Mark's Story – Tour Guide Mark – Let's Go Exploring!
Mark spent his formative years growing up on Little Lee Creek, a remote and scenic area of the Ozark Mountains in eastern Oklahoma. His closest neighbor was an elder who lived half a mile away. She was a storyteller. One day she commented that she, and others before her, would live a long time through her stories…if people cared to listen and stand up for important things.
At the age of 12, Mark witnessed the destruction of the creek's 25-mile long watershed from an industrial landfill. The polluted water negatively affected the rural population's health. He participated in a state hearing to help raise awareness, but a solution was slow. The polluted creek was a defining moment in his life; he felt if more people could have quality outdoor experiences – become part of a place's story – they might make better decisions when it came to protecting the land, air, and water.
In high school, he assisted with spelunking research that ultimately led to a cave being protected by The Nature Conservancy. As a young adult, he moved to California, where he managed an international youth hostel and organized natural history trips for visitors. Here he met his future wife who was traveling from overseas. During college, he focused on international and environmental studies where he completed preliminary research on Bair Island, which eventually led to some of these last remaining wetlands in the San Francisco Bay estuary being protected. After college, he worked in the technology sector as a project manager, event planner, and marketing consultant. While this work paid the bills, and he learned a great deal, he fed his love for the outdoors by leading hiking, kayaking, and backpacking trips so fellow tech employees could reconnect with their families while outside.
As a father, Mark championed kids being in nature. He founded GlyphGuy Backpacks and for ten years ran a garage-based business that provisioned outdoor youth programs with solidly made child-sized packs that were free of lead, mercury, and phthalates. This included providing 2,450 packs to National Park Service's Junior Ranger program.
He also established relationships with 17 friend-of-the-park groups to develop outreach and fundraising strategies so funds could be generated for interpretive and visitor education services.
This energy for helping people to get outside was expressed with the moniker – let's go exploring! – and he still celebrates that energy by including it in his website's name.
Currently, Mark advances fundraising and program management for the Red Panda Network, a wildlife conservation non-profit committed to protecting red pandas through eco-tourism and the empowerment of local communities in Nepal. He also works as an interpretive guide and tour director for Road Scholar and other education-based groups that value inter-generational travel (grandparents and grandkids) experiences.
Mark lives in Eugene, Oregon, a quirky town that is somewhat northwest of normal. He is an avid hiker and enjoys backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail. He also loves to eat whole food plant-based meals. He is an advocate for slow tourism and walking-based explorations.
Mark holds a BA in International Relations. He is a Graduate of the International Tour Management Institute (ITMI), a Wilderness First Responder (NOLS), and a Certified Interpretive Guide from the National Association for Interpretation (NAI). Mark is completing his Oregon Master Naturalist certificate from Oregon State University. He is a member of the Environmental Education Association of Oregon, Association for Experiential Education, and the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Mark encourages others to listen to stories, travel, and create their own understanding of a place.


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Today in Blues Music History – May 17th – Taj Mahal is Born
by Grego Anderson | May 17, 2022
Today in Blues Music History
From Mojohand.com – The Home of Everything Blues since 2001, celebrating the music and the legends of the Blues art form
May 17th, 1942 – Taj Mahal is born
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work.
While attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as an agriculture student in the early 1960s the musician transformed himself into Taj Mahal an idea that came to him in a dream. He began playing with the popular U. Mass. party band The Elektras then left Massachusetts in 1964 for the blues-heavy Los Angeles club scene. There he formed The Rising Sons withRy Cooder Ed Cassidy Jesse Lee Kinkaid Gary Marker and Kevin Kelly. At the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles The Rising Sons opened for Otis Redding Sam the Sham The Temptations and Martha and the Vandellas at The Trip. Taj also had the opportunity to hear meet and play with such blues legends as Howlin' Wolf Muddy Waters Junior Wells Buddy Guy Louis and Dave Meyers Sleepy John Estes Yank Rachel Lightin' Hopkins Bessie Jones the Georgia Sea Island Singers and Hammy Nixon.
Taj Mahal (Columbia Records, 1968)
The Natch'l Blues (Columbia Records, 1968)
Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home (Columbia Records, 1969)
Happy Just to Be Like I Am (Columbia Records, 1971)
Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff (Columbia Records, 1972)
Sounder (original soundtrack) (Columbia Records, 1972)
Oooh So Good 'n Blues (Columbia Records, 1973)
Mo' Roots (Columbia Records, 1974)
Music Keeps Me Together (Columbia Records, 1975)
Satisfied 'n Tickled Too (Columbia Records, 1976)
Music Fuh Ya' (Warner Bros. Records, 1976)
Brothers (Warner Bros. Records, 1977)
Evolution (Warner Bros. Records, 1977)
Taj (Gramavision, 1987)
Shake Sugaree (Music For Little People, 1988)
Mule Bone (Gramavision, 1991)
Like Never Before (Private Music, 1991)
Dancing the Blues (Private Music, 1993)
Mumtaz Mahal, with V.M. Bhatt and N. Ravikiran (Water Lily Acoustics, 1995)
Phantom Blues (Private Music, 1996)
Señor Blues (Private Music, 1997)
Sacred Island, with The Hula Blues Band) (Private Music, 1998)
Blue Light Boogie (Private Music, 1999)
Kulanjan (with Toumani Diabaté) (Hannibal Records, 1999)
Hanapepe Dream, with The Hula Blues Band (Hannibal Records, 2001)
Mkutano Meets the Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar (Respect Records, 2005)
Maestro (Heads Up International, 2008)
Talkin' Christmas, with Blind Boys of Alabama (Masterworks, 2014)
TajMo, with Keb' Mo' (Concord Records, 2017)
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Residents jog, pedal and push babies in carriages around the water's edge. A welcome breeze often stirs over the surface on blistering summer days. In spring, people delightfully watch hundreds of white pelicans—living emblems of Louisiana—descend on the lakes to feast on fish.
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Because on the tenth of this month the postman came, carrying the packet, and finding nobody home – which is in itself a nice mystery because we were both here, me and my brother – left a communication for us to go and retrieve the package at the post office.
But the postman did not leave the communication in our mailbox.
No, he dropped it into an old and unused mailbox by our neighbour's gate.
Now this mailbox has been abandoned for so long, wild birds make their nest in it – which would be all right were it not for benighted postmen dropping stuff in.
So the slot in the mailbox was closed with a piece of cardboard, held in place on the inside by a liberal application of duct tape.
There is also a notice – a bit washed out but still readable – reading DON'T USE – BIRDS INSIDE.
