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Episode 88: How to Read Don Quixote
On this week's episode of The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks are joined by James Banks to discuss the value of reading Don Quixote and how to approach the book. They talk about translations and how to choose a translation of this particular work. James shares how he first read Miguel de Cervantes' classic work and gives a little contextual background on him as an author. He also argues that Don Quixote is a romance in the tradition of Spenser and is more of a satire of modernity than of chivalry. Other ideas discussed are the comic duo, the Spanish Renaissance literature, the travel novel, and how to dive into reading Don Quixote.
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Discarded Image by C. S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Shadow of Cervantes by Wyndham Lewis
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Bangladeshi workers rush home before lifting COVID lockdown | Bangladesh News
Thousands of people were trapped in the capital of Bangladesh before the authorities began implementing a week-long full lockdown on Thursday to combat the deadly resurgence of COVID-19 infection.
The country reported that the number of new infections exceeded 8,300 on Monday and 119 people died on Sunday.
Its total number of cases is close to 900,000, and the death toll from COVID-19 only exceeds 14,000. But experts said that due to possible underreporting, the actual number may be much higher.
Officials blamed the recent spike on the highly contagious delta variant first discovered in neighboring India.
As part of the restrictions, most of the 168 million people in this South Asian country will be confined at home by Thursday, allowing only basic services and some export-oriented factories to operate.
The government's cabinet secretary, Khandker Anwarul Islam, said that the army will be deployed from Thursday to help implement the blockade.
"The armed forces will conduct patrols. If anyone ignores their orders, they will take legal action," he told reporters late on Monday.
The blockade announcement triggered an outflow of migrant workers from Dhaka to their hometown on Sunday. Thousands of people crowded into the ferry to cross a large river.
The staggered implementation of the lockdown rules forced thousands of workers in Dhaka to walk to the office on Mondays during the hot summer days, sometimes for several hours.
Commuters said the government allowed rickshaws to operate at the last minute on Sunday, but prices soared to unaffordable levels.
In mid-April, as the number of cases and deaths jumped to the highest level since the pandemic began, restrictions on activities and movements were imposed across Bangladesh.
The number of infections declined in May, but started to rise again this month, which has triggered stricter restrictions in this South Asian country.
Health officials around the world are shocked by the rapid spread of the Delta variant. According to the World Health Organization, the variant has spread to at least 85 countries.
A recent study by the Independent International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Dhaka stated that more than two-thirds of new COVID-19 cases in the capital of Bangladesh belong to the Delta variant.
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Kentucky State Legislature Approves Bill to Assess Older Motor Vehicles for Property Tax; Moves to Governor
Legislation (H.B. 20) to put in place a new valuation procedure for older vehicles was approved by the Kentucky State Legislature and now moves to Governor Steve Beshear for his signature and enactment into law. Under the bill, vehicles 20 years old or older would no longer be presumed to be in "original factory" or "classic" condition. Original factory and classic vehicles are currently assessed as high-value collectibles. This measure instead provides three options for assessing the value of these vehicles: (1) if the vehicle was registered in Kentucky in its 19th year, it will be assessed at the value it was assessed at in its 19th year and that value will be reduced by 10% for each year after its 19th year; (2) if the vehicle was not registered in Kentucky in its 19th year, it will be valued according to its "average trade-in value" in its 19th year, which would be reduced by 10% for each year after the vehicle's 19th year and; or (3) a valuation administrator would conduct an assessment of the vehicle to determine the correct value, which would be reduced by 10% for each year thereafter.
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Have you ever wondered how it is that everyone in Hollywood seems to have such a perfect, straight and white smile? The secret behind many of these million-dollar smiles is porcelain veneers. While it was once a treatment which was considered a luxury, and only within reach for the rich and famous, nowadays veneers and the beautiful smiles they create are more accessible than ever!
A veneer is a thin facing which can be placed on a tooth to improve the appearance of the tooth. Veneers are usually constructed in reinforced dental porcelain, making them extremely strong, long-lasting, and resistant to staining. When created and placed by trained professionals, veneers are barely discernible from your natural teeth; most people will never realise it's not your natural smile.
Veneers are a highly versatile cosmetic dental treatment which can correct a broad range of concerns including discolouration, cracks, chips, and gaps. In some cases, staining on our teeth cannot be treated through teeth whitening. Veneers can be used to cover the discoloured tooth or teeth, making them blend with your other natural teeth again. Some people may also have minor gaps or crookedness of their teeth but are unwilling to undertake orthodontic treatment. Veneers are an excellent option to fill these gaps, or straighten the look of a slightly crooked tooth.
Why should I whiten my teeth before getting veneers?
It's not a necessity to whiten your teeth before having veneers placed. However, if you are unhappy with the colour of your teeth overall and have been considering a whitening treatment, we would recommend you do this prior to having your veneers created and placed. As veneers are constructed of porcelain, they cannot be whitened; the colour they are created in is the colour they will remain. If you undergo a whitening treatment prior to having veneers placed, you'll then be able to have your veneers perfectly matched to your whiter smile, creating a result which you will likely find more aesthetically pleasing.
What happens when I get dental veneers?
Having a veneer placed in your mouth requires two appointments. The first appointment is to take impressions of the teeth, and to perform the necessary preparation; this will involve shaving your existing teeth down so the veneers fit onto your teeth correctly. The impressions will then be used to custom-make your veneers to perfectly fit your teeth in your desired shade of porcelain. At your second appointment, the veneers will then be tried to ensure they fit perfectly before they are cemented into place. As the shade of porcelain cannot be adjusted, it is recommended that should you wish to achieve a whiter overall aesthetic, that you undergo a teeth whitening treatment prior to having veneers applied so they can be created in the correct whiter shade.
This depends on your unique needs and desires. Optimal aesthetics are usually obtained by placing multiple veneers across the upper front teeth. For some people two veneers may suffice, for others it may be up to 10. It all depends on what you are trying to achieve.
Provided you care for your veneers properly, then it is possible for them to last for around 10 years, though there are cases where they have lasted even longer. Proper care for veneers is exactly the same as your natural teeth; brush and floss daily, and ensure you're attending your regular check-up and cleanings.
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A veneer is a thin cover that is placed on the front of a tooth in order to improve its appearance. It also serves to reinforce the tooth. Veneers are made with reinforced dental porcelain by a dental technician, and are customised in order to match the colour of the natural teeth. In some cases, multiple veneers are placed across the upper front teeth for aesthetic purposes.


