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The JCC on the Hudson's 85th Anniversary Community Celebration on June 2nd was capped by an emotional dinner at which honoree Stan Stone, of Ardsley, blew the shofar, and JCC Board Chair Michael Maron, of Dobbs Ferry, announced the start of a "$1 Million in 8 Weeks" campaign to complete the $7 million needed to secure funding to build the JCC's much anticipated new 75,000 square foot, 6.6 acre campus.
"The JCC is one of the portals, one of the gates that provide access to the Jewish community and to a greater Jewish involvement and identity in the Rivertowns," said Rabbi Barry Kenter, of The Greenburgh Hebrew Center. "It is a vital piece in the mosaic that is the Jewish community of the Rivertowns. In its success, we will all be more successful."
The golf and tennis event, held at the Elmwood Country Club in White Plains, celebrated the strength of the Rivertowns Jewish consortium by honoring ten who represent the generations of volunteers committed to building Jewish continuity.
"Generation to Generation," honored Jodi Shapiro and Meyer Grodestsky of the JCC on the Hudson; Ita Giventer and Shmuel Winograd of Rosh Pinah Chavurah; Ariel and Mark Polisar of Temple Beth Abraham; Maya and Dale Glasser of The Woodlands Community Temple; and Stephanie Luftig and Stan Stone of the Greenburgh Hebrew Center.
The JCC on the Hudson, located in Tarrytown, has been part of the community for 85 years, and is as relevant today as it was when it opened its doors in 1929. Last year, the JCC provided nearly 400 hours of counseling, educational workshops, and referral services; daily childcare programs for more than 200 children; day camp for 350 children; social and recreational programming for more than 500 adults and seniors, and programming for more than 150 family members with developmental disabilities.
For information about the "$1 Million in 8 Weeks," campaign, please contact the JCC at (914) 366-7898 or visit www.jcconthehudson.org.


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MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006 -- (Senate - September 28, 2006)
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I have here before me the Department of Army regulations and rules for interrogating prisoners. In the document I have here, which is the official military document to define permissible interrogation techniques, it outlines certain interrogations which are prohibited and it lists these: forcing the person to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner; applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain; waterboarding; using dogs; inducing hypothermia or heat injury; conducting mock executions; depriving the person of necessary food, water, and medical care.
Those techniques are prohibited by the Department of Defense. Those techniques are prohibited from being used against adversaries in any kind of a conflict, blatant violations the requirement for humane treatment, and what I would consider to be torture. Certainly the Army and Department of Defense have effectively found that out that these techniques do not work. They have banned them and there has not been any objection to it.
What does our amendment say? Well, it says we in the United States are not going to tolerate those techniques if any of our military personnel are captured. But not all of the people who are representing the United States in the war on terror are wearing a uniform. For example, we have SEALs, we have some special operations, special forces, we have CIA agents. We have contractors and aid workers. We have more people around the world looking out after our security interests than any other country in the world.
What does this amendment say? Well, if our military personnel are not going to do this those we capture, we are saying to countries around the world: You cannot do this against any American personnel you are going to capture in this war on terror, or in any other conflict. This amendment is about protecting American personnel who are involved in the war on terror. It is saying to foreign countries: If you use any of these techniques, the United States will say this is a war crime and you will be held accountable. How can anybody be against that? This administration has sown confusion about our commitments to the Geneva Conventions, so that protection does not exist now. That protection does not exist now. Restoring that protection is basically what this amendment is all about.
I am not going to take much time, but I just want to remind our colleagues about how we viewed some of these techniques in our conflicts in previous wars.
On the issue of waterboarding, the United States charged Yukio Asano, a Japanese officer on May 1 to 28, 1947, with war crimes. The offenses were recounted by John Henry Burton, a civilian victim:
After taking me down into the hallway they laid me out on a stretcher and strapped me on. The stretcher was then stood on end with my head almost touching the floor and my feet in the air. They then began pouring water over my face and at times it was impossible for me to breathe without sucking in water. The torture continued and continued. Yukio Asano was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. We punished people with fifteen years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II.
What about the case of Matsukichi Muta, another Japanese officer, tried on April 15 to 25, 1947, for, among other charges, causing a prisoner to receive shocks of electricity and beating prisoners. Shocks of electricity. He was sentenced to death by hanging. Death by hanging. We could go on.
In another case prosecuted from March 3 to April 30, 1948--the Japanese officer was sentenced for exposing prisoners to extreme cold temperatures, forcing them to spend long periods of time in the nude, making the prisoner stand in the cold for long periods of time, hour after hour, throwing water on him and inducing hypothermia. This officer received 15 years of hard labor. Fifteen years.
We didn't tolerate those abuses, and we should not tolerate those abuses inflicted on any Americans who are going to be taken in the war on terror. That is what this amendment is all about. It will tell the Secretary of State to notify every signatory from 194 nations, that if any of their governments are going to use any of these techniques on any Americans that are taken in this war on terror, that we will consider this a violation of the Geneva Conventions and that they will be accountable.
This is to protect our servicemen and servicewomen, those who are in the intelligence agencies, those performing dangerous duties, those who are not wearing the uniform in their battle against terror. We are putting everyone on notice.
We did not make up this list. All these techniques are taken right out of the Defense Department's code of conduct for interrogations.
I would take more time and review for my colleagues, where we tried individuals in World War II and sentenced individuals who performed these kinds of abuses on Americans to long periods of incarceration and even to death.
I reserve the remainder of my time.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, it will be quite surprising to me if the Senate is not prepared to accept this amendment. I look back at the time that we actually passed the War Crimes Act of 1996. At that time it was offered by Walter B. Jones, a Republican Congressman. It was offered in response to our Vietnam experience, where American servicemen--including one of our own colleagues and dear friends, Senator McCain--had been subject to torture during that period of time.
When this matter came up, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, it passed in the Senate of the United States without a single objection. It passed the House by voice vote. This is what it says, under War Crimes, chapter 118:
Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime .....
And it talks about the circumstances--
..... as a member of the armed forces of the United States or a national United States. It is in Title 18 so those out of uniform are subject to the code.
