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Yehuda Liebes (; born 1947) is an Israeli academic and scholar. He is the Gershom Scholem Professor Emeritus of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is considered a leading scholar of Kabbalah; his other research interests include Jewish myth, Sabbateanism, and the links between Judaism and ancient Greek religion, Christianity, and Islam. He is the recipient of the 1997 Bialik Prize, the 1999 Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research, the 2006  EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, and the 2017 Israel Prize in Jewish thought.

Biography
Yehuda Liebes was born in Jerusalem. His father, Joseph Gerhard Liebes (1910–1988), a noted Hebrew translator of classic literature, left his native Germany at the age of 18 to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He returned to his homeland to continue his education, but was expelled from his university due to the Nuremberg Laws. He then undertook agricultural training in Latvia with a Zionist movement. There he married his first wife, with whom he settled in Pardes Hanna in Mandatory Palestine and had two daughters before they divorced. In 1941 Liebes married his second wife, Mira, a native of Riga who had grown up in Berlin. They had two children, a daughter (Tamar, today head of the Department of Communications at Hebrew University) and a son (Yehuda). On his mother's side, Liebes was a cousin of Israeli intellectual Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

Liebes was acquainted with Gershom Scholem, the father of modern Kabbalah scholarship, from an early age, as his parents were friends of Scholem. Scholem attended Yehuda's Bar Mitzvah and gave him as a gift Yeshayahu Tishby's book Mishnat HaZohar ("The Wisdom of the Zohar").

Liebes graduated from the Hebrew University Secondary School. In 1965, he enlisted in the Paratroopers Brigade for his compulsory army service, and in 1967, served in the Six-Day War as a non-commissioned officer. During reserve duty in 1969, he was injured during a Palestinian attack on his post in the Jordan Valley, lost several teeth, and was hospitalized for several months.

In 1967, Liebes began his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees, he pursued his doctoral research under Scholem. Scholem gave Liebes access to handwritten note cards he had prepared for a lexicon of Zohar terminology that he never wrote, and Liebes submitted his dissertation on Peraḳim be-milon sefer ha-Zohar (Chapters in the Dictionary of the Book of the Zohar) (1976).

Liebes and his wife, Dr. Esther Liebes, have three children. In 1977, after he completed his doctorate, they joined the nucleus of the new Israeli settlement of Shilo in the West Bank, living in a caravan near Ofra, but left after nine months. The couple resides in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. Esther, a scholar of Hasidism, formerly worked as the director of the Gershom Scholem Collection for Kabbalah and Hasidism at the National Library of Israel. She edited some of the works of Gershom Scholem.

Liebes identifies politically with the right wing of Israeli politics and religiously with Religious Zionism.

Academic career
Liebes began lecturing in the Hebrew University's Department of Jewish Thought in 1971. He became a full professor in 1993. His course subjects include Kabbalah, Jewish myth, and the Zohar. He has also taught on Zohar at the University of Chicago.

Liebes is considered a leading scholar of Kabbalah. His work is said to be representative of "the Hebrew University's new wave of kabbalistic research". Liebes explores the mythic and messianic dimensions in Judaism and Kabbalah, and Christian and Sabbatean influences on Kabbalah. He has written extensively on "the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, Sabbateanism, Breslov Hasidism and the Gaon of Vilna and his disciples". He studies the links between Judaism and ancient Greek religion, Christianity, and Islam. His work is often cited by scholars.

Liebes has also translated Greek, Latin, and Arabic religious poetry into Hebrew.

Views and opinions
Challenging the traditional ascription of the Zohar to the 2nd-century disciples of Shimon bar Yochai in Israel, Liebes asserts that a group of 13th-century Spanish Kabbalists, which included Moses de León, composed the work, each reflecting his own approach to Kabbalah. Liebes claims that the Ketem Paz on the Zohar and the Kabbalistic hymn Bar Yochai were written by two different authors with similar names, not the one Shimon Lavi who is traditionally credited with authoring both works. Liebes also finds Christian and Sabbatean inspiration in the ideas of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and, at the same time, Sabbatean influences on the disciples of the Vilna Gaon who opposed Hasidism.

Liebes angered National Religious Jews in Israel when he claimed to find a Christian allusion in the Amidah, the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy. Liebes asserted that the conclusion of the 14th blessing, "keren yeshua" ("horn of salvation") refers not to David, but to Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew).

Liebes publishes in Hebrew and has expressed opposition to the study of Jewish thought in English. He has allowed only a few of his works to be translated into English, in conjunction with his academic degree and tenure.

Awards and recognition
Liebes received the 1997 Bialik Prize for his book The Secret of the Sabbatean Faith (1995). In 1999 he received the Peace Prize for the study of Kabbalah and the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research. He was awarded the 2006  EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, in the category of Humanities, for his work on Sabbateanism. In 2017 he received the Israel Prize for his work on Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.

Published works

 (with Gershom Scholem)

References

External links
Personal website (Hebrew)

