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Borgward is already set the offer its second model SUV as the 2018 Borgward BX5 is on its way. The model is going to be the second SUV vehicles produced by this company as the BX7 was the one which paved the way and introduced this company which was known in the past for making trucks to the SUV world.
Borgward is a German based company which had lots of success in Europe for making reliable truck vehicles. This was actually around fifthly years ago and the return was surprisingly not marked by a vehicle that they were known for but rather with a seven passenger SUV model dubbed the BX7. The model was introduced at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2015 and was a real hit as they managed to incorporate all the necessary aspects inside this model.
This year the 2018 Borgward BX5 is going to be the second SUV model that they are producing and the vehicles was already spotted doing rounds wearing a heavily camouflaged outfit. The model is actually going to be officially presented at the Geneva Auto Show this year, with the release date coming next year. The BX5 is smaller than the initial BX7 and fits in the slot right beneath it. The models are actually a cooperation of the German and Chinese companies and their plan is to offer a three-vehicle lineup for the next year. With the BX7 already into play and with this announcement and review of the BX5, there is going to be another model offered, but more on that when the information become clearer.
2018 Borgward BX5 Exterior
The 2018 Borgward BX5 is going to incorporate quite an interesting design. The model is going to use some new headlights which are going to be largely differ rent than the ones seen on the BX7 model before. The same thing is with the grille, but in this case it is similar as far as the shape is concerned but it is quite different compared to before. It actually has a different slat configuration that looks great for this smaller car and they are also angled toward the sides and have much more chrome. The car is going to have an overall mundane appearance compared to the BX5 and is going to be a complete departure from the BX7 model which it bares small resemblance to.
But there are still lots of similarities that were kept, for instance the same sculpted engine hood is kept here and the model is going to share the same muscular waistline. The rear end also has the same tailgate design that was used in the previous car and it also uses the same large trapezoidal recess for the the license plate. The taillights are different, the same as the headlights, but the bumper is going to be changed a bit and is going to have a similar look with only few changes.
2018 Borgward BX5 Interior Changes
There are less information available for the inside of the 2018 Borgward BX5 than it was actually expected. The car has not been showcased officially on the inside, but still there are some things that are obviously going to be used. As the BX7 was a vehicle which actually had a great design as it offered a lot of premium details for a Chinese-built car. This is perhaps going to be the case for the BX5 and they plan to use an impressive amount of premium amenities, like leather-wrapped seats, soft-touch surfaces, some aluminum inserts and contrast stitching.
It will most certainly appoint a 12.3-inch infotainment system which has an Apple and Android connectivity and a WiFi hot-spot function. There is a possibility that this model comes with a more affordable package and only provide these kind of equipment as an optional offer. As the model is going to be offered in Europe, these features are going to be mandatory so expect to see them even in the base form.
Engine Specs of 2018 Borgward BX5
What the greatest news about the 2018 Borgward BX5 is that it is going to use the same underpinnings like the BAIC Senova X55, which is perhaps a model not that known for the European market as it is a Chinese-based model which comes with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine. But the model is not going to transfer the engine as it was confirmed that the 2.0-liter four-cylinder is going to still be used as it was good in the first round for the BX7.
The model can create 221 horsepower and 221 pound-feet of torque and can do it from as low as 1,750 rpm. The BX5 is going to use a choice of a six-speed automatic and the seven-seed dual-clutch transmissions. The specs say an acceleration to 0-60 mph of about 9 seconds and a top speed of up to 120-mph.
2018 Borgward BX5 Release date and price
The thing is that it is quite early to talk about the price of the 2018 Borgward BX5 as there are a lot of things that are unconfirmed that can affect the pricing of the car, particularly for the inside. This is all going to be much easier to assess once the release date comes and it will be officially released after the Geneva Auto Show. The release date is thus expected to be for the later part of 2018 and it will appear in Chine and Europe first with a possible US release date coming by the end of the year.


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I recently attended the NAMM convention in Los Angeles. Ever since I was 10 years old, I've been watching and following pro drummers and idolizing them for their incredible skill. The chance to meet a few of my drum heroes this weekend made attending the convention a really special experience. I got to meet Kenny Aronoff, known as one of the very best drummers in the world. He has shared the stage with countless A-List artists like Adele, The Smashing Pumpkins, Celine Dion, Bob Dylan, Elton John, and the list goes on and on. He has played on albums that have collectively sold 300 Million copies. I had the chance to attend a lecture by Kenny that gave a brief synopsis of the book that he just had published. I've heard it is getting rave reviews. In his lecture Kenny explained the 7 keys to success in life or in any pursuit. He was also completely hilarious- so full of vitality, humor, and positivity. I think his advice is really fantastic for any musician who is serious about their craft, or for anyone who wants to be successful in their career.
Kenny Aronoff's 7 tips to be successful and stay successful in your career:
- Self-discipline: make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do. Put in the work to be great. Once you learn self-discipline in one thing you can apply it to everything else in life. Stay on it. You will get further.
- Hard work fueled by passion and dedication, keep learning and educating yourself. This is the gasoline to drive you forward.
- Create a plan that you execute to reach your goal. Lots of people have ideas but don't do anything with them. 0=0. If you haven't applied yourself and put the time in you're not gonna make/sustain it. Think like a running back. You're gonna get hit, you need to focus on getting to the end zone. Don't feel you have to make it in one day or week or year. There are no shortcuts.
- Teamwork/Communication skills: make the sessions or the work better that you're involved with, it's about the attitude that you bring.
- RPS: Repetition of anything you do is the Preparation for Success. He does 30 min warm up techniques for every show before and after. He's always so vigilant to repeat his warm-ups and prepare to play his absolute best at every gig.
- A healthy life is a wealthy life. Mentally physically and emotionally. Even if you just regularly do Push-ups or Planks, you need to stay physically strong and fit. It keeps your hormone levels up. This fights off cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Cardio- it exercises the most important muscle in your body- your heart. Stretching. Diet is about what you DON'T eat. Stay away from sugar and processed foods. Eat fruit, more veggies, less meat. Multivitamin. Vitamin D are great for immune system. Fish oil. B complex. Water. You should drink ounces of water every day that are equal to half of your weight. So if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink 80 ounces of water per day. Get enough sleep. Practice meditation- it reduces stress.
- Today: Stay focused to be relevant. Don't worry about what you've done in the past.
The past is the past. Focus on what you're working on today. Always focus to the future.
I hope these tips are helpful to you. They have clearly worked incredibly well for Kenny.

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Alaska Inside Passage Cruises
Explore the remote beauty of Alaska's Inside Passage away from the crowds on a small ship cruise.
Discovery's scenic wildlife cruises of Alaska's Inside Passage offer a perfect balance between adventure and relaxation. With a focus on sightseeing and wildlife viewing our small boat cruises are very opportunistic in nature. Days are spent cruising and sightseeing, watching whales & other marine life, fishing, hiking, kayaking, beachcombing and bear viewing. In the late afternoon/evening we typically anchor in a secluded cove or tie up dockside at a small Alaskan community (if desired). Our cruises have no set schedule so that we can make the most of unexpected wildlife encounters that are often the highlight of these trips.
8 Days (7 Nights)
4 Routes to Choose From (Itineraries operate in reverse)
For those who would like a more detailed description of what to expect from our Alaska Inside Passage small ship cruises a Sample Itinerary for each of the routes below is provided.
Please keep in mind: While cruises follow the general route described no two trips are ever the same …….. wildlife encounters, weather and tides often determine how our time is spent on any given day. This spontaneity is one of the joys of small ship cruising and offers a wonderful variety for our return guests.
"Which is the best route"? In our opinion all of the routes are equally 'good'. More miles does not necessarily make a better trip and on cruises that do not include a visit (& detour) to a Bear Observatory we have more time to explore different bays and will hike and look for bears elsewhere.
Even better than a Sample Itinerary the Alaska Cruise Activities give a good indication of what we do and hope to show our guests on all Alaska Inside Passage Cruises.


