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Turkey Tours
Straddling two continents, Turkey offers a fascinating blend of European and Asian cultures. Steeped in Christian and Islamic history and shining with modern energy, our Turkey adventure tours offer access to some of the world's most important ancient monuments and historic sites as well as some of the most exciting contemporary cities. You will also be able to discover the poignant Anzac battlefields of the Gallipoli Peninsula rank among the many highlights of a Turkey adventure tour. Cosmopolitan Istanbul is the jewel in the crown, numbering the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofia, the Church of Divine Wisdom, Sultanahmet mosque and Topkapi Palace among its star attractions.
When you need to unwind and be pampered during your Turkey adventure tour, find a hamam and enjoy a massage, take a relaxing cruise on the Bosphorous or dip your toes in the Mediterranean Sea on the Turquoise Coast where you'll also find some fantastic nightlife. Of course a Turkey adventure tour will also show you the country's warm hospitality and one of the world's most aromatic cuisines.
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Brief history
Present-day Turkey was created in 1923 from the Turkish remnants of the Ottoman Empire. In 1945 Turkey joined the UN, and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to protect Turkish Cypriots and prevent a Greek takeover of the island; the northern 37 percent of the island remains under Turkish Cypriot control. Relations between Turkey and Greece have improved greatly over the past few years. Politically, modern Turkey was almost entirely the creation of one man, Mustafa Ataturk.
Geography and weather
Turkey has borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria with easy land and sea access to the Gulf States, Levant and North Africa. It is the ninth largest country in the Middle East and the third largest in Europe. Turkey only consists of 23,000 sq. km in Europe: the remainder is in Asia. The Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits separate the European (Thrace) and Asian (Anatolian) parts of Turkey. Anatolia is a high plateau region, rising progressively towards the east and broken by the valleys of some 15 rivers, including the Tigris and the Euphrates. There are numerous lakes including Lake Van, which is really an inland sea. In the north the chain of the Ponitine Mountains runs parallel to the Black Sea; in the south, the Taurus Mountains almost touch the narrow, fertile coastal plain. The climate is temperate with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters (harsher in interior).
Visit www.worldclimate.com to get an idea of what the weather will be like on your tour.
Most nationalities (including citizens of the UK, Australia, Canada and the US) need a visa to enter Turkey. Citizens of these countries must obtain an electronic visa before arriving in Turkey which is valid for three months. The costs of the visa varies. Citizens of New Zealand currently are not required to purchase a visa on entry. We recommend you contact your local Turkish embassy or consulate near to your planned date of travel to obtain the latest information on your specific requirements.
Visa services like www.travcour.com can be very helpful.
The monetary unit in Turkey is the lira, TL. For up to date exchange rates with your own currency visit www.oanda.com or www.xe.com.
Changing money, credit cards & ATMs
Rates for foreign currency are always better inside Turkey. Private exchange offices have competitive rates and no commission. Banks are generally open Monday – Friday 8.30am – noon and 1.30pm -5pm. Most charge a commission of US$2.50 for travellers cheques. ATMs are widely available in cities.
Many workers in Turkey are poorly paid and depend on tips for their main income. As tips are a normal part of everyday culture in Turkey we operate a compulsory tipping kitty to save you money and embarrassment. Each member of the group contributes to the kitty (approx US$15 per person per week) and this is then used to pay tips to any people who provide services to the group as a whole e.g. guides, porters, drivers, housekeeping staff in hotels etc.
Except at the cheapest restaurants, a 10%-15% charge is added to the bill. As the money does not necessarily find its way to the waiter, you may want to leave an additional 10% on the table or hand it to the waiter.
Local transport
In Istanbul many of the sights are within walking distance of each other and the best way to get to know the area is on foot. However, it's easy and relatively cheap to jump in a taxi and criss-crossing the Bosporus by ferry is great fun.
Most people find that Turkey is a safe and friendly country but as in any foreign place you should exercise a reasonable degree of caution. Don't walk around lonely back streets at night (particularly in Istanbul), don't wear expensive looking jewellery or a classy watch and don't carry a wallet in your back pocket. Don't carry your camera openly; always have it in a small day pack which is firmly attached to your body, preferably in the front in crowded places. Take particular care not to become too relaxed if you have had a few drinks and are returning to your hotel at night – it is best to always take a taxi. Always wear a money belt or leave your valuables, including your passport, in the hotel security box.
Local food and drink
Lots of tasty treats are available in Turkey. Snacks include borek or poca (small pastries filled with meat, cheese or potato) sold from snack carts in the street, also simit (sesame-seed bread rings). Other snacks are lahmacun (small pizzas with meat based toppings) and in coastal cities midye tave (deep fried mussels). Main meals include several variations of the kebab, fish and seafood are good, but usually pricey and sold by the weight rather than by the item. Most budget restaurants are alcohol free. A useful exception is a meyhane (tavern) which usually serves mezes, an extensive array of cold appetisers as well as grilled kebabs and fish. Most common mezes are dolma (pepper or vine leaves stuffed with rice) and patlican salata (aubergine in tomato sauce). The best dessert is undoubtedly the honey soaked baklava. Turkish delight - solidified sugar and pectin, flavoured with rose water or pistachios, and sprinkled with powdered sugar - is another popular sweet.
All drinks such as bottled water or soft drinks are at your own expense at all times and are fairly inexpensive. Water from a tap or well should not be considered safe to drink. Bottled water, carbonated soft drinks and fruit juices are widely available throughout the country. Alcoholic drinks vary in price, with beer generally being the cheapest option.
1l of water - $0.50
30cl bottle of soft drink - $0.50-$1
40cl bottle of beer - $2-$3
Turkish coffee is served in tiny cups, and can be very strong. The same can be said for the tea (chai) which is served in delightful tulip-shaped glassesThe local firewater is anis-flavoured raki, stronger than Greek Ouzo. Alcoholic drinks are available in most places, but in smaller towns it is not as widely obtainable.
Time Difference
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Homeless families can walk-in to any of the regional offices listed above. Homeless single adults can walk into the Crisis Center to learn of current openings.
