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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani(as)Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as), Love for All, Hatred for None.
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True Love for The Holy Prophet (saw)
Friday Sermon September 21st, 2012 delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad(at)
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NOTE: Alislam Team takes full responsibility for any errors or miscommunication in this Synopsis of the Friday Sermon.
Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih began his Friday sermon by reciting the following verses of the Holy Qur'an. The translation reads:
'Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet. O ye who believe! you also should invoke blessings on him and salute him with the salutation of peace.
Verily, those who annoy Allah and His Messenger — Allah has cursed them in this world and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them an abasing punishment.' (33:57 – 58)
These days an intense wave of indignation has swept through the Muslim world; in Muslims countries as well as among Muslims living in different countries of the world in response to an extremely crude and offensive act of anti-Islam elements. Indeed, Muslims are justified in this. Whether or not a Muslim has proper insight of the real station of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him), he is ready to give his life for his respect and honour. Indignation of every Muslim is natural at the crude and offensive film made about the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and the wicked way in which affront has been directed at him in it. He, who was a benefactor of humanity, mercy for all the worlds and beloved of God and who stayed awake at nights in his sorrow for humanity, who expressed so much anguish to save humanity that God in the heavens said: 'So haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death for sorrow after them if they believe not in this discourse.' (18:7)
The extremely insulting film about this great benefactor of humanity was surely going to make a Muslim's heart bleed and it did. And more than anyone, it pained Ahmadi Muslims for we are the followers of the true and ardent devotee of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) who gave us the insight and perception of the great station of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). Our hearts are torn at this gross act and we are extremely hurt and wounded. We prostrate before God to contend with the perpetrators and make them a cautionary sign that would last till the end of the world.
The perception that the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) gave us is thus; he wrote: 'Muslims are those people, who give their lives for the honour of their noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). Death is their preference to the dishonour in genuinely reconciling with such people and becoming their friends whose task is to day and night verbally abuse their Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and cite his name extremely insultingly in their magazines, books and advertisements and mention him in utterly degrading words. Remember, such individuals are also not the well-wishers of their own people because they create impediments in their way. I say most truthfully that it is possible that we may reconcile with wild snakes and wilderness beasts, but we cannot reconcile with those people who do not desist from insulting the honour of God's holy Prophets. They think that there is triumph in abusive language and vulgarity but each triumph comes from the heavens. Through the blessing of their pure discourse, those with pure speech ultimately win hearts and minds whereas those of wicked nature have no other skill other than creating discord and conflict in the land in a disorderly way…Experience also bears witness that the ending of such offensive people is not good. The sense of honour of God ultimately comes to pass for His beloveds.' (Chashma Ma'rafat, Ruhani Khaza'in, Vol. 23, pp. 386 – 387)
These days apart from magazines and advertisements other mediums are also used for this vulgarity. Out of their stubbornness these people are contending with God. InshaAllah, they will come under His chastisement. In their obstinacy they continue to perpetrate their excesses. When in 2006 wicked natured people in Denmark made vulgar caricatures of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) while Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih drew the attention of the Jama'at to demonstrate appropriate reaction, he had also said that these people will not stop here and will continue to perpetrate such acts in future. Today we observe that they have resorted to greater vulgarity and meanness. It is their defeat against Islam that is forcing them to be offensive in the name of freedom of speech. As the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said, they are not even the well-wishers of their own people. It will one day be unfolded to them all that what they are doing is in fact harmful for them. These people are mean and selfish.
Right now in the name of freedom of speech politicians and others, in places openly and in places discreetly, are speaking up for these people; some are also speaking up for the Muslims. But it should be remembered that this world is now like a global village and if wickedness is not openly called wickedness, these matters can also destroy the peace of these countries. It should be remembered what the Imam of the age said; that every triumph comes from the heavens and the heavens have decided that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) whom they are insulting will triumph in the world and he will triumph by winning hearts and minds because pure discourse is effective and it does not require extremist measures or to respond to vulgarity with vulgarity. God will deal with these perpetrators in the next life.
In the verses recited at the start of the sermon God draws the attention of the believers towards their responsibilities; that is, to invoke peace and salutations on the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). The vulgarity and slander by these people does not affect the honour of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) at all. He was a Prophet on whom God and His angels invoke blessings and salutations. It is for the believers to constantly engage in doing the same and when the enemy exceeds in vulgarity, invoke blessings and salutations (Durud) more than ever:
Bless, O Allah Muhammad and the people of Muhammad, as You blessed Ibrahim and the people of Ibrahim. You are indeed the Praiseworthy, the Glorious.
Prosper, O Allah Muhammad and the people of Muhammad, as You did prosper Ibrahim and the people of Ibrahim. You are the Praiseworthy, the Glorious.
This alone is the invocation of salutations (Durud) and this alone is the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) whose triumph in the world is destined.
While an Ahmadi expresses indignation and disgust at the vulgarity, he or she also tries to draw attention of people to desist from committing these vulgarities. From a worldly perspective an Ahmadi tries to make the world aware of the reality as opposed to this conspiracy and presents the beautiful aspects and blessed model of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). An Ahmadi tries to demonstrate the blessed model through each act of his or her and thus presents to the world its illustration in practice. Indeed, men, women, young, old and children should be drawn to invoke blessings and salutations on the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) more than ever, the air should be filled with it. Everyone should make their actions a practical model of Islamic teaching.
The second verse recited at the beginning speaks of the ending of the perpetrators. They are cursed by God in this life and also in the Hereafter. In this world their fate will be in the form of God's curse and in the next life it will be a humiliating chastisement.
Other Muslims should also, in light of the teachings of God and His commandments, react to the situation by filling the very air with invocation of blessings and salutations on the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). It is useless to react in a way that destroys one's own property in one's own country and causes the killing of one's own people. The police also have to resort to firing in such situations. Media reports tell that many decent Western people who are not Muslims have also expressed their disgust at this transgression in US as well as here (UK). However, on one hand the leadership says that this is not right but on the other hand backs it in the name of freedom of speech.
The law about freedom of speech is not heavenly scripture. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih said that this is what he had told the politicians in his address in USA. That there can be flaws in man-made laws; some aspects can be missed while legislating because man does not possess the knowledge of the unseen. But God is Knower of the unseen and there is no flaw in His laws. People should not consider their laws so final that there could be no alterations in them. While a law for freedom of speech exists, but neither any country's law nor the UN Charter has the proviso that no person will be free to injure the religious sentiments of others or that holy personage of religions should not be disparaged for it ruins world peace and causes eruptions of hatred to spill over and it widens the chasm between countries and religions.
While a law for freedom of speech has been made giving an individual freedom which is fine, there is no law against injuring the sentiments of others. UN is also not being successful because the law of freedom of speech is considered a huge feat. God states that do not even belittle the idols of other people for they would in retaliation do the same to your God and it would destroy peace and enmity would increase. This is the teaching of the God of Islam, the God of this universe. Who sent His beloved with this perfect teaching, giving him the title of 'Mercy for all the worlds.' Thus, the educated people of the world, the politicians and people in governments should think if by not firmly dealing with these few vulgar people are they too are being party to it. People of the world should think if by playing with the religious sentiments of others and agreeing with these few slimy insects of the world are they too being party to destroying world peace?
We, Ahmadi Muslims do not leave any stone unturned to serve the world. Last year the need arose in US and Ahmadis donated 12,000 bottles of blood and they are doing the same this year. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih told them that while Ahmadis are donating blood, by agreeing with these people they are making our hearts bleed. Muslims are alleged to be doing wrong. It is correct some Muslim reaction is incorrect; damage and destruction, setting things on fire, killing of the innocent, leaving diplomats unprotected, killing of diplomats are all wrong. But derision and affront of innocent Prophets is also a big sin. In a copycat attempt, recently a French magazine has also boiled over and has published offensive cartoons which are even worse than the previous ones. These worldly people think the world to be everything not realising that this world alone is source of their destruction.
Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih said that Muslims inhabit a large part of the world and God has also granted them natural resources. Muslim countries are also part of the UN. The Holy Qur'an is a complete code of conduct. Why do those who read it and follow it not present its beautiful teachings to the world on every level? Why do they not put it before the world that according to the Qur'an it is criminal and a big sin to play with the religious sentiments of others and to be offensive about the Prophets of God. And it is important for world peace that it is made part of the UN Charter that no country will allow any of its citizens to play with the religious sentiments of others. It will not be allowed to destroy world peace in the name of freedom of speech. Sadly all this is happening for so long but the Muslim countries have never made a mutual effort to inform the world about the honour of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and all the other Prophets and have it acknowledged on an international level. Although like other clauses of UN it would also not be implemented but at the very least something would go on record.
Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) is there but it has done nothing concrete for the Muslims. Muslim leaders are busy pursuing their personal wishes but have no thought for faith. Had Muslim leaders made concrete efforts the masses would not have shown such inappropriate reactions like those taking place in Pakistan and other countries. They would have been safe in the knowledge that their leaders would rise to the world forum to uphold the honour of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and the honour of other Prophets in a way that would make the world acknowledge that what they said was right. There is a large number of Muslims living in the West and every part of the world. Muslims are the second greatest power of the world in terms of population and religion. Were they to abide by the teachings of God they could become the greatest force in every sense and in such an instance anti-Islam powers would not dare perpetrate such heart-rending acts. A large number of Muslims inhabit Europe. The Turks alone inhabit in their millions, not in the entire Europe but in their millions in each country of Europe. Similarly other ethnic Muslims from Asia inhabit UK, USA, Canada and every part of Europe. If they all decided that they would vote for those politicians who demonstrated tolerance in matters of religion and who condemned people who perpetrated such vulgarities and made such films. This would lead to a section of people from among worldly governments people to rise against such vulgarities. If Muslims were to understand their importance a revolutionary change can come about in the world, they can facilitate laws regarding respecting religious sentiments but unfortunately they are not drawn to this. And they are determined in their opposition to the community that draws attention to it and thus strengthen the hands of the enemy. May God give sense to Muslim leaders, politicians and religious scholars that they may strengthen themselves, that they may understand their strength, that they may pay attention to their teachings.
The moral state of the people who make these vulgar allegations on the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) or those who have made this film can be gauged from the information available in the media. A Coptic Christian by the name of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula who lives in US has made the film. It is said that he has a criminal background and was imprisoned in 2010 for fraud. The person who has directed the film is a director of pornographic films and the actors in the film are also actors of pornographic films. The excesses of pornography are beyond one's imaginations and here they purport to criticise that person for whose high morals and purity even God bore witness. By perpetrating this obscenity they have certainly called on God's wrath and they continue to do so. Similarly the sponsors of this film cannot avoid God's chastisement including that Christian priest who time and again has tried to burn the Qur'an for cheap publicity in US.
'Our Lord, break them in pieces, a complete breaking up and reduce them to dust.'
Some sections of the media have condemned this film and have also condemned the Muslim reaction. It is correct, wrong reaction should be condemned, but it should be noted who initiated it all. It is the misfortune of Muslims that all this is happening due to Muslims not having any unity or leadership. They claim ardent love of the Prophet but are distant from faith with no knowledge of it and are also weakening in worldly sense. No Muslim country has fully protested to another country. If any protest has been made it was so weak that the media took no attention. If any news item was given on the objection of Muslims it was that 1.8 billion Muslims are reacting like children. In the absence of anyone at the helm it would be so, thus with this sarcastic remark reality was also brought to the fore.
People here are blind to religion and do not respond even when Hadhrat Isa (on whom be peace) is denigrated. They would find the Muslim reaction juvenile. In 2006 Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih had drawn the attention of the Muslims to create a robust modus operandi so that no one would dare repeat the insult. But they objected briefly which was inconsequential. Someone has suggested that all the Muslim lawyers in the world should get together and make a petition. If only Muslim lawyers who have international standing think about the feasibility of this or find another way. How long will they see such vulgarities perpetrated and suffice on protest causing damage and destruction in their country? This damage and destruction has no effect on the West. If they will attack the innocents in the West, give threats and attack embassies, that is against the teaching of Islam. In such instance they will give people cause to object. Extremism is not the answer. The answer is as given before: reformation of practices, invoking blessings and salutation on the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and unity of Muslims and Muslims living in the West gaining strength of their vote. Ahmadis should work on this wherever in the world they may be.
