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Jeremy Troxler: The tie that binds
A divided world does not need a church free of conflict and sin but a church that models how conflict and sin can be transformed into peace.
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By Jeremy Troxler Pastor, Spruce Pine United Methodist Church
Editor's note: Faith & Leadership offers sermons that shed light on issues of Christian leadership. Jeremy Troxler preached this sermon Sept. 7, 2011, in Goodson Chapel at Duke Divinity School.
Jeremy Troxler will preach during Renewing the Church, Duke Divinity School's 2013 Convocation & Pastors' School, Oct. 14-15. Register online.
The psychiatrist Scott Peck wrote that communities often pass through four stages of development. Peck called the most common, initial stage of building community "pseudocommunity." And sadly, "pseudocommunity" is often the only stage that many communities will know.
In pseudocommunity, everyone pretends that they are already a community and that they really know each other, even though they really know very little about each other. In pseudocommunity, people assure themselves they have only superficial differences and no reason for deep conflict. All the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. Every sermon is "interesting," or at least "thought-provoking." Every paper is at least a B-plus.
In pseudocommunity, people mind their manners no matter what they might be thinking behind a polite smile. Conversation stays general: "How've things been goin' lately?" "Good, busy. And you?" "Yeah, me too."
In pseudocommunity, pain and conflict are avoided at all costs, and when addressed are referenced only indirectly. What people really feel isn't shared until the "meeting after the meeting" in the parking lot. The goal of pseudocommunity is a bland world of pretense where no one's feelings get hurt in public.
When another person sins against you, you take it in silence and seethe later with a friend, or maybe if you're really upset, you fire off a passive-aggressive email in private. When someone sins against another, you shake your head and lament their sin and mind your own business.
Pseudocommunity is an affable but discontented village of little lies. It accepts the trade-off of some truth for a shallow peace that is boring but at least feels safe.
Matthew 18 is Jesus' assault on pseudocommunity: "If a brother or sister sins against you, go and tell them to their face. If they won't listen, bring two others along with you as witnesses. If they still won't listen, call a meeting of the whole church. And if they won't listen to the church, treat them like a Gentile or a tax collector."
Jesus calls us to be more than a pseudocommunity. He calls us to be a forgiven and forgiving people so saturated in grace that we can risk being honest with each other.
We take the risk of loving truthfulness first because of what sin is.
For Jesus, my sin is not a private matter between me and God. It is a public menace to the relationships among God's people. It is not just my business; it is the business of everyone who knows me -- and that means it is worth having the occasional hard conversation about.
Many of our worst conflicts in the church happen because at some point someone had the opportunity to say, "Can we talk?" to someone they were concerned about -- but they didn't, and now things are worse.
My mother recently had to have a conversation with my grandmother about how the time has come for her to hand over her car keys and stop driving. Not an easy conversation to have, especially when you consider that my grandmother is a stubborn woman who once chased a thief through the grocery store parking lot after she saw him trying to steal her No. 43 Richard Petty license plate.
But after my cousin had a pulse-racing, NASCAR-like ride with my grandmother to town, my mom decided the time had come for her to hand over the keys.
"Mawmaw, can we talk?" she said. "We're concerned about you."
My Mawmaw's response was to tell the family, "Stay out of my business."
She didn't understand that this wasn't just her business.
It was the family's business, because we are going to be the ones called to an accident scene one day. And it's not just our business but the business of every other person behind the wheel and on the road. Do not drive near Reedy Fork in Greensboro until this is resolved. My grandmother with keys in her hand is a ticking time bomb.
So is sin. So are all the ways we refuse to love and to be loved. It's not just my business. Sometimes someone needs to take us aside and say, "I'm concerned about you. Consider letting go of those keys you are gripping so tight."
Of course, that hurts.
In that way, sin is like a splinter in your finger that needs to be removed before it becomes infected and makes the whole body sick. It hurts to have somebody poke at a splinter. It hurts even when you are the one doing the poking.
When my five-year-old daughter gets a splinter now, she won't tell me. She has learned that splinters mean tweezers and scraping and crying and hurt. Better to just pretend there is no splinter: "What splinter?"
Do you know what? Sometimes I want to pretend she doesn't have a splinter, too, because taking it out is going to hurt me as much as her. I want to look at her finger and say, "What splinter?" And I can almost persuade myself that my looking the other way is called "love."
But Dietrich Bonhoeffer said this: "Nothing can be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to ... sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a [sister or a] brother back from the path of sin."
Point out the splinter, Jesus says. That is called "love." Blessed be the tie that ... binds.
We take the risk of loving truthfulness because we know that sin is more than my business. It is the community's business. But we are able to take this risk in the first place because we are a people who know our sins are forgiven and who have pledged to forgive each other.
We often hear Matthew 18:15-20 as a spiritual "three strikes and you're out" law.
But Matthew 18 is less like "three strikes and you're out" and more like "you've left the playing field, and we'd like to invite you back into the game." It isn't about punishment but restoration. It is ultimately about peace, and the kind of forgiveness that makes peace possible.
Jesus' words on confronting a sister or a brother who has sinned come right after the parable of the lost sheep, where Jesus says the return of the one who has drifted away is more precious in the eyes of heaven than the dependable fidelity of the 99 who stayed.
It's clear that the process Jesus describes isn't about kicking someone off the island but winning back those who by their words or actions have left the fold, whether they've realized it or not.
These words also come just before Jesus' command to Peter to practice forgiveness without calculation, to forgive 70-times-seven times, and to be nothing like the unforgiving servant who has received enough mercy to cover the mountain of his mistakes yet refuses to forgive the molehill in another.
So Jesus' command to point out a sister's or brother's fault comes literally within what Dale Allison calls a "buffer of grace," both before and after. It is the peanut butter and jelly in a mercy sandwich. To try to practice this command apart from the mutual forgiveness that surrounds it on both sides is like trying to order a hamburger without the bun.
Loving truthfulness stands upon a foundation of mercy.
Only forgiven sinners who have promised to forgive each other could ever be so honest with each other. The promise of forgiveness assures the future. It creates a safe space for guilty truth to be named and moved past without crippling insecurity and fear. Only forgiven people who do not fear their past can live without fear of their neighbor -- and thus truly love their neighbor.
Jesus calls us to tell the truth in love because sin is not just my business.
Jesus calls us to practice loving truthfulness because forgiveness has prepared a place for our sisters and brothers to help us to be freed not only from the guilt of sin but also from its power. And finally, Jesus calls us to practice Matthew 18 because we can, because he has given the community the discernment and the authority to do so, and because he is with us when we do.
Jesus tells us, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
This has always sounded ominous to me, as if we are to take upon ourselves the authority to decide who is forgiven -- untied and let into the kingdom -- and who is left handcuffed to the consequences of their brokenness.
But scholars like John Howard Yoder and Mark Alan Powell have argued that the language of binding and loosing was used by rabbis to describe whether or not a particular scriptural commandment applies to a specific situation.
"Binding and loosing" is language of ethical discernment, of determining right and wrong in a given case. According to Powell, Jewish rabbis "bound" a law when they determined that a commandment applied to a given situation, and they "loosed" a law when they determined that it, though eternally valid, did not apply under certain circumstances.
