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Repost from original at annavonreitz.com | Ramola D | March 6, 2022
Preface: Anna von Reitz, who spearheaded the entire return-to-the-land and restoring-America initiative represented by the American States Assembly movement which has sought to return power to the people and revive the long-dormant states of the States of America–usurped and overshadowed since Lincoln's time (as covered in a recent Let Freedom Ring! podcast with Massachusetts State Assembly) by the foreign banking corporations of US Inc., the Crown Corporation, British Pilgrims Society, European bloodline royals, the UN, WEF, et al–has been making some bombshell posts at her site lately about what is happening worldwide under the skin of MSM-run current-affairs, COVID disasters, and Russia-Ukraine wars.
One of those posts is here below, speaking of a new financial system on its way which seeks to return power to the people, the rightful donors of all the legacy bank trusts, erase all national debts, and make restoration funds available to the people interest-free.
Behind this information which includes Anna sharing that she has been named as the Fiduciary of the world's banking trusts for the true USA and all nations–more on this in the other major article she has posted I will re-post here in a minute–is information that has been known for a while now, but which has been buried from public view by the Pandemic Hoax, Vaccine Disaster, and play for power by government corporations pushing tyranny down everyone's throats, which is this: the fact that all government corporations are officially bankrupt and will not have access to the funds from the new financial system Anna talks about.
The bankruptcy of the US corporation was reported here earlier in my :Russell-jay: Gould posts, especially this one, but since I have been covering Russell's story–in early to mid-2020–I have learned more about the real restoration of America and it is not coming from Russell, who seems to be running a private feudal system all his own which offers joinder with the corporate system not removal from it (under cover for the Khazarian bankers?)–the history covered here of US Inc going bankrupt is still accurate: The Restoration of the United States of America—Commander-in-Chief, Postmaster-General-of-the-World :Russell-Jay: Gould has the Title 4 Flag
Americans for Innovation has been uncovering the British Pilgrims Society history and offers more in-depth information on how corporations took over America and the world. My interview panel with Michael McKibben and Douglas Gabriel covered a great deal: Report 261| Michael McKibben and Douglas Gabriel on The Long British Empire & Bankers' Hold Over America and the World–& How to End it.
Dean Henderson has also long been covering this history, see his panels and interviews here for more, especially this one: Report 206 | Dean Henderson| The Crown's Long War to Destroy Humanity, Guerilla War in Fighting Back. Also see Frances Leader's work and articles on the City of London and Venetian kingpins at her Substack and Hive sites.
Also see Mark Kishon Christopher's work, website, and videos at Youtube–he too offers massive amounts of information on what is really going on and has been for centuries. My interview with :Mark-kishon from a couple years ago is now at Odysee (after Youtube crashed my channel there into oblivion).
What Anna has been doing is extraordinary and seeks to return power to the people, while pointing the way to return to the land and soil outside the fraudulent Maritime and Admiralty law jurisdiction of the sea. Please see more on her work at her websites, and here under the Restoring America pages I am building at this site (links to her websites and webinars here). Follow the steady stream of articles she puts out to see what is going on really in the world, and how you individually can return to the land yourself, claim your place as a living soul or being (even the word human has been corporatized) and benefit from this new allocation of funds. I will continue to report on her work.
The best news of all? There will be no New World Order, and dissolving corrupt globalist systems is simply going to mean walking away from them.--Ramola D
From the Office of the Fiduciary Regarding World Bank Transition
By Anna Von Reitz
This announcement will doubtless come as a shock for many of you who have not been fully informed prior to this, but I have been named Fiduciary for all assets belonging to The United States of America, our unincorporated Federation of States, and more recently asked to function in the same capacity with respect to the resources of over 200 nations —including yours, if you are receiving this communication — so as to expedite repatriation of resources and organize a new financial system and provide for an orderly resumption of public government functions.
The first thing I wish to communicate to all of you is that there is no National Debt nor is there any interest accrued against any National Debt.
The appearance of a National Debt and accruing interest has been manufactured via phony bookkeeping.
These allegations of national indebtedness have been made possible via a simple ruse played against the national governments by the Central Banks.
These same Central Banks simply neglected to balance the books and apply your equal and answering National Credit and the interest owed to you on that credit.
As of March 9, 2022, at noon GMT, I am ordering this long-overdue bookkeeping to be done and for all purported National Debts to be erased and counterbalanced by application of the respective National Credits owed.
This necessary accounting and debt relief will not, however, automatically restore your credit liquidity as each country must undertake resumption of its public government functions for that to happen.
I must also tell you that your actual government has never been bankrupt in the history of the world. Sovereign entities are not eligible for bankruptcy protection.
All pretensions and claims of emergency and of emergency powers resulting from bankruptcy of incorporated government subcontractors are bunk. They were bunk in 1907, in 1925, in 1933 and ever afterward.
We have been asked how we have the authority and resources to do what we are doing, so I shall very briefly explain.
All Legacy and Historic and Bank Trusts, all of what you know and think of as "Off Ledger" accounts and as assets of the World Trust and so on, have been administered by Trustees acting in our names.
We are the Donors.
The Donors, not the Trustees, ultimately control all of these trusts –both public and private.
All assets belonging to each country and to each of the people living in each country will be returned and fully restored, debt free. Ample credit and underwriting for national currencies, will be made available, as well as access to prepaid credit. Ample Restoration Funds for infrastructure and environmental remediation and enhancement of natural resources will be made available interest-free.
Unlike the Trustees who were obligated to penny-pinch and make profit their primary objective, the Donors are free to extend interest free credit, engage in true philanthropic enterprises, entertain long-term and visionary investment projects, and take other initiatives that would not be possible for funds managed by custodial institutions and trustees.
The corporations that have been functioning "as" governments are bankrupt and will not have direct access to the new banking system. Each country's Master Account in the new system is established as an unincorporated International Trade Account; commercial corporations are not eligible to have Master Accounts, but may access and interface via subsidiary commercial accounts, so long as they are in good standing.
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
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Woman with World's Longest Fingernails: See How She Texts with 20-Foot Nails [PHOTOS]
With fingernails nearly 20 feet long, Chris The Dutchess Walton set the record for the world's longest nails, which took 18 years to grow. That must be one expensive manicure.
