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Alberto Pullicino (6 February 1719 – 1759), born Philiberto Pullicino, was a Maltese painter. The son of Giuseppe Pullicino and Angela Cantone, he was born in Valletta and probably lived there for his entire life.

He mainly painted panoramic views of Malta's main ports, the Grand Harbour and Marsamxett Harbour. His works were popular with French knights of the Order of St. John, and some of his works can now be found in France.

He was the uncle of Giorgio Pullicino, who was a painter and an architect.

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Twelve Bar Blues Band is een Nederlandse bluesband begonnen in 2005.

Discografie
 2006 - The Blues Has Got Me
 2008 - E-mail From Heaven
 2010 - Key To Your Heart
 2012 - Life Is Hard
 2023 - LIVE

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 Twelve Bar Blues Band op MuziekEncyclopedie.nl

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As you can imagine, I have much to share. Too much for just one blog post. But the temptation to spill it all out is there. Oh, the pains of restraint! I am grateful for your patience, awaiting this first dispatch from Yachats. It will eventually be rewarded in big ways.
My view is the sea. Through a wall of glass I gaze at a Pacific that is anything but peaceful. While the waves aren't huge, they are relentless. And in a hurry. A half-dozen are breaking at any given time, under a sky of dense, gray clouds. The foam rushes the shore. Eventually, the breaking waves will cover up the sand, crashing instead on the rocks that create the only barrier between me and it.
I feel like I am on the edge of the world.
That feeling began the moment Mr. Jackpot came to pick me up on Sunday. He had slept at work, burning the midnight oil in an effort to be able to depart with a clear head. Mission unsuccessful. You know how most people are somewhere on the giddy spectrum the day they are leaving on holiday? Mr. Jackpot was on another spectrum. The one where coming down from work is like descending the face of a skyscraper in high heels. He was fairly clenched. It was going to take a while for him to unwind, of that I was certain.
We started up the 101. In silence. As the miles passed, the trees changed. The hills weren't speckled with Oaks, but blanketed in a coastal rain forest. I swear I would not have blinked twice if I saw a fairy run across the road. Or Sasquatch. Especially when we were deep inside a grove of redwoods on a stretch of old highway 101 known as the Avenue of the Giants. I have never felt so small. Mammoth sentries lined the winding road, blocking out most of the sun light. I felt like I was being watched the entire time. Not by Mr. Jackpot. By the trees. Their massive trunks capped with a humble spray of relatively stubby limbs cloaked in green wisps of needles, as if they put all their energy into their foundation alone.
I remembered the solar eclipse.
There's a solar eclipse at some point today, I said as looked at my phone, not expecting much of a signal. Expectation met. I looked it up on Mr. Jackpot's iPad. Yep. Solar eclipse that evening. It had already been setting twitter on fire in other parts of the world. Apparently it was a spectacular sight. But it was to be no more spectacular than in one particular place, according to the article I was reading: the area comprised of southern Oregon and northern California. That realization started to light the fires of adventure in us both. We may witness a celestial event in one of the most gorgeous places on the blue marble, which also happened to be the perfect place from which to view it.
Timing and location were going to be key, but we had another, more pressing goal. To find a Madrone tree that Mr. Jackpot first discovered in 1997 and had not returned to since. As if that's possible.
We made a left off the 101 into a state park and were greeted by a herd of Roosevelt Elk grazing in a meadow. By this point I had quietly gasped so many times it became my method of breathing. We began a dirt road climb that ended a half-mile later at a locked gate.
Wanna go for a walk and see if we can find it? I went up on my mountain bike in '97, but I'm guessing it's not more than a 4 mile hike in. Game?
I hadn't expected a hike and was craving it. It had been a few days since I was out on the planet on foot, soaking in nature. I changed out of my flip flops into hiking boots and grabbed my water bottle.
We set out, with me not paying attention to the fact that I was swinging a couple ounces of water and Mr. Jackpot carrying a 25 pound pack. It wasn't too hot out and we had guzzled quite a bit of water on the way here. We'll be fine, I thought. We began our ascent flanked by groves of redwoods that soared to the sky. It became a game to peer through the massive trunks to find the really, really big grand daddies that failed to hide deep in the grove, set back off the fire road, surrounded by descendants. Slowly the redwoods began to share the earth with stunning Douglas Fir trees that thrived in their environment.
We stopped to watch a snake eat a newt. Kind of unsettling, a little eerie, but also kind of magical.
This was turning in to quite a climb as the road continued to tilt. My legs enjoyed the burn from the elevation gain. At one point Mr. Jackpot commented that I ought to be wearing the pack and consider this a good training hike for my climb of Mt. Whitney. We stopped to trade off and had some water, remarking for the first time about the short supply. A park ranger came by in his pickup.
You heading up for the solstice?
Neither of us corrected him. Yep. How much further up?
That part didn't matter. The tree we were seeking was on the ridge. If we saw the eclipse, great. But we were here to see the tree. Mr. Jackpot was deeply engaged with his GPS trying to zero in on where it might be.
Planning on where to dump the body?
I wouldn't have driven this far. Besides, I have three tracking devices on us and you have your iPhone. I'd plan way better than that. Maybe if your SIM card stops working you can start getting nervous.
We came to an intersection of the fire road and a grassy trail which snaked off to the right, widening into a road that nestled just below the ridge. Off we went in search of the largest Madrone tree Mr. Jackpot has ever seen. And we went. And went. And went. At the bottom of yet another climb I was ready to throw in the towel. I had about an ounce of water left and it was nearing six o'clock. The descent is not always faster on rocky fire roads, especially in the darkened understory of a coastal rain forest.
Besides, we turn into prey at sundown. And I was already parched.
Let's get to the top of this climb and see where we are, but we really should head back down soon.
At the crest of the hill, visible just beyond a slight bend in the trail, was a tree unlike any of those surrounding it. Unlike any I had ever seen. It looked like the body of a sea creature whose head was plunged into the earth during a tsunami 500 years ago. It could never extricate itself, but still managed to live on. Parts of its limbs were smooth, and rippled like the muscled hind legs of a chestnut-colored thoroughbred horse. Some parts were peeling. And others fully clothed in dark bark, rumpled like a trusty and fraying cardigan.
It begged to be climbed. Sitting up on its first branch, a twisting mass that was at least equivalent to eight of me, stacked prone, one on top of the other, I marveled at the strength of this tree. How the very limb upon which I reclined did not crash to the ground under its own weight was a mystery for those with much more talented brains than mine to unravel. I was simply in awe.
Thoughts of anything other than the majesty of this hauntingly beautiful tree, and I do not use that phrase lightly, fell away for us both. It was at that moment that we realized the light was changing. It had a different character to it. Not quite milky, not translucent, just a little pale, a little flat. It penetrated the canopy urging us to depart for the meadow to see what we could of the eclipse.
When we emerged from the woods we took off our sunglasses and held them at 90 degrees, one behind the other, to safely glimpse the eclipse. At first we couldn't tell if it was just beginning or nearing its end. The woods surrounding our meadow buzzed with the sounds of birds, crickets, and little ground-dwellers scurrying about. Mosquitoes ran laps around my head.
Mr. Jackpot got the angle just right on our viewing contraption and watched the moon slide into place directly in front of the sun. He handed me the glasses. As I fumbled with getting the angle right the forest silenced itself. Nothing moved. Nothing spoke. We all just breathed as the Sun, the Moon and the Earth lined up. It's safe to say that when the perfect alignment was reached a shot of celestial energy pegged us all right between the eyes.
I grabbed my phone and snapped a picture of a remarkable moment in time. I felt cradled by the Universe. We embarked on a silly mission to find a tree and found ourselves in the most perfect place at the most perfect time to witness perfect alignment.
A few sun salutations later we were on our way down the mountain. Our 8 mile round trip hike was more like 13 plus. We gained over 2000 feet in elevation. We had four ounces of water and no food. We witnessed a magical celestial event and laid our bodies along the 500 year old limbs of a remarkable tree hidden in a forest of giants.
When we got to the car I pulled out my phone to tweet to you the picture of the eclipse.
It was then that I realized my phone wasn't working. The last text I received was when I climbed the Madrone. I squinted at the words which appeared on the upper left corner – where my signal bars used to be.
Oh, H. You are so very kind. I am delighted that my words came to life for you. That makes me so happy I'm shimmering.
Nature has, and continues to be, my inspiration. I've never felt so close to her before.
I love reading your blog. Not because I relate to the divorce stuff…b/c I haven't been divorced. But because I was single (not married) for 37 years. I definitely dated for many years and was extremely frustrated that I kept dating the same guys…and not truly knowing myself. I took a trip in July of 2004..by myself! It was a huge thing for me. I had never traveled alone. I flew to Portland and met up with a friend and then drove alone to SF and met up with another friend. I drove on I-5 until I got closer to the California border and then I went through the forest to 101 and drove along the coast all the way to SF. It was an amazing drive. The trees were unbelievable. I saw elk and I too felt like a fairy had jumped into my car and transported me to another universe. Thanks for taking me back to that moment.
Now..I'm happily married (we found each other in 2005 and married in 2007)…and have two sweet little boys. And we're moving to SF in the next couple months. I feel like I found myself on that trip..and once I found myself…I found everything I had ever wanted.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. You picked a perfect place to journey, here on the coast. I truly don't want to leave. I could remain here for all my days, crawling over the lava boulders and playing tag with the waves. I sit here, gazing at the sea, perpetually blown away by nature.
Your note has made me smile a big, wide, happy-go-lucky grin. Thank you, love you, owe you.
And you, m'lady, are Gorgeous. Breathtaking. Amazing.
Whew! I'm all caught up! Great job on the forgiveness. My 5 year divorce anniversary was a few weeks ago and I patted myself on the back at how far my ex and I have come. I loved his soul at one point as well, but his soul wasn't enough to keep our marriage healthy. But for the past 2 years we've found our new significant others and are respectful and happy for each other. I don't remember a "date of forgiveness" but over time it finally came to me to stop blaming him for his shortcomings and I think he did the same. We don't see each other often, since our kids are older and the transfers happen when I'm at work or as a drop off when I'm not home, but when we do, we can catch up like old friends and the resentment is gone. Here's to you and the G getting to that point some day. Glad to be back in the know with HGM!
Oh, boy…really? Do I have to get to that point? Say it isn't so! I can't imagine sitting down and yucking it up with The Genius. Then again, it wasn't all that long ago that I felt I could never forgive him.
My parents separated and divorced when I was 7 due to a variety of betrayals. I am now 30 and can say they have become friends. We do holidays together and they help each other out when in need. It took them a long time to get to this point, and I am not saying you need to go so far with the Genious, but as their daughter it has been healing for me to see things go from good to worse to good again. Take care.
Thank you SO much for taking the time to comment. Your perspective on divorce is very intriguing to me. If it feels okay, would you also tell us a little about what it felt like for you when they worked through their divorce? As I do all of this self-excavation, I am also focused on creating a positive environment for the boys. I fluctuate between feeling I'm doing a good job and I can do a MUCH better job. It makes sense that I would sweat this out – it's the single most important aspect of my journey right now, but I don't want to hyper-focus on it.
I just want to create a light, happy, playful, loving environment for the boys. Do you have any words of guidance for me?
As for The Genius, I will go as far as I am comfortable going in terms of our encounters in the future. I'm not going to focus on him, but rather align with my true self and compassionately state what I need (boundaries!) in order to be comfortable in his presence. My ultimate goal being to teach my children about compassion, forgiveness and healthy human relations. All sorts of people are going to come in and out of my life. Some will be comfortable to be around and some uncomfortable. My desire is to remain in sway, balanced, at peace, regardless.
Thank you, B. I'm really happy you are here.