1947 births
Living people
Judaic scholars
Jewish historians
Israeli historians
Israeli settlers
Religious studies scholars
Jewish mysticism
Kabbalah
Philosophers of Judaism
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Prize in Jewish thought recipients
Israel Prize in Jewish studies recipients who were philosophers
Israel Prize in Jewish studies recipients who were historians
EMET Prize recipients in the Humanities
Israeli Jews
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Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Latvian-Jewish descent
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You have about a day to get in on Isaac Cates' Kickstarter campaign for Cartozia Tales. It's already funded, but you don't want to miss out on an all-ages shared-world fantasy anthology, do you?
Granite State Comicon expands to two days this year: September 28-29 in Manchester, NH. No doubt many of the exhibitors are from our area and I will try to learn them all, but the ones I know for sure are Blair Shedd, Matt Talbot, Jennifer Omand, Jesse DuRona, Randall Drew, and the Fat Squad.
MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) also expends to two days this year (the same ones as GraniteCon): September 28-29 in Cambridge, MA. Trees & Hills will have a table staffed by Marek Bennett and Colin Tedford (who's also on the "Comics and Journalism" panel at 3:30 Saturday); other T&H folk I recognize who have tables are Jon Chad, Mysterious Transmissions (Colin Panetta and/or Mark Velard), Sean Wang, and Tom Pappalardo.
Apologies to any T&H-area exhibitors at either show whose names I didn't recognize — drop us a line!
We're aiming to crank out another set of Trick or Treat Comics shortly after MICE — which doesn't give us a lot of time (maybe a week or two), but we're not asking for a lot of pages. Use the submission guidelines from last year and I'll put up a new post soon.
We're still looking for submissions for Share. We'll set a new deadline in the next few weeks after Dan & I have a chance to discuss it.
We're working with a peace activism group on an anthology of comics about militarism to be released early-ish next year — we're doing it a little differently from our usual anthologies, but email us at organize@treesandhills.org if you're interested in participating.
Sorry we've been so quiet lately — Dan has been consumed by work (and cemetery photography), and I've just been having trouble getting anything at all done. I'm partway through a redesign of the site that we hope will make it easier for us all (instead of us two) to collaborate; in the meantime, drop us a line at organize@treesandhills.org if you'd like to get more involved in Trees & Hills.
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Our thanks (and apologies) to those who submitted comics this Fall!
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Saddam Hussein? On 2nd thought, it's better to keep him
The Miami Herald
http://www.danielpipes.org/7544/saddam-hussein-better-to-keep
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Critics of President Bush increasingly claim that the American victory in Desert Storm in tarnished each day that Saddam Hussein remains in power.
His continued rule, they say, makes America appear weak and allows Hussein to continue building his unconventional arsenal. Moreover, he threatens further atrocities against the Kurds and is forcing millions of Iraqis to suffer from hunger and disease by way of undermining the U.N. sanctions.
That some of these critics are prominent Democrats gives a special political twist to the argument. Had the president listened to the Democrats last year, Iraq would still be occupying Kuwait; notwithstanding this irony, the administration appears to have panicked.
The Washington Post reported recently that the administration is considering active steps to eliminate the Iraqi tyrant. But this is a dangerous idea.
A fragile but benign balance has emerged in the Persian Gulf since March, one surprisingly favorable from both humanitarian concerns and American interest. The balance is simple: The Iraqi military is too weak to project force but strong enough to stave off invasion.
The benefits of Iraqi weakness are clear – Hussein cannot invade another country. Even better is that U.N. personnel are now systematically destroying Hussein's missiles, his chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and his capacity to replace this arsenal.
Day by day, Iraq is getting weaker, not stronger. Further, because Hussein himself will permanently be subject to scrutiny, his presence guarantees that Iraq will remain defanged.
More subtly, too, we benefit from Iraq not being too weak. Had Hussein been toppled back in March, Tehran would have sought to get Iraqi Shiites into power. Iranian hard-liners might well have won a new lease on life, and the West would probably have experienced renewed bouts of hostage-taking, terrorism and other unpleasantries.
Damascus would have joined the fray too, hoping to exert control over part or all of Iraq.
Hussein's fall would have given Kurdish nationalist leaders in Iraq the opportunity to fulfill their dream of a pan-Kurdish state comprising large chunks of Turkey and Iran, smaller ones of Syria and the former Soviet Union. Had they won independence within Iraq, it would have been only a matter of time before five states would have suffered serious turmoil.
Iraqi weakness would have had another consequence: As Tehran and Damascus fought over the carcass of the Iraqi state and Kurds eyed a large piece of real estate in southeastern Turkey, Ankara would have felt compelled to establish its own zone of influence in Iraq, and this would inexorably have sucked it into the battle for Iraq's future.
Most ironic is that Iraqi citizens might be worse off had Hussein fallen last winter.
Of course, Iraq is in miserable shape these days, suffering grievous repression and economic privation. Still the civil war that took place in the spring – when Kurds and Arabs massacred each other in northern Iraq, while Shiites and Sunnis battled in the south – was a sample of what might be. The absence of a central power might have caused many more Iraqis to have died from war, disease and starvation.
And while many of the administration's critics imagine Hussein's overthrow as a giant step toward democracy, it was and still is far less likely to bring democrats to power than another thug in Hussein's own mold.
The only way to get rid of Hussein is to accept a very intrusive and protracted U.S. military presence in Iraq.
And here we revert to last year's dilemma: After American forces directly unseat Hussein and occupy Iraq, what next? There were no good answers to this question in 1990, and there are none today.
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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 9, 1569-1571
Elizabeth: January 1569, 1-15
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January 1569, 1-15
A.D. 1569. Jan. 1.
1. Sir Henry Norris to Queen Elizabeth.
On December 28 came advertisement from the Duke of Anjou of a skirmish with the Prince of Condé on the 23rd ult. near Loudon, who made him retire three leagues. The day after the skirmish, Monsieur thinking to have refreshed his army at Montereau-belle, was prevented by the Prince who was there before him, and constrained to seek another quarter four leagues from thence. There is great penury in the country where the armies be, and especially in the King's, which coming after the Prince finds great want of all things necessary. The day after Scomberg's arrival the King went to Paris, and caused 12 pieces of brass to be drawn forth of the arsenal for the new army that is levying to go against the Prince of Orange. Sends both Scomberg's commission from the King, and the Prince's answer to his ambassade, which plainly discovers that he minds to the utmost of his power to assist the afflicted, and help all such as unfeignedly make profession of the Gospel. The said Prince requesting to know the King's meaning for the permission of the exercise of religion; the King caused Scomberg to write to him that being a sovereign prince he would not permit any other to deal between him and his subjects. During Scomberg's being at his camp the Duke of Lorraine sent to offer the Prince passage through his country, who answered that he was not yet ready to depart France, but that when he was he would find the way having the keys with him. Understands that the Prince stays upon the frontiers attending the instructions of the Elector and other Princes of Germany, who are of the association, how to proceed in the wars in the Low Countries and France; for these Princes esteem this motion of religion common with them, and have no less care thereof than of their own cause. The Prince of Orange has in his army 1,400 French horsemen besides others of the Low Countries, 4,000 French harquebusiers, 8,000 reiters, 8,000 lansquenets, and divers adventurers and footmen of the Low Countries. It is thought that he will march to join the Prince of Condé. The three small rivers on the other side of the Loire will be no impediment, seeing that the Prince of Orange has a bridge of boats with him carried in waggons. Thus Her Majesty may perceive that the religion does not stand in such dangerous terms as their enemies boast abroad. It is to be feared lest this nation will destroy it selfwith its own divisions, giving themselves, their goods, and fortunes to such strangers of either side as they have called to their aids. The King still levies his new army, minding, as he told Norris, to go in person against the Prince of Condé, and reckons to be in the field within 14 days.—Paris, 1 Jan. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. Pp. 2½.
Jan. 1.
2. Sir Henry Norris to Cecil.
Can very ill spare the bearer (Harcourt) whom he has found very honest and trusty, and therefore desires Cecil to return him as shortly as conveniently he may.—Paris, 1 Jan. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. P. ¼.
To the same effect as his letter to the Queen of this date. Great is the rumour that is spread that the Queen doth aid the Prince of Orange, but the French King speaks nothing thereof.—Paris, 1 Jan. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. In cipher. Pp. 1⅓.
4. Mr. Mather to—
Sends the same intelligence concerning the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Anjou, and the levying of a new army by the French King, as is contained in Norris's letter to the Queen of this date. The King's army when assembled will be greater than that with M. D'Anjou, especially of horsemen, by reason of the reiters that are levied for the King. That of the Prince of Orange will be rather stronger. Beseeches him after he has read this to make the fire his secretary.—Paris, 1 Jan. 1568. Signed.
Pp. 1¾.
5. Lope de la Sierra to Antonio Guarras.
Desires to be advertised what is spoken or heard of concerning the money. Has sent sundry times a boat to the isle [of Wight] to see if the pirates were there still. Yesterday there were the three who took the ship of Marseilles, joined with three Englishmen who tarry for their sailing out. On Tuesday the captain of the isle received a packet of letters from the Queen, and the next day very early he and the Mayor sent for him and told him that it was necessary for him to bring his ship upwards in a river which is on the backside of the town, because they certainly knew that even the same night all the pirates which were about the isle would come and take him, and that the castles or bulwarks could not save him in the night. Told them that he did not fear the Frenchmen but only the English, and that he was in the Queen's house seeing he was in her haven, and that it was better that they should take him. The same morning they brought to the walls all the ordnance which the town had, and also took all the chests with money out of the Mayor's house, and set them in the town house where a serjeant and one of the Mayor's servants keep them. They told him that he might tarry there with the watchmen, which he refused as he knew not what had been done, and as he had given them a note of the contents of the chest, they should deliver them likewise by account to him. They continued to press him to take the ship up, saying that there was water enough for her; and the next day he took a boat and sounded all the river from where they lay to the place where they said he should come, and found no water and very little tide, so that if he had brought his ship there at flood, he might have been without her at low water, which he thinks they wished. Is sure that all this novelty of removing the money, the placing the ordnance, and that the ship should be taken up the river, was done by virtue of the Queen's commission, because it was done immediately upon the receipt of the packet from the Court.—Antona [Southampton], 1 Jan. 1569.
