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Bacon and Egg Maki Sushi Rolls
Yield: 10 rolls
10 bacon slices (any kind of bacon you like. I used thin cut bacon)
4 eggs
1 tbs Mirin
1 tbs sugar
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp dashi powder
1/4 tsp white pepper
2 tbs canola or vegetable oil
3 cups cooked sushi rice
1/4 cup sushi vinegar, and 3 tbs extra. Please don't substitute with rice vinegar.
2 avocados, peeled, thinly sliced
Toasted white sesame seeds
Black pepper
8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
1 package Nori (Seaweed sheet)
Bamboo sushi sheet
Pastry brush
A small bowl with water
Zip lock bag
- Preheat oven to 400 F. Line paper towel on a prepared dish.
- Line foil on a baking sheet. Place bacon slice on a sheet. Sprinkle black pepper on each slice. Bake for 10 mins or until the bacon are getting crispy. Remove them to a prepared dish. If you make them ahead, you can wrap them with paper towel and put in a Zip lock and leave in a fridge.
- Making tamago sweet eggs by adding eggs, mirin, sugar, soy sauce, dashi, and white pepper. Whisk until mixed.
- Heat a skillet on a medium heat. Add oil; swirl to coat. Add egg mixture; swirl to make it even. When eggs start to cook, turn the heat down to medium low.
- Scratch off the edge of the egg if necessary so that it won't stick to the pan.
- When the egg is about to cook through, gently fold egg in half and slide off the pan.
- Cut length-wise into about 1/4" strips
- If you make rice on the day of, let the cooked rice cool a bit before adding vinegar. If you cook it ahead of time, make sure to heat it up.
- Add vinegar to rice, mixing well with rice paddle. You cut it 45 degree angle and fold to mix. Make sure you use a non-metallic bowl because vinegar is acidity.
- At this point if you see the rice is too wet, don't get panicked. Rice will absorb all the liquid.
- Use scissors to cut a tip off the Zip Lock. Put cream cheese inside. We will squeeze it out through a cut tip.
- Get your sushi space ready. Make sure you have all ingredients - rice, bacon, egg, avocado, cream cheese, sesame seeds, and Nori
- Line up all the ingredients and make sure you have a small bowl with water to damp your hands.
- Line the bamboo sheet. Lay down Nori sheet on a bamboo - Shiny side down. Brush Nori with rice vinegar slightly.
- Spread rice thin layer to about 1/2 of the Nori sheet. Start at the very end bottom. Make sure the rice layer is thin otherwise you will end up eating a lot of rice.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Place bacon at the bottom of the rice, then avocado, and egg. Squeeze cream cheese on the side.
- Start rolling with a bamboo sheet - with an end. Use a bamboo sheet to help you roll, adjust, and tighten it.
- If you serve right away, use a sharp knife to slice the maki into a bite size. Clean knife with damp towel every now and then while cutting it.
- Serve with soy sauce and wasabi paste.
Thanks for inviting me to participate in this project, Natasha and Lazaro!


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I Am New to FBCG
Visiting a church can sometimes be a little overwhelming. If this is your first time as a guest, you may have lots of questions such as what time is service, is there praise & worship, where can I park, are there classes for children, etc. This section will give you all the details about what you can expect!
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Inside FBCGFirst Baptist Church of Glenarden is so much more than Sunday service. We are a Bible-believing, Bible teaching church that offers biblical instruction 7 days a week. With more than 100 ministries, there's something for everyone at FBCG. We're only as strong as everyone working together to advance God's kingdom. So get connected, be connected and stay connected.
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Who We AreFirst Baptist Church of Glenarden has grown tremendously since its inception in 1917. This year we're celebrating 99 years of ministry. What makes us tick is our love for Jesus and God's people. The impact of our ministry reaches locally, nationally and internationally.
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Messages + MediaOur mission is to develop dynamic disciples. You'll find a number of resources to help you along your journey to becoming a follower of Jesus, from messages on CD and DVD and so much more! If you have questions to particular challenges in life, more than likely you'll find the answer here.
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Our Campuses »Visit PageOne church ministering at three campuses describes FBCG! While ministry takes place at each campus, the buildings are as distinct as their architecture. The Worship Center, Ministry Center and Empowerment Center are located just 7 miles apart in Upper Marlboro and Landover, Md.
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Contact Us »Visit PageWe'd love to hear from you. If you have any questions or need to speak with someone, phone us at 301-773-3600 or send an email to . Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Do you feel a tug on your heart to share the good news of Jesus?
Each of us has an important, God-given role to play. The Lord instructed us to take His message of love and forgiveness to every person in every community, in every city, in every country of the world. Will you help? Here are a few ways that you might get involved and respond to the command found in the "Great Commission" that Jesus outlined for us in Matthew 28: 19-20:
Global MissionsFBCG has been sending teams of missionaries to other countries since 1992. Over the years, God has led us to Brazil, South America; Cuba; Columbia, South America; Guyana, South America; Ghana, West Africa; India; the Philippines; South Africa; Ukraine; and Vietnam.
Currently, we are focusing our global missions' efforts on the country of Peru. Over the next 10 years, we will share the gospel and send teams of doctors, teachers, construction workers and other volunteers to serve God's people in that Latin America country for weeks at a time.
MEETING DATE/TIME: 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.
Answer The Call!
- Go. Become a part of the Global Missions Ministry. Go on a short-term missionary trip and share the love of Jesus Christ.
- Pray. If you can't go with a team, please pray for those who will embark on the journey. Pray for hearts to be open and receptive to receive salvation.
- Donate. You can give monetary donations to those who are serving on a short-term missionary trip and/or for those who are serving as full-time missionaries through https://e-giving.org/egivinglogin.asp. We currently have three full-time missionaries serving in Ukraine and Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Meet our Full-time Missionary
Tania Martin
Missionary to Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Tania has been serving as a full-time missionary in Ukraine since January 2009. Her assignment is to facilitate women's discipleship groups, teach English, assist with the ministry to teens and participate in camps at orphanages.
Meeting Temporal Needs Around the GlobeGod has richly blessed our church fellowship and we have looked for ways to be a blessing to others throughout the world.
In 2010 First Baptist Church of Glenarden gave $500,000 each to World Vision and Compassion International to address world hunger. Through our Compassion International partnership, more than 14,600 children and their families received food supplies, and 922 malnourished children received lifesaving medical care in drought-striken Kenya. FBCG members also donated $150,000 to the Haiti crisis and the church added an additional $100,000 to that effort. Recently in 2012, we also gave an additional $200,000 to Compassion International to continue its fight against world hunger.
In addition, FBCG partnered with MegaCare Mission and built a water well for the Melchizedek Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
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FBCG also tithes 10 percent of its annual budget to support general missions' efforts.
Domestic MissionsWe send teams to some of the most distressed areas in the United States. Currently, we are serving in New Orleans, La., McDowell, W.Va., and southeast Washington, D.C. Our goal is to win souls for the kingdom and share God's love by meeting the spiritual and temporal needs of those we come in contact with.
MEETING DATE/TIME: 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.
Local MissionsFBCG has several ministries that reach outside of the church walls to preach the gospel and share the love of Christ in our surrounding community. You can get involved with:
DORCAS MINISTRYThe Dorcas Ministry fulfills the needs of those who are bed-stricken, homeless or suffering from a long-term illness. If you have a passion to help others in need, the Dorcas Ministry welcomes you.
MEETING DATE/TIME: 2nd Saturday at 5 p.m.
FEED THE HUNGRYJesus said "when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed." Our Feed the Hungry Ministry provides nutritious meals and prayer to those who are homeless or simply without food.
MEETING DATE/TIME: Saturday at 1:15 p.m.
The HOPE Ministry assists individuals in attaining a more meaningful and Christ-centered life by addressing daily needs. For example, they serve breakfast to the homeless and adopt families to help out during a season of lack. Ministry members also collect donations to bless those in need locally and internationally.
MEETING DATE/TIME: every 3rd Saturday at 1 p.m.
How many of us take seriously Jesus' command to visit those in prison (Matthew 25:36)? The Prison Ministry goes behind bars to minister to "the least of these" - exposing men, women and youth to God's Word through preaching, witnessing and written correspondence.
MEETING DATE/TIME: Every 3 months, 2nd Wednesday at 7 p.m.
SHAREThe SHARE Ministry is comprised of people who are working to end hunger by coming together to provide nutritious meals for individuals in the community.
MEETING DATE/TIME: 4th Saturday at 7 a.m.
For those who are experiencing a rough season in their lives, the Willing Workers Ministry helps to heal emotional wounds by sharing testimonies and personal experiences. They spearhead several outreaches to minister to people who are dealing with homelessness, pregnancy crises, drug abuse/addiction and more.
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Little Johnny comes home one day and says, "Mom! Little Mark next door has a penis like a peanut!""What do you mean, Johnny? Is it shaped like a peanut?""No," says Johnny. "It's salty."
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Create a Low-Fidelity Prototype
You will learn
SAP Build enables you to take your sketches from a piece of paper to a functioning prototype. Learn how to upload your sketches, add navigation and hot zones, and share your low fidelity prototype.
Log in to BUILD.
Under Projects, click the New Project button to start creating a new project.
You can start projects from different templates or samples in BUILD, but for this tutorial, you will want to choose Start from Scratch. Select Create New Project button.
Enter a Name and Description on the New Project page.
Click Create Project when all the fields have been filled out.
Sketch up your application. Use pen and paper or a computer tool. You want to create 3 screens.
1. Product List
2. Product Details
3. Order details
They can look like screenshots below.
Don't have time to make your own sketches? You can use the above samples. Right click and Save As to download these files.
In your BUID project, select the Upload Files tile under the What do you want to do section.
Either click the upload link or drag your files into the space to start the upload.
Once the upload is complete, you will see a listing of your files.
Switch over to Prototype mode by clicking on the File drop down in the menu bar. Select Prototype from the list of options.
You can use the File Tool to use the files you just uploaded to create your prototype. Click the link.
Hold Shift and click the files to multi-select all the files. Once you have all 3 files selected, click Select.
To create a hotspot, hover over the Product List image. You will see a tooltip that states how you add a hotspot.
Drag and create a hotspot over Flying Car. After creating the hotspot, you need to set where it navigates to. Point the arrow to the Product Details screen to complete the hotspot navigation. You prototype should look like the screenshot below.
Add additional hotspots on the nav-back arrows and Create Order button. Have the nav-back arrows return to the previous page and the create order button navigate to the Order Details screen. The final configuration should look like the screenshot below.
To preview the prototypes and test the hotspots, click the Eye icon in the top-right corner of the screen. This will toggle Preview mode.
Click around on your application to try out the navigation on your low fidelity prototype.
If you need help locating your hotspots, you can check the Show Hotspots box in the top tool bar. If you need to make changes to the app or are done testing, you can click Return to Page Map to exit the preview mode.


