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Paw Patrol fans will be delighted to have this Nickelodeon Kids Paw Patrol 7 Piece Twin Bedding. Even when the pups are out for a fun day at the park they are always alert and ready to assist Ryder in keeping the Adventure Bay community safe. The 5 piece bed set includes: 1 Reversible Twin Comforter, 1 flat sheet, 1 fitted sheet, 1 pillowcase and 1 sham, as well as a BONUS reusable tote! Comforter measures 64′ x 86′ and is reversible allowing your child to change up the look of the bedroom simply by flipping it over. Twin Fitted Sheet 39′ x 75′, Twin Flat Sheet 66′ x 96′, one standard size pillowcase to fit 20′ x 26′ pillow. Made of 100% Polyester and are machine washable. Transform your child's room with the Nickelodeon Projectables Paw Patrol LED Plug-In Night Light. The night light provides a soothing guide light while projecting a 3-foot image of the Paw Patrol on the ceiling, wall, or floor. It uses light-sensing technology to turn on at dusk and off at dawn. Long-life, energy-efficient LEDs are cool to the touch, making this night light safe for any room in your home. Join Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma, and Skye in your dreams with the amazing bedroom set!


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"Wanted" comic creator Mark Millar has confirmed to G4TV that he and an as-yet-unannounced director have pitched a different take on "Superman" to Warner Bros. Pictures.
"I've had this plan for like 10 years for a big three-picture Superman thing, like a Lord of the Rings epic, starting over from scratch again with a seven-hour Superman story. One to be released each year." Millar said.
Millar says they hope to get word over the next few weeks and if the studio decides to go with their version, they'd like to be shooting by next Summer.

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Hey boo!
So this past week I discovered the Wonderland Shop that they have in London (for those of you who don't know Wonderland is a fashion magazine).
From the outside it looked like a mermaid "wonderland" and that's why it caught my eye, once we got inside it had a very cool laid back vibe and every inch of that place is just aesthetically pleasing, from magazine covered changing rooms, to photography studio lights on the white walls.
And obviously you can't go to a store like that without leaving with something and I am the last person to come up with an excuse why not to spend money or to turn down a fashion magazine… EVER!!!
I'm keeping my looks very stripped back and keeping them to their bare essentials, this look is very simple but with the addition of the jewelry and of course the hair, it gives you a little something to look at, this is a simple yet striking look, proving that you don't always have to do the most!
T-shirt: River Island Trousers: UniPlay Shoes: Nike Jewellery: Topman + River Island


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On June 28 in Montreal, just prior to the World Congress of Environment and Resource Economists (WCERE), Sustainable Prosperity (SP) and Resources for the Future (RFF) brought together leading global scholars in this field for a high level dialogue to compare research, share insights, and identify future policy research priorities on understanding how environmental regulation might enhance innovation and increase competitiveness.
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné: «One of the most spectacular outcomes of environmental regulation over the past decades is the emergence of the environmental goods and services industry (or ecoindustry). If some environmental regulations have succeeded in stimulating innovation, competitiveness andproductivity over the last decades, it happened not only because regulated firms went ontheir own to revise and upgrade their technologies, but also (perhaps mostly) because such regulations did foster the division of labor between polluting producers and abatement suppliers. In short, I submit that the innovation process triggered by environmental regulation has largely been a Smithian one.»


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It's been awhile since I've talked about my favorite skincare products. Literally has been over a year... wow what the hell michelle. I had been originally wanting to do a Youtube video covering this topic but I have yet to set up a filming space. I figured writing about it would be the next best thing! I like writing, damnit.
The last time we sat and spoke about this, I was ranting and raving about Osmosis products. Here I am, over a year later still raving about them and using them on the daily. I've just added a lot more shit to my collection that I need to share with you! Hm, the easiest way is to go through them is probably step by step... in order. Just as a quick disclaimer, these are the products that work for ME personally. Please keep in mind that everyone's skin is different. ;)
H-OKAY, let's get into that good shit.
1. Makeup Removal.
Neutragena Night Calming cleansing towelettes. Now, Neutragena produces one good thing for my skin. Makeup removal products. I've been using the night calming wipes for YEARS now and I keep going back to them when trying new things. My skin is sensitive and this is just the right amount of whatever that makes me happy. Sometimes if I'm too tired to function, I just use these bad boys and go to sleep and my skin still wakes up happy. That's definitely something worth keeping around.
As for the eye makeup... I go for Neutragena oil-free eye makeup remover. As many of you know, I have eyelash extensions, therefore finding a good process of removing eye makeup without irritating your eyelashes is SO key. First things first... OIL-FREE is a must. Anything that contains oil will not help your extensions and it will loosen them causing them to come out. Second, I only use this when I have to remove eyeliner or things that are closest to my lashes. Simply dip a Q-tip and gently rub your eyeliner off. Pat dry without disturbing your lashes and you're good to go! Also, try not to get that shit in your eye, it's not cool.
2. Cleanser.
Here we meet again, Osmosis Enzyme Cleanser. Yes, this is the same cleanser I've been using since day one and I'm still completely in love! I know what you're thinking... I'm actually sharing which Osmosis products I use?! Yep. I've been asked so many times I figured why not. You guys broke me down. Peer pressure, man. Like I mentioned in the disclaimer, these are the products that work for my skin and not everyones skin is the same. Just keep that in mind! But this cleanser is great!
Also.. pfft, like you're no stranger to my Pure Spin brush. I have a post on here from last year about the regular Spin brush (which I still own and use once a week for exfoliating!) Here's the deal. I did notice the regular Spin brush, when used daily, wasn't the softest for my very sensitive skin. I use it strictly for when I do facial scrubs and exfoliants. I came across the Pure Spin brush a few months after and instantly noticed a difference when I tried it. Much softer and provides two speeds. I am HOOKED on this baby. It's specifically made for us sensi's who have skin that needs baby butt soft things only. I also use this in the shower as I'm a complete mess and fling foam all over the bathroom if used at the sink. You can't take me anywhere, I swear...
If you have sensitive skin like me, I highly suggest getting this sucker! I use it every other day with ease. It's a god send. >> CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE. Use the Code: PureScout for 70% off your brush.
3. Masks! (once a week)
My faaaavorite. Masks. Here are my two go-to facial masks that I am obsessed with. MuddyBody makes AMAZING clay masks that are great for calming the skin but also sucking the dirt and shit straight out of it. My two favorites are the RELAX and DETOX. I am 100% out of my Detox mask right now or else I would have added it in the photo... just goes to prove that I use them VERY often! The Detox mask is also great for spot treatments.
How To Use: I get this question a lot. Easiest solution... Target. I picked up this little ceramic bowl (pictured above) from Target for $1.98 and I have a mini facial fan brush that you can find anywhere, I don't remember where I got this one... Mix some of the powder with water in the bowl until you reach a clay-like consistency and BOOM. Lather that on your face. I know a lot of people that mix in oils as well, but that's completely up to you. I personally just use it straight and it gets the job done. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE. Use the code: GIRRLSCOUT for 10% off your entire purchase.
Another favorite, of course, Lush. I'm obsessed with the Cup O'Coffee mask. I've tried most, if not all, of their fresh face masks that you can only get in the store. And while I absolutely love some of them, I find because they are too fresh, they go bad very quickly and I feel like I don't get enough bang for my buck out of it. I use it once and then I'm struggling to use it before it goes bad. Hm, maybe that's just me. But this mask, which you can also keep in the fridge if you so choose, is just as amazing and doesn't go bad in 2 weeks. This + the Mask of Magnaminty are great, this is just my personal favorite! Mmm. Coffee. Great for mornings!
4. Toner + other great uses.
This is my holy grail product. Juice Beauty Hydrating Mist. Can you read what it says? Tones... refreshes... AND SETS MAKEUP. Sign me the fuck up. I got recommended this product while at Ulta one day and I haven't looked back. This is a multi purpose machine. Juice Beauty makes some amazing shit, I'm serious. I use this bad boy as a toner for my face + to set my makeup when I'm done. I will even keep this in my purse on hot days and spray myself throughout the day for the most refreshing feeling. One bottle lasts be MONTHS and it's only $22. You can't beat that.
