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Blueberries are in abundance right now and they are juicy, sweet and delicious! Give me a bowl of fresh berries to snack on and I am a happy camper. Having said that, sometimes I want something a little more fancy and dessert like. That’s where these blueberry oat bars come in. The blueberry filling is sandwiched in between two layers of oatmeal crust that is spiced up with cinnamon and nutmeg. These bars are not overly sweet which means you can enjoy one with a cup of coffee or hot tea mid morning and not get a sugar rush.
This recipe originated from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen and you can see her recipe here. The recipe below reflects my changes to the original. The next time I make these I might add a little unsweetened coconut to the oatmeal mixture as well.
If you don’t eat a lot of sweets these bars will most likely be sweet enough as written.We found them to be just right. However if you are used to a lot of sweet treats you might need to add a little more sweetness to the berries or the oatmeal mixture.
- 1 pint blueberries
- 1/4 cup real Maple Syrup
- 1/4 cup apple juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with enough water or juice to form a smooth paste or use arrowroot
- 3 cups oatmeal* (regular, not instant)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 ounces unsweetened applesauce
- 6 tablespoons (3/8 cup) real Maple Syrup
- 6 tablespoons (3/8 cup) water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped – optional
Preheat oven to 375F. Spray an 8×8-inch baking dish with non stick spray.
In a small saucepan, combine the blueberries, maple syrup, and juice. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. When it boils, stir in the vanilla and the cornstarch or arrowroot mixture. Continue to stir as the mixture boils and thickens. Remove from heat and set aside.
Put 1 1/2 cups of the oatmeal into a blender or food processor and grind it to a fine powder. Pour it into a medium-sized mixing bowl and add the remaining oatmeal, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Stir in the apple sauce, maple syrup, water, and vanilla, and mix well, add nuts if using.
Spread half of the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing well to cover the bottom of the pan. Spoon the blueberry filling over the batter, and cover the blueberries with the remaining batter.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned. Allow to cool before cutting into bars.
Note: these bars are not very sweet so taste the blueberries and the oatmeal mixture and add more sweetener of your choice if desired.
Yield: 16 Servings
Serving Size: 1 bar
Nutritional Information – per serving
123 Calories, 2g Total Fat, 2g Protein, 24g Carbohydrates, 0mg Cholesterol, 81mg Sodium, 2g Fiber.
110 Calories, 1g Fat, 2g Protein, 24g Carbohydrates, omg Cholesterol, 57g Sodium, 2g Fiber
Recipe adapted from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
On a lark Sunday hubby Tom said he wanted to go the California State Fair! We hadn’t been for a couple of years so I was game to go. Before going we did talk about the fact that we might not be able to find anything healthy there to eat. We packed a couple of snacks with us and off we went.
The Sacramento Zoo had a nice jungle display at the fair.
There was a Hall of Heroes from movies. Remember R2D2 from Star Wars?
What about Wall-E? I loved that movie.
Each CA county had a display showcasing their highlights. Sacramento county is proud of their Farm to Forks program. We were reminded that California is the largest agricultural producer in the nation. The Sacramento region contains 7,000-8,000 acres of boutique farms in addition to commercial growers. The greater Sacramento area is host to more than 50 farmer’s markets, many of them year round fixtures including the one I shop at in Placer County.
Sorry for the blurry photo but I did find a veggie sandwich on a whole wheat bun for lunch! It was mostly lettuce with a few little slices of tomato and some avocado.The fair guide had a list of the food vendors which included a special section that noted who carried items with fresh fruit and veggies.
When we came upon this fruit stand I was so happy!
They even provided a washing station so you could enjoy your fresh fruit on the spot. I love this!
They offered raw almonds, raisins, grapes and watermelon too. It took a little looking around and getting off the beaten path to find the healthy eats at the fair but it’s good to know that there are some guilt free eats among a sea of deep fried everything. We even saw deep fried watermelon! Really?
Happy healthy trails!
Thanks for being here. Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question.
What is the strangest food you have seen at the fair?
Deep fried watermelon has to be at the top of my list.
Holy Moly, that blueberry middle looks so inviting in those bars! Michigan blueberries are due to hit the stores around here any day now…I might have to make up a batch of these bars! What a fun time at the fair. I haven’t been to a state fair in years. The local ones are just such a carnival I’m really not into the rides and all the fried foods, so I avoid them.
Indeed the blueberry filling is amazing and photographs so well. 🙂 We skip the fried food and the rides – I think it’s age related! Ha-ha.
I love blueberries – my favorite fruit! I always buy a bunch with the intentions of making something and then just eat them all out of hand 😀
Strangest food at the fair is a hot beef sundae. Ick.
Nothing wrong with eating blueberries plain! A hot beef sundae – I think my tummy just did a flip!
Oh my. I’m a watermelon-lover, but fried? I think I need to lie down. 🙂
Honestly, if I get my pronto pup, I don’t pay any attention to the other food. LOL
I don’t know what a pronto pup is – gonna have to google that one! 🙂
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These oat bars sound fabulous. And fat free? Insane. Definitely not calorie free, BUT I’ll take fat free for sure! And your photo is amazinnnng. I want to eat my screen 🙂
It’s state fair time here in Ohio, and I haven’t been in a really long time. I do remember the first time I ate a fried candy bar at the state fair (only in Ohio! lol)
How was the fried candy bar?! The blueberry bars aren’t too bad nutritionally for a baked item anyway. 🙂
Yum! Those blueberry bars look so so good!
I think the strangest thing I’ve ever seen at a fair is likely a deep friend mars bar. People were going crazy for them but I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea.
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I WANT THOSE BARS NOW!!!!! Those look amazing!!!!!! Pinned away!
The state fairs are crazy! I saw a news story on our local one for foods only – UGH! No thank you – I would get sick! 😉 One was a pickle wrapped in bacon & deep fried….
I have to wonder why the food is so unhealthy at the fair. It should be a celebration of the local farmers and the fresh food they grow! No matter I till managed to find some healthy eats among the mass of fried offerings.
The fair looks GREAT Tami. So do the blueberry bars
Just found this recipe. YUM! It’s in the oven! But I had to sub blueberry-pomegranite juice for the apple juice since I didn’t have any apple juice. This is beyond state fair good – this is holiday fare!
Holy Toledo these things are fantastic!!! Made them tonight and love them.
Thanks for the great recipe-exactly what my sweet tooth needed.
Won’t let me rate the recipe for some reason; but it gets 5 Stars from me.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The 18th-ranked Washington men's tennis team (19-7, 3-4) defeated unranked Hofstra Saturday afternoon, 4-0, in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships on the campus of Harvard University.
The Huskies jumped off to a fast start as they claimed two of out three doubles matches. Playing in the No. 1 position senior duo Jeremy Berman and Andy Posavac defeated Sergey Mikeladze and Chris Conrad, 8-2. Matt Hanlin and Andrej Bizjak quickly blanked the Pride's No. 3 duo of Sergio Teixeira and Peter Harjes, 8-0. Dillon Ruby and Ari Strasberg did not finish their match.
With a 1-0 advantage, Washington went to work in singles play. Jeremy Berman, playing in the No. 3 position for the Huskies, met up with Hofstra's Teixeira and won the match, 6-1, 6-0. Sophomore Dillon Ruby faced Harjes in the sixth position and defeated him in two sets, 6-0, 6-1. Matt Hanlin, who is currently ranked 55th by the ITA took on Mikeladze and defeated him in two sets, 6-2, 6-0, clinching the win for the Huskies. Andrej Bizjak, Ari Strasberg, and Marius Lunde were unable to finish their matches.
Washington will face the winner of the Harvard-Notre Dame match in the second round of play on Sunday at noon.
SINGLES1. Matt Hanlin (UW) d. Sergey Mikeladze (HOF) 6-2, 6-02. Andrej Bizjak (UW) vs. Chris Conrad (HOF) DNF3. Jeremy Berman (UW) d. Sergio Teixeira (HOF) 6-1, 6-04. Ari Strasberg (UW) vs. Duane Williams (HOF) DNF5. Marius Lunde (UW) vs. James Tsai (HOF) DNF6. Dillon Ruby (UW) d. Peter Harjes (HOF) 6-0, 6-1
DOUBLES1. Berman/Andy Posavac (UW) d. Mikeladze/Conrad 8-22. Ruby/Strasberg (UW) vs. Williams/Tsai (HOF) DNF3. Hanlin/Bizjak (UW) d. Teixeira/Harjes (HOF) 8-0
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C.P. Group has continuously operated the “CP Dream” project to foster youths’ competency for professional football clubs. Youths are selected to join in fundamental training courses, as well as courses for professionals, at the Bangkok United Football Club (BUFC) Academy. Participating youths are eligible for scholarships from the Group to study at Bangkok Christian College until they finish high school. The project helps youths realize their dreams by providing them with opportunities for education, and the possibility of becoming a professional football player on Thailand’s national team.