Today they create clamour over freedom of speech and say there is no freedom in Islam and cite examples of the Muslim countries of today. It is the misfortune of the Muslim countries that they are not abiding by Islamic teaching because Islamic teaching has nothing to do with what they practice. We find in history people impulsively addressing the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) and his patience and forbearance in response that is matchless. A tradition relates that once returning from Hunain a few people were with the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) when some Bedouins wrapped around him, they made demands of him so much so that they compelled him to move towards a thorny tree and his cloak was stuck in its thorns. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) stopped and asked them to return his cloak to him. He said if he had as many camels as the wild trees he would have given them to the Bedouins and they would not have found his niggardly, or false or a coward. In another tradition once a Bedouin pulled a cloak which had a thick border that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) had on so hard that the border left mark on his neck. He then said 'O Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) out of the goods that God has given you, have some loaded on my camels because neither you will give out of your wealth nor from the wealth of your father.' Initially the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) kept quiet. He then said that [all] wealth was God's and he was God's servant. He then said that the Bedouin would be retaliated for the pain he had caused him. The Bedouin replied, no. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) asked why not. The Bedouin replied, 'because you do not react to badness with badness.' This made the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) laugh and he asked for barley and dates to be loaded on the Bedouin's camels. Such was his deportment with friends and foes. Yet the objectors make their objections without any knowledge and say that the Holy Prophet, Mercy for all the worlds (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was severe.
Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih has not seen the [objectionable] film but has been told that it also raises objections over the Qur'an that it was written by the cousin of Hadhrat Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her) Waraqa bin Nawfil. During the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) the pagans raised objections as to why could the Qur'an not be revealed all at once. These people, including some priests, are completely uninformed. Waraqa had said to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) that he wished he could live to the day when the Makkans would force the Prophet to move out of Makkah. These priests are embroiled in discussion over where which Surah was revealed , Medina or Makkah and say that Waraqa wrote the Qur'an!
There is the matter of regard for others' sentiments in which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) was incomparable. In spite of knowing that he was the most prominent among all Prophets, in regard of the sentiments of a Jew he said that he should not be given preference over Moses (on whom be peace). His regard for the sentiments of the underprivileged can be seen in a tradition where one of his wealthy Companions was expressing his superiority over others. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) asked him that did he think his power and strength was due to his efforts? No, it was not. He said that his tribal strength as well as power of wealth all was due to the poor. Today the claimants of freedom establish the rights of the poor. The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) established these rights 1400 years ago when he said that a labourer should be paid his wages before his perspiration dries off.
It is also alleged that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) God forbid, was a womaniser. Objection is raised about his marriages. God knew that such questions would be raised so he facilitated such incidents which provide repudiation of these allegations. Asma bint Nauman was considered the most beautiful women of her time. On the wish of her father, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) had Nikah solemnised with her. When the Prophet went to her she said that she sought God's refuge from him. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) replied, 'You have sought the refuge of a very great sanctuary' and left. He then said to one of his Companions to take her back to her family. History records that her family was very happy at this marriage and was upset with her when she returned. This was the great person about whom dreadful allegations are made about women. Who married his wives because it was God's commandment. The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) has written that had the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) not married and had children how could we have had the exemplary model in this regard.
Erroneous things are said about Hadhrat 'Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) and about her age. She said that on occasion the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) used to say to her that he wished to worship God throughout the night. However, those with perverted minds will make allegations. They have done so in the past and they will continue to do it. God has decreed that He will fill Hell with such people. God has a great sense of honour for His beloveds. If they do not desist, His chastisement is very severe. The natural disasters all over the world, the economic crises, the chaos of global warming should draw those who make excesses towards God rather than towards vulgarities. The Imam of the age has explained everything clearly and has said that if his words are not heeded it will lead to destruction. Below is an extract from the writings of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) which is often presented. He wrote:
'Bear in mind that God has informed me time and again about the coming of earthquakes. So be sure that just as there have been earthquakes in America and in Europe, in keeping with the prophecies, so will they occur in different parts of Asia, and some of them will be as terrifying as doomsday. There will be death on such a large scale that rivers will run with blood, and even birds and animals will not escape it. Such destruction will overtake the earth as has not happened since man was born. Most places will be turned upside down as if they had never been inhabited. There will also be other terrible afflictions, both in heaven and earth, and every sensible person will realize that they are no ordinary phenomena, and no trace of them will be found in books of astronomy or philosophy. Then people will be seized by anxiety and they will wonder what is going to happen? Many will be saved, and many will perish. Those days are near, indeed they are at the door, when the world shall witness a spectacle of doomsday. Not only will there be earthquakes, but other terrible calamities will also appear, some from heaven and some from the earth. This will happen because men have given up the worship of their God, and all their thoughts and their designs and their resolves are diverted towards the world. Had I not come, these calamities might have been delayed for a while, but with my coming the secret designs of God's wrath, that had long been hidden, have been manifested. As God said: '…We never punish until We have sent a Messenger.' (17: 16).
Those who repent shall find security and those who fear before the calamity overtakes them will be shown mercy. Do you think that you will be safe from these earthquakes, or that you can save yourselves by your own designs? No, you cannot. All human designs will come to naught that day. Do not imagine that only America has been shaken by the earthquake and that you are safe, for you may experience even greater calamities. O Europe! You are not secure, O Asia! You are not secure, O you who dwell in the Islands, no artificial god will come to your aid. I see the cities falling and I see the habitations in ruin. The One and the Unique has long remained silent. Abominations were committed before His eyes and yet He remained silent. But now He shall reveal His countenance in a dreadful manner. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! The hour is not far. I tried to bring everyone under the security of God, but the decrees of destiny had to be fulfilled. Assuredly, I say that this country's turn is also drawing near. The days of Noah shall appear before your eyes, and you will see with your own eyes what happened to the land of Lot. But God is slow to wrath, repent so that you are shown mercy. He who abandons God is a worm, not a man, and he who does not fear Him is dead, not alive.' [Haqiqat-ul-Wahi, Ruhani Khaza'in, vol. 22, pp. 268-269 – Essence of Islam, Vo. V, pp. 148 – 150]
May God give sense to the world and may He enable us to discharge our responsibilities.
Next Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih announced that he would lead two funeral Prayers after Friday Prayers. Both the funerals were of two recent young martyrs from Pakistan. Naveed Ahmad sahib and Muhammad Ahmad Siddiqi sahib.
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A Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel is a letter written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Times on 11 march 1913.
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The Times (11 march 1913)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir, — I welcome General Sir R. Talbot's letter dealing with the Channel Tunnel which appeared in your issue to-day. The matter seems to me of such importance that I grudge every day that passes without something having been done to bring it to realization. Built from national fund, it would in peace be a most valuable asset, while in war with any nation but France it would vastly increase our strength both for offensive and defensive purposes. The advantages which I see for a national tunnel are briefly as follows :—
1. If constructed by the nation for anything like the estimate advanced by capable engineers it should be a source of great profit to the country.
2. It should stimulate our trade with the Continent, since bulk need not be broken.
3. It should bring to England very many thousands of Continental travellers every year who are at present deterred by the crossing.
4. Should we ever be forced to send troops to the Continent, it provides a safe line of communication besides ensuring an unopposed transit.
5. It enables food to be introduced into the country in war time, and would help us to hold out, even after a naval defeat. All the supplies of the Mediterranean are available via Marseilles.
6. It passes out some of our exports in war time, and to that extent relieves the Fleet of the duty of convoying them.
These six reasons seem to me to be weighty ones. Against them there is only one that I have ever heard, the fear of invasion. This can of course only mean invasion by France, which cannot surely be regarded as a serious danger, although I admit that every defensive precaution should be taken. As to invasion, by any other country, it means that they have first to win and to hold both ends of the tunnel. Such a contingency is, I hold, beyond all bounds of common sense.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
Athenaeum Club, March 10.
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Brett Kavanaugh's Legal Logic Falls on Deaf Democratic Ears
By Reilly Stephens
This article appeared on DC Examiner on September 13, 2018.
Day Two of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings moved from soliloquy to dialogue, as the senators took turns quizzing the nominee on matters of varying degrees of substance. The solemnity was not improved by another round of the local hobbyists whose avocation seems to be competing for the least flattering photo of themselves being dragged away by the Capitol Police. The circus was empty, and all the clowns were all there.
In the center of the three rings, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D‑Minn., attacked Kavanaugh's opinion in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which held that the removal protections that Dodd‐Frank provided the CFPB director were inconsistent with the structure of the Constitution. In Klobuchar's imagination, this radical view defined Kavanaugh as the wrecking ball of the administrative state. Ignoring the Supreme Court's approval of independent agencies in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, he struck down an agency, undermining the consumer protections Congress sought to assure, and is looking forward to striking down the rest. What of the Social Security Administration, she demanded, predicting Kavanaugh would smash that idol as well.
Of course, Kavanaugh's opinion in PHH did no such thing. As he tried to explain to deaf ears, he never argued the CFPB as an agency was illegitimate, or that its authority need be limited. His constitutional objection was to the structure of the agency, which limited the accountability of the director. Traditionally, federal agencies came in two flavors: departments with a single director accountable to (read: can be fired by) the president, and multimember bipartisan commissions who are granted independence from presidential authority. The theory of the latter is that the division of power among the members of the deliberative body provides the necessary check on arbitrary authority, which in the single‐headed agency is provided by the president's ability to fire a rouge administrator (put aside for the moment whether this theory works out in practice). Dodd‐Frank broke with this tradition, installing a single director who could be removed only for cause. The opinion in PHH argued that transgressing this boundary was constitutionally infirm. "To ensure accountability for the exercise of executive power, and help safeguard liberty, the Framers then lodged full responsibility for the executive power in the president of the United States, who is elected by and accountable to the people," Kavanaugh wrote. "To carry out the executive power and be accountable for the exercise of that power, the president must be able to control subordinate officers in executive agencies." Humphrey's Executor carves out "quasi‐legislative" bodies like the FCC and FTC, but it is an exception to the general rule.
Day Two of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings moved from soliloquy to dialogue, as the senators took turns quizzing the nominee on matters of varying degrees of substance.
Kavanaugh's solution to this infirmity was modest: He held the CFPB director was removable by the president at will. Far from hampering the agency, he placed it on a par with the Departments of Justice, Defense, and State. Critics argue that the independence of the CFPB is necessary to shield it from the political winds. Cynics suspect they will feel differently in 2021 when President Oprah Winfrey takes office and tries to remove Mick Mulvaney from the directorship. Sauce, goose, gander, etc.
Following Klobuchar, Sen. Chris Coons, D‑Del., harrumphed a bit more about Humphrey's. His innovation was to bring up a related case, Morrison v. Olson, which Kavanaugh has at various points in the past nominated for reversal. In Morrison, the Supreme Court, over a well‐known dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia, upheld the independent counsel statute, which created a prosecutor outside the control of the president that could investigate the administration itself. This is the provision under which Ken Starr (with the assistance of a young attorney named Brett Kavanaugh) pursued then‐President Bill Clinton first for financial irregularities and later for his tendency to treat the women he came in contact with like stress balls and pin cushions. The mission creep of the Starr investigation was enough to convince both political parties to let the independent counsel system die a natural death soon after.
But investigating presidents is on trend these days, and so Coons pressed Kavanaugh regarding the criticism of Morrison. Those with more productive ways to spend their lives than studying constitutional law may not be aware that Kavanaugh's willingness to publicly deride Morrison is unsurprising, given that derision of Morrison is profoundly mainstream. Scalia's admonition that, unlike other threats to our system of government that arrive in sheep's clothing, "this wolf comes as a wolf" long ago passed into legend. As Kavanaugh pointed out, the partisans of Scalia's dissent include noted conservative reactionary Justice Elena Kagan.
And Scalia's dissent has aged like single malt for good reason. Rogue prosecutors are bad enough without endowing a prosecutor with the mandate to go rogue. It's not for nothing that these independent investigations have a habit of ending up far afield from their original scope: see Starr, above, or the conviction of Scooter Libby for actions having nothing very much to do with the outing of Valerie Plame. Someone once pointed out that conservatives are very concerned about government waste except when the money pit is inside the Pentagon. Recent evidence suggests that progressives are similarly aghast at the excesses of our criminal justice system except when those being prosecuted are Republicans.
And that, of course, is what Coons' questioning was really about — not so much subtext as a glowing apparition of Robert Mueller appearing before the C‑SPAN cameras. Of course, Mueller is not an independent counsel, that statute long since having passed on. He is a "special" counsel, which more or less no one (including Scalia, and almost certainly Kavanaugh) objects to. This means he does not have the full independence that was afforded Ken Starr, but given the recent convictions of two former associates of the president, it's not clear Mueller needs it.
The questioners spoke often today of accountability (as did the protesters), arguing that the president must not be above the law. Good on them. But the need for accountability does not stop at the doors of the Oval Office. Indeed, it is precisely because our officials must be brought to account that we should be skeptical of their insulation from presidential oversight. A single recalcitrant president can be brought to heal far easier than hundreds of unfireable bureaucrats spread across dozens of departments and agencies. Coons' decried the "unitary executive" theory as a license for presidential tyranny, but European history reminds us that a single tyrant is actually fairly easy to behead. It's innumerable Sheriffs of Nottingham spread throughout the land of which we should be more afraid.
Reilly Stephens
Reilly Stephens is a legal associate at the Cato Institute.


