacked the Jewish school in France in 2012 filmed the incident. The general belief is that any viewing of those images is wrong.
But then why do we view images of the aftermath of the Holocaust – to teach how terrible the Holocaust was? For instance, the harrowing photo of a German soldier murdering a Ukrainian Jew in Vinnytsia is widely available online. The Atlantic has a whole web page devoted to them called "World War II: The Holocaust," published in 2011. Are the lives of Jews who lived in 1941 less than the lives of Jews murdered out of a similar hate in 2012 or 2018? Why are we afraid to see images from a recent era of the same kind of hate? Why do we think the images alone will spread more extremism, or do more damage?
There is no evidence that images or manifestos of the Nazis or the KKK have led to more Nazis and KKK. In fact, it appears that widespread dissemination of the images of their crimes – correctly and responsibly assembled alongside the way in which these groups gained power – teaches us how to confront them.
In the recent era we've decided to take the opposite approach with far-right Islamist extremism and far-right racist extremism, which link the rise of ISIS with the rise of those like Breivik and the New Zealand killer. There is no evidence that simply hiding away the reality of these crimes and what fuels the murderers has reduced the hatred.
Do we go into the networks on social media where these extremists thrive and confront them, or do we just shut down their accounts from time to time after they kill people? It seems that our globalized society has taken a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach, which is basically "out of sight, out of mind." As long as we don't see extremism, hatred and such "violent content," then it will go away.
In the Middle East, where ISIS videos were shared widely, a catharsis and rejection of ISIS crimes was reached. Many societies have come to understand that far-right Islamist extremism is a major danger. The West, where far-right racist extremism has grown in recent years, has not really found a way to confront the Breiviks, Tarrants or Bowers. In fact many people in the US, if asked to name the Pittsburgh synagogue killer, could not name him.
No one will do a survey to check that, but it's clear. Just months after the worst mass murder of US Jews ever, most people have already forgotten the perpetrator, as if that means we learned the lesson.
But what about the hundreds or thousands who were friends with the perpetrator online? Were they confronted? Or was the network quietly shut down so they can migrate to a new platform? What about those who followed Tarrant? He wrote online before his attack that he was off to "carry out an attack against the invaders" and that "if I don't survive the attack, goodbye." The public wants to know: How many people saw and shared this, how many were in the network? But if we just delete the post and who "followed" it, can we ever know?
We trust the authorities to properly investigate, but the larger problem is that confronting hatred, especially online, requires an informed public. It is the public that must report hatred online. Yesterday after the attack, Iran's Javad Zarif posted that Islamophobia was to blame. One response to him by someone named Abdulkadir noted that, "you have destroyed 13,000 mosques in Syria. This is [sic] makes mosques a day. You are worse than the Jews." I reported this as hatred, against Jews. Twitter hasn't taken it down. But, of course, if one of those spewing such hatred will go on to commit a crime, then when it is too late, social media will run to remove that comment. As if it had never been made.
After all, perhaps hundreds of people reported the New Zealand shooter for hatred on social media, and perhaps social media giants did nothing. Our governments will likely never investigate that, nor will we ever know, since his account has disappeared and all records of such reports may not be revealed. So the hate continues. And no lessons have been learned.
Seth Frantzman is The Jerusalem Post's op-ed editor, a Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a founder of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis.
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Bal Harbour is moving forward with plans to implement a trash fee.
Council members gave the go-ahead to the village attorney to draft a resolution outlining the garbage fee.
The council would have to vote on the resolution and approve the amount of the fee for it to take affect.
So far, officials have not said how much residents would have to pay to have their trash picked up, but the village manager has said the fee is needed to bring down a projected budget shortfall for the 2010-11 fiscal year.
Not everyone agreed with the fee, however.
If passed, the resolution would allow the village to include the fee on residents' property tax bills.
Village Manager Alfred Treppeda said a fee is necessary to cut down a projected $2 million revenue shortfall for the 2010-11 fiscal year. A garbage fee would reduce that amount to $1.2 million.
Currently, the village counts on its own solid waste department employees to pick up trash, which was budgeted for $800,000 this fiscal year. Bal Harbour has four employees in the solid waste department along with two garbage trucks and a recycling truck. The village may also consider switching from rear-yard pickup to curbside.


