Susan was excellent with my kid who is allergic to clipper and she did an awesome job cutting his hair without making him cry.
Request Alaina Rose if you want a great hairstyle and blonde perfection. I always walk out feeling and looking amazing.
Great staff! Wonderful Spa environment. Really enjoyed the many services offered.
I've been a customer for over a year now and have always been very pleased with my results. Staff is friendly and professional. Two thumbs up!
The new owner has done a great job redecorating with more comfortable chairs for waiting clients. Stylists are some of best in area. They also have a make up artist there who is awesome.
Kenzie did a great job on my hair today & I'll be back. Best cut and color!!!!!!!! Best in Keller!!!!
I made an appointment with Epic Styles after I purchased a groupon for a cut and full highlight. As a busy mom of 3, I have to completely plan for things like this because it takes time. I got the babysitter, fought the traffic and arrived just prior to my appointment time. When I walked in I walked to the counter and no one acknowledged me. I could see that the stylist was just starting her initial consult with another client when I arrived. I took a seat and figured someone would surely walk out and assist me. After 15 minutes of no one looking at me (sitting only 5 feet away) I decided to walk up and interrupt the stylist to see about getting help. The stylist, also owner, Becky, decided to take a walk in the same time as my appointment and told me she was unable to do my hair until she finished walk-in's hair. (which was going to take a long time, the lady had really long hair and was doing completely highlights and lowlights and cut) There was another stylist in the back. So I asked if she was able to do my hair. Becky Told me the other stylist that was working was unable to do my hair because she was fresh out of school and was too nervous. I told her I was unable to stay, at this point I did not want to stay. She basically could care less. Not even sorry. I was very nice the entire time and cannot even comprehend how people can be so thoughtless sometimes. I completely felt like I was put on the backburner because I was a groupon holder. It was a complete waste of my time and money. I will be contacting groupon to get my money back. Maybe they shouldn't offer groupons if they don't want to service them.
I have been coming to Kess Salon on and off since it opened five years ago. I used to really enjoy it and recommend it to others. Unfortunately, after recent events I will never go back. The past couple of visits I have had HORRIBLE experiences with Renee Richardson. This review pertains to her specifically. I went in for highlights recently and came out with the most AWFUL, inconsistent, streaks in my hair. The "highlights" were painted in a harsh, blunt, horizontal line about three inches down from my part on both sides. That is definitely not the look I was wanting. In addition to the harsh lines, the color of the "highlights" ranged from either a coppery-orange shade to a bleach blonde shade despite me asking for the highlights to be strictly caramel. Renee blamed the wretched turnout on the fact that I have had highlights previously, but that was TWO years ago. There's no way that highlights I had TWO YEARS ago caused the botched hair job she did. I have dyed my hair one, solid color about once a month every month in the two years since my last highlights and have never seen signs of the old highlights "peeking" through, so I am not buying that sorry excuse. I am furious to have lost so much money on this coloring job. Not to mention I am incredibly embarrassed to walk around with this mess on my head.
I love getting my hair done here. It is very high quality. You get what you pay for. All the stylists are very sweet. They keep it clean very clean. Restrooms are NEVER dirty. I love that they just got a coffee bar. They also serve other drinks here. I have been going here for years !! I would not go anywhere else!
I must admit I took a double take on previous reviews and wondered if I was reading about same salon. I started going to my hairstylist Lena a couple of years ago. She always kept her area clean, is honest about what style works best for my face and always seems to know trends and fashion. I manage an apartment community in the area and refer residents to her because of her professionalism. I will continually refer people to this salon because of its atmosphere and friendliness.
This place is amazing!! She is very friendly and great at what she dose. I have very thick hair. many places take a min time of 4 hours to give me full hilights. She has done them in nearly half of the time and on top of it its the best highlights I have ever gotten. I highly recommend this place! Also very affordable!!
I have been going to epic styles since they opened. The owner Becky, is amazing! I've had my hair cut, colored, permed, straightened, and styled there throughout the years. She can do anything. I'm always happy when I leave. Plus her prices are better than great clips! Can't beat that!


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Allow plenty of time too, for Oxford's unique range of attractions, the majority of which are within easy walking distance.
Sites include the magnificent Oxford university colleges such as Jesus, Exeter, Merton, Trinity, Magdalene and Christ Church, offering a wealth of academia and architectural interest.
Carfax Tower - the famous 16th Century church tower and viewpoint - provides a stunning aspect of the whole city, as does the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Walking tours and tour buses are an excellent way to see these sites.
To view Oxford from the river, try a self-drive or chauffeured punt, available by the hour, as well as electric boats, a steam boat or river cruises of up to two hours.
Specialised tours cover a diversity of subjects such as Inspector Morse, C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame.
Museums and art galleries include the UK's oldest, the Ashmolean, situated on Beaumont Street.
This houses the British and European Art collections of Oxford University.
On Broad Street, the Bodleian Library offers access to the Divinity School and the library exhibition rooms in the Old Schools Quadrangle.
For music lovers, a fascinating collection of historical woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, including 'Handel's Harpsichord' can be found in the Faculty of Music's Bate Collection of Musical Instruments at St Aldate's.
Younger visitors will appreciate Curiosity - the Old Fire Station at 40 George Street - for hands-on science, and the Museum of the History of Science, the Oxford Museum of Natural History and the Oxford Story at 6 Broad Street.
The Museum of Modern Art in Pembroke Street and Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oriel Square will definitely appeal to art lovers.
Most of the well-known names in high street shopping are represented in Oxford's principal shopping streets - Queen Street, Cornmarket Street and Magdalen Street - and in two indoor malls, also on Queen Street and Cornmarket Street.
The majority of these shops are open seven days a week.
Browse in Broad Street, Turl Street and High Street for books old and new, quality gifts and souvenirs, antiques, jewellery and rare maps and prints.
Gloucester Green hosts an open-air market on Wednesdays and an antique market Thursdays, while the colourful stalls and small shops of Oxford's Victorian Covered Market are open from Monday to Saturday.
Entrances to the Covered Market are in High Street and Golden Cross, the medieval courtyard of the former Cross Inn, which opens off Cornmarket Street.
Within the city itself, family restaurants, traditional and themed pubs and a wealth of restaurants featuring all international cuisine can be found.
There is even a purpose built cruising restaurant offering first class dining and excellent views of Oxford from the river.
Whether traditional or avant garde, Oxford stages entertainment that everyone will enjoy.
Contemporary culture is very much part of this historic city all the year round.
Choose from drama, dance, ballet opera, musicals and music performed by well-known national or international companies and lively student productions.
The Apollo in George Street is Oxford's largest theatre and Oxford Playhouse in Beaumont Street is a newly refurbished 600 seat theatre in a beautiful Georgian building.
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This upper-end Panasonic microwave oven stops working after only one and a half years. Panasonic only offers a one-year warranty. The point of sale merchant is unhelpful too. A repair technician is bound to cost a lot, but hey, maybe I can get it working. Let's open it up and look for clues.
Thank you Panasonic for introducing me to security or anti-tamper screws that prevent ordinary tools from opening the microwave. You can find these screws in public places like display kiosks and auto-flush toilets. After a lot of Googling, I found out there are many propriety anti-tamper screws. Mine are called Security Torx screws, and even it has many variants.
I have no idea what my variant is, so I've set mind to finding a screwdriver set. Amazon is reasonable, and so is AliExpress. Home Depot is unreasonably expensive. Canadian Tire, on the hand hand, carries a beautiful 47-piece ratchet set.
Let's unplug and open the microwave up.
The first investigative step was also the last step – the multimeter showed that the fuse had blown. It's hard to get to, so I removed some grounding wires, took out the power board (after enough time had elapsed for the capacitors to safely drain), and removed the fuse.
Here is a close up picture of the blown fuse. It's pretty. A lot of current must have blown this fuse, or a long microwaving session could have heated this "special fuse".
But wait, let's look at the power board again.
What is special about this fuse? From the markings on the fuse it is a 250V 15A ceramic fuse. Back to Canadian Tire, here are the only 250V 15A fuses – reassuringly called "microwave fuses" – that they carry.
Sadly, they do not fit. The only replacement fuses available do not fit – they are too long. It turns out the readily-available microwave fuses are 30mm long, but the fuse I need is inconveniently 20mm long. Perhaps I'm just unlucky and Canadian Tire doesn't carry them. Instead of taking a third trip there, I searched online on Amazon.ca for shorter replacement fuses. Here is what I found.
There are none of these 20mm fuses available on Amazon either. That's pretty tricky. In my case, I unsoldered the OEM fuse holder and extended it with a little metal working (not pictured). Good as new.
Update: Jan 20, 2019 – One month and US$2 later a package of ten 20mm 15A fuses arrived from AliExpress. I'll hang on to these for friends.
To recap, the special fuse used in the upper-end, newer-model Panasonic microwave is protected by anti-tamper screws, and is shorter than the readily-available longer fuses. Why is Panasonic using "special" fuses? Do they have a surplus? My suspicion is that, coupled with a short warranty and the anti-tamper screws, Panasonic has their own shorter fuses and is profiting on carry-in repairs or buying new microwaves. They can be repaired at home. Extend the life of your microwave.


