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Pope calls catechists to be joyful, creative witnesses of Christ
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Vatican City, Jul 12, 2017 / 02:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a message sent to catechists from all over the world, Pope Francis stressed the need to not only make Christ the center of their lives, but to be creative and adaptable in finding ways to reach the people in their area.
"The catechist is creative; they search for different means and forms of announcing Christ," the Pope said in his July 12 message.
Believing in Jesus is "beautiful," he said, because Jesus is the way, truth and life "who fills our existence with joy and gladness."
"This quest to make Jesus known as supreme beauty leads us to find new signs and ways of transmitting the faith," he said, noting that while the means might be different, what's important is to imitate "the style of Jesus, who adapted to the people he had before him in order to make them close to the love of God."
To change and adapt oneself in order to make the message closer to the people is necessary, he said, but stressed that at the same time, the message being transmitted is "always the same, because God doesn't change, but renews all things in him."
Pope Francis said that in the quest of making Jesus known to the world, "we must not be afraid because he precedes us in this task. He is already in the man of today, and there awaits us."
The Pope sent his message to participants in the First International Symposium on Catechesis, which is taking place July 11-14 in Buenos Aires.
The event is being offered through the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), and is organized by the Episcopal Commission for Catechesis and Biblical Pastoral Care.
Pope Francis opened his message, sent in Spanish, by referencing a quote from his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.
He noted that at a certain point, when one of St. Francis' followers asked to be taught how to preach, the saint responded by saying: "Brother, when we visit the sick, help children and give to the poor, we are already preaching."
"In this beautiful lesson is enclosed the vocation and task of the catechist," he said, explaining that catechesis is not simply a job or a task external to the person of the catechist.
Rather, "their whole life revolves around this mission," he said, noting that to be a catechist is "a vocation of service in the Church, which is received as a gift on the part of the Lord and must in turn be transmitted."
To do this, one must return to the first encounter with Christ that changed their life. This moment, Francis said, is "the fundamental announcement that must resonate again and again in the life of the Christian, and even more in the one who is called to announce and teach the faith."
The Pope then pointed to the importance of respecting popular piety in the people, saying it's important to "care for the potential of piety and love that popular religiosity holds so that they transmit not only the contents off the faith, but a true school of faith is created which cultivates the gift of the faith that has been received."
A catechist is also someone who journeys both from and with Christ, he said. "They are not a person who starts from their own ideas and preferences, but who allows themselves to look to him, to this gaze that makes their heart burn."
The more that Jesus is the center of our lives, the more he teaches us to go out of ourselves, Francis said, adding that we are then "decentralized" and able to be close to others.
"This dynamism of love is like the movement of the heart," and Jesus himself gives us an example of how to live this when he retreats to pray, and then "immediately goes to the encounter of those who are hungry and thirsty for God in order to heal and save them."
"From here arises the importance of the 'mystagogical' catechesis, which is the constant encounter with the Word and with the sacraments, and not something merely occasional prior to the celebration of the sacraments of Christian initiation," he said.
Pope Francis closes his speech by thanking catechists for their work, "above all because you walk with the People of God," and encouraged them "to be joyful messengers, guardians of the good and the beauty that shines forth in the faithful life of the missionary disciple."
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January 29, 2018 CNA Daily News 0
Vatican City, Jan 29, 2018 / 11:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a speech to the Roman Rota Monday, Pope Francis said there is a need to develop better means of forming the consciences of the faithful in the Church, especially those preparing for marriage and family life.
"How precious and urgent is the pastoral activity of the entire Church for the recovery, safeguarding and protection of Christian conscience, illuminated by Gospel values!" the Pope said Jan. 29.
This "long and difficult task" requires bishops and priests to work untiringly "to enlighten, defend and sustain the Christian conscience of our people," the Pope said.
The Pope explained that conscience "assumes a decisive role" in choices that couples must make to "welcome and build their conjugal union and family according to God's design."
Pope Francis spoke during his annual audience with members of the Roman Rota, at the inauguration of the court's judicial year. The Roman Rota is one of the three courts of the Holy See, the other two being the Apostolic Penitentiary and the Apostolic Signatura.
The Rota is the Vatican's court of higher instance, usually at the appellate stage, charged by its governing document, Pastor bonus, with "safeguarding rights within the Church; it fosters unity of jurisprudence, and, by virtue of its own decisions, provides assistance to lower tribunals."
Among the Rota's primary responsibilities is to consider appeals in marriage nullity, or annulment, cases. The nullity process was streamlined by Pope Francis in December 2015, strengthening the role of local bishops and cutting the requirement that initial affirmative judgments be reviewed by a higher court.
In his speech, the Pope said the activity of the Rota is expressed "as a ministry of the 'peace of consciousness' and requires being exercised with the 'whole conscience.'"
The Pope told Rotal auditors, or judges, that "you place yourselves, in a certain sense, as experts on the conscience of Christian faithful," he said, adding that judges are constantly required to ask for divine help in order to "carry out with humility and measure the serious task entrusted to you by the Church."
He said conscience was an important theme during the 2014-2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family and the 2015 post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
The synods, he said, placed a strong emphasis on the relationship between the "'regula fidei,' (rule of faith), which is the fidelity of the Church to the untouchable teaching on marriage" and the Eucharist, as well as the "urgent attention of the Church itself to the psychological and religious processes of all people called to the choice of marriage and family."
The synods and Amoris Laetitia also emphasized the "urgent need" for pastors of the Church to listen to the "requests and expectations of those faithful who have rendered their own consciences mute and absent for many years," but who through grace have come back to the Church to "have peace in their conscience," he said.
Francis then referred to the suggestions he gave in Amoris Laetitia for marriage preparation, which include a longer process, with the involvement of more couples.
Careful preparation and "a continuous experience of faith, hope and charity is needed now more than ever so that young people may decide, with a secure and serene conscience, that conjugal union open to the gift of children is a great joy for God, for the Church and for humanity," he said.
While this task is primarily the concern of pastors, Francis stressed that the care of consciences "cannot be the exclusive commitment of pastors." Rather, "with responsibility and in different ways, it is the mission of all, ministers and baptized faithful."
Marriage and family, he said, "are the future of the Church and of society." Because of this, he said it's necessary to have a "permanent catechumenate" so that the consciences of those who have been baptized are constantly open to the Holy Spirit.
"The sacramental intention is never the fruit of an automatism, but always of a conscience illuminated by faith, as the result of a combination between human and divine," he said, explaining that in this sense, "the spousal union can be said to be true only if the human intention of the spouses is oriented to what Christ and the Church want."
In order to help future spouses, the Church needs the contribution of bishops and priests, and also of other people involved in pastoral care, such as religious and lay faithful "who are jointly responsible in the mission of the Church."
Pope Francis closed his speech cautioning members of the Rota not to allow their work in the exercise of justice to be reduced "to a mere bureaucratic task."
"If the ecclesial tribunals were to fall into this temptation, it would betray Christian conscience," he said.
"We must prevent the conscience of the faithful in difficulty as regards their marriage from closing to the path of grace," he said, adding that this can be accomplished through pastoral accompaniment, the discernment of conscience and the work of the Church's tribunals.
"This work must be carried out in wisdom and in the search for the truth," he said. "Only in this way can the declaration of nullity produce a liberation of consciences."
Pope Francis appoints Maltese bishop pro-secretary general of Synod of Bishops
October 2, 2019 CNA Daily News 2
Vatican City, Oct 2, 2019 / 04:40 am (CNA).- The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has nominated Maltese Bishop Mario Grech pro-secretary general of the Synod of Bishops to work alongside secretary general Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri.
In a declaration to journalists Oct. 2, Balidisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops since 2013, said the pro-secretary general will "walk alongside" him in his role and participate in this month's Amazon synod as a member.
Baldisseri said Grech will then assume the full position of secretary general at the time his own mandate "expires," though there was no indication of when that will be.
Baldisseri, who turned 79 last month, has been secretary general of the Synod of Bishops since September 2013. In that role, he has led the two synods on the family in 2014 and 2015, and the youth synod held in October 2018.
