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Jewish Historical Fiction
for Older Readers:
Immigration and "The American Experience"
Fire at the Triangle Factory
Minnie and Tessa have worked together in the shirtwaist factory since they
were only 10 years old and needed to hide from the inspector. Now, at 14, they
are old enough to work, and both operate sewing machines to help their families
scrape together a living. In 1911 New York City, Jewish Minnie and Catholic
Tessa can only be friends at the factory, but this friendship pays off when the
famous and tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire takes the lives of many of
their coworkers and threatens theirs. The story builds in suspense as the girls
help each other in their struggle to escape from the burning factory. The numerous,
large color drawings by Mary O'Keefe Young are a wonderful asset to the story,
which young readers will find exciting as well as touching.
Angel Square
By Brian Doyle
It's 1945 and Tommy lives in the tough multi-ethnic neighborhood of Lowertown, Ottawa, where someone who hates Jewish people has attacked his best friend's father. Adopting the persona of his favorite radio hero, Tommy, aka. "The Shadow," teams up with friends "Killer" Bodnoff and CoCo Laframboise to find out who did it, but soon realizes that the quest will lead them straight to Angel Square - a fearsome battleground where Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish kids fight each other daily. Still, if Tommy can find the culprit, he's convinced Mr. Rosenberg will recover and his pal Sammy will return from the faraway town where his dad is hospitalized. And could it be that, in the process, Tommy will also manage to impress the girl of his dreams, Margot Lane? In the course of his search, Tommy learns about the forces that divide communities, as well as those that unite them.
One-Way to Ansonia
By Judie Angell
The story of a young girl, Rose Olshansky, from her days in New York when she was just a girl, until she decided she was going to Ansonia, Connecticut to begin her new life. Filled with vivid portrayals and moving moments, this journey with Rose is a non-stop adventure!
The story of Rose, one of a large Russian Jewish immigrant family, begins as she buys a ticket to Ansonia at Grand Central Station in 1899. Sixteen, she is taking her baby away from the squalor of tenement life. . . . {The story} then goes back to the arrival, six years earlier, of Rose and her siblings in New York; they were to be a surprise for their father's new wife, but they were all hastily put in separate but equally crowded homes and put to work. Rose was the rebel . . . secretly going to night school--secretly because Papa wouldn't approve.
L'Chaim :
The Story of a Russian Emigre Boy
By Tricia Brown
Zev Tsukerman is a 12-year-old boy who was born Jewish in the former Soviet
Union, where he and his family were unable to practice their religion freely. Now
living in San Francisco, Zev studies Hebrew and learns the prayers and practices
of his faith. Award-winning author Tricia Brown details a culture and a way of life.
Together, Brown and Kobre present a charming composite of 12-year-old Zev Tsukerman, Russian emigre, Orthodox Jew, contemporary San Francisco youngster. Colorful photographs show Zev at home, in his Jewish day school, celebrating Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and playing with his friends. The layout is attractive, with ample white space and clear type. Some of the photos, however, look too posed, and a few seem rather yellowish in tone and slightly blurred, as if taken from a family album. Yet the pictures certainly capture Zev as an appealing, likable child and make him, despite the unfamiliar aspects of his orthodoxy, seem remarkably like the happy "kid next door." The unpretentious text, written as though Zev were speaking, explains how Judaism, denied to Zev in his native country, now encircles and enriches his life.
By Kathryn Lasky
Sarah Benjamin, a Jewish teenager on the brink of Kennedy's New Frontier, wonders if she can endure four more years of Stuart Hall, Indianapolis's most exclusive, very Christian, and impossibly stuffy school for girls.
This novel, set in Indianapolis, traces the life of Sarah Benjamin, a Jewish teenager attending a conservative Christian private high school, from 1960 to 1963. "Structured in four parts, each introduced by Sarah's participation in the school's annual Christmas pageant (always as a shepherd), the storytakes Sarah from her initial excitement at the prospect of Kennedy's electionand its promise of new possibilities to the . . . events in her life during the weekend of his assassination.
In this complex portrayal of an upper-middle class Indianapolis family, Lasky has returned to the sure voice she found in The Night Journey.. . . Only the ending, despite its evocation of the immediacy with which mostAmericans felt Kennedy's assassination, betrays some impatience on the author's part, as she compresses her heroine's resolution and telescopes her future. The balance of the book is toward wit, vivid development, and characterization equally piercing of adolescents and adults.
For anyone who lived through the Kennedy years, the dreams and glory of that time are tough to communicate, especially to younger people. Kathryn Lasky, in her lovely new novel, Pageant, has finally done it. . . . {Sarah's} story is a gift to parents longing to pass the legacy of those extraordinary times on to their children.
Sarah, Also Known As Hannah
As if life weren't difficult enough for a Jewish family in the Ukraine at the turn
of the century, 12-year-old Sarah's father dies, leaving his widow alone to
raise four children. Knowing no other way to cope, Sarah's mother plans to
send her two daughters to her brother in America, but he can pay passage only
for one girl and requests 16-year-old Hannah. At almost the last minute, however,
Mama decides she needs Hannah's help and income; therefore, Sarah is to go
in Hannah's place. Heartsick at leaving her family, troubled to think she's a
burden to her mother, and terrified by the trip she faces alone, the 12-year-old
recounts her experiences on the long journey and, finally, the tentative reunion
with her uncle and aunt on Ellis Island. Retelling her own mother's story, Ross
has written a moving testament to the courage, resilience, and hopefulness born
of desperation that motivated young immigrants such as Sarah and her mother.
Cogancherry's black-and-white drawings effectively reinforce the adventure's
Lone Star
By Barbara Barrie
It's fall 1944, and 10-year-old Jane Miller has moved from Chicago to Corpus Christi, Tex. A Jew and a "Yank," Jane is further alienated from her classmates by her family's sudden poverty--the result of her indulgent father's having embezzled funds from the insurance company he works for. As Mr. Miller tries to repair the damage he's done to his family, Jane longs desperately to fit into her strange new environment. Her beloved Orthodox grandfather visits, but fails to console her: "Friends are not as important as living a life of dedication," he declares. When Jane's new friend Sally invites her to help trim a Christmas tree, Jane is enchanted and wants a tree of her own. In her first novel, actress Barrie sets Jane's wrestling with her own identity against a sensitively and economically drawn backdrop of family conflict, all overshadowed by the gradual revelations of the atrocities Hitler has wreaked on European Jewry. Although the dialogue is occasionally stiff and a few characters are not fully evoked, Barrie's protagonists are original, and her story both memorable and moving.
Forced to move from Chicago to Corpus Christi, Texas because of her father's business, ten-year-old Jane Miller explores her Jewish heritage as she struggles to fit in with her primarily Christian classmates. Set in the 1940s, Jane's family's problems are magnified by worry about what is happening in Europe. Her brother, Jeff, has just reached draft age, and many relatives in Poland have disappeared. Jane's grandfather, an Orthodox Jew, believes obeying all Jewish laws is more important now than ever, while her father understands Jane's desire to have a Christmas tree and attend holiday parties with her new friends. On her own she tries to understand religious differences as well as the tensions between her parents. Each family member feels guilt and anger about their current situation; their conflicts and love are realistically described. Non-Jewish readers will gain a greater understanding of Jewish beliefs and holiday rituals. The evocative story has a strong sense of time and place and is also successful in capturing the point of view of a child.
This is a close and honest look at a child's struggle with being different. A stranger to two worlds, Jane is also threatened by her brother's leavingto become a soldier, by her parents' constant fighting, and by her grandfather's exclusive definitions of Jewish tradition. . . . This is a tightly focusedbook, its pace heightened by dramatic scenes (especially Jane's trips downtown with her grandfather to sell his tacky line of dry goods), closely observed character dynamics, an ending that leaves important questions open for readersto think about, and enough emotional momentum to insure that they will.
