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Originating from Indonesia, Cendol is another shaved ice dessert which uses palm sugar and coconut milk as its base. Plus, cendol usually uses fewer ingredients than ais kacang does.
Normally referred to as "chicken and rice" this dish is literally just that. Chicken is poached and served with white rice, and is eaten with soy and chilli dipping sauces.
Otherwise known as net bread, this egg and flour mixture is placed on the skillet in a net-like formation before being rolled up into a little log. It's often eaten with curries and soup-like dishes.
The name Ipoh comes from the town the coffee originated from. Although it's called "white coffee" the coffee beans used in Ipoh are still brown. After the beans are roasted in margarine, the brewed coffee is mixed with condensed milk.
Wantan mee is another Malaysian noodle dish, but instead of all the ingredients being mixed together in the cooking, you combine them in the bowl yourself. Egg noodles are placed on top of a black sauce and are topped with BBQ pork, dumplings, vegetables, and chilli.
Really big in Penang, these rice cakes are fried with bean sprouts, egg, chilli, and soy. They're most commonly eaten for breakfast.
Kaya toast is bread filled with a coconut custard jam and butter. It's eaten for breakfast and is normally paired with a nice coffee and a couple of boiled eggs.
Audit Manager job in Inverness, Scotland for an experienced and qualified Audit Manager who is looking to further their career within a progressive firm of accountants.
Reporting directly to an Audit Partner the Audit Manager will manage an exciting client portfolio that stretches across Inverness and the wider region.
Being ICAS/ACCA or ICAEW qualified the ideal Audit Manager will have several years’ experience of leading external audits from planning through to completion combined with staff managerial experience.
Besides having excellent communication, interpersonal and technical skills the Audit Manager will be keen to join a progressive Inverness based firm of accountants that can provide opportunities for career progression.
Besides providing an employee-focused working environment and a great remuneration package including bonuses and substantial benefits our accountancy firm client can genuinely provide an envious working environment.
The Supreme Court ruled that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates.
The decision shakes the foundation of corporate limitations on federal and state elections that stretch back a century, and prompted sharp partisan reaction. Republican leaders, still celebrating Tuesday's Senate upset in Massachusetts, cheered the ruling as a victory for free speech and predicted a surge in corporate support for GOP candidates in November's midterm elections.
President Obama sharply criticized the ruling, however, calling it "a green light to a new stampede of special interest money," and vowed to "develop a forceful response" with congressional leaders from both parties. The court's decision was handed down on the same morning that Obama riled Wall Street by proposing tough new restrictions on the nation's largest banks.
"It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans," the president said in a statement.
In a 5 to 4 decision, the majority cast its ruling as a spirited defense of the First Amendment, concluding that corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to political speech. Corporations had been banned since 1947 from using their profits to endorse or oppose political candidates, a restriction that the justices ruled unconstitutional.
"When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," the court said in a decision written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. "This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves."
Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the ruling will "protect the Constitution's First Amendment rights of free speech and association."
The decision upends the court's precedent that corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates, and it rejects a large portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, which the justices declared constitutional just six years ago. The ruling seems certain to apply to labor unions as well, although they are not explicitly mentioned in the majority's opinion.
Until now, companies were generally limited to raising money through political action committees, which are subject to contribution limits. Now they are free to use their profits to advertise for or against candidates, although they must still disclose their role. The decision does not address a ban on companies contributing directly to candidates.
The far-reaching ruling marks a triumph for those who have fought the McCain-Feingold provisions, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and numerous other business and conservative groups. It also overturns laws in two dozen states limiting corporate expenditures in local races.
The decision is a telling reminder of how quickly the high court has changed. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor supported the constitutionality of McCain-Feingold in 2003, but Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and O'Connor's replacement, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., have supported each challenge to the law since joining the court. They supported the ruling announced Thursday, along with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
That the court even considered such a broad challenge to corporate spending was a surprise. The case centers on a scathing 90-minute movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton produced by the conservative group Citizens United during her 2008 run for president.
Saguy Elbaz, real-estate broker with Sotheby's International Realty Quebec.
Now that we've pretty much settled into the new year, many Canadians looking to sell their homes are gearing up for what is typically the busiest season for the city's realestate market: spring. While this wasn't the case last year due to political instability, it's expected that 2015 will see a return to the annual spike in activity as the weather warms.
