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Michele Bachmann Was Inspired By My Dad and His Christian Reconstructionist Friends -- Here's Why That's Terrifying

Bachmann's radical right-wing influences include the most extremist figures in the history of the religious right.

As presidential candidate Michele Bachmann chews up scenery in the GOP primaries, the mainstream media is finally digging into her extremist beliefs in a serious way. In a profile published earlier this week, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza talked about Bachmann's radical right-wing influences, which include the most extremist figures in the history of the religious right movement.

One of these was my evangelical leader father, Francis Schaeffer. Bachmann says in the New Yorker article that she got into politics because she watched a film series I directed called “How Should We Then Live,” written by and featuring my dad.

What the New Yorker article doesn’t do is explain whypeople like Bachmann, Sarah Palin, et al. turned to the hard reactionary anti-government right. I explain this in my book Sex, Mom and God. I think it’s important to understand this. So let me add what the New Yorker left out.

The Back Story

In 1983 I was the leader of a group of protesters who screamed abuse at Justice Harry Blackmun and made him beat a hasty retreat back into a college building at the University of Nebraska after he’d just been awarded an honorary degree. In the early 1980s my daughter Jessica and I—she was 12—drove into Boston several times to picket abortion clinics, including one where a few years later (in 1994) two people were shot dead and five were seriously wounded by “pro-life” activist John Salvi.

Dad agreed to lead several antiabortion demonstrations, too. He said, “We’re telling everyone else to get out there and picket, and some of our people are getting arrested, so we can’t say no to doing what we’re telling others to do.”

That was then. Today I’m on the “other side.”

America has a problem: It’s filled with people who take the Bible seriously. America has a blessing: It’s filled with people who take the Bible seriously. How does this blessing coexist with the curse derived from the same source: the Bible? The answer is that the Bible is a curse or a blessing depending on who is doing the interpreting. Sometimes belief in the Bible leads to building a hospital. Sometimes it leads to justifying perpetual war and empire building. Same book—different interpretation.

If the history of Christianity proves one thing, it’s that you can make the Bible “say” anything. When you hear words like “We want to take back America for God!” the 21st-century expression of such theocratic ideas can be traced back to some of my old friends: the Reconstructionists.

Most Americans have never heard of the Reconstructionists. But they have felt their impact through the Reconstructionists’ profound (if indirect) influence over the wider (and vast) evangelical community.

Take Michele Bachmann. She is a Reconstructionist schooled – literally – by some of that obscure movement’s leading thinkers, including my father.

The evangelicals have shaped the politics of a secular culture that barely understood the religious right, let alone the forces within that movement that gave it its edge. The Americans inhabiting the wider (and more secular) culture just saw the results of Reconstructionism without understanding where those results had come from—for instance, how the hell George W. Bush got elected and then reelected or why Michele Bachmann was into home schooling long before she was into trying to become president in order to turn America into a homophobic theocracy.

If you feel victimized by modernity, then the Reconstructionists have the answer in their version of biblical interpretation. Reconstructionists want to replace the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights with their interpretation of the Bible.

The Reconstructionist worldview is ultra-Calvinist but, like all Calvinism has its origins in ancient Israel/Palestine, when vengeful and ignorant tribal lore was written down by frightened men (the nastier authors of the Bible) trying to defend their prerogatives to bully women, murder rival tribes, and steal land. (These justifications may have reflected later thinking: origin myths used as propaganda to justify political and military actions after the fact, such as the brutality the Hebrews said God made them inflict on others and/or their position as the Chosen People.)

In its modern American incarnation, which hardened into a 20th-century movement in the 1960s and became widespread in the 1970s, Reconstructionism was propagated by people like my father and others I knew and worked with closely when I, too, was both a Jesus Victim and a Jesus Predator claiming God’s special favor.

The Leaders

The leaders of the Reconstructionist movement included the late Rousas Rushdoony (Calvinist theologian, father of modern-era Christian Reconstructionism, patron saint to gold-hoarding haters of the Federal Reserve, haters of the US Government and creator of the modern evangelical home school movement), his son-in-law Gary North (an economist and publisher), and David Chilton (Calvinist pastor and author).

No, the Reconstructionists are not about to take over America, the world, or even most American evangelical institutions. Bachmann – for instance – will likely never be president. But their influence has not abated, however a la Tea Party.

The Reconstructionists have been like a drop of radicalizing flavoring added to a bottle of water: They’ve subtly changed the water’s flavor. And even though most evangelicals, let alone the general public, don’t know the names of the leading Reconstructionist thinkers, the world we live in—where a radicalized, angry government-hating religious right has changed the face of American politics and spun off into movements such as the Tea Party—is a direct result of that “flavoring.”

Anyone who wants to understand American politics, not to mention North American religion, had better get acquainted with the Reconstructionists. For instance these folks just held America hostage in the debt crisis, an attempt to – literally – destroy the government’s ability to function at all a manufactured “crisis” in which Bachmann was a leading proponent of scorched-earth, destroy the system “politics.”

Reconstructionism, also called Theonomism, seeks to reconstruct “our fallen society.” Its worldview is best represented by the publications of the Chalcedon Foundation (which has been classified as an antigay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center).