Tonight as we think about the great revelation of Scripture, we return to the theme that we began last Sunday night of the love of God. Does God love the world? For those of you who are visiting with us tonight, or haven't been here, we have been engaged in a doctrinal study and we have been looking at some of the very most important doctrines in the Christian faith and some of those that are hard for some people to understand and handle. And our little trek through these doctrines which began with a look at the perseverance of the saints, or the security of the believer, has brought us all the way to discussing the issue of the love of God. And the Bible says that God is love. He is also spirit. He is also light. He is also life. He is also holiness. But He is love. And this is the most commonly proclaimed attribute of God, it's the favorite attribute of God, it's the popular attribute of God. It makes people feel good to hear that God loves them. It is affirming to hear that. Just a simple recognition that God loves you is an amazing reality.
But it is not by any means as simple as some people make it seem. And so, we have taken a brief look at this love that God has, defining it more carefully and bring it into more sharpened focus. Does God love the world? Yes. He does love the world. Does He love every single person in the world the same way? No. He does not.
I dealt with this in rather careful detail in a book I wrote called The Love of God, or The God who Loves, depending on which edition you have. And at the time, I don't think I even understood fully the character, the nature and the extent of the love of God and so it was a very helpful effort on my part. And I remember years ago when I went through the series, I think I preached seven or eight or nine messages on this theme, so we're giving you a really just a condensed look at it in these couple of Sunday nights. But when we talk about the love of God, we are then forced to look at the love of God in all its categories. And the first category we looked at last Sunday night is that love which God has for Himself, intra-Trinitarian love. The Father loves the Son, the Father loves the Spirit, the Son loves the Spirit and the Father and the Spirit loves the Son and the Father, there is this perfect love, this perfect communion of love inside the Trinity.
And we noted that the New Testament makes it clear that the Father's love for the Son is perfect, that the Son's love for the Father is perfect, and we looked at some Scriptures that indicate that. And, of course, the Spirit is swept up in that love in its perfection as well. It was the Father's perfect love for the Son that caused the Father to seek a bride for His Son. It was the Son's perfect love for the Father that caused the Son to give His life to purchase the bride to please His Father. It was the Spirit's love for the Father and the Son that caused the Spirit then to do the great work of transforming and regenerating those who would become the bride of the Son. Ir is the love of the Father for the Son and it is the love of the Son for the Father that is the primary motivating reality in the history of redemption, only secondary is the love that God has for mankind. The primary issue here is God loved the Son so much that He sought a bride for Him and the Son loved the Father so much that He sought to pay the price for that bride, and ultimately when the Son has received His bride, according to 1 Corinthians 15, He will then turn around and give Himself and His bride back to the Father that God may be all in all. And so we've been learning that within the Trinity is this great expression of love going on, and we are secondary in the sense that God loves us so that He can fulfill His love to Himself within the Trinity. God's loving people rises out of intra-Trinitarian love.
We move then to the second category, God's love for Himself being first, God's love for humanity in general being second. This is the love of God that is general. This is the love of God that's often referred to as unconditional love. This is the love that is unlimited love. This is the love that is indiscriminate love. This is what Titus 3:4 calls God's love for mankind. This is the kind of love that Matthew 5 talks about God loving His enemies. And so should we.
Now four features characterize this love that God has for everyone. One, common grace. He makes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. He has provided in this world expressions of His love, expressions of His goodness and His kindness and His mercy and His compassion and His tenderness to all men in just the goodness and the richness of life itself. That's common grace.
Secondly, God loves all mankind with a love of compassion. The Bible talks about the fact that God feels compassion for sinners in general. This love is not motivated by their value, it's motivated by the loss of value that sin has produced.
And thirdly, we talked about the fact that this general love of God is manifest in warning. Throughout the Scripture all sinners everywhere are warned of judgment. Scripture is filled with warnings about judgment, warnings relentless and endless warnings which will be heard by people who never will be redeemed. But God's broad warnings to the world are part of His extended love to mankind.
And finally, the gospel offer is a demonstration of God's love for mankind. There is a legitimate offer of the gospel to anyone who believes. We are told to take that to the ends of the earth and preach it to every creature. And so there is a love that God has for mankind.
But I want to talk tonight about that third category of love, as we prepare for the Lord's table, and that is the love that God has for His own. He does love the world in a way expressed in common grace, compassion, warning and gospel offer. But He loves His own in a very different way, a far different way. God's love for the world, think of it this way, God's love for the world, for mankind in general, in unlimited in extent but limited in degree. God's love for the world in general is unlimited in extent but limited in degree. He...He loves them all but to a limited degree. God's love for believers is limited in extent, but unlimited in degree. God's love for His own is limited to those who believe and they are those whom He has chosen. And so His love for them is limited to them but it is unlimited in degree and in expression. His love for His own is eternal and limitless.
How are we then to understand how God loves us? I was visiting folks in the hospital today and I was talking to the lady who was there by her husband in intensive care and she was talking about last Sunday and she said, "I was so overwhelmed last Sunday because we sang, 'Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus. Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free.'" and she said, "'In my mind, all I could think about was the Tsunami, this massive flood just sweeping away everything. And I saw in that the image of the overwhelming and deep love of Jesus for me.'" That is a way to understand the love that He has for His own. It is all encompassing, all engulfing and rather than being all destructive, it is all beneficial.
Turn to John 13...John 13. There are many places to go, by the way, in the New Testament to look at this issue. This is one, John 13 verse 1, the feast of the Passover was about to come. This would be the Passover at which the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world would be slain. This was the Passover where Jesus was to be crucified. So it says, "Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that the hour, His hour, had come that He should depart out of the world to the Father." He's very aware, He is meeting here with His Apostles in the Upper Room. It is the night of His betrayal. His crucifixion is only hours away. He knows it. He looks at the Apostles who are around the table, all of them including Judas were there. And it says, "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them," the NAS says, "to the end." Other translations say, "Eternally." Others say, "To the uttermost."
Now here is a kind of love that is unique. "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them eis telos...eis telos," He confers an eis teloslove on His own. It is a quality of love, a degree of love beyond anything the world in general experiences. First Timothy 4:10 says, "God is the Savior of all men," in a temporal way, that is He shows love to all men, delivering them at least temporarily from the destruction and the judgment and the hell that they deserve. But that same verse says, "He is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe." There is a sense in which He is a Savior of all men, physically and temporally, not bringing to sinners what they deserve when they deserve it, but extending grace and compassion and warning and gospel offered to them. But when it comes to believers, He especially loves them. And especially is the Savior of those who believe not in physical, temporal sense, but in a spiritual eternal sense.
What does it mean eis telos? What does it mean that He loved them to the end? And by the way, they weren't being particularly lovable at this moment because if you compare the gospel account, they were arguing about which of them would be the greatest in the Kingdom which was rather a continual argument that they had, fighting for position and posturing themselves with reference to the Kingdom they thought Jesus was going to bring. And so they were about as ugly as they ever got. There wasn't anything particularly winsome about them at the time. But then again, the love of Jesus is not affected about how He feels about them or how they act at the moment. And that's the nature of this kind of love. What does it mean eis telos?
Well in the Greek it means "unto the end," "unto the finish." And it can go a lot of directions. Let me suggest a few. Number one, it can mean completely or perfectly, or fully. He loved them to the maximum of His capacity to love. That is to say He loves them so completely, so comprehensively, so fully that He cannot love them more. And His love is so full and so rich that He cannot hold back anything from them. Therefore Scripture says we are joint heirs with Christ, we inherit everything that Christ inherits. Scripture says we sit on His throne. Scripture says Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers. Scripture says that everything that is heaven that belongs to God and belongs to Christ will also belong to us. It is that breadth of love, that limitless range of love that causes everything that God has to also belong to us.
It also can mean that He loves us to the end. Eis teloscan be chronologically. He loves us not only completely and perfectly, but to the end, to the last. He loves us right till it's over. This is sort of like Romans 8, "What shall separate us from the love of Christ, tribulation and all those other things that are listed there?" He loves us when we're cowardly, He loves us when we're disloyal. He loves us when we're disobedient. He loves us when we're doubtful. He loves us when we're fearful. He loves us when we're rebellious. He loves us when we are flatly disobedient. He loves us when our love for Him grows cold. The disciples have lived through all of those phases, didn't they? Just like we do. In spite of their doubt, in spite of their lack of love, in spite of their fear, in spite of their disloyalty, in spite of their disobedience, He never wavered, He never wandered away from His love for them. He protected them in the garden from being arrested because He knew they could never survive the arrest and the scrutiny and the interrogation and the punishment, so He never let it happen. He loved them even when they were in disbelief walking on the road to Emmaus, moaning because they had put their trust in one who is now dead and they were overcome with hopelessness. He loved them when they were outright disobedient. He told them to go into the mountain and wait for Him and they went back to their old profession of fishing and He loved them anyway in John 21. And the real test of His love, "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." And He loved them enough to lay down His life to forgive their sins. His love for them to the end meant that He loved them enough to die for them, even in the midst of their failures, in the midst of their weaknesses. That's what it means to be loved by the Lord. It means to be loved completely. It means to be loved so fully that He couldn't love you more than He loves you, and it means that every benefit that His love can possibly give, He gives. And it means that that love is to the end, to the last, it's never going to be anything other than that.
Sometimes people get a little bit confused and they talk about that as if that's how God loves the world. That is not how God loves the world. He doesn't love them in that way. He doesn't love them savingly. He doesn't love them limitlessly. He doesn't love them permanently, no matter what. But He loves His own that way. And that's what it says in verse 13, "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." That would exclude Judas and that's why a little while later He dismissed Judas. Verse 2, "During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him." Jesus had a little dialogue and dismissed Judas and he went out and betrayed Jesus. And you know the rest of the story.
It means to love perfectly. It means to love to the very end. And thirdly, it can convey the idea of loving forever. Eis telosis a way to express something that is eternal. And the phrase is used to speak of eternity, forever. He loves His own forever. It is not just a general love that expresses common grace that blesses us temporally in this life, it is not just that general love which causes God to feel compassion for us. It's not that general love that warns and gives the gospel. This is a different love all together. It is limited in its extent, but it is limitless in its degree and its quality. This is the love of God that only believers experience. This is the love of God that was predetermined before the foundation of the world in the sovereign unaffected plan of God to choose some to be saved. This is the love of God that was expressed on the cross when Jesus died to actually pay the penalty to those upon whom God had set His love before the foundation of the world. In fact, the temporary brief love that God has for mankind eventually turns to eternal hate when they reject Him and feel His judgment. Psalm 5, "I hate all who do iniquity."
So the love God has for His own is vastly different. It is a...it is a sort of spiritual Tsunami. It is a surge of love. It is a depth of love and a breadth and a height of love that literally engulfs us. And it always turns to salvation, always.
The best way to illustrate this saving love is to look at a couple of Old Testament passages, just briefly. Deuteronomy chapter 7, Deuteronomy chapter 7 and I just...pick it up in verse 6, Deuteronomy 7 verse 6, "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God," he's talking to Israel here, "You are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth." This is divine election. Verse 7, "The Lord did not set His love on you..." Stop right there. That expression is another way to say what verse 6 said. God has chosen you. The Lord did not set His love on you, nor choose you because you were more in number. Why did He choose you? Because He set His love on you. Why did God set His love on just this nation? It was the uninfluenced purpose of His own sovereignty.
Verse 8, "Because the Lord loved you," etc. Verse 9, "Knowing therefore the Lord your God, He is God the faithful God who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments." And here you have this picture of God in eternity past loving certain people, Jews, in the little tiny nation of Israel, descendants of Abraham through Isaac and setting His eternal love and covenant on them.
Turn to Ezekiel 16, here is another more dramatic and more graphic illustration of this. In fact, this is one of the most graphic chapters in all the prophets and certainly the most vivid forceful chapter in Ezekiel, also the longest chapter in Ezekiel, 63 verses. And it's really an amazing chapter. Through the years a couple of times considered this chapter and I...I'm not going to get bogged down but I just want you to get a feel for what's going on here. This chapter demonstrates God's forgiving eternal love to His own. The story of Israel is presented here, really in very kind of vivid and even somewhat distasteful sordid imagery. In fact, it was so ugly that many rabbis forbid this chapter to be read or explained in public. They skipped it because it focuses on Israel in what many of the Jews felt was an unsavory way. Verse 1, "The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Son of Man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.'" Oh that's a bad start as far as the Jews were concerned because it exposed their abominations. "And say, 'Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite, your mother a Hittite.'" That's just a little history. The nation basically was born out of a Caananitish background, Amorites and Hittites. "As for your birth, on the day you were born, your navel cord wasn't cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing and you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you, rather you were thrown out into the open field for you were abhorred, or hated, on the day you were born."
The dwellers in Canaan were generally called Amorites or Hittites. It's talking about the fact that Jerusalem and the Jewish people had pagan origins. And because of idolatry, Jerusalem was acting in a very Caananitish way even at this time. And that's what led to the captivity that Ezekiel was a part of. When the nation came into existence, it was weak and defenseless and poor, it was...it was liable to perish, it was just out there on its own in a field. I guess you could say the field was Egypt. It received no pity from any human source. This was a common thing to do, by the way, in the ancient world. If you didn't want a baby, you didn't necessarily have to abort the baby, just cut the cord and throw the baby in a field. Israel was unwanted and uncared for, thrown out in the field, as it were, in Egypt. Nobody had bothered to cut the navel cord, nobody had bothered to wash with water which was always done to cleanse that baby when it was born, and babies were rubbed with salt to mitigate against any infection and wrapped obviously for protection and warmth. Nobody had any pity on Israel. Nobody cared. There they were, thrown out in the open field of Egypt, hated.
Verse 6, "Then God said, 'When I passed by, I saw you squirming in your blood. I said to you while you were in your blood, Live. I said to you while you were in your blood, Live. And I made you numerous like plants of the field.'" And that's a little bit about the history of Israel and Egypt. They grew to a mighty nation...mighty nation, maybe as many as two million of them that came out of that field. But this is just a start. "I made you numerous like plants of the field, you grew up, you became tall, you reached the age for fine ornaments. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown...maturity...and yet you were naked and bare, you still weren't complete, you still weren't covered. I passed by and I saw you and you were at the time for love and so I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord God." I picked you up out of no place. I picked you up when you were left to die. I picked you up out of Egypt and I brought you back and I allowed you to mature. And then I clothed you and protected you and I bathed you with water and washed off the blood and anointed you with oil. And I clothed you with embroidered cloth and I put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet." Take that, you environmentalists. "And I wrapped you with fine linen and I covered you with silk and I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck."
Wow, you know back in verse 8 it says, "I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness." That was tantamount to a marriage covenant. God says I made you My bride, I made you My wife. And then I took care of you and I washed you and I clothed you and I adorned you. Verse 12, "I put a ring in your nostril," not a big bull ring, by the way, but just a little ring was worn often in those days and still in some cultures. "Earrings in your ears, a crown on your head, adorned you with gold, silver, dressed in fine linen, silk, embroidered cloth, you ate fine flour, honey, oil, you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty and your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty." That would be about the time of Solomon, right?, when the kingdom really reached its apex. Lavished goodness from God, I did all this for you.
But...verse 15, "You trusted in your beauty, you played the harlot because of your fame. You poured out your harlotries on every passerby who might be willing." Wow. Every stranger you had an liaison with. And, of course, this is talking about idolatry. There was real adultery going on in Israel but He's talking here about spiritual idolatry, spiritual adultery. You took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and My silver which I gave you, made for yourselves male images, you turned the gold and silver I gave you and you flaunted that and you made idols out of it and you played the harlot, you worshiped the very idols made out of the goods that I gave you. Took your embroidered cloth and you covered them and you offered My oil and incense before them. You took everything I gave you and used it in your idolatry. My bread I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma. So it happened, declared the Lord God.
Verse 20, He asks at the end of the verse, "Were your harlotries so small a matter, you slaughtered My children, offered them up to idols by causing them to pass by through the fire. They got involved in worshiping Molech. And besides all the abominations," verse 22, "and harlotries, you didn't remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood. You forgot, you forgot." And it just goes on. I won't take the time to read it.
Israel is an impudent prostitute without control, without conscience. Eventually you get down to verse 35 to 43 and you have the Babylonian Captivity. God will not be pacified any longer. I'll bring, verse 43 says, I'll bring your conduct down on your own head. Judgment came and it came in the form of the Babylonian Captivity. Slaughter, people taken out of their country, all of this because of your abominations.
And then in verses 46...in 46 and following, He talks about Samaria and Sodom. Samaria, evil, the northern kingdom wicked, taken away into captivity, never to return. Sodom, homosexuality, gross sin, destroyed by fire and brimstone. Samaria and Sodom would have been bywords for the worst, but verse 47 says, "Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations but as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they." Worse than Sodom? Worse than Samaria?
Now where does all this go? Go down to verse 60, "Nevertheless," there's a great word, "nevertheless, I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish an everlasting Covenant with you." What? Why? Why? "You will remember your ways," verse 61, "and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger. I will give them to you as daughters but not because of your Covenant, thus I will establish My Covenant with you and you shall know that I am the Lord in order that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, the Lord God declares."
Why in the world is He going to forgive them? Why didn't He forgive Sodom? Why didn't he forgive Samaria? Judah is worse. Why? Verse 60, "I will remember My Covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish an everlasting Covenant with you." I made a pledge, I made a promise based upon My sovereign will. This is the essence of the kind of love that God has for those He chooses. He will save them and He will give them salvation no matter how they blaspheme and spurn Him. Eventually they will turn. You will remember, verse 63, you will be ashamed, you will be humiliated, I will forgive you. Sodom was destroyed. Samaria was unredeemed. Israel was worse. Yet God forgave because He predetermined to do it. He set His saving love upon that people. And to this day He is saving a remnant out of Israel, in spite of Israel's horrific apostasy in the past. And some day He will redeem the nation because He has promised to do it. It's an illustration of the fact that His love for His own is perfect, it is complete, it is saving love, it is eternal love and whom He predetermines to love, He will love savingly.
It was said of Solomon, "The Lord loved him." Solomon sinned yet was, it says in Nehemiah, beloved of his God. You see, we are the beneficiaries and the recipients of a sovereign love established before the foundation of the world, set upon us. It is limited to those whom God chooses and those who believe. It is unlimited in its quality and its degree. Ephesians 2 says, "It is a love that forgives, it is a love that gives life. It is a love that promises eternal glory. It is a love that brings kindness forever. It is a love that produces righteousness and it's all of grace." Ephesians chapter 5 says, "It is a love that gives life. It is a love that separates from sin. It is a love that cleanses. It is a love that purifies. It is a love that makes holy. It is a love that nourishes. It is a love that cherishes."
Luke 15 says, "It is a love that forgives and lavishes and rejoices and restores and enriches." Romans 8 says, "It is an inseparable, unconquerable, unbreakable everlasting love." And so it is that God loves His own and He loves us to the extreme end of His love which is really without end. And He loves us through all our lives to the very last, no matter what. And He loves us throughout all eternity. He has saved us to lavish that love upon us.
And I know we go back to the question we talked about months ago...why did God not choose to love everyone like this? Well He didn't, but if you ask me why He didn't, I can't tell you the answer any other than this, because loving this way brought Him glory. God is not obligated to be the unqualified equal-opportunity lover of all people. God is not the prisoner of His love, nor is He the prisoner of man's expectation for His love. And God's love is not separated from all the other attributes which bring Him glory like justice and holiness and righteousness and wrath. Everything God does in the end is for the glory of His name. He loved Jacob for His glory and He hated Esau for His glory. And for the purposes that He Himself knows and are absolutely righteous, God loves the way He loves. We will not understand it. Maybe we'll get closer to understanding it in heaven. But we can certainly rejoice in it.
When you come to this table then, you come to celebrate this eternal love which God the Father set on you before the foundation of the world by which He determined to save you and give you as a part of the bride to His own beloved Son. And it was for you that the Son died, paying the penalty for your sin in order to purchase you to be His bride, some day then to give Himself and the bride back to the Father that God may be all in all. And so, we come overwhelmed, I trust, with this astonishing gift of salvation, born out of God's sovereign love. Let's pray together.
Father, as we come now to this table, we really are overwhelmed. This is just too mysterious. We're no better than others. We're no different than others. We're no saints on our own. There's nothing in us to be commended. There's nothing in us particularly lovable, how in the world could we ever assume that You could find something lovable in sinners when You are perfectly holy? But out of the grace and mercy of Your heart and out of Your immense love for Your Son, You determined that You would love some of us and that You would love us to the max and that You would love us to the end and that You would love us through all eternity because it serves Your purpose in loving Your Son. And that Your Son would love us because it served Him in showing His love for You. And that the Spirit would join in by redeeming us to a mighty work of transformation so that this great love could be complete. We think of the words of Jesus who talked about how the Son loves the Father and the Father loves the Son and how He longed that all who believe would enjoy participating in that same love. And we will forever enter in to the love that is unique to the Trinity. O God, this is so vast and so marvelous and we know that being loved finds its highest moment at the cross where the price is paid to make Your own those You determine to love. So we come to the cross so grateful, so thankful and again to be reminded of the sacrifice that our Lord made there.


