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White House says Congress has no 'legitimate role' in investigating Trump, rejects document demands
Kristine Phillips
USA TODAY May 16, 2019
WASHINGTON – The White House told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress doesn't have the power to carry out a "pseudo law enforcement investigation" of President Donald Trump, rejecting demands for information about his efforts to thwart the special counsel investigation that clouded the first two years of his administration.
The refusal came in a letter Wednesday from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. Cipollone said the administration would not cooperate with what it sees as an unprecedented overreach by politically motivated lawmakers seeking to replicate an already exhaustive and concluded special counsel investigation into Russia and the president's conduct.
Nadler's committee "has no legitimate role" in collecting materials to investigate Trump, Cipollone said. He suggested that lawmakers are using their investigative power to "harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized 'do-over' of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the Department of Justice."
The 12-page letter, a response to Nadler's request for documents, is another escalation of a battle between the White House and congressional Democrats who are conducting wide-ranging investigations of Trump's presidency, his finances and his private business. The administration has largely defied lawmakers' efforts to gather records and has signaled a willingness to fight them in court.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win, but it did not find enough evidence that the president's campaign conspired with Russia. Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, but detailed nearly a dozen episodes in which the president sought to intercede in the probe and suggested some could well have been criminal.
Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein separately determined that the evidence did not amount to a crime.
In March, Nadler sent letters to 81 individuals and agencies, including the White House, requesting documents pertaining to the House Judiciary Committee's investigation into possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
Cipollone said in his response to that request that Nadler is seeking to "replow the same ground" Mueller and his large team of investigators have already covered.
"I ask you to consider that approach," Cipollone said. "With the Special Counsel's investigation behind us, the President and his team stand ready to work with the Committee cooperatively to advance the legislative agenda for the benefit of the American people."
In a statement, Nadler said his committee will not end its investigation.
"The White House position appears to be that the Justice Department cannot hold the President accountable, since it purportedly cannot indict him," Nadler said. "Now it adds the extreme claim that Congress cannot act either ... This flies in the face of the American idea that no one is above the law, and I reject it."
Cipollone cited in his letter what he says were legal flaws in Nadler's request for documents. He said Nadler is seeking records, including confidential communications and deliberations between Trump, his advisers and foreign leaders, all of which are subject to executive privilege. He said Nadler's request is "beyond the reach of congressional oversight," does not advance a "legitimate legislative purpose," and violates separation of powers.
More: Trump's lawyers question Congress' power to investigate him, battle House over demand for financial records
Cipollone said the White House will cooperate with congressional investigations that have a legislative purpose. But even then, he said, Congress' authority "to explore in detail any particular case of alleged wrongdoing is limited."
Trump's personal lawyers made similar arguments in federal court on Tuesday, asking a federal judge to block a House subpoena seeking financial records from his longtime accountant. Trump's private lawyer told a judge that Congress has no authority to investigate his private conduct, and suggested that even the Watergate investigation that ultimately led to President Richard Nixon's resignation was improper.
Trump took the rare move last week of asserting executive privilege to keep secret the millions of pages of evidence that Mueller gathered in his investigation. At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over an unredacted version of the Mueller report.
Contributing: Bart Jansen
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: White House says Congress has no 'legitimate role' in investigating Trump, rejects document demands