Copy. Endd. Span. Pp. 2½.
6. Symon Velho Bareto to Diego de [Vilha].
Letter in Portuguese, apparently on business matters.— London, 1 Jan. 1569. Signed.
Add. P. ½.
7. Queen Elizabeth to Sebastian, King of Portugal.
Has received his letter dated from Lisbon on the kalends of January last year, and communicated the contents to her council. Has not been able to see any fresh reason for prohibiting her subjects from using the navigation to India and Ethiopia, or for altering her answer on that point given to his ambassador, Juan Pereira Damtas, some years ago. Trusts that the ancient amity subsisting between their realms may not receive any injury, and promises redress by due course of justice for any wrongs which his subjects may sustain through any of hers.—Hampton Court, 2 Jan. 1568.
Draft corrected by Cecil. Endd. Lat. Pp. 2.
8. The Prince of Condé to the Queen.
Desires her to give credence to that which the bearer has in charge to tell her from him.—2 Jan. Signed: Louis de Bourbon.
Add. Endd. Fr. P. ½.
9. Jan Heerremans to Jan den Vackerren.
Chiefly on private matters. There is great talk about a war between the King of Spain and this Queen. Will write soon to him again by an English ship which he understands has license to come to Antwerp with cloth.—London, 3 Jan. 1568. Signed.
Add. Endd. Dutch. P. 1.
10. Goods of Spaniards detained in England.
Answer of Thomas Fiesco to the objections of the Merchant Adventurers.
Endd. by Cecil. Ital. Pp. 22/3.
11. Petition of Tomaso Fiesco.
Begs that Her Majesty will cause restitution to be made of certain goods and money belonging to the subjects of the King Catholic.
Notes by Cecil in the margin. Endd. Ital. Pp. 2¾.
12. Sir Henry Norris to Cecil.
Nothing of great moment has occurred since his last. The King's army assembles at Château Thierry. The Prince of Condé has taken the castle of Mirebeau being abandoned. The Dukes of Ferrara and Florence have sent ambassadors to the King. The Duke of Florence have sent bills of credit for 100,000 crowns. Beseeches him to have in his good remembrance Regius (in cipher) for the present he presents Her Majesty withal; he is in great poverty being here where men of his learning and knowledge are usually esteemed.— Paris, 4 Jan. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. Pp. 1¾.
13. The Vidame of Chartres to Cecil.
Has great expectations from the Queen and him when he remembers how ready they were to assist when matters were doubtful. Is glad that he selected Mr. Winter to send to them. Advises him not to spare the Queen's money, as even if the Treasury should be emptied of some millions during this year, it will be the means of warding off war from England. —4 Jan. 1569. Signed, Ferriere.
Add. Endd., with seal. Lat. Pp. 2.
14. Civil War in France.
The treacherous attempts of the Cardinal of Lorraine and his adherents to assassinate Condé, the Admiral, and others of their party, and the revocation of all edicts in favour of those of the reformed religion, having compelled them to take up arms, their enemies have not been able to oppose them successfully in any quarter. Gives a detailed account of the move ments of the armies of Condé and the Duke of Anjou, and the skirmishes mentioned in Norris's letter of the 1st inst.
Endd: 4 of January 1568. Received from the Lord Admiral of France. Fr. Pp. 7.
15. Arrest of Englishmen in the Low Countries.
Robert Harrison, of London, salter, reports that being at Flushing, 8 Jan. 1568, he was told that all the English merchants at Antwerp and other towns throughout the Low Countries, had been arrested, their counting-houses sealed up, and ships and goods seized. From his own knowledge he says that the masters of ships and others at Flushing were in prison, and very hardly dealt with.
Endd. by Cecil. P. 1.
Jan. 5 & 6.
16. Low Country Ships arrested in England.
List of 43 ships and hoys arrested by the serjeant of the Admiralty, appertaining to the King of Spain's subjects, the names of the masters and crews, and description of cargo given. None of them carried more than four men, and their cargoes consisted chiefly of cloth, sheepskins, hides, beer, onions, and in one instance four dry vats of playing cards.
Endd. Pp. 3½.
17. Proclamation by Queen Elizabeth.
Mentions all the circumstances relating to the arrest of her subjects, and their goods in the Low Countries, and shows that the protest that it was done in retaliation of the stay of certain Spanish ships and money, was not correct, as the said vessels were protected from the French, and the arrest of her subjects was made before any similar measure was taken on her part. By all lawful custom and usage she had a right to borrow the said money, it being the property of private merchants, and being saved from the perils of the sea on her territory.—Hampton Court, 6 Jan. 1569.
Draft. Endd. Lat. Pp. 4½.
18. Seizure of the Spanish Money.
Deposition concerning the landing of the money taken in the Spanish vessels seized at Plymouth, signed by the different masters and pilots.
Endd. by Cecil. Span. P. 1.
19. Don Guerau D'Espes to Gieronimo de Curiel.
Desires him to send a letter of exchange for 1,000 ducats, and to stay Mr. Marron, that he come not into England without further advice. Signed.
Add. Endd. by Cecil, with seal. Span. P. 1.
20. Lord John Hamilton, Abbot of Arbroath, to Cecil.
Desires a passport for the bearer, whom he is sending to his father in France.—Hamilton, 8 Jan. 1568. Signed.
Add. Endd. P. ¼.
21. The Cardinal of Chatillon to Cecil.
Requests a passport for Laurence Hollingshed, whom he sends into France with letters and despatches.—Shene, 9 Jan. 1569. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. Fr. P. ½.
22. Sir Henry Norris to the Queen.
Doubts lest he waxes troublesome in making so often mention of the enmity between the two houses of Guise and Montmorency. On the 23d ult. the Duke of Montmorency required the captains and eschevins of Paris to come to the Louvre to speak with him, and declared that their disorders and unaptness to be ruled was not unknown to the King, who had offered him a garrison of 400 harquebussiers, to be entertained at the charges of the town, but not being willing to charge them without great occasion, he trusted the same should not be needful, requesting them to behave better than they had done heretofore. Vignolles, of the Court of Parliament, and Captain general of 22 ensigns, answered, that Paris was like to a ship whereof the master neglecting his charge, it is requisite that the pilots do put hand to the helm; whereunto Montmorency coldly replied, "qu'il parloyt en curtault de butique." This rude answer was thus made by Vignolles to set on broach that which had been devised by the Cardinal of Lorraine and his complices, who had caused it to be bruited that Montmorency had secret intelligence with the Prince of Orange, and had written to him to march hither, the King's army not being ready to resist him, and had given forth that he was in the King's disgrace. The next day M. Montmorency having notice of this, departed to Ecouen, where his brother, M. D'Anville, lay very sick. The Cardinal thinking that his absence would help to augment the suspect of the rumour already spread abroad, and also to imprint some jealousy of him in the King's head, found great fault in his not attending the King's coming to that town, he being governor of the same.
2. Montmorency in order to purge himself of this suspect, went to St. Maur des Fosses, where the King was, and with him came Marshals Vielleville and Cosse, who held a council with the King, the Cardinal of Lorraine not being called thereunto. The Cardinal is much discontented that he cannot make his brother, M. D'Aumale, lieutenant of this new army, against which the marshals stoutly oppose themselves. During Montmorency's absence the Parisians imprisoned 40 of the wealthiest persons of the religion in that city, alleging against them the loan of money to the Prince of Condé. The house of a merchant at Toulouse being ransacked, there was found promises of gentlemen and free distributions of money to the sum of 2,000,000 francs.
The good disposition and order that is kept in the Prince's army is much to be commended, nothing like oppressing the country where they pass, as that of M. D'Anjou, which has waxed hateful by their insolent behaviour, both to Protestants and Catholics. M. D'Anjou has bestowed the greatest part of his army in the towns upon the river of Loire. The Prince of Condé now marches to Sancerre, which place Captain Brochart holds for the religion against the Count Martinengo. The town is not very strong of situation, but Brochart has filled a great number of wine vats with earth, which serve for gabions, and is a very strong kind of fortification. The Prince of Orange will not alter anything in the answer which he sent to the French King by Colonel Scomberg. The Prince of Orange is yet at Vitry le Francois, where he attends the Duke of Deux Ponts.
3. The King's reiters, to the number of 7,000, have sent to the King that before they take their oath for his service they may be assured not to be employed against them of the Confession of Augsburg. This day the Baron des Adrets arrived with the forces of Provence and Dauphigny. Notwithstanding all these preparations there is still some bruit of peace.
4. The alliance of the French King with the Emperor's daughter is now clean out of hope, because she shall be given to the King Catholic.
5. There has lately a general bruit arisen that 3,000 of Her Majesty's subjects be disembarked at Rochelle in favour of the religion, and that her nobility and gentry have declared to her that if this King overcome the religion here, then, with the assent of the other princes of this league and association, they will endeavour to exterminate the same through Christendom, and therefore have in dutiful manner besought her to assist them.—Paris, 10 Jan. Signed.
There is great bruit that Her Majesty's fleet is arrived at Rochelle and there landed 3,000 Englishmen; also that 10 English ships, joined with 10 others of the religion, being minded to have landed in Brittany, were repulsed by the inhabitants. The Duke of Alva who aforetime made great offers of aid to the King, now makes a pastime of this their misery, yet notwithstanding there is looked for out of Flanders 14 ensigns of infantry and 1,500 cavalry. Monsieur's army is not in readiness to follow the Prince of Condé. It is thought that the King will be in the field within these 10 days.— Paris, 10 Jan. 1569.
2. P.S. There has been a motion made of peace in the King's Council to this effect, that the Protestants should enjoy the benefit of the King's edicts, and that Condé might have the government of Saintonge, and that he might have leave to join with the Prince of Orange to make war upon the Spaniards in Flanders; but the King and Queen would give no ear hereunto, the Cardinal of Lorraine persuading them that it was dangerous anyway to further these Princes' designs. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. Pp. 2.
24. The Prince of Navarre to Cecil.
The bearer, M. de Dovet, is sent by his uncle, the Prince of Condé and himself, to thank the Queen for the assistance which she has given to them. Desires Cecil to continue his favour towards the cause which they are supporting.—Thouars, 10 Jan. 1569. Signed: Henri.
Add. Endd. Fr. P. ¾.
25. The Prince of Condé to Cecil.
Letter of credence for M. De Dovet sent to thank the Queen for the support which she has given to their cause.— Thouars, 10 Jan. 1569. Signed.
Add. Endd., with seal. P. ⅓.
26. Manifesto by Don Guerau D'Espes.
Whereas by the commandment of the Queen, a proclamation was printed January 6, charging some fault to the Duke of Alva for the arrest of the goods and persons of Englishmen in the Low Countries, he gives knowledge of the truth as follows:—
