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Because we've answered this question dozens of...
Because we've answered this question dozens of times why some people have a hard time getting IDs. Go back and search. Why do we need to discuss the same thing over and over and over again because...
You could compare one state to another all you...
You could compare one state to another all you want but the fact of the matter is Georgia is changing their laws to make it harder for people to vote. It has nothing to do with fraud. The INTENT is...
they passed laws since the last election in...
they passed laws since the last election in Georgia which they lost. If you're afraid of people voting and do all you can to prevent them from voting you're just plain sleazy. I have no intention of ...
What's the intent of limiting drop boxes in...
What's the intent of limiting drop boxes in Fulton County which is Atlanta to one for every hundred thousand people?
In Georgia is doing everything they can to lower...
In Georgia is doing everything they can to lower that turn out. Intent
You keep saying some fraud but it's so minuscule...
You keep saying some fraud but it's so minuscule and has no impact and it seems most of it is by Republicans on a one off basis. Georgia has been closing drop boxes including closing them days...
And yet they can't find any real fraud. The rare...
And yet they can't find any real fraud. The rare fraud they do find seems to be old white guys who are registered as Rs and vote twice.
You're big on "Intent" and we both know what the intent of...
The reason the Ds want to remove the filibuster...
The reason the Ds want to remove the filibuster is bc the Rs want to limit people's ability to vote (Intent). That shows how unprincipled and frankly sleazy the current Rs. are.
In an interview with far-right cable channel One...
In an interview with far-right cable channel One America News, Trump said he received the booster and has seen politicians get asked in interviews whether they've also gotten a third shot.
"They...
Since the right to vote is prob. the most...
Since the right to vote is prob. the most important thing we can do as a citizen, Biden prob. got fed up w/states trying to prevent citizens from voting by passing voting restrictions in an attempt...
Forum: DIY - Forum 01-10-2022, 03:42 PM
Had to tackle it
John first said we're screwed bf I said it. I...
John first said we're screwed bf I said it. I expanded on who he thought were idiots.
Wasn't my statement in response to John calling...
Wasn't my statement in response to John calling the people on 1/6 idiots. But think whatever you want as you're just angry bc I showed you what a hypocrite you are.
I wonder what the intent of the the Eastman memo...
I wonder what the intent of the the Eastman memo was.
John C. Eastman tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6, 2021 (when...
I guess the intent of the rioters on 1/6 wasn't...
I guess the intent of the rioters on 1/6 wasn't to prevent a peaceful transition of power and their being there on that day was random.
And yet the intent of the 7 electors was not to...
And yet the intent of the 7 electors was not to overthrow the election but the intent of the 227 electors this past election cycle was clearly to prevent the confirmation of the person who was...
So her intent should be taken into account as it...
So her intent should be taken into account as it was an honest mistake (I agree it was a mistake) and her intent was not to shoot the kid. So intent matters (which I agree with).
But somehow it...
Edit - and to me it isn't about Trump as much as...
Edit - and to me it isn't about Trump as much as the others who are afraid to call him out on his lies. There are very few Rs congressman who admit he lost.
And from an article today (2...
Do you have any polls that show people choose Fl...
Do you have any polls that show people choose Fl over CA bc of politics or are you trying to avoid the truth?
I think 7 House Ds objected to the 2016 election....
I think 7 House Ds objected to the 2016 election. 147 R objected to the 2020 election. There never where any D plans to decertify any states elections and flip the electorial votes like the Rs...
Calif. is packed w/people and housing is...
Calif. is packed w/people and housing is expensive bc no more room in So. Calif.
If people wanted to move bc of politics, the warm states like Al, Miss, La, etc would be booming but their not. ...
She was talking about the people who were purged...
She was talking about the people who were purged from voting roles - not the vote on election day. But you knew that bc you have been told that repeatedly. So that is one compared to what 70% of the...
But the bad behavior on the left doesn't compare...
But the bad behavior on the left doesn't compare to the bad behaviour on the right. So when almost all elected Rs refuse to vote to certify a Pres, (or acknowledge the Pres. won) comparing it to a...
That sounds like what a snarky troll would say.


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The trials and tribulations of feeling like a fraud | On the Record
December 9, 2022 2:30 am by Addison Schmidt
I felt three things when I first committed to run for Boston University's cross country and track teams — joy, relief, and pure dread.
Joy, because I'd accomplished a goal I'd been working towards for a long time. Relief, because I firmly believe the recruiting process is a legalized form of psychological torture brewed by the NCAA, and I was glad to leave it in the dust. And finally, dread — because I knew that, soon enough, everyone was going to find out I was a fraud.
Despite the fact that running is a sport where talent cannot be considered subjective — after all, times are our main form of capital — I still felt like I'd connived my way into a position that I didn't deserve, fudging my credibility and my aptitude to present myself as an athlete I was not.
Somehow, it felt more logical to attribute my success to divine intervention rather than hard work. Even now, a semester and six races into my time here at BU, I still find myself enduring the tingling sensation of fear each time I put on my uniform, sure that an unidentified force is going to round the corner, rip off my invisible mask, and reveal my success to be the work of a fake.
I'm wise enough now to know that my feelings are not revolutionary, but rather a product of the "imposter phenomenon" — a syndrome defined by the Harvard Business Review as "a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success." Despite the fact that this syndrome thrives off of coercing you into believing your fears are entirely individual, nearly 82% of people struggle with feelings of fraudulence — even award-winning actresses.
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In a recent interview, Florence Pugh, star of critically-acclaimed films like "Little Women" and "The Wonder," detailed her experience dealing with the burden of the imposter phenomenon.
"I was in the room with all these greats," Pugh said. "It's very easy for you to suddenly feel like you're not supposed to be there or that you don't have the right skill set to attack something like they're attacking."
The influence of imposter syndrome on notable people doesn't stop in Hollywood. In a quest to find comfort in the depths of my struggle with fraudulence I stumbled upon a quote from Maya Angelou, one of America's most respected poets, memoirists and civil rights activists: "I have written 11 books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody, and they're going to find me out.'"
There is an odd sense of comfort in knowing that even world-renowned writers and Academy-award nominees cannot stop themselves from questioning their credibility.
The more I mature, the more I understand that this tendency to question my accomplishments is simply an affliction of having a high standard for success — much like the vast majority of other students who attend rigorous institutions like BU. We often choose to rely on the moments where we've fallen short to dictate our self-perception, while still finding it within ourselves to cast doubt on the times where we have succeeded.
But I'd like to believe there is a way out of this seemingly endless cycle of insecurity and instability. We can destroy these feelings of uncertainty by recognizing the paradox within their existence. They can only make you feel like a fraud because they themselves are imposters of truth. It's in acknowledging this contradiction that reality is revealed — your triumphs only exist because you were talented enough to accomplish them.
Heading toward the end of another semester at BU — or your first, like me — I encourage you to cast out any inklings of doubt that are projecting uncertainty upon your accomplishments from these past few months. Feelings of insecurity, as overwhelming as they seem, are just that: feelings, not facts.
As isolated as the imposter phenomenon might make you feel, keep in mind that even individuals who are revered as masters of their crafts are not immune to the pitfalls of feeling like a fake. If anything, your trials and tribulations in dealing with fraudulence put you in fabulous company. It is simply the tendency of those who strive for perfection to feel they do not deserve the reward of their efforts.
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This is a development build so it's not well documented. Most of what is in this changelog seems to be working at the moment.
When SFFA 3.0 is finished everything will be documented correctly.
See the 2.0 readme for installation and upgrade instructions.
- Added sffa_SuppressAmmo - If set to 1 ammo will not spawn on the map (useful with regenerative ammo).
- Added sffa_SuppressWeapons - If set to 1 weapons will not spawn on the map. useful with sffa_startwX (below).
- Added sffa_usemotd to enable the message of the day. The message of the day is displayed in the console and in the center of the screen whenever someone enters the game.
- sffa_RegenHealth works a bit differently now. 0 is off. any other number will specify how much health to add every second.
- sffa_RegenAmmo works a bit differently now. 0 is off. any other number will specify how much ammo to add every second.
- Bots can now photon jump.
- Added sffa_phaserpower which set the damage of the phaser- 1 is normal 2 is twice as powerful and so on.
- Added new vector math allows for trench jumping with the 1.37 patch.
- Voting now Works... So if you enable map votes and someone votes for a map or nextmap it will not break the map rotation.
- Added in sffa_lineargrenades - If enabled grenades fire without being affected by gravity.. This is somewhat interesting.
- Added in sffa_impactgrenades - If enabled grenades explode when they impact something.. making them very useful.
- Added in sffa_jumpmultipler cvar to multiply your jump velocity.. set to 2 to jump twice as high.. 3 for 3 times as high.. etc.