So that is the CIA. Those are the SEALS. Those are the people involved now in our war on terror. Then it continues along to define a war crime as a violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. That provision protects against cruel treatment and torture. It prevents the taking of hostages. It prohibits outrages upon personal dignity. Those are effectively the kinds of protections that act affords.
We heard a great deal from the administration, from the President, that he wanted specificity in the War Crimes Act and the Geneva Conventions in terms of what is permitted and what is not permitted. He felt those terms are too vague. Well, on that he is right. There is confusion in the world. There is confusion in the world about our commitment to the Geneva Conventions and what we think it means. There is a good deal of confusion in the world in the wake of what happened at Abu Ghraib. There we found out that these harsh interrogation techniques had been used. Sure, we have had 10 different reviews of what happened over there. What we always find out is it is the lower lights, the corporals and the sergeants who are the ones being tried and convicted. Those in the higher ranks are not. No one has stood up and said clearly, those are violations of the Geneva Conventions. So we have Abu Ghraib, which all of us remember. And it has caused confusion.
We have the circumstances in Guantanamo--the conduct of General Miller, who brought these harsh interrogation techniques to Guantanamo at Secretary Rumsfeld's direction. When the Armed Services Committee questioned his whole standard of conduct, he moved toward early retirement to avoid coming up and facing the music. This caused confusion about our commitments to the Geneva Conventions.
Then you had the Bybee memorandum, which was effectively the rule of law for some 2 years, which permitted torture, any kind of torture, and it said that any individual who is going to be involved in torturing would be absolved from any kind of criminality if the purpose of their abusing any individual was to get information and there was no specific intent to have bodily harm for that individual. This caused confusion about our commitments to the Geneva Conventions.
That was the Bybee amendment. Finally, Attorney General Gonzales had to repudiate that or he never would have been approved as the Attorney General of the United States. That is the record in the Judiciary Committee. I sat through those hearings. I heard the Attorney General say they were repudiating the Bybee memorandum on that.
This is against a considerable background of where we have seen some extraordinary abuses.
Then we have tried to clarify our commitment. We have the action in the Senate of the United States, by a vote of 90 to 9, accepting Senator McCain's Amendment to prohibit cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment; to make the Army Field Manual the law of the land; to say we are not interested in torture. Senator McCain understands. He believes that waterboarding is torture. He believes using dogs is torture. This is not complicated. We don't have to cause confusion. We have it written down on this list of prohibited techniques. It is not my list of prohibited techniques, but it is written down by the Department of Defense. This amendment says if a foreign country is going to practice these kinds of behavior against an American national who is out there in the war on terror and is being picked up, we are going to consider this to be a war crime. This is about protecting Americans.
I don't understand the hesitancy on the other side, not being willing to accept this amendment. Let's go on the record about what we say is absolutely prohibited and what we know has been favored techniques that have been used by our adversaries at other times. Let's go on the record for clarity.
Looking back in history, at the end of World War II and otherwise, we are all familiar with the different examples where these techniques--frighteningly familiar to the series of techniques used in Iraq and Guantanamo--and are often frequently used against Americans.
I am reminded--I gave illustrations: electric shocks, waterboarding, hypothermia, heat injury. We all remember the 52 American hostages who were held in the U.S. Embassy in Iran. They were subjected to the mock executions.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has used 5 minutes.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I hope we could accept this amendment. I yield myself 1 more minute.
It basically incorporates what the Senate did several years ago with war crimes. It is trying to respond to what the President says. He wants specificity about what is going to be prohibited and what will not be.
The Department of Defense has found these areas to be off limits for the military. All we are saying is if other countries are going to do that to Americans, they are going to be held accountable.
This is about protecting Americans. That is the least we ought to be able to do for those who are risking their lives in very difficult circumstances.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I yield myself 4 minutes.
Mr. President, I want to point out why this is so necessary and so essential.
In reviewing the underlying legislation, if you look under the provisions dealing with definitions on page 70 and 71, and then read on, you will find that it is difficult to read that without having a sense of the kind of vagueness which I think surrounds prohibited interrogation techniques. It talks about substantial risks and extreme physical pain. But the statute does not have specifics to define the areas which are prohibited. The techniques in my amendment are the same ones the Department of the Army and, to my best knowledge, our colleague and friend from Arizona has identified. Voting for my amendment would provide those specifics.
The President has asked for specificity, but he has refused to say whether Common Article 3 would prohibit these kinds of acts. That has left the world doubting our commitment to Common Article 3 and has endangered our people around the globe--those who are working for the United States in the war on terror.
The administration's obfuscation comes at a great risk.
This amendment provides the clarity and sends a message to the world that these techniques are prohibited. They are prohibited from our military bringing them to bear on any combatants. We interpret the legislation so that any country in the world that has signed on to the Geneva Conventions, any of those countries that are going to practice activities prohibited by the field manual, that I consider to be torture, are going to be held by the United States interrogation committing a war crime. This is important. It is essential. It is necessary.
The general concept was improved without objection a number of years ago in the wake of the Vietnam situation, regarding the definition of war crimes. We ought to restate and recommit ourselves to protecting Americans involved in the war on terror and ensure they will not be subject to these activities.
At the present time, without this amendment, it will be left open. If we accept this amendment, it would make it clear it is prohibited. That is what we should do.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I would like to inquire of the Senator from Virginia, and I yield myself 3 minutes. As I understand, one of the reasons this amendment is being rejected is because of the burden that it is going to place on our State Department to notify the 194 countries that we expect, if these techniques are used against Americans, they would be considered a war crime. That is a possible difficulty for us? That is a burden for our State Department? Or, rather is he objecting because, we can't foresee all of the different kinds of techniques that might be used against individuals and therefore we shouldn't list these. We list them in the Army Field Manual specifically. They are not pulled out of the air; they are listed specifically in the Army Field Manual. That is where they come from. And a number of the Members on the other side of the aisle have said that those techniques are prohibited. So we have taken the Department of Defense list and incorporated it.