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Since defecting for $125 million in June, Dustin Johnson has proven to be one of LIV Golf’s strongest assets — and now has the accolades and prize money to back it up.
With a 15th-place finish at LIV’s Bangkok Invitational this past weekend, Johnson has secured enough points to clinch the inaugural LIV Golf Individual Championship ahead of the final regular-season event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The title comes with an $18 million cash prize, pushing Johnson’s on-course earnings for the season — between individual and team winnings — to almost $31 million. The 38-year-old has five top-10 finishes, including a dramatic win at LIV’s Boston tournament.
“It’s an honor to be LIV’s first individual season champion,” Johnson said in a statement. “Our team is in a really good position with two events to go and I’m looking forward to further contributing to LIV Golf’s exciting story and continued growth.”
“The first chapter of LIV Golf’s history could not be written without Dustin Johnson’s name,” said LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner Greg Norman.
The second- and third-place spots — which carry $8 million and $4 million payouts, respectively — are very much up for grabs ahead of the Jeddah Invitational.
After that tournament, LIV will finish out its inaugural season with a knockout-style Team Championship at Trump National Doral in Miami, where teams will compete for a $16 million first prize out of a historic $50 million purse.
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Microsoft just released a commercial highlighting 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows 10. Main point: It is Familiar.
Windows 10 is getting close. The new Windows release will be available starting July 29 and it is a free upgrade, making this already a very desirable update. Microsoft released on Sunday a 46 second long commercial highlighting 10 reasons to Upgrade to Windows 10.
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Microsoft says: "Discover why Windows 10 is the best combination of the Windows you already know, plus lots of great improvements you’ll love having. And all of your stuff comes with you, so you’ll be ready to do great things from the get-go."
Microsoft drives home the point that Windows 10 is familiar. It takes the best things form Windows 7 and Windows 8 and adds new things. Microsoft wants to make sure that existing Windows users do not feel intimidated by the new Windows release.
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Windows 10 is the most important Windows release in a very long time for Microsoft. If all pans out as planed, Microsoft could become bigger than ever. The Windows 10 promise is to delivery a unified user experience across all devices. If successful, Microsoft will be ahead of Apple, who still runs two Operating systems with OS X and iOS.
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LG is reportedly planning to release a new version of the LG V35 ThinQ. The new LG V35 ThinQ is going to be a super-exclusive version of its flagship of the same name. The new version is expected to launch this August and will be priced at $1,790. The phone will be a part of LG’s Signature range of electronics. LG released the V30 Signature Edition back in December 2017 and the edition was limited to 300 units.
The price range of the new phone is higher and to justify the price LG has added some new features. The new version of the LG V35 ThinQ will have a storage of 256 GB which is way more than the 64 GB storage found in the regular LG V35 ThinQ. Also, the body could be similar to the ceramic one found on the LG V30 Signature Edition which was released in December last year. The new phone will have a special scratch-resistance body.
But the outlet is expected to be the same as the standard V35 ThinQ. So the new version will sport the same 6 inch OLED display, Snapdragon 845 processor, 6 GB RAM and dual rear cameras. If LG goes forward with their plans to release the V35 Signature Edition phone, it will be exclusive like last year’s LG V30 Signature Edition.
Last year’s edition was only sold in Korea and was limited to only 300 units. LG is not the only company to have released a premium version of one of its flagship phones. Huawei recently released the Mate RS Porsche Design and Oppo has revealed a Lamborghini version of its new Find X. With the release of the new Signature Edition models, LG hopes to raise the value of its brand.


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The brevity of the note and its lack of doctrinal significance prevented it from gaining frequent quotation in the early Christian literature, but it appears in Marcion's canon as well as in the Muratorian, whilst Tertullian mentions, and Origen expressly quotes it.
A quotation from this gospel is given by Epiphanius.
The quotation shows that this gospel was the expression of complete pantheism.
The difficulty stated in the foregoing quotation, although now mainly of historic importance, exerted great influence upon the development of the American census prior to 1900.
On the title-page of both is the quotation "In his Temple doth every man speak of his honour."

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text: Reacquaint yourself with the world's greatest hymns, and the stories behind them. Inspirational treasuries include complete music, lyrics, and personal accounts of how the songs have changed lives. Books are softcover, each with 150 hymns on vintage-look, rag-edge pages. 308 pages. 6 1/4" wide x 9" high.


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This card is one that I made for my husband to send to a former co-worker of his. Sadly the man's wife passed away last week because of cancer. Since it was for a man being given by a man, I wanted it to look masculine too.
On this one I used the painter's tape technique, you are asking "what is that"? Well you take a piece of blue painter's tape, long enough to go across your card front, then lay it across your ink pad (sticky side down) and lightly press the tape onto the ink pad, then take the inked up tape and lay it on your card stock and lightly press the tape to transfer the ink onto your card stock. Very simple and no two cards will be alike either. When done, then stamp your image on top of your stripes. Done! Simple and quick.
Here is what I used:
Stamp sets: Lovely As A Tree and So Sorry (both sets are a must have)
Ink: Early Espresso, Soft Sky and Pear Pizzazz
Card stock: Whisper White, Soft Sky and Early Espresso
Blue Painter's tape
Why not give this technique a try, I bet you will like it too! Mary


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A moist and fluffy chocolate chip muffin makes even the fussiest kids love breakfast. freeze them and you’ve got weekend mornings covered.
This one needs no introduction, it’s a classic that never fails to deliver smiles and a mad dash to get the last one remaining, whether as a snack or a Breakfast there’s something comforting about homemade chocolate chip muffins.
BREAKFAST IDEA 5 – CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS.
I bet you’ve seen a million of these chocolate chip muffins floating on the net but does it really matter?
All it does is show you how versatile, easy and popular they are. I bake them for the simple joy of filling my home with the aroma of freshly-baked muffins, Just make them this weekend and see how the kids are drawn to it like magnets, like I mentioned earlier even the fussiest eater can’t make a….well, fuss over these.
So I decided, chocolate chip muffins are a must on my month long theme of BREAKFAST.
To my regular readers I apologize for the repeat of these few lines but if you’ve just stumbled here,
Did you miss any of my other Breakfast themed recipes?
If you did, here’s the list for you to go through, click on the names and they’ll take you to the recipes,
The chocolate chip muffin recipe I’m using here is basic. Vanilla and chocolate chips are my hero ingredients here. If you are a first-time baker(like I was a year ago). The first thing you’ll need to do is achieve the airy. the fluffy texture of a good muffin, I had to make a few tough, dense, rock-hard muffins until I finally got it right.
What do you think is the secret for a fluffy, moist chocolate chip muffin?
I’m not an expert when it comes to baking, all I’ve learned so far is by trial and error and one of the most important fact about baking a good muffin I learned, is to never stir the ingredients too much and use a folding movement to incorporate them. I use a fork to gently break the tiny flour lumps I find in the batter. This means the folding of the batter should be done in less than ten movements of the spoon you are using.
How long should I bake the muffins?
Depending on the type of oven you are using, the ideal bake time would be between 20 to 25 minutes. for me, twenty-two minutes is how long it takes to get a good batch of muffins.
How should the chocolate chip batter look like?
The batter should be thick and should not fall off the spoon quite so easily, slightly thick with a wet texture.
CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFIN.
Please make sure to read the recipe instructions at least once to avoid mistakes.
Makes 12 cupcakes
2 cups of plain flour
4 teaspoons of baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
100g butter(1 and 1/4 cup)
2 and1/2 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 cup milk
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Before you start mixing all the ingredients together, make sure they are at room temperature, especially the eggs, milk, and butter.
Preheat the oven to 170C(375F) and line your baking pan with paper muffin cups.
In a large bowl, sieve flour, baking powder, and salt while in a separate bowl combine sugar, Vanilla, eggs, Butter and the milk. Mix the wet ingredients until the sugar melts.
Once this is done, gently pour in the wet ingredients to the dry and fold in the batter so the ingredients are mixed. Keep the folding to a minimum. As I mentioned before, the more you stir the more the batter becomes stiff resulting in hard, dense muffins, if you find tiny bits of flour lumps just break them with a fork.
Fold in the semisweet chocolate chip.
Spoon in two or three tablespoons of the batter into the muffin paper cups and bake for 20-25 minutes.
Once they are baked, leave them to cool, remove the muffins from the muffin tin and enjoy.
The weekend is here friends and I need a break and enjoy the weekend with the family but join me next week again when I continue on more breakfast-themed recipes.

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“As you can likely tell” Nathaniel Rateliff said in between songs “These are quite a bit different from the songs by The Night Sweats.’’ A quiet, seated crowd seemed to agree with tepid laughter.
The last time most of us had seen Nathaniel Rateliff was during his tenure as a frontman of The Night Sweats, who had performed at Surly Brewing about six months before. The last time I had seen them was when they performed in the blazing heat of a summer sun during Hinterland in Iowa. Nathaniel, then, was more of an entertainer. His band took the stage first to intro a song, and introduced him as he walked on stage to grand applause. He seemed to venture around the stage more during songs, and on the last few bars of some tunes, wildly threw his guitar across stage to be caught by a prepared and talented roadie.He performed what may have been the greatest feat that weekend, in finally being able to get a vast majority of concertgoers to stand up from their air couches and picnic blankets – and dance. Tonight in the colder, darker State Theater however, there was no dancing. With the exception of a small group of people in the front row who stood during a Night Sweats song How to Make Friends midway through the set, the rest of the crowd in the State Theater remained seated. The adventurous showman we knew from the Night Sweats who blared into a harmonica wearing a flat brimmed hat and got us up and dancing had now donned a buttoned coat, combed back his hair, and played an acoustic guitar to sing to a quiet, seated crowd. Even still, He bared his soul to us without performing the soul music we’ve previously heard from him.
To Nathaniel, that isn’t a bad thing. He told the Minneapolis Star Tribune last week that, if anything, that’s his plan. “We’re playing places like [the State] in most cities, if only to make it a clearer distinction between this and the Night Sweats,” He said. While the crowd seemed to be expecting to hear older material, the setlist mostly contained songs from Nathaniel’s latest record And It’s Still Alright Released back in February. It is a deeply personal record that Nathaniel said took longer than expected. He admitted onstage “I had the idea that I was going to write and record this record in about eight days” He said. “I went a little overboard, and it took from March to October instead.” While these shows are marked as a solo tour, Nathaniel went on to say that he also planned for it to be small. One tour bus and one equipment trailer. Instead, he has 21 people on tour, and 10 musicians onstage, including a dual drummer setup ala Grateful Dead, and a quartet of stringed instruments in the back of the stage that added depth to nearly every song of the night, Including the ambient set opener Tonight #2.
The album is a slower, more revealing record about the rougher experiences Nathaniel has gone through in the last few years, dealing with a difficult divorce and the loss of his good friend and producer Richard Swift. The album is not the worn out tale of a popular artist stepping back from making the similar hit songs we know to reinvent himself with more earthier, folk music. Rather, it’s a confessional record about just how hard loss can be to someone. It’s a good, albeit heavy subject for a record, Even if it means the songs are not upbeat.
Expecting to Lose was a welcome, bouncy, bluesy tune toward the beginning of the set. While there still seemed to be untapped energy within the crowd expecting to dance, The energy of the crowd changed throughout the show to more of a meditative performance. With it being the first night of the tour, audiences were not yet aware of what to fully expect from an artist whose goal was to differentiate themselves from their past work. But while we were not on our feet, we were still connected. Couples who sat next to each other put each others heads on their shoulders. Phones remained mostly put away, sans a few out from time to time to take images of the beautiful stage design. There was little to no chatter, and applause after each song was still plentiful. While it wasn’t a rambunctious set, people still gave the band their undivided attention. As an artist, there isn’t much more you can ask for from an audience that is able to like what they’re hearing, and pay attention to hearing it. This sold out crowd got it. Especially during the showstopper and arguably album highlight Time Stands.
And It’s Still Alright is still a brand new record. It’s songs are not old enough yet to be placed on breakup or “Folky Sunday” Spotify playlists where we’re able to associate people or places to them. But Nathaniel’s voice and sound are familiar enough to us where we can begin to put in those visuals to these songs, even if they’re still new. While most of us know him as a soul singer, there were still hints of his roots as a barebones folk artist that die-hard fans know him from Austin to Boston and older solo records. While his greatest feat at Hinterland a few years back was getting a sunburnt, tired crowd up out of their air couches, his greatest feat tonight was connecting us as an audience to discover the grief and pain that lies within these new songs, and having us understand those same feelings he has. He reached out to us in song to explain the pain he’s gone through in loss. And we felt it.
He left us with a message before his encore song Rush On dedicated to Richard Swift. “Please, be vulnerable with the ones you love” he said quietly, hiding a slight crack in his voice. Perhaps it was a hard lesson he himself had learned, or a piece of advice he just wanted to share. But it’s a beautiful parting message from him to his audience, and shows that during his set, he had learned to be vulnerable with us.


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July 10, 2009
Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Bill Passes Subcommittee
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies today passed its annual legislation to fund the federal agencies and programs within its jurisdiction for the next fiscal year. The legislation contains a total of $730.5 billion, including $163.4 billion in discretionary spending which is $11.15 billion or 7% over last year’s level.
This large spending increase is in addition to the approximately $126 billion in spending provided for these programs in the recently enacted “stimulus” bill. Since 2007, when emergency and “stimulus” spending is included, funding under the Labor/HHS bill has increased a whopping 93%.
The budget allocations approved by House Democrats this year for non-defense domestic and international spending - including the allocation for this bill – average a 12% increase over last year. When all appropriations bills from FY 2007 to FY 2009 are combined, overall Appropriations spending has increased 41% in just two years, and non-defense related spending has increased 85%.
House Appropriations Ranking Republican Jerry Lewis objected to these large increases in federal spending.
“Already this year, Democrat proposals have put our country into more that a trillion dollars worth of debt – not including interest. Our economy is struggling through the worst recession in decades, unemployment is at 9.5%, and last month alone we lost an additional 450,000 jobs. There is no justifiable reason for an $11 billion increase in the Labor/HHS bill while American families are struggling to pay their mortgages and put food on the table,” House Appropriations Ranking Republican Jerry Lewis said.
“There are some good programs in this bill that deserve to be funded, but providing a 7% over increase while making little or no tough decisions to prioritize spending is not a sustainable or responsible way to budget,” Lewis continued.
In addition, the Fiscal Year 2010 Labor/HHS bill contains several policy riders, including long-established restrictions on federal funds being used for abortions and protections for health care workers. However, policy provisions prohibiting federal funding for needle exchange programs and funding for abstinence education programs carried in the bill in previous years have been removed.

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Investigation of horizontal projectile motion Research
Investigation of horizontal projectile motion
The main aim of the experiment is to determine the angle at which the horizontal speed is fastest in projectile motion. This will be achieved by launching a ball using a spring gun on the horizontal direction and then repeating this procedure for a number of times at different elevations. The readings are then recorded and analyzed to determine the speed at different angles.
My research question is “for what angle will the horizontal speed be the fastest?” An object in that is in free fall tends to accelerate at the rate of 9.81 m/s2. When carrying out an investigation on the trajectory that is created by the projectile motion, both the horizontal and vertical motion must be considered independent of each other. On the horizontal direction, there is no acceleration and the velocity is constant. The initial velocity in horizontal projectiles is usually 0 m/s2.
In this experiment, a plastic ball was fired from the top of an elevated spring gun at different angles of inclination. The horizontal distance that was travelled by the ball was measured and recorded. The test was carried out for a number of trials and the average values obtained and recorded for further analysis. The initial velocity calculates proves that the values are dependent on the angle of elevation and are fairly constant. Some of the possible sources of errors in this experiment could be zero error and the effect of resistance due to air resistance
A projectile can be defined as a physical body thrown into space with some initial velocity after which it is allowed to move under the influence of the force of gravity A trajectory is the path that is followed by a projectile. In the horizontal direction, the projectile moves at a constant acceleration at 9.8 m/s2 towards the vertical direction. The speed of the projectile (body) remains constant on the horizontal direction implying that it does not change until the moving body hits its target. The position of the projectile at a particular time is given by the equation:
For a projectile that is launched at a given angle of inclination, the height and the range of motion can be determined. It is important to point out that whenever an object is projected at an angle that is steep, it tends to spend much more time in the air that it does when launched at a shallow angle. An object that is launched at a shallow angle moves faster on the horizontal direction as compared to that launched at a steep angle. Maximum range is achieved when an object is launched at an angle of 45o.
The materials needed for this experiment include:
The equipment to be used for the experiment were arranged on a lab table and the pendulum moved away to prevent it from blocking the firing spring gun. A white paper with a carbon paper on top of it was spread on the floor act as the target where the position that the fired ball would be landing. To ensure that the firing mechanism was functioning properly, the spring gun was test fired and the position of the target marked. The spring gun was fired a number of times for each trial and the readings for the horizontal distance and time taken by the ball on the target recorded. Using a wooden block, the angle of inclination was adjusted and measured using an inclinometer. The gun was fired and the readings taken before adjusting to the next angle. The readings taken were done at 00, 150, 300, 450, 600, 750 and 900.
Figure 1: Diagramatic representation of the experimental set up
Data and analysis
The initial velocity remained constant for each trial. The spring gun was fired at an elevation of 0.5 m. The values obtained are recorded in the table below.
Trial Angle of inclination Time of flight (s) Measured Horizontal distance (R) (m) Calculated Horizontal distance (R) (m) Velocity of the ball (m/s) Deviation
1 0 2 10 19.62 25 ±0.05
2 15 5 20 122.625 8.69 ±0.05
3 30 8 40 304.32 3.25 ±0.05
4 45 10 60 490.5 1.77 ±0.05
5 60 15 40 1103.625 0.67 ±0.05
6 75 18 20 1589.22 0.216 ±0.05
7 90 21 10 2163.105 0 ±0.05
The height of the ball was calculated using the height and the acceleration due to gravity
For the first trial h=1/2 x9.81×2^2=19.62 m .The calculation was done for all the other trials.
To determine the velocity of the ball for each trial Speed=distance/time
Velocity along the horizontal component=S_x Cosθ
For trial 1, the velocity is S_x Cosθ=25Cos 0=25 m/s. The calculation was done for all the other trials.
The horizontal distance (R) travelled by the ball was measured using a meter rule and then compared against the expected horizontal distance.
For trial 1, the expected horizontal distance was computed as
R=(v_0 cosθ)t=(25Cos0)2=50 m
The values of the expected values of R were computed for all the other trials.
The uncertainty incurred along the distance travelled by the ball was determined by considering the deviation and the average value of the distance.
Uncertainity=∆R/R x100=0.05/27.86 x100=0.179%
The results obtained indicate that the optimum angle for the velocity is 00 and 450 for the range. Using the angular values obtained from the experiment, the initial velocity was computed using the values of the horizontal velocity.
The equation used to solve for the initial velocity was
The values for the initial velocity are recorded in the table below
Angle of inclination Initial velocity (m/s)
The values above show a constant initial velocity. There is very little difference between the values and the average value of the extreme velocity.
Figure 1: Graph of velocity versus inclination angle
Figure 2: Graph of measured angle versus angle of inclination
From the results obtained, there seems to be a peculiar relationship between the angle of inclination and the velocity of the ball. The ball is fastest at a shallow angle of 00 and slowest at a wide angle of 900. Velocity is a function of speed and direction. When the ball was launched at an angle of 00, there was very little deceleration as a result of the effect of gravity. As a result, the ball moved faster. As the angle of inclination increased, the effect of the force of gravity increased thus resulting into a rise in the rate of deceleration. At 450, the maximum range was achieved. The graph of the angle of inclination versus the velocity of the ball indicates a reduction in the velocity as the angle increases. On the other hand, the graph of range versus angle indicates a line of symmetry at an angle of 450.
The calculated values of the range and the velocity confirm the validity of the equations of horizontal motion used in the experiment. The concepts of horizontally projected motion have found wide use in science. Rocket missiles are launched at particular angles to ensure that they are able to hit their targets. Sportsmen such as footballers and athletes use this concept to achieve maximum range when kicking the ball and when throwing javelins and discus. This concept is also used in training archers and shooters.
Sources of error
The experimental data obtained shows some discrepancy as compared to the expected values. Another indicator of error is also evident in the deviation of ±0.05 in the measurement of the horizontal distances. Some of the possible sources of error in this experiment include zero error on the measuring ruler and air resistance as the ball moves across the air. The resistance experienced when the ball is in motion can slow down the ball therefore resulting in a reduction in the measured values in air. They would appear to be lesser than the expected values. The firing gun was also raised above the ground and the influence of this height is not accounted for in the calculations.
From the lab experiment, the various concepts of horizontal projectile motion were determined. It has been proved that both the horizontal and the vertical motions of the object are not dependent on each other. The only common factor that they share is time while allows for the correlation of the two vector motions. When a projectile is launched at an angle, the speed decreases with an increase in the angle of inclination. The range of the object however increases up to an angle of 450 and then decreases to 0 at an angle of 900.


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If You Would like to relax out of your home, Organizing the Teak Storage Bench Outdoor can be Your Own Very best choice because this bench will suit you outside of your house. This one can be put at the front or back of your home and you are able to relax with this bench without any difficulties.
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Teak Storage Bench Outdoor — purchasing the new or renovate the older one
In this idea, it will be better that you renovate the Old bench for outside than purchasing the new one. You’ll get more advantages in renovation. In 1 hand, you are able to save your price because purchasing the new will spend more cash. In other hand, you’ll find an intriguing design suitable with your desire in the bench.
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One. Happy New 2014 Year to all of you, Canada and Russia! Russia beats Canada in overtime for World Junior Bronze. USA faces Sweden for World Junior Hockey Gold. Congratulations! Good beginnings of the year.
Roy MacGregor, -The Globe and Mail, January 05, 2013.
To the left and to the right are the photos from the Czech-Slovak-Moravian Association New 2014 year meeting. Excellent music as well as meals prepared by the Chef-the President of the Association Pavel Hbelka.
Two. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donated to Silicon Valley Community Foundation $992,200.000.00, Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Stacy Palmer shares who made the 2013’s list of most charitable philanthropists.
Three. According to the “FORBES”, in the article “What are the Greediest cities in the USA?”, they answer:
“San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, better known to the outside world as Silicon Valley, is the greediest city in America, with 1.57 members of the Forbes 400 per 100,000 residents. Google alone, based in Santa Clara county, has generated several thousand stock-option millionaires. Rich-listers in the area include Google’s Sergey Brin Sergey Brin, with a net worth of $18.5 billion; Apple CEO Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, with $ 5.7 billion; and venture capitalist Michael Moritz, with $ 1.3 billion.
The tech hub has created plenty of jobs, but it has also driven middle-class workers to the fringes of the real estate market. San Fransisco-Oakland-Fremont, benefeting from the same computing boom, ranked as the greegiest city.
Four. Cigany and Gitana: an Evening of Jazz, Flamenco and Gypsy.
Andrea Petrity (jazz pianist) and Holly Blazina (flamenco guitarist) present an exciting evening of jazz, flamenco and guitar at National Music Centre, 134- 11 Avenue, SE Calgary from 8-00 p.m. to 10-00 p.m. on Saturday, February 01, 2014, Family friendly event.
Five. Greg Pyra: Homeward Bound.
In these oil paintings Pyra imagines himself as a traveller on the highways of Alberta, with no end destination in mind.
Cost free event, Jan. 10, 2014-Feb. 22, 2014 in Okotoks Art Gallery, tel. 403-938-3204.
The info from the Swerve, the Calgary Herald on line, January 05, 2014.

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When You're Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Engage Your Power Within to Claim Your Destiny!
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Have you ever noticed that people rarely say that they are happy anymore? We may be “okay”, “alright”, or “hanging in there”…but seldom do you hear anyone say they are “happy” or “wonderful” or “having an outstanding day”. We have become a nation of make-do people with a just-getting-by mentality and have allowed the traumas and difficulties of our past to define who we are and how we live. We fervently hang on to the negative anger, frustrations, disappointments, setbacks, and unforgiveness as a sign that we are meant to live less-than lives. We have become so comfortable with the negativity, that it is impossible for God to elevate us from the pit of our mess to a position of power and authority.
The problem with hanging on your past mess is that it keeps you bound in mediocrity and misery. The negativity easily becomes a cloak that you wear and makes it impossible to believe that you can ever be more or have more than the less-than life you have settled for. The mess, muck and mire of the past has eroded the ability to hope, dream and aspire to anything more than mere existence.
Isn’t it time to move past existing and begin to truly live this glorious thing called life?
If you know in the deepest core of your being that life has more to offer than what you have settled for, it’s time to take a bold stand to take back all that has been taken from you. It’s time for you to embrace all those awesome promises of God’s Word to live your best life now! It’s time to tap into the power and greatness within you to be all that you are called to be!
“The Power Within” is a life changing guide that teaches you how to make the journey from hopelessness to hope-filled purpose. It provides God-directed guidance and strategic steps to release the trash bags of your past and embrace the glory of true living and destiny. If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired and WANT to get off the roller coast of mediocrity, the power for you to prosper and overcome is within you.
Whether you are confused and lost about your purpose and need some direction on how to make it to your next level…or anger and unforgiveness has consumed you and you need help figuring out how to begin your journey of release.. or you are highly accomplished and don’t know why you still have that empty void…“The Power Within” will help you get on track to walking in your purpose. Don’t let the mess, muck, and mire of your past keep you stuck in neutral, living a less-than life. You were born for greatness…but only you can take that bold step to make it happen. “The Power Within” is your roadmap to become all that God has called you to be and live your happy, hope-filled, purposed destiny!
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Al-Bustan is pleased to present DALAL ABU AMNEH with AL-BUSTAN TAKHT ENSEMBLE in a special evening of Sufi poetry by Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Al-Hallaj, and Rabi’a set to new music composed by KINAN ABOU-AFACH.
Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble:
Hanna Khoury – violin
Kinan Abou-afach – cello
Hicham Chami – qanun
Hafez Kotain – percussion
Location: Trinity Center for Urban Life | 22nd & Spruce St, Philadelphia
Tickets: $25 General | $15 Student | $30 Door
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Date: Thursday April 14, 2016
Location: Hall of Flags – Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 3417 Spruce Street
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This program is made possible with support from Knight Foundation and William Penn Foundation.


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The Yellow Pages group is helping small business digitize their retail spaces through the 'Shop The Neighbourhood' campaign. The one day event hopes to drive more foot traffic into local businesses to help curb the rise of online shopping. The event is strategically placed between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a time when many Canadians prefer to shop online or across the border.
Participating stores will receive free advertising on YP.ca and YP Shopwise, a deal-finding app. By downloading the app, Canadians will be able to access Shop The Neighbourhood promotions. Accompanying the campaign is a pilot project that uses iBeacon technology at participating retailers. On November 28th, shoppers who use the YP Shopwise app will receive notifications alerting them when a deal or promotion is nearby.


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New York’s Gov. Cuomo last week threatened to revoke National Grid’s license to operate in the state if it does not cooperate in providing answers about its recent moratorium on natural gas hook-ups and its battle over a potential gas pipeline. Cuomo said he would impose millions of dollars in fines unless National Grid provided natural gas to more than 1,100 customers who were denied service re-connections.
While National Grid, which serves more than 1.8 million customers across the region, began reconnecting customers last week, those hook-ups comprise only about a third of the 3,700 denied power as the company battles the state over the new gas pipeline.
National Grid New York president John Bruckner defended the company’s actions and said without the added pipeline the utility’s hands are tied. The utility had said it could not provide new gas service hookups because plans for the Williams Northeast Supply gas pipeline were canceled and current supplies are waning.
In a scathing letter to John Rhoades, the chair of New York’s Public Service Commission (PSC), Cuomo called National Grid’s actions “open and obnoxiously hostile” and said the PSC “failed to adequately anticipate, respond, or prevent this harm which was your regulatory duty.”
“As the regulator of critical service for residents in the State, it is incumbent upon you to immediately analyze the existing supply needs and provide alternatives to the pipeline and in the event the pipeline project is undertaken and not completed on time,” Cuomo said. “Therefore, I direct you to expeditiously demonstrate that you have fully analyzed the existing supply needs and alternatives to natural gas pipelines.”
National Grid had filed with the NY PSC four days before Cuomo’s public rampage an implementation plan to reconnect these customers and addressed contingency plans for future supply curtailments.
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Here in Ohio, the Texaco brand is defunct. There are no current Texaco stations in the state, at least to my knowledge. However, every once in a while, you may pass by an old abandoned gas station, and they sort of look the same. Dilapidated, grungy, old. It is rare that you pass by a service station that, at least somewhat, still looks new.
There is an old Texaco service station that I’ve passed several times in Lebanon, OH, which was built in 1942. When Texaco left the station, the pumps and islands were removed, and apparently at one point it was turned into a classic car shop. Interstingly, the owner decided to keep the Texaco branding and maintain the exterior of the building. I mean, the building isn’t in perfect condition: there are cracks in the brickwork, the white brick is now yellowed and the grout is dirty. Additionally, there are some stains and such over parts of the facade. But still, it’s rather well maintained. It’s rare this happens anymore. In fact, some old Texaco memorabilia still sits outside. The place is now for lease…I can only hope the new owner keeps the exterior the same. It’s a great little piece of Americana. In fact, the well maintained Texaco memorabilia contrasted with the weathered look of the building make it perfect for exploring as a photographic subject.
So what’s the point of this post? Well, mainly to say: if you see something that catches your eye. STOP. I finally did, and pulled off on my lunch break and took some pictures. I think I spent a total of 10 minutes there and I think I got a few decent shots. One thing I’ve found that has brought great joy to my photography is the found photograph. I’ve gotten a good number of interesting and memorable images just by actually stopping when something interests me. I chronicled a similar find two weeks ago. The key here is to take the time to explore a subject that interests you. There are cool things to photograph that you may see every day but have never stopped to actually work as a subject. Sometimes these excursions result in nothing, but you’ll never know if you don’t stop and explore from time to time.


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There are a lot of televisions at CES every year, but only a few of them truly stand out. In Sony’s case, the standout is definitely the upcoming Bravia XBR-A1E OLED, which launched at the show on Wednesday. Everything about this TV is stunning, from its 4K HDR picture to its innovate speaker design — or more accurately, lack thereof — which makes it worthy of being DigitalTrends’ pick for Best of CES 2017 in the Home Video category.
Sony designed the television to look like all but a “work of art” on your wall, as Sony Electronics President Mike Fasulo told Digital Trends during a live interview on Friday. The sound actually emanates from the display itself through something called Acoustic Surface, a new technology being debuted in the XBR-A1E.
Those at DigitalTrends who have seen the TV up close say that the sound quality is surprisingly immersive, supplemented by an innovative 4-inch subwoofer placed in the stand behind the TV itself. Picture quality is impressive too, with the darkest blacks and whitest whites stunningly vivid, yet not to the point where they cause discomfort when watching for long periods of time.
“The dynamic range is just unbelievable,” Fasulo said of the television. While no pricing of the television or availability was announced, we do know that the set itself will come in 55-inch, 65-inch, and 75-inch model sizes.
Besides the TV, Fasulo brought with him to the Digital Trends stage several of the more than 25 different new products the company is showing off at this year’s CES. They include Bluetooth-enabled speakers that use NFC to allow you to “tap to play” your music, as well as a pair of innovative noise-canceling headphones that let the user cup an earphone to hear ambient noise without having to take them off.
Finally, Fasulo demoed for one of the first times in public a prototype of completely wireless earbuds that the company is working on. While he declined to share details, it appears as if the earbuds will have battery life comparable to its wireless headphones, which currently last about 20 hours or so.
- We chatted with Sony President Mike Fasulo about TVs, headphones, and more
- Sony is bringing a sequel to last year’s fantastic OLED (and more) to CES 2018
- LG C7 Series (OLED55C7P) review
- Sony’s blinding 85-inch 8K TV made us squint, while its OLED made us smile
- Sony’s X900F and X850F 4K HDR TVs get prices, but no release date so far

