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The artistic visions of "outsider artists" offer an invitation to imagine creation's final destination.
Sister Gertrude Morgan, Lord Put Another Fuse in My Soul, ca. 1970, Painted found tray, 16 x 21.75 inches. Collection of Bob Roth.
The sprawling exhibition HEAVEN+HELL, a joint project of two Chicago museums, the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, uses the works of self-taught artists to explore familiar, complex, and even surprising terrain. The exhibition's curators, Jan Petry of Intuit and Molly Tarbell of LUMA, selected "intuitive and outsider art," which Intuit describes as the "work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world and who instead are motivated by their unique personal visions."
In his book What Are They Saying About the End of the World? (Paulist), Franciscan priest Zachary Hayes notes that "the central Christian metaphor for the end of history is the parousia or the second coming of Christ. Around this center is a cluster of related themes: judgment, resurrection of the dead, heaven and hell, the kingdom, the new heaven and the new earth."
Hayes makes the concept sound neat and precise, but the various denominational and cultural languages of HEAVEN+HELL's artists add their own nuances and emphases to these artistic depictions of the endtime. Drawing upon their personal visions and faith perspectives, their own investigations and theories, and biblical and religious traditions, the artists strive to imagine where the world is going and what will come to pass. Predictably, the gathered collection reflects a multiplicity of ideas.
Works such as Sister Gertrude Morgan's Lord Put Another Fuse in My Soul (above) use the vocabulary at hand—in this case modes of transportation—to speak of going to another, often better place, while acknowledging both the less attractive alternatives and the hardships along the way. A few works in this exhibition express hopelessness, but most express trust in the one who promises to "make all things new" (Rev. 21:5).
Installed in two venues, the collectively imagined future these artists provide offers both the expected and the unconventional—an engaging visual journey.
McKendree Robbins Long (1888-1976), Seventh Angel Pours Out His Vial Upon the Earth, late 1960s; oil on canvas, 53 x 37 inches. Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, N.C. 2007.13.8.
McKendree Robbins Long uses Chapter 16 of the Book of Revelation as his inspiration for Seventh Angel Pours Out His Vial Upon the Earth. The painting shows the end of time as terrifying, the natural world as unsafe and disintegrating. It resembles a still from an action film—except there is no hero to save the day. Though its intensely detailed composition offers endless scenes to scrutinize, this work ultimately makes me consider the God behind this event—specifically the difference between how the author of the Book of Revelation and Long would describe God.
Rev. Samuel David Phillips (1890-1965), Untitled (Seven-headed Beast), ca. 1950; pencil, crayon, and water-based paint on oilcloth, 47 x 47 inches. Private collection, promised gift to Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
The Rev. Samuel David Phillips writes biblical references on his teaching aid, Untitled (Seven-headed Beast). Most likely an attempt to illustrate the beast described in Revelation 13:1-2, Phillips' creature hovers between being ferocious and odd; its beautifully patterned body and rhythmically drawn manes seem unrelated to the background of horns and diadems which, though meant to convey menace, seems more like a partial halo. Phillips gives us the portrait of an evil creature he thinks should be avoided, but all I can see is the portrait of a beloved—if unusual—pet.
Those who read scripture with an eye to its context and history might see the Revelation passage as a way for the ancient writer to express (in a veiled fashion) the dangers of being Christian in the Roman Empire. With seven being the biblical number of completeness, this schema gives us a multi-headed animal that signifies a succession of emperors with no end of the world in sight, only the acknowledgment of a difficult present.
William Blayney (1918-1985), Four Winds of Heaven, 1960; oil and sand on canvas, 25.5 x 33.75 inches. David T. Owsley Collection.
The title characters of William Blayney's Four Winds of Heaven take on tornadic form and become the background for the beasts described in the Book of Daniel (Chapters 7 and 8). Blayney faithfully illustrates the recorded number of horns, wings, and heads; likewise he names and dates kingdoms and rulers to reveal his understanding of the symbolism of these beasts. The literalism and stress on identification, which characterizes the work of several of the artists in this exhibition, express how one strain of Christianity deciphers the Bible and predicts the future.
Ronald and Jessie Cooper (born 1931 and 1932), Heaven and Hell Pulpit (for Brother John), 2000; wood, painting, electric wiring, form insulation and metal, 48 x 48 x 24 inches. Collection of Cal Kowal and Anita Douthat. Photo by Cal Kowal.
Even if thinking of heaven as "up there" and hell as "down there" rings hollow, this geography served Jessie and Ronald Cooper well when they transformed a piece of church furniture into the Heaven and Hell Pulpit (for Brother John).
Thelower, hellish portion (executed by Ronald) houses horned, smiling devils pleased with their accomplishments and human souls longing for release. Brief phrases chronicle how hell's occupants became "a mad bunch of sinners."
The upper, heavenly realm is Jessie's creation. Part riverboat ride and part bucolic residential development, heaven's soothing, peaceful ambiance lacks the frenzy—and excitement—of hell.
The scene of the last judgment described in Matthew's gospel (25:31ff) is only one of the many biblical passages that describe the "angels of heaven" and "the devil and his angels." Though angels and devils are described as nonphysical creatures, their countless portrayals nearly always exploit the human form.
Leroy Almon Sr. (1938-1997), Untitled, 1988; carved and painted wood, 11.25 x 24 x .75 inches. Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed.
Many of the works in this exhibition conflate faith-inflected ethical perspectives and divine judgment with remarkable certainty. An untitled work by Leroy Almon Sr. (above) unflinchingly delivers a textual listing of what activities lead to both death and an afterlife in hell: sex, AIDS, money, alcohol, and drugs.
To make his point, Almon adds skeletal people, the devilish serpent, a scantily clad woman smoking a cigarette, two men kissing, and a skull and crossbones, pitting conservative Christian principles with a larger world that tolerates a wider range of behaviors.
Jon Serl (1894-1993), Between Two Worlds, 1982; oil on board, 60.375 x 60.375 x 1 inches. American Folk Art Museum, New York. Gift of the artist, 1983.20.3. Photo by John Parnell, New York.
John Serl's Between Two Worlds does not rely on any code of conduct or religious reference to communicate the terror being faced by its central character. The ghoulish forms surrounding him could represent either internally or externally generated concerns. Like Edvard Munch's The Scream, Serl's piece embodies anxiety and angst, the drive to escape our fears and its ultimate futility—a hellish state that we have all faced.
Howard Finster (1916-2001), A Feeling of Darkness #2,358, May 1982; tractor enamel on wood, 20.75 x 34 inches; Arient Family Collection.
Snakes, a manifestation of the devil (see Genesis 3), have also infiltrated the surface of Howard Finster's A Feeling of Darkness. They join a variety of monsters, buildings resembling Finster's Folk Art Church, clouds and mountains (some of which have faces), and text to create a dense surface to express Finster's belief that "increasing evils multiplying" (sic). Naming evil people ("peacebrakers," "spyes," "meddlers") and things ("bad checks," "fraud," "atomic weapons"), he concludes, "how can this world get any worser than it already is?"
Albert Zahn (1864-1963), Untitled (Angel with man and bird), ca. 1950s; wood, paint, metal, 23 x 12 x 9 inches.
Albert Zahn gives us a vignette (right) that could read as a set of directions: The middle angel figure looks like the person to its left with the addition of the wings of a bird sitting to its right.
Miles Carpenter (1889-1985), Untitled (Red Devil on Horse), 1976; carved and polychromed wood, paint and string, 28 inches high; Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Gift of Joanne Silver, 2003.4.
In a similar fashion, Miles Carpenter adds a tail, horns, and lots of red to make a human figure devilish (far right). A found piece of wood becomes the "horse" of the work's title (though it seems to possess swinish qualities) and gives the fiend a rodeo-ish ride. Jan Petry and Angie Mills Collection, promised gift to the John Michael Kohler Art Center.
View the above images as slides.
This article appeared in the May 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 5, pages 22-26).


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I posted earlier about Pat O'Connor, whose contributions included creating the LymphedemaPeople website to give our LE patient community information and resources when it simply was not available anywhere else. His work was tireless, including several social media sites like this one to support the many lymphedema patients who needed a home to seek and share experiences and advice.