Individual people are not bound or loosed. The law is bound or loosed.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus "binds" the law against murder to apply even when we are angry with or want to insult a brother or sister. It applies to the disposition of our heart and not just to the actual commission of the deed.
In other places, Jesus "looses" the law of the Sabbath so that it doesn't apply to the hungry picking grain or to helping someone who is ill. "Binding and loosing" is shorthand for scriptural interpretation and application to a particular case.
Essentially, Jesus says, "I trust you as a community to decide, together, when to bind and when to loose. I trust you to determine how to apply Scripture, to discern what is sin and what is not, to be able to tell wisely when to call people to account and when to look past their faults. Whatever you bind, heaven will ratify; and whatever you allow, heaven will ratify too. I will have your back. You can do this. You will be able to make these decisions -- prayerfully, not alone but together -- how to seek peace and address sin in wise and gracious ways. You can do this. I trust you."
We often think, "Who am I to determine these things? Who are we to decide what is wrong or right?" But Jesus says, "You are the church, and I give you the authority to do this. You can do it."
So knowing that sin is not just my business, knowing that mutual forgiveness is the air we breathe, knowing that Christ gives the community the wisdom it needs to interpret Scripture, when someone wrongs us, we first look in the mirror at the two-by-four of brokenness in our own eye before we examine the toothpick in theirs.
Then, instead of going behind the sister's or brother's back and complaining to others of what they have done or said, we meet with the other person directly, privately, face to face.
If our heart is made right through prayer, if what we are seeking is the healing of relationship and not the punishment of a guilt trip, we might start with a simple, "Can we talk?"
The early Methodists made it a point to practice this. Wesley admonished members of the societies not to complain about their leaders behind their backs but to share their concerns or complaints directly, face to face -- something I wish members of staff-parish personnel committees still practiced.
"Can we talk?"
And if that private talk doesn't create reconciliation or persuade the stray to listen, then Jesus advises that two witnesses be brought along for a second meeting.
The witnesses aren't meant to be extra muscle to lean on the stubborn one. They are not supposed to be on anyone's side but are meant to protect both parties. They are an extra set of eyes and ears to help understand what is going on -- maybe even to serve as mediators to help "bind" and "loose," to help determine the various degrees of right and wrong.
The ultimate goal is peace, right relationship -- not punishment.
And if those two or three discern that the straying one is in the wrong but refuses to make it right, the whole church is brought in to discern and compassionately appeal for restoration.
It is only then, after all this has been tried, that the sister or brother is to be treated like a Gentile or a tax collector. Presumably, this means they are treated as one who needs conversion -- but also that the church will treat them the way Jesus treated Gentiles and tax collectors: giving them food, eating with them, helping their family members, and inviting them to right their wrongs and be a disciple.
"Can we talk? I'm a little concerned about you ..."
It's not easy to start or hear such conversations.
But toward the end of Matthew 18:15-20, Jesus offers one last promise that makes it possible for us to put his words into practice: "For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them."
We often take these words as an assurance that even if there are just a few of us present in the church, Jesus is always there.
But here, Jesus says these words in the context of two or three people who have met to struggle together through issues of sin and conflict, forgiveness and reconciliation. Jesus assures us that whenever we wrestle together with these things, whenever we struggle to determine how to apply discipline with graciousness, whenever we attempt to discern where to bind and when to loose, Jesus will be there.
Pastors often say that they would like to learn more about conflict resolution, about managing conflict in the church. And that is a good thing.
But I wonder at times if that is just another way of saying that they want a smooth technique to get rid of conflict altogether, that they long for a church without any disagreements, without sin.
We secretly hope that a foolproof, money-back-guaranteed method will remove the splinter without pain, without hard conversations or Matthew 18. Yet Jesus implies that a church without the pain of conflict may be a church without Jesus -- because it is precisely when people are trying to wrestle with these issues that Jesus promises to be there. What a divided world needs is not a church free of conflict and sin but a church that models how sin and conflict can be transformed into peace.
We were standing in line to receive Communion at the closing worship of the clergy conference I had just directed.
After organizing all the worship services and having them come off without major disaster, I was just relieved that the service was nearly over. Suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder. Behind me was an older pastor with a crew cut, large glasses and a stern look in his eye.
"Young man, can I talk to you for a moment?" he said over the music swelling in the background. (It wasn't a question but a statement.)
"Over the past few days I have noticed that we haven't had any of our Native American pastors who are here participate in the leadership of worship. We have had other ethnic groups represented, but many of us who are Lumbee have gone through a lot just to be ordained, and we would like to be recognized and included, too."
In planning the services, my too-monochrome white imagination had left out a group of our brothers and sisters in leadership. I didn't know what to say, so I said what Jesus' people had taught me to say. I told the truth. "Brother, you are right. I am sorry, and I ask your forgiveness."
"You have it," he said, patting me on the shoulder. "But please remember this in the future."
We each filed back into line to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion, sinners with our hands out for mercy, a hymn of grace in the background.
And even though I was still upset at myself for my mistake, and still smarting from having yet another splinter removed, I was strangely thankful that I was part of a group of people for whom such an exchange is even possible -- people who are unwilling to settle for pseudocommunity but who are after true community in Jesus, because there is nothing else like it.
Jesus was there that day as we went to receive Holy Communion -- and not just in the bread and the wine.
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Link to author Mel Williams
By Mel Williams Activist & Baptist pastor emeritus
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G. Lee Ramsey Jr.: Las Vegas and the violence in God's vineyard
In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, a homiletics professor and UMC pastor finds an important message in the parable of the vineyard owner's son: Enough is enough. God did not mean for us to live this way.
Link to author G. Lee Ramsey Jr.
By G. Lee Ramsey Jr. Professor of Pastoral Theology and Homiletics, Memphis Theological Seminary
Phil Woodson: Who is Jesus?
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Link to author Phil Woodson
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Hi, basically the same question as here: https://teamcity-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206825585-Is-there-a-way-to-schedule-a-rebuild-of-a-project-and-all-of-its-dependencies- = how to have Scheduled trigger that forces all snapshot dependencies to be rebuilt - however our project is active so we do not want to disable "Do not run new build if there is a suitable one"
1) add the Scheduled trigger on every dependant build, but that increases maintenance cost and is not a nice solution overall.
... is there any other way?
I'm afraid not directly, not beyond the options you have already explored. We'd usually consider having a template with separate configurations for improved visibility (you know instantly whether it was the scheduled build or a separate one).
A possible workaround to reduce maintenance would be to use the Kotlin DSL. By having code generate the build configurations, the maintenance to have a template will be reduced substantially, and templating configurations will be easier than having multiple triggers.
If this feature https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-6439 would be implemented, another possibility would be to force parameters to change in the initial build so that it would force a rebuild on the whole chain.
Please feel free to open a feature request in our tracker for the specific feature of adding that as an option for schedule triggers.