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A clip from the Halie Loren pops concert - Sway, conducted and arranged by Rob Birdwell.
This was a special performance featuring internationally acclaimed jazz singer and songwriter (and Corvallis native) Halie Loren with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony. Rob Birdwell served as the guest conductor (and played a little flugelhorn!)
The extrordinary talents of Matthew Treder (piano), Bill Marsh (guitar), Brian West (drums), and Mark Schneider (bass) are heard here, along with the always fabulous Corvallis-OSU Symphony.
Proceeds from the concert benefited the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Society Student Musician Scholarship Fund.
Read more about the Halie Loren Pops concert here.
» video info
Interview with trumpeter Chris Botti - don't blink or you'll miss the clip of Rob Birdwell conducting the Chris Botti Pops concert featuring the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra.
Rob Birdwell says:
This was a wonderful two night engagement. Any chance to work with the wonderful Corvallis-OSU Symphony is great. Add to this the fabulous band Chris brought and the wonderful arrangements - it was a big "wow" for me and all who saw and heard!
Read more about the Chris Botti pops concert here.
I've had the great honor of guest conducting several Harry Potter concerts featuring the music of John Williams. In one performance, I wrote a piece inspired by the program - Hogarts Hoedown was written to feature a group of youth strings. We needed something simple but grand sounding, and this was the result. For the feature concert, the "Wild Hogs" (not sure if that was their billed name!) were featured - they are:
For more about the Hary Potter concerts, visit this page.
This original composition (by Rob Birdwell) is available for purchase - it's simple and fun and can feature a youth string section or fiddle/bluegrass group. Contact me if you'd like more information.
Excerpt Rob Birdwell conducting the Corvallis-OSU Symphony performing Harry's Wondrous World by John Williams.


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Action Alerts
Moo-ving people toward compassionate living
Your letters and calls do help!
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" ~Mohandas Gandhi
"Our lives began and end the day we become silent things that matter" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Originally Posted: June 12, 2012
FROM HarpSeals.org
Senator Mac Harb has once again introduced a bill to finally end this atrocity. This time, it will go to the floor of the Canadian Senate for debate. That begins this week.
Sign an online petition:
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Gary Doer, Ambassador
Embassy of Canada in the U.S.
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
phone (202) 682-1740
fax (202) 682-7726
The slaughter of seals is an unconscionable crime against defenseless baby animals. It is Canada's shame.
It has not been an important part of the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador or Atlantic Canada for many years. Now, it is subsidized 100% by Newfoundland taxpayers.
It is now a waste of life and a waste of money. Enough is enough.
Canada's seal slaughter has ended, with over 69,175 seal pups dead...for nothing.
In the past, the Canadian government went to great lengths to portray this as a 'market based hunt', with no federal subsidies. This was never true as the government provided ice breaker Coast Guard ships to the sealers, sent official delegations to China to develop markets for seal products and to Europe to fight the ban on seal product imports, and sponsored 'research' on uses for seal products.
Now, it's different though. Now there is no way to claim that there is any market basis for this slaughter. This year, the killing was 100% paid for by public funds. The Newfoundland provincial government took CAN $3.6 million and gave it to Carino (as a 'loan') to purchase pelts from sealer and then stockpile them.
How long could this go on? How many years could people who have nothing to gain from the seal slaughter allow their politicians to spend their money this way? We don't know, but one thing we do know is that we have an opportunity to end this slaughter once and for all through legislation in the Canadian Senate.
You can end this madness and make your mark in Canada's history as a sane, sensible, compassionate individual who helped end what will someday be seen all over Canada, including in Newfoundland and Labrador, as an embarrassment and an example of just how cruel, stubborn, and irrational humans can be.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!


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There are some people who write amulets for sick, insane, and psychiatric patients including in them parts of the Qur'an and Sunnah. We never vouch for the sound creed of such people. We advised them against doing so, but they refused to listen saying: "We write only what is in the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of his Messenger (Piece Be Upon Him) which is not prohibited." some of these amulets are worn by the patients themselves, or by an impure woman such as menstruating woman, or a woman in her postnatal. or an insane, and under age child who doesn't know to clean himself. Is this permissible?
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I concede that there is something wrong with me. I stare at the screen through a blur of tears as I type this report:
Tooth Fairy has left the building.
Tooth Fairy was already semi-retired, her true identity discovered long ago by my savvy third child. Perhaps his 18 year old sister planted seeds of suspicion in his mind. She knew from the first time she placed a tooth under her pillow, but played along, gamely writing notes to Tooth Fairy for years. Often Tooth Fairy didn't make it to our house before morning, and she was forced to leave an apology note and to pay a late fee.
I don't know why I'm getting all choked up about the fact that my son has just lost his last baby tooth, a tenacious molar that's been hanging around for months of wiggling.
I am simply unprepared for the sense of loss I feel.
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He is despondent during dinner, complaining that everything tastes metallic. For dessert, I warm some water in the tea kettle and stir in a heaping teaspoon of salt.
His 15 year old sister cheers him on: "Gargle!"
"Just be sure to swish it all around," I tell him.
Later, when he is brushing his teeth before bed, I hear a soft plink of tooth enamel on Formica.
"It's out!" He sounds like he is underwater. Then he spits unceremoniously into the sink and enunciates clearly, "Slip of the toothbrush."
"I'm so happy for you. It wasn't even my tooth and I couldn't wait," I say, giddy with relief. The loose tooth stage of childhood presented my greatest challenge as a parent for nearly a decade of my life. I am ready to face a new era of motherhood.
My reverie is interrupted by the opening gambit of an 11 year old litigator:
"I'm not putting this under my pillow," he announces in a world-weary tone. "Either give me the money up front or forget it. It's over."
I can't help but laugh as I reach for my wallet. But when he asks me if he should throw the tooth away, I wrap it carefully in a tissue. Then I grab another to wipe my eyes.


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The Island - Review - Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter
The Island
By Kirk Honeycutt
11 July 2005
Bottom line: Reasonably diverting sci-fi action thriller enlivened by the
presence of Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi.
"The Island" starts off an aggressively derivative sci-fi thriller, then morphs
into an above-average chase melodrama.