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5 Words I Despise
I despise very few things on G-d's green earth, and at first glance words should be no different. If I am indeed a fervent believer in balance, constantly reminding myself that every stick has two ends and stopped clocks etc., why are there still certain arrangements of English letters that make me grind my teeth, roll my eyes, stomp my hooves?
Because some words are used as clichés. The crime of the cliché (in writers' circles, at least) is a crime of tedium. Rather than engaging the reader's mind in the difficult process of communication through the fractured meanings of words, the cliché is little more than a placeholder, read as a blank space, conveying nothing but what the reader knows already. The net communicative effect is nil; only recollection dimly flickers when we read clichés. In short, they're boring and should never inhabit our writing.
But the cliché is also evil. It is a particularly dangerous sort of falsehood which at once claims legitimacy by naming something and simultaneously elicits an emotional, non-intellectual response. It says, "That guy is anti-semitic; you can't vote for him." It never gets around to asking what an anti-semite is, or why racism is bad, or whether it is the same as bigotry or loyalty, or how bad it is in relation with other evils. All it does is push a button somewhere deep among our tangled minds' wires that says, "Bad! Bad! Bad!"
I'm not saying we have to define terms every time we use them. It would be incredibly detrimental to all forms of communication if we had to specifically delineate the boundaries of "anti-semitism" every time we mentioned it. Besides, I have a feeling this would only go on to eventually make the words of its definition into clichés — the actual clichés we see in our day-to-day life actually work as a sort of buffer, protecting more technical/academic/intellectual language from itself draining of meaning.
Nevertheless, if we do not constantly revisit and discuss the meanings of the terms we take for granted, we can eventually attach the evil of anti-semitism (for example) to things or people innocent of that transgression, and, through so diluting its meaning, we will be unable to convince anyone of it when it does occur. (In short, if we do not work into turning clichés back into meaningful terms, the entire shared meaning which is language falls apart, and even the most skilled orators or writers are unable to recreate their thoughts in the minds of others, and civilization falls apart. In a way you're the real hero after all, you linguistic scourge!)
The reader may be thinking, "that escalated quickly." But at what point does a meme, a touchstone joke, become a cliché? How easy it is to stop thinking about what our words mean! I heard the joke about the chicken crossing the road parodied and retold in so many ways as a youth that the actual humor of the joke, or that it was, indeed, ever meant to be genuinely funny, did not occur to me until I was much older. The joke became only the placeholder of a joke; it became a cliché. Relatively harmless with jokes and memes, the exact same effect touches "racism" and "God", "right" and "left," "evil" and "good."
So when someone says in the context of a serious discussion that they don't want to "waste time" defining words or categories, I worry that they're charlatans, playing the intellectual game for ulterior motives. It is the most common and most upfront way of declaring bad faith. It says that they'd prefer the alternative, where we can argue past each other, playing for rhetorical points, without actually knowing what the other person is talking about, in the simplest sense of the term. Their conclusions are probably predetermined, and they fear to find, after their words have been grounded by meaning, that they contradict themselves or are illogical. This is a valid fear.
But enough of me being crotchety. I can already see the comments about defining what "define" means hovering before my eyes, or some-such. You came here for a list, and a list you shall get! Let us turn our eyes upon five words that, like cockroaches, do not look good with the light upon them, and that, suddenly illuminated, will dart off in search of a dark, warm, comforting preconception.
(I'm mostly joking when I say the words need replacing.
It's not the words.
It's the thoughtlessness.)
1. "Brainwashed" — An Opportunist's Panic Blanket
When I spoke above about folk who mindlessly wield clichés, I could have called them brainwashed. I didn't, because it's a vile word. Unless used in the context of some extraordinary (and I mean extraordinary — actual brainwashing is extremely rare if it exists at all) circumstance like the bowels of a North Korean torture chamber or somesuch, "brainwashing" is not merely the wrong word, it is purposefully manipulative.
Whenever I hear anyone use it, I instantly demand that they explain the difference between brainwashing and education. If they're a real whacko or fourteen years old, they might agree that they're the same thing, and then at least we could talk about education. But at least we're no longer pretending that just because someone has a different view than our own, they must have been erased and rewritten by some sinister force looking to stay in power (Moriarty? The Elders of Zion? The Secretary of Education? ). Most of the time, they just disagree with you, and yes, education impacts our opinions. Byt no one wants to ban it outright.
Suggested Replacement(s): ill-informed, miseducated, ignorant, wrong, duped.
2. "Jewy" — The Latest Debacle
Not actually a cliché, but still sad, I don't know where this word came from. It can burn in a Meah Shearim dumpster for all I care. This is the new word Jew-kids use instead of "Jewish." What was wrong with "Jewish," you ask? Nothing, and that's the problem. You see, "Jewish" is merely a statement of fact, a fact that to Jews at least has no inherent negative connotations. So Jews who are feeling tired of the whole Jew thing have settled on "Jewy," an irritating diminutive that still conveys your disgust at the concept while looking dazzling in pink. Instead of the classic "Zionist Jew greed," Hello Kitty would say "Jewy Greed." Doesn't that make it sound nicer?
What? It's worse because it's a negative term masquerading as a neutral one? That's crazy talk.
Suggested Replacement(s): Jewish, Jew, or your choice of honest anti-semitic epithet.
3. "Hater" — Moronic Reductionism
I don't mind "haters gonna hate" as a pleasant song lyric or the like. But some people actually took it seriously as a life philosophy, which makes me want to individually pull out all my remaining hairs from the follicle. When you say, "Bernie for President," and I reflect with vivid brilliance that, "I think the populist impulse driving Sanders's momentum is similar to that of Donald Trump and neither are good for our country," "Haters gonna hate" ("hater's"? is it "hater (is) gonna hate" or "haters (are) gonna hate"?) is not a valid response. "Haters gonna hate" is an intellectual forfeit. To me, it's trolling plain and simple.
First of all, hate is not necessarily a bad thing and is on the contrary incredibly appropriate and even necessary in some contexts. On the other hand, it is an incredibly powerful emotion that I think most of us feel quite rarely. To conflate disagreement, dislike, disgust, or distaste with hatred lessens the power of the term.
This image sums up the degree to which the term "haters" ought to be taken seriously, and is redolent with a multi-layered ironic aftertaste that I find quite delightful:
Suggested Replacement(s): "Dear Sir/Madam, I find it unfortunate that we diverge in our opinion on the matter; alas, would that I could argue further, but I must go on down to dat lit club wit crony and get turnt."
4. "Nice" — The Empty Vessel
"Nice" is the ultimate cliché. It signifies nothing but utter milquetoast inoffensive blandness, and even that description makes it sounds more interesting than it is. On its own, blandness wouldn't be so terrible. But people think it means something, like when your Rabbi has a "nice tie," or he tells his son that peeing in the sink is "not nice."
The obvious question is whether the tie is nice to the same degree that the boy's urinary discretion is unnice. Of course, the tie might actually be the harbinger of a messianic utopia, since other things that I've heard called "not nice" include poverty, Cards Against Humanity, George Carlin, and the holocaust. This reveals the actual purpose of the term, which acts as a sort of uniform placeholder in small talk that will never hurt anyone nor, indeed, say anything.
How many times has the chivalric Jewish greeting ritual ("What's your name?" "Tzvi." "Where are you from?" "Oz." "…Are you single?") terminated with one party muttering, "Very nice, very nice"? If anyone were paying attention, they'd call you Roger Daltry. But "nice" is easier. It lets you pay no attention. It is to language what the schwa is to phonetics. It is the sound you make when you are asleep. Disgraceful.
Suggested Replacement(s): Try these.
5. "Leadership" — The Brain Taser
I eat a lot. I have a large apetite; have since I was little. Similarly, I have a sort of mind apetite. I like learning, okay? Also since I was little. But my mind apetite has these anamalistic habits, like Pavlov's dogs. It knows what it likes and what indicates a hearty meal on the way, and what signifies intellectual junk food that will leave me hungry again in ten minutes.
One of the surest indicators that something intellectually anemic is to follow is the term "leadership." I don't mean as a passing mention, or even as part of a discussion of some specific action or policy. My problem begins when this benighted term shows up in advertising, or seminars, or advertising for seminars. I hate it when it's used in businessese, that strange foreign language half of LinkedIn is written in. For me, "leadership" is representative of a whole class of words we hear so often, with so little actual meaning attached that they merely pass through our minds like white noise, chaos that grabs our attention and wrestles our critical faculty into submission through sheer force. A stun-gun to the brain that says, "Don't even try digesting this; just give me your money."
"Leadership" has, for most of my life, hovered on the edge of English, barely coherent, too meaningless to truly seem threatening, the employee that never says anything until he burns the building down. Maybe no one has ever bothered explaining the word to me and I'm totally off-base.
But I've yet to find a discussion of this term that describes a concrete reality and isn't reaching for my wallet in some way that we're usually too numbed to notice…
Suggested Replacement(s): Something in English.
Even Though Judaism Broke My Heart
Non-Fiction, Personal
As the day of my Bar Mitzvah drew near, my father impressed three things upon me:
1. Never to fool myself.
2. Never to fool somebody else.
3. Never to allow myself to be fooled.
~ Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson
He ostensibly came around to the yeshiva to visit old friends but actually, I think, to make sure the place was safely receding into the distance like a police car in the rearview mirror. My room would be his last stop and we'd shoot the breeze about everything except why he left and why he still hadn't left, why he was still coming around, still paying attention. Our conversation danced around landmines like Israeli politics and his shaved face and the latest frum contretemps, and he'd return home with another brick in our friendship layed slipshod so the cold wind of the world came through the chinks in its walls.
It got better when I started buying books. I had a big windowsill back then, broad enough to be a shelf. From its left side extended my holy books in Hebrew and Yiddish. So it was for five years. Then, one week, with no great fanfare and no mouth of hell splitting my floor tiles, the English books began to sprout from the right side. Gödel, Escher, Bach. The Elements of Style. A History of the Jews. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. Yom Kippur a Go Go. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Code. A History of Western Philosophy. Fear and Trembling.
He'd pick them up and leaf through them and we'd talk about what I'd read and how I felt about it. I always felt he respected my intelligence, and in secular interests we found common ground. (My mini-collection on atheism drew a spontaneous "Are you going to a convention or something?")
I felt uncomfortable.
I felt uncomfortable because one week, with no great fanfare, I made a decision to revisit the pursuit of worldly intellect that enriched my youth, and I no longer knew what separated me from the beardless man who stood next to me, a well-dressed and well-coiffed law school applicant so far from my brother whose first day of Yeshiva was my first day of Yeshiva all those years ago in Jerusalem.
We came to Yeshiva with more or less the same goal: To find The Truth and pursue it the way only teenagers could. We learned together, we attended the same classes and farbrengens and trips. We swung chickens over our heads and wrapped tefillin on strangers and talked about G-d and His designs late into the night. I went home for Passover and let my parents know I wouldn't be attending Georgia Tech in the fall. I had tasted life and had no use for computer science.
Our studies continued. Together, we left Jerusalem for New Jersey, to learn in a "regular" (that is, frum-from-birth) Yeshiva. Exposed was the face of the beast: teachers who could barely speak English, hordes of jaded students compelled by their parents to continue their religious studies, a cheder full of feral kids, every conversation pervaded with gossip and scandal, sons speaking of their fathers with detached analysis, a culture of frugality bordering on the deceptive and the larcenous, rabbis who either convinced themselves the majority of their students were interested in spiritual pursuits or who otherwise gave in to despair and avenged their idealism by confiscating phones, books, laptops.
I devoted myself to finding the silver lining, and I did, for a while. I know too well that love of someone who doesn't love you can only go so far. My appreciation for this life began to crumble. So did his, I found out later.
It only got worse. After a disillusioned summer in upstate New York, I went away as a student emissary/teacher to Tel Aviv. I had the toughest year of my life trying to relate to unrelatable people and to stay motivated. He remained in Jersey. He watched the faculty of his Yeshiva (including one of his heroes) spin out of control with fatwa after fatwa meant to bring the students in line.
I came back to the States and he was gone.
I pressed forward – another year of Yeshiva, this time for my rabbinical ordination, my smicha. It was the natural next step after shlichus, and I'd convinced myself all the problems I saw were Israeli problems (many of them were, but not most of them, not exclusively). It was another tough year. The learning was beyond me and the rest of my life loomed on the horizon, begging the constant question, was it all a mistake? Where will you be going next year? What are you going to do with yourself? Do you even like anyone in the community you're a part of? Do you relate to them in any way?
In a measured voice and with a slight but insistent angling of the head I learned from my Talmud teacher in Jerusalem, I would insist to myself, "I do relate to them in some way. G-d is real. Chassidus is real. It's all true. This was not a mistake. I will not give up."
I gradually read the books on the left side of the shelf for pleasure less and less, and the right side sat empty.
The crisis came halfway through that year. The long night when I got off the phone with my rabbi and lay weeping in bed, trying to figure out if my investment had been for nothing, if I had made a terrible mistake that only led me away from normalcy and happiness.
Almost two years later, I'm still here. I'm also back in Jerusalem spending a lot of my day trying to help others taking this same path.
What conclusion did I come to that night? Why did I remain? How can I encourage others toward disillusionment and heartbreak?
The first thing I realized: everybody is looking for something. We have vacuums we must fill one way or another, and we find that there are things in Judaism that satisfy us, be it the peace and warmth of its Shabbos, the elegance of its theology, its salvation from the nihilistic void of existence. We become attached to these things; they become to us like a lover's face, a memory of the first walk we took in the rain together, huddled under the umbrella, one.
Then times become tough; there is always more than we bargained for; the parts we love cannot be cut out from the undesirable whole that does nothing for us, and that we begin to resent. The things we once loved become the lies we tell to convince ourselves our love continues.
(Even now I still have these moments. I was in Beitar last Shabbos, walking to shul at ten in the morning, the sun warming my face, the sweet breeze blowing off the patchwork farms of the valley, apartment buildings thrust into the blue sky like white sails, so bright you almost had to look away, and a little boy ran in front of me, crossing the calm road with a bottle of wine for kiddush to his father who stood erect like a prince, wrapped in his pure tallis and waiting for his son and the sanctification of the day, their world held gyroscopically still in reality's storm, and I felt a pang of longing in my heart that carried me to Shacharis and beyond. It shook me. And then it faded into pale memory, and I became once again unconvinced about my choices, and the question ate at me more: Was it all a mistake?)
But it was not for nothing we walked this road. We have merely outgrown our initial impressions, and what we initially loved has been left behind. True, it does not feel like growth. It feels like pain. The little problems with Judaism accrue and become big problems; what you used to overlook is now all you can see. But the problem here is not Judaism changing. It is the way it no longer fits in the box we initially imposed.
And then comes the pivotal moment with its cleaving question: Were you merely blind before? Were you a fool? Is it true that only fools fall in love?
If you think you were only a fool, then you must cut your losses and move on. This was never meant to be, and the entire endeavor was merely an expression of your own frailty.
If you were not a fool, then you can come to love it as you loved it before. You were willing to ignore the faults of your beloved because her face was so beautiful. It is now time to do it again, to find the beauty. But it will not happen on its own; that is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, a child's thing, the serendipitous interlocking of need and fulfillment. The difference between adults and children is that adults cannot rely on serendipity. We must work to find congruence.
We start by shedding our preconceptions. What we used to love about her was a projection of our own needs, and we can't pretend it's who she is any longer. We must take her on her own terms, pimples and all.
It's all in the words. When we start out we say "Shabbos" and feel a rush of joy. But the word wears out, for what is a word but dead letters, sounds forced into an uneasy partnership and bound with imposed meaning. After enough time, it starts to sound like nothing at all, and after more time we start resenting it – "I have a soul; stop mouthing at me! I need to comprehend; the word means nothing to me." Shabbos has become a parroted cliché. It has become death. Not death by terrorist, 7 o' clock news; death deep in the Amazon where no one's around to film it, death as a force of nature, a mute wall, a brute fact.
We have two options. We can either get rid of the word and go searching for some other sounds we hope will not eventually rot in our mouths, or we must find some way to reinvigorate this one. We must find a new definition of "Shabbos." And what, I thought on my bed that night, is Chassidus, if not a long series of redefinitions, an insistent angling of the head that says, "No, it means this." And those definitions by nature of their divine origin are of infinite depth.
The upswing: What we hate about it is not it, it's what we had to call it when we were small. It is not foolish; we were foolish when we met it. Shabbos does not mean what we thought it did. It means something deeper, something G-dly, and in that G-dly reality there is room, say, to not feel bad about your hasty prayers and do feel great about the wonderful food you look forward to all week. From a deeper perspective, that too is Shabbos.
Romance lives, to the extent that the child is the father of the man. As long as there is still some room to expand the definition of our terms, there will always be a reason to stay.
So I teach Baalei Teshuva. I'm not selling a flawed product; I'm selling a deeper and truer place within themselves. I am selling them true love. The job is not to protect them from disillusionment and heartbreak. The job is to give them the intellectual and theological tools to deal with it when it comes. The bumps in the road are part of the journey, the feeling of their own skin too tight on their bodies. We cannot split the sea for them, but we will give them a staff.
When I asked my friend if he was okay with my writing a piece about us, he asked if he had anything to worry about. I told him no. I think we see things from similar perspectives, now. Though in some external ways we come down on opposite sides of the table, we are at least both sitting at it. We have each, in our own way, shucked our childish pursuits, and taken steps to becoming men in this world, men who aren't fools, men who live according to their convictions. Are we really so different, after all?
My definitions have stretched so I no longer feel distant from my friend in law school. Every day, we seem ever more two sides of the same coin; in fact, every day, everything seems like a side of it. When your definitions are robust, all of a sudden G-d can get in everywhere. On both sides of the shelf, in both friends, and in that mysterious interstitial space that separates all matter and unites it.

