It is a natural law that a room tends to become dirty – and if you don't believe me, take it up with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This natural law has evoked a social response – or many a social response. "Dirty" is a word that seems to imply dirt – that thing we see plants grow from, and that we walk on when we go out into the woods. But like a speck of dust, "dirty" has floated away from dirt to embrace a host of ills – stains, smears, muck, grease, fingerprints, fungus, etc. It also goes with the word "stinky" – dirty and stinky belong together like a comedy duo. If you smell something foul, chances are you will find something foul.
The legacy of that time is our comparatively bright and shining present. However, I think it is a good rule of thumb to suspect that every rational policy rides on the back of a host of superstitions – metaphors and myths that do the mental policing work. I suspect disinfecting, which after all aligns itself, when all the germ theory talk is done, with ancient methods of meeting "pollution", has generated certain habits that are, if not irrational, at least not as rational as they seem.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you – the dishwasher!
I have never lived in a place without a dishwasher, and hope never to live in such a impoverished space. But I have long had my doubts that a dishwasher is worth it. And surely I am not alone in my existential struggle. This morning, for instance: I get up and go into the kitchen to make coffee. Everybody is asleep – and this is how I like to begin Sunday mornings. A little pause in which I am the waking, bright little dot of consciousness, getting brighter as my eyes get used to being open (and no doubt the part of my brain devoted to vision pumps itself up), while my loved ones are in their beds, dreaming. Is there a more secure feeling than this? While making coffee, I decided to unload the dishwasher and put into it some plates and cups I found in the sink. So I did what I always do – I ran hot water on the plates and cups, I wiped them with a sponge, I made sure there was no clump of food sticking to any surface, and I popped them in the dishwasher. And as I did so I thought, as I always think, why do we have a dishwasher?
From experience and common sense I know that if you put dishes, cups, bowls, cutlery and whatnot into the dishwasher and you don't rinse them beforehand, they won't get washed. In 1956, the New Yorker sent a correspondent to GE to look at the new mobile "automatic dishwasher". The correspondent, in the typical arch New Yorker style of the day (it was the heyday of E.H. White), cooked and cleaned in an "unmechanized" kitchen. In order to test the new dishwasher, she – I strongly suspect a she – brought an "unwashed earthenware pudding dish that in my own, unmechanized kitchen would have required overnight soaking and the energetic application of steel wool." The GE people didn't like the pudding dish – myself, I don't know what one of those is – and sternly warned that "no automatic dishwasher should be expected to take on such a heavily encrusted utensil without a preliminary soaking". Isn't this what the confidence man calls a "tell". What is this machine doing?
Her method involved spraying hot soapy water onto dishes loaded in an open rack. One rinse with hot water and they were left to air dry. That simple process worked well in her trial-and-error testing.Her husband supported her efforts, but he died a few weeks later in 1883. Discovering they were deeply in debt, she needed to develop her invention. Cochrane began by shaping a copper boiler and building a frame for a large commercial dishwasher. She enlisted the help of George Butters, a mechanic for the Illinois Central Railroad. He remained with her from then on. Cochrane's early models used a hand pump to spray soapy water against dishes in individual wooden racks. She patented it in 1886 and had it constructed by independent machine shops. Advertised as the Garis-Cochran Dish-Washing Machine, it cost about $100. Using her social skills and personal contacts, she sold her first dishwasher in 1887 to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago. Orders from other hotels followed. Her improved motor-driven model of about 1888 could wash 120 dishes a minute. Cochrane's major break came with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Its 27 million visitors ate meals on dishes that had to be washed. She provided all the dishwashers used at the exposition and they gained much commercial exposure. She had a display area in Machinery Hall and was the only woman who personally demonstrated her invention.
Josephine, I salute you! Your invention probably was as important to the growth of the restaurant business as anything else. Given the need to save on the breakage and clean quickly, the dishwasher and the restaurant were a natural fit. Myself, I've been a washer. I worked for a year at the Magnolia in Austin, a cheap but good restaurant noted for its studenty food – U. Texas grad students could afford to go there and pretend to throw money around. Good breakfasts, some Tex Mex here and some insufferably crunchy veggie dishes there. Beer. On my shift, the job was to put down the plates and utensils on the tables, clean up the tables, carry the dirty plates, cups, glasses, chip baskets, and cutlery back to the cleaning area, douse it in the big sink where I had a kicking semi hose to wash off cling and crap and then stack em up and slide them in the washer, which boiled them just like the Travis County health department wanted. The work gave me those pale hands, and sometimes a few steam burns, and an on the jump skinniness that all bus boys have – cause you are burning the calories doing this work. In our very literate kitchen, I was passed the one book everybody had to read: George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. I think this may be Orwell's best book. If you have never read Down and Out, stop here and go and get it and read it. It is that kind of book.
My bad day was when I washed up for the dining-room. I had not to wash the plates, which were done in the kitchen, but only the other crockery, silver, knives and glasses; yet, even so, it meant thirteen hours' work, and I used between thirty and forty dishcloths during the day. The antiquated methods used in France double the work of washing up. Plate-racks are unheard-of, and there are no soap-flakes, only the treacly soft soap, which refuses to lather in the hard, Paris water. I worked in a dirty, crowded little den, a pantry and scullery combined, which gave straight on the dining-room. Besides washing up, I had to fetch the waiters' food and serve them at table; most of them were intolerably insolent, and I had to use my fists more than once to get common civility. The person who normally washed up was a woman, and they made her life a misery.