With a pair of classy actors, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, aboard for
the ride and director Michael Bay injecting high-octane fuel into the story's
engine, the movie kicks into gear through a series of implausible though fun
sequences of pursuit that utilize nearly all the movie action toys from digital
effects to daunting stunts to massive sets and locations.
While entering the marketplace with less noise than "War of the Worlds" and
"Fantastic Four," "The Island" should soak up much boxoffice coin in the
coming weeks, both domestically and internationally.
For a while, the dystopian story about human cloning by Caspian Tredwell-Owen,
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci seems more likely to inspire viewer games of
Spot the Movie Clone as the filmmakers shuffle through any number of old
science-fiction movies for plot points and design ideas. These range from
"Coma" to "Logan's Run." Since human cloning itself has become such a
hot-button topic, the film feels contemporary. Even Kazuo Ishiguro's recently
published novel, "Never Let Me Go," deals with a similar story minus,
of course, the chases.
What's troubling from a political point of view is that these filmmakers have,
perhaps unwittingly, delivered a film certain to give succor to the religious
right. In this ethical horror story, scientists experimenting with human
genetics to advance medicine and cure illness are cast as Dr. Frankenstein
villains. The chief villain, Dr. Merrick (Sean Bean), mouths platitudes
about curing leukemia but clearly has greed in his heart.
The early going sets up a humdrum, meticulously controlled environment where
white-clad inhabitants lead aimless lives while supposedly being sheltered from
worldwide contamination resulting from an ecological disaster. From the first
moment, we know this is all a ruse. An omnipotent police force monitors every
bodily function, obsesses over the "proximity" of males to females in the
quasi-segregated population and refers to inhabitants behind their backs as
Only when the curious and restless Lincoln Six Echo stumbles onto the truth
about the facility, which 95% of the audience will already have guessed,
and grabs his pal Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson) for his comrade-in-escape
does the film take off. Fleeing the fake environment for the real world,
the pair stumble into the Arizona desert with a private army led by
ex-Special Forces commander Albert Laurent (Djimon Hounsou) in hot pursuit.
Their ace in the hole is a cynical but accepting worker at the facility, McCord
(Steve Buscemi), who in the past has sneaked booze and other contraband
to Lincoln. They track McCord to a desert bar and, feeling guilty about his
involvement in the cloning enterprise, he agrees to help them.
There is an unfailing law of filmmaking that once Buscemi gets cast in a movie,
all the best lines and comic business automatically gravitate to him. Here again
he almost single-handedly jump-starts the movie. When he abruptly exits
the picture, his presence is truly missed.
Two striking things animate the remainder of the picture. One is highly
creative chases on freeways and airways of the future. In one, wheels on
a big rig turn into lethal weapons. In another, a futuristic two-man flying
machine slams into a glass skyscraper and ends up dangling out the other
side, entangled in a sign.
The other gimmick has McGregor playing both the original Lincoln and his
clone, one with a Scottish accent and the other American. In an amazing
fight scene, using motion control cameras and careful physical movements,
McGregor actually wrestles with himself.
McGregor and Johansson's characters comprise an impossible combination
of innate smarts and born-yesterday naivete. Yet the young though veteran
actors pull these conflicting conceits off with a fair amount of conviction and
Bay's team hits on all cylinders as designer Nigel Phelps captures the extremes
of an ominous future, Steve Jablonsky's surging music urges the action on
and Mauro Fiore's energetic cinematography blends nicely with the many
digital effects.
The Island
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Parkes/MacDonald production
Credits: Director: Michael Bay; Writers: Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman
& Roberto Orci; Story by: Caspian Tredwell-Owen; Producers: Walter Parkes,
Michael Bay, Ian Bryce; Executive producer: Laurie MacDonald; Director of
photography: Mauro Fiore; Production designer: Nigel Phelps; Music: Steve
Jablonsky; Costumes: Deborah L. Scott; Editors: Paul Rubell, Christian Wagner.
Cast: Lincoln Six Echo/Tom Lincoln: Ewan McGregor; Jordan Two Delta/Sarah
Jordan: Scarlett Johansson; Albert Laurent: Djimon Hounsou; Dr. Merrick:
Sean Bean; McCord: Steve Buscemi; Starkweather: Michael Clarke Duncan.
MPAA rating PG-13, running time 133 minutes.
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Winona State University Website
The Art and Design department is hosting an exhibition of recent work by the McKnight Fellows from the Northern Clay Center from September 18 – October 10. Artist Sheryl McRoberts will give a talk about her work in SLC 120 from 4-5pm. A reception at the Watkins Gallery with McRoberts will follow from 5-6 p.m.
Participating artists are Nicolas Darcourt, Sheryl McRoberts, Kathryn Finnerty, Lung-Chieh Lin, Helen Otterson and Joseph Pintz. Both Sheryl McRoberts and Nicolas Darcourt are Minnesota-based artists.
This exhibition is generously supported by Winona State University and by a grant from the Winona State University Foundation.


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Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Middle East Council of Churches Point of View
Voices from the South - October 2015
This months newsletter features excerpts from a recent speech by Fr. Dr. Michel Jalakh, Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), entitled Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Middle East Council of Churches Point of View. The speech was held at the Nordic Ecumenical Network on Migration gathering in Oslo, which looked specifically at national and regional responses to the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe in recent months. In these selected passages from the speech, Fr. Michel and MECC challenge us to explore the root causes of the migrant flow, to understand it was a crisis well before the migrants arrived to Europe, and to act quickly to protect the lives of many.
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By: Fr. Dr. Michel Jalakh
Middle East Council of Churches (MECC)
On the context of the current wave of migration:
The chain of wars, crises, persecution, and oppression, forced around 20 million people to flee their homes in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere. Every day an estimated 42,000 more join them. Many of them head for Europe, creating an acute crisis and anti-refugee politics in Western and other wealthy countries.
Syrians are fleeing Bashar al-Assads regime, chemical weapons and barrel bombs; they are fleeing ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra which are subjecting Syrians to murder, torture, crucifixion, sexual slavery, and other appalling atrocities and killings. Somalis, Afghans, Eritreans, and others are fleeing dictatorship, political and sectarian repression, brutal violence and ethnic cleansing.
