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Shabbat Shira is a musical program that takes place at Valley Beth Shalom on the Friday evening that corresponds to the Torah Portion Beshalach.
Past programs have included presentations of new musical compositions by Jewish Composers, many from the Los Angeles area. Additionally, music has been been presented by the Valley Beth Shalom choir, Composer and Cellist Robert Een, VBS Music Director Chris Harden and his Jazz Trio, VBS Cantors Phil Baron and Herschel Fox, and others.


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Eggplant with spicy garlic sausage ( suçuk)
What we need:
1 big eggplant
salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp of corn flour
1 tomato
50 gr of smoked garlic sausage
50gr of cheese
dill or parsley for garnish
oil for frying
What we have to do:
1. Cut the eggplant horizontally and season with salt and set aside for 1 hour. Then wash it and roll in corn flour and fry until light brown.
2. Then on a baking sheet place one slice of fried eggplant, then put tomato slices, then again eggplant, then sausage, eggplant and tomatoes and cheese on the top. Season with pepper and bake in the oven until cheese melts. Enjoy!!!

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GRAND FORKS - A North Dakota State Patrol trooper arrested in Beltrami County, Minn., for drunken driving has resigned.
A urinalysis showed Grand Forks Highway Patrol Captain Kevin Robson had a blood alcohol concentration nearly twice Minnesota's legal limit at .15 percent.
Robson, 42, was on personal leave following his March 10 DUI arrest and handed in his resignation on Friday, according to Col. James Prochniak, superintendent of the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
A Beltrami County Sheriff's Office report says Robson denied drinking and driving when pulled over by a deputy who was called about a report of a hit-and-run accident.
The report says Robson had difficulty maintaining his balance and was defensive dealing with the arresting officers.
Robson faces a charge of fourth-degree driving while intoxicated.
A phone message left for Robson at his home by WDAZ-TV seeking comment has not been returned.


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These buttermilk pancakes are beautifully light and puff up so nicely. I love to put a nice size piece of soft butter on top of a stack, smother them in maple syrup and have a few pieces of crisp streaky bacon on the side but serve them with strawberries warmed in a pot with a little sugar or anything else you feel like. You cam alos break up the crisped bacon into small pieces and add them to the batter for something different. This makes about 12, 10cm diameter pancakes. Some people call these flapjacks, I call them pancakes.
If you want to serve these on a school morning, make the batter the night before and keep it in the fridge. Give the batter a stir in the morning and add a little more buttermilk if needed.
What you need
1 cup cake flour
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
2 teaspoons melted butter
250ml buttermilk
Butter for frying
The process
Sift the flour, salt, bicard of soda and baking powder into a mixing bowl.
Make a well in the center and break in the egg. Now with a whisk mix the egg and add half the buttermilk and melted butter. Whisk gently drawing the flour in from the sides. If you add too much liquid it will become lumpy.
Now gradually add the rest of the buttermilk until you have a thick pouring cream consistency. The secret of these pancakes is to now leave the batter to stand for at least 30 minutes before you make your pancakes. If you are adding bacon bits to the recipe, do it now.
Heat a thick based pan on a medium heat and add a little butter. The best way to do this is to brush the base of the pan with melted butter. Take a ladle and spoon in the batter to form 10cm pancakes, wait for bubble to appear on the surface (about 3 minutes) and then flip them over and watch them puff up. The cooked surface should be beautifull browned.
Cook the other side for about another 2 minutes and make a stack of 3 or 4 per person.
YUM,YUM,YUM winter breakfast at it's best.


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US mobile operator merger could increase prices
Despite a lengthy process that started way back in the spring of 2018, US mobile operators Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to extend the deadline for their proposed merger another 2 months until 29 June, reports Gizmodo. "However, even if the FCC ends up approving the deal, after seeing a new study by mobile data analysts Rewheel, it'll be hard to feel good about living in a country with just three major cellular providers. In Rewheel's most recent version of its 4G pricing study which covers the first half of 2019, data shows that in countries with three MNOs (mobile network operators), the median price of 1GB of data is 113% higher than a typical country with four MNOs." The median price for the existing four MNO set-up in the US is already 4.5 euros, which is three times higher than the median for a typical four MNO country, while in Canada, "prices are almost comically bad with the cost of a single gig of data going for 7.3 euros, compared to 2.9 euros for a typical three MNO country". The only other country in the study with such anomalous data pricing is Japan which, like the US, suffers from data prices 15 times higher than the median prices for a four MNO European country. "But perhaps the most telling metric is the cost of the least expensive data plan with at least 20 GB of data in the US and Canada compared to what's available in Europe. In Canada, the cheapest plan you can get with 20 GB of data plan costs 67 euros, while in the US that same plan costs about 36 euros. In either case, that's at least double (or quadruple for Canada) the price of a typical European data plan." Read more and also see Rewheel.
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I was sent this. It's so beautiful, inspiring, hopeful and comforting that I wanted to share it with you all – enjoy!
We Were Made for These Times
Inspiring Message by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people. Read more


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Create an Invitation to play
Learn how to set up your own invitation to play using printable activities and loose parts! Join our guest blogger Veronica Green-The Director of Ronnie's Preschool, as she shares tips and resources for setting up these lovely invitations in your own early childhood program.
Play is an innate desire for children. Play is how children make sense of their world, create new theories and build upon their knowledge. Play is the essential tool we as Educators use to guide children through their development to become independent, creative and higher level thinkers who have the confidence and skills to problem solve, and learn from their mistakes. Children learn through hands on experiences and I am going to discuss how we can create engaging play experiences for children. This is a special project as I am combining Pre-K Printable Fun activities with Loose Parts from my personal collection.
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Oct 29, 2014
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Show 1196 Dennis Prager talks to author of Freedom From Speech.
