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Robert Alter's Fidelity
by Alan Jacobs August 2005
As the Italians say, traduttori, tradittori: translators are traitors. But the translator who shrugs and—cheerfully or resignedly—agrees that "every translation is an interpretation, after all" has too readily embraced the way of the tradittore. The translator who strives for strict fidelity, even knowing its elusiveness, will be less treacherous. In translation, fidelity is the ultimate imperative and trumps every other virtue: even clarity or readability.
Translators of the Bible seem often to forget this, if indeed they believe it at all. In the introduction to his extraordinary recent translation, The Five Books of Moses, Robert Alter points out that modern translations operate under the (perhaps unconscious) "feeling that the Bible, because of its canonical status, has to be made accessible—indeed, transparent—to all." Alter is certainly right that modern translators have this feeling, and obey it, but the Bible's "canonical status" is less to blame than a particular conception of how the Bible functions in the lives of believers.
Almost all modern translations into English—even versions like the recent "Tanakh Translation" of the Jewish Publication Society—owe something to the zeal of such early English Christian translators as John Wycliffe and William Tyndale and their belief that the Bible must be made clear to the common reader. Near the end of the fourteenth century Wycliffe wrote, "No man is so rude a scholar but that he may learn the gospel according to its simplicity." A century and a half later, Tyndale would utter—or so reports John Foxe, in his Acts and Monuments (1583)—the same thought in more vivid language. Responding to a "divine, reputed for a learned man," who had criticized Tyndale's views on Scripture, the great translator declared, "If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost."
It is often said that Wycliffe and Tyndale believed in a characteristic Protestant idea called "the perspicuity of Scripture"—an effective denial that the Scriptures are secret or occult, accessible only to those with special training or institutional authority. Rather, in the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, "those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them." Or, as Martin Luther tersely put it—evoking the scene on the road to Emmaus when the risen Christ "opened the Scriptures" to a pair of bewildered disciples—"Christ has opened our understanding to grasp the Scriptures."
Now, these authors were quick to admit that many particular passages in Scripture are, as Luther has it, "obscure and abstruse." "All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves," says Westminster, "nor alike clear unto all." Nevertheless, men like Wycliffe and Tyndale have often been thought to say something more radical—that, thanks to the work of the Holy Spirit, the whole of Scripture is transparent to the humble but earnest interpreter. Whether they believed this or not, many of their followers do; and later translators of Scripture have operated under the (again, often unconscious) assumption that the ideal experience of reading Scripture is one in which clarity manifests itself fully and immediately.
Undergirding this assumption is, I think, a memory of Christ's disturbing statement: "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children." Does this suggest that any translation that presents more difficulties to the "little children" than to the "wise and understanding" is somehow un-Christian? The idea may seem absurd, but it would be unwise to underrate the pressure of such thoughts in an assertively egalitarian, democratizing, and anti-elitist culture like our own today. Only in such a culture would something like "dynamic equivalence" models of translation be developed, because dynamic equivalence—which encourages translators to ask how we in our time and place might say whatever the Bible is taken to say—allows one to deal with difficult passages in the original text not by translating them but by interpreting their obscurities out of existence. Such passages must be cleared away, whenever possible, in order to make the crooked places straight and the rough places plain. The simple and problem-free translation then offers itself as evidence of the simplicity and problem-freeness of the biblical text itself. The translators thus stand to their readers in loco parentis: The "little children" never have to know what struggles their scholarly fathers undertook in order to protect them from the agonies of interpretive confusion.
It is noteworthy that Tyndale never thought to adopt such a strategy, despite his concern that the boy at the plow know the Bible. He understood perfectly well that many of the English words a faithful translation required him to employ would be unknown to many of his readers; however, his response to this problem was not to use only common words but to append to his translation a glossary of difficult terms. (At a time when real dictionaries were unheard of, this was a brilliant and innovative solution. Alas, Tyndale did not live to implement it.) Otherwise, readers would be in the lamentable situation of being unable to distinguish Tyndale's words from those of the text; and if he intruded his own words—even if those words were meant only to clarify or explain the Bible's—he would, by his own lights, have become a traitor rather than a translator.
Likewise, Wycliffe, for all his faith in the power of boys who drive plows to know their Bibles, makes it clear that Scripture exhibits its clarity only to those who undergo the lengthy intellectual discipline of submitting to its authority: "The faithful whom he calls in meekness and humility of heart, whether they be clergy or laity, male or female, bending the neck of their inner man to the logic and style of Scripture will find in it the power to labour and the wisdom hidden from the proud." God indeed reveals to the "little children" what is hidden from the "wise and understanding," but transforming oneself into a little child is the arduous work of a lifetime. Christ's yoke is easy and his burden light, but we don't like bending our necks to receive it—and no translation, however it accommodates itself to our language and understanding, can change that.
In criticizing the various "dynamic equivalence" models of translation, I lament what Robert Alter calls "the heresy of explanation"—"the use of translation as a vehicle for explaining the Bible rather than representing it in another language, [which] in the most egregious instances . . . amounts to explaining away the Bible." But for Alter there is no simple, straightforward alternative model of translation that by the application of some supposedly "literal" equation can magically achieve fidelity. The situation is too complicated for that, especially when languages as different as Hebrew and English are involved.
The complexity is fully recognized and acknowledged by Alter, who in a long and distinguished career has written with authority about the history of the novel and about biblical literature. He is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, and his climb up the sheer face of the pentateuchal mount resembles some of the great monuments of humanistic scholarship more than the work of the rabbis: His interest in Scripture is evidently literary and cultural. (Vladimir Nabokov's work on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is probably the single closest analogue to what Alter achieves in The Five Books of Moses.) In the 1980s he wrote The Art of Biblical Narrative and The Art of Biblical Poetry, and with Frank Kermode edited The Literary Guide to the Bible. More recently he has turned his hand to translation, first of Genesis, then of the vast biblical tale (largely consisting of the two books of Samuel) that he calls The David Story, and now the whole of the Pentateuch. To his scholarly accomplishments he adds an elegant English style, and he seems as prepared as a scholar can be to address the philological, historical, and literary problems that arise when one contemplates representing an ancient Hebrew text in modern English.
What to do, for instance, with waw? No problem is more constant for the translator from the Hebrew. Waw is a particle, attached to the beginning of many clauses, that, if translated as a word, is usually translated as "and." The preface to the Tanakh translation, however, points out that in biblical Hebrew waw has "the force not only of 'and' but also of 'however,' 'but,' 'yet,' 'when,' and any number of other such words and particles, or none at all that can be translated into English."
Therefore, these translators say, "Always to render it as 'and' is to misrepresent the Hebrew rather than be faithful to it." In a sense this is surely true; on the other hand, to use many different words to translate a single particle whose variations in meaning must, in Hebrew, be determined by the context is also a misrepresentation, just of a different kind.
As a case study in such difficulties, Alter cites Genesis 24, which begins with Abraham commissioning a servant to find a wife for Isaac. Alter focuses on verses 16 to 20, in which the servant encounters the extraordinary hospitality of a beautiful young woman named Rebekah, and points out that this passage contains fifteen instances of waw. He points out that the Revised English Version uses only five "ands" in the passage (as does the Tanakh translation). Alter, by contrast, gives us "and" all fifteen times:
And she came down to the spring and filled her jug and came back up. And the servant ran toward her and said, "Pray, let me sip a bit of water from your jug." And she said, "Drink, my lord," and she hurried and tipped down her jug on one hand and let him drink, and she let him drink his fill and said, "For your camels, too, I shall draw water until they drink their fill." And she hurried and emptied her jug into the trough, and she ran again to the well to draw water and drew water for all his camels.
Why does Alter do this? It is not because he is unaware of the many subtle variations of waw. Nor is it because he follows an iron law that a Hebrew word (or particle) must always be translated with the same English word; he does not in fact follow such a law. Rather, he wishes, first, to represent the repetitions that would have been very noticeable to anyone listening to this text being read aloud—which is how almost everyone who knew the story in ancient Israel would have encountered it, since literacy was uncommon and confined largely to the priestly orders. (Thus when, in the reign of King Josiah, the priest Hilkiah discovers the long-lost book of the Law, it is read aloud first to the king and then to the whole people.) Moreover, the repetition gives a certain urgency to the story: In precisely the same way, people telling a breathless tale in English even today will insert after every sentence an identical "and then . . . and then . . . and then."
But why does this passage call for such breathlessness? What's so remarkable about Rebekah's offering water to the servant and his camels? Alter points out that the text's early listeners would have known that "a camel after a long desert journey can drink as much as twenty-five gallons of water, and there are ten camels here whom Rebekah offers to water 'until they drink their fill.'" In an environment in which water was rare and highly prized, Rebekah's action marks her as a heroine of hospitality: Her generosity is as remarkable as her beauty.
But of course no translation, however faithful, can convey such information, can it? Ah, that's what commentary is for. In his remarkable book Religious Reading, Paul Griffiths describes the curious genre of writing we call "commentary." The genre originates in response to sacred writing, but eventually finds its way to other sorts of texts: legal, political, literary, and so on. Alter's reflections on the Pentateuch are evidently not the product of "religious reading": It is the artistry of the Scriptures that he is at greatest pains to stress, and both his translation and his commentary are at their best when they illuminate that artistry.
But, says Griffiths, to be a true commentary, a written work must exhibit three features: First, "some other work [must] be overtly present in it"; second, indications of the presence of that other work "should dominate" the commentary, "either quantitatively or qualitatively"; and third, the structure of the commentary, "the order in which material occurs in it, should be given to it by" that other work. Griffiths also makes the helpful suggestion that you can tell that a work is truly a commentary by excising all "direct quotation, paraphrase, and summary" of that other work from it: If the result is something senseless, you're dealing with a commentary. This point enables us to see why many works of biblical and literary criticism are not commentaries: They possess their own structures, their own arguments, and would not be rendered incomprehensible even by the excision of most of their references to the books they are supposedly about.
