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2 Corinthians 6: 2 (ESV) - "Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
The last two musings were upon the time being short. Short until Christ's return for His church, and possibly short for America. We are looking for that glorious appearing of Jesus, but also being fearful that America will soon fall completely under the judging hand of God.
That is why as believers we need to be reignited with the commission that has been given to us - the commission from our Lord to "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:19 - 20 NASB).
If we truly caught the picture that time is short, if we truly cared about others, if we truly realized the need others have, if we truly realized that God has saved us to share with others - we would be praying, talking, and seeking to share the one true answer with everyone God places in our paths.
Today, ponder (but not for long) how you can make a difference in this "day of salvation" for someone else. Why did I say "but not for long?" Ponder and then GO!


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Well, I know it's kind of too late to update and to share about the BBQ thing, but who care anyways? Hehe .. we organised a BBQ dinner-supper at Bkt. Kluang, Terengganu barely about three weeks ago. As always, we 'bakar ayam', some sausages and soft drinks. The RM10.00 per head BBQ offers us the 'self-cook', meaning we have to cook our own foods and stuffs. But, it was interesting though!
Marinated chopped chicken .. nyum! nyum!
The hungry customers are trying to prepare their own food
(p/s: the bin is to block the wind .. don't feel disgust ok?)
|He's my hot blanket!
Hell yeah we were having a blast! We were talking and teasing, eat some more, laughing .. it was a really good time, I can tell! And the cool breeze (sort of storm coming over) .. huuu really slow me down! I can't even get off my blanket .. I mean, real blanket!
|It's time to heat-up!
|Gilerss posing! haha..
Gorgeous, aite? The BBQ actually sort of tying up the bounds between us, classmates! .. and as a medium to get to know oneself better. We had fun and I had fun too! We eat up the left-overs .. I ate too many and gain some kilos! Huh!
Good time, you guys!
Gonna miss the moment!
And the fees too .. RM10.00 per head! Yeah! Real smooth!

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What no New Zealand summer?
The sun's shining aplenty for newlywed Kiwi glam-couple Richie and Gemma McCaw.
Two-time Rugby World Cup winning former All Black captain Richie McCaw and his longtime sweetheart, Black Sticks hockey international Gemma Flynn, wed on January 14 at The Olive Grove in Wanaka.
As well as apparently taking her husband's surname, based on promotional material for a tourism campaign she is involved in, the new Mrs McCaw has also been posting snaps of the couple's first weeks of wedded bliss.
Yesterday, she posted an image to her Instagram page, showing the couple's latest luxurious digs - Stoneridge Estate, overlooking Lake Hayes, 15km northeast of Queenstown.
Clad in a bikini and with one foot dipped in the pool, McCaw smiled broadly from her sun-drenched mountain idyll.
"Loved spending the last couple of days at this amazing spot with my husband," she wrote.
McCaw's post has already received more than 5500 likes.
The couple sold exclusive photos to their wedding to Woman's Day magazine, but have posted snaps of their life together since on social media.
Among the well-wishers to respond the latest honeymoon snap was Stoneridge Estate itself, writing: "Thank you for choosing us to spend your honeymoon! Welcome anytime!"
The luxury lodge opened more than 15 years ago, with historic structures reclaimed and incorporated into new buildings, such as The Chapel by the Lake and Stoneridge Lodge, according to its website.
"Buildings crafted from re-cycled timbers and stone, bespoke hand-forged iron work and giant hardwood beams give Stoneridge its distinctive, authentic character and rustic charm.
"The property is home to magnificent sprawling gardens, tranquil water features, sculptures and a boutique vineyard, which all represent decades of dedicated and inspired work," the owners gushed on the website.
It is not known where at the estate the couple stayed, but it is home to the $645/night Honeymoon Cottage, which is set apart from the main lodge and overlooks the vineyard, lake and mountains, according to the website.
There is an outdoor hot tub and a private chef is also available.
"Inspired by the traditional Southern Miner's cottage, this bijou residence was created from Otago Schist rock, Welsh slate & recycled timbers. Ornamental hand-forged iron and demolition timber add to the distinctive ambiance, evoking imagery of Knights in shining armour and beautiful maidens."
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Just Another Day in Paradise
May 9, 2008
I was finally able to make it happen – a link so you can play our blog's theme song! WordPress doesn't allow you to have music playing on your blog in the background (at least I can't figure out how to do it – I think that might be something I'd have to pay for) so this will have to do! I hope you enjoy it!
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The users of the term are self anointed police, and judges desirous of being executioners. Firstly, one needs know the audience aimed for. They are the true-believers, or really those acceptable to a clique of true-believers.
The 'INO' part is acronymic for "in name only". This clique wants to purge members of the group they find insufficiently fervent, and extreme. They represent themselves as 'conservatives', they are equivalent to fascists.
Now, who in the United States are so extreme to think such policing and purging necessary? What other 'R' group could such fanatics be a part of? Answer: Republicans. This is why they run primary insurgents against their successful incumbents. This is why they have no embarrassment with such outhouse rat crazies as Michelle Bachmann, Steve King, Rick Santorum, Allen West, Joe Walsh et. alia.
Now, i see 'C' is for Catholic. Now, any pharisaic Catholic DOES NOT have either the power, or the authority to ex-communicate, not even to ostracize others. Though these people want a stalinistic purge, it only exists in their own demented minds. In politics they can vote out some member, and replace him with a crazier one; they can't do this in the faith. They have not accepted the lessons of their own catechism: "once Catholic, always Catholic". They do not see, that, the faith is broader than they. It is interesting, that the only parts of Catholicism they approve of coincides with their politics, and often with their [or their masters'] economic desires, which contradicts Christianity. When they encounter Catholicism they don't approve (yet they know is valid) of, they brush it away as debatable, or trivial.
On the first day of this year, the pope, Benedict XVI had this to say, and in so doing expands on one of Jesus's Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, which are the core of Christian teaching:
Although the world is sadly marked by "hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor, by the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism," as well as by various forms of terrorism and crime, I am convinced that the many different efforts at peacemaking which abound in our world testify to mankind's innate vocation to peace.Capitalism is linked to terrorism and crime.


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After the stop/start progress down the Darling, John and Tim find the Murray a veritable speedway. Tim winds up the Bismarck to full throttle; the mighty tinnie's never been faster. They declare it's a joy being on a river with water in it. After four weeks, our unshaven adventurers head east of Albury to the Barmah Forest where the renowned red gums and wetlands are dying of thirst.
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Der Stürmer was a weekly tabloid-format NSDAP newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II.
The newspaper originated at Nuremberg during Hitler's attempt to establish power and control. During the struggle to achieve power, Streicher was accused by the opposition of the NSDAP as being "a liar, a coward, of having unsavory friends, mistreating his wife and of flirting with women". – tactics still used today by those same 'people'…
Despite the accusations, the first copy of Der Stürmer was published April 20, 1923. Der Stürmer's circulation grew over time, distributing to a large percentage of the German population as well as Argentina, Brazil, Canada and the United States.
Der Stürmer was best known for its effective antisemitic caricatures, which depicted jews as ugly characters with exaggerated facial features and misshapen bodies. (not really a misrepresentation in reality though).
Many of these drawings were the work of Philipp Rupprecht, known as Fips, who was one of the best-known anti-Semitic cartoonists (the illustrator of the children's book The Poisonous Mushroom)
At the bottom of the title page there was always the motto "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our misfortune!"), coined by Heinrich von Treitschke in the 1880s.
Most of its readers were young people and people from the lowest strata of German society. Copies of Der Stürmer were displayed in prominent display cases throughout the Reich; as well as advertising the publication, these cases also allowed its articles to reach those readers who either did not have time to buy and read a daily newspaper in depth, or could not afford the expense. In 1927, it sold about 27,000 copies every week; by 1935, its circulation had increased to around 480,000.