But postmen are not to be deterred, so our postman happily punched through the cardboard, in order to drop in the wrong post box a notice about a parcel waiting in the post office.
But as luck would have it, my brother yesterday (four days after the event) noticed in passing the punched out cardboard, and decided to check out.
So we now have to go to the post office to retrieve the parcel.
But, of course, the post office here in Castelnuovo Belbo closed for renovation – because let's admit it, what better time to close the post office than the Christmas period? Who could ever need to use the post office in these days, right?
So now if we want to send packages or pay our power and telephone bills, or indeed retrieve a package left on hold, we have to go no less than four miles from here. Which is really nothing, of course – if you have a car.
But we don't have a car.
Which, incidentally, is the reason why we were at home when the postman came and said we were not.
And not having a car means asking for a lift, or more simply asking somebody to pick the parcel while they drive by.
And they can do it, they can pick up your pack.
The notice.A paper giving them power of attorney to retrieve your parcel.A copy of your ID card, or the original.
And the attorney thing must be done anyway, even if it's my brother that picks up the parcel.
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The federal district court in Chicago has certified a class of all end-payors who purchased inpatient and outpatient health care services directly from NorthShore University HealthSystem (formerly known as Evanston Northwestern Healthcare) to proceed with claims that the Chicago-area health care system engaged in monopolistic conduct following an anticompetitive hospital acquisition (In re: Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation Antitrust Litigation, December 10, 2013, Chang, E.).
The decision to grant the plaintiffs' renewed motion for class certification in this long-running action follows a remand order from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and unsuccessful settlement negotiations. In January 2012, the Seventh Circuit vacated the district court's 2010 denial of class certification. The appellate court ruled that it was an abuse of discretion to deny certification on the ground that the putative class could not show predominance for purposes of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3).
The putative class sought to recover for paying artificially inflated prices for health care services following the 2000 acquisition, which the FTC had found in administrative proceedings violated federal antitrust law. The appellate court ruled that common questions would predominate in regard to whether the acquisition violated federal antitrust law and that uniformity of nominal price increases following the transaction was not a condition for class certification, as the lower court had held.
In its ruling issued yesterday, the federal district court concluded that the plaintiffs established that a class action was the superior method for adjudicating the controversy. Thus, they satisfied the only remaining requirement of Rule 23 that had not already been decided.
NorthShore unsuccessfully argued that class action litigation was inferior to either arbitration or to individual litigation. Although NorthShore had not waived its right to arbitrate—as the plaintiffs asserted—the court concluded that the issue of arbitration was premature.
According to NorthShore, managed care organizations (MCOs) were bound by arbitration agreements with the system and arbitration was a superior method for adjudicating the class claims. However, the MCOs, although included in the proposed class, were not parties to the case. Thus, the sensible course, according to the court, was to decide whether to certify the class without considering the possibility of arbitration, bring the MCOs into the case, see what their position was on arbitration, and then decide who must arbitrate.
Further, the MCOs' theoretical interest in controlling individual lawsuits was not enough to prevent class certification. NorthShore had argued that class litigation was not superior to individual litigation because, in light of their potentially large individual claims, the MCOs and their self-insured subscribers had an interest in individually controlling any claim against NorthShore.
Lastly, the court rejected NorthShore's argument that a certified class would be unmanageable because any trial would require hundreds of mini-trials analyzing many individual NorthShore-MCO contracts. The appellate court had concluded that the plaintiffs' expert could use common evidence to show that all of the class members suffered some antitrust impact. By helping to answer the antitrust liability question in one fell swoop, the expert's methodology would eliminate the need for hundreds of mini-trials on liability. Therefore, class certification was superior to re-litigating liability in individual repeat proceedings, the court held.
Rule 23(a) prerequisites. The court also disposed of NorthShore's argument that it needed to revisit each of Rule 23(a)'s certification prerequisites, even though the putative class had already satisfied most of them for purposes of the earlier vacated ruling. Although the prior order was technically vacated, the Seventh Circuit did not disturb the previous findings of typicality and adequacy, in the district court's view. Further, the court had found that class counsel was adequate, and the parties had agreed that the numerosity and commonality factors were satisfied.
The case is No. 07-cv-04446.
Attorneys: Duane M. Kelley (Winston & Strawn LLP) for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp. Fred T. Isquith (Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP) for Steven J. Messner. Andrew Szot (Miller Law LLC), Lori Ann Fanning (Jacobs Burns Orlove & Hernandez) for Painters District Council No. 30 Health & Welfare Fund. David James Doyle (Winston & Strawn LLP) for Northshore University HealthSystem.


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Every 'Friends' Holiday Episode, Ranked
By Alexis Rhiannon
Everyone has their own holiday traditions, but it would be hard to top mine: staying in my pajamas all day with Friends on in the background and whatever I'm eating balanced on my stomach. It's the adult equivalent of rushing down the stairs bright and early to open presents, because each episode is its own present to unwrap, no matter how many times I've seen it. But having seen them approximately infinity times, I can tell you that there are some episodes that edge out the others, which is why this holiday season, I want to give you a gift — a ranking of every Friends holiday episode.
And hey, don't worry about the fact that you didn't get me anything. Just think of me as your pop culture Secret Santa, and you'll get me back next year with something I really want. (Hint: It's wine.) Or, y'know, maybe we can just trade apartments or whatever if you lose a bet to me. All I'm saying is I'm not too picky, so worst case, just get me more episodes of Friends from a vault somewhere, and in the meantime, here are the 10 holiday episodes of everyone's favorite show, ranked from best to slightly-less-best.
10. Season 5 — "The One With The Inappropriate Sister"
Only vaguely is this even a holiday episode; Phoebe has an arc about volunteering for the poor and she wears a Santa hat, but that's about it. This is the one where Ross wants Joey to write a screenplay. I don't know if you get to keep calling yourself "Dr. Geller" if you truly believe that Joey Tribbiani has a screenplay in him. In other news, Monica and Chandler are in their secretly dating phase, but it isn't enough to keep this holiday episode off the bottom of the list.
9. Season 3 — "The One Where Rachel Quits"
You know how sometimes you rewatch something from your childhood and it doesn't quiiiite hold up? That's how I feel about the Season 3 holiday episode, "The One Where Rachel Quits." Obviously there's the part where Rachel quits her job at Central Perk, which is great and fine, and the part where Phoebe gets sad about all the unused Christmas trees going into the chipper, leading the friends to fill the apartment with them so none have to meet that gruesome fate, which is adorable. But then there's also that part where Ross breaks the leg of a Girl Scout so she can't sell cookies anymore, and then ruins her chances of going to Space Camp by making a mess of selling the cookies himself. I still love you, Friends, but not your finest hour...
