In the dark of a summer night, you spot a light that seems to hover half a foot off the ground. Then another light pops into existence.
You have come across a rare occurence: a 'Moot' of Lanternheads.
This pale skinned, furry-bodied homunculus is normally a solitary creature, wandering large swathes of woodland, moorland or marsh. However, during the summer months it seems that several will congregate in one area- and no one knows why.
There is no visible interaction between the creatures at the moot. They stand several feet away from each other, and appear to gaze skywards. Are they communicating in some internal fashion? Or are they waiting for something?


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Uniformed Services Dinner Commemorates the Fallen
As part of the School's commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, members of the School Community attended a special dinner at School. Alumni and staff associated with the Armed Services were joined by pupils in the Scouts, Cadets and other uniformed organisations for this very special occasion, held on the 13th of March 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the date the first Old Boy fell in battle.
Second Lieutenant Albert Knowles Wilson was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment and attached to the Indian Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action on the 12th of March 1915 during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. This was the first British offensive of the war, and cost 11,562 casualties for the gain of just two square kilometres of land. He was killed on the first day, and was just twenty-five years old.
Following a drinks reception in the Riley Centre's Leverhulme Suite, guests convened in the Headmaster's Garden for a Commemoration of the eighty-one Old Boys who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Great War. Each of the fallen Old Boys was represented by a Tower of London poppy procured by the School. Earlier in the day, these were planted by students in the Headmaster's Lawn while Boys' Division Headmaster Mr Philip Britton read out the names of the dead.
In a moving ceremony, four final poppies were planted in the garden by Girls' Division Head Girl Jess Melling, Boys' Division Captain Paul Greenhalgh, Chairman of Governors Mr Michael Griffiths, and finally by the evening's guest speaker, Major General Stuart R Skeates CBE, Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. This was followed by 'The Last Post', played by Year 13 pupil Isobel Faulkner, and 'The Ode to Remembrance'.
Girls' Division Headmistress Miss Sue Hincks welcomed guests to the Arts Centre for the dinner itself following the commemoration. The special guest for the evening was Major General Skeates. He was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1989, and over the course of his career has served on operations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. He has been Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since August 2013. His nephews attend the Boys' Division, and his niece left Bolton School last summer.
After the dinner, Major General Skeates spoke movingly of the Bolton School Old Boys and staff who lost their lives in the two World Wars, and made particular mention of Second Lieutenant Albert Knowles Wilson.
Mr Britton said, "Today we have a day of Commemoration, to bring to mind the contribution of the School to the Great War, the impact on our community, and the sacrifice made by so many for freedom. It is entirely fitting that the day ends with a dinner for those involved in uniformed organisations; drawing together pupils, colleagues, Old Boys and Girls, and parents in a spirit of shared values, friendship and camaraderie, to acknowledge all that has been and to look forward to our futures."
A video documenting the planting of the 81 poppies can be viewed here.
Headmistress Sue Hincks, Major General Skeates, and Headmaster Philip Britton
Major General Skeates planting the final poppy at the ceremony
Old Boys and Cadets alike attended the Dinner

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and India Walton sit down with News 4
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Early voting starts Saturday, and one of the most polarizing names in politics is in Buffalo, raising support for India Walton in the race for Mayor of Buffalo.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was one of the first politicians to congratulate Walton on her primary night win.
"India Walton's policies show that another way is possible, and not only can we take care of each other, but that it's good government, it's transparent, it's accountable, it can balance the books and we can actually revitalize cities like Buffalo," Ocasio-Cortez said during an interview with News 4 Friday.
Both Walton and Ocasio-Cortez identify as democratic socialists, but they say voters shouldn't focus on the title.
"We should expect our government to lead in that way and prioritize the people," Walton said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
Here's a look where the race for Buffalo mayor stands as early voting begins Saturday
"All of these 'ism's' – you know, when you talk about capitalism, socialism, et cetera – these are very high-minded debates, and I think what's important is we say 'where's the beef? What are the policies each candidate is actually proposing?" Ocasio-Cortez said.
The congresswoman will appear alongside Walton at an early voting event Saturday at the Town Ballroom, she said she believes this race can impact people nationally.
"We want to show that post-industrial cities like the City of Buffalo can thrive with progressive policies," she said.
Mayor Byron Brown is also holding an early voting event tomorrow morning at his Washington Avenue headquarters. News 4 will be sitting down with the incumbent Mayor ahead of Election Day – watch that story Monday night.
Watch the full interview below:
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Q: Improve performance of Async Post using C# HttpClient I am trying to find way to further improve the performance of my console app (already fully working).
I have a CSV file which contains a list of addresses (about 100k).
I need to query a Web API whose POST response would be the geographical coordinates of such addresses. Then I am going to write a GeoJSON file to the file system with the address data enriched with geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude).
My current solution splits the data into batches of 1000 records and sends Async POST requests to the Web API using HttpClient (.NET core 3.1 with console app and class library using .NET Standard 2.0).
GeoJSON is my DTO class.
public class GeoJSON
    {
        public string Locality { get; set; }
        public string Street { get; set; }
        public string StreetNumber { get; set; }
        public string ZIP { get; set; }
        public string Latitude { get; set; }
        public string Longitude { get; set; }
    }

public static async Task<List<GeoJSON>> GetAddressesInParallel(List<GeoJSON> geos)
        {
            //calculating number of batches based on my batchsize (1000)
            int numberOfBatches = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)geos.Count() / batchSize);

            for (int i = 0; i < numberOfBatches; i++)
            {
                var currentIds = geos.Skip(i * batchSize).Take(batchSize);
                var tasks = currentIds.Select(id => SendPOSTAsync(id));
                geoJSONs.AddRange(await Task.WhenAll(tasks));
            }

            return geoJSONs;
        }

My Async POST method looks like this:
 public static async Task<GeoJSON> SendPOSTAsync(GeoJSON geo)
        {
            string payload = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(geo);
            HttpContent c = new StringContent(payload, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
            using HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(URL, c).ConfigureAwait(false);

            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                var address = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<GeoJSON>(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
                geo.Latitude = address.Latitude;
                geo.Longitude = address.Longitude;
            }
            return geo;
        }

The Web API runs on my local machine as Self Hosted x86 application.
The whole application ends in less than 30s.
The most time consuming part is the Async POST part (about 25s).
The Web API takes only one address for each post, otherwise I'd have sent multiple addresses in one request.
Any ideas on how to improve performance of the request against the Web API?