The 45-year-old singer from Las Vegas known as The Dutchess is now part of the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records for her fingernails that measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right.
It's kind of like a body part that I was born with, now I don't know what I would do without them, Chris The Dutchess Walton said while being photographed in front of the New York Public Library on Wednesday.
While she admits she doesn't know what she would do without them, we wonder what she does WITH them.
According to The Dutchess, she can do almost anything with her 20-feet long nails including drive a car, shop and household chores. Well, anything but reach into her pockets.
The hardest thing for me to do is dig in my pockets, she told the Huffington Post. Everything else I can do myself -- driving, shopping, cleaning the house ... although when I vacuum, the cord gets tangled in my fingers.
One other activity she does not engage in is swimming, but not because of her nails. I don't swim, but it's not the nails that stop me swimming. It's a hair thing, she said.
The Dutchess demonstrated how she texts with such long fingernails, using her knuckles instead, while promoting the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records with her glittery nails and flamboyant ensemble.
She consciously thinks about her nails, which she has been growing for over 18 years, including when dressing herself, altering her clothing to fit her sharp lifestyle.
I align my wardrobe to myself...If I like a jacket, I'll take the seam out of the arm and replace it with a zipper so I can get my nails in the sleeve, she said.
The mother of five and grandmother of three did not intentionally grow her nails over the past two decades for sport, but rather on accident.
I never set out to make it into Guinness. It just happened, she told the Huffington Post. One day I stopped cutting my nails. I liked the way they looked. And they just kept growing.
The Dutchess said she does not have a special diet to grow her nails and does not take vitamins or supplements to promote nail growth, but rather eats a lot of candy.
She does, however, care for her appendage-like fingernails, giving herself a manicure once a month. When asked how many bottles of nail polish she uses per manicure, she told the Huffington Post, it depends on the brand, and how it goes on.
Chris The Dutchess Walton, a real life Edward Scissorhands, also said she does not plan on clipping her nails any time soon.
I'm pretty sure one day I will cut them, but I can't see it in my head because I'm so used to having them, she said. It's like a leg, I wouldn't just chop it off so it's gonna take some thinking.
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Recent posts here have discussed UKIP supporters' resentment at everything that's happened since 1963 and that the only thing they like about Britain is the past.
1963 seems to be a key turning point, and not just because of Philip Larkin's poem. The significance of that year was analysed in an article by Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian.
Jeffries acknowledges that everything didn't suddenly change in 1963. But 1963 was significant as the year of the Profumo scandal, when the hypocrisies of the establishment were laid bare. It was also the cusp of a long process of sexual liberation:
Writing of the effects of liberalising legislation on abortion, gay sex and the reduction of censorship in the 60s, Andrew Marr in A History of Modern Britain stresses this lapsarian image: "A fair verdict is that the changes allowed the British to be more openly themselves, and that while the results are not pretty, the apple of self-knowledge cannot be uneaten again and returned to the tree."The key word here is 'lapsarian'. Might this be the real reason for UKIP's appeal? Its supporters are yearning not just for the 1950s but for a time of innocence. Their yearning is based on the oldest idea of all, the basis of Judeo-Christian mythology, the Fall of Man. Deep down, UKIP supporters want to return to a time before Adam and Eve ate the apple, when God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death.
So Nigel Farage thinks he can turn the clock back that far? Good luck with that.


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The Wirral is low-lying; formerly agricultural, it is now to a great extent urban and suburban in character. The main town is Birkenhead; other towns include New Brighton, Wallasey, Hoylake, West Kirby, the abandoned port of Parkgate, Bebington, and the model village Port Sunlight, built for workers at William Lever's Sunlight Soap factory.
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I believe climate change is real. I believe that human emissions of greenhouse gases are a major cause of climate change.
I also believe the Democrats' cure for climate change, their "Green New Deal," is so far out in left field that not many people will take it seriously. Basically, it is an assault on cars, cows and combustion. With nuclear power available, the Green New Deal's strategy for fighting climate change with windmills makes as much sense as going to war in sailboats.
So, as one Republican, I propose this response to climate change: the United States should launch a New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy, a five-year project to meet Ten Grand Challenges that will use American research and technology to put our country and the world firmly on a path toward cleaner, cheaper energy.
The purpose of the original Manhattan project during World War II was to find a way to split the atom and build a bomb before Germany could. Instead of ending a war, the goal of this New Manhattan Project will be to minimize the disruption on our lives and economies caused by climate change, to clean the air and to raise family incomes.
These are the Ten Grand Challenges:
Advanced Nuclear – Ninety-eight nuclear reactors produce 60 percent of all carbon-free electricity in the United States. Within the next five years, we need to build one or more advanced reactors to demonstrate the capabilities they may bring – lower cost, increased safety, and less nuclear waste.
Natural Gas – Developing new combustion technologies will make natural gas-fired electric generation more efficient and further reduce carbon emissions.
Carbon Capture – This is the holy grail of clean energy. If we can capture carbon at a cheaper cost and find large scale uses for its byproduct – for example, CO2 to ethanol – coal could be used everywhere in the world.
Better Batteries – Today's Nissan Leaf can travel 226 miles on one charge. A Tesla Model S can travel 335 miles. The price of lithium-ion batteries should fall another 45 percent during the next five years. Better batteries also can one day allow utilities and their customers to store large amounts of electricity during non-peak hours.
Greener Buildings – This still is the real low-hanging fruit. Residential and commercial buildings still consume 39 percent of U.S. energy.
Electric Vehicles – Ten years ago there were no mass-produced electric cars on U.S. highways. Today, there are one million and automakers are investing big to make millions more.
Cheaper Solar – Solar power has grown but accounts for only 2 percent of U.S. electricity. The new goal for the Department of Energy is to lower the cost of solar another 50 percent.
Fusion – This is the ultimate green energy dream: make electricity on earth the way the sun makes it. Instead of splitting elements, combine them and make clean, almost limitless energy without waste.
Advanced Computing – China, Japan, the U.S., and the European Union all want to be first in advanced computing. The U.S. regained the number one spot last year thanks to sustained funding by Congress during both the Obama and Trump administrations. This is the first tool the New Manhattan Project needs.
Double Energy Research Funding – The second tool is money. It would take $6 billion annually to double funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science and its 17 national laboratories, which are where most of the nation's basic energy research is done. The cost of the Green New Deal is trillions annually.
