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The Scottsdale transit debate is more than just a "campaign conversation" for those who rely on public transit or those who would rely on it if we had a system that was user friendly.
By user-friendly I mean a system that isn't plagued with frequent break downs thanks in part to the age of the "fleet," a system that maintains a better than average time record, a system with vehicles that are comfortable and accessible for all passengers.
Sadly, the system we currently rely on is an outdated conglomeration of buses and trolleys, which is far from adequate given the fact that city officials have paved every vacant piece of land with multi family abodes for the luxury class — which they apparently believe will create invisible traffic.
Perhaps this is part of a well orchestrated effort to force transit down the exhaust pipes of residents. Whatever the reason, the reality seems to be that increased traffic congestion is part of Scottsdale's future courtesy of your elected officials and their vision for the community. So, why do we allow the transit debate to focus on modes of transit that some find unpalatable? Why do we allow the discussion to be "driven" by those who seldom if ever use transit?
Granted Scottsdale prides itself on its reputation as a premier community for the luxury class but until the working, non luxury class is swept out of town to a surrounding community (Mesa), they might appreciate a little consideration. It's doubtful that the Scottsdale elite will willingly board a bus or trolley to commute to the gym, the spa, work or wherever they go.
I feel confident that they would never tolerate what the average transit user is forced to endure: a trolley system faced with regular breakdowns, inadequate/no air conditioning on older vehicles as well as a variety of issues that make it difficult to open /close doors and issues that, according to some drivers, make it difficult to gauge speed.
Other issues that have plagued the system for years include wheelchair lifts that often do not function making the trolleys less accessible for disabled passengers.
Mayoral candidate Bob Littlefield claims the primary issue with the current system is routing. That may be true, but I wish to assure him that there are a variety of other issues that plague the system and have for some time.
Perhaps those in charge of making transit decisions for our community — politicians and bureaucrats — need to leave their vehicles at home for at least a month and rely only on our current transit system to transport them to work, campaign stops, fundraisers and lunches with area developers.
The best time to try transit is in the summer however when you can enjoy the complementary nonexistent air conditioning. Note. Extra deodorant may be required. It should be provided free of charge as an — incentive.
This would give our elected officials an adequate opportunity to assess the fleets condition otherwise known as the shake rattle and roll express for reasons which will become — obvious. If they accept this challenge (doubtful) I would suggest that they leave their council name badges at home.
If elected officials wish to place all their transit eggs in one basket and rely on buses and trolleys with an assist from Uber, spaceships, magic carpets, flying broomsticks and other cutting edge technologies that's all well and good.
However, if these modes of transit are going to be the work horses of Scottsdale's transit future it's past time to address long standing issues that users have experienced for years. This is not about placing blame or disparaging the reputation of Scottsdale's beloved trolley system.
It's been my observation that employees and customers of any business are in a far better position to evaluate a company and the service it provides than the bureaucrats sitting behind a desk. They should be considered part of the solution rather than annoyances to be dealt with.
Several weeks ago I relayed concerns regarding service issues on behalf of some passengers and drivers. I sent an email to Council Member Kathy Littlefield who forwarded it to a Scottsdale transit manager. Having tried this method a few years prior due to similar concerns, I knew what the outcome would be. The concerns were apparently communicated to the higher ups at the transit company in a never ending game of pass the buck.
Once again, drivers were cautioned not to discuss any service issues with me. I do not go out of my way to solicit this information. It is common knowledge and those who use the system are all too familiar with its problems.
Rather than pretend these issues are much ado about nothing, we would do better to address these concerns once and for all rather than sweeping them under the nearest rug. If the city wants to get into the transit game, they would do well to value input from those most familiar with the system – those who actually use it.
Finally, for those who never use transit but are eager to judge it, for those afraid to try transit and for those more comfortable in a Benz than a bus, I encourage you to leave your comfort zones and hop aboard.
Oh sure you may encounter the usual transit suspects — those who might benefit greatly from improved personal hygiene (a bath) and those who engage in animated conversations with — themselves, but hey , it's all part of the transit experience.
Think of it as diversity on wheels. You can't do much about it. You can do something to improve the system and make it more user-friendly.
Then and only then will we have a system that lives up to Scottsdale's much hyped reputation as a world class community. If not, some may wish to familiarize themselves with the term — giddy up!


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Fall 2006
Section Calls for Thurgood Marshall Award Nominations
The Section is accepting nominations for the 2007 Thurgood Marshall Award. Established by the Section in 1992, the Award honors U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who epitomized individual commitment, in word and action, to the cause of civil rights in this country. The award recognizes similar long-term contributions by other members of the legal profession to the advancement of civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights in the United States.
Nominees for the award must have made substantial and long-term contributions to the furtherance of civil rights, civil liberties, or human rights in this country. A "substantial" contribution shall be considered to be one envincing a level of dedication or achievement beyond that required or expected in the normal course of an individual's work. "Long-term" generally shall be considered to be at least 10 years. Nominees should be judges or duly licensed members of the bar in good standing. However, a non-lawyer who otherwise qualifies for the award may be considered for the award in exceptional circumstances. (Nominations of individuals posthumously cannot be considered.)
Submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 15, 2006. Nomination forms and more information can be obtained from the Section office (202/662-1030) or downloaded from the Section's website at www.abanet.org/irr/marshall-award.html

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From the moment your eyes open to the last minute of the day, your life is filled with nonstop action. If you aren't careful you can become so overwhelmed in meeting the demands of life that you forget to spend time with your Creator and Sustainer. Our daily devotionals written specifically for women in all walks and stages of life, will change the outlook of your day and give you the inspiration you need! Spending any amount of quiet time in the Word of God will refresh and encourage. Find a Bible devotion here and see how God can work through you to make today a joyful day!
So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Genesis 13:11-12
Abram gave Lot first choice as to which part of the land he wanted to claim for himself. Lot chose the Jordan valley, a gorgeous, well-watered piece of property that resembled the garden of the Lord. He chose with his eyes, with his senses. His choice will come back to haunt him. That which looked lush was really Sodom and he will barely escape with his life in the days to come.
I can judge nothing with my senses correctly without consulting God. Nothing! What looks lush one day can be a wasteland tomorrow. What looks barren today can become lush once the hand of a miracle-working God touches it. I can never judge a book by its cover. I never know enough to run my life! May I learn from those who have walked before me.
Does history not teach me that God chooses the least? The ones others pass over? He chooses the uneducated, the spurned, the un-popular. When people choose leaders, they choose with their senses. They go for charisma and good looks. God's man, as with Jesus, may be someone others walk by and never give a second thought.
God might call me to embrace a place, a calling, a companion, a direction in life that appears to be wrong. It may not glitter. It may have little earthly appeal. I should not second-guess God's voice. Jesus was born in a stable, not a palace. What seems so common is transformed by the wind of the Spirit into something heavenly. That principle of the kingdom applies to people, to land masses, and in fact, to anything that waits to be touched by a God who turns deserts into gardens.
Are you facing a crossroads today? Does one way appeal more to your senses because it seems more fertile? Be careful. Commit yourself to prayer. It would be a tragedy to suffer a bias caused by a feast for the eyes. We risk settling, working, and marrying in Sodom.
Abram wasn't shaken by Lot's choice. He still trusted You and knew blessing was wherever You were leading Him. I shut the eyes of my flesh and journey with You through the back door of blessing. Amen
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In defence of Cara Delevingne, beauty icon of the century
Actress and model Cara Delevingne has been voted the most iconic beauty of the last century by 1,000 Brits aged between 18 and 65.