The Swastika on the Synagogue Door
By J. Leonard Romm
When a Long Island synagogue is defaced with a swastika and an anti-semitic slogan, a teenage brother and sister try to solve the mystery with the help of their rabbi and a Holocaust survivor.
The Secret Code and Other Stories
By Gershon Kranzler
From a hijacking in London to a rescue at Brighton Beach, these exciting stories depict modern Jewish boys faced with challenges and tests of character, in the midst of fast-paced adventure.
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Night Flight
By Gerald Hausman
Jeff's cool friend Max is anti-Semitic: What would he do if he knew Jeff was half-Jewish? In this first-person narrative, based on a real event in the author's childhood, 12-year-old Jeff Hausman confronts his identity. Max blames the Jews for poisoning the dogs in his lakeside community, and reluctantly, Jeff is drawn into Max's plans for revenge. To his shame, Jeff is haunted by a secret, a nightmare he can't forget, involving a time when Max shot a burlap bag full of live kittens, and Jeff stood by passively. The plot creaks with contrived parallels and heavy metaphors, including a patched-on episode about burned books and a Gypsy librarian-poet who spells out wise messages. The history will confuse kids: the story is set in the 1950s; Jeff's father left Hungary long before World War II; Max's father, however, was a Nazi. Still, Hausman writes with poetry and immediacy about coming to America ("We left farms and family and turned our faces to the faceless sea" ) and about the moral conflict of a boy who finally finds the courage to identify with his Jewish father and know himself.
The Streets Are Paved With Gold
By Fran Weissenberg
Deborah Gold chronicles her eighth-grade year in this poignant coming-of-age novel. Debbie's Jewish immigrant family lives simply and traditionally, but though the girl cherishes her heritage, she desperately wishes to be like the modern American children in her school. Debbie struggles to achieve a delicate balance as she confronts first love, new friendships and familial responsibility. She begins to understand the vital connections between her home life and the everchanging world outside. Authentic dialogue and precise details bring 1920s Brooklyn vividly to life, while Debbie's first person narration lends immediacy and emotion to her experiences. The integrity and generosity of the Gold family will impress readers young and old. Weissenberg provides a glossary of Yiddish terms so that no reader will feel excluded.
Allegra Maud Goldman
By Edith Konecky
This comic novel, first published in 1976, about a feisty Jewish girl child growing up in a wealthy bourgeois Brooklyn family in the 1920s is evoked by a conciousness witty, authentic, and memorable. Alone, Allegra must learn about what it means to be female, about sex, and about death. She must reconcile the bigotries and limitations of her difficult family, and give and receive love however she can. There are memorable scenes in school and summer camp, with friends, and with older girls and women. Throughout, the voice of Allegra remains compellingly defiant and lovable--and, as Tillie Olsen says, "braided with laughter."
"Allegra Maud Goldman. There's a whole plot in that name...I knew from the beginning that I would never fit that name." For Allegra, growing up is challenging on every front. Her father is rarely happy, her mother is rarely home, and her older brother just wants to practice the piano. Grandma stays in the background, except at Passover - then she is in the kitchen. Allegra questions everything, coming up with her own answers to what she sees through her young eyes, and her observations are fun and refreshing. She is the kind of child who drives her parents and teachers crazy: she's not bad, she's not mean, people call her precocious. But as Allegra observes: "...they never said it as though it were anything good to be." When she is forced to take home economics, she remembers her teacher as "a large, jolly-looking woman with a heart of stone." Her friend Melanie wonders about the home economics course: "if they're preparing us to be housewives and mothers, why don't they teach us something really useful like sexual intercourse?" To which Allegra remarks: "That's the kind of girl she was. Brainy." By the end of the novel, through Allegra's laughter and tears, we feel excitement for her future and realize she does indeed fit her name.
Jewish Cowboy
Dreaming of a better life, Isaac leaves behind the slums and sweatshops of
New York�s Lower East Side to become a cowboy on a horse ranch in
North Dakota. The novel reflects the experiences of the author, who, like
his fictional hero Isaac, actually became a cowboy in North Dakota, and
later was a tobacco farmer in Connecticut. The events portrayed take place
in the early 1900s.
Memories of Clason Point
By Kelly Sonnenfeld
An engaging memoir of growing up as a bootlegger's daughter in the Bronx. Here is an
unusually evocative picture of family life during the Depression that transports the reader
back through time with sensual imagery, dialogue, and minutely descriptive detail. Kelly
Sonnenfeld's extraordinary recall has allowed her to re-create the lively scenes, pastimes,
and characters of her own childhood, all centered on one block in the famous multi-ethnic
Bronx neighborhood of Clason Point. From the Hooverville camps of squatters, homeless,
and unemployed to an endless succession of boarders and stray dogs, a caravan of
unforgettable faces and personalities travels through young Kelly's life. But most memorable
of all are the looming figures of her own people: her regally proud maternal grandmother,
who will buy her grandchildren fancy, starched dresses before putting food on their table;
her anxious but granite-willed mother; her endearingly optimistic father, whose adventures
in bootlegging bring the family close to peril on several occasions and eventually propel him
from the pocket of an influential judge to prison on Rikers Island. For fans of Depression
Era and gangster lore, for readers of any age who love losing themselves in another time and
place, this memoir is a remarkable journey to one of the most colorful destinations in
American history.
Old Ways, New Ways
By Tana Reiff
A Russian-Jewish family in New York is thrown into emotional turmoil when the son rejects his father's traditional lifestyle.
Ike and Mama and the Once-A-Year Suit
By Carol Snyder
It's the early 1900s, that time of the year again, time
for the boys to get new suits, some for Passover,
some for Easter. Ike's mother is the expert on how
to get the most for their once-a-year suit. Mama, the
acknowledged "best bargainer" in the Bronx, takes
her ecumenical group of fourteen neighborhood
boys on a shopping adventure.


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Without even realizing it.
It was just a few weeks ago that I recognized it. It was in the feel of my body that wasn't being fed both what I wanted + what it needed; the feel of my gut that wasn't being checked in with on decisions; + the overall feel of agitation.
Add into the fact that I had traveled to a new country with a new (or lack of) routine + I was feeling disconnected. Extremely so.
Then I read a post by the awesome Mara Glatzel encouraging me to sit down with this feeling of disconnect + ask myself... What is one thing I can do right now to change this? To bring myself closer to my intuition + feelings? To feel calm again?
Here are some things that are making my feel really good right now:
This is my number one! It fills me up + calms me when I begin to feel lost.
Routine doesn't mean my day is planned from 8:00AM to 10:00PM but that I have security check-points to meet back with myself. Making sure I have a planned breakfast and lunch, tea + cookies, time with the entire household, + time with just Katelin and I.
The in-betweens are up to me + how spontaneous I'm feeling (or not). And these moments feel a lot better with a routine set up around them.
Drinking Tea
At least once a day! 2:00-3:00PM is my designated tea time during the week. I brew my favorite cup of chamomile with honey, add three tea biscuits on the side, + let the feel goodery-ness commence.
Tea makes my body feel warm, cozy, + clean.
If I manage to get another cup in before bed is just an added bonus.
Doing Laundry
It smells good, adds a bit of productivity to the day, + I love looking out the back conservatory to see cloths hanging on the line. So British!
Reading Fashion Magazines
Fashion + my name have never been two words easily put side-by-side. But lately... I've been fascinated by it! It intrigues me. I love watching make-up gurus on YouTube, + I love reading about the latest trends no matter how much I hate those oversize knits.
Looking at the street style from the various Fashion Weeks inspires how I go shopping + put outfits together in my mind tenfold. (If only I had more money for more shopping!)
Also, England has the best fashion magazines for the best prices. Just saying.
Petting the Neighborhood Cats
No explanation needed. :)
What about you? What are some things making you feel really good right now?

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- About Hunger
- How to End Hunger
- Our Impact
- Get Involved
Bread for the World believes prayer is central to the work of ending hunger by 2030. Hunger happens in every corner of the world. In this blog series, we will provide a prayer for a different group of countries each week and their efforts to end hunger.
