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Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market
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Battery Energy Storage System plays a key role in electricity supply-demand balancing, essential for the roll-out of renewable energy.
The appropriate monitoring technology can assess the condition of Battery Energy Storage System.
The "Balancing as a service" that monitoring enables can help achieve carbon neutrality.
In July 2020, torrential rains swept through western and northern Japan, and in the following month a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in California's Death Valley, the highest ever recorded on the planet. Will these kinds of extreme weather events become the norm? As climate change makes weather more variable and unpredictable, it is essential that we achieve carbon neutrality, which means reducing net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero. A key part of that effort is the promotion of renewable energy, such as wind power. As such, many companies are rushing to respond.
Unlike oil and other fossil fuels, renewable energy does not run out and does not directly emit CO₂. The drawback is that it depends on weather conditions, and its provision of power can be unstable. What is needed is a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) that adjusts the amount of electricity by taking in and drawing out from the system, and it is vital that battery system and its batteries used are appropriately monitored for malfunctions and defects.
Toshiba has a number of battery monitoring technologies. How will these technologies enable the adjustment of electric power and the roll-out of renewable energy, and lead to a world where people can enjoy peace of mind? We spoke to Takahiro Kase and Kenji Mitsumoto from Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions.
Addressing carbon neutrality with BESS-based electricity Demand-supply Balancing
With its basic policy of Generate, Transfer, Store and Use Smartly, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions helps underpin how our society functions. Takahiro Kase, who heads the company's electric power distribution service business, explains this policy as follows.
Takahiro Kase, Senior Manager, Grid Service Business Creation Department, Grid Aggregation Division,
"'Generate' electricity refers to power generation. Toshiba has been engaged in the provision of power generation equipment for many years, and is also developing renewable energy sources such as biomass, wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal. The 'Transfer' part involves Transmission & Distribution for smooth supply of power through distribution equipment and monitoring and control systems for power grids. Finally, 'Store' and 'Use Smartly' is where our BESS comes into play. We have also started a Virtual Power Plant* (VPP) business to link these areas together."
*A system in which IoT devices remotely control distributed energy sources and make them function as if they were a single power plant
As the movement towards carbon neutrality picks up momentum, conventional energy supplies are being reevaluated. Renewable energy is becoming increasingly prominent as a replacement, but the amount of power that it generates is not stable, being subject to variations in environmental conditions. One idea is to store all surplus electricity in BESS once and then discharges only what is used, but Kase points out that this is "not very realistic at the moment."
"A method by which all electricity generated from renewable energy can be stored and used when needed is possible if the price of BESS decreases considerably and their capacity expands many times over. Something like this will eventually become a possibility as BESS technology continues to develop. However, we believe that right now, where BESS has an important role to play in the power grid is in the electricity Demand-supply Balancing. As such, the development of a market for electricity Demand-supply Balancing will encourage the roll-out of renewable energy."
The point to bear in mind is the frequency of the electricity supply. In western Japan, it's supplied at 50 Hertz, and in the east 60 Hz. Whatever the frequency, it must be maintained. If it's not, home appliances and factory machinery will not work properly, and generator operation will become unstable. At worst, it can result in large-scale power outages. A major source of disruption is an imbalance between demand, the electricity consumed, and supply, the amount generated.
This is why some generators are operated with surplus capacity to Demand-supply Balancing. They regulate the electricity generation in response to increases and decreases in demand and fluctuations in renewable energy, maintaining a balance across the power grid (the flow of electricity supplied from power plants to consumers, including generation, transmission, conversion, and distribution). This is how supply-and-demand adjustment works.
Electrical equipment does not work well if a balance is not maintained between power generation and demand
However, running thermal power generation facilities in this inefficient way in order to adjust Demand-supply Balancing result in unnecessary CO₂ emissions. "That is why we are pinning our hopes on BESS to achieve clean power adjustment," says Kase. In other words, when there is an imbalance, electricity is momentarily transferred to and from BESS to restore the balance of supply and demand. This is called a BESS for Demand-supply Balancing, and Japan is expected to see increased deployment of such systems in the future.
To speed up this process, a Demand-supply Balancing market started operation in Japan from April 2021. Since its opening, businesses offering to adjust capacity with BESS can enter the market, and it is natural that the profile of BESS for power grids are increasing in prominence.
Toshiba produces the SCiB™ rechargeable lithium-ion battery. It is ideal for electricity Demand-supply Balancing because of its long service life and rapid charging and discharging. There is no doubt that the SCiB™ has a role to play in the transition to carbon neutrality. "Even if other companies are hesitant to use BESS for supply and demand adjustment, we are prepared to take the risk and move forward," says Kase emphatically. "In fact, alongside the SCiB™ business unit, we have been developing SCiB™ models that can support supply and demand adjustment and withstand high output and high voltages, and we are conducting feasibility studies in Japan and overseas."
The SCiB™ rechargeable lithium-ion battery, widely used for applications that include automobiles and industrial equipment
Maximizing performance by using multiple monitoring technologies to diagnose BESS
Toshiba's strengths don't stop there; it also excels in monitoring technology for assessing the condition of BESS. Kenji Mitsumoto, who works in the Energy IoT Department, in the same division as Kase, explains.
"It's a fact of life that batteries degrade with continual use. This also includes reduced charging capacity and increased heat generation due to higher internal resistance. If the extent to which a BESS has degraded can be monitored, it can be used consistently to the full limit of its service life, and its performance potential can be exploited to the full. We have several of these monitoring technologies, so we can use the appropriate diagnostic method for specific situations."
Kenji Mitsumoto, Fellow, Energy IoT Department, Grid Aggregation Division, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
"Our four main monitoring technologies are the Charging Curve Analysis Method, Battery Capacity Estimation Testing, the Deviation of State of Charge (DSOC) method, and the Voltage Deviation Method (VD)." These may be difficult terms to understand, but Mitsumoto uses the metaphor of a medical checkup to explain.
"It's a bit of a forced analogy, but Charging Curve Analysis is like the blood tests or ultrasound scans taken during a routine physical examination. For the test, the BESS is given what we call a test-specific charge, a charge with defined characteristics, and the in-depth data from that is used to diagnose the factors behind any degradation. It gives a precise diagnosis of the extent and causes of health problems.
As the name suggests, a Battery Capacity Estimation Test literally measures a BESS's capacity. The amount of power that a BESS draws when it is charged from empty to full after being fully discharged is its charge capacity, and the reverse is its discharge capacity. In terms of a health checkup, this would be the equivalent of measuring a person's weight and waist. The actual test takes several hours to a day, so it is not an easy measurement to perform like weighing someone on a pair of scales.
DSOC can be thought of as an estimate of weight condition based on the amount of exercise one normally does (distance or time spent jogging or walking) and one's heart rate before and after exercise. If a person exercises at an appropriate level and monitors heart rate relaxation afterwards, it can be used for daily monitoring.
VD also uses everyday data, but it is unique in that a diagnosis can be performed regardless of whether the subject has exercised or taken a break. It is like a smartwatch that statistically processes pedometer and heart rate monitoring data to estimate health condition on a given day."
When the Demand-supply Balancing market takes off, many operators, including those in renewable energy resource developer, will enter. BESS that suppresses frequency fluctuation by moving power in and out in precise and fast increments will be essential. If we were unable to visualize BESS's condition and rate of degradation, we would never have the confidence to enter the market and put them into operation. That is why, in order to promote renewable energy and achieve carbon neutrality, Toshiba is putting so much effort into the monitoring of BESS.
BESS and monitoring technology work as a set to provide peace of mind and promote the roll-out of renewable energy.
The Demand-supply Balancing market, which launched in 2021, is gradually increasing the number of transactions. Given this, Toshiba aims to use IoT technology to provide the solutions vital for the next generation of electric power distribution. Kase, who leads services relating to electric power distribution, says, "with BESS, we're talking about 'adjustment as a service.'" As you may have already surmised, the idea is to provide a service that absorbs any disruptions in the electricity supply-demand balance by charging and discharging BESS.
BESS monitoring technology is also important for VPPs, which are expected to expand further with the emergence of the Demand-supply Balancing market. Again, VPP refers to distributed power generation and storage facilities that are remotely controlled by IoT devices in response to supply and demand conditions, so that they function as though they were a single power plant. So why does monitoring technology constitute a service? Mitsumoto gives us the specifics.
"In the future, people like owners of home-use BESS will join VPPs. However, if BESS is repeatedly charged and discharged remotely, some of them will degrade rapidly, and the owners will suffer. Therefore, a service that uses monitoring technology to show the condition of the BESS and provide a warranty for the amount of degradation could be provided. This monitoring technology holds all sorts of possibilities, and I think it will be used in many different settings," he says.
For many years, Toshiba has been engaged in the operation of power plants and the monitoring of power grids. Of course, it also has a proven track record in renewable energy, while its SCiB™ rechargeable lithium-ion battery sees wide use in electric vehicles, industrial equipment, and frequency-regulating BESS. Then, there is its monitoring technology.
If extreme weather events caused by global warming, such as drought and severe flooding, become more frequent, neither our nor future generations will be able to live with peace of mind and security. As such, it is clear that carbon neutrality and more renewable energy are necessary to address this. Although the use of monitoring technology to assess the health of BESS may seem trivial at first glance, it is something we are working to implement as a solution to this problem.
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce the twenty-first annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English copyrighted in the year 2018 on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.
