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Marilyn Monroe's 'Seven Year Itch' Dress Sells for $5.6 Million
Fifty-six years later, Marilyn Monroe is still worth a lot of money – $5.6 million, to be exact.
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By Richard Falk
At this moment it is right to celebrate unreservedly the outcome of the vote in Presbyterian General Assembly decreeing the divestment of $21 million worth of shares in Motorola Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, and Caterpillar, companies long and notoriously associated with implementing Israel's unlawful occupation policies in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza. This carries forward the momentum of the BDS Campaign and recent efforts emanating from the UN and the EU to induce governments, as well as corporations and financial institutions to become aware that it is increasingly viewed as problematic under international law to profit from dealings with Israel's settlements and occupation security mechanisms.
It is much too soon to suggest a cascading effect from recent moves in this direction, but the mainstreaming of the divestment and boycott campaigns in a major achievement of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement that is displacing the moribund 'peace process' that in recent months dramatized the extent to which the Israeli Government is not interested in a favorable negotiated solution even as mediated by partisan U.S. mediation mechanisms and in relation to a weak Palestinian Authority that seems readier to offer concessions than to seek compromises that incorporate Palestinian rights under international law.
The Presbyterian decision, itself vetted by an elaborate debate and producing a text crafted to narrow the distance between supporters and opponents of divestment did not address issues of context such as Israel's formal approval of settlement expansion, the Knesset election of a new Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin*, who favors the annexation of the entire West Bank and Jerusalem, and the collapsed negotiations between the parties prompted a year ago by the Kerry diplomatic onslaught. In this regard the Presbyterian decision includes language affirming Israel's right to exist, encouraging inter-faith dialogue and visits to the Holy Land, distancing the divestment move from BDS, urging a 'positive investment' in activities that improves the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis, and endorsing the two-state solution should be understood mainly as expressions of intra-Presbyterian politics, and not be interpreted as serious substantive positions. Such an interpretation of what is significant and what is not about this outcome is reinforced by the reported feverish lobbying of pro-Israeli NGOs against the decision, including by the Anti-Defamation League and taking the form of an open letter to the Assembly signed by 1,700 rabbis from all 50 states that together constitute the United States. The most ardent backers of Israel may now pooh-pooh the decision, but this seems like sour grapes considering their all out effort made to avoid such a pro-divestment result, which is sure to have a variety of ripple effects.
Mr. Rivlin, a Likud Party member of the Knesset, is a follower of the rightest inspirational figure, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an early Zionist leader who favored a Jewish state encompassing the whole of historic Palestine. At the same time Rivlin is a social and political liberal favoring equal rights for Jews and Palestinians, including giving Palestinians the vote and the chance to govern if they achieve electoral success. Netanyahu, also from Likud and a follower of Jabotinsky, has claimed since 2009 conditionally to support the establishment of some kind of Palestinian state, but acts as if this will never happen under his watch, and in the meantime is totally illiberal in his support for harsh rule in occupied Palestine.
Because it reflects false consciousness, it may not be too soon to challenge the Presbyterian text for its 'endorsement' of the two-state solution. It seems to me to illustrate what Paul Krugman in another context called 'the Zombie doctrine,' namely, the retention of an idea, thoroughly discredited by evidence and the realities of the situation, but somehow still affirmed because it serves useful political purposes. Here, it enables the church divestment move to be reconciled with signals that the Prsebyterian Church is not departing from the official consensus among Western governments and the Palestinian Authority as to how the conflict is to be finally resolved. What this overlooks is the utter disdain for such a solution that is evident in Israel's recent behavior, as well as the situation created by a half million Israeli settlers and over 100 settlements.
Some suggest that the Palestinian Authority is equally responsible for the diplomatic breakdown because it acted like a state by signing on to some international conventions angering Israel and then establishing a technocratic interim government as part of a reconciliation agreement with Hamas that angered Israel even more. It seems clear enough that if Israel had been genuinely interested in a grand accommodation with the Palestinians it would welcome such moves as creating the political basis for a more sustainable peace. More significantly, these moves by the PA followed upon overtly provocative announcements by Israeli official sources about approving plans for major settlement expansions and were overtly linked to Israel's failure to follow through with agreed arrangements for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Despite Kerry's cajoling and pleading with the Israeli leadership to keep the diplomatic path open, Israel defied Washington. In this political atmosphere, to retain any credibility among the Palestinians, the PA also had to act as if there was nothing to be gained by keeping the negotiations on life support.
With all due respect to the Presbyterian drafters of the text, it is not helpful to Palestinians, Israelis, and even Americans to lengthen the half-life of the two-state solution. Zombie ideas block constructive thought and action. Israeli right-wing advocate of an Israeli one-state solution are coming out of the closet in a manner that expresses their new hopes for their preferred solution. Those who favor a just and sustainable peace should abandon the pretension that separate states are any longer feasible, if ever desirable. It has become important to derail two-state discourse, which is at best now diversionary. The only futures worth pondering under current conditions is whether there will emerge from the ruins of the present either a political community of the two peoples that becomes an Israeli governed apartheid state or somehow there arises a secular and democratic bi-national state with human rights for all ethnicities and religious identities each protected on the basis of equality.
– Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. In 2008 he was also appointed by the UN to serve a six-year term as the Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. Visit his blog.


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Anjeer Halwa | Fig Halwa | A Healthy Indian Dessert Recipe
I am writing my 250th post. I am so excited and i can't believe that i have posted 250 recipes.Also my first post was on Jan 2010 its been 2 years in this blogging world.I thank all the readers and my friends for your support for keep me doing this…Without all your support I couldn't able to reach it,thus I dedicate this post to all my friends…
Here i shared the recipe for Fig Halwa,usually most of the fig halwa recipes calls for condensed milk and i want a twist in usual version,so i made my own version of halwa.My family and friends enjoyed this halwa.Do try and let me know how is it.