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A Year Trapped In Arctic Ice For Climate Science
Press Release - Source: ESA
Posted September 25, 2019 12:34 AM
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As millions of people around the world marched for urgent action on climate change ahead of this week's UN Climate Action Summit, an icebreaker set sail from Norway to spend a year drifting in the Arctic sea ice.
This extraordinary expedition is set to make a step change in climate science - and ESA is contributing with a range of experiments.
With the youth calling for action, the climate crisis is in the public eye more than ever, and consequently there is more pressure to push the issue higher up the global political agenda.
The state of the climate has been detailed in a new landmark report that was produced for the summit. It says that the five-year period from 2014 to 2019 is the warmest on record and that sea-level rise has accelerated significantly over the same period as carbon dioxide emissions have hit new highs.
However, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average. Since Earth's climate works as a system, the consequences of this rapid warming are not only being felt in this remote polar region, but also across the planet.
Needless to say, a better scientific understanding of the complexities of the fragile Arctic environment is critical for policy decisions on climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and for setting up a framework for managing Arctic development sustainably. The EU's Integrated Policy for the Arctic includes a central pillar of climate change for this reason.
The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition is about to make a major contribution to Arctic climate science.
Spearheaded by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), it is the biggest shipborne polar expedition of all time and aims to take climate research to a completely new level.
It involves the Polarstern German research icebreaker spending a year trapped in the sea ice so that scientists from around the world can study the Arctic as the epicentre of global warming and gain fundamental insights that are key to better understand global climate change.
During each phase of this huge international expedition, roughly one hundred people will be researching, working and living on board the icebreaker as well as on the sea ice. They will face some extremely harsh conditions during the polar winter - complete darkness, storms and temperatures that can drop to -40°C.
Christian Haas, from AWI, said, "We want to better understand the processes and energy flows between the ocean, ice and atmosphere - and how they change over the course of the seasons.
We will also compare the data with satellite data, in particular with ESA's CryoSat, which was specifically launched to measure ice thickness. This will allow us to observe how the ice grows and becomes thinner."
ESA's Tânia Casal said, "The MOSAiC expedition offers a unique opportunity to considerably improve our understanding of ocean-ice-snow-atmosphere processes and this will contribute to a more accurate modelling of future Arctic climate scenarios.
"We want to make sure that data associated with these processes delivered by ESA satellites and by the Copernicus Sentinels as well as from missions under development have the best possible impact. So we are contributing to the expedition with a range of calibration and validation activities.
"For example, as Dr Haas mentions that arrangements have been made for measurements to be taken that will be used to validate CryoSat, but also that validate the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission."
ESA's Craig Donlon added, "We are currently working on new high-priority missions such as the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission and the Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) mission to support the EU Integrated Policy for the Arctic. CIMR will provide high-resolution multispectral images of ocean, ice and snow properties and CRISTAL will provide estimates of sea-ice thickness. The two missions can work in perfect synergy.
"MOSAiC will give us an unprecedented time series of reference measurements to develop quality algorithms and data products from the CIMR and CRISTAL missions, which will support applications from weather forecasting to climate research, with benefit for the Copernicus services and beyond."
Dr Casal noted, "In addition, we are working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to collect measurements from the ALOS-2 mission as part of our preparatory work on the ROSE-L mission, which is another high-priority candidate for Europe's Copernicus programme, and which will work in synergy with the Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-band radar for sea-ice charting services."
ESA experiments also include ship-based instrumentation for dedicated validation measurements of the thickness of thin seasonal ice from the Earth Explorer SMOS mission.
Josef Aschbacher, Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programmes, said, "The scale of MOSAiC expedition is truly remarkable and a testament to what international collaboration can achieve.
"Climate change is a very serious global concern, and the pioneering satellite missions we develop are key to measuring and understanding change so that informed decisions on action can be taken.
"This expedition gives us an important and unique opportunity to validate measurements being made from space as well as further the development of new missions on the drawing board.
"We wish everyone participating in MOSAiC the very best of luck - it will certainly be a challenging and harsh environment to work in."
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Die Thekenberge nahe Langenstein im Landkreis Harz in Sachsen-Anhalt sind ein schmaler, langgezogener und etwa  hoher Höhenzug im Nördlichen Harzvorland.

Geographie

Lage
Die Thekenberge liegen im Nördlichen Harzvorland im Nordteil des Naturparks Harz/Sachsen-Anhalt. Sie befinden sich etwa 3 km südlich von Halberstadt, direkt südsüdwestlich der Halberstädter Klussiedlung, 5 km südwestlich von Harsleben, 3 km nordnordöstlich von Börnecke und 2 km östlich von Langenstein. Der Höhenzug erstreckt sich über etwas mehr als 4 km entlang einer annähernd Nordwest-Südost orientierten Achse. Sein Nordwestrand fällt zum Goldbach ab, der dort die Thekenberge, nach Nordosten zur Bode hin fließend, passiert. Etwa in Richtung Nordnordosten vom Nordwestteil des Höhenzugs, unmittelbar zwischen Halberstadt und der Klussiedlung gelegen, schließen sich die Spiegelsberge an. Die südöstliche Fortsetzung der Thekenberge bilden die Harslebener Berge.

