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Aquarius Stereotypes

It’s time for my personally most anticipated installation in my series on sign stereotypes, Aquarius. I have my sun, moon, and Venus in this sign, and I just vibe it hard.

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So of course the most oft-repeated claim about the this sign is that they’re weird AF. Okay, I can explain. But there’s another phrase that gets thrown around a lot, especially in little descriptors of the zodiac signs that you read, and that’s that Aquarius is allegedly “emotionally detached.” I don’t love this way of describing it, so I’m going to set the record straight.

Aquarius is the 11th sign of the zodiac. Their symbol is the water bearer and their glyph is the cute little squiggly lines. However, Aquarius is not a water sign; they’re fixed air. Their modern ruling planet is Uranus, but prior to that assignment, they were considered to be ruled by Saturn. I personally like to think of them being dually ruled, as both planets offer insight into Aquarius’s energy. Uranus is progressive and thinks out of the box, and Saturn is rigid and committed. Somehow Aquarius is all of those things at once, which is probably one of the reasons why they confuse people.

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People love to talk about how simply WEIRD Aquarius types are. They are so unlike everyone else that sometimes it seems like they’re trying to be strange just for the sake of being different and rebelling against society (hint: sometimes they are).

The planet Uranus is the only one in the solar system that spins on its side. When all the other planets are acting normal and grooving around the sun with their axis vertical as it should be, Uranus is spinning on a horizontal axis and seeing everything from a different perspective, and thus Aquarius types see the world and their place in it from a different perspective.

To look at it another way, the sun is the ruler of Leo, which is Aquarius’s opposing sign, so when you put the sun in the exact opposite place that it wants to be, it’s going to behave strangely— it doesn’t know how to express itself with the same ease and glow as it does in Leo. Aquarius connects to solar energy for this reason, it wants to be its true and unique self, but it’s just going to look different than what you’d expect.

I think, therefore I am

And to continue this discussion of a disconnection from regularity, Aquarius simply has its own way of processing emotions. While we like to look to the lunar placement to understand an individual’s emotional body, we can still gain insight into how their sun—their soul and ego—expresses feelings.

The air signs are all more mentally and intellectually driven than the others. And with Aquarius’s fixed quality, that mental energy is strong and even obsessive. When a situation arises that evokes one’s emotions to go to work, Aquarius is much more comfortable redirecting it to the mind and logic. Aquarius is the one that likes to play their own shrink ask themselves, “Well, why do I feel this way?” before permitting themselves to feel any kind of way. This obsessive thinking and rationalizing means that Aquarians also get the rep for having an intellectual superiority complex. They spend so much time up in their head that it's like their MTV Cribs.

The “emotionally detached” allegation does make sense, when you consider that Aquarius is attaching more to the logic of the situation rather than the illogical feelings, but I think this expression makes it seems like they don’t feel anything, which isn’t true at all. They just, again, feel it differently and express it differently. And, sure, to an Aquarius not all situations warrant an emotionally incontinent reaction.

In conclusion

Aquarius energy wants to teach us that it’s totally okay to be different. But beyond the “be yourself” tripe, Aquarius also shows us that it’s normal to feel abnormal. When it seems like everyone else seems to see it one way and are comfortable doing so, and you don’t know why you can’t too, accept that those people probably feel the same way about something else in their lives.

Where is the sign of Aquarius in your chart and how to you approach that area of life differently? Do you ever feel like you are the odd man out there sometimes? It’s okay, you’re not crazy, you’re just spinning on your side.


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Friday, December 8, 2017

5 Things on Friday

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This blog contains ads. 5 Things on Friday.

1. My daughter found a new horse stable where she can work to earn riding lessons. I've been praying for someone to help guide her a bit, and I think our prayers have been answered by someone that helps run the stable. Teens never want to listen to their parents. It's so crucial for them to have healthy role models besides their parents because a teen's brain is built to break away from their parents. My fingers are crossed that this stable will be a blessing for us.

2. I've been feeling hormonal all week and not wanting to leave the house. Sometimes you just have to permit yourself to be lazy. Allowing myself to be lazy is hard for me to do but I've been doing it. I realized I'm much calmer when I cater to my soul.

3. I was supposed to have dental work this week and chickened out. I guess making plans when you're at your limit is not the best idea. I will eventually get it done. Half the time I think they're just trying to get more money.

4. I'm so proud of my hubby. Today he is receiving his black belt. Receiving your black belt is kind of like graduating from college it's a big deal. I love seeing his dedication and his enthusiasm. Afterwards, we will be going out to dinner with his karate family.

5. Keira finally asked if Santa was real. I was becoming slightly worried since she's in Middle School and I couldn't wait to spill the beans about how we all are Santa Claus and giving is such a beautiful spirit in people. Now, if only if we could get there with Elf and the late and delinquent Tooth Fairy.

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Starbucks’ Create Jobs for USA – Can It Help Small Businesses?

The unemployment rate numbers are still startling, even after so many months of recession. A reported 9.1% of Americans are out of work, and this percentage does not include those who have given up looking for a job. Look more closely at the Hispanic and African-American populations, and the unemployment numbers rise even more: 11.3% and 16.7%, respectively. Clearly, we need to do something.

And that is where Howard Schultz, CEO of coffee retail giant Starbucks, has seen a way to help. He has partnered with the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) serving all 50 states, to start the Create Jobs for USA program.

Goals & Mission of Create Jobs for USA

This initiative will help to create and sustain jobs by providing capital to CDFIs so that they can offer affordable loans to small businesses, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and other under-served community businesses. These businesses will then have the capital necessary to start up or expand, creating new jobs. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses employ more than half of all workers in the private sector. This program will give these “job creators” the money needed to offer or maintain more jobs.

Starbucks seeded the Create Jobs for USA program with $5 million in contributions as of November 1, 2011. Now, it’s our turn to donate. For a minimum $5 donation at any Starbucks location or on the Create Jobs for USA website, you will receive a red, white, and blue wristband emblazoned with the word “Indivisible.” Although Starbucks will not be matching contributions, the use of its well-known brand will help to get the word out and thereby significantly increase donations.

How It Works

The Opportunity Finance Network will use 100% of the money donated to the program to provide capital grants to the 180 CDFIs that comprise the network. These CDFIs are small community lending institutions committed to offering affordable loans to under-served small business owners and entrepreneurs, many of whom find it difficult to obtain financing through traditional banks. This initiative is working to get more money into the hands of people who can create new jobs.

Donation Match

For every $5 donation received through the Create Jobs for USA program, CDFIs will average a match of $30 in financing from community lenders. Opportunity Finance Network predicts that a job will be created or maintained for every $21,000 in loans, which means that every $3,000 in donations – plus the matching funds the CDFIs will be able to secure – means another job is available for one of the United States’ many unemployed workers.

This is yet another example of peer-to-peer lending giving nontraditional and under-served business owners an opportunity to grow using affordable credit. And as with other forms of micro-lending, the repayment rate for these CDFIs is nearly 98%, which means that the money donated through this program will be “recycled” – that is, the money will likely be loaned out repeatedly.

