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Rabbi Ari Kahn received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary where he studied with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He graduated Yeshiva University with a BA in psychology and an MS degree in Talmud.
He is Director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he also is a senior lecturer in Jewish studies.
He is a renowned speaker, and has lectured worldwide. Having authored hundreds of articles on the weekly parasha and holidays with a readership in excess of 10,000, Rabbi Kahn is also the author of Explorations, an in-depth analysis of the weekly Torah reading, and Emanations, an in-depth analysis of the Jewish holidays. A new series - "Echoes of Eden" is currently in progress. This is a projected 5 volume set to be published by the OU and Gefen Publishing. The first three volumes are in print and the fourth is in production.
Drawing upon the vast reservoir of rabbinic literature – from Talmud to Midrash, from Zohar to the chassidic masters – Rabbi Kahn combines the mystical explorations of kabbala and chassidism with a highly-intellectual and broad-minded approach to Torah study. He applies psychology, literature and Jewish history to the understanding of esoteric midrashim and the Zohar. Five volumes of "Explorations" have been published in French. He has lived in Israel since 1984 with his wife Naomi and 5 children.

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Dr William Vandoodewaard:
"Our children are likely to face the denial of the historical Adam at many Christian colleges—under the guise of Christian education. The issue is not just for us, but for our children's future in the faith and for the continued expansion of the kingdom of Christ. Despite the naysayers who say "there is no slippery slope," church history shows over and over that those who buy into alternate views of human origins are getting on the road that leads to complete abandonment of biblical Christianity."
And there was I thinking education was about facts - how silly of me.
(Of course the author's concern is not so much "this is not education" as "this is not Christian". Fundamentalist Christians have little interest in education - certainly not when it comes to history and origins.)


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The Meditation Experience
Volumes I-IV
These nature meditations, a series of inner journeys for peace, insight and healing, will open your heart, expand your senses, and awaken your mind to the wellspring of wisdom within you.
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Adventures on the Other Side
Some years ago I attended a superb Omega conference in Fort Lauderdale that opened with a funny and inspiring concert by balladeer David Roth and mesmerizing talks by Marianne Williamson and Maya Angelou. The entire weekend was filled with synchronicities that led to stirring magazine interviews with Barbara Ann Brennan and Bernie Siegel, so I left the conference on Sunday afternoon with an attitude of gratitude that made space for grace. Driving a spiffy white convertible, I set out on the highway, looking for adventure until the next mornings flight home.
A tropical storm had washed Florida so clean that the air was as sweet as incense. As dusk approached, a red sky streaked over roaring, ten-foot-high waves, creating a spectacular kaleidoscope of color and sound. I pulled my car over and walked onto the beach. Sunlight etched high contrast into the peaks and troughs of each wave. As my eyes softened to take in the beauty, my heart opened even wider than before.
In a sudden moment of transcendence I saw beyond the illusion. The waves were not separate and apart; they were the motion of the ocean: all undulations of the Greater Whole. My spirit flowed into the endless ocean, into feelings of bliss and union that forever altered my perceptions of reality. This sense of connection with nature and God remains with me today.
Later on, I thought about the oceanic nature of humanity. Our thoughts and feelings, literally waves of energy on the subatomic level, wash into our material and spiritual relationships in a search that ebbs and flows like the tides, eroding our sense of separation until consciousness merges and unites with its Source.
Life is an adventurous dive into the deep. We submerge ourselves in it, with the awareness that each experience increases Self-awareness, or we float along and watch events stream by, feeling alone and wondering what might have been had we only trusted our elemental goodness and power.
Blind Spots and the Quiet Call of the Soul
Perhaps you will agree that what disconnects us from our power and glory are blind spots created by doubt, disbelief, prejudice, and judgment. This year I discovered a blind spot of my own while writing a book,
Your Psychic Soul: Embracing Your Sixth Sense (4th Dimension Press, 2013). Oddly enough, I caught myself roaming the hallways of psychic awareness, reluctant to open an attic door to the realms of angels, teachers and guides!
I had my excuses. It was too big a subject and, besides, I wanted the book to be scientifically grounded in order to convince the lay public that anyone can connect with a wise, guiding inner voice that exists to help us grow and succeed in life. But when I found myself immersed in paranormal events, I recognized my souls deep desire to consciously connect with intelligences on the other side. With conscious intention, I opened up to whatever might come.
Communicating with Spirits
The next thing I knew, while relaxing in a hot bath one afternoon I dropped into a mind-awake, body-asleep state of consciousness called yoga nidra (see Vol. 18) and distinctly heard a calm, clear voice say, Were going to give you something. Startled, I splashed up out of the water, but soon returned to deep meditation to receive the message: a crystal-clear vision of a large frying pan filled with diced vegetables being lifted off a red-hot burner on my smooth-top stove. I felt the searing heat of the burner and jerked backward to get away from it.
I was puzzled by the meaning of this image until a painful attack of gastritis struck a few weeks later. It lasted for a full two weeks until I remembered the vision and resorted to a diet of sautéed vegetables that solved the problem.
Where did the message come from? I didnt recognize the speakers voice, but was absolutely certain it was a spirit who wanted to make his/her presence known. I knew how it had happened: deep in my unconscious mind, I was open to the Field.
Soon after, I felt an impulse to communicate with my deceased father-in-law to explain why I could not attend the unveiling of his grave, a Jewish practice that takes place a year after the persons passing. Sitting in a bedroom chair, I entered the silence of meditation and distinctly heard an elderly woman with a strong Eastern European accent exclaim, Mosheh, you can fly now!
Somehow I knew the woman was my father-in-laws grandmother, urging him to awaken from oblivion to his new life: a life after death that he had not believed in. Three days later, I asked my husband if the word Mosheh had a meaning. He replied, with some consternation, that Mosheh is the Hebrew word for Moses. His fathers name was Moses, but Id most certainly never heard him called that before.
These two experiences opened a door to the other side, and I could almost hear it creaking on its hinges. Time passed, and then I needed guidance on whether or not to euthanize my sick, elderly dog. Several visions in meditation convinced me that Baby was ready to leave. In one meditative vision I saw a lovely pagoda at the back of a large meadow, and in another vision, where I physically felt Babys spirit, I saw a person letting go of her leash so she could bound with joy into her next life with all the energy and vitality shed enjoyed for seventeen years. Now assured that this was what she wanted me to do, I could let her go.
Binaural Beats at The Monroe Institute
With my book completed, I was free in mid-May to drive down to Virginia with my friend, Sylvia, for a week-long Gateway Experience at The Monroe Institute. I had read Robert Monroes three books and was intellectually curious about the effects of the binaural beats hed invented, in which, for example, 444Hz frequencies are fed into one ear and 440Hz into the other; the brain, subtracting the difference, entrains to 4Hz, the deep theta-delta realm of the souls subconscious mind and psychic sixth sense.