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Khaman Dhokla is a traditional Gujarati savory Snack which is steamed and the dal batter is made from bengal gram flour or Besan infused with a sugar-lime juice solution to give it that authentic street taste and it is tempered with a mustard seeds, curry leaves and little flavored oil. Out of the many varieties of dhokla, Besan dhokla is the easiest to prepare at home and it tastes simply great. I made this dhokla in Microwave .It comes out soft and it tastes simply great. In our home everyone loves dhoklas. Instant microwave dhokla is really an instant and delicious snack.
1.Grease a glass tray & keep it aside.In another bowl mix besan,curd,salt,lime juice,sugar,grated ginger & green chillies. and add water little by little, mixing with other hand so as to prepare lump free batter.
2.Let the batter rest for 20 minutes, covered. In a small bowl, take lemon juice and add 1 tsp oil to it.
3.Add eno fruit salt and mix quickly to this batter and mix it well & pour it immediately in the greased tray.Microwave it for 3 minutes. Insert a tooth pick to check it's done.
4.Microwave on HIGH for 2 minutes or until the surface no longer looks very wet. Let the bowl stand for 2 more minutes.
5.At this time, the dhokla cake will leave the sides of the bowl. Invert onto a serving dish.
Meanwhile, prepare the tempering. Heat 1 tbsp oil, then add mustard seeds, green chilly &pinch of asafetida.
6. Take the tempering off the heat, stir in 2 tbsp minced cilantro and pour the tempering mixture over the dhokla.
Very interesting one.. looks tempting !!
Dhoklas turned out super prefect, love it anytime..
Thats a cool way! Look very nice!


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La giovinezza e le prime presunte apparizioni

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Pierina Gilli nacque a Montichiari (BS), in località San Giorgio, il 3 agosto 1911, da Pancrazio Gilli e Rosa Bartoli.

La sua era un'umile famiglia contadina, contrassegnata dalla povertà. Il padre morì nel 1918, consumato dalla prigionia patita durante la Grande Guerra, la madre si risposò per tutelare i figli.

Dopo essere stata assistente dei bambini presso l'asilo comunale di Montichiari, e aver rifiutato un'offerta di matrimonio, Pierina dovette rinunciare in un primo tempo a entrare tra le "Ancelle della Carità" per problemi di salute, lavorando prima come domestica presso un sacerdote di Carpenedolo, don Giuseppe Brochini, e successivamente come infermiera presso l'ospedale civile di Desenzano del Garda.

Le apparizioni di suor Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa
Pierina tenne un diario delle sue esperienze mistiche, in particolare presunte visioni e messaggi: da queste pagine apprendiamo che l'incontro con Maria Rosa Mistica sarebbe stato anticipato e preparato dalle visioni di suor Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, fondatrice della congregazione delle Ancelle della Carità, beatificata nel 1940 da papa Pio XII e da lui canonizzata nel 1954.

Il 14 aprile 1944 fu accolta come postulante fra le Ancelle della Carità, ma nel dicembre dello stesso anno venne colpita da meningite: dopo alcuni giorni in stato comatoso, mentre si temeva per la sua vita, il 17 dicembre le sarebbe apparsa, come apprendiamo dal diario, la beata Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, preannunciandole la guarigione ma anche future prove. Il 17 dicembre era la ricorrenza liturgica della beata, spostata al 15 dicembre dopo la canonizzazione.

Il 2 novembre 1946 Pierina fu colpita da occlusione intestinale: nella notte tra il 23 e il 24 novembre le sarebbe apparsa nuovamente la beata Di Rosa, e anche la Madonna, così descritta nel diario: "Allora io vidi una bellissima Signora come trasparente, vestita di viola e con un velo bianco che dalla testa scendeva ai piedi; teneva le braccia aperte e vedevo tre spade confitte nel cuore".

Il 12 marzo 1947, dopo un collasso cardiaco conseguente a coliche renali, avrebbe avuto una nuova apparizione della Beata Maria Crocifissa, guarendo dopo aver offerto le sofferenze per le persone consacrate.

Le apparizioni di Maria Rosa Mistica

1947: il primo ciclo di apparizioni
Nel 1947 iniziarono le presunte apparizioni della Madonna come "Maria Rosa Mistica". La prima si sarebbe verificata nella stanza dell'Ospedale Civile di Montichiari, dove Pierina prestava servizio: nel suo diario viene descritto l'aspetto di Maria, lo stesso dell'apparizione del 2 novembre 1946, e le sue parole: "Preghiera, sacrificio e penitenza". Nel mese di maggio la mistica avrebbe subito vessazioni diaboliche e avrebbe avuto una visione dell'Inferno. Del 1º luglio 1947 sarebbe un'altra apparizione, durante la recita del rosario, della Vergine, recante sempre tre spade conficcate nel cuore.

Il 13 luglio si sarebbe verificata la prima "grande" apparizione: nel racconto contenuto nel diario Maria appare insieme alla beata Di Rosa, dicendo: "Io sono la Madre di Gesù e la Madre di tutti voi"; scrive di aver visto le spade sul pavimento e, sul petto della Vergine, tre rose, una bianca, una rossa e una d'oro. La Madonna avrebbe esortato a una nuova devozione, a "Maria Rosa Mistica", in favore di tutti gli istituti religiosi e dei sacerdoti. Inoltre avrebbe chiesto di onorare come giornata mariana il 13 di ogni mese, e in particolare il 13 luglio, per espiare le offese fatte dalle anime consacrate.

Il 22 ottobre, durante una riunione di preghiera, si sarebbe animata la statua di suor Maria Crocifissa e, dal Crocifisso tra le sue mani, sarebbero scese gocce di sangue, che Pierina avrebbe asciugato con il purificatoio dell'altare.

Le apparizioni nel Duomo di Montichiari
Le apparizioni successive sarebbero avvenute nel Duomo di Montichiari: nella prima, del 16 novembre 1947, la Madonna avrebbe chiesto a Pierina di segnare con la lingua una Croce su quattro mattonelle del pavimento; nello stesso punto Maria si sarebbe poi posata, invitando alla preghiera e alla penitenza in riparazione delle offese degli uomini al Signore.