A: A potential problem of your batching approach is that a single delayed response may delay the completion of a whole batch. It may not be an actual problem because the web service you are calling may have very consistent response times, but in any case you could try an alternative approach that allows controlling the concurrency without the use of batching. The example bellow uses the TPL Dataflow library, which is built-in the .NET Core platform and available as a package for .NET Framework:
public static async Task<List<GeoJSON>> GetAddressesInParallel(List<GeoJSON> geos)
{
    var block = new ActionBlock<GeoJSON>(async item =>
    {
        await SendPOSTAsync(item);
    }, new ExecutionDataflowBlockOptions()
    {
        MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 1000
    });

    foreach (var item in geos)
    {
        await block.SendAsync(item);
    }
    block.Complete();

    await block.Completion;
    return geos;
}

Your SendPOSTAsync method just returns the same GeoJSON that receives as argument, so the GetAddressesInParallel can also return the same List<GeoJSON> that receives as argument.
The ActionBlock is the simplest of the blocks available in the library. It just executes a sync or async action for every item, allowing the configuration of the MaxDegreeOfParallelism among other options. You could also try splitting your workflow in multiple blocks, and then link them together to form a pipeline. For example:

*

*TransformBlock<GeoJSON, (GeoJSON, string)> that serializes the GeoJSON objects to JSON.

*TransformBlock<(GeoJSON, string), (GeoJSON, string)> that makes the HTTP requests.

*ActionBlock<(GeoJSON, string)> that deserializes the HTTP responses and updates the GeoJSON objects with the received values.

Such an arrangement would allow you to fine-tune the MaxDegreeOfParallelism of each block, and hopefully achieve the optimal performance.

A: The answer above is probably correct, but this kind of dependency is not necessary. You can just use Task.WhenAll . This code is from a different Rest library but the concept is the same:
var tasks = new List<Task<Response<Person>>>();
const int maxCalls = 100;

Parallel.For(0, maxCalls, (i) =>
{
    var client = clientFactory.CreateClient();
    tasks.Add(client.GetAsync<Person>(new Uri("JsonPerson", UriKind.Relative)));
});

var results = await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

The client is created and request made in parallel 100x. Then all the tasks are awaited in parallel. This means that all available resources are utilized.
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I became confused the first time I arrived at a funeral and the man at the entrance asked if I was going to the cemetery for graveside services. But I was still learning.
A little over a month ago, someone who was special to me passed away. And though I've been to many funerals during my life, I'm still learning. This wonderful man's life celebration gave me pause as I sat and watched the people around me.
In the chapel of my church, a buffet luncheon and tables were set up. We filled our plates and sat with friends to share memories or to just have normal conversations. I realized that having a funeral dinner gives a different meaning to "comfort food." When we lose someone we love, we need to feel, even if for a short time, something resembling normal. We meet over a meal and we're somehow comforted.
If a funeral dinner happens at a church, the food was most likely prepared by church members in their homes. The food is often simple. Friends and family members help by offering a kind of stability in shaky circumstances. The simpler we keep things, the better. Even silences can be healing.
Last week a long-time friend notified me her husband had died. I didn't look forward to attending another funeral. But I surely was ready to be there to comfort her. That meant being there in any way she needed.
It turned out that I sat with her and her children, whom I'd watch grow up, at the funeral dinner. We ate some "comfort food" and talked about normal stuff. If I was the betting type, I'd bet that it won't be long before she and I are sharing more memories over a meal and talking about what's making life normal again now that she's grieving.
We don't like to admit it, but we know that food seems to make things better.
Someone's having a baby and we throw a shower. Food–especially chocolate–makes the occasion better. Weddings include a feast following the ceremony. Because food makes it even better. The Saturday football game at our alma mater begs a tailgater. Except for our team winning, what could possibly make it better?
We celebrate the milestones in life with food, join in conversations at the dinner table with our family, grab some of that famous Mackinac Island fudge while we're on vacation, and roast marshmallows over a campfire. Because food makes getting together so much better.
But I'm still learning and I know. It's why we say we celebrate communion. In community we celebrate, we remember, and we look to the future.
Loving Father, I pray we always know the way to celebrate life, even when we face life without someone we love. Help us to make each moment precious and to create communion–community–whenever we meet with people. Thank you for the gift of food and the many ways it sustains us. Thank you for the simplicity it can offer in a grave situation. Help us to find our ultimate joy and purpose in you and to realize Christ is the bread of life. Thank you, Jesus, for being the comfort food that will never leave us hungry.


Leonard, R., Winslow, J., and Bozeman, W. (2006). Planning Medical Care for High-Risk Mass Gatherings. The Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine 6(1).
The authors outline security requirements for mass gatherings with a focus on presidential and dignitary visits (and good discussion of the role of the local and federal agencies) and describe the role of emergency medical services coverage for various threats that could lead to mass casualties (e.g., hot weather and terrorist incidents).


