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July 21st, 2017	Michael Adee, Ph.D.
A new website dedicated to sharing and amplifying African faith voices on gender and sexual diversity across Africa is being launched today. The core source of these African faith voices is the special issue "Sexuality in Africa" of the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa. This journal is published by the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Gerald West serves as the General Editor and Janet Trisk is the Editor of the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa.
This periodical is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and correspondence and subscriptions for the journal are available from the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics. To purchase copies of the journal, please contact the administrator at jtsa@ukzn.ac.za.
September 10th, 2014	Michael Adee, Ph.D.
"Because you are, therefore I am," was the greeting that Dr. Ezra Chitando from Zimbabwe expressed to our amazing group of African scholars, theologians, faith leaders, activists and students at the Thorn Tree Lodge, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Dr. Chitando's words to us were more than a greeting as they are often spoken in the context of a common African identity and an affirmation being known, understood and respected in community.


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Discussion in 'Sevenstring Guitars' started by Speedy!, Feb 23, 2019.
If you've got the cash to spend, Prestige all the way man; it will play great for as long as you want to keep it around. Premium has some sick looking finishes, but like the others have said, the quality control is so-so. Then again, if you have a trusted luthier, a Premium can be buttered up to play awesome as well.
I would agree to go with a prestige. I have tried some of the premiums when they pop up at GC and I haven't found one yet that felt complete to me.
Oddly I've had more Prestiges with issues than Premiums but I've owned more Prestiges than the 2 Premiums I've had which I may have just been lucky with. Playability, I feel the Prestiges play better out of the box but if you're down to tinker, then the Premiums play great after a set up.
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In the end, I didn't want to get a "bad" Premium, so I ended up getting an RG752 from Rich Harris at Ibanez Rules.
He worked on the fret edges for me, and I ended up getting an awesome guitar!
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Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Democrats Close to Capturing U.S. Senate
by Matthew Cooper January 6, 2021 January 9, 2022
Rev. Raphael Warnock, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Credit: Gerri Hernandez
On Wednesday morning, Democrats were poised to capture both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia's runoff elections–victories that would give their party control of the chamber and end the Donald Trump era with a crushing defeat for Republicans.
The races were still too close to call early Wednesday for the major networks. But analysts such as David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report predicted both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Democratic candidates, would defeat their respective Republican opponents Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
With more than 95 percent of the vote in and most of the uncounted ballots coming from bright Blue Democratic counties, the path to victory for the two GOP incumbents seemed narrow although Perdue seemed to face better odds than Loeffler. Stunning Black turnout around the state and only modest enthusiasm in Republican strongholds appeared to propel the two Democrats to narrow, but not identical, victories. Warnock outperformed his Democratic colleague, Ossoff, by a small but persistent margin throughout the tense evening. The double runoff had all the hallmarks of the recent national election–massive media coverage, nine-figure ad spending, and the rapt attention of both parties.
If the Democrats prevail in Georgia it'll be a stunning blow to the GOP–not only to President Trump who took two trips to the state since November to campaign for Perdue and Loeffler but also for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who would find himself in the minority for the first time in six years. Ossoff and Warnock winning would create a 50-50 tie in the Senate with soon-to-be Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker. In that case, Democrats would control the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, albeit by the narrowest of margins. With President-elect Joe Biden due to take office in less than two weeks, Democrats would control all three chambers for the first time in a decade.
The dramatic vote in Georgia comes just a day before Congress will certify that Joe Biden won the election–despite promised protests from Senate and House Republicans–as well as protestors gathered in Washington, D.C.– disseminating the false claim that the election was tainted by massive fraud. It was not.
Ossoff and Warnock, should they win, would be historic pathbreakers. Warnock, the head pastor at the church once presided over by Martin Luther King, Jr., would be the first African-American Senator from Georgia and the first American-American Democrat elected to the chamber from the South. He would be one of just three African-American senators, the others being New Jersey's Cory Booker and South Carolina's Tim Scott. Ossoff would be the first Jewish U.S. Sentaor from Georgia and would, at 33, be the youngest member of the Senate. Neither has ever won a general election.
Ossoff's political career, in many ways, marks the beginning and end of the Trump era. The documentary filmmaler ran for Congress in 2017 in a special election to replace Rep. Tom Price who vacated his suburban Atlanta seat to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, a position he was forced abandon nine months later after questions arose about his travels at government expense. The contest drew national attention and Ossoff lost narrowly to Republican Karen Handel who subsequently lost in 2018. But the Atlanta-area native's competitive showing in a red district positioned him well for the 2020 U.S. Senate race. Ossoff has now been under the kleig lights in three high-profile elections, a remarkable trajectory for someone who had never run for office less than four years ago.
Loeffler, whose Senate career is over should trends continue, was appointed to her seat by Gov. Brian Kemp after Sen. Johnny Isakson left the Senate due to ill health. Loeffler, wealthy business executive who owns a WNBA team and is married to the Chair of the New York Stock Exchange, was considered too moderate by many in the Georgia GOP and compensated by running to the right, embracing Trump and distancing erself from her benefactor, Kemp, when Trump attacked the GOP governor for standing by the state's presidential balloting which Trump falsely said had been corrupt. She tried to shed the trappings of wealth with ball caps and flannel shirts and labeled Warnock a far-left radical, even quoting his sermons against him. She made the runoff against Warnock by coming in ahead of a slew of Republicans in the general election in November. A stiff, sometimes robotic campaigner, she seemed poised to lose as of early Wednesday morning, her attacks on Warnock having fallen short.
Warnock Wins. Ossoff-Perdue Race Tight. Democrats Are Poised to Take U.S. Senate.
Control of the U.S. Senate is On the Line in Today's Georgia Runoffs
Jon Ossoff's Last Chance
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Tagged: David Perdue, Georgia Senate Runoff, john ossoff, Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock
Follow Matthew on Twitter @mattizcoop. Matthew Cooper is Executive Editor Digital at the Washington Monthly. He is also a contributing editor of the magazine and a veteran reporter who has covered politics and the White House for Time, The New Republic, Washingtonian, National Journal and many other publications.
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I missed this book in high school. In fact, I missed most books in high school. We just didn't read that much in school. I have debated reading this book for a long time. I have friends that love it and declare it one of the best ever written and my husband is definitely not a fan calling it "one of the most over hyped books." After listening to both arguments, I finally decided to just read it for myself.
My conclusion? I have never wanted to throw a book against the wall so much in my entire life. I loved it and I absolutely hated it. The background for the Giver (in case you happen to be one of the people who missed it too,) is a boy who lives in a Utopian society. In this society, everything is strictly regulated and no one knows much about the outside world, expect the Giver. The Giver, is the receiver of memory, it is his job to hold all of the memories of the world so he can advise the leaders. Jonas is selected as the new receiver of memory and he begins to learn what the world outside of the community is like.
I was against the community in the beginning, I have a strong will and not having options and being able to make my own decisions would drive me crazy. Then as I read more about this community, I went from being against it to hating it. The horrible things they did to keep sameness and order. Picking every body's job for them, segregating the elderly from the community, not allowing women to have their own children rather selecting, naming and giving the child to them and the most frustrating to me, euthanizing one twin when they are born to keep order.
Sometimes in life, I have thought that getting rid of all pain and suffering in the world would make it a better place. After seeing that in practice in this book, I don't think it is a better place at all. If we never had sad times, we would never know when we are happy. I would rather go through all of the sadness I have had in my life and be able to have the happiness again too than feel neither emotion at all.
Overall, I rate this book really high. I hated it, I wanted to throw it against the wall. I wanted these people to open their eyes but it was eye opening to me because although I have wished for a life without pain, I never thought what that life would be like. I would rather suffer from emotional pain than ignorance.
You do know there are two other books in this series, right? Gathering Blue and The Messenger. Gathering Blue is about another society that is the complete opposite of the one in The Giver, then The Messenger brings both stories together. I would highly recommend all three books!
I never could really decide if I liked this book or not. I felt like I had opened my mind a bit by reading it. What I liked is that you instantly assume upon starting to read it that they can see in color and other things. It's funny how we assume things so quickly.