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The 24-year-old catwalk star beat old-school beauties Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as reality TV sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, to take the top spot.
Everyone who took part in the poll (by makeup brand NKDb) was asked to name their top three beauty icons and state what they considered to be their "most striking" features.
Perhaps not surprisingly, people consider Delevingne's most striking feature to be her eyebrows. But it's those bushy brows that have some questioning her right to the accolade. "I don't see how Cara can beat Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn — it's totally crazy, they were both complete and utter style icons, whereas Cara just has eyebrows like Liam Gallagher," said Paula Warrender of Luton, Beds.
Well, we'd like to point out that Hepburn (who ranked No. 4 in the top 10, after Delevingne, Monroe and Kardashian) had pretty standout brows herself.
More: Even celebs want in on the #MannequinChallenge — like Beyoncé and Britney Spears
But this is about more than eyebrows. Delevingne deserves to be top of this list (without forgetting that this is simply a numbers game, because we all — luckily — have different ideas of what is beautiful) just as much as Monroe or Hepburn or Taylor. She's a modern celebrity whose beauty is deeper than what's on the surface, relatable in a way that those old-school Hollywood icons never were.
Delevingne has spoken openly about her mental health struggles. She's revealed how living with psoriasis has affected her body image. She's honest and upfront and flawed, and what could be more beautiful than that? And of course she looks incredible on the catwalk, but makeup-free and pulling goofball faces, she could be the girl next door. A little like 1960s model Twiggy, who comes in at No. 5.
Completing the top 10 are Elizabeth Taylor, Kylie Jenner, Dita Von Teese, Gwen Stefani and Adele. The list is reassuring insofar as it features a huge range of female body types, but we definitely need to see some women of colour in there for it to reflect real beauty diversity.


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Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market
The One-Stop Shop
by Gloria Tai on Jul 18, 2003
The vendors at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market specialize in a vast assortment of fruits and vegetables, from the ordinary to the organic, to the most peculiar of varieties. In fact, 'garden variety' doesn't exist here. Capay Fruits and Vegetables, from Capay Valley, California, offers at least five types of heirloom tomatoes. Hamada Farms, from Kingsburg, California, boasts six types of cherries. And Hazell Dell, from Watsonville, California, is noted for its wide variety of specialty mushrooms including tree oyster and maitake.
Artisan food vendors offer flavorful complements to the seasonal produce. For carnivores, there is grass-fed beef from Niman Ranch (seen on many local restaurant menus), guinea fowl and hens from Highland Hills Farm, and tender poultry and rabbit from Hoffman Game Birds. If seafood suits your palate more, enjoy fresh Tomales Bay oysters, wild Shogun salmon, and various smoked finned and shelled sundries from Northern California fisheries. Rounding out the farmer's market mix are herb-infused olive oils, homemade sauces, and flavored seasonings. Undoubtedly, the Farmer's market produce, meats, and seasonings will inspire your inner chef.
While at the farmer's market, you'll experience a pleasant historic surprise. The 105 year-old Ferry building has re-opened after a four-year renovation. The ground floor Nave will house specialty gourmet purveyors, including Acme Bread Company, Cowgirl Creamery, Sharffenberger Chocolates, and Sur La Table. Classes and demos by renown local chefs and food personalities are also scheduled to take place within the Nave shops. Noted appearances by Joanne Weir, cookbook author, Nancy Oakes of Boulevard Restaurant, and Shuna Lydon of the Morroccan restaurant Aziza are already slated.
After the fresh food whets your appetite, let some reputable San Francisco restaurants satisfy your urge for heavier fare. The famed Slanted Door, with its French-Vietnamese menu, will be moving permanently from its Brannan Street location. Taylor's Refresher, a favorite Sonoma eatery, will serve up dressed up burgers and fish and chips. Stave off your food coma by grabbing a Peet's coffee and listening to music served by the bay.
With its new permanent home, the Farmer's market has extended its usual Saturday and Tuesday schedule. After work market shopping is now available on Thursday afternoons. Sunday afternoons will attract green thumb patrons with the new 'garden days.' This features a vast array of indoor and outdoor plants, from the delicate orchid to the carnivorous Venus Flytrap.
While walking around it may feel like a yuppie's food paradise, but no place beats the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market when it comes down to fresh produce, meats, seafood, and specialty foods. This is indeed a one-stop shop marketplace for the true food lover.
Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market
One Ferry Building
(Embarcadero @ Market)
Phone: 415.693.0966
Hours: Saturdays (8 am - 2pm), Tuesdays (10 am - 2 pm),
Thursdays (3 - 7 pm), Sunday Garden Market (8 am - 2 pm)
The market is open year round rain or shine!
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As you would expect from veteran Polish conductor Antoni Wit, Brahms' music here is phrased sensitively and with the utmost attention to detail and to proper vocal and instrumental balance. Tempos are definitely on the slow side but not egregiously so and the singing of the two soloists, soprano Christiane Libor and baritone Thomas E. Bauer, is thoroughly convincing. Libor has a ravishingly beautiful voice and knows how to use it; Bauer's rich baritone voice is resplendent and his sense for drama, especially in #6 (Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt) is admirable. The chorus sings with total commitment throughout as well and Wit draws splendid playing from his Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. The sound reproduction is clear and well balanced on this High Definition audio Blu-ray disc, despite the fact that the chorus sometimes seems to have a slight haziness about it in loud passages. Having written nothing but kudos thus far, I suppose I could stop the review right here and give a strong recommendation.
But the problem surrounding this new Naxos disc is there is so much worthy competition not only from other labels but from Naxos itself! In 2013 I reviewed the Marin Alsop version of this piece on a Naxos CD (Naxos 8.572996) and its more vital take, with much faster tempos (about eleven minutes faster than Wit), and excellent pair of soloists made it a prime contender. It's not that Wit is outclassed by Alsop: if you view the Brahms Requiem with a darker, more ponderous perspective (which I don't), Wit may well be your man for the job. Christian Thielemann is seven or eight minutes slower than Wit on a Unitel Classica DVD I reviewed here (Unitel Classics DVD 703308) in 2007 and he may well take honors for the slowest Brahms Requiem, at least in recent times. Yet, he is convincing in his own way. To confuse matters further, Marek Janowski on Pentatone (Pentatone Classics 5186361 - covered in the same review as the Thielemann DVD) is also compelling, but John Eliot Gardiner, reviewed in 2012 (Soli Deo Gloria SDG706), is even more so. His tempos were nearly as fast Alsop's and the singing and his sensitive shaping of the score are first rate.
So, you ask, what's the recommendation? If you're a Brahms Requiem addict like me and your budget allows, I'd advise acquiring this new effort by Wit (it's also available in CD format) as well as the Alsop and Gardiner discs, if you don't already own them.
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Trek to Langtang
The trekking to the Langtang valley is one of the popular classic treks in Nepal. Langtang lies about 130 km north of the Kathmandu Valley close to the border with Tibet, China and is the closet place where one could get the massive snow capped mountains and beautiful glaciers.Just around 7-8 hours drive from katmandu, you reach the starting point of the trekking, i.e. Syabrubensi.It is Nepal's first national park, and lies between the Himalayan range to the north, dominated by Langtang Lirung 7246m,... continue reading


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As the "fiscal cliff" debate continues, it has only served to emphasize the extent to which our political system is out of whack. There's plenty of blame to go around in Washington. But the reality is far more troubling. The American people have the political system we deserve.