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So, Old School Frozen Custard has opened in what is quickly becoming Seattle's Ice Cream District in Capitol Hill, what with the recent opening of several other arbiters of chilled treats including Molly Moon's Ice Cream and more recently Bluebird Ice Cream. However, you'd be a fool to mistake frozen custard for your everyday softserve. Why? Well, Old School's website does their best to educate, under the heading "What is Frozen Custard?". As they put it:
We know what you're thinking, but you're probably wrong. Frozen custard is not flan, crème brûlée, or something your grandma throws in a pie.
as the narrative goes on, the differences are mainly to be found in two places. First, ingredients: frozen custard not only contains a minimum of 10% butterfat (this is the delectable thing that makes premium ice creams coat your tongue with deliciousness), but it also has 1.4% egg yolk by weight. It's the yolk that separates frozen custard from regular ice cream by adding a "richer, fuller taste and an indescribably silky texture."
The second difference is preparation: "The volume of regular ice cream is almost doubled by the air whipped into it during production (called overrun)," --crystals formed during this time can lead to a coarse texture in softserve ice cream. With frozen custard, the mix is continuously fed into and frozen in a barrel, avoiding this extreme aeration and resulting in a denser, creamier finish with 70% less overrun than regular ice cream. It's also served slightly warmer than ice cream: "In contrast to regular ice cream which is served just above freezing, Old School's frozen custard is served 18-20 degrees warmer, which allows for maximum flavor and doesn't freeze your taste buds."


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2019-2020 School District Calendar - PDF
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- 1. Attendees at a recent Gilbert School Board Meeting.....Pray
What you are about to see is members of the Gilbert community join together in prayer. Their ability to do this, even before a school board meeting, was fought for 14 years. None of the previous school board members had the courage to take a stand. It took a board majority of three people to brave the intimidation and do what they believed reflected the traditional values of Gilbert residents. Those board members include Board President Staci Burk, and board members Julie Smith and Daryl Colvin.Click here to read more
- 6. Diane Douglas and John Huppenthal Debate: Superintendent of Public Instruction
Gilbert Watch strongly supports Diane Douglas for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.Click here to read more
- 7. Colvin: Confidence in Gilbert Schools is Rising
Gilbert Schools Governing Board Member Daryl Colvin recently wrote an opinion piece that was published in the East Valley Tribune. He cites some major accomplishments of the conservative board. I use the word "conservative," because these particular board members have been under a sustained attack by a small group of agitators. This group has been supported by both the Gilbert Education Association and Arizona Education Association (teachers' unions). They have been cheered on by the leftist media, a a media whose bias is so well established in America that it is measured by how much the American people distrust it.
Gilbert Watch published an article some time ago that listed the conservative board's accomplishments. See The Accomplishments of the Gilbert Schools Governing Board.
Mr. Colvin has added some more.
Please take the time to read them. Many of these were very hard fought over a period of years! Then, judge for yourself. The school board sets the standard for your district. Every school district, like a business, embodies a culture. That culture starts at the top.
Click HERE for the link to Mr. Colvin's article. Here are the highlights:Click here to read more
- 8. Gilbert Mayor John Lewis Gives Invocation at Gilbert Schools Board Meeting
This is the first time in 14 years that the Invocation was allowed to open Gilbert School Board meetings.Click here to read more
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A smart solution: Reaping the fruits of technology
"This is the one everyone knows from cartoons - the little worm in the apple" explains Eftim Petkovski, scooping the larva of a codling moth from an apple in his orchard in Resen. "But it's no joke, I can tell you – if we farmers don't spray for them early on, all our livelihoods are at risk. Timing is everything with these pests. You've got to predict their migrations – and that can be a matter of hours. Spraying too early or too late is much less effective and a lot more expensive because you need bigger amounts – often as much as three times the quantity. And you can guess what that does to the environment."
An innovative way of notifying farmers that costs less than $1,000 to develop.
- "The challenge – as always with development – was to ensure long-term sustainability," explains UNDP's Dimitrija Sekovski, "And in this case a major factor in terms of sustainability was expense. We knew we needed to find as inexpensive a solution as possible to the notification problem. And that's what we came up with – an innovative way of notifying farmers that cost less than 1,000 US dollars to develop."
Overuse of pesticides amongst orchard farmers in Resen has been proven to be a major cause of pollution in the beautiful but environmentally vulnerable region of the Prespa Lake Basin, threatening the habitat of over 2,000 species of birds, fish and mammals, including many endangered animals unique to Prespa and the ancient freshwater lake.
UNDP has been working in close cooperation with the Municipality of Resen in recent years with funding from the Global Environment Facility and the Swiss Development Cooperation, on projects to raise awareness of the dangers of pesticides and to help local farmers adopt more environmentally sustainable agricultural practices. These efforts have already led to a remarkable 30% reduction in the amount of pesticides used by local farmers each season, which is good news for the environment and good news for farmers who have made substantial savings as a result.
"The way we dealt with pests before was wasteful," says Petkovski, "And a lot of that could be put down to farmers' lack of awareness. But that's not the whole story – the problem of knowing the best time to spray is a problem faced by all farmers. It's about the speed of notification and that's in many ways a technical problem needing a technical solution."
The first major step towards a technical solution to the over-use of pesticides was taken in 2005 with the establishment of a system for monitoring pests and diseases. This system, developed by UNDP in cooperation with the Municipality of Resen, involved the installation of six solar-powered agro-meteorological monitoring stations and a number of insect pheromone traps. The monitoring stations gathered all the necessary data, but the problem remained of how to get that data directly to farmers as quickly as possible. There's no local media in Resen, so for the past seven years they've had to rely on notifications in the square – and that has been far from adequate to ensure all farmers are adequately and promptly informed.
"The challenge – as always with development – was to ensure long-term sustainability," explains UNDP's Dimitrija Sekovski, "And in this case a major factor in terms of sustainability was expense. We knew we needed to find as inexpensive a solution as possible to the notification problem. And that's what we came up with – an innovative way of notifying farmers that cost less than 1,000 US dollars to develop."
Walking between the apple-trees in his orchard, Petkovski clicks on his mobile phone and pulls up his message menu. "Here's the SMS we received about the codling moth on Friday," he says, and displays the following message:
Apple trees in the area of the village of Rajca have been infected by the coddling moth. The apple trees should be treated in the next 10 days. For more info, visit the Facebook page or call the Association of Farmers.
"That message went out to every farmer in the village of Rajca whose name is registered with the local Association of Farmers," says Petkovski, "And that's how we were able to spray before the moths had a chance to spread. Just knowing that in time has saved a lot of our fruit."
The innovative system of SMS notification was developed with UNDP support by the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Cyril & Methodius in Skopje. As well as SMS notifications, the solution also makes use of Facebook. The same administrator (a pest control expert) responsible for informing farmers by SMS is also responsible for updating a dedicated Farmers' Association page on Facebook, further expanding the amount and accessibility of timely information.
"The only real challenge now," says Sekovski, "is to ensure that the post of this administrator– whose salary is currently supported with UNDP funding - becomes a permanent position within the Farmers' Association." Low costs and simplicity of implementation make this system highly suitable for replication in other municipalities across the country. "This shows just how effectively modern technology can be used to overcome problems of access to information."
Together with the ongoing 6-year project for the Restoration of Lake Prespa Basin, supported by UNDP with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the new notification system is set to further transform farming practices in the region, securing a sustainable future for the unique ecosystem of Lake Prespa.


