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Electronic Devices Privacy Handbook: A Guide to Your Rights at the Border
by BC Civil Liberties Association
This handbook is meant to help you make sense of the current state of play with respect to electronic searches at the Canadian border and at US preclearance zones in Canada, and to provide tools to protect your privacy when traveling with electronic devices.
Online Divorce Assistant Application
by BC Ministry of Attorney General
This online app helps people complete documentation for joint-filing divorces in the Supreme Court of BC in cases without children. Joint-filed divorces are where both applicants agree on all family law issues relevant to their situation, such as spousal support and the division of family property.
The Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch (CBA BC)
Many Dial-A-Law scripts have been recently reviewed. For a complete list of these resources, see their listings here (sorted by "last reviewed date"). Some of the updated scripts are:
Traffic Court Guide: Guide to Disputing a Ticket
by the Provincial Court of BC
This guide deals with provincial violation tickets – for offences under BC laws, including traffic offences under the Motor Vehicle Act and regulations, and offences under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act.
- Roommate Guide – The guide is designed to help increase successful roommate situations. Includes information about roommate agreements, common roommate issues, and what to do when things don't work out.
- Roommate Agreement – Single Tenancy – Occupants or Tenants in Common
- Roommate Agreement Forms – Joint Tenancy – Co-Tenants
Elder Law Glossary
by Seniors First BC
Elder law and services for seniors are full of unique terms, phrases, and acronyms. We provide this glossary to help you look up this sometimes confusing terminology.
West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL)
- Back to top Infographic: Marine Protected Areas – Human activities like fishing, shipping and oil exploration increasingly put pressure on our oceans and marine life. This infographic highlights the benefits of Marine Protection Areas (MPAs) in Canada. Legal protections in MPAs can help save our seas.
- Infographic: Stronger Marine Protected Areas – This infographic explains why Canada's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) need updated and stronger legal protections. We need strong laws to help save our seas.
- Infographic: Oil and Marine Protection Don't Mix – Along the Atlantic coast, the ocean does not have consistent protection from oil and gas development. Oil and gas is even permitted within the boundaries of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). This infographic shows the inconsistent regulation of oil and gas across Canada's coasts and MPAs.
- Guardian Watchmen: Upholding Indigenous Laws to Protect Land and Sea – For thousands of years, the Indigenous peoples of BC have protected and managed the lands and waters. Recently, through the creation of 'Guardian Watchmen' programs, nations have continued to uphold their governance responsibilities. Guardian Watchmen follow, enforce, and uphold traditions.
- A Legal Toolbox to Defend BC from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline & Tankers Project – This brief highlights the tools BC has to stand up to Kinder Morgan.
- Infographic: Protecting BC's Coast – This infographic outlines the need for two policy decisions, banning oil tanker traffic on BC's North Coast and implementing a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) on BC's North Coast, as essential pieces of protection for BC's rich natural resources.
The Internet of Things
by Get Cyber Safe
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to physical devices (smart/connected devices) that connect to each other via the internet. This website helps you understand how to protect your privacy and security if you are using them at home. It also has a section for small/medium business owners.
Reviewed & updated Common Questions
With help from Seniors First BC, we have reviewed and updated the following questions:
- How can I help a person who cannot manage their own affairs?
- How do I apply for CPP retirement benefits?
- I am worried about an older adult who may be being abused or neglected
- I want information about subsidized housing for seniors
- I'm trying to decide whether to apply early for CPP
- What taxes will I have to pay now I'm retired?
- Where can I find out about benefits for seniors?
- Who can get the full old age security pension? Who is eligible for the Guaranteed Income Supplement?
Common Questions help narrow down the resources people should start with. Do you get asked the same questions over and over again by your clients? Send your suggestions to editor[@]clicklaw.bc.ca


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President Obama commuted the sentences of 22 people on Tuesday, doubling the number of commutations he has granted during his administration in just one day. The decision follows a push from the Justice Department last year to grant clemency to nonviolent prisoners, many of whom had been sent to prison under the harsh sentencing laws and aggressive anti-crime policies that were originally implemented during the 1980s and 1990s.
Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and the founder of the nation's first law school clinic on federal commutations, said that the President's action is not only historic, but also represents a commitment. "This is intended to be a message of hope," Osler told ProPublica. "There are thousands of Americans who are going to read this and say that's like my case or my father's case. Now, the President has to follow through and take that seriously."
In April 2014, the Justice Department announced a new initiative to fast-track clemency petitions for prisoners who, under today's sentencing laws, would have received a substantially lower sentence for the same offense. To speed up the application process, the Justice Department introduced new criteria to help prioritize the petitions, stating that the agency would prioritize non-violent offenders who had served more than 10 years of their sentences.
Alongside the announcement of the new initiative came the removal of the Justice Department's Pardon Attorney, Ronald Rodgers. In 2012, ProPublica and the Washington Post revealed that Rodgers had failed to disclose critical information in recommending that the White House deny the petition of Clarence Aaron, who was sentenced to three life terms for minor involvement in a drug deal.
Following our reporting, Obama granted Aaron clemency, after he spent two decades in prison.
Like Aaron, all of the individuals who were granted clemency this week were serving sentences longer than 10 years for non-violent drug crimes. The White House reported that President Obama penned letters to each of them.
"Thousands of individuals have applied for commutation, and only a fraction of these applications are approved," the President wrote in one letter to Terry Andre Barnes, who was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2005 for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
"I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity."
Margaret Love, who served as U.S. Pardon Attorney for the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997 and now represents petitioners, recognizes the need for further action. "I know that the President is committed to redressing some of the wrongs of federal sentencing," she said, "but I think he is going to need to put a system in place for handling hundreds as opposed to dozens of cases that deserve a sentence reduction."
A ProPublica review of Justice Department statistics in 2012 found that Obama granted fewer petitions for pardon than the four preceding presidents at similar points during their administrations. To date, Obama has granted only 3.4 percent of petitions for pardons and commuted less than one percent of petitions for clemency. He has denied more than 9,000 petitions.
According to the Justice Department, nearly 8,700 individuals are still waiting for their petitions to be reviewed.

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Dec 30, 2016
With Mike Macrae, Eddie Pepitone, Paul Gilmartin, Stef Zamorano, Dave Anthony
Dec 24, 2016
History of Christmas & Saturnalia.
The most important Electoral College vote EVER.
Lies and Syria
The New Economy
With Frak Conniff, Steve Rosenfield, Mike MacRae, Jim Earl, Stef Zamorano, Hank Thompson, Dave Anthony
Dec 17, 2016
Barrack Obama Calls In!
Rick Perry Calls In!
Bernie Sanders Calls In!
Trump's Secretary of State and Russia
The CIA are liars
Voice of Blue Collar Workers
WITH: Mike MacRae, Robert Yasumura, Dave Reinitz, Jim Earl, Stef Zamorano, Hank Thompson, Ron Placone
Dec 10, 2016
Crooked Cops and the North Dakota Pipeline
$2.3 Trillion Military cash goes missing
Pentagon waste
Robert Yasumura asks - "What do we tell the children?"
Nancy Pelosi says Democrats don't need a new direction
Congressman Peter King Calls In!
Jeb Bush Calls In!
Bernie Sanders Calls In!
Mike MacRae, Robert Yasumura,Jim...
Dec 3, 2016
Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Recount.
Trump's swamp.
Castro is dead.
More War.
Mitt Romney calls in!
President Obama calls in!
Herman Cain calls in!
With Graham Elwood, Mike Macrae, Robert Yasumura, Jim Earl, Stef


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WebStart Flash
Editor's Note
This article was taken from the entire eighth chapter of the Sun BluePrints book, JumpStart Technology: Effective Use in the Solaris Operating Environment by John S. Howard and Alex Noordergraaf (ISBN 0-13-062154-4.).