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Q: How to define and use geo points in sequelize with mySQL I'm using sequelize ORM to connect to a MYSQL database - how would I define a geo POINT in the table/object model?  Since sequelize doesn't have a POINT data type can I just pass in a string that represents a MYSQL type?
db.define(modelName, {
    id: {
        type: Sequelize.INTEGER,
        primaryKey: true,
        autoIncrement: true,
        allowNull: false
    },
    location:{
        type:'POINT' //how would I define this??
    },
    createdBy: {
        type: Sequelize.INTEGER,
        references: {
            model: 'User',
            key: 'id'
        }
    },
    photoId: {
        type: Sequelize.UUID
    },
    caption: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING
    }
}

A: Since 3.4.0 Sequelize support geometry for postgres. Based on commit messages, MySQL is also supported.
You can add new attribute like this:
point: {
   type: Sequelize.GEOMETRY('POINT'),
},

The supported types for MySQL are:
var SUPPORTED_GEOMETRY_TYPES = ['POINT', 'LINESTRING', 'POLYGON'];

A: You could create it through STRING and create a custom toJSON implementation on the instance so you can get a POINT you want.
Data Types
Instance methods
On those instance methods you can define also a toJSON custom method which will be automatically called when sending the object through res.send(obj)

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The Finest Years & Me by Mark Woodburn
Edinburgh-born Jamie Melville is a widower living in Scarborough with his two youngest daughters and running the family fishing business. He is still trying to get over the untimely death of his wife Gemma six years earlier, and the business has been made no easier to run by the requisitioning of some of the boats and their crews to support the war effort. For it is 1942, and even in Scarborough the impact of World War Two is felt in many different ways.
It is about to be felt in one more way. A knock on Jamie's door means his life must change forever. Things are bad in London. Winston Churchill is suffering from health problems, and is being worn down by enemies, both around the world and very much closer to home. He badly needs friends, a commodity in very short supply. But, unlikely as it seems, there was a time when Jamie Melville, the wee lad from Gorgie who joined the army in 1915, aged only 15, was once Winston's closest friend. The story of how the two met on the Western Front and how Jamie subsequently worked for Winston in London during World War One is beautifully told in "Winston & Me" by Mark Woodburn.
But time has moved on. "The Finest Years & Me" tells the second half of the story of the friendship between the two men, and shows how Jamie bolsters Winston's morale at a time when the outcome of the war really could still go either way. Jamie leaves the girls, and the business, to be cared for by his brother, and moves to London. Here he again has to cope with the feelings of inferiority and alienation that he felt in the city a quarter of a century earlier. But again he proves how valuable he can be as a sounding-board, a drinking companion and a moderating influence. He soon re-establishes himself as one of very few people whose views Winston will actually listen to and take heed of.
The entry of the USA into the war at the end of the previous year was something Winston had long been working towards, but it brought with it complications. Jamie accompanies Winston to Washington, and experiences first hand the strident voices calling for military priority to be given to defeating Japan rather than Germany, and the balancing act being performed by the President in trying to reconcile political pressures at home with the realities of the wider world. Jamie again proves himself invaluable as an informal diplomat, but also finds himself caught up as a pawn in a much larger game whose full extent and implications he is unable to grasp. On returning to London he finds that the game is still in play, and events begin to take on the increasingly dark hue of a tense political thriller, where almost no-one is quite what they seem to be.
We loved "Winston & Me", and thoroughly enjoyed "The Finest Years & Me". We found the complexities of the plotting (in every sense of the word) in the second book a little hard to follow at times towards the end, but this didn't get in the way of the simple desire to see how things turned out for central characters we felt completely drawn to. So how does an author conclude a book which combines historical figures whose stories are, in outline at least, known to most readers, and fictional characters? Beautifully, and poignantly in the case of Mark Woodburn. We'd recommend that everyone reads this pair of memorable books.
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: someone's mouth opens in a way that shows he or she is very surprised or shocked His jaw dropped when he heard who had won.
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John Edmund Cox (1812–1890), also Edmond, was an English cleric and antiquarian, best known as an editor of the works of Thomas Cranmer.

Life
He was the eldest son of John (or George) Cox of Norwich, a furniture maker. In his musical memoirs, Cox wrote about Paganini's 1831 visit to Norwich, lodging with the family. He matriculated at All Souls' College, Oxford in 1832, aged 19, graduating B.A. in 1836, M.A. 1840, B. & D.D. in 1870. He was ordained deacon in 1836, priest in 1837. His first living was Aldeby, from where he moved to St Mary, Southtown, Great Yarmouth.

Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1846, Cox at that time was a curate of St Giles Cripplegate. He was then at St Dunstan's, Stepney, where on 21 February 1847 he preached a sermon "National judgements" on the famine in Ireland: he had published in 1843 a Great Yarmouth sermon under the same title. On this occasion he attributed the higher mortality in West Cork to agrarian and sectarian violence. His views lead Peter Gray to class him as an "ultra-Protestant".

Cox was elected to the Numismatic Society of London in 1847. He became vicar in charge and lecturer of St Helen's, Bishopsgate in 1849.

Cox was Grand Chaplain of Freemasons and chaplain to the Royal Society of Musicians, and he chaired the Poor Clergy Relief Society. He died on 27 October 1890.

Works
For the Parker Society, Cox edited the works of Cranmer in two volumes:

Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer: Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (1844)
Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer (1846)

The editorial work was complicated by forgeries made by Robert Ware. Cox's work followed the scholarship of the edition by Henry Jenkyns of The Remains of Thomas Cranmer of the 1830s, and was followed by the 1853 edition by Philip Edward Barnes (1815–1860) of the Memorials of the Rev. Thomas Cranmer by John Strype. Harry Culverwell Porter wrote in a 1966 book review that Cox's edition of Cranmer's works was standard, while the edition of Jenkyns published the original version of the Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, of which Cox gave the later version in Latin.

Other works were:

Bellum Papale by Thomas James (1841), editor
Treatise on the Corruptions of Scripture, Councils and Fathers by Thomas James (1843), editor
A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Late Miss Sarah Martin of Great Yarmouth (Yarmouth, 1844) anonymous editor of the memoir of Sarah Martin
Hermann Olshausen, Biblical Commentary on St. Paul's First and Second Epistles to the Corinthians (1851), translator
Musical Recollections of the Last Half-Century (1872, 2 vols.). Cox worked as a newspaper music critic, and was a friend of Michael Costa; he was also on good terms with George Thomas Smart. In 1849 he was a recently joined member of the Sacred Harmonic Society. In 1859 he took part in the discussion led by the Society of Arts on the French government's legislation on concert pitch.
Annals of St. Helen's Bishopsgate (London, 1876), based mainly on The Last Ten Years of the Priory of S. Helen, Bishopsgate (1856) by Thomas Hugo.

Among his works on Freemasonry were:

Dr. Ashe's Manual and Lectures
The Ancient Constitutions of the Order

Cox wrote much for the Church of England Quarterly Review and North British Review. He edited the second edition (1845) of George Townsend's polemical Accusations of History Against the Church of Rome (1825).

Family
Cox married in 1844 Emily Clara Pittman, daughter of John Pittman. The barrister Hugh Bertram Cox (1861–1930) was their son. With his sister Clara L. E. Cox, who contributed the footnotes, he edited Leaves from the Journals of Sir George Smart (1907).