Beishan Road is the perfect place to observe the changing weather on the foliage surrounding West Lake.
Palm-like leaves cover sidewalks, rustle in the wind and produce a pleasant cracking sound when stepped on. In the lake itself, the lotus flowers, which spread their glorious petals throughout summer, droop under the weight of their seedpods. Their bent stalks mirrored against the calm lake surface create a meditative and solemnly beautiful scene.


YAY! How wonderful to get to this point I can read the smile sparkling from here! Enjoy!
Always when on door closes another opens. Trite but true! I know, losing my job has led me to blogging and much happiness.
Oh Laura -- only you could turn anything into the sweetest thing -- it's all attitude. You rock.
Have a great last day of work. You are starting a wonderful new chapter in your life. So many possibilities!!
Laura with your talents life will only bring great things your way. You are such aspecial person.
What a wonderful day for you!
This is only the beginning for you, my friend!
Enjoy tomorrow. It is the beginning of many new and wonderful things for you! We will all be thinking of you!!!!!
Today it is the first day of the rest of your life !!
May your future be blessed!!
Oh my goodness! I remember that day:) Have a perfect day my friend!
What a wonderful sparkly feeling it must be, Laura.
Is it your last day at work dear friend?
The start of a whole new adventure, how exciting! Enjoy it.
I hope it will be an amazing last day and an amazing start to your new life!
All the best ever wished for you in your new ventures and whatever you do!!
Hope you had a wonderful last day, they will miss you. On to the next great things you will do.
Can't wait to hear how everything unfolds, Laura! I'm excited for you!
Ride the wave! And may it take you safely to the shore.
At first you might feel a little out-of-sorts not having the daily structure; BUT, then you will sprout new wings and soar to where ever you want to go. Looking forward to your sharing with us your new freedom and enhanced happiness.
What possibilities there are out there, Laura! Have a wonderful time - we're looking forward to sharing it with you!
Opps guess I missed wishing you well on your last day. Hope it was a good one!
I know only good things await you Laura.
Think of how much fun it'll be to not have to rush off to the office anymore but now be able to rush into your studio instead!!!
You know, you will be just fine.A litle scared at first, then you take baby steps and before you know it, you will be walking on to new discoveries and adventures. Take time to enjoy all the steps you take.
We, your friends, are rooting for you!!
NOW YOU WILL GET TO DO ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR! ENJOY!


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var r1 = /abc/gi;
assertEquals("abc", r1.source);
assertTrue(r1.global);
assertTrue(r1.ignoreCase);
assertFalse(r1.multiline);
assertFalse(r1.sticky);
assertFalse(r1.unicode);

// Internal slot of prototype is not read.
var r2 = { __proto__: r1 };
assertThrows(function() { r2.source; }, TypeError);
assertThrows(function() { r2.global; }, TypeError);
assertThrows(function() { r2.ignoreCase; }, TypeError);
assertThrows(function() { r2.multiline; }, TypeError);
assertThrows(function() { r2.sticky; }, TypeError);
assertThrows(function() { r2.unicode; }, TypeError);

var r3 = /I/;
var string = "iIiIi";
var expected = "iXiIi";
assertFalse(r3.global);
assertFalse(r3.ignoreCase);
assertEquals("", r3.flags);
assertEquals(expected, string.replace(r3, "X"));

var get_count = 0;
Object.defineProperty(r3, "global", {
  get: function() { get_count++; return true; }
});
Object.defineProperty(r3, "ignoreCase", {
  get: function() { get_count++; return true; }
});

assertTrue(r3.global);
assertEquals(1, get_count);
assertTrue(r3.ignoreCase);
assertEquals(2, get_count);
// Overridden flag getters affects the flags getter.
assertEquals("gi", r3.flags);
assertEquals(4, get_count);
// Overridden flag getters do not affect the internal flags.
assertEquals(expected, string.replace(r3, "X"));
assertEquals(4, get_count);

function testName(name) {
  if (name === "sticky") {
    assertEquals(undefined, RegExp.prototype[name]);
  } else {
    assertThrows(() => RegExp.prototype[name], TypeError);
  }
  assertEquals(
      "get " + name,
      Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(RegExp.prototype, name).get.name);
}

testName("global");
testName("ignoreCase");
testName("multiline");
testName("source");
testName("sticky");
testName("unicode");

