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Kite Aerial Photography: Introduction
Testing to make sure the shutter is being triggered by the radio control before letting go. You can see the camera hanging from the kite line in the shadow.
Recent Photos
I've been interested in photography for as long as I can remember, and kite aerial photography (KAP) seemed like a natural progression. At least it did after a friend convinced me that it isn't completely ridiculous to suspend an $800+ camera from a kite. After seeing the potential in online galleries, I knew that I had to try it! I spent a few months researching equipment, technique, etc. before diving in.
Although I had not flown a kite since I was a kid, I quickly progressed from a single test flight to attaching my camera and hoping for the best. Over the past several years, I've learned a lot about controlling kites in various wind conditions and now I'm relatively at ease with my expensive gear hanging by a thread.
These web pages will serve as a photo gallery of select images, as well as a general information source on equipment, technique, and other related info. Be sure to see my 360° virtual reality (VR) panoramas taken from a kite's eye view.
What's New?
Asian Photography Magazine: May 1, 2010
I was featured in the "Pro Profile" section of Asian Photography's March 2010 issue, discussing my kite aerial photography, nighttime photography, and urban exploration.
Parkfield Shake Table: November 4, 2008
My friend D.V. Rogers installed an earthquake shake table in Parkfield, CA, the "earthquake capital of California." The art piece is an earthwork that shakes in near real-time in response to California earthquakes. USGS recently sent me down to document the artwork using kite aerial and nighttime photography.


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Microsoft Finds Living Room Draws a Crowd
Xbox Entertainment Hub Contends With Stiff Competition
High-tech giants have been battling for years over control of the living room. That war is far from over, but one company has grabbed a surprisingly strong position: Microsoft Corp.
The software maker has progressively transformed its Xbox from just a videogame machine into a multipurpose hub for entertainment delivered over the Internet. Now, the 11-year-old hardware line is facing its stiffest competition yet.

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When the Lord comes again, will He descend with the clouds, or will He come as secretly as a thief? How will you face the second coming of the Lord? Will you be too afraid of being misled by a false Christ that you will refuse to seek Him out, or will you act the part of the wise virgin and pay careful attention to God's voice? How should we "watch and wait" so that we will be able to welcome the Lord when He comes? Watch this short video!
Watch more on our Gospel Video Clips page, or in the related content below.
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2018-03-06 06:21:56
Do Jesus' last words "It is finished" upon the cross really mean that God's work was totally finished? Read this article to know its true meaning and master the key points of receiving God's salvation.
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By Xiaoxi Shufen was a co-worker of a church. During her fifteen years of believing in the Lord, she had been actively serving in the church and been yearning for the Lord to soon return and raise her up into the heavenly kingdom. She thought, "Now is already the end of the last days. All the prophecies in the Bible concerning the Lord's return have basically been fulfilled. Particularly in recent years, the four consecutive blood moons appeared, famines, plagues, typhoons, earthquakes, mudslides, and wars are occurring one after another in countries around the world. Some people even heard mysterious sound of trumpets in many places, which is earth-shattering." Shufen felt that the day of the Lord's return should be soon. To be able to welcome the Lord's return, she recently led the brothers and sisters to discuss the way for the Lord to return. Unexpectedly, they split on this matter, and two opinions were formed. They were at a stalemate. Some brothers and sisters said that the Lord would publicly appear with clouds to all people and all nations when He comes, as the Bible says, "He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him" (Revelation 1:7). But, some said that the Lord would come in secret to steal treasures, which was based on the prophecy in Revelation, "I will come on you as a thief" (Revelation 3:3). And even after several gatherings, they still couldn't reach a definite conclusion. Shufen was at her wits' end now, and she herself also couldn't figure out how the Lord would appear to man when He returns. Since both opinions of the brothers and sisters were based on the Bible, it was really hard to judge which of them was right. She was troubled so much that she couldn't eat or sleep well those days, totally being at a loss as to what to say to the brothers and sisters about this matter. After dinner, she took out the Bible again, expecting to receive the Lord's guidance and enlightenment on the truth concerning how the Lord would come in the last days. Her husband, as usual, was communicating with the brothers and sisters from other countries on Facebook. Suddenly, he called her, "Shufen, come and see this quickly. Brothers and sisters are discussing the way for the Lord to return." Hearing this, she immediately laid aside the Bible in her hands, and went up to the computer. A video, The Mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man was being shown on Facebook. The brothers' fellowship in the video was well-founded and attracted her attention all at once. After watching the video, she said with surprise, "Their fellowship is rather reasonable. It's the enlightenment from the Holy Spirit. They bear witness that the Lord will return in secret as the Son of man through incarnation to do the work of judgment starting from the house of God, make a group of overcomers before the disaster, and then appear to all people and all nations. Their fellowship is totally in line with the Bible!" Her husband nodded his approval, saying, "The Lord Jesus has said: 'Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not' (Luke 12:40), 'For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day. But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation' (Luke 17:24-25), 'And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him' (Matthew 25:6), 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me' (Revelation 3:20), 'Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame' (Revelation 16:15). Now all these prophecies have been fulfilled. The Lord Jesus repeatedly said 'the Son of man' in the prophecies. Does 'the Son of man' not refer to the incarnate Christ? And if the Lord comes back in a spiritual body like after His resurrection, then 'But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation' will be untenable, for only His flesh can suffer and be rejected, and His spiritual body cannot." Then Shufen said, "So it seems that the Lord is very likely to come in secret as the Son of man through incarnation, and then appear in public. In this case, it doesn't contradict the saying 'he comes with clouds' prophesied in the Bible. If the Lord comes in secret as the Son of man through incarnation, it is hidden yet practical. How wise it is! But how can we know the Lord Jesus if He becomes flesh when He returns?" Her husband replied, "Do you remember the Lord's prophecies? He said: 'I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come' (John 16:12-13), 'He that rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day' (John 12:48), 'For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son' (John 5:22), 'And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man' (John 5:27). These scriptures imply that the Lord Jesus will be incarnated as the Son of man to express the truth to do the work of judgment. And 'the Spirit of truth,' I think, may refer to the incarnate Christ who will speak words, so those who can hear and recognize the voice of God will behold the return of the Lord. Just as the Lord Jesus said, 'And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him' (Matthew 25:6). So, that all depends on whether we are the wise virgins who can know the voice of God." "So let's seek this aspect of the truth from the brothers and sisters who posted the video!" After they spoke out their wish with one voice, they smiled. Shufen's days of gloom were finally dispelled. If you want to know more about the mysteries of the second coming of Jesus, learn more on our Mysteries of Second Coming page, or in the following content: Those Who Recognize God's Voice Are Wise Virgins
2017-10-29 19:04:12