Then the last argument is that: Well, if it is rejected, we don't want this to be interpreted as a green light for these techniques. There must be stronger arguments. Maybe I am missing something around here. With all respect, I have difficulty in understanding why the Senator from Virginia, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, does not address the fundamental issue which is included in this amendment, and that is this amendment protects Americans who are out on the front lines of the war on terror, the SEALS, the CIA, others who are fighting, and it gives warning to any country: You go ahead with any of these techniques and you are committing a war crime and will be held accountable.
Now, if I could get a good answer to that, I would welcome it, but I haven't heard it yet. With all respect, I just haven't heard why the Senator is refusing and effectively denying--opposition to this amendment is denying that kind of protection. I read, and it was when the Senator was here, when we found out that similar kinds of techniques were used against Americans in World War II, and we sentenced offenders to 10, 15 years and even executed some. Now we are saying: Oh, no, we can't list those because it is going to be a bother to our State Department, notifying these countries. My, goodness.
There has to be a better reason that we are not going to protect our service men and women from these kinds of techniques. We are saying to those countries: If you use these techniques, you are a war criminal. What are those techniques? They are in the Department of Defense listing. That is what they are. How often are they used? I gave the illustrations of how they were used repeatedly, whether it has been by Iran or whether it has been by Japan, or any of our adversaries in any other war.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has consumed 3 minutes.
Mr. KENNEDY. I yield myself 1 minute. I want to put in the RECORD the excellent letter from Jack Vessey, who is a distinguished former Joint Chief of Staff:
I continue to read and hear that we are facing a different enemy in the war on terror. No matter how true that may be, inhumanity and cruelty are not new to warfare nor to enemies we have faced in the past. In my short 46 years in the armed forces, Americans confronted the horrors of the prison camps of the Japanese in World War II, the North Koreans in 1950 to 1953, and the North Vietnamese in the long years of the Vietnam War, as well as knowledge of the Nazi's holocaust depredations in World War II. Through those years, we held to our own values. We should continue to do so.
The Kennedy amendment does it. That is what this amendment is about. I reserve the remainder of my time
Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, my distinguished colleague used two phrases just now. He said: Burden. He used the word burden. He then said the word bother. Senator, you walk straight into the constitutional separation of powers in your language and you say: The Secretary of State shall--that is a direct order--notify other parties to the Geneva Conventions. You are putting a direct order to the executive branch. I say that is a transgression of the long constitutional history of this country and the doctrine of separation of powers.
Mr. KENNEDY. Would the Senator support it if we changed it to ``shall,'' that you, the chairman of our committee, will make that request and the President will go ahead and notify and follow those instructions?
Mr. WARNER. Senator, I am not in the business of trying to amend your amendment.
Mr. KENNEDY. I am just trying to accommodate you. You are saying that this is a constitutional issue. I just offered to try to accommodate the Chairman so we can ensure we are protecting American servicemen from torture--from torture. And the response is: Well, it is going to violate the Constitution. I am interested in getting results.
But I hear the Senator say that it is unconstitutional that my amendment says Department of State shall notify other countries that if they are going to torture, they are going to be held accountable, and we are being defeated on the floor of the U.S. Senate because the opponents are saying that is unconstitutional and we cannot find a way to do it. I find this unwillingness to compromise is outrageous.
Mr. President, I am prepared to call the roll on this one.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, here is the Army Manual of 2006 printed after the Senate of the United States went on record in accepting the McCain amendment prohibiting torture. In the printed Army Manual is a list of the prohibited activities where any person who is a member of the Defense Department is prohibited to engage in these kinds of activities because they have made a finding that they are basically and effectively torture.
Today we have thousands of Americans in the Central Intelligence Agency, Special Forces, the SEALS, and American contractors working for the CIA around the world fighting terrorism. All this amendment does is give notice to each and every country that any country that is going to practice these kinds of techniques on any American will be guilty effectively of a war crime.
That is effectively what we have done with the Army Manual, and we ought to protect our intelligence agency personnel, our SEALS, and all of those who are all over the world protecting the United States.
Arguments against? It is a violation of the Constitution because it is an instruction to a member of the Cabinet about what they ought to do.
Here it is for airports. The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct an assessment with foreign countries.
Here it is on voting rights. The Attorney General is authorized and directed to institute suits that are going to be involved in poll taxes.
The Secretary of State shall notify without delay foreign states that are involved in pollution. The list goes on. If we can do it for pollution, we can do it for violation of basic and fundamental rights of Americans overseas.
This is effectively about what we adopted when we adopted the War Crimes Act, which was virtually unanimous, with not a single vote in opposition.
This is basically a restatement. I hope it will be accepted overwhelmingly.
Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, in times of war, our obligation is to protect our Nation and to protect those men and women who risk their lives to defend us. This bill fails that duty. By failing to renounce torture, it inflames an already dangerous world and makes new enemies for America in our war against terror. This puts cause or people and our troops at greater risk. That is why so many respected military leaders oppose this bill.
Throughout our history, America has led the world in promoting human rights and decency. We have fought wars against tyranny and oppression. Our enemies have employed tactics that were rightly and roundly condemned by the civilized world. We maintained American strength and honor by refusing to stoop to the level of our enemies. And we should not stoop to the level of the terrorists in the war on terror.
I rise to express my profound opposition to this bill both in terms of its substance and the procedure by which it reached the floor. The Armed Service Committee reported out a bill that I supported. That bill was not perfect, but it preserved our commitment to the Geneva Conventions, limited the possibility that detainees would be treated abusively and set up procedures for military tribunals that generally respected the fundamental requirements of fairness.
Republican members of the Armed Services Committee then began a process of secret negotiation with the White House that produced a bill that is far worse than the committee bill. Indeed, we have continued to see changes in that bill as it has been moved toward the floor in a rush to achieve passage before the Senate recesses for the election. This rush to passage to serve a political agenda is no way to produce careful and thoughtful legislation on profound issues of national security and civil liberties. At this point, most Members of this body hardly know what they are being asked to approve.
The bill as it now appears on the floor works profound and disastrous changes in our law.
This legislation sets out an overly broad definition of unlawful enemy combatant. This definition would allow the President to pick up anyone citizen and legal residents included anywhere around the world, and throw them into prison in Guantanamo without even charging or trying them. These people would never get a day in court to prove their innocence. There is no check whatsoever on the President's ability to detain people in an arbitrary manner.
