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Megillat EstherHeroine of the Purim story and Megillat (the scroll of) Esther. She is married to the king by her cousin Mordecai and ultimately saves her people from execution. has been understood as a fantasy of Jewish power written in a time of Jewish powerlessness. But the megillahLit. Scroll Usually refers specifically the Scroll of Esther (Megillat Esther) read on Purim, telling the story of how Esther saved the Jewish people. Megillat Ruth is read on Shavuot. actually tells two parallel stories. The primary story is about how Jews in the Diaspora became victims to the whims of power, and then, in the "happy" conclusion, the victors. The secondary story, a story about women and men, follows a similar course, beginning with a wife who is banished when she refuses to obey her husband and concluding with a wife who is listened to and given a significant amount of power. In both stories edicts are issued that threaten the rights of an entire group – Jews and women. Both edicts are eventually subverted through the cunning and courage of Esther and Mordecai. Yet, only one of these subversions is celebrated in our communal observance of PurimLit. "Lots." A carnival holiday celebrated on the 14th of the Jewish month of Adar, commemorating the Jewish victory over the Persians as told in the Book of Esther. Purim is celebrated by reading the megilla (Book of Esther), exchanging gifts, giving money to the poor, and holding a festive meal. At the megilla reading, merrymakers are dressed in costumes, people drink, and noisemakers (graggers) are sounded whenever the villain Haman's name is mentioned..
With the new ritual of waving Esther/Vashti Purim flags, we encourage our communities to celebrate and more deeply explore both of Purim's stories. Purim thus becomes both a celebration of and reflection on Jewish pride and perseverance and an opportunity to honor women's power in the face of those who fear it.
The central ritual of Purim is the reading of the megillah. During the megillah reading we call attention to Haman, the story's villain, through the spinning of gragers intended to drown out his name. We highlight the role of Mordecai by joining with the entire congregation in reciting four verses of the megillah out loud. These verses introduce Mordecai (Esther 2:5), accentuate the moment of his parading before the king in royal apparel (8:15-16) and tell of his new role as deputy to the king at the conclusion of the story (10:3). These two customs – the grager and the recitation of the four verses – serve to ritually emphasize the characters of Haman and Mordecai as the central actors of the story.
Currently, the rituals and symbols associated with Purim do not evoke either Esther or VashtiIn the Purim story, she is King Ahashveros's first wife. In the first chapter of the Book of Esther, Quieen Vashti refuses to dance for the King and is banished. Long villainized, Vashti has been recently embraced by Jewish women as a contemporay feminist heroine for her defiance of the king.. At least symbolically, the fact that the grager and its noise are the prominent symbols and sounds of Purim serve to put Haman, hatred, and sometimes valorization of violent retribution at the center of communal celebrations of Purim. Even though the purpose of the grager is to drown out Haman's name, in actuality it reifies his presence in the sanctuary. Synagogue is a place where both children and adults are usually called to listen. Suddenly, on Purim we are allowed, even encouraged, to make so much noise that a certain word will not be heard. The commandment on Purim is to listen to every word of the megillah, but the custom of the grager often threatens that commandment, especially because the drowning out is more fun than the listening. Compared to the shofarA ram's horn that is blown on the High Holidays to "wake us up" and call Jews to repentance. It is also said that its blast will herald the coming of the messiah. (ram's horn) which we are commanded to listen to on Rosh HashanahThe Jewish New Year, also considered the Day of Judgment. The period of the High Holidays is a time of introspection and atonement. The holiday is celebrated with the sounding of the shofar, lengthy prayers in synagogue, the eating of apples and honey, and round challah for a sweet and whole year. Tashlikh, casting bread on the water to symbolize the washing away of sins, also takes place on Rosh Hashana. and which serves as a symbol of awakening, gathering, and proclaiming freedom, the grager is a negative sound. It is the opposite of listening.
In contrast, the primary purpose of the Purim flag is to call attention to Esther and Vashti and make it fun to listen for their names. But the Purim flag offers us an opportunity to do more than balance our attention to men's names with attention to women's names; it does more than allow us an opportunity for some feminist fun. When we wave our flags at the mention of Vashti and Esther's names we begin to shift the focus of Purim. No longer do we need to accept that the opposition of "blessed Mordecai" and "cursed Haman" encompasses the story of Purim or the story of Jewish experience. By focusing on Vashti and Esther, as well as Haman and Mordecai, we open up the possibility of telling a more complete and complex Purim story, a story that includes the experiences of women and a story that honors the possibility of potential alliances between Jews and non-Jews.
By placing Esther and Vashti on the same flag, we are also challenging ourselves to move beyond the dichotomy of bad queen/good queen (and good feminist/bad feminist) and embrace a wider spectrum of possibility for women's leadership. For much of Jewish interpretive tradition, Vashti was the bad queen and Esther the good one. Then, in the early days of Jewish feminism, Vashti was resurrected and celebrated for her open defiance of the king and her powerful defense of her body and sexuality. Not surprisingly, as Vashti's popularity grew, Esther fell out of favor. Feminists were not sure they could accept two different models of powerful women. For some, Esther suddenly became a negative symbol for all women who use their sexuality, enjoy their beauty, fear confrontation, and remain married to power. These interpretations of Esther minimized her courage in directly confronting both Ahasuerus and Haman, and in "coming out" as a Jew after years of hiding her identity. They also ignore Esther's powerful role as an innovator of communal ritual action in her calling for a public fast.
