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By: Thomas L. Pangle
Posted: July 14, 2014
This article appeared in: Volume IV, No. 1 - Spring 1985
he editor has invited me to respond to Harry Jaffa's attack in his "Legacy of Leo Strauss" (Claremont Review of Books,vol. III, no. 3, Fall 1984). I do so after considerable hesitation. My initial instinct was to follow the advice implicit in the sage words of Solomon (Proverbs 29:9). But the urging of friends whose judgment I respect, and my own second thoughts, have inclined me to the view that I cannot avoid replying-if only to defend my good name and to warn unsuspecting readers of the fallaciousness of Jaffa's authoritative-sounding censure. The truth is, Jaffa is guilty of gross misinterpretation: For reasons known only to him and to God, he has distorted beyond recognition my interpretation of Strauss and of the political philosophizing Strauss resuscitated.
Jaffa characterizes my interpretation in these terms: "According to Pangle, the admiration for the noble and just things is not according to nature . . . Pangle's account of the noble and just things is . . . nothing but an account of the high in the light of the low" (Jaffa, op. dr., pp. 18-19). Now, near the beginning of my essay, I spoke as follows:
What then is Plato's conception of the problem of justice, according to Strauss? Justice in the fullest sense comes to sight, in what men say about it, as an object of aspiration; as the "common good" which binds men together in mutual dedication in a political community. Most of the time, to be sure, the concern with justice is limited to much more partial questions about mine and thine. But these questions depend on some implicit answer, however imprecise, to the question of the overriding purposes of the community. These highest goals cannot be adequately defined in terms of the requirements which are ubiquitous in social life and which, for this reason as well as because of their urgency, present themselves as at first sight the most reasonable candidates for primacy-viz., the needs for physical comfort and safety. Man is such a being as cannot orient himself merely by the good, understood as what is useful for survival, health, and material ease. He is always aware of sacred restraints on the means he may employ to pursue these needs; what is more, he is aware that it is sometimes necessary, nay, praiseworthy and admirable, to relinquish or sacrifice the satisfaction of these needs. The choice of means, and the capacity for sacrifice, is dictated by the human concern for virtue or excellence. The virtues are indeed useful, for the pursuit of the mundane goals mentioned; but they are also valued as ends in themselves. They are honored as being noble. It is this dimension of what man values-the noble, the estimable or precious that cannot be reduced to the good or useful-which displays man's peculiarly moral mode of being. It is no accident that in Greek the word for noble (kalon)designates at the same time "beautiful." The noble and the beautiful originally belong together. We experience the noble as preeminently deserving of or calling for adornment and enshrinement; and the decorative or "aesthetically" pleasing we experience as in need of a seriousness which it finds only in association with the noble. Hence the kalon comes into its own in the works of the artists, and especially the poets: the demiourgoi, the "public workers" of the highest order. It is there that a people sees in the least fleeting and least nebulous way what kinds of human beings it reveres. Nevertheless, the peculiar luminosity of the virtues as they appear in the "imitations" of the artists does not necessarily promote a clear account of the noble. It remains much easier to point to particular instances of the noble or virtuous than to explain what the noble as such is; and the noble is never free for long from controversy. The source of the dispute is usually not doubt as to whether the virtues exist, or even what they are in general: there is remarkably broad agreement on the nobility of attributes such as courage, generosity, wisdom, law-abidingness, and so on. Battles tend to develop rather over the specifications, and, what is graver, the relative ranking of the virtues (e.g., the virtues of war vs. those of peace; humility vs. pride; generosity and love of leisure vs. thrift and industry). These quarrels mingle with, at once elevating and intensifying, the more frequent causes of discord arising from competition for scarce resources. The disputes thus become, in more concrete terms, disputes over the superiority of distinct human types or classes and their claims to highest moral and political authority: priests, soldiers, merchants, small farmers, gentry, lawyers, wage laborers, etc., vie for preponderance in the political order. Insofar as each of these factions possesses a comprehensive vision of the proper distribution of goods and the ordering of the ways of life in the whole community, each is understood, in Platonic terms, to represent a specific "regime" (politeia). The conflicts among the various "regimes" are the decisive conflicts at the root of all political life; and it is the aim of Platonic political philosophy in the narrow or strict sense to arbitrate these conflicts.
It does so chiefly by setting forth a single standard, the "best regime by nature," in the light of which the competing regimes that emerge in history can be judged, categorized, and-in favorable circumstances-"mixed" in judicious compromises. (pp. 6-7)
Willfully ignoring this and other kindred passages, Jaffa adduces a long quotation from my Introductory Essay, a quotation literally ripped out of context. In its context, the passage is obviously and explicitly meant to summarize Strauss's account of pre-Socratic philosophy, the philosophy against which Socrates, according to Strauss, turned.
Unfortunately, this is by no means the worst of Jaffa's falsifications. The leitmotif of my essay, and I believe of Strauss's work, is made explicit in the culminating section of my essay (a section entitled "The Theological-Political Problem"). There I define this "Problem" as follows:
. . . it signifies, most simply put, the apparently irresolvable conflict between the claims of reason and of revelation. That conflict, Strauss learned first from Spinoza, is as much a political as it is a "theological" or "philosophical" problem. For revelation cannot be adequately understood if it is approached merely as "religious experience" in the sense of William James and other "psychologists of religion." Revelation is the authoritative disclosure to man of Divine Law-the Torah, the Chari'a, the "Old Law" and the "New Law"; this rule of law claims to give the ultimate direction to the whole of man's existence, collective as well as individual or familial. (pp. 19-20)
I proceed to raise and attempt to answer the question, "Why then does the theological-political problem dominate the project of Platonic political philosophy as Strauss understands it, and just what form does the problem assume?" (pp. 19-20). Jaffa, however, informs the unsuspecting reader that "Pangle, having admitted that for Strauss the theological-political problem is central, treats it as peripheral" (Jaffa, p. 18). He supports this claim with an argument so contrived that it strains one's faith in his sobriety: since "The Theological-Political Problem" is discussed by Pangle in the sixth of the seven titled sections into which his Introduction is divided" (p. 17), the problem is not treated as central. But Jaffa does not stop at this. He goes on to manufacture a quotation: "At the center of Pangle's position is the judgment that, according to Strauss, the Bible is only 'one of many' kinds of 'poetry.'" (Jaffa, p. 17). The phrase in quotations, in this sentence, appears nowhere in the text of my essay. And at no point, even by implication, do I commit the absurdity of "attributing to Strauss" the "view that the Bible is a species of poetry" (Jaffa, p. 17). On the contrary, I say: "Strauss did not overlook, he rather brought out and stressed, the enormous differences between biblical thought and the thought of the Greek poets" (Pangle, p. 20); four pages later I lay stress on the fact that Strauss regarded the "faith of his fathers," the "Torah," as "the most profound and intransigent version of the alternative to philosophy posed by revelation."