Beginning on January 2, 2019, we invite you to submit books that meet these criteria. Please do not begin sending books prior to this date. The submission deadline is Friday, March 29, 2019. Please note that works related to the Civil War are acceptable only if their primary focus relates to slavery or emancipation. Only books copyrighted in 2018 will be considered. For details on submission requirements, contact: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu with subject heading: FDBP 2019
Rutgers and Harvard Professors Share the 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Erica Armstrong Dunbar (left) and Tiya Miles
The 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared by two scholars: Erica Armstrong Dunbar for "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" (37Ink/Atria Books); and Tiya Miles for "The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits" (The New Press).
Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Miles is professor of history and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
The Douglass Prize was created jointly by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University's MacMillan Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City. It is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. The $25,000 prize, shared by the two winners, will be presented to Dunbar and Miles at a reception sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in New York City on Feb. 28. The reception also celebrates the 20thanniversary of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
The full prize announcement is available here: https://glc.yale.edu/frederick-douglass-book-prize/past-winners/2018
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Christmas is always a special (if exhausting!) time in a primary school. This year, a new highlight was our Big Crib project. The children loved making the life-size characters and learnt more about aspects of the Christmas story and well-known artists whose work inspired the figures. The finished Big Crib will be on display in the church over the Christmas period. Do go and have a look!
Thank you for all your support over the term and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at the school.
The Wise Men by Sycamore Class, based on Alberto Giacometti's bronze figures.
Early Years and Key Stage 1 children did a lovely performance of the Wriggly Nativity in the church. Even the nursery children joined in with the singing and actions!
… while the older children enjoyed Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds.
Again this year, nearly every child and all the staff had Christmas dinner. Jane and Sue, our cooks managed to prepare over 70 delicious meals! There was a great festive atmosphere with table cloths, crackers and decorations.
The recent Skipping Week was a great success! Linked to our work on resilience and promoting a Growth Mindset, this very much focused on how everyone can improve with practice. It was wonderful to see the pride so many children showed in their improvements over the week. Skipping is now a popular break time activity too!
Rosie and Amber Knowles took part in the Co-op Juniors' performance of Alice in Wonderland at Snape Maltings. They did incredibly well and showed great commitment with hours of rehearsals and many performances.
To finish off their topic on Ancient Egypt, Chestnut Class set up a class museum. This was visited by the other classes and parents (and grandparents). The children were very excited to share their learning and there was lots of very positive feedback from the visitors!
Sycamore Class have been learning about the geographical features of the UK and made these great 3D maps. showing the high ground.
Sycamore Class turned pieces of plain white fabric and sticks into this amazing artwork in the style of Michael Brennand-Wood using the dying, printing, knotting and wrapping techniques they learnt.
The KS2 children who took part in the cross country at Framlingham College did incredibly well. It was a huge event with 500 children from 10 schools taking part.
We were particularly proud of Scarlett, Lucy and Harry who all finished in the top 10 and will go through to the final next term.
Willow Class have been learning about Christmas, including learning about the Christmas story and lots of Christmas-themed learning through play.
Reception, Y1 and Y2 had a great time at Ipswich Transport Museum. The trip was part of their transport topic.
Chestnut Class have been learning about electrical circuits and made these wonderful 'steady hand games' on a Christmas theme.
For the second year, each class has decorated a Christmas tree on the theme of a Christmas Carol. These were Away in a Manger (Willow), I Saw Three Ships (Lime), We Three Kings (Sycamore) and Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Chestnut). They looked lovely and were admired by parents during our Christmas Carol Cafe.
Donations at the Christmas Service raised an impressive £111.80 for the Children's Society. Thank you for your generosity.
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1997-00 Infiniti QX4
Premium midsize SUV; Built in Japan
1998 Infiniti QX4
1997 Infiniti QX4 interior
Considered in terms of value, the QX4 does not look particularly competitive against such rivals as the Mercedes-Benz ML320, which is roomier and rides more smoothly; or the very carlike Lexus RX 300. In fact, a well-equipped Nissan Pathfinder delivers just about as much as the QX4 for markedly fewer dollars, either new or used.
Nissan's luxury division entered the sport-utility segment during the winter of 1996-97 with the midsize QX4–a high-end SUV, based on the Nissan Pathfinder. Except for a more-sophisticated 4-wheel-drive system, the QX4 had the same mechanical specifications as the Pathfinder. External appearance also was similar. Inside, the QX4 got more standard features including leather upholstery and wood-tone trim. Otherwise, here too, Infiniti's SUV exhibited many similarities to Pathfinder. Only one powertrain was offered: a 168-horsepower, 3.3-liter V6 engine and 4-speed automatic transmission, with Infiniti's All-Mode 4WD. All-Mode had three settings, selected by a rotary switch on the instrument panel: 2WD (which routed power only to back wheels); Auto (which could distribute up to 50 percent of power to front wheels when the rears began to slip); and Lock (which split power 50/50 under all conditions). The Auto setting could be used on smooth, dry pavement, but Lock was only for use on slippery surfaces. A separate shift lever on the console activated the 4-wheel-drive system's Low range. Dual airbags and height-adjustable front shoulder belts were installed, along with 4-wheel antilock braking. The short option list included heated front seats, a power sunroof, and limited-slip rear differential.
1998 QX4
No changes were evident for 1998.
Side airbags were installed during 1999, along with a universal garage-door opener. A redesigned QX4 debuted as an early 2000 model, with a new V6 engine adapted from Nissan/Infiniti passenger cars.
Limited 2000 models were produced as a heavily revised 2001 model arrived in March. One change of note, however is side airbags.
Just one powertrain has been available: a 3.3-liter V6 engine that developed 168 horsepower, driving a 4-speed automatic transmission. All-Mode 4-wheel drive was standard.
Claims that a QX4 drives like a car rather than a truck are essentially accurate. The luxury wagon's firm suspension absorbs bumps better than many competitive SUVs. You also enjoy relatively low noise levels, plus confident cornering ability with good grip and little body lean. But don't be misled: The QX4 does not ride like a luxury sedan.
Also, the V6 engine sounds and feels rough when worked hard. Unfortunately, that's exactly what is needed to provide decent passing power. Acceleration is adequate in any case, aided by an automatic transmission that shifts smoothly, but sometimes hesitates to kick down into a lower gear for passing or merging. Gas mileage is not a bonus. We averaged only 12.5 miles per gallon in a mix of city and freeway driving, reaching a high of 15.2 mpg on the highway.
Step-in is high even with the standard running boards. Rear access is complicated by back doors that are narrow at the bottom and don't open to an angle close to 90 degrees. Once inside, all-around head and leg room are adequate for four adults (but not five), though rear passengers have virtually no under-seat foot space.
Cargo room, on the other hand, is plentiful even with the 60/40 rear seat in place. Conversion requires swinging the cushion forward and removing the headrests, but the seatbacks then lie flat to create a long, wide deck.
The driver can expect good visibility and a convenient, easy-to-understand dashboard layout. Standard dual power front seats combine with a tilt steering wheel for easy tailoring of the driver's position to suit just about anyone.
Model Tested: 1998 Infiniti QX4
Model Tested: 1999 QX4 4-door wagon
Injury 73
Description: The vehicle may sit crooked because the left front spring compresses more than the right requiring a countermeasure spring. (1997-98)
Description: The manufacturer has approved the use of automatic-transmission fluid labeled "Dexron IIE-Mercon" although Dexron IIE is the preferred fluid which hard to find. (1997-98)
Description: Humming and/or ticking noises from the blower are corrected with a revised insulator cover. (1996-2001)
Description: The brake pedal may be soft if replacement brakes are not sufficiently burnished. (1997)
Description: The shifter may not move out of park in cold weather due to hardened grease on the end of the interlock cable near the ignition key lock.
Cold-starting problems
Description: The engine may be hard to start in cold weather unless the driver uses the proper procedure which involves depressing the accelerator pedal 1/3 of the way while cranking the engine. (1997)
Description: The fuel gauge may not read full, even after a fill-up due to a faulty in-tank sending unit. (1997-99)
Description: If the inside rearview mirror falls off, a countermeasure bolt is available to hold it in place more securely. (1997-2000)
Description: Using the wrong lubricant in the all-wheel-drive final drive system could cause problems, and the only approved product (factory fill) is Pennzoil 4096 Limited Slip Differential Oil. (1997)
Description: The rear end bottoms out over bumps when the car is loaded and revised springs and shock absorbers are available. (1997)
Description: Recall affects vehicles originally sold in or currently registered in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. The fuel filler tube may rust due to an incomplete coating process. In areas where road salt is used, the rust may perforate the tube, causing fuel leakage, increasing risk of fire. Dealers will replace the fuel filler tube with a new one with an improved coating process.
Description: Improperly seated key-cylinder cap can disengage causing the steering wheel to lock.
2000 Infiniti QX4 Pricing Effective: 09/02/1999
Base 4-door wagon $ 35,550 $ 32,153 $ 525
Base : 3.3-liter V6 engine, 4-speed automatic transmission, full-time 4-wheel drive, dual front airbags, front side-airbags, antilock brakes, air conditioning w/automatic climate control, interior air filter, variable-assist power steering, tilt steering wheel, leather-wrapped steering wheel w/radio controls, cruise control, leather upholstery, power front bucket seats, reclining split-folding rear seat, center storage console w/armrest, overhead storage console (includes outside-temperature indicator, compass, map lights), wood interior trim, cupholders, heated power mirrors, power windows, power door locks, remote keyless entry, tachometer, Bose AM/FM/cassette/CD player, digital clock, power antenna, variable intermittent wipers, intermittent rear wiper/washer, rear defogger, remote fuel-door and hatch releases, universal garage door opener, illuminated visor mirrors, automatic-off headlights, cargo cover, floormats, fog lights, theft-deterrent system, rear privacy glass, step rails, roof rack, fuel-tank skid plates, full-size spare tire, 255/65R16 tires, alloy wheels
Premium Sport Pkg. $700 $632
Limited-slip rear differential, heavy-duty battery, heated front seats. Requires Sunroof Preferred Pkg.
Sunroof Preferred Pkg. 1250 1129
Power sunroof, 6-disc CD changer, rear window wind deflector.
Infiniti Communicator 1599 1378
Includes Global Positioning System, cellular telephone, roadside assistance, emergency services. Includes four years of service fees.
Two-tone paint 500 263
Special Purpose, Wheels and Tires
Tow hitch 390 294
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, Crossovers/SUVs, Infiniti, Luxury, Used


