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Nikon Coolpix S640 compact camera
Good image quality at low sensitivities, compact design, simple to use, clear menu system
Sluggish start up, slow write-to-storage speeds, high ISO image noise, limited manual control
The Coolpix S640 provides a simple to use, high-resolution snapper for the masses with focusing and start-up performance as claimed benefits, among other cool features.
It is a slim, stylish-looking compact digital camera from Nikon that has a high-resolution 12.3-megapixel sensor and a quartet of image stabilisation tools to help keep everything nice and steady in low light or at longer focal lengths of the camera's excellent 5x zoom lens, which provides a good focal range from 28 to 140mm with a fast maximum aperture of F/2.8.
The quartet of stabilising features includes lens shift (optical) Vibration Reduction (VR), whilst a top sensitivity setting of ISO 6400 allows for faster shutter speeds in low light, say, or helps prevent subject blur for faster moving subjects. Motion detection mode automatically adjusts ISO and shutter speed for you, to help deal with subject movement and camera shake, removing that headache from your snapping equation. Finally, Nikon's BSS (Best Shot Selector) automatically shoots a series of images in sequence saving the frame that's sharpest.
Now, all that is great, but at higher ISOs particularly above ISO 1600, image noise, as you might expect, becomes a serious issue. Yes it allows you to get the shot, but is it usable at ISO 6400? If it lacks detail, clarity or colour fidelity it isn't.
However, ISO 1600 is actually very good in this regard, well at least for compacts such as this, so that's a bonus in terms of images shot at that setting. Below ISO 800 and things are much improved and you can limit the ISO range used (in auto settings) between ISO 100 to 400 and ISO 100 to 800, which helps mitigate noise in all-auto shooting modes, while the auto ISO range spreads things further still, ranging as it does between ISO 100 and 1600.
Handling is very nice for such a slim camera, particularly with the 5x zoom lens which is a real cracker; sharp, fast (both in terms aperture and its speed when zooming in and out) and covers a great focal range making it a very accomplished piece of glass.
Controls are simple, there's a zoom control surrounding the shutter release on the top, alongside the on/off button. The camera starts quickly, as Nikon claims, but if you want to access a menu to make an alteration, you still have to wait around 2 and a half seconds for the systems to "boot" up before menus become active.
On the back plate, a single button accesses the shooting modes: auto (program) and 17 scene modes that cover all the usual suspects, including panorama assist and close up and backlit option among others.
A neat Smart Portrait mode (this is over and above the Scene mode's Portrait setting) uses face detection technology alongside a special algorithm to help produce enhanced skin tones and smoothness in a shot as well as being able to recognise up to 12 faces in your photos. The Face priority AF also helps as it targets the metering and focusing points to create better people pictures.
Throw in the uncanny Smile Timer, where you can select a key subject and when they smile the camera fires and it's eerie how well that works. The Blink Proof function does not prevent everyone in front of the camera from blinking, oh no, it fires two frames in quick succession and keeps the image where everyone's eyes are open. Both are very handy features, and fun to use or try to foil!
Playback, menus and delete are all on the back plate on satellite buttons around the jog/dial selector and "OK" button used to navigate menus, options, images and select the option of choice.
The 2.7-inch colour screen is very nice to use, which it has to be as there's no optical viewfinder, it has an anti-reflective coating; it's water repellent and has a brightness boost too, for shooting in very bright conditions, but in direct sunlight it still becomes a challenge to use without shading.
The focusing performance is something Nikon has made big strides forward on in this camera; general subjects can be locked onto very fast indeed and this is great for reducing the lag between pressing the shutter button and getting an image. However, the AF fails to lock onto low contrast subjects and this happened too often for our liking.
Subject tracking, which locks onto a person's face and keeps it in focus helps keep fast moving people pictures sharply rendered and it's great for shooting your children at a party, say, even in low light when the faster ISO settings can be utilised if needed. One thing worth mentioning is the flash, which is tiny and underpowered for almost everything, higher ISOs push the performance a bit further but expect an effective flash range of only around 3 to 5 feet at ISO 100 to 400.
Images are stored on SD/SDHC storage but you get 45MBs of internal storage to tinker with as well, which is nice and dual movie modes for TV (640 x 480-pixels) or web use (320 x 240-pixels) if you're into your YouTube.
Overall, the S640 is very encouraging in terms of image quality. The combination of good lens, optical VR and low ISO image quality combine well here to produce great images. Colour and white balance (WB) are very good though the auto WB settings suffer from (the usual) slight orange colour cast under mixed lighting conditions.
The detail captured is quite superb below ISO 400, good at ISO 800 and okay at ISO 1600. Above this setting the detail is compromised by noise reduction processing and the sheer volume of image noise makes images rather murky. Metering is good for general scenes but as expected, the snowy shots have slight under exposure, so selecting the Snow scene mode helped out here.
The Nikon Coolpix S640 is everything the recently tested S570 is not, particularly in terms of speed. However, its price may raise some eyebrows. But when you bear in mind the clever automated features and technology that are ensconced within the S640's svelte frame, and then perhaps the price is a little more understandable.
High ISO image noise is perhaps the perennial problem here, but at least you can mitigate its vagaries by limiting the highest ISO range used and the fact the noise does not intrude until higher up the sensitivity scale.
The speediness of the S640 is nice to have but it's not as fast as Nikon make out when you factor in the slow menu usage, the fact the AF is not always on target and the slow write speeds of those large 12.2-megapixel files.
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With the Verve BK2000R Combo Snare and Bell Kit the student will be able to start learning snare drum and mallet percussion. This combination kit includes a 30 note, 2-1/2 octave bell set and 5-1/2" x 14" steel snare drum with tone control and silent overlay pad. Both are easily mountable on the included stands and store easily in the carryall padded bag with rolling luggage cart. Also includes a tunable drum pad, drum sticks, bell mallets, and music rack.
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The equipment in this kit seem pretty OK...just right for our family, who had a kid who made up his mind that he was going to be his grade school band's best percussionist! It wasn't so expensive that if he changed his mind it would be the end of the world.
.Actual kit equipment is fine for a beginner.
The equipment in this kit seem pretty OK for a newbie just learning percussion.
The CASE however, leaves a lot to be desired. 7 months/30-some trips back and forth to school and it's trashed and must be replaced. Zipper broke and ripped out, rendering the case completely useless. The poor design contributed greatly to this: the case becomes imbalanced on the rolling cart (it doesn't actuall attach); spins around on the handle, causing the whole kit to fall over on a regular basis
Pretty good for the price, except for the case. MF was the least expensive source we found.
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The bag and the rollers do not connect. The case falls over all the time, every day. the snare drum takes a lot of tuning and dosen't sound very good. The bells are fine but they send hard hard mallets. They sound awful, I had to buy softer mallets. I have no idea what the rag is for. The stands are ok but the book holder that hooks onto the bells blocks some of the notes. The practice pad is nice and the snare drum pad is good to have.