By Xiaoya, Canada At the age of six or seven, once when my eldest uncle and aunt came to my home to visit my grandma, I saw my aunt talk to herself, and laugh one moment and cry another, of which I was extremely afraid. With curiosity, I asked my mother what had happened to my eldest aunt. She said with a sigh, "Your aunt is ill. There's something wrong with her brain." Later I was told by my family that in order to have her disease cured, my eldest uncle once sought doctors and remedies everywhere and had spent all the savings. However, she never got better. On this account, my eldest uncle always drowned his sorrows in drink alone. In the summer of 2004, my father and his younger brother brought back a few brothers and sisters who believed in the Lord. At our home, they led us to sing the hymns of praising the Lord and preached the Lord Jesus' gospel to us. They said, "The Lord Jesus is loving and merciful. He was once crucified for redeeming mankind. As long as we man cry out to Him, He will bestow His boundless grace and blessings upon us…." Only later did I know that my eldest uncle and his household had long believed in the Lord. And because my aunt recovered from the illness not long after they believed in Him, my father brought back the brothers and sisters under the Lord to preach the gospel to us. At hearing the news, I felt the Lord's deeds were so wonderful that my aunt's illness, which cost much money yet didn't get cured, should be gone miraculously through her belief in Him. Thus, our whole family began to believe in the Lord Jesus, and every Sunday I would go to the church for meetings with my family. At that time, there were lots of brothers and sisters in the church and they were all of great faith. Whichever brothers or sisters were experiencing difficulties, everyone else would help them. I was quite fond of such a church. Nonetheless, good times didn't last long. Since 2006, I found there were fewer and fewer people who attended meetings. Among those present, some did not concentrate their attention while the pastor was preaching; some dozed off or played with their mobile phones at meetings. And some even brought their children to the church, so that the others were unable to quiet their hearts before the Lord and worship Him due to the noise made by the children during meetings. When giving sermons, the pastor just talked the same platitudes. Even more, seeing the brothers and sisters bring their children there to disturb meetings, he never persuaded them with love, but rather reproached them. Gradually, there appeared envy and strife in the church. Once, Pastor Hong spoke of Matthew 6:30, "Why, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" While speaking, he pointed at the believers sitting in the audience and said harshly, "You of little faith, you busy yourselves with matters of the flesh all day; that is, you have no faith in the Lord…." Feeling that he was lectured lecturing the brothers and sisters in a condescending attitude, Brother Li of our church, then gave him suggestions on the spot. However, Pastor Hong not only refused to accept, but rather, in a sneering tone, said that Brother Li did not compare with him in biblical knowledge, maintaining that his own preaching was right. Excluded and ridiculed by him, Brother Li no longer attended meetings. Another time, I was told by my father that Pastor Hong fought with the pastor of the county town for the followers, having completely lost the likeness of a believer in the Lord. The desolation of the church we confronted greatly disappointed my parents and me. I thought to myself: Doesn't the Lord teach us to be forbearing, patient, and help others with a loving heart? The pastor's knowledge of the Bible is more than ours, and moreover, these verses are what he is always talking about in the church, but why can't he practice the teachings of the Lord? Why does the Lord not do something about the pastor who betrays His teachings? Why is the faith of the brothers and sisters gradually growing cold? Is there no work of the Holy Spirit in our church? Is the Lord not with us? Then in 2007, our whole family moved to the county town and we attended meetings in a nearby cathedral. At first I thought the cathedral in the county town must be more prosperous than our former church. But beyond my expectation, it was as desolate as our former one. A great many followers' attending meetings merely observed rituals; they didn't listen to sermons attentively at all. And the pastor preached the same old things, which had no new light. I could not feel the Holy Spirit's work at all, thirsty and weak in spirit, and couldn't touch the Lord's presence when praying. I didn't understand: Why is the cathedral in the county town also so desolate? Why does the Lord no longer work in the churches? When I was at my weakest, I could only pour out my misery to God and always sang the hymn alone silently, "Jesus leads me, I am really happy. Led by the Lord, peace comes to my heart, regardless of day or night…." I expected the Lord Jesus to come back soon to change the desolation of our church. Until one day in February of 2013, my whole family were going back to our hometown from the county town for the Spring Festival. My mother and younger brother went first by bus, and I took my father's motorcycle home. On our way back, my father first brought me to a sister's home where several sisters received us with hospitality. Although it was our first meeting, I felt them quite kind and friendly. After we were introduced by my father, Sister Chen Wei, one of the sisters, took out a computer and played several hymns. Then she sang cheerfully to the music, "Almighty God incarnate, we sing loud praises to You. You bring us into the kingdom life. We kingdom people are at Your rich banquet, enjoying Your words, enjoying Your words. … Our church life is so lovely, and all of the saints have come alive. We serve and supply one another and our life grows rapidly. We act by the truth, not by emotion, and God's word dwells in our heart, becoming our reality, becoming our reality. … Meeting with brothers and sisters is the most joyful time. We speak God's words and share experiences, coordinated in the church. Eating and drinking God's word enlightens us, and we feel content, living in God's love, living in God's love" ("Our Church Life Is So Lovely" in Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs). The cheerful hymn activated my heart. I felt it sounded very pleasant and its lyrics were also good. The life of the church spoken about in the hymn, where the brothers and sisters praised God together and shared experiences with each other, was the most joyful yet rare indeed. I couldn't help thinking of the desolation of the churches, and there was a little sadness within my heart unconsciously. I said to Sister Chen Wei, "In the beginning, the brothers and sisters in our church were filled with faith and love, and I was also very willing to attend meetings and read the Bible. But gradually, I found their faith and love were no longer as full as they were before, and I could not feel the presence of the Lord when praying. Furthermore, the pastors could not keep the Lord's teachings but have not experienced discipline from the Lord for their actions not after His heart. I really don't know the reason behind these.…" After hearing my words, she said with a smile, "Now, there has appeared a desolate scene in every church. We all know that we are in the late period of the last days. The Lord Jesus once prophesied, 'And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold' (Matthew 24:12). Lawlessness in the world of religion of the last days is emerging in endlessly in the churches. The pastors and elders don't practice the Lord's words or follow His way, but only preach the biblical letters and doctrines as well as theological theories everywhere to protect their own status and reputation. They don't exalt or testify the Lord at all, but instead, merely show themselves off and testify about themselves to make others admire them, drawing people into their own presence. The believers who listen to their preaching for years haven't gained any transformation in their life disposition, let alone any knowledge of God; rather, they often live in misunderstandings and complaints against God, as well as negativity and weakness. The pastors and elders have turned the churches into places of religious ritual so that people don't understand what the belief in God means and regard it as a kind of faith. Many just observe regulations and rites to attend church services every week, and many others follow worldly trends, living in carnal pleasures…. These pastors and leaders have completely departed from the Lord's way, thereby detested and eliminated by God. This is mainly why the religious world has lost the work of the Holy Spirit. But also, it's because the Lord Jesus has already returned. He is incarnated to do the work of judgment beginning from the house of God, and thereafter the work of the Holy Spirit has turned to His work of judging and purifying man in the last days. Only by keeping up with His new work can people receive the work of the Holy Spirit. Those who still remain in the Lord Jesus' redemptive work of the Age of Grace and stay in the religious places have lost the work of the Holy Spirit and fallen into dark desolation. Accordingly, they will have the conditions that they do not attend meetings but feel no blame within, commit sins without discipline from God, cannot feel God when praying, always live in negativity and weakness and their heart stay away from God, etc. This is just as in the end of the Age of Law, the temple was desolate. And the people of that time sold oxen, sheep, and doves there yet didn't feel guilty; even those priests who served God there throughout the year broke the law and made improper sacrifices on the altar but never experienced discipline from God. It was not that God did not see their actions; it was that there had been so many lawless acts done by the Jewish religious leaders of the time, and thus the whole Judaism was already forsaken by the Holy Spirit and all men were living in sin. In addition, God was personally incarnated and started the redemptive work in the Age of Grace under the name of the Lord Jesus. Those who followed the Lord Jesus all lived under God's guidance, yet those who still remained in the Old Testament Age of Law were not the objects of God's work. Naturally they received no discipline although they committed sins. Today, God has come and is called Almighty God. He has done an uplifted work based on the work of the Lord Jesus. Not keeping up with His footsteps, the whole religious world has fallen into darkness, lost the Holy Spirit's work, and failed to gain provision of the living water of life, thereby living in desolation and thirst. This exactly fulfills the words in Amos 8:11, which say, 'Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.' Therefore, when God comes for His new work, we man can only receive the supply of living water of life by keeping pace with His work; provided we cannot keep up with the Holy Spirit's work, then we will be forsaken and eliminated by God's work." Hearing the sister say