Notes

1812 births
1860 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
English book editors
English translators
Antiquarians from Norwich
Clergy from Norwich
19th-century Anglican theologians

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Category: Bombardier CS100
Swiss International Air Lines, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Luxembourg to Zürich
It's Friday afternoon, so it's time for me to pack my bags and make my way back to Switzerland. The flying Dutchman has kindly offered to drop me off at the airport before returning to the office to do a Sim session.
I think I've already written more than enough about Luxembourg airport, so I guess we might as well skip ahead to the actual flight, without bothering with the preliminaries of getting to the airport, checking in, etc.
The flight is scheduled to depart at 14h55, with boarding expected to commence at 14h30. Clearly, that's not likely to happen today, given that the aircraft only touches down in Luxembourg until after 14h30. The monitors are showing a minor delay of ten minutes, with an expected time of departure at 15h05.
Apparently, there's a bit of a confusion about a VIP passenger, who is first allowed to board the aircraft but later on asked to step off the plane and wait with everybody else…
Boarding starts just after 15h00, so it looks like the 15h05 departure isn't going happen either. Eventually we take-off at 15h32, forty minutes behind schedule.
I really must say, I like the cabin of the CSeries. It feels so roomy. Having said that, I was recently browsing on the SWISS website and saw that on some days the CSeries is deployed even as far afield as Cairo. No matter how nice the CSeries is, I think a four-hour sector to Cairo is definitely pushing it in terms of passenger comfort…
The Luxembourg route is highly susceptible to last minute aircraft changes. When I made the booking, the outbound should have been a CSeries 300 and the return should have been operated by a Helvetic Airways Embraer 190. As it turned out though, the CSeries on the outbound was substituted by an Embraer, while the Embraer on this afternoon's flight has been replaced by a CSeries 100. I mention this because the configuration on the Embraer is 2 + 2. So it makes no difference which side of the vessel you're seated on, because in Business Class the seat next to you always remains empty. But on the CSeries, the configuration is 2 + 3. Which means that if you're on the starboard side, you will still possibly have to climb over the person on the aisle to get out.
Luckily enough for me though, today the aisle seat on my row stays empty.
The cabin crew consists of three flight attendants, two young ladies and one young man, who is also the maître de. One of the females is exclusively working the Economy Class cabin, so I only catch a glimpse of her. The maître de is working the Business Class cabin and is occasionally assisted by the third crew member. Which is a good thing because she's obviously having a bad day. Poor boo…! Apparently she's made a vow of silence too, because she refuses to speak. And that's just all sorts of awkward when you have a job that involves interacting with other human beings…
But the young man is excellent! He has very good manners and obviously goes to great lengths to make all the passengers feel comfortable.
Once the doors are closed, the crew distribute pre-packaged, scented towels and small bottles of still water. I think this is a nice touch and something that SWISS does on every flight, unlike KLM, who will only distribute water in case of a delay, so soften the blow so to speak…
The Meal
The meal consists of the usual three ramekins. The first one is filled with a red cabbage salad on cream cheese, the second is pieces of duck on a barley salad and the third is the dessert – a milk chocolate and white chocolate mousse.
With the meal I ask for some coffee, which is served from a cardboard cup and which doesn't seem very premium to me…
The flight time to Zürich is thirty minutes and the cockpit crew are obviously making the effort to make up for some of the delay.
Just before the landing, the crew distribute the chocolates. The usual small, red bars of goodness have been replaced with little round chocolates wrapped up like a football to mark the occasion of the world cup. And then there's a bit of an awkward moment when the maître de makes an announcement that '…in preparation for lading, please consult the safety on board cards and take a moment to located the nearest emergency exit in the likely event of an evacuation…'. But I think it goes to show just how little the travelling public gives a shit about the on board announcements, because nobody turns a hair, leaving the young man clearly confused about what he actually intended to say and what eventually came out…!
Eventually we land and taxi to one of the remote stands near the old SR Technics hangar. This time there's a small minibus waiting to pick up all the Business Class passengers. I say 'this time' because the Business Class shuttle tends to be a bit unreliable…
Author knightofmaltaPosted on June 24, 2018 April 23, 2020 Categories A 220-100, Airbus A 220-100, Bombardier CS100, Business Class, Swiss International Air LinesTags AIRPORT, aviation, Bombardier CS100, Bombardier CSeries, Luxembourg, review, swiss, swiss international air lines, transportation, travel, Zürich Flughafen, zurich airport2 Comments on Swiss International Air Lines, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Luxembourg to Zürich
Swiss International Air Lines, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Zürich to Luxembourg
As some of the more regular readers of this blog will know, I'm not exactly a fan of Lufthansa and the Lufthansa group of airlines. But sometimes, circumstances change and we can either adapt to them or spend a lot of time not feeling sexy.
Late in 2017 it became clear that I would be spending a lot more time in Luxembourg. I think I should explain at this point that I don't have a car, and a few years ago the direct train link between Basel, where I live, and Luxembourg was terminated, making it necessary to change trains at least once in Strassbourg and sometimes even a second time in Metz.
That's why, so far, I have always chosen KLM for my trips to Luxembourg. First of all, because that allowed me to arrive and depart from Basel. And secondly, because I rather like KLM and their Flying Blue programme.
But of course, there are a few drawbacks in flying KLM. Mainly, over a distance of roughly 400 km it hardly makes sense to have to change aircraft in Amsterdam, which only makes the journey unnecessarily long and doesn't really do anything to improve my carbon footprint either.
And so, more out of necessity than conviction, I have decided to shift back to SWISS – at least for the trips to Luxembourg. On the one hand, flying from Zürich will allow me to travel to and from Luxembourg without interfering too much with my work in Switzerland. On the other hand, it's only a short 45 minute flight from Zürich to Luxembourg.
I have no status with the Miles and More programme and these days, achieving any sort of status is near impossible, unless you spend most of your waking hours on a plane or pay unreasonably high fares simply for a booking in an RBD that yields a higher mileage per segment. Both of which don't strike me as exceptionally exciting right now.
Well, so be it. On European short-haul flights I think you can get by perfectly well without a lounge anyway. And for long-haul trips I would travel Business Class, which gives me lounge access anyway.
I won't regale you with a post for every one of the planned flights between Zürich and Luxembourg. But I figured it would be good to post about my first experience under the new regime. After all, who knows what might happen. Perhaps I'll be back to my old tricks with KLM in a month's time…
I arrive at Zürich airport by train at 07h15. Much to my surprise, it looks as though the morning rush is already over and there aren't that many people milling about.
I've already checked in online. The app works well and is easy enough to navigate, but still, for some reason the SWISS boarding passes don't show up on my iPhone's locked screen.
The SWISS Schengen lounge is currently closed for refurbishing. As a compromise – the Swiss are good at that – SWISS passengers have the option to use one of the other lounges in Zürich. With the understanding however, that the other carriers' passengers are given preference. If the lounge is full when you arrive, you are given a voucher for a coffee in one of the public airside outlets.
I'm feeling rather hungry anyway, so instead I go directly one floor down to the Marché restaurant in the passage between the B pier and the A pier and have myself a rather tasty and quiet breakfast there.
Boarding starts on time at 08h35. The gate agent is new, I'm guessing. The announcements she makes are oozing with the embarrassment of a person not used to hearing the sound of their own voice.
Business Class passengers are invited to board first. But I'm sitting on 1A, so I figure I might as well wait so as not to get in everybody's way.
As I step aboard the aircraft, I am greeted by the maître de – a German female – and a young man, also German.
As soon as I take my seat, the young man brings me a small bottle of water and a pre packed refreshing towel. He seems kind of shy, mostly avoiding having to interact with the passengers as much as he can, which seems a bit strange given that you do have quite a bit of interacting to do when you're a flight attendant.
The maître de is polite, but otherwise, as we say in Maltese, a kaxxa silg, an ice box. Whenever she smiles you feel guilty for the pain it must be causing her…
The cabin on the CS100 is nice. The seats are a nice warm brown colour and the bulkhead and walls are white, which makes a refreshing change from that godawful and depressing Lufthansa grey.
The seating configuration is 2 + 3. In Business Class the seat next to you is always kept empty. On the downside, in the fully upright position the seatback is quite far forward, so you really have to sit very upright. Secondly, there is no cabin divider at all. Not even a curtain. It's no big deal really, but I think a divider would be nice.
The windows on the CS100 are definitely are larger than on other aircraft. The inflight video screens, in contrast, are minute and I really wonder what on earth they were thinking installing those in the first place.
We take off and very soon after we find ourselves climbing above the clouds. The view of the snow peaked mountains is spectacular. And then the meal service begins. It consists of a thin, long plate which contains
a brioche filled with smoked salmon and horseradish,
a small ramekin of müsli,
a bowl of fresh fruit.
To drink I have an orange juice.
Hot drinks are available from a thermos, and don't look and smell too appealing. The guy one row behind me on the other side of the aisle orders a cup of coffee and I think you can actually hear his jaw hit the floor as the flight attendant serves him his drink in a cardboard cup. I mean, admittedly, it's not the most elegant presentation but the flight time is only 45 minutes. So I think they can be forgiven for not bringing out the bells and whistles and the fine bone china cups.
We're only in cruise flight for about twenty minutes before we start our descent again. Eventually the aircraft dives under the thick layer of clouds as we start our final approach into Luxembourg. Before we land, the cabin crew pass through the cabin with a basket full of Swiss chocolate and shortly after we touch down.
The SWISS flight quite reliably uses a contact stand at Luxembourg airport. And so, ten minutes after landing, I'm already on the bus line 16 on my way to Kirchberg.
So, I left Basel on the 06h07 train and I was in the office in Luxembourg at 10h30. I timed it. If I'd taken the train, I would have left Basel at 06h21 and would have arrived at Luxembourg station at 10h21 – which means I would have been in the office at around 10h45. So in summary, the flight is roughly the same duration as the train.
Other than that, what can I say about SWISS? Obviously the flight was hardly long enough for them to distinguish themselves. While I rather like the meal service and the table ware it is served on, I still found the whole experience a bit lacklustre.
I also thought the crews were subpar. On the one hand, they were obviously not interested in engaging with the passengers in any way, even though the flight was far from full and they would have had the time. On the other hand, I also noticed that their uniforms are evidently of very bad quality and quite frankly, they just looked shabby. They were okay, I guess. But that doesn't make me a convert yet.
Author knightofmaltaPosted on January 29, 2018 April 23, 2020 Categories A 220-100, Airbus A 220-100, Bombardier CS100, Business Class, Swiss International Air LinesTags aviation, Bombardier CS100, Bombardier CSeries, review, Swiss First Class, swiss international air lines, transportation, travelLeave a comment on Swiss International Air Lines, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Zürich to Luxembourg
SWISS, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Zürich to Paris-Roissy
Departure: 12:35
Arrival: 13:55
Flight time: 1 hour
Seat: 1F, window on the starboard side
Transport: Train.
Journey time: 1 hour 27 minutes.
Departs from: Basel SBB.
Arrives: Zürich Flughafen.
Cost: CHF33.- for a one way ticket.
The Swiss Federal Railways finally introduced a second direct train from Basel to Zürich Airport. The service still leaves much to be desired, but at least it is something.
The first train departs at 37 minutes past the hour and makes the journey to the airport in 1 hour and 27 minutes, stopping regularly along the way. In addition, the rolling stock on the route is completely inadequate. They use these regional trains which are very modern and fairly comfortable, but have next to no storage area for the amounts of luggage you can expect people to bring along that are travelling to the airport.
The second train departs just ten minutes later, at 47 minutes past the hour. This train takes 1 hour and 32 minutes, mainly because it stops for 17 minutes at Zürich Main Station before continuing to the airport. I am sure if you ask somebody from the railway company they can give you a scientific reason why it really is not possible to space the trains more conveniently and why the stop of 17 minutes is absolutely imperative…
The SWISS app really does not work well, at least not for me. First of all, for some reason, I get logged out every time I switch the iPhone off. And secondly, the boarding passes I obtain from the SWISS app never seem to appear on the iPhone's lock screen, which kind of forfeits the main idea of having Passbook.
Fortunately, I only have one small backpack with me, because the queue for check-in and baggage drop is just about as long as it was the last time I flew Edelweiss to Skopje. But the holiday season is now over, so what you're excuse this time SWISS?
But at least there is a separate entrance for security that is available to First, Business Class and premium card holders, although I do not think there actually exists an official list of all the airlines in the latter category that are allowed to send their passengers here.
The SWISS Business Class Lounge
Location: Airside Centre, between docks A and B.
Facilities: Toilets, showers, newspapers, workstations.
Catering: Soups, sandwiches and a rather strange dish of Spätzli with…nothing. Spätzli are usually a side dish. Perhaps the lounge's one redeeming feature is the fact that they have Mövenpick ice cream. The cooler is located at the back of the lounge, near the sliding doors that lead to the Senator lounge.
Internet: Complimentary wifi is available. The code is issued at reception.
The lounge is very crowded and there are only few empty seats scattered around the place. The 'guests' are all over the buffet like a bunch locusts. You'd think they haven't been fed in days…
I think it really does not help that the ceiling in the lounge is fairly low, with the exception of the central atrium. The low ceilings add to the feeling of being in a crowded place.
My aircraft has just come in from a non-Schengen flight from Manchester. Because only the B/D dock has mixed Schengen/non-Schengen gates, our aircraft is parked on a remote stand. Which suits me just fine.
Boarding is a bit messy. First of all, there is no priority boarding. Furthermore, 'boarding' means that passengers are herded into a tiny holding pen and then left there to stew until their bus finally arrives. It is a lot like flying Easyjet actually – but pretentious. I figure I might as well take my time, after all I am seated on the first row, so there really is no point in getting in everybody's way while I take pictures.
Configuration: 1 + 2.
Seat: The seating configuration on the CSeries is 2 + 3. In Business Class, one of the seats on the row of two is kept empty. On the row of three, the middle seat is blocked so that every passenger has an empty seat next to them. The cabin looks nice and has a fresh look. Everything is white and looks shiny and new. I do wonder though what it will look like one or two years down the line, because I suspect the white will not age well.
The seat is comfortable, but not very deep, which means you cannot really slide forward too much. The video screens are quite simply ridiculously small. I mean, they are so small that you can hardly make out anything on them.
SWISS does not have a cabin divider on this aircraft. There are four rows of Business Class and the only separation is a small sign on the backrest of the aisle seat on row 4 which is marked 'Business Class' on the side facing forward, and 'Economy Class' on the side facing the rear of the aircraft.
Pitch: 32 inches that slowly decrease to 30 inches by row 5.
Width: 18 inches.
Facilities: Reading lamp, clothes hook.
Audio and Video: Small overhead screen showing the safety on board instructions and moving map.
Seatmap courtesy of seatguru.com
As on my previous flight with SWISS to Malta, the first thing that strikes me is that the female crew really have way too much make-up on. Talk about laying it on thick…! But looks are only skin deep and I have to say, the maître de working the Business Class cabin is very good at her job and very friendly.
Welcome drink on the ground: Bottle of Henniez still water.
Towel before the meal: Prepacked scented towel served on the ground.
Delivery: Tray service.
Type of meal: Lunch.
Roast beef slices and potato salad.
Plate of cheese.
Selection from the breadbasket.
Strawberry mousse with kiwi compote.
I must say, I am quite surprised by the meal service on this flight. After all, with a flight time of only 55 minutes, to be honest I was not really expecting anything much to eat. Moreover, I must also confess that the meal is quite good (except for dessert)!
It is a lovely day for flying. Once the meal tray has been cleared away, I lean back and try to get some rest. It is only then that I notice just how loud the cabin actually is. I am not quite sure what the source is either. It is not the engines, because on take-off I was surprised by how quiet the engines were. But there is still a fairly loud background noise.
In Paris, SWISS uses Terminal 1, as do all the other Star Alliance partners, I think. The terminal may not be that user friendly or convenient, but God, it's just so chic and cool!
Author knightofmaltaPosted on September 10, 2016 April 23, 2020 Categories A 220-100, Airbus A 220-100, Bombardier CS100, Business Class, Swiss International Air LinesTags airlines, aviation, Bombardier CS100, Business Class, business class passengers, business class seat, flying, swiss international air lines, transportation, travel, trip report, trip review, zurich airportLeave a comment on SWISS, Business Class – Bombardier CS100: Zürich to Paris-Roissy