Kill the Gays

According to the Chalcedon Foundation Web site, the mission of the movement is to apply “the whole Word of God” to all aspects of human life: “It is not only our duty as individuals, families and churches to be Christian, but it is also the duty of the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere to be under Christ the King. Nothing is exempt from His dominion. We must live by His Word, not our own.”

Until Rushdoony, founder and late president of the Chalcedon Foundation, began writing in the 1960s, most American fundamentalists (including my parents) didn’t try to apply biblical laws about capital punishment for homosexuality to the United States. Even the most conservative evangelicals said they were “New Testament Christians.” In other words, they believed that after the coming of Jesus, the harsher bits of the Bible had been (at least to some extent) transformed by the “New Covenant” of Jesus’ “Law of Love.”

By contrast, the leaders of Reconstructionism believed that Old Testament teachings—on everything from capital punishment for gays to the virtues of child-beating—were still valid because they were the inerrant Word and Will of God and therefore should be enforced. Not only that, they said that biblical law should be imposed even on nonbelievers. This theology was the American version of the attempt in some Muslim countries to impose Shariah (Islamic law) on all citizens, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

It was my old friend, the short, stocky, bearded Armenian American Rousas Rushdoony who in 1973 most thoroughly laid out the far right/religious right agenda in his book The Institutes of Biblical Law. Rushdoony changed the definition of salvation from the accepted evangelical idea that it applies to individuals to the claim that salvation is really about politics. With this redefinition, Rushdoony contradicted the usual reading of Jesus’ words by most Christians to mean that Jesus had not come to this earth to be a political leader: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36).

According to Rushdoony, all nations on earth should be obedient to the ancient Jewish/Christian version of “God’s Law,” so that the world will experience “God’s blessings.” Biblical salvation will then turn back the consequences of the Fall, and we’ll be on our way to the New Eden. To achieve this “turning back,” coercion must be used by the faithful to stop evildoers, who are, by definition, anyone not obeying all of God’s Laws as defined by the Calvinist and Reconstructionist interpretation of the Bible.

Once Christians are in charge, according to Gary North, rather than turning the other cheek to our enemy, we “should either bust him in the chops or haul him before the magistrate, and possibly both.” North adds, “It is only in a period of civil impotence that Christians are under the rule to ‘resist not evil.’”

How far would the Reconstructionists go? North, writes, “The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offence to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Exodus. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Leviticus. 24:16).”

How might a Reconstructionist version of the Sermon on the Mount read, inclusive of Reconstructionist “inside” theological/political code words like “Law-Word”? Maybe something like this:

Blessed are those who exercise dominion over the earth: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who deport the immigrants: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who agree that the significance of Jesus Christ as the ‘faithful and true witness’ is that He not only witnesses against those who are at war against God, but He also executes them: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who subdue all things and all nations to Christ and His Law-Word: for they shall be filled. Blessed are those who say that those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God must be denied citizenship: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the Calvinist Christians who are the only lawful heirs to the Kingdom: for they shall see God. Blessed are those who know that turning the other cheek is a temporary bribe paid to evil secular rulers: for they shall be called sons of God if they bust their enemies in the chops. Blessed are those who have taken an eye for an eye: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are ye when ye know that the battle for My sake is between the Christian Reconstruction Movement and everyone else. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven. For so we are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody who gets in our way, and kill those who resist.

The Movement to 'Take Back America For God'

I remember first meeting Rushdoony at his home in Vallecito, California, in the late 1970s. (That was where I also met Gary North for the first time.) I was accompanied by Jim Buchfuehrer, who had produced the antiabortion documentary series of films with me that featured my father and Dr. C. Everett Koop. (Koop would become Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general.)

The movie series and book project later got Michele Bachamnn to become an ardent clinic picketer. Whatever Happened to the Human Race? was Koop’s and my brainchild. He had seen my dad’s and my first film series—How Should We Then Live? (the series I directed and that Bachmann says got her into politics and that the New Yorker article describes in detail) —and Koop wanted to team up to expand on the last episodes, in which Dad had denounced the “imperial court” for “stripping the unborn” of their right to life.

The impact of the two film series, as well as their companion books, was to give the evangelical community a frame of reference through which to understand the “secularization of American culture” and to point to the “human life issue” as the watershed between a “Christian society” and a utilitarian, relativistic “post-Christian” future. This has become Bachmann’s agenda, and also the agenda of Fox News as they blast her views over America.

By the time the films had been viewed by millions of American evangelicals, Dad had become the leader of those evangelicals who took a “stand” on the “life issues.” And the films made the Reconstructionists believe that perhaps in Francis Schaeffer and his up-and-coming son they might have found new allies. So I began to get messages that Rushdoony urgently wanted to meet me.

Hating America to 'Save' It

When we talked, Rushdoony talked about “secular America” as if it were an enemy state, not our country. He talked about how “we” should all use cash, never credit cards, since cards would make it “easy for the government to track us.” Rushdoony spoke passionately about the virtues of gold, how very soon the conflict between the Soviet Union and America would lead to war. Rushdoony also noted that Vallecito was “well located to survive the next war” given “the prevailing wind directions” and its water supply.

The message of Rushdoony’s work is best summed up in one of his innumerable Chalcedon Foundation position papers, “The Increase of His Government and Peace.” He writes, “The ultimate and absolute government of all things shall belong to Christ.” In his book Thy Kingdom Come—using words that are similar to those the leaders of al Qaida would use decades later in reference to “true Islam”—Rushdoony argues that democracy and Christianity are incompatible: “Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life,” he writes. “One [biblical] faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state.Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.”