Today with the growing intensity of violence in Syria, and the diminishing resources of UN agencies and international organizations in humanitarian assistance, refugees have ended up being underfunded and crowded in camps in the neighboring countries. The camps have become more crowded and undersupplied, which leaves the people who live in them cold, hungry, and subject to the ravages of disease.
Seeing little future for their families in the camps, and knowing they may never be able to return home, many have decided to set out on the dangerous and uncertain journey for a better life in Europe. Their desperate need is driving them to take the difficult decision to flee with their families, risking drowning in the Mediterranean or dying on the roads, because the terrifying dangers of the journey are still preferable to what they face if they stay behind.
On Europes response to the crisis:
It is the influx to wealthy countries that made the refugee crisis the headlines in the news. When children died in Syria, which rarely seized the developed worlds attention, it had come to seem routine. But as more refugees left camps in places such as Jordan or Turkey, and set out for wealthier countries, the crisis become far more difficult to ignore.
Most of these Syrian refugees flew to the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. To put things in perspective: Lebanon whose surface is half that of the island of Sicily and whose population does not exceed 4 million has received over 2 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
Most EU member States do not want to take their fair share in welcoming refugees. The entire Europe whose population is 500 million is debating since weeks about receiving 120.000 refugees.
The result is that at a time when more people need help, rich countries are more reluctant to help them putting thousands or millions of innocent refugee families in danger. Countries are trying to restrict refugees from getting to or staying within their borders.
On the fear of the other in Europe:
I believe that now we are living the true globalization. What affects other could not but affect me. What hurts other will hurt me. When injustice is practiced elsewhere or abroad, it will sooner or later impact me.
Wars, clashes, conflicts, extremism etc., that one time were far away, were there, were only heard on radio and seen on TV, now they are nearby, in our countries, in our neighborhoods, in our towns and villages. They affect our daily life and complicate our habits and habitual behavior.
Taking in large numbers of refugees means accepting that those refugees might bring changes to a nations identity and culture, change that can feel scary. Already European and Western countries feel threatened by immigration, today the refugee crisis makes them even more uncomfortable.
Shall we remain silent or look the other way when it comes to children who die of hunger or from bombings, immigrants who drown in the search for a better tomorrow, refugees who cross borders and break down boundaries, the victims of terrorism, wars, violence, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking?
How to overcome complex political forces that drive xenophobic, right-wing populism, and anti-immigration policies? This is the challenge of Europe now.
On the arms trade and how to resolve the refugee crisis:
The refugee problem in Europe is a direct result of our inactivity, or better our erroneous and distorted activity towards Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and in particular, globally, ignoring and pretending not to see the stated red lines of arms trade and weapons business. Economic and political interests have taken priority over peacemaking and dialogue.
In his speech to the UN in September, Vladimir Putin stressed the following: It is hypocritical and irresponsible to make loud declarations about the threat of international terrorism while turning a blind eye to the channels of financing and supporting terrorists, including the process of trafficking and illicit trade in oil and arms. It would be equally irresponsible to try to manipulate extremist groups and place them at ones service in order to achieve ones own political goals in hope of later dealing with them.
Pope Francis has put his finger on the core problem saying the following: Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms and sell them to one country for them to use against another country [ ]. Its the industry of death, the greed that harms us all, the desire to have more money.
The refugee crisis can only be resolved when all concerned shoulder their responsibilities, and when we avoid living that hypocrisy of speaking of peace while manufacturing weapons.
From now on, we should be convinced that peace cannot be but our daily work, our ordinary life, our love, our care. We are called to fight for the most vulnerable. More than ever, the Middle East needs justice and peace, not only to end the flow of refugees, but so that displaced people can return to their homes in dignity and respect.■
The speech can be accessed
in full
Michel Jalakh has since 2013 served as Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC). He is from Beirut, Lebanon. Fr. Michel can be reached at email@example.com
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JavaFX is all about graphics and drawing. Sure JavaFX can do great layouts, but if you need to visualize results, add images to layouts, or display data, JavaFX has all the tools you'll need. Even games are written using JavaFX.
If you don't know where to start learning JavaFX graphics capabilities, start with this tutorial. This tutorial explains how to draw JavaFX circles and squares after laying out your JavaFX UI using Scene Builder. It may not be glamorous, but it is a beginning. Continue reading "Drawing Squares and Circles in JavaFX"


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29 Apr Hear Joana Serrat's New Single 'Cloudy Heart', Featuring Neil Halstead
With a week to go until Joana Serrat's new album Cross The Verge comes out on the 6 May, we're excited to share with you Joana's beautiful new single, Cloudy Heart – a duet with Neil Halstead (Slowdive / Mojave 3). Joana explains how the song came to be :-
"Cloudy Heart was built together by David Giménez and myself. The song talks about the very moment when a couple feels like strangers, after coming out of a long journey through darkness together. I like the light that chorus spreads around and the strength that suddenly appears in this part. I feel that it's a generous and genuine song. While we were writing it, we knew Neil Halstead should sing in this song. We met whilst playing in the same festival in Barcelona few years ago. Neil listened to the demo version and said yes immediately. He then went on to play electric guitars on two other tracks on the album – Lonely Heart Reverb and Lover."
Cross The Verge is out 6 May as a download, CD and 180g LP. Pre-order from Amazon or iTunes to receive instant downloads of Cloudy Heart and Tug Of War.
Look out for Joana on tour in May:-
07 May MANCHESTER, Gullivers
09 May LONDON, The Slaughtered Lamb
10 May GLASGOW, Broadcast
11 May EDINBURGH, The Electric Circus
13 May BATH, Chapel Arts Centre


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It's a good feeling to be able to take what I know and now give it to my son, and hopefully he'll do the same 20 to 25 years from now.
Frankfort, IL (PRWEB) May 29, 2014
Ridgeworth Roofing Company is celebrating its 40th year of quality workmanship and reliable customer service. Specializing in commercial, institutional, condominium, and industrial roofing applications, family-owned Ridgeworth Roofing began in 1974 under the leadership of Robert Petrick and continues to thrive today under his son, Rodney Petrick.
