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UNESCO's strategy is to project more prominently the constitutional mission of the Organisation for the right to education. In line with the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the core strategy is the pursuit of the fundamental principle of equality of educational opportunities for all without discrimination or exclusion.
UNESCO maintains dialogue with Member States in order to assist them in overcoming obstacles to the realization of the right to education. Issues such as educational deprivation, inequity and disparity in education are addressed with a view to achieving the right to education for all. A main concern is more effective monitoring of instruments in the field of education. Emphasis is placed on capacity-building and UNESCO provides technical assistance to Member States in modernizing national legislation. Awareness-raising campaigns, the undertaking and dissemination of research and studies and training programmes form part of strategic actions. These are undertaken in collaboration with professional bodies working in the field of the right to education.
UNESCO works at raising public debate on the issues, allowing for a better understanding of the significance of the normative action contributing to advancing the Education for All (EFA) process, with a focus on the right to education. Mobilizing stakeholders is part of the strategic approach. UNESCO works in close collaboration with the UN system and the office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to better serve Member States and to promote the realization of the right to education.
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Have own one of these for 10 years and its been an absolute nightmare, the drawers jam due to ice build up then when you apply force to remove them the fronts break off as the plastic is too brittle when cold. Replacements drawers cost £25 each that's £75 a set! Ended up making wooden fronts and bolted them on have now given up and ordered a new freezer!!!… Read Full Review
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I've owned the freezer for a few years now and have only ever had to defrost it twice! I can't understand why everyone is having trouble with these freezers frosting up after 2 weeks! I can only imagine they have them set too cold for what they have in the freezer. There are 5 settings for the temperature and my freezer is full and set at 2.5, all food is frozen and no ice buildup ever. The fast freeze is a good function to have if you ever need it after defrosting, and to be completely honest… Read Full Review
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I agree with the other reviews, the top shelf of the Hotpoint RZA30 frosts over in a few days and gets so bad that the door won't close, the freezer still looks great after nearly 6 years but it's going in the bin very soon, just a pain and messy to defrost… Read Full Review
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Frost starts to build up unevenly on the Hotpoint RZA30, particularly on top shelf 2 weeks after a full defrost, & if I followed manufacturer's guidelines for when it needs defrosting, the freezer would need defrosting every 3 weeks. It's not a frost free freezer but this is just silly.
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Written on: 01/08/2005
Oh bother - wish I had seen this review first, but then again the freezer was free with the flat.
<br>I have exactly the same problem frost build up in top shelf is excessive. No one in right mind would expect to defrost every 3 weeks. Hotpoint sort it out.
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We've just got rid of ours. After 2 draws snapping and cutting my fingers where it frosts up within the week.
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PANAMA CITY, March 2 (Reuters) - Panama's economy expanded at its slowest rate in four years, data showed on Monday, as the pace of building projects flagged and exports dipped.
Panama's gross domestic product grew 6.2 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, the government said, down from an 8.4 percent annual rate in 2013.
Panama's economy has cooled after a blitz of infrastructure projects, including an expansion of the Panama Canal, which lifted growth rates into the double digits in 2011 and 2012.
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Lucene Fields:New, Patch Available
FixedBitSet copy constructor is redundant the way it is now – one can call FBS.clone() to achieve that (and indeed, no code in Lucene calls this ctor). I think it will be useful to add a numBits parameter to that method to allow growing/shrinking the new bitset, while copying all relevant bits from the passed one.
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Patch adds the extra parameter and tests. I think it's ok to not deprecate this ctor and add another one since it's not used in Lucene code, and I imagine it's quite expert to do + there's an easy alternative (call clone()). We can also add size() to return numBits (actually I think it's useful to add that anyway?)
Is there any issue that will use the new ctor? As the current ctor is unused why not simply remove it and leave adding the new one to an issue that really needs it?
I thought of that ... it started in
LUCENE-5248 where I want to keep a growable bitset alongside the docs/values arrays to mark whether a document has an updated value or not (following Rob's idea). When I implemented that using OpenBitSet, I discovered the bug and opened LUCENE-5272. As I worked on fixing the bug, I realized OBS has other issues as well and thought that perhaps I can use FixedBitSet, only grow it by copying its array. This is doable even without the ctor, since I can call getBits() and do it like that:
FixedBitSet newBits = new FixedBitSet(17); // new capacity System.arraycopy(oldBits.getBits(), 0, newBits.getBits(), 0, oldBits.getBits().length);
I then noticed there is a ctor already in FixedBitSet which copies another FBS so I thought just to improve it. It seems more intuitive to do t than let users figure out they can grow a FixedBitSet like above?
Commit 1531627 from Shai Erera in branch 'dev/trunk'
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LUCENE-5277: Modify FixedBitSet copy constructor to take numBits to allow grow/shrink the new bitset
Commit 1531630 from Shai Erera in branch 'dev/branches/branch_4x'
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LUCENE-5277: Modify FixedBitSet copy constructor to take numBits to allow grow/shrink the new bitset


text: Hi, Last night I was out trying to find a few new APs on a route that I've not been on. All worked well. I was carrying my PB in my bag with the GPS-USB cable stuck between the screen and keybord. That way it won't go into sleepmode while having a defcto closed PB. The cable sometimes "presses" a key on the keyboard though. That happened last night. The letter "m" got into the Searchbox on the top-right side. No big deal I thought and saved my new found APs - I THOUGHT. What happened is this: KISMAC saved all APs that contained the letter "m" in its SSID. It dind NOT save all others. Is it a bug or a feature? Thank god I exported a NetStumbler File for WIGLE last night so only one day was lost. Are you able to reproduce that same behaviour? If so I'd call this a serious bug since large amounts of data are lost. globo


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A finger was chipped off of the right hand of Rio's de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer statue during a storm late Thursday.
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The statue, which is frequently hit by lightning, was erected in 1931 and set to be repaired next month. $4 million was recently poured into a renovation, the Times reported.
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- Name: Lindsay Frigault
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Age: 25
- Where: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
- Height: 5' 2"
- Weight: 133 Lbs., contest: 117 Lbs.
- Years Bodybuilding :2
- Favorite Bodypart: Chest and Shoulders
- Favorite Exercise: Back and Quads
- Favorite Supplements: multivitamin, Vit B complex, calcium & magnesium, Vit C, ginko, glucosamine, Isoflex pro powder, flax seed oil capsules, creatine (Swole V2 ) and Nitrous, meal replacement pro shakes, and Oh Yeah bars.
How Did You Get Started?
In my year off between finishing my Bachelors of Kinesiology at McMaster University and starting my Masters in Physical Therapy, I took a job in a local new gym as a personal trainer/kinesiologist where I met Chris Fusco (check him out in Bodybuilding Amateur of the Week), another personal trainer who eventually became my boyfriend and favorite training partner.
