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I got both good and bad news today on the circuit course.
The good news: it seems that we can pay the lecturer for at least part of a course, because he is only at 95% for the year, not 100%.
The bad news: the School of Engineering undergraduate curriculum committee met this morning and did not approve the course.
Somewhat predictably, EE thought that this course was too similar to their circuits course, and so did not want it offered. Somehow the undergrad director for EE (whom I've discussed the course with before several times over the past few years, and who had been pointed to this blog for more details) had thought that I was proposing a much lower level course originally—one at the level I think of as high-school electronics. He thought we could pick up students from the Digital Arts and New Media program (rather their own DANM 219 Introduction to Electronics for Artmaking). I had explored that possibility, but few of the arts students take calculus or physics, and even simple concepts like RMS voltage need integration. We definitely need some math sophistication in order to do phasors.
Once the EE undergrad director realized that we were proposing a more applied version of the circuits class, covering 50–70% of the same material, but with slightly reduced prereqs and less of the formal math, he was opposed.
The computer engineering undergrad rep would have liked us to propose a lower-level course, that combined some practical electronics with the physics E&M material, because they were not happy with the difficulty engineering students were having getting into the E&M course, nor with the way Physics was teaching the course. This would be really difficult, since the physics course is already a full quarter and would leave us essentially no time to teach any of the applied circuits material.
Computer Engineering would have been content with our offering the course as an alternative to the EE circuits course, as long as it was accepted as an adequate prereq for two courses their students are required to take: microprocessor system design and signals and systems. I've never taught the microprocessor system design class, but most of what it needs from a circuits class we would definitely be teaching, probably more than the existing circuits course (lab skills, interfacing to microprocessors).
The Signals and Systems course, though, is a can of worms, because of poor factoring of material into courses by the EE department. Rather than putting transform methods in the signals and systems course (where it would get used), they pushed it into their gateway course: circuits. As a result, there is a rather indigestible lump of transform methods in the circuits course. And that lump is almost the only reason the circuits course is a prerequisite to signals and systems. Part of what is wrong with the current circuits class for the bioengineers is all the matrix methods and transform methods that are included but only motivated by "you'll need this in later EE classes", which bioengineers mostly won't take. I see no chance that EE will ever refactor their courses.
For our course to do the transform methods, we would have to put back all the math prereqs (we'd cut out the ODE course and linear algebra, leaving just single-variable calculus). We'd have to chop out two weeks of material (20% of the course) to make room for transform methods, which most of our students will then never end up using again. It would also mean that we couldn't attract any students from biology to the course,whose math stops at single-variable calculus.
One idea that was floated was to change the course numbering so that our applied circuits course was a lower-division course (freshman or sophomore year). I'm perfectly willing to change the course number to a lower-division number, since I would prefer students to take it in the sophomore or junior year, not the senior year. I'd even be willing to have students who wanted to continue into bioelectronics have to take the EE version of the circuits course after our course in order to get the prereqs for upper-division electronics classes (though much of the material overlaps). That is, the applied circuits course could be a terminal course, with no subsequent course using it as a prereq, since most of the bioengineers will be content with that level of electronics. Somehow this idea got rejected without any arguments against it being made, so I don't know what was the problem with it.
Another idea that was floated was to have the regular circuits course taught without significant modification, but to have the applied circuits lab offered to the bioengineering majors as an alternative to the usual labs. I think that there was recognition even from the EEs that the labs I've been designing were better than the ones they've been using. But I've been designing the course for the labs and the lectures to be integrated with each other, with a fair amount of book-learning needed to support the labs. Tacking the labs onto a mis-fitting lecture course is not going to work. The students will need information about electrodes and electrolytes for the electrode lab, about thermistors, strain gauges, and microphones, about biopotentials and volume conduction for the EKG, and so forth. A lot of thought went into the order of presentation so that students would just have learned concepts that were then reinforced in the lab. Without that tight integration the labs would likely fail. To make it work with an unmodified (or only slightly tweaked) circuits course that spends weeks on matrix methods and transform methods that aren't particularly needed in the labs, the lab would have to be a separate 5-unit course, and then the students could just take the lab without the EE circuits course, getting us almost back to the current rejected design.
We can teach the course without approval this year as a "group tutorial" (which is a common workaround for the slow approval process), but I don't see how we can ever get approval for the course if it requires EE blessing. They don't see anything wrong with the design of their current circuits course and see no reason for there to be any "competition" for students. Not that they want to teach circuits either—they're talking about reducing the offering from twice a year to once a year, even though there isn't really lab space for everyone currently required to take the course to all take it the same quarter. (I think that is where the idea of our modifying our course to be an exact clone of theirs comes from—some other department paying for their course.)
EE does worry about their low enrollments and few majors, which I believe are largely caused by their gateway course being more of a barrier than a welcome (and perhaps also by how few of their faculty care about undergrad teaching). Their preferred solution, though, is to merge with the computer engineering department, which has more majors and a history of good teaching, then expect the computer engineering faculty to teach the undergrad courses while they teach only boutique grad courses.
We seem to be at an impasse, and I'm not enough of a politician to see a way forward. I'll be meeting with the EE undergrad director (probably next week) to see if we can come up with a compromise, but I've no idea what that could be right now.


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Ingredient's to boiled rice.
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1/4cup split moong dal
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Ping of hing
Salt to taste.
Ingredient's for tempering.
1tsp cumin
1/2tsp black pepper
2 green chillies (finely chopped)
10 curry leaves
2tbsp ghee.
Cooking Method.
Dry roast moong dal until slightly browned, set aside with raw rice. Pressure cook rice, moong dal, hing and salt with 4 cups of water for 3-4 whistles until mushy.
Meanwhile you can get ready with the tempering ingredients. In a frying pan add ghee when it is hot, add the rest of ingredients and fry for 2 to 3 minutes on a low flame.
Once the pressure releases, open and add the tempered items. Mix well, add more ghee if needed.
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1: "What a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch." ~Queen Elizabeth 1
2: There once was a man named King Henry VIII, he was scared that he would never have a little boy to take his throne once he passed so he married a woman, but she only had little girls. He was very upset with this, so he created his own religion so he could leave her because he wasn't in love with her. Shortly after he left her he married another women, this was Elizabeth's mother, she also only had little girls so Henry had her beheaded and sent Elizabeth, the main character, to the country to be raised by others.
3: Elizabeth spent her entire life in the country, she had a brother who she shared tutors with. She was tutored in French, Greek, Latin, grammar, math, and every other subject royal children were taught. (Even though her father told her he didn't want her and sent her away she was still treated as a princess.) Whilst she was living there she learned a great deal about many things, she was very interested in learning. When she was 25 her older half-sister, Mary, died of tummy problems and she became Queen of England. Before Mary died Elizabeth was sent to her to be killed, Mary couldn't kill her sister so she sent her away.
