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Starting the weekend early—Happy Pesach!
Hopefully the dumpster fire which is Trump will simmer at a low boil on this holy weekend, so that we can enjoy time with friends and family for Passover and Easter.
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When you write a blog, an email or ad copy, some rules are not hard to follow and can make a difference. As a terrible writer myself, I've learned a lot from trying to follow these. It hasn't made my writing good by any means; it just made it a little bit better.
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- Understand what your reader needs. What question are they asking, or what decision are they trying to make. Start your piece immediately by addressing their need.
- Write in the 2nd or 3rd person. Not in the first. It's not about you; it's about your reader.
- Use lists, bullets, and occasionally a table. Images are great if they are functional. Just stock photography to that serve no purpose are just noisy distractions.
- Try to keep your core writing on one page, above the fold. If you need more space, provide a great "hook." to go to the next page. Refer to #1, and write about what the reader is trying to achieve to pull them forward.
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I remember trying the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in Fair when it bloomed years ago but it turned out to be way too light for me and haven't touched it since nor tried the other shades until back in August last year. I had decided to give it another shot. The two shades I have in this post is Cool Medium and Warm Medium.
Now where do I begin?
The first thing I had noticed was how much it has oxidised on my hand and that was when I had realised that the two medium shades were too dark for me. I threw warm medium in the bin right away. I was hoping to use the cool medium to counteract my dark circles but in the end, I haven't actually used it since I had purchased it until a few days ago. The shade wasn't quite right and it didn't really do much. It did help a little bit but it didn't look natural.
I did purchase the shade Fair a few days after purchasing the two medium. This seems to suit my skin colour more after it had oxidised. I have used it under my eyes a few times but I wouldn't say that it is a favourite of mine. It works better when I use a beauty blender to blend it out to make it feel a little less heavy under the eyes therefore the coverage is more medium I would say. It can be buildable but it will look cakey regardless of where you use it. Concealing spots is a hit and miss for me. This formula will accentuate any dry flakes you may have so for dry skin, this is a no no.
It's quite thick and many people do not like thick concealers under the eyes. You do have to work fast to blend it out as it does dry quick but it stays put on me all day. Weirdly enough, right now, I'm not too fussed about this packaging, I'm more focused on the formula and performance of this. I would give this a 3.5/5. For less than £5, it's not too shabby. Shame about the limited shade range.
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The Effingham County Sheriff's Office is urging citizens to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity in their neighborhoods following a recent string of burglaries in both northern and southern Effingham County.
"Over the past two weeks, several homes in Effingham County have been burglarized during the daytime hours," Effingham County Sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said. "The suspects are forcing their way into homes and taking items such as jewelry and electronics."
Reports have mainly come from the southern section of the county, Ehsanipoor said. Burglaries occurred in a number of areas, including Old Dixie Highway South, Goshen Road and near Bloomingdale.
Ehsanipoor said a suspicious dark in color mid-size pickup truck has been seen in the area of several of the incidents in northern Effingham County.
"Residents are urged to stay vigilant and secure their homes," Ehsanipoor said. "Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie has increased patrols in the targeted areas."
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To becomes first state-run company to tap the market in past five years
A quiet buzz appears to be building around the initial public offering (IPO) from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd (Hudco). The government fully owns Hudco and this will be the first offering from a public sector undertaking to hit the capital markets after a gap of five years; the last being National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) in 2012.
The government plans to sell 10.2 percent of its stake in Hudco, to raise Rs 1,224 crore through the offering, which opens on May 8. This will be an offer for sale, which means that the company will not receive any proceeds from the offering and there will be no sales of new shares. The IPO's price band is Rs 56 to Rs 60 per share of face value of Rs 10 each.
The Hudco offering is of 204 million shares and this disinvestment from the government forms part of its broader disinvestment plan which was announced in the FY17-18 Union Budget on January 31.
Hudco is one of the government's 'mini-ratnas' and was established in 1970 to provide loans for housing and urban infrastructure projects.
Hudco operates in the housing finance space which is crowded by several large private players, which include several companies such as HDFC, Indiabulls Housing Finance, LIC Housing Finance, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation and a string of smaller firms.
But what stands out for Hudco is that it is focussed on financing long-gestation government projects.
This is a segment in which several banks – themselves struggling with stressed assets – have preferred to stay away from in recent years. NBFCs are also largely absent and thus gives Hudco a firm advantage.
Hudco's total outstanding loan portfolio is Rs 36,385 crore (as on December 2016) and the majority, 89.93 percent is towards state governments and their agencies. About 30.86 percent of Hudco's loan portfolio is towards housing finance loans and the balance 69.12 percent is towards urban infrastructure finance loans and project linked bonds, the company has said in an investor presentation.


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Spoilers: The entire Star Wars saga, Rocky IV, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Indiana Jones, Jurassic World, Harry Potter, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and the Willow Smith song "Whip My Hair."


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Francesco Furlanich graduated from the Conservatory of Trieste in 1989, winning in the meantime numerous national and international competitions. During his academic training has shown an unusual musical versatility: he studied piano, organ and composition and got his second diploma in bassoon, which allowed him to win the competition to enter the prestigious orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (main director Zubin Mehta) and to collaborate in several symphony orchestras and chamber music groups from all over Europe. He made many recordings in the studios of RAI and radio studios in Trieste and Koper (Slovenia), and has been invited to play with the opera houses and symphony orchestras throughout Italy (Rome Opera Orchestra, the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, etc.). He has also been a guest performer at various international festivals including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano in 2005 (Switzerland) and the Été Musical en Bergerac in Bordeaux (France). He has devoted many years to the study and research of Argentine music and, more recently, jazz.
Can you talk about your beginnings and what it means to be musically formed in a "border" city as Trieste?
I began studying the accordion when I was five years old with Roman Zajec and continued with her daughter, Eliana. I matched, later, the study of the bassoon, piano, organ and organ composition, and, in recent years, that of the bandoneon.
At the time, in the place where I lived was almost a duty to know how to play the accordion, because it was a very popular instrument; schools were full of students and you had to fight to get in, and the local folk music (not the Balkan music but Slovenian, very similar to the Austrian polkas and waltzes) and those of the nearby border were dominant.
When you live in a city where ethnicities mingle you do not notice that, everything looks natural. When you grow up, however, you realize that every little experience made in the cultural broth unknowingly formed you. Also and just the fact of attending friends of the Slovenian minority or a majority Italian, it change you within.
What is the difference between our perception of the accordion and that of countries with an important accordion tradition, like many areas of Eastern Europe?
What I can tell from the outside, since I'm not immersed in the culture of Italian accordionist, is known that a large, almost overwhelming, academic seriousness (eg students do not want to be contaminated with other genres) that is reflected in a general ignorance of the medium public, which leads back and reduces the accordion only to a folk object!
Abroad, this does not happen and it demonstrates by the great Russian, German or Scandinavian schools, to those in the Far East, where the study and practice of this instrument have a major consideration.
From your curriculum emerge different musical skills, which probably reflect a broad education and an equally wide passion for music. Can you talk about your experiences in the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino?
