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Europe is a wonderful place to visit for so many reasons but one big one is that it's easy to hop from country to country with just a short ride on a bus or train. We wanted to take advantage of this luxury so we caught a bus from Berlin to Prague. Before starting our bus journey, we made a quick trip to the supermarket. We picked up fruit smoothies, grapes, wholegrain rolls and a jar of tomato spread made from sunflower seeds. Having forgot our cutlery, we also snagged some chopsticks for spreading. There were no plastic knives, spoons or forks in sight. Sometimes you have to get creative. After five hours on the bus, we arrived in Prague. Ready to eat, of course!
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Beyond Fresh Fruit: Snacks Fit for Vegan Travelers in Turkey
This guest post is by Heather Nauta from Healthy Vegan Recipes. Heather is a registered holistic nutritionist who teaches you how to live a healthy vegan/vegetarian lifestyle. Visit Healthy Vegan Recipes to check out her vegan travel videos.
The usual snacks for my husband, Phil, and I are fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. These foods are available pretty much everywhere, and we've been eating lots of them on the road, including some gigantic peaches. We've also found a few more interesting snack ideas for vegans while traveling in Turkey that we wanted to share.
Vegan Japan: Udon Noodles to Bite-Size Temple Food
This guest post is by Marie from the Candy Penny blog. In 2009, Marie traveled extensively through Japan and found many vegan options. This post is a summary of some of her favourite meals. To read more about Marie's travels, visit Candy Penny.
1.The Unique Find: Gozan Noodle Shop, Kamakura, Japan
Visiting the temples south of Tokyo I stumbled upon the Gozan Noodle Shop. This homey noodle shop that appeared to specialize in ken-chin (vegetarian) style soup. This steaming bowl came with plentiful vegetables and chewy delicious udon noodles.
Read the full Candy Penny review here.
Gozan Noodle Shop
1531 Yamanochi
Kamakura, Japan
Interview with Bikya Masr
Bikya Masr, a website run by one of our friends in Egypt, just posted a Vegan Backpacker interview. Check it out here.
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How long have you guys been traveling and what would you tell people who are going to try the same?
Often, people say that many cities do not offer any vegan options. What has been your experience?
What has been your most memorable meal?
A Taste of Vegan Mexico
This guest post is by Marie from the Candy Penny blog. In 2010, Marie traveled extensively through Mexico and found many vegan options. This post is a summary of some of her favourite meals. To read more about Marie's travels, visit Candy Penny.
1.The Unique Find: Fonda Antigua, Guanajuato, Mexico
There is nothing better than finding a restaurant without the help of the internet or guide book. Fonda Antigua in Guanajuat is a charming antique designed cafe that offers a daily vegetarian meal. The menu del dia includes an agua fresca, salad, soup, basket of fresh tortillas, main dish, and small dessert for around $5.00 USD. The warm staff ensured my meal was veganized and served up everything with a side of TLC.
Read the full Candy Penny review here.
Fonda Antigua
Campenero 15, 2nd Floor
Guanajuato, Mexico
Vegan Tips & Trips: September
Welcome to the September edition of Tips & Trips, a roundup of vegan travel tips and blog posts by vegans who have recently traveled and documented their food finds. If you have some tips or want to submit a link, please contact us.
Vegan Travel Tips
- Cooking at hostels is a great way to enjoy healthy meals and save money while traveling. This grocery list of traveling champions is full of good ideas. Just ignore the last paragraph.
- You don't have to stop exercising just because you're on vacation. Keep up your healthy vegan lifestyle with these travel exercise tips from the Healthy Vegan Recipes blog. Heather and Phil are traveling for a few months and sharing lots of great advice through their travel section (registration required).
- Heather has also written some helpful articles, including one with three vegan travel secrets and a list of the seven most veg-friendly cities in Europe.
- Need another reason to keep up your vegan diet while traveling? How about three reasons? The Responsible Traveler blog shares three benefits of being a vegan voyager.
- Many people like to volunteer during long-term travel. If you'd like to volunteer with an organization that supports vegan ethics, check out this roundup of vegan volunteer vacations by Vegan World Trekker.
Vegan Travel Bloggers
- Jennifer from It Ain't Meat Babe visited New York this month and wrote all about her fabulous food finds. There were so many, she had to split her review into a three part food-o-rama series. One. Two. Three. She also recently traveled to Toronto, a Canadian city with lots of vegan options, where she ate at Fressen and Sadie's Diner.
- Melisser from the Urban Housewife blog shared some news about an interesting vegan dessert she found at Naschmarkt in Vienna, and also announced her book signing dates for The Vegan Girls Guide to Life, which is bound to share some excellent travel advice.
- Think traveling as a vegan is challenging? How about raw vegan travel? Jasmine from A Day in the Life of a Raw Food Traveler blog has been writing about her raw adventures for awhile and recently published a detailed recap of her visit to Portland, Oregon.
- Regina from Girl Goes Vegan has been traveling and writing about her vegan finds in cities like Vancouver, Milwaukee, and Seattle.
- The Hungry Vegan Traveler went on a United States Pacific Northwest road trip and stopped at lots of tasty looking restaurants along the way.