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Q: configuring requirejs reading from node_modules I'm trying to setup a nodejs project to use requirejs.  I call my program with node r.js ./config/main.js and my main.js looks like the following:
var cs = require("coffee-script");
var requirejs = require("requirejs");

requirejs.config({
  nodeRequire: require,
  baseUrl: ".",
  paths: {
    cs: "cs",
    CoffeeScript: "CoffeeScript",
    csBuild: "csBuild",

    express: "express",
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and inside app.coffee:
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  RedisStore = require("connect-redis")(express)
  app = express.createServer()

  config = require('cs!./config')

  require('cs!./setup')(app, express, RedisStore)
  require('cs!./routes')(app)
  require('cs!../src/server')

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I seem to fail in main.js with the error:
node.js:201
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
Error: Calling node's require("config") failed with error: Error: Calling node's require("config") failed with error: Error: Cannot find module 'config'

and What I have noticed is when I comment out the line var requirejs = require("requirejs"); (in main.js), I get further and fail at the line RedisStore = require("connect-redis")(express) (in app.coffee) with the error:
node.js:201
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
TypeError: undefined is not a function
    at ./config/app.coffee:10:41

I have been having a lot of trouble configuring requirejs in node any help would be appreciated.
thanks

A: It is best to not configure requirejs to look in node_modules, since modules in that area are modules formatted for node. There is a little bit more info in the requirejs node page.