I play the bassoon in the orchestra of the Maggio from 17 years and have had the good fortune to be directed by the most talented directors of orchestra, including Muti, Abbado, Giulini, Mazel, Chailly, while our principal conductor is Zubin Mehta. Playing here is an unique experience; collaborate with the best Italian musicians, soloists accompany the best in the world and go on tour is priceless! There is a continued growth as an artist and you have to always be better, but this can also lead to neuroses and insecurities. But the greatest difficulty is doubling artistically play in an organism as the orchestra forces you to do your part perfectly and then to read it, forgetting at times the musical sense in favor of a maniacal execution of the part that was written for you. You are not request or to improvise or to interpret a song. While in other genres that I'm passionate about is almost the opposite. It is not easy to find a classical musician to improvise, as it is not easy to find a musician of other musical genres follow a part written in detail.
The most beautiful experience? Surely have played Turandot in the Forbidden City, that is in Beijing! The worst? Been on tour in Tokyo during the earthquake of 2011.
As an accordionist you feel inspired by any particular genre or instrumentalist?
Hard to say who has influenced me. I played from 40 years and from the moment I entered the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino I heard the greatest musicians in the world, and I think that everyone have a little inspired me. Classical music has always been my inspiration, as that popular, but in my formative journey I was passionate about different kinds of music, then the first tango, klezmer, jazz, swing and then back to the tango. I bought and studied a bandoneon Alfred & Arnold and I had the good fortune to delve into the different kinds of places with people, the only authentic way, in my opinion, in order to learn and understand the styles, otherwise than is just studying the texts.
Your experiences range from improvised Jewish music to tango, to chamber music. According to your experience, the audience appreciates the experimentation or occurs more easily to tradition?
I personally think that the experiments are very interesting and creative, for example with my group "The Klezmerata Fiorentina" (featuring Jewish music) we did a concert together with Arab musicians, with music of their tradition, with the outcome of a extraordinary mix! However, I believe that for the average listener to know what kind of music will perform a solo can be more comforting. I note the fact that the level of the audience is lowered, there is not a deep knowledge of music and therefore sufficient understanding of what the artists propose. What most excites the average listener is the percussive rhythm, one need only insert a battery and keep everyone happy… joke…; more and more music is being relegated to background music or social event where the important thing is to be there and to my personal experience, unfortunately, this is also true with classical music! Maybe it is also the fault of us musicians: going to try the amazing technique, we risk to forget the main way of music to thrill and amaze.
What are the projects you are working on at the moment?
Finally, the new CD of Klezmerata Fiorentina is coming out. The title is "18 Hidden Tales of a tzaddik" and has been release with a Spanish major record label, the Columna Musica, with which we will be distributed throughout the world and, given the time and given the economic difficulties of the record business, this is already a great success for us!
In the meantime, I'm going to carve another CD, but this time it's a totally mine project, from the music to the arrangements, with my quartet Quartocolore. The ensemble consists of cello, clarinet, guitar and accordion, but according to the need of evocative songs will be also used other instruments played by the musicians themselves (clarinet , bass, bandoneon and double bass).
My songs are stories of music, such as paintings or life dreams. When I compose I do not adopt a specific style of music, but different styles, those most appropriate to describe the emotion or story that I feel to share. I draw inspiration from every musical genre: classical, ethnic, folk, pop, etc. My music could be considered Word Music, a genre in opposition to the traditional view divided into genres and independent traditions.
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The typeface – JonesAUTHOR: Stephen Banham
Designer: Vincent Chan – vbschan.com
Category: Sans
It comes as a surprise to many people that new typefaces are being produced all the time. Even more of a surprise is that this is happening in Australia, a place seemingly a world away from the traditional centres of typeface design: Europe and the US.
There is something very familiar and comfortable about Jones. Perhaps it is the current resurgence of classic English grotesques or maybe the ever-present desire of designers to represent modernity through a sans. Following the market success of Kris Sowersby's National and Founders Grotesk, we may see more faces akin to Jones in the near future. As an academic project, the sheer effort and commitment of Chan to develop Jones is to be truly commended. With some further refinements and completion of the yawning gaps in the family of weights, we can look forward to seeing Jones, and perhaps more design output from Chan, contribute to the exciting and emerging field of Australian type design.
Stephen Banham: Let's start with an important question – why does Jones exist?
Vincent Chan: When I was writing my honours proposal in late 2009, I had outlined a brief for a magazine text face allowing me to tackle optical sizes, styles and weights – a broad array of typographic problems that the hierarchy of a magazine would warrant. Around this time, a fellow student was doing an internship with Stuart Geddes. One of the projects to come up was the redesign of an identity system for the artist-run initiative West Space. Stuart was keen to design a custom face and my name was put forward as someone interested in helping out. After much discussion, I decided that this brief could form the basis of my honours project.
SB: What inspired its design?
VC: First, we looked at the choice of typefaces already used in West Space collateral. Stuart had been using Parry Grotesque for body copy and Reader Black. What resulted was a particular interest in channelling an avant-garde spirit and naivety of form by referencing early British grotesques. Rather than going down the geometric, European avant-garde route, we looked to the first clumsy grots of foundries such as Stephenson Blake and Edmund Fry. Eventually I let go of these models and began to trust my instincts more. The two other main references were Eric Olsen's Maple and David Berlow's Bureau Grot(esque).
SB: What do you ultimately intend to do with Jones?
VC: Jones is my first proper foray into type design and I know it is probably riddled with flaws. It is fairly incomplete as it stands (only a display extra bold, display ultra-light and text regular exist). An italic would be nice.
SB: What particular problems did you experience and how did you overcome them?
VC: Initially the biggest issue for me was learning Fontlab. Apart from the technical issues, I struggled with what letterforms should look like. In time, however, after speaking to a few type designers and graphic designers, I began to trust my own inclinations and tried not to be so hung up on the 'right' way to draw.
SB: What inspired the name Jones?
VC: The founders of West Space are Brett and Sarah Jones (Stubbs). Also 'Jones' seemed to have a certain friendly, perhaps even Australian, feeling. It also shows off the buoyant hooks in the letters J and s.
Stephen Banham is founder of Letterbox.
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By Elena Anele (*)
99.9 was premiered in 1997 and it was directed by Agustín Villaronga, whom you may already know thanks to Pan Negre and In a Glass Cage.
It tells the story of a radio host called Lara who deals with psychic phenomena daily as she tries to uncover frauds related to them on her show. One day, when she is answering a call from a listener she gets a package with a diskette and some newspaper cuts. While she is going through them she learns about the death of her significant other, also father of her son, and all the experiments he had been carrying out. It seems he wanted to show people's dreams on TV devices as if they were part of a movie.
Lara still in shock decides to go to the town where he passed away to investigate the causes of his death. There she meets some strange villagers full of dark secrets and discovers the existence of a house in which walls creepy faces live.