But I also say-and here we reach a serious issue-that according to Strauss, "what is most essential in the quarrel between Plato and the Bible is already present in the quarrel between Plato and the poets or in the muted dispute between Socrates and Ischomachus the perfect gentleman or kaloskagathos in Xenophon's Oeconomicus" (Pangle, p. 20). To this thought Jaffa takes strong exception, and this thought, I contend, is the very core of Strauss's rediscovery of what he intransigently held to be the full adequacy of the Platonic understanding of the ultimate questions for man as man. Plato never read or heard of the Bible; but despite this, Strauss was convinced of the truth of the solemn asseveration of Avicenna which Strauss chose as his epigraph for the last book published in his lifetime: "the treatment of prophecy and the Divine Law is contained in . . . the Laws." (I might add that in quoting Avicenna, Strauss condenses so as to make the point even more relentless than it appears in the very bold original.) Strauss's full meaning becomes clear only after a close and thorough study of The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws, but a passage near the beginning (pp. 6-7) is especially helpful in teaching us about Platonic "dialectic" and its most serious theme, what Strauss inXenophon's Socratic Discourse (p. 192) called "the most serious of all arts or sciences, theology." The Athenian Stranger, Strauss says,
proceeds like Socrates, who prefers to take issue with the poets' stories about gods and heroes rather than with the stories embodied in public worship. . . . The Athenian . . . engages in a kind of dialogue with Tyrtaios who, being a poet, had praised not the fruits of war but the virtue of war. The conversation thus turns from war (or peace) to virtue as choiceworthy for its own sake as the end of legislation. . . . the Athenian quotes Theognis, a poet of a later age. . . . Since he does not take issue with Theognis, he does not engage in a dialogue with him. . . . every legislator who is not entirely worthless, and hence in particular the Cretan legislator, who was instructed by Zeus, will give his laws with a view above all to the greatest virtue. . . . To the Cretan's remark, which is free from indignation, that this demand amounts to a condemnation of the Cretan legislator, the Athenian . . . appeals as it were from the accepted interpretation of revelation to revelation itself, which discloses its true meaning only to those who never forget that, being divine, it is supremely reasonable. . . . The Athenian delineates now what we may call the natural beginning of an inquiry into divine legislation as distinguished from the beginning imposed on him by the opinion of his interlocutors. The latter beginning, concerned with the origin of the Dorian laws, led to what the Cretan regarded as the most just answer. The natural beginning is concerned with the end with a view to which divine laws must be supposed to have been given; it leads to an answer that is both true and just. (My emphasis)
If Jaffa believes that the "most essential" issue regarding prophecy or the Divine Law emerged only after the time of Plato, or in texts unknown to Plato; if he supposes that the most essential issue was not and could not have been addressed by Plato's philosophic spokesman in his dialogue with the poets and the statesmen and gentlemen who are the poets' followers-then it seems to me Jaffa has either broken with Strauss's teaching or failed to comprehend it.
The disservice Jaffa has tried to do me is probably less significant, in the long run, than this misunderstanding or misrepresentation of Strauss. The serious disagreement I have with Jaffa's reading of Strauss will become more fully apparent to anyone who reads my Introductory Essay with care and with the requisite attentiveness to the texts of Strauss I cite. Here I will only add the observation that Jaffa's attempt to explain what Strauss meant by the "theological-political problem" seems to me fundamentally confused. Jaffa is aware, somehow or dimly, that the Bible and Plato are deeply at odds over "the right way of life"-that they disagree, in the final analysis, over what is right and wrong. For the Bible, as Jaffa says, "God's promises to man" are "the ground of the knowledge of the right way of life." Accordingly, "fear and loving obedience are what is demanded of man, and actions following from such fear and love . . . constitute the right way for man." But "for the philosopher there are only eternal questions" (Jaffa, pp. 17-18). Now Strauss, in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, links this profound difference to the fact that, as regards moral virtue, what is taught by the Bible represents "a very different message" from what is taught by Aristotle's Ethics. Strauss underlines Aristotle's praise of magnanimity and depreciation of shame, in contrast to Isaiah's "implicit condemnation of magnanimity" and "implicit vindication of the sense of shame": "Who is right?" Strauss asks, "the Greeks or the Jews? Athens or Jerusalem?" (p. 210; cf. the epigraph to Jaffa's early work, Thomism and Aristotelianism). Jaffa, however, wishes now to insist that the Bible and Plato (or Aristotle) form a common moral front-not just for many or most practical issues (as of course they do)-but on the very highest level, for the decisive issue. In particular, he argues that Platonic political philosophy joins piety in condemning unqualifiedly "Epicureanism," or ancient philosophic materialism. Jaffa goes so far as to declare that Strauss or his Platonism joins in Halevi's moral attack on "the philosophers" (Jaffa, pp. 19-20).
Jaffa is able to do this-to identify without qualification Plato's moral stance, or conception of the best life, with that of the Bible-only by in effect abandoning Plato's claim that philosophy (Socrates) gives the guidance to human existence; Jaffa erroneously claims that because "for the philosopher there are only eternal questions," it follows that "there is never any sufficient answer to the quest for the right way of life" (Jaffa, pp. 19-20). The Platonic Socrates arrived, on the contrary, at the following "momentous" conclusion (as Strauss calls it): "the greatest good for a human being is this-each day to make arguments about virtue and about the other matters concerning which you have heard me examining myself and others . . ." (Apol. Soc. 38a; cf. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, pp. 14, 21, 50, 138-39, 210). It is ultimately-though only ultimately-on this basis that the Athenian Stranger can claim to know the criterion or goal by which "revelation"-not just this or that revelation, but "revelation itself"-can and must be judged or validated.