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Faith from Valiant Comics
5 comic books to look forward to in 2016
By Alex Abad-Santos Dec 29, 2015, 10:30am EST
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We're living in a golden age of comic books.
2015 was another fantastic year for the medium, featuring an abundance of great stories, wonderful art, and amazing mysteries — and 2016 promises to be an even bigger year.
In addition to a bevy of new comics that include a superhero story about a plus-sized woman named Faith, we'll also see the continuation of the riveting Paper Girls, and the reinvention of one of Batman's most iconic villains in Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death. Meanwhile, Jupiter's Legacy will offer a re-introduction to one of the most thrilling superhero stories in recent years. We'll also find out the fate of the X-Men in a post-Secret Wars world.
Here are five comic books to look forward to in 2016.
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Faith (Valiant Comics)
Superheroes have long represented the best of humanity, but they've never represented all humans, a concept that comics are only just beginning to figure out. Enter Faith, a superhero who happens to be plus-sized, from writer Jody Houser and artists Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage. Faith is a geek, she's a little bit awkward, and she has the power of telekinesis — the ability to move objects with her mind.
I'm interested to see how her story develops, and where Houser, Portela, and Sauvage take her. All three are talented creators, and I've been a fan of Sauvage's artwork in DC's Bombshells. From what I've seen of Faith so far, there's a joy and brightness to the pages and possibly a new hero that we can, well, have faith in.
Faith will run for four issues and debut on January 27th .
Image credit: Valiant Comics
Extraordinary X-Men (Marvel Comics)
It's been interesting to see how the X-Men have fared as the superhero genre has gone mainstream. These days, the most popular superhero stories are all about playboys, deities, political heroes, billionaires, and family men. But the X-Men are scrappier than that, and while they've always been relatable figures to everyone who feels like they don't belong, they haven't had the same kind of staying power as some of their peers (Fox owning the team's movie rights probably doesn't help).
Jeff Lemire and Humberto Ramos's Extraordinary X-Men is poised to change that. The comic finds the X-Men literally in Limbo, a demonic dimension, as they flee the fallout that occurred after Marvel's big Secret Wars crossover event. Mutants are being killed and sterilized, something happened with Scott Summers, and the X-Men are once again the bete noir of the Marvel universe. And even though the first issue of Extraordinary X-Men stumbled a bit when it came out in November, a lot of its troubles can be blamed on the delay of Secret Wars and how much the two stories are linked. Lemire and Ramos quickly found their groove in subsequent issues, showing us the desperation of the X-Men who have their backs up against the wall, and what finally happened to Cyclops at the end of Secret Wars.
Image credit: Marvel Comics
Paper Girls (Image Comics)
Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls is the story of something mysterious that happens to crew of newspaper delivery girls in suburban Cleveland, and in 2015, the comic left us with our jaws on the floor and our brains in knots.
I don't want to give too much away, but the comic has been one surreal mystery after another, and I'm pretty sure it involves some kind of alien time travel. After issue three's cliffhanger, we're still at the point where we don't know who the real bad guys are and who we, and the paper girls, can trust. In 2016, I think we'll have a better understanding of these twists and turns, but going by what Vaughan and Chiang have shown us so far, there will be even more mysteries to unwind.
Image credit: Image Comics
Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death (DC Comics)
Poison Ivy was perhaps the biggest casualty of Batman & Robin, the 1997 dumpster fire of a film. She was painted as a campy, nitwit sexpot and that image has haunted the character ever since. But in January 2016, DC has a chance to redeem Poison Ivy with a new miniseries from writer Amy Chu and artist Clay Mann.
Chu recently told me that she has "beef" with how Poison Ivy was portrayed in Batman & Robin and is seeking to reinvent and lean into the character's background as a scientist.
"That's what so attractive. She's so complicated. She's so smart. She's not just a sexy being," Chu says. "She has an alter ego. It's Pam Eisley, and she's a scientist. We're not going to dance around that. She is a scientist, and she's doing some pioneering research. She is Lex Luthor smart."
The comic made headlines in December after preview panels revealed a sexed-up Ivy. But I'm waiting to see what Chu and Mann bring to the table, and whether they'll be able to bring the character back to relevance, before passing judgment.
Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death is scheduled for release on January 20.
Image credit: DC Comics
Jupiter's Legacy(Image Comics)
Mark Millar and Frank Quitely's Jupiter's Legacy is excellent, but it's been stifled by delays; almost a full year elapsed between issues four and five, and smaller delays were peppered throughout the first volume. Millar assured me that his and Quitely's approach will be different in 2016; they made a point to finish drawing and scripting all of volume two before publishing.
Jupiter's Legacy explores the plight of second-generation superheroes. What happens when you can't live up to your parents' expectations? What happens when superheroes start betraying one another? The story is grotesquely bleak, but issue five contained a glimmer of hope and joy that was tucked in at the very end. Fans have been waiting a long time to see how that pans out.
Jupiter's Legacy issue six is scheduled for release in Spring of 2016.
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Q: Spark - No FileSystem for scheme: https, cannot load files from Amazon S3 I'm trying to load some data from an Amazon S3 bucket by:
SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Importer");
JavaSparkContext ctx = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
HiveContext sqlContext = new HiveContext(ctx.sc());

DataFrame magento = sqlContext.read().json("https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/*/*.json");

This last line however throws an error:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: No FileSystem for scheme: https

The same line has been working in another project, what am I missing? I'm running Spark on a Hortonworks CentOS VM.

A: By default Spark supports HDFS, S3 and local.
S3 can be accessed by s3a:// or s3n:// protocols (difference between s3a, s3n and s3 protocols)
So to access a file the best is to use the following:
s3a://bucket-name/key

Depending on your spark version and included libraries you may need to add external jars:
Spark read file from S3 using sc.textFile ("s3n://...)
(Are you sure that you were using s3 with https protocol in previous projects? Maybe you had custom code or jars included to support https protocol?)


In its life-span of nearly 110 years, ATMA's mission has been to promote the interests of the local n textile industry as well as trade. ATMA has been recognized by the Central and State Governments as the sole representative body for the textile mills in this centre. Representation has been granted to ATMA on a number of government and public bodies. Further, its opinions and recommendations have usually weighed with the government in framing their policies, particularly for the textile industry.
During the Second World War, the local textile mills experienced hardship in procuring essential materials. ATMA took to procure and distribute controlled materials (eg. coal) that were in short supply, with the help of the government. Before the introduction of rationing, ATMA had made arrangements for sale of food grains and sugar to the general public at cost price and thereby endeavored to promote good relations between the industry, workers and the public. Over time, ATMA's role has undergone change. Many of its direct services to the mills (eg procurement of materials) have shrunk or ceased altogether. At the same time, functions like centralised collection of octroi from the industry through ATMA, continue. The textile industry is still the largest payer of octroi in the city.
Very early on, the Association played a proactive role in influencing government policy. For example, in 1923, as representative of the Millowners' Constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly, Kasturbhai Lalbhai took up the issue of the 3.5 percent countervailing excise duty on Indian textiles, which had been unjustly imposed to counterbalance the duty on the imports from Lancashire. The resolution was passed with a large majority and the Indian Government was compelled to scrap the measure that had plagued the Indian textile industry for nearly 30 years.
Today, ATMA's most important function is to voice the concerns of the organised textile sector and act as a pressure group to influence government policy. ATMA makes representations before the concerned authorities, on behalf of its members, on various issues directly and indirectly affecting the industry. Every year, ATMA submits a pre-budget memorandum to the Governments of India and Gujarat. ATMA is a member of the advisory council of the Ahmedabad Electricity Company. ATMA is also a member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI), as well as the International Chamber of Commerce. These organisations act as lobbying bodies.


