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THank you sure i would love the contact information of the rabbi speciallizing in converstion. can you also tell me where it says in the tanak that you can break the torah laws if it is to save someones life? Its not that i am being inhumane, its just that i see in the passages of Lev 17-10 how God feels so strongly about the consumption of blood and of course they didnt have the technology such as blood transfusions back then, so I personally feel that i dont want to violate Gods ways and i dont quite understand living by the law and not dying for it.I thought Moses said, directed by God, Today I put befor you the blessings and maledictions, if you are carefull to follow all my ways, i will bless you, I will be your God you will be my people, and i will defeat your enemies, and not put the diseases that are put upon the rest of the people {who dont follow his ways, and laws?} After doing my own research on the subject of blood transfusions, theres a major risk involoved in this proceedure too, its not guaranteed save either. and it makes sence, the blood of all of us has everytihing in it. so when we take this that belongs to someone else, we become like someone else, so is it really saving your life? or is it actually killing you? How does God feel about this? is this really a clean thing for his people to do? everyone does it, but i dont care about everyone I care about his people and i feel i am one of them.I think it is an offence to God, to play with lives like this. the blood of every living creature, belongs not to us but to God, he gives specific instuctions on what to do with blood, to pour it on the ground, you must not partake of it, in any way consume it...what if your wrong, will God forgive this? Or does he expect us to repent and turn back to him. and to trust him, in everything including this one. I personally think that Gods people should be discusted in this practise and i personally view this as Pagan. If I was God and im not, i would be very hurt over my people doing what the rest of the nations do. WHen are Gods people going to listen to his word and actually have respect for it. Life is a gift, and we have lost something in the process of it. but i believe its never too late. I beleive he loves his people Israel, and i do too. Im not here to condem or argue with you Rabbi,. in fact I dont even know at times why Im where I am at. but i say what i feel, and its from my heart.Shalom.sincerly, Catherine.
She then wrote back:According to your reasoning the following should be true: Since it is forbidden for one to drive through a red light or a stop sign without stopping, even if one is driving an ambulance with a critically ill patient, one should not be allowed to drive through without stopping because the law says not to do it and anyways, it's not a guaranteed fact that you can save the critical patient. Is such a conclusion true? Obviously not. The laws were given to apply under normal circumstances, when circumstances are extrenous, then the laws do not apply and certain things which could normally be forbidden could become permitted and even obligatory in order to save the life of a fellow human being.And anyways, the prohibition of consuming blood applies specifically to eating/drinking blood, other forms of consumptions (including, for example, annointing with blood or even transfusing blood) are not included in the prohibition of consuminh blood.When the Torah tells of a law, it is not our job to figure out the reasoning behind the law, rather it is our duty to merely carry out what the Torah tells us to do, without analyzing WHY we are supposed to do it. Accordingly, your explanation of the prohibition of the consumption of blood (that one cannot take something from someone else and if he does he becomes like that someone else) might be a nice explanation, but through your explanation you are changing around the actual law by applying it to cases where it doesn't apply, and not applying it in cases where it does apply.Why then do we fulfill G-d's commandments? G-d is the Master of the Universe and the King of the World, so just as when a king would command you to do or not to do something, you would never dare question the reasoning behind his commandment (WHY the king commanded you to do so), so too when G-d commands certain laws, one is not supposed to ask WHY one should fulfill them, rather one should simply fulfill them as he would fulfill any edict commanded by a king. Ignore the WHY, the WHY is irrelevant.With your permission, I would like to post this to my website to ask other peoples for their opinion on this matter. By the way, I am not a Rabbi, so please do nto refer to me as such.
Thank you for your time and reply.I would be honoured if you would post my letter for discussion.I would like to know if there is anyone else that thinks the way i do?I think its good to talk about spiritual things, Gods laws and ways, we could help each other and in the end become closer to the almighty.I read everyday on aish.com I love there writings and participate very much there.Like I said i am a Torah observer and student and I am loving it!Iv never felt closer to God ever, and I thank his people that have guided me in the wright direction. I feel there is so much that i didn't know about our creator. but now i have the opportunity to learn from the best, his people!I love the Torah, I love his people and I love Him. I know that no one is perfect, and even Gods people can make mistakes, but the difference is, he chose one people for his name, and no matter what...he will always keep his promise and they will always be his people, even if they make mistakes , he always has and always will correct his people when there wrong because he loves them, just like a father loves his children, and like a child loves his father, we will eventually see his way.That's the way history was, and is today.God has a theme, a message he sends to his people, Faithfull "Israel", 1/ repents 2/ changes or turns back to him, then 3/ he forgives them...but what must Israel need to repent of?What is His people guilty of, if anything?Do we need to take a look at ourselves and question what we are doing , how we are living and is it according to Gods ways or someone elses?Is that not a part of Judaism? To question everything? To make sure we are not being like the nations that are all around us.? That practise Idolatry, and pagan customs?Gods people. Are a clean people, that stand out in this world, they always have, and yes they have been persecuted for it many times over, atrocities, inhumane crimes, all because they stood up for Gods name, they didn't bow down to anyone, they didn't forsake there God.Don't you think these ones well be remembered by God and that he will bless them for it ?How many stories have we heard of faithful Jews, who died, because they wouldn't kiss the cross. or accept Jesus as there God or convert to pagan religions? That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.They really loved God with there whole heart,they didn't care what was being done to them, even till there agonizing painfull death, they would rather die in this temporary life, knowing that they loved there God, whole heardedly, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, Moses and Joshua, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, they would rather die, than disappoint there creator, who is all knowing all power full and almighty.There is nothing more pleasurable than having a close relationship with God. I believe that.Shalom! See you at the wall someday! where Gods presents Shekina, is and awaits us all there.


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Google is rumoured to be developing a pair of sci-fi-style heads-up display glasses, which can overlay information onto the wearer's field of vision for hands-free augmented reality.
According to a report on the 9to5Google blog, the glasses resemble those worn by the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator (aka "Arnold wearing leather and a frown") in the 1984 James Cameron film.
They are said to include a built-in front-facing camera and an integrated heads-up display for one eye, as well as a microphone and speakers for phone functionality. There is also some suggestion they might incorporate internet connectivity and GPS.
Development is apparently far enough along that Google is thinking about launching them in beta mode to the public sometime this spring.
According to 9to5Google's tipster, the glasses look like Oakley Thumps (pictured above) and are said to have the processing power and storage of a last-generation Android phone.
Before you start squirreling money away for a pair, however, there are a few caveats: the heads-up display is for one eye only and it is not transparent, they do not have dual 3D configurations, as previously speculated, and if you want to scroll around or "click" you have to tilt your head.