Lara is played by Maria Barranco, famous for her roles on Spanish comedies from the 90s such as Todos los hombres sois iguales and Boca a boca and Almodovar's pet actress in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Dolores by the greatest Terele Pavez (La Comunidad, Balada triste de trompeta). There are other villagers as Simon Andreu (El Sacerdote, Los Placeres ocultos) and Angel de Andrés (800 balas, Sexykiller).
This movie got 3 important awards: Best Filmography at Sitges fest where it was premiered in October 1997 and Best Director and Great Eurocinema award at Fantafestival. Villaronga once again portraits a disgusting story as he did in A glass cage, they may be almost equal in coloring while referring to Victor, Lara's boyfriend, and Klaus experimentation on humans.
Even more, one year before Amenabar's Tesis was released and both films cannot deny their obsession with violence, evil and cameras. And if we go further we may relate both films on Zulueta's Rapture (Arrebato) made in 1979 but in the oblivion till the beginning of 21 century.
The 90s were a decade full of paranormal activity on media. In Spain the show X-Files was broadcasted and it became a big succeed soon. TV producers couldn't help trying to make something similar in our country and they thought of a series based on our own mysteries. It is said the main actress for it would have been María Barranco, who supposedly called Villaronga to write the screenplay of a 13- episode show, being the first one called something like The Faces of Jimena – the spooky village in 99.9-. Finally, this was not made but it turned out to be a new movie by Agustín. The "faces" were a well- known supernatural phenomenon in Spain at that time. This big thing is called the faces of Belmez, a small town in Jaen. There, in 1971 in one of the houses some images of faces started to appear and disappeared on the concrete floor. So popular did they become that on Easter 1972 hundreds of people were flocking the house and it went on for more than 30 years. In the 90s due to some TV shows the story came to life again and it inspired 99.9.
Not being a big fan of Villaronga, apart from In a glass cage, which I consider a truly revolting film, I must admit that this piece surprised me positively. Not only María Barranco is amazing taking a different role from the one she was always given, but also the story is well-built and deals with some concerns that are still in our subconscious.
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Elena Anele is the woman in charge of SPANISHFEAR.COM, Horror Rises from Spain and Un Fan de Paul Naschy . A literature and cinema researcher, finishing her postgraduate studies with a thesis about the mystic filmmaker José Val del Omar. She has published in different media and books as Fangoria or Hidden Horror. She has also been in charge of several translations including Javier Trujillo's complete works, La Mano Film Fest, The Man who Saw Frankenstein Cry and many more.


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If you are one of those paddlers who have looked in envy at UK sea kayakers with those funny white stickers on their boat covered in chicken scratch writing then you will be pleased to know the Bryan Hansel from paddlinglight.com has developed his own set of kayak deck slates and is now selling them. If you have no idea what I'm talking about that's ok.
Kayak deck slates are basically two vinyl stickers that are positioned just ahead of your cockpit which provide a good writing surface for notes to yourself using a grease pencil. Paddlers on tidal waters can keep track of daily highs/lows or current on the left slate while the right one blank making a perfect location to keep track navigation, weather observations or if you are teaching, student names, notes or a rough lesson plan.
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So I kind of stopped posting around here because most of my time has been focused on my book. A book. I wrote one. It's still hard for me to wrap my mind around that.
It's taken the better part of two years and it has been the hardest, most terrifying, and most rewarding thing I have ever done. I'm so proud of it, and I love the story and I want other people to read it and love it too.
But I have no idea what to do next. So much time has been spent on the writing part, that I haven't even considered what would happen once it is done. I've done research on agents and query letters etc. since I finished but I still feel so lost.
Does anyone have any advice for me? Connections? Suggestions? It's so scary thinking that something you love so much could be turned down repeatedly but I love it enough that I think I'm brave enough to try.
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August is more then half way through and I am sad to see that summer is coming to a close. School starts for us in 1 week. I can't believe this, and have mixed feelings about sending the kids back to school. Cordin is going to be in the 5th grade. Yes really. Gabbie is going into the 3rd grade, and I am feeling like an old mama. Cordin doesn't want to go to school, which is not really all that surprising, and Gabbie is very excited to go, mostly for seeing her friends, not the actual school part. I have liked having them here. They have mostly been really great. We have had our moments of course, but I will miss them when they are gone for most of the day. Gideon is sad that they will be gone, he really likes having them here to play with. Now he has to go back to having just mom to entertain him. What am I going to do? He really wants to go to school and be a big boy like brother and sissy.
Our summer was pretty tame. We had one really big adventure when we went to Utah for 2 weeks. It was a great trip filled with lots of family and fun. We did the Dino museum and went swimming a couple of times up at the reservoirs. The weather was pretty great the whole time we were there. It was so nice to spend time with Joe's family. The kids loved having cousins to play with and hang out with. I really liked renewing relationships with all of the family. We got home in the middle of July and have been swimming and playing here. Like I said it's been pretty tame. We are going to "end" our summer with a camping trip over labor day weekend. We are so excited to spend some time with my brothers and sisters. Everyone but Brooke and Evan will be there. They are coming in the middle of Sept. I can't wait to have some good quality time with my siblings. It's been awhile since we were together.
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The goal of the Akron Waterways Renewed! (AWR!) Program is to improve water quality, reduce current and potential flooding problems, and to meet USEPA and OEPA objectives and regulations in compliance with the Clean Water Act. The City's combined service (CSO) Long Term Control Plan (LTCP), currently estimated at $1.4 Billion, contains projects designed to reduce and eliminate combined sewer overflows to the Cuyahoga River, the Little Cuyahoga River and the Ohio & Erie Canal.
The City of Akron has formed a program management team consisting of professionals from the City of Akron, G. Stephens, Inc. (GSI), Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) and MWH Global. GSI was selected to lead the program with its sub-consultant HMM. MWH Global is the program's Integrated Planning and Regulatory Consultant.
GSI has overall responsibility for all phases of the work and directs and supervises the staff dedicated to the program management team. GSI's staff is performing the following tasks:
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Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international event on smart cities will host on 2018 its eighth edition under the theme Cities To Live In to underline the ultimate and common goal of making cities better places to live in. From November 13 to 15, Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via venue will host the bigger edition to date with an expected growth of a 20% in exhibition floorspace and exhibitors spreading over two halls of the Gran Via venue for the first time in its history.
The congress program will be restructured into 5 themes, Digital Transformation, Urban Environment, Mobility, Governance & Finance, and Inclusive & Shared Cities; and will cover topics such as Data-driven Cities, 5G and the future of Connectivity, Resilient Cities, Gentrification, Innovative Transport Systems, Multilevel Governance, Sharing and Collaborative Economy, Circular Economy and Cities for All.
The event's director, Ugo Valenti, said that "As we progress in the development of smart cities throughout the world and we begin to deploy smart solutions we need to keep in mind the ultimate reason that drives all these changes: making cities more livable places for its citizens. That summarizes the goal of every effort done in a wide scope of fields from governance to sustainability. It is our responsibility both individually and collectively to take advantage of all the tools at the tip of our fingers to transform cities to make them the better places possible for their current inhabitants and for the future ones too."