Partnership With Starbucks

By partnering with the OFN for this program, Starbucks is able to offer to the cause the $5 million seed money, a great reputation for an ethical working environment, and the benefit of its ubiquity. With a Starbucks seemingly on every street corner, it’s very easy for each of us to donate $5 when buying a cup of coffee.

The Indivisible bracelet is also a savvy way for Starbucks to help spread the word about this program. These bracelets are handmade in America using homegrown component parts and are designed with eye-catching, patriotic colors. Donors wearing these bracelets will have a built-in conversation starter, helping to further the cause of helping America get back on its feet.

As of November 14, 2011, Starbucks and the OFN report that more than $1 million has been raised through the program. With the $5 million that Starbucks donated as of November 1st, the OFN anticipates being able to create as much as $42 million in loans.

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Criticisms of the Program

There are some concerns about the utility of this program:

1. Doesn’t Account for Lack of Demand in the Economy
The first issue has to do with exactly why small businesses have been laying off employees – and it has little to do with lack of access to loans. According to the Wall Street Journal, “the main reason U.S. companies are reluctant to step up hiring is scant demand.” If small businesses are simply not selling their products, loans will not help them to create new jobs.

Starbucks’ Howard Schultz recognizes that there is nothing this initiative can do about lowered demand for products and services, but he hopes this campaign will help to get the word out about the availability of these loans, which many small business owners are not aware of.

2. Large Amounts of Paperwork and Limited Availability
A further concern regarding the program is the amount of paperwork and red tape necessary for a small business to qualify for a loan through the CDFIs, which in turn must jump through several hoops to be considered a part of the OFN. And since this program is designed to help under-served communities, that means that struggling small businesses in areas that are not deemed low-income by the program are ineligible for Create Jobs for USA funding.

3. Association with Starbucks
Finally, it may strike some as hypocritical that one of the most ubiquitous American retail chains – which is probably responsible for the death of many local coffee shops – is working to help small businesses. It is possible to donate money to this cause without entering a Starbucks location. Though the coffee giant may receive some goodwill marketing by spearheading this movement, they are making it easy to donate without becoming a Starbucks customer.

Final Word

The Create Jobs for USA program will certainly not be able to solve America’s recession problems on its own. But it can help to un-stick the credit market for small businesses, get Americans talking about the need for growth in small businesses, and remind us all of the importance of spending locally. That’s a lot of benefit for a $5 bracelet.

What are your thoughts on the Create Jobs for USA program? Do you think it has the potential to make a difference?

Emily Guy Birken
Emily Guy Birken is a writer, recovering English teacher, and stay-at-home-mom. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana, with her mechanical engineer husband and toddler son. Her musings on life and parenting can be found at The SAHMnambulist.

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Consider this familiar scenario: you need to make a Target run for just a few household items. Three hours later you’re at the checkout, cart packed, and your final total is way over what you planned to spend. It’s the Target Effect, and it afflicts shoppers all over the country, which is understandable since

Target influences the consumer spending in a variety of subtle ways. The first step to overcoming your overspending is to be aware of these surprising triggers that let you get carried away. Read on to learn 6 Surprising Reasons You Spend More at Target

6 Surprising Reasons You Spend More at Target

6 Surprising Reasons You Spend More at Target

The Target Dollar Spot

This is where it all begins. Right after you’ve decided whether you need a cart or a basket, you notice the awesome deals in the dollar bins (which is a misnomer — many items are $2, $3 or $4). Those decorative throw pillows are not on your list, but they’re only a couple bucks!

You’re already off to a great savings start and ready to do more shopping. However, you’re actually off to a great splurging start and your final bill will be way higher than it should be. Dollar “deals” add up and no matter how much you think you’re saving, and buying something you didn’t plan to is never a good deal.

Price perception, sales, and coupons

Target is known as a discount retailer, so customers already expect low prices. Add the REDcard, the Cartwheel app and special deals like free gift cards with qualifying purchases, and it’s tough to avoid the siren song of a good deal.

All of these incentives not only keep you coming back, they keep you spending. After all, if furniture is 25% off with the Cartwheel app, why wouldn’t you buy that attractive nightstand or ottoman? The key is to only use discounts for what you need and create a list of those items to keep you from straying. In fact, a TimeTrade survey (PDF) from 2014 found that 85% of shoppers spend more than they intended when they visit a store without a precise list or budget.

6 Surprising Reasons You Spend More at Target

Atmosphere (and Starbucks)

Have you seen those memes about new moms whose only “vacation” is their trip to Target? Or perhaps you’ve seen patrons strolling through aisles with their Starbucks in hand (or in the convenient cart cup holders) as if they’re casually walking down the pier. Target purposefully provides an inviting atmosphere that caters to shoppers of all kinds.

So many departments and deals! Such nice displays! Coffee! Target creates a fun, well-lit atmosphere that you want to spend time in, and they know the longer you linger, the more you’ll spend. One creative way to combat this is to shop online; you avoid the stimuli and can still take advantage of savings when you visit coupon sherpa for promo codes or use browser extensions to automatically find deals for you.

Hunger can’t slow down Target shoppers; that’s what the Pizza Hut and popcorn are for. When you might otherwise be motivated by a rumbling tummy to get your things and get out, Target (and other stores) cater to your cravings with cafeterias. After all, you can stay much longer if you end up just having your lunch there. Awesomely Luvvie comically explains how a typical Target shopping trip usually turns into an all-day outing, thanks in part to the food!

6 Surprising Reasons You Spend More at Target

The color red

Target’s corporate color may seem innocuous, but it’s intended to make you spend more. Studies have suggested that red promotes more sales because the color stimulates us to take action and get excited. Red is also associated with value, whereas colors like black and gold tend to be associated with luxury and expense.

Target’s clever color-scheming helps to promote the sale atmosphere, thus leading you to want to spend. If you think you’re getting a great deal on everything, you’re more likely to buy everything there than shop around for better prices.

Related money saving posts that you need to check out!!

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Store layout and product placement

Ever wonder if there’s a science behind a store’s layout? David Loranger, an assistant professor of fashion merchandising management at Philadelphia University, told Philadelphia Magazine in 2016 that Target uses focus groups and demographic data to cater to customers. “They look at who you are tangibly…psychographically…and mix their product, price, place, and promotion in various combinations that resonate with who you are as a person,” he said.

Have you ever went to Target for a few items and walked out with a cart full of things you didn't intend to buy? I think everyone has been there. Target and other store use sneaky little tricks to make you spend more money. Click over to find out what they are and how to avoid them to save money #savemoney

For example, if you’re headed back towards the toiletries or grocery section, you likely pass by the accessories department, overflowing with fashionable scarves, totes, and sunglasses. Target knows you’ll be tempted by these items and places them at eye level to catch your attention. During back to school season, supply list essentials are usually in the back past the toys section. Coincidence? Absolutely not.

So, the next time you’re at Target and you feel the pull of the dollar bin or find yourself enamored by the home goods section, stay the course. Stick to your list and make note of the items that catch your eye, along with their respective prices. If you find you’re still thinking about these items a few days after your trip, review your budget and see if you can make room for them. Otherwise, you might find time and distance is all you needed for those desires to disappear!