It sounds like Google is still trying to decide how to market the glasses, as this kind of technology has a decidedly niche appeal. 9to5Google says the company is "unsure if [the glasses] will have mass-market appeal" and that they're "considering making this a pilot program, somewhat like the Cr-48 Chromebooks last year."
In reality, a pair of attractive, lightweight, affordable glasses with a heads-up display and Internet capability would still have to be functionally unobtrusive to get the general public interested, though the potential for speciality applications, from industrial to military use, would be boundless.
PCWorld's Matt Peckham contributed to this article.

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Is it possible to pre-download a video at home (using my Wi-Fi, which is faster and has no data cap), and watch it on the way? I tried pausing it at home and let it download, but whenever the phone sleep (it sleeps often!), or the application switch from youtube to anything else, it seems all previous download will be lost.


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US 'explorers' to don Google internet glasses
Google on Wednesday invited "explorers" with creative vision and $US1500 to spare to be part of a select group of people who get to experiment with glasses synced to the internet.
A video intended to capture what it feels like to use Google Glass was posted online along with information about what the eyewear does and how to be among those putting them to the test.
"We're looking for bold, creative individuals who want to join us and be a part of shaping the future of Glass," said a message at the website.
"We're still in the early stages, and while we can't promise everything will be perfect, we can promise it will be exciting."
Roller coaster rides, ice skating spins, sky diving, trapeze stunts, ballet moves, and ski runs captured from first-person perspectives were among action snippets woven into the Google Glass video.
Google glasses that overlay the internet on daily lives should hit the market in a little more than a year - technology the tech giant hopes will someday make fumbling with smartphones obsolete.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin offered the estimated timeline in June after a project update that included sky divers dropping in on a developers conference in San Francisco with a new version of "Glass" wearable computers.
Brin introduced "Explorer" edition glasses that developers were invited to buy for $US1500 to become the first people outside the company to shape the revolutionary eyewear before it gets to market.
The eyewear features built-in camera, microphone and speaker technology and can sync to the internet using wireless connections.
As with the sky divers, cyclists, and wall-walkers who took part in the Google developers conference stunt, video through the eyes of wearers can be streamed live on Google's social network.
Brin wears a pair of Google glasses much of the time as he and members of his team at the company's X Lab refine the technology.
Google has been speaking with eyeglass frame companies about ideas for a consumer version of the glasses, which he expected would cost "significantly" less than the Explorer prototypes.
Google on Wednesday set out to diversify the group of people experimenting with Glass eyewear "that will literally be changing before their eyes".
US adults interested in the program have until February 27th to express in 50 words or less what they would do if they had Glass eyewear and then post the messages at Twitter or Google+ social networks with hashtag #ifihadglass.
People chosen for the Explorer program will have to pay $US1500 each for Glass eyewear, which they will need to pick up in person at sessions to be held in New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.


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Spying on Your Family or Prison? An Exclusive 'Shadow Dancer' Clip
To keep your family alive, would you spy on them?
Andrea Riseborough tackles that question, and its consequences, as Collette McVeigh in "Shadow Dancer." Collette, a single mother, takes up residence in Belfast with her mother and brothers, who are passionate members of the Irish Republican Army.
When Collette is arrested for her role in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 agent (Clive Owen) gives her a chance to keep herself out of prison. In exchange, she must return to Belfast and spy on her own family.
The film takes place in early 1990s Belfast, and is based on the book of the same name by political journalist and British author Tom Bradby. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, and comes out on demand and theatrically on May 31.
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A Disney World Christmas vacation is not complete without a handful of photos to relive those wonderful moments. One of the most important companions for any couple or family preparing to visit Disney World Resort is the digital camera, and if possible, a mini video recorder.
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"It needs to be its own thing," said Whedon. "It needs to be adjacent [to the MCU] but you don't want to do a show where you're constantly going, 'Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.' You want them to do their own thing."
What does that mean exactly? Whedon continued:
"Well, what does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don't? And that, to me, is that they're not superheroes," said Whedon. "But they live in that universe. Even though they're a big organization, that [lack of powers] makes them underdogs, and that's interesting to me."
Given Whedon's well-known love for the underdogs, this puts this show right in his sweet spot. We can't wait for more information about this project.


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COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO--(Marketwire - Dec. 19, 2012) - Timberline Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE:TBR)(NYSE Amex:TLR)(NYSE MKT:TLR) ("Timberline" or the "Company"), announced today the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of its common stock. The Company is offering 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at $0.20 per share to the public. The gross proceeds from the offering are expected to be approximately $1 million, prior to deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by Timberline. Timberline has granted the underwriter a 45-day option to purchase at the public offering price up to an aggregate of 750,000 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering is expected to settle and close on or about December 26, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.
Timberline intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for exploration of our Lookout Mountain Project in Nevada, exploration and development of other existing or acquired mineral properties, working capital requirements, acquisitions, or for other general corporate purposes.
Aegis Capital Corp. is acting as the sole book-running manager for the offering.
The offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that Timberline Resources Corporation has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and which is effective. A preliminary prospectus supplement containing important information relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC. The preliminary prospectus supplement is still subject to completion or amendment. A final prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and, when available, copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to these securities may be obtained by contacting Aegis Capital Corp., Prospectus Department, 810 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY, 10019, telephone: 212-813-1010 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Electronic copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus will also be available on the website of the SEC at www.sec.gov.
Closing of the Offering will be subject to certain conditions, including receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals and the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and the NYSE MKT.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, these securities, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted. The securities being offered have not been approved or disapproved by any regulatory authority, nor has any such authority passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying base prospectus or the registration statement.
About Timberline Resources
Timberline Resources Corporation is exploring advanced-stage gold properties in the western United States. Timberline holds a 50-percent carried interest ownership stake in the Butte Highlands Joint Venture in Montana where gold production is targeted to commence in mid-2013. Timberline's exploration is primarily focused on the goldfields of Nevada, where it is advancing its flagship Lookout Mountain Project toward a production decision while exploring a pipeline of quality earlier-stage projects at its South Eureka Property and elsewhere. Timberline management has a proven track record of discovering economic mineral deposits and developing them into profitable mines.
Timberline is listed on the NYSE MKT where it trades under the symbol "TLR" and on the TSX Venture Exchange where it trades under the symbol "TBR".
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2016 Toyota Tundra truck that has a design that is elegant and modern, which became one of the best products prepared by Toyota to face the next new year sales where more competitive. In the United States especially the truck is still regarded as one of the favorite vehicles for people especially for those who are used to driving for both off-road and on-road field. Toyota is planning to maintain a large sales in its class to offer one of their latest products for this class. All New Toyota Tundra has been prepared as one of their best products and provide refresher.
