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Review: Skillet- Dominion
Posted by Reggie Edwards on Jan 12, 2022 in Reviews, Rock | 0 comments
It's hard to believe that with everything that's happened in our country and the world in the last few years that it's only been two-and-a-half years since Skillet released Victorious but it's true. It's time for new music and the band has graced us with Dominion and this one has some of their strongest songs yet, and that says a lot.
Skillet have released numerous singles but they kept the record's stand out songs a well-kept secret and if you loved "Surviving The Game," "Standing In The Storm," "Refuge" and the title track, you have no idea what's in store for you with the rest of the record.
The first three tracks have been released early as singles but "Valley Of Death" is the first unreleased song and, while it's a ballad, it's a scorcher and proves a song doesn't have to be heavy to be heavy.
"Valley Of Death" might be the best ballad Skillet have written and put out yet- and long-time fans will know how big of a deal that is- I dare you to listen to it without shedding a tear or breaking down completely- you can feel the pain John Cooper and company were in when this song was written.
"Beyond Incredible" starts out slow and daunting with a dark vibe when Cooper utters the words, "The demons come when I'm all alone" but quickly rips into an adrenaline-pumping arena anthem that they have to play live or they're robbing everyone.
"Destiny" opens up making you think it's a ballad but rips into another epic anthem that you won't get out of your head before "Refuge" slows things down in inspirational fashion.
"Shout Your Freedom" is a fast-paced track you won't be able to slow down from while "Destroyer" is a war cry if there ever was one. This one will make you wreak havoc on the demons that try to take you back down a road you left behind.
With lyrics like "When my demons try to pull me under into the person I don't want to remember" and "I can feel the darkness coming to remind me of who I was- I put that person behind me" partnered with an addictive chorus screaming "It's time for war, war, I'm the destroyer," how can you not love "Destroyer?"
"Forever Or The End" is a throwback-style Skillet ballad and is a personal track that you'll fall in love with over and over before "Ignite" is a fist-pumping guitar riff knockout punch that you'll keep on repeat and is one of the standout tracks of the entire record.
"White Horse" is the song that Skillet fans will be intrigued by on a lot of levels. For one, Cooper raps on this track but it's far from a rap or hip hop track. Thematically and lyrically, this one is right out of Revelation and is an apocalyptic song that touches on a subject that hardly any Christian artist has gone in-depth with. "White Horse" is the song that fans will be taking about over and over again.
In the end, Dominion is a record loaded with war anthems, battle cries and features some of the most inspirational pieces of art Skillet have ever put together. If you're going through a dark time in your life, if you're struggling with your faith, if you're close to the end, this is the record you need right now.
Rating: 10/10
-Reggie Edwards


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package com.harrys.hyppo.worker.actor.amqp

import java.time.LocalDateTime

import com.harrys.hyppo.util.TimeUtils

import scala.concurrent.duration._

/**
  * Created by jpetty on 11/9/15.
  */
sealed trait QueueDetails extends Product { self =>
  def size: Int
  def rate: Double
  def ready: Int
  def unacknowledged: Int
  def idleSince: LocalDateTime
  final def isEmpty: Boolean = size <= 0
  final def hasWork: Boolean = ready >= 1
  final def estimatedCompletionTime: Duration = {
    if (isEmpty){
      Duration.Zero
    } else {
      val speed = this.rate
      if (speed == 0.0){
        Duration.Inf
      } else {
        Duration(size.toDouble / speed, SECONDS)
      }
    }
  }
}

final case class SingleQueueDetails
(
  queueName: String,
  override val size: Int,
  override val rate: Double,
  override val ready: Int,
  override val unacknowledged: Int,
  override val idleSince: LocalDateTime
) extends QueueDetails {

  override def toString: String = {
    s"$productPrefix(queueName=$queueName size=$size rate=$rate ready=$ready unacked=$unacknowledged idleSince=$idleSince)"
  }
}

final case class MultiQueueDetails
(
  queues: Seq[SingleQueueDetails]
) extends QueueDetails {

  def queueNames: Seq[String] = queues.map(_.queueName)

  def nonEmptyQueues: MultiQueueDetails = {
    MultiQueueDetails(queues.filterNot(_.isEmpty))
  }

  override def size: Int = queues.map(_.size).sum

  override def ready: Int = queues.map(_.ready).sum

  override def unacknowledged: Int = queues.map(_.unacknowledged).sum

  override def rate: Double = {
    if (queues.isEmpty){
      0.0
    } else {
      val sizeSum = this.size.toDouble
      var rateSum = 0.0
      queues.foreach { queue =>
        val weight = queue.size.toDouble / sizeSum
        rateSum   += (queue.rate * weight)
      }
      rateSum
    }
  }

  override def idleSince: LocalDateTime = {
    if (queues.isEmpty){
      TimeUtils.currentLocalDateTime()
    } else {
      implicit val order = Ordering.fromLessThan[LocalDateTime]((one, two) => one.isBefore(two))
      queues.map(_.idleSince).min
    }
  }

  override def toString: String = {
    s"$productPrefix(queues={${ queues.map(_.queueName).mkString(", ") }} size=$size rate=$rate ready=$ready unacked=$unacknowledged idleSince=$idleSince)"
  }
}

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Q: Iterating through a list within dictionary in a for loop I am trying to store all mails from outlook in a database. for that i need to iterate through every folder i have in outlook. I am using win32com.client for that. I created a dictionary with every name of the postbox as a key and all of the folders as a list with values.
postbox_and_folders = {}
folder_of_postbox = []
for postbox in postboxes:
    for idx, folder in enumerate(mapi.Folders(postbox).Folders):
        folder_of_postbox.append(str(folder))
        postbox_and_folders[postbox] = folder_of_postbox
        if str(folder) == 'Archive':
            folder_of_postbox = []
print(postbox_and_folders)

The output looks like this:
{'@VPC': ['Calendar', 'Contacts', 'Conversation Action Settings', 'Conversation History', 'Deleted Items', 'Drafts', 'Einstellungen für QuickSteps', 'ExternalContacts', 'Files', 'Inbox', 'Journal', 'Junk Email', 'Notes', 'Outbox', 'PersonMetadata', 'Sent Items', 'Social Activity Notifications', 'Sync Issues', 'Tasks', 'Yammer Root', 'Archive'], '@FCC': ['Calendar', 'Contacts', 'Conversation Action Settings', 'Conversation History', ...] which is exactly how it should look.

Now is my goal to go through each postbox and their respective folders to store the body of the messages in a database.
I know I have to use mapi.Folders but am not able to make it work with this dictionary.
How do I iterate through every folder with this dictionary?
I just have to put the dictionary in this function and I feel like I'm pretty close to it.
for key, value in postbox_and_folders.items():
messages = mapi.Folders(str(key)).Folders(value[i]).Items
for message in list(messages)[:10]:
    print(message.Body)

A: You need to iterate over all subfolders recursively. For example, a raw sketch in C# as the Outlook object model is common for all kind of programming languages:
private void EnumerateFoldersInDefaultStore()
{
    Outlook.Folder root =
        Application.Session.
        DefaultStore.GetRootFolder() as Outlook.Folder;
    EnumerateFolders(root);
}

// Uses recursion to enumerate Outlook subfolders.
private void EnumerateFolders(Outlook.Folder folder)
{
    Outlook.Folders childFolders =
        folder.Folders;
    if (childFolders.Count > 0)
    {
        foreach (Outlook.Folder childFolder in childFolders)
        {
            // Write the folder path.
            Debug.WriteLine(childFolder.FolderPath);
            // Call EnumerateFolders using childFolder.
            EnumerateFolders(childFolder);
        }
    }
}

You may find a similar Problem with loop all the emails inside the outlook folder and sub-folder thread helpful.

A: If you are storing the folder names, you might as well (or instead) store the folder entry ids (MAPIFolder.EntryID). If you know the folder entry id, you can open it at any moment using Application.Session.GetFolderFromID.
Keep in mind however that you only process one level of folders, and you really need to process them recursively - create a function that takes MAPIFolder as a parameter. The function can then enumerate through the child folders (MAPIFolder.Folders collection) and call itself for each subfolder.

A: You have missed a for loop to iterate through the folders in each postbox, try this,
for key, value in postbox_and_folders.items():
    for i in value:
        messages = mapi.Folders(str(key)).Folders(value[i]).Items
        for message in list(messages)[:10]:
            print(message.Body)

Hope this works!

