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Keeping Up With The Steins is a movie made by Jews, about Jews, and starring Jews (or, as its referred to in Hollywood, a "movie"). It is the classic tale of a half-a-million dollar Bar Mitzvah party and a naked hippie grandfather.
Bar Mitzvah boy Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) struggles with the daunting responsibility of fast-approaching manhood as his parents struggle with the daunting responsibility of throwing the biggest, wildest, most obnoxious, over-the-top Bar Mitzvah Brentwood has ever seen. Unfortunately, the Steins got there first. For Adam Fiedler (Jeremy Piven), Zachary Stein's Titanic-themed Bar Mitzvah bash must be topped at all costs - less for the glory of his son, than the chance to one-up his rival, Zach's fellow Hollywood-agent father, Arnie Stein (Larry Miller).
To divert attention from the baseball-themed Dodger Stadium blowout ("could we get the Rabbi to slide into home plate?"), Benjamin secretly invites his estranged grandfather (Garry Marshall) and his much-younger earthy girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) to visit the family two weeks before the big day. Now Adam's the one with shpilkes, as he is forced to deal with his feelings toward the man who abandoned him, all while watching him play Zeide with a grandson that he never met.
Despite the obvious Jewishness of the story, the humor and playfulness of this film should have broad appeal, across religious demographics. After all, the Catholics need something to see during their boycott of The Da Vinci Code.
Piven plays essentially the same character as he does on Entourage, the huge HBO hit. Miramax claims the resemblance to Piven's Emmy-nominated Ari Gold is pure coincidence, but I suspect a conspiracy (even the Temple is named "Adat Ari El"). Both Adam Fiedler and Ari Gold are selfish, witty Hollywood agents whose entire energy is devoted to being, as Benjamin says, "a pimp for movie stars."
Like him or not, Piven has mastered the portrayal of the stereotypical agent the same way that Bob Newhart perfected the one-sided telephone conversation. Edgy and short-tempered, he is the ultimate guy who you should hate, but just can't.
Jami Gertz is perfect as Benjamin's mother, looking remarkably as cute as she did at Muffy Tepperman's Bat Mitzvah, over twenty years earlier (gulp). Always smiling, she is clueless to the fact that her husband is not acting in their son's best interest and, for that matter, completely blind to any of her son's interests. At one point, clearly miserable with the misguided attention of his parents, Benjamin opens up that all he wants is for both his father and grandfather to attend his Bar Mitzvah in harmony. His mother's reaction: "Benji is so lucky he has a dad who only wants to give him the best."
Garry Marshall plays a believable eccentric man, living on an Indian reservation with his far more attractive girlfriend: "She's very lovely," he says, of her. "Even more important, she can drive at night." Marshall is the catalyst who teaches his son and grandson the lessons of his lost years and captures a glimpse of what he missed out on by deserting his family. He provides many of the touching moments in the film, as well as the corny one-liners expected from a Jewish grandfather.
Sabara is well cast as Benjamin, a kind-hearted, but awkward 13 year-old who has a crush on the beautiful, but affected and self-involved girl in his Hebrew class (or, as they say in Hebrew class, a "girl"). Lucky for his parents, he also happens to be wise beyond his years. While his parents are at work planning "the biggest Bar Mitzvah in the history of Bar Mitzvahs," Benjamin is left to figure out the true meaning of this rite of passage.
First-time director Scott Marshall (Garry's son) does a remarkable job, despite four gratuitous close-ups of his father's bare ass (who would have thought that in a movie starring Daryl Hannah, Jami Gertz and Cheryl Hines, the only 4 nude shots would be of Garry Marshall?). Although I am sure the last name helped secure the all-star cast ("Dad, could you invite some friends over tonight?"), Marshall took an 84-minute sitcom and turned it into a funny, subtle, heartwarming film.
Unlike many movies of this genre, the filmmaker does not push the message down our throats. Without giving away the ending, Marshall avoids leaving the audience with the schmaltzy moral diatribe that is almost commonplace in "family" films.
Not that there isn't a lesson to be learned from all the meshugas. The movie touches on sensitive issues and will definitely bring up questions from younger viewers ("Mom, why are they wearing those funny looking hats?") A common theme of the movie is illustrated by Doris Roberts, as Benjamin's quirky grandmother: "there are few angels and devils in the real world and most of us fall in between."
The events leading up to Benjamin's Bar Mitzvah take us on a fun journey of prayer, family conflict and brisket. Like a bottle of cheap kosher wine, Keeping Up With The Steins seems overly sweet at first, but leaves us surprisingly satisfied at the finish.