that the Lord Jesus has come back and done a new work, I was shocked then: Has the Lord returned? What the sister spoke of was something that I had never heard but was quite practical. Moreover, I heard for the first time that someone could explain the source of the desolation of the churches so clearly; even the pastors could not make it. Her words made me know that the reason why the churches became desolate was that God has done a new work and we had fallen behind since we were still attending meetings in the churches. Then I recalled what the Bible says, "These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes" (Revelation 14:4). "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches" (Revelation 2:7). If it is really God's new work, only if I hurry up and follow it can I receive the work of the Holy Spirit. However, in our hurry to leave for home, we had to bid good-bye for a little while. When the time came to part, we exchanged our telephone numbers and agreed on keeping in touch later. On the way home, I kept thinking of the matter that the sister had talked to me concerning the Lord's return, as well as their behavior. Although it was our first meeting, their enthusiasm made me feel that they were no strangers to me. Thus I decided to investigate God's new work carefully. After the start of the new school semester, Sister Chen Wei gave me a call and made an appointment to have a face-to-face talk with me. I agreed readily. In my contact with the brothers and sisters, I felt they had saintly decency in their words and actions, living out a good humanity, being quite devout to God, behaving honestly, and being concerned about and caring for me just like my family. From the bottom of my heart, I realized it was out of God's love. Hence I told them my puzzle, "Now the whole religious world has lost the Holy Spirit's work and fallen into darkness. If Almighty God is really the Lord Jesus who has come for His new work, then only by hurrying up and following the footsteps of the Lamb can we receive the Holy Spirit's work, right?" Then the sisters shared God's words with me, which had my thirsty heart nourished and made me have more understanding of God's work as well. One of them read two passages of God's words for me, "The work done at present has pushed forward the work of the Age of Grace; that is, the work in the entire six-thousand-year management plan has moved forward. Though the Age of Grace has ended, the work of God has progressed further. Why do I say time and again that this stage of work builds upon the Age of Grace and the Age of Law? This means that the work of this day is a continuation of the work done in the Age of Grace and an uplifting of that done in the Age of Law. The three stages are closely interconnected and linked one to the next." "After the work of Jehovah, Jesus became flesh to do His work amongst man. His work was not carried out in isolation, but built upon the work of Jehovah. It was work for a new age after God had concluded the Age of Law. Similarly, after the work of Jesus ended, God still continued His work for the next age, because the entire management of God is always progressing forward. When the old age passes, it will be replaced by a new age, and once the old work has been completed, a new work will continue the management of God. This incarnation is God's second incarnation following the completion of Jesus' work. Of course, this incarnation does not occur independently, but is the third stage of work after the Age of Law and the Age of Grace. … Though Jesus did much work among man, He only completed the redemption of all mankind and became man's sin offering, and did not rid man of all his corrupt disposition. Fully saving man from the influence of Satan not only required Jesus to take on the sins of man as the sin offering, but also required God to do greater work to completely rid man of his disposition, which has been corrupted by Satan. And so, after man was forgiven his sins, God has returned to flesh to lead man into the new age, and begun the work of chastisement and judgment, and this work has brought man into a higher realm. All those who submit under His dominion shall enjoy higher truth and receive greater blessings. They shall truly live in the light, and shall gain the truth, the way, and the life." Then the sister fellowshiped, "In the beginning, God created the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve. At that time, He did not carry out His management work among man. Later on, since our ancestors ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thereby committed sins, then God started His work of saving mankind, accordingly bringing the three stages of the work of the Age of Law, the Age of Grace, and the Age of Kingdom. These three stages of work are in closely connected links and each of them is carried out upon the foundation of the previous stage. For example, in the Age of Law, Jehovah God led His new-born mankind to live on earth through issuing laws and commandments. If people abided by the laws, they would be blessed by God; if they offended them, they could atone for their sins by offering sacrifice. However, in the late phase of the Age of Law, people could no longer keep the laws, but rather were overwhelmed by sins, unable to break free from the bondage of sin; thus people all faced the danger of being executed by the laws. Then according to the needs of mankind, God carried out the work of the Age of Grace. He was incarnated the first time to be nailed to the cross for redeeming mankind. From then on, as long as people believed in and relied on the Lord Jesus, prayed in the name of Him, confessed and repented their sins, they would be forgiven of their sins and not be condemned to death by the laws anymore. Yet as the root of their sin hasn't been solved, people are still living in the fallen cycle of sinning by day and confessing at night. The Bible says, 'For the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23). So, in order to save man thoroughly, God does a work in the Age of Kingdom to remove sin on the basis of the Lord Jesus' redemptive work. He becomes flesh once again to judge man through His expression of words, making us see the truth about our corruption by Satan, so that we can break away from sin, attain the transformation in our disposition, and thus receive His salvation in the end. God is always new and never old. Every time when He does a stage of new work, He will bring man new ways of practice. Only by keeping up with His new work can man receive the personal guidance of Him. Whereas, as for those who don't follow God's new work but hold on His former work, they have no higher practice and cannot receive the work of the Holy Spirit. This is the basic reason why the whole religious world is desolate while there is the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church of Almighty God." The sister's fellowship enabled me to have more knowledge of God's three stages of work and realize more clearly that only by closely following the footsteps of His work can we man receive His guidance and be saved by Him in the end. Such an understanding was something that I had never heard before in my years of believing in the Lord in religion. Listening to the fellowship of the sisters from the Church of Almighty God, I gained a lot and got much released in spirit. I am quite grateful to God for having chosen me in the last days. What made me more gratified was that my mother also accepted Almighty God's work before long. Now, our whole family have followed the footsteps of the Lamb and returned to our original condition of believing in the Lord. Fervent in our hearts, we follow God with the utmost confidence. We read God's words, pursue the truth and salvation, living in the joy of being led by Him. Thanks be to God! All the glory goes to Almighty God! The End. Recommended: Why are so many churches hungry and desolate? I Have Drunk the Water of the River of Life
2017-11-30 03:12:02
By Li Xiao Across the blue sky dotted with a few wispy white clouds, some birds flew in a beautiful arc at times. Huizi and Yingxin wandered to the park. They lied on the green lawn, breathing the fresh air and talking about the past happily. Suddenly, Yingxin turned herself sideways to Huizi and said: "Huizi, telling stories was your favorite before. When you were preaching the gospel, the parables you told achieved pretty good results. I was your big fan! Please tell me one more today!" Looking at Yingxin, Huizi nodded with a smile, and then told a small story she had read on the Internet vividly. A beetle flew onto a reed by the river, while a buffalo was grazing nearby. Accidentally, the buffalo swallowed the beetle along with the reed. Then the beetle came to a place which was totally strange to it, feeling terribly uncomfortable. As it was walking along, it met a hookworm. The hookworm asked the beetle where it was from. After the beetle introduced itself, the hookworm did not believe what it said nor believed that there was another world besides the tripe. No matter how patiently the beetle told what it had experienced and seen, the hookworm still did not believe but clung to its own notions and imaginations, thinking that the beetle was telling a lie to cheat it. Thus the hookworm walked away angrily before the beetle finished its words. After hearing this story, Yingxin laughed heartily and said: "This story is really interesting. How shortsighted, stubborn, and arrogant the hookworm was! It lived in the narrow tripe and was unable to see the world outside. Yet it refused to listen to the beetle's description, and defined the beetle was talking big with its poor knowledge. Alas! I really feel sorry for the hookworm!" With that, she shook her head again and again. Huizi said earnestly: "That's right! After reading this story, I keep thinking that we have the same problem which exists in the hookworm." "What do you mean?" Yingxin looked at Huizi curiously. "Yingxin, we have believed in the Lord for a long time. While we