It was the comment, "you train like a girl" that fired me up to reconsider my goals in the weight room. Instantly, I became motivated to train for strength, and with that came a little bit more muscle mass. I loved the way my body was growing! Chris had competed in a few bodybuilding competitions and had asked me if I had ever thought of competing. To be honest, I had not until that day. And did I ever start thinking about it.
So I decided to compete in the same one Chris was intending on competing in later that year. He was my motivator and mentor for the entire 16 week process. He made up my diet; cooked and prepared my food (I was a full time student and he really helped me out) and we trained together in the gym, and dragged each other out of bed for the early am cardio 6 days a week.
Finally the day arrived, and we both took home a first place trophy. He was in the Level II Middleweight, and myself in the Level II Figure Short Class. This was my first competition and now I'm hooked.
What Workout Plan Worked Best For You?
Constant Variation! To stay motivated and allow my muscles to continually evolve throughout 16 weeks of dieting, I would change up my workouts every 3 weeks. And throughout those three week phases, I would alternate between different exercises for each specific body part.
In my off-season, I perform about 30 - 60 minutes of cardio 4 times a week.
- Two weeks prior to starting my pre-comp dieting, all cardio training stopped to allow my body to re-adjust to the new levels I would endure during each new phase of the training.
Wk 16 - 15: 30 mins. of am cardio (jogging/biking/stairmaster/eliptical)
Wk 14 - 12: increase by 5 minutes each week
Wk 11 - 8: 60 min/day (split up between am/pre workout/post workout)
Wk 7 - 5: 90 min/day (split up between am/pre/post)
Wk 4 - 3: 2 hrs/day (split up between am/pre/post)
Wk 2: 60 - 90 min/day (split up)
Last week: Mon/Tue 60 min/day (when ever I had the energy to do it)
Weight Training
- I would always (except the last week) train each body part with a compound exercise for 6 sets, and an isolation exercise for 4 sets. I would train single body parts, except for quads and arms which I would train twice each weak.
- Trained 5 days a week (# of sets): typical format
Mon -
Back (12)/
Tris (12)/
Calves (5) = 29 sets
Tue - Hams (14)/Bis (14)/Abs (5) = 33 sets
Wed - Chest (14)/Quads (8)/Calves (6) = 28 sets
Thur - Shoulders (14)/Bis (6)/Abs (6) = 26 sets
Fri - Quads (squatting forever) (12 - 16)/Tris (6)/Lower Back (6) = 24 - 28 sets
What Nutrition Plan Has Worked Best For You?
In the off-season, I generally eat 5 times a day and I include a protein source at each meal. I always drink 3 - 4 L of water a day, and I can't go with out my morning coffee. I am definitely more lax in my off-season, but when dieting starts, I am very, very strict. I am a person who loves food (all kinds), good and bad, and when I am able to eat the foods I enjoy, I will, saving my 16 weeks of dieting for "food deprivation".
During the off-season I will eat clean during the week, and enjoy one day on the weekend. Here are two typical days of eating for me, the first is an off-season day, the second a pre-comp day (I would cycle through various phases during pre-competition) at about 8 weeks out:
Off-season day
8am: 1 whole egg scrambled with 4 whites, 1/2 cup bran cereal with fruit
10am: 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese with 1/3 cup home made granola (oats, walnuts, almonds, dried apples/cranberries, wheat bran, pam spray, sugar free maple syrup), raw veggies.
Noon: train and cardio
2pm: Pro shake (2 scoops pro, unsweetened soymilk, frozen fruit juice, glutamine powder)
3pm: 1 protein pancake (very high fiber) with natural peanut butter
6:30pm: dinner with family (steak/chicken/fish/pork, with lots of vegetables/salad)
9pm: shake with water, or salad with boiled eggs/chicken
Pre-Competition Diet
Meal 1: 5 egg whites, 4 oz sweet potatoes
Meal 2 (post work out): 1 sc pro (Strawberry Isoflex), 35 g (dry) oatbran, 3/4 cup fresh strawberries
Meal 3: 3oz (cooked) broiled chicken, 1/2 cup brown rice
Meal 4: 3oz (cooked) broiled chicken, 1/4 cup brown rice
Meal 5: 3 egg whites, 1 cup vegetables cooked
Meal 6: 65g solid white tuna, 1 cup vegetables
What Supplements Have Given You The Greatest Gains?
This year I have tried something new in my off-season; creatine and a nitric oxide product made by Syntrax (Swole and Nitrous). I have a lot of people ask me how I like them but it is hard to answer because I don't really have another product to compare them to.
I did notice a bit of smoothness in my lower body and over my abs, but overall, I don't have any complaints about the products. I have made incredible strength gains this year, so I could credit the creatine for that. One thing I cannot go a day without taking is my glutamine in my post workout shake, and glucosamine tablets. I also consume at least 1 - 2 protein shakes a day, I find it an easy way to get all of my protein for the day.
Why do you love Bodybuilding?
Fitness is a way of life for me. I have always been an active person. I owned my first exercise video at age 12, and would do it in my bedroom with my makeshift stepper (the kitchen step stool), and cans of tomatoes. In high school I played every sport under the sun, and in the 11th grade I took my first weight training class.
I could do more push-ups and sits-ups than some of the guys in my class. I loved it! I also continued to work out at home until my first semester of college where I took got my first gym membership. That got the ball rolling, and I quickly became a personal trainer/fitness instructor, and set the record for the largest attendance of participants for my kickboxing class (90 people, 40 had to be turned away as our fitness studio only held 50 people).
I am currently in my second year of my Masters in Physical Therapy and am seeing the even larger importance of physical fitness as measure of prevention. My schooling has also helped my training in recognizing the onset of injuries and the proper strategies to employ in the gym to allow for healing, yet to still maintain a regular training program. I love my life, and I guess that says it all, being fit keeps me sane, and helps me deal with the stressors of school, and definitely gives me a goal for my training. To train like a women!
What Are Your Future Bodybuilding Plans?
Well since I have only competed in one figure competition, and it qualified me for the provincial level, I definitely need some more experience on stage, and I would like to put on a bit more size before I attempt it. So I will be attending this years provincials as a spectator, to get a little insight for what to expect the following year, and to pump me up for my second level II (regional) competition that will take place in October 2005.
I am doing it to get some more experience, experiment with some diet techniques, and lets face it, dieting during the summer months does have some pay offs (beach!). As for the future, who knows, it's a cut throat industry and I am a laid back person who loves the thrill of competition and the rush of being in front of a huge audience. If things happen, I'll accept them gracefully, if not, I get enough out of the thrill to keep me going.
What One Tip Would You Give Other Bodybuilders?
Everybody is different, embrace your uniqueness. The human body is like a piece of artwork, and you are the artist, you will make of it what you do to it. The fitness industry is very competitive, which may encourage some to forget about the beauty of being a strong, confident woman.
To all of those women who compete, who are thinking of competing, or take part in physical fitness for overall well being, hold on to the beauty of who you are inside, and it will shine through in your confidence in all aspects of life. The bottom line, do what makes you happy!
Who Are Your Favorite Bodybuilders?
