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President Obama speaking from the pulpit of a Washington church in 2010.
October 27th, 2012
10:00 PM ET

In Obama’s first term, an evolving Christian faith and a more evangelical style

Editor's note: This is the last in a series about the faith lives of the presidential candidates, which includes a profile of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

Washington (CNN) – President Obama’s prayers for a strong first debate may not have been answered, but that doesn’t mean the prayers weren’t happening.

Before he stepped onto a Colorado stage earlier this month to face off with Mitt Romney for the first time, Obama joined a conference call with a small circle of Christian ministers.

“The focus of that prayer was, ‘Oh, Lord, you know precisely what the president needs to say,'” says Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Methodist megachurch pastor from Texas who helped lead the call. “'You know what this country needs during the next four years.’”

“'And so I would pray that your primary will and words that you want the president to say will fall from his lips,'” Caldwell goes on, recalling his prayer.

Obama, for his part, was mostly silent.

“There’s a profound and genuine humility in the presence of Christ himself,” Caldwell says, describing the president on such calls. “I think he recognizes it as a holy moment.”

It was the second time Caldwell and Obama had prayed by phone in as many months. The two had connected in August on a prayer call Obama has hosted on his birthday every year since coming to the White House.

Welcome to the intense, out-of-the-box and widely misunderstood religious life of President Barack Obama.

Though he famously left his controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the year he was elected to the presidency, a handful of spiritual advisers close to Obama say that his time in office has significantly deepened his faith.

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Stephen Mansfield, a former Christian pastor who wrote the book “The Faith of Barack Obama,” goes so far to say that Obama has experienced a spiritual transformation.

“I think we do have at heart a new man, so to speak,” says Mansfield, who worked closely with the White House and with some Obama religious advisers on his book. “He has undergone a pretty significant personal religious change in his first term.”

Methodist minister Kibyjon Caldwell, right, has grown close to President Obama after serving as a spiritual counselor to President George W. Bush. Here, Caldwell and Bush share a stage in 2003.

Obama’s faith advisers say Mansfield goes a step too far, though they acknowledge that when it comes to his faith, Obama has changed.

“There is a deepening development in his relationship with God,” says Joel Hunter, a Florida-based pastor who has been in touch with Obama nearly every week since he took office. “He chooses to stay faithful in daily habits of study and prayer and consistent times of interchange with spiritual leaders.”

“I am not sure he did that before he came to the presidency.”

Whether or not Obama has been spiritually “reborn” in the evangelical sense, his spiritual counselors say the president’s faith has helped shape his first term in ways that haven’t been appreciated by voters or the news media.

And they say the presidency is bringing Obama to a new place in his faith - building on a system of belief and practice that helped bring him to the White House in the first place.

Talking like Billy Graham

These days, when the president talks about his faith, he sounds like a born-again Christian.

Addressing the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington this year, Obama recalled meeting the nation’s most iconic evangelical Christian, Billy Graham, and described his struggle to find the right words as he prayed aloud with the aging evangelist.

“Like that verse in Romans, the Holy Spirit interceded when I didn’t know quite what to say,” Obama told the gathering, invoking the New Testament.

It was hardly the only part of the speech where Obama was speaking “Christianese” – employing a lexicon familiar to evangelical Christians, who put a premium on quoting Scripture and communing directly with the Holy Spirit.

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At the same breakfast, Obama spoke of spending time every morning in “Scripture and devotion” and dropped the names of “friends like Joel Hunter or T.D. Jakes,” both well-known pastors of evangelical megachurches.

“He was talking like Billy Graham” at the breakfast, says Mansfield, who also wrote an admiring spiritual biography of former President George W. Bush.

Even in the more secular setting of the Democratic National Convention, Obama hinted at an intense White House prayer life, along with his need for God’s grace.

Some say President Obama sounds like an evangelical when he speaks about his religion, echoing the famous evangelist Billy Graham. The two men met at Graham's mountaintop home in North Carolina home in 2010.

“While I'm proud of what we've achieved together, I'm far more mindful of my own failings,” Obama said in his acceptance speech, “knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, ‘I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.’"

Such pious talk marks a departure from how the president discussed his faith life before his White House years.

Back then, Obama cited his religion more as a basis for social action than for spiritual sustenance. He would temper declarations of belief with affirmations of doubt.

Asked in a 2004 interview whether he prayed often, Obama, then a candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois, responded: “Uh, yeah, I guess I do.”

In a 2007 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Obama voiced skepticism about Scripture.

“There are aspects of the Christian tradition that I’m comfortable with and aspects that I’m not,” he said. “There are passages of the Bible that make perfect sense to me and others that I go ‘Ya know, I’m not sure about that.’”

These days, Obama forgoes such equivocations in favor of a full-throated Christianity.

To Mansfield, the evolution of Obama’s comments on religion bespeak a born-again experience, prompted largely by the president’s break with Wright and his arrival into a circle of spiritual counselors that includes many evangelicals.

The White House declined requests to speak to Obama.

But Hunter, the president’s closest spiritual counselor, says Obama has technically been a born-again Christian for more than 25 years, since accepting Jesus at Wright’s Chicago church in the 1980s.

But it's in the last four years that the president has become more evangelical in his habits.

He now begins each morning reading Christian devotionals on his Blackberry.

And then there’s the circle of pastors Obama has begun praying with before big events like the first presidential debate.

A circle of evangelicals

After landing in Washington following his 2008 election, Obama shopped around for a new church. But he wound up making his spiritual home instead among a circle of far-flung pastors that includes Hunter, Jakes and Caldwell, the minister from Texas.

Conference calls with the group started while Obama was still a presidential candidate, including on the night of his 2008 victory. The president-elect spoke by phone with Hunter and other Christian ministers, rejoicing in victory but also grieving the death of his grandmother, who helped raise him, just a few days earlier.

The migration from Wright – who almost brought down Obama’s campaign with videos that showed him sermonizing about “God damn America” and “the U.S. of KKK A” – to this new group, says Mansfield, has been underappreciated.

“[Obama] went into the Oval Office … questioning the only pastor he’d ever had,” Mansfield says. “Wright left him humiliated.”

“And there were deeper questions about the theology that [Obama] had received,” Mansfield continues. “Some part of Wright’s religious orientation had failed.”

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Where Wright is a liberal mainline Protestant, emphasizing liberation and social action, Obama’s new circle of pastors includes theologically conservative evangelicals like Hunter and Jakes, who stress God’s grace and personal transformation.

Mansfield notes that the chaplain who has presided for the last few years at Camp David, where Obama spends many Sundays, is also an evangelical.

Some of Obama’s spiritual counselors credit Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, with leading Obama to a more evangelical-flavored Christianity. Caldwell calls him the president’s personal pastor.

A former associate pastor at a Pentecostal church in Boston, DuBois is the one responsible for sending Obama Scriptures and scriptural meditations five days a week; Hunter does it on the other two days.

The evangelical pastor Joel Hunter, center, and White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Executive Director Joshua DuBois, right, are the President’s closest religious counselors. Here they are in February.

DuBois convenes a daily 8:15 a.m. conference call with pastors to pray for the country and the president, who is not on the call. (Lately, those calls have also included prayers for Mitt Romney.)