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Macy's closing 37 more stores this year, including one in Maryland
Maryland's 2nd District: State Sen. Johnny Salling challenges incumbent Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger for seat in Congress
State of Disrepair: Solutions for Annapolis public housing
Naval Academy service assignments: What are the odds midshipmen get their first choice and what does it take?
'Your family is destroyed over $10 of heroin': Anne Arundel woman guilty in infant grandson's overdose death
Man dies from self-inflicted wounds after shooting wife in Crofton, police say; wife taken to Shock Trauma
'Larger-than-life' small business owner with a long family history in Annapolis dies at 65
Mayor Gavin Buckley delays return from Australia to attend mother's funeral
Anne Arundel student-athletes discuss racism in athletics during forum
Trump lashes out at 'weak and tired' Republican leaders after House votes to override his veto: 'A disgraceful act of cowardice'
Phil Burgess: Renaissance woman finds new calling in her bonus years
By Phil Burgess
Like a children's museum, you can touch and feel the historic maritime artifacts on sale at the Annapolis Maritime Antiques in Eastport. (Paul W. Gillespie / Capital Gazette file)
The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald told us, "Vitality exists not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
For a living example of "Fitzgerald's Law," journey down to Annapolis Maritime Antiques in Eastport. There, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m., you will find Aimee Ewers (pronounced "yours") Povich, a can-do, bonus years lady who minds the store.
Povich is not simply minding the cash register. She is the store's merchandising director. But she is more like a one-person curator in a children's museum.
Like a children's museum, you can touch and feel the historic maritime artifacts on sale. Brass and wood in many shapes and for many functions are surrounded by ropes, lines and nets — and bric-a-bacs and what-nots that would appeal to any serious boating enthusiast or collector of stuff related to the sea.
And like a curator, Povich knows about and will tell you the history of almost every maritime antique in the store — including interesting background and anecdotes about the historic World War II Liberty ships whose beautiful, wooden hatch covers of many sizes and shapes have been converted into handsome coffee tables, dining tables, picnic-like benches, stools, standing bars and other attractive, maritime-themed, custom-built furniture for maritime enthusiasts.
Phil Burgess: Retirement is an opportunity to keep on serving
This past week I talked with a man whose transition from his career work to his new life has been an almost seamless reboot. I'm referring here to Annapolitan Dick Libby.
"How did you learn about all this?" I asked, as Povich gave detailed answers to nearly every question I asked.
She explained, "I have always been interested in anything to do with the water. That's why I was so delighted to get this job, where I could spend every working hour immersed in things I love."
She continued, "I learned a lot about the Liberty ships from our owner, Tony Kime, who is a Liberty ship aficionado. I also use my down time at the store, when there are no customers, to read about the store's artifacts and especially the history of the Liberty ships, which provide the raw material for so much of the furniture that we build and sell."
Povich is a new friend for me. I first met her on this day when I wandered into the store and was delighted to discover that she could answer nearly every question I had about every artifact I picked up or pointed to. She was a wellspring of knowledge — and interesting stories — about everything from antique brass red and green channel markers to the Liberty ships.
Thinking that Povich was in her late 40s/early 50s, I asked, "What are you going to do when you retire?"
Giving me the RCA-dog look, she shot back, "I'm there already. I was born in 1954 — but I will never retire. I love working. I love learning new things and working with people to help them enjoy this wonderful world of ours — and especially the sea."
Povich — who is related by a former marriage to the Pulitzer-winning sports writer, the late Shirley Povich, and to TV host Maury Povich — has spent most of her adult life in public relations and events management.
She began her career with Philip Morris where she was an award-winning events manager for the Marlboro brand. Promotional events included country music concerts, celebrity ski races, World Cup soccer, annual NFL awards and Indy car races. She has met more celebrities and high-performers from more arenas than anyone I've ever met.
Despite her status as a "senior" who began her professional life with a pre-computer Rolodex, Povich is fully computer literate and maintains a huge, Mac-based file of friends and clients she has coached: top politicians and blue-chip country singers as well as tennis greats and Indy car drivers such as Mario Andretti, Al Unser, and Emerson Fittipaldi.
Talk To Iris: The power of a hug
Right up there with the recharging powers of a lake is the recharging power of a hug. In any given day, I may get nearly as many hugs as the number of years our camp has been around.
By Iris Krasnow
In addition to typical events management stresses, her time with Philip Morris also coincided with the war on smoking. "It's a challenge to prepare a sports figure or country singer for a media interview when the first question is likely to be, 'What's it like to be sponsored by a company that kills 100,000 people a year?' "
"On the other hand," she said, "it was terrific training and a great experience. After PM, I was ready for anything."
Following a six-year stint with Philip Morris, Povich worked through a series of more or less four-year jobs with all sorts of companies. "After four years of doing creative work, it is best for the company and for you to move on. The company gets new creative blood and you get a new opportunity to apply what you've learned in all your previous assignments."
So far, she has worked in more than 30 countries on four continents and 48 U.S. states — except Alaska and North Dakota.
Several of her assignments included working with the elderly. I asked her what she learned in those venues.
"One of the most important is this," she said, "when you are dealing with an elderly person with cognitive impairment, such as dementia, and they have just returned from a trip to the art museum, you don't ask them, 'Where have you been? What did you see?' They often can't recall details. But if you ask them 'How do you feel about today?' their faces will light up and they may even give you an earful."
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Povich was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She is a third-generation graduate of Georgetown University, with a degree in the humanities.
After her son graduated from Bethesda's Landon School in 2012 to attend Tulane University in New Orleans, she decided it was time to follow her passion to live on the water. So she moved to Eastport where she has an apartment overlooking the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay.
Covering the Bases: County Department of Aging and Disabilities to host Medicare seminars
In preparation for the annual Medicare Part D open enrollment period, the county Department of Aging and Disabilities' Senior Health Insurance Assistance Program will be hosting seminars to demonstrate how to select a Part D drug plan using Medicare's website.
By Amy Rubino
She dreamed of working for Annapolis Watermark, which provides walking tours, dinner and sightseeing cruises on the bay and other water-related events. When that didn't work out, she found the antique shop where she works 15 hours a week.
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She is also a home-based teleworker, working a 40-hour week as the catering coordinator for Moe's Southwest Grill at 16 locations around Maryland, Virginia and Washington — including at City Dock.
Noticing papers she had gathered, I saw what turned out to be a three-page bucket list. In addition to lots of travel to historic sites around the world, it also included: getting an MBA, reading the Bible from cover to cover (with "almost there," scribbled in the margin), chasing a tornado with a storm chaser and dancing the tango in Argentina.
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"That's a lot," I said. Her reply, after a pause, "Not really. I have lots of time, and I know how to manage details. But, if they don't happen, that's OK, too. I love this town, and I am very happy — almost afraid to ask for more."
Povich is always out and about. If you don't see her at Annapolis Maritime Antiques, you may see her as a volunteer, working the Maritime Republic of Eastport Tug-of-War, the annual event to benefit local charities, or someplace else. She has also been a "sponsor-parent" to three Naval Academy women.
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Povich is an expert at reinventing herself whenever there is an opportunity to help others.
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Please visit the HKUST website of the School of Science (SSCI) for details on program curriculums.


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import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpFunction;
import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpRequest;
import com.google.cloud.functions.HttpResponse;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class ParseXml implements HttpFunction {
  private static DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

  // Parses a HTTP request in XML format
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      throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException {

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Xbox Loses Call of Duty to PlayStation
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Paul Thurrott in Xbox One with 1 Comment
Microsoft's games presence at E3 this year was just about as expected—the usual suspects like Halo, Gears of Wars, Forza and Fable all made a showing—and almost lived up to the firm's hyperbolic tagline, "the greatest games lineup in Xbox history." But what Microsoft didn't mention was a surprising defection: Call of Duty, one of the most successful gaming franchises in history, will now deliver game updates, including new map packs, to PlayStation first, not Xbox.
And that actually kind of sucks. It's not Microsoft's fault, per se, though I'd imagine not paying whatever prohibitive vig that Activision was demanding played a role. Since the 2007 release of Modern Warfare, Call of Duty gamers—and there are millions of them—have purchased Xbox consoles for one reason and one reason only: DLC—or downloadable content like map packs, new weapons, new game modes and so on—would appear first on Xbox and then be drizzled out to other platforms like PlayStation or the PC at a later date. The message was simple: if you were a Call of Duty fan, you got an Xbox.
"PlayStation is the new home of Call of Duty," PlayStation CEO Andrew House announced during Sony's E3 press conference last night.
This won't matter at launch per se. But over the course of the ensuing year, Call of Duty gamers can purchase several DLC drops—or sign up for them all upfront via a subscription. And PlayStation users, not Xbox users, will get them first. This is … untenable.
Looking at the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 multiplayer trailer above, I see a game that looks an awful lot like the current COD title, Advanced Warfare. Which isn't inspiring, actually: AW is, to my mind, the weakest title in the modern COD era (Modern Warfare or newer), especially in multiplayer, where it apes Titanfall with jet packs and vertical, flying game play. I've spent each of the past several years doing nothing but playing whatever the most recent COD title is for that year, but this past year I've gone back and replayed the older games because AW multiplayer is so lackluster.
That said, the graphics are crisp and clear, and while I didn't find that the last two COD games—Ghosts and AW—looked any better on PS4 than they do on Xbox One, this one looks to be different. I do see an obvious visual difference moving between Xbox 360 and Xbox One with these games today, and the extra visual clarity really does matter in multiplayer in particular. So Activision's decision to go with Sony could be partially based on that visual difference.
I'm curious if this change leads to any platform switches, given the size and dedication of the COD user base. We'll see. But for me, this announcement has somewhat muted yesterday's excitement over backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games. Especially if those older COD titles are not among the games being made available.
Maybe it's time to bone up on my PS4 controller experience.
Tagged with Call of Duty, PlayStation 4


