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#ILOVENY: Celebrate New York State & the Holidays Gift Guide 2020
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'Tis the season. Are you stumped on what to get for the holidays this year? While this year has been interesting, to say the least - let's celebrate and get gifts that support NYS businesses.
This guide has everything from food, books, and supporting small, women, Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and more businesses as some of the must-have gifts to give clients, friends, and family. Celebrate all things New York this year.
If you can go out or your local shop has an online store, BUY LOCAL! I cannot stress this enough - small businesses are the backbone of America and you need to support your local creators. If you know any NYS small businesses that have great online shops please supply them in the comment section of this article.
Another great gift idea is donating to or volunteering with local charities or philanthropic organizations in your community. These organizations are struggling and your donation can help keep them stay afloat.
***NOTE: I DO NOT WORK OR RECEIVE ANY MONEY FROM THIS POST - I JUST LIKE TO GIVE THESE GIFTS***
I'll start with food because it is perishable and move on to the more unique "stuff" further down the list.
Check out the great Taste NY - the official Eat-local Drink-local program for New York State. Launched by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo in 2013, Taste NY highlights the quality, diversity, and economic impact of food and beverages grown, produced or processed in New York. They offer really lovely gift boxes here. Prices range from $30-$150.
Gift Basket Idea for Clients, Family & Friends - Who Might be Homesick for NYS:
Give your clients inside or outside NY a Taste of NY. Here are some of my personal favorite gift and nosh baskets to give this holiday season.
Lox & Bagels
Any New Yorker (current or former) or food lover will go wild for this mouth-watering spread. I love using Goldbelly, a curated online marketplace for regional and artisanal foods crafted by local food purveyors throughout the United States.
Chanukah Essentials. $145; NY Brunch, $179; New York Nostalgia, $205, Kiss from the Sea, $165 and so much more here | From Russ & Daughters | This landmark shop started with an Eastern European immigrant selling food to support his family and save up for a pushcart… which turned into a horse & wagon… which eventually turned into a widely acclaimed appetizing shop recognized for its contributions to the historical landscape of New York's Lower East Side.
New York Breakfast, $189; NYC Essentials Basket, $265 | From Zabar's | Zabar's is kind of like a cross between Russ & Daughters and Dean & Deluca. The gourmet deli and grocer has been in the same location for over 80 years, selling high-quality cheese, meats, and baked goods - but they're famous for their smoked fish. We like the nova breakfast sandwich, but you also can't go wrong with the classic pastrami sandwich or any of the soups. Eat a bagel with smoked fish and some chocolate babka while you read the morning paper, and you will feel like you've lived in this city for way more than three years.
Cheesecake/ Cheese
Who doesn't love cheese? I love cheese! Give the gift of cheese and vegan cheese this year to boost some serotonin. Bet you didn't know this. The credit for the creation of the NY cheesecake is bestowed upon Arnold Reuben, also known for his signature sandwiches. Reuben was born in Germany but moved to America at a young age. The NY styled cheesecake was actually an experiment that Reuben did with a cheese pie.
New York State Cheese Assortment, $59.99 | From igourmet | Although the name "New York" brings to mind a bustling metropolis, New York is also home to some of our favorite farms, dairies, and cheesemakers. In the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York, artisan cheesemaking is alive and well, albeit living at a much slower pace than NYC. This assortment encourages you to stop, take some time with family and friends, and savor these exceptional products of New York's agricultural bounty.
VEGAN Holiday Cheese & Charcuterie Box, $139.00 | Riverdel | Riverdel is the original vegan cheesemonger, proudly offering a highly curated selection of artisanal vegan cheeses and gourmet foods. Riverdel offers a wide variety of dairy-free cheeses, some of them made in-house, as well as non-dairy yogurts and nut milks. There's also a variety of lunch sandwiches and a large selection of condiments.
VEGAN Aged Cashew Cheese Bundle Box, $70 | Dr-Cow | Raw foods shop for cheeses, butters & milks made on-site from nuts, plus vegan pastries & granola.
The Ultimate Cheese Board Collection, $225 | Murray's Cheese | Really anything from Murray's Cheese is a win. Murray's Cheese has been catering to cheese lovers since 1940. Visit our retail store locations in New York City or shop online. Founded in 1940 in the heart of Greenwich Village, Murray's has a vital part of New York's rich food history. The Murray's family of businesses has come a long way over the past two decades, which includes two flagship stores and a restaurant in New York City, a wholesale business that supplies fine restaurants, a mail-order business that ships cheese nationwide, and mini-Murray's within grocery stores in 11 states.
NY Nuns Cheesecake, $65 | The Nuns of New Skete | This small monastery in upstate New York is producing what many believe to be the finest cheesecakes in the country all made by hand by the sisters. In between daily prayers, the nuns make a limited number of cheesecakes each day, just as they've done for nearly four decades.
NY Cheesecake, $56 | Ferrara Bakery | As America's first pasticceria and espresso bar, it was only natural that people came primarily for the coffee, cookies, and cakes, and despite the many changes in the neighborhood over the decades, their offerings are still wowing everyone who walks through the door, instantly transporting them to Southern Italy.
Marble Cheesecake, $49 | Carousel Cake's | Some hometown pride of Rockland County, NY (I will say home to baked goods, like Rockland Bakery, Didier Dumas, Caked Up Cafe, Anna's Bakery, & Linden) At Carousel Cakes, the family tradition of baking goes back generations. Raised in a foster home, Martin Lefkowitz's sweet tooth led him to his ultimate destiny - founding the bakery to the stars. Carousel Cakes' recipe for success may be straightforward, but it's also nearly impossible to duplicate: First-class ingredients, five decades of expert baking skills, and the extra effort of mixing everything by hand and with love go into every cake and cupcake.
NY Sampler Gift Box, $90 | Orginal Herkimer Cheese | The Original Herkimer Cheese Company is the one-stop-shop to buy cheese online. Original Herkimer County Cheese Co. was founded in 1949 by Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Basloe. Since that time, we have earned a national reputation for our finely-crafted artisan cheeses, carrying the proud Herkimer County tradition forward into the 21st Century.
Jewish delis were once the heart of the New York food scene; now their numbers are greatly diminished. Low-fat and anti-meat mania over the last couple of decades has had its effect, but so have newer and more faddish forms of food that make hot pastrami, gefilte fish, and matzah ball soup seem hopelessly old-fashioned.
Luckily, being in the New York City area, there are plenty of delis left.
New York Deli Kit for 4, $129.95 | From Sable's Smoked Fish | Danny and Kenny Sze learned their trade working at the appetizing legend, Zabar's for 12 years. In that time came to know all the best purveyors of smoked fish in New York. Located on Second Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Sable's has been known as one of the city's finest sources for smoked fish, bagels, and other Jewish "appetizing" specialties since it opened in 1992. Its legendary lox and classic New York bagels—along with smoked sable, sturgeon, whitefish salad, and other brunch must-haves—keep the tradition of the great Jewish deli alive and keep die-hard fans like Derek Jeter coming back for more.
Jerry Seinfeld's Deli Order, $159 | From Mendy's Kosher Delicatessen | Is soup dinner? When made with love by Mendy's Deli in midtown Manhattan, we may have to side against Jerry Seinfeld on this one. Mendy's Kosher Delicatessen takes the classic Jewish deli up a notch with their Glatt-Kosher corned beef, pastrami, and legendary meal-worthy soups.