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Basic find and replace operations are a form of regular expressions. Regular expressions are also referred to as regex or regexp. Advanced operations of regular expressions allow more control of matching patterns.
Matching patterns can be set to matching the entire document, the first instance, or part of a word.
This tutorial uses Perl-derivative regular expressions. The regular expressions can be used on any text file any any application that supports regular expressions. Many programming languages support regular expressions that are similar.
Text editor with support for regular expressions.
Word Processor with support for regular expressions.
Optional Perl-like language such as Awk, Perl or PHP.
The regular expressions cheat sheet can be used in future projects. Keep the expressions simple and use as needed. The Perl-like syntax is the most common and can be applied in text editors, word processors and programming languages.
This tutorial uses an optional lightweight programming editor with regular expression support.
The regular expression concepts can be applied to other programming languages.
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Utah Museum of Natural History - SURE STEEL, INC.
This 185,000 SqFt work of art was a complex but rewarding project for Sure Steel. Selected as the turnkey steel erector by Big-D and the DFCM of Utah, Sure Steel successfully completed the supply and erection of 1,557 tons of steel on time, and without any safety issues. The project had many challenges that Sure Steel overcame such as no on site storage, design delays, and almost 1,300 RFI's and 173 ASI's. Our team worked carefully with all team members to ensure that the job was done with the highest of quality, adhering to the AISC quality requirements and meeting the client's expectations. This project also achieved LEED Gold certification by the USGBC. Sure Steel worked closely with a local fabricator to supply all the steel, as well as all the required documentation to achieve the LEED certification.


The only thing better than October in southern New England is October in northern New England. It's cooler, so things usually happen a bit earlier, and fall really feels like it's in full swing. This past weekend, I trudged up to Vermont in my rental Jeep (don't ask) and spent two glorious days in a 1700's farmhouse, surrounded by all that is fall, all that is New England, and all that is family.
My whole family was there to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday. We were at Reading Farms Estate in Reading, VT, on the way to Killington and right near Woodstock (no, not that Woodstock). It's a spectacular old farmhouse that sleeps what feels like 50, has ponds, a barn, hiking trails over hundreds of acres, and amazing views.
There were giant trout in this pond, but there was a "NO FISHING" sign…They wouldn't have noticed if we took one, maybe…though we had plenty of food anyway. There were pellets you could throw in the water, and it was a veritable feeding frenzy. My aunt and cousin did this all weekend. Any time we couldn't find them in the house, they were outside feeding fish, and giggling. It really is the simple things in life.
The best thing about the leaves being late to change this year are the half-and-half trees. Splashes of color in what would otherwise be a monochromatic view. It's a good reminder that life goes on – no matter how hard the green tries to stay, it will eventually become bright orange and red, and change will happen. The only thing we can do is look forward to next spring, and starting over.
This is the most picture-perfect-autumn-in-New-England post. I want to instragram the sh*t out of every photo! And it goes without saying that I WANT TO GO TO THERE.
You would have LOVED it. There was a massive horse farm down the road, too. Some day, when you visit again, we'll do this. But this time, no more raking leaves into a pile so you can jump in it….
I LOVED JUMPING IN THAT PILE!!!!!
I know, it was AWESOME. I would do this again for you ANY time!
I love autumn…if only we could skip what comes after and go straight into spring! Great pics. Am a sucker or pumpkins and all things orange.
Thank you 🙂 One of many reasons why fall is my favorite season!
Here I'd agree to early autumn being beautiful, I do love the crisp colourful mornings. But the late autumn with only darkness and rain is not something I look forward to!
Midday lunch walk sounds lovely!
I have to move a fair bit around the city because of my work, and really love it if it makes more sense (=doesn't waste time) to walk rather than use the public transport. Especially now getting in the darkest period, dark when going to work and dark when coming home.


Jack's self-diagnosis sounds right as regards Qi stagnation though some of his symptoms show that his problem has now, after many years, gone a bit deeper and is now affecting his Heart energy (for example: vivid dreams, hearing his own heartbeat, sleep and speech articulation problems) and Spleen (tendency to get obsessed).
I'm not so certain about his self-diagnosis of Liver Fire and Dampness, though these may well follow.
Meditation and exercise are both good for these syndromes.
If Jack's job is the cause, and it cannot be changed, then he probably is not 100% curable but the right treatment might well prevent his symptoms from worsening.
Such treatment would aim first to deal with the syndromes mentioned and then possibly help him examine his aims in life to see if a different lifestyle, including job, were possible.


Thread: Visiting Shanghai China in 2 weeks...What would you be looking to buy?
Going to Shanghai, and although it's not Shenzhen or Hong Kong, I am sure the counsole experiments,knockoffs, and accesseries are incredible. What would you look for there? I am open to suggestions.
If you knew the world was going to end in a weeks time, what would you do?
What would you be like without EP?


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Statement : 17 October 2018 | العربية, עברית
Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, regarding the Situation in Palestine
I have been following with concern the planned eviction of the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank. Evacuation by force now appears imminent, and with it the prospects for further escalation and violence.
It bears recalling, as a general matter, that extensive destruction of property without military necessity and population transfers in an occupied territory constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute.
I am similarly alarmed by the continued violence, perpetrated by actors on both sides, at the Gaza border with Israel.
As Prosecutor seized of the situation in Palestine, I therefore feel compelled to remind all parties that the situation remains under preliminary examination by my Office.
I continue to keep a close eye on the developments on the ground and will not hesitate to take any appropriate action, within the confines of the independent and impartial exercise of my mandate under the Rome Statute, with full respect for the principle of complementarity.
The ICC's Office of the Prosecutor conducts independent and impartial preliminary examinations, investigations and prosecutions of the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. Since 2003, the Office has been conducting investigations in multiple situations within the ICC's jurisdiction, namely in Uganda; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Darfur, Sudan; the Central African Republic (two distinct situations); Kenya; Libya; Côte d'Ivoire; Mali; Georgia; and Burundi. Pre-Trial Chamber II is seized of the Prosecutor's request for authorisation to commence an investigation into the situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The Office is also conducting preliminary examinations relating to the situations in Bangladesh/Myanmar; Colombia; Guinea; Iraq/UK; Palestine; the Philippines; Nigeria; Ukraine; and Venezuela.
Source : Office of the Prosecutor

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IPR petitions filed eight months apart preclude joinder
PTAB denied petitioner's motion for joinder on the grounds that the latter petition was filed more than eight months after the earlier petition. Macronix Int'l Co. v. Spansion LLC, No. IPR2014-00898, Paper 15 (PTAB Aug. 15, 2014) (Rice, J.) On November 8, 2013, Macronix International filed an IPR petition for review of claims 1-14 of USP7,151,027 and the petition was granted on May 8, 2014 for claims 1-6 and 8-13. On June 13, 2014, Petitioner filed a petition and motion for joinder challenging claims 7 and 14, and proposed a revised schedule.
Section 315(c) of AIA gives the PTAB discretion to join as a party "any person who properly files a petition under section 311." 35 USC 315. In exercising its discretion, PTAB must ensure that the proceeding is "just, speedy, and inexpensive." 35 USC 316. As the moving party, Petitioner has the burden of proving that it is entitled to the relief sought. Petitioner argued that joining the petitions would have a minimal impact on the patent owner because the petition relies on the same declarant and prior art references, and the proposed revised schedule would add only seven weeks to the existing schedule. Patent owner opposed the motion arguing that the instant proceeding raises numerous substantive issues not present in the other case and that it would be prejudiced by the proposed revised schedule. In denying the motion for joinder, PTAB concluded that the proceeding for the earlier petition was already well underway with the patent owner having cross-examined petitioner's declarant and a joinder at this stage would require a lengthy delay in the ongoing review.
Disclaimer: The content in this blog is solely for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice.
Inter Partes Review
Patent Damages
TTAB


Am I the only Logic user who thinks the audio/MIDI set up is broken?
Macbook Pro powerful enough for GPO4 and Logic Express 9?
How do I use multi stereo output Aria Player in Logic?
Logic Pro 10 Upgrade - Is it worth it?