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War is still not the answer. It destroys the 'winners' as well as the 'losers.'
It's a good idea to be on alert wherever you are driving. Animals get out of their barns and fenced areas all the time on both sides of the Cascades. I had a friend who hit a horse on her way home from work one night in Linn County.
It can happen anywhere at anytime. My condolences to his family and friends.
Maybe, just maybe, if we are lucky, the undeniable reality of this season turning into a complete and total disaster will finally convince Paul Allen that he and his buddies don't really have what it takes to be owner-pretend-GM's. He has the money but he and they don't have the talent. They don't have any talent.
Dear Mr. Allen. Please hire a real GM and then sit back, don't interfere not matter what your drinking buddies say, and let him do his job.
Skinned alive would of been a better punishment.
As someone who has actually encountered Dr. Lindberg I'd like to say this-a person can be a good doctor, a professional and outwardly straight-up good person and at the same time have a personal life, hidden from view of everyone else, that is, to put it mildly, untidy.
It happens all the time. If we knew the transparent truth about everybody in this world, it would be truly shocking I would expect.
The truth is, nice guys can do dumb things. Especially when sex is involved.
As a firearm owner I just wish the NRA would be part of the solution instead of just another part of the problem.
As a registered nurse that sees many of the 20%'ers in the emergency department on a up-close and personal basis daily, I would love to see our health system redesigned to better manage our high-needs-high-cost patients. Even though, yes a portion of the costs are incurred by patient irresponsibility, some of it's due to the fact that some people need more attention and help than others when it comes to managing their illnesses. It's really kind of one size fits all system driven by what the patients and doctors want and most importantly, what insurance will reimburse you for. That doesn't always mean the best and most appropriate care for the patient.
We simply need more primary care physicians so people can get in to see them when they need to and more community based medical support systems to keep people healthy and out of the emergency department.
Lastly, major expenses are incurred in the last year of life-as that group is one that is made up of an ever-changing cast of characters, I would just encourage physicians and families to be realistic when it comes to mom or dad. Just because we can 'do everything' doesn't mean doing everything possible is the appropriate or even kind course of action.
People are like cars. When you've turned the odometer over a couple of times there is no way to turn what's left back into a Ferrari.
Mentally ill. Sounds about right. Time to get him back home so he can run amok there.
Spoiled rich kid.
The mayor is free to state his opinion and we are free to demand his resignation. Having freedom of speech does not exempt you from the consequences of that speech.
How could you possibly be surprised that people are offended when you start throwing the word abomination recklessly around at a whole group of other people?
It wasn't a very Christian act on his part.
Trade all of them except batum and la.
Doing it 'his way,' doesn't seem to working with 'these players.' A smart coach would start putting round pegs in round holes instead of continually trying to fit square ones into round holes.
But I don't remember ever watching a Blazers game where any of even the hometown announcers or basketball color commentators ever tried to claim that Nate had out-coached whoever was on the oppositions bench.
The Trailblazer franchise is dysfunctional and not in a fun way.
No, it's over for Mr. Oden. It's time for him to peruse whatever his post-NBA career is going to be. I saw the logic of drafting him #1 at the time but it turned out so badly....... right up there just below drafting Sam Bowie instead of that Michael Jordan fella...... that I think the Portland Trailblazers may just be the next Chicago Cubs as far as winning another world title franchise wise is concerned.
Mr. Dionne you speak the truth and the GOP can't handle the truth!
Mr. Lowry, in answer to your questions. So what? If we simply honored every 'moral belief' people had, health insurance would be chaos. And perhaps some employer has a 'moral belief' that he or his employees should not get "Negro blood" ever, even in a dire life saving emergency in the belief they would become Negro themselves? Should we honor such 'moral' beliefs?
I have a moral belief that you should not be writing such drivel. I have a moral belief that no medical plan should have prescription coverage for free Levitra or or Viagra. Not getting an erection is a bummer but it's not a life or death issue.
So, you can easily see that five billion people each deciding on their own what they want in their own personal health insurance plan based on medieval superstition is a bad idea.
The Ducks are all about marketing that's for sure. Now, if their football would be as good?
Little Ricky should run for Pope, not president. And what's with his uncomfortable looking family with him on stage? The apple doesn't fall too far from the genetic tree does it? Those seven children are a ready made ad for contraception coverage. Case closed.
Nate must be a republican. They are the kind of people that, if something doesn't work, you try the very same thing exactly the same way time after time after time after time expecting different results.
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To introduce solids to Ada, we are taking the approach of Baby Led Weaning (BLW). Pretty much what this means is that we give Ada food that looks normal, if you will…not pureed or smashed to oblivion.
Ada told us she was ready for more than breastmilk when she sloshed her hand into my bowl of spaghetti one night. She only played with the noodles and sauce and surprisingly didn't put anything to her mouth. A few days later we were eating dinner at my parents house, and, while I wasn't looking, Ada grabbed some squash skin off of my plate and started sucking on it. It was definitely an "earth to Mom" message (OMG that phrase brings me back to the 90's).
(Here's Ada officially eating dinner for the first time – sweet potato – and clearly couldn't be more thrilled.)
For some good nuts and bolts information on BLW, check out the book "Baby-Led Weaning." Rookie Moms and A Healthy Slice of Life also have some great posts on the topic.
With Ada, we've started slow but I think she's chomping at the bit, so to speak, to eat more food. Besides squash (instant favorite), we also started with steamed broccoli, steamed carrots, and avocado. Since then, we've moved onto some more adventurous foods, including brown rice, potatoes, applesauce (she sucks it off of a spoon), and green beans.
Here's what we've learned in our very amateur experience with BLW:
Chill out. Instead of making sure Ada is getting enough food, we view meal time as a chance for her to play and experiment with different textures. I love giving her "goopy" foods because, although I might load up a spoon for her to put in her mouth, she loves spreading these foods across her tray. Ada did surprise us and got way more down from the beginning than we expected (the evidence was in her poo).
Prepare for food to be flung. Okay, so, there is nothing neat about BLW. Our apartment, with its carpeting and light-colored walls, isn't conducive to flying food. We stick a large towel under Ada's high chair, make sure the dog/vacuum knows it's mealtime, and chock up other messes to our apartment's battle scars from baby. We also dress Ada in clothes we don't care about.
Ahem…poo becomes fascinating. I got really into examining Ada's poo. Tom would save the diapers before throwing them into the bin so I could see what ended up in there. At first, there were just bits of carrot and broccoli in an otherwise-normal breastfed poop. Just this week (after 1.5 months of solids), Ada's gotten lumps in her diaper instead of liquidy poo (too much information?!). It's kind of fun to see her body adjusting to the food, and from a cloth diapering perspective, it's so much easier just to shake some lumps into the toilet. She's also going a few times per day now, as opposed to only once per day.