We already know that our military has made mistakes in detaining people. We are currently holding dozens of people at Guanatanamo who we know based on the military's own records are not guilty of anything. Yet they have not been let go.
This legislation also makes a distinction between citizens and lawful permanent residents. Citizens cannot be subject to military commissions and their flawed procedures. Yet lawful permanent residents, those green card holders who are on the path to citizenship, could be sent to military commissions. Green Card holders must obey our laws, pay taxes, and register for the draft. They are serving our country in Iraq. They have an obligation to protect our laws, and they deserve the protection of those same laws.
The Geneva Conventions were adopted in the wake of the horrific atrocities during World War II. These conventions reflect the international consensus on how individuals should be treated in times of war. They set a minimum floor of humane treatment for all prisoners, military and civilian alike. This floor is known as Common Article 3 because it is common to all of the conventions. Yet this bill also gives the President authority to decide what conduct violates Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Again, the President's authority to define the meaning of Common Article 3 is virtually unreviewable. He is required to publish his interpretation in the Federal Register, but the administration has already made clear that it will not make public which interrogation tactics are being used. Moreover, the bill expressly states that the Geneva Conventions cannot be relied upon in any U.S. court as a source of rights. The President's interpretation may well likely escape judicial review, as well.
As the final method of concealing its activities, the administration has stripped the courts of their ability to review the confinement or treatment of detainees. The administration won a provision that eliminates the ability of any detainee anywhere in the world to file a habeas corpus petition challenging the justification for or conditions of his or her confinement. The provision applies to all existing petitions and would require their dismissal, including the Hamdan case itself. There is no justification for stripping courts of jurisdiction to issue the great writ of habeas corpus, which has been a foundation of our legal system with roots in the Magna Carta. The availability of the Great Writ is assured in the Constitution itself, which permits its suspension only in times of invasion or rebellion. This provision of the bill is most likely unconstitutional.
The administration has pursued a strategy to defeat accountability since it first began to take detainees into custody. It chose Guantanamo and secret prisons abroad because it thought U.S. law would not apply. It fought hard to prevent detainees from obtaining counsel and then argued that U.S. Courts lacked jurisdiction to hear detainees' complaints. It sought the prohibition on habeas corpus petitions adopted in the Detainee Treatment Act and then urged courts to misconstrue it to wipe out all pending habeas cases. This new effort to prohibit habeas petitions is a continuation of this effort to escape judicial scrutiny.
The bill also for the first time in our history would authorize the introduction of evidence obtained by torture in a judicial proceeding. Our courts have always rejected this type of evidence because it is inconsistent with fundamental notions of justice, and also because it is unreliable. We know that detainees were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, and made statements as a result. Under this legislation, if those statements were made before the passage of the McCain Amendment last winter, then they are admissible. The Congress is saying for the first time in our nation's history that statements obtained by torture are admissible. This fact, alone, is a stunning statement about how far we have strayed from our bedrock values.
It defines conduct that can be prosecuted as a war crime in a very narrow way that appears designed to exclude many of the abusive interrogation practices that this administration has employed. While some have argued that cruel and inhumane practices such as waterboarding, induced hypothermia and sleep deprivation would surely be covered, the White House and the Republican leadership have refused to commit to this basic interpretation of the bill.
We tried to improve this bill. A number of amendments were offered and should have been adopted. I offered an amendment that responds to the lack of clarity about which practices are prohibited by the bill. Because the administration has refused to commit itself to stop using specific abusive interrogation procedures, our commitment to the standards of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is in doubt. That puts our own people at risk. As military leaders have repeatedly stated, our adherence to the Geneva Conventions is essential to protect our own people around the world. America has thousands of people across the globe who do not wear uniforms, but put their lives on the line to protect this country every day. CIA agents, Special Forces members, contractors, journalists and others will all be less safe if we turn our backs on the standards of Common Article 3.
The bill as it has reached the floor would diminish the security and safety of Americans everywhere and further erode our civil liberties. I strongly oppose this bill.

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Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright Have Finished Writing 'The World's End'
by Ethan Anderton
April 24, 2012
Source: Twitter
Earlier this year, the final installment of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, also known as the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy, started making the journey towards the big screen with respective Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz star and director Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright beginning the writing process. The World's End has been anticipated for some time, and now just a few months after their announcement, Pegg has revealed that the script is finally finished. With a photo of the title page of the script (which appears to be the second draft), and a promise of production after Star Trek 2, it's time for the apocalypse!
Here's the photo which Simon Pegg posted on his personal Twitter page:
While to American readers it might seem like the script was finished in the future on May 2nd of this year, European dates are flipped, so the script was actually completed on February 5th of this year. Pegg's photo was accompanied by the tweet, "I know we took our sweet time but as soon as I get back from outer space, we can finish this thing once and for all." So once Pegg is all finished with his acting responsibilities on J.J. Abrams' Star Trek sequel, it sounds like The World's End will start shooting then. I'd imagine that the film should be in front of cameras by this fall, maybe this winter at the latest. I can't wait. How about you?
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 stunned the markets because few realized the firm's dire troubles until shortly before its bankruptcy filing. That, in large part, was because of how Lehman interpreted the accounting rules that should have given us a clue.
In the five years since, accounting rule makers and regulators have moved, slowly, to keep another Lehman from happening. Unfortunately for them – and us – as soon as they write new rules, another aggressive company finds a way to use them to its advantage. And all of this is apparently legal.
Lehman's magic revolved around a narrow, complex area of finance: its use of repurchase agreements, or "repos." These are deals in which a company needs cash on a short-term basis to pay bills or some similar corporate use. To get it, the company "sells" assets, such as stocks or bonds, and agrees to repurchase them very soon after at a higher price. In essence, it's a short-term loan with collateral, and the majority of repos are reflected on a company's balance sheet as a borrowing.
Lehman, however, accounted for these transactions as if it had sold the stocks and bonds it put up as collateral. It then took the repo proceeds and paid down other borrowings on its balance sheet just as the financial quarter ended. As a result, the company looked smaller and less-leveraged when it reported its earnings. By $50-billion (U.S.).