To obscure this is to take the heart out of Platonic political philosophy, to mask or remove the truly fundamental issue-the quarrel between the Bible and Plato over the right way of life for man as man. Having done this, Jaffa is driven to characterize the quarrel in abstract and metaphysical, rather than in concrete moral or political or human terms: "The issue between Plato and the Bible is that between the ideas and the one God" (Jaffa, p. 18).
Against this view, I believe, stands the teaching of Strauss, a teaching reaffirmed in his last book. Strauss was unswerving and unhesitating in his confession of indebtedness to Maimonides' and Farabi's interpretation of Plato and of the relation between Plato's philosophy and Biblical revelation. It was Farabi-Strauss stressed-who first dared to present Plato's philosophy as a whole without any reference whatsoever to the Ideas. What Strauss learned in this regard from Farabi he summed up in what Homer would have called winged words:
It would be rash to maintain that the foregoing observations suffice for establishing what Farabi believed as regards any substantiae separatae. They do suffice however for justifying the assertion that his philosophy does not stand or fall with the acceptance of such substances. For him, philosophy is the attempt to know the essence of all beings: his concept of philosophy is not based on any preconceived opinion as to what allegedly real things are truly real things. He has infinitely more in common with a philosophic materialist than with any un-philosophic believer however well-intentioned. (My emphasis). . . . A man such as Farabi doubtless had definite convictions . . . but what made him a philosopher, according to his own view of philosophy, were not those convictions, but the spirit in which they were acquired, in which they were maintained and in which they were intimated rather than preached from the housetops. Only by reading Maimonides' Guide against the background of philosophy thus understood, can we hope eventually to fathom its unexplored depths. ("Farabi's Plato," pp. 36-37*)
Both the Bible on the one hand, and Farabi's or Maimonides' and Strauss's Plato, on the other hand, firmly support civic and moral virtue: but in what spirit, with what end or ends in view, and, above all, for the sake ultimately of what way of life?
With another interlocutor, one might fruitfully pursue these and related questions. But Jaffa's shrill polemics render him ineligible as a dialectical partner, for Jaffa seems to have lost his understanding of, or his capacity for, philosophic disputation. He seems to have become incapable of vigorously arguing issues in moral and political theory without labeling his opponents or their views immoral. The tone and methods that mark his argumentation are becoming all too familiar to those who take wearisome note of his ceaseless logomachy. But he seems to be descending to new levels: not only the misuse of quotations wrenched from their contexts, and the bare-faced invention of false quotations, but in addition the deployment of textually unsupported innuendo, designed to convince the reader of the opponent's knavery: "there is more than a suggestion that Pangle really believes not in a Platonic conquest of poetry by philosophy, but in a Nietzschean conquest of philosophy by poetry (the 'will to power')" (Jaffa, p. 17). And then finally, of course, after the reader has been suitably prepared by such innuendo, comes the outright character assassination: 'Pangle's supermen are those who . . . having learned to treat with contempt the opinion with which Leo Strauss associates himself . . . will have nature's bonbons at their disposal. . . . Aristotle says that there is no such thing as 'committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way,' but Aristotle, like Leo Strauss, apparently lacked the iron self-discipline to liberate himself from the sway of opinion. For that, we turn to Hugh Hefner and Playboy. Pangle's hero-his 'truly free man'-is free from any inner attachment to anything noble or just . . . this monster-'beast-god'-is himself simply contemptible" (Jaffa, p. 19).
If nothing can excuse, can anything explain this performance? The mischievous cleverness that is at work in Jaffa's "review" rules out any possibility that his present speech is the sad result of declining mental powers. The problem lies not in Jaffa's mind but in his heart. I do not pretend to read hearts or hidden motives, but Jaffa's lack of restraint is so great that at the outset of his piece he cannot forbear expressing the fierce and wounded sense of self-importance that animates his reaction to his having not been chosen to write the Introduction to Strauss's last work: referring to the Strauss-Cropsey History of Political Philosophy, Jaffa petulantly reminds us that "Strauss had chosen me to write the chapter on 'Aristotle,' which immediately follows his chapter on 'Plato'" (Jaffa, p. 14). Why do I draw attention to this unseemly mikropsuchia? Because the time has come when Professor Jaffa's followers and friends (including the editors of this journal) ought to face the unseemly truth and reflect on their duty in regard to it. I conclude by addressing to those followers and friends of Professor Jaffa a serious plea and question. Years past, Professor Jaffa wrote books from which we all have learned and which deserve to be passed down, in honor, to posterity. For the sake of protecting the reputation of those works and their author, cannot more be done—is it not your obligation to do more—to dissuade your elder from appearing before the world in such demeaning postures, and in the grip of such disfiguring passions?
*This essay appeared originally in 1945, in the Louis Ginsberg Jubilee Volume of the American Academy for Jewish Research; it has recently been reprinted in Arthur Hyman, ed., Essays in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Studies from the Publications of the American Academy for Jewish Research (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1977).


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November 25th, 2004
Ive updated the location information on Buran 2.01 and the flight tester OK-GLI.
From the shifting sands of Bahrain to the green hills of Europe, OK-GLI of Arabia finally found a home in an German aviation museum, along with the half-finished on cancellation space rated Buran 2.01. Buran 2.01 had a much shorter journey from Moscow in Russia. Thanks to everyone who emailed the info to me.
On a minor note, the links below from the official constructors Buran web site show Buran 1.02, the second completed orbiter... photographed on the launch pad! (during tests in 1993). I only point it out because a.) photos of the Buran 1.02 are rare and b.) it actually went out to the pad in 1993! Sigh, so close yet so far. With the destruction of the original Buran, Buran 1.02 is now the only fully (well almost fully) completed Buran left:
February 4th, 2004
Heres some more renders Ive made, these showing a potential Energia-Mars mission launch. Basically took the VRML Energia-Buran and lopped off Buran, replacing it with a cargo pod, textured it all up as well. The first picture shows a launch, the second what an Energia would look like being launched in the US by NASA. Obviously I edited out the Space shuttle and layered in an Energia rocket. Click on a picture for the full version!
January 27th, 2004
Well, the web site is back up, totally new look, after a long break. During that time of course, there was the sad news of the hanger collapse at Baikonur, which killed 8 people and destroyed Buran 1.01, the only of the Russian orbiters to fly in space. The Energia mock-up it sat on was destroyed as well.