4: Mary (left) and Elizabeth (right)
5: Queen Elizabeth I
6: A few years before Mary died Elizabeth went to Australia to wait out the bad days, while she was in Australia she bought a horse farm and began to raise horses, cows, pigs and other animals. As she lived out her life in Australia she met a man, Sir. Lawrence Philip, they fell in love, he was her prince charming. They went to many balls together and spent many hours together, they thought it was going to last forever. After 3 years he asked her to marry him, of course she said "yes!" immediately! They were set to be married in a year, Mary wrote to her best friend back in England to ask her to come, as soon as her friend answered the letter Elizabeth could tell something was the matter with her. Worried, Elizabeth asked what was wrong, her friend said "Have you not heard? Mary has a tumor in her stomach, she's going to die."
8: As soon as she heard this she was scared out of her mind, she couldn't even stand up straight. "Oh, thank you for telling me. I must go now, I must apologize, send my deepest apologies to Phillip." she said. As soon as she sent this letter she hurried home to find Lawrence sitting on the porch, waiting. He had a letter in his hand and a saddened look on his face. She ran into his arms and cried, he looked at her and said "I understand, you must go back to England." "I do not wish to leave you, we are to be married in a year." she replied. He finished the conversation with "We must break the engagement or I must go with you to England and become the King." Knowing what kind of problems that would cause Elizabeth kissed him one last time and they said their goodbyes.
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12: She was 25 when she went back to England to become the Queen. She began her rule on the 17th of November. When she came to power England was in a terrible shape, the Navy was a failure, she was dirt poor, and the Catholic church was killing everyone they felt needed to be killed. Mary, the queen before her, was a strong Catholic and wanted all people of other faiths murdered. So when Elizabeth came to power, a devout Protestant, she put a stop to all of the killings. She also, being the strong woman that she was, rebuilt the Navy and all of England back up from dirt! She was a pretty amazing woman.
16: For 45 years she ruled England as the "Virgin Queen." She got this nickname because she decided to never marry out of fear of a man taking her throne and power away. As she grew older since she never married she never had any children thus, she never had any heirs. When she died James Stewart became the king of England. He was not an heir but he was in the family, he ruled just as well as Elizabeth. Elizabeth I is one of the most well known and loved queens of all time, she will be remembered for years and years to come. THE END
17: "Current" day Elizabeth | Drawing of Elizabeth
18: Protestant Church
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One of the biggest on-going arguments on the Internet revolves around "share" sites such as Reddit, Funny Junk, and 9GAG. They make their money by users uploading funny stuff found on the Internet… regardless of copyright and often without credit to the original, depending on the situation. Occasionally one of these sites gets into it with a content creator, with predictably hilarious results.
9GAG is one of the more popular. It's raised $2.8 million in funding, has an iPhone app on the way and — according to a Redditor's carefully researched and backed up post — is built almost entirely on raiding sites like Reddit and Quickmeme, and then faking the post data to make it look like a 9GAG original instead of something they copied.
This isn't just sour grapes, either. The aforementioned post in the 4Chan subreddit is actually a fairly damning work that reverse engineers the entire process. The key aspect of the report, written by 9F**_EXPERT, is that 9GAG is essentially a plagiarism machine run by actual human.
The basic process is this: Find a funny image on Reddit, carefully crop out any watermarks, and post it to 9GAG with a fake time. The really sad part is that this is some poor bastard's job; the report demonstrates repeatedly that none of this stuff can be done by robots:
9GAG does not have automated scripts which steal your submissions. Everything is done by humans. I don't know who came up with that idea that they made scripts, because it's just wrong. They have hired people to browse the biggest subreddits (such as /r/pics, /r/funny, /r/gaming, /r/wtf, /r/aww, /r/f7u12, /r/adviceanimals, /r/videos) and steal content. Day for day.
Well… we guess it's good 9GAG is creating jobs. The real question is what they'll do now that it's been made clear that they can't cover their tracks anymore.
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Bariatric Surgery Patients Treated at 5 Star Hospitals 69.7% Less Likely to Experience Inhospital Complications Than Patients at 1 Star Programs
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DENVER, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A report released today by HealthGrades, the nation's most trusted, independent source of physician information and hospital quality outcomes, found that bariatric surgery patients have a nearly 70% lower risk of experiencing an inhospital complication at top-rated hospitals compared to poorly-rated hospitals. The findings are from HealthGrades 2011 Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals report, which analyzed 193,518 bariatric surgery patient records from 2007 through 2009, including 468 hospitals in 19 states where data is publically available. Local hospital ratings and study methodology are available at HealthGrades.com.
Bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery, is the only option that effectively treats morbid obesity in people for whom more conservative measures, such as diet, exercise, and medication have failed. The long-term benefits of bariatric surgery include significant and sustainable long-term weight loss, resolution of diabetes, reduction in cardiovascular disease risk, and decreased mortality.
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"Given the huge gap in quality between 5-star bariatric surgery programs and 1-star programs, choosing the right provider is critical," said Dr. Rick May, HealthGrades Vice President of Accelerated Clinical Excellence. "The decision to undergo major surgery is never an easy one, and a procedure is never guaranteed to be complication-free. But with the help of HealthGrades bariatric surgery program ratings, patients can optimize their chances for receiving the highest possible quality of care."
Key findings of the HealthGrades 2011 Bariatric Surgery Trends in American Hospitals report include:
- Patients having bariatric surgery at 5-star hospitals are: 69.70% less likely to experience inhospital complications than patients at 1-star programs.
- If all hospitals in the 19 states studied from 2007 through 2009 had performed at the level of 5-star hospitals: 5,231 patients could have potentially avoided a major inhospital complication.
- Patients having a bariatric procedure at a 5-star facility spent, on average, a half-day less in the hospital than patients having their procedure at a 1-star facility (1.93 days versus 2.38 days respectively).
- Cost varies widely by state. California is the most expensive state for bariatric surgery, with an average charge of $65,251, while Maryland is the least expensive, with an average charge of $16,390.
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HealthGrades Bariatric Surgery in American Hospitals report analyzed 193,518 bariatric surgery discharges from 2007 through 2009, from 468 hospitals in 19 states. Risk adjustment allows for a valid comparison of hospitals taking into account the types of patients treated. Hospitals are rated as 5-star (best), 3-star (average), and 1-star (poor). To be included in the analysis, hospitals had to have a minimum of 30 cases over the three years and at least five cases in 2009. HealthGrades hospital ratings are independently created; no hospital can opt in or opt out of being rated, and no hospital pays to be rated. The full methodology and individual hospital ratings can be found at HealthGrades.com.