WebStart Flash provides a mechanism by which a specific or reference installation of the Solaris OE is archived. That archive can then be used to install the Solaris OE. The reference installation is created from the on-disk Solaris OE, which includes all installed software. This system is designated as the master machine. The reference installation can be a Solaris OE installed by any means, for example, with JumpStart software, from CD, or by an interactive installation.
After the master machine is identified, the reference installation is captured in a Flash archive. A central feature of Flash, this archive is essentially a point-in-time snapshot of the Solaris OE, software patches, and applications on the master machine.
The Flash extensions enable administrators to install the archive from an NFS server or an HTTP server, in addition to installing from a traditional JumpStart server. Additionally, the archive can be accessed from a disk device (including CD-ROM) or tape device local to the installation client. The Flash archive is transmitted over the network to the installation client and written to the disk. After the archive is written to the installation client's disk, any necessary archive modifications are performed. For example, configuration files, such as /etc/nsswitch.conf, on the installation client may need to vary from the file on the master machine. The Flash mechanism enables automation of modifications and allows for differences in kernel architecture or device differences between the master machine and the installation client.
Additionally, Flash enables automatic resolution of partitioning differences between the master machine and the installation client. For example, if the Flash archive was created on a system with a single root (/) partition and the installation client has separate / and /var partitions, the Flash archive automatically customizes itself to the installation client. Remember, the installation client partitioning must be correctly specified in the JumpStart software profile.
The Flash archive is a snapshot of a system and, as such, includes all specified files on that system. If a Flash archive is created from a system in use, some files need to be cleaned up or zeroed out after the Flash archive is installed. Examples of these types of files include log files, such as those found in /var/adm and any files in the /var/tmp directory. Log files can be easily zeroed out from a finish script after installation. In the case of temporary directories, such as the /var/tmp directory, it is recommended that they be excluded when the Flash archive is created.
The Flash archive should be created after all software has been installed but before the system has gone into production. And, depending on the software installed and the intended use for the system, the Flash archive may need to be created after the software is installed but before the software has been configured. For example, a database server or LDAP server should have its archive created after the database management software has been installed but before the databases have been created and populated.
An initial installation must be done when a Flash installation is performed. Flash cannot be used to upgrade a system.
Installation of the Solaris OE with a Flash archive can be dramatically faster than with other mechanisms, depending on factors such as network traffic and disk speeds.


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- Portland Shakespeare Project's Michael Mendelson talks about big casts, big dreams, and the allure of the classics
By Bob Hicks
Michael Mendelson is sitting at his regular table at Kornblatt's Delicatessen in Northwest Portland, where he is greeted warmly by name and the waitress checks back on him more often than the line cooks slap classic corned beef and pastrami sandwiches on the busy kitchen's window. Your regular, Michael? He smiles and nods. Soon his crisp bagel and mound of lox are at hand.
After all these years in Portland as one of the city's best and busiest actors, Mendelson is still an industrial Midwest big city boy in certain inalienable ways, including his appetite for honest-to-god deli food, which you can't much get around here except at oases like Kornblatt's and Kenny & Zuke's. He also stands out in spite of himself for a certain reserved elegance that is common in the neighborhoods of older cities but almost an oddity in loosey goosey Portland. At times Mendelson carries the hint of an Old World gentleman, a man of quietly impeccable business affairs. Here he is, an actor, on his way to the rehearsal hall (he's playing Gayev in Artists Rep's current production of The Cherry Orchard), sitting in a deli wearing a tie and dress shirt, perfect-length cuffs buttoned and jacket slung carefully over the adjacent chair. Let other people keep Portland weird. Mendelson will keep it rooted, thank you very much.
Of late Mendelson has been devoting much of his time to a massive new project: the launching of the Portland Shakespeare Project, a summer company that will make its debut July 13-August 7 with the comedy As You Like It, featuring Darius Pierce as Touchstone, Cristi Miles as Rosalind, Melissa Whitney as Celia, and original music by the noted singer/songwriter Mary Kadderly. You might not have heard of PSP (Mendelson is founder and artistic director) but the city's actors have. More than 175 sent head shots and resumes. Mendelson and staff saw more than 100 in initial audition, called back 42, and finally cast 16 for 21 roles.


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Finally a Reason to Never Get Out of Bed
The older a guy gets, the fewer excuses he has for spending the entire day in bed. Men need a valid reason to stay lounged in the vertical position for 24 hours. A hot woman is a good reason, but even they eventually want to get up and rejoin civilization. Maybe they wouldn't be so eager to leave if a guy owned the Hi-Can or 'High Fidelity Canopy' bed. There would be no reason to go anywhere.
The Hi-Can bed features blinds that enclose the sleeping area, a state-of-the-art sound system, reading lights, a built-in PC and a retractable projection screen at the foot of the bed that also works with game and entertainment consoles. Everything is wired up to a central control panel.
The bed can also be custom made to fit any area and allows for the addition of other equipment and appliances. We all know the other appliance they are referring to — the mini-fridge.
The bed sells for 42000 Euro which equals $57,867.60 American dollars. We've got the $.60 but the rest is going to be hard to round up. Maybe there is some loose change under our mattress. Nope. Found an entire ham though. Wondered where that went.
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Guard Your Card on Summer Road Trips: 5 Tips to Evade Gas Pump Skimmers
Heading out on a vacation road trip? Watch out at the fuel pump for a threat to your debit or credit card: skimmers. Gas stations, among the last retailers to install fraud-reducing EMV-chip card readers, remain an attractive target this summer for card-skimming crews.
Skimmers can be hidden in and around gas pumps' card readers, secretly recording the data stored in your credit or debit card's magnetic stripe. Fraudsters use that data to make counterfeit cards, rack up pricey purchases at your expense, and potentially drain your bank account.
Tips for safer swiping
Here are five ways to feel more secure at the gas pump:
- Run your transaction (even with a debit card) as a credit card purchase. If thieves crack your debit card, they'll be able to access your bank account. And although you can minimize your losses if you call your bank quickly, your liability for losses on credit card purchases is much more limited.
- Choose a fuel dispenser that's close to the store — ideally, one with security cameras installed nearby. Criminals would be less likely to tamper with pumps that are visible to workers inside the store.
- Opt for well-maintained service stations. Proprietors who keep their premises shipshape are also more likely to be inspecting and taking care of their pumps, says Jeff Lenard, vice president for strategic industry initiatives at the National Association of Convenience Stores. These stores account for 80% of all U.S. gas sales. Some stations have adopted visible anti-tampering measures, such as placing tamper-resistant tape over the front panel edges. That's a reassuring sign of vigilance.
- Take a minute or two to examine the dispenser before inserting your card. Does it look like the front panel has been pried apart? Is the keypad raised, rather than flush against the console? Do its buttons look different from the ones at neighboring pumps? Does the card reader look different? Is the reader loose in its socket? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, the pump may have been tampered with; don't use it.
- Pay with cash. No card use means no risk of skimming.