The site is freshly minted, so it may have a few errors and bugs here and there, but Ill fix them up in time.
Anyway, look for the forums to come back online soon!
January 27th, 2004
Now for some good news! Both NASA rovers have landed successfully on Mars, sending back some stunning imagery. All that was missing from the postcards was some astronauts!;) Anyway, the rover Spirit appears to be on the mends as well after some serious hiccups.
R.I.P. Beagle 2, missing in action. Shame the British and the Japanese didnt make it, but then space is no picnic. Good to see ESAs Mars Express snapping some great hi-res shots of Mars from space, and confirming the existence of water!
January 27th, 2004
And in other news, President Bush announces a plan to return to the Moon and to go to Mars! Hmmm... Naturally weve heard talk like this before, and it is an election year, but hopefully this time round it will amount to something, and they need a heavy lift rocket, why not try out Energia! Energia corp has suggested that a mission could be launched for as little as 15 billion! and Energia is by far the cheapest heavy launcher available, and by chance, also a darn good one! More on my Mars pages.
January 27th, 2004
I took the VRML model of the Buran from www.buran.ru and dusted off my 3D app to try and make some CG what if images of Buran, I threw in some radiosity for spice. Anyway, this is what I came up with, its render of Buran 1.01 coming into land, being escorted by some Mig-29 chase planes. Overall Im pretty happy with how it turned out, just click on the picture to download:
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Victor Pham (@ColumbiaMTennis) has taken down top seed and #3 ranked Petros Chrysochos of Wake Forest in three sets.— ITA Tennis (@ITA_Tennis) September 24, 2017
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UCLA sophomore Ena Shibahara will have a chance to defend her title after defeating the No. 13 seed Oklahoma's Lily Miyazaki 7-6(6), 6-7(7), 6-2. The ITA's video recap below shows all the key points and as you'll see Miyazaki served for the first set and had a set point on the no-ad point but Shibahara got the break with a forehand winner and managed to claim it in a tiebreak.
Shibahara's opponent in the final will be Alle Sanford after the UNC freshman held off Pepperdine senior Mayar Ahmed 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Sanford broke on the no-ad point at 4-4 in the third and then served it out from 40/15.
Freshman Alle Sanford (@UNC_wtennis) will take on UCLA's Shibahara in the finals of the #OracleITAMasters tomorrow!— ITA Tennis (@ITA_Tennis) September 24, 2017
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Shibahara and Holt won the mixed doubles title with an easy 8-1 win over Duke's Samantha Harris and Baylor's Johannes Schretter.
The ITA's event page has a daily recap with quotes from some of the winners and shows the Sunday schedule.
#ITAMTC singles finals are set. Winners receive wildcard to #ITAFallNats!— ITA on Campus (@ITAonCampus) September 23, 2017
W: Lohan (MIA) vs. Ramirez (SYR)
M: Corwin (MINN) vs. Harper (VT) pic.twitter.com/PlgbUGMh8W
Milwaukee Tennis Classic - Miami senior Sinead Lohan will meet ACC rival Syracuse sophomore Miranda Ramirez in Sunday's women's final. Lohan advanced to the finals with a three set win over Louisiana Monroe senior Stefana Andrei and a straight set win over Arkansas senior Leolia Jeanjean. Ramirez started off her day with a three set win over Arkansas senior Mia Jurasic and then won a close straight setter over Iowa freshman Yufei Long.
Minnesota senior Felix Corwin will meet Virginia Tech junior Mitch Harper in the men's final. Corwin started off the day with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Michigan State senior Brett Forman in the quarterfinals and then in the semifinals he defeated Arkansas freshman Josh Howard-Tripp 7-6, 6-3. Harper won both of his matches on Saturday in three sets. He defeated Arkansas fifth-year Jose Salazar 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 and then got past Minnesota sophomore Stefan Milicevic 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Both finals will be held at the 10,000 seat University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
Full results and draws are available here plus the ITA has a good recap here.
RECAP | Oradini Reaches Final Of Gator Ranked+1; Broska/Foshey Win Doubles Crown In Tuscaloosa— MSU Men's Tennis ? (@HailStateMT) September 24, 2017
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Florida Gator Ranked +1 - Mississippi State sophomore Giovanni Oradini will meet Florida freshman Duarte Vale in the final of the orange draw. Oradini knocked off the No. 2 seed South Carolina's Gabriel Friedrich in three sets while Vale stopped Wake Wake Forest freshman Yuval Solomon in straight sets.
Tulane senior Constantin Schmitz will meet Florida sophomore Johannes Ingildsen in the final of the blue draw. Schmitz advanced to the final with a straight set win over Tennessee's Scott Jones while Ingildsen won his first straight set match of the weekend with a 6-3, 6-0 win over South Carolina freshman Francisco Cerundolo.
Full results and draws are available here.
Bulldogs go 4-0 in singles on the first day of the Battle in the Bay Classic.— Georgia Tennis (@UGAtennis) September 23, 2017
Read more about their day here: https://t.co/cQG9Q0TlPg pic.twitter.com/6RcmajQg7N
Battle in the Bay Classic - Each of the top eight seeds advanced to the quarterfinals and each of the top four seeds advanced to the semifinals. The top seed TCU junior Alex Rybakov won the only straight set match of the day 6-3, 6-2 over Georgia junior Walker Duncan. Rybakov will meet Nathan Ponwith after the Georgia sophomore defeated UCSB's Nicolas Moreno de Alboran 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. The other semifinal will match up a pair of teammates as Georgia senior Wayne Montgomery will face junior Emil Reinberg. Montgomery came back from two breaks down in the third set to defeat TCU freshman Alastair Gray 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 while Reinberg defeated USC junior Jack Jaede 6-3, 5-7, 6-3.
Full draws are available at this link and live streaming is available here.
My Fall Tournament Hub, which is available only to College Tennis Today subscribers, has links to every tournament.


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With millions of regular users and more than 8,000 hours of premium content, Babbel.com is growing fast while shaping the future of learning.
You are a forward thinker who can provide the vision and hands-on execution to drive the company to the next level of data-driven insight.
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You will lead and grow a team of analysts and data scientists mostly working embedded in the different cross-functional teams providing insight for the Finance, Marketing, Product and Didactics departments.