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Milwaukee Urban League
The Milwaukee Urban League, an affiliate of the National Urban League, was established in 1919 to help a small but growing African American population in the city gain access to employment, decent housing, and community services.[1] Initially started as an information clearinghouse and community advocacy center, the League later helped build institutions to serve the African American community, such as a Community Drug Store.[2] It also worked to foster greater unity in the community by developing social clubs and youth recreation programs, such as a boxing program taught by professional boxer Baby Joe Gans, during a period of de facto racial segregation in the city.[3]
From the Great Depression through the 1940s, the MUL's employment placement programs weakened as support from local business leaders waned. The organization survived largely on funding it received to support its social and recreational programs. In the 1960s and 1970s, other CIVIL RIGHTS organizations and leaders emerged in Milwaukee to fight housing discrimination and school segregation through picketing, protests, and boycotts. Under its fourth executive director, Wesley Scott (1959 to 1981), the Milwaukee Urban League broadly supported these organizations and their aims, although not their tactics.[4] The League worked with mixed success behind the scenes with civic leaders to foster change.
The League remains a key organization in Milwaukee's civil rights community as it approaches its centennial year. Under the leadership of Eve Hall, it continues its work on pressing urban issues. The organization currently focuses its efforts on promoting employment, education, and training opportunities for African American youth and young adults.[5]
Michael Grover
^ Michael Ross Grover, "'All Things to Black Folks': A History of the Milwaukee Urban League, 1919-1980" (MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1994), pp. iii-iv.
^ Grover, "'All Things to Black Folks,'" 43; Joe William Trotter, Jr., Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat 1915-1945, 2nd edition (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007; originally published 1985), 98-99.
^ Pete Ehrmann, "'The Longest Fight' Tells Masterful Tale of Boxer Joe Gans," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 26, 2012, last accessed September 18, 2017.
^ "History of the MUL," The Milwaukee Urban League website, last accessed June 5, 2017; Grover, "'All Things to Black Folks,'" 2.
^ "History of the MUL," The Milwaukee Urban League website, last accessed June 7, 2017.
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Moore, Jesse T. A Search for Equality: The National Urban League, 1910-1961. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.
Trotter, Joe William, Jr. Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45. 2nd edition. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007.


The Ritz hotel stands out alone for its grand French architecture, with Renaissance influences, against Piccadilly's classically British look. The Grade II listed building has been the site of society gatherings and royal occasions since 1906. Opened by famed Swiss hotelier César Ritz, who left his role as manager of The Savoy to focus on his own group of hotels, it was intended to be the most luxurious, lavish, and excessive hotel London had seen.
Just as stunning on the inside as on the outside, it is decorated in Louis XVI style. Architectural historian and author Marcus Binney once described it as "one of the all-time masterpieces of hotel architecture". Everything has been carefully crafted to show off, not just the hotel, but also the guests within it. The sweeping staircase in the lobby allows women to make an entrance that best displays their gowns, while the Palm Court's apricot walls were chosen to flatter ladies' skin tones. Many songs have been written about the magical atmosphere to be found here, including Irving Berlin's Puttin' On The Ritz and Noel Coward's Children Of The Ritz.
Famous names, old and new, have flocked to stay there, from Jackie Onassis to Charlie Chaplin, to Roger Moore and Al Paccino. The Palm Court, where it has served its popular afternoon tea since its opening, has become a hub of beautiful people through the ages, Today the hotel still thrives, offering plenty to keep the elite coming back, including the Michelin Star-awarded Ritz Restaurant and The Rivoli Bar that serves Art Deco-era cocktails in a complementary setting, designed to feel as though you're inside a jewellery box. The Ritz Salon will leave you feeling pampered and ready for a night at The Ritz Club and casino, open to members only, or one of the neighbourhood's many exclusive bars and restaurants.
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The lager scene is interminably growing. We at Drink Informer think of it as a respect and benefit to know diverse lagers from bottling works worldwide in our endeavors to remain on the tremendous scope of developing distilleries, built up powerhouses, and faction labels. Today, after a drawn out time of post-preclusion union, there are more American breweries than any other time in recent memory, most concentrating on bounce substantial IPAs. Here are some of the best bottled beers.
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Situated in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Dogfish Head is another bottling works known for going out on a limb with lager. In any case, they're certainly paying the bills with their astonishing center brews. Nearly everybody has known about the hour long IPA and the hour and a half takes that blend to another level. The citrus of the bounces joins with a very much mixed raisin enhance.