How To Remedy 7 Common Travel Health Issues With Vegan Foods
This guest post is by Heather Nauta from Healthy Vegan Recipes. Heather is a registered holistic nutritionist who teaches you how to live a healthy vegan/vegetarian lifestyle. Visit Healthy Vegan Recipes to check out her vegan travel videos.
One of the most important things to remember overall for vegan travel is to keep yourself healthy and support your immune system. There will be foods, viruses and bacteria that your body is not used to dealing with.
Exercise is often forgotten in the excitement of traveling. You also might miss a night or two of your normal sleep pattern if you have a long trip and if you jump a few time zones.
All of these factors will knock your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to illness during vegan travel than you would be at home. Minimize them as much as possible, and if you do get sick the first step is to eliminate the cause.
Once you find the culprit, use these healthy food solutions to relieve the symptoms and get you back to your normal healthy self. Not only are these options cheaper than medication and drugs, but they are also much better for your system.
Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth with Vegan Treats in Berlin
This is my 10th and final blog post about the amazing city that is Berlin. To cap it all off, I wanted to bring you a roundup of vegan treats that you can look forward to spotting at supermarkets and health food stores throughout the city.


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MADISON — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has announced the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has been paid its claims, in full, on two outstanding Freight Railroad Infrastructure Improvement Program ("FRIIP") loans.
The payment, on August 31, 2011, was in the amount of $2,400,642.32.
In 2004 and 2008, the State Department of Transportation made two FRIIP loans to Olsen Brothers Enterprises to improve railroad infrastructure at grain elevator/storage facilities in Oshkosh and Boscobel, Wisconsin. Both loans eventually went into default.
The principals of the borrowing company filed joint Chapter 11 bankruptcies in December, 2010. These two loan balances were part of the claims in those Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
The Attorney General's Office worked with other creditors to assist in fashioning a plan which would pay secured creditors, save the jobs of grain elevator/storage employees and marshal as many assets as possible for the unsecured creditors.
As part of the Chapter 11 Plan, approved by Court Order on August 30, 2011, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company ("ADM") purchased several major assets from the bankruptcies estates. That sale, which closed on August 31, 2011, also involved ADM retaining the employees who worked at the related facilities.
On August 31, 2011, the State Department of Transportation was paid $2,400,642.32 to fully satisfy its two outstanding loans.
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By Douglas J. Gillert and Lt. Rick HauptAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 16, 1999 Military health care quality has never been better, but it's still hard sometimes to see a doctor or get an appointment, Dr. Sue Bailey learned in Southern California March 31.
The assistant secretary of defense for health affairs participated in focus groups with senior military commanders, beneficiaries, and military and civilian health care providers. No problems with the quality of care surfaced in the discussions, but Bailey heard complaints about customer service and how complex and difficult TRICARE is to understand. Yet, she came away from the talks convinced TRICARE has improved military health care overall.
"DoD health care is remarkably better than it was 10 years ago," Bailey said. She cited improved technology, provider training and the emphasis on preventive care as signs military health care is itself, healthier. "The problem is, [TRICARE] is perceived as more complex," Bailey said.
Before TRICARE was implemented in 1995, patients received their care either military hospitals and clinics or through CHAMPUS- authorized providers. TRICARE offers many more choices for treatment, including 15 beneficiary categories.
While not offering specific remedies, Bailey said DoD needs to stabilize and simplify TRICARE and raise customer satisfaction. Members of the focus groups agreed.
"I think we need to simplify TRICARE, especially for our new service members," said Wendy Peterson, quality of life coordinator at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.
Better business practices will help improve customer service, Bailey said. This includes answering phones and scheduling appointments quick and courteously, she said.
Independent studies contracted by Health Affairs show TRICARE has improved access and quality of health care while containing costs for both the government and beneficiaries in the Pacific Northwest, where TRICARE began in 1995. There, a survey of more than 10,000 DoD health care beneficiaries found quality up, costs stable and increased reliance upon preventive health service vs. emergency room visits. A major goal of TRICARE is to build a healthier population that is not overly reliant on urgent or acute care.
A similar report is expected later this year on the outcome of TRICARE in Southern California, where the program began in 1996. Surveys will be conducted in each of the regions as they mature, as will follow-up surveys.
This was the eighth in a series of visits Bailey began this year to each TRICARE region in the United States and overseas. She's scheduled to visit the remaining regions by the end of April.
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- Produced By Chuck Johnson, Hemsa Nosh, Asaph 'Ace' Fipke, Ken Faier.
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Divergent Book and Movie Fansite
Lionsgate went to wall street to assure investors that while similar to The Hunger Games, Divergent can carry it's own with book sales already following suit of the Twilight and Hunger Games franchise.
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Lionsgate execs had to do a little balancing act this morning when they talked to Wall Street analysts about the early plans for the movie version of author Veronica Roth's Divergent. They clearly want investors to salivate over the prospect of another hit on the order of The Hunger Games. But they don't want the Street to believe that the studio will blithely slap the Divergent name on the Hunger Games playbook.