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The family of Lt. Louis Allen attended a dedication ceremony in honor of the namesake of the Lt. Louis Allen AOH Junior Division 1 in Monroe, New York. President of the AOH Jr. Division, Declan DeBold received the memorial shadow box containing Lt. Louis Allen medals from AOH Division 1 Life member James Kelly.
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Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place . . .
A friend told me she recently watched the movie Moulin Rouge and it reminded her of my wedding, specifically the song "Come What May."
I laughed at first, for two reasons.
The first was that I forgot there was a prior version of myself from way-back-when, when I used to love that movie and that song.
The second reason I laughed was because I forgot it was our wedding song.
I forgot.
How do you just forget the song you danced to at your own reception?
I spent nine months planning our wedding. Years of dating had yielded plenty of inspiration. Then there was The Proposal, but I was uninterested in using a Disney song. Or perhaps Hubby was not on board. I can't be expected to remember these details when I can't even remember what we chose.
No one particular Disney song fit us, anyway.
There really was only one song that we could even begin to call "ours," though perhaps it was a stretch at the time. After all, "we were only seventeen . . ." What did we know of love and life? We weren't even dating. Yet.
Hubby's band was playing a gig for friends in his grandparents' backyard. And since I was part of this rather unusually large network of friends spanning two states, my best friend and I were invited, though my invitation came straight from the bass player himself. I had an inkling that he liked me. And I was surprised that I was falling for him, too. We were already good friends. He was a gentleman and he made me laugh. He also played the guitar. Just how well I didn't know until that day.
I must have told him that I could kind-of, sort-of sing, because I remember him asking me to sing something that day. Any old thing would do. I remember wondering if he was joking, or just trying to be nice. He did have a reputation for being a nice guy . . .
However, on the day of the gig I came down with a bad sore throat and a fever. Singing seemed out of the question. But nothing was stopping me from going to hear the band play on that warm summer day – August 2, 2002.
There were a lot of firsts that day. It was the first time I heard them play. It was the first time I became something of a band's fangirl. And it was the first time I knew without a doubt that the bass player had a crush on me.
"I'm sick," I told him when the band took a break. "I can't sing."
"You've got to try," he said. "After I told everyone how good you were and everything!"
"But you've never heard me sing."
"I don't need to. I already know you're good."
"Um, okay."
Then his cousin chimed in. "Come on, Colleen. I've heard you sing even when you were just goofing off and you were still good," she said.
One reluctant agreement later, I was in the living room of his grandparents house practicing to an audience of one, Hubby's 14-year-old friend.
"Man," he exclaimed suddenly after the first verse, "that's how you sing when you're sick? You must be really good when you're healthy!"
"Not really," I told him modestly. Anything else seemed a lie.
Nevertheless, I told my friend the bass player that I was ready.
Since they had already been videotaping his band perform, he grabbed the video camera and stationed himself stage left as I nervously stepped into the hazy evening sunset glow that served as a spotlight.
I closed my eyes as friends' and strangers' voices fell to a hush.
Never knew I could feel like this . . .
When I close my eyes now, I open the ones that remember that moment like a snapshot in time.
The first thing I see is the bass player holding a video camera cocked to one side, as he stares at me transfixed.
Now it makes me laugh, seeing him like this – the 17-year-old boy with a crush on me. But back then, I was too stunned to do anything but close my eyes and try to not to look so obvious as I trembled with the microphone and tried to sing.
There was no rhyme or reason why I chose the song from Moulin Rouge. I just liked it. I spent that whole summer obsessing over that movie, over Ewan McGregor (he can sing!), and that one scene where they dance in a Parisian sky and pay homage to Singin' in the Rain with the Eiffel Tower. The movie itself was nothing more than a bloated music video that stole songs from 20th century, from Elton John to Nirvana. "Come What May" was an original song written for the film – just as hopelessly romantic and bloated as the film itself.
But I was 17. I practically lived on bloated hopeless romance.
For me, however, the romance was just beginning. It was this tiny, blossoming little thing out of a friendship with a bass player. Three days after the backyard gig, we were dating.
Fast forward five years and I was on a mission to find our wedding song.
Why not this one? After all, in those five years we had – for all intents and purposes – stuck together "come what may" in spite of it all. High school, college, disapproving friends who thought we were too young, not too mention the distance between us – we overcame it all. We even overcame ourselves and our own youthful selfishness and hot tempers. We had broken up more times than I can remember. But we could never stay apart. We were each others' best friends. Naturally, the next step was to get married. We felt like seasoned pros at hardships in our relationship. Bring on the storm clouds and the colliding stars.
And so we danced to "Come What May" on our wedding day.
We really were tempting fate, it seemed. Laughing in the face of it. Double-daring life to really put the screws to us. Invincible wedded bliss.
Nearly seven years have passed since I married the bass player.
Storm clouds gathered like the jobs we had and lost, the apartments we lived in, the house we bought. Seasons changed and we changed with them, and somehow along the way I forgot all about our wedding song. With each situation and challenge, I evolved into someone who probably wouldn't even like that movie anyway.
Then I found myself sitting on the toilet in the bathroom, sobbing as I held the hand of the bass player, who was sitting in a dry bathtub because I could not be alone for a moment – not even to go to the bathroom – because just a few days ago our baby boy had died and I was terrified to be alone for any stretch of time.
Those bygone days of backyard gigs and pool parties and bloated hopeless romance were blown away, leaving barely a memory of them here in this wasteland. I stopped singing, and he stopped playing the guitar. Even our wedding day seemed but a hazy dream. Were we ever really that happy? How was it possible to experience such joy, when the only things we felt were excruciating, unimaginable pain and the cry for numbness that followed?
The days came and went like the tide. They would have come regardless, stretching out the time between our wedding day and the present day. The days between are what make a marriage. Not the wedding day. Not the song, either.
But now, the bloated, pretentious song seems ironic when I see the bass player hold our newborn son in his arms in the middle of the night, his eyes betraying both lack of sleep and the joy we thought would never be ours to experience again.
Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place . . .
My friend's words are recent, but they seem to echo from the past.
"I watched Moulin Rouge tonight, and I got to thinking about your wedding song and how fitting it turned out to be. You guys have loved each other through thick & thin, come what may. I admire you two."
I guess I chose the right song after all.
More importantly, I chose the right person – that boyish bass player who became my best friend and then husband and undoubtedly the man I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with, no matter what life has in store for us. No matter what happens next. Every day, I love him more and more. I love him until the end of time.
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So where do all these gorgeous girls keep coming from? I have no idea, all I know is I am SO lucky to be able to take pictures of so many of them! I have to say, I LOVE this group of girls. Heather is the 2nd of 5 best friends that I have taken so far, and I still have a few more from this group that I will be taking soon.
I loved my time with Heather though, she was the first girl to come without her mom, just totally chill, up for anything, and loved to laugh. She actually had a great time laughing at me as I fell over a million things, sat on a thorn bush (on our first day, yeah, that was fun), and almost slid down a few hills. Whatever it takes to make them laugh, right? I will do it, even if I look like a big nerd Ü I'll keep telling myself that my clumsiness is on purpose....yeah, it's to make them laugh, not because I'm completely uncoordinated ;o) Here are a few of my favorites.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Posted by Amber H. at 3:09 PM
5 comments:
- The Merriman Clan said...
Oh Amber! I didn't think that my daughter Heather could look any more beautiful than she does each day. But, you definitely captured her beauty even beyond what I see day in & day out. It totally made me cry! Thanks for the great pics!
Polly Merriman
- September 18, 2009 at 7:33 PM
- The Merriman Clan said...
Oh yea, BTW....Heather failed to tell her mother that she could come to the photo shoot. Bad Girl!
- September 18, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Luke & Erica said...
Great job!! Love the BW Silhouet.
- September 19, 2009 at 5:47 AM
- Ashley said...
LOVE all these senior pictures. Very lucky girls to have such awesome pictures to choose from! :)
- September 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Ashley said...
P.S. This is actually Elisa. My sister is living with us and must have signed in before me! I am sure she would love them too! :)
- September 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post9065204013877312652..comments2018-06-23T07:43:42.751-04:00Comments on Linda's Bees: Avoiding Robbing BehaviorLinda email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-40060277796138193872011-08-28T13:17:59.738-04:002011-08-28T13:17:59.738-04:00Hi Linda, I am also named Linda and a bee keeper i...Hi Linda,
I am also named Linda and a bee keeper in Texas. I started my hobby in March this year. I only got one honey harvest this season due to extreme heat and drought conditions in Texas. I'm leaving the remainder of the honey for the bees to overwinter. However, when I harvested I tried two methods of allowing the bees to cleanup the leftovers. One - similar to you I left some frames in a different part of the yard for the bees to clean up which they quickly did, therefore sharing amongst any who wanted. The others I put back into the supers and let each colony have at least one or two frames to clean. Both methods kept robbing behavior away and allowed everyone to have their fair share of the goodies. I'll be feeding this fall I'm afraid as there seems to be no break from our awful email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-25123153089006859052011-08-25T12:52:06.293-04:002011-08-25T12:52:06.293-04:00Hello Linda. I've listed you as a 'versat...Hello Linda.