2016 Toyota Tundra Concept Design
2016 Toyota Tundra has experienced changes to look out for. 2016 Toyota Tundra exterior design will keep using large dimension. On the front of All New Toyota Tundra will be redesigned with a more stylish grille and a new bumper design. As for the back of the New Toyota Tundra headlight repair experience is prepared to improve the look of the back side. 2016 Toyota Tundra interior design will have a classy and elegant look. Toyota Tundra will offer the latest features and advanced equipment to improve the value of comfort, security and entertainment.
2016 Toyota Tundra Diesel Engine
2016 Toyota Tundra will provide the engine that has powered and strong performance. According to some rumors, 2016 Toyota Tundra will be providing new engines which have been revised by Toyota to become more powerful in performance than the previous edition. New Toyota Tundra uses a new engine 5.0 litre V8 turbo diesel by Cummings that can produce 300 horsepower and 500 lb-ft.
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2016 Toyota Tundra truck that has an impressive engine performance and give you a new, modern look. For more information about the release date of 2016 Toyota Tundra has yet to be confirmed. But according to rumors circulating, Toyota Tundra latest edition was announced around 2015 in order to be prepared as the 2016 models. While the 2016 Toyota Tundra pricing information is expected to be sold for around $ 38,000.


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After Sabretooth follows Betsy up onto the mansion's roof, the two two of them crash through the roof of Storm's attic, where Betsy tries to fend him off with Storm's knife. Her losing battle is interrupted by the arrival of Storm, Callisto, Magneto and Wolverine who wants to finish up what they started in the previous issue. He goes one-on-one with Sabretooth in one of the most intense and vicious scraps ever seen in comics up until that point. Before Magneto can use some improvised bonds to subdue Sabretooth, Psylocke explains about the psi-shields that are protecting Sabretooth and suggests they allow her to try and probe his mind while he's distracted by his fight against Wolverine. This works, allowing Betsy to probe Sabretooth's mind and learn who the secret leader of the Marauders is. When she tells Wolverine this, the two combatants have made it near the lake that is at the edge of the mansion. With the other X-Men coming to help Wolverine take Sabretooth on, the feral mutant dives into the lake, with Wolverine following after him. Sabretooth however manages to escape, and Psylocke says he cannot be detected. While "Wolverine vs Sabertooth" was a great rivalry, this two-part story made it a legendary one.
I must admit, this comic was so hyped-up by comic fans that it made Wolverine the toughest character in the Marvel Universe. Now Logan was always a really tough scrapper -- but the toughest?? Yup, because after this fight, Wolverine became an unstoppable wrecking machine who could take on any opponent and any amount of damage given to him. He was now known as the guy who essentially killed the Hulk and stood toe-to-toe with him. Well, what fans didn't realize was that this was the weaker and far less durable "Gray" Hulk. Sure, this version of the Hulk was extremely powerful in his own right, but nowhere near the levels of the green "Savage" Hulk who knocked out Wolverine with a glancing blow back in their first fight in The Incredible Hulk #181 (1974). But creators couldn't help jumping onto the Wolverine-bandwagon and bring him from a mid-level, street-tough hero, into the realm of the Super-Heavyweights who could stand with anyone in the Marvel Universe including the Juggernaut, Thanos, Gladiator, Hyperion, Thor and now even the green "Savage" Hulk himself. Wolverine may find it difficult to beat these big guys, but he has no problem going one-on-one with them and taking everything they can dish out... really?? This is when I believe the true character of Wolverine was forever ruined because now almost nothing could knock him out, stop his claws from cutting through them and he could heal from just about anything with his out of control Healing Factor. Yup, Wolverine is the poster boy for what popularity can do to a character, especially if they get popular enough to become a company icon. This fight will always remain a mixed blessing; it is a standard in comics that took superheroes scraps to a whole new level, but it also remains a curse for what it did to a character that I used to love and made him much more powerful than he was ever truly intended to be. All hail the death of the Wolverine!!! Long Live the Wolverine!!!!
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"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century." - Swami Vivekananda
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U.S. sends more aid, airstrikes to Iraq
The U.S. military began to conduct air strikes and air-drop humanitarian aid to a starving Iraqi town south of Kirkuk besieged by militants of the Islamic State since mid-June, according to a Pentagon spokesman late Saturday night.
The operation to support the enclave of Amirli, a small town of ethnic Turkmen Shiite considered heretics by the Islamic militants who control much of that area of Iraq, represents a major expansion of U.S. military involvement in the Iraqi crisis that began when the militants overran much of northern and central Iraq in early June.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that the request for aid came from the government of Iraq.
"The operations will be limited in their scope and duration as necessary to address this emerging humanitarian crisis and protect the civilians trapped in Amirli," he said.
American forces have conducted over 100 airstrikes in support of nearby Kurdish forces battling the well-trained and well-equipped Islamic State fighters. Previous operations had focused on protecting the Kurdish capital of Irbil, as well as supporting an operation earlier this month to help Kurdish and Iraqi forces retake Iraq's largest dam.
U.S. forces also dropped large amounts of humanitarian aid to helping mitigate a massive crisis in the northwestern city of Sinjar as its population fled across a barren mountain range to avoid an Islamic State advance.
But Saturday's action took place well south of the city of Kirkuk, where residents of Amirli have been holding out against the Islamic State's siege since mid June, with very little support from the mostly ineffectual Iraq government. It has managed to provide only a small amount of aid and weapons via helicopter to the thousands of trapped people.
The latest American effort included an initial delivery of 109 bundles of fresh drinking water and 7,000 individual meals. Australia, France and the United Kingdom also participated.
The Pentagon said that it had struck four Islamic State targets in an effort to assist Kurdish forces, who have at times been reportedly supported by Iranian advisers in their push to lift the siege on the city.
Amirli's residents fought off the initial push in June by the Islamic State _ a self declared Islamic Caliphate shunned by even al Qaida for its brutality _ but found themselves besieged in mid-July by the militants, who have blocked the town from receiving either government or United Nations aid convoys. The town lacked electricity and drinking water at the height of Iraq's brutal summer, where temperatures regularly reach 120 degrees.
Pentagon officials stressed that the expansion of the mission in Iraq to Amirli would be limited to aiding that area and does not reflect a change in what President Barack Obama described last week _ and for which he was criticized _ as a lack of a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the Islamic State.
The group now controls an area the size of Jordan spanning two countries and controls one of the region's most powerful militaries after looting billions of dollars in U.S. supplied military hardware from the Iraqi army as it fled the group's advance in mid-June.


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Helpful Tips
A few tips from teachers like you to help integrate Raz-Plus into your classroom.
Teacher Tip #1Students can record themselves reading a book from their home computer. Have them record a favorite story with bells or dings to signal page turning (the Next button) and allow younger siblings to listen to the read-aloud while following along.