Chicken in a Pot, Salami or Rugelach in Tin | From 2nd Ave Deli, Kosher Restaurant & Caterers | I love 2nd Ave Deli - I have a nickname at 2nd Ave - I could if it wouldn't kill me eat the gribenes (fried chicken skins) every day. The 2nd Ave Deli has been an internationally renowned Gotham landmark for more than half a century. Over the years, its founder, Abe Lebewohl, provided the best Jewish fare in town, transforming his tiny ten-seat Village eatery into a New York institution. The late Abe Lebewohl was a great restaurateur in the showman tradition and a well-known and much-loved New York personality. The famous 2nd Ave Deli attracted hundreds of celebrity patrons, drawn by the thick deli sandwiches piled high with expertly prepared meat, the greatest chopped liver, delicious chicken soup and other Jewish delicacies that are just like Bubbie's – but better.
New York Deli Experience, $160 | From Eli Zabar | Eli's Deli basket is designed specifically for the homesick New Yorker. It contains all the items that make us dream of the Big Apple: chocolate babka, pastrami, fresh rye bread and onion rolls, ballpark mustard, u-bet chocolate syrup, and that New York essential, an edible MetroCard.
Kishka/Derma, $79 | Liebman's Kosher Deli | Now, this might be only for niece Shai, who loves derma. Kishka/derma is Jewish "sausage" stuffing served with our homemade brown gravy. A classic Jewish Eastern European tube stuffing made with grains, vegetables, spices, and beef fat smothered in gravy. This is one of my husband Eric's favorite delis (I think because they deliver to Harlem). The Bronx's Last Standing Kosher Deli. When Joseph Liebman opened his restaurant in 1953, there were over 100 Jewish delis in the Bronx. Today, Liebman's is the only one standing. It's not only a testament to the quality of their food, but also to the care and commitment of the people preparing. In 1980, Joseph Dekel, a native Israeli, bought the kosher deli and went great lengths to preserve Liebman's old recipes. When he passed away in 2002, his son Yuval took over. Then a drummer in a heavy-metal band, he soon became a fixture at Liebman's—and still is. For too many people, stepping into Liebman's is a time warp—from its simple neon sign to the no-frills Formica tabletops and padded booths, this deli is a genuine taste of old New York.
VEGAN Knishes, $79 | Yonah Schimmel Knishes | The Oldest Knishery in America. Without a physical storefront, Romanian immigrant Yonah Schimmel first sold his knishes using a pushcart around the Lower East Side. As the business grew, he established his bakery on Houston Street in the 1890s. Yonah Schimmel Knishes has since been a neighborhood fixture, even despite the continuous changes on the Lower East Side over the decades. Today, Yonah Schimmel's still makes knishes the traditional way—hand wrapping a filling of potatoes or kasha (buckwheat grain) with a thin layer of dough before sending it to the oven to bake. On top of the traditional potato and kasha knishes, they have also added modern flavors—sweet potatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, jalapenos, and even sweet cheese ones!
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Hudson Whiskey NY Bundle, $180 | Hudson Whiskey was one of the brands at the forefront of the American craft whiskey movement. The distillery behind it, Tuthilltown Spirits, was the first distillery in New York State to operate since Prohibition when it launched back in 2003. The label design and the liquid found within the bottle has undergone a significant relaunch, focusing on its role as a true representative of the New York craft whiskey scene, along with a price shift that should please consumers.
Isolation Gin, $43.00 | Crafted one batch at a time at a barn in the Catskills, this gin will make you wish you had someone to drink it with. They distill, bottle, and ship each order. Sure, it gets lonely, but someone has to do it. Follow their Instagram, for more of their seasonal flavors & where you can purchase this limited batch gin.
For a real sip and cheers to New York State Made Liquor checkout the best keep secret New York Craft Spirits - it is craft spirits from the Big Apple. New York distilleries only.
I Love New York & Other Sweet Treats
Local Women, $69 | Chelsea Market Baskets | Specialty foods and tastefully designed gifts. Gifts are filled with the creations of small food businesses. They work with and support many small food producers who create innovative and authentic products. This gift celebrates companies owned and operated by women and features five of CMB favorite specialty treats made by local women who are passionate about food. Empowered women, empower women!
Markets Of The Boroughs, $98 | Chelsea Market Baskets | This is a great gift for someone that likes to buy local and support small producers or just wants to try some new goodies!
Each set contains an assortment of six individually packaged 2.64 oz chocolate bars crafted in the shape of a Harlem Brownstone and dusted in gold. Packaged in boxes decorated with iconic Harlem images, the set can be gifted in whole or shared across several chocolate lovers in your life.
Golden Brownstone Gift Set, $48 | Harlem Chocolate Factory | Harlem Chocolate Factory is an artisan chocolate company located in Harlem where they use chocolate to covey the various cultural experiences of Harlem.
Catskill Provisions Breakfast Tote, $54 | Savory Pantry | A lovely gift to bring someone whom you're visiting overnight is this recyclable jute tote filled with organic pancake & waffle mix, Grade A maple syrup, and autumnal honey all from the Catskill Mountain region of New York.
Hudson Valley Breakfast, $95 | Olde Hudson | In this breakfast box is Olde Hudson's take on our best Valley Breakfast ingredients: healthy and delicious items made by neighbor food artisans dedicated to creating the best products for your giftee.
Hudson Valley Farms, $50 | Russell Farms | Russell Farms has been in business in the Hudson River Valley since 1976. After moving to New York from Vermont, where he made maple syrup as a child, Grandpa Russell started making maple syrup with his family in 1976. Today, Russell Farms is run by his granddaughter. Located on 34 acres in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Russell Family strives to provide the highest quality maple syrup, honey, and pancake mixes for your enjoyment.
Riches of the Empire State, $180 | Jennifer L. Salvemini | This gift box was curated and produced by Jennifer L. Salvemini, who curates and produces happy homes in the NY Metro and Hudson Valley Regions. All of the items in this box were made by women-owned businesses in the Hudson Valley, (even the gorgeous natural dyed silk ribbon the box is adorned with!). This box is a sample of the riches currently coming from the Empire State and includes a luscious scented candle in a reusable ceramic vessel, a bar of handmade vegan soap, small-batch three pine flavored shrub, brown-butter milk chocolate bar, wholewheat seeded flatbread crackers, adaptogen root nectar (made with local honey), pure NY State maple syrup suckers, small-batch "revive" eye serum.
For the Traveler: Stop Traveling, There's a Pandemic
Checkout ILOVENY great social distancing activities that can be found here: Unique Ways to Celebrate Winter Holidays in New York
I personally love LuminoCity Festival. It features all-new light art installations spanning several acres! Each of the three parks illuminates the night with beautiful sculptures inspired by nature, history, and magic! You can walk it outside and of course be socially distant.
Enjoy a virtual trip around New York.
During this once-in-a-generation moment, it's an act of love to keep your friends and families safe — for as long as it takes. The best way to express our gratitude for loved ones this year is by staying home and keeping our celebrations small. This holiday season, we will spend money and send gifts.
But let's not forget the gift of our TIME to those we love, those who love us, and most of all, those whose lives we have helped impact from near and afar.
That's the greatest gift of all. Except for jewelry. Jewelry is also the greatest gift of all.
Stay safe, stay healthy, and wear a mask.
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He flew P-51 Mustangs for the 309 Polish Air Force Squadron in WWII
This was George Stanton when he was a member of the 309th Polish Fighter Squadron in England during World War II.
Before Flying Officer George Stanton joined the 309th Polish Fighter Squadron in England during World War II, he spent 18 months in a Russian slave labor camp in Siberia chopping down trees.
"I was born in Valmont, Poland in 1921. I came from a wealthy family. I was educated in a military school in Poland similar to West Point in this country," the 89-year-old former fighter pilot explained.
