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Ezekiel 3-4 New International Version (NIV)
3 And he said to me, "Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel." 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
3 Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
4 He then said to me: "Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them. 5 You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate. 8 But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. 9 I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people."
10 And he said to me, "Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you. 11 Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says,' whether they listen or fail to listen."
12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound as the glory of the Lord rose from the place where it was standing.[a] 13 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound. 14 The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord on me. 15 I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.
Ezekiel's Task as Watchman
16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to a wicked person, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[b] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.
20 "Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 21 But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself."
22 The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, "Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you." 23 So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.
24 Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: "Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25 And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people. 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people. 27 But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says.' Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.
Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized
4 "Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. 3 Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.
4 "Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.[c] You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. 5 I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
6 "After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. 7 Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. 8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.
9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels[d] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[e] of water and drink it at set times. 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel." 13 The Lord said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."
14 Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth."
15 "Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement."
16 He then said to me: "Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair, 17 for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[f] their sin.
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Hebrews 11:20-40 New International Version (NIV)
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.
23 By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.
31 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.[a]
32 And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning;[b] they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
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If you live where there is no smog testing, this story will either bore you or humor you with all the crap we have to deal with. If you live in a smog-check state like us, all we can say is good luck, it's a pain if you own an old truck, maybe start looking for property in one of those less stringent states.
Our '79 Ford F-150 known as BluFerd unfortunately misses the 1975 cutoff for no smog testing in California. Because we bought it out of state, many of the smog parts had been removed, but we wanted to drive it, so we decided to see just how much work is required to bring it up to spec. We admit that clean air is good, but as these vehicles age, the required smog components get harder and harder to find in working order, and few are being reproduced. We wish our state would go back to a rolling 20- to 25-year-old smog life, but that doesn't seem likely any time soon.


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One area I chose to focus my research was on my paternal grandmother's family of origin. My paternal grandmother has always fascinated me. Perhaps because I never really knew her, having been only a toddler when she passed away. Although I have taken the Haddow line back to 1680, I have a deep yearning to know more about Maggie and her family.
This photograph has been a source of inspiration. Maggie is in the back row, behind her mother - the woman seated on the right.
When the 1911 census was released, I learned that the little girl in the front, holding the basket, is in fact my aunt. My dad's eldest sister. But what of the other women? Thanks to being onsite at Scotlands People Centre and being able to view documents not yet available online, here's what I have learned:
Two years after their marriage, my paternal great grandmother, Mary (McCabe) Haddow gave birth to a daughter, Jessie. Following the Scottish Naming Pattern, Jessie was named for her maternal grandmother, Janet (Jessie) Lawrie. Baby Jessie was born on December 21st, 1882 at the home of her parents in Mid Calder.
After she left school, Jessie worked as a postal runner. She later married James Sneddon on September 11, 1908 in Mid Calder. James was from Pumpherston, a nearby village. At the time of their marriage, James was a Shale Miner and Jessie was a postal clerk. James and Jessie had a son, George who was born December 6th 1908.
The 1911 census is unique in that it asks the length of the marriage (in this case, two years), the number of children born alive, (the 1911 census for James and Jessie states that there were three children born alive) and how many of the couple's children are still living. The 1911 census for James and Jessie states that only one is living. This would be young George. This sent me looking at death records for infants. I found that James and Jessie had a set of twins, Walter Haddow Sneddon and Agnes Miller Sneddon, who were born prematurely on March 1, 1910. The young babies died 2 hours and thirty-five minutes after they were born. This must have been devastating for the young family.
On May 31, 1911, Jessie gave birth to another daughter, Mary McCabe Sneddon.
Jessie died at age 72 on May 22nd, 1955. She died at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh (right behind the hotel I was staying at). The cause of death listed on her death registration is Myocardial Infarct (heart attack) that she had suffered five months earlier as well as a pulmonary infarct (a lack of oxygen to the lung resulting in tissue death).
After 47 years of marriage, they are buried together with their infant twins in Mid Calder Cemetery. (photo courtesy Scottish Genealogy Society). Jessie is not in the above photo. I believe this photo was taken just prior to the marriage of my grandparents, and by then Jessie was married with a young family.
As for the other sisters, Walter and Mary's second daughter was Maggie. Maggie was born 10 August 1888 in Kirknewton, Mid Calder. Maggie is my granny. Her history has been well documented for future generations.
Walter and Mary's third daughter, Elizabeth Brown Haddow, was born on 24 August, 1890.
is seen on the 1891 census, along with her parents and her sisters Jessie and Maggie. Elizabeth married Thomas Porteous Nathaniel on December 2, 1910. Thomas was an engineer (journeyman—meaning he had completed his apprenticeship) from Pumpherston. Elizabeth and Thomas had three children: Dunlop (born 1912), Henry (born 10 March 1916) and Walter Haddow (born 1920). Elizabeth Elizabeth died January 25, 1963 at . She was 72. Bangour Hospital 's cause of death was bronchopneumonia. Her usual residence is listed as 15 Retham Park Pumpherston. The informant of her death (to the registrar) was her son, Henry. Elizabeth
Walter and Mary's fourth daughter, Mary McCabe Haddow was born 30 March 1893. Mary is seen in the 1901 census along with her older sisters, Jessie, Maggie and Elizabeth as well as with her younger sister, Jeanie. Mary never married. She was known to have had at least one child, daughter Molly (Mary). There is some speculation that she may have had other children as well. Mary died at the age of 70. She was a retired housekeeper at the time of her death. The informant of her death was her daughter, Molly Haddow. Their usual residence was 23 Main St Mid Calder. Molly continued to reside in the home after her mother's death.
Walter and Mary's fifth daughter, Jeanie McCabe Haddow was born on 18 January, 1899. Jeanie never married. She worked as a canteen manageress (perhaps at the school where Molly also worked). Jeanie died on December 21st 1960 as a result of breast cancer. The doctor noted that the breast cancer had re-occurred after radiotherapy. Jeanie was 61 years of age. She died at home and the informant (to the registrar) was her niece Mary (Molly) Haddow.
The youngest of Walter and Mary's daughters was Katie Clark Haddow. Katie was born on April 8th 1901. Katie never married. She worked as a domestic. She died on July 31, 1979 of gastric carcinoma at
. Her usual residence was 23 Main St Mid Calder - the same home as her sister Mary and Mary's daughter Molly. Bangour Hospital
Walter died at his home on Bank Street in Mid Calder on 24 February 1927 as a result of tuberculosis. He was 64 years of age. The informant of the death is son in law James Sneddon (husband of Jessie). James and Jessie were by this point living at 3 Robertson Ave in
. Mary McCabe Haddow died on 19 March, 1945 at her home on Bank Street in Mid Calder. She was 84 and her cause of death was cardiovascular degeneration. The informant of her death was daughter Jeanie. Walter and Mary are buried with their unmarried daughters: Jean, Mary and Kate in Mid Calder cemetery. Edinburgh
(photo courtesy Scottish Genealogy Society)
As a genealogist, I believe in sharing. Not just with other genealogists, but also with family. In order to share what I learned on my research vacation, I prepared and presented this "newsletter" to my paternal cousins so that they may also have the story and so that their descendants will know from whence they came:


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Del. Heather Mizeur, who would become Maryland's first female governor and the nation's first openly gay one if elected, is campaigning as the most liberal candidate in the state's Democratic primary, backing higher taxes on the wealthy to help ease the tax burden on the middle class.