Teacher Tip #2When students have read and listened to all books in their assignment/level, assign a running record for a Benchmark Book or Benchmark Passage to determine student accuracy and readiness to move to the next level. (If Raz-Plus is used during centers, have the student record their reading.)
Teacher Tip #3Use the Assignment report to see at a glance how much of the current assignment a student has completed and whether it may be time to assess a student's reading progress.
Teacher Tip #4Giving students access to the Reading Room will help build listening comprehension, increased awareness of differing text structures, and broader vocabulary as students listen to books at higher levels.
Teacher Tip #5Play Raz-Plus songs on an interactive whiteboard during class transitions, and challenge students to be cleaned up and in their seats or in line before the song is complete.
Teacher Tip #6Use the correlation chart to help determine which level of books to assign to a student based on their grade or known guided-reading level.
Teacher Tip #7Include a date in a custom assignment title as a reminder of when a student was first given a particular assignment or when resources were updated.
Teacher Tip #8Make folders for each level labeled with a large letter/color according to the level. Place worksheets for books at that level into each folder for independent student access.
Teacher Tip #9Students only need the teacher username and their own password to access Raz-Plus from home. They don't need the teacher password, which would give them inappropriate access to the management tool.
Teacher Tip #10To protect student privacy and display only the first letter of a student's last name, remember to check the box on your Roster.
Teacher Tip #11Raz-Plus materials provide engaging at-home reading practice for students who are out of the classroom for long absences.
Teacher Tip #12Students can access Raz-Plus to hear modeled fluency and practice reading from any computer with Internet access--at home, at the library, on wifi-enabled tablets ... anywhere.
Teacher Tip #13Did you know that all the books on Raz-Kids and thousands of other resources can be downloaded and printed from Raz-Plus? Use eBooks with the printed books to model fluency for small-group instruction.
Teacher Tip #14Did you know that our sister site, VocabularyA-Z supports the vocabulary from the online books with customized vocabulary lessons, word work activities, and assessments?
Teacher Tip #15Add fun to Raz-Plus assignments by creating treasure hunts for each level. For example: Find two things you need to make salsa. (Making Salsa Level C); Find someone who gets lost at school. (Gordon Finds His Way Level G); Find the important person who had a pet raccoon. (White House Pets Level F)
Teacher Tip #16Use Raz-Plus with ESL students to powerfully reinforce the connection between the written and spoken word.
Teacher Tip #17Laminate lists of 'Room ___ Favorites' to help students make choices in the Reading Room.
Teacher Tip #18Write students' names on plastic cups. Stack them on top of the computer in the classroom. The student whose cup is on top is "up" at the computer. Students can set a timer for a teacher-designated time and then move their cup to the bottom of the stack so the next student can take their turn.
Teacher Tip #19Use Raz-Plus to model visualization. Play a Raz-Plus Listen eBook without allowing students to see the screen. Pause every few pages and have students sketch what "pops into their heads." Compare to the illustrator's pictures on a second read.
Teacher Tip #20Use a Raz-Plus informational book to introduce students to an upcoming topic being studied in math, science, or social studies.
Teacher Tip #21Challenge students to find and read a fiction book and a nonfiction book on a related topic as they browse in the Reading Room. Then bring the class together for a compare-and-contrast lesson.
Teacher Tip #22Create an assignment with only the listen option for all books at the next higher level for a student. This allows the student to preview more challenging texts before he or she begins working at that level in their guided-reading group.
Teacher Tip #23Did you know that students' reading comprehension can only be as strong as their listening comprehension? Occasionally, assign students the listen option and quiz for a given book to determine how strong their listening comprehension is at a given level.
Teacher Tip #24Place a set of high-frequency word cards with targeted words from a given level at your computer station. Encourage beginning readers to practice the word cards as a follow-up activity to their time on the computer.
Teacher Tip #25Be sure to tell students that they can use the Back button to listen to pages of a book again. They can also use the Pause and Play buttons to stop and start the narration.
Teacher Tip #26Did you know that there are many books on Raz-Plus that relate to specific topics you may be teaching? Look for books on animals, insects, ocean life, weather, seasons, transportation, energy, sports, and many more.
Teacher Tip #27Did you know that you can use the resources on Raz-Plus to support lessons on writing genres? Look for examples of expository, narrative, persuasive, and procedural writing.
Teacher Tip #28Did you know that sister sites Sciencea-z.com and Vocabularya-z.com share some resources with Raz-Plus? Subscribe and explore the Learning A-Z Connections on both sites.
Teacher Tip #29If you have a class web page, add a link to your Kids A-Z class log-in page.
Some tips to help you to get started with ReadyTest A-Z.
Tip #1Students only need their teacher's username and their student icon to access ReadyTest A-Z from home. You can also assign passwords to each student when you create your roster.
Tip #2To protect student privacy and display only the first letter of a student's last name, remember to check the appropriate box on your Roster.
Tip #3Use the Reports to see at a glance how much of the current assignment a student has completed and whether each student is keeping pace. Provide additional opportunities for computer time if needed to ensure students complete one test each week. Remember students can access assignments at school, at home, or anywhere they have a computer with an Internet connection.
Tip #4Adjust a student's assignment so that the student receives Practice Tests back to back instead of weekly if he or she is out of the classroom for long absences and falls behind the class sequence of Practice Tests.
Tip #5Print Practice Tests for students who do not have a computer with online access from home or if school computer time isn't available each week.
Tip #6Practice test-taking as a class by projecting a test and discussing each question along with its rationale.
Tip #7Another Learning A-Z website, Vocabulary A-Z, allows you to build customized vocabulary lessons and games that support academic vocabulary words common to standardized tests.
Tip #8Write students' names on plastic cups. Stack them on top of computer station(s) designated for Practice Tests. The student whose cup is on top is "up" at a computer. When a student completes a Practice Test he or she moves their cup to the bottom of the stack and the next student can take their turn.
Tip #9Place a set of academic vocabulary word cards with targeted test-taking words at your computer station(s) (see Vocabulary A-Z for word lists). Encourage students to practice the word cards as a follow-up activity to their time on the computer.
Tip #10If you have a class web page, add a link to your Kids A-Z class login page.
Tip #11If a student takes two or more Practice Tests in in a single sitting, make sure he or she always takes a short break to move, stretch, or get a drink in between each Practice Test.
Tip #12Encourage students to skip questions or tasks they might have trouble completing and go back to them at the end of the Practice Test.
Tip #13Use selected Test-Taking Skill & Strategy Lessons with small groups or the whole class before assigning the Practice Tests to individual students, so that each student has some experience with test-taking strategies and skills before taking the Practice Tests.