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I had a really wonderful weekend in the Sierra with my two oldest boys. There was only one real problem, for me: not enough sleep.
Thank God, I'm usually a very sound sleeper. But not last Thursday night (before our trip), nor Friday, Saturday, nor Sunday nights (during our trip). Not even back home in my own bed, Monday night.
I went to bed early (about 8:30), and just lay there. My huge Maine Coon cat, Hagrid, visited me, and purred nicely. But I still didn't get to sleep until 11-ish -- which just doesn't work when you have to get up around 4, and have had a fun but very active weekend.
So one thing I did was that I thanked God for all the blessings of the weekend. I thanked Him for my boys Matthew and Josiah, I thanked Him for our safety, for the gorgeous weather, for the brilliant starry skies, for the crisp clear streams, for our hike, our health, the car running safely; for keeping the rest of our family safe as we were gone and giving them a fun, profitable weekend together, and on and on.
But I felt nothing as I did it. In fact, if I had to identify any emotion, I felt irritated at still being awake in spite of being exhausted. I was annoyed. I felt concern about my lack of sleep, and the long day that lay before me. I felt puzzled as to why God had withheld sleep from me.
I didn't feel great wellings of the emotions of joy, gratitude, love and all those other wonderful, appropriate feelings. I wish I had, I'd not have said "no" to them -- but there you have it. They just weren't there. But (by God's grace) I said "thank You" anyway. Should I not have?
As I drove to work and reflected on that prayer, I realized that it was absolutely heartfelt, sincere, appropriate, and truthful. I was grateful for every blessing, fully credited God for every blessing, and had thanked Him without pretence, with a true heart. I meant every word.
But did the prayer, the worship, not "count," because I didn't have any of those wonderful emotions we're supposed to have? Was it not real worship, because it wasn't emotional worship? What do you do if you don't feel anything?
This is a crucial point where some of the emphases of Adrian Warnock and John Piper just lose me. Whenever I say that I think emotion in the Christian life can be a fine thing, my brother Adrian gets all giddy and surprised, and seems to think I'm ready to start babbling incoherently, dancing, and turning expectantly to the blank pages at the back of my Bible. (Hey Adrian -- this "teasing" street had better run two ways!)
But what if there is no emotion at the moment? What then? What do you do?
Here's where Piper will point to the many passages about joy and rejoicing, assert that they're feelings, and as much as say that they are absolutely essential. The Charismatic (I leave Adrian specifically, not wanting to speak for him) will agree. And so what this mindset produces is that you chase the feeling, you chase the emotion, you do whatever you have to do to get that emotion back -- because if it's not there, what you're doing isn't real. It doesn't "count."
In fact, I've known people who simply stop and refuse to budge until they get the emotions back. They don't "feel" like going to church. Therefore going wouldn't be real worship. Therefore they don't go. They don't "feel" like showing love (or respect) to their wives (or husbands). So it wouldn't be a spiritual action. So they don't do it. They don't "feel" like reading their Bibles, and it's a "dry" experience. So they don't.
Or they sing "Breathe" or some chorus ten or twenty times, or get slapped on the forehead, or babble, or do the hokey-pokey, or whatever it might take to roil up those flighty emotions. They chase the emotion, the experience, so they can get going again spiritually.
I call it "making a god of your glands." And I call it tempting God. And I call it unbelief.
You see, I envision another category besides hollow, rote, ritualistic going-through-the-motions on the one hand, and surfing in absolute thralldom to waves of emotion, on the other. There's the category of attitude, of mindset, of frame of mind. There's living from conviction. It may overlap the realm of the emotional, it may cut straight across that realm. It isn't chained to it. It survives it, it goes on -- you go on -- when emotions ebb. And when they ebb, you don't seek them, you seek God.
It's the sort of mindset that can say "When I am afraid, I put my trust in you" (Psalm 56:3). The emotion of fear, overruled and transcended by the mindset of faith, of trust. It can say, "Though he slay me, I will hope in him" (Job 13:15a). It can be "as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing" (2 Corinthians 6:10a). It is the aspect in which you can respond to commands to rejoice in the Lord always (Philippians 4:4), and to give thanks always (Ephesians 5:20). It goes beyond that idiotic "be happy" sentimentality that amounts to pouring vinegar on soda (Proverbs 25:20).
I'll be absolutely blunt and candid. There have been stretches of my Christian life -- and one long one, in particular -- where, had I followed my emotions, I would have followed them right out of Christianity. Had I not been taught and convinced from Scripture not to make de facto gods out of my feelings, not to walk by sight, not to make gods of my glands, I would have been slipped into outright unbelief.
Why didn't I? The grace of God, of course, above and beyond. And His grace visited me in this paradoxical manner: when I stopped believing my feelings, when I stopped mistaking emotion for reality, when I returned to a deeper and more hearty belief in Scripture and its truths, and in the God who speaks exclusively by it, then my emotions started coming back into line.
I've never seen this area of truth expressed better than in the eighth of C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. The trainer-demon Wormwood is cautioning his trainee not to gloat over his victim's current emotional trough, as if the battle were won. And he says this:
One must face the fact that all the talk about [the Enemy's] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like his own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to his. ... He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do the Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. [Couldn't find my copy quickly enough, but thankfully found this quoted here; bolding added.]This obedience of which I speak is the hard work caused by faith (1 Thesssalonians 1:3), the endurance that the Spirit produces through faith in the Word of God (Romans 15:4), and which comes before full possession of the reward (Hebrews 10:36).
I'll make bold to say this: Satan is not particularly worried by Christians who live for their sentimentalities, who constantly take their emotional pulse and read it as a pagan would chicken livers and tea leaves, who pursue happy feelings as a child chases a butterfly across a meadow. I think, in fact, that he finds them delightfully amusing.
But Christians who are convinced that God must be true, though all men (and all emotions) are liars (cf. Romans 3:4), and who actually walks by that faith (2 Corinthians 5:7)?
I think they scare the Hell into him.


