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Sitting in the cinder block windowless anteroom waiting for the appointment to commence, Ben felt clammy in spite of the chilled air. He had been summoned by the dean's secretary a few days earlier for as meeting at 11:00 AM, which was highly unusual and worried him. The dean of the rabbinical college Rabbi Streitz rarely had personal contact with students outside the classroom since he was teaching, flying off to New York for meetings with National Jewish Leadership or lecturing at another rabbinical college where his brother was the dean. Rabbi Streitz was distant from his students; few social skills, no sense of humor, puritanical in his sense of esthetics, and principled to a fault. Ben wasn't flattered by being summoned. No, no. In fact Ben was stressed and hadn't slept very much since receiving the phone call. He intuited that the purpose of the meeting was to formally inform him that his conduct unbefitting a rabbinical student and could no longer remain a student at the yeshiva. He was being thrown out, aborted; an ignominious end to something that should never have begun. Nervous, he arrived at the dean's office a full half hour early, which was a mistake, a miscalculation. The dean was notorious for being unreasonably late for meetings, which meant that Ben might be waiting an hour or longer.
Ben had considered the option of not showing up; he was in no mood to face the dean and the dreaded consequence he must bear for demonstrating such an awful lapse of judgment. What difference did it make? He was convinced that he was being dismissed. And for what? For having convictions, Ben asked himself. What was so terrible about believing in something so strongly that he was willing to go to the wall? Weren't rabbis, Ben considered supposed to be principled, allowing their god inspired conscience to guide them rather than politically correct considerations? Screw it! Just send me a letter, he thought, and be done with it. All this meeting would do is add insult to injury. What a way to blow a career that hadn't even taken off yet? What a way to start life, with this on his record. His real fear was his father who begged and borrowed to scrape together the tuition for his promising son. Ben's dad had big plans for him. His father, living vicariously through his son saw ordination as just the first stage. A PhD would round him out preparing him for a combined academic and rabbinic career; something that Ben's father had desired when he was a young man; while he had the brains hadn't the stamina. Ben, on the other hand had both, a winning combination. His father had been grooming him for this career for as long as he could remember. As a matter of fact, Ben had never been asked if this is what he wanted.
Sitting on a hard wooden chair in that chilled anteroom, the fluorescent light casting a yellowish glare added to the already depressing atmosphere enhanced by the grey painted cinder block. It was dead silent. All he could hear was the buzz of the electricity flowing through the fluorescent lighting. Biting his inner lip till it was raw, trying to stop his left leg from a trembling nervous reflex Ben considered flight at that moment. Just leave, get out. It would be preferable than having to face the wrath of Rabbi Streitz. Seeing the dean angry on few occasions was memorable to this impressionable student. Rabbi Streitz had a gift for slicing straight to the heart of the matter. Ben shuttered at his propensity for fulminating, his mouth moving at speed that causing his cropped beard to quake didn't serve him well. Ben knew him too well, having been his student for the past two years. Those were tough years. He was an exacting, demanding teacher, who got caught up in the detail without seeing the larger picture. It was with the trivia that he would dig a rut that before long became a trench, which became a trap, difficult, almost impossible to extricate oneself. Lost in a maze of worthless information was how Ben saw it and not infrequently trapped and lost in detail with little hope of finding the kernel of information, the message to be taken away. A severe consequence of his daily three hours marathon lectures was his halitosis insidiously filling the room with a stench that was nauseating to anyone with a sense of feng shui as Ben had. The morning lectures never started out that way. In fact at 8:30 AM when class began, the twelve students sitting around a "u" shaped table arrangement so that all of us were eye to eye with the dean, none further from him than three feet, eager, alert and full of anticipation, which dissipated within a short time. It was only after he ranted straight for two hours with no end in sight did the smell began to become pervasive and oppressive. It was a test of one's stamina to be able to think critically and take notes with the stench of his breath combined with the mist of his spittle hitting you if you happened to be in the path of its trajectory. Paused periodically for a sip of water would have mitigated the fetid air. No not him. Carried away by the subject at hand he would go on for three hour marathons - non-stop. When he finally stopped out of sheer exhaustion the feeling was nearly indescribable. Leaving the room was life affirming as the delight in breathing fresh air gave Ben an added appreciation of clean air and the need to cherish it always.
In those years Ben unlike his classmates but like so many others of his generation was deeply concerned over the injustice and manner by which the Viet Nam was being waged and prosecuted. Sitting through those lectures, Ben envisioned himself as a soldier ambushed by the Viet Cong in a swamp pinned down for hours with no option other than waiting for reinforcements. In Ben's case reinforcements came in the way of the dean collapsing in exhaustion, as the tacticians of the war was hoping that would happen to the enemy. Relief. Live another day.
Those three-hour intellectual assaults were nothing more than mental gymnastics, an intellectual slight, the apotheosis of useless information. Ben recalled one particular instance when he wished to challenge the rabbi in the midst of a learned discourse on the timely and crucial subject of catching a fly on Shabbat: the circumstances under which one is allowed to lower a box over a fly, while not violating the shabbat, Ben's lack of confidence as always got the best of him remaining silent knowing that this lecture wasn't worthy of his time especially when the world around Ben was burning down. There was no end to the war in Viet Nam where the death toll of US combatants was staggering; as obscene as the daily blood baths of innocent civilians.
This wasn't all that was bothering Ben. He was deeply concerned with the alarming rate of assimilation among American Jews. Ben was sure that his unique style and approach to teaching Judaism would help staunch the hemorrhaging. Ben passionately cared about the future of his people and was flummoxed by these inane lectures on catching flies or opening umbrellas on Shabbat. He'd have no trouble swatting the sucker if it happened to land on his chopped liver. Perhaps this lack of interest in the detailed minutiae of Jewish law, the legalisms and the loopholes that hammered the Jewish people into a formidable nation that had survived thousands of years was at the root of Ben's problem. Ben however decided to take a pass deferring to another time the need to challenge his teacher.
The truth was, Ben didn't give a damn about orthodox interpretation of Jewish law. He wasn't like his classmates. Having been raised from the cradle in an orthodox environment, as his maternal bobbie was wont to say "in a strictly kosher environment" he found it awkward, feeling like an outsider. He simply didn't fit into the orthodox mindset concerned more with social issues than the parochial concerns of the orthodox community. It distressed him that the liberal movements found their niche in social activism claiming it as their mandate. It concerned him that the institution, which he was attending, had started moving to the right, becoming more identifiable with the ultra orthodox institutions in the east. It didn't bode well for Ben.
Had Ben the gumption, he would have applied to a more liberal rabbinical college. He had really wanted to attend the Conservative Seminary in New York, but hadn't the courage to confront his father by coming out of the closet and announcing that he wasn't, that he couldn't in good conscience be orthodox any longer. He wanted to deemphasize halacha focusing on the philosophical and social issues. Granted, Ben reasoned, religion's original purpose was to create order out of chaos. But society had advanced since then: the whole point of religion wasn't to control people anymore but to spiritually enrich and uplift people through social action. He envied those of his generation who were able to shed the ties tethering them to their parents' values breaking loose in the words of Bob Dylan, like a rolling stone. Ben hadn't the fortitude nor had he the ability to do what was right if it meant alienating his father. Ben took the path of least resistance, the path of the submissive, the path that demanded little effort and no confrontation. He had been living in a fool's paradise and at any moment it was going to blow up in his face, ending this charade that should never have begun.
At this thought Ben breathed a sigh of relief recalling the indomitable truth in the wisdom of Jesus when he said the truth will set you free. Finally after years of repressing his true feelings there would be resolution. The real problem still remained: facing his father, a formidable man. He remembered all too well being thrown out of the house one cold winter Shabbat when he vehemently disagreed with his father on the prosecution of the war and the policies of Barry Goldwater. At Shabbat lunch, Ben had the temerity to challenge his father's support of Goldwater referring to him as stalinesque. For the first time ever, Ben had to duck when his father took a swing at him calling him every name in the Yiddish book, concluding with: you "davar acher" get the hell out of my house!
His second hurdle would be finding another seminary to attend. True enough, the reform seminary would grab him. They loved his kind: the type that had a very strong authentic, Jewish background conversant in classic texts, Talmud, rabbinic literature and Hebrew language. Their typical students had little knowledge of Jewish text, finding their Jewishness at a Jewish camp one summer and the next season at camp discovering their calling.
As Ben was considering all these issues and the fate that awaited him the spiritual advisor of the study hall, a rabbi from the old country, a survivor of the Holocaust poked his head in the room not acknowledging Ben who was responsible for his current predicament. The first time Ben had encountered Rabbi Werner was when he first sent to the yeshiva at the tender age of 13. He was assigned a seat in the bet midrash, which also served as a chapel, close to where the rabbis sit. At the moment when the prayer leader reached the "shema", the declaration of faith, the rabbi's face contorted, scarring the living daylights out of Ben. It was as though the rabbi had seen a horrible monster and in absolute and consuming fear began to quake and distort his face into a grimace that made him look grotesque. In despair and fright Ben turned to his neighbor asking him if someone was going to help the rabbi as he was in terrible pain. His neighbor, not answering since it was forbidden to talk during this phase of the prayers merely shirked, rolling his eyes, suggesting that it was the rabbi was fine. To young Ben watching the rabbi depart at the conclusion of services seemed old, of another age and another world, which contrasted with his gait that had a youthful carefree bounce.
Rabbi Werner had never liked Ben because he was different than the others. His parents, American born, didn't speak authentic Yiddish marked by a European accent resulting in Ben having a rudimentary knowledge of this antiquated language, that he considered more a badge of shame. His classmates, Yiddish speakers, had no trouble following other talmud classes which were in Yiddish, giving a greater authenticity to the classes than having them lectured to in English. Yiddish was venerated; more so than Hebrew, the holy tongue, since it was base being the spoken language of Israel. It wasn't only the lack of Yiddish that set Ben off from the others and from the study hall rabbi, it was the clear cultural divide that marked him as modern, contaminated by American culture. As there were no clearly defined dress code other than wearing a fedora during services thrice daily Ben wore chinos, a button down shirt topped off with a corduroy sports jacket giving the appearance of one identifying with the college set, giving him the moniker "college Joe". In itself this wouldn't have been too heretical. What set him apart wasn't the beard that he sported because most of the students grew beards for religious reasons. Ben's however was deemed religious because it was offset by shoulder length hair, giving the impression that identified with the notorious Chicago Seven radicals than with conservative rabbinical students in the tradition of their European parents. Typically his classmates wore dress pants and a white shirt, giving the appearance of older people, clearly set off from the American college type.
That was how Ben appeared on that fateful morning when he walked into the study hall, except for the fact that his right arm was draped in a black armband. Demonstrating his solidarity with students nationwide in mourning for the slaughter of students at Kent State, a bold demonstration, but out of character for Ben. Known as the Kent State Massacre, four students were gunned down by the National Guard and nine others horribly wounded for demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Students all over the country were wearing black armbands on May 4, 1970 and Ben did the same on that fateful morning. Had he known that he too would be mowed down in perhaps a different manner, but nonetheless taken out of action would he have reconsidered his act? Ben hadn't the foresight to think it through. Within minutes of him entering the study hall the spiritual advisor yelling in broken English from across the large vaulted room for him to leave "immediately if not sooner". Stunned, Ben stood there frozen like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck when a friend of his nudged him into leaving before the rabbi lost it altogether. Ben's hesitancy for a split second prompted the rabbi to race over to him yelling a quoted biblical text "behukoseihem lo seilechu", roughly translated as "in their footsteps you shouldn't walk". In truth this text referred to the Israelites not following customs of other nations who practiced body tattooing, body piercing as well as refraining from dietary customs of other nations; all this with the purpose of creating their own unique culture.
That was a month ago. It was now mid June and Ben, being shunned from the study hall hadn't been back since. Actually he appreciated the opportunity to move his books out of the study hall and set up shop at his carol at the university where he was a graduate student. In the solitude of the library he was able to continue studying his rabbinical and graduate studies at a clip that surprised even him. The only catch, a blessing in disguise, was that he had to absent himself from Rabbi Streitz's marathon lectures, the room accessed through the bet midrash which he was banished from. The dean hearing of the bet midrash imbroglio summoned Ben to his office with the intention of bringing this episode to a conclusion. The dean, a zealot, principled to a fault regardless of the political fall out determined to enlighten the entire faculty and student body of the complicated issue needed first to speak with Ben.
And so, on that fateful day in mid June 1970, Ben found himself sitting on a hard wooden chair, nervous, with damp arm pits staining his button down when he was finally beckoned into the inner sanctum of he dean's study one and a half hours after first arriving. The dean was visibly upset with Ben for having missed a month of lectures. With one pithy sentence the dean brought to a conclusion the entire episode when he said, "you were clearly within your rights to identify with those students who opposed a war that had no legal justification". It was a Thursday and the dean intended to give a lecture that night in the study hall to the entire student body denouncing the war. Ben was instructed to be there, overriding the rabbi's ban.
Exiting the meeting, Ben felt vindicated and leaving, felt a bounce in his own gait, having been reprieved from termination. He wouldn't have to face his father and he could go on as before. On the other hand perhaps this episode was meant as a sign, an indication that it was time for Ben to stand on his principles, face his father and make application to a college that reflected his values. Would he be rejected or respected by his father? Reaching the proverbial fork in the road Ben returned to his room to think.