"After the war started in 1939, the Russians marched in and occupied eastern Poland. Because I came from a well-off family, I was deported by cattle train to southern Russia. From there I was put on another cattle train and shipped further north in Russia," he said. "I took a barge to the labor camp in Siberia where I spent the next one and a half years working as a lumberjack.
"The camp consisted mostly of young people who were taken prisoner by the Russians. There were not only Polish, but Lithuanians and Hungarians in the camp who were fairly well educated.
"Conditions were appalling. We worked 12 hours a day cutting trees with saws and axes. We got one kilogram of bread a day and two bowls of thin soup – one in the morning and one at night. I went to the camp weighing 175 pounds . When I got out I weighed 130 pounds," remembered Stanton who now lives in Grove City, Fla.
"The only reason I was released was that Polish General Stravinsky made a deal with Stalin. He got Stalin to release the young Polish men so they could join the Russian army," he said. "I was on my way by train to the Russian front when I jumped train and climbed aboard another train filled with refugees headed south and ended up in a town near the Caspian Sea.
"Eventually I joined a Polish partisan group and was taken by boat to Iran. I spent the next six weeks in Iran recovering and regaining my strength in a refugee camp where I did nothing but sleep and eat," he said.
"When I got my strength back I was sent to Bombay, India and on to Cape Town, South Africa and finally ended up in Scotland where I joined the Polish Air Force. After learning English and a considerable amount of flight training I flew Spitfire fighters for the English from bases all around England" Stanton said.
"In 1944 I was assigned to the 309th Polish Fighter Squadron that flew out of Andrews Field, 25 miles north of London," he said. "That's where I started flying P-51 Mustang fighters.
"On many of the 40 combat missions I flew our squadron accompanied American B-17 Flying Fortresses on daylight bombing raids over Europe. At other times we flew ground support missions for the infantry," Stanton said.
George Stanton of Grove City looks at the flight log he kept when he was a member of the 309th Polish Fighter Squadron flying a P-51 Mustang fighter from Andrews Field north of London during World War II.
His flight log notes:
"Feb. 14, 1945: Frankfort, Germany.
"Feb. 19, 1945: Wesel, Germany
"Feb. 24, 1945: Kamen, Germany
Two missions come to mind after more than 60 years of the dozens he flew.
"I flew one of the longest missions ever made by a P-51, from Andrews Field in England to the Fuehrer's mountain top retreat at Berchtengarden, Bavaria and back. We were in the air seven hours and came back to England on fumes," he noted with a smile. "We accompanied a flight of bombers sent to flatten Hitler's retreat.
"On another flight we made to Peenemunde (the German rocket center along the North Sea) I lost my engine. I was returning home after accompanying a group of bombers to the rocket base. I was flying over the North Sea when my engine cooling line burst.
"The engine over-heated and my propeller stopped altogether. I had to find an emergency landing strip in a hurry," Stanton recalled. "I glided into Bardwell Bay Airport in eastern England without a hitch."
After the war he married an English girl. For the next decade they operated a service station and garage in England. In 1956 Stanton moved to Canada and he and a second wife went into the building business up there. Later on they moved to Fort Lauderdale when he got a boat building contract with a firm on Florida's east coast.
His oldest son is still in the boat building business in Canada. He builds harbor crafts and work boats primarily for government agencies in the United States and Canada. Stanton and his wife moved to Grove City in 1990.
He has three children. His two sons live in Canada and his daughter lives in Kansas.
Name: George Stanton
Hometown: Vilmo, Poland
Address: Grove City, Fla.
Rank: Lieutenant
Unit: 309th Polish Fighter Squadron
Commendations: Polish Air Force Cross of Valor and several others he can't recall.
Married: Dorothy Colton
Children: Andrew Stanton, Roger Stanton, and Christine Keats
This story was first published in the Charlotte Sun newspaper, Port Charlotte, Florida on Thursday, April 28, 2012 and is republished with permission.
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George Gregory Stanton, 97, born Zybigniew Grzegorz Stankiewicz in Wilno, Poland passed away quietly on September 9, 2018.
He was predeceased by his parents, Romuald and Janina (nee Lemieszewska) Stankiewicz, a brother Andrew Stankiewicz, a sister Danusia Stankiewicz and his former wife and mother of his children Dorothy (nee Colton) Stanton. George is lovingly survived by his daughter and son-in-law Christina and Dr Graham Keats of Bracey, VA, sons Andrew Stanton and Roger Stanton both of Leamington, Ontario Canada, and a daughter, Jo Hewison, residing in England.
He is also survived by 7 grandchildren – Bryce Keats, Dr Jacquie (Keats) Jack, Dr Ashleigh (Keats) Clickett, Marla Stanton, Nicholas Stanton, Rebecca Stanton, and Geoffrey Stanton. He also took great delight in his 6 great grandchildren – Corrinne and Darryn Keats, Morgan and MacKenzie Jack, and Audrey and Olivia Clickett.
George's colorful life took him from the concentration camps of Siberia in WWII to England, Canada, and finally the United States. Most recently he became a resident of Mecklenburg County, VA after having resided in Englewood, FL for over 20 years.
As a young man, WWII found George joining the #309 Polish fighter squadron based in England, after his harrowing escape from the Russian concentration camp. Flying P51 Mustangs and Spitfires, he accompanied bombers flying over Germany. One of his last bombing missions took him over Hitler's retreat in Berchtesgaden.
For many years after the war, George followed his passion for flying twin engine aircraft. On July 4th of this year John Zubrod took him for his final flight. This truly amazing gentleman, who had a true entrepreneurial spirit and was self taught in so many disciplines, now gets to rest his body and mind.
The family wishes to sincerely thank all of the members of CMH Hospice for their kind and loving care over the last 4 months as well as Tidewell Hospice, Charlotte County, FL. If so wished, donations in George's memory may be made to VCU Community Hospice at P.O .Box 90, South Hill, VA 23970. A private celebration of George's life will be held at a later date.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
HIGH FLIGHT by Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee RCAF.
Online condolences may be sent through http://www.crowderhitecrews.com. Crowder-Hite-Crews Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Stanton family.
04.12.2010 – World War II / 309 Polish Air Force / Berchtengarden / P-51 Mustang / Peenemunde / War / World War II

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This can be achieved by
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I also want my editText to hide the content. Which can be achieved by
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This worked but android:password="true" is deprecated. Is this possible to achieve in any other way?

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Q: Complex integral along a contour on which the function is zero, but include poles While trying to solve this integral
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I found something that seems a contradiction. I am clearly missing something, but cannot figure out what.
Specifically, since $Erf(0)=0$ one can extend the integrand to the complex plane, evaluate the integral on the contour made by glueing the segment $[-a,a]$ to the half circle of radius $a$ (either in the upper plane), and use Cauchy's theorem to argue that the contour integral solves to $2\pi i$ times the residue in $x=i\epsilon$. Then, since on the half circle the function is identically zero, one gets
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which is some finite number. All is good up to now!
However, if one now takes the contour to be the full circle finds that zero (i.e. the result of integrating a function along a contour on which it evaluates to zero identically) is equal to $I$, i.e. a finite number.
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Stratesec (formerly known as Securacom and Burns and Roe Securacom) was a security company founded in 1987 and based out of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.  The company went public on October 2, 1997 on the American Stock Exchange  and was delisted in 2002.

Company history
At IPO in 1997, Securacom listed among its clients Washington Dulles International Airport, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, United Airlines, Gillette, MCI, the World Trade Center, and other facilities including hospitals, prisons, corporations, utilities, universities.