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Charlesayoub.com Former Muslim Brotherhood member: Brotherhood took a lot from Freemasonry
13 Nov, 2012 Charles Ayoub
Tharwat Al-Kherbawi, a Lawyer, a writer and a former leader in Muslim Brotherhood movement wrote a book under the name of "The Secret of the Temple: Hidden Secrets of the Muslim Brotherhood."
Kherbawi says that the Brotherhood has secrets kept only with "adult priests", as an organization similar to "Masonic". Ordinary Mason members do not know the great secrets of high organization.
Through his experience in this movement, he found that it shackles the creative energies of its members and cuffs them in a long human chain like slaves that were transferred to the United States at the beginning of the sixteenth century. But this time, the slavery is to souls and minds and not only to bodies.
Al-Kherbawi reveals an old edition of a Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali's book, who wrote that the counselor's leader Hassan Hudaibi was a Mason,
The author assures that there is an article written by Sayyid Qutob in "the Egyptian crown," newspaper which was then found to be the mouthpiece of the Egyptian Masonic Lodge! And that no one out of the mason society can post in. […]


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Library, tech intern, win-win situation
Lisa Hobbs, a senior at Middle Park High School, has advanced her technology skills during her internship with the Grand County Library District. Her internship started last summer and has continued during the school year.
Library services rely heavily on the world of technology and having Lisa assist with behind-the-scenes technology projects was a win-win situation for both Lisa and the library district.
Lisa impressed her supervisor, Director of Technology, Shelly Kilgas, with her seemingly innate grasp of technological concepts and her remarkable instincts for navigating virtually any software application needed to complete a project.
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Meanwhile, the library district has benefited by having Lisa tackle projects such as developing the website for the library foundation (www.gclfoundation.org), installing network-attached storage devices at each of the six library district locations, and helping with the day-to-day technology needs of the library district.
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I am just setting them up as per the spec sheet.
The 2 OKs I am using at spec are NTE3086 (40-50mA) and PS2501-4 (50mA). These are close to the max current for the led. The electrical characteristics lists a lot lower current rating.Here are the datasheetsNTE3086http://www.datasheetcatalog.org/datasheet/nte/NTE3086.pdfPS2501-4http://www.cel.com/pdf/datasheets/ps2501.pdf
I just remember always hearing a relay snap just before being blinded.
I know you need to stay away from reed relays because on high currents they will wield themselves closed
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Two top Fed officials on Friday will discuss how the fiscal policy morass is impacting the central bank's efforts to get the economy on a sustainable growth path. Fed Governor Jerome Powell, in one of his first public appearances, will be joined by Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren in commenting on fiscal policy, in a panel discussion set for 10:15 a.m. in New York.
Fed officials often shy away from commenting on fiscal policy for fear of irking members of Congress beyond stressing what Fed chief Ben Bernanke has been calling for repeatedly – the need to get the budget on a path of steady improvement. On Thursday, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard said that "nailing" a budget deal would be the best way to help the economy.


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IUCN and BirdLife have been working with a number of other organisations to define a standard lexicon for biodiversity conservation. A common language is an essential foundation of any science. For example, medical researchers and practitioners use a common set of formal terms to describe human ailments and potential treatments.
"The same is true for conservation science", said Ali Stattersfield – BirdLife's head of Science and co-author of A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions (Conservation Biology). "Practitioners need a common language to talk about problems facing conservationists and potential solutions that they encounter."
These classifications will enable conservationists around the world to identify threats and potential actions, allocate resources and set priorities.
The authors merged the best elements of previous initiatives by several organisations (including the Conservation Measures Partnership and the IUCN Species Survival Commission) into unified classifications of threats and actions.
When the new classifications were applied to 1,191 threatened bird species and 737 conservation projects, they were found to provide an improved way of analysing and comparing information across projects.
The classifications are being distributed to conservation practitioners, organisations and agencies around the world. They are also being included in several conservation planning tools and databases, including BirdLife's World Bird Database and IUCN's Species Information System.
Most importantly, the new classifications will facilitate cross-project learning by allowing practitioners to precisely describe the chains linking targets, threats, contributing factors, and actions.
"These can then be shared through common databases of conservation practice, enabling practitioners to share and compare experiences more readily, ultimately leading to the development of a more systematic science of biodiversity conservation", commented Dr Stuart Butchart, BirdLife's Global Research and Indicators Coordinator.
Dr Butchart explained how the scheme works in practice. "For example, the Critically Endangered Tuamotu Kingfisher Todiramphus gambieri is threatened by predation and competition from the invasive Black Rat Rattus rattus and by cyclones causing loss of nesting trees. The new system allows us to clearly define these threats as 'Invasive and other problematic species' and 'Climate change and severe weather: storms/flooding'. A key conservation action required is the provision of nest boxes to increase the availability of nest-sites. This comes under the action category 'Species recovery: species management'.
BirdLife's Preventing Extinctions Programme aims to save all 190 Critically Endangered birds – including the Tuamotu Kingfisher - by finding Species Champions who will fund the work of identified Species Guardians for each bird.
The Species Guardian for Tuamotu Kingfisher - Société d'Ornithologie de Polynésie (BirdLife in French Polynesia) - is currently striving to help save the species from extinction. However, we urgently need a Species Champion to provide the necessary funds to significantly increase the conservation efforts underway.


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If you are like most people then spending over $20 – $30 on a set of ear phones (or headphones) is probably not high on the list of things to do. You will generally go ahead and use whatever comes with the device until it breaks and then look for the cheapest replacement you can find, generally at Walmart or the like. After all… earphones are earphones right? You aren't going to get "better" anything from them because they are too small to actually bring much to the table in the way of sound presence and bass.
You might be surprised to learn that you can spend up to $1500 for a good set of earphones! We aren't going to talk about the $1500 earphones because most of you would probably not be interested outside of actually reading about them. The other reason is they are nearly impossible to get from companies. They know as well as we do that outside of ego, there is very little to justify the expense of a $1500 set of earphones. Sure they can make earphones sound a LOT better… but after you get past the $200 – $300 range, they just seem to taper off into products that are nearly indiscernible from one another.
This is why companies like Shure will send out their $200 – $300 earphones for review, but what I can't figure out is why companies like Ultimate Ears won't send out anything more than their cheap $70 MetroFi 220's. Most companies lead with their best product, in fact it can be a challenge to get one of their mid-line or value products becuase they are worried about getting slammed. Ultimate Ears makes $1300 custom earphones (most of the people who Ultimate Ears says has them are sports professionals, so I'm not sure why that is relevant since they are unlikely to have an informed opinion about something so outside their field). Ultimate Ears also makes a whole range of earphones from $70 – $1100 that aren't "custom".
When we asked to review one of their high-end earphones we were told all they send out is the MetroFi 220's. So here they are, and at $70 they aren't bad. I'm not sure that paying $50 extra for bass is worth it though. That's what you get. A good portion of Bass. It's not a thick rich bass, but it is "bass-ier" then the $30 earphones you can get at walmart. I should throw in that they are only "bass-ier" than the $30 Walmart earphones if you can get a good fit with the cheap plastic ear plugs that come with it.
The wires that lead down are still really thin, and are likely to develop issues within a year of use (I'm going on past experience with UE earbuds, the last set they sent a few years ago didn't make it through the current year without that annoying short that causes one earphone to stop working and then pop on, and off again).
I really started writing this article with the intent of conveying that the Ultimate Ears MetroFi 220 Earphones where decent, and they are, but cheap is cheap and for $70 earphones shouldn't be so cheap. There is nothing to them, no more than $5 if I had to guess worth of parts and pieces. Aside from the "Ultimate Ears" branding (which to be honest I've yet to see a reputation that is solidly based on fact and not smoke and mirrors pop out) I'm not sure how they justify the expense.
You get a small plastic "tic-tac" style case for them. Even the case is kind of kludgy and takes getting used to (opening it can be challenging). I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say that the Ultimate Ears company needs to reconsider their stance on the 220 rule. They need to start sending out earphones that show what the Ultimate Ears people bring to the table, because if these MetroFi 220's are any indication, they need to get that guy from the Shamwow informercials working for them and start doing those 1 hour 2am commercials.
Summary: Epic Fail, cheap construction, poorly designed "Universal Fit" plugs, poorly designed case, too pricey for what is offered. The Ultimate Ears MetroFi 220's would be a solid offering at $35. They are better than the $30 offerings you can get at Walmart provided they fit.