In this case, the squabbling, dysfunctional government that nibbled around the edges of a seemingly intractable $16 trillion fiscal problem behaved the way it did because we want our politicians to lie to us, and we love punishing them for telling the truth.
President Obama isn't stupid or naive. He knows we won't solve this problem by increasing tax rates on just rich people or gently snipping at spending like it is a delicate rose bush. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), another savvy Midwesterner, knows we can't just cut spending and leave taxes at artificially low rates left by a previous president who drastically cut taxes as he was waging two wars. But neither can say that. Their constituencies would tar and feather them.
The truth is this: We need to raise tax rates for everyone, and we need some serious cuts in spending, including to defense and entitlement programs. But there is no constituency for truth in America — only acquiescence to the demands of the segmented, rapid ideological constituencies of whiners on both sides of the political spectrum who drown out the complacency of the reasonable, common-sense middle.
Former senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo) and former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles (D), chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, have been preaching this gospel for years — emboldened, no doubt, by the former that precedes their titles. Their prescriptions have drawn the enmity of a rainbow spectrum of ideologues — from the liberal columnist Paul Krugman on the left to anti-tax fanatic Grover Norquist on the right. If Krugman and Norquist hate their ideas, Simpson and Bowles must be onto something.
America's inability to accept tough love offered by Simpson and Bowles, and other former politicians, has been fueled by a media culture increasingly dominated by screeching talking heads and bloviating bloggers. Washington has always been a riven, partisan place. But now perhaps more than ever.
Don't believe me? Imagine for a moment I am a politician, and this is my stump speech:
"America, wake the hell up. We have a major problem that is imperiling the future of our great nation. It is a problem for which there is no simple solution. It is a problem that will not be solved overnight. But if we don't solve it, here's what's a stake: Your children's and their children's future, and the very existence of this great nation. If it is our goal to turn the United States into a wholly owned subsidiary of China and the United Arab Emirates, then fine, let's stay on this path of ideological idiocy and narrow self-interests. Every great nation was great until it wasn't anymore. You think hegemony is an eternal status? Ask the Mongols, Romans, Brits and Turks how that worked out for them.
"So, here's what we need to do: Put everything on the table. And I mean everything. No more sacred cows. That includes Social Security. That means the Pentagon. That means taxes. That means no more starting wars and handing the bill to our grandchildren. It means not assuming that every dollar our esteemed military generals demand they need. It means marginal tax rates are going to have to go up a bit, and I don't mean just for rich people. I mean everyone. It means that we are, in some cases, going to have to accept a nation that has fewer FBI agents, fewer Border Patrol agents, less port security. Less financial regulation, fewer people to inspect our meat and vegetables before they land on grocery store shelves, fewer national parks. Fewer veterans hospitals, fewer embassies and diplomats, fewer air-traffic controllers. Fewer scientists at the Food and Drug Administration to make sure the medications you take work as advertised, fewer safety nets for the poor, and less money for building and maintaining roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
"Oh wait, you thought were going to just get there by eliminating the Department of Education and cutting folks' food stamps? Did you now? Seriously?
"We'll delve into the numbers a bit further: About 80 percent of every tax dollar you send to Washington goes to three things: entitlements (Social Security and Medicare), defense and debt service. That's right. That means all of those things I just mentioned are paid for out of one-fifth of the budget.
"You could completely eliminate every single program I just mentioned and not get anywhere close to putting a real dent in the national debt. Last year, the federal government spent $3.6 trillion on everything it does, of which tax revenues only contributed $2.2 billion. The government (mostly) borrowed the rest, much of it from financial institutions in China and the Middle East. Each year we have a deficit, it adds to the cumulative debt. But you could eliminate every single nondefense discretionary spending item and still not close the annual deficit, much less the cumulative debt. Think about it. We eliminate all the stuff conservatives hate, like the Department of Education, plus everything else they presumably at least tolerate: The FBI, the State Department, the FDA, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, air-traffic control, new highways and safe bridges, meat inspectors, Security and Exchange Commission regulators, national parks, veterans hospitals and so on. We'd probably still have to have to borrow money from China to pay for defense and entitlements while staying current on our debt payments.
"Meanwhile, to my friends on the left, I would say this: We can't just tax the rich. Middle-class people use our roads, schools, rely on our defense, use our entitlements, etc. Everyone has to pay the burden. If you're middle class and you supported going to war in Iraq, good for you, here's your bill. Your income tax rates are going to have to go up a little bit. You know why? Because the tax-cut compromise struck on the fiscal cliff that allows taxes to go up only on those making more than $400,000 ($450,000 for couples) a year only eliminates a minuscule percentage of the debt problem. We value the principle of progressivity that our tax system is based upon. Rich folks will and should pay a higher percentage of their income than others. But non-rich folks are going to have to chip in, too. Rhetoric aside, there's nothing wrong with being rich. We don't want to de-incentive wealth accumulation so much that we discourage it and the byproducts — namely jobs — it creates. Everyone pays his fair share.
"On the spending side, we are going to have to make some big cuts to the defense budget. According to one recent study, the United States, with about 5 percent of the world's population, spent 41 percent of all of the money spent by every nation in the world combined on military and defense.
"But I digress: No more sacred cows means just that. No more sacred cows. As your leader in Washington, I am going to push for the elimination of spending on projects we no longer need. To anyone who looks me in the eye and tells me every single dollar of the $718 billion that the federal government spent last year on defense is justified, I will make my reply simple: You, sir or ma'am, are a moron.
"I have more bad news for you though, my hopeful Americans. We're going to have to slow entitlement spending, too. That's probably going to be harder than cutting the defense budget. I cannot tell you precisely what we should cut. But I'm going to promise you that we are going to come up with some smart solutions that will no doubt anger many of you. But think about it: When Social Security was passed in 1935, the average man lived to be 58, and the average woman 62. In other words, most people died before they got to the retirement age of 65. Now most people are living until their 70s or 80s. Perhaps we need to have a conversation about raising the retirement age in a few years, say to 67?
"And there's one last reality we are going to face. Even if we increase revenues and cut spending, we aren't going to work our way out of this mess until the economy improves. When the economy produces more jobs, tax revenues will go up, and the strain on the social safety net will decrease.
"We aren't going to be able to grow the economy if we raise tax rates by too much too fast, or if we cut spending too drastically. For better or worse, the federal government is the nation's biggest employer. Cutting millions of jobs at a time when the private sector isn't creating new ones fast enough to keep up with the normal pace of growth in the population is a nonstarter. How do you imagine having millions of unemployed folks — people who get their paychecks either directly from the government or indirectly as government contractors for Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and other companies — suddenly jobless is going to help the economy in the short run?
"So, here's what I suggest. Let's pipe down on the simple, hackneyed, blogosphere-fueled ideological rhetoric, put on our little thinking caps and get to work finding some pragmatic solutions that balance all of these realities. If we do all the right things and get lucky, we might be able to kick this national debt thing in eight to 10 years.
"So, do I have your vote?
"Nah, I didn't think so."
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Good Things in Small Packages
Back when he was living in London, George Weil - sculptor, art collector, goldsmith and owner of a successful jewelry design workshop - received a strange letter. The sender was Cornelius van Roosevelt, a distant cousin of the late American president. "I am enclosing one of my molars," he wrote from Washington, expressing the hope that Weil would put it to good use in his work. "It will be interesting to see if the customs officers who inspect this package think I'm an extinct species."