5. Moisturize. It puts the lotion on it's skin.
Another favorite of mine. Moisturizing. It's so important to moisturize, god damn. Here are two of my go-to's.
Fresh Moisturizing Face Oil. Hello beautiful. This is another multipurpose product. You can either use this alone as a moisturizer, or add to an existing moisturizer for an extra unfff, or you can mix a drop or two of this with sugar and use it as a lip scrub, add a drop to your foundation for a dewy finish. I swear, I could go on and on about what I use this for. It seems a bit pricey but you don't use a lot so it lasts FOREVER. This is still my first bottle and I bought this months ago.
Juice Beauty GREEN APPLE Age Defy Moisturizer. This is a recent love of mine, since I was in love with the hydrating mist so much, I decided to try out more of their products. They do not disappoint. It smells amazing and a little goes a long way with this stuff. All of their green apple brightening products have been great so far and I plan on trying out some more in the future for sure. I'm a fan, Juice Beauty, I'm a fucking fan. *cries with hands in the air*
6. Eye Serum.
"You know what they say, the eyes are the windows to the face." Osmosis Refresh Eye Serum.
Of course, Osmosis, my dear old friend. We meet again. I didn't start using eye serums until recently but this one I'm a big fan of. I only use this in the mornings before I put on my makeup and it smells like oranges and citrus heaven! It wakes you the fuck up. A little goes a long way.
7. Hand Cream.
I'm a sucker for a good lotion. Having a lot of tattoos, you grow to use a lot throughout the years but a good hand lotion is hard to find. I always test ones out at stores and they either smell ridiculous and I'm stuck walking around the mall smelling like a sour pineapple or they make your hands slimey or sticky. Behold. Ipsy provided me with a FULL SIZE of this baby and I haven't stopped using it. Cake Beauty: Delectable Lemon & Cream Hand... Cream.
PS. If you aren't signed up for Ipsy, what are you even doing with your life? It's only $10/month and you receive a bag full of samples and full size products once a month. This is how I found my favorite foundation amongst other products I wouldn't have found otherwise. It's great! Been using it for so long. Click here to sign up.
Makeup Brush Care!
This is so important for skincare. Hnnnng. Keeping your makeup brushes clean! I know we get lazy and put it off... but once you start cleaning them every 1-2 weeks, you'll notice such a big difference in your skin. I'm tellin' you. Your face will thank you.
Blendercleanser Solid. I got this sucker on Amazon and it lasts forever, even though it says it's for beauty blenders, it's great for brushes as well. Wet your brush, rub it around in the soap and under running water, gently rub your brush back and forth on these little brush egg cleaners.
Which brings me to my next adorable thing... Egg Brush Cleaners. Also bought on Amazon, these things are so great if you don't have a sink that fits the brush mats or need something easier to travel with. Maybe I'll do a video on how I clean my brushes and such... But for now - these are what I use and I highly suggest investing if you don't have any solid cleansing tools!
And you know, if you ever need a place to store all of your face shit... I got you covered. ;)
I hope this wasn't TOO much to read. If you're into beauty products and trying out new shit as much as I am then I hope you learned something cool today and if not, I hope you chuckled a little at my word-vomit style of blogging. ;)
Kick some major ass, make Monday your bitch. It's not over yet.
PS. Thank you to Moonshine Devine for the adorable crystals featured in my photos. I'm in love.


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Early Learning Pathways
The following pathways provide learning opportunities for our youngest Tigers, ages birth - Grade 5.
Junior Kindergarten
What is the program?
The program concentrates on basic skills that are the foundation for early learning. Learners are given opportunities through center-based play to develop early learning concepts through concrete experiences. The classroom environment will stimulate curiosity, a questioning attitude and an eagerness for learning. Positive social interactions and skills will be a critical focus embedded into daily lessons. Junior Kindergarten curriculum will focus on immersing learners in engaging rich oral language, literacy and numeracy skills.
- Enrollment is based on highest need district wide
- Specials will be the same as Kindergarten, except possibly an adjusted time for Art & Library
- Students will transfer from Junior Kindergarten to Kindergarten to 1st, etc
- If a learner qualifies for Junior Kindergarten, the decision of Junior Kindergarten vs Kindergarten is ultimately left up to the parents
- Class sizes are equivalent to Kindergarten enrollments with a ½ time EA (2 spots per attendance center will be kept open for fall enrollments)
Who qualifies?
- Children who are age 5 by Sept. 1
- Students who have had no or limited preschool experiences
- Students who have been referred through the district Kindergarten Assessment.
There will be three sites for the JrK program. The southern program will be located at Freedom Elementary in Harrisburg and the northern programs are at Explorer Elementary & Horizon Elementary in Sioux Falls.


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One of the most visited cities in California is San Francisco. Beauty and soothing climate conditions attract many travelers every year. San Francisco city is located in small area of seven-by-seven mile square of land but there are lots of things that make it the best tourist place. This is also the financial and cultural hub San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. Here are some major things that you would love to do in San Francisco:
Golden Gate Bridge:- This should be top of your list when you are in SFO. This is a suspension bridge between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This orange colored bridge is 1.7 miles long. Once it was called "the bridge that couldn't be built" because the bridge was to be made with support of two long cables. Now, it is listed in the new Seven Wonders of the World. It is one of the most beautiful and most photographed bridges in the world.
Harbor Tour: - One of the best ways to see the beauty of San Francisco is by water. There you can find lots of companies that offering harbor tours in different schedules and price. But if you want to go Alcatraz Island then only few island tours are allowed there, but the typical harbor tour will circle the island so you have plenty of options for photography.
Ride the cable Car: - You can never end up your tour to this magnificent city without exploring the city via the famous cable cars. It is an iconic symbol of the city. This is one of the most ancient and comfortable ride. It is operated since 1800's and is the last cable car system that is operated manually.
The Golden Gate Park: - Golden Gate Park is famous for its countless trees and Victorian greenhouse. Victorian greenhouse is the oldest greenhouse. The park also has a Bison Paddock at one end, with a herd of bison you can observe.
Art and Museums: - If you are art and culture loving then you have lots of options to see like concerts, plays, ballet and many other musical events. You can also see silent, classical and rare movies at San Francisco.
Taste the best wine: - If you are visiting San Francisco and you should not miss to taste the savor wines that are produced at Napa Valley. You will be mesmerized by the beauty of the picturesque landscapes of these wineries. It is located in the north of the San Francisco Bay area and attracts many travelers towards it.
Not limited to these, you will love the night life, food and many historical places in San Francisco.


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Metalsmithing Basics: Tips and Tools for Cutting and Sawing Metal Like a Pro
One of the metalsmithing skills I like to emphasize with my students is good cutting and filing techniques. Conquering both lends a professional look to your jewelry and great cutting/sawing skills make filing and finishing your metal much easier. And we all like easier, right? In this installment, we are going to focus on cutting metal. Filing and finishing will follow soon.
Tools for Cutting Metal
Here are a few of my most-used cutting tools. Pictured is (from left to right) metal shears, a Xuron Maxi flush cutter, and a jeweler's saw with blades. These tools leave the edges of the metal straight and smooth so a minimum amount of filing is needed. Over-filing can take away that flush edge and make it difficult to fit pieces together for soldering.
Let's start with the flush cutter. To make a smooth cut on a piece of wire, there is no substitute. When you make jump rings and want the edges to line up perfectly, give the wire a snip with the flush cutter. Before you make that cut, check to see that your cutter is suited to the wire gauge that you are cutting. These Xurons are heavy duty and cut up to 12-gauge soft wire. Make sure you are clipping the wire with the correct side of the cutter and that the heads are lined up at a right angle to the wire
To get this straight, flush cut …
Metal shears or French shears are my favorite way of cutting metal sheet that is thinner than 20 gauge. The heads of the shears are nice and smooth, so the resulting cut edge is smooth as well. These shears work best for straight lines or slight curves.