'Iron Sky' Clip: Here Comes the Meteor Blitzkrieg!
A few years have passed since we first got word of the Finnish sci-fi comedy Iron Sky. Since then, we've seen the opening of the film - in which a team of Nazis stationed on the moon launch an attack on Earth - as well as its poster and trailer.
Now, courtesy of Collider, we have the above glimpse at the film, whocasing the Moon Nazis' initial strike on New York City.
The video doesn't offer much insight into how the overtly silly premise will play out, but it does give us an idea of the cool visual effects that we can expect, including the destruction (yes, again) of the Statue of Liberty. Depending on how committed the filmmakers are to embracing the inherent campiness, Iron Sky could potentially be a lot of fun and a goofy parody of disaster films in general.
In development since 2006, Iron Sky - from director Timo Vuorensola (Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning) - initially faced some difficulty securing financing, but finally completed principal photography in early 2011.
Iron Sky is currently in limited release across the United States. Visit the film's official website for information on how you can bring it to your city.


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Posted inReligion and Faith
Commentary: Go Back and Fetch What You Left Behind
Many rural LGBTQ individuals have hidden their identities out of fear of reprisal. It's time to reclaim those stories.
by Kim Phinney October 16, 2019 October 16, 2019
A memorial park in Bangor, Maine, dedicated to Charlie Howard. (Photo by Kris Adams via Flickr, Creative Commons)
It was a humid Sunday morning in Brewer, Maine, on July 8, 1984. It was the kind of 11 am sticky that made my poly/cotton Kmart dress itch against the fabric and rough boards of the pew, the kind of heat and discomfort that lends itself to a powerful hellfire and brimstone sermon. Pounded from the pulpit on this particular Sunday were words inspired by the murder of Charlie Howard at 10:30 p.m. the night before.
Charlie, an openly gay man, was walking with a friend across a bridge less than a mile from my pew when three adolescent boys pulled up, stopped, and got out of the car. They proceeded to pound the crap out of Charlie and then toss him over the railing into the river. He'd told them he couldn't swim. They drove away. Charlie was officially pronounced dead shortly after midnight.
Charlie Howard
Seemingly, the congregation all agreed with the message: Charlie was the spirit of Satan made manifest. He was a local home-grown example of how the devil and secular humanism were alive and well in our land. Our country, culture, and way of life were being destroyed. Vigilance and sometimes vigilante acts were required. The scripture was clear that Charlie had brought this act of God upon himself.
Across town that Sunday morning, Charlie's Unitarian Church was gasping from the news. In the weeks that followed, I secretly watched the news and aside from his church, I saw no response from the faith community except for sermons like the one I had received.
Three weeks before Charlie's murder, I had turned 17. Charlie was 23. The three teenage boys who murdered him were 15, 16, and 17 years old. As we drove home from church that Sunday, being sure to go past the bridge, the message was loud and clear in my community: silence doesn't equal death, silence equals survival.
It wasn't the first hate-filled sermon that I'd heard in my 17 years and it wouldn't be my last. It would take another five years before I would be far enough away and feel safe enough to come completely out of the closet. But even then I would check and recheck my doors, knowing what this zealous church was capable of inciting.
Working in the non-profit sector across rural regions of the country, especially in Appalachia and the Deep South, I'm often focusing on youth development issues beside, or in support of, faith-based efforts and community leaders. It has been an immense honor to meet these individuals and witness their liberation theology in action. Considering my childhood roots, I find them extraordinary. Here are people who walk their faith with love and justice instead of power and fear.
Yet, as I've moved through these worlds, if I had a dollar for every time a white liberal has pulled me aside with words of caution, I swear I could fund all of our rural youth work. He or she will kindly suggest I "Might want to think about not letting people know" I'm a lesbian (except they always say gay), because "The rural church community is still pretty conservative when it comes to these issues."
To be fair, I've also had plenty of African American colleagues tell me, "You know, we don't really talk about that stuff."
Either way, the message has been clear: to be effective and well received in my work–to build the needed trust to work across race, class, gender lines—I had best not bring my whole self to the table. I will not be welcomed and it will be disruptive to the work at hand. .
Yet, according to HRC's Growing Up LGBT report and the Durso Gates Serving Our Youth National Survey, 63% of LGBTQ youth say they will need to move to another part of the country to feel accepted and an overwhelming 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ.
These statistics go to the heart of our work to retain and engage youth in their rural communities. The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) reports, a LGBTQ student hears 26 anti-LGBTQ slurs during their day on average (one-third from a school staff member); 30% of LGBTQ students missed a day of school in the last month due to safety concerns; and 28% drop out of high school altogether. Perhaps most appalling and yet hardly surprising: more than 33% suffer violence as result of families who do not accept them.
The author, Kim Phinney, right, and Kathy Moxon, left. (Photo by Shawn Poynter)
Last summer, my colleagues and I led a professional development gathering with local, non-profit staff from across the country. While I was driving the group to lunch, we drove past a rainbow flag and the subject of gay pride came up. One of the group members shared that the mayor of her rural Mississippi town wanted to hold their first-ever pride parade, but when the faith community leaders, locally and in surrounding communities, got wind of it, they shut him down and wanted him out of office. Another participant told us that her congregation in rural Appalachian Ohio had refused to adopt the ratified ruling of the larger Presbyterian Church towards LGBTQ members, making it clear that all who entered their doors were not welcome. She still tells them she wishes they would change their mind.
A little over a year ago, the Rural Assembly held a national gathering on "Building Civic Courage." One of the highlights was a dialogue between the theologians the Reverend Ruby Sayles and the Reverend Jennifer Bailey.They talked with each other and the audience about the sanctuary that the Black church has provided in the onslaught of systemic oppression, annihilation, and genocide from white supremacy. Reverend Sales and Bailey talked deep theology; they talked about the sacredness of love and community for African Americans. They talked revolutionary love and becoming a whole community. They spoke of how it's like there are two gods, one black and one white. Reverend Sales said, "It's as if white people don't believe in redemption."
Listening, I recognized the white god I was raised with and the racist system of white religion that they were discussing. The god I knew was a hate filled, violent, tyrannical god. He provided the motivational verse for the murdering of Black men or the hatred used to rationalize tossing Charlie off a bridge.
Next, Reverend Bailey stated that in order to move forward, we have to go back. We have to collect the personal stories, histories, lineages that have been left behind, willfully ignored and forgotten. As Americans, we're too good at forgetting. A forward movement necessitates an acknowledgement and reflection on the past. African Americans, she explained, need to reclaim the stories and narratives that have been hidden for protection, including those locked away out of fear. She went on to say that this is true for white people as well. What are our stories and histories? One of the most insidious things about whiteness, she says, is that it separates us from history, from ourselves, and our lineages too. There has to be a redemptive quality to going back and fetching what we forgot or were never taught. She wrapped the discussion back to this as her closing challenge: we are taught to forget, to separate ourselves from a collective memory and story and to see ourselves as functioning as individuals only. What we know, she said, is that isolation kills. We must go back and fetch what we have left behind.
I listened and my muscles began to tighten. My jaw clenched. From my history, I thought, there is nothing to go back and get. There is only forward.
But I must go back. Not only to examine my role as a white woman and the collective history of that identity, but also, I realize, as a lesbian. I'm out, but what, in the name of protection, have I locked away out of fear and away from danger? I deeply believe Reverend Bailey's message that without facing our collective histories, we cannot look each other in the eye today and move forward together.