Selling season usually starts shortly after the holidays and goes until the first week of June. While many factors come into play, the warming temperatures are influential in people's decisions to sell their homes.
"Montreal starts blossoming under the sun, and everyone's spirits are up and the real-estate market flourishes as a result," said Saguy Elbaz, real-estate broker with Sotheby's International Realty Québec."Among buyers, there is a sudden desire and need for outdoor space, a backyard, an exterior pool, and so on."
Timing plays a role as well, because people tend to want to be settled in a new property before July, so that they can enjoy the bulk of the summer in their new home. On the other hand, many people decide during the holiday season whether or not to sell their property in the following spring.
"Considering occupancy can take sometimes up to four months, buyers tend to plan ahead for summer," Elbaz said. "It takes time to search the many options available to them, purchase, and potentially renovate their new house for a summer occupancy."
There is typically a large volume of new listings from end of January to mid-March, and as the soil unfreezes in April, more for-sale signs pop up all over the city.
"Spring and summer are good times for building, renovating or moving for many reasons," Elbaz said. "From a buyer's perspective, visiting properties is no longer as burdensome as it was during the winter, when it can be difficult to travel the city due to weather conditions and traffic."
From a seller's point of view, if you've already made the decision to sell, the influx of buyers on the market should be motivation enough to take the steps required to list your home.
There are many ways in which sellers can help prepare their properties to appeal to buyers.
From a practical standpoint, ensuring that you're truly ready to sell financially and emotionally is an important start. It's also essential to have all of the legal documents required for the sale of your property at hand. Moreover, knowing where you or your family will move following the sale is hugely important.
"There are so many questions that need to be answered in order to ensure a smooth selling and moving process," Elbaz said. "Are you going to buy or rent next? In which area? What can you afford?
In terms of physically preparing your property for sale, Elbaz recommends fixing any major problems, such as a leaky roof or cracks in the foundation, prior to putting your home on the market.
"Anything that can potentially stop the smooth and safe use of the property for the next five years should be fixed," he said.
As for renovations to the kitchen and bathroom, many brokers discourage their clients from putting a lot of money into a total redesign, as prospective buyers may not share their taste, and may want to redo these spaces after taking possession of the home anyway. That said, doing small repairs and fixing blemishes is a good idea.
"Think of what you would appreciate as a potential buyer visiting a property," Elbaz said.
"Things should look clean and polished."
It's also helpful to make your home appear more neutral by removing large personal mementos and trinkets. Decluttering truly goes a long way in allowing prospective buyers to picture themselves in a space.
Having attractive and clean furniture is important as well.
"Furniture is like makeup - it can make an ordinary room look extraordinary," Elbaz said. "It allows sellers to convey a mood or even a lifestyle; this is just as important for condos as it is large family homes."
Consulting with a real-estate professional can be helpful, as it can be hard to be analytical about your own home.
Whether you're looking to buy or sell, there's never a better time to wade into the market than during the spring. Getting a feel for pricing, availability, different neighbourhoods, and a variety of properties can be very beneficial for people on both sides of a real estate transaction.
The bank said no - now what?
The New York Mets announced that they distributed just 32,911 tickets (78.5% of capacity) for their Memorial Day game against the Yankees, a bad sign for one of baseball's marquis matchups.
That is the smallest crowd in the 17-year history of the Subway Series and about 10,000 less than what the Mets usually draw for the matchups against their crosstown rival. And it came on a holiday that is traditionally a big day for baseball games.
Only two of the previous 90 games even had attendance figures less than 40,000. Both of those games were part of double-headers.
One big factor is the declining interest in interleague games, something that has become even worse with the new scheduling this season. With the Astros moving to the American League, Major League Baseball must have at least one interleague series occurring at all times.
The result is that interleague games are now the norm and no longer a novelty act. And that disinterest is even being felt in New York.
Jared Polis became the first openly homosexual member of Congress to become a parent as he and his partner announced the birth of their son.
The Colorado Democrat revealed that his child, Caspian Julius, was born on Friday and weighed in at 8lbs 120z.
Polis, a 36-year-old multi-millionaire, did not reveal whether his son was adopted or conceived through a surrogate pregnancy.
He is serving his second term in office and is one of four openly gay members currently serving in Congress.
Fellow Democrats Barney Frank, of Massachusetts, David Cicilline, of Rhode Island and Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, are the other three homosexual lawmakers in the House of Representatives. None have conceived any children.
Polis, an award-winning philanthropist, has founded a number of companies and is one of the 10 richest members of Congress worth an estimated $65 million.
With his parents, he started an online greeting card website, which he sold three years later in a deal worth $780 million.