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An eight-inch checkerboard can be covered with 32 one-by- two-inch dominos in thousands of different ways. If two opposite corners of the board are removed, 31 dominoes should be sufficient to cover the remainder. But the first attempt to do so ends in failure. So does the second. Everything proceeds smoothly most of the time; minor difficulties arise, but they are met successfully until the end. Then the would-be coverer finds himself with one domino in hand and two non-adjacent squares staring up at him from the board.
certain aspects of contemporary scientific thought in order to illustrate that:1. Inductive reasoning is far more pervasive of our thought processes than most of us realise (including many in the New Church).2. Therefore, in order to make the "jump" to a higher degree of thinking we need to become more aware of the distinctions between these stages of reasoning.3. Some of the new thinking in the so-called "advancing" sciences may be an aid to us by at least shaking the foundations
All human disciplines entail an ordering of experience. Indeed, this ordering is what makes them disciplines—i.e., systems of learning or of action based on established principles. The very recording of experience which we call history is such a discipline. More highly developed orderings of experience are such fields as theology, philosophy, the sciences, and—despite "modern" appearances—the arts.


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Happy Thursday my lovely friends :) Today we're talking about accessories, accessories spreading summer and boho vibes.
The easiest way to create a unique and extraordinary outfit is just to add unique accessories. I don't mean just adding a necklace or a bracelet and that's it, but to add body chains. Especially in summer I think this is an easy way to add a bohemian, feminine and festival-ready vibe to your outfit.
When I found this body chain from Born Pretty Store I immediately wanted to get it, to make basic pieces unique and add boho vibes to them. I love how playful and feminine the chains look on the shoulders and the back. It is really very eye-catching and a pretty detail.
A good alternative to headbands and hair ties are always hair chains. You know I love to wear them, especially if it's sunny outside and you have that feeling to be a little boho-princess :D They make your hair exciting , eye-catching and it looks very elegant and sophisticated.
Do you like adding accessories like these chains or do you prefer the classical combination of rings, bracelets and necklaces?
The best of all, those two pieces are together under 10$ from Born Pretty Store. I already showed you some amazing accessory from them in my post about Festival Hair Inspo , Flowerchild and in the post about my Passion For Edgy Rock-Glam Looks . They have such a huge selection of different styles and unique accessories there.
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Christopher Jon Bjerknes
"Judenfrei" asked that I contribute my abilities to doing research into the Jewish connections to 9/11. I try to contribute something new, which you will not find elsewhere, when I address a topic.
Earlier today, I posted a blog which detailed some of the Talmudic and Cabalistic beliefs which are fundamental to Christian Identity. In the past, I have proven that the Jews believe that the World and humanity are only destined to last 6000 years after which period the World is to experience a Sabbath of 1,000 years of rest. I proved this fact in my video "The Jewish Year 6000" which YouTube pulled and which I reloaded onto Metacafe, which unfornately runs advertising over the videos which appear on its site:
I have expressed the results of my novel research in the following blogs:
What Will the Reign of the Anti-Christ Look Like? The Seventh Year and Shmita, November 22, 2007
The Entropy of the Modern World Under the Jews, January 14, 2009
The Jewish Year 6000, February 27, 2009
The Jewish Year 6000 as Manifest in the Media, June 03, 2009
Addendum to My Blog: "The Jewish Year 6000 as Manifest in the Media", June 03, 2009
Just as Christian Identity preaches the Talmudic doctrine that Eve slept with Satan and produced a child named Cain as the result of this union, Christian Identity took on the doctrines of British Israelitist David Davidson that his "Great Pyramid Prophecy" predicted that the millennium of the "Sabbath of rest" would commence after the 6000 years of mankind from 4000BC until the Hebrew Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) on the 6000th year, which was 17 September 2001. Davidson published his prediction in the 1920's and Christian Identity publicized it as their own belief in the 1930's.
It is no coincidence that British Israelism, Christian Identity and Judaism hold these beliefs in common. As I explained in my book of Spring, 2006,The Manufacture and Sale of Saint Einstein, chapter 8, British Israelism and Christian Identity are products of the Jewish desire to use the Goyim to chase the Muslims out of Palestine and seize Jerusalem for the Jews, so that the Jews can build a Temple to the Devil on the site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque. The Jews have planned to rule the World from this Temple, for some 2,500 years. The Jews also plan to judge and exterminate the hated Goyim.
For the Jews, as well as the Freemasons, as well as Christian Identity and British Israelism, the true Anno Lucis for the Jewish year 6,000 began in September of 2001. It is no coincidence that the Jews conducted a false flag attack America on 11 September 2001, as a means to hasten the end of the World and begin the 1,000 years of Sabbath rest, which the Jews prophesied thousands of years ago would begin as the new age of Aquarius arrived.
Christian Identity and Freemasonry are Jewish subversions of the Gentile World. "As Above, So Below!" The Jews believe that by controlling the Goyim's beliefs in their gods, the Elohim of the Gentiles, they can actually subvert the gods who defend the Goyim from the Jewish angel Michael and the Jewish Devil YHWH, a.k.a. Jehovah, Yahweh, Adonai, or Hashem, depending upon how much courage you have to pronounce the ineffable name of the Jewish Devil. By duping the Goyim to worship the Jews' gods instead of their own, the Jews cut off the Goyim from their Elohim and weaken the Goyim and the Goys' gods in heaven, "As Above, So Below!"
In addition, the head of the Goy gods, Sammael, Satan (as opposed to the Devil, who is the god of the Jews), betrays the Goyim on Yom Kippur (the Day of Attonement) by accepting a sacrificial scapegoat from the Jews who places all of the Jews' sins onto the Goyim, as in the false flag attacks of 11 September 2001, which the Jews committed, but placed their sin of mass murder onto the Gentiles by scapegoating Muslims for what the Jews had themselves done. "As Above, So Below!" Both Muslims and Christians believe in the Jews' Devil god, which alienates them from their own "true" gods, the Elohim of the Goyim. The Jews thereby have an even easier time scapegoating Muslims and Christians for their Jewish crimes, because Muslims and Christians do not have any supernatural protection. Add to that the fact that once every year the Goyim's chief god, Sammael, sells the Goyim out for a measly goat and accepts all the sins of the Jews and places them on the Goyim he is supposed to protect.