With these Purim flags we hope to move away from the paradigms of good 'girl'/bad 'girl' and good feminist/bad feminist to explore – through art and our experience of it – the relationship between Esther and Vashti and all that they have come to symbolize. Celebrating Vashti along with Esther also gives us a ritual-means to balance the antagonism inspired by Haman with a celebration of how much we have to gain by listening and not simply blotting out. Vashti is not evil like Haman or a fool like Ahasuerus. She is a non-Jewish woman who because of her own suffering at the hands of the more powerful has much in common with both Mordecai and Esther and can therefore serve, on a narrative and symbolic level as a teacher, model and ally.
I began this essay by pointing out that Megillat Esther has been seen as a fantasy of Jewish power that emerged in a time of Jewish powerlessness. We who read the megillah in a time of unprecedented Jewish power both in the State of IsraelLit. ''the one who struggles with God.'' Israel means many things. It is first used with reference to Jacob, whose name is changed to Israel (Genesis 32:29), the one who struggles with God. Jacob's children, the Jewish people, become B'nai Israel, the children of Israel. The name also refers to the land of Israel and the State of Israel. and in the United States, are thus in need of ritual ways of wrestling with the megillah in order to figure out its meaning for our time. As feminists committed to honoring Esther's leadership, we cannot ignore the fact that it is Esther who asks the king for an additional day on which the Jews can kill their enemies – "the armed force together with women and children" (Esther 8.11, 9.13). While we proudly wave a flag bearing her name, we must challenge ourselves to find a way to celebrate Esther's power without necessarily endorsing the violence she authorizes. Perhaps this is another reason for our pairing of Esther and Vashti – once we link the stories of this Jewish and non-Jewish queen we are on the way to recognizing the linked fates of their peoples. When we unite Esther who ends up as a powerful queen with Vashti who by the end of the story is absent and therefore powerless, we can begin to grasp the necessity of balancing the need to exercise power with the need to share it.
It is time for us to make room in our myths and in our communities for more than one model of leadership. It is time for us to learn from both Esther and Vashti, from both the Jewish women in our texts and the non-Jewish women (and men). It is time to celebrate women's power and to question the ways we have wielded it over others. And, with humor and deep conviction, it is time for us to take the holiday of Purim and, through new ritual, use it to tell our community a new story about who we are, what we value, and what we need to do to build a better world. I thank all the creative artists who participated in this exhibition for being like Esther and "coming forth when their light was needed in the world."1
This article was first published in Ma'yan's exhibition catalogue, A Different Purim Sound: Waving Flags and Ringing Bells, An Exhibition of Esther and Vashti Purim Flags by Jewish Artists. Photo: Facing Ourselves, JudithJudith saved her people by seducing Holofernes, the enemy general, and then decapitating him. The story of Judith, found in the apocrypha, is associated with Chanukah (relating to the tradition of eating cheese dishes because she seduced the general and fed him dairy). Her Hebrew name is Yehudit. Margolis.


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You need not take a journalist's oath to tell the truth. You need only be born to a mother such as mine, who told me and my sister often–very often–that "there's nothing worse than a liar." It worked on us. My sister became a minister and I became a journalist.
Mike Daisey became a storyteller, a performer, a bald-faced liar whose lies only betrayed the cause he cares about. I just listened to the devastating — devastatingly honest — retraction This American Life issued for Daisey's stories — his jumbled fiction, his trumped-up tales — about Apple's factories in China. The most humiliating moments were those filled with silence — which public radio editors usually snip out, to make people sound surer, smarter — when Daisey couldn't fabricate his next lie.
The worst of this episode to me is Daisey's insistance — and he's hardly the first — that he need not be held to a standard of truth and he need not be expected to deliver facts because he is not a journalist. Now journalists might enjoy the notion that they hold a monopoly on truth. But, of course, this idea is just a bullshit layer cake.
Isn't telling the truth the norm in our society? Don't you expect anyone you know — friend, family member, coworker — to tell you the truth? If they don't, aren't you at least disappointed? If caught in a lie don't you expect your credibility to be diminished? Isn't there a cost to lying in society?
So how could that norm be canceled for public figures, for politicians who insist we'll have death panels or for performers on stage who think the spotlight forgives lies?
I hope not and I don't think so. But perhaps we haven't made the price of lying for them high enough. So they think they can get away with it to accomplish what they want to accomplish. I'm given hope that This American Life and a Marketplace reporter, Rob Schmitz, held Daisey to their standard of truth, and that fact-checking of politicians and pundits has become a fad online. I'd say that's a possible good use of crowdsourcing energy: Wikipedia editors who are now bored because they have written about everything possible would do well to turn their attention to our public figures.
When anyone — performer, politician, blogger — says he has a license to lie because he's not a journalist, he's lying.

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The Master of Public Health (MPH) program educates students and health professionals in the application of health promotion and disease prevention technologies and interventions to improve and enhance quality of life.
Through an innovative, experiential, and interdisciplinary approach to public health education, MPH students gain a solid foundation in the core areas of public health knowledge while developing expertise in a specific area of practice. You will bring theory and practice to life in real-world settings through our program's required internship, assessing the unique public health challenges posed by transitioning local communities in Southern California's Inland Empire. This experience will guide your research, service, and education. Alongside expert faculty, you will collaborate with communities, tribes, and public and private sectors on solutions to major health challenges, expanding their capacities to respond to rapidly evolving public health problems and developing your own leadership potential. You will gain knowledge of emerging trends in global health care and hone skills that prepare you for a wide array of positions in public health, including data management, environmental health, health education, and research.
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Yacht Overview
Make: Cabo
Model: 35 Express
Year: 2002
Length: 35′
Located In: Miami, FL
Engine/Fuel Type: diesel
Hull Material: Fiberglass
EZ Navigation
Need to sell, Ready to go and open to reasonable Offers!