Kendal Perez is a Savings Expert for Coupon Sherpa, a popular source for online, in-store and grocery coupons. Her advice has been featured in Bankrate, GOBankingRates, NBC News, US News & World Report, People StyleWatch and Woman’s Day. Kendal also blogs at Hassle-Free Savings and can be found on Twitter @HassleFreeSaver

Thank you so much, Kendal, for this very informative post!!


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About OnePlus mobile phones

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Each OnePlus smartphone has been more successful than the last. The story began with the OnePlus One in 2014, followed by the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T in more recent times. Today the latest OnePlus smartphone is the OnePlus 5 (launched in 2017) with the OnePlus 6 soon in its way to market.

Here we review the main features of the OnePlus 5 model.

Camera specification

The OnePlus 5 breaks new ground by having the highest resolution dual camera on the planet (20MP + 16MP). With two lenses, the camera can create bokeh effects, whereby the photographer is able to progressively blur the background to help bring focus to a specific focal point in a photograph. Images can be saved in their original RAW photo format so that professional grade post-shot production can take place.?

The OnePlus 5 has at its heart the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor. This has been used on the very best smartphones from other leading brands, such as Samsung and its Galaxy Note 8. OnePlus has gone one step further though and paired this Qualcomm processor up with up to 8GB of RAM. With this, daily tasks are faster and the battery life is longer.

‘App Priority’ is another new innovation that features for the first time on the OnePlus mobile phone. App Priority uses artificial learning to understand which apps the owner uses most. By doing this, the phone ensures that the most used apps open quicker, while at the same time the feature prevents apps with an intrusive nature from draining battery in the background.

Up to 128GB of internal memory is offered and along with the RAM, consumers can choose the values of these to match the price point to their budget. The clever Dash Charger is included in the box with all models. In half an hour of charge the Dash Charger gives users up to a full day’s power.?

The all-aluminium metal unibody incorporates a biometric fingerprint scanner and the front adorns a full HD display. The display can be flicked into Gaming DND Mode and this stops notifications from popping up, while deactivating the soft keys so that the action isn’t interrupted.

About OnePlus

Established in 2013, OnePlus is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer. In its infancy, OnePlus initially offered features found on premium smartphones, at a considerably lower cost. Today, OnePlus creates innovations of its own, while still retaining a price point below that of other premium smartphone manufacturers, so almost anyone can purchase a SIM free OnePlus phone.

OnePlus innovations are introduced with each new model and these continually help the company to grow its loyal customer base.

The Dash Charger is one of these latest innovations. Unlike other quick chargers, the Dash Charger doesn’t cause the phone and battery to heat up which slows charging speeds.

OnePlus smartphones run on the OxygenOS (a developed version of Google’s Android operating system). The OxygenOS refines the Android experience with additions such as Reading Mode – a feature where the screen has a grey-scale appearance, where eye-straining blue light is filtered out.


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Where is the link for assignments?

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to check where the link is for assignments? I have completed the 1st week vdos and it shows 26/26. But I do not see any link for assignments. Can someone please point me to the link where the assignments are uploaded. TIA.

Assignments are nothing but homeworks/labs
You can see all the details on course page and overview page like start date end date etc
They go by week wise
If you have completed all items of week 1 then just need to wait for next week

oh ok, thanks for the update. I thought there would be some additional assignments too.


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We turn today to the thirteenth chapter of John’s Gospel and read from the thirty-first verse:

Therefore, when he was gone out—” that is, when Judas had gone out into the night—“Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall straightway glorify Him. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another…Simon Peter said unto Him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. Peter said unto Him, Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now? I will lay down my life for Thy sake. Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.”

Our Lord and His disciples are still in the upper room where they had observed that last passover together as we learn from the other Gospels, that had been followed by the institution of the Lord’s Supper, that sacred feast of love which has been observed by God’s beloved people all down through the centuries since. Judas had left the little company. Moved by the worst of motives; controlled by covetousness, he had gone out to meet the chief priests and to receive the money they had promised him in view of a little later betraying the Lord Jesus into their hands. And now as the Saviour is left alone with the eleven whose hearts are strangely troubled because of certain things He has already told them, He speaks with a new joy and says, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.”

It did not look as though God was about to be glorified, and during the next three days they must have had plenty of doubts indeed as to God being glorified in the events that took place. The Lord had said that He was going out to die, that He was to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Could that glorify God? He had said that He was to be buried and then raised again, and it was in this, His death and His resurrection, that God was to be glorified. For in His sacrificial death upon the cross, He was to settle the sin question in a way that would absolutely meet every claim of the holiness of God’s nature and the righteousness of His throne. And we can say that in that death of His there upon the tree, God has received more glory than He ever lost by Adam’s sin and by all the guilt and enmity and iniquity that came into the world since.

But after all, men are but finite, finite sinners it is true, and as such have dishonored God. It could be said of every man, “God, in whose hand thy breath is hast thou not glorified.” But the Lord Jesus was the infinite One Who had linked deity with humanity in order that He might give Himself a ransom for our souls. And because He was Himself infinite, the work He did upon Calvary’s cross had infinite value, and therefore we are right in saying that God received more glory out of that work than He ever lost by finite man’s sin. And as proof that He had been glorified, God raised His Son from the dead, glorifying Jesus, the One Who had accomplished the work. “If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself and shall straightway glorify Him.”

The thought of the Father’s glory was very much in the heart of Jesus at this time. In fact—it may seem strange to some of you to say it—but our Lord apparently was far more concerned about glorifying God than He was about saving sinners. How we like to think the opposite! We like to think that our salvation was the important thing, that the great thing Jesus came to do was to save our souls. And He did come for that. “The Son of Man came,” He said, “not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many.” “Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it.” But there was something greater than the salvation of sinners that occupied His heart, and that was glorifying the Father. So in the seventeenth chapter when we see Him before God as our great High Priest, anticipating the work of the cross, we hear Him saying, “I have glorified Thee upon the earth, I have finished the work that Thou gavest Me to do.” God’s glory is first, and then that finished work of the cross by which our souls are saved.

I remember hearing of a Universalist, a man who believes that all men will eventually be saved, saying once to an earnest Christian, “I have a far higher conception of the work of the atonement than you have, for you believe that even though Christ died on the cross there are thousands upon thousands, perhaps millions of men who will be lost forever. I have a far higher view of the atonement than that. I believe that if one soul were ever lost since Christ has died, His atonement would be the greatest failure that has ever taken place in the universe.”

The Christian replied, “Oh, no. I have a higher conception of it than that. I dare to say even though not one soul were ever saved, the atonement has been the greatest success of anything that has ever taken place in the universe, for in that atoning work God has been honored and glorified as He never could have been in anything else.”

But now the wonderful thing is that our salvation is linked up with God’s glory. You see, God’s heart went out to sinful man, but He could not save sinners, till sin was settled for, for it would violate the righteousness of His throne. He could not save sinners if it was contrary to the holiness of His nature. So His own beloved Son, the eternal One, the One Whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting, became incarnate; in humility He became man and went to that cross, paid the full price of our redemption, and every claim that God had against a sinner was met, and now God could be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. So our salvation and God’s glory stand or fall together. Christ has given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savor unto God, and because of God’s satisfaction in the work His Son has accomplished, He can now open His arms and invite every guilty sinner to come to Him and offer full, complete pardon and justification from all things; yes, cleansing from every guilty stain to those who come in the name of Jesus. Have you come?