I use a jeweler's ruler and scribe to mark metal for cutting. Then I just use the shears like a pair of scissors to cut the metal along the scribed line. After cutting, I straighten the metal by lightly tapping the cut edge with a plastic mallet on a bench block. Then the edge is ready to fit and solder. If it is the final piece, just a touch of a file will be needed to finish it.
Now meet the jeweler's saw. My students shy away from this tool, but really, it can become your new best friend. I use the saw to cut shapes from metal sheet. Nothing works better on intricate shapes. Here are my tips for cutting metal with a jeweler's saw:
- Keep the saw stationary and turn the piece that is being sawed. You'll have more control over where the saw cuts.
- Saw blades break all the time. Don't get discouraged if your blade snaps. Just stop, take a breath, and change the broken blade. It happens to everyone.
- Reduce the instance of broken blades by using a blade lubricant. Turning a corner can also snap a blade, so saw in place as the blade turns. The motion will keep the blade from breaking.
- Ease your death grip on the saw handle and don't push the blade into the metal. A light touch will keep the blades from binding up in the metal and the saw will move up and down with ease.
- Make sure the blade is clamped tightly in the frame. A loose blade will not saw well. A tight blade should give a high "pling" like a harp string when you pluck it.
- Brace the piece that you are sawing on a bench pin that clamps to your worktable so you have a stable surface to work on.
Choosing Jeweler's Saw Blades
I default to size 2/0 saw blades for 22-gauge metal sheet and higher. For 24-gauge sheet and thinner, I jump down to 4/0. The finer teeth of the 4/0 blade make cutting thin metal much easier. This way I don't have a tangle of unknown blades to wade through.
To insert the saw blade into the frame:
- Loosen the screws on the frame and insert the blade in the top clamp with teeth facing out and pointing down towards the handle.
(Note the close-up view of the saw blade with teeth pointing down and out.)
- Place the frame against a stable table edge and push so that the frame bows slightly.
- While the frame is bowed, insert the opposite end of the saw blade into the bottom clamp and tighten.
- Remove the pressure from the frame and pluck the back of the saw blade with your finger. If you hear a high-pitched "pling," the saw is ready to go.
Hope these cutting tips are helpful. Feel free to share your own metal-cutting tips in the comments below. See you soon for part two on filing and finishing!
Read on for the next part in Kate's metalsmiting basics series, Tips and Tools for Filing and Finishing Metal Like A Pro.
Ready to take your metal cutting and sawing skills to the next level? Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine is the go-to resource for metalsmithing inspiration and tutorials using special shapes and intricate metal designs from leading jewelry artists and experts.
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SOTU "Watch Parties" By National Action Network
We are hours away from President Barack Obama delivering his sixth State of the Union Address since taking office in 2009.
National Action Network is organizing State of the Union WATCH PARTIES, as we want to interact with our members and chapter leaders across the country to hear the President lay out his various proposals to strengthen the middle class, increase employment, and strengthen the economy. We invite you and your families to join NAN across the country to watch SOTU in a city near you.
We also invite you to watch it with us by participating in our "watch party" on Twitter.
What subject do you want the President to address?
Tweet us @NationalAction during the speech using #SOTU #NANSpeaks #NANAction.
Thank you for your continued support and commitment to National Action Network. We look forward to hearing from you and engaging in meaningful discussion about issues that affect us most. Stay involved, stay tuned into the action, and log onto our website www.nationalactionnetwork.net for continuous updates.
Watch Rev. Al Sharpton live on MSNBC as a commentator for the State of the Union Address. We look forward to you joining us.
State of the Union Address "Watch Party" locations:
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Birmingham, AL.
National Action Network Office
2013 Morris Ave, Birmingham, AL. 35203
Los Angeles, CA.
NAN Western Regional Office, 2828 West Jefferson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA. 90018
Washington, DC.
Shiloh Baptist Church, 1500 9th Street Northwest
Washington, DC. 20001
Atlanta, GA
National Action Network, 632 Peeples St. SW
Atlanta, GA. 30310.
Waterloo, IA
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 805 Adams Street
Waterloo, IA. 50703
Cleveland, OH.
NAN joins with National Urban League & NAACP,
Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church1161 East 105th street
Cleveland, OH. 44108
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House of Justice Auditorium106 W. 145th streetNew York, NY. 10039
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Masonic Temple, 265 Broadway
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The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government-sponsored public service program conducted by the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India which was begun in 1969. Its primary aim is personality development through social (or community) service. The NSS motto is "Not me, not you, but we".
The NSS motto expresses the essence of democratic living and upholds the need for service, an appreciation of another person's point of view and consideration for fellow human beings. It illustrates that the welfare of an individual is ultimately dependent on the welfare of society as a whole; therefore, it is the aim of the NSS to demonstrate its motto in day-to-day activities
The Govt.Engg.College Haveri also has NSS Activity which is starterted in the year 2011. Prof.Kashinath Department of Civil Engg, GEC Haveri is a coordinator for NSS.
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Greetings! Once again our video update comes from the Moscow area where we had the joy of participating in the dedication of the new church building in Shahovskaya. It was a wonderful time of praising God, testimonies, preaching, food and fellowship. Every square inch of the building was packed with people. A truly wonderful event. Afterward, I had the occasion to visit with Pastor Peter Rumachik in his home. I had recently searched our archives and found the first few issues of our newsletter the Challenger which we began publishing in 1983. The very first issue contained an article about brother Peter who had just been re-sentenced to another 5 year term without every being released. Back then one of the major thrusts of our newsletter was to inform Christians about the believers in the Soviet Union who were in prison for Christ and encourage them to pray for them and write letters in their behalf to various authorities. We never thought we would meet any of these hero's of the faith except in glory. It was a blessing to present these early newsletters to brother Peter and translate for him what they said. A big smile swept across his face when I translated a part where people were saying it was not likely he would survive his current term. Praise God almost 35 years later he is still serving God while many of his persecutors went on to meet their fate. This video update is from this meeting in brother Peter's home. It is longer than what we usually send out but this was a special moment, especially for those of you who know Pastor Peter.


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The Vision of Echard
The Benedictine Echard
Sat by the wayside well,
Where Marsberg sees the bridal
Of the Sarre and the Moselle.
Fair with its sloping vineyards
And tawny chestnut bloom,
The happy vale Ausionus sung
For Holy Treves made room.
On the shrine Helena builded
To keep the Christ coat well,
On minster tower and kloster cross,
The westering sunshine fell.
There, where the rock-hewn circles
O'erlooked the Roman's game,
The veil of sleep fell on him,
And his thought a dream became.
He felt the heart of silence
Throb with a soundless word,
And by the inward ear alone
A spirit's voice he heard.
And the spoken word seemed written
On air and wave and sod,
And the bending walls of sapphire
Blazed with the thought of God:
"What lack I, O my children?
All things are in my hand;
The vast earth and the awful stars
I hold as grains of sand.
"Need I your alms? The silver
And gold are mine alone;
The gifts ye bring before me
Were evermore my own.
"Heed I the noise of viols,
Your pomp of masque and show?
Have I not dawns and sunsets?
Have I not winds that blow?
"Do I smell your gums of incense?
Is my ear with chantings fed?
taste I your wine of worship,
Or eat your holy bread?
"Of rank and name and honors
Am I vain as ye are vain?
What can Eternal Fullness
From your lip-service gain?
"Ye make me not your debtor
Who serve yourselves alone;
Ye boast to me of homage
Whose gain is all your own.
"For you I gave the prophets,
For you the Psalmist's lay:
For you the law's stone tables,
And holy book and day.
"Ye change to weary burdens
The helps that should uplift;
Ye lose in form the spirit,
The Giver in the Gift.