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Circle of Ignorance
We all have a circle of knowledge and on the circumference is our exposure to ignorance.
December 9, 2010 January 22, 2015 Karen E. Lund
Yesterday I attended a TEDxWomen event in New York City. With a group of other women (and a few men) I watched a full day of TED Talks by and about women—and by a few exceptional men. I wanted to blog about it, but it was too much to put together overnight. Eventually I'll write about the day, either singly about some of the Talks or collectively about the event. But the penultimate Talk has inspired me to tell a different story.
The next to last speaker was Caroline Casey, a woman who lived the first seventeen years of her life not knowing she is legally blind. Somehow her parents were able to make her believe she could do anything that any of her fully sighted friends and classmates could do.
I happened to attend a college that had an unusually high number of disabled students. Once upon a time, before the Americans with Disabilities Act, Marist College built most of it classroom and dormitory buildings to be wheelchair accessible. After a while it became background. The first time I saw a student who had no arms in the cafeteria, it was a shock. After a while, it became routine. One night in the campus pub he beat me at a video game. Still later, I realized there were students with disabilities that were not visible.
Needing Help
It was the first week of my third semester, the first meeting of one of my English courses. The professor, Mr. Lewis, was just beginning to speak when I heard a sharp breath behind me, then a soft gasp. The breath seemed very close; the gasp was such as you'd hear in a movie theater at the moment an unexpected plot twist is revealed.
Mr. Lewis stopped speaking and stared—not at me, but at something just behind me. I waited. Nothing was said. I turned around and saw the young woman in the desk behind me uncouscious and rigid in her desk. I was taking it in when a voice near me said, in a calm and reassuring tone, "She's having a seizure."
"Oh," I said. "I thought that's what it was. I've never seen one."
"Do you know what to do?" The voice belonged to a classmate, Jim, who was sitting next to me. Marist is a small liberal arts college, slightly under 2,000 students at the time, so English and Communications majors, who take some of the same courses, get to know each other. Jim and I had taken classes together before. We had both been in classes taught by Mr. Lewis. There was some trust among us, but it was about to be pushed to new limits.
"No," I said.
"I do. I'll talk you through it."
Jim was smart, funny, thoughtful—but he was also a quadriplegic. An accident had damaged his spinal cord and he got around campus in a battery-powered wheelchair controlled by a joystick. Jim manipulated the joystick with a metal loop attached to his wrist by a velcro strap. He had limited use of his arms, but not of his hands or legs. Yet he was the only person in the room who knew how to handle the situation.
"Get her out of the desk," Jim said. I stood and slid my arms under her shoulders and hips. She was petite and it wasn't difficult to lift her: she was rigid as a board. I put her down on the floor in the aisle beside her desk. At Jim's instruction, I put her sweatshirt, which she'd draped over the back of the desk, under her head, so she wouldn't be injured if she had another convulsion.
I tried to kneel beside her, but it was cramped. I stood, picked up an empty desk, and hurled it to the back corner of the room, behind the empty row of desks behind Jim's wheelchair. It hit the wall and dropped, entangled with another desk beneath it.
I knelt beside the girl, who looked awfully small and pale on the classroom floor. Jim talked me through first aid, checking her breathing, looking for other injuries. Then there was nothing more to do. I looked at the unconscious girl beside me. I looked at Jim. Back and forth, watching for a change in her situation or new instructions from Jim. I have no idea how much time passed, but it was probably just a few minutes.
Then I looked up at Jim and saw paramedics walking through the door pushing a stretcher. I was relieved that help had arrived. I looked around the room and it was empty except for me, Jim, Mr. Lewis, the still unconscious girl on the floor beside me… Without my noticing, Mr. Lewis had sent a student to the Campus Security office to call an ambulance, and the rest of the class had quietly filed out and found an empty classroom a few doors away.
We were walking down the hall toward the new classroom, Jim in his wheelchair on one side of me and Mr. Lewis on the other. Mr. Lewis stopped, gently put his hand on my arm to stop me, and looked deeply into my eyes.
"Yeah, I'm OK. What are we doing out here?" To this day I have absolutely no memory of the time between the paramedics arriving and my noticing the room was empty, and walking in the hall with Jim and Mr. Lewis. How I stood up, collected my handbag, books and jacket are a complete blank.
I stayed with the class. Fortunately it was my last class of the day. Afterward I went back to my dorm room, kicked off my shoes, and fell into bed, immediately asleep on top of the covers. A while later—maybe a couple of hours–a friend came to get me for dinner. He said I looked awful, and I told him what had happened.
"That was YOU?" He'd heard about the seizure. Apparently the story was spreading around campus. But nobody knew it was Jim and me who had given first aid until the ambulance arrived.
So when I hear people described as disabled, I always think of Jim. He had no use of his legs. He had some motion in his arms, but couldn't move his fingers independently. And yet which of us was more capable that afternoon? I had strong arms and legs. My hands could grip an unconscious girl, a sweatshirt, a desk. But I had no idea what to do. Jim did everything through me.
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Hi there all!! Welcome to today's share!
I wanted to share this masculine card that i did using the Zoo Review stamp set. I love the lion in this set!! I wanted the card to be simple, yet masculine. I decided to do an oval frame, cut from my Oval Framelits and Big Shot, with some sponges and my image. I made a mask for my image, i will have a simple video tutorial on Masking here shortly.
Now, it took me a little bit to decide how i wanted my lion, so i thought that i would share with you my multiple tries and how i came to the conclusion.
Here is my first attempt. This is where i learned that i wasn't going to be able to get away with not having a mask. I thought that since i had coloring to do i would be able to cover the background colors since my Lion was going to be a darker color. I learned that however was not the case! I also played around to see what it might look like if i put some grass on either side. Didn't like that either.
Round 2. This time i was trying to decide on color for my lion. I first tried with Soft Suede and Crumb Cake. I used the Crumb Cake for his body and, you can't really tell that well in the picture but in person it actually looks more gray than brown, which is not what i wanted at all. Then, with his mane in Soft Suede it just didn't look right to me. Again with the grass.. thought maybe if i added some to the bottom too it would help... nope!!
Round 3. With this one i tried more tones in the "yellow" family. I went with Crushed Curry and So Saffron. In this one i used the So Saffron for his mane and not his body, i didn't like how it turned out, i thought that they should of been reversed. Well, i did that and that is the final card that you see today. I really like how his colors turned out!!
The base of my card measures average size of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and is in the Soft Suede. My greeting is a simple Happy Birthday from the awesome Four You set. The set that i am showcasing today is the Zoo Review set.
Now on to a look at the weekly deals that are available. The Secret Garden framelits are one of my favorite die collections and i love the Itty Bitty Punch Pack! 2 amazing products for really good deals!!!