35′ 2002 Cabo (35 Express Model)
Powered by Twin 450 HP CAT 3126 B's with approx 1200 hours
(Intercoolers need to be Cleaned)
-Garmin Electronics
-Radar is Furuno
Come see her Today!!
Full Specs
Beam: 13 ft
Maximum Draft: 2.5 ft
Dry Weight: 20,000 lb
Headroom: 6.92 ft
Deadrise: 17 °
Engine Brand: Caterpillar
Engine Model: 3126 B
Engine/Fuel Type: diesel
Engine Power: 450|horsepower
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine Brand: Caterpillar
Engine Model: 3126 B
Engine/Fuel Type: diesel
Engine Power: 450|horsepower
Engine Type: Inboard
Fresh Water Tanks: 1 (80 Gallon)
Fuel Tanks: 1 (400 Gallon)
Number of single berths: 4
Number of heads: 1
Created by the boat building team of Henry Mohrschaldt and Michael Howarth, the same craftsman selected by Fortune Magazine for building one of the top 100 products in the world, the Cabo 35 Express is a benchmark in design, construction, and performance. As an offshore powerboat racer, Dick Ornstein knows that it takes a masterful blend of design and construction to achieve a high level of performance. When it came time to purchase a sportfisher for his personal use, he chose Cabo for just those reasons. Opt for the turbo charged and after-cooler 435 hp (422 shaft hp) Caterpillar V-8 diesel, and the Cabo 35 Express has a top speed of more than 40 mph at 2750 rpm. Even more important in the real world, however, is that the Cabo Express can eat up the miles at a comfortable cruising speed of 33 mph and still have a range of nearly 350 miles. This combination of speed and range gets the Cabo 35 to a faraway fishing ground fast and allows it to stay longer than any comparable boat. Whether you're backing down on a billfish, spinning to stay with tuna, or firewalling the throttles to head for new fishing grounds, the Cabo 35 Express responds instantly to helm and engines.
Equipment List
Cabo 35 Express Specifications - Standard Equipment Hull - Molded fiberglass construction using premium vinylester resin and biaxial stitched fabric reinforcement - Solid fiberglass bottom construction - Core construction from upper chine to sheer - Premium quality molded-in white gelcoat finish - Boot striping - Bottom paint complete preparation - 2 coats epoxy, 2 coats antifouling paint, black standard - Stainless steel rub strip on face of white high-density rub rail - Trim tabs, fully recessed Deck - Molded fiberglass using polyester resin, biaxial stitched fabric reinforcements and core construction - Premium quality molded-in white gelcoat finish - Molded-in non-skid surface - Bow pulpit, integral molded fiberglass - Recessed custom stainless steel anchor roller assembly - Custom deck rails, choice of aluminum or polished stainless steel - Bow cleats, 12-inch stainless steel - Bow chocks, 6-inch stainless steel - Springline cleats, 12-inch stainless steel - Stern cleats, 12-inch stainless steel - Stern hawse pipes, stainless steel - Windshield, heavy duty welded aluminum, finished in a white polyurethane paint; includes weather return on top rail and electrically actuated center vent - Windshield wipers (3), self-parking with heavy duty pantograph arms - Windshield washers, port and starboard. - Windlass, heavy duty electric 12V, for rope and chain; remote from bridge with deck switches Cockpit - Aluminum reinforcing plate installed for mounting fighting chair - Icebox, starboard side fitted with custom gasketed lid, gas spring actuator, full-length stainless steel piano hinge and custom latch - Bait prep center, portside, includes sink, rigging board, tackle storage; fitted with custom lid, gas spring actuator, stainless piano hinge and custom latch - Lighting under gunwales and helm deck overhang - Fish boxes, large capacity, insulated, with macerator pump-out system - Gunwale padding, high-density foam, white vinyl covered - Hatches, lazarette and fish boxes, heavy duty with O-ring seals, drains, gutters and stainless steel piano hinges - Rod gaff racks, port and starboard - Rod holders (5) - Self-bailing cockpit scuppers - Step - storage boxes, port and starboard - Transom door with top gate, extreme duty polished stainless hardware - Washdown, freshwater, portside - Washdown, salt water with hose and pistol grip nozzle, starboard side Helm Deck - Molded fiberglass helm deck, hydraulically lifted with cockpit control unit - Tackle center with 6 drawers to store and organize gear - Engine access hatch with gas spring - Helm console, integrally molded - Helm seat, bench style, adjustable - Safety cabinet with first aid kit and fire extinguisher - Storage cabinet at helm - L-shaped lounge portside with rod storage below - Sliding companionway door, smoked acrylic panel - Custom outdoor helm deck carpet Console - Compass with light, flush-mounted - Complete custom engine instrument panel with audible warning system - Custom switch panel - Dual-lever engine controls - Fire and bilge water level alarms, audible - Stainless steel helm wheel - Canvas console cover Mechanical - Metal braided fire-retardant fuel lines - Bilge, white gelcoated finish - Bilge pumps, three 12V automatic - manual - Emergency bilge suction valve on main engine - Bonding system with transom zinc plate - Double hose clamps on all hose fittings where possible, stainless steel - Double constant torque stainless steel clamps on engine exhaust hoses - Engine alarm system - Engine hour meters (2) - Engine room sound insulation, high-density barrier - foam - Fire extinguishing system, automatic - Freshwater cooling on main engines - Fuel filters with water separators on main engines and optional generator - High water bilge alarm - Holding tank, 15 gallon polyethylene with gauge, macerator, and dockside discharge - Water heater, stainless steel, 11 gallon, 120V - Hydraulic helm deck lift system, heavy duty marine grade - Hydraulic engine controls (Hynautic) - Mufflers, fiberglass with large backwash surge chambers - Propeller shafts, high-strength stainless steel, 1.75 inch diameter, double taper couplers - Propellers, 3-blade Nibral - Rudders, high-strength bronze - Stuffing boxes, dripless lip seal type - Seacocks, UL approved for marine application, bronze, fitted on all through-hulls below waterline - Bronze high-speed water intake scoops with integral seawater strainers Electrical - 5 kW freshwater-cooled diesel generator with seawater strainer, remote start and gauge panel, water muffler, safety shutdown systems - Custom AC electrical distribution panel with line voltage and load meters, reverse polarity light and main breakers that trip with reverse polarity - Custom DC electrical distribution panel with battery voltage and load meters - Circuit breaker protection throughout - Battery paralleling switch, vapor-proof - Battery on - off switches, vapor-proof - Batteries (4), heavy duty 30 AH - Bonded electrical system - Converter - battery charger, 40 amp automatic - Engine room lights, 12V halogen - Horn, supplied uninstalled - Navigation lights, International, shipped uninstalled for future mounting on arch, hardtop or tower - Two 50-foot shore cords, 30 amp shorepower, located in starboard cockpit step - storage box Main Cabin - Access hatch to bilge - Design interiors, high-quality selection available - Lighting - recessed halogen (4) - L-shaped lounge converts to upper and lower sleeping berths - Interior teak superbly joined and finished in satin varnish - Three opening ports - Positive latches used on cabinet doors and drawers - Removable deep pile carpet - Selection of fine quality fabrics and coverings throughout - Two skylights, fixed - 110 volt duplex outlet, GFI protected - Air conditioning - heat including extra shorepower; 10,000 BTU capacity Galley - Cook top, one-burner electric, recessed with Corian cover - Corian countertop with custom Corian sea rails - Countertop lighting - recessed halogen (3) - Microwave - convection oven - Positive latches used on cabinet doors and drawers - Refrigerator AC-DC with top freezer - Sink, deep single, polished stainless steel - Storage compartments and drawers throughout - 110 volt duplex outlet, GFI protected Forward Stateroom - Access to anchor rope locker - Diagonal double bed portside with 5-inch mattress and coverlets - Foredeck hatch with retractable shade - Hanging locker, starboard side - Positive latches used on cabinet doors and drawers - Recessed halogen lights (2) - Storage compartments and large drawers below bed - Upholstered dressing seat - 110 volt duplex outlet, GFI protected. - Port and starboard rod storage locker for up to 8 rods with #50 wide reels Head Compartment - Corian countertop, custom - King starboard framed mirror - Custom vanity with storage cabinet - Head, Sealand VacuFlush electric - Lighting is 110 volt recessed fluorescent, 12 volt recessed halogen - Opening port - Positive latches used on cabinet doors and drawers - Sink, polished stainless steel - Shower, handheld with automatic shower sump pump - Toiletry storage cabinet, Corian frames with sliding mirror doors - 110 volt duplex outlet, GFI protected - Vertical rod storage rack in head Safety Equipment - Anchor, 20-foot chain, 250-foot rode, life jackets, throwable PFD, fire extinguisher, docklines, fenders, distress signaling device, flashlight, emergency horn, first aid kit Cabo 35 Express Optional Equipment Diesel - Twin Caterpillar 3208TA, 375 hp, 10.4 liter (636 cu. in.) V8, 4-cycle, 2800 RPM, turbo-charged and after-cooled, freshwater cooled, marine diesel inboard; Transmissions - ZF IRM 280A-2; 1.483:1 reduction. - Twin Caterpillar 3126TA, 385 hp, 7.2 liter (439 cu.in.) inline 6-cylinder, 2800 RPM, turbo-charged and after-cooled, freshwater cooled, marine diesel inboard; Transmissions - ZF IRM 280A-2; 1.483:1 reduction. - Twin Caterpillar 3126, 420 hp, 7.2 liter (434 cu.in.) inline 6-cylinder, 4 cycle, 2800 RPM, turbo-charged and after-cooled inboard; Transmissions - ZF IRMA 280A-2; 1.483:1 reduction. - Twin Yanmar 6LY2A-STE, 420 hp, 5.813 liter (354.71 cu.in.) inline 6-cylinder, 4-cycle, 3300 RPM, turbo-charged and intercooled, freshwater cooled, marine diesel inboard; 2:1 reduction. - Twin Caterpillar 3208TA, 435 hp, 10.4 liter (636 cu.in.)V8, 4-cycle, 2800 RPM, turbo-charged and after-cooled, freshwater cooled, marine diesel inboard; Transmissions - ZF IRM 280A-2; 1.483:1 reduction. - Twin Caterpillar 3208TA, 450 hp, 10.4 liter (636 cu.in.) V8, 4-cycle,2800 RPM, turbo-charged and after-cooled, freshwater cooled, marine diesel inboard; Transmissions - ZF IRM 280A-2; 1.483:1 reduction - ZF HSWE 110TS two-speed transmission available only with Yanmar engines Interior - Ice maker, 110V, installed under helm seat - Stereo, AM-FM-CD, 12V with six speakers - TV - VCR mounted in salon - Teak & holly sole in lieu of carpet - Alternate color Corian countertop Fabric - Ultra nylon simulated leather sofa - Leather sofa (finest full grain) Sportfishing - Bait tank, 40 gallon, molded into transom - Refrigerate helm deck icebox, 12V system - Freezer plates, 110V system, in helm deck icebox - Refrigeration plates, 110V system, installed in cockpit fish box Generators - 7.6 kW freshwater cooled diesel generator with seawater strainer, remote start and gauge panel, water muffler, safety shutdown system and 70 amp deep cycle battery - Generator is not intended to supply power for all standard and optional accessories. Load must be limited to generator output rating. Miscellaneous - Hull color other than white - Rails, West Coast style, polished stainless steel or aluminum - Rails, East Coast style polished stainless steel or aluminum - Swim platform (fiberglass) - Swim platform ladder (stainless steel) - Forward facing companion seat, portside with storage below and jump seat aft in lieu of L-shaped lounge - Engine synchronizer, Glendinning - Oil change systems for mains and generator
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We are home again and settling in to the autumn rhythm. Other than a case of strep throat that is making its way through the family we are all doing well and enjoying life. It's been a good reading season! The pace was slower, which mostly just reflects my recovered health. Instead of reading I now have the energy to be up and doing. Life is good.