Naturräumliche Zuordnung
Die Thekenberge gehören in der naturräumlichen Haupteinheitengruppe Nördliches Harzvorland (Nr. 51), in der Haupteinheit Blankenburger Harzvorland (5102) und in der Untereinheit Halberstadt-Quedlinburger Hügelland (5102.1) zum oval geformten Naturraum Harslebener Berge (5102.10), zu dem neben den obig genannten Harslebener Bergen unter anderem auch die Spiegelsberge, die Klusberge und die Thekenberge gehören. Das oval umrahmt den innenliegenden Naturraum Münchehofer Becken (5102.11).

Morphologie, höchste Punkte und Felsformationen
Die Thekenberge bilden eine typische Schichtstufe mit steiler "Südwestabdachung" (Stufenstirn) und sanft abfallender "Nordostabdachung". Entsprechend dieser Morphologie liegen die höchsten Stellen nahe der Südwestflanke, so die Alte Warte und die Kalte Warte im Nordwestteil des Rückens, mit über  bzw. über . Die Krähenhütte im mittleren Teil des Höhenzuges kommt noch auf über  und die Fuchsklippe auf über  Höhe. Der Große Thekenberg () am Südostende des Rückens ist morphologisch von der weitgehend geschlossenen Formation der Thekenberge deutlich abgesetzt und gehört eigentlich bereits zu den Harslebener Bergen. Der Kleine Thekenberg (ca. ), etwa 500 m nordwestlich des Großen Thekenbergs gelegen, liegt jedoch innerhalb der eigentlichen Thekenberge.

Nahe dem Nordende (Gedenkstätte Langenstein-Zwieberge; s. u.) der Thekenberge befindet sich der Gläserne Mönch, ein hoher Sandsteinfelsen, der von den alten Germanen Thorstein genannt wurde, heute den Wald deutlich überragt und als Aussichtspunkt dient.

Schnepfensee
Am Südwestfuß des Großen Thekenbergs liegt der Schnepfensee, ein zu- und abflussloser Flachwassersee, der aber nur in niederschlagsreichen Zeiten Wasser führt und dann maximal etwa 12 ha groß wird. Der See trägt seinen Namen, weil er durchziehenden Schnepfenvögeln auf ihrem Flug von oder in die arktischen Tundren als Rastplatz und Ort der Nahrungssuche dient.

Geologie
Die Thekenberge befinden sich geologisch am Südwestrand des nordwestlichen Teils der Halberstädter Mulde. Bei letztgenannter handelt es sich um die nordöstliche Teilmulde des südöstlichen Teils der Subherzynen Kreidemulde. Die südwestliche Teilmulde heißt Blankenburger Mulde. Diese wird vom Quedlinburger Sattel von der Halberstädter Mulde getrennt. Die Schichten streichen hier generell herzynisch (Nordwest-Südost), parallel zum Harznordrand. Thekenberge und Harslebener Berge sind Teil einer insgesamt etwa 10 km langen, in Nordwest-Südost-Richtung streichenden und nach Südosten abflachenden Schichtstufe aus dem relativ erosionsresistenten Involutussandstein (benannt nach der Muschel Inoceramus involutus) des Coniac ("mittlere" Oberkreide).

Besiedlung und Nutzung
Die Thekenberge waren schon früh besiedelt. In der Nähe des "Gläsernen Mönches" wurden Funde aus prähistorischer Zeit gemacht. Der Felsen selbst diente vermutlich als germanische Kultstätte.

Von den Häftlingen des Konzentrationslagers Langenstein-Zwieberge, einem Außenlager des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald, wurde in den Thekenbergen eine unterirdische Fertigungsstätte errichtet. Ab April 1944 wurde innerhalb von zehn Monaten ein Stollensystem von etwa 13 km Länge mit einer Gesamtfläche von 67.000 m² geschaffen und teilweise für eine spätere Produktionstätigkeit ausgebaut. Ursprünglich waren 72.000 m² geplant. Das Kommando "Junkers" (Malachit AG) sollte in den letzten Monaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs (1939–1945) mit der Produktion als Zulieferer im Rahmen des "Jäger- und A-4-Programms" beginnen. Vermutlich war die Produktion von Motorteilen für Düsenjäger geplant; die Fertigungsanlage wurde aber nie fertiggestellt. Heute kann man sich in der Gedenkstätte Langenstein-Zwieberge informieren.

Nach dem Krieg wurde die Anlage eines der fünf großen NVA-Komplexlager, das Komplexlager 12.