There is nothing wrong with such non-commentarial criticism, but it usually does not, and certainly need not, treat the "other work" with reverence: It does not consider the other work as a master work, while commentary does—even when it wants to overthrow the work that is currently, however lamentably, its master. (The passive-aggressive duplicity of much biblical commentary was seen with shocking clarity by Kierkegaard: "Christian scholarship is the Church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close . . . . We would be sunk if it were not for Christian scholarship! Praise be to everyone who works to consolidate the reputation of Christian scholarship, which helps to restrain the New Testament, this confounded book which would, one, two, three, run us all down if it got loose.")
It is a rare thing to find scholars willing not only to treat another text as a master work, but also to devote all their skill to illuminating that master work, revealing it in its best and clearest light. Robert Alter is a masterful scholar and a critic of exemplary sensitivity and tact who, both as translator and as commentator, has placed himself wholly in the service of the artfulness of the Torah. It is because he has been so attentive in his commenting that he can afford to be so daring in his translation, so immune to the "heresy of explanation," so faithful to the literary details of the text that other translators either see as impediments or do not see at all. Conversely, it is his adherence to this specifically literary model of fidelity in representation that leads him into commentary that far exceeds the demands of mere annotation.
The conventions of modern publishing allow Alter to embrace the biblical text only by introductions—to the whole project and to individual books—and by comments at the foot of the page. There are, thankfully, no note numbers, only italicized phrases in the comments indicating the passage being addressed; the biblical text is unmarked, so it is easy to ignore the notes and pursue the narrative when one wishes. But of course the reader discerns the presence of the notes, and when they are long and detailed, cannot resist them. Nor should they be resisted; they're wonderful.
Take, for example, the concluding verses of Exodus 25, which describe—rather unclearly, it must be said—the shape of an ornate lamp stand to be placed in the Tabernacle. Here is how the instructions and the chapter conclude: "And you shall make its seven lamps, and its lamps shall be mounted and give light in front of it, and its tongs and its fire-pans—pure gold. With a talent of pure gold shall it be made together with all these furnishings. And see, and make it by their pattern which you are shown on the mountain."
By preserving the parataxis in a dignified sequence of "ands," and by maintaining the repeated direct address—"you shall"—Alter clearly indicates both the ceremonial character of the Tabernacle's construction and the fact that these laws originate in personal communication from the Lord to Moses. The latter point is, of course, emphasized in the specific reference to the revelation on Mount Sinai, but Alter's translation of all these commandments reveals that the personal dimension never departs from them.
By contrast, the colloquial New Living Translation relates the instructions so laconically and impersonally that you would think Moses had picked up the lampstand at Target: "Make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold . . . . You will need seventy-five pounds of pure gold for the lampstand and its accessories." In his general introduction to the translation, Alter emphasizes the importance of diction to the translator of the Torah: The language of biblical narrative, and still more of biblical poetry, is elevated in comparison to daily speech. In a society such as ours, where the same informality of speech reigns on television talk shows, on the floors of the Senate, and in the pulpits of churches, the importance of such differentiation may not seem evident. But Alter makes a convincing case that it was important to the biblical authors.
Moreover, in his commentary Alter shrewdly notes that the reference to Moses' mountaintop vision "reflects an effort to anchor the instructions for the Tabernacle, which look like an independent literary unit, in the narrative context that in effect they disrupt." That is, we are forcibly reminded here of the overarching story—the story of the Lord's careful provision for his covenant people—which the numbing detail of instructions may cause us sometimes to forget.
And this is not an isolated example. Just two chapters later the altar is described in similar terms: "And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze. And its poles shall be brought through the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. Hollow boarded you shall make it, as He showed you on the mountain, thus they shall do." Here again the reminder of the vision the Lord granted Moses on Sinai—but with an addition, the puzzling shift to the third person: "thus they shall do." As Alter's commentary notes, "they" are the Israelites, so that the force of the passage is something like this: "God has so taught Moses how to build the altar, and the people of Israel will carry it accordingly." The King James Version doesn't quite get this, and assumes that that last clause means, "so shall they make it." But most modern translations—even including my favorite one, the recent English Standard Version—simply ignore the clause altogether. (The Tanakh translation renders the clause, "so shall they be made," which inexplicably makes the altar plural.)
It is true that the clause, with its sudden shift of grammatical person, is difficult to construe. But Alter assumes that it is there for a reason, indeed for a literary reason (though here, as is usual in Scripture, the literary serves the theological): It is a reminder of the force and point of the whole narrative that takes Israel from Egyptian captivity to the Promised Land. "Thus they shall do" reminds us that while it is Moses who receives the instructions, they are given—the Ark and Tabernacle are given—for the spiritual health of the people of Israel. Long after the death of Moses, the people will still carry, by those long poles, the altar, along with the other precious objects the Lord reveals to Moses; and when the Ark of the Covenant is taken from them by their enemies, their hearts will be broken; and when the Ark is restored to them, their King, David, will respond by "whirling with all his might before the LORD girt in a linen ephod, . . . leaping and whirling before the LORD." (So Alter gives us the scene in his magnificent rendering of The David Story.) So that one clause, so neglected by most translators, opens us to an expanse of covenant history that goes beyond even the great bulk of the Pentateuch. Who are "they"? "They" are, simply, Israel.
It is this Israel—a single nation persisting somehow across all the centuries, personified in the name of its father, the striver-with-God first known as Jacob—to whom Moses speaks in the first chapters of Deuteronomy. Alter rightly stresses the peculiarity of this speech. The generation of Israelites who came into the wilderness were judged faithless by the Lord because they were afraid to claim the land that the Lord had prepared for them. They heeded (so we are told in the book of Numbers) the ten timid spies rather than Joshua and Caleb, the bold ones who were ready to risk all to enter the land of milk and honey. They therefore must continue wandering until they die in the wilderness, so that almost everyone Moses addresses in his great homily is under the age of twenty. Yet, Alter notes,
Moses repeatedly speaks as though they were all direct participants in or observers of the episodes he mentions. There is, I would say, a slide of identification between one generation and another. Most of those listening to Moses' words could not literally have seen the things of which he speaks, but the people is imagined as a continuous entity, bearing responsibility through historical time as a collective moral agent. It is this assumption that underwrites the hortatory flourish, repeated in several variations, "Not with our fathers did the LORD seal this covenant, but with us—we that are here today, all of us alive."
This is truly an extraordinary claim by Moses, because in a very obvious sense it was the fathers of his audience with whom God had sealed His covenant. But the obvious sense is not, here, the correct one. Moses is teaching the young people before him that the covenant is renewed in every generation: Every generation is Israel, as fully as Moses is, as fully as Jacob himself was.
Alter, as a reader mindful of artfulness, is constantly alert to the ways the Pentateuch subtly incorporates the grand story of Israel into the details of the text—even (or especially) those details that most translators and commentators ignore. And not just details, but even great swaths of text that interpreters tend to read cynically or condescendingly. The excruciatingly specific instructions that we have been considering—given twice, in full—are treated by many modern commentators as evidence that (as Alter put it in his Art of Biblical Narrative) "the redactors were in the grip of a kind of manic tribal compulsion, driven again and again to include units of traditional material . . . for reasons they themselves could not have explained"; and by other commentators as evidence of a priestly caste determined to make its own responsibilities and obsessions central to Scripture.
Alter considers such assumptions "ungenerous." He grants that the priestly authors of the Hebrew Bible were doubtless sensitive to "the concerns of their own sacerdotal guild," but he also doubts that so cynically simplistic an explanation for strange textual features is adequate to the complexity of the biblical text. For the devotee of the documentary hypothesis, every puzzling passage is an opportunity to introduce another capital letter (J, E, D, P) denoting another source or another unnamed redactor. But Alter prefers to "assume that the ancient writers and their audience had different ideas [than ours] about literary unity and about how story related to law." This leads him consistently to make the charitable presumption that the biblical authors knew what they were doing, which in turn allows him to exert his considerable critical skills to imagine what that might have been.
The result is a translation-and-commentary that indeed shows the unfamiliar and often unexpected literary excellence of the Pentateuch. And because Alter (unlike Kierkegaard's Christian scholars) has no interest in "protecting" us from the biblical text, his work also, however unwittingly, provides devotional encouragement to one who would read this text "religiously." Reading the edgy, rhythmical prose of Alter's translation, and consulting his tactful but richly woven commentary, such a reader comes away with a deepened sense of the providential care of the Lord for his Israel, the minute particularity of the covenantal relationship initiated by this God who allows not a sparrow to fall but by His will and numbers the very hairs of our heads. Has a story ever been at once so comprehensive, so intricate, and so integral as the one Alter gives us here? One is tempted to call it inspired.
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College. His book The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis will be published by HarperSanFrancisco in October.
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Advancing the Commission's Recommendations in New York (June 2016)
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (Co-Chair of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance) delivered the John Holmes Memorial Lecture on "Security & Justice at a Crossroads: The Future of Global Governance," on June 17 at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS), in New York, available here.
For the Synthesis Report of the June 16 Experts Dialogue on Coping with Violent Conflict & State Fragility held at the United Nations and co-sponsored by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy, and Development, the UAE Mission to the U.N., the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, and the Stimson Center, please click here.
For the Media Advisory from the June 16 Experts Dialogue, please click here.
In addition, Professor Gambari and William Durch made presentations at the June 15 conference U.N. Security Council 2020 and 2050. At the ACUNS Annual Meeting (June 16-18), Bill Durch also chaired a panel on "U.N. Security Council Reform: Bottlenecks, Blunders, and (potential) Breakthroughs", with paper presentations by Richard Ponzio, Professor Vesselin Popovksi, and Professor Joseph Schwartzberg. In another session on "The U.N. Secretary-General and UN Reform: Looking to the Future of UN Leadership", Ponzio also co-presented a paper with Professor Michael Schroeder.