8. Season 7 — "The One With All The Candy"
There's nothing technically wrong with this episode, and it has more of Monica in it, which is weirdly rare for a holiday episode, so that's great, but "The One With All The Candy" was one of two holiday episodes in Season 7. And since the other Season 7 episode is actually at the top of my list, this one feels like more of an afterthought, no matter how invested I was in seeing whether or not Monica ultimately made enough candy for all her neighbors. No spoilers!
7. Season 4 — "The One With The Girl From Poughkeepsie"
The title comes from Ross' long-distance relationship that ultimately makes him fall asleep on the train and wind up in Canada, but the real meat of this one is between Monica and Joey. Monica has a new job where she gets no respect, so Joey suggests that he pretend to be a new hire, so she can fire him in front of the rest of the staff and show that she means business. Except, this is Joey we're talking about, so he ends up not wanting to give up the job and the money, which complicates everything. Plus, this is the episode with Phoebe's song that rhymes holiday themes with all her friends' names, so bonus points.
6. Season 9 — "The One With A Christmas In Tulsa"
I tried to put this one near the middle, because it's a big ol' flashback episode, and I know people are pretty divided on these. I don't mind them myself, because it's all about the nostalgia, now that the show is off the air. But there's also that storyline about Chandler and Monica being separated over the holidays because of his job in Tulsa, for purists.
5. Season 8 — "The One With Ross' Step Forward"
One of my greatest joys is watching Ross get tangled up in these overdramatic relationships, and watching his bizarre behavior as he tries to extricate himself. So, the episode where Mona sends out a Christmas card with the two of them on it, even though they're newly dating, is just what I like. And for an added layer of intrigue, Rachel is pregnant in this one. So it's all Ross' fumbles all the time. Ho ho ho!
4. Season 2 — "The One With Phoebe's Dad"
I could take or leave the storyline where Chandler and Joey do their shopping for the girls at a gas station because they left it too last-minute. But there's a lot of good stuff for Phoebe, who as the title suggests is trying to find her father, and for Rachel and Ross, who are in an especially confusing period of their will-they-won't-they, owing to Rachel's discovery of the list Ross made of her least-attractive features. Oh yeah, that.
3. Season 1 — "The One With The Monkey"
I'm a sucker for those early Friends episodes, so this one was definitely going to rank high for me. Everybody agrees to go to the same New Year's Eve party, but only if no one brings a date, but everybody breaks the rule except for Ross, who brings the monkey he randomly found. (Hi, Marcel!) We're talking Rachel with Paolo, Phoebe with David who ends up going to Minsk, and Chandler with Janice. Some real O.G. stuff here.
2. Season 6 — "The One With The Routine"
All the friends getting their very own holiday storylines is my sweet spot, so Season 6 is my jam, and I wish I could live forever in the world of Monica and Ross running "the routine" at Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve and trying to out-mug each other in front of the camera. This is the meaning of Christmas, right here. We've found it.
1. Season 7 — "The One With The Holiday Armadillo"
Winner winner, chicken dinner. At the end of the day, this is the holiday episode that's seared into my mind, so I couldn't end the list with anything but this. It's so very Ross to want to make Christmas important to Ben and then immediately botch it, but power through in an armadillo suit anyway and try to make that a thing. And it's so very Chandler to unintentionally save and ruin the day in exactly the same moment by showing up in a Santa suit. True perfection, may the Holiday Armadillo watch over you and yours this holiday season.
Annnnd I'm spent. Or am I? Maybe I have a million hours worth of energy left to marathon the rest of the seasons in order as well? It's hard to tell, but happy holidays to you while I figure it out.


Sunday, June 15, 2014. Today was rejuvenating and fulfilling. We traveled from North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama. While in Atlanta, we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. It felt amazing to feel as though you are walking some of the exact steps he walked many years ago. It also felt good to stand in the church were his grandfather, father and himself actually preached. The recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. preaching as I sat in the pews made this one of my favorite parts of the trip. I felt so alive. I felt as though I was there and should take action for what is right. I was surprised I felt this way since I have been learning about MLK Jr. all my life. I thought I would just listen and let it go through one ear and out the other but, that didn't happen at all. Instead, every word I heard and everything I read stuck to me. Seeing the house where he grew up and touching some of the things he may have touched sent chills through my body. He was an amazing person who did amazing things that I want to live up to. Once we arrived in Birmingham, we were greeted by the amazing civil rights activist, James Webb, in the Kelly Ingram Park. We got the chance to interview him and everything he said was full of wisdom. I felt blessed by his presence. He started in the movement at the age of 12. He told us that the most important thing we should do is vote because people fought for this for a long time and we don't want history to repeat itself.
June 15, 2014. Today's journey led us to Atlanta then to Birmingham Alabama. While in Atlanta we visited Martin Luther King's church and his burial site. We also visited the eternal flame for Martin Luther King, Jr. We toured his church and we also were fortunate to see the house he grew up in. While walking through the park that has his burial site, I started thinking about what he would think and feel if he saw our society today. I believe he would applaud the youth who make sacrifices and are making a difference. I also believe he would try to guide those who are somewhat mislead or going down the wrong path. During the two hour drive from Atlanta to Birmingham I sat on the bus thinking about how the freedom riders did this and how it wasn't just for a trip—it was to make a difference. When we hit the state line of Alabama, I saw a white cross with flags around it and I wondered what it was for. Was is it for the fallen soldiers? I also thought about the freedom riders having to sit on a bus for hours without air conditioning. Their sacrifices for our freedom today is humbling. After arriving at the 16th Street Baptist Church where the 4 young girls died in the the bombing, I was able to look at the church and imagine how sacred it was to them. I also couldn't help but imagine the fear that gripped them when they heard the church crumbling down. I'm really beginning to understand the Civil Rights movement and the sacrifices that were made.
Today is June 15th, 2014. It is the second day of our southern exploration. We left our hotel at 8:45 am and drove for four hours to Atlanta, Georgia. We went to Paschal's Restaurant once we arrived in Atlanta, but we were unable to eat there due to communication complications. Instead of eating at Paschal's we had to eat across the street at Burger King, I was really excited because I love Burger King. After we ate, we then went to the legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr.'s family pastored. We then walked to Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood home, but we were unable to enter the house. I was slightly mad because I wanted to tour the house. We then boarded the bus and headed to Birmingham, Alabama. Once we arrived in Birmingham, we met and interviewed civil rights activist, James Webb, at the legendary Kelly Ingram Park. We invited Webb out to dinner with us and back to our hotel. I really enjoyed our time with Mr. Webb.