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What a Relief!
The punning title refers to (a) the aesthetic disaster of a neoclassical relief based on Poussin's Et in Arcadia Ego at Shugborough Hall; (b) the relief that an article on it mentioned by Tony Green is free of Da Vinci Code hermeneutics.
Alas, no image can escape being contaminated by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, which itself was spawned by Henry Lincoln's "factual" bestseller, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked by students if Poussin was a freemason, a templar, or member of some hermetic cabal. I take it all in my stride, even smiling sweetly when one of my students offers to lend me the illustrated Da Vinci Code, complete with a reproduction of Poussin's Louvre Self- Portrait! More seriously, I have had cases when Dan Brown has nudged Panofsky, Warburg et al off the art history map completely. There was the memorable case of a student who wrote an essay on Leonardo's Last Supper putting only Dan Brown in the bibliography. I couldn't believe that- thank god it's a rare occurrence. Of course, there's the argument that using the Dan Brown phenomenon to get students interested in difficult paintings is better than them ignoring them; but that's obviously open to abuse. Worse, it leads to intellectual laziness, a schematic art history by the esoteric numbers. Whilst I won't throw Damisch or Marin directly at them, I expect them to have read Panofsky at the very least!
We occasionally get the lunatic fringe in Poussin scholarship: the odd book or article which veers dangerously close to Lincoln and Brown. Surfing through the websites on the Shugborough Grail Mystery, I'm reminded of a Poussin book a few years back that made similar symbolic cross-correlations to prove a fanciful theory. Lincoln and his heirs have done a lot of damage. No wonder that Blunt shut the door on Lincoln and co when they door-stepped him while researching the Holy Grail film.
I made the mistake- horrible admission- of trying to read the Da Vinci Code once. I got about a quarter of the way in before propelling the book across the room. I then proceeded to pour critical scorn on Mr Brown's knowledge of art, his egregious writing style and general inability to sustain an interesting narrative. I made the mistake of watching the film, but judged it a case of Jason Bourne meets Panofsky, or a less systematic iconographer/decoder. I think the best comment ever made about Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code was made by Umberto Eco, who wrote the mother of all conspiracy theory books- Foucault's Pendulum. Hardly surprising that the author who wrote a book simultaneously generating and debunking conspiracy theories had this to say of the DVC.
"I was obliged to read it. The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum. I invented him. He shares my character's fascinations- the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect that Dan Brown might not even exist."
That's an interesting idea. Dan Brown as the name of a covert organization dedicated to the dissemination of historical cults through the mass media, fringe scholarship, the publishing world, and now god help us- the heritage industry.
As for the 'Shepherds Monument' with an eight word inscription below it, you can read about the theories here and here. I have no comment, but with the Holy Grail connection being played up on the web, I wouldn't be surprised to see some author or pseudo-scholar connect this manufactured piece of esoterica with the Holy Grail/Templar conspiracy and follow in Lincoln and Brown's footsteps.
Posted at 08:45 PM in 17th Century Painting, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Henry Lincoln, Poussin, Shugborough Hall | Permalink | Comments (4)
Going, Going…
It may soon be gone.
Turner's last Roman masterpiece, 'Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino', could be another causality of the squeeze on museums. It will go under the hammer on July 7th, at Sotheby's. It's appropriate that it will be sold there; one of the descendants of the family that own it is the deputy chairman of Sotheby's English division.
Sotheby's expect the Turner to fetch up to £18 million, which the Rosebery family need "to divide family assets to secure the future of landed estates." See the one below for instance! That's what a Sotheby's spokesman says in today's Evening Standard. Meanwhile the future of old masters in this country looks pretty grim as reported in the same paper. If the Turner is sold, a hold will be put on an export licence pending hopeful purchase of the work, but will it be saved?
The Turner, which is on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland, is a victim of the huge deficit run up by that gallery with the purchase of Titian's Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon from the Duke of Sutherland for £100 million. I saw the former yesterday in London prior to its American tour.
I also saw the 'Raphael' Madonna of the Pinks, which the Evening Standard cite as an example of a masterpiece saved from going abroad, incidentally also previously owned by the Duke of Sutherland. I'm sorry but I can't get excited about this purchase because with this 'Raphael' we're probably dealing with a 17th century copy, not an autograph work saved for the nation. I really wish that it had gone to the Getty, and that an original could have been bought with the money instead.
I'm not sure that the Turner will be saved. Apart from the harsh climate for museums, there are massive holdings of the artist in the U.K. Would another one be missed? I hope it stays here, but time will tell.
Posted at 04:11 PM in 19th Century Painting, art market, Raphael, Turner | Permalink | Comments (3)
Svetlana Alpers Symposium
There's an interesting symposium on Svetlana Alpers coming up on the 7th May at the University of Amsterdam.
The University of Amsterdam hosts a symposium dedicated to the work of Svetlana Alpers (Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley). Her books on early modern painting are not easy to categorize within traditional strands of scholarship but share a progressive approach to their subjects. The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (1983) turned attention away from iconography to questions about the look and nature of Dutch painting. Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market (1988) analyzed the master's work in terms of his performance on the market. More recently, Alpers has expanded her view to Italian art in Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence (1994, with Michael Baxandall), to Spanish art in The Vexations of Art: Velazquez and Others (2005), and she has now turned to the making and discussing of art today.
Svetlana Alpers will participate in a multidisciplinary assembly of visual artist and researchers who have affinity with her thinking. She will discuss a selection of works from the Renaissance to the present. Her guests are the artist Jan Andriesse, historian Rudolf Dekker, artist Jan Dibbets, painter Marlene Dumas, art historian Rudi Fuchs, film maker Maarten de Kroon, and cultural historian Lotte van de Pol.
I was lucky to see Professor Alpers at the distinguished art historians' event at CAA in Los Angeles last February. She hosted a session/game in which art historians responded to her choice of art. I'm sure that this will be an equally stimulating event, and Amsterdam is a great place to visit. I spoke at the university in a symposium on Hubert Damisch last May. It's a great venue.
Posted at 09:30 PM in Svetlana Alpers, symposia and conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Ephemeral Museum re-visited
When I heard about the NG of Scotland's project of touring Titian's canonical mythology- Diana and Actaeon, in America, I immediately thought of the late Francis Haskell's book The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition, published at the start of the decade. That was the name Haskell gave to permanent collections temporarily depleted by loans to exhibitions. In a memorable foreword, Haskell described a world shrunk by travel; the author envisaged airlines crowded with planes carrying precious artistic cargoes of Titians, Velasquezes, Poussins and others. The serious point about the increase in shows and the concomitant risk to art was made with humour and eloquence.
Almost a decade later I wonder what Haskell would be saying about the new trend, initiated by the Louvre in 2007, of lending paintings for a year or more to museums like the High and others? Haskell was voicing his concern about the increased traffic in art at a time when museums were not feeling the pinch as much as they are today. I mean, back in 2001, would you ever have thought that the Getty, the Getty, mark you, would cut their acquisition budget? I still couldn't believe that when I read it. A sign of the times!