Nine months before the event, SCEWC, organized by Fira de Barcelona, has already booked 75% of its floorspace, exceeding last year's figures by 20% and taking over hall 2 and part of hall 1 of the Gran Via venue. The over 700 companies exhibiting at the 2018 edition -among which are Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Engie, Huawei, Mastercard, Microsoft, SAP, Siemens, Suez and ZTE. Many cities and countries will showcase their projects including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Dubai, Germany, Finland, Holland, Israel, South Korea, London, Moscow, New York, Norway, Prague, Sweden, and the United States.
In 2018, the event will be jointly held with iWater, Smart Mobility World Congress and the Circular Economy European Summit, creating an unparalleled platform for the sustainability industry.
Sharing Cities Summit
SCEWC will also host of the Sharing Cities Summit, an international meeting focused on the growth of collaborative economies. The event will hold its third edition from November 13 to 18 –after being previously held in Amsterdam and New York– and will be organized by the Barcelona City Council, the Dimmons research group from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the SCEWC, the cities of New York, Amsterdam, Paris and the rest of the Sharing Cities network. The Sharing Cities Summit is an international meeting of experts and cities which looks at the different types of collaborative economies, how they affect city life and what measures can be taken to boost their positive effects and mitigate their negative aspects.
An international benchmark
On its last edition, SCEWC gathered 700 cities worldwide as well as 675 exhibitors and 420 speakers and 18,754 attendees from 120 countries. The international impact of the show has grown with regional events in Curitiba (Brazil), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyoto (Japan), Puebla (Mexico) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) further consolidating Smart City Expo as the international leading event in smart urbans solutions and drawing more attendees and interest toward the global event held in Barcelona every year.
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On September 26th 2014 Region 10 Trustee Dr. Terry L. Brewick and Minnesota Section Chair Dr. Joseph P. Trowbridge inducted Dr. Alejandro M. Aguirre into the Minnesota Section of the Pierre Fauchard Academy.
Dr. Alejandro Aguirre will serve as Co-chair with Dr. Joe Trowbridge for the Minnesota Section. Dr. Aguirre will represent Minnesota in San Antonio at the PFA Annual Section Chair Caucus and the Awards Luncheon.
Dr. Aguirre and PFA President-Elect Stockwell serve on the Board of Directors for the America's Dentists Care Foundation. (The ADCF was established in 2008 as a non-profit corporation to address the need of providing quality equipment and technical assistance to aid states in putting on Mission of Mercy (MOM) projects). Dr Aguirre has chaired all three of Minnesota's very successful MOM projects. The 2014 Mankato MOM provided $900,000 in free treatment on 1500 patients in just 2 days.
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This thesis Develop a new suitable nano-gold mediated silver antibody microarray technology. Application examples show that the antibody array efficently detects differences in protein and phospho-protein concentration independently of cell type. For activation and inhibition of signaling pathways, cytoplasmic and nuclear distribution are very important and can reflect differential functions, even when total phospho-proteins are not changed. Evidence for new and rapid common cytoplasmic signaling about ERK, JNK, STAT3, Akt and p70S6 in chosen functions of three treated cell lines. Setup new positive or negative co-localized relationships and interaction about p-p38 and p38, Smad1 and Smad2/3, ERK or p38 with Smad1, ERK or p38 with c-Myc, among Akt, ERK and p70S6, p70S6 with p38 and smad1,2,3 in three treated cell lines.


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Saturday, June 17, 2017
Huron Shores Fellowship Church
Alpena, MI 49707
(989) 358-0047
The family will greet friends starting at 10 am.
Life Story / Obituary
Erma H. Wyers (Brill), 86, of Traverse City and Hubbard Lake passed away on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at The Villa in Traverse City. She was born in Clarkston, MI on July 22, 1930 to the late Julian and Marie Brill.
Erma grew up on Lake Williams and helped operate the family store until she married in 1953. She then worked in the infirmary until 1957 when she and her husband moved to Alpena and then later purchased a farm in Hubbard Lake. The farm and children kept her busy for many years. After retirement from the farm, she once again entered the field of caring for people by being a home health care worker.
Erma was very talented in the areas of knitting, sewing and crocheting. She enjoyed traveling and has been to England, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Mexico. For several years she and her husband spent the winters in Texas where they made many friends. Erma loved to meet new people and was always willing to help wherever needed. She served as the treasurer of the VFW in Spruce for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Kenneth W. Wyers, and her brother, Robert Brill.
She is survived by her four children, Dawn (Tom) Jagelewski of Traverse City, Kenneth (Carol) Wyers of Hubbard Lake, Janie (Don) Johnson of Erie, PA, and Laura Sinkler of Kalkaska. In addition she has 13 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held 11am, Saturday, June 17, 2017 at the Huron Shores Fellowship Church, Alpena. The family will greet friends starting at 10am. Please visit www.lifestorytc.com to sign the guest book and share your thoughts and memories with the family. The family chose Life Story Funeral Home, Traverse City.


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Hello again! First, thank you for all you do, I visit your site often and appreciate your biblical answers! We have a few problems that we are needing some help with and thought you might have some wisdom.
Our preacher has lost sight of Matthew 6:31–34. This last year has had ups and downs (as all congregations will have, especially if in a college town as ours which heavily affects attendance when college is out) but this last one affected the offerings. A family recently moved who were the biggest supporters and since their leaving the church is losing money, even after most members have increased their giving. Fortunately the only bills we have are utilities, basic office and paper supplies and the preacher's salary.
It is going on the third or fourth month, and he just gave his notice that he is looking for a different congregation because we will obviously not be able to keep up his salary. He is full salary. While we cannot continue at his current salary, we can offer one that would coincide with the average teacher with his years of experience. It would be far more than the average household in our area and still be average of the members and perhaps above. Yes, it would be a reduction, but if we had the funds we would reinstate. What can we do to encourage him and to not lose faith and hope in the area because of lower funds?
Not everyone is like Paul who was so devoted to the teaching of the gospel that he was willing to work to support himself and those with him so that the gospel could continue to be taught.
"For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God" (I Thessalonians 2:9).
"Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me" (Acts 20:34).
"And we labor, working with our own hands" (I Corinthians 4:12).
It is disappointing to hear of someone who is making more than most unwilling to do extra work to get by during economic hard times. It is one thing to think you are losing your effectiveness in an area and think that another man might be beneficial. I know I've thought that a few times during my years here. But if a church is unable to support a preacher fully, then the preacher makes plans to support himself. I spent almost 18 years taking no pay for preaching, working in tiny congregations in the northeast. There were only a few years here in Nebraska that I was supported fully. Most of the time I received support from other congregations. In the recent recessions even that has dropped significantly and I have been working two part-time jobs to keep afloat. It is just what happens when a person is committed to preaching. It is nice when you can focus entirely on the work because there is enough income, but you are prepared to do what is necessary when the income is not there.
I can't help thinking that you may be better off with someone else. I tell people that preachers should expect to get paid roughly what educators in their area are paid at the same level of experience. Many preachers get paid less than that. That you are able to afford that much means you should not have too much difficulty finding a preacher to come and work with the congregation.