Marvin Bush, son of former US president George H. W. Bush, and brother to former US president George W. Bush, served on the board of directors from 1993 to June 2000.

Trademark lawsuit
After the company went public in 1997, Securacom was ordered to change its name, as the result of a 1995 name infringement suit brought by SecuraComm, a smaller Pittsburgh-based consultancy. The court found a deliberate effort by Securacom to financially "bury" the plaintiff, Ron Libengood, and "take everything he had" by filing a barrage of frivolous arguments against Libengood and his attorneys in multiple jurisdictions. Appellate courts opined that Securacom "tried to prevail by crushing Libengood and his corporation" in a "sweeping attempt to beat a financially weaker opponent through the use of vexatious litigation."  The company changed its name to "Stratesec" in 1998.

Delisting
Stratesec was delisted from the American Stock Exchange in July 2002 due to inability to make financing payments to ES Bankest, its primary shareholder, and other financial problems.

See also
Kroll Inc. - Securacom sold security-related equipment to the New York Port Authority for the security of the World Trade Center.  Securacom's contract for the sale of equipment was terminated in 1998.

References

Companies based in Bergen County, New Jersey
Business services companies established in 1987
Vexatious litigants

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Qoheleth continues much as we might expect. However, he abandons the royal persona as he continues his lamentations. And we finally see some new points in the next couple sections, which are insightful albeit depressing. We will proceed with a quick review of what we have seen and then look at the next two units: Ecc 3:16-4:3 and Ecc 4:4-16.
There are two voices in the book – the frame narrator who speaks at the beginning and end and the voice of Qoheleth. Qoheleth is the pseudonym for the wisdom teacher who associates himself with Solomon for the first few chapters of the book. Qoheleth is negative, even pessimistic about life because of the reality of death. Qoheleth looks at the pattern of creation and sees the seasons and everything else as showing that nothing changes – a generation goes, a generation comes.
The frame narrator does not dispute Qoheleth's main point, but he does challenge Qoheleth on saying that "the whole duty of man" is to eat and drink and take pleasure in his work. Qoheleth says that we should just resign ourselves to reality and eat and drink and take pleasure in our work. But he refuses to do so himself. Qoheleth sees that in the end there is no payoff for anything and everything we do. Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 with its beautiful song is nothing new – just Qoheleth continuing his lament.
Enns identifies the next unit of Qoheleth's teaching as Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3 marked by the two "I saw" clauses (Ecc 3:16, 4:4). He notes again that there is no such thing as a self-contained unit in the book, but this section of text does add "its own distinct contribution to the flow of Qoheleth's argument." Qoheleth's lament has to do now with God's justice.
Qoheleth gives us a glimpse of hope saying, "I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked" but this is then followed by the familiar words of "for there is a time for every matter and for every work." In other words, there are times and seasons of justice and injustice and God appoints those times and seasons. Thus God is to blame and nothing changes.
Thus Qoheleth argues that God is testing (? the meaning of the word is unclear, but whatever it means it is not good) the children of man so that they can see that they are no better than the animals. This in stark contrast to Genesis 1-2. But the reason that man is no better than the animals is death. "They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for הַכֹּ֖ל הָֽבֶל׃ " (Ecc 3:19). [Hebrew = everything is absurd/meaningless/nothing].
Before continuing it is worth noting as Enns does that Qoheleth uses alliteration at the end of verse 18: שְׁהֶם־בְּהֵמָ֥ה הֵ֖מָּה לָהֶֽם׃ Qoheleth uses alliteration "that audibly communicates what he is saying conceptually – what goes around comes around, and there is nothing at all humanity can do about it" (to quote Enns).
Ecclesiastes 3:20: "All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes downward into the earth?" The only reason for Qoheleth to make the comment about where a person's spirit goes is that some at the time thought their spirit went to be with God at death. This comforted them. But Qoheleth refuses to be comforted because there was no way for him to know. Of course, Qoheleth would not have found it comforting even if he did know – nothing short of the immediate final resurrection of the body can answer Qoheleth's lament.
This is followed by a shorter statement of resignation to reality – "So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?" (Ecc 3:22). The "after him" could refer to his death (what will happen next? where will his spirit go?) or it could be making a point we have already heard – what will happen on earth after he has died.
As Qoheleth continues we are not surprised to see that Qoheleth refuses to be comforted. He again uses the phrase, "under the sun" – meaning everywhere among the living. The complaint about oppression suggests that Qoheleth has abandoned his royal position for the rest of the book – after all, the king has the power of the sword and can right oppression but Qoheleth laments his inability to do so.
"And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive" (Ecc 4:2). Note the redundancy in both clauses. Here Qoheleth is being quite ironic – he is finding his only comfort in death – or at least it is better than still being alive. But then Qoheleth takes this lament to a whole new level, when we thought it could get no worse: "But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun" (Ecc 4:3). This word evil, as with all words we are tempted to give a moral meaning in Ecclesiastes, is not being used that way. Qoheleth would include death as the main "evil" deed. Remember that Qoheleth is angry with God who does all of these "evil" deeds. And Qoheleth is uttering these laments as an Israelite within the faith. This last lament that Qoheleth utters is not unlike that of Job (cf. Job 3:1ff).
Ecclesiastes 4:4 then shifts topics, but not tone. In fact, Qoheleth finally gives us a new idea. Qoheleth appears to be saying that jealousy or envy leads people to do their skillful works and toil.
Qoheleth would not have us become a fool to avoid this road of envy. "The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh." This would be what happens when people are slothful.
Rather than going to such extremes, Qoheleth argues for all things in moderation: "Better is a handful [i.e., one handful] of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind" (Ecc 4:6). Enns says that this principle of "moderation amid extremes" appears to be a "coping technique" in the face of the absurdity of life. People go through life developing coping mechanisms so that they will not have to think about death – all Qoheleth can do is think about death so he is trying to cope with the absurdity of it all.
Qoheleth continues, "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken." This bit about the threefold cord almost certainly was a well-known ANE proverb – it is a picture of the advantage of two compared to one. But all of this is in the context of the financial benefit of partnership.
Qoheleth is now lamenting kingship. The reason for the lament is that one day the king will die and another person will take his place and this keeps on going. And to make matters worse it appears that it is saying that people's loyalties change. It is an absurd institution. Longman says that the old foolish king of v.13 is replaced by the young wise king of v.13/14, and then the next young king was quite popular, but in the end "people did not like even him." No doubt Qoheleth would find the whole practice of politics today just as lamentable or even moreso.
By now we surely must be appreciating the way that this climax of wisdom literature falls short of the wisdom of Jesus. Qoheleth demonstrates for us the limits of this wisdom and why we need Jesus.


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A: UID stands for user ID, and GID stands for group ID. They are numeric identifiers associated by a UNIX or Linux system with an user or group account, respectively (e.g. 0 or 5160). Systems also use human-readable users and groups for convenience (e.g. root or adm).
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Mapping Progress in 55 Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Far from the high-rises of Center City, some neighborhoods are making gains while others are facing growing economic uncertainty.
Story by Tom Ferrick
Photography by Joshua Albert
For a city that is more than 300 years old, five years is the equivalent of a blink of an eye.
Still, no one can deny the forces of change, even over a short period of time, even in a city as large as Philadelphia, with its more than 1.5 million residents. To see how these changes affect people, it is best to go to where Philadelphians live their lives. Whether it be Kensington or Chestnut Hill, Roxborough or Holmesburg, the city's 55-plus neighborhoods are the prisms through which people view the world. They were the starting point of this analysis.
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The goal: Find the neighborhoods that had prospered and grown in just five years and those that had not.