The impact of Reconstructionism (often under other names) has grown even though Rushdoony has largely been forgotten even in evangelical circles, let alone the wider world. He made the evangelical world more susceptible to being politicized—and manipulated by some very smart people like Bachmann.

Religious leaders like Jerry Falwell who once had nothing to do with politics per se were influenced by the Reconstructionists. That in turn moved the whole evangelical movement to the right and then into the political arena, where it became “normal” for evangelical leaders to jump head first into politics with little-to-no regard for the separation of church and state.

Extremists For Jesus

 Without the work of the Reconstructionists, the next generation of religious activists (trying to use the courts, politics, and/or civil disobedience to impose their narrow theology on the majority of Americans) may have been relegated to some lonely street corner where they could gather to howl at the moon. Instead, the 21st century’s theocrats (though they’d never so identify themselves) enjoyed the backing of Fox News, were tolerated at places like Princeton University, and could be found running many evangelical organizations. And now in Bachmann they have their champion: a full fledged Reconstructionist radical.

From Puritans To Government Haters

The Puritans’ theology of government was formed in the context of an embrace of all Christians’ duty to demand the “public good.” This was exemplified by such unquestioned well-established concepts as the “king’s highway,” a common road system protected by the crown (government) and a common law that applied to all. One’s common duty to others was accepted as the essential message of Christian civilization. Public spaces were defended by government in the early New England settlements, just as they had been in England.

What’s so curious is that in this religion-inflicted country of ours, the same evangelicals, conservative Roman Catholics, and others like George and Bachmann who had been running around post-Roe insisting that America had a “Christian foundation” and demanding a “return to our heritage” and/or more recently trashing health care reform as “communist” ignored the fact that one great contribution of Christianity was a commitment to strong central government. For instance, this included church support for state-funded, or state-church-funded, charities, including hospitals, as early as the fourth century.

Government was seen as part of God’s plan for creating social justice and defending the common good. Christians were once culture-forming and culture-embracing people. Even the humanism preached by the supposedly “anti-Christian” Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century was, in fact, a Deist/Christian “heresy,” with a value system espousing human dignity borrowed wholesale from the Sermon on the Mount.

In the scorched-earth post-Roe era of the “health care reform debates” of 2009 and beyond, evangelicals seemed to believe that Jesus commanded that all hospitals (and everything else) should be run by corporations for profit, just because corporations weren’t the evil government. The right even decided that it was “normal” for the state to hand over its age-old public and patriotic duties to private companies—even for military operations (“contractors”), prisons, health care, public transport, and all the rest.

The religious right/far right et al. favored private “facts,” too. They claimed that global warming wasn’t real. They asserted this because scientists (those same agents of Satan who insisted that evolution was real) were the ones who said human actions were changing the climate. Worse, the government said so, too!

“Global warming is a left-wing plot to take away our freedom!”

“Amtrak must make a profit!”

Even the word “infrastructure” lost its respectability when government had a hand in maintaining roads, bridges and trains.

In denial of the West’s civic-minded, government-supporting heritage, evangelicals (and the rest of the right) wound up defending private oil companies but not God’s creation, private cars instead of public transport, private insurance conglomerates rather than government care of individuals. The price for the religious right’s wholesale idolatry of private everything was that Christ’s reputation was tied to a cynical political party “owned” by billionaires. It only remained for a far right Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court to rule in 2010 that unlimited corporate money could pour into political campaigns—anonymously—in a way that clearly favored corporate America and the superwealthy, who were now the only entities served by the Republican Party.

The evangelical rubes who are Bachmann's foot soldiers never realized that the logic of their “stand” against government had played into the hands of people who never cared about human lives beyond the fact that people could be sold products. By the 21st century, Ma and Pa No-name were still out in the rain holding an “Abortion is Murder!” sign in Peoria and/or standing in line all night in some godforsaken mall in Kansas City to buy a book by Sarah Palin and have it signed. But it was the denizens of the corner offices at Goldman Sachs, the News Corporation, Exxon, and Halliburton who were laughing.

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Frank Schaeffer is the author of "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back."


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OUS Canberra (ACT) - Oxbridge British High Commission Reception

A total of 89 members and their guests from the Oxford and Cambridge Societies, Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory) groups, attended a drinks and canapes reception at the residence of the British High Commissioner, Her Excellency, Menna Rawlings.

On a beautiful sunny Canberra evening guests were able to mingle in the extensive gardens of the High Commission, which sits atop a hill in one of the most exclusive suburbs in Canberra.

Menna Rawlings, in her speech of welcome, indicated the contribution that Oxbridge graduates had made both in Britain and Australia, while Professor John White, the President of the ACT Oxford Society, commented on the Oxford-Australia Scholarships and his pleasure that four of the recipients had returned to Australia and were in the audience.

Thanks also go to Mark Rawlings for his efficient organisation, including delicate portions of fish and chips in the canapes served.

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We heard it through the grapevine, but very reliable sources, that a few celebrities are vacationing in beautiful San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize at the moment. Although we have not been able to get pictures of these celebrities (Darnit!) we can assure that our sources are very on point with the leads that we have received.