Tip #14Model taking a Practice Test for your class. Perform a "walk through" of any Practice Test, demonstrating important skills and strategies (such as using evidence from the text to find answers that students will use on high-stakes tests).
Tip #15View classroom and individual reports regularly to keep track of skills and standards that students are mastering and skills and standards that require additional instruction.
Easy-To-Use Suggestions for Writing Instruction
Writing A-Z offers a robust collection of resources to help improve the writing skills of every student, at every learning level. Below you will find a number of suggestions for writing instruction, as well as tips for utilizing Writing A-Z in the classroom.
Classroom Tips
Resource-Specific Tips
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Considerations for Using Science A-Z Resources Effectively in the Classroom
Here are a few tips from teachers like you to help integrate Science A-Z into your classroom.
Science A-Z is a dynamic website that helps teachers integrate science and literacy instruction to efficiently satisfy standards in both science and English language arts at the same time.
Blending Reading with Hands-On Science
Unit resources help you address students' multiple learning styles by including many ways for students to read, write, think about, and discuss science ideas, as well as numerous opportunities for students to participate in hands-on science experiments and projects. You get to choose which unit resources are most appropriate for your science instructional goals and the order of their use. Below are three sample pathways through key unit resources.
Build a foundation of content knowledge by having students read first, and then develop scientific and engineering practices with hands-on investigations and projects. Extend the learning with more reading practice.
Allow students to jump right into hands-on activities to develop practices and to learn concepts and vocabulary in context. Then have them read science books to develop a deeper understanding of the content. Extend the learning with more projects and activities.
Blended Approach
Intersperse a variety of resources to get kids reading about and doing science using an integrated approach.
If using Science A-Z to supplement another curriculum, decide which resource types will best round out the instruction, accounting for all standards and learning styles.
- If you use a science textbook, you might find the hands-on activities and collaborative projects from Science A-Z to be useful. You may also find that the multiple reading levels make the content more accessible to a wide range of student reading abilities.
- If you use a kit program, supplementing it with the vast library of multilevel books and other reading materials from Science A-Z may best meet your needs.
- Science A-Z Storylines blend hands-on activities with reading in order to meet the expectations of three-dimensional learning.


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George Zimmerman's friend: Trayvon Martin grabbed gun
Trayvon Martin grabbed his killer's gun just moments before he died and uttered a profanity-laced threat. In a desperate life-or-death struggle, George Zimmerman clutched Trayvon's wrist, broke his grip on the semi-automatic firearm and shot him once in the chest.
That account appears in a new book written by Zimmerman's best friend and confidante.
There's just one problem: Zimmerman never said that to the police.
Now the book, Defending Our Friend: The Most Hated Man in America, and author Mark Osterman's two television interviews have landed on the prosecution evidence list, as more versions of Zimmerman's story emerge. A man who wrote a book calling Zimmerman "the kindest and most sincere" person will wind up in court — for the prosecution, experts agree.
"It was emotionally draining for George as he relived that awful moment when he managed to control the gun, then fired out of fear for his life," Osterman wrote.
Osterman, U.S. air marshal who lives in a Central Florida, was among the first people Zimmerman's wife called on Feb. 26 when she learned her husband had just shot someone. Osterman rushed to the scene that night, and accompanied his best friend every step of the way through the investigation, including his first three interrogations by Sanford police.
Osterman acknowledges that former Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee was his one-time lieutenant in the Seminole County Sheriff's Department whom he held up as a father figure. Osterman says he was quickly recognized by cops on the scene, but insists he never coached his friend on what to tell them after the death of Trayvon, an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager.
Afraid for the Zimmermans' safety, Osterman took the couple in from the very first night of the shooting. His 172-page book describes how Zimmerman told the story of the killing over and over again until he was physically drained. When he told it to police, Osterman said, Zimmerman threw up.
But Osterman's account is a sharp deviation from the versions Zimmerman gave, which experts say will undoubtedly be used to try to impeach the defendant's credibility and cast doubt on his claim of self-defense if each telling changed or was embellished.
"I desperately got both of my hands around the guy's one wrist and took his hand off my mouth long enough for me to shout again for help," Osterman quotes Zimmerman as saying.
"For a brief moment I had control of the wrist, but I knew when he felt the sidearm at my waist with his leg. He took his hand that was covering my nose and went for the gun, saying, "You're gonna die now, motherf-----.' Somehow, I broke his grip on the gun where the guy grabbed it between the rear sight and the hammer. I got the gun in my hand, raised it toward the guy's chest and pulled the trigger."
DNA reports released Wednesday showed there was no DNA from Trayvon on the gun.
Even as Zimmerman himself offered slight variations of where Trayvon first appeared or from what direction, none of his written or recorded interviews with police suggested a battle over the firearm. He told police that when he wriggled off the concrete onto the grass, his gun was exposed, and Trayvon reached for it.
In the version Zimmerman's brother Robert told CNN, Trayvon said something like, "You have a piece? You die tonight."
Osterman has declined to comment. In his book, he blames The Miami Herald for revealing his identity and compromising his position with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also acknowledged that shortly after The Herald revealed his name in July, he wrote the book and went on national TV.
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said he had never heard about a struggle for the gun. He said he read a draft of the book before it was published, but felt asking Osterman to change details would amount to witness tampering.
"He's a friend of George's trying to explain George to be different than the way he was perceived to be. Great — that's a story that's not been told," O'Mara said. "I don't like him talking about things George spoke to him about in confidence. I didn't like yet another statement of George's out there for review. It's more of a headache."
Although he questioned whether Osterman's memory is accurate, O'Mara admitted that between Zimmerman's various interviews to police, his father and brother's accounts to the press and now Osterman's, there are several versions of what happened that night, but he characterized the discrepancies as a surmountable obstacle. If everyone's story was exactly the same, O'Mara said, then it would smack of a lie.
O'Mara said it took him 10 days to respond to the book draft after he received it, but when he got around to asking Osterman to scrap the book, the publishing contract had already been signed. O'Mara chalked it up to miscommunication, adding that Zimmerman has taken a court's "no contact with witnesses" order to heart, and has not spoken to any state witnesses except his parents since he left jail on bond while he awaits trial on a charge of second-degree murder.
"We will be able to respond to the six, seven, eight different renditions of the story, how and why there are different statements," O'Mara said. "The jury is going to believe what the jury is going to believe."
Although Zimmerman has said Trayvon jumped him from out of nowhere, the book says he told Osterman that Trayvon first approached Zimmerman from a distance of at least 15 feet and asked him if he had a problem. In a TV interview, Osterman also claimed Zimmerman had a concussion, something that was never noted in medical records or claimed in the statements.