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Brussels sprouts are a Bay Area winter cook's best friend.
Thai spiced Brussels sprouts.
Lori Eanes
Who doesn't love spotting fresh Brussels sprouts at local markets? Those 2-to-3-foot-long, sturdy stalks harvested from August to March, bedazzled with plump, green, walnut-sized edible buds are odd to look at and fun to haul home. Once in the kitchen, snapping off the little sprouts—like a second harvest of wee cabbages (they are of the same family)—ranks among the more satisfying of veggie prep tasks. And the plusses don't end there.
"They're a really low-maintenance vegetable," said Michael Lawrence, sous chef at Oakland's Portal restaurant and beer garden on Lake Merritt. "They're hearty, flavorful, and they fry up really well."
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Portal sous chef Michael Lawrence.
They're also really good for you. Brussels sprouts are packed with vitamins A and C and are a generous source of iron. But their best quality might be their surprising versatility. Though they need little to shine—a quick steam, or a light stroke of oil, a little sea salt, and sauté—Brussels sprouts' complex, nutty flavor and dense, firmly packed texture can easily shoulder whatever a cook feels like dishing out. Bacon? Sure. But how about garlic, lime, Parmesan, maple, or Sriracha? From sweet to savory to spicy, possibilities abound in combinations even the most suspicious Brussels sprouts doubter might enjoy.
In Portal's case, that means deep-fried with layers of addictive flavor. One of the most requested items on the menu, the beer garden's fried Brussels sprouts dish has a Thai-style tang with a kick of spice that goes nicely with beer. For Portal enthusiasts—almost, but not all, of the ingredients are revealed here. We challenge lovers of this dish to try to guess the remaining few.
Portal, 1611 Second Ave., 510-663-7678, www.PortalOakland.com.
Thai Spiced Brussels Sprouts
(Inspired by Portal's owner Warren Rector)
1 pound Brussels sprouts
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons chili paste
1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
2 mint leaves, minced
Using a food processor, blend honey, chili paste, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and mint leaves. Set aside. Wash the fresh Brussels sprouts and cut off any stems. Remove any outer leaves that have blemishes. Cut into quarters.
Heat oil in deep fryer or large Dutch oven to 325 to 350 degrees. Add Brussels sprouts until crispy and golden in color, about three to five minutes. Remove and drain on paper towels
In large bowl, immediately toss fried Brussels sprouts with prepared sauce. Plate and serve. Serves two.
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Steve Patterson: Certainty and Logic | WSB #26
Steve Patterson's book Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge begins with the bold claim: "Truth is discoverable. I'm certain of it." The rest of the book is an attempt to prove that there are certain truths for which there is not a sliver of doubt.
I am, to say the least, unconvinced. Universal fallibilism - the claim that all knowledge leaves room for doubt - is, ironically enough, a view I'm particularly confident of (though, obviously, not certain of). Indeed, I did a two-part podcast on this topic (Against Certainty: Knowledge and Experience and Against Certainty: Logic). In this interview, I challenge Steve's claims to certainty with my skeptical doubts. The conversation takes us through the Münhhausen Trilemma, the nature of justification, subjective experience, and, of course, the ever-popular liar paradox.
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Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge by Steve Patterson
"How to Resolve the Liar's Paradox" by Steve Patterson (video)
Topics discussed:
0:41 - The goal of certainty
2:59 - Agrippan trilemma
6:37 - Certainty v. necessity (epistemology v. metaphysics)
19:08 - Justification (grounds for belief)
25:42 - Certainty about experience v. certainty about logical truths
29:03 - Meditating on experience
31:40 - Presuppositions of skepticism?
41:50 - Negation
43:32 - "Logic and existence are inseparable"
47:28 - Philosophy of language
49:50 - Liar paradox, negation, and the possibility of contradiction


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Cork outsourcing company Voxpro said it has been taken over by Canadian IT giant Telus International in a deal estimated at €150m, and said that not only are jobs safe but it could expand its operations.
Voxpro, founded by Cork husband and wife Dan and Linda Kiely, is one of the country's biggest employers. It has more than 2,000 staff at its Blackrock headquarters in the city, and has hundreds of more people employed in Dublin, Bucharest, the US, and Philippines.
Not only are the current jobs safe, but the deal means the company could grow further in the future, according to a Voxpro spokesman.
The company specialises in providing multilingual tech support and business outsourcing services.
Voxpro provides clients with customer contact services, call-centre services, 24/7 call answering, as well as technical support services in more than a dozen languages.
Voxpro has 300 clients in the domestic and international markets. They include SMEs and leading multinationals such as Airbnb, Etsy, Stripe, and Google.
Last year, Voxpro officially opened a Dublin office, with plans to hire 400 people.
At the opening, Mr Kiely said the company had plans to grow overseas this year.
The Telus International deal, however, marks an end to plans for the company to stay independent and float its shares on the stock market.
Mr Kiely said last year that those plans were still alive but were unlikely to happen for some time.
Under the deal with Telus International, Voxpro will keep its name and will bring the staff count at both firms to almost 28,000 people.
Mr Kiely will stay with the company, it said, under Telus Internationalpresident and chief executive Jeffrey Puritt.
We have huge news! TELUS International has acquired Voxpro: https://t.co/W8GFqbsSd1 @TELUSint pic.twitter.com/JMJLJ3lAzD— Voxpro (@VoxproGroup) August 16, 2017
Voxpro has been heralded as one of Ireland's biggest business success stories, growing from a handful of staff since it was founded almost 20 years ago.
The company began with six employees on Marlboro St, Cork City.
Former taoiseach Enda Kenny was a regular visitor to Voxpro as it announced new jobs over the course of the last seven years, heralding the company as a symbol of Irish entrepreneurial spirit.
Mr Kiely has become one of the country's most vocal business figures in recent years.
He had also warned, however, about uneven regional economic growth, citing shortages of housing in Cork which could hamper the city's recovery.
He said the rental crisis in Cork, which has seen prices in the city spike in recent years, was preventing Voxpro from holding on to some of the best "young, mobile, and multilingual workforce".
Telus International is a global business and IT outsourcing company with offices based in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, central America, and Philippines.
It provides voice, email, chat, and social media for its corporate clients in sectors such as information technology, financial services, and finance technology, as well as gaming, travel and hospitality, and healthcare.
About 70% of its business is done through English, with half of the support services provided by phone, and the other half by online or email.
Mr Kiely said: "It's an extremely special day for us and for all of our partners, team members, and indeed, everyone in the Voxpro community."