And it’s DuBois who organized the president’s circle of spiritual advisers. After graduate school at Princeton, DuBois talked his way onto Obama’s staff at the U.S. Senate, repeatedly driving to Washington to make his case after job applications were rejected.

When Obama launched his presidential campaign a few years later, DuBois was plucked as its faith outreach director.

The 30-year-old White House aide plays down his influence on his boss.

“He has always been on a Christian journey,” DuBois says of Obama, “and the challenges of the office, of being leader of the free world, provides a deepening and strengthening of faith, and that’s what you see with the president.”

“I remember working with him around the Scripture he would use at the memorial service for the miners in West Virginia,” DuBois says, referring to the 2010 tragedy that left 29 dead. “These are obviously moments when one's faith is strengthened.”

The unparalleled trials of the Oval Office have been known to deepen the religiosity of presidents ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan.

Hunter says the same thing has happened to this president: “His faith has been growing as the challenges of the presidency have become more naturally the main part of his own everyday life.”

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One of Hunter’s first Oval Office encounters with Obama came shortly after the president took office, at a time when the economy was shedding 750,000 jobs a month.

“He acknowledged at that meeting what many may know but few remember: that by the time issues get to the president, there are no simple or clear answers or they would have been solved by others,” Hunter says. “So we prayed.”

A few months later, Hunter was in the Oval Office again, noticing that “the unremitting heaviness of the office was setting in.”

“I saw something that has been consistent ever since: He cannot just pray for himself and his family,” Hunter says by e-mail. “At least I have never seen it. His faith, his heart, always includes those who are being left out through no fault of their own.”

Despite the changes they’ve seen in Obama, both Hunter and DuBois are uncomfortable with the word “transformation” when it comes to Obama’s White House faith life.

“The president doesn’t deal in labels,” says DuBois. “He knows God’s grace is sufficient for him and beyond that doesn’t get into labels, evangelical or mainline. He’s a proud Christian.”

Loving God by loving your neighbor

When the Rev. Sharon Watkins and a group of fellow Protestant ministers sat down with Obama at the White House a couple years into the president’s term, she knew the pastors would get wonky about religion.

“You get a bunch of ministers in the room and we’re all church geeks – it’s theological,” says Watkins, who along with the other pastors had come to talk about poverty. “But the president got every biblical allusion and reference. … He’s just a person who is biblically and theologically literate.”

If Obama’s personal theology has grown more conservative, he is inclined to apply it toward liberal political ends.

“I’d be remiss if my values were limited to personal moments of prayer or private conversations with pastors or friends,” Obama said at the National Prayer Breakfast in February. “So instead, I must try - imperfectly, but I must try - to make sure those values motivate me as one leader of this great nation.”

In signing laws that have increased Wall Street regulations and stopped health insurance companies from rejecting patients with preexisting conditions, Obama said at the breakfast, he wanted to “make the economy stronger for everybody.”

“But I also do it because I know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years,” he continued. “And I believe in God’s command to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself.’”

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha leave church after attending a Sunday prayer service.

Obama went on to frame decisions as disparate as ending tax breaks for the wealthy and defending foreign aid as examples of biblical principles in action, quoting Jesus’ teaching that “for unto whom much is given, much shall be required” and invoking the “biblical call to care for the least of these.”

That last biblical reference also loomed large in another 2011 White House meeting between Obama and a group of religious leaders. They’d come to urge the president to protect programs for the poor amid his fight with Congress over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

The Rev. Jim Wallis, a progressive activist, recalls the meeting:

In pressing Obama to take cuts to those programs off the table, one Roman Catholic bishop told the president that “the text that we are obliged to obey does not say ‘as you have done to the middle class you have done to me.’”

“It says as you’ve done to the least of these, you have done to me,” the bishop said.
“I know that text,” Obama responded. The passage is from the Matthew 25 in the New Testament.

“So there was this very rigorous conversation,” Wallis says, “and we pressed him on applying Matthew 25 to this decision about protecting those who were the least of these.”

Ultimately, the programs that the religious leaders were lobbying for were protected in the debt ceiling deal, though it’s unclear how big a role the religious leaders played.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God’s work – even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

“I do notice that sometimes, like on health care, when [Obama] says it’s the right thing to do, it’s him saying you love God by loving your neighbor,” says Watkins, who leads a mainline denomination called Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). “He’s doing the best he can to be guided by God so he can be a faithful follower of Christ.”

Skeptics might write off Obama’s Bible talk as sanctimonious window dressing, aimed at no higher purpose than connecting with churchgoers in the purple and red states. But translating the Good Book into progressive politics has always been a mainstay of Obama’s political biography.

‘An awesome God in the blue states’

When Obama landed on Chicago’s South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23-year-old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

He was also a man without a religion, the son of a spiritual-but-not-religious mother whom he would later describe as “a lonely witness for secular humanism” and an estranged African father who was born a Muslim but died an atheist.

Obama’s work in Chicago, built around causes like tenants’ rights and job training for laid-off workers, was steeped in religion.

His salary was paid by a coalition of churches. And the job took him into many black churches, among the most influential institutions in the neighborhood he was organizing, including Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ.

After a lifelong struggle to fit in, set in motion by his mixed-race parents, Trinity felt like home.

“I came to realize that without a vessel for beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith,” he wrote later, “I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart.”

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who brought Obama to Christianity, ignited controversy that almost brought down Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

The changes that Wright’s church wrought weren’t just personal. Baptism and active membership there equipped Obama with an ability to connect with churchgoers he was trying to organize – and, years later, with religious voters he was trying to win over – in a deeper way.

Wright, who did not respond to interview requests for this story, gave Obama a moral framework for his liberal politics. The pastor espoused a black liberation theology that equates Jesus’ life and death with the plight of those who Wright saw as disenfranchised, from African-Americans to Palestinians.

“Wright is the religious version of almost everything Obama already believed without religion,” says Mansfield, who spent time at Trinity for his book. “It’s a support of oppressed people anywhere in the world.”

When Obama emerged on the national stage, his comfortable religiosity and sensitivity to the concerns of churchgoing Americans helped distinguish him as a Democrat.

“We worship an awesome God in the blue states,” he declared to huge applause in his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, catching the attention of young Christians like Joshua DuBois.

But at that same convention, Obama’s party nominated John Kerry, a candidate who eschewed God talk and who lost his own Catholic demographic on Election Day.

Four years later, Obama hired religious outreach staffers like DuBois for his presidential campaign and made a point of meeting with Christian Right leaders who’d never before heard from a Democratic presidential nominee.

Obama went on to win in places like Indiana and North Carolina, evangelical-heavy states that a Democratic presidential nominee hadn’t taken in decades.

If the Rev. Wright had almost brought down his presidential campaign, the controversial minister had also long ago laid the groundwork for Obama to connect with the churchgoing voters who had turned their backs on Kerry.

The politics of confusion

As president, the line between Obama’s personal convictions and his political prowess on religious matters can sometimes be hard to discern.

Obama invited the conservative evangelical megapastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his 2009 inauguration, ruffling liberal feathers. He introduced an annual Easter prayer breakfast as a new White House tradition. He gives shout-outs to young evangelical leaders in major speeches.