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Newspaper Essay: Importance of Newspaper 10 Points
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Newspaper Essay for Students, Why they are so useful? The Role of Newspaper in our daily life, it has numbers of Benefits of Reading Newspaper such as get us updated with the latest happening around us, get news of the world & more.
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Newspaper is printed publication circulated daily.
Different people read the newspaper for different purposes.
The newspaper helps to put forward a public opinion.
In a democracy, there must be an efficient and fearless press.
Bengal Gazette was the first newspaper printed on 29 January 1780.
The newspaper provides us with the latest national and international news.
Newspaper plays an important role in combating rampant corruption.
Information feed to Newspapers by agencies like PTI (The Press Trust of India Ltd.), UNI, etc.
In India, there are various newspapers available in a regional language other than foreign newspapers.
They are useful in many ways such as the latest news happening around us, it mobilises the public opinion etc.
Newspaper Essay & its importance: Newspaper is a printed publication appearing daily. It contains news, advertisement and article on various subjects.
Newspaper plays an important role in a democracy. They act as a medium of communication between the government and the governed.
Newspaper enjoy a wide readership. Different people read for different purposes. The newspaper keeps people aware of the activities of the government.
They mobilise public opinion. They play an important role in combating public corruption. In a democracy, there should be freedom of the press that works efficiently and fearlessly.
Press is the mirror of society. The Bengal Gazette was the first newspaper published in India.
Information is fed to the newspaper by the number of agencies such as PTI, UNI, etc.
The newspaper should concentrate on giving only the true picture of the society.
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In modern life, press and platform exercise the greatest influence on our outlook towards the problem of the day.
It is not very often that we hear an important person speaks in News channels and radio, but the newspapers are always handy. No literate person will do without them.
Although the radio supplies with the latest news, we still need newspapers, for they provide us with detailed news.
A good newspaper is really the record of a public voice. Various articles, letters to editors and editorial columns etc. gives expression to the views and comments of the public, their demands and grievances, their criticism and the appreciation of the governmental activities.
Further, newspapers bind the whole world with ties of sympathy and fellow feeling. They are the means of creating good-will among the nations.
If there is war in Bangladesh, a famine in Mexico or an earthquake in Japan, the whole world is roused to take a sympathetic in the fate of peoples involved.
The press all over the world grows active, mobilise the public opinion in favour of the suffering humanity and inspires the people to do their bit for sufferers.
From a political point of view, the value of the newspaper is immense. It spreads the political ideas among the people and gives them an insight into the political movements and the event in the other parts of the world.
In fact, current history can only be studied with the help of newspapers.
Newspapers become the best means of advertisement. It through newspapers that a person comes to know where a thing is manufactured, get to known about share market around the world.
Wherefrom a thing can be had cheap, what are the current price of different commodities etc. The newspaper tells us when to sell or buy what we produce or the shares with profit.
Weather forecast helps the farmers a lot. Most of the famous authors whose writings have become classics began their literary career as press representative or editors.
There are matrimonial columns in the newspapers which enable the parties to arrange marriages easily. Obituary columns carry the news of dead persons to their kith and kin. Seekers of employment hunt in the Appointments columns.
Newspapers have a heavy responsibility to discharge. They must be impartial and unprejudiced. Nowadays a newspaper is usually a party organ.
What we generally find is that the newspaper of one party considers its paramount duty to run down even the good points of its opponents and in this way, regular warfare gets started in the press. Such newspapers as an advocate this policy does more harm than good.
Some newspapers mislead the public. They spread lies and rumours. To gain their selfish ends, they create misunderstandings, spread wrong and false views, and thus produce alarm and panic.
They write against reputed persons with views to obtain money from those who are anxious to save their reputation.
Such newspapers give rise and lend help to black-mailing. They should be shunned and the government should proceed against them under press law.
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Growing prosperity is the result of obediently taking the right action steps that lead to abundance.
Manifestation also comes a whole lot quicker and easier when obedience is combined with the right attitude.
How about we take a look at the attitude of obedience?
We know the blessing of God follows obedience to His Word, but the attitude you have in your heart is important too.
If you are giving tithes and offerings, or honoring your father and mother, or worshipping God, or walking in love, or forgiving, or praying, it should be done with a positive and willing attitude. When we do what the Bible says we will eat the good of the land.
The opposite side of cheerful obedience is to be grudging or unwilling. The person who obeys, but has a wrong attitude receives a different reward. Keep in mind; we do not have an excuse to disobey. We simply need to adjust the attitude of our heart to line up with our obedience.
Here is some good news: The Lord searches the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. (2 Chronicles 16:9) Perfect here means to have a completely willing heart before God.
Now is the time to start putting this into action. Let's choose today to not only obey God, but to keep a right attitude when we do. God can do something with us when we have a willing heart. At this very moment He is searching to show himself strong on our behalf and help us prosper and abound.
May your willingness and obedience fill your life with growing prosperity!