Over the years, each time I've been pulled aside with the cautionary stay-in-the-closet warning, I've then entered the spaces of these communities. There I take a look around and after a moment, I almost always spot them. The young person who is holding on, trying to blend in, almost always standing at the intersection of poverty, race, gender, and sexual identity. That's a lethal location when you're in need of services from faith-based institutions. Here is where the stop light stays on red and reminds you that silence = survival.
More often than not, I eventually find a moment and a way in, for at least a quick conversation. Then I learn of the parent who kicked them out; the cousin who lets them sleep on the couch as long as they don't tell anyone about who they are; the boyfriend/girlfriend who they create, always a couple of towns away; the stories they tell the program staff so they won't suspect; the time they got the shit kicked out of them; the straight sex they have every so often; and always there's a reference to or story about their church.
The script and set are so consistent and seemingly timeless; I swear it could win an Academy Award for enduring, rural, lifetime achievement. It's a script that really flies in the face of all the positive rural framing that we strive to do.
As I listen to these stories, part of my brain is furtively writing a different version. Look at all the assets in this community. Here's a story of resilience and revitalization. No, we really do mean all the people and all the places. I chafe that these stories of closeted LGBTQ youth play into rural stereotypes; and that raising them is bringing the counter-narrative down.
Sometimes I get calls from local non-profit staff; these come almost always after hours or in a carefully worded email or text. They're concerned about one of their young people. You see she/he is gay or queer (never Trans) and well, they've never had this at their organization before and, you see, it's a rural community, so they're not sure what they should do? They're worried for the young person and what kind of life, he/she/they will have. Wouldn't it be best if they were able to move away?
In my head, I remember these words from lesbian author Dorothy Allison, "Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." As I settle in for the conversation, my respect for them is great. Here they've taken the time at the end of a long day, with all that they're juggling, to call. The sheer love that they have for their young people is amazing.
I'm not going to lie, each time, I've told them an awesome tale of rural queer utopia. I talk about how to surround that young person in love. How to help them connect to resources, how their challenges are unique but similar to that of every young person, how they can build their own community. Family is what you create not where you're born. I talk about how every community has LGBTQ people and families living there. I talk with authority and the great collective "we." I shred the stereotypes about rural America and queer identity.
Ironically, here's a fact check. I've only experienced about 40% of what I say. And, I left my home town and moved to the land of Bernie.
The fact is, regardless of the federal or state or local legislation, religion in rural America dictates lived reality.
My experience in these communities is this: one preacher tells us that "we have sinned and come short of the glory of god," while another offers us redemption. But the dominant message in the world of rural development is that the woman at the well is limited to only certain identities and regardless of our god's race/ethnicity, not all of us are children of god with a birthright of unconditional love.
After facilitating a national training on LGBTQ youth issues a couple of years ago, I had three youth development professionals from around the country come up and let me know that they can't be out of the closet in their work, but how much they appreciated what I had to say. They asked me how I did it. "To be out would be disruptive, would distract from the larger social justice work," they explained. "Maybe one day…" each said (and two cried). All explained that they have to work closely with the faith community.
Indeed, before conducting this training, I quietly expressed my own fears to a straight friend/colleague. She told me, "We have gay marriage for crying out loud. Get over it. This is not a big deal."
"If it's not a big deal," I asked, "why are we offering this training?"
Unequivocally, gay marriage has brought an enormous level of constitutional and legal security to my family. But it has also ushered in an era of liberal, politically-correct, gestures from the self-proclaimed heathen and the faithful. We are told that either it just isn't a big deal anymore or we are bestowed with people thinking that they're earning extra stars in their crown by offering us slogans and the piety-pity message of salvation. Telling us, Hey! It turns out you're worthy of being washed of your sins (sub-text: you were born sinful and need forgiveness, but at least you made the list of worthy of saving). Whichever message you hear depends on which god you're referring to and which region of the country you live in. As a white woman, I experience these messages as dismissive and they make me feel invisible. But for young people who sit on the fault lines of identity, that message is inherently filled with white supremacy and annihilation.
Throughout the past year, I've deeply wrestled with Reverend Bailey's instructions, "Go back and fetch what you left behind." I've struggled to push through my grief and rage, to go back to my 17-year-old self in the pew, to reflect on what I know Reverend Bailey means, to make this essay not just my own triggered reaction but a step back in order to move forward. How do I own what she told us to do?
I'm not there yet. Going back and fetching means ALL our young people: those filled with hate and those filled with fear on the fault lines. It means fundamental systems change like making reparations. But here's where I'm starting, recognizing this is only a small slice of her intent. Now with each of these communities, when I show up, I look to go back and get those who have been left behind.
I've got miles and miles to go but to these beautiful souls, I want you to know that I believe you were born perfect. When I see you, I see the divine.
The young woman in Hazard, KY
The young man in Hammond, LA
The young man in River City, NC
The young woman in Espanola, NM
The young man in Plainview, TX
The young woman of Red Lake Nation, Red Lake, MN
The young woman in Convent, LA
The young man in Tallulah, LA
The young woman in Lake Providence, LA
The young man in Brownsville, TX
The young woman in Kincaid, WV
The young man in Elkins, WV
The young woman in Homestead, FL
The young woman in Bemidji, MN
The young man in Gretna, FL
The young man in Lewiston, ME
The young woman in Barre, VT
The young man in OK
The young woman in Greensboro, AL
The young man in Vidalia, GA
The young man in Kingstree, SC
The young woman in Athens, OH
The young woman on the Kenai Peninsula, AK
The young man in Missoula, MT
The young man in IN
The young woman of the Pascua Yaqui Nation, Guadalupe, AZ
My childhood companions that are still in the church in Maine, to leave would mean losing all they've known.
My colleagues who live two lives in their fight for social justice even when they don't see themselves represented in that fight.
October is LGBTQ History Month. As we celebrate, I ask the rural faith-based community, when will you go back and fetch who you've left behind?
Kim Phinney is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Rural Strategies, which publishes the Daily Yonder. She lives in northern Vermont with her family.
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As the weather starts to warm, adults and children alike begin to think of springtime and the fun it brings — for students and parents, that means March Break.
It's a busy time of year for Canadians to travel and there are plenty of deals to take advantage of if you want to go on vacation with your family. There are super savings for Canadians in Myrtle Beach for Can-Am days; you will have a last chance to ski down the slopes of Tremblant in Quebec; take a road trip to our Nations Capital; catch some baseballs at spring training in Phoenix; or set sail on a dream cruise.
Savings: Discounts range from 25 to 55 per cent on select Myrtle Beach area hotels, merchants and attractions for Canadian travelers throughout spring. Check each specific website for the deal they are offering Canadians.
The Details: Aimed directly at Canadians, Can-Am discounts are offered to attempt and offset the currency exchange rate and save Canadians money on their travels. You will need a valid Canadian passport to receive the discounts that can be applied to select hotels, golf courses, restaurants, live entertainment, and many attractions through May 2018. There is also an official Canadian-American Festival during the week of March 10-18 with even more discounts to help with the exchange rate.