I've listed you as a 'versatile blogger' so please feel free to accept and copy/paste this logo onto your blog.

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If you accept the idea is (I think) to continue the link...

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xChrishttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-39286180442405877512011-08-22T09:33:03.643-04:002011-08-22T09:33:03.643-04:00[sorry for spamming :) wrong link ] I used to do t...[sorry for spamming :) wrong link ] I used to do that as well but I'm afraid the bees are getting used on making honey the "easy way" and soon or late there will be a robbing behavior against the nearest hives. Probably the conditions are different there but the way the bees act in Greece it's not recomented! Regards KostasBeekeeperhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-11180955773228829252011-08-19T02:27:58.591-04:002011-08-19T02:27:58.591-04:00Working with a greater number of colonies (up to 1...Working with a greater number of colonies (up to 100 some years) the only good solution at the end of the summer is to put the dripping supers back on the top separating them from the colony with a layer of covering material (plastic foil most of the time) leaving only a small access in the middle for them to tresspass. If you do all that work late in the enevenig they can finish the cleanig during the night & by mornig their excitement is long gone...Borsos Méhészethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-72707970617119667682011-08-18T21:39:40.742-04:002011-08-18T21:39:40.742-04:00Thanks for sharing this Linda. I just harvested t...Thanks for sharing this Linda. I just harvested today & put the frames back near the hives & it was a frenzy!!! Bees all over the place & bearding on the hives ~ even in the rain.

Next time the frames are going in the back yard in the garden area & away from the hives!

It seems so simple when you wrote this up! :) Hope you're all settled into your new digs. TTamhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-6479639714849588552011-08-18T09:53:04.236-04:002011-08-18T09:53:04.236-04:00Good solution, Linda. Yes, old books and beekeepe...Good solution, Linda.

Yes, old books and beekeepers would say to put out extracted supers for the bees to rob & clean up. This works well IF the supers and cappings are far enough away from the hives. I've seen it explained that the close-in round dance done by foragers doesn't have the directional component of the figure-8 waggle dance, so recruited foragers search all around the hive within 100 yards or so for the honey source. That's when they discover a weaker neighbor and start robbing.

Another way to handle the supers and wax is to divide them up and put over the inner cover of each hive so all receive the leftovers at the same time. (A case of feed one, feed all.) The cappings/wax must be shallowly spread in a dish of some kind-- if it's too deep, the bees suffocate while burrowing through. One complication these days is that this type hive clean-up may attract more small hive email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-22056486712959372342011-08-18T08:08:26.593-04:002011-08-18T08:08:26.593-04:00Sounds like an excellent solution to me! I've ...Sounds like an excellent solution to me! I've seen this on other blogs and loved the email@example.com


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She did great in front of all those people!
She's thinking..."please don't mess up my bow Pastor Gary."
As soon as it was over, we took her to Joyland. Little Miss was already asleep. We worn her out!
Sleeping Angel
Here we are after church was over. Stan just picked her up from the nursery. She was refreshed from her nap and ready for Spring Creek BBQ.
"I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give her to the LORD. For her whole life she will be given over to the LORD."


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Where are your business cards right now? At the bottom of your briefcase with the uneaten crackers? In your purse with lipstick stains or torn and bent? Crumpled on your dresser?
Your business card is your calling card; it tells everyone who you are. Present a professional image by keeping them in a business card case or leather holder. Many men will keep them in the pocket of their jackets only to realize that when they need one, the jacket is still at the cleaners. Have several that are handy in your portfolio, briefcase, purse or glove compartment. And carry them with you at all times; yes, even to your child's soccer game, ballet recital or to the black tie dinner. And definitely to the golf course!
When you receive someone's business card, take it with both hands if possible; look at it and say the person's name. This is another way of helping you remember a name. Then, don't just throw it on the table, put it away in your case. And don't write on the back of it while talking to someone, i.e. "obnoxious - bad hair day." Can't you find another way to remember them?
So, did you find your cards?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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A good cruise for families with children
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Trevor loves Thing 1 and Thing 2, so I wanted to make an activity that included them to finish off the week. After a lot of thought I decided to create Thing 1 and Thing 2 music shakers. Trevor thought these were pretty neat.
What You Need:
- 1 paper towel tube (or 2 toilet paper tubes)
- red duct tape (or red construction paper or paint)
- beans, rice, and/or other small objects
- waxed paper
- blue crepe paper
- white paper
- googly eyes
- marker
- glue
- scissors
How to Make it:
- Cut the paper towel tube in half.
- Tear off some waxed paper (I used a sheet probably the length of a cookie sheet for this)
- Cut the waxed paper into 4 pieces.
- Fold waxed paper in half, then in half again, and continue to do that until you have a rectangle that is just slightly larger than the end of your tube.
- Repeat with the other 3 pieces of waxed paper.
- Tape the waxed paper on one end of a tube.
- Fill the tube with some beans and rice (I used a coffee scoop out of one of Trevor's sensory bins and put one scoop each of beans and rice into the tube – also stolen from his sensory bins)
- Using the red duct tape, secure the other waxed paper rectangle to the other end of the tube to seal.
- Wrap the length of the tube with the red duct tape.
- Cut 3 pieces of blue streamer that is roughly 6 – 8 inches.
- Cut the 3 pieces of streamers in half, lengthwise.
- Tape the streamers to one end of the tube for the Thing's hair.
- Cut a circle out of white paper and write Thing 1 on it.
- Glue it to the middle of the red tube.
- Cut another circle out of the white paper (or use yellow or cream) and draw on a nose and mouth.
- Glue googly eyes to the circle to finish the face.
- Glue the face on the tube.
- Repeat steps 6 – 17 with the second tube (In step 11 you'll write Thing 2 on the circle instead of Thing 1)
- Enjoy your Thing 1 and Thing 2 shakers!