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Background: Francisella isolates from patients suffering from tularemia in Germany are generally strains of the species F. tularensis subsp. holarctica. To our knowledge, no other Francisella species are known for Germany. Recently, a new Francisella species could be isolated from a water reservoir of a cooling tower in Germany. Results: We identified a Francisella sp. (isolate W12-1067) whose 16S rDNA is 99% identical to the respective nucleotide sequence of the recently published strain F. guangzhouensis. The overall sequence identity of the fopA, gyrA, rpoA, groEL, sdhA and dnaK genes is only 89%, indicating that strain W12-1067 is not identical to F. guangzhouensis. W12-1067 was isolated from a water reservoir of a cooling tower of a hospital in Germany. The growth optimum of the isolate is approximately 30°C, it can grow in the presence of 4–5% NaCl (halotolerant) and is able to grow without additional cysteine within the medium. The strain was able to replicate within a mouse-derived macrophage-like cell line. The whole genome of the strain was sequenced (~1.7 mbp, 32.2% G + C content) and the draft genome was annotated. Various virulence genes common to the genus Francisella are present, but the Francisella pathogenicity island (FPI) is missing. However, another putative type-VI secretion system is present within the genome of strain W12-1067. Conclusions: Isolate W12-1067 is closely related to the recently described F. guangzhouensis species and it replicates within eukaryotic host cells. Since W12-1067 exhibits a putative new type-VI secretion system and F. tularensis subsp. holarctica was found not to be the sole species in Germany, the new isolate is an interesting species to be analyzed in more detail. Further research is needed to investigate the epidemiology, ecology and pathogenicity of Francisella species present in Germany.