It was amusing to look round the filthy little scullery and think that only a double door was between us and the dining-room. There sat the customers in all their splendour—spotless table-cloths, bowls of flowers, mirrors and gilt cornices and painted cherubim; and here, just a few feet away, we in our disgusting filth. For it really was disgusting filth. There was no time to sweep the floor till evening, and we slithered about in a compound of soapy water, lettuce-leaves, torn paper and trampled food. A dozen waiters with their coats off, showing their sweaty armpits, sat at the table mixing salads and sticking their thumbs into the cream pots. The room had a dirty, mixed smell of food and sweat. Everywhere in the cupboards, behind the piles of crockery, were squalid stores of food that the waiters had stolen. There were only two sinks, and no washing basin, and it was nothing unusual for a waiter to wash his face in the water in which clean crockery was rinsing. But the customers saw nothing of this. There were a coco-nut mat and a mirror outside the dining-room door, and the waiters used to preen themselves up and go in looking the picture of cleanliness.
It was certainly not that bad at the Magnolia – I've worked at other restaurants, and the Magnolia was pretty good – but inevitably during a day in which you are both making meals for a minimum of three to five hundred people per day, with the prep this entails (I did a lot of prep – freezer to washbasin, knife at the ready for the green peppers, mushrooms, onions, spinach, lettuce, then box em in the plastic containers and put them back), then the open flame where the cooks are cooking and the area around the washing machine and sinks that is always dripping with water, and the sweat and steam of it all, gives you an Orwellian sense of restaurant work. If I was stunned by a sudden revelation of great philosophical worth, I had no time to jot it down, so instead it would be shouted out, to join all the other jokes, bitching, orders, clatter, waiters coming in and demanding what was the holdup on such and such a table, and music. Without the music we would have died. The music in a kitchen is to the workers therein what the clothesline is to the clothes drying thereon – it holds us up.
I began this, though, not with the intention of flashing back to the battle zones of my youth, but to asking the question: why did the dish washer, an instrument that was made for assembly line washing, become de rigeur for the bourgeois household? Which is another way of asking: what am I doing loading the dishwasher?
The dishwasher, I think, came as part of the set of modern cons, with the vacuum cleaner, the clothes washer, HVAC, and the shower. In France, the discovery of the "lave-vaisselle" came after the U.S. In 1963, Le Monde could ask: "Will the dishwasher soon enter our kitchens, equaling the refrigerator and the washing machine? We note little demand for it as of yet…" In the U.S., though, sales of dishwashers increased dramatically after the shortages of the war years. Keeping our eye on the reason that restaurants were the first big users of dishwashers, we should note that this was also the era of the baby-boom. Families with five kids – like the one I grew up in – were pretty common. That means seven people, using dishes at breakfast and dinner, and in the summer at lunch. In these circumstances, there was every reason the harried housekeeper – usually a woman – should leap upon the dishwasher. Even if it required a bit of pre-rinsing, the sheer amount of crockery made for a depressing prospect. Surely this wasn't the American dream!
At some point, the urge to repopulate the world after the world wars subsided. But it left behind a little reef of household cons.; a habitus was formed; and we couldn't do without our dishwashers. We were sent out into the world, baby boomer and x-er, millennial and whatever you call the newest generation, with an idea of how things should be – and that included, always, a dishwasher.
I revolt, I shake the mind-forged manacles of mankind, but, as well, I take the sponge, get the jelly out from between the tines of the fork, and put it in the cutlery basket. My revolts, as always, end in windy reveries. This is one of them.


Senate Democrats have introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to reverse the repeal of net neutrality regulations. Currently, a coalition of 50 Senators has signed on to the initiative.
Senate Democrats said in January that they planned to introduce a CRA resolution in the Senate to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality regulation. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) announced that the resolution was officially introduced. It's going into the Senate with the backing of a total of 50 Senators (47 Democrats, two independent, one Republican). Sen. Markey has been urging one more Republican Senator to join the coalition's cause so it can achieve the 51 majority needed pass the Senate. With only the current 50 senators behind it, the resolution will likely fail, with remaining votes falling along party lines and a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence.
The introduction of the CRA follows the formalization of the FCC's plan to reclassify broadband services as non-common-carrier, now called the Restoring Internet Freedom Order. The CRA gives Congress 60 days from the publication of a law to review and undo it. For the resolution to be successful, however, it will also have to pass in the Republican-controlled House before being signed by the President, who can still veto it.
The fight for net neutrality didn't end with the December 4 vote. The Senators' initiative was only one of many efforts to preserve net neutrality that began in the wake the FCC's decision. Among the first were state-level executive orders that barred ISPs that didn't comply with net neutrality principles from government contracts. States including New Jersey, Vermont, Maryland, and Tennessee, among others, have since enacted similar orders. This was followed by an attempt in the California Senate to regulate broadband services with state legislature, which the EFF said was likely to be overruled by federal court. Meanwhile, a coalition of 22 states claims that the FCC's rollback of net neutrality is illegal and has made official its lawsuit against the organization.


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Jeremy Corbyn with Hajo Meyer at the talk in the House of Commons in 2010RICHARD MILLETT
Jeremy Corbyn was forced to issue an extraordinary apology last night after The Times revealed he hosted an event that compared the Israeli government to the Nazis at the House of Commons on Holocaust Memorial Day.
In January 2010 when he was a backbencher, Mr Corbyn spoke at and opened a talk entitled Never Again — for Anyone. The event was part of a UK tour called Never Again for Anyone — Auschwitz to Gaza.