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Isola is an album released in 1997 by the Swedish band Kent. It was followed by an English version in 1998, for which a new song, "Velvet", was recorded.

The ending song from the album, "747", has become a fan favourite and was usually one of the songs Kent used to close their concerts.

Track listing

Swedish version

* "OWC" stands for Off World Colonies, a reference to the film Blade Runner. The song's opening piano line was also inspired from the film's soundtrack, which was composed by Vangelis.

English version

Personnel
Joakim Berg – lyrics, music
Martin Sköld – music
Zmago Smon (Zed) – producer, mixing
Tim Young – mastering

Charts

Swedish

English

References

1997 albums
Kent (band) albums

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Mission Trips Make Summer Meaningful
Giving up an entire week of summer break to travel to a foreign place and serve unfamiliar people may seem like a daunting and tedious chore to some teenagers, but not for Elizabeth Rosenkranz—the CJ student has spent parts of two summers volunteering with her school and already plans to attend a third service learning trip in 2012.
Elizabeth is just one of many students at Chaminade Julienne who decide to apply for the roughly 40 volunteer spots available on three separate weeklong summer mission trips offered each year by the Office of Ministry and Service. Those interested must receive recommendations from two references, pay for the costs associated with the trip, and meet all the school's eligibility requirements for extracurricular activities before earning the privilege of working within communities in Cincinnati, Ohio; Solsberry, Ind.; and Punta Gorda, Belize.
"It's just so much fun," Rosenkranz stated matter-of-factly to describe her motivation for making a second consecutive trip to the Tau Community House located off Interstate 75 just north of the Queen City in St. Bernard. The CJ junior spent the week of June 12-17 working with the Franciscans For the Poor alongside ten of her classmates and fellow high schoolers from Iowa and Georgia.
"You are doing volunteer work, but you become really good friends with the people you are around all day so it isn't boring or hard," she explained. Under the supervision of chaperones Janet Lasley, CJ art teacher, and Deacon Jim Walworth, director of development, the team from CJ worked in the community rehabbing a house, tearing down fencing, and performing yard work for neighbors in need; however, the most "eye-opening" experience, according to Rosenkranz, was helping children and adults with disabilities at Redwood.
"I've never really had the chance to work with the mentally handicapped until now," Rosenkranz added. Volunteers helped those in need at the non-profit agency during two sessions in the morning and afternoon.
According to Kelli Kinnear, director of ministry and service, the purpose of the CJ Summer Mission Trip Program, however, is not solely to provide a helping hand. The program is designed to give students an opportunity to develop their faith by responding to both national and international issues of poverty and injustice in the real world, and the trips are meant to incite a passion in young people to continue to serve beyond high school. In addition to the work involved, students also reflect on their experiences through prayer services and are allotted leisure time to build relationships with classmates.
Rosenkranz, who enjoyed her free time swimming with friends at a nearby pool, said she hopes to be wading in the Central American waters of Belize this time next year. She first became interested in CJ mission trips after her brother Henry Rosenkranz, '06, traveled to Guatemala with the Eagles. The school has been offering summer service opportunities in locations throughout North America since 1998.
"It's woven into who we are as a school with our Marianist and Sisters of Notre Dame charisms. That's just what we are all about; serving the poor and fulfilling needs," Kinnear explained in regards to the influence of the two orders that sponsor the school. She has been with CJ for 20 years.
Fifteen other CJ students spent the week of June 12-18 working with disadvantaged men, women and children residing in the Toledo District of Belize, just north of Guatemala, to help build a church. The group's endeavors included mixing and applying homemade plaster to the building's interior and exterior walls, climbing the Mayan ruins, delivering supplies to schoolchildren and assisting at mobile medical clinics with chaperones Dr. John Downer and Dr. Steve Huffman.
"I found it very enlightening that a group of CJ students made the decision to give up a week of their summer vacation to carry out the ideas of St. Julie and Blessed Chaminade, coming together in a very difficult environment to provide service to such an impoverished community," said Dr. Huffman, parent of CJ junior Elizabeth Huffman.
The doctors—both veterans of CJ mission trips, having each been to Belize in years past—were accompanied by faculty and staff first-time chaperones Amy O'Loughlin '86, science department co-chiar, and Angela Richardson Mason '81, administrative assistant in the office of student services. Mason, who attended with son Logan Daugherty '11, said this service learning experience is one that will stay with her for the rest of her life.
"It was the most rewarding and the most challenging experience of my life all at the same time," she said. The trip south of the border with her son held even more special family significance for Mason, who is a descendant of Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, a 1949 Julienne graduate who was martyred in 2005 for her work assisting poor farmers in Anapu, Para, Brazil.
"I know that this trip gave me the opportunity to see what my aunt Dorothy did in her community and why she chose to continue to fight for the education of the children and rights for the poor.
"I believe we are doing something so special and we are truly fulfilling the missions of Fr. Chaminade and St. Julie."
Participants volunteering for the third and final mission trip of the summer in Solsberry, Ind. depart for the rural town on Sunday, July 10 and will work with the local Habitat for Humanity chapter before returning on Friday, July 15.
Spending Summertime with CJ
Families, friends and kids of all ages are invited to campus this summer to experience firsthand what it is like being an Eagle at one of 13 CJ Youth Summer Camps offering a unique blend of academic and athletic activities. Whether you enjoy exploring a passion for STEMM topics and story-telling or taking a tour of the city of Dayton and sweating it out on the gym floor, CJ has it all for students entering grades K-9.
This year's summer programming—which began June 6 and concludes with football, soccer and tennis camps in late July—kicked off with creative writing and art camp for students in grades 4-8. CJ English teacher and camp supervisor Jim Brooks said the highlight of the week-long activities was the open mic session on Friday in the library where youngsters shared their writing with family members.
"It's great to see kids respond in writing to each of the themes," said Brooks of the four writing prompts provided each day; colors on Monday, weather on Tuesday, heroes on Wednesday, and time on Thursday. The students wrote poetry, fiction stories and non-fiction journal entries with guidance from Molly Bardine, CJ English teacher and department chair, as well grade school teachers Colleen Bott of St. Bridget, Debbie Higgins of St. Peter, and Karen Anderson of Ascension.
"The atmosphere is relaxed, and the teachers' encouragement and expertise really sparks the students' interest in writing," Brooks added.
Other campers spent the afternoons immersed in the history of Dayton's architectural art with Janet Lasley, CJ art teacher. Along with drawing sketches and creating three-dimensional models in the school's art classrooms, participants also explored various community landmarks.
"I enjoyed taking students and parents on a walking tour of downtown Dayton to see some of the beautiful sites near our campus," Lasley said. The group made stops visiting City Hall, Emmanuel Church and the former Cox Ohio Publishing building at Fourth and Ludlow Streets among other places.
GET WITH THE PROGRAM
Find out more about the 2011 Eagles Youth Summer Camp lineup, download the registration form, or introduce someone to the CJ community by passing along this link to CJ summer camp information, available at cjeagles.org.
CJ PLTW Program Nationally Certified
The Chaminade Julienne High School Project Lead the Way program earned national certification by Ohio affiliate directors from Sinclair Community College in the spring of 2011, becoming the only Catholic high school in the United States—and one of just four schools in Ohio—dually certified to provide both its innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes.
The school has offered Biomedical Sciences and Engineering courses since 2008 in partnership with Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a non-profit organization that provides STEM education curricular programs to high schools and middle schools across the U.S. Certification affirms the high quality of CJ's program, provides students who successfully complete the requirements with expanded opportunities to earn college credit for their high school PLTW coursework, and makes students eligible to receive other college-level recognition, including admissions preference, at PLTW affiliate universities. PLTW has more than 40 affiliate college and university partners.
"With the support of our alumni, friends and partners, we are able to offer PLTW courses, which only further strengthens CJ's commitment to provide curriculum that allows students to use their academic talents to serve others in our world," said Meg Draeger, coordinator of the CJ STEMM program, which is customized to also include topics in the field of medicine.
To attain national certification, a PLTW school must adhere to strict requirements including teaching the curriculum, administering exams provided, working with local business and industry professionals, and providing students with a clear pathway into post-secondary education. Chaminade Julienne will be officially recognized during a presentation at the annual PLTW Ohio conference on November 3-4 in Akron, Ohio.
"Chaminade Julienne High School should be congratulated for demonstrating its commitment to PLTW's quality standards, but the real winners are CJ students," said PLTW CEO Vince Bertram. "Students benefit from PLTW's innovative, project-based curriculum that encourages creativity, problem solving and critical thinking. We look forward to many more years of working together to prepare Chaminade Julienne students to become the most innovative and productive in the world."
According to Draeger, the CJ STEMM program is innovative in that it is founded on a rigorous inquiry-based curriculum and supported by numerous businesses and collegiate partners. Along with the school's four full-time instructors—Brad Kassner, Amy O'Loughlin, Amanda Ooten, and Bob Young –qualified to teach six PLTW courses offered, CJ supplies students with opportunities for career exploration and community engagement outside the classroom.
"One of our most popular offerings with students is the CJ STEMM Idol Speaker Series," Draeger said. The series showcases area professionals, including alumni, who have successful careers in STEMM fields.
"We have new presenters each month who visit campus to interact with students during their homeroom period and demonstrate the diverse application of STEMM related topics in the real world," she added.
In addition, the school also hosts the CJ STEMM Summer Gateway Academy—a one-week camp for middle school students in July. The summer camp is designed to introduce students to the fields of science, technology, engineering, math and medicine through field trips to local employers and with hands-on activities involving robotics, 3D Computer-Aided Design software (CAD), nanotechnology and more.
"Our aim is to inspire students with an interest in these fields to seek ways to serve their community by equipping them with the talent, skill and desire to make a difference."
CJ TEACHER SELECTED AS PLTW CORE TRAINING INSTRUCTOR
In December 2010, Amy O'Loughlin was selected to become a PLTW Core Training instructor for the Level 2: Human Body Systems course.
Core Training Instructors are appointed by the national program to conduct the mandatory two-week professional development courses for fellow teachers wishing to become certified PLTW instructors. O'Loughlin will be eligible to become a Master Teacher at the completion of her apprenticeship following the 2011-2012 school year.
"The PLTW Biomedical program has only been available to schools for four years, and we've had it here for three years so we are really on the cutting edge," O'Loughlin said. She has taught the Human Body Systems course each year it has been offered to CJ students.
O'Loughlin, a 1986 graduate of CJ and current co-chair of the science department, will begin her Core Instructor training this summer at Sinclair Community College, one of four PLTW sites.
"It is really important for us in the CJ community to continue to create and strengthen the relationship with Project Lead the Way, " stated O'Loughlin, who along with fellow PLTW instructor Amanda Ooten, science department co-chair, earned her Masters of Education from the University of Dayton last winter.
Bryan Cain Collects State Track Title
Bryan Cain crossed the finish line in 37.7 seconds on Saturday, June 4 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, besting eight fellow Ohio state qualifiers in the Division II 300 meter hurdles event.
The CJ senior also finished third in the 110 meter hurdles finals after turning in the field's best preliminary time on Friday during qualifying. Cain, who set two regional records in both the 110m and 300m events on the road to state, was the only representative from the Eagles men's team to compete at Columbus.
"Bryan has done well all year and had a great year as an individual," said coach Jerry Puckett, referencing both his third place finish in the indoor state championships and his most recent outdoor accomplishments. The four-year letter winner helped lead his team to a 2011 regional runners-up title and is the first individual to win a state title since Kelcey McKinney, '08, tied for first in the Division I long jump event her senior year. (Correction: McKinney did not win an individual championship in 2008, but placed 3rd in the event).
"Division II was very tough this year, and in a lot of ways, it was stronger than Division I," said Puckett, who was named GGCL Coach of the Year for his hand in the Lady Eagles' stellar 2011 season. The women won the OATCCC state indoor championship, the GGCL Grey North title (pictured below) for the third consecutive season and advanced in the postseason to win district and regional titles before being represented in the state finals by Alexandria Coleman '12, Cierra Brown '12, Camille Dickens '12 Devanae Mitchell '13.
"The girls are extremely talented, they work extremely hard, and for a small group to be that successful is… you just can't hardly put it in words because they give you so much," he said. According to Puckett, before finishing the regular season strong with a second consecutive team victory at the Roosevelt Relays, the girls placed first or second in all but one meet the entire season.
At Ohio State University on Saturday, the Lady Eagles took eighth place in one event, seventh place in five events, and Cierra Brown finished third in the 100 meter hurdles for the team's best finish—good for 17 total team points and eighth place overall. The first and third place finishes recorded by Cain tallied 16 total points for CJ's men's team, which would finish in thirteenth place overall.
"All-in-all I thought we did really well," Puckett stated. "The future looks really good for track, both boys and girls. I'm very excited."
COMPLETE RESULTS:
Brown, Coleman, Dickens and Mitchell | 7th place | 4x200m | 1:45.42
Cierra Brown | 3rd place | 100m hurdles | 14.48
Cierra Brown | 7th place | 300m hurdles | 45.00
Bryan Cain | State Champion | 300m hurdles | 37.70
Bryan Cain | 3rd place | 110m hurdles | 14.35
Camille Dickens | 7th place | 100m hurdles | 15.11
Camille Dickens | 7th place | long jump | 16-10.50
Devanae Mitchell | 7th place | 100m dash | 12.66
Devanae Mitchell | DNP | long jump