Obama asked evangelical pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration, riling some of the president's liberal supporters.

All can be seen as genuine reflections of Obama’s faith and his appreciation for the role of religious leaders in public life. And in a nation where more people believe in angels than in evolution - a fact that the president himself has publicly noted - all promise political benefits.

The same could be said for Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, and for presidents as diverse as Jimmy Carter and Reagan: All had deep spiritual streaks that enabled the political art of courting religious Americans, especially evangelicals.

The irony, in Obama’s case, is that despite his orthodox utterances - there’s “something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective,” he said at this year's Easter breakfast - polls continue to show widespread confusion about his faith.

Only half the country can correctly identify Obama as Christian, according to one recent Pew poll, while 17% falsely believe he is a Muslim.

“He’s a Christian and he professes his Christian faith - I don’t know what else this man has to do to get that into folks’ ears,” says Caldwell, who was also close to George W. Bush.

President Obama at the 2011 White House Easter prayer breakfast, an annual tradition that he started.

But Obama’s public piety has helped him bond with young evangelical leaders, who are less tied to the GOP than their parents’ generation.

“I was struck by the specificity of what he described in terms of theology and what it means to him,” says Gabe Lyons, one such leader, describing a White House Easter breakfast he attended. “His message is very specific and very orthodox.”

Where exactly that new orthodoxy comes from – the pressures of the White House, a new circle of religious advisers or, to a certain degree, from political calculation – may become clearer after Obama's presidency, if he opens up about such matters.

Until then, the president is likely to keep speaking "Christianese" - and resisting Christian labels.

- CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

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soundoff (4,988 Responses)
  1. Matt0085

    How can you pretend that Obama has faith, is a Christian, when he wants to force US citizen to pay for abortions (Obamacare) thinks that gay marriage is so important? well i should not be surprised, CNN, and most of the medias, celebrities, think that he has done so much, really what? continue to divide people maybe.

    November 6, 2012 at 10:14 pm |
    • was blind, but now I see

      The end is truly near.

      November 10, 2012 at 6:04 pm |
  2. Michael, Chapel Hill

    "Angel of Light." A tree is understood by its fruits and not the leaves.

    November 6, 2012 at 10:06 pm |
  3. DDavidson

    November 6, 2012 at 9:44 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      November 6, 2012 at 9:44 pm |
    • Persimmon

      Are you a muslin? how else would you know who is one?

      November 6, 2012 at 10:13 pm |
    • NPhxAz

      Damn right he is a Muslim.

      November 6, 2012 at 10:15 pm |
  4. DDavidson

    Obama is Muslim

    November 6, 2012 at 9:43 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      You're an idiot.

      November 6, 2012 at 9:44 pm |
  5. Margol

    When the hell can we stop pretending like someones faith matters in the slightest? The day we don't bother to equate religion and politics is the day we actually get on the same page as the rest of the world.

    November 6, 2012 at 9:34 pm |
  6. JessSayin

    Should read: "How Obama's Faith Changed in an Election Year"

    November 6, 2012 at 8:39 pm |
  7. Paul

    I mainly a Democratic voter. I am also a believer that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. Therefore I believe in the Word of God. When President Obama changed his views on Gay marriage, is when he lost my vote. In the Bible there are Kings that did what was right in the eyes of God and Kings who were wicked in the eyes of God. No in-between. This decision of the President was a wicked act in the eyes of God. And if God disapproves, then so do I.

    November 6, 2012 at 8:24 pm |
    • hawaiiguest

      LOL it's always funny to see the supposed single issue people like yourself. I highly dout that you "generally voted Democratic", since the left have generally been the party of equal rights for the LGBT community.

      November 6, 2012 at 8:29 pm |
    • T-Max73

      Only the arrogant and ignorant claim to know what their deity of choice wants and hates. I can see the bigot has spoken with your remark.

      November 6, 2012 at 9:24 pm |
  8. ItsClose

    How come more people do not notice that when Obama is with Muslim's, he's a Muslim and when he's with Christians, he talks the talk but doesn't do the walk? Obama has a habit of always telling the audience exactly what he thinks they want to hear regardless of his own personal beliefs. This is conman behavior. I have observed Obama tickling ears enough that I believe that he is one of the best conmen of this generation. If people held Obama to the same standards as they do for Republicans, Obama would still be a community organizer in Chicago. I can think of 16 trillion plus reasons why not to vote for Obama. Obviously, people do not have a clue what a $16 trillion deficit means otherwise they would not be voting for Obama at all. If re-elected, that $16 trillion dollar deficit is only going to keep growing and eventually all us Americans will be so hurting, it will be terrible.

    November 6, 2012 at 8:24 pm |
    • hawaiiguest

      Obviously you don't know either, since it's a 16 trillion debt not deficit. Seriously do you know anything about what you're talking about? Doesn't seem like it.

      November 6, 2012 at 8:27 pm |
  9. Ann Wilson

    If Obama really was a Muslim, why would he support womens rights? No. It is the Republicans who are the
    American Taliban. Ladies, hows that burga lookin on you all?

    November 6, 2012 at 8:20 pm |
    • NPhxAz

      Ann, but you are obviously a big fat TOOL.

      November 6, 2012 at 10:18 pm |
  10. The Truth

    Social Security runs out of money in 2035 but many people like the program and have relied on it for half a century. What to do?... FVCKING FUND IT YOU MORONS! I will pay my extra 2% in taxes that it would take to balance social security through the end of the century, anyone who say's they can't afford it is a lying partisan who doesn't care about America.

    Medicare runs out of money in 2024 but many people like the program that has kept health care costs down and helped keep our elderly healthy for half a century. What to do? Again, FUND IT!! It is a great program that has worked for millions for decades and yet the partisans want to kick it to the curb along with other peoples grandmothers. Its just sickening.

    Abortion: NEWS FLASH!! NO ONE FORCES ANYONE TO GET AN ABORTION IN AMERICA!! WHATS YOUR FVCKING PROBLEM? If you are a Christian you get to hold to your beliefs all you want, thats because we live in a free country and no one is forcing you to use contraceptives or get abortions, so get the fvck out of my face.

    Gay Marriage: NEWS FLASH!!! NO ONE FORCES ANYONE TO GET GAY MARRIED IN AMERICA!! If you are a Christian you get to hold to your beliefs all you want, thats because we live in a free country and no one is forcing you to get gay married or attend gay weddings, so get the fvck out of my face.

    My Tax dollars get spent on things by the government that I disagree with. What to do? Join the fvcking club buddy. I have had my tax dollars spent on military programs and nation building that I completely disagreed with, did I have a choice in the matter? No. So shut the fvck up and pay your taxes regardless of whether they are helping poor women pay for their contraceptives or going to fund more wars.

    These are the issues of our lifetime and i'll be damned if I let the irresponsible ignorant republican party pull down their pants and shlt on my rights without shoving my boot as far as it will go up their asses.

    November 6, 2012 at 8:06 pm |
    • chas

      In going through the various responses regarding this article, I find yours to be completely uncalled for and asinine. Number one, it has nothing to do with the article. Secondly, it's not that kind of language and tone that gets people to work together. Buy a dictionary and learn to expand your vocabulary. Furthermore, leave the comments section to those who have a constructive opinion.