Here is a list of the books I have read since the beginning of June:
- The Antagonist by Lynn Coady (2011)
- Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey (1999)
- David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky (1929)
- Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (2013)
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (2012)
- My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (1998)
- The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (2001)
- The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1997)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)
- The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)
- The Silent Rooms by Anne Hebert (1958)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997)
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
- February by Lisa Moore (2009)
I found myself gravitating toward debut writing and the majority of my reading featured first publications by a variety of writers. There were a few gems: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga was an astounding book, set in Zimbabwe and focusing on the educational ambitions of a young girl; The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert is three linked but separate stories of Germans at the end of the war. It presents much fodder for deep thought. Lisa Moore's February, documents the rippling affects of the sinking of the Ocean Ranger drilling unit off the coast of Newfoundland on one affected family. And I finally got to Susan Cain's Quiet which I loved just as much as everyone suggested I would.
I am looking forward to getting caught up with what I've missed on everyone's blogs since the spring!


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Detecting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could soon become far easier with the help of an innovative technique* developed by a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have overcome an issue preventing the effective use of lasers to rapidly scan samples.
The team, which recently published its findings in the journal Nature Photonics, says the technique also could work for other jobs that require gas detection, including the search for hidden explosives and monitoring chemical processes in industry and the environment.
Searching for faint whiffs of an unusual gas mixed in the air is called "trace gas sensing." By far, the most common method is spectroscopy—identifying gas molecules by the unique set of frequencies of light that each absorbs. The telltale pattern of dark lines in a spectrum indicates which gases are present in the mix. Accurately measuring the concentrations of relatively low-concentration gases, however, requires a lot of light, generated by a laser that can be tuned to different colors. Until now, tuning a laser to shine in a wide enough range of colors typically has required a mechanical device to change the frequency, but all the available methods adjust the laser too slowly to obtain meaningful snapshots of the turbulent atmosphere.
"One of the major goals in climate science is to combine a wide variety of high-accuracy atmospheric measurements, including ground-based, aircraft and satellite missions, in order to fully understand the carbon cycle," says the research team's David Long, a scientist in NIST's Chemical Sciences Division. "The technology we've developed is general enough to be applicable for each of these platforms. The high speed of the technique allows for very accurate measurements of atmospheric gases at rates which are faster than atmospheric changes in temperature and pressure due to turbulence."
The team found a solution using electronics that permit fast and discrete changes in frequency. The components—called an electro-optic modulator and an optical resonator—work together to alter the laser so that its light shines in a number of different frequencies, and then to filter these frequencies so that the laser only shines in one color at any given instant. The new method allows a wide range of different frequencies to pass through a gas sample in a few milliseconds or less, with the added benefit of providing a clearer and more accurate resulting spectrum than the previous "slow scan" methods could.
Long says that the Nature Photonics paper details the use of the technique in a controlled laboratory environment using a small sample chamber for ground-based measurements, but that the team has submitted other papers with data indicating the technique also could work at great distances—potentially allowing a scanner to be mounted on a vehicle, an aircraft or a satellite. The team also has applied for a patent on its work, he says.


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Charles Krauthammer
The United States needs to adopt a Freedom Doctrine that unabashedly supports democracy throughout the Middle East. Such a doctrine would include aiding emerging democracies in throwing off dictatorships and protection for new democracies against regional and global totalitarianism. It would allow time for key elements of democracy (such as a free press and independent political parties) to establish themselves before holding elections so as to avoid rogue coups coming to power and destroying the democracy that elected them. This is not reinventing the wheel, says Krauthammer. Similar foreign policy was implemented successfully in post WWII Europe and during the Cold War. A freedom agenda powered by guiding principles can be as effective now as it was in Truman's day.
Krauthammer is a weekly columnist for The Post, writing on foreign and domestic policy and politics.


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BookThatApp works within Shopify to track your reservations natively. A booking appears automatically when an order is placed.
BookThatApp connects directly to your product and cart pages, so it offers availability updates to customers in real time.
BookThatApp can create reservations when payment is authorized, but not yet captured. The booking gets confirmed automatically once you receive payment.
View your schedule by Day, Week, or Month. See your confirmed and pending reservations at a glance with built-in color coding.
BookThatApp is the perfect booking engine for rentals, classes, events, and appointments in your Shopify store.
BookThatApp lets your customers reserve time on your business's calendar, right on your Shopify site. Now you can offer appointments, classes, rentals, tickets, and more all in one place. Customers stay in your shop, and your third-party hassles are over.
With BookThatApp, customers can browse your course calendar or shop for courses by name, date, time, and more. You can create new courses, assign instructors, and set class capacity; and you can change them at any time. Plus, built-in reports power outreach and student admissions.