This strategy recognizes that, when it comes to climate change, China, India and other developing countries are the problem; American innovation is the answer. According to the Global Carbon Project, over the last 13 years, the United States has reduced production of greenhouse gases more than any major country – largely thanks to conservation and switching from coal to natural gas for electricity.
This bold agenda – which will hopefully be bipartisan – can over the next five years place us firmly on a path toward dealing with climate change, and at the same time produce large amounts of reliable, clean energy that lifts family incomes in our country and around the world.


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Deploying OpenStack can be a challenging process, and securing it can be even more daunting. Fortunately, there's a new project in the OpenStack big tent that wants to make this process easier: openstack-ansible-security.
Start Standardizing With the STIG
Securing an OpenStack deployment involves multiple levels of configuration:
- Securing the network
- Securing the host
- Securing the interconnected services
The goal of openstack-ansible-security is to tackle the second level -- securing the host. A spec was proposed for the Mitaka release of OpenStack to secure OpenStack infrastructure hosts using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG).
The STIG is a collection of best practices for securing a host and its services against common attacks. The collection is broken up into multiple sections, called categories. The STIG Viewer service makes these categories easier to review. The categories include:
- Cat 1: For highly sensitive systems
- Cat 2: For medium sensitivity systems
- Cat 3: For low sensitivity systems
These are meant to be stackable, so an extremely sensitive system would require categories 1, 2 and 3. Each STIG item provides a description of what needs to be changed, why it should be changed, how to change it, and how to verify the change.
Enter Ansible
Ansible makes it easier to build consistent environments without agents, daemons, or lots of extra packages. It also simplifies dependencies of roles and tasks. Developers can build fully idempotent playbooks which can be run against multiple servers that may have varying levels of configuration.
OpenStack's openstack-ansible project will deploy a fully functional OpenStack environment on a single host or on several hosts. This project is different than the OpenStack modules provided in Ansible since those modules are intended to be used with an already deployed OpenStack infrastructure.
The openstack-ansible-security role is designed to work alongside the openstack-ansible project, but it can be applied to non-OpenStack systems as well. However, the openstack-ansible-security role is designed to take the RHEL 6 STIG requirements and apply them to Ubuntu 14.04. That's because the openstack-ansible project only supports Ubuntu 14.04 for the Liberty release.
Many of the RHEL 6 STIG requirements translate easily into Ubuntu systems, but some require additional work. Certain tasks must use apt rather than yum or dpkg rather than rpm. Some configuration files end up in different places on an Ubuntu system and those translations are documented within the Ansible task files.
Role Details
The openstack-ansible-security role contains tasks that are broken out per category, per service, and per guideline itself. This allows deployers to consider which changes they want to apply using --tags or --skip-tags. In addition, the defaults/main.yml file contains heavily-documented configuration variables that deployers can use to further fine-tune their security improvements. Most of those have been set to sane defaults that provide the greatest security benefit without causing disruption to a production OpenStack system.
Each change is documented and any exceptions to the STIG's requirements are also documented. Exceptions arise for those changes that could disrupt a running system or other changes which are very difficult to automate.
How Can I Help?
All 264 STIG requirements are currently either in the repository or proposed in OpenStack Gerrit reviews. If you have an OpenStack account and you'd like to help with the reviews, here's the process:
- Pick up an open review
- Open the STIG in the STIG Viewer (use the V-##### id to look them up)
- Add comments (and +1's) to the review in Gerrit
Once the reviews are completed, there are a few tasks left over. For example, some tasks could be consolidated to speed up the deployment and the role will need a solid integration with the openstack-ansible role.
Going to OpenStack Summit?
If you're headed to Tokyo, don't forget to stop by the Rackspace booth and grab yourself a bit of Ansible swag! And mark your schedules to catch some of our speakers -- many of whom will be talking about how we use Ansible with OpenStack. Ansible's "Playbook for OpenStack Summit" blog post can help you find them, so be sure to say hello!


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The wholesale disruption of the payments industry has finally begun.
Major banks, credit card companies and financial giants have long controlled payments but their dominance looks increasingly shaky. Since 2014, investors have poured $130 billion into ground breaking technologies like Blockchain and mobile payments. Fears about customer data and privacy and regulatory changes may impact the industry in unprecedented ways. Thanks to next generation payment methods that bypass banks and credit cards, the unbanked and underbanked have been increasing their economic activity.
In fact, we believe we are witnessing a once-in-a-generation shift in the financial services industry.
The fintech revolution is changing the way banks and payments companies have won and retain customers. Traditionally, one institution could serve all of your financial needs. In the near future, business and consumers will interact with multiple companies in a more decentralized, technology-driven system.
We highlight 5 key reasons why fintech will disrupt business models of major financial institutions. These observations are based on our new 23-page report on the payments industry.
1. A huge market opportunity awaits
The global payments industry is a $100 trillion plus market consisting of large and small companies fiercely competing for retail, cross border transactions, peer to peer services, and e-commerce. Big financial companies like Citi, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America collect consumer deposits, provide low-cost funds to support loan origination, and facilitate retail and cross border payments. Startups developing Blockchain and smart contracts will redefine the relationship between customers, suppliers, and vendors. MasterCard and Visa are heavily spending to preserve their dominant market share in credit cards. With so much at stake, the category is attracting considerable investment.
Exhibit A: Payments is a $110 Trillion opportunity
2. Global private investment in fintech is rising, with payments as the single largest sub-sector
Over the past 4 years, investors have spent more than $130 billion on fintech, led by Blockchain companies, including $40 billion on 1,800 deals in 2017 alone. The first half of 2018 already saw 800 fintech investments, including $2 billion on just four companies: OneConnect, Credit Karma, Armour and Robinhood. The top 10 venture capital firms accounted for over 8 percent of the fintech deals since 2014, including 500 startups and Y Combinator, each with over 100 deals, followed by Digital Currency Group and Sequoia. Over 30 percent of the VC and seed money went to payment startups.