3/4 cup Maida / All Purpose Flour
2 and 1/2 cups sugar
3 and 1/2 cups water
A Pinch Brown food colour(optional)
1 cup ghee
1/2 cup nuts(chopped)
1/3 tsp cardamom Powder
200g Fig(24 nos,anjeer)
Wash and soak the fig in water for about 1 hour.This ensures easy grinding of figs.Grind the fig into fine paste without water and keep aside.Meanwhile heat a tbsp of ghee in a pan and roast the chopped nut on it.
Mix flour,sugar and water in a mixing bowl and blend well without any lumps.Add food colour if desired.
Add this flour mixture in a non stick kadai and stir for few minutes,after that add the grinded fig paste and mix well.Stir in for few minutes until the fig paste blends well.Add cardamom powder and keep stirring for the next 20 minutes over low flame. Add roasted nuts at this stage.
Add remaining ghee and mix well. About in next 15 minutes,it will change its colour to darker shades of brown, get more shinny. Switch off the stove.If you want it in small squares,then grease a plate or tray with some ghee and spread the mixture and press.Decorate by adding some more of the chopped nuts.Once cooled cut them into small squares.
I can't wait until it cool down,so tasted this hot halwa in a bowl
This is my fav combo,always have halwa with mixture or ompodi.
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Pope Francis' comments reflect a hopeful change in tone; now, all Catholics should be included and affirmed as a matter of basic human dignity
WASHINGTON –Following his historic visit to Brazil for World Youth Day, Pope Francis made multiple comments about gay Catholics in the priesthood during a wide-ranging press conference aboard the Papal plane.
By all accounts, the Pope was speaking in response to a question about gay priests within the Roman Curia when he said, "Who am I to judge them if they're seeking the Lord in good faith?" He went on to discuss the so-called "Gay lobby," gay leaders within the church seeking to change it from within, remarking, "they shouldn't be marginalized. The tendency [to homosexuality] is not the problem ... they're our brothers."
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by Kevin Alfred Strom (the text of a speech given by Mr. Strom in 1994 on the nationwide radio program, American Dissident Voices)
WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was the theft of their history. Official Communist "historians" rewrote history to fit the current party line. In many countries, revered national heroes were excised from the history books, or their real deeds were distorted to fit Communist ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the beasts who murdered countless nations. Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here in America?
Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." King has even had a national holiday declared in his honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays — they share the generic-sounding "President's Day.") A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let's take a look at this modern-day plastic god.
Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as "Daddy King." "Daddy King" named his son Michael. In 1935, "Daddy King" had an inspiration to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr." None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. "Daddy" King's son's real name is to this day Michael King.
King's Brazen Cheating
We read in Michael Hoffman's Holiday for a Cheater:
The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams. The first book that King wrote, Stride Toward Freedom, was plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow. And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism…. Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his major field of graduate study, systematic theology." King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of The Finding of God. Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology," written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton. King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."
According to The Martin Luther King Papers, in King's dissertation "only 49 per cent. of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own…."!
In The Journal of American History, June 1991, page 87, David J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. Reading Garrow's article, one is led to the inescapable conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himself a political role in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability to obtain the title fairly, went after it by any means necessary. Why, then, one might ask, did the professors at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University grant him passing grades and a PhD? Garrow states on page 89: "King's academic compositions, especially at Boston University, were almost without exception little more than summary descriptions… and comparisons of other's writings. Nonetheless, the papers almost always received desirable letter grades, strongly suggesting that King's professors did not expect more…."
The editors of The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers state that "…the failure of King's teachers to notice his pattern of textual appropriation is somewhat remarkable…."
But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us "…actually the malfeasance of the professors is not at all remarkable. King was politically correct, he was Black, and he had ambitions. The leftist [professors were] happy to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matter how much fraud was involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the truth about King's record of nearly constant intellectual piracy to be made public."
Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King's vision of a racially mixed and Marxist America, purposely covered up his cheating for decades. The cover-up still continues. From the New York Times of October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October 10th of that year, a committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, "There is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation." However, despite its finding, the committee said that "No thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an action the panel said "would serve no purpose."
No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful fraud as a student, the titles "reverend" and the "doctor" should be removed from King's name.
Communist Beliefs and Connections
Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD, and his name isn't really "Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left? Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.
On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots.
From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King's associate, advisor, and personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New York City College. Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23, 1953 the Los Angeles Times reported his conviction and sentencing to jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.
Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King's famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, The Worker, openly declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King's employ as secretary in 1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1964.
Bayard Rustin's replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King was Jack O'Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. According to official records, in 1962 Jack O'Dell was a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a Communist Party member as early as 1956. O'Dell was also given the job of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps, and word of O'Dell's party membership became known.
What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O'Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare, immediately hired him again as director of the New York office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the Richmond News-Leader of September 27, 1963.
In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King's 1964 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King's movement. Mr. Williams was also around this time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regular broadcasts to the southern United States, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havana under the title "Radio Free Dixie." In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacks by Blacks against White Americans.
During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled Negroes With Guns. The writer of the foreword for this book? None other than "Martin Luther King, Jr." It is also interesting to note that the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters of the infamous Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
According to King's biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, "King privately described himself as a Marxist." In his 1981 book, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, "…we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…. The whole structure of American life must be changed…. We are engaged in the class struggle."
Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King's behind-the-scenes "handler." Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secret funnelling of Soviet funds to the Communist Party, USA, was King's mentor and was actually the brains behind many of King's more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King's book, Stride Toward Freedom. It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King's income tax returns! It was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activities of the SCLC. Levison wrote many of King's speeches. King described Levison as one of his "closest friends."
FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of Stanley Levison's Communist activities. It was Levison's close association with King that brought about the initial FBI interest in King.
Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media's lie about "racists" in the FBI being out to "get" King, you should be aware that the man most responsible for the FBI's probe of King was Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as a liberal, and says that initially "I was one hundred per cent. for King…because I saw him as an effective and badly needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights." The probe of King not only confirmed their suspicions about King's Communist beliefs and associations, but it also revealed King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthless charlatan.
According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillance files on King which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantial amounts of money contributed to the "civil rights" movement. King used SCLC funds to pay for liquor, and numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotel rooms, often two at a time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. These types of activities were the norm for King's speaking and organizing tours.
In fact, an outfit called the "National Civil Rights Museum" in Memphis, Tennessee, which is putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayed the night before he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the occupants of those rooms. That—according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold—would be "close to blasphemy." The reason? "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." spent his last night on Earth having sexual intercourse with two women at the motel and physically beating and abusing a third.
Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerous married women. According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau had seen everything there was to be seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he had ever encountered who was such a total degenerate.
Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King's supposedly "non-violent" marches, Sullivan's probe revealed a very different King from the carefully crafted public image. King welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC, many of them advocates and practitioners of violence. King's only admonition on the subject was that they should embrace "tactical nonviolence."
Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conference with Communist Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltrator actually working for the FBI.
J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King's Communist connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusive information from FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services. But were the American people informed of King's real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fix was in—the controlled media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push their racial mixing program on America. King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way. With a few minor exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-King propaganda machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has been made to add some of King's writings as a new book in the Bible.
Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater than to prove to you the immorality and subversion of this man called King.
I want you to start to think for yourselves.
I want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind the controlled media's active promotion of King?
What does it tell you about our politicians when you see them, almost without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a national hero?
What does it tell you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper and Communist functionary is considered grounds for dismissal?
What does it tell you about the controlled media when you see how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture of King that can only be described as a colossal lie?
You need to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up.
1. Hoffman, Michael A., Holiday for a Cheater, (Wiswell Ruffin House, Dresden, New York, 1992)
2. Steffgen, Kent H., Bondage of the Free, (Vanguard Books, Berkeley, California, 1966)
3. Garrow, David J., The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., (W. W. Norton & Co, New York City, 1981)
Further information on King's Communist connections and the FBI surveillance of Stanley Levison can be found in the Congressional Record.


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Traffic Justices of the peace also hear every type of civil and criminal traffic violation.
Court Personnel Most justice of the peace precincts have an elected constable. The constable's duties are to execute, serve and return all processes and legal documents as directed by the court. Some statutes relating to sheriffs also govern the powers, duties and liabilities of constables. The justice of the peace usually has one or more court clerks to provide clerical assistance and maintain court records. Additionally, justice courts in some busy urban precincts have a court administrator.
Justice of the Peace Qualifications The requirements to be a justice of the peace are that you be a registered voter in Arizona, reside in the justice court precinct and understand the English language. While some justices of the peace are attorneys, there is no requirement that a justice court judge be an attorney.
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With the ever-growing prevalence of video streaming services and social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram incorporating video content into their core services, reducing data usage on Android devices has become difficult to achieve. To help you get the most out of your Android device, we've compiled some of the best ways to reduce data usage.
Monitor your apps' data usage
To effectively reduce data consumption on your Android device, it is essential to identify the source of the issue. A great first step in this process is reviewing your current data usage.
If you're running an older version of Android, go to Settings > Network & Internet > SIM card & mobile network > Data usage to see your current data usage.
For newer Android versions all the way up to 2021's Android 12, go to Settings > Network & Internet > Mobile network > App data usage.
Carefully examine the details and identify data-hungry apps on your device. Social media apps and streaming services are likely the ones that are consuming too much mobile data.
Disable background data usage
Apps such as Facebook, Skype, and other similar services tend to continually keep in touch with their parent servers to refresh data at regular intervals. Even if you aren't actively using these apps, they continue to run in the background and can use a huge amount of data.
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Make Your Child's Summer Vacation Count
As I write this my two teens are finishing up their last week of school and I'm thinking about the 2+ months of free time they'll have on their hands.
I have a feeling a lot of moms are dealing with this same scenario and, depending on how old your child is, it can be a big challenge to make these next few months fun, but productive.
As teens, if I don't have a "plan" I know my two will spend the entire summer loafing around, unmotivated to do anything and end up driving each other crazy or giving me more gray hair than I already have!
I learned this the hard way after spending my first summer with them.
It took about two weeks of no school to figure out they needed some kind of structure or else they'd find ways to keep themselves amused that were NOT amusing to me.
I've since planned out their summers so that they have a good balance of free time where they do what they want and time spent on things such as summer reading lists, reviewing last year's lessons and helping out around the house.
They know that a typical week day during the summer they will spend their morning hours working on summer reading and doing one of the chores I've given them for that day.
After lunch they've got the afternoon to spend doing fun things, but they also know that if it's a nice day some of that time must be spent outdoors being active.
Playing games with friends, fishing at the local pond or swimming at the community pool are things they do frequently.
I don't allow them to spend their summers planted in front of the T.V. or video game.
Younger children take more adult supervision and many of the things I've already mentioned would work well if mom, dad or a caregiver were included in the activity.
Just recently, Fruits & Veggies–More Matters added some very cool do-it-yourself garden projects for children, which would be ideal for the summer months.