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#pragma once

#include "DelayA.h"
#include "DelayL.h"
#include "Fir.h"
#include "Stk.h"

namespace stk {

/***************************************************/
/*! \class Twang
    \brief STK enhanced plucked string class.

    This class implements an enhanced plucked-string
    physical model, a la Jaffe-Smith, Smith,
    Karjalainen and others.  It includes a comb
    filter to simulate pluck position.  The tick()
    function takes an input sample, which is added
    to the delayline input.  This can be used to
    implement commuted synthesis (if the input
    samples are derived from the impulse response of
    a body filter) and/or feedback (as in an electric
    guitar model).

    This is a digital waveguide model, making its
    use possibly subject to patents held by Stanford
    University, Yamaha, and others.

    by Perry R. Cook and Gary P. Scavone, 1995--2016.
*/
/***************************************************/

class Twang : public Stk {
public:
  //! Class constructor, taking the lowest desired playing frequency.
  Twang(StkFloat lowestFrequency = 50.0);

  //! Reset and clear all internal state.
  void clear();

  //! Set the delayline parameters to allow frequencies as low as specified.
  void setLowestFrequency(StkFloat frequency);

  //! Set the delayline parameters for a particular frequency.
  void setFrequency(StkFloat frequency);

  //! Set the pluck or "excitation" position along the string (0.0 - 1.0).
  void setPluckPosition(StkFloat position);

  //! Set the nominal loop gain.
  /*!
    The actual loop gain is based on the value set with this
    function, but scaled slightly according to the frequency.  Higher
    frequency settings have greater loop gains because of
    high-frequency loop-filter roll-off.
  */
  void setLoopGain(StkFloat loopGain);

  //! Set the loop filter coefficients.
  /*!
    The loop filter can be any arbitrary FIR filter.  By default,
    the coefficients are set for a first-order lowpass filter with
    coefficients b = [0.5 0.5].
  */
  void setLoopFilter(std::vector<StkFloat> coefficients);

  //! Return an StkFrames reference to the last output sample frame.
  // const StkFrames& lastFrame( void ) const { return lastFrame_; };

  //! Return the last computed output value.
  // StkFloat lastOut( void ) { return lastFrame_[0]; };
  StkFloat lastOut() { return lastOutput_; };

  //! Compute and return one output sample.
  StkFloat tick(StkFloat input);