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Environment Waikato has granted $10,000 from its Environmental Initiative Fund towards developing a Landscape Planning Guide to help district councils address landscape management issues.
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Environment Waikato has granted $10,000 from its Environmental Initiative Fund towards developing a Landscape Planning Guide to help district councils address landscape management issues.
Environment Waikato has provided $6250 from its Environmental Initiative Fund towards Waikato District Council's wetland project for Lake Kainui (Lake D) in Horsham Downs.
Environment Waikato has granted $5000 from its Environmental Initiative Fund towards research that will help threatened long-tailed bats in Hamilton and surrounding areas.
Environment Waikato has awarded its annual Dame Te Ata Irangikaahu Maori Scholarship to Waikato University students Natasha Leavey, Tangihere Ormsby and Ronald Lavender.
Environment Waikato has granted $9000 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to a Maori Trust to develop an environmental education programme for the Whangamata area.
Environment Waikato has granted $9000 from its Environmental Initiative Fund to Lake Cameron's Care Group for willow removal and planting.
Environment Waikato has made Environmental Initiative Fund grants to three Waikato schools.
Changes to Environment Waikato's Regional Policy Statement and Plan on geothermal resources will achieve a rational and robust balance between competing Government objectives and local effects, Environment Waikato Councillors heard today.
Environment Waikato has received more than 3,100 submissions on its first draft Long-Term Council Community Plan.
Waikato's Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is concerned that homeowners might consider suing councils for flood damage after major floods, despite the fact that councils are not liable for flooding.
Environment Waikato's Policy Group Manager Jeanette Black has been appointed Chief Executive of South Waikato District Council.
Environment Waikato and Environment Bay of Plenty want compulsory record keeping and reporting on hazardous waste in New Zealand after surveying wastes in the two regions.
Hamilton City Council is working on improving leachate levels at the Horotiu landfill.
Waikato students have asked for more opportunities to get together and work to care for their environment.
Waipa District Council is working to resolve issues with Cambridge's wastewater treatment plant, which does not currently comply with some of its consent conditions.
Environment Waikato wants to know if rural landowners want to toughen up the rules on clearing ragwort and nodding thistle from Raglan and Maramarua/Waiterimu areas.
Environment Waikato and Waitomo District Council staff met with worried coastal home owners and iwi representatives at Mokau earlier this week as erosion of the frontal dunes threatens several houses.
The number of Asian drivers featuring in Waikato fatal crash statistics has increased noticeably in recent years, the Regional Road Safety Subcommittee heard this week.
Environment Waikato's Regional Passenger Transport Subcommittee wants to see more promotion of bus services to major events in the city.
Environment Waikato's Regional Passenger Transport Subcommittee is backing Hamilton City Council's initiative to promote light rail services for the city.


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Where I work we were paying £7.25 per item to be tested and repaired if needed. This was in place before I started working here. I explained to my boss that if I go on a PAT course I can reduce the costs of this and I can carry out any repairs needed with my electrical background.
We have had a company on site recently who can offer me the testing for £1 an item. Is this too cheap? do you think I will get a decent service for this money? Are the testers going to be more interested in getting as many items as possible done so they can make some money? In other words become sticker jockeys.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Junior center Alan Williams was named Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press, it was announced Tuesday.
Williams was named Big West Player of the Year after leading the Gauchos to a 21-9 overall record and 12-4 in the league. He led the conference in both scoring at 21.3 points per game and rebounding at 11.5 per game. In fact, Williams finished the year as the nation's leader in rebounding.
"Big Al had a huge year for us," said UCSB head coach Bob Williams. "He did everything we asked of him and then some. I'm very happy that he has received All-American recognition, it is well-deserved."
Williams was a First Team All-District choice by both the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. His USBWA honor was particularly impressive because all of the other players on the team were either from a Pac 12 school or San Diego State.
During the 2013-14 campaign, Williams recorded 16 double-doubles, the most by a Gaucho player in 23 years. He was named Big West Player of the Week a record six times, giving him a record-tying eight such honors in the last two seasons.
On Nov. 29, in a win over South Dakota State, Williams tied a pair of UCSB records when he scored 39 points and blocked eight shots. On Feb. 1, in a win over UC Davis, he had 27 points and 20 rebounds, becoming the first Gaucho to record a 20-20 in more than 24 years.


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Good Boy, 2001
silkscreen on wallpaper
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of the artist
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Installation, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
Patrick Mahon's practice is strongly rooted in printmaking and installation, and his work deals with gender identity, relationships, and decoration. Good Boy is part of his series of works referencing wallpaper. The installation's inspiration comes from the line "every good boy deserves fun," a chant used to remember the musical scale EGBDF in major key. Yet with this work Mahon critiques the concept of deserving fun as a reward for working hard. He does this by showing images of athletes working out (climbing and exercising on parallel bars). The presence of the male athletes also subverts the stereotypical feminine associations with interior decorating. Not only is the work about masculinity, it is also about human beings' endless struggle to obtain our goals and fulfill ourselves. The work is about that quest for a time of fun that, for most of us, is at times ever elusive and when obtained is fleeting. Lastly, this "wallpaper" subverts the neutrality of the white cube gallery by reinserting the domestic into the public sphere.
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The sale will be in the lower level of Antique Apple on Main Street in Galax. Adult fiction and non-fiction hardback and paperback books, as well as juvenile books and videos, will be sold. The Galax Book Club will contribute all proceeds to the Galax Public Library to use for new books and/or materials to assist the library program.
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Ukraine Says It Destroyed Russian Armored Vehicles Seen Crossing Border
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Ukraine said it destroyed much of a column of Russian armored vehicles that had rolled over the border into territory held by pro-Moscow rebels, marking the most direct military clash between the ex-Soviet neighbors since the conflict began.
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Dalai Lama gets upbeat – but quiet – Obama welcome
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama personally welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House on Thursday and lauded his goals for the Tibetan people, but he kept their get-together off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China.
At the risk of angering Beijing, Obama did tell the exiled spiritual leader that he backs the preservation of Tibet's culture and supports human rights for its people. He also gave encouragement to the Dalai Lama's request for talks with the Chinese government
Meetings between the Dalai Lama and U.S. presidents became standard fare under former President George H.W. Bush nearly 20 years ago. But the choreography is always delicate and closely watched because of China's sensitivity.
Revered in much of the world, the Dalai Lama is seen by Beijing as a separatist seeking to overthrow Chinese rule of Tibet. Though he says that is untrue, China regards any official foreign leader's contact with the Buddhist monk as an infringement on its sovereignty over the mountainous region and as a particularly unwelcome snub. China had urged Obama not to meet with the Dalai Lama.
China is a rising global rival for the U.S. and a hoped-for partner. So concern about reprisals, in the form of reduced cooperation with Washington or other punitive steps, has led American presidents, including Obama, to tread carefully.
In Beijing, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai summoned U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman to lodge a protest over Thursday's meeting in the White House Map Room, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
"The behavior of the U.S. side seriously interferes in China's internal politics and seriously hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people," the statement said, quoting spokesman Ma Zhaoxu.
There was no welcome fanfare on Thursday, nor a public appearance with the president. The White House released only a single official picture, rather than allow independent photographers and reporters to see the two men together. An official photograph was also the only release after the monk met later with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. This from a president who promised – and in some other ways has delivered – unprecedented transparency in his White House.
The Dalai Lama did meet with reporters outside the White House, playfully tossing a bit of snow at them and declaring himself "very happy" with the visit, and had a short news conference at his hotel.
There, he chided China for what he called its "childish" and "limited" approach to Tibetan efforts for greater rights. He said he expected a negative Chinese reaction to his meeting with Obama.
George H.W. Bush allowed no photos of his 1991 talks with the Dalai Lama. Bill Clinton avoided formal sessions altogether, favoring drop-bys into the Dalai Lama's other meetings. George W. Bush kept his meetings under wraps, too – though in 2007, he broke with tradition and appeared in public with the Dalai Lama to present him with the Congressional Gold Medal, at the Capitol.
Everything about Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama was muted.
"The optics of this thing are incredibly important to the Chinese," said Michael Green, George W. Bush's senior Asia adviser.
So Obama sat down with his fellow Nobel laureate in the Map Room instead of the Oval Office – a decidedly lower status in the White House venue pecking order. Even the White House description of the talks was done on paper. The timing was a concession, too, as Obama declined to see the Dalai Lama during his Washington stay in October because it would have come before the president's November China visit.
"The president stated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans in the People's Republic of China," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said after the private meeting that lasted for more than an hour.
Obama's handling of the Dalai Lama visit has concerned some who watched Obama seek the moral high ground on human rights during his campaign and early presidency.
Even more, to a public worried about the loss of U.S. jobs and global influence to China, the deference could come across as bending to Beijing's priorities. Similar questions arose during Obama's Asia trip, when some analysts concluded that the president gave much to China and got little back.
Obama, however, prides himself on pragmatism.
He believes China's help is the linchpin for several difficult and consequential global problems, from nuclear standoffs in Iran and North Korea to international agreement on fighting climate change.
Further, while U.S.-Chinese relations have been strained for years over currency and military disputes and other issues, Beijing's rapid growth of late has the two powerhouses moving closer to equals. With the Chinese government holding nearly $800 billion of federal U.S. debt, Beijing has extraordinary leverage in the relationship. Most recently, the Obama administration's approval of a multibillion-dollar arms sale to Taiwan, the self-governing democratic island that Beijing claims as its own, has raised tensions.
For the Dalai Lama, who fled his homeland to India in 1959 during a failed uprising eight years after Chinese troops took over Tibet, the visit – whether private or not – was a boon.
His envoy, Lodi Gyari, said Tibetans feeling marginalized by China would get encouragement from the session. Green said just the "fact that they spend time together in an intimate setting means everything for the Tibetan cause."
Speaking to reporters on the White House driveway, the Dalai Lama said he spoke to the president about the promotion of human values, religious harmony, a greater leadership role for women around the world and the concerns of the Tibetan people, and that Obama was "very much supportive."