"Who called ye to self-torment,
to fast and penance vain?
Dream ye Eternal Goodness
Has joy in mortal pain?
"For the death in life of Nitria,
For your Chartreuse ever dumb,
What better is the neighbor,
Or happier the home?
"Who counts his brother's welfare
As sacred as his own,
And loves, forgives and pities,
He serveth me alone.
"I note each gracious purpose,
Each kindly word and deed;
Are ye not all my children?
Shall not the Father heed?
"No prayer for light and guidance
Is lost upon mine ear:
The child's cry in the darkness
Shall not the Father hear?
"I loathe your wrangling councils,
I tread upon your creeds;
Who made ye mine avengers,
Or told ye of my needs;
"I bless men and ye curse them,
I love them and ye hate;
Ye bite and tear each other,
I suffer long and wait.
"Ye bow to ghastly symbols,
To cross and scourge and thorn;
Ye seek his Syrian manger
Who in the heart is born.
"For the dead Christ, not the living,
Ye watch his empty grave
Whose life alone within you
Has power to bless and save.
"O blind ones, outward groping,
The idle quest forego;
Who listens to his inward voice
Alone of Him shall know.
"His love all love exceeding
the heart must needs recall,
Its self-surrendering freedom,
Its loss that gaineth all.
"Climb not the holy mountains,
Their eagles know not me;
Seek not the Blessed Islands,
I dwell not in the sea.
"Gone is the mount of Menu,
The triple gods are gone.
And, deaf to all the lama's prayers,
The Buddha slumbers on.
"No more from rocky Horeb
The smitten waters gush;
Fallen is Bethel's ladder,
Quenched is the burning bush.
"The jewels of the urim
And Thummim all are dim;
The fire has left the altar,
The sign the teraphim.
"No more in ark or hill grove
The Holiest abides;
Not in the scroll's dead letter
the eternal secret hides.
"The eye shall fail that searches
For me the hollow sky;
The far is even as the near,
The low is as the high.
"What if the earth is hiding
Her old faiths, long outworn?
what is it to the changeless truth
That yours shall fail in turn?
"What if the o'erturned altar
Lays bare the ancient lie?
What if the dreams and legends
Of the world's childhood die?
"Have ye not still my witness
Within yourselves alway,
My hand that on the keys of life
For bliss or bale I lay?
"Still, in perpetual judgment,
I hold assize within,
With sure reward of holiness,
And dread rebuke of sin.
"A light, a guide, a warning,
A presence ever near,
Through the deep silence of the flesh
I reach the inward ear.
"My Gerizim and Ebal
Are in each human soul,
The still, small voice of blessing,
And Sinai's thunder-roll.
"The stern behest of duty,
The doom-book open thrown,
The heaven ye seek, the hell ye fear,
Are with yourselves alone."
A gold and purple sunset
Flowed down the broad Moselle;
On hills of vine and meadow lands
The peace of twilight fell.
A slow, cool wind of evening
Blew over leaf and bloom;
And faint and far, the Angelus
Rang from Saint Matthew's tomb.
Then up rose Master Echard,
And marvelled: "Can it be
That here, in dream and vision,
The Lord hath talked with me?"
He went his way; behind him
The shrines of saintly dead,
The holy coat and nail of cross,
He left unvisited.
He sought the vale of Eltzbach
His burdened soul to free,
Where the foot-hills of the Eifel
Are glassed in Laachersee.
And, in his Order's kloster,
He sat, in night-long parle,
With tauler of the Friends of God,
And Nicolas of Basle.
And lo! the twain made answer:
"Yea, brother, even thus
The Voice above all voices
Hath spoken unto us.
"The world will have its idols,
And flesh and sense their sign;
But the blinded eyes shall open,
And the gross ear be fine.
"What if the vision tarry?
God's rime is always best;
The true Light shall be witnessed,
The Christ within confessed.
"In mercy or in judgment
He shall turn and overturn,
Till the heart shall be his temple
Where all of him shall learn."


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Today is National Wear Red Day in an effort to raise awareness about the fight against heart disease in women. Everyone male and female should be aware of their heart health.
Prevention Tips from the American Heart Association:
Eat Well, Be Active, Watch your Weight and Check in with your Doctor. If you smoke, you are at a higher risk so they recommend quitting (and so do I).
You may be surprised to see that some fat is essential for heart health. It is the monounsaturated, polyunsaturated fats and omega 3 fatty acids that you want to look for. Here are some suggestions:
Oatmeal: omega 3 fatty acids
Salmon: omega 3 fatty acids, carotenoid astaxanthin, which is a very powerful antioxidant
Olive Oil: monounsaturated fats (lowers LDL). Use instead of butter when cooking
Avacado: monounsaturated fats (lower LDL and raise HDL).
Nuts: Walnuts- omega 3 fatty acids, Almonds- monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats
Berries: anti-inflammatories
Legumes: omega 3 fatty acids
Dark Chocolate (1.6-ounce bar): due to flavonoids. *be careful to choose pure dark chocolate. A dark chocolate peanut butter cup doesn't count!
Red Wine- yes, in MODERATION can be good for your heart. I am not encouraging you to start drinking. But if you are of age and enjoy a glass of red wine with dinner, the resveratrol (which comes from the skin of grapes) may have some benefits for your heart. *it's a fine line. Drinking too much will raise your blood pressure*
Best Exercise for a Healthy Heart? Cardio, Strength Training and Flexibility. It is not just cardio that helps your heart so be sure to include strength and flexibility in your routine. Aim for at LEAST 3-4 times per week for at LEAST 30 minutes for heart health. (this is not enough for weight loss, just maintenance)
Start TODAY. Do not put it off until Monday. Mondays are stressful enough. TODAY is what counts. Be well.
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The car was dumped along South Sheridan Boulevard, south of West Yale Avenue. Officers believe the suspects left the vehicle and ran off on foot, Denver Police Spokesman Sonny Jackson explained at 8:20 a.m.
Jackson also said the stolen vehicle was a puffer, a car left running unattended — which is illegal.


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Why quest?
Why go without food, shelter (other than a tarp), comforts, contact, variety of scene, and promises of staying warm and dry? Why expose yourself to insects, unpredictable turns of Mother Nature, and the insanity of the programming lurking within your own mind? Why have people been doing such a thing for 1,000's and 1,000's of years, and still hurl themselves like freight trains towards the threshold?
When you are called, you are called, and you can ignore it, but it won't let you go until you do go into the wild, alone, and give yourself over to the sacred, holy, conversation to be had between your own soul, the Great Mystery, and Earth Mother.
Some never will quest, some will be complete having done so once in their lifetime, and some return to this ceremony as part of their spiritual path. To convey something of the quest spirit, the process, and what it takes us to, is somewhat of a daunting, impossible task, but here are some points from my heart to yours. May these words help you to cross its threshold one day, or deepen your integration from your last quest.
Why quest then, eh? We quest in this strong way when we are ready to cast off the false, the accumulated debris in our psyche and that which has knocked us off our path or disconnected us from our heart's truth and soul's code. Even just by degrees of misalignment.
We quest to stand firm on our Home, the Earth, and take our place in the purity of natural law, and in the web of life. From here we untangle from the webs of lies. We quest when we need to immerse in Nature's medicine and frequency, for that salve to soak through our every cell and into our bones, into our cellular memory of how we are meant to function without noise, toxicity, wifi, and countless invasions to our senses and rhythms.
As we find our home here, we trust our home within, and take that into the world where our 'place' is more able to be taken.
We quest when we know we need to wake ourselves up, shake ourselves up, or deeply rest in the sweetness of effortless spirit, our radiant light.
We quest when we need to test ourselves, birth ourselves, feel our edges, our shadows, our untapped power. We meet ourselves, and learn what we had in us that didn't know we had.
We quest when we need help and no human aid can seem to do the job of taking us to the places within that lay waiting to be reached. These are the places that are reached by the softening of our personality over days in the bush, and activated by the grace of Spirit.