BookThatApp lets your Shopify customers search or browse your event calendar right in your shop, and they'll get a professional, customized eticket for your tour, show, or group activity. Easily sell different tickets for children, adults, and seniors, and your eticket never gets lost. BookThatApp can automatically re-send etickets with any event reminder.
With BookThatApp, your customers can search and browse your products with the Shopify experience they love. While you can rent your products over any date/time range to give your business the flexibility it needs. Plus, BookThatApp can remind your customers when items are coming due, so your stock stays available for new renters.
Now you can create appointment slots for your providers in Shopify, and you can quickly map providers to their right services. That means customers can shop for appointments by service provider, date, appointment type, and more. Even better, BookThatApp also prevents scheduling conflicts for providers who perform many different services.
Industry-leading reservation management technology, built especially for Shopify.
Unlike 3rd-party reservation services, BookThatApp installs directly in your Shopify store. That means when a customer places an order, BookThatApp creates the appropriate booking automatically. BookThatApp keeps track of bookings in-house for you, so you can stop managing 3rd-party reservations and redirecting customers out of your store.
Shoppers want up-to-the-second availability information. No one likes to discover mid-check-out that the last seat or the perfect time-slot's already long gone. Because BookThatApp is Shopify-integrated, it communicates directly with your shop's product and cart pages. So when booking availability changes (including new openings due to cancellations), BookThatApp updates your inventory immediately.
Your customers shop on the go, so your storefront must be ready to sell on any device. BookThatApp's user interface was designed to intelligently adapt to different screen sizes and resolutions, so your customers can easily find what they're looking for no matter how they shop.
BookThatApp understands not every reservation needs to be paid for immediately. If you choose to offer this option, BookThatApp can create "pending" bookings for customers who have authorized but not yet completed payment. Best of all, BookThatApp automatically marks a booking "confirmed" once payment is captured, so there's no extra work for you.
Your business stays agile by adapting to your customers' evolving needs. Perhaps you want to offer both classes and rentals, or both event tickets and one-on-one appointments? BookThatApp is the only booking engine that unlocks your power to do more, because only BookThatApp supports multiple booking types at once. Plus, you can choose from a suite of calendar themes and event color-codings for intuitive customer navigation.
With BookThatApp, you have total control over your booking periods. You can decide the days and times when you'll accept new reservations with "Operating Hours," and you can completely restrict specific days (such as public holidays) with "Blackout" settings. You can even specify "Lead Time" and "Lag Time" for rental periods to allow time for shipping items both ways.
BookThatApp's built-in calendar lets you review your bookings in familiar Daily, Weekly, and Monthly formats, so both short- and long-range planning are a snap. Plus each booking gets color-coded, so you can immediately distinguish between "confirmed" and "pending" reservations.
Your storefront retains its look and feel with BookThatApp, because BookThatApp supports all of Shopify's free and paid store themes. From the newest, trending themes to tried-and-true grid or industry-specific layouts, BookThatApp plays nice with them all.
Advice and tips on how to get the most out of BookThatApp.
Ten years ago BookThatApp was launched. We share our thoughts on some of the changes we've seen over the years since then.
Setting up Shopify and BookThatApp so that you can charge differently based on booking duration
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Have you considered adding consulting or classes to your product offering?
BookThatApp works in a variety of applications. Check out some of the solutions we've created for specific scenarios.
Ability to manage bookings for different size variants and streamlining your operational workflow are a couple of the reasons dress rental stores are choosing BookThatApp.
Looking to automate your Paint and Sip class bookings? Find out how BookThatApp can help.
Are you looking to automate your product rental process? BookThatApp has you covered
A cost effective solution to selling tickets. See why tour operators like Welcome to Country are selling experience, activity and tour bookings using BookThatApp.
Add BookThatApp to your Shopify store and allow customers to book their manicure, pedicure or waxing service appointments.
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Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Hospitals
The ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Hospitals is designed to:
- Heighten awareness of distinguishing systems and practices related to a safe hospital medication system
- Assist your interdisciplinary team with proactively identifying opportunities for reducing patient harm when prescribing, storing, preparing, dispensing, and administering medications
- Create a baseline of your efforts to evaluate risk and evaluate efforts over time
The self assessment is divided into ISMP's Key Elements of the Medication Use System™. Each key element is defined by one or more core characteristics of a safe medication use system. Each core characteristic contains individual self- assessment items to help you evaluate the medication safety strategies in your organization.
This assessment tool has been made possible through funding from The Commonwealth Fund. ISMP, AHA and HRET would like to thank The Commonwealth Fund for its continued support of efforts to improve medication safety in community and ambulatory sites worldwide.
ISMP is not a standard setting organization. As such, the self-assessment items in this document are not purported to represent a minimum standard of practice and should not be considered as such. In fact, some of the self-assessment items represent innovative practices and system enhancements that are not widely implemented in healthcare facilities today. However, their value in reducing errors is grounded in scientific research and/or expert analysis of medication errors and their causes.
The ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Hospitals and its components are copyrighted by ISMP and may not be used in whole or in part for any other purpose or by any other entity except for self assessment of medication systems by hospitals and health systems as part of their ongoing quality improvement activities.
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Burago 1/32 Porsche 911 Diecast Model
The Burago 1/32 Porsche 911 is a superbly detailed diecast model car in the Burago diecast cars range.
Bburago' s range of 1/32 scale die cast cars offer the collector detail and value for money. With subjects spanning motoring era' s old and new and from some of the world' s biggest car names, there' s sure to be something for all collections.
Each model has been replicated in 1/32 scale meaning you can collect and show more in a smaller space. The cars feature a factory painted metal body with multiple coloured plastic detailing parts.