For that matter, take similar precautions at the ATM during your summer road trip; skimming crews still target cash machines too. And if you fear your debit card or credit card has been compromised, stolen or lost, contact your bank or credit card issuer right away. Get in touch within two business days of the event, if you can; that will limit your liability for any unauthorized charges to $50.MORE: Steps to protect a compromised debit card
Why fraud lurks at the pump
Installing EMV-chip card readers is a costly and complex upgrade for gas stations, industry experts say: Replacement of the entire fuel dispenser is required. An October 2017 EMV compliance deadline imposed by Mastercard and Visa on gas stations has been extended to October 2020.But even EMV is no magic bullet."Without PIN use, EMV is less successful in reducing fraud," Lenard says.A PIN is an additional layer of security, and although your debit card requires it, you probably won't punch in a PIN at the pump when using an EMV credit card.Visa noted late last year that fraud at EMV-enabled merchants had been reduced by 43% — huge strides, but the crime is far from eradicated.Caren Weiner Campbell is a staff writer at at NerdWallet, a personal finance website. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @ccampbell_nw.The article Guard Your Card: 5 Tips to Evade Gas Pump Skimmers originally appeared on NerdWallet.


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eeTo make a pie you'll have to spin
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Spin well and take a piece of pie
From your opponent's own supply!
Finish with most pies complete?
You win! Ah, victory can be sweet!
This simple game of fractions takes the confusion out of fractions, because each pie piece adds to the whole pie. Handling the fractions and seeing how they are portions of the total makes the concept more understandable. Pies of different flavors are divided into halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and sixteenths.
- For ages 6 and up
- Develops concepts of fractions and equivalents
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Good morning Chairman Hudson, Ranking Member Richmond, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) on-going efforts to expand and improve our risk-based, intelligence-driven operations.
Since its creation, TSA has continuously refined and evolved our security approach by examining the procedures and technologies we use while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce. The TSA functions as a critical component of our Nation's counterterrorism efforts with a highly dedicated workforce working around the clock and across the globe to execute our transportation security responsibilities. Every day we work closely with public and private sector stakeholders in the aviation, freight rail, mass transit and passenger rail, highway, and pipeline sectors to employ an intelligence-driven, risk-based security approach across all modes of transportation.
TSA continues to take steps to further enhance our layered approach to security through state-of-the-art technologies, better passenger identification techniques and other developments that strengthen our capabilities to keep terrorists off commercial aircraft. TSA will always incorporate random and unpredictable security measures throughout the airport, however, and no individual will be guaranteed expedited screening. Airport security checkpoints are only one part of a multi-layered system for aviation security. Other parts include information gathering and analysis, passenger prescreening through Secure Flight, explosives detection, canine teams, Federal Air Marshals, and closed-circuit television monitoring. With the tools that exist today, if we can confirm a person's identity and assess through information they voluntarily provide, and combine that information with our other layers of security, we can expedite the physical screening process for many people.
We continue to make steady progress in transforming TSA into a high performing counterterrorism agency. TSA is dedicated to preventing terrorist attacks, reducing the vulnerability of the Nation's transportation systems to terrorism, and improving the experience of the nearly 1.8 million air passengers who fly each day in the U.S. We remain committed to providing the most-effective security in the most efficient manner.
Risk-Based Security Initiatives
About 18 months ago, TSA began to make a fundamental shift from a "one-size-fits-all" method of screening in favor of procedures designed to manage, or mitigate, risk. We introduced and expanded several risk-based security initiatives, reflecting decisions I made based upon the best available information and intelligence, managing risk with reasonable and effective security measures. We found strong support for our initiatives among passengers, the airline and travel industries, business and community leaders across the country, and industry and global security partners abroad. I am grateful for the expressions of support from Members of Congress and this Committee.
Numerous risk-based changes have already gone into effect nationwide, including expedited screening procedures for children 12 and under and adults 75 and older, for airline pilots and flight attendants at 28 of the nation's busiest airports, and for active duty military personnel holding valid military identification at eight airports. We continue to work with the Department of Defense to implement a broader solution this summer that will expand military members' access to every TSA Pre✓™ participating airport, which will expedite the security screening process for these individuals, while continuing to allow our Transportation Security Officers to fulfill their mission. These initiatives have significantly reduced pat-down screenings and allow our Transportation Security Officers to fulfill their mission while improving the travel experience for these individuals.
Expedited Screening
I have established an aggressive target that by the end of calendar year 2013, TSA will provide expedited screening to 25 percent of the individuals currently processed through security screening. Achieving this target will mean that approximately 450,000 of the 1.8 million passengers who travel on average each day from the nation's airports will undergo some form of expedited screening. That could mean leaving their shoes on, leaving their 3-1-1 compliant liquids in their carry-on bags, and leaving on their light outer jacket as they travel through the TSA Pre✓™ lane. It could also mean another form of expedited screening available through our standard screening lanes such as that available for children ages 12 and under and adults ages 75 and over.
TSA Pre✓™
One of the most visible components of risk-based security is our TSA Pre✓™ initiative. TSA Pre✓™ enables us to focus efforts on passengers who may pose a higher risk to our transportation network, while providing expedited screening and a better travel experience for those low-risk passengers that have voluntarily provided information about themselves. The TSA Pre✓™ initiative currently includes U.S. citizens who are members of existing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Trusted Traveler initiatives including Global Entry, NEXUS, and SENTRI; Canadian citizens who are enrolled in the NEXUS program; and eligible U.S. citizen airline frequent flyers traveling domestically. Certain other populations about whom we know more information, such as federal judges, are also eligible for TSA Pre✓™. We are continuing to evaluate other populations and develop solutions to expand these populations and add new ones. In January, I signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Major Cities Chiefs Association, and the National Sheriffs Association to extend TSA Pre✓™ eligibility to these law enforcement groups.
Since its initial rollout in October 2011, TSA Pre✓™ has been made available at 35 airports. Nearly seven million low-risk passengers have been screened with the expedited procedures of TSA Pre✓™. TSA has received positive feedback from passengers who have opted into TSA Pre✓™ and we expect participation in this risk-based screening initiative will continue to grow as more and more people become aware of the opportunity. Last month, I announced the addition of Austin, Cleveland, Memphis, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham, which will all begin offering TSA Pre✓™ by the end of March, and we continue to evaluate other airports to include in the program.
Passenger Screening Canines
The National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program has played an integral role in protecting the Nation's transportation systems since 1972, when the Federal Aviation Administration first started the program. The program remains a vital component of our layered approach to transportation security today as new security threats are recognized across all transportation sectors. During 2011, TSA expanded the program by deploying Passenger Screening Canines (PSC) teams. These teams are comprised of a Transportation Security Inspector and a canine trained to detect explosives carried or worn by a person. The teams now operate at 24 airports across the country, working to detect explosives odors at checkpoints and in both the sterile and public areas of airports.
TSA is currently funded to field 120 PSC teams, and the agency plans on deploying the full allotment of teams by the end of calendar year 2013. These teams will provide coverage at up to 30 airports, utilizing risk-based security methodologies to deploy the new PSC teams to high-priority airports. Although PSC teams were initially deployed to the sterile side of the airports, in 2012, PSC operations expanded to include the checkpoint on the public side of an airport.
Additionally, PSC teams now provide support to TSA's Managed Inclusion pilot initiatives at Indianapolis, Tampa, and Honolulu International Airports. The Managed Inclusion concept provides TSA with real time threat assessment capability at a checkpoint and enables TSA to improve security, operational efficiency and the passenger experience. By assessing passengers in the screening queue, passengers deemed lower risk are able to undergo expedited screening procedures. During Managed Inclusion operations, the PSC teams are located at the screening checkpoint and all individuals approaching the checkpoint are screened for explosives by these teams. These individuals are also assessed for suspicious behavioral indicators by Behavior Detection Officers (BDO). If the canine team does not alert on an individual and a BDO does not observe suspicious behavioral indicators, the individual may be eligible for expedited screening through the TSA Pre✓™ lanes. These assets were also part of the surge capability deployed most recently to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to support screening the large numbers of attendees departing the city following the Super Bowl.