Today, the ephemeral museum is much more of a reality. If a masterpiece- or several works of art- can reside in museums on the other side of the world for 6 months or more, then its home collection cannot be regarded as permanent, not on your life. I don't want to launch into a tirade about lending art outside the U.K. I'm glad that the folks who'll visit the museums will get the chance to appreciate the beauty and genius of these pictures; but several things should be borne in mind as they go off on their merry way.
1. As the Art Newspaper gently intimates: it's surprising that the Titians are leaving so soon after they came into public ownership. According to the article, the scheme was hatched in 2008 during the campaign to save the Titians, so this global tour must have been on the cards for a long time. I also agree with the M.P. Ian Davidson who says "it's bizarre when such a large amount of public and lottery money was raised to keep the painting in Britain."
2. The 'Diana and Actaeon' isn't in perfect condition. As the NG of Scotland says in the catalogue for 'The Age of Titian' exhibition of Venetian art in Scottish collections of 2005, there is craquelure in the section by Actaeon's hand; it's visible to the naked eye, even in reproductions. I know it's been restored, but the problems of restoration aside, taking it in and out of crates can't be good for the picture's health.
3. This sets a dangerous precedent for U.K. museums. After this more cash-strapped museums are inevitably going to follow this extended loan period arrangement. I know the NG of Scotland is forced to this cause of action because of the huge debt built up during the Titian campaign, but there are risks in touring old master art on this scale. I'm sure Francis Haskell would have agreed.
All of these thoughts will be passing through my mind when I look at the Titians in the NG London, in a few weeks time. I shall drink them in before they start their long trek north and west, an itinerary comprising Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Houston, Cardiff etc.
Posted at 05:15 PM in 16th Century Painting, Francis Haskell, High Museum, Atlanta, museum matters, National Gallery of Scotland, Titian | Permalink | Comments (6)
I've just finished reading a book that cleverly interweaves fiction and art history within an 18th century setting. I'm talking about Barbara Ewing's novel The Fraud.
Without spoiling the plot too much, the story revolves around a Bristol painter who goes to Italy and assumes the persona of a Florentine artist: Filipo di Vecellio, an in-joke. Returning to Bristol, he rescues his sister Grace from poverty, and sets her up as a housekeeper in his fashionable town house in Pall Mall. Here's the catch. Grace must renounce her former life and identity and pretend to be his sister Francesca. The main thread running through the novel is that Grace/Francesca is actually the better painter, a fact that her brother cannot come to terms with. So fact is coated over with layers of deception. Filipo paints portraits for illustrious clients by day; Francesca paints at night in her room.
Ewing is excellent at evoking the sink or swim world of Hogarth's London; the painter makes a cameo appearance earlier in the story. Also present are Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, the former presiding over the 'on the line' RA exhibitions; the latter offering sympathy and advice to the embroiled Grace/Francesca. Our heroine also learns about chiaroscuro from Mr. Joseph Wright of Derby; this provides Ewing with a excellent metaphor- the woman paints from a darkness within her.
The novel also falls into the art crime genre too: at an advanced stage of the narrative, we're given an object lesson in faking a Rembrandt and aging it to fool the academicians.
Ultimately, fakery on the artistic and social level is difficult to sustain. Exposure becomes the only solution for Grace; but Filipo, despite the unraveling of his life's story, decides to go on living a lie.
Most art history in novel format doesn't succeed, but I think this does. Ewing's research is thorough and she blends art fact with art fiction adroitly. Add a dash of art crime and you've got all the ingredients for a great book. Recommended.
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University of California Procurement Program Among Finalists for World Procurement Award
LOS ANGELES – For the second year in a row, the University of California's (UC) system-wide P200 Procurement Program was selected as a finalist at the 11th annual World Procurement Awards, which are widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the field.
JAGGAER, provider of the world's most comprehensive Source to Pay (S2P) solution suite, partnered with UC to create a procurement service that has transformed the university purchasing process. Utilizing JAGGAER's P2P, sourcing, and spend analytics solutions, P200 was able to surpass the $200 million in annual savings goal by $69 million at the end of the 2015-2016 fiscal year, and plans to exceed $300 million by the end of 2016-2017.
The University of California is comprised of 10 campuses, and is the second largest employer in California, with over 238,000 students and 190,000 employees and faculty members. The UC system manages over $7.8 billion in spend annually across its campuses. In 2012, the UC System created the P200 Challenge, a bold program designed to help the UC System save $200 million annually by the end of this fiscal year.
Although UC did not take home the award, being included as a finalist once again is a huge accomplishment. "We are honored that the P200 program has been acknowledged two years in a row as one of the best procurement programs in the world. Over the past two years, this program has been getting increased attention on an international stage, indicative of our evolution into a 'best practices,' strategic procurement organization," says Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer William Cooper.
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Think you're the only one who's living on a financial knife's edge? You are not alone. Recent data show most American workers live paycheck to paycheck.
The statistics seem accurate to Joseph Driscoll, a 39-year-old San Diego resident on active duty with the Coast Guard. His co-workers began panicking before the first paycheck was missed during the December-January partial government shutdown.
Driscoll is also a financial coach – yet his own finances were once far from healthy. He and his wife lived paycheck to paycheck until the day they had had enough. "We had campers, jet skis and $52,000 in debt — and this was after cleaning up debt previously," he said.
They learned to budget and cleared up the debt, and within two years they were back on track.
So take heart. Others improved their finances and you can, too. And take note: Any combination of strategies can help, from Frugal February to picking up a side hustle.
If you have credit card debt, continue making payments. But you may need to drop payments down to the minimum. Consider transferring the balance to a zero-interest credit card. Not accumulating more interest could be a substantial win.
Through frugal living — living like a student after graduating — Cothern, 32, and his wife paid off $80,000 in student loans in three years.
Make saving a priority, not an afterthought, he said. That way, it's no longer available for unplanned spending.
Becky Pfaffenbach Nova, 35, says it took her a long time to learn to manage money.
New York City is expensive, and Nova, now a medical operations specialist, was constantly squeezed. Sometimes she asked her fiance to pay her subway fare, pretending she didn't have her card handy. But the reality was, she didn't have $2.75.
The wakeup call came when her fiance confronted her. Nova boosted her income with a higher-paying position, and set spending and savings limits.
Goals make it easier to stick to limits. Investing in her business meant Nova didn't mind forgoing restaurants or walking instead of using Uber. "I tried to make a game out of seeing how long I could go without spending money," she said.
When friends suggest meeting for drinks, Nova counters with lower-cost or free alternatives, such as going to the park.
Nova earns extra cash checking people in at events or doing in-person market research, which pays far more than online surveys. "A little extra money here and there is helpful," she said.
It's crunch time for Suzanne Truong Hoyer, 38, an IT analyst who lives in Unionville, Connecticut. Her husband is on unpaid leave, and the couple, with two kids, lives on one paycheck.
"We just bought a house and haven't yet sold the previous house," Hoyer said.
They are making their own repairs to the house on the market. They sold items before moving to recoup money for unwanted things. On a recent snowy day, Hoyer and her husband pulled the kids around on a sled and built a snowman.
Hoyer recommends going through your day to see where you can cut back. "If you are used to going out for drinks, scale back," she said. She cooks 90 percent of the time, and finds ways to get the most value out of, say, roasting a chicken to create two or three meals.