To explain why Zimmerman got out of his car while on the phone with police, he quotes a conversation between his friend and the dispatcher that never took place: "If you can't see him do you still need us to send an officer? We need you to get to a place where you can see him," he quotes the dispatcher in an exchange that is not contained on copies of the police call or transcripts widely posted on the Internet.
Trayvon's supporters believe Osterman's book proves that Zimmerman can't keep his story straight because none of it is true.
"He has done George no favors by writing this book," said attorney Natalie Jackson, who represented Trayvon's parents in their mission to get police to make an arrest. "This book is huge. It hurts George a lot."
Although second-hand quotes are generally inadmissible in court, Jackson said this is a type of citation that would be exempt from the hearsay rule.
"The state would be precluded from directly using any excerpts from the book, as the words on the pages are hearsay, but the Ostermans could be subpoenaed to testify against him to his detriment if Zimmerman embellished, added or changed facts in the version he gave to them," said Miami Beach criminal-defense attorney Michael Grieco, who has been following the case. "Any inconsistencies amongst the numerous statements Zimmerman has given will be used against him and his credibility.
"Zimmerman's credibility is the key to his affirmative defense."


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Nick Carter
Hi! My name is Nick Carter and I'm 56 yrs. old and this is part of my story. Let me tell you, I was like a lot of people out there and I had no idea that skin cancer was anything bad. I had Basal Cell back in 2007, but that was no big deal and it was removed and that was the end of that. No one told me that it was a type of skin cancer (I looked it up on my computer). But still no big deal, it would not kill me.
But I did know the words Melanoma and that it could be bad and it could kill you, I knew it had something to do with Skin Cancer and it could go to other parts of your body, but that was about it. This was still no big deal to me because it was just skin cancer and a doctor could just cut it off my skin and that would be it. I did not know that it could end up being a lot more. Besides, I would never get this, it was something other people got but not me. I have never been a sun worshiper so it must be for other people.
So here is a little more of my story, I had a biopsy on my arm at the VA in Salt Lake City back in March of 2009 and I was not going to keep this appointment. I told myself to just cancel it, but the doctor talked me in to coming to this appointment. So I ended up going. I told myself that it was just Basal Cell, and that it was no big deal, just a waste of my time. But I was way off this time. I guess I'm no doctor because it was melanoma and that scared me a lot. The bad part is, I was on my way to Ohio and would not be going back to Utah. At the time of the biopsy I told the Doctor I would be moving to Ohio in a few weeks with my family and that the test was no big deal, that it looks like Basal to me. It looked a lot like the one that was removed in 2007.
I was on the highway in Illinois doing 75mph in a big moving truck and I get a call from the VA in Salt Lake City and was told I would need to get in to the VA as soon as I could, that I had melanoma skin cancer and that it needed to be removed asap. I told the doctor I was almost to Ohio and she remembered I was moving, so she told me to get to the VA in Cleveland as fast as I could to get this removed and she said this over and over to me . That was the part that scared me real bad. By the time we stopped that day I was really upset, but did not tell my family until that night. Once in Ohio I did get in to the VA, but not before I got on my computer and all that did was scare me more. This melanoma skin cancer could kill me and that upset me a lot more. At the time I had a wife and two grandkids to look out for and it scared me that I may not be here for them. So if you are like me, go on the computer and look at the melanoma sites but don't get too upset, talk to your doctor first.
At the VA in Cleveland I had the melanoma (T2a) removed in an operation (a wide excision and Sentinel lymph node biopsy with no signs that it had spread) the doctor told me about interferon. She was happy with the operation and told me we will see how I was doing first. I was told that it was cancer back in Aug. 2009 and had the operation on Oct. 5, 2009 to remove in from my arm. But I still remember the first word from my doctor ("Melanoma, I will give you 6 months, but now let's see if we can do something about it.") When I heard this I became paralyzed with fear. So as of right now I see 3 doctors and go in to the VA every 3 months, but so far all is good. The doctor is still keeping an eye on me. In May I was told I have pre cancer polyps in my stomach that will be removed this month and pre cancer Barrett's esophagus. But I did get a little bit of good news this time at the doctor's office when she told me I will be melanoma free in 6 months if it all goes good. It's been a long two years. So as of right now I am 3-0 (just like baseball). I had a battle with Staph Infection (MRSA) that almost killed me and Perforated Diverticulitis that almost killed me and now Melanoma that could have killed me but I did win this battle too. So here I sit with a 3-0 and that is really good.
So please get your skin checked by a dermatologist who knows skin cancer. Get a complete skin exam (naked) from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. I should have had that kind of check-up every year, and didn't. So please, do it. It could save your life. Be Vigilant!
So here is my question to you, is it just skin cancer and no big deal or is it cancer and a big deal?
It was a big deal to me and I am a Skin Cancer survivor!
Nick Carter
Re: Nick Carter(7/13/2012 - 4:38pm)
Hello Nick,
Your story resonated strongly with me. I am not the one saying "it's skin cancer. Glad they can remove it for you." My family and friends say that, to me, to everyone.
Seven years ago when I was having many tests and wound up with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, people made references like "but at least it's not cancer." And now with melanoma, I hear "but it's skin cancer ... be glad they found it and can remove it."
Yes, I'm glad they can remove it. They did remove it. But now it's here again, in another area. They'll remove it again, and I'll heal, and then they'll look for more.
I am not perfect, but I am enough.


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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Lunar New Year, day 9
1) Must have item- Sugarcane
2) Other items pray for "Tin Kong"
3) Usually I will contribute a cake to "Tin Kong"
7 comments:
- Bakeling said...
Emile , if you can upload your photo as "large" so that we can see clearly what you have on the picture. Moreover , you blog still have so much space to post a large picture. Thanks.
Since we are hokkien ,my mother would follow the praying of "tin gong" tradition when shen was alive. It is only a memory to me !
- February 7, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- Emile Zola@life said...
Bekeling, Sorry to hear that.
I'm still new to excute blog and know little about blog, let me make a little check and learn how to upload "large" pictures. Pls hold.
- February 8, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Bakeling said...
Emile , The only thing I know is when you :
1. Add image from the computer
2. change layout
3. Select image size : small
Then click on the "large "dot. The size larger than that ? I don't know liao ,ha ha ha !
You are better than me ,I even don't know how to print my blog name on photo !
- February 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- Emile Zola@life said...
Bakeling, below are how I put my blog name on those photos:-
1) design your blog name on a Exelsheet or WORD format
2) Open your photo
3) Copy the blog name from no 1
4) Paste on the photo
5) Save the photo
- February 10, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Bakeling said...
Thanks Emile, so it is using copy and paste method . I will try to do it next time.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- suesue said...
The cake is so nice. You bake it?
- February 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Emile Zola@life said...
Suesue, bought from a nearby bakery shop.