Grech, 62, was bishop of the Maltese diocese of Gozo since January 2005. He will remain apostolic administrator of the diocese until Pope Francis appoints a new bishop.
Born in Qala, Malta, Grech was ordained a priest in 1984 at the age of 27, for the Diocese of Gozo.
Grech was one of two authors of the Maltese bishops' controversial pastoral guidelines on Amoris Laetitia, which stated divorced-and-remarried Catholics, in certain cases and after "honest discernment" could receive communion.
Grech was also one of two Maltese bishops to speak out against divorce and in defense of the Christian view of marriage in 2010.
Baldisseri was born in 1940 in the Italian town of Barga, and in 1963 was ordained a priest, while still only 22 years of age, for the Archdiocese of Pisa.
He holds a license in dogmatic theology, a doctorate in canon law, and is a pianist who studied at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music under the late Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci. From 1971 to 1973 he studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy to become a Vatican diplomat.
Baldisseri served in numerous nunciatures, including those to Guatemala, El Salvador, Japan, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Zimbabwe, and Haiti.
In 1992 he was consecrated a bishop and appointed apostolic nuncio to Haiti, which had just experienced a coup. He subsequently served as apostolic nuncio to Paraguay, India, Nepal, and Brazil.
In Brazil, Baldisseri achieved an agreement regulating the juridical status of the Church in the country, and which is now a model for every religion wishing to forge an agreement with the Brazilian state. In reaching the agreement, Baldisseri had to coordinate with 11 different ministries of the Brazilian administration.
After the achievement of the agreement, Benedict XVI appointed him in 2012 secretary of the Congregation for Bishops, as well as secretary of the College of Cardinals.
'Pope Francis laundry' service opens for homeless in Rome
April 10, 2017 CNA Daily News 0
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the latest Pope Francis-inspired initiative for the poor opened up in Rome – a new laundromat, with washing, drying and ironing services for those without a home or a fixed living situation.
"The Pope's Laundry," as it is being called, is organized in partnership with the Community of Sant'Egidio and will be run by volunteers who will wash, dry and iron the clothes and blankets of those who otherwise can't clean their belongings.
The initiative was born out of an invitation from Pope Francis in his apostolic letter Misericordia et misera, "to give a 'concrete' experience of the grace of the Jubilee Year of Mercy," an April 10 communique from the Vatican stated.
As Francis wrote at the end of the Year of Mercy, the announcement said, "To want to be close to Christ demands to be near to our brothers, because nothing is more pleasing to the Father than a concrete sign of mercy. By its very nature, mercy is made visible and tangible in concrete and dynamic action."
The service, located in an old hospital in Rome's Trastevere neighborhood, now called the "People of Peace Center," includes six brand-new washers and dryers, donated by Whirlpool. Irons, detergent and other products needed for the service have also been donated.
The laundromat joins services to welcome and assist the poor already in place at the location for more than 10 years.
In the next few months, they plan to also add a barber, free clothing, medical clinics, and the distribution of necessities to the Center.
The laundry service follows a string of special initiatives by Pope Francis to serve the homeless in Rome.
In 2015, Francis established showers, bathrooms and a barber shop inside the Vatican to serve the homeless population.
Later in the same year, he opened up a new homeless shelter for men, just around the corner form the Vatican in Via dei Penitenzieri, furnished by the Papal Office of Charities and donations, and run by sisters from Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.
With enough space to house 34 men, the shelter brought the Vatican's total capacity for housing the homeless up to 84.
Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has also invited homeless men and women to the Vatican, whether to see the Sistine Chapel, to dine with him, or for special events, showing his continued commitment to put into practice his charge to the Church to go out to the "peripheries."
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Lane, Jane - age 72 departed this life, peacefully at her home in Clinton, TN surrounded by her loved ones on January 9th, 2020. She was preceded in death by her parents Furden Andrew Davis and Rachel (Byrge) Davis. Brothers AY Davis & Thomas Louis Davis. Grandparents Calloway & Emily (Arthur) Byrge and Reany Davis. Father & mother-in-law Elmer Chester & Margaret 'Peggy' (Owens) Lane and sister-in-laws Lorna Lane Oether, Sandra Lane Willoughby. Brothers-in-law Charlie (Chalk) Jones, Duane York, Joe Oether, Ernest Willoughby, Phillip Littlejohn, Staley Lovell, Toddy Lane & Derek Lane. Jane was a country music singer / songwriter. She performed all over East Tennessee & had become a recording artist in 1980. She was united in holy matrimony to John Victor Lane on April 20, 1974. Jane, her husband John & son Johnny operated the Big Valley Barn in 2007. She always enjoyed helping others in need. She was a Moose Lodge member. She has left behind her two beautiful sons, John Jr. Lane and Jason V. Lane along with her daughter-in-law, Johnny's wife: Melinda Bell Lane... her pride & joy, her 3 beautiful grand daughters, Makayla Jayne Lane, Ashley Christina Lane & Hannah Renee Lane of Clinton, TN, whom she adored. Sister Alice Davis Jones. Sister-in-laws Faye (Brown) Davis, Ruth Lane Listtlejohn & Nona Lane Lovell, along with a host of too many nieces, nephews, friends & family members for space to allow. Family and friends: Jones Mortuary 01/13/2020 6pm - 8pm, her funeral service is to follow at 8:00pm Internment: Woodhaven Memorial Gardens - Claxton, TN. 01/14/2020 11am
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The City of Clayton is seeking an experienced and passionate leader to serve as Chief of Police, replacing the incumbent who is retiring. The City is proud to provide world class service levels to a community which values the contributions of the professional team. Clayton, located immediately west of the city of St. Louis, is the second downtown and a "hub" for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. This vibrant and attractive community is accessed by two MetroLink (light rail) stations and two interstate highways and benefits from its well-established and walkable retail, restaurants and entertainment. Clayton is the county seat for St. Louis County with a residential population of 17,448 and a daytime population of 46,000.
Within its 2.5 square miles, Clayton houses more than 7 million square feet of high-rise office space and more than 1 million square feet of retail. Enriching the City's quality of life is its award-winning public-school system, rated #4 in the US by Niche, while the city itself was rated as #8 by Niche in the US. A premier community, Clayton is also home to several stellar private educational institutions, including Washington University, Fontbonne University and Concordia Seminary. The City's community services are world-class and the exceptional parks programs meet citizens' year-round needs. The Center of Clayton offers state-of-the-art fitness, athletic and meeting facilities.
The City of Clayton operates under the Council/Manager form of government with 177.5 full-time City employees supported by a general fund budget of $28.2 million. Reporting directly to the City Manager, the new Chief of Police will command a CALEA accredited agency of 54 members, 49 of which are sworn officers. The Clayton Police Department (CPD) has a reputation for effectiveness and is well regarded by the community and its peer departments. The CPD's FY 2019 operating budget is $7.3 million, with an additional $247,072 for Parking Control.
The City seeks a strong and visionary leader that is team-oriented, possesses exceptional communication skills, and utilizes a style that engenders mutual trust and openness among all levels of the Department's operations, including command staff, sworn and non-sworn personnel.
The Chief of Police will be a key member of the City's leadership team possessing highly developed and polished technical, communication and presentation skills with an ability to perform well under pressure and meet deadlines. The successful candidate will have in-depth knowledge and experience in the management of municipal police departments, especially those providing a high level of community engagement and advanced crime prevention practices. The ideal candidate will be forward-thinking and visionary in the field of law enforcement with the experience and confidence to effectively address and speak to issues of diversity, social equity and racial profiling. The Chief should be attuned to developing and maintaining connection with diverse elements of the community and represent professional law enforcement through important, on-going conversations about race and equity in Clayton, the St. Louis region and the nation.
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, business, public administration, or a related discipline is required, with a graduate degree preferred. Experience working in an Accredited police department will be an advantage. Advanced training such as the FBI National Academy, Southern Police Institute or equivalent programs is preferred. Missouri Class A POST certification (or other equivalent state/federal training programs) is required. Out of state hires must obtain Missouri Class A POST certification within one year of hire. The salary range will be $117,748 - $147,184, depending upon the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. A vehicle is provided along with a highly competitive benefits program. Relocation assistance and temporary housing allowance considerations are available for the successful candidate.