Reasons To Go: The festival in March showcases the best of South Carolina's southern hospitality. Start your day with complimentary food and coffee at the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. On March 14 and 15 board the free shuttle heading to downtown Conway to explore the Riverwalk, Horry County Museum and take a ride along the Waccama River. Reservations are required. Once the Can-Am festival is over the deals continue into the spring. The family-friendly Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark has savings of up to 50 per cent for stays of seven nights or longer for spring travel. Other deals include up to 50 per cent off Speedway NASCAR racing and 30 per cent off at Wonderworks. Check out their website for more savings.
Savings: Save up to 55 per cent off for five days of skiing during school break at Tremblant. Lift ticket prices vary per age of skier.
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Reasons To Go: If you want to get in a final ski vacation with your family head to Tremblant. Located among the beautiful Laurentian Mountains, there are over 600 acres of skiing and snowboard terrain and an adorable pedestrian village at the foot of Mont Tremblant to enjoy a meal and shop for treasures. There are also deals and packages available for lodging in the area including the spring ahead deal that will save you 20 per cent on two nights or more at Tremblant.
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Reasons To Go: Take a March Break road trip to your favourite Canadian or American city and save money getting there. If you want to stay in Canada consider a road trip to Ottawa as there are numerous family-friendly March Break activities happening in our nation's capital. Or tap into some of the maple syrup festivals going on all month in Ontario, as most of the locations require a car to get there, such as the Stratford Maple Trail open from March 1 – April 30 (Tuesday to Saturday).
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Reasons To Go: This family-friendly resort, located beside the Phoenix North Mountain Preserves, has a Falls Water Village featuring a 40-foot waterfall, swimming pools, private cabanas, and a 138-foot enclosed waterslide for all your splashing fun. Not to mention that baseball is back in Phoenix and spring training has begun. Cactus League Spring Training features 15 major league teams and over 200 games from February 23 to March 27. Popular teams sell out fast so get your tickets early. Ballparks include Camelback Ranch Stadium where the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers train and the Peoria Sports Complex where the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres train.
Savings: This special deal for Canadians will save you up to ten per cent on select voyages. You can also save with two-for-one cruise fares and a choice between free shore excursions, a beverage package, or shipboard credit on select voyages.
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Scotty McCreery gathered a group of country artists to record "Angels Among Us"
Although Alabama originally wrote and released Angels Among Us as a country Christmas song, it has recently received a new lease on life, and we like it! In 2017, Radio Disney and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital joined forces for a worthy cause. They enlisted the help of a couple of well-known country musicians to record a cover of the song.
Carly Pearce, Hunter Hayes, Brennley Brown, CB30, Jillian Jacqueline, Lucy Hale, RaeLynn, Sara Evans, Scotty McCreery, Tegan Marie, and Temecula Road all contributed to the song's success. The bid lyrics, which reach out to pacify people in need, are what really connect with listeners.
St. Jude went one step further and fulfilled some young people's dreams by taking them to the studio! For the kids, meeting the musicians and spending the whole day watching them record, listening through earphones, and experimenting with the audio gear was a dream come true.
St. Jude's mission is to help children and to put an end to pediatric cancer forever. Since it began, its website says, the number of children who survive cancer has gone from 20% to more than 80%.
When they work with committed institutions like Disney, talented artists, and a giving community, they truly believe they can make a difference. Isn't it amazing what we can achieve when we all work together?
Listeners were encouraged to support efforts to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer in the brand-new version, which aired on Radio Disney. According to the video description, it was a huge hit, and as a result of its success, Disney was able to donate $25,000 to St. Jude. Isn't that wonderful?
Thanks to these amazing performers, Radio Disney, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital were able to greatly advance the fight against pediatric cancer. Watch this video to see how much fun they had while recording the song.
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This is the second in a series of eight articles that will be published on a fortnightly basis. The series is largely based on a recent study conducted by the author in and around the national parks in Banke and Bardiya.
Anyone who has sighted rare wildlife during a jungle safari in Chitwan or elsewhere can probably relate to this feeling. For city dwellers looking to connect with the natural world, spotting an animal in the wild can evoke a whole range of aesthetic emotions (provided the creature is at a safe distance). One doesn't need to be a conservationist, or even understand how wildlife contributes to ecological balance, to be able to appreciate the tiger, rhino, barking deer or dolphin.
Moreover, at a time when climate change and human activities threaten the planet's diversity of life, few of us can debate the importance of wildlife conservation. Many of us rejoice when the government, conservation organisations and media bring us news about increased numbers of tigers, rhinos and other such glamorous species.
However, for a large number of Nepalis who live near protected areas, wildlife population growth has come at a great cost. Their encounters with wild animals are far from romantic.
About 35,712 people live in the buffer zone of Banke National Park, the youngest national park in Nepal. Ninety percent of them depend on agriculture. Since the park was established in 2010, wild animals have increasingly become the bane of their lives.
What is often known as "park-people conflict" is essentially a tension between two perspectives. The dominant perspective is represented by those who lead conservation—government, national park authorities and big conservation INGOs. In this view, forests belong to wildlife, not people.
"The Tarai stretch belonged to the animals," said a senior official at the Zoological Society of London, Nepal. "It is humans who encroached on their land. Animals attacked people because they felt threatened. In return humans are provided compensation." Thus the current challenge is how to manage the large numbers of forest-dependent people in order to protect forests and ensure that wild animals, especially "flagship species" like the tiger, rhino and Asian elephant, are able to move freely, thrive and multiply. This view is propagated at the highest levels across the globe and receives substantial funding from bilateral and multilateral institutions.
"Discontent" sounds like a careful understatement of what people have had to suffer because of wildlife attacks.
In Bardiya National Park, wild elephants have terrorized the entire population of the buffer zone. Elephants come at night and raid people's crops and sometimes damage their homes. Juna Karki, 26, is a single mother of two who lives in a small hut near the western boundary of the park. Her husband, a migrant worker, died in Qatar in unknown circumstances a few years ago. "It is lucky we are still alive," she said. "Wild elephants have already destroyed our hut twice. My daughters are so terrified they can hardly sleep at night." In September 2016 wild elephants killed two Tharu residents, a 72-year-old man and a 15-year-old schoolboy, on the same day. The elderly man was guarding the fields against elephants when he was attacked by one.
"We have to go to jail if we kill a bird, but we can't harm an animal even when it attacks us," said Min Raj Tharu, a buffer zone resident of Janaknagar village.
Several Dalit families in Madhuwan rural municipality were displaced as a result of elephant attacks. They are now living on public land in Kailasi village. Without land titles they can't even claim compensation for the damage. Besides, the process of claiming compensation is so tedious and exhausting most people give up before they even complete the application process.
The term "human-wildlife conflict" is somewhat misleading as it projects the problem as an equal battle between local people and protected wildlife. But it is the people—poor, vulnerable, forest-dependent people—who are most often at the receiving end of this conflict.
As conservation organisations announce their success stories, the number of people killed by wildlife is rising. Last year "flagship species" such as tigers, rhinos and elephants killed 14 people and injured 30 in Chitwan National Park. As I write this, a tiger has killed a woman who was collecting fodder and injured two others near Parsa National Park in Makwanpur.
But the conservation industry often downplays the suffering of people who are paying the price of wildlife protection. Organisations that receive funding for wildlife protection routinely promote a narrative that obfuscates the lived reality of people in protected areas.