Polis also founded two charter schools for at-risk students. In 2004, he established the New America School, which primarily serves older immigrant youth ages 16–21 and has three campuses in Denver and one in New Mexico.
In 2005, he co-founded with Urban Peak the Academy of Urban Learning in Denver to serve youth struggling with homelessness or unstable living conditions.
Two dogs trapped for more than 22 days in a deactivated Cold War-era missile silo near Medical Lake are now home safely with their owner.
Medical Lake resident Jessica Donges said her two German shepherds, Zeus and Ziva, were rescued Tuesday with help from the Medical Lake Fire Department and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
Donges said the German shepherds escaped through a hole in a fence surrounding her yard and gained access to the silo near her home – which measures about 10 feet deep by 40 feet long – through an open door.
“The fire department and the sheriff’s department came out and helped me get (the dogs) out,” she said, adding Zeus and Ziva were found in a hole with 6 inches of standing water.
Donges canvassed the neighborhood, hung up flyers and posted notices on social media after the dogs went missing.
“I got to the point where I thought somebody had taken them,” she said.
On Tuesday, she spotted some dogs walking around the underground silo’s entrance, which prompted her to take a closer look under the door. She heard barking.
Donges walked down the silo’s ladder, spotted Zeus and Ziva, and called 911 for help.
Medical Lake Assistant Fire Chief Corey Stevens responded to the call and helped Donges pull the dogs up the ladder.
“When we got them outside, they were playing and seemed in pretty good spirits,” he said.
It was definitely a team effort, Donges said.
“I couldn’t have done it without the fire department and the sheriff’s deputy,” she said.
The site was once home to a Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile battery, run by the U.S. Army as part of the Fairchild Air Force Base Defense Area from the late 1950s through the early 1960s; the Medical Lake site was decommissioned in 1966.
Donges said because the underground silo – which appears to be on private land – is surrounded by houses, the neighborhood is concerned their pets or a person could get stuck down there.
“It could have easily been a small child that could have gotten lost down there,” she said.
A spokeswoman from Fairchild Air Force Base was unable to immediately confirm if the Medical Lake silo is privately owned and if safety precautions will be taken.
Donges said while Zeus and Ziva sustained minor injuries as well as losing more than 20 pounds each, they have visited a veterinarian and are doing great.
Completing the same journey they have made for the past 2,000 years, a flock of swifts has flown halfway around the world to nest among the ancient stones of Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The scores of small black birds who spend the spring flying high above Jerusalem's Old City and laying eggs in the cracks in the wall, where it is common for visitors to place prayer notes, have become a focus in efforts to rehabilitate the species' diminishing population worldwide.
Experts have mapped 88 nests in between the giant stones that make up the Western Wall, which was part of the perimeter of the second biblical Temple destroyed by Jerusalem's Roman conquerors in 70 AD. It is one of Judaism's holiest sites.
"This is one of the most ancient places that you have swifts nesting in the world," said Yossi Leshem, director of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration at Tel Aviv University.
Thanks to his team's efforts, any restoration work done to the wall now must take into account where the swifts nest so as not to disturb them. They are also looking to set up cameras on the wall with live video feed from the nests to be broadcast online to help raise awareness.
Israeli skies are one of the busiest junctions of avian migration routes in the world, but the swifts, which arrive from southern Africa in late February and stay for about 100 days, have a special following among bird lovers.
They spend years in the air -- eating, sleeping and mating in flight -- and only nest to lay eggs.
And they faithfully return to the same breeding grounds, whether it's the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Bauhaus buildings of Tel Aviv, or the roofs of old houses throughout Europe.
But their numbers have dramatically declined in the past decade, in part because modern and renovated buildings are less accommodating.
There is not a complete global tally, but in England their numbers have dropped nearly 50 percent, said Amnonn Hahn, general manager of the Israeli group Friends of the Swifts.
Leshem, Hahn and their partners are joining forces with foreign experts to try to reverse this trend. They are already tracking some of the swifts in Israel with tiny transmitters in order to study their behavior.
"By next year we hope to make it into a big international project, in cooperation with the Palestinians, Jordanians and the European Union," Leshem said.
God has called us in this life to live for a specific purpose. Our purpose can be found through prayer, reading, and discernment.
We all have expectations about how we think our lives will go, but we have no guarantee things will happen according to our plans or expectations.
I'm Successful - So Why Am I Not Fulfilled?
Unfulfilled people have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. The lie is that human goals and accomplishments can satisfy.
How Can I Have Free Will if God Knows Everything in Advance?
The question is, will we trust our Heavenly Father even when we don’t understand the adversity or challenging circumstances we face?
Jesus didn’t ask the blind man, “Why do you want to see?” Instead, He asked what He could do to serve.
I could not figure out why God would allow bad things to happen to his children.
Captain Ron Johnson discusses how he reached out to people during the Ferguson riots after Michael Brown's death.