      November 6, 2012 at 8:47 pm |
  11. rg

    I dont believe this, and he does not seem to have faith, he is all talk, selfish, but no substance..

    November 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm |
  12. JJ

    Since I'm paying taxes on behalf of tax exempt churches they should be providing some public services. I think they should provide dinner as well and perhaps fill up your tank too. I guess I have no problem voting at these places as long as I don't have to walk past statues or pictures of some long haired hippy being brutally tortured on some old Greek torture device. That's just very distasteful.

    November 6, 2012 at 7:48 pm |
    • MCR

      I hadn't thought of that – bringing you kids in with you to vote and leaving them standing under a stature of a torture victim would be a bit off.

      November 6, 2012 at 7:55 pm |
  13. Richard Carrier

    President Obama's claims of being a Christian are suspect as his actions do not line up with his words.

    1. He is pro-abortion, including partial birth abortions

    2. He has repeatedly voted to follow through with terminating babies that survive an abortion

    3. He is pro-ho,mose,xual and champions marriage for them

    4. He has openly ridiculed and mocked the Bible. (This can be googled or found on youtube)

    5. He says he is for Israel, but his actions say otherwise.

    Yet it is claimed that he stands for Christian values. I guess I'm just wondering which ones.

    November 6, 2012 at 7:34 pm |
    • Richard Carrier

      And let's not forget his 'slip up' by referring to his muslim faith when being interviewed with George Stephanopolus and then responded with 'uh...Chrustian faith" after George's prompting on the issue.

      I don't know of anyone that has slipped up about his beliefs. I've never slipped and called myself muslim when referring to my Chrisitian faith. Have you?

      November 6, 2012 at 7:38 pm |
    • MCR

      @Richard, I was in the car when my father got his nationality wrong (named another country) when talking to a boarder guard. Stuff happens when people are tired and have a lot going through their heads.

      November 6, 2012 at 7:43 pm |
    • midwest rail

      How many times does this absurd story regarding a "slip-up" need to be debunked before you fundiots stop posting it as if it were true ?

      November 6, 2012 at 7:46 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      Richard what you "don't know" would fill at least 2 books.

      November 6, 2012 at 9:37 pm |
  14. Jesus Christ

    “There is a deepening development in his relationship with God,” says Joel Hunter, a Florida-based pastor who has been in touch with Obama nearly every week since he took office. “He chooses to stay faithful in daily habits of study and prayer and consistent times of interchange with spiritual leaders.”

    Yeah, you're going to have to tell me AND GOD, just how - for one example - authorizing drone strikes in Pakistan (clearly an unauthorized and un-prosecuted crime against peace and war-crime) that kill civilians is deepening any kind of relationship with God, Joel.

    Because you're sounding like something God doesn't appreciate AT ALL. Apparently people just don't get it - there aren't excuses for killing people to achieve some political goal. And carrying on drone strikes to kill people in a country we're not at war with isn't even something human laws - those that are prosecuted - tolerate with anything but disgust.

    Apparently people like you believe God is naive enough to agree with Obama's agenda for breaking human law to murder people - and at the same time develop a "deepening relationship" that is in any way based on a love or respect for God.

    Joel, you must have an incredible amount of respect for God yourself.

    November 6, 2012 at 7:34 pm |
  15. WillieLove

    November 6, 2012 at 7:32 pm |
  16. eroteme

    Change of faith? Oh yeah! He chose the church , (iand minister,) in Chicago to enhance his standing with the black community in Chicago. He closed his membership when his minister, (his admitted mentor) became a political liability. Clever one, that Obama. What a religious man!

    November 6, 2012 at 7:25 pm |
    • MCR

      Obama's a liar, Romney's a liar...how the heck do you think someone gets elected? The game is just about picking the person we think lied for the best reasons and will do best for the country.

      November 6, 2012 at 7:45 pm |
    • maggiethree

      BO quotes the (so-called) holy koran FAR more than he quotes the Bible. He has said he is muslim, he has said he would stand with the Muslim faith, he has taken tax payer dollars by the trillions to build mosques abroad–what more proof do we need? the man is our enemy and it is unfathomable to me at least that people are so gullable as to vote for him. If he wins this election it is because The Father in Heaven has told His Son, the Lord Jesus, "Saddle that white horse, Son", We're taking My people hone!!

      November 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm |
  17. Richard Carrier

    Chopped Liver writes "Well, I'll just wait for that then. Richard Carrier 'revealing' himself to me means nothing. I guess I am just not as special as you are."

    Chopped – actually, you are just as 'special' as I am. Jesus Christ died for your sins too, just as He did for me. I admit I'm nobody special.

    But salvation is available for whomever wants it. If you were willing to seek after the Lord in humility and sincerity, He would reveal Himself to you as He dd for me.

    November 6, 2012 at 7:23 pm |
    • hawaiiguest

      LOL Pray and believe, then you'll get the evidence to believe. Confirmatory bias anyone?

      November 6, 2012 at 7:46 pm |
  18. WillieLove

    November 6, 2012 at 7:19 pm |
  19. Shuksan

    Most professed believers are on a spiritual journey and will likely die with beliefs modified from when they were children. That doesn't mean flip-flopping. I'm more worried about people who have an inability or no desire to ever change their minds.

    November 6, 2012 at 7:19 pm |
  20. rrhloe

    The only change in his faith would be if the – the M u s l i m b r o t h e r h o o d informed him he can't actually walk on water!

    November 6, 2012 at 7:07 pm |
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Engine Will not Start Due to Wireless Control Module Fault on Jeep Wrangler

Problem Description and Possible Solution

A no crank or no start condition may develop due to electronic lockup of the wireless control module (WCM), also referred to as the Sentry Key Remote Entry Module (SKREEM). When this module fails the remote keyless entry system will also not operate. The WCM is commonly replaced to correct this concern.

Problem Data
RepairPal Verified
Average mileage: 66,857 (7,000–119,000)
6 model years affected: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, more2013, 2014
11 people reported this problem
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Wcm bad, now I need a new key as well.
engine won't start, no click, no other sound while trying to start the engine, dashboard lights all on , no battery problem, the security red light was on, i disconnected the battery cable and reconnect it again then the engine started normally.
i don't know if the WCM should be replaced since the car is still under warranty!
i will visit the dealership tomorrow .
It hasn't been fixed yet, but it's a real nuisance! Dealership wants a ton of money to fix. My Jeep is the most expensive and the most unreliable car I've ever had.