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Three Tech Homebuilding Pioneers Net $660M In Funding
Veev, Homebound, and ICON each tap into capital investment infusions to scale, expand, and prove out their positions as mix-shift opportunity platforms.
Left to right: Amit Haller, Co-founder and CEO of Veev, Ami Avrahami, Co-founder and CPO of Veev, Dafna Akiva, Co-founder and CRO of Veev
Here's what we'll look at today – a total of $660 million in freshly minted investment capital into three up-and-coming residential construction technology platforms:
Veev – with an assist from Lennar's LenX – has now raised a total of $600 million to operationalize and scale its integrated real estate and prefabricated building systems model from current work in Northern California into new markets, reportedly SoCal and Texas.
Homebound – a Santa Rosa, CA-based technology-enabled scattered-lot custom pre-fabrication builder – raised $75 million to expand and scale a business model that melds lot acquisition and development with a triple-helix of design, engineeering-constructability, and pre-fabrication into a highly repeatable semi-custom production hybrid.
3D printing tech homebuilder ICON, thanks to a Series B extension infusion of $185 million, is now reportedly valued at $2 billion
More on them in a moment.
First, context. We remind ourselves, we come to you daily. It's in our name, and it's really why we're here. It obliges us to open up air time to the course of human events that, while geographically distant, hit home hard. Other events, developments, trends normally in our lens, take a temporary back seat. As must be the case for many of you, upheaval and irrationality in the world, in the U.S. economy, in the financial markets, and in housing stir a challenge to our own vantage points and purpose.
Deep confidence that rationality, market efficiency, sanity, and the tried, tested, and true character of people up and down American housing development and construction's value chain will ultimately prevail always helps to steady a lens of focus, somewhat.
From Morning Consult this morning:
... the United States is now particularly vulnerable to the likely side effects of the [Ukraine] crisis. By mid-February, the most recent surge in COVID-19 cases had given way to high energy costs and elevated inflation, persistent supply chain disruptions, volatile markets and monetary policy uncertainty. Russia's invasion of Ukraine worsens the situation on all these fronts, hitting the American economy at its weakest points."
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In response to a question, posed in the past couple of days to University of Chicago Nobel Prize winning economist Eugene F. Fama – considered the father of efficient-markets economic theory – on whether the Federal Reserve stood a chance of bringing inflation down from its current level of 7.5% without causing a recession, he replied:
I have no idea," he said. But he has his doubts. "Unfortunately, Milton [Friedman], if he were alive today, wouldn't know either. He'd be shocked, really. He'd have to rethink everything."
Riding shotgun with the well of confidence that rationality will triumph – we'd be fools not to admit – is an equally strong sense of humility, especially when this very tiny globe and its 7.7 billion people feel such a potent, tragic tug of history at this moment as we ingest with first-hand, real-time, gruesome immediacy, a people like us, upended.
The string of events – from a recovering economy, to COVID-19's onslaught, to the vast flood of money that followed, to the sudden disequilibrium of demand and capacity to supply, to societal imbalances that unspooled, to, now, the Russian leader's assault on Ukraine, and its own multifactorial calculus of human, economic, financial, logistical, and cultural tolls – nest as one in a vertigo-inducing present time of less than 24 months. Is there a through-line in the sequence. Are they entirely separate and unrelated? Are we bystanders, consigned to await domino-effect pluses and minuses in our immediate circles, or is there some stand this moment calls on us to make?
Too, as Eugene Fama notes above, we may all have to rethink a lot, including how we arrive at a foundational business construct near and dear to our beliefs. Demand.
These questions – we believe – matter for all human beings alive now. Especially, so for you, the top of the food chain of individuals whose livelihood and businesses and wherewithal and influence tap the most basic of human needs and instincts, safety from harm, refuge, comfort, peace-of-mind, home.
Yes, business leaders in U.S. housing serve shareholders, stakeholders, and lenders, and their stewardship as guardians of those interests means to drive the creation of value as sustainably hard and effectively as they can. What our time makes clear is that private sector business leaders – especially in an ecosystem that designs, develops, and produces homes and communities – are effectively more than that now, and are expected to be and do more than to drive value creation for shareholders.
Some may disagree. A verdict in a court of public opinion – responsible for homebuying and renting customers, team member associates and employees, municipal official agency partners, community supporters or detractors, vendors, lenders, etc. – may still be in deliberation mode.
The headwinds, the noise, the disruptions, the challenges to what most housing experts describe as a still largely untapped and growing tsunami – made of up Millennial adults, Baby Boomers on the move, Generation Z entering the market – mostly get chalked up as transitory, near-term speed bumps.
Remember, demand is never an absolute. That's proven to be true, especially as regards demand for market-rate, newly constructed housing. Underbuilding versus population growth, lack of replacement for properties that have aged out of service, new construction activity vis a vis the outlook for household formation, etc., notwithstanding, these measures go into assumptions that will match reality, or they may not.
We may have to re-think everything. We may have to reassess what happens with long-term birth rates, and family formation, and household composition, and households with young children, and living situations, and housing preferences, and community, and zoning, and many other areas are showing signs of at least slight change, but may accelerate.
Events impacting Ukraine and surrounding European nations may work out to having relatively insulated impact on these questions. Or what's going on there may relate in more profound ways than meet the eye as to how demand for housing will take shape over the next 10 years.
At any rate, the three news lines above, about Veev, ICON, and Homebound, merit focus for a few reasons that impact those positioning businesses to adapt to the present-day shift of conditions:
affordability break-points that could swing emphasis from first-time, entry-level buyers to higher-price tier discretionary buyers,
standardized and streamlined floorplan-elevation-finish spec product platforms,
and, increasingly, as evidenced in the Veev, ICON, and Homebound models, a more realized full-stack build cycle that fuses value-creation the property level with integration of industrialized design-engineering-and-construction processes.
In the business backdrop, as enterprise-level homebuilders leverage data and technology to improve their selling systems, reduce their cost of sales, drive down real estate agent commissions, etc., and at the same time, reduce their fixed costs on land by shifting to asset-lighter controlled lot and land-bank deals, they're reallocating some of those captured costs into building technology and factory capability.
Clearly, while early investors in Veev and ICON include homebuilders, and while some of their vaunted forays into community development involve national homebuilder partners, what remains a question is whether any traditional homebuilding enterprise will vertically integrate extensive factory capability into its business model.
The argument against doing that has always been a homebuilding enterprise model that leans toward keeping fixed capital expense – such as factories – to a minimum, in favor of allowing variable costs, for labor and materials, to increase or decrease as a function of varying inventory turn volumes.
Commitment to industrialization and, at some future point, advanced manufacturing capability for home construction and development remains a question for the nation's leading homebuilding organizations. As much as a consolidated fewer of them would have to gain, the majority of companies will be likely to remain averse to bringing the fixed costs of factory infrastructure into their operating models.
When risks to land entitlement can exert direct impact on the volume of activity factories would be able to sustain, builders are hesitant to take on fixed costs of manufacturing plants. Perhaps, at some point, a company in homebuilding might take a page out of Ford Motor Co.'s strategy, re-organizing its legacy operations as a discrete business, and setting up its electric vehicle business platform as the company of the future.
Then, you might see a homebuilder truly invest in advanced manufacturing. That will only happen, however, with policy support – carrot and stick -- both at the national and regional/local level.
Maybe they have to rethink everything.
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Trump makes immigration top midterm campaign issue, hoping to put Dems on ICE
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| August 21, 2018 12:00 AM
President Trump believes the Democrats are vulnerable on immigration and crime ahead of the midterm elections, so he keeps highlighting those issues in the run-up to November.
You can see it in presidential tweets endorsing or opposing candidates. The Democrats are invariably "weak on borders" and crime while his preferred Republican is "strong." Trump has even called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., an "MS-13 lover." It was true again at the White House on Monday where he showered federal immigration authorities with praise.
"Blue wave means crime. It means open borders. Not good," Trump said of potential Democratic victories in the fall. The president held the event as he and other Republicans try to capitalize on Democratic calls for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We will not stand for the vile smears, the hateful attacks, and the vicious assaults on the courageous men and women of ICE, and Border Patrol, and law enforcement," Trump declared. "We will protect those who protect us."
"Hell, he has got to make sure at least one federal agency is on his side," said former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a veteran of the immigration battles of the 1990s and 2000s.
"The Democrats have positioned themselves to be anti-ICE and pro-open borders," said John Feehery, a Republican strategist. "I think that is a losing issue for them and clearly so does the president, which is why he is pounding away at it."
Anti-ICE sentiment spiked during the controversy over family separations at the border, viewed as a symbol of Trump's harsh immigration stance. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset rising Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., in a primary in part by characterizing ICE as an out-of-control law enforcement agency she would jettison.
Viral news stories cast ICE in an unfavorable light, such as one showing a father being apprehended and detained while trying to drive his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. Though highlighted by Democratic politicians, including some possible 2020 presidential candidates, subsequent reports suggested the man may have been wanted for murder.
"The Democrats were rushing to defend a guy who was accused of murder in Mexico," Feehery said. "Defending accused Mexican murderers is no way to win the hearts and minds of Middle America."
"When an elected official says they want to get rid of ICE or the CBP, I think they've failed their oath of office," Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said at a White House event. "It's unconscionable and frankly, I think it's downright unpatriotic."
Trump and congressional Republicans quickly seized on the issue, especially after a Morning Consult/Politico poll found that just 25 percent of voters wanted to see ICE abolished. House Republicans brought a pro-ICE resolution up for a vote to dare Democrats to vote against it — just 34 did, though 133 voted "present" — while Trump brings it up often on the campaign trail.
"And then I hear Democrats saying, 'We want to abandon ICE.' We're not abandoning ICE and we're not abandoning our law enforcement," Trump said while campaigning for Patrick Morrisey, the Republican challenger to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. "Just the opposite."
For red-state Democrats like Manchin, who are up for re-election this year in places where Trump remains popular, ICE abolition talk is a political liability. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., is among those who has broken from progressives on ICE.
"Many Democrats are deeply concerned about the fact that their 'leadership' wants to denounce and abandon the great men and women of ICE, thereby declaring war on Law & Order," Trump tweeted. "These people will be voting for Republicans in November and, in many cases, joining the Republican Party!"
The White House circulated a Department of Homeland Security fact sheet defending ICE's "life-saving mission" on Monday, touting some of the following figures: 127,000 arrests "with convictions or pending criminal charges," including more than 48,000 sexual assault offenses, 11,000 weapons offenses, 5,000 sexual assaults, 2,000 kidnappings, and 1,800 homicides.
This push is not good enough for immigration hawks who were expecting more from Trump. "The failure to end Obama's DACA amnesty and the unfulfilled border wall promise, combined with our Republican-led Congress focusing on amnesty compromise legislation this past year, has created a lot of confusion, disappointment, and remorse among significant segments of Republican base voters," said William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.
At the same time, immigration could backfire on Trump in some of the suburban congressional districts Democrats are targeting in their efforts to retake the House. Some polling has started to show ICE sentiment splitting along partisan lines. Many Republicans had hoped to run on tax cuts and the economy rather than hot-button cultural topics.
