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Mon Laferte heats up Coachella with 'surreal' fear-conquering performance
April 13, 2019	 by Robert Peterpaul
Mon Laferte knows how to make a Coachella debut! The Chilean singer-songwriter was met with cheers as she took to the festival's main stage on Friday, April 12 in Indio, California. Not only was kicking off the artsy event's 20th edition, but the 35-year-old star was also fulfilling a dream of her own. While the uber talent has been celebrating wild success as the most listened to Chilean artist worldwide, she still has more goals to meet, and it seems playing at Coachella was one of them!
Mon Laferte rocked opening day of Coachella 2019
"I feel so happy. I was nervous before hitting the stage," Mon told ET after her powerhouse Coachella set. "I would say it's a dream come true. Performing at these types of festivals seemed impossible and even more so when you sing Spanish songs. It's surreal."
GALLERY: TEN ARTISTS BRINGING LATIN FLAVOR TO COACHELLA 2019
Donning a red hot one shoulder dress, the Tormento singer performed various hits for her gathered fans. However nothing caught more attention than when she faced her fears and covered a song by one of the artists she admires most.
¡ME MUERO DE AMOR, MI AMOR @monlaferte CANTANDO EN INGLÉS Y ADEMAS "NEW RULES" DE DUA LIPA! 😍🤩❤ #MonChella pic.twitter.com/JKvvzmsmaH
— Cassandra Ramos (@IamCassandraRV) April 13, 2019
Fan videos posted across social media platforms, show the singer putting her own spin on Dua Lipa's song New Rules in both Spanish and English. "I love her," she confessed to ET. "I never had the courage to perform one of her songs before, but a few days ago I thought why not do a cover. I would love to collaborate with her one day."
I love you @coachella ❤🔥
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And while that sounds like a dream collab, we're still soaking up all the incredible moments Mon made during her Coachella debut. She took to Instagram to share a carousel from the performance, simply writing: "I love you Coachella." The festival returned the admiration, captioning a photo of her on the official Coachella account: "mucho amor."
MORE: Vanessa Hudgens debuts gorgeous Coachella-ready hair
Mon assists in bolstering Chile as the Latin American country with the highest artistic representation at Coachella this year. Her fellow Chilean artists in the lineup include Javiera Mena and Tomasa Del Real. The El Beso singer is set to return for the second weekend on April 19.


It should go without saying that we going to pay a visit to Spoilertown now, or at least the neighboring suburb of Potential Spoilerville. You've been warned.
After the traumatic death in the midseason finale, we know that the core group is once again on the road with no place to call home. As the narrative loosely follows that of the comics, the next stop on their tour is the Alexandria Save Zone, a walled community where the action in Robert Kirkman's comics is still partially set. We've seen evidence that indicates this, as well as had hints in the show, so many suspect we'll get there before the season is out.
Kirkman has said that season 5 will introduce a prominent gay character from the comics—he also said definitively that Daryl is not gay at one point. That combined with the possibility of Alexandria have led some to conclude that Marquand plays Aaron. First appearing in issue #67, Aaron is a part of the community who goes out looking for other survivors, observing them, determining if they'll be a good fit, and trying to convince them to move in. He's essentially a recruiter.
Like I said, this is one possibility, but it seems quite plausible in the cold light of day, and I for one am totally on board. The group has been looking for a place to lay their head, but between Hershel's farm, Woodbury, the prison, and Terminus, they haven't had the best of luck. Not everyone they encounter is going to be a group of murderous cannibals, or whatever, and the narrative tactic of moving, settling, being forced to move again, is something they've obviously already done, and it's getting repetitive. Having a stable place to call home will benefit the show.
Alexandria, or whatever incarnation it takes, provides a chance to set roots and actually start building something, which they keep talking about but rarely have the chance to do. Such a settlement also provides a different set of narrative possibilities. If you're current on the comics, you know what some of these are, and it also allows them to stay together. It's a shift that I think the series desperately needs. As much as the show has grown under showrunner Scott Gimple, it's time for something different in this regard.
As usual, everyone is keeping a tight lid on the direction of the remaining season 5 episodes of The Walking Dead, as well as Marquand's role. However it shakes out, we're only a few weeks away from the Sunday, February 8 return, so we don't have too long to wait.
Don't know if he'll be "most recognizable" as Paul Newman since you could barely see him as Newman delivering a speech in the Mad Men episode "The Flood". He was a far off blur during a Cloie Awards ceremony scene and was immediately upstaged by the announcement that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
Yeah, that's not very recognizable at all, is it?


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Without Comey, No Mueller Investigation
May 30, 2019 By Debbie Young
FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledges applause during President Barack Obama's remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 21, 2013. The President announced James Comey, right, as his nominee to succeed Mueller. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey's long-standing relationship should have disqualified Mueller from overseeing an investigation into President Trump. Comey has been a fierce critic of the President, reports Julie Kelly in American Greatness. Without Comey, who helped fabricate the Trump-Russia collusion narrative in 2016, "there wouldn't have been a Mueller investigation into the fabricated Trump-Russia election collusion."
No Evidence of Conspiracy
Robert Mueller's report shows beyond doubt, there is no evidence of a conspiracy, broad or narrow, opines the WSJ.
(Mueller's) report recounts a series of contacts between individual Russians and Trump officials that were of no great consequence and are connected by nothing more than coincidence. Mr. Mueller should have said this clearly on Wednesday.
Mueller Shifts Responsibility to Barr
Mueller also suggested that his office reached no prosecutorial decision because Justice Department rules don't allow the indictment of a President while in office. "Charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider," Mueller said Wednesday.
He thus left it hanging for everyone else to infer whether he would have indicted Mr. Trump if he were not a sitting President. And he left Attorney General William Barr to take responsibility for reaching the prosecutorial judgment that Mr. Mueller refused to make. Mr. Mueller added to this sneaky anti-Trump implication by noting that "the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrong doing." What else could he mean but Congress and impeachment?
Yet Mr. Mueller's analysis of the obstruction evidence in his own report makes clear that no investigation was obstructed. Not the FBI's counterintelligence probe, and not his own. No witnesses were interfered with, and Mr. Mueller was allowed over two years to issue nearly 500 search-and-seizure warrants and interview anyone he wanted, including anyone in the White House.
Mueller's Job Was to Indict or Not
Wednesday Mr. Mueller also said that "if we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
Since when do prosecutors make it their job to pronounce whether someone they investigate is exonerated? Their job is to indict, or not, and if not then keep quiet.
McCabe, Strzok, Page – Politically Motivated
Mueller praised "the attorneys, the FBI agents, and analysts, the professional staff who helped conduct the investigation in a fair and independent manner." These individuals, he said, "were of the highest integrity."
Does that include Andrew McCabe, the former deputy FBI director who is being investigated for lying to investigators? Does he mean Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI paramours whose antipathy for Donald Trump is obvious from their text messages? Mr. Strzok was part of Mr. Mueller's investigating team until those texts were discovered.
Does Mr. Mueller also mean the FBI officials who used the politically motivated, and since discredited, Steele dossier to persuade a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page? Mr. Mueller didn't appear to want to investigate that part of the Russia story. Was that behavior of "the highest integrity"?
Unfortunately for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, if Mueller had let his report speak for itself, the "media and backbench pressure will now build on her to open an impeachment inquiry to charge Donald Trump with obstructing an investigation that wasn't obstructed into a conspiracy that didn't exist."
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Is Mueller Going After the Truth, or Trump?
Mueller Investigation Categorically Exonerated President Trump. Case Closed!
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young's investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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Don't take a knife to a gun fight.
The JPFO – Understand the dangerous history of gun control.
The GOA – Working to protect your gun rights.
Massad Ayoob at Backwoods Home – Recommended reading, this guy is very good.
Chuck Hawks – Another good source on all sorts of gun-related topics.
The Truth About Guns – Useful gun reviews and other resources.
Handguns for Home Defense – Chuck Hawk's take on the subject.
ScoutRifle.org – Good general resources on the topic.
A review of Jeff Cooper's Steyr Scout at Remtek.
"The Poor Man's Scout Rifle" by Robert Cashner – A "how-to" guide.
"Building a Scout on a Budget" – an article at Survivalblog.com.
A good review of the Savage Scout at SteyrScout.org.
"The Steyr Scout Revisited" at americanhunter.org.
An even more thorough eval of the 930 SPX and potential mods.
Offsite Resources: The best resources for "EBRs" (Evil Black Rifles) at AR15.com and the FALFiles, both with great forums.
Offsite Article: Rigging the Service Rifle Sling – good guide with pictures. I don't know about your, but this always seems to bugger me up.
Offsite Article: Good general maintenance tips and a link to the NRA's safety procedures at Tri-State Gun Collectors.