The good old Canadian IFBB Pro Mindy O'Brien (she was in my dressing room at my first competition), she looks absolutely phenomenal, and I love the fact that she hasn't succumbed to the pressures of the industry and augment her bust... go girl!


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source: http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010...friday-begins/Who says the PSP is dead? Demand for the handheld has grown exponentially since a temporary price cut on the system, with sales reaching an unprecedented high. As the Black Friday madness starts to kick in, Sonys handheld has toppled the Wii, PS3 and 360 for the sales crown.
Amazon.com, the worlds largest online retailer, listed the PSP 3000 for a mere $129.99, with a copy of LittleBigPlanet, The Karate Kid movie, and a 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo and a $15 gift card earlier today, causing the PSP to almost immediately sell out as word spread of the fantastic deal.
With such an increase in demand, sales sky-rocketed 62,200% causing the bundle to go from a sales ranking of 1,246 to a lofty second place.
The great deal isnt just an Amazon exclusive, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog that the $129.99 bundle would be available at all major retailers over the Black Friday period, meaning that the sales increase is likely to be mirrored all across the United States. Amazon are currently sold out of the PSP pack (well be sure to update you if it comes back in stock), but Best Buy are still offering the bundle online.
The PSP isnt the only set to see a sales boost as Amazon has some unmissable Black Friday deals for the PlayStation 3, with a 160GB Family Bundle with Singstar Dance and Ratchet and Clank costing only $299.99, and a 160GB Black Friday Bundle featuring Uncharted 2 GOTY edition, Pixeljunk Shooter and The Karate Kid Blu-ray for as little as $299.
Stay tuned to PlayStation LifeStyle as we cover all the best Black Friday deals as they happen, and make sure to bookmark Amazons Black Friday Deals page to beat the millions of other shoppers in securing the hottest deal.
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11-26-2010 #1APetePersonGuest
PSP sales rocket at a mindboggling 62 000% BEFORE black friday
11-26-2010 #2
So the selling price point for a PSP is, $129.99
Hopefully, Sony will keep it at that price after, Black Friday. If the PSPGo had an attractive price point, it would of done just as favorable.
11-26-2010 #3
Damn, that's a comeback! Although I don't play my PSP as much, the machine's a beast, and I've had a blast with it. Can't understand why so many people say it's a failure with such great software and such great total sales.
11-26-2010 #4APetePersonGuest
it sure beats gaming on an ipod touch
11-26-2010 #5
Yeah it really needs to stay at $130. Isnt it $170 or something usually? A bit pricey for a 6 year old handheld really.
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Yea I bought 2 for both my little cousins at my local gamestop I was the first one to by them. My local gamestop looked as if they only had about 30 of them though.Ride or die Sony(Playstation) supporter since 12/25/1997 Currently playing: Mass Effect 3, NBA 2K14, Tomba,Battlefield 4,Warframe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
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11-27-2010 #9
I won't be upgrading my PSP 1000 until they announce the PSP2, so I can get a 3000 for peanuts
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It seems like people generally see the PSP as a cool device that just isn't quite worth the price. I love it as a media device and I've really warmed up to it as a gaming device, but most rational people who are in the market for a media device will buy an Ipod Touch instead. The PSP really just needs a lower base price...although at this point I guess it may be too late.
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Nice, gain some momentum before the PlayStation Phone and PSP2.
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PSP Go was such a stinker. Hopefully PSP2 would be better.
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Siemens plans a focused expansion of its industry software portfolio and intends to make a voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of IBS Aktiengesellschaft excellence, collaboration, manufacturing (WKN 622840) ("IBS AG") to acquire all shares in IBS AG. IBS shareholders are to receive EUR 6.10 per share in cash. This corresponds to a premium of approx. 33 percent compared to today's closing share price for IBS AG (XETRA). Through the acquisition of IBS AG, a supplier of software solutions for industrial quality and production management, Siemens complements its offering of industrial automation solutions. The management board of IBS AG welcomes the offer from Siemens in principle.
Siemens has informed the management board of IBS AG of its plan to launch a voluntary public takeover offer. Today, Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Schröder, founder, Chief Executive Officer and major shareholder of IBS AG, and members of his family, who directly or indirectly hold some 51 percent of the shares in IBS AG, agreed to sell their shares to Siemens. The completion of this agreement and the takeover offer is conditional upon certain antitrust approvals and is subject to a minimum acceptance threshold of 75 percent, among other conditions. Since 2007, Siemens holds almost eight percent of the shares in IBS AG and has secured an additional around five percent of the shares through agreements reached today with members of management at IBS AG and the company itself. These agreements will only be consummated, if the takeover offer is completed. As a result, Siemens has access to a total stake of 64 percent of the shares in IBS AG.
Anton S. Huber, CEO of the Siemens-Division Industry Automation: "We are submitting a cash offer to all shareholders of IBS AG with an attractive premium. Through the acquisition we can enhance our long-time collaboration with IBS AG and directly complement our offering in the area of industrial quality and production management. Employees of IBS AG will benefit from joining a world-leading portfolio for automation solutions and the strong worldwide presence of Siemens."
IBS AG was founded in 1982 and is listed in the Prime Standard of the German stock exchange. Employing around 200 personnel, IBS AG offers cross-company standard software systems for quality and production management as well as compliance management.
Investors can find additional information on the intended voluntary public takeover offer on the Internet at http://www.siemens.com/ibs-offer.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005 – Copyright The International Herald Tribune
SANTA MONICA, California Not to cast aspersions but, with all the furor over performance-enhancing drugs, it's remarkable that Philip Roth's name hasn't surfaced.
Just last week the baseball player Rafael Palmeiro avoided perjury charges, but his career achievements have been irreparably tarnished. Not so Roth. In fact, since turning 60, an age when most renowned writers start having trouble making stuff up, Roth has written, arguably, four of his finest novels.
Is he juiced or merely the beneficiary of superior genes? No one can – or will – say for sure.
However, as Roth closes in on several of Dostoevsky's records, whispers are circulating through the literary community. One writer, who requested anonymity to avoid seeming cranky, whispered, "Since I came out with 'Bonfire of the Vanities,' I've written two novels. Roth has churned out, what, 12? Do the math."
Roth's bulked-up output is not the only factor raising eyebrows. Most notably, his sentence structure has shown no signs of the usual age-related deterioration cited in medical literature.
At 64, some eight to 10 years after most writers betray noticeable passive voice, Roth completed his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "American Pastoral" (1997). One of the book's astonishing sentences began with the words, "Only after strudel and coffee," and ended nearly a full page later without even one dangling modifier.
No less a talent than James Joyce (in one of his more piquant observations) said: "By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react."
In addition, Roth's continued graphic depiction of, and obsession with, sexuality is seen by some as another indicator that he may be doping. Even D.H. Lawrence, by the age of 42, tended to write less about sex and more about supper. Yet, Roth's "Sabbath's Theater" (1995) and "The Dying Animal" (2001) were rife with carnal observations usually associated with novelists freshly called up from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Roth's defenders point out that he lives in an age of superior mental conditioning, allowing him to extend his productive years well beyond those of Cervantes or the Grimm Brothers.