In order to justify this, Lehman seized on an example provided by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, in its rules for repurchase agreements. The accounting standard said a repo is still a borrowing, not a sale, when the company still has "effective control" of the collateral. In attempting to illustrate what it meant by "effective control," the FASB said that if the value of the collateral was between 98 per cent and 102 per cent of the loan, an agreement would "typically fall clearly within that guideline."
While FASB chairman Robert Herz later told Congress the example was not intended to "create a bright line," Lehman's genius was to draw one anyway. Lehman went outside that range and provided collateral of 105 per cent to 108 per cent of the loan, and argued that, since it hadn't received enough money to buy back all the collateral, it no longer had "effective control," and the repo was a sale, not a loan.
It is noteworthy that the story of Lehman's innovative "Repo 105" accounting came not from an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but from the examiner hired by the bankruptcy court overseeing Lehman's reorganization, in April, 2010. SEC chairman Mary Schapiro was forced to tell Congress that her agency didn't know whether Lehman had followed the accounting rules, but "if there is a loophole, we'll cut it off." (To my way of thinking, it was incredible that the staff of the SEC ultimately could not agree whether Lehman's repo activity was "material," or important to investors, according to a recent New York Times article. No executives were ever charged.)
The FASB acted by drafting a rule that removed the ability to repurchase assets from the consideration of whether a repo was a sale. It went into effect in April, 2011. And the conventional wisdom was that no one could again interpret the repo rules like Lehman did.
And then, within six months, a firm called MF Global illustrated a new way to use repo accounting to shrink its balance sheet. MF Global used what are called "repo-to-maturity" arrangements to invest in European debt. MF Global bought the bonds, then used them as collateral for repo loans that matured the same day the bonds did. Even though MF Global bore risk that the European sovereign debt would shrink in value, the company treated the bonds as sold, booking gains (presumably), and moved them off its balance sheet. All $14.5-billion of them.
So, last January, about 14 months after MF Global filed for bankruptcy, the FASB once again proposed changes to repo accounting. It took comments from the public through the end of March. Any new rule is, one assumes, forthcoming.Report Typo/Error
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New CLASP Paper Looks at State Child Care Policies for Limited English Proficient Families
Nov 02, 2012
CLASP's new paper, State Child Care Policies for Limited English Proficient Families, summarizes state-reported activities to better serve and engage with Limited English Proficient (LEP) families and providers through state child care assistance programs. Every two years the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the largest source of federal funding for child care assistance available to states, requires each state to submit a plan describing how it will use CCDBG funds to improve the quality of child care for all children and help low-income families access child care. The CCDBG State Plans, last revised for FFY 2012-2013, serve as the source of new information on how states' activities and policies target LEP and immigrant families, children, and providers.
CLASP's paper finds that some of the most commonly reported activities used to reach out to LEP families and providers include:
- offering bilingual caseworkers or translators for parents and providers;
- providing informational materials about child care assistance in non-English languages;
- offering child care assistance applications in languages besides English; and
- covering English language development in state early learning guidelines for English language Learners (ELLs).
Eleven states-Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin-responded as having 10 or more of the policies or activities that the CCDBG State Plans outlined as relating to child care assistance and ELLs and their families. Each of these policies takes a step toward helping states and communities work with providers who speak non-English languages and serve children from families that are limited English proficient.
CLASP provides recommendations on how states can better support LEP families and providers through state child care policies. These recommendations include:
- implementing a language access plan to ensure effective communication with LEP families;
- providing funding for bilingual staff and translation and interpretation services;
- ensuring that basic training is available in multiple languages through community-based providers; and
- revising early learning guidelines to stress the importance of both first and second language acquisition for ELLs.
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>> The mystery just gets more mysterious: Chanel Iman and singer/producer Ryan Leslie have been spotted out publicly together twice in the past two weeks, most recently last night at the VIBE anniversary party, where she arrived on Leslie's arm. The two are reportedly just friends, and Chanel told Fashion Week Daily of Leslie, who was performing: "I'm just here to support him."
Only thing is, pictures popped up of the two together again this evening, dining at DaSilvano. No doubt about it, something is going on. If the two aren't dating, is Chanel working on an album? Ryan did discover and make singer/model Cassie, after all . . .
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Spend Canada's 145th birthday at the Art Gallery of Alberta! It's fun for the whole family and it's FREE! Take in our current exhibitions that feature Canadian artists like Alex Janvier, the Automatistes from Quebec and local abstract artists. There are art activities for all ages taking place throughout the day.
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Friday night's Brown vs. Gold intrasquad swimming and diving dual became an instant classic when the Gold team edged the Brown team 242-232 at Corbett Pool.
Following the first 24 events of the dual, both teams were tied with 220 team points. The Gold men and women both won the 400 freestyle relay to claim the win. The men's relay was decided by just .35 seconds, giving the Gold team the edge in the dual.
"This was a great meet. It is unbelievable how close these two teams were. If the Brown men could have won the last relay, the meet would have ended in a tie which is amazing. The Gold men won that last relay, and in turn the meet, by just .35 of a second," said UW swimming and diving coach Tom Johnson.
Winning individual events for the Gold women's team was senior Heidi Thorson in the 50 (24.49) and 100 freestyle (53.49), freshman Olena Moher in the 200 IM (2:14.81), junior Brittany Wainwright in 1-meter diving (269.30), junior Rachel Leyes in the 200 backstroke (2:13.76) and senior Erin Spadinger in the 200 breaststroke (2:27.13). First place finishers for the Gold men included freshman Robbie Hilton in the 1000 freestyle (10:11.58), sophomore Eli Bell in the 200 freestyle (1:46.10), junior Sam King in the 200 backstroke (1:57.00) and senior John Lynch in the 1-meter (305.00) and 3-meter (316.70) diving events.