Celebrity #1 is Jennifer Lawrence. If you have seen the latest XMen “Fist Class” blockbuster movie then you know she plays the role of Mystique. Jennifer is an up and coming actress that Forbes has listed her as an actress to look out for 2012. She is obtaining roles in next year’s most anticipated movies including The Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games and House at the End of the Street. Movies under her belt include X-Men: First Class, Winter’s Bone, among other TV shows like Medium, Cold Case and Monk. Jennifer Lawrence is (was) staying at a very popular resort in town.

Jennifer Lawrence vacations at Victoria House in San Pedro, Belize

Thanks to Abigail Najarro for these pictures she took along with Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult who were vacationing at Victoria House, San Pedro, Belize.

Nicholas Hoult vacations at Victoria House, San Pedro Belize

Celebrity #2 is Michael Douglas. Who does not know Michael Douglas the star of famous films like Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, and so on. He is one of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood. Well, very reliable sources tell Ambergris Today that Mr. Douglas was vacationing in San Pedro at a very private and exclusive resort.

Celebrities #3 and #4 include Halle Berry and George Clooney. Halle Berry the star of X-Men: The Last Stand, X-s, Gothica, Catwoman and James Bond flick Die Another Day, is rumored to be on the island but we cannot confirm that. And George Clooney, well it was rumored that he was spotted in Belize City. But these two are just rumors.

More and more Hollywood celebrities are discovering Belize and finding out what beautiful haven our lovely country is. Let us know if you have any pictures to share with Ambergris Today, if you spot one of those famous celebrities mingling with the locals. :)

Jennifer Lawrence in her role as Mystique in X-Men First ClassMichael Douglas is married to another powerhouse celebrity Catherine Zeta JonesHollywood celebrity Halle Berry

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    If infact it was George around BzCity, then it wouldn't be his first time in Belize. He has been at Turneffe Flats before with brother and about 4 more friends/family. Quite friendly and carefree while boarding his flight too - and did not fly first class :)

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What to Look for in Assessing HIV Cure Stories in the Media

From time to time, stories appear in the media about possible cases of an HIV cure. How should a reader assess stories like this? What should you look for?

The key thing to remember is that it’s currently impossible to know whether someone has been cured until they have been off antiretroviral therapy (ART) for a substantial period of time – at least a couple of years. Some researchers have proposed that five years may be the appropriate cut-off, at which point there is a 50% chance that the person is truly cured.

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There have been several high-profile cases in recent years that raised people’s hopes for a cure, most notably the Mississippi child. This HIV-positive child stopped taking antiretroviral therapy and showed no signs of virus after more two years off treatment. Many pronounced the child cured until researchers detected evidence of viral rebound 27 months after the child stopped therapy. This is far longer than the approximately three weeks one might otherwise expect the virus to take to come back. But it’s important to remember that, as with anything we measure in biology, there may be a large range of observations, and any one person may simply be an unusual case.

Another thing to remember is that if an HIV-positive person is taking their medications consistently and correctly, it is likely that their virus will be reduced to what is called “undetectable” levels. This means that tests regularly used in medical care are not sensitive enough to detect the low levels to which the virus has sunk. Most of the time, some more advanced tests, normally used only in scientific studies, can find the virus in the blood. And even if the most sensitive tests showed no evidence of virus in their blood, we know that reservoirs of persistent virus are also present in tissue in certain parts of the body, and these pockets of virus may be much more difficult to detect.

It’s currently impossible to know whether someone has been cured until they have been off antiretroviral therapy (ART) for a substantial period of time.

A credible report of the possibility of a cure will almost certainly make mention of attempts that have been made to measure the HIV reservoir. Measuring the reservoir of HIV that persists while people are taking ART is one of the greatest challenges of HIV research. There are many approaches currently being investigated, and many involve the measurement of the level of HIV DNA in a person. We know, however, that this does not tell us definitively whether a person has been cured.

Ideally, scientists would be able to measure something in the blood or tissues that indicates whether a patient is cured, without having to take the patient off ART.

In 2016 amfAR awarded a grant to a team of researchers who are undertaking a study aimed at discovering such a measure. The researchers will look for indicators in the blood and tissues that predict a longer delay to rebound. If successful, researchers could finally have a tool for gauging the success of potential cure interventions.


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1500 Retailers Interviewed to Identify Range Enhancements

Over 1500 retail contacts have been individually quizzed about how Amica might enhance the diverse built-in cooking line-up from the brand.

Built-in cooking products from Amica have included innovations like steam, pyrolytic and Aqualytic cleaning, multi-function, preset programmes and web compatibility for many years. But with kitchen retailers firmly in its sights the leading Polish producer sought a warts-and-all index of recommended improvements to the range.

Simon Freear, country manager for the UK and Ireland, explains “We often hear often how manufacturers have been listening to their customers, but one never really knows if that is to the end consumer or the retailer. Our retail partners participate in the shop-floor dialogue whether that be praise or criticism for differing brands and products.What we have learnt has been convincing and compelling – generally positive and where we needed to improve we have. What we have now is a complete built-in range that covers all the requests made and offers retailers looking for brand change a quantifiable business opportunity.”

