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Book Review: Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri (2019)November 19th, 2019 7:00 am by mad mags
"Who knew why straight people did anything, really."
(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for racism, homophobia, and transphobia.)
You and I, we're twenty feet and more than a hundred years apart.
("the shape of my name")
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And the one thing he can't see, can't imagine: his future. That's the monster, really, that's lurking at the corner of this painting.
("a silly love story")
Maybe it's my pitiful lack of imagination, or perhaps it's just because I've written so damn many of these, but I always have the most trouble titling a review. It's not uncommon for me to just pluck a choice quote from the book I'm reviewing. Here, though? The title pretty much chose itself.
Homesick: Stories is such a gloriously and unapologetically queer collection of short fiction something soundcloud. And it doesn't feel gimmicky or purposefully overdone, either: the LBGTQ elements are organic, authentic, and fit seamlessly with the content of the stories. Like, they just are. And why not? The author is "queer and nonbinary/transgender" (and "One time, an angry person called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty cool.").
The writing here is exquisite and magical; every word and turn of phrase feels like it was conjured from the 'verse using spells and potions herunterladen. The stories could mostly be described as speculative fiction, with a liberal seasoning of fantasy and scifi throughout. Many of the tales have a surreal, dreamlike quality to them that will throw you for a loop – or twenty.
They didn't all do it for me – them's the breaks with anthologies – but even the "worst" of the bunch was entertaining and held my full attention. Really my main complaint, in the event that there is one, is that some of the stories either end abruptly or without a satisfactory conclusion. That said, "the shape of my name" and "before we disperse like star stuff" alone make Homesick a must read herunterladen.
"a silly love story" – 4/5
There is a poltergeist living in Jeremy's closet, unspooling the stitching on his ancient suit and stinking everything up with the smell of apricots and dust. There is also a bigender person named Merion haunting his heart, threatening to either break or cultivate it. This is a surprisingly sweet and tender story, and the monster is absolutely not what you expect it to be. (Hint: it's a thousand times scarier than a mildly annoying ghost.)
"Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out!" – 3/5
I got Jane Doe, with Madelyn coming in a close second hp bios.
"dead air" – 4/5
Nita's sociologically influenced art project/"ethnography of the people I fuck" goes off the rails when she falls in love with one of her subjects, a girl named Maddie. Maddie is haunted by her small town past, and before long those ghosts will devour Nita too. "dead air" is creepy and atmospheric, and has a kind of Blair Witch vibe, told as it is via a series of interview transcripts. I just wish I knew wtf was going on (!).
"she hides" – 3/5
After Anjana's aging parents move into a nursing home, she's tasked with cleaning out their house tipico android herunterladen. In an otherworldly mirroring of her mom's deteriorating mental state, the house begins to shrink before Anjana's eyes. So she takes refuge in the hiding place of her childhood: her parents' oversized bedroom bureau. "she hides" is beautifully told, yet it didn't quite do it for me.
"let down, set free" – 3/5
In a letter addressed to her ex-husband, the narrator recounts how she left her old life behind: saddled atop a floating alien tree. An invasive species the government has instructed its citizens to burn, natch.
"the shape of my name" – 5/5 amazing
Originally published as a short story on Tor.com in 2015, "the shape of my name" is one of my favorites of the bunch pc programme kostenlos downloaden. Heron was born in the 1950s and assigned female at birth. His mom knew that he'd one day make the transition to male and choose his own name. Not because she's particularly insightful or progressive when it comes to gender roles and identity, but rather because her family has a time machine and she's seen the future. Perhaps this is why she chose to live and die in self-exile in the future, abandoning Heron and his father in the present.
I'm sure you were lonely, waiting for me to grow up so you could travel again. You were exiled when you married Dad in 1947, in that feverish period just after the war. It must have been so romantic at first. I've seen the letters he wrote during the years he courted you xbox one updates automatisch herunterladen. You'd grown up seeing his name written next to yours, with the date that you'd marry him. When did you start feeling trapped, I wonder? You were caught in a weird net of fate and love and the future and the past. You loved Dad, but your love kept you hostage. You loved me, but you knew that someday I'd transform myself into someone you didn't recognize.
"the shape of my name" is a magical, innovative, and aching scifi story that weaves time travel with trans issues in a way that's simply breathtaking. It's really just a thing of beauty and wonder, particularly in the words Cipri chooses to describe each year in the narrator's experience sims 3 kostenlos möbel downloaden. Every jump, every era, has its own distinct feeling and flavor. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it.