Nach der Wiedervereinigung im Oktober 1990 nutzte die Bundeswehr für drei Jahre die Anlage. Hier wurden im Juli 1990 die ausgedienten Geldscheine aus Beständen der Staatsbank der DDR eingelagert. Bekannt wurde die Anlage dadurch, dass Scheine aus diesen Geldbeständen entwendet wurden. Daraufhin wurden die Geldscheine in einer Müllverbrennungsanlage verbrannt. Seit dem Sommer 2003 kann die Bunkeranlage nach Voranmeldung besichtigt werden.

Schutzgebiete
Der sich den felsigen, teils bewaldeten und teils heideartigen Thekenbergen südöstlich anschließende Teil des Höhenzuges mit dem Großen Thekenberg wird von dem 1967 gegründeten und 2,5 km² (250,58 ha) großen Naturschutzgebiet (NSG) Harslebener Berge und Steinholz (CDDA-Nr. 14456) eingenommen. Dortige waldfreie, heideartige Flächen sind Trockenrasenwiesen mit Frühlings-Adonisröschen (Adonis vernalis). Es gilt ein Wegegebot. Das NSG liegt im Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Gebiet Harslebener Berge und Steinholz nordwestlich Quedlinburg (FFH-Nr. 4132-301; 2,61 km²). Der gesamte Höhenzug aus Thekenbergen, Harslebener Bergen und Steinholz befindet sich gänzlich im Landschaftsschutzgebiet Harz und Vorländer (CDDA-Nr. 20784; 1968; 1587,86 km²).

Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen

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Chambliss is not your grandmother's Tennessee law firm, in spite of the fact that it is 126 years old. From a style of doing business standpoint, lawyers are accessible, approachable, entrepreneurial, the opposite of white-shoe, big fun (not boring), innovative and forward-thinking. From its office in Chattanooga, lawyers represent clients throughout the region and beyond in sophisticated transactions, counseling and litigation.


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Hard Rock International announces details of Hard Rock Entertainment World
Arts and Entertainment, Travel
Hard Rock International, hotels, resorts
The following is a press release from Hard Rock International:
Hard Rock International announces details of its Hard Rock Entertainment World proposal, which is slated to be one of the largest resort destinations in Europe. The project, located in Vila-seca and Salou (Tarragona), Spain, will consist of a unique combination of hotels and convention areas, with world-class entertainment, dining and shopping. This project is defined through a complete Zoning Plan already approved by the Catalan Government, with a maximum capacity of 745.000 sq. meters for all the different uses and an estimated global investment of €2,000 million, including the cost of the land and infrastructures needed, to be developed by phases in the next years.
Phase 1 will be headlined by the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tarragona integrated resort. The Hard Rock integrated resort will also include a collaboration with PortAventura on the development of a family-oriented hotel of up to 500 rooms, and Value Retail on a luxury tourism shopping destination of approximately 10,000 square meters, featuring more than 75 shops. Hard Rock Entertainment World will bring thousands of new jobs and significant foreign direct investments. Phase one minimum investment is expected to exceed €600 million and is estimated to create more than 11,500 direct and indirect construction and ongoing jobs and an economic impact to the region of more than €1.3 billion.
"We're honored to work with the Catalan government on the creation of Hard Rock Entertainment World and look forward to bringing first-class entertainment and hospitality experiences to the region," said Jim Allen, chairman and CEO of Hard Rock International.
The iconic guitar shaped Hard Rock Hotel will be a focal point of the Hard Rock Entertainment World and will offer 600 rooms within approximately 100,000 square meters. Among the largest in Europe, the casino destination will boast 1,200 slot machines and 100 table games. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tarragona will also provide guests with a 6,000 square meter pool and pool deck.
True to the Hard Rock brand, the entertainment destination will offer concert capacity in excess of 15,000 people and a Hard Rock Live performance venue that will host regional and international musical acts and shows, a world famous Hard Rock Cafe, and an accompanying Rock Shop, featuring authentic Hard Rock merchandise.
PortAventura and Value Retail have always supported the possible development of a complementary integrated resort on the land adjacent to PortAventura. The companies' strong belief is that this project will be very good for tourism and the creation of jobs and will bring economic development to this important region of Catalonia.
Hard Rock International looks forward to working with the Catalan government in their process to bring another world class entertainment destination to the region.