Nell'apparizione del 22 novembre, la Vergine avrebbe preannunciato una sua visita a mezzogiorno dell'8 dicembre, giorno dell'Immacolata Concezione, per richiedere l'Ora di Grazia. Il 7 novembre sarebbe riapparsa accompagnata da Francesco e Giacinta, i due pastorelli di Fatima, spiegando, come scrive Pierina nel suo diario, che "Essi ti saranno compagni in ogni tua tribolazione. Hanno sofferto anch'essi, benché più piccoli di te".

L'8 dicembre Maria sarebbe riapparsa a Pierina, come preannunciato, dicendo: "Io sono l'Immacolata Concezione, Io sono Maria di Grazia, Madre del Divino Figlio Gesù Cristo. Per la mia venuta a Montichiari desidero essere chiamata "Rosa Mistica". Aggiungendo il desiderio di veder istituita l'Ora di Grazia Universale, da celebrarsi l'8 dicembre di ogni anno, per ottenere grazie e conversioni; e chiedendo la costruzione di un cancelletto per custodire le quattro mattonelle citate, insieme a una statua che l'avrebbe dovuta raffigurare come "Rosa Mistica".
Subito dopo Pierina avrebbe visto, sul petto della Madonna, in una luce sfolgorante, il suo Cuore Immacolato, e contemporaneamente sarebbero avvenute nel Duomo due presunte guarigioni miracolose, riguardanti un bambino paralitico e una donna muta.

Dopo questi episodi, nel 1948 Pierina fu interrogata dalle autorità ecclesiastiche, ritirandosi successivamente in un convento francescano di Brescia, sotto la guida spirituale di padre Giustino Carpin, ma senza entrare a far parte dell'Ordine.
Le presunte apparizioni furono poche per molto tempo, ma si intensificarono nuovamente nel 1966.

1966: le apparizioni di Fontanelle
Secondo la testimonianza di una carismatica di Brescia, Franca Dal Ri Cornado (1924-1993), in seguito divenuta amica di Pierina, le apparizioni di Pierina sarebbero riprese come segno richiesto dal comune padre sprirituale, Padre Giustino Carpin, a verifica delle locuzioni interiori che Franca Cornado avrebbe avuto fin dal 1958.  P. Giustino invitò Franca, senza entrare nei dettagli, a chiedere una grazia al Signore, e la grazia era proprio che l'altra sua figlia spirituale rivedesse la Madonna, che le aveva promesso di manifestarsi nuovamente senza specificare quando.
Preannunciata il 27 febbraio 1966, la Madonna sarebbe riapparsa a Pierina il 17 aprile 1966, domenica in albis, presso una sorgente d'acqua ubicata a Fontanelle, piccola località distante circa tre chilometri da Montichiari, in direzione di Carpenedolo (dove ora c'è il santuario di Rosa Mistica), e avrebbe comunicato il seguente messaggio, riportato sul diario: "Il mio Divino Figlio Gesù è tutto amore. Mi ha inviata a rendere miracolosa questa sorgente. In segno di penitenza e di purificazione dai un bacio sul gradino, poi scendi qualche gradino, fermati, dai ancora un bacio e scendi. Per la terza volta dai ancora un bacio al gradino e qui sia messo un Crocifisso. Gli ammalati e tutti i miei figli, prima di prendere o bere l'acqua, chiedano perdono al mio Divino Figlio...Ora qui è la tua missione, in mezzo agli ammalati e bisognosi".

In una seconda apparizione, il 13 maggio 1966, anniversario della Madonna di Fátima, Maria avrebbe comunicato a Pierina di chiamare la sorgente "Fonte della Grazia", invitando l'umanità alla preghiera, al sacrificio e alla penitenza per salvarsi dalla rovina.

La terza apparizione si sarebbe verificata il 9 giugno 1966, solennità del Corpus Domini: la Vergine avrebbe espresso il desiderio secondo il quale una parte del grano dei campi vicini fosse trasformato in "Pane Eucaristico" e portato a Fátima il 13 ottobre. Inoltre avrebbe espresso il desiderio che la gente di Montichiari si consacrasse al suo Cuore Immacolato.

Nella quarta e ultima apparizione di Fontanelle, il 6 agosto 1966, festa della Trasfigurazione di Gesù, la Madonna avrebbe chiesto l'istituzione dell'"Unione Mondiale della Comunione riparatrice", da tenersi il 13 ottobre; inoltre avrebbe ricordato la sua funzione di mediatrice tra suo Figlio e l'umanità, aggiungendo: "Ho scelto questo luogo di Montichiari perché nei figli che lavorano la terra c'è ancora umiltà come in una povera Betlemme."

Gli ultimi anni
Pierina condusse in seguito una vita molto ritirata, mentre le apparizioni e i messaggi sarebbero continuati. Nell'ultima presunta apparizione del 24 marzo 1983, Maria avrebbe espresso il desiderio di veder realizzato un santuario con cinque cupole, e avrebbe chiesto di far incidere una medaglia secondo le sue istruzioni.

In relazione a Montichiari e a Fontanelle, sarebbero continuate le conversioni e le presunte guarigioni miracolose, accompagnate pare anche da altri segni soprannaturali, come ad esempio prodigi solari.

Pierina Gilli morì il 12 gennaio 1991 a Montichiari, in località Boschetti.

La posizione della Chiesa

Sussistono le seguenti pronunce della Diocesi di Brescia:

Nel 2008 è stato pubblicato un libro di monsignor Enrico Rodolfo Galbiati, citato nella bibliografia, curato da Rosanna Brichetti Messori e Riccardo Caniato, dal titolo: Maria Rosa Mistica Madre della Chiesa, con il sottotitolo: Le apparizioni della Madonna a Fontanelle Montichiari. L'autore, biblista e teologo scomparso nel 2004, parlando del diario di Pierina scrive: "L'autenticità è fuori dubbio, la grafia è sempre la medesima, gli errori di grammatica e di sintassi si ripetono dall'inizio alla fine". Dopo aver analizzato la personalità della mistica, soffermandosi in particolare sulla sua semplicità, riservatezza e umiltà, e dopo aver esaminato anche l'aspetto simbolico delle presunte apparizioni, cioè le tre spade nel petto della Madonna, simbolo delle tre categorie di religiosi infedeli, e poi le tre rose al posto delle spade (bianca, rossa e giallo-oro), che simboleggiano la preghiera, il sacrificio e la penitenza necessarie a riparare le infedeltà e le defezioni religiose, mons. Galbiati riscontra passaggi teologici che "Una donna semplice non avrebbe potuto scrivere: per esempio il fatto che Maria si presenti nel 1948 come Madre della Chiesa (titolo approvato da Paolo VI nel 1964); o che Gesù le comunichi nello stesso anno in «forma chiara e completa» il dogma dell'Assunzione, proclamato nel 1950 da Pio XII".

L'istituzione del Santuario diocesano
Il 7 dicembre 2019 il luogo di culto delle Fontanelle di Montichiari è diventato Santuario Diocesano Rosa Mistica - Madre della Chiesa. La proclamazione ufficiale è avvenuta durante la concelebrazione eucaristica presieduta dal vescovo di Brescia, mons. Pierantonio Tremolada.

Il riconoscimento del santuario diocesano non significa automaticamente il riconoscimento delle apparizioni, ma "si tratta di un passaggio storico che [...] potrà aprire una rinnovata fase di sviluppo del culto e dello studio del complesso fenomeno spirituale e mariano sorto in questi luoghi negli anni".