"not an ocean, but the sea" – 3/5
A middle-aged cleaning woman named Nadia finds an ocean hidden under her clients' couch. At just a few pages, this is the shortest of the short stories. No less magical, but I want more!
"presque vu" – 4/5
Everyone in this unnamed town is haunted by something. Clay coughs up keys, usually while fast asleep at night. His neighbor Mari receives vintage postcards. Her boyfriend Finn wakes up with unspooled cassette tapes tangled in his hair herunterladen. Clay's ex-lover Joe gets phone calls from a ghost. And the entire community is plagued by wraiths, ethereal creatures who fly overhead and emit radioactive-esque glowing lights. Supposedly "unwinding" a wraith will rid its abuser of their haunting. Cue: some really vile and uncomfortable ugliness.
A lovely and brutal story, "presque vu" ended just a little too abruptly for my tastes.
"before we disperse like star stuff" – 5/5
Two years ago, the discovery of an intelligent nonhuman species – Megalictis ossicarminis, who lived three and a half million years ago, looked like a cross between river otters and wolverines, and were capable of using tools and written language – brought three friends together. There's Damian Flores, an activist who left academia to pen a popular science book about his discovery; Min-ji Hong, PhD candidate in linguistics at the University of Chicago and Damian's close friend since their high school days at Camp Transcendent; and Ray Walker, a biology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas and Damian's ex-lover.
Reunited for a documentary the Smithsonian network is shooting, the estranged friends try to work through the aftermath of their fame: Damian's selling out (and Damian and Ray's subsequent breakup), Min's theft of the oracle bones, and the potential reinterment of the ossicarminis's remains.
While "a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels" is both fascinating and ultimately what sold me on this collection, "before we disperse like star stuff" is as much about relationships as anything: romantic, platonic, societal. It's about what we owe each other, including our ancestors and neighbors.
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RESIDENTS are being invited to join Wiltshire Council leaders this month to discuss the services that the council provides and its plans for future years.
The Focussing on the Future public meetings will be spread across four dates in locations around Wiltshire this January.
The first is on Tuesday, January 7 at The Alamein Suite, City Hall, Salisbury, and the next on Thursday, January 9 at Council Chamber, Monkton Park, Chippenham.
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Since 2017/18, the council has saved around £67 million by working more efficiently and prioritising services but it estimates a further £15 million must be saved next year despite the demand for services continuing to grow, especially in social care, at a higher rate than the current budget.
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On Saturday I asked God or wondered on my blog if my praying for women and girls who are pretty, fun, revealing, dancing, waving or doing other fun things led God or angels to lead some of them to do such things in my presence or in a way that attracts my attention or I find fun.
On Sunday as I was telling the story of encountering the Muslim man of Danville, I realized that at lunchtime the pizza place had given me two slices of pizza when I had paid for only one. Giving me an extra slice of pizza leads me to be praying for the workers of the pizza place.
I have been at this pizza place more than a hundred times and perhaps more than 200 at this point, given that we would count a lunch visit and a dinner visit separately. Once I began to visit the place, I have routinely bought my lunch there as a single slice of pizza.
Of the previous 100 and some times or slightly under 100 times that I have had lunch at this pizza place, the number of times that the staff has given me an extra slice of pizza is one. That is, on "1" of the previous 75 to 130 times I have had lunch at this place, they have given an extra slice. I in fact blessed them several months ago on the day that they had given that extra slice, but I do not remember the month!
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God bless the workers at this pizza place.
Does God lead some people to do things that then lead me to feel like praying for them and to pray for them that God bless them and be nice to them?
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Pinterest Marketing Strategy Especially for Bloggers
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In the twentieth century, the US State Department regularly published accounts of torture in some countries, publicly condemning its use and urging improvements in human rights in these countries. In particular, the United States condemned the use of torture practices as partial justification for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Thus, it is with some irony that the United States itself has been condemned internationally for the use of torture in its interrogations during the War on Terror.
Even President George W. Bush has been quoted as stating that "The United States does not torture, it is against our laws and it is against our values" with similar sentiments being echoed by others in his administration, such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.However, extensive evidence shows that torture was the practice and de facto policy of the Bush administration and was executed primarily by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a core component of the "War on Terror." In a six-thousand page report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee (of which a 500 page summary was released to the public in December 2015) numerous acts of torture were documented, many of which violated international human rights law and stood contrary to American values.
If the use of torture is so contrary to "American values," why then was torture a tool so routinely used by policymakers and valued by the public in the War on Terror? This ethical dichotomy between "American values," which traditionally oppose torture, and the reality of the use of torture exists due to the way in which attitudes towards American exceptionalism (which were heightened after 9/11) combined with misinformation in the media and pop culture regarding the effectiveness of torture and the identities of those subjected to torture. This dangerous combination formed the conception that torture is an effective tool against agents who threaten "American values," while disregarding the way in which the American state would degrade its own values by using torture.
Hilde Restad, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College has worked extensively on the topic of American Exceptionalism. In her book, American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World, she asserts that in the aftermath of 9/11, "the Bush administration communicated a conception of American exceptionalism that set the United States apart from the rest of the world as a leader of a new crusade for democracy, strategically playing on this sense of national identity in order to engender support for specific practices." This conception of American exceptionalism fell more closely in line with the good-versus-evil rhetoric commonly employed during the Cold War (and particularly the Reagan administration) than the still present, but less overt, ideals of American exceptionalism communicated between the fall of the Soviet Union and the attacks of 9/11. President Bush, Hilde Restad asserts, consistently framed the attacks of September 11, 2001 as an assault on freedom and the United States' democratic institutions. This rhetoric helped to establish the idea that the United States was the "moral leader in the crusade against terrorism." The association of fighting terrorism with defending American values treated support for the War on Terror as a test of patriotism, and this tactic was used in 97% of presidential rhetoric immediately following 9/11. It is unsurprising, then, that there was widespread bi-partisan support for the War on Terror.
This rise in the salience of American exceptionalism in U.S. political discourse is exemplified in a 2011 New York Times op-ed addressing a foreign policy debate among that year's presidential hopefuls. The Times reported, "This is a crowd that's big on exceptionalism, and not according to its onetime definition: as a reference to the peculiar and advantageous circumstances of our county's genesis. They're asserting that we have a unique global standing, our eminence essential and our values worthy of export." The candidates were not off-base in trying to appeal to American exceptionalism in their campaign rhetoric either, as a 2010 Gallup poll showed that 80 percent of Americans agreed that "because of the United States' history and Constitution, the United States has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world."
Data also show that, as recently as December 2014, just after the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture (which revealed that the CIA committed acts such as playing "Russian Roulette" with detainees and subjecting them to rectal rehydration), many Americans still believed that the CIA's treatment of suspected terrorists did not amount to torture and that the torture of suspected terrorists could be justified. Specifically, a Washington Post– ABC news poll revealed that 38 percent of Americans believed that the CIA's treatment of suspected terrorists did not amount to torture, and 58 percent of Americans believed that torture of suspected terrorists could often or sometimes be justified, additionally 19 percent responded that torture could be justified in rare instances. Of the same group of respondents, 53 percent believed that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists produced information that could not have been produced any other way. These types of sentiments are echoed not only by the general public, but also by American soldiers, as a 2007 Washington Post article revealed that at least one-third of American soldiers believed that torture should be allowed if it helps gather important information about insurgents.
These statistics clearly show that, while around three-quarters of Americans believed there to be at least some rare instances that justify torture, the majority of respondents assume that the use of torture or enhanced interrogation techniques can result in information that advances U.S. national security. Unfortunately, and contrary to many Americans' beliefs, torture does not typically result in reliable information. After the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture, the Washington Post stated that "the report found that more than two dozen detainees were wrongly held, that the program was poorly managed, and that the CIA misled U.S. officials about the effectiveness of the program." The New York Times also found at least eight specific instances in the report in which CIA claims of torture being effectively used to gain intelligence were shown to be false. The most high profile case in which the CIA lied about the effectiveness of its program was in relation to the killing of Osama bin Laden. In this case, the CIA claimed that information produced under its enhanced interrogation program led to vital information about one of bin Laden's secret couriers and ultimately aided the now famous 2011 raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader. As it turns out, however, the CIA had information about this courier as early as 2002 and that information had been obtained from a different detainee who had been cooperative from the outset. Furthermore, in 2012, researcher John Scheimann concluded in his paper "Interrogational Torture: Or How Good Guys get Bad Information with Ugly Methods" that, although information from interrogational torture is unreliable, it is likely to be used frequently and harshly.
In addition to, or perhaps because of, this misinformation from the CIA, the idea that torture is a useful and essential tool in obtaining information is prevalent in many contemporary elements of pop culture, which helps explain why so many people find the arguments for torture so convincing. Even recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia once cited the television show 24 and its main character Jack Bauer as relevant background for constitutional jurisprudence regarding "rough interrogation" methods. He states that "Jack Bauer saved hundreds of lives… Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? … I don't think so." But as both the Atlantic article where this quote appears, and satirical news anchor John Oliver point out, Jack Bauer is not real, and torture works in shows like 24 because it has to in order to move the plot along.
So although American values, according to academics as well as public officials oppose the use of torture, many actions taken by the United States government, and the Central Intelligence Agency in particular, following 9/11 can be classified as torture. Further, an overwhelming number of Americans think that the use of these techniques was essential in obtaining information relevant to American security and the War on Terror. After 9/11, there was a rise in the frequency of rhetoric on American exceptionalism, framed in the context that the terrorist attacks were the result of hatred for American constitutional freedoms, such as the freedoms of religion, speech, and democratic election. The hatred of these values and freedoms, which 80 percent of Americans believe make the United States the greatest country in the world, now poses a threat to American security and American lives. In post-9/11 America, the pairing of growing support for the idea that the United States is a beacon of democracy, and the greatest country in the world, now threatened by terrorism, with the false information that torture effectively produces intelligence that is crucial to national security can be attributed to the ethical dichotomy in which American ideals are fundamentally opposed to the concept of torture.
Kellianne McClain is a student in the School of International Service and College of Arts & Sciences class of 2017. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Photography on Dull Days…. can you do it?
Its the weekend, you've been looking forward to getting the camera out for shoot, but its dull as chuff… grey skies, no shadows or interesting light.
What do you do – abandon the camera?
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- Avoid including skies – they're dull, lifeless and have no texture, so no real interest
- Shoot waterfalls – low light means you can get those long shutter speeds to blur the water
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- Street photography – I'll not lie, I prefer bright sunshine and all the shadows and highlights it gives you, but street is good on dull days too. You probably need to jack up the ISO and have a wider aperture to sharply capture those moving people.
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Look who's finally ready to meet you!
I'm thrilled to introduce you to my baby boy, Kai John Joseph Krilla. Kai was born on October 2nd, sharing a birthday with my father. He fooled everyone weighing in at a whopping 7 pounds 14 ounces.
Birth was…well…like nothing I could have ever imagined.
The same goes for living with a newborn. I'll write more on that in a future post as I move through these initial postpartum weeks! It has been a lot of ups and downs. No one tells you that along with the love and joy also comes feelings of extreme doubt and isolation.
Before going into labor, I chose not to write a birth plan because I knew that birth wouldn't be within my control.
However, I was hoping to have a natural water birth free of pain medication. They say that birth can be a healing experience so I pictured candles, soft music, lots of deep breathing and the overall experience being a spiritual transformation.
I downloaded a hypnobirthing audio that walks you through affirmations and breathing techniques to take you through the contractions. Oh, except they don't call them contractions, but riding a wave or something like that.
As my due date approached, I couldn't wait to meet the little guy! Everyone warned me that first time moms rarely have their babies on or before their due date. That was a bummer. The only way I can describe it is waiting for Christmas to come all year long only for someone to tell you "the presents are under the tree, but you can't unwrap them yet, in fact, Christmas may not even come until some time in January."
So I tried to stay in a positive space and I felt great. I went for long walks, read books, and swam almost daily.
The morning of my due date, September 30th, I woke up with mild contractions. I didn't know if I was going into labor, but my husband stayed home from work just in case. The contractions faded away so I decided to still go to my acupuncture appointment. I told her that I had experienced some contractions and to get this show on the road!
If I had known that I wouldn't get more than 2 hours of sleep per night for the next 6 weeks I might have thought differently.
But let me tell you…acupuncture is the real deal.
By 6 pm the evening of September 30th I was having mild contractions again. They weren't painful so I enjoyed a nice dinner on the porch with Peter and even had a small glass of red wine.
By 9 pm…holy sh-t!!! The contractions were ROCKIN'.
What am I supposed to be doing? Riding a wave? Breathing? Screw that all I can do is land on my hands and knees and try to stay upright until it's over.
I called the midwives and asked when I should come into the hospital. They told me to start timing my contractions and come if they're a few minutes apart for an hour. So I sent Peter to bed to get a little sleep while I rode the contractions for a while on my own.
Around 1:30 am they were definitely a few minutes apart for at least a minute each. I woke Peter up to leave for the hospital. After a very traumatic car ride, I was wheeled up to the labor and delivery floor to be told I was only 1 cm dilated and this could be false labor.
I still don't understand exactly what false labor is but I was going to be very mad if I had it! They sent me home and said to call back at noon the next day if I was still having contractions.
I took a hot bath at home which slowed down the contractions just enough for me to get a few minutes of rest in between. My dog, Pono, was sweet enough to lay with me as I rested.
By noon on October 1st my contractions were still in full swing so I called the hospital again and told them I wasn't doing so well. They had me come back in for therapeutic rest, which is essentially giving you morphine and fluids in an IV so you can sleep and hope that moves your labor along. I had the most blessed 8 hours of rest in my life. I was exhausted, and thankful.
I should note that the reason my labor was taking so long is because Kai was turned in the wrong position facing up. Therefore, the back of his head was resting on my spine. This keeps labor from progressing and also gives you back labor. So with each contraction rather than only feeling it in my abdomen, I had the worst back pain I have ever experienced.
By 3 am October 2nd I was still in full labor (not false labor thank God), and they talked to me about my options.
As much as I would have loved to tell them to bring the labor tub in and try for a natural water birth, I didn't have it in me. I just needed this to be over. So they gave me an epidural and twisted me in crazy positions with the hopes of turning Kai around.
Considering how things had been going I figured I'd give birth to my baby some time the next day. But after a few hours I started feeling a strange urge to push. I had Peter fetch the midwives to come check on me. To their surprise, Kai had flipped himself around and I was now fully dilated! Yay! Time to push!
This was actually the fun part (did I just say that?).
With a renewed spirit, I pushed with the last reserves of energy I could muster. As Kai was beginning to make his appearance, he was squirming around so much that they actually instructed me to stop pushing to see what would happen.
Kai literally crawled out on his own with a hand up in front of his face as if saying "hello, world!"
The midwife almost cried at how beautiful of a birth it was. In all her years of practice she had only seen a baby birth themselves in this way once.
They immediately threw him onto my chest where I got to cradle him in my arms for the first time. We spent the next 24 hours with our baby in the hospital before getting ready to go home.
I'm going to share with you in this post some very real and raw photos from my birth. Normally I'd be wary of sharing these as I'm sweaty and tired and have no makeup on, and Kai isn't cleaned up yet in some of them. So if you're squemish…may not be the post for you. But birth isn't glamorous. It's real and raw and gritty and amazing.
I will say that even though my birth didn't turn out exactly how I imagined, I can't say enough about the hospital and the midwives. They were so kind, knowledgeable and compassionate. They didn't rush me and did everything in their power to avoid a C-Section.
Now, 5 weeks later, I am more tired than I have ever been in my life but my heart is full. It is a mixture of emotions…don't let anyone tell you differently or make you feel bad if having a baby is nothing like you imagined.
Someone told me that with every contraction there is expansion. This is not only true in birth but in life, too. And during my bad days I cling to that thought. This is a time of both contraction in my life and expansion.
Post traumatic stress, life events, and post partum can lead us into opportunity or despair. We all need someone to hold that vision of opportunity for us when going through the hard times. Life is a mixture. There is so much expansion out there when you allow it! For a bit of inspiration, download my free guide.
More on that soon. But for now, below are some pictures of us in our first month together 🙂 And as always, leave a comment below if anything in this post resonated with you, or if there is something you'd like to share!
Minutes After Birth
Kai Getting Weighed
First Day in the Maternity Ward
Sweet Sweet Baby Love Nugget 🙂
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President Donald Trump met with a group of predominantly black pastors at the White House Monday as he continued to criticize one of the more prominent African American members of Congress and the city he represents.
Along with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump met with a group of about 20 clergy as they discussed the progress the administration is making on a number of issues impacting inner cities such as employment, criminal justice, prison re-entry and opportunity zone initiatives.
The meeting comes almost a year after Trump met with a group of inner-city pastors last August to discuss similar issues to help their communities.
Monday's meeting included: Maryland Bishop Harry Jackson, a social conservative who pastors Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland; Bishop Darrell Hines of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans Jr.; Pastor Bill Winston of Living Word Christian Center in Illinois; the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and Trump supporter, Alveda King; Las Vegas Pastor Benny Perez; and the Rev. Bill Owens, founder of the Coalition of African American Pastors.
Photos of the meeting posted to Pence's official @VP Twitter account and later removed show that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson also participated in the meeting. Pence's account later posted another tweet without photos that called the meeting "productive."
"These Pastors have put their faith to work in their own communities, revitalizing inner cities and delivering positive results while working with President @realDonaldTrump on so many important initiatives," Pence's tweet reads.
According to Jackson, the meeting was a follow-up to the White House meeting with inner-city pastors Trump held last year, many of whom were also in attendance for Monday's meeting. Many pastors who attended the meeting last year received criticism for their decision to participate from those in the African American community who oppose Trump.
"What I was impressed by is how much support we got from the African American pastors," Jackson told The Christian Post of Monday's meeting. "And they're basically saying that we realize that we're in a volatile, contentious political environment but we think that Trump has been more than faithful in just following up and making sure things that he promises he does."
The meeting comes on the heels of a weekend in which Trump took to Twitter to criticize House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling his congressional district, which includes parts of Baltimore, as a rat infested and crime ridden place "no human being would want to live."
Trump also called the 68-year-old African American lawmaker "racist" and said that "his radical 'oversight' is a joke." Trump did not let up on his criticisms Monday, labeling left-leaning activist Al Sharpton as a "con man" as he traveled to Baltimore to criticize Trump's remarks against the city and Cummings.
East Baltimore Pastor Donte Hickman said he turned down the offer to join the White House meeting because he was unavailable, The Baltimore Sun reports, adding that he wasn't sure if the invitation was in response to Trump's remarks on Cummings and the city.
Hickman added that he invited the president to visit him in Baltimore last year and that invitation still stands.
"I think it's important for the president to engage with and really see the community of which he talks about and has talked about giving support to," Hickman told The Baltimore Sun.
Jackson told CP that the Cummings ordeal had "no bearing" on the timing of the White House meeting from a "macro" level. However, the meeting was not listed on the president's public schedule Monday.
"I think it was on the White House's mind a long time ago," Jackson said, adding that he wasn't sure when the decision was made to have the meeting on Monday. "I talked about this trip and coming back together again. And pretty much, it's all about locking down schedules. And then, you get a short framework. But I would have expected it to happen a couple of months ago, actually."
During the meeting, Jackson said that pastors discussed everything from the administration's work to lower unemployment in the African American community, the creation of opportunity zones to provide tax incentives for investment in low-income communities, and the passing of the bipartisan criminal justice reform and other advancements that will help inner-city communities.
"We talked about everything from religious liberties, to life issues. So what impressed me was the positivity," Jackson added.
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The virtues of fasting in general and of Ramadan in particular
|There are many virtues of Ramadan and fasting expressed in the Qur'an and in the authentic Sunnah of the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam. If only one of these virtues was told to us it would have been enough motivation to perfect our fasting seeking that reward and the pleasure of Allah, but it is again from the mercy of Allah that He taught us many virtues of fasting so that we get encouraged even more. I will focus mainly on the virtues of forgiveness, salvation from Hell fire and reward of Paradise, but before that I shall mention few other virtues that are not less important than the latter.
A means to attain Taqwa
Allah says [meaning]: "O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you as it has been prescribed for people before you so that you will (learn how to) attain Taqwa" [al-Baqarah, 2:183]
A merciful recommendation from Allah
"and fast, it is better for you, if only you knew" [al-Baqarah, 2:184]
The practice of the Prophets
Ibn Abbas reported: "The Prophet came to Madinah and found the Jews fasting the day of Ashura. He asked them: "Why are you fasting this day?" They said: "This is a great day. Allah saved Mousa (Moses) and the tribes of Israel from their enemies on this day and therefore Mousa fasted on it. "The Prophet said: "We have more of a right to Mousa than you." So he fasted on that day also and ordered the people to fast on that day." [al-Bukhari and Muslim].
A great reward for those who fast
Abu Huraira, radhiya Allahu `anh reported many Ahadith in this regard. We will mention few of them as they carry the same meaning.
A means to cut sexual desires
The Messenger of Allah, salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam, ordered the one who has strong desires and the need for marriage, but is unable to marry, to fast. Fasting is thus a means of cutting desires, since it reduces the vigor of the limbs of the body, it calms them and bridles them.
The supplication of the fasting person is granted
Jabir, radhiya Allahu `anhu relates that the Messenger of Allah, salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam said :" In every day and every night, during the month of Ramadan, there are people to whom Allah grants freedom from the Fire, and there is for every Muslim a supplication which he can make and will be granted". [al-Bazzaar, Ahmad and Ibn Majah; Sahih]
A Means of intercession on the Day of Judgment
`Abdullah ibn `Amr reported that the Messenger of Allah, salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam, said: "The fast and the Qur'an are two intercessors for the servant of Allah on the Day of Resurrection. The fast will say: 'O Lord, I prevented him from his food and desires during the day. Let me intercede for him.' The Qur'an will say: 'I prevented him from sleeping at night. Let me intercede for him.' And their intercession will be accepted." [Ahmad]
In Ramadan there is Laylatul Qadr (the night of Decree)
"Indeed We have revealed it (Qur'an) in the night of Decree. And what will explain to you what the night of Decree is? The night of Decree is better than than a thousand months. Therein descends the Angels and the Spirit (Jibreel) by Allah's permission, on every errand: (they say) "peace" (continuously) till the rise of Morning!" (97:1-5)
A `Umra in Ramadan is equivalent to Hajj
`Ata' said : I heard Ibn 'Abbas saying, "Allah's Apostle asked an Ansari woman (Ibn 'Abbas named her but 'Ata' forgot her name), 'What prevented you from performing Hajj with us?' She replied, 'We have a camel and the father of so-and-so and his son (i.e. her husband and her son) rode it and left one camel for us to use for irrigation.' He said (to her), 'Perform 'Umra when Ramadan comes, for 'Umra in Ramadan is equal to Hajj (in reward),' or said something similar." [Bukhari].
A Means of Forgiveness
It is a reality that none of us is perfect. We all have some weaknesses and shortcoming and we find ourselves committing sins out of ignorance or out of submission to our desires and whims and thus driving ourselves away from Allah darkening our heart and sealing them from guidance and overloading our books of bad deeds. However, Allah said of Himself that He is the Most Merciful the oft-Forgiving. As part of this infinite Mercy He made available for us various ways of achieving forgiveness and sin expiation. Among the most important and beneficial of these ways of forgiveness is fasting in general and in Ramadan in particular. Let us discover this glad tiding from the sweet words of the Messenger of Allah, salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam.
|Fasting is also a means of expiations for various sins
During Hajj, shaving the head while in a state of Ihraam, during Hajj [pilgrimage], for one who does that due to some illness. Or One who is unable to carry out the obligatory sacrifice in Hajj
"And complete the Hajj or 'umra in the service of Allah. But if you are prevented (From completing it), send an offering for sacrifice, such as you may find, and do not shave your heads until the offering reaches the place of sacrifice. And if any of you is ill, or has an ailment in his scalp, (Necessitating shaving), (He should) in compensation either fast, or feed the poor, or offer sacrifice; and when you are in peaceful conditions (again), if any one wishes to continue the 'umra on to the hajj, He must make an offering, such as he can afford, but if he cannot afford it, He should fast three days during the hajj and seven days on his return, Making ten days in all. This is for those whose household is not in (the precincts of) the Sacred Mosque. And fear Allah, and know that Allah Is strict in punishment." [al-Baqara, 2:196]
Hunting while in a state of Ihraam during Hajj
"O you who believe! Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. If any of you do so intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka'ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he killed, as adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the indigent; or its equivalent in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. Allah forgives what is past: for repetition Allah will exact from him the penalty. For Allah is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution."[al-Ma'idah, 5:95]
Accidently killing a person from a people with whom you have a treaty
"Never should a believer kill a believer; but (If it so happens) by mistake, (Compensation is due): If one (so) kills a believer, it is ordained that he should free a believing slave, and pay compensation to the deceased's family, unless they remit it freely. If the deceased belonged to a people at war with you, and he was a believer, the freeing of a believing slave (Is enough). If he belonged to a people with whom you have treaty of Mutual alliance, compensation should be paid to his family, and a believing slave be freed. For those who find this beyond their means, (is prescribed) a fast for two months running: by way of repentance to Allah. for Allah hath all knowledge and all wisdom". [an-Nisaa', 4:92]
Violating an oath
"Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths you have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that you may be grateful." [al-Ma'idah, 5:89]
The saying of a husband to his wife: You are to me like the back of my mother (i.e. unlawful to me).
Fasting in Ramadan; a way to Paradise
We have seen that Ramadan saves from Hell Fire and saves from sins by leading to forgiveness. Besides all this (and it would have been enough if it were only that) Ramadan leads the fasting believer to al-Jannah (Paradise). Paradise, that house that contains what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never crossed the mind of a human being, and that contains all what a soul desires.


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I LOVE Alice lore SOOOOOOOOOO MUUUUCH!! \u2665 \u2665 \u2665
Characters - ONELOVE!! \u2665 \u2665 But the story is SOOOOO creepy:(( And sad T_________T
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Hope, that you also would make RIGHT conclusions!. That's definitely true first visual novel in VR! I didn\u2019t even expect, that VN is even possible to exist in such format. First of all \u2013 dat\u2019s really VN, which mixed beautiful arts and 3D environment, which changes day of time and weather in realtime. By the other hand \u2013 it\u2019s in-game sound, that makes you dive into a story, which\u2019s getting darker and darker\u2026 Cool art style and I noticed that you can get through the storyline, playing from view of the two different girls \u2013 Alice and another one hero(Dark \u201cAlice\u201d?). So, the storyline is going different according their point of view.
Very addictive game, and it\u2019d not so stressful as all these VR shooters and other action games. So I think I\u2019ll spend a lot of hours in this strange atmospheric world. The only disadvantage is that I get tired if I use VR for a long time, and the story is so complex, that I still didn\u2019t figured out what actually happened, but I hope it will get clearer as I proceed further.
Devs are even made the whole plot in a poetic way and add battles, so, seems we\u2019ve got here kind of a new standard for VN in VR-format! Great work, team!. Before I started playing, I had some doubts about the VR and how it\u2019s gonna looks like here. Honestly, I have never encountered such games, because I don\u2019t really understand, how\u2019s possible make strong hard-oriented story games for VR.
Nevertheless, the game just dragged on and made me went through and through - yes, it certainly is not an \u201cexperience\u201d, not a shooter or a shooting range.. This is more of a brave experiment, which, as for me - success.
There is still something to strive for and seek for other decisions (may be new ideas, how to optimize interface?), but the work which\u2019s done is impressive!. Well, well\u2026 What we\u2019ve got here\u2026
\u00abIf i had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?\u00bb
In this story, i see many references to original book of Lewis Carroll, but in the same time \u2013 Guard skillfully combined own ideas. Now it's an adventure, which much more darker and it's difficult to see, cause you need to reed between the lines and try to analyze, what\u2019s really going on\u2026 Respect for making such brave project for VR! Saying about format \u2013 not everything perfect for it, but it\u2019s the first game here of it\u2019s kind, which's made so carefully with straight hands. GLHF everyone). So, let\u2019s see what we\u2019ve got here..
\u2714\ufe0f Story in a verse
\u2714\ufe0f Wonderland in VR
\u2714\ufe0f Battles
\u2714\ufe0f Mysterious
\u2714\ufe0f Nice arts
Could tell that it\u2019s the best visual interactive novel for VR-platforms, but it seems, that it\u2019s the only one, cause i've no idea, what else can be closer to VN genre and + adapted for VR. Deserved to be recommend to try if you\u2019re ok with Alice, Wonderland, so on... In general, I rarely write reviews, but not in this case. Actually, it is the first game in verse that I see - at least for this it is worth to buy. Besides \u2013 I really liked how different characters of the Wonderland are drawn. Sometimes they look very unexpected. But not without drawbacks - the interface could be made more convenient, but I believe that developers will listen to the community and correct everything, even in their next games if they are planning to go further with VN in VR. With battles too - did not understand at once, that's why \u2013 take an advise \u2013 read options and tutorial \u2013 for me it was helpful.
For now: it\u2019s 4\/5 for a new experience and an interesting story in verse.. Wonderland has never been like this before\u2026
These are the first words of trailer, which made me to chek up this game. Sooooo, impressions after 2hours:
POETIC narrative (!!)
Exciting story
WONDERFUL Art
First VN in VR experience
Team need to improve controls
Also, there are some issues about interface. Recently I played several visual novels, but not in VR until today. In 3D surrounding you are going to walkthrough chapters, reading dialogs and taking part in battles with wonderland creatures. Some of them seems familiar, but it can\u2019t be said about all of them \u2013 you\u2019re also going to meet new ones, which\u2026 hmm\u2026 Looks impressive, sometimes strange, sometimes like from smbds nightmares. The story of this interpretation is much darker, than in typical fairytale or in original \u00abAlice\u00bb. It\u2019s not obvious for the first time, but be attentive to the details \u2013 there are many things and refs u can notice and be impressed.
Of course \u2013 poems! That\u2019s a great work and no idea, how much time it was spent on it 0__o I\u2019ve no idea where else story was made like this.. For me, it\u2019s one of the most top game advantages.
Talking about VR \u2013 in my view, it\u2019s the first step to bring v-novel inside of headsets, but hope, that in future we\u2019ll see more such games as \u00abGuard\u00bb and even in VR, that genre would get its evolution.
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A response in starting over with a new daily avoidance (or non-avoidance, as the case may be), here with the Ragtag Daily Prompt (https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/rdp-monday-dazzle/), today is Dazzle."
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