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Rob Friedman says he recognizes key differences in the stories, and their fan bases. In Divergent "the society is different," he says. Hunger Games "is about the society that's striving for survival" while Divergent "is about the way a society is surviving with distinct personalities and how those personalities interweave with each other." Not sure that I get the distinction, but the analyst who asked the question called the insight "helpful."
Do you think Divergent will play out like another Hunger Games, or start a film legacy of it's own?
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No, Divergent will be bigger and better than the hunger games
I agree Hunger Games and Divergent are both different in there own special way.
For me Tris is the average teenage girl-like me. And Katniss is what every teenager would dream to be. But most of us probably relate more to Tris than Katniss.
Nevertheless, I can't wait for the movie!!! :D
I agree, I think that it will be better then the Hunger Games, at least I hope so :D Don't get me wrong the Hunger Games is great i just thought they changed too much stuff from the book to the movie... I hope they don't do that with Divergent!
I definitely see a resemblance between Hunger Games and Divergent, but they are two completely different stories. I think that all teenage girls can relate way more to Tris than they can to Katniss, which is why Divergent should be so much more popular. Don't get me wrong, I love the Hunger Games, but Divergent, I think, will be something new; different than anything before.
Yea!! When I first saw the Divergent symbol and under it said 'coming soon to theaters , I thought that it was either a really old poster or Hunger Games was coming back to theaters
As much as I love The Hunger Games, I think that Divergent WILL be bigger and better.
this film is going to be amazing the books to to amazing the only thing that is going to be wrong with it is i wont be in it. don't get me wrong the hunger games is a grate movie franchise as well. i just hope they don't have competing weekends this year wont be good for the box office.


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1 cup
1 tablespoon
white vinegar
1 cup
all-purpose flour
1 cup
whole wheat flour
3/4 cup
white sugar
1 tablespoon
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup
canola oil
2 cups
frozen blueberries
Very solid recipe, but nothing "special". Just a good standard muffin.
Merry Christmas to all...ill want to try this recipe for our new years eve...hope i could make it..wish me luck.for now 3 stars...then lets see.
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I wanted to cut back on the fat just a touch, I substituted 1/4 cup of homemade applesauce for half of the oil called for in this recipe. Before baking, I sprinkled a little sugar over each muffin mound. I got 12 regular sized muffins out of one recipe. These were baked at 350* and were done at 20 minutes. These muffins had the perfect amount of sweetness with a chewy texture and a good portion of blueberries. I thought these might turn out dry......no, sir. These are excellent. We all loved them.
The only thing I added was a sprinkle of sugar on each before baking. Really delicious.
I made mini muffins which took 10-12 minutes. I would recommend using "larger" mini muffin tins or just using regular muffin tins because blueberries are so heavy.
I love this recipe. It's quick and easy and the muffins turned out great for me. I use this recipe as a base for most of my muffins, I just change the fruits and I sometimes sub applesauce for the oil and it works every time.
Baked these & "Best of the Best Blueberry Muffins" today. They're both good! To compare them easier I used the same fat ingredients - meaning 1/4c butter & 2T oil. Creamed the butter & sugar; added the eggs & oil; used 1c buttermilk for the milk/vinegar combo; then the dry ingredients & berries. Sprinkled with a tiny amount of sugar - considering we're dealing with whole wheat. These aren't too wheat-y either - meaning you don't see/taste the whole wheat, but it's in there & good for you. Yay! I baked mine at 375 & they were done in 25 mins. Next day: While still very good, both type muffins got moist on top. Maybe the 2T oil needs to go? Also, these look just like the photo - not all that pretty, but they have a "great personality"! :D
Great texture and flavor, this is a wonderful recipe. I made the recipe exactly as stated with the exception of sprinkling the tops of the muffins with a little turbinado sugar after baking for a little sparkle.
Just made these today and they turned out wonderful. Nice and Moist. I used grapeseed oil instead of canola and used fresh blueberries since they are in season.
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Eileen+ Ben's wedding was just before the Easter weekend (our first weekend off in three months. Safe to say, we hardly knew what to do with ourselves!). It was a stunner in more ways than one. But it was the GOLD SEQUIN DRESS that floored everyone. Holy amazing bridal gown batman!! Here's a preview of one hell of a party!