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There's no denying the benefits of a college education: the ability to compete in today's job market, increased earning power, and expanded horizons. But these advantages come at a price. And yet, year after year, thousands of students graduate from college. So, how do they do it?
Many families finance a college education with help from student loans and other types of financial aid such as grants and work-study, private loans, current income, gifts from grandparents, and other creative cost-cutting measures. But savings are the cornerstone of any successful college financing plan.
It's important to start a college fund as soon as possible, because next to buying a home, a college education might be the biggest purchase you ever make. According to the College Board, for the 2016/2017 school year, the average cost of one year at a four-year public college for in-state students is $24,610, while the average cost for one year at a four-year private college is $49,320. Many private colleges cost substantially more.
Even though college costs are high, don't worry about saving 100% of the total. Many families save only a portion of the projected costs–a good rule of thumb is 50%–and then use this as a "down payment" on the college tab, similar to the down payment on a home.
The more you save now, the better off you'll likely be later. A good plan is to start with whatever amount you can afford, and add to it over the years with raises, bonuses, tax refunds, unexpected windfalls, and the like. If you invest regularly over time, you may be surprised at how much you can accumulate in your child's college fund.
Table assumes an average after-tax return of 6%. This is a hypothetical example and does not reflect the actual performance of any investment. All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal, and there can be no guarantee that any investing strategy will be successful.
You're ready to start saving, but where should you put your money? There are several college savings options, and it's smart to consider tax-advantaged strategies whenever possible. Here are some options.
A college savings plan is an individual investment account that lets you direct your contributions to one or more of the plan's investment portfolios. With a prepaid tuition plan, you purchase tuition credits at today's prices for use at specific colleges in the future. With either type of plan, participation isn't restricted by income level and lifetime contribution limits are high, typically $300,000 and up (limits vary by state).
A Coverdell education savings account (ESA) is a tax-advantaged education savings vehicle that lets you contribute up to $2,000 per year for a beneficiary's K-12 or college expenses. Your contributions grow tax deferred and earnings are tax free at the federal level if the money is used for qualified education expenses. You have complete control over the investments you hold in the account, but there are income restrictions on who can participate, and the $2,000 annual contribution limit isn't likely to put much of a dent in college expenses.
The interest earned on Series EE and Series I saving bonds is exempt from federal income tax if the bond proceeds are used for qualified college expenses. These bonds earn a guaranteed (as to the timely payment of principal and interest by the federal government), modest rate of return, and they are easily purchased at most financial institutions or online. However, to qualify for tax-free interest, you must meet income limits.
A custodial account allows a minor to hold investment assets in his or her own name with an adult as custodian. All contributions to the account are irrevocable gifts to your child, and assets in the account can be used to pay for college. When your child turns 18 or 21 (depending on state law), he or she will gain control of the account. Earnings and capital gains generated by the account are taxed to your child each year. Under the kiddie tax rules, for children under age 19 and for full-time students under age 24 who don't earn more than one-half of their support, the first $1,050 of earned income is tax free, the next $1,050 is taxed at the child's rate, and any amount over $2,100 is taxed at your rate.
Though technically not a college savings option, some parents use Roth IRAs to save and pay for college. Contributions to a Roth IRA can be withdrawn at any time and are always tax free. For parents age 59½ and older, a withdrawal of earnings is also tax free if the account has been open for at least five years. For parents younger than 59½, a withdrawal of earnings–typically subject to income tax and a 10% premature distribution penalty–is spared the 10% penalty if the withdrawal is used to pay for a child's college expenses.
Many families rely on some form of financial aid to pay for college, which includes loans, grants, scholarships, and work-study. Financial aid can be based on financial need or on merit. To determine financial need, the federal government and colleges look primarily at your family's income, but other factors come into play, including how many children you'll have in college at the same time and your assets. To get an idea of how much aid your child might be eligible for at a particular college, you can fill out the net price calculator on that college's website.
The bottom line, though, is don't rely too heavily on financial aid. Although it can certainly help cover college costs, student loans often make up the largest percentage of the typical aid package, and excessive student loan debt can negatively affect borrowers for years. The lesson? The more you save now, the less you and your child will need to fund later.
Note: Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses associated with 529 plans before investing; specific plan information is available in each issuer's official statement. Also, before investing, consider whether your eligibility for any state tax benefits is contingent on your participation in your own state's 529 plan. There is the risk that the investments may not perform well enough to cover college costs as anticipated.
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Emerging indications from the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Barkindo, have shown that the joint output curb is succeeding at rebalancing the global oil market.
This comes straight after OPEC raised its estimates for the amount of crude it would need to produce to meet demand by 0.4 mb/d to 33.4 mb/d in October, nearly 0.8 mb/d above the group's Q3'17 production.
Amid this, OPEC expects global crude stockpiles to diminish quicker than earlier anticipated, but will meet on the 30th of November to agree on the fate of the current output cut post-March 2018. It remains to be seen whether Nigeria would retain its exemption from the agreement at that time, as OPEC data shows the country's production stabilizing just below 1.8 mb/d (exlc. Condensates).
Business Hilights recalls that Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe kachukwu had tentatively backed the proposition of Nigeria's production being capped at 1.9 mb/d (excl. Condensates) once that level is reached. Overall, we see firm producer action from OPEC supporting global oil prices in 2018 – particularly in the first quarter – which would, in turn, buoy Nigeria's oil earnings.
Business Hilights further gathered that throughout last week, Global markets were mixed with investors focusing on corporate earnings, down trending commodity prices and economic data. U.S. markets opened the week strong, with the Dow closing higher on news of M&A activity across select large cap stocks.
However, the market retreated shortly after, as energy stocks dipped on a new IEA study which slashed 2018 oil demand projections by 100,000 barrels. Positive sentiment however re-emerged in the market on Thursday amidst better-than-expected corporate earnings from heavyweights, Walmart and Cisco.
Meanwhile, European markets started the week bearish and sustained losses through midweek as basic resources stocks slumped in reaction to lower commodity prices. Tides eventually turned on Thursday as investors reacted to better than expected corporate earnings. Asian markets were however mixed with a bearish bias through the week amidst contrasting economic and corporate announcements such as Japan announcing that the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal was being concluded, Alibaba reporting a record sales figure and China's Industrial production & retail sales figures missing consensus estimates.