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I created this graph showing the average income for different household percentiles, comparing pretax income and aftertax income. The minimum income threshold for each percentile is noted in the graph. {Click on the image to take a closer look}
Data from Congressional Budget Office
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The Teacher Education program at the College of St. Scholastica is accredited by both the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) for a period of 7 years, from October 2013 to October 2020. This accreditation includes the following sites: Duluth, St. Paul, and St. Cloud Minnesota. The accreditation does not include individual education courses that the Educator Preparation Program offers to P-12 educators for professional development, re-licensure, or other purposes.
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Minnesota Board of Teaching Approval (BOT)
The fully accredited Teacher Education Program is assessed according to the requirements and standards of the Minnesota Board of Teaching (BOT). The teacher education program has full continuing unit approval through June 30, 2019 and program approval through June 30, 2018.
The Elementary Education program provides students with a firm foundation in the knowledge, skills and disposition required to be successful in an elementary school classroom. Students are placed in a classroom setting early and often, developing a host of required skills that must be practiced as well as learned. Graduates are eligible for teacher licensure for grades K-6.
The Middle/Secondary Education program prepares teachers to lead classrooms in middle and secondary schools in one of seven subject areas:
A focus is placed on field experience, which helps to develop skills that must be practiced as well as learned. Graduates are eligible for teacher licensure for grades 5-12. Music and Spanish education majors are eligible for licensure for grades K-12.
CSS is currently developing a special education minor. Pending Minnesota Board of Teaching approval, we anticipate offering the special education minor fall of 2019.
The Educational Studies major supports career exploration for those following a field of study allied with education. This may include students who have a desire to run children's homes, in-home day cares; healthcare students whose profession involves educating patients and their families; students who plan to be involved in the ministry of religious education; people who hope to learn how to effectively home school their children; those who aspire to be college professors; and international students who may have different needs when teaching in a different country.
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Each of these sets of maps offers an in-depth view of one of Montana's five regions.
Each of these sets of maps offers an in-depth view of one of Montana's five regions. Portfolios include 9" x 12" collections of approximately 20 maps each. Four of the five in the series have been produced to date:
-Rocky Mountain Front / Blackfeet-Hi-Line & Judith Basin / Gros Ventre-West of the Divide / Salish, Pend d'Oreille, Kootenai-Missouri & Yellowstone River Headwaters / Crow
This set of maps was produced as one of the Regional Learning Projects and is part of a comprehensive multimedia educational experience. For more information about the Regional Learning Project and a complete list of the resources available in our catalog please see the article on our "NEWS" page. Also for companion online resources refer to the Regional learning Project website at:http://regionallearningproject.org/about/index.htmlArchival research in the U.S., Canada and Europe has resulted in an extensive collection of historic maps of the region. Sally Thompson, Ph.D., and Kimberly Lugthart have reproduced some of these treasures to enhance understanding of regional history.
Producer: University of Montana Regional Learning ProjectFormat: Color map setTribes/Ethnic Groups: Blackfeet, Montana region


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I've gotten a lot of progress into the bullwhip with the shark spine handle. Here's the belly inserted into the handle:
I put the handle (with belly attached) into the hollowed out shark spine. Then I filled it with epoxy and let it dry.
The next step was attaching the inner bolster. To do this I put a bit of leather cement on the inch of handle and belly that extended past shark spine and tightly bound the leather in place and let everything dry.
On top of that boslter I put a second bolster with basically the same process. Right now I'm working on the overlay and I'll post pics of it when I'm finished with it.


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When my youngest daughter's first grade teacher began the ritual Mother's Day card lesson plan, she asked her students to answer some questions about their mums. It turned out to be my favorite mother's day card ever. My darling six year old answered the question, "How old is your mother?" by carefully writing the number 14 in my favorite Crayola color, Robin's Egg Blue. She had transposed my age. Experience had taught the teacher which questions to ask to elicit the most precious responses. What six year old, after all, has a clue how old their mother really is? Emily did, however, remember my favorite crayon color.
Hanging on the walls of the staircase leading to our family playroom is a collection of colorfully framed "art" created by five children over a nineteen year span. It includes the obligatory bouquet of tissue pencil-spun flowers, and as my children attended the same school, a series of Picasso inspired self-portraits, and preserved in clay five-year old handprints. The nearest and dearest to my heart, however, are some poems my sunshine girl, Michaela, wrote when she was eight:
For You I Fly
With your help I aim so high
With your help I reach the sky
As you were the one who taught me to try
For you I fly
I'm Here
You are the one who is so dear
Because of you I have no fear
You fill my life with bowls of cheer
As you are the reason I am here
On Mother's Day, it is the heartfelt sentiment that matters most. The small gestures of children (and sometimes husbands) that show appreciation for unpaid work, 24/7 shifts, homework help, taxi service, and sometimes for just doing what moms do best--show up. When times get rough, the staircase is a happy place. It is colorful, it is genuine, and it is a reminder of many years of all that was done right.
Photographs commemorate cherished blips in time too. Why put photos in books and those albums in closets? Make it a point to set a different one out each month. It may come as a surprise how important these memories are to children too and how much fun it is to laugh about hairstyles or the size of one's glasses. Photos create bonding moments and a chance to remember old friends, relatives that have passed on, or maybe Spot as a puppy. It is, after all, a mother's task to anchor the family and to fill these albums. Sharing memories is a way to have Mother's Day extend throughout the year and one more way for a mother to make a connection to all the reasons this sometimes exhausting, albeit exhilarating, work is worth every moment.
So fitting is it that Mother's Day is celebrated in spring just as color begins popping through the landscape and filling gardens with life and color. Wrapped in damp newspaper and tied with satin ribbon, or delivered in a Mason jar with a simple note tied with kitchen twine, why not bring a smile to the most important mom's in your life? Grown with love muscari and backyard tulips are a simple pleasure and thoughtful gesture.
A dear friend living a thousand miles away shared that Mother's Day is her own day of atonement. Still relishing the lop-sided heart pancakes her children make for her annual breakfast-in-bed treat, she reciprocates with a card thanking them for making her a mother and letting them know just how cherished she is to have them to love. Ahh!
A poem as a parting seems most appropriate:
The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word "Mother," and the most beautiful call is the call of "My mother." It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness….
Everything in nature bespeaks the mother. The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart; it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks. And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers. It produces them, nurses them, and weans them. The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds. And the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love.----Kahlil Gibran


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Rustam K. DeVitre, DMD and Associates are
highly educated top dentists located in Boston, MA.
Rustam K. DeVitre, DMD and Associates is a multi-specialty dental practice that started in Boston, MA in 1987. We pride ourselves on interacting personally and professionally with each patient. All our dentists are outstanding and highly educated in their areas of expertise. Having all of these specialists together enables us to communicate and deliver a continuity of care that makes our practice stand out as one of the best in the Boston area. We take satisfaction in developing healthy and beautiful smiles and are able to treat everything from simple restorations to complete smile makeovers and complex full mouth reconstructions.