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The most important thing is to allow them to have some "down" time, but keep them active.
Take it from someone who learned the hard way–if they have some structure to their days the summer months will be more fun for both you and your kids.
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"So, who is this Wildcat Rock Machine?" is a question I receive not at all ever, and the truth is that Wildcat Rock Machine is a person who has not only undergone something of a spiritual awakening, but who is also the sort of douchebag who refers to himself in the third person and answers rhetorical questions nobody ever asks or cares to have answered. As for the spiritual awakening, it consists of realizing that he (by "he" I mean "I," remember he's still writing in "douche"), must strive to liberate himself from the societal constructs to which we are all in thrall, and to live not by the clock and the calendar, but rather by the rhythms of nature and of Life Itself.
Others more hardy than I am braved the rain, but I was content to watch it fall upon the horse manure:
At first I was impatient, but then I found myself being lulled by the sound: countless drops falling upon trees and cars and building roofs and piles of horse doody, each individual impact with its own unique timbre, yet all of them blending together into a seamlessly transcendental "Shhh." It was like the universe itself were telling me to hush, and to relax, and to take this non-negotiable moment to listen and to reflect. This was not something to hurry through with hunched shoulders, cursing as the rainwater filled your shoes. It was actually a reprieve from timetables and routine and tedium and monotony.
So deep was the water in places that it caused minivan rotors to steam:
It submerged not only the bike lane but the horse lane too:
Fourteen head of Brooklyn's finest Tennessee Walking Horses lost their lives that day. Ten drowned, the other four had to be shot by their riders, and a group of children from a nearby day camp looked on in horror. Had I not been spiritually "foffing off" beneath that overpass as they struggled then maybe I would have been able to help them.
The Chain Gang is a comic book about bikes that can talk, and the plot is clearly lifted wholesale from "Bike Kill:"
Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I'm going to be releasing The Chain Gang in 24-page monthly issues. Each month will welcome a new limited-edition (only 100 copies) issue of The Chain Gang's ongoing, sprawling epic as they battle in junkyards, wrestle dogs, avoid the police, jump over people's houses, and ride inside whale skeletons. They're breaking all the rules and will stop at nothing in their quest to spread their trouble!
I must admit I was intrigued by the part about riding in whale skeletons, since if there's an antithesis of the bamboo bike then it's almost certainly a bike made out of the bones of an endangered species. (Though strictly speaking I suppose the antithesis of a bamboo bike would be a panda bone bike.) Still, it's pretty audacious to ask people for money before drawing your comic, especially when Rick Smith (the Bill Watterson of cycling cartoonists) gives you a new Yehuda Moon every day for free:


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The high cost of under-paying teachers
Published 12:00 am Sunday, July 28, 2013
Public education served me well and definitely did those with whom I grew up. My cousin became a physician and the CEO of Cabarrus Family Medicine, while a neighbor became the CEO of Lowes Home Improvement. One of my friends became an aeronautical engineer designing high-tech aircraft, while yet another became a civil engineer with his own company building and installing culverts under highways. Another peer earned a doctorate in physics and became an engineer for Walt Disney World while still another friend became a multi-millionaire being the chief investment officer for a billionaire. And myself? I went on to a successful career in education, earning a doctorate and becoming a systemwide teacher of the year and a school administrator.
Question: Out of the professionals listed above, which one finished his career still making far below a six-figure income and could not afford college educations for his own children? Answer: After being a highly-successful veteran educator for 30 years, I had to retire this past April out of necessity. Not having the money to put my daughters through college, I could no longer afford being a public school educator when I could be free to pursue more lucrative work.
Wow! Physicians, CEOs, engineers, financiers, educators … who says public education is broken? But, oh, the irony! In a state whose mission is supposedly to remain competitive within a 21st century global market, many of our state's lawmakers have chosen to turn their backs on public education. In only half a decade, what took decades of money and energy to establish has been virtually abolished. Once nationally viewed as a progressive leader in education, North Carolina has rapidly sunk to the bottom ranks among all states in areas such as teachers' salaries. For the first time, I am hearing the phrase "national embarrassment" when "North Carolina" and "education" are mentioned in the same sentence. Indeed, we are quickly becoming the "Un-Education State," thanks largely to our lawmakers.
A dramatic teacher shortage is imminent, and several adages can be applied: "You reap what you sow!" "Good things are rarely cheap, and cheap things are rarely good!" You see, our state has chosen to operate within a fly-now-pay-later plan by withdrawing significant education funding and not adequately compensating teaching professionals. Enduring a half-decade of a frozen salary scale, each educator has been deprived of thousands of hard-earned dollars.
Veteran teachers are fleeing North Carolina classrooms on a daily basis and, being at the bottom of the nation salary-wise, can they be blamed for abandoning ship? Teachers with only a few years experience are dropping like flies, realizing they don't wish to make less-than-blue-collar pay meeting white-collar expectations under highly stressful conditions. High school students now balk at the idea of investing in a college degree in education, destined to be underpaid, disrespected, and treated unprofessionally. My daughter wants to be a math teacher, and a fellow student at her high school told her she would be wasting her time and her intellect.
The average salary of educators in our state is nationally comparable to that of undertakers, garbage collectors and sewage plant operators. Therein lies a sad implication that our state values the services of those educating our children to the same degree or less than it does the services of those tending to our deceased — and even worse — our sewage and our garbage. Our state is transmitting a terrible message to its students: they are unworthy of a significant investment of money.
Investing in the future of a state is really expensive, yet it becomes billions of dollars more costly to clean up the mess that results from totally ripping up the foundations of the present and not investing adequately in our future. It will soon be time to pay the piper, for the rapid exodus of our professional teachers will leave classrooms destined to be staffed by "cheap labor." Unqualified but well-meaning people are having to become trained while on the job; in other words, your child may soon be taught by someone who is learning to fly the airplane while building it.