The main talk, entitled The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes, was delivered by Hajo Meyer, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who became a passionate anti-Zionist and repeatedly made the comparison between the Nazi regime and Israeli policy.
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Posted on May 24, 2018 by Iain Galbraith in News 0 Comments
Last September Glasgow Clyde College appointed Jon Vincent as the new Principal and Chief Executive.
Previously the Principal of Tyne Metropolitan College (where he guided the institution towards being the first STEM assured college in the north of England), Mr Vincent has already begun to bring some fresh ideas to the college.
Upon his appointment he said: "I am absolutely delighted to have accepted the Board of Management's invitation to become the next Principal and Chief Executive.
""Having spent the whole of my career working in the further and higher education sector in a number of colleges across England I am excited by the opportunity to join you. I commenced my professional life as a teacher and teaching continues to be my passion. As the product of a further education college myself, I know how transformative college study can be for our students and its capacity to raise aspirations, unleash potential and transform their lives.
"The reputation of Glasgow Clyde College as a high-performing provider of vocational education extends throughout the United Kingdom. I look forward to working with you all to realise the college's vision to 'contribute to the prosperity and well-being of Scotland through exceptional achievement."
We at Glasgow Clyde Radio caught up with the new Principal recently to discuss how he has adjusted to his new role, what he hopes to achieve whilst at the college and the music he enjoys on his daily commute to and from work. Hear it below:
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This was almost an impromptu decision to drive to Bhopal from Bengaluru for Diwali. Being Diwali, air tickets were too expensive and train tickets were not available. So the decision to drive was made. Due to some pre-scheduled events, we could only leave by afternoon on Saturday.
1:30 PM We left Hyderabad.
We stopped for a quick bite on the way at Mc Donalds on Airport Road and then continued on with our journey.
4:40 PM Stopped at A1 plaza for a quick tea.
9:50 PM Reached the destination for the day.
As usual Bengaluru to Hyderabad road is in great condition. It was an eventless journey.
The plan was to start early for onward journey. We decided to carry packed breakfast so that we don't have to stop for a breakfast stop.
5:10 AM We were quickly on the outer ring road, saw a truck completely in flames on the outer ring road.
5:48 AM Just got out of ORR and got into the HP Petro Bunk for filling.
7:52 AM Stopped at a road side Dhaba called Kunthala Dhaba at a place near Neredgonda. They had ladies only toilets, not very clean but can use it in dire emergencies.
On the way one finds strange drivers who just won't let you overtake them. It is just a strange ego trip that some of these drivers are on.
8:50 AM We cross the border and enter into MH. The road is under construction here for quite sometime so the progress is comparatively slower. Still the road surface has been fixed compared to last time I drove here.But you still have a undivided two lane road. The saving grace is the fact that traffic is thin on this stretch.
10:20 AM We cross Hinganghat. The road improves as soon as one crosses Hinganghat.
11:30 AM We reach Nagpur. We look for a place to eat, we located this restaurant called The Breakfast Story not very far from highway and stopover for a brunch.
12:35 PM From Nagpur there are two options to go to Bhopal, one goes via Chhindwara and other via Betul. We decide to go via Chhindwara while going and Betul for returning journey. Chhindwara route is a more scenic route, is longer.
2:20 PM We cross Chhindwara ring road.
3:30 PM We enter the forest that leads up to Panchmarhi. This section of road is full of ghat sections, and progress is extremely slow.
5:10 PM We reach Highway Treat in Pipariya. Time for a break for tea.
5:30 PM We start from the restaurant, being the day before Dhanteras pipariya market is extremely crowded and we take another 20 minutes to get out of the city.
9:00 PM We reached home in Bhopal.
Time for Diwali festivities and general time pass.
We decide to a visit to Bhojpur temple since we had not been to that place for quite some time.
Bhojpur Shiva temple was constructed during the reign of King Bhojdev of Parmar dynasty during the years 1010 to 1055 AD. The temple was never fully constructed. The temple has a Shivaling which is 2.03 meter in height and largest in India.
The temple is unique because near the temple one can find drawings of the temple etched in the rocks. It also looks like as per the plan many other temples were to be constructed and never completed.
The temple also has a river nearby and one can trek down to the river.
The return journey starts, we had planned to leaving early morning and carrying food so that we can time of stops that we need to make. Also we decided to play it by the ear. If we reached Hyderabad at a reasonable time then we will continue to Bengaluru otherwise we will halt at Hyderabad.
The first order of the day was to get some food ready. There is nothing better for a journey than home cooked aloo parathas.
5:20 AM We were on the road. We took 11th-mile ring road out of Bhopal and quickly were on Hoshangabad road.
8:18 AM We cross Betul. The road just becomes fabulous after Betul.
10:40 AM It was too early for Lunch and too late for breakfast. Most dhabas that we encountered were closed. So finally we stopped at the A1 plaza at Reliance petrol bunk.
11:45 AM to 1:30 PM We missed the turn towards hinganghat and drove in a wrong direction for a while. So we had to retrace our steps back to the right place. We wasted a total of two hours in this misadventure.
2:55 PM We reached Adilabad. The non-so-good roads at the border take around one hours to cross. We encounter some really dangerous driving by local bikers. Here is one example.
Here are some important statistics from the journey.
Finally, the journey was over. Some lessons learnt for me are as follows.
It is very practical to do Bhopal to Bengaluru in a day with two drivers. Start early from Bhopal and you can be in Bengaluru just after midnight.