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Harcourt House
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Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
Closed July 1
Members' Show BBQ June 24 noon – 5 pm
What's Left Unsaid
Membership Exhibition
Various Artists
Main Gallery
June 15 – July 14, 2017
Toss together a melange of ideas, memories, words, body language, experiences and emotions from one individual to the next, dialogue transforms, expands and collapses. Some things and, remain unexpressed. Could these missed exchanges have been an opportunity for growth, a catalyst for self-discovery, or a future transitional moment? Complimenting The Works Festival theme, "Dialogue",
Harcourt House's What's Left Unsaid invites all current members in good standing to delve a little
deeper into their process of artistic communication; to explore subject matter that may not initially feel comfortable or approachable, to try and articulate something that hasn't yet been revealed but still lingers there, on the periphery.
25th Annual Naked Show
Various Artists
The 25th annual Naked Show celebrates figurative works made in the Drop-In drawing and sculpture classes at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre.
In Dreams Awake
Various Artists, curated by Shane Golby
VAAA Visual Arts Alberta – CARFAC Project Space June 8 - August 19, 2017
Wednesday to Friday 10 to 4pm
Saturday 12 to 4pm
Closed July 1
Reception June 22, 7 – 9pm
The exhibition In Dreams Awake features art works drawn from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Inspired by the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, this eclectic exhibition examines the 'earthly garden' as investigated by artists in Alberta and explores the influence of the past on contemporary artistic expression.
The exhibition In Dreams Awake was curated by Shane Golby and organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. The AFA Travelling Exhibition program is supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.


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Port Chester NY-
Words- Tyler Curtis
Photos- Nick Irving
After a three year hiatus from the great state of New York, String Cheese Incident's return was a welcome and exciting treat, like a giant hug from an old best friend. Playing only their second show ever at the Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, the Boulder CO jamgrass pioneers found themselves in front of two riled-up, sold out crowds. The abnormally broad range of individual music styles of the members of SCI creates one of the most dynamic live shows one could ever see, and is what draws all walks of life. Older Cheese family were ecstatic to be given the opportunity to take the ride once more, while tons of new fans jumped aboard- everyone was grinning ear to ear. This show, 11.12.14, proved to be a highlight among their praised 14 show 2014 East Coast tour that kicked off at their own Suwanee Hulaween Festival in Florida over Halloween weekend.
The first set was packed with solos and swift picking, foreshadowed by the opener. While in the past it has been in the closing slot, the show kicked off with an early staple known as "Johnny Cash." Typically you're not going to start off with a serious jam vehicle, but when you're oiled up, your performance is often full of satisfying surprises. Toning things down from a rambunctious start was "Hotel Window." Like a snowball rolling down a hill, their second impression of the night started off slow and quiet, but as it rolled down the hill, it picked up some weight and packed a punch. They would use this energy to switch gears into "Climb" before setting up the set closer with an electric guitar strapped Nershi led "Big Shoes" into a stretched out funky "Rosie." The latter contained a killer sit-in from Kung-Fu keyboardist Todd Stoops, using one side of Kyle Hollingsworth's keyboard space.
Much like the first set, the second set opened up with fan favorite "Texas." Here we saw Bill Nershi stretch his hands and rip up his acoustic guitar. Because of the rule of chemistry, Kang propelled forward with some impressive licks, and circulated the excitement around the stage. Two songs later things got very jazzy, held down by the EOTO rhythm section and Keith Moseley on bass. "Rhythm Of The Road" served as a laid-back catchy ditty that tore open towards the end, giving the Port Chester crowd a perfect dance number. Moving from a smooth sound to the classic jamgrass style that SCI is known for, "Can't Stop Now" came next bearing gifts. The second set would come to a close with the fiddle laced "Rivertrance" and a blazing hot "Just One Story" that was headed by Kang.
The band would reemerge for a three song cover encore, containing the Jerry Garcia Band song "Tore Up Over You," Paul Simon's "Under African Skies" off of Graceland and the bluegrass staple "Whiskey Before Breakfast." Overall, it was the party atmosphere and demanding instrumentation that resulted in a successful night two of two show in the beautiful Capitol Theatre. One can only hope that such an incident repeats itself and that the party lives on.
11/12/2014 • Capitol Theater • Port Chester, NY
Set 1: Johnny Cash> Got What He Wanted> Beautiful, Hotel Window> Climb, Big Shoes> Rosie1
Set 2: Texas, Pack it Up, Rhythm of The Road> Can't Stop Now, Piece Of Mine,Rivertrance, Just One Story
Encore: Tore Up Over You, Under African Skies> Whiskey Before Breakfast
with Todd Stoops (Kung Fu) on keyboards
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Making his Super League debut for Castleford Tigers is the big aim for 2019 for half-back Cory Aston.
The 23-year-old has spent two seasons at Betfred Super League clubs without making a first team appearance, but was head coach Daryl Powell's choice as man of the match when the Tigers beat Featherstone Rovers 56-0 last weekend.
Aston played 23 times for Sheffield Eagles last year, on loan, after joining Tigers in the off-season.
He moved from Sheffield to Leeds at the end of 2016, but spent most of the year on loan at Featherstone and then Bradford Bulls before being released from his contract.
He was Eagles' joint-top try scorer in 2018, with nine - as well as 28 goals - and feels he is ready to step up to the highest level.
"I have played a lot of Championship games over the last five years," Aston pointed out.
"I've played over 100 games so to get a couple of Super League appearances this year would be fantastic and that's definitely the aim."
Aston is taking inspiration from Tigers clubmate Luke Gale and St Helens' Danny Richardson, who was named at half-back in last year's Super League Dream Team.
"Out of nowhere he kept Matty Smith out of the side all year," Aston said of Richardson.
"I think that's fantastic and I'll take a bit of inspiration from that.
"I am confident my chance will come.
"Over the last year they have really helped my game at Cas, people like (assistant-coach) Ryan Sheridan, Powelly, Galey, Truey (Jake Trueman], Benny Roberts, Jamie Ellis.
"The quality of half-backs to learn stuff off is fantastic so you've just got to keep picking things up each session, the little things and keep working on your game, then it will come."
Gale was Super League's Man of Steel in 2017 and Aston can see similarities with his own career path.
"He is another inspiration," he said.
"It isn't until later in his career that he's really kicked on and played for England.
"He has been around the blocks, he left Leeds and went to Doncaster and London and then went to Bradford before he came to Cas.
"He has become the best half-back in England so it happens."
Powell praised Aston's attitude this year and has urged him to continue playing the way he did against Rovers, when he created several tries, kicked two forty-20s and landed six goals.
Featherstone were understrength, fielding nine trialists, but Aston felt the game served its purpose.
He said: "It was good to blow some cobwebs off. You can train all pre-season, but it's not the same as playing.
"It was a good confidence builder for me after a tough year, not getting an opportunity. I have been trying to work hard and for Powelly to give me the confidence of playing was brilliant and it is something I can build on."