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Two Sachem high school science research students excelled in their respective concentrations over the summer as they furthered their research initiatives at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Angelina Franqueiro, a fourth-year science research student from Sachem High School North, was accepted into the 2017 High School Summer Program at Stony Brook University's Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces. Angelina has been performing cutting-edge research on understanding the differences in rigidity between normal cells and cancer cells, a focus presented in her paper, "Nano Mechanical Properties of Breast Ductal Carcinoma MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-4175, MCF-7" and "Normal Breast Ductal Cells MCF-10A and their Extracellular Matrices." She has delved deeply into the subject by investigating the biophysical properties of living cells utilizing atomic force microscopy.
Daniel Waxman, a fourth-year science research student from Sachem High School East, was accepted into the 2017 High School Research Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Daniel's concentration in particle physics allowed him to utilize the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the laboratory. His work over the summer was centered on programming computers to identify the particles that resulted as products from the collisions within the ion collider. The title of Daniel's work is "STAR Particle Identification using Machine Learning Algorithms," and this study contributes toward a better understanding of particle physics.
Both students will enter their research projects in the 2017 Siemens Competition for Math, Science and Technology. Daniel also plans to enter his work in the upcoming Regeneron Science Talent Search, formally known as the Intel Science Talent Search.


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Rev. Billy Graham Dies at 99
Author: Jon Douglas Feb 22, 2018,
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The evangelist brought his "Billy Graham Crusades" around the world, preaching to more than 210 million people in 185 countries and territories, the ministry said.
Franklin Graham has advised Trump and defended the president against his critics. "There was nobody like him!" He said, "Christianity is not a white man's religion, and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. A very special man". Meeting in a hotel in Modesto, California, they pledged to never be alone in a room with a woman other than their wives, and to keep honest financial records.
"We send our deepest condolences to the Graham family", the vice president said. We are all joining together in expressing our love to the Graham family even as we thank God for the incredible life of Dr. Billy Graham.
In 2002 Mr Graham apologised after secretly recorded tapes from 1972 revealed he and Mr Nixon agreed liberal Jews dominated the United States news media. Unashamedly Christian, he demonstrated a graciousness that extends to persons inside and outside the church.
Graham held great popularity in Oklahoma, and helped dedicate Oral Roberts University in the 60s. He created his own brand of populist evangelism.
"He was a man of such deep and abiding conviction about the message of the cross and about the love of God and forgiveness and life and meaning and goal", Wilton said. "Graham's service is a testament that, with faith in God, one person can do so much good for the world". In 1988, the Grahams traveled there to encourage its fledgling Christian community.
Graham was a tall, powerful figure, like a great National Football League quarterback. He said: "I don't advise them, I pray with them".
Evangelist Billy Graham died at the age of 99, his publicist confirmed Wednesday.
In 2014, I had the privilege of talking with Graham's grandson, Will, who was in town to pave the way for the Rev. Franklin Graham to preach at Jacksonville's Greater Jacksonville Festival of Hope the following year. Graham made an effort to racially integrate his rallies, refusing to preach to segregated audiences.
Graham's ethics and his emphasis on cooperation among different faiths earned him widespread respect.
"He filled a football stadium with a fully integrated audience, reminding them that we all come before God as equals, both in our imperfection and our absolute claim to fantastic grace", Clinton recalled in a statement.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks along with Billy Graham. They were married in 1943, until her death in 2007. As preachers everywhere, not only Nigerian preachers, we should be focused and know what God has called us to do. He is the author of the book Billy Graham: A Life in Pictures from 2013.
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Lung Function Declines Faster in Women Who Use Cleaning Products
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Costumes, beads and music: Mardi Gras comes to a close
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Trump Jr. Blurs Line Between Business And Politics In India Trip
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The Trump Administration Isn't Even Masking Its Contempt for the Poor Anymore
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Instagram is warning users when someone screenshots their 'story'
Instagram is testing a new feature that lets story creators view the people who have taken a screenshot of their content. Since the feature is now on testing phase, only users that are part of the test are able to have a sneak peek of it.
Gasoline prices in Lancaster County drop for 1st time in 2018
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State of emergency declared in Ethiopia amid political unrest
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands have been imprisoned, including top opposition figures. He said he wanted to smooth the way for reforms.
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I think children's books are really emotive at the best of times, that really strong nostalgia is a funny thing isn't it? Plus if you were already feeling fragile about Missy I'm not surprised!
I'm so glad she liked it! R gets some fantastic children's books donated, and I'm always happy to have an excuse to buy them. 🙂 Horacek is one of my favorite illustrators; he's done some incredible pop-up books, too, including a great one about robots.