Pat passed away yesterday, and there have been many, many tributes on his various websites and on his Facebook page. There will be a memorial service this Sunday, the 18th and some of us are going to send flowers, in the name of lymphedema patients who have benefited from Pat's lifetime of advocacy work.
Would you like your name -- your screen name, or your real name, whichever you prefer -- to be added to the list of people who would signal to Pat's family just how many lives he touched?
I actually love the idea of using screen names, because that is how we know each other in our lymphedema community.
If you would like to have your screen name included, just post a 'yes' here, and we'll include it in the list of names to be included on a tribute letter that will accompany the flowers. If you would like your real name included, send me a private message with that information. I'll need to wrap this up tomorrow (Friday) to get the information to the funeral home.
It's a great loss. Pat was amazing, and his contribution to telling the world about lymphedema was truly unwavering.

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Police: Man arrested for stealing gadget-filled backpack
Suspect accused of stealing thousands in property
MADISON, Wis. — Madison police said they arrested a 44-year-old man for theft Friday morning.
Police said Timothy Ingram stole a backpack out of a California couple's car while they were in Madison, visiting their son. The victims described to police the black and gray Land's End backpack to police and said three digital cameras and an Apple iPad were inside.
The victim was able to find the approximate location of the iPad, thanks to the gadget's GPS. He told police the signal was coming from Lake Wingra.
The officer went to the park and found an iPad charging inside an empty Chevy Astro van. Ingram, the van's driver, appeared, and the officer asked him if the iPad was his. Ingram told the officer that it was not, and police said he confessed to the theft.
Police said the California couple was happy to have their property back. Police estimated the property was valued at $4,000. Police said the couple was excited to see how technology turned them into amateur gumshoes.


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July 24, 2011 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
July 24th to 29th, 2011 Wallingford Presbyterian Church invites children, preschool through 5th grade, and leaders to learn about Jesus, help build community, and grow, as they become stewards of God's creation. This year, ReNew Vacation Bible Camp will encourage kids to "Grow in Faith, Have Fun, and Change the World", while studying Jesus' Parable of the Sower, and learning ways to care for God's creation.


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Mervyn King - the governor of the Bank of England - has proposed abolishing fractional reserve banking.
As the BBC noted last week:
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has tonight made a big intervention into the debate on banking reform. In a speech at Buttonwood, New York, he [listed] much more radical proposals.
1. Forcing the riskiest banks to hold capital "several times the magnitude" of requirements at present.
2. The Volcker rule-style enforced breakup of banks into speculative and non-speculative arms.
3. The "Kotlikoff proposal", which forces banks to match each pool of risks with a requisite amount of capital, preventing losses in one spilling over into another.
4. Stunningly, Mervyn King imagines the "abolition of fractional reserve banking":
"Eliminating fractional reserve banking explicitly recognises that the pretence that risk-free deposits can be supported by risky assets is alchemy. If there is a need for genuinely safe deposits the only way they can be provided, while ensuring costs and benefits are fully aligned, is to insist such deposits do not co-exist with risky assets."
King does not advocate any of these radical plans - but the fact that he goes out of his way to list them, and to place them on the agenda of the UK's Independent Commission on Banking, means that we are not yet at the end of the debate about long-term reform of the banks.
Beyond the technicalities, the fact that a central banker in a G7 country is prepared to imagine such outcomes is itself significant.
Moreover, King wrote to Ben Dyson and stated:
You suggest that banks should be forced to conform to the underlying purpose of the 1844 Bank Reform Act. You might be aware that I have said publicly that I think ideas in this spirit - such as those advocated by John Kay - certainly merit serious consideration in the debate as to how we reform our financial system. I remain sympathetic to these views. But as I said in my previous letter, I do not want to prejudice the outcome of the Banking commission's deliberations. Now the Commission has been set up, I think we all should wait to see its conclusions."
As Dyson explains:
The 1844 Bank Charter Act ('Reform' is a typo) was a piece of legislation that prohibited commercial banks from printing paper notes (£1, £5, £10 and so on). Before this law was passed, banks were permitted to print as many paper notes as they wanted, up to the point where they printed too many and went bankrupt (as everyone cashed in their paper notes at once).
That situation should sound very similar to the situation that we have today - we currently allow commercial banks to 'print' money in the form of digital bank deposits (the numbers in your bank account). In the years up to 2007, the banks 'printed' far too much of this digital money, to the extent that they - and the economy - started to collapse.
The 'underlying purpose' of the 1844 Bank Charter Act was to prevent the commercial banks creating money and to restore that privilege to the state. It had become obvious to the government of the day that if banks were allowed to create money, they would keep creating money up until the point where it destabilized the economy, so they could not be trusted with this responsibility.
So, in plain English, Mervyn King appears to be saying:
"I agree that banks should probably be stopped from creating money, and recommend John Kay (or Laurence Kotlikoff's) proposals. But it's not for me to say - let's leave it to the Banking Commission."
It's very reassuring to know that the top guy at the Bank of England understands the root of the issue and is promoting solutions that would go a long way to addressing it. Both John Kay and Laurence Kotlikoff's proposals would prevent commercial banks from creating money (or 'issuing credit') for their own benefit at the expense of the wider economy and the public.
Ironically, while King is proposing the potential elimination of fractional reserve banking (i.e. a return to 100% reserves), Ben Bernanke has proposed the elimination of all reserve requirements (i.e. requiring no reserves):
The Federal Reserve believes it is possible that, ultimately, its operating framework will allow the elimination of minimum reserve requirements, which impose costs and distortions on the banking system.


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The Associated Press (AP) on July 13, 2011 released the following:
"By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come under scrutiny in a federal war crimes investigation involving the death of a prisoner, witnesses told The Associated Press.
Steve Stormoen, who is now retired from the CIA, supervised an unofficial program in which the CIA imprisoned and interrogated men without entering their names in the Army's books.
The so-called "ghosting" program was unsanctioned by CIA headquarters. In fact, in early 2003, CIA lawyers expressly prohibited the agency from running its own interrogations, current and former intelligence officials said. The lawyers said agency officers could be present during military interrogations and add their expertise but, under the laws of war, the military must always have the lead.
Yet, in November 2003, CIA officers brought a prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, to Abu Ghraib and, instead of turning him over to the Army, took him to a shower stall. They put a sandbag over his head, handcuffed him behind his back and chained his arms to a barred window. When he leaned forward, his arms stretched painfully behind and above his back.
The CIA interrogated al-Jamadi alone. Within an hour, he was dead.
Now, nearly eight years after a photo of an Army officer grinning over al-Jamadi's body became an indelible image in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, federal prosecutors are investigating whether al-Jamadi's death amounted to a war crime.
The instructions from CIA lawyers could become an important element of that inquiry. Though it's not required for prosecutors to show that someone knew such interrogations were against the rules, it's still valuable evidence, said David Crane, a Syracuse law professor and former war crimes prosecutor. The instructions also undercut the argument that the CIA officers were simply following rules laid out by their superiors.
"The government can say, `He was told not to, and he went ahead and did it anyways,'" Crane said.
Two witnesses who testified before a grand jury in Virginia said they were asked about Stormoen's role at the prison and his whereabouts when al-Jamadi died. The witnesses and officials agreed to discuss the case only on condition of anonymity because they were told not to speak with reporters.
Stormoen, who ran what was known in the CIA as the detainee exploitation cell, processed al-Jamadi into the prison but was not in the shower room when al-Jamadi died.
Stormoen, 56, was part of the CIA's paramilitary arm, the Special Activities Division, after leaving the Army. He retired after al-Jamadi's death and received a letter of reprimand for his role in Abu Ghraib. He has since rejoined the intelligence community as a contractor working for a company called SpecTal, which was bought last year by BAE Systems, a leading defense contractor.
Stormoen, whose identity is no longer classified, did not return numerous messages seeking comment. His lawyer also declined to comment.
CIA spokesman George Little had no comment on the inquiry.