Moshe in front of the entire nations tells Yehoshua that he will take the people into the land that G-d swore to our forefathers. This is truly amazing as at the very end of Moshe's life, he strengthens Yehoshua in the eyes of the people to lead them into the promised land. Why is this so remarkable though? After all, Moshe is told he won't be going in the land so why should he not praise his successor in the eyes of the people?
There are different interpretations as to why Moshe is not allowed into the land and what exactly the desecration of G-d's name was. Even if Moshe hit the rock, why should that be any less miraculous that water comes out from it instead of speaking to it? Not only that, but for that seemingly small infringement Moshe is not allowed into the land.
The Torah tells us that Moshe was the most humble of all men. That being said, when G-d tells Him he is not allowed in the land Moshe prays and prays and prays to have this decree overcome but G-d tells him enough prayer, you are not going in, period! Moshe definitely did not have it easy with the Jewish people.
He came under fire from them many times, making his life miserable. At the same time, he understood his position and he understood what it meant to be a leader. He could have told this to Yehoshua privately and not made such a big deal about it This could have looked like having sour grapes though in the sense that he was still upset about not being allowed into the land so why should he make such a big deal to give Yehoshua that big boost of confidence in front of the people?
The answer is that great spiritual and moral leaders look beyond themselves and their own egos for what is best for the people. In this case, although he is not allowed to enter the land, he backs G-d's decision one hundred percent by demonstrating his confidence in Yehoshua in front of the nation.
Although the people would be missing Moshe's leadership he thoroughly backs Yehoshua which will put the people at ease in his absence. This is truly remarkable because most people would not be able to do this. Keep in mind as well that G-d tells Moshe that he will die after the Jewish people go to war against Midyan. What does Moshe do?
He directs the people to war immediatley knowing that once they are successful he will no longer be in this world. Many of us would put off such a thing for a few more moments to live here but Moshe goes full force knowing that it will quicken his days here.
Shouldn't we all live up to these ideals? Definitely easier said than done but if we truly want to be the people we can become then the first thing we need to do is become more selfless and let our egos go out the window. That doesn't mean that we have to be walked upon and abused; we should have self-esteem but the more we learn to forget about ourselves, the more godlike we will become.
We get ourselves into trouble many times by refusing to let go of that. This is something very hard to do because we have pride and we don't want others to step on it or try and destroy. No one ever said the Torah was easy to live by but our goal in this world is to do just that.
"There are four kinds of dispositions: Easy to become angry and easy to be pacified, his loss is compensated by his gain; hard to become angry and hard to be pacified, his gain is offset by his loss; hard to become angry and easy to be pacified is godly; easy to become angry and hard to be pacified is wicked".
The Mishna discusses the benefits and weakness of anger and pacification. Anger is one of the worst character traits a person can have and the Talmud tells us that when a person is angry even if they were standing over the pit of gehinom (hell) they wouldn't repent because they are caught up in the moment and lose themselves.
Obviously it is forbidden to be angry but there are times when something happens and a person is caught off guard that they lose it in some way. The Mishna here tells us that even if this happens some times but not often if a person is hard to be pacified then his gain is offset by his loss. Pacification is something we all need to learn and not to stand on principle.
This is much easier said than done because if someone has wronged us in any way, most often we will not forgive them fully and the relationship has totally changed. This is a major difference between man and G-d and how the entire teshuva (repentance) process works.
Before Yom Kippur, a Jew is obligated to forgive immediately for the wrong that someone may have done to them. The Talmud tells us that we should forgive that person immediately because if we look past what someone has done to us then G-d will look past at what we have done against Him throughout the year. How does this work exactly?
When we ask forgiveness from someone we don't say "well I did this and that to you, do you forgive me?" That most likely could get you a well deserved punch in the nose. What a person should do is to tell them that if you have done anything against them, will they forgive you and they should immediately forgive you because if they don't then you could end up bearing a grudge and taking that transgression with you into Yom Kippur which is something you don't want to do.
G-d gave the Jewish people this novel idea of teshuvah but in reality it should never work for a number of reasons. First of all, if someone has wronged us and they try to make amends how can we truly forgive them? After all, look at the damage that has been done; the relationship is never the same. At the same time we should forgive them but that doesn't mean I have to be best friends; it just means that I can't hold a grudge which isn't a good thing either.
As for our relationship between man and man repentance and uprooting what has been done doesn't set the relationship back to where it once was. When we sin against G-d on the other hand, our sincere repentance not only uproots what we have done but we are even closer to G-d afterwards.
This is truly remarkable because when we transgress against what G-d wants us to do, we draw a wedge between us and Him. We pollute the universe spiritually and physically. Even if we do things wrong over and over and over again, if we repent, G-d looks at us as not only with a clean slate but we are even closer to Him. How does this work?
G-d understands the nature of man and the fact that they were created from the ground and from this world they will sometimes give in to their evil inclination. This is nothing more than rebellion against Him whether we do things on purpose or by accident. At the same time He has a tremendous amount of patience and allows us to come back to Him by admitting what we did was wrong and how we are going to fix our ways.
We could understand this by someone who only transgresses some of the time. In reality we all transgress and after the first number of times G-d can so-to-speak cut us some heavenly slack but after the 10th, 11th. 12th time...why should He not react and allow us to come back to Him and wipe the slate clean and uproot what we have done totally?
The reason is because He is G-d and not man. He lives and acts in ways that we cannot begin to fathom and the miracle of teshuvah is that if we admit what we have done wrong and sincerely want to draw close to Him He grants us that. Nothing short of miraculous because in human terms this doesn't exist.
How many second chances is a person going to give someone after they habitually do things against them? This is the hope and prayer we have at this time before Yom Kippur to remember G-d's infinite mercy. At the same time, though if we have wronged someone else we should ask their forgiveness and grant it to others as well, immediately!
"For you to pass into the covenant of Hashem, your G-d, and into His imprecation that Hashem. your G-d, seals with you today, in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He be a G-d to you, as He spoke to you and as He swore to your forefathers to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob" (Deteronomy 11-12).
The Torah here tells us that the covenant between G-d and the Jewish people is as valid as it is today as when G-d swore to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This covenant is not only the same but the Torah itself is the same as well and has not changed. This is one of the thirteen principles of faith: "I firmly believe that the whole Torah which we now possess is the same which was given to Moses our teacher, may he rest in peace".
Moses has passed this on to the Jewish people and after Moshe's death, Joshua will lead the Jewish people into the promised land, Torah and its timely message intact. Nowhere in the Torah is it stated explicitly or even hinted to that this has changed in any way, shape or form. This is what has kept the Jewish people together throughout the millennium.
People often make the mistake and think we have the ability to change it, make it more modern for today's age or even G-d forbid throw things out that seem antiquated and old fashioned. If that were to be true, then the more the Torah has changed and the more innovative we are, the masses of Jews would be flocking to keep whatever is left of it, right?
Out of all the so-called movements within Judaism the only one with any capability of passing it down to the next generation is the Orthodox. With seemingly no intermarriage rate as opposed to 60% or more by the other movements, Orthodoxy is thriving!
This does not mean that they don't have any issues but in the bigger scheme of things, they seem to have the formula that works and that is all that matters. At the end of the day, philosophy mumbo jumbo doesn't really matter if the message cannot be passed down to the next generation.
When we see the direction in which the world is going (and it has been a downward spiral for a while) morality and honesty is needed now more than ever. If the family structure is threatened, then the hope of attaining any morality now dissipates exponentially.
If we would take the consequences of these actions to their logical conclusion then the United States as we know it would not cease to function. The reason is that there would be less children brought into the world (even less than the average now) which would mean even less kids and the future generations would look bleak at best.
With this said, because of the death rate and the almost non-existent birth rate that would exist, where would we have workers for the next generation? People will say that this way of thinking is archaic because there will be people that will have children and men and women will still get married so what is the big deal if this is passed?
The Torah here explains that the covenant between G-d and the Jewish people is forever and it doesn't change because if we do decide that we need to spruce things up or take thngs out then the results are catastrophic!
The purpose of the Torah is not only to keep society functioning properly but to change man and help them reach their potential. The laws are not set up just to make sure that society functions properly which is why we the secular laws exist otherwise there would be even greater chaos than what we witness today!
The Torah is not a five year obligation to renew and if we feel like doing it we will if not not. It is G-d given and we have to the best of our ability to live up to its high standards. This world is not a world of fairy tales, sports or movies but bringing G-d's presence to this world and absolute morality!
This is what the essence of Rosh Hashanah is. We are in synagogue most of the day proclaiming G-d to be king of the world and we are fighting for our lives that G-d should give us another year of life, health and livelihood. As we read the Una Sana Tokef in Musaf we are inspired by its chilling words.
Who will die by fire, water, starvation, who will become rich, who will become poor... When we look around and see that there are others that not among us, why do we brazenly think that we will be here next year? The only reason that will happen is if G-d grants us life!
Life means physical life but also spiritual life as well. We get judged on the Torah we learned last year. Did I put my best effort when learning? Did I learn when I had time or did I waste it away doing other things? Did I implement what I learned or did I just learn it for intellectual stimulation but the implementation I just gave lip service?
We are just a few days from Rosh Hashanah, shouldn't we be taking stock of this now more than ever or do we just lull ourselves back to sleep thinking that G-d will continue to give me live and satisfy my every need. There are no guarantees and we certainly cannot rest on our laurels.
"There are four characters among men: He who says 'what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours' is the average type, though some say this is a Sodom -type; he who says, 'What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine' is ignorant; he who says, 'What is mine is yours and what is yours is yours' is godly; he who says 'What is yours is mine, and what is mine is mine' is wicked".
The Mishna describes the character traits of a person and whether they are good or bad. The first one is the average type because he does not want anyone to benefit from what he has but at the same he does not want to benefit from someone else's things as well.
It is interesting the Mishna here calls it average because you also don't want to get benefit from an object that someone else has. The fact that you don't want to share is not so uncommon because we always want to watch over what we have but not wanting to benefit from someone else is praiseworthy because we are supposed to hate gifts in general. Why so?
The reason is that our nature is that if we benefit too much from others then we will not only get used to it but we will feel obligated to give to them or help them as well. While this may not seem so bad, it could lead a person to rely on others too much!
Why is this called by some the Sodom type? This case is talking about a person who gives charity out of obligation because of fear. Why fear? He realizes it is the right thing to do but he doesn't it only for the mitzvah and not because he has a desire to help others.
Others say that the essence of this person is bad and therefore should be called a rasha (evil) because in reality they don't want to help the person in the first place. This teaches us that even if a person gives charity but they give it with a sour face, they don't get the mitzvah. This is truly unbelievable because at the end of the day they are giving!!
The next part of the Mishna speaks about an ignorant person who gives and helps others but at the same time, takes things from others when he should realize that this is not the best thing for a person as we explained earlier. While he wants to help others, he loses out by benefiting in a way that will have negative effects on his life!
The last part of the Mishna tells us of the godly person who helps out others but does not accept gifts. He displays his ability to give to others and is willing to do so without getting benefit from others. This is praiseworthy and the correct path to choose as we try and navigate this world without getting used to gifts from others.
This will help us in life as we realize the importance of what it means to give and help others. Taking from others should be done as a last resort; the last thing a person needs is to feel indebted to others. When that happens it lowers their self esteem and causes many problems as well!
If we look at this verse and many similar to it throughout the Torah, there is a fundamental question we must ask: what happened to free will? If we keep the commandments and do what G-d wants us to do, what will be our reward: we will be supreme over the nations and get all these blessings. Great, where do I sign up, how hard can it be, right?
If only it were that easy. The Torah continues and tells us the curses the Jewish people will receive if we don't live up to its expectations. This again begs the question that if this is true and we receive these curses, what happened to free will?
The answer is nothing happened to free will because we still have it!! Even if the Torah promises us the greatest wealth, fame and everything that goes with it for keeping the Torah and mitzvos, we still have the ability to walk away and do nothing. Even if we know that we will G-d forbid receive these curses, no one is forcing us to walk in either direction.
This is important because regardless of what trials and tribulations are thrown in our directions, we are the ultimate deciders whether we are going to go in one direction or another. That being true, although we may say that this free will is limited because in reality G-d is orchestrating everything behind the scenes putting ourselves in these situations, we still have to go through it and react!
How we react will determine the judgment G-d is going to give us through the actions that we do. You will say though if G-d is omnipotent and omniscient then He knows what I am going to do anyway, so do I just go through the motions anyway and let what happen, happen?
The answer is that we are given an opportunity on a regular basis to either raise ourselves to higher spiritual levels or G-d forbid to degrade ourselves and our souls! No one holds a gun to our head telling to act in a certain way or we are going to suffer the consequences.
As the old cliche goes, we make the beds that we sleep in. Our actions whether they are good or bad will have repercussions. An example of this is a pregnant woman that smokes crack and her baby comes out deformed. Is it the baby's fault?
No, but there is a reality, that if this action is done, the results will be disastrous. No one told this woman to do what she did but the baby ends up paying the price for this callous action. So too, spiritually speaking our actions have repercussions.
An example of this is a mamzer (a child born from a forbidden union) who can only marry someone from the same status or a convert. This child did nothing wrong to deserve this but there is a spiritual reality and that is that this person is stuck and can only marry someone that came into existence from a similar union!
As we see from this parsha, a person has a choice to go into one direction or another and the result of that decision can have tantamount repercussions! G-d gave us free will for a reason, regardless of what the reward or punishment would be for our actions. We don't always do the right thing and for that we will have to pay a price but even if we do the right thing, we are not doing it because of the reward and benefit we will receive.
There are so many things that occur in our lives that we have difficulty making sense of that even if we saw reward and punishment directly meted out for our actions that still wouldn't negate our free will because of all the other things around this.
How can this be so? The reality is that most people at one time or another have had a miracle occur for them. This miracle though may have made some impact on the person's life but we very easily forget these things! That being said, we could say that takes away our free will but G-d gave man an uncanny ability to forget and go back to our "everyday" lives.
May we live our lives to the fullest, never taking anything for granted!!