Get ready for some gagging. Something my parents have had a hard time adjusting to is that Ada gags a fair amount while eating. I'd say one to two times per meal, depending on what she's eating, she gags for a few seconds. We watch her, and she figures out on her own how to push the food out of her mouth. Gagging (which also happens with purees, frankly) is something we just need to be comfortable with. Tom and I are also very aware of the differences between gagging and choking, and have been trained in infant CPR so that we are ready if anything should go wrong.
This week, we are taking on doing 2-3 meals per day (besides breastmilk, of course). I think Ada is craving more solid food in her tummy but she is overwhelmed by all of the choices! I'm going to participate in A Healthy Slice of LIfe's Munchkin Meals this week, so stay tuned for some details on exactly what Ada is eating.


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For a band it's all about the sound.
Finding the right note, the right lyrics and the right combination to make a song stand out.
For a metro group of band mates bringing all their talents together was the easy part.
"We've all known each other for many years," says drummer Dirk William Newton of Des Moines.
The group has been playing together for about a year, writing original music that the crowd can't get enough of.
"It's really never been too much of a struggle to write, can't say we've had to work hard in that regard, it kind of flows," says guitarist Dustin Ennis of Des Moines.
But for lead singer Jimmy Enos, the thing he loves to do the most, is the one thing that helped pull him out of a dark place.
"This is his life, this is what he does, this is what saved him, music is a salvation for him, it's nice to be part of something that cool," says Newton.
For Jimmy singing comes naturally, but talking is a constant struggle.
"Being on stage, I have to stop and say a prayer before I would do it because so much fear, but what a relief sometimes," says Enos who has a stutter.
Jimmy found singing became an outlet.
"It was just a lot of fear, it's like okay all of a sudden I can speak fluent and it's a cool thing," says Enos.
But things haven't always been so in tune.
"I remember smoking crack in basements and now I'm practicing in one," says Enos.
Jimmy was 11 when he started using.
"I spent a lot of years numbing out those senses with drugs and alcohol," says Enos.
It wasn't until he vowed to kick the drugs and alcohol that the haze started to lift.
"I was three days sober off of meth and it's crazy, I felt a surge of energy come over and all of a sudden I wrote this song, Hymn of the Re-Birth"," says Enos.
Singing saved his life.
"I put it all out there finally and was honest with myself ya know because I really needed to be," says Enos.
And so "Stutterin' Jimmy and the Goosebumps" was born.
"It's great to see someone making something positive out of a bad situation," says Ennis.
And the once timid musician took the reins as a confident leader.
"I know how challenging it is to be up on stage, how absolutely frightening it is, and it's probably twenty times as frightening for him to be up on stage just the amount of vibrato it takes to carry that off, it's an amazing thing," says Newton.
In a world where music is everything and hitting the right note is key, this band is overcoming more than just stage fright.
"Man that's a great feeling, ya know, us building something out of nothing, or just out of an idea and all of a sudden people see it as a work of art," says Enos.
"Stutterin' Jimmy and the Goosebumps" has already put out one album.
The band is currently revising a couple songs and plans to record their second album by next spring.
More information on the band can be found by visiting, http://www.reverbnation.com/theGoosebumps


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Dr Forman graduated from Albert Einstein Medical College in 1990 and did her residency training at Jacobi Medical Center in Internal Medicine. She was faculty in the primary care department prior to moving to Florida where she worked in private practice. She then returned to the New York area and worked in the North Central Bronx medical clinic and then became faculty at Cornell where she was part of the faculty internal medicine group and the director of a women's and children's center in Long Island City established to serve a diverse and needy population. There she was very active in developing outreach and education programs for the community.
She came to Westchester Medical Center in 2001 where she served as the Medical Director at Taylor Care Center for 2 ½ years prior to becoming the medicine clerkship director for New York Medical College. She served as the director of the Occupational Health Center at WMC for 3 years prior to becoming the director of the Adult Primary Care Center in July 2007. Dr Forman has been involved in a spectrum of medical educational activities throughout her career. She also became an Associate Program Director in July of 2007.
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Pool-to-school groundbreaking ceremony today at McClure Middle School
It's Farmer's Market day on Queen Anne, and as if there weren't enough fun and excitement, be sure to mosey (that's right, I said mosey) on over to the McClure main courtyard on 1st Avenue South. From 4:00-5:00 PM today, join community members, sponsors and McClure Middle School principal Sarah Pritchett for the groundbreaking ceremony […] [Read More]
Free Halloween swim at the QA pool tonight!
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(At least) Two more chances for Sunday swimming at Queen Anne pool
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ok, demo questions.
Finally demo finished downloading. I played for only a bit because it was pretty late, I put my Res to 1920 x 1200, ALL settings to "High". I noticed the "Very High" Is greyed out, why is this? Is it not available in the demo? Or is it just that my comp can't run it or what? Any way to make it appear?
Anyways, with 1920 x 1200, 8x AA, All settings on High, I never felt low FPS, but then again I don't have a program that shows me FPS, other than fraps, whats a good program to just show you FPS in games etc?
Thank you.
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Very High is only avail in DX10 Vista.
type "r_displayinfo=1" in console to enable frame rate info
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You can enable almost all "very high" settings in DX9 when you modify the cfg, or add an autoexec.cfg in "x:\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo"
FastPony shared his nice config in this thread:
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http://maxcrysis.com/dx10unlock.php seems easier I think
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Yes you can do it this way as well. There are a few ways to archieve the same results.
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All you do is change a 3 for a 4 incase you didnt read. Im guesing if u wanna go back u just change the 4 to 3 again.
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Very nice read on Homer Bailey. I get the feeling he is only going to get better and better.
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Sinker ball pitchers, if they can keep the ball down, can be filthy. I like that he's using the two seamer more.
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Things I liked:TURNS A PISTOL INTO A RIFLE
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In a landmark 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court today in Citizens United v. FEC struck down major portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. The Court left in place the disclosure requirement for corporations and the disclaimer requirement that identifies whether an ad is not paid for by the campaign. But little else remains. The Court overruled the highly controversial 1990 decision in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates. As this report notes:
The majority, invoking the Constitution's free-speech clause, said the government lacks a legitimate basis to restrict independent campaign expenditures by companies. . ."The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. Companies, which had been barred since 1947 from spending money in support or opposition to a candidate, potentially now will pump millions of dollars into campaigns. Companies, and possibly labor unions as well, will be able to use their general-treasury dollars to punish or reward lawmakers for their votes on legislation.
This is a vindication of the First Amendment and a victory for the protection of political speech, which is at the heart of our political system. It will certainly increase the amount of speech. Even the New York Times recognizes this (well, sort of):
The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment's most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace will corrupt democracy.
The 5-to-4 decision was a doctrinal earthquake but also a political and practical one. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision, which also applies to labor unions and other organizations, to reshape the way elections are conducted.