I have proven with a substantial amount of evidence that the Jews conducted a religious exercise through their false flag attack of 11 September 2001, ushering in the end of time and scapegoating the Goyim for their sins, just as they were taught to do in the Torah, Talmud and Cabalah. The relevant citations have already been provided in my previous dissertations on the subject, but should the need arise, I can easily repeat them.


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The Space Child's Mother Goose, for Poetry Friday
"Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to Postulate how."
This poem is the first in a slim volume entitled The Space Child's Mother Goose, by Frederick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry. It was published way back in 1956, but is still holding great appeal to the science geek-esque eleven year old of today. I know this for a fact, because I have been reading it with my own such child for three nights in a row. Not only are the poems (those we understand, which is by no means all of them...) fun, but it is illustrated in charming bizarrity with black and white illustrations filled with vaguely mathematical details, and peopled by space personages who have beaks (or possibly just very triangular profiles).
"There was an old woman with notions quite new,
She never told children the things they should do,
She hoisted the covers up over her head
When people explained where her theories led."
Here's the poem that most delights my boy-- a riff on The House that Jack Built.
It begins "This is the theory that Jack built."
And progressively we reach:
"This is the Button to Start the Machine
To make with the Cybernetics and Stuff
To cover Chaotic Confusion and Bluff
That hung on the Turn of a Plausible Phrase
And thickened the Erudite Verbal Haze
Cloaking Constant K
That saved the Summary
Based on the Mummery
Hiding the Flaw
That lay in the Theory Jack built."
And then along comes a Space Child "with Brow Serene"--- and Jack's Theory goes up in smoke!
My son has it memorized, and I am trying to convince him that the next time he has to take a standardized writing test, he should put in "erudite verbal haze." That, and the "turn of a plausible phrase" are our favorite lines.
So educational--some of us had to look up "sophistry" and "cybernetics" so that we could be sure we were explaining things properly (we knew in a general way, but not solidly enough to be sure). And some of us had no idea at all what, for instance, Jato was (although others of us, not me, did).
I'm not entirely convinced, though, by the quality of the verse....this is one of those cases where I find myself "improving" the poetry as I read it. Don't you think, for instance, that the last line of the Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe one above needs a "had" in the last line? And isn't "possible probable" more fun to say than "probable possible?" Oh well, you can't have everything in this imperfect world.
Side note: my mother once went on a birding trip with two famous astrophysicists; she was shocked they'd never heard of this, and ordered them a copy the moment she got home. She no longer has her own copy....for reasons best left, um, unsaid...though I'm pretty sure I would have asked first...I think.
Although first editions are scarce and costly, the reprinted edition of The Space Child's Mother Goose is available here at Think Geek for only 13.95
The Poetry Friday Round-Up is at The Opposite of Indifference today!
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I am cracking up that your mother's copy has somehow... er, vanished. Wonder how that happened. Hm.ReplyDelete
I love Jack's theory!!! How cool is that! And how wise of you to look up the words - now Mr. B can use them on those tests with aplomb! And scare his teachers further!
I LOVE this! Think I'll hunt down a copy of my own . . .ReplyDelete
I grew up with this book!!! And had memorized Probable, Possible at an early age. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Love those poems!! I've never heard of this! I'm sure I would be much more eloquent and intelligent sounding if I had those words floating around in my subconscious. The first word I've ever used where I got a compliment from an adult was "procrastinate" hahaReplyDelete
This book is perfect for people here in Singapore who are very deeply into the maths and sciences! It's a great way to combine literature/poetry into things that they are already familiar with. I shall definitely look for this in our library and share this with the teachers here. Thank you so much for sharing. I enjoyed reading through the quotes you provided.ReplyDelete
We are also doing a Fractured Fairy tale theme over at my site, and after reading some of the selected poems you shared, I felt that it could actually work for us as well - particularly the House that Jack Built and how it has been 'remade' - so glad to have bumped into you through Poetry Friday.
This looks just fabulous! Am ordering a copy now! (Thank goodness for a paperback reprint! Your mother's copy is worth a pretty penny, it seems!!)ReplyDelete
I hope all of you who give this a try enjoy it as much as my son!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 9, 2011 at 3:09 PM
I love this book, too! I grew up reading and rereading it, and what I like most about these poems is that the more I learn about the topics, the cleverer the poems appear to me. They're carefully crafted, and technically spot-on, at least for their time - and I'm afraid I can't agree with your suggested improvements.ReplyDelete
First, the meaning of the last line of the Old Woman with Notions Quite New would be fine with led or with had led, and the latter meaning might be slightly better. But the meter is perfect as written, so I think the authors chose well. (The word "theories" contains three syllables, not two, when said correctly. We've gotten sloppy - but the dictionary still shows the-o-ry.)
Second, "probable possible" is actually meaningful, so reversing the words isn't an option, unless you don't give a hoot what is being said. The "probable possible" can be a subcategory of the possible, because a possible thing could be probable or improbable. However, a probable thing is already possible by implication, so "possible probable" would be a useless term - and no self-respecting philosopher hen would accept such a name, no matter how nicely it flows off your tongue. :)
You mentioned that you enjoyed this book in part because the poems are educational. I agree wholeheartedly, and am just posting this to suggest that if you find yourself trying to improve one of the poems, you may have missed something while you were figuring it out. I hope you don't mind.
Um...I think theories would be very tricky to say with three syllables in the context of that last line, so I'll cling to my opionion that a had would be useful!ReplyDelete


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U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) will participate in a veterans forum at 2:30 p.m. March 3 at the American Legion Fox River.
The forum will also feature Jacob Zimmerman, Kane County Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) superintendent; Hughes Turner, VA Regional office (Chicago) executive director; and Dr. Steve Braverman, Edward Hines Jr. VA hospital director. The Kane County Veterans Assistance Commission is hosting the event.
"Veterans deserve our utmost respect, and that includes making good on our promises to them," Hultgren said in an announcement. "I look forward to joining our local veterans, their families and key representatives from the VA to discuss and address ongoing issues and concerns with VA healthcare, disability, pensions, survivor's benefits, job-seeking assistance and other services for veterans. Hearing directly from Illinois veterans and their families informs my work on their behalf in Congress."