Exhibit B: Over $40 billion invested in FinTech space in 2018
3. Mobile, messengers, and P2P models are expanding payments' footprint
The payments industry is experiencing significant transformation because of changing consumer behavior. The industry has moved from traditional checking/savings accounts to seamless "one-click" messenger applications like Alipay, WeChat and PayTM. Payment firms such as Stripe, Adyen and PayTM are disrupting banks, credit card companies and payment processors. Stuck with out of date infrastructure, these incumbents are trying to remain relevant by expanding into adjacent markets, including point of sale and peer-to-peer services. Tech giants like Apple, Google and Samsung all provide cash-less and card-less payment solutions for consumers at the point-of-sale. Major retail chains are already using their platforms. Big tech's sophistication and considerable financial resources pose a unique competitive threat to legacy financial services providers.
Exhibit C: Mobile transactions rising steadily at over 50%
4. Blockchain may finally upend financial institutions Blockchain will reshape many industries, but the distributed ledger technology is already changing the banking industry in ways not seen since the ATM. Blockchain is disruptive because it can bypass financial institutions altogether and allow for direct payments between between parties. At a minimum, the technology will prompt financial institutions to re-engineer their systems and value propositions. Blockchain is already making cross border payments and remittances much cheaper because of lesser need for paperwork and middle men. Transactions could be completed in minutes rather than days and weeks. Although regulators are still developing the legal framework for Blockchain, some banks are already partnering with companies like Ripple and Circle to pilot this technology across the globe.
5. Banks' monopoly on customer data and relationship is gone
Besides deposits, banks' most valuable asset is customer data and direct-to-consumer relationships. But the European Union PSD2 directive weakens banks' monopoly on consumer data. With permission, the merchants or processing companies can directly access customer account information thus making payments faster and more efficient. Banks must also share their APIs, which means third party service providers can access valuable consumer data. This opens up a new opportunities for processing companies such as Stripe and Adyen who can now get access to this data and provide useful analytics and insights on customer spending to merchants who can then create focused products. Although the directive currently applies only to the European Union, we expect other countries to adopt this regulation over the next few years.


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The Northwest Arkansas and Ozark regions are well known for their rocky and poor soil conditions. Most of us who plant a vegetable garden or even a flower garden yearly end up investing in raised or hanging beds. As well as bringing in soil. Even after all this work some of us have purchased topsoil only to find out later that it was full of clay. At this point, some people try to add sand, but sand is not the solution. Aeration and proper nutrients are the way to better soil in lawn care or landscaping.
Lawn Care Fertilizing For Better Soil
Then we move on to commercial fertilizers. This gives some temporary benefits but in the end, we haven't actually changed the soil conditions. All the chemical fertilizers have done are run off each time we have watered our crop and left trace elements in our produce. In the end, we just keep spending more money to replace these fertilizers and our soil content gets worse. A soil test is always a great place to start. Once we know what the soil is lacking the deficiencies can be added back in properly. Without the soil test, all sorts of vitamins and minerals can be added that are not necessary. Too much of a good thing is often bad later on. Slow and steady wins the better soil race.
Lots and lots of organic matter is the best solution. Leaves, manure, hay, and composting, in general, are a great way to start. But first, maybe we should take a minute to find out what is or isn't already in our soil.
Your local extension office may be a great place to start if you want to take them a sample of your dirt. Or you could buy a soil test kit and perform one yourself.
Soil content is measured on a PH scale from 0 to 14. 0 is pure acid and at the top 14 is nothing but alkalinity. This can all be kinda boring so maybe we should just pause a little longer and look at what's already growing in our yards.
What to look for in the plants you're growing to tell how the soil is doing.
If you have noticed the lower leaves on your plants turning pale it may be from a lack of nitrogen in the soil. Poultry manure, eggshells, and legumes are an easy cure for this problem.
Leaves that are turning yellow and beginning to curl up with black tips may be plants that are lacking sufficient calcium. Bone meal or crushed oyster shells which we also feed to our chickens to make sure they get enough calcium in their diet is a good place to start. An even easier solution is saving your eggshell to add to your compost pile.
A magnesium deficiency is noticeable if your plants are losing their leaves or fruit has poor color. Epsom Salt is a great way to add magnesium back into a lawn or garden. The directions are on the back of most Epsom Salt bags. Potassium will help with this as well, that's as simple as adding a banana peel. For years I had problems with my roses bushes until a wonderful lady told me she chops up her banana peels and puts them at the base of her roses bushes.
Phosphorous is the last you will notice this one if your leaves are turning purple, the plants aren't flowering or producing fruit. Fish emulsion or chicken manure should level this back out. I take this one for granted because when I vacuum out the fish tank once or twice a year I pour the wastewater in my garden. A word of caution if you are buying fish emulsion it may attract raccoons, and chicken manure should be left to sit. If applied fresh as it may burn your plants.
Henbit, chickweed, and lamb's quarters are signs that your soil is fertile. These plants commonly are seen as weeds right up there with dandelions, mullein, dock, and sorrel which are all signs that your soil is acidic.
Alkaline soil will grow plants like goosefoot, salad burnet, true chamomile, and wild carrots. So in a nutshell we need to pay more attention to our weeds instead of just ripping them up because they can also be the cure for poor and rocky soil.
Yes, you heard me you want weeds. At least for part of the year, and really some weeds are kinda pretty. I love dandelions, and the long taproot that they grow helps aerate the soil. Broadleaf plantain does the same thing and tolerates both wet and dry soils as well as standing up to a lot of foot traffic.
If you are highly opposed to weeds, or your POA has strict policies on dandelions there are other options, without using a ton of chemical fertilizers. Green Tea fertilizers are a terrific additive, followed up with crop rotation, and planting ground covers.
Legumes including peanuts and clover are great alternatives. Peanuts not only aerate but add nitrogen back into the soil when the leftover or spent shells get tilled under at the end of the season.
Medium Red Clover is also a legume and can be planted in-between seasons. The beginning of spring or fall. It loosens compacted soil and provides nutrients to your yard or garden. White Clover is a pretty perennial that will help with erosion in the winter. Crimson clover is an annual with gorgeous strawberry blooms that will help attract pollinators to help your yard thrive. Yellow Blossom Clover may be the best clover it is drought tolerant and helps with phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen. Can you tell how much we like clover yet, the blooms are pretty and our yard has huge erosion problems it's a win-win because there is a clover for almost every ailment your lawn may have.