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Ok, Monday night the kids went to bed without doing their chores at all. Dh called them downstairs and told them how ridiculous it was and that they needed to help me out more. (I already feel somewhat guilty making my kids clean house, but then again we all live here and it teaches them some responsibility) So, they got to it. I told them if right after dinner they all did their part it would be done. They could relax the rest of the night and the house would be clean. Well, last night someone pulled into our drive looking at the for sale sign. OH YEAH DID I MENTION OUR HOUSE IS ON THE MARKET AND IN NEED OF CONSTANT CLEANING???!!! So I told the kids we needed to make sure we did our part and that they make their beds in the morning and clean their rooms tonight. Well, its like 9:00pm and they know that's their bedtime. Nothing was done. I didn't gripe, I was like 'ok, let their little butts stay up and I'll wake them up earlier in the morning!' So I go to the kitchen and clean. The more I clean the madder I get....the more I clean. I washed the dishes (loader was full of clean ones), moved things and wiped down the counter tops, cleaned out the microwave, cleaned the front of the dishwasher, stove, refrigerator, started cleaning off the table and when I walked down the hall I realized dh was asleep in the bed. This ticks me off even more. At like 10:13 or so he wakes up and comes in the kitchen. I'm finishing up the table at this time and start to sweep the floors. He asks "Why are you doing their chores?" All I say is " So they'll get done." He goes upstairs and wakes them all up to come down stairs to help. That makes me mad because their parts are already done! He says they can help do something though. I've pretty much done it all except the rest of the sweeping, mopping, and cleaning their bathroom. He makes the kids stand in the living room while he lectures them again and then wants them to apologize. I told him I didin't want to hear it right now, so he sends the girls to bed and makes my son watch me clean the bathroom to see how its done. I sent him on to bed. While I'm sweeping and stuff dh will frequently come and stand in the doorway and watch me a min or so. I HATE that!!! He knows I'm stressed about the house and he yells that the kids need to help me more but he does nothing.
My back was hurting so bad last night I was crying. When I finally sat down he came in their and said "Baby it's late why don't you come to bed?" I just yelled at him "My back is hurting! So, I'm trying to rest and I know its late, I don't need you to tell me that!" So I went and took a shower and when I got out he was in bed again, lights out, and covered up! 3 yr old is just walking around getting into things.
Am I overreacting? I know he works all day (and that's his excuse for not helping), but I work all day too, and the kids go to school all day.....so what's the difference?
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Opposition members have rounded on the proposals agreed by Labour-run Renfrewshire Council.
It came after the council decided to reverse a previous SNP policy which extended free meals to all pupils in 16 of Renfrewshire's most deprived communities.
The new announcement by the current Labour administration will instead see only those pupils who fall below nationally-set poverty levels eligible for a free meal. There is one difference - those pupils will also get free meals during the school holidays.
The idea drawn criticism from the SNP with Paisley North councillor Kenny MacLaren said: "Labour haven't thought through this idea.
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"The idea of extending free school meals, initially to selec-ted schools, was to remove the stigma of pupils who received them based on family income.
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"Where are the meals going to be offered during school breaks? Who will serve the meals or clean up, since both the catering and cleaning staff normally work term time hours?"
A council spokesman said a further report was being prepared and Jacqueline Hendry, Renfrewshire's education convener said: "This council's budget protects Renfrewshire's education budget for the first time in years, despite a cash cut of £2million in Scottish Government funding.
"The previous policy of giving greater access to school meals to P1 to P3 pupils at just 16 schools took no account of parental income.
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"The policy was unfair, divisive and didn't reflect true social or economic need. In one case, families in two schools sharing the same campus had different entitlements.
"We have targeted funds at those who need them most and are extending access to free meals during holiday periods for those primary and nursery pupils who are genuinely entitled to them."
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The Curtiss GS aircraft were two types of similar scout aircraft designed and built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the United States Navy.[1]
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In 1917 the United States Navy ordered five scout aircraft from Curtiss, they were designated the GS for Gnome Scout, named for the French-built 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome rotary engine used to power the aircraft.[1] The GS was a biplane with a central float and a stabiliser float at each end of the lower wing.[1] The Navy ordered an additional aircraft as a triplane, which was designated the GS-1 and the original aircraft was retrospectively designated the GS-2.[1] Although they were delivered to the Navy in 1918 nothing further is known about the type, other than that the GS-1 was destroyed in a landing accident on 1 April 1918.[2]
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Feliciano Sergio "Félix" Sabates, Jr.[1][2][3] (born September 9, 1945) is a Cuban-born entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States.
He is currently a partner in Chip Ganassi Racing teams, which fields teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (as Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates), GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the IZOD IndyCar Series.[4] Sabates previously owned his own NASCAR team, SABCO Racing, until the end of the 2000 season when Chip Ganassi and Sabates became partners.[5]
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Felix Sabates was born in Camagüey, Cuba, living there until the age of 15. Sabates is the oldest of seven children — three boys (Feliciano "Felix" Jr., Jose, Arturo "Art") and four girls (Silvia, Yoyi, Manty, Rosita) — of Dr. Feliciano Sabates and Maria Tavio.[3][4][6][7] Sabates' grandfather grew sugar until a fire destroyed the business in the 1930s. Sabates' family then founded a jewelry store in 1936. The family would later found several successful business including import and export, jewelry, optical stores, insurance sales, sugar, cattle, service stations and pharmacies, many of which bore the family name.[6][8] Sabates attended military school as a teenager, first in Havana, and later in Camagüey. According to Sabates, he was a bunkmate with one of the sons of Fidel Castro.[6]
Following the Cuban Revolution, the newly established communist government headed by Fidel Castro proceeded to nationalize many businesses and strip citizens of individual wealth. This included the assets of Sabates' family.[6][8] After joining anti-Castro forces, in June 1960, at the age of 15, Felix was put on a flight to Miami by his parents. He was the first member of the family to enter the United States of America. Five of his six brothers and sisters would later arrive in the U.S. under Operation Peter Pan, sent to Albuquerque, New Mexico and placed in foster care. Sabates' mother and youngest brother Art fled in 1963, while his father arrived in 1966 after being restricted by the Castro administration.[6][8]
Sabates initially settled in Boston, Massachusetts with his aunt and uncle, before moving to Columbia, Missouri. In between, Sabates lived in motels and worked several odd jobs, including washing pots and pans at a hospital.[6][9] Eventually, the family would reconvene in Lexington, North Carolina (where his mother originally settled), in a resettlement site for Cuban refugees established by an American-based Catholic charity.[6][9]
In Lexington, Sabates began working 12-hour shifts in a furniture factory. One year later in 1964, after an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan, his family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and he began working at National Car Rental as a parking lot attendant and washing cars at the Charlotte Airport.[6][9] Later, Sabates began working at the City Chevrolet car dealership in Downtown Charlotte (later purchased by fellow NASCAR owner Rick Hendrick), offering to work for free on the condition that if he out sells the other salesman within a month, that he would be compensated and offered a permanent sales position. Sabates was successful with record car sales.[6][9] When a local newspaper article had recounted this story about the top salesman, it caught the eye of a local businessman who proceeded to offer him a different sales position with potential growth as a manufacturer's representative.
Business success[edit]
In 1969 at the age of 25, Sabates accepted a position as a salesman for Top Sales Company, Inc. (TSC) which distributed retail products. Sabates would purchase the company in 1974. Early products distributed by TSC included Atari game consoles and Teddy Ruxpin teddy bears.[6][10] At its peak, TSC became the largest, most successful manufacturer's representative company in the United States with over $12 billion in sales. In 2000, Sabates sold TSC to his employees at what was considered a well below market rate to "reward the people that helped him build the business."[2][8]
In 1988, Sabates purchased a Hatteras fishing yacht dealership in Stuart, Fla. and within two years Sabates had turned it into the largest Hatteras dealership in the world. Sabates, along with his partner John Dane, followed that up with the purchase of the number one custom superyacht builder in the world - Trinity Yachts in 2000. He also owns IYC, one of the largest yacht management, charter, brokerage and new construction yachts companies in the world, with offices in Monaco, the Bahamas, Saint Martees and the U.S. He is also the president and CEO of FSS Holdings, Inc., a North Carolina-based holding company with holdings in several U.S. and international companies.
Sabates owns and operates, with his partner Terry Taylor, a Mercedes Benz dealership that is a four-time recipient of the - the Best of the Best Award given to only the top 10 percent of dealers nationwide. He also operates the largest volume Infiniti dealership in North Carolina as well as Hyundai, Mazda, Sprinter and Smart Car auto dealerships. A Sabates owned Bentley dealership closed in 2015.
Other ventures[edit]
Auto racing[edit]
In 1987, Sabates became a NASCAR team owner with the purchase of a Hendrick Motorsports research and development team from Charlotte businessman, Rick Hendrick (who also owns Chevrolet dealerships).[7][9][10] The team would be known as SABCO Racing. Sabates' first driver in 1989 was third-generation racer Kyle Petty (Sabates was a huge fan of his father, Richard Petty).[9] In 1992, Sabates' team branched out into the Busch Series. Petty found his groove in the Winston Cup circuit, finishing in the top-five in the final point standings for the season. The team fielded both cars in the Winston Cup circuit the following year and Petty again finished top-five in total points.
SABCO Racing changed to Team SABCO at the beginning of the 1996 season. Sabates expanded his operation to two teams.[10] Drivers for SABCO included Sterling Marlin, Bobby Hillin, Jr., Tommy Kendall, Kenny Irwin, Jr., Kenny Wallace, Bobby Hamilton, Robby Gordon, Greg Sacks, Wally Dallenbach Jr., Joe Nemechek, Jeff Green, and Ted Musgrave.[10]
In 2001 Sabates' Sabates partnered with Chip Ganassi to become Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. Ganassi would purchase an 80 percent stake in the team, with Sabates retaining the remaining 20 percent.[5] Later on, he became responsible for hiring the first Latino driver in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series in 2006, former Indy 500 champion Juan Pablo Montoya.[9] Prior to the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, due to financial woes, the team merged with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to form Earnhardt Ganassi Racing. The team would revert to the Ganassi Racing name in 2014.[11]
Currently, the team's drivers include Jamie McMurray in the No. 1 car & Kyle Larson in the No. 42. In his nearly 30 seasons in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Sabates' teams have 17 wins, 130 top-five and 352 top-10 finishes as well as 40 poles in nearly 1800 starts. His team made the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup in 2009, finished in the top five in points in three different seasons and won the 2010 Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400.[9] In addition, Sabates and Ganassi also field a Daytona Prototype in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, where the team has won an unprecedented five Rolex 24 At Daytonas and six championships in just nine years of operation. Their No. 01 team is the winningest team in series history with 40 victories.Past drivers include Luis Diaz, Stefan Johansson and Cort Wagner. Their GRAND-AM operation is the winnest team in history with 40 wins, including five Rolex 24 at Daytonas and six championships in just nine years in the series.[9]
Charlotte sports[edit]
In 1988, Sabates became one of the founding owners of the original Charlotte Hornets basketball team (now the New Orleans Pelicans). Sabates played an intricate part negotiating with the NBA to grant franchise rights to Charlotte. Sabates sold his interests in 1991.[10] After starting the first professional indoor soccer league in the 1980s, he was one of the first investors in the World Football League. Also in the 1990s, he established The Charlotte Professional Sports Team, Inc, along with Hornets executive Carl Scheer, and his NASCAR driver, Kyle Petty, and his father Richard Petty. The company returned professional hockey to Charlotte for the first time since 1977, when the ECHL placed the Charlotte Checkers expansion franchise in Charlotte for 1993.[10] In 1996, the Checkers won the Jack Riley Cup championship after competing in the ECHL for just three years. Soon after, the team was sold at a then-record price for a minor-league professional franchise, to Tim Braswell, who sold the team in 2000 to George Shinn and Ray Woolridge, the Hornets owners.[10] Sabates and Carl Scheer would buy back the team in 2002. In November 2005, the Checker's hit an all-time attendance record of 10,894.
Sabates is also the only person that had ownership in the Hornets to now also have an ownership stake with Michael Jordan in the current Charlotte Hornets (formerly Bobcats) franchise.
Civic leader[edit]
In addition to his successes in sports, Sabates also focuses much attention on civic activities. Sabates has served on the Board of Directors for Carolinas Health Care Systems for the past 27 years. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Applica Corporation, Simpson Products, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and he also was the co-chair of a North Carolina Institute of Medicine Task Force on Latino Health.[12] Additionally Sabates was appointed to two terms on the North Carolina Banking Commission. In fact, he has been appointed to commissions by three different North Carolina governors, Jim Martin (R), Mike Easley (D) and most recently by Governor Pat McCrory (R) to vice chairman of the Oversight committee of the Airport Authority of North Carolina which oversees the Charlotte airport, the sixth busiest in the world.
Sabates is also well known for his many philanthropic contributions and has received several honors and awards for his work. Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina has named its dining hall after him,[13] Elon College and UNC Charlotte bestowed upon him Honorary Doctorate degrees,[2] and he received a "Special Blessing" in writing from Pope John Paul II. Sabates became a member of the philanthropic Dream Makers Society of the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County, Fla., in recognition of his 12-year commitment to and support of special fund raising events. In his honor, the Felix Sabates Athletic Center was dedicated in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in November 2000. The facility is the largest Boys and Girls Club in the state. He is also a large contributor to the North Carolina Health Care System Foundation, the Allegro Foundation to benefit children with special needs, as well as the Levine Children's Hospital that bears a special plaque in his honor is in the main lobby.
Political affiliation[edit]
Felix is a member of the Republican Party and supports local Republicans as well as former Presidents of the United States, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. During Governor Jim Martin's term in office of the state of North Carolina, Felix set another first and became the first Cuban to be appointed to a position in N.C. by Governor Jim Martin to the Banking Commission of North Carolina. Felix served for two terms under the Governors term in office.
Personal life[edit]
Sabates has three children, and six grandchildren. Sabates began divorce proceedings with his wife Carolyn in 2010.[1][14] His daughter Mimi is married to former NASCAR Busch Series team owner Armando Fitz.[15][16]
On August 2, 2014, Sabates' 18-year-old grandson Feliciano "Chany Boy" Sabates IV was fatally shot at a party in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.[1]
- ^ a b c Smith, Stephen Cole (August 7, 2014). "Services for Feliciano Sabates IV, grandson of NASCAR team owner Felix Sabates, set for today". motorsport.com. motorsport.com. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b c "Executive Profile Felix Sabates Jr.". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Paid Obituaries". sun-sentinel.com. Sun-Sentinel. October 6, 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ a b Newton, David (April 6, 2007). "Colorful Sabates always good for a story". espn.com. Martinsville, Virginia: ESPN. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b nascar.com (August 4, 2000). "Ganassi, SABCO go to Dodge in 2001". motorsport.com. Indianapolis: motorsport.com, NASCAR. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j McGee, Ryan (May 18, 2004). "Felix Sabates' story American made". espn.com. ESPN. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b Diaz, George (February 22, 2015). "Felix Sabates stands proud as quirky Cuban in NASCAR garage". orlandosentinal.com. Daytona Beach, Florida: Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d Arriero, Elisabeth (January 31, 2011). "A long road to success from Cuba to Cornelius". charlotteobserver.com. The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Hastings, Danny (September 27, 2013). "Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: The Legend". youtube.com. NASCAR. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g Press Release (1999). "A Brief History of Team Owner Felix S. Sabates Jr.". bellsouth.com. Mooresville, North Carolina: BellSouth. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Pockrass, Bob (January 8, 2014). "Chip Ganassi changes team name, drops Earnhardt from NASCAR operation". Sporting News. Sporting News. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ Latino Health Task Force – Projects of the NC IOM
- ^ Ordonez, Franco (March 23, 2012). "NASCAR's Felix Sabates threatens to withhold charity if pope goes to Cuba". mcclatchydc.com. Washington, D.C.: McClatchy DC. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ Rothacker, Rick (October 6, 2013). "Divorce case exposes struggles of a NASCAR race series". thestate.com. The State (newspaper). Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ Glick, Shav (September 3, 2005). "Driven to Be Diverse: Team owner Fitz is trying to lead the Latino charge in NASCAR". latimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ Zenor, John (May 12, 2005). "Ex-football stars run rising Busch team". staugustine.com. The St. Augustine Record, Associated Press. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
External links[edit]
- Felix Sabates owner statistics at Racing-Reference


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Leonard Mlodinow
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Chicago, Illinois[1]
|Mathematical physics
|Max Planck Institute for Physics
California Institute of Technology[1]
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|Brandeis University
University of California, Berkeley[1]
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|Known for
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Quantum field theory[1]
|Richard Feynman[1]
Leonard Mlodinow (pronunciation: /məˈlɒdᵻnoʊf/) is an American physicist, author and screenwriter.[2]
Mlodinow was born in Chicago, Illinois, of parents who were both Holocaust survivors.[1] His father, who spent more than a year in the Buchenwald concentration camp, had been a leader in the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule in his hometown of Częstochowa, Poland [1] then Generalgouvernement (für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete). As a child, Mlodinow was interested in both mathematics and chemistry, and while in high school was tutored in organic chemistry by a professor from the University of Illinois.
As recounted in his book, Feynman's Rainbow, his interest turned to physics during a semester he took off from college to spend on a kibbutz in Israel, during which he had little to do at night besides reading The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which was one of the few English books he found in the kibbutz library.[1]
While a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the faculty at Caltech, he developed (with Nikos Papanicolaou) a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics.[1] Later, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, Germany, he did pioneering work (with M. Hillery) on the quantum theory of dielectric media.[1]
Apart from his research and books on popular science, he also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film Beyond the Horizon[3] and has been a screenwriter for television series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and MacGyver.[1] He co-authored (with Matt Costello) a children's chapter book series entitled The Kids of Einstein Elementary.
Between 2008 and 2010, Mlodinow worked on a book with Stephen Hawking, entitled The Grand Design.[1] A step beyond Hawking's other titles, The Grand Design is said to explore both the question of the existence of the universe and the issue of why the laws of physics are what they are.
His Ph.D. thesis written at UC Berkeley in 1981 is titled The Large N Expansion In Quantum Mechanics.[4]
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (ISBN 03-07-378217) Describes how things that we think are conscious, freely made choices, are in fact governed by our subconscious.[2]
- The War of the Worldviews (ISBN 978-0-30-788688-0) with Deepak Chopra. From their contrasting scientific and spiritual perspectives, the two authors answer the big questions about the universe, consciousness, life, and God.
- The Grand Design (ISBN 0-553-80537-1) with Stephen Hawking. It argues that invoking God is not necessary to explain the origins of the universe and became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (ISBN 0-375-42404-0), deals with randomness and people's inability to take it into account in their daily lives. The book was a bestseller, and a "NY Times notable book of the year" and was named "one of the 10 best science books of 2008" on Amazon.com.
- A Briefer History of Time (ISBN 0-553-80436-7), with Stephen Hawking, an international best-seller that has appeared in 25 languages.
- Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life (as published in USA) (ISBN 0-446-53045-X), is about his relationship with Richard Feynman, during his post-doctoral years in Caltech, in the early eighties. The book offers an insight into Feynman's attitude towards physics and life, his relationship with Murray Gell-Mann and the rise of String Theory.
- Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (ISBN 0-684-86523-8) is a work on popular science that chronicles the idea of curved space and the history of geometry. It proved a popular success and has now been translated into ten languages.
- The Kids of Einstein Elementary: Titanic Cat, co-authored with Matt Costello and Josh Nash (2004) (ISBN 0-439-53774-6)
- The Kids of Einstein Elementary: The Last Dinosaur, co-authored with Matt Costello and Josh Nash (2004) (ISBN 0-439-53773-8)
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Subliminal [5]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Mlodinow, Leonard. "Leonard Mlodinow BIOGRAPHY". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "Point of Inquiry Nov 5 2013". Center for Inquiry.
- ^ "IMDB Beyond the Horizon". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "The Large N Expansion In Quantum Mechanics". Leonard Mlodinow Thesis - University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ Carolyn Kellogg (August 14, 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
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- Homepage of Leonard Mlodinow
- Leonard Mlodinow at the Internet Movie Database
- PhysicsWeb Review of "Feynman's Rainbow"
- Library Cog Review of "Feynman's Rainbow"
- About the Authors of A Briefer History of Time – UC Berkeley
- About "The Grand Design"
- Fortune Magazine Review of The Drunkard's Walk
- NY Times Review of The Drunkard's Walk
- Barron's Book Review of The Drunkard's Walk
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I don't know if I've mentioned my anxiety disorder before, but...well, I have an anxiety disorder. I get panic attacks and sometimes I just shut down and weep. Target used to make me feel that way--I'd been off the 'as-needed' meds for a couple years, and working there was so stressful, I had to see a doctor and have her prescribe more. A very low, take-the-edge-off dosage, but still... and there were nights I required two to get calmed down. It gets bad sometimes.
Now, obviously, it's been a bit of a process, learning to deal with this...what helps, what hurts, what I should and should not do, etc. I'm still trying to avoid the meds--with the history of addiction in my family, I'm not even starting a walk down that road!! So, I've been trying to avoid caffeine (if you know me, you know how incredibly difficult that is...as a night owl with a day job, it's not always pretty...), de-stress (free massages at the massage school down the street once a week are definitely helping), and -above all- watch my temper. Bf complained of some serious temper flares of late (past few weeks), and that's not generally me...I mean, I have a temper, but I'm not a witch like he was describing. I'm usually the non-confrontational cry-in-my-room type, lol
I'm also an emotional eater...so this is just a freakin' battle right now.
I'm doing my best to stay calm and focused, to make lists and get organized so I can feel more in control...that always helps. :-)
Last night's lasagna rolls didn't happen, but that's alright...I spent time with my friend, spent time with the bf, and went to bed an hour earlier than usual. Well...admittedly, I wasn't in bed. I passed out on the couch, woke up, THEN went to bed. LOL
Tonight I'm baking for Relay for Life, so I'll knock out the lasagna rolls, too.
I had a few extra minutes this morning and felt productive, so I got the dishes out of the way...at least I won't have that to deal with when I get home!! :-)
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Consumer advocates and state officials are lining up against a request by Connecticut's largest utility to raise $232 million from a rate increase that would be used to upgrade equipment following destructive storms and toughen systems to prevent outages in the future.
Customers would pay an average $150 more a year, up about 6 percent, if regulators side with Connecticut Light & Power. The bulk of the increase would be higher monthly charges totaling $114 a year regardless of how much electricity is used, which critics say would undermine energy conservation.
William Dornbos, senior attorney at Environment Northeast, an advocacy group, called the rate request a "flawed proposal" that would make it harder for consumers to save electricity and money with energy-efficient appliances, rooftop solar panels and other flexible was to buy cheaper electricity.
"It conflicts with the many good things we're trying to do here in Connecticut to help electricity customers get control over their bills," he said.
CL&P, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, said about $117 million would pay for new and stronger poles, wires, transformers and substation upgrades. It already has permission from the state to recover $89.5 million for costs related to damage from storms in 2011 and 2012, and $25.3 million to protect equipment from storms in the future.
Mitch Gross, a spokesman for the utility, said the rate request is needed for capital improvements in equipment and systems. Electric reliability was better last year than in more than 10 years due to "targeted system improvements and replacements," he said.
The utility, which serves 1.2 million customers, also has worked to control operating costs that have resulted in consumer savings, Gross said.
Elin Swanson Katz, the state's consumer counsel, is asking regulators to cut CL&P's request by $109.2 million. Reducing the increase in the monthly charge would be more in line with what utility customers pay in neighboring states "and what seems merited by the facts," she said.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said raising the fixed monthly service fee on electric bills "is at odds" with Connecticut's strategy of encouraging energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said CL&P is seeking to raise rates charged to customers to boost profit with a rate of return that would increase to 10.2 percent from 9.4 percent.
"Its only purpose is to increase CL&P's rate of return to make it one of the highest in the whole country," he said.
Robert B. Hevert, a consultant for CL&P who testified before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in June, said a 10.2 percent return on equity for electric utilities "is a reasonable, if not conservative estimate."
The first of three hearings is set for Wednesday at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in New Britain.
A draft decision by the state is expected Dec. 1.
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Wofford volleyball player Rachel Woodlee was named the Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week on Wednesday. The Greer native holds a 4.0 GPA in business economics and Chinese and finished last week with 20 kills and 24.5 points as the Terriers went 2-0.
... The baseball team released its schedule, which is highlighted by home series against Pittsburgh and Marshall. There are also road trips to Clemson, South Carolina and Auburn. The Terriers will play a total of 56 games, including 31 contests at Russell C. King Field on the Wofford campus. The season will start on Friday, Feb. 17 against Georgetown and continue that weekend with matchups against Niagara and UNC Asheville.
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Iran slashes cost of local currencyJuly 08,2013
TEHRAN — Iran's central bank is allowing most importers to buy local currency at half the former official price as part of attempts to attract investors to an economy battered by Western sanctions.
The effective devaluation of the Iranian rial comes as other proposals are being floated to boost commerce, including possibly waiving taxes for foreign companies.
Sanctions over Iran's nuclear program have hit the country's vital oil exports and blocked transactions on international banking networks. Inflation is running at more than 25 percent.
The central bank offered most importers an exchange rate of 24,779 rials for $1 on Sunday, a day after the official announcement. That compares with the previous government-set rate of 12,260 rials.
The unofficial street rate, however, remains considerably higher, at about 33,000 rials per U.S. dollar.
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Anxious to bolster their businesses, they decided to join the micro-credit program of Soro Yiriwaso for a first loan.
With this loan, they intend to buy 10 sacks of fruits and vegetables, 20 sacks of cereals, and 20 sacks of charcoal. They usually do their shopping during weekly fairs in the surrounding villages, and in the Sikasso market.
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Dans leurs soucis de renforcer leurs activités, elles ont décidé d'intégrer le programme de crédit de Soro Yiriwaso ou elles sont à leur premier prêt.
Avec ce prêt elles comptent acheter 10 sacs de fruits et de legumes, 20 sacs de céréales et 20 sacs de charbon. Elles s'approvisionnent généralement lors des foires hebdomadaires des villages environnants et au marché de sikasso.
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Important InformationSoro Yiriwaso is a microfinance institution that works primarily in rural and semi-urban areas of Mali to provide underprivileged communities with access to financial services.The organization facilitates access for disadvantaged clients, particularly women, to new resources and services, fostering solidarity and cooperation among its clients. Kiva lenders' funds will enable Soro Yiriwaso to expand its outreach and target even more underserved Malians involved in business and agriculture.
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I always interpreted the term "rootless cosmopolitan,†a Soviet euphemism for "Jew†with a distinctly pejorative ring, as a compliment. The Jewish stevedores who hauled their loads along Salonika's docks, the Jewish writers who populated the cafes of Vienna and Paris, the Jewish newshounds who bashed out copy for shoestring budget newspapers in London and New York—all conjured up hugely appealing images of a worldly people equally at home with the labor of the hand and the labor of the mind. Jews were building transnational networks, both rabbinical and revolutionary, before we even knew what to call such things.
Not for us the bunkum of "blut,†"boden†and "volk,†I liked to think. To paraphrase the historian Isaac Deutscher, we Jews were in but not of the societies in which we lived, enabling us to see past the parochial complaints and primitive hatreds of our neighbors.
A recent tussle I had with an Arab writer forced me, however, to consider that admittedly romantic notion from another standpoint. The trigger for the dispute was a piece I'd written about Al Akhbar, a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper that had been the subject of a flattering New York Times profile. My antagonist, a blogger rejoicing in the nom de plume "Angry Arab,†was irritated for a number of reasons: my discussion of Al Akhbar's anti-Semitism, my reprise of the bloody end which typically meets Middle Eastern leftists when they align with nationalists and Islamists, my questioning of the paper's "independent†credentials—but most of all by the fact that I don't read Arabic.
No matter that this is a silly argument. (One would not, after all, need to be fluent in German to know that Streicher's Der Stürmer was an anti-Semitic rag—and given that anti-Semitism lies at the heart of Hezbollah's credo, describing a newspaper that cheerleads for these terrorists as anti-Semitic is hardly a leap.) It was a comment that struck me personally, for the simple reason that, had I been born into the circumstances of many of the friends with whom I grew up in London, the offspring of families long-domiciled in the United Kingdom, Arabic would have been my mother tongue.
In 1941, the year of the Farhud—the two-day pogrom against Baghdad's Jewish community instigated by similarly "angry Arabs†allied with the Nazis and spurred on by the notorious Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries and destroyed homes, my infant father and his family left Iraq. It was an odyssey which took them to British-ruled India, to British Mandate Palestine and then to England.
In the bosom of London's Sephardic community, my father met my mother, herself the daughter of a Spanish-speaking Jewish mother from Gibraltar and a Serbo-Croat and Ladino-speaking father from Bosnia. I evolved in an environment where these displaced worlds overlapped and collided. In 1969, for example, my grandfather was manhandled out of the Iraqi Embassy in London following the hanging of 13 Jews by the Ba'ath on fabricated charges of spying for Israel—but it was my Bosnian grandfather who was frogmarched into the street. My Iraqi grandfather, whose brother's family was among the tiny remnant of Jews who remained in Baghdad, could never have taken such a risk.