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Q: free() hangs when passed a valid pointer created by posix_memalign() - gcc and C++11 I need to allocate 16-byte-aligned memory, and from what I can tell the accepted method to do so is posix_memalign(), using the man page as reference (other StackOverflow questions indicated this to be so). The code below is simplified to exclude unrelated parts (ie other platforms), but I have kept some context (sse is just a namespace):
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
float* sse::alloc(unsigned int count)
{
    void* p;
    int r = posix_memalign(&p,16,sizeof(float)*count);
    if ( r == 0 )
        return (float*)p;
    /* else output error and exit(1) - has never failed */
    else exit(1);
}

void sse::free(float* p)
{
    free(p);
}

The code that uses it is pretty self-explanatory:
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    const unsigned int total = 16000;
    float *array = sse::alloc(total), *arr2 = sse::alloc(total);
    /* null ptr checks */
    // ...
    sse::free(array); sse::free(arr2);
    return 0;
}

I have commented out all non-essential code to test this, and have confirmed that it does indeed 'hang' on free(p); - when I Ctrl-C in gdb it reports the line. The behaviour is no different in valgrind, and the SSE code (using Intel intrinsics) (in place of ...) runs successfully. I have been compiling with fairly standard options: -g -O3 -std=c++11, and have tried no/less optimisation, no debug, and some unnecessary casts. Some information about my system (please ask if you would like more):

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*uname -a: Linux (name) 3.12.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT (date) x86_64 GNU/Linux

*g++ --version: 4.8.2

*gdb --version: 7.6.1

*valgrind --version: 3.9.0

Since the man pages clearly state that free() is the correct function, I am incredibly stumped, and I would prefer to avoid writing a mechanism to use new/delete and padding by 15 bytes (for obvious reasons). If there is an alternative that I am unaware of, I am happy to try that. Also, information about potential causes of such a hang could prove useful, as it is particularly difficult to search for some of these terms (still easier than searching for 'stack overflow').

A: you need to call the global free - change the free routine to:
void sse::free(float* p)
{
    ::free(p);
}

namespace rules cause it to call sse::free unless otherwise told


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Anglican Prelates Refuse Communion with U.S. Brethren Over Gay Issues
Anglican Prelates Refuse Communion with U.S. Brethren Over Gay IssuesFebruary 17, 2007 TL
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Unbelievable. The NYTimes reports today on the very strange choice made by Anglican archbishops visiting the Tanzania:
Seven archbishops who say they represent more than 30 million Anglicans worldwide refused to take Communion here on Friday with the new head of the American Episcopal Church, to protest her support of gay clergy members and blessings for same-sex unions.
Their action demonstrated the deep gulf between conservative and liberal wings of the Anglican Communion, the world's third largest Christian denomination, with 77 million members. Conflict over the American branch's acceptance of an openly gay bishop and same-sex unions has dominated a high-level Anglican meeting here.
Disagreement is one thing, but refusing to sit down and share communion? This type of a theological posturing is truly sad. Even if one disagrees with another, even if one actually believes the person at the table is a sinner of the worst kind (as these right-wing cone-heads obviously do), then certainly a cursory reading of one's own scriptures would reveal the example of a simple Rabbi who not only ate with sinners, but entered their homes to do so.
But we're not talking about sinners here. We're talking about bishops refusing to share the Eucharist with bishops. Has it really come to that? Again? And again?
Hats off — or miters off — to the American Anglican bishops who have the courage to stand by their convictions and reach out to all in love.
And shame on the Tanzanian Seven who refused Christ.
How sad, and how silly it all is.
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As an active liberal American Episcopalian, I'm outraged at the behavior of the Tanzanian Seven, but this has been brewing for ages. These bishops are probably equally annoyed that the Episcopal Church in the United States, aka ECUSA, has elected a woman as presiding bishop. They aree a great group of Christians, all right. Homophobic, sexist and divisive; a really unbeatable combination! What many observers don't know is that these same bishops have offered to embrace and oversee American congregations which wich to obtain a divorce from ECUSA. It's a very complicated situation; the repercussions will be felt for years to come and these bishops have escalated it. In my parish during the seventies we used to sing a hymn which began, "We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord." We've come a long way in the right direction, but there are many who would like a quick reversal. The African bishops who are acting in such a divisive manner are too similar to the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells in their beliefs an behavior for this Episcopalian to be comfortable. These are not attitude I ever expected to see and hear in my church.
I was so upset when I wrote the comments above that I didn't proof before submitting. Since then, things have gotten worse. It appears at this writing that ECUSA will be kicked out of the Anglican Communion although there seems to be no mechanism in place to do this. It will probably resemble an Amish shunning on a very large scale. If cooler heads don't prevail, it will get ugly. There will be court battles over church property, etc. All this because ECUSA is trying to accept all human beings as God made them. This is a sad and shameful state of affairs. When will we Christians stop claiming what belongs to God alone; judgement of our fellow human beings?