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Doug Phillips of Vision Forum has penned a delightful and meaningful blog posting about a blessed way to end this current year and prepare for 2012. I wholeheartedly recommend that you go to his blog and read his three points. They are timeless, good for any time of the year, and very poignant.
Practicing these three recommendations will bring much peace to your life, and to those around you.
Praying that you have a very JOYful and blessed New Year!
Fun Family New Year's Eve Party Idea!
For the last, well, umpteen years, our family has hosted a family-friendly New Year's Eve celebration.
I wouldn't say we do anything exotic or extraordinary...but we always have a lot of fun!
Yes, our girls now stay up until midnight (or later!) with us. I know - we're crazy.
And this year, with New Year's Day falling on a Sunday, and our worship service at church starting at 10:45 on Sunday morning, me thinks we're going to have some very tired children - and adults - come Sunday afternoon.
I love planning the food and decorations, but I've never been all that great at planning games and activities. When I saw this neat "New Year's Eve Countdown" idea on www.TheIdeaRoom.net, though, I knew this was what we were going to do this Saturday night. I mean, how fun is this?
However, I wanted different colors for our own family's party. So...even though I don't do this as often as I'd like, I took some time to have fun and design a set of printables for you to have your own New Year's Eve Countdown for your own family - in shades of blue and silver glitter!
All you will need are some paper lunch sacks, a black marker, and paper to print off the FREE printables, below. I happened to already have some white lunch sacks, so we're going to use those. If you don't happen to have lunch sacks, you could also print these off and glue/fasten them to envelopes with the slip of paper ideas placed one inside each envelope. On each bag/envelope, use the black marker to draw in the corresponding time of the event!
For our party, I'll be having one bag for each 30 minutes of the evening together.
6:30 ~ Eat Italian food!
7:00 ~ Glowstick "Maffia" game outside for the children!
9:00 ~ Ice Cream Sundaes!
12:00 ~ Happy New Year! Noisemakers and poppers for everyone!
The bags will have the graphics on them, below, and inside will be a slip of paper that explains what the activity will be, plus any additional supplies needed for that activity (if they will fit!). As you can tell, we'll have 9 bags lined up on the dining room table, and every 30 minutes, a child will be selected to open one bag to announce the surprise or activity!
I'd love to know how your own New Year's Eve celebration went for your own family, or more ideas for how to plan a fun New Year's Eve party, family-style. Please share in the comments, below!
And if you decided to go ahead and use these free printables for your party, please come back and let me know how it went!
Free Gingerbread House Designs, Recipes, Crafts eBook!
Isn't this darling? Learn how to make a delightful homemade gingerbread house with recipes, patterns, crafts, and other delicious homemade candy recipes with this free eBook available right now! If you don't have time to make something like this for this Christmas, save this for next year's use!
Ouch. Poorly produced audio CDs just make me cringe. Especially when it's from a Christian ministry. I just know they're trying to do a great job - but they aren't succeeding. Either the script is poor, the audio recording isn't done well, or something.
I guess I'm kind of an audio "snob." I can't stand to listen to AM radio stations, either. The extra fuzz and buzz just makes me cringe - some more.
If you're anything like most American moms, you've bought or borrowed scads of audio CDs for your children to listen to while in the car or folding laundry or just to enjoy as a family.
I know I'm not the only one who's engaged my children's imagination by reading to them aloud, and by borrowing or buying audio CD's for them. And since I discovered that my youngest daughter's weakest learning style was audio, I've made an extra effort to help her out in this department. When she was much younger, we purposefully listened to lots of audio stories and radio theater during breakfast, where she was sitting relatively still yet busy enough eating her meal...so she'd sit still long enough to be able to listen to a short story. Over the years, her auditory learning has greatly improved!
We've listened to Bible narratives and dramas on cassette or CD, Adventures in Odyssey episodes, Focus on the Family Radio Theater stories like "The Hiding Place", "The Chronicles of Narnia", etc.
We've avoided poorly done audios, because there are enough out there on the market that are professionally done.
The hardest thing to find made professionally, though, has been true Bible narratives of the biblical record.
I haven't been all that impressed with most of the Bible "stories" we've heard. Some of them are downright poor.
I heard that I might have the opportunity to listen to and review "The World's Greatest Stories" by George Sarris.
Hmm. Was this worth my time? My girls were at the upper end of the age range for this review product (designed for ages 4-12).
I decided to go check out the website, first. After listening to a sample of what George Sarris had to offer, I was hooked! No chipmunk-sounding voices, no weird background sounds/music. It sounded very professional!
I signed up immediately, without even showing this website to the girls. I just knew that they would love what they'd get to listen to at home!
Here's what arrived: Volume 1: The Prophets, in NIV format, and a sampler CD. The King James Version is also available.
Why the choice between NIV and KJV?
Well, instead of some written script that George Sarris has written himself or borrowed from someone else, he reads exactly through the biblical account, directly from the Bible.
Some people might insert a yawn here.
Obviously, you haven't listened to George Sarris recite the biblical record of a historical account!
The package came in the mail, but the girls didn't see it arrive. At our evening family Bible time together, I put "The Prophets" into the CD player. At first, the girls looked at me strangely when they heard an audio CD begin to "talk." We usually read from the Bible and read through a Bible devotional most nights.
One of the girls picked up the CD, and they both stared at the cover. I could tell that they'd already made a judgment about this CD just by looking at the cover.
But you can't always judge a book (or audio CD) by its cover, right?
Not more than a minute later, they were sitting forward on the couch, listening intently. So were Elmer and I. This was good stuff. Really good.
George Sarris is a very gifted man. I've seen numerous live dramatic interpretations of biblical accounts, and some have been excellent, but this was powerful. Wow.
We listened to "The Blazing Furnace". When it finished, we stared at each other in amazement. Never before had we heard one man use a variety of voices, inflections, volume levels, and sound effects before in such an amazing way!
The girls asked if we could listen to another selection on the audio CD. It was getting late, so we decided to listen to the next selection the following night, which we did.
Again, we were taken back by the power of God's Word told in a passionate way.
It wasn't a bunch of strange vegetables singing goofy songs.
It wasn't a group of kids attempting to figure out life and somehow weave God's truths into the "story."
This was simply God's Words being clarified by a man very gifted for a godly purpose.
Here's a sample of something similar to what we listened to, although I think the audio CD we listened to is much better, because instead of relying on some visual clues he provides for the audience in the video clip, below, the audio CD selections only have audio clues and cues, and they are much better.
We were all very pleasantly surprised at how excellent these audio selections are delivered to the intended audience! Even though our girls are both in junior high, I think I'll consider buying some additional audio CDs from The World's Greatest Stories. Not only will we enjoy listening to some more of these, they will be excellent to use in working with younger children (teaching Sunday School/VBS/Awana), or for my own grandchildren some day to listen to them.
Unless you decide that you don't particularly care for Mr. Sarris's style of reading through the Scriptures, I know that you will enjoy these! Each 60-minute audio CD costs only $7.95, and if a person orders 6 items, the shipping is free. Nice!
I'm super impressed with The World's Greatest Stories, and so were many of the TOS Crew families who reviewed this product with me. Read what they have to say about The World's Greatest Stories!
I received one CD copy of Volume 1: The Prophets in exchange for my honest review of this product. No other compensation was provided.
Fractazmic by "I See Cards" Games!
Recently, the girls and I received a new math fractions card game called, "Fractazmic".
Not "Frazzled", which is probably the name Brittany (age 11) would have given it. Hee-hee!
Not "Frustrating but Fabulous", which is the name I would have given this game when I was a child.
Instead, it's Fractazmic! And it is a FABULOUS game to play at home to help children understand fractions better.
Now it may seem from Brittany's renaming of this game that it was too hard for her and that it confused her. Actually, she's spending a lot of her math time this year learning about fractions, and she's found fractions to be a bit tricky for her at times. So her attitude may not be the best about playing a math game revolving around the concept of fractions.
At first, she thought the game was too hard. But Fractazmic is actually for ages 7 and upward, so it really isn't too hard for her at age 11. It just makes her think harder than other games she's played, so for her, she categorized Fractazmic as "too difficult."
Really, though, it's not. Not even for Brittany.
Fractazmic, by "I See Cards", is purposefully designed to cause kids (and adults like me!) to use the 60 cards to convert fractions back and forth and to add fractions with nonequivalent denominators. Fractazmic makes the players begin to understand the concepts between fractions and measurements.
Since Brittany's a smart girl, she did quickly figure out that she can use the pictures on the cards to help her make sets or "hands" to lay down. And that made the game easier for her, which was nice.
When Brittany finishes her current math textbook in another 2-3 months, we're going to keep on playing Fractazmic occasionally to help her keep her fractions skills sharp. I know that she's going to get used to the game as time goes on, and will continue to play better and smarter!
Want to see Fractazmic in action? Take a visit to a Fractazmic speed game where you can play it online! If your time is the fastest, you can even win a free set of Fractazmic for your family!
And another version of Fractazmic...Trap!
"I See Cards" also provides everyone with a free download of their booklet HERE which explains how to play the different games using the Fractazmic deck of cards.
"I See Cards" sells Fractazmic for $6.95 and also sells other card games they've developed, including Pyramath (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and Prime Bomb (prime numbers). It can be played individually or by 2-4 people. Nice that this game has that kind of flexibility!
I'd personally much rather play Fractazmic during math class than do a worksheet. Wouldn't you? !!!
We'll continue playing Fractazmic, and gaining more skill in quickly maneuvering back and forth between fractions that need to be added and subtracted. Games are such a better way of learning and practicing skills like this! I know Brittany will enjoy giving up a math assignment to play Fractazmic once in a while. So will Kelsi (age 14) and I!
Want to see what other TOS Crew members had to say about the new card game, Fractazmic? Click here!
Disclosure: I was provided with one free set of Fractazmic cards for the purpose of using and reviewing this product here for you. No other compensation was provided.
Our 2011 Family Christmas Card!
After a week of horrendous stomach flu and then a few days' jaunt to California for my uncle's memorial service, I've finally had some time to plan our Christmas cards for this year.
I know, I know. Most of you have had your Christmas cards or letters ready since mid-October, right?
Please don't tell me if you have. I just might cry.
I did think about it, mid-October. But my grandmother passed away then, and we made our first jaunt to California for her burial service. We've had a busy, fulfilling few weeks around here, other than the stomach flu. That was NOT fulfilling, in the least!
I decided to do what I did last year for our Christmas cards: use Shutterfly's photo and card site. In years past, I would type out a full-page letter, print it off, fold it, place it inside a Christmas card, sign the Christmas card and often write a little note to make it more personal, and finally stamp and send off the letters. Since we have around 75 people on our Christmas card list, it took me quite some time to do this.
Last year, with Shutterfly, I was able to upload a family photo to a beautiful, professional-looking card, type out a full letter to be printed inside the card for me, and then have them shipped quickly to me. It was so nice not to have to spend a lot of time folding all those letters to stuff into the card envelopes!
This year, we've done the same thing. I uploaded the photo you see above, and typed out a full-length letter for the inside of the card. Then, when the cards arrive, I'll sign our names inside, include a little handwritten note if I have time, and send our Christmas greetings on their way to friends and family!
I've always been impressed with Shutterfly's easy personalized card-making and invitation services they offer on their website. Granted, I do enjoy dinking around on the computer and getting our family photo to look just how I want it. I enjoy typing out our Christmas letter, and all that goes along with it. But it's truly not difficult to navigate their website, and they hold my hand all the way through the personalized card-making process, so I love that!
I wish I could send you all one of our personalized Christmas cards, but I can't. Know that I treasure you, my readers, and I sincerely wish you a blessed Merry Christmas!
I received 25 free photo cards from Shutterfly in exchange for reviewing this process on my website for my readers. No other compensation was provided.