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"Which raises an important question for the Latino community today: who will be our Tyler Perry? Who is that man or woman that will take our unique point of view, life experiences and universal stories to the forefront of American culture and then – hopefully – the world? Before anyone replies with a searing criticism of the Madea films, I'm not talking about duplicating the artistic sensibility of Tyler Perry's work; I'm talking about a creative leader who capitalizes on his fundamental premise: culture-specific projects with great characters and heart."
Check out Rafael Agustín's blog in Latin Heat regarding who will be the Latino/Hispanic entertainer hyphenate who will create his/her own opportunities for Latinos/Hispanics in the media by clicking here.

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Free verse or metered, come and chime.
Look here! A brand-new prompt we'll post,
So come on back, and make a toast.
A few small words will do the trick.
You'll blog a verse or limerick.
Then post your link for all to see;
We'll read your writings here with glee!
How you keep up with all your blogs is an amazing thing Linda. Whew!ReplyDelete
That picture makes me think of closeness, messages you only whisper in the ear of a loved one. Happy. Love.
Zucchini...seems quite a few folks blogged about it for the Z post, lol. Congrats on finishing and thanks for your supportive visits, much appreciated. The art piece seems to be about secretsReplyDelete
Still rounding from A-Z through the linky this am, and though I've obviously been here, the linky didn't show I'd been here? Weird. You must be taking a break, but I have a question for you since you do the google+ thing. Running into lots of blogs that I could post comments to a week or so ago, but can't now. Apparently, there's been a default setting change on google+ and unless someone joins (which I won't be doing) you're unable to leave a comment, in some cases you can't even see the blog. I'm running into lots of comments people talking about this and not knowing how to fix it. Several folks have expressed concerned over losing contacts made during the challenge because of this, most people aren't going to join something in order to leave comments. A few people/bloggers have had means of contact beyond leaving comments and when I let them know I couldn't see blog or leave comments they were surprised by it, as they hadn't changed anything on their blogs and were unhappy to learn that had happened. A few have fixed it, but I don't remember who was who in order to find out how they fixed it to tell the others who want to fix it. I'd like to post the fix to help others and was hopeful with all your blogs you would have an answer.ReplyDelete
Here again, this time from Stanley's blog. I keep visiting but it looks like lots of folks have thrown in the towel after a-z. If you get back into it, do sing out.ReplyDelete


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When having time on hand what's better than using it creatively to your liking? The results can be absolutely satisfying!
These two ladies from Australia got together one day and between the two of them, they quickly transformed the backdrop of a room. The result… Beautiful! So, without much ado, here is how they worked their magic.
1. Buy: Painter's tape, wall paint in two or three different shades of color
2. Start by: Washing off marks from the wall. If you don't want the wall's current color as the base, you can paint the entire wall in a color of your choice.
3. Let your imagination free and stick strips of tape forming a pattern.
Paint the individual parts of the pattern in the color and order of your choice
Do not paint beyond the boundary of the tape, as it acts to separate each part of the pattern
It's a work in progress …
The final result? Isn't it a great looking wall?
This is the basic idea, why don't you try it? It's easy to live with and easy to create!
You can find out more about this painting design in the video below:


text: Are you a working woman who is always on her toes 24/7? The best way to relax and unwind on a holiday is to go and have a pedicure done. It is not only a great way to keep your feet clean but also help relax those tired feet. If you are one of those women who wonder what benefits regular pedicure routines have to offer, then this blog is for you. Here are the 5 amazing benefits you can enjoy by having a pedicure done time to time.