This prayer series will follow the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, a list compiled by the World Council of Churches that enables Christians around the world to journey in prayer through every region of the world, affirming our solidarity with Christians all over the world, brothers and sisters living in diverse situations, experiencing their challenges and sharing their gifts.
We will especially be lifting up in prayer the challenges related to hunger and poverty that the people of each week's countries face. In prayer, God's story and our own story connect—and we and the world are transformed. In a prayer common to all of us—the Lord's Prayer/the Our Father—we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread." This line from this prayer can also be a prayer for the end of hunger.
We invite you to join Bread in our prayers for the world's countries to end hunger. And we encourage you to share with us your prayers for the featured countries of the week or for the end of hunger in general.
For the week of December 17 – December 23: China, Hong Kong, and Macau
God of many names
God of all peoples
God of China
No great wall
can keep you out
No great dam
Stop your love flowing.
From mountain to sea
in paddy field and city
you walk with your people,
you see
In you
strangers become friends
and so
we weep for China's pain
sing of China's faith
pray with China's people
hope for China's future
Lord God of all people
Percentage of the population of these countries living below the national poverty line:
China: 3.3
Hong Kong: 19.6
Macau: Not available
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators as found in the 2017 Hunger Report.
Prayer is a central part of Bread for the World's work. Learn more about how you can get involved with prayer at Bread.
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
We cannot end hunger in the U.S. without raising the minimum wage.
Better nutrition is a necessary component of a country's capacity to achieve development goals such as economic growth and improved public health.
Dear Members of Congress,
As the president and Congress are preparing their plans for this year, almost 100 church leaders—from all the families of U.S. Christianity—are...
This devotional guide invites deepened relationship with and among Pan-African people and elected leaders in the mission to end hunger and poverty.
Thank you for inviting me to preach here at Duke University Chapel. And I especially want to thank the Bread for the World members who have come this morning.
Bruce Puckett urged...
Bread for the World and its partners are asking Congress to provide $150 million for global nutrition in the fiscal year 2020 budget.
These fact sheets provide a snapshot of hunger and poverty in the United States and in each state plus Washington, D.C.
In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were unsure at some point during the year about how they would provide for their next meal.


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Dyslexia is a problem that makes it difficult for a kid to read. With some help and a lot of hard work, a kid who has dyslexia can learn to read and spell.
But the dyslexic child sees every word as if for the first time; it simply isn't in his memory bank. And correcting a dyslexic is like telling a child with a stammer to talk properly or a deaf child to open his ears.
According to the International Dyslexia Association it's a language based learning problem that makes writing, reading, spelling and even the pronunciation of words difficult. People with dyslexia struggle to link letters to the sounds the letters represent. The exact cause is still a mystery.
Here are the symptoms and warning signs that a child might be dyslexic:
- Struggles to associate a letter with its sound
- Reads slowly and lose his place?
- Fails to remember what he's read
- Sounds the letters of a word but can't put the sounds together to form a word
- Confuses letters, such as "b" and "d"
- Leaves letters out, such as writing "vat" instead of "vast"
- Struggles with sentence structure, punctuation, syllables and capital letters
- Struggles with language. Warning signs include an inability to pronounce words correctly, being behind in vocabulary, persisting with baby language, swapping syllables in words and adding or removing bits of words
- Struggles with perceiving things. Good hearing and eyesight are essential. The inability to see similarities and differences in jigsaw puzzles, pictures and symbols could point to a problem.
The good news is – there are different treatment options.
Psychologists' advice to parents
- Acquire as much information as possible. Read literature on the subject and become as much of an expert in this area as you can.
- Locate the nearest dyslexia information center (your child's school should be able to help).
- Establish how your child learns and help him to approach his learning work effectively, using, for example, spider diagrams instead of summaries.
- Ask teachers to give your child extra time during exams or permission to do them orally. Ask for concessions for incorrect spelling. Don't expect too much from your child – adapt to what he can and wants to do.
- If you want him to practise his reading skills choose a book or magazine on a topic that interests him, for example a hobby, favorite music icon or sport.
- Be positive and encouraging at all times. Provide support and assistance – without taking over.
- Teach your child self-discipline and keep boosting his self-esteem.


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Quick Thought - Don't Give Up Your Christian Convictions
There's no need to change your religious convictions in order to treat people you disagree with like any other person that you respect. That's why I'm mystified by the trend of some Christians to abandon their Christian theology and adopt pro-gay theology, then go back to the Bible to try and reinterpret the biblical passages to make them sound gay-affirming.
Quick Thought - Marriage Is Not Just about Love
What is the nature of marriage? Is marriage about love? When people are in love, they get married. Therefore, it doesn't matter what gender the person may be, so the argument goes.
Quick Thought - Responding to Name Calling
How do you respond to the claim that Christians are narrow-minded bigots? The person hasn't said anything about your claim or your argument. They are simply calling you a name. Explain to them that name-calling is not a good way to argue for their position or to argue against mine.
God of the Gaps?
When scientists claim that any intelligent design inference is an example of God of the Gaps, they are presuming that there actually is an explanation gap, that is, there simply is no explanation for the phenomena in question. The "God of the Gaps" complaint comes up when theists suggest that design is a better explanation than a naturalistic one in certain areas of science, particularly the beginning of the universe, the origin of life, and the development of life from simple to complex over time.
Earth Day for Evolutionists?
Has anyone else but me noticed an inherent contradiction in the underlying convictions that drive annual "Earth Day" celebrations? The vast majority of those who attend such fetes are Darwinists who believe humans have a moral obligation to protect the environment? My question is: Why?
Morality from Nature
It's common of late to justify one's "sexual orientation" by an appeal to nature. The claim "I was born this way" is all that's needed to stem moral criticism of homosexuality. But why settle for this approach? Why think that the state of nature is an appropriate guide to morality?
Hates Crimes Are Not about Hate
The result of criminalizing hate under certain circumstances is that only certain types of people get protected. In a state with hate crime legislation, penalties levied for an assault on me would be milder by statutory requirement than for the very same assault on a homosexual. Why? Because as a straight, white male I do not belong to a class protected by this law.
Is Marriage about Love?
The controversy about same-sex marriage churns principally around the definition of marriage. Activists deny the traditional view that marriage is about children. Instead, marriage is an ever-changing, socially-constructed institution constantly being redefined by society. There is no essential connection with children. Rather, at the core of the enterprise are two people in love.
Putting Them Out of Their Misery?
Once I participated in a debate on California's Initiative 161 concerning physician-assisted suicide. My opponents charged that I was forcing my religious views on others. They didn't realize they were making some religious assumptions of their own.
Are Our Lives Our Own?
Is life a gift with a transcendent purpose to be fulfilled, or do we own ourselves and have the right to do with our bodies whatever we please? This question can be answered in part with a little reflection. Why do we feel compelled to talk someone out of suicide? Why try to dissuade them? The reason is that we have an intuitive sense that life has transcendent purpose. We're so sure of this that we try to stop people from killing themselves and "wasting" their lives.


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Cokeson, managing clerk for the firm of James and Walter How, solicitors, was interrupted one July morning by a woman asking to see the junior clerk, Falder. The woman, Ruth Honeywill, seemed in great distress, and though it was against office rules, Cokeson permitted her to see Falder.
Falder and Ruth Honeywill were planning to run away together. Ruth's husband, a drunken brute, had abused her until she would no longer stay with him. Falder arranged to have Ruth and her two children meet him at the railway station that night. Ruth left and Falder went back to work.
Young Walter How came to the office. Cokeson was skeptical of the young man's desire to keep the firm not only on the right side of the law but also on the right side of ethics. James How entered from the partners' room. He and Walter began to check the firm's balance, which they decided was below what they remembered it should have been. Then they discovered that a check written the previous Friday had been altered from nine to ninety pounds.
