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Philaret (Voznesensky) of New York
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His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) of New York was the first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia from 1964 until his death on November 21, 1985.
George Nicholaevich Voznesensky was born on March 22, 1903 in Kursk, Russia into a family of a priest, Father Nicholas Voznesensky and his wife Lydia Vasilievna. In 1909, his family moved to Blagoveschensk on the Amur River in Siberia. In 1920, George graduated from the local gymnasium. Later in 1920 in the midst of the Russian Civil War, his family moved to Harbin, Manchuria. In 1921, his mother died, and his father accepted tonsure as a monk with the name Dimitri. Dimitri later became Archbishop of Hailar. He died in 1947 shortly after he repatriated to the Soviet Union.
Living in Harbin, George entered the Russo-Chinese Polytechnic Institute from which he graduated in 1927 as an electromechanical engineer. He then began studies in pastoral theology in what became the Theology Department of the University of St. Vladimir. In 1930, George was ordained a deacon. In 1931, George graduated from St. Vladimir University. Also in 1931, he was tonsured a monk with the name Philaret. In 1932, he was ordained a Hieromonk. In 1937, he was elevated to Igumen and to the rank of archimandrite. During this period he was also a professor of New Testament, Pastoral Theology, and Homiletics at St. Vladimir University.
In mid 1945, after the Communist Chinese and Soviet forces took over Manchuria at the end of World War II, Archim. Philaret remained with the Orthodox believers in Manchuria, but he firmly rejected all attempts to get him to accept a soviet passport. Further, he fearlessly denounced the atheistic communists. His overt position against the soviets placed him in great personal danger. Their hatred of him resulted in an attempt to burn him alive in his monastic cell. He escaped, but suffered severe burns.
In 1962, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was able to acquire an exit visa for Archim. Philaret that allowed him to reach Hong Kong. From there Archim. Philaret quickly traveled to Brisbane, Australia where many of his former flock from Manchuria had settled. After his arrival in Brisbane, his followers petitioned the Synod of ROCOR to appoint him their bishop.
On May 24, 1963 The profession of faith by Archim. Philaret was received in the Archbishop's Chapel by Abp Sava of Sydney, Bp Anthony of Melbourne and Bp Dionysios of Nazianzos (GOA).
With the active support of the ailing Abp. Sava of Sydney, Archim. Philaret became Bishop of Brisbane, vicar of the Australian diocese. Archim. Philaret was consecrated by Abp. Sava and Bp. Anthony of Melbourne on May 26, 1963. Due to protests from committee members of Sts Peter and Paul Church, Bp Dionysios was asked not to participate in the consecration.
In 1964, Bp. Philaret represented Abp. Sava at a meeting of the Council of Bishops of ROCOR in which the first hierarch Metr. Anastassy announced his resignation. As the youngest bishop among those at the council, the Council elected Bp. Philaret the successor to Metr. Anastassy. Metr. Philaret was enthroned first hierarch of ROCOR on May 14, 1964.
Metr. Philaret served as the first hierarch of ROCOR for twenty one years. He reposed on November 21, 1985 and was buried in the cemetery of the Church of Dormition. In November 1998, the Synod decided to transfer Metr. Philaret's relics to to a new vault under the altar of Holy Trinity Cathedral at Jordanville, New York. When his tomb was opened, his relics were found to be incorrupt.
Metropolitan Philaret has been canonized by a number of non-canonical church groups (four between 2001 and 2009). These glorifications are not recognised by the Orthodox Church.
Philaret (Voznesensky) of New York | ||
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Bishop of Brisbane (ROCOR) 1963-1964 |
Succeeded by: Constantine (Essensky) |
Preceded by: Vitaly (Maximenko) |
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York (ROCOR) 1964-1985 |
Succeeded by: Vitaly (Ustinov) |
Preceded by: Anastasy (Gribanovsky) |
First Hierarch of ROCOR 1964-1985 |
Succeeded by: Vitaly (Ustinov) |
- Biography of Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)
- Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of New York, the New Confessor
External links
- Metropolitan St. Philaret of New York (+1985)
- The Early Years of Our First Hierarch Metropolitan Philaret by Archbishop Nafanail (Lvov)
- The Main Goal of Man is to Save his Soul for Eternity by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)
- The Free Part of the Russian Church, interview of Metr Philaret given to the West German Catholic weekly Publik
- The Vestments and Staff of His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret Are Given to His Holiness Patriarch Alexy
- St. Philaret of New York A Collection Of Writings, Lifes, & Articles (This site is maintained by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad splinter from ROCOR, which glorified Metropolitan Philaret as a saint in 2009.)
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CSS is a mess. First introduced in ~1995, it was meant to style basic text documents. Not websites. Not applications. Text documents. It has come a long way since then. Probably a bit too long.
A lot of things were not intended in the first place like multi-column layouts, responsive web design and more; this is why it has become a language full of hacks and glitches, like some kind of odd steam machine with a bunch of extensions.
On the bright side, this is what makes CSS fun (or kinda)! And this is also why we have jobs. Because I'm personally convinced that generating efficient, cross-browser and future-proof CSS is not possible and probably won't be anytime soon.
Anyway, I'm not here to talk about my convictions but about CSS. Today, we will do a round-up of common CSS problems in order to see how to troubleshoot CSS.
Among others, I picked some really common yet annoying issues:
- Float clearing, an old battle
- How to fight inline-block spacing?
- Understanding absolute positioning
- When to set width / height to 100%?
- How not to screw up z-index?
- What is margin collapsing?
Float clearing, an old battle
I think this has to be the most common wat? moment of CSS. It is as old as the hills, thus I'm one hundred percents sure every single person who has ever coded CSS fell into the trap.
Basically, when an element only contains floated elements, it collapses on itself. This is due to the fact that floated elements are kind of pulled out of the flow so the wrapper behaves as if he has no child at all.
There are a number of ways to fix this. Back in the days, we used to add an empty div
with clear: both
at the bottom of the container. Then, we replaced the div
by a hr
tag. Not much better.
Then Nicolas Gallagher came with a new way to clear floats from the parent without touching the markup at all. After a lot of discussions and tests to bring it down to the minimum amount of characters required to make it work, here is the latest version:
.clearfix:after { content: ""; display: table; clear: both; }
Actually I lied, this isn't exactly the latest version, but it's definitely the shortest. If you have to support IE 6/7, you might need to add this:
.clearfix { *zoom: 1; } /* The star is here to prevent other browsers from reading and applying this rule. */
What you probably should do is creating a .clearfix
class in your project that you can apply to your elements in the markup by simply adding it as a class. This is the simplest and cleanest way to deal with floats.
How to fight inline-block spacing?
Let's continue with positioning elements on the same line, this time not by floating them but setting them as inline-blocks. display: inline-block
has long been underused, yet we finally figured out how it works and why it's cool. Nowadays, more and more front-end developers get rid of floats for inline-blocks when they have the option to.
I think the main point of inline-blocks is we don't have to deal with float clearing and other issues we can face when floating elements. Basically, setting an element's display to inline-block turns it into a hybrid animal: half-inline, half-block. They can be sized, they can have margins but their default width depends on the content instead of being full parent width (among other specifications). Thus, they don't stack vertically but horizontally.
There you say "what the hell is the problem then?". Problem is since they are half-inline, they are spaced from each other by the width of a blank character. With a default 16px baseline with a regular font, that is 4px. In most cases, it is about 25% of the font-size. Anyway, this can be annoying when layouting elements. Let's say you have a 600px wide parent with three 200px wide inline-block children. If you don't fight this 4px space, they won't fit into one line (200 * 3 + 4 * 2 = 608).
Thankfully, there are a couple of ways to get rid of these annoying spaces, each of them with their strengths and weaknesses. To be totally honest, there is no perfect solution yet. Let's look at them, one by one!
Markup-side: removing the spaces
Please consider the following markup structure, corresponding to the test case I described a couple of lines before.