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[Federal Register: December 3, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 232)]
[Notices] [Page 67676-67678] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr03de03-62] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2004 Through September 30, 2005 AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages for Fiscal Year 2005 have been calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005. This notice announces the calculated "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" that we will use in determining the amount of Federal matching for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Funds, the federal share of Child Support Enforcement collections, Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund, Foster Care Title IV-E Maintenance payments, and Adoption Assistance payments. The table gives figures for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Programs under title XIX of the Act exist in each jurisdiction; programs under titles I, X, and XIV operate only in Guam and the Virgin Islands; while a program under title XVI (Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled) operates only in Puerto Rico. Programs under title XXI began operating in fiscal year 1998. The percentages in this notice apply to State expenditures for most medical services and medical insurance services, and assistance payments for certain social services. The statute provides separately for Federal matching of administrative costs. Sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B) of the Act require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages each year. The Secretary is to figure the percentages, by formulas in sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B), from the Department of Commerce's statistics of average income per person in each State and in the Nation as a whole. The percentages are within the upper and lower limits given in section 1905(b) of the Act. The percentages to be applied to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands are specified in statute, and thus are not based on the statutory formula that determines the percentages for the 50 states. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are for Medicaid. Section 1905(b) of the Act specifies the formula for calculating Federal Medical Assistance Percentages as follows: "Federal medical assistance percentage" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage; and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 45 per centum as the square of the per capita income of such State bears to the square of the per capita income of the continental United States (including Alaska) and Hawaii; except that (1) the Federal medical assistance percentage shall in no case be less than 50 per centum or more than 83 per centum, (2) the Federal medical assistance percentage for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa shall be 50 per centum. A provision in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 modified the formula to calculate the percentages to be applied to Alaska for purposes of titles XIX and XXI of the Act for fiscal years 2001 through 2005. For Alaska only, the formula requires dividing the state's three-year average per capita income by 1.05 instead of 1.0. In addition, section 4725 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 amended section 1905(b) to provide that the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for the District of Columbia for purposes of titles XIX and XXI shall be 70 percent. For both Alaska and the District of Columbia, we note under the table of Federal Medical Assistance Percentages the rates that apply in certain other programs calculated using the formula otherwise applicable, and the rates that apply in certain other programs pursuant to section 1118 of the Social Security Act. Section 2105(b) of the Act specifies the formula for calculating the Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages as follows: The "enhanced FMAP", for a State for a fiscal year, is equal to the Federal medical assistance percentage (as defined in the first sentence of section 1905(b)) for the State increased by a number of percentage points equal to 30 percent of the number of percentage points by which (1) such Federal medical assistance percentage for the State, is less than (2) 100 percent; but in no case shall the enhanced FMAP for a State exceed 85 percent. The "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are for use in the State Children's Health Insurance Program under Title XXI, and in the Medicaid program for certain children for expenditures for medical assistance described in sections 1905(u)(2) and 1905(u)(3) of the Act. There is no specific requirement to publish the Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages. We include them in this notice for the convenience of the States. EFFECTIVE DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of the 4 quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 2004 and ending September 30, 2005. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adelle Simmons or Robert Stewart, Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Room 442E--Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201, (202) 690-6870. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.558: TANF Contingency Funds; 93.563: Child Support Enforcement; 93-596: Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund; 93.658: Foster Care Title IV-E; 93.659: Adoption Assistance; 93.769: Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA) Demonstrations to Maintain Independence and Employment; 93.778: Medical Assistance Program; 93.767: State Children's Health Insurance Program) Dated: November 26, 2003. Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, Effective October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005 [Fiscal year 2005] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enhanced Federal Federal medical medical State assistance assistance percentages percentages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alabama..................................................................... 70.83 79.58 Alaska**.................................................................... 57.58 70.31 American Samoa*............................................................. 50.00 65.00 Arizona..................................................................... 67.45 77.22 Arkansas.................................................................... 74.75 82.33 California.................................................................. 50.00 65.00 Colorado.................................................................... 50.00 65.00 Connecticut................................................................. 50.00 65.00 Delaware.................................................................... 50.38 65.27 District of Columbia**...................................................... 70.00 79.00 Florida..................................................................... 58.90 71.23 Georgia..................................................................... 60.44 72.31 Guam*....................................................................... 50.00 65.00 Hawaii...................................................................... 58.47 70.93 Idaho....................................................................... 70.62 79.43 Illinois.................................................................... 50.00 65.00 Indiana..................................................................... 62.78 73.95 Iowa........................................................................ 63.55 74.49 Kansas...................................................................... 61.01 72.71 Kentucky.................................................................... 69.60 78.72 Louisiana................................................................... 71.04 79.73 Maine....................................................................... 64.89 75.42 Maryland.................................................................... 50.00 65.00 Massachusetts............................................................... 50.00 65.00 Michigan.................................................................... 56.71 69.70 Minnesota................................................................... 50.00 65.00 Mississippi................................................................. 77.08 83.96 Missouri.................................................................... 61.15 72.81 Montana..................................................................... 71.90 80.33 Nebraska.................................................................... 59.64 71.75 Nevada...................................................................... 55.90 69.13 New Hampshire............................................................... 50.00 65.00 New Jersey.................................................................. 50.00 65.00 New Mexico.................................................................. 74.30 82.01 New York.................................................................... 50.00 65.00 North Carolina.............................................................. 63.63 74.54 North Dakota................................................................ 67.49 77.24 Northern Mariana Islands*................................................... 50.00 65.00 Ohio........................................................................ 59.68 71.78 Oklahoma.................................................................... 70.18 79.13 Oregon...................................................................... 61.12 72.78 Pennsylvania................................................................ 53.84 67.69 Puerto Rico*................................................................ 50.00 65.00 Rhode Island................................................................ 55.38 68.77 South Carolina.............................................................. 69.89 78.92 South Dakota................................................................ 66.03 76.22 Tennessee................................................................... 64.81 75.37 Texas....................................................................... 60.87 72.61 Utah........................................................................ 72.14 80.50 Vermont..................................................................... 60.11 72.08 Virgin 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My primary research interest is the discourse of modern Jewish philosophy. This means that I groove on thinking about how Jews in the modern West have appropriated (and resisted appropriating!) various ideas and arguments in the canon of modern Western philosophy from Kant to Rorty, in the interest of articulating both Jews' difference from and commonality with Western culture. My first book, Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), argued that a significant strand of thinkers in the modern Jewish philosophical canon—Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, with some premonitions in the writings of Moses Maimonides—grounded their defense of Jewish messianism in a philosophical account of the nature of nonbeing and potentiality. It received the inaugural Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought from the Association of Jewish Studies in 2008, awarded to outstanding scholarship in that subfield published between 2004 and 2008.