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Bisons soccer team closes out home season
Oct. 28, 2005
The Bisons soccer team closes out the home portion of the schedule Satirday afternoon with an Atlantic Sun match with Jacksonville.
Four seniors will be honored _ forward Roland Borys, midfielder Josh Cline, midfielder Andy Irvine and goalkeeper J.D. Murphy.
Game time is at 1 p.m.
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Venezuela's Supreme Court approves delaying Hugo Chavez's inauguration
CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's Supreme Court president said Wednesday that the upcoming inauguration of ailing President Hugo Chavez can legally be postponed.
Supreme Court President Luisa Estella Morales made the statement amid a heated debate between the government and opposition over whether the constitution requires the cancer-stricken leader to be sworn in for a new term on Thursday. The congress voted to delay the ceremony on Tuesday.
Morales announced her stance after the country's opposition coalition said it would ask the court for an opinion on the National Assembly's decision to postpone Chavez's inauguration for a new term.
- Chavez inauguration postponement sparks bitter debate in Venezuela
- Chavez foe: Two top Chavez allies feuding
The constitutional debate takes place against a backdrop of complaints that the government isn't giving complete information about the health of Chavez, who underwent his fourth cancer-related surgery in Cuba last month and hasn't spoken publicly in a month.
"It's very evident that he isn't governing, and what they want us to believe is that he's governing, and they're lying," opposition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo told the Venezuelan television channel Globovision. He insisted on the opposition's stance that the National Assembly president should take over temporarily as interim leader and that the Supreme Court should appoint a panel of doctors to determine Chavez's condition and whether he is fit to remain in office.
Aveledo didn't say when or how the opposition would bring its challenge, and it was unclear how the opposition would respond to the Supreme Court chief's position.
Government officials say the constitution allows the court to swear in a new president and argue that clause does not specify a date.
The opposition has argued that the only option to postpone the ceremony is for the congress to approve a 90-day "temporary absence" for the president, leaving the head of the National Assembly as interim president for 90 days, a period that could be extended for an additional 90 days.
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Obama condemns Ukraine violence
President Barack Obama denounced the escalating bloodshed in Ukraine Wednesday, urging that country's military to stay out of the conflict and warning of unspecified "consequences" for those involved in violence surrounding ongoing protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the violence that's taking place," Obama said during a summit meeting in Toluca, Mexico.
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"We hold the Ukrainian government primarily responsible for making sure that it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way, that the Ukrainian people are able to assemble and speak freely about their interests without fear of repression," Obama said, flanked by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. "We've also said we expect peaceful protestors to remain peaceful and we'll be monitoring very closely the situation, recognizing that with our European partners and the international community there will be consequences if people step over the line."
More than 25 people were reportedly killed in the past day as protesters opposed to Yanukovych clashed with security forces in Kyiv.
Late Wednesday, Yanukovych's office issued a statement saying he and opposition leaders had agreed to a truce, the Associated Press reported. Details of the agreement were not immediately disclosed.
The State Department announced Wednesday afternoon that it has banned the issuance of U.S. visas to 20 Ukrainians deemed involved in human rights abuses related to political repression.
"These individuals represent the full chain of command that we consider responsible for ordering security forces to move against protesters on the Maidan yesterday," a senior State Department official told reporters, referring to the central square in Kyiv where the most deadly violence took place.
( Also on POLITICO: Senators call for Ukraine sanctions)
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. law prohibiting naming those affected by the ban, but said some of those affected were "senior members of the Ukrainian government."
Earlier in the day, state news services in Ukraine reported that Yanukovych removed the chief of the Ukrainian armed forces. Some analysts said the move could indicate that the military was about to join in the crackdown on protesters.
In his statement during his day-trip to Mexico, Obama seemed eager to head off any such development. The U.S. and European stance "includes making sure the Ukrainian military does not step into what should be a set of issues that can be resolved by civilians," the president said.
U.S. officials believed they had a good relationship with Ukrainian military leaders, but have not been able to reach them in recent days, the State Department official said.
"Nobody's picking up the phone on the Ukrainian side, which is worrying," the American official said.
( Also on POLITICO: Joe Biden urges restraint in Ukraine)
While Obama's public remarks were driven by the fiery scenes from Kiev playing out on TV screens around the world, they also reflect the president's longstanding tension with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has urged the embattled Yanukovych to take a hard line against demonstrators.
The tensions between Putin and Obama have been on high-profile display in recent months, after Russia granted asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden in August and Obama canceled a planned summit meeting with Putin in Moscow the following month.
Obama's decision to also skip the Olympics in Russia this month conveyed an additional message of U.S. displeasure with Putin's policies, including his backing for Ukraine's leaders.
Ukraine is widely viewed as a client state of sorts for Moscow. Putin seems eager to see the demonstrations decisively quelled, in part because they serve as reminders of the chaotic events that led to the disintegration of the old Soviet Union and which could encourage other restive parts of Russia to attempt to break away.
"We consider this idea of spheres of influence to be a wildly outmoded notion," the senior State Department official said Wednesday.
The Ukrainian protests also have their roots in a proposed trade agreement with Europe that Yanukovych rejected in favor of closer ties with Moscow. Most of the demonstrators favor the deal with the West.
Obama alluded to that aspect of the protests Wednesday, even as he avoided explicitly endorsing the anti-government movement.
"We believe a large majority of Ukrainians are interested in an integration with Europe and the commerce and cultural exchanges that are possible for them to expand opportunity and prosperity," the president said. "But regardless of how the Ukrainian people determine their own future, it is important the people themselves make those decisions and that's what the United States will continue to strive to achieve."
Obama's vague warning about "consequences" for those who "step over the line" in Ukraine evoked a controversy the president dealt with last year after he warned publicly in 2012 about a "red line" regarding use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States initially balked at taking significant action in response to reports chemical weapons were used in isolated cases, but Obama endorsed such action last August after broader use was confirmed.