Will Water Become The Next Oil?
Marjorie Ryerson, Dr. Peter Gleick and Dr. Azzam Alwash were interviewed by host Jean Feraca on her National Public Radio show, "Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders," in 2006. Ryerson is the executive director for Water Music; Gleick is the executive director of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, CA; and Alwash is the Iraqi-born engineer and environmental activist who is working to restore the marshlands at the base of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq through his organization, The Eden Again Project. Please listen to the show at: http://h2opodcast.com.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers spring from the highlands of eastern Turkey, and run through Syria, Iran and Iraq before joining together to form the Shat-Al-Arab River, which eventually empties into the Persian Gulf. Bordering all three rivers was a huge marshland used that used to support the Ma'dan people, who lived entirely off this rich environment largely as their ancestors had done over 5,000 years ago. Over the last few decades, the marshland area has been dramatically damaged and reduced. Dr. Azzam Alwash has dedicated his life to reversing that change and allowing the former residents to return.
Among its other goals, the Pacific Institute, of which Peter Gleick is the executive director, works to improve efficiency and to ensure basic access to water. It addresses issues related to the global water crisis, water privatization, water and conflict, and climate change, among other critical water issues.
This non-profit uses a multi-disciplined team approach. The Watershed Institute was first conceived in 1996 by a group of state and federal government employees as an unofficial method to address many natural-resource issues. In 2004 the group formed a non-profit corporation. It's web page says: "We are a seasoned interdisciplinary team with experience and expertise in natural-resource assessments and monitoring, habitat assessments, stream enhancement and restoration design, streambank stabilization and construction, wetland design and construction, and water law. We have the knowledge, resources, and abilities to solve any natural resource problem or need. We also control funding of projects. Please contact us if you have a project for consideration."