I was also curious about where the meditations recorded by this out-of-body pioneer might take me. A vibrational thrum of inner excitement signaled that I was heading for a date with destiny, but on the conscious level I was completely unaware that the doors Id begun to tap on at home would blast open at TMI.
Sylvia and I joined twenty-two men and women booked there as a group by Susan Duval Seminars. We knew that we would go into a check unit several times each day to listen with headphones to Monroes binaural meditations, which would carry us through a series of focus levels related to states of consciousness. The check unit, in which we would also sleep, would consist of a single bed with a wall of sound controls, headphones, and a heavy black curtain used to shut out light.
Thats about where the knowns ended and the unknowns began, as each persons experiences of the focus levels would be completely unique to them.
Traveling Out of Body: Body Asleep, Mind Awake
The first sentence of Monroes affirmation, voiced silently near the beginning of each meditation, is I am more than my physical body. Id had stark demonstrations of this several times at home. Upon awakening from yoga nidra with my lucidly awake, alert spirit hovering upright in the vicinity of my head, Id calmly noticed that my physical head had keeled over onto my chest and was snoring like a horse!
In the first meditation at TMI, I was surprised to find myself slipping down into yoga nidra. Listening to my body snore, I suddenly found myself flying at great speed over a forested mountain with a burned-out area. I clicked out into unconsciousness and awakened to find myself swooping over the treetops of a lower, forested hill. Was I traveling out of body in the vicinity of TMI? Clicking out again, I awakened to find myself alone in the glass cabin of a crescent-shaped spaceship gliding smoothly and soundlessly through a starlit sky. I wondered where it was going, clicked out again, and reawakened as pure mind floating in a vast, magnificent sea of stars.
In the feedback session held after this meditation I related my experiences to the group, and a young woman named Jamie, who had hiked the area that day, said shed seen a burned-out section of a mountain forest that looked like what Id described.
The confirmation was gratifying, but not surprising, as these journeys were so realistic that my skeptical, conscious mind could not doubt them. The powerful vibrations and sensations of wind and speed were exhilarating, and I could hardly wait to go again.
Id had a lifetime of experience with voices, visions, and precognitive knowing in meditations, inspired writing, sleeping dreams, and psychic readings for others. I was adept at receiving and interpreting imagery and consistently used the information to guide my life and work.
But out-of body travel was very different from received imagery: it was as if my spirit were peeling out of my body to explore other worlds and dimensions in person, and thats exactly what happened again and again. Each new journey eroded my distrust of the seemingly woo-woo by transporting me into other realms located just a few frequencies away.
Decades earlier, I had constructed a theory to explain dimensional realities: that other life forms must exist in the immeasurable frequencies of the electromagnetic wave spectrum of lightbelow, beyond and perhaps even alongside the narrow sliver of visible-light frequencies perceived and processed by our five senses.
I also knew, intellectually at least, how we communicate with life forms in other frequencies. I explained this in my Psychic Soul book: communication takes place through the personal unconscious, which is subatomically entangled with a quantum field of light that penetrates space-time and exists beyond it. We coexist in this nonlocal field with other peoples minds, distant objects, and everything else, I claimed, quoting physicist Dean Radin, author of Entangled Mind: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality.
But intellectual knowledge and direct personal experience are two very different things
until they coalesce into one.
Astral Landscapes and Spirit Guides
For me, the week at TMI was a phantasmagoric stream of voices and visions. Sometimes, as in psychic dreams and meditations, I received imagery; at other times, I peeled out of my body to explore strange and wonderful objects and places. In one journey I was standing in a room looking at a corner of a table decorated with a tall red flower in a vase; the flower was beautifully exotic, unlike any plant on earth, and so was the utterly still red sky outside the window of this mental creation by a soul in the astral plane.
In another vision, my dear, departed dog Tilly showed up and said that either I need a friend or she needs a friend; I couldnt tell which. Today I see blonde Lhasa Apsas at every turn.
Ive made use of a number of helpful insights that arose in sessions directed to personal guidance. But it was the out-of-body travels that illuminated my ego. In one meditation I found myself swan diving out of a black spaceship into two movie-like scenes: first, a fiery inferno melting a glass building, which I sprayed fire retardant; next, floodwaters rushing toward a farmhouse, whose occupants I tried to warn.
I didnt realize until much later that family troubles had attracted me, by resonance, to real-life disasters in which I could be of help, so I interrupted these movie-like sequences with a request to see a device from the future. What showed up was a series of rectangular metal vessels linked together to transport cargo through outer space.
From this experience, I understood on a quantum level how intention directs the movement of consciousness. The next morning I voiced an intention to meet a spirit guide that day. She heard my call and answered it. After breakfast, I sat in a glass aerie to meditate and a womans face appeared out of the blue. Her dark hair was drawn back from her finely chiseled face, which somehow made me think of the actress, Anne Bancroft. She appeared only briefly, but with such clarity that I knew I had not imagined her.
As my conscious mind opened wider to its unconscious, my unconscious mind became more conscious. I began to eat lighter, as advised, and take walks through TMIs beautiful mountain campus before lying down in the check unit to meditate. With a sped-up metabolism and higher vibration, I could stay awake in my unconscious mind, the realm of dreamless sleep, for longer periods of time.
Toward the end of the week, I awakened in yoga nidra to find myself flying through wispy white clouds above a mountain range. Could I touch down on earth? With just this thought, I found myself staring at the thick, shiny green leaves of a bush.
Zacks Visits from the Spirit World
Apparently, I was not ready to see departed loved ones, but other people were and did. Jamie set an intention to see her deceased brother, Zack, in meditation, and in a vision she saw Zack smiling and pointing to her pregnant belly. Jamie knew she wasnt pregnant, so she took the vision to mean that Zack wanted her to settle down and raise a family. She left TMI still under that impression, until Zack gave her the same message three weeks later in a lucid dream.
Jamie underwent medical testing and discovered, to her familys startled delight, that while at TMI she had been two weeks pregnant. Only Zacks spirit had known of her condition.
This wasnt the first time Zack, in spirit, had communicated with his family. Soon after his passing, he contacted his mother, sister and cousin by cell phone. Six of his crackling, static-filled calls interrupted conversations with others, and some of them heard his voice. Zack called six other times while Jamies friends were leaving voice messages for her. Listening repeatedly to these recorded messages, Jamie and her family made out his words: seeing many people, visit you at the house, love you, I am better, and its sooo perfect.
Zack also telephoned his father during a dream. Even after Roger awakened, he continued to hear his sons low, muffled voice in his ear.
The Dawson family played Zacks recorded messages for our group at TMI. Everyone was excited and encouraged by this undeniable proof of the immortality of the souland the determination of this caring spirit to communicate with his loving family.