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Internal obstacles are supplied by the protagonist's own mind. They are difficult to overcome because most characters lack objectivity and insight into their subconscious motivations. Rarely are characters self-aware enough to know their strengths, weaknesses, and triggers. Friends and foes hold up mirrors so the character can see himself better. Friends and foes reinforce these obstacles or help overcome them. All characters have emotional triggers and cause explosions by pulling other people's emotional triggers.
Internal obstacles prevent a character from achieving his overall story or scene goal due to:
[ Internal resistance based on temperament to things that go against his natural inclinations.
[ Fears and phobias that keep him from going where he needs to go or taking the action he needs to take.
[ Desire for a personal currency that tempts him to do the wrong thing or sidelines his efforts.
[ Low self esteem, arrogance, or pride that keeps him from doing what needs to be done or makes him do things that are better left untried.
[ Psychological factors, such as conditioning, belief systems, mental illness, anxiety, depression, and addiction keep a character from seeing the situation clearly or keep him from making healthy decisions about what needs to be done or said.
In Story Building Blocks II: Crafting Believable Conflict, we explore six types of obstacles, and different types of responses, that help you craft believable conflict. We meet and warp sixteen characters and take them from cradle to grave. We will continue to explore the concepts from the Story Building Blocks Books in this blog. To learn more Story Building Blocks II is available in print and e-book format through Amazon.


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Published: 28 April 2008 at 15:41
Anglia Ruskin University is once again getting ready to welcome people from all over the East of England to its Cambridge and Chelmsford campuses for a day of discussions and activities, which will help to reveal the many higher education opportunities available to them.
The forthcoming Open Day on Saturday 17 May will allow potential students from all over the East of England to find out more about undergraduate study including options available within the growing areas of architecture and planning, construction and surveying; and Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing.
New facilities supporting these areas of study will soon be revealed including a state-of-the-art 5,000 square metre building - which will be used for student teaching from September in Chelmsford. It is the new showcase of the Faculty of Science and Technology which will include purpose built labs, studios and offices.
Acting Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology, Iain Brodie, says:
Also in Chelmsford, from September, will be the opening of the University's Advanced Technology Centre for practical study in construction and engineering. This will provide an up to the minute professional supplement to the clean lab environments that exist in the main Faculty building. One of the main areas of focus in Cambridge is the study of eyecare.
There are many courses available including Optometry, which is the profession concerned with the examination, diagnosis and treatment of functional disorders of vision; Ophthalmic Dispensing, which prepares students to become Dispensing Opticians; and Optical Management, for those students wishing to combine studies in ophthalmic dispensing with study in business, management and retail marketing.
The University is the largest provider of ophthalmic training, covering both Optometry and Ophthalmic dispensing in the East of England. It offers courses leading to professional qualifications recognised by the General Optical Council and the Association of British Dispensing Opticians.
Commenting on the developing interest in this area of study, Dr John Siderov, Head of the Department of Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing, in Cambridge, said:
Members of the University's teaching and administrative staff will be available offering information to help make informed decisions about course structure and programme start dates.
The Faculties involved in the Open Day include Arts Law and Social Sciences, Science & Technology, the Ashcroft International Business School, Education and Faculty of Health and Social Care.
Anglia Ruskin University Open Days generally attract 800-1000 prospective students to the campus plus members of their family and friends. There are four Open Days staged during the year. Each one is a key recruitment day for the University.
Those interested in attending one of the Open Days can pre-register online at www.anglia.ac.uk/openday or call 0845 271 3333 for more details on which courses are offered on which campus.


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It is an old Cross which is located near the theatre of dance. In my opinion it is very old but looks nice.
I like travelling, family history and reading books. I am ESL teacher in High Junior school and at University.
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
The old cross.
It is an old Cross which is located near the theatre of dance. In my opinion it is very old but looks nice.
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Such a gorgeous setting, too.ReplyDeleteReplies
definitely you are rightDelete
I agree the architecture is unique.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think it is folk art as Cythia saidDelete
The carvings on the cross looks like folk art. It's wonderful!ReplyDeleteReplies
Cynthia the carvings are really uniqueDelete
Lovely setting to have the statue in. Hopefully restoration will be done.ReplyDeleteReplies
Margaret i think they should restore it soonDelete
It is surrounded by nature and shady trees. A nice place to enjoy a stroll.ReplyDeleteReplies
nancy you are right the place is love with big shady treesDelete
A little piece of preserved history.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes it is history at that time it was Germany hereDelete
Very nice! And old. I am not catholic. But I searched for the blue mantle of Mary. Why is it blue? And I found this: Blue has been a color associated with royalty, peace, and nature (sea and sky).ReplyDeleteReplies
My dear friend yes you are right about the blueDelete
What a beautiful setting for it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Linda it looks great in spring autumn and summer but it winter it looks greyDelete
I think it looks old too and beautiful.ReplyDeleteReplies
totally agree with youDelete


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Deconstructing an Image, Building and destroyingI was originally was going to title this blog post "If you really believe this crap, you should probably unfriend me." I saw this image, not for the first time, on the feed of someone I considered a friend.
I was told, also not for the first time, not to take it so seriously. I'd like to deconstruct this image and explain just why the image and the sharing of it are offensive to people you know.
I'd like to start out by saying, (because I see this EVERY.TIME someone mentions that a certain turn of phrase is offensive), that I'm certainly not saying you "can't" post this or say all you want against religion.Of course you can. I strongly support free speech, and I have no power to stop you anyway. Aside from that, I'd rather know if you're an ignoramus who thinks that I'm going to teach your kids young Earth creationism, at best, and bomb you to Hell , at worst, because I'm a religious person, I'd like to know that. Just as you have the right to say it, I have the right to point out that you're being intolerant.
On to the image. The first thing it does is fuel the inaccurate stereotype that religion and science are necessarily at odds. Like most religious people I know, I fully accept evolution. Don't presume you can know a person's stance on science because they happen to belong to an organised religion.
The second, and perhaps worst thing it does, is paint all religious people with the same crazy hate brush. It doesn't say "religious extremists". It doesn't say " some religious people". It doesn't even say "Muslims". The wording of the image does NOTHING to tell me the creator makes any distinction between an extreme jihadist and the Catholic Worker who chains herself to a missile.
Lastly, it pays no attention to the role of people, whether religious or not, played in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. From the first responders to the people who rebuilt, it was PEOPLE. People of strong religious faith, people with strong faith that humans were their own agency, and everything in between. Those PEOPLE are the ones who did the rebuilding and they come from all paths of belief.
Now, I get that if you've had bad experiences with religious people, you may very well get a chuckle or nod your head in agreement when you see such comments. Hey, I laugh at ALL kinds of things I know are too offensive to share.But think before you post such things. Who will you be offending? Why would you even be friends with them if you feel that way about "people like them"? If it helps, mentally replace the word "religious", or a specific religion, with an ethnicity, or gay, or disabled. Would you still say it?
See also: Crazy Hate Brush
I wanted to edit this in light of a comment a friend made in regard to this post. The friend stated that "Religious people should be ashamed of the atrocities committed in the name of their religion" This is my response:
I think it would be more useful to say religious people should be mindful of those atrocities, and that all abuses of power, whether by religious or secular authorities, should be condemned by people whether religious or secular.(And brought to light, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and if needed, see the hierarchy changed to prevent further abuse.) While I feel horror and disgust at abuses of power, to suggest I ought to feel "shame" would be like me suggesting scientists should feel shame at how everyone from slaveowners to the Nazi party twisted science to claim some people are less human than others (while many of those people risking or losing their lives to save and liberate happened to be Christians) . I would sound silly I f I said that, wouldn't I?