"Midterm elections are all about turnout and Trump is doing whatever he can to fire up his base," said Republican strategist Alex Conant. "Having a debate about disbanding ICE is net positive for Trump, especially in red states. The risk is that a lot of Republicans in swing districts need independents to win, and you don't want to turn off those voters by appearing anti-immigrant. Immigration politics are always complex."
Trump nevertheless plunges full speed ahead, decrying the "new wave of anti-borders, anti-law enforcement extremism" being promoted by "the forces of anarchy and chaos and crime."
"They don't mind crime," Trump said of the Democrats. "It's pretty sad."
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This push is not good enough for immigration hawks who were expecting more from Trump. "The failure to end Obama's DACA amnesty and the unfulfilled border wall promise, combined with our Republican-led Congress focusing on amnesty compromise legislation this past year, has created a lot of confusion, disappointment, and remorse among significant segments of Republican base voters," said William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PA
I am one of those. To me it is an insult to run on immigration, after running on it the last time and then doing just the opposite of your campaign promises.
It is still my top issue, but after the last campaign I do not trust Trump.
When voting, in many cases it is like asking---would you prefer to be bitten by a Rattle Snake or a Copper Head.
If he wants to run on immigration, get off the campaign trail, go back to the WH and do something. We want action, not false promises. We have a country to SAVE and yelling about D's wanting to abolish ICE is not fixing the problem. Taking some meaningful ACTION to end this invasion will bring the R's in many more votes than more false promises.
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In 2016, Samsung recalled 2.8 million top-loading clothes washers because of a safety hazard. How can a consumer get all of his or her money back for a Samsung washing machine? The offered options of partial money back or a fixed machine the owner can't sell used just don't seem fair.
In this article we'll discuss a few options for getting all your money back for one of these defective top-loaders.
Not everyone will be able to get all their money back for a Samsung washing machine. In late 2016, Samsung announced a voluntary recall of about 2.8 million washing machines. The recall was issued in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The recall covers Samsung top-loaders bought between December of 2013 and June of 2016. Samsung issued the recall after receiving 733 reports of the washing machines' lids flying off, potentially sending parts flying around the room. Nine of these incidents caused injuries, including an injured shoulder and one broken jaw.
The list below shows all the options to get your money back for one of these defective machines.
Official Samsung recall. The official Samsung recall offers a choice between: A) About half the money refunded B) About 60% of the money toward a new Samsung washing machine or C) Samsung will fix the machine, but it's illegal to resell it used later. There's no option to get all money back.
CPSC complaint. Consumers can complain to the CPSC if they're unsatisfied with the recall. The wheels of government turn slowly, but if enough consumers complain a new, better recall may be issued. This is one way to get all money back for a Samsung washing machine in the future. To complain to the CPSC about the recall, call 800-638-2772.
If bought within 30 days. Return the Samsung washing machine for a full refund if it matches the recalled model numbers shown below.
Check the store's return policy. Many stores have return policies on most items of anywhere from 30 days to a full year. For example, most products bought at Lowes can be returned to the store for a full refund within 90 days of purchase. Try to return the defective Samsung washer to the store for a full refund.
If bought within 90 days. Consumers can try a chargeback on a credit card. This means basically disputing the charge on the credit card, with the credit card company, on the grounds that the product is defective. In most cases this should work.
Get about 50% of your money back toward a new washer. My wife and I bought a Samsung washing machine about eight months before the recall. Samsung offered to pay us $451 toward a new washer by another manufacturer. That's 53% of the purchase price. Not an attractive option. Some buyers are offered even less depending on how long they've owned their washers.
Get about 61% of your money back toward a new Samsung washer. Samsung offered to pay us $524 toward a new Samsung washing machine. That's 61% of the full purchase price. That's slightly better than option #1 but still not great. Again, some people are offered even less. The amount depends on how long it's been since the machine was installed.
Let Samsung fix the washer. This doesn't give any money back but the washing machine will work safely again. The big problem with this option is that it's illegal to sell any recalled product. That is, the owner can't sell the washer used in three years. It must be thrown away. The repair option also extends the washer's warranty for one year.
Needless to say, none of the options in the official Samsung recall are very attractive. However there are a few other avenues open to owners of this defective machine. To learn about them, see the sections below. To see the full details of the official Samsung top-loader recall, click here.
Most consumers can't get all their money back for a Samsung washing machine because of the recall. The recall may only offer 50% to 60% of a shopper's money back. The recall is what it is, which is to say, not great. Since it was worked out in agreement with the U.S. CPSC, it's considered official and there's not a whole lot consumers can say about it. However, disgruntled shoppers do have options. Among them are complaining to the CPSC, seeking a refund through other means and waiting for a class action lawsuit. We'll look into each of those below.
That's it. If the CPSC gets thousands of complaints like that they may revisit the issue. Consumers can also complain online by clicking here.
Anyone who bought their washing machine within 30 days should have no problem getting their money back for a Samsung washer. Just take the washer back to the store and ask for a refund. Most stores will take back a product within 30 days of purchase. Even if the store's policy is different, Samsung has offered to honor all returns within the 30 day window. The offer works at the place of purchase, so the upshot is that anyone who bought a Samsung less than 30 days ago is in luck and can get a full refund.
Shoppers who bought their machine more than 30 days ago may still be able to get a full refund on a Samsung washer. Many stores such as Lowes have a 90 day grace period on most products. That means shoppers who buy from Lowes can get their money back on anything they buy there for fully 90 days after purchase. While store return policies differ, we strongly suggest you check the policy of the store where you bought your machine. To find any store's return policy, google "return policy" and the name of the store. For example, googling "Home Depot return policy" brings up a page that says most new items can be returned to Home Depot within 90 days after purchase. However, that's cut to 30 days on major appliances like washing machines.
What if the store's return policy doesn't allow shoppers to get all their money back for a Samsung washing machine? Let's say a consumer bought her washer two months ago from a store that only has a 15 day return policy. In that case the buyer still has a way to get a full refund. It's called a chargeback. Basically, the buyer calls her credit card company and disputes the charge on the grounds that the product was defective from day one. This won't work with a product a shopper is simply "dissatisfied with." However, for defective and especially unsafe products, it should work fine. Chargebacks work for up to 90 days after purchase. Once the customer disputes the transaction, the credit card company will investigate and decide whether to refund the shopper's money.
Will a Class Action Lawsuit Help Samsung Buyers Get All Their Money Back?
Will a class action suit help buyers get all their money back for a Samsung washer? The short answer is: maybe. We called a large and highly successful national law firm that specializes in consumer protection law specifically related to defective products. The lawyer we spoke with asked that we not use her name or the name of her firm in our article. She also told us that because Samsung has a recall in place that's been agreed to by the CPSC, the chances of winning a class action suit against them are very low.
A class action lawsuit typically works by taking the complaints of many people and bundling them together into a "class." The law firm then sues the offending company on behalf of hundreds or even millions of people. If the law firm wins, they then pay a certain amount of money to each product owner.
While the law firm we spoke with said they didn't think a suit like this against Samsung would work, another firm has already filed such a suit. A spokesman for that firm told us they have high hopes of winning money, though it may take up to two years to collect. Samsung washing machine buyers who are interested can fill out the online form at ClassActionLawsuitCenter.com. As a caveat, class action suits are notorious for earning millions for lawyers while not traditionally paying much money to clients.
Can Buyers Get Some Money Back Now and Still Benefit from the Lawsuit?
A representative of ClassActionLawsuitCenter.com told us owners shouldn't get part of their money back now for a Samsung washer if they want to get money from the lawsuit. He said it was important not to use a defective washer. He also said it should be OK for owners to take part in the repair part of the Samsung recall. Owners of the defective machine should let Samsung fix them. They can still get money from the class action suit later if it's successful. However, he cautioned against accepting a partial refund from Samsung. Getting a little money back now could prevent getting more money back later from the class action suit.
Anyone looking to get their money back for a Samsung washing machine should check first to see if their washer has been recalled. The list below shows the affected model numbers. To find a washing machine model number, look on the back at the top of the machine. Facing the back of the unit, the model number should be shown on a small sticker at the top right. The serial number is just below the model number. Check the serial number against the list below or visit Samsung's website and type the number into the recall form.
If you choose to get part of your money back for a Samsung washing machine or to have it repaired, you'll need to know the serial number first.
Looking for info on how to get money back for a non-top-loading Samsung washer? This article concerns only the recall of 2.8 million Samsung top-loaders sold from 2013 through 2016. Recalls of Samsung models from earlier years for faulty wiring or for malfunctioning front-loaders aren't covered in this article.
Is My Samsung Washing Machine Dangerous?
Anyone who has a Samsung washing machine affected by the 2016 recall should take action. The washer models named in the recall aren't dangerous in terms of the potential to burn down a house as in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. That said, there is a definite danger that these washing machines could vibrate too hard, throwing off the top cover and other parts. They could also tip over and dump water onto the floor. Incidents like this have been reported by 733 owners, with some resulting in injury from flying parts.
Anyone who has one of the Samsung model numbers shown in the table above should stop using it immediately until it's been fixed. Failing that, the machine should be disposed of entirely.
An alternative to getting money back for a Samsung washer is getting it repaired. Samsung has offered to fix all the affected models free of charge. To start this process, call Samsung at 866-264-5636. The call takes about 10 minutes. After the repair option has been selected, a repair tech will come to your house to fix the machine. This option extends the manufacturer's warranty by one year. Note that it's illegal to sell a previously recalled item, even at a yard sale and even after it's been fixed. That means when the time comes to upgrade to a newer washer, this one will need to be taken to the dump.
The trouble with recalls is that since 2008 they've left consumers holding the bag. The 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) made it illegal to sell any previously recalled product. While that may sound like a good idea, an examination of the law makes it seem perplexing. It's OK for a manufacturer to recall an unsafe product, refunding only part of the purchase price as long as a repair option exists. Shoppers can then get their defective product fixed free of charge, but they can no longer sell it as a used item, even in a yard sale. This begs the question, if it's fixed and safe enough for the original buyer, why isn't it safe enough to sell second hand?
We may not get an answer to that question, but one thing's for certain: the 2008 law makes getting all our money back for a recalled Samsung washing machine almost impossible.
Picture this scenario: A shopper thoroughly researches all the washing machines out there and settles on the best unit he can buy. It's more expensive than the others, but it gets great ratings from Consumer Reports and every rating and review site on the web. The unit gets high marks for durability, cleaning clothes, ease of use and every other measure. Satisfied, the shopper shells out $850 for a brand new Samsung washing machine, secure in the knowledge that they've made a wise purchase that will last for years to come.
Fast forward to eight months later. The shopper gets a packet in the mail, telling him his Samsung washing machine has been recalled. The lid could suddenly fly off, throwing metal parts around the room. Further, Samsung isn't offering a full refund. It's only offering about 50% to 65% of the money back. Of course the owner can have the machine repaired, but then it's illegal for him to sell it used. In other words, this shopper is out $300 to $400.