The Malaysian-born teenager, who now lives in California, had written about her humbling experiences learning English while growing up in an immigrant household.
She has received offer letters from all eight Ivy League colleges, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale. She hasn't made her decision yet but said that she would be visiting colleges in the coming weeks.
In addition to being accepted to all Ivy League schools, she was also accepted to Stanford University, John Hopkins University, University of Southern California, Northwestern University, New York University, Amherst College and many others in the UC system.
"It's completely surreal," Cassandra Hsiao told NBC4 Tuesday. "I opened them one after another, and they all were saying, 'Congratulations! Congratulations!' And I know that is something special."
Touting her 4.67 GPA and 1540 score on the SATs, the writer and journalist attends Orange County School of the Arts. But the impressive resume doesn't end there – she's one of two student body presidents, an editor-in-chief of the school's magazine and active in her community.
"My peers stand up for what they believe in and are unafraid of pushing back. We are the future, and the future is bright."


Why Isn't My Heat Pump Switching to Warm Air?
While our days here in Dunwoody, GA are still fairly warm, our nights have been chilly enough to switch on the heat, even for a little bit. If you own a heat pump system, switching from cool to warm should be as easy as pressing a button.
Why Do Heat Pumps Need Bi-Annual Maintenance?
One of the great benefits of using a heat pump system is that a single device (the heat pump) provides your home with both the heating and cooling it needs. But this means that your heat pump operates almost year-round, unlike separate heating and cooling systems, which each run about a half year.
Why Does My Heat Pump Need Bi-Annual Maintenance?
Heat pumps are 2-in-1 devices, offering your home both heating and cooling. There are a few attributes of a heat pump system that make it different from more traditional and separate, and one of these is scheduling bi-annual maintenance.
A lot of people wonder what the difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner are, especially when they hear that a heat pump in AC mode is pretty much just like a regular AC. This statement isn't exactly accurate, and here's the reason why: the reversing valve.


The penultimate issue of Cinderella: Killer Princess is a gory montage of Cindy killing everyone I can think of in the current GFT worlds. I say worlds as Cindy is now flitting between dimensions, Oz, Wonderland and one too horrible for even Cindy. All the characters get dispatched – some are done quickly, alomost as an aside, and some are more drawn out. All are different and lead up to the one that Cindy wants – Robyn. Right up to the end, next issue will be interesting!
Stories with kids like this always disturb me. Even before I had kids!
This was an interesting issue, as the kids are downright creepy and in your face with it, but I liked the pacing and all that went on with it all. The ending is a little different to what we've had before, but it all fits in well. I also liked the father/daughter dynamic that is in it all too!
Things start to come together as Robyn begins to learn who is after her and why. It all seems to be linked to the "Child Of Darkness" prophecy, which is interesting and I wonder who would want to have a claim to that!
First off though we get Robyn dealing with a doomsday cult who are using a highborn to create a storm. It features some nice flashbacks to Robyn's youth and her mindset going in. It's finished off well and I like the NYPD's reaction to her as she finishes her job.
It looks like next issue is Robyn's investigation into who is after her, as they have hit close to home….