- Authentic features across the body
- Electrostatic paint coating
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Manufacturer: Burago
Model: 18-43214 Porsche 911 Diecast Model
Scale: 1/32
Wonderland Models deliver throughout the UK and Overseas. We endeavour to dispatch orders immediately but certainly within 48 hours of receipt. Orders will only be dispatched once payment has been received.
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Express delivery is two days to some postcodes, and these incur a £6 surcharge. A list of applicable postcodes can be seen here.
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An experiment by Massachusetts education officials to better manage student records and software teaching tools has privacy advocates concerned it could expose the private information of thousands of schoolchildren to hackers and identity thieves.
Massachusetts is among a handful of states participating in a pilot project with inBloom , an Atlanta nonprofit helping schools to beef up and simplify the wide variety of computer systems used to record student information, administer tests, analyze performance, train teachers, and gather other data. The company's goal is to standardize the myriad ways that schools keep information on students and performance, and better integrate those records with the many different software programs and teaching tools used in the classroom.
As part of that, inBloom would standardize how schools keep data on students, from names, to test results, to race, and other facts, creating a uniform database of elementary and secondary school student information.
But privacy advocates fear the inBloom database will be a ripe target for hackers, and that a single break-in could result in the theft of personal information on millions of kids. Moreover, they worry that the trove of personal information would prove irresistible to private companies that use such data to market their products.
"We believe that there are enough issues with this, and enough reasons for concern, that Massachusetts should not participate," said Josh Golin, associate director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a Boston-based child advocacy group. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts PTA have also criticized the plan.
The growing unease with the inBloom experiment has already prompted two of the nine states in the pilot — Georgia and Louisiana — to temper their involvement by not allowing student information in the company's database. And last month in New York City, parents at a town hall meeting denounced the program and demanded that the city's Department of Education give students a right to opt out of it.
InBloom executives say their critics are overreacting, that the student data and other sensitive information will remain under control of individual school systems, and the company will not share it with others unless expressly authorized by the school district.
"The purpose of it isn't to spread student data across the country," said inBloom board member Robert Wise, a former governor of West Virginia. "The purpose is to take the data of an individual student and use it more effectively."
So far in Massachusetts, the only school system in the pilot is Everett, and there the project is still too new for the privacy issues to have been tested. Thomas Stella, the assistant superintendent of Everett schools, said the system had yet to sign a contract with inBloom, and so has not given the company any of its student information.
"We have not shared any data," Stella said. "You have to have a product we want first."
InBloom is partially funded by the charitable foundation of Microsoft Corp. cofounder Bill Gates. The company is trying to create a standard data system for schools to store information that can also interact more smoothly with the various technology programs and other tools teachers use. The company also hopes the system will encourage companies to develop new programs to help teachers and students.
"The idea was to create an open-source environment that people could write applications for, and schools nationwide could use those applications," said Stella.
InBloom would create a unified database of a school district's information that would be stored at an Internet cloud service; that is, instead of keeping student files on local machines in each school district, all data would be stored remotely, on computers linked to the Internet. All data remain under the control of the individual school district, Wise said, and no company can use a student's file without the district's permission.
"There is no national database," he said. "The district data stay as district data."
Although Wise said a cloud service would probably have better computer security than an individual school system, critics fear the database of student records will be an irresistible target for identity thieves.
"There's concern about data leakage and storing all this data in one place in the cloud," said Golin.
Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, is worried that inBloom's database may also contain more sensitive information. For instance, it can track whether a student has ever been pregnant, committed a crime, or brought a weapon to school.
"The amount of incredibly private information that frankly many parents might not know about their kids — I find it alarming," said Crockford.
Jeff Wulfson, deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, said schools do not have to provide such information to the inBloom database.
"They just wanted to be prepared if somebody wants it," Wulfson said. "It's up to the district to decide whether to collect it."
Massachusetts officials have been concerned about the issues surrounding inBloom and have repeatedly singled out the legal protections and obligations the company and schools are under to prevent leaks of student data.
Still, with only one community in Massachusetts signed on as a partner, state education officials are somewhat lukewarm about the endeavor with inBloom.
"We're not sure this is going to pan out," said Wulfson. "We're just sort of along for the ride to see how this works."
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Iphey picked up her car keys from Musa at the gate and drove out of the compound on her way to her sister Ngozi's place in Surulere.
Ngozi was puttering about her home getting ready to turn in for the night. She felt exhausted and drained after the events of the last few days and especially after the rousing party her mother held this past weekend. Although it was a great distraction, she felt overwhelmed by the loud music and gaggle of people with their mundane conversations. The emotional roller coaster she endured while her son Obi was in the hospital left her feeling hollow and somewhat vulnerable.
As she dried the last few dishes and placed them into the cupboard, Ngozi breathed a deep sigh as she realized she missed her mother already. She had been a great help to her during Obi's illness and despite her nosiness, it had been nice to have another adult in the house to talk to. She shook her head ruefully as she recalled her mother's scheming to bring Chinedu and Iphey together at the party.
She walked around her home switching off the lights. It was quiet and Obi was fast asleep in his bed. She stood for a moment by the windows in the dark, and stared into the moonlit sky. The stars were twinkling and the sky was midnight blue. A thought entered her mind and a wave of loneliness washed over her, nearly knocking the breath from her lungs.
"Where are you?" she choked out between clenched teeth as grief overcame her. "I miss you, James, I need my husband back." She wondered if he was staring at the same stars, or if he laid in the ground cold somewhere. It was the not knowing that killed her, an answer that never seemed to come.
At that moment there was a knock on her door. Who could that be? She wondered. It was late and she certainly wasn't expecting anyone. She opened the door to find Iphey looking distressed.