- February 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM


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Laura from Quokka Quilts and I started TGIFF! (Thank Goodness it's Finished, Friday!) a couple of months ago. It's a touring linky party for quilty finishes. We're having a blast -- and getting more projects finished to boot! I'm hosting this week and the wonderful and cheeky Lucy from Charm About You is hosting next week. If you have a finish in any given week, you are more than welcome to join in on the fun! You can also host if you like too. Check out the TGIFF! site for more details.
Another thing I do is travel the quilting blogosphere. I haven't done it in a couple of months because my computer is soooo slow, but we recently got a new computer and I'm feeling the travel bug again. I've got a few ideas for making these more visual trips for readers too.
Now to the giveaways!
There are two giveaways, one for the Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop Party and Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day and your comments will count for both!
Giveaway #1: A charm pack of 48 6" I spy squares. I use these packs to make my Wee Spy Quilts. With a 3" border, these squares make a 39" by 48" top. There are a variety of colours and novelty fabrics that attract wee ones' eyes. No two squares are alike. The best part? This top is so scrappy that you can use any colour or fabric as the border and backing and it works.
Giveaway #2: This Makower UK Make It Yourself Advent Calendar panel. I've made five of these Makower UK's Advent Calendars and I have to say that they are very easy and fast to do. The directions (provided on the panel) are clear and concise.
So how can you win? This is open to everyone and you have a few chances to win:
1) Leave a comment on your favourite travel destination or which country (or province or state) you think I should visit virtually next.
2) Leave a comment letting me know that you are a follower or have become a new follower of my blog.
3) Leave a comment letting me know that you are a TGIFF! follower or have become a TGIFF! follower.
Remember, your entry(ies) will count for both giveaways. [Edited: I almost forgot! The charm pack giveaway will be open until December 17th at 5 p.m. and the advent calendar will be open until December 16th at 5 p.m. Both giveaways will be determined by random number generator.]
Thanks for visiting and good luck!
Cheers and happy blog travels,


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Knife Skills: Brussels Sprouts
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I flat out love brussels sprouts. They are easily the most favorite of my favorite vegetables. When properly seared and caramelized they turn sweet and nutty like nothing else. Of course, if you overcook them or allow them to steam in their own liquid, they turn funky and unpleasant like nothing else, or at least like nothing fit to be eaten.
Properly cooking them requires two things: high heat, and proper preparation. Today we're gonna focus on the latter (don't worry, we'll come to the actual cooking soon enough).
The key to getting your sprouts to taste great is to maximize their surface area in contact with the pan. There are two ways to do this. First, you can simply trim them down and split them in half. Cook them cut side down in plenty of fat (olive oil is good, bacon fat is better, duck fat is the best) until the entire cut face has turned crisp and nearly blackened. Delicious.
Want to further increase surface area? It's a little more work, but you can also cut each head into fine shreds (call them chiffonade if you want to sound fancy). You can't cook quite as many in the same pan this way (lest they start the dreaded steam cycle), but you'll end up with extraordinarily whispy, crisp, tender shreds that are so good you'll wonder why you ever hated brussels sprouts. Watch the full video above for a demo.
Shopping and Storage
My favorite way to get brussels sprouts is from the farmer's market, still attached to their stalk. They just look phenomenally cool, like a little Christmas trees with edible balls. The sprouts also tend to last a bit longer on the stalk than when bought loose.
Whether loose or on the stalk, look for small, tight heads with minimal discoloration. The outer leaves of brussels sprouts, like many cabbages, will start to develop black or dark brown spots before the rest of it starts to go bad. The exterior leaves should be bright green while the inner leaves should go from pale yellow to white.
Once you get them home, store brussels sprouts loosely wrapped in plastic (a plastic baggie with the top left open is ideal) in the vegetable crisper drawer, where they should remain good for at least two weeks. If they begin to discolor, simply peel off the exterior leaves until you get to the first clean layer.
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A new kind of reading (as documented by Chartier) leads to a new kind of pleasure (as documented by Colin Campbell, delineated by readings of 18th commercial fiction).
New pleasure leads to new social order, oriented around a consumption economy producing disposable goods, disposable pleasures for the profit of capitalists, and to pacify more successfully the otherwise restless proles whose labor is exploited.
Ads, social emulation, novelistic production invent interiority and motivational schemes, the identity quest, inventing motivations necessary for mobilizing consumer revolution.
Early commercial novel as a miscellany, read like a shopping catalog by bourgeois in the market for new emotional experiences. This approach to reading may have been linear but consisted of skimming, searching for peaks and valleys, affective intensities tied to a narrative predictable enough to not require careful or sustained attention. Identification is not with a specific hero or heroine but instead multiple choices are offered for a variety of potential pleasures, many of which are contradictory. Sustained identification was not yet necessary for a plentiful yield of satisfactory emotional titillation. It may not be required now, though such identification is ideologically indicated, supporting capitalistic individualism. Readers can always partake of vicarious pleasure in unrelated moments through characters who are diametrically opposed. Sometimes, too, readers can identify with the storyteller as well as with the characters within the story, for the peculiar pleasure that comes from being the presumably unimplicated observer -- the joy of transcendence and noncontingent invention.
Bath was a perfect location for English novels in the late 18th century: a locus of gambling, nascent consumerism, medical quackery. The tropes of the early commercial novel are products of the same family, with the same strategies and pleasures offered. The novel is a kind of patent medicine that works on level of emotional fantasy, which is produced as the most basic consumer good, with no intrinsic value other than the faith one puts into believing in it, in exchanging money for it.
From Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977):
Douglas argues that the marginalization of clergy along with women provided a whole sector of society interested in having a cultural influence because their real influence was negated. This cultural influence was inculcated through pop culture: novels and such that inculcated sentimental notions that ultimately provided the basis for a individual invested in formulating identity through consumerism. This social segment gains compensatory power for being masters of a discourse that ultimately strips them of "real" power – they can be masters of taste, while that taste is exercised in a field created by their marginalization, by their subordination to a social order that deprives them of "real" "meaningful" work.
A compensatory power was granted to the feminized (women and clergy) for their promotion of values (glamour, narcissism) that kept them marginalized from the true means of production. They could promote values that supported the existing relations of production while gaining only symbolic, cultural capital. This cultural capital is valorized through promoting "self-justification" instead of the "theological" concerns American religious writers began with.
Douglas describes the emergence of a new kind of reading:
'Reading' in its new form was many things; among them it was an occupation for the unemployed, narcissistic self-education for those excluded from the harsh school of practical competition . . . . Literature was functioning more and more as a form of leisure, a complicated mass dream life…. Literature was revealing and supporting a special class, a class defined less by what they produced than by what they consumed. [Ministers and women] wrote not just to win adherents to their views, but to make converts to literature, to sustain and encourage the habit of reading itself." (9).