On the 23d Nov. he learnt that certain ships carrying the King of Spain's treasure into Flanders were in great danger in the west country from pirates. On the 29th Nov. he informed the Queen of this and desired that commandment might be given in her ports that no harm should be done to the said ships, and that if needful the treasure might be transported by land to Dover, and convoyed from thence by Her Majesty's ships to Antwerp, all which was granted by her with a good will. Upon this he wrote to the Duke of Alva, and in the meantime heard that a few days before certain English pirates had brought into Plymouth three Flemish and one Spanish vessel very rich, and were dividing and selling the wares so taken. The said pirates and men of the country also seized other ships in the havens, and have favour and friendship in the Court, and knowledge of them was given to the Earl of Leicester and Cecil. On 12th December the Queen signed a passport to carry the treasure by land or water with all haste, and on the 13th ratified the same by her royal promise and granted letters to her justices on the coasts, and to Admiral Winter more favourable than the first which were sent by messengers to Southampton, and afterwards to Plymouth and Fowey. Notwithstanding this, on the same day that the messenger departed from Southampton Edward Horsey, captain of the Isle of Wight, came on board the ship of Lope de la Sierra, and landed from her 59 chests of treasure.
2. On December 21 he wrote hereof to the Duke of Alva, and also to the Queen, requiring that her word, promise, and passport might be kept. Had no answer in writing, but some of her officers said that the treasure should be forthcoming for the King, and that since granting the passport Her Majesty had intelligence of other things upon the said matter. The like was done with the zabras that were at Plymouth and Fowey with like treasure,' and their sails and apparel removed, and all writings, letters, and bills of lading taken away from their masters.
3. Audience was prorogued till 29 December, when, with all courtesy and meekness, he lamented these new enterprises to the Queen, requiring that order should be taken according to her promise, to all which she answered with very loving words that the landing of the treasure was for the best, and to be preserved for the King, wondering much at the boldness of the said pirates. All this was accepted by Don Guerau and great thanks given to Her Majesty, at the same time he asked for the ships which had been promised for the conducting the treasure to Antwerp. To the which Her Majesty showed herself incontinent very contrary declaring that two Genoese had informed her that the treasure did not belong to the King of Spain but to certain merchants, and therefore she was minded to retain it and pay the owners. Don Guerau hereupon delivered to her a letter of credit from the Duke of Alva, wherein was contained that the said treasure was appertaining to the said King Catholic, and that it was laden in Spain for the paying of his men of war. Upon which matter the Queen was very hard, and not so indifferent as upon other communications she was with him. So of this audience was taken no other order but that within three or four days she would cause him to be informed how the said treasure was appertaining to the merchants; which information was never given to this day. Of these answers he did not remain satisfied wherefore he sent his secretary to the Duke, not being well pleased with the sitting of the Council so often with the agents of the King of Spain's rebels; in prejudice, as may be conjectured, of the ancient amity. The Duke had in the mean season, with the first advice he had of the retaining of the treasure, commanded the arrest of the goods and persons of the Englishmen. Calls all the world to judge herein of the proceedings of the Duke and himself.
Endd. by Cecil: 10 Jan. 1568. Span. Pp. 4¾.
27. Another copy.
Endd. Span. Pp. 4.
Endd. Span. Pp. 3½.
Endd. Span. Pp. 3¼.
31. English translation of the above.
Endd. Pp. 3¼.
32. Another translation.
Endd. Pp. 3¾.
Endd. Pp. 4.
Repeats his request for a passport for Laurence Hollingshed, whom he wishes to send into France about his affairs—Shene, 10 Jan. 1569. Signed.
37. Commission for the Cardinal of Chatillon.
A long manifesto in the names of the Queen of Navarre, the Princes of Navarre and Condé, and the rest of the leaders of the Huguenot party, setting forth the different persecutions under which they suffered, and giving an account of the attempt made by M. de Tavannes to seize the Prince and the Admiral, and their subsequent proceedings, and commissioning the Cardinal of Chatillon to seek aid from the Queen of England.—10 Jan. 1569.
Copy. Fr. Pp. 11½.
[Jan. 10.]
38. The Spanish Ambassador's Manifesto.
Note of the depositions of certain of the Drapers' Company, as to the promulgation of the Spanish ambassador's answer to the Queen's proclamation touching the arrest of the Spanish ships and treasure.
Endd. P. 1.
Note of the depositions of certain of the Haberdashers' Company, to the same effect as the above.
Declaration of the reading of the Spanish Ambassador's answer by John Baptista to certain English merchants at the Pope's Head, in Lombard Street.
Endd. Written without signature on a small piece of paper.
41. Don Guerau D'Espes to Geronimo de Curiel.
Tells him not to be surprised if he hears that he is arrested, for in this island are the enchantments of Amadis Archelaus, and he will be the Queen Oriana's prisoner. Thinks that all will end in a farce.—London, 10 Jan. 1569. Signed.
Add. Endd. by Cecil: "Against the Queen's Majesty Oriana," with seal. Span. P. ½.
42. George North to Cecil.
Thinking to increase his credit after Plymouth broils, he went to Rochelle and joined the Prince's camp on the 31st Oct. Gives an account in the form of a diary of the different marches and skirmishes that he was engaged in from the above date till 18 Nov., when he returned to Rochelle. The Duke of Aumale seeking to cut off the Duke of Deuxpont, has been overthrown by the Prince of Orange's vanguard. Certain places have been taken by the Huguenots, and their garrisons put to the sword.—Rochelle, 11 Jan. 1569. Signed.
43. The French Ambassador to [Cecil.].
Complains of the delay in granting him a passport for M. de la Croix, which has prevented his advertising his master of the dispute between the Queen of England and the Duke of Alva. Also demands that he may have the same privilege of exemption from duty on French wines which his predecessors have always enjoyed.—London, 11 Jan. 1569. Signed: De la Motte Fenelon. Fr. P. ¾.
44. The Queen to Sir Henry Norris.
Informs him of the circumstances which led to the arrest of the Spanish ships, and of the subsequent proceedings with the Spanish Ambassador, and orders him to communicate the same to the French King and his council, and to the Spanish ambassador resident at his court.—Hampton Court, 11 Jan. 1568.
Draft. Endd. Pp. 3.
Desires him to forward to Her Majesty the petition of the bearers, certain poor Flemings and other subjects of the King of Spain, who are fugitives on account of religion, and whose goods have been seized during the late arrest.—Shene, 12 Jan. 1569. Signed.
46. Sir Henry Knollys to Cecil.
Went to the Spanish Ambassador and rendered to him his letters, declaring; that in case he would advertise the Duke of anything pertaining to his estate here in such sort as it might appear that his information was agreeing with the truth, and further provide that the carrier might have free passage to go and to come; that they would according to the Queen's promise take order for their conveyance. Whereunto he answered that for the first he would think better of it, but that for the other his letters could not bear the authority of a safe-conduct. Knollys told him that albeit his letters were not for authority sufficient, yet for to do him pleasure the Queen would adventure so far upon his credit. When they were come to their chamber he sent his letters saying that after they had read them they might send them open, which offer they thought it not their part to refuse. By these Cecil may see his devotion, his boldness, his stomach. In the meantime they watch the fox with great diligence, but his burrow is large and full of starting holes, and their nets be few, slender, and weak. Doubts not but that he sees the peril, wherefore they hope after speedy provision.—London, 12 Dec. 1568. Signed.
Add. Endd. Pp. 1½.
47. Charles Utenhove to Mundt.
Desires him to forward certain letters to England, and to ascertain whether the Queen will permit him to dedicate to her the History of the Spanish Inquisition, which is about to be printed, and in which its evil practices are discovered.— Basle, 13 Jan. 1568. Signed.
Add. Endd. by Mundt., with seal. Lat. P. ¾.
48. Licence for the Earl of Murray.
Licence for the Earl to purchase 18 geldings in England, and transport them into Scotland.—Hampton Court, 14 Jan. 1569. Signed.
Countersigned by John Somers. Broadside.
49. The Privy Council to Don Guerau D'Espes.
It appears that he gave on the 11th inst. to Sir Henry Knollys certain letters addressed to the Duke of Alva and Geronimo Curiel desiring that they might be sent open to the Court. Find in them certain clauses not proper to have been written by a friendly minister, or by one who desires to be considered wise, well advised, or honest. Consider that his writings are in many places false, scandalous, and unworthy of a friendly minister. First, where he writes to Curiel a letter composed of fantasies, taken from Amadis de Gaul, they were in doubt whether it suited their honour and gravity to send their opinion on this matter. They inform him that the said letter is fantastic and unworthy a person holding his office. The Queen's state and honour cannot be affected by his scandalous and malicious tongue, and they intend to treat him as a person unfit to come into her presence. Where in his letter to the Duke of Alva that the nobility and the commonalty of England are ill-affected to the government, they inform him that it is false, and that those who write it are seditious persons and liars, and if he knew the contrary it was his duty to notify them of it. Charge him with having misquoted the words of Her Majesty's proclamation. Also disavow his passionate charges against the chief secretary, who has always given proof of his sincerity and good will to the Queen's service, and also to preserve the amity betwixt her and the King of Spain. As to the other writing in his name, they find so much falsehood in it that they do not care to make any particular reply. Are sorry that such an unworthy person with so little discretion should have been appointed by the King his master as ambassador. Profess their desire to entertain and increase the amity between the two sovereigns.—14 Jan. 1568.
Draft. Endd. by Cecil. Fr. Pp. 3¼.
The English merchants and their ships are arrested at Rouen upon word being brought that certain ships of that coast are stayed at Dartmouth. They have imprisoned a great number of those of the religion fearing lest they should aid the Prince of Condé with money. The Prince of Condé is besieging Saumur and Pont-de-Ce. He has taken the abbey of St. Florens, putting to the sword 150 soldiers who were in the same. On the 6th inst. the Duke of Guise and Count Brissac thinking to have surprised the Count Montgomery, were constrained to retire. It is bruited that M. D'Anjou will go to levy the siege of Saumur. The Prince of Orange has marched to Vaucouleurs to join the Duke of Deux-Ponts. The Duke of Aumale will join the King with the reiters, the chief captains whereof are the Marquis of Baden, the late Landgrave's son, Count Westleburg, and the two Rhinegraves. Sends the King's ordinance commanding the Ban and ArriereBan to present themselves at his army.—Paris, 15 Jan. 1569. Signed.
51. The French Ambassador to Cecil.
Thanks him for having obtained an audience for him with Her Majesty, whom he will attend on Tuesday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Desires a passport for one of his servants, and also that he may have a letter of exemption from the duty on wine forwarded to him.—London, 15 Jan. 1569. Signed.