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Gifts of art and other non-cash contributions play pivotal roles in the building of collections for museums, archives and libraries. But a new and higher bar for appraisals has made such donations more complicated.
Nothing of substance has yet been decided in the New York Attorney General's lawsuit against the Trump Foundation. But make no mistake: the suit is still moving forward, albeit slowly.
Three years ago, the Pearson brothers gave $100 million to the University of Chicago. Now they want their money back. As higher ed donors exert more influence, will we be seeing more of this in the future?
Among the claims of the New York AG's suit against the Trump Foundation is that it engaged in transactions with related parties which are prohibited by private foundations. How strong are these charges?
It's pretty clear that Trump used his foundation to benefit his political campaign as president. What can other donors learn from these charges against the foundation?
Part the New York AG's suit against the Trump Foundation focuses on its flawed internal policies. The suit spotlights potential trouble spots that all private foundations should be aware of.
Many people with private foundations operate them too informally. A review of some of the charges leveled against the Trump Foundation by New York State highlights problems that can arise from a lackadaisical approach.
The State of New York's unusual action against a private foundation will likely serve as a wake-up call to many families and individuals who make use of these charitable vehicles but don't know all the rules that surround them.
States are looking to create charitable organizations that residents can donate to in lieu of paying state and local taxes. Here's why these schemes are doomed to fail.
The planned sale of a significant portion of the artwork collection of the Berkshire Museum raises questions for both other museums and many nonprofits.
Deep murkiness surrounds the fundraising and finances of higher ed institutions, especially those that raise money through supporting foundations. The result? Donor due diligence can be impossible.
Donors may be gone, but they can't be forgotten. We look at a case at Brown University in which a building is renamed in favor of a new and wealthier donor. Does this pass the smell test?
Is the measure of a philanthropist only what he or she donates to charity from their own personal assets? We look at that question amid claims that many celebrities don't give in a meaningful way.
There's no big scandal here, as some media reports might imply. But fundraising arrangements involving Tom Brady and a nonprofit he's backed for years raise some good questions.
A crazy case involving a wealthy family and a Massachusetts college raises a sticky question: When charities want to distance themselves from the tarnished reputations of donors, what are their options?
When we donate to an organization, it's implied that our gift will be used to advance its mission. Is it legal when nonprofits divert donated funds to other purposes?
As more big and complicated gifts flow to nonprofits, donors want more assurance that their intent is being honored. We look at a key case that shaped what rights donors have in this regard.
Individuals give more to charity than foundations by a factor of four to one. Yet individuals frequently undertake insufficient due diligence or follow-up. How can a philanthropy advisor help?
Private foundations are powerful vehicles for giving, but these entities are regulated in a range of ways that can be complicated.
Donor-advised funds are growing ever more popular. But a downside is that donors don't have full control of their money, as one couple learned the hard way.
A new charity scandal out of Nebraska reminds us that, with state watchdogs largely asleep when it comes to policing nonprofits, it's up to donors to do their own due diligence.


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When you learn the language of Music you can speak it freely with others. Music has helped me connect with thousands of people around the world, even if they don't speak your native tongue.
I just met this cute girl while playing piano on the streets of New York City. Here name is Ada Pasternak and she is an incredible violinist. This is one of the greatest videos I've ever released. Have a listen to our spontaneous jam session.


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FASHION DESIGNER, ARTIST . Tel Aviv, Israel
Gratuated with honor fashion design in Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art.
Shahar can be described as one that walks the narrow line between art and fashion, but for her it would not be an accurate description. Her art is a rich complex of different dimensions combined together to create a whole using fashion, drawing, collages and embroidery.
using the pain and joy that takes place every moment in her life Shahar gives a visual expression of her feelings using different objects and images in the tangible world. She believes that today we are used to creating a perfect image of ourself that doesn't reflect who we are. We hide the real journey we are experiencing, a combination of beautiful and terrible adventures. her work reflect her belief that all people experience similar processes in their lifetime and we shouldn't try to embellish or modify them to fit in.
All of shahar's creations are components of different journeys she had been through or in the process of with herself .Each journey she decides to observe and plunge in through memories, word, drawing colors and shapes until a new collection is born.


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This is the further development of Software Narratology (T -> M) and Generalized Software Narratives (M -> M -> M -> ...). Now it incorporates devices (things) and IoT. Whereas the general narrative space is 2M1T:
the narrative space of NT is "complex" 2M2T:
Narratology of Things also incorporates Hardware Narratology.


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By Brenna Croker
Resting his warm face on the glass
He catches sight of his reflection
With pink smudges left across his mouth
By his wife's favorite lipstick and heavy kisses.
Do you remember burning matchsticks,
lining your lashes with the black charcoal
And pressing flowers to your lips
Until they stained and turned red?
Mother found you in her shoes,
Laughed - it was charming,
But father's face was tomato red
When he swore and hit you.
He wipes the lipstick away but
It clings with a stubborn pinkness
Only made worse when it melts
By the heat of shame on his cheeks.
The lonely wife steps
Rosy-cheeked and sleepy-smiled
To slink her arms around her husband's waist
And rest her head against his shoulder.
His face still stings with the slap
His father clapped across his skin
And he sweeps his hands in silence
Across the glass to hide from his reflection.


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'The Crystal Maze': Original host Richard O'Brien will appear in Stephen Merchant's charity special
O'Brien hosted the first four series of the enduringly popular game show
The Crystal Maze's original host Richard O'Brien is returning for the show's upcoming charity special.
O'Brien, also known for creating The Rocky Horror Show, will not co-host the one-off revival episode with Stephen Merchant, but has recorded what is described as a "substantial cameo" for the special. The Radio Times reports that his guest appearance "has all the acid-tongued weirdness we'd come to love about the original series".
Channel 4 recently shared the first picture from its upcoming Crystal Maze charity special. Merchant, sporting a shaved head in a nod to Richard O'Brien, will be joined in the one-off revival episode by celebrity contestants Sara Cox, Josh Widdicombe, Rio Ferdinand, Michelle Keegan and Sara Cox.
The Crystal Maze special will air on Sunday, October 16 at 9pm as part of Channel 4's annual Stand Up To Cancer campaign. The creative team behind the episode have said that if it proves popular, a full series could follow.
"As a huge fan of the original series, I'm honoured to support Stand Up To Cancer by hosting this one-off edition of The Crystal Maze," Merchant said when the episode was announced. "Richard O'Brien and Ed Tudor-Pole leave big shoes to fill, but I have size 14 feet, so I'll do my best."
The Channel 4 show originally ran for 83 episodes between 1990 and 1995, with the first four series hosted by Richard O'Brien, and the final two steered by Tenpole Tudor frontman Edward Tudor-Pole.
A live immersive version of the game show opened in London earlier this year. See how the NME team did here.