  //! Take a channel of the \c iFrames object as inputs to the class and write
  //! outputs to the \c oFrames object.
  /*!
    The \c iFrames object reference is returned.  Each channel
    argument must be less than the number of channels in the
    corresponding StkFrames argument (the first channel is specified
    by 0).  However, range checking is only performed if _STK_DEBUG_
    is defined during compilation, in which case an out-of-range value
    will trigger an StkError exception.
  */
  StkFrames &tick(StkFrames &frames, unsigned int channel = 0);

  //! Take a channel of the \c iFrames object as inputs to the effect and write
  //! outputs to the \c oFrames object.
  /*!
    The \c iFrames object reference is returned.  Each channel
    argument must be less than the number of channels in the
    corresponding StkFrames argument (the first channel is specified
    by 0).  However, range checking is only performed if _STK_DEBUG_
    is defined during compilation, in which case an out-of-range value
    will trigger an StkError exception.
  */
  StkFrames &tick(StkFrames &iFrames, StkFrames &oFrames,
                  unsigned int iChannel = 0, unsigned int oChannel = 0);

protected:
  DelayA delayLine_;
  DelayL combDelay_;
  Fir loopFilter_;

  StkFloat lastOutput_;
  StkFloat frequency_;
  StkFloat loopGain_;
  StkFloat pluckPosition_;
};

inline StkFloat Twang::tick(StkFloat input) {
  lastOutput_ = delayLine_.tick(input + loopFilter_.tick(delayLine_.lastOut()));
  lastOutput_ -= combDelay_.tick(lastOutput_); // comb filtering on output
  lastOutput_ *= 0.5;

  return lastOutput_;
}

inline StkFrames &Twang::tick(StkFrames &frames, unsigned int channel) {
#if defined(_STK_DEBUG_)
  if (channel >= frames.channels()) {
    oStream_
        << "Twang::tick(): channel and StkFrames arguments are incompatible!";
    handleError(StkError::FUNCTION_ARGUMENT);
  }
#endif

  StkFloat *samples = &frames[channel];
  unsigned int hop = frames.channels();
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < frames.frames(); i++, samples += hop)
    *samples = tick(*samples);

  return frames;
}

inline StkFrames &Twang::tick(StkFrames &iFrames, StkFrames &oFrames,
                               unsigned int iChannel, unsigned int oChannel) {
#if defined(_STK_DEBUG_)
  if (iChannel >= iFrames.channels() || oChannel >= oFrames.channels()) {
    oStream_
        << "Twang::tick(): channel and StkFrames arguments are incompatible!";
    handleError(StkError::FUNCTION_ARGUMENT);
  }
#endif

  StkFloat *iSamples = &iFrames[iChannel];
  StkFloat *oSamples = &oFrames[oChannel];
  unsigned int iHop = iFrames.channels(), oHop = oFrames.channels();
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < iFrames.frames();
       i++, iSamples += iHop, oSamples += oHop)
    *oSamples = tick(*iSamples);

  return iFrames;
}

}

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The year 518 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 236  Ab urbe condita. The denomination 518 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Architecture
 Darius I begins constructing Persepolis, a new capital for the Persian Empire (approximate date).
 Construction begins on the Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes, ceremonial complex, at Persepolis, Persia.

Births
 Pindar, Greek lyric poet (approximate date) (d. 438 BC)
 Xerxes I of Persia (or 519 BC)