History has a nasty way of repeating itself, offering painful but informative lessons that many politicians and citizens seem unable to grasp. Some may think that an upcoming teacher shortage would offer educators the opportunity to say, "We told ya so!" However, there is little satisfaction or humor in the consequences of unheeded warnings, soon to become harsh realities. There will be little laughter heard in the hallways of our schools — instead, the only audible sounds could be the chirping of crickets echoing down the halls of a ghost town.
Our students deserve caring, highly-qualified teachers empowering them as my generation had. They should not end up in classrooms staffed by unknowledgeable "warm bodies." An old folk song from the sixties asked "Where have all the flowers gone?" To paraphrase those words, I fear that North Carolinians may soon be singing "Where have all the teachers gone?" My suggestion for a bumper sticker: "If you have the knowledge and capability to enact legislation that cuts teachers' salaries, then by all means … thank a teacher!"
Dr. William D. Robertson is a retired educator who was system-wide Teacher of the Year for Iredell-Statesville Schools in 1996 and a system-wide Teacher of the Year finalist for Rowan-Salisbury Schools in 2009. A version of this article first appeared in the Fayetteville Observer.


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I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Now we want to take some time to talk about retirement. Later this hour, we will hear from someone who decided to retire at the advanced age of 32 and - no, his last name is not Buffett or Rockefeller or Gates. We'll ask him why and, equally important, how he managed to do this. That's coming up later this hour.
But first, we realize that, for millions of people, retiring comfortably, even after decades of work, after years of planning and saving, is not a sure thing because life happens. Our next guest is on a mission to steer people about the curves and bumps in the road ahead because he's living it. His name is Stan Hinden. He was a financial reporter for The Washington Post for two decades. From 1996 to 2003, he wrote the Retirement Journal column for the Post, but even his best-laid plans weren't enough to fully prepare him when illness struck his wife Sara a few years into their retirement.
His book, "How to Retire Happy," is about the 12 most important decisions you must make before you retire. It breaks down all of those choices and what happens when life takes over and undoes them all. And he's with us now in our Washington, D.C. studios.
Welcome, Stan Hinden. Thank you so much for joining us.
STAN HINDEN: You're welcome and thank you for having me.
MARTIN: And, in the spirit of full disclosure, I think we should tell people that you were actually one of my first editors at the earliest days of my career. So thank you for that.
HINDEN: And it was a pleasure all the time.
MARTIN: For better or for worse, we can thank you for unleashing me on the world. Well, thank you for that. So, first of all, tell us - I think a lot of people will remember your Retirement Journal column and you didn't make it sound easy, but it did make it sound as if you had it under control. Like, how much planning had gone into your retirement before you actually did decide to retire, retire?
HINDEN: Well, the funny thing is that I retired, even though I was a financial writer, without knowing anything about retirement. I knew nothing about Social Security or Medicare or Medigap or pensions or any of the things that retirees are supposed to know about before they retire so they can make appropriate decisions based on that information.
I retired sort of willy-nilly and only after I started writing the column did I suddenly discover there were all these things out there that I hadn't learned about. And so my mission became to try to educate future retirees about what they were going to face and what they needed to know.
MARTIN: Why do you think you did that? I mean, do you think that it's partly because you started your career at a time when, if you worked for a certain number of years, you'd get a certain number of dollars for a certain amount of time? And do you think it was partly because you grew up in that era as opposed to the 401K era where, from early on, you're told it's your problem, your responsibility? Or do you think most people are really that way? They don't really think that much about it.
HINDEN: I think that's true. I think most people don't and, to tell you the truth, I wrote so many stories, I had so many deadlines that I frankly didn't pay much attention to my own situation, but, basically, it all worked out.
MARTIN: Well, let's talk about how it all worked out. I mean, you realized you really hadn't paid that much attention to retirement, you know, overall. How did you get your hands around that situation?
HINDEN: Frankly, by studying. I like to compare retirement to taking a long trip abroad. And you wouldn't take a trip like that without doing a lot of research, finding out what the weather is, where you're going, what you're going to see, what the currency exchange is. You do a lot of work. In fact, I think many people do more work to plan a trip than they do to plan their retirements.
MARTIN: You're very honest about the fact that you were worried that you were going to run out of money.
HINDEN: I was worried, indeed. That's why I made the decision to take a 100 percent pension for me, leaving nothing for my wife. But because I hadn't done the right arithmetic, I didn't realize that she would be much worse off after I passed away without pension annuity. So, it just demonstrated to me that, without some study and some time planning, that you could make errors.
MARTIN: So that issue aside - and that's a big issue, but that issue aside - you were enjoying life. You traveled. You had a lot of friends. You had a really, you know, rich life together, which is, I think, the life that a lot of people hope for in retirement, and then you started to notice that things were not all well with Sara. You want to talk about that?
HINDEN: Your description of our retired life is accurate. We did have a good time and we enjoyed it. In 2007, it became apparent that Sara was having a problem, asking the same question over and over again, and so we started down the road with the doctors and the hospitals and all of the tests and the very frustrating thing was that all of the doctors had no answers for us.
You know, ordinarily, when somebody gets ill, you have hope for their recovery. You visit somebody in the hospital and you expect that at the end of the week or month or whatever period of time they'll get up, walk out and be well. For people who are afflicted by Alzheimer's, that is not the case and the doctors have no cure and, so far in the research, they haven't found the magic bullet yet. So, that is very, very difficult for somebody who has a loved one who's afflicted that way and somebody who's a caretaker.