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The Inverted Ideological Pyramids of Anti-Zionist Jews: The Case of Moshe Zuckermann
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 436, March 30, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israeli professor Moshe Zuckermann's notions about antisemitism, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are representative of a current in Jewish thinking: anti-Zionism among Jews in both Israel and the Diaspora. Zuckermann's approach to developments in modern Jewry is based on assumptions that do not stand the test of historical analysis. The central factor in his thought is a visceral aversion to the Zionist idea and its realization.
It is remarkable how one remains in the grip of the cultural patterns of the group one was born into without necessarily being aware of it. Among Jews, there can be detected – even in unlikely sources – a distinctly Talmudic approach to logical thought. In this way of thinking, a scholar, building upon religious texts, comes to bizarre conclusions by dint of sheer mental gymnastics.
Professor Moshe Zuckermann, a highly assimilated Jew and a declared Marxist with no known ties to Jewish Orthodox circles, is an interesting example of this cultural power. His political ideas regarding Zionism and Israel follow one of the routes of Talmudic thinking: the pattern of the inverted pyramid, in which a broad, eloquent, and often fierce array of related views is built on a given premise. The problem with Zuckermann's logic is that his premise – the single point on which the inverted pyramid stands – is a subjective hunch that does not stand up to historical analysis.
Born in 1947 in Tel Aviv, Zuckermann spent part of his youth in Germany and returned in the late 1960s to Israel. He studied at Tel Aviv University, where he later became a professor of history and philosophy, but has remained attuned to the German academic scene. Most of his books and articles are in German, and he is a frequent participant in interviews in the German press and at German academic conventions.
Here we consider an article Zuckermann recently published in a German Marxist review, Neue Welt (no. 34, February 10, 2017), entitled "German Sensitivities" ("Deutsche Befindlichkeiten"). In two interwoven themes in the article, antisemitism and the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Zuckermann repeats positions he has made elsewhere. His basic assumptions regarding both themes – the points on which the inverted pyramid stands – are dubious.
Regarding antisemitism: Zuckermann explains Jew-hatred as a prejudice like any other, such as xenophobia, anti-Islamism, or discrimination against women or homosexuals. This is incorrect. Anti-Judaism is doctrine, Christian doctrine deeply embedded in Western culture. It goes back to a confrontation at the very foundation of Christianity. It started with the Apostle Paul, got a full formulation by Augustine of Hippo in the fourth century, and took on new expressions in the Middle Ages. Jew-hatred underwent an astonishing transformation in modern times through adaptation into a mainly secular framework under the new name antisemitism. This strain contained a radical new goal that was not present in older Judeophobia: the extermination of the Jews, now defined as a pernicious race.
One of the illusions of our times, an understandable case of wishful thinking, is that the horrors of the Holocaust rattled Western culture enough to pave the way to an eventual end to Jew-hatred. Sectors of Western society were indeed rattled (including the Church), but a few decades of soul-searching have not proved sufficient to erase a millennia-old component of the Western spiritual heritage. Like a chameleon, Judeophobia has changed colors and leitmotifs over the centuries, and it continues to do so. Today, before our eyes, it is reformulating itself into anti-Israelism. Although anchored in the broad ideological spectrum of Western society, much of the ideological impulse of Jew-hatred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries came from the political right and nationalist circles. At present, the main impulse of the new Judeophobia comes from the political left.
Back to Zuckermann: since his starting hypothesis regarding Judeophobia is incorrect, his subsequent conclusions do not make sense. Zuckermann is certainly aware that there is an anti-Jewish trend in modern-day leftist circles, but his reasoning is complicated and unconvincing. The left, for ideological reasons of its own, is straining to find areas of understanding and collaboration with the Islamic camp. The problem is that the fundamental values of the two sides are incompatible. Leftists and Islamists disagree on secularism, human rights, separation between state and religion, equality for women, and more. However, there is one issue on which the two sides are in accord: they both oppose the Jewish state. For Western leftists, it is a case of the old Judeophobic itch again making itself felt, unconsciously or even consciously, under new mottos. It is not so much the Jews, nowadays, but the Jewish state that is in leftist sights.
Regarding the second case of Zuckermann's inverted-pyramid thinking, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: one of my teachers at Hebrew University, Shmuel Ettinger, had a parable that is very much to the point. "Imagine a film of a boxing match that is cut lengthwise, so we can only see the movements of one of the fighters," he said. "What do we think we are seeing? A nut whose behavior defies all common sense." This is exactly how Zuckermann portrays the Israelis in conflict with the Palestinians: he cuts the film lengthwise. The aims on the Arab side, the intentions of Hamas and of Hezbollah, the threats of Iran, the fact that in the century-old history of the conflict there has not been a single case of a whole-hearted Arab initiative to reach an understanding – all this is cut from his narrative. About Arab behavior in conflicts among themselves (or with non-Muslims), there is similarly not a word. In Zuckermann's books and articles, one finds only bad Israelis burdening the region with their bad intentions.
How to explain such lopsidedness? Here, in the best Talmudic tradition, there is an additional twist (a drey, in Yiddish) to Zuckermann's thought. The main factor shaping his views (and the views of similar Jewish intellectuals) with regard to the conflict has nothing to do with the Arabs. What really moves him is a visceral aversion to Zionism.
Where the inverted pyramids meet: Zionism
At first glance, Zuckermann's views about Zionism seem uncomplicated. As he describes it, Zionism is one of three Jewish answers to antisemitism, the others being assimilation and socialism. Here we find yet another inverted pyramid. Antisemitism was not the main reason for the emergence of the Zionist movement, and nor was Zionism, before the creation of Israel, capable of answering the antisemitic onslaught. In 1939, on the eve of the Shoah, after more than forty years of organized, worldwide Zionist activity, the number of Jews in Mandatory Palestine reached approximately 400,000 – only about 2.5% of world Jewry. And even then, a significant part of the Jewish population in Palestine, including the ultra-Orthodox and others, were not Zionists. Antisemitism might have directed Jews to America, but it brought only a few to Palestine.
Antisemitism undoubtedly played a role in Zionism, but so did the other ways taken by modern Jewry as delineated by Zuckermann. Zionism internalized a measure of assimilation, in the sense that it adopted many of the political concepts of modern Europe. There was also a powerful socialist trend in the Zionist movement that created some of the most interesting social experiments of modern times, such as the kibbutz and the moshav. All three – antisemitism, assimilation, and socialism, as well as nationalism – were ideological elements integrated in the Zionist idea, but none was its driving power.
The thrust impelling Zionism was a potent, specifically Jewish ideal: ahavat-tzion (love-for-Zion) and shivat-tzion (the-return-to-Zion). Admittedly, these are spiritual/ideological concepts difficult to place in Western intellectual categories, and especially into Marxist ones. It was the combining of essential values of traditional Jewry with ideas taken from modern European life that produced the powerful spark contained in Zionism.
That spark was powerful enough to overcome the destruction of European Jewry in the 1940s. It was powerful enough to create a Jewish state and defend it in one of the darkest hours in Jewish history, an amazing feat. From the perspective of broader Jewish history, the creation of Israel repeated a historical pattern that is essential for the continuing existence of the Jewish people. Jewish statehood expresses the repeated adaptation of the Jews to the possibilities and demands of the present time, combined with the preservation of their specificity as a people.
None of this, however, is Zuckermann's view, and it obviously makes little impression on him. His is not an isolated case. He is part of a community of like-minded Jewish intellectuals inside Israel as well as in the Diaspora. The inverted reading of the modern Jewish condition by certain Jewish academicians is a baffling phenomenon. Among them are intelligent people and trained scholars. How is it that they lose their compass when it comes to Zionism and Israel to the point that they slip into sheer nonsense? Zuckermann, in a classical Marxist inversion, states that Zionism was always interested in the continuation of international antisemitism, since it represented – of course dialectically – a means for its own ends. Micha Brumlik, a German-Jewish soulmate of Zuckermann's, recently proclaimed that Prime Minister Netanyahu's call to French Jews to emigrate to Israel was an expression of a "Jewish death wish." In Brumlik's considered opinion, this longing "runs like a red thread through Jewish history." Zionism, then, is a death wish, not an expression of Jewish existential power.
Ideological directions in contemporary Jewry
On the map of present-day Jewish identities, where are anti-Zionist Jews? Admittedly, reflective Jews might have questions about their Jewishness, a result of the internal and external upheavals that befell Jewry in the last century. On the one hand, we have modernization, social integration into non-Jewish environments, massive migrations from one geographic environment to another, the Zionist upheaval, and the emergence of a Jewish state. On the other, we have antisemitism, the Holocaust, and now renewed Jew-hatred from diverse non-Jewish quarters. Furthermore, life does not stand still. New developments, both within Jewish society and without it (the relationship between Jews and non-Jews), are changing the character of Jewry also in our days.
Although the rebirth of the Jewish state is a historical fact for most Jews, the Zionist concept, meaning the attitude towards Israel, represents a major dividing line running through contemporary Jewish life – indeed, one that encompasses the very definition of what it means to be Jewish. Of course, the terms "Zionist" and "non-Zionist" have to be applied carefully, considering Jewish realities, and each camp has its sub-currents. The Zionist current runs from a large, general Jewish sector (inside and outside Israel) to the Judea/Samaria settlers' movement on the other. The latter is mostly religious and politically extremist-right, and relations between the two sides of the Zionist spectrum are complex and frequently tense. Non-Zionists have their nuances too, but many of those Jews are so assimilated into their general environment that matters Jewish are almost without significance for them. They are close to a human type described by Isaac Deutscher decades ago as the "non-Jewish Jew." There is also a third camp in contemporary Jewry: the haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, communities. In the last decades, the haredi have been growing into an increasingly substantial, if controversial, presence in Jewish life. Anti-Zionist Jews should be understood as a sub-group by itself. Last, it should be noted that it is in Israel that almost all new spiritual or ideological positions in contemporary Jewry are developing.
In that broad range of positions, running from ultra-Orthodoxy to almost total integration into the non-Jewish world, many anti-Zionist Jews belong to the assimilated fringe of Jewry. Some are perplexing figures who carry with them the hard consequences of Jewish fate in the twentieth century, yet are thoroughly immersed in Western life and culture. Their critics frequently excoriate them as self-hating Jews, a view that is simplistic and inexact: most of them are quite normal persons as long as Zionism is not mentioned. Some define themselves as Jews, most are indifferent to their Jewishness, and one, the Israeli professor Shlomo Sand, recently proclaimed (in a whole book) that he is abandoning Judaism altogether, whatever he means by that. In general, these people show little interest in or understanding of issues that matter to contemporary Jews, such as assimilation or the resurgence of Judeophobia. Although they frequently collaborate with anti-Israel non-Jews, they do not oppose other Jews in the sense that classical antisemites do. Although critical of Israel and Israeli society, several of them live very well in Israel.
A large part of modern Jewry was touched by the Jewish spark, the dream of shivat tsion (the Return), and finds an emotional and conceptual anchor in the new Jewish reality of Israel even if they do not live there. Strangely enough, anti-Zionist Jewish intellectuals were also affected by the Zionist spark – but negatively. Their deeply emotional aversion to Zionism suggests a personal dimension, but that is beyond my expertise as a historian.
Anti-Zionist Jews concentrate primarily on one theme, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but the solutions they offer are as imaginary as their analyses. Worse, their influence on the debate is highly problematic. The fact that Muslims have a misguided understanding of the connection of the Jews to Palestine is a major reason for their consistent failure to cope with what has become a major political and ideological problem for them. I have not met a single Muslim intellectual who did not repeat the canard that "antisemitism caused Zionism," the inevitable corollary being: "The persecution of the Jews in Europe was a terrible thing. But why do the poor Palestinians have to pay for it?" Jewish intellectuals who support this approach bestow weight onto an ideological misconstruction, the ultimate effect of which is to perpetuate the conflict between Israel and the Arabs.
Anti-Zionist Jews also have a penchant for the theatrical. "The Destiny of Israel: How Zionism Pursues Its Doom," thunders Zuckermann in the title of a recent book, in fine prophetic style. Neo-prophetic, actually. Unlike the prophets of old (or the anti-Zionists of the early twentieth-century), these Jewish critics do not sermonize "inside" but "outside": they preach to non-Jews. Jewish anti-Zionism was once an internal dispute, with Jews debating Jews. Contemporary Jewish anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism is mostly an external affair, with Jews addressing non-Jews, many of them Jew-haters. And those Jews say exactly what many of their non-Jewish listeners want to hear, giving the whole exchange a surreal dimension. I cannot imagine an American intellectual critical of the US government or of American society whose main forum is, let us say, in France.
We live in a time when classical Judeophobia, in the new garb of anti-Israelism, is spreading. Encumbering the search for a solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is a political and ideological confrontation between most of world Jewry and the Muslims. There is no reason on earth not to believe the Iranian ayatollahs, or any other Islamists, when they declare repeatedly that their aim is to destroy the Jewish state, and that they will do their best to achieve that goal. And they are openly supported by Judeophobic sectors of Western society.
Obviously, it is absolutely legitimate to criticize this or that aspect of Israeli life and politics. Every newspaper in Israel does it every day. To call for the destruction of the Jewish state is something else: it is Judeophobia in contemporary dress. To collaborate with parties, states, or people who support such plans, as many Jewish anti-Zionists do, is sheer irresponsibility. It is one thing when Professor Judith Butler, securely ensconced in her American university, euphemistically proposes "changes" for the Jewish state and describes Hamas as a social movement with leftist characteristics. It is something else when anti-Zionist Israelis, who live well in the country, support those intent on taking over their homes and expelling them from the land.
The "anti"-positions of anti-Zionist Jews provide them with a platform, but one does not find in their utterances an anchor in matters Jewish. Their trumpets are shrill but their analyses are incorrect, and over their message hangs a cloud of hopelessness. A bit more modesty and a dose of reflection may, hopefully, bring these anti-Zionist Jews to a better and more balanced understanding of modern Jewish history and actual Jewish realities.
Evyatar Friesel is professor emeritus of Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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When it comes to health problems, we don't always acknowledge, or take seriously, mental health issues. However, mental illness is not only a serious issue on its own, but it also directly impacts physical health. So, it's time to start taking it seriously. Even those suffering from mental illnesses may not even know it. Because of the stigma placed on mental illnesses and the mentally ill, many sufferers often blame others or themselves for the way they're feeling, which gradually deteriorates their relationships, which then exacerbates their problems. If you're suffering from depression, or you think you might be, there are a few ways to alleviate symptoms before you ever see a psychiatrist. (which I do still highly recommend).
First and foremost, get out of the house. It sounds too easy, but taking a walk and getting exercise have been proven to alleviate the symptoms of depression. On the walking front, the changing scenery is stimulating your mind in a way that being cooped up at home can't, and it can improve your mood greatly. As for exercise, breaking a sweat and getting the blood pumping releases endorphins, which will improve your mood. On both fronts, physical activity is what we were biologically built for, so it stands to reason that modern man's inert lifestyle could be a contributing factor to depression.
Another way to combat depression symptoms is simply to make changes at home. Specifically, redecorating can provide a new environment which inspires a new, more positive perspective. Consider adding more color to your living space. Blue, especially, is known to have a calming effect and can boost creativity. When it comes to redecorating, Nordstrom can be a good place to start your search for decor, and many others needs geared toward reinvigorating your life.