Product counterfeiting has grown into a huge business. Just about every imaginable product is being counterfeited, with designer watches (pss! Wanna buy a Rolex?), DVDs, and software among the more popular products.
It should be obvious when somebody is trying to sell you a counterfeit product. If someone is offering you a $20 Rolex you can be assured that the product is a fake. Genuine Gucci handbags sell for $1000 each. If someone wants to give you a great deal and sell it to you for just $100, it's a fake. If a street vender is selling a movie that is either still in showing in theaters, or better yet, has not been released, it is pirated, a copy, a knockoff.
Seeing products on the street is one thing, but what about products for sale on the internet? The same theory applies. Beware of prices that seem too good to be true for products you see being sold by mom and pop internet vendors or at lesser online auction sites. There is a good bet that these are counterfeit items. And if they aren't counterfeit, they are probably stolen.
Some people don't mind buying counterfeited items. Hey, who doesn't want to buy a hit movie for $5? Remember, in most cases you get what you pay for. The quality of counterfeited products is usually very, very poor. That movie will likely be so grainy that it is impossible to view, and that Rolex will usually corrode before that battery has a chance to die, or the cheap gears to stop running.
Last year, the World Customs Organization estimates, product counterfeiting caused $512 billion in lost sales. You may not have considered this, but when you buy countefeit products the real manufacturers lose sales. These companies sometimes poured a lot of money into developing these products. Software piracy and counterfeit medications top the list and these cheap knockoffs threaten both the manufacturers bottom line and the jobs that go along with producing the real products. We hate to get too preachy but not everyone acquires countefeit goods unknowingly. Fake car parts may not only be unsafe for you and your family but deliberately purchasing them can cost someone their job.


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This non-certificated membership enjoys all of the Club privileges excluding voting rights and any proprietary interest in the assets of the Club. The membership is divided between two age categories, 21-29 and 30-39. At age 40, a Young Adult member will be required to purchase a certificate if s/he wishes to continue having Club privileges.
A Social membership grants a family, married or domestic couple, or individuals and their guests, access to the Clubhouse in its entirety. This includes privileges such as daily breakfast and lunch, Thursday night Club Dinners, Pub Nights, monthly themed events, card playing and other social activities. Social members are granted five golf outings per year at the posted green fees. This membership level does not have voting privileges.


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Directory of Economics and Policy Resources
Home > Science > Technology > Energy > Economics and Policy
Energy economics is a subfield of economics that focuses on energy relationships as the foundation of all other relationships. It is a subfield of ecological economics in that it assumes that food chains in ecology are directly analogous to energy supply chains in human industries.
Utilities Deregulation
A Meeting of Blood and Oil: The Balkan Factor in Western Energy Security
http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/articles/balkan/pipelines.htm
A research article explaining NATO strategy about exploiting oil resources in the Caspian Sea region.
Advancing Consumer Interests in Energy Strategies
http://www.cecarf.org/
A non-profit organization providing public guidance on energy policies and issues.
Africa Energy Policy Research Network/Foundation for Woodstoves Dissemination
http://www.afrepren.org/
AFREPREN is a programme on energy, environment and sustainable development and stands for 'African Energy Policy Research Network'.
Center for Energy and Environment Policy
http://www.udel.edu/ceep/
CEEP is the principal academic and research unit for graduate study in the areas of energy and environmental policy at the University of Delaware. The Center supports interdisciplinary and collaborative research and graduate studies in the fields of energy and environmental policy; technology, environment, and society; political economy of energy and environment; and sustainable development.
Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
http://www.dsireusa.org/
Clickable map of US states links to government and industry incentives promoting renewable energy.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy
March 2009 release from President Obama on protecting the nation from the serious economic and strategic risks associated with reliance on foreign oil and the destabilizing effects of a changing climate.
Energy Resources Center
http://www.erc.uic.edu/
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) interdisciplinary research and public service organization. Conducts studies in the field of energy and provides local, state and federal governments and the public with the current information on energy technology and policy.
Energy Tomorrow
http://www.energytomorrow.org/
Provides information about the oil and natural gas industry, with a focus on topics that are prominent in today's news: energy security, energy independence and alternative energy sources.
EnergyOnline
http://energyonline.com/
Business and Regulatory Information on the Energy Industry, with an emphasis on Electric Industry Restructuring. LCG provides software for electric, gas, and energy industry in the area of planning, operation, and transmission analysis and Energy databases for electric utilities for various reliability regions.
European Energy Regulators: CEER and ERGEG
http://www.energy-regulators.eu/
Organizations in which Europe's independent national regulators of electricity and gas cooperate to protect consumers' interests and to facilitate the creation of a single, competitive, efficient and sustainable internal market for gas and electricity in Europe.
George Washington University: The GW Solar Institute
http://solar.gwu.edu/
Research facility focused on the economic, technical, and public policy issues associated with the development and deployment of solar energy to meet global energy and environmental challenges.
How California's Power Crisis Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/california-power.htm
Discusses the causes of the January 2001 energy shortage in California and how it will affect every corner of the United States.
International Energy Agency: Energy Market Reform
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/keyresult.asp?KEYWORD_ID=4148#Publications
IEA's policy analyses on regulation and regulatory reform of energy markets, particularly electricity and gas markets.
International Energy Regulation Network
http://www.iern.net/
IERN aims at facilitating the exchange and analysis of information concerning electricity and natural gas market regulation. Training, conferences and research in energy regulation. Facts about national regulators, energy markets and legislation.
Local Power Inc.
http://www.localpower.com/
Energy service bureau helping cities adopt, implement and manage Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) energy networks.
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)
http://www.naruc.org/
Information and policy papers on electric and telecommunications industry deregulation in the U.S. and in other countries and regions, as well as other economic and policy topics related to utilities regulation. Links to state regulatory agencies and other related sites.
NRDC: Energy
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/default.asp
Information on renewable energy, energy conservation and the environmental impacts of energy emissions, from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Nuclear Energy Policy
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33558.pdf
Nuclear energy policy issues facing Congress include questions about radioactive waste management, research and development priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear facilities cleanup, and technology for producing nuclear fuel.
Refining local crude in modular skid units at consumer site
http://topskid.bravepages.com/
Some economic and technical aspects about local refining of crude oil.
Union of Concerned Scientists: Clean Energy
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/
Information and analysis on energy policy topics, including utilities deregulation.
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May I ask some questions? So many times I hear that in this day and time we aren't under the law. Wasn't tithing an Old Testament teaching? Along with all the other teachings from the the Old Testament tithing was commanded. Why is it that as believers we always pick and choose what part of the Bible we live by? From what I understand, it's one BOOK. If you take tithing from the Old Testament teach it as a command in this time wouldn't it be living by the law? Don't miss understand me, we as a family do, give in more ways that just MONEY. It does however concern me that it's so easy for believers to pick and choose, when Yahovah made things very clear. I do Believe that's 10% of all that you prosper.
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In my experience, it seems like those who don't Tithe, are the ones most concerned about legal issues like 'net vs gross' or 'paying Tithes' or 'Tithing 100-percent to the church vs elsewhere' ... and other nits.
Those who do Tithe, quickly realize that to a 'Father who owns the cattle on a thousand hills', our Tithing has less to do with the money ... or even those who receive it, -- than it has to do with the condition of the giver's heart. One's checkbook probably reveals more (to US) about our own heart-level condition than almost anything else.