Republicans may see some tactical advantage here, as corporations wary of the Obama regime may now help fund Republican Senate and House candidates seeking to block the Obama anti-business agenda. But it would be a mistake to assume that corporations that seem to have perfected the art of feeding at the government trough and which are vulnerable to the ever-increasing reach of the Obama administration won't cover their bets by giving to both sides. Moreover, this is a victory plain and simple for the Constitution and for the essential notion that if there is a "problem" with certain types of speech, the solution is more speech, not the heavy hand of government censors.


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San Antonio house of Senate candidate Ric Sanchez gutted
Arson investigators said Thursday they have ruled out foul play in the Veterans Day fire that destroyed the San Antonio house of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, a Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. [Read More]
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Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez of San Antonio said Monday he is considering running as a Democrat for a U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. Getty Images Ricardo Sanchez Sanchez is a former U.S. commander of coalition forces in Iraq who later criticized Bush administration policy in the Middle East. "I've […] [Read More]
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A former U.S. military commander in Iraq who later criticized Bush administration policy in the Middle East is being eyed as a possible candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat in Texas. Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is being recruited by Democrats for the seat being vacated by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who is […] [Read More]


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New services start at Manvers Street One Stop Shop
Posted: September 25, 2012|
Three new organisations have joined Bath & North East Somerset Council in the state-of-the-art Manvers Street One Stop Shop to provide their services to up to 1,000 people going through the doors every day.
The Healthy Lifestyle Service from Sirona Care & Health, Terrence Higgins Trust, and the Carers' Centre join the Council and a range of other partner services already located at the One Stop Shop, such as Age UK, Curo Housing, and Citizens Advice Bureau.
Councillor David Bellotti (Lib-Dem, Lyncombe), Cabinet Member for Community Resources, said, "The One Stop Shop is proving very popular with local people wanting to access useful face-to-face public services all in one place. Bath & North East Somerset Council has set a new standard for customer services in our area and we are very pleased that so many local voluntary and public sector organisations are choosing to have a presence here."
Details of the new service available are as follows:
- The Healthy Lifestyle Service offer a Stop Smoking service on Tuesday, 8.30am – 1pm (drop-in service), Thursday 1pm – 5pm (appointment only via 01225 831852), and Saturday 10am – 12 noon (drop in service at the Shopmobility entrance);
- Terence Higgins Trust offers help and advice Tuesday 1pm – 5pm by appointment only via email@example.com or call 0117 955 1000;
- The Carers' Centre offers help and advice for carers, of any age, who provide unpaid help to family or friends who couldn't manage without their support. Tuesday 9.30am – 1pm (drop-in service).
A full list of all voluntary and public sector partners can be found at www.bathnes.gov.uk/onestopshop
Steve Jones, Regional Manager for Terrence Higgins Trust in the South West, said: "Our new one stop shop is a convenient and confidential place where people with HIV in Bath can go for help and advice. It's important that people living with or affected by HIV have the support they need to live healthily and happily. This new service is a great way to ensure the people of Bath and North East Somerset have access to that support on their own doorstep."
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Safe House not a safe bet
Todd Miller | Collegio Reporter
As far as action movies go, "Safe House" fits the bar with fast-moving scenes with lots of action. But when it comes to being a good movie, it can barely grasp the bar.
The movie is focused on the criminal Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), an ex-CIA agent who's gone rogue. While being pursued by a number of unknown men, he turns himself in at a U.S. embassy in South Africa. Frost is taken to a safe house run by protagonist Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) to be interrogated. The safe house quickly becomes anything but safe and Weston must protect Frost from the attackers, while keeping the criminal in custody and while trying to figure out who is chasing Frost and why.
The plot is probably the movie's biggest problem. It's just so thin. Most action movies have a series of action scenes strung together by scenes that build the plot. But this movie's plot lacked substance. Which means it is strung together in a way that's not very intriguing. In fact, it is boring.
Most of the action sequences were fun to look at, I'll admit. My favorite is a sequence in the middle that takes place in a slum of Cape Town. Washington and Reynolds also do fantastic jobs on their parts, despite the movie's lack of anything good to grasp onto.
There's not much I can go on about. The movie tries to offer political intrigue and subterfuge, but is just grasping at straws and loses interest fast.
Honestly, at first I thought the movie's plot was confusing before I realized it was just thin and poor.
Another issue is that some of the scenes are rather choppy. It will show a scene, but quickly jump back in time to show the characters doing something before that point, then jump back. It's not so much confusing as it is unnecessary. When I see the characters sitting on the floor of a pharmacy bandaging themselves, I don't need to see tiny scenes of them pulling the bandages off the shelves. It's something the audience can easily infer.
So if you like action movies and don't mind if they have no meat on their plot bones, then "Safe House" should be nice to watch. It has some decent action sequences and the actors do a great job. However, despite the action sequences, it got boring to watch after a short while.


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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited (genetic) disease in which excess mucus clogs the lungs, prevents food from being digested, and damages the reproductive system. It is the most common life-threatening genetically inherited disease affecting Caucasians. About 30,000 children and adults in the United States, mostly Caucasians, have cystic fibrosis.
In CF, an abnormal protein called CFTR is produced. This protein changes the way chloride (a component of salt, which is also called sodium chloride) moves in and out of cells. This affects the balance between salt and water in the body, making the mucus that lines the lungs, pancreas, and other organs thicker and stickier.
CF affects all the body's exocrine glands. These glands create chemicals necessary for proper functioning of the body. The pancreas, for example, is an exocrine gland that provides digestive enzymes for the stomach. The sweat glands provide liquid to cool the skin. In CF, some glands produce abnormal substances. The sweat glands, for example, release high levels of salt. Other glands, like the pancreas, become plugged with mucus. Because it affects so many organs in our body, CF is usually diagnosed early in childhood.
The tables below show your risk of being a CF carrier based on which family members have CF or on your ethnicity:
Thanks to good research, better and more medications, and early diagnosis, people with CF are living longer, fuller lives.
CF cannot be "caught" like a cold or the flu. It's genetic and is caused by inheriting two copies of the same abnormal gene, one from each parent. People who get one defective and one normal copy of the gene are said to be "carriers" of the CF gene. Carriers don't get CF, but they have the abnormal CF gene that can be passed on to their children.
If both parents are carriers, their children have a 1 in 4 chance of getting the disease, a 1 in 2 chance of being carriers, and a 1 in 4 chance of being normal. Boys and girls are equally likely to have CF.
Researchers have also noticed higher levels of some essential fatty acids in people with CF. The role of these fatty acids is still unknown.
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Flatiron Restaurant is in Red Hook.
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7488 S. Broadway, Red Hook; 845-758-8260
It is hard to pass on House-made Charcuterie. You can choose between charcuterie only or a platter that includes cheese. Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad was tossed with tiny sweet currants and roasted salted sunflower seeds with a lemon vinaigrette. Many wines by the glass are available, as are mixed drinks and beer, but be sure to take a moment to consider a house cocktail. The Jalisco Rose was made of tequila, house-made grapefruit bitters and fresh grapefruit juice with a splash of chipotle-spiked simple syrup. Market Fish is an entree option, so be sure to ask your server what is available. Save room for dessert: House-made Malted Ice Cream was much like a malted shake on a warm summer's day.