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Utetes tolerans är en stekelart som först beskrevs av Papp 1982.  Utetes tolerans ingår i släktet Utetes och familjen bracksteklar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Posts Tagged As: Courage
Andrew Comiskey To Speak at Catholic Ex-Gay Conference
As I mentioned in today's Daily Agenda, the Catholic ex-gay organization Courage will be holding its annual conference on the campus of Mount St. Mary's College and Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD. Most of the speakers lined up for the conference are relatively unknown outside of the Catholic/Courage world, but one names stands out: Andrew Comiskey, Executive Director of Desert Stream Ministries, who recently pulled out of the Exodus umbrella. As I noted before, Comiskey appears to be leaning much more toward Catholic theology, which made his theological dispute with Exodus president Alan Chambers rather interesting, to say the least.
Comiskey also split with Exodus over the latter organization's decision to distance itself from Reparative Therapy, which remains an important component in DSM. While Courage has typically shied away from encouraging members to seek sexual orientation change as a goal, it has nevertheless promoted the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), including a direct link to "NARTH testimonies" under Courage's "Member Testimonies" web page.
Comiskey will give two talks at the Courage conference. On Friday, he will deliver the evening plenary talk, "Naked Surrender: Coming Home to Our True Sexuality", and on Saturday he will give a workshop on "Restoring Relational Integrity through the Broken Body of Christ."
It's probably not unprecedented for a non-Catholic to give a talk at a Courage Conference, but it's also hard to image Comiskey being given a platform for either of these two talks unless they are fully in line with Catholic teachings. If it turns out that Comiskey is increasingly finding a home in the Catholic world, it remains to be seen what kinds of strains Comiskey's theological outlook may induce within Desert Stream's far-flung ministries or with potential tie-ups with other ex-gay ministries which have recently left Exodus, all of which have deep historic roots in Protestant Evangelicalism.
Update: I had missed this, but as William commented below, Comiskey announced in January that he converted to Catholicism the prior Easter. He should fit in well. In 2010, Comiskey posted an admission on his blog that a staffer at DSM had sexually abused at least one teenager under their care. But instead of publicly apologizing for the appalling transgression or expressing anguish over the teen's abuse, he lamented his trauma from having been interrogated by police and worrying about liability insurers. And he expressed gratitude that "God spared us" from the humiliation of the story appearing in the newspapers. He's only been a Catholic for a little over a year, but already he's qualified to be a Bishop.
Tags: Andrew Comiskey, Catholics, Courage, Desert Stream Ministries, Living Waters, Roman Catholic Church
How's The Catholic Church's Celibacy Solution Working Out?
If you're gay, the Catholic Church has one answer for you: stay celibate for the rest of your life. The Hartford (CT) Archdiocese has sponsored a chapter of the Catholic ex-gay program Courage to help gays experience all the joys of celibacy:
The Hartford Archdiocese wants gays and lesbians to practice abstinence in the new year.
On Tuesday, the archdiocese announced it was launching a local chapter of a national ministry called Courage "to support men and women who struggle with homosexual tendencies and to motivate them to live chaste and fruitful lives in accordance with Catholic Church teachings."
…Gay attraction is not the sin, the ministry preaches — only when one acts on those feelings is it immoral. "Through support and spiritual intervention, we can help people with same-sex attraction lead moral and fulfilling lives," Pallotti said. "These people are hurting and so are their families. Doing nothing would be a lack of compassion."
The article explained that the Archdiocese had some difficulty establishing the chapter over the objections of area deacons who thought Courage didn't condemn gay people enough. But after attending some workshops, they decided that Courage wasn't as lib'ral as they feared. Local LGBT leaders saw through the charade:
True Colors Executive Director Robin McHaelen argued Tuesday that the Catholic Church is "trying to have it both ways — keeping the same hostile interpretation of a small number of biblical passages while pretending they are not homophobic."
"I can't tell you how many kids I work with who have been spiritually wounded by this and similar religious perspectives," McHaelen said. True Colors, a nonprofit agency based in Hartford, offers help to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens, some of whom have been kicked out of religious households.
"In my opinion, that's the abomination," McHaelen said.
Unlike most other ex-gay organizations, neither Courage nor the Catholic Church promises change in sexual orientation per se. Instead, they promote "the gift of celibacy" for anyone who remains outside a one-man-one-woman marriage.
And speaking of celibacy:
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, 60, resigned Wednesday under the code of canon law that lets bishops step down earlier than the normal retirement age of 75 if they're sick or for some other reason that makes them unfit for office.
In a letter to the faithful, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez said Zavala had told him in December that he had two children who lived with their mother in a different state. Zavala subsequently submitted his resignation to the pope.
Tags: California, Catholic Church, Connecticut, Courage, Hartford CT, Los Angeles CA
Courage overseer assigned to be Catholic anti-gay point man
Last week I predicted that change will be coming to the Catholic ex-gay group Courage, a change that will likely turn this support group into an anti-gay advocacy group using their own choices as "evidence" against the civil rights and equalities of their Protestant and non-Christian neighbors. Further witness to the likelihood of such change has come this week. (Catholic News Agency)
The new president of the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, announced Jan. 5 that he appointed Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland, California as chairman of the conference's Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage.
Both Dolan and Cordileone sit on something called the Body of Members, who "provide governance and impart ecclesial authority" to Courage.
Tags: Courage, Marriage, Roman Catholic Church, Salvatore Cordileone
A Change at Courage
Along with the passage of Father John Harvey, Catholic ex-gay group Courage is taking a new direction. They are moving from their home in Manhattan to Norwalk, CT, and are leaving behind their staff, volunteers, directors, and even their legal identity. The new non-profit corporation will have a Board of Directors will consist of:
Father Paul Scalia – son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia – tends to discuss "homosexual activities" using language such as "depravity" and his writings focus as much on the miseries that he just knows are experienced by those who choose the homosexual lifestyle as they do on Catholic teaching about sexuality.
Father James Knapp – has long been a leader in Courage, but seems to have written or spoken publicly little on the subject.
Dr. Tim Lock – a psychologist, was a presenter at NARTH's 2010 conference with, of all people, Gerald Schoenewolf whose "other way of looking at" slavery led a number of evangelicals to question their association with NARTH. Lock is a true NARTHy who, in a conference in Australia, "exposed nine gay myths, citing scientific research" in a manner reminiscent of John Diggs or Paul Cameron.
Mrs. Marylee MacDougall – is less well known, but in a letter to the editor of The Cowl, Brown's student newspaper, seems to endorse anti-gay political activism:
Matt Rand (in the Apr. 2 issue) is saying gay marriage is a religious issue, but the history of this topic is that even without religion more than 2000 years of civilization has had a position opposing this lifestyle and valuing family life-which starts with marriage between a man and a woman. Pending legislation and recent court decisions indicate a frontal assault on the traditional and widely accepted understanding of the essence and purpose of marriage.
Father Paul Check (ex-officio) – is the new executive director of the newly revised organization.
In addition to the Directors, there will be "a Body of Members, who provide governance and impart ecclesial authority," consisting of:
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan – a conservative Catholic who has made his campaign against marriage equality in New York a significant priority. However, Dolan – who sees homosexuality as a compulsion – is not perceived to be harshly anti-gay and uses more nuanced language.
Bridgeport, CT, Bishop William Lori – will be the host to Courage. A conservative, he's best known for successfully fighting against an attempt by the State of Connecticut to require the Catholic Church to turn over control of the diocese to its membership rather than its hierarchy.
New Ulm, MN, Bishop John LeVoir – gave $250 to the campaign to defeat marriage equality in Maine.
Oakland, CA, Bishop Salvatore Cordileone – is the father of Proposition 8. It was his organization and advocacy that initiated the writing and signature collection of the proposition (remember the early funding was almost entirely Catholic and only after it got on the ballot did the Mormon Church dump in some 20 million dollars).
Father Paul Check (ex-officio)
Considering the number of politically motivated anti-gay activists now involved, what do you want to bet that the 'new and improved' Courage has more on its plate than ministry to those with same-sex attractions?
Tags: Anti-Gay Activists, Courage, Roman Catholic Church, Salvatore Cordileone
Founder of Courage, Catholic ex-gay group, has died
I have a certain amount of sympathy for those individuals who decide that their religious convictions preclude them from engaging in any form of sexuality that is not within the confines of heterosexual marriage. Each of us must be allowed the space to determine for ourselves what gives us meaning and happiness, and some may choose to prioritize their spirituality over their sexuality.
So I am not opposed to ex-gay individuals or groups, per se, provided that they do not insist that other live according to their values, advocate for discrimination, or propagate lies. Sadly, most ex-gay groups have difficulty with strict honesty – probably because many of them are operating from a realm of "faith" in which empirical evidence can be ignored and hope can be given the imprimatur of TRUTH. But there are a few ex-gay groups that have managed to avoid overt political advocacy and who place less emphasis on miraculous reorientation and instead provide support and community for their same-sex attracted adherents.