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Pink Skinny Jeans
Pair these with a striped boatneck tee and ballet flats for a very Audrey moment.
Posted by Beth Connolly at 8:00 AM
Labels: Audrey Hepburn, Kate Spade, Pink
1 comment:
- Merlin said...
That IS the look!!! franki
- March 10, 2012 at 11:48 AM
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1 Dead, 2 injured during weekend hikingPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- One man died, and two other people were treated for injuries Sunday in what proved to be a dangerous day for Valley hikers.
A 58-year-old man was hiking at Spur Cross in Cave Creek when he reportedly fell approximately 10 feet. The man's friends performed CPR, but paramedics weren't able to save his life.
A 50-year-old woman who was hiking Piestawa Peak also needed medical attention after she slipped and hit her head. Fortunately, she was able to walk down the mountain with rescuers.
Rescue crews were also needed at the Cholla Trail on Camelback Mountain when a 37-year-old woman fainted, fell, and hurt her arm. The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment for her injuries.
Phoenix fire officials said the warmer weather has led to a lot more hikers this weekend, which results in a lot of loose gravel on the trails.
They advise those that want to get out and enjoy the Valley's many hiking options to pick a trail they are able to navigate.
"You should try on ones that are not quite as steep, not quite as challenging if you're just entry level in exercise," said Tony Mure with Phoenix Fire.


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(11-17-2016, 11:25 PM)kickerofelves Wrote: Ah okay, so was it just a list of all 4/8mbit games rather than a list of games you'd tested and found problems with? I couldn't tell from the original context. Anyway I just tested Magical Drop and Picture Puzzle very briefly and they seemed to work.
As Far as I know, all the games are working... But all games under 16mbits will suffer from save game issue.
They will always fail the writing part (only cotton known for testing if the data are good after calling the bios write function).


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Thank god he was wearing a helmet.
Kid in the black top tries to jump the gap, he makes it by using his face as an extender.
Chick tries to overtake and lands flat on her face.
After some liquid courage, Kelly thought she would take her turn sliding down the stairs.
Chick hits her face hard.
If she sings as good as she walks stairs her career will end pretty damn soon.
Chick thinks she's a monkey, karma takes her down.
Again, I've never seen a pole like that in a kitchen before...
Brain freeze for the muthafuckin' win.
Fatty tries to skateboard, but ends up face first into the trunk of a car.
Now he's getting his rice trough a straw.
You would say she's used to getting sprayed in the face like that.
Drunk biker takes a devastating spill on the highway.
This kid gives a shot at a stunt I have yet to see completed successfully.
Modeling is difficult. You have to put your left foot in front of the right foot, and then you have to put the right foot in front of the left.
Women and ski's almost as bad as women and cars.
Even if women don't operate the vehcile themselves they seem to fuck it up.
Ok you got me the faceplant was pretty lame, but damn that girl is sexy.
She's been doing perfect back flips all day then when it's time for the live show she fails twice in a row!
How was that possible, nobody could ever see that coming.
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Yes! We moved in! FINALLY! There is still so much more to do (and still more stuff to pack and move), but the place is livable and we are slowly settling in.
I want to finish a few things before I take pictures of our kitchen, bedroom, living room, dining area, bathroom and other areas to share with the internets. In the mean time, I figured I could give you a run down of the rest of our floor refinishing project.
After we sanded all the floors, we removed all the dust from the rooms. We wiped down the walls, the trim and any nook and cranny where dust might settle. For the floors, we first swept them with a broom, then followed with a shop vac.
Just to be sure we got everything, we went over the entire floor with a tack cloth. Any dust left behind could end up settling in the poly coat, making the floor feel rough. We wanted to avoid that as much as possible.
We tried a few different brands and really liked the ones made by 3M. We found them at Ace Hardware.
The next step was to cover the floors with a few coats of polyurethane to protect them and give them that purdy, glossy shine. We decided not to stain them because we wanted the look of the natural wood to show as much as possible.
For our floors, we used a water-based poly. We picked water-based over oil-based because we wanted something that was fast-drying and low on odor. Oil-based polys are more durable, but really stink up the place, take longer to fully cure and aren't as easy to clean up.
We bought this at Home Depot for about $38 a bottle. I think we used four of five bottles to do all of the wood floors in the house. That's six rooms and the stairs.
The first coat went on quickly. We did it mop-style by using a Water Wiz attached to a pole. We bought those at Home Depot, too.
We applied the poly with the grain and were careful to work our way out of each room by starting in the corner farthest from the door.
The polyurethane looked like watered down Elmer's glue, was a little cloudy during the application and dried clear. We put it in a paint pan to make it easier to load our applicator.
To cover the areas where the applicator wouldn't reach, or to smooth out any drips or poly build up, we used a small paint brush.
After the first coat completely dried (we let it go overnight), we had to sand the floors again. The reason was that the bare wood expands and the grain rises when it absorbs the polyurethane. The floor was very rough after the first coat and sanding is standard practice.
We used 220 grit sandpaper and did the work through a combination of hand sanding and using a small palm sander. We sanded lightly along the grain until the result was a smooth finish.
Then, it was a repeat of the dust removal process. There wasn't much dust to clean up, but we still swept, ran the shop vac and used a tack cloth. Dust is bad!
As you could assume, we used the same techniques as the first coat when we added two more coats of polyurethane. With the water-based poly, we didn't have to sand between coats as long as we did them within six hours of each other. The floors dried enough to walk on in about an hour, so we jumped right into both coats in one evening.
The floors had to cure for a few days before we could move in furniture. We probably let them sit for about a week just to give them plenty of time to cure.
The results are fabulous! I am so tickled pink with how nice our floors turned out! I love them!
It's a big change from what they were before.
The dining room floor after one pass of the drum sander. The edges hadn't been sanded at this point, but you can see how bad the floors were when we pulled up the carpet.
I'm really proud of the work we did on the floors, but don't get me wrong---it kicked our butts! Especially the sanding part. That is some hard labor. But, it's so nice to have beautiful hardwood floors throughout our house! I love the warm, welcoming feeling they provide and the small monetary investment of DIY floor refinishing (which for us, it was about $500 in sandpaper, rentals, supplies and materials) was more than worth it. Carpeting or professional refinishing services would never have been as affordable.
Did I mention how much I love the floors?!?!?


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I was surprised to find a copy of The Lost Symbol in circulation at my library and decided I might as well grab it. It was a quick read, although there really is only about 90 minutes' worth of story in it; it might as well have been written as a screenplay, right down to Brown's apparent casting choice of Morgan Freeman for the character of Warren Bellamy.
Masons should read this book. Yes, the characters are cardboard, the writing awkward and full of repetitious clichés, the cliffhanger scenarios and plot twists overly wrought, but we should be able to discuss it intelligently with non-Masons whose first impressions, for better or worse, have been formed by it. And I did like a couple of things about the book, and the involvement of our fraternity in it.
*** Spoiler Alert ***
(Don't read further if you want to read the book or watch the movie yourself.)
Dan Brown resisted what would have been an easy plot device to run with; the old tin-foil hat trope about the real purpose of Masonry (world domination) only being revealed to "high ranking Masons" while all the Masons outside the inner circle foolishly believe it's just a harmless social club.
Brown does throw the phrase "high ranking Mason" around a lot, and he does write about there being inner circles within Freemasonry, but in this story these inner circles are all about gaining and guarding wisdom, not power. Maybe fiction, but one I can work with if guys start showing up at my lodge asking how they can get one of those neat 33º rings. The world domination kooks? There's no working with them... just ask the crazy lady who keeps showing up at my lodge's open houses, trying to trick us into revealing something sinister.
And when it comes to the MacGuffin, the actual Lost Symbol that gives the book its title, it turns out in the end that there is no Lost Word which can be uttered to unlock the "Ancient Mysteries." The mysteries are encoded in all of the religious texts of the ages, hidden in plain sight and waiting for mankind to learn how to see them again. Veiled in allegory and illustrated with symbols, if you will.
On one hand, this is as cheesy and anticlimactic as holiday specials which end with someone saying "The true meaning of Christmas is within ALL of us!" On the other, isn't this what we experience when we take the degrees ourselves? We take long obligations which sternly admonish us never to reveal the secrets of Freemasonry unlawfully... but once we're given those actual, specific secrets they're a little anticlimactic too, as Brother Michael Halleran writes in his wonderful essay John Quincy Adams, Masonry & The Free, Invisible Car:
But there is another group of men who have passed through the west door: these men are under the impression that when they reach the third degree they will be given the spiritual equivalent of a new car, and when they find that this is not the case, they lose interest rapidly. Perhaps they see the lessons and lectures we give as essentially frivolous, or perhaps they don't understand them.