The check had been cashed on the same day that another junior clerk, Davis, had gone away on some firm business. Cokeson was quickly cleared. When it became certain that the check stub had been altered after Davis had started on his trip, suspicion fell on Falder.
The bank cashier was summoned. He recognized Falder as the man who had cashed the check. James How accused Falder of the felony. Falder asked for mercy, but How, convinced that the felony had been premeditated, sent for the police. Falder was arrested.
When the case came to court, Frome, Falder's counsel, tried to show that Falder had conceived the idea and carried it out within the space of four minutes, and that at the time he had been greatly upset by the difficulties of Ruth Honeywill with her husband. Frome called Cokeson as the first witness, and the managing clerk gave the impression that Falder had not been himself on the day in question. Ruth Honeywill was the most important witness. She indicated that Falder had altered the...
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Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former economy minister who grew up as the son of two doctors in the provincial backwater of Amiens, will be the next president of France, having won with around 66 percent of the vote. Although he has never held elective office, he defeated the redoubtable Marine Le Pen, the heiress to a populist dynasty founded by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who defended torture in Algeria, called Nazi gas chambers a mere "detail" of history, and once punched a female Socialist politician in the face.
The Le Pens have adopted Joan of Arc as their hero. Joan, a child of the people who is considered by some the "mother of the French nation," heard voices that told her to boot foreigners—the English—out of France. The Le Pens hearken to the same voices, although the identity of the foreigner has changed.
In this election, however, it is Macron who appears to have been listening to otherwise unheard voices. While still serving under outgoing President François Hollande, the fledgling economy minister hatched a plan to replace his boss. After he founded a movement called En Marche! (Onward!) in April 2016, advisers warned Hollande that the man whom the president had once described as his spiritual son was preparing to run against him. Yet despite long years as a political insider, Hollande dismissed such rumors.
The young prodigy's remarkable rise began when he graduated near the top of his class from the highly selective National School of Administration, the nursery of the French elite. This gave him entry into the most prestigious of France's administrative corps, the Inspectorate General of Finance. He thus began his career already near the top of the ladder. After a short detour into the private sector, where he spent a few years working as an investment banker, Macron returned to government as a senior member of Hollande's staff. From there he was appointed economy minister, a post from which he resigned
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I love dragons. It's one of those things that really fascinates me. Great mythical creatures breathing fire. Some of my favorite past times have dragons involved, whether it be card battling (Magic:The Gathering), reading fantasy books or playing video games. Now, when i'm not dabbling in the mythological world, i like to play modern day shooters. Guys with big guns shooting at guys with bigger guns. Now, what's better than dragons or guns? Dragons with GUNS right? So when i heard about this movie Dragon Wars or D-wars that did just that i thought, "Awesome! This movie's gonna rock!". Giving Dragons guns shooting at other dragons? How could you go wronG? Right??.... Wrong
Based on a korean legend, this movie is about a good imoogi or giant serpent who's in a race with a bad imoogi to find this "narin" or this girl who has this special innate spirit that they need to eat (along w/ the girl) so they can transform into a dragon. Now, this spirit only shows up every 100 years and they have to wait for this narin to turn 20 before they can eat her. Now, the bad imoogi has a guardian and an army of dragons with guns (think dino riders) and for some reason, the good imoogi only has this pansy dude that has to make sure he delivers the narin to him. That's where this really bad and cheesy love story starts. Now, i don't normally care about the story if its an action movie as long as they give me some dragon on dragon action, but they seems to want to focus more on this crappy love story which results in an overall crappy movie with some amazing moments.
Overall, i think that this is an "ok" movie. Not something i would recommend to anyone unless you have an hour and a half to burn.
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Just Like Any Good Recipe, Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan Has a Little Bit of Everything
November 24, 2015
On Sunday, November 22, 2015, just days before the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, Alberta released its Climate Leadership Plan (Plan) together with the Climate Leadership Report (Report) upon which it is based. The Plan represents a dramatic and fundamental shift in Alberta's approach to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) issues. Highlights include:
- Early phase-out of coal-fired power plants
- Replacement of emissions intensity regime with product-based emissions performance standards
- Expansion of program from only targeting large emitters to a wide array of small and large emitters as well as consumers through the implementation of broad-based carbon levy
- Capping oil sands emissions at 100 megatonnes
- Targeting methane emissions in the oil and gas sector
- Renewed focus on energy-efficient initiatives
Alberta's existing approach to the regulation of climate change involves a GHG emissions intensity regime that applies to large emitters (facilities that emit equal to or greater than 100,000 tonnes of GHG per year). In contrast, the Plan will apply a variety of carbon pricing mechanisms to both large and small emitters, as well as consumers. In other words, it really does have a little bit of everything in it.
It is still too early to tell who all of the winners or losers will be, but it is probably safe to say that coal-fired electricity generators will be considered amongst the losers and renewable energy producers amongst the winners. Alberta's electricity sector currently accounts for 65 per cent of all coal power production in Canada. Under Canada's existing regulations, coal-fired power plants must meet GHG standards or be phased out after 50 years of operations. Although that would result in 12 of Alberta's 18 coal-fired power plants being retired by 2030, the remainder would not be retired until several years later, with the last one not due to retire until 2061. No longer. Under the Plan, all coal-fired power plants will be phased out by 2030 unless they emit zero pollution. The Plan contemplates that renewable energy will replace two-thirds of that generating capacity, with the remainder generated by natural gas. The Plan further contemplates that the cost of renewables will be as low as possible through market mechanisms, such as auctioning. The government will appoint a facilitator and a negotiator to assist in developing and implementing the integration of low-cost renewables into the Alberta electricity system without endangering the electrical system's reliability.
A key component of the Plan involves the replacement of the current emissions intensity program with product-based emissions performance standards. The current emissions intensity program is predicated upon an individual facility becoming more efficient as compared to its particular baseline. Under an emissions performance standard, facilities will be compared to a product-specific emissions standard. Facilities that cannot meet the emissions standard will be subject to a carbon levy. As of January 1, 2017, the levy will be C$20/tonne of GHGs. That amount will increase to C$30/tonne as of January 1, 2018. The anticipated effect is that it will drive best-in-class performance.
Another key component of the Plan is its broad application. The existing regime only applies to large emitters, which account for approximately 45 per cent of provincial GHG emissions. As noted in the Report, implementing a credible GHG policy in comparison to other global GHG regimes requires that the remaining 55 per cent of the emissions be addressed as well. The new regime under the Plan attempts to do just that. Once fully implemented, it is expected to cover approximately 78-90 per cent of provincial GHG emissions, including large emitters, small emitters and consumers. The major consumer impacts are expected to be increased costs of home heating fuel and gasoline. In that regard, initial reports suggest that gasoline costs may increase by up to C$0.07/litre and natural gas prices by over C$1.50 per gigajoule.
Alberta is touting the carbon pricing aspects as being revenue neutral, with all of the revenue remaining in Alberta to be used to fund efforts such as: provincial initiatives to reduce GHGs; research and innovation; green infrastructure and development of renewable energy projects. It is unclear how the mere fact that all of the revenues remain in the province without associated tax cuts in other areas qualifies a program as being 'revenue neutral'. Nevertheless, the Plan involves a portion of the revenues being invested in an adjustment fund that will help individuals and small businesses offset some of the increased costs associated with meeting the Plan's requirements.
In what appears to be a direct response to criticisms that Alberta hasn't done enough to restrict GHG emissions in the oil sands sector, the Plan contemplates an absolute annual emissions cap of 100 megatonnes of GHG from oil sands production. Currently, oil sands emissions account for approximately 70 megatonnes of GHGs per annum. By transitioning to performance-based standards, coupled with the implementation of a legislated emissions cap, it is expected to create the conditions for continued oil sands growth in a manner that rewards innovation and enables oil sands producers to remain globally competitive. As stated by Alberta's Premier Notley when she outlined the Plan:
"The simple fact is this: Alberta can't let its emissions grow without limit. But we can grow our economy by applying technology to reduce our carbon output per barrel. And that is what this limit will provide."