Dolphin Healings, Spirit Rescues, and Soul Purposes
I asked my soul in a meditative writing to explain the purpose of my amazing experiences at home and at The Monroe Institute. All of it was simply to help me understand the nature of reality and what was possible for me. Above all, what I learned was the importance of staying open to all experience and doubting nothing.
The other people in our group received much the same lessons. Some were healed by dolphin energies. Others met teachers and guides in Focus 21, the bridge to the other side. Beyond the veil, a few people led lost spirits into the light in whats called spirit rescue. Sometimes, these spirits communicated their names and identified the circumstances of their deaths.
One woman found herself in the presence of angels singing their love for her. Many people received life-altering visions and deeply felt the ineffable love that touched us all in so many ways.
However, not everyone in our group had profound experiences, and a few had no visions or insights at all. Discussions over lunch revealed that these non-meditators were caught up in random thoughts and mind chatter during sessions.
Apparently, not even Bob Monroes binaural beats can engage the restless inattention of the busy mind.
Opening to the Superconscious
What can be gained, you might wonder, from encounters with teachers, guides, spirit people, astral worlds and alien crafts? For me, said my soul,
the eyes and ears are opened more now than ever before, for what calls thee to the full range of experience is now available when needed and wanted.
The great psychic, Edgar Cayce, said we evolve in this way: the sixth sense of the waking or sleeping soul connects with its higher self to gather information or travel through the ethers. By communing with the higher self and its community of saintsangels, teachers and guidesin the superconscious, the soul becomes superconscious and performs the greatest service of all: bringing earth to heaven and heaven to earth.
Today I know the truth of this in every particle of my being. The purpose of life in this earth is to make conscious contact with Infinite Mind in order to make the two One. In this union is the love that comforts, heals, and grows us, until we are uplifted, as if upon a wave, into the cosmic ocean of bliss.
When we are asleep to our full potential, as I was, we are unconscious. But we can wake up. And in our conscious awareness of God, we release our imprisoned splendor: the peace and love the world is seeking.
A Meditation on Meditation
The following reading, adapted from a Kahlil Gibran writing, or perhaps written as Gibran would have phrased it, was a handout in Max Cades 1970s classes on meditation and psychotechnics at a London growth center. (See the following article for more on psychotechnics.) I recently found this in materials that belonged to Maxs protégée, my teacher Anna Wise, who brought EEG awakened mind meditation training to America.
his beautiful writing reveals ways to stay more awake in meditation and in everyday life.
A Student went to the Wise One and said: Speak to us of Meditation. And the Wise One answered, saying:
You live in a world which is hypnotized by the illusion of time. A world in which the so-called present moment is seen as nothing but an Infinitesimal hairline dividing an all-powerful causative Past from a fascinatingly important and alluring Future. But you have no Present. Your consciousness is fully preoccupied with Memories on the one hand and Expectations on the other.
You do not comprehend that there never was, is, nor ever will be any other Experience than Present Experience.
You are therefore out of touch with reality and live in a world of illusion. You meditate when you attend, without attachment, to the Here and the Now. When your unfocused mind is aware, without comment, of whatever IS
You meditate when, without ceasing to be conscious of your body and your mind, and of the clamouring voices of your environment, you become increasingly attuned to the Voice of the Silence, to the Wisdom of your Higher Self.
You meditate when, in the quietness of the Woods and Fields, or in the peace of some old Church, you turn inwards for a while to share the Stillness of God. Yet you meditate more worthily when in the thick of Lifes battlefield, in the heat and dust and strife of the daily round, you carry with you that same Stillness, so that your heart becomes the Temple of your Spirit.
You meditate when you live neither wholly in this world nor in that, when you steep your mind in the waters of divine creativity and intelligence, and your every act is redeemed by being taken up into something greater than itself.
You meditate when, in the agony of indecision, you say Not my Will, God, but thy Will be done.
But you meditate most of all when you listen with the ear of your body and the ear of your mind and the ear of your soul to that soundless voice that speaks from the eternal cosmos and bids you to be One with all Life.
New Life with Psychotechnics
As part of the awakened mind courses Max Cade conducted in London in the 1970s and 80s, he taught psychotechnics, which he defined as a practical humanistic branch of psychology which teaches those skills requisite to self-awareness, self-understanding and self-control. The aim of this course was to enable the individual to become what s/he already is in potentialitya process towards self-actualization.
Cade further explained that psychotechnics is an art and a technology concerned with the range of our ability to act and maximize our potentials. It is used for the development of mental fluency and the ability to master our states of consciousness.
Psychothechnics has four major aspects:
1) Openness to life and experience
2) Empathy
3) Excellence in interpersonal relationships
4) The ability to still the mind, to be calm and meditate.
Working on any of these aspects automatically improves the other three; however, the practice of meditation easily develops the other areas. For this reason, Cade asked his students to use the inner inquiry of meditation to ascertain objectively how well they functioned in the outer world.
First and foremost, the idea is to see/visualize yourself clearly and without judgment, as you answer the following questions. Spend two minutes reflecting inwardly on each one.
Openness to life and experience:
a) Your ability to find something potentially useful in everything, including criticism
b) Your readiness to go into something completely alien
a) Your ability to be able to feel what others are feeling
b) Your ability to enter the state they are in without become affected or imbalanced by it
c) Your ability to give the right response to the situation without telling them what to do
Excellence in Interpersonal Relationships:
a) Excellence not just in relationships with your friends and those that are easy, but also your family, parents, relations and working associates.
a) Your ability to still the mind, be calm and meditate, not just at home or in class, but in situations of personal or environmental turmoil.
For the second part of the exercise, go through the questions again and see things as you would like them to be. Spend another two minutes on each question then get together in partners of two or three to discuss your answers and insights.
In discussion, the circle of people I did this exercise with learned a great deal from each other. Two people had little to no empathy and planned to meditate on how to regain it. Several people felt they had so much empathy that they physically felt other peoples emotions and consequently tended to withdraw from certain people to protect themselves.
Cades point was that mastery means being able to empathize with others from a calm place of compassionate non-attachment, which is most easily developed in meditation.
As our lead article points out, choosing to separate from anything creates self-separation and the blind spots that disconnect us from Oneness. If we are to be truly awake, then we must find ways to stay open, receptive, empathetic and compassionate with All That Islike ocean waves ebbing and flowing without borders or boundaries.
Earth to Heaven, Heaven to Earth
Not long ago, I wonderedand not for the first timewhat my life would have been like, had I followed my teenage impulse to enter a Catholic nunnery and committed to a vow of silence. People who know me laugh at this idea for a variety of predictable reasons. Still, I feel drawn to a life of quiet contemplation.