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...and, in the meanwhile, the apparently laziest monk I seem to have become lately is producing instead - endless attempt
to get back to a better (and younger, alas!) HAND, a sincere effort to get to the same instinctive attitude I had back in the
years: to visualize since the very first pen stroke a final quasi-material quasi tactile mental image of the folio I was goin'
ploughing along with my slow goof ox-fingers...I must admit I find it some truly harder today, must be after my stubborn
essay to get to sort of a "historical perfection", which always leads me to plough the new field with the same mood that
I've ever supposed a MiddleAges' true scribe to feel in when he was about to begin a "command" by some important
Bishop, some Queen or an Earl or alike...I'm a funny one, I know - but sometimes the miracle seems to happen, my oxes
obey quietly as quiet is an early spring dawn awaiting for the new sun: brief, here you are one new page, an italian song
dedicated by the singer to his son, by my friend to his own one on the day he gets his Degree - I hope they will like it...:
...and a shortcut of the capital LETTRINE: unfortunately, taking photographs of a gilding is always such a hopeless task...
...more than that - as I said above, I also feel in the serious need to get back (or forward, not to me to judge) to what I use
to call FLUID HAND...so, what better exercise than "measure" myself with the most difficult among all shodou styles, the
so-called "grass leave" soushou? the hardest task, although unexpert eyes may find it no more than incomprehensible
unreadable funny childish vertical lines - well, I brushed one of my old "simplest" haiku, already posted herein:
「tanpopo ha ・ watashi no yume no ・ tsubasa kana」
dandelion, amazing wings to my dreams
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...and, in the meanwhile...
...and, in the meanwhile, the apparently laziest monk I seem to have become lately is producing instead - endless attempt
truly truly gorgeous to my heart's eye.
thanks, you're too good - I must say I've had better pics
YUP!...although hard to really REALIZE what it's like, LOL!
Spero proprio che al dottò Davide Manzi possa proprio piacere! :) Grazie per la foto-dettaglio... un bel lavoro.
beh, ai suoi è piaciuto...e dire che ero partito con tutt'altro progetto,
è PER QUELLA che mi son permesso di "convocarti"!...
e' venuto sorprendentemente bene!
thanks for accepting my unkind invitation, yume dear...you know,
Excellent Craftmanship
Absouletly STUNNING! I love the sparkle in the first alphabet. Why are you so mean to yourself? Actually you should applaud yourself for not giving up on all of your creative endevors, Gabi.
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GOSH Wic, you're right - I end by breathing WHOLE INDUSTRIAL
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Dear, magnificent, unique Master!
Tati dear...I don't know if all those Icons that I see
Yes, nice Master, all icons which you see on the pages of my magazine I did! And I am happy, that you estimated my work so highly :)))
Yes, I can see a smoky sky over here...LOL
Yes, I thought I saw the smog over here for awhile from all of your smoking and mine put together. ROFL.
Re: Yes, I can see a smoky sky over here...LOL
well this was not a gift of mine, but a real "order",
NO rush for Justin. YOU have the exhibition coming up in April. You should concentrate on that ginormous project. Oh by the way, the way, how do you do the gilding? Do you melt a substance? And then do you use a brush or an instrument to decorate the subject matter? YOU should post a picture of that process, like Bette does with her woodblock printing, so I can learn.
well, wic...there are LOTSA LOTS people who "invented" themselves
too kind of you as usual, dearest Doc...no, I had the flash on,


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At HHRCS, we believe in strengthening our community and empowering our clients through creativity and inspiration. Our programs such as art and craft classes are designed to build skills and encourage self-esteem.
In April, the Seniors Hub team will honour the cooking skills of Geraldine, a lovely Seniors Hub client by organising a Master Chef Class on hands on gnocchi making. Geraldine is Italian and she is very keen to share her cooking skills and passion for Italian cuisine. She will teach all staff and clients in attendance how to cook real gnocchi, which is light, delicate and simply melts in your mouth. Gnocchi are a classical Italian dish made from potato and are oval in shape with lines on the outer surface to catch the sauce once they are cooked.
The Master Chef Class is an opportunity to facilitate client participation, cross-cultural interactions and the development of new skills.
Everyone is welcome!
Please contact Branka, our Community Care Manager on 9817 0101 for further information and to book yourself into the class should you wish to do so.
Geraldine, Seniors Hub Client


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How To Be Magical
One of my first memories of magic was thanks to my grandfather, who I used to call Bill as a child because I couldn't pronounce his favorite nickname. When I was just a wee piglet (as Bill would say) I loved to visit my grandparents at their home near Lake Barcroft in Falls Church, Virginia. During these visits, my grandparents would often take me to my favorite beach on the lake — Beach Four. Sometimes Bill would take me by himself to the lake. He used these one-on-one times to teach me magic.
My Bill would set up elaborate (at least they seemed to then) treasure hunts by writing messages in the sand. The messages would lead me from the beach to the parking lot, to the lifeguard stand, to the water's edge, and to a small patch of trees near by.
Towards the end of these treasure hunts, I would often need to find a magical leaf. I'd bring the most beautiful leaf I could find to Bill, and he would examine it closely, eventually finding the small magical text that only he could read because of his magical powers.
The leaf would say "Throw me up in the air, and wherever I land, dig a hole, for there you will find buried treasure." I'd throw the leave up, and start digging in the sand with my little plastic shovel. I went to Bill. "There's nothing there!"
"you have to keep digging," he'd say. I kept digging.
Eventually, he would say "I think you need to go down to the water and rinse your shovel off."
So I'd run down and rinse the shovel off, and when I'd come back, somehow, just covered in sand at the bottom of the hole, was a beautiful dollar coin or an amazing glass thumb marble with colorful swirls inside.
Of course, eventually I figured out his trick, but that doesn't take away the magical aura of those childhood memories.
Much later in life, when I became a fairy princess, I learned in great detail, exactly how to do magic tricks. It's a lot of work. It's involves rational thinking and spatial skills. It requires planning, study, the right tools and equipment, and a whole lot of confidence and flair. But almost nothing beat seeing the amazed expression on those kids faces, and knowing that I created memories for them that they will treasure just like I cherish my memory of Bill's treasure hunts.
From this I am reminded that life is about creating magical moments for other people, and appreciating the magic that other people bring to our life.
We must create them for ourselves and for each otherout of love. That's why we are here.


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What's On Your Table: Customized Culexus Assassin
What's On Your Table: To submit your work, please send up to 8 pics to firstname.lastname@example.com
Culexus Assassins are my favourite assassins In any game/world and I wanted to make a completely individual one off assassin. To me the Culexus is supposed to be creepy looking and have an aura of terror around them, a combination of the Alien and ghosts/undead. I hope you like my take on the purest evil in 40k. I will be sending a couple of other Culexii conversions over once they are painted up.
This guy is a vat grown Pariah called Ion, he's a rather aged assassin and has had much of himself replaced with bionics, making him physically even less human. As a final mission he has been tasked with eliminating several Chaos Sorcerers within the Eye of Terror, during which he is expected to martyr himself.