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

As I said earlier, this won't fit into a single line because there is one or more space-characters between each element (in our case a line-break and 2 spaces). The first way to fix the problem is to simply remove the spaces.

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

This definitely works but it makes the markup very hard to read. Perhaps we can reorganize our tags instead of putting them all on the same line so they remain readable:

 I'm a child!

 I'm a child!

 I'm a child!

Or if you like being funky, you can also go like

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

That's right, it totally works! However I wouldn't recommend this since it's kind of counter-intuitive. We've been taught to avoid useless spaces inside our HTML tags and even if it isn't a problem in itself, it makes code ugly. Let's try something else.
Markup-side: commenting the spaces
What about commenting the spaces instead of removing them?

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

I'm a child!

Hey, it's better! The code is readable and it works fine. Even if it seems odd at first, you would probably get used to something like this. I personally use this method when I have to remove the gap between inline-block elements.
However, some would say this isn't perfect since it's a markup-side solution and this kind of layout issue should be a matter of CSS and CSS only. True. This leads us to CSS-side solutions.
CSS-side: letter-spacing
The letter-spacing
property is used to define the space between letters. The idea behind this trick is to reduce the space between letters to "override the blanks", then resetting the letter-spacing on children so the text looks normal.
.parent { letter-spacing: -0.3em; } .child { letter-spacing: normal; }
This technique is used by Griddle, a Sass-based grid system from Nicolas Gallagher so you can tell this is a pretty serious fix. However I don't really like the fact that we're relying on a magic number. Plus with some fonts, you might have to go slightly lower than -0.3em
like -0.31em
or -0.32em
. Adjust to your case.
CSS-side: negative margin
One other way which is pretty similar to the previous one is the use of a negative margin. The main problem is that this fails in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 which do not like negative margins. Plus, we have to remove the left margin of the first element to make our children perfectly fit into the container.
.child { margin-left: -0.25em; } .child:first-of-type { margin-left: 0; }
If you don't have to support Internet Explorer 6 and 7 or have a conditional style sheet for these browsers, I think this is a pretty safe solution. I'd probably go with this.
CSS-side: font-size
Last but not least, you can try by setting the font-size of the parent to 0 to make the blank characters 0px wide, then restore it on the children.
.parent { font-size: 0; } .child { font-size: 16px; }
It seems to work great but it actually has a couple of drawbacks like:
- you can't set back the font-size with
since the parent has a 0px font-size, - spaces are not removed in pre-Jellybean Android Stock Browser (as shown by Matt Stow),
- used along
, text can lose antialising in Safari 5 (as shown by Doug Stewart), - some browsers don't allow a 0px font-size, like Chinese Chrome which automatically sets it back to 12px.
So, definitely not the best solution. As I said earlier, I would probably go with the comment way. If you feel like this is all too complicated, you may get back to floating your elements, or better using flexbox.
Understanding absolute positioning
Positioning is tricky and has always been. Most beginners struggle when positioning elements on a page. They often (mis)use the position
property. This property defines how an element is able to be moved with offsets (top
, right
, bottom
and left
). It accepts four values:
: default value, offsets have no effectrelative
: offsets move the visual layer but not the element itselfabsolute
: offsets move the element in its context (first, not static ancestor)fixed
: offsets position the element in the viewport, no matter what their position in the DOM is
The real problem occurs when using position: absolute
. You've probably already encountered it: you define an element in absolute mode because you want it to be in the top right corner of its parent (like a little close button for a modal or something).
.element { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; }
… and it's in the top left corner of the window. And you're like "what the hell?". Actually, this is the intended behavior (not by you, but definitely by the browser). The keyword here is context.
The above code basically tells "I want my element top to be positioned in the top left corner according to its context". So what is the context? It is the first not static ancestor. It can be the direct parent. Or the parent of the parent. Or the parent of the parent of the parent. As long as it is the first which is not static.
This is a tricky concept to comprehend especially for a beginner, but once you get this you can do pretty much whatever you want with absolute positioning without crying out loud because everything is a mess.
Here is a quick demo to illustrate what we just saw. Two parents, each one with a child absolutely positioned with top: 0
and right: 0
. On the left side, the parent has position: relative
(correct behavior). On the right side the parent is static (fail).
When to set width / height to 100%?
Height: 100%
Let's deal with the less tricky one first. When to use height: 100%
? Actually the question many of us asked at least once is "how the *bleep* am I supposed to make my page at least the height of the screen?". Right? Right?
To answer this question, it is important to understand what height: 100%
means: the full height of the parent element. It doesn't magically mean "the height of the window". So if you want your main container to have the height of the window, setting height: 100%
isn't enough.
Why? Because the parent of your container (body
) has a default height of auto
, which means it is sized according to its content. Then, you can try adding height: 100%
to the body element to see… it is still not enough.
Why? Because the parent of body (html
) has a default height of auto
, which means it is sized according to its content (you get the idea). Now what if you try to add height: 100%
to the html element? It works!
Why? Actually, the root element (still html
) is not really the uppermost containing block of your page; there is the "viewport". To put it simple, it is the browser window. So if you set height: 100%
to the html element, you ask for it to be as tall as the browser window. As simple as that.
To sum up our story with a tiny bit of code:
html, body, .container { height: 100%; }
Done. In case you're interested in having a more in-depth explanation about the viewport, I highly recommend you this article from PPK.
What if the parent has min-height
and no height
Roger Johansson recently discovered that there was an issue with height: 100%
when the parent element doesn't have a height assigned but a min-height. I won't go too deep into the article but summarized, you may need to add a height of 1px to the parent element so the child can expand all the way to the min-height.
.parent { min-height: 300px; height: 1px; /* Required to make the child 100% of the min-height */ } .child { height: 100%; }
More on the topic can be found in Roger Johansson's article.
Width: 100%
Now, let's deal with width: 100%
. First of all, a quick reminder: as for the height property, setting width: 100%
is the same as asking your element to be as wide as its parent. No surprise here.
Now let me tell you a little secret. width is a very inadequate name for this. The width
property doesn't specify the total width of an element but its content width, which is completely different.
When adding padding and borders to your width: 100%
element, it no longer fills the width of its parent. No, it overflows. Because of padding and borders. And because width
should have been called content-width. Please consider the following demo to see what I mean.
The parent has a width of 25em
. The child element has a width of 100%
(of its parent's width) but it also has a padding of 1em (1em left, 1em right so 2em horizontally) and a border of 0.5em (0.5em left, 0.5em right so 1em horizontally) which pushes its width to 25em (100%) + 2em + 1em = 28em. Eeerrr, Houston we have a problem.
There are four ways to fix this. The first one and definitely the best one is to avoid setting width: 100%