In addition, you will work closely with Senior Management to guide our business strategy.
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In your role, you will report directly to our Chief Operating Officer.
- lead (as well as grow and hire) a team of analysts to help manage day-to-day marketing, product and business operations and provide ad-hoc services
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Dancing with Myself is a carefully cultivated, curiously cool and cautious chronicle of the life of punk-rock idol, Billy Idol.
After fashioning his name from a school report that claimed 'William is idle', the rebellious rocker transformed himself from bored teen to bad-boy Billy, who became integral in the punk-rock revolution of the late seventies and early eighties. Whilst denounced by punk pariah Johnny Rotten, Billy rose to fame through his unique ability to pull punk into the mainstream.
In his early days as a musician, Billy formed proto-punk band Generation X; with his pretty-boy looks and egotism in tow, he was transformed from guileless guitarist to lavish lead singer. With the fire of punk galvanising him, Billy took to launching his own solo career and became one of MTV's original stars that catapulted him into stardom across the world.
The book, in the true spirit of punk, is self-written. Billy literally did it himself. The rock racounteur portrays a searingly honest account of his life as one of the men at the top of the punk empire. From the highs of awards, to the highs of drugs, to the lows of addiction and fame, Billy's honest portrayal of his turbulent life makes for a riveting read.
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Front-end development is a process, in which, a developer implements web designs through coding languages like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, etc. An ideal front-end framework allows you to quickly produce prototypes to speed up the overall design and development process. Front-end frameworks simplify, streamline and speed up the website design and development process. The main objective […]Continue Reading


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Valerio Del Becaro
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Valerio is Sevenstar's multi lingual power house based in Monaco. He has been transporting yachts for the past 20 years making him a great source of knowledge to clients and colleagues and specialist in the Italian - French Riviera, USA and all other exotic destinations worldwide.
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Andrew is Sevenstar's client service star performer! His amiable communications skills and eye for detail makes your yacht transportation a smooth and happy ride leaving you to relax in the knowledge your vessel is being looked after. Andrew is responsible for UK clients transporting their yachts worldwide.
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Brigitte is a multilingual transportation specialist in Monaco who will joyfully resolve all transport needs for her clients. She has a humorous demeanour and is the only true Monegasque in our Sevenstar team.
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Wiebke started working in the Amsterdam head office in June 2013 and has developed the Transatlantic trade out of Northern Europe. As from July 2017 she was based in Singapore to develop the local market and has been a valuable addition to the Sevenstar team in Asia. In February 2019 she moved back to Amsterdam in order to take on the Transatlantic trade from the Mediterranean Sea to and from the USA and the Caribbean at the HQ of Sevenstar Yacht Transport.
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Astrid is a valuable Dutch asset to the international team in Palm Beach, Florida. She is very focused and conscientious in her work combined with her open personality makes her a great contact for her clients. She is responsible for the USA, Australia and Asia yacht transport market.
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Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflakes …adorable and easy treats the whole family can help make!
'Tis the season to be making (and eating! oh my goodness, the eating!) treats to share with family and friends. The kids loved these Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflake cookies – not only did they love help making them, but as we were in the kitchen together, they talked about who they would like to gift some to.
These Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflakes are so easy to make!
It warms my heart to see the kids creating and talking about gifting to others. I love these glimpses into the kind, thoughtful people they are becoming. :)
Chocolate Dipped Oreo Snowflakes
For the snowflakes:
- 24 Oreo cookies
- 12 ounces milk chocolate candy melting wafers
- 1/2 cup white chocolate candy melting wafers
For the Christmas trees:
- 24 Oreo cookies
- 12 ounces white chocolate candy melting wafers
- 1/4 cup green candy melting wafers
- 1/4 cup red candy melting wafers
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate candy melting wafers
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper or parchment. Pour the melting wafers into a medium microwave-safe bowl. Heat for one minute at 50% power, then stir. Continue to heat at 30 second intervals at 50% power until melted, stirring well in between. Make sure there are no lumps in the chocolate and that it is smooth and easy to stir. Place the Oreo cookies, one by one, into the melted chocolate. Turn with a fork to coat completely in chocolate. When the entire cookie is covered with chocolate, lift it out using the fork. Tap the fork on the side of the bowl several times to let the excess chocolate drip off. Slide the Oreo cookie onto the prepared baking sheet and allow to cool completely. Repeat with remaining Oreos. Place the white chocolate melting wafers in a zipper bag or a disposable decorating bag. Heat for 30 seconds at 50% power, then knead the melting wafers to stir. Continue to heat at 30 second intervals at 50% power, until melted. Snip a small corner off the bag and pipe the white chocolate in snowflake shapes on top of the Oreos. Allow to cool completely.
- To make the Christmas trees, follow the same process, but using white chocolate melting wafers. When the white chocolate Oreos have cooled, melt the green melting wafers and pipe a Christmas tree shape. Decorate with dots of red melting wafers for ornaments and milk chocolate melting wafers for the stem.
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On last Thursday, the CEO of Qualcomm 'Steven Mollenkofp' announced that 5G phones will be launched in the market in 2019. These smartphones are expected to unveil in the US and in Asian countries.
5G Technology Will Enter Market in 2019
Qualcomm CEO said:
"You will see it (5G) in real devices, on the shelf, in 2019. And if I were to answer that same question a year ago, I would have said 2020."
Mollenkopf added:
"I think you will see the typical first movers – Korea, Japan and the United States. You will see robust demand in all of those locations, meaning that there are multiple operators wanting to be first and not be left behind. (Most) will have a different deployment strategy or goal."
The world is ready to unveil the 5G technology, where progressing countries like Pakistan is unable to have full signals of 3G and 4G. Anyhow, according to some news, the winter Olympics in February 2018 in Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea will be the first countries to show the 5G services.


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A Conversation with Burt Bacharach
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host:
Burt Bacharach's new album is a collection of protest songs. Let me say that again: Burt Bacharach's new album is a collection of protest songs. Yes, the same Burt Bacharach, the one who wrote some of the most famous love songs and lush pop music ever.
(Soundbite of "Alfie")
Unidentified Singer: (Singing) What's it all about, Alfie?
(Soundbite of "I Say A Little Prayer")
Unidentified Singer: (Singing) The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup...