We examined five key factors: crime, household income, population, poverty and home prices. We also devised a single score for each neighborhood — to see which have done exceptionally well and which are under stress. We then grouped the scores into the classifications seen in the interactive map below.
In some cases, the data confirmed conventional wisdom. (Yes, the neighborhoods around Center City have grown in wealth, population and home values.) But it also offered up surprises. For one thing, it revealed the duress being experienced by middle-class neighborhoods in the Northeast and Northwest. It also revealed that some poor neighborhoods have made slow, but steady progress. Fairhill remains the city's poorest neighborhood, yet our data analysis shows that it beat the city average in progress on some key indicators, including crime reduction, and population, income, and home value growth. The progress catapulted the area into our "advancing" category. Another advancing neighborhood is Nicetown, a section of North Philadelphia that has struggled since highway planners ran an expressway over it in the 1950s. Later in this story, Majeedah Rashid, head of the Nicetown Community Development Corporation, explains the hard work needed to rebound.
Our goal was not to compare one neighborhood to another. Each has different issues it is grappling with — a different geography, a differing population mix and different density. That's why, instead, we looked at how the city as a whole had performed during a five-year period in key categories and matched how close each neighborhood came to the those averages.
In our period of analysis, crime went down by an average of 19 percent citywide while home values rose by 6 percent, poverty levels increased by 2.6 percent, median household income dropped by 7 percent and the population grew by 1 percent. Neighborhoods that exceeded the city average — or fell below it — in each of the five categories were scored with either plus or minus numbers. We then added them up to create a single score for each neighborhood. (Read an explanation of our data here.)
There were 16 neighborhoods that came close to citywide averages on the five factors we measured. Their status mirrored the city's as a whole.
There were other neighborhoods (20 to be exact) that outpaced the city. At the top of that list is Southwest Center City, where the decline in crime and poverty, and the increase in population and wealth far exceeded the city itself. Others are Point Breeze, Gray's Ferry and Fairmount/ Spring Garden and Northern Liberties/ Fishtown.
Another 19 neighborhoods were at the other end of the spectrum, outliers whose factors lagged behind the city writ large. Surprisingly, Wynnefield led that list because it experienced a loss of population, an increase in poverty, and a decline in household wealth at a pace far from the city average.
Clearly, Wynnefield is under stress, as are — to varying degrees — the 18 other neighborhoods classified as falling behind or facing the greatest challenges. A number of them, including Frankford and Overbrook, are the so-called "middle neighborhoods" known for their stability in the past, but where evidence shows that is changing.
Oxford Circle is one of those middle neighborhoods, but it scored square in the middle of the pack, close to the citywide average. Instead of losing residents like Wynnefield, the neighborhood is attracting new residents and retaining growing families.
Hover over your neighborhood to see how it scores and compare indicators. Read an explanation of our data and methodology here.
How an "Average" Philadelphia Neighborhood Is Growing
When it comes to Oxford Circle, state Rep. Jared Solomon is something of an expert witness. He moved there as a toddler, and lived above his grandparents' butcher shop off Castor Avenue. He played Little League there. He was bar mitzvahed there. Today, he lives on Large Street with his fiancee, in a '50s-era rowhouse with a greystone facade and a small patch of lawn. His mother still lives a few blocks away.
After Swarthmore College, after Villanova Law, after a stint in the Army, Solomon returned home infused with ambition and a zeal that led him to become a community activist. That, in turn, led him into politics. Last year, he made his second run for the State House and defeated Rep. Mark Cohen, who had represented the 202nd District for 42 years. The ossified Cohen was no match for the energetic 38-year-old.
Solomon's street-level knowledge of his district is deep. He can rattle off its ethnic and racial composition (29 percent black, 27 percent white, 23 percent Latino, 18 percent Asian); the condition of its playgrounds and recreation centers (generally poor); the decline in both family income (down 14 percent) and home prices (down 11 percent).
Solomon frets about the perception that all is well in the Northeast: "What's very frustrating is that whenever I bring up the Northeast, people say 'Oh, you're fine.' No! They are thinking of the Northeast of 20 years ago."
In his youth, Oxford Circle was mostly white and very Jewish. It had a religious, cultural and ethnic cohesiveness. In short, it was an enclave. Six out of every 10 houses were built in the 1940s and 1950s.
It is a classic post-World War II housing development.
In the generations since the neighborhood was built up it has changed in ways that are both immediately obvious and more subtle. The synagogue where Solomon was bar mitzvahed is now a Buddhist temple. The Jewish butchers, bakers and grocers are long gone, replaced by nail salons, day cares and a panoply of ethnic restaurants — Café Albania, Montana Grill, Tio Pepe, Azaad, to name a few.
Riding along Castor Avenue with Solomon is like traveling with two people: One is the cheerleader, raving about the strengths of the neighborhood and its great potential. The other is the critic.
"Because the business corridor is not thriving, no one really is taking pride here," he says. "So, the lighting's bad. The storefronts are shabby and rundown. It's dark. It's dank. There is no real momentum forward. So, when you have that, you see graffiti and you get trash. And trash begets trash."
Solomon is working to build a network of engaged community members called "Jared's super volunteers." He is seeking to rebuild civic cohesiveness, "getting people on each block really engaged — not just complaining about issues, but being active in trying to solve them."
Solomon the optimist sees these goals as attainable — with lots of hard work. Solomon the critic realizes the obstacles: the disengaged newcomers, the unhappy old-timers who kvetch about how things aren't like they used to be.
Solomon the critic: "You can't romanticize the past to such an extent that it makes you unable to do anything. To say: 'Oh well, the past was so good, let's just talk about it.' We have these exciting changes and we have to figure out as a community a way to embrace them and use them to move the neighborhood forward."
Solomon is convinced that the area's diversity, as evidenced in its cuisine, is the key. If it seems implausible to rebuild commercial corridors by emphasizing the experience of exotic cuisines — and build from there to a general revival — Solomon the optimist insists it can happen.
Driving through the neighborhood that he has built a life around, Solomon was talkative, candid and knowledgeable, but he stumbled over one question: What does your neighborhood need the most?
Finally, that all-encompassing phrase that had been rattling around in Solomon's mind finally came to his lips. "We have to change the narrative," he says, referring to his vision of a new, revived Oxford Circle. "If this becomes the narrative and vision and if that is how we are selling this neighborhood, I think that will be a good thing."
State Rep. Jared Solomon stands on the stoop of his childhood home in Oxford Circle.
Understanding Philadelphia Change
Solomon's phrase could be the unofficial motto of Philadelphia: "Changing the Narrative for Over 300 Years."
Philadelphia has gone from colonial village, to rapidly growing pre-Civil War city, to "Workshop of the World," to 1970s dystopian nightmare city, to a bustling post-modern center for "eds and meds," with a glittering and prosperous downtown.
Neighborhoods go through cycles as well. To oversimplify, Philadelphia has two kinds of neighborhoods. Those like Oxford Circle, most of which were the product of the post-World War II housing construction boom.
The other neighborhoods were factory towns, built around the industries that located there beginning in the early decades of the 19th century and continuing into the middle of the 20th century.
For instance, Nicetown was once synonymous with Midvale Steel and, later, the Budd Company, the Brown Instrument Co. and Tastykake. They are all gone now.
For those seeking to change the narrative in these neighborhoods, it's not a simple matter of rebranding or coming up with a new defining slogan. More jobs, higher income, less poverty, a growing population and a solid real estate market must be included in the mix.