In any event, cross Hoshangabad to Bhopal road early in the morning. The road is just horrible and has too much traffic in any other time of the day.
Bikers can be extremely unpredictable. Particularly the local bikers. Almost all of them think they are superman and just don't give a damn for road rules etc.
If you are driving beyond midnight, always have another person capable of driving. I have realized that I need few hours of sleep around midnight if I need to drive.
During this trip, the total toll amounts were close to Rs. 3000/-.


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Hedge Fund Investors Want Safe Havens for Managers' Cash
Wary of another market meltdown, endowments and other hedge fund investors are demanding that managers pay closer attention to cash holdings. Besides buying U.S. Treasury bills and money market funds, hedge funds let cash management firms find safe places for their excess dollars.
Since cash was crowned king during the credit crisis that erupted in 2007, its dominion has steadily grown. Painful memories of the Lehman Brothers Holdings bankruptcy, coupled with more-recent worries about European sovereign debt, have hedge fund investors closely watching their managers' cash holdings.
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Until Lehman went bust in 2008, hedge fund managers routinely kept heaps of excess cash with their prime brokerages. "Precrisis, hedge funds were not overly concerned where they held their cash," explains Alfredo D'Onofrio, head of sales at the New York branch of Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia's prime brokerage division.
That quickly changed. "Post-2008 everyone became a bankruptcy and cash expert," quips Jonathan Yalmokas, head of U.S. prime brokerage at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "People no longer feel comfortable leaving cash with just a prime broker." For hedge funds that did hold some cash away from their primes, postcrisis withdrawals were brisk. "We were the liquidity provider through all of that," recalls Jill King, senior portfolio manager and partner at Chicago-based Horizon Cash Management, which invests $2.5 billion of alternative-investment managers' cash.
Hedge fund managers get mixed messages, Penn's Woodbury admits. Prime brokerages want their cash, and managers must keep a buffer for margin accounts. But endowments and other investors encourage them to sweep any excess into the safest of places, including Treasury bills held in custodial accounts, Treasury money market funds and direct deposit accounts at banks.
Prime brokerages have had to adjust to the reduction in cash holdings. Even if interest rates were still in the 3 to 5 percent range, prime brokerages don't pay hedge fund clients to take counterparty risk, Yalmokas notes. Today many hedge funds move excess cash out to a third party for safekeeping and separation in the event of a default, leaving prime brokerages with fewer assets. The cash management industry has grown more creative in response to hedge fund and investor needs. Besides Treasury bill investments, another way to secure cash is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. package strategy: New York–based Stone Castle Partners, for example, spreads a hedge fund's cash, up to the $250,000 limit guaranteed by the FDIC, among 350 regional banks.
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Despite the flight of hedge fund cash to safe havens, many small and midsize managers still stick with their prime brokerages for cash management. That's because they lack the resources of the biggest shops, says BofA Merrill's Yalmokas. Here's betting those funds won't make it into the University of Pennsylvania's hedge fund portfolio
This article was originally published by Institutional Investor Magazine.
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This is the last part of this project for this semester. The final step for the barrel is to install a muzzle brake. Normally, a muzzle brake is not really used on a small caliber rifle like this but I had already finished the crowns on my Mauser and FN projects. Originally this rifle was just going to get a crown but I messed up on an order to Brownell's and ended up with this one.
The first step was to cut down the barrel and thread it for the brake.
Yes, this is a rough cut so I just do it with a hacksaw. The barrel then goes back in the lathe (centered of course) the front of the barrel is then trued and a tenon is cut for the threads.
After this I made sure the brake fitted.
I then proceeded to cut the brake down to the approximate size of the barrel.
After I got the brake close to the barrel size, I polished it down to the same size as the barrel.
This concluded work on this project for this semester. Thank you for reading along.
Back to the Remington 700 project. I finished the barrel and the blueprinting of the bolt and the receiver. It is now time to fit the barrel and test fire the rifle. The masking tape you see in the photos is to protect the action from scratches.
The Remington 700 receiver is easy to damage if twisted. To prevent damage like this I use a wrench adapter that I made during our first semester.
Once I installed the wrench adapter, I clamped the barrel in a barrel vice (yes, I made one of those in my first semester but the one you belongs to the school) and use an action wrench to tighten the barrel. Yes, the action wrench you see was a first semester project. Normally, I would use an a tool to hold the recoil lug in alignment during this step, but it was not needed as the action would be removed from the barrel after the test fire.
Once this was done, I installed the trigger and the rifle was ready to test fire.
Next was the test fire! Test firing consists of three rounds fired from the rifle. After the test fire, the cartridge cases are checked for expansion. We are allowed an expansion of 0.002 inches (0.0508mm or 50.8 micron). Here is a video of the test fire.
The results of the test fire was good. Zero case expansion. I am more than happy with that. The next step for this rifle is to install a muzzle brake and I will detail that in the next post.
After finishing the action, I turned my attention to the barrel. As I said in an earlier post, I purchased the barrel from Shilen. It is a #6 or lightweight target contour Match grade barrel manufactured from chrome-moly with a .224 bore with a 1:9 twist. The first step is to mount the barrel in the lathe. The barrel is precisely centered by the use of dial indicators on both sides. Again, this setup should be as precise as possible to ensure maximum accuracy from the rifle. The pin seen inside the barrel fits tightly in the bore and is precision made. I managed to get the run-out on this barrel to about 0.00025 in (0.00635 mm).
The first machining step is to face the chamber side of the barrel.