18 Church St.,New Paltz; 845-256-0621
The description for Hamachi Kama read: "Salt and pepper broiled yellowtail collar." The jawbone of a large yellowtail fish was prudently seasoned, placed under a broiler and cooked until the protein that was still on the bone was fork-tender and flaking. Sushi and rolls feature standards such as the Rainbow, aka California Roll, and salmon and tuna rolls, as well as sushi and sashimi. For something a little different, the Out of Control combined fresh tuna, yellowtail and avocado into a tight little roll. Dessert includes fried ice cream or fried bananas.
202 Main St., Poughkeepsie; 845-454-1179
The bar seats plenty, but there are also a few four-top tables across from the open kitchen and several two-seaters in the back of the restaurant with a view of the large back patio. Outside, there's a beer garden and several large tables. Schatzi's has 15 taps filled with craft and German beer. German cuisine features Grownup Tater Tots stuffed with braised pork belly, cheddar and green onions; locally made pirogis; the Schnitzel Club; and the Duck Confit Grilled Cheese, with slow-cooked duck, duck cracklings, caramelized onions, roasted oyster mushrooms, grilled asparagus and melted Brie on a toasted brioche.
1794 Route 9, Wappingers Falls; 845-218-9453
Excellent beer selection, with 30 brews on draft. Wing flavors include Jammin' Jalapeńo and Caribbean Jerk. Can't take the heat? Try mild flavors like Sweet BBQ or my favorite, Parmesan Garlic. It has 77 TVs and practically every sports package you can think of.
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'Vampire Academy'
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human/vampire, guardians of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discretely within our world. Her legacy is to protect the Moroi from vampires, the Strigoi. This is her story. Stars Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky. Directed by Mark Waters. 104 minutes
Rated: PG-13, violence, bloody images, sexual content and language
'The Monuments Men'
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, this action drama focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? Stars George Clooney (who also directs), Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bill Murray. 118 minutes.
Rated: PG-13, some images of war violence and smoking
'The Lego Movie'
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have made a terrific movie about an actual toy that doesn't play like a 100-minute commercial. Instead, it's a knowing, funny, smart take on what makes a hero. Chris Pratt plays Emmet, a Lego toy who may or may not be the savior of prophecy. A real treat.
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? Sesame Street Live! - Mair Hall, Mid-Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie. Feb. 8-9. Sesame Street Live! presents "Elmo Makes Music." Showtimes: 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., Feb. 8; 1 and 4:30 p.m., Feb. 9. Doors open one hour prior to each performance. Ticket prices are: $17.50-$59.50, reserved seating. Group rates available for groups of 10 or more by calling the box office 845-454-5800, Ext. 1201.
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In addition to death and taxes, there is at least one other thing you can count on: the Highland girls basketball team in the playoffs.
Highland (7-0 in District 13-A, 24-3 overall) wrapped up its 12th straight postseason trip on Friday by annihilating Ira, 93-36, in Ira.
Four Lady Hornets hit double figures, led by Beth Richburg's 22 points and Sierra Allen's 19. Hannah Allen had 12 points, while Madison Moseley had 10.
Sydny Helbert had nine points, Kaylee Martin six, Lora Stewart five, Stephan-ie Ashford four and Morgan Monroe three.
Highland's win over Ira and Roscoe's 53-29 victory over Westbrook moved the Plowgirls — who are 5-2 in district and 16-10 overall — into outright second place. Ira is 4-3 and Westbrook's record fell to 3-4.
Faith Boren scored 18 points, Carolina Perez 13 and Eva Aguayo 10 to pace Roscoe. Also scoring for the Plowgirls were Stina Tom-lin with five points, Torrey Willman with four and Mir-ian Solis with three.
Roscoe's boys got their first win in district play by beating Westbrook 62-47 as the Plowboys improved to 1-4 in district (4-13 season). Roscoe, which led 32-23 at halftime, was paced by Jes-us Leanos' 32 points.
Dillon Freeman provided double-figure support by scoring 11 points while Kevin Lavalais scored nine, Shelton Tolliver four and Cutter Davila and Luke Rovig two each.
But it was a bad night for Highland's boys, who went to first-place Ira Friday and lost, 76-29, falling to 3-2 in district and a game behind second-place Hermleigh (4-1). Brandon Stevens had nine points, Ethan Wilson eight, Michael Hyde four, Ron Covington and Kevin Box three and Seth Wood two for the Hornets.


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Learn sauces and soups at The Seasoned Gourmet
The Seasoned Gourmet, 1930 Eastwood Road in Lumina Commons, has two upcoming cooking classes available through the Cape Fear Food & Wine Club. At 11 a.m. Saturday, Susan Boyles will offer Mother Sauces Part I. Step into the kitchen to help create Bechamel and Hollandaise sauces, two of the mother sauces from which you can make others. Learn how to turn Bechamel into mustard sauce to be served on chicken and Soubise served on roasted vegetables. The hands-on class will… Read More »


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November 14, 2007
Monika.As J Hoberman notes in the Voice, there's a lot of Ingmar Bergman on New York screens right about now. But one film's the highlight of the bunch: "When revived in Paris, then-critic Jean-Luc Godard hailed Monika in a frenzy of enthusiasm as 'the cinematographic event' of 1958... Bergman's tale of heedless teenage love is a sort of neorealist Rebel Without a Cause - except that sex is acknowledged and the outlaw is a girl." "Shot in rich black and white, Monika shows a director in absolute control of his medium and its singular expressivity," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "In the early city scenes Bergman crowds the frame with objects and people, creating a sense of claustrophobia for the lovers and for those of us watching them struggle to find a place of their own. Once they make their escape, the jammed, Cubistic cityscape gives way to pastoral vistas that melt into one another as the shimmering sun dissolves into images of glistening water and a sky as sheltering as it is limitless." Updated through 11/15. At the IFC Center through November 27. Update, 11/15: "By Monika's closing scenes, Bergman's original opposition between the bubbly young couple and the assortment of unhappy adults (bosses, co-workers, neighbors and parents) has collapsed into itself: Monika and Harry, now separated, epitomize the misery they wanted so badly to escape," writes Benjamin Sutton in the New York Press. "This relentlessly tragic narrative, longtime Bergman collaborator Gunnar Fischer's outstanding cinematography and the central pair's impeccable acting, make Monika a fully realized Bergman psychodrama, rather than an early model for his later work." "Ingmar Bergman made eleven films before his breakthrough, Summer with Monika (1952), where he seemed to be stimulated by filming his lover at the time, Harriet Andersson, a bluntly carnal brunette," writes Dan Callahan at the House Next Door. "Andersson is also crucial to his next film, Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)." This would be "Bergman's first film where the idea of humiliation, specifically sexual humiliation, becomes crucial to his conception."