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They say that second chances are hard to come by, but that's exactly what MasterChef Canada competitor Alice Luo got when she was given the opportunity to return to the kitchen on Thursday night. The home cook walked through the doors to surprise the top six competitors with her big return — and her even bigger grin.
Unfortunately, it seemed as though her second time around in the kitchen was to be just as short-lived as her first.
During one of the toughest challenges on the show, the competitors were asked to face off in an egg showdown. (How appropriate for Easter, right?) First they had to create a scotch egg, with the bottom five then competing in a 10-minute eggs Benedict challenge. From there, the bottom two, Alice and Miranda, went head to head in a cheese soufflé showdown that left us hungry as Alice hung up her apron for the second time.
Luckily, the home cook has since perfected her eggs Benedict and soufflé-making skills, so we caught up with her to find out about her egg-cellent secrets.
What went wrong?
Because the rest of the home cooks got more of a chance to cook in that kitchen, they were already at a greater advantage than I was. It's okay though. They all deserve to be in the top six.
Which one of those three dishes was the most intimidating to recreate?
The eggs Benedict. It was more of a time constraint than anything else. To have a perfectly poached egg as well as a homemade hollandaise sauce… you only have two eggs to cook it all with on top of everything else. There was no room for error. Because of that challenge, when I went into the final to make the soufflé — which really I make all the time at home so it's ridiculous — I couldn't make it. It was a mindset, I was already so bumbled.
What's the secret to a perfectly poached egg?
The idea is you want the yolk to be runny and to have the egg white encasing it. In order to help make sure it doesn't break you add vinegar — it's nice and acidic so it protects the yolk from cracking. It's actually one of the techniques most chefs would use. You don't need a lot of vinegar… I like it light, so maybe one teaspoon for every full pot.
How do you keep a hollandaise sauce from breaking?
Have hot butter. Cook your yolks about halfway on a double boiler and then add the butter while constantly whisking. The problem is that if you under whisk or your ratio is off, it will break. You want the fat from the egg yolk to hold the oil from the butter. If it doesn't hold that, the whole sauce would break down. So if the yolk is overcooked, it can't hold the butter.
How would you fix a broken sauce?
If it's overcooked, one way is to add more egg yolk. I didn't have any more eggs so I couldn't do that. So another way is to splash a bit of hot water. The water disintegrates the yolk a bit and exposes some of the fat. I tried doing that, but because most of the yolk was already overcooked at that point, I couldn't.
The judges critiqued the way you separated your eggs for the soufflé; what's the best way to separate an egg?
Normally I would either separate it with my hands or use the egg itself. I don't know why I separated it with the shell that time. There are pros and cons. When you use the shell, if you do it slower, you can actually get more egg whites. When you do it with your hands, sometimes the whites stick to you. Additionally, there's a risk that the natural oils from your hands get into the whites. When you're whipping a meringue the number one rule is do not get any fat into it. If you get any fat into your meringue, it won't whip. Make sure your hands are very clean if you do it that way. If you do it with the shell, you've got to make sure that the sharp part doesn't touch any of the yolk. I guess I did not do that.
Why did whisking your egg whites by hand versus by the machine make such a big difference in the end?
By then I just wanted to whisk as hard as I could, and the machine's whisks weren't really reaching the bottom of the bowl. I wanted to create a little more volume, and it sort of worked.
Why are savoury soufflés harder to create than sweet ones?
Sugar. Sugar helps stabilize the meringue a lot more and it fluffs up easier. If it's savoury, you don't add as much sugar and that makes it harder. You also have to add your savoury component into it, so you have to make sure you balance that savoury part with the meringue.
How do you know if you've done it right?
You have to know your ratios and you can't really tell your final product until it's out of the oven. The more you do it, the better you get at it. When it comes to baking, literally, you just pray.


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Topic Page: radio astronomy
The study of radio-frequency emissions from astronomical objects, such as stars or ➤radio galaxies. ➤Radio telescopes are used for the observations, which extend to the sub-millimetre range (➤microwaves) as well as radio frequencies as normally defined. A low ➤signal-to-noise ratio is inevitable in such observations, and substantial effort goes into the processing of experimental results.
study of celestial bodies by means of the electromagnetic radio frequency waves they emit and absorb naturally.
Radio waves emanating from celestial bodies are received by specially constructed antennas, called radio telescopes, whose use corresponds to that of the optical telescope in observing visible light. In the most common design, a parabolic "dish" replaces the mirror of the reflecting optical telescope. This dish serves to focus the radio waves into a concentrated signal that is then filtered, amplified, and finally analyzed using a computer. The radio signals received from outer space are extremely weak, and long observing times are required to collect a useful amount of energy. Therefore, most radio telescopes are mounted so that they can automatically track a given object as its position changes because of the rotation of the earth.
Naturally occurring radio emission from the sky was accidentally discovered in 1931 by Karl Jansky. An inexplicable source of radio noise was identified in 1940 by Gröte Reber, using a radio telescope in the backyard of his home, as originating from our own galaxy, the Milky Way. This radiation is spread over a wide band of radio frequencies and originates in the ionized interstellar gases surrounding hot, bright stars. In these so-called H II regions, free electrons emit radio waves when they are scattered by collisions with the heavier ions. Other sources of radio waves within our galaxy are the remnants of supernovas, or exploding stars. The most famous example of a supernova remnant is the Crab Nebula in Taurus.
Because there are strong magnetic fields (see magnetism) in the vicinities of supernovas remnants, an additional mechanism is present for producing radio waves. This is the synchrotron radiation emitted by energetic electrons as they rapidly spiral around the magnetic lines of force, instead of simply being deflected by collisions with ions.
A third source of radio waves within our own galaxy consists of the atoms and molecules in the interstellar matter. This radiation is at discrete frequencies instead of over a broad band, or continuum, of frequencies. The first of these "radio lines" to be discovered was the line at a wavelength of 21 cm produced by the hydrogen atom (as opposed to the hydrogen molecule, which is composed of two atoms). The intensity of this line in the radiation from a given region is a direct measure of the amount of hydrogen there. Because hydrogen is a major constituent of the interstellar medium, the 21-cm line has provided astronomers with a means of mapping the spiral structure of the Milky Way. The visible light is blocked off by the same interstellar material in which the hydrogen giving rise to a 21-cm line lies, so that the view of the galaxy is obscured in certain directions, particularly in the direction of the center of the galaxy. Thus, before the advent of radio astronomy, the spiral structure of the Milky Way had not actually been observed but was only inferred from comparison with the Andromeda Galaxy and from other indirect studies. Besides atomic hydrogen, certain simple organic (carbon-based) molecules, including cyanogen (CN) and formaldehyde (H2CO), have been discovered in the interstellar medium by means of their radio lines.