You may feel like you need to track every penny over a long term to understand your spending tendencies, but that might not be true, and if such a task stymies you from taking any action, the back of a napkin is better than nothing. Short-term tracking of spending works fine; again, it just depends on your personality and what's going to help you.
If you're lost about starting, options includeMint, Manilla to plain old Excel. Find what works best for you and run with it. Many of these programs are free or very reasonable in price.
This is where my family member got lost. He had no idea what he had left over at the end of the month. Coupled with some mindless spending, he was wasting his hard-earned money. The money you have at the end of the month is your money -- for paying off debt, saving for retirement to whatever else you want or need.
The key is having a plan. This will help you avoid mindless spending and force you to come up with goals for your money. After all, who doesn't feel good after reaching a goal? You just need to determine your financial goals and how your money can best reach them.
My family member was concerned that he was spending too much on items that provide him no value. After determining what he has left at the end of each month, he now has comfort knowing what he can spend and what he needs to put in place to reach his goals. That really is the best of both worlds.


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Series: Coronavirus
In This Remote Town, Spring Means Salmon — and Thousands of Fishermen From Coronavirus Hot Spots
A remote fishing region will soon be flooded with seasonal workers. The hospital is equipped for only four COVID-19 patients and its chief operating officer is out of a job after emailing a coronavirus conspiracy meme. Welcome to Dillingham, Alaska.
by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News
April 3, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT
Fishermen catch sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The region's hospital only has 16 beds. (Klas Stolpe/AP Photo)
The U.S. Response to COVID-19
This article was produced in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Later this spring, Alaska's Bristol Bay will blossom into one of the largest annual salmon fisheries in the world.
The regional population of about 6,600 will triple in size with the arrival of fishermen, crews and seasonal workers on jets but also private planes and small boats, many traveling from out of state.
And yet the heart of the health care system in southwestern Alaska, in a corner of the state where the Spanish flu once orphaned a generation, is a 16-bed hospital in Dillingham operated by the Bristol Bay Area Health Corp. Only four beds are currently equipped for coronavirus patients. As of Wednesday, the hospital had a few dozen coronavirus tests for the entire Florida-sized region, tribal leaders said.
If those newly arrived workers need to quarantine for two weeks, as mandated by the state, residents said it's unclear where everyone will hunker down. Local store shelves are already bare of Clorox, Lysol and rubber gloves.
Dillingham, the largest community in the Bristol Bay region with a population of 2,300, is 320 miles from Anchorage by air.
"We're scared. … People come from all over the world for Bristol Bay fishing," said Gayla Hoseth, second chief for the Dillingham-based Curyung Tribal Council. "There's 7,000 of us who live here, and this hospital cannot handle the 7,000 of us if we get sick. Imagine (when) our population triples and quadruples in the summertime."
Dillingham, Alaska. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News)
Compounding matters, the hospital executive who ran daily operations for the health care system is out of a job after downplaying the coronavirus threat to colleagues.
A March 16 email from the executive — which repeated a conspiratorial meme suggesting the coronavirus is somehow a politically motivated phenomenon — set flame to a deep anxiety among some tribal leaders over the vulnerability of Alaska villages in a pandemic.
"Just a reminder that FLU kills many every year!" wrote Lecia Scotford, who was the chief operating officer. (The coronavirus is not like the flu. It appears to be more contagious and more lethal.)
The message soon began to circulate in the Bristol Bay region, drawing a blistering response from some tribal and local leaders.
Robert Clark, president and chief executive of Bristol Bay Area Health Corp., said Scotford's last day was Monday. He would not say if she was fired, citing "personnel stuff," but said "she was separated."
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Scotford did not respond to emails, phone calls and Facebook messages requesting comment. Her email to lists of "division managers" and "department managers" within the regional health organization also emphasized the need for calm, common sense and good hygiene, and for the hospital to be prepared to serve the public.
"That (email) was very concerning to me because that kind of lets people's guard down," Norman Van Vactor, president of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp., said in a phone interview.
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Bristol Bay is a magnet for people in the summer, with a seasonal migration of about 13,000 workers for the lucrative fishing season. The commercial salmon fishery here is the largest in the state, but as of 2010, about 60% of earnings went to out-of-state permit holders.
New video, found in an archive of data uploaded to Parler, includes a fresh look at the mob's confrontation with Eugene Goodman, the officer credited for luring rioters away from senators during the early moments of the Capitol riot.
Almost all the major Bristol Bay seafood processing companies are based in Seattle, an early hot spot for coronavirus, and two thirds of Bristol Bay processing workers live in West Coast states at other times of the year, according to the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecasts some 34.6 million sockeye salmon will be harvested there this year.
"When it comes to wild salmon, we are over half the world's sockeye and over half of the Alaska salmon value," said Andy Wink, executive director for the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association.
The nonprofit industry group on Thursday issued an advisory urging the fleet to delay travel to Bristol Bay until May 1.
"Keep in mind, it is possible to carry this virus without symptoms and unknowingly infect others leading to overtaxed medical capacity and/or death(s)," the advisory said. "You do NOT want to be the outsider photographed or seen around town in public spaces if this situation turns for the worst," the group warned its fishermen.
Wink said his nonprofit is working with local governments on a plan to avoid overcrowding Bristol Bay Area Health Corp. clinics and the Dillingham hospital with sick fishermen, processors and support workers.
"We are taking the stance that we don't want to rely on the local clinics or if we do, the need to be bolstered substantially," Wink said.
As the health care provider for the region, Bristol Bay Area Health Corp. operates the only regional hospital and the clinics in 21 surrounding villages. It employed 470 people and reported revenue of $76.7 million in 2017, according to a tax form that Scotford submitted to the IRS.
Clark, the health corporation chief executive, said the Dillingham hospital is seeking more equipment to meet the potential for coronavirus patients among the local and visiting fishing industry patients.
Chief nursing officer Lee Yale said the hospital had 37 tests on hand as of Wednesday, and that all tests performed had returned negative. The Dillingham facility has no ICU beds, four negative pressure rooms to treat COVID patients without infecting others, plus two ventilators for the region.
"We have staffing but if they get ill we will be in a tight spot," she wrote in an email. "(The) fishing industry will devastate our surge plan and we can not support and cover our villages if this season opens."
Meantime, for many in Bristol Bay, the looming COVID-19 threat recalls family histories of death and loss in the face of past epidemics.
The Spanish flu wracked the U.S. in 1918 and 1919, including this Kansas hospital, above. Residents of Bristol Bay are descendants of Spanish flu survivors. (Wikimedia Commons)
"We are the survivors of the survivors of the orphans of the Spanish flu," said Hoseth, the Dillingham tribe second chief.
Another member of the tribe, tribal administrator Courtenay Carty, said her great-grandmother was orphaned in Dillingham by the 1919 flu and raised by family members, and her grandfather was orphaned by tuberculosis in the 1940s.
"The fact that all of our contemporary families are descendants of those children and few adults that survived 1919 is one of (the) major reasons why we are so passionate about protecting ourselves from this pandemic," she said. "What is history to others is our tribal and familial identities."
Her tribe declared a state of emergency because of the coronavirus on March 24, calling for a stop to all but essential travel to the city.
Clarification, April 3, 2020: This story was updated to more accurately describe who raised tribal administrator Courtenay Carty's great-grandmother.
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20 NEW SHAREHOLDERS (10/17)
Last Saturday we were delighted to receive another tremendous donation to Club 135 from Zoe. In order to show our gratitude to Zoe, it was arranged for Club President Alex Anderson and director Jimmy Calderwood to hand over a gift of 20 shares in Cowdenbeath FC.