All of these are Man Gong Sunim`s sayings and I have kept them as a kong-an my whole life. Same as in the olden days, even now, the only way to find peace is to look inside, not outside. This is the only way to reach the truth in Buddhism. Try to find enlightenment in everyday life. Do not seek outside. All wandering and suffering come from attachment. Put it all down.
As we begin the New Year, everybody is full of wishes and hopes.
New year comes every year but we always expect something special. I don`t mean that wishes and hopes are wrong. Only I mean that we as humans must find our true selves. We must endeavor to find our true selves if we want something to change in the New Year.
What is this? What am I? With this question we become stuck. We don't know.
Only don`t know is the real "I". Keeping don`t know is zen.
Like the old zen masters, we sit to attain enlightenment. Not depending on words, a special transmission outside the sutras. This is zen. Not clinging to letters, finding the truth inside letters, mind is transmitted.
Don`t be deceived by hallucinations and illusions. Find the real Buddha inside and follow it. People talk about happiness the same as we crave the air within the air. It is an old saying that after wandering a long time in despair looking for happiness, someone found real Spring after seeing a cherry blossom hanging over the wall upon returning home. We are searching for a truth outside that we already have inside. Enlightenment does not come from far away, it is already in our mind.
When I was 12 years old, Kyung Sung Sunim, my aunt, was at Kum Soen Am hermitage at Su Dok Sa. I went there to see my aunt and became a monk. For me, in my youth, the temple looked like the best place to live and the monks seemed to live virtuously. So I became a monk after coming here and seeing my aunt and the Great Zen Master Man Gong.
At our first meeting, Man Gong Sunim, the old monk with white hair asked me, "Where is your home?"
"I came from Seo Chon, Chung Choeng Nam do-province."
"Where does Seo Chon come from?"
"It comes from Seo Chon."
He laughed and said. " I don't ask about your body's home. I ask about your mind's home." So I realized that was a deep question and I have kept it as my own kong-an ever since. Finding where we come from, finding our true self is finding the truth of Buddhism. If you want to know Buddhism correctly, first of all you must find yourself. Same as in olden days, the only way to find peace is to reach inside. It is the way to find our real home. It is the truth in Buddhism. But people crave something outside and do not look inside.
Baek Cho Sunim called me inside and said, "Zen Master Man Gong wants you to be his attendant. Serve him well." After this, I climbed to Jeon Wol Sa Hermitage.
I respected Man Gong Sunim so much and eagerly wanted to attend him well, so I treated him as I would the Buddha. I remember those times well.
Occasionally some students come to ask how to study. It reminds me of those days when I carried the question, "Everything comes from one thing, then where does the one thing come from?" I was curious about that kong-an so much. One day a monk visited Zen Master Man Gong to ask for a kong-an. I stopped working to listen from the kitchen. Man Gong Sunim said. "One day a monk asked Zen Master Jo Ju, `Everything comes from one thing. Where does the one thing come from?' But I'd rather ask you differently. Everything comes from one thing. What is it?" After the student left, I went inside and said to him, "I want to practice zen from now on. Give me a kong-an." He gave me one and smiled. "Do your best."
After that I attempted doing zen only. One day I descended to Su Dok Sa Temple. One monk gave me a biography of Buddha (Eight Stories of Shakyamuni`s life). Zen Master Man Gong didn't allow the students to read books. When I was reading secretly in the room behind, he suddenly opened the door, looked at me and then went away silently. I knelt in front of him and apologized. "Are you said to be enlightened? The dog down the hill will be enlightened instead. You will not be enlightened. You'd better recite mantra to make better karma." I wanted to die with despair. I felt a great anger inside and a big question arose in me. Always he used to say " Great question is necessary for zen." So I felt I'd rather die if I could not be enlightened. So I really wanted to sit or die. I sat in the back room of Jun Won Sa Temple and determined I would die if I fall into sloth during sitting.
And I would not die if I didn't. If you determine to believe in Buddhism, then you should try to crave the truth desperately in retreat and concentrate in your everyday life.
When I received a draft notice for the Japanese colonization army, I asked Man Gong Sunim what to do . Man Gong Sunim said," In the near future the Japanese colonization will be ended, so it would be better if you go to Kan Wol Do island and pray for our national independence for1000 days." After finishing the retreat I heard about the end of the Japanese occupation and our independence. At that time, Zen Master Man Gong picked up a rose of Sharon, put it into black ink and wrote "The whole world is a single flower." This meant you and I, the sun and the moon, the air and the water all come from one thing, the same root. People in the world are struggling with anguish, horror and unequality. All the animals and living things in the sky, on the earth, and under the water demand peace. We should remember that all the people and nature come from the same point. When we return to that root, we make harmony with all people and with nature, then we get peace. The philosophy " the whole world is a single flower" must be handed down to the next generation of our whole world.
Just before entering Nirvana, Man Gong Sunim made his last speech. "Even when you can`t hear my voice anymore, you should be able to see my true face which never disappears." Man Gong Sunim was one of the greatest persons with great humanism, true Nature and empty mind. Emptiness is always empty; it neither appears nor disappears. He never declared anything for himself, attached to nothing and so he was free from appearing and disappearing, from life and death. How nice and great he was! After enlightenment, there is no thinking and no mind left. One doesn`t attach to hearing or seeing but only does sincerely what one should do. See clearly, hear clearly, drink clearly, talk clearly without attachment. That we call Buddha. Zen Master Bodhidharma said, "Inside put it all down, and outside put down all causation." Put it all down.
One time when Buddha was walking calmly in meditation, one Brahma brought him flowers. Buddha said "Put it down." With his saying this, the Brahma put down the flower in his right hand. Buddha said again "Put it down." Now the Brahma put down the flower in his left hand. But Buddha said "Put it down" once more. Now the Brahma only stood there stupidly. He had nothing to put down. But Buddha wished to take away all his conceptions, ideas, prejudice and all his thought. Our lives are the same. We never think that we are impermanent. We want to live forever with lust, hatred, delusion and ignorance. But when the four elements of our bodies scatter and our eyesight falls down, what is left?
If you really want to know the real meaning of life, then you should put it all down. Then your real truself will appear.
I followed Haeng Ja training for 5 years. Lots of monks wanted me to be their disciple, but I didn`t accepted. " I have a good teacher already in mind."
But one day Zen Master Man Gong called me, "You should pick your teacher now.
I think Baik Cho Sunim is good for your teacher." I was ordained a Samini (novice monk) by Baik Cho Sunim. Of course Man Gong Sunim played the role of witness.
My teacher Baik Cho Sunim was strong and worked conscientiously so he < accomplished much for the temple. Also he was clear in zen. He did working meditation everyday as Back Jang Zen Master did in a long time ago.
Man Gong Sunim was my teacher in Dharma, Baik Cho Sunim was my teacher in monk's life. After Man Gong Sunim died, I wandered around the country during some years. I met Zen Master Kyung Bong in Guk Rak Am Zen Center.
I stood holding up two fists and said. "That's it. Do you have it too?" He laughed and told me to sit down.
We are Buddha; there is no Buddha outside. So we should find our trueself as Buddha did. Trusting ourselves is trusting in Buddha. To the non-duality of Buddha and ourselves is the beginning and ending of life.