Improving Customer Service
TSA continues to improve customer service at airports around the Nation. Through the Passenger Support Program, we established a group of our own officers to serve as Passenger Support Specialists (PSSs) at airports. They provide real time support to individuals who may require additional assistance through the checkpoint screening process. These individuals may include passengers with clothing and medical equipment questions, or those who may require additional information regarding our checkpoint procedures. TSA started training PSSs at airports nationwide in January; to date, more than 3,000 officers have volunteered for the program, and nearly 2,500 have completed the training. The initial results of the program have been very positive, and we look to expand on this program so that more of our current officers nationwide achieve the collateral duty PSS certification.
In 2012, TSA launched "TSA Cares," a new helpline number designed to assist travelers with disabilities and medical conditions prior to getting to the airport. Travelers may call the TSA Cares toll free number with questions about screening policies and procedures as well as what to expect at the security checkpoint. When a passenger with a disability or medical condition calls TSA Cares, a representative will provide assistance either with information about screening that is relevant to the passenger's specific disability or medical condition or the passenger may be referred to disability experts at TSA.
Air Cargo
On August 3, 2007, Congress passed the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act," which required TSA to implement a system to ensure that 100 percent of all cargo transported on passenger aircraft is screened at a level commensurate with checked baggage. TSA and the air cargo industry met the 100 percent screening requirement for domestic uplift through implementation of the Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP), which enables TSA-regulated entities in the air cargo supply chain to conduct screening prior to cargo being uplifted by air carriers. This approach allows for distribution of screening responsibilities throughout the air cargo supply chain, thus avoiding screening "bottlenecks" and improving the flow of commerce. As of December 2012, the CCSP included 1,138 participant locations certified by TSA as Certified Cargo Screening Facilities, which screen over 60 percent of the cargo, with the remainder screened by air carriers.
To meet the 100 percent requirement for international inbound cargo, TSA adopted an approach that consisted of incorporating the Trusted Shipper Concept into the currently Standard Security Programs. This utilizes risk-based, tiered screening protocols based on established criteria related to the shipper's business relationships with air carriers and international freight forwarders, as well as shipper history, shipment volume, and frequency. The Trusted Shipper Concept was originally set forth in response to an attempt by terrorists to conceal explosives in all-cargo aircraft bound for the United States from Yemen. TSA has implemented the Trusted Shipper concept for all-cargo carriers, and requires them to screen 100 percent of all non-trusted shipments to the same standards as those required for passenger carriers.
TSA continues to collaborate with CBP to enhance its ability to identify and target high-risk or "non-trusted" shipments for enhanced screening. An outcome of this collaboration has been the Air Cargo Advance Screening Pilot (ACAS), a joint TSA-CBP initiative which utilizes CBP's Automated Targeting System (ATS) to analyze both shipper and shipment data to identify high-risk cargo that requires enhanced screening prior to loading. As of February 2013, there are 74 entities participating in the ACAS pilot, and over 64 million shipments have been successfully processed.
In addition, TSA developed the National Cargo Security Program (NCSP) as a critical component of the U.S. strategy to enhance global supply chain security and sustain 100 percent screening on international inbound cargo required by federal law. Through NCSP recognition, TSA determines if a foreign government's air cargo security program is commensurate with current U.S. air cargo security standards introducing efficiencies for both government and private industry by reducing duplicative requirements, allowing screening to be completed earlier in the supply chain, and permitting the optimal use of distributed screening locations so that screening can occur at various nodes along the supply chain. To date, TSA has recognized the security programs of 34 partner countries which represent, when implemented, an estimated 67 percent of the inbound cargo onboard passenger aircraft.
Surface Transportation
Under Section 101 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (Pub. L. No. 107-71) (codified at 49 U.S.C. 114) TSA has responsibility for not only aviation security, but also for surface transportation security. The approach TSA takes in securing the non-aviation transportation systems involves a significantly smaller investment of TSA personnel with more direct responsibility placed on the owners and operators of these systems. Within the mass transit and passenger rail domains, TSA engages with state and local partners to identify ways to reduce vulnerabilities, assess risk, and improve security efforts through collaborative risk assessments and by conducting baseline security assessments. These assessments are conducted with emphasis on the 100 largest mass transit and passenger railroad systems measured by passenger volume, which account for over 80 percent of all users of public transportation.
Since 2007, TSA has completed 92 transportation security exercises with various transportation modes under the Intermodal Security Training and Exercise Program (I-STEP) in collaboration with security partners in industry, State, and local organizations. These exercises are designed to continuously improve the risk posture of transportation systems serving the Nation. To date, I-STEP has produced and shared more than 390 multimodal security best practices and lessons learned with security partners, and has hosted more than 3,345 participants at transportation security exercises focused on enhancing security preparedness of the nation's mass transit, freight rail, highway, and pipeline sectors.
Between FY 2006 and FY 2012, approximately $1.8 billion in Transit Security Grant Program funding was awarded to transit owners and operators and their dedicated law enforcement providers to enhance security through operational activities such as counterterrorism teams, mobile screening teams, explosives detection canine teams, training, drills/exercises, and public awareness campaigns. This funding allows for entities to increase mitigation of terrorism risk through site hardening, equipment purchases, and other capital security improvements.
Global Engagement
TSA's efforts to secure the Nation's transportation networks extend beyond our borders. TSA has a globally deployed outreach and engagement workforce that includes TSA Representatives who coordinate closely with foreign government counterparts and International Industry Representatives who serve as direct liaisons to regulated foreign airlines. Through their interactions, TSA is able to coordinate with the entities affected by our security decisions while promoting international security and commerce. TSA has seven Regional Operations Centers whose mission is to deploy Transportation Security Specialists to conduct air carrier inspections on all carriers flying into the United States, and conduct airport assessments at all last points of departure from foreign locations.
On December 20, 2012, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the "No-Hassle Flying Act (Pub. L. No. 112-218)," which grants TSA the authority to waive checked baggage rescreening requirements for flights from international preclearance airports that install U.S. comparable checked baggage screening processes and equipment. The discretion this Act provides is consistent with TSA's ongoing transition to a more risk-based and intelligence-driven counterterrorism posture, and we anticipate that it will assist us in our efforts to improve the traveling experience. TSA evaluates applicable security screening measures at 14 foreign preclearance airports to ensure comparability with TSA screening standards. Currently, preclearance airports are located in Aruba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, and Ireland.
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Cities across the country are investing in old-fashioned streetcars to solve what's known as the "last mile" problem. The hope is that trolleys will make it easier for people to get to their final destination.
Atlanta is one of the latest, laying steel rails for a 2.6 mile line. The tracks will run downtown from Peachtree Street to the Martin Luther King Jr. historic district on the east side of the city. Some see this as a big step forward.
"We have to have a look at reducing traffic issues. Now one Atlanta streetcar will take off 197 motor cars from the road," says Timothy Borchers, executive director of Atlanta's streetcar project. He grew up in Australia before coming to the U.S. to help develop trolley systems in St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.; Tampa, Fla.; and Tucson, Ariz.
"We're going back to some of the good qualities of the past. We're rebuilding the urban cores, and it's not an experiment — it's that everything that was old is new again," Borchers says.
Streetcars were popular in many cities in the last century, but trolleys disappeared in most cities as cars flourished and cities switched to buses and subways for mass transit. In 2001, Portland, Ore., was the first to develop a new kind of streetcar system. Success there led to a resurgence, with at least two dozen cities planning, building or expanding trolley lines.
"One of the issues you have is you can't go that last mile," says Catherine Ross, head of a center for regional development at Georgia Tech.
Ross also says trolleys are one way to address congestion.
"We have these ebbs and flows, right? And we don't have an ability to sort of relieve some of that pressure. I think the streetcar will be able to do that," Ross says.