Welcome to the Paycargo REST API! You can use our API to create and void transactions, submit payments and get transaction details.
You can view code examples in the dark area to the right, and you can switch the programming language of the examples with the tabs in the top right.
To authenticate as a user, you will need a properly registered and active Paycargo username and password.
The token is longer than 256 characters as it contains information about the user account used for authentication.
To authenticate as a developer, you will need an API Key and Shared Secret. You can obtain them by emailing developers@paycargo.com.
The token can be longer than 256 charachters as it contains information about developer account.
This endpoint gives you the details for the transaction.
transactionId true Unique identifier of the transaction in Paycargo system.
direction String "Inbound" / "Outbound"
"msg": "Overnight availability reached, insufficient funds, cannot be approved"
direction Yes String "Inbound" / "Outbound"
This endpoint voids a transaction.
This endpoint updates the total and payment due date for the paid transaction.
This endpoint gives you the details for the transaction lines for a given transaction.
transactionId true Unique identifier of the transaction in Paycargo system that the lines correspond to.
This endpoint creates a transaction line item for a given transaction (with a corresponding transactionId).
This endpoint deletes a transaction line item.
"name": "Air General - Ocean - DFW"
This endpoint gives you the list of payers associated with your developer account.
payerId true Unique identifier of the payer account in Paycargo system.
"payerName": "Essex Mfg Inc./Baum Bros"
401 Unauthorized -- Your API token is wrong.
404 Not Found -- The specified resource could not be found.