Un certificado SSL es el elemento principal del protocolo de seguridad SSL, y se utiliza para que las transmisiones de información entre dos elementos conectados a través de Internet sea totalmente segura, siendo el caso más extendido el del protocolo HTTPS que sirve para conectar de forma segura con un servidor web. Los certificados SSL constan de dos partes, una pública y una privada. La parte pública será la encargada de cifrar la información, y la privada de descifrarala.
Al ser un protocolo abierto, puede ser empleado con la mayoría de los servicios de comunicación más extendidos de Internet, como pueden ser HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP o POP3, entre otros, a los que SSL le añade una capa de seguridad (HTTP → HTTPS, FTP → FTPS, etc.) Por ejemplo, el protocolo puede ser utilizado cuando un usuario accede a un sitio web, o cuando un cliente de correo como Outlook o Thunderbird se conecta a un servidor de correo, o cuando dos aplicaciones conectadas establecen una comunicación, además de otros muchos.
In this case, an SSL certificate provides security to the visitor of a web site. Its mission is to identify a server to any visitor, and provide an encryption communication allowing to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of data. It is formed by several codes that make up various files and serve to implement the SSL/TLS Protocol to a web site, and thus establish the HTTPS protocol in the communication between the client and the server.
SSL certificate: is the public part. It is composed of a file, and when someone connects to a server over HTTPS, is what you will receive in the first place. Contains the name of the domain, and credits that you are effectively communicating with who claims to be.
The private key: is essential to be stored securely and that under no circumstances give out. It functions as a seal, it is "sealed" communication, and is credited to the server is, in fact, who claims to be.
Intermediate certificates: AC or certification authorities are trusted (by the operating systems and browsers) third parties, and are responsible for issuing certificates, and will only do so if they can verify that the person or organization requesting it is the owner of the domain that you want to certify. This intermediate certificates that are those that signed the server certificate are issued.
However these ports can be set up in a personalized way by the server administrator. The implementation of SSL on a mail server will allow the information of all the e-mail that travels from the server to the client, do it in a secure way, so that it can not be intercepted or modified by anyone.
It serves to identify correctly to the server, and thus ensure their identity. So if the domain for which the certificate has been issued is different from the server, you get an error in identification. This fact also limits to that mail server should be appointed with a public domain (not valid local domain. local, etc.), so that entities issuing SSL certificates to verify your identity.
The FTP Protocol is the most widespread for the transfer of files between connected systems, and FTPS secure version, allows that they be made safely. For its implementation, is placed a SSL/TLS layer below the FTP standard which allows to encrypt the transferred data, so they can not be intercepted or modified by unauthorized elements.
FTPS is executed by default on port 990, although it requires some other ports for its operation. Specifically port 989 for the transmission of data, as well as other ports if you need passive connections.
Certificate SSL installed on the Redalia web site.
Already knowing the parts that makes up an SSL certificate, we will detail below, how it works.
In a first step, an encrypted communication will be established using asymmetric encryption (with a public key and a private key). The SSL certificate is public, and is available to anyone who accesses the website. It has a public key that will allow the browser that is accessing the website to encrypt information that only the server can decrypt with its private key (which must always be stored privately). Specifically, the information that will emit the browser, will be the symmetric key with which to carry out the rest of the communication. This ensures that this key is only known by the two parties authorized to establish the communication. From that moment the information that travels in both directions will be coded by that key, and will guarantee its confidentiality and its integrity.
In the whole process, none of the intermediate certificates has been mentioned. What are intermediate certificates for? Its usefulness is to ensure that the person or organization behind the certificate is who you say you are, and you are authorized to use that domain. The intermediate certificates are issued by the certifying authorities or CA, and are third parties recognized by the browsers and are responsible for sealing the SSL certificate to validate and validate it.
Intermediate certificates on the Redalia web site.
Does it mean that an SSL certificate can only be issued by a recognized CA? No, a certificate can be self-signed, or signed by an authority that is not recognised. The problem is that the vast majority of web browsers will show a clear error, and will apply to users that access the site, authorization, under their own responsibility to access the same.
What is the SSL / TLS Protocol?


SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Medical officials say at least 10 civilians have been killed in a rocket attack in the war-torn Yemeni city of Taiz, including children.
Pictures of the dead children in a pool of blood were widely circulated on social media.
The conflict has left at least 10,000 dead and injured, according to the United Nations. The western city of Taiz has been torn between Houthis and local fighters backed by the Saudi-led coalition.