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January 16, 1961
BOWERSv.PENNSYLVANIA LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, APPELLANT.
Appeal, No. 31, May T., 1960, from judgment of Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Commonwealth Docket, 1957, No. 406, in case of Clarence P. Bowers v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board et al. Judgment affirmed.
Harry J. Rubin, Deputy Attorney General, with him Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General, for appellants.
Paul H. Rhoads, with him George B. Balmer, and Snyder, Balmer & Kershner, and Rhoads, Sinon & Reader, for appellee.
Before Jones, C.j., Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Bok and Eagen, JJ.
Author: Jones
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Clarence P. Bowers, the plaintiff, was appointed by the Governor on June 20, 1955, as a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board for a term to expire on June 2, 1959. The appointment was made under authority conferred upon the Governor by Section 4(a) of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act of June 1, 1937, P.L. 1168, No. 294, as amended, 43 PS § 211.4(a), and was duly confirmed by the State Senate
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pursuant to a requirement of the Act. On November 8, 1957, the Governor, in asserted reliance upon Article IV, § 4, of the Pennsylvania Constitution for his authority, purported to remove Bowers forthwith from his office and so notified him the same day both by telegram and by letter. The cited constitutional provision declares, inter alia, that "Appointed officers... may be removed at the pleasure of the power by which they shall have been appointed." Article XII, § 1, of the Pennsylvania Constitution provides that "All officers... shall be elected or appointed as may be directed by law."
Bowers instituted this action of mandamus in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County against the members of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, the Secretary of Labor and Industry, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer, seeking to compel the members of the Labor Relations Board and the Secretary of Labor and Industry to recognize him as a member of the Labor Relations Board and to permit him to participate in the deliberations and actions of the Board and to perform the normal and lawful functions of a member of the Board until the expiration of the term specified in the Commission evidencing his appointment. The plaintiff also sought judgment in his favor requiring the Secretary of Labor and Industry to continue to certify to the Auditor General and the State Treasurer the amount of salary due him as a member of the Labor Relations Board and requiring the Auditor General to cause warrants to be drawn for the payment of such salary and the State Treasurer to pay the salary so warranted.
The defendant officials, represented by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, filed preliminary objections to the complaint on the ground that it failed to state a cause of action for the assigned reason, inter alia, that the Governor had acted in strict compliance
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with the authority vested in him by Article IV, § 2, and Article VI, § 4, of the Pennsylvania Constitution, whereby it was the Governor's absolute right to remove, at his pleasure, the plaintiff as a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.
The court below filed an opinion holding that the Governor could not dismiss the plaintiff as a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board without cause and, accordingly, entered an order dismissing the preliminary objections and giving the defendants thirty days in which to answer the complaint, thus leaving for further litigation the question whether or not the plaintiff had been dismissed for cause.
The defendants then filed a responsive answer to the complaint, averring new matter to which the plaintiff filed a reply. By agreement of counsel the case was tried to the court without a jury.
The trial judge concluded that the defendants had failed to prove that the plaintiff was removed for cause and, thereupon, entered an order giving judgment for the plaintiff against the defendants and directing that the plaintiff be paid the emoluments of the office due him. To this order, the defendants filed exceptions which, pursuant to stipulation of counsel, were subsequently dismissed without argument and judgment was then entered in favor of Clarence P. Bowers, the plaintiff, and against the defendants, from which judgment the defendant officials have now appealed.
All public officers are, of course, removable for cause. In McSorley v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 390 Pa. 81, 86, 134 A.2d 201 (1957), we so recognized in pointing out that: "The initial enjoinder of Article VI, Section 4, is that 'All officers shall hold their offices on the condition that they behave themselves well while in office, and shall be removed on conviction of misbehavior in office or of any infamous
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crime.' The latter clause has been held to be self-executing: Commonwealth v. Davis, 299 Pa. 276, 279, 149 A. 176. It logically follows that if officers do not behave themselves well while in office, they are removable for cause. If their blamable conduct proves sufficient to convict them of misbehavior in office or any infamous crime, they are automatically removed by virtue of the self-executing provision of Article VI, Section 4, hereinabove quoted, but, until then, they are removable for cause in like connection at the pleasure of the appointor."
However, in the instant case, the defendants have acquiesced in the conclusion of the court below that they failed to prove cause as the motivating impetus of the Governor's attempted removal of the plaintiff. The sole question of law, therefore, on this appeal, is, as stated in appellants' brief: "May the Governor of Pennsylvania, at his pleasure, remove a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board from office?" To that question we shall now address ourselves.
In Watson v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, 386 Pa. 117, 123, 125 A.2d 354 (1956), we declared it to be "... established in this State beyond respectable controversy that, where the legislature creates a public office, it may impose such terms and limitations with reference to the tenure or removal of an incumbent as it sees fit. There is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting such action while, on the other hand, Article XII, Section 1, expressly admits of it." See, in accord: Marshall Impeachment Case, 360 Pa. 304, 310-11, 62 A.2d 30 (1948); Suermann v. Hadley, 327 Pa. 190, 200, 193 Atl. 645 (1937); Weiss v. Ziegler, 327 Pa. 100, 104, 193 Atl. 642 (1937); Milford Township Supervisors' Removal, 291 Pa. 46, 49-51, 139 Atl. 623 (1927); Commonwealth ex rel. Vesneski v. Reid, 265 Pa. 328, 333, 108 Atl. 829 (1919); Bowman's Case, 225 Pa. 364, 368, 74 Atl. 203 (1909). Confirmation of this
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constitutionally unassailable principle does not reside alone in judicial pronouncement. The legislature itself has exercised its power so to enact.
For example, by Section 201 of the Milk Control Law of April 28, 1937, P.L. 417, 31 PS § 700j-201, the legislature, after creating "an independent administrative commission to be known as the Milk Control Commission", composed of three members to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate, for staggered terms of six years each, specifically prescribed that "The Governor may remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office: Provided, That he is given a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his own defense upon not less than ten days' notice, and that the Governor file with the Department of State a complete statement of all charges made against such commissioner, together with a complete record of the proceedings and his findings thereon."
It is too plain for argument that, by this provision of the Milk Control Law, the legislature deliberately and effectively banished any thought of power in the Governor to remove, at his pleasure, a member of the Milk Control Commission. Obviously, if the Governor could also remove such a commissioner at his pleasure by virtue of Article VI, § 4, of the Constitution, he would not need trouble himself to make charges of inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office against an incumbent commissioner, whom he desired to remove, and follow the detailed procedure meticulously spelled out by § 201 of the Milk Control Law. See, also, Section 4 of the Act of March 31, 1937, P.L. 160, 66 @PS § 455, which enumerates the specific causes for which the Governor may remove a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and provides for the filing of charges, notice, and a public hearing
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at which the incumbent commissioner has an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel.
It is manifest, therefore, that whether the legislature in creating an appointive office has evidence by its enactment an intention that the tenure of the appointee shall not be subject to termination at the pleasure of the appointing power presents a pure question of statutory construction which is peculiarly and exclusively the function of the judiciary to resolve. Such is the problem with which we dealt in the Watson case, supra, and such is, likewise, the scope of our present responsibility.
The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act,*fn1 which created the office to which Bowers was appointed by the Governor, provides, in Section 4(a) as follows: "There is hereby created... the 'Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board'... which shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the Governor, but with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate.... One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of two years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of six years, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years each, except that any individual chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he is to succeed..." (Emphasis supplied).
The appellants would have us treat the emphasized portion of the foregoing statutory provision as a complete nullity and of no significance whatsoever. According to their contention, the specified provision might just as well have not been included in the carefully worded Act, notwithstanding that we are admonished by long established and firmly entrenched
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rules of statutory construction that "Every law shall be construed, if possible, to give effect to all its provisions" and that the legislature, in the enactment of a law, is to be presumed to have intended the entire statute to be effective and certain: §§ 51 and 52(2) of the Statutory Construction Act of May 28, 1937, P.L. 1019, 46 PS §§ 551 and 552(2). None the less, the appellants argue, in effect, that Bowers' fixed term of office which, according to the express stipulation of the gubernatorial commission evidencing his appointment, was to expire June 2, 1959, was a mere fiction; that, in reality, what Bowers was appointed to, despite his commission's specification, was merely an indefinite term which would last no longer than it pleased the Governor that the appointee should continue in office. In short, the appellants interpret the statutory provision that members of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board shall be appointed for fixed terms to mean that such members shall be appointed for only so long, not exceeding six years, as shall please the Governor, and they construe the provision for staggered expiration dates for the terms of the members of the Board as being of no effect whatsoever and, consequently, meaningless.
Watson v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, supra, was concerned with the attempted removal by the Governor, without cause, of a member of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. We there had occasion to interpret the statutory provision contained in Section 4 of the Act of May 21, 1937, P.L. 774, No. 211, 36 PS § 652d, which provided that members of the Turnpike Commission should be appointed to ten-year terms, the expiration dates of which were fixed at staggered intervals. We interpreted the legislative intent evidenced by this arrangement as follows: "The purpose of the foregoing provision as to the terms of office of the Commissioners (i.e., those first to be appointed and
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thereafter their successors) is patent. It was designed so that, by the prescribed rotation, the terms of three of the four appointed members of the Commission would always be current. The Act expressly provides that three members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum who, for all purposes, shall act unanimously. Were the Commissioners to be held removable at the pleasure of the Governor, the carefully expressed scheme of term rotation would be effectually nullified. If it be countered that the Governor, in appointing to a vacancy created by his dismissal of a Commissioner, would respect the spirit of the Act and appoint a successor for the balance of the unexpired term of the dismissed Commissioner, the answer is that the power so attributed to the Governor would still violate the plain intendment of the Act. He could render all of the offices vacant at one time which, obviously, the Act was specifically designed to make impossible. To urge that such a situation would never be provoked is irrelevant to the question of the power of the Governor in the premises as affected by the Act creating the office and prescribing the tenure therefor. It follows that the attempted removal of the plaintiff from his office was without warrant of law and that he must, therefore, be restored to the position."
The legislature by providing in the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act staggered expiration dates for fixed terms of Board members of a duration which, if fulfilled, would extend beyond the incumbency of the appointing Governor, thereby evidenced a desire and intent (just as in the case of the Act creating the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission) that this important Board should at all times be in position to benefit from the counsel of experienced members who have acquired over the years of their tenure a knowledge and understanding of the Board's work so essential to a thoughtful and prudent solution of the many complex problems
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encountered. This is especially true with respect to the administration of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act, involving, as it does, technical and delicate questions of labor-management relations. It is plain enough that, in the public interest, such Board members were not to be made amenable to political influence or discipline in the discharge of their official duties. Since we may not properly assume that the legislature intended to enact a meaningless and ineffectual (although carefully worded and clearly expressed) statutory provision, § 4(a) of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act must rightly be held to intend that duly confirmed members of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board possess tenure for the fixed terms for which they are appointed and may not be removed by the Governor except for cause.
The legislature has shown that, when it creates an administrative agency and provides that its members shall be appointed for fixed terms with staggered expiration dates, the intent thereby evidenced is that such members are not removable by the appointor at his pleasure. For instance, where, in a statute so phrased, the legislature has desired that the appointor may remove appointees at his pleasure, it has incorporated an express provision to that effect. Thus it is that, when Section 8(a) of the Parking Authority Law of June 5, 1947, P.L. 458, as amended, 53 PS § 348(a), was enacted providing that the powers of a municipal parking authority shall be exercised by a Board composed of five members, that each of such members shall be appointed for a term of five years, and that such terms shall expire at staggered intervals, the legislature expressly included a provision that "Members of the board may be removed at the will of the appointing power." If the fixed five year terms with staggered expiration dates, provided by the Parking Authority Law, did not imply, as a matter of statutory construction,
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that the tenure of appointed members should endure for their fixed terms, without being subject to removal at the pleasure of the appointing power, then why did the legislature expressly add that members of the Board may be removed at the will of the appointing power? The appellants' contention would make this provision a useless and meaningless exertion on the part of the legislature.
The instant case is not to be distinguished, in principle, from Watson v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, supra, upon which the court below properly relied in entering judgment for the plaintiff and against the defendants.
The foregoing is the decisional basis upon which the judgment for the plaintiff entered by the court below will be affirmed.
The writer is of the further opinion, which he feels duty-bound to express, that there is an additional compelling reason why the Governor may not remove, at his pleasure, a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.
It is implicit in the American form of government, as ordained by the Constitution of both the United States and Pennsylvania, that the government consist of three co-ordinate branches, legislative, executive and judicial, and that one branch should not impinge on the province of another. Any interference by a member of the executive department of government with the tenure of an incumbent member of a quasi-judicial board or commission would plainly offend against this basic constitutional concept. The Supreme Court has twice declared that the President of the United States lacks power to remove without cause an appointed member of an administrative agency which possesses and exercises judicial powers: Wiener v. United States,
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them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control cannot well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue in office, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime. For it is quite evident that one who holds his office only during the pleasure of another, cannot be depended upon to maintain an attitude of independence against the latter's will.