Hultgren has stood up for veterans in Congress, especially after the Veterans Health Administration scandal in 2014. He followed with a letter demanding answers from the secretary of the Veterans Administration regarding the delay of the Veterans Choice Program, which is a key element in the VA's overhaul.
Hultgren has introduced the Protecting Veterans Credit Act and cosponsored the Veterans Timely Access to Health Care Act, Hire More Heroes Act and the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act.
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You might find that If On A Winter's Night A Traveller is complex, intricate and different; a search for an end to a book which has only beginnings.
(William Weaver Translation)
You read a new review on Italo Calvino's book. The review is new, the book isn't. The review you are reading should convey some kind of understanding of the book's subject matter, and perhaps some trivia about Calvino itself. Perhaps it will tell you that he was an Italian postmodern writer. Perhaps it will mention his famous books Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities. Or perhaps it will jump straight into the new review.
You begin reading If On A Winter's Night A Traveller. The first chapter engrosses you. But your copy contains some kind of misprint; there is no second chapter. Frustrated, you return to the bookstore only to learn that the publishers have made a mistake and printed the first chapter of a different book under Calvino's name. You don't care, you just want to read the second chapter of whatever you were reading. But when you get your hands on that book, it turns out to be another story entirely; and another one with no continuation. And so it continues as you search from book to book, through a romance, a war story, a crime thriller and more, as you try to find the end of a book which contains only beginnings.
The review may have suggested to you that If On A Winter's Night A Traveler is a sequence of opening chapters. But it should also suggest that between the chapters is a larger narrative, a quest to find these mysterious books, to find out who is responsible. By the end of this review, you will have understood that If On A Winter's Night is a book about books. It explores the way to read them, it explores the way that they are read, it explores the way that are written, it explores the way in which you as the reader would interpret the book itself. In reading it you may read what Calvino didn't know because you sought in it what you didn't know.
And in reading If On A Winter's Night, you will come to know that Calvino is eloquent, verbose. The reviewer is not sure if he's a writer; the reviewer suggests that instead he is a painter, painting words instead of colours across the canvas that is the blank page. The review notes while the work is a translation, the prose is still beautiful.
By now, you are interested in reading Calvino's Wintery book. You are intrigued by the changing novels, the novel second person style, the novelty of a book that is about reading itself. You may read it because you appreciate the complexity, the self-referential networks of lines that interlace and intersect. You may read it because of the artistry; because it is a novel aware of itself being written. You may read only because it is different. But whatever the reason, the final decision, dear reader, lies with you.
You might find that If On A Winter's Night A Traveller is complex, intricate and different; a search for an end to a book which has only beginnings.


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Life needs light to see so clear.
Deprivation instills fear.
You can't keep someone in the shade, they'll whither, choke and die.
How can they grow ? How will they know what it's like to try?
Protection by prejudice is not the way to teach.
Try understanding and compassion and extend beyond your reach.
Cultivate your being. Don't put yourself above.
Shed beams of light, flee from fright, because everyone needs love.
I went to sleep with an ache in my side. When I awoke, it didn't subside.
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Imagine you're a film photographer whose business is being undercut by digital. What do you do? To make lemons out of lemonade, you position your film work as more special than digital, then charge a premium for it.
That's one of the lessons Camille Beaufils, board account director at ad agency Atelier Leo Burnett, learned from a classmate during a course in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education Program.
"It was really interesting to hear how frustration could become a huge opportunity," says Beaufils, a participant in Booth's Accelerated Development Program in London. "It's the same thing that we're doing: How do we embrace the digital media landscape? How do we benefit from it? In advertising, you can only embrace digital because our target is millennials."
The Executive Education Program attracts a wide variety of managers whose stories provide real-life lessons on leading through change.
"It was really interesting to hear what other people have to say," Beaufils says. "And it's really interesting to hear what people do in different industries as well as in different countries. So it's a lot of, 'How did this go? What did you think? What did you do?' And there's a lot of camaraderie, there's a lot of exchange I would say."
And it's not just the classmates students learn from, of course.
"I was quite amazed at how personable the professors were," Beaufils says of professors Ronald S. Burt, Richard Leftwich, Ann McGill, Douglas J. Skinner, and Chad Syverson. "They quickly grasped what industries we come from, and that made the learning much more tangible. They were not just cookie-cutter classes. And afterward, some of the professors stayed to chat with us. I didn't expect that."
The mother of an energetic 2-year-old, Beaufils, who grew up in Panama and France, wanted to be an ambassador working in a nation's consulate while growing up. She sees her leadership role at Atelier Leo Burnett in somewhat the same way.
"I'm extremely collaborative," she says. "You must be in account management and advertising agencies because you need to lead a whole set of departments, from creative to producers to finance. All of these different entities within an agency have very different profiles and very different ways of working, so I have to be flexible and collaborative while driving my own agenda."
She continues: "I represent a brand actually and I have to think for that brand and I have to make decisions for that brand. So, maybe in the end I actually ended up somewhere pretty close to what I wanted to do when I was 14."
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With a name like Date.com, I thought it was safe to assume that you could find an actual date right? I guess it's possible, but not likely. The site is not that old, but it seems like an old site with its archaic navigation. The number of site members they have are in the thousands rather than millions. Many other dating sites claim to be larger. I did have a couple promising interactions on Date.com, but I just ended up wasting a lot of time. Read my full review of this dating website today.
My Thoughts After Joining Date.com For Casual Fun
It seems like Date.com looked at some effective dating sites online and tried to copy some of their best attributes. Nothing wrong with that, but I wish they would have concentrated on getting more legit profiles rather than making the site look like a good dating site. It is fun to use for a while, but once you really get into it, it's more of the same that you see from any other scam site with a few real people thrown in here and there. It's a nice looking site and it's fun to use for a while. Sadly, once you pay for a membership, you spend most of your time trying to weed through the fake profiles and being ignored.
Site Features
One of the standout features are credits or "tokens" that you can use to send virtual gifts. These seem like just another way to get more money from you for frivolous things. I liked how you could send winks and flirts instead of having to think of a message to send to every girl you think is attractive. Although, when I did send messages, they were either ignored or I got a message back that was clearly generated by a computer.