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• philosophy and Hasidic texts from the early modern era
• Zionism
• the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox Judaism
• modern Jewish feminism
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Similar to the types of postmodern or antifoundationalist thought that have crossed the Atlantic since the second half of the twentieth century (deconstruction, vitalism, existentialism), American pragmatism is a protest against metaphysical systems that seek to determine ideas; it claims that there is no way in which humans' acts of reflection can grasp the foundational principles of reality. For the pragmatists, truth has no meaning apart from its practical consequences; truth happens to an idea in life.
Over the last thirty years—primarily thanks to the writings of Richard Rorty—pragmatism in one variant or another has once again become a major current in American philosophy. More recently, this has happened in theology as well, as contemporary scholars, chastened by philosophical attacks on the status of truth-claims about the supernatural, have looked to early twentieth-century European theologians who also offer challenges to traditional notions of religious truth, and interpreted them as pragmatists. This is, on the surface, odd. After all, religiously orthodox people do not go around citing William James's or John Dewey's anti-supernaturalist arguments for religious pluralism.
The broad aim of this class is to decide whether such an interpretation of theology in the three monotheistic traditions along pragmatist lines is sustainable or not. More narrowly, the course is a survey of some major figures in the American pragmatist tradition (Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Robert Brandom), and an introduction to twentieth-century monotheistic theologies that focus on "practice"(over against "theory"). We will be specifically looking at Martin Buber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Sayyid Qutb, and inquiring as to whether they are really arguing that religious communities make truth through their ritual and ethical acts (as pragmatism would dictate that they must).
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This course is a survey of responses to the attempted extermination of European Jews between 193345, often called the Holocaust or the Shoah, a Hebrew word meaning ³disaster.² It is not a survey of the means by which this extermination was attempted; students interested in a historical approach to the material should take one of the classes in the Department of History that speak to this topic. Instead, this course is a survey of literary, theological, and cinematic responses to the Holocaust. (If time, the syllabus will also include a brief unit on the architecture of Holocaust memorials.) The course¹s primary aim is to study the ways in which one represents this traumatic event, the techniques by which one bears witness to it, and the extent to which this event challenges the foundational narratives of the Jewish and Christian traditions.
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What Is Religion? What Is Religious Studies? This course is limited to undergraduate majors in the Department of Religion. It is split up into two halves. In the "What Is Religion?" half, we¹ll survey what various modern thinkers have said what religion is and the social-scientific and philosophical approaches that they take in their answers to questions about the origin, essence, and function of religion. In the "What Is Religious Studies?" half, we"ll still engage to some extent with the question of what religion is, but we¹ll do so by a closer look at what it means to be a scholar of religion to look at a religious community, or a tradition, from the outside. To what extent can a scholar bracket her or his own commitments or presuppositions in talking about religion? If the answer to the former question is ³not at all,² does this mean that Westerners are unable to study Asian religions well? Does it mean that historical research published by moderns says more about the present than about the past? Does it mean that it is illegitimate to include subfields that make normative judgments (say, religious ethics) in the field of religious studies?


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I'm happy today because I'm back on the board. I've been dealing with a family members end of life and ultimate death so I didn't have a lot of time to read and write here. It's comforting to see all the posts, gotta catch up!
pretty exiting life, huh? hahahha
I just realised i cant fix the shower though ! no fireworks and bass bands for me !
I am happy today cause the weather is cold , so i foubd a new excuse to avoid gym for one more day - i guess ill never finda reason to go -
Happy Happy today because I just found out that 11/22/63 will come out translated to Finnish
in January. By the way I have birthday January 12 :wink2: The only thing that now bother me is
that they have change the title to 22.11.63 because we say date/month/year when you in US
say month/date/year So it's changed as we say and not how it's been written by Steve in first place.
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I'm happy because I finished work early and I now have three days off! Wooohooo. Doesn't sound like much to get excited about but I'm knackered and am soooo looking forward to not setting my alarm in the morning. I won't ever get used to waking up at 5:30am for work...that should still be classed as night time, not early morning!