Originating from Indonesia, Cendol is another shaved ice dessert which uses palm sugar and coconut milk as its base. Plus, cendol usually uses fewer ingredients than ais kacang does.

Normally referred to as "chicken and rice" this dish is literally just that. Chicken is poached and served with white rice, and is eaten with soy and chilli dipping sauces.

Otherwise known as net bread, this egg and flour mixture is placed on the skillet in a net-like formation before being rolled up into a little log. It's often eaten with curries and soup-like dishes.

The name Ipoh comes from the town the coffee originated from. Although it's called "white coffee" the coffee beans used in Ipoh are still brown. After the beans are roasted in margarine, the brewed coffee is mixed with condensed milk.

Wantan mee is another Malaysian noodle dish, but instead of all the ingredients being mixed together in the cooking, you combine them in the bowl yourself. Egg noodles are placed on top of a black sauce and are topped with BBQ pork, dumplings, vegetables, and chilli.

Really big in Penang, these rice cakes are fried with bean sprouts, egg, chilli, and soy. They're most commonly eaten for breakfast.

Kaya toast is bread filled with a coconut custard jam and butter. It's eaten for breakfast and is normally paired with a nice coffee and a couple of boiled eggs.

Audit Manager job in Inverness, Scotland for an experienced and qualified Audit Manager who is looking to further their career within a progressive firm of accountants.

Reporting directly to an Audit Partner the Audit Manager will manage an exciting client portfolio that stretches across Inverness and the wider region.

Being ICAS/ACCA or ICAEW qualified the ideal Audit Manager will have several years’ experience of leading external audits from planning through to completion combined with staff managerial experience.

Besides having excellent communication, interpersonal and technical skills the Audit Manager will be keen to join a progressive Inverness based firm of accountants that can provide opportunities for career progression.

Besides providing an employee-focused working environment and a great remuneration package including bonuses and substantial benefits our accountancy firm client can genuinely provide an envious working environment.

The Supreme Court ruled that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates.