That was in 1979. Weil did make use of the tooth. He incorporated it into a netsuke - a traditional Japanese fashion accessory. "The Japanese people are geniuses," says Weil recently in his studio, "but they forgot to add pockets to the traditional kimono. If they wanted to carry something with them, they tied it to the belt using a little accessory called a netsuke, which inspired an amazing amount of creativity."
Weil, born in 1938, already owned an impressive collection of antique netsuke in the 1960s. In the early `70s, he decided to try his hand at making them himself. A solo exhibition of Weil's netsuke, most of them produced here in Israel, where he has been living since 1989, opened at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa two weeks ago.
The demand for netsuke, which were immensely popular in the Japan of the 17th and 19th centuries, began to fade from the moment the Japanese began wearing Western-style clothing about 130 years ago, explains the exhibition curator, Dr. Ilana Singer. Production grounded to a virtual halt, and netsuke became collectors' items. Today, there are very few artists who make them. In most cases, it is an art which has been handed down from father to son.
Weil, who studied at St. Martin's College of Art and Design in London, never deluded himself that anyone in Japan would teach him how to make netsuke. He set out to learn on his own, through a lengthy process of trial and error. In 1978, he exhibited his work in London, showing 25 netsuke carved from wood and ivory. The response was excellent. Weil was invited to Japan and became the first foreign member of the Association of Japanese netsuke Sculptors.
After a second exhibition, held two years later, he felt drained. Producing these works, he says, was too time- and energy-consuming. So, at the peak of his success, he simply stopped. He did the same thing at other points in his career. In 1979, in a similar frame of mind, he closed the jewelry design workshop he established in 1956, at the age of 18. He wanted to devote himself to art. "My workshop supplied jewelry to half the stars in Hollywood," says Weil. Among his regular customers were Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra and Peter Sellers.
He admits that sometimes he misses the intensity of London. Sitting behind the heavy wooden desk he brought with him from England, Weil, a very friendly man, full of energy, reminisces about those heady days of old.
"The dilemma of how to define myself nearly did me in," he says. "When I met with jewelry clients, I wore a jacket and tie. As soon as they left, people would come to see my paintings and sculptures. In that case, a jacket looked silly, so I would hurry to change into jeans and a T-shirt. At a certain point, I was changing clothes at the most insane pace," he said with a smile.
The British Museum purchased several artworks from him. "It was very unusual," Weil recalls. "In one go, they bought six pieces on Holocaust themes. And the British Museum, you know, is not exactly known for its interest in that subject."
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In one corner of Weil's studio is a sculpted bust of David Ben-Gurion. Weil made it when he was 18, based on a photograph. There were two copies of it: One was purchased by a philanthropist who donated it to the Israel Museum, where it has remained until today, and the other has moved about among different art dealers. "Twenty-five years later," says Weil, "I received a Sotheby's catalog for an upcoming public auction in London. Flipping through it, I saw a photograph of my sculpture under the heading `Contemporary British Artists.'" Weil bid for it and won.
He has regained other works of his in the same way. "See this nice painting?" he asks, pointing at a large canvas. "It was important to me to own something of mine from that period. I haven't had time yet to take it out of the horrible frame that whoever owned it chose for it."
Weil used to visit Israel several times a year. In the early `70s, he was commissioned to do busts of Moshe Dayan and Ben-Gurion - this time in an official capacity and with their cooperation. "I followed Ben-Gurion around like a shadow for three days," says Weil. "He refused to speak a word of English. Only Yiddish and Hebrew. I sketched like a fury. The guy was an artist's dream. He had a face like a craggy landscape, constantly changing. One evening, after a couple of days of work, I went back to my hotel and found that someone had stolen my sketchbook."
Weil left the country disappointed, and never made the busts. In 1989, he settled in Israel for good: "I think there's no other place for a Jew," he says. "I always planned to move here." Zionist aspirations aside, he was also looking for a little peace and quiet compared to London. In Herzliya Pituah, however, it seems he found more of that than he bargained for.
"The truth is, the Israeli art world has been a disappointment," he says. "Things are so sluggish around here. This country is not a center of art any way you look at it. Sometimes I miss the action in London."
Two years ago, Weil decided to go back to making netsuke. In his studio, jockeying for space among molds for casting the giant bronzes and paintings he did at different times in his life, is a plain little table. He has spent many hours hunched over it in the last two years. He carves the netsuke using chisels and fine modeling tools, some of them of his own making.
As a Western artist, he does not restrict himself to ancient traditions. In addition to wonderful imaginary creatures from Japanese mythology, he is showing "Geisha," a tiny female nude carved from ivory, wood and coral. Weil is always trying out new materials for his netsuke. Some pieces incorporate seashells, fragments of deer antler and pearls.
Answer to nightmares
Making these miniatures - netsuke are usually about 5-10 centimeters high - is a lengthy process. Weil says he likes to work on several netsuke at once. Because it is such delicate work and demands a great deal of concentration, working simultaneously on different pieces livens things up.
The mythical creatures are fascinating. One of them is "Kirin," a cross between a dragon and a cow, half-male and half-female. Kirin is a pure and noble creature that appears only once in a millennium, according to Japanese legend. Confucius is said to have seen one. Another legendary beast is "Baku," sporting an elephant's head, the ears and tail of a cow, and the body of a lion. Baku eats bad dreams. Sleepers disturbed by nightmares can summon up Baku and sleep peacefully.
Next to the netsuke display are a sample of the meticulous sketches Weil makes before getting down to work.
"Unlike sculptures that are five meters high, with netsuke, you can't make mistakes, no matter how slight," explains Weil. "You have to plan everything down to the last detail. You can spend hours on a single piece. But once I found a scrap of wood that looked like a perfectly formed bird. All I had to do was sand down the bottom so it could stand, which is one of the rules of netsuke, and add two eyes from black horn."
Netsuke are not yet perceived by everyone as genuine art, notes Weil. "Today, any shmuck can pick up a brush and declare himself an artist. The thing about netsuke is how it embodies the absolute essence of art. It's a format that allows you to walk around with an intricately carved sculpture on your person. You can't do that with a Henry Moore."
Weil is a very prolific artist. Standing in the studio is the scale-model of a sculpture he is designing to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. His idea is a colossal, semi-abstract monument that visitors can go into. The interior will look like the sleeping quarters of a concentration camp. In another corner of the studio is the cast of a sculpture commissioned in 1991, after the Persian Gulf War. Weil designed the sculpture, but the municipal officials who ordered it disappeared when the time came to pay for materials.
In his 1979 letter, Cornelius van Roosevelt enclosed other raw materials for Weil's netsuke: a metal plate from his leg and a bit of spinal vertebrae removed during surgery. Weil, who was excited at first about his contacts with van Roosevelt and the significance of the artist-donor relationship, now prefers to concentrate on conventional materials. On his work table is a deer antler, which he makes a point of telling me he obtained legally.
"When I have time," he promises, "I'll make netsuke out of it."
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Coffee Bay and the Hole in the Wall are virtually synonymous - mention the one and you picture the other - and one cannot describe the full extent of the beauty of this area of the Wild Coast without including the incredible natural phenomenon.