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This is long winded, please bear with me. Over the past 4 months, the car has died out of nowhere about 6 times, always at the same place in the road, about 10 min. from home. It cranks right back up, and I can drive it around all day, even for week, no problem. Til it happens again. This time it died the same way, but would not crank or start. Pulled it home and have been troubleshooting. I am a novice with cars, but am getting to know this one pretty well. So I checked the battery, it's at 12.6 V. I checked if I had a spark. I do, so cam and crank sensors should be fine. The lights dim when trying to crank, so ignition switch should be okay. The ignition coil readings are within specs. Used screwdriver to short post terminals on back of solenoid, and the starter motor spins. There is also a faint clicking noise from starter when trying to crank. I can hear the fuel pump (or injectors?) kicking in, there is a whirring sound when I turn the key to crank, but that is the only noise inside the car. I did have an oil leak from the cam sensor seal, and the car was out of oil when it died. I put oil in it. There was also oil in the black connector under the PDC. I cleaned it, let any extra drip out, and dried it out. I checked other wires and connectors and none have oil in them. I did the key dance and I jut got a code 12 for the battery being disconnected, which it was bc I charged it since it was getting low from trying to crank. So that leaves me with the solenoid. I checked solenoid w/ multimeter with pos. lead in the big braided wire and grounding the neg. I only got about 5V instead of 12V. I also removed the S terminal wire from the solenoid and shorted it with a screwdriver on the battery terminal (big one with a bunch of wires) and nothing happened except the starter fan spinning. It did not try to start the car. So I want to make sure before I try to find a ride to the parts store that there isn't anything I haven't thought of to check and this is most likely a bad solenoid. Do you have any questions, comments, criticism? :) I know this is really long, but I want to make sure I include everything I've done. Thank you so much for any help you can give. Thanks!

I have replaced the damper 11 times during the life of the car.I can drive on new mounts for about 2 or 3 months

Auto Trans on floor.

Shifter keeps popping out of drive and the car only has 74000 miles on it

Anyone ever use ? Are they any good ?

water pump is fine so is thermostat but gets really hot just taking it around the corner

trying to find out how long the brakelines are from the master cylinder to the back wheels

i only have my right blinker when my headlights are on.

the ignition fuse is blown repased and worked but now it is blown again and it blows the fuses as they are replased turnthe key and it blows

When turning ignition everything comes on but won't start. Makes a sound like humming. This is the second time it has happened. Last time we tightened the terminals and it started but they are tight as can be and still nothing.

i was in jail for three months and in that time no one messed with my car or turned it on. well now it wont start, replaced the starter, ignition coil, battery and crankshaft sensor well it trys but it whines really bad and doesnt start. any ideas? and there is fuel getting to the fuel rail

what is the purpose of the " power hop damper "

what makes a car backfire

Ok I have a 5 speed manual trans. It has been lugging out as i shift from first gear if i push the clutch back in it fixes what is causing the lug what should i do?


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I'm pretty sure that the plugs and wires are when i can get it to start and put it in drive it jerks and shakes so bad u can't drive it

It's been going for two days, I had to take the battery cable a-part!

I'm looking for a decent condition hood for my gold 07 Taurus se. Looked on multiple different sites and salvage yards and can't seem to find any hoods with the specs I'm looking for. However, I've found many post 07 models with the color and condition I'm looking for. Would an 05 hood be compatible with an 07 model?

I need the speaker wires colors that goes in the radio

ac button off blower blows with dial turned to red but just air no heat.

I need to know where it is to remove it for resetting/replacement

My oil presure light is on in my dash and when u try to start the car it makes a single click why wont my car start changer alt. Batt. And checked fuses and fuse relays what could it be????

Making a loud noise when i do not have foot on gas and everything will turn but the crankshaft wont turn the belt it just spins.

This reaction occurs after reaching 45mph-60mph every 5-10 minutes. Other than that, the car shifts very smoothly.

Car is realky loud (sounds like a race car or a motorcycle) and it smells like exhaust inside and out of the car. Should I just replace the muffler or do I need to replace other gaskets/parts as well? Thankd

Started and left right away , didn't give it time to warm up drove about 40 miles and still didn't blow heat. Shut it off for about 15 min then drove back 40 miles still cold. All the fluids are full and it didn't overheat

Daughter was driving and said that it started smoking from under hood and the smoke was coming out by the windshield. She was able to get it started and drove 3 blocks home, but car would only get up to 10 mph.

We changed the fuel pressure regulator as friend said fuel was not coming out of there when he checked it. Replaced it and then he said that the car was not getting fire so he told me to replace the ignition coil and I replaced it with a used one.
I was told that the car is now getting fuel and fire, but car still will not start. The check engine light was coming on intermittently, but it passed the Texas State Emission Inspection several weeks before this problem started. So I am not sure if this info matters, but believed I should include in this description as it might be relevant.

I have used an OBD II scanner on it 3 or 4 times and get no codes. We have tried everything and cannot figure out why car won't start. Help!

Need to know socket size

My Heat Doesn't Work in My Car The Vents Work Good I Put A New Thermostat In But Still No Hot Air What Can Cause This

locks will not acculate

when it warms up sometimes 20 min down the road its quite again,and its only when taking off like a rumble sound

once car is warm temp gauge good the car warns ok but not good until the rpm is up

my car sometimes hesitates on firing up after starting ive replaced the coil pack plugs wires and im starting to lean on the fuel delievery issues im going to replace the fuel filter tomorrow my tempature guage is always cold instead of being in the middle can colder tempatures affect the air and fuel ratio?

I started my car (after buying a new battery last week that was larger than the factory one I had) and suddenly my heater is on high and cannot be adjusted or turned off & my radio won't turn on?
It took the mechanic 4 hrs to find it's a sensor in the middle panel (and now can't find the part and said it may need to be built at the factory) so my questions are:
- Does 4 hrs to find the problem seem like a long time?
- Should the part be so hard to replace?
- Could the stronger battery be to blame?
This is a new mechanic for me (I just moved to town) and I'm starting to doubt that I should have trusted my brothers referral.
Thanks in advance for your help. Judi

It keeps illuminating that all the doors are ajar, deck lid ajar,

Usually happens at least once a day.

I cannot locate it

i chang battery with a new type of them and start engin, engine begin to turning but not light up

My car is smelling like gas

po 420 code - car runs fine , light came on yesterday

i used break cleaner attempted to bleed all 4 but i found out that there was no fluid in the rear discs. why?? the front yes . even after pumping the pedal several times i was unable to get fluid to the rear' again why?

Now, our 1999 Taurus wagon won't move at all.
Is it a torque converter problem? Sensor? Or other?

car runs fine, no codes. while driving i turn on radio, wipers, headlights,signal lights, car will start to surge, the dash warning lights flicker, the speedometer increases (if stopped) then car dies. it will start right up, and run fine if i do not use the electrical devices mentioned

2001 Ford Taurus SE, 104k miles.

When braking during deacceleration, my car shudders and makes an audible sound (it's more like a deep vibration). The steering wheel shakes so badly I feel like I'm going to lose control!

Also, I have to slam on the brakes when going over 30 mph. At slower speeds, only a tap is all I need. Seems like the two might be related.


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Computer Software

JLG Industries, McConnellsburg, Pa.

Key Innovation: Remotely communicates with equipment to collect information using satellite and cellular technology.

JLG ClearSky is a connected-asset system designed for aerial work platforms in the rental industry. ClearSky provides a two-way communication link to the machine control system using satellite and cellular technology to gather information. With the support of intelligent back-office systems, this information is available 24 hours a day. The data is transmitted over the network to a data center where it is shared with appropriate users and displayed in various systems including customer operating systems. Additional features include on-demand diagnostics and troubleshooting; preventative maintenance alerts based on real-world operating conditions that help reduce unexpected failures; machine maintenance history; operating system integration; geofencing; and GPS location with mapping on various levels (local, regional, national). The telematics control unit and hardware can be factory installed or retrofitted to existing equipment.
Reader Service No. 179 •

Concrete-Working Equipment

D25941K heavy-duty demolition hammer
DeWalt Industrial Power Tools, Baltimore, Md.