One day, while taking a shower, I heard myself ask how to live in the earth and higher consciousness at the same time. The answer came after an especially deep and powerful meditation, when I picked up pen and paper and listened deeply. I hope this meditative writing helps you as much as it helped me.
September 25, 2013
What is sought, dear one, lies within thee, waiting to emerge like light cascading over waves of water in a river wending its way to the sea. In the depths of water lies a stillness and a darkness that exists because of its distance from the surface, and in these depths arises what needs to be said by thee in this work.
Harken to it now.
In all the days and ways of men lie beliefs in the greatness of nature and what force lies within the earth and cosmos that brought each and every object to animation and life. None can begin to grasp the wonders of life beyond the earth, except in the dreams traveling in sleep to carry the soul to its Makerthe higher selfand the forces that pervade all things.
For in the journeys of the soul lie all things manifest and unmanifest: the tinkling of music in the realms of color and form, the lift of the heart into its fondest dreams, the reach of the higher self into its joy and bliss, as it merges with the fabric of light whence it came. No greater joy exists, no greater love, and yet, shadows of it exist on earth in the human body that falls in love and is enlightened by that love as it grows and radiates outward to touch and uplift the world.
It is this love which permeates the seen and unseen, the material and the realm of the spirit. And so it is that merely a desire, an intention, connects each human soul with the infinite, when love is the carrier of the desire and intention for more love. More love comes, as light settles upon waves in the streaming river and beckons to the surface the wisdom and knowledge harbored in the quiet darkness of the sleeping soul.
The soul awakens to this light and finds in it a pathway to wonders beyond its imagining. Each step toward that Greater Love awakens more joy and feelings of love and belonging, until there is no turning back and darkness and unknowing are no more. There is only light, only love, and it lifts one and all.
And so it is that love and loving kindness circulate love in the rivers of the world and the seas of the spirit. What comes is oneness with the past, present and future, so that time unfolds in daily life from the mind that works, sleeps and eats, yet for the soul occupying the heart and mind, all events seem as-one in the present moment and are known before they occur.
The soul foresees and in its perspective forgives and forgets what is in the past, shedding hurtful events as one sheds an unseen film on the skin. For in the light of love is no pain, worry and fear; only love, hope and joy. The soul perceives what occurs in its earthbound life, good and bad, but names neither, for all events lead to greater knowledge and understanding of the path to love and more sustained transcendence. Blissful feelings such as gratitude, patience, forbearance and acceptance enable the soul to be a light in the world, yet not separate from it. For its greatest work is in the earth and other places where darkness abounds.
It has been asked by thee, How do I live in the earth and enjoy the earthly life while being higher in consciousness? This is the question of many who fail to see the souls ultimate purpose and destiny: to bring heaven to earth and earth to heaven. To bring the darkness to light, and light to darkness. To lift and free All That Is from the separations which exist in form and in the formless, which seeks, above all, to unite All That Is.
How to live life as a servant of the heavens, the infinite Cosmos, the All That Is?
Live in love, in every minute of every day, holding none apart in judgment or separation, avoiding accusation, seeking only to find common good for the purpose of peace and unity.
Who are my enemies and friends? All must be part of thy Beloved family. Who have I not forgiven for past offenses? What do I hesitate to do, for fear that I am not good enough or will be judged as less than perfect?
When does my joy cease and what increases it? These are the keys to living in the consciousness of the soul connected with its higher self.
What lifts us into the truth of our being, that obstacles may be removed from the path of soul, that light may shine upon the river of destiny and guide us to the oceans of spirit in each realm of life? The self-awareness of the quiet mind contemplating its purposes, desires, intentions and directions. Only the quiet mind finds truth, in the feeling of truth that pervades the soul and thus makes that connection.
Borne upon the river are flashes of light that beckon each human soul to its highest and finest purpose. If the eyes are open to possibilities, not a glimmer of light will escape the mind, heart and soul. Searching for the intention reveals all, and all is thus revealed.
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My intention has been to post a simple little article on the Divine Sarah.
With Sarah Bernhardt it AIN'T that easy.
Divine Sarah as the Empress of Byzantium Théodora by Sardou
I was a pissy little homo- boy, my mother dismissed my histrionic fits by telling me to "stop acting like Sarah Bernhardt".
I hadn't a clue as to what she was referring to, I do now.
Sarah is eternally fascinating. As I cannot possibly tackle the Goddess in one little modest post, perhaps chapters would be best.
As I like shiny things, and Sarah liked shiny things lets begin with jewels.
We all know the quite fabulous Dragonfly corsage , so let us start with it.
Lalique 1897-1898
gold, enamel, chrysoprase stones, moonstones .
I have read that this perverse little creature owned by Sarah's friend, Calouste Gulbenkian, was a portrait sculpture of Bernhardt. I don't see a resemblance, but it is of course quite extraordinary.
Calouste lent this jaw dropper only once to dear Sarah, but we are still talking about it.
The man had fine taste, plus he was rather cute.
In addition to this bit of magnificence, he was a fine patron to Lalique. I must post more in a future date, but I cannot resist the siren call of this piece.
ca. 1898-1899
gold and enamel
Museo Calouste Gulbenkian
Lalique wasn't the only horse in Sarah's bejeweled stable. Georges Fouquet and Alphonse Mucha produced this dazzling wonder.
ca. 1899
gold, diamonds, opals , rubies, and enamel
Alphonse Mucha Museum
Sakai City, Japan
As the opal is Sarah's birthstone, the Snake Bracelet is particularly fitting.
It's Orientalist mystique is by way of a larger snake that wraps round her wrist, Snake -1 linked to ring -Snake- 2 by a delicate series of chains. Flexibility is provided by discreet hinges from behind. a mechanical bit of genius that even I can appreciate.
In addition to designing Sarah's jewels, Mucha of course famously designed posters for many of her performances. this poster of 1898, depicts the divine one as Medea, in the production of Médée performed at the Theatre de la Renaissance.
The Snake Bracelet quite visible, in addition to the bloody knife.
Georges Fouquet and Alphonse Mucha collaborated on other pieces, this pendant will drive you mad.
ca. 1900
Georges Fouquet and Alphonse Mucha
gold, enamel, mother of pearl, emerald, colored stone, gold paint
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Clearly dear Mucha relished being Sarah's lap dog.Mucha went on to design more for Sarah, jewels and posters most specifically.
When Miss Bernhardt was performing La Princesse Lointaine at the Renaissance Theatre in 1895, Mucha designed this magnificent tiara for her.
Diadem for La Princesse Lointaine
ca. 1895
Musée et Bibliothèque de l'Opera
ca. 1895
Harvard Theatre Collection
As Sarah had great control of her image, she was involved on every level. This jeweled collar for her role s Cleopatra reflect this attention to detail.
ca. 1840
metal, pearls, beads, sequins, gold thread
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
It's quite clear dear Sarah enjoyed her glamour, her image, her presence.