The decision shakes the foundation of corporate limitations on federal and state elections that stretch back a century, and prompted sharp partisan reaction. Republican leaders, still celebrating Tuesday's Senate upset in Massachusetts, cheered the ruling as a victory for free speech and predicted a surge in corporate support for GOP candidates in November's midterm elections.

President Obama sharply criticized the ruling, however, calling it "a green light to a new stampede of special interest money," and vowed to "develop a forceful response" with congressional leaders from both parties. The court's decision was handed down on the same morning that Obama riled Wall Street by proposing tough new restrictions on the nation's largest banks.

"It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans," the president said in a statement.

In a 5 to 4 decision, the majority cast its ruling as a spirited defense of the First Amendment, concluding that corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to political speech. Corporations had been banned since 1947 from using their profits to endorse or oppose political candidates, a restriction that the justices ruled unconstitutional.

"When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," the court said in a decision written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. "This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves."

Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the ruling will "protect the Constitution's First Amendment rights of free speech and association."

The decision upends the court's precedent that corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates, and it rejects a large portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, which the justices declared constitutional just six years ago. The ruling seems certain to apply to labor unions as well, although they are not explicitly mentioned in the majority's opinion.

Until now, companies were generally limited to raising money through political action committees, which are subject to contribution limits. Now they are free to use their profits to advertise for or against candidates, although they must still disclose their role. The decision does not address a ban on companies contributing directly to candidates.

The far-reaching ruling marks a triumph for those who have fought the McCain-Feingold provisions, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and numerous other business and conservative groups. It also overturns laws in two dozen states limiting corporate expenditures in local races.

The decision is a telling reminder of how quickly the high court has changed. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor supported the constitutionality of McCain-Feingold in 2003, but Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and O'Connor's replacement, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., have supported each challenge to the law since joining the court. They supported the ruling announced Thursday, along with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

That the court even considered such a broad challenge to corporate spending was a surprise. The case centers on a scathing 90-minute movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton produced by the conservative group Citizens United during her 2008 run for president.

Saguy Elbaz, real-estate broker with Sotheby's International Realty Quebec.

Now that we've pretty much settled into the new year, many Canadians looking to sell their homes are gearing up for what is typically the busiest season for the city's realestate market: spring. While this wasn't the case last year due to political instability, it's expected that 2015 will see a return to the annual spike in activity as the weather warms.

Selling season usually starts shortly after the holidays and goes until the first week of June. While many factors come into play, the warming temperatures are influential in people's decisions to sell their homes.

"Montreal starts blossoming under the sun, and everyone's spirits are up and the real-estate market flourishes as a result," said Saguy Elbaz, real-estate broker with Sotheby's International Realty Québec."Among buyers, there is a sudden desire and need for outdoor space, a backyard, an exterior pool, and so on."

Timing plays a role as well, because people tend to want to be settled in a new property before July, so that they can enjoy the bulk of the summer in their new home. On the other hand, many people decide during the holiday season whether or not to sell their property in the following spring.

"Considering occupancy can take sometimes up to four months, buyers tend to plan ahead for summer," Elbaz said. "It takes time to search the many options available to them, purchase, and potentially renovate their new house for a summer occupancy."

There is typically a large volume of new listings from end of January to mid-March, and as the soil unfreezes in April, more for-sale signs pop up all over the city.

"Spring and summer are good times for building, renovating or moving for many reasons," Elbaz said. "From a buyer's perspective, visiting properties is no longer as burdensome as it was during the winter, when it can be difficult to travel the city due to weather conditions and traffic."

From a seller's point of view, if you've already made the decision to sell, the influx of buyers on the market should be motivation enough to take the steps required to list your home.

There are many ways in which sellers can help prepare their properties to appeal to buyers.

From a practical standpoint, ensuring that you're truly ready to sell financially and emotionally is an important start. It's also essential to have all of the legal documents required for the sale of your property at hand. Moreover, knowing where you or your family will move following the sale is hugely important.