Attorney General Doug Gansler, who is running against Mizeur, wants to cut the corporate income tax. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who also is running for the Democratic nomination, says he will form a commission to study tax reform. Mizeur, however, supports bringing back a tax on people with income of $1 million or more. She also wants to go beyond the minimum wage increase approved in the last legislative session to $10.10 in 2018 to create what she calls a living wage of $16.70 an hour by 2022.
"I think that my focus on middle-class and small business tax reform and closing that income inequality gap is my top priority and where I would dig down deeper than what I've seen us been able to do over the last eight years,'' Mizeur, who has been a member of the House of Delegates since 2007, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
Mizeur, 41, has taken a strong environmental stance by opposing the proposed conversion of the Cove Point LNG import facility in southern Maryland to an export facility while expressing wariness of a drilling technique known as fracking in western Maryland, positions that helped win her the endorsement of The Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter.
Mizeur has drawn attention for supporting marijuana legalization and taxing it to pay for a big expansion of pre-kindergarten. While her Democratic primary opponents also want to expand pre-K, Mizeur's plan goes the furthest, offering it to all 4-year-olds and expanding access to 3-year-olds.
Although Mizeur comes from the far left side of the state's Democratic Party, she likes to note how she is happy to reach across party lines. As an example, she cites working with a conservative House member to find a common goal to help pass a bill in 2011 to expand free family planning to low-income women in Maryland.
"It didn't matter what your reproductive choice position was,'' Mizeur said. "We all could agree that eliminating unwanted pregnancies was a good thing.''
While a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana had a tough road to passage in the Legislature this year, Mizeur was one of the lawmakers who kept advocating for it in the waning days of the session when the bill appeared dead.
"There seems to be a growing recognition that our marijuana prohibition laws don't do anything to keep our communities more safe,'' Mizeur said. "If anything, they're distracting our law enforcement from focusing on more violent and serious crimes.''
Mizeur, who is using public campaign financing, is at a financial disadvantage in her matchup with Gansler and Brown. With matching money, Mizeur reported about $1 million cash on hand this week, while Brown reported $4.2 million and Gansler reported $3.1 million
"It is expensive to run a statewide race, and it's very challenging to do it in the low-dollar way that I've been doing it, but the benefit is the engagement at the grassroots level from their recognition that this is their campaign to own, and it's something that they can believe in and that they're helping to make happen,'' Mizeur said.
Mizeur Runs as Most Liberal Md. Candidate
Del. Heather Mizeur, who would become Maryland's first female governor and the nation's first openly gay one if elected, is campaigning as the most liberal candidate in the state's Democratic primary, backing higher taxes on the wealthy to help ease the tax burden on the middle class.


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The Coordinated Direct Investment Survey Guide 2015
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Units to Be Surveyed
- 3. Information to Be Collected in the Survey
- 4. Compilation and Reporting of Direct Investment Statistics
- 5. Undertaking a Direct Investment Survey
- 6. Consistency and Validation of CDIS Data
- Appendix I. CDIS Data Reporting Templates and Metadata Questionnaire
- Appendix II. Residence and Institutional Units
- Appendix III. Additional Items
- Appendix IV. CDIS Model Survey Forms
- Appendix V. Regional Groupings
Appendix I. CDIS Data Reporting Templates and Metadata Questionnaire
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text: Men's Lacrosse 3/18/2016 6:23:26 AM Year in Review: Charlotte Hounds While the road to the playoffs was not easy for the Hounds, they still worked through difficult losing streaks to earn a spot at Championship Weekend presented by Smartlink. Charlotte finished out the season at 7-7, clinching the number four seed and sneaking into the playoffs. What few people expected was the major upset in the semi-finals as the Hounds came out victorious in a 17-14 win over the Denver Outlaws. The Outlaws 14-0 season was the best in MLL history, but it took one game and a spectacular first quarter from the Charlotte Hounds to send Denver packing, and give the Hounds a ticket to the Championship game against the Chesapeake Bayhawks. In the end they were outplayed by the Bayhawks who held them to only 9 goals in the game. It may not have been a Championship title, but most would say this was a very successful season for such a young team, with seven rookies. The Hounds opened up the season with a tough 21-8 loss to the Denver Outlaws, which MLL teams would quickly learn, was the team to beat. The Hounds returned to action in week two to grab their first win, a 15-8 win over the Rochester Rattlers, a promising sign for the 2013 season, as Peet Poillon grabbed five points including a couple of two pointers. This was just a glimpse of what these Hounds could do, but after falling to a record of 1-3 the Hounds struggled to climb back to a winning record and would spend much of the season trying to rise above .500. It was in week 12, against the Hamilton Nationals that the Hounds clinched a playoff spot and rose above .500 for the first time in club history. In a final game against the Chesapeake Bayhawks, the Hounds lost, but rest at 7-7, an improvement from last season's sixth place, 5-9 record. The Hounds were a young team this season, but leaders like Matt Danowski and Ryan Flanagan rounded off the fresh talent and gave the team direction. Danowski and Flanagan each were in their second season with the Hounds. Flanagan led the charge on defense, helping alongside rookie, Mason Poli. Poli would go on to score 11 points, tying Brodie Merrill for the most points by a defensive player. Danowski earned a spot amongst the top scorers in the League at number four, earning the Hounds 49points. Charlotte, with 178 goals for, would tie the Boston Cannons for third place in the League. The Hounds are undoubtedly the underdog story of 2013, and the team to watch in 2014 as these young players mature and continue to produce a dominant offense.


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Storm Spotters test direct link to Weather Service
"You are loud and clear here in Tulsa how do you copy me?" said Steve Piltz, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa.
"We read you loud and clear in Fort Smith also," said Jeff Turner, Sebastian County Emergency Manager.
Ahead of possible storms on Tuesday, local storm spotters and emergency managers are checking their communication links with the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa, Okla.
"How important is it to get that instantaneous connection with them (NWS Tulsa)?" Our reporter asked.
"Just like you said in a matter of seconds you can get that information to them and the weather office can issue a warning in a matter of seconds also," said Wayne Johnson, area Skywarn Coordinator.
In the river valley, storm spotters recently completed a project to bring back a direct communications link between spotters and the national weather service.
"It gives them a set of eyes and ears locally on the ground," Turner said.
Volunteers staff the local emergency operations centers during severe weather.
They said the linked radio system keeps everyone in the loop.
"While we're listening to all that going on we know that stuff is coming this way and we get a heads up," said Johnson.