Even her mirror bore her imprint, her motto Quand même (even so).
ca. 1875
Edouard Lièvre
Ariadante, Paris
In closing I may never tire of Sarah, I thank my mother for the intro.
Always eager to throw in beefcake, we have the Divine and the Elegant Brute, the always hot George Sandow.
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FOOD- THE DISH- Heads up! Do we now have a budding beer trail?
As the Washington Post discovered recently [Virginia Is Also for Beer Lovers, by Jenny Mayo, published January 21, 2009], Thomas Jefferson was the area's first brew-master (Is there anything that guy didn't do!), growing his own hops and grain at Monticello and brewing both beer and cider for his guests. Flash forward a couple hundred years, and it's the Starr Hill Brewing Company in Crozet, South Street Brewery downtown, the Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, and the Devil's Backbone Brewing Company near Wintergreen carrying on the tradition.
So what was there verdict? Although the Post refrained from passing judgement, they did seem to like the Blue Mountain Brewery's penchant for risk taking, mentioning the Afton brewery's Double Barrel-Aged Chocolate Cherry Imperial Bourbon Stout, brewed with cocoa nibs and cherries in bourbon and wine barrels.
At Starr Hill, they deemed a limited-edition lime and ginger flavored brew called Lucy "delicious." At Devil's Backbone, they took time out to identify Tom Peloso of the band Modest Mouse in the crowd, and suggested the place lacked atmosphere without saying why.
Strange. From what we could tell the place looks like everything you'd expect at a Nelson County beer hall– beautiful wooden tables, lots of stonework, high ceilings, brass bar fixtures, and even a moose head over the fireplace. And at South Street the copper bar and fireplace get some press.
Overall, though, a nice romp and swill through our budding beer trail, which appears to have left the writer and her boyfriend a bit tipsy!
"We were excited about the area's Beer trail being recognized," says Devil's Backbone general manager Chris Trotter, which he says is what the area breweries and Nelson County's tourism board have been trying to promote for some time. "Beer geeks are very well networked, and we've had people visit from as far away as Richmond and DC."
As Trotter admits, Mark Thompson's famed Starr Hill Brewing Company has had alot to do with making the area a beer destination. A year ago, Starr Hill struck a national distribution deal with Anheuser-Busch, which has plans to ship the award-winning stuff all over the country. And, of course, we have Starr Hill's founding brew master Mark Thompson, a kind of beer pontificator.
"God put me on this earth for this purpose," he told the Hook last year. "Every culture in the world has a fermented, cereal grain beverage that people use to sit around and talk. I'm a steward of the product that enhances this thing we call life."
But with Starr Hill in Crozet and the Blue Mountain Brewery just down the road, aren't places like Devil's Backbone worried about the competition?
"We enjoy the fact that we have Blue Mountain up the road," he says. "Yes, it's competition, but as our owner likes to say, a rising tide floats all boats."
Indeed, if it weren't for the fact that our area breweries seem to be multiplying, it's unlikely the Post would have visited.
So might more breweries begin popping up like wineries?
Trotter wouldn't be surpised. "People's palates," he says, "are becoming more discerning when it comes to beer."
Restaurant spending will rise in '09, report says
According to Forbes, one of the 10 things we're still buying in this crippled economy is food. No, duh! Of course, they mean restaurant spending specifically. The good news? The National Restaurant Association predicts that we'll spend a whopping $566 billion at restaurants this year, 2.5 percent more than last year. The bad news? It won't be at nice restaurants. They say that four-star restaurants will see a decline this year, while fast food restaurants and other places to get cheap eats will get the cash.
Bad peanut butter update
If you're like Dish, you've heard of the salmonella outbreak caused by peanut butter but don't know much more than that. Should we stop eating peanut butter? Where are people getting sick? Who is making the bad stuff? And how bad is it?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now has an update on its website regarding the salmonella outbreak. Since September 2008, there have been 491 cases across the country, including 20 in Virginia. Of those, 48 percent have been women, 22 percent have been hospitalized, and seven have died.
Georgia-based King Nut brand creamy peanut butter has been identified as the likely source of the outbreak, but investigators say that "180 peanut butter-containing products produced by a variety of companies may have been made with the ingredients recalled by the Peanut Corporation of America."
Jeeze, talk about a reason to eat organic and local!
People are being advised to dispose of Austin and Keebler brand peanut butter crackers and King Nut brand peanut butter produced since July 1, 2008. It is also recommended that you not eat other products that contain peanut butter, such as cookies, crackers, cereal, candy, and ice cream.
For more detailed information, visit the CDCP website at www.cdc.gov.


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- 1 The 139th Meeting of Noisebridge
- 2 Crew
- 3 Agenda
- 3.1 Introduction and Names
- 3.2 Announcements
- 3.3 Financial Report
- 3.4 Membership Binder
- 3.5 What's Going On at Noisebridge
- 3.6 Project Updates
- 3.7 Consensus items
- 3.8 Discussion Items
- 4 End of Meeting
- 5 End of Meeting
The 139th Meeting of Noisebridge
- Noisebridge meeting notes archive.
- Previous previous meeting notes (2010/12/07).
- The Noisebridge meeting notes template
Introduction and Names
- What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you!
New Weekly things happening at Noisebridge
In addition to the ones already listed on the meetings form page:
- Ruby Tuesdays is now happening
- Carl or Alex is teaching Unity to people who show up on Wednesdays
- Pwn Your Own Wireless security class went better then expected and is expected to be a good lead into Januaries wiretapping class (of which it should be made more vocal that noisebridge's open wireless network is not a secure network)
- Friday Night Shop Class meets Friday nights at Midnight, with the current project of building a CNC machine.
Payment of dues or donations to keep Noisebridge operating
Financial Report
We keep records of cash donations at Noisebridge.
For money collected from the drinks bin on the fridge: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Beverage_Bin_Record
For money collected from the donation bins at the front of Noisebridge: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Donation_Bin_Record
For money collected from the spiral coin wells: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Coin_Bin_Record
Membership Binder
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
- Anyone up for join this week should introduce them selves then leave the area in search of gifts for the rest of the group.
What's Going On at Noisebridge
One short sentence about each of the following:
For locations at Noisebridge, see a map of the 2169 location of Noisebridge.