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Q: Magento 2.0.7 grunt:less problem I'm using DigitalOcean one-click-install Magento 2.0.7 installation on ubuntu and I have installed nodejs and grunt following the official tutorials. I added my theme to /dev/tools/grunt/configs/themes.js like that:
    raultheme: {
    area: 'frontend',
    name: 'Raul/raultheme',
    locale: 'et_EE',
    files: [
        'css/styles-m',
        'css/styles-l',
        'css/email',
        'css/email-inline'
    ],
    dsl: 'less'
},

All Grunt tasks work except grunt less, which gives the following error:

I added _extends.less file to css/source/ and editing this while grunt watch is working is doing nothing.
I don't know what to do anymore, since I followed the tutorial word by word and still get errors. I also did not get any useful information from the github page to what the grunt error sent me.
I have magento running in developer mode, full cache disabled, server side compilation.
Anyone have a clue why I'm getting this error?
Would be really happy if I get this working..
It gives the same error no matter what theme I try to compile (grunt less:blank etc) so it cant by my theme configuration

A: Cant belive that no one has had the same issue.. but after a while I found the solution myself.
Running putty(or whatever cli you are using) as an administrator fixed it for me!

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.9 Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.9a Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories] in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics").
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.9b Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not").
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1b Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1c Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.3 Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.1a Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.1b Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4a Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4c Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.4d Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5b Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5c Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).


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Date of Death: April 22,1991
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland
Fannie Aronson
Pioneer of modern dance education in Michigan
Fannie Aronson was born in Cork, Ireland, to what she called "average, ordinary people." At age 8, she and her family immigrated to the Detroit area.
She did not become interested in dance until after graduating from Detroit Teachers College in 1923 as a physical education teacher. Throughout the 1920s, her teachers and colleagues introduced her to important dancers and dance educators, whose concerts and lectures Fannie attended. During the summers, when she wasn't teaching, she attended the Dalcroze School in New York, the Perry-Mansfield Camp in Colorado, and the Bennington Summer School of Dance in Bennington, Vermont, where she studied under Martha Graham.
In the 1930s, Detroit was a hotbed of labor and social unrest. The combination of unprecedented unemployment, poverty, dictatorial factory management and the prospect of another World War gave rise to a passionate group of modern dancers gathering together to express their desire for peace and to be heard through the art of dance.
In 1931, Fannie Aronson was one of three women founders of the New Dance Group, which met four times a week on 28 W. Warren and shared space with the Contemporary Theater Group. The New Dance Group was unofficially affiliated with the New Dance Group in New York because of Fannie's associations with Jane Dudley and Sophie Maslow at Bennington.
Most members of the New Dance Group had regular day jobs as teachers, secretaries, or in a retail setting. Since modern dance was associated with liberal causes, the dancers knew they could lose their jobs if their employers discovered this association. To hide her identity, Fannie Aronson used the name Fay Arnold for programs, interviews, and publicity releases.
Fannie, also, was one of the founding members of the Michigan Dance Council, formed in 1937 with the goal of "stimulating an interest in the serious art of dance and furthering the cause of peace." Throughout the late 1930s, the Council presented collaborative festivals of dance, sponsored guest artists, published a newsletter and produced an adjudicated solo dance concert. With the onset of World War II, the Michigan Dance Council dissolved and was subsequently replaced by the Jewish Community Center Dance Consultants Committee.
Fannie Aronson taught for more than 50 years in the Detroit Public Schools, most of that time as a dance instructor at Cass Technical High School.
"We did beautiful things at Cass," she said in a 1979 interview. "I had wonderful students who were alive and creative, and were not afraid to take on ambitious programs."
In turn, the students loved her back. "Working with you has been one of the most wonderful experiences I can ever treasure," said student Ava Goldberg. "Anyone who could work with such vibrancy and endless drive could not possibly fail."
Fannie retired from teaching in the 1970s and, in 1980, was awarded an honorary life membership from the Michigan Dance Association for her lifelong contributions to dance education.


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Q: Does SKNode have an actions property? I wondered if there was an easy way to see a list of all actions currently assigned to a node in SpriteKit. Something like an "actions" property that will contain a list of all a node's actions. The documentation for SKNode does not show anything like this.
However, I put a breakpoint in the Xcode debugger and saw that indeed there was an actions property on my SKNode:

You can see in the debugger that this actions array contains two actions that are running on my node. But strangely, if I try to access that property in code I get an error:
let node = self as SKNode
print(node.actions)
// Value of type 'SKNode' has no member 'actions'

Can anyone tell me where this actions property on the SKNode is coming from? Why can we see it in the debugger but cannot access it in code?