In addition, Roth has never fallen into the kinds of traps that have cut short the careers of others. He has displayed none of the draining machismo of Norman Mailer. He is never haunted by his childhood like Eugene "the Real Deal" O'Neill. He has no reputation for the late-night carousing favored by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote.
Finally, technology in the form of "spell checker" and the "light bulb" have given Roth an advantage over, say, Rousseau. Some feel it would be foolish of him to forgo such labor-saving devices simply to maintain fair comparisons to the early romantic.
"Writing is hard," said one famously blocked author, who requested anonymity in order to keep her publisher believing she died 12 years ago. "You look for any edge you can get."
And yet, the dull hum of innuendo may become an annoying hum as volumes of Roth's work are reprinted by the prestigious Library of America.
In an irony befitting the writings of O. Henry and Jose Canseco, much of the criticism for this controversy could ultimately land at the feet of that august imprint, whose testing has been so notably lax that Hunter Thompson repeatedly came up clean.
Thus far, Roth has been spared the kind of public denials to which we've grown accustomed. When a bottle of Allegorical Growth Hormone turned up in a Nebraska junior high school creative writing class, Roth was almost conspicuously not asked to comment on his status as a role model.
In short, Philip Roth simply lets his writing speak for itself. As one literary agent said: "You can dope me up all day and I ain't going to write 'Good-bye Columbus.' So when the time comes, I, for one, will write in Philip Roth for the Time magazine 100 Best Authors issue."


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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Split Before NYE: Mistrust in Mexico?
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have split up again following a blow out fight that the couple had in Mexico shortly before New Year's Eve.
The tumultuous couple, who has been dating for three years, had reportedly traveled to Mexico together to ring in the new year, but a fight allegedly broke out on Dec. 30, forcing them to go their separate ways, according to The New York Daily News.
"They keep breaking up and getting back together," an insider told The Daily News. "It's an on-again, off-again relationship. It's probably not correct to characterize this as a final breakup."
Bieber, 18, and Gomez, 20, reportedly ended their relationship then and there and have not seen each other since.
"Selena left Mexico that same day and Justin left for L.A. on the 31st. They haven't seen each other since," a source reportedly told TMZ.com.
It is still unclear what exactly triggered the argument, although the singers have a history of fighting over trust issues. The pair had previously split up in November following speculation that Bieber had been texting other girls.
"The problem in the first place is that Selena was a little bit of a jealous girlfriend and Justin wasn't really taking her feelings into regard," a source close to the stars previously told Radar. "Justin doesn't see texting other girls as cheating, but he's promised Selena he'll stop if she takes him back."
Several media outlets had reported that their November split may have involved a Victoria's Secret model, although the reports have never been verified.
Gomez took to social networking site Twitter just two days after her break-up with Bieber and the Disney star appeared to be optimistic about her future despite her relationship woes.
"New beginnings. Fresh start. I love you all," Gomez tweeted Jan. 1.


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Nikon FM3a (2001-2006)
Nikon FE2 (1983-1987)
Nikon FE (1978-1983)
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Introduction top
Intro Specs Performance Usage Recommendations
The Nikon FE is one of my favorite Nikon cameras of all time.
The Nikon FE one of the most flexible, most intelligently designed and most perfect cameras ever made. All that, and you'd be hard pressed to spend more than $100 on one. It's easy to shoot it digitally as I show in the example.
The FE just lets me make great photos and never gets in the way. That's critical, but not something you'll ever read off a data sheet.
I love the FE. If you are thinking about getting one, just do it.
When it came out in 1978, photographers, including myself, were afraid of it because it used batteries. To us, real cameras were mechanical, and we'd be darned if we'd be caught using a sissy camera which became useless whenever its feeble batteries died.
As thirty years of history has shown, the electronic FE is at least as reliable as any Nikon mechanical camera, and its tiny watch batteries last for years, and the battery gauge gives weeks of advance notice.
The FE does everything you need, and nothing you don't. Because of this, it's easy to get to the things you do need, like setting and locking exact exposure, easy access to the AE Lock button, and a real, smooth and instantly responding analog needle instead of a stupid, slow digital display.
Photographing with the FE is joy. It just gets out of the way and lets me make loads of great pictures. Its easy to get 38 perfectly exposed shots on one 36-exposure roll of Fuji Velvia 50.
Beach Walk. enlarge.
Fuji Velvia 50, 81C filter,
The Newer FE2
I prefer this older FE to the newer FE2 because this older FE can use every lens since 1959, while the newer FE2 can't use non-AI lenses.
This original FE uses half the battery power of the newer FE2 because the FE2 needs stronger shutter springs to get 1/4,000, and the batteries have to power the electromagnets to hold that.
I prefer the FE's power switch, which is pulling out the film wind handle, over the 16-second-per-tap shutter button switch of the FE2. My FE is always on when I need it, and the FE2 keeps turning off on me. The FE has a dedicated battery test light, while the FE2 simply stops working to tell you it's time to replace them.
Used Nikon FEs sells for around $25 and up, the deal of the century. I've never seen one break, either. FE2s cost more, because they have TTL flash and faster shutter speeds that no one uses with film.
I can shoot pictures on the leader before frame 1 on an FE, while the FE2 only shoots at 1/250 until you get to frame 1.
The FE does everything the F3 does for me, in a smaller, lighter package with a far easier to read, more precise and faster meter display, The F3 is crippled with a clumsy digital LCD instead of an instantaneous needle.
The only thing the FE can't do is work well with circular fisheyes. You can't see the transparent shutter speed indications on the left of the finder because circular fisheye images are black on the sides! Of course the FE works perfectly with all 16mm fisheyes. The FE does work with circular fisheyes like the 8mm f/2.8 and 6mm f/2.8, but it drives me crazy not being able to see the shutter speeds. Forget the ancient fisheyes that poke into the camera; the FE has no full-time mirror lock-up.
The FE has an automatic mirror-lock-up for use on a tripod, far more advanced than any of Nikon's digital SLRs. Any time you use the self timer, the mirror locks up at the beginning of the interval!
The FE is ideal for night photography. Bulb mode is mechanical, but better still is that the FE automatically times long automatic night exposures even hours long. It's not rated to do it, but try it and you'll be surprised how well it works.
The instant-response analog meter needle makes exposure easy, since applying the Zone System and AE Lock is so much more precise than dopey LED and LCD readouts, which can't indicate any more precisely than about a full or half stop and take a second to update themselves as you pan around. You easily can read the meter of the FE to a tenth of a stop.
The only gotcha is that the FE is a traditional fake-leather-covered boxy metal camera. It's not as comfortable to hold all day as a curvy block of magnesium covered in rubber, like the glove-soft F6.
If you prefer Matrix metering, get the FA, but you'll miss the superior genuinely analog readout of the FE.
Top, Nikon FE. enlarge.