were studying at the seminary, the pastor told us, 'God's words and work are all in the Bible, outside the Bible there are no more words of God, and anything that exceeds the Bible is heresy. ...' Over these years, we all had the same thought. However, recently I went through lots of literature on the Bible, and have had some knowledge of how the Bible was formed. I feel that our viewpoint seems not right," answered Huizi with her brows furrowed. "I have never thought about this. Huizi, what is your viewpoint at the moment? I want to hear what you think. Tell me quickly, please! So I can use it as a guide," said Yingxin, looking at Huizi confusedly and eagerly. Huizi nodded, looking at Yingxin, and said: "It was around AD 300 when the Bible was put together by mankind. In the compilation of the Bible, there occurred heated debates among the religious leaders. Moreover, a part of God's words conveyed by the prophets were omitted by the compilers, and they were not included in the Bible. Furthermore, let's consider: During the three and a half years when the Lord Jesus worked on earth, He said countless words and did so much work. However, all of the Lord's words recorded in the Four Gospels merely amount to a normal person's fellowship in several hours. Compared with the Lord Jesus' preaching and work in the three and a half years, that is only the tip of the iceberg and merely a drop in the ocean. As John recorded: 'And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written' (John 21:25). This proves that not all of the Lord Jesus' words and work were recorded in the Bible. So, are the prophecies of the prophets that were omitted and the unrecorded Lord Jesus' words during His three-and-a-half-year preaching and work God's words or not? And, does our viewpoint that all God's work and words are recorded in the Bible accord with the facts? "After listening to your fellowship, I understand the viewpoint that all of God's work and words are recorded in the Bible is wrong," said Yingxin, with her expression turning serious. Then Huizi continued: "The pastors and elders often told us that everything beyond the Bible was a heresy. I had the same viewpoint before. However, through studying the Bible recently, I found there was something wrong with this viewpoint. In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth and all things, there was no human, not to mention the Bible. God used a flood to destroy the world, burned Sodom and Gomorrah.... When God did this much, the Bible didn't exist either. Besides, God leading the Israelites out of Egypt, decreeing laws and so on are all recorded by Moses after God has done that. It is impossible for him to record in advance the work that God has not yet done. It is the same case with those books of the prophets. Only after God has revealed His words to the prophets did they write them down. They could not do that previously before God told them. So tell me, did God's work and words come first or did the Bible come first?" Yingxin looked at Huizi with staring eyes, thought for a while, and said: "I think God's words and work came first before they were able to be recorded and compiled into books. That matches up with historical facts and objective laws. Huizi nodded and said: "I think so too. From the accounts of the Bible, we can know that when Jesus came to do work, there was only the Old Testament but no New Testament. It was Jesus who brought forth the gospel of the kingdom of heaven and taught man to confess his sins and repent to God. Moreover, He healed the sick and cast out demons, fed five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish, and performed many signs and wonders. In the Old Testament there was only the prophecies of the Lord Jesus' work but no detailed account of it. It was not until the Lord Jesus was crucified and finished His redemption work that the apostles recorded His work and words, organized them into the books of gospel, and compiled them into the New Testament. From the compilation of the Bible I found that it is just a record of God's work: The things recorded in the Old Testament are Jehovah God's work in Israel, and what is recorded in the New Testament is the work of the Lord Jesus during the Age of Grace. Whatever work God does is according to His plan of managing mankind, not the Bible. The Bible cannot represent God. Consequently, the statement 'everything beyond the Bible is a heresy' is untenable." Yingxin nodded, and mused: "It sounds reasonable. It seems that the viewpoint 'God's words and work are in the Bible, there are no words of God outside of the Bible, and everything beyond the Bible is a heresy. …' is completely invalid. If we keep holding on to these conceptions and imaginations, are we not like the hookworm in the story? There was another beautiful world outside the tripe, but the hookworm only believed its own notions instead of the beetle' words, so it would not see the beautiful sun and moon in the end." Huizi replied: "Right! We human beings are just creatures, and how can we fathom God who created the heavens and the earth and all things? Take the earliest Pharisees for example. They had been waiting eagerly for the arriving of Messiah, but when the Lord Jesus came, they used the laws of the Old Testament to condemn Him, and furthermore, joined hands with the Roman government to crucify the merciful Lord Jesus. In the end, they were punished and cursed by God and lost His salvation. But those who were willing to put aside their notions and longed for and sought the truth, they obtained the Holy Spirit's guidance and enlightenment and followed the footsteps of the Lamb. From the Lord Jesus' words, they recognized Jesus as Christ, the coming Messiah prophesied in the books of the prophets. Hence, they received God's grace and were living in His blessings. Today, the Lord Jesus' gospel has been spread to the ends of the universe! So …" Yingxin interposed: "So, when the words and work of God which we hear are not the same as what we imagine, we should seek humbly and not hold on to our own notions and imaginations arrogantly and stubbornly just as the hookworm. Only when we learn to seek humbly can we welcome the Lord's return. Huizi, would you agree with that?" "Amen!" answered Huizi, looking at Yingxin with a happy smile. A flock of birds were joyfully hovering in the air. The sky was so blue, and the grass so green. Looking at everything before their eyes, Huizi and Yingxin were longing for the future … Do you want to know more about how to welcome Jesus' return? Learn more on our Prepare for Jesus' Return page in the section Devotional Topics, or in the following content: 2 Imperative Ways to Get Ready for Jesus' Return How to Hear God's Voice and Welcome Second Coming of Jesus Christ In What Way Will the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Happen?
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UMass honors students are intensively engaged in their major fields of study and, indeed, make excellent use of the University's departmental offerings. As a Commonwealth Honors College student, however, you will be expected to reach beyond the boundaries of your academic major and join in scholarly conversation with students and faculty from disciplines other than your own.
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A $1 million grant from the DTE Energy Foundation is the latest show of confidence in the Michigan Science Center.
The grant, paid out over five years, will support science, technology, engineering and math programs for children and families.
It's part of broader support from the DTE Energy Foundation to fund STEM education initiatives that help prepare the state's future workforce, foundation Chairman Fred Shell, who is also vice president of corporate and government affairs for DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE), said in a news release.
The new grant builds on a $250,000 commitment from DTE in 2012 to support the reopening of the science center and prior in-kind and cash support to establish the DTE Energy Sparks Theater, a live demonstration area at the center.
The grant is the second announced for the Michigan Science Center in the past week. The William Davidson Foundation last week said it made a $500,000 grant to the science center during the fourth quarter.
The center closed out its first year after reopening with a $600,000 operating excess and nearly $1.7 million in reserves.
CEO Tonya Matthews, who joined the science center last fall, said in December that she plans to expand the center's outreach by taking its programs to schools, local science centers, libraries and community centers around the state.


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Hijacking the Economy
Washington is as mute about calling out Wall St. for its massive fraud and extortion of the U.S. Treasury as many are vocal about demands that the low and middle income pay for the bailouts and tax breaks granted to wealthy elites. The 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC was yet another gift to those who crashed the economy without accountability. Contributing to a 40-year upward transfer of wealth, corporatists have practiced union-busting and mortgage fraud, while targeting wages, pensions and health care of the working class. Employers have realized all the gains of worker productivity for the past three decades, as wages have remained flat.
Writes college teacher Paul Buchheit, author of American Wars: Illusions and Realities, the wealthiest individuals and corporations have become masters of tax avoidance, to the tune of $3 trillion dollars of deflected taxes annually, through subsidies, exclusions, special deductions, exemptions, credits, regressive taxation, capital gains, underpayments, offshore tax havens and loopholes. He notes that, despite doubling corporate profits in less than ten years, federal taxes paid by corporations dropped to an average of 10% since the 2008 recession, from a previous average of 22.5% – a shortfall of $250 billion a year.