Today, in this long hot journey, we stopped in hot Atlanta, Georgia. We ate lunch at a Burger King though we were scheduled to eat at at Paschals, this really amazing, so I'm told, restaurant. However it was too crowded and would be a 2-hour wait. So we decided to go to Burger King. After, we visited Martin Luther King's baptist church where he preached, and we saw MLK's old home. Then, we headed down to Birmingham, Alabama to visit the 16th Street Baptist Church, the scene of the bombing that killed four young girls. What we got the chance to do—and I think this is amazing—we got to interview James Webb. He was a big part of the movement in the 60's and was able to give us answers based on his experience. One thing he said he remembered was that his hardworking father came home one day, grabbed his weapon and said goodbye, because he was prepared to die and take the men who wouldn't let him vote with him. He fortunately came back home alive because the white men understood his position. Personally, I think none of them wanted to get shot.
He has been through and has seen so much growing up and one of the greatest things is that he lived to see such a day as this one. After the interview, we all went down Dreamland Bar-B-Q, including Mr.Webb, and had a great dinner. Although I didn't sit at the same table as Mr. Webb, I was told that he told very interesting stories of his past.
Today is Sunday, June 15, 2014 and we are on our way to Atlanta, Georgia. We started our day in Atlanta with lunch at Burger King. Then we boarded the bus again for twelve minutes to go visit where Martin Luther King Jr. grew up including the church he attended. I'm not a very spiritual person but I was excited to be in his church. I was excited to know this is where his determination to change our country started. After leaving the church, we walked down the street one block to another Martin Luther King memorial. This one is where he is buried. Although I was slightly flustered at how my day was going, I was stilled happy to have the chance to finally see the place where he gets to lay peacefully knowing he changed the world for the better. I always wanted to visit Dr. King and Mrs. King's final resting place. I took many pictures so that I can always go visit their graves. Finally we walked another block to go see his childhood home. This was the disappointing part of the day because we didn't get to go inside and take a tour. In order to take a tour you you had to register. But we didn't have time to register or take the tour because we had to leave for Alabama.
We did however get to take pictures in front of the house. Then we left Atlanta and set out for Kelly Ingram Park and the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The park and church are right across the street from each other so we didn't have to do much traveling. However the church closed at 5pm and we arrived at 5:18. So we went to the park to interview James Webb, a well known civil rights activist. His stories about the movement were very interesting and he was very easy-going too. After the interview we invited Mr. Webb to dinner with us at Dreamland BBQ. Dinner with him was hilarious, he was constantly making jokes. He was interesting to have around.
Today was the second day of our trip as freedom riders. We first ate at Burger King because our plans at Pascals got messed up. After we ate, we got on the bus and went to Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, where he, his father and his grandfather preached. Next we went to the pool were he and his wife are buried. We also went to his house where he was born and raised. Lastly we ate at a restaurant called Dreamland. The food was delicious. I enjoyed today's mission.
Day 2 on our Freedom Rides tour we stopped in Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta we stopped at Burger King. The food was OK. After that we went the Martin Luther King Jr.'s church, Ebenezer Baptist Church. We self-guided our way through the church. It was very interesting, they were playing recordings of Dr. King giving a sermon. Then we went to the house where MLK grew up. We couldn't get a tour because we had to register for it and it was last minute. After that we drove to Birmingham, Alabama. There we interviewed James Webb, a civil rights leader. He was a protege of Martin Luther King. He was called to be an aide for MLK at the age of 16. Then we went to Dreamland BBQ. There was a sign on the wall that said NO FARTING. I thought that was pretty funny but they were so serious. The food was pretty awesome especially the Mac and Cheese. Now we are in our hotel room ready to call it a night.
June 15, 2014 : Today we went to the church Martin Luther King Jr. attended when he was a child. He later became the pastor of the church. The church was located in Birmingham, Alabama, which in the 50's and 60's was a key city in the progression of the civil rights era. We also visited Atlanta, Georgia where we saw Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King's grave and the eternal flame. We saw the house Martin Luther King was born in. Lastly, we visited Dreamland where the food was delicious. This was a great learning experience for me. I grown more humble with myself, by remembering where us people as blacks have come from.
Today we went to visit the church that Martin Luther King, Jr. attended. This is where he held his meetings on segregation. Then we went to his house. I'm not sure how that was significant, but I did like the fact that we got a chance to see how he lived before his assassination. Lastly we were able to interview a friend of his, Jimmy Webb, who gave us insight on how life was during the time of segregation and the activists' mindsets. I was surprised to hear that they weren't afraid of death and embraced it.
June 15, 2014. After having lunch, we traveled to The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia to observe the remnants of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his remembrance. We then traveled to Birmingham, Alabama where we visited the 16th Street Baptist Church that was bombed and met and interviewed civil rights leader, James Webb. He told us about experiences in his life and facts about the park.


Hamilton, Bermuda, April 7, 2019—A Bermuda delegation attending a high-profile conference for the global submarine cable industry this week will promote the island as a strategic Atlantic landing hub for fibreoptic corridors.
The effort builds on research overseen by Beck and carried out at the BDA last summer by Notre Dame University's Thomas Tran and Berkeley Institute graduate Tyrese Coakley whose report indicated an undersea corridor in Bermuda waters could help the island become a hub for trans-Atlantic fibreoptic links. Kansas native Tran will attend SubOptic 2019 to present his follow-up white paper on the Bermuda project after it was accepted for peer review.
To find out more about Bermuda and the benefits of the subsea cable corridor initiative, contact [email protected] or visit the Bermuda delegation at Booth 107 at SubOptic 2019.


The Giants have sunk to shocking depths as a franchise, but it could get worse. The Jets could take over New York while Big Blue continues to stumble.
The Las Vegas sportsbooks have the Giants' over-under at six wins for 2019 and the Jets' at seven. The Jets' arrow is pointing up coming off a 4-12 season. The Giants are stuck in neutral, sub-mediocrity coming off a 5-11 year. Predicting six wins for them is generous, too, but born out of a favorable schedule with just six games against 2018 playoff teams.
Giants GM Dave Gettleman, who tried to sell a 5-11 record last season as progress from 3-13 in 2016, apparently would consider six wins another step forward by the same logic.
The reality, however, is the Giants' outlook for this fall is grim. Fifty-nine percent of voters even chose the under in a Daily News Twitter poll on Friday. And it will get much worse if the Jets succeed by contrast - especially if they beat the Giants head-to-head in the process.