A lady on one occasion came to a servant of God. When asked if she was saved, she replied, “I don’t understand it. I see that Jesus died for me, but surely there is something I must do. That seems too simple a way for anyone to be saved.”

And the other said, “My dear friend, it was God Who sent His Son to die. It was God who put on Him all that our sins deserved. Christ has borne that judgment for you, and now God is satisfied, and if God is satisfied, surely you should be.”

She looked up somewhat startled as she said, “I had never seen it that way before. Surely I should be satisfied with that which satisfies God. Yes, I can trust Him, I can take Him at His Word.”

Have you done that? Do you realize that on the cross the sin question has been settled? Now when you receive the Lord Jesus, you stand cleared of every charge.

He Who glorified God on the cross has been raised from the dead, taken up to the Father’s right hand and there God has glorified Him with His own self with the glory which He had with the Father before the world began.

Jesus was looking upon all this as an accomplished fact when He spoke as He did as recorded in verses thirty-one and thirty-two. And then He added, “Little children”—only a few more hours and then He was going out to die—“yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.” Now He is going away and He is going to leave His disciples in the world to be witnesses for Himself. While He was here, He said, “I am the light of the world.” Now He is going back to the heavens from whence He came, and the disciples, after He leaves here, are to shine as lights in this gloomy world. And it is now He gives this new commandment. “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.” It is His last charge to His saints before He goes to the cross. Looking down through the years, He knows they will be in a hostile world and be hated of all men for His name’s sake, and He pleads with them, “Don’t hate one another. Don’t be ungracious and unkind and quarrelsome and discourteous to each other. You who have been redeemed by the same precious blood, indwelt by the same Holy Spirit, be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.” May we not well challenge ourselves and each one ask the question in his or her own heart, “How have I answered to this command of my Saviour? Am I characterized by love for my brethren in Christ? Or have I so far forgotten my responsibility as a Christian that I have permitted malice and envy and jealousy and even hatred to well up in my heart? Have I cherished these evil things?” There are children of God who are cold and hard and indifferent and critical and unkind. We may well face these things in the presence of God.

How much bitterness has been engendered through the years by religious controversy! I remember reading of a striking incident in the life of that wonderful man of God, Samuel Rutherford. Saintly Rutherford, whose last words are embodied in that beautiful hymn, “Immanuel’s Land.” Rutherford, the author of a whole volume of heavenly lines that bear the celestial aroma, was a Church of Scotland minister, and his place of ministry a little Scottish town known as Anwoth. There he labored among a happy group of earnest believers. But there were troubles in connection with the government. The British government had declared that the Scottish church must no longer follow the Presbyterian order which was that which Rutherford used, and sought to impose an altogether different, and as the Scots thought, foreign order of things upon them. And Rutherford was one of those devoted ministers who for conscience’s sake refused to admit and would not acknowledge the authority of the king’s bishops.

Because he refused to conform, Rutherford was banished to Aberdeen and put in prison there. He always said he would not permit a bishop of any kind to stand in his pulpit. But before he left, while he was still pastor in the church, there came one night to the manse a stranger. Knocking at the door, Rutherford himself welcomed him. The stranger didn’t give his name, but said he was on his way and would be glad of accommodations for the night. They ate together. Afterwards, Rutherford took up the Word of God and then he said, “Now we have the catechism, the reading of the Scriptures and prayer, and we expect every visitor to participate with us.” It was a good old fashioned custom. I wish we had more like it today. So the servants were called in and Rutherford read the Scripture. Then he began to catechize the whole house and turned eventually to the stranger, and he said, “How many commandments are there?”

The stranger looked up, and without batting an eye, answered, “Eleven.”

Rutherford looked abashed. “I asked how many commandments there are.”

Yes, I understood. Eleven.”

I am surprised that in all the Scottish realm there should be found a man so ignorant that he doesn’t know there are only ten commandments.”

And then the stranger looked up and said, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.”

Oh,” said Rutherford, “what is your name, stranger?”

He said, “My name is Usher. I am archbishop of Ireland.”

An archbishop in Rutherford’s home! The man who had said he could have no fellowship with anyone who held to another ecclesiastical order than his own. Broken, ashamed of his harshness, Rutherford begged the stranger to lead them all in prayer, and responded fervently as the archbishop bore them all up before God.

Oh, how we need to be reminded of this eleventh commandment, “A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.” It is not enough, my brethren, to know that you are saved. It is not enough that you stand firmly as I hope you do for the fundamental truths. Back of all fundamental truth there is a great fundamental experience that everyone of us should have.

Though I preach with the tongue of men and of angels and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. And though I give my body to be burned, and though I understand all mystery and all knowledge and have not love, I am nothing.” It would be well for every one of us to test ourselves every little while by the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. “Love suffereth long and is kind. Love envieth not. Love is not boastful. Love is not conceited. Love doth not behave itself discourteously. Love is not self-seeking. Love is not quickly angry. Love thinketh no evil.” That is, love doesn’t impute evil and try to judge people’s motives. “Love rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

Why, you know we might take these words as a character sketch of our Lord Jesus Christ. You could put in His name here, and that would be all true of Him. “Christ suffereth long and is kind. Christ envieth not. Christ vaunteth not Himself. Christ is not puffed up. Christ does not behave Himself unseemly. Christ sought not His own. Christ was not easily provoked. Christ thinks no evil. Christ rejoices not in iniquity. Christ beareth all things, Christ believeth all things, Christ hopeth all things. Christ endureth all things. Christ never fails.” And if you and I have the mind of Christ, this divine love will be manifested in us, then all our talk about being fundamentalists, all our talk about standing for the truth, goes for very little indeed. We may be tremendously in earnest in contending for certain great outstanding facts, but if we contend in a bad spirit, we only harm the cause that we represent. And if back of our contention for the faith there is no sincere love for our brethren, yea, love for all men, then we dishonor the One Who Himself is the way, the truth, and the life. He has said, “By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples if ye have love one to another.” That is, we don’t prove we are His disciples by striving for a creed, however great and exact it may be. We do not prove we are His disciples by insisting on the fact that we believe in an inspired Bible, blessed as that is. We do not prove that we are His disciples by loudly proclaiming our faith in the virgin birth and perfect humanity of our Saviour, His atoning work, His physical resurrection and His present intercession at God’s right hand. We do not prove to men and women that we are really Christians by insisting that we believe in the premillennial coming of our Lord Jesus and all these great and precious verities, but “by this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.” Let us not forget this, and let us examine ourselves faithfully and honestly and see if we are allowing hatred and malice in our hearts while presuming to be holding to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Not only here does He speak of this, but in chapter 15, verse 12, He says, “This is My commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I commanded you.” You see, real love is unselfish. Love delights to bear and do. Don’t talk about loving one another if you are not concerned about serving one another as God enables.

Look at the first epistle of John. The beloved disciple who heard our Lord utter these words never forgot them. It is said that when he was an old, old man, after he was too feeble to walk, he used to be carried into the assembly of the saints at Ephesus, and then two of the elders would assist him to his feet while he gave a few words of godly counsel to the people of God. And it is said that he always ended with this expression “Little children, love one another.” And here it is written in First John 2:7, and following, “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.”