The Plan will also include provisions for recognition of new upgrading and co-generation in the oil sands sector. Alberta's existing regime has been criticized for not directly addressing the benefits of co-generation (coupling energy production with heat production). The Plan attempts to address that omission.
The Plan specifically targets methane emissions, particularly in the oil and gas sector. The climate change impact of one molecule of methane is 25 times that of carbon dioxide, so targeting its emissions will accelerate GHG reductions. Under the Plan, methane reductions from oil and gas operations will decrease by 45 per cent. The reduction will occur through the application of emissions design standards on all new facilities coupled with the development of a joint initiative on methane reduction, which will include industry, environmental groups and indigenous communities.
The final aspect of the Plan involves a renewed focus by the government on energy efficiency. Alberta has been criticized as being one of the only provincial jurisdictions without a significant energy efficiency initiative. The province has responded to that criticism by confirming it will implement an energy efficiency program. Details of the program are anticipated to be released in January.
Notwithstanding the Plan's multi-faceted approach to GHG regulation, it is interesting to note that it does not encompass any significant cap-and-trade measures. This means that Alberta will remain isolated from any of the cap-and-trade regimes that other provinces, such as Ontario and Quebec have signed onto. The Plan represents a made-in-Alberta approach in response to an Alberta problem. Whether or not remaining isolated from other jurisdictions will be beneficial to Alberta in the long term is unclear. However, at least in the short term the reviews are positive. In a news release that was also issued on November 22, 2015, several oil and gas companies, including Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Cenovus Energy Inc., Shell Canada Limited, and Suncor Energy Inc. each confirmed their general support for the Plan.
The multi-faceted aspects of the Plan represent a very different approach to GHG regulation than Alberta currently employs (or for that matter that other provinces have adopted). Indeed, moving from a single method of regulating GHGs, by means of emissions intensity to a variety of methods, is likely a reflection of the fact that regulating GHGs is a complex issue requiring complex solutions and a recognition that a one-size-fits-all approach is too simplistic.
The Plan's specifics still need to be flushed out (most notably what the product-based performance standards will entail and how the province will ensure the increased use of renewable energy production). Furthermore, implementing the Plan will result in a variety of commercial implications, not the least of which include, among other issues: compensation for early coal plant retirements; impacts on power purchase arrangements involving coal-fired power plants and the efficient operation of the plants; cost of grid expansion and re-enforcement and/or stranded transmission assets that were built for coal base-load generation; effects on pool prices and index-based contracts; allocation of the incremental 30 megatonnes of carbon to incremental oil sands production; and the auction/market mechanisms for new renewable projects.
Based on the initial media responses, Alberta is being heralded as a leader in its approach to climate change. It remains to be seen if that view continues to be held after the Paris meeting and after the Plan is fully implemented.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether a United Airlines flight scheduled to leave Kennedy International Airport for San Francisco was a target of hijackers on Sept. 11, aviation and law enforcement officials said.
The United plane, Flight 23, was late pushing back from the gate and was seventh in line for takeoff when Kennedy was closed because of the terrorist attacks.
When the captain announced that the plane was returning to the gate, four male passengers described as Middle Eastern in appearance stood up and began urgently consulting with each other, two aviation officials said. The men refused orders from flight attendants to return to their seats, the officials said.
The cockpit crew did not wait for the men to be seated but decided to taxi back to the gate anyway, the officials said. ''As soon as the door opened, these four guys bolted,'' said one of the officials. The other added that the F.B.I. later interviewed the crew about the incident.
Law enforcement officials confirmed that the F.B.I. is investigating the incident. A United spokesman refused to comment, except to say that the passenger list had been turned over to investigators.
Like two of the four planes that were hijacked that day, the Kennedy plane was a Boeing 767, and like all four, it was scheduled for a transcontinental flight. Its scheduled departure time, 8:30, was within the time range of the four hijacked flights.
The question of whether hijackers had intended to take over more than four flights on Sept. 11 has been the subject of confused speculation in the last few days. On Wednesday, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Jane F. Garvey, said in a speech that her agency's quick grounding of commercial air traffic nationwide had thwarted other hijackings. But later in the day she said she had no evidence of other planned attacks and was relying partly on news reports of knives being found on other airplanes.
Other flights using Boeing 757's and 767's are under scrutiny because all four planes hijacked were of those two models. On the morning of Sept. 11, when the number of planes hijacked was still not clear, federal officials took a quick count of 757's and 767's still airborne and told air-traffic controllers to watch them for any unusual behavior.
In the days after Sept. 11, rumors and reports have swept the F.A.A. and airlines about possible additional targets, including an Air Canada flight scheduled to go from Toronto to La Guardia Airport, and an American Airlines flight at Kennedy waiting to take off for London, although the evidence for those cases appears to be circumstantial.
The Air Canada plane was scheduled to fly from Toronto to La Guardia but was caught on the ground by the closing of American airspace. On Sept. 14, when the plane was scheduled to fly to Calgary, Alberta, a passenger spotted two knives in an overhead baggage compartment.
But speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Herb Gray, the deputy prime minister of Canada, said that it was not clear when the knives were put on the plane, and that ''they weren't the big box cutters'' believed to be used by the hijackers of the other planes.
An Air Canada spokesman described them as ''X-acto-type knives,'' saying that they had small, retractable blades.
The Air Canada plane was impounded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but then released. It was an Airbus A-320, which is considerably smaller than the 757's and 767's that were hijacked, and has a far different control system.
Some aviation officials also believe that American Airlines Flight 142, which was due to take off from Kennedy for London at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, was also a target.
That plane was delayed at the gate when the cockpit crew asked for a mechanic to check a valve in an engine. When a delay was announced, one passenger asked to leave, so the cabin door was opened for him and closed again. Then, according to aviation officials, a second passenger also demanded to leave, and became ''rude and indignant'' when the door could not be opened immediately.
A cockpit crew member wanted to alert the F.B.I. immediately but did not know the passenger's name, the officials said. The flight attendants knew the man's identity, but they had been escorted out of the airport with the passengers.
That plane was a Boeing 777, which would have had an explosive force similar to a 767, but has a slightly different cockpit from the planes that were hijacked.


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The Open Compute Project (OCP) has made significant progress over the years helping to drive innovation and adoption of open architectures across the data center in compute, storage and networking. A recent announcement revealed that the OCP market impact is expected to grow more than 5x worldwide by 2021. Why the rapid rate of adoption? As most network operators and I&O professionals know, the demands of the modern datacenter continue to expand with the growth of IOT, security and edge computing, as well as increasing energy consumption requirements. Open computing technologies allow organizations to keep up with these increasing requirements while taking advantage of the flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness of open hardware and software. Watch this webinar to learn more about this announcement and study from IHS including: -The industries leading the movement in open computing -The top drivers to OCP adoption -Perceived challenges to OCP adoption -What work is being done to make consumption of OCP more digestible


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Cool corner! Montreal intersection shows how to be cyclist and pedestrian-friendly (video)
Friend of TreeHugger Clarence Eckerson was on vacation in Montréal recently, on what else but a bike ride to get ice cream when he discovered a cool spot at the corner of Fairmount Avenue & Rue Clark. Clarence being Clarence, he had to make a video about it, an habit of his for which we are grateful because now we can all enjoy it and learn from it (urban planners watching this, take notes).
In Clarence's own words, the space had "colorful new street furniture, traffic calming, a two-way protected bike lane and a constant presence of street life. It's a space teeming with life and purpose. When you arrive at this lovely place your first instinct is to stop, sit down, and enjoy. To call this nirvana would be going too far. And of course in Portland there are numerous incredible community spaces thanks to the great work of City Repair. But it's another prime example of how a neighborhood street should cater to all users. Making pedestrians feel welcome and providing art and greenery wherever possible should always be strived for in the public realm, and slowing speeds with neck downs is becoming a common tool."