MARTIN: I can't - I don't want to skip past the emotional side of it. I know our focus is the financial side of it, but I can't skip past the emotional side of it. I mean, this is a person who has been at your side for 50 years and, you know, that can't be easy to see that person slipping away in front of you. I wanted to ask, what was the hardest decision that you had to make in all this so far?
HINDEN: The very hardest decision, the most emotional decision was, once we had decided that Sara could not stay at home because she needed 24-hour care, to find a place where she could get that care. There's lots of places available and there are lots of conditions, lots of different prices and different services. But how do you know which one place is going to take care of your loved one in an appropriate way?
MARTIN: Talk about, if you would - how much does this cost for somebody who requires that level of care?
HINDEN: Well, the latest figures show that the average cost of a single room in a nursing home is now $239 a day, which equates to $87,000 a year. That's an extraordinary amount of money and very few people have that kind of money. The only help that you can get in this sort of situation is to have a long-term-care insurance policy. And I was fortunate that, at some point, the Washington Post offered long-term-care policies to its employees, and I bought one for myself and one for Sara, so that the one bright spot in all of this is that we've had insurance that's helped out.
But even so, I mean, it doesn't pay everything and, for people who are in the more expensive facilities, they still have very large bills. I have neighbors where I live who were paying for their loved ones in local facilities. It was $9,000 a month. Some places that I'm aware of charge $12,000 a month or more and, you know, I don't know what the answer is. Nobody knows what the answer is, and so I think that what happens because of the cost of these facilities, a lot of families wind up keeping their loved ones at home and have the family help take care of the individual or hire aides coming in at $21 an hour.
MARTIN: And that wasn't a solution for you because the level of care she required was just more than you could manage?
HINDEN: Well, we didn't have the kind of apartment that would allow one to have the kind of help you would need and we had an aide working 12 hours a day for three months. It wasn't enough, so we had to find a home for Sara to go to and I think we found a good one.
MARTIN: And even that, if you don't mind my asking, how much does that cost? You are comfortable with the level of care?
HINDEN: Well, our facility is about $4,000 a month.
MARTIN: Four thousand dollars a month?
HINDEN: Yes.
MARTIN: And that's on top of your own living expenses because...
HINDEN: Oh, yes.
MARTIN: ...you can't live with her. Right?
HINDEN: I pay rent where I live and, you know, the other costs of maintaining a house.
MARTIN: Can I ask, do you feel - I don't know how to ask this. Do you feel cheated in some way, as if, you know, you did everything right and it's still hard?
HINDEN: I don't feel cheated. I feel sad and I feel more sad for Sara than for me. Whatever is difficult here, it's probably more difficult for her than it is for me, even though it's been difficult for me in terms of making sure that she's well cared for and visiting almost every day.
MARTIN: Do you still fear that you won't have enough to live on for the rest of your own life, or both of your lives? Because, obviously, anybody can hear you and can understand that you're still practicing your profession, as well as trying to have a full life and care for Sara, you know, as well. Are you afraid for yourself or for her?
HINDEN: No. Maybe I should be, but I'm not. I have faith that we'll get through this in some way as best we can. That's pretty much my philosophy. I'm 86 now and I've had a good and very interesting life and I've been really proud of my career in journalism and with my book and everything. I'm quite satisfied.
MARTIN: Well, your book is titled "How to Retire Happy." Are you happy?
HINDEN: I am happy. Yes.
MARTIN: OK. I'm glad to hear that. At least somebody is. I'm so glad to hear that. Any parting words of advice?
HINDEN: Start planning. One of Sara's pieces of advice was that preparation is next to godliness so that - be prepared is, I think, the bottom line.
MARTIN: Stan Hinden is the author of "How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire." It's now in its fourth edition and he was kind enough to join us in our Washington, D.C. studios.
Stan Hinden, thank you so much for joining us.
HINDEN: Oh, thank you very much, dear.
MARTIN: And our best wishes to you and to your family.
HINDEN: Thank you so much. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Combined with traditional management tools, Predictive Project Analytics gives Deloitte clients the ability to track, predict, and understand the real-time status and risk of any project during all stages of the project lifecycle.
Will a project fail or succeed? To those who believe there's no way to know before or even during a project's lifecycle, Deloitte suggests otherwise.
"By leveraging advanced analytics, we are able to evaluate the likelihood that a project will be successful, and follow that with practical and actionable advice," says Gabriel Rodriguez, Partner, Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte Canada. "We use what we call Predictive Project Analytics (PPA), a project risk management capability that is unique and exclusive to Deloitte."
Combined with traditional management tools, PPA can help clients avert challenges not only with a particular project, but also entire programs or portfolios of projects. PPA gives Deloitte clients the ability to track, predict, and understand the real-time status and risk of any project—from large-scale IT or business transformations and integrations, to complex capital projects—and provide focused guidance for improving the likelihood of success at all stages of the project lifecycle.
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PPA was invaluable during a recent engagement in which several Deloitte firms helped an international investment organization update and integrate its core IT systems. Those systems support business processes across the enterprise, making business disruption a major risk. Deloitte also was charged with improving the client's key processes to reduce operating risk and provide high-quality data for improved decision making.
"The transformation was a mega-project for the company. The client's own research gave it a 3 percent chance of finishing on time and on budget," explains Neil White, Principal, Deloitte Advisory US. "So, their leadership came to us because they knew Deloitte could act as a sounding board and provide critical input for complex programs. They also knew we could provide dedicated resources to support the program throughout its lifecycle."