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VUI steht für:
 Voice user interface, Englisch für Stimmliche Benutzerschnittstelle
 Variant under investigation (Variante in Untersuchung) bei Viren, z. B. SARS-CoV-2
 Vattikuti Urology Institute, Klinik und Forschungsinstitut in Detroit, USA


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Makes you proud to be British...
The last twenty-four hours have been a rare feast for Scottish sport, with Andy Murray reaching his third Grand Slam final, and John and Sinead Kerr winning a bronze medal in the ice dance competition at the European Figure Skating Championships. It's probably fair to say that the latter achievement is somewhat less well-known, in spite of the fact that it's only the second medal Great Britain have won in the championships since Torvill and Dean's fleeting return to competition in 1994. It's more than a little bemusing that millions love skating so much that they would never dream of missing ex-soap stars and cricketers "walking on ice" live on TV every Sunday night, but it would never occur to them to actually take an interest in the talent on display in a major championship.
Also rather galling (as I've observed before) is the uncanny habit Scottish success stories have of occurring in sports where we compete under the GB banner. At least the TV tennis commentators seem to have noticed Andy Murray is Scottish - the Eurosport figure skating commentators, by contrast, must have called the Kerrs "the Brits" about a thousand times last night, which particularly jarred when the host Swiss broadcaster repeatedly zoomed in on the large saltire in the front row. Even just one passing reference to their Scottishness would have been nice. Shouldn't criticise too much, though - at least Chris Howarth and Nicky Slater are always brimming with enthusiasm and positivity, whereas Robin Cousins' commentary for the BBC never fails to remind me of a trip to the headmaster's office.
Labels: Andy Murray, Dancing on Ice, figure skating, ice skating, sport, tennis
Gender politics : time to 'seek truth from facts'?
Indy left an interesting comment on my post about gender politics the other day -
"I don't actually agree with you there. There are certain types of employment that attract different genders. The majority of care workers are women, the vast majority of NHS staff are women, the vast majority of nursery staff and primary teachers are women. The vast majority of bankers are men.
So there is a gender aspect to the situation we are in because the UK Government's cuts will hit women working delivering health or social care services much harder than they will affect the bankers - although bankers have far more responsibility for creating the financial situation which has led to the cuts in the first place.
To add insult to injury we are repeatedly told that the cuts are necessary because we have all been "living beyond our means" - as though the country is teetering on bankruptcy because we have too many nurses or care assistants or nursery teachers. I think we all know that is the most arrant nonsense.
At the end of the day the UK Government has made its choices because it values the work of bankers more than it values the work of nurses or care workers or teachers. Are you so sure that this is not because the bankers are overwhelmingly men and the nurses, care workers and teachers are overwhelmingly women?"
What I find most striking here is that Indy starts by saying he/she disagrees with me, but nothing from that point on actually directly takes issue with what I said, which was about discriminatory thinking on the part of policy-makers in relation to domestic violence and prostitution, and also about whether generically blaming "men" for the financial crisis was sexist. It seems to me that the implicit suggestion is that by identifying areas of discrimination and prejudice against men, I am by definition denying that there is still discrimination and prejudice against women. It should surely be obvious that simply doesn't follow, and as it happens it categorically isn't true. I wouldn't disagree for a moment that women are being disproportionately affected by the Westmister cuts. I've no idea whether sexism is a driving force behind the coalition's actions, but the notion certainly doesn't strike me as being inherently implausible.
So what is going on here? Why do so many on the left refuse to accept that it's perfectly possible to simultaneously acknowledge the existence of discrimination on the basis of gender against both men and women? I pointed out in my earlier post that Scottish Labour's attitude to gender politics is rooted in Marxism, and that's not a bad place to look for the explanation. A hundred years ago, both gender and class inequality was a one-way street - it was almost always women and an easily-defined working class who found themselves on the wrong end. Faced with a world of such clear-cut contrasts, it was easy for reformers to come up with equally clear-cut narratives to explain the underlying problem - the exploitation of one class by another, and the exploitation of women by men. An "original sin" analysis, you might almost say. The consequential logic is obvious - to claim that other groups (eg. men) suffer from inequality is one way of denying that original sin, and thus to perpetuate the root cause of the oppression. That's the prism through which much of the left continues to view gender politics today.
But the world has moved on, and the pattern of inequality and injustice is now much more complex, both in relation to gender and class. Original sin no longer makes sense as a comprehensive explanation - which also means that, contrary to appearances at the time, it never fully made sense. The analysis contained flaws from the start. Deng Xiaoping recognised that in the late 1970s when he moved the Chinese Communist Party away from the rigid dogma of class struggle that was holding his country's development back. The guiding principle from then on was to "seek truth from facts". Now, strange though it may seem to advise our politicians to take a leaf out of a dictator's book, I'd have to say that's an excellent motto to apply to gender politics in this country. The business of the left should be to combat injustice and inequality without fear or favour wherever the facts suggest it exists - not to distort those facts to fit a redundant narrative of blame it has (understandably) become emotionally wedded to as a result of decades of struggle to advance women's rights. That means, for instance, championing the cause of all victims of domestic violence on an equal basis, and not solely the ones who fit the "original sin" template, ie. women beaten by men.
A few more examples off the top of my head of the double-standards this ideology leads to -
1) I recall seeing an article in the Scotsman two or three years back, about how the medical profession was expected on the basis of statistical projections to become heavily dominated by women in the years to come. Someone was quoted as saying that, instead of seeing this as a "problem" that had to be addressed, we should instead be embracing the advantages brought about by the "feminisation" of medicine. Now, can anyone keep a straight face when arguing that we should stop seeing the male domination of the political class as a problem, and instead celebrate the wonderful "masculinity" of the House of Commons?
2) Probably the most fundamental gender inequality of the lot is that women live several years longer than men. Some of that differential is biologically unavoidable, but by no means all of it. If the situation was reversed and men lived longer, it seems highly probable that it would be a policy priority to reduce the longevity gap by identifying and addressing the underlying causes. There would certainly be no suggestion from the left that women only have themselves to blame for dying younger. But, as it is, what is the reaction to men's plight? More often than not, a patronising and disinterested observation that they don't look after their health as well as women. To call that "pathetic" doesn't even begin to do it justice. Actually, we might look back to point 1 for part of the explanation for why men are less careful about their health - the feminisation of doctor's surgeries. Similarly, the feminisation of education must surely be a factor in boys falling behind in so many subjects - but, again, ideology doesn't permit us to view that as in any sense a "problem". It's always boys' fault for not adapting to the preferred methods of their teachers, and never the other way round.
3) Jim White wrote an excellent piece on Yahoo the other day, pointing out the supreme irony in Richard Keys' claim that football had "gone mad" for introducing a female assistant referee to the top flight of the sport, when it was he who held the risible belief that the sole fact of Sian Massey's gender rendered her incapable of understanding and correctly implementing the offside rule. Yet the adherents to the "original sin" analysis of gender relations can see nothing risible about insisting that the sole fact of their gender somehow makes women incapable of committing violence against a partner, or indeed freely entering into a transaction that commercialises the sexual act.
Incidentally, I should say in closing that I've got no particular axe to grind here - I'm not personally aware of ever having been the victim of gender discrimination. It may well happen one day, but it hasn't yet. And, to put it mildly, I'm not particularly a hyper-masculine sort of chap (I even like Jane Austen in small doses) so in some ways the feminisation of society has suited me well enough. But for others it's a very different story.
Labels: domestic violence, politics, prostitution, Scottish politics, sport
Welsh Labour leader wants perpetual Labour rule in Wales - who'd have thunk it?
Well, I've seen some cynical political manoeuvres, but this one takes the biscuit. Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Carwyn Jones has declared his support for a Yes vote in the forthcoming AV referendum, and has also innocently suggested that AV would be a rather good electoral system for the Welsh Assembly. Which is just about the only way a Labour politician could possibly hope to call for the scrapping of proportional representation and its replacement with a permanent artificial Labour majority without looking breathtakingly power-crazed. Mr Jones poses what he describes as an "important" question (presumably while struggling manfully to stifle his guffaws) -
"if this change is good enough to elect Members of the House of Commons, then surely it's good enough to elect Members of the Welsh Assembly too?"
On the million-to-one chance that was a serious question, I'll spell out the bleedin' obvious for Carwyn - the bulk of Yes supporters categorically do not think AV is "good enough" to elect MPs. If they were offered a system like the one which elects the Welsh Assembly, they'd bite your hand off. In the meantime, they're simply making a rational choice for the better of the two rubbish majoritarian systems on offer in this referendum.
Labels: AV referendum, Carwyn Jones, electoral reform, politics, proportional representation, Wales, Welsh politics
Twelve hours to save Portugal from itself
In the past, it's been quite rare for countries to allow non-residents to vote in their Eurovision pre-selections. I think the only time I managed to vote in a selection other than the UK's was Greece a couple of years ago, which was a slightly interminable experience, because I had to sit through a mammoth show waiting for the very narrow voting window. Ireland allowed votes from the UK last year (presumably to encourage participation from Northern Ireland) but a similar problem applied and I gave up in despair! So I'm delighted to say Portugal have made it really easy this year, and are holding an online-only preliminary vote to decide the twelve songs that will go through to the final of Festival da Canção 2011. The poll seems to close at noon today, the 27th (although it might be midnight - the Google translation is a bit ambiguous).
But...a mystery. I defy anyone to listen to the snippets of those songs and not conclude that Carla Moreno's dance track Sobrevivo is the best choice by some distance. So why on earth is it trailing so badly behind the cringeworthy A luta é alegria? Perhaps the only thing that can be said in favour of the latter song is that it's vaguely reminiscent of the quirky O meu coração não tem cor, the song that took Portugal to its best ever placing in the contest in 1996 (a mere 6th). But it doesn't have anything like the same charm, and in any case 1996 might as well be a million years ago in Eurovision terms.
In spite of the title of this post, there's no way of actually preventing the offending song from going through at this stage - with twelve qualifiers, it's bound to make it. So instead of fretting over the "top of the table clash", I decided I might as well use my vote more effectively by looking at the two songs that are effectively battling it out to secure the twelfth and last place in the final. Irritatingly, I found I liked them both more or less equally (which can't be said for several further up the leaderboard). But as Margaret Beckett once sarcastically told Neil Kinnock, "you have to choose...you have to choose all the time". So I've plumped for Esta Noite Vamos Curtir by Pop Pins. May God forgive me.
A cut out and keep guide to navigating through the voting process in Portuguese :
1. You have three votes.
2. You can cast all three votes for the same song, or spread them around.
3. After clicking on the song you want to vote for, click on 'Vote Nesta Música'.
4. Enter your email address and the verification code provided.
5. Click the activation link you are sent by email.
6. Do NOT vote for A luta é alegria. Please. I'm begging you.
Posted by James Kelly at 12:39 AM 0 comments
Labels: Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest, music, Portugal
If gender equality isn't an issue for the left, what is?
It goes without saying that the Tory MP Dominic Raab was a thoroughbred idiot for making his 'Kevin Baker-esque' remark that feminists are "onbnoxious bigots", and deserves everything that's coming to him as a result. Which is a pity, in one sense, because there's a fairly obvious grain of truth in the broader point he was making, if only he could have expressed himself in a slightly less abusive manner. Specifically, he suggested that Harriet Harman's claim that men were to blame for the financial crisis was sexist. Well, the simplest way to judge if double-standards are at play is usually to take the polar opposite of a statement and try it on for size. If a bank with an overwhelmingly female management team had made a catastrophic blunder, would it be deemed reasonable to blame that on the shortcomings of women in general? Plainly not, and rightly so.
'Reverse sexism' is absolutely endemic in our society, and its manifestations are so familiar we don't even register them most of the time. I used to watch Australian soap operas when I was a teenager (I'm glad to say I've long since kicked the habit) and it suddenly dawned on me one day that the characters who did something stupid or selfish were almost always male - and of course it was invariably the women who showed them the error of their ways and got them to apologise. Generally, the only female characters who were ever permitted to go slightly astray were teenagers - the message seemed to be that grown-up women are 'mature' in every sense and are thus blameless, whereas many men never attain that state and are thus blameworthy. That's a recurring theme in advertising as well.
Does any of this really matter? Well, it certainly does when the underlying assumptions start influencing government decisions and legislation. I've discussed in the past the pernicious effect of Scottish Labour's insistence (and sadly other parties are not immune to this) that domestic violence is almost exclusively something that men do to women, in spite of the plentiful evidence that it's also something that women do to men, men do to men, and women do to women. Thousands of victims effectively become 'the enemy', because if their stories are heard and taken seriously in sufficient numbers (ie. if they no longer seem like aberrations or 'outliers'), it jeapordises the precious official fiction. And when you're already in a vulnerable position, being the enemy of policy-makers as well is not a comfortable place to be.
Perhaps the most extreme example of the very concrete gender discrimination this distorted thinking can ultimately lead to is the Swedish law on prostitution, which criminalises men who pay for sex, but regards women who sell sex - even when they are acting completely independently - as the victims of 'male violence'. I've no idea how that law nominally treats the inconvenient examples of women who pay men or other women for sex, or indeed men who pay men, but the guiding thinking is clear enough - the former "can't happen", while the latter is "marginal". Once again, allowing the full range of experiences to be heard on an equal basis would imperil the ludicrously simplistic narrative of blame.
Whether prostitution should in principle be legal or not is a matter for debate. But if it is to be a criminal act, and two adults consensually agree to commit it, it's surely self-evident that it's grossly discriminatory to regard just one of those adults as wholly responsible for the decision, and the other as the equivalent of a helpless child - purely on the basis of the gender of each. The ideology that underpins the law is actually rooted in Marxism - the notion that women can't be responsible for a seemingly free choice (because their thinking is distorted by male oppression) is a classic example of 'false consciousness'. Which makes it doubly ironic that the politicians who are most keen on applying the Swedish logic in Scotland are to be found, again, in the Labour ranks. In pretty much every other respect The People's Party abandoned socialism (not to mention social democracy) years ago, but it remains quaintly wedded to full-blooded Marxism when it comes to gender politics.
What's truly depressing is that vigorous opposition to this irrational and unjust ideology is generally only associated with certain sections of the right, particularly the radical libertarian right. If equality - true equality - between the genders isn't to be considered a natural concern for the left, I really don't know what is.
Labels: domestic violence, Labour, Marxism, politics, prostitution, Scottish politics
On a Nótt like this...
I just had a little frisson of excitement (OK, I'm easily pleased) when I spotted on Esctoday that Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir - singer of my all-time favourite Eurovision entry - participated in the semi-final stage of the Icelandic national selection last night. That rang a bell from somewhere - I must have read the news of her return a while back but forgot all about it. Anyway, having had a quick listen to the new song Nótt, while it inevitably doesn't scale the heights of Is It True?, it's probably the best of the handful of prospective entries I've got round to checking out so far this year. Refreshingly, it's sung in Icelandic, although reading between the lines of Jóhanna's interview, there's probably a less-than-even chance it'll stay that way if it makes it through to Eurovision.
It's also worth bearing in mind that Iceland have foolishly discarded some real gems in their national selections in the past (not least in 2006), but this one is over the first hurdle at least.
Labels: Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest, Iceland, Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, music, Yohanna