especially since it is useless in such a case. The child element is a block level element which automatically expands to the width of its parent (without the issue seen above). Unfortunately, if we are dealing with an inline-block child, we can't simply do that which leads us to the next fix.
We could avoid using width: 100%
and use required width instead. In our case, 25 – (2 + 1) = 22em. Needless to say this solution sucks since we have to compute the width manually. We need a better way!
The third one would be to use calc()
to do the calculation automagically: width: calc(100% - 3em)
. It still sucks. First, we still have to compute the result of horizontal padding + vertical borders. Secondly, calc()
doesn't have the best support in the world (no IE 8, no Safari 5, no Opera 12, no Android Stock browser).
The fourth idea is to use box-sizing: border-box
. Basically, it changes the box model so the width property is actually set to the total width of the element, borders and padding included. The best news is the browser support is very good (everything except IE 7- and Opera 9-). And for unsupported browser, we can still use a polyfill.
Long story short: don't use width: 100%
unless you're using a border-box
How not to screw up z-index?
All boxes in a page are positioned in a 3 dimensional space: in addition to their vertical and horizontal positioning, elements lie along a Z axis. At first, this seems very simple: elements with a higher z-index appear on top of elements with a lower z-index.
Unfortunately, things are more complicated than that. 'Cause you see, z-index is totally screwed-up. I'm pretty sure this is the most tricky CSS property in the whole history of CSS. As I'm sure z-index issues are the most frequent and annoying issues one can face when doing some CSS. Hopefully, we'll try to enlighten the path to solutions.
First things first. The z-index
property has no effect on a static element. In order to be able to move an element on the Z-axis, you have to define it either relative
, absolute
or fixed
. So the first thing to do is to make sure your element has a position assigned before even thinking of applying z-index
Now, the thing to know about z-index is that all elements in the DOM are not placed on the same layer. It means z-indexing an element to a very high value may not be enough to make it appear on the foreground. This is called stacking contexts.
To put it very simple, a stacking context is a kind of group based on a single HTML element within which all child elements share the same stacking order (thus the same Z axis). Changing the Z value of those elements may make them overlap each other in the way you want. In the same stacking context, here is how elements are displayed back-to-front (from the CSS specifications):
- the background and borders of the element forming the stacking context
- the child stacking contexts with negative stack levels (most negative first)
- the in-flow, non-inline-level, non-positioned descendants
- the non-positioned floats
- the in-flow, inline-level, non-positioned descendants, including inline tables and inline blocks
- the child stacking contexts with stack level 0 and the positioned descendants with stack level 0
- the child stacking contexts with positive stack levels (least positive first)
When things get ugly
Okay, these were the very basics for the z-index property. Knowing this stuff will save you a lot of trouble, that's for sure. Unfortunately, this isn't enough. This would have been far too easy!
The thing is, every stacking context has its own Z scale. Basically, an element A in a stacking context 1 and an element B in a stacking context 2 cannot interact through Z-indexes. That means if element A is part of a stacking context at the bottom of the stacking order, there is no way to get it to appear in front of element B in a different stacking context which is higher in the stacking order, even with a very high z-index value.
I feel like we could make a keyword for
z-index: 99999999
, likez-index: face-punch
.— myself after seeing a lot of ridiculous z-index values.
But wait, there is even worse. The html
element forms the root stacking context. Then, every positioned (not-static) box with a z-index value other than auto
creates a new stacking context. Nothing new. Now this is where things get ugly: some completely unrelated CSS properties create new stacking contexts. Like opacity
. And you're like…
That's right, the opacity
property creates a new stacking context. So do the transform
and the perspective
properties. This makes absolutely no sense, right? Basically, if you have a totally random element with either a lower than 1 opacity or a different from none
transform, you are on your way to potential issues.
Unfortunately, every z-index issue has its own context (no pun intended) making it very hard to provide a bulletproof advice for all these case. In the end, we can draw a few conclusions:
- Always make sure your element has a position defined before applying z-index
- Stop the 5+ digits z-index, it is absolutely pointless; in most cases something like
z-index: 10
is more than enough - Make sure the elements you want to reorder are part of the same stacking context
- If you still have an issue, make sure you don't have a transformed or opacified element along the way
On topic, I highly recommend you to read What No One Told You About Z-index by Philip Walton and the official CSS specifications from the W3C. A lot to learn.
Fighting margin collapsing?
I think this is one of the CSS glitches which took me the most time to wrap my head around. I guess you can tell this is as twisted as z-index in a sense. Anyway, margin-collapsing is when top and bottom margins of two elements collapse into the greatest margin of both. For those of you who have a mathematical brain, vertical margin between two blocks is margin = max(block1.marginBottom, block2.marginTop)
Fortunately, this is usually the desired behavior. This is probably why it works like that (as intended and described in the CSS specifications). However, sometimes you don't want a vertical margin to collapse. To understand how to fix this, we first have to see why this happens. Margin collapse can happen in three different cases.
Adjacent siblings
When two adjacent siblings have vertical margins, they collapse into the greatest margin between the bottom one of the first element and the top one of the second element. This may be prevented in a couple of ways:
clear: left; float: left;
on siblings (right
works too)display: inline-block
on siblings (inline-table
works too)
The following JSFiddle shows these fixes in action.
Parent and first/last child
Usually, the parent's top-margin and the first child's top-margin collapse into the greatest margin of both. Similarly, the parent's bottom-margin collapse with the last child's bottom margin. This phenomenon is also known as "ancestor's collapsing". There are multiple solutions to fight this behavior. Most of them consist of adding one of the following properties to the parent element:
overflow: hidden
(or anything else thanauto
)padding: 1px
(or any value greater than 0); some browsers even support sub-pixel values)border: 1px solid transparent
(or any border)display: inline-block
works too)float: left
works too)
The following JSFiddle shows these fixes in action:
Empty blocks
When an empty block has no border, nor padding, nor height, its top and bottom margins collapse into a single one. Then, it can also match one of the two cases above, collapsing once again with the margin of a parent/sibling. However, empty elements are a bad idea in general, so I guess this isn't a case you'll encounter very often.
Final words
Waw, that was pretty dense, wasn't it? And unfortunately this is only the top of the iceberg in matter of bugs, hacks and glitches. Those are the most common problems one can face when doing some CSS, but there are so many more than this, like browser inconsistencies, vendor prefixes mess, selector specificity, cascade and inheritance, and many more.
I recommend you these websites and articles on the topic:
- What No One Told You About Z-index by Philip Walton
- Height in percent when parent has min-height and no height by Roger Johansson's
- Official CSS Specifications from the W3C
- Micro clear-fix hack by Nicolas Gallagher
- Display inline-block, why it rocks and why it sucks by Robert Nyman
- Browserhacks by Tim Pietrusky and me
Anyway, I hope this helped you understanding quite a few things and save you some future problems. Thanks for reading, see you! 😉