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FIFA 19: 10 best defenders via player ratings
5:00 pm IST | October 1, 2018 1:42 am IST | May 7, 2019
EA Sports FIFA 19 was released on September 28, 2018, with Cristiano Ronaldo on the cover, for PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch.
Here we talk about the best defenders in FIFA 19 across all the 700 teams in over 30 leagues. These have the best combination of strength, intelligence and tackling ability to help you concede the least goals possible.
Also read: List of all the stadiums in FIFA 19
1. Sergio Ramos
With an OVR of 91, Sergio Ramos tops the list of the best defenders available in FIFA 19. A fan favourite for the past few instalments of the game and a mainstay at Real Madrid, Ramos maintains his lead with the following stats:
Defending: 91
Physical: 84
Passing: 71
Pace: 75
Dribbling: 72
Shooting: 63
2. Diego Godin
Diego Godin has earned his stripes in the La Liga and is a steady rock at the back for Athletico Madrid. He makes it at number two in the list with 90 OVR. Let's take a look at his stats:
3. Giorgio Chiellini
The 34-year-old captain of the Italian national team as well as Juventus is a great mix of experience as well as skills and comes at the third spot with the following stats:
4. Mats Hummels
Bayern Munich and the German national team's central defender comes in at a close fourth with due to having a point lower than Chiellini on defence. His stats are as follows:
Passing:
5. Thiago Silva
The captain of PSG and the Brazil national team gains the fifth spot with the following stats:
6. Samuel Umtiti
The 24-year-old Frenchman who currently plays for FC Barcelona comes in at sixth, ahead of Vertonghen with the following stats
The Belgian has become one of the most reliable centre-backs in the game over the past few years. The 31-year-old comes in at seventh with the following stats:
Following Vertonghen is another Belgian who plays for Tottenham Hotspurs and makes his way into the top 10 defenders of FIFA 19 at number eight with the following stats:
9. Miranda
The 34-year-old who plays for Inter Milan sits on ninth on the list with the following stats:
10. Andrea Barzagli
One of the oldest on the list of the 10 best defenders in FIFA 19, Andrea Barzagli, is also one of the most consistent defenders in the current generation and even at 37-years, has made his way into this list with the following stats:
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Category Archives: San Mateo County
Chinedu V. Okobi San Mateo County's George Floyd.
Chinedu Valentine Okobi SMC's George Floyd
A federal judge on Thursday July 7, 2022 sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights.
Violating Civil Rights sounds so much nicer then Murder doesn't it?
San Mateo County Residents, do any of you think Chinedu Valentine Okobi's Civil Rights were not violated on October 3, 2018 in Millbrae at 1:00 PM in the middle of the afternoon by SIX San Mateo County Sheriff Employees? I do.
CSO Joseph Gonzales, Sergeant David Weidner, Deputy Joshua Wang, Deputy Bryan Watt, Deputy Alyssa Lorenzatti, Deputy John DeMartini.
The Governments Video Ommits CSO Joseph Gonzales like magic. 7:02-7:05 mark who do you see?
San Mateo County Government Story by Steve Wagstaffe
Sheriff's Office PIO News Release October 3, 2018 Ommits CSO Joseph Gonzales what are the odds.
Sheriff's Office PIO News Release March 1, 2019
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Great Job Felix Levy, San Mateo County Whistleblower.
All of San Mateo County Residents should be thanking Felix Levy for reporting this. Of course he should be paid his Whistleblower fee, well deserved.
What date did he first report this to San Mateo County Officials?
What was the outcome of that effort?
It's not that easy to report alleged criminal conduct in San Mateo County.
Now that the County Attorneys Jennifer Stalzer Kraske, John Nibbelin and John Beiers the Supervisors of San Mateo County have agreed to quietly settle a Whistleblower complaint by Felix Levy which included false billing to Medicare.
San Mateo County has agreed to pay the Federal Government $11.4M.
The question I have is what date was this case referred to the San Mateo District Attorney's Office? If the answer is this case was never referred to the D.A.'s Office, why not?
Department of Justice Press Release
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San Mateo County's Boogaloo Bois.
(L) Steven Carrillo (R) Robert Alvin Justus Jr.
May 28, 2020 Steven Carrillo a United States Air Force Sergeant and leader of the Phoenix Raven unit aka the Murder Crews posted on his Facebook page at 7:00AM. "Great Opportunity" within 20 minutes Millbrae resident Robert Alvin Justus Jr. responded "Lets Boogie" these two men had never met before that. The next night at 9:44PM Federal Protective Service Officer Dave Patrick Underwood was Murdered. What Steven Carrillo meant about Great opportunity was Oakland had a peaceful protest of Americans who had seen the video of George Floyd being murdered by a Police Officer that fact by itself was Very Unusual thanks to a 17 year old girl, the world saw a white Police Officer Murder a black man.
Steven Carrillo of Ben Lomond Robert Alvin Justus Jr. of Millbrae went to Oakland, California for the sole purpose of Killing Cops. The Great Opportunity was the distraction of the peaceful protest.
Two completely Separate Events,
A week later Steven Carrillo killed Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sergeant Damon Gutzwiller in Ben Lomond, California.
Less than a month later Facebook took action and Removed Boogaloo groups from their platform.
June 30, 2020 at 3:24 p.m. PDT
Facebook on Tuesday removed hundreds of accounts and groups associated with a violent network of the far-right "boogaloo" movement whose followers have been linked to violence that disrupted mostly peaceful protests around the United States.
Facebook said it was designating the faction of the boogaloo movement that advocates violence as a "dangerous organization" and had taken down 220 accounts, 28 pages, 106 groups and 95 accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram that were associated with it. The social media platform said it also had removed 400 more Facebook accounts and more than 100 additional groups that supported or praised the violent network.
Facebook's move against the boogaloo movement came after federal prosecutors charged several adherents of the movement with crimes across the United States, including the murder of a security officer at a federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., and a plot to use explosives at a demonstration in Las Vegas protesting the police killing of George Floyd.
I can't help but wonder had Facebook a San Mateo County Company acted before the May 28, 2020 post at 7:00AM would those two guys have met and acted on their shared interest of Killing unsuspecting Police Officers.
How many more residents of San Mateo County support the Boogaloo Bois?
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January 1, 2021 · 6:36 am
Do Not Board a Commercial Aircraft in America.
At this time that is my opinion. Remember under the current leadership of America we were the last Country in the entire world to ground the Boeing 737 Max. We should have been the first. The FAA has failed to protect the public. There is a Pandemic raging and most Americans have heard about it by now. The simple reality is the Federal Government, FAA, TSA, Airlines, Flight Crews can not protect you and your loved ones. It is YOUR responsibility to protect Yourself it always has been. Consider this what if there is No hospital to go to if you get sick?
Stay Safe, Best of Health to you and your loved ones.
Today's LATIMES.
Visibly ill people are still boarding planes
Recent fatal in-flight incident is only one example. A database reveals safety gaps.
AIRLINES boast layers of protocols intended to protect fliers from the coronavirus. Above, the cabin of a United Airlines jet is disinfected before passengers are allowed on at Los Angeles International Airport in July. (Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times) A PASSENGER service representative for Avianca Airlines takes the temperature of Eva Zapata at LAX before her flight to El Salvador in November. (Al Seib Los Angeles Times)
By Hugo Martín
Before boarding a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles, Isaias Hernandez filled out a health checklist provided by United Airlines, asserting that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 and had not shown any of the disease's symptoms in the previous two weeks.
But during the flight, the 69-year-old Angeleno collapsed. Three passengers gave him CPR for nearly an hour in the aisle of the plane, and the flight was diverted to Louisiana, where Hernandez was pronounced dead. The coroner's report listed the cause as "acute respiratory failure, COVID-19."
The Dec. 14 incident illustrates the deficiencies in the systems that are meant to prevent people from bringing the coronavirus aboard commercial flights and potentially spreading it to the people packed in around them. And it happened as holiday air travel ramped up. In the days surrounding Christmas, more than a million passengers boarded planes almost daily, reaching 1.3 million last Sunday — the most since March.
U.S. airlines boast layers of protocols intended to protect passengers from the virus, including the increased cleaning of plane cabins and a requirement that passengers wear face coverings except when eating or drinking. Nearly all of them also require passengers to fill out a health declaration before boarding. But the only repercussion for lying on the declaration or refusing to wear a mask on the plane is getting banned from the airline, if caught .
How often people with COVID-19 board planes is impossible to know.
Federal rules require airline pilots to report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention any deaths or illnesses aboard interstate and international flights, and in March, the CDC updated its guidance reminding pilots of that duty.
But on Thursday, the CDC told The Times that it does not keep track of the pilots' reports. The U.S. Transportation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration said they don't keep track of COVID-19 cases on planes either.
Flight attendants are asked to be on the lookout for symptoms — coughing, sneezing, high body temperature — but airline representatives say they can't evaluate every passenger.
Only a few airlines, such as Avianca and Frontier , take the temperature of each passenger before boarding.
Some U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International Airport, take the extra step of using thermal cameras to gauge people's temperatures as they enter the terminal, but fliers are allowed to opt out.