It was also a delight to have 20 new shareholders created in the club following their support via donations to Club 135. Certificates have now been awarded and the following letter was sent welcoming each new shareholder: 'I am delighted to be able to write to you and to now welcome you in your capacity as one of the owners of the Cowdenbeath Football Club Ltd. Your generous donation (or your friend/family's) donation to Club 135 is greatly appreciated by the Directors of Cowdenbeath FC. As you are likely aware, Cowdenbeath FC Chairman Donald Findlay kindly agreed to gift a share from his own personal shareholding to each contributor subscribing £250 or more to Club 135. Such contributions are absolutely vital as we seek to build a viable future for our club. The Club has had its ups and downs recently and still faces a range of real challenges but we continue to strive to find the best way to take the club forward. As one of the Club's owners, you too have a role to play in this process.
You may be interested in some of the back story as regards the structure of Cowdenbeath FC. The Club played its first match in October 1880 under the title of Cowdenbeath Rangers. Another club was formed in Cowdenbeath in 1881 and it took the name Raith Rovers. Cowdenbeath Rangers and Raith Rovers then merged in 1882 to become Cowdenbeath Football Club. The Club was incorporated on 1 March 1905 as the Cowdenbeath Football Club Ltd and 1200 5 shilling (25p) shares were then issued just before the Club became members of the Scottish Football League. Further share capital was raised after the Great War with the issue of most of the authorised £1 shares as Cowdenbeath FC moved from North End Park to Central Park, erected the Grandstand at Central Park and then gained promotion to the top flight in 1924.
As a Shareholder, you will be invited to the Club's AGM each year and will be provided with a copy of the Club's annual accounts. We would of course be keen to see you at the AGM but please feel free to contact the Club/Board at any time – thoughts, ideas, suggestions and even investment are always welcome. Thank you again for your support of Cowdenbeath FC via Club 135 and by cheering the team on at Central Park or from afar'.
Just a reminder that everyone who contributes to Club 135 will ultimately have their names recorded on a Roll of Honour Board which will be located on the wall of the players' tunnel at Central Park. In addition, anyone donating £250 or more to Club 135 will be gifted one share in Cowdenbeath FC and thus have an opportunity which has rarely ever been publicly available to become one of the club's owners! The next lot of shares will be issued pre-Christmas – so if you wish to make such a donation you could secure an ideal Christmas gift for a Cowden fan or enjoy the satisfaction of being one of the Club's owners.
ZOE KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK (10/17)
The remarkable Zoe Smith is to present another cheque as a donation to Club 135. Not content with season after season sourcing some extraordinary signed memorabilia for the Club's Sportsman's Dinner – this year there are items from luminaries in the football, darts, boxing worlds as well as a Cowden top (Number 1) signed by Andy Murray – she has undertaken various sponsored activities to raise even more funds for our club.
In the last 14 months she has swum Loch Lomond twice, been the only woman to play in and complete a 24-hour football match and swum in the English Channel. Not long ago she made a donation to Club 135 of some £5,000. Today she will hand over another cheque for the fund for some £6000 – truly incredible stuff. So please today give a big hand to someone who has gone much further than the proverbial extra-mile with some unparalleled fundraising efforts. It just shows what drive and determination can do and is an example to all. The Board of Directors of Cowdenbeath FC would also like to give their own personal thanks to Zoe – we are greatly indebted to her for all that she has done for Cowdenbeath FC.
OLD CROCKS MATCH – PROGRESS TO DATE (08/17)
A reminder that everyone who contributes to Club 135 will ultimately have their names recorded on a Roll of Honour Board which will be located on the wall of the players' tunnel at Central Park. In addition, anyone donating £250 or more to Club 135 will be gifted one share in Cowdenbeath FC and thus have an opportunity which has rarely ever been publicly available to become one of the club's owners!
There have been a few queries as to when shares will be issued. The arrangement will be that shares will be issued to donors (if they wish to take up the gift option) on a quarterly basis (it is unwieldy and administratively difficult to do this more frequently). Thus all those who contribute £250 or more before 1 September 2017 will be allotted their share in September 2017. The club will contact all those eligible in advance to make final arrangements. The cut off date for the next quarter will then be 1 December and anyone who wanted to gift a share at Christmas could then be accommodated.
In our last issue we highlighted the sterling fund-raising efforts spearheaded by Colin Nelson who arranged an 'Old Crocks' match at Central Park which raised over £1000 as Cowdenbeath Blue Brazil took on Cowdenbeath Miners. Other donors recently have included Archie Gilchrist, the Campbell Family, Norman Murray, Bruce Allan, Ian Stewart, Gordon McKinlay, William Whyte, Ian McKinlay, the Lonies, D Briggs, Bob Burt and John Jones – to name just a few.
Then there has been a truly remarkable donation from fundraiser extraordinaire Zoe Smith. There can be few people which such a knack for raising cash for worthy causes than Zoe – events such as her Loch Lomond swim and her English Channel swim have been backed by sponsorships from a gallery of sporting superstars and her many friends and contacts including many Cowden fans. Zoe in the last week or so has made a remarkable, brand new donation to the Cowdenbeath FC's Club 135 of £5,000!!!! What a wonderful effort and it shows just what can be achieved. Zoe is maybe rather unique but we can all play a part in getting things to snowball as regards Club 135. Yes, make a donation but the absolutely vital role we ask you to play for our club is to be ambassadors for it by promoting Club 135 to your friends and contacts on social media, e-mail, etc. – just as if you had a sponsor sheet! And enlist those friends to enlist their friends and so on. You can also make a contribution in memory of a loved one – maybe someone who was a Cowdenbeath fan or who came from Cowdenbeath. There have already been a number of such donations – the most recent being 'In memory of Jimmy McGuire and Wullie Muir'.
The overall target as many will know is for the club to raise a total of £135,000. The overall target as many will know is for the club to raise a total of £135,000. Yes, it is an ambitious target but with your commitment to bring the needed momentum to bear we can get there. We are pleased to confirm that Club 135 thus far has generated a total of some £14,500 – a great initial step towards meeting our goal.
Now lots of people have already stepped up to contribute.
BECOME A SHAREHOLDER (06/17)
Get Your Name or that of a loved one inscribed onto the Roll of Honour Board at Central Park or even Own a Share in Cowdenbeath Football Club!
As fans and members of the local community know we have really been in a 'Save Cowdenbeath FC mode' since 2010. For just over 135 years, this small Fife town has had a senior football team. Indeed around the world, many people only know of the existence of Cowdenbeath itself because of its Football Club. Founded by miners, the Club has been based at its current ground Central Park for exactly 100 years and has been a member of the Scottish League for some 112 years. On 20th May, the club faced one of its greatest challenges as it sought to preserve its proud Scottish League status. It did so but only just! Fans gathered from far and wide to see Cowdenbeath defeat East Kilbride in a dramatic penalty shootout on a tension packed day. Defeat would have consigned the Club to the Lowland League and an uncertain future.
The club has actually been run by its fans for the past seven years. The current Directors of the Club are lifelong fans who continue to put considerable time and money into the Club to preserve this great community asset. The club though faces a host of challenges and in these days, it is extremely difficult to continually raise the funds required to keep Cowdenbeath FC on the world football map.
For that reason, the Club has launched Club 135 to firstly celebrate 135 years of senior football in the town. Secondly though, the aim is to raise funds to provide a more solid and sustainable financial platform to help the Club in the coming years. Our plea is that every fan, or anyone at all who has a link to this old mining town or is a well-wisher or maybe just would like to aid a small town football club, donate a minimum of £10 to the Club so that the future can be a bit more certain.
Many fans have already rallied to the cause but over and above making a donation the vital role we ask you to play for our club is to be ambassadors for it by promoting Club 135 to your friends and contacts on social media, e-mail, etc. – just as if you had a sponsor sheet! And enlist those friends to enlist their friends and so on. You can also make a contribution in memory of a loved one – maybe someone who was a Cowdenbeath fan or who came from Cowdenbeath. Just this last week or so we received donations 'In Memory of David Skelding', 'In Memory of Willie Nellies' and 'In Memory of George Cowan'. A couple of well-wishers who made a donation this week were based in Nottingham – Simon and Steven Clough – the son and grandson respectively of football legend Brian Clough! (Nigel Clough too later made his own donation).