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- Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, in a new adaptation by David Scott Marley, at Berkeley Opera, playing on Feb. 28 (8 p.m.), March 4 (7:30 p.m.), March 6 (8 p.m.), and March 8 (2 p.m.) at the Julia Morgan Theater on College Avenue.
- Other Minds Festival, March 5 - 7 at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco.
- California Bach Society performs music of Biber and Steffani, March 13 to 15, in SF, Palo Alto, and Berkeley.
- Chant Camp! Really! A day of chant practice with Susan Hellauer and Marsha Genensky of Anonymous 4, sponsored by San Francisco Renaissance Voices, on Saturday, April 18, at Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church, SF. $60 for the day. The announcement says that "topics covered in the workshop include: singing from original notation; medieval Vespers hymns; Frankish tropes and sequences; Hungarian plainchant; Hildegard of Bingen; chant for St. James from the magnificent Codex Calixtinus; prayer tones; the Marian antiphons of Compline; and plenty of group singing to solidify what you learn." Um, wow.
Lisa Hirsch's Classical Music Blog.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
Opinions expressed on this blog are mine and not my employer's.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Coming Up
5 comments:
- Tor Hershman said...
Lisa, "...hath told," or "...hath tolled"? Either could be correct though 'tolled' is the more commonly used.
- February 23, 2009 at 11:02:00 AM PST
- Lisa Hirsch said...
My Riverside Shakespeare says "told," so I'm sticking with that.
- February 23, 2009 at 11:22:00 AM PST
Did you get to go to the harpsichord recital we told you about?
- February 24, 2009 at 1:08:00 AM PST
- Lisa Hirsch said...
Alas, no.
- February 24, 2009 at 3:42:00 AM PST
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
- February 26, 2009 at 3:51:00 AM PST
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Apollyon Impact by cosmicboundWatch
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Wallpaper of the impact from Apollyon.
Feedback is welcome!
24/4/07 - Added a higher quality version of the image.
Feedback is welcome!
24/4/07 - Added a higher quality version of the image.
This is one of the most impressive pieces of artwork I've ever seen in my life.
Hey, this looks like my desktop......
Because I made it my desktop. Thanks!
Because I made it my desktop. Thanks!
why the hell the words "Falcon Punch Collision" came to my mind when i saw this picture?I wonder...
I think you did an excellent job on the plumb
Fantastic !!!
oh sh*t... that looks hot
very good piece, but I would work more the background the rest looks perfect.
There's such a sense of power within this image - not so much what looks like the burst flying outwards from the impact point, but the ripple that is emerging from it. I would love to have seen an animation of this, showing the ripple making it's way from one side to the other.
Fantastic image!
Fantastic image!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the subtleties of the piece. Ah, imagination will have to do in animating it for the time being, even so, it works quite well. A nice idea, and perhaps even better, imagine the apollyon of endless flames hitting a multitude of other planets, as well as this one, and flowing amidst many stars. Quite an enjoyable thought in its overall quality.
this is very hot and nice
Oh my god! Thats the most amazing thing Ive EVER seen!!
Wow this is amazing...great work
wow!! great job,impressive
1680x1050 version PLEASE!!
i think ive never said it.. but... after all these months of browsing, THIS is still my most favourite impact!
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there are indeed.. but this one is the best because of the bright sunlike color, the shockwave, the fireburst and of course the details.. just amazing
Terrific, exhilirating image. You did a great job on it.
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The picture is marvelous. The world in flames. unbelievably. More, more, give me more
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can u give me a link of ur brushes???
<3 wannabe xD
can u give me a link of ur brushes???
<3 wannabe xD
It's awesome!!!
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wow.. that's dope!!!
Holy cow! ... *staring my eyes out*
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The explosion is great and the lighting and color are kick ass...im gonna fave it
the background looks kind of like eyes of a mask and claws or something.. maybe its just me..
beautiful piece though
beautiful piece though


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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and SocietyVolume 2010 (2010), Article ID 640594, 18 pagesdoi:10.1155/2010/640594
1School of Information Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China2School of Mathematical Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China3School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China4Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Econometrics, Bioinformatics Factory, University of Zielona Gora, Szafrana 4a, 65-516 Zielona Gora, Poland
Received 2 May 2010; Accepted 19 August 2010
Academic Editor: Francisco Solis
Copyright © 2010 Yuan Tian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The control of substrate concentration in the bioreactor medium should be
due to the substrate inhibition phenomenon. Moreover, the oxygen demand
in a bioreactor should be lower than the dissolved oxygen content. The
biomass concentration is one of the most important factors which affect the
oxygen demand. In order to maintain the dissolved oxygen content in an
appropriate range, the biomass concentration should not exceed a critical
level. Based on the design ideas, a mathematical model of a chemostat with
Monod-type kinetics and impulsive state feedback control for microorganisms
of any biomass yield is proposed in this paper. By the existence criteria
of periodic solution of a general planar impulsive autonomous system, the
conditions for the existence of period-1 solution of the system are obtained.
The results simplify the choice of suitable operating conditions for continuous
culture systems. It also points out that the system is not chaotic according to
the analysis on the existence of period-2 solution. The results and numerical
simulations show that the chemostat system with state impulsive control
tends to a stable state or a period solution.