Look at verse seventeen of chapter three: “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

Love is a very practical thing. To what extent are we manifesting it toward those in more difficult circumstances than ourselves? To what extent are we manifesting it to those who have failed and sinned? Are we content simply to point out their faults and criticize and say hard, unkind things? Or do we love them enough to go to them in the Spirit of Christ and seek to recover them to Himself? “A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another.”

But now Simon Peter for the moment listens but doesn’t hear. What our Lord has said, recorded in these two verses, appears to make no impression upon him at all. He is still thinking of what the Saviour said a little while before, “Whither I go, ye cannot come.” And with that in mind, he breaks in and destroys for the moment the continuity of thought. “Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go—“ (that is to death) “—thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards.” Our Lord here speaks as a prophet. He was going to be crucified. Peter was not ready for that, though Peter didn’t realize it. But Jesus said, “Some day you will follow Me even in that,” and he did. For in his old age we are told Peter, too, was crucified. Peter laid down his life on a cross as a martyr for the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But Peter does not understand, does not recognize his own present limitation. Peter said unto Him, “Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now? I will lay down my life for Thy sake.” He meant every word of it. Evidently he thought he was prepared for that. But he didn’t know the deceitfulness of his own heart. He didn’t know the cowardice that was hidden there to be brought to light when a little servant girl should come to him and say, “You are one of His, you were with Jesus of Nazareth.” “No, no. I never knew Him!” Oh how soon that denial would take place. Peter didn’t realize his weakness, he didn’t know how untrustworthy his own heart was.

Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice.”

In closing, let me call your attention to the fact that in the original text, there is no break between the last verse of chapter thirteen and the first verse of chapter fourteen. What is Jesus really saying? Listen to it and be encouraged if you have failed.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied Me thrice. Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in Me.”

Peter, I know you are going to fail Me. You don’t realize how untrustworthy your heart is, but, oh, Peter, when at last you discover the corruption that is there and you are just about broken hearted to think of what you have done, I want you to remember, Peter, I love you still, and I am going to prepare a place for you.”

Do you know this Saviour? Oh, if you do not, I would plead with you, acquaint thyself with Him and be at peace. He wants you to know Him, and He bids you come to Him today. He says, “Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.”

We close by singing a hymn on the love of the Spirit.

Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost,
Taught by Thee we covet more,
Of Thy Gifts at Pentecost,
Holy, heavenly love.
Love is kind, and suffers long;
Love is meek and thinks no wrong;
Love than death itself more strong’
Therefore give us love.

Faith and hope and love we see,
Joining hand and hand, agree;
But the greater of the three,
And the best, is love.
Faith will vanish into sight;
Hope be emptied in delight;
Love in heaven will shine more bright;
Therefore give us love.

From the overshadowing
Of Thy gold and silver wing,
Shed on us who to Thee sing,
Holy, heavenly love.
Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay;
Therefore give us love.


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To maintain the quality and scale of available inventory to advertisers, MoPub and Bigabid partnered to unlock new opportunities by increasing access to high-quality mobile supply utilizing creative optimization strategies. This included:

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MoPub’s quality in-app supply stood out to the Bigabid team. MoPub’s technical team counseled the Bigabid team to help them optimize their creative choices for ad formats through the MoPub exchange, resulting in a significant uplift in performance metrics for advertisers, compared to the previous quarter resulting.

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Bigabid was able to improve overall performance against eCPI and CTR while increasing the volume of ad impressions. By building out a custom bidding strategy, Bigabid and MoPub collaborated to bring unique demand to performance advertisers. By adding MoPub inventory to their supply mix for full screen and rewarded video formats, Bigabid saw meaningful improvements from Q3 2020 to Q4 2020, demonstrated by key performance metrics such as:

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Chancery Dismisses Stockholder’s Claim that Directors Provided Materially-Deficient Notice of their Intent to Use Equity Bonus Plan to Reward Past Performance

Pascal v. Czerwinski, C.A. No. 2020-0320-SG (Del. Ch. Dec. 16, 2020)

This decision concerned a motion to dismiss a stockholder’s direct claim that Director-Defendants breached their duties by providing a materially-deficient proxy statement advocating adoption of an equity incentive plan (“EIP”) that ultimately allowed Defendants to award themselves bonuses. As a result of the alleged deficiencies, Plaintiffs sought invalidation of the entire EIP. More ›

Plaintiff’s Failure to Plead Demand Futility Leads to Dismissal of Caremark Claims Against MoneyGram Directors

Richardson v. Clark, C.A. No. 2019-1015-SG (Del. Ch. Dec. 31, 2020)
Under Court of Chancery Rule 23.1, a derivative plaintiff’s must make a demand on the corporation’s board of directors unless the plaintiff can plead particular facts to establish that demand was excused. Although demand may be excused where a majority of the board faces a substantial likelihood of personal liability, merely alleging wrongdoing by the corporation’s directors will not suffice. More ›

Chancery Declines to Apply Stockholder Approval Requirement of DGCL § 271 to Agreement to Transfer All Assets in Lieu of Foreclosure

Stream TV Networks, Inc. v. SeeCubic, Inc., C.A. No. 2020-0310-JTL (Del. Ch. Dec. 8, 2020)

In this decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery reviews the history of requirements to approve transfers of all assets both at common law and under the Delaware General Corporation Law, and concludes that Delaware law does not require majority stockholder approval for an insolvent corporation’s transfer of assets to a secured creditor in lieu of a foreclosure. The Court thus rejected an attempt by the corporation’s founders, who owned a majority of its stock, to invalidate the corporation’s agreement in that regard.  More ›

Chancery Excuses Demand Where General Partner and its Controller Faced Substantial Likelihood of Liability

Lipman v. GBP Capital Holdings, LLC, C.A. No. 2020-0054-SG (Del. Ch. Nov. 18, 2020)

In derivative actions, a plaintiff must either make a pre-suit demand or plead with particularity why demand should be excused. As this case shows, the facts that must be pled differ when the demand would be made upon the general partner in a limited partnership as opposed to a corporate board. More ›

Chancery Holds California Statutory Bar to Choice-of-Forum Clauses in Employment Contracts Prevents Exercise of Personal Jurisdiction – Despite Parties’ Choice of Delaware Law and Agreement to Litigate in Delaware

Focus Fin. Partners, LLC v. Holsopple, C.A. No. 2020-0188-JTL (Del. Ch. Oct. 26, 2020).
Delaware law promotes freedom of contract, and Delaware courts enforce contractual choice-of-forum and choice-of-law provisions, including those in employment-related contracts. Recently, however, several Delaware cases have considered whether such provisions can be enforced against non-residents in the face of contrary substantive law or fundamental public policy in their home jurisdiction. In California, a statute (“Section 925”) makes choice-of-law and choice-of-forum provisions voidable by the employee if the provisions appears in an agreement signed as a condition of employment. Here, the Court addressed how to reconcile Section 925 with the parties’ agreement to resolve disputes in Delaware and to apply Delaware law. Specifically, when the defendant (a former employee who lives and works in San Francisco) was hired, he received incentive units pursuant to agreements that contained restrictive covenants and selected Delaware as the exclusive forum for disputes, and selected Delaware law as the applicable law. The plaintiff brought suit in Delaware to enforce the restrictive covenants, and the employee moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. More ›