Don't forget - the Jets host the Giants at their mutual home this season.
If Sam Darnold defeats Eli Manning at MetLife Stadium in their first regular season meeting and the Jets take flight while the Giants miss the playoffs for the seventh time in eight years, what then?
Darnold would not bite Thursday at the Jets' uniform unveiling on a question about whether the door was open in the AFC East to strike.
The Jets' optimism is real, though, with star back Le'Veon Bell and linebacker C.J. Mosley added in free agency. Like the Giants a year ago, the Jets have a new head coach in Adam Gase, and they're buying into a new feeling about the team's direction and fortunes.
Pat Shurmur learned how quickly optimism can dissipate with the Giants following his 5-11 first season, impeded by Gettleman's roster mismanagement and ownership's stubbornness sticking with Manning.
However, the bottom line is the Jets have a young franchise quarterback, an improved roster, and a new and clear direction.
The Giants are stuck with a 38-year-old, declining quarterback, an unimposing roster, and the absence of a defined plan: in other words, mired in a half-win-now/half-rebuild purgatory.
The Giants, New York's original NFL franchise, of course have earned the reputation as the area's gold standard in pro football and the Jets' bully big brother.
Four Super Bowls, including two this century, compared to the Jets' one in the 1968 season.
Even when Rex Ryan's Jets went to back-to-back AFC title games in 2009 and 2010 and the Giants missed the playoffs, the Jets came up short and Manning led the Giants to his second championship in 2011.
The tables could turn hard on the Giants now, though, if they continue their mismanagement.
This results of this month's NFL draft, with Jets GM Mike Maccagnan holding the No. 3 overall pick and the Giants at Nos. 6 and 17, may shift 2019 expectations some. At the moment, though, New York's two teams seem to be going in opposite directions.


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When I was a (much) younger man, I spent a good percentage of my time partaking in far too much drinking, not enough studying, and far too much online gaming. This was around the time of huge franchises starting up, such as Call of Duty and my personal favourite Battlefield. I spent many-a-night staring at my 19″ CRT monitor, with my top of the range 512kbps 'broadband' connection and my cutting edge AMD Athlon CPU… times have changed in the gaming world significantly, but now enterprise methodologies are making their way into the gaming market – but will they be successful?
At the tender age of 18 I was obsessed with building gaming computers, and competing online in online leagues, and with my 'clan' at gaming events in the UK. We were far from the top, but had mild success at some of the events and it provided a wonderful distraction from university studying and stopped me going out every night drinking!
The e-sports business back in those days only really had one or two gamers who managed to make a living from the game, people such as Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel – now there are sponsors all over the show and multi-million dollar prize funds – people aren't just making a living – they are successful businessmen in their own rights.
But its not just the highly skilled gamers that are making money – if you are an avid gamer, or have children who are will know that streaming services such as Twitch are making celebrities in their own right. Just round the corner from me in Manchester, UK lives Tom 'Syndicate' Cassell, a YouTuber who made himself famous from streaming himself play games. He has his own business, brand, and if the online media is to be believed, is worth more than $6.5m.
Tom 'Syndicate' Cassell with his brand Syndiate Original
So what relevance does all this history give? Or am I just pining after your younger life cause I don't have the time (nor energy) to play games for hours on end any more? Well, despite the advances in Internet speeds, graphics cards and the like – gaming has changed from being just something a geeky guy did in his bedroom to become mainstream. Forbes posted an article just a few months ago estimated the value of the industry at $155bn and expected that to grow to $200bn in just three years.
Large corporates such as Sony and Microsoft have been at the forefront of this industry for many years with their Xbox and PlayStations products, but this year there has been a lot of fanfare as Amazon & Google entered the arena. Neither of them have decided to build a console though, nor have they designed a super-duper PC – they've gone down the route of pure Cloud Gaming unlike Microsoft's X-Cloud platform (a sort of hybrid approach of Xbox & Azure).
So what is Cloud Gaming? Essentially, its the concept that players can play games that are run on remote servers, but on local devices eliminating the need for expensive consoles (PS5 @ £450) or expensively put together gaming rigs (Latest Nvidia graphics cards retailing from £400-1800). All you need is reasonable access to the internet and some low-cost equipment, whether that be a laptop, an ipad or just a TV. They'll send you a controller if that's what you prefer, you pay a subscription (typically around £10 per month) and you have a high-spec gaming computer at your service, wherever and whenever you want to play. Hotel room? No problem. On the train? No problem? In the office whilst you're supposed to be working? erm….
My point is, the likes of Google & Amazon are utilising their developments in the enterprise public cloud space and bringing it to a whole new industry. This seemed like the perfect chance to have a look at the two products: Google Stadia and Amazon Luna to see whether or not these concepts will last or just another couple of products that disappear into the ether.
Google Stadia was launched just over 12 months in November 2019, and despite its early bugs and blips seems to be growing in popularity. You order their starter pack which comes with a chromecast ultra and a controller, plug it into your TV (or log on via a supported device) and you're good to go with your £8.99 per month subscription.
But I'm a techie, and this isn't an advert for Google Stadia. How does it work, and what are the problems. Essentially a browser or local application serves up a connection to a remote server which does all the grunt of rendering, and hosting your games – so your subscription just funds a cleverly architected machine on Google Compute Engine. They'll tell you its like having a high-spec machine at your beck and call, but at the end of a really really long cable 😉
Those intelligent folk amongst us will see the problem immediately. They are offering 4K HDR images, 5.1 surround sound at 60 frames per second – not a problem if that device is 3ft away from you, but when its 100s or 1000s miles away from your sofa – bandwidth and latency are your enemies.
Stadia recommends 35mpbs connectivity for the best quality image to be streamed back to your device, but this isn't Netflix – this isn't 1 way communication. You have to press a key on a keyboard, a button on a controller, click your mouse – and even those casual Call of Duty gamers expect a responsive game otherwise that controller is finding itself thrown at the screen in frustration – this is why latency, not bandwidth is the real challenge here.
Best way to test your latency to a GCP region is here. Lowest I got was to London, UK (europe-west2) with a median latency of 32ms on a home broadband connection of 50mbps. Believe me, your mind can detect a 32ms response, especially those sensitive folks.
However if you do some digging, you'll discover how Google have tried to counter this issue – by using their 142 edge nodes, that are closest to their partnered ISPs, a strategy used commonly in the Enterprise IT world to give fast response to SaaS products such as Office 365. They've even used their expertise from YouTube for compression codecs, ditched TCP & UDP for specialised data transport protocols like WebRTC & QUIC to make that experience smooth. If it isn't – as a product its pointless.