They were" intent on claiming culture as their peculiar property, one conferring on them a special duty and prerogative" (10).
Ultimately "sentimentalism provided the inevitable rationalization of the economic order" (12) – i.e. covered up the contradictions inherent to capitalism. Sentimentalism is what is lost in the pursuit of masculine, expansionist goals – what is celebrated even as it's destroyed. These values come to seem to be lost "naturally," rather than as a cost of the implementation of an economic system. Nostalgia thus dismantles active protest, and critique.
This applies to all Man of Feeling-type works of sensibility, too – sensibility is a demonstration that manners are being refined but also that capitalism is accepted as inevitable and what will be destroyed can be celebrated, its loss lamented as the sad way of the world and not the result of choices. Heroes of sensibility are nostalgized and marginalized as unable to exist in the real world of capitalist exploitation, which is just a fact of life, which feminized hereos nobly but futilely ignore. (They disdain "interestedness.")
In discussing the marginalization of women, Douglas makes the standard point about their removal from productive processes as home industry declined. To compensate, women became domestic managers, and this meant more often than not managing the emotional climate of the household -- along the lines of Hochschild's concept of emotional labor. This new role also stressed woman's role as procurer and consumer. In this way, as domestic workers responsible for producing affect, women become explicitly productive through their consumption, mainly by latching onto the fashion system. (They become early "prosumers.") But literacy was the bait for the trap, according to Douglas.
The supreme product of feminine fashion, the chief emblem of the emerging female consumer, was not found in the lady's clothing, but rather, odd as it may initially sound, in her reading and writing. The feminine proclivity for novels, the young miss's resort to the pen and the confidante, a standard theme for jest in 18th and 19th century fiction, had its serious side. A Marxist might argue persuasively that American girls were socialized to immerse themselves in novels and letters in order to make their powerlessness in a masculine and anti-humanist society more certain and less painful. (71)
The stories they read and wrote were themselves courses in the shopping mentality, exercises in euphemism essential to the system of flattery which served as the rationale for the American woman's economic position (72-3).
A matter of compensatory flattery: reading/writing supports the value of this flattery of detailed attention to the things that trivialize women, that rationalize her social insignificance, or rather her significance as mere consumer/trophy.
Shopping for luxuries is where one exhibits taste, which certifies its possessors' value. Taste/judgement are constructed as active skills, rather than passive choosing; as meaningful and productive activity rather than a consolation for exclusion from the real meaningful decisions. She does not do for herself, but persuades, through her tasteful displays, others to do for her – "influence" in Douglas's sense. She exerts influence through taste, because she has no direct access for power – this exercise of vicarious power is, in Douglas's analysis, celebrated in the sentimental texts of Victorian America. Women should live by proxy and feel like they have achieved privilege by being reduced to mere shoppers. This privilege of taste becomes their function, what makes them at least feel indispensable.
Male sentimentalists, according to Douglas, find their vocation in depicting and glamorizing female suffering, examining and explaining it: "Sentimentalist self-absorption, a commercialization of the inner life" (308). Sentimentalism promotes the idea that the inner life should be subjected to standards of taste, to consumerist decisions, that feelings exist only to be displayed, to establish an identity in the eyes of others, where it may be affirmed, legitimated, substantiated.
In The Political Unconscious, Jameson argues that there must be, in culture
a process of compensatory exchange … in which the henceforth manipulated viewer is offered specific gratifications in return for his or her consent to passivity. In other words, if the ideological function of mass culture is understood as a process whereby otherwise dangerous and protopolitical impulses are 'managed' and defused, rechanneled and offered spurious objects, then some preliminary step must also be theorized in which these same impulses – the raw material upon which the process works – are initially awakened within the very text that seeks to still them (287).
So popular fiction must evoke the conflict it wants to defuse, it must inscribe it with some urgency, and offer, in Jameson's view, a "Utopian" solution: "visions of external life, of the transfigured body, of preternatural sexual gratification" etc. So these wishes are traces also, hints that a problem is being masked, resolved, when these sorts of fulfillment are offered. "A complex strategy of rhetorical persuasion in which substantial incentives are offered for ideological adherence." These substantial incentives being satisfying mental habits.


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UBS and Credit Suisse Group complete the purchase of 70.35% of outstanding Crossair shares for CHF 258.8 million. The funds are now available to SAirLines.
As part of the restructuring plan announced on 1 October, UBS and Credit Suisse Group today completed the purchase of 70.35% of outstanding Crossair shares from SAirLines. The purchase consideration of CHF 258.8 million was based on the closing market price of 28 September 2001.
This step forms part of the banks' partnership solution to provide a fresh start for the Swiss airline industry. The funds, provided 51% by UBS and 49% by Credit Suisse Group, are now available to SAirLines.
The transaction is subject to the approval of the relevant merger control authorities.
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Liquid Battery Developed to Store Renewable Energy
Since winds and sunlight - two of the most popular sources of renewable energy - are unpredictable forces of nature, various energy storage technologies have been developed to store power for later use. One new approach is taken by MIT professor Donald Sadoway - he has developed the first ever pure liquid battery. To keep the battery in liquid form, it's kept under constant high temperature of around 700 degrees Celsius. It's composed of three different liquid layers; two made of liquid metal alloys and one made of salt. These metal alloys are cheap and widely-available, thereby presenting the option of a cheaper storage technology.
Energy from the renewable energy source is stored in the metal alloys, and when the battery needs to supply energy, ions from one of the alloys travel through the salt electrolyte, out of the battery. When the battery is being charged, energy is stored at the other metal alloy end for storage. In the laboratory, energy input is needed for the battery to maintain its liquid form. But upon large scale use for power plants, the electricity coursing through the battery from the renewable energy source is enough to keep it liquid.
The technology has attracted the interest of various entities such as ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy), that gave the developers a $7 million grant within the next 5 years. Oil company Total has also invested $4 million in a joint venture with MIT for the development of a battery for homes and buildings using the same technology. Further studies and tests are needed before the researchers are able to build a large-scale model for practical use and at competitive cost.


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Yes, I know this column has been gone a while. Sorry about that. Or wait, actually - it wasn't gone, it was just undercover! That's it! You didn't really think Encrypted Text was just talking about rogues this whole time, did you? Wake up, sheeple!
Wrath of the Lich King has been upon us for some time, and with it came zone after zone of prolific questing and fascinating scenery. I'd like to spend the next few weeks talking about some of my favorite quests and items that provide disguises or change your appearance in WotLK. Obviously, there will be spoilers in some of these posts for those of you that haven't done all the quests in Northrend yet; I'll put all such behind a cut, so don't click on if you don't want to know about the content.
Let's start out with the Hyldnir of Storm Peaks.