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DC Super Hero Girls (2019) este un serial de televiziune de acțiune animat-aventură american dezvoltat de Lauren Faust și produs de Warner Bros. Animation pentru Cartoon Network. Bazat pe seria web și franciza cu același nume, serialul a avut premiera pe 8 martie 2019, cu o specială de o oră.

Serialul urmărește aventurile versiunilor adolescente ale Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Batgirl, Zatanna și Green Lantern, elevi la Liceul Metropolis.

În România, serialul a avut premiera pe 23 septembrie 2019 pe canalul Cartoon Network.

Dublajul în limba română

Dublajul a fost realizat de studiourile Fast Production Film:

Anca Iliese - Barbara "Babs" Gordon / Batgirl
Cătălina Chirțan - Diana Prince / Wonder Woman
Andreea Gaica - Kara Danvers / Supergirl
Theodora Stancu - Zee Zatara / Zatanna (sezonul 1)
?? - Zee Zatara / Zatanna (sezonul 2 - prezent)
Silvia Gâscă - Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern
Tamara Roman - Karen Beecher /Bumblebee
Cristian Neacșu - Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (sezonul 1a), Dick Grayson / Robin (sezonul 1a), Clark Kent / Superman
Alin Oprescu - Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (sezonul 1b - prezent), Dick Grayson / Robin (sezonul 1b - prezent)
Tudor Dobrescu - Barry Allen / Flash, alte voci
Mihai Muteniță - Carter Hall / Hawckman
Raul Stănulescu - Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
Claudiu Tonea - Garth Bernstein / Aqualad
Gabriela Virginia Șarga - Pamela Lillian Isley / Poison Ivy (episodul 16)
Alexandra Radu - Harleen Queenzel / Harley Queen
Olimpia Mălai - Doris Zeul / Giganta
Gabriela Bobeș - Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Catinca Nistor / Carina Chereji - Lessie Willis / Livewire
Raluca Botez - Carol Ferris / Star Shappire (sezonul 1a)
Răzvan Theodorescu - alte voci
Adi Dima

Traducerea: Cristina Chirilă

Regia: Tudor Dobrescu (episoadele 1 - 20), Cristian Neacșu (episoadele 21 - 40), Alexandra Radu (episoadele 41 - 49), Andreea Irimescu (episoadele 50 - prezent)