You and your organisation are likely to have elements of flexibility in the way you work. But how do you make sure you're doing it right, rather than hoping for the best?
Part of the Directory of Social Change's renowned 'Speed Read' library, this short book will teach you how to create a more formal strategy on flexible working and ensure your organisation complies with all the required legislation.
In this simple guide you'll find advice on integrating flexible working into your organisation, and creating policies so that everyone benefits.
This book is aimed particularly at those leading and managing smaller charities, as well as larger organisations looking to implement a formal strategy on flexible working.
How to make different types of flexible arrangements work in your organisation.
How to create a flexible working policy.
The benefits and pitfalls of employment legislation.
Have a look inside Speed Read: Flexible Working.


PokerStars is well known for running the world's largest online poker tournament series such as the WCOOP and SCOOP. Interestingly enough, they'll also be recognized for the offering the world's largest little poker tournament series in the MicroMillions.
The most noteworthy element of the PokerStars MicroMillions is that it will give players the opportunity to play for huge prize pools without spending a lot of money. For example, the MicroMillions Main Event features a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, yet the buy-in will only be $22. In all, there will be $5 million in guaranteed money offered over the course of 100 poker tournaments.
If you're interested in joining Veldhuis in these low buy-in, huge prize pool MicroMillions tournaments, make sure to sign up at PokerStars through RakeTheRake so that you get a top rakeback deal with a 100% match deposit bonus up to $600.


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Steve Miller Band performing at Lake Tahoe with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Steve Miller Band performs on South Shore Saturday, Aug. 23.
David Woo / Provided
If you go ...
What: Steve Miller Band
When: 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24
Where: Harveys Lake Tahoe (18 U.S. 50, Stateline, Nev.)
Tickets: $49.50-$139.50 (plus taxes/fees)
Info: http://www.ticketmaster.com
He's been to Phoenix in Arizona, Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta and L.A. But Saturday he'll be in Northern Nevada.
The Steve Miller Band returns to Stateline to play the Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series in what is becoming somewhat of annual occurrence.
Now, chances are we probably don't have to go into too much detail about Steve Miller. Unless you're someone entirely unfamiliar with … what's it called? … music, you've probably heard a Steve Miller Band song or two. Think "Fly Like and Eagle," "Rock'n Me," "Jungle Love," "Jet Airliner" — to name a few.
Steve Miller Band is one of those acts that seems to have made every other song played on classic rock radio stations. In fact, a study found that nine in 10 Americans have drunkenly screamed the "woo-woo" guitar riff from "The Joker."
But unlike many of those bands in heavy rotation (say like a certain one not cared for by The Dude), you never tire of Steve Miller's music. It's always fun to listen too, which probably helps explain why he keeps coming back to Tahoe.
And in keeping with the trend set during some recent Tahoe visits, Steve Miller Band isn't coming to the lake alone.
The band will be joined by country music legend Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives. Stuart has penned a few country hits in his days, including songs like "Hillbilly Rock."
Together, this show — billed as classic rock meets classic country — promises to be one of the best of the 2019 Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series.
The concert is slated to start at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Harveys Outdoor Arena.
Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com.
Learn more about Steve Miller Band at http://www.stevemillerband.com/.
Learn more about Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives at http://www.martystuart.net.
History speaker series to feature Snowshoe Thompson
The Lake House hosts 'Vine & Dine' series
Nice birding weather anticipated for Eagles & Ag
Tahoe Action this week: Exploration trek; Comedian Steve Hofstetter at Harrah's; SkiiTour with Rambo at CBC
Woman awarded for pioneering efforts in preserving Vikingsholm Castle


Ariste Permanent Brush Markers in 12 Bright colours. Dual tipped pens for stamping, journalling, doodling and much more.
Brush Marker at one end and a fine point at the other.
This pack includes Green, Chartreuse, Blue, Sky Blue, Lapis Lazuli, Violet, Pink, Red, Orange, Light Salmon, Yellow, Black.


If you like big, handsome cats with rugged good looks, Timone just may steal your heart. He is friendly and loves a good scratch behind the ears. Stroke his soft and velvety coat and you will see the appreciation in his stunning green eyes and hear the rumble of his deep purrs.
Timone is a senior cat at 13 years old and has a lot of love left to give. He is good with other cats and has lived with children, but would like a home without dogs. Come fall in love with Timone today.
Oct. 28 to Oct. 30 — N.H. SPCA's Annual Meowloween Adopt-a-thon. Help the shelter reach its goal of finding homes for 100 animals. The shelter will be open extended hours, Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will feature Freebie Felines, Half Price Hounds and other adoption discounts; bake sale; raffles; door prize and face painting on Saturday. Sunday, Nov. 7: at the N.H. SPCA: Book an appointment for Holiday Pet Portraits with Brylye Collins Photography. Appointments being scheduled between 9:30 and 3:30 p.m. Choose to have a photo with Santa or holiday background. Fifty percent of the proceeds will benefit the animals of the N.H. SPCA. For an appointments, call Courtney at 772.2921 ext. 102.
To adopt Timone or any of the many animals who need homes, visit 104 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, or call the shelter at 772-2921. For adoption fees, visit www.nhspca.org and click on "How to Adopt." Shelter hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday; and closed on Wednesday.


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namespace DCarbone\PHPFHIRGenerated\STU3\PHPFHIRTests\FHIRElement\FHIRBackboneElement\FHIRCodeSystem;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use DCarbone\PHPFHIRGenerated\STU3\FHIRElement\FHIRBackboneElement\FHIRCodeSystem\FHIRCodeSystemConcept;

/**
 * Class FHIRCodeSystemConceptTest
 * @package \DCarbone\PHPFHIRGenerated\STU3\PHPFHIRTests\FHIRElement\FHIRBackboneElement\FHIRCodeSystem
 */
class FHIRCodeSystemConceptTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testCanConstructTypeNoArgs()
    {
        $type = new FHIRCodeSystemConcept();
        $this->assertInstanceOf('\DCarbone\PHPFHIRGenerated\STU3\FHIRElement\FHIRBackboneElement\FHIRCodeSystem\FHIRCodeSystemConcept', $type);
    }
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In regions of the world with extreme heat and low electrical costs, dairy facilities are increasingly becoming wider. These wide facilities use panel/curtain openings on one side and blocks of fans along the opposing side. The panels can be mounted either internally or externally.
This cross flow system can be linked to misting, an evaporative cooling system that maximizes animal comfort. Sun-North can design and provide equipment and controls to co-ordinate the ventilation requirements for this type of facility.