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Ilhan Omar: First female Somali American lawmaker
Ilhan Omar has broken barriers as first Somali American elected legislator, but will be a lonely voice in Trump's US.
by James Reinl
Ilhan Omar, first Somali American elected to the Minnesota Legislature on November 8 [Carlos Gonzalez/AP]
New York, the United States - An election that won Donald Trump the White House and gave Republicans control of Congress was an unlikely moment for the United States to also get its first Somali American legislator in the form of headscarf-wearing Ilhan Omar.
Omar, a 34-year-old refugee from Somalia's bullet-ridden capital, Mogadishu, won a seat in Minnesota's House of Representatives on November 8, as a self-styled progressive who would stick up for fellow Muslims and work for fairer pay and better schools in Minneapolis.
To her supporters, she is a charismatic ambassador for Somalis and Muslims and a silver lining in an election that elevated the Republican candidate, Trump, who campaigned against the threat of terrorism from Muslim refugees, like Omar.
Crowds chanted her name as Omar made her victory speech Tuesday night, wearing pearls and elegant white robes. Critics ask, however, whether beneath the sparkly smile and all-purpose liberal slogans, she is a political lightweight who dodges scrutiny.
"If we've learned anything these past few days, it's that America is at a point of divide with two very opposing concepts of nationalism," Omar's spokesman Akhilesh Menawat told Al Jazeera.
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"We've found that our solution - uniting people and thriving in our diversity, not fearing diversity - works. We've done Minneapolis; now it's time to go to the state and keep moving forward. There's a lot more work to do."
Proving her worth
Omar was born in Mogadishu, but her family fled after dictator Siad Barre was toppled in 1991 and Somalia collapsed into cycles of clan-on-clan violence, famine and religious fanaticism, which continue to blight the Horn of Africa nation.
After four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, Omar's family was excited to secure refugee resettlement to the US state of Virginia. They soon joined fellow Somalis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a northern Rust Belt state on the Great Lakes bordering Canada.
Twelve-year-old Omar knew little English and grew frustrated that teachers continuously overlooked her in class. She once showed pluck when a maths teacher ignored her raised hand when asking pupils to solve a number puzzle.
"In defiance, she just walked up to the board and answered the problem and sat back down - to prove that she was worth something," said Menawat.
Aged 14, she got her first dose of US-style politics when interpreting for her grandfather at caucuses of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL), a Democratic affiliate. It stuck and soon, she was a student organiser at Edison High School.
She earned degrees in business, political science and international studies. She helped female African immigrants. As a city council policy wonk, she favoured rehabilitating rather than jailing offenders, and helped restaurants stay open late for fast-breaking Ramadan suppers.
During her campaign to represent district 60B, some 400 volunteers canvassed more than 100,000 voters to push Omar's pledges of social justice, "closing the opportunity gap" and cleaning up the environment.
After defeating a DFL veteran in her August primary, Omar's campaign was caught in a scandal over alleged bigamy. In a statement, she distinguished between her "legal" and "faith tradition" marriages. She lives with Ahmed Hirsi and their three children.
Breaking barriers and ceilings
Jaylani Hussein, who heads the state branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a lobby group, said a right-wing backlash was among the "hazards of the job" for any Muslim running for office in the US's hostile political climate.
"She definitely broke a lot of barriers and ceilings," Hussein told Al Jazeera. "Anyone from the Muslim community who is running for political office or who is in political office has seen increased attacks and threats against them."
Faiza Mahamud, a reporter for the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune newspaper, said the rumpus raised questions over Omar's line between "transparency" and "privacy". Other questions linger over her political spat with Somali American city councillor, Abdi Warsame.
"She talks about being a bridge-builder between communities, but a lot of people have expressed concern about how accessible she's going to be to the larger community. This will be a challenge for her and we'll see how she manages it," Mahamud told Al Jazeera.
Omar became a shoo-in after her Republican rival, Abdimalik Askar, suspended his campaign in August.
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At her victory party, she came to the podium as the song The World's Greatest by R Kelly entertained an energised crowd and Omar spoke of "shifting narratives, restoring hope and re-establishing access in our democracy".
This will be a struggle
The national mood was very different. Omar broke the glass ceiling for Somali American politicians, but the Democratic candidate for the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton, had failed to become America's first woman president.
Trump won by driving his juggernaut of voter anger through Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states along a supposedly impenetrable "Blue Wall" that Democrats had not lost in a presidential ballot since 1992.
Before the biggest electoral upset in recent decades, critics had said Trump's bid to swing Minnesota was the desperate act of a losing candidate. The property tycoon turned rural Minnesota red, but Democrats clung on to the state with a slim 44,000-vote margin.
In the closing days of campaigning, Trump filled a hangar at the Minneapolis-St Paul airport and said the state had "suffered enough" for accommodating thousands of Somali refugees who, he said, had a penchant for supporting ISIL and "spreading their extremist views".
It was more than hyperbole. Three Somali Americans - two US citizens and one a lawful resident - pleaded guilty in June to trying to join ISIL. According to officials, some 30 young men from Minnesota have left the US to join ISIL, or al-Shabab in Somalia.
US Census data counts about 86,000 Somali Americans in the US, about 25,000 of them live in Minnesota. They are mostly in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St Paul, which are among the most racially segregated areas in the US.
While Trump has argued for halting Muslim immigration and blocking refugees from conflict areas like Syria and Somalia, Omar warns that angry rhetoric is exactly what drives young Somali Americans to fanaticism.
According to Menawat, fear-mongering about "Islamic terrorism and Sharia law" is the "reason these young, mostly men, are drawn to that message because they feel like they're rejected by the community they live in".
Omar's job these next two years involves "educating people to see that Muslim and Somali refugees are no different than all the ancestors of everyone else in this nation who were, at one point, immigrants," Menawat added.
This will be a struggle.
With a Trump White House and Republicans running Congress in Washington and even Minnesota's House of Representatives, Omar will need to be as bold as she was during her maths class to get noticed.
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James Reinl is a journalist and world affairs analyst who has reported from more than 30 countries and won awards for covering Haiti's earthquake, Sri Lanka's civil war and human rights abuses in Iran.
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The 1930 Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship was the second staging of the Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board in 1929. The championship consisted of just one game between the two divisional championship winners.

The final was played on 12 April 1931 at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, between Conahy Shamrocks and Mooncoin, in what was their first meeting in a final. Conahy Shamrocks won the match by 6–01 to 1–01 to claim their first championship title.

Qualification

Results

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External links
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