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Monday, March 31, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Assembly Gallery Show April 19th
Art gallery show at The Assembly
April 19th
San Diego, the land of Marines and beaches
It's me and 1 guy artist with a gallery all to our selves in beautiful Hillcrest , San Diego.
As soon as I can get my camera to work I'll put up pictures.
The theme I'm going with with this show is oceanic and it will all mostly be in color....I just liked this little thing I sketched.
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Childhood Memories_Neoepts show April 10th
"Childhood Memories"Neopets group show April 10th
I have a 2 pieces in this show, pictures to come soon.
The show is held at Nickelodeon Studios 5-7pm open reception
This picture isn't in the show....I just put it here because I feel like it
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Power In Numbers Show April 12
I have 2 pieces in the Power in Numbers show at Gallery Nucleus. Click on picture to get info on the show
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|National Wind Technology Center - Colorado
A wind turbine blade being installed at NREL facility.
The "shutdown" was partly caused by Congress when they allowed the Production Tax Credit to expire at the end of 2012. The tax credit provides incentives for wind power production. The lack of stability over the regulation of wind energy has created a difficult and unclear path for the industry.
However, 2013 is seeing a surge in wind power investments. Congress renewed the Production Tax Credit in January, spurring activity. Tom Clark, CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. said, "We are seeing acceleration of buyers of wind power in Colorado to get their projects up and running to get within the window covered by the credit." This is will provide jobs for many of those who had been laid off.
Vestas Wind Systems has several large facilities within Colorado and has just received its largest wind-turbine order from Canada. Vestas had also laid off hundreds of employees in 2012. The contracted order is for 166 V100-1.8 wind turbines as well as a 20 year maintenance agreement for the Blackspring Ridge Wind Project near Lethbridge, Alberta.
The Production Tax Credit and Vesta's large contract are bringing jobs to Windsor, Brighton and Pueblo, Colorado.
Angelica Oman
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Pop-up Dinners
Bumps and bright spots off menu
by Lee Lawrence
From the August, 2013 issue
"Pop-up dinner." For me, the name suggested a tantalizing meal, conjured out of the air with sleight-of-hand wizardry by a chef wannabe in an inspired setting. My husband's mind, though, leapt immediately to Pop-Tarts.
Once I'd explained the concept--a temporary dinner, usually held outside a conventional restaurant facility--his mind sprang to hard chairs, crowded tables, and forced conversation with strangers. I was trying to cajole him into spending his birthday at just such a dinner, but my naturally gregarious, extrovert spouse was unusually resistant.
The venue for the proposed dinner was intriguing--the Ann Arbor Club above Main Street, a bit of old Ann Arbor neither of us had ever seen. The chef was Brad Greenhill, a fellow we had heard spoken of in glowing terms but whose food we had never tasted. The meal was pricey but potentially subsidized by the Observer. What more could it take to sway someone? Eventually I convinced him that duty called--my duty, that is, as a reviewer--and we booked two reservations, one vegetarian, one regular, along with the optional drinks package.
Unfortunately, the evening, a warm spring night in May, did not begin well. We had reserved space at the second seating, and, though we arrived promptly at 9:15, the first seating didn't exit as promptly; we weren't seated until nearly 10. Along with the other trappings of a conventional restaurant, this pop-up dinner lacked a host or maitre d' to soothe us with reassuring words, a cocktail, or the promise of a free dessert. But the lively, friendly group at our long communal table eventually prevailed over my husband's initial grumpiness. We ended up having a splendid, if unorthodox, birthday dinner.
We had ordered the vegetarian option not because either of us is vegetarian but because it sounded delicious and allowed us to sample more of the cuisine. In fact, in the first course, in which crispy pressed tofu replaced chicken wings in nearly identical sauces of Calabrian chilis, honey, and fried
garlic (with soy replacing anchovy as the salty element), the tofu outshone its opposition. If I had been home, I would have licked both plates clean of their sauce.
Fresh garbanzos followed, roasted in their shells, seasoned heavily with sea salt, Szechuan pepper, and Aleppo chili powder. We held the beans in our mouth, pinching the casings until the garbanzos slid out, seasoned by the spicing that clung to the shells. More vegetables arrived--crispy asparagus dotted with chimichurri sauce, toasted bread crumbs, and a dollop of yogurt, and a small pile of deliciously charred carrots stunningly paired with pistachios, lemon, mint, and shavings of fiore sardo cheese.
The noodle course--pad thai--brought another vegetarian/meat divergence. The N'awlins (carnivore) version gilded the dish with robust hunks of pork belly and a fried oyster, while the Farmer's (vegetarian) option scrambled a duck egg into the mix. The main courses brought us rabbit alla porchetta, the meat wrapped in speck, thin slices of cured, smoked ham, or, in the vegetarian meal, smoked wild mushrooms, both flavored with preserved lemon and garnished with fennel and arugula. We divided the two plates equally and, eating the rabbit and mushrooms together, had the best meals in the house.
After so much inventive and delicious food, we found the dessert a bit too esoteric--the birch-sap granita (ice) was bitter yet oddly insipid, with matching berries and a discordant coconut creme. For the most part we enjoyed the optional beverages, a selection of cocktails, wine, and beer designed by David Landrum of Detroit's Two James distillery to complement each course, and if each drink didn't necessarily suit our tastes, it certainly offered an interesting pairing with the food.
An awkward part of this type of pop-up dinner can be service. Although your meal might cost as much as it would at a fine dining establishment, the extensive trained staff simply doesn't exist. Fine points of service go by the wayside, but the convivial party atmosphere hopefully makes up for that deficiency.
Zingerman's Events on Fourth occasionally offers another type of pop-up dinner, one with a limited, unique menu but with a full bar available and a staff of congenial, if untutored, servers. I missed a Brinery dinner in May, but a friend and I went to one in March put on by San Street, Zingerman's Asian food offshoot. Five-dollar glasses of wine won our votes over pricier exotic cocktails as we perused the menu, which featured the regional Korean cuisine of Kaesong, an old court city in what is now North Korea. We decided to order one of each item off the short menu.
Best by far was the jorangi rice cake soup, a deep, rich oxtail broth loaded with tender pillows of figure-eight-shaped rice flour cakes--absolutely savory and comforting. Gosoo gutjuri, a cilantro salad in spicy dressing, provided a striking juxtaposition, the bright, fresh, green flavor of the herb contrasting beautifully with the dressing's dried red chilis. We also loved Kaesong moo jjim, a flavorful slow braise of unctuous pork, beef, and chicken in soy and garlic, served with rice. A vegetarian version with large chunks of tofu and vegetables, however, was boring, the sauce lacking flavor and body. Both meat and mushroom pyunsoo, traditional square dumplings, were also disappointing, the encasing dough mostly uncooked, the meat filling unremarkable, though the mushroom one was nicely tangy. Prices for all the dishes were reasonable, and although our waitress knew nothing about the unusual food she was serving, she was friendly and pleasant.
Since last year, San Street has also shown up Tuesday nights at The Bar at 327 Braun Court, which hosts a hybrid of the pop-up concept, one with a fairly regular schedule. Cafe Memmi, another Zingerman's offshoot featuring Tunisian food, stars on Thursdays. And for the last few months, Central Provisions, a duo in search of a regular gig, has provided food on Wednesday nights. Besides the space, the bar, of course, provides excellent cocktails and helps with service. Be warned that, especially during the school year, the crowd can overwhelm the cozy, intimate place, and the music level, which starts out loud, grows even louder as the evening wears on and the clientele gets younger. Also, the food is served on the second floor, with no handicap accessibility.
Colleagues had raved about Central Provisions, and I looked forward to trying its fare, which is based on seasonal flavors. Two friends joined me one Wednesday in June. With three of us and a menu of just six dishes, we ordered one of everything.
Crostini with homemade ricotta, lemon, and garlic scapes came out first, a lovely paean to spring. Herb salad with rye croutons, beets, pickled asparagus, and a caraway dressing offered sharp, earthy contrasts, and the pork rillettes that followed were satisfying, if lacking in depth of flavor. We found the romesco that garnished roasted zucchini a dull version of that typically robust sauce, and the steamed mussels with a garlicky tomato sauce, white beans, chilis, and mint fine but not outstanding. Dessert, described as pistachio shortcake, was really a scone, quite nice, and nicely paired with whipped cream and a strawberry-rhubarb jam. While all the food was carefully prepared and tasty, nothing "wowed" us that night, but I trust my colleagues, so I intend to try Central Provisions again, later in the season, when Michigan produce is at its height.
On the other hand, later that month Cafe Memmi did thrill us with similarly careful preparation and extraordinary tastes. Fried chickpeas, accented with a bazaar's worth of spices and fried in olive oil, were addictive--crispy on the outside, creamy within. Ajlook, a salad composed of long shavings of raw zucchini, summer squash, and onions dressed in a preserved lemon vinaigrette, fairly sparkled with bright flavors. Preserved lemon also accented the tomato sauce of ojja aux petits pois, eggs scrambled in that seasoned sauce and dotted with peas. Brick au maquereau featured a fragile, incredibly delicate semolina pastry leaf masking smoked mackerel and rounds of new potatoes, garnished with a raw radish and turnip salad. Dessert brought fresh strawberries drowning in a pool of lemon balm custard. From beginning to end, we could not have been more delighted with the meal.
Pop-up dinners, then, are an adventure--this one a cross between friendly dinner party and fine dining restaurant, another an indoor journey to an exotic locale or a celebration of the season. Perhaps you join old friends or make new ones. But because all of these dinners are put on by people who like to cook, yearn to cook, and who hope, one day, to have their own restaurants, the one guarantee is that ingredients will be thoughtfully considered, the dishes meticulously constructed and the dinner a personal expression of the chef's vision.
Brad Greenhill
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Multi-course dinner approximately $60/person, with an optional $20 beverage package
Zingerman's Events on Fourth
Email alerts at zingermanscommunity.com
Dishes about $5-$15
The Bar at 327 Braun Court
Pop-up schedules on Facebook and Twitter
Dishes about $5-$18
[Originally published in August, 2013.]
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Over at The Rap Sheet, the hardest working editor in Crime Fiction, Jeff Peirce is running a wonderful homage to Elmore Leonard, featuring many names from the genre all paying their respects.
Included in part one of this feature is a contribution by the Shots Editors -
I was fortunate to have met Elmore Leonard a few years ago in
when the British Crime Writers' Association presented him with its Diamond
Dagger award for lifetime achievement. My friend and Shots editor Mike Stotter
was excited that day. He had been heavily influenced by Leonard's work, and it
had even given him the confidence to pen his
own Westerns, all the way from London . London
Mike went on to write about that event for Shots, recalling:
I managed to grab five minutes with Dutch and I told him that he was my inspiration in writing Westerns, and he was genuinely pleased. I also had with me a hardback copy of The Fatal Frontier, which contained my very first short story (actually an extract from
's Revenge, my
first full-length Western). I asked Dutch to sign it for me. He took a look at
the cover, and said, "This is an odd one." To which I replied, "It's the first
anthology in which I have a story published alongside you." He laughed and
said, "Well, a Brit Western writer. Well done." McKinney
Read part one of The Rap Sheet's Homage to Elmore Leonard here
Photos © A Karim 10th May 2006 The
London , Elmore Leonard receiving the CWA
Diamond Dagger Award [for lifetime achievment from Monsieur Arnaud Bamberger
of Cartier [Top]; Colin Dexter listening to Elmore Leonard's acceptance speech; Mike Stotter and Elmore Leonard and at bottom, London critics Barry Forshaw, Ali Karim and Mike Stotter congratulating Elmore 'Dutch' Leonard for his outstanding contribution to the Crime Fiction Genre Savoy
So let us celebrate the legacy Elmore Leonard left us, and as we imagine him riding into the sunset, remember he is leaving behind some wonderful writing and cinematic works for future generations to discover.