"As I was coming out of high school, I was going to go help him out for a couple of years and go back to school," said Rodney Petrick, current Owner and President, about his early days with his father's company. Petrick instead discovered his passion and decided to help grow the family business. Now an established, award-winning industry expert and graduate of what he calls the "School of Roofology," Petrick serves as a member of various professional committees and is a past president of the Chicago Roofing Contractors Association (CRCA) and the Midwest Roofing Contractors Association (MRCA). He was recently involved in negotiations with the City of Chicago for their updated energy code requirements.
Ridgeworth Roofing has developed a strong base of customers, some of whom date back to the earliest days of the company. Because the business is family-owned, Ridgeworth's customers receive answers from the person making the end decision: the owner himself. Several other family members also serve the company, including Petrick's son, Ryan. "It's a good feeling to be able to take what I know and now give it to my son, and hopefully he'll do the same 20 to 25 years from now," said Petrick.
Over the years, Ridgeworth Roofing has earned a reputation for its clean trucks and work sites, clear communication with customers, and deep familiarity with its employees. The company offers quality service at a fair price and stands behind its work regardless of when it was completed. Ridgeworth is also known for its involvement in charity projects as well as complicated roofing jobs that other contractors might avoid. This has allowed the company to continue to develop expertise and offer more to its customers.
Ridgeworth Roofing Company has launched a new website, http://www.ridgeworthroofing.com, as part of its 40th anniversary celebration.
About Ridgeworth Roofing Company
Located in Frankfort, IL, Ridgeworth Roofing Company is a family-owned business specializing in commercial, institutional, condominium, and industrial roofing applications. In addition to new installations, re-roofing, roof replacement, and roof repair, services include preventative maintenance programs and inspections. For more information, visit their website at http://www.ridgeworthroofing.com or call (708) 598-0039.
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New York Voices Tickets
New York Voices is a Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble that
specialize in jazz music. The group was formed in 1987 by Darmon Meader,
Peter Eldridge, Kim Nazarian, Caprice Fox and Sara Krieger. They have
performed with a number of influential jazz artists including Ray Brown,
Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson and George Benson. Their music is rooted in
jazz, but often Brazilian, R&B, classical, and pop influences are
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Welcome to the Fremont Union High School District! We are looking forward to having you and your student join us next year as part of the FUHSD family. High School is an exciting time for parents and students alike and we are eager to get to know you and spend the next years working together as a team to make your student successful.
As the first step in registering for school, we will be asking you to use an On-Line registration tool (no paper forms). Please complete the New Student Registration process on-line via the OLR link and bring the Registration Number to the District office to complete the residency verification process in order to verify that you live within our District boundaries. Our district receives our funding directly from the property taxes paid by our community residents, with no funds provided by the state based on enrollment. Our residency efforts help insure that that every tax dollar of our community is used to support students that live with the parent/guardian full time within our boundaries.
Priority Registration – January 16 to January 26, 2018
Completing the process in this time period will help insure that students and families will have access to guidance information.
Late Registration – Starts on February 1 and continues indefinitely
Please remember the following:
- A student can have only one residence for the purposes of establishing residency and must live with a parent or legal guardian
- PO Boxes will not be accepted for residency purposes
- All documents used for residency must be CURRENT, VALID and ORIGINAL!
The following items are required for registration and Residency Verification.
- You must complete the On-Line New Student Registration via the OLR Kiosk link (begins 1/8/2018)
- You must complete the FUHSD Residency Declaration Form
7 DOCUMENTS ARE NEEDED - you must bring the following current, valid and original documents:
1. Parent's Picture ID - one from the following list:
- California State Driver's License or California State ID Card
- Valid Passport or Consulate Issued Picture ID
2. Residency Document #1 - one from the following list:
- Valid vehicle registration (title documents do not meet residency requirements)
- Current (2017) W-2 Tax forms
- Current paycheck issued by employer - employer employee's name and address must be imprinted on the check (on-line/computer printouts are not accepted)
3. Residency Document #2 - one from the following list:
- Original Property Tax Bill with parent name and property address
- Tenant's copy of Rental or Lease agreement with parent name, student name, and address, as well as manager or owner's name and phone number
4. Residency Document #3 - Pacific Gas Electric (PG&E) Bill or statement
Please bring the bill/statement mailed to your residence with parent name and address
CHANGE: If you currently use E-bill for PG&E, you may print the on-line bill in place of an original mailed bill. A color printed version is preferable. A photocopy of the electronic bill will not be accepted.
ONLY IF your rental agreement states that utilities (PG&E) are included, then one of the following can be used:
- Monthly Bank statement mailed to your residence with parent name and address
- Monthly Cable Bill mailed to your residence with parent name and address
5. Birth Document
A birth document that verifies the student's legal name, birth date, and birthplace. This may be a birth certificate or other official birth record. If a birth document is not currently available in English, a passport may be used temporarily until the proper documentation can be secured. If you do not have a birth certificate or other birth record, please be sure to request a copy as soon as possible from the Recorder's Office in the county, state or country of birth.
6. Transcripts - Current school year report cards
7. Immunization Records - Complete immunization records including dates and physician signature/stamp.
If entering from outside Santa Clara County, the Mantoux TB Test must be given within 12 months of enrolling
Mantoux TB Tests performed outside the USA will not be accepted
Proof of Tdap Booster shot (Whooping Cough)
If you are unable to provide any of the above required documents, then you must go to the Enrollment and Residency Office and meet with a Residency Official to discuss your options.


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Continuing to harness the momentum of two Billboard top 5 and two top 10 singles from last year's "Soul Stories" album, guitarist Blake Aaron will preview his "Color and Passion" album by issuing the first single, "Summer Ride," which goes for radio playlist adds on May 16. Four days prior, he will perform the vibrant electric guitar-driven vehicle during a live show recorded in Sirius XM's Washington, DC studios that will air on the national satellite radio broadcaster at a date soon to be announced.