Having extorted trillions of dollars from taxpayers and created a permanent bailout state built on a foundation of lies, Wall St. banks have exacerbated inequality and greed that spurs increased risk-taking, reports Matt Taibi. The promise of relief for mortgage holders as a qualification for bank bailouts quickly fell by the wayside. Instead, bailout funds were used to subsidize and consolidate even more power in financial institutions through mergers, making them "way-too-big-to-fail," while government spokespersons like Timothy Geithner made the implicit promise that banks would always be bailed out, no matter how corrupt their behavior. Taibi writes, "America's six largest banks – Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley – now have a combined 14,420 subsidiaries, making them so big as to be effectively beyond regulation."
Bankster high rollers play the economy like crazed gamblers indemnified by endless taxpayer bailouts, while promoting dire deficit narratives for the purpose of raiding programs serving the low and middle income. Each manufactured crisis, from the debt ceiling to the fiscal cliff, has become an occasion for the wealthy to hold the 99% hostage, to extort more money in the form of tax subsidies and tax breaks that balloon corporate profits and bonuses, while propelling the working class in a race to the bottom.
Every deficit-reduction proposal from Simpson-Bowles to that of the Fix-the-Debt CEOs has carried the intent of lowering taxes for corporations and the wealthy, while shifting the burden of deficit reduction onto working lower and middle-class families. There has been no real effort to create living-wage jobs that would, in fact, reduce the deficit. Platitudes about bigger tax breaks for so-called "job creators" are further excuse to hijack the economy for the few.
Dating at least from Ronald Reagan's administration, inducing deficits has been a Republican strategy for redistribution of wealth upward. Reagan's budget director David Stockman has acknowledged that Reagan federal budget deficits were an intentional strategy to cut domestic spending, and ultimately to pressure Congress to cut New Deal programs. Wealth transfer under Reagan took the form of an inflated defense budget and cuts to domestic programs, as well as increasing regressive payroll taxes for the working poor and middle class while slashing the top income tax rate from 70% to 28%.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker also transferred wealth upward, creating a deficit with large tax breaks for businesses and the wealthy, then subsequently demanding pay and benefit cuts for public employees.
Corporate Entitlements
Multimillionaire CEOs who have often underfunded or provided no pensions for employees are agitating for cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits in service of deficit reduction – though Social Security is separately funded and contributes nothing to the deficit. Medicare and Social Security are "earned benefit insurance" programs in which working people are invested. Both can be improved without cutting benefits or increasing recipient costs. As Robert Reich observes, Medicare-for-All, with the potential to save more than $400 billion annually, is the solution for, not the source of, inflationary health care costs. Instead of doing what's best for the people, taxpayers are forced to subsidize commercial for-profit insurance companies to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Medicare Part D subsidizes the pharmaceutical industry with hundreds of billions of dollars by prohibiting Medicare from negotiating bulk drug rates, like the VA does.
A 2012 report from the Institute for Policy Studies cites 54 CEOs with combined pension assets of more than $649 in their companies respective executive retirement plans. Many of the CEOs are active with "Fix the Debt," which has raised more than $60 million, in addition to generous funding by Peter G. Peterson's foundation, to lobby for austerity for the masses and corporate tax breaks for wealthy elite. The report, A Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts, reveals that less than 60 percent of 71 public companies offer employee pension plans, and of 41 companies that do, 39 of them have underfunded their workers' pension plans by a total of more than $100 billion.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in November told CBS news that we need to "lower people's expectations" because "we cannot afford 'entitlements'." Blankfein and 10 Goldman Sachs multimillionaire executives have not lowered their expectations — at the end of 2012 they were granted $65 million in stock bonuses a month early, so they could avoid tax increases at the first of the year. Blankfein and two other executives reportedly each received $8.4 million apiece in Goldman stock.
Corporate media have frequently sought out "Fix the Debt" CEOs for "expert" economic commentary. David Cote of Honeywell told Scott Pelley of CBS News that the "big nut" of deficit reduction is Medicare and Medicaid, that they are going to "crush" the system. Even as Meet the Press' David Gregory opined that "CEOs are really upset with the White House," and solicited Cote's opinion about how the president could "rebuild an alliance with corporations," Cote reiterated that "entitlements" are the "ticking time bomb that's going to kill us."
Cote himself is reported to hold retirement assets of more than $78 million, with anticipated monthly retirement payments of $428,092, even though Honeywell's employee pension plan is underfunded by $2.8 billion. Twelve of the CEOs cited in the IPS report can each anticipate a monthly retirement check of $110,000 for life, compared to the average monthly Social Security payment of $1,230 at the beginning of 2012.
"Fiscal Cliff" Bill: More Deficit-Inducing Gravy for Wealthy Elite
In addition to making permanent many of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest, the "fiscal cliff bill" – the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 – granted additional billions in tax relief for corporate elite, including $1.6 billion to Goldman Sachs for tax-free financing of its new Manhattan headquarters, thus inflating the deficit about which Washington purports to care.
Three senators who have played key roles in federal health care financing inserted into the fiscal cliff bill a last-minute sweetheart deal for Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company. With 74 Washington lobbyists, Amgen lobbied aggressively for the measure to delay for two years Medicare cost-cutting controls that would place price restraints on kidney dialysis drugs, including Sensipar, made by Amgen. Sensipar had previously been granted a 2-year reprieve from a more cost-effective Medicare payment system. The fiscal cliff bill exclusion added an additional two years, saving Amgen up to $500 million more, to be picked up by Medicare.
Two of the three senators facilitating the eleventh-hour deal head up the Senate Finance Committee for their respective parties – Senator Max Baucus (D-Mt) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Ut). Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell also actively promoted the Amgen provision. In addition to receiving substantial political contributions from Amgen employees and its PAC, all three senators have current or former staff members who have worked or currently work for Amgen. Though the company is not mentioned by name in the bill, Amgen's CEO tipped off investment analysts of the anticipated windfall. Only weeks before the deal, Amgen had paid criminal and civil penalties of $762 million for illegally marketing an anti-anemia drug – two-thirds of that penalty will now be refunded by taxpayers.
Ironically, primary "relief" of the so-called "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012" was directed at the exceedingly wealthy. Right-wing think tank language hailing "job creators" and "pro-growth tax code" is actually code for ever greater tax breaks for the 1%. Ending the "regulatory assault" on business is short-hand for permitting unfettered criminal profiteering, while the 99% are named entitlement "takers" – the source of "runaway spending." Simultaneously, corporate elite assume the right to continuous financial bailouts.
Media Megaphone for Washington & Wall St. Elite
A symbiotic relationship exists between Wall Streeters and corporate media, who echo demands of the elite that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and other social programs be cut. Wealthy broadcasters fail to relate to low and middle income folks any better than the lions of high finance.
NBC correspondent Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press December 30 asserted that "middle class" should be redefined to include incomes of $250,000, because, $250,000 "doesn't make you rich in large urban/suburban areas," when putting 2 kids through college at $60,000 and possibly caring for a dependent parent. Nevertheless, middle class is generally defined as incomes of $30,000 to $120,000 – below the radar of many Washington insiders. Brokaw echoed D.C. political wisdom that the president needs to give up Medicare and Social Security benefits for "deficit reduction" – perpetuating the right-wing lie that Social Security contributes to the deficit, or that it is going broke.
Brokaw repeated the false contention that people are living longer, necessitating raising the age of Social Security eligibility to 69, and ultimately 70. Nevertheless, research demonstrates that only the affluent are living longer, with "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy that parallel the growing income inequality over the past two decades.
In terms of Sen. Alan Simpson's allusion to budget "minnows and whales," economist Robert A. Johnson rates Social Security as a minnow, and money in politics as the "Moby Dick of the American budget problem", the source of enormous military pork and unresolved financial corruption.
Corruption and the stranglehold of corporate self-interest dominates Washington, serving unabashed greed. Acting as citizen lobbyists, the people must demand an end to crony capitalism and accountability from those who seek to lead. A start would be passage of a constitutional amendment rejecting the notions that corporations are people with human rights and the right to unlimited campaign spending, and that money is speech.