Sophomore Aimee Stinson led the Brown team with first place finishes in three separate events. Stinson won the 200 freestyle (1:56.49), 500 freestyle (5:16.11) and 1000 freestyle (10:59.63) in the losing effort. Other winners included freshman Kari Budd in the 200 butterfly (2:10.23) and senior Saara Haapanen in 3-meter diving (298.05). Brown men who claimed event victories included freshman Can Ince in the 50 (22.00) and 100 freestyles (48.24), senior Dan Jones in the 200 IM (1:57.66), senior Ron Fogel in the 200 butterfly (1:58.27), senior Nick King in the 500 freestyle (4:48.60), and sophomore Alex Larkin in the 200 breaststroke (2:10.09).
The Gold team won three of four relays on the night including the women's 400 medley and freestyle relays and the men's 400 freestyle relay.
"There was some great racing and enthusiasm tonight," added Johnson. "These kids haven't raced for a while and it showed in some areas but definitely not in their enthusiasm and excitement. I am pleased with how we are progressing as a team and I am excited that we get to race for real next weekend."
The swimming and diving program will open its regular season next weekend when they travel to Colorado State for the Early Bird Invite. The meet will run from Fri., Oct. 20 through Sat., Oct. 21 at Moby Pool in Ft. Collins, Colo.


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5) 5'11" × 18¾" × 2½" The odds are pretty slim that you've seen a Sunflower surfboard at your home break. That's because Ellis Ericson doesn't have a factory, a distribution deal, or even a regular shaping bay. "I've been trying to travel the way that a lot of surfers used to, where you shape a few boards wherever you can along the way to help fund your trip," says Ellis. "Sometimes people hit me up looking for a board, and I just shape it when I get to their part of the world in whatever shaping bay I can use. It's been fun. It gives me something to do when the waves are bad."
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"I've been trying to work with this twin-fin setup. It's generally one of the fastest fin setups you can have, but I've been trying to calm it down and get a little more control with that stabilizer fin. I was talking to Neal Purchase Jr. a lot about twin-fins because he makes a really good board called the Quartet, which is basically like an MR twin with tiny little quad trailers. He rips on them. I'm not great at riding them because I grew up on a thruster, relying on that center pivot point, so I've been trying to make a three-fin version of the twin-fin. It's getting there. It still feels a little tracky and squirrely from time to time, but it's so fast down the line. You can't beat that twin-fin glide down the line."
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"This is the Bonzer I was talking about. I didn't shape this one, but it's pretty much been my favorite board for the past year and I think about it a lot in the shaping bay. I'd never really gotten into Bonzers, but I knew that I had to try one, so I looked on Craigslist while I was in California and found one for a hundred bucks. I took it over to Indo and surfed Deserts and Keramas on it, and it was magic. I was just shocked. It has that '80s feel and definitely that '80s tan. But I buckled it in Indo and gave it to the Bali repair guys, and they're pretty notorious for altering boards mid-repair. They laid the resin on really thick and it rides totally different now. The Indonesians really fucked with the Campbell brothers' theorem."
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"I made this to ride Sunset because I was out there last year and Joel Tudor saw me and said, 'Dude, why are you riding such a small board?' And I was like, 'It's a 7'2″! That's plenty big, right?' He laughed and told me that you should ride an 8-foot board at minimum at Sunset. But I was in Indo afterward and could only get this 7'10" banana-rocker mini-mal blank. I had to flatten it all out to get that '70s-style entry rocker, but it turned out to be pretty fun. I've actually ridden this in small waves more than in big waves because Sunset hasn't really done its thing yet, and I'm no big-wave hellman to begin with. It will be interesting when Sunset turns on, for sure, because it's about 3″ thick and I definitely can't duckdive it. I guess I'll just be bailing. I asked the glassers in Indo for no leash plug, so as a joke they put in two."
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"The true inspiration for this one was actually a photo I saw on Mikala Jones' Instagram of a Curren 5'0″ four-channel that he has at his house. It looked so awesome. I just really love the four-channel thrusters, and I love what Curren was doing with his bottom turns when he was riding those, so I decided to try to replicate that. I know nothing about that actual board, really. I haven't held it or even seen it in person, so I was just going off that tiny photo on Instagram and the few other photos I could find of that shape."


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The Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia jointly utilize the Kura and Araks rivers, and they share common problems related to municipal, agricultural, and industrial river pollution. These rivers supply water for direct human use, so that both social and economic development in the region is related to both the quality and quantity of water resources. Political instability in the region may be exacerbated by water disputes, which establish a link between maintaining a viable, high-quality freshwater resource and future regional stability.
Click here for a more detailed regional mapMonitoring and management of transboundary water resources are complex problems in any region of the world. The problem in the case of the KuraAraks river system is complicated by the fact that, for all practical purposes, the system of information exchange has broken down, having declined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Soviet studies from the 1950s through the 1980s monitored water quality and stream discharge, but these projects do not exist anymore. There are presently no scientific studies or data-collection systems extant in the Caucasus related to transboundary surface water quality and quantity.
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"The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it." So declares a luminous Kirsten Dunst in Danish provocateur Lars von Trier's best and most powerful film yet.READ more
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Americans for Peace Now´s Director of Policy and Government Relations Lara Friedman has expressed her discontent and dissatisfaction with the failure of Arab officials to acknowledge Jewish rights to Jerusalem.
While Friedman is vehemently against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, military action against Iran, and advocated on behalf of freeing the Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader Adnan from Israeli administrative detention, she nonetheless laments that the Arab Leagues Conference on Jerusalem in Doha on Sunday did not give voice to Jewish perspectives.
When I was invited to this conference, I took this as a sign that the Arab League wanted to capture the full complexity of the issues related to Jerusalem, including openly pro-Israel, pro-peace voices," she wrote Monday in the Forward. "However, it seems that virtually every conversation I am having here involves me, to a greater or lesser degree, having to defend the two-state solution and having to assert and defend the Jewish stake in Jerusalem..
[I]t seems to me that by not having more pro-two-state solution, Jewish voices here, the Arab League is doing a disservice to the cause it is ostensibly concerned with the health and status of Jerusalem and missing an opportunity. The Arab world, and activists around the globe concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, do themselves no favors when they listen to voices that tell them only a piece of the story that is comfortable to their ears.