The National Weather Service said there are many way to communicate these days.
This link serves as a crucial backup.
"Something can fail so you would like to have the redundancy, especially during severe weather when maybe infrastructure is taking hits anyway, maybe power and other communication lines are going down in the bad weather," said Piltz.


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Don Ellis Smith joined his beloved bride, Guen Lyman Smith (Quince), on March 1, 2014, after a long, heroic battle with cancer.
He never lost his wonderful sense of humor, keen memory, or his deep appreciation for everything that was done for him.
He was born in Blanding on September 23, 1924 to Pauline Black and Joseph William Smith. As a four-year-old, he would herd cows all day after his mother walked him to the field in the morning and then returned to get him and the cows in the evening.
At age six, he broke his jaw and started first grade with his head in a cast. He was a lively youngster, full of lots of fun mischief through grade school and high school.
He graduated from San Juan High School in 1942, then attended college in Logan for one year. He had a practical education that can't be learned in a classroom.
He volunteered for the Army Air Corps during World War II and served from 1943 until 1946, spending a year on Okinawa operating a radio range station.
After returning from the war, he married Guen in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (an only child married the baby of 15 children). They had four children: Donna, Ruth, Kim, and Ned; all but the oldest live in Blanding.
Don worked very hard at his chosen profession, plumbing, so he could play hard and have fun with his family in the many activities he enjoyed. He believed in service to country, community, church, and fellow human beings.
He will be sorely missed by his four children, 19 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
The loss of this gentle giant's generosity, adventure, love of animals, compassion, service, words of wisdom, sense of humor, and unconditional love of family will leave a void in many lives.
Card of thanks
Our heartfelt thanks to the many relatives, friends, and neighbors, along with the Hospice Team and San Juan Mortuary for all the love and support we received at this time.
Donna Smith, Ruth Smith Johnson, Kim Lyman Smith, Ned Lyman Smith, and Jay M. Black families


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For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.
The 45-year-old Baltimore native co-founded the online payment company with three partners in 2000. The company helps Internet shoppers buy stuff online without a credit card. In 2008, PayPal, an eBay subsidiary, bought Bill Me Later for $945 million. Talbert, a marketing professional, and his partners made a lot of money and went to work for the bigger online payment company.
Lately, Talbert has developed a deep interest in supporting educational technology startups in the Baltimore area. He has invested in several small companies, and has his sights on promoting Baltimore as a hotbed for education innovation.
What got you hooked on marketing? What attracted you to the field when you were younger, and what formative experiences did you have in your 20s and 30s?
I studied finance and economics at Towson University and only took one class in marketing. I thought marketing was all about advertising and branding. I really didn't have a desire to be in advertising because I thought it was all artsy and subjective. However, I tried out a variety of different jobs while I was in school, and my last internship was as a marketing intern at Citibank in their credit card division. That is where I discovered direct marketing. Direct marketing is a science combined with art. I had the opportunity to manage direct mail programs, and I loved it. The great thing about direct marketing is that it is easy to quickly and cheaply test the various ideas.
How did you meet and come together with the guys who would end up being your co-founders for Bill Me Later? Did your team ever come close to failing?
When Citibank shut down our location in Towson, I went to business school at the University of Virginia while many of my colleagues went to First USA in Delaware. After graduate school, I joined my colleagues at First USA to launch the AOL Visa card, and ultimately this led to the start of the Internet division at First USA. By 1999, the first Internet bubble was rapidly expanding, and there were so many opportunities that a few of us left for various Internet startups. We all had different experiences, but ultimately we realized that we really liked working with the folks we had grown up with at Citibank and First USA. We shared a common culture and history. So, when the opportunitiy presented itself we got back together. … We did product development the old-fashioned way. We went and talked to consumers, merchants and payment processors and asked them, "If you could build a payment option for the Internet, what would it be?" From these early discussions, every aspect of Bill Me Later was defined. Over the next eight years, we built Bill Me Later from an idea to over $100 million in revenue, 4 million consumers and 1,000 merchants. During this time, there were at least four near-death experiences, where we were weeks away from running out of money. Each time, we pulled together and found a way to survive.
When you learned that Bill Me Later would be bought by eBay/PayPal for nearly $1 billion, what did you do that day, what did you think, and did anything change inside you?
A purchase like this doesn't happen in one day. It is the culmination of years of discussions, months of negotiations and weeks of due diligence followed by a few key decision points and further negotiation. The day that the deal was ultimately approved by eBay's board happened to be the day that the stock market had the largest one-day loss in its history. As you can imagine, that was a wild day filled with many ups and downs for us. However, even then, the deal wasn't done. It took another month for the deal to finally close. Only then was the outcome certain. Obviously, the outcome was validation for all the effort we had put into the company in the previous eight years, and we celebrated. We were very proud of our accomplishment and excited to join a company that was doing so well during those turbulent economic times. There is great synergy with eBay/PayPal. In the end, the outcome we are most proud is that Bill Me Later is contributing significant value and has been an accretive investment for eBay/PayPal.
You've gotten deeply involved in Baltimore's technology scene lately, with a big interest in helping education technology startups. Why are you so interested in improving education these days?
I view education as the highest return investment society makes. However, I consider myself a dissatisfied consumer of public education. I went to public schools for primary, secondary and higher education. Even though it all turned out OK, I never felt like I achieved my full potential in school, especially in high school. This was partly my fault, but I always wondered if I would have been more successful in a different environment. In college, I had the chance to try out a lot of different subjects, styles of teaching and professors. I could drop the classes where I wasn't successful and take more of the classes where I had success. Through this experience, I found a few professors who took me under their wing and believed in me. Their support and belief fueled my confidence and drive to succeed in college and in my career. ... Advances in technology and communications are very important pieces of the puzzle to improve education. However, improving education will take more than just technology. It will require us to reinvent the entire model of education and touching every aspect, including the people, process and technology. Ultimately, the most important thing we can do to improve inner-city schools is to change the culture. Today, too many of us accept that the current state of urban schools is just too hard a problem to solve. We need to raise our expectations. We as a community must show these kids that we believe in them and expect them to succeed, prosper and be happy. This is the gift my mother, grandparents and those professors in college gave me.
How is your life different now than when you were in startup mode? What do you do to relax and unwind?
Probably the biggest change is that I can have a little more balance in my life. In startup mode, with a lot of people (all the families of the employees we hired) depending on us to succeed, our time and life was consumed by making the company a success. I am not going to kid you, I am a doer. I can't stop pursuing opportunities, but now I can have a little more balance and put my family first more often. I realize now that the most important currency is time. You can't go out and make more time, so you have to constantly be asking yourself: Is this the best use of my most valuable resource?
As for what I do to relax and unwind, I am not sure I do. I am pretty intense and competitive in anything I do. I am probably happiest when I am competing or trying to solve really hard problems. I really enjoyed coaching my kids in sports, but I found I got too competitive, so I had to back off.