"The fundamental necessity of maintaining each of the three general departments of government entirely free from the control or coercive influence, direct or indirect, of either of the others, has often been stressed and is hardly open to serious question. So much is implied in the very fact of the separation of the powers of these departments by the Constitution; and in the rule which recognizes their essential co-equality. The sound application of a principle that makes one master in his own house precludes him from imposing his control in the house of another who is master there. James Wilson, one of the framers of the Constitution and a former justice of this court, said that the independence of each department required that its proceedings 'should be free from the remotest influence, direct or indirect, of either of the other two powers.' Andrews, The Works of James Wilson (1896), vol. 1, p. 367. And Mr. Justice STORY in the first volume of his work on the Constitution, 4th ed., § 530, citing No. 48 of the Federalist, said that neither of the departments in reference to each other 'ought to possess, directly or indirectly, an overruling influence in the administration of their respective powers.' And see O'Donoghue v. United States, supra [289 U.S. 516], at pp. 530-531.
"The power of removal here claimed for the President falls within this principle, since its coercive influence threatens the independence of a commission, which is not only wholly disconnected from the executive department,
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but which, as already fully appears, was created by Congress as a means of carrying into operation legislative and judicial powers, and as an agency of the legislative and judicial departments."
That the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board possesses judicial powers and performs duties of such nature is too plain for question. See §§ 7, 8 and 9 of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act, as amended, 43 PS §§ 211.7, 211.8 and 211.9. Specifically, § 8(c) provides that at a hearing on a charge of unfair labor practice, - "If, upon all the testimony taken, the board shall determine that any person named in the complaint has engaged in or is engaging in any such unfair labor practice the board shall state its findings of fact, and issue and cause to be served on such person an order requiring such person to cease and desist from such unfair labor practice, and to take such reasonable affirmative action, including reinstatement of employes discharged in violation of clause (c) of subsection (1) of section six of this act, with or without back pay, as will effectuate the policies of this act. Such order may further require such person to make reasonable reports, from time to time, showing the extent to which the order has been complied with. If, upon all the testimony, the board shall be of the opinion that the person or persons named in the complaint has not engaged in or is not engaging in any such unfair labor practice, then the board shall make its findings of fact and shall issue an order dismissing the complaint." And, on appeal from a decision of the Board to any common pleas court (County Court in Allegheny County), § 9(a) of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act, 43 PS § 211.9(a), provides that "The findings of the board as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive." (Emphasis supplied). Such conclusiveness has the adjudicatory quality of a finding by a court of first instance.
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The excessive effect which the appellants ascribe to Article VI, § 4, of the State Constitution, if adopted, would thwart a permissible exercise of legislative will and preclude a quasi-judicial board from employing that degree of fairness, impartiality and objectivity which should and, in good conscience, must attend the exercise of judicial power. "For," as the Supreme Court observed in the Humphrey case (p. 629), "it is quite evident that one who holds his office only during the pleasure of another, cannot be depended upon to maintain an attitude of independence against the latter's will." It is implicit as well as inherent in any just system of law that a party complaining of, or charged with, the commission of wrongs legally redressable, be entitled, at the very least, to a determination by a tribunal independent of the influence of powerful personages, political or otherwise.
In Wiener v. United States, supra, the plaintiff had been appointed to membership on the War Claims Commission by President Truman pursuant to authority granted by Section 2(a) of the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended, 62 Stat. 1240, 50 App. U.S.C.A., § 2001(a). Wiener was subsequently removed, without cause, by President Eisenhower for the assigned reason, - "I regard it as in the national interest to complete the administration of the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended, with personnel of my own selection." The Supreme Court, noting that the Commission was a quasi-judicial body, held that the President was without any such power of removal, saying (at page 356), "If, as one must take for granted, the War Claims Act precluded the President from influencing the Commission in passing on a particular claim, a fortiori must it be inferred that Congress did not wish to have hang over the Commission the Damocles' sword of removal by the President for no reason other than that he preferred to have on that Commission men of his own choosing."
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The fundamental constitutional principle thus recognized and applied by the Supreme Court in the Humphrey and Wiener cases, supra, was actually written into Article VI, § 4, of our State Constitution wherein "judges of the courts of record" are expressly excluded from the appointor's power to remove at his pleasure. While this inhibition does not mention, eo nomine, members of quasi-judicial boards or commissions as being within the exclusion, the restraint as to them is inherent, none the less, in the very fabric of our Constitution. The reason why quasi-judicial boards or commissions were not specifically named in the exclusory clause of Article VI, § 4, expressly applicable to "judges of the courts of record," is patent. Such agencies were entirely unknown to this State's political customs and usages at the time of the drafting and adoption of ...
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Can't form a lasting Union if you keep betraying Kurds and Sunnis....
Scores dead in attack on Sunni mosque in Iraq
Shia armed group kills at least 73 people inside place of worship near the city of Baquba in eastern Diyala province.
Last updated: 22 Aug 2014 22:52
|At least 73 people have been killed after a Shia Muslim armed group opened fired inside an Iraqi Sunni mosque in the village of Bani Wais in the country's eastern Diyala province, medical sources have said.
A security source said bodies had been arriving at the hospital in the city of Baquba in Diyala province on Friday.
Footage posted later on YouTube appeared to show the dead strewn across the mosque floor, including the body of at least one child.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reporting from Erbil, said that according to local sources, the attack could have been in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack at a recruitment event organised by the same militia.
Two Sunni parliamentary blocs have suspended talks on forming a new Iraqi government to protest the attack.
The blocs affiliated with Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri and Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al Mutlak are demanding that outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the main Shia parliamentary bloc hand over the perpetrators within 48 hours and compensate the families of victims, the AP news agency reported.
Iraq's newly appointed prime minister condemned the attack on the mosque.
"I strongly condemn the killing of civilians and worshipers in Diyala province and I call on the citizens to reject these attempts by the enemies of Iraq to exploit the incident in order to stir up strife between the sons of the same homeland," he said.Attacks on mosques have in the past unleashed a deadly series of revenge killings and counter attacks in Iraq, where violence has returned to the levels of 2006-2007, the peak of a sectarian civil war.
In July, Shia armed groups executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public square in Baquba, police said.
Diyala police officials told the Reuters news agency they had provided Shia militias with names for hit lists so that suspected members of the Islamic State group could be tracked and executed.
Iraqi security forces killed more than 255 Sunni prisoners in July in apparent retaliation for killings of Shias by the Islamic State group, according to Human Rights Watch .
Kurdish Commander Says Baghdad Blocking Foreign Arms to PeshmergaBy Alexander Whitcomb 1 hour ago
On the frontlines, Peshmerga commanders say their men are still fighting with outdated equipment. AP file photo.
KHAZIR, Iraq – Peshmerga commanders on the frontlines of the war with the Islamic State armies say their men have received none of the weapons delivered by foreign governments, blaming interference by Baghdad.
"We have not had the delivery of weapons from our international partners," said Rowsch Shaways, Iraq's outgoing deputy prime minister, who is a Kurd and serves as a commander of Kurdish forces leading an offensive toward Mosul.
"Right now Baghdad is the reason why this hasn't happened," Shaways toldRudaw from a command center southeast of Mosul, only a kilometer from enemy lines.
At another base near Gwar, General Sirwan Barzani also lamented that his division has "seen nothing of the new weapons."
The United States, France, Albania, Italy, Germany and Britain have expressed their willingness to provide military aid to the autonomous Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State (IS/formerly ISIS).
Yet, each has sought to coordinate the process through Baghdad, whose relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) remain severely strained. Much of the tension has been blamed on Nouri al-Maliki, who was recently forced down from seeking a third term as prime minister.
Since the IS began a rout of the Iraqi army in June, the Peshmerga have emerged as the only local force standing up to the militants.
Over the past several weeks, Kurdish military officials have said their forces had new, heavy weapons, without revealing their origins or other details. But the comments by commanders did not confirm that.
On the frontlines, several officers explained they were making progress in the fight against IS, but Shaways remained adamant that they need American and European weapons.
Kurdish leaders acknowledge an arms upgrade will be necessary to face the well-armed and disciplined insurgent force without suffering heavy casualties, since a series of difficult challenges, such as the recapture of Mosul, still lie ahead.
Asked if he believed the delivery would happen soon, Shaways struggled to contain his concern: "If (Baghdad) wants to defeat ISIS ---- our common enemy -- then they will make sure we get the weapons as soon as possible," he said.
Although Iraqi security forces and the Peshmerga cooperated in the recapture of the strategic Mosul Dam this week, Baghdad has been reluctant to take any measures that would further strengthen the Kurdish military, a formidable force despite its outdated equipment.
Kurdish parties are working with Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi to form a government, but there is no guarantee that the new administration will be able to reverse the disastrous course set by Maliki and prevent the further disintegration of Iraq.
Cooperation on pressing matters of national security, such as the fight against IS, remains the most basic stress-test of Erbil's current relationship with Baghdad, lending the arms delivery a heightened importance.
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Pentagon Pushes Iraq, Syria Escalations
CENTCOM Wants Dramatic Increase in Target List
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2014
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel laid out a particularly hysterical view of the "ISIS threat" today, insisting they post a threat to literally every national interest the US has everywhere, and that the US has to prepare for "everything" in its latest war.
It isn't hard to see where that viewpoint came from, as other Pentagon officials talking about ISIS are showing a similarly alarming perspective as they continue to push the administration for escalationsof the war.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey presented ISIS as an "apocalypic"opponent that can only be tacked militarily, and pushed for the US to expand the Iraq War into neighboring Syria, saying that's the only way to "contain" ISIS.
When pressed on the US escalating the war into Syria, Hagel was evasive, insisting only that the US "continue to explore all options" in their newest war.
In the near term, this is likely to mean mostly an increase in the current air war inside Iraq, as CENTCOM is pushing particularly hard for the US to greatly expand its targets list to allow the large number of warplanes already attacking Iraq to hit many more targets.
The State Department has already chimed in with a request for another 300 ground troops in Baghdad, and further ground operations have already been reported to be in the works for the Anbar Province, along the border with Syria.
Actually escalating the war into Syria itself will be a huge step, and it may well be that the revelation of the failed rescue mission in Syria was part of a campaign to widen expectations for the war's eventual scope, giving officials the ability to argue the US already added Syria to the war long ago.
Many in Congress Wary of Escalating Iraq War
Hawks Grow Louder, But Not More Numerous
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2014
When Senate super-hawk John McCain (R – AZ) presented the James Foley killing as an excuse for a dramatic escalation of the Iraq War, no one should've been surprised. He's been harping for an escalation ever since the war began, and harping on about attacking either ISIS or Syria or both constantly long before that.
It only seems like Congress is shifting ever more hawk-ward because of how shrill the usual hawks are growing in recent days, but the indications are that most of the people in Congress haven't actually changed their position at all.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D – CA) is still expressing concerns about mission creep, and while there are a lot more hawkish quotes floating around out there, they're all coming from the same people as usual.
That's important, because less than a month ago the House passed a resolution opposing any deployment of ground troops to Iraq without a new Congressional authorization. President Obama seems to be hoping to ignore that, but as the war continues to escalate, that mostly silent war-weary majority could start speaking up again.
With all the hype the war has gotten in recent weeks, it isn't clear where exactly such a vote would stand in the House if it were held today. That no vote is planned is telling, however, as the president presumably wouldn't want to miss a chance to hammer through another pro-war resolution if he was really sure of it passing.
Escalating Iraq War Is Increasingly Kurd-Centric
Western Nations Throwing Growing Aid at Peshmerga
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2014
The ever-escalating Iraq War is becoming less and less about Iraq and more about the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), with growing aid being thrown at the Peshmerga fighters that are doing much of the heavy lifting in the war.
Only weeks ago it was unthinkable that the US would directly arm the Peshmerga. Now, not only are they openly doing so, but several European nations are as well. ISIS, of course, is largely using US arms as well, looted from Mosul or given to them by the US in Syria.
US officials visiting the nation are less interested in going to Baghdad than Irbil at thispoint, and US airstrikes are being conducted so far primarily to back Peshmerga battles, not the fights between ISIS and the Iraqi military further south.
Kurdish analysts are expecting this to pay off big down the road, adding to the autonomous KRG region's global influence, and making it easier to secede from Iraq in the future.
Hagel: ISIS an Imminent Threat to Every Interest We Have
Declares ISIS 'Beyond Just a Terrorist Group'
by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2014
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel chimed in on a growing escalation of US attacks in Iraq today, labeled ISIS "beyond just a terrorist group" and insisting that they are the most dangerous group the US has ever seen.
"This is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything. And the only way you do that is take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready," Hagel added, saying ISIS is a "imminent threat to every interest we have."
Hagel went on to say ISIS is growing more dangerous, and that the "long-term" US military operation is far from over. He also touched on revelations of a failed rescue attempt for a slain American journalist, defending it as a "flawless operation."
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral Kirby expressed displeasure about the fact that the failed Syrian raid went public at all, saying he would've much preferred it to remain a secret, but that the media was going to publish the story anyhow.
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have already laid out the case yesterday that they are going to "crush" ISIS militarily, which would involve a broad, open-ended war in both Iraq and Syria. While officials don't seem to want to admit that publicly, they do seem to want to lay the groundwork for those precipitous escalations to come.
The administration initially couched its new Iraq War as a "humanitarian intervention," but has quickly dispatched with that talking point in favor of a redux of the 2003 occupation talking points, centering on the enemy being "inexplicable, nihilistic, and valueless evil."
Polls have continued to show solid American opposition to a new ground invasion of Iraq, though with Congress not even seriously considering bringing the matter up for debate, President Obama seems to be free to escalate irrespective of public opinion.