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Official White House Photo(WASHINGTON) -- A group of House Republicans are calling on President Obama to re-sign the Patriot Act extension, this time with his own hand, and to vow never again to use an autopen to sign bills into law. The machine holds a pen and replicates the president's actual signature mechanically. A letter from 21 lawmakers to the president Friday reignites the debate over the constitutionality of using the device to sign legislation.
"Mr. President, it is clear that assigning a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed by Congress is a debatable issue, and could be challenged in court. That being the case, our request is that, out of an abundance of caution, you affix your signature to S. 990 by personally re-signing the enrolled bill," the letter reads. "Furthermore, we ask that you commit to ending the practice of using an autopen to sign bills passed by Congress."
Congress passed the four-year extension of the Patriot Act in May. The only problem was the president was in France, meeting with G8 leaders, and the bill's provisions were set to expire at midnight.
The White House decided that the president would the autopen, which is supposed to be used only with proper authorization from the president.
Article 1, section 7 of the United States Constitution states: "Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it..."
At the time, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro seemed to suggest this was a special circumstance. "Failure to sign this legislation posed a significant risk to U.S. national security," Shapiro said. "The President directed the use of the autopen to sign it."
In the past, the Obama administration has used an abundance of caution. The president re-took the Oath of Office on January 21, 2009 over concerns for adhering to the Constitution after a flub during his original oath at the inauguration.
The authors of the letter referenced the re-do, tell the president they "believe your signing legislation passed by the United States Congress is of equal importance."
Autopen Controversy: Should Presidents Use It to Sign Bills?
Photos.com/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- With the Patriot Act set to expire Thursday night, President Obama signed legislation extending it -- from France. How did he do that? Using an autopen, of course.
It needs to be "presented" to him, and if he approves it "he shall sign it."
"Failure to sign this legislation posed a significant risk to U.S. national security," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "The president directed the use of the autopen to sign it."
Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., wrote to the president Friday questioning whether an autopen is good enough. To reporters, Graves said the autopen move set a "dangerous precedent." What if the president is hospitalized and not fully alert, he asked. "Can a group of aggressive Cabinet members interpret a wink or a squeeze of the hand as approval of an autopen signing?"
The Senate's top Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was asked at a press conference if he thought that the use of the autopen would pass legal muster.
"I think that's a better question addressed to them," McConnell said. "They did the research and their lawyers apparently advised them that this was permissible. I haven't looked at the legality of it and therefore don't have an opinion to express on it."
In 2005, President George W. Bush was told by his Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice that he could use an autopen given "the legal understanding of the word 'sign' at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic. We find that, pursuant to this understanding, a person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another."
This, the OLC found, was supported by opinions of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice "addressing statutory signing requirements in a variety of contexts. Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7...We emphasize that we are not suggesting that the President may delegate the decision to approve and sign a bill, only that, having made this decision, he may direct a subordinate to affix the President's signature to the bill."
Former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer says President Bush's White House did solicit the opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel in 2005 about the use of the autopen to sign legislation but he never used it.
"When necessary, the actual bills were flown to him accompanied by someone from the staff secretary's office for his live signature," Fleischer recalls. "Thought was given to using the autopen on a 'minor' piece of legislation to establish a precedent in case there was ever a legal challenge. However, it was never done."
Fleischer says, "I think the Obama Administration is on solid ground, but they are taking somewhat of a risk that the autopen will be challenged in court. Using it for the first time on major legislation carries some risk." He adds that he "love(s) the irony of the Obama White House now following Bush's OLC opinions, but that's a different matter."
In 2004, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was criticized for using an autopen to sign condolence letters to the families of fallen troops.
UPDATE: The White House confirms that President Obama has signed the Patriot Act extension into law via use of autopen.
(WASHINGTON) -- Congress officially passed an extension of the Patriot Act Thursday night, just hours before key provisions of the national security law were due to lapse at midnight.
President Obama, currently on an overseas trip, is not at the White House to sign the bill, a requirement for the measure to become law.
So the White House will use an autopen -- a machine that replicates Obama's signature -- to sign the extension, according to White House spokesman Nick Shapiro.
"Failure to sign this legislation poses a significant risk to U.S. national security. As long as Congress approves the extension, the President will direct the use of the autopen to sign it," Shapiro said in a statement.
Jay Wexler, a Boston University law professor and author of The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions, says the constitutionality of using an autopen was confirmed in a thorough 2005 Office of Legal Counsel opinion.
"We examine the legal understanding of the word 'sign' at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified and during the early years of the Republic. We find that, pursuant to this understanding, a person may sign a document by directing that his signature be affixed to it by another....Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 [of the Constitution.]"
Photodisc/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate Thursday evening passed a four-year extension of expiring Patriot Act provisions, only hours before they were due to lapse at midnight.
The Senate voted 72-23 on final passage of the bill. The measure now moves on to the House, which is expected to approve the extension in the next few hours. It will then go to President Obama for his signature.
The vote came after Senate leaders reached an agreement with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. The agreement stipulated that a final vote on passage of the Patriot Act extension could occur if the Senate also voted on two amendments offered by Paul.
One of his amendments sought to clarify that the authority to obtain info under the Patriot Act did not include the authority to obtain certain gun records.
Another amendment attempted to make financial firms issue suspicious activity reports only in certain cases when initiated by an appropriate law enforcement agency.
Ultimately, both of Paul's amendments failed to advance in the Senate.
The feud between Paul and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the days leading up to this evening's final vote led to fears that the Patriot Act provisions – despite bipartisan support for them – would not be extended before the midnight deadline.
But in the end, the feud in the Senate was resolved, the Senate passed the provisions and sent them along to the House, leaving the Obama administration and 72 senators pleased. The Senate is now set to leave for its week-long Memorial Day recess.
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Thursday voted to pass three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, but the provisions could still lapse at the end of the day if Tea Party favorite Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky insists on 30 hours of debate before allowing a final vote.
On the back of resounding bipartisan support, the four-year extension survived the procedural vote by a count of 79-18.
The Patriot Act extensions continue powers for investigators in national security cases to conduct "roving" wiretaps, seek certain business records, and gather intelligence on lone terrorists who are not affiliated with a known terrorist group.
The problem is not support, however, but time. The provisions are set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Once the Senate passes them, they will still have to be approved by the House. That is why the bill's chief advocates, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, have cautioned that time is of the essence. If Congress does not reauthorize the provisions in time, then "that is not good for the world," Reid warned Wednesday evening.
What will happen next is unclear. The Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, emphasized that "nothing in this extension has ever been found to be unconstitutional," telling his colleagues that it is "absolutely imperative" that they pass the extension. But the Senate can only waive some of the 30 hours of debate if every senator agrees to do so, including Paul.
"If one person wants to be a demagogue, he can do that," Reid said Wednesday.
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Congress has until midnight Thursday to renew several provisions of the Patriot Act, the country's counterterrorism law that was passed after 9/11.
If passed, the measure would extend powers for investigators in national security cases to conduct roving wiretaps, seek certain business records, and gather intelligence on "lone wolf" suspected terrorists who are not affiliated with a known terrorist group.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says intelligence officials need to catch so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and those using throw-away phones.
"The bill is essential to what we do to protect ourselves," Reid says.
Photo Courtesy - Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate Tuesday night passed a three-month extension of the three provisions in the Patriot Act set to expire at the month's end. The vote was 86-12.
The 12 senators voting against the extension included two Republicans -- Rand Paul and Mike Lee -- and 10 Democrats -- Max Baucus, Mark Begich, Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, Frank Lautenberg, Jeff Merkley, Patty Murray, Bernie Sanders, Jon Tester, and Tom Udall.
On Monday the House had passed an extension until Dec. 8, but the Senate instead opted for a far shorter extension that only runs through May 27. Now the two chambers will have to agree on a time period before the provisions expire on Feb. 28.