Then the tenon is cut. This is the section of the barrel that will thread into the receiver. It is turned down in size until the recoil lug will fit.
The next step is to cut threads into the tenon. I prefer doing this at the back of the lathe and to cut the threads away from the work. Doing it this way is better for me as it is more difficult to make a mistake by pulling the cutting tool away from the work too late and running into the tenon shoulder. For me, it also makes the threads look better where they stop on the tenon. Yes, I know once the rifle is put together, it will not be visible.
Of course I need to check that it all goes together.
The design of the Remington 700 call for the barrel to be counter-bored. This is where the bolt will actually fit and the reason the front of the bolt lugs was trued. This is a fairly easy step if you have the correct counter-bore tool.
Now it is time for the most critical step, cutting the chamber. This is a slow process as the reamer (the cutting tool) has to be pulled out constantly to clean both it and the inside of the barrel. There is also two reamers used in this process, a roughing and a finishing reamer.
Some time later it is finished!
In the next post on this build, I will attach the receiver to the barrel, assemble the trigger and test fire the rifle.


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contact@ifamericansknew.org November 15, 2017 ben packer, birthright, heritage house, israel free spirit, Stephen Miller
A screenshot from Ben Packer's Facebook page celebrating Heritage House activities. (Credit: Facebook / Rabbi Ben Packer)
Hundreds, if not thousands, of young Americans have extended their Birthright visits to do "service projects" in settlements and outposts that are illegal even under Israeli law
by Judy Maltz, Ha'aretz
A key trip provider for Birthright – the organization that offers young Jewish adults free visits to Israel – is promoting extension stays at a hostel in Jerusalem's Old City run by an extremist rabbi aligned with radical factions of the settler movement.
Birthright participants, who receive free accommodations at the facility if they extend their stay in Israel beyond the standard 10-day trip, are encouraged by Ben Packer, the American-born rabbi who took over operations at the Heritage House a few years ago, to volunteer at illegal Israeli outposts in the West Bank. [All settlements are illegal under international law; these outposts are illegal even under Israeli law.]
Hundreds, if not thousands, of Birthright participants take advantage of the offer to stay at his hostel for free and participate in activities he promotes, according to sources with extensive knowledge of its operations.
The Israel Religious Action Center – a nonprofit group that fights racism in the country – recently sent the hostel a letter of complaint, accusing it of breaking the law for not accepting non-Jewish guests. It is illegal for businesses in Israel to discriminate on the basis of religion. Israel Free Spirit, a certified Birthright trip provider, advertises the Heritage House on its website as an option for participants seeking to extend their stay in Israel.
A screenshot of a short bio of Rabbi Ben Packer on the Heritage House website. heritagehouse.org.il
Run by the Orthodox Union in the United States, Israel Free Spirit is one of about a dozen certified trip providers for Birthright and has been serving the organization since it was founded in 1999. Israel Free Spirit has brought thousands of young Jews to Israel over the years, and is also connected to Aish Hatorah, a well-known Orthodox outreach movement.
Most of the participants on trips provided by Israel Free Spirit are not Orthodox, though. A newsletter published by the Orthodox Union boasts that it has the highest rate of "Birthright extenders" of any of the certified trip providers – 11 percent as compared with an average of 3 percent among the others. Among the short-term programs Israel Free Spirit promotes on its website as post-trip options is a weeklong program at the Heritage House.
The Heritage House hostel in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2017.Olivier Fitoussi
The Heritage House website indicates that its program includes tours, seminars and volunteer opportunities. The "service projects" promoted by the hostel are undertaken exclusively in West Bank settlements and the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
The Heritage House extension program is free, but according to Israel Free Spirit's website, participants are only reimbursed for accommodation and for the costs of changing their flights out of the country "if they complete the week-long course."
Among the recent "service projects" showcased on the Heritage House website are picking grapes at the illegal outposts of Pnei Kedem and Kida, planting olive groves in the illegal outpost of Esh Kodesh, digging drainage trenches and building foundations for homes in a new neighborhood of Kfar Tapuah – one of the most radical West Bank settlements – and helping Jewish families move into properties in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.
There is no mention on the website of any volunteer opportunities within Israel's internationally recognized borders.
A screenshot from Ben Packer's Facebook page celebrating Heritage House activities. Facebook / Rabbi Ben Packer
Israel Free Spirit is the only certified Birthright trip provider that promotes the Heritage House on its website, but many Birthright participants who extend their trips and stay at the hostel come through other providers. The Heritage House makes clear on its website that all Birthright "extenders" are welcome and entitled to free accommodations.
It is very common for representatives of the Heritage House to solicit Birthright participants during their free 10-day trips to Israel while they are visiting Jerusalem. Representatives of the hostel can often be observed in the Old City's Jewish Quarter and in the downtown Mahaneh Yehuda market distributing pamphlets that advertise free stays at the hostel. According to sources with extensive knowledge of the hostel's operations, these representatives are instructed to approach participants while they are on break from their organized tours.
The Heritage House accommodates 30 guests. In a recent Land of Israel Network podcast interview, Packer said that over the past summer, during the height of the Birthright season, "We went for two weeks with people on the floor."
The Heritage House website and Facebook page feature numerous photos and video clips of guests who have stayed there after their Birthright trips. A recent post, for example, features a "Birthright extender" being lauded for helping "redeem the Old City of Jerusalem within five minutes of his arrival at the House."