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I got galeon2 to compile after "fixing" XFree86-4-libraries, and there are a couple other situations like this. I seem to remember libexpat, libesd, libaudiofile, libjpeg, and I think one more that needed to be linked into /usr/lib to get it to build. I'll test this tonight. Thanks for being so quick. On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:41:27AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Currently I cant get X working on dragonfly. The port of XFree86-Server > :from FreeBSD segfaults without much of a clue, and the port cannot build > :because currently dri fails during the build. Heres the output of make > :in graphics/dri and XFree86.0.log. > : > :-Craig > :-- > :------------------------------------------------------------------------ > :Craig Dooley craig@xxxxxxxxxx > > Craig (and everyone else), with the port overrides I added last > night I have been able to successfully install the x11/XFree86-4 port. > You need a fully updated source tree, fully updated /usr/ports, and fully > updated /usr/dfports. > > I hit one hicup and that is there was a point where it failed > attempting to locate libexpat because libexpat was installed in > /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/X11R6/lib. I 'fixed' this manually > by copying it over, e.g. 'cp /usr/local/lib/libexpat* /usr/X11R6/lib', > and it was able to get all the way through the installation after > that. > > The main problem is that X depends on imake and imake was making > explicit OS rev tests and incorrectly believed the DFly box to > be using a.out output instead of ELF output. There were a few > other issues as well. > > -Matt -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig Dooley craig@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Hello MiceChat! I'm a week late, but I wanted to share my Halloween Party experience! My girlfriend and I went as Snow White and The Prince, but because of "Once Upon a Time," everyone called me Prince Charming. XD
I made both of our costumes and am quite proud of them, if I do say so myself (pats self on back).
Anyway, it all started when my girlfriend and I left for Disneyland at 3PM to get in early at 4 and after the usual parking, tramming, and waiting in line to get in (which always takes longer than you think), we finally made it!
The first thing we did was get ice cream at The Golden Horseshoe because it was hot that day...and really windy (ooo foreshadowing~). After that, we went to go take pictures in front of the castle for it was "the golden hour."
After a slew of compliments from guests and cast members alike, we went off to ride Star Tours and got our least favorite combination, wookies and gungans -________-
Later, we went for a walk through Fantasyland and decided to ride SWSA.
Me: "This is your life."
GF: "Its creepy and I hate it."
It was around that time that we started going through the trick or treat trails. This was my 3rd time going to the Halloween parties, but my first time actual getting candy (I went with my friends in the past who liked riding rides more). As we worked our way through all of the trails from Fantasyland to New Orleans Square, we were also lured in to the rare meet and greets. First up was Peter Pan and Wendy (who ironically was one of our other costume ideas for the party).
After more trails, we began to wait in line for Jack Skellington...which later took AN HOUR (he went on break just as we got there, but we didn't know). He however made it up to us and started one of the funniest conversations I've ever had with a character. According to Jack, both he and I (The Prince) are into dead girls (Sally and Snow White). A lot of other things were said and we left very happy after that meet and greet.
We rode a few more rides (what with the super short wait times) and it was around then that the Halloween fireworks were about to begin. However, the Santa Ana winds were not calming down anytime soon and they made an announcement that the fireworks may not be shown. I was sure they wouldn't and sure enough they cancelled it to resounding boos from the guests.
Either way we made our way to BLAB, but before that, we took a picture with the Stormtroopers!
From there, it was into Innoventions for more candy, and a photo op with Agent P! Too rare!
We rode Ghost Galaxy, and a bunch of other things and randomly waited in line for Genie. I'm still not really sure what he wanted us to do in this photo, so uh yeah...
We then got a drink and watched the ending villains ceremony thing that ended the Halloween party for it was midnight :/ We got a photo in front of the pumpkin and made our way out feeling very happy. :3 Thank you for reading!


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Of disputed origin. It has been in use since the 17th century. It is now generally taken as a feminine equivalent of Andreas, and this probably represents its actual origin. However, it was not in use in the Middle Ages, and the suggestion has also been made that it represents a coinage in English from the Greek vocabulary word andreia 'manliness, virility'.
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Photo of the Day: No Burger for Bambi
Earlier today AHT's sister site Slice posted this funny photo illustrating what foods shouldn't be fed to the deer. Right above the gooey slice of pizza is a burger—hell, not just any burger, but a double cheeseburger. Pretzels and carrots apparently also made the list of banned foods.


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scales and body fat analyzers
I am trying to get a scale / body fat thingy for less than $100 that is fairly accurate so when I fall off the wagon and tell myself my body is not changing, I will have proof that this is never the case. Any recommendations?
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Body fat % scales are poor. You can use calipers if you like (see article in laymans JHR). Otherwise just go by weight, mirror, clothes, performance in gym, measurements like waist.
Re: scales and body fat analyzers
Even if the scale is not acurate, wont it at least tell me when there is a change in body fat? Is it at least consistently inaccurate?
Re: scales and body fat analyzers
It can be influenced by a lot of factors like water weight changes. I would not trust them; you'll just be distracted by erroneous numbers.
Re: scales and body fat analyzers
lol this reminds me....
i went with my uncle ( hes about 40) when he reenlisted in the army a few months ago, and when they did the weight test, in which they used a body fat scale, they told him he was like 32 pounds overweight...
so he rolls up his sleeve and flexes a big arm and goes "does this look like its over weight"? ha ha it was funny.
point is, he's a really muscular dude and the scale told him he was 'fat' basically, where he really only had maybe 12 percent body fat.... there bogus for anyone who has any athletic build at all...
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FreeBSD installation problem. Please help?!
I am new to FreeBSD, but have everything up and running. Well, all exept the Nvidia driver.