The unique selling point of Stadia of its rivals is its YouTube integration though, which just got released yesterday. You can play on Stadia and stream it live to your YouTube channel (ala Twitch) and become a famous YouTuber in your own right. The test for Google is getting those big game titles on their platform, something they've struggled with to date.
Amazon Luna
Much less is known about Luna, given it's still in beta and only released in October 2020. However the concept looks to be very much the same with Amazon. They provide you with a controller and you can use it with an Amazon Fire Stick, PC, Mac, iPad, etc.
Where Amazon's approach is a little different is their architecture behind the scenes. Whilst Google are using custom processors and GPUs running linux, Amazon have gone down the route of tried and tested Windows boxes and Nvidia GPUs which given that most games are written for Windows and tested with Nvidia GPUs will surely give them the nod in getting more games onto their platform – key in getting those subscribers in. At the time of writing, Google have 90 titles in their catalog whilst the beta service from Amazon has more than 100 already – just proving my point that the backend platform will be critical here.
Amazon on the other hand own Twitch, a business they bought back in 2014 for just shy of $1bn – they aren't going to be seen wanting in the subscriber arena either given their claims of more than 17.5m viewers daily.
There's very little information on how they are delivering the low latency gaming, but given AWS' sprawling global infrastructure, I don't think its unreasonable to think that their local points of presence will be key to their delivery.
But why would Google and Amazon spend so much time, effort and money to get into the gaming space? Google are a data company right? Because Google and Amazon have to process every mouse movement, keystroke, device type etc, not to mention performance data and pattern of play they can sell that information to game developers, to provide more engaging games, to understand who plays what type of game and when, the demographics of their players. Not to mention performance diagnostic issues with certain games, allowing bugs to be fixed. Both giants can be the diagnostic engine for thousands of game developing companies – a service that definitely does not exist right now.
Both of these companies will want Cloud Gaming to be the next big thing, and want to become the Netflix equivalent, but what is impressive about Netflix isn't the way it gets the content to you, nor is it is quite frankly awful user interface – its the quality content it provides. Content is king.
If both Google and Amazon fail to deliver quality gaming titles to their platforms, it doesn't matter how good the technology is behind the services, they won't last. You only need to look at Nintendo's sustained success over the years with inferior 'specced' consoles compared to the XBox & Playstation to see why the quality of their games is key.
Google's latest big name title, Cyberpunk 2077
So if they get the titles right, could it tempt this old school gamer? I reckon it could. I like the subscriber model (getting CAPEX purchases past the wife is a right challenge!) and I like being able to play from any device. The challenge (aside from the platforms having titles I want to play) is matching the experience I'd get on my PC, maybe even bettering it. I don't want input lag, I don't want poor graphic quality, and for that to happen, those edge locations numbers need to grow. Both businesses will need huge investment to bring those edge locations and therefore their 'computers' closer to their customers, to keep that latency down. Is the technology there yet and do these two monolithic corporates care enough about these services to put the investment in to make them a success?
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Leigh Griffiths scored for Brendan Rodgers's Celtic against Rosenborg in the Europa League last week.
Sir Kenny Dalglish has praised the attitude of Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths in The Sunday Post.
Griffiths's celebration after scoring the winner for Celtic against Rosenborg at Celtic Park in the Europa League made it clear that he considers himself as the number one striker at the Glasgow giants.
The 28-year-old Scotland international said after the match that he wants to be the first-choice striker for the Hoops, as quoted in The Daily Record.
Celtic legend Dalglish has praised the attitude of Griffiths - who has been on the books of Celtic since January 2014 when he joined from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a transfer fee reported by The Daily Mail to be worth £1 million.
Dalglish wrote in The Sunday Post: "Leigh came out after the game and said he wants to be the No.1 striker – and that's what he should be aiming to be.
"It would be much more concerning for Brendan and the supporters if the player didn't seem bothered at being on the bench.
"If that was his attitude, then it would set the alarm bells ringing. But that is most definitely not the case."
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Griffiths is one of the best strikers in the Scottish Premiership, and with Moussa Dembele gone, the Scotland international should be leading the line for Celtic.
True, there's Odsonne Edouard, but the French forward is only 20 years of age and is not exactly in great form at the moment.
Moussa Dembele exit
Meanwhile, former Celtic striker Craig Beattie has said that it was not a mistake for the Hoops to sell Dembele.
The former Fulham striker joined French club Lyon from Celtic in the summer transfer window.
SEE ALSO: Steven Gerrard suggests the impact Celtic result had on Rangers yesterday
Beattie told The Scottish Sun: I don't think it was a mistake to get rid of Dembele. "They couldn't turn down the money. They could have kept him, he gets injured, then he is worth next to nothing."
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The Australian Manufacturing Worker's Union (AMWU) QLD/NT Branch provides members who march during the annual May Day / Labour Day celebrations a uniform (of sorts) consisting of a tee shirt and a piece of headwear, all branded with the AMWU logo and a key theme.
The union is bound by due diligence when it comes to financial matters, and budgetary constraints form a part of this. The union must be seen to be getting "value for money" whilst still maintaining a core ethos of procuring ethically sourced and Australian Made where available.
Since large scale cap manufacture is non-existent in Australia, imported product was the only viable option. To ensure value for money, sea freighting the completed product was the preferred option, which introduced additional timing issues. On top of this, the project coincided with large scale industry shutdowns in both China (for the Lunar new Year festivities) and also locally (for the Christmas/new Year holiday period).
Additionally, all items produced needed to be in the hands of regional locations well in advance of the event date (weekend prior to the first Monday in May) to allow further distribution to local event locations.
Through careful planning of raw material requirements & usage, Lifestyle were able to minimize wastage to decrease costs. We also aligned impeccably with client values through our association with the Australian Made campaign and Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA) accreditation.
By utilising a design concept from a previously produced item carrying the same campaign message, Lifestyle was able to maintain a consistent and familiar branding concept which further reinforced the groundwork laid by prior campaigning. Additionally, by producing an aesthetically pleasing design, value for money was achieved as members continued to utilise the items well after the initial event was over.
The union received many comments from others during & after the event at how well the members appeared as a group. Furthermore, the Executive Officer commented the cap produced was the best one they had ever had.


Despite early delays and a missing guitarist, Getintothis' Jackie Lees saw Little Comets pull through and put on a great night at the O2 Academy.
Doors and the show time were delayed – these things never happen without good reason but basking in the internal blue hue of the O2 Academy listening to an exceptionally good pre-set play list, it didn't matter.