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Yakima residents lose money in sweepstakes phone scam
YAKIMA, Wash. - Police are warning of a phone scam in the area that targets the elderly after two Yakima-area residents have lost thousands of dollars.
Yakima Police Department (YPD) said two people reported sweepstakes scams in the week of March 8, 2017.
An 87-year-old man lost $9,000 and another man lost $5,000.
The scammer told victims over the phone that they won a sweepstakes and instructed them to pay the taxes up front according to police reports.
YPD wants to caution Yakima residents that sweepstakes would not ask for money before distributing the prize, and if the caller is asking for handling charges, services fees or taxes then it is likely a scam.


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A 43-year-old car-crash victim in Italy who fell into a "minimally conscious state" to the point where he could no longer speak suddenly started chatting again after receiving a sedative, LiveScience reports.
A study published in November in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience said it's the first case showing "the 'awakening' effect of midazolam," a drug typically used to induce sleepiness before surgery.
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Mold smells of mildew and looks like small black or white specks growing along just about anything.
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Monday, 4 February 2008
I'm here!
On Saturday night, at around 11pm I decided I was tired of swimming in goo and I wanted to get out. So I worked really hard and did my best but my Mummy wouldn't let me come out! It took me 33 hours before my Mummy and Daddy would even go to the hospital - even though my Auntie Lizz harassed Mummy to go (I sure do like that Auntie Lizz). Where was I? Oh right, leaving for the hospital. My Mummy is so tough that she walked all the way to the hospital in -30°C weather with me struggling to get out!
After we got settled in at the hospital I decided enough was enough- it was time to come out!
So at 11:40am, on February 4, out I came. I was pretty gooey but the nurses took good care of me. I weighed 9lbs 4oz (that is 4196g for my Brazillian family) and I was 22inches (56cms) long.
Would you like to see more of me? My Auntie Lizz took a lot of very charming pictures of me. I have to say that I am pretty darn cute!
This is my Daddy. He seems to be quite fond of me.
This is my Auntie Lizz.
This is my Yukon Grandpa
This is my Aunt Margaret. She came all the way from Toronto to see me.
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- Gregory Bryce said...
Great photos, Lizz.
Dad (Elis's Avô)
- 5 February 2008 at 00:54
- Certainty said...
Congratulations Sarah and Edy! Elis is adorable. Robyn
- 5 February 2008 at 08:57
- S said...
Welcome Elis!!!
xoxo sarom
- 5 February 2008 at 15:19
- Marcia Gesina Geraldo de Oliveira said...
Seja be vinda Elis.
Parabéns Edi e Sarah.
Transmitam minhas congratulações à Família da Sarah, pois a felicidade com a espera e nascimento da Elis esta visível na expressão de cada um.
Marcia, João e Lucas
- 5 February 2008 at 15:26
- Célia said...
Parabéns Sarah e Edi, queridos amigos! Bem vinda Elis! Que você inunde a vida de seus pais de felicidade! Sei que você será muito amada, pois tem pais maravilhosos! Parabéns a toda família!Beijos
Célia Domingos
- 5 February 2008 at 17:06
- Thiago said...
Eliz,seja bem vinda ao mundo.
e aos seus pais meus PARABÉNS,por ter dado a vida a ser tão iluminado.
Que Deus abençoe essa familia linda que acaba de nascer.
Sarah esperamos que venha logo a Pirapora para conhecermos a Eliz e mostrar a ela as belezas do São Francisco.
- 6 February 2008 at 04:01
- hegli said...
PARABÉNS!!!!!!!!!!!Mamãe Sarah e papai Edi! Seja muito bem vinda "grande" Elis!
Aguardamos para apertar essa coisa fofa aqui no Brasil em breve!!!!
- 6 February 2008 at 06:24
- Terry&Michele said...
Felicitations Sarah, il est vraiment beau le petit. Vous etes tous tres heureux, parait-il. Michele (Markley)
- 6 February 2008 at 12:42
- Bene said...
Sarah e Edi, Parabéns!
a Elis é simplesmente linda!
Bjs queridos!
Deus os abençoe!!!
- 6 February 2008 at 14:26
- Telma said...
Parabéns papai, mamãe e toda esta família canadense com cara de babão!!!
Elis, bem vinda ao mundo, que você seja muito feliz, pois amada você já é.
beijões a todos
- 6 February 2008 at 20:28
- dogsled_stacie said...
Congrats to the happy parents! She's beautiful!! And yay, she finally arrived!!! :)
- 7 February 2008 at 13:37
- sylvie w said...
Dearest Elis,
I met you almost a month before your birth, in the hope and anticipation present in your parents' eyes. Their excitement and earnestness to introduce you to the world in the most loving and peaceful manner possible made a very cold January day a little bit warmer for me. I am so privileged to have played a small role in seeing to your safe delivery. Your most incredible mother was patient and surrendered to what needed to happen, while your fathers' tenderness and attentive concern gave her the strength that your very long labour required of her. From the two days of waiting and working, to the very cold walk to the hospital, your folks demonstrated fortitude and resolve, required of good parents. The three of you are lucky to have each other. I wish you love and protection for your life's greatest adventures, and know that you have already enriched mine. sylvie
- 8 February 2008 at 12:25
- Jeff & Jenny said...
How exciting and wonderful! Bravo!
-Jenny Chiasson
- 10 February 2008 at 14:54
- Janet said...
Congratulations Sarah!! Welcome to the land of motherhood, the road in is rocky and we don't get alot of sleep here, but the welcome wagon basket is worth it :). If you need any well intentioned word of encouragement from another recent immigrant, let me know.
- 12 February 2008 at 20:14


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Some METHERELL snippets from a posting in my Guestbook by Heather A has tidied up a few more loose ends down the PEEK line.
And once again thrown a heap of evidence against the oft quoted statement that "our forbears didn't move around a lot".
I've followed some of the connected METHERELL families around from Devon to Cumberland to Pennsylvania to New York, back to Cumberland and back to Colorado.
I've also now spoken to (the wife of) a descendant of the William RUNCIMAN who went to Michigan around 1850, so have hopes of finding out a bit more about the States branch I hope to connect to the Wanton Walls lot one day.
In anticipation of which, I've added to the charts on the site by including the Michigan RUNCIMANs.
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Oct 15, 2007: Wanton Walls to Michigan; Devon to Colorado
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My super hero costume, Super Writer
So today was super hero day at youth group. Dressed up as Super Writer. It was fun. Then I was handed a camera and told I was now Journalist Girl instead. *L* Okay then.
Close-up of the hair with pencils and the 2006 NaNo shirt (just arrived yesterday).
I wrote quotes on my arms. Maybe I shouldn't have used Sharpie. But now I sorta want to get this tattooed here.
My jeans – which were larinzia's idea.
More jeans (this is one of the pairs with an arse-rip – I wore shorts under them).
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text: I wanted to do a fun project with N2 over Columbus Day weekend when Brian was gone. I searched some blogs and found a simple painting project to do with toilet paper rolls. I thought this sounded like fun! Noah took some convincing to try it but Natalie jumped right in. She just wanted to paint with 2 shades of blue. Then she added purple. Very harmonious. At the very end she threw in brown. I really love how this turned out.


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Andy's parents spent this past week with us. The extra set of hands sure came in handy with holding Graydon, playing with Bella, and making meals. Andy and I even got to have a date night - dinner and a movie. I think the last time we went to a movie together was when Bella was one month old. Definitely overdue! This week went fast, but it was nice to spend time with family. Here's some of the pictures.
For over a week now, I have had a dairy-free diet and it really seems to be helping Graydon. He seems so much happier. Less gassy. Sleeping better. Smiling more. He's like a whole new baby! Giving up dairy is not easy for me, but if it makes my little man feel better then it is so worth it. I pray that this continues because it's been wonderful.
Graydon sure is growing. As I look at these photos it's obvious how much he has changed already. His face is filling in and his hair is falling out! This baby stage just goes too fast. Sometimes when I'm rocking with him, I'll just smell his head or hold his hand or kiss his cheek - anything I can do to soak in the moment and cherish it. He won't be a baby forever so I'm determined to make the most of this time that he is.
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The calendar marches on and with the start of October, the end of fiscal year (FY2012) arrived.
With that milestone on the calendar reached, the federal government announced that it ran a deficit in FY2012 of about $1.1 trillion.
For those of you who like your numbers written out in digits that would $1,100,000,000,000.
There are organizations and people who have the responsibility of attempting to predict what the deficit will be. I have written about budget predictions before (see here and here and here).
The overriding theme from those posts is that people and groups who make predictions about the budget are wrong.
This veridiction (my made-up name for the process of verifying predictions) posting is about predictions made about the FY2012 deficit.
Back in January 2003, The Washington Post ran a story about how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections from August 2002. Here is the graphic from that story…
As you can see, the August 2002 estimate from CBO showed the federal government running a surplus at the end of FY2012 of $522 billion. The January 2003 revision cut the projected surplus to $451 billion. Those surplus numbers are a far cry from the actual deficit of $1.1 trillion.
In fact, if you can make out my pencil scrawlings at the bottom of the graphic, the CBO did not correctly predict the deficit or surplus for any fiscal year between 2002 and 2012.
Not to be dissuaded from their continued track record of failure, the CBO jumped on the prediction horse again and again. Five years later, the Post had another story about budget predictions. In this graphic, the CBO prediction competes for space with a prediction made by the Bush Administration.
As in 2003, this 2007 prediction is off by a country mile.
The CBO predicted that the federal government would run a deficit of $146 billion at the end of FY2012 while the administration of the 43rd President signaled a surplus of $61 billion. Again, numbers that are far removed from the actual of $1.1T.
I'm not sure why people continue to make predictions about the budget because they – for the most part – are wrong. Not just wrong, but completely and fantastically wrong.
However, with the start of FY2013, I'm sure the CBO and the current administration will try again and gaze into their cracked crystal budgetary ball.


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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Bad News Boyda Runs from the Truth
First term KS Dem. Rep. Nancy Boyda has said and done a lot of stupid things, but this may be her most inept move yet. Last week, when Retired Gen. Jack Keane was giving his honest assessment before members of congress, describing both the successes and failures in Iraq thus far. Well, the news was a little too positive for Nancy, so she rudely just walked out of the committee hearings.
Said Nancy: "Those kinds of comments will, in fact, show up in the media and further divide this country," Boyda said, adding, "I hear over and over again that the Marines are at war, the Army's at war and this country is at the mall."
So now we're at the point in our country where positive news out of Iraq will just "divide us", and should be avoided, rather than praised and assessed? We seem to have also reached the point in time where a congressional member can claim to have more knowledge of the "reality" of the situation on the ground than an experienced military general, despite having just taken a week trip to the battle-torn country while staying mostly in the confines of Baghdad's "safe zone."
Memo to Lynn Jenkins and Jim Ryun: One of you please save us from this case of complete ineptitude! For someone representing a district with 2 military bases, Boyda isn't that cognizant of her constituents.
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