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PRO (yes)
Aryeh Spero, Rabbi and President of Caucus for America, in a Dec. 23, 2014 op-ed for The Jewish Press, titled "Yes, Israel Should Officially Designate Herself a Jewish State," wrote:
"Without a doubt, Israel should legally and officially identify as a Jewish nation state. It was founded as such, built as such, and its whole purpose is such… It was built by the Jewish National Fund. It was named Israel and not Palestine to demonstrate itself as a Jewish state…
The desire for Jewish nation status is not rooted in bigotry. Arabs and all people and religions will continue to have civil and religious rights. We are Jews and part of our Jewishness is making sure people are treated properly and share in the same day-to-day laws. Nor do we want a theocracy. But the anthem, flag, Law of Return, and definition must be Jewish. It is a democracy within that context.
We can never allow Israel to be a non-descript, non identifiable state that can, in the name of democracy, turn herself into an Arab, or bi-national, or vanilla-nothing state… Israel is not simply a state with a majority Jewish population, but a Jewish state.
If it is not an official Jewish state, sooner or later, the socialist laws will begin outlawing those things whose character is considered too Jewish and labeled 'offensive, non-inclusive, and intolerant'… the moment Israel no longer calls itself a Jewish state, 175 million Evangelicals worldwide will no longer be out there supporting her with passion. They are supporting a Jewish state, a state promised by God to the Children of Israel, not some non-descript state with simply a big Jewish population."
Dec. 23, 2014 - Aryeh Spero
Morton A. Klein, MS, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), in a Dec. 3, 2014 opinion piece for the Jewish Journal titled "ZOA Supports Israeli Bill Affirming Israel as Jewish State," wrote:
"It is historically, legally, politically and religiously the case that Israel is the Jewish nation-state… The Jewish homeland in which Israel today thrives and flourishes has been recognized for centuries by Bible-believing Jews and Christians – of whom there are well over a billion today – as holy land given to the Jewish people by G-d All Mighty…
Zionism is not just about Jewish statehood, it is also about the reconnection of the Jewish people with its biblical and religious homeland. That is why Zionist leader and Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, told the 1936 Peel Commission that 'Our Mandate is the Bible.' Israel is scarcely alone in describing itself as the state of a particular group, religion or ethnicity. In the same region can be found the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Despite the vicious discrimination against, and persecution of, minorities in these states, no-one has said that these states cannot affirm their national identity and purpose. Why then should Israel, the only Middle Eastern country that actually respects and protects minorities, not do so?"
Dec. 3, 2014 - Morton A. Klein
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn, MA, members of the Board of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA), in a Nov. 27, 2014 article for The Algemeiner titled "Why Israel Must Be a Jewish State," wrote:
"The core obstacle to Arab-Israeli peace has always been the refusal of both Arab regimes and the Palestinian Arab leadership to sincerely accept the permanent existence of a Jewish state… That is why formally defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people will send an important message to the Arab world that Israel, the Jewish state, is here to stay. If and when the Arabs finally accept this reality, peace will be possible…
Israel… was not created in order to be a purely secular Western state. It has uniquely Jewish features, and most of its citizens want it that way. The Jewish Sabbath is the official day of rest. The national language is Hebrew. The national culture is permeated with Jewish symbols, history, and memories. An official definition of Israel as a Jewish state is the natural corollary of this national consensus…
To facilitate the chances for peace and to advance the cause of national unity – while continuing to respect the equal rights of non-Jewish Israelis – it's time to call Israel what it really is, and was always meant to be: the nation-state of the Jewish people."
Nov. 27, 2014 - Moshe Phillips Benyamin Korn, MA
Stephen Harper, MA, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, in a Jan. 20, 2014 speech to the Israeli Knesset, a video and transcript of which is available from www.cbc.ca, titled "Video: Stephen Harper's Speech to the Israeli Knesset," stated:
"Jews have been present in Canada for more than 250 years… They are proud Canadians… They are also immensely proud of what the people of Israel have accomplished here… The understanding [is] that it is right to support Israel because, after generations of persecution, the Jewish people deserve their own homeland and deserve to live safely and peacefully in that homeland. Let me repeat that: Canada supports Israel because it is right to do so… Our view on Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
Jan. 20, 2014 - Stephen Harper, MA
Benjamin Netanyahu, MS, Prime Minister of Israel, in comments reprinted in a May 4, 2014 article in The Guardian, titled "Netanyahu Pushes to Define Israel as Nation State of Jewish People Only," available at the Guardian website, stated:
"The state of Israel is a Jewish and democratic state… The state of Israel provides full equal rights, individual rights, to all its citizens, but it is the nation state of one people only – the Jewish people – and of no other people…
Of course, there are those who do not want the state of Israel to be defined as the nation state of the Jewish people. They want a Palestinian nation state to be established alongside us and that Israel should gradually become a binational, Arab-Jewish state inside shrunken borders. But I simply say that one cannot hold the national stick at both of its national ends."
May 4, 2014 - Benjamin Netanyahu, MS
Chuck Freilich, PhD, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, in an Apr. 3, 2014 article for The National Interest titled "Why Palestine Must Recognize Israel as a Jewish State," wrote:
"The Jews are unique, in that they are both a religious group and a people, a nation, with a right of self-determination. That is why we speak of the 'Jewish people', a Jewish nationhood, but not a Christian people, or a Muslim people. The Jews' right to a nation-state was recognized by the League of Nations and United Nations. Israel is and always will be the nation-state of the Jewish people. That is its raison d'être."
Apr. 3, 2014 - Chuck Freilich, PhD
Yedidia Z. Stern, SJD, Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, in a May 16, 2014 article for the Israel Democracy Institute, titled "A Jewish State Warrants Our Sacrifice," available at the Israel Democracy Institute website, stated:
"A Jewish state is indispensable because it allows the Jewish nation to blossom within its nation-state, permits the Jewish culture to thrive in the public sphere, and enables the Jewish religion to flourish as the Torah of the Land of Israel… A universal democratic state offers no added Jewish value beyond that which could be gained through a strong and self-confident Diaspora community. Should Israel choose to be content with a 'normal' democratic existence and renounce its Jewish distinctiveness, the demand that its citizens set aside their welfare on behalf of the country would be weakened. Our power and strength depend on our ability to endow Israel with meaningful Jewish content on the national, cultural, and religious planes."
May 16, 2014 - Yedidia Z. Stern, SJD
CON (no)
Kai Bird, MS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, in a Dec. 25, 2014 op-ed for the New York Times, titled "Israel, a Jewish Republic?" wrote:
"Israel was never intended to be a theocracy… Twenty percent of its citizens are not Jewish, but rather Muslim, Christian and Druze. And this minority is growing. Furthermore, most of Israel's citizens who do claim Jewish ancestry are in fact secular, nonpracticing Jews. About 30 per cent of its million-plus Russian immigrants are not even recognized as Jewish by the Orthodox rabbinical courts. A Jewish nation-state law would discriminate against these non-Jewish citizens – but it could also provide the quasi-judicial pretext for denying Palestinians citizenship if the ultraright get their way and Israel someday annexes the occupied territories…
Over more than six decades Israelis have created a distinct national culture, largely based on their language – always a key ingredient to any national identity. And this cultural identity is wholly separate from mere religiosity. This definition of Israeli identity – one based on the Hebrew language and culture rather than religion – is a very good thing for the prospects of peace… His [Netanyahu's] insistence on a 'Jewish state' seems to be only a prescription for endless conflict with his 'Muslim' neighbors – and perhaps today a tactic to postpone further negotiations on the creation of a Palestinian state. The notion of a Jewish state is ultimately political poison for the Jewish Diaspora, and specifically for American Jews… talking about a 'Jewish state' destroys a useful and wise ambiguity. Instead, Israelis need to celebrate their 'Israeli' national identity."
Dec. 25, 2014 - Kai Bird, MS
Patricia Marks Greenfield, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles, in a Sep. 26, 2014 op-ed for the Washington Post, titled "An Israel Equal for All, Jewish or Not," wrote:
"Over time, nations have become more ethnically and religiously diverse; populations have become more urban and educated; and economies have become more commercial. In response to these social and economic changes, many nations have left behind the notion of a favored state religion. It is time for Israel to do the same. It must be a fully secular state.
What was necessary for Israel after the Holocaust is no longer necessary and has even become counterproductive. As long as being Jewish holds such a preeminent place in Israel, then Muslim and Christian Arabs will always be second-class citizens, vulnerable to discrimination in housing, employment, education and other areas. Nor can Ethiopian citizens be truly equal so long as their Jewishness and religious heritage are called into question by powerful religious authorities…
Gaza and the West Bank may be separated from each other, but they are not separated from Israel. Given this reality, Gaza and the West Bank must inevitably become part of Israel; there can be no two-state solution. And Israel must leave behind its official Jewish identity to acknowledge its multiethnic, multireligious character by providing equal treatment for all… If Gaza and the West Bank were truly part of Israel, and Israel were truly a multiethnic, secular society, there would be progress toward peace."
Sep. 26. 2014 - Patricia Marks Greenfield, PhD
Ali Abunimah, MA, Co-Founder of the Electronic Intifada, in an Oct. 3, 2014 interview with The Real News Network, titled "Does Israel Have a Right to Exist as a Jewish State?" the transcript of which is available online at the Real News Network website, stated:
"I question the claim that the way for Jews to have security and to feel secure is through an exclusivist [Jewish] state that requires so much violence against the Palestinians. And it required immense violence to create it… And it requires immense violence to maintain it… one has to examine what are the dynamics, what are the structures, what are the realities that perpetuate conflict and bloodshed and hostility, and I would argue, and I do argue, that it is the effort to create and maintain an exclusivist state at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian population…
[T]he way to undo this hostility is through decolonization, is through going forward to a situation and, in a sense, returning to a situation where Jews and Palestinians can be part of the same entity, and to do away with this notion of Palestinians as a demographic threat."
Oct. 3, 2014 - Ali Abunimah
Noam Sheizaf, Co-Founder and CEO of +972, in a Sep. 11, 2013 blog post titled "Why I Oppose Recognizing Israel as a Jewish State," available from 972mag.com, wrote:
"Even if Netanyahu's demand was genuine [Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state]… it should be opposed – not just by the Palestinians but also by Israelis. Because a 'Jewish' state – as opposed to a state whose culture is Jewish or is 'a national homeland' for Jews – will always be a racist, discriminatory state… Jewish identity cannot and does not wish to be inclusive… A state that sees itself as 'a Jewish State' is inherently an exclusive state, because a person cannot become Palestinian-Jewish or Muslim-Jewish. Almost 25 percent of Israeli citizens are not Jews… If Israel is a Jewish State, that means that every fourth person cannot – ever – assign themselves or be assigned the state's core identity. He or she will probably be discriminated against both formally and in practice, but more importantly, this person will be deprived of the symbolic meaning of citizenship in the nation-state model… There is no such thing as 'a Jewish and democratic' state; there never was and there never will be, unless you want to redefine what citizenship in a modern-day democracy means. But there could be an Israeli and democratic state… Israel can be a state whose culture is Jewish or the national home for Jews, but it cannot and should not be a state just for Jews."
Sep. 11, 2013 - Noam Sheizaf
Sari Nusseibeh, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, in a Sep. 30, 2011 opinion piece for Al-Jazeera titled "Why Israel Can't be a 'Jewish State'," wrote:
"At least one in five Israelis – 20 per cent of the population… is ethnically Arab… and recognising Israel as a 'Jewish State' as such makes one-fifth of the population of Israel automatically strangers in their own native land and opens the door to legally reducing them, most undemocratically, to second-class citizens (or perhaps even stripping them of their citizenship and other rights)… a 'Jewish State' as such in Israel would mean legally that while Palestinians no longer have citizens' rights there, any member of world Jewry outside of Israel… should be entitled to full citizens' rights there, no matter wherever they may be in the world today and regardless of their current nationality."
Sep. 30, 2011 - Sari Nusseibeh, PhD
Jamal Zahalka, PhD, a member of the Israeli Knesset (Balad Party – Arab), in a Feb. 17, 2007 interview with author Justin Podur for the Z-Net online political magazine, titled "A State of All Its Citizens," currently available at the Podur.org website, stated:
"Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that belongs to one part of its population. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. So, it's not our state. It's not just a question of definition or nature. It's a question of substance, structure, aims, goals, policies, laws …
The state should be the state of all its citizens, in equality. That's modern democracy, based on the equal human being, not the hierarchical human being… Israel is not a secular state – it has not even reached the point of separation of religion and state. You can't separate religion and state so long as the state is defined as a Jewish state… The Israeli structure is that the state is a Jewish state and there are minorities. We think the state should be empty – and there are Jews, and there are Arabs, and there can be others. Like, in principle, India. India is a secular state… neutral between religions, between groups. It doesn't belong to one of the religions."