Mandarin Oriental Bangkok provides a free shuttle boat to Taksin BTS Skytrain Station, River City Shopping Complex and Sala Rim Naam Restaurant. It is about 3.5 km from Chinatown and the Temple of Dawn (Wat Arun).
Enjoying beautiful river views through floor-to-ceiling windows, all air-conditioned rooms at Mandarin Oriental Bangkok are equipped with a flat-screen TV and DVD player. Large en suite bathrooms present a separate bathtub and walk-in shower.
Elegant rooms are located on a high floor and enjoy full river views. Includes a personal butler, enhanced bathroom amenities and daily fruits and flowers.
Rate: THB 26482.50 ... THB 92865.30; select dates below to get current rates.
Rooms are located on a high floor and feature river views. It comes with daily fruits and flower, as well as a personal butler.
This suite features a bathrobe, minibar and DVD player.
This suite has a minibar, DVD player and air conditioning.
This suite has a DVD player, minibar and bathrobe.


Alison Frances Malcolm, studied at Ipswich School of Art 1977-1981, graduating licentiate member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers. Her work is semi-abstract, expressionistic, colourful and highly textured using oils and acrylics and a painting knife, slowly building layers to create texture and depth and has a real love for painting in the Suffolk countryside being inspired by nature's seasonal changes, the sea and coastline with all it's moods and our diverse local landscapes. She has exhibited at Buckingham Galleries, Southwold and Reunion Gallery, Felixstowe, both in Suffolk from 1 Morston Hall Cottages, Morston Hall Lane, Felixstowe. She married Anthony David Flower.