A BRIDEZILLA who sparked outrage with a body weight-based dress code has announced she will be issuing lie detector tests to find out which guests spread the instructions.
The original dress code, which was shared on a Facebook group and was supposedly sent by one bride-to-be, demands guests splash out at least £565 (AUS$1,000) on their evening outfits - on top of asking women to invest in a pair of pricey Louboutins and a Burberry scarf.
To make it even more OTT, the wedding is still 18 months away - taking place in Hawaii next spring - and the bride is also organising a synchronised dance.
Upon discovering she had been outed, she wrote on the group: "It has come to my attention that someone went all the way down in this groups creation to screenshot the dress code requirements."
"I could not be more crushed, betrayed, or saddened.
"I trust each and every one of you so intimately. Knowing someone went behind my back and made fun of me is one of the worst feelings.
"And boy will you be paying."
In her original request, she wrote: "I am giving you a long notice of a year and a half so that you will have time to find and pick out something nice.
"The dress code is very specific because it will be used to create an incredible visual effect.
"If done right, it will make our synchronised dancing along the beach really pop."
Women who weigh between 7 stone and 11st 6lb have been asked to wear a green velvet sweater, orange suede trousers, a Burberry scarf and Louboutin heels.
While those over 11-and-a-half stone have been told to wear an all-black outfit of a jumper, trousers and heels.
Bizarrely, blokes who weigh between 7 stone and 14 st 4lb have been asked to wear a bizarre purple fuzzy jacket, a soda hat, pair of white trainers and glow sticks.
Heavier lads are instructed to wear camouflage print and black trainers.
While kids should dress from head-to-toe in red, and it must be "true red not blood orange", according to the very specific instructions.
After the dance, the bride has asked her guests to change into formal attire costing at least £565, adding: "if you look like trash, so will we".
The post is finished: "You have a year and a half to get working. No excuses! Mwah".
As the bride has been kept anonymous, we can't verify if this is a genuine list of demands, although guests on the group have insisted it is.
One comment under the post said: "She basically wants the woman to look like fuzzy palm trees".
Another added: "If you want me to wear at least $1,000 - you best be buying that stuff for me or reimbursing me for stuff I won't wear again."
In other wedding news, this bride was left reeling when her bouquet throw led to an instant surprise proposal for one shocked guest.


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Ruel Biography
Quick Facts About Ruel
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Ruel Vincent van Dijk
Australian singer-songwriter
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Ruel Vincent van Dijk, known as Ruel, is an English born Australian singer and songwriter from Sydney, best known for his singles "Don't Tell Me", "Younger" and "Painkiller". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, he won the award for Breakthrough Artist for his single "Dazed & Confused".
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What is Ruel famous for?
Ruel van Dijk, better known by stage name Ruel, is the UK born Australian singer-songwriter best recognized for his singles 'Don't Tell Me' and 'Younger'. He wrote his first song at just 12 years of age.
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Where is Ruel from?
Ruel was born on October 29, 2002, in Isleworth, London. Ruel's mother is Kate van Dijk who belongs to British nationality, and his father is Dutch-born New Zealand-raised and his name is Ralph van Dijk. His father is the founder of the Australian radio agency, Eardrum. His family moved to Sydney, Australia in 2006. He belongs to Australian nationality and his ethnicity is white. He follows Christianity as a religion. The zodiac sign of Ruel is Scorpio. He has two sisters and they are Sylvie and Coco. He went to Redlands High school.
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What is Ruel's career?
Ruel's singing career started in 2015, when Ruel's father sent a demo of him singing James Bay's "Let It Go" to Grammy Award-winning producer M-Phazes which impressed him very much. This got Ruel an opportunity to release his debut single "Golden Years" with M-Phazes in April 2017. In June, Ruel made his live radio debut performing Jack Garratt's "Weathered" on triple J's Like a Version. At 14, he was the youngest-ever featured performer on the segment. The video gathered half a million video views in less than 48 hours.n July 2017, Ruel released "Don't Tell Me", which peaked at number 86 on the ARIA Chart.
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In November 2017 Ruel joined Khalid on his American Teen Tour of Australia and New Zealand. Later that month, Ruel signed with RCA Records internationally. In December, Tom released a cover of Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" featuring Ruel on vocals. On 24 March 2018, Ruel played at Pop Spring Festival, Tokyo. On 4 April, Ruel performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. On 19 April, a music video for the single "Don't Tell Me" was released. On 2 June, Ruel announced the release of his debut extended play Ready on 15 June, as well as a headline tour in June and July. In October, Ruel performed to a sell-out crowd in Sydney and received the news that his single "Younger" had recently been certified Gold by ARIA. On 11 October, Ruel was nominated for the Breakout Artist award for the ARIA Awards, which he later won, making him the youngest ever to do so.
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On 10 January 2019, Ruel was confirmed to appear on Hilltop Hoods' new album The Great Expanse, on the track "Fire & Grace". The album was then released on 22 February. On 1 May, Ruel released the lead single from his Free Time EP, "Painkiller". On 9 August, Ruel released the single "Face to Face". On 13 September, Ruel released his second EP, Free Time. In November 2019, Ruel was an opening act for two shows of Shawn Mendes: The Tour. On 31 January 2020, Ruel collaborated with Cosmo's Midnight on the track "Down for You". The music video for this song premiered on the 18th of March.
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What is Ruel Net worth?
Ruel is an English Australian singer and songwriter whose net worth is $4 million estimated as of 2020. He is perhaps best known for his single "Dazed & Confused". His major sources of collecting thousands of dollars every year are from his music career, tours, and concerts. The millions of views on his songs on different music streaming platforms like YouTube and millions of Instagram followers add up tons of dollars in his net worth.
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Ruel Girlfriend
Ruel is just 17 years old. He is not yet married but some sources say that Ruel is in a committed relationship with his girlfriend Mary Argy. He has not spoken publicly about his relationship yet, but Mary is regularly seen with him on every tour and concert.
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What is Ruel's height?
The 17 years old Ruel is an Australian singer, Ruel stands a tall height of 6 feet 3 inches. He has a well-built body and weighs 75kg. He has brown hair and black eyes. His shoe size is 11 US.


The trend of technology pairing up with real life just took another big turn.
The new "Health Kit on the Apple iOS 8" makes healthier decisions easier than ever before.
This all-in-one application is much like Apple's Passport.
This integrates your different health and fitness apps to give you a full picture of your wellness.
Healthkit will help you track your health and achieve your goals, but not by itself and not like any other health app. Health Kit allows your other fitness and wellness apps to speak to each other.
It allows, with your permission, one app to receive the data from another app.
This sharing will allow the apps you already use to work better for you. They will be able to compose a more complete picture of you, your health, your activity, your goals and your achievements.
Another huge part of this is the collaboration with the Mayo Clinic.
This will allow patients to share all of that collected and shared data with their doctors.
Physicians will be able to get a more accurate picture of their patient's activity and health. This could lead to much better and more accurate treatment in the future.
That is exactly what Health Kit is made to do. Instead of going to one spot to keep track of your walking and running, another for calories burned and yet a third for eating habits, you can just go to the Health Kit.
It will pull information from all apps. On top of that, when you do go to those individual applications, they will be able to help you more than ever before.
Since they will now be able to communicate with other apps, they will be able to better track and help you when it comes to fitness and diet suggestions and goals.
Health Kit is an excellent way for Apple iOS 8 users to get a better picture of their health. All of the tools needed to make healthy decisions will be right there at their fingertips, with just one touch.
It can become a one stop place to go for everything about your wellness.
Whether you want to eat better, exercise more, lose weight or just make generally healthier decisions about your life, the Health Kit can help you do so.
On top of that, it will help those other health apps you have on your phone already to work harder for you.
If privacy is a worry of yours, it shouldn't; Apple has made Health Kit so that you have to approve which apps are allowed to share which information with other apps.
Finally, the Mayo Clinic teaming up with Apple for this endeavor makes this a win. It means even your doctors can treat you better by receiving the information gathered in the Health Kit.


I was born a Jayhawk and I'll never be upset about that. My dad attended KU back when he was in college and our family has been seeing crimson and blue as the best color combo ever since. Tuesday my family was able to pull my siblings and I out of school for a little pre-spring break (except it's just as cold in Kansas as it is in Nebraska don't be too jealous). We headed down to Lawrence and had the time of our lives raiding the bookstore and cheering like no other at the basketball game (11th Big 12 Title was a win, like there was any other choice though). Also if you're ever in Lawrence take a pitstop at Muncher's Bakery and grab a cream cheese donut or two, you won't regret it. I loved KU and can't wait to possibly be a future Jayhawk in a few years. Rock Chalk.
hm, what else. i've been obsessed with coffee and have over worn my vests, oh so nothing new. I am TOO excited for spring break and all of the fun and warm weather to come with it! IT IS CURRENTLY SUNNY AND ABOVE FREEZING IN OMAHA SO PLEASE GO OUTSIDE PLEASE. Hope you have just as many adventures as I do and that you love every single one of them!
hope your week is filled with sunshine and lots of sprinkles!


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Good news in renewable energy development this week. Minesto, a Swedish start-up and SAAB spin-off, looks to make a new tidal turbine commercially available within four years. Their "Deep Green" technology is a tidal stream system that uses the motion of the tides to generate electricity, similar to wind power generation. Deep Green's turbines are connected to kites, which are anchored to the ocean floor, and move back and forth in the water to generate electricity (see an animation of this process here).
Anchoring "Deep Green" and steering the tethered "kite" enables the turbine to capture energy from the tidal currents at ten times the speed of the actual stream velocity…When operational, the turbine is expected to generate 500 kilowatts of power.
For more on this story, head to ecogeek.org or CNN.com.
Image shows an artist's impression of how the "Deep Green" device will function beneath the surface of the ocean. Via Minesto.
I'm fascinated by the possibilities for harnessing energy in new, clean ways. Unlike wind or solar, Deep Green Underwater Kites aren't a market-ready renewable energy technology yet, but to me there's hope in the possibility.