You can tell if a message is fake because they seem very generic and you don't get a proper answer back to a message that you sent as if they didn't even read it. You can see a full history of all the people who have viewed your profile, but once I really got into using the site, I didn't trust this feature because none of them came back with a proper response when I followed up.
Hook Up Chances
It's hard to say what your chances of hooking up are, but I sure didn't. I'm sure, if you kept paying month after month, you would find someone eventually, but do you really want to spend all that money to find out? It's not likely that you will have any luck within the first month or two of joining because the real members are few and far between.
Website Safety
They seem to have decent customer support where you can send a complaint. None of my interactions seemed dangerous and I felt that I was fairly protected from hackers. There are some unscrupulous characters who contact you. They are pretty easy to spot and it's up to you to engage them or not. If you have any interest in obtaining company info, please find the address listed below.
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Cost To Join
Lots of people have one question, "Is date.com free to join?" The good news for you is that Date.com is free to sign up, free to browse, free to create an online profile and free to show interest in other members. What you cannot do for free is interact with other members. You need to purchase a membership for that. A Gold membership is $24.95 a month. You can save money by purchasing 3 months at a time for $49.95 or 6 months for $74.95. The best deal is purchasing a full year for $99.95 which comes out to a little less than $9 a month.
Ease of Use
Sure it's easy to use. It seems like an old school dating site as far as features, but it has a modern look. No matter how easy it is to use, what's important is results and I did not get many at all.
The Search Function
The search is a little impressive. There was a lot of search filters you can use and it's not difficult to use them at all. You can get multiple results based on multiple search criteria with very little effort. One search feature that I liked was recommendations where they show you people who have similar interests. Some of the dating sites that I have tried lately do not have that option. A great search doesn't mean much though when you don't get any results from any of the people that you try to interact with.
Third Party Site Consumer Date.com Reviews
Other review sites have a few things to say about Date.com today. After completing a few basic searches online, I came across a site called SiteJabber. Two out of the three reviews on Date.com were one-star reviews. Someone even mentioned that they have "never seen such a useless site in the world." Another person claims that the site is "chock full of bots." None of these types of reviews are what you want from a site you join. To be fair, the reviews were done between 2013 and 2014, so it's possible the site has since made improvements. Nevertheless, I felt it was important to mention these aged reviews.
I will also mention how bad the Better Business Rating is for the company related to this dating website. The report literally couldn't get any worse. The company has a rating of "F" which is the worst possible. There are 62 complaints that have been filed over the last three years.
Conclusion: Date.com Is A Bland Site Full Of Bots And Is Not Worth Paying For
Date.com is pretty, small and simple. Nothing fancy. Just good, old-fashioned online dating. The question is, can you find a date? For me, the answer was no and it wasn't because I didn't try. It's not because I'm undateable either because I have had much more luck on other sites. It's just a lot of time and effort with very little results.
What other dating website do you suggest for just a casual date?
It really depends on what you want to accomplish. If you are looking to go on a few naughty dates then you'll want to look elsewhere other than Date.com. I do have a list of casual sex sites that I can suggest you try out. There's a good chance that you'll end up getting lucky doing so. The list is below…
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The Broadway headquarters of Girl Scouts of Colorado is brimming with activity. It is cookie season, and while the offices are normally full of girls, they are also now stuffed with Thin Mints and Savannah Smiles. But for months, the entire national organization has been busy with preparations: On March 12, Girl Scouts will celebrate its 100th anniversary. (This is only a month shorter than Arizona has been a state.)
The century mark comes with a reinvigorated focus on the group's founding intentions and an awareness campaign to explain its significance to the scouts themselves. Inside the organization, the year 2012 is officially denoted as the "Year of the Girl," a title that brings a huge swath of activities in the coming months.
But although the group has adapted significantly to technological and social advancement, the focus of the anniversary celebration remains on the ways it has stayed the same.
"Some of the real core ideas that have remained true are inclusivity, service to the community and female empowerment," says Rachelle Trujillo, Girl Scouts of Colorado's vice president for communications. "We didn't always call it that, but empowerment is what it is. When Juliette Gordon Low founded the scouts, she had girls out and being active and wearing bloomers and showing their ankles and playing basketball at a time when that was still not culturally acceptable."
For the Girl Scouts of Colorado, the anniversary brings an additional opportunity to promote unity. The first Girl Scout council in the state began in 1917, but the group quickly branched off from there. In 2007, the state's seven Girl Scouts councils elected to merge into a single unit, Girl Scouts of Colorado, and membership temporarily dropped until this past year.
In 2011, the number of scouts in Colorado increased 4 percent, and this small victory comes with renewed efforts to include scouts outside the traditional troop model.
"We've always believed in what it gives to a girl to give to others," Trujillo says. "In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. called the Girl Scouts a force for desegregation. It's just this idea of giving girls an experience way beyond what they expected."
Although the local and national branches have been preparing for the anniversary for years, it started last year to gather volunteer-led alumni committees to start planning the celebrations. The Longmont History Museum, for example, is creating an entire display devoted to Girl Scout history, and Girl Scouts of Colorado will be inducting an honorary Troop 2012, comprised of female state leaders, on the day of the anniversary.
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According to the national group's plan, every girl born on March 12, 2012, will also be an honorary member of Troop 2012, Trujillo says. Local scouts will make trips to hospitals to drop off gifts to female newborn.
And of course, the anniversary comes with its own decoration for the girls themselves: a commemorative one-year pin they can add to vests or sashes. But that's not the point, they're reminded.
"As an organization, we've been really trying to shift that paradigm away from cute cookies and camp-outs," Trujillo says. "Yeah, we do those things, but girls don't join because they want to become leaders. They join for those fun things, and they realize later on that that's what they have become."
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Scientific studies have linked high levels of impervious surfaces to water quality degradation.
Two thirds of the impervious surfaces in developed communities are in the form of pavement related to automobile usage. Any design that uses alternatives to reduce impervious pavement is a positive step towards improving the quality of a community's water resource.