Chancery Invokes Internal Affairs Doctrine to Dismiss Dispute Over Former Delaware Corporation Brought Over Two Years After Its Migration to Nevada

Sylebra Capital Partners Master Fund, LTD v. Perelman, et. al., C.A. No. 2019-0843-JRS (Del. Ch. Oct. 9, 2020)

Defendant Scientific Games Corporation (the “Company”) is a gaming and lottery company that reincorporated in Nevada from Delaware in January 2018. The Company adopted new Nevada bylaws that, among other things, require stockholders to bring claims for breaches of fiduciary duties in Nevada. Because the Company operates in the gaming industry, the bylaws also require stockholders to meet “suitability” requirements and restrictions on sale set by gaming regulators in jurisdictions where the Company operates. Approximately four months before Plaintiffs filed suit, the Company filed suit in Nevada to force Plaintiffs to comply with an investigation into their suitability as stockholders. More ›

Superior Court Rejects Insurers’ Motions to Dismiss Coverage Dispute Based upon Ripeness and Lack of Personal Jurisdiction

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. v. Twin City Fire Insurance Co., et al., C.A. No. N19C-11-009 EMD CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. Sept. 25, 2020)

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. v. Twin City Fire Insurance Co., et al., C.A. No. N19C-11-009 EMD CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. Sept. 28, 2020)

Plaintiffs-Insureds sought declaratory relief and damages for Defendants-Insurers anticipatory breach of directors’ and officers’ insurance policies. Defendant Twin City Fire Insurance Co. issued the primary policy, and the remaining Defendants issued excess coverage policies. Plaintiffs specifically sought insurance coverage related to litigation in the Court of Chancery (“Dieckman Action”), in which trial had occurred but no decision had been issued. More ›

Superior Court Dismisses Successor-by-Merger’s Claims Where Underlying Contract Contained Anti-Assignment Clause

MTA Royalty Corp. v. Compania Minera Pangea, S.A. DE C.V., C.A. No. N19C-11-228 AML CCLD (Del.  Super. Sept. 16, 2020)

Plaintiff’s predecessor-in-interest conveyed mineral rights to Defendant. Under the agreement, Defendant owed a conditional additional $1 million at a future date. Before the payments became due, the predecessor was merged out of existence. As a result, Defendant asserted it had no obligation to pay the additional amount because the sale agreement included an anti-assignment provision that barred assignment absent Defendant’s consent, which was lacking. More ›

Chancery Dismisses Claim for Breach of Fiduciary Duty Where Parties’ Commercial Relationship Was One of Ordinary Care

Nieves v. Insight Building Co., LLC, C.A. No. 2019-0464-SG (Del. Ch. Aug. 4, 2020)

The Court of Chancery used an unlikely vehicle — a dispute over stormwater drainage — to further explain the limits of common law fiduciary duties. Plaintiffs/Homeowners experienced drainage issues and brought several claims against their builder, as well as the developer (“Developer”) from which the builder had purchased lots. One such claim was that Developer had breached a fiduciary duty to Homeowners, even though Plaintiffs did not purchase their lots directly from Developer or otherwise have a contractual or commercial relationship with Developer. Plaintiffs/Homeowners alleged Developer “owes a common law fiduciary duty … because Plaintiffs reposed a special trust in and reliance on the judgment of the developer.” (internal citations omitted.) More ›

Chancery Rejects Bid to Jettison USACafes and its Holding That, Absent Agreement to the Contrary, the Controllers of a Corporate General Partner Owe Fiduciary Duties

Fannin v. UMTH Land Development, L.P. (In re: United Development Funding III, L.P.), C.A. No. 12541-VCF (Del. Ch. Jul. 31, 2020).

The Court of Chancery has concluded that in certain situations, equity will, by default, impose fiduciary duties upon a corporate relationship. This decision rejects on stare decisis grounds an attempt to overturn longstanding precedent in this area. More ›

Chancery Denies Books and Records Request From Indirect LLC Interest Holder That Assigned its Rights Prior to the Demand and the Action

SolarReserve CSP Holdings, LLC v. Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC, C.A. 2020-0064-JRS (Del. Ch. Jul. 24, 2020)
Describing the case as deja vu, the Court of Chancery dismissed Plaintiff’s second attempt to enforce alleged rights related to Defendant/Company. See SolarReserve CSP Holdings, LLC v.  Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC, C.A. 2019-0791-JRS (Del.  Ch. Mar. 18, 2020) (“SolarReserve I”). The Company was formed to develop a solar power plant in Nevada, but the plan never came to fruition. More ›

Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Limited Partnership Agreement That Includes Certain Books and Records Language From Section 17-305 of Limited Partnership Act Does Not Automatically Incorporate Judicial Interpretations of Section 17-305

Murfrey v. WHC Ventures, LLC, App. No. 294, 2019 (Del. Supr. Jul. 13, 2020)

Drafters of alternative entity agreements frequently cite to, or quote, statutory language to describe the parties’ obligations. But, the Delaware Supreme Court has concluded that when drafters do so, the drafters should be explicit in whether they also intend to incorporate judicial interpretations of that language, too. Here, because the governing limited partnership agreements (the “Agreements”) did not include an express requirement limiting books and records rights to those “necessary and essential” to a proper purpose, the Supreme Court declined to imply one. More ›

Court Finds LLC Manager Consent Statute Authorizes Personal Jurisdiction for Tort Claims Related to the Company, Not Just Alleged Breaches of Managers’ Duties; However, Court Dismisses Investor Defendants with Insufficient Delaware Contacts

CLP Toxicology, Inc. v. Casla Bio Holdings LLC, C.A. 2018-0783-PRW (Del. Ch. Jun. 29, 2020) & NC18C-10-332 PRW CCLD (Del. Super. Jun. 29, 2020)

In both the corporation and LLC contexts, Delaware law employs consent statutes, which authorize personal jurisdiction over officers and directors of corporations and over managers (in name or in fact) of LLCs. Despite broad language in such statutes, courts traditionally interpreted the statutes to apply to only claims related to breaches of fiduciary or statutory duties. As demonstrated here, however, the modern trend is to interpret consent statutes to apply to a broader range of claims related to the entity. More ›

Chancery Dismisses Challenge to Top Executives’ Stock Awards in Disney-Fox Merger, Finds Plaintiff Lacks Standing to Pursue Derivative Claim

Brokerage Jamie Goldenberg Komen Rev TRU U/A 06/10/08 Jamie L Komen Trustee for the Benefit of Jamie Goldenberg Komen v. Breyer, C.A. No. 2018-0773-AGB (Del. Ch. June 26, 2020)

Following a merger that alters a stockholder’s ownership status, the stockholder may be able to challenge the entirety of the merger as a direct claim, but the stockholder will typically lack standing to challenge the individual aspects of the merger as derivative claims. The instant case, involving the Disney-Fox merger, shows the difficulties a stockholder faces in attempting to mount such a challenge. More ›

Chancery Applies Contract’s Choice of Law to Related Fraud Claims, Declines to Dismiss Fraud Claims Where Contract Lacked Clear Anti-Reliance Language

The Anshutz Corp. v. Brown Robin Cap., LLC, 2019-0710-JRS (Del. Ch. June 11, 2020)

In dealing with what the Court of Chancery called “a version of a [commercial] dispute as old and abiding as commerce itself,” the Court provides insights useful to drafters of both pleadings and contracts. More ›

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Just like US military adventures in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the US-Mexico war on drugs has only created larger problems.