Radio waves also come from outside the Milky Way. These extragalactic radio sources have great implications for cosmology, the theory of the overall structure of the universe. Spiral and barred spiral galaxies, such as the Milky Way, are only weak sources of radio waves, but certain giant elliptical and irregular galaxies emit more than a million times as much radio energy as ordinary galaxies. Such galaxies are usually marked by dust lanes, which are unusual for galaxies lacking spiral arms. Some of these objects can be detected only by their radio emission, but in other cases the position of the radio source has been determined accurately enough to allow astronomers to identify the radio source with a galaxy visible in an image taken with a large optical telescope.
Other radio sources were optically identified with what at first appeared to be faint blue stars. However, it was discovered that these "stars" had enormous red shifts (shifting of the spectral lines toward the red end of the spectrum) that implied, according to Hubble's law, that they were the most remote objects ever detected and that their intrinsic intensities were about 1000 times greater than an entire galaxy. These extraordinary objects were named quasi-stellar radio sources, which was soon shortened to quasars. Their nature is still not completely understood.
Many thousands of extragalactic radio sources are known. Of those optically identified radio sources, roughly one third are quasars, and the remainder are radio galaxies. In addition to these localized radio sources, there is uniform low-level radio noise from every direction in the sky. This cosmic background radiation is believed to be an indication that the universe began with an explosive big bang rather than having always existed in an unchanging steady state. More recently radio astronomy has discovered pulsars, thought to be rapidly spinning neutron stars that radiate bursts of energy on and off regularly between 1 and 30 times a second.
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American Truck Simulator Update 1.3 going into Open Beta
The Open Beta of Update 1.3 for American Truck Simulator is available on Steam.
And yes, if you are keen to explore it even before the update is officially released for everybody,
the testing version contains the much anticipated Arizona DLC!
Here is out little marketing blurb for Arizona: Drive through the streets of 15 new cities including the largest city and capital,
Phoenix, and visit the distinctive southern centers Flagstaff and Tucson. Discover a section of the famous Route 66 with its key landmarks.
Cross the Colorado river over unique bridges and explore many wonderful vistas and famous landmarks within this region.
The Arizona State is not the only new feature of 1.3 update of course.
The list of changes and fixes is much longer, here is a recap of the key ones:
- Arizona DLC
- Take World of Trucks Contracts directly from the game, now with ATS support.
- Physically simulated truck and trailer coupling.
- Blinker auto off can be disabled (option).
- Speeding highlight can be disabled (option).
- Torque converter simulation greatly improved.
- Automatic transmission behavior improved.
- XInput support added.
- Added UI support for 4th and 5th controller.
- Gear shift selectors (range, split) now have UI support for position-based switches.
- New accessories added to 579 a T680 (bullbars, deflectors, sideflares, etc).
- Default air horn added to all trucks (attribute air_horn in sound accessory).
- New engine sound of W900 (air intake).
- Interior sounds of all trucks rebalanced.
- US specific engine data.
- Damage params moved out from game_data.sii and some more added (including wear and part damage factors).
- Data driven engines (torque curve, rpm limits).
- Force feedback data for XInput added (force_feedback.sii).
- Torque converter physics data added, separated manual clutch data (physics.sii).
You can find the beta in the public_beta branch on Steam.
(Steam client → LIBRARY → right click on American Truck Simulator → Properties → Betas tab → public_beta - 1.3 public beta).
No password is required.
A word of caution: make sure to back-up your profile and save game data before experimenting with beta builds!
Please keep in mind that this is still only a test version of the update,
it's perfectly ok for you to wait and stay away from it until it's stable and final.
If you are curious though and want to assist us in polishing it, we greatly appreciate your help.
Please report any bugs on our forum.
We added another portion of Highway 101, which leads from San Rafael to Eureka.
Highways surroundings is composed by typical redwood forest. We have also added new city of Ukiah hosting supermarket and farm depot.
Last but not least, yesterday we released the public beta version of SCS Workshop Uploader tool,
that is compatible with latest game updates. More details here.
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On a blissfully hot day that could have been mistaken for the height of summer I was searching for my thermal gloves. I had already found hats, gloves and scarves belonging to Top Ender, Baby Boy and Daddy and knew that my gloves were going to be in the same drawer, I just had to find them. What was I needing with these winter clothing accessories on such a hot day? We were going to The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead for some time on their 100m long Cresta Run on inflatable rubber rings... you know the normal thing to do on a sunny day.
When we arrived we were a little nervous but we were soon kitted out with water proof jackets and trousers, snow boots and helmets and as you can see the family looked quite cute all dressed up for an afternoon on the snow.
Top Ender had been worried about this trip, as she wasn't sure if she would enjoy speeding down a snow covered slope on an inflatable ring but she was excited enough to be the first one out of the changing area and in to the snow. We were each handed an inflatable ring and as Daddy, Baby Boy and I made our way up the edge of the slope we watched a figure start hurtling towards us on the slope. We suddenly realised that Top Ender was missing from our group and that it was actually her on the slope! Top Ender loved it, and for the rest of the time we were out spent her time racing to the bottom before climbing back up to do it all over again. We took some video of ourselves and this is all of us at one point or another going down the slope.
(Video can be seen at http://youtu.be/DhT0o1gHgBs)
We all had a blast, it was a great work out, as walking back up the slope dragging a Ringo behind you counts as a good cardio workout in my book. Top Ender and Baby Boy slept rather soundly that night and I think even Daddy and I had a deeper sleep than normal!
It was only afterwards when we were upstairs in one of the conference rooms having something to eat and drink (I think we drank all that was there for a party of ten and there was only the four of us!) that Daddy and I realised just how taken Top Ender and Baby Boy had been with the slope as they spent a large amount of time looking out the window that faced on to the slope.
We would all love to attend again, and will hopefully be able to go in a couple of months or so (I have to save up my pocket money!) just as long as nobody tells my children, I don't think I could stand two months of
"Are we going to go to The Snow Centre today?".
If you wear your own outdoor clothing it will only cost £35 for a family of four to have 30 minutes on the Ringo's, and although this is about the same amount you would spend on a trip to the cinema with snacks the time at The Snow Centre is definitely more fun!!
We were very lucky that we were also filmed by a professionally chappy who has made a video of our time on the slope which looks much better than our shaky photography!
(Video can be seen at http://youtu.be/8ODRV-nQ7xQ)
We would like to thank everyone for their time on the day from The Snow Centre and for the PR Company for having invited us to come along and it was also great to meet Angels and Urchins too!