Speakers at Sundays opening session, including Palestinian [Authority] President Mahmoud Abbas, one after another laid out laundry lists of criticisms of Israel many of them regrettably marked with exaggerations. All also spoke a great deal about Muslim and Christian attachments to Jerusalem and the importance of defending the holy sites and communities associated with both religions. However, only one speaker, Michel Sabbah, formerly the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, mentioned any Jewish connection to the city, she added.
This is a serious problem, Friedman proclaimed. If President Abbas cannot acknowledge Jewish claims in Jerusalem, even as he asserts Palestinian claims (a problem Yasser Arafat suffered from), he should not be surprised if it is more difficult for Israelis and Jews, wherever they are, to believe that he can be trusted in a peace agreement that leaves Jerusalem sites precious to Jews under Palestinian control.
If representatives of the organization that sponsored the Arab Peace Initiative cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the legitimacy of Jewish equities in Jerusalem, they should know that they discredit their own professed interest in peace.
All throughout the day, it was unfortunately the same story. Participants talked about Jerusalem as if Jewish history did not exist or was a fraud as if all Jewish claims in the city were just a tactic to dispossess Palestinians.
She concluded by saying that she regret[s] that the conference so far has not taken the issues related to Jerusalem more seriously. Much of the discourse here thus far has been personally objectionable and even painful to me, but I believe my presence here is important for the cause of peace.
Friedman, like Norman Finkelstein, among others, seem to be disheartened and disillusioned by the liberal, leftist and anti- Israel groups which they espouse. Finkelstein recently admitted that the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which he so closely aligned and supported in the past, is a cult. (IsraelNationalNews © 2012 02/28/12)
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Don't know if anyone else is going through this, but it seems that in the last coupla months here, lots of people have decided they want to visit us before the baby is born. Lots of out of town guests. I'm very surprised by this- I expected a barrage to meet the new baby, but not a stream of pre-birth visits.
While I can totally see how these people want to wish us well, and I can totally see how seem people would enjoy this, I don't. I'm a really private person, and a homebody. I have a social life, but I generally feel the most re-charged when I've had the chance to spend time alone or just with DH. With being so tired in late pregnancy, I mostly want to hang around my little nest at home, and while away our last (ever!) kid-free hours with DH and the dog.
Most of the visit requests are coming from family, and they are very much the entertain-us types. And I don't have the energy for it this late in the game.
I understand the intention of guests isn't to barge in, they're just excited. But I don't know how to fend off these requests. Right now, we've got someone wanting to come up and stay with us every single weekend between now and the birth, and I'm feeling overwhelmed.
What would you say to let these people down gently? Anyone else dealing with a similar barrage of visitors?
A friend of mine suggested "I love that you want to come visit, but maybe we could do it after the baby's born?" I think that might be good, but several guests specifically stated they wanted to see us "one last time" before the birth...
"The Mothers are the brave ones." - Call the Midwife
I would just tell them that you wish you guys coulda gotten together earlier and you really want to focus on your hubby these last few weeks but you would love to see them after the baby is born. If they say they want to see you one last time.. ask em if they want to see your hemmoroids, the varicose veins, the falling asleep at 7pm, how grumpy you get when you havent eaten in more then 3 hours.. use your imagination and tell them you would so much more enjoy their visit when the inhabitator had been born from your body. If that doesnt work. Just say no.
That's a bummer girl. I would not have the energy right now to entertain. Let alone setting up guest sleeping arrangments extra cooking cleaning, towels etc. I would just be honest! In a gentle exhausted tone just say "You know it would be great but I am just not up to it right now. But please lets make some plans for after the baby's here."
By calling the visit an it you de-personalize it!
I'd tell them that they can only come to visit if they're coming to help with housework. :D
What if you go into labour before your due date, when someone is visiting? It seems like at some point, you need your space if for no other reason than there is no predicting when baby is going to make an appearance. Maybe you could work that into your response as well (along with the other great suggestions you've gotten). I guess some people might see it as exciting to be there when baby arrives, but personally I would feel so in the way in their position (and I have been there - arrived on my BFF's doorstep the very same day of her homebirth, I was moving from qite a distance away and staying there till I found an apartment. Such bad timing! I cooked and cleaned but I still couldn't wait to get out of their hair!!).
I haven't tolerated visitors for a while now. I think that dh kept thinking I would changing my mind and so just kept putting people off. I JUST got Christmas presents the kids have outgrown because no one believed that I wasn't traveling again this pregnancy or that I would allow his parents to come sometime before the baby was born (we did go there for Christmas but these are from a family get together after Christmas).
There's going to be worse battles to fight. This a good place to show that you can put your foot down. Just tell everyone that it's just too close to your due date and you're exhausted and need lots of rest in preparation for your baby coming.
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I'd certainly not be prepared for that right now for many of the reasons stated above and then some. We have enough last minute things to do without having to worry about guests. Something similar happened when we were preparing to move and had boxes all over the house. I told them it wasn't a very good time and things were upside down. Yes, it stunk as that was the ONLY chance that person could come see us for the YEAR, but there wasn't any way it could work. There was no room for us as it was let alone clearing room for the sleeper sofa to open up and so on.
Sometimes you gotta just stick to your beliefs, and if you believe it's not a good time for any reason just tell them. Hopefully they can understand and plan to come at a better time.
My MIL started talking about coming out here in April! She said she knew we "liked our space" after the baby was born so she thought it would be better to come before. I just told her she was wrong. ;)
She's a high maintenance person, does NOT travel well, and I really think the reason she's wanting to come out is much more because she wants to use us as a jumping off point for driving down to FL - she's in SoCal, we're in SC and they're thinking of moving down there - and has very little to do with us. She didn't even meet my son until he was two because it didn't fit into her plans, so it irks me that she would waste what little traveling ability she has to come all this way and then NOT see the baby. I think maybe she wants to do it in Spring vs Summer? I don't know. Either way, we just told her we'd love to see her, but between my dh working as much as he can before the baby is born and my being exhausted, that if she wants to see FL, fly to FL. If she wants to see us, wait til late June or July... because, YES, we like our space with our newborns.