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (Monday, 7PM, E Lab)
- iPhone OS developer weekly meetup -- (Monday, 6PM, A. Church) Meetups are becoming increasingly well attended, interested Noisebridge folks are encouraged to sign up at http://meetup.com/iphonedevsf , as that is where any important announcements and discussions take place. Contact Nickthedude with any questions. * Pyclass - Mondays (Monday, 7PM, A. Turing)
- Tastebridge cooking class - (Tuesday, ~5PM, NoiseKitchen)
- Probability (Tuesdays, 7.30pm, A. Church)
- GameDevelopment - (Wednesday, 7PM, E Lab/Main Hall]]
- Tastebridge culturing - (Wednesday, ~6PM, NoiseKitchen)
- SCoW craft group - (Wednesday, 7PM, SCoW area)
- Machine_Learning - (Wednesday, 7:30PM, A. Church)
- Linux System administration certification study group - (Wednesday, 6PM, A. Turing)
- Spacebridge - (Sundays, Main Hall)
- Knots, Go, and Locks! - (Sunday afternoon, Main Hall)
- Five Minutes of Fame
- Pwn Your Own - (1st Saturday 4PM).
- Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)
Project Updates
Consensus items
Discussion Items
- jof to present his plan for our upcoming board election.
End of Meeting
End of Meeting
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Put back the membership binder by the Shrine at the northeast corner.
- Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
- Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
- Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.


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Colleges and universities near me in the Wendell, Idaho area
There are 4 colleges within 100 miles of Wendell. Located in Idaho with a population of 2,782, the closest colleges are ranked by distance from Wendell. The nearest college is College of Southern Idaho at a distance of 17.7 miles from Wendell center. This directory is inclusive of nearby two and four year schools, both public and private. If you are looking for more affordable higher education options or not ready for a full four-year program, consider local community colleges near Wendell.
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The closest community college is College of Southern Idaho and is 17.7 miles from Wendell. Explore the complete list of nearby community college options.
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Encore! Piano Guys Live at Red Butte Garden
The concert special includes exclusive footage of the September 19, 2012 concert performed by the YouTube sensation to a sold-out crowd at the Red Butte Garden outdoor concert venue.
The Piano Guys, Steven Sharp Nelson on cello and Jon Schmidt on piano, perform such favorites as "Peponi," an African version of Coldplay's "Paradise" featuring singer Alex Boyé; their mash-up of the Bourne soundtrack with Vivaldi's "Double Cello Concerto;" and a brand new cover of David Guetta's "Titanium."
While The Piano Guys produce beautiful music, they are best known for their interpretations of well-known favorites. For a mash-up of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Simple Gifts," the American Heritage Lyceum Philharmonic and One Voice Children's Choir accompanies the band. When performing Beethoven's "Five Secrets," groups of Philharmonic musicians planted in the audience stand up one by one to join in, playing their own instruments in an orchestral flash mob.
Also on the program are The Piano Guys' versions of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful," Dave Guetta's "Without You," Christina Perri's "Thousand Years" and "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables. The concert special incorporates some of the duo's YouTube videos such as "Cello Wars," cellist Steven Sharp Nelson's take on the Star Wars theme.
The Piano Guys, newly signed to Sony Masterworks, are five Utahns: Jon Schmidt, the Piano Guy; Steven Sharp Nelson, the Cello Guy; Al Van Der Beek, the Music and Studio Guy; Paul Anderson, the Producer and Videographer Guy; and Tel Stewart, the Videographer and Editor Guy.
Curiously, the men came together over an advertising ploy for Anderson's Piano Guys music store in St. George. Originally formed as an alternative means of promotion, Anderson's store began producing the epic YouTube videos that characterize ThePianoGuys, and in the process, stumbled upon a musical sensation. ThePianoGuy's elaborate YouTube videos, showcasing stunning Utah locales, have received more than 160 million views. They grow 3,000 to 5,000 new YouTube subscribers a day and their channel gets 500,000 to I million views a day.
"Our passion is to put pianos and cellos in crazy locations," says Paul Anderson. "We've had them on 1,000-foot cliffs, on moving trains and jumping out of planes. We love making these videos. Someone once asked us, 'Where do you see yourselves in five years?' We said, 'If we can keep doing what we're doing, that's where we want to be.'"
They say their vision is to create music and videos that inspire and uplift. "We like to put a new spin on classic stuff and a classic spin on new stuff," says Anderson. "Whatever we do, we put our heart and souls into every note and frame."


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Strength of Medicare data as an indicator
9.81 The ABS evaluates the range of potential sources of administrative data for its effectiveness in estimating quarterly interstate migration. Medicare Australia data supplying change of address information was found to be the most effective source currently available. For more information, refer to the Information Paper: Evaluation of Administrative Data Sources for Use in Quarterly Estimation of Interstate Migration, 2006 to 2011 (cat. no. 3127.0.55.001).
9.82 Medicare card holders are required to register changes of address when they make claims, or when their cards are replaced. However, it is known that some people, particularly younger card holders, do not register changes of address with Medicare, or do so long after the fact. Comparison of Medicare change of address with Census data on the address of respondents one year prior to the Census suggests that the level of undercoverage in Medicare is fairly constant over time. In addition, this under-reporting seems to be similar for interstate arrivals and interstate departures, as well as for each sex by various ages.
9.83 The undercoverage of interstate movers within Medicare data is adjusted by the ABS for each sex at specific ages through the use of expansion factors. These expansion factors scale up Medicare data for these specific ages to reflect the higher levels measured by information provided by the most recent Census. For the intercensal period 2006 to 2011 expansion factors are to be applied to males aged 17-30 years and females aged 17-25 year universally for each state and territory for both arrivals and departures. For more information see Chapter 7 - Estimating interstate migration.
9.84 Medicare theoretically covers all Australian usual residents as well as those non-Australian residents granted temporary registration. However, there are a range of Australian usual residents who do not access the Medicare system, primarily due to access to alternative health services, such as defence force personnel, prisoners, persons eligible for the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services and Indigenous Australians. Strategies have been put in place however, to enrol Indigenous Australians with Medicare Australia who would normally just use an Aboriginal medical service.
Defence force adjustment
9.85 Adjustments to compensate for interstate defence force movements not covered by Medicare are applied to the quarterly interstate migration estimates. These adjustments are estimated using counts of defence force personnel by age, sex and state/territory, obtained from the Department of Defence, with 70% of any change in quarterly defence force numbers assumed to be due to interstate migration not otherwise covered by the Medicare model.
Changes to source data over time
9.86 The first attempt to compile interstate migration estimates was made for a period prior to 1966 when interstate arrivals and departures were estimated from records of all movements (including short-term movements) by sea, air and rail. From June 1966 to 1981, interstate movements were based on records of interstate changes of address on child endowment (family allowance) registers and electoral rolls. Holiday, business and other short-term movements were no longer taken into account. The change was made in the recognition that estimates based on air, sea and rail travel were inadequate as measures of total net interstate movements (travel by car, for example, was not recorded) and that measuring all movements including short-term moves was neither necessary nor practicable.