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The grand design is the following:
- There is certain application that gets installed as a Windows Service
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- Each of them exposes some interface to the network (think of it as "remote control" or "configuration" - that kind of thing)
- Then there is another application that acts as a client for that interface (using same analogies - "remote controller" or "configuration tool")
- The objective of the latter is to sniff out all instances of the former on the network, display them as a list to the user and allow the user to poke them in different places using that exposed interface (i.e. "remote control" or "configure" them)
- For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that everybody is in the same network - that is, everybody can hear each other's UDP broadcasts.
Pretty straightforward, eh? I used to build this kind of things by the dozen in ye olden days, using roll-my-own UDP-broadcast-based discovery mechanism.
But now I thought I'd be cool and hip, and go with the groovy WCF Discovery in Ad Hoc mode. And it works! Who could tell? :-)
But not quite.
As was noted before me here and there, the discovery returns the hard-coded URL from service's config. That is, if the service has
<baseAddresses><add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:1234/My/Service" /></baseAddresses> in it's config file, then that's exactly what I'm going to get from discovery client - including the "localhost" part.
Needless to say, if I try to call the service using that URL, the result is not thrilling.
So the question is: how do I make the discovery client give me the usable URL instead of that localhost-ish garbage?
To save everybody's time, a couple of thoughts that don't work:
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Doesn't work, because both IP and machine name may change.
- Configure the service from code (at least partially), using current IP or machine name to construct the URL.
Doesn't work. Machine name is useless, because there might not be a dns in the network. IP is useless, because the computer may be on several networks at once, and thus, have several IP addresses (this is not hypothetical, we actually do have this situation). Which one to use then?
In other words, I need not to tweak the service, but rather to make the discovery client give me the address that the discovery response came from.