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Michael Joseph Willeford, Jonesborough, TN, died Sunday, July 31, 2011, at his residence.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 14, 2011, at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church Christian Life Center with Rev. Brian Taylor officiating. Music will be provided by the Journey Praise Team.
The family will receive friends after the service.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested that donations be made to Feed the Children, P.O. Box 36, Oklahoma City, OK 73101-0036; or Medical Center Hospice, 101 Med Tech Parkway, Suite 100, Johnson City, TN 37604.
Condolences may be sent to the Willeford family online at www.dillow-taylor.com.
Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Jonesborough, TN; 423-753-3821


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We Are So Lame!!! The Bella Girls want to apologize for our lack of posts today. Life definitely does not want to slow down. So until next time please feel free to yell at your computer screens…. BAD BELLA GIRLS, BAD!
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Healthy/vegan/veg options, Yonge/St Clair?
Dear Torontonians:
I'll be spending the summer in TO, living Yonge/St Clair.
Didn't see much in the way of vegan/raw/vegetarian options on my last visit.
Would very much appreciate recommendations.
I work in the area.
Don't know how healthful it is as they refuse to post NI ( bad sign?), but the Thai Express on St. Clair (east of yonge) does all their curries and stirfrys as veggie options (good veggies) or with Tofu. harvey's is new to the area and does a veggie burger as well. (same style)
Retro Burger (south of st. clair, west side of yonge) has a veggie burger which is actually pretty good, but it depends on what you like for a veggie burgers (this is meat-style, done on the same grill as the meat I think judging from the taste).
Andy does veggie dogs on a corner east of Yonge. I can't say they are great but sometimes its fun to go to the hot dog cart in the summer.
The Salad Selection at Druxy's (basement of St. Clair center) is a more affordable, reasonably sized and fresher option than the stuff at Freshii (south of Heath, west side of Yonge), although both are possibilities for veggie lovers.
PIzzaiolo has veg pizza options (south side of St. Clair, west of yonge)
not a lot of superhealthy choices in this area....I end up bringing my lunch most days, but these are some options i've found.
Retro Burger
1450 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4T 1Y5, CA
re: nummanumma
Not sure how far you are willing to go for good food.
Closeby there is freshii where you can make your own salads, etc.
I've never been but Delica Kitchen is around that area. It should be veg-friendly.
You could try Tabuli near Yonge/Davisville for some casual veg-friendly Middle Eastern fare.
I love Rawlicious, which is in Yorkville. Great raw cuisine - love their creamsicle smoothie, ginger-date dressing, rawitch and their cheesecakes.
Camros Eatery is near Yonge/Bloor.
My other healthy option I like is The Beet in the Junction, which is definitely not closeby! It is nice because it caters to omnis, vege and gluten-free customers, alike! :)
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I really like Rawlicious, too, especially the ginger-date dressing!
Some good recs so far. I have become a recent fan of Sprout on the south side of St. Clair, just west of Yonge. It's a little Vietnamese spot and they make some tasty dishes - I really like their "OMG soup" - broth (you'd need to check if it's veggie) with noodles, sprouts, veggies and optional toppings, including tofu. Quite tasty. They also have raw salad rolls, vermicelli dishes, etc. Heading south 2 subway stops (or a 10-12 minute walk), Black Camel makes a very tasty veggie sandwich - roasted eggplant, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes plus fresh arugula on a soft chewy bun with your choice of sauces (I like charamoula mayo) and additional toppings. There is Live on Dupont, near Bathurst - a longer walk or drive but still midtownish - it's a (not surprisingly) raw food restaurant with tasty dishes. Petite Thuet has lovely quiches and incredible breads, which would pair nicely with some cheese and fresh fruit/veggies from the shops across the street for a summer picnic. I like Tabule a lot - lots of yummy veggie options there (fried tomatoes, halumi salad, hummus, lentil soup, fried cauliflower, etc.). Someone also posted recently about Fabrica (Fabricant?), north of Davisville, a new pizza and pasta spot. If you're focused on vegan or raw, that's a bit more of a challenge but for vegetarian, you can pretty much go anywhere in the 'hood and find something. Enjoy!
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There are a couple of good options at Yonge/Eglinton:
-Kale is a small vegan restaurant on Yonge where you pay by weight. They have a variety of cold and hot foods which are so delicious and healthy! My favourites are the squash stuffed perogies an the grilled tofu steaks with the tofu sauce.
-Sandwich Box on Eglinton is basically like a gourmet Subway where you can make sandwiches or salads using your choice of ingredients. There are at least 2 varieties of tofu that you can put on the salads as far as I can remember. They also offer a vegan soup everyday.
Do not miss Le Commensal on Bay near Yonge, a vegetarian buffet. So so good. See their website for details.
Welcome to the neighbourhood! (I'm on yonge south of St. Clair)
You do have some options.
Freshii - On Yonge in the same building as Bruno's - Basically create your own salad deal.
There is 2 or 3 sushi places, that will have veg tempura bento's along with the requisite vegetarian rolls.
Chef of India has a daily lunch buffet and has a take out option for it.
Delica kitchen (south of st. clair, west side) has daily veg sandwich specials as does Fixx cafe a little further down in the same line.
If all else fails, you have Bruno's, the loblaws (st. clair centre) + the 24 hr sobey's to fall back on.
Also, the smoothie bar at the Goodlife has fresh veggie and fruit juices, though I have never tried (usually see it as I am running to catch the train to work)
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Jews for Jesus—and Vice Versa
Imagine the following: it is the year 150 C.E. or thereabouts. After a prolonged conflict within the Jewish community of Palestine and its many offshoots around the Mediterranean, the believers in Jesus have triumphed. Mainstream Judaism, even while continuing to develop along the rabbinic lines that were already well-established in Jesus' time, has accepted the contention that he was sent by God to redeem the world and will return in glory to complete the task in the fullness of time. Meanwhile, however, the Jewish people adheres to its separate ways, insisting on the strict distinction between Jew and Gentile, sacred and profane, ritually permitted and ritually forbidden—even though it believes that the messiah has come in the person of a carpenter's son from Nazareth who was crucified by the Romans.
So much for the Jews. But what would have happened, in such an eventuality, to the non-Jews? This question is asked by the author and columnist David Klinghoffer in his newly published Why the Jews Rejected Jesus1—a book that seeks to justify Judaism's dismissal of the Christian savior while arguing at the same time that the world should be grateful for that dismissal.
Klinghoffer does this by means of a historical hypothesis. Had Judaism accepted Jesus' messianic claims, he contends, Christianity would never have arisen. The pagan society of the era would not have been attracted to a redeemer who could only be acknowledged by becoming a Jew. Paganism would have remained the dominant religion of the Roman Empire—at least until Islam, another child of Judaism, brought monotheism to Europe at sword point, overrunning a continent whose decadent civilization would have been unable to resist its onslaught.