Over 12 months Amica and its distribution partners have methodically quizzed electrical and kitchen retailers of the Amica range as well as builders, department stores and service engineers to highlight ways the brand might advance its built-in cooking offer in the UK and Ireland. What the company has identified is that in a number of areas Amica fairs extremely well; technology,style, price and aftercare. In particular the Amica Aqualytic water-only oven cleaning system and the Amica 2 year warranty are valued.”

Simon Freear “Our retailers pointed to a number of possible product enhancements;things like retractable controls a clear, but attractive digital programming display, two halogen lights in the oven cavities, fully extending telescopic guides/shelves and more than one roasting pan. All things we have now added to the range.”

“Among the most persuasive product enhancements includes a super smooth soft close/open door mechanism that enhances the feel of quality and technological reliability.” Says Simon. “We are also adding a warming drawer and a compact oven to the collection reflecting specific product requests from retailers.”

Captions: top: Illuminated door handles add visual appeal to a showroom and kitchen install. Bottom: Warming drawer and compact oven due to join the Amica line-up in 2016.

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New York City FC: Good and bad of season’s first 3 months

NYCFC's David Villa leads the league with 10

NYCFC's David Villa leads the league with 10 goals scored this season. Photo Credit: Daniel De Mato

New York City FC is ready to take the pitch after a two-week break during the Copa América tournament.

NYCFC sits fourth in the Eastern Conference (4-5-6, 18 points) as the MLS season approaches its midway point. Here are some take-aways from the season to date.

Secondary scoring

Creating scoring chances is important, but capitalizing matters most. Failing to convert opportunities has cost NYCFC wins and critical points in the standings. This is obvious as the club leads MLS in shot attempts and ranks third in shots on goal but is tied for eighth out of 20 in goals scored.

“We do not score enough with all the chances we create,” head coach Patrick Vieira told reporters after the team’s 3-2 loss to Real Salt Lake at Yankee Stadium on June 2. “We have to change something.”

NYCFC might be lost without David Villa, the MLS scoring leader with 10 goals. The captain takes the bulk of the team’s shots — his 88 attempts are nearly four times as many as Steven Mendoza’s 23, second-most on the team. One telling stat: NYCFC has not won a game in which Villa failed to score this season.

Holding on

NYCFC is winless in its last four games, and sustaining a lead until the final whistle has been an issue. The club has led in two of their last three matches. With a 2-1 lead against Orlando City SC on May 29 at home, NYCFC surrendered the equalizer in the 94th minute to settle for a draw.

The club’s defense, which has allowed the most goals this season (29), has been questioned and needs to be tightened up.

Youth movement

Trading for Jack Harrison, this year’s top pick in the MLS SuperDraft, already is paying off. The 19-year old midfielder has made an immediate impact since his May 21 debut, scoring his first career goal in his second game. If Harrison continues to bring the energy boost he has given the fan base, the English rookie will be a fixture for years to come.

R.J. Allen, 26, is integral to NYCFC’s back line now and in the future. In eight games this season, the left back registered his first career goal and two assists.

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Oxygen OS 4.7.2 for OnePlus 5T now rolling out [Download and install]

Update: Another update Oxygen OS 4.7.2 is now available for download. It brings optimizations to fingerprint, face unlock. Improvements to EIS during 4K recording,Wi-Fi WPA2 security patch, and much more. Download and install the latest firmware update via stock recovery.

OnePlus 5T is the latest Android device from the emerging smartphone manufacturer. As always, it comes with all the top-notch hardware specifications currently in trend. OnePlus 5T specifications include Snapdragon 835 processor, Adreno 540 GPU, an option to choose between 6 GB and 8 GB RAM, and 64/128 GB ROM. This stunning hardware is supported by the new Oxygen OS 4.7.1 firmware which is very close to stock Android experience. It has no bloatware so the system transition is smooth, has better battery life, and ready for customization.

The first every build for OnePlus 5T comes in as Oxygen OS 4.7.1. It is still based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat. If you are wondering, being the OnePlus flagship, why isn’t the device running the latest Android 8.0 Oreo update. Well, the manufacturer has other plans for the device. Now that the official Oxygen OS 5.0 has been released for OnePlus 3/3T based on Android 8.0 Oreo, the same may come to OnePlus 5 and 5T with the very first build Open Beta program.

According to OnePlus’ official statement, the Android Oreo Beta program for OnePlus 5 and 5 T will start right this month; which is November 2017. The two phones will get the same Open Beta version at the same time. Also, the official Oxygen OS 5.0 for OnePlus 5/5T will be released by early 2018.

Hence, the following guide will be helpful for any future OxygenOS updates for the device. Stay tuned for more such updates.

What’s new with Oxygen OS 4.7.2?

Oxygen OS 4.7.2 is out for OnePlus 5T Here is the changelog:

  • Optimizations for fingerprint unlock
  • Optimizations for face unlock
  • Improved accuracy for screen off gestures
  • Improved EIS during 4K video recording
  • Wi-Fi WPA2 security patch (Krack vulnerability patch)
  • General stability improvements and bug fixes

How to install OnePlus 5T latest Oxygen OS 4.7.2?

Note: The downloads are located at the end. So you get an idea of what we are doing before you get to downloads.

This tutorial will help you install any future OTA updates which will come to the Oxygen OS 5T. All you have to do is download the latest OxygenOS full stock firmware package and do a Local Upgrade. Also, use the method if your device is facing any problems like lag, battery drain, bootloops, etc. It will re-install the Android system keeping all your apps and data intact.