The Nikon FE works, and even provides auto exposure, with every Nikon SLR lens ever made.
The FE has a uniquely wide range of compatibility because it has a flip-down aperture coupling pin for use with both AI and non-AI lenses. Nikon did it this way because the FE came out at the beginning of the AI era, so everyone had both a bag of non-AI lenses and newly purchased AI lenses they expected to use on the FE.
The only compatibility exceptions are with the 1960s fisheyes and gelded G lenses.
Gelded (G) lenses are impractical because they only work at minimum aperture.
Since the earliest f/8 and f/5.6 fisheyes and the 21mm f/4 lens of 1959 require a full-time hard mirror lockup (and external finder), they won't mount on the FE. The FE has no full-time mirror lockup, just an automatic one with the self timer.
With G lenses and non-AI lenses you must use stop-down metering and AE Lock (or manual exposure) for every shot.
Otherwise, every autofocus and manual focus lens ever made from 1959 through today works just great on the Nikon FE.
You can use all the AF (but not G) lenses, but more ironically, Nikon has made a far broader range of professional manual focus lenses than they ever have made in autofocus.
Most pros switched to Canon at the dawn of the AF era, so Nikon has never developed a full line of exotic AF lenses as they did in manual focus.
A Nikkor 13mm f/5.6 AI-s swallowing a Nikon FE. There is no autofocus substitute. enlarge.
The fastest lenses in the Nikon system, f/1.2, are only made in manual focus. You can buy the 50mm f/1.2 today.
Nikon makes no really fast wide AF lenses today. The closest AF lens is the 35mm f/2 AF, but the 35mm f/1.4, still made today, is manual focus only.
The longest lenses in the Nikon system, 800mm, 1,000mm, 1,200mm, 1,200 - 1,700mm and 2,000mm, have only been made in manual focus.
The widest lenses in the Nikon system, the 13mm f/5.6 rectilinear and 6mm fisheye, were only made in manual focus.
You're not missing anything, and the FE works great with AF lenses if you care to bother.
More at Nikon Lens Compatibility.
In 1978, the new Nikon FE replaced the earlier Nikon EL-W and EL2.
The FE was replaced by the newer FE2 in 1983.
Rear, Nikon FE. enlarge.
Specifications top
Intro Specs Performance Usage Recommendations
Manual-focus 35mm film SLR. Electronic shutter with two mechanical backup speeds, mechanical advance lever. Manual (crank) rewind.
Lens Mount
Solid stainless steel, baby.
Chromed brass and black. Black was always $25 extra when new.
Film Advance
Thumb lever, or MD-11 or MD-12 motor drives.
93% coverage.
0.86x magnification w/50mm lens.
Fixed glass pentaprism.
Interchangeable screens.
Depth-of-Field Preview
Yes, press lever near lens towards body.
12mm heavily center-weighted TTL meter.
AE Lock
Yes, press and hold Self Timer lever towards the lens.
Aperture-priority auto and match-needle manual exposure. AE Lock if you press and hold the self-timer lever towards the lens.
A Nikon FE locked, loaded and ready for anything. enlarge.
Vertical metal focal plane shutter. Engraved shutter speed dial.
Specified for 8 seconds ~ 1/1,000 in manual and auto modes. It actually has a much wider range in Auto mode as explained under Performance.
Without batteries, it works at Bulb and 1/90.
Maximum shutter speed with flash
1/125 electronic speed, or the 1/90 mechanical speed.
Flash Sync
Hot shoe and PC sync terminal.
Flash Ready Light
Red L. E. D. (light-emitting diode) right above the external eyepiece.
Works with Nikon dedicated flash.
TTL Flash?
You need the FE2 for that.
Film Back
21.136 oz. (599.1g) measured with with batteries and film.
20.355 oz. (577.1 g), measured with (2) LR44 alkaline batteries, big rubber eyecup and strap lugs, but without strap, without lens and without body cap.
Nikon specifies 590g.
Never-Ready Case
The fitted eveready case for use with short lenses is the CF-27.
The CF-28 is for long lenses. The CF-28A is just the longer top section that fits both cases.
Two S76 or A76 cells, or one 3V 2L44 lithium.
It runs for years on a pair.
Price, USA
When new in January 1979, the silver model FE body-only sold for $330 at B&H, which is $1,050 in 2013 with inflation. Only the smartest pros bought at B&H back then; most people still paid too much at retail.
Performance top
Intro Specs Performance Usage Recommendations
Nikon FE and 50mm f/1.4 AI-s. enlarge.
The FE is all about shooting. It just goes.
The only thing it won't do is let you see the meter reading in the dark, since it reads via a needle in the finder. There is no light, which is why the battery least most of a decade, but if you want to read the needle in the dark, you'll need something with some light in your subject.
The great news is that the log-scale meter needle makes exposure far easier to set in tough situations than any other digital readout. You simple move the camera around, note the brightest and darkest parts of your composition, and it's trivial to pick the exposure setting you prefer. It takes a minute of mental gymnastics to do the same on any camera with a digital shutter-speed readout.
The FE has real knobs so you can change settings like a man. Each knob does only one thing, so it's much easier to use than newer cameras where unneeded features choke your ability to get to the ones you do need.
Meter and Shutter Accuracy
The FE's meter is more accurate than most people's ability to use it properly.
I've never seen any error in the electronic shutter or meter.
Meter and Shutter Range
The manual settings are fixed at full stops from 8 seconds to 1/1,000.
The Auto mode also selects shutter speeds seamlessly, so if perfect exposure is 1/234 second or 3.1415926 seconds, that's what you'll get.
Even though Nikon only specifies the Auto mode to cover the same range, in actuality the Nikon FE's Auto range covers from exposure times longer than an hour to about 1/4,000 of a second!
Battery Life
Battery life was rated as "about a year." In actual use, each set has lasted me about five years or more.
Since I easily can fit three extra sets of A76 cells in my wallet, I can carry 20 years of power on me and not even know it.
A76 cells are sold everywhere, and if not, you'll find them in all sorts of trinkets like laser pointers, noisy kid's toys and keychain lights.
Film Economy
Unlike most newer cameras that automatically wind past (or won't expose properly) the first few frames, you can shoot every frame with perfect exposure in an FE.
I usually get 38 or 39 shots per roll, shooting from frame 0 through frame 37 or 38. This alone pays for an FE.
Cold Weather
My FE loves working in 25ºF (-5ºC) weather for hours at a time.
The black foam used as a mirror cushion in the the mirror box and as light seals on the back of the camera turn to nasty black goo. Any camera repair shop can replace these while you wait.
I did see one that wouldn't always work at the top speeds. If set to 1/1,000 manually, or if the auto exposure setting wanted a high speed, it would flip up the mirror and hang. To unhang it, you needed to turn the shutter dial to M90 and try again. Oddly, that sample of camera would get better with use, and get worse if left unused.
Nikon no longer has parts for the FE.
As of August 2007, they still do have some limited parts for the newer FE2.