The Right Grass For your Soil
The type of grass you pick for your yard can play an important role in your soil rejuvenation too. Winter Rye Grass helps with erosion and nitrogen control in a season when most of our gardens and yards are lying fallow.
Remember that if you give back to your garden or lawn it will show you its thanks.
Being productive in the yard or garden has more to do with increasing the fertility of your soils. Try to remember to rotate where you plant your crops and in the winter use a cover crop to help keep the soil loose and rich in nutrients. Also if you're using clover to cover crop bees and other pollinators will be happy to help your gardens flourish.


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For the last year, I worked on the largest (literally and figuratively) project of my art life, Paper Mountain. The idea of creating this immersive experience for people – something much larger than any of us, that would evoke a mountain – was a driving force in my life. I consider it a major success and I'm really proud of that project. You can see images of this installation and read more about it here.
My other big motivator are my husband and son. It is super important to me to be the best version of myself so that I can be a good partner and parent – and continuing to make artwork is one of the best ways that I can follow my path and be true to who I am and what I am supposed to be doing. Having my son was hands down the biggest catalyst for reframing the way I perceived myself as an artist, and as soon as he was part of my life, I wanted to demonstrate strong work ethic and I wanted him to be proud of me and of my work. I do that by continuing to make art work. Read more about how being a parent has positively impacted my art practice on this blog post.


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Located on Florida's southeastern coast, Fort Lauderdale is a great destination for families. Miles of beautiful beaches, water sports, boat canals, and shopping are among the many fun things to enjoy. The Harbor Beach Marriott Resort's prime location offers beach fun and proximity to area attractions. Though peak season is December through April, when many people trade the snow for sun (at least for a few days), the rainy summer and fall months have fewer crowds and ocean water is warmer.
Up until a few years ago, our only exposure to Florida was hot, humid summer days running around Disney World in Orlando. Or when we traveled from our home in Los Angeles to the Caribbean, stopping to change planes in Orlando or Miami.
But since then, we've had opportunities to visit some of Florida's family-friendly beach resorts. I was pleasantly surprised by Fort Lauderdale, a bustling city with a population around 200,000 and one of the best Florida beaches.
During our four-day stay in spring, we had some rain showers, but mostly the weather was sunny and just the right temperature to enjoy water sports and sightseeing,
Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa
Situated on a private stretch of golden sand just 10 minutes from the airport, the oceanfront resort is a destination in itself. It would be easy to spend your entire vacation right here. The luxury resort has large heated pools, a spa, fitness center (offering Zumba, pilates and boot camp), a year-round children's program, and three restaurants.
But it's the beach and array of water sports that completes a family vacation.
For a reasonable fee, you can rent wave runners, kayaks, paddleboards, and Hobie cats, and sign up for para-sailing, snorkeling trips and banana boats. The ocean is as flat as a lake in the mornings, so that's when I felt most comfortable paddling a kayak through water so clear I could see reefs just beneath the surface.
Lounge chairs and umbrellas are included in the resort fee. Beverage service is available on the beach from the comfort of your chair.
Read More: Yes! There are all inclusive resorts in Florida.
Dining at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort
The Marriott's three diverse restaurants all offer ocean views, so meal times are always pleasant here. I especially liked the casual Sea Level restaurant, which as the name states, is on the beach. Burgers, wraps, tacos, salads and a bar make this a quick and easy meal option. 3030 Ocean is an upscale restaurant featuring a new menu daily. After a day in the sun or sightseeing, it's nice to dress up and enjoy a more formal meal here.
In the Marriott's Surf Club, kids ages 5 – 12 can participate in fancy finger painting, soaked shirt relay race, beach soccer, freeze tag, Velcro laser tag and beach volleyball. The open-door policy allows kids who are registered and wearing a wristband to come and go as they please.
Florida Everglades
As lovely as the resort is, we couldn't resist exploring the surrounding area.
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It was about a 20-minute drive to the Sawgrass Recreation Park in Florida's Everglades. The facility gives tours via airboats and has animal exhibits. On our tour through the river trails, our guide (Gator Tim) made a sound that attracted an alligator or two to swim toward our boat. It was an amazing experience to ride through the vast acres of Everglades and see these allegedly shy creatures make their way toward us.
After about an hour, we docked and visited the rescued and injured animals that live in the park's exhibits. Among the numerous animals are alligators, leopards and panthers. The onsite Alligator Grill food truck serves gator bites, burgers and many other items. The most popular food item? Gator bites and tacos!
Sea Experience Glass Bottom Snorkeling Tour
It's amazing that just a few miles from shore and with tall buildings in the background there's really good snorkeling. During the short boat ride to the snorkeling site it rained. But by the time we got our snorkel gear adjusted, the rain cleared up.The glass bottom boat has views of the underwater world while cruising but the best part was jumping into the ocean to snorkel. Gear is provided and a crew member points out starfish and other creatures. The aquamarine water was warm and clear, making it easy to see the abundant colorful plants, reefs and sea life.
Water Taxi Tours
From the Marriott you can walk to shops and to the riverfront to board a water taxi. One flat rate ($26 adults, $12 ages 5 – 11) gives you unlimited boarding all day on narrated boat tours. These are a lot of fun! Hop on and off at any of the 15 stops or stay onboard for the full narrated tour of mansions, mega yachts (shown above is Steven Spielberg's), restaurants and shopping districts. It's a relaxing way to get around and learn a bit about the area. Plus, the boats are covered so you stay dry when it rains.


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By Horus Alas
After a seven-hour drive from Maryland, I pull up to a parking space in the rear of the Comfort Inn in Hadley, Massachusetts, around 9:30 p.m. April 27. As far as I can tell, I'm the only person around. There's a brisk stillness in the air.
Enter headlights from behind my rental car as I'm pulling out my guitar and duffel bag from the trunk. A small car comes speeding toward me. It blares its horn. I stagger back and dramatically clasp a hand to my chest like one of those forlorn romantic poets.
Maggie Let emerges from the driver's seat of the car, light and effervescent like the champagne we'd be drinking at her wedding the next day. She promptly gives me a hug, and perhaps she greets me with a "¡Che boludo!" as she would've done when we crossed paths in Argentina.