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A slow walk across the Pont de la Tournelle, boats full of tourists gliding with colors below. A pause on l'Ile Saint-Louis for ice cream: deep red of cassis, burnt caramel almond, flecked white of true vanilla, deepest chocolate for ardent Katherine. The morning was too early for such indulgence. The man at the café who placed red and brown and white on cones rebuked us with his silence, but we didn't care. We ate our treat and passed along the Pont Marie, stranded sand of the Paris plages beneath, onward to the Marais.
The Mémorial de la Shoah, the sad business of the day. We'd decided back in Washington that we would visit the Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu during our Paris peregrinations. Now that we were approaching the site we were hesitating with our lingering on bridges and our morning ice cream. A monument to six million dead. The courtyard is lined with walls in which are cut the names of those deported from Paris. Eleven thousand of these names belong to children.
We hesitated to enter that courtyard. A bullet proof wall, translucent but still brutal, separated us from the memorial. We could see the cylinder with the camps emblazoned. STRUTHOF. AUSCHWITZ. MAJDANEK. We could see the steep walls with their names we did not want to read. We knew already how familiar some would be: Cohen, Alpert, Weitzman, Farber, Laufer. A brief litany of shared ancestry. Not our family, not our family ... and yet familiar names, intimate strangers. Dead for bearing our names. Why would we bring our children to such a place? Would they be able to measure the loss? Would they imagine themselves as wall-carved names?
We almost turned back. The guard saw us loitering and buzzed the door unlocked. He looked through our camera bag, our backpack. He smiled at the chocolate cookies for Katherine, the stuffed dog she carries as comfort. Then we were inside. Cohen, Alpert, Weitzman, Farber, Laufer. Easy to read, under every year of the war. Eleven thousand of those deported were children. I looked at Alex and Katherine. A veteran of the Holocaust Museum in DC, the tears were already in Alex's eyes. Katherine, though, was smiling. She liked the flowers that someone had left, the small piles of memorial pebbles, the burned out yahrzeit, the little Russian doll crumbled in a corner.
We looked at the cylinder with its encircling camps. We looked at the mounted plaques with their stone images of despair. We entered the main building. What you are about to see is quite intense, the woman warned us in French and then again -- for emphasis -- in English. I'll watch your daughter for you if you like. Should we? I looked at Alex, and he looked down at the floor. Wendy spoke for him: No.
We left. In the courtyard, by the cylinder with all those camps, by the names and the doll and the ruined candle, Katherine began to spin. As we lost ourselves to history, she lost herself in whirling, faster, and faster. She laughed at a private joke, the sobriety of the place was lost to her. I took my camera from its bag and grabbed images of everything, as if this were the last day we could have here: the memorial, the plaques, the building, the names, the girl lost in a dance of her own devising. We left, at last.
Later that evening I said my good night to Alex. He called me back to him as I closed his door. He gave me the Serious Look. "I'm sorry," he said,"for today. I'm sorry for the opportunity I made us miss. We didn't go to the exhibit because of me."
My heart makes a sound that I cannot replicate when the sadness of my children breaks it. I could feel the fissure begin. "No." I said that word as firmly as I could. I was not going to allow him that sadness, that regret. Katherine taught me something and I needed to speak it. "That's not what happened at all." Instead of spending much time at the Mémorial de la Shoah, we had crossed the Marais to see the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, where we'd witnessed some sad things (the shattered remains of medieval Jewish tombstones, whole lives readable from the fragments of Hebrew inscribed in their ruins). But we spent most of our time with a series of small posters spread throughout the museum, each of which bore a picture of a person now living and a paragraph or two in his or her own words about what it means to be a Jew. For many, Jewishness meant nothing: it was more important to be French, or expat Algerian, or a hybrid of cultures, or to hold a fragmented identity. For others Jewishness was all, an anchor in a tumult. For every person, though, Jewishness meant something very different. No eternal verities, only lived complexities. Accommodation to a difficult world. Reinvention. Sometimes rejection. Much history. But always life. Alex's fascination with these plaques is what brought us through the entirety of the museum's collection. No opportunity had been lost, I asured him. The Shoah is not going anywhere, even if Jewishness -- even if humanness itself -- is always on the move.


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The Trump administration is moving ahead with Obama-era requirements to post calorie counts in restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and pizza delivery chains nationwide next year.
Despite years of opposition by some food sellers, the Food and Drug Administration is offering only minor compromises to industry complaints about the difficulties of displaying calories at takeout chains, self-service buffets and other non-restaurant food locations.
The FDA posted a preliminary guidance online Tuesday to help businesses comply with the law.
Trump appointees have delayed or upended regulations passed by the Obama administration including rules for water pollution, fuel emissions and policing for-profit universities. But the menu labeling rules, championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, appear on track to take effect next May after years of delays.
Behind the law is the idea that people may think twice about buying their daily doughnut at the gas station if they see how many hundreds of calories it contains.
"When you arm consumers with reliable information, they are going to make better decisions, smarter and more informed decisions about their diet," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Providing this information is more important now than ever because more people are eating their meals away from the home."
In a key move, the FDA rejected requests from pizza chains, including Domino's Pizza, which wanted to post calorie information on their websites instead of each store location, arguing that most customers don't visit their physical locations. However, the agency said stores have a variety of options for displaying calorie counts beyond traditional menu boards, including electronic kiosks, tablet devices and even paper menus.
"At first glance, there appears to be some progress, showing that the FDA is listening to concerns," Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre said in an email.
However, he added that the company still wants Congress to intervene to change the law. Industry groups are backing legislation in the House of Representatives that addresses many of their concerns.
Pizza chains have argued that displaying calorie counts in their locations doesn't make any sense because most of their customers don't come into the store. Grocery and convenience stores have said the rules would be more burdensome for them because they typically have more limited offerings than restaurants and one central ordering point.
The FDA offered clarifications that it said could reduce the workload for some businesses. The agency said posters, coupons, mailings and other advertising materials are not considered menus and do not have to list calories.
The agency will take comments on its guidelines for 60 days before moving to finalizing them.
The restaurant industry has backed the law and major chains including Starbucks, Subway and McDonald's are already posting calorie counts. New York City and several other cities have passed laws requiring restaurant chains to list the information, but the federal rule would apply to more places and require them in non-traditional food outlets such as gas stations and movie theaters.
Most of the setbacks to implementing the 2010 law came during the Obama years. The FDA took more than four years to write the rules and establishments originally had until the end of 2015 to comply. But that deadline was pushed back twice. Last year, the Trump administration pushed the date back again to May 2018 to review how to "reduce costs and enhance flexibility."
Consumer advocates who lobbied for years to pass the law expressed relief after reviewing the FDA guidelines.
"We were worried about the Trump administration caving to industry and weakening the information people get when they eat out," said Margo Wootan, a lobbyist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "That didn't happen today and that's great news."