When London based Eliza And The Bear arrived on stage they shook us from the chill zone with their big sound, hooky lyrics and catchy beats, definitely worth the wait. The five-piece band, who take their name from a collection of poems by Liverpool's Eleanor Rees, smashed through their set with an infectious energy which instantly won over the crowd, cramming as many songs as possible into their half hour set including Lionheart, Light it up and closing with the anthemic Friends. Their performance was polished and joyful and conjured up the feeling that you'd just had a dose of summer. If you don't know this band already – seek them out.
Little Comets opened their set before pausing to explain that one of the North-East trio, Mickey, couldn't be with them due to the imminent, early arrival of his baby. Rather than cancel their gig, they were joined by guitarist Reuben, who had remarkably managed to learn the whole, often intricate, one and a half hour set in a day. This got him a well-deserved massive round of applause from the crowd who might otherwise have had to find something else to do with their Friday night.
Infinitely accessible, there is something for everyone here, complex melodies, clever use of percussion, light, upbeat songs such as One Night in October and The Man Who Wrote Thriller, contrasting against those with tragic and sinister themes, Same Lover and Violence Out Tonight. However, it was their early track, Joanna which garnered the wildest excitement, the very first word of the vocal intro had the crowd jumping and singing as one.
Enigmatic frontman, Robert Coles, thanked the crowd for their response and explained that the band spends most of the year in a garage writing songs and never know if they're good or not until they get out and play them live. He needn't have worried, this band clearly have no fear of the experimental, even unusual and slightly off-kilter beats are not shied away from and it works.
Final thoughts must lie with Mickey and his partner and the hope that all is well.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year 2018 cap on April 3, 2017. All cap-subject H-1B petitions filed before April 3, 2017, for the FY 2018 cap will be rejected.
Form M-735, Optional Checklist for Form I-129 H-1B Filings (PDF, 278 KB), provides detailed information on how to complete and submit an FY 2018 H-1B petition as quoted USCIS.com.
For more information on the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program and current Form I-129 processing times, visit the H-1B FY 2018 Cap Season page.
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Ceibas es un municipio del distrito Ceibas del departamento Islas del Ibicuy en la provincia de Entre Ríos, República Argentina. El municipio comprende la localidad con categoría de villa del mismo nombre y un área rural.

Se halla a 156 km de Buenos Aires ingresando a la provincia por el Complejo Ferrovial Zárate-Brazo Largo y por la Ruta Nacional 12. La RN 14 nace en esta localidad.

Su crecimiento poblacional ha sido: de 348 hab. en 1991, pasó en 2001 a 1405: 303,7 % de incremento, y a 1773 en 2010.

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La planta urbana de la localidad de Ceibas fue ampliada por decreto 5004/1986 MHEOP del 23 de octubre de 1986 y por decreto 5921/1989 MGJOSP del 11 de diciembre de 1989.

El 2 de diciembre de 1987 fue sancionada la ley n.º 7994 que aprobó el censo practicado en el centro rural de población de Ceibas (1614 habitantes) sin especificar su ejido, siendo mandado crear el municipio por decreto n.º 8053/1987 MGJE del 9 de diciembre de 1987. Pero el nuevo gobierno que asumió al día siguiente no publicó la ley y el 6 de enero de 1988 fue derogada al sancionarse la ley n.º 8055. El 30 de diciembre de 1987 dejó sin efecto el decreto de creación mediante decreto n.º 428/1987 MGJE. El 20 de enero de 1988 fueron designadas nuevas autoridades de la junta de gobierno por decreto n.º 233/1988 MGJE.

Por decreto n.º 2187/1999 MGJE del 6 de mayo de 1999 fue creado el municipio de 2° categoría de Ceibas, antes de que la Legislatura sancionara la ley n.º 9248 el 10 de mayo de 2000 (promulgada el 15 de mayo de 2000) que aprobó el censo y el ejido del nuevo municipio. El 3 de junio de 1999 fue designado Roberto Alejandro Olano como comisionado al frente del nuevo municipio por decreto n.º 2722/1999 MGJE.

El 10 de diciembre de 2011 dejaron de existir las dos categorías de municipios en Entre Ríos estableciéndose una categoría única, por lo que Ceibas dejó de tener una junta de fomento y pasó tener un presidente municipal y un concejo deliberante de 7 miembros.

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Which Religion is the Best?
Which religion is the best? This question has led to some major conflicts, but also some great humor.
You may have heard the story of the parents of a Jewish boy who was not doing well in math at school. His parents decided it might be best to send him to Catholic school. To their delight, after his first two months there, his math grades dramatically improved. When his parents asked him why his math scores increased, the boy responded, "Well when I saw the guy nailed to the plus sign in every room, I knew they meant business."
Or you probably heard about the guy who died and went to heaven. As the angels were showing him around they stopped by various rooms. In the first room, he peaked in to hear Latin and watched a priest serve communion. "Those are the Catholics," the angel explained. In the next room, he saw a group singing and speaking in tongues. "Those are the Pentecostals," the angel explained. As they approached the third room, the angel guide whispered to the man, "You'll have to tiptoe here." "Why?" the man asked. "This next room is where the fundamentalists worship and we need to be quiet because they think they're the only ones here."
Humor can also be insightful. The first joke reminds us how little we know about each other's faith and the the second joke reminds us how exclusive we view our own.
Why are there so many religions? As one person asked me, "Do you think Christianity is the best religion? And if not, why won't don't you switch to the other one?"
I think that's a fair question and I want to tackle those questions today.
The fact is most religious people believe their faith is the true one. That's why they follow it. Christians make the case that Jesus is the only way pointing to Scripture where he says he is the way, and no one comes to the Father but through him.
I experienced this first-hand in my ordination council to become a Baptist minister way back in the late '80s. Two members from every church in the region came to respond to my theological statement and quiz me. Even back then I had a strong Swedenborgian understanding of the variety of faith paths that lead to heaven.
The one question from the group was, "If a person doesn't accept Christ, can they still get into heaven?" I responded that only God would know that answer. I thought that would end that topic, but no. The next and the next person asked similar questions each getting more specific. They wanted an answer. Finally, one person demanded "In John 3: 16 Jesus said that no one comes to the Father but through him. Would you disagree with Christ and say people who are not Christians can get into heaven?"
Disagree with Christ? He wasn't much room to respond. I knew full well they were asking about Catholics and Jews in our area. They wanted me to condemn them.
"But what about John 3:17?" I asked, "It says Christ came to save the world not to condemn it. If Christ didn't come to judge, then who are we to judge another person's salvation?" That only made the questioner angrier. This went round and round and the questions got meaner and meaner. I eventually won the ordination vote, but by the smallest margin of any candidate in memory.