The CDC launched an enhanced screening program last January for international passengers arriving to the U.S. from certain countries with widespread transmission of the virus. But it ended the program in November, concluding that the effort failed, partly because COVID-19 has too many symptoms that are also common to other illnesses; travelers could mask their symptoms to avoid detection; and even travelers with no symptoms can still carry and spread the virus.
What is needed, passenger rights advocates, flight attendant unions and academics say, is for the U.S. Department of Transportation to adopt uniform standards for airline safety, including a mask mandate that is enforced with steep fines.
They also call on the federal agency to put more resources into contact tracing of known cases and improved access to quick and reliable COVID-19 tests that passengers can take before a flight.
"Without health security rules by [the Transportation Department], air travel will continue to spread COVID," said Paul Hudson, president of Flyersrights.org, an airline passenger rights group with more than 60,000 members.
The Trump administration has been reluctant to impose airline screening and safety requirements, opting instead to let each carrier and airport create and enforce their own individual policies.
"Unless that message is coming from the top, it's really hard to take action," said Jan L. Jones, a professor of hospitality and tourism at the University of New Haven.
The tragedy on the Dec. 14 United Airlines flight was only the latest reported incident in which a passenger boarded a plane despite showing COVID-19 symptoms or testing positive for the coronavirus.
In late November, a Hawaii couple who tested positive for the virus were told to isolate in San Francisco but instead boarded a plane to Kauai, where they were arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, police said.
Several other incidents involving passengers who showed COVID-19 symptoms on flights have been reported to an aviation safety reporting database operated by NASA . The reports in the database are filed anonymously by pilots and flight attendants, with the exact dates and airlines' names omitted to protect the tipsters' privacy.
The database was created so NASA can report safety problems to aviation manufacturers and operators without putting those companies' employees at risk of reprisal for flagging the problems.
According to a report in the database filed in October, the pilot of a commercial flight was alerted to a female passenger who complained of extreme pain while the plane was at cruising altitude. The pilot offered to divert the flight to the nearest airport to get her immediate medical attention, but she said she was feeling better after an EMT on the flight gave her oxygen.
"While she received attention on the plane, the passenger stated that she had been exposed to COVID in the last three days," the pilot said in the report, which offered few other details.
On a flight in May, a pilot reported being notified by a flight attendant that a male passenger was "coughing, sneezing, not wearing a mask, and he refused to wear a mask despite repeated attempts by her to give him one." The plane had just pulled away from the gate, the pilot reported.
The flight attendants also said that other passengers were starting to panic because the coughing passenger had gotten up about five times to use the lavatory, the pilot wrote.
"During a global pandemic, a visibly sick passenger was able to get through check-in, security, walk through the terminal, past a gate agent, and onto an airplane with … other passengers and … crew members," the pilot wrote.
In August, a pilot reported that just before departure, a flight attendant said a passenger was coughing, not wearing a mask and had just vomited on himself.
"I made the decision that the person was not suitable for a [long] flight and was to be removed," the pilot said in the report.
In other incidents, pilots and flight attendants fault their colleagues and employers.
A pilot reported to the database in September that a flight attendant had been feeling ill but had not disclosed her symptoms to the pilot or other crewmates. She later tested positive for COVID-19, the pilot said.
"Lack of communication and transparency from the [flight attendant] about her preexisting health condition led to the compromised safety of passengers and fellow flight crew," the pilot wrote.
In April, two flight attendants reported that even though a passenger on one of their recent flights had tested positive for the coronavirus, their airline ordered them to show up for duty a few days later.
"The company refused to give us alternate travel despite being potential carriers," one of the flight attendants wrote in their report in the NASA database. "We were not granted assurance of tests upon landing, or that we would be given leave to quarantine for the full recommended 14 days to allow for symptoms to manifest or not."
But it's the case on last month's United Airlines flight — with Hernandez collapsing in view of other travelers, and with the attempts to revive him caught on video and posted online — that has painted the most vivid and accessible picture of the problem.
United Airlines said Hernandez "acknowledged on our Ready-to-Fly checklist that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 and did not have COVID-related symptoms." The airline said it realized only after Hernandez died that he had "wrongly acknowledged this requirement."
Hernandez had preexisting health conditions, including high blood pressure and upper respiratory issues, and was feeling sick leading up to the day of travel, the airline said in a statement.
Hernandez collapsed early in the flight. At least three passengers with medical training, including Tony Aldapa, an off-dutyemergency medical technician from Los Angeles, performed CPR on him in the aisle.
Passengers overhead Hernandez's wife telling Aldapa that Hernandez had COVID-related symptoms, including loss of taste and smell, according to United Airlines. At least one posted about it on Twitter, prompting hundreds of responses of outrage and panic.
Despite the comments by Hernandez's wife, the plane was not disinfected immediately after Hernandez was removed, and the flight continued to Los Angeles, the airline said.
At the time, the crew believed Hernandez suffered a heart attack and offered the passengers the option to take a later flight, United Airlines spokesman Charles Hobart said. All the passengers opted to stay on the plane, he said.
Hobart said that the CDC contacted United Airlines and that the carrier provided the information needed to notify the passengers on the flight that they may have been exposed to the virus.
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Facebook is sued by FTC and 48 A.G.'s
Here is the Lawsuit.
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It has been quite a week for Knabstruppers here in the USA.
First of all, Congratulations to Colorado Skrødstrup and all of his 'connections' Kathy St Martin, Niels Fynbo (breeder) & Lisa Williams. Colorado has passed the 70 day test with flying colors, he scored an outstanding 109.75 making him 5th overall and with a dressage index of 113.54 placing him 3rd in Dressage. His jumping index was 102.59 placing him 5th in the jumping as well. Because he was older than 5 at the testing, he received a 5% penalty. If he had not received the penalty, he would have been 2nd overall. This is a very impressive result considering that he was up against some very very nice stallions.
The second thing that happened is that Halifax Middelsom, our 4 yr old few spot stallion (Harlequin- Celeste) went to the Region 1 Finals, he did his 1st level debut, and scored a 72% at 1st 4, and was Reserve Champion in the McDevitt Sothebys stakes class, winning $200. This was an open class against all kinds of horses including some very nice warmbloods including several other stallions.
I had totally forgotten to mention that two weeks ago and CBLM Championships Cita Normark and April were second level Champions, and at the same Championships, April and Halifax Middelsom were Reserve Champions at Training level with a score of 72%. He was tied for first but lost on the tie breaker.
Halifax Middelsom, Reserve Champion Training level.
Why is this so important, well it shows that Knabstruppers can hold their own against all other horses. Both of these stallions were competing against other horses in an open competition, and both horses showed that Knabstruppers can hold their own. This is very very good news, and is a confirmation and affirmation of the quality and effectiveness of the Danish system of breeding these horses. These horses are competitive in open competition against all other breeds, not just in a limited one breed only show. This kind of performance confirms the wisdom of the KNN and their breeding program rules.
Halifax wasn't the only Knabstrupper at the Region 1 Finals, we also took Xavoy Middelsom to do Prix St Georges, and Xafaire Middelsom who had qualified for the 1st level Finals Adult Amateur division. I rode both of these horses, and while we didn't get the stellar scores that April and Halifax got, they did well.
Xafaire was 9th over all, just out of the ribbons, but still a respectable place for a 5 yr old against all other breeds in a very competitive class. Due to having a lot of stuff to do this year, we have only done limited showing on Xafaire, but he has managed to qualify and even came to the show and did respectably.
Xavoy showed the dependability and reliability of a Knabstrupper as he performed the PSG test as best he could given that he was being ridden by someone who is NOT experienced at this level (me). We still have work to do to get him sitting more and being a bit more 'on the bit', but the best part of it all is that thanks to his good mind, I actually get to ride the PSG, so many other middle aged ladies of my generation are reduced to standing by the ring watching their trainers ride their big fancy warmbloods and are not riding them themselves, but I get to go in myself and do it.
And I never have to worry about being bucked off or having too much horse to deal with. Those FEI tests are hard enough to ride without having to worry if your horse is going to spook out from under you or bolt at the end of the ring. or if you are going to be able to get those changes. On my Knabstrupper I don't have to worry about any of that, I only have to concentrate on whether he is uphill enough or round enough or remembering to count the changes!
For someone of my age and lets face it, less than perfect build, it is so nice to have a horse that I can rely on to be a partner in the enterprise. We might not get stellar scores, but we will improve with practice, and I know I can always ride my horse and get in more practice, unlike some!