Accanto alla "diffusione che – discretamente e silenziosamente – ha avuto e ha nel mondo intero il culto di "Maria Rosa Mistica e Madre della Chiesa", che proprio qui ha avuto inizio e ha il suo centro", ci sono molti fatti significativi: in Libano sono state trovate icone di Rosa Mistica che trasuderebbero olio profumato, in America ci sono statue che avrebbero pianto lacrime e sangue, il medesimo fenomeno si sarebbe verificato in India, dove vescovi e cardinali avrebbero visto trasudare miele un'immagine della Vergine. Sono nate almeno due congregazioni religiose ispirate a Rosa Mistica, riconosciute dai vescovi, e una miriade di associazioni religiose. Ci sarebbero state inoltre numerose conversioni e guarigioni, come per esempio quella di cui fu testimone Fratel Ettore.

Note

Bibliografia
 Pierina Gilli, Diari, a cura di Riccardo Caniato, Edizioni Ares, 2016. ISBN 978-88-815-57-042
 Enrico Rodolfo Galbiati, Maria Rosa Mistica Madre della Chiesa, Sottotitolo: Le apparizioni della Madonna a Fontanelle Montichiari, Edizioni Ares, 2016. ISBN 978-88-815-57-035
 Bruno Massaro, Il caso Pierina Gilli di Montichiari, Ed. Starrylink, 2003. ISBN 978-88-888-47-306
 Alfons Maria Weigl, Maria "Rosa Mistica", Montichiari - Fontanelle, Libreria Propaganda Mariana, Roma, 1982
 Andrea Tornielli, Fratel Ettore & il Miracolo di Rosa Mistica, Edizioni Ares, 2018. ISBN 978-88-8155-806-3

Voci correlate
 Apparizioni e altre manifestazioni mariane
 Santuario di Rosa Mistica
 Santa Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Coffee in Colombia: The Fight Against Climate Change
The grassy plains of Nariño, Colombia, where riverbanks overflowed and over 2,000 Arabica coffee plants once stood is now made up of desert terrains scorched by the dry heat and severe droughts.
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In response Catholic Relief Services has supported an initiative to promote sustainable coffee production. The Borderlands Coffee Project in Nariño, Colombia, calls for integrating educational resource management with market-driven programming to boost farmers' household income and build commercial relationships in the international market. The project provides a sustainable income for farmers and also funds local research groups looking for long-term solutions to global climate change.
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L'Aeroport de Lhasa Gonggar (en tibetà: ལྷ་ས་གོང་དཀར་རྫོང; en xinès: 拉萨贡嘎机场) és l'aeroport que serveix a Lhasa, la capital de la Regió Autònoma del Tibet, la Xina. Està situat a prop de 62 kilòmetres (39 milles) al sud-oest de la ciutat, en el comtat de Gonggar de la prefectura de Shannan. L'aeroport és proper a la carretera de Tsetang, la capital de la prefectura de Shannan.

A una alçada de 3,570 metres (11,,710 peus), sobre el nivell del mar, l'aeroport de Lhasa és un dels més alts del món. Va ser construït el 1965, i una segona pista hi va ser afegida el 1994 Les instal·lacions de terminals es van completar el 2004.

La construcció d'un aeropor a la meseta del Tibet, ha passa per un procés d'assaig i error a través de moltes rutes aèries perilloses i diversos accidents mortals durant la Segona Guerra Mundial. El primer aeroport va ser construït el maig de 1956, en el sud-oest del comtat de Damxung a una altura de 4,200 metres (13,800 peus). El I1-12 rus i del CV-240 al 401 van ser els primers avions a aterrar a l'aeroport de Damxung des del nord i el sud. D'aquesta manera, van trencar el malefici de la "zona de vol prohibit", i això va ser aclamat com una gran gesta. Van haver de passar més de nou anys perquè la primera ruta aèria Beijing- Chengdu-Lhasa comencés a funcionar el 1965.

Aerolínies i destinacions

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When interest is due and not fully paid for, it is added to the outstanding balance of the loan.
This is generally referred to a accrued interest. But in the world of mortgages, it is professionally referred to as negative amortization.
This unusual but not uncommon scenario can occur in various ways.
One of which is the borrower paying a fixed monthly installment on a loan. But when interest rates rise, which can occur with an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), the required payment is more than the installment amount.
Since the monthly loan payment is insufficient to completely cover the accrued interest, the unpaid interest makes it's way into the principal balance.
The result is a rise in amount owing rather than a drop. Thus, negative amortization.
For example, if a homeowner repays $500 each month towards the home loan and the repayment rises to $550, the difference of $50 will be added to the loan as accrued interest or deferred interest.
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Meaning no matter how high interest rates might rise, the maximum the borrower's outstanding amount can accumulate is up to 110% of the original loan.


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Olympic champion learned to swim in Droitwich
Olympic gold medallist Matt Richards learned to swim in Droitwich
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Little Matt Richards was just five years old when he boldly announced to his parents that he no longer needed armbands and launched himself into his holiday hotel's pool.
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At 13 he joined an elite programme in Wolverhampton, going on to break countless British age group records. Aged 16, he became the 2019 European junior champion in the 100m freestyle.
When Britain went into its first Covid lockdown in March 2000, Matt faced being out of the water 10 weeks so he spent £1,000 on a giant paddling pool which he set it up in his garden.
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Thankfully, Matt, who was born in Worcester but swims for Wales, was then invited to train at the Bath National Centre under strict Covid-secure protocols.
In April 2001, at the Team GB Olympic trials, Matt touched third behind (2021 silver medallist) Duncan Scott and (2021 gold medallist) Tom Dean in the 200m freestyle, booking his place for Tokyo.
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Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (Isztambul, 1888 vagy 1890 december 4. vagy 5. – Isztambul, 1966. június 28.; 1934-ig Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad) török politikus, történész, professzor; az oszmán kori történelem, a török folklór és nyelv szakértője.

Élete
A híres Köprülü család tagjaként született Isztambulban; Köprülü Mehmed pasa, a híres nagyvezír lánytestvérének leszármazottja. A Mercan Főiskolára járt, majd jogot tanult, de 1909-ben abbahagyta. 1912-ben a Türk Ocağı alapítói közt volt. Miután több iskolában is tanított, 1913-ban Ziya Gökalp támogatásával kinevezték a Darülfünun (1933-tól Isztambuli Egyetem) török irodalom tanszékére. 1939-ig itt tanított. 1924-ben pár hónapig az oktatási minisztérium államtitkára volt. Ugyanebben az évben megalapította a Darülfünun turkológia szakát. 1939 után Ankarába költözött, ahol a politikatudományi és művészeti tanszékeken tanított.

A földosztásról szóló rendeletet megelőző vita során a "négyekként" ismert Adnan Menderest, Celal Bayart, Mehmet Fuat Köprülüt és Rıfat Koraltant kizárták a Köztársasági Néppártból. 1946 januárjában ők négyen megalapították a Demokrata Pártot. Az 1950-es parlamenti választás után, Menderes miniszterelnöksége alatt 1955-ig külügyminiszter, 1955-től belügyminiszter, 1956-ban rövid ideig miniszterelnök-helyettes volt. Vezető szerepet játszott abban, hogy Törökország 1952-ben a NATO tagjává váljon.

Az 1960. május 27-i katomai puccs után őt és a Demokrata Párt több tagját bebörtönözték a Yassıada szigeten, de később felmentették. 1961-ben alapított egy rövid életű pártot Yeni Demokrat Parti ("Új Demokrata Párt") néven, röviddel ezután azonban visszavonult a politikától.

1966. június 28-án halt meg egy Ankarában elszenvedett autóbaleset okozta sérülések miatt. A Çemberlitaş temetőben nyugszik családja sírjában, apja mellett.

Művei
Történészként jelentős művei: Az Oszmán Birodalom eredete; Az anatóliai szeldzsukok: történelmük és kultúrájuk a helyi muszlim források alapján és Az iszlám Anatóliában a török invázió után: Prolegomena. Ő alkotta meg az egyik perspektívát, amely az oszmán törzs felemelkedését és terjeszkedési irányának kialakulását próbálja megérteni.