The hole is quite literally a geographical marvel. It is an offshore stack of rock through which the elements have eroded a hole. The hole is directly in the path of the Mpako River and it is this, rather than wind or the surf, that has eroded the hole. However, Xhosa mythology tells a far more romantic tale of the sea people, semi deities who look like humans but have supple wrists and ankles and flipperlike hands and feet. A beautiful girl living on the Wild Coast, in a village near a lagoon, cut off from the sea by a mighty cliff, was seen by one of the sea people who became overwhelmed by her beauty and tried to woo her. To cut a long story short: in dealing with the wrath of her father, the sea people enlisted the help of a huge fish who battered its way headfirst through the wall of rock. Through this hole spilled the sea people who swept the young Xhosa maiden away.
Coffee Bay was named after a ship that lost its cargo of coffee beans in a wreck off the Wild Coast and the beans were supposedly washed up on the beach to germinate there. These trees, if there were any to start with, are no longer visible but the name stuck. Not only is the kilometer-long beach safe for swimming, but the area off the bays southern point offers one of the few consistent surfing waves on the Wild Coast. This beach also has some of the rarest cowries washed up by the current.
Nearby activities include the Hluleka Nature Reserve, between Coffee Bay and Port St Johns, spearfishing, horse riding and golf.
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We consider two problems: (1) estimate a normal mean under a general divergence loss introduced in Amari (1982) and Cressie and Read (1984) and (2) find a predictive density of a new observation drawn independently of the sampled observations from a normal distribution with the same mean but possibly with a different variance under the same loss. The general divergence loss includes as special cases both the Kullback-Leibler and Bhattacharyya-Hellinger losses. The sample mean, which is a Bayes estimator of the population mean under this loss and the improper uniform prior, is shown to be minimax in any arbitrary dimension. A counterpart of this result for predictive density is also proved in any arbitrary dimension. The admissibility of these rules holds in one dimension, and we conjecture that the result is true in two dimensions as well. However, the general Baranchik (1970) class of estimators, which includes the James-Stein estimator and the Strawderman (1971) class of estimators, dominates the sample mean in three or higher dimensions for the estimation problem. An analogous class of predictive densities is defined and any member of this class is shown to dominate the predictive density corresponding to a uniform prior in three or higher dimensions. For the prediction problem, in the special case of Kullback-Leibler loss, our results complement to a certain extent some of the recent important work of Komaki (2001) and George, Liang and Xu (2006). While our proposed approach produces a general class of predictive densities (not necessarily Bayes) dominating the predictive density under a uniform prior, George et al. (2006) produced a class of Bayes predictors achieving a similar dominance. We show also that various modifications of the James-Stein estimator continue to dominate the sample mean, and by the duality of the estimation and predictive density results which we will show, similar results continue to hold for the prediction problem as well. This is a joint research with Professor Malay Ghosh and Dr. Victor Mergel.


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THere is a new site out there that I want to talk about. IN fact I signed up with them a few years back and something got in the way and I had to abandon them too. Now I look back and everything I abandoned and can't believe it and keep thinking about how maybe I would have more money if I had stayed with them and not let other things get in the way. That often happens to alot of people. But if you want to succeed online abandoning it is not an option unless you have a really good reason such as you make money with them and they don't pay you.
First I want to say this company I'm telling you about is not your old style, old school marketing where you must harass you friends and family members to buy stuff until they stop having anything to do with you. Of course people buying stuff is an integral part of any business as I outlined in an earlier post. JUst as in a brick and mortar store items must be sold to make money. This is the american way, it's the worldwide way. The world goes around by having people buy things from the town stores to online retailers to hospitals and car dealerships. Some operate a little differently such as doctors and hospitals. Nonetheless, they are all selling something but in terms of health you really don't have the option of saying no.
It's important to market effectively. You must be able to not only get people to sign up but to get active, stay active and sell stuff otherwise your business will fall flat in a minute. It's very easy for people to get discouraged. I know how easy it has been for me. When a person doesn't see any money come in quickly(such as a few weeks or a month) they assume it's just a scam like all the other scams out there. Most of the businesses labeled scams are really not scams at all but the people participating in them simply do not know how to market them effectively, they can't get people to sign up and get active or the product may be something that people do not want or can find cheaper someplace else. In that case it's very difficult for them to do anything with their business and they give up and label it a scam especially if they have read articles and messages online labeling a company a scam. Unfortunately, there are many people out there that will put the ugly label of scammer on a company because they made no money with them and in their anger wish to tarnish their reputation and these words can hurt some businesses. But you must decide for yourself, not whether a business is a scam, whether it's the right business for you because it simply may not be the right business for you.
And to be clear what a scam is: It's when you actually make money with a company and they refuse to pay you. That's a scam. If they make ludricous claims of income that isn't necessarily a scam but it is unethical and that most definitely makes people shy away from them especially in todays society when people are trying alot harder to hold on to the money they have.
Back to the actual company I'm telling you about. First it's free to sign up, never sign up for a company where you must pay for it's services to make money. There are far too many companies and businesses you can sign up for and make money and sign up for free to ever pay anyone. The marketing principles are all the same no matter what company you sign up and decide to market. Besides being free this company offers many, many valuable articles to help you get started and these same articles can help you market any other company, business you may be trying to promote.
In fact, there are so many articles that you can't read them in a day, not even a week. Then many of them you need to read a second and a third time for the information to sink in. You must do this with any marketers website. It's nice to have so many good articles in one place to help you jumpstart your business rather than searching around the internet for good resources to help you.
There are other perks with this company too. My favorite being they make it fun and second many articles to help me.
The company I'm referring to is SFI which stands for Strong Future International. They used to be called Six Figure Income. Back when they were six figure income I was with them for awhile but I never did anything with my business. In fact I didn't even try really like most people and ended up forgetting about it. I signed up with them way back when they first started out and I was new to the internet. I was too overwhelmed at the time with all the marketing strategies, etc. to keep up and let them go quickly to learn about the internet. Later, after a few years I signed up with them again but let them go rather quickly again without giving them a chance. At the time I was caring for my sick mother and didn't ahve alot of time and didn't want to ahve something I had to devote to every day.
Then recently I saw an advertisement for them again and decided to sign up. This time I decided to go through their training course and do as many of the things they recommend as I can. This time I don't have my sick mother to take care of, I don't have quite as many obligations as before and have decided to devote at least an hour or two every day except Sunday. It's like exericising or eating right you must do what the Doctor says every single day without fail to actually accomplish anything and see results. The only way you;re going to see results is to follow a set schedule every day and stick to it. Believe me I know how hard this can be. I have a hard time with schedules, doing things at set times. It is for alot of people. But think of it this way. You decide when you want to devote time to your business and you do it then, you decide how much time, you decide where. It can be anywhere there is internet access. Personally I like libraries provided they give me at least an hour or two online. Sometimes I do it at home but I've realized I have much fewer distractions at a library than at home and this works for me.
You may want to market more than one business. That's fine. If you've been online for awhile it's certainly doable. If you haven't been you may want to take it a little slow until you learn the ropes. This won't take long. It only took me a few months to master the internet and when I say master, I mean within the first few months of being online I had already learned to create my own website from scratch using HTML, I had learned most if the basics of marketing that website on classified ad sites which I really didn't care for, submitting to search engines, privacy, security and much more.
It is recommend by most top marketers to market more than one business so if you lose one you still have a couple more to fall back on and don't have to start from scratch.
I work with SFI, I'm involved with a couple of survey sites, I'm still trying to figure out which ones I want to stay with and which ones to drop, I do a little mystery shopping on the side. But overall I prefer the marketing aspect of the online businesses to anything offline as it provided me with what I'm looking for. I can do it when I want and where and I don't have the expense of driving somewhere to get paid even though it's flexible.