Parts used:
Old metal haemonculus
Servo skull
Termagaunt arm
Harlequin hand
Culexus hand
Necron legs
Ruststalker bits


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Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
New York Observer, owned by Trump's Jewish son-in-law, ceases print edition
(JTA)—The New York Observer, a weekly newspaper owned by President-elect Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, will cease publishing a print edition.
The Nov. 9 edition was the last print edition, the Observer's parent company, Observer Media, announced in a statement.
The newspaper will continue to be available online as Observer.com.
The decision to end the print edition and change its name "signals an end of an era when The Observer served as a fixture of Manhattan reporting and a training ground for scores of journalists now in senior positions in the media world," The New York Times reported.
Joseph Meyer, chairman and chief executive of Observer Media, told The New York Times that ceasing the print edition was a natural outgrowth of the paper's shift toward a national audience. Meyer is Kushner's brother-in-law.
Meyer said in the Observer statement that the media company reaches over 8 million people monthly. The Times reported that Observer.com received 5.6 million unique visitors in September, nearly twice its audience from the year before.
Kushner purchased the newspaper in 2006, when he was 25 and in law school. It had been in print for nearly 30 years.
ADL scorns Trump choice of Breitbart chief Stephen Bannon as top adviser
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Anti-Defamation League decried Donald Trump's appointment of Stephen Bannon as a top White House adviser, saying Bannon's association with "unabashed anti-Semites and racists" is disqualifying.
Bannon, longtime CEO of the right-wing Breitbart news website, a clearinghouse of alt-right views, joined Trump's presidential bid late in the campaign and helped lead it to victory.
The ADL in its statement first praised the president-elect for his other hire announced Sunday: Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, as chief of staff.
"At the same time, the ADL strongly opposes the appointment of Steve Bannon as senior adviser and chief strategist in the White House," said the statement posted on Twitter by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. "It is a sad day when a man who presided over the premier website of the 'alt-right'—a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists—is slated to be a senior staff member in the 'people's house.'"
Breitbart employs Jews and covers Israel sympathetically, but also has become the nexus of the alt-right movement, which includes in it those who have expressed homophobic, misogynist, white supremacists and anti-Semitic views. In one recent instance, a writer mocked a critic of Polish populism because she is Jewish.
Bannon's ex-wife in 2007, in sworn affidavits, said he was resisting sending their daughters to a private school because he "didn't want the girls going to school with Jews." Bannon denied it.
Before the appointment was made official, Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker who is expected to play a senior role in a Trump administration, dismissed claims that Bannon was an anti-Semite.
Saying concerns about Bannon and the alt-right come from "nut cakes," Gingrich, who is close to the right wing pro-Israel community, told CBS on Sunday morning that Bannon could not be an anti-Semite because he had worked on Wall Street and in Hollywood.
Liberal Jewish groups joined in the criticism of the Bannon appointment.
"Those of us who were alarmed by Trump's campaign when it began over a year ago are starting to see the things we feared come to pass, and this is one of them—the elevation of an avowed bigot to a position of incredible official power," said Stosh Cotler, the CEO of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, a political action committee that had opposed Trump.
The National Jewish Democratic Committee said in a statement that the hire showed that Trump was not serious about Jewish sensibilities, despite his oft-repeated defense that his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren are Jewish.
"No amount of Jewish family members or potential White House Shabbat dinners will overshadow the fact that Trump has hired a man like Bannon as one of his most senior staffers," the NJDC said. "We won't forget."
Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that is part of the boycott Israel movement, likened Trump to the Israeli government.
"From our work on Israel, we are familiar with the deepening violence, hatred and repression that comes from a far right government," it said. "We cannot sit by and watch that take place here—this is not a time for business as usual."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her opera debut
(JTA)—Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared on stage in an opera performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Ginsburg, 83, performed Saturday night with the Washington National Opera in "The Daughter of the Regiment" by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. She played the role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp.
Some of her lines were rewritten to reflect the current political climate, according to reports. The Los Angeles Times reported that Ginsburg did the rewriting. The new lines referenced among other issues the "birther" campaign against President Barack Obama and her 2013 dissent against weakening the Voting Rights Act.
Ginsburg, who reportedly is an opera fan, did not sing, and delivered her lines in English rather than French.
She wore a floor-length green gown and sat in a huge chair that did not allow her feet to reach the floor, according to reports.
Ivanka Trump says she will not serve in her father's administration
(JTA)—Ivanka Trump, the Jewish daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, said in a prime-time interview that she would not serve in his White House administration.
"I'm going to be a daughter," Ivanka Trump said Sunday night during an interview with Donald Trump and his family on the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" in answer to a question of how she would support her father as president. She added, however: "I've said throughout the campaign that I am very passionate about certain issues. And that I want to fight for them."
"Wage equality, child care. These are things that are very important to me. I'm very passionate about education. Really promoting more opportunities for women. So, you know there are a lot of things that I feel deeply, strongly about. But not in a formal administrative capacity."
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are among the members of her father's transition team, however.
According to the Code of Laws of the United States, the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, neither Ivanka Trump nor her husband could be appointed to a public official post due to restrictions on appointing relatives.
Ivanka Trump, the mother of three young children, is the executive vice president of development and acquisitions at her father's company, the Trump Organization, where her work is focused on its real estate and hotel management initiatives. She also has her own line of clothes and accessories.
During the interview, Trump called on his supporters to stop harassing and threatening minorities and committing acts of vandalism in his name.
"I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, "Stop it." If it—if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it," he said.
Trump said he was surprised to hear about the violent acts and thought it must be a small number of incidents.
"I would say don't do it, that's terrible, 'cause I'm gonna bring this country together," he said.
In letter to Netanyahu, JFNA board calls for Kotel egalitarian space deal to be fully implemented
(JTA)—The Jewish Federations of North America board of trustees sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscoring the "growing sense of urgency" on the part of American Jews to see the agreement to create an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall fully implemented.
The letter was approved by the board on Monday during JFNA's annual General Assembly, which is being held through Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
"(W)e are writing to affirm our unwavering love for the State of Israel as well as to convey our collective appreciation for all you have done to advance the establishment of an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel and to make room for a diversity of Jewish religious practice and expression," the letter says. "We recognize that no Israeli leader understands the importance of religious pluralism or has done more in this area than you have.
"We are sure you can understand the concerns we hear from many in our communities who struggle to understand why the implementation of the historic government resolution to create a space at the Kotel where all Jews are free to worship appears stalled."
Under the agreement announced in January and approved by the Cabinet in a 15-5 vote, the egalitarian section of the wall near Robinson's Arch would be expanded and placed under the authority of a pluralist committee. The plan called for solidifying haredi Orthodox control over the site's traditional Orthodox section.
But the religious partners in the agreement backed away from the deal and in June, a group of Orthodox Jewish organizations filed a petition with Israel's Supreme Court to prevent the establishment of the egalitarian section.
Earlier this month, leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements in the United States and Israel brought at least 12 Torah scrolls into the women's section of the Western Wall plaza for a prayer service. The scrolls were carried into the women's section for use during the Women of the Wall's monthly prayer service at the Wall as part of a protest march against restrictions on egalitarian worship at the site.