Much of the public attention in the al-Jamadi case has been on interrogator Mark Swanner, who was in the shower room when al-Jamadi died. Another CIA officer, who goes by the nickname "Chili," also came up at the grand jury, one witness said. Chili continues to work with the agency and his name is classified. The witness, who was at the prison, told prosecutors that Chili was at Abu Ghraib the day al-Jamadi died.
Though President George W. Bush's administration allowed the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects in secret overseas prisons, that authorization did not apply in Iraq. CIA lawyers determined that, as a traditional war zone, Iraq fell under the Geneva Convention rules of war. That meant prisoners had to be documented and treated without cruelty, with access to medical attention.
Tactics such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, which the CIA used in other overseas prisons, were prohibited at Abu Ghraib without prior approval. In videoconferences with headquarters, Stormoen and other officers in Iraq repeatedly asked for permission to use harsher techniques, but that permission was never granted, one former senior intelligence official recalled.
Current and former officials say the CIA officers at Abu Ghraib saw ambiguity in the rules, believing they could interrogate detainees before they were formally processed into the military prison. That gray area could last several days or longer.
Military investigators said the informal nature of the CIA's ghosting program contributed to a sense that the rules didn't apply at the prison.
At the time, the CIA's station in Baghdad, which was in charge of overseeing agency operations at the prison, was in such disarray that its top two officers were pulled out for mismanagement. An internal CIA inquiry did not single out any officer as responsible for al-Jamadi's death and no one has been charged.
A military autopsy labeled the death a homicide. Doctors said al-Jamadi died from a combination of factors: injuries he received while being captured by Navy SEALs and breathing difficulties caused by a lung injury and made worse by having a sandbag over his head.
Shortly after al-Jamadi's death, senior CIA officials once again circulated the rules. In January 2004, the agency sent a blunt memo flatly ordering agency officials to stop all interrogations, officials said.
Al-Jamadi's death has twice been reviewed by the Justice Department and prosecutors have declined to bring charges. Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed a new prosecutor, John Durham, to investigate CIA interrogation tactics. Durham is now re-investigating the al-Jamadi death, and Holder said the investigation has uncovered new information, though he did not say what it was.
Prosecutions for torture and war crimes are rare in the United States. The most high-profile recent case was the successful torture prosecution of the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in Florida in 2008.
There is no statute of limitations on war crimes if a death is involved."
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"He is waiting for you, He is close to you, He loves you, He is merciful, He forgives you, He gives you strength to begin again from scratch! Everybody!" - Pope Francis
"Dear young friends, do not be afraid to give it your all. Christ will never disappoint you." - Pope Francis
"Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you. Do not be afraid to dream of great things!" - Pope Francis
"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love" - Mother Teresa


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The Winterberger Hochtour Trail is an 82 kilometre circular route through every district of the town of Winterberg. The holiday paradise in the Hochsauerland area flaunts its best side to hikers.
The town of Winterberg lends its name to the trail. The destination is a popular winter sports resort and is now known as the spot with the most guaranteed snow in North Rhine-Westphalia. The hiking paths around Winterberg are open all year round.
On our hike on the Winterberger Hochtour Trail, we cross four mountains above 800 metres in height, including the most famous mountain in the Sauerland region: the Kahler Asten. On this trail, we enjoy expansive views of the many upland pastures as well as paths through dense, fragrant spruce forests. Other highlights on the route include source regions, fountains, wayside crosses and historic boundary stones.
Manuel Andrack, editor, presenter, author and hiking blogger:
"We enjoy spectacular views from Asten Tower. I recommend stopping off at the tower's restaurant and drinking a refreshing beer brewed in the Sauerland. The region is home to a number of popular German beers."
At a glance: Winterberger Hochtour
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Cranberry sorbet
Loosely based on Elise's recipe
12 oz cranberries (fresh or frozen)
1 1/4 c sugar
1 1/2 c cranberry or pomegranite juice
1 c water
a pinch of salt
2 T rum or tequila
Heat the cranberries, sugar, juice, water and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a simmer, cook 15 minutes, and then strain. Stir in the tequila, pour juice mixture into an 8x8 pan, and carefully set in the freezer. Stir every 30 or 45 minutes, as you remember, until pretty well frozen.
Lime semifreddo
From Gourmet, Aug 2008
1/2 c heavy cream
1 (14 oz) can of condensed milk
1/2 c lime juice
1 T finely chopped lime zest
Whip the cream until it holds stiff peaks. Whisk together the condensed milk, lime juice, and zest, then fold in the whipped cream. Spread mixture over the cranberry sorbet, and freeze for about 2 hours, or until set. Cut into slices to serve.


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balaam wrote:If you play fast enough they won't noticebn2bnude wrote:balaam wrote:I play Jazz.
Playing outside is using notes from outside the scale. It is nothing to do with being out of tune.
But it can be mistaken as being out of tune... At least to the uninitiated.
Or have a newbie on the upright/fretless bass. The strings can be in tune and yet the notes can be out of tune.


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Parshas Mishpatim and Sh'kalim 5758 - '98
Outline Vol. 2, # 17
The Yahrzeit of Rav Yisrael Salanter
Rav Yisrael Salanter is the founder of the modern Mussar Movement, a system which focuses on ethical responsibilities.
Rav Yisrael's yahrzeit always occurs during Parshas Mishpatim. His students explained the significance: Mishpatim deals with civil laws, which point to the obligation of each person towards another. Rav Yisrael's yahrzeit occurs now, because he devoted his life to clarifying social responsibilities. (Pachad Yitzchok, Shavuos 41.)
The Torah's goal is for man to strive for perfection. The many aspects of Torah study and Jewish practice are designed for this end. (T'nuas HaMussar part 1.)
Is the Torah chiefly legal, or ethical? Is there a discrepancy between the Torah's handling of these areas?
Rambam composed the most complete legal code. There are chapters devoted to character development; and there are chapters devoted to fundamental beliefs of Judaism. Rambam incorporated moral development as a legal issue, and philosophic doctrine as a legal issue. (ibid.)
In modern times, the Chafetz Chayim wrote laws about slander and pure speech -- areas usually regulated to the realm of moral and ethical, but not necessarily legal, exhortations. (ibid.)
The Talmud often shows that apparently moral issues override legal ones; but the Shulchan Orech (code of law) incorporates these overriding issues within the confines of Halacha (law). (ibid.)
In the past, we have discussed Emunah Ubitachon of the Chazon Ish, which demonstrates that the Halacha contains within itself a complete ethical system.
If so, why is Mussar, according to Rav Yisrael and his students, a separate study? The study of the Halacha, alone, should suffice!
The modern classic, T'nuas HaMussar (translated in part as The Mussar Movement), claims that, although Halacha and Mussar are part and parcel of the same entity, focus in Torah studies became narrowed in scope over the generations, until the traditions regarding ethical attitudes and essential beliefs were all but lost. (T'nuas HaMussar part 1.)
For this reason, we often find major controversies regarding the fundamentals of Judaism. For example, the debates regarding the study of philosophy, the controversy over Kabbalah study, the debates between the Chasidim and the opposition (the Misnagdim). The reason that such debates specifically touched fundamental Jewish belief was due to the fact that the rich traditions of ethical teaching had been forgotten, and needed to be reclaimed. (ibid.)
Although there are laws codified, that are based on the ethical traditions of Judaism, Rav Yisrael used to say that there is a fifth section of Shulchan Orech (code of law) -- the laws of proper conduct. Well, our editions only have four. Apparently, the underlying morality of the laws is not readily perceived by the average student. The Mussar teaching brings to the forefront the fundamental attitude of responsibility inherent in the Torah.
All that we have explained, however, is seen by the author of Pachad Yitzchok as being superficial. Rav Yisrael's role was deeper than this, and his connection to Parshas Mishpatim is deeper.
Parshas Mishpatim (Based on Rav Yitzchok Hutner, Pachad Yitzchok, Shavuos 41, chapter 1) The Bris
Besides the laws in the parsha, there is a description of events that occured about the time of the Receiving of the Torah. (There is a dispute as to whether it occured in the days before, or after, the Receiving of the Torah. See Ramban, Shmos 24:1)
A Bris (covenant, agreement) was made between the people and Hashem. Moshe made an altar, and sacrifices were offered; half of the blood was sprinkled on the altar. (Shmos 24:4-6)
Moshe read the "Book of the Bris," then he sprinkled half of the blood on the people. He called this the "Blood of the Bris." (Shmos 24:8) Half for Heaven, and half for the people: This division into halves, established the Sealing of the Bris. All of this is included in the events of Mount Sinai.
A few verses later, Moshe is told that he will receive the tablets (Shmos 24:12), which are elsewhere referred to as "Tablets of the Bris." (Devorim 9:11)
The Two Tablets
Many times in the Torah, 'tablets' is spelled as if it were singular. Rashi asked: Why is the word 'tablets' spelled as if it were a singular word -- tablet? The Torah -- Rashi answered -- is trying to tell us that the two tablets are of equal importance. Therefore, the two tablets constitute one inseparable entity. (Shmos 31:18)
Many people are familiar with the idea that there were five expressions on one tablet, and five on the other. Five are concerned with social obligations; five are concerned with our relationship to Hashem. Rashi is then telling us that our social obligations are on an equal plane to our purely religious duites.
There is a difference between the terms "Book of the Bris," and "Tablets of the Bris." The torah is called the "Book of the Bris," because it has in it the words of the Bris. However, the expression "Tablets of the Bris" has a different connotation. The Tablets were, themselves, the Bris. (Moshe's breaking the tablets, after the incident of the Golden Calf, had the effect of nullifying the agreement.)
The Tablets, which constituted the Bris Hatorah, equated communal responsibilities to purely religious ones. Now, we can have an appreciation of Rav Yisrael's role in history.
It seems that Rav Yisrael came to arouse attention and interest for ethical character development. This is true, but only a superficial explanation, without looking at the source. In reality, Rav Yisrael was attempting to renew the Crown of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan's 'Chofetz Chayim' and 'Ahavas Chesed', show Rav Yisrael Salanter's influence, for they are legal works based on ethical issues. But more: the 'Mishnah B'rurah' -- a basic legal text, dealing with religious law -- comes from the same author as the 'Chofetz Chayim' -- the laws of slander and pure speech! Here, truly, we see the influence of Rav Yisrael Salanter. (Pachad Yitzchok, ibid.)
Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
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Good Shabbos!
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Apple has officially taken the wrappings off the hotly-anticipated next generation iPad at its press event in San Francisco. While there weren't too many surprises on the iPad's spec sheet, the new iPad marks huge technological leaps beyond that in the currently available iPads, including the first true HD 1080p display.
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- iOS 5.1 with Siri-like voice dictation
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- 16/32/64 GB storage options
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- 9.4 mm thin, weighing in at 1.4 lbs
- Over 200,000 custom iPad applications
Apple touts that the A5x dual-core processor is twice as fast and offers four times the performance of nVidia's quad-core Tegra 3, though we don't know what benchmark info they're basing that claim on.
Apple's new iPad will come in at the same price points as the current iPad 2, with the WiFi model starting at $499 for 16GB, and the WiFi + 3G/LTE 16 GB model starting at $629. Prices go up $100 from there for each of the storage options. The iPad 2 will see a $100 price cut across the board, similar to what Apple did with the original iPad when the iPad 2 launched last year.
New iPad pricing:
- WiFi, 16GB – $499
- WiFi, 32GB – $599
- WiFi, 64 GB – $699
- WiFi + LTE, 16 GB – $629
- WiFi + LTE, 32 GB – $729
- WiFi + LTE, 64 GB – $829
Preorders for all iPad variants will begin today, with the devices making its way into retail stores starting next Friday, March 16th. The iPad will be available in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan on launch day. The iPad will be available at multiple retailers at launch, though will likely face the same supply shortages that both of the previous iPads saw for the first few weeks. To preorder directly from the source, be sure to head on over to the Apple Store (once it opens back up, of course).
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In this Studio 360 interview with author James Geary about his new book on metaphors, you get a tour through familiar metaphors (raining cats and dogs, no man is an island) and a chance to rethink how you use them in your speeches, presentations and everyday speaking. Titled I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, the book is from one of my favorite authors on language. Here are Geary's tips for thinking through metaphors and how to use them:
- Understand the 'paradox of metaphor:' Metaphor lets us describe what something is, using something it's not.
- Use metaphor to describe something abstract, ideal or emotional. Those states are difficult to make concrete, and in describing them, metaphor is more vivid. Take economic metaphors, many of which involve fluid dynamics: liquidity, solvent, saturated.
- Metaphors have subtle psychological effects. People have been exposed to financial commentary with metaphor had expectations that soaring home prices would continue. In that way, they create a frame through which your listeners think about an issue.
- Don't misuse "literally:" When you say,"It was literally raining cats and dogs," it increases the confusion between metaphor and reality. "People use the word 'literally' metaphorically," says Geary. "Even literal statements...factual statements are metaphors." Take "no man is an island," which is both factual and metaphorical.
- Use metaphors sparingly. Overuse of metaphors diminishes writing. Cliches become cliches because, when first used, they were incredibly good and powerful. Another "paradox of metaphor:" the more overused a cliche becomes, the more we mistake it for the truth.
- Use metaphor appropriately. Sometimes, cliched metaphors represent lazy writing. Geary cites George Orwell, who urged writers to create their own metaphors. ("Think outside the box" is one example cited.) Geary notes that using the wrong metaphor can shut down listening in your audience, while using the right one has the opposite effect.
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This weekend I went shopping with girlfriends. We had a blast. We looked at jewelry and tried on clothes and played with makeup — all the girly stuff. These two girlfriends and I each have two sons. In addition, all of our sons are pretty much the same age and in college. That means that we haven't had daughters to shop with, but we do have each other. I treasure all my girlfriends; I can't imagine life without any one of them.
We had a great time trying on new makeup. I love makeup. Lipstick is my favorite, but I love choosing new eye colors too. Makeup was something I really appreciated while I was going through chemotherapy. Christmas fell halfway through my treatment period and Sister surprised me with a gift basket filled with the best makeup including lipstick, blusher, eyeliner, and eyebrow pencil. It was a wonderful gift that meant so much at a time when trying to look my best was a challenge.
One of the stores we stopped in allowed us to try on some eye concealer and lipstick. It was a treat to have someone else apply our makeup and teach us to use a new product. It reminded me of the "Look Good, Feel Better" program from the American Cancer Society, which I participated in during my battle with cancer. A number of different cosmetic companies donated products, which were gifted to those of us going through treatment, along with some advice on how to use them with our new but unwelcome "chemo-look" of no hair, thinner eyebrows, and sallow skin. It really is a great program and I appreciated it immensely.
Looking in the mirror is one thing many breast cancer patients try to avoid. With our wigs and pallid skin, some of us look a little foreign even to ourselves. Makeup is a gift. I have always loved makeup and hair products and girl stuff. As a survivor I am still rediscovering myself, and I find that I am not as hard on myself as I used to be as a young pre-diagnosed woman. I am okay with leaving home without my makeup on and hair done, and I am learning to embrace my new breasts. But it is fun to be a woman again, and shopping with my friends reaffirmed just how much fun.
Every survival day is precious. When it includes friends and fun, it is tremendous no matter how it is spent. My girls remind me that we are all just women after all. Breast cancer can't change that. As for the bald head, grey skin, and sunken eyes that may come with chemotherapy — well, there are makeup and wigs for that. And that is a good reason to go shopping with friends.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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The traditional dish of Trapani.
- Yield
- Makes 8 to 10 servings
- 3 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 carrot, thinly sliced
- 1 celery stalk, thinly sliced
- 4 large garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 14 1/2-ounce can diced tomatoes in juice
- 3 8-ounce bottles clam juice
- 1 1/2 pounds mussels, scrubbed
- 12 littleneck clams, scrubbed
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 3 1/2 cups plain couscous (20 ounces)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 3 small bay leaves
- 2 pounds assorted fish fillets (such as halibut, cod and red snapper), cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 8 ounces uncooked shrimp, peeled, deveined
- Chopped fresh parsley
- 1/3 cup hot chili paste (such as sambal oelek*)
- Heat 3 tablespoons oil in heavy large pot over medium heat. Add onion; sauté 5 minutes. Add carrot, celery, and garlic; sauté 5 minutes. Add tomatoes with juices and 1 bottle clam juice and bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered 10 minutes. Cover and simmer 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to processor. Blend to chunky puree; return to pot. Mix in 2 bottles clam juice to make tomato broth.
- Combine mussels, clams, and wine in another large pot. Cover and cook over high heat until mussels and clams open, about 8 minutes. Using tongs, transfer mussels and clams to bowl (discard any that do not open). Strain cooking liquid into tomato broth.
- Place couscous in large bowl. Bring 2 1/2 cups water, 3 cups tomato broth, and 1/4 cup oil to boil in medium saucepan. Mix into couscous. Cover; let stand until liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Cover; let stand until ready to serve.
- Meanwhile, mix thyme and bay leaves into remaining tomato broth in pot and bring to boil over medium-high heat. Add fish. Cover and simmer 4 minutes. Add shrimp; cover and simmer until seafood is opaque in center, about 4 minutes. Turn off heat. Add reserved mussels and clams. Cover; let stand 2 minutes.
- Mound couscous on platter. Top with seafood. Spoon some tomato broth over to moisten. Sprinkle with parsley. Mix 3/4 cup tomato broth and hot chili paste in small dish. Serve couscous, passing chili mixture and remaining broth separately.
- Sambal oelek is available in Asian markets and some supermarkets.


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Who is eligible for the Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty (Chapter 30) education benefit(Volunteer force education assistance)?
In general, to be eligible for MGIB-AD (Chapter 30), you must have entered active duty after June 30, 1985, and not declined participation in the program.
Who is eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation (Chapter 31) benefits (For veterans with service connected disabilities?
VEAP (Chapter 31) is available if you:
The basic period of eligibility is 12 years from the latter of either the date of separation from active duty or the date a veteran was first notified by VA of a service-connected disability rating.
For additional help, please use the "Ask a Question" tab at www.va.gov.
Who is eligible for Veterans Education Assistance Program (Chapter 32) benefits (Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program)?
VEAP (Chapter 32) is available if you first entered active duty between January 1, 1977, and June 30, 1985, and you elected to make contributions from your military pay to participate in this education benefit program. You must have made original contributions prior to April 1, 1987, and you could make a maximum contribution of $2700 to your account.
Your contributions are matched on a $2 for $1 basis by the Government. This benefit may be used for degree and certificate programs, flight training, apprenticeship/on-the-job training, and correspondence courses. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances.
Who is eligible for Post 9/11 GI-Bill Benefits (Chapter 33)?
Veterans who have served at least 90 days of active duty service after September 10, 2001 and received an honorable discharge will qualify for the Post-9/11 GI Bill. To qualify for the full benefit a veteran must have served at least 3 years of active duty after September 10, 2001. Those veterans who qualify for the Active Duty GI Bill, the Reserve GI Bill or REAP will have the option to choose which benefit best suits their need.
|For veterans who served on active duty after 9/10/2001, the following chart applies:
|Member Serves
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|At least 36 months
|At least 30 continuous days on active duty and
must be discharged due to service-connected disability
|At least 30 months, but less than 36 months
|At least 24 months, but less than 30 months
|At least 18 months, but less than 24 months
|At least 12 months, but less than 18 months
|At least 06 months, but less than 12 months
|At least 90 days, but less than 06 months
Who's eligible for Dependents' Educational Assistance (Chapter 35) benefits and what can they be used for?
The Dependents' Educational Assistance program provides education benefits for the spouse and dependent children of a veteran or service member who:
This benefit may be used for pursuit of an undergraduate or graduate degree, courses leading to a certificate or diploma from business, technical or vocational schools, apprenticeship, and on-the-job training programs. Benefits for correspondence courses are available to spouses only. The program provides up to 45 months of education or training.
Who is eligible for the Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserves (Chapter 1606) education benefit?
Members of the Selected Reserve, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard Reserves, the Army National Guard, and the Air Guard are eligible for MGIB-SR (chapter 1606). The Reserve and Guard components decide who is eligible for the program. VA makes the payments for training.
Eligibility Requirements are:
For more detailed information about MGIB-SR (1606), including how to apply
Who is eligible for REAP (Chap 1607)?
The Secretaries of each military service, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security (Coast Guard) determine the criteria for eligibility. The law requires DoD to give you written notification of eligibility for REAP. A member of a reserve component who serves on active duty on or after September 11, 2001 under title 10 U.S. Code for a contingency operation and who serves at least 90 consecutive days or more is eligible for chapter 1607. National Guard members also are eligible if their active duty is under section 502(f), title 32 U.S.C. and they serve for 90 consecutive days when authorized by the President or Secretary of Defense for a national emergency and is supported by federal funds. Individuals are eligible as soon as they reach the 90-day point whether or not they are currently on active duty. DoD will fully identify contingency operations that qualify for benefits under chapter 1607.
Disabled members who are injured or have an illness or disease incurred or aggravated in the line of duty and are released from active duty before completing 90 consecutive days are also eligible.
If you are unsure about whether you are eligible for education benefits, please submit an application to VA.
While the Post-9/11 GI Bill offers a very generous post-service education benefit, a special provision of the program allows career service members the opportunity to share their education benefits with immediate family members.
Allowing career service members to transfer their GI Bill benefits to family members has long been one of the most requested items among military family readiness and advocacy groups.
The department has established the policies and procedures for this important new program. These policies and procedures are described below.
Applications for transferability will start on June 29, 2009. However, the effective date of any transfer will be no earlier than August 1, 2009, regardless of application date. All applications will be submitted through the Transferability of Educational Benefits (TEB) website, located at https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/TEB/ . Service members will be able to securely access this site with a Common Access Card, a DoD Self Service User ID, or a DFAS PIN. Currently this application may be accessed only with Internet Explorer.
Has at least 6 years of service in the Armed Forces on the date of election and agrees to serve 4 additional years in the Armed Forces from the date of election.
Has at least 10 years of service in the Armed Forces (active duty and/or selected reserve) on the date of election, is precluded by either standard policy (service or DoD) or statute from committing to 4 additional years, and agrees to serve for the maximum amount of time allowed by such policy or statute, or
Is or becomes retirement eligible during the period from August 1, 2009, through August 1, 2013. A service member is considered to be retirement eligible if he or she has completed 20 years of active duty or 20 qualifying years of reserve service.
For those individuals eligible for retirement on August 1, 2009, no additional service is required.
For those individuals who have an approved retirement date after August 1, 2009, and before July 1, 2010, no additional service is required.
For those individuals eligible for retirement after August 1, 2009, and before August 1, 2010, 1 year of additional service after approval of transfer is required.
For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2010, and before August 1, 2011, 2 years of additional service after approval of transfer are required.
For those individuals eligible for retirement on or after August 1, 2011, and before August 1, 2012, 3 years of additional service after approval of transfer required.
An individual approved to transfer an entitlement to educational assistance under this section may transfer the individual's entitlement to:
The individual's spouse.
One or more of the individual's children.
Any combination of spouse and child.
A family member must be enrolled in the Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System (DEERS) and be eligible for benefits, at the time of transfer to receive transferred educational benefits.
A child's subsequent marriage will not affect his or her eligibility to receive the educational benefit; however, after an individual has designated a child as a transferee under this section, the individual retains the right to revoke or modify the transfer at any time.
A subsequent divorce will not affect the transferee's eligibility to receive educational benefits; however, after an individual has designated a spouse as a transferee under this section, the eligible individual retains the right to revoke or modify the transfer at any time.
An eligible Service member may transfer up to the total months of unused Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, or the entire 36 months if the member has used none.
Family member use of transferred educational benefits is subject to the following:
May start to use the benefit immediately.
May use the benefit while the member remains in the Armed Forces or after separation from active duty.
Is not eligible for the monthly stipend or books and supplies stipend while the member is serving on active duty.
Can use the benefit for up to 15 years after the service member's last separation form active duty.
May start to use the benefit only after the individual making the transfer has completed at least 10 years of service in the Armed Forces.
May use the benefit while the eligible individual remains in the Armed Forces or after separation from active duty.
May not use the benefit until he/she has attained a secondary school diploma (or equivalency certificate), or reached 18 years of age.
Is entitled to the monthly stipend and books and supplies stipend even though the eligible individual is on active duty.
Is not subject to the 15-year delimiting date, but may not use the benefit after reaching 26 years of age.


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Five O Clock Shadow Poisoned Pen, Feb 2004, 24.95, 272 pp. ISBN 1590581040 She is married five days and is honeymooning in Albuquerque so her husband can ride in a hot air balloon. While he is in the air, Pauly Caton is distracted taking photographs so it takes her a moment to comprehend that the noise she hears is the balloon losing air and dropping quickly. When she reaches the crash site, she sees the pilot and her spouse are dead. Things t...
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Keep Your Hands Off My Chili Supply
Originally published in Seattle Weekly
A touring indie-rock band crashed at my place last night and it was a sobering reminder of some of the less wonderful and glamorous aspects of being a musician in a world of musicians. My band and I have crashed on many a generous person's floor, and scarfed the last Top Ramen of many an angry roommate over the years, so now that I have a place of my own I feel a karmic debt to the rock-n-roll universe that will be years in the repaying. Unfortunately, as is the way with all things, when it comes to my new house the last thing I want is to have a bunch of stupid bands stinking up the place. I feel like Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, "Who has been putting out their Kools on my floor? Have you people ever heard of coasters?"
I live in the south end of town, down where Tukwila meets Renton and Skyway, and unlike the neighborhoods closer to town there are absolutely no late-night grocery or food options in my vicinity. When I first left Capitol Hill for the sunny Rainier Valley I made several after-midnight trips to the local grocery before I figured out that it wasn't just closed for routine maintenance, it was simply closed after midnight. I actually went up and pounded indignantly on the glass at one point, thinking that the employees had locked the doors in order to make hanky-panky on the Charmin pallets in the store room, and it was only after I registered the looks of alarm on the stock boys' faces that I realized I could be mistaken for a deranged person. Living on Capitol Hill for so many years I assumed that everyone shopped for chicken Cordon Bleu at four in the morning, and that every grocery store was full of tweaking ravers in blue fur chaps sucking on LED pacifiers. Not so.
But there is one spectacular late-night diner in the south end of town that is not only one of the only places left in Seattle to get weird pink sausage links and blueberry pancakes in the dead of night, it's also a bona fide time-capsule of old Seattle awesomeness that somehow has escaped the relentless over-precious hipster/ironic kitsch-worship that passes for Generation X/Y culture around here. (Who am I kidding? Kitsch is the only culture Generation X ever had. Besides, I'm writing to you from underneath a pile of Hummel figurines and Keane paintings that are just too cute, so who am I to talk?)
Anyway, I'm referring to Randy's Diner on Marginal Way down at the south end of Boeing Field. Situated in an old Denny's (or perhaps Sambo's) building, Randy's caters to the diverse mix of aerospace engineers, truckers, cops and Duwamish River weirdoes that transit through Seattle's southern fringes. Unlike most late-night diners, Randy's keeps the lights down low. So low in fact that most people would drive by thinking it was closed or even abandoned. The mostly unlighted "Randy's" sign is either inexplicably or intentionally broken so that it reads "Ranay's" which is what I prefer to call it. I like to imagine that the hostess is named Renee and that they leave the sign that way on purpose. The best part of "Ranay's" is the incredible collection of model airplanes hanging from the ceiling, surely bequeathed from the hundreds of Boeing nerdoids who pack the place for lunch. I'm not too concerned with outing "Ranay's" because it's just a little too far and, frankly, a little too disturbing, to be overrun with Ballard hipsters, but now that all the good Denny's are closed (excepting the nightmarish one on 4th Ave S.), and Sunset Bowl is gone, I wouldn't be surprised to find it picking up. If I see any blue fur chaps in there I'm going to start swinging a nine iron.
All this by way of saying that, after I offered my new house as a crash pad for this touring indie-rock band, I made it clear that if they were in any way hungry for food after the show they should either go to a store while we were still in town or we should stop at a restaurant. And the possible restaurant options, already shamefully low (Shame! Shame! Seattle) dropped precipitously once we were in Sodo. I mentioned this fact to each band member in turn, and their responses varied from a shrugged "I could eat", to a blank and uncomprehending stare like one you might get from a rabbit you were subjecting to electric shocks. It goes without saying that being a musician involves acquiring a certain set of emotional and mechanical skills that are often exclusive of, or incompatible with, the ability to interact normally with other people, but I am newly amazed every time I meet another musician who can't answer a simple question or express a personal preference. I too am a touring musician, and I know the tunnel-vision that comes from being on the road, where every new person you meet starts to resemble Janis from the Muppets saying, "Habba da dabba de doo, man".
And I know the "group-think" that bands fall into, where you ask the piano player if he likes Mexican food and he turns to the bass player and says "He wants to know if we like Mexican food. Whaddoo I say?" But I was taking all these factors into account, speaking slowly in simple sentences, repeating my question three or four times, and refraining from any sudden movements. The band could not reach a consensus on whether they were individually hungry. I extolled the virtues of "Ranay's" and made a final endorsement of it even as we were driving past, but the suggestion was greeted with two whimpers, a look of confusion, and an exhalation of breath. OK, done.
But as SOON as we walk in the door of my place, two and a half minutes later, the rabble starts: "Can we order a pizza?" "Is it OK if I open these chips?" "Can I make some pasta?" The enterprising band-leader, a well-known singer, opens my pantry, discovers my canned-chili depository, and says to the room, "Who wants chili?" Four hands shoot up. Back in Alaska where I grew up a man's stash of canned chili is somewhat akin to a normal American's savings account. I've known fellows who, when asked if they had given any thought to their retirement plans, pointed with confidence to a stockpile of canned chili. Even the most domesticated "foodie" bachelor who wears mohair sweaters and makes lamb with mustard/mint/tarragon sauce has, I bet you, some canned chili stashed for emergencies. And now this singer, this friend of mine, was prepared to dole out five cans of my chili to his band like a mother bird plopping worms in their mouths? I bet he was! Why not just start taking the pictures down off my walls?
When I tried to explain that, although I admired how resourceful they were at finding food in my pantry I did not intend to dip into my vintage chili collection at this late hour, I was greeted with the kind of sullen pouting you would expect from a black lab if you pulled him away from a dead squirrel (which, on a strictly ingredients-based basis, probably wasn't much of a metaphorical stretch). If you could harness that "foraging band" energy you could use it as a paint-stripper. I eventually compromised and let them make some garlic pasta, on the rationale that "I had a lot of noodles", but I couldn't believe it all the same. In the future I'd like to keep offering my place to musicians but from now on I'll just stop at "Ranay's" on the way home without consulting the band. It'll be a good cultural exchange for them, and it will protect my noodle stockpile as well.
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The map below shows the locations of 17 SEZs. Click the sun icons or labels in the map or follow the links below the map to learn more about each SEZ.
An SEZ is defined by the BLM as an area well-suited for utility-scale production of solar energy where BLM will prioritize solar energy and associated transmission infrastructure development. A discussion of the criteria used to identify SEZs is provided in Chapter 2 (Volume 1 of the Final Solar PEIS). Modifications to the originally proposed SEZs and SEZs dropped from further consideration are described in Chapters 8 through 13 of the Final Solar PEIS (Volumes 2 through 5).
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Disregarding String Theory, which says that electrons and quarks are 1-dimensional, why are electrons and quarks 0-dimensional?
The way I look at it is that they have mass, and if we were the same size as an up quark and looked at another up quark, it would look like a 3-dimensional object. So why do we say particles are 0-dimensional as opposed to 3-dimensional?
I hope I'm correcting in saying they are regarded as 0-dimensional, the reason I think it is because of this quote from Wikipedia:
String theory posits that the electrons and quarks within an atom are not 0-dimensional objects, but rather 1-dimensional...


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When it comes to luggage, figuring out what to buy isn't easy, since the selection is enormous, says Consumer Reports. According to the Travel Goods Association, U.S. consumers spent nearly $2.9 billion on luggage in 2013. With countless styles and a vast choice of merchandise, the task can be overwhelming.
Consumer Reports helps you narrow the field by highlighting attributes that will have the greatest impact.
Don't pay attention to tags, labels or promotions that proclaim, "Official Carry-On Luggage." There's no regulation that dictates carry-on dimensions -- airlines impose their own restrictions, and the limits can vary among airlines and even among aircrafts. As a general rule, though, for most U.S. domestic flights, a 22-inch upright bag passes muster. For overseas flights or domestic flights in other countries, you'd be safer with a bag that's 20 inches in height.
If you're buying larger luggage to check, the most common options are 24 to 30 inches (measured on the longest dimension of the case). You can find suitcases as large as 36 inches; check with the carrier for size limits.
-- Two-wheelers. Suitcases with two wheels, also called rollers, utilize the same type of wheels found on in-line skates. They only roll forward and backward. The wheels are slightly recessed into the case, which confers two advantages: protection from snapping off (beneficial for checked luggage), and economy of space. If you need a suitcase that can easily clear curbs or roll on uneven surfaces such as sidewalks or cobblestones, a two-wheeler will work better than a four.
This style has some shortcomings, though. Since you have to pull the wheeled case, some travelers complain that this position causes shoulder, wrist and back pain. Also, it can be cumbersome to drag a two-wheeler in a crowded space because you need some clearance between yourself and the bag.
-- Four-wheelers. Suitcases with four wheels are also known as spinners because each wheel swivels 360 degrees, like on a shopping cart. You can push them, pull them, wheel them alongside you and turn them in any direction. They are also easier to navigate in tight spaces, such as the aisles of planes, trains, subways and buses. A heavy or large suitcase may be easier to manage with four wheels. If you are concerned about ergonomics, the spinner is a better choice than the roller because it does not put stress on your shoulder.
There are some downsides to the four-wheelers. Since the wheels are externally mounted instead of recessed, they are more prone to snapping off. Spinner wheels also occupy valuable real estate within fixed allowable dimensions, reducing the amount of internal packing space. It's wise to check if the published size of the bag includes the wheels -- they will be included in the allowable dimensions for a carry-on. Another drawback: If your suitcase is on an incline, it could roll away.
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Soft-sided luggage is made of fabrics that move and yield. Its two biggest advantages are that it is usually lighter in weight and that it can flex and compress to conform to tight spaces.
Hard-sided luggage, also known as hard-shell luggage, has come a long way. It used to be, you went with hard for maximum protection and soft for minimum weight. Today, hard-sided luggage is made with such high-tech plastics as ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene), polycarbonate and others that are lightweight and durable.
Hard-sides are best for protecting the contents of your luggage from breakage. They also provide better security because they have integrated locks and can't quickly be ripped open with a blade. That said, most composite plastic hard-sides close with a zipper, which can be vulnerable. Hard-sided luggage stacks easily, making it ideal for cruise ships, which stack baggage in the belly of the boat before departure.
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VANCOUVER -- If the theme of Pride festivities is acceptance and celebration of our diversity, its unofficial uniform is rainbows, nudity and glitter.
At Vancouver's 35th annual Pride parade, skin was on display in the hot sun as hundreds of floats and displays made their way down Denman Street to show community and civic support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) population, their friends and families.
CLICK HERE to view images from the parade, or if you're using a mobile app, tap the story image and swipe.
A 12-bike Vancouver Police motorcycle brigade led the parade, followed by "dykes on bykes" -- and scooters -- and then the five Grand Marshals: Brandon Timmerman, who founded Pride Brockville in Ontario as a teen; Zdravko Cimbaljevic, the first out gay man in Montenegro; and Susan Harman, Karen Lind and Aideen McKenna, the "moms of PFLAG Vancouver." PFLAG are the parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays.
"This morning, I couldn't help feel it was a special day when I woke up," said Ashley Doiron, 29, of Vancouver, who was profiled last summer in a Vancouver Sun story on how lesbians find love in the city.
"We're lucky we can do this. And there is support from the city and the community."
Doiron said she thought this year's floats were more inventive than previous years, and the crowd seemed more energetic.
Her girlfriend of nearly a year, Maria Gomez, took in her first Pride parade. She's been living in Vancouver for years but only came out recently to certain family members.
"It's definitely exciting, and I want to be more involved in the community here. It's the first (one) but I want to keep going," she said.
Gomez, 30, said she would have liked to see more representation of Latin communities, and similarly that Pride would reach smaller cities like the one she's from in Central Mexico, where conservative sentiments can still run deep.
Attending the parade with her girlfriend is "a step forward for me. It's been so hard to be in the closet. Latin American culture can still be so closed-minded," Gomez said.
Pride Week has taken on an international bent this year, with the spotlight on a crackdown in Russia over equality rights. The government there has said it would enforce new laws against gay and pro-gay activity, and said arrests were possible even for foreign nationals and Olympic athletes ahead of the 2014 Sochi games.
Two Canadian Olympians, snowboarder Mercedes Nicoll and skier Mike Janyk marched in the parade.
On Sunday, there were also barefoot drag queens, women dressed in head to toe to purple, including face paint and wig, a token leather motorcycle man in black chaps, rainbow flags decorating a Vancouver school bus, men in 50s-style bathers, swim caps and cat-eye sunglasses, and a soccer team in fluorescent tank tops with some of the best coordinated dance moves.
Other civic agencies like police and paramedics handed out party beads, hot firemen sprayed a sweaty crowd with water guns. A police tank elicited some cheers, but not as loud as those for a Tina Turner lookalike queen, or for several fetish clubs donning black, leather and bare skin.
On a float proclaiming "be your own diva," a Viking opera star sang along to a recorded aria, and a local curling group wore t-shirts with the cheeky warning "I swept with your boyfriend."
Dancers on some 125 floats sponsored by political parties, churches, cultural groups, unions and local businesses kept the party going for nearly three hours.
Tired, shirtless and glittered-covered men stood in line for one of the nearby food trucks for a post-parade bite.
And despite a "hectic day," the parade seemed to go off without a hitch, said Vancouver Pride Society general manager Ray Lam. He agreed the parade seemed better than last year, and said he'd already gotten a lot of positive feedback.
"Pride's always a hit," he said.
An estimated 650,000 people were expected to attend the culminating event of Pride Week, including 250 volunteers.
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Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that there will be a DJ SET from 808 State at Manchester Academy on Saturday 13th May. I hear that many people had a fantastic time at the last one and I assure you this will be just as good - if not even better! Would recommend getting tickets now if you are coming along as they are selling quite quick - might not be any left on the night.
Hope to see you there...
Heres the blurb:
Wilson House Presents:
In association with 97.7 XFM Manchester:
808 State DJ set
A Guy Called Gerald
Jon Da Silva
Clint Boon
Anthony H Wilson
+ Very special guests
Saturday 13th May 2006
10pm till 3.30am
Madchester Academy 1
Oxford Road
Tickets £17.50
Student union box office - 0161 275 2930
Piccadilly Box Office St Annes Sq. - 0161 832 1111
Eastern Bloc – 0161 228 6432
Hallelujah: - As the summer sun rises over Madchester once again, acid-fuelled memories of baggy pants, bandanas and smiley-face t shirts become reality, and the city gets ready to party like its 1988. Think back to the days when Mondays were Happy, 808 was the name of a state and Hacienda was more than just a Spanish word - to an era that produced the most definitive soundtrack ever, for each generation to follow. 808 State, Jon Da Silva and A Guy Called Gerald lead the revolution in the clubs, while Clint Boon and the Freaky Dancin' Bez lead the revolution on the stage. Oh, and there was some label called Factory Records run by a guy called Anthony Wilson. And for one summer evening only, Madchester is back "in the area", with all six legendary outfits taking to the stage once more - for the party of the decade…. And God made Madchester.
808 State DJ SET @ Hallelujiah - Saturday 13th May, Mcr Acd1
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A European space telescope has captured new images of the huge asteroid Apophis, revealing that the potentially hazardous object is actually bigger than previously thought.
Asteroid Apophis has long been billed as a "doomsday asteroid" because of a 2004 study that initially predicted a 2.7 percent chance of the space rock hitting Earth in April 2029. Later studies proved, however, that the asteroid poses no threat to Earth during that flyby. The current forecast calls for Apophis to pass within 22,364 miles (36,000 kilometers) of the planet in 2029.
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Astronomers continue to track the object since it will make another pass near Earth in 2036.
On Wednesday, ESA officials said its infrared-wavelength Herschel Space Observatory found that Apophis is about 1,066 feet (325 meters) wide, nearly 20 percent larger than a previous estimate of 885 feet (270 meters).
"The 20 percent increase in diameter … translates into a 75 percent increase in our estimates of the asteroid's volume or mass," study leader Thomas Müller of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, said in a statement. [Photos of Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis]
Two free webcasts were scheduled to stream views of Apophis from telescopes in Italy and the Canary Islands on Wednesday. The webcasts, offered by the stargazing websites Slooh Space Telescope and Virtual Telescope Project, showed Apophis as no more than a bright light moving across the night sky. The asteroid is too small to be seen through small backyard telescopes.
The Slooh Space Camera webcast began at 7 p.m. ET. The Virtual Telescope webcast began an hour later at 8 p.m. ET.
Apophis is currently just under 9.3 million miles (15 million kilometers) from Earth, amateur astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project told Space.com.
"Alone among all these near-Earth asteroids that have passed our way in recent years, Apophis has generated the most concern worldwide because of its extremely close approach in 2029 and (chances of a) potential impact, albeit small, in 2036," Slooh President Patrick Paolucci said in a statement.
In addition to asteroid Apophis, astronomers regularly scan the night sky for asteroids that may pose a potential impact threat to Earth.
NASA's Near-Earth Object Office and Asteroid Watch program is based at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
You can follow Space.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter@tariqjmalik. Follow Space.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Liebherr Humidor Cigar Storage Cabinet ZKes 453
Humidor: Precision control Using the precision electronic control system, the temperature can be set between +16 °C and +20° C. The humidity can be set between 68% and 75%, as required. The temperature alarm alerts the user to any irregularities in the inside temperature. Door alarm The audible door alarm alerts the user if the door has been open for longer than 60 seconds for safe protection of the food. Wall-mounting The compact appliances (WKes 653, ZKes 453, CMes 502) can also be wall-mounted without difficulty as an attractive eye-catcher with convenient access for serving. Humidor: Presentation box The cedar wood boxes are ideal for storing loose cigars and can be easily removed for presentation purposes. Child lock The child lock is programmed so as to prevent the appliance being inadvertently switched off.A symbol in the MagicEye indicates when the child lock is switched on. Humidor: Perfect climate for cigars For optimum enjoyment, cigars must age for some time after manufacture in an air humidity of 68 % to 75 % in special climatic chambers.The prerequisite for the maintenance of quality or for further ageing is the guarantee of this air humidity and the maintenance of a storage temperature of +16°C to +20°C.If cigars are stored in low air humidity, they dry out and lose their aroma and quality. If the air humidity is too high, there is a risk of the valuable tobacco moulding.In the Humidor, cigars can age under the perfect climatic conditions over a longer period of time.A high-quality touch electronic control system in connection with humidity sensors guarantees that the required temperature and air humidity are accurately maintained. Other Features
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Commissioner Clifford D. May: Saudi Vision 2030's aspirations are laudable. Saudi Arabia should become a tolerant and moderate country, but that means accepting some debate and even dissent. That transformation needs to begin now. Releasing Badawi would represent a meaningful step forward.
7/19/17: Religion News Service - Stripped of his title and illegally replaced, Eritrea's spiritual leader languishes in detention
Commissioner Thomas J. Reese, S.J.: I implore the Eritrean government to do the right thing: Release Patriarch Antonios. Allow him to take his duly elected position as the head of the Eritrean Orthodox Church and let the Eritrean people exercise their right to freedom of religion or belief.
"What will Iran's May 19 presidential election mean for the Baha'i, the country's largest non-Muslim religious group? Given that every candidate was handpicked by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's Guardian Council, the answer is simple: Nothing good."
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Whether your company has five or 500 people, in one location or across North America, our team will work with you to develop a comprehensive benefits strategy that will make your workplace unique, and that your staff will appreciate.
1200 - 1111 West Hastings St
Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 2J3
Anchor Awards & Engraving - Carlo Zarrillo
in Advertising, Promotion & Marketing, Coquitlam Sunrise Rotary Club
Anchor Awards & Engraving specializes in corporate awards & plaques, name tags, industrial plates & tags, bar-coded plates, and logo marking.
#26-91 Golden Drive,
Coquitlam, British Columbia V3K 6R2
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in Business Services, Benefit Plans, Port Coquitlam Centennial Rotary Club, Health and Dental plans
Health and dental coverage with a guaranteed no-price-increase option, refund of excess premium, better plan flexibility, lower overhead so more money stays in your plan, and a Rotary Association discount payable to your Rotary club.
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Logic Managed IT - Brad Richardson
in Information Technology Management, Coquitlam Sunrise Rotary Club
Logic has been providing IT support in Canada for over 40 years! It is our core belief that customers will only stay with us if we provide outstanding yet affordable IT services.
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Coquitlam, British Columbia V3K 7B8
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Sandpiper Signs & Decals Inc. is an award-winning medium sized, full service sign and decal manufacturing company. Our specialties include: screen printing, digital imaging, vinyl graphics, and custom signage. We bring your brand to life!
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Revision as of 23:23, 30 August 2017
This is the changelog for the 4.3 release.
For a more detailed, raw log of changes, see the git log
OS Support
- Debian 7 (wheezy) support has been dropped. Please upgrade to Debian 8 (jessie) before upgrading to 4.3.
Debian 9 (stretch) support has been added.repo not finished
- More UI styling and cleanup
- In suspension and cancellation popups, show information about which services will be unprovisioned to external systems.
- Optimized attachment upload, allowing larger attachments
Change history
- Included notes and tags
- Discounts on one-time charges
- New customer referral report
- Improved wireless broadband service report
- Search payments by customer location fields
- Search by number of referred customers and their status
- Backdate FCC 477 deployment zones
- FreeSWITCH CDRs
- Asterisk v12 CDRs
- Extended Vitelity integration with E911 and LNP (porting)
- Update VoIP Innovations CDR import for new hostname and SSL requirement
- Integration with Compliance Solutions tax rating service as an alternative to SureTax or Avalara.
- Add quotation description
- Show a total first payment possible range for prorated packages
- PDF and residential quotation fixes
- Add option for a default close date
Customer self-service
- Fix self-service contact login
- Directly change contact passwords in backend without an end-customer reset email
- New wordpress plugin, for adding self-service functionality to wordpress sites
- Option to disable changing electronic check information
- Option to disable package changes per agent
- Automatically create a customer contact for new ticketing Requestors
- Access control to disable new activity indicator in header
- Request tracker updated from 4.2.13 to 4.2.14
Provisioning exports
- Expect-style SSH scripting for interacting with remote systems which cannot run scripts (e.g. Cisco routers)
Billing events
- New conditions: residential/commercial, number of referred customers, check customer tag (for all event types), contract end date
- Improved discount action: package class selection, once per customer option
- Made HTTP/HTTPS POST and email actions available for all event types
- New action to add a customer tag
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it looks like SO much fun! photos from the big picture.
my sister-in-law is german, and her entire family & all her friends came from germany to south africa for their wedding, and i have never ever seen anyone drink like the germans can. and not fall down drunk either, they just keep going and going. they were like the energizer bunnies of drinking and revelry. in fact, the wedding was a 3 day affair in probably the hottest february weather i have ever experienced, and while i was lying in the shade somewhere fanning myself, the germans were sitting in the full on sun going lobster red and drinking beer and wine like it was going out of fashion.
that's what i imagine oktoberfest to be like!