Photo Courtesy - Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- It took an extra six days, but the House of Representatives passed a measure Monday evening extending three provisions in the PATRIOT Act set to expire at the end of the month.
The vote passed by a final tally of 275-144. Twenty-seven Republicans voted against the measure, while 65 Democrats supported its passage.
The measure extends powers for investigators in national security cases to conduct "roving" wiretaps, to seek certain business records and to gather intelligence on lone terrorists who are not affiliated with a known terrorist group.
The House-passed bill extends the provisions until December 8, 2011, giving Congress more time to review the impact of the legislation before considering a long-term extension. The Senate has yet to act on the measure.
Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that if the House and Senate fail to come to an agreement to extend the expiring provisions, it could prevent the intelligence needed to stop the next attack from being collected.
Photo Courtesy - Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President Obama and Republican Congressional leaders sit down to lunch Wednesday, their respective parties Tuesday night showed just how tough this new era of bipartisanship will be.
Neither party could muster the votes needed to pass an extension of the Patriot Act, the country's counterterrorism law. In a 277-148 vote, the House of Representatives fell a few votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to extend several key provisions of the law.
The provisions of the act, which has been something of a legislative hot potato since it was first passed in the wake of Sept. 11, deal with roving wiretaps, granting authorities wider access to records and property during terrorism investigations, and so-called "lone wolf" provisions, which approve surveillance of suspected terrorists not linked to a specific terrorist organization.
Republican leaders said they plan to hold another vote on the measure before the end of the month.
Both the White House and the GOP leadership supported the extension, and it's sure to be a topic of discussion when President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet Speaker Boehner, Republican leader Eric Cantor and Republican Whip McCarthy Wednesday.
Photo Courtesy - Architect of the Capitol(WASHINGTON) -- The House of Representatives fell a few votes short Tuesday night of passing HR 514 -- the Patriot Act Extension.
The vote, 277-148, failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority it needed to pass under the rules of suspensions. It fell just seven votes short of a two-thirds majority of those voting and present.
In a largely bipartisan vote, 67 House Democrats voted in favor of its passage while 26 Republicans opposed the extension.
The extension would have prevented three provisions of the somewhat controversial law from expiring at the end of the month. The provisions, nearing an expiration deal with court-approved roving wiretaps, grant the FBI access to library archives and anything else considered relevant to a terrorism investigation.
While some Republicans with Tea Party affiliation opposed the bill, its defeat at first glance does not seem to be completely attributable to them. Veteran GOP members like 20-term Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and 10-term Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., also voted against the extension.


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Call For Submissions: A New Fund And An LGBTQI+ Compilation Album
March 11, 2021 Shouts Leave a comment
Putting pineapple on a pizza is to some people very polemic. So much so that the incumbent president of Iceland once had his say in the matter. This South American fruit mixed with the Italian cuisine is also the name of a new project that is building a fund for artists and people in need.
According to the project's website it focuses on covering music and having half of its fund helping artists with their expenses such as rehearsal and recording spaces, distribution and more. The other half will then be directed to having available online therapy sessions for people in need.
The project works with a professional therapist and counselor and start with online sessions. The people behind the project told Shouts that in the future they want to expand the project and fund other projects related to mental health issues.
After seeing how male dominated the industry is the people behind PineappleOnPizza decided to create a new project that shares music and supports artists that often are at the margins.
Interested parties should email info@pineappleonpizza.net to be part of this compilation album.
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A Protest Music Interview: Pete Murphy
March 19, 2020 Halldór H Kristínarson Leave a comment
"How did you find out about my music" he asks me via Facebook messenger. I tell him it popped up when I searched for the tag 'political'. The title of Pete Murphy's latest album was enough to catch my attention and as I listened to the album I knew I had to send him some questions for a Shouts interview.
Pete is a very honest human being as you will see while reading the interview below. Honesty in this time and age is also precious and refreshing. Pete is a very efficient musician who has an impressive track record on Bandcamp and other music service pages.
His latest album focuses on a variety of issues all of which stem from his confusion about why we as humans are still having to discuss things that to him seem normal.
Halldór Bjarnason: For those not familiar with your work, who is Pete Murphy?
Pete Murphy: Pete Murphy is an independent songwriter / musician from the West Midlands in the UK, not to be confused with Peter Murphy, the famous songwriter / musician from the East Midlands in the UK (I've been asked many times if I'm the Bauhaus frontman, and even have people liking my social media pages and tagging me in posts because they think I'm 'him').
I started playing the guitar 37 years ago, and have been a professional musician for almost 25 years. I spent many years playing in bands, but these days I just stay at home and write/record my own music. I'm a 'one man band', although I occasionally have a friend come and play a part that I'm not good enough to do (like my friend Matt Malone – https://www.malonerocks.com/ , a brilliant rock n' roll artist from Birmingham England, who has done several vocal parts that are outside of my range. He's a far better singer than I, and he can reach some ridiculously high notes).
I'm an unapologetically gentle guy, who treats making music as a form of therapy.
I don't really have a style, and I don't subscribe to the concept or confinements of genre. I've made what might be considered rock concept albums, musical soap operas, experimental electronic/techno, comedy, avant pop, and lots more.
I make unpopular music that doesn't really fit in anywhere. I have a song called 'Grotesquary', which is on my 'Theatre Of The Absurd' album, and the first line is "I'm not weird enough for the weird people, I'm not normal enough for the normal people", and that pretty much sums it up.
Halldór: You have an impressive arsenal of work on your Bandcamp page, with several albums released last year and many more albums, EP's and singles before that. Where do find the time and the creative spirit to write so much music and what is your background in music?
Pete: I think I actually released seven albums last year, and a handful of EP's. Although I wrote songs for the bands I played in, I didn't start releasing solo music until 2017. I didn't think I was 'good enough'. I can't play the piano very well, I've never been a great or confident vocalist, and I'm a socially awkward guy who suffers with anxiety and various other mental health disorders. I've always felt that I had a knack for writing a decent melody, and I think I'm pretty good at arranging, but for a long time I felt that I fell short in every other area. I guess I still do, but I no longer allow it to stop me from putting my music out into the world.
In 2016, I had recorded what ended up being my debut album. It took a long time to record, the sessions were frustrating, and I ended up in a cycle of self-doubt, and on a constant and futile search for perfection. I ended up abandoning the project for a while, and I decided that my music career was pretty much over. Several months later I revisited the songs, with the intention of releasing them as a collection of demos, as it was likely to be "the last musical project I would ever work on".
Shortly after its release, a number of things coincided that made me feel that I had more to say musically.
Since early 2017 I've released a total of 25 albums, 10 EP's, and a few singles. I make albums quickly these days. Generally, an album will take between 2 and 4 weeks, from inception to completion.
Some are made more quickly. A few have been made in 11 or 12 days. Some were completed in a couple of days (mainly the solo piano albums I've done). I write very differently these days. I'll often just let my hands drop onto the piano keys or guitar neck, and whatever notes I happen to hit will form the basis of a song. Sometimes a concept will come to me in a dream. I wrote an entire album based around a dream I had. There are numerous 'dream songs' scattered throughout my work.
Mistakes are left in, there's a lot of running on pure instinct, and I leave myself very little time to reflect on what I've done. I'll often release an album within an hour of finishing it. I like my albums to be as pure and 'in the moment' as possible.
As far as finding the time… music is what I do. It's pretty much all I CAN do. I don't make much money from my solo work, but I have other projects which allow me to work from home and make music all day.
Halldór: Your latest offering kind of says it all in the title but at the same time leaves much for the imagination (or listening). Why did you make this album now and what do you hope to achieve with it? Have you made such protest pieces before?
Pete: I'm at a strange place right now, as far as hopes and achievements go. I have no following to speak of. Very few people are interested in what I do. I know I don't particularly make it easy for the listener, with the fact that I produce music that is stylistically all over the place, recorded at home, low production aesthetic, etc.