Like the varied songbook that make "Soul Stories" a captivating listen, "Color and Passion," Aaron's sixth album scheduled for September release on Innervision Records, will offer an assorted sound palate swirling imaginative hues of funk, R&B, soul, jazz, blues and Latin music. Aaron wrote "Summer Ride" and expects to pen most of the material for the new collection.
"'Color and Passion' is my funkiest and most emotional project to date," Aaron described. "It explores every end of the spectrum of 'color and passion' in music - from the red fire of Latin music, to the deep purple grooves of American jazz, funk, R&B and soul to the cool blues of the most sensitive, emotional and intimate ballads. I can't wait to share it with you this fall!"
Dialing in the show before the trek back east, Aaron will play a sold-out concert at Southern California's contemporary jazz hot spot Spaghettini near Los Angeles on Saturday night (May 7). The evening before the Sirius XM concert, he'll play a set in Hampton, Virginia on May 11 at a gig sponsored by local radio station WHOV-FM. On May 13, Aaron will hit the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club stage with Phillip Doc Martin in Maryland and perform on May 14 at a show presented by WVST-FM in Richmond, Virginia. Then it's back to the studio to finish "Color and Passion." Aaron shall emerge for a June 17 concert at The Perfect Note in Birmingham, Alabama; June 18 at Atlanta's St. James Club where he will share the bill with soul-jazz trumpeter Joey Sommerville; and June 25 for a date at the King Center in Melbourne, Florida with Sommerville and saxophonist Warren Hill.
Along with his busy solo career, Aaron juggles being a first-call session player, in-demand sideman, and songwriter and producer for other artists. He hosts the nationally syndicated radio show "Blake Aaron Live with Tina Anderson."


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At the age of 20 I was finishing the compulsory military service in Israel, and what I was left with was a strong wish to learn and find my own individual direction. By chance I heard about a lecture about the Grinberg Method profession. I didn't know what it was, but I was curious and I decided to go.
I must admit, I do not remember much about the content of that lecture, but I remember being impressed by the simplicity and respect for people's lives that this approach offered. I also remember being intrigued at seeing how much the practitioners loved their work. The possibility of working with people and joining them in their struggle for better health and life really grabbed my attention so I became a student of the Grinberg Method.
Looking back from where I am today, I see it as one of those moments in life, where we decide that we want something, and we just go for it. I simply did what I needed to do to make it happen. I got the money together to study, moved to a new city, found an apartment and a place to work.
The studies of the Grinberg Method are structured so that from the first moment on, students find their own clients to begin practicing what they have learned. I found this exciting and challenging. At every step I had to stand behind my decision. I was in a new city where I hardly knew anyone. I was working in part-time jobs to earn money to study, and at the same time I needed people to work with to practice the profession I was learning.
Studying to become a practitioner of the Grinberg Method was a wonderful and intense experience in the classroom. Yet I felt the effects of those lessons not only in my working room with my clients, but also in all the day-to-day situations in life, where I had to push myself beyond my own personal limitations to achieve what I wanted.
More than 20 years later, I am still learning. Every day contains new moments of daring, moments of love, of challenges, disappointment, failures and achievements. I continue to train and strengthen my own willpower. In the past it was building my practice with my clients, and today it involves teaching and running the school in Berlin.
Over the years I have found that many moments, struggles and difficulties in life can become great experiences of learning and training - rather than just problems to be solved. To see things from this perspective, I need to continually remember my initial intention, and my vision. Both these things drive me to do what I do.
10 years ago, Claudia Glowik and I opened the Grinberg Method School in Berlin, and even after all these years, it fascinates me seeing how capable our students are after the first week of study. It is amazing for me to see how natural this profession is, how the fundamental elements are in each of us. I am also continually fascinated by the way in which our students don't just gain a profession. As they practice what they teach, they also transform their own lives. Seeing students and practitioners learn the art of touching people's lives is a beautiful process to witness and to be a part of, full of challenges, joy, personal struggles and victories.
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Services Shorten Security Responses, Reduce IT Costs and Address Compliance Concerns for Cloud-Based Data
OMAHA, NE--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2014) - Cosentry, the leading Midwest IT Solutions Provider, today announced its new Managed Security and Compliance Services. The services address the security concerns of transitioning data and applications to cloud or colocation environments while also alleviating the IT burden of maintaining adherence to government and industry data storage and processing regulations.
In addition, Cosentry also today announced its 4th Annual Cosentry Compliance+Security Summit (C2S2). The summit will be held on December 11th from 1:00PM - 5:00PM at the Regency Marriott in Omaha, Nebraska. The event will bring several of the industry's foremost cyber security authorities together and share the latest security threat trends, as well as valuable best practices for preventing harmful network breaches. Registration access: http://web.cosentry.com/c2s2-registration.
Today's announcement uniquely positions Cosentry to capture the growing Midwest market demand for securing IT assets in the cloud. The company's managed IT security services go well beyond typical firewall monitoring by providing market-leading security tools with the benefit of integrated Security Operations Center (SOC) services such as patch management, 24x7 log monitoring and alert notifications. The company's Managed Security Services offer a broad portfolio of:
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When Adrienne Rich died last March in Santa Cruz, California, of complications from rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 82, the world lost a polarizing poet from a countercultural generation that included Allen Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka, Betty Friedan and William Burroughs. A public intellectual and an icon for the "triply marginalized—as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew" (according to her New York Times obituary), Rich allowed her poetry to serve her ideas on feminism and social justice. As a result, her poems and essays—more than thirty books over six decades—reached a broad and passionate audience, far beyond what most poets enjoy, and she was a hero to generations of feminists. She won almost every award available to poets in this country, though her principled stance against neoliberalism led her to refuse the National Medal of Honor in 1997: "The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate. A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored." The president in question, of course, was Bill Clinton.
The broad outlines of Rich's life story are well known. Born in 1929 in Baltimore to a pianist mother and a doctor father (who was also a Johns Hopkins professor), Rich was groomed for middle-class success and, by her own account, complied with expectations. She graduated from Radcliffe; she won the Yale Younger Poets prize for her first book, A Change of World, chosen by W.H. Auden; she married a prominent economist and gave birth to three sons by 1959. Her earliest poems were formal and elegant, like this stanza from "The Diamond Cutters":
Be hard of heart, because
The stone must leave your hand.