Backup Singers: (Singing) Makeup...
(Soundbite of "Always Something There to Remind Me")
Unidentified Singer: (Singing) And there is always something there to remind me.
(Soundbite of "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?")
Backup Singers: (Singing) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
(Soundbite of "Walk on By")
Unidentified Singer: Walk on by...
(Soundbite of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head")
Unidentified Singer: Raindrops keep fallin' on my head...
(Soundbite of "What's New Pussycat?")
Mr. TOM JONES: (Singing) What's new, pussycat?
(Soundbite of "Close to You")
THE CARPENTERS: Ah, close to you...
ELLIOTT: Burt Bacharach didn't actually pen the lyrics to all those hits. He composed and arranged the music. But at 77, Bacharach found himself incensed at the war in Iraq and the state of the world. So he decided to write about it in song. His new CD is called, "At This Time," and he even does a little singing on it. There are also guests on the album, including Dr. Dre, Rufus Wainwright and Elvis Costello.
(Soundbite of unidentified song)
Unidentified Man #3: (Singing) This stupid messy world just keeps getting worse; so many people dying needlessly. Looks like these liars may inherit the Earth. People pretending to pray and getting away with it.
ELLIOTT: Burt Bacharach joins me now from the studios of KCRW in Santa Monica, California.
Mr. BURT BACHARACH (Songwriter): Hi, Debbie. Hi, everybody. To clarify one thing, Debbie, when you say it's a protest album, there are some protest songs. There are some songs of dissatisfaction and disappointment and frustration, yes, and I would say that I'm still writing love songs. I mean, basically, you could say this is a continuation of writing love songs. Many of my love songs that I wrote were about the anguish of love not working out. This is still a love song. Instead of a love song about one individual to another individual, a relationship breaking up, this is about a whole world coming apart and the heartache I feel for that.
ELLIOTT: We should say you're perched there at the piano while we're talking today.
Mr. BACHARACH: I am sitting at a piano, you know?
ELLIOTT: Can you play us a little of one of the songs on your new album?
Mr. BACHARACH: You know, it's--do you have a 40-piece orchestra for me?
ELLIOTT: I'm afraid I don't.
Mr. BACHARACH: No. Believe me, it's better on the record than it's going to be right here, but I'll give you an indication and maybe you can lay the record over it. It comes out of a trumpet.
(Soundbite of unidentified song)
Mr. BACHARACH: (Singing) I've been hoping for a better day. It's a long time coming but I'll wait anyway, till the dark clouds have all blown away and the sun shines again. I keep trying, I've been holding on, for the days are empty in a world that's gone wrong. Life's a miracle or a foolish tale. I don't know. Go ask Shakespeare. Love's the answer, like I said before. It's the one thing needed maybe now even more. Love's the secret we've been looking for till the sun shines again. So I keep hoping, and I'm holding on, 'cause the cold wind's blowing but I know love is true. There will come a day when the sorrow is gone and the sun shines again.
Now you see, Debbie, there is that hope of love. That thought pervades through the album.
ELLIOTT: You write that you were grateful to be able to do this and not have to worry about it being a big hit.
Mr. BACHARACH: Well, or certainly being able to get played on radio, you know? I had a record company that wanted this album. He said, `Don't give me 10 songs that we'll try to get played on the radio, Burt. Have something that runs six, seven minutes.' So to not have that concern, to just have the freedom to write without somebody looking over your shoulder, that's pretty great.
ELLIOTT: Now it makes me start to wonder, thinking about, you know, back in the '60s, when you were at the pinnacle of your commercial success. The Vietnam War was going on. It was a time of social upheaval. Back then, you know, how did you feel about these issues, or were you in a place where you felt like you had to do what would get played on the radio?
Mr. BACHARACH: Listen, when I started writing songs, Debbie, I started writing songs that I thought could be commercially successful. And how was I during the Vietnam War? I kind of, like, never protested. That's the irony about this, isn't it?
ELLIOTT: Yeah.
Mr. BACHARACH: And, I mean, I never was a political person. I never marched. I was upset about it, but I just stayed in my cocoon of just keeping writing music. And I didn't like what was going on with Vietnam, the whole Nixon years. I just have trouble with people that don't tell the truth, that lie, you know?
ELLIOTT: What's different about you today that makes you feel like it's time for you to sing about this? If you didn't like what was going on back then but that wasn't something that you wanted to put into your music, what is it about today...
Mr. BACHARACH: It was...
ELLIOTT: ...that makes you need to put it into your music?
Mr. BACHARACH: Well, that was far away, wasn't it? That was, like, somewhere over in Asia. You know, you could just stay in a cocoon and it was far away and remote.
ELLIOTT: Yeah, but there were protesters in the street. There was Bob Dylan.
Mr. BACHARACH: I know. I know that. I know that. I was writing love songs. I mean, I--was my behavior good? No, but it was what it was. So, hey, look what happened to me, you know? I changed.
ELLIOTT: While I have you here, I do want to ask you a couple of things that maybe some of your biggest fans don't know that we found out while we were preparing for this interview. I hope you don't mind. You were once the musical director for Marlene Dietrich?
Mr. BACHARACH: Sure. We played songs like (singing) `Falling in love again, never wanted to. What am I to do? I can't help it.'
(Adopts German accent) `I go see about the boys and--yeah.'
All around the world I went with Marlene. Wonderful way to see the world. Musically, it was a little weird because at the time I was having all these R&B hits, you know? Chuck Jackson, Dionne, and be playing this music in Poland or Russia, for Dietrich, conducting, playing piano for her. Wonderful way to see the world, Debbie.
ELLIOTT: You also wrote the theme music to the sci-fi film "The Blob"?
Mr. BACHARACH: Exactly, yup.
ELLIOTT: Do you remember that?
Mr. BACHARACH: Yeah. (Singing) Beware of The Blob...
(Soundbite of piano music)
Mr. BACHARACH: No, I can't. I can remember the lyrics: `Beware of The Blob. It creeps and leaps and glides and slides across the floor, all over the wall.' It's just as scary.
ELLIOTT: Not exactly a love song there.
Mr. BACHARACH: No.
ELLIOTT: Well...
Mr. BACHARACH: Yeah. Yeah.