Another reason streetcars are making a comeback is because the federal government is awarding big grants to cities to help build them. Atlanta got about $50 million. Officials say trolleys also bring economic development.
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Just east of downtown Atlanta was once was a bustling, wealthy African-American business hub known as Sweet Auburn. When the interstate was built, it cut the area in two. People here have long waited for the economic turnaround they were promised.
Sweet Auburn Bread Company Chef Sonya Jones says she hopes the streetcars will revitalize the area and that the construction is worth it.
"I'm excited about the streetcar project. I'm looking forward to its completion. But I cannot deny it's caused some challenges for my business. It's quite frustrating," she says.
City officials say for every public dollar spent, they will get two to three times as much private investment. But David Levinson, who teaches transportation engineering and economics at the University of Minnesota, says there's no guarantee. He says cities are better served upgrading their bus service.
"There's a lot of money you're just putting into the ground. It doesn't provide any transportation benefit. It's basically a lot of embedded capital that is costly that doesn't make the system work any faster," he says.
But Atlanta officials say bus lines don't provide the nostalgic environment that streetcars do. And while bus routes can be easily changed, streetcar lines will remain — and perhaps provide that last mile solution cities are seeking.
Still, some are skeptical. Ben Lambert is a writer who lives in Atlanta. "So it's gonna be a tourist thing then. It's a waste of money if you ask me," he says.
But supporters are banking streetcars will work. "It's what built cities originally and it's what's building cities again," says Borchers of the streetcar project.
Downtown near Centennial Olympic Park, the streetcar tracks are taking shape. When the trolleys start operating next spring, it will be what many say is a first step with hopes of expanding the system in the future.
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Hawaii museum revisits history of gender-fluid healers
More than 500 years ago, Hawaiians placed four boulders on a Waikiki beach to honor visitors from the court of Tahiti's king who had healed the sick. They were "mahu," which in Hawaiian language and culture refers to someone with dual male and female spirit and a mixture of gender traits.
The stones were neglected for many years, as Christian missionaries and other colonizing Westerners suppressed the role of mahu in Hawaiian society. At one point a bowling alley was built over the boulders.
Officials restored the stones multiple times since the 1960s but informational plaques installed next to them omitted references to mahu.
The stones and the history of the four healers now are featured in an exhibit at Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The display highlights the deep roots of gender fluidity in Polynesia.
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu is mahu and one of the exhibit's curators. She said the healers were revered for their skill and hopes their story will show children in Hawaii that "proper Hawaiian culture" doesn't pass judgment against those "who have elements of duality."
"They were respected and honored because the people knew that their male and female duality made them even more powerful a healer," Wong-Kalu said.
Kapaemahu was the leader of the four healers, and the exhibit is named The Healing Stones of Kapaemahu. Their story was passed down orally, like all Hawaiian stories, until a written language was developed in the 1800s.
But Hawaiians were discouraged from talking about mahu. DeSoto Brown, a Bishop Museum historian and the exhibit's lead curator, said Christian missionaries who arrived in 1820 forbade anything that deviated from "clearly defined roles and presentation" of male and female genders.
The earliest known written account of the mahu healers is a 1906 manuscript by James Alapuna Harbottle Boyd, the son-in-law of Archibald Cleghorn, who owned the Waikiki property where the stones were at the time. Cleghorn's wife, Princess Likelike, and daughter, Princess Kaiulani, were known to place seaweed and offer prayers at the stones when they swam.
Boyd's manuscript "Tradition of the Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae-Mahu" said the Hawaiian people loved the healers for their "tall stature, courteous ways and kindly manners" and their cures became famous across Oahu.
"Their ways and great physique were overshadowed by their low, soft speech, and they became as one with those they came in contact with," Boyd wrote. "They were unsexed, by nature, and their habits coincided with their womanly seeming, although manly in stature and general bearing."
When it was time for the healers to leave, four boulders were brought down from Oahu's Kaimuki area. Two were placed at the site of the healers' hut and the others where they bathed in the ocean. Idols indicating the dual spirit of the healers were placed under each stone.
Many Hawaiians grew up not knowing about Hawaiian concepts of mahu or the stones because the American businessmen who overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 banned Hawaiian language instruction in schools and discouraged speaking it in homes. Generations of Hawaiians lost connections to cultural traditions.
Wong-Kalu, 50, said as a child she was made to believe mahu was a derogatory word. She remembers being among those who would sit on the stones and drape towels over them after swimming, oblivious to their significance.
Mahu are akin to "two-spirit" common in many Native American cultures, Wong-Kalu said, adding there are physical, emotional, mental and spiritual elements to being mahu. The representation of male and female depends on the person, she said.
"In Hawaii, one could exist really in the middle," she said.
The stones nearly were lost just before the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported the boulders would be blasted or removed after a developer leased Cleghorn's property to build a bowling alley.
Following an outcry, plans emerged for a concrete walkway between the stones. But the developer instead built over them.
The stones were uncovered two decades later when the city tore down buildings to build a public beach park. Elders recalled the story of the stones and urged they remain. The city agreed and created a plaque that mentioned the Tahitian healers but didn't say anything about them being mahu.
In 1997, the city fenced off the stones and dedicated a new plaque. It also didn't reference mahu.
During both periods, waves of homophobia and transphobia washed over Honolulu. In the 1960s, a new state law prohibited cross-dressing and police forced drag performers to wear a button saying: "I Am A Boy." Three decades later, there was backlash in Hawaii and nationally when the Hawaii Supreme Court sided with same-sex couples seeking the right to marry.
The Bishop Museum exhibit, on display through Oct. 16, recounts this history and displays artifacts like massage sticks and a medicine pounder that healers would have used centuries ago. Islander concepts of gender fluidity are explored through stories like that of King Kamehameha III and his male lover.
A map shows terms used in Polynesia for those who don't identify as male or female, including "fa'afafine" in Samoa and "leiti" in Tonga.
Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson helped curate the exhibit and hope it will spur the city to tell the full story of the mahu at the site of the stones.
Ian Scheuring, spokesperson for Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, said the city is researching the issue and local leaders plan to meet with members of the LGBTQ and Native Hawaiian communities to learn how they can help tell the "true and complete" story of the healers, he said.
Tatiana Kalaniopua Young, a Native Hawaiian anthropologist, mahu and a director of the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation, said the story the stones and healers helped her family understand that she was not "this weird creature that's outside of the norm." And that in a Hawaiian sense, she was part of the norm.
"It gave me a sense of place and purpose as a mahu and it really made me proud to be Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiian," she said.


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"Chastity is so important," Arınç said, according to the Hurriyet Daily News. "It is not only a name. It is an ornament for both women and men. [She] will have chasteness. Man will have it, too. He will not be a womanizer. He will be bound to his wife. He will love his children. [The woman] will know what is haram and not haram. She will not laugh in public. She will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness."
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Hurriyet reports that Arınç defended his words, saying he was not criticizing natural laughter.
"There are some artists who now laugh artificially and send me their photos. Real laughs relieve a person, but these are artificial ones. Those who go for a vacation with their lovers while leaving their husbands behind and can't wait to climb poles when they see one," Arınç said, according to Hurriyet.
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I have recently been working with a code base that is not yet as testable as it should be. I've seen some junior developers check in code that breaks use cases, which is usually identified by another developer a few days after the check-in.
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- 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, drained and finely chopped
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup cold butter
- 12 ounces white chocolate baking squares with cocoa butter, finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 drops red food coloring (optional)
- 2 teaspoons shortening
- White nonpareils and/or red edible glitter (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spread cherries on paper towels to drain well.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in the butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in drained cherries and 4 ounces (2/3 cup) of the chopped chocolate. Stir in almond extract and, if desired, food coloring. Knead mixture until it forms a smooth ball.