Feb. 17, 2007 - Jamal Zahalka, PhD
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The NP FanFiction Archive
"I'd rather be confused for ten minutes than bored for five seconds."
Twilight's Endgame
My Little Destiny
A Waking Dragon
With Rainbow Hair
Sibling Rivalry: Chapter Two – Magic
Late at night, Spike teaches Sweetie Belle everything he knows about unicorn magic.
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Like most young unicorns, Sweetie Belle did not know how to use magic. It wasn't a skill one was born with, in the strictest sense; so it had to be learned, and it wasn't an easy skill to learn. She did hear her parents talking about when she was really young and could levitate all her toys at once, but apparently, that was something she forgot how to do. So here she was, at Ponyville Park, hiding in some bushes, with an old magic book, trying to relearn a skill she had when she was an infant.
But at this moment, she wasn't practising her magic, instead, she was looking up at the young dragon that so rudely interrupted her.
"Need some help?" he asked.
Sweetie's ego was about to take over, telling him to get lost, that she could do it herself; but her self-esteem fought back, wanting to ask for any help he could provide; but the eventual victor was a third voice which simply said:
"What would a dragon know about magic?"
Spike was taken aback by this, but it wasn't surprising. He wasn't a unicorn, he couldn't perform any spells. The only magic he had, was his fire breath. However:
"Twelve years as Twilight's research assistant, I've picked up a few things," he said with confidence as he stepped through the bushes. He sat down across from her, the stone sitting between the two. "What are you trying here? Basic levitation?"
With that comment, Sweetie's horn glowed pink along with the stone, as it slowly levitated towards Spike, before dropping straight into his open claw.
"Okay, so not that," Spike said, as he placed the rock back down.
Sweetie giggled. She then showed Spike the book that was sitting to her left, which Spike didn't notice earlier. It levitated towards him, page already open, as Sweetie explained. "It's a spell I found, to turn a rock into a flower."
Spike was surprised as he read through the spell. "Sweetie Belle," he explained. "This is pretty advanced magic, are you sure you want to try something like this?"
Spike technically couldn't argue with that, but he did know it wasn't going to be easy for such a young unicorn to conduct such a complex spell. In fact, he didn't think it was possible. But, he did offer his services, and was certainly willing to try. Besides, he was in a really good mood.
He memorized the page number, and closed the book.
"HEY!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed. "You'll lose the page!"
"Forget the book," Spike explained as he threw the book to the side. "The book is useless. Magic isn't about a bunch of instructions, it's something you have to feel."
Sweetie was confused. "But, Twilight uses books all the time."
"Yes, but all the book is, is a map," Spike explained, hoping his analogy wouldn't break down. "It won't tell you how to get there, just what path to take. Besides, you probably already have it memorized."
Sweetie blushed at this, "Yeah."
"OKAY!" a very excited Spike got to his feet and walked behind Sweetie Belle. He leaned against her, the flaps of his jacket covering her sides; and placed his claws on her head, gently massaging her temples. "Just relax," he whispered in her ear.
She did, and as her eyes closed all she could feel was the heat from his breath on her ear, and his body heat as he leaned against her. She noticed that, while his body wasn't that much warmer than anypony else, his breath felt like the heat from a roaring fire. That, plus his claws working her temples, really did a good job of relaxing her. All tension in her body was gone, and all that was left was her thoughts.
"Relaxed?" she could hear him whisper.
"Yes," she said, in an almost trance-like voice.
"Okay, now, do you know where the rock is?"
"Okay, focus all your energy on that rock."
Sweetie slowly opened her eyes, but Spike stopped her.
"Don't open your eyes," he explained. "Stretch out with your magic, feel it, don't see it."
So she tried again, focusing all her magic where she knew the rock was located. Suddenly, there was an image in her head of the stone, exactly as she remembered last seeing it. She could "see" the rock, even though she couldn't see it.
"Okay, good," Spike explained. "Now, ignore everything else, and…" he didn't need to finish that sentence, Sweetie Belle already knew what she had to do.
Spike saw the stone start to shake, he could also feel Sweetie's body start to tense up. "Stay relaxed Sweetie Belle," he explained, continuing to whisper. "You need to put all your energy into your magic."
Her body began to relax, the stone continued to shake.
Sweetie Belle couldn't see a thing, she had to trust Spike to tell her if she was progressing properly, and as she continued to recite the necessary pattern in her head, she learned she didn't need to.
She could "see" the stone crack, just slightly, along the top, as a small stem started to emerge from it. The stone she "saw" was also slowly shrinking as the stem grew longer. She dared not stop the spell at that point. From the bottom of the stone, she could "see" the roots form. They reached into the ground, taking hold. Above the stone, leaves started to form on the stem, and as the stone began to shrink to nothingness, it budded and bloomed into a purple flower with a green centre. She released the focus she held, and ended the spell.
But, she was afraid to open her eyes. Spike let go of her, and stood up. She could no longer feel the dragon's scales against her back. Part of her thought she might have been successful. But perhaps it only meant she failed so miserably that there was no point in continuing. What if she reduced the stone into a pile of dust?
"Aren't you gonna look?" Spike asked, she could hear a slight chuckle in his voice. Was that a good thing or a bad thing?
Sweetie slowly opened one eye. What she saw shouldn't have astonished her, but it did. It was the flower, exactly as she saw in her head.
Part of her thought that maybe Spike switched out the stone with a flower when she had her eyes closed. Perhaps using his tongue. She heard a dragon's tongue was quite dexterous, and could have done something like that. She took a closer look. It wasn't just placed there. It was rooted to the ground, in the exact same location the stone was placed earlier. She did it!
"Oh my gosh… I did it," she said in amazement. "I DID IT!!!" She turned around and gave Spike a big hug. "Thank you, Spike! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you!"
"Okay, okay!" he said. "It was nothing, really. It was all you."
"But you helped!" she was extremely excited and Spike wasn't exactly sure how to handle it. So he just went with the flow, returning the hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She continued, hopping up and down, and giving him another kiss on the cheek.
Eventually she broke the hug and just stood there, looking at him, smiling. But that smile quickly went away to be replaced by what Spike thought could have been slight panic. But before he could figure out exactly what he saw, she turned around and walked straight towards the flower. She plucked it from the ground with her magic and took a good look at it. There wasn't much scent coming from it. But that was to be expected. Even though it was already pretty mature, it didn't exist a few minutes ago. So the scent would take a while before it could be fully developed. She was going to keep it for herself, but she wasn't really sure she deserved it.
She turned to look at her dragon friend and simply said, "Spike, do you want it?"
"What?" he said. "No, I can't-"
Sweetie interrupted him, "Please? It a thank you gift, for all your help."
Spike sighed before walking up and taking the flower, "Thank you, I appreciate it."
Sweetie walked over to the book Spike tossed aside, and picked it up.
It was at this point, Spike asked a simple question. "So, what are you doing out here so late?"
"Late?" Sweetie asked, a bit confused.
"Yeah, it's…" he looked at his bare wrist. "Oh, I don't have a watch," he said with a laugh and a smile. "It's almost 10, last I checked."
Panic set in. "Oh no!" Sweetie cried. "I was supposed to be home an hour ago!" She began pacing back and forth, thinking. "What am I going to do!? My parents are going to kill me!"
"Hey, hey, hey," Spike said, trying to calm her down. He walked over and placed his claws on her shoulders, with the flower still in hand. She looked up at him. "It's okay, I'll take the heat. I'll say it's all my fault and I was teaching you magic and kept you way too long. We just lost track of time."
"Really!?" she said.
"Yeah," he explained. "It's technically true."
"Oh, thanks again Spike," she once again grabbed him in a hug, this time one which Spike instantly returned. The hug was quickly broken as Sweetie's attention turned to the matter at hand. "Okay, let's go!" she ran off, leaving Spike behind.
He looked at the flower, breaking off part of the stem, before sliding it into his front jacket pocket. He then quickly tried to catch up with the young filly, as he was the one who had to talk to her parents. "Hey, wait up!" He yelled.
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Ronnie, I am so very sorry this happened to you. It happened to my mom and stepdad as well on a cross-country trip. And they chose a carrier like Allied Van Lines – supposedly reputable! The movers stole, among many other things, an antique curved glass china cabinet and a baby grand piano which my mom had painstakingly refinished all herself as I was growing up. Many fine pieces of furniture vanished. And, too, no way of tracing them. So sad.
Oh no! That's terrible! The last time I moved, I was three. I don't remember it being a hassle at all. Probably because I was three. I'll be departing the nest soon, but I don't expect that to be any sort of trouble, since all I own can fit in one medium-sized suitcase.
Hi, CJ. Thank you so very much for nominating me for the Illuminating Blogger Award. I am honored to accept this award, and will fulfill the rules that you described on your blog.
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You are very correct,real crime is not entertaining. Always remember, "Believe in God but tie you horse to the tree", it always pays.
Thanks for your comment, Indira. Your folk wisdom saying is very clever: I may quote it if an occasion arrises.
It is an Arabian proverb.
Ronnie, this story just made me sick to my stomach! I agree with your other commenters: I can't "like" this story–it seems cruel and unusual punishment to do so. It isn't just the value of the merchandise as it is the memories associated with those paintings and coins–they were stolen too. Between my husband and me (because I grew up in the midst of a cagey environment), I suspect everyone and every situation until they are proven innocent. WW thinks everyone is an angel and is always shocked when they take us for a ride. I know there is a balance, but it really "burns my cookies" when someone "gets over" on me. Yuck!
I hope being able to write about it helps ease the pain somewhat. Cheers!
Sorry about my story causing you to have physical symptoms. We still have them, too, whenever we think about the incident.
I was so trusting. One of the movers dropped and broke our ceramic wall planter made by Kurt Vonnegut's daughter. He begged me not to tell his boss because he needed the job. And I didn't. So am I an accessory to the crime?
Sorry to hear, Ronnie, how unfortunate! We were cleaned out once. Ironically, it was by our cleaning lady!
Sounds like she had a semantics problem.
Hitting the "like" button didn't seem appropriate for this post. What a terrible experience at such an emotional time. Thanks for sharing this cautionary tale.
Oh no, that is terrible! I'm really upset for you! We moved 19 times in 12 years due to hubby's job. Sometimes we had to settle for temporary accomodation wherever we moved. It was unbelievable.
We only ever lost one thing, a piece of a Morris chair. But so much was broken, scuffed and ruined. Horrid!
If we ever move again, I may ask for the name of your moving company!
I hate hearing stories like yours, but unfortunately it happens all too often, and it seems to be happening more and more all the time. You have my sympathy.
They can be a clever bunch; too bad they can't put their minds to something to benefit the world rather than pilfer it.
I suppose it is not as profitable as taking anything they want regardless of the law.
As a former cops reporter, I always gravitate to the crime stories first. But it's impossible to enjoy those stories when you know real-life folks were scammed, swindled, robbed … or worse. Sorry you had that experience, Ronnie.
Wow; what a scam! Those criminals can be awfully clever. Maybe that's why people root for them in novels and movies.
That was terrible. I never even thought of such a possibly. Damage ,yes, theft, no. Sorry you had to go through that.
Yes, it was terrible. Such a shame to be sideswiped that way at a time we were so excited about our moving into our new home.
Since I love happy endings, perhaps the thieves will be caught and our property discovered. That would be an acceptable book.
Do you think terrible weather causes terrible memories to pour forth? Next bright, sunny day I'll find a happy subject about which to write.
I can't imagine what that must of been like to realize those items were not there, and then finding out that you would never get them back. I am so sorry this happened to you, I hope one day these thieves will be caught and punished, they deserve more than what the courts will dish out that is for sure.
You are right; my sentiments exactly.
What a horrible thing. As if moving wasn't stressful enough. But you've certainly opened my eyes, and I will be extra careful when next we move. Never thought to label so thoroughly. Although it might not make a difference, it would at least allow one to recognize what was missing more quickly, and maybe there'd be a better chance of catching the thieves as a result.
I think it would have made a difference. Perhaps the thieves were still in the area right aftter our job. But by the time we realized what had happened it was too late to catch them.
I really empathise with your nightmare story. 10 years ago we moved from London to France using one of the most reputable companies in England at a cost of £10,000. They moved my home office whilst I was at work and, as it later transpired, took all our bank details and useful identification. Two days later, in our house in the middle of the French countryside, my wife rang the bank to check our account and realised that £38,000 was missing from our account. Knowing that we would be disorganised in a foreign country they had gone straight to our bank and, using the stuff taken from my office, managed to scam our very naive bank tellers.
Having your bank account scammed and your private information stolen is dreadful beyond description.