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Legal battle looms over 157 asylum seekers
Lawyers for 157 asylum seekers brought to the Australian mainland insist their clients are not economic migrants despite claims to the contrary by the Abbott government.
The asylum seekers, who were detained at sea on a Customs ship for three weeks, are now at the Curtin detention centre in Western Australia after being flown there from Cocos Island on Sunday.
Their lawyers were granted permission on Monday to pursue a claim of false imprisonment on their behalf and will seek compensation for their detention, although they won't say for how much.
But a High Court hearing to determine if the government had the power to intercept their boat and transport them somewhere other than Australia now won't go ahead next week as planned.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison declared this a "positive outcome" for the government.
"The government has co-operated fully with the court in relation to this matter and abided by all undertakings willingly provided to the Court and will continue to do so," he said in a statement.
But his claim that the majority of the 157 aboard - including 50 children - are economic migrants is being challenged by the asylum seekers' lawyers.
Consular officials from India are on their way to the centre to conduct identity checks.
The legal spokesman for the asylum seekers, Hugh de Kretser, said it is "inappropriate" for Indian government officials to access the asylum seekers before their protection claims have been assessed.
"It is incorrect as the minister said this morning that they are economic migrants," he told reporters outside the Melbourne court.
"The government has admitted in its court documents and the minister has admitted in his court documents that they have claimed refugee protection and the case before the high court is proceeding on that basis."
Mr Morrison said the asylum seekers are ineligible to apply for a protection visa in Australia
He has also rejected suggestions the asylum seekers are fleeing persecution in India, saying the nation is "safe".
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne said Indian officials shouldn't be involved in assessing the asylum seekers.
"People being brought to Australia need to have their claims assessed in Australia, by Australian authorities," she told reporters in Hobart.
The group's boat was intercepted 27km from Christmas Island on July 7.
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Maximum takeoff weight concerns could impede MRJ90 and E175-E2 sales in U.S. market
Airlines have high hopes for the next generation of regional jets, which are larger and promise to have much lower unit costs than earlier and smaller models. But U.S. carriers have to face the question of whether their pilots will actually allow them to fly some of these aircraft types.
Mitsubishi Aircraft and Embraer face a potentially hefty problem in the U.S. market with the new regional jets they are developing: a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) that could prevent regional carriers from operating the jets for their major airline partners.
To boost—and protect—their sales in the U.S., manufacturers will have to either trim the weight, change the certificated weight for the U.S. market or hope for a change in pilots' union collective bargaining agreements.
Almost all of the union contracts with the major U.S. carriers—with Alaska Airlines being one notable exception—forbid them from outsourcing flying to any aircraft certificated in the U.S. with an MTOW exceeding 86,000 lb. But the specifications Embraer just unveiled for its E175-E2 show an MTOW of 97,731 lb. Mitsubishi Aircraft's specifications for the MRJ90 indicate an MTOW of 87,303 lb. for the standard model, 90,378 lb. for the extended range and 94,358 lb. for the long range, and its MR70LR is about 2,600 lb. over the contractual maximum.
That could be a big problem, because regional carrier operations are the manufacturers' target market in the U.S. Even St. George, Utah-based SkyWest Inc.—which has placed firm orders for 100 Mitsubishi MRJ90LR and 100 Embraer 175-E2 jets, plus 100 options on each—acknowledges the importance of the issue.
North America has historically been by far the largest regional jet market, and even with other regions catching up it remains the leader. In its 20-year forecast of demand for 70-100 seat regional jets, Mitsubishi Aircraft predicts 31% of the 5,280-aircraft market will be in North America. It expects 20% of sales to be in Europe, 20% in Asia Pacific and 14% in Latin America, with the remainder in the Commonwealth of Independent States (7%), Africa (6%) and the Middle East (2%).
There are scope clauses or similar restrictions made in collective bargaining agreements in many parts of the world, but the limitations are probably still strongest in the market that otherwise liberalized first: U.S. mainline pilots are very reluctant to give ground on scope because they believe outsourced flying costs them jobs. Some U.S. airlines still have pilots on furlough, which can make extracting more concessions to allow such expansion of outsourcing even more difficult.
In years past, pilots' unions in the U.S. agreed to loosen scope clauses only under pressure, either when their airline was in dire financial straits or in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, allowing carriers to void union contracts with judicial approval if the pilots failed to make enough concessions. That is how the relaxation to allow 76-seat aircraft—up from a 50-seat cap—started, when Northwest Airlines used its bankruptcy court leverage to force that change.
More recently, however, some pilots' unions have given ground on outsourced flying for larger aircraft in exchange for a new cap on the overall number of regional jets or other "sweeteners," such as a guaranteed ratio between mainline and regional carrier operations. That is a tradeoff the airlines are willing to make because they are eager to unload their 50-seat regional jets and replace them with the larger-capacity aircraft.
Airlines also can use pay increases or other benefit or work rule improvements to try to win concessions from the unions on scope.
SkyWest currently is planning to operate the MRJ90 in a 76-seat, two-class configuration to comply with scope clause restrictions on seating capacity for outsourced flying. But the airline retains the option to convert its order to the smaller MRJ70, and SkyWest CFO Michael Kraupp says Mitsubishi will need to "thin" the MRJ90 to certify it at a lower MTOW.
"This is an open item and we will have to see how things develop with scope clauses over the next four years," Kraupp adds.
As for the E175-E2 order, Kraupp reveals only that "we sought the protections we believe were necessary to address the issue." He will not provide more details.
St. Louis-based Trans States Airlines, which has placed an order for 50 MRJ90 aircraft with 50 options, did not respond to a request for comment.
Yugo Fukuhara, Mitsubishi Aircraft's marketing director, says it will use "paperwork changes" to overcome the union contract restrictions. The Japanese manufacturer initially will certify the aircraft to their highest MTOW, which exceeds those restrictions, but then plans to recertify the aircraft to the MTOW limits that apply to each customer, he explains. The launch customer for the MRJ90 is All Nippon Airways.
Embraer's strategy is different. The Brazilian manufacturer, which notes that weight increases are typical for many newer-generation aircraft because of their heavier, new-technology engines, says it "believes that major carrier airlines in North America will be able to negotiate new contracts with their pilots unions to allow them to operate higher weight, but much more economical, aircraft in their fleets."
There is ample time for that to happen for the new Embraer jets, but less so for the MRJ, which Mitsubishi plans to begin delivering to Trans States in 2016 and to SkyWest in 2017. Embraer does not plan to start delivery of its E175-E2 to SkyWest—or any other customer—until 2020.
Collective bargaining agreements with pilots become amendable at Delta Air Lines at the end of 2015, at United Airlines in early 2017 and American Airlines at the beginning of 2019. US Airways pilots are still working under a contract that became amendable years ago, and will negotiate a new joint collective bargaining agreement alongside American pilots if those carriers merge.
Airline managements and unions do not necessarily need to wait for contracts to become amendable; they often negotiate interim letters of agreement on specific issues. But scope is a very contentious issue for pilots, and they likely would not relax it easily, or without receiving some benefit in exchange.
Asked about the MRJ90 and E175-E2 exceeding the MTOW limits, Gregg Overman, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American's pilots, said American can operate them as mainline aircraft flown by mainline pilots.
"Our take on that is that it would make a fabulous American Airlines airplane," he says. "Any aircraft that exceeds 76 seats or that MTOW, if they're generating revenue for the company, they belong on the property."


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The Menu: In honor of Chas' birthday, we dined on the new Spring Wellington from Native Foods. This delicious, seasonal spin on Native Foods' autumn standard was packed with mushrooms, mashed potatoes, kale, peas, asparagus, and carrots all wrapped in a flaky, crunchy puff pastry and topped with rich, smooth Hollandaise sauce. Colleen balanced our hearty main course with a splendid, veggie-filled side salad, and Frankie added color to our plates with punchy, pickled cauliflower.