One such group is Courage, the Catholic ex-gay organization.
While the Vatican and the Bishops have taken it upon themselves to use coercion, threat of eternal damnation, and machine politics to try and force the nations of the world to adopt their dogma on issues like gay marriage, Courage has been mostly apolitical. And while they do not discourage those who hope for eventual heterosexuality, their emphasis is on chastity as a life goal. Courage has given me very little about which to object.
In 1980, New York's Archbishop Cooke invited Father John Harvey to develop a ministry to Catholics with same-sex attractions. And while I disagree with much that Harvey espoused over the years, I do think that he was a man whose intents were compassionate and who sought neither political power, prestige, or personal advancement through his ex-gay endeavors.
This week Father John Harvey died. (PilotCatholicNews)
Oblate Father John F. Harvey, who founded an organization for celibate Catholic homosexuals that now has more than 100 chapters worldwide, died Dec. 27 at Union Hospital in Elkton. He was 92.
His funeral Mass was scheduled for Dec. 31 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del., followed by interment in the Oblate Cemetery in Elkton.
An Oblate of St. Francis de Sales for 73 years, Father Harvey founded Courage, a spiritual support group for homosexual men and women, in 1980 at the request of Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York and served as its national director until his death.
Today, Courage has chapters in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Poland, Mexico, Slovakia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Philippines and New Zealand.
"Father Harvey's commitment to pastoral care in the church was tireless," said Oblate Father James J. Greenfield, provincial of the Oblates' Wilmington-Philadelphia province, in a statement. "Even in his later years, his travel would take him all over the country and world to offer a voice of compassion."
I hope some day that the Catholic Church will find a path to full acceptance and equality for gay and lesbian Catholics (perhaps when they finally accept women as equal). But I do appreciate that in recent decades the Church has made the distinction between "inclination" and behavior (though the current Pope seems to conflate the two) as a small step in the right direction and I believe that Harvey may have played some role in that move.
Tags: Courage, Ex-Gay Movement, Roman Catholic Church
Ex-Gay Group Courage Continues to Push Heterosexual Marriage as the Goal
I have mixed feelings about the Catholic Church's ex-gay group Courage. On one hand they do make a place for same-sex attracted people who wish to live celebately in accordance with their faith without expectation of miraculous reorientation. They tend not to highly politicize their agenda or publically demean those who don't "become straight". And yet, on the other hand, they continue to perpetuate the myth that orientation is maliable.
From an LA Daily News article about how Catholic priests are feeling pressured to comply with the Church's anti-gay marriage campaign, some light is shed on the attitudes of the Los Angeles branch of Courage:
Harrigan oversees the Los Angeles chapter of the Roman Catholic-based Courage support group, modeled after 12-step recovery programs, for men and women renouncing gay and lesbian lifestyles. If they continue to feel homosexual attraction, members receive help in living celibately.
"In some cases, members finish the program and go on and marry members of the opposite sex and have children," Harrigan said. "As for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, I do hope members of the Catholic Church step up and vote."
Personally, I think it is the height of irresponsibility to encourage same-sex attracted persons to marry someone of the opposite sex and concieve children. The pressures on any marriage are great, and when one's primary sexual, emotional, and romantic attraction is naturally directed towards the same sex, the likelihood of long-term success is low. And to bring children into a such a relationship is rash and callous.
To set up marriage and children as an accomplishment, the "finished" stage of "the program", is cruel. It sets a goal that will be unacheivable for most "stugglers" and which will be disasterous for many, if not most, that reach it.
Tags: Catholics, Courage, Marriage
Do These Folks Agree With Cameron's "Solution"
Dr. Warren Throckmorton has also posted about Paul Cameron's disturbing views expressed in Cameron's article, "Gays in Nazi Germany." Dr. Throckmorton concludes:
Suffice to say that Dr. Cameron is not simply ideologically opposed to homosexuality, he is fixated on "solutions" that I find abhorrent. I call on fellow social conservatives who still refer to the Camerons' work to take a hard look at these posts and reflect on whether someone with such extreme animosity could possibly approach social science data with sufficient objectivity to be trusted.
When Ex-Gay Watch pointed out that Exodus was using Cameron's research, Exodus finally responded by removing those web pages from their web site. On the other hand, NARTH has so far failed to act.
I wonder how many of these individuals, organizations and publishers agree with Paul Cameron's Solution for those who live "parasitic lives"?
E-mail me or leave a comment if you find someone who is using Cameron's "science" and I'll add them to the list.
Psychological Reports
American Family Association:
Targeting Children, Part Four: Access to children: Homosexuality and Molestation — Ed Vitagliano, June 2001.
Targeting Children, Part Three: Activists Encouraging Experimentation — Ed Vitagliano, May 2001.
Homosexuality in America: Exposing the Myths (PDF: 299 KB/24 pages) — Robert G. Howe, 1994.
Americans For Truth:
Study Shows "Gay Married" Lifespans Average 24 Years Shorter than Hetero Marrieds in Norway, Denmark — Peter LaBarbera, April 5, 2007.
Canadian Research Suggests only 1.4% of Adults Homosexual — Peter LaBarera, March 27, 2007.
Stanford Nurse Details Lethal Consequences of Engaging in Promiscuous Anal Intercourse — Kathleen Melonakos, Dec 2, 2006.
Courage:
Living In Truth: Unsure Of Your Sexuality? — unsigned, 2000
Concerned Women For America:
Indianapolis Rejects Domestic Partner Benefit — Robert H. Knight, Aug 2, 2002
"The author of the bill was very articulate and tried to come after me for using a Paul Cameron study (although I did not cite him. I cited Adolescence journal)."
'Sexual Orientation' and American Culture — Robert H. Knight, July 10, 2002
Rosie and the Docs Peddle Bad Medicine (PDF: 62 KB/7 pages) — Robert H. Knight, May 2002.
Pediatrics Academy Joins Crusade for 'Gay Parenting' — Robert H. Knight, Feb 7, 2002
Ears To Hear:
Myths, Facts, and Consequences of the Homosexual Lifestyle — unsigned, April 30, 2007.
Evergreen International:
Gay Identity and the Gay Rights Movement — Jason Park, 1996.
Behavior (FAQ) — Jason Park, 1996.
Why Am I Attracted to Men? — Jason Park, 1996.
Family Research Council:
Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk — Timothy J. Dailey, undated.
International Healing Foundation (Richard Cohen):
Changing From Gay To Straight Is Possible, Chapter 2: Definitions and Causes of Same-Sex Attractions — Richard Cohen, undated.
Lifesite News:
Canadian Research Suggests only 1.4% of Adults Homosexual — Unsigned, March 27, 2007.
Expert Research Finds Homosexuality More Dangerous Than Smoking — Unsigned, April 3, 2007.
US Sexuality Survey Shows Gays 107% More Likely To Engage In Criminal Activities — "JJ," June 13, 2005.
Yet Another Study Confirms Gay Life Expectancy 20 Years Shorter — "JJ," June 6, 2005.
Same-Sex Parenting is Harmful to Children Says REAL Women of Canada — Unsigned, March 2004.
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage (Originally published in Crisis magazine) — Tim Leslie, January 2004.
Homosexuals Declare War On Boy Scouts — Unsigned, August 23, 2000.
National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH):
Joseph Nicolosi e Linda Ames Nicolosi, Omosessualità . Una Guida per i Genitori, (PDF: 174 KB/5 pages) (Italian: Joseph Nicolosi and Linda Ames Nicolosi. Homosexuality. A Guide for Parents) — Roberto Marchesini, October 2005.
Conversion Therapy Revisited: Parameters and Rationale for Ethical Care — Christopher H. Rosik, Spring 2001.
Revisión de la Terapia Teparativa: Parámetros y Fundamento Para el Cuidado Ético (PDF: 280 KB/18 pages) (Spanish: Conversion Therapy Revisited: Parameters and Rationale for Ethical Care ) — Christopher H. Rosik, Spring 2001.
Pediatrician Says Childhood Gender Identity Disorder Requires Treatment, Not Sex-Change Surgery — Ross Olson, undated (updated April 20, 2006).
Father-son Relationships and Male Sexual Development — Gregory Dickson, undated (Updated Sept 30, 2002).
One News Now:
LA Fertility Clinic Provides for Homosexual Parent Candidates — Ed Thomas, April 5, 2007.
Renew America:
Attorney, Group Blast Bishops Over Sex Ed — Matt C. Abbott, August 21, 2005.
Sometimes, Where There's Smoke, There's the Fired — Selwyn Duke, February 11, 2005
Virtue Online:
Expert Research Finds Homosexuality More Dangerous Than Smoking — "David Virtue," April 4, 2007.
1.4% of Adults Homosexual? — "David Virtue," March 23, 2007.
Let me know if you find any others.
Tags: American Family Association, Christopher Rosik, Concerned Women for America, Courage, David Virtue, Ed Vitagliano, Evergreen International, Exodus International, Family Research Council, Joseph Nicolosi, Kathleen Melonakos, LifeSite, NARTH, OneNewsNow, Paul Cameron, Peter LaBarbera, Renew America, Richard Cohen, Robert Knight, Timothy Dailey
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Source: Thomson Reuters. Last updated on Apr 19, 2019 at 23:18PM (UTC). Delayed by at least 15 minutes.
Further to the Capital Market Authority (CMA) final version of regulations, mechanisms and procedures related to the Saudi Stock Exchange opening of its market to qualified foreign investors; the Saudi Stock Exchange has held series of workshops for its members, and its market licensed parties, to ensure their readiness - and the fulfillment of all internal procedures prior to the opening of the Saudi Market.
It is worth mentioning that ever since the CMA issued the draft of the foreign investments rules and regulations, the Saudi Stock Exchange held five workshops, with its listed companies, to raise the awareness and readiness, especially on the corporate governance and investors' relations level.
Representatives from the CMA attended these highly interactive workshops and answered the audience enquiries.