We quest when we need to pray, to have those prayers make a big ripple from the super-charged power of a 10-foot circle that is a portal to the Mystery. And to receive, to hear the voice of guidance that surely comes. We quest to seek spiritual truths, open the doors to spiritual perception, experience the profound Silence and world beyond the veils.
We quest when we need get closer to the mystery of who we are, why we are, what our life is about, and what then to do with that. We quest when we need the power to walk that path, make the tough decisions, or proclaim a new way of being….
We quest when it is time to celebrate a newfound stage of life, or mourn the last, with dignity, with sacred witnessing, with firm completeness that says, "My old life is over, that part of me has come to rest, and now I begin."
I feel the quest releases back to the community, people with vision and a greater level of psycho-spiritual maturity than they had had before… Men and women who have been deeply touched by the natural and spiritual worlds, their paradigms relocating into more eco-centric, soul-centric, unity consciousness, even as the ceremony-induced expansion states return to the normal fluxes of human cognition and shadow.
Quest is also so much more than what I've touched on here. A vast and enigmatic ceremony as it is, I offer these insights to honour those who have gone before, and those yet to come.
-Rain Czupryna
Congrats to the latest Questers – An all-men quest and baptism by floods. It was February of this year, when Steve and I were preparing for the (then) upcoming March bi-annual quest, when I realised I had no business being there. All the questers on approach were, one by one, all men. Having just come back from the same land immersed in an all-women retreat with Kate, I felt the two wings of the masculine and feminine flapping assuredly, as though across the land itself. There was a sense that men had work to do there to do too, and so seamlessly, my man, Laurent (also a trained Quest Protector in this lineage) took my place (while I took his with his with his boy). I felt the power of non-attachment to the work, that sometimes it chooses to move through us, sometimes it doesn't. And my non-service was better service on this occasion, as evidenced by what the men came back with, stories of great healing and transformation, of bonding and tales only they and the land can carry. The depths they went to were palpable.
These "Magnificent 7" were poetically met with a personal circling of 4 wedge tail eagles, and the strongest torrential rains and floods our team has ever encountered there, making access to the quest sites was eventually cut by the rising creek…all men evacuated just in time with 30 minutes to spare. Congrats to all of the men for coming back to our world with more of you to offer.
With love,


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An Old Testament scholar finds in the Biblical account of creation a foundation for an environmental ethic that acknowledges the role of otherness and detachment in the apprehension of value.
In the 49 years since Lynn White, Jr., published his influential essay indicting the Judeo-Christian tradition, with its commitment to a God—the ultimate source of value—outside of nature, as the root of "our ecologic crisis", scholars have spent a great deal of time
examining the Bible and other relevant texts from a "green" perspective. Their task is complicated—and made interesting—by the fact that, in the crucial matter of creation itself, the Bible provides not one, but two side-by-side and in some ways contradictory accounts. For the most part, exegetes with an environmental bent have favored what scholars call the "J" (for Jahwist or Yahwist) account, (Gen. 2:4b-3:24), which depicts humans as created out of earth to be servants of the earth, to the more managerial P (Priestly) account (Gen. 1:1-2;4a), which casts humans as stewards with a measure of authority over nature, whose responsibility is, famously, "to rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on the earth (Gen 1:26).
Until recently, Ted Hiebert, an Old Testament scholar at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, who has written extensively about these matters, felt the same way, and had, he says, devoted much of his energy to the task of "getting us out from under this Priestly image of human agency". Indeed, he wrote his 1996 book, The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel, in part to defend the Biblical tradition from the critique White leveled at it by focusing on the earthier account of J, noting that both John Muir found the J account appealing, and environmental philosopher J. Baird Callicott has found its spirit clearly reflected in Aldo Leopold's idea of membership in the land community. Recently, however, he has made something of a turnaround, and has been making the case for poor old P as offering, as he writes in a paper he delivered at a conference at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia in 2012, the richer and more promising model for the urgent business of "putting the world together". While he sees wisdom in J's depiction of humans as, quite
literally, children of the soil, he now argues that it is not the earthy J, but the more detached and scientific P who provides the better model for the integration of science art and theology that underlies a gracious relationship with others and with the environment—and that is a fundamental challenge for us today.
"The Priestly Writer," he writes, "was a genuine scientist; an ancient one, but, nevertheless, a scientist who took the world of nature seriously and studied it closely and systematically."
A God who can say "Wow!"
In support of this, he notes the Priestly writer's taxonomy, focused on plants, organized into ranked groups, like the taxonomy of Linnaeus, and reflecting close observation of specific characters such as fruits and seeds. He quotes with approval E. A. Speiser's assessment that the story of creation in Genesis 1 "reflected the best that was available in contemporary scientific thinking."[1] And he adds, noting the "withering criticism" it attracted, Julius Wellhauesn's argument that
The aim of the narrator is not mainly a religious one. Had he only meant to say that God made the world out of nothing, and made it good, he could have said so in simpler words, and at the same time more distinctly. There is no doubt that he meant to describe the actual course of the genesis of the world, and to be true to nature in doing so; he means to give a cosmogonic theory.[2] But, Hiebert notes, if P took nature seriously enough to observe it closely, he also responded to it as an artist and a priest who renders his account in the poetic, even liturgical cadences that have made it so compelling to congregations and readers for the better part of three millennia.
He notes that it is not J but P who provides the clearest expression of the "goodness" or "beauty" of creation in the phrase, repeated at the end of each day of creation and usually translated "And God saw that it was good". That's a pretty positive take on creation. But Hiebert, who drew from extensive linguistic scholarship, when he translated "Genesis" for the recently published Common English Bible makes it even more so, rendering it "God saw how good it was".
"This," he notes, is "only a slight change in wording, really, this shift from the conjunction 'that' to the adverb 'how'. But it puts the world's goodness—its exquisite quality, its value, its beauty—in a new register. In fact, this adverb 'how' adds an emotional depth to God's response to the world and to the poet's apprehension of its beauty and value. The King James Version's subordinating conjunction 'that' states a simple fact. It's an intellectual response to creation, an analytical description of the world, a cognitive evaluation we can ascribe to, a bit of knowledge, a fact we may recognize and accept. But the Common English Bible's adverbial 'how' conveys God's emotions. It contains God's feelings about the world, God's surprise, almost, and delight that the world was so perfectly done, so wonderfully new, so completely right. The world evoked in God not only the knowledge of its goodness but the amazement at its goodness."
This, in other words, is a God who can say "Wow!" And, as Hiebert notes, it suggests a God who is not only, or altogether transcendent, not wholly in charge of or "on top of" creation, but also "present and embedded in its processes".
Besides that, he notes that the Hebrew word tov, which he rendered into English as "good," is often used "in an aesthetic sense to describe the beautiful: what is pleasant, excellent, valuable, of high quality. All of these meanings are imbedded in the word tov, and it's a shame we have to pick just one for a translation. If I were to translate Genesis again, there's a better than even chance that I would have chosen 'beautiful' or 'exquisitely made' or 'valuable' instead of 'good.' Probably 'beautiful'."
For Hiebert, the result of this integration of science, art, theology (and I think it's fair to say, ritual) is a theology that is "world based", and in which the creator, God, "is conceived in terms of the physical world and the physical world in terms of God". Moreover, the creator's designation of humans as created "in our image…so that they may take charge" of creation (as he rendered it for the CEB), does not set us apart from nature as essentially different from it, but constitutes a vocation. And that vocation—"Here," Hiebert writes, "we have to grab ourselves by the shoulders and shake ourselves a bit."—"is to be responsible for the world of nature, all of it."
That, though Prof. Hiebert doesn't make the point in this essay, seems to me to coincide with—we might say to anticipate (by quite a bit, actually)—Aldo Leopold's famous land ethic, and his injunction to regard ourselves as plain members of the land community.