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text: Underscoring the seriousness of the undertaking, ASX recently produced an 87-page progress report. Roll-out is targeted for late 2020 or early 2021. In the weeds. The enormity of such a project may not be obvious to those unfamiliar with the creaky plumbing of the capital markets. At the completion of phase one, DTCC will have nodes set up internally for every firm that it knows will run one, plus some general nodes that will take care of supporting the transactions and processing for the firms that do not wish to support a node of their own. For this project, DTCC has taken a multi-vendor approach. Ethereum-inspired startup Axoni is providing the technology, with IBM helping to manage the project, and R3 providing best practice guidance on areas like selecting the right data models. Luxembourg is the largest fund management hub outside of the U.S. The jurisdiction holds many trillions of dollars worth of assets under management. The KPMG-led project includes banks like BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and others, as well as over 400 asset managers. The technology used is ethereum-based Quorum, the popular open-source project run by JP Morgan.


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Penn State Beaver welcomed two new faculty members for the fall semester. Mari B. Pierce is assistant professor of criminal justice and is teaching in the new Administration of Justice baccalaureate program offered for the first time this fall. Kathy Firestine is an instructor in psychology at Beaver, Greater Allegheny, and New Kensington campuses where she is teaching as well as managing and supervising the regional internship program.
The Administration of Justice program is being delivered jointly by Penn State's Beaver, New Kensington and Shenango campuses. All required courses will be offered at each campus, though students should expect to take some courses via interactive video and/or the Web.
Previously, Pierce was an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Western Oregon University. She also served as the instructor of record for the Department of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. In addition, Pierce has worked as a social service specialist in child welfare for the Department of Human Services, Salem, Ore.; a youth care counselor for the Families and Youth, Inc. Girls' Group Home in Las Cruces, N.M., and an evaluation program coordinator and guidance counselor for Homestead Youth and Family Services in Pendleton, Ore.
Pierce holds a doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in criminal justice from New Mexico State University and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Whitman College.
Firestine has taught at various institutions, including Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, and Point Park University. Her classes have included a wide range of subjects, including social psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, statistics and research methods.
Previously, Firestine was a consultant for the National Development and Research Institutes Inc. in New York City, N.Y., and a recruitment coordinator, project coordinator and research associate for the UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. She was also a clinical assessor for the University of Pittsburgh, was a law clerk at several Pittsburgh firms, and is currently a law intern at the National Center for Juvenile Justice.
Firestine is currently working on a doctorate in applied developmental psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where she graduated with a master's degree in counseling and bachelor's degrees in psychology and fine arts. In addition, she holds a juris doctorate from the Duquesne University School of Law.
Pierce can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or 724-773-3549, and Firestine can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 724-773-3866.


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As fall semester begins at Emmanuel College, the campus gathers for a time of corporate worship services during the annual ALPHA Weekend August 22-25 in the Swails Center.
The first session on Thursday at 11 a.m. features Dr. Mark Rutland. For Session Two on Friday at 7 p.m., EC Campus Pastor Margaret Turner is the speaker, and EC Campus Pastor and Spiritual Life Director Chris Maxwell speaks Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
"As students, faculty and staff begin this new academic year at Emmanuel College, we will spend four days reminding ourselves that faith in Christ is the key component of all we do," Pastor Chris says. "Dr. Rutland has the reputation as one of the best preachers of ourtime, and we are honored he's here to help us begin this new year at Emmanuel. Through worship, prayer and biblical teaching, ALPHA Weekend offers us a chance to remember our heritage and let it become real to each of us. We want more than just a new school year—we want to see God make each of us new."
A bestselling author, founder of Global Servants as well as The National Institute of Christian Leadership, Dr. Rutland recently joined the preaching team at Free Chapel, a mega church in Gainesville, Ga., with campuses in Irvine, Calif., and Gwinnett County, Ga. Previously, Dr. Rutland served as the third president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. He is a distinguished author, educator, charismatic leader, businessman and a nationally recognized figure in Christian higher education.
Prior to his election as president of ORU, Dr. Rutland served as president of Southeastern University of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Fla., from 1999 to 2009.
Additionally, Dr. Rutland has served as pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando, Fla., and as an associate pastor at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta.
Through his work as president of Global Servants, Dr. Rutland has founded ministries in Ghana and Thailand. The House of Grace home for tribal girls in Chiang Rai, Thailand, was founded in 1988 and houses over 100 girls.
Dr. Rutland and his wife Alison have one son, two daughters, four grandsons and two granddaughters.


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Add a great look to your engine bay. This billet aluminum cover set goes over the stock plastic overflow cap, radiator cap, power steering cap and master cylinder cap, and are also available for STILLEN intercoolers.
Made in STILLEN's machine shop and finished with a great polished look. These caps are one of those finishing touches that help to dress up any engine compartment. Most caps are made out of 6061 billet aluminum then finished with a high luster polish and protective clear coat.


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Facilities & Fleet Management
Facilities and Fleet Maintenance Division of Streets and Maintenance provides a broad array of services to other City departments. The division has one hundred thirty employees and oversees an operating budget in excess of $30,000,000. From maintaining over 180 buildings to repairing over 2,500 vehicles, Facilities and Fleet Maintenance works hard to ensure that City operations continue without interruption and services can continuously be provided to our community.
Our division has made many improvements to improve our resiliency and reduce our energy use. During 2012, we reduced energy consumption in City facilities and achieved a measured cost avoidance totaling $1,668,016. Facilities and Fleet Maintenance also relamped 7,200 streetlights from conventional lighting to LED, reducing energy consumption by 60% per light fixture. In addition, our Records Management division continues to mitigate risk by ensuring offsite storage and backing-up essential records for the continuity of operations during any disruption or disaster.
What's New?
Facilities/Fleet Maintenance' Fleet Division was recognized for having one of the "Top 100 Fleets in North America" because of their innovative cost-saving and quality-enhancing programs, such as the ASE Blue Seal of Excellence Program, the shared maintenance service agreement with neighboring government agencies, and their Alternative Fuel Vehicles Program.


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Thank you for your coverage of the Henry County High School Senior project program.
I was asked to help judge one night of the student presentations. I was impressed by the evidence of hard work by both the teachers involved and the students themselves. The respect the students showed the judges was complete.
The school system should be applauded for their support of the senior project. I am grateful to have seen a bit of the results and hope more in the community will be so fortunate.
Tanya Berry
Port Royal
I have a confession to make. I cannot master the grill.
But I have to start out by saying that, as many people know, I'm a fiercely independent person. I like to learn how to do things, and out of necessity have learned to fix toilets, do minor electrical work, change my own oil and so on.
But this weekend, I learned one thing that truly stumps me. It must be that I'm just not built to do it.
As we approach Memorial Day, National Military Appreciation Month is coming to a close. We shouldn't need reminders to thank those who have given of themselves by joining the armed forces.
And yet, it seems that year after year, we do need some sort of reminder.
Kudos to Marlyn Browning and his employees. Last year, they started an event to thank veterans throughout the region for their service. The event started humbly with a parade, but continued to include food, music, a few speeches, and of course — honoring of the veterans who were there.
Driving down winding Kentucky backroads with the windows down while listening to music, laughing, the new $5 footlong deal at Subway restaurants, the smell of fresh cut grass, anxiously awaiting new episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives, Espaol, meeting new people, writing...and these, Henry County, are just a few of my favorite things.
Each year, across the nation, one event brings together entire communities to take part in the fight against cancer. That event is the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. It's a time and place where people come to celebrate those who have survived cancer, remember those we've lost and fight back against a disease that touches too many lives.
It's hard for a reporter when a source doesn't want to talk.