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On a personal note: I was born near Montréal, though I haven't been much in many, many years. It's great to see that the city is getting so bike-friendly. I was surprised at how nice the protected bike lanes are, and at how many people are using them. Very cool!
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Bowie Never Will Bow Out – USA Today, 01/18
"WHENEVER I see something written about David Bowie, I want to write more. Whenever I hear one of his songs I want to play more–and whenever I am reminded of his death, I want to remember more of his life. Because in that time and on this Earth, Bowie made a difference. He is the […]
NBC Daytime TV
Chatting with Cindy and Jerry about some of the more modern artists around today while being careful not to mention some new projects…They understood! If I'm not mistaken this show goes out to some 147 markets.
Interview on Jamie Meloni Show, I Heart Radio
It was nice to be invited back on Jamie's popular I Heart Radio show for a second time (even though they spelt my name wrong!) where we did a deeper dive into David Bowie and I shared some stories from a very special time in my career. This show was picked up by a David […]
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The Mission, Values, & Characteristics of the Church of the Nazarene
MISSION: To make Christlike disciples in the nations.
VALUES: Christian – Holiness – Missional
CHARACTERISTICS: Meaningful Worship – Theological Coherence – Passionate Evangelism – Intentional Discipleship – Church
Development – Transformational Leadership – Purposeful Compassion
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Our leadership team recognizes the authority of God, and realizes that we are shepherds who serve under the Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We desire to devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word. Our passion and goal is to equip the believers for the work of the ministry until we all attain maturity in the fullness of Christ.
Dr. Todd A. Stepp, Senior Pastor
Pastor Todd comes to us from . . . here! He was born and raised in this area. He graduated from Floyd Central High School in 1987. Pastor Todd and his wife, Bobbie, are both graduates of Trevecca Nazarene University. Bobbie's major was Biology with a minor in Chemistry & Secondary Education. She has also completed graduate work through Indiana Wesleyan University. She currently teaches Science at Christian Academy of Indiana.
Pastor Todd holds a Master of Divinity degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Worship & Preaching from Asbury Theological Seminary. Pastor Todd was ordained in 1996 and has served as a full-time pastor for over 20 years . He has been appointed by the denomination's General Secretary as a representative of the Church of the Nazarene on the World Methodist Council, where he serves on the Worship and Liturgy Committee. He holds membership in a number of Religious and Academic groups and is President of the Wesleyan-Anglican Society.
Additionally, Pastor Todd serves as an online Adjunct Professor of Worship for Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, and he has published a number of articles in such journals/magazines as "The Wesleyan Theological Journal," "Sacramental Life," "Holiness Today," and elsewhere. He has presented workshops and taught in the area of Worship (and also Evangelism) on the local, district, regional and general church levels. Pastor Todd is especially passionate about authentic Christian worship as seen from a Wesleyan perspective. He maintains a blog entitled Wesleyan/Anglican.
Pastor Todd and Bobbie are the proud parents of two grown children: Sarah Hendrick (and her husband, Dakota), who are currently involved in the music ministry of the church, and Matt, who is pursuing a Music Ministries degree at Olivet Nazarene University.
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In 2012, Pastor Betty received her Bachelor of Arts in Counseling for Christian Ministries from Nazarene Bible College, and in 2015, she completed her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Campbellsville University.
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Masayasu Nomura. Photo courtesy of Daniel A. Anderson/UCI.
Masayasu Nomura was born in Japan in April of 1927 and died on Nov.19 in California, where he was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California-Irvine. He was a pioneer in ribosome research, a brilliant experimentalist, and a mentor to two generations of graduate students and postdocs who have been outstanding contributors to the life sciences.
Nomura received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo in the years when Japan was still emerging from the privations of World War II, and he thought he was destined to spend his life in hardscrabble labs working on projects related to agriculture or pharmacology, but his curiosity, scholarliness and bench smarts led to the opportunity to visit the United States in 1957 as a 30-year-old postdoctoral student. During a three-year sojourn in the U.S., Nomura worked with three towering figures in the burgeoning field of molecular biology: Sol Spiegelman, Jim Watson and Seymour Benzer. He discovered that he could hold his own at the frontiers of molecular biology research (1).
I was a graduate student at Caltech when I first saw Masayasu. He gave a seminar to Max Delbrück's group on the work he had done with Benzer. He showed that rII deletions of bacteriophage T4 behaved as one would expect real physical deletions to behave – in crosses, the presence of a deletion in both parents shortened the recombination distance between flanking genetic markers. It was the sort of muscular, purely genetic experimental work that we admired in the Delbrück lab. Masayasu definitely passed the Delbrück test, according to which most seminars were met with "worst seminar I ever heard." Nomura, on the other hand, he declared excellent.
In the early 1960s, the genetics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was searching for a replacement for Ernst Freese, who had moved to the National Institutes of Health. The department somehow got permission to hire two people to fill the vacancy. I was one of them, and Masayasu was the other. I was delighted to learn that he was going to be my colleague in Madison, but I had no idea how much Masayasu would enrich my life. He was my neighbor on the third floor of the genetics building from 1963 until 1971 (when he moved a few blocks west to the Institute for Enzyme Research), and for eight years I had a front-row seat at one of the greatest science shows on Earth.
Although Masayasu had done some work on ribosomes before coming to Madison, his early work in Madison focused on colicins – bacteriocidal products produced by bacteria. Nomura feared that the ribosome field would be a rat race and believed that work on colicins would be the secret to a tranquil life in science. The work he did on colicins was fascinating. He studied three different colicins and discovered that they killed target bacteria by three different mechanisms (1). This promised to be a rich field of investigation, and I think it's fair to say that colicins were at least warm, if not rat-race hot, in the early 1960s, thanks to the work of the Nomura lab.
But Masayasu couldn't resist the enticements of the ribosome. In parallel with his colicin work, he did a few wind-up experiments on ribosomes and, in the process, got hooked. The Nomura lab quickly became one of the leading centers for ribosome research, producing one dazzling discovery after another. In his pre-Madison work, Nomura had found that some ribosomal proteins could be reversibly stripped from the 30S and 50S ribosome subunits, leaving smaller, core subunits of sizes 23S and 40S. In Madison, he showed that when these stripped proteins were added back to the core subunits, they yielded fully active 30S and 50S subunits (2). Nomura then demonstrated that the 70S ribosome that was formed by association of the 30S and 50S subunits could not directly enter into protein synthesis; the initiation of protein synthesis was a stepwise process in which the messenger RNA first formed a complex with a 30S subunit and an initiator transfer-RNA; only after that complex formed could the 50S subunit enter into the complex (3).
Nomura and his colleagues managed completely to disassemble and then reassemble the 30S ribosomal subunit of E. coli, demonstrating that the 22 parts of the subunit (a 16S RNA molecule and 21 different proteins) contained all the information needed to assemble all the parts into a functional whole (4). Later, the Nomura lab achieved the total reconstitution of functional 50S ribosomal subunits of B. stearothermophilus from a mixture of separated components (two RNA molecules and about 30 different proteins) (5). These were landmark experiments on the self-assembly of complex biological structures. Toward the end of his years in Madison, Nomura examined the mechanism by which E. coli matches the rate of synthesis of ribosomal proteins with the rate of synthesis of ribosomal RNA. Much to everyone's surprise, it turned out that the regulation was at the level of translation: Several of the ribosomal proteins, if present in excess of the number needed to form ribosomes, would bind specifically to the messenger RNAs encoding ribosomal proteins and repress translation of ribosomal protein message (6).