Like most people today I'm looking to save money anywhere I can and right now that doesn't include more gas charges especially since I like to travel as it is. It's not too far now but my hobby is photography and everyone needs an outlet and for people that spend alot of time online an outlet is a must. It is am ust for anyone really. That's why I don't recommend working on Sunday even if it's only checking your website. It can wait until Monday.
The company is SFI and there is a banner at the top. I used a banner as opposed to a text link because blogger doesn't accept text links and this without a doubt my favorite blog service, just the ease of handling, etc. This is another good marketing tool, a blog. You must have good content though. My other blog features haunted and abandoned places with pictures of those places. I get a fair amount of traffic from that but don't try to market it at all so I think it's pretty good considering. If you like to write you can also try hubpages although there is no personal posting allowed but if you're using it for business purposes and to market your business you don't want to post anything personal because no one is interested in it. There are other writing sites you can use as well. JUst google it and you'll find a number of them. Using social networking sites such as facebook and myspace and others can be a great way to get traffic too. Combine that with online classifieds, search engine submissions and the many other ways of marketing it offline and you should see an increase in traffic and signups but it takes time. If you don't see much in month give it another month then another and another and another. Statistics say it takes an average for any business to get off the ground a year. So to be fair you should give it a year at least, if after a year you aren't making any money then you might want to consider giving it a little more time which is entirely up to you. If you're still not making any money you may just want to give up on it. But don't give up on making money online entirely. You may want to choose another business to market and see how that goes. You should be marketing at least three different businesses in that year so you have some idea of just how well you're doing. One business may do better than another. And they should be three distinctly different products or services. But don't spread yourself to thin this will only hinder all of your hard work.
MOst importantly remain positive no matter how hard it gets and don't let others tell you you can't do it.
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text: In the Vineyard :: January 8, 2016 :: Volume 16, Issue 1 News from National Pope's Year of Mercy.The Pope kicked off his Year of Mercy with a moving video in which he encourages people of all faiths to speak with each other – declaring, "we are all believers." Watch it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OA8FuCu5PQ. Priest Support Working GroupWe never speak of Priest Support without first acknowledging its connection to Supporting Surviviors and Structural Change, for without the revelations of abuse and cover up and the courage of the victim/survivors who shared their stories, we would never have been catapulted from our pews, and moved to action. To help prevent future abuse, and to promote healing and renewal in our church, collaboration between and among laity and the ordained is imperative. In promoting Priest Support, we are committed to breaking down the barriers that prevent collaboration and healing. Collaborative relationships between priests and laity are essential to healing and to rebuilding trust. Ultimately, change in the structure of the church is inseparable from change in the culture. To enhance the possibility of change, our Working Group seeks the following objectives: To promote opportunities for priests, survivors and laity to speak the truth; To encourage collaboration and mutual support between priests and laity; To affirm the universal priesthood of all the faithful by virtue of our baptism; To model the Church as defined by the documents of Vatican II; To insist on due process and justice for all; To coordinate, communicate and encourage efforts by individual parishes and affiliates in supporting priests; To honor those priests who, in word and action, exhibit courage and compassion along with principled leadership. A Priest Teaches Ethics to BusinesspeopleRead about Father Max Oliva and how he teaches ethics to businesspeople. Honesty, integrity and compassion are all traits important in the business world, he says. New Year's ResolutionsLooking to make some New Year's resolutions? Check out this article on Belief.net – Ten Resolutions to Help you Become a Better Catholic. They may not all be your "cup of tea," but you may find a few that inspire you. Let us know if you plan to use any of them! Focus Highlighting issues we face working together to Keep the Faith, Change the Church TOP STORIESFrancis exhorts Vatican prelates to be more mature, recognizes 'smallness' of work"Pope Francis has strongly urged the bishops and cardinals who head the various Vatican offices to act with more respect, honesty and maturity -- and has told them that reform of the church's central bureaucracy will go forward 'with determination, clarity, and firm resolve.'" By Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter -- Pope Francis declares list of 'needed virtues' for Catholic Church, By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian Archdiocese of St. Paul settles complaint on child abuse"The Roman Catholic archdiocese here has reached an agreement with prosecutors in a civil case accusing church officials of failing to protect children from sexual abuse. The unusual settlement, announced Friday (Dec. 18) in a Ramsey County courtroom, calls for more transparency when claims of child sexual abuse are raised and would allow prosecutors and courts to monitor the church's progress on such matters for three years." By Todd Nelson and Monica Davey, The New York Times-- Settlement reached in St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese civil case, By Brian Roewe, National Catholic Reporter Financial misconduct in parishes is all too common"Behind the sensational headlines about a New York priest accused of pilfering church coffers to pay for an extravagant lifestyle – 'Priest paid his male 'sex master' from collection plate: lawsuit,' as the New York Post put it — is the surprisingly common accusation of a trusted employee or volunteer stealing cash from a parish." By Michael O'Loughlin, Cruxnow.com Church now has zero tolerance to sex abuse"The Catholic Church in India is aiming for a cleaner image this new year as the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) has decided to deal with priests accused of sexual abuse through severe punishments, including defrocking them." By Cithara Paul, The New Indian Express Philadelphia DA wants court to rehear monsignor's case"Despite losing on appeal twice, Philadelphia's district attorney says he will continue to fight to keep a Roman Catholic Church official who will soon be eligible for parole in prison over his handling of sex-abuse cases." By Associated Press on Cruxnow.com-- Appeals court vacates Philadelphia monsignor's conviction, orders new trial, By Ralph Cipriano, National Catholic Reporter The top 10 stories of a busy Pope from 2015"Pope Francis is the dictionary definition of an activist pontiff, constantly saying and doing things that stir hearts, raise eyebrows, and generally capture public interest. He's so dynamic, in fact, that often there's no time to absorb one bombshell before another goes off. Here's a rundown of the 10 biggest papal headlines of 2015, all of which seemed hard to top at the time, and all of which now risk being overwhelmed by whatever happens in 2016." By John L. Allen, Jr., Cruxnow.com Click here to read the rest of this issue of Focus ... Calendar Join Saint Susanna's as they discuss Jesus's life and times on Monday, January 11th. This session does stand on its own, for those who missed Part 1, but this week Professor DesRosiers will insert Jesus as referenced in the Sacred Scriptures into the historical structure he laid out in Part 1. This is proving to be an outstanding presentation. Presented by:Dr. Nathaniel DesRosiers, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stonehill College, Visiting Associate Professor of New Testament, Brown University How did Jesus' contemporaries understand him? What made the Jesus movement and early Christianity so appealing in a world filled with savior figures, heroes, and divine emperors? What made Christianity succeed when so many other new religions in the period failed? This session is part of a two-week program that will illuminate the rich social, historical, and religious contexts of the first-century Roman Empire, in order to show how Christianity developed and thrived in its early Mediterranean environment. In exploring this subject we will examine what was life really like in the first century and why the Gospel message resonated with this audience. This discussion will help us to better understand what our Gospels tell us about Jesus' teachings and their setting in the land of ancient Israel. In addition we will discuss how issues such as wealth and poverty, gender, and the role of family profoundly influenced both the development of Christian texts and rituals and the early communities that produced them. If you were not able to attend the first session on January 4, please join us on January 11 anyway. There is plenty more to