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Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar Huge Spoiler Leaks
WWE Superstar Roman Reigns is certainly one of the top competitors in the company right now and has been on a solid run as the WWE Universal Champion, but he is losing his top spot to two WWE Smackdown women. Roman Reigns successfully defended his WWE Universal Championship against WWE Hall Of Famer Edge and Daniel Bryan in a triple threat match in the main event of Night Two of WrestleMania 37. Roman Reigns might also be losing Paul Heyman eventually.
Roman Reigns also successfully retained his WWE Universal Championship against Cesaro in the main event of WrestleMania Backlash. Roman Reigns was scheduled to defend his WWE Universal Championship against Rey Mysterio at the WWE Hell In A Cell pay-per-view. However, that match was shifted to a previous episode of Friday Night Smackdown.
Roman Reigns would successfully defend his WWE Universal Championship against Rey Mysterio as well and went on to defeat Edge and John Cena in subsequent title matches at WWE Money In The Bank and WWE SummerSlam respectively. He then retained his title against Finn Balor at WWE Extreme Rules as well.
According to Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline, the plan is for WWE to have a series of matches featuring the Tribal Chief and Brock Lesnar.
"Regarding Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar as the main event for Day One, this is scheduled to be a multi-match series and this being one of the matches in the series."
h/t to Wrestlingnews.co for the transcription.
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NPR correspondent Chris Arnold is based in Boston. His reports are heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. He joined NPR in 1996 and was based in San Francisco before moving to Boston in 2001.
Most recently, Arnold has been reporting on the financial struggle millions of Americans are facing amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As part of that, he's done investigative stories showing how mortgage companies have been misleading homeowners who've lost their jobs, demanding outrageous balloon payments if they skip mortgage payments and scaring them away from help that Congress wanted them to have under the CARES Act.
Arnold's reporting often focuses on consumer protection issues. His series of stories "The Trouble with TEACH Grants," that he reported with NPR's Cory Turner, exposed a debacle at the U.S. Department of Education through which public school teachers had grants unfairly converted into large student loan debts — some upwards of $20,000. As a result of the stories, members of Congress demanded reforms and the Education Department overhauled the program and is now giving thousands of teachers their grant money back and erasing their debts.
Arnold was honored with a 2017 George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the Wells Fargo banking scandal. His stories sparked a Senate inquiry into the bank's treatment of employees who tried to blow the whistle on the wrongdoing. Arnold also won the National Association of Consumer Advocates Award for Investigative Journalism for a series of stories he reported with ProPublica that exposed improper debt collection practices by non-profit hospitals who were suing thousands of their low-income patients.
In addition to reporting for NPR's main radio programs, Arnold has been hosting the personal finance episodes of NPR's Life Kit podcasts, which offer listeners actionable tips backed up by behavioral economics research on the best ways to save money, invest for the future and a range of other topics.
Arnold previously served as the lead reporter for the NPR series "Your Money and Your Life", which explored personal finance issues. As part of that, he reported on the problem of Wall Street firms charging excessive fees in retirement accounts — fees that siphon billions of dollars annually from Americans trying to save for the future. For this series, Arnold won the 2016 Gerald Loeb Award, which honors work that informs and protects the private investor and the general public.
Following the 2008 financial crisis and collapse of the housing market, Arnold reported on problems within the nation's largest banks that led to the banks improperly foreclosing on thousands of American homeowners. For this work, Arnold earned a 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award for the special series, "The Foreclosure Nightmare." He's also been honored with the Newspaper Guild's 2009 Heywood Broun Award for broadcast journalism. He was also a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award.
Arnold was chosen for a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University during the 2012-2013 academic year. He joined a small group of other journalists from the U.S. and abroad and studied economics, leadership, and the future of journalism in the digital age. Arnold also teaches Radio Journalism as a Lecturer at Yale University and was named a Poynter Fellow by Yale in 2016.
Over his career at NPR, Arnold has covered a range of other subjects — from Katrina recovery in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, to immigrant workers in the fishing industry, to a new kind of table saw that won't cut your fingers off. He traveled to Turin, Italy, for NPR's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. He has also followed the dramatic rise in the numbers of teenagers abusing the powerful and highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin.
In the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, Arnold reported from New York and contributed to the NPR coverage that won the Overseas Press Club and the George Foster Peabody Awards. He chronicled the recovery effort at Ground Zero, focusing on members of the Port Authority Police department as they struggled with the deaths of 37 officers — the greatest loss of any police department in U.S. history.
Prior to his move to Boston, Arnold traveled the country for NPR doing feature stories on entrepreneurship. His pieces covered technologists, farmers, and family business owners. He also reported on efforts to kindle entrepreneurship in economically disadvantaged areas ranging from inner-city Los Angeles to the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.
Arnold has worked in public radio since 1993. Before joining NPR, he was a freelance reporter working out of San Francisco's NPR Member Station, KQED.
GOP Tax Law Sparks Confusion And Outcry In Blue States As N.Y. Threatens Lawsuit
By Chris Arnold • Jan 5, 2018
The week after Christmas is usually a short and slow one for town officials in New Paltz, N.Y. — but not this time.
"When we opened town hall Wednesday we had almost 100 voicemails from people inquiring about how they could prepay their taxes," says Daniel Torres, the town's deputy supervisor.
And the phones kept ringing. People started lining up. Torres says the clerk's office has a only few people working in it.
"The clerk's office was so overrun. After a certain while we couldn't even pick up the phones anymore," he says.
Head Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau To Step Down
By Chris Arnold • Nov 15, 2017
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Grad Students Would Be Hit By Massive Tax Hike Under House GOP Plan
Updated at 12:01 ET Nov. 16
There are a lot of anxious graduate students at universities around the country right now.
That's because to help pay for more than $1 trillion in tax cuts for U.S. corporations, the House Republican tax plan would raise taxes on grad students in a very big way. These students make very little money to begin with. And many would have to pay about half of their modest student stipends in taxes.
After Equifax Hack, Calls For Big Changes In Credit Reporting Industry
By Chris Arnold • Oct 18, 2017
This past spring, David Mifflin looked at his credit report online and saw that something wasn't right.
There were inquiries from Chase Bank about an application for a credit card that someone was trying to open in his name. Mifflin, who lives in San Antonio, says he called the bank and was told the identity thieves "had my Social Security number."
He set up fraud alerts with the three major credit reporting companies. But he says the fraudulent attempts to open credit cards continued "multiple times a week, multiple times a day."
Equifax Help Site Manipulated By Hackers To Push Adware
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The embattled company Equifax is having even more trouble with hackers. Now the company has had to take down one of its web pages after it was reported to be prompting people to download malicious software. NPR's Chris Arnold has more.
Senator To Ex-CEO: Equifax Can't Be Trusted With Americans' Personal Data
By Chris Arnold • Oct 4, 2017
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, who stepped down just last week, faced a roomful of angry senators and some tough questions at a hearing Wednesday. It was the second of three congressional hearings he is testifying in front of this week.
Republicans and Democrats alike are upset about the massive hack of Social Security numbers and other sensitive information at the consumer credit reporting company.
Wells Fargo, Equifax Officials Left To Answer Tough Questions From Lawmakers
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Equifax Continues To Scramble After Massive Breach
By Chris Arnold • Sep 28, 2017
Americans' Borrowing Hits Another Record. Time To Worry?
Americans owe more than ever before, with household debt hitting a record of nearly $13 trillion. And auto loans, home loans and credit card debt are all still on the rise, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
That has some economists saying the lessons of the bubble of borrowing in the run-up to the Great Recession have already been forgotten.
Trump's NAFTA Makeover Not So Extreme
By Chris Arnold • Aug 15, 2017
The Trump administration on Wednesday will start to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. And despite very tough talk about NAFTA during the campaign, it appears the administration has backed away from a major assault on the decades-old trade deal.
And that is a relief to businesses in all three countries.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump clearly tapped into frustration about workers who had lost jobs in manufacturing. And he painted NAFTA as one of the central villains responsible for stealing Americans jobs.
'Words You'll Hear': Trump Administration To Talk NAFTA Renegotiation
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Despite Proven Technology, Attempts To Make Table Saws Safer Drag On
Every day, more than 10 Americans suffer amputations on what is by far the most dangerous woodworking tool: the table saw. Regulators in Washington, D.C., are moving closer to adopting a rule that would make new saws so much safer that they could prevent 99 percent of serious accidents.
Who Snatched My Car? Wells Fargo Did
By Chris Arnold • Aug 2, 2017
Wells Fargo is back in the spotlight for another scandal. This time, for signing up 490,000 auto-loan customers for insurance they didn't need.
This comes less than a year after the bank generated a massive public outcry for opening millions of unwanted accounts for customers.
As Oil Prices Predicted To Remain Low, Energy Firms Seek Ways To Adapt
By Chris Arnold • Jul 28, 2017
The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell this week said his company is making a striking shift in its thinking: It now expects oil prices to remain low forever. The global oil glut of recent years shows no sign of diminishing. Energy demand has leveled off. And if electric vehicles take off, oil prices could come under even more downward pressure.
Wells Fargo To Pay $142 Million To Customers Hurt By Bogus Accounts
Wells Fargo bank has struck a settlement to reimburse customers who were harmed when bank employees created unwanted accounts in their names. A federal judge has granted a preliminary approval for the settlement in the class action case.
Wells Fargo says compensation will depend on the financial harm customers suffered. Someone who paid an improper $35 dollar fee likely will receive less money than someone whose credit score was damaged and had to accept a home loan with a higher interest rate.
How To See If Home Prices Are Rising Or Falling Where You Live
By Chris Arnold • Jul 7, 2017
Home prices have finally clawed their way back to the peak of the housing bubble. That's on average nationally. The story is very different when you zoom in on different counties or cities in particular.
Republicans Scrap Rule For Small-Business Retirement Plans
By Chris Arnold • May 4, 2017
Senate Republicans voted Wednesday night to rescind an Obama-era policy that allows states to offer retirement savings plans to millions of workers.
Retiree and worker protection groups say the move will hurt employees at small businesses.
Many small businesses say they can't afford to set up retirement savings plans, such as 401(k) plans, for their workers. That's a big reason why so many Americans aren't saving, says Cristina Martin Firvida, the AARP's director of government affairs.
U.S. Economy Grows At Weakest Rate In Past 3 Years
By Chris Arnold • Apr 28, 2017
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The United Airlines Fiasco: How Game Theory Could Help
United Airlines says it will never again use police to forcibly remove passengers from overfull flights. But this week's public relations disaster for United highlights a problem that airlines face every day: how to entice people to give up their seats voluntarily.
NPR reached out to some of the top thinkers in the world of "game theory" who say they think the industry could be doing a much better job. Here are some solutions they offered.
Treat the problem as a game.
Trump Administration Quietly Starts Review Of China's Trade Status
By Chris Arnold • Apr 4, 2017
Just days before President Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the administration has made a move that has some U.S.-China experts scratching their heads. The Commerce Department has quietly put a notice into the Federal Register stating that the U.S. will review a hot-button issue between the two superpowers.
The Soaring Stock Market And Your Nest Egg
By Chris Arnold • Mar 3, 2017
The stock market's been charging higher lately. After the Dow Jones industrial average topped 20,000 for the first time in history in January, it kept surging to close above 21,000 earlier this week. So what's going on with the stock market and what does it mean for your retirement account?
Trump Moving To Delay Rule That Protects Workers From Bad Financial Advice
By Chris Arnold • Feb 17, 2017
Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has taken steps to delay and perhaps scuttle a new rule designed to save American workers billions of dollars they currently pay in excessive fees in their retirement accounts.
Watchdog Groups Fear Trump Will Block Investor Protection Rule
By Chris Arnold • Feb 2, 2017
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One Of Trump's First Orders Means Home Loan Fees Won't Go Down
By Chris Arnold • Jan 27, 2017
Friday was the day that many homebuyers across the country were to start saving on average $500 a year on their loans. A fee reduction was set to go into effect at the Federal Housing Administration, lowering the cost of nearly 1 million FHA loans per year.
But that's not going to happen, at least for now, because in his very first hours in office, President Trump issued an order suspending that fee cut.
President Trump To Cut Regulations By '75 Percent' — How Real Is That?
In a meeting with business leaders, President Trump on Monday made an eyebrow-raising claim.
As part of an effort to make America more business-friendly, Trump said: "We think we can cut regulations by 75 percent. Maybe more, but by 75 percent."
Republicans do seem serious about some kind of regulatory reform. But even conservative economists say that number is not believable.
It has been said that the president likes to have an adversary. And at the meeting, Trump took aim at government regulations that stifle business.
Reports On Wells Fargo Whistleblowers Spark Inquiry In Congress
By Chris Arnold • Dec 30, 2016
DOJ's Big Bank Settlements Remove Potential Conflict Of Interest For Trump
In the last days of the Obama administration, the federal government has reached multibillion-dollar settlements with Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse over their sale of toxic mortgage securities.
President-elect Donald Trump owes Deutsche Bank hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. So that deal removes a potential conflict of interest — where a Trump Justice Department would have been negotiating the settlement.
Federal Reserve Chair Throws Cold Water On Trump's Economic Plan
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged a $1 trillion infrastructure spending program to help jump-start an economy that he said during the campaign was in terrible shape.
Speaking on Capitol Hill Thursday, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen warned lawmakers that as they consider such spending, they should keep an eye on the national debt. Yellen also said that while the economy needed a big boost with fiscal stimulus after the financial crisis, that's not the case now.
America's 'Forgotten' Hear Trump's Economic Battle Cry, But Will He Deliver?
During the campaign, Donald Trump characterized himself as a champion of working-class voters who felt left behind and disconnected from more prosperous parts of the country. And Trump's historic upset victory last week was fueled by working-class voters in the Rust Belt and elsewhere who believed in this promise.
Senators Investigate Reports Wells Fargo Punished Workers
By Chris Arnold • Nov 4, 2016
Elizabeth Warren and two other U.S. senators are demanding answers from Wells Fargo about reports of retribution by bank managers against would-be whistleblowers. This marks the latest development in the ongoing consumer banking scandal engulfing the banking giant.
In a letter to Wells Fargo's new CEO, Timothy Sloan, Warren, D-Mass., and Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., say the bank may have "misled regulators about the scope of the fraud."