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They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They have penetrated the local, state, and national governments and control entire sections of the country. They provide employment and services to an impoverished public, which distrusts their actual government with its bitter record of corruption, repression, and torture. They seduce young people from several countries, including the United States, into their murderous activities.

Is this a description of the heinous practices of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria? It could be, but as a matter of fact it’s not. These particular thugs exist a lot closer to home. They are part of the multi-billion-dollar industry known as the drug cartels of Mexico. Like the Islamic State, the cartels’ power has increased as the result of disastrous policies born in the USA.

There are other parallels between IS and groups like Mexico’s Zetas and its Sinaloa cartel. Just as the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya fertilized the field for IS, another US war, the so-called War on Drugs, opened new horizons for the drug cartels. Just as Washington has worked hand-in-hand with and also behind the backs of corrupt rulers in Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, so it has done with the Mexican government. Both kinds of war have resulted in blowback—violent consequences felt in our own cities, whether at the finish line of the Boston Marathon or in communities of color across the country.

In Mexico, the US military is directly involved in the War on Drugs. In this country, that “war” has provided the pretext for the militarization of local police forces and increased routine surveillance of ordinary people going about their ordinary lives.

And just as both the national security state and the right wing have used the specter of IS to create an atmosphere of panic and hysteria in this country, so both have used the drug cartels’ grotesque theater of violence to justify their demonization of immigrants from Latin America and the massive militarization of America’s borderlands.

The War in Mexico

If there was an official beginning to Mexico’s war on drugs, it would have to be considered the election of Felipe Calderón as the country’s president in 2006. The candidate of the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional, the National Action Party (PAN), Calderón was only the second Mexican president in 70 years who did not come from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). His predecessor, Vicente Fox, had been the first.

It was Calderón who, with encouragement and assistance from the United States, changed Mexico’s war on drugs from a metaphor into the real thing, in which guns and grenades would fuel the deaths of more than 60,000 Mexicans through 2012.

The current president, Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI, admits that another 27,000 Mexicans were murdered in the first year of his presidency. At least another 25,000 have been disappeared since 2007. It was Calderón who brought the Mexican military fully into the fight against drugs, transforming an ineffective policing policy into a full-scale shooting war with the cartels. At least 50,000 military personnel have been deployed.

In addition to ordinary citizens, journalists and politicians have been particular targets in this war. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that murders of Mexican reporters have increased dramatically since 2006. Among those whose killers have been positively identified, 69% died at the hands of the drug cartels, and at least 22% were killed by government or military personnel.

Wikipedia lists over 100 politicians who have lost their lives in Mexico’s war on drugs. That list does not include a woman named Aide Nava González, whose headless body was dumped this month on a road in Guerrero state. Nava was contending for the Partido Revolución Democrática, the Democratic Revolution Party, slot on the ballot in the town of Ahuacuotzingo. Her husband, the former mayor, had been murdered there last year. A note from Los Rojos, a local drug gang, was left with Nava’s body. “This is what will happen,” it read, “to anyone who does not fall in line, fucking turncoats.”

Guerrero is the home of Ayotzinapa, a town where 43 teachers-in-training once attended a rural teachers college. All 43 “disappeared” last September during a demonstration in the neighboring town of Iguala. Their arrest by police, and apparent subsequent murder at the hands of a local drug gang, Guerreros Unidos, was one of the few stories of Mexican suffering to break into the US mainstream media last year. The mayor of Iguala has since admitted that he instructed the police to hand the students over to the gang and has been arrested, along with his wife. The town’s police chief is still on the run.

Like the “war on terror” globally, Mexico’s war on drugs has created endless new pretexts for government repression, which has its own lengthy history in that country. That history includes the long-remembered police murders of some 300 students, among the thousands protesting in Mexico City’s Plaza de las Tres Culturas a couple of weeks before the Summer Olympics began in 1968. Juan Méndez, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Torture, wrote in his 2014 mission report on Mexico:

“The National Human Rights Commission recorded an increase in the number of complaints of torture and ill-treatment since 2007 and reported a peak of 2,020 complaints in 2011 and 2,113 in 2012, compared with an annual average of 320 in the six years prior to 2007. Between December 2012 and July 2014, the Commission received 1,148 complaints of violations attributable to the armed forces alone.”

According to Méndez, it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact number of torture cases in the country in any year, because there is no national registry that records such complaints. Nor is everyone who was tortured by representatives of the government likely to report their suffering to that same government.

What is not difficult to pinpoint is the nature of the torture. Méndez notes the “disturbing similarities” in the complaints of those tortured.  The police and the military are regularly reported to use a combination of “punches, kicks, and beatings with sticks; electric shocks through the application of electrical devices such as cattle prods to their bodies, usually their genitals; asphyxiation with plastic bags; waterboarding; forced nudity; suspension by their limbs; [and] threats and insults.”

The purpose of such torture is clear as well.  As Mendez reports, it’s “to punish and to extract confessions or incriminating information.” A 2008 change to the Mexican constitution makes it easier to do this: under this policy of pre-trial detention (arraigo in Spanish), suspected drug traffickers can be held for up to 80 days without charge. According to the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, “Supposedly, arraigo is used as a means to investigate suspected criminals, but in practice, it is used as a kind of public scrutiny that allows more time for the authorities to determine whether the detained is guilty or innocent.” It’s much easier to extract a confession when you have electric cattle prods and waterboarding at your disposal.

Washington Fights a “War” in Mexico

Who pays for Mexico’s war on drugs? You won’t perhaps be too surprised to learn that the United States foots a major part of the bill. Between 2008 and 2014, Congress has appropriated $2.4 billion dollars to fight the cartels, as part of the Mérida Initiative, a “security cooperation agreement” between the US and Mexican governments. That money supports a failed war in which tens of thousands have been killed and thousands more tortured.

US involvement, however, goes far beyond money. Along with the publicly acknowledged Mérida Initiative, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) signed secret agreements with the Fox and Calderón administrations without the knowledge or consent of the Mexican congress. These openly violated the Mexican constitution, which reserves to that congress the right to approve agreements with foreign governments, as well as the U.N. Convention Against Transnational Crime, which requires that activities carried out by one country inside another be approved by the appropriate agency in the country where those activities take place.

Under these secret agreements, US DEA agents met repeatedly with high-level members of particular drug cartels, especially the Sinaloa group, to obtain information about rival organizations. Informants served as go-betweens in contacts between the DEA and “El Chapo” Guzmán, the head of that cartel. Guzmán was arrested in 2014 by the Mexican government. The newspaper El Universal conducted a year-long investigation in which its reporters documented the extent and effects of this illegal cooperation. The DEA arranged to dismiss drug trafficking charges that were pending in the United States against some of their Sinoloa Cartel informants. In other words, it allowed the cartels with which it worked to continue business—and murder—as usual.