Percoa Pre- cast and Pervious pavements are a recognized runoff reducing substitute for normal pavements in development or redevelopment of:
1.Driveways, including residential driveways, low-traffic roads, fire lanes and emergency access roads;
2.Parking areas; especially over-flow parking and those associated with office buildings, shopping centers and recreational facilities ; 3.Sidewalks;
4.Road shoulders and vehicle cross-overs on divided highways;
5.Boat launching ramps;
6.Others, including pool decks and patios.
The use of pervious pavement has been found to:
1.Reduce storm water runoff. (Even when pervious pavement structure is saturated, its rough surface texture continues to slow surface flow of stormwater);
2.Replenish groundwater;
3.Reduce flooding which may over-load combined sewer sewage treatment plants;
4.Require less land set aside and cost for development of retention basins;
5.Reduce pollutants in run-off;
6.Reduce irrigation of area plantings based on the seepage of rain into the sub soil surfaces;
7.Reduce thermal pollution (see also: temperature);
8.Lessen evaporative emissions from parked cars [ 85 KB];
9.Reduce glare and automobile hydroplane (skidding) accidents;
10.Reduce pavement ice buildup.
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When The XX played The Star Vista this past Friday night, they mesmerised the audience with an almost introverted stage presence and an extensively impressive light show. Combining their Mercury Prize-winning debut 'xx' and their sophomore album 'Coexist', the London trio delivered a powerful, electrifying set. Clad in their usual sleek black outfits, guitarist Romy Madley Croft, bassist Oliver Sim and multi-tasking beatmaker Jamie Smith complemented each other in every track.
The music can be best described as moody electronica, with Romy's soulful singing and woeful guitar melodies. This was accompanied by Oliver's vocal harmonies and deep bass tones, while Jamie attended to the samplers, keyboards and rhythm machines in the back. At one point, Romy and Oliver shuffled into a little dance while facing each other.
The xx played crowd favourites like 'Islands', 'Fiction' and 'Shelter', much to the delight of their fans who simply could not get enough of them. The set was insanely tight and frequent variations were made to the songs. This was apparent with 'Crystallised', which was greatly slowed down. Hilariously, the crowd belted the line "ahhh ahhh" prematurely, only to be teased by Oliver singing it several moments later.
Retaining the intimate quality intertwined in their songs and live shows, the set was kept minimalistic, save for the stage and light presentation that enhanced every reverb. The xx ended the set with 'Infinity' and the reveal of the famous X just before the encore at the end of the night. When the performance ended, the crowd was still in awe. It was illuminating.
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Although conceived and constructed for shipping safety and national defense, the Twin Lights have assumed a far greater role in history. A startling number of scientific and cultural firsts have taken place on this site a tribute to its powerful presence on the American landscape, both literally and figuratively. Indeed, the next time you answer your cell phone, checkout at a grocery store, land safely at an airport, create a family tree, or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, you are connecting with the people and events that have made the Twin Lights such a profoundly special place.
In the Beginning...
Prior to the 1820s, the only permanent lighthouse in this area was the Sandy Hook Light, which became operational in 1764. It was the only lighthouse serving the entrance to New York Harbor. In 1823, Sandy Hook was supplemented by the Sandy Hook Lightship, stationed in Sandy Hook Channel about three miles offshore. The United States learned some hard lessons about the need to protect its shipping during the War of 1812. It was the lifeblood of the new nation, and nowhere was keeping ships safe more important than the waters in and around New York Harbor particularly after completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.
The U.S. shipping industry requested that Congress authorize another lighthouse to be constructed on the Highlands of New Jersey to support the increase in shipping traffic to and from the area. Congress approved the request and instructed the U.S. Lighthouse Board (predecessor to the U.S. Lighthouse Service) to construct such a light. In 1828, sea captains welcomed two new beacons of the Twin Lights on their way to New York Harbor. They emanated from this spot, high above the Navesink Highlands, overlooking Sandy Hook. The official name of the facility was the Navesink Light Station. But sailors and fellow lighthouse keepers called it the Twin Lights. The original keepers quarters was made of wood, with two Rubble Stone towers and beacons 320 feet apart. In 1841, the first Fresnel lenses in the United States were installed in the towers. The Fresnel lens was a critical part of the lifesaving effort. It was created in France in the 1820s by physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel specifically for use in lighthouses. Before Fresnel's invention, a lens had to be thick and heavy to produce the intense light needed to signal ships. The Fresnel lens collected light in a brand new way; now even the smallest lighthouses could produce a big-lighthouse beam. The lenses at the Twin Lights sparked a scientific revolution in America that led to everything from checkout scanners and camera lenses to solar collectors and fiber-optics cables.
New and Improved
In the 1850s, the Lighthouse Board in Washington decided to create a more permanent structure. In 1862 the new Twin Lights went on line. It was a state-of-the-art marvel of science and engineering the new star of the American lighthouse world. It cost a whopping $74,000. During the 1880s, the area around the Twin Lights started to see a lot new development. Across the Shrewsbury River in Highland Beach (now Seabright and Sandy Hook), day-trippers and tourists from the cities in the north descended upon the Atlantic beaches. Wealthy and influential New Yorkers began to build summer homes near the Twin Lights. Soon the town of Highlands began to flourish. The Twin Lights once isolated from its neighbors now became the beacon for a thriving, vibrant community.
Making History
The Twin Lights made front-page news again in 1893 when the site was selected as the location for the first official reading of the Pledge of Allegiance as America's national oath of loyalty. This event coincided with the opening of the Colombian Exposition (aka World's Fair) in Chicago, and featured a grand naval flotilla off the coast of Sandy Hook. The Pledge of Allegiance event was held around a new addition to the Twin Lights the awe-inspiring, 135-foot Liberty Pole. During the 1890s and early 1900s, the Liberty Pole was the first piece of America seen by millions of immigrants as their ships steamed toward Ellis Island. In 1898, the South Tower received a new lens an ultra-bright bivalve design that emitted a 25 million candle power beam that lit up the sky as far as 70 miles away. The arc light at its center required a generator to be built on-site, making the Twin Lights the first electrically powered lighthouse in the country. In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi chose the Twin Lights to set up his history-making wireless telegraph. He transmitted messages from a boat offshore, which were then sent to a New York Newspaper for publication. These experiments established the commercial viability of wireless communication and provided the foundation for experiments and technology that led to the wireless devices we depend upon today. With the advent of new navigation technologies, the role of the Twin Lights in maritime safety diminished in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet once again, the site was selected for development and testing of cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs. In 1935, the U.S. Army began field-testing its new Mystery Ray, a name given by the press to what we now call radar. The radar experiments held at the Twin Lights not only helped the Allies win World War II, they led directly to the innovations that enable thousands of jetliners to safely share the sky.