learn! Professor DesRosiers is a favorite at Saint Susanna, with his vast knowledge of the subject matter, excellent presentation skills, and delightful sense of humor. Sessions will be held, as usual, in the parish hall at 262 Needham Street, Dedham, running each week from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. There is no pre-registration required, and there is no fee. Free refreshments will be served. Free Will Offerings will be gratefully received to cover our costs. Come and See!Voice of the Faithful New Jersey in Morristown sponsored an online talk on Laudato Si:https://www.tapinto.net/articles/discussion-to-explore-pope-francis-encyclical Sunday, January 17, 2016 Discussion of Laudato Si (second of three sessions)3:30 PM St. Mark's Lutheran Church 100 Harter Rd. Morristown, NJ You can download the Reader's Guide and the entire Encyclical from the Vatican and/or chapter by chapter from Crux. In this second discussion moderator, Beatrice Mondare, will briefly summarize the previous discussion of the Introduction and chapter 1, and will lead discussion of chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the encyclical, using questions from Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J.'s A Readers''Guide to Laudato Si with Study Questions to Help in Reading the Encyclical; the guide was published in the National Catholic Reporter and can be downloaded free from their website. All are welcome. There is no charge for the program. Spotlight on Philadelphia Child Abuse The end of 2015 once again, had the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the spotlight when a Pennsylvania appellate court ordered a new trial for Msgr. William J. Lynn, overturning for a second time a landmark verdict that was the first conviction nationwide of a Catholic Church official for covering up child sex abuse by priests. Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151223_New_trial_ordered_for_Msgr__Lynn__chief_deft__in_Phila_clergy_abuse_case.html#mJS0YGV3SrvYFBrl.99 You can also read an earlier paper by Father Tom Doyle on Sexual Abuse of Minors by Clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. http://files.ctctcdn.com/f3f9d04e001/02c91497-f4e0-4edf-82b.pdf Questions, Comments? Please send them to Siobhan Carroll, Vineyard Editor, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Unless otherwise indicated, I will assume comments can be published as Letters to the Editor. Page One Shop at Amazon, Support VOTF VOTF relies solely on the contributions of people like you to support its work. Donate Join VOTF VOTF Home © Voice of the Faithful 2016. All Rights Reserved


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The name Lo is a Spanish baby name. In Spanish the meaning of the name Lo is: Diminutive of Dolores: Sorrow. From Maria de los Dolores (the Virgin Mary, or Mary of the Sorrows). Famous Bearer: the terrible heroine of the novel, Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Very trivial things can go into the weaving of a nest. The human race, for instance--
vement. It was the ultimate document. The two and seventy thousand jarring texts that it summarized had been systematically destroyed, one by one, after the Galactic Historian had stripped them of their objective information. If an historical event was not included in the manuscript, it failed as an event. It ceased to have reality.
The responsibility was the Galactic Historian's alone and he did not take it lightly. But he had a lot on his minds and, of late, he hadn't been sleeping well. He was overworked and over-tired and over-anxious. He hadn't seen his wives for two Mixxx months and he was worried about them--all fifty of them.
He never should have let them take the Hub cruise in the first place. But they'd been so enthusiastic and so eager that he simply hadn't had the hearts to let them down. Now, despite his better judgments, he was beginning to wonder if they might not be on the make for another coordinator.
Wives trouble, on top of all his chronological trouble, was too much. The Galactic Historian could hardly be blamed for wanting to see the last of the manuscript, for wanting to transmit it to his publishers, potential hiatuses and all, and ta
A very short story about the difficulties of writing a complete history and the triviality of humanity.
The historian really should have numbered the pages.


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In this edition of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Brendan Mathews take a question from a reader who writes, "What are your thoughts on Coupons.com?"
Coupons.com (UNKNOWN:COUP.DL) got off to a fast start as a recent initial public offering, but the stock has been on a straight path downward since then. Jason notes that while he initially dismissed the investment idea, there are some noteworthy points that make Coupons.com an interesting company to keep an eye on. With a tremendous market opportunity as well as a founder/leader still at the helm, Jason isn't clicking the buy button yet, but it's certainly a company that is worth learning more about.
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Part 2 of our three-part series on how to modify BlackBerry Theme Builder to create themes for BlackBerry 7 OS devices.
The first part in a three-part blog post series about how to use BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 to build themes for BlackBerry 7 OS devices.
Announcing a new content rating system in BlackBerry App World.
Announcing the official gold release of BlackBerry Theme Studio 6.
The new BlackBerry® Theme Studio 6 Public Beta 2 is now available for download, with new features and extensive support for new models of BlackBerry® smartphone devices.
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text: Conservative Judaism is the form of the Jewish religion that occupies the middle ground between Orthodoxy and Reform, with its center in the United States, where it is the largest of the three movements, and with adherents in other parts of the world. The Theoretical Origins of Conservative Judaism The two key thinkers of Conservative Judaism are Zachariah Frankel and Solomon Schechter, the former describes his religious position as that of "positive historic Judaism." the latter stresses the idea of "Catholic Israel," that the ultimate seat of authority in Judaism resides in the consensus of the Jewish people as a whole on the meaning of Judaism. The attitudes of Frankel and Schechter were by no means novel in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where it became obvious to many thinking, observing Jews that, in the light of modern historical investigation into the Bible and the classical sources of Judaism, a reappraisal was required of the whole idea of revelation. For these Jews, the too-neat picture of the doctrine "the Torah is from heaven" as presented in Orthodoxy, was unacceptable, since historical research has demonstrated the developing nature of Jewish religion as it came into contact, throughout its history, with various and differing systems of thought. On the other hand, these Jews saw Reform as too ready to accommodate Judaism to the zeitgeist and to abandon practices and doctrines hallowed by tradition, especially in Reform's indifference, if not hostility, to the system of Jewish law, the Halakhah. The attitude of such Jews was articulated in Frankel's maxim: positive historic Judaism –"positive" in its acceptance of the tradition and all of the Halakhah, "historic" in that it conceived of these in dynamic rather than static terms. Schechter spelled it out further in his writings. Since, ultimately, as historic research has demonstrated, the dual process of acceptance and adaptation of ideas in conformity with the spirit of the religion was determined by the way Jews actually lived their religion, the Judaism of tradition is Judaism, although expressed in different ways in different times. On this view, the Jew can have an open mind on the question of origins. He may come to the conclusion, as the Bible critics argue, that some of the institutions of Judaism such as the Sabbath and the dietary laws originated in primitive taboos. It is not the origins that matter but what the institutions actually became of the Jews long quest to discover the will of God.


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New House Document Threatens Millennials' Health Care, Ends Medicaid As We Know It
[WASHINGTON]–On Thursday, House Republicans released a document that makes clear that they have no plan to protect Millennials' health care and would trample on the progress young adults have made under the Affordable Care Act. YI's Executive Director Jen Mishory released the following statement on the paper:
"Studies have shown that proposals similar to the House Republican release would strip young adults of their coverage and increase costs for young people currently eligible for premium tax credits. The House document, certainly not an actual plan, would also provide significant tax cuts to the rich while ending Medicaid as we know it — cutting coverage and benefits for the most vulnerable in our society, including pregnant women, people with disabilities, and low-income workers. It could also allow discrimination against up to 30 million young adults with a pre-existing condition. Under the Affordable Care Act, more than 8 million young adults have gained coverage. Under House Republicans' framework, costs will rise, the number of uninsured will climb, and protections against insurers' worst abuses will be stripped away. That's bad for young people's health."