Everyone who contributes will ultimately have their names recorded on a Roll of Honour Board which will be located on the wall of the players' tunnel at Central Park. In addition, anyone donating £250 or more to Club 135 will be gifted one share in Cowdenbeath FC and thus have an opportunity which has rarely ever been publicly available to become one of the club's owners!
COMMEMORATIONS & CELEBRATIONS (05/17)
As the dust settles on season 2016/17 Club 135 assumes even more significance. It is a vital lifeline for our club and at this early stage two key funding objectives have been identified. More detail will follow in the next few days but the 2 strands are essentially 1) a boost to next season's budget in order to ensure Cowden's competitive position is improved - the play off last week being a salutary lesson for everyone; and 2) to begin to build a real and sustainable economic base to underpin the club's activities at the heart of the community in future years.
There have been several further significant donations made in the last few days - For example the winners of the Cowdenbeath 100 Club prize draw in both March (Keith Lawrence) and April (Ian Adam) each picked up,£145.50. Both of them though pledged all their winnings to Club 135. What a great gesture!
Another very popular motivation behind making a donation to Club 135 is to commemorate friends and relatives no longer with us. They along with all contributors will have their names formally recorded - including we anticipate by having their names interwoven into a special edition Cowdenbeath FC jersey. Donations on such a basis this last week or so totalling £420 have been made including - 'In Memory of David Skelding', 'In Memory of William Graham', and 'From Roberta, Christine, Gordon and Ritchie Miller in Memory of Alex Miller'. What a wonderful way of honouring the memory of loyal fans of yesteryear!
Another donor Malcolm Slora celebrated a milestone birthday by donating a commensurate amount to Club 135. Maybe a loved one would appreciate a birthday donation to Club 135?
As you can see matters are gathering pace so have a think about it - how can you help? Making a donation or even better perhaps persuading friends and family to do the same or even via a fundraiser!?
BUCKET COLLECTION (05/17)
On Saturday (20/05/17) at the match v East Kilbride Alex Haddow organised a collection to help raise funds for Cowdenbeath FC's new initiative Club 135. Among those helping with the bucket collection was long-time Cowden fan Matty Aitken who had travelled all the way up from Liverpool to support his home town club. Thanks to Alex and Matty and the other volunteers involved a sum of £515.65 was raised from fans attending the game - what a great effort!
The 50/50 draw on Saturday was won by another Cowdenbeath exile Jim Blair who had come up to the game from Nottingham. Jim scooped a win of £250 and had no hesitation in pledging the full amount straight away to Club 135 - a great gesture by Jim.
Among others making their own personal contributions to Club 135 on Saturday were Dave Room and Alison Allan as another £199 was handed over.
IN MEMORIAM TRIBUTES & BUS DONATION (05/17)
We had a great £300 collective donation from those who travelled on the free bus to Elgin last Saturday. Then we can add to the Roll of Honour as contributors - Dr Bob Brownlie, Noreen Brownlie, Andrew Philp all the way from Canada, Andrine George, David George, 'In Memory of James and Fraser Bruce', Daisy Anderson, 'In Memory of Andrew Allan 1926-95', 'In Memory of Davie Allan 1897-1976', 'In Memory of Willie Bell 1902-88' and Drew Higgins who together donated a further £360.
INNES LEADS THE WAY (04/17)
On Saturday (29/4/17) we had a real show of guts and determination from our team and great backing from the Cowden faithful. Over and above the match itself, we had a number of fans keen to ensure they were among the very first to demonstrate their support for the Club by making their own donations to Club 135. Leading the way, just as he always did on the park was ex-Cowden skipper and 2006 Championship hero Innes Ritchie back at Central Park after his Australian sojourn and still showing the same great commitment to our club Innes.
We also had Gary Timney and friends Karen Harrison, Kevin Harrison and Maria Harrison travelling all the way up from Basingstoke to get behind the Blue Brazil and they also wanted to make their contribution to Club 135 handing over their tenners to Manager Gary Locke at Central Park. Cowden's fighting display against the League leaders was enjoyed by Gary and his party as was Gary's winning of the 50/50 draw. A delighted Gary there and then donated a further £100 to Club 135 – what a great gesture!
Also determined to be among the very first to demonstrate their allegiance to their club and make Club 135 a roaring success were loyal fans Amelia Howie, Ali Howie, Robert McKinlay and Captain Jimmy Robertson who between them pledged another £140 to the Club 135 cause. So the Club 135 train has now left the station and is gathering momentum. Hop on soon and help us on the journey. Only together can we meet the challenge.
LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT (04/17)
On April 22nd 2017 Club 135 was launched. First subscribers were Directors Tom Ewing, Margaret Steven and Alex Anderson who between them contributed a total of £420 to kick things off.
Many fans have seen this trailed and have been awaiting further details. Well in the next few weeks and months more and more information and Club 135 initiatives will be launched on a progressive basis. There will also be meetings and it is crucial for the club's wellbeing and future that fans play a full part in these. The idea is to get the ball rolling now and gather increasing momentum. Have no doubt though - Club 135 is absolutely vital to Cowdenbeath FC's future. It is sometimes said that the Board are the custodians or guardians who have responsibility for safeguarding Cowdenbeath FC. That is not true – they have an important role but the true custodians and guardians of Cowdenbeath FC are the fans and the wider local community. They are the folks who are the key to preserving and keeping Cowdenbeath FC alive and to building the club's future.
Club 135 will have a number of facets. One absolutely simple aim is to build a financial base for the club that underpins its sustainability and its financial position. Without stock car income, major transfer fee income, large gates, windfalls from televised Cup games, bank overdraft facilities and reliance on increased Directors' contributions – we need a new financial model on which we can build a solid base and future. Bear in mind we won't have £80,000 or so cash reserves to bring forward for next season as we did this year. Nor are there any big League gates on the horizon for next season.
As previously mentioned we have been in a 'Save Cowdenbeath FC mode' for a number of seasons now. Various options have been explored in that time but at the end of the day the future simply lies in all our hands – there is no sugar-daddy or white knight likely to come to the party to help. So at the heart of Club 135 is a desire to build these stronger financial foundations to take our club forward in a stable manner. Club 135 gets its name from the 135 plus years Cowdenbeath FC have been in existence – the club was founded by the people of Cowdenbeath and district and has been supported by that same constituency throughout its long life.
Yes once again it means raising funds – that is football nowadays. The simple ambition, and it will be a challenge, is to raise say £135,000 over a period to bolster Cowdenbeath FC for the years ahead as it adapts to its current circumstances. A 'Blue Peter Appeal' if you want to think of it that way!
£135,000 is a lot of money – no doubt about it. But in another way it is just £10 a head from 13,500 people. That though means enlisting to the cause every Cowdenbeath fan, every Cowdenbeath well-wisher, anyone with family or footballing links to Cowdenbeath world-wide – maybe from a family which had its roots in the mining community of Cowdenbeath, or any other generous spirited individuals. All helping to try to preserve what is not just a much loved football club but is a prized community asset. For example, as well as on behalf of yourself, why not make a donation in memory of your father, grandfather or other relative who although no longer with us were dedicated and loyal fans of the club in times past?
Through your efforts via the likes of social media we could look to bring in friends and family on a global basis and thus hopefully get the support of enough people willing to donate just a tenner at least each (larger amounts of course would be welcomed) to try and secure the future of the club. We will set up a mechanism to facilitate donations electronically but Club 135 needs your support and impetus behind it. It needs your promotion and who knows maybe we can 'go viral' as they say nowadays. Let's all please have a real go.
Taking Cowdenbeath FC forward also means we will need more supporters/volunteers to share the demanding workload next season and onwards and that too will come under Club 135. We will also look at the future ownership model for the Club. If you have bright ideas to add to the pot then let's hear them. We have various ideas how contributors can be acknowledged and commemorated but again let us have your ideas re this. Today we take the first steps on a journey – let's go forward together and see what we can achieve. This isn't about traditional football club models so maybe we can break the mould. Gusto, drive, personal commitment and teamwork will be required but cynicism and sitting on the sidelines leaving others to carry the load isn't a recipe for a successful future. Your personal commitment and ideas are part of the solution.