ELLIOTT: ...let me ask you just a little bit--you know, we all, you know, have in our heads these top 10 hits that you're famous for, but I'm curious. In the '60s, when you were writing, you know, that was in the era of rock 'n' roll, but your sound was something different. Yet it really took hold in this era of rock 'n' roll. What do you think the secret was to your sound?
Mr. BACHARACH: I guess it all is connected to having been a well-founded musician, having studied classical music, having studied composition with Darius Milhaud and Henry Cowell and Bohuslav Martinu, having a good base, you know? Like on "Anyone Who Had a Heart," it was a five-four bar.
(Soundbite of "Anyone Who Had a Heart")
Mr. BACHARACH: (Singing) Anyone who ever loved could look at me...
And suddenly it becomes a four-four bar, and I never knew that until I wrote it out. It just felt natural, and to have the end...
(Soundbite of "Anyone Who Had a Heart")
Mr. BACHARACH: (Singing) ...hold me in his arms and never, never ever...
That's a seven-eight bar right there. Very baffling to a studio full of musicians saying, `How do we play a seven-eight bar?' But it was natural to me. So I was doing my thing and working with urban artists, which felt very good whether it was Dionne, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, Tommy Hunt. So there was this certain sound that was evolving partly because of the composition, the way I was writing and the way I was orchestrating.
ELLIOTT: Is there a moment when you were at your piano and you're working on a composition that something just says, `Bingo. Here it is. I've got it'?
Mr. BACHARACH: Yeah. But, I mean, I will get away from the piano then and lie on the couch and go through it in my head. I think it's very key to see and hear it away from your instrument, because if I sit here and I'm playing...
(Soundbite of piano music)
Mr. BACHARACH: ...and these chords really sound, you know...
(Soundbite of piano music)
Mr. BACHARACH: ...and come up with a couple of words that maybe tell me that I should go up here, you know, but I can do that. But that's only four or five or six bars, and to make it evolve from there, the best way for me always is to get away from the piano, sit in a place and hear it in my head, the long form if it's going to run four minutes, and that's where everything gets born, where the strings come in. So, I mean, if you are really a founded, well-grounded musician, I would tell any young musicians out there or just aspiring to be young musicians, learn the rules before you break them. Learn how to write music down, so if you're on an airplane you can hear it in your head, know what notes to put down on a piece of manuscript and learn some harmonic foundation.
ELLIOTT: You know, I think my parents' song is "This Guy's in Love."
Mr. BACHARACH: Oh. Well, how about if I play four bars of "This Guy's in Love" for your parents, all right? Would that be OK? Would they like that?
ELLIOTT: Oh, they would love it.
Mr. BACHARACH: OK.
(Soundbite of "This Guy's in Love")
Mr. BACHARACH: (Singing) You say this guy, this guy's in love with you. Yes, I'm in love. Who looks at you the way I do? So when you smile, I could tell we know each other very well. My hands are shaking, my heart, my heart keeps breaking 'cause...
So you've got more than eight bars there, Debbie.
ELLIOTT: Burt Bacharach, thank you so much.
Burt Bacharach's new recording is called "At This Time." He joined us from member station KCRW in Santa Monica, California.
Mr. BACHARACH: Thank you, Debbie. Thank you, all.
ELLIOTT: To bask in a little more of Burt Bacharach's music, new and old, go to our Web site, npr.org. And while you're there, take our Burt Bacharach quiz.
That's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott.
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In what seems to be the game maker's latest stunt - Cards Against Humanity are claiming to be hanging up their cards to get into the snack food industry. Complete with a delightfully annoying theme song.
Earlier this week images of Pringle-like chips appeared on social media.
this photo just keeps getting better the longer you look at it pic.twitter.com/Fff15285i1
— Kat Angus (@katangus) November 21, 2017
They began popping up in American Target stores and discerning shoppers quickly realised that something was a little... off. 'Salt and Potato' and 'Onions Cream' aren't exactly the most normal sounding flavours after all.
After doing some digging, it was discovered that beneath the label was a second one that read 'The Good Crisp Company'. Quite avert 'CAH' labels can also be clearly seen on the front of the cans.
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One image of a receipt for the chips reveals that it scanned up as 'CAH CARD GAM'.
Image: Imgur
Despite days of speculation and knowing that the Cards Against Humanity team had something to do with the mystery, it wasn't until today that an 'official' annoucement was made on Twitter.
We need to share some important news regarding the future of our company.
— CardsAgainstHumanity (@CAH) November 24, 2017
Effective today, we are leaving the games industry. It's time we focus on our real passion: revolutionizing snack food with our new brand, Original Prongles! https://t.co/hxNqJOB7Ch
— CardsAgainstHumanity (@CAH) November 24, 2017
Along with 'confirmation' from Cards Against Humanity employees:
Hey so. This is hard, but I'm leaving my role at Cards Against Humanity effective today... it's time to focus on my real passion: chips https://t.co/nii8tPPG4t
— Jenn (@jenndangerous) November 24, 2017
Hi! Excited to announce that I've joined the @PronglesChips team. Our motto: Once you pop, that's great! https://t.co/fEcJbChZft
— Maria Ranahan (@mariaranahan) November 24, 2017
In addition to Original Prongles site now being live, the Cards Against Humanity site now also redirects there. The site is aggressively bright and immediately assaults you auditorially with the Original Prongles jingle. As an added twist, if you try to turn the on-site volume down, it just makes it louder. There is now mute option.
One of my favourite parts is where you can vote for the next Prongles flavour.
Sadly you can't currently buy any Original Prongles, as they seem to be sold out.
People Are Paying Cards Against Humanity To Dig A Hole
2016 was a bit shit, according to the Cards Against Humanity team. To celebrate, they're digging a big hole, and people are paying them to do it.