Deloitte evaluated the organization's transformation project by measuring the true complexity of the task and assessing its execution against 172 critical-factor variables. The team then benchmarked against data from hundreds of successfully completed projects using a powerful multi-variant algorithm, and provided specific actions and recommendations for attaining the level of control needed to meet the project's delivery time, cost, and quality goals.
Predictive analytics supplemented traditional project risk-assessment methodologies to assess program risks, business processes, and governance. "PPA helped us make accurate predictions about the success or failure of specific sub-projects—and there were many sub-projects with hundreds of twists and turns," Rodriguez says. "PPA was critical to our ability to make adjustments along the way."
The transformation ultimately was implemented successfully, nine months ahead of schedule and 15 percent under budget—a far cry from the client's initial estimates. "The paradigm within the corporation also changed from passive management to risk management," Rodriguez says, "allowing them to concentrate on managing for superior long-term returns without taking unacceptable risks."
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Nine swimmers from the Kachemak Swim Club traveled to Anchorage for the Junior Olympics on April 24-27. The four days of intense swimming competition is the culminating championships meet in Alaska.
"These athletes swam fiercely and accomplished astonishing best times in most of their events," said Coach Rebecca Hardy.
To qualify for the JO is a remarkable feat, according to Jamie Roth, an age group coach for KSC.
"Besides making a challenging cut, swimmers have to retain focus and dedication throughout the year in order to arrive at this meet and be at their best," said Roth. "All of our swimmers brought their best selves to this meet and they demonstrated the dynamic team spirit they are known for. They obviously love to swim. They showed their passion for the sport and I couldn't be more pleased."
This was the final competitive KSC swim for seniors and brothers James and Mark Nagle.
"Mark excelled in the 100 free, 400 IM and the 1650, receiving best times in all three," said Hardy. "James, despite being sick the entire meet, was exceptional in the 200 fly, 100 back and the 100 fly."
The Nagle brothers have been active in KSC for six years, teaching younger swimmers "and infusing the entire team with their energy and enthusiasm," said Hardy, "They are looked up to and are going to be missed as they graduate and go off to college."
Clayton Arndt received best times in both the 200 and 400 IM. Griffin Downey came close to taking almost seven seconds off in his breaststroke and 2.5 seconds in the 100 breaststroke.
Aurora Shadle, who participated in the 50 free, encouraged and inspired others with her usual unselfish and unwavering support," said Hardy.
The Junior Olympics was Sailey Rhodes' first championship meet. The coach said Rhodes had a best time in the individual 100 breaststroke and "performed professionally in her two relays."
Piper Kassouni knocked three seconds off her time in the 50 breaststroke, finishing first in her heat. She also participated successfully in two relays. Ella Blanton-Yourkowski got the crowd's attention when she body dolphined past the half line underwater in the breaststroke. That is a skill many high school swimmers do not perfect. She also had best times in two other events and was lead leg in two relays.
Madison Story entered seven events and two relays, more than any other swimmer on the KSC team.
"(Story) opened the festivities with the 200 IM and dropped a mind-blowing 10 seconds off her best time," said Hardy. "She was a strong competitor throughout the weekend, but truly shined on Sunday, with her last two events, the 50 breaststroke and 50 butterfly, getting best times by more than a second and finishing third in both."
Hardy said the KSC team reflected great depth, from its oldest swimmers concluding their swim careers to the club's youngest athletes.
"This team is refreshing, dedicated and so supportive of each other," said Hardy, noting the close friendships that have developed in spite of age differences. "I am so proud of this group of kids. They worked so hard and they all came to this competition ready to be their best. They are amazing."
2014 Alaska Junior Olympic Championship
April 24-27 — Anchorage
Kachemak Swim Club times
Male 1650 free, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 19:46.30; James Nagle, 20:01.71
Female 200 IM, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 2:53.51
Male 200 IM, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 2:19.67
Male 200 IM, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 2:17.46; James Nagle, 2:18.34
Female 50 back, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 37.45; Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 37.86
Male 200 fly, 15 and older: James Nagle, 2:20.29
Female 50 free, 10 and younger: Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 34:12
Female 50 free, age 13-14: Aurora Shadle, 29.39
Male 50 free, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 24.49; Griffin Downey, 27.03
Male 50 free, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 24.53
Male 500 free, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 5:22.19; James Nagle, 5:36.34
Female 200 medley relay, 10 and younger: Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 40.38
Male 100 free, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 55.04
Male 100 free, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 52.44
Female 100 breast, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 1:28.74; Sailey Rhodes, 1:41.34
Male 200 breast, age 13-14: Griffin Downey, 2:40.78
Female 100 back, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 1:20.59; Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 1:28.47
Male 100 back, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 1:07.77
Male 100 back, 15 and older: James Nagle, 1:02.00
Female 100 IM, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 1:19.66
Male 400 IM, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 5:14.79
Male 400 IM, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 4:57.13; James Nagle, 5:04.09
Female 200 free relay, 10 and younger: Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 34.39
Female 50 breast, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 39.58; Piper Kassouni, 44.89
Male 100 breast, age 13-14: Griffin Downey, 1:12.77
Female 100 free, 10 and younger: Ella Blanton-Yourkowski, 1:17.07
Male 200 free, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 2:03.89
Male 200 free, 15 and older: Mark Nagle, 1:58.03
Female 50 fly, 10 and younger: Madison Story, 35.66
Male 100 fly, age 13-14: Clayton Arndt, 1:03.74
Male 100 fly, 15 and older: James Nagle, 55.40


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Simchat Torah
The Circle Dance
Matthew from Silver Spring, Maryland wrote:
Dear Rabbi,
Why do we have the custom of dancing round and round in a circle on Simchat Torah? Why not a "square dance" for a change? (Just kidding.)
Dear Matthew,
The mystics teach us that G-d's Unity is revealed in this world to the extent that there is unity amongst His ambassadors in this world, the Jewish People. When His ambassadors are united, G-d's presence is detected unmistakably.
One of Judaism's great gifts to mankind is the verse in the Torah -- "And you will love your neighbor as yourself." (Leviticus 19:18) When we love each other and we are genuinely happy for our friends' successes, this causes a greater perception of G-d in the world. When we do the reverse -- when we see ourselves in a dog-eat-dog world -- we take a step down towards the canine world. We lose that G-dly radiance which shows that He made us in His image.
On Simchat Torah we complete the annual reading of the Torah. As soon as we finish the last verse, we start again at the beginning. Without a break. We read the Torah in a continuous cycle because the circle is a symbol of eternity. It goes on forever. It is eternal, just as the One who gave us the Torah is Eternal.
The circle symbolizes eternity. It starts nowhere and it finishes nowhere. The circle is also a symbol of equality. Every point in the circle is equidistant from its center.
There is an ancient Jewish custom to dance for hours around the bima (lectern) on Simchat Torah -- the festival on which we celebrate the completion of the yearly Torah cycle. This circle of dancing symbolizes the eternity of the Torah and its Author.
The mystics tell us that in the next world the righteous will make a circle around G-d. And they will dance around and around Him just like we do around the bima on Simchat Torah. There will be many different kinds of Jews represented there: Jews from Iran and Jews from Indianapolis. There will be Jews of all colors and from all walks of life. There will be those who, while keeping faith with unbroken tradition, strongly differ in the emphasis in their service of the Creator. There will be Chassidim and Litvaks, Ashkenazim and Sephardim. As they dance in that circle they will all realize that you can be 180 away from your neighbor and yet you can still be equidistant from the center, from G-d.
Sources: Rabbi Zev Leff and others


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The thought of it makes me feel thirsty and I'm sure even you would nod your head and agree with me :)
I have been quenching my thirst with it almost ever other day. Don't you want to do it too???
Get set go to make it right away :) Simple and yummy home made mango drink all for you :)
Mango pulp - 1 ltr
Water - 1 ltr
Sugar - 1.5 kgs
Pottasium Meta bisulphite (KMS)– ½ tsp
Citric acid - 2 tsp
Peel and chop mangoes roughly. Make a puree using a blender and keep it aside.
Take the sugar, citric acid and water in a pan and heat it until the sugar dissolves and it bubbles up. It should be a thin syrup.
Allow this sugar syrup to come to room temperature and then mix up the above made mango puree.
Take a tsp of warm water and dissolve the Pottasium Meta bisulphite (KMS - preservative) in it. Add it to the squash and mix it up.
Now pour the squash into sterilized bottles and store in refrigerator :)
Mango squash is ready.
To serve, fill 1/3 of serving glass with the mango squash and remaining by water. Mix up well and serve chill topped with ice cubes :)
Use disposable kitchen gloved when you do the entire process.
KMS or PMS preservative is available in super markets like Nilgiris.
You can use this squash as dessert topping also :)
Drizzle some mango squash on vanilla ice cream and serve :)


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Mitsubishi i-MiEV
The i-MiEV had a long wheelbase inherited from the i minicar rear-midship layout. This meant there was enough space to install a large capacity lithium-ion drive battery under the floor and install the power unit under the luggage compartment. This gave the i-MiEV an impressive cruising range without compromising the seating or luggage space.
The car also featured the MiEV OS (MiEV Operating System). This was an advanced, integrated vehicle management system, engineered through years of EV research and development.
The i-MiEV boasted the kind of high performance and reliability that befits a new-generation EV. It had zero drive-time CO2 emissions, it was 100% electric, and it was quiet, agile and comfortable. It won the 2009-2010 Car of the Year Japan's 'Most Advanced Technology' Special Achievement Award.


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Ever since the time I was sneaking into a theater as a kid to see movies intended for a much older audience, I was fascinated by those moving pictures on the big screen, being totally absorbed into another world. At that time I couldn´t even imagine being a part of this some day, my picture making abilities limited to what I captured with my father´s Canon A1 camera. But sometimes destiny strikes. So one day at high school, a couple of teachers were planning a little movie for a school project and, having no better choice, chose me to be the film´s cameraman amongst a group of other total amateurs. An experience that changed everything for me.
Today, with the experience of 20 years as a director and cinematographer, I still consider myself to be privileged, being able to work in the business that I love. Making films is a highly collaborative task, uniting many committed and passionate people, struggling to make magic happen and to create emotions of all kinds. Their shared effort is to tell a story. That´s what my job is about.
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Your website is the hub of your online business; it is the virtual representation of your company, whether your company exists physically or not. When you are doing business online, people cannot see you physically like how they could if they were dealing with an offline company. Hence, people do judge you by your covers. This is where a good design comes in.
Suppose you are running an offline company. Would you allow your salespersons to be dressed in shabby or casual clothes when they are dealing with your customers? By making your staff wear professionally, you are telling your customers that you do care about quality. This works simply because first impressions matter.
Similarly, the same case is with your website. If your website is put together shabbily and looks like a 5 minute "quick fix", you are literally shouting to your visitors that you are not professional and you do not care for quality.
On the opposite, if you have a totally professional looking website layout, you are giving your visitors the perception that you have given meticulous attention to every detail and you care about professionalism. You are organized, focused and you really mean business.
On the other hand, you should also have anything related to your company well designed. From business cards to letterheads to promotional brochures, every little bit matters. This is because as you grow your business, these items become the face of your business. Once again, think of the "salesperson dressed shabbily" analogy, and you will get my point.