You're pregnant. It's ALL ABOUT YOU - and if it's not, it *should* be!! They should've thought of this weeks if not months ago. I'm very much like you, needing to have "our space" and our time with nesting and resting and refocusing our lives in the third tri. You owe them nothing.. just let them know how much you appreciate them wanting to see you and that in 2-3 months, you will really be looking forward to spending some time with them. Don't let them guilt you into giving up this precious time for just you guys!
It's such a relief to finally trust yourself.
Thanks everyone. There are some kind of intense boundary issues in my family and saying no to this request is pretty huge. But what dayiscoming said really resonated-
Now is a good time for me to start being more assertive. :)
It was helpful to read all the responses before clicking "send" on my email response to my parents. Thank you!
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Before purchasing dedicated servers you need to make sure you have it equipped properly. Having a lack of resources will make it impossible for your server to run at maximum speed.
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"Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me." (Psalm 31:2-3)
Have you ever met someone who was "in charge"? Sure, you have! We all know someone who is in charge of something, or in charge of someone else. To be "in charge" means to be responsible to take care of something.
If your parents put you "in charge" of the new pet puppy dog in your home, that means you have to feed the puppy, give him water, wash him, teach him to obey commands, and take him outside for walks. If the puppy has a clean, shiny coat, and if he is friendly and well-behaved, then people will tell you that you are doing a great job training him and taking care of him. On the other hand, if the puppy damages something very valuable, makes a mess, or bites someone's hand – you might find yourself in a little trouble! Anything bad that the puppy does could be blamed on you! Your hard work and special care is reflected by your puppy's behavior and appearance. But if you neglect (forget or ignore) your responsibilities with your puppy, his behavior and appearance will show that, too!
God is in charge of us – did you realize that? If you are God's child, He has adopted you and brought you into His household. You bear His name now. Your appearance and your behavior ought to reflect Him – they ought to show to other people the good character your Heavenly Father has and the great works that He has done. If you act like an unbeliever, someone who doesn't know or love God, then your life cannot reflect God's character and works very well to other people.
Did you know that God is the perfect refuge (place to hide, place to find safety and comfort), and that He will lead you along and point you in he right direction when you are not sure what to do or where to go? That's what King David believed in the Old Testament, and he was worshipping the same Heavenly Father that we know and love. Read Psalm 31:1-5. What can you learn about God from that part of Scripture?
God takes His responsibility for us seriously. He never messes up. He never does anything accidentally, and He is never surprised. He has a reputation to uphold. Unlike us, God is right to be concerned about His own reputation (His name, or His glory). Being the only perfect God, He has every right to care about His glory. God's character is always holy and perfect, and He will be faithful for eternity. Because He is all these things (and more!), God cares a great deal about His glory – His good name – and those who bear His name are in His charge.
If you are trusting Him, God is in charge of you. He will lead you and He will guide you. He does that not just for your sake, but for His own name's sake. He loves to give us the wisdom and guidance we need. He loves to help us and protect us. His care for us is one way He shows publicly what a great and good God He is.
God takes care of His own people, for His glory and for their good.
My Response: » Is it easy for me to forget Whose name I bear and Who is in charge of my life? » What do I do or say that reflects upon the glory (the good name) of my Heavenly Father? » What must I change so that my thinking and behavior line up with the Bible's true teachings about God's goodness and greatness?
"I will cling to Christ like a burr on a topcoat."
Katherina von Bora was born in Germany on January 29, 1499. With a name that would have befitted a queen or a baroness perhaps, Katherina – or "Katie" as she would be called – would become a very important woman at least to one man (her husband Martin Luther), and she would influence her children and many others, creating a God-glorifying ripple effect on Christian history forever.
Katie's mother died when she was a little girl, and her father quickly remarried, sending five-year-old Katie to live in the Roman Catholic Church. She was raised by the nuns – two of which were her aunts – and it was assumed that surely Katie would grow up to become a nun just like them. So she did! When Katie was 16 years old, she took the vows – or promises – of a nun.
The more Katie studied the Catholic religion, the more she wondered if she could really believe every part of it. Katie actually made plans with some of the other nuns to run away from the church, but she did not feel right about running. Running could bring a punishment of death. So the nuns created another plan.
The German monk Martin Luther was already growing popular for his reformed beliefs – for how he spoke up against the parts of the Roman Catholic Church's teachings that taught that salvation could be earned by good works or that deliverance and relief from judgment could be bought by purchasing candles or pieces of paper from Roman Catholic Church officials. Martin Luther was instead coming to believe from the Bible that salvation belonged to the Lord, that justified people are justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. Instead of sinners earning their own way to heaven, Jesus Christ died to save them and to offer grace and mercy by His own perfect life and perfect sacrificial death.
Martin Luther wanted to help monks and nuns who were changing their minds about Roman Catholic teachings. One day, just before Easter, a local fish seller arrived at a Catholic convent to deliver food to the nuns. It had been arranged for the fish seller to hide any nuns who wanted to escape in barrels the back of his fish wagon. This man helped the nuns escape. When they escaped, they went straight to find Martin Luther. He helped each of the nuns find marriages, homes, and jobs – each and every one of them... except Katie.
Martin Luther married Katie himself. She was a godly woman, a wife, a teacher, a nurse, a farmer, and a mother to ten children! She woke up every morning at 4am to get all of her work done and did not rest until it was finished.
Katie was a devoted disciple of Jesus and a diligent worker, among many other things. Do you do your best at what you do? Are you faithful to follow truth and committed to cling to Christ?
1 Thessalonians 4:11 – That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
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Psalm 43:2 "For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Yes. It produces an unspeakable joy! 1 Peter 1:8 – Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Sin is an action or attitude that is not pleasing to God. God is righteous and he has given rules and laws to show what displeases him. Our sin nature was inherited by Adam and Eve and it separates us from God. (Romans 3:23) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 6:23) "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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Tell that to the Board Admins who were hit with the same kind of notice ( or
lack thereof) on the 8th for new board work on the 10th- and the message
appeared on user boards and NOT on the admin boards- sound familiar?
More and more it is beginning to sound like the last time they had a major
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This is kind of off-topic for this list--but since the previous board update
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Th only place I have posted is on this list.........do you have me confused
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