Representatives from Montage Marketing Group will attend the National 8(a) Small Business Conference, February 11-13, 2019. The National 8(a) Small Business Conference is the premier supplier diversity networking event for small businesses.
The National 8(a) Small Business Conference offers educational sessions and resources for small businesses, minority businesses, current 8(a) companies, and graduated 8(a) companies. Attendees can also participate in supplier diversity matchmaking with federal agencies, large business primes, and commercial companies. Further, the Conference offers multiple networking opportunities to meet federal agencies, buyers, and prospective teaming partners.
The Conference will take place at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Please reach out if you also plan to attend. We'd love to connect with fellow 8(a) small businesses while exploring matchmaking opportunities.


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Vigor Gets Olympic-Class Ferry Order
By Mark Edward Nero
Washington State Ferries signed a notice to proceed in late December with shipbuilder Vigor Industrial for work on a 144-vehicle ferry, with work slated to begin this month.
The ferry is to be built at Vigor Industrial and is expected to support about 500 jobs at Vigor's Seattle shipyard and contractors around the region. The budget to build the vessel is $122 million, with delivery scheduled for mid-2018.
Along with current vessels Tokitae, Samish and Chimacum, the fourth Olympic-class ferry is expected to improve fleet reliability and safety by replacing four of the state's oldest ferries, which were built during the 1950s and 1960s.
The first two Olympic-class ferries were delivered on time and under budget. The third vessel, under construction at Vigor, is reportedly on schedule and under budget, and is expected to be assigned to the Seattle/Bremerton route in early 2017.
Olympic-class ferries are equipped with the latest emergency-evacuation and fire suppression systems, Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant elevators, and wider car-deck lanes that provide more room for passengers to access their vehicles. The vessels' hulls are designed to reduce wake and provide better fuel efficiency, while cleaner burning engines reduce emissions.
"Our top priority is keeping the ferry system safe and reliable for the millions of commuters, freight haulers and travelers who depend on us every year," Washington State Ferries Chief of Staff Elizabeth Kosa said in a prepared statement. "Thanks to state lawmakers and critical funds from Connecting Washington, we are able to meet some of the ferry system's most urgent needs, including building this new ferry."
A public process to determine the fourth ferry's name is being led by the Washington State Transportation Commission.
Labels: BC Ferries, Vigor Industrial
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Q: Flutter extracting data from a list inside a map from API call I have a flutter http get request that returns a response in the below format
{

    "area": "some area",
    "user_places": [
        {
            "place_id": "105",
            "place_name": "Place 1"
        },
        {
            "place_id": "104",
            "place_name": "place 2"
        }
    ],
    "lang": null,
    "token": "IiwiZGV2aWNlIjoid2ViIiwiZGllIjoiMjAyMS0wNS0xMiAyMjo0NTozOSJ9.2wJlmHNRmQ0_rfNbca2-DNek1dzT9Em8-iQIfGFZJ98",
    "account_type": 1,

}

Am currently able to get data from a field directly below the map for example "area" .
My question is how to get data from a list inside the map in this case "user_places". Say I wanted to display all "place_id" and "place_name" in a widget somewhere in my app. How would I go about it?

A: you can use a tool like json to dart you can paste your json data and get a dart class of the same
class MyLocation {
  String area;
  List<UserPlaces> userPlaces;
  String lang;
  String token;
  int accountType;

  MyLocation(
      {this.area, this.userPlaces, this.lang, this.token, this.accountType});
....

then MyLocation.userPlaces you can access your data


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Q: Keytool batch file closing automatically I have a very simple batch file that doesn't seem to want to stay open... I've tried PAUSE, cmd /k and even timeouts.
the Code:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin
keytool -exportcert -alias logistic -keystore "M:\0Desktop\Apps\zTo Be Sorted\MagazineKeystoreFiles\BSM.keystore.file" | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64
PAUSE

Any thoughts? What am I missing? If I run multiple timeout commands it will work until it reaches the second code line (keytool line). If I run these commands in a cmd prompt it stays open as it should.

A: Seems the Change directory command was the cause of the issue. Once I added "/d" the script works as it should. The batch file was saved on a different drive to where I was running keytool...
Code:
cd /d C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin


Note: Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will only work on the New Nintendo 3DS XL or New Nintendo 3DS (not released in America). You can not play this game on an original Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, or Nintendo 2DS.
Usually remakes are made to improve the graphical fidelity of an old game, improve on outdated game design, or in a few cases both. That is what's so weird about Xenoblade Chronicles 3D: it does none of that. In fact, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D looks uglier than its Wii counterpart. But, don't worry, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is still the fun, deep and expansive JRPG that it was on the Wii.
The story of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D at first seems your standard JRPG fare. You play as Shulk, a young hom (human) from a village in the middle of nowhere – otherwise known as Colony 9. One day Colony 9 is attacked by the Mechons (machines who try to kill and eat the Homs), causing Shulk and his best friend Rein to go on a quest to avenge Colony 9. However, through many twists and turns the story quickly evolves into something much more interesting and complex.
The story isn't just about Shulk, it's also about the Monado (a special sword). The Monado is the only weapon that can hurt the Mechon andtheoretically may save the Homs and create a world of peace and tranquility. However, like most wars, conflicts and crusades, the fight against the Mechons has costs and consequences which the characters must face. Similarly, the Monado also allows Shulk to see into the future, meaning that throughout the story he must struggle to contend with watching characters he loves and cares about being killed before his very eyes, while being powerless to stop it.
The story does have dark tones and explores the theme of death, but is amazing because of it. Xenoblade Chronicle 3D has one of the best stories I have ever experienced in a video game. Also, for those worried that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D will be too sombre and serious, don't worry. The banterous conversations between your party members is more than enough to lighten the mood. You will genuinely care about these characters and the struggles and hardships they have to face.
Nevertheless, the one downside of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D are the visuals. The textures, colour saturation and clarity are all noticeably worse than the original Xenoblade Chronicles. Also, while the 3D isn't bad, it's nothing special either. Though, in fairness, squashing one of the largest, most ambitious games on Wii into a significantly less powerful handheld is a feat in itself. But, I'm glad to say that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D's draw distance and frame rate are extremely impressive for a game of its size.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D sounds just as amazing as its Wii counterpart. You'll still be rocking out to the Gaur Plains theme like you were three years ago. The voice acting is also expertly done. The voice actors are British; so, it's a bit different from the usual American slang we hear in most localised JRPGs. I really like it – though I might be a bit biased. Nevertheless, if you don't like the English voice acting I'm afraid you're stuck because the original Japanese voice acting has been cut completely, probably due to cartridge space.
Gameplay is where Xenoblade Chronicles 3D truly shines; you'll explore a huge world filled to the brim with deadly monsters, some of which you'll be prepared for and others you won't. Its battle systems stands out in particular. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D's battle system is all in real-time and characters in your party will attack automatically when they get close enough to the enemy that you're fighting.
Your job is to select the right arts (special moves) at the right time and in the right position for your specific character to create combos with your computer-controlled teammates. During battles, you'll have to juggle using your arts enough for them to level up, while making sure you don't directly attract the enemy's aggro (attention) and allowing them time to fill up again. Moreover, your AI-controlled teammates are never frustrating and will always do what's logical, making it feel like you're playing with actual humans instead of a computer.
Furthermore, the Monado's abilities aren't exclusive to Xenoblade Chronicles 3D's story; it also directly affects the battle system. When fighting Mechon you will have to change your battle strategies as Shulk (the holder of the Monado) is the only party member who can harm the them. This adds diversity to the battle system as well as adding an extra layer of difficulty making you legitimately fear the Mechon, especially later on. Similarly, in certain boss battles Shulk will get a glimpse of a boss's future attack giving the player seconds to counter the potentially lethal hit. This can happen at any point and really adds suspense during boss battles.
Xenoblade Chronicle 3D trims off a lot of the fat associated with the JRPG genre: there are no save points or returning to quest givers. While adding abilities that really help speed the whole game up such as the ability to change the in-game clock at will, story memos, a low death penalty (you keep all experience, items and loot) and fast travel. While Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is a long JRPG, it is far from tedious.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D changes very little from the original Xenoblade Chronicles, aside from the inferior visuals. In fact the only new addition is a "collection mode," where you can view character models in different outfits, or listen to Xenoblade Chronicles 3D's soundtrack. The one downside with collection mode is that instead of earning the 3D models or songs as you progress through the story, you will unlock the models and songs and then have to earn them through a raffle. Yes, a raffle! You can either spend one token and get a random 3D model or song, or spend three and be guaranteed a new one. To make it worse, getting tokens isn't exactly easy: you can either get them through StreetPass, spending five play coins for one token or using you Shulk Amiibo for three tokens per day – because everybody has one of those.
If you are sick of a modern JRPG genre full of typical story lines and out-dated mechanics, look no further that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D. Sure, it's not the prettiest game in the world and collection mode can be frustrating, but that can't take away from one of the most fantastic, magical and unique JRPGs of the last 15 years. If you missed this gem on Wii and don't have a spare $100, you owe it to yourself to pick this game up right away. So yes, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D isn't the best remake in the world, but when I'm 'black slashing' enemies across the Gaur Plains I honestly couldn't care less.
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'Communal' heat on Kerala CPM leader
A group of nine academics, lawyers, writers and retired bureaucrats have expressed concern at recent outbursts of A. Vijayaraghavan
A Vijayaraghavan
Sourced by The Telegraph
K.M. Rakesh | Bangalore | Published 04.03.21, 01:33 AM
The acting secretary of the Kerala CPM has come under fire for alleged "Islamophobic" statements, with academics pointing to the incongruity of such diatribes from a Left leader although they were common in the Sangh ecosystem.
In a letter addressed to CPM secretary Sitaram Yechury, a group of nine academics, lawyers, writers and retired bureaucrats have expressed concern at the recent outbursts of A. Vijayaraghavan, the party's state secretary in-charge, ahead of the Assembly elections.
They expressed concern at Vijayaraghavan engaging in "Islamophobic statements vitiating the social environment of Kerala", while pursuing his unrelenting attacks on the Indian Union Muslim League and the Jamaat-e-Islami.
"He takes the pretext of criticising the Muslim League and the Jamaat-e-Islami to unburden himself of hatred for Muslims without reservations. This is not unfamiliar in India's current political terrain as we hear these on a daily basis from the Sangh parivar, but from CPIM this has been shocking," argued the complainants that include retired additional development commissioner and director of the State Institute of Rural Development, P.M. Pareethu Bava Khan.
"In his latest tirade he accuses Muslims of being more communal than the majority communalism," the letter stated, referring to Vijayaraghavan's attack on the IUML.
Vijayaraghavan had last month slammed the Congress for strengthening minority communalism by encouraging the Jamaat-e-Islami — widely seen as a Right-wing organisation — which would in turn benefit the BJP.
"A whole community is vilified. And by trivialising the communalism of the Sangh parivar, Vijayaraghavan has betrayed the trust the secular, democratic forces of the country have invested in the CPM as a partner in the struggle for a saner future…," stated the letter sent to Yechury on Tuesday.
Khan told The Telegraph that copies of the letter would be sent to the CPM state secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram and Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
"The name calling of people that hold a different view point than that of the ruling political formation that has now become a timepass of theirs — with communists themselves being one of the targets — has been liberally practiced by Vijayaraghavan. He was calling people 'terrorists' who have been democratically opposing environmentally questionable projects and projects that require displacements because there were visible faces of Muslims," the letter said.
Vijayaraghavan could not be reached for comments as he was busy with meetings related to the April 6 elections. Yechury has not publicly commented on the allegations.
The letter didn't spare others in the CPM who had made equally communal statements in the past and named Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the state secretary who is on leave due to personal issues. The letter referred to his comment about Muslim leaders in the Congress-led United Democratic Front.
"He (Vijayaraghavan) has not been alone in speaking so, unfortunately. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that the UDF is led by x, y and z (three Muslim names), in a way to create worry among the Hindus. This was an attempt to score over the UDF that has vowed to enact a law for protecting the traditions at Sabarimala, to win over conservative Hindus, as if Islamophobia pays," the letter stated.
The allegation was apparently an allusion to Balakrishnan's statement in October 2020 accusing the Congress of surrendering its leadership to the Congress's M.M. Hassan, IUML leader P.K. Kunhalikutty and Jamaat-e-Islami leader M.I. Abdul Aziz. "Earlier the UDF was led by the Kunhalikutty-K.M. Mani-Oommen Chandy triumvirate. But it's now led by Hassan, Kunhalikutty and Aziz," Balakrishnan had said.
The letter recalled how then chief minister and CPM veteran V.S. Achuthanandan had in 2010 accused the Popular Front of India, another Muslim Right-wing group, of using "money and marriages to make Kerala a Muslim-majority state".
"Our concern is about the possible destruction of the social fabric of Kerala, the land that lives the values of our ancient Dravidian King Mahabali. The new social engineering the CPM is doing in Kerala is, strangely, analogous to the reactionary politics of the vimochana samaram of the past where the orthodoxies of various religions caused immense social disruption in their effort to overthrow a democratically elected Left government," the letter said.
While Mahabali is a mythical Dravidian king who ruled Kerala and was sent to the netherworld by Vamana, an avatar of Lord Vishnu, "vimochana samaram" was an anti-communist backlash that played out against the party's first elected government in Kerala during 1958-59.
Kerala Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Sitaram Yechury Communal Harmony A. Vijayaraghavan Communal Politics Kerala Assembly Elections 2021