I had the privilege of reading many of Masayasu's draft manuscripts describing these brilliant experiments. They came to me typed on yellow paper of the sort that was once used for carbon copies. The manuscripts were collages, assembled from small scraps that were taped together. Masayasu would first write and then rearrange his text by cutting and taping. The manuscripts had a wonderful, subtle aroma that I took to be some sort of soap or aftershave that Masayasu used, but I finally discovered that it was the odor of Scotch Magic Mending Tape, which I had never encountered in large quantity until I read his cut-and-tape manuscripts. Whatever the mechanism of their assembly, these draft manuscripts – not unlike ribosomes – ended up so well constructed that you could hardly imagine any way to improve them. Reading Masayasu's manuscripts was a lesson in recognizing important problems, and the wonderful logic of his writing could evoke in the reader's mind the transitory delusion that the reader could think (almost) as clearly as Masayasu.
Madison lost something irreplaceable when Nomura moved away. I pointed out at his goodbye party that "Nomura" is an anagram for "Our Man" and promised that we would always think of him as our man in Irvine. At Irvine, Nomura continued to work on ribosomes, but he turned from bacteria to yeast. He continued to be a major force in ribosome research and was active in research until the very end, discovering that the molecular genetics of yeast ribosomes was significantly different from that of bacteria and rejoicing at all the surprises that he encountered.
Nomura was much honored. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002, he received the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology.
Masayasu is survived by his wife, Junko, his daughter, Keiko, his son, Toshi, and his grandson, Jack.
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- Jessica Jaganathan Energy Correspondent - Thomson Reuters
The advent of alternatives (including biofuels) have been impactful to the refining industry in Asia. This will continue in the years ahead, and even more so. Refiners need to understand the changing dynamics and trends of alternative fuel developments in Asia.
The Asian Clean Fuels Association (ACFA) has been working closely with government bodies in Asia. This presentation will focus on the latest development of alternative energy, particularly the biofuel trends, in Asia. We will be looking at several case studies in Asia, where the biofuel programs had been implemented and sharing on the successes and challenges of the programs. We will also be looking into the electric vehicle trends in China and Japan. On the jet fuels and marine fuels, we are seeing that the biofuel volume taking over a major share of the market in these two sectors.
In an increasingly competitive environment, asset utilization has become a critical area of focus especially when conditions outside of your control change. The complexity of this problem is greatly enhanced when considering asset utilization across a complex, such as an Aromatics or Naphtha Complex, due to process and energy integration, not to mention human capital challenges. This session explores how cloud-based technologies can deliver ongoing insights and recommendations directly to the right person from the unit engineer to owner at the refinery or petrochemical plant.
Refinery operations, maintenance, supply chain and sales must be integrated with the national demand for refinery products. Digital platforms and the 'Internet of Things' hold immense potential to cut costs and improve output while integrating all of these departments. This panel explores digital refining from an operational perspective, looking not just at the platforms but their use and implementation. Topics to be discussed include:
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Cowboys' Brandon Weeden says he's ready to fill team's backup QB role
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Brandon Weeden told ESPN.com's Todd Archer that he's ready to take control of the Cowboys' offense should something happen to Tony Romo.
When the Cowboys picked up Weeden after he was released by the Cleveland Browns this offseason, many were expecting a battle between he and Kyle Orton for the backup quarterback spot behind Romo since Orton held the job the previous two seasons. But the Cowboys recently released Orton, opening the door for Weeden.
Weeden got a lot of solid reps at OTAs, which he said increased his comfort level with the team's offense.
"I think the reps I got in the OTAs were kind of irreplaceable," Weeden said. "If I was in a situation where God forbid something happened to Tony and I'm asked to play, those are the guys I'm going to battle with, so those reps I got were invaluable. I know I won't get many of those in [training] camp, but fortunately I had 12 practices where I was able to get out with those guys. Now it's, 'Let's get to work.' I'm ready to get to California and get things rolling."
With the health of Romo's back in some question, the Cowboys' backup quarterback job could prove more important than others around the league this season.
Weeden, 30, was let go by the Browns after throwing for 23 touchdowns and 26 interceptions over the last two seasons. He was picked by the team No. 22 overall in the 2012 NFL draft.
MORE NFL: Cowboys' offseason report card | Training camp's 10 best storylines
- Jack Jorgensen


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A great team
The Drummer team have a great skill for drawing in talented and creative people to deliver their vision. When it comes to their creative and development strategy they confront difficult and complex issues head on; combine this with their talented team and it's no surprise they deliver fantastic award winning content.
Tamsin Summers
Managing DirectorTamsin began her TV career on the groundbreaking series, Network 7 before working her way up to the position of Deputy Series Editor of Channel 4s iconic series, The Word. She moved on to become Vice President of Factual and Entertainment Programming for MTV before a brief spell as Commissioning Executive in Entertainment at the BBC. She then became a major shareholder and Director Of Programming for At It Productions, where she Exec Produced C4's youth programming zone, T4, and numerous other programmes for all the major channels and established At It West in Bristol.
Rachel Drummond-Hay
Managing DirectorRachel has been a Producer in Bristol for the last 15 years and has a strong background in making TV documentaries and docu-dramas as well as award-winning short films which have had success in festivals in the UK and internationally. She has extensive experience in working with the public and charity sector making films about very sensitive subjects for clients including the Police, Home Office and the NHS. She is passionate about making engaging programmes that shine a light on the unexpected and challenge the way we see the world.
Corrina Fowler
Business Affairs Consultant
Corrina is an experienced media business and commercial affairs adviser with extensive knowledge of the commercial, business affairs, rights and management side of the media business, and has negotiated and structured many deals including commissioning, co-production, distribution and pre-sale arrangements, talent, format and writer agreements. She started her media career at Channel 4, where she worked in the business affairs department and has since worked for independent production companies advising on business and commercial affairs issues for genres including documentary, factual entertainment, scripted comedy, entertainment and children's TV.
Charis Munday
Production AccountantCharis is a Production Accountant with years of experience and has been an invaluable asset to the team since she joined us last year. Alongside TV she has also worked in the arts and voluntary sector where she originally met Rachel and has a passion for collecting mid twentieth century textiles.
Serena Kennedy
Head of ProductionSerena has worked with with Rachel and Tamsin for a number of years (before Drummer even began!). She has a wealth of experience on many of the UK's best known brands. She has overseen over 80 titles spanning 700 hours of TV including extensive foreign filming, highly sensitive subject matters, extremely complicated logistics – there's nothing Serena can't handle!


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Cockburnspath Primary School's current and past presidents of their Rotakids Club took centre stage at the official opening of the school's new trim trail.
The Rotakids after school club was formed in January 2017, following presentations to the pupils by Rotary of Eyemouth and District members Jo Pawley and Jim Hettrick and Cockburnspath Rotakids identified the need for a replacement trim trail which would benefit the wellbeing of the whole school.
At the official opening on Saturday, December 16, Rotakids president Fiona cut the tinsel on the recently installed trim trail and declared it officially open.
The event was coordinated by head teacher James Bewsey and was attended by parents, pupils and Rotarians including the District Governor of District 1020 Lindsay Craig and from SBC, councillors James Fullarton and Carol Hamilton.
The Rotakids identified the equipment that they would like, looked at costings and selected equipment in excess of £5,000. They started to run a weekly healthy tuck shop, with parents helping to produce healthy snacks; and a successful grant application, prepared by Rotary Eyemouth, to the Greencoat UK Wind, Drone Hill Community Fund administered by Foundation Scotland provided the bulk of the funding to buy the equipment.
After the tinsel had been cut president Fiona thanked all those who had been involved in the process, Mr Bewsey, parents and the Rotary mentors. The biggest thank you going to Greencoat UK Wind and the Drone Hill Community Fund.


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Codenamed, NATAL, it will be the future of the Xbox 360's interactivity. The new camera system works alongside the Xbox 360 but unlike the Wii-mote or the motion-bar that it works with, 360 users will no longer need controllers or any other device to use NATAL with all Xbox 360 products.