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Monday, April 29, 2013
Letters to Nora - January 15th, 2013
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Beautiful story Lindsey. I would love to hear Nora's 'song' sometime. I am sure that the song is just as beautiful as she was.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Mom, I could never sing you Nora's song. You always told me that I had a bad singing voice. ;). Just kidding. I would love to sing it to you some time. It's more of a hum, so my pitch won't hurt your ears. Love you.Delete
I never said you had a bad singing voice......would love to hear you hum it. I have been doing a lot of planning for Nora's garden. Dad and I will be mapping it out in the next week to 10 days. Can hardly wait to write about it! Love You too!Delete
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Lindsey, what a wonderful story. I love thinking that Joseph was "born" the day we thought of him.ReplyDelete
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Beckham joined Milan from the Los Angeles Galaxy on Jan 7 on a short-term loan deal with Ancelotti expecting him to train with the first team to maintain his fitness during the Major League Soccer off-season.
But the 33-year-old's impact has seen him become a regular in the side and led Milan to try to extend his loan deal until the end of the current campaign.
"At the beginning he [Beckham] was set to train with us for two months and I didn't think about playing him," Ancelotti said. "Then, I saw how he trained and I had no choice.
"I can say he is a great player. He has won me over with his performances and his character.
"We tried to get him four years earlier and two years ago but the negotiations faded away."
Since arriving in Italy Beckham has started nine matches for Milan and scored twice - a feat which has also led Ancelotti to say that the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder is stronger in some respects than Kaka.
"On the pitch, Beckham sees everything before everyone else," he continued. "His vision of play is better now than during his time in Manchester and in that respect, he has nothing to envy Kaka for.
"He is slower but much stronger tactically and technically. He is very intelligent and works a lot."
Ancelotti's comments come amid uncertainty over his own future.
Milan are said to have issued him with an ultimatum saying that if he wants to remain the club's coach, nothing less than at least a third place finish and a return to the Champions League will do.
"Carlo Ancelotti will stay if we finish third," Milan chairman Adriano Galliani told Gazzetta dello Sport.
The announcement follows a week in which Milan lost 2-1 to Sampdoria and were eliminated from the Uefa Cup by Werder Bremen.


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La Mesa, California, is situated near San Diego, which happens to be home to some amazing animal shelters that are dedicated to caring for homeless, abused, abandoned, and neglected animals during their times of need.
The San Diego Humane Society has been providing animal care and adoption services to the San Diego area since 1880. Now, the San Diego Humane Society operates shelters in Escondido, Oceanside, and San Diego. As the oldest non-profit organization in San Diego, the group has helped thousands of animals get a second chance at life. The organization helps investigate animal cruelty and neglect cases, as well as provides spaying and neutering for animals in the area. As a non-profit organization, the San Diego Humane Society relies on donations and fundraisers to keep providing services to animals in need.
The Barking Lot is a non-profit organization that helps dogs find their perfect forever families. Relying on a small group of volunteers, this organization uses foster families to help care for dogs, as well as a rescue facility that can house dogs until they find new homes. With the help of generous donors, The Barking Lot is able to save more and more animals from euthanasia or homelessness. The recent addition of the rescue facility has given the organization the ability to help even more animals.
If you live in the La Mesa area and are looking for a new pet, consider contacting one of these organizations. You are bound to find the perfect pet for your household at The Barking Lot or the San Diego Humane Society.
A bit of a misnomer, the Ugly Dog Contest held in Del Mar, California, is a great opportunity for all dogs to participate in fun contests and get a chance to win prizes. On a day in March, join hundreds of other dogs to see who gets to take home the Ugliest Dog prize! There are also contests for Best Trick, Most Handsome Male, Most Beautiful Female, and Cutest Puppy, along with many other categories.
Pre-register for the event for just $7 per adult and $5 per child. To participate in the contests, each entry is $10. Enter three categories for the same dog and ticket prices are just $25. T-shirts are also available for $20.
Each February, the San Diego Botanic Garden holds a 5k walk through the garden for the dogs in the area. The 5k Paw Walk in the Garden gives local dog owners and their dogs the opportunity to exercise with some beautiful plants from Australia, Hawaii, California, and many other states and countries around the world!
There will also be treats for both humans and dogs during the event, and you can browse through vendor booths to look at great pet products that are available for purchase.
The admission fee for the walk will be $32 per adult for non-members. Members can walk for just $21. Children under 18 can participate for just $21, and child members of the garden walk for just $14.
Dozens of rescue organizations in the area come together each year for the Santa Paws Holiday Pet Adoption Event with the goal of getting animals into new forever homes in time for the holiday season. Typically taking place the first weekend in December, the event showcases cats, dogs, turtles, birds, and other animals that are in need of new homes!
Bring your current pets to help you decide on a new furry friend! This event is hosted by the San Diego Animal Support Foundation and features animals from Dogs Fur Days, Open Arms Rescue of San Diego, and other local rescues.
If you are ready for an afternoon of fun and games, head over to Harry Griffen Park each October for the Carnival 4 Canines event! This free event features games for children, raffles with amazing prizes, arts and crafts, vendors selling all kinds of pet-related goods, and some of the best food in the area. There will also be bouncy houses and face painting for the kids!
Help raise money for Jackie Blue's Rescue Angels during this annual event, and let your children and dogs have the times of their lives.
The afternoon starts at 12 pm and wraps up around 4 pm.
The Del Mar Fairgrounds is overrun by dogs each February during the San Diego Pet Con event. Join hundreds of other dogs for an event that honors your favorite four-legged friends. Your pooch will enjoy a day of socialization and entertainment with demonstrations and vendor booths!
With giveaways for both humans and canines, you could even win some awesome prizes! There will also be free nail trims available for dogs. Discounted vaccinations, microchipping, and flea and heartworm preventatives will also be available.


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From April 15 to June 11, 2017
Studio Georgeville
20 Carré Copp, Georgeville, Québec J0B 1T0
This exhibit will include paintings, sculptures, photographs, jewellery, papiers mâchés, woodwork, sculptures + other hand crafted objects created on the theme of Lake Memphremagog. Informative panels on the life of the lake, historic photographs, the largest brown trout ever recorded caught, along with models of boats that once criss-crossed Lake Memphremagog will expand our knowledge of these "beautiful waters", so central to the population of the eastern townships, from the Abenakis who settled around the lake, to the present day.
Vernissage: Saturday April 15 – 3 pm to 5 pm
Paul Carignan, of Abenaki origin, will give a talk about the Abenakis and Lake Memphremagog on June 3, 2017. Details will be announced at a later date.
The book launch of Memphremagog II by Louise Abbott will take place at the Studio on June 25, 2017. Details to be announced at a later date.