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Emerson to Help Design Six Major Data Centers for Datacraft in India
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I haven't been writing many blog posts lately as I simply haven't had much time but I will endeavour to write more about how things are going. That is what this blog is all about after all - the writing journey!
Writing has helped keep my mind occupied which is very valuable at this time. Ella is settled in school and is doing really well. Her reading is getting much better which is great - she will soon be ready to provide some feedback about the stories before they are published and do some editing!
Larry the Liger's journey began at the end of last year with his first story, The New Home. The book was very well received and his second adventure, The New Friend, has received fantastic reviews too. I couldn't be much happier with how Larry's journey has begun.
Sales were very good in December of both Larry the Liger and Anastasia, and the books continue to sell.
I recently ran a free promotion of The New Friend which went amazingly well and was very pleased when Ella's primary school teacher downloaded it. Another teacher at the school stopped me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would read to the school in their Book Week which I said yes to without hesitation! They run a book week to coincide with National Book Day on March 7th and Anthony Browne is another author who will be visiting the school that day.
We have arranged for some promotional things to help Larry the Liger make more new friends and they look great. I am awaiting delivery of one more thing and then I will be posting details of a special competition so look out for it in the near future.
I am currently finishing off the next Anastasia story for Series IV and will then be finishing the next Larry the Liger story. It's all very exciting and it's great to be receiving some wonderful new reviews. The latest review is one of my favourites so far:
"5.0 out of 5 stars Warm, charming, and skillfully written ... February 25, 2013By Ginger Myrick
What a warm, charming, and skillfully written children's story about fitting in and finding new friends! Larry the Liger is a newcomer to his household and struggles to find his place in it. It is a situation with which most children will relate whether it pertains to home life, school, playgroups, or recreational activities. What I really appreciate about the book is that the tone is not overly elementary or condescending but written in a way to engage the target and provoke thought and further investigation. I have always had a fascination with children's books and someday hope to write one myself. I only hope I can create the lovely balance of simplicity and cleverness of this book that held my interest to the very end. What a fabulous introduction to a series that is sure to become a classic!"
Many thanks to everyone who has downloaded Larry and enjoyed his stories so far. As always, reviews are very welcome and do help others to make friends with Larry the Liger and Anastasia too.
Loving the journey. When opportunity knocks - open that door. You never know where it may lead...


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So here I am trying to do the whole blog thing. I'm super new to this so I am just going to go what is on the top of my head. My name is Jon, and I just made the move to Sacramento from Santa Cruz, and it's going much better than I expected. Got a good job, meeting new people, all and all, really can't complain. Other than work I love to skateboard. It is the funnest and most mentally challenging yet cleansing activity to ever be created. Everyone who really does it knows, and to the rest of you that haven't tried it or disagree, I almost feel bad for you, but if you all did it too, all the skateparks and spots would be way too crowded so please continue hating. Other than Skating, I love music. Not necessarily performing it, but listening to it. My favorite band in the whole world is Coheed and Cambria. Their music just speaks to me, and it is the greatest music to have in your ipod while you are shredding the gnar. I really love all music though. From Stevie Wonder to Celly Cell and almost everything in between. Music is the second greatest thing ever created. If you can't figure out the first, you don't deserve to know.
Til we speak again, stay real out there
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Shakespeare Symposium Set for Nov. 16-17
Nov. 13, 2012
The 20th annual California State University Shakespeare Symposium Nov. 16-17 at Cal State Fullerton will feature discussions by CSU professors and students on Shakespeare at the cinema, language games, Machiavellianism, the supernatural, witchcraft, gender roles, sexuality, political revolution and quantum physics. The event is open to the public.
The keynote speaker is author and Shakespeare expert Naomi Conn Liebler, who will present "Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies."
Nov. 16-17
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. both days
Cal State Fullerton, University Hall, Rooms 250 and 252
800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, 92831
Schedule Highlights:
Friday, Nov. 16
10:40 a.m. "Shakespeare and Parallel Realms"
Panelists: Lloyd E. Kermode, Cal State Long Beach assistant professor of English, discusses "Parallel Reality in Shakespeare"; Kay Stanton, CSUF professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, shares "Shakespeare's Quantum Physics: Merry Wives as a Feminist 'Parallel Universe' of 2 Henry IV." Room 250
1 p.m. "Discoveries"
Panelists: Sally Romotsky, CSUF emeritus professor of English and comparative literature, presents "The Lost Gown and Shakespeare's Prince Hal"; Marlin Blaine, CSUF associate professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, discusses "Shakespeare in Jonson's Discoveries: Jonsonian Imitation and the Construction of the Critical Self"; and Catherine Winiarski, CSUF lecturer in English, comparative literature and linguistics, reads "Adultery, Agape and Christian Supersession in Othello." Room 252
Saturday, Nov. 17
12:30 p.m. Shakespeare Tea Luncheon
1:30 p.m. Keynote address by author and Shakespeare expert Naomi Conn Liebler, "Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies." Room 252
Registration is $15 per person and includes a "Shakespeare Tea Luncheon" hosted by the As You Like It Shakespeare Society.
$2 per hour or $8 for a daily permit Friday, Nov. 16. Parking is free Saturday, Nov. 17. Details are available online .
Cal State Fullerton's English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics Department and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Inter-Club Council
More Information:
Contact the English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics Department, 657-278-3163 or Kay Stanton , 657-278-2454.
Media Contact:
Mimi Ko Cruz , 657-278-7586


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By Kevin Drawbaugh
(Reuters) - Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who has renounced his U.S. citizenship, was accused on Thursday by two U.S. senators of dodging taxes on Facebook stock-market profits.
When the company goes public on Friday, Saverin will make a fortune. Bloomberg first reported last week he had renounced his citizenship and, in so doing, may avoid U.S. taxes on the initial public offering.
"It's infuriating to see someone sell out the country that welcomed him and kept him safe, educated him and helped him become a billionaire," said Senator Charles Schumer at a news briefing. "We plan to put a stop to this tax avoidance scheme."
Facebook plans to raise billions of dollars in an initial public offering that could leave Saverin, still a part-owner of the social networking company, with a big capital gains tax bill, estimated to be $67 million.
Brazilian-born Saverin was educated in the United States and became an American citizen. In college, he co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and others.
Saverin now lives in Singapore, which has no capital gains tax. The long-term U.S. capital gains tax for high-income Americans is a minimum of 15 percent.
A Saverin spokesman said in an email that he would try to provide comment on Saverin's behalf later on Thursday.
Saverin has said that his relocation to Singapore was for business investment reasons, not to avoid taxes.
Schumer and Senator Bob Casey, both Democrats, said at the briefing that they were proposing legislation to crack down on what they see as expatriate tax avoidance.
Under the bill, expatriates worth $2 million or more, or with average income tax liability exceeding $148,000 over the past five years, would be presumed to have renounced their citizenship for tax avoidance purposes.
These high-income expatriates would get a chance to prove otherwise to the Internal Revenue Service, but if they could not do so, then they would face a 30-percent tax on future investment gains, no matter where they were residing.
So long as the taxpayers failed to pay these taxes, they would not be allowed to re-enter the United States.
"We simply cannot allow the ultra-wealthy to write their own rules," Casey said.
"Mr. Saverin has benefited greatly from being a citizen of the United States but he has chosen to cast it aside and leave U.S. taxpayers with the bill. Renouncing citizenship to simply avoid paying your fair share is an insult to middle class Americans and we will not accept it," he said.
In a related matter, Democratic Senator Carl Levin criticized in a written statement what he said would be a $16 billion tax deduction going to Facebook via its IPO. That would result, he said, from a loophole that lets corporations claim a stock option tax deduction greater than the expense shown on their books. Levin has filed legislation to close this loophole, but it has made little headway in the Senate.
Broader proposals to reform the complex U.S. tax code for the first time since 1986 also have not advanced in Congress, with lawmakers at a stalemate on a range of issues because of stubborn partisan divisions on tax and spending policy.
(Reporting By Kevin Drawbaugh in Washington; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)