3. Shape dough into 3/4-inch balls. Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Using the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar, flatten balls to 1-1/2-inch rounds.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until centers are set. Cool for 1 minute on cookie sheet. Transfer cookies to a wire rack and let cool.
5. In a small saucepan, combine remaining 8 ounces white chocolate and the shortening. Cook and stir over low heat until melted. Dip half of each cookie into chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. If desired, roll dipped edge in nonpareils and/or edible glitter. Place cookies on waxed paper until chocolate is set. Makes about 60.
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Luxury Home Buying Guide
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From penthouses with spectacular city views to a prime estate in the country, options for luxury living vary widely by market. Generally, luxury homes start at approximately $1 million in secondary markets and $5 million for top markets like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.
If you're in the market for a luxury home, here are the steps to guide you through the process:
Step 1: Learn the Search Process
Seek specific amenities and features in a luxury property. The best skyline view, direct water access for the 40-foot yacht or a secluded manor in the woods are all wishes the right property and location can fulfill.
"Buyers in the multimillion range usually have a lot more specifics they want and need and they're less restricted on price," says Moe Veissi of Veissi & Associates in Miami.
While the majority of homebuyers start their search on the Internet, many high-end properties aren't officially listed on MLS or major search engines, so be prepared to expand your search.
Consider these search tips:
- Tap into the network of a recommended Realtor or broker with a specialty in the local, high-end market. Find an agent with the credentials and experience in the local market that can advise on schools, nuances to neighborhoods as well as the property specifics.
- While firms like Christie's, Sotheby's and most high-end divisions of the nation's top realty firms show exclusively listed properties, most agents will be able to show you a property, says Klara Madlin of Klara Madlin Real Estate in New York. "If you have a good broker, they'll have access to most properties. We all share. Get someone you like and trust as a professional that can steer you through the process."
- Zero in on your top picks by seeing properties in person because many sellers, protective of their privacy, refrain from putting extensive photos of their homes on the Internet.
Step 2: Evaluate Your Finds
Evaluating a luxury home is more complicated than a typical home. According to Realtors, elements such as the home's distinctive features and recent remodeling bear a larger weight than lower-end homes.
Consider these tips as you work with your agent:
- Schedule detailed property tours. Expect to take a couple of hours to see a larger home to review things like construction methods, architectural highlights, the neighborhood and how the security works, Veissi says. "It's a much more detailed process and the Realtor is much more involved in the nuances of the property."
- Address required disclosures. "Each city and county may have its own special requirements for disclosures. While it's easy to be an agent today, it's very important they know the local market," says Fanny Chu of Prudential California Realty in San Francisco. For instance, some municipalities require disclosure on sewer lines, while others, underground oil tanks.
- Examine comparable properties. Obtain pricing information on comparable properties. Financing and making an appropriate offer on the home can hinge on having good data on comparables. See Step 4 for more information on comparables.
Step 3: Consider the Financing
Today's tight lending restrictions haven't affected the high-end market as greatly as the general market because most luxury buyers aren't connected to the subprime market.
Large banks such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are among large national banks that issue jumbo mortgages and so do regional lenders like Northern Trust. Lenders today require at least 15 to 20 percent down. In many cases, buyers are putting down far more on high-end homes. Realtors say 35 to 50 percent down is common today in the upscale market.
Consider this advice from the pros:
- Be prepared with bank statements, W-2s, tax returns from the last couple of years and other financial statements. "Sellers of luxury homes will typically ask their Realtor to bring them only qualified buyers," says Virginia Cook of Virginia Cook Realtors in Dallas. "This can be different than the typical mortgage prequalification process and could require showing asset statements and demonstrate which assets will go toward the purchase."
- Have your mortgage broker, loan officer or personal banker obtain your financing approval early on, says Nancy Suvarnamani, president of Century 21 SGR, Inc. in Chicago. She notes the difference between a prequalify letter and a pre-approval letter, the latter which requires extensive documentation and verification. "With a pre-qualify letter, it just provides general information, whereas a pre-approval letter will say the amount you are already pre-approved for and includes much more rigorous financial information."
- Some types of properties require more in-depth financial review of buyers than others. Housing cooperatives found in large cities like New York and Chicago require the most scrutiny of your personal finances versus a condominium. "After you put down a hefty deposit, you still want to have liquid assets of at least two years of maintenance and mortgage payments," Madlin says.
- Expect a longer financial approval process. Realtors say even if your financials are in good order, count on 45 to 60 days. "The loan rate lock usually lasts 60 days too without it costing more," says Elizabeth Blakeslee of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Washington, D.C.
Step 4: Make an Offer
Making the appropriate offer isn't as easy as it looks. In some cases, sellers aren't highly motivated to sell and have the financial wherewithal to hold on to a property to get the right price. Many hang on over time. Buyer prestige is also a plus: Proving the worth and value of the buyer can put a sale over the edge, says Ronald Phipps of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I.
Avoid over-reliance on consumer-based property evaluation sites. Instead, have your agent research similar properties in the form of comparable prices for active, pending and sold properties in the last three months from MLS listings, Chu says. "The comparable pricing data need to be drawn from industry MLS listings for the most accurate picture." Use these figures as starting points in determining an offer figure.
Step 5: Don't Forget the Details
The complexity and scale of luxury homes raise the stakes. Experts such as tax and financial planners, bankers and attorneys should be consulted up front and often these professionals will take a direct involvement in the transaction.
A few reminders:
- Never skip the inspection process. From the potentially hazardous to the structural, you always want to know what it is you are buying. Make sure inspections and repairs are made in a timely manner.
- While not required in every state or buying circumstance, a good local real estate attorney can save you a lot of headaches. In Manhattan, for example, real estate brokers can't write purchase agreements so buyer and seller are required to have attorneys.
- Be prepared for closing costs. Who pays for what varies by the customs of the given market. "It's the Realtor's job to tell the buyer what they need to cover, expenses at closing like transfer tax, attorney's fees, title insurance, etc.," Suvarnamani says.


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I understand the correct spelling is 'dilemma' but many people I've spoken with, including myself, were convinced the spelling was 'dilemna'.
A quick search on google shows this is not isolated to just America. Many people claim they were taught the incorrect spelling in school. I don't remember where I learned to spell the word but I've always spelled it with 'mn' not 'mm'.
Whats the cause of this? Is there some long forgotten etymology of dilemma that involves an 'n'?


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Swisslog Warehouse & Distribution Solutions Americas forms Automotive Group and appoints Terry Krantz as Vice President of Sales and Consulting.
Newport News, VA, May 11, 2017 – Swisslog Warehouse and Distributions Solutions Americas, a Member of the KUKA Group and leading provider of best-in-class intralogistics solutions, announces the formation of a new Automotive Business Unit focused on developing and delivering intralogistics automation to tier one suppliers and OEMs.
Terry Krantz has more than 20 years of experience in the material handling industry, the last 11 with Swisslog. With extensive experience in intralogistics (the automation and management of logistical flow of information and goods within the walls of a distribution facility), he is ready to introduce Swisslog's expertise to more suppliers and OEMs in the automotive industry. "We are revolutionizing the industry with flexible automation strategies that reduce storage and provide virtual management. Our clients enjoy better visibility into their operations with real-time tracking of their inventory as well as management of specific sequencing for kitting or line-side manufacturing," said Krantz. "In addition, these same customers are taking advantage of the fact that we are a member of the KUKA Group, the most advanced robotics company in the industry. Now they can fully automate and build the smart factories of the future by turning to a single partner for both robotics and intralogistics applications."
