http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/us/politics/a-born-again-donald-trump-believe-it-evangelical-leader-says.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Has Donald J. Trump become a born-again Christian? That is the suggestion of James Dobson, one of America’s leading evangelicals, who said Mr. Trump had recently come “to accept a relationship with Christ” and was now “a baby Christian.”

Mr. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and one of the country’s most prominent social conservatives, gave his account at a meeting Mr. Trump had in New York on Tuesday with hundreds of evangelicals.

In an interview recorded at the event by a Pennsylvania pastor, Michael Anthony, Mr. Dobson said he knew the person who led Mr. Trump to Christ, though he did not name him.

“I don’t know when it was but it has not been long,” Mr. Dobson says. “I believe he really made a commitment, but he’s a baby Christian.”

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InsideOut label-head Thomas Waber comments: "I have been talking to Jon for ages about making an album of 'Yes music' - as Jon calls it - and Roine seemed like the perfect guy for him to work with. I am really happy that it has finally happened and I am also thrilled with the material they have come up with. I think it will please a lot of fans!"


The idea came to life swiftly off the back of a performance from Roine's band Transatlantic, and Jon Anderson on the Progressive Nation At Sea Cruise in 2014, and was initially instigated by InsideOut Music label boss Thomas Waber. The duo set about crafting new music in the spirit of early epic works such as 'Tales From Topographic Oceans', 'Awaken' & 'Olias Of Sunhillow', but giving it a modern twist.

Written & recorded over the course of 1 and a half years, the tracks have been in a state of constant change as Roine and Jon swapped & refined ideas by sending tracks to each other via the internet. In March 2015, an ensemble was put together by Roine to realise the music live in the studio. Joining him there was Tom Brislin (who played on the Yes Symphonic tour) & Lalle Larsson on keys, Jonas Reingold & Michael Stolt on bass and Felix Lehrmann on drums. The sessions were also bolstered by appearances from Daniel Gildenlöw, Nad Sylvan, Anja Obermayer, Maria Rerych and Kristina Westas who all provided backing vocals.

The full track-listing for the album is as follows:

1. Knowing 17:45
2. Everybody Heals 13:20
3. Invention Of Knowledge 23:10
4. Know 11.20

Quebec Separatists See New Hope After Brexit Vote

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/24/quebec-brexit_n_10665168.html?utm_hp_ref=canada

MONTREAL — As Quebecers gathered to celebrate Friday's Fete nationale holiday, many were wondering what effect Britain's decision to leave the European Union could have on the province's independence movement.

The June 24 holiday has traditionally served as a rallying cry for those pushing for Quebec sovereignty, and some Montrealers lining the streets for this year's parade suggested the vote could give that cause a boost.

"I think it will help us," said Kathy Pepin, who had painted the logos of the separatist Bloc Quebecois and Parti Quebecois on her face for the occasion.

"I think people will realize that if (the British) can do it, we're big enough as a province, so now we need to gather our own resources and our tools to make our own decisions."

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Worrell was born and raised in New Jersey, and later studied piano at Juilliard and the New England Conservatory of Music. He played in a few bands in his late teens and early twenties — including the R&B group that went on to become “It Only Takes a Miracle” hitmakers Tavares and featured drummer Joey Kramer, pre-Aerosmith — before hooking up with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic brigade.

Once the collective — which recorded as both the soul-leaning Parliament and the rock-focused Funkadelic — relocated to Detroit, Worrell took a major role in the group, writing songs, playing keys (including the springy riffs that were at the center of many of the bands’ greatest tracks) and arranging horns. He was only the second musician to be given a Moog synthesizer by the instrument’s picky creator.

Like many of his fellow P-Funk bandmates, Worrell appeared on many of the collective’s side projects, including records by Bootsy’s Rubber Band, the Brides of Funkenstein and the Horny Horns, as well as recording a solo album, All the Woo in the World, in 1978 with P-Funk backing him.

When Clinton temporarily put the group on hold and took a break from touring in the first part of the ’80s, Worrell joined Talking Heads for their Speaking in Tongues album, sticking with the group on record and tour pretty much through its breakup at the end of the decade. He was onstage with them when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/aziz-ansari-why-trump-makes-me-scared-for-my-family.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur



Being Muslim American already carries a decent amount of baggage. In our culture, when people think “Muslim,” the picture in their heads is not usually of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or the kid who left the boy band One Direction. It’s of a scary terrorist character from “Homeland” or some monster from the news.

Today, with the presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and others like him spewing hate speech, prejudice is reaching new levels. It’s visceral, and scary, and it affects how people live, work and pray. It makes me afraid for my family. It also makes no sense.

There are approximately 3.3 million Muslim Americans. After the attack in Orlando, The Times reported that the F.B.I. is investigating 1,000 potential “homegrown violent extremists,” a majority of whom are most likely connected in some way to the Islamic State. If everyone on that list is Muslim American, that is 0.03 percent of the Muslim American population. If you round that number, it is 0 percent. The overwhelming number of Muslim Americans have as much in common with that monster in Orlando as any white person has with any of the white terrorists who shoot up movie theaters or schools or abortion clinics.

I asked a young friend of mine, a woman in her 20s of Muslim heritage, how she had been feeling after the attack. “I just feel really bad, like people think I have more in common with that idiot psychopath than I do the innocent people being killed,” she said. “I’m really sick of having to explain that I’m not a terrorist every time the shooter is brown.”

Donald Trump said Friday the forces that persuaded the United Kingdom to leave the European Union will help elect him president of the United States later this year.

"I think I see a big parallel ... people want to take their country back," Trump said in re-opening his Turnberry golf course in Scotland just hours after the results of the "Brexit" vote were announced.

Before his golf course news conference, Trump said the British people "took their country back, just like we will take America back."

Trump said the desire to control borders and block illegal immigration are big factors in both the Brexit results and his own presidential race, adding that people in both countries tired of seeing migrants "pouring" in.

http://www.wcnc.com/ext/news/nation-now/trump-says-uk-vote-to-leave-eu-is-a-great-thing-/275/5BNcFgwgMw6GY2iuWokgws