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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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Have you noticed the cultural changes that have come about over recent years? I am approaching my 60th year as I write this. As I look back over my life I realise that there have been vast transformations to the way that people live today. Added to that, the church is changing as well. Some of it is good and some of it could be considered to be the opposite. The Apostle Paul demonstrated that he was well aware of cultural differences when he spoke to the philosophers of his day.
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah," he said. Acts 17: 2-3
As the way of life continues to change, we need to be mindful of the ways that we communicate the Gospel so that it is effective. I am not saying that we alter the message so that it becomes easier to hear because it is more acceptable and palatable. I am making the important point that we need to be more culturally relevant and contextualise what we are communicating.
A simple way of explaining culture would be to say that it is, "The way of life of a group of people".
Key point: There are cultural differences right on our doorstep, in the towns and cities where we live
You probably have met people who go on holidays to different countries explaining that they would like to experience a different culture. There will of course, be many differences between a western country compared to places like Africa and the Far East for example. I believe that we need to remember is the fact that there are cultural differences right on our doorstep in the towns and cities where we live.
The trend in recent years, when discussing methods of evangelism has been to consider the roles of modernity and post-modernity in society. In other words how modern culture has changed over the years and its effect on people hearing, understanding and appropriating the Gospel message.
In my role as a teacher of adults over the years, I became aware that younger people viewed the world and tended to think quite differently from the way that I did. Very often they would have a completely different outlook on life with more liberal views and a very different use of language. Besides that, today people are more aware of religious differences as well as having more modern views on marriage, gender and much more.
The fact is though, that all people need Jesus. "There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved." Acts 4: 12
It makes good sense then to consider the way that we share the message of the Gospel so that people are more willing to listen. We can open the door for doing that on a one to one basis, by building relationships and bridges so that we can share our faith with people who have developed trust and faith in us.
When opportunities do arise and we are able to talk about Jesus, it is worth considering contextualising the message we share so that the Gospel can do its work.
Contextualisation is a way to tailor the presentation of the Gospel message to the wider sociological context in order to achieve a greater understanding and, therefore, a greater acceptance of it. In other words, to consider how other people live so that we can communicate in a way that is relevant and understandable.
For example, I could stand on a street corner with a microphone in an area that is culturally different from my own shouting, "Jesus can sort your life out. He loves you and He wants to live in your hearts. He really does"!
As believers, we know that all of that is true. Jesus can get our lives into order when we accept Him, and we understand that He definitely desires to come into our hearts. We also know without a doubt that He loves us because He took our place on the cross when He died to make a way for us to have eternal life with Him.
Making the statement about Jesus sorting out our lives in the way I have said, would probably mean that it would go right over many people's heads because it is quite possible that they had never heard the Gospel before, or even be aware of who Jesus is. So it is vital that we not only think about what we say, as well as how we say it so that we can reach people who need Jesus.
Today some churches refuse to adapt music or programs to their surrounding cultures. The Gospel truth always remains, but very often it is fixed in a rigid framework that hardly allows any room to contextualise. At the other end of the scale, there can be over adaptation where the message is presented in ways that are more easily understood by the people who are listening, but the truth is sometimes compromised. Without a doubt, the latter is dangerous.
It is evident then that we need to find a balance. We must be able to present the message in ways that are easily understood while ensuring that the truth remains distinct from untruth. It is essential that the truth of the Gospel must always remain while aiming to share it in a culturally relevant manner, making no attempt to "sanitise or sweeten" the message of the cross in order to avoid offending people. "But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles" 1 Corinthians 1.23
Scripture shows us that Daniel and his three friends were fully immersed in the Babylonian culture. However, they did not give in to any influences that could have drawn them away from their God. They were willing to engage, which earned them an audience with the Babylonian king. We know that their refusal to compromise truth eventually led to the king's acknowledgement of God.
When Paul spoke to the people in Athens in Acts 17, he made use of the Athenian style of argument and speaking as well as using their own writers to make his point. In other words, Paul understood Greek culture and contextualised the Gospel in order to share it effectively.
Take a moment and consider how you share the Gospel. Do you need to be more aware of culture and contextualising?


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
My Mom, America & Apple Pie
My mom will be here in less than 3 days! There is much excitement in this house! We're praying for pretty weather so we can show her around this beautiful country.
Today during our language class we struck up a conversation attempting to speak only in Portuguese. (Which we're supposed to do every class, I just always break that rule.) Our topic of discussion was "America". We told our teacher all about America and specifically the "American Traditions". You know.... homemade peach ice cream...apple pie....etc. About half way through the discussion I got a real yearning for my homeland. Not the little passing fancy I've had a time or two since arriving in Portugal, but a real strong tug in my heart to see the open highways, SUV's, McDonalds and Baptist Churches on every corner. To smell the clean smelling breeze instead of the fragrances that waft through here most of the time.
Our teacher was shocked that the average family in America DIDN'T eat rabbit, had a library where you could check out up to 35 books at a time, and owned an ice cream maker that costs less than 30 dollars. (They are about $150 here, IF you can find them.) We talked about how everything in America is done on a large scale. If you've never left The States, then you won't understand this, but America is a very unique place. Most Americans are very wasteful without even realizing it.
Mississippi has approximately 2,500,000 people. Portugal and Mississippi are about the same size. Only Portugal has about 11,000,000 people. So there isn't a lot of room for "large" things. The cars are tiny, the roads are narrow, the grocery stores are small and the people are short. Everything is very different....
Thanks for helping us pray about our paperwork. Today we made our 4th trip back to the office and finalized the details. We paid for all 7 of us and we're supposed to receive the cards in the mail sometime within the next 6 weeks. When we get them, we'll all shout and thank the Lord, then I'll take a picture of them and show you what all the trouble was about.
So what did you think about the surprise visit from my favorite guest blogger? Isn't he great?! Anyone up for a challenge? If you like to be featured as a "guest blogger, just send me an email.
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Glad that language school is going so well. Shame on you for always breaking the "Don't Speak English" rule! Keep up the great work. I love reading your comments about America from the perspective of the foreign culture that you are now a part of!
- Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:34:00 AM
More from the guest blogger please! What I would like even more is to hear him preach. Just like you, I think he is handsome and exceedingly intelligent. Wonder why? I would like to do a guest blog sometime. Maybe when we get finished with Pawpaw's current project and I have some time to think. America misses you too.
Love, Nanny
- Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:55:00 PM
- Tammy said...
I know EXACTLY what you mean about how different things are in a foreign country than America. When you are used to wide, open spaces, your own language and "comfy" culture, everything in another country seems so, well, foreign!
When we went home to TX for our first furlough, my son remarked about how nice the highway was. (He is so used to the generally terrible roads in Guatemala.) One of my daughters promptly informed him, "Aaalll the roads in Texas are nice." LOL!
Hope you have a great visit with your Mom! Wonderful she could be there! :o)
- Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:39:00 AM
- Tori said...
I'm so excited that your mother is coming, hey you look like her!
What a wonderful time you're going to have, it's gonna be very special to show her "your" Portugal. If it isn't like that yet it will be. :0)
I remember those "Croatian only" language studies, how fun!
- Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:31:00 PM
America isn't the same without you. Portugal may not yet be aware of the blessing they received with the arrival of the Andrzejewski's!
The guest blogger was exceptional...and very dear to the hearts here in the states. You do look like your mom, and even more like your aunt...or so has been said. :-)
It's impressive that the language classes are going so well. I look forward to hearing the first sermon in Portuguese.
So many here love you and are praying for you to have a wonderful visit with your mom. See, even Mother Nature cared enough to stop the rain!
Love and blessings,
- Friday, May 02, 2008 5:39:00 AM