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Another California bottling works, The Bruery is known for their diverse yet available lagers. The brewers make a wide assortment of extremely incredible lagers and positively any of them are justified regardless of a taste. Yet, the best by far is their late spring regular, Tradewinds Tripel. The style of lager began in Belgium and commonly alludes to a solid pale brew, frequently made with candi sugar.
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From a Tampa, Florida bottling works that has become famous with extraordinary and test lagers (like their Humidor arrangement, which frequently utilizes white cedar to implant a stogie like character into each mix), comes this strong and adjusted dark colored brew.
It's relatively similar to the folks at Troegs Brewing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania built this blend instead of fermenting it. Seven styles of bounces are included in the IPA through the preparing procedure, the jump back process (which runs the blended brew through crisp jumps) and the dry bouncing procedure (the expansion of significantly more new jumps to the aging lager).
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This is a bottling works that has the specialty of the pale lager down and their Torpedo truly takes that art to another level. It's additionally a touch of a test blend for the Chico, California bottling works too. The bottling works put their "Jump Torpedo" to work, a gadget that dry bounces, including only the correct fragrance and severity. Along these lines, you don't wind up with an excessively unpleasant lager.
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Microsoft Is No Longer Too Big to Fail
Microsoft was once integral to the tech industry. How times have changed.
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Jun 10, 2010 10:21 AM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- About 10 years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) - Get Microsoft Corporation Report was integral to the technology industry. If it failed, the industry failed.
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Microsoft's decline isn't limited to market cap. For the first time in its history, Microsoft was forced to layoff employees -- nearly 5,000 during the recession. And as the company's stock price declined by about 20 percent between 2000 and 2010, Apple's shares enjoyed 1,000 percent growth over the same period.
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But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't seem too concerned. "It's a long game, we have good competitors...we too are a very good competitor," Ballmer said on a recent trip to Asia, according to
. "We are executing very well and that is going to lead to great products and great success."
But whether or not Microsoft can revive its aging strategy is up for debate. At the AllThingsD D8 Conference, Ballmer seemed unimpressed by two very important trends in the technology industry: the growth of tablet computers and the transition of software and company operations to the Internet.
Questioning the iPad
Ballmer's first target was Apple's iPad. The device, which has sold over 2 million units since it launched on April 3, is carving out a new sector of the industry and causing a decline in netbook sales -- a key battleground for Microsoft.
Ballmer said that Microsoft will try to compete against the iPad, but for most consumers, sticking with a "general-purpose device" like a desktop or notebook will be the way to go. "You're going to have a range of devices over time that are light and don't have a keyboard and will run Windows," Ballmer said. "The bulk of the market is going to stay with general-purpose devices."
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Despite the launch of Microsoft's nascent Azure cloud platform (which is mostly aimed at developers), Ballmer doesn't seem sold on the absolute viability of the cloud just yet. He said at the D8 conference that the desktop will reign supreme for the foreseeable future. He contends that based on what customers want today, they will "require some device with a reasonable amount of storage and graphics ability." And while he acknowledged that cloud computing is coming, he's not yet sure if it will be as groundbreaking as Google and many others say.
"There is nothing bad for us in the trend
to the cloud," Ballmer said at D8. "But it's a transition, and as such, it's a period of tumult. So we need to be smarter and more vigilant."
Microsoft has put itself in an unenviable position. The company has gone from outright dominance over the technology industry to dominance in only the operating-system and office-productivity markets. Luckily, its missteps can be overcome, thanks to the profitability it derives from Windows and Office. But as the market continues to shift away from the software giant's core strengths, it will need to adapt.
After all, if it fails, no one will be there to catch it.
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Bill Polian, Ron Wolf deserve HOF honor for impact on NFL
By Elliot Harrison
Published: Oct. 22, 2014 at 08:36 p.m.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2014 at 09:17 p.m.
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Did you think the Raiders' teams that won Super Bowls XI, XV, and XVIII were pretty memorable?
Too old of a reference for you?
OK, how about this one: Could Brett Favre play?
Not to be cute, but there is one guy who made sure -- oftentimes behind the scenes -- that two of the NFL's signature franchises had the pieces in place to win a Super Bowl ... or Bowls.