Here, we are going to use the Local Upgrade method to install it using stock recovery. Read the detailed tutorial: How to install OxygenOS update using Local Upgrade option?

If your OnePlus 5T is rooted with latest TWRP, then you can still use this full stock firmware and flash it without wiping anything.

Installation instructions:

Step 1: First, download the full Oxygen OS stock firmware package from below for OnePlus 5T.

Step 2: Transfer the firmware file to the root directory of you phone storage or SD card. This means, do not keep it under any folder. It should be outside.

Step 3: Now go to Settings> System update and tap on the top right settings icon. There you will find the option Local Upgrade. Select it.

Step 4: The Local Upgrade option will search for the latest Oxygen OS update package.

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Step 5 : Once you see an upgrade package, tap over it and then hit the install option.

Download Oxygen OS 4.7.1/4.7.2 for OnePlus 5T

The following is the very first Oxygen OS build for the OnePlus 5T. Hence, there are no OTA updates. It comes with firmware build OxygenOS 4.7.1 which can be used to flashed via stock or TWRP recovery.

Download full signed stock firmware for OnePlus 5T:

OxygenOS 4.7.2:

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Surveys by Best Friends Animal Society reveal some surprises in public attitudes toward shelter pets

From Animal Sheltering magazine March/April 2014

Are young adults too busy snapchatting to realize the realities of animal shelters? Surveys by Best Friends Animal Society turned up some surprising results and are influencing the organization’s approach to marketing. The surveys conducted by Best Friends Animal Society have led the group to retool some of its messaging in order to focus on reaching more young people, says Vicki Kilmer, director of brand management and business intelligence.

It’s often seen as a truism that social movements make a little more progress with each generation. Whether it’s attitudes about civil rights, eating meat, or other kinds of social reform, as a younger generation grows up and begins participating in public life, gradual yet seismic shifts in attitudes and policies can occur.

So when Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS) got results in some recent public opinion surveys that indicated that young adults are more likely to purchase a pet than adopt one (46 percent of 18-34-year-olds vs. 31 percent of the total adult sample), and more likely to believe shelter animals are less desirable than those who come from breeders, it was one of those “Whaaah?” moments.

It raised the question: Are the kids all right? If shelter and rescue messages are missing the younger generation, what might that mean for future trends?

Telephone surveys conducted in 2012 and 2013 by Ketchum Global Research & Analytics and Braun Research unearthed some good news—for example, respondents almost unanimously believe that having a pet makes people happier, and that shelter animals are lovable, companionable, and sweet—but also many misconceptions. About six in 10 felt shelter animals are poorly behaved (65 percent), malnourished (63 percent), and unhealthy (61 percent).

Overall, too, respondents underestimated the size of the problem: 50 percent estimated that 500 or fewer cats and dogs die each day in shelters around the country (the reality, Best Friends estimates, is closer to 9,000 daily).

Vicki Kilmer, director of brand management and business intelligence at BFAS, explores the data—and what it might mean for BFAS and animal welfare in general—in this edited interview with Animal Sheltering editor Carrie Allan.

Animal Sheltering: Were there particular issues you wanted to get a look at with this survey?

Vicki Kilmer: Generally, we were like, “OK, we know we need to better understand the public’s view of shelter animals if we’re going to better serve the animals we’re trying to save. So we’ve got some question marks there, let’s throw this out in the market and see what we learn.” We think there are misconceptions, but we don’t really know what they are. With these surveys, we really wanted to take a step back, have no assumptions, and get the landscape of public perceptions of shelter animals.

The results you got about the attitudes of young people seemed really counterintuitive and surprising. With so many other social issues, you see the most “progressive” attitudes among young people.

That was my exact thought when I saw the result. I was like, “Wow, I would have expected the exact opposite.” And I certainly wasn’t the only person in the organization to be really surprised by that result, which has led to some questions that we would like to probe further in the future. It appears to be influenced by both an awareness factor and a perception factor. In looking at the different age segments and their understanding that when animals go to a shelter, it’s likely their last stop, there’s a significant difference between the 18-34 age span in understanding that. We don’t know the reason—that’s the missing piece—but there’s clearly a significant difference in awareness that that is the nature of shelters. And then on the perception part, we also saw a significant difference in finding shelter animals less desirable than those from breeders and the perception of “damaged goods.” So we know there’s an awareness difference and a perception difference; what’s driving that is where we have an opportunity for further insight.

I would have thought prior to this study that we would see younger age spans aware of adoption as an option, and more open to that. There were a couple of findings when we did this study—you know, you always love when you initiate research and you get those “aha” things, but then it makes you wish you’d asked like 10 other questions that you didn’t! But yeah, that was really a biggie for us that we did not expect to see.

In the wake of the surveys, is BFAS talking about strategy and marketing and looking at new channels to get your messages to a younger audience?