For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.


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The stars gave us plenty to talk about on the red carpet at Sunday night's Golden Globes, but there were a few that had us completely divided. And what fun would it be if we didn't have some spirited debate about the fashion? Julia Roberts had us (and PEOPLE Red Carpet Instagram followers) buzzing the loudest when she stepped out of the limo in Dolce & Gabbana — so we decided to take sides.
PRO: Whitney Little, Associate Producer: My first thought upon seeing Julia step onto the red carpet: "Oh no." Then I watched as she did her red carpet interviews, and she worked some sort of voodoo magic on me because now I am obsessed with this entire outfit. Hear me out, OK?
Jessica Alba demonstrated how to appropriately rock a white button-up shirt on the red carpet, but nobody ever expected to see it at one of the biggest awards shows of the year. Plus, the black dress perfectly hugged her curves, the sparkly belt added a touch of glam to the ensemble and I personally think the white button-up adds an element of surprise to what could have potentially been a snoozy choice.
Could anyone else have rocked this look? Probably not. But we're not talking about just anyone — we're talking about one of the classiest actresses of our time, and if she wants to wear a button-down on the red carpet then I'll absolutely love it. Thanks for keeping us on our toes, Julia.
RELATED PHOTOS: Who's on our best dressed list? Click to find out!
CON: Alex Apatoff, Style News Editor: I was in a sorority, so I am going to adhere to a strict "PRO-CON-PRO" policy here, in which I am going to sandwich my criticism in compliments to cushion the blow. So let's start with something nice: Her whole head looks great — fabulous hair and pretty makeup. Nice job there.
As for the dress. It's very "woman of a certain age," which Roberts, 46, certainly is not. It makes her look like she needs to conceal her upper arms, which she most certainly does not either. And on a night when her movie is heavily nominated and she's going to be the center of attention, I'm just not sure "matronly" and "charity ball" is the best look to aim for.
To end on a happy note, she'll have lots of opportunities to redeem herself throughout awards season. C'mon, Julia, let's see those guns at the SAGs!
Where do you fall in this debate? Weigh in below!
–Alex Apatoff


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Response to 'Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination?'
Zahir Ebrahim
June 20, 2008*
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A Project Humanbeingsfirst commentary submitted to the San Francisco Chronicle today in response to their oped of June 11, 2008, written by the Chronicle writer Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell, also of the Zionist Campus-Watch organization which specializes in "Monitoring Middle East Studies on Campus" as the thought-police guardian-angels of America. This organization is founded by the erstwhile Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum, who reports himself as:
"a columnist at the New York Sun and the Jerusalem Post. A former official in the U.S. Department of State, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. Mr. Pipes is the author of fourteen books on the Middle East, Islam, and other political topics; He has published widely in leading magazines and newspapers and his writings have been translated into eighteen languages. Mr. Pipes frequently discusses current issues on television and radio. He was appointed by President Bush to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, has testified before many congressional committees, and has served on four presidential campaigns."
A previous Project Humanbeingsfirst's Open Letter to this world famous Middle East Scholar may be read here. A brief background study material is here. Project Humanbeingsfirst has an open invitation to Daniel Pipes – whenever the distinguished Middle East Scholar and terror expert on Islam is ready for a video interview with this lowly Muslim scribe on whose lofty religion and worthy heritage the Jewish scholar has acquired such formidable expertise. It's terrific that so many Zionists are experts on Islam – we can all stand to learn from them, especially when they also serve as President George W. Bush's appointees to the U.S. Institute of Peace. Blessed are such "peace makers"!
To The San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2008
*Revised and Re-submitted, June 24, 2008.
June 20, 2008
*Revised and Re-submitted, June 24, 2008.
In reference to Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell's excellent opinion article of June 11, 2008 in the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate, on the important subject of indoctrination of young minds in America's public schools – quite thought provokingly titled "Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination?" (with the precise inclusion of the question mark for making it thought provoking) – Project Humanbeingsfirst cannot agree with the astute Ms. Stillwell more wholeheartedly.
That yes, there ought not to be any indoctrination whatsoever of any young minds anywhere, especially in the world's most enlightened civilization. Indeed, Project Humanbeingsfirst would go so far as to blanketly assert that this should be true of every school in America, both public and private. It unfortunately begins from the very first saluting of the flag from the tender age of five which eventually constructs brain washed automatons who "United We Stand" wrapped in the false flag of patriotism as they grow up. And it continues in the upper grades during their most formative years, and is continually supplemented in their Churches, Synagogues, and Sunday schools.
And there is certainly no need for a question mark to these following statements, of whether or not there is a "soft jihad" on the young impressionable minds – for the following is "hard-core triple X rated jihad" against all 'lesser' humanity which is visible for all to see, unless of course, one already happens to be too perversely indoctrinated to see it.
Wherein, the monumental crimes of the Jews and Christians today upon a 'lesser' peoples is deliberately justified and rationalized akin to the 'Good Germans', while teaching their young ones the cleansed and sanitized versions of the hidden doctrines from their own religious books which their own elders – from Evangelical Christian Zionists including the distinguished President of the United States, to the Jewish Zionists themselves – are hell bent on visiting upon the Muslims of the world based on the misanthropic concepts in these books that most of Christian America has now come to fervently believe as a "Christian" nation, contrary to the definition of this Republic as per its own written Constitution. Mainly, returning the Jews to Zion as "god's chosen peoples" as part of their nation's foreign policy, even at the blood drenched expense of that lands' own indigenous inhabitants still living there; and to bring on "Armageddon" in order to hasten their Christian Messiah's return to planet earth sooner as per the Biblical teachings of "Rapture"!
It is precisely all sorts of perverse indoctrination like this which commences on the American mind at a young age, and from many venues in a full spectrum immersion – from schools to television – that is at the bottom of the American people as adults, being among the most well-intentioned but also the most ignorant peoples in the World. While some among them might excel in math and science, in imaginatively designing more powerful weapons and technologies than anyone else, and certainly in arts and craft and wholesale entertainment to lead the world in leisure and pleasure, they generally have little clue of their own place in the world except at its very center! Berliners too had once felt that exact same way! Thus American peoples unfortunately make easy targets of indoctrination as the 'Good Americans' for whosoever is more able to hijack their Republic for their own tortuous ideologies of 'empire'!
From my own anecdotal personal experience, when I first entered MIT as an undergraduate in the 1970s, it was shocking for me to learn how many of the smartest people on the planet attending America's topmost science and engineering school had asked me "where is Pakistan?" as they watched the Iran hostage crises unfold and wondered where the hell Iran was too! They had not a clue why those "crazed Iranian" students led by a "crazed mullah" had suddenly turned against the Americans! Just recently the American President had made a toast to their just dethroned King of Kings, hadn't he? And before 1990, most Americans had likely never even heard of Iraq! Yet they have trivially devastated that nation a million times worse then Vietnam for the mantra of fictitious "WMDs"! And today, the Americans are poised to drop nuclear bombs on Iran with new "WMD" mantras! What makes the American public so gullible and compliant to their ruling elite? This is far more insidious than the "soft jihad" which the bright Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell fears might be subverting America. This is "hard crusades"!