9.87 At the time, the family allowance was paid universally (to all mothers of children under the age of 17 years) but in November 1987 means testing was introduced. An upper income limit for entitlement was set, graduated according to the number of children in the family.
9.88 The Department of Social Security (DSS) was unable to estimate the impact of means testing. In October 1987 there were 2.1 million families collecting the allowance, one month later it declined to 1.8 million. It then started to gradually increase, reaching 1.9 million in August 1989. At the time of introduction of means testing the Department had no data on income of parents. As a result, the department could not exactly explain whether the decline since November 1987 was due to:
9.89 Whatever the answer, it was clear that means testing, by reducing coverage of the population, reduced the effectiveness of the family allowance register as an indicator of interstate migration. In addition, effectiveness was subject to changes over the years to the age limit of children for which family allowance was applicable.
9.90 Electoral roll data were used in conjunction with family allowance data, but were much less reliable as a source of interstate migration statistics. While the registration of electors, voting, and notification of a change of address are compulsory in law, several factors affect the quality of the data. First, a proportion of the population are not entitled to vote and are therefore not on the electoral roll. Second, registration of persons entitled to vote is incomplete. Third, the timing of elections has affected the timing of notification of change of address. Fourth, the timing of Electoral Office surveys to check the coverage of their rolls (called 'habitation' reviews) also affect the timing of notification of change of address.
9.91 All these factors affected both the coverage of the data and the reliability of the interstate migration estimates. The electoral data usually showed a much lower level of residential moves and very large fluctuations reflecting the timing of elections. The quality of electoral transfer data deteriorated after 1976 and by 1981 was no longer considered a reliable source of interstate migration statistics.
9.92 Because the combined scope of electoral data and family allowance data did not provide full coverage of the entire population, adjustments were made to allow for the persons not covered, namely persons over 15 years of age but below voting age, and others not eligible to vote.
9.93 The deterioration of the electoral change of address data led to their abandonment in 1981. From 1981 to 1986, family allowance data only were used but in October 1987, when the means test for family allowance payments was introduced, it was also replaced.
9.94 A detailed assessment of the quality of the family allowance data, the internal migration survey (a former annual survey on change of usual residence) and, the electoral roll transfer data, are presented in the Occasional Paper: Post-censal interstate migration estimates 1966-1981 (ABS & Di Iulio 1984).
9.95 As from 1986, change of address data became available from the nationwide compulsory Medicare system and they were assessed to be of high quality. They have been used since then, in place of family allowance data, to estimate interstate migration. Chapter 7 - Estimating interstate migration describes the method being used to generate interstate migration statistics from Medicare change of address data.
9.96 Until June 1996, only Medicare change of address data for those aged 1-14 were used, as most other ages had significant under-registration of interstate movements. These movements were then expanded with adult to child expansion ratios based on information from the latest available Census being applied to Medicare change of address data for ages 1-14 for each interstate flow.
9.97 From July 1996, estimates for interstate migration have used Medicare change of address data for all ages as a result of improvement in registrations. Medicare data for each age have been used to represent total movements for that age, after making adjustments for under-registration (i.e. applying expansion factors) by comparing Medicare data with that from the latest available Census. For both intercensal periods 1996 to 2001 and 2001 to 2006 expansion factors were applied to males age 16-29 and females aged 18-24 universally for each state and territory for both arrivals and departures.
9.98 For the 2001-06 period, Medicare data were also supplemented by Defence Force data to compensate for interstate movements of defence force personnel not in the Medicare change of address dataset.


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Jerry Olszewski Announced as Augustana Football Coach
Augustana Director of Athletics Bill Gross announced today that Jerry Olszewski has been named the 21st head football coach in program history. Olszewski, a 19-year veteran in the coaching profession, previously served as head coach for St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
Olszewski was announced as the new head coach at a press conference earlier today.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the Augustana football program," Olszewski said. "My family is looking forward to becoming part of the Sioux Falls community and the Augustana family. Faith, Family and Football will be the cornerstone of our program. We look forward to meeting the alumni and engaging in the Sioux Falls community."
"To my future team: I just met a group of fine young men. They want to be great. They want to be successful. And we will. It'll be a process of success. We'll work tirelessly to be the best we can be. I've got an old adage … good, better, best. Our challenge is to take a good student-player and make him even better, and to take a better player and make him the best. We'll create a culture and a football program that changes lives and produces young men of faith, character and integrity," he said to audience members in Augustana's Kresge Recital Hall.
Olszewski (OH-sheski), completed his fifth season as head coach at St. Olaf College in 2012 guiding the Oles to a record of 7-3 overall, and a fourth-place finish in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) at 5-3. Olszewski compiled a record of 32-18 in five seasons at St. Olaf, leading all five teams to records of .500 or better. During his time at St. Olaf, Olszewski coached the school's all-time leading passer and the second all-time leading rusher.
Prior to St. Olaf, Olszewski spent two seasons as the defensive coordinator at his alma mater, Wisconsin-Stevens Point. During his two seasons as defensive coordinator, he coached three players that finished in the top 10 in the conference in tackles, including the WIAC leader in 2006 and the second-leading tackler in 2007.
"We are genuinely excited to have Jerry Olszewski join our Augustana family as head football coach," Gross said. "Coach O.J. brings a strong set of personal values and football knowledge to this position. His seven years of experience as an assistant coach at Minnesota State and his head coaching success at St. Olaf in the very competitive MIAC has prepared Jerry very well for the challenges the NSIC and NCAA Division II competition."
From 2002-06, Olszewski was the chief executive officer of the Mankato Family YMCA in Mankato, Minn., where he was responsible for a $3 million budget, including 32 departments and all employees and volunteers.
Before taking over as CEO of the Mankato YMCA, Olszewski spent a total of seven seasons (1993-97), 1999-02) as an assistant at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he coached linebackers, quarterbacks and running backs. From 1999-02, Olszewski was the assistant head coach at Minnesota State, where he was responsible for the defensive secondary. As an offensive coach at MSU, his teams ranked towards the top of the North Central Conference (NCC) and national rankings in total offense. In 1999, he was the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Bombers of the Professional Indoor Football League.
Olszewski is a 1993 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a degree in physical education where he was a starting cornerback. He received his master's degree in sports administration from Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 1995.
Jerry and his wife, Deana, have three children, son Jett and daughters Jersey and J.J.
Coach Olszewski talks with KSFY-TV Sports Director Erik Thorstenson after the announcement on Wednesday, Dec. 12.


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The White House suspended the press credentials for CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Wednesday, citing Acosta's brief confrontation with a White House press aide during a wild news conference given by President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
The CNN reporter's pass has been suspected "until further notice" according to a release from Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration," Sanders said in a statement. "We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter's colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question."
Acosta posted video of a U.S. Secret Service agent asking for his "hard pass," which enables a journalist to enter the White House grounds.