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Community Service: Doug Cloud coached soccer for the Peninsula Athletic Association.
Statement: Doug Cloud is ready to serve us by working in Congress to restore job growth, prosperity and stability for Washington State and America. He'll work to control spending, balance the budget, tackle the debt and fight for government accountability.We need leaders who stand on principles. Doug Cloud has fought both government and private-sector corruption as an independent attorney and former Deputy Prosecutor. In Congress, Doug Cloud will help us clean house and take our country back from career politicians, bureaucrats and special interests that spread a culture of corruption in Washington, DC.
Doug Cloud earned a proven record of integrity and excellence in service from his career helping thousands of our neighbors solve real-world problems, root out fraud and expose scams. He's won justice for his clients before Washington State's Supreme Court and the Federal 9th Circuit Appellate Court.
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Mitt Romney's Victory Party a Bust
It started out kinda fun, but as one state after the next fell to Obama, the mood darkened. Then things just got sad, reports David Freedlander.
David Freedlander
Updated 07.14.17 2:06AM ET / Published 11.07.12 12:25AM ET
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What makes Election Night parties different than perhaps any other celebration is that they take place in a sort of cable-news echo chamber. For most of the evening, the crowd at the Mitt Romney Victory Party at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was watching Fox News. When Fox would show a burst of good news, the audience would cheer, which would lead Fox to quickly cut to the party at the ballroom, and the Republicans here would cheer louder, now seeing themselves broadcast on the screens that were looming over their party.
But for most of Tuesday night, there were not many reasons to cheer here in Boston. The news started out bad, with Barack Obama grabbing the key battleground states of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, and it got progressively worse as the path for Mitt Romney to reach 270 electoral votes got slimmer and slimmer, with Michigan falling, then Minnesota, then Wisconsin.
At an exclusive backstage room for some of the most generous donors to the Romney campaign, Paul Ryan arrived to thank them for pulling together the millions of dollars that fueled the campaign. But the appearance of the popular congressman did little to lift the mood.
"It's grim. People are in a state of shock," said one person who was in the room. "We will keep the House, but the Senate is a fucking disaster."
Still, like other Republicans here, this person said there was hope. "We have to thread the needle. We have to win every state out there. We can do it but it is not easy."
A campaign adviser told The Daily Beast that they were "being realistic" about what the scenario was, but that they were trying to remain optimistic. "So we aren't winning the states we weren't supposed to win," he said.
Which was the problem that the campaign faced all along. For months, reporters have been corner aides, asking, "What is your map?" since Obama seemed to have an electoral college firewall. Don't worry about the details, the aides responded, our path is wide and short.
Down on the floor, eyes started to water and redden. The boisterousness that had fueled the party a few hours earlier fell to a whisper. It got harder to find a supporter not holding a beer or a glass of red wine, and then impossible, when campaign aides started to keep reporters off the floor.
The debate, about whether or not there was any kind of path for Romney, and what the party should do next—move to the center or keep veering to the right—was playing both on the screens and on the floor. "They will have to modernize," said John Legittino, who had come to Boston from Chicago. "On abortion, health care. The Republican Party will have to come into the 21st century."
More states fell. Iowa. Colorado. Then Ohio. Save for the dour voice of Brit Hume, broadcast over the worst party you have ever been to, it became eerily silent in Boston.
A junior aide came by the press table to wonder why the hacks weren't typing any more. "We are waiting to see the results," one said. It was a joke. The writing was on the wall, the carpets, the lights, the screens.
The aide rolled her eyes, as if to say, Who do you think you are kidding?
But wait! Perhaps Ohio was alive! Karl Rove said so, on Fox no less! For a moment there was hope. The screams were back. The network cut to Carl Cameron, the network's chief political correspondent who has been embedded with the Romney campaign and who is greeted at campaign stops with as much enthusiasm as the candidate, posing for pictures, signing autographs.
Cameron announced that the game was still on: "No one has the left hall here!"
But even Cameron couldn't sustain the energy. The other networks, which would be switched to occasionally by some apparently invisible remote control, weren't as shy about calling Ohio, but also pointed out that it wouldn't matter much. On CNN, Candy Crowley, the villain of the third debate who was covering this party, tried to sign the campaign's death warrant. A cascade of boos meant that no one here could hear her and, because of the cable hall of mirrors, that hardly anyone else watching at home could hear her, either.
More than an hour later, after some chatter that he would drag it out, Romney at last came out to concede. He was brief, speaking for less than five minutes.
"Like so many of you, Paul and I have left everything on the field," he said, standing onstage alone. "We have given our all to this campaign."
A few people tried to start up a chant, one of the standbys, either "Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!" or "USA! USA! USA!" But nothing could really get going. It was just Romney, alone up there, although both of the screens projected his image out into the hall, and to the world beyond.


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Official: Rose Bowl moves to Texas and AT&T Stadium due to California's COVID-19 restrictions
Nick Bromberg
The Rose Bowl won't be played in Pasadena in 2021.
The Tournament of Roses said Saturday night that the game would be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Jan. 1 due to COVID-19 restrictions in the state of California. The Rose Bowl is a College Football Playoff semifinal this season.
"We know that the decision was not an easy one to make," Tournament of Roses director David Eads said in a statement. "While we remain confident that a game could have been played at the Rose Bowl Stadium, as evident in the other collegiate and professional games taking place in the region, the projection of COVID-19 cases in the region has continued on an upward trend."
The game's location has been in doubt in recent weeks because of California's rules to stop the spread of the coronavirus and the location of the teams likely to make the College Football Playoff. It's likely that two teams from East of the Mississippi River would be playing in the Rose Bowl and players' families would have been unable to go to the game.
The inability for family members to go to the game was a big issue for Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly. He spoke out against the restrictions on Friday and even threatened to not play in the game if his team was sent to Pasadena.
While the CFP had publicly maintained confidence that the Rose Bowl would be held in Pasadena, Yahoo Sports first reported that the Rose Bowl's location could change earlier this month. The state of California did not grant the bowl and the playoff an exemption to have increased attendance at the game. State rules prohibit large gatherings and ban fans at sporting events as hospital capacity is close to being maxed out in the Los Angeles area.
"We are very grateful to Rose Bowl officials and the City of Pasadena. They have worked hard to listen to the concerns of the CFP, the teams that might have played there, and their state and government officials," CFP director Bill Hancock said.
It's only the second time the Rose Bowl has been held outside of Pasadena (the 1942 Rose Bowl was held at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina).
There will be no sunset against the San Gabriel Mountains during the Rose Bowl in 2021. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
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When winter is finally over, it's the high time to throw open your windows and organize thorough spring cleaning to get rid of all the dust and clutter acquired all through. Your home may have picked up a lot of clutter, but do you have the time to do a thorough spring cleaning? Get a reliable junk removal company to help you out with spring cleaning services in South Bend IN. Hiring South Bend Junk Removal will make your cleaning job a breeze. We will send a crew for house cleaning, load your unwanted items into our disposal truck and haul it all away responsibly. You simply show our team what needs to be removed, and they'll lift and do all the work saving you a lot of stress and time.
For starters, hiring a spring cleaning service is a huge time saver. Rather than spending hours or even days scrubbing, dusting, vacuuming, and wiping, you can get cleaning crew that will take care of it for you. You may even want to schedule your cleaning when you are not even home. Most homeowners prefer having their homes often cleaned when they're running errands or at work. Let South Bend Junk Removal professionals handle your spring cleaning, and you'll make the most of your free time. After all, with kids, work, and other things, we all need more hours in the day. You will rest assured that the cleaning service will be done expertly!
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While there are people who rent trucks and haul their waste themselves, this is not always a wise decision. You will end up wasting a lot of time and paying the same amount as you would if you hired a junk removal service. Junk removal services can make your life simpler and help you clean out your home efficiently and safely. For home spring cleaning services and junk removal in South Bend IN, contact South Bend Junk Removal. Good luck and I hope your spring cleaning will un-clutter your home.


Council for Economic Opportunities Early Head Start and Head Start, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic Children's, is holding a Family Fun Night on Thursday, April 7, 2016 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm at the Louis Stokes Head Start center. The center is located at 4075 E 173rd St, Cleveland, OH, 44128.
It is free and open to families from Louis Stokes Head Start, Buckeye Head Start & Union Miles Head Start.
Join us for food, fun and fitness! A light supper will be served at the event.


Hyderabad: Achanta Sharath Kamal has been provided the top-seed men's singles slot in the Senior National Table Tennis Champiunship for the first time in two years since 2013.
Just a year before, at the Raipur Nationals, he was seeded No. 6 after he chose to skip national ranking tournaments the previous year. But he was restored to his position in Patna and in the next edition at Pudhucherry Sharath had given a skip to the Nationals last year.
This No. 1 seeding generally goes to the top paddler in the country, purely based on the ranking points he or she has garnered through regular participation in national-ranking championships. Sharath did not participate in any such championships in the past two years for various reasons — personal commitments with his German club and owing to intermittent injuries.
However, he has been cautious of his world ranking and, as a regular participant in international circuit events, has kept it somewhat intact through decent performances.
Just before the hip injury he sustained during the World Championships in China, the ace Indian paddler had touched the peak of his career with the world ranking of 32 in May 2015. He was in a phenomenal form, having toppled two world's top-20 players during that period and jumped 12 places. No other Indian had done that before, nor will any in the near future. That speaks volumes of the caliber the man possesses.
However, probably an error of judgment on his part he hurried with his return to the Asian Championships at Pattaya has cost him dear in recent times. Yet another injury just before the Commonwealth Games at Surat had prevented his participation. So much so, his world ranking has taken a beating and, according to the ITTF's January list, he is placed No. 67 by far the best ranked Indian.
These are reasons enough for the competition department of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) to give him the top seed for the men's singles main draw, which begins in the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at the Kotla Vijay Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday.


Join El Centro de la Raza on Saturday July 28th for a Free Outdoor Movie Night and Tianguis! Stop by and enjoy food from our food vendors and shop around our tianguis before the movie starts! Bring the whole family! Movie screening will begin at dusk!