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John Paulson said in a 2014 interview that he expected high levels of M&A activity to continue "for the foreseeable future." He has invested accordingly, and it is paying off.
Emily Stewart
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- John Paulson said in a 2014 interview that he expected high levels of corporate merger and acquisition activity to continue "for the foreseeable future." He has stacked his chips accordingly, and it is paying off.
The Paulson Enhanced fund, which bets on mergers and acquisitions, climbed more than 13% during the first quarter of the year, according to Swiss banking group SYZ. In a letter to investors reported by USA Today, Paulson wrote that his firm remains "well-positioned to take advantage of attractive merger related opportunities in the robust M&A environment."
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As of the end of the first quarter, Paulson has a $407.2 million stake in Valeant. And before it acquired Salix, he had a significant position in that company, too, at one point owning more than 9% of the drug maker.
Paulson's firm showed strong support for Valeant's Salix takeover, calling the deal "very accretive to Valeant," and adding that the merger removed near term uncertainty for Salix. "Valeant gets rewarded with a high growth business at a reasonable price by acting quickly in this transitional period for Salix," Paulson & Co. wrote in an email to Forbes. The deal was completed on April 1.
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As with Valeant and Salix, Paulson played both sides of the deal. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, he had a $1.4 billion stake in Allergan and a $407.7 million investment in Actavis. At the end of the first quarter, he disclosed a $1.7 billion stake in the combined company, which is now his second-largest holding.
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This article is commentary by an independent contributor. At the time of publication, the author held no positions in the stocks mentioned.