Most independent service men can work on the FE.
Usage top
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Film Loading and Shooting
Nikon FE, open back. enlarge.
Thread the film the usual way into the take-up spool. Close the back and wind ahead.
The film speed must be set manually on the dial over the film canister.
You can shoot starting and get good results on the second frame after you close the back, before you get to frame 1. You can shoot frame 0 and usually frame 00.
Unlike newer cameras like the FE2, the FE doesn't default the shutter speed to a fast fixed speed while loading. The only downside to this is if you leave the lens cap on and the FE set to Auto, in which case the shutter opens indefinitely for a dark time exposure. If you do this, close the shutter by pushing the wind lever forwards to turn off the FE, or rotate the the shutter dial to 1/1,000, to keep advancing the film.
The frame counter stops counting at 36, although you can keep going as long as you have film.
When the roll's done, press the rewind button on the bottom and turn the crank on the top to rewind the film back into the canister.
Bottom, Nikon FE. enlarge.
There are no silly threaded bottom caps to lose. The motor drive connections just sit out like this.
Live Aperture Direct Readout (ADR) shows the aperture setting directly from the lens' aperture ring.
Live analog meter needle indicates metered value and automatically selected speed.
Transparent green needle shows position of shutter-speed dial, including AUTO and manual settings.
Finder Screens
The FE takes the standard K screen, as well as the E or B screens.
Trick: You can use the K2, E2 and B2 screens from the newer FE2, and get a brighter finder! You have to dial in +1/2 stop of exposure compensation, since more light goes to your eyes and to the meter.
I suspect the FE also will work great with the even newer K3 screen from the FM3a, but have no idea of the exposure compensation needed.
You can identify the -2 screens because they have a small notch in their index tab.
Nikon FE Front Controls.
The FE meters mostly within the big circle in the middle of the finder.
If the light is uneven, put that over your subject, push the self-timer lever (the one with the white line on the front of the FE) towards the lens to lock that exposure, recompose and shoot.
The Nikon FE does not indicate that you're locked the exposure. You just have to trust it and the meter continues to read the current light. The FE2 is different: its meter needle locks when you press the AEL lever. The advantage to the FE is that if you remember the position of the needle when you hit AEL, it's easy to use the Zone System and see directly how subjects place as you pan around. On either camera you can set a manual speed and the green needle stays put while the black light meter needle shows you your zone placements.
Trick: ASA is set in third stops, and exposure compensation is set in half stops. If yo know math, you can use this to set automatic exposure bias in sixths of a stop.
Long Exposures
The FE's internal circuitry is analog, so it has none of the hard range limits of newer cameras with digital circuitry.
If you shoot scenes at night, the FE will meter and clock-off time exposures automatically. Forget newer cameras which require you to sit there like a dork holding a cable release while watching a wristwatch and holding a flashlight to see it all.
With an FE (or FE2 or FA), compose the scene, cover the eyepiece if your eye isn't on it, wind the self timer, and press the shutter.
The FE measures and locks the exposure, flips up the mirror, counts off about ten seconds, and then makes the time exposure automatically.
You don't need a cable release, and the mirror locks up and returns all by itself. It is way, way superior to any digital Nikon.
I've never had the patience to wait around and see just how long the Nikon FE will expose.
Out of curiosity, I loaded fresh A76 cells into an FE set to ASA 50 and, with the lens cap on in AUTO, pressed the shutter.
The shutter stayed open for 63 minutes, and then closed at ISO 50. Whoa!
I tried it again set to ASA 400, and the FE stayed open for 3 minutes and then 17 minutes. It will vary by temperature and the amount of light to which the FE was exposed a little while before you started the exposure. Remember, the FE is analog, and it's the leakage currents which are defining the long exposure times.
These times correspond to LV -13 with an f/1.4 lens, which is about ten stops darker than normal night time.
These times are with a wide-open lens. The FE calculates even longer times if you stop down your lens!
The FE doesn't calculate corrections for reciprocity failure. Luckily, the lessened effective exposure with most film gives the darker results we want to make night shots look like night; otherwise night shots would look as bright as day.
The battery check light works during a long exposure.
Above 1/1,000
At higher speeds, you can get to about 1/8,000, but what happens at these higher speeds is that they can become inaccurate, and your exposures will vary. That's why Nikon didn't specify the FE for speeds above 1/1,000.
If you get to know your camera and how its exposure varies at these higher speeds, you can shoot them. The black needle in Auto mode will cross the "A" and above.
Don't worry if the needle only goes a fraction of a stop above 1/1,000 in auto; exposure will be perfect.
Power and Batteries
Nikon FE battery test lever and light.
Flick the lever to test the batteries. It stops working before the Nikon FE does, so you get plenty of notice to change them.
When the meter is off, the batteries are completely disconnected just as if they were sitting in their packaging on a store shelf.
If you keep shooting long after the test light stops lighting, when the batteries drain to 2.8V, the meter and the FE still shoots, but the mirror stays locked up after the exposure. Spin the shutter dial to M90 to get the mirror back down, and replace the batteries!
The A76 button cells are so tiny that it's trivial to keep a spare pair in your wallet. Even in their blister packs, I can fit three sets (six cells) and not even notice them. The batteries last so long that it's unlikely that they'll see much action, just like the condoms I used to carry but never seemed to need. I got years out of a set of either.
If you like to travel lighter, you can buy either of them at any grocery store (or Radio Shack for the batteries).
I buy A76 (same as LR44) batteries wholesale for about 30¢ each, or you can buy certain kids' toys at Wal-Mart for 99¢ and cannibalize their LR44 batteries. My kid loves his noisy 99¢ toy phone, so I'm not cannibalizing his toys — yet.
Just as slides fit in a projector eight different ways, but seven of these ways are wrong, the two A76 cells that power the FE can go in many ways that don't work. If you get no battery check light, be sure both cells are loaded correctly.
The Nikon FE's flash ready light is above the finder.
The FE switches to 1/125 when a flash is ON and the FE is set to AUTO. The meter needle shows the ambient light, making it easy to set light ratios.
If you want slow sync, set the manual shutter dial as you want, looking at meter to set the fill ratio.
The FE stays at 1/125, even while the flash is recycling.
There's no TTL, but the FE does show a ready light at the top of the viewfinder which can blink to tell you things.
The hot shoe has no extra hole for the lock pins of newer flashes, so shoe-mounted flashes can back themselves out.
To get even more years of life from the batteries, you can shoot flash at the mechanical 1/90 speed.
When using flashbulbs, which were still somewhat popular for high power when the FE was introduced in 1978, the maximum suggested shutter speed is 1/30, since the FE lacks the specialized M sync modes of older cameras for most flashbulbs.
The flash ready light blinks if something's not right and the meter is on, like:
If you set the manual shutter speed above 1/125, the ready light blinks at 2 Hz. If you set a faster manual speed, the FE fires at the faster speed and only part of your picture will be exposed to the flash.