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The Vow Season 2: What Happened to Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, and More NXIVM Leaders
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The season finale of The Vow on HBO aired Sunday, leaving viewers with questions on what occurred to NXIVM's key gamers, together with Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, India Oxenberg, and Clare Bronfman.
The documentary sequence, about an alleged intercourse cult and multi-level advertising scheme masquerading as a self-help program, ended its first season with the arrest of Keith Raniere. Raniere was the chief of NXIVM and its varied subgroups, together with DOS, a secret girls's group that assigned its members "grasp" and "slave" roles and branded their pelvic areas with Raniere's initials.
HBO has renewed The Vow for a second season, to air in 2021, and the Season 1 finale hints that each Raniere and Salzman might have participated within the new episodes; within the finale, a girl who seems to be Salzman is proven carrying a home arrest ankle monitor, and the episode's ultimate scene incorporates a voice recording of Raniere, apparently agreeing from jail to speak about NXIVM for a documentary. In accordance with HBO, Season 2 will function revelations from the group's supporters and defectors, and can heart on Keith Raniere's trial and supreme conviction of crimes together with intercourse trafficking, pressured labor conspiracy, racketeering, and manufacturing and possession of kid pornography. On Oct. 27, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
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Viewers do not have to attend for extra episodes of The Vow to study what occurred to NXIVM's internal circle. Here is a take a look at every of the important thing gamers:
Keith Raniere
NXIVM chief Keith Raniere, proven in an episode of HBO's docuseries The VowPhotograph: Screengrab/HBO
Keith Raniere, 60, has been sentenced to 120 years in jail for intercourse trafficking and different crimes.
The Vow's Season 1 finale ends with Raniere, additionally recognized to NXIVM members as "Vanguard," being arrested in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in March 2018 on charges together with intercourse trafficking.
The primary season of the docuseries would not element the dramatic circumstances surrounding Raniere's arrest; nevertheless, Lauren Salzman testified in court docket that Mexican authorities interrupted Raniere's plans for a "recommitment ceremony" involving group intercourse with a number of of the first-line "masters" in Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS), the secretive girls's membership inside NXIVM. (The Latin title is roughly translated as "grasp over slave girls," and Raniere was the sect's "grandmaster.") In accordance with the Albany-based newspaper The Times-Union, Salzman testified that when officers burst into the resort the place the group was staying, Raniere hid in a walk-in closet. "It by no means occurred to me that I'd select Keith — and Keith would select Keith," Salzman mentioned in court docket.
In Could of 2018, Raniere pleaded not responsible to charges together with intercourse trafficking, intercourse trafficking conspiracy, and compelled labor conspiracy; his attorneys told NBC News that "all the pieces was consensual." Raniere was held with out bail as a result of he was deemed to be a flight threat. In March of 2019, prosecutors accused Raniere, who's now 60, of getting intercourse with a 15-year-old woman, The New York Times reported. He was charged with "coercing a toddler to interact in sexual conduct to provide visible depictions of it, and of possessing little one pornography between 2005 and 2018," in accordance with Reuters.
Raniere's high-profile trial started in Brooklyn's Federal District Court docket in Could 2019. In June, after deliberating for less than five hours, a jury discovered Raniere responsible on all counts. He was convicted of intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, manufacturing and possession of kid pornography, racketeering, and wire fraud.
Ready for his sentence, Raniere maintained his innocence, telling Dateline NBC that he apologizes for collaborating in a company that triggered "ache and struggling," however mentioned he isn't responsible of any crimes. "I'm harmless," Raniere mentioned within the jailhouse interview. "It is a horrible tragedy with many, many individuals being damage. There's a horrible injustice right here. And whether or not you assume I am the satan or not, the justice course of needs to be examined. … I've clearly participated. I have been the chief of the group. And it has come to this. Even whether it is by oppression, I'm completely sorry and pained. It is a horrible scenario."
On Oct. 27, 2020, Senior U.S. District Court docket Decide Nicholas Garaufis sentenced Raniere to 120 years in jail and ordered him to pay a fine of $1,750,000, calling the NXIVM founder "ruthless and unyielding" in "significantly egregious" crimes that focused women and younger girls, the Associated Press reported.
The sentencing was handed down after a morning of listening to statements from 15 of Raniere's victims, together with sisters who turned concerned with him once they had been youngsters. "I nonetheless hear his voice in my head, and it continues to be a each day wrestle," mentioned one girl, who was 15 years previous when Raniere started preying on her. The girl's older sister, who was 16 when she turned concerned with Raniere, was confined to a room for almost two years after she kissed one other man. "You abused my harmless physique, (messed) with my thoughts, and turned my household in opposition to me," she mentioned, per the Albany Times-Union.
Throughout the sentencing, Raniere informed the court docket, "I do imagine I'm harmless of the costs. It's true I'm not remorseful of the crimes I don't imagine I dedicated in any respect."
Allison Mack departs the U.S. Japanese District Court docket in Brooklyn after a bail listening to on Could 4, 2018.Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Pictures
Allison Mack, 38, is ready to be sentenced for racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. She faces as much as 40 years in jail (20 years for every depend) and a most fantastic of $250,000.
Allison Mack, the 38-year-old actress finest recognized for her Smallville function as younger Clark Kent's buddy Chloe was, by many accounts, Keith Raniere's high lieutenant within the NXIVM secret sorority DOS. The docuseries accuses Mack of recruiting girls to be "slaves"; forcing them handy over compromising materials together with nude images as "collateral" and blackmailing them to maintain them obedient; placing them on excessive weight-loss regimes and assigning them "penance" for errors; and initiating rituals that used a cauterizing pen, with out anesthesia, to model them with an emblem that includes Raniere's initials and her personal with out their consent.
The Vow Season 1 finale reveals Mack making ready to comply with the authorities who arrested Raniere on the group's hideout in Mexico in March 2018. In April 2018, Mack herself was arrested in Brooklyn by the FBI on fees of intercourse trafficking, intercourse trafficking conspiracy, and compelled labor conspiracy. Shortly thereafter, she pleaded not responsible to all charges and was launched to her mother and father' custody on $5 million bail, NBC News reported on the time.
In Could 2018, The New York Times Magazine revealed a function after being given a uncommon tour of NXIVM management and operations earlier within the 12 months, earlier than the arrests. Within the story, Mack defended DOS's "grasp/slave" dynamic and took full duty for creating the branding ritual, explaining, "I used to be like: 'Y'all, a tattoo? Folks get drunk and tattooed on their ankle 'BFF,' or a tramp stamp. I've two tattoos and so they imply nothing.' "
In April 2019, a 12 months after she first pleaded not responsible, Mack reversed her plea simply hours earlier than jury choice was set to start, taking a deal that allowed her to keep away from going to trial with Raniere and Clare Bronfman, the Associated Press reported. Throughout her listening to, Mack pleaded responsible to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, tearfully admitted to her crimes — together with acquiring "collateral" from girls and threatening to make it public in the event that they disobeyed her — and apologized to the ladies who had been exploited by NXIVM. "I believed Keith Raniere's intentions had been to assist individuals, and I used to be improper," Mack told the judge. "I need to take full duty for my conduct and that's the reason I'm pleading responsible at this time. I'm and will probably be a greater individual because of this."
Mack was scheduled to be sentenced in September 2019, however her sentencing was delayed, and he or she has but to obtain a brand new date, partly on account of COVID-19 court docket closures. Within the meantime, Mack wears a monitoring anklet and spends most of her time at her mother and father' California dwelling.
In an interview with CBS News in September 2020, Mack's spouse, former Battlestar Galactica actress Nicki Clyne, defended Raniere, NXIVM, and its branding ritual. When requested how Mack was doing, Clyne mentioned, "I have never been in a position to communicate to her for a 12 months and half. A part of the circumstances of her bail is that she will't communicate to anybody who's affiliated in any approach with the case or NXIVM. This has been the toughest, most humbling expertise of my life."
Nancy Salzman
Nancy Salzman in an episode of The Vow on HBO.Photograph: Screengrab/HBO
Nancy Salzman, 66, is ready to be sentenced for racketeering. She faces 33 to 41 months in jail and a most fantastic of $250,000.
Earlier than she met Keith Raniere, Nancy Salzman was a former psychiatric nurse, a skilled hypnotist (in accordance with several sources), and a self-proclaimed skilled in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) — an unproven methodology purported to vary individuals's ideas through communication strategies.
Salzman and Raniere co-founded NXIVM's Government Success Packages (ESP) in 1998. The corporate would later turn into NXIVM, however ESP remained its "academic" arm, a self-help program that served as a recruiting floor for the pyramid scheme and gateway to the cult. Salzman, who developed the curriculum for ESP, was recognized to the group's members as "Prefect" and served as president of NXIVM and second-in-command to Raniere's "Vanguard."
Days after Raniere's arrest in March 2018, federal brokers raided Salzman's dwelling in Halfmoon, a suburb of Albany, and seized greater than $520,000 in money, a few of it hidden in shoeboxes, in accordance with The New York Times Magazine. 4 months later, in July 2018, Salzman was arrested alongside together with her daughter Lauren Salzman, NXIVM bankroller Clare Bronfman, and NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell. Salzman was charged with racketeering, particularly identification theft and altering information.
In March of 2019, Salzman pleaded responsible, admitting to creating plans to acquire the e-mail person names and passwords of perceived enemies of NXIVM, in addition to modifying recordings and destroying videotapes that the corporate did not wish to hand over in a lawsuit. In accordance with the New York Post, she sobbed in court docket as she apologized for bringing her daughter, Lauren Salzman, into NXIVM. "I need you to know I'm pleading responsible as a result of I'm, in reality, responsible," Salzman informed the choose. "I settle for that among the issues I did weren't simply improper, however generally prison. I justified them by saying that what we had been doing was for the better good. I'm deeply sorry for the difficulty I triggered my daughter, the ache I triggered my mother and father. … I nonetheless imagine that a few of what we did was good."
Salzman was launched on $5 million bail till her sentencing, which has but to be scheduled. She is fitted with an ankle bracelet monitor and reportedly lives together with her different daughter, Michelle, in Waterford, New York whereas she awaits sentencing.
Lauren Salzman
Lauren Salzman in The Vow on HBOPhotograph: Screengrab/HBO
Lauren Salzman, 44, is ready to be sentenced for racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. She faces as much as 40 years in jail (20 years for every depend), however is prone to obtain a lesser sentence for testifying at Raniere's trial.