Yes, absolutely. It’s influenced our targeting, our channels, and our media selection, and we’re really retooling in trying to get to that 18-34 age span that we didn’t realize was such a priority in the education arena until we saw the results. So we’re doing a lot more online. One example of that is that we recently launched a pro-adoption Instagram campaign using little vignettes from these pet celebrities. Little did I know, because I’m not on Instagram, but there are these pet celebrities on Instagram who are just people’s pets that have created this huge following on Instagram, and some of them actually lent their pet celebrities to our campaign. They’re just like these little vignettes about these pet celebrities who were adopted, just sending an adoption message in a fun, light, really short 15-second PSA way—but through a channel we hadn’t really leveraged that way previously. Not that we haven’t been on Instagram before, but this was a very targeted adoption message, crafted just for Instagram. It was certainly influenced by this finding and our need to get this message out to this audience in a way that would resonate with them, rather than taking a standard message we might be using already and slapping that on Instagram.Another thing we’re definitely focusing on with messaging—this has been a hot button of mine for years, one of those things that I really believed in, and it was nice to have the research to say “It’s not just Vicki’s opinion”—one thing we’re messaging more heavily is the fact that a quarter to a third of dogs in shelters are purebred. I talk with people all the time, people who are very savvy and very aware of adoption as an option and support it—but then they say they wanted a golden retriever, so they didn’t go to the shelter. I just think it’s not as well known as it should be, and it may be influencing behavior. We had this high percentage of people who say they would opt to adopt, but there’s not a connection between their stated preference and their behavior. And when we asked about barriers to adoption that was the number one thing.

I thought one of the funny and sad things was the higher number of people who said they’d advise a friend to adopt compared to the lower number of those who would adopt themselves. Do as we say, not as we do!

Yeah, I’ll tell them to go to the shelter! Anyway, we saw breed preference being the number one adoption barrier, but I was kind of surprised to see “cost” be the second. So I’m like, what is feeding the perception that adoption is a more costly endeavor than purchasing from a pet store? Is it related to this sort of “damaged goods” perception that it’s going to cost them more down the line? I don’t know. But that’s one area that I think we’ll want more insight on—I’m glad we included “cost” as a choice, but I certainly didn’t expect it to rise to the top of the examples of barriers.

Given that we’re trying to reduce euthanasia in shelters, but we also want people to have an accurate understanding of what happens to animals who enter them, how do you think people should talk about what’s going to happen in shelters?

It’s definitely a balancing act. Especially with the finding that over half of the survey participants thought that less than 500 animals in shelters died every day. We were like, “Wow, this hasn’t really risen to a level of priority, because people don’t understand the magnitude of what’s going on.”

Fifty percent of Americans estimate that only 500 animals a day die in shelters, compared to the actual number of around 9,000. It’s actually way more pathetic than that, because when you look at how that 50 percent breaks down, the vast majority thought it was 100 animals or less. So it’s like, “Wow, we’ve got a huge lack of awareness—how does that relate to the priority people have placed on this? And would that change if there were better awareness?” Forty-eight percent of survey participants believed that shelter animals just got to hang out at shelters until they find a home. You’ve got this huge dichotomy between the reality of the size of the problem and the perception of the size of the problem.

So at the same time we’re trying to educate on that, the last thing we want to do is point the finger at the shelter system. It’s a balancing act. With our messaging, we try to incorporate how we’re working with shelters, we’re working with network partners to change this reality, and we need you to be a part of that. We need you to change this reality.

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May Winner of Innovator of the Month: The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore.

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The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., is the May winner of APME's Innovator of the Month contest. The paper is honored for its social media integration into reader contests.

APME's Innovator of the Year, now in its fifth year, is expanding in 2011 by naming an innovation of the month.

"We're pleased at APME to put a continuing spotlight on innovations at newspapers," said Bob Heisse, APME vice president and Innovations Committee chairman. "Salem’s project shares a great idea.”

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Three people, including a 2-year-old boy, were injured in a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 115 at Lehigh Road on Tuesday.

The child was a passenger in a Dodge Ram pickup driven by his father, a 31-year-old Herscher man.

James E. Earleywine, 66, of Bradley, was driving a Ford F150 pickup.

All three were taken to Presence St. Mary’s Hospital in Kankakee for treatment of their injuries.

A preliminary report by Illinois State Police District 21 indicated the Dodge was traveling eastbound on Route 115 near Lehigh Road (7000W Road) at approximately 3 p.m.

The Ford was traveling southbound on Lehigh Road and failed to stop at the stop sign at Route 115, hitting the Dodge.

Earleywine was issued a ticket for disobeying a stop sign.

The intersection has been the scene of several accidents this year in which vehicles on Lehigh Road have failed to stop at the stop sign.

There are signs and rumble strips on Lehigh Road in an effort to alert drivers they must stop.

On Sept. 16, an 85-year-old man from Herscher was seriously injured when the pickup he was driving eastbound on Route 115 was struck by a northbound semi-tractor trailer that failed to stop on Lehigh Road. The driver of the semi was issued a ticket for failure to yield at an intersection.

On Aug. 2, a 24-year-old Herscher man was seriously injured at the same intersection.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge ruled California’s death penalty unconstitutional Wednesday, writing that lengthy and unpredictable delays have resulted in an arbitrary and unfair capital punishment system.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney represents a legal victory for those who want to abolish the death penalty in the country’s most populous state and follows a similar ruling that has suspended executions in the state for years.

Carney, in a case brought by a death row inmate against the warden of San Quentin state prison, called the death penalty an empty promise that violates the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

“Inordinate and unpredictable delay has resulted in a death penalty system in which very few of the hundreds of individuals sentenced to death have been, or even will be, executed by the State,” Carney wrote.