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Category: Indiangrass
This tallgrass prairie wildflower planting on a health campus in Hershey, Pennsylvania, enhances stormwater management and benefits butterflies and other wildlife. Reducing the acreage maintained as manicured lawn has helped disperse the large flocks of resident Canada Geese (a population of invasive native transplants) that frequented the property and posed a serious hazard to medevac helicopters flying in and out of the facility.
Big Bluestem, a warm-season grass, dominates the site and is complemented by Indiangrass and tall wildflowers including Common Milkweed, Wild Bergamot, Oxeye, Black-eyed Susan, Prairie Coneflower, and Purple Coneflower.
Bird Migration Highlights
The southbound bird migration of 2020 is well underway. With passage of a cold front coming within the next 48 hours, the days ahead should provide an abundance of viewing opportunities.
Here are some of the species moving through the lower Susquehanna valley right now.
Blue-winged Teal are among the earliest of the waterfowl to begin southward migration.
Sandpipers and plovers have been on the move since July. The bird in the foreground with these Killdeer is not one of their offspring, but rather a Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), a regular late-summer migrant in the Lower Susquehanna River Watershed.
Hawk watch sites all over North America are counting birds right now. The Osprey is an early-season delight as it glides past the lookouts. Look for them moving down the Susquehanna as well.
Bald Eagles will be on the move through December. To see these huge raptors in numbers, visit a hawk watch on a day following passage of a cold front when northwest winds are gusting.
Merlins were seen during this past week in areas with good concentrations of dragonflies. This particular one at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties…
…was soon visited by another.
Check the forest canopy for Yellow-billed Cuckoos. Some local birds are still on breeding territories while others from farther north are beginning to move through.
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are darting through the lower Susquehanna valley on their way to the tropics. This one has no trouble keeping pace with a passing Tree Swallow.
Nocturnal flights can bring new songbirds to good habitat each morning. It's the best time of year to see numbers of Empidonax flycatchers. But, because they're often silent during fall migration, it's not the best time of year to easily identify them. This one lacking a prominent eye ring is a Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii).
During the past two weeks, Red-eyed Vireos have been numerous in many Susquehanna valley woodlands. Many are migrants while others are breeding pairs tending late-season broods.
During mornings that follow heavy overnight flights, Blackburnian Warblers have been common among waves of feeding songbirds.
Chestnut-sided Warblers are regular among flocks of nocturnal migrants seen foraging among foliage at sunrise.
Scarlet Tanagers, minus the brilliant red breeding plumage of the males, are on their way back to the tropics for winter.
While passing overhead on their way south, Bobolinks can be seen or heard from almost anywhere in the lower Susquehanna valley. Their movements peak in late August and early September.
During recent evenings, Bobolinks have been gathering by the hundreds in fields of warm-season grasses at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area.
If you go to see the Bobolinks there, visit Stop 3 on the tour route late in the afternoon and listen for their call. You'll soon notice their wings glistening in the light of the setting sun as they take short flights from point to point while they feed. Note the abundance of flying insects above the Big Bluestem and Indiangrass in this image. Grasslands like these are essential habitats for many of our least common resident and migratory birds.
Clean Slate for 2020
Inside the doorway that leads to your editor's 3,500 square foot garden hangs a small chalkboard upon which he records the common names of the species of birds that are seen there—or from there—during the year. If he remembers to, he records the date when the species was first seen during that particular year. On New Year's Day, the results from the freshly ended year are transcribed onto a sheet of notebook paper. On the reverse, the names of butterflies, mammals, and other animals that visited the garden are copied from a second chalkboard that hangs nearby. The piece of paper is then inserted into a folder to join those from previous New Year's Days. The folder then gets placed back into the editor's desk drawer beneath a circular saw blade and an old scratched up set of sunglasses—so that he knows exactly where to find it if he wishes to.
A quick glance at this year's list calls to mind a few recollections.
The 2019 bird list included 48 species, the 47 on the board plus Ruby-throated Hummingbird, which was logged on a slip of paper found tucked into the edge of the frame.
This Green Frog, photographed on New Year's Day 2019, was "out and about" along the edge of the editor's garden pond. Due to the recent mild weather, Green Frogs were active during the current New Year's holiday as well.
On a day with strong south winds in late February or during the first two weeks of March, there is often a conspicuous northbound spring flight of migrating waterfowl, gulls, and songbirds that crosses the lower Susquehanna valley as it departs Chesapeake Bay. These Tundra Swans were among the three thousand seen from the garden patio on March 13, 2019. A thousand migrating Canada Geese, 500 Red-winged Blackbirds, numerous Ring-billed Gulls, and some Herring Gulls were seen during the same afternoon.
This juvenile Cooper's Hawk was photographed through the editor's kitchen window. From its favorite perch on this arbor it would occasionally find success snagging a House Sparrow from the large local flock. It first visited the garden in November, the species being absent there since early spring. Unlike previous years, there was no evidence of a breeding pair in the vicinity during 2019.
Plantings that provide food and cover for wildlife are essential to their survival. Native flowers including Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans) and Partridge Pea provide nourishment for the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that visit the editor's garden, but they really love a basket or pot filled with Mexican Cigar (Cuphea ignea) too. The latter (seen here) can be grown as a houseplant and moved outdoors to a semi-shaded location in summer and early fall. But remember, it's tropical, so you'll need to bring it back inside when frost threatens.
A Swamp Sparrow is an unusual visitor to a small property surrounded by paved parking lots and treeless lawns. Nevertheless, aquatic gardens and native plants helped to attract this nocturnal migrant, seen here eating seeds from Indiangrass. It arrived on September 30 and was gone on October 2.
Before putting the folder back into the drawer for another year, the editor decided to count up the species totals on each of the sheets and load them into the chart maker in the computer.
Despite the habitat improvements in the garden, the trend is apparent. Bird diversity has not cracked the 50 species mark in 6 years. Despite native host plants and nectar species in abundance, butterfly diversity has not exceeded 10 species in 6 years.
It appears that, at the very least, the garden habitat has been disconnected from the home ranges of many species by fragmentation. His little oasis is now isolated in a landscape that becomes increasingly hostile to native wildlife with each passing year. The paving of more parking areas, the elimination of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous growth from the large number of rental properties in the area, the alteration of the biology of the nearby stream by hand-fed domestic ducks, light pollution, and the outdoor use of pesticides have all contributed to the separation of the editor's tiny sanctuary from the travel lanes and core habitats of many of the species that formerly visited, fed, or bred there. In 2019, migrants, particularly "fly-overs", were nearly the only sightings aside from several woodpeckers, invasive House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), and hardy Mourning Doves. Even rascally European Starlings became sporadic in occurrence—imagine that! It was the most lackluster year in memory.
The Tufted Titmouse was a daily visitor to the garden through 2018. This one was photographed investigating holes in an old magnolia there during the spring of that year. There were no Tufted Titmouse sightings in the garden in 2019. This and other resident species, especially cavity-nesters, appear to be experiencing at least a temporary decline.
Breeding birds including Northern Cardinals may have had a difficult year. In the editor's garden, a pair were still feeding and escorting one of their young in early October. The infestation of the editor's town by domestic house and feral cats may have contributed to the failure of earlier broods, but a lack of food is also a likely factor.
If habitat fragmentation were the sole cause for the downward trend in numbers and species, it would be disappointing, but comprehendible. There would be no cause for greater alarm. It would be a matter of cause and effect. But the problem is more widespread.
Although the editor spent a great deal of time in the garden this year, he was also out and about, traveling hundreds of miles per week through lands on both the east and the west shores of the lower Susquehanna. And on each journey, the number of birds seen could be counted on fingers and toes. A decade earlier, there were thousands of birds in these same locations, particularly during the late summer.
At about the time of summer solstice in June each year, Common Grackles begin congregating into roving summer flocks that will grow in size to assure their survival during the autumn migration, winter season, and return north in the spring. From his garden, the editor saw just one flock of less than a dozen birds during the summer of 2019. He saw none during his journeys through other areas of the Susquehanna valley. Flocks of one hundred birds or more did not materialize until the southbound movements of grackles passed through the region in October and November.
In the lower Susquehanna valley, something has drastically reduced the population of birds during breeding season, post-breeding dispersal, and the staging period preceding autumn migration. In much of the region, their late-spring through summer absence was, in 2019, conspicuous. What happened to the tens of thousands of swallows that used to gather on wires along rural roads in August and September before moving south? The groups of dozens of Eastern Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus) that did their fly-catching from perches in willows alongside meadows and shorelines—where are they?
Several studies published during the autumn of 2019 have documented and/or predicted losses in bird populations in the eastern half of the United States and elsewhere. These studies looked at data samples collected during recent decades to either arrive at conclusions or project future trends. They cite climate change, the feline infestation, and habitat loss/degradation among the factors contributing to alterations in range, migration, and overall numbers.
There's not much need for analysis to determine if bird numbers have plummeted in certain Lower Susquehanna Watershed habitats during the aforementioned seasons—the birds are gone. None of these studies documented or forecast such an abrupt decline. Is there a mysterious cause for the loss of the valley's birds? Did they die off? Is there a disease or chemical killing them or inhibiting their reproduction? Is it global warming? Is it Three Mile Island? Is it plastic straws, wind turbines, or vehicle traffic?
The answer might not be so cryptic. It might be right before our eyes. And we'll explore it during 2020.
A clean slate for 2020.
In the meantime, Uncle Ty and I going to the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. You should go too. They have lots of food there.
Noxious Benefactor
It's sprayed with herbicides. It's mowed and mangled. It's ground to shreds with noisy weed-trimmers. It's scorned and maligned. It's been targeted for elimination by some governments because it's undesirable and "noxious". And it has that four letter word in its name which dooms the fate of any plant that possesses it. It's the Common Milkweed, and it's the center of activity in my garden at this time of year. Yep, I said milk-WEED.
Now, you need to understand that my garden is small—less than 2,500 square feet. There is no lawn, and there will be no lawn. I'll have nothing to do with the lawn nonsense. Those of you who know me, know that the lawn, or anything that looks like lawn, and I are through.
Anyway, most of the plants in the garden are native species. There are trees, numerous shrubs, some water features with aquatic plants, and filling the sunny margins is a mix of native grassland plants including Common Milkweed. The unusually wet growing season in 2018 has been very kind to these plants. They are still very green and lush. And the animals that rely on them are having a banner year. Have a look…
The flowers of the Common Milkweed were exceptionally fragrant this year. At their peak in early June, their hyacinth-or lilac-like aroma was so prevalent, it drifted into the house and overwhelmed the stink of the neighbor's filthy dumpster that he had placed 12 feet away from my walls (100 feet from his).
Common Milkweed attracts a pollinating Greenbottle Fly (Lucilia species). The dumpster attracts the invasive House Fly (Musca domestica), carrier of dysentery, typhoid, and other wonderful diseases. Are you following this? Remember as we proceed, milkweed is noxious.
Busy Eastern Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa virginica) load up with pollen from the flowers of the Common Milkweed.
A Red Milkweed Beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus) munches on a tender fresh Common Milkweed leaf in mid-June.
Following the pollination of the flowers, seed pods will begin to grow. I trim these off the plants. The removal of the extra weight allows most of the stems to remain erect through stormy weather. You'll still get new plants from underground runners. As you may have guessed, I'm trying to keep these plants upright and strong to host Monarch butterfly larvae.
I've planted a variety of native grassland species to help support the milkweed structurally and to provide a more complete habitat for Monarch butterflies and other native insects. This year, these plants are exceptionally colorful for late-August due to the abundance of rain. The warm season grasses shown below are the four primary species found in the American tall-grass prairies and elsewhere.
Big Bluestem, a native warm-season grass in flower.
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium "Fort Indiantown Gap") in flower. This variety grows on the tank range at the military base where the armored vehicles and prescribed burns substitute for the herd animals and fires of the prairie to prevent succession and allow it to thrive.
Partridge Pea can tolerate sandy soil and is a host plant for vagrant Cloudless Sulphur butterflies.
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a popular native grassland wildflower.
Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) in flower. This and the other native plants shown here are available as seed from Ernst Seed Company in Meadville (PA). They have an unbelievably large selection of indigenous species. You can plant a small plot or acres and acres using really good mixes blended for purposes ranging from reclaiming pipeline right-of-ways and strip mines to naturalizing backyard gardens.
A Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly, a migratory species like the Monarch, on Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). Yes, it is that Echinacea.
There was Monarch activity in the garden today like I've never seen before—and it revolved around milkweed and the companion plants.
A female Monarch laying eggs on a Common Milkweed leaf.
A third instar Monarch caterpillar with Oleander Aphids (Aphis nerii) on a Common Milkweed leaf. Both of these insect species absorb toxins from the milkweed which makes them distasteful to predators.
Fifth instar (left and center) and fourth instar (right) monarch caterpillars devour a Common Milkweed leaf. There were over thirty of these caterpillars in just a ten by ten feet area this morning. I hope if you're keeping a habitat for Monarchs, you're enjoying the same fortune right now!
A slow-moving Monarch stopped for a break after making the circuit to deposit eggs on milkweed throughout the garden.
Third instar (top), fourth instar (right), and fifth instar (left) Monarch caterpillars quickly consume the leaf of a Common Milkweed plant. Caterpillars emerging from eggs deposited today may not have sufficient late-season food to complete the larval segment of their life cycle. Need more milkweed!
After benefitting from the nourishment of the Common Milkweed plant, a fifth instar Monarch caterpillar begins pupation on Big Bluestem grass.
Two hours later, the chrysalis is complete.
Another chrysalis, this one on flowering Switchgrass just two feet away from the previous one. An adult Monarch will emerge from this pupa to become part of what we hope will be the most populated southbound exodus for the species in over five years.
There it is, soon ready to fly away. And all courtesy of the noxious milkweed.
A chrysalis can often be found on man-made objects too. This one is on the rim of a flower pot.
Ornamental flowers can attract adult Monarch butterflies seeking nectar. I am now more careful to select seeds and plants that have not been treated with neonicotinoid insecticides. There's growing concern over the impact these compounds may be having on pollinating species of animals. Oh…and I don't mow, whack, cut, mutilate, or spray herbicides on my milkweed But you probably figured that out already.
Eaton, Eric R., and Kenn Kaufman. 2007. Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York.