The move to punish Acosta by removing his press pass is believed to be unprecedented.
During the 90-minute presser at the White House, Trump got into a testy exchange with Acosta after the journalist asked him a question about whether the president had "demonized immigrants" by using the word "invasion" to describe the migrant caravan coming to the United States.
Acosta refused to pass the microphone to another reporter when asked by Trump, leading the president to call the reporter "a very bad person."
"CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN. You're a very rude person. The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn't treat people that way," the president said to the CNN reporter on Wednesday.
Sanders accused Acosta of "placing his hands on a young woman" citing those grounds that his press pass was being suspended.
During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, Acosta pointed to video of the incident, saying he was "just trying to ask a question of the president."
"I didn't put my hands on her or touch her, as the White House is alleging," Acosta said. "I do think, Anderson, that this is a test for all of us. I think they're trying to shut us down. I think they're trying to send a message to my colleagues."
In a statement issued Wednesday, CNN released video of the interaction along with a statement accusing the White House retaliating against Acosta because of his questions to the president.
"In an explanation, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders lied," the network wrote. "She provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. This unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. Jim Acosta has our full support."


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Which horse has the best pedigree to handle twelve furlongs in the final leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, June 9 at Belmont Park? My Belmont Stakes alphabetical list continues with Unstoppable U.
Unstoppable U's sire Exchange Rate (by Danzig) won 6 of 15 races from 1999-2001 including the Risen Star Stakes and G2 Tom Fool. The Three Chimneys Stallion is responsible for 31 stakes winners including Ermine and Xchanger.
Exchange Rate's sire Danzig (by Northern Dancer) won all three career starts in New York. The influential stallion died in 2006 at age 29. He sired such prominent runners as Chief's Crown (3rd '85 Belmont Stakes), Stephan's Odyssey ('85 Belmont Stakes runner-up), Danzig Connection ('86 Belmont Stakes winner), '92 Preakness hero Pine Bluff, and Breeders' Cup Mile winners Lure and War Chant.


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It's a new year and Jesse James is ready to talk publicly about his relationship with Kat Von D.
The chopper customizer and reality star took to Twitter for the first time in months to express his feelings for the tattooed beauty, reports US magazine.
In a January 9 post to the social media site, James declared that "I have never felt so loved! I'm the luckiest MoFo in the world!"
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The "Monster Garage" head man had a highly public breakup with his movie star wife, Sandra Bullock, last year and kept a fairly low profile after news of his serial indiscretions came to light.
But by August, he had started dating "LA Ink" star Von D and the two have since been nearly inseparable.
On January 12, he wrote to her again on Twitter, saying "48 hours away from you feels like a year...you will never be anything but beautiful to me."
She replied by thanking James for "always supporting me and believing in everything I do. But most of all, thanks for being my best friend."
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., struggling with an undefined illness in an undisclosed location for nearly a month, has left treatment in Arizona and has entered the world-renowned Mayo Clinic.
In a statement released through the Rochester, Minn. facility, Jackson said he went in for "extensive inpatient evaluation for depression and gastrointestinal issues."
"Congressman Jackson and his family are grateful for the outpouring of support and prayers that have been received throughout his care," reads a portion of the statement.
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Jackson Jr.'s office announced June 26 he was being treated for exhaustion and would take a leave from office. Since then only the barest of details were released about Jackson Jr.'s condition and whereabouts, leaving many in the dark and wanting answers.
About a week later Jackson's office issued a statement noting the congressman's condition is "more serious than we thought and initially believed." Another week went by before an email attributed to Jackson's doctor said the congressman is suffering from "mood disorder."
The doctor noted he was responding positively to "intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility."
The congressman's office added that rumors about Jackson Jr. being treated for alcohol or substance abuse "are not true," but a family friend told NBC News that he has severe clinical depression, a drinking problem or a problem with alcohol and was undergoing treatment in Arizona.
"I think Congressman Jackson and his office and his family would be well advised to advise his constituents of his condition," said Democratic Congressman Steny Hoyer a day before news of Jackson's mood disorder surfaced. "He's obviously facing a health problem."
"[Jackson's] health is a number one priority," Sen. Dick Durbin said. "As a public official though, there reaches a point where you have a public responsibility to tell people what you're facing and how things are going."
"The people of Illinois have good hearts," Quinn said July 11. "I pray for Jesse Jackson Jr. every day."
Jackson's family remains mum on the congressman's exact ailment. His father, Rev. Jesse Jackson, said he is "hopeful" for the recovery.
"As a father, I offer no medical diagnosis, only the unconditional love of his family," he said.


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CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- An invasive insect pest ravaging U.S. ash trees, the emerald ash borer, may have met its match in a native bird species, researchers say.
Biologists at the University of Illinois at Chicago say woodpeckers are finding the Asian invaders a handy food source and could slow and even eventually control the pests.
"We found we have a native predator that is able to detect and respond to this new rich food resource," Charles Flower, postdoctoral research associate in biology and first author of the study, said.
The emerald ash borer has been responsible for the death of 30 million trees in the northeastern United States and Canada since it was first found breeding in trees in southeastern Michigan in 2002.
When emerald ash borer larvae emerge from eggs laid on the tree, they burrow in and eat their way through the layer of the tree that delivers water and nutrients from root to branch, eventually starving the tree.
Researchers began a study to see if native bark-foraging birds, including woodpeckers and nuthatches, were feeding on the emerald ash borer.
They found woodpeckers were in fact choosing to prey on emerald ash borers, eating as much as 85 percent of the emerald ash borer larvae in infested trees in the study.
Very little is known about emerald ash borer habits in its native environment, its natural predators, or how its population is controlled, Flower said, and slowing its course with the help of woodpeckers may give researchers time to learn more about how it can be controlled.
"Woodpeckers won't save a tree once it's infested, but they may save the forest," he said. "Or at least save a nearby forest."


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The New Girl wants to send a message to all the women out there!
Zooey Deschanel graces the February 2013 issue of Glamour, and inside she reveals her thoughts on feminism, her image and how Hollywood is negatively shaping the minds…and bodies…of young women.
Here's what she told the mag:
About Feminism: "I'm just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f--king feminist and wear a f--king Peter Pan collar. So f--king what?"
About Her Own Image: "It's just about doing what you like so that when you look at yourself, you're not disgusted. And I'm all about unintentional. I'm not a calculated person."
About the Pressure to Be Thin in Hollywood: "Actresses have definitely gotten thinner over the course of my lifetime. Women I admired growing up—Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep—were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny—much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. I'm a very small person, and if I lost 15 pounds, I'd look like them; it's scary. For young girls, what does that say? You need to look this way to be successful? That's not true. You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is larger than what people believe."
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