In that case, Klinghoffer argues, there would have been no Catholic Church, no Chartres or Notre Dame, no Sorbonne or Oxford, no Thomas Aquinas, Dante, or Michelangelo, no Renaissance, no Shakespeare or Newton, no Western science, art, literature, music, or democracy. There might have been great mosques in London and great schools of Arabic learning in Paris, but, today, life in those cities might well resemble medieval life in Cairo and Baghdad. This is why, Klinghoffer writes, "the Jewish rejection of Jesus was the founding act of Western civilization."
As a historical defense of Judaism, this is, one might say, having one's cake and eating it, too. On the one hand, Klinghoffer maintains, Jesus' Jewish contemporaries had every reason to scoff at his pretensions, since he did not live up to their minimal criteria for what a messiah was supposed to be or do—which was first and foremost to liberate the land and people of Israel from foreign oppression. Even if he actually performed all the wonders attributed to him by his followers, he failed to meet Judaism's evidentiary standards.
But on the other hand, Klinghoffer writes, because Jesus was a loyal Jew whose teachings, on the whole and despite certain differences of emphasis, were consistent with Jewish tradition, their dissemination among non-Jews meant the spread of Jewish beliefs and values throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. While Christianity broke permanently with Judaism under the influence of Paul (on whom Klinghoffer is harsh, going so far as to suggest that he faked his Jewish credentials), the conceptual gap between the two religions was never as great as later Christian and Jewish polemicists made it out to be. Indeed, many of the Christian doctrines that have seemed most outlandish to Jews, such as the divinity of Jesus or the saving power of faith, have Jewish roots.
Klinghoffer is quick to admit that this is hardly a novel way of viewing the Christian-Jewish relationship. It is, in fact, the point of view of Christianity itself, which always considered Judaism to be a parent whose limitations it had cast off and whose promise it fulfilled. Nor, as he points out in an interesting chapter of Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, is the notion of Christianity as an extension of Judaism, rather than a falsification of it, totally foreign to Jewish sources. Hinted at in Yehuda Halevi's 12th-century philosophical book Kuzari, the idea was more fully developed somewhat later by Maimonides, who declared that Jesus of Nazareth, though obviously not the messiah, "served to clear the way for the king messiah [and] to prepare the whole world to worship God with one accord." In subsequent ages, too, there were rabbis who conceived of Christianity not as the enemy of Judaism but as a diluted version of it, a monotheistic burden light enough to be borne by the masses until they were ready for the heavier yoke of the Torah.
Moreover, there is yet another strand of Western thought that stresses the closeness of the two religions—while being hostile to them both. This started with Enlightenment intellectuals like Voltaire and Gibbon; took an anti-Enlightenment turn in Nietzsche (who had a grudging admiration for Judaism that he never accorded Christianity); was adopted by the ideology of the Nazis; and remains perceptible not only among doctrinaire secularists but in some of the New Age philosophies of our times. That the proverbial Martian observer descending to earth might initially have trouble in telling Judaism and Christianity apart, as did the 1st-century Romans, is thus an intellectual commonplace.
In articulately restating this commonplace in Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, Klinghoffer seeks to explain why it is important for contemporary Jews and Christians to internalize it. Rather than thinking of their respective faiths as related but rival systems, he believes that the time has come for them to realize they are in the same boat; whatever their doctrinal differences, they are engaged in promoting the same truths, defending the same values, and worshiping the same God. Himself an observant Jew who came to Jewish practice as an adult, he concludes with a metaphor, borrowed from the 19th-century Italian rabbi Elijah Benamozegh, that reflects, as he puts it, "God's perspective":
Being a "kingdom of priests" [as the Bible commands Israel to be] means ministering to others in a priestly role, for who can claim to be a priest if he has no congregation? God's instruction to the Jews at the moment of the revelation of the Torah was to serve the congregation of humanity, bringing the knowledge of the Lord to them. It would seem that the Christian church now plays the role of congregation . . . with the Jews serving in the ministerial position. Christians and Muslims alike know of the God of Abraham only because they met him in the Bible. . . . It served God's purposes that there be a unique religion [Christianity], acknowledging Him, for the people who spread out from Europe. It was not Judaism. It departs from Judaism in many ways. But in revering the God of Israel it contains the seeds for an ultimate reunification of the people [of the earth] in God's service.
Of course, judged in the context of today's ecumenism, there is nothing particularly remarkable about such a profession, either. Klinghoffer's way of putting the point may violate the "politically correct" norms of interfaith dialogue by naming Judaism as the senior partner in a spiritual coalition in which it plays the more demanding role, but Christian ecumenicists tend to do the same in reverse, depicting Christianity as a pivotal revolution in human development and Judaism as the "old regime" that legitimately but conservatively chose to stay behind. The existence of a "Judeo-Christian" tradition that deserves to be promoted by interfaith cooperation has been a cliché of American life for decades.
What is new, then, is not so much what Klinghoffer is saying as how and to whom he is saying it. In the past, ecumenism in America has been the province of the more "progressive" sectors of the Jewish and Christian communities; these have made the case for it in terms of their liberal social agendas, for which they have cited religious sanction. And because they have generally taken political and social issues more seriously than theological ones, it has been relatively easy for them to find common ground. Those not represented by them—Orthodox Jews, conservative Catholics, evangelical Protestants—have been excluded from interfaith conversation as much by its subject matter as by their inward-looking perspective, which sees religious truth as exclusively in their own possession.
It is these latter groups that Klinghoffer, a political conservative, is now primarily addressing. To fundamentalist Christians, he has sought to explain why Jews who believe, like evangelicals, that the "Old Testament" is literally God's word have had good reason to cling to Judaism; to fundamentalist Jews, why Christianity, seen from their standpoint, should be viewed in a positive light. He has made an appeal for ecumenism to the least ecumenically disposed.
Here, too, he is not a sole trailblazer. A handful of other Orthodox Jewish intellectuals have, in recent years, explored the same path. One thinks of figures like Michael Wyschogrod,2 who has made the case for Christianity being less theologically alien to Jewish tradition than is commonly assumed, or Irving Greenberg,3 who has called for viewing Christianity as a parallel track along which the God of Israel chose to reveal Himself to mankind. Greenberg has coined the term "covenantal pluralism" for his approach, according to which a Jew can hold that Mosaic law remains binding while also acknowledging that "it was God's purpose that the stalk of Abraham be grafted onto the root of the Gentiles" in the form of a new religion that, though springing from "the bosom of Judaism and profoundly marked by Jewish interpretation," had to "take on the coloration of the people that it reach[ed]."