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I'm not a big fan of infographics, but once in a while one of them interests me a little. The problem is you never know how many people were surveyed or if it was done scientifically at all. Anyways, this latest one comes from Startapp and it's entitled "Following the White Rabbit." They surveyed Android developers exclusively and some of the notables is that 53% of those surveyed own a Samsung phone while 22% own an HTC phone. Most interesting is only 5% own a Motorola phone.
Android developers also seem to concentrate more on Android as 62% say they only develop for Android while 37% also develop for Apple's iOS
As far as number of apps, 53% of respondents published 6 – 9 apps, while 32% are still working on it. As far as other app stores, not surprisingly, the Amazon App Store is the favorite at 66%. Hit the break for the full infographic.
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Thursday 15th September 2016, Godalming, Surrey- There are few destinations that can boasts as spectacular landscape as Northern Norway from its breathtaking fjord coastline and mountainous landscapes to its snow-covered wilderness and magnificent wildlife.
New for winter 16/17, Inghams has expanding its Norway programme to include the three or four night Vesterålen Wildlife Adventure, which gives guests the chance to discover the area's spectacular Arctic wildlife with a once-in-a-lifetime whale watching trip in the beautiful archipelago of Vesteralan, known as the Kingdom of the Whales. Visitors set off from the small town of Åndenes, on a three hour expedition led by a knowledgeable boat crew who will use their detection equipment to give visitors the best chance of seeing these magnificent mammals. The most common sight is the sperm whale but there is also a chance to spot pilot whales, minke whales, humpback whales, dolphins and killer whales. Those wanting to get a closer look can choose to head out on a RIB boat for an extra supplement.
As well as whale watching the Vesterålen Wildlife Adventure includes a journey along the spectacular National Tourist Route, one of Norway's most beautiful coastal routes, a visit to Blokken and its 'Akvakultur' fish farm where guests can try delicious Norwegian salmon and enjoy a boat trip to the salmon pens, a night-time 'In Search of the Northern Lights' safari and a unique experience of watching a classical concert in a former fishing oil tank.
Inghams is offering 3 nights departing 19 February 2017 from £989 per person, including direct flights from Gatwick or Manchester to Evenes, 3 nights accommodation in a 3* superior hotel, meals, all daytime excursions, daily buffet lunch on all excursions and return transfers. For more information visit www.inghams.co.uk or contact 01483 79 11 01.
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"Charlie kinda kept (the recipe) in his head, but his son Robert watched his father cook and pieced it together," Close explained. "The recipe was his pride and joy. It's very good!"
One note: The brown flour referred to in the recipe is simply dry flour toasted to a medium brown in a baking pan in the oven.
"You know how those Yankees do things," chuckled Close about Buckley's method of making a roux.
12 coot breasts and giblets
3/4 cup brown flour
2 qt. water
1 14-ounce can chicken broth
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. garlic powder
½ tsp. red pepper
1 tbsp. Morton Nature's Seasons Seasoning Blend
2 tsp. coarse ground black pepper
1 tsp. chipotle hot sauce
2 tsp. Ac'cent Flavor Enhancer
1 tbsp. Kitchen Bouquet
2 tbsp. Italian seasoning
2 tsp. poultry seasoning
4 bay leaves
3 tbsp. bacon grease
2 yellow onions, chopped
5 green onions, chopped
2 bell peppers, chopped
2 tbsp. minced garlic
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
1-2 tsp. filé powder
3 stalks celery, chopped
Wash coots and set aside. Dice giblets into bite-size pieces.
Place brown flour in a large (2-gallon) pot. Add water slowly, while stirring, until the flour is wet.
Add the remainder of the water, chicken broth, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, red pepper, Nature's Seasons, black pepper, hot sauce, Ac'cent, Kitchen Bouquet, Italian seasoning, poultry seasoning and bay leaves.
Begin heating.
Place bacon grease, yellow and green onions, bell pepper and garlic in a large black iron skillet. Saute until the vegetables are soft, and then add them to the large pot, reserving as much of the bacon grease as possible.
Brown the giblets in the bacon grease and add them to the pot, with all but a tablespoon of bacon grease. Add 3 tablespoon of cooking oil to the skillet and brown the coot breasts. Add them to the pot. Add filé powder.
Cover and heat to a soft boil for 2 hours or until the coot breasts can easily be removed from the bone.
Use a slotted spoon to remove the coot breasts from the pot, debone them and return the meat to the pot. Add the celery and cook until the celery is soft.
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Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill is eager to learn his January transfer budget.
The Black Cats' poor start to the campaign has exposed the gaps in O'Neill's squad, and also the lack of strength in depth in key areas.
And O'Neill wants to address those problems when the transfer window reopens in the New Year, with a physically imposing midfielder at the top of his shopping list.
O'Neill told the Sunday Sun: "I haven't spoken to the owner about the transfer window just yet.
"December is upon us but we will get some time [to talk]. I think the owner this time will be in the country for a couple more weeks than he would normally be.
"That's encouraging, so I'm sure I will get a chance to speak to him in the not-too-distant future."


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The Jewish Community High School of the Bay boys' basketball team knows exactly how Trinity Christian of Monterey feels.
The Wolves were in the same spot a year ago.
A year after making its first appearance in the Central Coast Section Division V playoffs last season, Jewish Community fell to Trinity 50-49 in the first round of the CCS playoffs on Tuesday at Alma Heights Christian Academy.
The win gives Trinity (17-3) its a win in its first appearance in the tournament.
"We had nothing to lose, because we'd never been here before," Trinity coach Chris Hill said.
That attitude was applied to the fourth quarter, when the Warriors were trailing 36-29.
Trinity began applying a full-court pressure defense to the Wolves (9-12) and the gamble paid off. The Warriors forced eight turnovers in the final quarter and pulled ahead for good at 43-42 on a 3-pointer from standout sophomore guard Dre Perez with 2:41 remaining.
"They changed defense, went to the full-court [press] and we just couldn't handle it," Jewish Community coach Tim Kjar said.
Perez, who averaged just over 20 points per game in the regular season, scored 13 points in the fourth quarter to finish with a game-high 23 points.
Perez woke up in the fourth quarter, but the reason for the Jewish Community lead heading into the final frame was its defense, which held the sophomore scoreless and Trinity to just four points in the third.
"We positioned our help-side defenders a little bit better [in the third quarter], but we stopped doing that in the fourth quarter for whatever reason," Kjar said.
The Wolves had the ball down 49-46 with 16 seconds left, but could not convert on a pair of 3-pointers and after a made free throw by Perez to put the game out of reach, Jewish Community senior guard Grant Fineman hit a final 3 at the buzzer.
Jewish Community junior guards Michael Kostukovsky and Anthony Gumberg each had a double-double with 18 and 13 points, respectively, and 10 rebounds apiece. The Wolves also outrebounded Trinity 35-22.
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Title: Reacting rotary steam engine
Patent number: X3,859
Date granted: 4/29/1824
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A Blue Acara cichlid is a type of tropical fish that populates parts of Central and South America. It is characteristically oval in shape, as are most fish in the cichlid family, and is generally steel-blue and gray. It is omnivorous, but its diet should be heavy in protein.
Blue Acaras are generally very hardy fish that require an aquarium that is 30 gallons or larger and filled with water that is between 72 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. They are generally calm-tempered fish that can get along well with other fish of a similar size. They may bully smaller fish if given the chance, however, especially during breeding time.