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I haven't posted in a few days, so I thought I would post something fun + polka dot inspired. Here's a little palette board, or I guess a pattern board. So many polka dots, so little time! Ah! I love polka dots in all colours, but I thought I would stick with a classic + simple black and white theme for this post.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rosemont College – a small, private liberal arts college just outside of Philadelphia – announced today that it will reduce tuition by 43 percent beginning next year. The college said it hoped to make a Rosemont education accessible to more families and to bring clarity to a college financing process it calls "broken."
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Dr. Sharon Hirsh, president of Rosemont College, said the goals of the initiative were twofold: to offer a new choice to families who thought Rosemont was out of their price range, and to restore clarity and simplicity to a college financing system that had become muddled and confusing.
"The current college financing model is broken," she said. "College tuition has become an artificial sticker price that most students do not end up paying. Instead, colleges discount the price through a package of grants and scholarships, which are nothing more than discounts off of the sticker price.
"Research tells us that more than half of all families eliminate Rosemont and other colleges from consideration based on cost alone. Unfortunately, their decision-making is based on inaccurate information. With Our Tuition Promise, we are moving from a high-price, high-discount model to a low-price, low-discount model, making a private education at a public school price a realistic prospect for more families."
Hirsh emphasized that financial aid and merit scholarships would still be available to Rosemont students. "Students who qualify for financial aid and academic scholarships will still receive them, but they will be based on the new, true tuition price of $18,500 rather than $32,620."
In the last three years, 15 colleges across the nation have enacted similar tuition resets. Rosemont is the first college in the Philadelphia region to reduce its tuition this dramatically.
Unlike most college tuition resets, Rosemont's will result in actual cost savings for every current student at the college. Savings will range from $100 to several thousands of dollars.
Richard Geschke, Esq., chair of Rosemont's Board of Trustees, said the college's administration had been studying the issue for several years and that the decision to reduce tuition and room and board was met with unanimous approval by the Board this past June.
"Because we're small, we're able to be nimble," he said. "We're doing this not because we have to, but because we can. We want to be sure we're attracting the students who might initially have ruled us out due to price tag alone, but who will now realize they can afford a Rosemont education."
The reduction will apply to incoming students, as well as every undergraduate student at Rosemont for the 2016-2017 academic year, beginning in August 2016. Our Tuition Promise will continue every year thereafter; the only increases will be very modest to address inflation.
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10 Amazing State Parks Around Dallas – Fort Worth That Will Blow You Away
Expansive lakes, numerous hiking and biking trails, dedicated horse trails, year-round sunny weather – it's no wonder why State Parks in the Dallas – Fort Worth area are the "go-to" places for outdoor fun! But have you seen the dinosaur fossils and farm tour? Be sure to visit these outstanding state parks in North Texas.
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Bevin Fortuin knocked out from a big swinging arm
Van der Merwe catches his opponent on the chin, immediately knocking him unconscious.
The ref somehow missed this incident though and the guilty party got away with it, although he will be cited no doubt. Makes you wonder if the TMO or at least the big screen in the stadium should be allowed to be brought into the game for incidents like this?
The game heated up after this, as the Cheetahs were looking for a bit of revenge. Though it became a tad too aggressive at times, the match was an enjoyable one with glimpses of some brilliant running rugby; not just brutal defense.


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Shape vs. Form by Teresa Pilcher
Shape and form are two of the most commonly misunderstood elements of composition in photography. Again this idea is very simple but effective when used well.
So what is the difference between shape and form? Shape is simply the two-dimensional outline of an object or subject. Form is similar to shape but has three-dimensional aspects created by light and shade. Form adds depth and volume to an image, not unlike texture it makes us feel like we can reach into the image and touch the object. So we need to decide, what is more interesting to an image? What makes this image unique? Is it the shape or the form? Lighting is one of the ways we can add depth to an image. It is the highlights and shadows that allows us to create form. If an image is lit from the front, it becomes flat and two-dimensional. Whereas, if an object is side-lit or has ambient lighting, it has more substance.
In the image above, there is both shape and form. The man has no dimension, but the staircase leading up to him does. This is an example of ambient or available light which envelopes the scene adding highlights and shadows.
Next time you are out on the street photographing, notice what the light does to your subjects. Does it add dimension and form or do they appear as two-dimensional shapes.
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I know now that in hand pictures have surfaced of this figure, collector desire seems to have waned just a bit. With some reduced paint applications and color adjustments this figure seems to have gone from red-hot to luke warm almost overnight.
If that means it'll be easier to stock up on these after release, that's cool with me, because I still plan on buying as many of these as I can get. On Asian message board ACToys, poster 236604994 has gotten one of these figures in his grasp, and posted a nice allotment of in hand pictures, including front and back package shots, and the very cool ASP-themed rocket launcher.
I will agree with some of the fandom out there and say that I wish they had kept the darker, more detailed paint work of the pre-production version, but I don't think this one is bad by any stretch. The varied amount of accessories, multiple heads, and the digital camouflage all look pretty great. Check out the images on ACToys, or in the gallery mirrored below.