On his personal Facebook page, Packer has posted photos celebrating Birthright alumni participating in Heritage House activities. One shows "Birthright extenders" planting a tree. Another shows them visiting Hebron, while yet another shows them planting fruit trees at Mitzpeh Dani, an illegal outpost.
Except on rare occasions, Birthright, as a matter of policy, does not bring participants on trips over the Green Line.
Old friend Stephen Miller
Many of the projects promoted on the Heritage House's website fall under the category of "strengthening the Jewish presence in Hebron" and "strengthening the Jewish presence in the Old City of Jerusalem."
Based on some of the descriptions, the Heritage House appears to work closely with Ateret Cohanim, an organization that buys land in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and Arab East Jerusalem for creating a "Jewish presence" there.
In addition to Birthright participants on extension stays, the Heritage House also hosts lone soldiers – young Jews from overseas who come to Israel on their own to volunteer in the army. Only male guests are accepted at the facility run by Packer.
The women's dorm at the Heritage House hostel in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2017. Olivier Fitoussi
Another branch of the Heritage House, run by a different family, is located nearby and hosts only women.
The Heritage House was founded more than 30 years ago by Rabbi Meir Schuster, who died in 2014. Schuster had focused mainly on Orthodox outreach, also known as kiruv work.
Born and raised in Virginia, Packer did not grow up Orthodox. Before moving to Israel, he served as a rabbi at the University of North Carolina and Duke, where he befriended Stephen Miller, now a senior policy adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Miller, considered a key architect of the Trump administration's ban on Muslims, has denied reports that he is an old friend of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, who also attended Duke. Packer recently wrote about his first encounter with Miller on the right-wing Israeli news site Arutz Sheva, where he blogs.
"Here I was sitting with a proud Jew with clearly endless leadership potential and he is telling me that he feels exiled from the organized Jewish community because of his conservative political beliefs," Packer wrote. "I assured him that not only was nothing wrong with him, there were many Jews who agreed with him and would gladly welcome him."
A screenshot from The Jerusalem's Heritage House Facebook pageFacebook / The Jerusalem's Heritage House Facebook page
Miller was scheduled to participate in a Birthright trip the year they met, and Packer offered to take him around for additional sightseeing when it was over. "During those few days, we traveled to Hebron, visiting the Tomb of the Patriarchs and ventured in the 'Muslim quarter' of the Old City of Jerusalem to see the many reclaimed Jewish-owned properties," Packer recounted on his blog.
Proud generation
Miller later wrote him that putting on phylacteries at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron was "one of the most spiritual experiences of my life." Packer concluded his post by declaring Miller's appointment to the White House "spectacular news for the Jewish people." "Stephen Miller is not just my friend," he wrote, "he's not just our friend. HE IS US! He is part of that new proud generation, no longer relegated to the fringe."
A few months ago, Packer boasted in an interview about his knack for turning young left-wing Jews into settler sympathizers. "I think you'd be surprised, even shocked, at how people who describe themselves as leftists jump at opportunities to help in places like Hebron," he said in a Land of Israel Network podcast.
"How could it be? Once they learn a little bit about the situation and they see what's going on, they have an identity that they choose to maintain for maybe whatever reason, but when it comes to on-the-ground helping, numerous people ask, 'Just do me a favor, no pictures, but I really want to help.'"
Following the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Amona earlier this year, Packer launched a vicious attack on the Israeli police, urging settlers to resist their orders in the future. "Following police orders is not a mitzvah and often is likely an aveirah," – a sin, he wrote on his blog. "One doesn't have to live in the Old City of Jerusalem (although it helps) to realize how terribly awful the Israeli police are. They are not all evil, but a lot of them are, and the leadership is even worse."
In a recent talk delivered at the Aish Hatorah World Center in Jerusalem, Packer used the platform to attack the Israeli Supreme Court, which he described as a "mafia" and a "circus." He had particularly harsh words for Justice Menachem Mazuz, a former attorney general.
"His grandpa's a big rabbi, and he's a disaster," Packer told the audience. "Now the problem is he's a little stupid. You can't have everything. So he's not very smart. But he's Sephardi and he's left-wing, so that trumps stupid. But he looks like an idiot often because he's not in the same league. This guy happens not to be. But they needed him anyway to fill that demographic, which is not an easy one to fill."
Contacted by Haaretz, Packer refused to answer any questions about his activities and views. "I don't talk to your newspaper," he said and hung up the phone.
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Israel Free Spirit, like all other Birthright trip providers, is not authorized to speak with the press.
Gidi Mark, Birthright's chief executive, said he was only "vaguely" familiar with the Heritage House but added: "I'm not responsible to our participants after they finish the 10 days. I really respect their free choice. These activities are not connected to Birthright, so I cannot decide what they do."
Asked whether a certified Birthright trip provider should be promoting a facility run by someone with Packer's views and agenda on its website, Mark responded: "We don't sponsor programming of our own to the left, to the right, religious or non-religious, but I'll look at it."
The Israel Religious Action Center said that if it did not receive a quick response to its letter of complaint, it would sue the Heritage House for religious discrimination.
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Your first thought might be that you watch too much television. Or, that you are paranoid. After all, why would someone be following you? If you were in an accident, it might not be your imagination. Yes, insurance companies really do investigate injury victims.
It's a reality that many accident victims may find unbelievable. Insurance adjusters may be skeptical of just how much harm was done as a result of their insured's negligence. After all, there are some unscrupulous people making fraudulent claims out there.
In the one sense, it might not even be that the insurance company thinks you are faking your injuries. However, if they can find evidence that you aren't as badly injured as you say, they can certainly contain their offers to settle the claim.