Artists: Louise Abbott, Pamela Carwright, Virginia Cope, Gretchen Hatfield, Niels Jensen, Dominique Gagnon, François Haguier,Victoria Mathiesen, Luc Olscamp, Agnes McKenna Power, Jesse Power, Geneviève Roy, Carla Straessle.


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Title: Finding Mr. Wrong (Dreamspun Desires #41)
Author: Charlie Cochet
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Genre(s): Contemporary Romance
Page Count: 218 pages
Reviewed by: Crabbypatty
Heat Level: 3 flames out of 5
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
He's nobody's definition of Mr. Right—but that might make him perfect.
Matthew Hart is heir to the family fortune and owner of Hart & Home. When a near-death experience has him fretting over the future, he decides he needs a husband, and not just any husband—an appropriate man to protect the Hart legacy. The last thing Matthew expects is to cross paths with Jax Foster, his first love and the boy who crushed his heart when he disappeared.
Jax is unlikely to make Matthew's list of suitable candidates. Bad boy, vagabond, deep in debt, with a father who can't keep out of trouble, Jax has nothing to offer—except his heart and a second chance at the romance they never got to explore.
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There's some dirty talk and sexy, hot encounters. There's a bit of intrigue and suspense. There's some mystery surrounding attempted murder, a kidnapping, and all kinds of meddling family and friends, all of which results in some action.
Finding Mr. Wrong is from both Matthew and Jax's points of view, which does give the reader a better understanding of how sorry Jax is for the circumstances surrounding his original abandonment of Matthew and why he's stayed away for so long.
Why am I not rating this higher? Because I had a personal issue with the part of the storyline where Jax enables his father constantly that definitely colored my own enjoyment.
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- Jax's father is a hardcore gambling addict. His addiction has led to Jax being kidnapped and held hostage, to them losing their homes over the years multiple times, to Jax almost losing his business, and being tens of thousands of dollars in debt. This – Gambling Addiction – is a triggering subject for me and therefore really impacted how much I enjoyed the story.
Obviously your mileage may vary.
However, the writing is solid, the romance and mystery are good, and though there is a bit of misunderstanding and some mistakes resulting from a combination of a lack of trust and outside interference, everything clears up in the end, including the mystery (with a surprise confession!) and a HFN.
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LIVERPOOL and LONDON, November 16, 2010 - A group of Christians in public life, including ministers and theologians, have launched a new network to oppose government cuts in public spending and welfare provision. They criticise the Coalition's 'Big Society' rhetoric as vacuous and misleading.
The Common Wealth initiative says targeting the poorest in society is un-Christian and warns against churches being co-opted into plugging damaging gaps in social provision.
The group's founding document – endorsed by a professor of theology, Anglican and Methodist clergy, a Cambridge academic and a religious think-tank, among others – provides a radical theological critique of government policies and the social and economic order they seek to maintain.
Steven Shakespeare, an Anglican priest and lecturer in philosophy at Liverpool Hope University, explained: "This is not the time for the churches to be cozying up to government. That would be a failure of nerve, imagination and faith. We need to be saying loud and clear that we are part of the resistance. We don't accept that the market is God."
The group says: "Christians in Britain today are called to take a stand. Faced with the biggest cuts to public spending for over a generation, it is not enough to retreat into the private ghetto of religious consolation."
The document continues: "We are convinced that the actions of the current government are an unjustified attack on the poor. The rhetoric of necessary austerity and virtuous belt-tightening conceals a grim reality: the victimization of people at the margins of society and the corrosion of community. Meanwhile, the false worship of markets continues unchecked and the immorality of the growing gap between rich and poor goes unquestioned."
"We call on the churches to resist the cuts and stand in solidarity with those targeted," it declares. "We urge them to join the forces fighting back against a distorted ideology… [and] we commit ourselves not to give in to despair, fear and fatalism. Another world is possible, the world announced by Jesus in his teachings, embodied in the love he took to the cross, and alive in the Spirit of his risen strength."
Common Wealth says that churches should not be deceived by claims that the government is sympathetic to Christian ideals. The network describes David Cameron's 'Big Society', in which the state passes the buck to individuals, entrepreneurs, charities, and faith groups, as "a Big Lie".
The 'Big Society' masks injustice, suffocating dissent with phoney "we're all in it together" sound bites, Common Wealth says. "It is divide-and-rule dressed up as high-minded community spirit."
The Common Wealth statement recognises that, on the ground, churches and ministers are faced with difficult choices about working within the current system to get necessary resources to the most vulnerable. But it says that pragmatic decisions "should always be guided – and often limited – by a fundamental critique of the present order" based on a vision of a different society "revealed in the Church's sacraments and other symbols of transformation."
Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, said: "The idea that there is no alternative to cuts that hit the poorest is being seen by Christians as economically false, morally wrong and spiritually bankrupt."
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1. The Common Wealth network's website can be found here: http://commonwealthnetwork2010.blogspot.com/. A downloadable version of the statement is available on the site.
2. The full statement, 'Common Wealth: Christians for social and economic justice' can also be read here: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/CommonWealthStatement
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4. Initial signatories of the document are: * Al Barrett, Anglican vicar, Parish of Hodge Hill, Birmingham * Anthony Reddie, Methodist preacher, Research Fellow in Black Theology, Queens Theological Foundation Birmingham, author of Black Theology, Slavery & Contemporary Christianity, and editor of Black Theology journal * Chris Howson, Anglican priest at Soul Space, Bradford, and author of A Just Church: 21st Century Liberation Theology in Action * Chris Shannahan, Methodist minister, Research Fellow in Urban Theology, Birmingham University, and author of ' Power to the People: A Theology of Community Organising' * David Torevell, Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University * Gary Hall, Methodist minister and Tutor in Practical Theology, Queen's Theological Foundation, Birmingham, and Co-ordinator of the Open Horizon anti-trafficking group * Keith Hebden, Anglican priest, St Katherine's Church Matson, and editor of 'A Pinch of Salt' magazine * Lisa Isherwood FRSA, Director of the Institute for Theological Partnerships, University of Winchester, and executive editor of Feminist Theology journal * Ray Gaston, Anglican and Methodist minister, Inter-Faith tutor and enabler at Queen's Theological Foundation and Birmingham Methodist District; author of A Heart Broken Open - Radical Faith in an Age of Fear * Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, writer and theologian, former assistant general secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland * Steven Shakespeare, Anglican priest; Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University, and author of Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction * Tim Gorringe, Anglican priest, Professor of Theology, Exeter University, and author of The Common Good and the Global Emergency * Zoe Bennett, Director of Postgraduate Studies in Pastoral Theology at the Cambridge Theological Federation and editor of Practical Theology journal
5. This press release has been distributed on behalf of Common Wealth by Ekklesia. Founded in 2001, Ekklesia examines politics, values and beliefs in a changing world, from a Christian perspective. It has been listed by The Independent newspaper among 20 influential UK think-tanks. According to Alexa/Amazon, it has one of the most-visited religion and politics / current affairs websites in Britain. More: http://ekklesia.co.uk/content/about/about.shtml


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Chai L'Yisrael, the cheaper of the two at $180 round trip from New York, is offering flights tied to the May 17 election for prime minister and parliament, the Knesset. The latter will decide the fate of the Orthodox religious parties.