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Home > DPR | LPR > A resident of the liberated Soledar spoke about the atrocities of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
12:43 Men in Western Ukraine scatter in different directions at the sight of military registration and enlistment office employees – source
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11:29 Ukraine's allegations about shell shortage of the RF Armed Forces do not correspond to reality – Rostech"
11:16 Kyiv may experience serious problems with Abrams tanks due to fuel requirements – media
10:40 DPR Head Pushilin says capture of Ugledar (Donetsk region) could change the balance of power at the front
10:30 Russian Foreign Ministry calls on German ambassador to clarify statements about the conflict in Ukraine
10:16 UN recorded complaints of torture in Ukraine long before the special military operation
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A resident of the liberated Soledar spoke about the atrocities of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
A resident of Soledar, liberated the day before by Russia, told how the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) used the civilians of the city as a human shield, as was the case in other cities of Eastern Ukraine before the arrival of the Russian army.
Source: shokgid.ru
The Vashi Novosti publication published a video of a correspondent's conversation with a civilian resident of the liberated Soledar. During the conversation, the woman spoke about how the AFU militants stood in the yards, hiding behind them like a human shield.
"Ukrainian troops stood straight from the yard. They covered us like a human shield. There were houses where people had already left long ago – it was possible to stand there. But they stood precisely in those houses where there were people. <…> They fired back, and missile immediately hit our houses. I personally asked: "Guys, please go, at least to another estate," said a resident of Soledar, "Are you waiting for Russia, orcs?!" [Ukrainian fighters answered – Ed.]."
Recall that the liberation of Soledar by the forces of the PMC "Wagner" became known on the evening of January 11, later this information was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
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The "Flaming Love" eyeshadow palette consists of 8 highly pigmented eyeshadows with a range of warm earthy tones and metallic colours which compliment each other.
Whisper – Metallic beige, think champagne.
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If drinking great coffee is what you are all about and you don't want to stand in lines for it, then the Moustache Coffee Club is for you. Finally, you can explore the world of artisan coffees from your home or office. And, they will roast and ship your coffee on the same day.
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If you're a coffee connoisseur, you'll appreciate the tasting notes so that you can get the most out of your cup of coffee.
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Lush Cosmetics just partnered with Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK to help shed light on the important role that sharks play in maintaining a healthy ocean and planet.
Shark Fin Soap ($5.95) is available in-store at Fashion Island, Anaheim Garden Walk, The Shops at Mission Viejo and Brea Mall as well as online at lushusa.com through July 19.
With every purchase of Shark Fin Soap, Lush will donate 100 percent of the sale price to organizations around the world working on shark conservation, ocean health and the protection of species.
You can get your red, white and blue on with help from RVCA's new 4th of July Collection.
The westside Costa Mesa based RVCA presents its new arrivals in celebration of the Fourth of July.
Shop from the Tribar Tee, Pride tee, Sweetwater boardshorts, Change Up tank, Bert Canons Tee, Honcho boardshorts, and Dream Flag tees available online now and in local stores.
Here's a twist on the juice cleanse craze that we can't get away from. Soupure, founded by Angela Blatteis and Vivienne Vella is a "grab and go" liquid option designed to be hearty while offering energy and optimal nutritional value.
Soupure is a home made, home delivery "souping" service that offers packs of broths, protein packs, 1 to 5 day custom cleanses, oncology support packages and a variety of cold and hot soup varieties and infused alkaline water supplements. Choose from flavors such as Pumpkin Miso, Japanese Sweet Potato, Lemongrass Consomme, Pineapple Cucumber Water, and Strawberry Cashew.
Blatteis and Vella both have family members who suffered from cancer, so they understood the challenges in finding good tasking nutritious soups that were non-GMO, natural, and not filled with sodium, cream and preservatives.
If you're left feeling hungry and confused by a juice cleanse, Soupure could be a great alternative as you can choose from rich cold and hot soups, tonics and waters for a snack, a meal, a starter course or a refreshing beverage, or a cleanse. They are made from all organic foods, filled with fiber, whole foods and protein rich ingredients.
Soupure is now serving up and delivering single-service bottles, as well as cleanses, weekly throughout and within a 350 mile radius of Los Angeles County (national starting Sumer 2015) and is retailing at Soupure's new kiosk location in Brentwood Town Center, as well as at Cardio Barre Studio City.
Orange County based Neige, an upscale children's line by Adrienne Catrina, just partnered with Margherita Missoni, the granddaughter of Missoni's founding father, to help her create a dream brand, Margherita Kids.
Together, they collaborated in choosing colors, designs, and production.
Because of Adrienne's influence, new customers for Margherita Kids can expect the same amazing quality, fit and design that they are used to with Neige.
As featured in Vogue, Margherita Kids launched exclusively in the United States at select Nordsrom such as South Coast Plaza for its spring/summer 2015 collection.
The 70-piece collection for boys and girls up to age seven features Batik-inspired prints, seersucker, color block stripes, dots and mix and match prints. Choose from sleeveless cotton dresses, shift dresses, tiered cotton skirts, linen and cotton shorts, t-shirts, cotton bubble bloomers, colorblock cardigans and more.
Nordstrom is at South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bristol St. in Costa Mesa.
On the hunt for something different? Stop by the new Coast Modern in Seal Beach that offers curated local and international goods, as well as men's and women's clothing and homewares. Bryce and Cecilia Cole, a creative design couple, shine a light on indie fashion brands and local artisans. They feature a local sailmaker who handcrafts bags, to a bookbinder who makes quality leather goods.
The husband and wife team have designed for various fashion brands in the contemporary and action sports arenas. Seven years ago they launched Common Thread, a multi-source apparel design and manufacturing agency where they continue to work with many brands.
"We believe in good design for better living and we're inspired by architecture, textiles, graphic art and simple pure design," Bryce said.
Coast Modern offers an eclectic mix of quality items such as clothing, jewelry, eyewear, shoes, books, cards and linens.
This season's women's designers include: Knot Sisters, Maison Du Soir, Closed Denim, Bridge & Burn, K-Way, Raven+Lily and Bijoux B Jewelry.
Men's designers include: Almond, Aloha Sunday, Railcar Fine Goods, Rhythm and their own house brand Unidas.
Homewares include: Woolrich, Half Light Bindery, Topo Designs, Eames Office, Swell, M&U Co., Hedley & Bennett, and Books by Hennessey & Ingalls as well as Tashen, and more.
Open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.