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Paris licked the smile from his lips. Tongue hold his lower lip against his bottom teeth until they bit. It was a curious experience, fear angling toward his person. He couldn't remember the last time, if ever, he had incited it. Hand rising, he wipe the saliva his tongue left behind from his lip and chin and tried not to laugh at her bowing.He recognized this one.The sweep of her dark hair familiar. Caught in glimpses as she moved along the outskirts of Salome's house. The slave the lady's husband had brought to live with her. Salome was sure the girl was a spy, and Paris wasn't willing to risk Salome being right, so he did not argue, just followed along. More time spent out on the terrace that circled the house. Less time spent lounging in her bed."Forgiven. Jin-ae, isn't?" Dog-girl, Salome called her in that spiteful way she had. The lady herself was almost as terrifying as her husband. Fingers stroking down from the corners of his mouth to the tip of his chin, Paris shrugged. "No harm done. Are your books alright?" He asked, eyes bright against the sun, and internalized mirth. Salome would kill him for chatting up her slave in the market.But she was a vindictive, sensitive soul, he'd learned quickly, and did not worry.His eyes rolled around the market, body seeming to slump forward. If he'd had more hair it would have fallen into his face as he looked about. No one seemed overly concerned about them. But aware. He wondered if people knew and talked about his late night gossip sessions with the lady Nazaire. Or was it that the prince's slave was now conversing with him.
Paris' head tilted ever so slightly. She stood, she recognized, but he sensed she didn't really look. Eyes like water, that slid off rather than cling. But not servile. Maybe she was too new to it for the proper sort of humbling. Some never learned it at all. "Yes." Sometimes they died, because of it. His father had never stooped or shrank. Sandals stirring the dirt of the marketplace, Paris shifted so she could glide by without becoming to close. The angle of his body changing with the direction of his hips. "You're welcome." He couldn't help the amusement that curled the corners of his mouth. His smile deep rather than wide. Paris should have left then, but he lingered. Fingers moving over goods as he listened to her barter. Half attentions paid to each other. They looked familiar in a sea of strangers. But Paris had been born to Paon, and he very much doubted Jin-ae. She wasn't afraid enough. When she was done, her focus returned to him, and Paris' fingers fell away from manuscripts he had never intended to purchase. "Myself mostly. But a little of both." He took her attention as invitation and matched his pace to hers, his stride only slightly longer. Side by side would have been too much. An admittance that they walked common ground. There was too much questioning about Paris status as it was. And he was likely to be flayed if Salome suspected him of prancing about with her spy."The temple has others to do its shopping. Housekeepers and seneschals who know what is needed all over." He explained, tipping open a bottle of paint. The slowing of Jin-ae's steps leading him to her destination. "Probably many of them. There is much to organize there." He admitted with some surprise. He had never much thought about it before. "And yourself? Who do you shop for this day?" He sniffed a small pot of ink and put it aside with the air of someone all to familiar with the product. Telltale traces still staining his fingertips and nail beds. "This shade of red is imported. That deeper color will be half its price." He informed her solemnly, tipping the offending color on its stand, his voice pitched so that the stall keeper was less likely to listen in.
Paris glanced briefly in her direction. Repeatedly. Careful slips of the eye to both keep from being caught staring, and to also not been seen as furtive. There was a trick to it he was not certain he'd exactly mastered. "They do." Paris allowed with a faint shrug of his shoulders. "But we have a difference of opinion on what makes for a good pen tip." He explained. He felt less guilty when he inevitably ended up taking one home. Tucked into a pocket or behind his ear. Vanished thoughtlessly or chewed upon. Better they were already his own. He looked again. A strain at the corner of the eye because she walked behind him to some degree and Paris was too afraid of what turning his head to look would appear like to the marketplace. Her answer was clever enough to still his tongue. Or was she simply that devoted? He did not think she was overlong on Paon, but Paris had no real way of knowing. Lower lip tucked beneath his tongue, he tipped his head in acknowledgment. "I do not see where there should not be." Best to let the first comment drift by. It was only right that her purpose align with her masters' needs. She was a slave. Paints first. A dizzying array of colors and jars. The pots of ink were less thrilling in their display, being black only. But there were differences there too, though Paris did not speak of them. Nodding acceptable of her thanks because welcoming a slave in public would not stand, no matter how softly he said it. "I enjoy walking." The markets were a good place to hear gossip.Or become it. Paris picked up a small jar of blue, the vendor smiling broadly and proclaiming it 'peacock blue'. Nodding, Paris smiled and put the jar away, body angling subtly toward Jin-ae. "I find it helps keep me connected to the people the temple serves. Plus my legs need stretching after work." He traded blues with her, half a smile curling his lips."Everyone has their own version of peacock blue. Or priestess blue, depending on how pretentious they are trying to sound." His smiled turned clearly into a smirk, fingers pressing a dry brush across his palm. The hairs spread and tickled his skin. "All of then trying to get closest to the birds color. It is something of a competition, and a joke."Trading a single coin for a pot of ink, he turned away from the table, and scanned the market. He could not say if the market looked back at him with any vested interest. Half leading, they moved on together. "How long have you been in Prince Nazaire's service?" He asked, stepping around a scene in the road with little interest. A child broad tears of no interest to him while it was chided by its mother. She was not important either.
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8 Large Eggplant Slices-peeled, sliced 1/3" thick
1 Cup All Purpose Flour
2 Eggs-beaten with 4 Tbsp. Water
2 Cups Japanese Panko Bread Crumbs-or substitute any favorite breadcrumbs
12 Basil Leaves-torn
1 Cup Shredded Mozzarella
2 Cups Cherry Tomatoes-sliced in half
¼ Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
As Needed Olive Oil or Canola for Frying
As Needed Salt and Black Pepper
Lay the eggplant slices on a wire rack and sprinkle both sides generously with salt to remove excess water and promote less absorption of oil when cooking. Let sit for 30-60 minutes to soften. Thoroughly dry each slice with paper towels.
Dredge each eggplant slice in the flour, shaking off excess, then dip each in the egg mixture, letting excess drip off, then press each in the bread crumbs, coating both sides thoroughly.
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Preheat oven to 400°f. Heat a saute pan on medium heat. Add olive oil so that it is about 1/3 of the height of the breaded eggplant slices. The eggplant can be added when a few bread crumbs tossed into the oil sizzles moderately. Lay eggplant in and cook for about 30 seconds to 1 minute or until golden. Flip over and repeat. Drain on a rack. Place the rack on a baking sheet for going into the oven.
Arrange two large slices of eggplant slightly overlapping each other for each serving. Top each portion with the torn basil leaves and then with the mozzarella. Place in the oven for about 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted and slightly golden. In a bowl, combine the cherry tomatoes with the ¼ cup of extra virgin olive oil seasoning to taste with salt and black pepper if desired. Present the eggplant on a serving plate and top with the fresh cherry tomatoes. Enjoy!