What do we mean? Consider the middle-aged man who was a passenger in an automobile accident. He was wearing his seatbelt and clearly had no liability for the accident. Admittedly, the gentleman had a preexisting arthritic condition that was clearly evident. However, after the accident, x-rays to his back revealed an enormous back fracture in the middle of his spine. He was lucky he wasn't paralyzed.
At first glimpse, the prospective insurance company's adjuster was sure that there would be an enormous award for damages. The man was a sheet metal worker. Presumably, he would never be able to return to his employment. After all, the diagnostic testing clearly demonstrated rather extreme and permanent injuries.
As part of a routine procedure, the insurance company hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance. It seemed strange that the accident victim only went to physical therapy sporadically. However, it turned out that the gentleman was spotted going to the gym.
Of course, there was the possibility that the accident victim was using therapy pools at the gym. Notwithstanding, the private investigator didn't leave anything to chance. Instead, he obtained a visitor's pass. And, was delighted to see the injured claimant playing basketball.
Obviously, x-rays tell their own story regarding injuries. However, the accident victim communicated a far different tale in photographs. Bottom line. The case settled for a lesser amount. Surely, this evidence would not be favorable for a jury trial.
Arguably, it could be that you were having a good day and decided to chance challenging physical activity. In the case of the story we told, the private investigator is only going to record the claimant making a leap for the hoop. There won't be any footage of him spending the next three days in bed agonizing over his pain.
As personal injury attorneys, the de Lachica Law Firm is well versed in the way insurance companies conduct investigations. If you were injured in an accident, you should consider legal representation. Contact us to set up an appointment to discuss your case.


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Majmaus-shuara (Persian – Poets' Council) was a 19th-century literary council in Azerbaijan.

It was first held in 1880, in Baku. Mammadagha Jurmi was head of the council. Agadadash Sureyya was his assistant. I. Zulali, M. Dilkhun, A. Vaqif, A.  Jannati, A. Yusif, K. Salik, M. Musavvir, M. Azar and others actively participated in the council. Seyid Azim Shirvani also participated as a guest. Members of the council wrote many of poems and ghazals. Most of them were used by mugham singers of Absheron.

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 "Məcməüş-Şüəra"
 "BUTA" ədəbi məclisi növbti toplantısını keçirib.
 XIX əsrin nüfuzlu ədəbi məclislərindən biri - "Əncüməni-şüəra"

Azerbaijani literature

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Jo Bird has been a successful and practical co‑operator since 1993 when she co‑founded a housing co‑operative in Manchester.
The Community Shares Company
Dave has more than 20 years' experience of working with community and social businesses, helping raise over £15m from over 65 community shares issues in the last 8 years.
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Anne co-founded Morecambe Bay Community Renewables in 2011 and was the main author of their three successful share offer documents.
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Paul is an experienced practitioner providing support to social and community enterprises.
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Co-operative Futures is a business development consultancy specialising in co-operative, mutual and community led businesses.
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Co-operatives and Mutual Solutions (CMS)
Dave has advised over 50 completed community share issues over the last 18 years raising £11 million of shares often topped up with other forms of finance.
Elderflower Legal & Secretarial Services
Mark Johnson is a commercial solicitor and ICSA-qualified Company Secretary with over 21 years' experience of developing successful new business models, social and community enterprises.
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Leeds Community Homes
Josh has numerous years experience in the co‑operative sector – in community led housing and worker co‑ops, as well as establishing and living in housing co‑operatives.
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Cwmpas (formerly Wales Co-operative Centre)
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In 2007, zero of the top 40 U.S. merchant acquiring companies were using dynamic market data. Now, nearly half of the top 40 acquirers are using TSG's Acquiring Industry Metrics (AIM) platform to benchmark and manage their business.
Week 1 of 'Payments Analytics Month' illustrates a selection of vital data-points from AIM. See below for details and follow TSG on Twitter throughout the month for more AIM stats.
The illustration compares the average annual account and average ticket size for Digital Goods and Retail categories, along with the AIM data warehouse average. Digital Goods merchants are smaller in average account size and average ticket compared to Retail merchants and the AIM average.
Using the AIM data warehouse, TSG is able to show the trend in new merchant rates over time. The merchant vintage, or the year in a which a merchant was boarded, allows for analysis of only in-year boarded merchants.
Growth bridges are a concise way to view the impact of YOY attrition and growth. Net Account Attrition and Growth (left) is relatively stable YOY with a slight decrease of 0.5%. Net Volume Attrition and Growth (right) has increased 6.8% YOY due to retained merchant volume change and new volume added (from new accounts) outweighing the volume from attrited and zombie merchants.
Average merchant life is the number of months a merchant is retained by a merchant portfolio. When viewed geographically by state, merchant life may provide an indicator for regional competition.
AIM contains intelligence on over 40% of credit card-accepting merchants in the U.S.. This includes price, profitability, attrition, and growth metrics across thousands of calculations in the platform.


Since 1954, Rawson has grown to serve the needs of a broad customer base within a wide array of industries including all stages of the oil and gas distribution chain – production, transportation, refining and storage, power generation, petrochemical, original equipment manufacturing, semiconductor, pulp and paper, water and wastewater, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage.
Our market knowledge, in combination with strong customer relationships, keeps Rawson on the forefront of our customers' needs. With an experienced and diverse technical staff, Rawson can aid in product selection and product development. Our goal is to partner with our customers to help them develop safe, reliable and sustainable solutions, and cut costs by focusing on innovation, operational excellence and efficiency.