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Amid 'Anonymous' fallout, NSC adviser reassigned
by: Jill Colvin
FILE – In this Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, the south side of the White House is pictured before President Donald Trump arrives. Victoria Coates, a top official on the National Security Council, is being reassigned amid fallout over the identity of the author of the inside-the-White House tell-all book by "Anonymous." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Victoria Coates, a top official on the National Security Council, is being reassigned amid fallout over the identity of the author of the inside-the-White House tell-all book by "Anonymous."
Coates, who serves as national security adviser for the Middle East and North Africa, will be joining the Department of Energy as a senior adviser to Secretary Dan Brouillette, the NSC announced Thursday.
The move comes amid renewed speculation about the author of the book, "A Warning," and a New York Times essay that were deeply critical of President Donald Trump, written under the pen name "Anonymous."
But a senior administration official insisted the move had nothing to do with the speculation, saying top White House officials reject rumors that have circulated in recent weeks suggesting Coates is the author. The move, they said, has been in the works for several weeks.
"We are enthusiastic about adding Dr. Coates to DOE, where her expertise on the Middle East and national security policy will be helpful," Brouillette said in a statement. "She will play an important role on our team."
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The move also comes as the president has been working to rid the administration of those he deems insufficiently loyal in the wake of his acquittal on impeachment charges. Since then, Trump has ousted staffers at the National Security Council and State Department and pulled the nomination of a top Treasury Department pick who had overseen cases involving Trump's former aides as a U.S. attorney.
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This Week: Obama Responds To GOP Community Organizer Insults
At last week's convention, both Sarah Palin and Rudy 9iu11ani went out of there way to demean Barack Obama's record of community organizing -- indeed
By SilentPatriot
At last week's convention, both Sarah Palin and Rudy 9iu11ani went out of there way to demean Barack Obama's record of community organizing -- indeed, they seemed to mock the very idea of grassroots movements aimed at uprooting the status quo. Today on ABC's This Week, Obama responded forcefully.
"It's curious to me that they would mock that, when I, at least, think that that's exactly what young people should be doing.
"I worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in their neighborhoods, to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for youth, and to try to deal with asbestos in homes with poor people -- community service work -- which John McCain has been talking about, putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service. I would think that's what we want all our young people to do. I would think that that's an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree."
On Face the Nation this morning, Senator McCain was asked what he has against community organizing.
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When McCain is asked about Rudy and Sarah Barracuda mocking Obama being a community organizer, his excuse is that it was just her responding to them saying something about her being a mayor of a small town but of course he doesn't think it's a negative to be a community organizer. If he really thinks that, didn't he even have any control over his own convention?
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Q: Rails: How to add "style=" in grouped_select in simple form I'd like to add style= in a select list as followings;
<select style="font-family:'FontAwesome', 'arial'">