The fall and fall of dental implant cost.
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There's a new game in town when it comes to replacing missing teeth. Here's what you need to know about teeth implants.
It's funny how memories of childhood can suddenly assail us. Watching TV recently, there was an old black and white comedy movie which dated back to the 1950's or thereabouts. It was pretty awful, but we watched it for the strangest of reasons. One of the characters in it had deliberately awful false teeth, and every so often, he would move tehm up and down to amuse some children who were with him.
So why did this strike a chord? Well very simply because a grand-uncle of ours did something very similar with us when we were very, very young. We chilren would gather around him and beg him to 'perform' with his false teeth.
These days, of course, such a performance would not be possible, because the more usual treatment for replacing missing teeth is teeth implants rather than dentures.
Tell me more about teeth implants.
Let's suppose for a minute that you wanted to build a fence. You would first erect a series of stakes, and then use this as the skeleton which would support the fence.
Teeth implants use this self-same principle. Your dentist inserts a miniature stake or screw deep into the jawbone, and then the replacement tooth is fixed onto this. The tooth is fixed to the stake using a special form of dental cement which forms a very permanent bond.
• First of all, a tooth implant cost is a fraction of what it used to be, so it's very much within the price range of the ordinary members of the public.
• Another big plus is the fact that teeth implants will never slip out of place (deliberately or otherwise), so you'll never experience embarrassment from your teeth moving out of place.
• Dental implant cost can be spread over three months, six months or nine months by availing of our 0% Dental Finance Plan.
• Another huge benefit is comfort. They look and feel exactly like your normal teeth, so after the first week or two, you'll simp;y forget you're even wearing one. And because your dentist files it to exactly match your original tooth, you can be confident that there will be no sensation of it 'feeling wrong' in your mouth.
The bottom line is that, although dentures are still available here in MyDental, the more modern answer to a missing tooth (or teeth) is to go down the implants route. And remember that this treatment will last you a lifetime, assuming you take care of your new implant by brushing and flossing as normal.
We've all seen those ads for so-called cheap implants and other dental work in various parts of Europe. Before going down that route, do your sums fully. Apart from the cost of treatment, you have to factor in the cost of flights and accommodation – along with subsistence costs while you're abroad. And what happens if there's a problem afterwards? Do you have to travel back to the treatment provider?