In this post I thought I would talk a little about persistent vegetative state (PVS) and minimally conscious state (MCS). Though this topic may not concern many of you, I feel it should be discussed as the question of PVS is raised frequently by family members of patients who are in coma.
Doctor is he brain dead? Would he wake up? If yes when? Is he going to be a "vegetable" for the rest of his life?
So what is PVS and how does it differ from brain death. I shall try to make this simple and explain with the aid of a crude example. Let us assume a person suffers major head trauma in a motor vehicle accident. He is brought to the hospital and CT scan shows extensive bleeding in the brain. He is in the intensive care unit on a mechanical ventilator while his blood pressure is been supported with the help of medications (we call such medications vasopressors). Now a neurologist is called to see him regarding prognosis. On examining him the neurologist notices that his pupils are dilated and fixed (do not react to light) and the rest of his brain stem reflexes are also not elicitable (please see my previous post on brain death). An EEG is ordered to confirm the diagnosis of brain death. The EEG shows no cortical (brain) activity above 2 microvolts (meaning it is essentially a flat line) and is thus consistent with electrocerebral inactivity (ECI). SUCH A PERSON IS BRAIN DEAD AND CAN THUS BE REMOVED FROM THE VENTILATOR (OF COURSE WE TAKE THE FAMILY'S WISHES INTO CONSIDERATION). BUT FOR TECHNICAL PURPOSES HE IS DEAD. Remember what I said earlier one cannot die twice, once when the brain stops and once when the heart stops.
Now lets take the second scenario. The neurologist examines the patient and notices that he does not respond to verbal commands, does not respond to a painful stimuli such as a pinch but the brain stem reflexes are intact. His pupils react to light, he gags when the back of his throat is touched, he takes a gasp on his own when he is temporarily disconnected from the ventilator. THE NEUROLOGIST RIGHLY SAYS" PATIENT IS NOT BRAIN DEAD BUT HIS PROGNOSIS FOR RECOVERY IS GUARDED". Time goes by say about a week. The patient is now still in the intensive care unit but at times responds when he is stimulated, does not open his eyes or talk but moves his arm if he is pinched. More time goes by say about 2 weeks. The patient is now opening his eyes. He now has a tracheostomy and slowly is been weaned off the ventilator. He is still not able to talk and does not interact with any of his nursing staff or his family. More time goes by, the patient has been weaned off the ventilator. He is now out of the intensive care unit and is transferred to the hospital floor. A neurologist's opinion is asked for as "the patient does not respond". The neurologist examines the same patient whom he had seen in the aftermath of the trauma. 10 weeks have gone by since the injury. The neurologist finds that the patient open his eyes spontaneously, at times even yawns, he is told by the family at bedside that the patient has sleep wake cycles (meaning he sleeps at night and then wakes up after some time just like any other "normal" person). As the patient's mother walks into the patient's room, the neurologist notices that the patient tracks her with his eyes for a short time when she enters. But there is no meaningful interaction of the patient with his environment. It is as if the patient is there but not there. He does not make purposeful eye-contact with anyone. There is nothing in his actions to suggest that he is truly responding to those around him or interacting with them. The tracking movements of the eyes are semipurposeful and so is the yawning behavior–more like a reflex if not anything else.
A person like the one above may be labelled as one who is heading into the persistent vegetative state (PVS) category. You can imagine the delimma for the family members if you tell them that though the patient may remain "alive" for years, he shall never have any meaningful neurological interaction and hence it is better to let him go. "BUT DOCTOR HE IS ALIVE, HE YAWNED TODAY, HE LOOKED AT ME WHEN I WALKED INTO HIS ROOM": they will say.
Patients who are truly in the PVS shall never recover any meaningful neurological interaction with the environment–this is by defination. But as is true in medicine, everything is not black and white. there are shades of grey. Patients who meet the criteria for PVS but then who later on start showing "some" recovery. Some purposeful goal directed behavior starts emerging. So a new category of minimally conscious state has not come into the literature. There have been some studies done to show that the brains of these patients do actually respond and they are far from a PVS. A lot of research is now been carried out to determine how we can benefit these patients.
If the right procedure is followed and the neurological examination and relevant investigations are carried out and repeated if required after an interval of time, most of these patients can be rightly categorised into the brain dead, PVS or MCS category thus avoiding confusion and anguish to the family members.
":34. For the mind is truly restless, O Krishna! It is turbulent, obstinate, hard to restrain! I think it is as difficult to curb it as to curb the wind.
6:35. No doubt… the mind is restless and it is hard to curb. Yet, one can put it under control by constant practice and dispassionateness.
6:36. Yoga is hard to attain for man who has not cognized his Atman. But he who has cognized his Atman is on the right way to Yoga* — this is My opinion."


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Roteflue (alternativt: Rotefluh) är ett berg på gränsen mellan kommunerna Bönigen och Gündlischwand i kantonen Bern i Schweiz. Det är beläget i Bernalperna, cirka 50 kilometer sydost om huvudstaden Bern. Berget ligger i närheten av Brienzsjön. Toppen på Roteflue är 2 296 meter över havet.

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Berg i Bern (kanton)
Berg i Schweiz 2000 meter över havet eller högre


Gladys Davidson Weinberg was born in 1909 in New York City to Israel and Carrie Dreyfuss Davidson. Her father was a scholar of medieval Hebrew literature and served on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
She completed her undergraduate studies at New York University in 1930 and joined the Johns Hopkins University expedition to Olynthus. In 1935 she earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, writing her dissertation on the minor finds from the Corinth excavation sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She was appointed a Special Fellow of the School and continued to work in Greece until 1938.
During the early years of World War II, Gladys Davidson Weinberg worked at the Princeton University Art Museum. She later joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary of the U.S. State Department. In 1942, she married Saul Weinberg, also an archaeologist. Saul and Gladys Davidson Weinberg moved to Missouri in 1948, when Saul Weinberg was appointed to the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Gladys Davidson Weinberg worked as an independent scholar for over a decade, publishing _ Corinth, Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Volume 12, The Minor Objects_ in 1952. She also served as the editor of _Archaeology_ from 1952 to 1967.
The Weinburgs founded the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Architecture in 1957, and Gladys Davidson Weinburg served as curator of ancient art from 1962 to 1973. She rose to assistant director in 1973 and to research fellow in 1977. She remained a research fellow until her death in 2002.
Gladys Davidson Weinburg was known as an authority on ancient and medieval glass in the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. She served as an advisor to the Corning Museum of Glass and participated in Museum excavations, most notably the joint Corning Museum of Glass / University of Missouri - Columbia excavation of the Roman glass factory at Jalame, in modern-day Israel.
Gladys Davidson Weinberg received several of prestigious awards for her work, including the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America (with her husband, Saul Weinberg) in 1985 and the Percia Schimmel Award for Archaeological Exploration in Biblical Lands from the Israel Museum in 1986.
"Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909-2002)" _Journal of Glass Studies_ 44 (2002). 211-215.
Perrot, Paul N. "Gladys Davidson Weinberg - A Tribute." _Journal of Glass Studies_ 24 (1982). 8-9.


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Wisbech woman screamed 'I will kill you' at ex-boyfriend - day before carving knife attack
Published: 2:07 PM February 11, 2020 Updated: 6:29 AM November 4, 2020
Carlene Bennett attacked her ex-partner after threatening to kill him, court told. The Wisbech woman has been jailed. Picture; CAMBS POLICE - Credit: Archant
A man who tried to end a relationship was attacked with a carving knife after his former partner had earlier screamed at him over the phone "I will kill you".
The victim, a man in his 60s, received multiple injuries during the attack, a court heard.
Carlene Bennett, 31, of Stow Road, Wisbech, denied grievous bodily harm (GBH) without intent when she appeared at Cambridge Crown Court last week.
But last Thursday, and after a two-day trial, she was found guilty and jailed for two years and two months.
Det Con Kevin Poole, who investigated, said: "Bennett couldn't contain her anger that the victim had ended their relationship, but her reaction was grossly disproportionate.
"She caused a number of injuries in a vicious and unprovoked attack and I am glad justice has been served."
The court had heard how Bennett attacked her ex-partner with a carving knife, lap top computer and mop handle after he ended their relationship.
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Bennett, 31, met the victim - a man in his 60s - three years ago and began a relationship.
On August 7 last year, just weeks after the victim ended it, Bennett visited his place of work.
When she when she discovered he wasn't there she rang him and shouted abuse down the phone. She said: "I will kill you and you won't know it's coming."
The next morning, Bennett let herself into the victim's home while he was taking rubbish to the outside bin and confronted him in the kitchen.
She took a carving knife from a drawer and swung it towards him. He suffered cuts to his arms, hands and neck as he tried to defend himself.
He managed to run to the living room to call for help on the landline, but Bennett followed, grabbed a laptop and hit him around the head with it, causing significant swelling.
Thinking Bennett had gone, the victim fled upstairs to call police, but she came back and hit him with a mop handle from the bathroom.
After a struggle, he finally managed to get Bennett away from his property and called for help. When officers arrived at the scene, they found him with multiple injuries.