Nick Cader emerges from the passenger's seat. I only know him via Twitter, but he'll be the groom at tomorrow's ceremony. He gives me a hug, and expresses approbation at the fact that I've brought my guitar and some yerba mate. He's Argentine, but has lived in Massachusetts with the bride-to-be for some time now.
From one of the rear passenger seats, a pretty German girl with blonde hair emerges. I'll come to know her as Leslie.
In short order, I'm introduced to the other wedding guests who'll be staying at the same hotel that evening: Harley, who writes for the Cape Cod Times with Maggie, and her main squeeze, Tom—who … does something, I'm sure.
Nick and Maggie help us get settled in and then depart to the home of Jack and Carol Let.
As we're collectively taking our effects up to our rooms, I ask Harley, Tom and Leslie, "Are you guys tired, or would you want to hang out for a bit? I have some alcohol in the trunk of my car."
I'd like to say there was a collective glow on their faces—a marvelous effusion, some mischievous grins, internal sparks of enthusiasm bursting through their bodies out into the ether; something like that—but no. There was instead a collective light approval—some nods, a "Yeah, sure," and "okay." That sort of thing.
I invite them into my room. We sit and chat and drink. "I like your president more than ours," I tell Leslie. "Me too," she says with a smoky, Teutonic laugh. After an hour or so of exchanges, Harley declares, "Well, we should probably get some sleep."
Fast forward to 5:00 p.m. the next day. The sky was overcast in the morning, but now, there's sunshine beaming down resplendently on the hill behind the Red Barn at Hampshire College.
Jack Let stands by a microphone beneath a sturdy oak tree, looking out at the 40 or so wedding guests seated in two grids of folding chairs with an aisle down the middle. He sports an elegant black blazer with white piping, and his long, silver hair and beard are swaying serenely in this zephyr.
The bridesmaids walk down the aisle two by two, clad in these flowing, pink dresses that waft around like foliage in the breeze. They begin flanking Jack Let on his left and right side.
I don't know it yet because I'm seated near the front, watching the bridesmaids enter, but the bride and groom are walking toward us.
Jack List, gazing past us at the two silhouettes that are becoming more and more concrete on his horizon, declares, "I told myself I wasn't gonna cry at this thing, but now I'm not so sure I'll be able to do that." Still, he stands stoically, his hands clasped together at his waist.
Much to my amazement, the man in the jacket with the white piping begins officiating the wedding ceremony. It's short and sweet. He mentions Maggie's older sister Annie, who passed away a few years ago, and couldn't be there with us in person, but "is here today, with us, in our hearts."
He recounts how Maggie and Nick met. She was crossing over from San Juan, Argentina to Santiago, Chile with some friends. He was coming back from a Paul McCartney concert in Santiago. He wanted to talk to her—if only she knew Spanish.
As fate would have it, she did. He heard her speak some incipient Argentine Spanish with her traveling companions. The rest is a story that would be more apt for a romance novelist to retell rather than for me to do so.
Jack Let asks the bride and groom if they accept their nuptial vows. Maggie Let leans into the microphone and says, "I do," at which point we all laugh. Nico says "I do" sans the embellishment.
"Well then, Nick, you may now kiss the bride," the new father-in-law declares.
They do.
It's 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. I wake up on a couch in Jack and Carol List's home, where many of us spent the night following the wedding. We raged until 4:00 in the morning, and at least to some degree, everyone is either drunk or hungover.
Collectively, we decide we want some water. Tera Rae, whom I met when she was Maggie's roommate at this university, does us all a huge solid and brings in a pack of water bottles from outside. She has this big, gruesome gash on her right knee, and when I ask her about it, she explains she fell off a motorcycle.
We sit around for a bit, languid and disheveled, nursing our booze-drenched brains, until the bride suggests going into town for brunch.
Amherst has a quaint, idyllic sort of feel. The narrow streets are lined with houses no taller than two stories. Their shutters, mailboxes and lawns make you think of a 1950s suburb, but this isn't kitschy, mid-century Americana. There are churches with spires, and next to them, there are bars frequented by the college kids. Past meets future; present, past.
Extravaganja is going on today, but they've moved the venue from Amherst to Northampton, and no one quite has the volition to drive out there. As we walk up North Pleasant Street, we pass a spot called Bruegger's Bagels. Mark Pack, a senior music performance major at this university exclaims, "Yo, the bagel place is lit!"
The vernacular is enough to rend my heart with happiness.
We walk past a bar called High Horse, where Maggie intimates we can go drinking later that evening. For now, we content ourselves with some food from a Starbucks across the street, and sit around beneath a tree in front of St. Brigid's parish.
The gash on Tera's knee becomes a hot topic of conversation. At the suggestion of Penny Smith, a percussionist graduate student in music at this university, Tera writes, "I FELL" on her knee next to the wound. Ink and irony have a habit of becoming friends on one's epidermis.
As we're sitting around chatting and munching, a group of raucous elementary school kids rolls by in a school bus. Neil Cane, Penny's boyfriend, and a trombonist with this university's school of music, notes, "They're probably going to Extravaganja, those lucky fucks."
He pulls out a piece and lights up a few nuggets of tree beneath the shade of another, different kind of tree. Smoke fills the air, wafting ever upwards, as he releases a contented sigh with his exhale. Had Neil been alive in the 1930s, I'm sure he would've been a great stand-in for that insidious piano player in Reefer Madness.
Our food consumed, quips parried, daring deeds done—we, these monied vagrants, angel-headed scoundrels, handsome devils, dismal heroines, happy, beautiful and damned—leave the lawn at St. Brigid's Parish for newer, no less verdant pastures.
There's more to life than walking, sure. But not much more. Not right now.
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Horus Alas is a senior philosophy major and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The key phrase is actually exactly why FERC nominees should not be approved:
"…but of increasingly vital importance, also oversees the permitting and construction of natural gas pipelines, gas storage projects, and liquefied natural gas terminals."
Funny how the Chamber didn't mention fracking or LNG export. We don't need more pipelines taking people's property and risking our water and lives for the profit of a few fossil fuel executives cashing out before their industry goes belly-up.
WWALS recommends a swift vote to deny these FERC nominees and any others who do not vow to "to develop the new energy infrastructure necessary to ensure future domestic energy security" by rapidly deploying sun and wind power with no more new pipelines. Please call your Senators or members of that Committee to recommend they get on with real renewable energy, not 20th century fossil fuel stranded assets.