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Innovation, growth, and stability in biology and other systems
- Motivating Example
- Gambler's Ruin
- The Red Queen
- Now You're Thinking With Rates
- Rates in Cultural Evolution
- Motivating Conclusion
This is an edited text version of what I spoke about on May 23, 2017 at the Gruter Institute Conference to a general audience. I talk about some recent developments in macroevolutionary methods, how we've applied them to problems in biology and cultural evolution, and hopefully an inspiration for more people to start thinking about their own systems in this way.
Motivating Example
Thanks for inviting me to speak at this conference. Like most of you, I flew through Reno to get here, and I'm always surprised at how common the slot machines are. Now, I personally don't play slots. since my favorite is actually roulette.
I like roulette for a couple reasons. As a grad student, it's quite cheap compared to the other table games like blackjack, it's less antisocial than slot machines, and most importantly, you're more visible when the server comes around to comp you a free drink.
But here's what I don't like about roulette, and this applies to any sort of gambling, is the house edge. You see, you're always at a disadvantage. So even if you only bet on red or only bet on odd numbers, if the ball lands on zero or double zero, you lose. The chances are not 50-50. So in the long run, the odds are stacked against you and the expectation is that you lose all your money.
This graph is my cash over time at the roulette table. So let's say I start with a small stake, and I bet conservatively on the odd numbers and win a bit of money. And as my cash hoard increases I can place more bets at the same time. And eventually I hit on a single bet (35 to 1 odds!) and start really rolling in cash. But then I unwisely keep playing and run out of money.
I'm actually an evolutionary biologist, not a professional gambler, so instead of roulette I'm actually talking about an extinct group of brachiopods, the Spiriferida. And instead of the amount of cash I have, I'm talking about the species richness of this clade. But like my game of roulette, these guys eventually lose and go extinct sometime in the Jurassic.
In fact, like most gamblers, over 99% of all lineages that ever existed have "lost" by going extinct! Is it possible that, like gambling, species go extinct merely due to bad luck? Or is there some other process happening?
Gambler's Ruin
I'm going to show you two sets of taxa. One set is simulated, where the probability of a new species originating or a species going extinct is the same. And the other set is the actual species richness through time of a couple of different extinct clades.
The figures on the right are the empirical data. You might recognize our friends the Spiriferida at the top there. And on the left are the simulated data, where the rate of species origination is equal to the rate of extinction. Let's call this "gambler's ruin" because you'll eventually run out of luck and go extinct.
What explains the shape of these diversity curves? Clades ultimately go extinct, but vary tremendously in their richness over their lifetimes. We can see that just by comparing among the right-hand clades: some are more boom-and-bust and others linger at roughly the same diversity for a long time before finally kicking the bucket. Why do some clades persist for a long time? What does it mean to see richness explode and persist? Wax and wane?
One point is that we might think there is a big difference in the forces controlling diversity for a short-lived clade that never reaches high richness and a long-lived clade that has a substantial richness peak. But, as the left hand plots show us, stochasticity can sometimes produce clades that look very different, even when the underlying process is the same!
Instead of continuing to speculate, let's actually test these hypotheses quantitatively. This is work from a great paper in Science a few years ago, by Tiago Quental and Charles Marshall.
I want to introduce you to a group of carnivoran mammals, the hyenas. These guys first showed up about 20 milion years ago, and as you can see they have similar rises and falls in their diversity over time.
Suppose then that we believe that gambler's ruin explains the dynamics of the hyena lineage. We can estimate their overall origination and extinction rate over the history of the clade, and ask if we expect the clade to last as long as its lifespan, 18 million years, given these estimated rates.
Based on those rates, we simulate the history of this lineage a bunch of times, and come up with a distribution of simulated clade lifespans. And here in red is our empirical lifespan, which is a bit shorter than what we typically simulated.
And in fact, we see this pattern repeating across all the groups that they tested. Clades tend to not live as long as we expect. What's going on here?
The Red Queen
One thing that might be happening is the Red Queen hypothesis. This comes from Alice in Wonderland, where Alice is trying to get somewhere, but the ground is moving under her, so, as the Red Queen says, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.
Biologists have invoked this hypothesis to explain a number of different things, usually involving sexual selection, but the way I'm going to use it here is when clades fail to thrive - their ability to originate new species goes down due to a change in their environment.
So to test the Red Queen hypothesis we estimate origination and extinction rates like before, but this time we split the clade history into a "rise" phase, in green, and a "decline" phase, in red. And we test whether the origination rate is lower during the decline phase.
Under the Red Queen, we would expect that origination rates would decrease in the decline phase compared to the rise phase, and in fact that's what we see happening in the hyenas.
And this pattern holds true over most of the 19 lineages that were tested.
In fact, not only do we see a decline in origination rates, we also see an increase in extinction rates. So these taxa are getting hit twice as hard, by both low origination and high extinction.
Now You're Thinking With Rates
What I want to emphasize here, is the focus on thinking about rates. When we think about our data in terms of rates, we can use this framework to test a variety of different hypotheses.
Biologists have used this to ask things like, whether generalists outperform specialists. For example, in the carnivorans, it's been shown that specialization towards hypercarnivory is also associated with increased extinction rates. And we can also see whether a broad geographic range tends to immunize lineages against extinction.
What's nice about this framework is that it's sufficiently general that we can extend it to test other hypotheses, such as the effect of competition on diversification.
So here's how we might test the effect of competition. Suppose we have two lineages, clade 1 in red and clade 2 in blue. And say they're co-occuring, so we want to know what is the effect of the blue clade on the red clade? To do this, we calculate the net diversification rate, which is the origination rate minus the extinction rate, and look at the time period where these two lineages overlap.