But membership, in this reading, based not only on a comfortable identification with soil, as the Biblical J put it, or "the land," as Leopold put it, but on the detachment, the distancing of the self and attention to the other as other that is part of the human condition, as the key to real connection and the apprehension of value, the expression of that in art, and its realization in ritual. Exactly the idea we are exploring here.
Intrigued, I asked Prof. Hiebert whether he would be willing to respond to a few questions raised by the connection I saw between his defense of P and the ideas we are exploring. He said he would, and what follows is an edited version of the resulting conversation.
Our Q&A
WRJ: You have pointed out that it is P who provides the clearest expression of God's satisfaction at the "goodness" of creation, and in fact does so on the fifth day of creation before turning to the task of creating humans. What do you make of this? Do you think it suggests something about the role apprehension of other as other plays in the experience of value?
TH: Before responding to the idea of nature as Other, just a clarification: in my view, J depicts humans as servants, not stewards, of creation, though this, of course, supports what you have said here about J and P. The word J uses for "till" (or cultivate/farm) in Gen 2:5 and 15 is avad the basic Hebrew word for "serve", thus the exact opposite of P's "master". So the human is at the service of the world, not the ruler of it. I take the word "steward", though not used by P, to characterize his perspective, since a "steward" is a person given responsibility by one higher than him to supervise one lower than him, and in P God gives humans the responsibility of supervising the earth.
I'm intrigued by your sense of the value of seeing nature as Other, especially since my other big passion these days is unpacking cultural attitudes in Genesis, which means figuring out how the Other is viewed and what positive or negative values are contained in viewing the Other and in the idea of identity and difference in general. The two ways P distinguishes humans from the rest of nature in Gen. 1 are by making him in God's image (he is the only animal so made) and in giving him rule over the other animals (while, in contrast, J thought humans and animals alike were made out of topsoil). The question is, what's behind these two distinguishing marks: divine image and rule? Do they introduce a healthy sense of detachment? Or do they simply reflect a need to control? I'm not sure how to answer this yet, but I really like the question and it would be one for more conversation, I believe.
P does value nature, and this is one of the key things I try to say in the Union talk.
WRJ: I'm thinking that the "art" element you find in P might reflect the commitment to ritual by the priestly class. Does that make any sense? And if so, how might that contrast with the perspective of the J editor in a socio-economic sense. I mean, who was J? Do we know anything about that? Anything that is pertinent to this question? Might he (or, per Harold Bloom, she*[3]) have represented some part of ancient Hebrew culture that was perhaps more individualistic or less likely to regard the rituals of the temple as the center of value?
TH: You are right. There is much more interest in ritual in P than in J, hence the scholarly hypothesis that P was a priest. So, in Gen 1, for example, the repetition is sometimes attributed to a worship ritual in which this text might have been recited. While J is very much interested in religion and even altars and such, he does not have the temple at the center of his world as P does. On the basis of his words, I'd judge J to be the epic poet of his people, expressing their agrarian culture, their kinship society, and their constitution as a people under and member of the tribe of Judah, i.e. King David and the Davidic Dynasty.
WRJ: I have thought that the two, in some ways contradictory accounts of creation in "Genesis," basically the J and P accounts, with their very different portrayals of humans' relationship with nature, is less an actual contradiction, as it appears if read as history, than a way of dealing with and accounting for the ambiguity of human experience as a self that is both part of nature and apart from it. Does that make any sense from your perspective as an Old Testament scholar?
TH: I feel that J's and P's views are both contradictory and complementary. I don't want to fold them into each other and make them a kind of literary ambiguity. I want us to appreciate first these very distinctive voices. This is the great contribution of historical critical scholarship: uncovering the real, individual voices of scripture. But I do agree that, together, they cover the real complexity of our human situation and the ambiguity of human experience.
WRJ: In an exploration of the role of the Biblical tradition in the shaping of Western thought and culture, literary critic Herbert Schneidau argued (in "Sacred Discontent" (1976)) that the Biblical version of what I'm calling the "detached" perspective on nature emerged from the Hebrews' idea of a transcendent divinity. Rather than deploring it, however, Schneidau writes "in praise of alienation" in this form, and celebrates it as the basis for the strong current of social criticism that he regards as a distinctive achievement of the Western tradition. What do you make of that? And, with respect to environmental thinking in particular, do you think it is fair to say that environmentalism itself, with its critique of aspects of Western culture, exemplifies this arguably critical aspect of Western thought?
TH: I need to go back and look at Schneidau, whom I read when I was doing The Yahwist's Landscape. If I remember correctly, he sees the seeds of the notion of detachment and a transcendent god in Israel's desert origins, an idea I critique directly in the book (pp. 9-12, 19-22). My view is that this desert ideal stuff is wrong and that J and P (and the rest of the Bible) are agricultural through and through.
WRJ: Regarding this more positive take on detachment, or the experience of the otherness of nature—what I have referred to as the distance between souls—what do you make of that? And what implications might it have for environmental thinking and practice?
TH: While we may want to talk about the distance between souls—that's fine—P and J wouldn't have. They had a this-worldly view in which human life didn't have a unique spiritual essence or soul, but possessed the breath of God as did all living things. When God takes back God's breath, we die (Psalm 104:29-30).
Having said that, I'm still thinking about the idea of identity and difference, the self and the Other, and how we think of that in a healthy way rather than collapsing the two or separating them entirely. That's the question for me, after hearing your reflections, and one which I'd like to pursue further.
[1] E. A. Speiser, Genesis (New York: Doubleday, 1962) LV.
[2] Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (New York: Meridian, 1957) 298, 304; repr. of Prolegomena to the History of Israel (trans. J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies; with preface by W. Robertson Smith; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1885); trans. of Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (2nd ed.; Berlin: Reimer, 1883).
[3] In his The Book of J (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990).


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Jerry becomes apprehensive when he and George buy stock and the price falls while the person who suggested the stock is in a coma and can't tell them when to sell.
The Stock Tip is inspired by the flavours of a hot toddy, but transposed to a cold, spirit-forward cocktail. We generate those flavours through a mix of apple brandy and Benedictine, along with a bar spoon of amaro and ginger syrup. The cinnamon-forward Fee Brothers aromatic bitters bind the flavours together into a cocktail that's best enjoyed in front of a roaring fire.
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- 2 oz. blended Scotch
- 0.5 oz. apple brandy
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- Dash Fee Brothers aromatic bitters
- Cinnamon stick
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"Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 61,255 members nationwide. CAP, in its Air Force auxiliary role, performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 72 lives in fiscal year 2009. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 23,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 68 years."
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was founded in 1941, just before the start of World War II. After the war, Congress created the United States Air Force in 1947 and named CAP as the Air Force's official civilian auxiliary in 1948. 2008 is the 67th anniversary of CAP. CAP operates the world's largest fleet of single engine aircraft (535), the largest emergency communications network in the nation, and a fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles.
Geographically, CAP is divided into 8 Regions and 52 Wings, one for each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Many Wings, especially those with large populations and/or large geographic areas, are divided into Groups. Each Group is made up of from 5 to 9 Squadrons. The squadron is the community-level unit of CAP and is the heart of the organization. The squadron is the basic operational unit and all higher echelons exist to support the squadron. CAP National Headquarters (NHQ) is located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. NHQ has a paid support staff of about 100.
About Evergreen Composite Squadron
Evergreen Composite Squadron (ECS) is part of Group 1 of the Colorado Wing, Rocky Mountain Region. Group 1 has 8 squadrons in the Denver Metro Area south of Interstate 70. ECS is the westernmost squadron in Group 1 and has members from the mountain communities of Evergreen, Conifer, Pine, Bailey, Idaho Springs, Morrison, and Summit County, west of the Continental Divide. As a Composite Squadron, ECS has cadet and adult members and conducts training and activities for both.