Key Innovation: Shocks-Active Vibration Control system combines shock-mounted floating handles with a counter balance mechanism to decrease user fatigue.

The D25941K heavy-duty demolition hammer performs concrete removal applications in demanding commercial construction environments. DeWalt equipped the D25941K with spring-loaded dust seals and a non-air pumping beat piece that keeps dust and debris out of the hammer mechanism for longer tool life. The D25941K has an electronics package that allows users to start the tool softly on contact and maintain optimum performance under load throughout demolition applications. The D25941K is also engineered with a high-performance, 15-amp motor that delivers 22 foot-pounds of impact energy. A one-step, 12-position chisel rotation allows users to reposition a chisel's angle using one hand. Additionally, a large rocker switch and rear rubber handles provide users with improved operation and comfort.
Reader Service No. 180 •

680GC RentMAX Package
ICS Blount, Portland, Ore.

Key Innovation: The 80cc concrete chain saw with diamond chain has the ability to perform plunge cuts as deep as 14 inches.

The RentMAX gas-powered concrete chain saw package from ICS consists of the new 680GC 80cc gas saw paired with the new RentMAX diamond chain. Incorporating the patented Seal Pro technology to reduce stretch, and therefore tension adjustments, the new chain also has double bumpers, eliminating the possibility of backward installation. The 680GC saw includes increased airflow and a computerized ignition system that together reduce engine operating temperature by 100 degrees. Altitude-friendly carburetion, stronger starter components, and a decompression valve have also been incorporated. Available with a 12- or 14-inch bar, the 680GC offers the ability to cut square openings as small as 4 inches with no overcuts.
Reader Service No. 181 •

Earthmoving Equipment

5240E skid loader
Gehl Co., West Bend, Wis.

Key Innovation: The new compact chassis allows for 59.7-inch operation with offset tire option.

Gehl Co. announces the addition of the 5240E skid loader, which boasts lift heights up to 122 inches (with optional 12.00 tires) and excels on small, cramped jobsites with its new, compact chassis. Backed by a powerful 62-hp Tier-3 turbo-diesel engine and smooth operating hydraulics, this machine can handle various challenging projects. The 5240E has an overall machine width of 59.7 inches (without bucket) utilizing the new offset-tire option. This narrow width allows for operation on 5-foot sidewalks and access through narrow doors and gates.
Reader Service No. 182 •

Earthmoving Equipment

Kubota Tractor Corp., Torrance, Calif.

Key Innovation: Kubota's M59 TLB features an integrated main frame and a heavy-duty rear axle for extended life and smooth stopping performance.

Kubota introduces a new high-performance, power utility M59 tractor, a 59-hp TLB, which features four-wheel drive for power and stability. The M59's backhoe has a 12-foot digging depth and boasts more power than Kubota's past TLB's. It also has a bucket digging force of more than 7,600 pounds and dipper digging force of 4,731 pounds to handle tough soil conditions. High-capacity hydraulic pumps allow for smooth operation with various materials including stone, gravel, sand, silt or clay. The M59 offers a quick-mount attach/detach system for easy backhoe removal and enclosed hydraulic hoses for improved visibility and an overall cleaner design. It has a lifting power of 3,960 pounds, a maximum height of 10.5 feet and a 7-foot bucket. The braceless frame, slanted boom and sloped-hood design improve operator visibility when changing front attachments.
Reader Service No. 183 •

Earthmoving Equipment

BL70 backhoe loader
Volvo Construction Equipment, Asheville, N.C.

Key Innovation: The VHSS (Volvo Hydraulic Safeguard System) monitors the hydraulic oil temperature to prevent overheating.

Volvo Construction Equipment introduces the BL70 backhoe loader that features a patented safety feature to help reduce risks of downtime and the loss of revenue from overheating problems. VHSS, the Volvo Hydraulic Safeguard System, monitors the hydraulic oil temperature to prevent overheating. If the oil temperature rises above 207 degrees F, the hydraulic functions automatically go into “loader mode”: 40 hydraulic hp instead of the normal 62 hydraulic hp. Operators can continue to work without stopping the machine and a white VHSS light will illuminate during this phase. The onboard computer continues to monitor status every seven minutes and automatically adjusts the power to optimize the cooling performance. When the temperature falls below 207 degrees F, hydraulic functions return to “backhoe mode” at 62 hydraulic hp. If the temperature continues to rise, a separate high-hydraulic temperature (red) light illuminates and a buzzer sounds, telling the operator to stop using the hydraulics immediately but keep the engine running. The benefits of this system include longer oil and seals life, and it gives operators the ability to work in high-ambient, high-altitude and high-humidity conditions.
Reader Service No. 184 •

Lawn and Garden Equipment

Small Force Blower
Billy Goat Industries, Lee's Summit, Mo.

Key Innovation: Design and housing material reduces overall weight and increases productivity.

Billy Goat Industries introduces the Small Force Blower. Composites have eliminated traditional bends in metal housings, thereby eliminating air voids, reducing dBA, improving blowing efficiency and eliminating 30 percent of the weight. There is less stress on the engine shaft for longer engine life and no rusting or denting on either the housing or 16-blade impeller. Additional features include larger wheels, an ergonomic handle design and the patented Aim-n-Shoot airflow technology.
Reader Service No. 185 •

X-Boom 45XA
Bil-Jax Inc., Archbold, Ohio

Key Innovation: Hydraulic outriggers have replaced the heavy counterweights. Set-up is complete in less than 30 seconds.

The Bil-Jax 45XA X-Boom offers 48-percent gradeability, 3.5-mph drive speed and four-wheel-drive capability. This articulating boom offers 500-pound lift capacity with a 51-foot working height and 27 feet of maximum outreach. The unit weighs 4,715 pounds and does not require a commercial driver's license for trailering. Options available for this lift include non-marking tires, indoor tires, a hydraulic jib rotator and a material lift attachment. The material lift attachment allows the 45XA to be used as a light-duty crane. Standard features include water line and air line to the platform, as well as a 4,500-watt generator and 110-volt GFI-protected electrical outlets at the platform and base.
Reader Service No. 186 •

LightLift LL63
Hinowa Spa (ReachMaster), Kingwood, Texas

Key Innovation: The LL63 can fit through a single door, is 6.6-feet tall, 2.6-feet wide and 14.7-feet long.

ReachMaster introduces the LightLift LL63 aerial lift, the most compact lift in its class according to the company, with features including a 63-foot working height, a maximum outreach of 21 feet (single capacity), and dual-power supply for indoor and outdoor use. The track-based unit comes equipped with a jib articulation joint. The LL63 can fit through a single door, is 6.6-feet tall, 2.6-feet wide and 14.7-feet long. The low maintenance and lightweight unit weighs 4,576 pounds. It features strong climbing abilities and can be easily transported on a small truck bed or a light trailer. It's manufacturer, Hinowa S.p.A., of Nogara, Italy, was founded in 1987 by a group of industry professionals with a goal of producing high-performance compact hydraulic equipment and undercarriages. Reachmaster is its exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor.
Reader Service No. 187 •

Material Handling

TA30 articulated dump truck
Terex Construction Americas, Westport, Conn.