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Get an exclusive sneak peek of Local History's newest exhibit, Oak Lawn A-Z! Covering the Village's history from the 19th Century to present day, each letter of the alphabet will explore a different facet of Oak Lawn's past such as agriculture, flight, immigrants, myths, transportation and more. The opening event will be held on May 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the second-floor Local History area. Light refreshments will be served after brief opening remarks by Local History Manager Kevin Korst. Register below through the library's website, in person at the second-floor Adult Services desk, or by calling 708-422-4990.
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Envisioning a Better Future
By Sarah Topol
In the spring 2014 edition of ONE, reporter Sarah Topol writes about the inspiring work being done for blind children at the Santa Lucia Home in Egypt. Here, she adds her own impressions of the facility.
The first thing that struck me about the Santa Lucia Home was the facility's immaculate cleanliness. The red brick church and home are just a few blocks from the crashing shores of the Mediterranean and the smell of the sea wafts through the white-tiled hallways. The sisters took me on a tour through the living, studying, dining and kitchen areas. The operation was pristine.
Egypt is a country known for its poverty. Here, garbage lines the streets and public hospitals are unsanitary affairs. At the home, the clean and tidy desks and neatly ordered cabinets made me think the children themselves take pride in their surroundings — no small feat for 4-18 year olds, from what I remember of my own school desks.
I was surprised to learn just how many activities the home offers for the children, from playing soccer with a special ball that makes a sound when it's moving, to swimming in the pool, playing instruments and performing plays. The children at the center seem to have a host of activities aimed at boosting their self-confidence.
The children were on extended holiday when we visited, so we were unable to meet them in person — though we spoke to some over the phone. The way the sisters and the students independently described the sense of community between the children was incredibly special. It was as if they had created their own family away from home. And that family enabled and encouraged them to grow and mature.
Sister Souda and Sister Hoda are the epitome of matronly figures. Their soft voices and calm shuffles made the place feel very much like a home. Their no-nonsense manner over the course of our interviews made me think the time the children are meant to spend doing their homework must actually be homework time!
The Sisters' positivity radiated in our conversations. They refused to admit that the children were anything but normal and fit for productive and fulfilling lives in Egypt, to the point where I felt we were skirting some of the discrimination blind children and adults face in Egypt. Perhaps it was a product of years of repeating their positive mantra. But the challenges for blind children are very real. Seeing a center try to change the future for these children was heartening, but it was just as upsetting to realize that, as lucky as these children are, they still face a great many challenges in Egypt that they might not elsewhere.
The children still work on Braillers, which the sisters import from America, and which they have to send back to the U.S. for repair. The center has one computer that children share. To think of how many visually impaired students in the U.S. benefit from new technology — while children in Egypt continue to use typewriters — was difficult. Based on the stories we heard about them, and the dreams they themselves conveyed over the phone, these are creative and curious young people.
It made me wonder how they would fare if given even more of the opportunities enjoyed in the West.
Read more about efforts to bring young Egyptians Out of Darkness in the spring 2014 edition of ONE.


Summary: Mysteriously teleported from Earth, Kenshi Masaki finds himself ensnared by a mysterious organization in a world called Geminar, where male mecha pilots are extremely rare. With the promise of returning home, the 15 year-old agrees to pilot a mecha suit called a Sacred Mechanoid and assassinate the ruler of the Shtrayu Empire, Lashara Earth XVIII. However, things do not go according to plan, and Kenshi finds himself prisoner and an object of scrutiny by Lashara and her shipmates. After learning of Kenshi's plight, Lashara offers him the chance to redeem himself by entering her employ. He will act as her servant, practically a slave, but also have a chance to once more pilot a mecha suit. Kenshi is willing to endure Geminar's eccentricities if it means he may return home, but will he ever be able to do so? And what of this mysterious organization that brought him to Geminar to try to kill Lashara?


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Could Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: J) Cut its Dividend?
Written by Wealth Daily Research Team
Today is Tuesday, July 14, 2020, and this is your daily dividend safety update. Today we're looking at Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: J) stock to see whether its 0.91% dividend is safe.
High-yield dividend stocks can be very useful to investors of all ages. Younger investors can use dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) to grow their portfolios exponentially over time, while retirees can use them to generate passive income.
In both cases, it's preferable to buy dividend stocks with steady or rising dividends – and avoid those that cut their dividends.
Let's look at the payout ratio, cash flow growth, and dividend history of Jacobs Engineering Group to gauge the probability of a dividend cut in the next few years.
Payout Ratio (Dividends/Earnings)
Jacobs Engineering Group has a payout ratio of 13.65%. That's low enough for us! Payout ratio equals dividends per share divided by earnings per share. A low payout ratio indicates that the company has plenty of money to cover its dividend. We'd be more concerned if the ratio was closer to 100% (or over it).
Cash Flow Growth Year-Over-Year
Jacobs Engineering Group has not grown its cash flow in the last year. That's a bad omen for dividend investors. No cash flow means no dividend, so if cash flow isn't growing, that's a problem for us.
Dividend History & Recent Cuts
Jacobs Engineering Group has not cut its dividend in the recent past. That's a good sign. It's not a guarantee that the company will never cut its dividend, but companies that have cut their dividends recently are generally more likely to cut them again.
Jacobs Engineering Group stock has failed 1 of our 3 dividend safety metrics. With that in mind, we believe a dividend cut is possible in the next few years.
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