Ron Wolf is that man, and he, along with heralded front-office guru Bill Polian, were chosen Wednesday as finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's contributor category.
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Wolf helped scout and draft the key components of the 1970s and '80s Raiders, including Hall of Famers Art Shell and Gene Upshaw, and Hall of Very Gooders, such as Cliff Branch, during his original tenure with the club from 1963 to '75. He was a key cog in helping the oft-stubborn Al Davis obtain the precise players he wanted to fit the Raiders' system and culture. Oakland players of the mid-'70s to early '80s had to be mentally tough, like an actor who cares little if he gets vilified for his last movie being a dud, given the Raiders were often the most hated team in the league. After rejoining the organization in 1978, Wolf played a large part in drafting Hall of Famers Howie Long and Marcus Allen, who were integral elements of the franchise's last Super Bowl-winning team.
Like many legendary performers, Wolf had a brilliant second act. As the Green Bay Packers general manager from 1991 to '01, he hired Mike Holmgren to coach the team, traded for Favre and signed the biggest free agent in pro football history in Reggie White. In the span of a little more than a calendar year, Wolf essentially secured the building blocks of the Packers' successful run in the '90s -- an era that included two Super Bowl appearances and six consecutive playoff berths.
It seems now like every calendar year was successful for Polian, the second nominee for the newborn contributor category. The former executive lifted two organizations (Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts) from the depths of losing to becoming perennial winners, while making another franchise instantly competitive (Carolina Panthers).
When Polian was hired as Buffalo's GM, he joined a team that was unquestionably the league's doormat. The Bills went a combined 4-28 over the '84 and '85 seasons. Enter Polian, whose first draft pick, Bruce Smith, became the NFL's all-time sack leader. Despite Buffalo being his first gig as an NFL GM, Polian created the nucleus of the first team in league history to go to four straight Super Bowls. Amazingly, he was fired after the team's third appearance.
Similar to his fellow nominee, Polian was able to replicate his success, albeit in a different manner. In 1994 he took the GM job for the expansion Panthers. Wanting to avoid the path of many other new franchises -- that is, suffering through multiple losing seasons -- Polian amassed veteran talent that was capable of being competitive now. In only their second season, the Panthers made it all the way to the NFC Championship Game, ending the Dallas Cowboys' dynasty of the '90s along the way.
You don't garner the respect Wolf and Polian have earned, and thus an honor like being considered for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, without taking risks. Wolf traded a first-round draft pick to the Atlanta Falcons in 1992 for a 22-year-old third-string QB, who had a ton of arm strength and potential, but was barely a blip on the NFL radar. And back then, a first-round draft pick was as valued as it is now. What if Favre had been Trent Richardson 1.0?
Polian made quite a leap himself, starting with his first major decision as the Colts' front-office leader, when he pulled the trigger on taking Peyton Manning over the (allegedly) more physically gifted Ryan Leaf. This wasn't a slam-dunk decision at the time, as many talent evaluators and media personalities alike anticipated Indianapolis selecting Leaf. Of course, Polian's choice ultimately resulted in 11 postseason berths over the next 13 years, including a Lombardi Trophy. It should not be discounted that the "small ball" 4-3 defense he put together with Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis had quite the impact as well.
And that's really what we are talking about here with both Wolf and Polian. They made an impact. Heck, it's why the Hall of Fame created the contributor category, so men like these didn't repeatedly get left at the doorstep only to be bypassed by one former player after the other. They contributed equally to the entire scope of pro football and deserve to be recognized for it.
By being named nominees for Canton, Wolf and Polian have ensured that people who positively affect the game from off the field, receive the same recognition as the players who perform on it. And that's certainly a good thing.
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April 16, 2009 - A federal judge denied the Tennessee Valley Authority's appeal for more time to install pollution controls on coal-fired power plants in Alabama and Tennessee.
May 25, 2007 - We reported earlier this week that TVA's Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power reactor was restarted after being down more than twenty years.
New TVA board confirmations coming soon. Maybe?
February 9, 2006 - The six new nominees appointed by President Bush for the expanded TVA board appeared before the Senate Public Works Committee yesterday. Their confirmations were expected to sail through the Senate with Bill Frist's steady hand at the helm.
October 4, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal As part of the great Rural Electrification of the 1930s under FDR, the Tennessee Valley Authority was founded to control flooding, generate power, and improve the lives and welfare of the people in the valley.