"There are so many questions that need to be answered in order to ensure a smooth selling and moving process," Elbaz said. "Are you going to buy or rent next? In which area? What can you afford?

In terms of physically preparing your property for sale, Elbaz recommends fixing any major problems, such as a leaky roof or cracks in the foundation, prior to putting your home on the market.

"Anything that can potentially stop the smooth and safe use of the property for the next five years should be fixed," he said.

As for renovations to the kitchen and bathroom, many brokers discourage their clients from putting a lot of money into a total redesign, as prospective buyers may not share their taste, and may want to redo these spaces after taking possession of the home anyway. That said, doing small repairs and fixing blemishes is a good idea.

"Think of what you would appreciate as a potential buyer visiting a property," Elbaz said.

"Things should look clean and polished."

It's also helpful to make your home appear more neutral by removing large personal mementos and trinkets. Decluttering truly goes a long way in allowing prospective buyers to picture themselves in a space.

Having attractive and clean furniture is important as well.

"Furniture is like makeup - it can make an ordinary room look extraordinary," Elbaz said. "It allows sellers to convey a mood or even a lifestyle; this is just as important for condos as it is large family homes."

Consulting with a real-estate professional can be helpful, as it can be hard to be analytical about your own home.

Whether you're looking to buy or sell, there's never a better time to wade into the market than during the spring. Getting a feel for pricing, availability, different neighbourhoods, and a variety of properties can be very beneficial for people on both sides of a real estate transaction.

The bank said no - now what?

The New York Mets announced that they distributed just 32,911 tickets (78.5% of capacity) for their Memorial Day game against the Yankees, a bad sign for one of baseball's marquis matchups.

That is the smallest crowd in the 17-year history of the Subway Series and about 10,000 less than what the Mets usually draw for the matchups against their crosstown rival. And it came on a holiday that is traditionally a big day for baseball games.

Only two of the previous 90 games even had attendance figures less than 40,000. Both of those games were part of double-headers.

One big factor is the declining interest in interleague games, something that has become even worse with the new scheduling this season. With the Astros moving to the American League, Major League Baseball must have at least one interleague series occurring at all times.

The result is that interleague games are now the norm and no longer a novelty act. And that disinterest is even being felt in New York.

Jared Polis became the first openly homosexual member of Congress to become a parent as he and his partner announced the birth of their son.

The Colorado Democrat revealed that his child, Caspian Julius, was born on Friday and weighed in at 8lbs 120z.

Polis, a 36-year-old multi-millionaire, did not reveal whether his son was adopted or conceived through a surrogate pregnancy.

He is serving his second term in office and is one of four openly gay members currently serving in Congress.

Fellow Democrats Barney Frank, of Massachusetts, David Cicilline, of Rhode Island and Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, are the other three homosexual lawmakers in the House of Representatives. None have conceived any children.

Polis, an award-winning philanthropist, has founded a number of companies and is one of the 10 richest members of Congress worth an estimated $65 million.

With his parents, he started an online greeting card website, which he sold three years later in a deal worth $780 million.

Polis also founded two charter schools for at-risk students. In 2004, he established the New America School, which primarily serves older immigrant youth ages 16–21 and has three campuses in Denver and one in New Mexico.

In 2005, he co-founded with Urban Peak the Academy of Urban Learning in Denver to serve youth struggling with homelessness or unstable living conditions.

Two dogs trapped for more than 22 days in a deactivated Cold War-era missile silo near Medical Lake are now home safely with their owner.

Medical Lake resident Jessica Donges said her two German shepherds, Zeus and Ziva, were rescued Tuesday with help from the Medical Lake Fire Department and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Donges said the German shepherds escaped through a hole in a fence surrounding her yard and gained access to the silo near her home – which measures about 10 feet deep by 40 feet long – through an open door.

“The fire department and the sheriff’s department came out and helped me get (the dogs) out,” she said, adding Zeus and Ziva were found in a hole with 6 inches of standing water.