There's three things that could be happening here: the blue clade might just be on the rise, called "passive replacement", the red clade might be getting pushed out, called "active displacement", or both processes could be happening at once.
Here's an example, again in the carnivorans. This time we're examining three subfamilies of dogs; the Hesperocyoninae, in red; the Borophaginae, in blue; and the Caninae, in green. These guys are still around, and include foxes and wolves and the domestic dog.
And what Daniele Silvestro and his coauthors found in their PNAS paper, was this pattern of successive replacement, first of the red clade by the blue clade, and then the green clade of Caninae replaced both of them1. And they could actually estimate the strength of the competitive effect, which is shown here in white and grey.
What's nice about Daniele's framework is that you can use this to test more than just competition. Here we're looking at the effect of temperature on the diversity of this middle clade in blue. And what they found was a negative correlation with extinction rate, where when the temperatures went down, extinction rates went up – possibly contributing to its decline!
Rates in Cultural Evolution
Why am I showing you all of this? Well, I believe that this way of looking at data, is sufficiently general to be applied to more than just biological systems. Here I've done a similar thing and analyzed the diversification dynamics of Linux distributions. And what I found was that in the mid 90s and again in the 2000s there were significant declines in the origination rate of Linux distributions.
And based on these data I could test a few hypotheses, like whether certain kinds of distributions were more successful. So I classified the Linux distributions into a couple of broad categories and found that, yes, there are some pretty interesting competitive interactions going on between these distros!
What Erik Gjesfjeld and the rest of us did for our Palgrave Communications paper last year, was to look at the diversification of American car models in the last century. And we found a huge spike in the diversification rate of car models post WW2, with a decline to a negative rate aftewards.
And again using this framework, we found a strong signal of diversity-dependent diversification, where our diversification rates were correlated with the overall diversity of car models.
We've tested a number of different cultural systems now, ranging from the number of FDA-approved drugs on the left, to the diversity of pottery types in the American Southwest and the number of apps available in Apple's App Store.
Motivating Conclusion
The point I want to make here is that looking at origination and extinction rates in this way is an extremely powerful framework for testing hypotheses about why lineages succeed and why they stick around.
What we've learned in the biologicial literature is that origination and extinction are definitely separate processes that must be considered in order to understand the dynamics of a system.
For example, you can do really well with high origination rates and explode onto the scene, but you won't stick around for very long if that lineage also has high extinction rates. Furthermore, we can also test for a variety of different factors that could be influencing how those rates change through time, like various environmental variables or the effect of competition from other lineages.
When you're looking at your own systems, there are a couple of things from biology that we've found to be generally protective against extinction. Having a broad distribution helps, as does having a generalist life history. Not being terribly big also helps, probably related to not being too specialized and falling into an evolutionary dead end.
One last thing to keep in mind is that all that I've been talking about today only really applies to background extinction. Mass extinctions throw the rulebook out the window and are extremely disruptive, black swan events that ignore what we know about extinction resistance.
Thank you all for listening. None of this work would be possible without my awesome collaborators, and I'd be happy to take any questions.
Thanks to my advisor Michael Alfaro for helping me to conceptualize this talk, as well as Daniele Silvestro and Erik Gjesfjeld for many of the figures. The House of Meatballs was an essential venue for developing our early ideas. Meng Wong patiently listened and gave constructive feedback on my slides.
I actually oversimplified this part of Daniele's paper for the talk, as he actually tested many more carnivoran taxa, and found a smaller but still significant competitive effect of felids and other non-caniform taxa as well. ↩


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I do a lot of news skimming and find myself the source for many friends. Let's see if it make sense to share it…
Let's Skim the News for Jews – July 10 – 4 Tammuz – from Israel
- Civil unrest grows in the U.S. First two videos came out of black men being shot by police, though as has been the case in many of these videos a few days later the details are debunked – people only see the initial video and buy the story. The next day Black Lives Matter snipers ambushed police in Dallas who were managing a lawful protest, killing 5 office, wounding 7 others policemen and 2 civilians. In the two days since, there have been at least 3 additional ambush attacks on police in cities around the U.S. The U.S. administration seems to only be making this worse, first with the Attorney General telling protesters not to stop after their protest was turned into a massacre of police, "Do not be discouraged by those who use your lawful actions as cover for their heinous violence." Followed by President Obama giving both sides equal weight.
- My father, may he live and be well, lives in the US and shared this: "Such events are particularly bad since copy cats may now do some of the same. I stopped in a sports store, and it happens that the store also sells guns. There was a crowd inside. There was an actual "take a number machine" by the gun department. Everyone was buying guns, and they are expensive. All of their counter space was filled with people filling out the paperwork to buy a gun. With all of their guns on display and the buyers there was an atmosphere of "yeaah let's buy a gun". Adding to the atmosphere was OMG so much ammo, thousands of boxes, stacked on open tables."
- Last week as rough in Israel, as a 13 year old was brutally murdered in her bedroom and a rabbi was shot to death driving with his whole family in the car. These are clearly cases of Suicide by Cop, or it's Israeli incarnation, Suicide by IDF for Honor and Profit. Israeli police are on edge when attacks ramp up, and shot a mentally disturbed man who walked towards them with a knife.
- In economic news, Israel is in talks to export gas to Turkey and to Egypt. Energy findings in the Holy Land continue to increase, both offshore and onshore as new technology makes previously hidden resources discoverable. If the government ever gets out of the way, this could boost Israel's economy by over 10% – but it will unfortunately take 5-10 years for the government to get out of the way and for the resources to be developed. Israel is also continuing it's hi-tech boom, now with a focused "accelerator boom". If you're a Jew with hi-tech skills, polish up your resume and LinkedIn profile and check out available jobs in the Holy Land. Israel is second only to the United States in average high tech salaries, and Israeli web developers earn more than their US colleagues.
- This past Shabbos was the hilula (the day of elevation/passing) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Has Chabad really grown 5 times larger in the 22 years since the Rebbe's Hilula? It seems it has.