Emlékére alapították a Mehmet Fuat Köprülü Ösztöndíjprogramot arra a célra, hogy török diákok a Cambridge-i Egyetemen folytathassák PhD-tanulmányaikat.

Művei listája
 Yeni Osmanlı Tarih-i Edebiyatı (1916)
 Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar (1919–1966); angolul: Early Mystics in Turkish Literature
 Nasrettin Hoca (1918–1981)
 Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi (1920)
 Türkiye Tarihi (1923)
 Bugünkü Edebiyat (1924)
 Azeri Edebiyatına Ait Tetkikler (1926)
 Milli Edebiyat Cereyanının İlk Mübeşşirleri ve Divan-ı Türk-i Basit (1928)
 Türk Saz Şairleri Antolojisi (1930–1940, üç cilt)
 Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Hakkında Araştırmalar (1934)
 Anadolu'da Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı'nın Tekamülüne Bir Bakış (1934)
 Osmanlı Devleti'nin Kuruluşu (1959)
 Edebiyat Araştırmaları Külliyatı (1966)
 İslam ve Türk Hukuk Tarihi Araştırmaları ve Vakıf Müessesesi (1983)

Kitüntetései
 Az Olasz Köztársaság Érdemrendje (nagykereszt) (1955. január 27.)
 A Heidelbergi Egyetem díszdoktora (1927)
 A Sorbonne díszdoktora (1939)
 A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tiszteletbeli tagja (1939)

Jegyzetek

Fordítás

További információk
 Köprülü  a Kim Kimdir?-ben (Ki kicsoda?)
 SUB Göttingen

Török tudósok
Törökországi politikusok
1890-ben született személyek
1966-ban elhunyt személyek
Török egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
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GST relief for hospitality sector; motown let down
The cess levied on top of the maximum 28 per cent tax rate on petrol vehicles with capacity to carry 10-13 persons has been reduced to 1 per cent and the same for diesel vehicles has been cut to 3 per cent.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
The all-powerful GST Council on Friday more than doubled the tax on caffeinated beverages to 40 per cent and slashed the rate on hotel room tariffs.
Briefing reporters after a meeting of the panel, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the GST on caffeinated beverages has been hiked to 28 per cent plus additional cess of 12 per cent as against the current rate of 18 per cent.
For hotels, she announced nil tax for those with tariffs of up to Rs 1,000 per night.
Hotels charging Rs 1,001 to Rs 7,500 per night room tariff would be levied 12 per cent tax as against the existing 18 per cent.
Similarly, the tax on room tariff of above Rs 7,500 has been slashed to 18 per cent from the existing 28 per cent.
Also, tax on outdoor catering has been reduced to 5 per cent from existing 18 per cent with input tax credit, she said.
The GST was also cut on marine fuel to 5 per cent while the same on railway wagons, coaches, roling stock has been increased from 5 per cent to 12 per cent.
Exemption from the GST has been given to imports of specified defence goods that are not manufactured in India.
A uniform GST rate of 12 per cent will be levied on woven/non-woven polyethylene bags.
The tax on almond milk has been set at 18 per cent, she said adding all rate changes would be effective from October 1.
The GST on slide fasteners (zips) has been reduced to 12 per cent from 18 per cent earlier.
Also, the tax on diamond job work has been reduced to 1.5 per cent from 5 per cent earlier.
The same on supply of machine job cut to 12 per cent from 18 per cent.
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New Hartford and CVA Little Leagues Meet Tough Opponents Over Weekend
Bill Keeler Published: July 18, 2021
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Two local Little League teams advanced to the Sectionals this week after winning the District 10 tournament in their respective age groups. New Hartford's 10-12 group and Central Valley Little Leagues 8-10 year olds advanced with tournament wins this week. Unfortunately, both teams saw their seasons come to an end over the weekend.
New Hartford won the 10-12 District 10 Championship and faced Rotterdam in the Section 2 North Finals at New Hartford Little League. New Hartford lost the first game to Rotterdam and then lost the second game in the best of 3 series to close out their season. During the District 10 tournament, New Hartford lost their 1st game to Whitesboro, but then fought back through the losers bracket and went undefeated to win the tournament.
In the 8-10 year old bracket, CVA (Ilion-Mohawk) went undefeated to easily win their District 10 tournament. In Sectionals, they played in a winner takes all format. They won their 1st game in District 37 against North Central, but then faced Saratoga from District 2. CVA lost in West Utica on Thursday, and then traveled to District 2 where they fell to Saratoga to bring their season to a close.
"Despite New Hartford and Central Valley coming up short in sectionals, I am extremely proud of how they represented District 10," said Mike Gentile, District 10 Administrator.
New Hartford Little League, provided by Mike Gentile.
New Hartford Little League District 10 Champions (10-12), provided by Mike Gentile.
CVA Little League, 8-10 District 10 Champions. Photo courtesy of Mike Gentile.
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I have a question for the developer and users of the perfect GUI hazzy.
I use hazzy-legacy and I ran into such a problem.
Hello, glad to hear your are using and enjoying hazzy!
I don't think that is a hazzy related problem (though there are many ). A return value of ###### for a variable generally means that that variable is not defined. Most likely you have not enabled the read from INI feature in your config file.
In the [RS274NGC] section of your INI file add FEATURES = 4, and see if that helps.
kcj wrote: Hello, glad to hear your are using and enjoying hazzy!
FEATURES is documented in approximately the least obvious place.
Thank you for the suggested code improvements. I am no longer developing either the Gtk2 or Gtk3 versions of hazzy, but I will gladly accept a pull request with your changed to the the hazzy legacy branch!
I do have a new and improved version of hazzy legacy in the works, using Qt instead of Gtk. It will be much more full featured, and have many improvements such as the window being resizable etc, but the look and feel will be similar.


Suzanne Pringle is a 27-year-old student at the University of Manitoba. She is in her third year, but after her first year at the University of Calgary (and before that, a year at a Bible school and then a year with YWAM in Vancouver/Mexico), she studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, New York City in 2002. After five years of working in Calgary & Vancouver as an ACTRA accredited film/TV/commercial actress/extra/model, she moved back to Manitoba (her birth province) to be with her family, and enrolled at U of M to finish her BFA in Art History.
She continues to write about and support local artists, in any medium, throughout her career.
Says Pringle, "I write poetry and prose, work that is only made public at the insistence of my university pofessors. Creative writing is like inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide: if I don't write, I may asphixiate. I have also written theatre/film/music/art reviews for indie magazines and papers, as well as assisted in writing artists' statements for art shows & online profiles. I've also written academic and personal essays for literary magazines."