Although you liberate
Pure and expensive fires
Fit to enamour Shebas,
Keep your desire apart.
Love only what you do,
And not what you have done.
And then, as with many poets of her generation, the Vietnam War precipitated a crisis that shifted the foundations of her style as well as her life. She grew increasingly radicalized throughout the 1960s, during which she published the free-verse Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963). As she was writing the poems that would become The Will to Change: Poems 1968–1970, her family life fell apart, and in 1970 her husband committed suicide. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Rich came out as a lesbian. Her essays on the eros between women and the ambivalence of motherhood were among the first of their kind. She became a hero to some for her courage, and a scourge to former admirers repelled by her newfound stridency, as in "The Phenomenology of Anger," from her groundbreaking collection Diving Into the Wreck (1973):
I suddenly see the world
as no longer viable:
you are out there burning the crops
with some new sublimate
This morning you left the bed
we still share
and went out to spread impotence
upon the world
Again, Rich was not alone in this trajectory. Robert Lowell's enormously influential Life Studies, published in 1959, was thought by many critics and poets at the time to have broken with the formalist, impersonal modernism of T.S. Eliot, an interpretation that paved the way for writers like Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and others to abandon their efforts at producing well-wrought urns in favor of a confessional mode of truth-telling that purportedly rejected poetic artifice. As new movements of liberation and multicultural pride surged in the 1970s, their designated poetries followed—and they generally adopted the rhetorical, free-verse mandate set by Rich when she forsook artifice as a legacy of the patriarchy. Formalism, Rich averred, was a kind of "asbestos gloves"—and for decades after, women poets would speak of form as "distancing."


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The IIBA is an International membership organization of psychotherapists devoted to the development and practice of Bioenergetic Analysis.
The Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IBA) was founded in 1956, in New York city, USA, by Alexander Lowen and two other students of Reich, John Pierrakos and William Walling. They separated a few years later and Lowen remained alone to manage the IBA.
In 1976, facing the international expansion of Bioenergetic Analysis and a growing demand in psychotherapist's trainings, Lowen turned the IBA into the " International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis - IIBA".
The office of the IIBA was based for many years in Alexander Lowen's own office in New York city, USA. The office then moved for several years to Zurich, Switzerland, and is now currently located in Barcelona, Spain.
Alexander Lowen resigned as Executive Director of the IIBA in 1996. Several presidents followed, and the current President is Diana GUEST, psychotherapist in the USA (San Diego, CA) and the Vice President, Maria Rosaria Filoni, psychotherapist in Italy (Rome).
Members belong to IIBA through membership in local societies, or as a member at large. The IIBA today has nearly 1600 active members and about 50 affiliated "local Societies" distributed worldwide. Bioenergetic Analysis is practiced in North America (USA, Canada), South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay), throughout Western Europe, Israel and the Pacific area (New Zealand and Australia). Therapists from Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia) and Asia (China) have more recently discovered the practice and new training groups have started there.
Government, management supervision and control of the IIBA is in the hands of a Board of Trustees (BOT), elected by members for a term of 3 years.
An Executive Committee (EC) is to execute the policies of the IIBA. Officers are elected by the Board of Trustees, among its members. It shall manage the current business of the organization in accordance with the Mission Statement and Goals of the organization as defined by the Board of Trustees. These include, among other things, making decisions on current business ; appointing Chairs of Committees and Working Groups and appointing coordinators for specific tasks; keeping in contact with the IIBA Faculty and overseeing Teaching activities; presenting a yearly budget and yearly report on the financial situation ofthe IIBA to the membership; overseeing the organization of the InternationalConference, and officially representing the IIBA outside the organization.
Board of Trustees
From left to right:
Paola Bacigalupo from Chiavari (ITALY)
Jayme Panerai Alves from Jaqueira Recife (BRAZIL)
Maria Cristina Piauhy Silva Mendes from Salvador (BRAZIL)
Josette Van Luytelaar from Nijmegen (THE NETHERLANDS)
Pilar Llobregat from Barcelona (SPAIN) - former Administor
Scott Baum from New York (USA)
Ana Lúcia Faria from São Paulo (Brazil) – secretary & treasurer
Maria Rosaria Filoni from Roma (Italy) – vice-president
Diana Guest from San Diego (USA) - president
Rick Spletter from Rockwall (USA)
Anja Van der Schrieck-Junker from Heidelberg (Germany)
Michael Brennan from San Diego (USA)
• President: Diana Guest
• Vice-President: Maria Rosaria Filoni
• Secretary & treasurer: Ana Lúcia Faria
Besides the link provided between all its members and affiliates, the IIBA also ensures the harmonization of trainings and practices, creating a common training "curriculum" and an International faculty (International trainers - about 45 members).
The IIBA is publishing a newsletter twice a year and a Journal (reader) once a year. Current information, events list (workshops, congresses) and resources are spread through the present website.
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In addition to this main institution, regional federations are organized in Europe (EFBA-P), in Latin America (FLAAB) and in North America / New Zealand (NANZIBA), dealing actively with regional concerns.


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Jamie Foxx's Rendition of the National Anthem Was Not Exactly Impressive
He performed it at the Mayweather–Pacquiao fight.
Jamie Foxx sang the national anthem before Saturday night's Mayweather–Pacquiao fight, and the response has been mixed. (To the singing, not the fight; the fight was universally considered disappointing.) Judge for yourself.


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Columbia cybersecurity firm Sourcefire Inc. named John Becker, a longtime member of its board of directors, as the company's new CEO on Monday.
Becker comes to Sourcefire from a position as CEO of ScienceLogic, a Reston, Va., company that sells network monitoring software and services. Before that, he led a series of information security companies that were each sold.
He has served on Sourcefire's board since 2008.
Becker steps in after Sourcefire founder and chief technology officer Martin F. Roesch led the company on an interim basis for nearly a year. Former CEO John Burris retired in October after taking medical leave to be treated for colon cancer.


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David B. Ruderman. Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. ix + 326 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14464-1.