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Helicopter Carrying General Bipin Rawat Crashes in Tamil Nadu
On Wednesday, a helicopter carrying General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence, and 14 army personnel crashed in Coonoor in the nearby hilly Nilgiri district on its route from an air force base to the Army Defence Services College in Tamil Nadu.
Horrific Mi-17V5 helicopter crash in India. Gen #BipinRawat, Chief of Defence Staff, on board. Disturbing visuals. pic.twitter.com/5dCl2tnELs
— Sameer 'Sadiq' Bhat (@sadiquiz) December 8, 2021
Four people have been confirmed dead. However, rescue operations are underway."An IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter, with CDS Gen Bipin Rawat on board, met with an accident today near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu," the Indian Air Force tweeted on Wednesday.
Videos shown on Indian news channels showed the chopper engulfed in flames as locals attempted to extinguish it in a densely forested region near the college.
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Q: How to store basic auth credentials in browser cache after XHR Context
I have a friend, his name is Bob.
Bob have a server with an application running & accessible only in local. To access this application from the outside world, Bob installed & configured a reverse proxy with nginx and the module auth_basic.
Each request go through the authentication process by the reverse proxy. Two cases :

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*If a HTTP GET request contain valid HTTP header parameter Authorization: Basic base64credentials, then the reverse proxy access the local application and response accordingly. Each sub-request will not require a new authentication because the browser cache the credentials and send them in every request automatically until we close the browser.

*If a HTTP GET request doesn't contain valid HTTP header parameter, the reverse proxy respond directly with the HTTP header WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="User Visible Realm". Then the browser automatically show a dialog box to enter credentials.

Everything works fine until here. It's like expected from basic auth specification.
Problem
Bob doesn't like the default dialog box from the browser and want a nice html page with a form. He configurate the nginx server to have his own html form.
The problem is that the HTML submit process for a form, by default, doesn't send the Authorization header parameter. Bob need to use a XMLHttpRequest. He implement it and receive a good 200 HTTP response from the server when the credentials are good.
Unlike the default form behavior, with the XMLHttpRequest, the browser doesn't cache the credentials automatically in case of success. So each sub-request display again the login form :'(
Bob can't change the front code of the local application to send by himself the credentials in each request (as with a SPA). Indeed, he doesn't have access to this app. He just have access to nginx conf and his own html login form. So storage is useless here.
Questions
Is it possible for bob to make the browser cache the credentials after receive the XHR response ?
(The goal is to behave like the default behavior even when he use a XMLHttpRequest)

EDIT :
Further explanation

The local app is running on localhost. Bob didn't develop this app and he can't edit it. This app doesn't provide authentication and Bob used the basic_auth module of nginx as a reverse proxy to authenticate people.
It works good but use the default behavior of browsers which implement Basic Auth specification. This behavior display an ugly form and cache the credentials when success. If Bob provide his own form the behavior go, which is normal because the Basic Auth specification require specific header parameter (Authorization: Basic ...) that HTML form can't provide. Bob need to use XHR to provide this parameter.
The question is, how get back the good behavior of the browser with XHR ?
We can only use JS on login.html and not on the local app. Here is the workflow :

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*HTTP GET request to the server

*Server doesn't find Authorization parameter OR credentials are wrong

*Server respond login.html

*User provide credentials by form. XHR is emitted with Authorization parameter.

*Server find Authorization parameter AND credentials are valid

*Server give back the local app entry file (for example index.html)

*Browser read index.html and want request other files (img, css, js...)

*These sub requests will fail because no credentials provide in these requests.

*If ugly default form use, the credentials are cached automatically and it works.

I precise also that a solution would be to replace nginx basic auth reverse proxy by a real backend app and another authentication system (with cookie for example which are send automatically) which would work as a reverse proxy but it is not the question asked.

EDIT 2 :
Why Bob can't use storage solution ?
In the ulgy form scenario, he doesn't have HTML login file. When the browser client ask a request to the server, the server only response a HTTP response with the WWW-Authenticate header but without HTML content. The simple fact to have this header parameter display a form. Just putting the good credentials will send back a 200 HTTP Response and the browser will cache the credentials and send it in every request with the HTTP header Authorization: Basic.
In the login.html scenario, after a success login, we need to send back in every request the HTTP header Authorization: Basic (not a cookie, because it's how work Basic Auth spec and Bob doesn't have any backend, just the nginx module). It's possible to send this header from the login.html because we can attach JS on it. But then, the next pages respond by the server will be HTML files from the local app, where Bob doesn't have access to their HTML and can't attach JS on them to provide header Authorization: Basic for the next requests. A cookie could be stored from the login.html file, but this cookie need to be retrieved from the other pages and used to send header Authorization: Basic, which is impossible because Bob doesn't have access to the JS of these pages.
Thank you in advance.