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By Alena Mae S. Flores – September 09, 2019 at 08:05 pm
from manilastandard.net
Manila Electric Co. said Monday Phinma Energy Corp. of Ayala Group and San Miguel Energy Corp. and South Premiere Power Corp. of San Miguel Corp. submitted the "best bids" for the supply of a combined capacity of 1,200 megawatts.
Meralco's' third-party bids and awards committee said in a notice following the evaluation of the bids on Sept. 9 that the best bids were Phinma Energy at P4.8849 per kilowatt-hour, San Miguel Energy at P4.9299 per kWh and South Premiere at P4.93 per kWh.
It said determination of the bids was based on the levelized cost of energy or the estimated price over the 10 years of the power supply agreement.
Phinma Energy, now under AC Energy Inc., will supply Meralco with 200 MW, San Miguel Energy with 330 MW and South Premiere with 670 MW during the 10-year supply period.
"Pursuant to Section 5 of the instructions to prospective bidders, the aforesaid bidders with the best bids will now undergo post-qualification within seven days from the date thereof. Thereafter, the third party bids and awards committee shall issue respective notice of award in favor of those who satisfactorily passed post-qualification process," the committee said.
The committee is composed of Ferdinand Domingo as chairman, Froilan Savet as vice chairman and Adrian Cristobal Jr., Maria Luisa Alvendia and Bennette Bachoco as members. A representative from the Energy Department was also present during the competitive selection process.
Five groups submitted bids prior to the 9 a.m. deadline, including South Premiere at 680 MW, SMC Consolidated Power Corp. at 200 MW, Masinloc Power Partners Co. Ltd. at 220 MW, San Miguel Energy at 330 MW and Phinma Energy at 200 MW.
"The CSP was for 1,200 MW only. The total offered capacity of the bidders that attended was 1,630 MW so that not all offers could be accepted. The three bidders with the best bids submitted the lowest cost offers," Meralco head of utility economics Lawrence Fernandez said.
Meralco earlier published the invitation to bid for the 10-year supply of 1,200 MW brownfield capacity in compliance with the CSP requirement of the government.
Bidders were asked to supply Meralco with the said capacity starting Dec. 26, 2019 up to Dec. 25, 2029.
Meanwhile, Meralco is set to open the bids for the remaining 1,700 MW this week. Meralco is also bidding out three supply contracts including a 500-MW mid-merit capacity for five years and 1,200-MW greenfield or newly-built capacity for 20 years.
Meralco issued a notice for the supply of 500 MW of power capacity for its mid-merit requirements over a five-year period where the minimum capacity offer per bidder should be at least 100 MW.
Meralco said bidders should be able to start supplying the 500-MW mid-merit capacity requirement by Dec. 26, 2019 from a single or portfolio of power plants that adjust output according to fluctuations in demand.
The bid submission deadline for the 500 MW mid-merit capacity requirement was on or before 9 a.m. of Sept. 11, 2019.
The eight interested firms for the 500-MW supply are Team Energy, First Gen Hydro Power, Phinma Energy, Solar Philippines, Therma Luzon, AP Renewables, South Premiere Power and SMC Consolidated.
Four companies expressed interest for the 1,200-MW greenfield capacity, including First Gen, Atimonan One, Panasia Enegy and Mariveles Power.


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Harold and Vivian aren't used to guests, in fact they don't even like each other's company and married purely for spite. Hilarity ensues when newlywed yuppies move in next door and come by for a visit.
Sunday, September 15, 7 p.m.
Monday, September 16, 9 p.m.
Saturday, September 21, 4 p.m.