For more information, please refer to our latest blog post by Terry Krantz, Can E-Commerce Fulfillment Technology Bring New Flexibility and Visibility to Automotive Intralogistics?
About Swisslog
Swisslog designs, develops and delivers best-in-class automation solutions for forward-thinking hospitals, warehouses and distribution centers. We offer integrated systems and services from a single source – from consulting to design, implementation and lifetime customer service. Behind the company's success are 2,500 employees worldwide, supporting customers in more than 50 countries.
Swisslog is part of the KUKA Group, a leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions.


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12 Ways to Glorify God at Work
Mark Twain once said, "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided." Although there may be days when we feel like he got it right, we know God has ordained work as a stewardship of his created world (Genesis 1:28; 2:15). He has designed work for his glory and our good. But how might we glorify God at work? This list is not exhaustive, but here's at least 12 ways —
1. Believe that all legitimate work is holy or unholy before God based on our faith, not the nature of the work itself.
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin (Romans 14:23).
2. Be just and honest in all your dealings with money.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight (Proverbs 11:1)
3. Be prayerfully dependent upon God, pouring contempt on self-sufficiency.
Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain (Psalms 127:1).
4. Use the wages earned by your work to provide for and bless others.
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever (1Timothy 5:8).
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need (Ephesians 4:28).
5. Grow in your skill-set, work hard, and strive for excellence.
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men (Proverbs 22:29).
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty (Proverbs 14:23).
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).
6. Exemplify love for your neighbor in how you interact with your colleagues.
Let all that you do be done in love (1 Corinthians 16:14).
7. Plan ahead and sincerely preface future tasks with "if God wills."
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house (Proverbs 24:27).
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that" (James 4:13-15)
8. Speak the gospel to your colleagues.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:20).
9. Work as unto the Lord and as unto men.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:23-24).
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust (1 Peter 2:18 ).
10. Focus on the work you've been given.
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty (Proverbs 28:19).
11. Speak words of grace.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear (Ephesians 4:29)
12. Rest in your justification by faith alone in Christ alone.
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified (Galatians 2:16).


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Laurence Leamer in today's HuffingtonPost.com
Larry Leamer (Nepal 1964–66), author of Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach among other books has the following essay posted today in the Huffingtpost.com.
Join Us, Mr. President!!
I was the next-to-the-last speaker Saturday at a rally in Washington to build a bold new Peace Corps. Rajeev Goyal, the Morepeacecorps.org national organizer, and I had decided to do this rally only nine days before. It would have been a formidable new task even if we have done nothing else. But we were already working ceaselessly to get the House of Representatives to appropriate the $450 million that would allow the Peace Corps to grow and to reform.
We were close to success in the House thanks to a relentless group of representatives and legislative aides. Our problem was not only what would happen in the Senate but President Obama. For some inexplicable reason, the most inspiring, most capable leader in generations has not followed through on his campaign promise to double the size of the Peace Corps. He is going ahead tripling the domestic volunteer corps, and his inaction makes no sense. The administration budget contains only $373 million for the fiscal 2010 budget, enough to keep things the way they are, no money for the 20 new countries clamoring for volunteers, no room for the 25,000 who this year have expressed interest in applying, 40% more than last year. There is no new director and the downtown headquarters is practically moribund, waiting for something to happen.
And so we decided to stage a rally, and we worked almost around the clock to make it happen. We had the stalwart support of Kevin Quigley, the president of the National Peace Corps Association, who mobilized his troops and whose organization funded the rally for one of its programs.
It was amazing how everything came together in Freedom Plaza two blocks from the White House. We had called Anthony Johnson, the Jamaican ambassador, the day before, and he gave a passionate, compelling speech. Former Senator Harris Wofford gave a marvelous talk, putting our movement in historical context. The wonderful musicians performed for free because they believe in a bold new Peace Corps. We stretched out a hundred-feet-long scroll in which rally goers wrote letters to the President and First Lady which we plan to deliver to the White House. Even the weather gods cooperated, holding off on threatened thunder storms. Speaker after speaker made compelling cases for an enlarged, reformed Peace Corps reaching out to the world in powerful new ways.
I felt inspired as I stood on that stage before hundreds concerned with the future of the Peace Corps. "The first person we contacted to speak was Tim Shriver, the president of Special Olympics International and the son of Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps," I said, standing in front of a great banner for a BOLD NEW PEACE CORPS. "Within hours he said yes. Two days ago we decided that it would be fantastic if we could march to the White House at the end of the rally led by Tim Shriver. It would be incredible. And so I called Tim and he said yes. And he said, 'Larry, I don't care if it's twenty people, fifty people. I don't care. It's about the Peace Corps. It's about this movement. It doesn't matter.
And so I look out now on this immense plaza and I see a scene I thought I would never see. I see this great space filled to over flowing. I see 195,000 returned volunteers standing proudly in their bold new Peace Corps t-shirts. Up front laughing, jumping up and down with joy, I see Sarge Shriver telling us we are doing the right thing in building this bold new Peace Corps. I see the flags of the 139 Peace Corps countries. I see millions of supporters. I see America. I see the world.
And I hear them shouting in unison in their great voices. I hear them shouting so loud, so clear, that two blocks away in the White House, the president hears the voices of the Peace Corps calling him to be true to his vision. He hears us and he acts.
Then Tim Shriver got up and gave a powerful extemporaneous speech that was a high point of the rally. To my mind, he is so far the best candidate to become the director that there is no second candidate. Some say he is not a great administrator. That was the same criticism that was made of his father and Sarge was the best director in the history of the Peace Corps.
After his formidable speech, Tim led us to the White House behind the flag of the Peace Corps and our banner for a bold new Peace Corps. As we walked up 14th Street, Tim led us in the chant "Mr. President" and "Bold new Peace Corps." We were powerful in passions and belief, and strong in our voices, and we turned as one person and marched to stand in front of the White House and to shout out so loud and so strong that surely anyone inside would have heard us.
The son of the founder of the Peace Corps leading our march was one of the most powerful acts of political symbolism I have ever seen. You will read about this here but you will read about it nowhere else. Last week I called newspapers and television news desks and tried to get them out there, but except for the Washington Post, no one came. The Post did a small story today, writing "dozens rally." That's literally true. So is "dozens march in St. Patrick's Day Parade." When I stopped counting there were over 300 people in our enthusiastic crowd. Actually, the only media to contact us has been Newsmax.com, the conservative website, who are doing a piece on Republicans and the Peace Corps. It's another indicator of the growing power of Internet journalism, keeping ahead of their newspaper rivals.
If we are able to get the righteous appropriation of $450 million through Congress and build and reform the Peace Corps, the traditional media will have missed an important, inspiring story. And if we are successful, the series of stories I have done on Huffingtpost.com will be one of the keys. Posting them on the site is just the beginning. We email the pieces to tens of thousands of our supporters who email them to their friends and lists, and it has helped to build a movement of fervent supporters.
Two weeks ago I wrote an "Open Letter to Chairman Lowey" and asked readers to send in their own open letters to Rep. Lowey who is Chairwoman of the House State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Lowey has the power to give the Peace Corps the full $450 million in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill.
The response was astounding, hundreds of serious, well conceived, well written letters. We chose 67 letters and turned them into an exquisite, professionally printed book titled WE IMPLORE YOU, CHAIRWOMAN LOWEY. Last week Rajeev and I handed the first copy to Rep. Lowey in her office and told her that every member of Congress will receive a copy.