"We know you recognize the growing sense of urgency to fully implement the Government Resolution which resulted from the work of your office together with Natan Sharansky's leading of the parties to a compromise," the letter also says. "Your declaration at last year's General Assembly that there is 'one Wall for one People' has become a statement that our communities truly believe and expect to see come true."
Sarah Bard, Jewish outreach director for Clinton campaign, moving to Israel
(JTA)—Sarah Bard, the Jewish outreach director for the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is moving to Israel.
Bard, 36, was scheduled to move by next week, she told JTA last month. Her aliyah, to be with her Israeli fiance, had been planned before the presidential election campaign.
She reportedly does not have a job waiting for her in Israel.
Bard visited Israel in May to participate in a Clinton fundraiser in Tel Aviv.
She also worked on Clinton's 2008 Democratic primary campaign, losing to Barack Obama. Bard then worked on Obama's winning presidential campaign.
Trump's transition team includes Jewish daughter, son-in-law
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Donald Trump's presidential transition team includes his Jewish daughter and son-in-law, among other family members.
Three of the president-elect's four adult children are on the team, including Ivanka Trump. Her husband, Jared Kushner, a publisher and, like Ivanka, an heir to a real estate fortune, is also on the team.
Kushner became one of Trump's closest advisers during the campaign. Among the issues in which he was involved were relations with Israel.
The transition team includes advisers known for their closeness both to the right-wing pro-Israel community and to Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who is a major pro-Israel donor and backed Trump's campaign with tens of millions of dollars.
Among them are Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who reportedly is being considered for secretary of state or health secretary under Trump, and Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, who may become attorney general.
Gingrich led the successful bid by Congress to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 1995, although no president has yet to implement the Jerusalem Assembly Act, choosing instead to exercise a waiver based on national security interests.
Also on the team is Steve Mnuchin, a longtime banker who was finance chairman of the campaign and, like Kushner, is a scion of one of New York's best-known Jewish families. Mnuchin is being considered for the post of secretary of the Treasury.
The campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, also is on the team. Bannon took a break from running Breitbart, the right-wing news site that has peddled conspiracy theories that echo themes prevalent among anti-Semites on the alt-right, to lead Trump's campaign. He has said he wants to return to Breitbart, but on Sunday was tapped senior adviser.
On Nov. 10, a disability advocacy group, RespectAbility, posted what it said was an internal Trump transition team document titled "Trump Cabinet Possibilities." The list comports with media reports of people being considered for Cabinet positions by Trump.
In addition to Gingrich, Giuliani and Mnuchin as possible choices, other figures who are Jewish or who are close to the right-wing pro-Israel community include:
* Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback as secretary of agriculture. Brownback in 2008 ran for president, and made his support for Israel central to his campaign, including an emphasis on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital—a move Trump has pledged he would make.
* Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as secretary of agriculture or commerce. Perry has close ties to the community of Republican Jewish donors.
* Lew Eisenberg as secretary of commerce. Eisenberg, a financier, was one of a small cadre of Republican Jewish Coalition board members who did not run away from the Trump candidacy. Eisenberg was a major contributor to groups backing Trump's election. Trump stirred concerns among Republican Jews for his equivocation on Israel issues at the outset of his campaign, though he later walked back many of those positions, and for his broadsides against minorities and misogynistic comments about women.
* John Bolton as secretary of state. As a foreign policy official in multiple Republican administrations, Bolton has long been revered in the pro-Israel community for his lead role in the United Nations' 1991 rescission of the 1975 "Zionism is racism" resolution. Among foreign policy think-tankers, he has been the most forceful in recent years in advocating military action to get Iran to end its nuclear program.
* Carl Icahn, the activist invester, also is under consideration for Treasury secretary, according to the document.
RespectAbility, led by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, who for years was prominent in the pro-Israel community, decried the absence on the list of people who were familiar with the disability community.
Mizrahi listed an array of Republican officials who had experience in advancing disability rights and opportunities as possible choices for the Trump team.
"It is vital for the Trump administration to reflect America, including talented people with disabilities," she said in a statement.
Human Rights Watch founder: Trump encouraging European anti-Semites
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA)—A founder of Human Rights Watch warned that Donald Trump's election as U.S. president is encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe.
Aryeh Neier, an American Jew who was born in Nazi Germany, addressed the issue on Sunday at a talk about philanthropy and anti-Semitism during an event organized by the Dutch Humanitarian Fund, or JHF, in the Hague.
"The Trump phenomenon and the phenomenon of xenophobic forces in this part of Europe, some of whom may go further politically than they have gone so far, are likely to contribute" to anti-Semitism, said Neier, 79, the president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations.
Trump, a Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, fought allegations during the campaign of encouraging racism and xenophobia. He has called Mexicans rapists and drug dealers, as well as for a ban on entry by Muslims into the United States.
His victory has been celebrated by European far-right groups, including Marine Le Pen of France's National Front party, who wrote that Trump's election set the American people "free." Geert Wilders, a Dutch anti-Islam campaigner, called the Trump victory a "revolution" to be repeated in his own homeland.
Wilders said the victory will "provide very specific encouragement to those who want to demonstrate xenophobia" because "the United States, which has portrayed itself as a leader in efforts to protect human rights, has elected somebody like Trump."
During the talk, Neier also fielded a question on allegations that Human Rights Watch and groups funded by the American-Hungarian Jewish billionaire George Soros—who also funds the Open Society Foundations—contribute to rising anti-Semitism in Western Europe by singling out Israel for criticism or by supporting its demonization.
Not addressing those accusations specifically, Neier said he opposes rhetoric questioning Israel's right to exist but stressed all governments should be subjected to "criticism on their policies."
In 2009, another founder of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, accused the group of "helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state," while the "brutal, closed and autocratic" societies of the Arab world were "being ignored."
The New York-born chief rabbi of Ukraine, Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, said at the JHF event that he did not think Trump's election would embolden anti-Semites in Ukraine.
"I don't think it'll have an effect on anti-Semitism in Ukraine," he said of Trump's election, which he said was perceived in Ukraine is having effect on everyday life in that country.
JHF, which the Dutch Jewish community established with Holocaust restitution money, provides hundreds of thousands of euros in funding annually for Eastern and Central European Jews.


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About the Committee
The Inspiring Women in STEM Planning Committee develops programing for the annual BioNJ Inspiring Women in STEM Conference. The committee is comprised of BioNJ Members who are passionate about advancing and supporting women involved in all aspects of science, technology, engineering and math in their careers. The committee members are committed to developing a community of female leaders who can influence STEM industries in New Jersey and worldwide.
Committee Members
Lynne Anderson, Drinker, Biddle & Reath
Jennifer Asay, Mallinckrodt
Elizabeth Garner, Agile Therapeutics
Jennifer Kmiec, Inspiring Women in STEM
Marian Lordi, Sanofi
Amy Rudolph, Novartis
Judith Sheft, New Jersey Innovation Institute, NJIT