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60 more works found in 'Nazi art' house
The art hoard of an elderly German recluse suspected to contain Nazi-looted paintings and drawings is bigger than first thought, his spokesman says.
More than 60 additional works have been discovered in the Austrian home of Cornelius Gurlitt, among them works by masters Picasso, Renoir and Monet, said his spokesman.
He said after a first inspection there was no indication that any of the newly discovered works were Nazi loot, a term for artwork the regime stole from Jewish owners or bought from them cheaply under duress.
The Gurlitt case made headlines late last year when it emerged investigators had found 1400 artworks in his Munich flat, including long-lost works by masters also including Matisse and Chagall.
Gurlitt, 81, is the son of Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s and had been tasked by the Nazis with selling stolen works and art the Hitler regime deemed "degenerate".
Germany earned criticism for dragging its feet on the case. Although the works were discovered in early 2012, the spectacular find only became known to the public late last year through a news magazine report.
On Tuesday, Gurlitt's spokesman said in a statement that "more works were located in Cornelius Gurlitt's house in Salzburg".
"At the request of Cornelius Gurlitt, the works are being examined by experts on whether they include possibly stolen art. A preliminary assessment based on an initial screening did not substantiate such a suspicion."
Berlin said last month it would boost funding for efforts to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners and may invite Jewish representatives to join a mediation body.


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Team Badger Press release 28th August 2015 Release 14.00 UK time
Team Badger, the coalition of animal welfare charities united against the badger cull has today expressed its shock and disappointment that the government intend to continue the badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire whilst starting
in Dorset.
Team Badger is appalled that the government plan to continue this senseless slaughter. They are acting against the evidence of scientists, the advice of veterinarians and the will of the British public.
The cull companies in Gloucestershire and Somerset failed to achieve the pre-determined licensing criteria in both previous years and the costs have escalated out of control. The average cost of a badger killed in 2014 was over £5000, more than double the cost of vaccinating the same animal, with many local groups are, in reality delivering badger vaccinations for much less.
Quotes from Team Badger coalition partners
Claire Bass, HSI/UK's Executive Director, said: "It's deeply depressing that we're facing yet another year of massacring badgers in our countryside for no good reason at all. The last two years of badger culling have been condemned by experts as both inhumane and ineffective, and so the government's decision to continue with this failed policy is bewildering. It's bad enough that Ministers are ignoring the scientific consensus that killing badgers will not solve the problem of cattle TB and could, in fact, make it worse, but they're also ignoring the serious welfare concerns of the British Veterinary Association by continuing to allow free running badgers to be shot at night, vastly increasing the chances of devastating injuries and suffering. It's high time the government listened to the science and ended this cruel, costly and calamitous badger cull for good."
Paul Herring, Chief Operating Officer, Network for Animals. "The badger cull has been a devastating example of top-down government policy, imposed without proper acknowledgement of scientific reasoning, cost, or humaneness. In 2015, sources as senior as the UK's Chief Vet have questioned the
continuation in one of the two counties targeted, and the general public remain as opposed to this needless and expensive killing as ever. It is time for the failing badger cull to end, and for the government to roll-out vaccinations to badgers living within Bovine TB hotspots."
Anne Brummer Chief Executive of the Save Me Trust said "The science categorically does not support widening the cull to new areas – Many areas within the government's 'high-risk zone' for bovine TB, including Dorset, have seen a statistically significant fall in bTB outbreaks over the two years. In Dorset, the number of bTB outbreaks has fallen from 36 to 20 during that time. In fact, across South West region there has been a year-on-year fall in the number of cattle slaughtered of approximately 16%, whilst Dorset has fallen 37% from 2012-2014. These reductions have occurred in the absence of badger culling across the vast majority of the region".
Dr Toni Shephard, Head of Policy and Research at the League Against Cruel Sports, said: This is a death knell for more than 2000 more badgers, the overwhelming majority of which will not have bovine TB (bTB). It's also a death knell for common sense, as all the current evidence heavily suggests that bTB is predominantly spread between cattle, not from badgers to cattle. This is a stubborn policy which will not help farmers, will cause unrest yet again in rural areas and will waste huge amounts of public money, for absolutely no good reason.
Philip Mansbridge, UK Director of IFAW, said "The Government's decision and everything that has happened so far proves this is not a science-led policy, but politically motivated and designed to secure support from powerful lobbies like the National Farmers Union (NFU) and rural voters. IFAW encourages members of the public to support those helping badgers in the cull areas as they witness the reality of the slaughter and gather evidence which is vital for any assessment of its effectiveness or humaneness"
Animal Defenders International President Jan Creamer: "Animal Defenders International is appalled that the badger culls are to continue. This killing of badgers ignores scientific evidence, decimates local wildlife populations, and is ineffective in controlling bovine tuberculosis. The badger culls are not working and it is time for the government to stop the slaughter, to listen to the experts and focus on vaccination and other humane control methods."
Dr Iain McGill, Director of Vets and Vet Nurses Against the Badger Cull, said, "Many veterinary professionals do not support this cull. It is unscientific, ineffective and unethical. Senior colleagues involved in its promulgation have serious questions to answer. I reiterate my challenge to the Chief Veterinary Officer to face us in public debate and respond in full to our open letter raising 12 points of concern, or else face calls to resign."
Pauline Kidner, Secret World Wildlife Rescue As a charity that has worked tirelessly for the welfare of badgers in a responsible and caring way, we are saddened to hear that the culls are to continue, and indeed to increase, when peer-reviewed science and eminent scientists quite clearly indicate that culling of badgers is inefficient, ineffective and inhumane.


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The Aeries Parent Portal access is designed to allow parents and students access to their own information. This information is only accessible by registering your email as the student's contact as well as knowing the student's ID number, telephone number, and verification code. By setting up an account and/or logging onto the Aeries Parent Portal, you agree to abide by district rules and regulations.
** Use of this system and its services is strictly limited to authorized account holders ONLY.
All users are responsible for their student's information codes and passwords. Users agree not to give anyone else their passwords, verification codes, or any other personal information that might enable an unauthorized user to access their student's information. The district will not be responsible for unauthorized access if the user has not been careful with his/her information. Ways to protect your information include, but are not limited to the following suggestions:
Do not give anyone your password.
Do not write your password down. Do not put your password in a drawer near the computer. Do not write your password on a Post-It note and stick it to your monitor.
Close the browser when you are done. If you wish to continue to use the Internet, open a new browser window.
Do not choose a password that is easily guessed by someone else such as a spouse's, child's, grandchild's, or pet's name, birth date, anniversary date, address, Social Security number, etc. Suggestions on passwords include combinations of letters and numbers or capitals and lower case letters.
** Please make sure you have read and fully understand the terms, conditions, and responsibilities listed above.
In order to set up Aeries Parent Portal access, parents will need to register their email address as a contact for their student.
To add another student to their account, four pieces of information for each student in order to complete the account registration:
The Verification Pass Code (VPC) - This is a unique number for each student.
The student's home phone number (TL) - The number must match the phone number on record for the student.
The student's permanent ID number (ID)
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Remember Me
This time it's folks we see every day, in every city and state in our great country. See the open letter invitation below.
I am going to volunteer in this effort and ask that you consider it as well.
Thank You,
Mr. Leslie M. SmithChairmanSeniorNet12801 Worldgate DriveSuite 500Herndon, Virginia 20170
Dear Chairman Smith,
It has been over a year that I had to separate myself from the Board of Directors of SeniorNet. I really came to admire SeniorNet, its mission, members, volunteers, and leadership.
Parents Alliance has developed a really good educational portal specifically aimed at Hispanic adults, I have been thinking about the need that exists in parts of the country where low-to-medium income Hispanics don't have the opportunity join our PACT Program® that teaches Digital Learning and Financial Literacy in Spanish.
The program brings many benefits to our students. In just 32 hours they learn computer basics and financial literacy. Even though we teach these courses mostly at schools, we have had people who join our Virtual Class and learn through an online tutor. However, the project I want to propose to you is even better.
Since SeniorNet volunteers and the leadership team are skilled professionals --- they could act as "mentors/guides" teaching Hispanics how to use the computer under our Self-Study program.
Even if the SeniorNet volunteer doesn't speak Spanish this will not be an issue. All we need is for them to teach a few very basic things that we have in a written guide:
Once they reach this point, they can proceed by themselves. All the instructions are easy to follow.
I know that SeniorNet has engaged in programs to help children read as well as reaching out to the American Indians by placing learning centers on reservations. You have also reached out internationally.
If we could partner and make this work, we would be able to approach thousands of adults in the U.S. and it would be a great collaboration.
Please share this invitation with your organization. We have a skilled and motivated staff ready to answer questions --- please ask SeniorNet volunteers to contact me at
Thank you very much Chairman Smith, I wish you and SeniorNet continued success.
Jose-Pablo Fernandez
Founder & CEO
Parents Alliance, Inc.
Ahoka & Purpose Prize Fellow