The daughter of NXIVM co-founder and president Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman served on NXIVM's government board, was the corporate's head of training, and have become one of many "first-line masters" in DOS, the group's clandestine "grasp/slave" girls's group.
Lauren Salzman was with Keith Raniere in his Mexico hideout in March 2018, serving to him plan a bunch intercourse recommitment ceremony with a number of of the "first-line" girls, when authorities got here to arrest him, she later testified in court docket. He hid in a closet, leaving Salzman alone to face the officers, who had been wielding machine weapons. "Every part he taught us was this … what males do, what girls do," Salzman mentioned in court docket. "After which he did not do it — and I did do it." She referred to as his title — a mistake she mentioned she agonized over for months — and officers burst in to arrest him.
4 months later, in July 2018, Salzman was arrested alongside together with her mom, Nancy Salzman, in addition to NXIVM bankroller Clare Bronfman and NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell. Salzman was charged with wire fraud conspiracy and racketeering, particularly trafficking, pressured labor, and extortion.
In March 2019, Salzman pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy and admitted she had recruited girls to DOS. Two months later, she testified for the prosecution in Raniere's trial — the one former defendant to take action — and described her personal crimes, the lurid internal workings of the "grasp/slave" intercourse group of which Raniere was "grandmaster," and the circumstances of his arrest in Mexico. Salzman testified that girls in DOS made vows to turn into lifelong "slaves" to Raniere, The New York Times reported, and had been subjected to brutal punishments equivalent to being whipped with a leather-based strap and standing barefoot within the snow. Salzman admitted to collaborating within the group's branding rituals, throughout which girls had been pressured to disrobe and have Raniere's initials branded on their pelvic areas with a cauterizing pen, with out anesthesia. She additionally described the "grasp/slave" pyramid construction and the method for amassing compromising "collateral" from initiates to be able to blackmail them — all a part of a plan to implement "complete obedience and secrecy," she informed the court docket. Salzman was enlisted to write down a handbook for DOS primarily based on Raniere's teachings. One of many manifesto's passages proven in court docket learn, "The perfect slave derives the best pleasure from being her grasp's final device. You give up your life, thoughts, physique for unconditional use."
Salzman additionally admitted to coercing a girl to signal over a number of financial institution accounts and a automotive, and extra disturbingly, she confessed to preserving a "slave" captive for 2 years after the girl expressed romantic curiosity in a person who was not Raniere, in accordance with The Times-Union. "Of all of the issues that I did on this case and all of the crimes that I admitted to, this was the worst factor I did," Salzman mentioned. "What can I say? I saved her in a room for 2 years." NXIVM leaders deserted the girl on the Mexican border with little cash and no paperwork, Salzman testified.
Salzman, who was launched on bail and required to put on a monitoring anklet, stays underneath home arrest whereas she awaits a sentencing date.
Clare Bronfman
Clare Bronfman arrives at federal court docket in Brooklyn on Sept. 30, 2020.Photograph: Paul Frangipane/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures
Clare Bronfman, 42, was convicted final month of identification theft and harboring a girl who was delivered to america on a faux work visa so Bronfman might exploit her labor. Bronfman was sentenced to almost seven years in jail, and is being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn till the prisons bureau decides the place she is going to serve her sentence. Her attorneys are asking that she stay free whereas she appeals the sentence.
Bronfman is a daughter and heiress of late billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr., the previous chairman of Seagram's liquor. Previously a aggressive equestrian, Bronfman was introduced into NXIVM in 2002 by her sister, Sara Bronfman. Quickly thereafter, in accordance with Vanity Fair, the sisters started bankrolling a number of NXIVM initiatives whereas making an attempt to cover their monetary involvement with the group from their father, who disapproved of NXIVM and referred to as it "a cult" in a 2003 interview for a Forbes Magazine function on Keith Raniere.
Clare Bronfman was appointed to NXIVM's board, and over the following twenty years served because the group's monetary muscle, sinking some $100 million into the group. She paid for actual property, a personal jet, and lawyer charges, in addition to allegedly overlaying Raniere's failed bets within the commodities market, Vanity Fair reported.
Following Raniere's arrest in March 2018, Bronfman took over NXIVM, shifting its headquarters from Albany to Brooklyn, close to the detention heart the place Raniere is being held, the New York Post reported. Three months later, the corporate introduced on its web site that it was suspending its operations.
Bronfman was arrested in July 2018, together with NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman, DOS chief Lauren Salzman, and NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell. Bronfman was charged with racketeering conspiracy, together with identification theft, encouraging and inducing unlawful immigration, and cash laundering. She was launched on $100 million bond and positioned underneath home arrest. In April of 2019, she pleaded responsible to fraudulent use of identification and conspiracy to harbor and conceal immigrants who weren't in america legally, Reuters reported. Bronfman admitted that she helped Raniere use the bank card of late NXIVM member Pamela Cafritz after she died of most cancers. She additionally confessed to harboring a Mexican girl who was delivered to the nation on a faux work visa in order that she and NXIVM might exploit her labor.
Regardless of her plea deal, Bronfman has remained loyal to Raniere and NXIVM. In a letter to Senior U.S. District Decide Nicholas Garaufis, she wrote, "Many individuals, together with most of my circle of relatives, imagine I ought to disavow Keith and NXIVM, and that I've not is difficult for them to grasp and settle for. Nevertheless, for me, NXIVM and Keith significantly modified my life for the higher," The New York Times reported. She additionally wrote, "I by no means believed I used to be supporting something unhealthy or improper, I by no means wished to protect anybody from prison habits, I by no means supposed to intimidate individuals," CNN reported.
On Sept. 30, 2020, Bronfman was sentenced to 81 months (6 years and 9 months) in jail, a harsher sentence than prosecutors had requested for. Decide Garaufis condemned Bronfman for serving as Raniere's "confederate" in NXIVM's efforts to threaten, silence, and precise revenge on defectors, utilizing "her wealth and privilege as a sword." Decide Garaufis was unswayed by Bronfman's attorneys' arguments that she was less-to-blame as a result of she was ignorant about DOS till media studies uncovered the "grasp/slave" intercourse group. "Ms. Bronfman got here to study particulars about DOS and confronted a selection as to whose pursuits she would shield: Raniere's or his victims'," the choose mentioned, per the New York Post. "She selected Raniere unequivocally, and to today she has not clearly apologized." Along with her jail sentence, Bronfman was ordered to pay a fantastic of $500,000 and greater than $96,000 in restitution to a girl for pressured labor, in addition to to forfeit $6 million in accordance together with her plea deal.
Bronfman was instantly taken to the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place Raniere is also being held. However on Oct. 6, 2020, the choose agreed to suggest that Bronfman serve her sentence at a minimum-security facility in Danbury, Connecticut, in accordance with The Times-Union. The prisons bureau will make the ultimate choice. Within the meantime, Bronfman's attorneys are requesting that she stay free whereas she appeals the sentence, arguing that she has a liver situation that may put her at better threat ought to she contract COVID-19 in jail.
India Oxenberg
India Oxenberg in The Vow on HBO.Photograph: Screengrab/HBO
India Oxenberg, 29, left NXIVM after Keith Raniere's arrest. She particulars her expertise in four-part documentary sequence titled Seduced: Inside The Nxivm Cult, which debuted Sunday on Starz.
Oxenberg, the daughter of Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg, turned concerned in NXIVM after she and her mom attended an introductory Government Success Packages (ESP) course in 2011.
Over the course of seven years, India Oxenberg turned shut with Raniere and his internal circle, together with Allison Mack, and was recruited to hitch the key "grasp/slave" sorority DOS in 2015. She handed over nude images and household secrets and techniques as "collateral"; she was branded with what she was informed was a Latin image for the weather however really was a mixture of Raniere and Mack's initials; and he or she was tasked with seducing Raniere, she informed People Magazine. Oxenberg mentioned she was groomed and indoctrinated, telling Vanity Fair that she believed her punishments from Mack, her hunger food plan, and her prescribed oral intercourse periods with Raniere had been methods for her to show her power and work by means of intimacy points. "I used to be coerced and manipulated and believed what I used to be doing was serving to me after I was actually simply serving Keith," she informed Folks.
Oxenberg's mom, Catherine, staged interventions, labored with defectors and journalists to reveal NXIVM's prison exercise, delivered proof to the FBI, and even wrote a book interesting to her daughter in an try to attract her out of the cult. However the youthful Oxenberg remained loyal to the group, even after Raniere's arrest in March 2018. When Mack was arrested the next month, Oxenberg packed up Mack's belongings for her, however held onto a number of issues she thought had been too private to place in storage, together with a field of flash drives, she informed Self-importance Truthful. Months later, after shifting to her mother's dwelling in Malibu, Oxenberg determined to see what was on the flash drives and found audio recordings of Raniere "masterminding DOS's darkest particulars," in accordance with Self-importance Truthful, together with dictating the specifics of the branding rituals and recommending strategies of coercion. "That was an enormous, big second for me," Oxenberg informed the journal. "After I heard these flash drives, I couldn't return to considering the best way that I had."
After she left NXIVM and went to the FBI, Oxenberg carefully guarded her privateness, utilizing the following two years to heal and put a long way between herself and over-simplified headlines that labeled her a "intercourse slave." She designed a mandala-style tattoo to cowl her model. She obtained a job as a supervisor of a New York eatery and met a chef at one other restaurant, Patrick D'Ignazio, to whom she is now engaged.
Just lately, Oxenberg has begun to open up about her NXIVM expertise. Throughout coronavirus quarantine she wrote a memoir, titled Still Learning, which launched in audio kind on Oct. 27, the identical day Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in jail. And together with filmmakers Cecilia Peck and Inbal B. Lessner, she executive-produced the Starz docuseries Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult, which premiered on Oct. 18.
The Starz sequence follows Oxenberg's personal expertise inside NXIVM, detailing how she slowly turned ensnared.
"I might like to proceed writing and doing work like this," she informed Self-importance Truthful. "I've realized a lot from being an EP, and from working with the opposite girls: It's very reinvigorated me. … I really feel like if there's something that you are able to do to heal, it is to take your ache and switch it into one thing constructive."
The Vow, from the Emmy-winning filmmaking workforce Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, will return for Season 2 in 2021. Season 1 is obtainable to stream on HBO Max. The brand new docuseries Seduced: Inside The Nxivm Cult airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Starz.
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