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This evening, after rather an excellent dinner, we gathered again to hear from John Lennox. In his first talk (yesterday afternoon) he spoke of the use of the mind in engaging the world. In this one he wanted to use Scripture to address the mind; and not only the mind but also the imagination. One of the wonders of God's creation of the human mind is its ability to imagine. Parts of the Bible are written so we can imagine the realities that stand fundamental to our faith. And what better book to do this than Revelation? He looked to chapters 4 to 7.
The central theme of these chapters is the throne of God. This portion of Scripture is like a vast work of music, an opera in four acts, which rises and falls, which swells and falls back again. Each of these acts involves worship and culminates in worship. Worship is an assault on this materialistic age which denies that which is not material. It is also an assault on postmodernism since postmodernism denies the absolute nature of truth. Worship insists that we can know truth, for worship must be in spirit and in truth. Above all else, worship assumes that we know what ultimate reality is. It is based on God and so in order to worship God we must not only know who he is but we must know him.
Lennox made this point: you do not promote laughter by describing the inner workings of the mouth; instead, you tell a joke. How do you promote worship? By telling people about God. And he offered this warning: a pastor needs to be careful that he does not begin to study Scripture primarily to write sermons. He must be sure that he studies Scriptures to get to know God and allow that to form his sermons. It is so easy to fall into a professional process of simply writing sermons.
In the New Testament the word worship carries many ideas. For example, it may mean to bow down in the presence of a superior. And we may then ask, why would you want to bow before God? It's a good question. If you acknowledge and bow down before someone, you acknowledge them as an authority. So what is it about God and his authority that would make you want to bow down before it?
John, in his exile in Patmos, learned that there is a door into another world; he was invited to go through that door and to see that there is another world and that in this world there is a throne. What an assault this is on the contemporary mind! Materialism denies that this other world even exists, not to mention that there is a throne in it. In this message Lennox wanted to have a little look through the door that is open.
In this passage from Revelation we begin to discover detail of the throne room. Much of this is symbolism and we must be careful not to confuse symbolism with code. In chapter 5 we discover a lamb and it is clear that this is Jesus. We discover a lion and this is Jesus too. There is a danger that we can take these symbols as code so where we read lion or lamb we read Jesus. A fair reading of Scripture shows us, though, that this is not meant to be a code but a metaphor. It's not telling us who it is but what it is. It is using lamb and lion to tell something about the One whom we know it is. The book is full of symbols and his purpose tonight was to look at some of them to try to understand a little bit what they have to say to us.
And he did so, for each one pausing for a point of application to pastoral ministry. At first I tried to capture each of these but eventually I realized that a) I just couldn't do it adequately and b) it would be best to hear these things rather than read my rough notes on them. So I will leave it to you to track down the audio and listen in as he moves from feature to feature of this heavenly throne room, describing each and drawing appropriate application.


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In August 8th, the VERIS rocket is going to launch from the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
VERIS is short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and its 15-minute trip will carry an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.
When it comes to observing the sun, different instruments and techniques must be used to study different temperatures of material or different layers of the sun from its surface out into its active upper atmosphere, the corona. VERIS will focus on the very hot material present in what's known as active regions, magnetically complex spots in the corona that are often the location of eruptions on the sun such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can send radiation and solar material toward Earth, potentially disrupting satellite systems and radio communications.
After VERIS launches, it will begin to soar 150 miles up into space. When the rocket passes 60 miles, it will be above the bulk of hydrogen and water in Earth's atmosphere that block solar emissions from reaching Earth, and the instruments will begin collecting useful scientific data. Engineers on the ground will point the telescope at a pre-selected active region on the sun and gather observations for some six minutes.
During that time, the rocket will reach the peak of its trajectory and then fall back towards Earth to re-enter the atmosphere. At that point, a parachute deploys and the rocket floats back down to the ground – still within White Sands, but some 60 miles away from the launch site -- where it will be retrieved by a helicopter.
VERIS's six-minute flight can yield such rich information partly because of the flexibility of instrument size possible on a sounding rocket. The mirror diameter is 17 inches while the entire telescope length spans almost 10 feet and weighs almost 1000 pounds, making it much too large to fly on a satellite. VERIS's telescope is unique because it is the first to gather a kind of data known as spectra of this region of the sun at such high resolution. Spectra provide information on how much of any given wavelength of light is present.
The instrument works by passing the light from the telescope through a slit and onto a grating that separates the light into its constituent wavelengths, much the way a prism can. Each wavelength corresponds to a different temperature of material – a charged gas, called plasma – present on the sun. So looking at any given wavelength can give information about just one temperature of material at a time.
The spectra can also be used to collect density and velocity information about the active region. Together, this information can help scientists distinguish between theories on what causes heat to well up from the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere to its highest, resulting in a corona that is a mysterious 10,000 times hotter than its surface.
"On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes," said Clarence Korendyke, principal investigator for VERIS at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. "So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes."
"There are two categories of theories on how the corona is heated. One proposal is that small bursts of energy, called microflares, constantly erupt, heating the material. Another is that waves flow up from the surface to the corona," said
Angelos Vourlidas, project scientist for VERIS at the Naval Research Laboratory.
"VERIS will be able to provide temperature information at the smallest level, and help distinguish between these theories."
To support the VERIS observations, scientists will also turn to data sets gathered simultaneously by other solar observatories, such as the joint NASA-Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode and NASA's newly-launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which observes the lower, cooler layers of the sun's atmosphere.
A success of a mission like this also serves as a significant test to see if a similar instrument should be part of the next generation of solar telescopes, which will continue to help unravel the complex behavior of our closest star.
"Understanding the sun does not, by itself, lead to the capability for us to predict when the sun will send a burst of radiation or particles toward Earth," said Korendyke. "But at the end of the day, you can't have such a capability without first having that understanding."
VERIS was built at NRL with funding for the NASA Low Cost Access to Space program. It will launch aboard a Terrier-Black Brant IX rocket. The NASA sounding rocket program is managed for the agency at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.