A: Since you're already using ajax, just have javascript set and read a cookie:
(I use jQuery here, for simplicity, replace the ajax call with the appropriate syntax if you're not using jQuery):
function getCookie(cookiename) {
    /* a function to find a cookie based on its name */

    var r = document.cookie.match('\\b' + cookiename + "=([^;]*)\\b");
    // document.cookie returns all cookies for this url
    return r ? r[1] : undefined;
    // return the regex capture if it has content, otherwise return undefined
}

function getData(auth_basic) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'url_of_nginx...',
        headers: {
            'Authorization': 'Basic ' + auth_basic
        } // send auth header on xmlhttprequest GET
    }).next(function ajaxSuccess(data) {
        // data from the nginx
        document.cookie = '_auth_cookie=' + auth_basic;
        // store my auth in a cookie
    }, function ajaxFailed(jqXHR) {
        // do something on failure, like
        showLoginForm()
    });
}

function showLoginForm() {
    /* function to render your form */

    // attach an event handler to form submission
    $('#submit_button_id').click(function form_submitted(login_evt) {
        // I clicked login
        login_evt.preventDefault(); // don't really submit the form

        // get my field form values
        username = $('#username_input_field').val();
        password = $('#password_input_field').val();

        // I base64 the auth string
        var auth_basic = btoa(username + ':' + password);

        // try to auth
        getData(auth_basic);

    });
}

var auth_cookie = getCookie('_auth_cookie');
if (auth_cookie === undefined) {
    // I have no cookie
    showLoginForm()
} else {
    getData(auth_cookie)
}