Wednesday the subcommittee is scheduled to meet and on that day we believe it will make history by giving the Peace Corps the full appropriation. But we must continue to apply the pressure with constituents calling the subcommittee members' offices until they sound like bookie joints. For their names and contact information, go to http://www.morepeacecorps.org/subcommittee/facts. Then the struggle moves to the Senate. There our first task will be to convince Chris Dodd, a returned volunteer, and Patrick Leahy, a man of unmovable principle, that they must lead the fight for a bold new Peace Corps joined on the Republican side by their ready colleague Orrin Hatch.
But, Mr. President, we need you. We know that you heard our united voices Saturday. When we come back, we will march even stronger in number and even louder in voice. We will be shouting, "Join us, Mr. President!!!" You belong with us. You are one of us. And we know that when you finally decide to act, you will build Obama's Peace Corps, an emboldened institution for a new age.


text: Mind control schematic Two links of the chains in your brain 21st February 2011 The erasure of conscience from the minds of the peoples of the world has been the principal triumph of the Jewish philosophy, which engulfs in its perfidy all the other monotheistic religions with the sweet blindness of a false promise. This is precisely the mindlock. We don�t need skyscrapers; we need happy homes. Johnny the Balder, sometime during the Dark Ages The sabotage of America, part 1 The Jewish psychology scam ...[M]odern psychology has created widespread "social pollution" by its analytical and also reductionist emphasis on the isolated individual and its relentless hostility to social bonds as expressed in tradition, community structures, and the family. It is no accident that it was modern industrial psychology which first reduced the extended family to the nuclear family, then reduced the nuclear family to the increasingly common subnuclear family of one parent, and now works toward the parentless family where the child is raised by government programs. Paul Vitz: Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self Worship, 1977 Here we have a glimpse of how the Freudian psychology industry severed our contact with friends and family and trapped us inside ourselves in a society wide campaign whose object was the alienation of everyone, on the theory that isolated, worried consumers spend much more money trying to palliate their discomfort than happy families content in their own distinctive beauty that makes it a joy to be home, and planning for the future rather than trying to anesthetize the past. In plumbing the great manipulative secret of the Jewish mindset, and conceding that much of the Jewish success is laudable due to the discipline of its ranks and the cunning artistry of its subversions, it fails the test of the heart � Ma�at�s �feather of truth� � for the heartless carnage Jews have explained away as �the cost of doing business.� The erasure of conscience from the minds of the peoples of the world has been the principal triumph of the Jewish philosophy, which engulfs in its perfidy all the other monotheistic religions. The flimsy excuse that Jews and Old Testament Christians use to explain their lying and killing of millions of people around the world is that their God said it was OK to do it. In fact, this Yahweh chap COMMANDED them to do it. What you have there is the face of insanity that has stalked us all for two thousand years. It is the shadow of death made manifold in the events of our lives. What we could have done with a creator god who nurtured us instead of pillaged us. The mechanics of Moloch Although Christians have their own serious issues with manipulated dogma that continues to be blurred into invisibility by the tinkering of generations of Jewish �interpreters�, the Christian writer Barbara Aho nevertheless paints a clear picture of the mechanics of deception that conceal the true motive � endless plunder � of the Jewish mindset. �Compare . . . the Pharisees to our modern Zionists, i.e. the Judeo-Freemasons, who are secret practitioners of the Kabalah, while affecting to hold to the traditional beliefs of Judaism as set forth in the Old Testament. ��This group of intellectual pantheists was soon to acquire a directing influence over the Jewish nation. Nothing, moreover, likely to offend national sentiment ever appeared in their doctrines. However saturated with pantheistic Chaldeism they might have been, the Pharisees preserved their ethnic pride intact. �This religion of Man divinised, which they had absorbed at Babylon, they conceived solely as applying to the profit of the Jew, the superior and predestined being. �The promises of universal dominion which the orthodox Jew found in the Law, the Pharisees did not interpret in the sense of the reign of the God of Moses over the nations, but in that of a material domination to be imposed on the universe by the Jews. �The awaited Messiah was no longer the Redeemer of original Sin, a spiritual victor who would lead the world, it was a temporal king, bloody with battle, who would make Israel master of the world and �drag all peoples under the wheels of his chariot�. �The Pharisees did not ask this enslavement of the nations of a mystical Jehovah, which they continued worshipping in public, only as a concession to popular opinion, for they expected its eventual consummation to be achieved by the secular patience of Israel and the use of human means. ��Monstrously different from the ancient law were such principles as these, but they had nothing one could see, which might have rendered unpopular those who let them filter, drop by drop, among the Jews. The admirably conceived organization of the Pharisees did not fail soon to bear fruit. ��One cannot better define its action in the midst of Jewish society before Jesus Christ,� said Mr. Flavien Brenier, �than in comparing it with that of the Freemasons in modern society. A carefully restricted membership tightly bound, imposing on their members the religion of �the secret�, the Pharisees pursued relentlessly their double aim which was:� ��1. The seizure of political power, by the possession of the great political offices (the influence of which was tremendous in the reconstituted Jewish nation) and the conquest of the Sanhedrin (Jewish parliament). ��2. To modify gradually the conceptions of the people in the direction of their secret doctrine... �The second of these aims and its method of attainment is exposed in the so-called Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion so loudly denounced by the descendants of those who devised The Secret Doctrine in Israel, Israel here meaning the Jews as a religious community, most of whom remain quite ignorant of the intricate subversive schemes imputed to them. �The attitude of Jesus Christ to this sect is definitely expressed in the New Testament (see Luke XI and John VIII�� (Ibid. pp.76-80) So said Barbara Aho, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, CATHOLIC OR JEWISH? http://watch.pair.com/mystery-babylon.html If you don�t know it by now and haven�t seen through the hysterical Jewish invective involved in scaring ignorant goyim away from them, the Protocols of Zion could be the �most real� book you have ever read in your life. They were for me, an exact description, right down to the seamiest manipulation, of the disgusting perversity and lack of character of the people who have taken control of the world. The Jews invariably and unconvincingly tell you these infamous Protocols are �a forgery� and the appropriate question then becomes �a forgery of what?� The Protocols are a map of the horrible Jewish mindset, which places killing and conquering as the highest goal of their own subterranean drive to escape the unavoidable tsunami of death � and all the nightmares it entails � by insisting that you trust a totally fabricated pedigree that is based on a spiderweb of knowing lies and distortions. Beyond that lies the truth that every human seeks, barely visible now after thousands of years of self-serving commercial modifications, all bent on convincing you of a whole armada of historical �truisms� that are demonstrably untrue. I think it was the dazzling Welsh bardic analyst Sir Herbert Read who first showed me, in a poem of course, that our consciousness really does not exist inside ourselves, but really is a mysterious entity created by our interactions with the objects of our attention, principally, other people who are firing back thoughts at us that are the equal of our own. This consciousness, therefore, this clash of sparks really resides in the space between us, outside our minds, in the air, so to speak, where the crucible of the collision of contrary ideas as well as the affection we feel for those we love creates some kind of happy cloud in the space between our pairs of eyes. It is there we create our bliss or our slavery. And as we are only what others say about us � you know, what ARE they going to write on your tombstone? � it�s very sensible to wear your best suit and make sure your fingernails are clean, because, after all, every person in this life you ever meet anywhere is potentially someone you could love, and until we get to that point in our everyday machinations � instead of now when you think every person is a potential robber or killer � we�re goin� nowhere fast. Each explorer needs to ask himself or herself: Why is it I look so far away when all I ever wanted to do was find my way home? This attitude never fails to attract the exact people you want with you when you finally get there, in the sunlight and out from beneath the shadow of your own fear. John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, urging people to understand that no problem in the world can be authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly derived from people who can understand what he�s saying and know what it means. 250 N. McCall Rd. #2, Englewood FL 34223 USA back to previous page