Donges canvassed the neighborhood, hung up flyers and posted notices on social media after the dogs went missing.

“I got to the point where I thought somebody had taken them,” she said.

On Tuesday, she spotted some dogs walking around the underground silo’s entrance, which prompted her to take a closer look under the door. She heard barking.

Donges walked down the silo’s ladder, spotted Zeus and Ziva, and called 911 for help.

Medical Lake Assistant Fire Chief Corey Stevens responded to the call and helped Donges pull the dogs up the ladder.

“When we got them outside, they were playing and seemed in pretty good spirits,” he said.

It was definitely a team effort, Donges said.

“I couldn’t have done it without the fire department and the sheriff’s deputy,” she said.

The site was once home to a Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile battery, run by the U.S. Army as part of the Fairchild Air Force Base Defense Area from the late 1950s through the early 1960s; the Medical Lake site was decommissioned in 1966.

Donges said because the underground silo – which appears to be on private land – is surrounded by houses, the neighborhood is concerned their pets or a person could get stuck down there.

“It could have easily been a small child that could have gotten lost down there,” she said.

A spokeswoman from Fairchild Air Force Base was unable to immediately confirm if the Medical Lake silo is privately owned and if safety precautions will be taken.

Donges said while Zeus and Ziva sustained minor injuries as well as losing more than 20 pounds each, they have visited a veterinarian and are doing great.

Completing the same journey they have made for the past 2,000 years, a flock of swifts has flown halfway around the world to nest among the ancient stones of Jerusalem's Western Wall.

The scores of small black birds who spend the spring flying high above Jerusalem's Old City and laying eggs in the cracks in the wall, where it is common for visitors to place prayer notes, have become a focus in efforts to rehabilitate the species' diminishing population worldwide.

Experts have mapped 88 nests in between the giant stones that make up the Western Wall, which was part of the perimeter of the second biblical Temple destroyed by Jerusalem's Roman conquerors in 70 AD. It is one of Judaism's holiest sites.

"This is one of the most ancient places that you have swifts nesting in the world," said Yossi Leshem, director of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration at Tel Aviv University.

Thanks to his team's efforts, any restoration work done to the wall now must take into account where the swifts nest so as not to disturb them. They are also looking to set up cameras on the wall with live video feed from the nests to be broadcast online to help raise awareness.

Israeli skies are one of the busiest junctions of avian migration routes in the world, but the swifts, which arrive from southern Africa in late February and stay for about 100 days, have a special following among bird lovers.

They spend years in the air -- eating, sleeping and mating in flight -- and only nest to lay eggs.

And they faithfully return to the same breeding grounds, whether it's the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Bauhaus buildings of Tel Aviv, or the roofs of old houses throughout Europe.

But their numbers have dramatically declined in the past decade, in part because modern and renovated buildings are less accommodating.

There is not a complete global tally, but in England their numbers have dropped nearly 50 percent, said Amnonn Hahn, general manager of the Israeli group Friends of the Swifts.

Leshem, Hahn and their partners are joining forces with foreign experts to try to reverse this trend. They are already tracking some of the swifts in Israel with tiny transmitters in order to study their behavior.

"By next year we hope to make it into a big international project, in cooperation with the Palestinians, Jordanians and the European Union," Leshem said.

God has called us in this life to live for a specific purpose. Our purpose can be found through prayer, reading, and discernment.

We all have expectations about how we think our lives will go, but we have no guarantee things will happen according to our plans or expectations.

I'm Successful - So Why Am I Not Fulfilled?

Unfulfilled people have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. The lie is that human goals and accomplishments can satisfy.

How Can I Have Free Will if God Knows Everything in Advance?

The question is, will we trust our Heavenly Father even when we don’t understand the adversity or challenging circumstances we face?

Jesus didn’t ask the blind man, “Why do you want to see?” Instead, He asked what He could do to serve.

I could not figure out why God would allow bad things to happen to his children.

Captain Ron Johnson discusses how he reached out to people during the Ferguson riots after Michael Brown's death.