Neither Wyschogrod, Greenberg, nor Klinghoffer deals with contemporary politics in his latest book. Nevertheless, political developments have surely helped spur their thinking. The liberal voting patterns of most American Jews, even those who care deeply about Israel, have led them to dissociate their fierce dislike of the Bush administration and the Christian Right from the remarkable support both have given to Israel. Orthodox Jews, by contrast, have become increasingly conservative in their political behavior; in many matters of public policy they now find themselves closer to conservative Catholics and evangelicals than they do to the Jewish establishment. And yet for them, too, there remains a psychological barrier to building alliances with believing Christians, one deriving from an age-old Jewish fear of Christianity's persecutions and an age-old Jewish disdain for Christianity's doctrines. In seeking to redress this situation as Orthodox Jews speaking to their fellows, writers like Klinghoffer, Wyschogrod, and (to some extent) Greenberg are thus operating in a political dimension even if it remains unexpressed.
It would take an Orthodox reader to judge their success. Yet even if I were such a reader, arguments formulated in terms of God's "purpose" or "perspective" would leave me, I suspect, uneasy. This is not because Orthodox Jews are barred from speculating about divine intentions but because such speculations, whatever their heuristic value for religious debate, are ultimately of limited persuasiveness.
The God of Judaism, after all, is portrayed as all-knowing and all-powerful; any theory of His hidden motives based on what we take to be the constraints of human history is therefore bound to founder on our constraining of Him. Was it God's plan to enlist another religion in spreading His message to Europe? Well, suppose it was. But why then did He not enlist a faith (like Islam) that, while abandoning the ritual rigors of Judaism, respected its ban on idols and its clear separation of the human from the divine, rather than one that taught its followers to kneel to statues of a god-man? What purpose of His was served by Christianity's turning viciously on His own chosen people? What kept Him, for that matter, from devising a different Judaism in the first place, one that would not have needed the mediation of other faiths for its promulgation?
As the Talmud is fond of saying about disputes that have no resolution, "teyku"—a word parsed by the rabbis as an acronym meaning, "Elijah the prophet [when he returns as a forerunner of the messiah] will solve all puzzles and conundrums." In the meantime, pretending to possess Elijah's knowledge is unlikely to convince the unconvinced.
Beyond this, there is also something psychologically problematic about the "two-track" metaphor for Jewish-Christian relations that Klinghoffer, Greenberg, and Wyschogrod put forth. After all, although it is certainly possible to believe that certain principles or commitments are obligatory for oneself and not for another, it is sociologically questionable whether religious communities can function at any pitch of intensity with a "your religion is as good as mine" outlook.
It is also questionable whether treating the religion of others as good enough for them intrinsically reflects benevolence toward them. It is certainly the case that Jews—at least since Judaism ceased to be a missionary religion in the early Christian era—never sought to convert Christians as Christians sought to convert them; even in those places, rare until the modern period, in which conversion was possible, Jews did not expect, or even particularly wish, that Gentiles would find Judaism attractive. Yet as anyone raised in the Jewish tradition knows, this attitude did not exactly reflect a respect for Christianity. On the contrary: if Christianity was Judaism for the Gentiles, this was never meant by Jews as a compliment; the Gentiles, as far as most Jews were concerned, had merely gotten what they deserved.
Indeed, to ask either believing Jews or Christians to acknowledge that God does not care which of the two they are as long as they are one or the other is subtly to demean both Judaism and Christianity in the eyes of their adherents. It may be high-minded to say, as Greenberg does, that "pluralism is not relativism, for we hold on to our absolutes; however, we make room for others' as well." But what does this actually mean? If I say, "The earth's orbiting the sun is an absolute for me, but I accept the sun's orbiting the earth as an absolute for you," how seriously am I taking either you, myself, or the solar system? The "two-track" metaphor makes sense only when its vantage point is situated above both tracks. At ground level, as it were, it involves an almost impossible bifurcation of vision.
Nor, if I were an evangelical Christian, would I be pleased with David Klinghoffer's reassurance that, even though my faith is based on a misunderstanding of God's word, it's a lucky thing, historically, that it is. In the first place I might retort, "What is history compared with everlasting life?" To which, if I knew some history, I might play the devil's advocate by adding:
"You say that the Jewish rejection of Jesus led to the development of Western civilization? I say that it impeded Western civilization, which would have developed more quickly, more prosperously, more peacefully, and with less injury to the Jews themselves had Christianity never existed.
"It may be true that Judaism was too arduous and exclusivist a religion to have become the dominant faith of Europe. But the choice in antiquity was not between Christianity and a crude or decadent paganism. By the 2nd and 3rd centuries C.E., paganism had developed religiously and intellectually sophisticated forms of worship that were not only moving rapidly toward a syncretistic, quasi-monotheistic theology but were doing so with a tolerance for diversity that Christianity lacked and an appreciation for the classical art and philosophy that Christianity was determined to suppress.
"In Christianity's absence, one or another of the pagan mystery cults that successfully competed with it until the reign of Constantine, such as that of Mithra or Isis, would have blossomed into a universal religion; become the dominant faith of Europe; inspired works of art and intellect no less sublime than the Christian ones; continued the classical intellectual tradition and thus, by encouraging the growth of ancient science, propelled the West into modernity far sooner; and so stopped the march of Islam not in Spain and at the gates of Vienna but in Egypt, Syria, and North Africa. There would have been no Dark Ages, no Crusades, no Inquisition, no Thirty Years' war, no anti-Semitism, no Holocaust, . . . and no salvation for my soul, whose eternal happiness is the only justification for Christianity's existence."
Go argue! Counterfactual history is a game without rules, which means it can be neither won nor lost. Every version of it has its counter-counterfactual rebuttal, to which Klinghoffer's is no exception. It is hardly a structure solid enough to support a Jewish-Christian rapprochement.
But perhaps such structures are unnecessary. Orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians in America today indeed share much in common, from a belief in the Hebrew Bible and its account of the world to opposition to abortion on demand and gay marriage. They may not need grandly unifying theological or historiosophical bridges in order to build political alliances. They can agree on the desirability of state support for religious schools without seeing eye to eye on the compatibility of monotheism with the Incarnation; can rally behind President Bush's backing of Israel while continuing to argue whether the New Testament is a distortion of the Old.
Other Jews do not require such structures, either, but for a different reason. Unlike the Orthodox, who derive their social policies from their religious beliefs, most American Jews derive their religious beliefs, if they have any, from their social policies. With them, the argument that believing Christians are still, 2,000 years after the advent of Christianity, spreading faith in the God of Israel to the far corners of Africa and Asia will fall on deaf ears as long as the values preached in this God's name do not correspond with those of liberal America; and the plea to join hands with Christians in support of an American government that has shown unprecedented friendship for a Jewish state will move them only if they cease thinking of that state as illiberal, too. The language in which such Jews need to be talked to has perhaps yet to be found, but it is not the language of Why the Jews Rejected Jesus.
1 Doubleday, 256 pp., $24.95.
2 Abraham's Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations. This book was reviewed in the January COMMENTARY by David Hazony.
3 For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity. Jewish Publication Society, 274 pp., $20.00.


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