Reviewed by Rebekka Voss (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet)
Published on H-Judaic (March, 2011)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)
Cultural History of the Jews in the Early Modern Period
David B. Ruderman's latest book Early Modern Jewry, the fruit of a long career of teaching and study, is a stimulating reconstruction of early modern Jewish culture, A New Cultural History as the subtitle states. Until quite recently, historians of both European and Jewish history have neglected the early modern period--roughly the three centuries between the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the Haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment--as a transitional time somewhere between traditional and modern, not worthy of study for its own merit. The amorphous early modern era was either seen as a mere continuation of the Middle Ages or a long foreplay to modernity. Although in the last decades several areas of the early modern Jewish experience have attracted growing attention within the scholarly community, there has hardly been an effort to understand the period as a whole. A notable exception is Jonathan Israel's European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750, first published in 1985. Israel, for the first time, defines the early modern period as a distinct epoque in European Jewish history, distinguishable from both medieval and modern times. Israel's pioneering reconstruction of early modern Jewish history is mainly a socioeconomic and political account. Ruderman seeks to augment the complex picture of early modern Jewish life by surveying its cultural components.
Ruderman understands the rich Jewish cultural life in the early modern period on a transnational level. He links together Jewish culture in Italy and the Netherlands as well as central and eastern Europe with that in the Ottoman Empire by unearthing its "connected histories" and pointing out its larger general patterns. To characterize the cultural formation of early modern Jewry as a whole, broadly defined as "ideas and intellectual achievement in their social and political contexts," Ruderman suggests five salient features, each of which is discussed in a separate chapter (p. 11). The first of these five primary interrelated characteristics of early modern Jewish culture the author suggests is "mobility." He demonstrates that because Jews were on the move, due to forced mass migrations and economic hardship and the voluntary wanderings of individuals in their quest to improve their economic and social standing, they increasingly came into contact with their brothers and sisters from different cultural backgrounds, and also with non-Jews. What followed was "rapid cultural change and reactionary conservatism" (p. 14). To bolster the proposed relationship between mobility and cultural production, Ruderman cites an impressive list of prominent Jewish intellectuals who moved from place to place--among them historiographers, messianic activists, physicians, Sabbatean emissaries, and itinerant rabbis, from the exiled Sephardi Isaac Abravanel to the Eastern European maskil Solomon Maimon.
Ruderman considers "communal cohesion" the second foundation of the early modern Jewish experience. In an age of consolidation of communal and intercommunal structures of Jewish self-government, which peaked with the Council of the Four Lands in Poland-Lithuania, he convincingly argues for a growing decline of the rabbinate that gradually lost its authority over the community to the rising power of the lay oligarchies who came to control it. The chapter also discusses important questions regarding the changing interference of absolutist state building and its mercantilist policies with Jewish autonomy and the extent of its influence on the communal structures. Next, he examines the "knowledge explosion," which primarily followed the invention of printing. It was also encouraged by other related factors, however, such as the growing interest in Jewish books by Christian Hebraists, the broadening of Jewish learning to include secular subjects, and the entrance of Jews into the universities (medical schools in particular). As a consequence of the abovementioned changes in Jewish cultural life, the early modern period (most conspicuously the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) witnessed a "crisis of rabbinic authority," Ruderman's fourth topic of discussion. Community ordinances curtailed rabbis' rights as a legal entity and their independence was subjugated to the body of lay leaders. The messianic movement, which centered on the apostate Messiah Shabbetai Zvi, especially signified the crumbling of the traditional authority of the rabbis. Although the rabbinic establishment reacted with fury against the Sabbatean heresies, Sabbateans crossed traditional religious boundaries between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Ruderman labels this fifth phenomenon "mingled identities." In the same category also fall the emergence of a large group of conversos on the Iberian Peninsula finally reentering the Jewish communities in Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London; (voluntary) Jewish converts to Christianity; and the new caste of Christian Hebraists making use of Judaism for their own ends. All of these religious and cultural border crossers influenced and ultimately changed the definition of Jewish and Christian identity in early modern Europe.
Early Modern Jewry structures the vast material pertaining to early modern Jewish culture, ideas, and society in both Europe and the Ottoman Empire with great erudition and clarity. For practical reasons, the Jewish experiences in England, France, North Africa, and the Middle East beyond the Land of Israel are not adequately integrated. By tracing the great lines and presenting a comprehensive narrative of early modern Jewish cultural history, the book makes it easily accessible for the reader. Its foremost merit, however, lies in reconstructing a distinct epoque in Jewish history tied together by five essential common features. Ruderman is of course aware of the inherent danger in generalizing and simplifying. He rightly stresses chronological and regional differences with regard to each of the five factors and seeks to integrate local and regional diversity in his argument, avoiding forcefully reconciling seeming paradoxes. Building on his masterful knowledge of specific subcultures and regions and their specific conditions and characteristics in different times, the author nevertheless succeeds in detecting common features in the heterogeneous Jewish culture. Ruderman provides us with a larger picture of the whole into which to place the particular in order to better understand the similarities, singularities, and connections of Jewish history. However, the author emphasizes that his pioneering theses should to some extent be considered tentative in light of the present state of research. For example, despite the "virtual impossibility" of proving a precise causal connection between the mobility of intellectuals and cultural creativity, Ruderman makes a "strong circumstantial case" in chapter 1 (p. 42).
The concluding chapter is especially valuable. It offers some final thoughts about the modern era in light of the early modern. Ruderman detects a unifying theme in his five factors: the blurring of Jewish identity. New options for Jewish self-definition and its representation in the non-Jewish world provide a background for understanding the modern Jewish experience, making the alleged break from a traditional past toward modern Jewish identities in fact less radical. Its thought-provoking discussion of the early modern period in Jewish history, the notes and bibliography providing additional information, and the extensive appendix discussing various historiographical interpretations of early modernity make this book indispensable for both students and teachers of early modern and modern Jewish history alike, as well as for those more generally interested in Jewish history. Ruderman's study will decisively shape future discussions about early modern Jewish history and the beginnings of modernity.
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Rebekka Voss. Review of Ruderman, David B., Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History.
H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews.
March, 2011.
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