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Who defines God's word? Letters
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By Letters to the Editor | opinion@scng.com | Southern California News Group
Defining God's word
Re the letter "Mere Christianity at APU" on Nov. 11: I hear you, Jim. But I also know that "God's word" is whatever a religious sect says it is, and that can mean children dying for lack of medical treatment. Sometimes "God's word" needs to be corrected to make it socially responsible. When "God's word" collides with the laws of a civilized society, it is "God" who must give way. I don't expect believers to repudiate their faith, but I do hold them to the accepted standards of morality.
— Dave E. Matson, Pasadena
Firearms on the Earth
What single, comprehensive, practical law does any of you gun haters think would have prevented the recent horrific incidents in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs? If you could create a gun magnet that would instantaneously collect and destroy every single firearm on Earth, would that do it for you?
How effectively could the police and military defend and protect you? Oh, you want to make exceptions for them? As long as there is a single firearm on Earth, no matter who is supposed to possess it, someone with evil intentions will plot day and night to steal it and use it for ill. Whoever possesses that single firearm would have the power to do whatever he wanted: No one would have a superior weapon to stop him.
Imagine that there are two firearms on the entire Earth. Then, the person with ill intent would always have to worry about avoiding that second gun while he carried out his evil actions.
What if every adult with a clean criminal record and no history of mental instability were categorically allowed to own and carry a gun? The armed criminal's paranoia would be infinite: Not only would he not know who was prohibited from carrying, he wouldn't know the difference between who chooses to carry and who doesn't.
Until then, evil people will continue to pick houses of worship, schools and other "gun free" (i.e., victim-full), locations. No new law will stop them any more than those that they are already deliberately ignoring. New laws will only inhibit good people who might have had a firearm and the ability to stop evil, except for the law preventing them.
— Jim White, Temple City
Halfway to sainthood
Regarding David Lasell's comments about Father Junipero Serra being "deified" as opposed to "beatified" (Nov. 7): Lasell is correct, but only about halfway. Father Serra was indeed beatified, that is, declared "blessed," but by Pope John Paul II back in 1988. He was "canonized," declared a Saint, by Pope Francis in 2015.
It is interesting that Lasell addressed a point of Catholic Church theological practices, but not the vandalizing of the statue of Father Serra, or the possible reasons that many people are not happy about the canonization of Saint Father Junipero Serra.
— Lawrence Berg, San Gabriel
Donald Trump's victims
"It's time for business to stand up for it rights," Donald Trump argues. But in lambasting environmental protection as a hoax, Trump provides no facts. And when science provides facts justifying public concern, Trump lambasts science as elitism. Trump has gutted decades of police reform, health reform and business reform. Decades of social improvements are being destroyed not by congressional laws, but executive fiat. Washington was labeled by Trump as a bureaucratic swamp, but instead of draining the waste, Trump has the filled the murky waters with the predators of profit. Spitting on government has morphed into spitting in your own eye, as Dirty Trump turns the anti-government crowd into victims of their own resentment.
— Richard Dorsey, Hacienda Heights
Shooting back
Jan Freed wrote (Nov. 9) that "guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people." Recently a man killed people with a truck yet no one called for banning vehicles. People get stabbed to death every year but no one calls to ban kitchen knives. People have been killed with baseball bats but no one is hollering for checks before someone buys a Louisville Slugger. If you only watch the pro-gun control mainstream media then you may have missed the fact that an armed citizen cut short the Texas shooter's rampage by shooting back.
— Carl Miller, Whittier
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#include "Poco/ThreadPool.h"
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