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Breathing in the Basement
October 16, 2015 Uncategorizedbasement, birthday, cake, candles, celebrations, flowers, garden-level apartment, Luke 1:45, mom's stories, promise, second story, soulthesecondstories
Flowers on the table. And two envelopes. The first was a list of memories, from my dad, and the second was a story, from my mom. Neither she nor I had been very comfortable on the day in question, but she remembers it— vividly— and I do not.
My birthday.
Friends in the Middle East had contacted my family in Maine, to get suggestions on how to celebrate this day's anniversary with me. They had taken responsibility for delivering the flowers and notes from my parents. Later, they pulled out a cake glowing with candles— trick candles, a couple dozen of them, plus extra until they achieved the correct number.
How did you know? I asked, when the smoke had cleared and I could see the cake itself.
It was a household favorite, only eaten on birthdays. But I hadn't thought of one, much less mentioned it to them, in time within memory.
My friends shrugged in a downplay of their own thoughtfulness. But I learned later, the "favorite cake" tip had been sought out, arranged after advice from my family.
A fresh perspective welcomed my thirty-second year. Those who helped me to celebrate were mostly unknown to me six months earlier, and the view they gave me was definitely "second story," and beautiful. A midnight picnic at the Red Sea with international coworkers. Sweet gifts from the hearts of the ones I love. A surprise scuba diving trip– first time!– from one of the teachers at our community center. More flowers, and a heavily accented rendition "Happy Birthday," from sixty students in Young Leaders.
But sometimes returning to the basement is the only way to put the panorama in context.
I say basement— my housemate (a former real estate agent, and who's family is among the few I have known for some time) says "garden level apartment." It is underground on three sides. But no matter what he calls it, when the conversation is over, I descend the stairs down, down to the home's foundation. To a place both close and cozy.
Sometimes, as I sit in this basement, I simply feel closed in and limited in perspective. I want the breathing room of the second story. I want to peel back layers of soil until I reach it, but the result would only be dirty hands. Exhaustion.
I cannot change this.
My mother's life verse to me, which she told me two decades ago, comes from the exclamation of an impossibly pregnant old woman to an impossibly pregnant young woman. I love the promise it holds. "Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished." It rings in my mind often as I hold out for promises made that are yet to be fulfilled.
A couple of days after birthday celebrations, I felt drawn to read the beginning of this story, to go down, down to its foundations. Earlier in the chapter, before she got any affirmation from a human voice, Mary listened to heaven make a promise of something unexpected.
Something scandalous. Something impossible. Something desperately needed by the whole world. Her question in reply: How?
Sometimes I fight to see promises fulfilled: for the area in which I live now, for my beloved family and friends, for my life. Work harder, perform higher, plan with more discernment. Love more, listen more, speak less and with more discernment. Have more friends, since many of those who were here this year may not be next year, and choose who from your local and foreign community to spend time with… with more discernment.
But trying to fulfill promises through these mean efforts only results in a mess. In exhaustion.
I cannot control this.
Then I think about how the promise given to Mary was fulfilled, not because of her capability, but because of the power of the One Most High, who overshadows the limitations of the ones like me. So I return to the foundations.
Like on my birth day, I could not cry until I could breathe. And I could not breathe until I got released from the cord around my neck. My mother recalls her own breathlessness in waiting for this, her joy when I finally let out a wail.
Sometimes when we go to the basement (or garden-level apartment) of the soul, to remember the promises we have been given and the foundational identity upon which our lives are built, there are tears as well as laughs. And that is okay. We can relax our hands and renew our hopes, because He is the one who is powerful, and the basement perspective is limited but the promises still hold on. We are, crying or laughing, still taking breaths.
So I cannot keep from hoping.
Because the promises in the basement– even the ones yet unfulfilled– are sweeter than a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting.
December 13, 2014 Uncategorizedbirthday, Community Center, English class, gender, husband, love, Metaphors, music, poetry, pregnant, Sylvia Plath, teaching, university, value, Zainathesecondstories
Blue eyeliner framed her brown eyes, complimenting the vivid blue scarf that outlined her face. The brightness of those colors and the youthfulness of her features were striking, especially in contrast with the seriousness of her expression, and the dullness of her tone, as she answered me.
I had told her and her friend that we would be doing a unit on "Love Poetry" at the university. Would they tell me their thoughts on romance, men, love? What are you looking for in a husband?
What do you think men are looking for in a wife?
The first question drew dreamy looks, produced smile lines at the corners of their eyes; these vanished rapidly when they came to the second question. "They want someone beautiful… dependent… to listen to them…"
Dependent? I asked.
In a low, flat voice, she said, "They don't want us to be strong."
A couple of days ago I was in the middle of teaching one of our center's English classes, when I was interrupted by surprising news from home. A moment later, I was announcing to twenty Arab women and men something that most of our friends in the US hadn't heard yet: my sister's baby had arrived early. It was time to celebrate.
They sang "Happy Birthday" in Arabic and English. One went and bought sweets for everyone, and a cake, with the inscription "Happy Birthday Eveln." Not exactly how her parents spell it, but he tried.
I felt the joy with my students, passed the congratulations of the community center on to my sister, and went home and cried because I was not with them physically.
Then I texted Zaina. She hears others' stories differently since she lost her job, her homeland, and her security in a neighboring war. She listened to my good news and my grief, offering words of blessing for the baby, congratulations to me as an auntie, and consolation in the challenge of being far apart. Her capacity for compassion is strong within her sorrow.
On my niece's birthday (although I didn't know it was that at the time), my university class had analyzed Sylvia Plath's poem Metaphors. They tried to follow each clue:
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
"Pregnancy!" they guessed, correctly. The poem finishes with some less whimsical metaphors:
…I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.
The speaker seems to have lost her own identity; she has no meaning except as a "means" for the new. What gives a person identity? I asked. What makes your life valuable?
Hanna, a top student (and also the mother of three teenagers), answered, "Maybe her society told her that her worth was only in having children. Maybe she didn't like it, and that's why she wrote this poem."
Society often tells us what would make us valuable– whether it's having kids, possessing lots of stuff, getting some prestigious education… I said. But it doesn't always give the right answers.
"I think it is not about what we produce," said Hanna, "It's not about producing kids, or about work, or about money. It's about doing our purpose. When God made Adam and…" She faltered for the English name; her holy book has a similar story of creation to what I know. "Eve. He gave them… both… a purpose.
Hanna knew that worth is defined by something more profound than opinions or circumstances.
Men– women– society– all sing loudly about what gives us value. Their melodies can be alluring, promising acceptance in exchange for acquiescence to their demands. These demands can contradict, but sometimes, amidst all the dissonance, we can't hear any other voice.
But there is an anthem, begun before creation, and its rhythm is restoration. It's a ballad of weak ones strengthened, lost ones found, distant ones brought close, lonely ones placed in families, grieving ones granted joy. A carol of deeper identity than whom we can please, how we can protect ourselves from hurt, or what we can produce.
This is the song I want my students, and my new niece– and you– to hear. The song I resonate with in new ways, every season. A love poem set to music.
Listen.
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I sat awkwardly on the couch in the living room. My friend Sammi's mother and sister had kissed my cheeks in greeting, and then withdrawn to the kitchen, oddly quiet. They drew the curtain closed behind them.
I was not invited to follow.
Alone, I looked at the green balloons strewn across the floor. The family had intended to surprise me with a birthday party, but things had fallen apart, to a certain extent due to me not getting it and having earlier plans. I knew they were frustrated. I wondered if that was the reason for Sammi's absence, or for the silence.
Breathing out slowly, I reminded myself that misunderstandings are part of life– especially living in a different culture. And that I really love this family. I hoped they knew that.
Earlier this week I moved out of my basement, to a second-story bedroom… which I am borrowing from my housemates' children. Someone else is borrowing my space for several weeks, and the kids are sharing rooms. As I packed up to move, I read a post from my friends Andrew & Becca's "Radical Hospitality" series on this blog, about the vulnerability that exists within relationships.
As I read their words on open hands and homes and hearts, and prepared to move to the second floor, I once again felt the vulnerability of receiving. Am I thankful enough? Present enough? Helpful, honest, flexible, strong, funny enough?
My friends would tell me to relax. But the fact is, at some point, we'll note each others' uneven edges and wish the other was… smoother. Or maybe more edgy. I know that when I see others' frailties, I want to love well. The question is, when my own vulnerability is exposed– when I make cultural mistakes, when I am angry, when I am not flexible or present or strong or courageous enough– will I still receive the love that is offered me?
In the Poetry class this week, each student had to give a metaphor for themselves. "I am a seed," one said. "I have a world inside that no one can see. I go deep, and I will change." Another said she was a smile, something so simple but with "deep feeling," meaning the most to people in their hardest times. A third was iron. "I carry many responsibilities at home and with family and with schoolwork. I must be strong."
Students, via their metaphors, demonstrated higher degrees of honesty than people tend to use with everyday statements. In a few words, they expressed being incompletely understood, trying to support others in difficulty, and experiencing the weight of responsibilities… as well as what they hoped for themselves: change, joyfulness, strength.
Something in our class shifted as students exposed pieces of their souls. And then, together, we read "If."
This poem tells the reader to be uncomplaining, uncompromising, and unstoppable by setbacks… or by successes. My students embraced the challenge not to let circumstances transform them. But, vulnerably, they questioned the advice to guard against any emotion. If "neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you," and if you respond the same way to triumph or disaster, Rudyard Kipling says "you'll be a Man, my son!"
But I wonder, in the absence of celebration or of grief, would we still be human?
Thirty was a rich year. Rich with friendships, love, experiences, loss, travel, grieving, celebrating… I think that if 31 is going to be what I dream, I will need an even greater degree of openness/vulnerability in it. But strength in vulnerability comes from knowing, at the core of who I am, that I am approved by the One who matters most.
And as I told my students, I am a tree. My roots are deep. If days are dry or storms shake my branches, I am still deeply connected to the Source of all I need.
Back at Sammi's house, the silence was interrupted by her mom coming into the room and turning off the lights. Then her sister held back the curtain. Sammi walked in with a smile, carrying a brightly-lit, beautifully decorated birthday cake.
The quietness was preparation. And I was surprised.


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Bibliography

Shadow of the Rock (2012)
Sign of the Cross (2013)
Hollow Mountain (2014)
Sleeping Dogs (2015)
A Thousand Cuts (2017)

References

External links
Official Website of Thomas Mogford

1977 births
Living people
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Since I am just using Javascript (vue.js & axios) and generally not privy to what may or maynot be returned, what is the best way to handle missing properties in the axios
response.data.expectedProprtyIsNotThere

in a general way so that is can be applied to all response objects without any additional code or duplication? I think I might be ok with have a default value of null or empty string.
I am not using any sdk and using the response data object directly.