I use grouped_select in simple form.
It would be appreciated if you could give me how to set style in a select list.
My view is as below.
    <%= f.simple_fields_for :days, @days do |d| %>

        <%= d.simple_fields_for :events do |e| %>

              <%= e.input :category,
                :as => :grouped_select,
                collection: [["Transportation", [["bus", 1], ["taxi", 2], ["train", 3], ["plane", 4] , ["ship", 5], ["bicycle", 6]]],["Eat/Drink", [["meal", 11], ["tea/cafe", 12]]]],
                :group_method => :last,
                label: false
              %>

          <%= e.input :title, label: false %>

        <% end %>

    <% end %>

Although I tried to add :stlye => "font-family:'FontAwesome', 'arial'", it didn't work.

A: input_html: { style: "font-family: FontAwesome,arial" }


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Master Artenimus Rayshun Mack, Jr., passed away on Sunday, February 25, 2018 in Milledgeville, Georgia. Funeral services were held on Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3:00 P.M. at New Light Christian Fellowship with Rev. Henry L. Tanner officiating. Interment was held in Rest Have Memorial Gardens.
Artenimus was born on May 31, 2006 to the parentage of Ms. Lashawndra M. Davis and Mr. Artenimus R. Mack, Sr.
He attended Oak Hill Middle School in Milledgeville, GA and attended church at New Light Christian Fellowship Church.
Artenimus was preceded in death by his great grandmother: Ms. Pauline Johnson and uncle: Mr. Jerome Mack.
Master Mack is survived by his mother: Ms. Lashaundria Davis, Milledgeville, Georgia; father: Mr. Artenimus R. Mack, Sr.; sister: Ms. Artasiah R. Mack, Milledgeville, Georgia; Grandmothers: Ms. Sandra Heggs, Ms. Melonease Tanner, Sandersville, Georgia; Grandfathers: Mr. Lee (Quida) Davis, Mr. Willie Mack, Sandersville, Georgia. Four aunts, Seven uncles; devoted aunt: Mrs. April Johnson Hall; devoted uncle: Mr. Marcus Johnson. Several other relatives and friends. M.C. Smith Funeral Home in charge.