All because of the indoctrination they encounter starting in elementary school. And as this phantasmic Christian Evangelical preacher reminds us far wiser peoples in his "I am free to be a slave" sermonizing under the New American Theology of Civil Submission (http://tinyurl.com/6hcpgx), it is only because of their early full spectrum indoctrination that these good American people in his flock can unquestioningly accept as adults, criminal Machiavellian indoctrination like:
"My friends, you are free, you are free to respect and appreciate the authority of the government that god gives to you – Honor the King! Do it anyway, whether the king deserves it or not. All authority, all authority is an extension of god's authority!"
Yes indeed – "honor the king, whether the king deserves it or not"! So they permit murderers and usurpers of humanity to become "king", and to lord upon them peaceably as a divine edict, while the "king" goes about his merry business of constructing a police-state at home and waging a war of aggression upon the rest of the world disguised as "war on terror" without fearing much resistance from the brain-washed Republic who "United We Stand" with him!
Surely the very conscionable and concerned Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell, as indeed all Americans, would be horrified to learn of this travesty occurring under their very noses in the modernity of the twenty-first century, and equally demand the excising of such perverse indoctrination from the American Republic along with its "king" and king-makers?
Therefore, Project Humanbeingsfirst is absolutely in favor of examining and eliminating all indoctrination of every sort, and equitably and fairly applying that standard across the board, all across America. In order to do so with insight, equity, wisdom and fairness, such that no group and no perverted "religion" may either feel discriminated against or left out from the cleansing process, Project Humanbeingsfirst highly recommends that the entire American education system, as well as its Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, Temples, and the ubiquitous newsmedia and entertainment industry be introduced to its forensic essay on this subject that entirely dismantles all indoctrination equitably, much as I am sure to Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell's and her stellar watchdog organization Campus-Watch.org's great delight.
The essay is titled: "Islamofascism – Zionofascism – Judeofascism – Christofascism – Neofascism etc. An equitable distribution of Collateral Language!" and is available for free at URL: http://tinyurl.com/48kyml (or from the Project's website http://humanbeingsfirst.org).
As Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell's oped has rightly wondered with that question mark, if indoctrination exists in any shape or form in any discourse in the American society, not just in the teaching of Islam, but in the teaching of any misanthropic doctrine, let's excise them all with a vengeance. It is the only way to create a truly thinking-humanitarian society in America that can finally resist all blood-sucking leaches from piggy-backing upon its riches and power!
As a humble ordinary cultural Muslim immigrant whose children have grown up in America, attended Islamic schools at some point in their formative years, regularly attended Islamic Sunday schools throughout their formative years, performed their Hajj, keep their Fasts in Ramadan, while also fully participating and engaging in the American society – from competitive swimming to musical theater to community service – and who are now attending America's top ranking universities after graduating at the very top of their graduating classes in college preparatory high schools, this scribe invites the full spectrum scrutiny of how Islam is taught and how it is impacting America's young Muslims.
For indeed, this scribe has greatly benefited from the presence of Islam in America – not just in the Islamic institutional sense, but also in the very egalitarian system of some of the best practices of the United States itself, which are, interestingly enough, based in many cases on the genuine spirit of Islam! Many of America's laws and many of its social services are among the highest ideals of Islam put into varying degrees of real practice! Many a "holy" and "pious" Islamic countries can learn the practice of Islam – minus the patronizing vernacular – from this "Great Satan" (which is not to say that the Great Satan doesn't reside here too, or that it is not the permanent chief resident expert behind the formulations of this nation's multifaceted foreign policy instruments of world domination since its inception). The Muslims are as much an integral part of America as Christians, Jews, Atheists, Hindus, Chinese, and all the rest in the "melting pot". There is no obvious a priori reason for the Muslim voices to be precluded in the defining of America. Just as there is no a priori compelling reason to believe that only the Zionists and the criminal exponents of war-mongering, primacy, Rapture, "full spectrum dominance", et. al., should be the solely defining masters of what is Kosher in the American public's interest, and what isn't!
There is, in fact, no reason to at all believe the hectoring hegemons' interpretation of the Constitution and what it may mean, for they are also the harbingers of the police-state in the same nation whose Constitution they push in the public's faces when it suits their purpose, and call it "just a goddamned piece of paper" when it doesn't!
These are the very same peoples who gladly trade in our "essential liberties" for a "bit of [imagined] safety" – and from a Machiavellianly synthesized, fabricated, Orwellian danger at that – when the Founders of this very Constitution had willingly traded all of their own personal safety, to secure essential liberty for all! Of the 56 Founding Patriots who dared to sign the Declaration of Independence from the largest empire of the time, a majority were hounded by the British and died in abject misery!
Why shouldn't one be inspired by their interpretation of the Constitution, that "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little [temporary] safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"?
And Thomas Jefferson's, that "The constitutions of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property and freedom of the press"?
United States Persons are far more entitled to "exercise" that "power" which "is inherent in the people", for getting to know each other, for learning of each other's heritage and histories – when appropriately stripped of any "doctrinal motivation" and dehumanizing propaganda value – than those who would deprive the peoples of that benefit through their tortuous self-serving interpretations and bastardization of the Constitutions when it suits them!
For indeed, in the uniquely multicultural milieu that is America today, we as much enrich each other in our vibrant diversity when we collaborate and intercourse to get to know each other, as we defeat each other and become barbarians when we blindly acquiesce to "United We Stand" with the handful of hectoring hegemons due to their full spectrum control of the soap-boxes from which they pontificate their tortuous discourses like "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" and "It's not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians"!
It is surely a travesty of rationalism to ignore the blatant truism that teaching the world's heritage to the Americans starting when they are young, can only add to their knowledge, sophistication, appreciation, tolerance, and resilience to the mendacity of power and its incantations! It also ends their isolation from the world by making them an equal part of the world's history and heritage, rather than continually weaning them in an isolated cocoon of artificially inculcated feeling of "my country can do no wrong" with the 'lesser' humanity – "the barbarians" – jealously surrounding them and out to get them! The process to teach each others history, heritage, and great books can surely continually be improved – rather than throwing it all out just because some find it convenient to derive a calculated propaganda value from maliciously denigrating Islam in these times!
No one could so trivially fool an informed citizenry into fighting the fictitious "war on terror" as the Americans have been so fooled had they learnt about Islam earlier; had they not been so indoctrinated with "saluting the flag"; and had the Zionist and Christian religious discourse not become part of the "State" in the Machiavellian service of "imperial mobilization"! That is the Constitutional meaning of "separation of Church and State" which the likes of Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell and her Zionist sponsors deliberately mask in favor of their own tortuous agendas for the "Zion that will light up all the world"! And the actual usefulness derived by the ordinary American peoples – most of whom attend the vast system of K-16 public schools in America – for their own greater common good in learning about the great religions in their classrooms so that they can become better acquainted with each other and the rest of the world, Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell easily finds to be a fatal blow to the Constitution, and a "soft jihad" on America!