Using those criteria, Nicetown has taken steps forward in the last five years. The North Philadelphia neighborhood, which straddles Germantown Avenue just west of Broad Street and Erie Avenue, has seen its population rise 4 percent (above the city's 1 percent increase), its housing prices rose 11 percent — again above the citywide average. As important, while the citywide poverty rate rose 2.6 percent, in Nicetown it declined by 23 percent.
Behind Nicetown's Advancing Progress
Highway planners did Nicetown no favors in the 1950s when they decided to cut the neighborhood in half to link the Roosevelt Boulevard to the Schuylkill Expressway. It was a move that added insult to injury; the post-World War II decline of manufacturing in the area had already hollowed out the neighborhood, leaving working-class families living alongside vacant factories and abandoned rowhouses. The highway added another shadow: It doesn't run through Nicetown, it runs over it — perched atop concrete pillars that hold up the highway viaduct. Like many poor communities, the neighborhood never quite recovered from the trauma inflicted by urban renewal's bulldozers. Even so, many residents never gave up on the idea that one day Nicetown would again live up to its name, says Majeedah Rashid, executive director of the Nicetown Community Development Corporation.
Majeedah Rashid runs the Nicetown Community Development Corporation.
Slowly, that change is happening and she sees it every day along Germantown Avenue, where her CDC has built two handsome brick apartment complexes.
Rashid recalls that when she first arrived in 2002, not much was happening in Nicetown. The Neighborhood Advisory Council, which the CDC now runs, had shut down, she says. The Democratic political organization, which the community had relied on for its connections at City Hall, wasn't much help either.
"There was a lack of cohesion," Rashid says. "People were in their own little cliques. We had some elected officials who had people who were like henchmen. I have a bone to pick with certain politicians and committee people because they just hold the title. The NAC wasn't doing its job. The politicians ran it like a club. You had a void."
Today, the CDC, which has the chipper motto of "working together to put the nice back in 'the town'" runs arts and culture programs for the neighborhood's children and operates a boxing clinic. It sponsors an annual Nicetown Festival and runs landscaping and land management services through subsidiaries that employ local people. Councilwoman Cindy Bass and new state Sen. Sharif Street have district offices in the CDC's buildings. It wasn't always that way.
Getting the trust of residents was what Rashid calls a "slow-row process." It involved including them in every step, regardless of the project. People were skeptical and resentful and likely to be on board for a project one day and off the next.
When the CDC decided to build its first apartment complex, Nicetown Court I, which featured top-flight design and materials, residents feared it was so nice that apartments would have high rents, and be affordable only to people from out of the area. Still, on opening day there was a line of applicants that stretched down the block, she recalls.
Later, Rashid convinced Temple University Hospital to open a doctor's office on the ground floor of the apartment complex, and thus was able to replace the neighborhood's doctor, who had retired. "And they pay rent every month, on time," she says. The CDC gets income from its rents and its landscaping subsidiaries. It also gets $100,000 a year from Comcast Corporation, as part of a city program that lets businesses divert some local business taxes owed to qualified CDCs.
The next step for the CDC may be its biggest yet — a potential game changer in one of the most desolate sections of the neighborhood, the land beneath the Roosevelt Expressway.
A young block leader came up with the idea of building a skatepark underneath the expressway. That led to a planning process. In turn, that led to planning by the Community Design Collaborative, a nonprofit group of planners and architects. In turn, that led to a project called the Nicetown Sports Court, a 3-acre installation of skateboarding features, basketball courts, a futsal (a small soccer field), a lawn set around an open amphitheater, and interactive rain gardens to handle the flow of water that washes off the expressway.
Rashid has secured buy-in from PennDOT, the city, a private developer of such parks and, of course, the community. She is tying up details of funding the $9.4 million project. The Sports Court will run under the expressway. And it could become a destination for both residents and outsiders.
When completed, it will include a metal tower that will be visible to drivers overhead. Along its spine, it will have an arrow pointing down to a sign that says "It's Nice Down Here."
Gains for Whom in Point Breeze
Growing wealth in Center City Philadelphia is a trend that's been underway for more than 20 years, and it has continued to accelerate in the last five (after sputtering a bit during the Great Recession). But market forces are fueling change in other neighborhoods too. A growing, urban-oriented millennial population is looking for housing that costs less than the high six figures of Center City. To the north, movement was helped along by the greening and renewal along Frankford Avenue done by the New Kensington CDC. To the south, a nonprofit-led makeover of the East Passyunk commercial corridor turned the area into a hotbed of chef-led BYO dining destinations and small shops.
Growth is good, but repopulation can be as jarring as depopulation if it is accompanied by the arrival of strangers who seem alien to longtime residents. This is truest in Point Breeze, where the undertow of class and race are added into the mix.
To some African-American residents of Point Breeze, the word gentrification is often synonymous with displacement of older residents, the fear that higher real estate taxes will force them out, and the sheer volume and speed of unwelcome change.
The population of Point Breeze, which begins south of Washington Avenue, west of Broad Street, increased by 1,600 people between 2010 and 2015, a 1.5 percent rate of growth that put the neighborhood slightly ahead of the citywide average of 1 percent. But with the growth has come a significant demographic shift; the new residents included 1,000 Latinos and 1,900 whites. During the same time, the black population declined by 1,250. As the area has become whiter, it has become more prosperous, with trend lines for median household income (up) and poverty (down) going counter to citywide patterns. Where home values are concerned, Point Breeze outpaced the citywide averages by an enormous margin with prices shooting up by 70 percent between 2011 and 2015, compared to a citywide jump of 6 percent.
The pace of development in the neighborhood has to be seen and heard to be believed. On a spring day this year, Ori Feibush, a developer who owns OCF Realty, could not make it through the streets in his car without swerving to avoid side streets blocked because of construction, backhoes parked at curbsides and red cones warning of obstacles ahead. The sound of diesel engines and air-powered hammers echo on many streets.
To older Point Breeze residents, Feibush is the evil of gentrification personified, someone inclined to ignore their wishes and their needs, and go full speed ahead building what he wants where he wants.
An apartment building under construction in Point Breeze
For his part, Feibush pleads not guilty and complains about the tortuous path to get zoning approvals, and the de facto veto power Councilman Kenyatta Johnson has over development. Feibush even ran against Johnson in the Second Council District in the 2015 Democratic primary. Johnson clocked him, winning by better than a two-one margin.
Still, the dynamic of what is happening in Point Breeze goes far beyond personal feuds. Feibush cites the law of unintended consequences: Pinching off the kind of larger, denser developments Feibush specializes in drives up prices on shells and existing single homes that can be purchased, improved and flipped by small developers. Riding past 19th and Wharton streets, Feibush points to several new townhouses going up.
"This is an area where a shell or older homes [were] trading from $60,000 to $70,000 five years ago," Feibush says. "Today, you are at $250,000 — for a shell. … There are hundreds and hundreds of investors and newer developers who are desperate for these kinds of properties."
There is a displacement of residents, especially renters, Feibush says, because most of the development is happening to the existing stock of housing. Sometimes owners sell for a decent profit; other times, renters are evicted by the new owner-developer.
Absent another recession, market forces will continue to change Point Breeze, for the benefit of some and the detriment of others. The narrative of this neighborhood is changing with a force that cannot be denied.
The Data Behind the Progress Index
Click here for a full explanation of the data sources and methodology, compiled and analyzed by Olivia Hall of Philadelphia Media Network and Tom Ferrick with support from Next City and Azavea.
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Next City's coverage of Philadelphia's changing neighborhoods is made possible with the support of the William Penn Foundation.
Tom Ferrick is an award-winning journalist who has reported on urban government and politics since the 1970's. Ferrick is a Philadelphia native who lives with his wife and children. They are longtime residents of Bella Vista.