I had a somewhat naive thought for a while, that out of the billions of people on the planet there might be a few who would get what I'm doing, and support my art in a sustainable way. Say, 50 or 100 people who have no interest in commercial radio, who are into music that is experimental, music that takes risks and isn't afraid to occasionally fall flat on its face, music that is sometimes lyrically challenging, sometimes lyrically stupid or nonsensical or whimsical, music that sometimes mixes several styles in one song.
But, no. At best, I'm currently selling one or two copies of an album. People don't write about, talk about, or share my music, so I was very pleasantly surprised when you asked me to do this interview.
Having so few listeners means that I have complete freedom to create what I want, as there are no expectations, but it also feels like shouting into a void, and it puts a lot of pressure on mental health and the like.
As far as whether I've made such protest pieces before… I'm often protesting something in my songs, but I don't think I've made an entire album based around a political statement before ('I Can't Believe That We're Still Having These Conversations'). A song like 'Vaudeville' from the 'Theatre Of The Absurd' album is pretty obvious in its intent. It's also kinda childish, but I felt the childish nature was appropriate, with it being about a big man child.
Incidentally, I recently made most of my music free (or 'pay what you want') on my Bandcamp page.
Halldór: Some people seem to think that art should be separated from current affairs, politics, activism etc. and that music should be the escape from all that. What is your take on that?
Pete: I think there is room for it. There is room for anything when it comes to music. To me, music is about expressing yourself in your own unique way. Who is anyone else to tell you to 'stop trying to be a politician and stick to music'? There will always be overlap in any area… politics overlaps religion overlaps music overlaps philosophy overlaps literature, and so on.
Music can be a lot of things. It can be an escape, it can be cerebral, it can be meditative, it can be political, it can do good, it can do harm… endless options… so why should an artist be lambasted for tackling current affairs or politics? If people don't like it, they can always ignore it and find something that is more appealing to their ears.
Some of my favourite artists have been accused of being self-indulgent because they tackle certain subjects/styles or use uncommon instrumentation or arrangements. My view is that music and art SHOULD be self-indulgent! It certainly shouldn't be diluted by marketing people and accountants, and people shouldn't ever feel pressured to make music that other people want or expect them to make.
In my opinion, some of the greatest music ever created is politically motivated. For example, Funkadelic's 'America Eats Its Young' ('If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause' has never felt more relevant).
But sure, go ahead and listen to "I wanna rock n' roll all night, and sleep all day" or "Unskinny Bop" or "Uptown Girl" or "Call Me Maybe", if that's what makes you happy.
I've been told that I should 'stick to one style'. No thanks. That would bore the hell out of me. I don't follow societal norms, trends, or fashions. I have no idea what's in the charts, or who the current 'big thing' is.
I wouldn't consider myself an overtly political artist, in that I don't try to sell myself as a 'political musician'. I write about what I see happening around me, and that will often include political issues. Any subject is just a step away from being political anyway… the overlaps I mentioned earlier. If you look at online discussions about pretty much any subject, at some point the conversation will invariably turn political. I write about religion, child abuse, poverty, sexuality… all subjects that are ripe for political discourse.
I also make a lot of cross album references, and sometimes wrap very personal things up in double or triple meanings. If anyone ever took the time to unpack those ideas, they would discover a lot about me.
I know artists who avoid writing about anything political or challenging, for fear of losing followers/fans, or 'damaging their brand'. I have to speak my truth, however uncomfortable it gets, and however damaging it might be to any 'career aspirations' I may have.
Halldór: On your Bandcamp page you write "In some cases I didn't know exactly what I was going to sing until I hit the record button." How was making this album different from your previous albums?
Pete: I don't really have a set approach. Sometimes I'll wake up and think "today I'm going to make a solo jazz piano album, even though I can't play jazz". Sometimes I'll have an entire concept planned out in my head before I go anywhere near a guitar, piano, or computer. Sometimes I'll just start writing and recording and see what happens. In those cases, sometimes the overall concept will reveal itself at some point during the recording sessions, other times I'll end up with a collection of disparate songs or elements that I force together, like hanging Santa Claus, a nativity scene, a chocolate coin, and a Christmas cracker on an evergreen conifer.
I have made other albums where I didn't know exactly what I was going to do until I hit the record button, but in those situations it was with the instruments more than the vocals. I remember that on my 'Thelonious Punk' and 'Junk Funk Hospitle' albums, a lot of the guitar and bass parts were made up on the spot… lots of improvisation, and probably numerous things that don't make sense harmonically, but that kind of hang together in the context of the song.
As far as the latest album goes, I would usually have at least a rough idea of what the lyrics were going to be, but I was making melodies up on the spot. Some lyrics were improvised, but always accompanied by a strong idea of the point that I wanted to get across. Some lyrics were written in advance, but may have changed 'in the moment'.
Halldór: How is the music scene around you where you live? Are many artists using their voices for good, for a specific message or in protest?
Pete: In the immediate locality, there isn't much going on as far as original music goes. There are lots of cover bands, open mic nights, and so on. I spent a while visiting open mic evenings, hoping to discover some great new music, but I didn't hear one original song.
A lot of people would rather go out and watch someone pretending to be Meat Loaf than discover something new. It's one of the things that contributes to the stagnation of our society – stick with the familiar, "that's the way we've always done it", "the old music was better". There's no mental effort required on either side of the tribute artist/audience transaction.
There are a couple of local initiatives which strive to give a voice to protest/political artists. Namely, the Erdington Arts Forum, which is run by a guy called Jobe Baker Sullivan, and the Sutton Coldfield Arts Forum, which is run by Joe Cook. They provide a platform for alternative musicians, comedians, actors, and other types of artist. I admire what they do. It must take a lot time and effort.
There is also a great venue in Birmingham town centre called Centrala, which puts on experimental acts, political artists, jazz musicians. I saw Matana Roberts and Kelly Jane Jones play an incredible show there a couple of years back.
Halldór: What about outside the music, do you partake in any activism of any sort?
Pete: I'm a homebody. I don't really like leaving the house. It's a big effort to go out, and I sometimes have to force myself. I have social anxiety, and often struggle to function properly in society. Crowds, noise, and bright lights can be pretty hard to deal with. Sometimes just going to the local shops to buy a loaf of bread can be challenging.
There are various causes that I believe in, and touch upon in my music. Just a few of these are veganism, mental health, homelessness, and trans rights.
I recently released an album called 'See Me Safe', and half of the profits from that album go to Maria McKee's 'See Me Safe FFS Fund', which helps trans individuals with the costs associated with facial feminization surgery. Maria is a lovely lady with no rock star pretensions, despite the successes she's had. The campaign takes donations via their Go Fund Me page ( https://uk.gofundme.com/f/1lu3zwtd2o ).
My most recent album lingers in political territory, sometimes overtly, like on the song where I sing about "drowning in the deep end of all the political rhetoric", and "hollow point two party system got you hoodwinked". On the song 'Death After Death', I tackle things like families being separated, as well as – "… and we're told not to give money to the homeless, in case they spend it on alcohol or drugs or glue, we're a nation of selfish fuckers, if I were on the streets I'd want to get out of it too".
I can occasionally be sarcastic or biting when it comes to lyrics, but my music is made with love, and a big part of the intent is to put more love out into the world.
Halldór: What other protest or political musicians do you follow these days? What artists inspire your work?
Pete: When it comes to political music and inspiration, I guess we gravitate towards artists who share similar political leanings. You won't find me listening to pro conservative artists. I like to keep myself informed, and study various political issues and opinions, but when it comes to music, I don't care how great someone's melodies are, if they're spouting pro Trump or pro Tory rhetoric, then I'm not interested.
One of my favourite artists is Ergo Phizmiz. Discovering Ergo's music in 2017, and subsequently getting to know them, is one of the things that made me decide to continue making music when I was at the point of giving up. Ergo is a multi-disciplinary artist who writes and directs anarcho-political stage shows, creates collage art, radio plays, operas, and is one of the most prolific and brilliant musical artists I've ever heard. Ergo's music can be found here: https://composterofmusic.bandcamp.com
I've been a big fan of the aforementioned Maria McKee for many years, and she does so much great work for the trans community.