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Q: JavaScript Throttle always returning function I'm trying to understand JavaScript Throttling. I implemented a very basic throttle for the knowledge that I have so far.
const display = (msg) => {
    return msg;
}

const throttleDisplay = (func, limit) => {
    let flag = true;
    return function() {
        if(flag) {
            func.apply(this, arguments);
            flag = false;
            setTimeout(() => flag = true, limit);
        }
    }
}

for(let i=1; i<=5; i++) {
    setTimeout(() => {
        const result = throttleDisplay(display("Hi"), 6000);
        console.log(result)
    }, i*1000);
}

My console.log is returning [Function] instead of the message Hi. Also, it is returning [Function] 5 times. Shouldn't it ignore the next call until the limit, 6000ms, has passed?
Thanks a lot!

A: Throttling works differently.
First, you should name your throttle function just throttle, as it is not specifically linked with display. Then, you should call this throttle to get a function that is specific to display. And only then you would use that secondary function in the actual use case you have for it, i.e. with the timer.
Here is your code corrected:

const throttle = (func, limit) => {
    let flag = true;
    return function() {
        if(flag) {
            func.apply(this, arguments);
            flag = false;
            setTimeout(() => flag = true, limit);
        }
    }
};

const throttleDisplay = throttle(() => console.log("Hi"), 6000);