What was so amazing to me was their primary focus of all topics was wanting to hear me say only Bible-believing Christians like them were going to heaven.
This viewpoint is widely held today. I found this from a pastor answering the questions online:
"Based on the observable evidence, a religion based on a single, creator God is the most compelling option. Of the three major one-God religions, only Christianity presents compelling eyewitness testimony in both its holy writings and external historical evidence to claim that Jesus is God. If the resurrection of Jesus is true, then the result would be that Christianity is the correct religion. Jesus Himself claimed to be the way, not a way, and He challenges those who seek the truth to look to Him."
His whole premise is based on observable evidence, which he does not have. Finding the right religion isn't a science experiment.
Growing up I hadn't been that exposed to different religions. When I'd arrived at East Stroudsburg State College and I remember there were two choices of Christian groups to join. Campus Crusade for Christ was the Protestant group, and the Newman Center campus ministry was the Catholic group. After attending events with both groups, I came to a surprising conclusion. The Catholics, who had not known much about, were kind Christians, with programs to feed the hungry and help the poor. The other group was, like my ordination council, obsessed with their salvation and the condemnation of other faiths.
My college years were an ecumenical awakening for me. I attended the Presbyterian church and also attended Wednesday Catholic folk mass I even played the rabbi in the school play. Two summers I served as campground minister for the Lutheran church. All and all, I loved the variety of ways people found a way to God. By my senior year, I became the first Protestant to run the Catholic Newman Center campus ministry program and have maintained connections to Father Jack Bendick, now monsignor, our priest to this day. In fact, I received an email today asking for prayer for a nun suffering a health crisis.
I learned from them that each faith had something special to offer. At Divinity School, I continued my explorations of faiths and took courses in Swedenborgian theology where I grew to appreciate our tradition teaches all faith paths were good if they lead to greater compassion.
I also worked at the ecumenical church, Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, where I got to help play host to the world's greatest preachers and we even there we created a Christian-Judaic Fund to sponsor Rabbi's preaching at the church.
I truly enjoy learning about other people's faiths and during this last decade I was honored to serve as the chair of the NCC Muslim-Christian dialogue at a time when Muslims were experiencing discrimination.
Here' what I've learned about which religion is the best. The answer is quite simple.
It boils down to this that are two types of religion in the world.
Religion that through its practices, teaching and rituals helps you become more kind to others and religion that do not. If your religion gives you a conscience and provides structure and discipline to your life as you seek to love and forgive more, then that is a religion that leads to heaven. If your religion makes you more compassionate leads to a better life on earth with more happiness and peace and leads to heaven. Religion that creates a desire to condemn and dominate your fellow human beings is a path to unhappiness and hell.
People who call themselves Christians that practice love to others have more in common with Muslims, Jews, Buddhist and Hindu sects that practice the same thing. The reverse is also true. Christians, Muslims or Jews, Buddhist and Hindu sects who are focused on how their faith is the only true faith without compassion to others are not living a life toward heaven.
The religion's name is unimportant. The action of the follower is all that matters.
What about people who are kind but have the wrong theology?
No problem, he explains that those people who loved their neighbor are brought into the truths of heaven gradually using the example of pulling up a plant by the roots gently so it can be replanted and not abruptly. He suggests that the story of Jesus is true and an important concept to learn even in the afterlife and those who lived a Christ life has no problem learning more.
What about those who have the theology of Jesus correct but don't love their neighbor?
Swedenborg saw Christians on the other side who struggled to get into heaven because of their own arrogance of thinking, they had it right and their beliefs were the only true ones.
He also runs into many different faiths who seem to suggest to him that Christians have a negative brand on the other side as the group who has been presented the truth, but too often failed to act on it.
But why so many religions in here on earth wouldn't it be easier if there was just one?
Jesus in the gospel reading today states that there are many rooms in his father's house showing the love of diversity and different paths in heaven. I get the sense that the longer people are in heaven the less they feel connected to their life on earth religion.
God loves diversity in creation. Swedenborg teaches that the deeper meaning of an image in Revelations of the Holy City has 12 gates and he teaches that these gates represent the diverse paths people will need to come to God. Our diversity is critical to the Lord's creation. He explains, that the more diverse, the stronger and more perfect heaven becomes.
You'd expect that Swedenborg's unique insight that all faiths are good would have a positive impact in the world and it did. During the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, a member of the Chicago Swedenborgian church, judge Charles Carrol Bonney, imagined creating the nation's first the ecumenical event called the World Parliament of Religions which brought spiritual leaders from Hinduism and Buddhism to the US for the first time and introduced eastern religion.
But what about when a religion on earth no longer teaches goodness? Religions on earth often outlive their usefulness. We read the gospel each week and most of Jesus' battles are with religious fundamentalists more interested in the rules than justice. Swedenborg suggests that when religions outlive their usefulness new ones emerge and what's really fascinating is that the leaders of the new religion are rarely can't part of the previous religion.
This might hint that what we now call the "nones" might be the leaders of what's next in terms of religion in the world. As the Christian church evolves into a new more authentic faith. I'm not sure but interesting to consider.
The bottom line is that God created us with incredible variety, and we can learn from other faiths about their path and deepens our own.
Learning another person's faith is an act of love.
I remember last year a woman arrived for Sunday services after dropping off her son at Howard University. After the service she looked concerned, "Father, I loved the service but what about communion? It doesn't count if there's no communion." I quickly figured out she was Catholic.
I told her I wasn't a Catholic priest but could give her communion if that would be better for her. Within a few minutes, I had the communion wafers a chalice of wine on the altar and did the Catholic liturgy from a memory of those services I attended in college. She was greatly relieved as she heard the words she was familiar with. My lessons from Father Bendik at the Newman Center helped build a bridge with a person of a different faith that I'll likely never meet again.
The key to understanding world religions is to look at those that help people be better human beings. Those that do are true religions. All that matters to God is the person who follows the teachings of Christ, which is love to others.
The Lord's love is all-inclusive and welcomes all of us to find our path toward heaven by a life of service to others. There's room for all religions in heaven and our job is to find one that helps us grow to be better people while we are here.
By Rich Tafel| 2021-04-23T19:05:09-04:00	November 27th, 2020|Categories: Sermons|Comments Off on Sermon: November 27, 2020: Which Religion is the Best?
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Reverend Richard L. Tafel serves as the minister at Church of the Holy City. With an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and a graduate degree in Theology from Harvard University, Tafel is ordained and his first job was as Assistant Minister of Harvard University's Memorial Church.
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