If the flash is set to TTL mode, the light blinks at 3 Hz. (The FE doesn't do TTL flash; you need the FE2 for that.)
The SB-600 has no A mode, but works great in manual. The SB-600 goes to sleep in standby mode, but doesn't wake up when camera comes back on. With the SB-600, use ON, not SBY, mode.
The SB-22 goes to sleep. To wake it up you must shoot off a frame, after which the SB-22 wakes back up. While the SB-22 is asleep, the FE doesn't know it's there, and will give you a slow shutter speed in Auto; it will not fire the flash and will correctly give no ready light.
Multiple Exposures
For multiple exposures, just hold the lever coaxial with the wind crank as you cock the shutter.
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Patinated, eh? Might be worth the money but finding a part like the slide release may be well....an expensive venture. Tell me about finding old gun parts. I just bought a postwar French .32 pistol. Looked great. Finish good, bore not pitted, I get it home, it will not extract rounds. Tip of the extractor is chipped off clean. Now do you think I am gonna find another extractor? Probably will have to be made from scratch. At least I got the original as a pattern. Unless I set down and make one from a piece of steel with a file, I would have to pay a machinist to make it. How much does that add to the bargain cost? See, even I can get screwed making impulse buys on old guns. At least if I had bought a PPk or something like that, I could probably find an extractor easily. There were tons of these guns made, they are not as old as your Femaru and were made quite late postwar. BUt do you think I can find any parts online or even an exploded view? Buying things like that can burn you unless you know that you can get it fixed, assuming you know the problem before purchase.
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The Edinburg Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire early Sunday morning.
The fire happened at 2:50 a.m. on the 4000 block of Fox Lane.
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When Is the Right Time to Tell My Truth About Israel?
On a recent trip to Israel I was faced with a dilemma: Am I, as a rabbi and an educator, supposed to be a spokesperson for Israel, or someone who engages with tough questions on the Jewish state?
For five days last May, I traveled to Israel as part of a delegation of 30 Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis. It was a pilot program called "Rabbis Engaging with Israel," organized by the World Zionist Organization and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When we arrived in Israel, we noticed something strange. The Hebrew title for this program was different. It was called "HaRav K'Masbir L'eumi", or "The Rabbi as Israel's Spokesperson."
The discrepancy between these two titles is obvious. Were we there to engage with Israel – to participate in a give and take about the successes and challenges facing the country? Or were we to learn how to be a better spokesperson for Israel – to download information and share it with our communities back in North America?
The truth is that we were there to do both, which provided us with a model for how to teach Israel back home. There is a debate about Israel education. Some advocates teach Israel in black and white.
For these educators, Israel is a country of the halutzim (pioneers) who built the land from nothing, that always justly battles its enemies, and that is the fulfillment of the centuries old dream to return to Zion.
Others, however, prefer to portray Israel in shades of grey. They respond to the black and white approach by saying that "things are not so simple." What about the Palestinians who were living in Israel pre-1948? Asymmetrical warfare is complex – is Israel always right? There are many inequalities and injustices in Israeli society – is the dream really fulfilled?
Despite the differences in these educational approaches to teaching Israel, I believe that, for most people, the ultimate goal is the same: to instill a deep love and connection between Jews of the Diaspora and the people and the land of Israel.
The mistake that Israel educators sometimes make, however, is to teach Israel from only one of these orientations. Either Israel is right all the time or things are complex. Either we are spokespeople for Israel or we engage with it critically.
The truth is that our educational orientation for teaching Israel should depend on our context. Who is our audience? Where is the conversation taking place? Have these students been to Israel before? Knowing the answers to these questions allows us to better foster that deep love and connection with Israel for which we all strive.
But how do we determine our context? Let me share an example. Every December, I lead a group of 15-year-old students on a two-week trip to Israel. For most of these students, this is their first trip. Inevitably, when we ask them to write about the most meaningful part of their trip, they write about praying at the Kotel on Friday night.
Unfortunately, the Kotel is one of the most divisive places in Israel. Its administrators' ultra-Orthodox policies lead to discrimination against non-Orthodox groups and leave many Israel-visting veterans (and Israelis) with a negative view of our holiest place. But on their first visit to Israel these students don't realize this yet.
Is it my job as an educator to make them aware of these issues before we go there? I don't think so, because the context is not right. Who am I to take away from the incredible experience of encountering the Kotel for the first time? Does it really accomplish my goal as an Israel educator?
For me, this is a time to be a Masbir L'eumi, a spokesperson for Israel. Though I may have my own conflicting feelings about the Kotel, it is unfair to impose those feelings upon my students. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the Kotel on Shabbat for the first time – and it is a potentially transformative moment.
It is not the time for politics, but for passion. It is an inspirational moment that some will remember for the rest of their lives. Marring it with legitimate but poorly-timed concerns does not help instill a deep love and connection between us and the land and people of Israel.
This is not to say, however, that there is never a good time to address these political injustices. Timing is the key.
The year after this trip many of these students take a class called, "Standing with Israel: Israel Advocacy." Here I feel is the right context for "engaging with Israel." They have been on the trip, they have had the experiences. They have a solid foundation of love and connection to Israel upon which to introduce some of the complexities of Israeli society today.
Understanding our context when teaching Israel applies not only to teenagers, but to adults as well. There are times to be a "Masbir L'eumi" and times to "engage with Israel." It is hard to define these situations precisely, but generally it has to do with frequency and connection.
A one-time lecture or short-term class with people who have never been to Israel and/or know very little about it is a time to be a"Masbir L'eumi." A sustained class with people who have been to Israel and/or have a strong connection allows for a foundation upon with to "engage."
Understanding the context allows us to better foster a strong connection and love between the Diaspora and the land and the people of Israel.
Rabbi Micah Peltz is a conservative rabbi at Temple Beth Sholom in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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Local artist Juan Rozas was commissioned to add movement and energy to the interior of The District.
Lying 13 feet above sea level, a lofty perch in flat Miami, historic Buena Vista got its name from the "good view" of Biscayne Bay its early residents enjoyed. A new restaurant in the neighborhood now aims to give its customers an equally satisfying glimpse of Miami's internationally influenced culinary landscape.
Dubbed The District by managing partner Alexander Ringleb, the restaurant fuses Pan- American flavors in a menu crafted by Executive Chef Horacio Rivadero, named Best New Chef for the Gulf Region by Food & Wine magazine in 2012. The meal starts with a plate of soft, subtly sweet, biscuit-like corn bread, served warm in a napkin repurposed as a pouch. From there, highlights include Vuelve a la Vida, a perfectly tart and salted dish of raw octopus, clams, and crab, one of three ceviche options. The tuna tacos, in shells of baked malanga and served with creamy chunks of avocado, are another treat off the "Antojos" section of the menu.
"That's a huge seller because many people like to eat tacos, but they have problems with gluten," explains Rivadero. "So we make them with the [gluten-free] malanga shells."