for(let i=1; i<=10; i++) {
    setTimeout(throttleDisplay, i*1000);
}

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Get Ready for the Obama Boston Cover-Up
I do not believe the Boston bombings were an inside job, but I do believe a cover-up of who gets the blame for failing to put the pieces together is in the works. So what would the Obama Administration have to cover-up? Obama and Company should have seen it coming. These two Chechen radicals were on the FBI's radar for years.
Obama's people blew it, and they know it.
Like so much else, Obama will feign ignorance and then blame the FBI like he's still blaming George Bush. Think Benghazi. We saw those horrid events take place right before our eyes, and the Obama presidency keeps on trucking with no one taking blame. Hillary Clinton, at the center of it all, will be the Democrat's next presidential nominee.
If it's one thing most Americans can't stomach is incompetence and playing political footsies that lead to innocent people dying. The American people are not vindictive. When 9/11 took place, American Muslims were not assaulted, rounded up and put in internment camps, or deported. We knew that not all Muslims are radicals. We also knew that some are.
For five years, Obama has downplayed the Islamic terrorism here and abroad. The Fort Hood massacre was labeled "workplace violence." Thirteen people were killed and dozens more wounded. Major Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, was inspired by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The two men exchanged as many as 20 emails, according to U.S. officials, and Awlaki declared Hasan a hero.
Obama politics prevailed over protestations of people who knew what was going on.
The Department of Homeland Security failed to deport Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2009 after the agency learned that he had been involved in a "domestic violence assault — a deportable action in U.S. immigration law." Why? It's my guess that Obama was afraid of negative press from an Islamic group like CAIR.
CBS reported that the FBI investigated Tsarnaev two years ago "at the request of a foreign government" that thought he had ties to terrorism — and cleared him. If he had been a member of a German home school family seeking asylum in the United States because of draconian German school laws, he would have been sent packing immediately.
The media initially tried to cover up the fact that the investigation took place "until Tsarnaev's own mother appeared on Russian TV to provide embarrassing details into the inquiry."
We're now learning that there's been a 12-member terrorist "sleeper cell" linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
It's not like these guys were operating in secret. There was a "Russian-language YouTube page featuring links to extremist Islamic sites and others. [It has] since [been] taken down by YouTube. One link showed an hour-long speech by an Islamic teacher called Shaykh Feiz Mohammed, while other videos are labeled 'Terrorists' and 'Islam.'"
Where was the FBI doing? How did they miss the intel on these guys? What are we paying them for? If facts like these had come out during George W. Bush's administration, the media would have made the investigative failure the story rather than the bombings.
The Boston Marathon Massacre is turning out to be problematic for the new "Democrat Voting Initiative," that is, the new immigration bill that Democrats desperately want passed and some Republicans think is going to help them with Hispanic voters.
What the American people want is honesty. So don't be disappointed if the big cover-up has already begun.
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Do you have a book in you, waiting to get out? Important life stories that you'd love to record, if only you could get a handle on their complexity?
Or do you have a major work problem you'd like to find stories to help you with? Or a body of professional information you're struggling to express in a way that motivates people to take action?
What kind of helper do you want?
To help with your project, would you like a helper who doesn't tell you what to do, but who listens your truth into being—who helps you give voice to what you know, but have been unable to express fully?
Are you hoping for a coach who will challenge you to be your best, but who never forgets that the wisdom and experience you want to convey is uniquely yours? A coach who can help you sort out the immensity of your project, yet never usurp your role as the "chief decision maker"?
For brief case studies of folks I've helped to tackle daunting, complex projects—please read on.
The Puzzle of Her storytelling life?
Years ago, I had the privilege of coaching Marion Besmehn at a private workshop. A storyteller from Carmel, California, Marion has a master's degree in storytelling from ETSU in Tennessee. Her personal stories, some from her native Wales, had appeared in a magazine and on CDs.
But the puzzle of her storytelling life was her long-dead, larger-than-life mother. Marianne's storytelling instincts told her that her mother would be a terrific topic for stories, but every story she created fell flat. What was the problem? It took numerous rewrites and lots of emotional growth, but Marion succeeded in turning Molly and Me into a phenomenal book!
A financial advisor from Atlanta, GA, John Durkota was discouraged—not about his work, but about helping his potential clients to overcome a handful of misconceptions about their investments—misconceptions that were costing them money and that John could help them with.
John realized that storytelling would be a way to help clients, when facts and logic might not be enough. But how could he get help not just learning to tell stories, but creating just the right stories to make the difference?
After several months, John had identified his own particular "customer success stories" for helping potential clients understand what carefully structured arguments had failed to convey.
The "Mystical Pizza," a simple, story- and metaphor-filled guide book for dorm residents: how can you use Feng Shui to make your dorm room conducive to study and growth?
Eastern Wisdom for the College student?
Mary Roberts was an interior design consultant who needed help translating her extensive knowledge and make it comprehensible—yet not watered down—for college students trying to make their dorm space conducive to productive study and personal growth.
Mary had lots of practical experience in the interior design of dorm rooms, as well as a deep knowledge of feng shui. But how could she make ancient mystical concepts easily understood by teens? How could she structure her treasure house of knowledge around the success stories of individual students, in a way that would be both relevant and accessible?
Jim's two-CD set, The Hanging of Tom Brown: A Civil Rights Odyssey, was well over a year in the making. Yet the resulting recording brings alive a uniquely important epic of the 1960's and beyond. In the process, Jim, had to face—and re-frame—his feelings of regret, futility and guilt at innocently leading his friends into deadly danger.
Jim Gregory was a retired teacher who had been active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. An idealistic college drop-out, he had pulled together a group of his friends to help bring literacy education to blacks in Mississippi and Alabama. But they met with violence and death at the hands of segregationists.
Even after returning home—limping from injuries inflicted while in the Selma jail—Jim found that his nearly fatal expedition was viewed, not as heroism, but as the act of a trouble-maker.
In spite of a sweet moment with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jim's memories were so painful that he had put them aside—until the only other survivor of the the 4-year bus trip died. Jim realized then that, if he didn't tell their story, no one would.
But how would be able to face those horrors again? And, given that emotional struggle, how would he know which events belonged in his story and which didn't?
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K-12 Schools McLean County
2021 High Schools with the Best Teachers in McLean CountyAbout this List
Explore the public high schools with the best teachers serving your area. Ranking based on student and parent ratings of teachers, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure, student-teacher ratio, and the Niche Academics Grade for the school. Read more on how this ranking was calculated.
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Tri-Valley High School
Tri-Valley Community Unit School District No. 3, IL
#1 Best Public High School Teachers in McLean County
Senior: I have been at Tri-Valley since kindergarten and have loved every year of it. Through my years there I have made so many friends and have gotten to connect with teachers. I haven't met a teacher yet that hasn't helped each and every one of their students with open arms. With balancing a job clubs and school they have made it manageable to do all successfully. The school is one of the safest places that will make you feel like home and because of our small class size you know everyone and have been with most of them since kindergarten. Because of those teachers and their support, I have decided to become a teacher myself after I graduate this year.
Senior: University High School has allowed me to be the person I have always wanted to be. I previously attended a junior high with no diversity and being at U-High everyone has welcomed me with open arms. Not only that but I have never felt more prepared for college. I get so many different hands on experiences with learning, different teaching styles, and more! As a freshman it can feel overwhelming attending a new school where you don't know anyone. With as many extracurriculars as U-High has it's incredibly easy to make friends. U-High is constantly sending out surveys about how they can better your high school experience or diversify it. I have never felt more welcomed and my voice is finally being heard. A big thank you to U-High for everything they have done for me.
Ridgeview High School
Ridgeview Community Unit School District No. 19, IL
Senior: My experience at Ridgeview was amazing. I went to Ridgeview k-12 and loved every minute of it. The teaching staff is incredible for a small, rural school. The staff always made sure you were reaching your highest potential. I loved the atmosphere of the school and the positive energy that flowed through it each and everyday. Each day teachers were prepared to teach new lessons and provide new activities. Most students were prepared to learn and take in new information each and everyday. Clubs and activities were limited due to being a small school, but each club had many opportunities. Many of the opportunities included volunteer options and giving back to the community. At Ridgeview the club leaders lead by example and I think that is why Ridgeview becomes a better place each and every year.
Normal Community High School
McLean County Unified School District No. 5, IL
Senior: I really enjoyed my years in Normal Community. I have a number of teachers who I adore and I know that if I am experiencing any struggles, they wouldn't hesitate to give me guidance and condolences. It's a great school with a variety of classes that you are able to take. For example, Business Law really enhanced my interest towards studying Law and becoming an attorney. Although I really liked being in the school, there was some instances where I felt unsafe. I remember there would be fights in class but I know that there's multiple schools that experience fights as well. However, I do believed that the administration handled those types of situations. I remember seeing them separate both parties and hear both of the stories in the office, so students would be able to continue on with their school day. Overall, there are things that need to be changed, I will miss Normal Community High School.
Normal Community West High School
Senior: Great programs and faculty to care for special needs students. Additionally, our Freshman Mentoring Program is largely unique to our school, allowing upperclassmen to befriend and support first-year students. Considered less wealthy than the East Side, but also much less crowded and potentially less cliquey. Good mix of college level (AP and duel credit) courses for students seeking a challenge and also extra support for those who may need it. However, grading is transitioning to standards-based for most classes (district wide) which I am not a fan of. Glad I am getting out before all classes switch over!
Heyworth Junior/Senior High School
Heyworth Community Unit School District No. 4, IL
Senior: Heyworth High school is a very great school, it is filled with many great students and great teachers. I have learned so many amazing things over the past three and a half years and continue to learn the last half of my senior year. We have a very strong FFA program as well as a lot of school spirit. In my experience there has been no bullying and no serious issues. Our teachers at Heyworth High school are very educated and great at their jobs. Almost all of the teachers actually care about how we learn and change their teaching style to help us learn the best. Overall, Heyworth High school has been a very safe place to go to high school.
Bloomington High School
Bloomington School District No. 87, IL
Alum: Speaking as an AP/honors student, I would give BHS a 4 star rating. I give them this based on the facilities, teachers, and administration. The facilities would be given the highest rating. It is clean, neat, and constantly upgraded at BHS. The custodial staff does an amazing job picking up after the students, and if there's a problem, they are quick to fix it. The teachers are very 50/50. You either get the most amazing teacher you've ever had, or a teacher that makes you want to quit school altogether. This of course isn't BHS's fault, but the bad apple teachers are not reprimanded or told to review how they teach and approach students. Finally the administration. The administration has fallen short over the past few years, and it is apparent about playing favorites in the school (this coming from one of the favorites and top scholars). Overall, I enjoyed my time at BHS, since I mainly stayed in the academic and athletic circles. Could improve, but what school can't?
Lexington High School
Lexington Community Unit School District No. 7, IL
Senior: Some of the teachers are great and so helpful! Others need work. Overall, they care, and it's a fun environment.
Le Roy High School
Leroy Community Unit School District No. 2, IL
Senior: I had a wonderful time at Le Roy High School. My father has been a teacher here for over 20 years and I feel very connected to the community. The community supports the school very well. Le Roy is focused and dedicated to preparing students for success in college and in life. Most of the teachers are dedicated to student success and are willing to go above and beyond for them. The culture of the school is very typical and most people are very friendly. We have a decidingly obvious lack of diversity as we have no African-American students and only a few Hispanic students in a school of 245.
Olympia Community Unit School District No. 16, IL
Senior: Olympia High School is home to many teachers who are focused on individualizing each student's learning experience. Olympia has also provided each student with a chromebook to take every advantage offered by technology to advance education. However, in an effort to progress education, Olympia has adopted Standards Based Grading (SBG) and eliminated the use of a traditional grading system (A-F). The swift implementation has resulted in some confusion regarding a student's grades and what is necessary to achieve the best grade. There are also multiple activities and athletics for students to be involved in which include musical, social, intellectual, and physical options. Of course, if students wish to establish their own club, they are encouraged to do so.
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Roycemore School
Works Here: When I was looking for a new job as a Middle School Division Head at an independent school. I came across Royemore School in my search. As I studied the website, I learned about the culture of design thinking as part of the Personal Passion Project (P3), I watched several student-centered videos showcasing the focus on each individual student at Roycemore, and I read NICHE reviews that also addressed the remarkable student-centered approach, the rigorous, differentiated academics, and the core values that aligned so closely with my own core values.
I was fortunate enough to be hired as MS Division Head for the 20/21 school year and have found that Roycemore is everything it portrays itself as and MORE! Roycemore offers more connection between home & school, more agency and voice for students, more collaboration among faculty, and more love and caring for all members of our school community than I ever thought possible.
Roycemore is someplace special.
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I turned 33 last week, but as I grow older, the very meaning of birthday celebrations becomes more and more meaningless haha. The only nice thing about birthday is that I have an official excuse to bake a cake for myself! Which is wonderful and guilt free.
This time I didn't have time at all to try something new, so I thought it's gonna be another cheesecake. Because you can't go wrong with cheesecake, right?
I always wondered what would cheesecake be like if you add banana and Chocochip there. Now I know, it is amazing! Wish I was more challenging and tried this combination earlier.
Line cake form with cooking paper. Bring cream cheese to room temperature. Mash banana with fork.
Make a crust. Crush cookies in food processor, add melted butter and stir. Push the crust mix into cake form to create bottom. Put the form into refrigerator and let it sit there while making the cheesecake filling.
For the filling, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese with brown sugar and sour cream, and then add eggs one by one while mixing it well with cream cheese, and then yolk.
Then add cornstarch, heavy cream, lemon juice and rum, mix well.
Finally, add mashed banana and chocochips and stir one more time.
Pour the filling into cake form, and bake in preheated to 160C oven for 70 minutes. If the cake seems to get burned, place foil over it.
Take out from the oven and let it cool down in cake form, then put into fridge overnight.
Thanks to rum, the cheesecake tastes oh so indulgent. The taste you won't want to share with anyone! And again, what can go wrong with banana and chocolate combo? Nothing! Highly recommend!
My hubby's birthday was earlier this week on 20th of December, so I was to bake him a cake as I always do. We met 7 years ago, so it's his 7th birthday with me around, and each time he asks for a cheesecake.
I love cheesecakes, both making and eating hehe. Each time hubby is intrigued which flavor there is going to be, as the definite is the only one thing – cheesecake has got to be baked, not rare. So I bake!
I already did a classic one, and strawberry one, and blueberry one, and gosh I forgot what was there as well, but this time I wanted my cheesecake to be spicy as gingerbread cookies. It is That Season, right?
I used the classic set of holiday spices, such as allspice, cinnamon, ginger powder. And a bit of black pepper for the crust. Brown sugar gave the cheesecake sweet color and matched well with the spiced.
Line cake form's bottom with cooking sheet.
Prepare the crust: crush cookies and mix it with melted butter, then add a pinch of black pepper and mix final time. Push the crust mix into cake form to create bottom. Put the form into refrigerator and let it sit there while making the cheesecake filling.
For the filling, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese with brown sugar, and then add eggs one by one while mixing it well with cream cheese. Then add sour cream, cornstarch and heavy cream, mix well.
Finally add cinnamon, allspice and powdered ginger and stir one final time.
Pour the filling into cake form, and bake in preheated to 200C oven for 30 minutes. Lower the heat to 160C and bake for another 30 minutes. If the cake seems to get burned, place foil over it.
Rich texture and holiday touch of spices – this is the combination you would want to recreate again and again, I assure you!
While I baked the cheesecake I am about to post about like 2 weeks ago, we had my food poisoning (or stomach infection passed from Little One) combined with the same one of the Kid, plus some more traveling, so I fell out of blogging.
But here it is, Gorgeous Pumpkin Cheesecake!
Pumpkin Cheesecake has always been on my list To Try, but as there are too many kinds of cheesecakes but not enough time, somehow I was failing to bake one for so long.
Besides, Japan has no such thing as Pumpkin Pie Spices mix, being so easy to use. But hey, all the ingredients are there and just mixing them up is not hard at all!
Confession here, this cheesecake didn't last long. Like at all. Being creamy, spicy and oh so healthy without any sugar inside! Although Thanksgiving Season passed already, it is never too late for a good slice of cheesecake, right?
Cook pumpkin and puree it. I use microwave for cooking and it saves time much.
Make bottom. Melt the butter and stir in spices, then combine with finely crushed cookies. Press it tightly into 18cm cake form (I usually put some cooking paper into so I can easily remove cheesecake in the end). Let it rest in the fridge.
Soften cream cheese, and beat in egg and egg yolk carefully, then add sour cream.
In another bowl, combine pumpkin puree, maple syrup, spices and salt.
Bring 3 and 4 together, stirring carefully with spatula. When incorporated, pour into cake form with bottom.
Bake for 10 minutes in the oven preheated to 200C, then lower temperature to 160C and bake for 50 minutes. Then lower temperature once again, to 110C, and bake for another 10-15 minutes. You will see that cheesecake is ready if the middle is giggly a bit.
Cool in form, and put into fridge overnight. You can store the cheesecake in fridge up to 3 days.
I assure you, this cheesecake won't disappoint you!
It is impossible to have enough cheesecake. It is never enough. And there are so many variations, baked or raw, with crust, bars, and tons of flavors, so cheesecakes never bore me.
And each time I get down to make cheesecake I am literally overwhelmed with possibilities and options. But not this time. This time I had lemon and lime, so it was kind of obvious that I am going to make citrus cheesecake. Wish I had orange too for a triple version, but lemon lime was ok too. Next time, orange!
I used American cream cheese which I find a little bit salty, but I decided not to increase sugar amount. I sort of like saltiness in cheesecakes, it makes me feel it is cheese and oh I love cheese!
I decided to bake bars so I chose square form, but this gorgeous thing can be baked as usual round cheesecake without problems, if you prefer it that way. The size of round form will be 18 cm for it to get ready at same temperature as in recipe for same time.
Using food processor make the Oreo cookies crushed finely, combine them with melted butter.
Place cooking paper inside your baking form to remove cheesecake easily afterwards. Press Oreo cookie plus butter mass into form with spoon or glass. Put into fridge.
Soften cream cheese and beat it lightly with brown sugar. Then one by one add eggs and egg yolk, stirring finely each time for better smoothness.
Add double cream, vanilla essence and zests and juice of lemon and lime, stir well.
Pour 5 into form and bake at preheated to 160C for 35-40 minutes. The middle should be jiggly, we don't want to overbake cheesecake.
When ready take out of oven and let it cool completely in form, then put it into fridge.
After few hours (I do overnight) take out of form and cut into 9 squares. Enjoy!
This cheesecake is super easy and lemon with lime give the boost of energy for the whole day! Cheesecake is creamy and melts in mouth, just as we like it!
Here is the thing. I planned to make some energy bars, but as you see by the pictures I ended up with totally different thing! Yes, cheesecake bars! As I have not that much of a free time these days and I suddenly get some dozens of minutes for baking, I just can't choose what to make and try to cook it all at once! Laughable greed.
I was genuinely making the bars from dates, walnuts, coconut flakes and cocoa powder, and as I spreader the batter inside my baking tray that is when it hit me: it may be perfect base for cheesecake! Amazing and tasty and healthy one!
And here it was coconut milk, leaving me no choice but to add it in cheesecake layer, sweetening it with some maple syrup,oh god! I kind of anticipated this cheesecake layer won't become hard even after chilling in fridge overnight as there is no gelatin inside. And I was right. But here is the wonderful thing: you just put these gorgeous cheesecake bars in freezing camera, wait for one hour and boom! Bars become almost an ice cream bars! Just what doctor prescribed in this hot weather!
I used 20×18 cm baking tray, so I got my cheesecake bars square and cool, cut it square as well just like the bars should be.
For the bottom layer blend all the ingredients but milk, until finely combined, and then one by one spoon add coconut milk until you are able to roll a ball from the batter.
Press the batter evenly and strongly with your hands or spoon into 20×18 form greased with baking paper. Put the form to chill in the fridge.
For the cheesecake layer combine softened cream cheese with melted coconut oil and lemon juice and mix well. Then add the remaining coconut milk and maple syrup and mix until completely combined.
Pour cheesecake layer into form and put it into fridge again to chill overnight.
One hour prior to eating put your cheesecake bars into freezing camera and wait for about 1 hour. Take it out, cut into squares and enjoy!
Isn't it super simple yet super delicious? Yes it is! Give a try to these cheesecake bars which taste more like ice cream when stored in freezer. I am so storing those frozen so I don't have to buy ice cream!
I am a cheesecake lover. Oh I am. It is even weird why I haven't posted cheesecake recipe yet. For me it is more of a party or birthday treat, and I didn't have any recently, but here an occasion came! I had a Russian friend coming over. We Russian are passionate about black tea, we can have tea time all day long literally, but this tea time never comes just with a cup of fine tea. It is usually accompanied with cookies, chocolate and other treats. Or a good slice of indulgent cake if I may! I can drink coffee or green tea just as it is pretty much fine, but when it comes to black tea my genetic memory won't let me.
So, as my friend requested cheesecake, I thought I will bake one big NY one. Because I love them!
I have been reading one blog, andychef.ru (in Russian), full of fabulous recipes and beautiful pictures for a long time. I really love that blog, so if you can read Russian – go take a look! There is a wonderful recipe of NY cheesecake there, so I used it, changing it abit as usual. I reduced sugar, used Oreo cookies instead of usual ones, and added sour cream, other than that – it's is just as it is on the site.
Put baking paper into 20 cm diameter cake form. Melt butter. Crush Oreo cookies in food processor.
Combine melted butter and crushed cookies, and using a spoon or a glass press it into cake form really well, and put into fridge.
Soften cream cheese in microwave and beat it with sugar. Add salt, potato starch and lemon zest. Mix well.
Add eggs and yolks gradually one by one, mixing well each time.
Finally add sour cream, lemon juice and heavy cream. Mix well one final time.
Pour half of batter into the cake form and sprinkle it with raspberries. Pour remaining half over. Shake or hit the table with cake form lightly to get excesses of air out.
Bake at preheated to 200C oven for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 110 and bake for 70-85 min. Mine was ready at 75.
Take your cheesecake from the oven and let it cool in form, do not take it out! When cooled, put it into the fridge in form, and let it stay in fridge overnight. In the morning take it from the cake form and enjoy!
This cheesecake is truly gorgeous! You won't regret a single second, it is so cheesy and creamy it melts in mouth so you cut yourself another slice as you just can't stop!