I have compiled and installed my kernel using the USER_LDT and SYSVSHM options. I also made sure that device agp, was in there also. I then installed the driver, and when rebooting I get a system stop at the mounting blah blah. It totally locks up and all I can do is to push the reset button on the tower.
I am using a GeForce 2 GTS w/32 mb ram, on an K7S5A Elite MB w/SIS chipset.
I cant say for sure but I wouldnt think it is something misconfigured in XFree86, as it doesnt even get that far (I dont have it set to auto boot anyhow). Does anyone have any ideas?
"I get a system stop at the mounting blah blah"
What's the system mounting? The root filesystem, or other filesystems? Does this kernel that you compiled with USER_LDT and SYSVSHM (and AGP device support, I guess) enabled at least boot without the nVidia drivers?
I'm thinking it might be something like Mandrake 8's issues with reiserfs -- it didn't install an initrd, and it built reiserfs support as a module, so if you formatted / as reiserfs, there wasn't support in the kernel to mount it at boot time, and you'd get a "kernel panic: can't mount root device 03:05" on boot. But I don't know a ton about *BSD, so it may not be that -- indeed, that may not even be possible, I don't know.
Yeah, I dont think that is possible, but to answer your question, yes, it does boot just fine if I stop the boot, and unload the nvidia driver then boot with my regular kernel.
Everything runs just fine, I just have NO 3d support at all. I have made sure that the dri driver is not even present, just in case (as I have heard that this is not compatible with the nvidia driver). I have done everything else that I can think of, but as I am still very very new to FreeBSD, I might be missing something simple.
Hmm, OK. Like I said, I don't know much about any BSD system, so I don't know of much else to try.
Maybe someone else does? *looks around*
I had issues with the nv agp driver... so i edited the ~/src/nv-freebsd.h file... search for USE_OS_AGP_GART and change it to #define USE_OS_AGP_GART
also put the following in your /boot/loader.conf
then change your X config file as suggested and all should work.
Ok I will try that. I have the loader.conf and xconfig files saying that. just havent edited the .h file. Thanks, will let ya know if it works.
BTW it is locking up where it says Mounting drive as ufs:/dev/ad1s1a
Im sorry the message I am getting is mounting root as UFS:/dev/ad1s1a
And what you suggested didnt work either. It is still totally locking up with the message mounting root as etc. ... etc. ... Now what? hehe
you need ufs support
options FFS
options FFS_ROOT
in your custom kernel config file.
Generally safest way to make custom kernel config is to make a copy of GENERIC and only change the lines you need, leaving everything else intact. If this works then you can later on start stripping your custom config from unneccessary stuff.
Read LINT for all available options and explanations.
Those are already enabled in my Kernel. They are by default anyhow, I just didnt disable them. Hmmm curious why it is doing this.
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The little church on the prairie
Pastor Eddie Johnson Jr. points to a filing cabinet that was recently donated to his church and says, "Everything here — the donations, renovations and church itself — has been a blessing."
Johnson is the pastor of People's Temple church on East Court Street in Rutherfordton. Last year he was given a set of four keys to the small church built in 1945. When he first saw the building, he nicknamed it the "little church on the prairie."
Four months ago Johnson opened the church doors to share his vision of the church and its purpose in the community.
"God presented this opportunity for me to pastor in this community," Johnson said. "I saw all the work that needed to be done before our first service and thought, 'It's going to be a faith walk.'"
Many items, materials and services that have been part of the church's renovations were donated and contributed by people in the community and local businesses. This included supplies for the upgraded men's and women's bathrooms, a fully functioning kitchen in the basement and a pastor's study with donated desks.
Local businesses also offered products and services to the church at reduced rates. Rutherford Heating and Air set up monthly installment payments for the church's new furnace and Earthwise Builders took 20 percent off for bringing the church's doors up to code.
One of the first renovations was the back focus wall inside the sanctuary, the church's focal point, which Johnson calls the faith wall. The wall needed insulation, sheetrock, plywood and materials costing upwards of $500. Workers offered their services for free in agreement that the church purchased the necessary supplies.
"When we look at that faith wall, we see it as encouragement and faith and a way to renovate the rest of the church," Johnson said.
Family friends even stepped in and paid the church's mortgage, light and water bills for the first three months.
"There was so much we had to do to prepare for that first service, so that we could open the church doors," Johnson said.
Six people were supposed to attend that first service. Instead, 45 showed up. Today the church has 42 official members, yet every week visitation exceeds 100.
"Many people are excited to see that the doors of their childhood church have reopened," Johnson said.
Several people have asked him about the name of the church and whether he plans to change it. It was previously called the People's Temple CME Church, and Johnson decided to keep part of the original name and call it the People's Temple.
"I like the church to be for the people. I want the church to be for the people," Johnson said.
Johnson has no intentions on removing the church's cornerstone bearing its original name.
While the church does have its challenges with having a young congregation and monitoring its finances that come with the renovations, Johnson sees a promising future.
The faith wall was phase one of the sanctuary renovations and Johnson plans to make the back of the sanctuary and entryway phase two. The church still has its original roof, steeple and cast iron bell, all of which Johnson hopes to restore.