So look for those who on the one hand, deny the American public the opportunity to genuinely learn about Islam under one pretext or another, while on the other, themselves go about denigrating and maligning Islam as incestuously-anointed "leading Western scholar[s] of Islam" in order to continually create and sustain the "doctrinal motivation" to gift to the 'lesser' Americans their lifetime of "war on terror", and thou hast found thine true enemy in "Greek's" clothing! The real fifth columnists hiding under legal covers and biting away at the very fabric of American society under the very noses of an ignorant public!
That self-sustaining motivation to keep the American public continually ignorant is the hidden force which constructed the highly suggestive title of Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell's column in the SF Chronicle "Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination?", just as it did the title of Bernard Lewis' classic masterpiece of disinformation "Crisis of Islam: Holy War Unholy Terror"! The "leading Western scholar of Islam" has noted in this seminal propaganda book:
"Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorist, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them".
Indeed, since this scribe also wholeheartedly agrees with the afore-quoted statements of Bernard Lewis, this humble response to Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell's own masterpiece so prominently carried in the SF Chronicle, has merely also been a plebeian exercise in "understanding the forces that drive them"!
Please visit any local Islamic school, mosque, Sunday school, or attend any class in high school on the day it is being introduced, to observe how Islam is purveyed to the young minds in America. The independent non-profit organization "Islamic Networks Group" (http://ing.org) has a regular teaching program that grooms Muslim working professionals as volunteer speakers to explain Islam to students in America's schools, to police officers, business leaders, and any American organization and institution that would like to become sensitized to Islam minus the 24x7 malignant propaganda being used to deliberately fuel the hatred of Muslims and suspicions of their institutions in order to continue the "war on terror". Please feel free to examine their curriculum. In fact, I must insist that Ms. Cinnamon Stillwell become intimately acquainted with what Islam teaches to the young minds in America first hand! For, we shall apply the same standard of fair and equitable examination to all the "pious" and the "holy", rest assured. That sense of honest fairplay is the ordinary people's "American way"!
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org is not affiliated with ING.org, nor with any mosque or any other Islamic institution or organization, nor speaks for them. The only organizational unit of its permanent affiliation is that which comprises only human beings first! This open scrutiny is invited by this scribe as any ordinary member of America's civil society can rightfully demand, in order to ensure their society's integrity and proper functioning; and also, as one who has immensely benefited from how Islam is taught in America first-hand, and therefore, would like to ensure that the best practices of its teachings, as with the teachings of all cultural heritages of the world, are continually improved.
Let it be known far and wide that America is not the property of the Jews, or the Christians, or any other group. It is a free nation for all who can reach its shores and become its legal denizens! These peoples, us, collectively define what is America! Not the thought-police and Zionist propaganda machinery of the hectoring hegemons – whether from Campus-Watch, the Pentagon, the White House, the Evangelical Pulpit, or the Knesset! And to prevent this right from being devilishly usurped by power and its con-artists, always was, still is, and will always remain, a continuous on-going ordinary people's struggle of every generation!
Zahir Ebrahim
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California, United States of America.
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org/#Copyright.
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The poll gauged the Democratic governor's approval rating at 53 percent. While that's on the positive side of for Hickenlooper, voters who disapprove of the affable leader has spiked from just 26 percent in November to 44 percent in the latest look. Approval, on the other hand, has been "pretty steady," dropping only 2 points while those who were apparently ambivalent before pulled away from him.
"What's happened is that a lot of Republicans and conservative leaning independents who were neutral on him during his first two years have moved into the negative column after his leadership on issues like guns and civil unions this year. Still his numbers are pretty strong," the firm stated on its website.


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The filter material itself is Baader AstroSolar Film. This film has set a new standard for white light filters and gives a very pleasing and high resolution image. The image colour is a neutral white. Other films and most glass filters produce a blurry bluish or reddish Solar image, thereby cutting out part of the spectrum. Especially with an orange sun, it is very hard to see faculae regions which are visible predominantly in the blue wing of the spectrum. Due to it's neutral colour balance AstroSolar film enables the use of various colour (or interference) filters which allows the observer to use band filters to view different layers within the solar atmosphere. Baader Astro Solar film has consistent Strehl ratios of 94 to 96% on interferometric tests - thus it performs optically like a Fluorite Triplet Lens by Carl Zeiss or Astro Physics and the telescope has the same performance during the day as at night. Baader Safety Film shows notably more sharpness and contrast than any competitive product we know of, including all affordable Mylar or Glass Objective Filters. AstroSolar™ is essentially free from pinholes, since unlike other filters, it is coated on both sides, so the chance of two pinholes overlapping each other is statistically insignificant. Pinholes do appear but to 1 out of 10000 only in an optical density of 2.5. Baader AstroSolar™ safety film has been approved for eye safety by the National Bureau of Standards in Germany the PTB. Unlike any other Solar Filter on the market AstroSolar™ is CE-tested according to EG-Norm 89-686 and EN 169-92 (notified body 0196). Coatings are inspected constantly for consistency to ensure your eye safety.


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Rental Facilities
Planning a birthday party, company picnic, or special event? Consider renting the picnic area at Rhododendron Park. For rental information, contact the Kenmore Senior Center at 425-489-0707.
Park Reminders
For everyone's enjoyment, please observe the following:
- Alcohol not permitted in parks.
- Note signage regarding park hours. If no sign is posted, please comply with the sunrise to sunset park hours.
- No unauthorized vehicle traffic, outside of designated parking areas.
- Help keep our parks clean and beautiful by placing trash in the proper receptacles.
- Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times. Owners must clean up after their pets.
- Music and noise should be kept at a reasonable volume.
- Respect any private property which borders the park area.
Park Maintenance
The Public Works Department is responsible for the maintenance of Rhododendron Park, Log Boom Park, Linwood Park, Northshore Summit Park, Squire's Landing Park, and Wallace Swamp Creek Park. Moorlands Park is maintained by Northshore School District. Click here to report a concern.
City Parks
Jack V. Crawford Skate Court
18120 68th Ave NE (behind City Hall)
The Jack V. Crawford skate court opened in October 2015. This new approximately 5,200 square foot skate park design is the result of great feedback and collaboration with residents and the skateboarding community.
Linwood Park
5601 NE 193rd Street
This small neighborhood park, approximately 1.4 acres, is located in the northwestern portion of the city. The park has a playground, open lawn area for active play, and picnic tables.