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FFC 34 On Nov. 9 At Fight Dome Las Vegas Has Been Canceled
Final Fight Championship (FFC)
LAS VEGAS, NV– Due to reasons involving medical issues, Final Fight Championship has announced that "FFC 34" on November 9th has been officially canceled.
Nick Sadeghi, MD of Athlete Advantage Medical in Las Vegas, NV, released the following statement to Final Fight Championship.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission requires a series of medical examinations to be completed by a professional fighter in order to determine the medical condition of a fighter, the outcome of those exams determining if the fighter will be cleared to compete or not. Of utmost concern is the fighter's physical well being. It was determined by independent physicians conducting the exams for FFC as well as the Nevada State Athletic Commission that several fighters scheduled to compete on the November 9th fight card would not be able to compete due to abnormal MRA findings which identified small aneurysms in the brain. For obvious reasons, these fighters could not be cleared to compete without proper medical workup. This includes consulting with a Neurosurgeon and an Interventional Radiologist. Some fighters may be cleared after this, but some may need a surgical procedure to correct the aneurysm before he or she can continue to fight in the future.
FFC CEO/President, Orsat Zovko, issued his own statement regarding the unfortunate cancelation.
"We are disappointed to make this announcement, but on such short notice it was impossible to move forward because four of our six fights were stopped by the commission and medical personnel, including our Main Event and Co-Event," said Zovko.
"We must follow the strict rules and guidelines of the Nevada Athletic Commission, and we respect the decisions made by the medical community, because it is in the best interest of the fighters, and to protect their health is the ultimate goal."
Final Fight Championship (FFC) is the first and only professional combat sports franchise offering fans a unique 'multi-discipline' experience (Boxing, Kickboxing and MMA), where every event culminates with a championship title bout. All FFC events take place inside "Fight Dome" at Caesars Entertainment's Rio Las Vegas, the all-new mecca of combat sports.
Tags: CANCELED, FFC 34, Fight Dome, Las Vegas, mma
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