Attempts to reach Larry Mahoney in recent weeks for an interview failed, which means the stories we have about the impact of the May 14, 1988, bus crash will be published with no quotes or information from the one man most people probably want to hear from.
The Henry County Seniors would like to thank each and every person that donated items or came to our 8th annual Derby Eve Breakfast. We truly appreciate this community so very much. For those who came and we had run out of food, we apologize. That makes us strive to be bigger and better next year. These last four years this county has come together to make the Senior Center and other project realities. We are truly blessed with good leadership and good people.
Thank you.
Henry County Seniors
Tragedies often occur without warning.
A poor decision, a quirk of timing, a crash, flames, smoke, death: Suddenly, a tiring but exciting Saturday of amusement park fun endedon a dark,lonely stretch of interstate miles from home.
For 27 people — 24 children — the moment of horror was brief.Survivors of that fateful collision that's come to be known as the Carrollton bus crash still live with a mix of frightening memories and scars of mind and body.
In this week's paper, you'll find several stories focusing on the 20th anniversary of the Carrollton bus crash.
The stories in this week's paper represent just a fraction of those that were written for the event's 20th anniversary, and we will make the rest available on our Web site, www.hclocal.com.
Several papers took part in this effort, including the Carrollton and Elizabethtown papers who serve the communities most deeply affected by the accident.
Betty and Jerry Chilton and their children thank everyone who attended their 50th anniversary party or sent their blessings. I know my father especially enjoyed the occasion. Since his stroke in 1999, he has been unable to ambulate very well. I want to especially thank Barbara and Glen Gregory for attending. He too has had health issues in the last decade. Glen has been battling cancer and other ailments associated with this disease but thankfully is cancer free. I am glad he was well enough to attend. Our family received over $400 in cash gifts for Relay For Life.
Eminence Politics are what is wrong with Eminence. Take for instance, the swimming pool. The people that spoke against the pool were all over 40 and had no children that could benefit from the use of the pool. There were two previous mayors and three previous council members who spoke against the pool. Those were the ones in charge when the pool was mismanaged and caused it to close. Those were the people that let it set for six years and never did anything about it.
The Judy Lea Memorial Henry County Children's Fund committee would like to thank all who helped make this year's benefit a success. Our 22nd benefit for the children of Henry County raised over $13,000.
In particular we would like to thank those individuals, businesses and organizations who donated goods and services for the theme baskets, auction items, homemade desserts and for the monetary gifts we received.
Updating Kentucky's laws may be the primary job of the General Assembly each legislative session, but it is not the only task legislators undertake. We also enact numerous resolutions that, in many cases, direct state government to focus on areas we feel are important.
There are three types of resolutions, with the most common being known as "simple." These only take a vote by either the House or the Senate, and generally they are used to honor Kentuckians or to pay tribute to those who may have passed away.
As gas and food prices continue to climb, it is critical that we effectively manage our budgets and personal finances to make ends meet. Juggling investments, tax returns and credit card bills can be difficult, so it is important to educate yourself on the best ways to save and invest in your future. Since April is Financial Literacy Month, I wanted to share with you some tools that will help you better understand your finances and protect yourself against identity theft.
Concerning the fundraiser we held at Vive Salon & Spa April 12 for my little brother Tommie Tingle - many thanks to all the good people that helped make our fundraiser a huge success! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
From the many people with donations to all the hard workers - I hesitate to mention you one by one because I don't want to leave anyone out.We had so many wonderful donations for our raffle baskets & our bake sale - and I can't even begin to thank the many people that patiently waited (hours) for a haircut!
On April 8 and 9, General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before Congress about the current political and security situation in Iraq. According to both officials, progress in Iraq is significant, but reversible. As a senior Army commander told me recently, "We simply cannot walk out of the Middle East now."
The past five years or so have been very difficult watching from the sidelines as my father's name is tarnished in newsprint and court proceedings. My father's voice was silenced allowing for no comment because of legalities. Though I can't speak on his behalf, I feel it is imperative that those in Henry County understand the positive contribution and sacrifice he brought to this small community.
Why is it that Henry County can't attract new businesses, so there can be local jobs for local people?
According to the Ky Deskbook of Economic Statistics, 59 percent of Henry County's workforce is employed out of the county, and 46.3 percent of them travel more than 30 minutes to get to their job destinations.
The cost of living is going up daily, due largely to the gas crisis. The spending power of a paycheck is dwindling, but just how much of it is going to the increased cost of just getting to work?
During the Eminence City Council meeting Monday night, two city council members were lauded for sticking to their guns and their original votes on the issue of the city's swimming pool.
They should be commended. Sticking to one's beliefs in the face of a room full of folks with opinions on both sides of the issue is an admirable attitude.
This pool issue has been something that our family and community has now heard of and been listening to for quite some time now. During the last city elections for Mayor and Council members, we had quite a few prospects, and current members stop by our home. The only constant issue that any of them talked about, was the pool. They all mentioned there was a great need for something for our young people to do in this city, let alone county.
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Battleground Tracking Poll: Dead heat
BOSTON—The presidential race is tied going into Election Day.
The final POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — conducted Sunday and Monday — shows Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama each claiming 47 percent nationally.
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Our previous poll, conducted Monday through Thursday of last week, found the race tied at 48 percent. Although Romney and Obama have each led at times, the two candidates have stayed within the margin of error since the spring.
Independents break for Romney by 15 points, 47 percent to 32 percent.
Across the 10 states identified by POLITICO as competitive, Obama leads 49 percent to 43 percent.
On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans edge Democrats by 47 percent to 46 percent. It was tied last week.
An identical number of voters approve of the president's job performance, 49 percent, as disapprove.
Romney and Obama also are each liked by exactly 50 percent of voters. Meanwhile, 48 percent of respondents view Obama unfavorably, and 47 percent view Romney unfavorably. Each is viewed strongly favorably by 38 percent, but the intensity of dislike for Obama is stronger.
One-third of the electorate has already voted, including 36 percent of Romney supporters and 33 percent of Obama supporters.
The potentially more important number is a combination nationally of those who have already voted and those who call themselves "extremely likely" to vote. Romney leads this group by 3 percent, 51 percent to 48 percent.
( Also on POLITICO: 9 takeaways from the 2012 election)
New laws in places like Florida and Pennsylvania related to the handling of provisional ballots raise the very real possibility that the winner will not be known today. "This thing could be a nightmare of lawsuits back and forth if these states are close," Celinda Lake, the Democratic pollster who helped conduct the bipartisan poll, said early Tuesday morning.
Republican pollster Ed Goeas, who helps conduct the bipartisan poll, expects that many who say they are likely to vote will not wind up turning out. Among the 80 percent of those surveyed who he believes are most likely to actually vote, Romney leads by 3 points, 51 percent to 48 percent. Among the 70 percent he believes are most likely, Romney leads by 2 points, 51 percent to 49 percent.
"So in no case at any level does Obama break that 50 percent mark," Goeas said early Tuesday. "I think you're probably looking at a 2-point Romney win at this point … Then the question becomes: What about the Electoral College?"
Lake, the Democratic pollster, expressed confidence in an Obama victory. While Romney leads in the South, the Central Plains and the Mountain States, Obama is on top in the Northeast, Midwest and West.
( See also: POLITICO's swing-state map)
"We're behind the regions where there are no swing states, except Colorado," she said.
Romney maintains a significant 6-point advantage on who is better for the economy and creating jobs, 51 percent to 45 percent. A majority, 53 percent, disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, 57 disapprove of his spending policies and 54 think the country is on the wrong track.
For the first time all year, Romney has taken the lead on which candidate will better handle tax policy. Obama was up by 2 points for the past four weeks, but Romney pulled ahead by 1 point, 48 percent to 47 percent — a statistical tie.