Key Innovation: Incorporates Terex's independent front suspension system with integral wet-disc brakes.

Terex announces the addition of the TA30 articulated dump truck (ADT) with the independent, front-suspension system with integral wet-disc brakes to its ADT product family. Terex TA articulated haulers are fitted with the latest Tier-3 engines for optimum performance and fuel efficiency. The TA30 has the 350-hp Cummins QSM11 engine and a maximum payload of 30.9 tons. The independent front-suspension system, which was developed in conjunction with Timoney Mobility Systems of Navan, Ireland, is a purpose-designed, parallel-linkage coil-spring system. This system addresses the increasing emphasis on driver comfort. It also significantly adds to the potential for increased productivity by providing a smooth ride and improved handling, which can result in faster cycle times. Another important feature of the latest generation of Terex articulated haulers is the provision of all-round, fully enclosed wet-disc brakes on all wheels of these haulers, which provide long-life and fade-free braking.
Reader Service No. 188 •

DMD4K digital multi-detector kit
Bosch Power Tools, entered by MTA Distributors, Whites Creek, Tenn.

Key Innovation: Combination of a traditional stud finder with the ability to locate rebar in concrete and electrical wiring.

The Bosch DMD4K Zoom Detector puts an end to expensive drilling damage, such as drilling into metal water pipes or drill bits twisted on reinforcing steel because it detects metals (magnetic and non-magnetic), electric cables and wooden substructures and indicates live cables. An illumination ring around the marking hole changes from green to red to indicate detection. The audible detection signal easily switches on and off, and the on-tool marking pencil storage accepts standard pencil width. The unit also features an ergonomic soft-grip area for sure grip and comfort. The LED ring and the integrated marking pen offer accurate positioning. Auto-calibration in metal-mode scan can be started at any location. Informative LCD display indicates mode and detection strength.
Reader Service No. 189 •

Dri-Eaz Products, Burlington, Wash.

Key Innovation: The AirPath employs a patented grill to direct airflow across floor surfaces in a 360-degree pattern.

The AirPath takes carpet and floor drying to a new level of speed and efficiency. By utilizing a patented grill that directs airflow down and across floor surfaces in a 360-degree airstream, the AirPath can dry most floor surfaces in minutes, not hours or days. The AirPath accomplishes this by drawing warm, dry air from above and directing it across the entire surface of the floor — up to 12 feet in all directions. Users place the unit in the center of a room and switch on the 1-hp motor to unleash airflow clocked at up to 40 mph. Locking wheel casters keep the unit firmly in place when drying hard floors, and a rugged, rotomolded housing makes the unit lightweight, stackable and long-lasting. Simplicity of use and portability make it attractive to rental customers, and for store managers, the unit's minimal maintenance requirements and the scratch- and dent-resistent housing mean the unit is always showroom ready.
Reader Service No. 190 •


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DIALOGUES - - Lanchonete

Todd Lester writes a monthly blog post on RU’s Dialogues detailing the preparation and implementation of, a 5-year residency project in Sao Paulo.

View all Lanchonete posts here.

Lanchonete | May 2015

2015.5 – on Nuance

A couple blogs ago, I wrote on the topic of safety by explaining my two mugging incidents over the past year. I connect that blog with this one, on nuance, because the team is obliged to be able to answer a range of questions … even if the responses defy exactitude.   As we start to receive more artists, cultural producers and thinkers—from Poland, Philippines, Canada, China, and the US—in the early days of our cultural program, the question ‘Is it safe?’ comes up again and again. Safety in big cities is a nuanced thing that depends on time of day, day of week, time of year, proximity to other pedestrians, political climate, and—of course—neighborhood.

There are other questions that come before safety, however. For example, we are often asked how we can be sure that the project itself is not a negative catalyst in the face of inequitable gentrification. At the same time—and as we hoped—international artists begin to approach us about visiting the project and want to know ‘Where is it?’ and ‘What is the day-to-day like?’. While that is a hard thing to answer because we tend to tailor each experience to the desires of the community and the guest’s area of work, the horizontal approach of embedding artists in the daily life of the city center is common to all our residencies.   We’re working on our (forthcoming) website where we’ll explain how this works. In the mean time, I’ll share some of the nuanced issues and areas of São Paulo that relates to and how they relate to other places in the world … in order to do that I’ll start with a meditation on New York City:

A much-anticipated elevated park called The Highline happens over the past decade in New York City. Local developers have surrounded it with the most posh boutique hotels and ‘concept’ living residences.  It now has a public art director focused on engendering inclusivity and attempting to diversify its usage from those who can afford to live nearby and tourists. The Highline soon completes itself as it moves northward up Manhattan to the terminus of the former train bed it now occupies.  Gentrification of the West Village and Chelsea—or at least its most recent wave—can be told in the same history as that of The Highline.

The Minhocão (or big worm), known officially as Via Elevada Presidente Costa e Silva, a four-lane viaduct that cuts through the Center of São Paulo—and beyond—is essential to diffusing the city’s fierce traffic congestion even if it is a noisy eye sore to the families living in the apartment buildings that flank its path.  In the past couple years, New York City’s High Line has become the cumulative object of desire for developers, city planners, and new and old residents as they imagine a future for the Minhocão.  Whereas I cannot discourage friends living near the Minhocão from wanting a garden as vista rather than this hulking concrete roadway, I can tell them that it’s not as simple as that and—more specifically—that the new construction that flanks our High Line is completely out of my price range even if I enjoy walking its course through the Chelsea gallery district from time to time.  And for their part, Paulistanos have voiced desires both for and against the contingency in online campaigns as well as public meetings and various lobbying tactics.  The Minhocão is currently open to pedestrians (joggers, dog walkers, etc.) on evenings after 9pm and all day on Sunday when there is a range of activities, including food cart/truck rodeos, something I discuss in greater length in a text for the NYC Art in Odd Places Festival.  Nearby to the Minhocão is the neighborhood of Luz.

Nova Luz

Through an introduction by a friend, I met a business-type working at Lincoln Center in New York City for a coffee.  I said, “what does a Harvard MBA do at Lincoln Center?”  He replies by telling me about their consulting services to art centers and cultural districts around the world … “sorta like Kennedy Center does” he said.  Since I’d already told him about my work in São Paulo making, he continued, “you’ve probably heard of our client … it’s the Nova Luz [or new light] project.”  Luz is a neighborhood in the Center of São Paulo where the old train station sits (including the Sala São Paulo, which was previously its first class quarters).  The Swiss firm, Herzog & de Meuron won an architectural competition to make a performing arts center in Luz—as a part of its transition to Novo Luz—a project that was later cancelled, but not before demolitions, forced evictions, and train-loads of public money spent to renew a neighborhood without a deep process of public engagement.