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Mikhaile Solomon
Courtesy of PRIZM
Damon Davis
Libations For Those We Sold
Image courtesy of PRIZM Art Fair
Dread Scott
Redistribute Wealth
Helina Metaferia
Out of the roots of my head
Collaged paper
Marilyn Nance
Untitled, African Street Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Archival digital print
Shervone Neckles
Provenance 11 (Provenance Series)
Media: Polyester print with embroidered thread surface with Queen Nefertiti gold charm pendants
Taha Clayton
Oil on Panel with Walnut Frame
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Miami	Art, December 3, 2018
Mikhaile Solomon on the Sixth Edition of PRIZM
By Katy Donoghue
The sixth edition of PRIZM opened today at the Alfred I. DuPont Building in Downtown Miami. On view through Sunday, December 9, the fair is dedicated to presenting contemporary art from the African Diaspora. Works by over 63 artists from 15 countries are on view from galleries like Alaina Simone Inc, Tafeta + Partners, Emerson Dorsch, Morton Fine Art, N'Namdi Contemporary (Miami), N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit), September Gray, and TILA Studio.
In advance of the opening, Whitewall spoke with founding director Mikhaile Solomon, to learn more about what to expect this year.
WHITEWALL: How has the fair evolved since its first year?
MIKHAILE SOLOMON: Prizm grows exponentially every year. In 2017 we exhibited 120 artists in Downtown, Miami. This year we have a new home at the Alfred I. DuPont Building, a beautiful preserved Art Deco relic of Miami's past and are looking forward to exhibiting 63 artists in addition to eight galleries from Miami to London.
Additionally, our special sections, which include Prizm Film, Prizm Perform, and Prizm Preview, continues to evolve increased thought-provoking dialogue thanks to our evolving partnerships. We're happy to be partnering with the Africa Center in New York and Barbados Tourism and Marketing to open up Miami Art Week with our Prizm Preview Dinner on December 3. Uzodinma Iweala, CEO of the Africa Center and author of Beasts of No Nation will deliver our keynote followed by a talk with visual artist, Victor Ekpuk.
WW: You've curated, along with artist William Cordova, two exhibitions for the fair: "The Dark Horse" and "Transceivers: channels, outlets and forces." Can you tell us about the focus of those exhibitions?
MS: "The Dark Horse" explores and exhibits ways in which the disenfranchised negotiate, re-appropriate and reclaim the currencies used against them to build a future that is inclusive of prosperity for all.
Artists, Anina Major and LaMont Hamilton, for example, re-appropriate American and discontinued pound sterling banknotes to illustrate the power dynamics and imbalance in global economics in favor of colonial supremacy at the expense of economic growth and quality of life in colonized regions.
"The Dark Horse" is essentially the unsung heroes amongst us, who despite their subjectivity in colonized spaces, gracefully rise to prominence through sheer will to thrive and in pursuit of happiness. As sociopolitical dynamics in the United States shifts with the nomination of several African American and underrepresented candidates, the United States landscape in the next four to six years, with diverse leadership can truly be a model for how sovereignties around the globe can support their increasingly heterogeneous populations; with compassion, respect and dignity.
"Transceivers: channels, outlets and forces" curated by William Cordova, focuses on the intersections between futurism, ritual and the folkloric. Three intersecting themes that are fluid and constantly transmitting, receiving, informing and forming our contemporary space.
Each artist will have a site-specific installation that responds to the tenor of the times. They are like a two-way radio, our social transceivers, architects designing alternative forms of achieving a "collective catharsis."
WW: Why is it important for you to include curated exhibitions alongside gallery presentations at PRIZM?
MS: In addition to exhibiting visual artists, Prizm also endeavors to include established and rising voices in curatorial practice: particularly curatorial voices from Africa, and the African Diaspora.
WW: Who are some of the Miami-based artists who will be participating in PRIZM this year?
MS: Miami artists will include: Morel Doucet, Onajide Shabaka, T. Eliott Mansa, Jared McGriff, Charo Oquet, Purvis Young, and Yanira Collado.
WW: On Friday, December 7, PRIZM Perform will take place. What can we expect from the performances that will take place? Which artists will be participating?
MS: We're looking forward to a performance by Patrisse Marie Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now.
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