In at least one case, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued multiple re-entry visas to informants, allowing them to bring significant quantities of drugs into the United States with impunity. In fact, it appears that, in order to maintain the flow of information, US officials took sides in the drug war that devastated the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, killing an estimated 10,500 people. With tacit US permission, the Sinaloa Cartel was able to defeat the rival Juárez Cartel.

Seventy percent of the guns used in Mexico’s drug wars also come from this country. Most are purchased at one or another of the 6,700 licensed firearms sales outlets along the US-Mexico border. The University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute estimates that, between 2010 and 2012, about 253,000 firearms were bought each year for transfer to Mexico. And most of them made it across the border. The Institute reports that “Mexican authorities have seized roughly 12.7% of the total annual trade” in weapons. US interdiction efforts account for a measly 2% of those seized.

And not all of the weapons that ended up in Mexico did so against the wishes of the US government. In the debacle known as “Fast and Furious,” the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) allowed “more than 2,000 weapons, including hundreds of AK-47-type semi-automatic rifles and .50 caliber rifles,” to “walk” across the border and into the hands of the Mexican cartels. Its ostensible purpose was to follow the guns in hopes that they would lead to the arrest of high-level cartel leaders. But relevant agencies of the Mexican government were never informed about the operation, and it seems that there was no actual effort to track the weapons once they crossed the Mexican border. The weapons turned up at crime scenes in both Mexico and the United States. On December 14, 2010, near the Mexican border in Arizona, one of them killed Brian Terry, a US Border Patrol agent.

ATF wasn’t the only agency involved in “Fast and Furious.” Personnel from ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the DEA, and the US Attorney’s Office in Arizona also participated, along with the FBI and the IRS.

Nor was the Mexican government entirely informed, although it seems clear that one man, Eduardo Medina Mora, knew about it. A former director of Mexico’s equivalent of the CIA, Medina is considered the “legal architect” of that country’s drug war. He was Mexico’s attorney general when Fast and Furious got underway. By 2010, he’d been removed from that post (possibly because one of his top deputies was arrested for taking bribes from the cartels) and appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom. Later, he served as ambassador to the US until, in early March 2015, President Peña Nieto barely won Senate approval of Medina’s appointment to a 15-year term as head of Mexico’s Supreme Court. Mexicans who still remember Fast and Furious were outraged.

The Pentagon and CIA are also involved in Mexico in significant ways. Since at least 2011, the Pentagon has deployed both piloted aircraft and drones in the Mexican war on drugs. The CIA has also sent operatives to do intelligence gathering. And without specifying which agencies are responsible for such activities, the New York Times reports that “the United States has trained nearly 4,500 new [Mexican] federal police agents and assisted in conducting wiretaps, running informants, and interrogating suspects.” Furthermore, the “Pentagon has provided sophisticated equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters.”

In 2011, the State Department recalled career diplomat Earl Anthony Wayne from Kabul.  He was then serving as deputy ambassador to Afghanistan and coordinating with the NATO-led occupation forces there. His new assignment based on his counterinsurgency experience? Ambassador to Mexico. In 2013, the US Army opened a special-ops center in Colorado, according to the El Paso Times, “to teach Mexican security forces how to hunt drug cartels the same way special operations teams hunt al-Qaida.” Because that worked out so well in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Drug War Comes Home (Along With Plenty of Blowback)

All in all, the US drug war in Mexico has been an abject failure. In spite of high-profile arrests, including in 2014 Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who ran the Sinaloa group, and in 2015 Servando “La Tuta” Gómez, head of the Knights Templar Cartel in Michoacán, the cartels seem as strong as ever. They may occasionally split and reassemble, but they are still able to move plenty of product, and reap at least $20 billion a year in sales in the United States. In fact, this country remains the world’s premier market for illegal drugs.

The cartels are responsible for the majority of the methamphetamine sold in the United States today. Since 2006, when a federal law made it much harder to buy ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in this country, the cartels have replaced small-time US-based meth cookers. The meth they produce is purer than the US product, apparently because it’s made with purer precursor chemicals available from China. The other big product is heroin, whose quickly rising consumption seems to be replacing the demand for cocaine in the United States. On the other hand, marijuana legalization appears to be cutting into the cross-border traffic in that drug.

The Washington Post reports that almost 9% of Americans “age 12 or older—22.6 million people—are current users of illegal drugs, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.” That represents a one-third increase over the 6.2% in 1998. It takes a lot of infrastructure to move that much product.

And that’s where US-based gangs come in. Urban gangs in the United States today are not the Sharks and Jets of West Side Story. Certainly, there are still some small local groups formed by young people looking for family and solidarity on the streets. All too often, however, today’s gangs represent the well-run distribution arm of the international drug trade. In Chicago alone, 100,000 people work in illegal drug distribution, selling mostly into that city’s African-American community. Gang membership is skewing older every year, as gangs transform from local associations to organized, powerfully armed criminal enterprises. Well over half of present gang members are adults now. The communities where they operate live in fear, caught between the gangs that offer them employment while threatening their safety and militarized police forces they do not trust.

Just like US military adventures in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the US-Mexico war on drugs has only left a larger problem in place, while producing blowback here at home. A particularly nasty example is the cartels’ use of serving US military personnel and veterans as hit men here in the United States. But the effects are far bigger than that. The DEA told the Washington Post that Mexican cartels are operating in more than 1,200 US cities. In all those cities, the failed war on drugs has put in prison 2.3 million people—in vastly disproportionate numbers from communities of color—without cutting demand by one single kilo. And yet, though that war has only visibly increased the drug problem in the same way that the war on terror has generated ever more terror organizations, in both cases there’s no evidence that any other course than war is being considered in Washington.

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The Legend and Heroes Tour Traveling Moto Museum announced that they will again take part in the pit party activation at Monster Energy Supercross events in 2019. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the tour and their mission of celebrating the Legends and Heroes of the sport.

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The original helmet painter of the stars, Lee has painted helmets for most of the supercross champions. Who can forget the flashing lights and hundred dollar bills on Jeremy McGrath’s Anaheim helmets during his championship era? More than a painter,Lee is an entrepreneur with a successful action sports apparel company and the team owner of the Troy Lee Designs – KTM Supercross team.

Following on the success of its introduction in 2018, the Supercross Virtual Reality mobile experience (SXVR) continues in 2019. This interactive display allows fans to experience the thrill of supercross via VR technology and feel like they are on the racetrack. In addition to four virtual reality stations, the experience includes two racer skill stations. Produced by Ryno Equipment, the handlebar station, and balance station allow guests to test themselves and experience the what they have to be supercross athletes.

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The feeling you get when you're standing on the edge of a tall cliff and are looking down, that is vertigo. Although one of the symptoms is dizziness, it is not quite the same as simply feeling lightheaded. It can also happen with both feet planted firmly on the ground and with no apparent reason the strange sensations can suddenly arise. Additional symptoms of vertigo may include:

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