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Q: How to know permissions to other apis of my app How to know the permissions of my azure ad app have for other APIs, such as Microsoft Grahp API .
In portal , i could check that in the [API Access]-->[Required permissions] , but how do i check that with powershell , i used
Get-AzureRmADApplication -ObjectId ,
Get-AzureRmADApplication -ObjectId  xxxxx | fl *

But little attributes returned and AppPermissions is null , but with fiddle , i notice it use below request :
GET https://graph.windows.net/mytenant/applications/id?api-version=1.6 HTTP/1.1

And i could find a lot of attributes of that app ,which one shows the permission of the app and how do i get that in powershell ?

A: You could try the Azure Active Directory PowerShell Version 2 , the use command like :
$app = Get-AzureADApplication -Filter "appId eq '$appId'" | fl *

to get the RequiredResourceAccess claim ,that is the collection that is shown under "permissions to other applications" in the azure ad classic portal and "Required permissions" in new portal .
In addition ,  PowerShell essentially wraps the API's and just presents them to you in a simplified interface. If you don't find a command to do what you want you can always using PowerShell to invoke the Graph API directly. Please refer to below article for how to call Azure Active Directory Graph Api from Powershell :
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/paulomarques/2016/03/21/working-with-azure-active-directory-graph-api-from-powershell/
And here is a test code sample :
PS C:\Users\v-nany> $header = @{
>>      'Content-Type'='application\json'
>>      'Authorization'=$token.CreateAuthorizationHeader()
>>  }
PS C:\Users\v-nany>  $uriSAs = "https://graph.windows.net/xxxxxxx/applications/xxxxxx?api-version=1.6 "
PS C:\Users\v-nany> $appInfo = (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uriSAs –Headers $header –Method Get –Verbose)
PS C:\Users\v-nany>  $appInfo.requiredResourceAccess

You will get resourceAppId represents the resource , and related resourceAccess which is a scope list.

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POLAND— Retail data analytics agency Emnos has opened an office in Warsaw to support the Polish expansion of the German loyalty card programme Payback.
Emnos will be responsible for analysing and segmenting customer and transaction data to help Payback tailor its direct marketing campaigns according to buying behaviour, customer value and customer needs.
Retail partners including BP, Kolporter and Allegro will also be provided with data, on purchasing trends for example.
Payback and Emnos are both owned by the Loyalty Partner group.