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As if that wasn't enough there will be CE, XPe and WEPOS labs, to practice your skills (and ask awkward questions...), and you will receive free evaluation packs for Windows CE and XP Embedded.
For those of you outside the UK, there will be a further Windows Embedded Technical Event in Munich, on the 25th & 26th April - Just follow the above link and select Munich.


It's been cooling off which means that it is time to do less grilling and more soups and stews. Avgolemono is my favorite soup. I think that if Greece focused on making this soup its primary export, then they would no longer be in financial crisis.
This is a surprisingly simple dish that I like to make when it starts getting cold out and especially around the holidays. I like to make extra because it makes great leftovers and the pork and glaze taste like Christmas on a plate.
I like to have a few dishes up my sleeve for when I am making dinner for a lot of people. This one scales very easily since most of the work is done on the grill or simply mixing the tzatziki and salad. You can do everything but the grilling and steaming of the pitas in advance so that when your guests arrive you can entertain rather than frantically cook. It also saves well for great leftovers.
Sometimes you make a dish because you need to use what is in your refrigerator, and sometimes you make a dish because you have a craving, or you want to try something new, or you need something quick. But there are certain times when you want to make something really great for someone. This is one of those dishes.


Abstract: It is crucial to determine masses and radii of extrasolar planets with high precision to have constraints on their chemical composition, internal structure and thereby their formation and evolution. In order to achieve this goal, we apply the defocus technique in the observations of selected planetary systems with the 1 m Turkish telescope T100 in TUBITAK National Observatory (TUG). With this contribution, we aim to present preliminary analyses of transit light curves of the selected exoplanets KELT-3b, HAT-P-10b/WASP-11b, HAT-P-20b, and HAT-P-22b, observed with this technique using T100.


When I was praying the other night I had an overwhelming feeling of what Christ may have been feeling when he was praying to the Father before he was taken away to be resurrected. I can't even compare to what he went through, it would be insufficient to compare. What I do know is that I have suffered my 31 years of living with this disease. As time goes on and the sicker I get, the more intense life gets. In the Garden of Gethsemane Christ suffered for all of us so he knows what I go through. Someone is going to call me at anytime and I may have the possibility of dying. Christ prayed to the Father to forgive His people, he bled from every pore, understood, and felt what we were all going through.


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Q: When should a team name be capitalized?
Jhon is a part the Huston Racing Club, and he is on the electrical team.

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Jhon is a part the Huston Racing Club, and he is on the Electrical Team.

I find this confusing because it's a team within a team. Is "electrical team" just considered a common noun? I think it shouldn't be capitalized but I don't know.

A: Things get capitalised when they are proper nouns (or proper names). Now, when something clears that bar is a local concern for an organisation. The general concept of an executive committee for a club or society would not require it to be capitalised, but within a given club they might choose to refer to their executive committee as the Executive Committee. A department of a large organisation might be capitalised within the organisation, but the idea of a science department isn't. Or the organisation might not treat department names as proper nouns.
A team within a team might be capitalised, that's up to the organisation involved. they might even capitalise the designation of the team-within-a-team without the word team, maing it "he is on the Electrical team". I would say the default is not to capitalise such things, because it is simply a description - the team that deals with the electrics.  However, depending on organisational preferences, such units might be capitalised.

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THIS is a great website to look at for those of you who are interested in running or maybe want to start running!
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Checks payable to CCMS or cash!
Work hard - Do one more push-up or sit-up, run one more lap.
You can do anything, because Warriors are optimistic, grateful, gritty, curious, and have zest, and intelligence.
Visit the Watsonville Parks & Recreation website to find out about active things to do in Watsonville!
What are you going to do with all of your free time?
Will you go to the beach and play in the waves? Will you chase seagulls on the sand? Will you make a sandcastle?
What about playing with your brothers or sisters or friends?
What about exploring the sloughs or running around the parks?
With only 13 school days left until summer, you have so many fun options to think about doing. Don't cut yourself short and only stay inside and play video games or sleep, get outside and PLAY!!