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September 26, 2017 Published ~ 2 years ago.
Fresh Tips for Curating A Chic Hallow's Eve Party
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As our day planners thicken on the left and grow sparse to the right, it's hard to believe the year is, indeed, winding down. With the end of the year comes the season of celebrations and parties. First up: Hallow's Eve.
To us, the autumn holiday season is barely complete without a blowout shindig on October 31. However, Hallow's Eve parties tend to run a bit cliché. The various shades of bright orange, Monster Mash soundtracks and snacks made in the shapes of human body parts all end up feeling stale.
This year, we propose you try a new take on your Hallow's Eve party. Dark and elegant color schemes, carefully crafted pumpkin arrangements and a few other small details are simple ways to give your Hallow's Eve party a breath of crisp air.
Get creative with your pumpkins
Much like Charlie Brown classics, the nostalgia of carving your carefully selected gourds with the family will never die. For your Hallow's Eve party, however, it might be time to rethink how you handle these festive squash. Pumpkins' simplicity leaves much room to the imagination. The outside can be painted to match the theme of your bash, covered in glitter or calligraphed.
Whatever the vibe of your party, think of your pumpkins as a blank canvas and go for it. Once done, use them to decorate your porch or the inside of your home by stacking them or placing them throughout.
Lace and tulle
When planning a chic Hallow's Eve bash the emphasis lies in the skill of balancing the day's notoriously spooky theme with sophistication. For finding this happy medium we enjoy using loads of black tulle and lace detail.
These materials are not only inexpensive and ultra-accessible at your neighborhood craft store, but are also easy to work with. Wrapping balloons in tulle or layering black lace under your table runners are examples of some sweet touches. Setting forth minimal effort with these sheer materials transforms each room and makes you feel like the party-planning-maven you didn't know you could be.
Dark florals
Deep red roses and even dyed blooms are encouraged. What we love about dark florals is the contrast of the softness of the petals with the deep tints. Keeping your flower arrangements dark adds that fairy tale ambiance to your party.
Something else to keep in mind while shopping and planning your shadowy-petaled arrangements: your color scheme. While we are partial to the black and gold look, there are also several other schemes to work with. Get creative with burgundy, whites, greys and metal tones.
Skulls encouraged
Skulls happen to be a weird hybrid in terms of decoration and fashion. They are morbid if you think about them for too long, but they're also on trend. Decorating for your Hallow's Eve party is easier if you can get on board with them.
Use anything from skull place cards on the table to small trinkets to decorate your tables and entry way, and give each space a small touch that reinforces the spookiness of the holiday. Try using glass skull sculptures as part of your centerpieces or even give small skull paperweights as party favors.
Long candlesticks
Candlelight adds both elegance and spookiness. Combine tapers with tall candlesticks and you have the perfect way to light your evening. We suggest using various heights of candlestick holders for a look that draws the eye and keeps things interesting. Still want something a little different? Try candles or candlestick holders in a variety of colors.
The highlight of the holiday season is getting to spend it with those friends and family we love and haven't seen in too long. This season, make your Hallow's Eve one to remember by putting your elegant twist on the classics and pulling out all of the (surprisingly simple) stops.
Here are some of our favorite Hallow's Eve decor ideas to take your party to the next level:
1.Gold Skull Table Top Sculpture
2. Silk Mum
3. Tiny Halloween Taper Candles
5. Leaf Pic
6. Pumpkins and Berries Wreath
9. Yellow, Red and Orange Mum Bunch
10. Faux Pumpkins
Don't forget to share with us how you put your twist on these Hallow's Eve party tips!
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May 24, 2017 Published ~ 2 years ago.
inside josé parlá's snøhetta-designed art studio in brooklyn
occupying a single-storey structure, the workspace is surrounded by mechanics and manufacturers in the industrial gowanus neighborhood.
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May 24, 2017 Published ~ 2 years ago.
Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française
Here's a strange one from last century, created with string for French broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) so that, when filmed, it produced a shimmering effect that wasn't possible with a 2D drawing.
Maybe the shimmering got lost in this old footage.
Not a good logo, but I like that craftsmanship.
Via Colossal.
For a logo with a similar handcrafted feel, the history of the MGM lions.
May 8, 2017 Published ~ 3 years ago.
On the Nature of Things
It has been estimated that prior to the European invention of typographic printing in the mid-fifteenth century, some ten million manuscripts were produced.* During the incunabula (c. 1450–1500), some 30,000 editions were printed in as many as thirteen million copies. Thus, in the course of just fifty years, more books were produced than had been in the previous 1,000 years! But what did fifteenth century readers read? For the most part, Renaissance readers differed little from their medieval forebears. One third of everything published in the fifteenth century was religious in nature, and as this is Europe prior to the Reformation, then by religious literature we mean that of the Catholic Church. The greatest proportion comprised liturgical books, like missals and psalters. Then the many smaller format books for private devotional use, like Books of Hours and prayer books. Then Bibles (Latin and vernacular) and Bible commentaries and books on canon or Church law, various edicts and Papal Bulls and broadsides (a single large sheet printed on one side).
Although the Renaissance remained profoundly religious, it was obsessed with pagan antiquity in all its aspects. In the literature of classical antiquity, the humanist scholars of the Renaissance, from Petrarch, saw in it a perfect or ideal model for Latin, which had, in their opinion, been adulterated during the long Middle Ages. Classical manuscripts came to be viewed as the gold standard of Latin style and orthography and great efforts were taken to track down lost manuscripts. Thus the fifttenth century witnessed a resurgence in the works of classical Roman and Greek philosophers and poets, from Cicero, published in more than 300 editions during the fifteenth century, to Aristotle, Virgil and Seneca, to name but a few.
Of the approximately 30,000 known editions published during the incunabula, close to 2,100 editions (≈15%) were of the classical authors. Of these, my favorite is the great didactic poem, On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura) by Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 – 55 BC). The work had been all but forgotten during the thousand-year Middle Ages, until rediscovered in a South German monastery in January of 1417 by book hunter and scholar, Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459). In addition to being a model for its exemplary Latin style, its ideas would sow the seeds for later intellectual and scientific movements. On the Nature of Things is a book of natural philosophy or science in which the author, espouses and defends the philosophy of Epicurianism, tackling everything from the infinite nature and constitution of the universe, that everything is made of atoms existing in a void, that the soul is mortal, that death is not to be feared, how civilizations and religions begin, through to the more prosaic; for example, the preferred position for successful conception, "breast down and loins up." (Book 4:1263–77)
On the Nature of Things was first published in print in In about 1473–74 by Thomas Ferrandus, a teacher, probably in Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. He likely learned to print in Milan or Venice (I believe the timing makes Venice the more likely). Little else is known about Ferrandus besides the books he printed and that in 1475 he quit printing to become a priest. However, he did resume printing in 1493. He died in poverty in the first decade of the sixteenth century.
I have not seen the first edition printed by Ferrandus and there are no digital scans or photos available. Only four editions* of the work appear in the fifteenth century – all published in northern Italy (Brescia, Verona and Venice). The image above reproduces a page from an edition printed in Verona in September 1486 by Paulus Fridenperger. The last of the fifteenth century was published by Aldus Manutius in 1500.
It would be another 200 years before Lucretius' ideas gained traction against religious dogma. It wasn't translated into the vernacular until the seventeenth century: First in French in 1650, and in English, in the same decade, by Lucy Hutchinson. Thanks to those translators and to early pionerring printers, like Ferrandus, Lucretius' great work was guaranteed survival, that it might educate, inspire and console countless generations. And Lucretius' words are a constant reminder that truth and the search for truth matters.
If you're interested in learning more about Lucretius' wonderful On the Nature of Things, then I recommend the informative, entertaining and Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt.
* Buringh, E., & Van Zanden, J. L. (2009). 'Charting the "Rise of the West": Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries. The Journal of Economic History', 69(2), pp. 409–445.
** On the topic of a fifth edition, apparently no longer extant, see Smith, M., & Butterfield, D. (2010). 'Not a Ghost: The 1496 Brescia Edition of Lucretius', Aevum, 84(3), pp. 683–693
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July 1, 2014 Published ~ 5 years ago.
Paul Stamatiou on the role of motion in modern design:
Times are changing. Things like page transitions will still exist but involve more of the elements on each page. You'll begin choreographing. In the next few years consideration for motion will be required to be a good citizen of your desktop/mobile/wearable/auto/couch platform. It will be an expected part of the design process just like people will begin to expect this level of activity and character in software.
Motion is becoming an essential component of design, and with the recent transition to a minimalist aesthetic across platforms animating the interface has become a whole lot simpler. With the advent of solid CSS animation support and speedy animation frameworks like Velocity.js I expect Web design to move in this direction as well.
July 27, 2012 Published ~ 7 years ago.
Debt salt and pepper shakers comment on personal economic crisesAsmita Prasad:
The state of the world economy has been shaky since the global recession in 2008, leaving many people jobless and many were even forced out of their homes due to mortgage woes. Consumerist as we are, the economic crisis appears to be heightened when we find that we cannot afford the same luxuries that we could when the inflow of money was smoother. To highlight the severity of personal economic meltdown and just how depressing and overwhelming the current economic climate is, designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created the Drowning in Debt Salt and Pepper Shaker Set.Drowning in Debt Salt and Pepper Shaker Set
The set features an office worker with his work briefcase inside the shaker itself, commenting on the direness of the current global economic climate and how badly it affects the lives of the workers working at the grassroots levels in multinational companies. As the salt and pepper is consumed, the workers emerge from the salt or pepper that symbolize debt or unemployment only to be flooded by it once again when the shakers are refilled.Drowning in Debt Salt and Pepper Shaker Set
In a way, the Drowning in Debt Salt and Pepper Shaker set makes a dark comment about the nature of debt and the struggle of the average officegoer in our times who tries to break free from the vicious cycle of economic meltdown and debt only to be engulfed by it once again.
Via: MHLMagazine/MocoLoco
April 9, 2012 Published ~ 8 years ago.
An analogy to sell design iteration
The beautiful thing about a car is that it's an amazingly complex system that can be controlled with just a steering wheel and two peddles. Sure, race car drivers have many more controls at their disposal, but they're advanced users. Let's help our users learn to drive before we teach them to be race care drivers.
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January 11, 2011 Published ~ 9 years ago.
Some perspective on the iPhone CDMA limitations on Verizon
After Verizon's announcement of the iPhone 4 coming to Big Red, I have seen a swarm of comments on news sites reacting negatively to the news that the iPhone won't be able to use data and voice simultaneously from a 3g connection. While this limitation is true, it is simply not that big of a deal, and here is why:
As long as you are connected to Wi-Fi, you can be on a call and still use data. At home I have Wi-Fi, at my office I have Wi-Fi, nearly every restaurant downtown has Wi-Fi. The point is Wi-Fi is ubiquitous.
One thing that I don't understand about this debacle is that every other Verizon phone has this same limitation and no one seems to be up in arms about it. My original Droid had this "problem" and my current Palm Pre Plus has this "fault" (as I've seen it called in online comments).
The only time this has been a problem for me in real world usage is when using the personal hot spot feature while traveling or you're dealing with spotty wifi coverage. Even then, is it really a huge deal to stop getting data on your laptop for 5 minutes if you absolutely must take a call? It hasn't been for me, it's a minor issue when you put it in perspective.
I would like to clear up one more thing. There seems to be confusion of , when you receive a call the data connection will be dropped and your phone call will go through. To think of it another way; Imagine you're laptop is connected to a router, but someone pulls out the ethernet cable going to the modem. Your laptop would still be connected to the router, but you wouldn't be online.
What do you think? Feel free to email me email@example.com.
June 9, 2010 Published ~ 9 years ago.
What they don't teach you about identity design in design schools…What they don't teach you about identity design in design schools…:
Mostly, designers get paid to negotiate the difficult terrain of individual egos, expectations, tastes, and aspirations of various individuals in an organization or corporation, against business needs, and constraints of the marketplace.