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What's The Truth About…Kosher Soap?
OU Kosher Staff
Misconception: There is no valid reason to use kosher soap.
Fact:There is a solid halachic basis for using kosher soap exclusively.
People often fail to consider what a marvelous substance soap is – when used with water, it loosens unwanted particles, emulsifies grease and absorbs dirt into foam. Its efficacy is usually due to a chemical reaction between an acid and a base. Typically, the acid derives from either vegetable or animal fat. Historically, most soaps were made from animal fats1. Even today, excluding "vegetarian" soap, most soaps are made from animal fat. For example, Ivory soap2 (advertised as "99 44/100% pure" ) is, according to its web site, "made of both vegetable oils and animal fats". In response to my telephone inquiry, the Procter & Gamble spokesman stated that the animal fats in Ivory are the usually discarded tallow of beef and pork. In addition, animal fats are the main ingredients in Ivory, making up over fifty percent of the product.
All fats from non-kosher animals, and certain fats known as chelev from kosher animals, are prohibited for consumption. The Talmud (Pesachim 21-23) and legal codes (Rambam, Ma'achalot Asurot 8:15) explain that while it is forbidden to eat these fats, it is permissible to derive other benefits from them.
As an aside, there are instances when it is forbidden to derive benefit from non-kosher items. Thus, for example, the Gemara (Shabbat 28b) states3 that tefillin straps4 should only be made from kosher animals. This principle, called mutar beficha, is codified in the Shulchan Aruch (OC 32:12). The Magen Avraham (586:3) postulates that in regard to this principle, all mitzvot should be patterned after tefillin, and thus, non-kosher items should not be used to fulfill any mitzvah. Most others, however, contend that the prohibition applies only to tefillin straps. Thus, for example, the Shu"t Beit Shlomo (OC 108-109) permits using candles from made from non-kosher fat for Chanukah and Shabbat5. It seems that the prevailing custom is not to follow the stringency of the Magen Avraham. [See Rav Schachter's comments in the footnote6].
The Mishnah (Yoma 73b) presents a potential problem regarding the use of non-kosher soap. Among the pleasurable acts that the Mishnah lists as being prohibited on Yom Kippur is anointing oneself. This is based on a verse (Psalms 109:18) from which the rabbis determined that "sichah keshtiya, anointing is tantamount to drinking" (Mishnah, Shabbat 86a; Yoma 76b7). Because applying soap is considered "anointing", some authorities compare using soap made from non-kosher fats to drinking a non-kosher beverage (see middle of Taz, YD 117:4). They therefore prohibited using such soaps. Of course the comparison between anointing and drinking is not absolute. It would be ludicrous to assert that after making Kiddush on Friday night, in lieu of drinking the wine, one need only anoint oneself with it. Yet the comparison may be strong enough to warrant the prohibition of anointing oneself with non-kosher fats8.
Those who permit soaps made of non-kosher animal byproducts base their ruling on the position of Tosafot (Niddah 32a, s.v. ukeshemen) who assert that sichah keshtiya only applies to oil but not to fat or to soaps made from fat. Furthermore, they (Yoma 77a, s.v. minayin) assert that sichah keshtiya is rabbinic in nature and that the rabbis only applies it to specific cases such as Yom Kippur9. According to Tosafot, one is not permitted to anoint oneself on Yom Kippur, but one may anoint oneself with any kind of soap or fat during the rest of the year.
The position of the Beit Yosef is less clear. While he cites both the Orchot Chaim who maintains that one may not anoint oneself with non-kosher fats (YD 117) and the Rashba who has a more lenient view (YD 123), the Beit Yosef does not comment on either opinion. The Shach (Nekudat Hakesef, YD 117) cited many authorities who permit using non-kosher soap10. Still there are others who do not permit it. The Kaf Hachaim (YD 117:15) presents both sides in a lengthy discussion but concludes by taking a stringent position. The Taz (middle of YD 117:4), citing the Issur veHetter, permits the use of soaps made of non-kosher animal byproducts only to relieve discomfort. He stresses that a healthy individual should not use such soaps for pleasure. The Shulchan Aruch, in the section on the laws of Shabbat (OC 326:8), rules that one may not use soap on Shabbat because of the prohibition against "smoothing". Because the Shulchan Aruch does not distinguish between kosher and non-kosher soap, the implication is that using any soap is acceptable during the rest of the week. The Vilna Gaon rejects this lenient view and cites many early authorities who disagree with the reasoning of the Tosafot. The Vilna Gaon therefore considers using non-kosher soap as a tantamount to drinking a non-kosher beverage. The Aruch Hashulchan (YD 117:29) notes that it seems that "everyone uses non-kosher soap without rabbinic objection". He suggests that even the Vilna Gaon would agree that today it is permissible to use non-kosher soap, since nowadays soaps taste awful and are not even raui l'achilat kelev, fit for animal consumption11. Because it is inedible, there would be no prohibition against drinking it, and thus sichah keshtiya would not apply.
The Chofetz Chaim (Biur Halacha, end of OC 326), after citing both the Vilna Gaon's stringent position and Tosafot's more lenient one, observes that the custom is to be lenient12. However, he continues, if kosher soap is available one should try to be stringent and use it exclusively. In a similar vein, the Darchei Teshuvah (YD 117:33) notes that since quality kosher soap is available at a reasonable price, it is preferable for one to use it13. Two contemporary authorities, Rav Moshe Stern (Be'er Moshe, 3:87) and Rav Ovadiah Yosef (Yechave Da'at, 4:43) agree that because today's soaps made from prohibited fats have such unpleasant tastes and are inedible, they may be used.
There are many soaps today in which tallow is only a minority ingredient and still others in which the presence of tallow is difficult to determine. According to some authorities, there is a basis for leniency in both of these cases14. It is also important to note that many liquid soaps are actually detergent, not soap, and therefore they may not contain any animal fat at all15.
Rav Schachter commented as follows:
בהספדו של הרב הורוביץ (בעל המחבר ספר אורחות רבנו) על הסטייפילע"ר (בעץ חיים בירושלים – בתוך השבעה) הזכיר שהסטייפילע"ר החמיר על עצמו שלא להשתמש בבורית מחשש סיכה כשתייה. גם שמעתי (מלפני מ"ה שנים) שכשחברת רוקח התחילו בעשיית בורית כשר, שמח הגרח"ע על הדבר הזה. אך בפשוטו טפי נראית סברת החכם עובדי' – שהכל נפסל מאכילת אדם, ולא שייך כאן לומר אחשביה.
צבי שכטר
עש"ק פ' החודש, תשס"ד
1 Soap may have already been used in the Biblical period. The word "borit" in Jeremiah 2:22 and Malachi 3:2 is understood by many to refer to a kind of soap. It is possible that in the Biblical and Talmudic periods, soap was derived almost exclusively from plants. See Rashi to Malachi 3:2 and Encyclopedia Judaica 15:18-19.
2 A registered name. Interestingly, the soap's name is based on Psalms 45:8 "All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad".
3 Based on Exodus 13:9.
4 The boxes, hairs and sinews of tefillin also must only be made from a kosher animal, but this is a halacha leMoshe miSinai and not derived from the verse in Exodus. See also Shabbat 108a and Sofrim 1:1.
Rav Schachter commented that: לא מאה אחוז מדוייק, כי דין הרצועות הוא מהלכה למשה מסיני, והבית של ראש מן הפסוק בגלל השי"ן כמו הקלף של הפרשיות.
5 See Nodah B'Yehuda Tinyana (chelek 2, siman 3) who has a long discussion of this principle. He discussed issues such as polishing tefillin straps with non-kosher oil. He also questions how the Magen Avraham explains the Gemara permitting the use of an elephant for a sukkah wall. See also Maharatz Chiyot to Shabbat 21; Shu"t Chatam Sofer OC 39; and Sdei Chemed, Asifat Dinim, Ma'arechet Chanukah, section 14, pp. 49-65. Drawing on a Tosafot in Sotah 17b, the Beit Yitzchak (YD 145) argues that even the Magen Avraham would permit the use of non-kosher oils and waxes for use on Chanukah and Shabbat. There the Tosafot permit writing the sotah text on non-kosher parchment since it will be destroyed. Similarly, the candles used for Chanukah and Shabbat are destroyed.
בשו"ת תורת חסד (מלובלין) חלק או"ח יש פלפול לשבת שובה במחלוקת הראשונים בזה – אם דין מותר בפיך רק שייך בתשמישי קדושה או אפילו בכל תשמישי מצוה. ויש לצרף לזה ביאור הערוך השולחן (באבן העזר) לסדר חליצה, שטעמו של ר"ת לפסול עור בהמה טמאה לסנדל של חליצה הוא באמת מטעם זה – שסובר כהר"ן (שהובא במג"א הנ"ל) שדבר זה נאמר אף בכל תשמישי מצוה.
6 Rav Schachter commented as follows:
מה שכתב בשם המגן אברהם, אין זה חידושו של הרמג"א, רק שהביא כן מהר"ן! ומה שכתב ש"נוהגים שלא כהמגן אברהם" אינו כל כך מדויק, דבאמת פסקינן כהשולחן ערוך שמה בהלכות שופר.
ולענין הראיה מנרות שבת וחנוכה, יש מקום לדון שאין החֵלֵב נידון בכלל כחפצא של מצוה, אלא רק השלהבת שמלמעלה.
7 The Talmud (Yoma 76b) further derives (from Daniel 1:3 and 10:12) that the prohibition of anointing is considered "inui" (suffering).
8 This issue might also apply to bubble bath. To keep the bubbles from popping while floating on the hot water, hydrolyzed animal collagen is added. This is created from the tendons of presumably non-kosher animals.
9 Rambam (see Kesef Mishnah to Hilchot Shvisat Asur, chap.1) maintains that the concept if sichah keshtiya, at least in regard to Yom Kippur, is Biblical in nature.
10 He noted that the Levush points out that there is a specific aversion to using products made from pig products, although this may be more of a simple revulsion than a halachic mandate.
11 Rav Yitzchak Ratzaby [contemporary Yemenite posek; Shulchan Aruch Hamekutzar, YD 1 (5760), 218] similarly rules that one may lather oneself with soap made of forbidden tallow because it is ill tasting, and that is the prevalent custom. In support, he cites Beit Yosef YD 117; Kaf Hachaim OC 326:45; ibid, YD 117:17; Biur Halacha to OC 326:10; Shu"t Tzemach Tzedek 91; Yad Ephraim to YD 95; Yechave Da'at 4:43.
12 It seems that he is not agreeing with the Aruch haShulchan that everyone would permit today's soaps. Rather, he is stating that the custom is to accept the lenient position of the Tosafot.
13 On this topic see also Rav Elchanan Peretz, "Din Sichah Beshemen Issur" (Hebrew), Mehadrin 7 (Adar 2, 5755), 76-86. See also Torah Loda'at, 3:47 and 8:24 for some of these sources, as well as other laws regarding anointing on Shabbat and Yom Kippur. Additionally, the Torah Loda'at discusses other laws pertaining to soap, such as non-kosher soap falling into food, chametzdik soap on Pesach and the use of soap on Shabbat.
14 See Peretz, ibid. Ironically, while there is good reason to use kosher soap, even though soap is never put in one's mouth, it may not be necessary to use kosher toothpaste. That is indeed the opinion of Shearim Metzuyanim Behalachah (46:7; Braun on Kitzur Shulchan Aruch). Rav Shmuel David Munk (Peat Sudchah, YD 84 (5749), 160; ) vehemently disagrees. He argues that tasting a prohibited item with one's tongue is at least a rabbinic prohibition. This applies even if the item is not swallowed. He asserts that most people are careful to use kosher toothpaste.
הטוטפיס"ט גם כן נפסל הוא מאכילת אדם (כאשר כבר כתבתי בדף הכשרות מחשון תשס"ד), ואין כאן ענין של אחשבי'. וכן שמעתי בשם הגר"י ברויאר ז"ל, שמיאן ליתן הכשר לחברת אדוו"יי לטוטפיס"ט על פסח, כי הי' סבור שמעיקר הדין אין צריך לזה שיהי' כשר, וכנ"ל, וחשש שמא חברת אדוו"יי יפשטו את הרגל, והעולם יזכרו שלפני שנה הי' הכשר של רב ברויאר על הטוטפיס"ט, ובשנה זו כבר אינו קיים טוטפיס"ט עם הכשר, וימנעו מלהשתמש בטוטפיס"ט בפסח, ואת זה לא רצה. (כן שמעתי מחתנו מר גוטמן, ז"ל, ומסתמא אפשר לברר דבר זה אצל שאר בני משפחתו, כי כולם חוזרים על כל הנהגות רבם הצדיק, ז"ל.)
15 An interesting, additional issue involving soap can arise in Israel. Cottonseed oil is used to manufacture soap, and during and after the shemittah year, there is a fear that cottonseed oils having kedushat shvi'it may be mixed into the soap. Most people are lenient in this regard and do not stock up on soap before seventh-year cotton oil hits the market. See Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Shemittah Kehilchata 3:18 and Rabbi Dovid Marchant, Understanding Shmittoh 1, p. 188.
Reprinted with permission from Jewish Action, Winter 2003 the magazine of the Orthodox Union.
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Q: Syntax for compiling c++ code with preprocessor option in Intel Visual Studio I am trying to compile a c++ script using Intel Compiler 17.0 Update 4 Intel(R) Visual Studio 2013. What is the correct compiler syntax if I want to invoke the preprocessor option?
The same script was successfully compiled in Linux using the following syntax:
    sudo g++ script.cpp -o script -DUNIX -cpp

Looking at the preprocessor options summary here -->
https://www.lri.fr/~lacas/Teaching/SIMD/icc.pdf
it looks like I can either preprocess to an .i file or ::stdout.
However I want to invoke the preprocessor in the command line compile statement such that it will generate an executable. I am looking for something along the lines of:
    cl script.cpp /EHsc /MT /optionX

where optionX is the equivalent of "-cpp" for the Intel VS compiler.
Is there such an option?
I tried the /fpp option which throws this warning:
   cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '/fpp'

What am I missing?
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