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Evaluation and outcomes of patients admitted to a tertiary medical assessment unit with acute chest pain of possible coronary origin.
Emerg Med Australas. 2013 Dec;25(6):535-43
Authors: Sander RL, Scott IA, Aggarwal L
OBJECTIVES: The study aims to (i) profile clinical characteristics, risk estimates of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), use and yield of non-invasive cardiac testing, discharge diagnosis and 30-day outcomes among patients admitted with acute chest pain of possible coronary origin; and (ii) construct a risk stratification algorithm that informs management decisions.
METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study of 130 consecutive patients admitted to a tertiary hospital medical assessment unit between 24 January and 22 March 2012. Estimates of ACS risk were based on Australian guidelines and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) scores.
RESULTS: Patients were of mean age 61 years, 45% had known coronary artery disease (CAD), 58% presented with typical ischaemic pain, 82% had intermediate to high ACS risk and 61% underwent testing. Myocardial ischaemia was cardiologist-confirmed discharge diagnosis in 29% of patients, and was associated with known CAD, typical pain, multiple risk factors and high TIMI risk scores (P < 0.001 for all associations). Of 98 non-invasive investigations, 9% (95% CI, 5-17%) were positive for myocardial ischaemia. Major adverse event rate at 30 days was 0.8% (95% CI, <0.1-6%). An algorithm was constructed that integrates known CAD, ACS risk and TIMI scores in identifying low-risk patients capable of rapid discharge from EDs without further investigation, and classifying the remainder into risk groups that informs choice of investigations and need for telemetry.
CONCLUSIONS: In patients with indeterminate chest pain, clinical features and risk scores identify most with myocardial ischaemia. An algorithm is presented that might inform triaging, early discharge, choice of testing and need for telemetry.
PMID: 24119013 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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The State of Israel conducted two complex aid operations in developing countries this week. But while the rescue mission to Haiti was accompanied by a big publicity campaign, the arrival in Israel of 144 new immigrants from Ethiopia hardly warranted a mention. The operation in Haiti is one of limited duration. On the other hand, the two planes carrying immigrants from Addis Ababa are merely first installments. Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared this week that he planned to approve the arrival of another 8,000 immigrants from Ethiopia.
In this way, without an orderly decision-making process, the Israeli government is committing to absorb at least 10,000 poverty-stricken Ethiopians with all the economic and social implications this entails. The government is once again bowing to a bizarre coalition made up of messianic rabbis, settlers, respected public figures with good intentions (like former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar), American Jewish organizations, and first and foremost, Shas. The move ignores the positions of former interior and absorption ministers, experts from the Jewish Agency, and a series of decisions made by Ariel Sharon's government to stop bringing the Falashmura to Israel.
This is not a matter of applying the Law of Return. Even the ruling by Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar stating that the Falashmura are "from the seeds of Israel" required them to undergo a full conversion to Judaism. Some of the Falashmura are the descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century and even before that; they are not included in any category of the Law of Return. On arrival, they receive temporary residency cards and get full citizenship only after completing their conversion.
The Falashmura issue was already raised during the preparations for Operation Solomon in 1991 when 14,000 Ethiopians were brought here - the last Jews who remained there. It was decided not to take in the Falashmura, but nevertheless several thousand managed to arrive and were absorbed as new immigrants in every sense. Ever since, every government has come under tremendous pressure to allow "family reunions."
A coalition of interests represents them in the media with great success as Jews in every respect whom the state is abusing because of the color of their skin. This coalition includes the Shas leaders, who are true to the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Amar that recognized the Beta Israel community and the Falashmura as Jews, right-wing rabbis who dream of mass immigration that will make it possible to beat the Palestinians on the demographic front, and liberal Jews from America who seek tikkun olam - to repair the world. The Americans support this lobby's activities and the operation of the compound in Gondar where thousands of Falashmura have gathered. The price of bringing them to Israel and their absorption over the years - which adds up to hundreds of millions of shekels - will have to be borne by the state.
The media and most of the public are being deceived by the false picture painted by the Falashmura lobby. The voice of experts in the Jewish Agency and government is not heard at all - they say these people have no connection whatsoever to the Jewish nation, that their only wish is to escape from a life of destitution in Ethiopia, and that each of them who is absorbed in Israel has dozens of relatives who will become candidates for family reunions.
It's simple to accuse these experts of racism especially because "white" non-Jewish new immigrants continue to come here from the former Soviet Union. But as long as the Law of Return remains in effect, those people have the right to immigrate here, while the Falashmura come as the result of political machinations. At the very least, a public debate must be held on the issue before Israel imports another social time bomb that will add to its plethora of problems.
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Chairman Tom Perez on Sunday defended the Democratic National Committee’s decision to sue Russia, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign over Russian election interference, saying the DNC was “protecting our democracy” and could “walk and chew gum” when it came to keeping its focus on the midterm elections.
The multimillion-dollar civil suit was filed on Friday in federal court in the southern district of New York, claiming senior Trump officials conspired with the Russian government in an attempt to damage Hillary Clinton. The suit seeks damages for the hacking of DNC email servers.
Donald Trump tweeted about the suit over the weekend, seemingly promising a legal counter move. “So funny, the Democrats have sued the Republicans for Winning,” he wrote on Saturday. “Now he [sic] R’s counter and force them to turn over a treasure trove of material, including Servers and Emails!”
It was unclear why Republicans would sue to obtain Democratic party emails, many of which are already public owing to Russia-directed hacking that began in April 2016.
Trump’s mention of “Servers” refers to a conspiracy theory he has advanced for more than a year, ironically set off by congressional testimony of then FBI director James Comey, who is currently touring behind a bestselling memoir in which he portrays Trump as “morally unfit” for office.
In January 2016 testimony about an FBI investigation of cyber-attacks including on the DNC, Comey said Democrats had not turned over computer servers but substituted a review of the system performed by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
“This my folks tell me was an appropriate substitute,” Comey said.
Trump disagrees. On Friday, he wrote: “Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI…”
Appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Perez said he was “not in the least” concerned by Trump’s bluster.
“The beauty of the civil justice system,” he said, “… is that it’s not trial by tweet. This isn’t going to be a kangaroo court with [House intelligence committee chair and Trump backer] Devin Nunes. This is going to be a court where facts matter and justice is served. And if they want to relitigate all of their wild theories, there’s this thing called rule 11 where you get sanctioned for trying to do things like that.”
Asked if the DNC risked taking its eye off the ball ahead of November elections in which control of Congress will be at stake, Perez said: “We can walk and chew gum.”
Perez also sad he had “great confidence” the suit would not interfere with or distract from the work of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference and alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow and has indicted or secured plea deals with four key Trump aides so far.
Responding to a claim by Trump 2020 director Brad Parscale that the suit was merely a fundraising ploy by a “desperate, dysfunctional and nearly insolvent Democratic party,” Perez told NBC’s Meet the Press: “Those are almost the precise quotes we heard from the Nixon campaign in 1972.”
In that year, Democrats sued the president’s re-election committee for $1m over the Watergate break-in. A $750,000 settlement was paid in 1974, on the day Richard Nixon left office.
Trump has denied collusion or obstruction of justice and called all investigations into Russian election interference a “witch hunt”. He did so again on Sunday afternoon. His campaign, meanwhile, sent out a fundraising email that called the DNC lawsuit an attempt “to keep the Russia witch hunt going and their bankrupt party alive”.
The president also tweeted at length over the weekend about New York Times coverage of the plight of Michael Cohen, his personal attorney, whose office, hotel room and home were raided by federal authorities last week.
The Times published a Saturday front-page piece that suggested Cohen could “flip” in order to lessen possible jail time and thereby work with federal authorities against Trump. Personally attacking – and misspelling the name of – Maggie Haberman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who worked on the piece, the president forcefully denied Cohen was a risk.
Contention over Cohen’s fate consumed the US Sunday talk shows. Also on ABC, the Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who like Comey has dined with Trump at the White House, said the country was now seeing “an enormous battle for the soul of Michael Cohen”.