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Super comfortable lounge chair designed by world known designer Marco Zanuso for Arflex, Italy 1951. This amazing chair is perfect upholstered like it original was. The fabric used is Tonica 751 by Kvadrat. The chair is ready for another 50 years of usage. Brass is in good and clean condition.


I'm Rodger Haynes and I love to recreate the furniture left to us by the early settlers of our country. I'm fascinated by the craftsmanship and utility of these old pieces, and because the supply is limited, I like to recreate them so that people who would not normally have access to them can own a functioning replica. I also restore and refinish antiques.
I do as much of the work as I can with hand tools, including hand-cutting dovetails and rebates, and finish-planing the wood. I will use power tools when the time required to do the original techniques is excessive. I don't spray anything, but use hand applied finishes, and try to mimic the normal wear that a piece would have endured over a century or so.
Look around and if you see something that interests you, drop me an email (preferred) or give me a call and perhaps you can acquire something you wished you could find but have been unable to.


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The timer can be operated using HTTP(S) with a general programming language. As long as your environment allows communication through HTTP(S), you can use an application and operate the timer from your smartphone or IoT device.
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By setting the Watchdog timer through the easy operation of a simple API, the timer automatically notifies you when data is not coming through, even at the specified time.
Also, the timer enables fault detection for IoT devices and detection of the abnormal ending of applications.


Despite cold, drizzly Saturday weather, students interested in coming to the college to get a first-hand look at what their post-secondary education would be like, and their parents, filled training facilities at both campuses.
All 120 programs, at the Welland campus, set up booths throughout the Learning Commons for the annual four-hour event.
"Today is a chance for people to see what Niagara College offers," said Dorita Pentesco, the director of marketing and recruitment.
Across the Welland campus, student volunteers were stationed to assist people needing information on college programs and services areas such as finance, registration, counselling, bookstore, Student Administrative Council and health.
Tour guides took groups of guests around the campus buildings explaining the various areas.
Program-specific volunteers led visitors from the Learning Commons to the lab and lecture rooms. Tours of the Welland campus residence suites were offered as well.
At the Niagara-on-the-Lake campus, popular tours were of the Wine Visitor + Education Centre and Niagara College Teaching Brewery, along with the Niagara Waters Spa. Food samples from the Canadian Food and Wine program were given to guests as they passed through the institute.
For those wanting a hands-on demonstration, considering the fact the college is a hands-on school, the Hairstyling program's students and professors offered demonstration hairstyles to guests who came to their booth.