"I want to come in and be able to ring that bell once the church has been fully restored," Johnson said.
The church is also planning to have a booth at MayFest next month and will distribute free bottled water as an opportunity to meet and greet members of the community.
"We are excited to use this as a way to solicit friendship, fellowship and support," Johnson said.
For Johnson, his little church on the prairie has been God's blessing.
"It amazes me how people in the community have come back to support the church," Johnson said. "My hope is to raise the church up for people in the community. The best is yet to come for People's Temple."


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It was only 19 years ago that candidate Bill Clinton shocked the oldsters by donning a pair of dark sunglasses and belting out a soulful rendition of "Heartbreak Hotel" on the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show. It was a breakthrough in presidential campaigns that helped Clinton reach a segment of the electorate that had been ignored by more traditional candidates.
Clinton's success made it OK for serious candidates and presidents to go on popular talk shows. And on Tuesday, President Obama is doing just that, sitting down with the host of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. It will be Obama's fourth appearance with Leno, his second as president. When he was there March 19, 2009, he became the first sitting president to appear on the show.
(PICTURES: Presidents and Candidates on Talk Shows Through the Years)
It is amazing how much the perception of such appearances has changed in the less than two decades since Clinton took his sax to Arsenio Hall's stage. As president, Obama has made the rounds of all the top shows. In addition to his two gigs with Leno, the president has sat down with Oprah, danced with Ellen, chatted with Dave, and schmoozed with the ladies on The View. He also made two appearances on the Comedy Channel, ordering a military haircut for Stephen Colbert in 2009 and talking about his presidency with Jon Stewart in 2010.
Each time, there were some murmurs of disapproval—but nothing like the opprobrium that greeted Clinton's Arsenio performance. Official Washington was horrified. "Am I such an old fogey that I thought that it was undignified?" asked Barbara Walters at the time. Torie Clarke, who then worked for President George H.W. Bush's campaign, called it "embarrassing," adding that Clinton "looked like a sad John Belushi wannabe."
But what was generally overlooked at the time was that when Clinton doffed the shades and sat down with Hall, the two had perhaps the most candid and interesting discussion on racism that was seen in the entire campaign. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots that had just occurred, Clinton talked about "reconnecting with the American community" and observed that "those folks are invisible until they raise hell."
Just as Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald said at the time, the show allowed Clinton "to convey biography and personality" in a fresh way to fresh parts of the electorate.
"I was critical when he went on Arsenio," said Marlin Fitzwater, who was White House press secretary to George H.W. Bush. "But it worked. It was the right thing for him. It was the right point in history ... President Clinton was very good at it. And very clever. And I think the time was right and the country was ready for a different kind of attitude."
While Clinton was a pioneer on the popular talk shows, he was not the first presidential candidate in the TV age to dive into popular culture during a campaign. Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy may have that honor. Both appeared on Jack Paar's Tonight Show during the 1960 campaign. Kennedy took questions from Paar's audience and Nixon asked for Paar's autograph. Ron Nessen -- later a White House press secretary but then a newspaper reporter -- wrote at the time that Paar's questions were "about as weighty and pointed as a marshmallow."
Nixon also had a memorable Sept. 16, 1968 appearance on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. It only lasted a few seconds, long enough for a scowling Nixon to utter the show's favorite line: "Sock it to me." It was such an instant hit, softening Nixon's image, that the show's producers tried to persuade Vice President Hubert Humphrey to also appear on the show. But Humphrey viewed it as undignified and refused to appear. It was a decision that Humphrey strategists later said was a factor in his narrow loss that year to Nixon.
Later candidates have been less worried about their dignity and more interested in the high ratings and young demographics of the shows. Both Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on Saturday Night Live in 2007. President George W. Bush had a cameo on Deal or No Deal. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced his candidacy on Late Show With David Letterman. Arnold Schwarzenegger also announced his gubernatorial candidacy on Leno's Tonight Show.
When he was trying to revive his flagging presidential candidacy, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., memorably donned a leather jacket and a helmet and drove a Harley Davidson onto Leno's stage in late 2003. More recently, Republicans Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul have sat down on the couches of the late-night shows.
There have been slips, of course. Clinton later regretted answering one question when he appeared as president on MTV on April 19, 1994. He was asked if he wore briefs or boxers and, unfortunately, answered the question about his underwear preferences.
For the most part, the appearances have given the politicians opportunities to soften their images and show their humorous sides. Clinton used an appearance with Johnny Carson in 1988 to recover from his disastrously long Democratic convention speech, putting an hourglass on the desk. Obama joked to Letterman, "It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election." McCain joked to Leno that he was so old that his Social Security number was a single digit.
But just as Clinton talked racism with Hall, all the candidates managed to get across their serious messages—just not always the way they planned. When McCain canceled an appearance in 2008 with Letterman, the comedian skewered him nightly until a sheepish McCain returned to his stage. Instead of jokes, McCain was grilled by Letterman, much to his obvious discomfort.
On Tuesday night, Obama won't be playing the sax, won't be riding a Harley, and almost certainly won't be talking about briefs or boxers. He just hopes he doesn't get a McCain-like grilling.