Moorlands Park
15221 84th Ave NE
Moorlands Park offers visitors over four acres of manicured open lawn and an athletic field. This park, tucked away in a neighborhood and located next to Moorlands Elementary, offers walking paths, picnic shelter (reservations not accepted), tables, children's play area and a restroom. Overflow parking is available beginning in 2019 during non-school hours at Moorlands Elementary off 84th Avenue NE. The upgraded ballfield is available for reservation through the City of Kenmore beginning in 2019. Staff continues to work closely with the Northshore School District, elementary staff, and families to fully specify park rules, public park usage during school hours, and restroom access.
Northshore Summit Park
6200 NE 193rd Street
This 3.6 acre neighborhood park contains walking trails, open lawn areas for informal play, two children's play areas, picnic tables, picnic benches, sitting boulders, general landscaping and wetlands and wooded areas. This park was dedicated on May 17, 2014.
Rhododendron Park
6910 NE 170th Street
Centrally located within the heart of Kenmore, this park features one of the largest public collections of hybrid rhododendrons in the Northwest. In addition to beautiful rhododendrons, the 13-acre park features play areas, basketball court, picnic shelter, pedestrian paths, large green space, floating dock on the Sammamish River for launching kayaks and other hand-carry boats and restroom facilities. The picnic shelter is available for rentals through the Kenmore Senior Center by calling 425-489-0707.
Parking is available off of 170th St. A smaller parking area is located near the boarding float off of 68th Ave NE. Parking at the Washington State Fish and Wildlife boat launch located to the west of Rhododendron Park requires a Discover Pass (available at https://discoverpass.wa.gov/133/Where-to-Buy).
Squire's Landing
7353 NE 175th Street
This waterfront park features 150 lineal feet of shoreline access to the Sammamish River and Swamp Creek and a new public boarding float in addition to 40 acres of undeveloped open space. The Kenmore Waterfront Activities Center @ Squire's Landing offers youth and adult canoe, kayak and dragon boat programs. Squire's Landing name is intended to honor Watson Squire, an early Kenmore developer who had visions for a local waterfront park in the early 1900s.
Log Boom Park (Tracy Owen Station)
17415 61st Ave NE
This 3.9-acre park provides access to over 1200 lineal feet of shoreline on Kenmore's Lake Washington waterfront. The public dock is a fantastic place to watch the sea planes land, toss out a line for fishing or simply enjoy the sunset. Other features include the Kenmore History Path, playground area, picnic tables, access to the Burke-Gilman Trail, daytime moorage, and restroom facility. The park was renamed Tracy Owen Station after the late King County Councilmember, Tracy Owen. During the summer, enjoy the water by renting kayaks and stand up paddleboards from WhatsSup.
Wallace Swamp Creek Park
19851 73rd Ave NE
A passive open space of approximately 25-acres located adjacent to the west and north side of Kenmore Elementary School. This open space extends east and west across Swamp Creek between 68th Ave. NE & 73rd Ave. NE. The open space is minimally developed. A bridge crosses Swamp Creek allowing for salmon spawning views, access to stream and walking or riding trails.
Additional Parks, Recreation & Trails
Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive NE
Athletic Fields
Bastyr University and the City have an agreement through 2020 to allow public use and community scheduling of the private athletic fields including two ball fields and one soccer field. Reserve fields through Bastyr.
Medicinal Herb Garden Tours
The Medicinal Herb Garden is always open for a self-guided tour, where you are welcome to view over 350 western and Chinese herbs. Feel free to visit, browse and explore on your own any time. Guided tours are available by appointment.
Reflexology Foot Path
The reflexology foot path is the first public reflexology path in North America. Based on wisdom from ancient Egypt, India and China, walking barefoot on a reflexology path massages and stimulates acupressure points in the soles of the feet connected to various energy meridians of the body. The pressure of stones under the feet combines with gravity to provide a therapeutic exercise that stimulates health. Bastyr's 65-foot path features smooth native Northwest river rock artistically embedded in cement. A handrail provides stability and improves accessibility.
Photos courtesy of Bastyr University and Northwest Soccer Camp
Burke-Gilman Trail
Access Points: Gasworks Park, Matthews Beach Park, Log Boom Park
The King County Burke-Gilman Trail (BGT) is an 18-mile paved, off-road facility over its entire length with the exception of an on-road segment in Ballard. The trail crosses Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford, the University District and View Ridge within the City of Seattle, as well as the cities of Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Bothell. King County's best-known regional trail, the BGT is highly popular with cyclists, joggers, skaters and strollers, and weekday bicycle commuters between Seattle and the Eastside.
Great Blue Heron Viewing Area
Kenmore Park & Ride, Bothell Way & 73rd Ave NE
The Great Blue Heron is the largest heron in North America. It is a large bird, with a slate-gray body, chestnut and black accents, and very long legs and neck. In flight, it looks enormous, with a six-foot wingspan. Heron nesting season is mid-February to late July. Bring your binoculars to see the birds up close.
Kenmore Senior Center
6910 NE 170th Street
The Kenmore Senior Center, located at Rhododendron Park, is a branch of the Northshore Senior Center. The Kenmore Senior Center along with the Northshore Senior Center offers health clinics, classes, clubs, a computer lab, special events, Wellness Project, Adult Day Centers, social services and trips galore. A listing of regularly scheduled activities, classes, and services of the Kenmore Senior Center, special events, trips, support groups and general announcements are available for free. Pick up your copy of the quarterly newsletter at the reception desk of the senior center. The picnic shelter at Rhododendron Park is available for rentals through the Kenmore Senior Center by calling 425-489-0707.
Saint Edward State Park
14445 Juanita Drive NE
Saint Edward State Park is a 316-acre day-use park with 3,000 feet of freshwater shoreline on Lake Washington. Once a Catholic seminary, the park's rich history reflects in its grounds and architecture. Walks along the undeveloped lakeshore are peaceful and give the visitor many opportunities for nature study. The park features a playground area for children of all ages. Other activities include hiking, biking, bird watching, soccer and baseball fields.


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USAID/Mali community health partners conduct a nutritional screening of an infant. Food assistance programs help vulnerable communities in Mali through a range of food and nutritional assistance, and local training.
Traditional Bobo dancers greet USAID/Mali partners on a monitoring trip to Segou region. Food assistance programs help vulnerable communities in Mali through a range of food and nutritional assistance, and local training.
USAID works with Malian women producers to improve their productivity and incomes.
Participants in training, testing and validating the Support for Victims of GBV kit
About Mali
Across more than 50 years of partnership, USAID has contributed to major development gains that improve the lives of the Malian people. For example, we have founded farmer cooperatives and improved irrigation methods to help Mali meet increasing food demands, established a community school system and interactive radio instruction to increase access to education, and expanded health services that led to dramatic reductions in child mortality. We also address humanitarian needs of Malians both in Mali and refugee camps in neighboring countries. After the March 2012 coup d'état, USAID put non-lifesaving programs on hold, however, following peaceful democratic elections and the inauguration of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on September 4, 2013, USAID began working with the Government of Mali to resume foreign assistance more broadly, including education and governance programs, while also adapting continued activities to the new government's priorities.