Since the current death penalty system was adopted by California voters 35 years ago, more than 900 people have been sentenced to death, but only 13 have been executed, he wrote.

The judge noted that death penalty appeals can last decades, and as a result most condemned inmates are likely to die of natural causes before their executions are carried out.

He continued, writing that “arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate ones like the nature of the crime or the date of the death sentence, determine whether an individual will actually be executed.”

Gil Garcetti, a former Los Angeles County district attorney who has become an anti-death penalty activist, called the ruling “truly historic.”

“It further proves that the death penalty is broken beyond repair,” he said, calling for capital punishment to be replaced with “with life in prison without the possibility of parole.”

Carney’s ruling came in a legal petition brought by Ernest Dewayne Jones, sentenced to die in 1994 after being convicted of murdering and raping his girlfriend’s mother.

The ruling could be appealed by the governor or state attorney general, who both oppose the death penalty. For now, Jones will likely remain on death row.

Another federal judge put California’s death penalty on hold in 2006 when he ruled its lethal injection procedures needed an overhaul.

The judge found that the state’s procedures created too much risk that an inmate would suffer extreme pain while being executed. At that time, lethal injections were carried out in San Quentin’s old gas chamber, which the judge found too cramped, too dark and too old for prison staff to properly administer execution drugs.

Since then, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has built a new execution chamber on the grounds of San Quentin and made a number of changes to its procedures to address the judge’s concerns.

A new federal judge has taken over the case and has not ruled on whether those changes are enough to restart executions.

Additionally, the corrections department is drafting a new set of regulations for administering lethal injections. No executions can take place until the new regulations are formally adopted.

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Bruce Willis laments sudden end to action-thriller ‘Wake’

February 28, 2015

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Willis is not saying “Yippie-ki-yay” about the cancellation of his latest film.

A spokesman for Willis told The Associated Press Friday that production of “Wake” was suddenly halted this week when financing fell through, and the actor is concerned that crew members who joined him “in good faith” are left jobless.

Publicist Paul Bloch said the company responsible for financing the film didn’t deliver the promised funds, so production of the action-thriller was indefinitely suspended. Shooting began earlier this month in Cleveland.

Benaroya Pictures did not return calls and emails seeking comment Friday.

“Wake” was also to star Ben Kingsley and Ellen Burstyn.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Michelle Polaski’s teen-age brothers teased her the day she brought home organ donor cards and distributed them at the dinner table.

It was early April 1987, and the 18-year-old high school senior had been moved by the plight of a friend who needed an organ transplant.

Within three months, Michelle was dead, the victim of a car crash. Five people received her corneas, heart valves and kidneys.

″I miss my child every day, but my beautiful Michelle lives on through these people,″ her mother, Rosalie Conaty of Pennsauken, N.J., said Tuesday.

She spoke as the Coalition on Donation unveiled a national ad campaign. The public service announcements sponsored by the Ad Council seek to drive home the message that potential donors must not only sign organ donor cards but also make their wishes known to family members.

″They are the ones who will implement the decision,″ said Howard Nathan, head of the Delaware Valley Transplant Program, which helped launch the campaign.

National polls show more than 85 percent of the public support organ donations, but more than half of them haven’t made decisions about donating their own organs or those of family members, the Virginia-based coalition said.

The Ad Council expects media outlets to donate $25 million a year in air time and print space to the five-year campaign, which aims to increase organ donations by as much as 20 percent.

Nationally, 35,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, nearly three times the number who receive organs each year, the coalition says. It is estimated that eight to 10 people die each day while waiting for new organs.

Lee Downing is among the lucky: He got a new liver six years ago.

″Today I am healthy and happy and as a matter of fact I’ve never felt better in all my life,″ said Downing, 44, of North Wales.

″I will never forget the love and compassion of a stranger, my donor and his family, for they are the reason I am here today.″

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Probably the best way to study politics is to meet a real live politician in his natural habitat.

On March 29, five NC social science students from Argyll College travelled to Holyrood where they toured Scotland's parliament before meeting senior MSP Michael Russell, who represents Argyll and Bute. Also present was Mr Russell's assistant Heather Wolfe, who is the granddaughter of William Wolfe, one of the guiding figures of the modern Scottish National Party.
The students were given generous access to Mr Russell, who answered their questions for more than half an hour. The five women travelled from their respective centres, meeting up at Queen Street station in Glasgow for the final leg of their journey.

They were Amanda MacLeod and Kayti MacKinnon from Oban, Jean McAskill and Suzanne Daly from Dunoon, and Rebecca Lloyd from Helensburgh. Another Helensburgh student, Gillian Batley was unfortunately not able to join the party, but they were accompanied by Lynn Spencer, the mother of the late Katherine Spencer, an enthusiastic member of the NC social sciences class, who very sadly passed away in her sleep earlier in the year. Katherine was looking forward very much to the trip, and so it seemed appropriate that he mother should attend in her place.

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Who put $1.5 million into the slimy advertising to beat Bill Halter? Today's the day for Sen. Lincoln to introduce her own legislation to keep "Americans for Job Security" and their ilk from stealth politicking. Corporations may be able to spend unlimited sums in the eyes of the John Roberts Supreme Court, but they damn sure ought to be made to disclose their spending.

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