Some of my other current musical obsessions and inspirations (not all of them politically motivated) include Christina Schneider / Locate S1, John Coltrane, Miles Davis (specifically the 'Live Evil' and 'Cellar Door Sessions' era), Sly Stone, JPEGMAFIA, Jake Tobin's '1 3 5' album, Alessi Laurent-Marke, Zach Phillips, James Hall, and an incredible experimental / avant garde performance artist / singer / songwriter from Israel called Netta Goldhirsch, who I discovered randomly on Instagram.
Halldór: What is on the horizon for you, new music, touring, something else?
Pete: I'm always writing. Always singing into the voice recorder on my phone, or jotting down lyrics, or running to the piano to find the right notes. I'm usually carrying around several concepts / albums in my head at any given time.
I no longer perform live. I remember back in the 90's, I would play shows to sold out rooms. People would be queueing at the door, being turned away because the venue was at capacity. When we'd start playing, people would PAY ATTENTION. In the late 2000's, the audience was still there, and still appreciative, but I started noticing people's attention being split by their mobile phones… taking pictures, filming, messaging, scrolling through Facebook while my bandmates and I were drenched in sweat. I took a break from live performance for a while, but when I returned (I think it was sometime around 2015), I noticed that audiences were dwindling, and promoters were, and still are, having to put 6 bands on the bill in order to break even. Even with that many bands, the audience just wasn't there. People weren't attending small scale gigs in the same way. I don't know where they were… sitting at home with Netflix and Instagram? At the local enormo-venue watching Ed Sheeran?
I always perform like my life depends on it, no matter how big or small the crowd is, and I hope that energy will affect the audience in some way, but when you're met with apathy and indifference, or when you end up playing to the bar staff and the soundman, it takes its toll. When promoting my music, I've often said "I hope that you either love it or hate it." I really mean that.
I want to affect the listener, whether their reaction is positive or negative. It's indifference that I can't stand – "yeah, it's ok", "it's pretty good" – I'd rather hear "THIS IS THE WORST MUSIC I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE" than "it's alright, I guess…"
Halldór: Thank you very much for participating. Anything else you'd like to shout from the rooftops?
Pete: I'd like to say thank you very much for inviting me to share my thoughts, and also…
I'm an idealistic dreamer, who hopes that people will eventually tire of music that sounds like other music, and start to explore the wonderful world of current experimental music instead of commercial pop.
I also hope that people will tire of politicians who sound like other politicians, and start to explore the wonderful world of truth instead of tabloids, compassion instead of coveting, gentleness instead of greed, the pursuit of knowledge instead of the pursuit of fame and celebrity…
Tradition hinders progress.
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A Protest Music Interview: Evan Greer
August 24, 2019 Halldór H Kristínarson Leave a comment
"There is no such thing as a-political art. There is art that challenges the status quo, and art that doesn't."
– Evan Greer
This time we got somewhat of a legend here at Shouts. Evan Greer has been moving around both the music business and the activist world for quite some time now and she recently released a new album titled she/her/they/them .
Out of Make Shift Boston, a co-working space, she works as the deputy director of the nonprofit Fight for the Future, she is a friend and active supporter of Chelsea Manning as well as a hard working independent musician who has spent 300 plus days on tour in a year and more recently while parenting along the way.
It's been 10 years since her last album and now, through Don Giovanni Records, a new piece has finally come to light. I contacted Evan to learn about her new album as well as her thoughts on music and activism and how the two are as she puts it "inextricably linked".
10 years between albums is quite some time. Can you tell us why the long time between the albums and what you've been up to in that time?
I wish I could claim that I was just toiling away in the studio for all those years trying to nail the perfect guitar sound. But the truth is that I just got really busy! I've always balanced my music with my activist work, and for many years when I was working as a full time artist, I had to tour about 300 days a year to make ends meet.
Even after I had a kid I kept touring pretty relentlessly, but eventually I had to slow down a bit and so I put more focus into my activist work, becoming a campaigner at Fight for the Future, an activist group focused on Internet freedom and opposing government surveillance.
I've also been organizing a monthly queer dance party in Boston, providing a landing pad for other touring trans and queer artists. Getting into the studio and recording an album just never quite made it to the top of the list for years, but I'm so glad that I finally did.
In a recent interview you said that for you "music and activism have always been inextricably linked". Many people believe the two should be separated, that the arts shouldn't be political. Shouts is about exploring these two things just as well as the idea of journalism and activism being linked. What's your take on all of this?
The whole "just stick to music" narrative is based in a false concept of "neutrality." There is no such thing as a-political art. There is art that challenges the status quo, and art that doesn't. We're living in a deeply unjust world with ongoing and active state violence, growing white supremacy, and we're on the verge of a climate catastrophe.
The choices we make about what type of art to make in this moment in history are political choices, whether we like it or not. That doesn't mean that every single piece of art needs to be an overt form of protest — it just means that we shouldn't pretend that art is somehow detached from society or our collective human experiences.
Six Strings is very straight forward, deeply honest and uncomfortably sad. Do you play this song live and if so what kind of emotions does it bring out on stage?
"Uncomfortably sad," is the review I was looking for with this tune 😉 I do occasionally play it live. When I do I actually introduce it as a bit of a comedic song. It's a snapshot of one of those moments when you just feel so, so down, when everything feels pointless and you can't see your way out of the hole.
I don't feel that way most of the time, so it's kind of neat as a songwriter to have been able to create this piece of art that captures how I felt in one of those moments. It's a good way to remind myself and others that when we get to that place, it will pass. In some ways it's a song about resilience, because in the end, we move past it.
The song also made me think of the guitar as a living creature – do you have a special guitar, the one you'd bring out of a burning house and if so, why that one?
I have a trusty Taylor that I've dragged all over the world, played at hundreds of shows, and that I've had to rescue from teargas filled streets at a protest at least once. I love that guitar, but honestly I'm pretty utilitarian about musical instruments.
I've never really been a gear head. I've done a lot of touring in both the US and Europe by bus and train, and I often don't bring my own guitar with me — I'll work with the show organizer to borrow a guitar in each city, playing a different one every night. Sometimes they're great, sometimes they're pretty beat up. I kind of like the challenge of finding each guitar's voice.
For me the focus at a show is always about the connection with the audience, not about creating the exact same sound every night.
Children's Song is a humorous, yet very powerful song, and it could just as well have been called ACAB. Why do you think there is such a problem with the police state today in your country?
Modern policing in the United States is an extension of hundreds of years of structural white supremacy dating back to slavery. The primary role that the prison system and police violence plays in our society isn't public safety, it's social control. I try to teach my kid that this is not about individual police or whether they're good people or bad people, it's about the system itself, which is designed to uphold unjust power structures.
Going back a bit, your tour diary from 2015 is an absolutely brilliant read and hugely inspiring. How important was it to tour Europe with your friends and kids? Is this the new standard for future tours?
Parenting is punk rock. There are lots of musicians out there raising kids. But often this isn't really visible. Our pop culture conception of touring artists is that they're all in their 20s and party hard after every show. Touring with our kids, and documenting it so other parents can see, was a cool way to push for more visibility.
Can you tell me how the creative process was different while making/recording this album from 2009's Never Surrender? What did Taina Asili and Gaetano Vaccaro bring to the process?
I'm totally not a studio musician and I never really have been. But when I write songs I hear them with full instrumentation and studio polish. My live versions are my best attempts to approximate that with just myself and a guitar. Going into the studio has always been stressful for me — something about the permanence of recording music makes me feel like I'm never going to get it good enough to match that thing that I heard in my head when I first wrote the song.
But Taina and Gaetano's expertise helped so much. They're brilliant musicians and amazing friends. Sometimes the role they played was very concrete: adding harmony vocals, electric guitars, and bass.
Other times it was more like therapy — helping me figure out what I wanted when even I wasn't sure. In the end, the album is special because it's different from what I heard in my head when I wrote the songs. It's a living breathing project that evolved over the course of a few years, with help from an awesome array of guest artists that shaped the sound.