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Isaiah is a prophet. A prophet is not someone who has supernatural knowledge of God and how He works. Isaiah, more likely than not, would have been an ordinary guy, getting up in the morning, brewing his morning coffee, peeking in at the children, giving his wife a kiss, before heading off to work at his chosen occupation each day. Except! Isaiah was chosen by God to be a prophet. As cool as that may sound, the assignment brought certain difficulties with it.
What is a prophet? What does a prophet do? A prophet is a person through whom God chose to communicate to His people. A prophet was loved when he communicated God's blessing upon the people. A prophet was not-so-loved when the message given expressed God's judgement upon them. A prophet was undoubtedly a person with absolute trust in God and unimaginable courage, because it was the prophet standing alone in announcement against the entire Nation of Judah. Hundreds of thousands to one, with God being the equalizer, so to speak.
It is important for you to keep in mind as we study the prophets that they didn't have supernatural understanding of the things which God was revealing to them. They had absolute dedication to God's instruction: even if that meant telling the entire Nation of Judah - hundreds of thousands of people - that a their King was to be born, die, and come back to start a new nation. Although Isaiah trusted and followed, it is not likely He understood.
The chapters of Isaiah for today, mostly show God's revelation to Isaiah of His displeasure with Judah for turning its back on God and accepting the sinful practices of other nations. In Chapters 7-8 God tells Isaiah that an attempt to take Jerusalem captive in 742 B.C., by Pekah, son of Remaliah King of Israel, and King Rezin of Aram would fail. They failed and Jerusalem remained part of Judah for many years after Isaiah's passing.
Chapter 9 reveals the birth of Immanuel. Although judgment on Judah continues, hope is revealed through the coming birth of Immanuel (Jesus the Christ).
Chapter 10 reveals the coming defeat of Assyria.
Chapter 11 reveals the second coming of Jesus Christ, before He was born. Now take moment and put yourself in Isaiah's shoes. You tell the people of Judah that they are under judgement from God. You tell the people of Judah that Assyria, your captor, will be defeated. You tell the people of Judah that their future King, Immanuel, will be born. You tell the people of Judah that after Immanuel dies, He is coming back to life to judge them and set up another Kingdom.
You are still in Isaiah's shoes, the children are tucked in bed, your wife has laid down, and you are in your favorite chair. You are tired. Your energy has drained from your body. You lean your head back in your chair. Your mind is empty. Your are looking at the ceiling of the room as if it were a special celestial space - softly speak these words to God, "Help me understand." Close your eyes, allow God to speak to you - don't rush - don't go off to sleep - what is He saying? Take out your journal and record your journey through the Book of Isaiah 7-11, for The King is Coming!


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Should Youth Have Priority Over Old Age In Covid Care?
The ethics of healthcare rationing - such as vaccine access prioritization - has gone from being a theoretical exercise to a reality, especially as cases continue to rise in the US.
Among the many issues that have to be considered is what role age plays in allocating care. There is not universal agreement, although discrimination law may increasingly play a role, but the factors being taken into consideration and how they are weighted will almost certainly hold a mirror up to society's view of itself. JL
Paula Span reports in the New York Times:
As new cases surge, rationing has resurfaced. Some policies that allocate medical resources make age part of the equation. Others appear neutral, but incorporate factors that disfavor older people, like other health conditions or life expectancy. (One) recommends treating patients based on the likelihood of being discharged from the hospital and surviving for six months. (But) for those who want to yield their place in the health care line, a document that takes effect during a declared state of emergency for Covid-19, vetted by lawyers, allows people of any age to cede medical equipment, drugs or hospital care to others.
In April, as the coronavirus was rampaging through the Northeast, Larry Churchill considered what he would do if the pandemic caused medical shortages. Should he, a 75-year-old, direct care to younger people before him if he got sick?
He was in a good position to raise the question. A bioethicist retired from Vanderbilt University, he published an essay on the Hastings Center's bioethics forum saying that he intended to avoid hospitals if they became overwhelmed and forgo a ventilator if equipment grew scarce. When a vaccine became available, he would move to the end of the line.
Fortunately, Dr. Churchill has not had to face such decisions. He remains healthy, writing and teaching, and hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And enough ventilators were produced to meet demand.
But as new cases surge across the country and the flu season looms, the prospect of rationing has resurfaced. Some policies adopted by states or health care systems to allocate medical resources — equipment, drugs, critical care and intensive-care beds — specifically make age part of the equation. Other guidelines appear more neutral, but incorporate factors that nevertheless disfavor older people, like other health conditions or life expectancy.
After much discussion of what younger people owe their elders, who are at greater risk from Covid-19, some older adults are contemplating their obligations to the young.
"Part of the moral meaning of aging lies in a sense of reciprocity across generations," Dr. Churchill wrote in his essay.He does not believe that older people are less deserving of care, nor would he want his personal philosophy to become public policy, he said; other older adults will reach different conclusions.
But he subscribes to a "life span approach" to ethics, sometimes called the "fair innings" approach: He has had his turns at bat. Younger people have had less time to experience life's opportunities and pleasures.
"That's why the death of a 40-year-old is tragic — we see so much unfulfilled potential," he said in an interview. "My death at 75 would be sad for the people who love me, but not tragic."
His is a minority opinion among those considering medical ethics and legal protections in a pandemic. Professional associations like the American Geriatrics Society and advocacy groups like Justice in Aging have focused more on the opposite possibility: They want to prevent older and disabled people from being arbitrarily sent to the rear of the line.
"You can have a fairly young individual who is frail and behaves like an 85-year-old, and 85-year-olds who are running marathons," said Dr. Timothy Farrell, the vice-chair of the American Geriatrics Society's ethics committee and a geriatrician at University of Utah Health. "So to say that 85-year-olds don't have a claim on resources seems unjust."
In June, the society published a position statement aimed at government policymakers and hospital administrators. It warned that age categories, which some states apply to determine access to care in disease outbreaks, natural disasters and other crises, should never be used to exclude patients from treatment.
The statement also opposes criteria like "life-years saved" and long-term life expectancy, which similarly disadvantage the older population. Instead, it recommends treating patients based on the likelihood of being discharged from the hospital and surviving for six months.
"Our ability as physicians to prognosticate is generally poor, particularly in the heat of the moment," Dr. Farrell said. Short-term predictions are more accurate.
The society took no position on whether age should serve as a "tiebreaker," as some ethics guidelines permit in cases where two patients are deemed equally likely to survive. But "that would be bias, in our view," said Regan Bailey, the director of litigation for Justice in Aging.
Her organization, along with others representing disabled people and older adults, has filed several complaints with the Office of Civil Rights at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, charging that state policies for allocating health care during a crisis violate federal civil rights laws.
In March, the Office of Civil Rights reaffirmed that the Affordable Care Act and other federal statutes prohibit discrimination, in health facilities receiving federal funds, on the basis of age, disability and other characteristics.
Nevertheless, the coalition has argued that guidelines in Oregon, Arizona and northern Texas remain discriminatory. For example, Arizona, which activated its crisis guidelines in June, includes long-term mortality as a consideration, along with the ability to experience "life stages." While those cases are pending, other civil rights complaints have brought changes in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Alabama.
None of these efforts, however, prevent individuals like Dr. Churchill from voluntarily declining treatment to benefit the young, or for any other reason. Specifying one's choices, using an advance directive, is of greater importance than ever during a pandemic.
For those who want to yield their place in the health care line, an organization called Save Other Souls has developed a document that takes effect during a declared state of emergency for Covid-19. Vetted by lawyers, it allows people of any age to cede medical equipment, drugs or hospital care to others. The directive lapses when the emergency ends, or after 18 months.