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John A. Russell architecture building - University of Manitoba Photo: Jeramee Fajardo
Warehouse is a non-profit journal established in 1992 that showcases the yearly work of students and staff from the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture. The publication is devoted to the critical pursuit of design discourse and the greater application to various collective communities. The journal reflects, engages and extends ideas from within the various departments that fall within the interdisciplinary vision of our Faculty.
"Do we publish to exist, or do we exist to publish? Has architecture's affinity for the printed media directed the current discourse, or has it proven solely as a mechanism to validate our uncertain existence?"
[foreword from Warehouse 01]


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Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch is scheduled to participate in two Triad panel discussions in September. Both are ticketed events open to the public.
On Sept. 12, Hatch will join presidents of five North Carolina universities and colleges in a free-flowing discussion of the present and future course of higher education at The Governor Morehead Forum. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, 310 Greene St.
D.G. Martin, an educator and host of "Bookwatch" on UNC-TV, will moderate a wide-ranging 90-minute exchange with Hatch; Richard Broadhead, Duke University; Jane Fernandes, Guilford College; Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, Bennett College; Leo Lambert, Elon University; and Carol Quillen, Davidson College.
Additional information about the event is here. Arrangements have been made for Wake Forest alumni to obtain tickets and sit in a block.
On Sept. 13, Hatch will participate in a luncheon event presented by the Winston-Salem Tech Council as part of its annual speaker series. The "From Tobacco to Technology Book Launch" event will celebrate the publication of author Frank Elliot's book titled "From Tobacco to Technology." The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 pm. at Wake Forest Biotech Place, 575 N. Patterson Ave., in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.
Discussion participants will include Hatch; Elliot; Vernon George, principal of George, Henry, George Partners; Michael Adler, director of the Office of Technology Transfer at Brigham Young University; Eric Tomlinson, chief innovation officer of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and president of Wake Forest Innovation Quarter; and John McConnell, CEO, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
More details are available here.
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Bike Friendly Communities
Communities that are walk-able and bike-able make it easy for neighbors to get out and be active. The Healthy Kids Collaborative helped six Dane County communities showcase their bike routes, encouragement of biking and policies to promote easy biking. Each city (and the University of Wisconsin –Madison) was name a Bike Friendly Community–all receiving ahigher designation in 2015.
Great ideas from the group to promote biking:
- Creation of the "I Love to Bike Madison" map highlighting safe routes to family-friendly destinations.
- Valet bike parking at community events (compliments of the Sun Prairie bicycle advocacy group).
- University police hold a "Be Bright" night in the fall–supplying bikers with free headlights and instruction on light laws.
- Bike-in Movie Night at held at a remote park.
- Interested in having your city become a Bike Friendly Community? Contact Renee Callaway.


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- Very long PowerPoint that scrolls slides throughout the school day when I am not using the equipment to teach a lesson. Slides can be booktalks, quotations, trivia questions, reminders, school/library announcements, etc. Ideally, you need at least 30 slides to start, but you should add as many as possible. My current slideshow has 116 slides; it takes about 33 minutes to complete one cycle.
- TV or computer projector with screen
- Computer that can be hooked to the TV or projector AND can be designated for this purpose all day, every day. Computer or laptop needs to have the ability to play PowerPoint slides
- Lots and lots of PowerPoint slides! I included some of my slides below to give you some ideas. I would have included the entire thing, but as I use lots of Google images, I don't want to risk copyright issues (some of my images are attributed, but some are not).
- The first thing I do every morning when I get to school is set up my scrolling PowerPoint. I keep the PowerPoint presentation on a USB stick so I can easily transfer the new PowerPoint onto my presentation laptop. I keep the file (called "Daily") on the desktop of the presentation laptop. When I load the new presentation, which is slightly different every day, I just replace the previous one. This also keeps an extra copy of my presentation in case–gasp–something horrible should happen to my USB stick.
- The second thing I do each day is set up my circulation computer. Along with opening up Destiny for circulation, I open my scrolling PowerPoint so it's ready for any new slides I may want to add. During the day, if I notice an outdated slide (such as "This Week in History" from three weeks ago), I already have the presentation open on my circulation computer. It just takes a second to delete the old slide.
- Throughout the day, I try to add at least a couple of new slides. It doesn't always happen, but some days, I am able to add five or ten new slides.
- Slides can also be from my library lessons. For example, I recently did a lesson and booktalk on the Fantasy genre. Our library is genre-fied, and I split Fantasy into multiple smaller genres (light fantasy, high fantasy, paranormal, mythology, and horror). Since I used PowerPoint for that presentation, it was easy to copy some of the slides and add them into my scrolling PowerPoint. This also helps reinforce the characteristics of the genres I taught that day.
Yes, I know creating 50+ PowerPoint slides is time-consuming. You don't have to start with 50 though. The first day I did this, I had maybe 10 slides. They scrolled all day, and the students saw them over and over and over. But the next day, there were a couple of new slides. Then more the next day. Before long, I had 116 slides. Over the course of a few months, I had added more slides than I had removed. Some ideas for things to include in your presentation:
- Booktalks–I include the book's front cover image and a quotation or the first line. I also put the call number of the book underneath the cover image.
- Famous quotations
- Funny cartoons
- Trivia questions–There are lots of daily trivia websites out there for kids and teens! I put the question on one slide, then have the answer come up 2-3 slides later. This gives the students a chance to think about their answers and encourages them to watch the slides in between.
- This Week in History–because "This Day in History" needs to be changed too frequently. I also have a couple of "This Month in History" that need even less-frequent changes.
- Word of the Day or Week–A new, interesting vocabulary word for your students to learn.
- Facts, particularly animal facts–They love them! For Earth Day, I created 10 slides for each of the ten most endangered animals in the world. Extreme weather facts and photos also seem to be popular.
- Caught ya reading! photographs–I always get permission from the students before I use their photos on my PowerPoints.
- Other photos from around the library–Again, I recommend getting permission from the students first.
- Friendly library reminders–I do allow my students to have drinks in the library. Spills mostly aren't a huge problem, though they do sometimes happen. For this reason, I have a slide reminding them to "Keep a cap on your drink in the library!" along with a photo of a water spill on the library carpet. Other slides are things like "How many books do you have checked out? Now is a great time to check your account!" or "Don't know where a book is? Check the Destiny search stations on the circulation desk!"
- Current events–Many students do not read the news or know much at all about world events.
- School announcements–"Picture Day is this Friday" along with one of those "Worst Yearbook Photos" I've seen all over Facebook lately. Or, "Congratulations to our Wildcat Football team on their 36-12 win over the Meadowside Badgers. Go Cats!" Include a photo from the game or a pep rally.
YouTube is full of instrumental music compilations. Behind my scrolling PowerPoint, I play classical instrumental music from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Lizst, Tchaivosky all day long. You can sort by >20 minutes and find many playlists that last for two hours or more. Look for instrumental movie music such as The Lord of the Rings, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Disney instrumentals, and Braveheart. Watch for audio ads though–they can sometimes be inappropriate for school (beer ads, for example) or simply just a lot louder than the music.
- Change your slides often. I cannot emphasize this enough. Some slides can stay indefinitely (booktalks, reminders about drinks having caps on them), but others will need to be deleted after a certain period of time. A current event from two months ago is no longer "current" and should be changed out for another newsworthy event. "This Week in History" should actually be THIS WEEK. If you don't want to change it that frequently, make it "This Month in History."
- Time your slides. My slides automatically advance after 17 seconds.
- Make your slides colorful and visually appealing. Include at least one large image and colorful text.
- Look for images with high-resolution. You don't want blurry, pixelated images on your presentation. If you use Google images, you can click on Search Tools and sort by size (select Large or Extra Large for the highest resolution).
- Let your students and teachers create slides and send them to you via email. I just started this at my school, but I've already had one slide submitted from an 8th grade girl. When introducing it, we talked about what made a slide good/interesting versus boring/not interesting. We talked about color and image quality and large text size. I will be doing this with multiple classes over the next couple of weeks, so we will see how it goes.