A question I often ask political rappers is how they balance between the message and the flow. Do you ever experience a conflict between the words you want to use and how they fit into the song?
Yes this can happen. One thing that's been helpful for me is to realize that not everything I want to express politically needs to be a song. I've started writing a lot more opinion pieces for outlets like The Guardian or Washington Post, or scripts for short videos, or infographics and other types of creative projects.
If you could have any artist, living or dead, featured on your next album who'd be your top 3 picks?
Hah. Tough one. Honestly it was a huge deal for me having Chris #2 from Anti-Flag and legendary riot-grrrrl cellist Bonfire Madigan play on she/her/they/them. Let's go with: guest feature from Janelle Monae, guitar shredding from Sister Loretta Tharpe, and Keith Moon on the drums.
When you need someone else's music to inspire your fighting spirit, what do you listen to? Any active, contemporary protest musicians, or not, that you want to throw a shout out?
Too many to name. Lately I've been listening to a lot of indie pop punk stuff like Worriers, Potty Mouth, Sad13, Aye Nako, etc. I'll also never stop loving stuff like Rilo Kiley and Sleater Kinney. When I need political inspiration I'm all about Ana Tijoux, Shadia Mansour, Calle 13, La Santa Cecilia, Chumbawamba, Saul Williams. I've also been loving the other artists on my label, Don Giovanni Records, like Mal Blum, Screaming Females, Bad Moves, and Waxahatchee. And then I just listen to a ton of radical artists from my broader community like Taina Asili, Climbing Poetree, bells roar, Sihasin, and Anjimile.
What is on the horizon for you?
The future is always unwritten. For the foreseeable future I'll likely continue to balance my music with full time activist work, so I'll probably still put out new songs here and there and do some occasional shows and short tours, but I'm not likely to be back on the road 300+ days a year anytime soon. And I'm okay with that.
For me music has always been an outlet for work that I wanted to do. The longer I make music and do the work, the more I see how the pieces fit together.
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Microsoft Azure is an open and varied platform, which allows you to choose from a variety of Operating Systems, programming languages. When you build an application in Azure, we will be using specific types of services that would be running on one or more servers on the cloud. We can configure and create Paas services like SQL databases, NoSQL databases, Document DB. Creating app services, and automating the azure services using powershell scripts is what triggers developers to use this. Here in this article, we will look into how to create a Virtual Machine and why to create a VM on Azure.
What is and Why use Virtual Machine?
A virtual machine according to wikipedia, is an emulation to computer system, where emulation would mean to enable a computer system to behave like another computer system (a job of an emulator which may be physical or virtual). A virtual machine can be used on Azure platform on OS like Windows and Linux. The VMs on Azure are highly efficient, high-scale, secure and run on a virtual environment on windows server.
Once, you are ready with the Azure subscription and up and running Azure portal. Login to the Azure portal and you see the dashboard.
The summary also shows about the sub services. Services like Windows Server Datacenter, which is effective, application focused and user friendly. Ubuntu Server 16.04 Transport Layer Security. Sql server 2016 with SQL server installed on the VM. A normal VM instance, a VM scale which can be used to deploy and also manage identical sets of VMs using a single image and many other compute services.
We would be creating here, a Windows Server Datacenter. Clicking on that option will ask user to configure the Virtual Machine.
Once the configuration is added and OK is clicked, it asks the user for selecting the size of the VM. Remember, the pricing will vary based on the high end configured size (if chosen). Here, I am choosing the minimum configuration DS1_V2 Standard with 1 core. Based on the application we can manipulate the configuration. That is the scaleable option provided by Microsoft Azure. We can anytime scale up and scale down based on our requirement.
Once done click Ok, then the tab for optional configuration. This is the 3rd step. We can move on and click OK to finalize the purchase and get the VM. Once, VM is ready, click on Connect and it downloads the RDP. Using the same username and password we connect the VM and start using the VM.
Its up and running. We can go ahead and configure IIS and run on the server. You can manage your resources using the dashboard and stop the resource whenever not in use so as to avoid consumption of your credits.


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Laws Against Clergy/Counselor Sexual Abuse
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Tag: Connecticut Laws against clergy/counselor abuse
June 2, 2017 June 2, 2017 pasapartner
Connecticut General Statutes 53a-65 – Definitions
PART VI
Sec. 53a-65. Definitions. As used in this part, except section 53a-70b, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)"Actor" means a person accused of sexual assault.
(2) "Sexual intercourse" means vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, fellatio or cunnilingus between persons regardless of sex. Its meaning is limited to persons not married to each other. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse or fellatio and does not require emission of semen. Penetration may be committed by an object manipulated by the actor into the genital or anal opening of the victim's body.
(3) "Sexual contact" means any contact with the intimate parts of a person not married to the actor for the purpose of sexual gratification of the actor or for the purpose of degrading or humiliating such person or any contact of the intimate parts of the actor with a person not married to the actor for the purpose of sexual gratification of the actor or for the purpose of degrading or humiliating such person.
(9) "Psychotherapist" means a physician, psychologist, nurse, substance abuse counselor, social worker, clergyman, marital and family therapist, mental health service provider, hypnotist or other person, whether or not licensed or certified by the state, who performs or purports to perform psychotherapy.
(10) "Psychotherapy" means the professional treatment, assessment or counseling of a mental or emotional illness, symptom or condition.
(11) "Emotionally dependent" means that the nature of the patient's or former patient's emotional condition and the nature of the treatment provided by the psychotherapist are such that the psychotherapist knows or has reason to know that the patient or former patient is unable to withhold consent to sexual contact by or sexual intercourse with the psychotherapist.
Sections 53a-65, 53a-71
State Statute on Sexual Intercourse or Sexual Contact by a Psychotherapist
or School Employee
Connecticut Penal Code, Sections 53a-65, 53a-71, and 53a-73a define sexual intercourse and sexual contact by a psychotherapist and a client or former client or by a school employee and a student as sexual assault. Sexual intercourse is a second degree class C felony and sexual contact is a fourth degree class A misdemeanor. Psychotherapist as defined in the law includes social workers, licensed or not, who perform or purport to perform psychotherapy and psychotherapy is broadly defined as "the professional treatment, assessment or counseling of a mental or emotional illness, symptom or condition. School employee as defined in the law includes school social workers, certified or not, who have sexual involvement with a student in their school or school district.
What follow is the prohibitions under the penal code and the penalty for each. You may also want to see the definitions and citing of the NASW Code of Ethics at the end of this article.
Sexual Assault – Intercourse: Under this section of the Penal Code a psychotherapist (which includes social workers) is guilty of sexual assault in the second degree when a.) the psychotherapist engaged in intercourse with another person who is a patient of the psychotherapist and the sexual intercourse occurs during the psychotherapy session; b.) a patient or former patient of the psychotherapist and the patient or former patient is emotionally dependent upon the psychotherapist; c.) a patient or former patient of the psychotherapist and the sexual intercourse occurs by means of therapeutic deception; d.) the psychotherapist accomplishes the sexual intercourse by means of false representation that the sexual intercourse is for a bona fide medical purpose by a health care representative.
A school employee (including school social workers) is guilty of sexual assault in the second degree when a school employee engages in sexual intercourse with a student enrolled in a school in which the school employee works or a school under the jurisdiction of the local or regional board of education which employs the school employee.
Sexual assault in the second degree is a class C felony for which nine months of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court.
Sexual Assault – Sexual Contact: Under this section of the Penal Code a psychotherapist (which includes social workers) is guilty of sexual assault in the fourth degree when a.) the psychotherapist subjects another person to sexual contact who is a patient of the psychotherapist and the sexual contact occurs during the psychotherapy session; b.) a patient or former patient of the psychotherapist and the patient or former patient is emotionally dependent upon the psychotherapist; c.) a patient or former patient of the psychotherapist and the sexual contact occurs by means of therapeutic deception; d.) the psychotherapist accomplishes the sexual intercourse by means of false representation that the sexual intercourse is for a bona fide medical purpose by a health care.