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When I was offered the chance to review The Extraordinaires Design Studio Pro, I immediately sensed that Pam Daniels wold be the perfect person to assess it. Pam is a human-centered designer and avid contributor to the entrepreneurial and maker movements in Chicago. She’s a Design Innovator in Residence as well as faculty member at Northwestern University who believes in everyone’s capacity to imagine and create a better future.
Wintertime in Chicago calls for happy diversions. To take our minds off the sub-arctic temperatures in Chicago yesterday, I gathered a group of colleagues at the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University over lunchtime to try out the new The Extraordinaires Design Studio Pro. It was described to me as a creative thinking game and a way to build skill sets for those in design fields. Fortified with a plate full of cookies, we dove in.
The essence of Design Studio Pro is developing new product concepts for a set of characters dubbed The Extraordinaires. Characters include such figures as Vampire Teen, Snow Queen, and Merman.
The process begins by selecting a design project from a range of areas including inventions, gadgets, buildings, clothing, and vehicles. We drew the card labeled “A single person vehicle.” Then we selected an Extraordinaire for whom to design this vehicle.
Our first task was to imagine a single-person vehicle for a Vampire Teen. We came up with a list of things the vehicle might include, and laughed a lot while imagining everything ranging from a puncturing pogo-stick concept to a driveable coffin to a three-wheel mobile blood bank eventually dubbed the “vamper”. We were further helped along by a “think card” prompting us to consider the parts that would make up our vehicle. Soon we were sketching concepts and visualizing the ideas in our heads.
We had a great time experimenting with Design Studio Pro, though I’d characterize it more as a toolkit for sparking creativity than a game.
- We liked that the Extraordinaire characters were not too “real world.” They didn’t feel like standard personas along the lines of “Men 25-54 with household income $75k+” and therefore allowed our imaginations to take flight.
- The “think cards” stretched us in new ways and provided well-considered prompts.
- The visually rich Extraordinaires character cards provoked a lot of conversation and laughter as we imagined more about the characters based on the illustrations.
- The process allowed plenty of room for creative freedom.
- The instruction book is thick (120 pages) and a bit intimidating; it was hard to know how to get started. It could use a “quick start guide” and maybe be better defined as to whether it’s a game or a toolkit. It looks and feels like a game, but there is no objective or way to win, no stated number of players, and it was unclear if we should play as individuals, as teams, or even just interact with the toolkit on our own as a solitary exercise.
- Illustrations and characters feel pretty dark, and we weren’t sure why this needed to be the case.
- We think it would make a fun party game and would love to see it tweaked to accommodate a range of ways to interact with it.
Design Studio Pro retails for $80 at can be found exclusively at Barnes and Noble. See The Extraordinaires website for more information and the product line.


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The Oswego State field hockey team took a 7-0 loss to host and nationally-ranked William Smith College on Friday evening.
The Oswego City School District Board of Education will conduct its committee meetings and a regular session on Tuesday, September 2 beginning at 5 p.m. in the board room of the Education Center.
Parishioners of the Minetto United Methodist Church will gather for Rally Day on September 7 at 10 a.m. Children are asked to bring their backpacks to be blessed by the pastor. The Chancel Choir, under the direction of Mary Lou Carpenter-Bjorkman and accompanied by Kathy Duschen, will present Jonah and The Big Fish, a short musical play with Pastor Chuck Forbes as Jonah.
A grant from the National Institutes of Health will help SUNY Oswego chemistry faculty member Dr. Kestutis Bendinskas advance understanding of how low levels of lead affect children’s cardiovascular health.
Sit and Knit with ‘Nita is settling in as a weekly affair at Arts in the Heart Gallery with the addition of crochet instruction on the first Wednesday of each month. This Wednesday, September 3, at 4:30 p.m., Silvan Johnson will return to share her skill and teach basic crochet techniques.


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As I look out the window at the mounting snow and see the huge evergreen's branches bending under the heavy, wet snow and I see my patio table buried in snow a line from the book of Job comes to mind.
"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail?" Job 38:22
The poetry of Job chapters 38-41 contains some of my favorite lines of poetry in all of Scripture. Chris Tomlin taps into this poetry in his song "Indescribable": "Who has told every lightening bolt where it should go? Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow?"
Well, the heavenly storehouses were emptied a bit on us on this fine "Spring" day.
I love the image of heavenly storehouses. But I'll be honest, snow was not what I was looking for today. I need grace.
Pastor John Piper has written about and talked about Future Grace. Future grace is the idea that in order for God to keep all of His promises to us we need Him to have grace available for us to live day-by-day and moment-by-moment.
Imagine, if you will, the poetic picture of a storehouse in Heaven full of the grace you need. Ignore the fact that grace isn't tangible and that this isn't how it really works and just imagine with me. Imagine shelves marked with the grace you need to endure every trial in your life and to do every good work from now until you die. Do you see the big box marked "Patience with Co-Workers"? Did you find the chest marked "Enduring and Thriving in the First Year of Teaching"? Have you gotten to the bin labeled "Unforeseen Expenses"? Did you smile when you knew there was a box with "Raising Foster Children" scribbled on the side? Continue to peruse the rows and rows of shelves and you'll see containers of grace for everything your future will hold.
God will get us through whatever He calls us to.
"May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." Hebrews 12:20-21
"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." 2 Peter 1:3-4
Getting through what we're called to is not a promise of ease. No, life will be hard. Following Jesus leads many through the valley of the shadow of death. Many of the great Christians of history were martyred. But that does not negate God's many great promises.
This idea of a storehouse filled with all the grace we will ever need in the future should make us bold. We will never have to do anything for the Lord with our own power. God provides ALL the grace we need and He does it by giving it to us when we need it. Many of us have watched another Christian graciously get through a tough situation and thought "I could never do that." Well, you could. The reason we think we couldn't do it is because we haven't been supplied with the grace necessary to do it yet because our Heavenly Father hasn't yet handed us that grace, but He will. He has storehouses of grace ready for whatever our future holds.
Thank God for His grace. Know that God will get you through whatever He calls you to. And let the knowledge of God's infinite grace that is ready to be given to you, His child, make you a bold Christian today.