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Villa Serra
Garden, Bologna, 2008
Against the elegant backdrop of a neo-classical villa, the design of a modern garden organised over two spaces. Overlooking the hills of Bologna, the terrace is a play on straight lines consisting of a border of Abelias and olives in vases, providing a relaxing area for inhabitants and guests. On the opposite side, there is a small hanging garden, designed around the existing lime-tree, where a double row of Pittosporum and Osmanthus hedges creates a more intimate area. Frassinago has looked after the garden from its birth to today.
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Dear Friends in Christ: Sunday: This Sunday we get to hear more of Jesus' "sermon on the plain," including the "Golden Rule." What a great guideline for Christian behavior: "Do to others as you would have them do to you." It's harder than it seems, however! We will unpack this and other teachings of Jesus this Sunday. Come and hear God's Word and be fed by Jesus in bread and wine. Adult Education: This Sunday we continue studying the book "Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I have Loved.") This book considers the problem of when bad things happen to good people. See details below. Reading for this Sunday: Please read Luke chapter 6 and the sidebar notes for this chapter in your Lutheran Study Bible (LSB.) This chapter includes Luke's version of "The Sermon on the Mount." Notice the challenging differences from Matthew chapter 5. If you don't yet have a LSB, see Pastor Mark.
Reading for Next Week: Please read Luke chapter 9 and the sidebar notes for this chapter in your Lutheran Study Bible (LSB.) This chapter is focused around the theme of glory and servanthood. Though the disciples see Jesus' glory in the story of the transfiguration - the passage for next Sunday, they also learn the difficult reality of sacrifice - being a servant, as Jesus himself will demonstrate on the cross. If you don't yet have a LSB, see Pastor Mark.
Ash Wednesday and Lent: Please make a point of joining us on Wednesday night, March 6, for Ash Wednesday worship at 7:30. We will offer imposition of ashes and will celebrate communion. St. Peter's will be joining us, including the combined choirs. It is a beautiful experience - don't miss it! Lenten midweek services will be on Thursday nights this year at 7:00 p.m. We will be singing the Holden Evening Prayer and will hear Faith Journeys from one of our Peace members each week. Soup Supper is before at 6:15 p.m.
Attendance: On February 17, 2019 99 attended service. On February 20, 2019, 16 attended service at Lexington.
Prayer Requests: We pray for those who need healing and wholeness: for Wes Willard, Kristen Jorgensen, Joyce Smith, Lindsey, Greg, Bob Kayser, Carol Nordquist, Kurt Stefans, Bella Velasco and Lauren Koenig. We pray for those who mourn, especially the family of Chris Paulson, cousin of Beth Piff, who died last week. Our practice is we will pray for an individual for at least 4 Sundays or until the end of the following month. After that time, we ask that you contact the office or Pastor Mark to keep your loved one on the prayer list. If a loved one inadvertently falls off the prayer list, please request to put this person back on the list. Thank you. We need pray-ers! If you would like to be a participant in the Circle of Prayer, please contact Terry Koncel at peaceprays@mail.com.
Holy Spaghetti Dinner & Auction - Saturday, March 2nd: Our teens are going to West Virginia for their mission trip in July and will be hosting their first fund-raiser, the Holy Spaghetti Dinner and Auction, on Saturday, March 2nd from 5pm-8pm. The event will be held at Peace Lutheran Church. We do need help for the event and sign-ups are currently on the bulletin board by the nursery. We will need sauce/pasta makers and auction donations, as well as volunteers to help set-up, clean-up and assist in the kitchen. Please mark your calendars for what is sure to be a wonderful evening filled with food, fun and fellowship!
Chamber of Commerce "Everything EXPO": will be held on Saturday, March 16th from 10 AM–3 PM at Concorde Banquets, 20922 N Rand Road, Kildeer (it is NOT at the High School this year). Peace Lutheran Church will be hosting a booth to display & promote our Sunday School, Youth & Summer VBS programs. We will also promote selected Community Outreach events. We hope that you are able to attend. There will be over 60 different booths and presentations this year including a Blood Drive & Wellness Screening.
Feed My Starving Children: Please sign up for Feed My Starving Children. We have 30 spots reserved for March 16th from 9-11 a.m. Sign up sheet in the Narthex.
The Human Race: Looking for participants for The Human Race. Are you looking to build your fitness level, have fun and help others? If so, consider doing the Human Race! This 5K event will be held on April 28th starting st 8:00 am at McHenry County College. It is family friendly and can be done as a walk or run (just over 3 miles). Participants can chose which local nonprofit will receive the proceeds of their race fee ($35 until March 31, then $40 until April 25). Please consider joining my team, Susie's Soulmates. I am encouraging team members to support Home of the Sparrow, a local nonprofit helping women and children who have experienced domestic violence or homelessness. Please call Sue Koenig with any questions.
Adult Mission Trip: Please consider coming on the adult mission trip this summer in Hattiesburg, MS to help families rebuild from a flood in 2016 and a devastating tornado in 2017. Many people were affected and we will be working with an agency that has been in the area helping people recover from natural disasters since 2006 following Hurricane Katrina's destruction. The dates are June 23-29th. We will be staying in a renovated 100 yr old inn with showers and laundry on site and making our own meals. You do not need to have any special skills and there will be an opportunity for community service as well. It is a great way to make new friendships and do something awesome this summer! A non-refundable deposit of $25 is due March 1, 2019. Checks can be made out to Living Lord Lutheran Church and placed in the envelop in the outreach mail slot in the office. Final payment is due by May 5. Opportunities to help with fund raising for the trip will be coming up soon. Please watch the green sheet for more information. Please contact Sue Koenig with any questions.
Mission Project Day 2020: Some people have asked how they can help with next year's Mission Projects Day. If you go to www.lwr.org and click on the how to help (make kits) and you will find a list of all the items that we need for the school, baby and health kits. If you would like to buy items throughout the year and when you find them on sale, that would be a great help. A bin will be in the hallway that you can place items at any time! You can also help with pre-sewing projects such making school bags, pillows for hospice and cutting the fleece tabs in blankets. These packaged kits will be in the bin in the hallway soon. Just sign out what you are taking and when you bring them back on the sign up sheet in the hallway. Projects need to be back to church by Dec. 2019. Thanks for helping out! Mark your calendars now-Mission Project's Day-- February 1, 2020!!!!
Sunday: This Sunday we get to hear Jesus beatitudes according to Luke. Besides the "blesseds," there are some "woes" in Luke's version. Was this a different teaching by Jesus in another location? Luke records this as Jesus' "sermon on the plain" compared to Matthew's "sermon on the mount." We will try to determine the meaning of this text for us in today's world. Come and hear God's Word and be fed by Jesus in bread and wine. Adult Education: This Sunday we continue studying the book "Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I have Loved." This book considers the problem of when bad things happen to good people. See details below. Reading for this Sunday: Please read Luke chapter 6 and the sidebar notes for this chapter in your Lutheran Study Bible (LSB.) This chapter includes Luke's version of "The Sermon on the Mount." Notice the challenging differences from Matthew chapter 5. If you don't yet have a LSB, see Pastor Mark.
Reading for Next Week: Please read Luke chapter 6 and the sidebar notes for this chapter in your Lutheran Study Bible (LSB.) This chapter includes Luke's version of "The Sermon on the Mount," except here it is called "The Sermon on the Plain." Notice the challenging differences from Matthew chapter 5. If you don't yet have a LSB, see Pastor Mark.
Adult Education: Today we continue a book study on "Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I Have Loved)" by Kate Bowler. Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School. She was diagnosed with incurable stage 4 cancer in her 30s, when she was a mother of a toddler. In the book, she challenges the "easy answers" that Christians have posed when something bad happens to someone good. Please let Pastor Mark know if you would like a book ordered. The cost of the book is $13. Please read chapters 3 and 4 for next Sunday. You may attend the sessions even if you do not read the book; there will be plenty to discuss. Pastor Mark will be leading. Attendance: On February 10, 2019 103 attended service. On February 13, 2019, 13 attended service at Lexington.
Youth Youth Director's Days Off & Office Hours: Our Youth Director is Tracy Katschke and her days off are Friday and Saturday. She does not check church voice mail or emails on those days. Tracy is engaged at Peace half-time, and her office hours are Monday - Thursday 2:30-6:30pm. She can be reached on her cell for urgent matters. Her cell phone can be accessed by calling church.
Chili Cook-Off : On Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 5:30pm. Who has the best chili? Let's find out! Sign up to bring your chili and all will vote to pick the winner. It's a fun way to spend a cold winter evening. Stay afterwards to see Peace's many gifted performers at the Talent Show at 6:30. Sign-up sheets are in the narthex.
Talent Show: Can you sing a song, do a dance, tell a joke, play an instrument? Peace Lutheran's Talent Show will be held at church on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 6:30pm. Don't have a particular "talent"? That's OK – we need an audience, too, so come and enjoy. Performers, please see the sign-up sheet in the narthex.
Chamber of Commerce "Everything EXPO": will be held on Saturday, March 16th from 10 AM–3 PM at Concorde Banquets, 20922 N Rand Road, Kildeer (it is not at the High School this year). PeaceLutheran Church will be hosting a booth to display & promote our Sunday School, Youth & Summer VBS programs. We will also promote selected Community Outreach events. We hope that you are able to attend. There will be over 60 different booths and presentations this year including a Blood Drive & Wellness Screening.
• Tied 22 fleece blankets for children in foster care through Lutheran Social Services of Illinois We collected hundreds of supplies for the medical clinics run by Hope for Africa, a big box of school supplies and children activities for their refugee camps and a big box of sewing supplies for the program to teach women skills to help them support their families. Thank you to all who donated to Hope for Africa!
Also a great big thank you to those who sewed pillows, school bags and quilts, tied paracord bracelets before the event, supplied items for the Lutheran World Relief kits and other projects, supervised an area, and helped with setup and cleanup or plan to help drop of completed kits, or mail boxes.. Many people will benefit from our efforts and it was only possible because of the generosity of Peaceand the willingness of its people to give of their time to help others. THANK YOU!
Dear Friends in Christ: Sunday: We will consider Luke's version of the "fishers of people" story. Luke includes Jesus telling Simon Peter to "put out into the deep water." How does Jesus call us to take risks? Come and hear God's Word and be fed by Jesus in bread and wine. Adult Education: This Sunday we will begin a book study. The book is "Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I Have Loved)." This book considers the problem of when bad things happen to good people. See pastor Mark to purchase a book. Reading for this Sunday: Please read 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and the sidebar notes for this chapter in your Lutheran Study Bible (LSB.) This is a powerful chapter where the apostle Paul speaks of his belief in Jesus Christ and the power of the resurrection. We will have passages from this chapter the next three Sundays. If you don't yet have a LSB, see Pastor Mark.
Adult Education: Today we will begin a book study on "Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I Have Loved)" by Kate Bowler. Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School. She was diagnosed with incurable stage 4 cancer in her 30s, when she was a mother of a toddler. In the book, she challenges the "easy answers" that Christians have posed when something bad happens to someone good. Please let Pastor Mark know if you would like a book ordered. The cost of the book is $13. Please read chapters 1 and 2 for next Sunday. You may attend the sessions even if you do not read the book; there will be plenty to discuss. Pastor Mark will be leading.
Attendance: On January 27, 2019 86 attended service. On January 29, 2019, there was no service at Lexington.
We collected hundreds of supplies for the medical clinics run by Hope for Africa, a big box of school supplies and children activities for their refugee camps and a big box of sewing supplies for the program to teach women skills to help them support their families. Thank you to all who donated to Hope for Africa!
Mission Project Day 2020: Some people have asked how they can help with next year's Mission Projects Day. If you go to www.lwr.org and click on the how to help (make kits) and you will find a list of all the items that we need for the school, baby and health kits. If you would like to buy items throughout the year and when you find them on sale, that would be a great help. A bin will be in the hallway that you can place items at any time! Mark your calendars now-Mission Project's Day-- February 1, 2020!!!!
The Human Race: Looking for participants for The Human Race. Are you looking to build your fitness level, have fun and help others? If so, consider doing the Human Race! This 5K event will be held on April 28th starting at 8:00 am at McHenry County College. It is family friendly and can be done as a walk or run (just over 3 miles). Participants can chose which local nonprofit will receive the proceeds of their race fee ($35 until March 31, then $40 until April 25). Please consider joining my team, Susie's Soulmates (use password let's go! To join the team online). I am encouraging team members to support Home of the Sparrow, a local nonprofit helping women and children who have experienced domestic violence or homelessness. Please call Sue Koenig with any questions.