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This accommodating approach stems from a desire to make The District Miami a regular stop for locals. The wood-slat walls, brick columns, tufted leather booths, and concrete floors combine for a casually hip atmosphere with a masculinity softened by constellation-like chandeliers, curvy white chairs, and vivid floral arrangements. Above it all is The District's standout feature, a mixed-media ceiling installation by artist Juan Rozas that looks like a chalk drawing but is actually a digital collage.
"For the ceiling, I used architectural references you can find all over the American continent such as cupolas, plafonds, cathedrals, mixed with Mayan and Aztec temples, old American theaters, modern and contemporary North American architecture, hand-carved indigenous wood artifacts, and some local fruits to represent the neighborhood," says Rozas, a Buenos Aires native who has lived in Miami for 20 years.
The dark ceiling is complemented by four color-flecked paintings (two by Rozas, two by Domingo Zapata) that remind you you're near the epicenter of Miami's art scene, Wynwood. "It feels like a home," says Ringleb. "We didn't want it to be cold or stuffy or pretentious."
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That idea imbues The District's three-part menu. After the Antojos, there's the "Around the Table" section, a selection of small plates that ranges from light—a salad of roasted beets and pickled raspberries (both from Orlando) garnished with goat cheese mousse—to the hearty Boxer, a luscious but subtle pork belly dish.
The District's entrées carry on Ringleb's homey intentions while reflecting Rivadero's passion for the flavors of the Americas. The cobia has a coating of Caribbean jerk adobo rub, and the lamb ribs are drizzled with smoked pomegranate sauce. The humblest entrée of all, The District Burger, puts the "America" in a Pan- American menu with a prime Angus patty, a thick slice of bacon, grilled onions, and heirloom tomatoes—even the melted Brie is from Vermont.
Its food and décor combine to make The District a good fit for a rising restaurant scene. It's located next door to the delicious and decidedly relaxed Buena Vista Deli and around the corner from Greek restaurant Mandolin Aegean Bistro, Asian bistro Shokudo, Italian eatery Lemoni Café, and Buena Vista Bistro, one of the neighborhood's culinary pioneers.
"Overall Miami is becoming a restaurant town with so much diversity," says Ringleb, who picked Buena Vista because "it gives you the feel of getting out of town, [without] the big towers and stress—a relaxed, laidback place." Ringleb and Rivadero are betting The District and its offerings—both ambience and culinary—will earn them a place in the neighborhood's promising future. 190 NE 46th St., Miami, 305-573- 4199.
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BROOKLYN BLAST: In N.Y., Tim Bontemps cites sources as saying that Kidd went to Nets ownership recently with "a series of demands, including to be given control of basketball operations and placed above" King within the organizational hierarchy. Ownership "turned down those demands, saying Kidd wasn't ready for such a responsibility." That is when the Bucks and Lasry, who is Kidd's "friend," came into the picture, "requesting and being granted permission to speak with him" (N.Y. POST, 6/30). In N.Y., Stefan Bondy reports Kidd, who signed a four-year, $10.5M deal with the Nets last summer, was "peeved that first-time coaches Steve Kerr and Derek Fisher netted contracts nearly double his own." Bondy also cites ESPN reports as saying that Kidd "had a 'strained' relationship with King" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/30). On Long Island, Roderick Boone reports the Kidd situation is "creating serious uncertainty about whether the Nets are going to be able to retain any of their own key unrestricted free agents." The Nets "want to bring back" F Paul Pierce, G Shaun Livingston and F Alan Anderson, but with Kidd "apparently headed for the door, it might give the players reason to search for better situations elsewhere" (NEWSDAY, 6/30).
NOT OUT OF CHARACTER: In N.Y., Cacciola & Keh write Kidd's attempt to "leapfrog King on the organizational ladder was a brazen move, albeit one that was not necessarily out of character." Kidd during his playing career "had a reputation for sparring with coaches and pursuing his own agenda, going so far as to publicly demand trades." When the Nets hired Kidd as their coach before the start of last season, he "lobbied for Lawrence Frank to be hired as his top assistant at no small cost to the organization." But when their relationship soured, Kidd "forced Frank off the bench, demoting him to the job of compiling daily scouting reports." It was "an early indication that Kidd wanted sole control over the team" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/30). ESPN N.Y.'s Ian O'Connor wrote Kidd has "always believed in the divide-and-conquer approach" off the floor. By "trying and failing to supplant" King, the rookie head coach "left his team in Brooklyn exactly as he first found it in New Jersey: Same Old Nets" (ESPNNY.com, 6/29). In N.Y., Mike Vaccaro wrote Kidd's off-court conniving is "every bit as much a part of who he is, who he always has been, as his on-court brilliance" (N.Y. POST, 6/29). ESPN.com's Jackie MacMullen said of Kidd, "He's on some kind of ego trip. If I'm the Nets, I'm going to say 'don't let the door hit you on the way out'" ("Sports Reporters," ESPN, 6/29).
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It's undeniable that Burma is changing rapidly. But having just got visas at the invitation of the Minister of Information and having finally visited the country officially for the first time in 25 years, in reality, Burma has just jumped out of the fire and back in the pan.
Today's visit by David Cameron will be historic, but why is he taking a group of phantom businessmen to a country against which the British Foreign Office still has clear sanctions?
If David Cameron wanted to prove his commitment to supporting the democratic changes in Burma, and demonstrate British leadership, political and economic, he should have filled the nation's plane with civil society: human rights defenders, journalists, academics, doctors, nutritionists, bloggers, political activists, lawyers, social workers, and yes, business people.
Burma needs them right now. Despite the great leaps seen, Burma still lacks major democratic mechanisms. The media is far from free – 25% of all articles are still deleted by the Censorship Board before a newspaper can go to print. And that is 25% of the articles that an editor commissioned thinking that he could get them passed.
We met many groups of extremely engaging and dynamic people just grasping at new opportunities and taking massive risks. But even though they can now rent rooms to get together, they have many difficulties to register officially – complicating their access to funds amongst other things.
Almost none of the laws have been changed either – the government is just turning a blind eye – and so all those people beginning to speak more freely, could be arrested and slammed into prison for decades under a judicial system that permits almost no rule of law.
This is not to say that the government is not trying. Like any bureaucracy, there are officials that are progressive and those that are not. Aung San Suu Kyi believes that President Thein Sein is honestly working for reform, and who would know better than a politician that has been locked up for much of the last two decades?
David Cameron should be happy that the progressive officials are currently winning, our worry is that by moving in big business straight away, they could lose at any moment. David Cameron should not just be seduced by the preliminary results and progresses but he must continue focusing on the end game, and that must be a human rights protection regime clearly enshrined in the country's legal and political system. (Oliver Spencer)
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Vanderbilt University invites the public to spend an evening with Grammy award-winning recording artist and philanthropist John Legend Friday, March 16.
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Legend's debut album, Get Lifted, sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned him eight Grammy nominations. He would go on to win Grammys for Best New Artist, Best R&B album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the album's track "Ordinary People." His follow-up album, Once Again, earned an RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy award for the single "Heaven," which also won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
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