"It's akin to the person who runs into a burning building or gives up the last seat on the lifeboat," said Dr. Andrea Kittrell, an otolaryngologist in Lynchburg, Va., who created the organization in March. "There are those people who are selfless and generous and value other people's lives as much or more than their own."
Winnona Merritt, for example, works daily in her vegetable garden in High Point, N.C., sharing cucumbers and squash with her neighbors. Vigorous at 82, Ms. Merritt said she would welcome more good years. But in a pandemic, "I'm afraid I could go to the head of the line, ahead of someone younger, with a family," she said. "I don't need that. I've had a wonderful life." With her family's support, she signed an S.O.S. directive.
Research suggests that altruism and generosity increase at older ages. For example, in recruiting volunteers for Experience Corps, which trains seniors to assist in public schools, the most effective recruiting messages appealed to a person's desire to help the next generation.
Successful programs like Experience Corps also point to a common criticism of the fair innings philosophy: The last innings of the game can be among the most significant. "We may be missing out on the contributions people make later in life," Dr. Farrell said. Moreover, some individuals, for reasons including race, gender or poverty, never got their fair innings.
Of course, forgoing health care isn't the only altruistic response to Covid-19. Jeffrey Balkind, 73, a retired World Bank administrator in Washington, has volunteered for clinical vaccine trials. Mr. Balkind has had two close encounters with death, as a hostage during a 1981 airliner hijacking, then after a 2017 accident with his Vespa scooter. Injured and hospitalized, he resolved that "if I ever had a chance, I would try to do something useful in the medical field."
It wasn't simple. For the initial trial of a vaccine candidate developed by the biotech company Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, Mr. Balkind underwent a health screening by phone and a two-hour physical exam, then signed a 23-page consent form. He was deeply disappointed to be placed on a standby list.
But he was accepted into the much larger Phase 3 trial now underway, and expected to receive his first dose on Monday. "I am thrilled," he said. "I feel I'm on a fascinating adventure."
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After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Adam Cushman
Xander Berkeley as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Bobby Campo as Gene Kelly
Mackenzie Astin as Sam Herst
Sarah Clarke as Clara Castelnuovo-Tedesco
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Reviewed by Instant_Palmer 9 / 10
Wonderfully Understated And Intimate Film
Modest by intent, The Maestro gives the spotlight to the true talent behind the scenes, whose passion for art and pursuit of excellence have played a key role in the history of cinematic arts, but often received little to no recognition because film credit was taken by others.
Florentine composer and legendary Hollywood music teacher Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Xander Berkeley) composed/scored over 200 films, and mentored, tutored, and influenced the biggest names in Post-WWII cinematic music composition, his list of pupils including John Williams, Henry Mancini, Andre' Previn, Nelson Riddle, Herman Stein, Marty Paich, and Jerry Goldsmith.
Most of Mario's scores in the 1940's and 1950's were credited to others as was common practice in that era.
At the center of the plot, is a paternal relationship that develops between Mario and one of his most talented but lesser known pupils Jerry Herst (Mackenzie Astin).
Director Adam Cushman and first-time screenwriter C.V. Herst provide an intimate look into career and life decisions each man makes to maintain their passion and dedication to music composition while navigating the Post-War Hollywood studio machine.
Cushman succeeds by keeping the focus completely away from the big names that would have resulted in this film being another Hollywood biopic that exploits famous names to succeed.
Instead, 'The Maestro' is a memorable, wonderfully understated and intimate film, with superb acting, and earns my highest recommendation as one of the best films in 2018.
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But there may be an uptick in the next couple of years when more firefighters begin to retire and the economy turns around, he added.
Verdugo Fire Academy Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna said there is a 60% to 70% success rate among graduating cadets. The academy also opens doors for recruits at fire departments in the tri-city area while teaching them important life skills, he said.
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Andrews, a 31-year-old who is married with three young children, said he was inspired to launch into fire service by a firefighter who was his mother's first boyfriend after his biological father left the family.
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U.S. Imposes New Sanctions On Venezuelan Officials
By Philip Reeves
Several countries are increasing pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as he continues moving forward with plans to rewrite the country's constitution and consolidate his power. Neighboring Latin American countries condemned Maduro's actions at a meeting this week. Peru's foreign minister says his country is concerned about a migration crisis if a low-intensity civil war were to break out. And now, the U.S. has imposed sanctions on eight more Venezuelan officials. For more, we're joined by NPR's Philip Reeves, who's in Caracas. Hi, Phil.
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: Hi.
CHANG: So who exactly do these sanctions target, and what will the sanctions do?
REEVES: Well, these are mostly officials who the U.S. say were involved in organizing the creation of the constitutional assembly here. This new assembly was created by Maduro to rewrite the constitution. It started work at the end of last week. It's already kicked out the attorney general - excuse me - although she's been challenging the government, but she doesn't recognize that decision, says she'll stay in office. It's also taken over the chamber used by the elected Congress, which is opposition controlled.
And most importantly, it's passed a decree declaring itself the most powerful legislature in the land. The U.S. says the constitutional assembly is illegitimate. It sees it as evidence that Maduro is tightening his grip on dictatorial power. Many other countries agree with that. There's overwhelming evidence that the elections that created this body were fraudulent.
CHANG: Tell us more about the current situation in Venezuela. Have there been more protests, more violence?
REEVES: Well, the street protests have actually fizzled out in the last few days. And this is fueling speculation that the opposition, which is divided, is running out of steam. People are exhausted. These protests have been going on for four months. They've been going on in the streets practically every day. 125 people have been killed during those four months, mostly - many of them by the security services. And thousands have been injured. Thousands have been arrested. So it looks as if Maduro is using this lull to quicken the pace of introducing his autocratic new measures. And one of the people - one group of people that he's targeting are opposition mayors.
Five opposition mayors have been sentenced to prison in the last two weeks, the latest being a guy called David Smolansky, who's a very prominent opposition leader. Last night, the Supreme Court - which usually passes these sentences, it's government controlled - sentenced him to 15 months in prison. Usually the court does this on a pretext that the mayor didn't carry out some sort of order it passed. For instance, you know, failing to guarantee free movement to the district because of protests.
CHANG: Looking outward for a moment, what are Maduro's relations like with Venezuela's neighbors? Are they likely to have any more influence on Maduro than the U.S., which is seen as an adversary?
REEVES: It's very hard to say who's going to have any influence on Venezuela, but a lot of the neighbors are getting very worried. In fact, they got together in Peru on Tuesday. And this was a meeting that included some of the heavyweights in the region - Mexico, Brazil, Canada. And after talking about the growing crisis here and their growing concern about the crisis, they issued a statement condemning the breakdown of democratic order in Venezuela, condemning the new assembly - the new constitutional assembly as illegitimate, condemning the systematic violation of human rights. So they are getting very worried.
CHANG: Right.
REEVES: Venezuela doesn't have many friends - Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador - but its isolation is deepening.
CHANG: One concern Peru has - some 40,000 refugees have fled to their country from Venezuela over the past six months. Have you seen any indication of more people making preparations to leave the country?
REEVES: Absolutely. I was out walking around in Caracas, talking to people - you see long lines at foreign embassies. Talk to young people, they all want out. They say their salaries are worthless. They're having no fun. They can't go out at night because it's dangerous.
CHANG: OK. That's NPR's Philip Reeves in Venezuela. Thank you so much, Phil.
REEVES: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Philip Reeves is an award-winning international correspondent covering South America. Previously, he served as NPR's correspondent covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.


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