Fiscal years (FY) 2016-2020 will seek the following goal: "Malians secure a democratic, resilient and prosperous future" through the following four objectives:
- Stabilization of Conflict-Affected Areas Reinforced (transition)
- Public Trust in Government Improved (governance)
- Adaptive Capacity of Vulnerable Communities and Households Improved (resilience)
- Socio-Economic Well-Being Advanced (prosperity)
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Heat savings over hardwood: Survey reveals shift in home buyers' desires
The Canadian dream home has a new laundry list of "must haves"
Utility bills can cost a homeowner even more when they go to sell their property according to the CENTURY 21® Canadian Home Critics Survey. In the results, which expose purchasers' motivations and turn offs, Canadians overwhelmingly report that they would select a home with energy efficiency upgrades (41%) over updated finishings like granite countertops or hardwood floors (22%). View the full survey press release here.
"It's well-known that home buying is an emotional process, so understanding the shifts in where buyers place value is key to a sellers' success," said Todd Shyiak, national director of operations, CENTURY 21 Canada. "Location is still important to today's home buyers, but the sheer volume of information available has made them more aware of how a home's features can impact their lifestyle."
So, how are Canadians judging your home?
Home buyers want "Layout, location, location."
Canadians say that layout is the most important consideration when selecting a home (27%), even over location factors such as the desirability of the community (26%) or commute distance (12%). Layout also has the strongest impact on their first impression of a house (39%) while a home's size carries much less weight (11%).
The survey also uncovers that buyers are willing to renovate for looks but not for repair. Only 13% of Canadians view the need to renovate rooms as a major home buying deterrent. Yet, 30% will walk away from a purchase if they notice just a small amount of water damage, even when the costly issue of outdated plumbing or electrical facilities (29%) is considered.
When it comes to homes, Canadians are clean freaks.
If your house has old flooring, just make sure it's spotless. Uncleanliness tops home buyers' turn off list (60%), whereas dated flooring (40%) or bold paint colours (18%) have much less impact.
The Goldilocks' effect: Buyers most driven to find a home that fits just right.
40% of Canadians say their number one motivation to buy a house is to "better fit a new life stage," followed by the desire to "have a home of their own" (29%) and "because it's a smart investment" (just 10%).
Size matters to millennial home buyers, boomers have bigger concerns.
Millennials look more at the face value of houses, including square footage (millennials 9%, boomers 4%) and room count (millennials 12%, boomers 3%). In contrast, boomers are more concerned with lifestyle factors, such as how well the space is laid out (millennials 18%, boomers 34%) or if it's located in a desirable community (millennials 18%, boomers 30%).
For boomer buyers, it's what's inside that counts.
Boomers are less likely to be turned off by a home's cosmetic features, such as dated flooring (millennials 51%, boomers 36%). This demographic, who may be settling in for retirement or downsizing, seek homes that won't cost them time or money in the long run. Boomers prefer homes with energy efficiency upgrades (millennials 29%, boomers 54%) and are more likely to avoid ones with outdated plumbing or electrical facilities (millennials 23%, boomers 32%).
Canadian home buyer desires from coast to coast:
- Why buy a home? Atlantic Canadians view homeownership as a smart investment.
- "Home of my own" instinct tops Quebec residents' motivations to buy property.
- Dated décor turns off Ontario home buyers.
- Prairie home buyers seek neighbourhood and house to fit their families.
- Albertan home buyers focus on "layout over location."
- BC home buyers are property psychic, avoiding costly future expenses.
"Knowing your buyer can mean the difference between getting the best price for a home or missing opportunities," said Shyiak. "In-depth knowledge of each community's unique needs has distinguished our agents' service and their clients' success."
The CENTURY 21 Canadian Home Critics Survey delves into home buyers' mindsets to help consumers and sellers make the best decisions for their needs. What's your inner home critic style? Find out and enter to win 21,000 AIR MILES® reward miles at century21.ca/homecritic.


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Pentagon Mulls Delay in F-35 Production, and More
What's News: The Defense Department is considering a delay in the production of Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter jet. White House is making a shortlist of replacements for Ben Bernanke's job. Barclays is shifting 4,000 jobs. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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Anyone who was around in the 90s remembers Amanda Bynes as the funny, quirky and relatable teenager who appeared in popular shows like All That and What I Like About You. Nowadays, Bynes has stepped out of her funny and lovable ways to become one of the most negatively talked about child stars in the media. Bynes's odd behavior started in 2010 after she announced she was retiring, then un-retiring from acting via her Twitter account, which she later deleted.
Fast forward about two years to April 2012, when Bynes was arrested for driving under the influence and accused of two hit-and-run accidents. Since these auto incidents and creating a new Twitter account, Bynes has continually remained in the headlines with her absurd tweets and disobeying of the law. Recently, Bynes took to wearing outlandish wigs in various court appearances, including a waist-length aqua colored one that she wore to court July 9 as she faced a judge on charges of marijuana possession, tampering with evidence and reckless endangerment (CNN).
If the criminal charges and strange hair styles don't seem out of the ordinary for a wild former child star, Bynes has also developed penchant for insulting fellow public figures on Twitter. Followers, fans and everybody in between are privy to her personal thoughts, which include an array of opinions of rapper Drake. Bynes's tweets about Drake range from how she alternatively finds the rapper hideously "ugly" and "the man of [her] dreams."
Drake Is The Most Gorgeous Man On The Face Of The Earth
— amanda bynes (@amandabynes) July 2, 2013
However, her Twitter attacks did not end there, as Bynes has called over 10 other celebrities "ugly" or something worse, including President Obama and his wife Michelle, Miley Cyrus, Perez Hilton and Rihanna.
These tweets have streamed in for a few months and only slowed down once Bynes was interned in a psychiatric ward after starting a fire in a stranger's driveway. Officials at the scene decided to intern her against her will under 5150 W&I (California Welfare & Institutions Code), saying Bynes fit the criteria. Since her involuntary stay at the psychiatric hospital and discussions that her parents will seek a conservatorship, Bynes has not tweeted or spoken publicly.
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Pistachio Ring
"Some years ago I decided to take a bread-baking course at our local school since I had never worked with yeast. I have never tasted anything as good or had as many compliments as I did when I brought home this pretty sweet bread."
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + rising Bake: 25 min. + cooling
Makes1 ring (18 slices)
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 cup sugar, divided
- 1/4 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1 cup warm milk (110° to 115°)
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 to 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup shelled salted pistachios, coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in warm water; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the milk, butter, salt, 2 cups flour and remaining sugar; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. On a floured surface, roll into a 16-in. x 12-in. rectangle. Brush with melted butter. Sprinkle with pistachios and sugar. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. Place seam side down on a greased baking sheet; pinch ends together to form a ring.
- With a scissors, cut from outside edge two-thirds of the way toward center of ring at 3/4-in. intervals. Separate strips slightly; twist to allow filling to show, slightly overlapping with the previous piece. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
- Brush with egg. Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.
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