ECS currently has 31 cadets and 23 adult members and is in a growth phase. ECS participates in all three of CAP's missions. We place emphasis on Cadet Programs, Aerospace Education, and Emergency Services (ES). Several adult and cadet members have Emergency Services qualifications and participate regularly in training and actual missions. We have an active ES training program with many squadron members in training to attain ES qualifications. We are also proud of our Cadet Programs and have an energetic and highly motivated group of cadets. Cadet Programs places emphasis on discipline, learning leadership skills, character development, physical fitness, teamwork, community service and Aerospace Education. The cadets plan, organize and conduct most squadron meetings and activities. ECS is very active in Aerospace Education. In addition to activities and field trips outside of regular meetings, we dedicate one monthly meeting to Aerospace Education for our members. ECS partcipates in the Aerospace Excellence (AEX) program. This involves some specialized training activities approved by CAP National Headquarters.
About CAP Membership
Youth, aged 12 through 18, may apply for membership in the CAP Cadet Program. Those 19 and older must apply for adult membership (i.e. Senior Members). Youth that join the Cadet Program before turning 19 may remain in the Cadet Program until age 21. You need not be a pilot to join CAP. In fact, only a very small percentage of CAP members are pilots. As a CAP volunteer, there are many ways that you can serve. To find out more, go to the CAP National Website at http://gocivilairpatrol.com and do a bit of exploring. If you want to learn more or have specific questions, visit ECS as a guest at one of our regular meetings. We encourage prospective members to visit several meetings before making a commitment to join CAP. For prospective cadet members, we request that one or both parents attend at least one meeting with their son or daughter. In this way, parents can meet with the commander or his representative to learn more about the Cadet Program and its goals. Success in the CAP Cadet Program requires a commitment from the cadet and his/her parents.
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National CAP dues for cadets are $38 initially. Initial national dues for senior members are $72. Annual membership renewals are $38 for cadets and $62 for Senior Members. Additionally, ECS cadets pay squadron dues of $30 annually, due in October. Squadron dues payable upon joining CAP are prorated to the following October.
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Original Date: 6/11/1992 * Last Revision Effective: 5/13/2015
Policy Contact: Vice President, Administrative Services
The following procedures are established to meet the requirements for implementing policy #6200 Parking and Traffic.
Allocation of Parking Spaces
Parking on campus shall be allocated by the vice president of administrative services or his/her designee consistent with the objectives of these regulations. The vice president of administrative services or his/her designee is further authorized to designate and mark the various parking areas on the campus with numbers or titles or both. This includes authorization to reserve certain areas for vehicles displaying certain special permits.
The vice president of administrative services is responsible for parking and traffic management on campus. The public safety office of Bellevue College is delegated authority to enforce all college parking and traffic rules and regulations.
The authority and powers conferred upon the director of public safety by these regulations may be delegated by him/her to his/her subordinates.
Parking Fees
Parking fees may be adopted by the board of trustees, specifying the charge per quarter and year.
Except for college-owned and/or –operated vehicles, the college assumes no liability under any circumstances for vehicles on college properties.
Parking Permits
No person shall park or leave any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the campus of Bellevue College during the hours published on the Bellevue College website without properly displaying a valid Bellevue College permit, a disability placard or a government agency license plate without prior authorization of public safety.
A valid permit includes:
- a current student or faculty/staff permit displayed in accordance with instructions below; or
- a temporary permit authorized by public safety and displayed in accordance with instructions.
The college reserves the right to refuse the issuance of a parking permit.
Authorization For Issuance Of Permits
The vice president of administrative services or his/her designee is authorized to issue all Bellevue College parking permits.
Special Permits
Special permits are valid only in the areas specified, on the date(s) and/or times specified on the permits, and must be displayed in accordance with instructions below.
- Carpool permits. Carpool permits may be issued to faculty, staff, or students. All members of the carpool must appear in person when applying for the permit. One permit will be issued by the public safety office for each carpool. This permit shall only be used among the registered members of the carpool. Carpool permits must be displayed in accordance with the instructions provided with the permit. Carpool vehicles must also display a regular student or faculty/staff permit.
- Disabled parking permits. Only vehicles displaying a valid state of Washington placard may park in spaces designated for the disabled. Vehicles with disability placards may park in all areas designated for parking.
- Low emissions fuel efficient (LEFE) permits. Only vehicles displaying a valid student or staff/faculty parking permit and a low emissions fuel efficient permit issued by the college may use LEFE stalls. Permits will only be issued to vehicles certified as LEFE by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- Daily and hourly permits. Daily and hourly parking permits may be issued through public safety-authorized distribution points.
- Guest permits. Public safety has authority to issue temporary permits or special reserved permits to guests as directed by president's staff or if issuing such permits enhances the operation of the college.
- Overnight permits. Drivers needing to leave vehicles on campus overnight or for extended periods of time (e.g., because the vehicle is inoperable, or because the driver will participate in a field trip) must request and display an authorized temporary parking permit from public safety.
- Special events. The public safety office and events office assist college divisions which sponsor functions such as conferences, seminars, dinners, and similar events, in arranging reserved parking and direction signs as appropriate. Requests for such assistance must be received by public safety with advance notice.
Display Of Permits
Permits issued by Bellevue College shall be displayed in accordance with instructions issued with the permit. Permits not displayed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be valid and vehicles displaying the improperly placed permit shall be subject to citation.
Responsibility for vehicles
The person to whom a permit is issued is responsible for the vehicle in or upon which the permit is displayed. He or she shall be held responsible for all violations of these rules and regulations charged to that vehicle. However, the operator of a vehicle will not be held relieved of responsibility for violating any rule or regulation simply because he or she is not also the permit holder.
Transfer Of Permits
With the exception of carpool permits, parking permits are not transferable between individuals. Permits may be moved between vehicles to which the permit is registered. If a vehicle is sold or traded, a replacement permit will be issued to the permit holder.
Replacement Permit
Lost, stolen or destroyed permits may be reissued through an appeal as authorized by the director of public safety for a $20 fee.
Partial refunds for parking permit fees are available through an appeal to the director of public safety or his/her designee for circumstances outlined in the appeal form on the public safety website.
- Parking permit fees will be refunded at 100% less $5 when the appeal is received by the fifth instructional day of the quarter.
- Parking permit fees will be refunded at 50% when the permit is received the sixth instructional day through the twentieth calendar day of the quarter.
- Parking permit fees will not be refunded after the twentieth calendar day of the quarter.
Permit Revocation
Parking permits are the property of the college and may be revoked by the vice president of administrative services or his/her designee for any of the following reasons:
- when the purpose for which the permit was issued no longer exists;
- when a permit is used by an unauthorized individual;
- falsification on a parking permit application;
- counterfeiting or alteration of permits;
- repeated violation of parking and traffic regulations; or
- failure to comply with a final decision of the citation review committee or institutional hearing officer.
Parking permit revocations may be appealed to the citation review committee and to the institutional hearing officer.
Parking and Traffic Rules
Students, staff, and faculty may obtain parking on campus to the extent that spaces are available as follows:
- Student daytime parking is limited to areas designated student parking.
- Staff/faculty daytime parking is limited to areas designated staff/faculty parking.
- Temporary parking permit validity is limited to the areas designed in the issuance of the permit.
Lot designations by permit type are published on the Bellevue College website and parking map or issued with the permit. Special instructions on lot designation by permit type may be issued by the vice president of administrative services or his/her designee.
Parking within designated spaces
- No vehicle shall be parked on the campus except in those areas set aside and designated as parking areas.
- No vehicle shall be parked so as to occupy any portion of more than one parking space or stall as designated within the parking area. The fact that other vehicles may have been so parked as to require the vehicle parked to occupy a portion of more than one space or stall shall not constitute an excuse for a violation of this section.
- No vehicle shall be parked at any time in campus roadways, fire lanes, bus zones, loading zones, or service driveways; or on sidewalks; or in the landscaping except emergency vehicles and designated service vehicles.
Parking – operator's responsibility
No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first:
- Stopping the engine, locking the ignition and removing the key.