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This returns users who have purchased any of those 3 items, but I only want users who have purchased all 3 of the items.
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Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings
by Zeuler Lima
Lina Bo Bardi pursued formal ideas, and she drew looking for them. But that's not where architecture stopped for her. Zeuler Lima walks us through her work on paper.
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ZEULER LIMA: I probably would say that she was a humanist designer, and that's a species that is close to extinction.
I am Zeuler Lima and I am the author of Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings, the catalog and scholarly book accompanying the exhibition "Lina Bo Bardi dibuja" at the Joan Miró Foundation.
I don't know exactly when she first started drawing, but the first drawing that can be found of hers is when she was nine years old. And curiously it's a very dramatic drawing. It's a drawing of a dead tree, and the title is written in Italian: albero morto. It's actually a watercolor. It's signed Lina Bo. And it was done when she was nine years old. It's probably a copy of some kind of image that she saw perhaps in her house. Her father was a painter who encouraged her a lot and taught her a lot of her early skills. But I've always asked myself, why would a child who is nine years old draw a dead tree? I think it's quite fascinating.
If you look at drawing in her case as a language in general, but in her case as a language that she's acquiring, she's using it to process in her early age the world around her, to understand it, to create relationships with people. And to understand her own feelings. She drew many dramatic images of women in very striking situations and we don't know what generated those. But if we look at the imagery, it has nothing to do with architecture. It probably had to do with her internal moods.
Later on she went to the lyceum, or the artistic academy, to get training in the classical way of drawing. So she acquired incredible skills and she really shows that she can draw according to the classical conventions. There are only two records of drawings she did in architecture school. And there are not enough to let us understand exactly what she produced during that period. We only know more what happens after that. She left architecture school in Rome and she moved to Milan in 1940. That allowed her to develop drawing a lot because she ended up working for magazines. A month after she moved, the first bombardments happened. So she used to say, she decided to become an architect when nothing was built and everything was destroyed.
And then she arrives in Brazil with this baggage of this Milanese experience that is very connected to a way of publishing of that is perhaps more Swiss than Brazilian. When she encountered architects such as Oscar Niemeyer or Lúcio Costa, they were surprised to see a woman coming with such precise drawings and they somehow disdained a little bit of that, saying, You have too many drawings. Here in Brazil, we go to the site and we use a stick and we draw with a stick on the dirt.
And she was absolutely fascinated by that idea. And in the 1950s, she became very interested in the discussion about organic architecture. She traveled outside of São Paulo where she lived and she went to Salvador, where she found a lay culture; and she was absolutely fascinated by that. She was very romantic. And so after the 1950s and sixties, she started to let go of these conventions of classicism and rationalism that she had acquired very early on. And the final drawings have a lot of similarity with the joys of her childhood. So they are very free. They are very intense. They are very expressive. We tend to associate with this naive art, but I think they actually something different. They are, perhaps, the opposite. They are drawings of great wisdom. They are drawings that don't need to affirm a lot of things. They are drawings that really let go of conventions, because that's how she ended up believing that architecture and culture should be organized. That it is not an imposition, but is actually about reading the world.
This is actually the epilogue to the book. It is a quite beautiful drawing. It is a poster that she conceived for SESC Pompéia, which is the factory that she converted into a leisure center in São Paulo. And it's a very simple drawing. It shows the logo with the four letters "S," "E," "S," "C" spelled in orange-red. And there is a smoke stack-slash-water tower. And, surprisingly, from the smokestack, there are flowers coming out of it instead of fumes and smoke. And this was her conception for the factory, because the factory used to have a smoke stack that was torn down. They fell. So they needed to build a water tower, because those towers are quite high. And the way of celebrating how she imagined this gift that she was giving to the city of São Paulo was to make it pleasant, to make it inviting, to make a wonderful to the people.
We have a few here that are projects that she did for MASP, a museum of art in São Paulo, which is this structure that is lifted from the ground and has a span of 276 feet. One of them is showing the conception of the plaza. So, how this plaza can be used for a sculptures and public art and people gathering under it. And then we also have this interest in nature: the park that is across the street will come under this plaza and the space is also inhabited ambiguously by the park and by the city, by pedestrians and by cars. Everybody is somehow present. And then the sculptures. We have this dramatic effect of the same space showing this exaggerated one point perspective. And then on the side we have a very interesting drawing of this same space, which was done 15 years after the museum was concluded to celebrate the 1922 Modern Art Week that took place in São Paulo. So this was the 50th anniversary, and her way of celebrating that was to bring a circus of a very famous clown who had influenced the early modernists in Brazil and place it where she imagined public events taking place. And this actually was done.
To Lina Bo Bardi, architecture did not have only a formal connotation. Of course, she pursued formal ideas and she drew looking for them. However, that's not where architecture stopped for her. Form and space in her conception of architecture was to be inhabited. And she wrote in the 1950s or sixties that human beings are the protagonists of architecture, and I think that this phase is a very telling about how she drew from everyday life and how architecture was to embrace it instead of determining how people would live.
Writing her biography, previously, in these 20 years, I think it was my self-education about architecture. Because I was 17 when I first saw SESC Pompéia and I was mesmerized. And I was not educated to think like her, but I had this incredible affinity. So writing a biography and and plunging into all this material, reading about her life and getting to know all these documents, was a way of having a very intimate connection with someone who I never knew, but actually who taught me a lot.
Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima
Princeton University Press in association with the Fundació Joan Miró
Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima is an educator, scholar, architect, artist, curator, writer, and above all a humanist. He received his professional and doctoral education at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture and Urbanism and post-doctoral education in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Lima is author of the acclaimed biography Lina Bo Bardi (Yale University Press, 2013) and publications in international books, exhibition catalogues, and journals. He has held teaching and research appointments at the University of São Paulo, Ecole d'Architecture de Grenoble, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Tokyo Hosei Daigaku, and Washington University (St. Louis and Florence). He is a curator of architecture exhibitions, including the show "Drawn by Hand: Architecture according to Lina Bo Bardi" at the Fondació Joan Miró Barcelona, produced in tandem with the book Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings (Princeton University Press, 2019). Lima develops work in drawing, artist's books, and conceptual art, including the current exhibition "Found in Translation" (Tokyo, Spring 2018; St. Louis, Winter 2019).
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"Cézanne's Doubt" in Sense and Non-Sense
French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty sees painter Paul Cézanne's struggles with the meaning of his creative activity as a fertile example of his philosophical critique of rational reason. By investigating Cézanne's return to nature as a way of reconceiving painting not as an impressionist technique, but the representation of his immediate relationship to the world, Merleau-Ponty substantiates his claim of the primacy of perception in our attribution of meaning to reality. In doubt, Cézanne's lends his perceptual body, not just his vision or mind, to the continued process of recreating artistic expression. To Merleau-Ponty, life and artistic work are not allied in a causal relationship, but they coexist in the ambiguous symbolic process of being in the world.
Passion According to G.H.
Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector presents the existential challenges faced by her fictional character G.H., a wealthy sculptress in a solitary mid-life crisis. The first-person narrative by G.H. develops as a poignant and disturbing stream of consciousness with auto-biographical and philosophical overtones. Surprised by a Kafkian-like cockroach as she immerses into the mysteries of a little visited den in her penthouse, G.H. is invited to reconsider her passions—her love and pathos. Literature and experience, creative work and life are mutually implied in the vortex of grief leading into transfiguration and emancipation. With a destabilizing use of the Portuguese language that is particular to her writing, Lispector speaks at the same time about literature, the creative process, and the human condition.
The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists
Susan Kavaler-Adler
American psychoanalyst Susan Kavaler-Adler investigates the relationship between the intense creative activity and the difficult internal lives of artists, focusing on the work and life of six prominent English-language women writers and poetesses. Based on the psychoanalytic framework of object-relations theory developed by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Margareth Mahler, and Ronald Fairbairn, she evaluates the dilemma of mistakenly embracing creativity as a means for psychological mourning and development. She explores the role played by inadequate parenting in the early establishment of what she describes as a compulsion to create, implying an addictive and defensive emotional process. Without dismissing the quality of such creations, Kavaler-Adler reveals complex unconscious motivations in their realization. As she sheds light in the shadow of artistic work, she sustains that the engagement between creative and therapeutic processes may lead into the discovery of artistic authenticity.
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