So, Microsoft has decided to attack Nintendo on their front by bringing in a 3D motion-sensing device that also has voice-recognition. What better way to sell this product than to get Steven Spielberg to help sell it? Well, that's what Microsoft has done at this year's E3 by bringing the legendary Hollywood director on stage to help sell the device he helped co-create.
Whether it's interacting with Live Avatars, browsing movies, playing casual games or interacting with the latest hardcore games, project NATAL is a total body, total voice-recognition device that will work with the latest and greatest games.
Actually, it's all kind of cool. For the Live Avatar's it translates the NATAL's recognition capabilities into full-motion capture, right in the comfort of a gamer's living room. As stated in the presentation during the E3 press conference, you use full body control and motion that uses more than just "preset waggle commands" (oh, burn on Wii-mote users). NATAL's dev kits are currently being sent out to developers for the Xbox 360, starting today.
This is probably not going to sink in until you see some actual footage. Don't worry, we'll get it up as soon as possible. One of the new games to work with NATAL is Paint Party, presumably Microsoft's answer to Wii Sports.
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O Allah! O Allah! O Allah! O the Beneficent! O the Merciful! O the Lord
of the Lords! O Deity of the deities! O the King of the Kings! O the chief
of the Chiefs! Cure me from all the diseases and grant me strength from
all the ailments by Your cure, that I am Your slave and son of Your slave
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Where I can post my thoughts, my photographs, and what the Lord is teaching me. May it be a blessing to you, and help you meditate on that which is pure and lovely. "Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy -- meditate on these things." Philippians 4:8
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My name is Mr Morgan and I am very proud to be able to say that I am the headteacher of Kings Road Primary School. I have taught in 5 schools in total, I was the Deputy Headteacher of schools in Suffolk and Knowsley before being appointed as Headteacher of a school in Wilmslow in 2010. In 2015 I became Headteacher of Kings Road.
I have three wonderful children (Ellie, Mathew and Luke) play many sports, including table tennis and follow Manchester United.
My ambition for our school is to build on its rich history and interesting cultural diversity, to empower the dedicated staff, and to create an excellent, exciting and varied learning experience for all members of the school.
I value open, honest and positive relationships; I may not always get it right, sometimes I may even be close but I can guarantee you that I will try my utmost for all members of the school.
We are developing an exciting experience at KR, we believe in creating memorable experiences; during the year we will hold many events, such as Friends & Families Day, All Swap Week (where children get different teachers), KR Eisteddfod, Kings Got Talent, Difference Day, Mantle of the Expert (a week of imaginative, consequential based learning) and houses.
We will work hard for all children to be safe, and will provide an environment that is full of warmth and happiness. We understand the privilege and responsibility we have in Educating your children.
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The Real Dividing Line in the East China Sea
There are two conflicting narratives that describe the current territorial standoff in the East China Sea. One favors China and isolates Japan. The other, which makes China the odd man out, has been all but ignored by those it would so clearly benefit.
According to the first narrative, which Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe needlessly reinforced by visiting the controversial Yasukuni shrine last month, the territorial dispute pits an unreformed, imperialist Japan against the victims of its historical abuses: South Korea, China, and Taiwan. For Beijing especially, Japan and its American ally are the sclerotic, backward representatives of colonial forces that kept China weak for over a century, until the heroic Communist Party took power in 1949 and began to rebuild the country's dignity. The Communist leadership's aggressive moves in the East China Sea are thus depicted as reasonable steps in China's gradual return to its rightful place as the dominant state in the region.
More broadly, the first narrative portrays the players involved as historically rooted nations with continuous interests, rivalries, and fortunes that rise and fall over the centuries, regardless of drastic changes to borders, regimes, societies, and ideologies. In this view, the Chinese Communist Party is the heir of imperial China, modern Japan is indistinguishable from imperial Japan, South Korea has more in common with the North than with its former colonial master, and Taipei is in lockstep with Beijing when it comes to "Chinese territory."
By contrast, the second narrative focuses on the huge gulf between the vibrant democracies of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan on the one hand, and authoritarian China and North Korea on the other. It is this crucial frontier, between despotism and freedom, that forms the basis of America's military alliances in Northeast Asia. Beijing has an unmistakable interest in evoking pre-1945 history and obscuring both the Cold War decades and present-day realities, but the conservative governments that currently rule in the region's democracies appear oblivious to the danger of playing along.
Abe in particular seems unable to perceive the trap. He is reportedly determined to abandon Japan's rigid postwar pacifism, which is probably wise given the growing Chinese threat, but for him this means revising history and restoring pride in wartime Japan. He ignores the possibility of a third option: a robust foreign policy based on the defense and promotion of democracy in the region and around the world.
For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been largely limited to improving trade ties and offering development aid that indirectly benefits Japanese industries. Given the old regime's transgressions, Tokyo has typically shied away from building on its shared interests with other democracies, encouraging political reforms in developing countries, or projecting military force to help resolve distant international crises. But a vigorous rejection of the pre-1945 system and a demonstrated commitment to democracy as a universal human right would give Japan the credibility it needs to maintain its existing alliances, win wider support in its disputes with authoritarian China, and gain regional (as well as domestic) acceptance of stronger Japanese defense forces. Such a policy could also help make Japan a friend rather than a foe to ordinary Chinese citizens.
Abe's visit to Yasukuni and other revisionist gestures are flatly incompatible with those goals. In fact, such self-inflicted wounds could ultimately weaken the U.S. alliance. America will always have an interest in checking authoritarian aggression and protecting fellow democracies, but it would be very difficult to ask U.S. sailors to risk their lives in defense of a government that honors the authors of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
To ensure its future safety, Japan must make a new approach to the world, not as an ashamed convict or an unrepentant rogue, but as an established democracy ready to acknowledge the sins of the former regime and redeem them by standing up against contemporary threats to freedom in all countries.
Photo Description: Senkaku Islands
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Getting Old in Sports
I've been thinking a lot about this New York Times article about Derek Jeter and the aging athlete. I was especially struck about a comment he made about Willie Mays. Mays' late care is often seen through the, as the writer put it, his "sad last years with (the New York) Mets." Mays really did have an pretty effective post 30 career. For players 30 and over he is sixth all time in total home runs (third if you don't count steroid ridden monsters). But if you look at achievements you really can see that once even baseball players hit 30 their truly great years are mostly behind them and at 35 you are over the hill unless, of course, you are a steroid ridden monster.
Ty Cobb won the American League batting title eleven times. His last was in 1919 when he was 32. In 1922 he did bat .401 and came second to the 29 year old George Sisler who batted .420. Yeah, Ty Cobb hit .401 the year he turned 35. That's just ridiculous.
Cobb never stole more than 50 bases the year after he stole 55 in 1917, the year he turned 30.
Reggie Jackson was really durable. I had no idea he played 132 games in 1986, the year he turned 40. He was strickly a DH and had the best year of his career for percentage of atbats that produced walks, 17.8%. This was his fifth and final year with the California Angels and he he also had his lowest strikeout percentage at 22.2% since he left the Yankees in 1981.
Detroit Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell had his caereer year at 29 in 1987 when he had 207 hits and batted .343 After the age of 35 he never played more than 76 games in his final three years.
Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, who hit 512 homeruns, didn't lead his league in any offensive category after he entered his 30s.
After the age of 32 the only offensive category Willie McCovey led the National League in was intentional walks when he was 35 in 1973.
Jim Thome is playing right now at the age of 40. The last year he hit more than 40 homeruns and had more than 100 RBIs was in 2006 when he was 35.
The last year Craig Biggio led the National League in doubles was in 1999 when he was 33 years old.
Brooks Robinson had 100 RBIs twice in his career. Both of those seasons were when he was in his 20s.
With all these numbers out there I'm surprised the Yankees didn't bargain harder with Derek Jeter. He's 37, he's never going to his .300 again and he'll never have another season where he'll score 100 runs. That he hit .334 and had 212 hits in 2006 at the age of 35 is pretty impressive but from now on he'll be average at best.