- Effectively setting the brake and transmission to prevent movement of the vehicle.
Motorcycles, bicycles And scooters
- Motorcycles, bicycles, and scooters are for the purpose of these regulations considered to be motor vehicles and are subject to all traffic and parking rules and regulations controlling other motor vehicles.
- Motorcycles and motorized scooters must be parked in designated areas.
- Motorcycles and motorized scooters are not permitted at any time on paths, sidewalks, or authorized bicycle or pedestrian areas, or in buildings at any time.
- Bicycles shall be parked in designated areas only. Improperly parked bicycles may be impounded and a citation and/or a fine imposed upon the owner. Public safety patrol bicycles are exempt.
- No bicycles or foot-propelled devices shall be operated on campus walkways, corridors, hallways, or in buildings unless their use is required as part of the educational process in an authorized program with the exception of designated emergency or campus operations vehicles.
No vehicles shall be operated on the campus at a speed in excess of 20 miles per hour or such lower speed as is reasonable and prudent in the circumstances.
Pedestrian's right of way
The operator of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping if need be, to yield to any pedestrian, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible or unsafe for the driver to yield. Pedestrians shall use sidewalks where sidewalks are provided.
Whenever any vehicle slows or stops so as to yield to pedestrian traffic, the operator of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the vehicle which has slowed or stopped to yield to pedestrian traffic.
Report of accident or theft
The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident on campus resulting in injury to or death of any person or total or claimed damage to either or both vehicles shall within 24 hours report such accident to public safety. This does not relieve any person involved in an accident from his/her responsibility to file a state of Washington motor vehicle accident report.
Students, faculty, staff, and visitors should report any thefts of or out of vehicles to public safety promptly.
Distribution of literature in parking lots
Distribution of unauthorized literature on motor vehicles parked on the premises of Bellevue College is hereby prohibited. Violators will be fined.
Literature includes but is not limited to:
- Pamphlets
- Flyers
- Stickers
Special parking and traffic regulations
During special occasions causing additional and/or heavy traffic and during emergencies, the director of public safety or his/her designee is authorized to impose additional traffic and parking regulations to achieve the specified objectives of this chapter.
Exceptions to parking and traffic restrictions
The regulations governing permits and parking within designated spaces shall not apply to the drivers of state-owned vehicles operated by Bellevue College in the performance of assigned functions.
Traffic Citations
Upon reasonable cause to believe that a violation of the parking and traffic rules and regulations has occurred, the vice president of administrative services and/or public safety may issue citations by affixing a copy in some prominent place or deliver by mail or electronic communications or by personal service.
Fines, penalties and impounding
- The current schedule and fines for parking and traffic violations shall be published by the college and made available for review on the public safety website.
- An individual receiving a parking and traffic citation must pay all fines listed on the citation or envelope notice by the deadline on the citation or envelope.
- If any citation remains unpaid after the deadline issued on the citation or envelope or after any appeal, Bellevue College may take additional actions including, but not limited to:
- withholding degrees, transcripts, grades, refunds, and/or credits;
- blocking or delaying registration for the following quarter;
- impounding the violator's vehicle;
- denying future parking privileges, whether student or faculty/staff;
- refusing to issue keys to students, faculty, or staff.
- sending the account to collections
- In addition to imposing fines, the vice president of administrative services and the director of public safety or his/her designees are authorized to impound, immobilize, and take to such place for storage as the director of public safety or his/her designee selects, any vehicles parked on college property in violation of these regulations, with the following stipulations:
- The expenses of impounding, immobilization, and storage shall be charged to the owner or operator of the vehicle and must be paid prior to the vehicle's release.
- The college shall not be liable for loss or damage of any kind resulting from impounding, immobilization, or storage.
- Impoundment of a vehicle does not remove the obligation for any fines associated with the violation(s).
- Grounds for impounding vehicles shall include but not be limited to the following:
- blocking a roadway so as to impede the flow of traffic;
- blocking a walkway so as to impede the flow of pedestrian traffic;
- blocking a fire hydrant or fire lane;
- creating a safety hazard in the opinion of a public safety officer;
- blocking another legally parked vehicle;
- parking in a marked "tow away" zone.
- An accumulation of traffic violations or severe infractions by a student or employee will be cause for disciplinary action, and the vice president of administrative services or his/her designee may initiate disciplinary proceedings against such students or employees.
Appeal of fines and penalties
Right to appeal. Anyone who has received a citation for an alleged violation of these parking and traffic rules has the right to appeal. Appeals must be made in writing and must be submitted to the public safety office by the deadline listed on the citation or envelope.
If the alleged violator has paid the fine(s) associated with the parking and traffic citation, he/she has forfeited the right to appeal the citation.
citation review committee. Appeals shall be considered by the Bellevue College citation review committee, which is made up of two students (one the ASG chief justice), a faculty representative and a classified staff representative. The citation review committee shall hold hearings regularly throughout the academic year. The committee shall consider each appeal on its merits based upon these parking and traffic regulations. Appellants shall be notified of the hearing dates so that they may state their cases and present any additional evidence in person. The committee shall decide the cases of appellants who do not attend the hearing in person based on the statements given on the appeal form, with no penalty for non-appearance. Appellants who do not attend the hearing shall be sent written notification of the committee's decision.
The citation review committee may uphold, reduce, or waive the fine(s) associated with a parking and traffic citation. Any fine(s) still levied against the appellant must be paid within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date of the hearing unless the appellant wishes to pursue a second-level appeal. Non-payment after fifteen (15) calendar days may result in any of the college actions listed above.
Second Level Appeal. An appellant who is not satisfied with the decision of the citation review committee has the right to a second-level appeal before the institutional hearing officer appointed by the president of Bellevue College. The appellant must contact the institutional hearing officer within fifteen (15) calendar days after the citation review committee hearing to request a second-level appeal. The institutional hearing officer shall notify the appellant of his/her decision in writing. The institutional hearing officer's decision is final.
Any appellant who has paid the fine(s) confirmed or set by the citation review committee has forfeited the right to a second-level appeal.
- The board of trustees of Bellevue College, Community College District VIII, state of Washington.
- Any or all real property owned, operated, controlled, or maintained by Bellevue College, Community College District VIII, state of Washington.
- Faculty, staff, or students who commute to the college in the same vehicle in a group number deemed efficient to the objectives of this policy as determined by the vice president of administrative services.
- Bellevue College or any additional community college hereafter established within Community College District VIII, state of Washington, and collectively, those responsible for its control and operations.
Faculty members
- Any employee of Bellevue College, Community College District VIII who is employed on a full-time or part-time basis as a teacher, counselor, librarian, or other position for which the training, experience, and responsibilities are comparable as determined by the appointing authority, including administrative appointment.
Foot propelled device
- Wheeled devices including but not limited to skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, etc., designed or used for recreation and/or transportation purposes.
Public Safety Officers
- Employees of the college accountable to the vice president of administrative services and responsible for campus security, safety, and parking and traffic control.
- The administrative and classified members employed by the college.
- Any person enrolled in the college.
- An automobile, truck, motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle, both engine-powered and non-engine-powered.
- Persons who come onto campus as guests or who lawfully visit the campus for purposes in keeping with the college's role as an institution of higher learning in the state of Washington and are neither employees nor registered students of the institution.
Relevant Laws and Other Resources
- The motor vehicle and other traffic laws of the state of Washington
- The traffic code of the city of Bellevue
- The Bellevue College parking and traffic regulations
In case of conflict among the provision of the motor vehicle and other traffic laws of the state of Washington or the traffic code of the City of Bellevue and the Bellevue College parking and traffic regulations, the provisions of the state of Washington motor vehicle laws shall govern.
Revision History
Original 6/11/1992
Revisions 1/11/2004; 5/10/2005; 5/21/2009; 11/30/2011; 9/17/2012; 5/13/2015
Approved By
All College Council
Board of Trustees
President's Cabinet
Last Updated May 13, 2015