A school employee is guilty of sexual assault in the fourth degree when a school employee subjects another person to sexual contact who is a student enrolled in a school in which the school employee works or a school under the jurisdiction of the local or regional board of education which employs the school employee.
Sexual assault in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor. The following are key definitions in the Penal Code that will assist the reader in interpreting the above two sections of the Connecticut Penal Code:
Sexual Intercourse: Means vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, fellatio or cunnilingus between persons regardless of gender. Its meaning is limited to persons not married to each other. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete intercourse and does not require emission of semen. Penetration may be committed by an object manipulated by the psychotherapist or school employee into the genital or anal opening of the victim's body.
Sexual Contact: Means any contact with the intimate parts of a person not married to the psychotherapist or school employee for the purpose of sexual gratification of the psychotherapist or school employee or for the purpose of degrading or humiliating such person or any contact of the intimate parts of the psychotherapist or school employee with a person not married to the psychotherapist or school employee for the purpose of sexual gratification of the psychotherapist or school employee or the purpose of degrading or humiliating such person.
Psychotherapist: Means a physician, psychologist, nurse, substance abuse counselor, social worker, clergyman, marital and family therapist, mental health service provider or other person, whether or not licensed or certified by the state, who performs or purports to perform psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy: Means the professional treatment, assessment or counseling of a mental or emotional illness, symptom or condition.
Emotionally Dependent: Means that the nature of the patient's or former patient's emotional condition and the nature of the treatment provided by the psychotherapist are such that the psychotherapist knows or has reason to know that the patient or former patient is unable to withhold consent to sexual contact by or sexual intercourse with the psychotherapist.
Therapeutic Deception: Means a representation by a psychotherapist that sexual contact by or sexual contact with the psychotherapist is consistent with or part of the patient's treatment.
School Employee: Means a teacher, substitute teacher, school administrator, school superintendent, guidance counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, physician, school paraprofessional or coach employed by a local or regional board of education or a private elementary or secondary school or working in a public or private elementary or secondary school.
NASW Code of Ethics
The Code of Ethics prohibits social workers from engaging in sexual activities or sexual contact with current clients. The Code also warns against sexual activities or sexual contact with former clients or relatives of clients or other persons that a client has a close personal relationship. Additionally, the Code prohibits social workers from providing clinical services to a person whom the social worker has had a prior sexual relationship with. See section 1.09 Sexual Relationships of the NASW Code of Ethics for the complete language of the Code.
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An activist in New Caledonia says there are still concerns about the environmental impact of the Vale-Inco nickel project.
The nickel plant, that is being built near a UNESCO World Heritage site, is now expected to begin production in January next year.
The plant's launch has been delayed several times due to technical problems, including a huge spill at its sulphuric acid plant in April.
That plant is being redesigned and Jacques Boengkih, says local groups are asking for an independent review once that is done.
"For the local NGOs, nothing has been done properly. And they are putting pressure on the government to give the OK only when they have the insurance that all pollution sources have been taken care of."
Jacques Boengkih says the NGOs doubt the company will be able to meet the January deadline.


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UBM launches online community TheCMOSite.com
United Business Media launched TheCMOSite.com, a new online community for marketing executives, this week. The site offers news, peer guidance, best practices and research to high-level marketers at large companies. The content will focus primarily on Internet marketing.
TheCMOSite.com includes several daily blogs and other user-generated content along with video, marketing research reports, webinars and message boards. Developed by UBM's DeusM group, The CMO Site emphasizes its offerings not just as a source of information, but as a community where marketers create profiles and exchange ideas and insights.
"For many online magazines and outlets, the community is tacked on to them, but for this we started with the community as part of the design," said Mitch Wagner, editor in chief and community activist for The CMO Site. "It's central to the site."
Among the topics covered in the site are social media, online demand generation, marketing technology and shared services, location-based marketing and closed-loop revenue marketing. In all these topics, Wagner added that the focus will be not on novelty, but on hard results.
"As we've been discussing the editorial vision for the site, we have agreed that online marketing is an area that is incredibly popular but incredibly overhyped," said Wagner. "We are making sure that we always tie it back to the business value of any campaign, and make sure it's about how they generate sales and sales leads."
While The CMO Site is mainly aimed at marketers from large companies, Wagner added that it would also include insights gained from small companies as long as they had broad application.
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This is an improvement of 2142 frames, or just under 36 seconds, over Dragonfangs currently published movie. The improvements comes mainly from greater optimization in movement, and some from better ammo management. Some also comes from aiming for realtime instead of ingame time, this essentially means that I sometimes have to optimize door transitions to scroll less, avoid some lag, and taking a Super Missile and a missile earlier in Norfair to avoid two extra door transitions during the cleanup. I had hoped to improve the run more, but Dragonfangs run turned out to be very solid, especially as far as room strategies goes.
Exiting a spin jump will still keep your vertical momentum unless you shoot.
If exiting a spin jump without shooting and while rising, you'll still rise for a frame regardless if you hold jump or not, if you then press jump again you'll start spinning again and still rise. I can't actually remember ever using this for time saving purposes.
Exiting a spin jump positioned the right way under a ledge, you'll get pushed down a bit, and since you don't lose any vertical momentum by exiting a spin jump you can save a bit of time.
Doing the "corner boost" at a certain place in Chozodia made a part of the room load incorrectly. But it's just a visual glitch and can't be used for anything.
The horizontal movement of all of Samus's projectiles are related to Samus's movement, so if you move in the same direction of a missile it will move faster to keep itself away from Samus, avoiding a doppler effect. This same technique can be used to "curve" shots by shooting diagonally and then moving sideways.
If multiple projectiles hits an enemy, all of them will do damage. This is only really useful against the Brinstar Worm/Charge Beamst/Boss right after missiles that drop the charge beam.
Morphing and shooting at the same time fires the projectile at the back of the Morph ball sprite.
After the Chozo ghost battle it usually locks you in place before transforming you to your full suit. But if you turn around during a certain time frame of about 4 frames you can move freely again and the rest of that scene still plays out the same. If there happens to be any stun pistol shots left on the screen when the you've got the suit for real, they'll turn into garbled plasma sprites.
Power Grip is usually way faster than other forms of vertical movement(shinespark excluded) because there is only a single frame without upwards movement.
There is a "sticky walls" effect when spin jumping. In other words, if you touch a wall while spinjumping and then try to move away from it, you accelerate way slower than you would if you haven't touched anything. Most likely there to make wall jumping easier.
Space Jump removes the ability to Wall jump, which would've been faster if there's a wall nearby. But at the same time, Space Jump removes the sticky walls effect.
Ingame time still runs during the "Item get!" popup.
Mother Brain will usually only take 5 missiles or a super before closing its eye to charge a beam. But there is a short amount of time right after a beam is fired where she'll accept damage anyway.
The frame you start spinning will always be the same velocity as the frame right before it. This can be used to maintain running velocity for an extra frame when you run of an edge. In addition to this, releasing the direction you're running at the right time will cause Samus to slowly decelerate instead of immediately slowing down to normal aerial velocity. These two can be used in conjunction. To produce the best result, you should release the direction right when you leave the edge then hold nothing for 2 or 3 frames, then spin.
During the first frame of the aerial turnaround animation, Samus will continue to rise regardless if you're holding the jump button or not. This can be used to go from a straight jump to a spinning jump without stopping in midair.
Baxter: Very good optimizations, accepted as an improvement to the published movie.


Last January, Chuck Pagano's dream came true. The Indianapolis Colts hired him as the head coach of their NFL franchise. The Colts were coming off a horrendous 2-14 season and needed a change. They hired Pagano and drafted a new franchise quarterback, Andrew Luck. By the fall, things were looking up.
Then, Coach Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia. In his first season as an NFL head coach he was forced to take an indefinite leave of absence while undergoing chemotherapy.
Amazingly, the team rallied around their ailing coach, won 11 of 16 games, and made the playoffs in his honor. On Christmas Eve, Chuck Pagano took the field again as head coach and cancer survivor.
Sometimes, the worst possible circumstances bring the best out of the people around us. Enjoy hearing from "Chuck Strong" himself.
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