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About the Founders
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow. He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe. For four decades, Bob's intellectual and political project has been to revive the politics and economics of harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest. He has pursued this ideal as a writer, editor, teacher, lecturer, commentator and public official. His other positions have included national staff writer on The Washington Post, chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, economics editor of The New Republic and Washington editor of the Village Voice. His first job was as assistant to I. F. Stone.
Bob is the author of eight books, including the recent New York Times bestseller, Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, (Chelsea Green, 2008). His last book, The Squandering of America (2007), explores political roots of America's narrowing prosperity and the systemic risks facing the U.S. economy. Bob's best-known earlier book is Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997). The book received a page one review in the New York Times Book Review. Of it, the late economist Robert Heilbroner wrote, "I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, or more trenchantly criticized than in Everything for Sale."
Kuttner was educated at Oberlin, The London School of Economics, and the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Brandeis, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Harvard's Institute of Politics.
Robert B. Reich is co-founder of The American Prospect. His new book, published in 2007, is called Supercapitalism, published by Alfred Knopf. In it, he explains why capitalism is triumphing while democracy is foundering, and what can be done to revive democracy and make capitalism work for the common good.
Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously has served on the faculties of Harvard and Brandeis universities.
He has also served in three national administrations, most recently as the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. Under Reich's leadership, the Labor Department moved forward on several initiatives to build the skills of American workers. The department cracked down on unsafe work sites and fraudulent purveyors of pensions and health insurance. It initiated a national crusade to abolish sweatshops in the United States and to eradicate child labor around the world. Under Secretary Reich, the Family and Medical Leave Act was passed and implemented. In addition, Reich was instrumental in raising the minimum wage for the first time since 1989. Reich was an assistant to the solicitor general in the Ford administration, representing the United States before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he headed the policy planning staff of the Federal Trade Commission during the Carter administration.
Reich is the author of eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages, the best-seller Locked in the Cabinet, The Future of Success, and Reason. He has written more than 200 articles on the global economy, the changing nature of work, and the centrality of human capital. He is a consultant to many governments and corporations.
Reich was the host of the widely acclaimed four-part public TV series Made in AmericaAt the Grass Roots (1992), and the writer and host of the PBS special (1998). He also co-hosted the public TV series The Long and the Short of It. His weekly radio commentary can be heard every Wednesday evening on public radio's "Marketplace," and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Britain's Observer, and many other publications. In 2003, Reich won the prestigious Vaclev Havel Prize, given annually by the former Czech to someone who has made singular contributions to world economic and social thought.
Paul Starr co-founded The American Prospect in 1990 and is co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) of the magazine as well as professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. Starr ran the Prospect's office for its first two years, when the Prospect was published out of Princeton. After the magazine moved to Cambridge in 1992, Starr remained co-editor, except for a stint in the Clinton White House in 1993.
In 1994 he founded the Electronic Policy Network, now known as Moving Ideas.
Before joining the Princeton faculty, Starr was an associate professor at Harvard and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study. Though he has published extensively in academic journals, he has written even more widely for a general audience. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The New England Journal of Medicine, among other publications; he has written or co-written eight books, including The Social Transformation of American Medicine, which won the C. Wright Mills award, the Bancroft Prize in American History, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. In great demand as an expert on health care (The Chicago Tribune called him "health care's Tom Paine"), Starr took a brief leave from the Prospect in 1993 in order to serve as an adviser to the White House on health policy.
In 2004 Starr published The Creation of the Media, which won the Goldsmith Book Prize. In 2007 Basic Books published his book, Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism.
Starr, whom The Washington Post has described as "a prolific writer and meticulous editor" known for his "blend of idealism and pragmatism," writes a column for The American Prospect. He lives in Princeton and, with his wife Ann, has four children and three step-children.


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I've seen so many bee shots, and I think they are pretty cool. So I thought it was fitting to add this to the inspired by a JPG member theme. The first bee shot I saw here was by Fiona Campbell. She has some really great shots you should check her out.
In the story The Buzz Dance.
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wonderful series, this is my fav!
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This is my favorite from this series too. Awesome!
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Newspaper Guild Rips "Shameless," "Galling" Bonuses For WaPo Publisher
The Newspaper Guild is criticizing The Washington Post and its publisher Katharine Weymouth following a report this week that she stands to earn millions of dollars in stock-based performance incentives in the coming years while the newspaper continues to accept buyouts from staffers and struggle with continued losses.
Washington City Paper reported Tuesday that in addition to making nearly $2 million per year in 2010 and 2011, Weymouth could be in line to make millions more in stock bonuses in coming years:
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth was criticized last year by Post employees when it was revealed that she made over $2 million in 2010. Weymouth's salary decreased in 2011, as the paper prepared to offer buyouts to employees, but only by a little--she made $1.9 million.
For all the attention that has been given to Weymouth's salary, she could earn much, much more in the coming years if she makes her performance targets. According to an SEC filing made last week by the Post, Weymouth stands to receive as many as 42,500 shares in restricted stock awards by 2018 if she meets the goals. If the Post stays around its current stock price, at $363.51 when the market closed yesterday, that would be worth around $15.4 million.
This would represent a huge jump in Weymouth's stock awards. Since 2009, Weymouth has received a comparatively miniscule 7,500 shares.
Restricted stocks awards, in which stock is given outright to an employee, are different from stock options, which only give the recipient the option to buy shares at a set price.
The story comes less than two months after the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild revealed that at least 32 Post employees had accepted a recent buyout offer, the fifth since 2004.
Poynter.org reported in a Feb. 8, 2012, article about the Post buyouts that the newspaper's revenue in the third quarter of 2011 was down 9 percent from the same period in 2010, with advertising revenue down 20 percent. The company's newspaper division had lost $9.9 million in the third quarter alone, Poynter reported.
Asked to comment on the latest Weymouth bonus potential, Fredrick Kunkle, a co-chair of the Guild's Post unit, issued this statement to Media Matters:
I can tell you it's galling as hell to think that we have squeezed more bodies out of the newsroom, outsourced more jobs across the company and given most of the remaining employees pay increases that don't even keep up with inflation so that senior executives can pay their country club dues. It's even more shameless when you consider that the various strategies hatched by some of these bonus recipients have failed to boost the stock price or increase ad revenues, and yet arguably have diminished the Post's stature everywhere except among fans of squirrel galleries. But I guess we'll always have Watergate.
Post officials did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.


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Purple dwagon
Proposed Canon
First Appearance: TBFGK 56
A type of Dwagon.
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Purple Dwagon's seem to be ideal for Siege as evidenced by their usage in the siege of Spacerock by Gobwin Knob where their Sonic attack easily blew off a set of large double doors and injured several Jetstone units behind it, including Prince Tramennis Erf-b2-p060. In fact, Adam Antium almost explicitly calls them flying siege LIAB Text 36
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Sonic Drive In is a fast food chain in the south-western United States with some franchises in the south-central USA and the south-east USA. It is typically has no indoor seating, with cars parking around a central kitchen, food is delivered to cars which park under a covered awning, commonly by servers wearing roller skates.


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Having been away for most of the month of May, it is great to finally be back home and have some time to create.
Here is a set of tags I made with the free to use collage sheet posted below. I added embellishments, some stamping and a handmade charm to each tag.
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