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The reason to have a trade mark is to set your goods or services aside from those of others. You choose a mark, someone buys your goods or uses your services, and they will know what to expect. The mark sets the quality, the value, and the reputation grows.
Then there is the reason for registering that trade mark. Registrations provide you with the right to prevent others from using your mark, or a similar mark, in relation to goods or services set out in the registration. Your registration will not be able to cover all goods and services but does that matter?
Consider the trade mark POLO. This is registered as a trade mark by a number of companies. The fact that the goods sold under this mark by the different companies – including mints, cars and clothing – are so far removed from each other suggests not.
So what about BUDWEISER? For many years the American company Anheuser-Busch, Inc. have been fighting Czech company Budejovicky Budvar over the right to produce and market beer under the BUDWEISER trade mark.
In 1871 Budweiser Beer was first exported from Bohemia to the United States. Five years later the US Company Anheuser-Busch began using the trade mark BUDWEISER and subsequently registered it as a trade mark in the United States. In 1895 another company, which was nationalised during the Communist era, now named Budejovicky Budvar, began brewing and exporting a beer under the BUDWEISER brand from the Czech Republic. Some exports resulted in the product entering the US market and since 1911 there have been trade mark disputes between the companies concerned. Agreements have been reached but for various reasons have not always been adhered to. Ultimately, sales have been made by the respective companies in a large number of countries and the fact that co-existence has been possible in countries where legal action has not been taken within a reasonable period of time to stop such use, has resulted in a stalemate. Whilst Anheuser-Busch in particular have continued to fight cases in an attempt to prevent use and registration of BUDWEISER by the Budvar company, the most recent decision, issued on 23rd September 2011 by the Court of Justice of the European Union, ruled that despite having filed for registration of their mark in the United Kingdom in 1976, some thirteen years before Budejovicky Budvar's application for registration in the United Kingdom, the fact that the two brands have co-existed in the UK for decades, differing in taste, price and get-up, has meant that confusion does not exist. Use and registration of the exact same mark for the exact same goods by entirely different companies has been seen to be acceptable.
There is no doubt that fighting these trade mark cases will have resulted in extraordinary costs for both parties over the years. Indeed on 6th April 2007 the Czech Agricultural Minister announced that it was intended that the Budvar Brewery would be privatised by the Czech Government but that the privatisation would depend upon the outcome of the trade mark dispute with Anheuser-Busch. That the whole privatisation of the Budvar Brewery can be dependent upon a trade mark shows the value of a trade mark and the overriding lessons which must be learnt are firstly that it is imperative you obtain your rights in your trade mark in order to prevent others from using your mark, and secondly that you ensure the rights in the trade mark are enforced in some way or other within a reasonable time of discovering use of your mark by another party.
If you fail to heed these lessons then you leave yourselves open to others using your mark and either gaining from, or possibly destroying, the reputation and goodwill which you will have built up in your product through manufacture, sales, promotions and advertisement over the years.


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Owe the IRS? You Could Lose Your Passport
government regulation Nov 6, 2012
Caroline Costello
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On Election Day, here's a story to remind us that government processes can directly impact our travel plans: A law buried in a proposed bill could prevent U.S. travelers who owe taxes from leaving the country. According to a report that appeared in Forbes this past spring, Bill 1813 contains language that would allow the government to take passports away from travelers in debt to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The bill is currently pending in the House of Representatives.
In March, the Senate passed Bill 1813, which was introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer. The bill is more than 1,000 pages long and mainly addresses the allocation of federal funds for transportation purposes. But planted in the bill is an amendment that would permit the State Department to take away a person's passport if he or she owes significant back taxes to the IRS.
Here's what it says in section 7345 of the proposed legislation: "If … any individual has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000, the Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of State for action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport."
According to the bill, your passport won't be revoked if you pay your debt "in a timely manner" or if you need a passport for "emergency circumstances or for humanitarian reasons." Note that the passport revocation only applies to instances of "seriously delinquent" debt of more than $50,000. However, Forbes points out, "This isn't limited to criminal tax cases or situations where the government fears someone is fleeing a tax debt."
Bill 1813 still needs to be passed by the House and then signed by the President before it becomes law. In the meantime, it's something travelers might want to keep an eye on. You can sign up for email alerts to keep track of the bill at Govtrack.us.
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I could spend a lot of time right now making excuses for why I don't blog regularly.....or I could get down to the business of blogging.
When I first started blogging I wanted to share ideas and resources that worked for me in my classroom. One of my favourite things to share about is books. I love books. Love, love, love! I love to use picture books to introduce any and every subject I can.
But I noticed that I have not really been sharing much about books lately and decided that needed to change. So I made the cute little button above and now it is time to start sharing more about the books I love and use in my classroom.
The books is filled with amazing photographs, rich in detail, that I just can not stop smiling about.
This book works for me for a number of reasons.
#1. We have talked about squirrels and how they need to change and adapt to the seasons as part of our science curriculum. We have talked about how squirrels collect nuts in the fall to prepare for the winter. Now that it is spring (according to the calendar at least) we can revisit the life of the squirrel when introducing this book.
We also too the opportunity to expand into our structures unit and look at what other animals build homes and used Pebble Go to do some research to confirm our thoughts.
Then I will introduce them to the "Secret Life of Squirrels"
#2. This works perfectly with our writing focus. We have been writing retells (first, next, then and finally). But they have been dry, very dry, almost painful to read. But that is okay because in our class we are ready to BUMP up our writing. Our plan is two fold. One, pick one event and describe it in detail. Two use interesting words and adjectives.
This book will help us with our writing goal. We will write a retell of a squirrels day - the boring way. First he had breakfast. Next he mailed a letter. Then he cleaned up. Finally he went to bed.
Then we will use one of the amazing photographs to zone in one part of the day. We will use the immense details from the picture to try and write about one part of the day with greater detail.
Example: It was a bright and sunny spring day when Mr. Peanuts walked down to the mailbox. He held the letter to his cousin in his hand. He stretched up to put the letter in the bright, blue mailbox. Then he skipped home excited to hear back from his cousin.
The book is a pretty simple retell but it does BUMP up the word choice. We will look at some of the sentences and see how the words make it more interesting by substituting boring words.
We will make an anchor chart of words for the students to use in their retell.
Students will pick a picture and write a retell with some detail and interesting word choice.
Here are the pages I created for their writing. Click on a picture to pick up a copy for your classroom.
If things go well (fingers crossed) we may just try another one "The Secret Life of Rabbits" - with Easter around the corner and all (pages included in the above download).
#3. He writes a letter - which is a perfect segue into our unit on letter writing.
The book also includes some great tips for taking your own nature photos and there is a Christmas book too!!
The book looks sooo cute! I'll have to check and see if we have it in our library.I moved from 1st to 3rd this year and I really haven't bought any books. :( We are departmentalized and I am teaching science and social studies. It is really hard to find time to read to the kids and it makes me feel really bad because they enjoy it so much!