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Kale and Pine Nut Salad
In a surprising twist, Tuscan kale is served raw—and makes for a substantial and satisfying winter salad. Be sure to choose bunches of Tuscan kale with small leaves, which are more tender.
2 tablespoons dried currants
7 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar, divided
1 tablespoon unseasoned rice vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
2 bunches Tuscan kale (about 1 pound), center ribs and stems removed, leaves thinly sliced crosswise
2 tablespoons pine nuts, lightly toasted
Parmesan cheese shavings
Place currants in small bowl; add 5 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar. Let soak overnight. Drain currants.
Whisk remaining 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar, rice vinegar, honey, oil, and salt in large bowl. Add kale, currants, and pine nuts; toss to coat. Let marinate 20 minutes at room temperature, tossing occasionally. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Sprinkle cheese shavings over salad and serve.
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Why eat Pine Nuts:
- Suppress Your Appetite
- Pine nuts contain nutrients that help boost energy
- Reduce Heart Disease Risk.
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Interested in buying a used car, but not sure when or where to begin? Don't worry—the strategies and tips we've outlined here can help you start off on the right path at the right time.
Start shopping strategically
It's always good to shop around before making a big purchase like a car. We recommend you begin looking into possible vehicles in the fall.
Why the fall? Car manufacturers start coming out with the following year's models in October and November, so you'll likely see newer used cars listed for a deeper discount. Not only that, but car salespeople typically have yearly sales goals to hit, so if you buy a used car toward the end of the year, that additional leverage can help you save money.
Try not to buy in the spring
When the weather gets a little warmer, many people who weren't willing to stand out in the cold to look for a car in January are suddenly in the market for one. Sunny spring weather also sparks daydreams of cruising down the road with your windows down. If you're willing to brave some chillier temperatures earlier in the year, you may be able to get deals from dealerships trying to make sales in the slower winter months.
Visit the dealership early in the week
Used car lots and dealerships are typically less busy on Mondays and Tuesdays, so this is a good time to go and ask the salespeople any questions you may have about their inventory.
Make the trip when the sun is out
Look for a nice, sunny day to start your search. When the sun is out, you can see everything about a car more clearly—which makes it easier for you to spot any imperfections on the body or interior of the car. When it's rainy or cloudy, scratches and tiny dents are tougher to see.
Look for holiday deals
Auto dealers often plan big promotions for big holiday weekends. Make sure you check out all possible discounts on these holidays:
- President's Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Black Friday
Start looking before you actually need a new car
If your current car is starting to get older, do a little research to see what you might need and want in your upgrade—even if you're hoping to wait a few years before actually putting pen to paper. If you see something you want, it can give you leverage in negotiations if you can easily walk away. Compare it to the reverse situation: If you absolutely need a car now, you're more apt to take a deal you're not completely happy with. You can also line up your finances better if you take the time to do so earlier. It's better to be prepared than caught off guard!
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This blog documents various aspects of my genealogy research. I'm well versed in German, Hungarian and Chicagoland research.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The Family Tree of Tim Tebow, Quarterback of the Denver Broncos
If you know me well, you know I have a hobby of picking up and researching random celebrities' family trees. I've previously researched and posted about Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the Green Bay Packer and also Lady Gaga.. far many more not publicly posted about. So when I began researching into Tim's family, I was pleasantly surprised at the wealth of information I was able to find.
I began with some public data: his name, date or birth and the names of his parents. I was able to easily find the marriage record for his parents (12 Jun 1971 in Alachua County, Florida) and then found the birthdays for both of his parents from the Public Records databases on Ancestry.com. Knowing that Tim's father was a Junior/II, I figured finding Tim's grandfather under the same name would be easy enough.. and boy was I right! What I found when I entered their full name (Robert Ramsey Tebow) was Tim's grandfather's application into the SAR.. the Sons of the American Revolution! You can find the images to the left (part 1) and below (part 2). These two documents hold a wealth of information that Tim's grandfather knew and had researched, obviously with the help of the publication "The Hayes Family, Origin, History and Genealogy", by Royal s. Hayes. Tim's grandfather had researched his roots back to the Revolutionary veteran, Captain Joseph Hayes.
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Endometriosis Treatment in North Naples, FL
Endometriosis is a women's health disorder that involves the soft tissue known as endometrium, which normally lines the inside of the uterus. This condition can lead debilitating, even crippling pain. Those suffering from endometriosis are often unaware that they have been affected.
Need more information about endometriosis? Call (239) 425-2900 or contact Dr. Doreen DeStefano online.
Symptoms of Endometriosis
The endometrium is the tissue that typically lines the interior of the uterus. During menstruation, the endometrium breaks down and bleeds, which is completely normal. But with a case of endometriosis, the endometrium tissue actually grows outside the uterus.
The tissue can extend and grow on the ovaries, bowel, pelvis and beyond. This can lead to many complications.
Symptoms of endometriosis include:
- Painful periods
- Infertility
- Constipation
- Bloating
- Pelvic pain
- Nausea
- Excessive menstrual bleeding
- Bleeding between periods
- Painful sex
- Pain when urinating
Due to the fluctuating nature of the endometrium, no two cases of endometriosis are the same. Some people experience just one of these symptoms, while others may deal with many of them.
Endometriosis can either be a minor condition or major one, depending on how much endometrium has spread to other parts of the body.
Causes of Endometriosis
Like many other women's health issues, such as uterine fibroids, the exact cause of endometriosis is not known. That being said, there are many contributing factors to the condition.
Some of the leading causes of endometriosis include:
- Retrograde menstruation (a condition in which menstrual blood flows back through the reproductive system)
- Immune system disorders
- Surgical scar transport (scar tissue)
- Embryonic cell growth
Of these scenarios, most endometriosis is caused by retrograde menstruation. Endometriosis is treatable with a variety of different methods.
Endometriosis Treatment
Endometriosis treatment comes in many different forms. Types of endometriosis treatment include:
- Pain medication: Mild cases of endometriosis can be mitigated or managed with over-the-counter pain medications.
- Hormone therapy : Consistent delivery of hormones, either through contraceptives or hormone delivery medications can help relieve endometriosis pain
- Minor surgery: In cases where the endometriosis pain too severe to be mitigated, procedures are available that can help remove the displaced endometrium. This is often done laparscopically or abdominally to preserve as much of the uterus and ovaries as possible.
- Hysterectomy: In extreme cases of endometriosis, a hysterectomy may be necessary. The uterus, cervix and both ovaries are both removed during this surgery. Because of that, it is typically only used as a last resort.
The correct method of treatment depends on the root cause and the severity of the individual case of endometriosis.
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Endometriosis can make life incredibly difficult, especially when accompanied by excessive bleeding or crippling pain. Request endometriosis treatment information today: call (239) 425-2900 or contact Dr. Doreen DeStefano online.
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Power Integrity analysis is more important than ever. Product trends continue to demand reduced form factor, while requiring even more power to support our always-on, always-connected lives. See how you can design with confidence knowing your PDN is up to the task and keep your products humming smoothly.
What You Will Learn
- Design trends driving the importance of PDN analysis
- What are the differences between DC and AC power loss
- Common PDN challenges such as power planes fusing, resonance, and voltage ripple and how to identify and solve them
- How to identify and optimize decoupling capacitor count and placement
- How a design-driven PDN approach can save you time, prevent errors, and keep your designs running smoothly


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Age Spot Removal.Laser treatment is generally very effective at removing age spots, liver spots, sunspots and brown spots on the skin.
Age Spot Removal with Laser Therapy:
Laser treatment is generally very effective at removing age spots, liver spots, sunspots and brown spots on the skin. It is the treatment of choice for these pigmented lesions. Lasers work by emitting a beam of specialized light that is passed through the skin and preferentially absorbed by only the pigmented cells in the skin. The laser causes the pigments to break up and disappear, leaving you with smooth, clear skin. There are several lasers available that work remarkably well in treating unwanted pigmentation.
Do Laser Treatments for spot removal hurt?
Most patients describe the sensation to feel like the snap of a rubber band on the skin as the laser pulses are delivered to the skin. Following treatment, the pain is minimal to nonexistent.
How many Treatments will I need?
Typically only one, two or more treatment sessions are all that are necessary to completely remove the spots depending on how many there are and on which area of the body. Occasionally, darker and larger lesions may require additional treatment to obtain optimal results.
How long do Treatments take?
Depending on the number, size, and location of the pigmented spots, the laser treatment sessions usually take only a few minutes.
Will the spots return after treatment?
Not usually. In general, we find that laser removal of age spots is permanent, however people do sometimes see new spots appear as they go back out into the sun. These are new spots forming as a result of age spots, not a recurrence of the old, removed spots. Optimal results can be maintained only if you apply sunscreen diligently on the treated area and avoid future sun exposure.
Are these Treatments safe?
Yes. Lasers and advanced light systems have been used safely on millions of patients of all ages worldwide. These systems treat only the targeted lesions (spots), leaving the surrounding tissue intact. There are many benefits to laser surgery including little if any pain, no need for injections or needles, and minimal bruising or swelling. The risk of scarring or discoloration is minimal.
How will I feel after my Laser Treatments?
Following laser treatment, there may be a little discoloration. After several days, a crust will form which will later fall off, usually within 7-14 days. Occasionally, some discoloration may persist for several months.


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Trends in Hardwood Patterns
Our favorite gorgeous hardwood floors are classic, durable, and offer stunning natural beauty. When you use a chic patterned layout for the actual planks, you've got the recipe for a floor that will create an unforgettable room with high visual interest. So which layout patterns are on-trend right now, and what hardwood designs look best in a traditional home, a transitional home, or one with a more contemporary vibe? We have all the attractive styles and species in our Leicester Flooring showroom that you need to capture these trends in hardwood patterns:
Diagonal Stripe – For this visually-captivating layout, the hardwood planks are installed from the corners as opposed to installing the flooring straight along the wall. A diagonal stripe is great for small rooms since it creates the illusion of a broader, more open space. If you are interested in this layout design, it can increase material and labor costs since it requires more material to be cut to size. The diagonal stripe design is a good fit for any home, from traditional to contemporary.
Herringbone – The herringbone plank pattern is created from vertical rows of slanting lines meeting at a 90-degree angle, forming either a V or an inverted V. This hardwood layout is especially striking when seeing the contrasts of wood colors, grains, and textures laid out side by side. Herringbone is a beautiful flooring design for a traditional or transitional home and will depend on the pattern and room size to ensure that it's an appropriate fit.
Chevron – Like the herringbone design, the popular chevron pattern relies on adjoining vertical rows of slanting wood. However, in the chevron design, each piece joins at a 45-degree angle. Again, the contrasts in color, texture, and grain will give the finished floors plenty of exciting flair. The chevron design is timeless and can hold its own in a home with any décor.
Wider, Longer Planks – Traditionally, hardwood flooring was available in shorter, thinner planks. If you're looking for a bold look to your wood floors, longer, wider planks are the way to go! Not only do they make your room look larger, but they also make it look more inviting. Manufacturers have been making larger plank formats to answer this trend's call over the past few years. Wider, longer plank hardwood flooring has a casual, open appeal that particularly suits transitional and contemporary homes.
Parquet – Thanks to the popularity of mid-century modern homes, parquet flooring has experienced a resurgence of interest from many homeowners. Parquet is a wood tile created by arranging small pieces of hardwood in repeating patterns. They have a distinctive, retro 3D look and feel. Parquet flooring is an excellent choice for transitional-style homes.
Take some time to consider if one of these hardwood pattern trends is a great fit for your home and bring your ideas to our Leicester Flooring showroom in Hendersonville, NC. Our experts are ready to help you narrow your hardwood shopping and assist your journey in any way we can!


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Bhaiya Lal's Pineapple Burfi
By Anubhav Sapra
Being a self confessed sweets addict, I am constantly looking out for sweet shops. Some of my favorite sweet shops in Chandni Chowk are – Chaina Ram in Fatehpuri Chowk for Karanchi halwa and sev badam, Hajari Lal Jain in Kinari Bazar for rabri and khurchan, Ghantewala near Fountain Chowk for sohan halwa, Tewari brothers near Town Hall for motichur ke laddu, Annapurna Sweets opposite Seeshganj Gurudwara for Bengali sweets and of course, Dariba Kalan's famous jalebi.
I was walking down the Dariba street when I spotted a mithai wala selling varieties of colorful mithais beautifully decorated with chandi vrak in separate trays. These trays were laid on the stairs of one of the Jewellery shops in Dariba Kalan. The owner, Naresh Kumar evenly spread sheets of edible chandi varak over the sweets, sprinkled pistachios burada, and covered the sweets with nets to keep flies away.
Naresh Kumar sells the sweets opposite Gali Kunjas in Dariba Kalan between Ramtaur Jewellers and Swastik Jewellers shop from 5 pm onwards. He learnt the art of making sweets from his father, who is well-known as Bhaiya lal. Bhaiya lal started the sweet shop in his name in 1936 at Shop no. 3459, Hauz Qazi, Subzi Market and Naresh Kumar took over in 1962. He has been selling the same variety of sweets.
The menu consists of Bengali mithai – Rasbhari, Parmal stuffed with khoya, cham cham, lauki burfi, Pineapple burfi, nariyal burfi. All the sweets are prepared in a more or less similar way – with khoya as the main ingredient. All of them costs Rs 400/- kg. The sweets are weighed by using a tarazu (balance scale).
What intrigued me most was the Pineapple burfi, which I had tasted for the first time at this sweets shop. It turned out to be excellent because it was just the right amount of sweet. It was prepared adding pineapple syrup to roasted khoya.Another Bengali sweet, Rasbhari which are small rasgullas were different from the ones we usually get. Rasbhari was not soaked in sugar syrup, it was dry from the outside and the centre was filled with thickened sugar syrup so that as soon as one bites into it their mouth fills with the sweet syrup. Other sweets, cham cham, lauki burfi, and nariyal burfi were equally amazing.
I am delighted to add Bhaiya Lal's sweets to my list of favorite Sweets shops in Chandni Chowk!


