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Here are some of the releases you can expect from me this year. I'll update as things develop:
Nemesis: The Death of Timmy Quinn - Createspace/Elderlemon Press (tpb)
The Novellas - Thunderstorm Press (limited edition hc and tpb)
Theater Macabre - Bad Moon Books (limited edition hc and tpb)
Jack & Jill - Cemetery Dance Publications (limited edition hc and e-book)
Novelettes/Short Stories
"The Palaver" (a Milestone Story) in the Barbers & Beauties anthology, ed. Michael Knost & Nancy Eden Siegel, Hummingbird House Press
"The End of Us" - TBA anthology, Cemetery Dance Publications
"Stalled" - Shocklines: Fresh Voices in Terror, ed. Matt Schwartz & Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Publications
"Snowmen" - Smoke & Mirrors, ed. Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Publications
Kin, Crossroads Press

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- Community Resources
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information
- Berrien County COVID-19 Closure
Berrien County COVID-19 Closure
The following list represents the Berrien County continuity of operations plan under the conditions of reasonable staffing levels but not public access to public except by appointment. Does not include Trial Court (all divisions) and sheriff. (As of 18, 2020)
View the 03-20-2020 Press Release (PDF)
- Phone Number: 269-927-5648 / after-hours call Dispatch
- Email Address: email@example.com
- Website: Facebook or County website
- Appointments must be made in advance with office staff.
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- High priority calls only.
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111 Ext. 8300
- Email Address: email@example.com
- Website: http://www.berriencounty.org/276/Geographical-Information-Systems-GIS
- No public access
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Coding Deeds (Drop offs or Electronically)
- Writing & Mapping Splits/Combinations
- Address Changes/Changing Taxpayer Names
- Mapping for the EOC
- Customer Service by Answering Phone Calls
- Phone Number: 983-7111 Ext 8435
- Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: www.berriencounty.org/parks
- No Public access to visitor centers, offices, or nature center.
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Parks open with no access to buildings
- See the Parks page of the website for access to County Parks
- Phone Number: (269) 983-7111/8224
- Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: www.berriencounty.org/veterans
- No public access
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Contact our office for further instructions
- Phone Number: (269) 983-7111 Ext: 8215
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- Website: https://www.berriencounty.org/274/Equalization
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- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- General inquires related to Equalization may be made by phone or email.
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111 ex 8617
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- Website:
- No public access
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Starting Wednesday, March 18th, Berrien Bus will suspend all flex-route service throughout the County. We will continue to provide demand-response service for essential needs including scheduled medical appointments, employment and grocery shopping. Additional service changes may be implemented based on guidance from MDOT or County Health Officials.
- We will continue to process home improvement/FHBLI loan programs. Applications will be accepted by mail and email.
- We will continue to receive and review local zoning applications. Applications from local Planning Commissions should be sent by mail or email. Review of such applications will be conducted administratively by staff.
- We will continue to process business loan payments, PA 185 bond payments and vendor invoices. Payments and invoices should be sent by mail and/or email.
- Phone Number: 269-925-1196
- Email Address: Permit requests and permit questions: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Job openings and applications can be found on the County's website: www.berriencounty.org/581/Employment;
- Website: www.bcroad.org
- No public access
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- Normal operations.
- Public is reminded that they may submit road service requests online through our website or by phone
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- Website: https://www.berriencounty.org/293/Public-Defenders-Office
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- Edgewater Annex: No public access
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- We will staff any arraignments, ongoing court proceedings with counsel appointed, that continue to be processed by the Trial Court.
- If there are no scheduled court appearances, but our office remains open to employees, our staff will continue to investigate and prepare cases to move forward once matters are rescheduled.
- We will remain available by telephone and email.
- If our office is directed to be closed, our attorneys will remain email available and continue, to the extent possible, to prepare our cases to move forward once matters are rescheduled.
In an effort to slow the spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), the Berrien County Health Department is altering several program and service operations to help encourage further social distancing.
- The Health Department offices and clinics in Benton Harbor and Niles remain open to the public, although all services are available by appointment only; walk-ins are no longer being accepted.
- The Three Oaks office is closed effective Tuesday March 17 at 4:00pm until further notice.
The following program operations changes are in effect as of March 17th:
- Clinics are only accepting clients via appointment for immunizations, birth-control supply visits, and STD testing/treatment; walk-ins will no longer be accepted. Public Health Nurses are available via telephone for questions from clients.
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) will continue client appointments, but will move to as many tele-health visits as possible and will authorize and/or extend benefits over the phone.
- Water filters/replacement cartridges are still available for Benton Harbor residents to pick-up in office, but all distribution events are canceled. Residents can call 1-800-815-5485 (select option #2) to have a filter/cartridge mailed to them.
- Home visiting services and Children's Special Health Care Services are shifting to tele-health visits/consultations only.
- All Hearing and Vision pre-school screenings are canceled through the end of April.
- Unless otherwise noted, all community coalition meetings, events, classes, and other community gatherings are canceled until further notice.
All clients are asked to call to reschedule appointments if they are feeling ill. Any clients who are exhibiting symptoms may be asked to wear a facemask. Client appointments have been spaced throughout the day to maintain appropriate distancing for those visiting and working in the clinic.
As offices remain open, the public is encouraged to call with further questions about services that are available at this time. BCHD staff are working day and night to monitor this evolving situation with COVID-19 and will continue to provide new information to the community as things change. A hotline has been established to answer questions from the public at 1-800-815-5485 and more information can be found at the Berrien County Health Department website at www.bchdmi.org or by following BCHD on social media.
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111 x 8569
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- Website: www.berriencounty.org
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- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Respond to emails, payments can be made on line or at the drop box outside the administration center.
- Phone Number: 269.983.7111 ext 8562
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- Website: regofdeeds.berriencounty.org
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- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Both paper and electronic documents will continue to be processed as received.
- A drop-box is available for paper documents outside of the Administration Building located at 701 Main Street, St. Joseph.
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111 Ext. 8261
- Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
- No public access
- Phone Number: (269) 983-7111 Ext. 8233
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- Website: www.berriencounty.org
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- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- All vital record orders can be done online/phone from the County Clerk's Page on our website through Vitalchek or sent in by regular mail. The phone number for Vitalchek is:1(888)243-0055
- Renewal CPL Applications (only) can be done online at the Michigan State Police website: www.michigan.gov/cplrenewal
- DBA/Co-Partnership forms can be printed off the County Clerk's page on our website and sent in by mail after being notarized.
- We will still be filing death records electronically from the funeral homes and can issue certified copies through Vitalchek or by mail.
- Emergency marriage license applications are by appointment only by calling (269) 983-7111 ext. 8233. They will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
- A drop box is available outside the Administration Building for:
- Original birth records for filing.
- Vital record requests (mail instead of mailing them in)
- Payments for copies
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111 x8233 or x8265
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- Website: https://www.berriencounty.org/152/County-Clerk
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- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Mail/email/phone/internet requests only
- Phone Number: 269-927-5674
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Fax: 269-944-4128
- Website: https://www.canr.msu.edu/berrien
- No public access
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- All face to face programs have been postponed, cancelled or modified to an online format.
- In order to follow the directive of social distance by closing the office to the public, Berrien County residents can still get assistance from MSU Extension by contacting the office via phone, email or website or by contacting individual staff members.
- For details regarding Trial Court operations, view the Trial Court Page
- Phone Number: 269-983-7111, ext. 8095
- Fax Number: 269-983-5788
- Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Phone Number: 269-982-8616
- Fax Number: 269-983-5788
- Email Address: email@example.com
- Descriptions of Services available during Emergency:
- Employment applications will still be accepted via email to email@example.com, drop box at the Administration Center, 701 Main St., St. Joseph, or fax.
- Bid Inquiry Phone Number: 269-983-7111, ext. 8020
- All other Finance Inquiries Phone Number: 269-983-7111, ext. 8916
- Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Description of Services available during Emergency:
- Financial Services will continue their processes.
- Bids are still being accepted and can be left in the drop box at the Administration Center, 701 Main St., St. Joseph.
- Mailing Address: 919 Port St., St. Joseph, MI 49085
- Phone Number: 269-983-7141, ext. 7211
- Fax: 269-982-8650
- Email Address: email@example.com
- No public access
- Descriptions of Services available during Emergency:
- Pistol Sales Records and licenses to purchase can be mailed when they are completed and the gun has been purchased.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests along with most requests for information can be handled by mail, fax, or email. Responses will be returned to the requestor in the same manner as received.
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IT'S game-on for our Newcastle geek who will try to outwit rather than erm … out style his way to the prize money on Beauty and the Geek tonight.