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Home » Weekly Torah Portion » Advanced » What's Bothering Rashi?
Esau and Jacob
by Dr. Avigdor Bonchek
Our parsha tells of Jacob's reunion with his brother Esau after a 22 year interval.
Jacob had fled from Esau 22 years earlier because of Esau's threat to kill him. At this reunion Jacob feared that Esau, if he still harbored his anger, would kill Jacob and wipe out his entire family. The encounter of the two brothers produced a surprise ending.
The following Rashi comments are amazing, in light of current events and the rise of anti-Semitism in the world.
"And Esau ran towards him (Jacob) and he embraced him and fell upon his neck and he kissed him and they cried."
And he embraced him - RASHI: His (Esau's) mercy was aroused when he saw him (Jacob) bowing all these bows.
And he kissed him - RASHI: There are dots on it [this word] and there is a disagreement [among the Sages] about this matter. Some explain the dots to tell us that Esau didn't kiss him with his whole heart. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai explains it otherwise: It is a given law - it is known that Esau hates Jacob. But at this time his mercy was aroused and he kissed him with all his whole heart.
THE MEANING OF DOTS ON LETTERS IN THE TORAH
Dots written on letters can mean we are to disregard the letters with dots above them and read the word as if those letters weren't there. In this case since every letter in the word "and he kissed him" has a dot on it, it is as if the whole word is absent. Thus Rashi says he didn't really kiss him – for he did so without a true feeling.
RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI'S OPINION
Rabbi Shimon has a strange comment here. What would you ask?
QUESTIONING RASHI
A Question: What does Rabbi Shimon mean when he says "It is a law that Esau hates Jacob"? What kind of "law" is this? That's a strange term to use. He could say Esau (the gentiles) hate the Jews. But to call this a law is quite unusual. And if is a "law" why is this case an exception?
WHAT IS BOTHERING RASHI?
It is not difficult to see what question Rashi is responding to. Esau was out to kill Jacob and all of a sudden (after 22 years) he runs to embrace and kiss him. "Methinks he doth protest too much."
It is for this reason that Rashi tries to understand Esau's motivation.
But back to our question: What did Rabbi Shimon mean when he says "It is a law"?
UNDERSTANDING RASHI
An Answer: There are laws of countries and laws of nature. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is saying something very profound. Esau's hatred of Israel – Gentile anti-Semitism, is akin to a law of nature. It is immutable. It is everlasting. It need not be rational to be. It just is. Each generation of Jews has experienced anti-Semitism in one form or another for over three thousand years. Each generation tries to understand why the nations of the world have an antipathy for Jews. Once it is explained as being due to the Jews being rich (as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion claimed – "Jews control the powers in the whole world"); sometimes it is because Jews are poor and always begging. Sometimes it's because they are materialistic capitalists; sometimes because they are revolutionary communists. Sometimes because they are backward and uncouth; sometimes because they are too cultured and high society. Sometimes because they are parasites in foreign lands and have no country of their own; sometimes because they do have a country of their own. On and on it goes.
We live in the midst of this situation right now.
The phenomenon of anti-Semitism defies any rational attempt to explain it. It is not rational just as any law of nature is not rational. It just is.
A SECOND QUESTION
But if it is an immutable law, why then did Esau kiss Jacob with all his heart this time?
Hint: See the previous Rashi comment.
A FURTHER UNDERSTANDING
An Answer: Rashi had said before that Esau's mercy was aroused when he saw Jacob bow down to him so obsequiously. That is the explanation! When Israel prostrates itself before Esau, when he surrenders all claim to independence, all claim to self-hood, then Esau is truly a friend of Israel! That's what happened here. Jacob flowered Esau with servile prostrations. Esau then felt warm mercy, true feelings of "brotherhood" for his poor subservient sibling.
The Sages criticize Jacob for being so servile to this brother with murderous intentions.
Anti-Semitism has once again risen its ugly and poisonous head. The "law" of human nature is still with us. We must learn to perceive its actuality and not think it's a passing fad. We must learn to live with it and learn to fight it.
The Netziv (Naftali Tzvi Berlin – late 19th century) points out that all the verbs in this verse are in the first person and refer to Esau. "He ran, he embraced him; he fell upon his neck, he kissed him and they cried." All the verbs are in the first person, except the last one "they cried." Both Jacob and Esau cried, says the Netziv, because the day will come when Esau will truly embrace his brother Jacob in honest unadulterated compassion, then both brothers will cry in happiness. That day, hopefully not too far off, is the Messianic day. May we all live to see it!
Avigdor Bonchek
Dr. Avigdor Bonchek
"What's Bothering Rashi?" is a production of the "Institute for the Study of Rashi and Early Commentaries".
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(2) name, May 17, 2009 6:28 PM
So what would be the difference between (a) Jacob/Esau/22 years/falling on neck/crying (b) Jacob/Joseph/22 years/falling on neck/crying
(1) Anonymous, November 23, 2007 10:48 AM
22? or 34? or more?
What happened to the 14 years Yaakov spent in the yeshiva of Shem and Ever? I understood that he stopped there on the way to Lavan to get chizuk for facing the rasha. Then he worked for 20 years for Lavan. Then it took some time to travel both ways. Since he left the home of Yitzchak to escape Esav, he probably didn't see him for all of those years, right? At least until they met at the beginning of Vayishlach... which was on Yaakov's way home...
Wonderful series! Thanks!


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How Zora Stephenson made Bucks play-by-play history and took a step toward amplifying women's voices in the NBA
Jim Owczarski
Zora Stephenson researched, poked and pried with purpose.
With weeks to prepare for her turn behind the play-by-play microphone for Bally Sports Wisconsin's broadcast of the Milwaukee Bucks vs. Charlotte Hornets game April 9, her formalized curiosity found little satisfaction by way of examples of women in that chair.
There are no women calling games full-time in the NBA, and since Leandra Reilly Lardner broke the gender barrier for the league for play-by-play in 1988 there have been few female examples to draw upon. By calling the Bucks game, Stephenson added her name to that list as the first to do so for any of the major men's sports in Wisconsin.
And in trying to find voices to learn from, she rediscovered the most important: her own.
Stephenson also recognized the significance of the moment, embraced its meaning and soaked it in. More importantly she wanted to take her turn in carrying the torch and lighting a path that is too often dark.
"That's because of everybody else before me," she said of her opportunity. "They, in so many different ways, did the real hard work so that I could have this moment. They provided this moment for me and for all women that are getting moments like this right now. It's because of everybody else that didn't necessarily get to have it. I'm thankful for everybody else before me."
'We should just continue to make it happen'
Late in the afternoon of April 8, the Bucks' media relations department sent out its regular advance e-mail for each game, with details like team records, date, time and game location. Included in that is a broadcast rundown, and Stephenson was listed at play-by-play along with analyst Marques Johnson
The organization, regular play-by-play broadcaster Jim Paschke, Stephenson, Johnson and fellow analyst Steve Novak knew Stephenson would call the game for some time, however.
Bucks president Peter Feigin said Stephenson has brought so much to the table that it was only natural for the organization to expand her role. Paschke encouraged her to take over play-by-play for parts of scrimmages in the bubble last fall. Novak helped Stephenson call mock games. Johnson sat for a long coffee to talk about style and broadcast rhythms.
"That is how we move forward in so many ways," Stephenson said. "When you have allies."
In the runup to April 9, Stephenson wasn't aware of the history she would make until a few days before. For her, the fact her parents live in North Carolina, she went to Elon University in the state and the first NBA game she covered involved the Hornets, the night was going to be special anyway.
And there was no initial news release from the organization or network touting what that game would mean.
Which for the few women who have sat in that chair, that's how it should be.
"They never made it a big deal that I was a woman, and I really, really appreciated that," said Lisa Byington, who to this day isn't sure if she was the first woman to call play-by-play on television for the Chicago Bulls.
And when CBS and Turner Sports assigned Byington to the men's NCAA basketball tournament in March, she said they weren't aware she was going to be the first woman to do so until media covering the tournament asked to confirm it.
"There's an argument for both sides," Byington said. "I think there's some things that you need to acknowledge that it's a first because it represents progress. First represents progress, because then there's an opportunity for other doors to open."
Leandra Reilly Lardner understands both sides. When she did play-by-play on television for two New Jersey Nets games in 1988 for SportsChannel New York, it was a news story. She was the first.
Meghan McPeak understands, too.
She called her first NBA game in 2018 for a Washington Wizards-Detroit Pistons preseason contest. The first Black woman to serve as the full-time play-by-play voice for a G League team, McPeak was also part of the first all-female television broadcast on TSN on March 24 for a game between the Toronto Raptors and Denver Nuggets.
"It's great that we're celebrating these moments now rather than celebrate it when we're all retired or passed, so it's great in that sense because we can enjoy it and we can see what people have to say, we can see the young generation that we may be inspiring," McPeak said.
"Just thinking of all of that, it sucks in the sense of it taking this long for it to happen. You think of (Lardner), it had been 30 years since a woman did a preseason game. I say it sucks in the sense that it happens once and then we have to wait three more decades for it to happen again. That's where I'm saying it sucks because once it happens we should just continue to make it happen. There shouldn't be these five, 10-, 20-, 30-year lapses in between."
Also in March, Women's History Month, Golden State's Kate Scott (radio) and Sacramento's Krista Blunk (TV) were the first women to call play-by-play for those organizations.
"It would be nice to see someone at the table for the team, for the season," Lardner said. "That would be really, really cool. It's charming that people call me and ask me about things regarding the first women to call these games but it's also, like Meghan had said, it's kind of disappointing that we're still … there. That we are still excited that there's a first woman. It'll just be really cool if it was the first woman who became the voice of an NBA team."
Yet they all know that with each leap, even if they haven't landed on the sun, they have at least gotten off the ground.
"That's what we're all doing," Stephenson said. "I was excited for them. But then at the same time, you don't want it to just be a moment, you want it to be continuous. So I hope women continue to get consistent roles and not just recognition in March."
Finding her own way
In her preparation for the Bucks broadcast Stephenson admitted she got frustrated, and a bit lost. She consumed a lot of play-by-play, thinking about how her call should sound.
After she did mock games she did not really like how it did.
"People around me that were helping me ... especially Jim (Paschke), was like, stop trying to be somebody else, just be Zora," she said. "That was all part of the process. My prep gradually changed.
"It's the same thing as reporting. You try to watch a bunch of different people and you take little nuggets here and there but you always have to be yourself. And for some reason when trying to prepare for a different role I forgot that. And in the middle of preparation I got back to it."
The game itself also presented Stephenson a challenge. On the second night of back-to-back games, not a single Bucks starter played against the Hornets.
"If you can do a game like this and do it well, trust me, when the regular guys are out there it becomes a piece of cake," said Johnson, the color analyst.
"When we talked philosophy of broadcasting, what I shared with her (was) I look at it like an acting performance, like a live-acting performance you do on stage. When you do live acting on stage, every performance is different. Every game is different. Every game is unique unto itself and we're just going to plug into the storyline and roll with it and have fun with it."
They did, and Stephenson said it was great to hear from so many people who watched and celebrated the feat.
That included the women who preceded Stephenson, either by decades or weeks. They cannot wait for the day when a woman is hired full time for a play-by-play position, but their individual steps have proven to be big enough that time and distance have not diminished them.
Stephenson is part of that march, now. But she just wants to improve and continue forward, wherever that leads. Her hope, too, is that more are advancing with her.
Which is just one reason that before the game Johnson recited to her a quote from her namesake, Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neal Hurston: "Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
"His words registered with me," Stephenson said, and then she paused.
"For me, I just wanted to do a good job. To me the history is not necessarily getting the moment, it's succeeding in the moment. I was telling everyone we're not celebrating anything until this is over, right? It's like, you don't celebrate getting in the game, you celebrate winning the game. And that was so important or me.
"I appreciate him recognizing the moment because we have to recognize the moment. As much as I wanted to defer and wait till it was over, I appreciate Marques for taking a second to stop and let everybody know what was happening.
"That made it so much more meaningful. To have all that connect, it was beautiful."