Pizza boxes are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, a material that gets the recycling go-ahead in most places. But if you're just dumping the entire empty box in the recycling bin after you've finished your pie, you're harming more than than you're helping.
That's because once pizza grease and toppings touch the box, the greasy pieces can't be recycled and can in fact contaminate other cardboard and paper pulp. According to Stanford University's recycling guidelines, "Once soiled, the paper cannot be recycled because the paper fibers will not be able to be separated from the oils during the pulping process. Food is a major source of contamination in paper recycling." A New York Times guide to recycling states that "a few crumbs" don't render a pizza box trash, but that once grease sinks into the paper, it can't be recycled.
But there are some ways to save all or part of that pizza box from the landfill: If the top half of the box isn't greasy, then you can rip that piece off and put it in your recycling bin. Or you can get really green and compost the whole box, a la this new program at Central Michigan University. The campus' dorms now have a designated space for empty pizza boxes next to the regular trash and recycling containers; it was implemented specifically because so many greasy pizza boxes were ending up in the trash.
So, how do you know whether a pizza box is too greasy to recycle? Err on the side of not recycling it, because as Serious Eats explains, that one greasy box can ruin an entire batch of paper recycling.
What can I make with leftover bread?


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News: Korean architect Seung H-Sang is set to be officially named as Seoul's first city architect this week, in a move to re-establish the city's "architectural identity" after decades of unchecked development (+ interview).
Seung, who worked for prominent South Korean architect Kim Swoo Geun before setting up his own practice IROJE architects & planners in 1989, has been appointed city architect by Seoul's mayor Park Won Soon.
He will run a newly created team of architects, planners and urbanists and will oversee the planning and bidding process for all public projects, as well as having some influence on the approval process and design criteria for private buildings.
"Seoul desperately needed a single, consequent plan that would systemise the process and revive its identity," Seung told Dezeen. "Mr. Park appreciated the urgency of the matter. He pushed for the adoption of the city architect system which is widely used in the Western hemisphere. Since he had already been discussing architectural issues with me for a long time, he asked me to take on the new role."
Seung will serve for an initial two years, and is eligible to be re-appointed at the end of that period. He will put some of his personal work with his practice on hold.
A team of researchers, administrative staff, planners and architects is being assembled to created a full architects office for the city.
"I wish to establish Seoul's architectural identity," said Seung. "I want to raise awareness of what public interest values architecture should embody. I want to change the concept of what a city is, away from the old one-dimensional growth and expansion story."
"In the past century, we misunderstood the meaning of modernisation, thinking that it meant Westernisation," he said. "The good thing is we still have the place markers to guide it back to its original state in the form of the beautiful mountains, the valleys and the water. The most important task is to restore that scenery, to remember the heritage. We can find Seoul's identity through regeneration, not redevelopment."
Described as one of the most important South Korean architects, Seung designed Korea's pavilion for the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale and was director of the Gwangju Design Biennale in 2011.
He is currently working on a number of urban redevelopment projects in China through IROJE, including the repurposing of an abandoned pottery factory in in the porcelain capital of Jingdezhin, Jaingxi province, which is being turned into an atelier, gallery and shop.
Anna Winston: How did you come to be appointed as Seoul's first city architect?
Seung H-Sang: Seoul's mayor, Park Won Soon, who was recently re-elected in June has known for a long time about the importance of architecture. Seoul, a city of over ten million people, stuck to an old approach and treated the topic as a subset of civil engineering. Most departments of the city engaged in a large amount of architecture related projects but each applied different approaches. Seoul desperately needed a single, consequent plan that would systemise the process and revive its identity. Mr. Park appreciated the urgency of the matter. He pushed for the adoption of the city architect system which is widely used in the Western hemisphere. Since he had already been discussing architectural issues with me for a long time, he asked me to take on the new role.
Anna Winston: What does the role actually involve?
Seung H-Sang: I will work for all of the public works in Seoul city. I'll direct the process of design including bidding of all public projects and even for private projects I will be creating the design criteria. I'm aiming to increase the consideration of public interest and fairness through my work.
Anna Winston: Will you work alone or with a team?
Seung H-Sang: I will have a team of administrators and research staff to form an architectural office.
Anna Winston: How will this affect your work with your practice?
Seung H-Sang: I know very well that the only way to maintain the purpose of the city architect is to not taint it by linking the office with any private benefit. So it is inevitable that I will personally perhaps suffer some loss. I can undertake any job that isn't related to Seoul city, of course.
Anna Winston: What do you hope to achieve?
Seung H-Sang: I wish to establish Seoul's architectural identity. I want to raise awareness of what public interest values architecture should embody. I want to change the concept of what a city is, away from the old one-dimensional growth and expansion story. David Harvey values ethics over aesthetics, narrative dominating image and becoming trumping being. I interpret this to mean that ordinariness is important. This is what I pursue in architecture.
Anna Winston: How long will you serve as city architect?
Seung H-Sang: The term will be for two years. I am eligible to be re-appointed.
Anna Winston: What is Seoul's architectural identity?
Seung H-Sang: Seoul is a 600 year old historic city based on a mountainous terrain that is the capital of the Republic of Korea. It is completely apart from other cities that were established on flat land. It was built with consideration to the mountainous scenery, with buildings placed in small units and the beauty of the collective units was the architectural identity of Seoul. So the landmark of Seoul was the terrain, you could say. But in the past century, we misunderstood the meaning of modernisation, thinking that it meant Westernisation and imposed the logic of a levelised land configuration on this place. The scenery of the collective units was significantly destroyed. The good thing is we still have the place markers to guide it back to its original state in the form of the beautiful mountains, the valleys and the water. The most important task is to restore that scenery, to remember the heritage. We can do this not through governmental imposition or decree but by citizens' cooperation. We can find Seoul's identity through regeneration, not redevelopment.


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Caring to Death: Health Care Professionals and Capital Punishment
Cary Federman, Dave Holmes
The aim of this article is to describe the role of health care professionals in the capital punishment process. The relationship between the protocol of capital punishment in the United States and the use of health care professionals to carry out that task has been overlooked in the literature on punishment. Yet for some time, the operation of the medical sciences in prison have been 'part of a disciplinary strategy' 'intrinsic to the development of power relationships'. Many capital punishment statutes require medical personnel to be present at, if not actively involved in, executions. Through analyses of these statutes, show the degree to which these professionals have become part of the state's executive apparatus.
Punishment & Society
power/knowledge
Federman, C., & Holmes, D. (2000). Caring to Death: Health Care Professionals and Capital Punishment. Punishment & Society, 2(4), 441-451. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624740022228097
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