U.S. Chamber letter to U.S. Senate Energy Committee
See also the letter in PDF and WWALS asks FERC to deny Sabal Trail's in-service request and to revoke its permit.
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The Honorable Lisa Murkowski
Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Maria Cantwell
Ranking Member
Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce respectfully urges the Committee to promptly report both Robert Powelson and Neil Chatterjee to the full Senate to fill two of the three open commissioner vacancies on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission").
FERC plays a vital role in ensuring the nation's energy security. Not only does FERC regulate the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and natural gas in interstate commerce, but of increasingly vital importance, also oversees the permitting and construction of natural gas pipelines, gas storage projects, and liquefied natural gas terminals. FERC also licenses nonfederal hydropower projects, the leading source of dispatchable renewable generation.
Since the loss of its quorum in early February, FERC has been unable to perform many of its statutory duties, resulting in a backlog of filings and proceedings that implicate the Commission's authority across a broad spectrum of the nation's critical energy infrastructure. Moreover, the absence of a working quorum has sidelined FERC's ability to evaluate the environmental reviews and evaluations needed to develop the new energy infrastructure necessary to ensure future domestic energy security. The continuation of a non-functional FERC represents a lost opportunity to advance America's status as an energy superpower.
The lack of a quorum at FERC exposes customers and businesses across the nation to uncertainty as to the rates for the electricity, natural gas, and oil supplies that are essential for their daily lives and future investment decisions. This continued uncertainty hampers, rather than facilitates, the continuing recovery of the nation's economy.
As was demonstrated during their appearances before the Committee on May 25, 2017, Robert Powelson and Neil Chatterjee are each soundly qualified to serve as two of the nation's most important energy regulators. Their combined experience in both state and federal energy policy matters serves to position them well to perform FERC's statutory duties while concurrently respecting the limitations on FERC's authority where state oversight is preserved. Mr. Powelson and Mr. Chatterjee have demonstrated a solid grasp on the subject matter within FERC's overview and have a demonstrated record of advocating policy over partisanship. As such, they would each be valuable assets as members of FERC.
The Chamber encourages a swift, favorable vote on these two nominations and stands ready to work with them as they get FERC back to work promoting fair and equitable energy rates while ensuring America's energy security.
Neil L. Bradley
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces in Food Retailers in Ontario
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A recent paper from Ontario, Canada discusses the findings from a study in which surfaces in retail stores were sampled for SARS-CoV-2 using PCR. Zero positive samples were found out of approximately 950 samples. Some highlights:
"Four zones within the store were selected, namely, the payment station, the deli counter, the refrigerated foods section, and the carts and baskets"
"Regardless of the store's location, the sampling day or time, the location of the surface within the store or the surface material, all samples tested negative for SARS-CoV-2. These results suggest that the risk of exposure from contaminated high-touch surfaces within a food retailer store is low if preventive measures and recommended sanitizing routines are maintained."
"All retail stores tested had in place similar protocols that complied with the provincial requirements (Ontario Ministry of Health, 2020) in terms of social distancing, sanitation, and exposure. All tested retailers also enforced the use of PPE among their patrons (e.g., masks were mandatory) and workers (e.g., masks were mandatory, face shields were available, but its use was voluntary, and gloves were mandatory in food preparation areas and voluntary in non-food preparation areas)."
Although it is difficult to do a direct comparison (due to possible differences in sanitizing protocols, climate, and other factors) Canada's retail settings have been more focused on limiting patrons/mask enforcement compared to the U.S.


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What Happens When You Drink Coffee
If you're anything like me, you can't function without your morning cup. It's known that coffee, or more specifically the caffeine in the coffee, can be addictive, but jsut how does it work on your body, and what effects does it have? Today's infographic walks you through how coffee works on your body, from the first sip through the withdrawal symptoms if you've gone too long without your java.
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(Bruce Weber's article appeared in the New York Times, 9/29.)
Sheldon Patinkin, a writer, director and teacher who helped shape the theatrical life of Chicago over half a century, died there on Sept. 21. He was 79.
He had suffered a heart attack three days earlier, his brother, Norman, said in confirming the death.
The roots of Chicago's substantial reputation as a theater town were planted in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. There, Mr. Patinkin, still in his teens, along with other aspiring artists, formed a company called the Playwrights Theater Club, a forerunner of the celebrated comedy troupe the Second City.


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Roster revamped for Shock's first home game in month
It's been nearly a month since the Spokane Shock played a home game.
During that stretch, Spokane put together some of its best football of the Arena Football League season, some of its worst in an 84-63 loss to Utah last week and has a new look for the roster.
Spokane (3-4) returns home to face New Orleans at 8 tonight at the Arena. Compared with last week's starting lineup, Spokane will have at least three new starters on each side of the ball.
Chris Pino, who has had a couple of stints with the team and arrived in town Wednesday night, and former Washington State Cougar Andrew Roxas will start on the offensive line. Chris Tucker, expected to start at nose guard, was one of the last cuts in training camp. Former USC Trojan and San Diego Charger Kevin Ellison will start at linebacker.
Linebacker Levi Madarieta, a starter on the 2006 arenafootball2 championship squad who signed earlier this week, will be on the practice squad.
"We're going to have our hands full," coach Andy Olson said. "We're focusing on getting our big guys healthy and bringing in a couple of fresh bodies. We're going to win or lose the game up front."
New Orleans, which blew a 23-point second-half lead in last week's loss to Jacksonville, is a statistical oddity, leading the league in the all-important turnover margin (plus-11) but sporting a losing record (3-4). Spokane is minus-5 in turnover margin.
Quarterback Kurt Rocco has 39 touchdown passes and just four interceptions. L.J. Castile leads the team with 43 catches, 530 yards and 12 TDs. Former Spokane receiver Quorey Payne has 33 receptions and nine touchdowns.
Spokane trails San Jose and Utah by 2½ games and Arizona by 1½ in the West Division.
"I still think we're in the top five in the league, no one else agrees with me," Olson said. "We've played some tough opponents, battled a lot of injuries and it's been a tough start to the season. We're starting to get better. We had a rough game in Utah, but we are getting better every week."