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Second Careers Forum (December 2016)
Second SMI Careers Forum, University College Dublin 2017
On 10 December 2016, the Society for Musicology in Ireland welcomed students, lecturers, and members of the public to the second SMI Careers Forum. This event was kindly hosted by the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, which was jointly organised with the Ireland branch of the International Council for Traditional Music. It took place at the School of Music of University College Dublin. The aim of the Careers Forum was to shed light on thesis completion and publication issues within the broad field of music studies. Key areas included administrative aspects of the thesis completion process, procedures involved in publishing articles during and after the PhD, turning the PhD thesis into a monograph, the significance of publishing experience for further academic career paths and such aspects as funding and postdoc applications after the PhD. Chaired by Stephanie Ford (Maynooth University), the careers forum took the shape of a roundtable discussion. The guest speakers were: Dr Paul Everett (former Head of Department, UCC), Dr Jaime Jones (Head of School, UCD), Dr Áine Mangaoang (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo), Prof. Christopher Morris (Head of Department, Maynooth University), and Prof. Bennett Zon (Durham University).
From left: Stephanie Ford, Dr Jaime Jones, Dr Áine Mangaoang, Prof. Christopfer Morris, Dr Paul Everett (Photo: Anika Babel)
From left: Dr Áine Mangaoang, Prof. Christopfer Morris, Prof. Bennett Zon, Dr Paul Everett, Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Photo: Anika Babel)
After a brief introduction, all five speakers agreed that most guidelines for the completion of a PhD depend on institutional regulations, which is why a very close collaboration between the PhD candidate, the supervisor and the Department is extremely important during the final stages of a PhD. Issues centring on originality were also addressed. Secondly, certain aspects of peer-review and print vs online journals were discussed. Our experienced guest speakers offered advice on preparing journal articles. Thirdly, the process of turning the PhD into a monograph was explained. Important facets of this process include finding a publisher, writing a proposal, applying for funding, and critical score editions. Fourthly, all speakers agreed that publishing is extremely important for a healthy career within the academic domain. They also raised the point that a PhD is typically followed by a postdoctoral fellowship, which is then followed by an academic position. Finally, all five speakers offered their encouragement by way of specific advice. After that, some questions and statements were taken from the floor. The significance of graduate journals was raised; it was highlighted that careers in editing/publishing are extremely rare. Non-specialist musicological activities were encouraged, and it was also mentioned that a good way to gain publishing experience might be by way of book reviews.
Please find further details of the careers forum, including links to graduate journals and funding sources, the speakers' biographies, and acknowledgements here


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from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import print_function

from kazoo.exceptions import NoNodeError

from kafka_utils.kafka_check import status_code
from kafka_utils.kafka_check.commands.command import KafkaCheckCmd
from kafka_utils.util.metadata import get_topic_partition_metadata

class MinIsrCmd(KafkaCheckCmd):

    def build_subparser(self, subparsers):
        subparser = subparsers.add_parser(
            'min_isr',
            description='Check min isr number for each topic in the cluster.',
            help='This command will check actual number of insync replicas for each '
                 'topic-partition in the cluster with configuration for that topic '
                 'in Zookeeper or default min.isr param if it is specified and there '
                 'is no settings in Zookeeper for partition.',
        )
        subparser.add_argument(
            '--default-min-isr',
            type=int,
            default=1,
            help='Default min.isr value for cases without settings in Zookeeper '
            'for some topics. Default: %(default)s',
        )
        return subparser

    def run_command(self):
        """Min_isr command, checks number of actual min-isr
        for each topic-partition with configuration for that topic."""
        topics = get_topic_partition_metadata(self.cluster_config.broker_list)
        not_in_sync = process_metadata_response(
            topics,
            self.zk,
            self.args.default_min_isr,
            self.args.verbose,
        )

        if not_in_sync == 0:
            return status_code.OK, "All replicas in sync."
        else:
            msg = ("{0} partition(s) have the number of replicas in "
                   "sync that is lower than the specified min ISR.").format(not_in_sync)
            return status_code.CRITICAL, msg

def get_min_isr(zk, topic):
    """Return the min-isr for topic, or None if not specified"""
    ISR_CONF_NAME = 'min.insync.replicas'
    try:
        config = zk.get_topic_config(topic)
    except NoNodeError:
        return None
    if ISR_CONF_NAME in config['config']:
        return int(config['config'][ISR_CONF_NAME])
    else:
        return None

def process_metadata_response(topics, zk, default_min_isr, verbose):
    not_in_sync = 0
    for topic_name, partitions in topics.items():
        min_isr = get_min_isr(zk, topic_name) or default_min_isr
        if min_isr is None:
            continue
        for metadata in partitions.values():
            cur_isr = len(metadata.isr)
            if cur_isr < min_isr:
                if verbose:
                    print("isr={isr} is lower than min_isr={min_isr} for {topic}:{partition}".format(
                        isr=cur_isr,
                        min_isr=min_isr,
                        topic=metadata.topic,
                        partition=metadata.partition,
                    ))
                not_in_sync += 1

    return not_in_sync

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub