ATD: Mindfulness

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Organizations report 65 percent lower share price over time and 18 percent lower productivity because of disengaged employees. You have the power to positively influence employee engagement and organizational productivity by being a mindful leader. In this webcast, you’ll learn the steps to become a mindful leader. 

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REL 212 Christmas Anti-Muslim

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REL 212 HUM 112 Atatürk

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Progressive Delusion Horowitz

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Democratic Governors Discriminate Against Christians and Violate the First Amendment

 Christianity was advanced by bold leaders willing to give everything, even their freedom and their lives, like the Apostle Paul. Some of Paul's letters were written when he was in prison for preaching the Gospel. Here in America -- a nation birthed in religious freedom — such courage in the face of persecution is needed once again.

Liberty Counsel now has five federal lawsuits representing churches and pastors in Maine, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and California against the illegal, unconstitutional orders of lawless governors.

The facts of our case in Illinois, where city officials threatened to seize and destroy the churches we represent in Chicago, are shocking. However, the recent actions of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Pasadena City Prosecutor have brought a new level of tyranny against faithful Christians in America.

"It has come to the attention of the Pasadena City Prosecutor's Office that your facility is not operating in compliance with the order of Governor Newsom.... We have information that your church was conducting live indoor church services at the location where anywhere from 50 to 100 people or more attended."

That's how the letter to Harvest Rock Chapel in Pasadena began. Issued Thursday, August 13, by the Criminal Division of the Pasadena City Prosecutor’s Office, the letter cited Gov. Newsom's unconstitutional total ban on worship:

"This letter is to remind you that violation of these orders are criminal in nature. Each day in violation is a separate violation and carries with it a potential punishment of up to one year in jail and a fine for each violation.... Your compliance with these orders is not discretionary, it is mandatory. Any violations in the future will subject your church, owners, administrators, operators, staff and parishioners to the above-mentioned criminal penalties as well as the potential closure of your church." [emphasis added]

Harvest Rock Church closed in mid-March. Churches are more (at least they should be) than an auditorium where people enjoy music and hear a message. Closing the ministries took a toll on the community. The elderly were isolated, the sick suffered, the children mourned for fellowship and every social ill increased.

Seeking God's direction, Pastor Ahn knew it was time to reopen. Pentecost Sunday, May 31, was the first in-person worship in months. The joy of fellowship was palpable and moving.

On July 6, Gov. Newsom banned singing and chanting. Then on July 13, he banned ALL WORSHIP, even in private homes. On July 17, Liberty Counsel filed a federal lawsuit.

Since the prosecutor's letter on August 13, this faithful immigrant pastor, along with the church's staff, and EVERY parishioner face daily criminal charges, each punishable for up to one year in prison and daily fines.

Liberty Counsel has formally responded to the Pasadena prosecutor reminding the prosecutor of some indisputable facts of constitutional law...

1. Americans have a RIGHT to religious freedom, unencumbered by the demands and edicts of government officials.

The City of Pasadena has no authority to prohibit people from attending church. In fact, the Supreme Court has expressly forbidden such action. The Court's decision in the 1947 case Everson v. Bd. Of Educ. Of Ewing Twp., 330 U.S. 1, 15 clearly states: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church . . . Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will." (emphasis added).

2. Government entities may not discriminate against one constitutionally protected right while promoting another.

The prosecutor's letter to Harvest Rock Church was particularly appalling because he asserts that the city has been enforcing the governor's orders against all gatherings in the city. Not true!

As reported with pictures and video by the local and national media, on at least three occasions - June 1, June 6 and June 10 – hundreds, if not thousands, of people gathered in the streets of Pasadena as part of the BLM protests shaking the country. No social distancing or masks were required, let alone enforced. Even when the protestors blocked the expressway on June 1, the city prosecutor issued NO threats of criminal sanctions or enforcement against the protestors.

3.  The First Amendment is not just for the state's favored speech.

The fact of the matter is, NONE of the rights enumerated within our Constitution may be impaired. And just as no government may remove any right enumerated, neither can a government official — even Pasadena's city prosecutor – show favor to one protected right (the right to peaceably assemble), over another (the right to worship according to one's conscience).

4.  The threat of criminal sanction against only religious adherents is reminiscent of tyrannical regimes, not America. We are a nation birthed with religious freedom.

We stand ready to vindicate the constitutional rights of Harvest Rock Church, Pastor Ché Ahn and all of Harvest Rock Church's members and congregants in Pasadena’s criminal courts.

We will not stop until religious freedom is FULLY RESTORED.

No pastor or parishioner in America should be forced to make a choice between worshipping in church and sitting in prison.

Progressive Era Napolitano

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Data Analytics Retention

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How to Learn AI

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How Deep Learning Works

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Corporate Microlearning for Higher Ed

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Packback AI Discussion

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How AI Will Destroy Education

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AI in Education

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Future Proof Education Startup

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Data, AI, Collaboration

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Deep Learning Breakthroughs

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Mosul Eye

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Scriptures of the World's Religions 5th Edition By James Fieser and John Powers Copyright: 2015, McGraw Hill

Hinduism

Introduction

Vedas

Vedanta: The Upanis.ads and Their Commentaries

Yoga

Puran.as and Epics

Devotional Literature

Treatises on Dharma

Jainism

Introduction

Jaina Scriptures

Buddhism

Introduction

The Life of the Buddha

Pali Canon

Mahaya na Scriptures

Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures

Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Scriptures

Sikhism

Introduction

Sikh Scriptures

Confucianism

Introduction

Confucian Scriptures

Daoism

Introduction

Daoist Scriptures

Shinto

Introduction

Shinto Scriptures

Australian Aboriginal Religion

Introduction

Australian Aboriginal Myths

Zoroastrianism

Introduction

The Avesta

Pahlavi Writings

Zurvan Writings

Judaism

Introduction

Books of Moses

Conquest and United Kingdom

Divided Kingdom and Exile

Post-Exilic Writings

Rabbinic Writings

Medieval Judaism

Recent Movements

Orthodox Judaism: Service Prayer for the Day of Atonement

Christianity

Introduction

Jesus' Birth and Ministry

Jesus' Death

New Testament Church

Noncanonical Gospels

Early Statements of Faith

Church Fathers, Saints, and Mystics

The Rule of Saint Benedict

The Council of Trent

Pope Leo XIII On the Condition of Labor: Rerum Novarum

Protestant Statements of Faith

Recent Sectarian Movements

Islam

Introduction

Qur'an: Muhammad in Mecca

Qur'an: Muhammad in Medina

Hadith

Sunni and Shi'i Writings

Sufi Writings

Baha'i Faith

Introduction

The Bab

Baha'u'llah

Abdu'l-Baha

Shoghi Effendi

The Universal House of Justice

Indigenous Religions of the West

Introduction

Africa

War of the Gods: Yoruba Myth

America

Origin of Corn: Creek Myth

HUM 111 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

Overview

In the year 509 B.C., Roman patricians overthrew the Etruscan kings and founded the Roman Republic. The new government established magistrates with limited powers and terms of office, while taking into account the claims of the Senate and the people. The Republic eventually came to an end with the rise of Julius Caesar and the establishment of the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar.

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Constitution Bill of Rights, Judge Napolitano

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HUM 112 HIS 105 Gil Scott Heron

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Introduction to Philosophy Parts 9-14

Part 9 Moral Problems

A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren

Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis

Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Part 10: Society

Democracy
John Dewey

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook

Crito
Plato

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Part 11: Social Justice

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick

The Republic
Plato

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Part 12: Art

The Republic
Plato

According to Plato, why is the work of the artist at the third remove from the essential nature of a thing?

Poetics
Aristotle

Do you agree with Aristotle that the first essential of tragedy is plot and characters come second?

Part 13: Life and Death

The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson

Can you imagine another hypothetical case akin to that of the trolley?

Phaedo
Plato

According to Socrates, how could Crito be of most service?

Writings
Epicurus

According to Epicurus, why is death nothing to us?

The Handbook
Epictetus

How does Epictetus recommend that we deal with loss?

Part 14: The Meaning of Life

Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick

Does Nozick believe any formula can capture the meaning of life?

Part 8: Moral Theory

Part 8: Moral Theory

How Not to Answer Moral Questions
Tom Regan

Moral Isolationism
Mary Midgley

The Nature of Ethical Disagreement
Charles L. Stevenson

The Rationality of Moral Action
Philippa Foot

Kant’s Ethics
Onora O’Neill

Assessing Utilitarianism
Lewis P. Pojman

A Supreme Moral Principle?
Steven M. Cahn

Virtue Ethics
Bernard Mayo

The Ethics of Care
Virginia Held

Happiness and Morality
Christine Vitrano

Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant

Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill

HIS 105 HUM 112 Identity Politics

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HUM 111: Greek gods in Color

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