I recently met a man who owns a penthouse apartment—with one of the most spectacular views I’ve seen—overlooking Sala São Paulo.  It also overlooks Cracolândia, the location of my second mugging, as well as the empty lot where buildings were demolished to make way for the aforementioned performing arts center.  He bought the apartment as an investment property when he thought Nova Luz would happen.  He was trying to rent it to me about a month before my second mugging happened, just one block over.  He asked that we meet in a nearby diner after I was shown the apartment by its current tenants.  I asked him why.  He told me that when he had briefly lived there and served on its syndicate (similar to co-op board), he tried to make some changes.  He started asking who was receiving the payments for the commercial antennas on the roof and rent for the shops that use space on its ground floor.  One night when he was leaving the building, he was beat up badly and told if he ever came back he’d be killed.  I want to argue that the role of international architectural competitions in locations where there are complex urban dynamics—and for which there are not adequate modes of public engagement—may compound the effects of inequitable (or non-participatory) urban development.  And, I want to call this macro set-up a form of diffuse ‘global speculation’ in relation to the penthouse owner’s micro—and more literal—speculative investment.

Vale do Anhangabaú

Vale do Anhangabaú, which I’ll call ‘the valley’ henceforward, is a public area in the Center of São Paulo where public demonstrations and political rallies are often held. While this area sees heavy pedestrian traffic by day, it becomes quite desolate by night (in the same way that other areas in the Center commonly do).  In addition to its centrality, vistas from the valley—and the viaducts and bridges that cut across it— offer a glimpse of the topographical contours of the city and site-lines on some of the city’s most notable buildings, e.g. the Town Hall (Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo), Municipal Theatre, and Brazil’s first skyscraper, the 30-floor Martinelli Building.  Itaú Bank has recently hired Jan Gehl, coiner of Cities for People and principal of the Danish firm Gehl Architects, to plan an overhaul of the valley.  Given the past work of Gehl, the project stands to be thoughtful in the sense of pedestrian access and aesthetics, yet some local groups are complaining that there was not a public discussion to inform the plan.  The urban development watchdog Arquitetura da Gentrificação along with media outlets Repórter Brasil and Article 19 have undertaken an investigation into the land holdings of Itaú Bank in—and the default privatization of public space for—the valley to try and better understand the bank’s master plan for which the architectural beautification project is seen to be a spearhead.

*** cares about all three of these areas and guests to the project will likely get to know them as well. One of my last blogs was about being mugged and the next one on the water shortage—hardships at the individual and city levels respectively—which leads me to ask ‘What is violence?’ at the level of society?  In Saskia Sassen’s newest book, Expulsions, she asserts that:

From finance to mining, the complex types of knowledge and technology we have come to admire are used too often in ways that produce elementary brutalities. These have evolved into predatory formations—assemblages of knowledge, interests, and outcomes that go beyond a firm’s or an individual’s or a government’s project.

For those of us who think about cities and watch for new urban phenomena, the connection between the ‘personalities’ of the large cities of the world and the topic of security is not an esoteric one.  Nor is the relation between the economic strength of a city and its ability to dispossess and hide the dispossession of demographics within its overall makeup.  In another recent blog, I discuss the relationship between the housing movements of São Paulo and the drive to redevelop the city center, a process that has yielded a spate of forced evictions and arguably affects the working classes most profoundly.  To learn more about forced evictions and how to prevent them, see work done by WITNESS and International Accountability Project. Thanks for reading!

Todd Lanier Lester

More Lanchonete Posts:Lanchonete:

2016.5 – on ATAQUE!

2016.4 – on Queer City

2016.3 – on ‘Food Audit’ @ Poly/Graphic Triennial {San Juan}

Lanchonete 2016.3

2016.2 – on the politics of water

ficus elastica

2016.1 – on refugees and the São Paulo housing movement

Photo Raphael Daibert

2015.8 – on Embedded Residency, #III {Cultural Centers in Occupations}

2015.7 – on Embedded Residency, #II

Vertical Garden 2

2015.6 – on Embedded Residency, #I

2015.5 – on Nuance


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Event | Dec 16 2014 6:30pm

Charlie Jeffery, «  Float, Discuss », performance, 06 juillet 2014, MAC/VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Photo © Thomas Louapre.Charlie Jeffery, « Float, Discuss », performance, 06 juillet 2014, MAC/VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Photo © Thomas Louapre.

Tuesday December 16, 2014
6.30pm-8:30pm (Free and open to the public)
Residency Unlimited
360 Court Street (enter church building through main entrance)
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Dynamograma is a collaborative project of artistic research gathering three artists, Grégoire Bergeret (Fr), Charlie Jeffery (GB), Thierry Mouillé (Fr), and the philosopher and art critic David Zerbib (Fr) searching to perform new conditions of artistic practice and critical thinking.

The experimental dimension of their methods is a key aspect of the project, relying on what Allan Kaprow said about the true experimentation, where artists, in their practice “gamble against its being art too soon”. It means not to rush to expected art forms and ideas, in order to give shape to what is deeply at work in a specific situation, context, encounter.

On December 16, the project will concretely produce an event of performance, projection and presentation. It will function like band on tour, composing and recording music, writing texts, doing live performances, giving interviews, creating forms, “standing in the face of things” (Charlie Jeffery). Among the pieces presented, a performance from Charlie Jeffery, hybridizing different discursive regimes (discourse of the artworld, management speach, dream narratives, scores, instructions, manifeste, soul song...). Dynamograma will also lead to realize a film of the experience and an issue of the next Intuitive notebook (see below).

Dealing with experimentation, performativity and format through a dialog between theory and practice, discourses and gestures, ideas and images, and testing the framework of a music group on tour to address these issues, Dynamograma intends to inscribe the relevance of a question in the intensity of a moment.

Slideshow of the event:

Dynamograma catalyzes three research projects based at the Annecy School of Art (France):

The DSRA (Advanced Diploma of Artistic Research): a program for young professional artists aimed at developing new forms of artistic research which would be neither the pure academic model of the PhD nor the pure studio work. It promotes a kind of practice based reflexion which involves collaborations between artists and theoreticians. The program lasts three years for each participant. Grégoire Bergeret and Charlie Jeffery participate in this program and are at the final step of the

The Intuition Laboratory: coordinated by Thierry Mouillé, interested by the diagrams which give shapes to intuitions in art as well as in sciences and in other practices. The Intuition laboratory edits the Intuitive notebook, a collection of essays and documents about the topics with which the lab deals. Three issues have been published. The last is translated in English. Dynamograma will constitute the material for the next Intuitive notebook.

X theory: an experimental way to conceive the theoretical work in an art institution and in collaboration with artists. Developed by David Zerbib, it consists in reflecting upon formats, situations and procedures, leading to events and situations where hypothesis are tested, with art students like in The North Brother Island Carnival (Brooklyn, 2013) or with professional artists.

The project is curated by David Zerbib.

Dynamograma is sponsored by Institut Francais, the Annecy School of Art (ESAAA), and was initiated in collaboration with Parker's Box.

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Grégoire Bergeret:

Le Laboratoire des Intuitions:


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The B2F corridor (B2F廊下 B2F rōka?) is part of Sheena Island's Tyrant Plant.[1]

The B2F corridor leads to multiple places, that include the Culture laboratory and an elevator heading up toward the Large corridor.

The elevator to the large corridor will require an ID Card to operate. The ID Card is found inside the shutter with two Plant 43. Though, the power for shutter switch is out for the and needed to be restored inside the Power room.

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  1. Hamada, SURVIVOR, pp.114-115

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