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To set the
CorrelationId on a message, use the Command interface to create the appropriate publish command and then use the
executeAsync method on the client to send the command to AMPS.
For example, the following snippet shows one way to use this interface in Java:
Command publishCommand = new Command("publish").setTopic("myTopic"); // You can reuse the publish command for any number of messages // by setting the data and correlation ID just before you publish publishCommand.setData(...).setCorrelationId(...); // The null message handler here means that the command // does not expect a stream of messages in response, so // does not need to have a message handler set up.
One important point: the
CorrelationId can only contain characters that are valid in Base64 encoding. Otherwise, AMPS may report a parse error when trying to interpret the publish command.
See the Developer Guide for your client of choice for more information on the Command interface and recipes for using the Command interface with AMPS.
Keywords: publish, CorrelationId, setting publish fields


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Psalms 89:19-21
19 I have exalted one chosen from the people. 20 I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him, 21 With whom My hand shall be established; Also My arm shall strengthen him. [NKJV] Alleluia
Matthew 10:34-42
34 Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to `set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law'; 36 and `a man's enemies will be those of his own household.' 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. 40 He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward. [NKJV] Glory is due to our God to the age of all ages. Amen
Psalms 132:9-10, 17, 18
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy. 10 For Your servant David's sake.
17 I will prepare a lamp for My Anointed.
18 But upon Himself His crown shall flourish. [NKJV] Alleluia
Luke 6:17-23
17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, 18 as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. 20 Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh. 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man's sake. 23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets. [NKJV] Glory is due to our God to the age of all ages. Amen
Hebrews 7:18-8:13
18 For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, 19 for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. 20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: The Lord has sworn And will not relent, `You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek' ), 22 by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. 23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
8:1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. 4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. 6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-- 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. 13 In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. [NKJV] The Grace of God the Father be with you all. Amen
3 John 1:1-14
1:1 THE ELDER, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth: 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers, 6 who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well, 7 because they went forth for His name's sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth. 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. 10 Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church. 11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has a good testimony from all, and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true. 13 I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink; 14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we shall speak face to face. Peace to you. Our friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. [NKJV] Do not love the world, nor the things which are in the world. The world shall pass away and all its desires; but he who does the will of God shall abide forever. Amen
Acts 15:36-16:5
36 Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing. 37 Now Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark. 38 But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work. 39 Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus; 40 but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God. 41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
16:1 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek. 2 He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek. 4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. 5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. [NKJV] The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty and be confirmed in the holy church of God. Amen
Psalms 99:6-7
6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests, And Samuel was among those who called upon His name; They called upon the Lord, and He answered them. 7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar. [NKJV] Alleluia
John 16:20-33
20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. 23 And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father. 29 His disciples said to Him, See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! 30 Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God. 31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? 32 Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. [NKJV] Glory is due to our God to the age of all ages. Amen


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Knowing what I do about the readership here at Tor.com, I'm guessing that if I say "hey, you really need to check out April and the Extraordinary World, because it's a delightful animated adventure story about a scrappy young scientist and her talking cat, set in an alternate history steampunk France that feels like a mashup of Jules Verne, J.J. Grandville, and Hayao Miyazaki," then—
Okay, a bunch of you are probably already gone, trying to figure out where and how and when you can see this lovely film, which just had its US premiere at Fantastic Fest. But just in case you need a little more information…
April and the Extraordinary World is the English rendering of the original French title, Avril et le monde truqué, and in fact Avril's world is largely more truqué—twisted or broken—than extraordinary. In this alternate timeline, Napoleon III, emperor of the Second French Empire, meets an untimely end—as a result, the Franco-Prussian war never happens. This non-event transforms geopolitics, and at the same time, the great scientists of the age begin to vanish. Without the technological advances in electricity and (for better or for worse) oil that shaped our world, le monde truqué relies on steam-powered technology that first consumes the world's coal supply, and then devastates the forests as trees are harvested and burned for charcoal. Under a polluted grey sky, the citizens wear breathing masks to get by, and wars over resources continue to drag on everywhere.
Come the year 1931, we meet Avril Franklin, daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of noted scientists. She is orphaned when her parents disappear in a airship disaster; ten years later, she has grown up to become an accomplished chemist (and fugitive), carrying on her family quest for "the ultimate serum," a miracle cure that halts aging and reverses death. Her research leads to a surprising discovery—and then things really start to get interesting.
Working from a graphic novel originally by French comics master Jacques Tardi (who contributed his design skills to the film as well), directors Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci and writers Ekinci and Benjamin Legrand have created an absolutely charming film. They expertly draw together multiple parallel plot threads to spin a story about scientific ambition, the bonds of family, and ecological devastation, a tale that's also funny and deeply touching. It's gorgeous to look at as well. The fabulously detailed steampunk Paris is a city where beauty can still be glimpsed under a layer of industrial filth; there is a dreamy fantasy forest reminiscent of Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; and there's a nod as well to Howl's Moving Castle. And of course, it's great to have a story that's led by a young woman who's intelligent, spirited, and vulnerable, perfectly voiced by Marion Cotillard.
April and the Extraordinary World is also an exuberant celebration of science, which (a certain upcoming Matt Damon movie aside) is generally a rare thing in film these days. For all that the humans have ruined the world in this alternate history, it's clear that innovation and research is the way forward to something better. Scientific hubris isn't the great evil here; the danger lies not in the minds of scientists like Avril and her family, but in those of the power-hungry and the violent, who seek a new weapon in every discovery and advance. In fact, the event that twisted the history of Avril's world away from our own has its origins in Napoleon III's desire for what amounts to super-soldiers, and in his anger when he learns that the experiments of Avril's great-grandfather haven't given him what he wants.
It's not clear just yet when April and the Extraordinary World will get US distribution, but the rapturous response it's getting at festivals suggests that it's only a matter of time. For that matter, it can't be too long before someone decides that the thing to do is dub it in English—in which case surely at least Cotillard can do an Anglophone reprise of her role. Whatever the case, it deserves to be seen widely and often in America; there is surely an audience for its wit and charm, and for its proof that traditional 2D animation still has—dare I say it—steam.
Karin Kross is really sorry for that. No, honest, she swears. She lives and writes in Austin, TX. She may be found elsewhere on Tumblr and Twitter.