"Ngozi! I must talk to you but you need to sit down," Iphey told her as she rushed into her living room.
"Ah! Iphey, Na wetin? Why are you coming here so late?"
Iphey took her hands into her own and led her to the couch. "Tie your sokoto. There is news I must share with you. Ngozi… James is alive! I saw him!"
Ngozi's hand flew to her mouth as she held back a cry. She didn't want to wake Obi.
"How? Where? Where has he been? Where is he?" She stuttered, her words tumbling over themselves.
She looked at her sister and began to feel faint and the edges of her sight began to darken. Her sister's mouth was moving as if she was talking but Ngozi heard nothing. She was back to the day before the Monday her husband went off to work and disappeared.
That Sunday, she and James had lingered in bed late into the afternoon. Obi had gone to church with her mother and after that they were to visit and sleep over at a friend's so there was no fear of interruption. Obi was growing fast and strong and she very happy at how proud James was of his son. Her wish was that a sibling would be made that day.
She turned to James, wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face into his broad shoulder. "Let's make a baby," she whispered quietly. Just saying the words made her glow with hope.
James drew away quickly then kissed her gently. As he drew his face away from hers, he stroked her curly hair and stared at her brown eyes wistfully; it seemed a thousand thoughts had passed through his mind. She wondered what he was thinking. He looked like he was struggling to say something but couldn't get it out.
"I love you Ngozi," he said instead in his gravelly voice, as he nuzzled her neck and caressed her body. He deeply inhaled and a deep growl rolled from his throat. For once she was grateful for her mother's meddling ways, because if not for her, they never would have met. Although they had been married only a few years, in that short time she had never felt happier and more content with her life.
"Ngozi… I want you to remember this-"
"Shhhh, I will. I love you too," she said. No more talk. She only wanted to focus on the feelings he stirred in her.
She looked at his face colored like dark chocolate. She had memorized every fold, every crease and every expression on it. He then kissed her forcefully until their breaths became ragged. She would never get tired of this. Hunger quickly overcame them both and the afternoon flew by colored by passion, love and togetherness.
When he disappeared the next day she often questioned the meaning behind that afternoon. What was it he struggled to say and didn't? Were there secrets he hid from her? Was the love she thought they shared really true? These questions had plagued her incessantly for the years she failed to hear from him again. Maybe he became victim to the ravages of an unsafe city. Or let's face it, sometimes you can live with someone and not really know them.
"Ngoo, Ngozi! Are you listening to me?" Iphey exclaimed worriedly. She rubbed her sister's cold hands and brought her a drink.
Ngozi snapped back to the present, "I'm fine! Bodi just weak me small."
"Are you sure?"
"Wetin dey do you sef! Tell me everything!" She took a deep drink and waited for her sister to explain James' sudden reappearance.


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HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline
browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a
local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML,
images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack
arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page
of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site
from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also
update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.
HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Maintained by: Klaatu
Keywords: mirror,download,browser,web,www
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McKlein Company, LLC is a manufacturer and supplier, offering travel products, such as carry-on luggage, business products that consist of briefcases, computer bags, laptop sleeves, and rolling totes for the business traveler, casual products, including backpacks, messenger bags, and duffel bags, as well as handbags and satchels.
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HOLLYWOOD – Justin Bieber is going to make an appearance on ABC/Family's hit show – Pretty Little Liars. Is he "A"?
Justin Bieber has been a fan of the hit ABC/Family show for the last two years. His manager and agents have been trying to get him on the show – and they've finally succeeded.
Pretty Little Liars is coming back for the last half of Season Two with series of exciting shows starting in two weeks.
Fans of the hit show are still dying to find out who "A" is – a mysterious person that has been taunting the Pretty Little Liars. Some are speculating that Justin Bieber may turn out to be "A".
"Oh my God, that would just destroy me. I love Justin. I don't want him to be 'A'," said rapid teen fan, Ashley Morgan from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
There are other rumors coming out of Hollywood that Bieber makes an appearance on the show, but is immediately killed off.
The shows producers are keeping tight-lipped about who "A" is and whether or not Bieber will have a role in the big finale in December. They will say that Justin is proving to be a fantastic actor and that they believe he will be even bigger as an actor than he is as a singer.
"He's amazing. I think he will quickly be put in the category of Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He's probably better than all of them combined," said the show's executive producer, Mandy Winston.
Many television insiders consider Pretty Little Liars to be the greatest show that has ever been made for teenage girls and maybe the best show ever written for television.
"It has everything intrigue, sex, fun… the show is a blast," said longtime television producer, Conrad Goldman.
Will Bieber still be able to continue his recording career? Will it interfere with the baby he is about to have with Selena Gomez:
Well, he told WWN in a private interview that he thinks he can do it all. Pretty Little Liars is just the beginning.


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Marijuana legalization impacts everyone.
Whether you are an employer trying to keep your workplace safe and free of accidents, a young driver who is trying to get to school, a parent who is doing their best to provide the best future for your child or just someone who wants to see the best for your community, you want to make sure that an industry does not come into your neighborhood and increases crime, makes the roadways more dangerous or provide more chances for your kids to make decisions that could hurt their future.
Therefore, take action!
Join other associations and individuals to urge New Jersey citizens and lawmakers to not let the Garden State go to pot. Join us any number of ways:
Contact your legislator and let that person know that they represent you and you don't want New Jersey communities to become overrun with pot shops.Find Your Legislator
Post a message on your social media page educating your friends about this as a bad idea
Talk to your community leaders and educate them on the issue.
Write a letter to the editor about the community impacts of legalization
Form a neighborhood task force with your local businesses, schools, etc. to keep pot shops away from your home.