As I got older, I felt comfortable with the "rootless cosmopolitan†label. I didn't consider myself a Yugoslav or an Englishman or an Arab Jew. I certainly didn't think of myself as a refugee, though I suppose I have as much claim on ancestral properties in Travnik, Baghdad, and Basra as any UNRWA-registered Palestinian brandishing the key to a house in Haifa or Jaffa. I did not feel like a victim, even if my birth in London was the consequence of war and ethnic cleansing, rather than a corporate expat package or the indulgent wanderings of a bohemian ancestor.
Yet, however hybridized my sense of self was, it was not reflected in my linguistic range. English was not just my mother tongue; it was my only tongue. I was not taught Arabic, nor Serbo-Croatian. I did pick up a bit of Spanish, simply because it was the lingua franca of my maternal grandparents house' in Maida Vale, northwest London, where we would sing Ladino songs around the dining table on Shabbat and on Jewish festivals.
This gets to the heart of my dispute with the Arab blogger who took me to task for being a non-Arabic speaker critiquing an Arabic newspaper. Like most Jews, I grew up knowing that England was a country where my family had arrived. Their past was elsewhere, reflected in the food we ate and the conversations, in other languages peppered with English words that I half-listened to. Yet what was absent in all this was an emotion common in other immigrant communities: nostalgia.
I wasn't brought up speaking Arabic because my elders never thought I would have a use for it; we would not be "returning†to Iraq, after all. I was not encouraged to revere Iraq as a country, nor did I hear idyllic tales about Muslims and Jews living together. If Iraq represented anything, it was the source of our displacement, the land from which, as my father now puts it, we were "ethnically cleansed.â€
I may have thought of myself as a "rootless cosmopolitan,†but I could so only because those who came before me were uprooted. These were people who, more than anything else, wanted to feel rooted. My youthful infatuation with gauchiste Left Bank intellectuals was my own; their passion was Zionism and with good reason.
The early Zionist writer Leo Pinsker defined Zionism as Jews wanting no more and no less than the Serbs or the Romanians. An Iraqi Jew emerging from imperial breakdown in the Middle East might well have added "the Arabs†too. Arguably the greatest insight of Zionism is the idea of "normalizationâ€â€"that sovereignty over a territory will mark a definitive break with the forced displacement which has characterized Jewish history and Jewish geography. The kind of displacement which meant that I never learned Arabic, and that none of my elder relatives had any regrets about that.
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A unique secondary school campus, conceived and designed by the nonprofit design and innovation group PITCHAfrica, opens this month at the Endana Secondary School in Laikipia, Kenya. The Waterbank Campus comprises four unique, low-cost, rainwater harvesting building types invented by PITCHAfrica, and termed Waterbanks because of the building's capacity to harvest and store high volumes of water at low cost, providing a year-round supply.
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In the world of aquatic sporting and adventure, there are few places on Earth as well recognized as San Francisco's waterfront along the Embarcadero. Located in the heart of the city's bustling Fisherman's Wharf area, Pier 27, once visited daily by hordes of residents and tourists alike, had gradually deteriorated under withering traffic over the past decade.
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Through an industry-led project, Australia has opened the floodgates to intelligent rainwater tank systems. Talking Tanks monitor water levels in a rainwater tank and automatically release water at a controlled rate if required. The system pre-empts the release of water from set points that are chosen by the user, according to rain or storm predictions, which are received via a communications link to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Bravo Enterprises Ltd.'s Canadian distributor, Splash Water Solutions Canada Ltd., has made progress in generating awareness of the company's technologies and products in Canada.
In addition to providing the first showroom platform to showcase the company's atmospheric water harvesting machines, the Canadian distributor has arranged for the AirMax 3000 to be on display in several science pavilions in Canada. These pavilions include Science World in Vancouver and World of Science in Edmonton.
Study Shows the Viability of Rainwater Harvesting
WK Dickson receives an award for its work on a rainwater harvesting project in Kernersville, N.C.
Kernersville, N.C., is a small town in the Appalachian foothills. In the heart of downtown is a town hall complex — a magnet for residents with its library, farmer's market and site of a variety of weekend festivals. Despite its charming setting, even Kernersville has been caught up with prevailing regulatory requirements for storm water pollution cleanup.
Rainwater Resources Appoints Territory Manager
Charles Montgomery appointed as Knoxville, Tenn., territory manager
Denis Rochat, president of Knoxville, Tenn.-based Rainwater Resources, appointed Charles Montgomery of Knoxville as territory manager for Rainwater Resources and its affiliated water treatment service, PerfectWater. Rainwater Resources is a water management service company, specializing in design, consultation and design/build of rainwater harvesting systems for detention, innovative use and groundwater recharge.


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The Faculty of Native Studies is located in the recently-renovated Pembina Hall, one of the University's oldest historical buildings.
Caylie Gnyra turned her native studies class project into a series of free electronic books for Cree language teachers across Alberta.
Native Studies Faculty publications.
Faculty, staff and students annual fall gathering to take down the tipi.
Upcoming event with NS Faculty Associate Professor, Kimberly TallBear, "Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexuality" for the Department of Women's & Gender Studies Third Annual Valentine's Day With Feminism Lecture. Friday, February 12, 2016.
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