Kesher's round-trip flights are for an expected June 1 runoff between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud Party and Ehud Barak of the left-leaning One Israel Party. Kesher's fares are $449 from New York and $649 from Los Angeles.
Each group says thousands have signed up for their respective trips. And with Israel's last election for prime minister, in 1996, decided by less than 15,000 votes from almost 3 million cast, each thinks their effort could make a difference.
Both groups insist they operate on a nonpartisan basis, welcoming one and all — so long as they are registered voters in Israel. But activists associated with each do not hide their tilts.
"In the last election, there was a big movement of people coming to Israel from the United States [that] was very one-sided," said Behr of Kesher. "They were only the religious party supporters. They have the right, God bless them. But I thought, I have to give other people the opportunity. People like me."
Behr said later that his group would stay together after the elections to serve as a kind of network for Israelis in America.
Meanwhile, at Chai L'Yisrael, "Based on what I have seen, people who are signing up are determined to vote for Bibi Netanyahu," Hikind said in a published report Tuesday. "At least I hope they are."
Hikind, who is also a Democratic Party district leader in Borough Park, has leased his party office to Chai L'Yisrael.
Both groups are incorporated as not-for-profit, but only Kesher says its money comes from tax-deductible contributions via a tax-exempt public charity. And that, say tax experts, is a real problem.
"I don't know what would be charitable about this," said attorney Bruce Hopkins, widely regarded as one of the nation's leading charity law experts. "I know of no rule that says transporting individuals to the polls is charitable."
Hopkins, author of the widely used law text, "The Law of Tax- Exempt Organizations," explained, "You can go down the list of ways to be charitable in an election. There are voter guides. There's voter education. But the sheer physical act of transporting people to the polls? I just don't see it."
Cohen, the former IRS commissioner, said: "Flying people to vote in a foreign country is simply not a charitable activity. It would certainly not entitle the donors [subsidizing the flights] to a deduction. It has no benevolent or social welfare purpose."
He dismissed as irrelevant Kesher's emphasis that it is nonpartisan. "So what?" he said. "The question is, why is this charitable? I mean, it's outrageous."
Susan Hoffman, associate director of Shefa, a self-described "progressive" Jewish fund, defended its role, by which it passes on tax-deductible donations from givers who want to back the subsidized flight operation.
"It's legitimate charitable work that falls under the umbrella of education," she said.
Through such "donor-advised grant making," said Hoffman, "We allow the funder to have a simple way to support Middle East peace and the ability of Israelis to participate in their election."
"It's not partisan," she stressed.
Hoffman said Shefa had obtained an oral legal opinion from outside counsel before proceeding with the arrangement to make sure it was legitimate. But she declined to disclose the name of the attorney. "He prefers not to comment or be questioned," she explained.
The Internal Revenue Service does not respond to questions about the legality of specific cases unless it has concluded a formal investigation. But IRS spokesman Bob Kobel told The Jewish Week of the Kesher arrangement, "On the face of it, it might raise some questions."
Meanwhile, in Hikind's Borough Park Democratic clubhouse Tuesday, Zev Segal, the paunchy, bearded, 40-something staff manager for Chai L'Yisrael, listened with unflappable politeness as phone callers and visitors complained they had yet to receive promised confirmation for their May 17 trips.
"You'll be notified," he told one caller. "The process is in Israel now. We're waiting to hear, hopefully next week. We don't have much time."
Chai L'Yisrael recently stopped taking any more bookings. All its chartered flights are filled now, said Segal. But the process is bottlenecked as volunteers in Israel check travelers' Israeli ID card numbers to confirm they are currently registered to vote, he said.
Nissan Fogel, Chai L'Yisrael's official spokesman, conceded, "You have to understand, it's a volunteer organization. Things are not going as smoothly as we'd like."
According to Segal, Chai L'Yisrael — unlike Kesher — is not tax exempt. Donors, he said, receive no tax deductions. Indeed, the IRS reports no record of a tax-exempt group under this name. Still, like Kesher, Chai L'Yisrael says it imposes no political or religious test on those seeking seats.
Four prospective Chai L'Yisrael travelers contacted by The Jewish Week supported this claim. But two others challenged it.
"They asked me about my religion," said Tzdok Yeheskeli, New York correspondent for the Israeli daily paper Yediot Achronot.
Yeheskeli, who called without identifying himself as a journalist, said he was later called back by a Chai L'Yisrael volunteer who asked him, "Do you go to synagogue on weekends and holy days? What synagogue are you affiliated with, Reform, Conservative or Orthodox?"
Another caller, from Manhattan, who would speak only on condition he not be identified, said he had a similar experience.
"I'd be very surprised if they were asked that," said Fogel. "It's absolutely not part of our program."
It seemed unclear just how many people Chai L'Yisrael had signed up. Hikind said the goal was 7,000 to 10,000. Segal used the figure 10,000. Based on the number now being processed, "I'm sure we're going to fill it," he said.
But Fogel, stressing he alone spoke officially for the group, termed those figures "a bit exaggerated."
"We have enough money to send … two or three thousand," he said."
In terms of IRS law, there appears to be no controversy regarding Chai L'Yisrael, so long as it is, indeed, not tax exempt. But Menachem Hofnung, a Hebrew University political science professor who helped write Israel's campaign finance law, said both groups and their donors are probably violating Israeli law, which bars foreign contributions to Israeli parties and campaigns.
American Jewish fund-raisers who seek to back a side in Israel's elections have seen contributions to these subsidized flight operations as one of the few legal ways to influence Israel's elections — so long as they are at least overtly nonpartisan.
But Hofnung said flatly, "It is illegal to offer voters cheap, subsidized flights" just for the elections. Even if no questions are asked about participants' backgrounds, he said, "These organizations' political colors are known to everyone. … It is not legal to give voters a gift. And this is clearly a gift."
"Will people stand trial for this?" he asked rhetorically. "I doubt it. "Israel can't impose sanctions on these U.S. groups. And unless you can prove real ties to the parties, you can't sanction them, either."
Staff writer Stewart Ain contributed to this report.
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