The grand final will see four couples, including the former University of Newcastle mechanical engineer student Richard 'Chard' Oldfield, compete for cash and a new car.
The winning couple will take home $100,000 to share and a Holden Barina each.
Here's why Topics thinks Chard deserves to claim geek victory.
1. His nickname is Chard. Rick, Ricky, The Rickster we get. But Chard? That's a pretty uncool nickname to be stuck with for adult life.
2. His partner in the series, Millie, is a professional bra-fitter and one TV columnist wrote ''logs in the forest are smarter''. Our man has done some hard yards in the elimination quizzes.
3. He cut his hair for the series. No geek was more attached to his long red locks.
4. All his female acquaintances are ''friends''. Chard told Topics he has been stuck in the friend zone his whole life. There's nothing like a reality television title and a bit of cash to spark some female interest.
5. Because all the Novocastrians are doing it. This year the Hunter has taken out reality television titles on Masterchef and The Block. Chard from Whitebridge would be lucky number three.
The 2012 season final screens on Prime7 at 8.30pm.
Herald's a lifelong habit
JACK McAulay has subscribed to the Newcastle Herald for a lifetime – 80 years to be exact.
Topics put the call out on Saturday to find the Herald's longest-serving readers. We ran a story thanking two women who have clocked up 60 years and wanted to find more.
Mr McAulay, who is about to turn 92, has read the paper since he was 12.
''I've read it ever since I was a kid at school. My parents had it delivered every morning to our Mayfield home,'' he said.
Mr McAulay, who was the power plant foreman at BHP for a decade, gets the paper delivered to his Waratah West home daily and reads it from cover to cover.
He likes the news and sport, and he's not too manly to enjoy the wedding pictures on Mondays.
Elsie Turnbull, 93, also gained her love of newspapers from her parents, who were subscribers.
When she married her husband Frederick in 1939 the couple starting getting the paper delivered to their Maitland home. Mrs Turnbull is so dedicated that she still gets the paper delivered to her home in Shoal Bay despite having many operations for macular degeneration.
She was recovering from an operation this week when Topics called.
''Just a day or two and I'll be back reading my Herald,'' she told Topics.
Topics has a soft spot for Mrs Turnbull because we are suckers for a bit of flattery.
Her favourite section is ''Topics of course''.
EARNED VICTORY: Left, Chard does the tough rounds. Right, Chard with his beauty partner Millie.
DEDICATED: Jack McAulay has read the paper for eight decades. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers


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After watching the film Jimmy Grimble, students from 1º ESO non bilingual have been working on a project about bullying and offering different solutions to this problem. You can read about the different tasks included in the project by clicking on the photo:
The final task was a collaborative wall made with padlet in which students reflected on bullying. Click on the photo to check it out:
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Congress Deadlocked, DHS Funding Cutoff Tonight
Aired February 27, 2015 - 17:00 ET
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, mixed signals. The United States vowing to track down a top ISIS killer, but Britain tracked him for years, a suspected Jihadi sympathizer, and even detained him. New information on how the man known as Jihadi John managed to escape. Final hours. Lawmakers holding the homeland security budget hostage right now. Will they act to fund the people who keep this country safe, or will they face a shutdown? And mall threats. The attorney general of the United States calls on shopping center operators to step up their own security efforts following chilling statements by terrorists. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER: CNN breaking news. BLITZER: We're following two breaking stories right now. The clock is clearly ticking down toward a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as Congress battles over funding. This showdown happening at a critical time. The United States and Britain are vowing to hunt down the cold-blooded ISIS killer known as Jihadi John, the Londoner who has brutally slaughtered western hostages on camera. But while the world now knows his true identity, Mohammed Emwazi was known to British security services for years. And he was detained more than once. So how did he escape that scrutiny and become a key figure in the ISIS reign of terror? And how will the Department of Homeland Security protect Americans from a terror threat which is growing daily if Congress cannot find a way to pay those workers whose job is supposed to keep all of us safe? Looks like Republicans are moments away from failing to break the deadlock over funding the Department of Homeland Security. House Democrats, joined by 15 Republicans, voted to block an effort to keep the money flowing for another three weeks. Let's go immediately to our chief congressional correspondent, Dana Bash. She's up on Capitol Hill. Dana, the clock clearly ticking, but it looks like this stalemate continues. DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And what's going on as we speak on the House floor is a lot of arm twisting and pretty much panic. The Republican leaders are scrambling to try to find now just a few more votes, but critical votes to keep the Department of Homeland Security running just for three weeks. What's been going on is Democrats had already said all day long they were going to vote no in protest, because they don't like the concept of only kicking the can down the road and not fully funding the department. They don't like the short-term bill. But now we're in the position of Democrats potentially getting blamed for shutting down the department, because they don't have the votes to at least do this stopgap measure. So that's why this vote is still open. On the House floor, just a few feet from where I am right now, a lot of scrambling, not just by House Republicans but by Democrats trying to figure out if they want to change their votes, enough of them, to make sure that this passes so that they don't have the tables turned on them and get blamed for a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. BLITZER: It looks like right now, no time left. Our viewers can see it on the screen. Nays, it looks like 222; 218 is the majority. So if no one changes -- they could still change their votes, I take it, but if no one changes their votes, Dana, this is going to fail. BASH: That's correct. It has been out of vote, so to speak, out of time for quite some time. And that's why you just saw the House speaker walk behind me as we were talking. He went from his office to the House floor, so it's going to be some -- some high-profile arm twisting going on right now. I think he's obviously -- he's going to the floor to see what he can do. But you're exactly right. This is -- should have been over a while ago, but they're keeping it open in order to find those few more votes they need to pass this. So they're not calling it failed yet. They're hoping that they can find a way to still make this work. BLITZER: What happens if it stays like this and it fails? What's next? BASH: If it fails, there is a big question mark. And honestly, I don't think that there is a Plan B right now, because the Republicans are hoping that this will just keep them over for three weeks and that they can have a discussion about the whole reason why we're here in the first place, which is Republicans do not like the idea of what the Senate passed earlier today, in a bipartisan way, which is a clean bill fully funding the Department of Homeland Security through the end of the year. Republicans are still trying one last time to find a way to include in that a rider that blocks the president's immigration plan. They haven't been able to do that in the Senate. There just aren't the votes in the Senate for that. But they have been trying to at least make a statement by telling conservatives they're going to try one more time in a couple of weeks. But so far, that tactic isn't working. And they're trying to figure out a Plan B. There really wasn't one. BLITZER: So so far, it looks like this has failed, unless some people change their minds in some relatively big numbers. Stand by for a moment now. I want to go to Michelle Kosinski, our White House correspondent. All right, Michelle. Let's talk a little bit about what the president is trying to do now to make sure the Department of Homeland Security after midnight tonight still has money to protect the borders, to protect national security, to protect airports, people who are flying, leaving the United States, staying in the United States. What's the president doing? KOSINSKI: Exactly. Yes, well, we haven't heard from the president directly at this 11th hour, even though there have been plenty of questions day to day. What is the president doing. How is he going to engage? Is he going to sit down with any of these leaders directly or try to persuade some behind the scenes? But the answer from the White House has been pretty consistent that the president has been working on this throughout, that basically the president did his job and that Congress did not. The language from the White House is getting more and more tough day to day, too. Just today, saying that Congress, this is an abject failure of the leadership. Yesterday saying it's as if Congress is falling down on the job. In fact, today the White House referred to an op-ed piece that John Boehner had done right after the midterms, saying now let's see Congress go to work. Let's see it actually working. So the White House almost ridiculing that today in the briefing. We did see a tweet from the White House this afternoon, saying, "We can't govern from crisis to crisis. Add your name if you support a long-term plan to fund DHS." So what the White House has been hammering home is that they did -- it did -- it's done its work. They want a long-term plan to fund DHS, and they say what's interesting is that, you know, the hard work has already been done, setting the level of funding. They're saying this isn't even a partisan dispute anymore. It's a party dispute, Wolf. BLITZER: All right. So stand by for a moment, Michelle. I want to go back to Dana Bash up on Capitol Hill. And Dana, it's a little complicated what's going right now, but we know the stakes are enormous as far as homeland security here in the United States is concerned right now. The stakes are really, really critical. So let's talk a little bit what has happened. There has been this debate that's been going back and forth. Everybody says they want to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but the Republicans didn't want to fund the president's executive action that would go ahead and take unilateral steps at easing illegal immigrants' opportunities to remain in the United States. In the end, the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, in the end he decided to put forward language that passed decisively, overwhelmingly today, to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded through the end of the fiscal year, meaning until the end of September. That passed decisively. The Democrats were on board; the Republicans were on board. There was no mention of any immigration cutoff of spending, anything along those lines. Separate legislation was stalled on that. That legislation, I take it, now has gone over to the House of Representatives, but the House has decided they wanted to pass simply a three-week extension, which the Democrats didn't want. They just thought that was kicking the can down the road. BASH: Correct. BLITZER: And a lot of Republicans didn't want it, because it didn't have anything to do with cutting off spending for immigration reform. BASH: Exactly. BLITZER: As a result, we see what's up on the screen right now: 222 nays. You need 218. That's the majority that blocked this three-week -- what's called this continuing resolution during which the speaker of the House, John Boehner, wanted in effect, the negotiations to be able to continue to have the House/Senate conference committee go ahead, to see if they could come up with some sort of plan to keep the Department of Homeland Security working, functioning with full funding. But that is now very much up in the air, and it sets the prospects for a cutoff of funding at midnight tonight. BASH: That's right. Both sides are playing hardball. And you just described the mechanics of what they're doing. Why they're doing it is this. The Republicans in the House feel that they still have one last gasp to try to push for some compromise that will at least mitigate what the president is able to do on his immigration plan, and use their power of the purse, which this is, in order to force that to happen. Democrats are playing hardball by saying no, we're not -- you look at the screen right now, 172 Democrats voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security. They didn't do it because they don't want to fund the department. They did it because they don't want to just do it temporarily for three weeks. They're saying, "If you want to fund it, let's fund it for real." And we're not going to play -- I mean, you've heard Democrats all day on the House floor, saying stop playing games, this is amateur hour, all kinds of ways that they're pushing their fellow Democrats not to go along with this. So I said both sides -- both sides are playing hardball. The question is which side is going to give in, and it looks like -- I mean, the numbers haven't moved now in at least ten minutes. So what we initially thought going into this vote, frankly, is that once we got to this point where it was just a few votes needed from the Democrats for this to pass, that they would give up their protests and vote yes in order to just allow this to go through. That is not happening right now. The Democrats are really holding firm. So now it's up to Republicans, and I can tell you, I'm just a few feet off the House floor. Deirdre Walsh, our House reporter, is around the corner. She's kind of got a closer vantage point to members of Congress. And she's talking to Republicans and Democrats, and it's pretty clear, as I said earlier, they don't have a Plan B. They're trying to figure out what to do next. BLITZER: Dana, a lot of our viewers are looking at that -- that image coming from the floor of the House of Representatives. They see 204 yea, 222 nay. They see seven members of the House not voting. But they also see time remaining, 000. That's been about 10 or 15 minutes. BASH: Right. BLITZER: Zero time remaining. Here's a couple questions. How long can they keep this vote open, keep the clock at 000 and potentially give members a chance to change their minds, change their votes? BASH: Indefinitely. There have been times late at night votes during back when Tom DeLay was the House majority whip, they held it open for hours to try to work over members to change votes. The House Republicans or whomever is in charge, at this point House Republicans, they're in charge of the House, and they control the answer to that question. They're going to probably keep it open until they think it's absolutely pointless that they will not win this. So it could take quite a long time for them to come to that conclusion. We just don't know. BLITZER: And let's go back to Michelle Kosinski at the White House. Michelle, let's say the speaker of the House, John Boehner, he convinces a bunch of Republicans to change their votes. They get 218 that they need to pass this three-week extension allowing the funding to go forward for an additional three weeks, during which there will be more negotiations between the House and the Senate, presumably the president himself. Has the White House indicated whether the president would sign a three-week so-called continuing resolution to allow the Department of Homeland Security to continue paying workers hundreds of thousands of workers, has the White House said whether the president would sign that into law? KOSINSKI Yes, they did address that today, saying yes, I mean, basically as a last resort, as painful as this is, for them to do yet another battle, which is what this is setting up for. But a very short-term bill. The White House said that if that's the only choice in order to keep the government shutting down, then yes, the president would sign that. But they've been hesitating to even answer that question for days. I mean, first waiting to see whether they would even be able to do a clean bill. The president saying for sure he would veto a bill that would attach itself to the immigration executive action. But at this point it looks like the White House would go along with pretty much anything to keep that vital part of the government functioning, Wolf. BLITZER: All right, Michelle, stand by. Gloria Borger is here with me in THE SITUATION ROOM. Gloria, why wouldn't the speaker of the House do what the majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, did and allow the funding to go forward throughout the rest of this fiscal year until the end of September, since all that immigration stuff is on hold anyhow, because a Texas judge, a federal judge in Texas, says it's unconstitutional; the president didn't have the authority to do it. It's not being implemented right now. Why wouldn't the speaker go ahead and do what the Republican leadership in the Senate did? GLORIA BORGER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Because -- because he doesn't have control over his caucus. BLITZER: He's the speaker of the House. BORGER: It doesn't matter anymore, Wolf. You know, these aren't -- it's not like the days of Newt Gingrich when he brought in the majority of the House... BLITZER: But if he would have brought that to the floor -- and I'm going to bring Dana into this conversation. Dana, hypothetically, if John Boehner would have agreed with Mitch McConnell and allowed the Senate version to pass, keeping the funding going through the end of September, the end of the fiscal year, all the Democrats in the House would have voted for it, and a whole bunch of Republicans would have voted for it, as well. Here's the question. Would they have reached the magic number of 218? BASH: Yes. Likely. BORGER: Maybe. BASH: Likely they would have. You know, they could have been in the same position that they're in right now. There is as much pressure -- they're gaveling. Excuse me for one sec. Let's listen. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On this vote, the yeas are 203. The nays are 224. The joint resolution is not passed. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. For what purpose does the -- to be in order? BASH: Wow -- Wolf. BLITZER: All right. All right, Dana, you heard the official -- the official announcement. It failed, 224-203. So here's the question. Where do we go from here? BASH: We don't know. We just heard Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, just say on the House floor that they're going to wait for other votes. What Democrats are hoping in having this mass protest and voting against this is that they are going to force Republicans to take up the fully funded bill. They're going to force Republicans to take up the bill that the Senate passed. They're playing hardball or as a Democrat who is on the House floor who just texted me, saying, "We're playing a high-stakes game of chicken. They're admitting it. And it is a high-stakes game. I will tell you politically, though, the risk that Democrats are about to run is that it is going to be a lot easier for Republicans to point fingers at them and say, "You contributed to the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security that you said we shouldn't do, because you voted against keeping it open." BLITZER: Dana, looks like members are leaving the floor. They're moving onto other business right now. I don't know what other business they have. What could be more important than funding the Department of Homeland Security and protecting all Americans right now? But clearly, they've got a major problem. They've got to figure out what to do; and the clock, six hours, 44 minutes, is ticking. So I assume they're going to go behind closed doors, the speaker, the majority leader, and they're going to come up with some sort of strategy what to do the next few hours, right? BASH: That's right. The speaker has already walked by me from the House floor back to his office. I expect other members of his leadership to walk -- walk there, too, as they try to figure out a Plan B which, as I said, they simply didn't have. The other thing I want to point out about the vote is that it wasn't just Democrats opposing it. The Republicans have such a huge majority that they could have passed this with no Democrats. About 50 Republicans, it looks like, also voted no. And the reason why they voted no is because they won't even vote for a short-term spending bill to keep the government or the department running, rather, without also protesting the president's immigration plan. So you have the push and the pull that John Boehner has been seeing and feeling on so many issues for so many years continuing, even on an issue like this, which everybody has been saying is about the safety of the American people. BLITZER: Yes, it doesn't get much more important than this. All right, Dana, if you could grab one of the leaders, typically one of the Republican leaders walking by you, go ahead and grab him. Get a hand-held mic ready to go. I want to bring in Gloria for a moment. Gloria, this is a huge, huge embarrassment for the speaker of the House, John Boehner. He puts forward a piece of legislation to keep it funded for three weeks. He fails. BORGER: Which he thought, by the way, which he presented to his caucus last night, which he thought was a compromise that conservatives would buy onto. I think now, though, Wolf, both sides are playing a very, very risky and dangerous game here. The American public believes the Department of Homeland Security should be open. That's without debate. Now, each side has backed into a corner. You saw Democrats voting against this, because they don't want a short-term measure. But when you step back from it, the American public is going to look at this and, at this point, by -- with a bunch of Democrats voting no, they've given the Republicans the opportunity to say, "Well, you were responsible for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security," just as much as the Democrats are now saying to the Republicans. So the public, while the majority of the public in our poll a week or so ago said that they would have blamed the Republicans over President Obama, I think now the Democrats have put themselves a little bit at risk here, because so many of them voted against this to push the Republicans in a corner. BLITZER: Dana, I understand you've got Congressman Steve Israel, one of the Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives. Ask him how he feels about the fact that the Department of Homeland Security could be shut down, at least partially, at midnight tonight, in part because almost all of the Democrats voting at least to keep the funding going for another three weeks, the Democrats voted against that. BASH: That's right. That's precisely why I asked the congressman to come over. Thank you very much. And this is what I've been saying to Wolf, that you run a risk as a Democrat, and all of the Democrats who voted against the short-term bill, of being blamed for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. I know that you're trying to make a point, but at a certain point, don't you also have to keep the department running? REP. STEVE ISRAEL (D), NEW YORK: Well, we're not trying to make a point. We're trying to get one full year of funding for the Department of Homeland Security. We cannot budget to protect Americans from terrorists in three-week intervals. We told the Republicans every single Democrat will vote for a one-year funding bill. Just bring it to the floor. It's not too late. They can bring that to the floor literally in the next few minutes. They will have every single Democratic vote. The American people can know that we have a homeland security budget that's not political, that's clean, and that allows for planning for the next year. BASH: It's a high-stakes game of chicken that you're playing here. ISRAEL: You know what? It is a game, but it's a game that the Republicans have played. If it weren't for their obsession with the presidential executive order on immigration, this bill would have passed. This is the last bill that should be subject to partisanship. They have insisted on trying to nullify an executive order on immigration, because they have a disagreement with the president on that. They're entitled to the disagreements. They're not entitled to play games with homeland security. I don't mind them being dumb. I mind them being dangerously dumb. BASH: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And Wolf, as we finish talking, I'm going to try to get a Republican. I can tell you that Republican staffers and others have been walking by here, going to John Boehner's office, trying to figure out what their next move is. They don't have one yet. BLITZER: So it's still up in the air, very much up in the air. Gloria, this is one of the reasons the American public, when they're asked their attitudes about the United States Congress, they've got -- it's usually within the margin of error whether anyone likes the United States Congress. BORGER: I mean, I don't even think lots of members of the United States Congress like the Congress right now. I mean, it's down to, what, single-digit approval rating. And this is exactly why. Dana was pointing out to Steve Israel, the Democrats have put themselves at some risk here. This is a game they're playing. They're trying to push the Republicans up against the wall, and we understand that. You know, the Republicans don't like the president's immigration plan -- executive order. They want to defund it. They don't want to spend any money on it. Everybody kind of understands that. But at a certain point, Wolf, it's not a political game anymore. This is the Department of Homeland Security. This is important. And do they want to, by the way -- as a senior Democrat said to me yesterday, do Republicans want to close down the Department of Homeland Security -- and now I think that question has to be asked to the Democrats, as well, while the prime minister of Israel is here, who will be talking about Iran sanctions, who will be talking about Israel's security, American security? How embarrassing would that be for the United States? I mean, that's a question I think that Republicans are probably talking about right now, as are Democrats. I would think the Democrats have made their political point. They played their political game. Maybe now they can convince, you know, a couple dozen members on both sides to do -- to do something to fund the Department of Homeland Security. BLITZER: They have six hours and 38 minutes left before funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out. Michelle Kosinski, are you still with us over there at the White House? KOSINSKI: Yes. BLITZER: All right. Let's talk about, I don't know if the president is getting ready to make a statement, if he's going to come into the briefing room, is he going to address this issue. Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security, we of course, invited him to join us to hear what he has to say, because the ramifications of no funding will be enormous. First of all, hundreds of thousands of employees potentially won't get paid. Many of them will have to work, but they're not going to get paid at least in the interim until they come up with some funding, but a whole bunch of others, thousands of other employees, many of them in critically important issues, they're going to be furloughed. They're not even going to go to work. They won't be paid, if you will. So what's the attitude over there at the White House? Do you expect to hear from top officials, maybe even the president himself? BLITZER: We do. And I'm surprised that we haven't heard at least from senior administration officials at this point reacting to what just happened. So surely we should get at least a statement. It's possible that the president will come out and speak. We don't know for sure that that will happen. But I would say for the most part, the White House has let the Department of Homeland Security pretty much speak for itself on this issue. Even in terms of the importance and the risk of a shutdown. For many days, it was asked directly of the White House what are the effects really going to be, especially since so many essential employees will still have to work? What are the effects? What are the risks here? They would refer to DHS, outlining some of those. But in the past couple days, as this has really come down to wire, although we haven't, as I said, heard directly from the president. We've seen the White House develop a tougher and tougher tone on this, saying that yes, there is a risk, Wolf. BLITZER: Stand by for a moment, because Steny Hoyer is joining us right now, the Democratic congressman from Maryland. He's the No. 2 Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. Mr. Leader, thanks for joining us. What do you think? What's going to happen now? REP. STENY HOYER (D), MARYLAND: Well, the majority leader just said that we're going to be having further votes, which is good. My advice to the majority leader and to the Republicans would be bring up a bipartisan bill. That's what the Senate ultimately did and funded the Department of Homeland Security until the end of the fiscal year. That's what we ought to do. We can do that in a bipartisan fashion on behalf of the national security of this country, Wolf. And I am hopeful that that's what will happen. BLITZER: Did Kevin -- have you and Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader in the House of representatives, have you had a conversation since the failure of this three-week extension? HOYER: No, we have not at this point in time. And I don't know whether he's going to call me, but I would be glad to talk to him; and we will give bipartisan support. And the Democrats will vote overwhelmingly, almost unanimously, if not unanimously, for the Senate bill, which is HR-861 here. We have a House bill that mirrors the Senate bill. That can pass and will pass easily. And we ought to bring that to the floor. BLITZER: Well, are you sure it would pass, the Senate version would pass? I know almost all of the Democrats would vote for it, but a lot of Republicans won't. Are you convinced you can get the 218 votes to pass what Mitch McConnell put forward in the Senate? HOYER: Yes. Absolutely. We had 12 Republicans vote for the clean Senate bill effectively earlier today. So that gets you to 200, and I'm convinced that we can get on the other side. I think there are certainly 30 responsible Republicans who have spoken out very strongly that the rational thing to do, the common-sense thing to do, the right thing to do for the American people, is to pass the Senate bill. We have a House version of that, so we passed the House version. The Senate did the Senate, so I am absolutely confident that they would pass that by unanimous consent. BLITZER: Let's say he decides, the speaker of the House and the majority leader, John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy, decide they're not going to want to put the Senate-passed legislation up for an up or down vote in the House of Representatives. Isn't it better to at least get a three-week extension of the funding rather than see the Department of Homeland Security effectively shut down tonight? HOYER: Nobody wants to see the Department of Homeland Security shut down. That is why Senator McConnell decided after four attempts to do what the Republicans in the House of Representatives tried to do today, Senator McConnell came to the common-sense conclusion that was not going to work, and the responsible thing to do was to fund, in a bipartisan way, homeland security for the balance of the year. I would hope that Leader McCarthy would follow Leader McConnell's formula on getting us to where we need to be. And then there's more than enough time to debate the grievances that the Republicans have with what they think is an action by the president of the United States that was not consistent with law. They can introduce legislation. They control the Senate and the House. They can pass legislation. So the issue here is we ought not to go home tonight. Let it be very clear, we ought not to go home tonight without funding the homeland security as the Senate has done earlier this week. BLITZER: All right. So let me... HOYER: That shows the path, and they ought to take it. BLITZER: So let me just be precise, Congressman. It's either the House passes or takes up the Senate version of the funding for the Department of Homeland Security, or it's shut down. There's no in between, no additional compromises that may be on the table, something that you'd be willing to extend maybe not for three weeks but maybe six weeks, nine weeks, something along those lines, so that maybe in the process, cooler heads might prevail? HOYER: Well, in the process, what Senator McConnell was found was that, once they had the bills on the House floor that didn't pass, Senator McConnell did what was the rational reasonable common-sense thing to do. He went across the aisle and said, "Look, we have a disagreement. We're not going to solve it. Let's fund the Department of Homeland Security." And 68 senators voted to do that. I'm sure that we would have a similar majority here to do the same thing. And that's what we ought to do. That's what I'm hopeful we will do. And that's what I certainly will support. BLITZER: One final point, though. We heard from our White House correspondent, Michelle Kosinski. They said at the White House if the president had no other option but to sign into law the three-week extension, he reluctantly would have gone ahead and signed that, in order to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Would he have been doing the right thing from your perspective? HOYER: I think if the bill had gotten to him in that form, I think signing it would have been proper for him to do. What is improper is to pretend that the situation's going to be different 21 days from now or you mentioned six weeks or two months, that the situation will be different. And the situation's not going to change. Harry Reid has made that very, very clear. So that we ought not to present the president with that option. What we ought to present the president with is the bill that the Senate passed with over two-thirds majority and that we can pass with a majority in this House. BLITZER: Steny Hoyer, the Congressman, the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives, we'll stay in close touch with you. Obviously, the stakes here in the United States, as far as homeland security are concerned, enormous right now. Thanks very much for joining us. HOYER: You bet. Thank you, Wolf. BLITZER: All right. There's huge breaking news emerging right now from Russia. Want to show you some images coming in from Russian television right now, the Russia state news agency announcing that a prominent Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, has been shot and killed by an unknown assailant. He was shot four times today in central Moscow. Boris Nemtsov was Russia's deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the late 1990s. He's been one of the current president, Vladimir Putin's, most vocal critics. An unknown assailant has reportedly shot and killed the opposition leader in Russia. We'll take a quick break. Much more on this critically important story and all the day's news right after this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: The breaking news coming in from Russia. Take a look at this. Russia state news agency just announcing that the prominent Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has been shot and killed by an unknown assailant. Nemtsov was Russia's deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the late 1990s. He's been one of the current President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics. Let's go to Moscow. Our senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen is joining us on the phone. What a shocking development, Fred. What are they saying over there? FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, absolutely, Wolf. Very shocking developments here on a Friday night. And -- but we're trying to get additional information as to what exactly happened. There are several things that we do know and that apparently that the shooting happened very close to the Kremlin, very close to Vladimir Putin's office. It appears to have happened on a bridge that leads towards St. Basil Cathedral which was really right in the center of Moscow. That's one of the things that makes all of this still very bizarre. Now that's actually an area where on a Friday evening there will be a lot going on. There's a lot of traffic, there's also normally actually a lot of people walking around there as well. The latest that we have from the police is that apparently, he was shot by an unknown assailant, they say, four times. We do know that one of his close friends and another opposition figure has been at the scene since then, has seen and confirmed that the person who was killed is indeed Boris Nemtsov. At this point in time, police say that they are trying and looking for the assailant and at this point trying to chase them down. What we have from them is that they say that there are several what they call operatives and investigators on the scene which seems to indicate that they are trying to look and see who might be behind all this. But of course, this is a huge event here in Moscow and it also comes, Wolf, at a very pivotal time because it's only one day away from a very big opposition rally that was supposed to happen here, of course, criticizing Vladimir Putin, criticizing the crisis -- the economic crisis and of course, also the foreign policy crisis that this country is in at the moment. So this is certainly going to stir a lot of questioning, if you will, from the opposition here in this country -- Wolf. BLITZER: You know, it's pretty shocking when you think about this, one of the main opposition leaders, Boris Nemtsov, shot and killed in Moscow. He gave an interview to CNN's Anthony Bourdain last year. And I want to just read a couple of sentences what he told Anthony Bourdain, speaking of Russia right now, this is the former deputy prime minister of Russia, he said this. He said, "This is a country of corruption. And if you have business, you are in a very unsafe situation. Everybody can press you and destroy your business. That's it. This is the system." And he goes on to really, really criticize what's going on. I sensed, I remember watching that interview and I have seen other interviews he's given. This is a guy who was worried about his own safety and obviously tonight, he has been shot and killed. Tell us a little bit about Boris Nemtsov, Fred. PLEITGEN: Yes, certainly. I mean, certainly he was very worried about his safety and certainly he was one of the most outspoken critics of the system here and of Vladimir Putin as well. He criticized the system very frequently, especially around the Sochi Olympics, criticized what he called was corruption there. He'd also been detained several times. He had been sentenced to jail several times. The last time that he was in prison was in 2011. All of them for criticizing the Putin government. He was a prominent figure also at the many rallies -- opposition rallies here in Moscow and in other places criticizing the Putin government. So this is certainly someone who has had run-ins with the establishment here, with the people tjat he was criticizing and certainly someone who's paid a very heavy price. He is also someone who is, you know, very prominent in Russian politics in general. You mentioned, Wolf, he was deputy prime minister in the Yeltsin administration in the late '90s and then of course was someone who many people believed might become prime minister himself afterwards. But then when Putin took power all of that obviously didn't happen and then he took on more of an opposition role at that point came into brushes. Well, since 2007, he was arrested several times by authorities here, all of it because of opposition activity. Now the other thing that he did, he also founded an opposition movement, the Solidarity Movement as he called it, which frequently held rallies to frequently criticize Vladimir Putin and his government and generally the sort of power system here in Russia. So this was certainly someone who has had his brushes here with the law, with the establishment here. Has paid a heavy price so far and was certainly someone as you said, Wolf, who feared for his safety, who also of course feared for his freedom as well. And again, this comes at a very pivotal time, right before that big opposition rally. It's going to be interesting to see what all of this is going to mean for the opposition movement here in Russia, especially at this very key time right now. Eespecially as we are looking at this time right now, especially as we're looking at this time right now, with the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, with the international sanctions against the Putin government, which in many ways, of course, Putin himself hunkering down, shooting against the West, and of course, at this time, not -- or wants less to have internal criticism. There's been newspapers that have been shut down in Russia, there's been Web sites that have been shut down here in Russia in the past couple of months. So this certainly comes at a very, very important time and is sure to stir a big reaction from the opposition. BLITZER: Yes. It comes at a critically important time. Boris Nemtsov, former deputy prime minister of Russia, shot and killed, assassinated tonight in Moscow. Jim Sciutto is our chief national security correspondent. Big picture right now, this is an awful time in U.S.-Russian relations, Russian relations with the European Union, with NATO and all of a sudden, this happens. Given what's going on in Ukraine right now, the U.S., the European fears that Russia is moving to go ahead and formally annex huge chunks of Ukraine, this is a very worrisome development. JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: No question. This is a dangerous time between Russia and its relations with the West, no question. We see that playing out in Ukraine. And a very dangerous time inside Russia, if you are in any way a member of the opposition or a critic of the government. And this has been going on for a number of years. You see this with the treatment of a previous challenger to Putin, Khodorkovsky, put in prison for a number of years as you remember. I covered the case of Alexander Litvinienko who you remember was a critic of the regime, of the government there. And he was poisoned with polonium. He later died. This was someone who accused the Kremlin of having staged bombings that they blamed on Chechen terrorists. You've had a number of cases like this. And it's interesting in Nemtsov's case. You mentioned his interview with our own Anthony Bourdain a number of months ago. Just two weeks ago he gave an interview where he said that he was afraid that Vladimir Putin would kill him. Now of course, we're many miles away from having any sort of evidence that he was behind this but that gives you a taste of what opposition figures feared the treatment would be from the government, from the authorities, and if not from the authorities themselves than from power centers in Russia that are loyal to the government. And they have reason to. These are not unfounded fears based on the treatment of others who have risen to either challenge or criticize the leadership. Other reactions coming in. We see Senator John McCain just tweeting a few minutes ago, saying that he's very saddened to hear of the death. He had a long relationship with Nemtsov. And also another prominent opposition figure in Russia, the former chess player, as you remember, Gary Kasparov, who became a politician. I covered him during a campaign where he was challenging Putin as president. He said that in Russia you have to -- he said, quoting, in fact, Nemtsov, he said that Nemtsov told him recently in Russia you have to live a long time to see change. Now he will never see change in Russia. So you're seeing a very emotional but also a very worried reaction from members of the opposition there because the worry is very real and it's real for a reason. BLITZER: Yes. It's a great patriot, an opposition leader, very critical of the corruption that's going on in Russia right now. Very critical of Putin himself in that interview with Anthony Bourdain. He did offer some optimism, though, he said this. He said Tony, referring to Anthony Bourdain, I was born here 54 years ago. This is my country. The Russian people are a bit of a trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education declines every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free, has a chance, it's difficult, but we must do it. And now he is dead. SCIUTTO: Think of all the millions of dollars that the U.S. invested in Russia after the fall of the wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, for the expressed purpose of building civil society in Russia. And you had much progress over the years. The decades in the '90s. But we have seen that dismantled in the last decade under Vladimir Putin. In a number of ways, through corruption, no question, through putting a clamp on any sort of independent media in Russia. We certainly see that play out in the Ukraine crisis. If you watch Russian accounts of what's going on in Ukraine, it is a different reality than the way that we cover it and ask questions about it here. We have seen that all dismantled over time. There is no credible political opposition there in terms of having a chance of actually unseating Vladimir Putin. And this is something that the U.S. tried to get involved with, tried to make a difference and frankly invested a lot of diplomatic, capital and financial capital, and we're seeing that all fall apart. BLITZER: Shocking development in Moscow tonight. We're going to stay on top of it. We'll go back to Fred Pleitgen in Moscow, get much more. The Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has been shot and killed. He is a top opponent of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Much more on that coming up. Also, the U.S. vowing to track down the ISIS killer known as Jihadi John. New details of how he managed to escape surveillance in Britain. They are now emerging. We're going to share with you what's going on. Stay with us. There's breaking news happening. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: There are disturbing new questions today about the intelligence failures that may have allowed Jihadi John as he became known to become the ruthless ISIS murderer that he is today. Let's bring in our chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto once again. You're getting new information on what happened. SCIUTTO: Well, the more you look into this, it is very clear that this man was no surprise. He was not new to security services. In fact they first became aware of him in 2009. So we're talking nearly six years ago when he made a trip that they suspected might have been really, truly intended to take into Somalia and join the group al- Shabaab there, the al Qaeda-tied group. In the years since then, they questioned him multiple times, detained him a number of times. This over several years. In fact there were even reports that they've tried to recruit him as an informant inside the Islamist community in Britain to inform on other possible Islamic extremists in the country. He said, no, he would not do that that. But clearly they had something that worried him over the time and the question now, of course, as he has been identified is how many signals were missed and why. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SCIUTTO (voice-over): To the outside world, his face is always obscured by his now familiar black mask. But new details show that Mohammed Emwazi, the terrorist known as Jihadi John, was a familiar face to British authorities for more than five years. The scrutiny began in 2009 when Emwazi was detained in Tanzania on suspicions he intended to travel to Somalia to join the al Qaeda- linked al-Shabaab. Both British and Dutch investigators interviewed him, say friends and his then fiancee. RAFAELLO PANTUCCI, ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE LONDON: There was a community of people in West London from the late 2000 who have gone with -- who got very excited about the conflict that was happening in Somalia. We saw a number of them going out there to fight. And some of them rose up to senior positions within al-Shabaab. Mohammed Emwazi seems to have known some of the people. SCIUTTO: British authorities detain him again in 2010 preventing him from returning to his birth place, Kuwait. "I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started," Emwazi wrote in a June 2010 e-mail to the Muslim advocacy group Cage. In 2011, British court documents obtained by the BBC claim that Emwazi associated with members of an Islamic extremist group that funnels money, fighters and equipment to Somalia. And while he was never charged with a crime. Today British Prime Minister David Cameron defended Britain's domestic intelligence service the MI-5. DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: In my almost five years experience of prime minister, I think they are incredibly impressive, hard working, dedicated, courageous and effective at protecting our country. All of the time they are having to make incredibly difficult judgments. SCIUTTO: They make those difficult judgments in the face of daunting numbers. Britain has thousands of suspected jihadis and jihadi sympathizers. And a senior British diplomat tells CNN that the profile of jihadi recruits has expanded to include rich and poor, educated and uneducated and more and more men and women. Emwazi's case has an alarming parallel to the attacks in Paris. The gunman who stormed the magazine "Charlie Hebdo," the Koachi brothers have been known to French security services for years and put on then taken off surveillance only months before their deadly rampage. (END VIDEOTAPE) SCIUTTO: U.K. authorities lost track of Emwazi in 2013 when after he changed his name to Mohammed al-Eon he then attempted to return to his birthplace in Kuwait. He was blocked from going there. He then left the country and, Wolf, it was determined a few months later in 2013 that he indeed had gone on to Syria. And of course, it was in August of last year when he first appeared in one of those beheading videos. BLITZER: Andso it wouldn't have been -- wouldn't have been that difficult for him to get from the United Kingdom somewhere in Europe, take a train to turkey and cross into Syria? SCIUTTO: That's the thing. And that's what we have seen so many other times, whether the British girls we have seen recently, other people from France, elsewhere in Europe and people attempting from France, elsewhere in New York, and even people attempting from the U.S. now. BLITZER: I want to bring Philip Mudd, our analyst in as well. Were there major blunders that were made? The U.K. had this guy in the radar for at least four or five years. PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: Boy, Jim Sciutto is going to owe me on this because my answer is no. The reason is very simple and straightforward. Intelligence is not evidence. I can watch him on Facebook. I can watch him talk to bad people overseas. I can watch him travel to bad areas. That is not the same. That sense of smell an intelligence officer has to say he's a bad guy, to bring in a court of law and prove it. Intelligence isn't evidence. And that's what you see in this case. BLITZER: Yes. That's a good point. Right? SCIUTTO: No question. It's a great point. And this is the challenge that intelligence authorities have here in the U.S. like they've had in Europe. You can have snippets of information that give you suspicion. But we live in a land of law. BLITZER: Yes. SCIUTTO: Andyou have to follow the law to put these guys in prison. Philip Mud. BLITZER: Same in the U.K. of course as well. All right, guys, stand by. We've got more breaking news coming into THE SITUATION ROOM. This time from Capitol Hill. A Republican effort to temporarily keep the Department of Homeland Security in funding has now failed. The money runs out at midnight, just about six hours or so from now. The clock is ticking. What's going to happen to U.S. homeland security? Stand by. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)


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Former B.C. Lion Joe Fourqurean, a mainstay in the Lions' defensive secondary during the 1970s, has died at the age of 63, the CFL team announced Monday.
Fourqurean, who may have been the most notable Lion to wear No. 14 before quarterbacks Danny McManus and later Travis Lulay came along, died unexpectedly last week in Columbus, Ohio, the Lions said in a statement.
Fourqurean appeared in 122 career games and notched 15 interceptions for the Lions from 1973 to 1981. He was named to the 1977 CFL All-Star team as well as three separate BC Lions Dream Teams ('84, '94 and 2004). Most recently, he was named to the B.C. Lions Wall of Fame in 2011.
"The thoughts and prayers of our entire organization and Lions fans everywhere are with the Fourqurean family at this time," team president and CEO Dennis Skulsky said in a statement. "Joe was a true gentleman and one of the many players who have helped build our organization into what it is today. I am pleased in knowing, as I'm sure our fans are too, that before his passing Joe took his rightful place on our Wall of Fame in 2011."


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TechEd 2005: Paul Flessner Day 2 Keynote Demo (Visual Studio 2005)
I had the pleasure of giving a Visual Studio 2005 demo for Paul Flessner's Day 2 Keynote here at TechEd this week. This was my first time giving a keynote demo, and it's hard to imagine the amount of work which goes into an exec-level keynote before you do one. But now that it's over it was an extremely fun and exciting 10 minutes for me to be in front of ~8000 people! In case you couldn't make it, here's a recap.
I started by showing a Windows Forms application I built with Visual Studio 2005 to do some rich analysis of the RFID data we're collecting at TechEd. At TechEd this year we have RFID readers at various spots around the convention center, and attendees receive an RFID tag at registration. Don't worry, these tags are completely anonymous and are randomly distributed during the registration process, but just by walking around TechEd this technology can help us gather aggregate data to improve TechEd and other events in the future. For example, I showed a graph with the number of attendees vs. proctors in the Hands-on Labs area, and in the future we will be able to do things like send alerts to staffers in other parts of the convention center to let them know when we need extra help in certain areas. We also performed what I believe is the world's first "RFID-based raffle" by raffling off 5 Creative Portable Media Centers to people with tags we detected in the keynote hall that morning. I should point out that the RFID platform we're using at TechEd is actually based on an early version of the technology we're building to help Microsoft .NET developers seamlessly integrate RFID intelligence right into their applications.
I then informed Paul that a critical piece of hardware we need for his demo wasn't there yet, but we had an RFID tag on it and RFID readers back stage - SQL Server 2005 would be aware of the hardware arriving once the RFID readers picked it up, but we wanted a real-time alert in our applications. So we added that on the fly by using SQL Server 2005's new Service Broker (which gives us an asynchronous programming model right in the database). Once the Service Broker processes our message, it activates a Stored Procedure which sends the alert back to our client application. This Stored Procedure was written entirely in Visual Basic, which shows how SQL Server 2005 can host the Common Language Runtime and give me full access to the .NET Framework and a language I already know - in this case, Visual Basic - for writing my database logic. (That's great for me, since my T-SQL is a little shaky <g>)
The critical piece of hardware we were waiting on was none other than The Finalizer! Weighing in at about 120 lbs, The Finalizer is a BattleBot which runs on the .NET Compact Framework and packs a punch with a spinning saw blade and razor-sharp axe. It was a lot of fun working with The Finalizer, although you should see the rider he required for his dressing rooms - something about a bowl full of green M&M's and a half-dozen bottles of WD-40. Quite the prima donna... <g>
An assorted list of other features I showed includes:
- Some of the new Windows Forms controls, such as MenuStrip and DataGridView, we are shipping with Visual Studio 2005. I showed how these help you build applications which resemble Microsoft Office, Microsoft Money, and other applications your users are already likely to be familiar with.
- Smart Tags - which are a new feature in Visual Studio 2005 that gives you quick access to common tasks you might want to perform on a UI element.
- Code Snippets - which give you hundreds of pre-written blocks of code for performing all sorts of tasks. Your Code Snippets library can also be easily extended with your own code, and you can share this with your team to help enforce best practices.
- Visual Basic's new AutoCorrect feature - which brings Microsoft Word's "spell check" paradigm right into your code editor. It not only tells you that you have an error, but it will even try to suggest a fix. Very cool!
The other great thing about the keynote was getting to meet Samantha Bee, from the Daily Show. She's very nice and cool to work with; and unlike the BattleBot, she didn't have a monstrous ego. :-)
While you're here, check out some of the cool Podcasts of TechEd 2005. Here are a few related to this keynote:
- Brian Keller kicks the Podsquade out of the Green Room behind stage of the keynote address at TechEd 2005.
- Ilya Bukshteyn interviews Paul Flessner after completing his keynote address Day 2 on TechEd 2005.
- Brian Keller in makeup prior to going out to give a demo during Paul Flessner's Day 2 Keynote address from TechEd 2005
Enjoy the rest of TechEd 2005!


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This is one of my Thrift Store finds this week. I paid $2 and thought it would be perfect to put my hand towel over in my bathroom.
But then I couldn't figure out how it should hang….
so I tried a few different ways.
And then I folded my towel and put it back on the counter (small elevated shelf) next to the sink.
I think it looks nice and I love the color but I'm just not sure if I want it to take up so much room on my counter.
(different towel, side view)
(Towels, soap and lotion set from Anthropologie)
Don't forget to imagine my bathroom in a beautiful shade of slate blue. I still haven't painted! haha!
Do you have any 'repurposing ideas for this item….
or should I donate it back to the Thrift store?
What's your opinion?
I need some girlfriend HELP!!!


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85 Ways To Tie A Tie
>> More DIY Ideas <<
I have shared many ways to tie a tie. Here are some tie knot examples.
If you are like me, you may be wondering how many ultimate ways to tie a necktie. Well, you can save your brain cells. As explained in this book by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, there are many ways to tie a tie theoretically, but only 85 practical ways to tie a tie. They proved the 85 ways and shown all the ways in the book. However, that's not the only reason I am featuring this book today.
What fascinated me was how author Fink and Mao approach unknown questions. Being research physicists at the University of Cambridge, the authors dealt the problem with knot theory and topology. they developed a theory of knot sequences as random walks on a triangular lattice. It's a phenomenon book. Check it out. Not only your ties will look different, but also you will be inspired to look at problems differently.
Amazon – 85 ways to tie a tie
And lastly, here is a video tutorial for how to tie a tie – the popular half Windsor knot. Enjoy!


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And the winner of the
Take Joy!
Giveaway is….
Cheryl from Thinking About Home!
I hope you all enJoy! the rest of 2013
and have a blessed beginning to 2014!
For some Christmas inspiration,
and just a bit more Joy!
click on the video below!
And the winner of the
Take Joy!
Giveaway is….
Cheryl from Thinking About Home!
I hope you all enJoy! the rest of 2013
and have a blessed beginning to 2014!
For some Christmas inspiration,
and just a bit more Joy!
click on the video below!
We've spent a month's worth of posts thinking about ways to Take Joy! (Though that month stretched out quite a bit!) We've thought about what Joy! is, and what Joy! isn't. About the source of true Joy! About ways to fill ourselves with Joy! and share a bit of it with others around us. And I think we've just scratched the surface… especially in the sharing area.
There's one thought I'd like to leave you with before wrapping up this series. It's been very important to me over the years. It's a thought about how we think. Because what goes on in our heads every day affects our lives and those around us. And what goes INTO our heads on a daily basis affects what goes on in our heads.
Kind of like the "garbage in, garbage out" principle.
That's an old computer programmer line… if a program is badly written, it won't work smoothly and produce the desired result. Our bodies are like that too… If we fill them with junk, we can expect to get run down and feel yucky. Same goes for our heads. If we fill our heads constantly with the "bad"… and there is quite a bit of "bad" out there to be had… there won't be much Joy! to tap into when we need it.
So what to do?
When all you hear about is war and strife
and everyone is arguing about ducks
and movies are filled with violence
and the news is filled with terrible stories
and Facebook makes sure you know about all of it?
When the world seems especially gloomy, the best thing to do is make a decision about what kind of things you want to think about. Yes, we live in this crazy world, and every day we see so much that is wrong. But we need to remember that there is a lot of what's right and good in this world too. And that's what we need to fill our heads with, so our thoughts and actions can reflect good things.
Finally brothers (and sisters!),
Whatever things are true,
Whatever things are honest,
Whatever things are just,
Whatever things are pure,
Whatever things are lovely,
Whatever things are of good report,
If there is any virtue,
If there is any praise,
Think on these things.
Philippians 4:8 (paraphrased)
I'll be posting Day 31 but the end of this week
with the winner of the Take Joy! Giveaway!
There's still some time to sign up by leaving a
comment on Day 26! Just click here!!!
To read the whole series,
click on the picture below!
One of the best ways we can share Joy! with others is to open our homes to them. From big family gatherings on a holiday, to a cup of tea and some muffins, to a bed hastily made on the couch because the roads are icy… Hospitality is always appreciated. And it's not about being the perfect hostess, or having everything "Pinterest Perfect!" (I LOVE Pinterest, by the way!) Hospitality is about making room for others in your life… Offering some comfort and some friendship… Taking the time to read a story to a little person or making a shy teen feel like they're important. It could be a warm cup of coffee or a cool glass of ice water. It's all about sharing Joy!
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2
Since our nest became empty, Hubby and I have had this feeling deep down that we've been blessed with our home for a reason, and that it needs to be shared. It needs to be open… ready for family, friends, neighbors, strangers… and maybe even some angels. It's been a lot of work to clear out twenty-some years of clutter and make some room in our home and our lives for the "whoevers" that may come along. But we want to be ready. We want the door to be open.
I know that our house is not "company ready" every day… With a busy life, lots of art orders, and a variety of home update projects, there have been days that our house looks like a Michaels/Lowes/packing supply explosion, but I've found a few things that can help keep me keep a ready-for-anything attitude when it comes to someone popping in suddenly…
Morning Chores
Since our girls were little, we had a list of chores
to run through each morning. I've found when I'm
consistent with this, the house doesn't get too messy.
I can even skip some of the chores on many days!
Parlor Mentality
Back in the day, our grandparents kept the parlor ready
for guests… often to the point of not letting the children in!
I don't believe in going to that extreme, but it does help to have
a room that stays relatively clean when unexpected guests arrive!
First Impressions
Something else that has helped me over the years is to stand at
the doorway and look in the entry to our home as if I'm a guest
or the UPS guy. That usually has me gathering up a few stray things
or grabbing a vacuum to give the entry rug a once over!
Five Minute Pick-Up
If you do get a bit of warning that company is coming,
it's amazing what you can do in just five minutes to make the house
ready for guests! We're talking triage here… gather your stray coffee
cups, straighten the stack of magazines, fluff the pillows on the couch,
empty the trash, and put away that last load of laundry!
Clear the Table
For some reason, our dining room table seems to catch things that
come in the door… purses, groceries, receipts, important papers…
…and for some reason, the dining room table is where guests congregate!
It's helped to set up a receiving station near the door to have a place
to catch the entryway clutter, but I often still need to make a point
to clear the table so there's room for good conversation!
Most of all, remember that any guests that come to your home do not usually come to "see" you home… They come to visit with you! Forget the little piles of clutter when they are there and share some Joy! with your company. Open up the door and say "Come on in!"
Speaking of sharing Joy!…
Click here to sign up for a free
framed papercutting!
Winner to be announced on Day 31
of the Take Joy! series!
Click below to read the entire series…
Joyful, Joyful, we adore Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,
Op'ning to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day!
All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flow'ry meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain
Call us to rejoice in Thee!
Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blest,
Well-spring of the joy of living,
Ocean-depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother –
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
Lift us to the joy divine!
Take Joy!
on this First Sunday of Advent!
And don't forget to sign up for the Giveaway!!!
Thought you might like this classic by O. Henry…
Giving that comes straight from the heart,
with no thought of what you'll get in return.
Isn't that where our hearts should be?
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart,
not reluctantly, or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
As October's *ahem* 31Days project is stretching out toward Thanksgiving and Christmas, the time of the year when we think most about giving and hospitality, I'm praying that the "giving from the heart" principle will firmly plant itself in mine. I think it will make a huge difference in planning and shopping for the holidays. When we forget self, and think only of others, it really changes our perspective. What a great way to Take Joy!
And in the spirit of giving…
A Take Joy! Giveaway!
To make the button for the Take Joy! series, I actually did a
papercutting for the base artwork, and added the words in PhotoShop.
We just finished framing it…
… And we think it needs to go to one of your homes!
Post a comment on this post to be included in the Giveaway!
We'll do a drawing from all the names, and the winner
will be announced on Day 31 of the Take Joy! series!
You'll have to pay attention, because I'm not sure of the actual date of that post!
I vote we move the 31 Days Project to mid-Winter.
When nothing else is happening, and there's plenty of time to blog.
Now… Back to Taking Joy!
One of the best ways to spread Joy! to those around us is to share what we have with others. When we hold onto things tightly, and hoard them away for ourselves, we can start to resemble a toddler declaring "Mine!" when it comes to sharing their toys. Sharing is much more fun than fighting over stuff. Most of us have more than we need, anyway. This time of year, as we move into the Holiday season, is an especially good time to think about sharing… What do we have that we can share with others? Let's think practically…
Extra clothes? Things we've outgrown?
Do you know someone with kids a bit smaller than yours?
Too many toys? Can we make some room in the toy chest?
It will be overflowing in just a few weeks.
An excess of Holiday decorations?
Is there a newly married couple who might be lacking
ornaments for their tree or need a Nativity Set?
A cake, pie, or batch of muffins?
Do the two of us really need to eat all that,
or would our neighbor appreciate a surprise?
A too-big pot of soup you made and now you wonder
if you thought you were cooking for an army?
Could you freeze it in meal-size portions for
an elderly shut-in at church?
A free afternoon? Is there a young mom that
might appreciate the chance to grocery shop alone?
Your secret chocolate stash?
Would your teen-ager feel extra special if you
pulled a Hershey bar out of nowhere during a
soul-baring after-school conversation?
Or your Hubby after a long day at work?
When we start thinking about what we can give away instead of what we can gather for ourselves, our perspective on Joy! really takes on a new shape. Our thoughts on what is "enough" really begin to change… allowing us to give away more. And there is so much more Joy! in giving than in receiving!
Giving away some Joy! can be as simple as a smile.
In seventh grade, my new friend Rosie and I had an idea. I can't remember if it came from the suggestion of a teacher or from something we read, but somehow our twelve year-old minds got the idea to try an experiment in the halls of our middle school. Which, by the way, was a rather intimidating place. We two were the shortest kids in our class. (We're still shorter than the average 7th grader!) We had just come to this new school from our familiar and cozy elementary schools. We both had a case of shyness around new people and in new situations. And there were big kids… NINTH GRADERS. Nobody made eye contact, but just pushed and shoved their way to their next class. We felt like we were swept along in a rip current when we stepped into those halls.
So we concocted a plan.
We would try smiling at anyone that looked us in the eye.
And maybe even say "Hi."
And you know what? We saw that smiling and saying hello did make a difference! No, the between-class traffic jams didn't get much better. But over time, as we smiled at anyone that was paying attention, we began to see some of them smile back. Sometimes they smiled at us first. And if we met them in an empty hall, we'd say "Hi," and they'd say "Hi," even if we didn't know each other.
It was cool.
And it still works, even in real life.
In the long line at the post office.
With the crying toddler at the grocery store.
And with his exhausted mom.
Giving away a smile can help someone else
Take Joy!
Click on the picture above to see
more of our daughter Kate's artwork!
It only takes a spark to get a fire going
and soon all those around will warm up in its glowing.
That's how it is with God's love,
once you've experienced it.
You spread the love to everyone,
You want to pass it on.
Giving is a Happiness
I know someone who visits friends
a basket at her side.
Replete with portions of her heart,
a joy her hands provide.
She'll bring a freshly minted tea,
perhaps a book or two,
and jam she made a summer day,
a daffodil she grew.
For giving is a happiness
that spreads from just a start
By someone with a basketful
of treasures from the heart.
~Virginia Covey Boshell~
Our next thoughts on how to Take Joy!
will be about sharing Joy! with those around us!
Sometimes it's the little things.
Tea and cookies.
A hot bubble bath.
A shiny sink and just-mopped floor.
A quiet few minutes before the kids
coming tumbling down the stairs.
A walk on the beach.
A good book.
A Jane Austen or Charles Dickens movie marathon.
A "just because" note in the mailbox.
A steaming loaf of homemade bread with butter.
Brand new crayons.
What sorts of little things help you to Take Joy! each day?
The art of being happy lies in the power of
extracting happiness from common things.
~Henry Ward Beecher~


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What do you think of yourself
God created you, and you are special to Him. He has a good plan for your life, and He loves you unconditionally. You may only think of what you do wrong and what you think you are not, but God sees what you will be as you and He work together to bring good changes in you.
Written by Joyce Meyer


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|2017 GCAA National Convention Starts Monday, December 11
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The 2017 GCAA National Convention kicks off in Las Vegas at the Planet Hollywood Resort on Monday, December 11. The 34th annual convention will have its largest registered attendance with 315 head and assistant coaches.
"Our registration to date is outstanding and continues the increases we have experienced since our move to Las Vegas in 2009," said GCAA CEO Gregg Grost.
"Obviously, our Board made a wise decision when they approved our move from Orlando. With the GCAA and WGCA now holding numerous joint sessions and integrating their respective schedule of events, we now have a must-attend golf industry event."
The GCAA convention has evolved from approximately 100 head coaches, primarily from the largest Division I schools, gathering prior to the PGA Show to talk about the upcoming National Championship to a meeting of golf industry leaders from around the world interacting with head and assistant coaches from every division of men's college golf. With more than a third of the annual GCAA total membership now attending, it is where the business of college golf gets done.
This year, representatives from the USGA/WAGR, R&A, and PGA of America
"Our GCAA Corporate Partners support has been a critical part of the growth of our organization over the past decade", said Grost. "Providing a platform for sponsors and coaches to meet and discuss innovations in the industry, see new products and just talk golf is very important. It is truly one stop shopping for our coaches".
"The GCAA National Convention has certainly come a long way since that first year at the Day's Inn in Buena Vista, FL." said Grost. "I remember like it was yesterday, I was an impressionable young head coach at the time and listened intently as the legends of college golf talked about our sport and looked to the future". Who could have ever imagined the changes we have seen in college golf since the 80's.
What will college golf look like in the next five to ten years? Who knows, but odds are coaches will be talking about all the possibilities in Las Vegas next week.


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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…which is why we are dedicating this post to some of our favorite film & TV shows that we think would make some great wedding themes & inspiration! We're spanning various centuries, countries & cultures to bring you the best in unique wedding themes:
Downton Abbey – our favorite British royal TV family, we've seen family drama, relationship scandals, war – machinations for the perfect TV series. But forget that, let's talk about the wedding details! Traditional long-sleeve, flow-y gowns with lace, buttons & a tiara or ornate head piece would be great touches for the bride. Guests should have lots of brooches, big hats & decor should include gold and lots of tall candles & chandeliers! A chateau couldn't hurt either..
The Great Gatsby/Boardwalk Empire – we may be talking about the same time period as Downton Abbey, but it's the US during the 1920s. Prohibition, outlaws, the first talkies – it's very scandalous, yet glamourous all at the same time. What we love about these shows is the extravagant outfits for women – lots of feathes, pearl necklaces, red lipstick and silk dresses. Men wear crisp three piece suits & you should enjoy barrels of liquor and champagne!
Dallas – the re-boot of this family drama was one of the best things to happen to mainstream television! Not only does it bring back the true sense of "family drama" but it reminded us of how great southern weddings are and how even if we don't live there, we can make one for ourselves!
Girls – a TV show about twenty-something girls living in Brooklyn trying to survive the real world. Who wouldn't relate? With a shotgun wedding in the first season finale, it taught us that Brooklyn weddings are nothing but ordinary. Beautiful city street photographs, views of the Brooklyn, Manhattan & Williamsburg bridges make a for a beautiful sight. You can even have your reception at a bar – how fun is that?!
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