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I am, of course, horrified that I've written nothing on this blog for two and a half months. This is unforgivable. I don't know what to say, but I do know what to write. So let's get to it.
As often happens, I am inspired by a TED talk, this one by Matt Ridley. Let's listen first to the talk:
See what I mean? Don't you see the rhizome in most everything he says? No? Hmm. Perhaps the problem is me, then. I see the rhizome everywhere. It's my new lens. I could throw in a bit of connectivism also. If the rhizome is my right lens, then connectivism is my left. I'll tell you how.


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I'm evaluating DriveHQ's Drop Box feature for the small non-profit where I work. For an upcoming feature demo with our operations staff, I'd like to customize the embedded web page.
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UI customization and host a drop box in your own web page
You can customize the drop box page. You can change the look and feel, as well as the required fields and optional fields.
Currently, I'm signed up for a free account (my profile says a True Account), which may explain why I'm not able to find the customization features. If that's the case, can you tell me what service level is required to access the customizations? Or, am I just not looking in the right place with my current account?
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I have a field containing alphanumeric values in the following format:
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I need a Python script I can put in the field calculator in ArcMap 10 that will at least remove the numeric characters, and retrain the alphabetical ones and the hyphen. So that, for example, this:
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I also want to replace the numeric chars with numeric chars from another field. This Stack Exchange entry addresses this issue, but the string has a space before the number and this can be used for splitting and indexing... my strings are not so handily constructed.


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For just $5, you get a wrist band, map & glass to use for $1 refills of 6 ounce samples (that's half a beer folks!) at multiple downtown Reno locations. The event starts at The Waterfall, located at 134 W. 2nd Street (near the corner of 2nd Avenue & West Street)
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This new movie of X-ray data from Chandra of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) was made by combining observations taken in January 2000, February 2002, February 2004, and December 2007. In these images, the lowest-energy X-rays Chandra detects are shown in red, intermediate energies in green, and the highest energies in blue. Scientists have used the movie to measure the expansion velocity of the leading edge of the explosion's outer blast wave (shown in blue). The researchers find that the velocity is 11 million miles per hour, which is significantly slower than expected for an explosion with the energy estimated to have been released in Cas A.
This slower velocity is explained by a special type of energy loss by the blast wave. Electrons are accelerated to high energies as they travel backwards and forwards across the shock front produced by the blast wave. As the electrons travel around magnetic fields in the shock they lose energy by producing synchrotron emission and glowing in X-rays. Scientists think heavier particles like protons and ions are accelerated in the same way. The energy lost by these heavier particles can amount to a large fraction of the energy from the supernova explosion, resulting in a slower shock velocity. The accelerated protons and ions which escape from the remnant are known as "cosmic rays", and continually bombard the Earth's atmosphere. Supernova remnants are believed to be one of the main sources of cosmic rays.
The authors have constructed a model that combined the measured expansion velocity, as well as its observed size, with estimates of the explosion energy, the mass of the ejected material in Cas A and efficient particle acceleration. For everything to agree, about 35% of the energy of the Cas A supernova went into accelerating cosmic rays.
Another new feature seen in the Cas A movie is "flickering" of the blue synchrotron emission seen on timescales of about a year. This flickering is thought to be a direct result of acceleration of particles to high energies, causing the emission to become brighter, followed by rapid cooling, causing the emission to fade. These variations provide important clues about the location of the acceleration, a topic of some controversy. For the first time, this flaring is seen in the outer blast wave. This casts doubt upon the possibility, suggested previously, that cosmic ray acceleration occurs in the so-called "reverse shock". This is a shock that travels backwards into the expanding remnant and is therefore located inside the outer blast wave. Previous claims that flaring occurs in the reverse shock may simply have been caused by regions in the outer blast wave that are projected onto the middle of the two-dimensional image.
The rapid flickering not only gives information about acceleration of particles to high energies, but it also shows that relatively strong magnetic fields have been generated in the shock front.
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Setting limits for kids on TV, video games, phone use
by Hennepin Healthcare
Dr. Marjorie Hogan, pediatrician at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), is one of the thousands of members of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) who is concerned about the amount of time kids are spending on the phone, watching TV, and playing video games.
Excessive media use has been associated with obesity, lack of sleep, school problems, aggression and other behavior issues. A recent study shows that the average 8- to 10-year-old spends nearly 8 hours a day with different media, and older children and teens spend more than 11 hours per day. Kids who have a TV in their bedroom spend more time with media. About 75 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds own cell phones, and nearly all teenagers use text messaging.
"This new technology is very interesting and exciting, but it shouldn't replace healthy activities," explains Dr. Hogan. "Sleep, for example, is so important to growing children. But many kids are keeping their cell phones next to them while they are in bed so that they don't miss a text or a Facebook post. These things can wait until morning — after they've gotten a good night's sleep."
Dr. Hogan was one of the co-authors of the AAP policy entitled "Children, Adolescents and the Media," which explains the importance of having a healthy "media diet."
"A healthy approach to children's media use should both minimize potential health risks and foster appropriate and positive media use—in other words, it should promote a healthy 'media diet'," said Dr. Hogan. "Parents, educators and pediatricians should participate in media education, which means teaching children and adolescents how to make good choices in their media consumption."
While media by itself is not the leading cause of any health problem in the U.S., it can contribute to numerous health risks. At the same time, kids can learn many positive things from pro-social media.
The AAP policy statement offers recommendations for parents:
- Parents can model effective "media diets" to help their children learn to be selective and healthy in what they consume. Take an active role in children's media education by co-viewing programs with them and discussing values.
- Make a media use plan, including mealtime and bedtime curfews for media devices. Screens should be kept out of kids' bedrooms.
- Limit entertainment screen time to less than one or two hours per day; in children under 2, discourage screen media exposure.
Dr. Hogan also recommends that parents monitor what their children are communicating on their social media sites. "And if you have a concern, talk to your child about it and explain what your family's boundaries — and values — are when it comes to sharing information," said Dr. Hogan.
More information for parents on creating a family media use plan is available on HealthyChildren.org.
To see Dr. Hogan's statements on creating a media use plan, go to http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/aap-press-room-media-center/Pages/Family-Media-Use-Plan.aspx


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Tarmacadam is a durable and long-lasting material that is often utilized for driveways and other outdoor surfaces. If you're in need of a fresh driveway surface or require repairs for your current driveway, Southeast Driveways can help. We are a dependable and experienced provider of Tarmacadam services in Roebuck County Dublin and have been serving the community for many years. In this article, we'll examine at the advantages of Tarmacadam, the services we offer, and why you should choose Southeast Driveways for your Tarmacadam needs.
The Importance of a Quality Tarmacadam Driveway in Roebuck County Dublin
A top-notch Tarmacadam driveway can enhance the curb appeal of your property and raise its value. It offers a durable and long-lasting surface that can withstand heavy traffic and inclement weather. Tarmacadam is also low-maintenance and easy to clean, making it a popular choice for homeowners who desire a functional and attractive outdoor area.
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