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Kenneth P. Kramer* | 31.12.2018
Martin Buber (1878-1965) stands among the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. While many studies have attempted to summarize the scope of Buber's writings, here I will highlight some key implications of Buber's basic insight that there exists a deeply reciprocal bond between genuine interhuman dialogue and the divine-human relationship.
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Michaël de Saint-Chéron | 01.12.2018
Please let me begin by commenting on what Jean Duchesne has just quoted from Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lustiger held that there are not simply Jews on the one hand, and Christians on the other; there are also baptized Jews. But where does that leave Christians who were born of a Jewish mother, or father, and who turn their backs to Jesus and become Jewish? That was the choice I made. It is as Jew who once was Catholic that I address you today.
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Markus Himmelbauer | 02.11.2018
Lecture given at ICCJ's conference in Budapest ("Towards Reconciliation in a Broken World: Jewish and Christian Contributions to Responsible Citizenship"), 25 June, 2018.
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 02.10.2018
Often, direct person-to-person communication will achieve better results than all formal utterances "about" an issue. This seems to have been the case with a personal exchange of letters in their common language of German, between Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Joseph Ratzinger and the Chief Rabbi of Vienna Arie Folger.
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Michael Ipgrave* | 01.10.2018
The question I begin with is this: "Does Anglican theology treat Christian-Jewish relations as a special case within interfaith relations?" There is an obvious answer to that question, which is: "Yes.
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Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 01.09.2018
Benedict XVI on Catholic-Jewish relations-reactions.
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S. Wesley Ariarajah* | 01.09.2018
It is very appropriate that we have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate – the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions" promulgated towards the end of the Second Vatican Council. By any measure, this was a landmark declaration that officially put the Roman Catholic relations to people of other religious traditions on a firm new footing.
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Tatha Wiley* | 30.06.2018
Can the church itself be guilty of sin? In 1994, Pope John Paul II addressed that question.[1] He distinguished between the sins of individuals and that of the church. The church as such does not sin, according to John Paul. Individuals do, and repentance is essential for forgiveness.
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Helene Egnell* | 31.05.2018
Feminism has indeed been a meeting point for Jewish and Christian women, even though their sisterhood has been as ambiguous as any sisterly relationship. From the beginnings of modern religious feminism, it has been a common project for Jews and Christians – but Christian feminist theology still has not always managed to avoid the pitfalls of classical Christian anti-Judaism. However, the joint efforts of Christian and Jewish feminists can revitalize and offer new perspectives to Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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David Neuhaus* | 30.04.2018
Pope Francis spoke about Jerusalem at his general audience on December 6, 2017, just a few hours before US President Donald Trump affirmed that his government recognizes Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel". Pope Francis said:
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Aside from the month going super quickly, I feel a bit meh about this month's book reviews. I just haven't LOVED everything I have read this month which is a little disappointing and has meant I have struggled to swap my phone for a book in the evening. For that reason I have about three books I am still wading through so they will now be on next month's list. Here are my reviews for this month.
Not So Stories
The Blurb
Anthology of short stories from culturally diverse writers writing in response to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or How the First Letter Was Written paint a world of magic and wonder.
It's also deeply rooted in British Colonialism. Kipling saw the Empire as a benign, civilizing force, in a way that's troubling to modern readers. Not So Stories attempts to redress the balance, bringing together new and established writers of colour from around the world to take the Just So Storiesback, to interrogate, challenge, and celebrate their legacy.
Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph E. Cole, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamiska, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos, Zedeck Siew, and Achala Upendran, with illustrations from Woodrow Pheonix.
What I Thought
I was really excited to read this, having read many of the Just So stories as a child. The foreword did not disappoint and had me excited for the stories to follow. However, they were not all as enjoyable as I expected, and I sometimes struggled to pick this book back up. I think my two favourites were How The Spider Got Her Legs and Best Beloved. The spider one definitely struck a nerve with me as it told the story of a mother fighting for her children.
I thought this was going to be an alternative bedtime story type book, and at least in part, suitable for me to read to the boys. That wasn't the case, and I think even my avid reading 9 year old would struggle with this, if that was the intention.
I wouldn't discourage someone from having a read of this if it interests them, but I certainly wouldn't be pushing people to either unfortunately. I love the idea of changing something like the Just So Stories to be more modern and relevant but for me, most of the stories just did not grab my attention.
"I've talked at length about why it's important that we see ourselves in children's books. All of us. Because for a person from a marginalised background to see themselves in fiction, it shows them that their stories are valid and they are seen"
Nikesh Shukla
"It's a brave choice to take something so much a part of the canon as Kipling and make it more inclusive, and yet that's what has happened in the following pages"
Nikesh Shukla
Thankyou to NetGalley and Rebellion Publishing for the ARC of this book. In return I was asked to provide a review but all opinions are my own
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The Queen Of Bloody Everything (Audio) by Joanne Nadin
The Blurb
And in that instant I fall in love. Not just with him, though he is the better part of it, but with them both, with the whole scene: the house, the garden, the magazine perfection of it. And I want very badly to be in this picture.
As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.
That was the day when Dido – aged exactly six years and twenty-seven days old – met the handsome Tom Trevelyan, his precocious sister, Harry, and their parents, Angela and David.
The day Dido fell in love with a family completely different from her own.
Because the Trevelyans were exactly the kind of family six year-old Dido dreamed of.
And Dido's mother, Edie, doesn't do normal.
In fact, as Dido has learnt the hard way, normal is the one thing Edie can never be .
What I Thought
I was a little shocked at some of the content in this book, I will be honest. I am no prude but some of the things the young Dido talks about, observes and hears are not for little eyes or ears. She shouldn't be being exposed to it. However, I am under no illusion that children have and do grow up like this.
This didn't put me off however, I really did enjoy this book. Poignant, sad, laugh out loud and written with such raw emotion – it certainly takes you on a ride. The author does a beautiful job of telling Dido's story with some wonderful characters and an interesting look into this strange and unique mother-daughter relationship. She also did a great job of capturing the sense of time with some good references to popular culture. I listened to the Audible version and felt the reader did a great job in conveying the story in this format. I especially loved the voice she gave to Edie.
I highly recommend giving this book a try, it was certainly the highlight of the month for me. I really enjoyed the Audible version but I think I would have also enjoyed reading the physical book just as much too.
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The Dressmaker's Secret by Charlotte Betts
The Blurb
Italy, 1819. Emilia Barton and her mother Sarah live a nomadic existence, travelling from town to town as itinerant dressmakers to escape their past. When they settle in the idyllic coastal town of Pesaro, Emilia desperately hopes that, this time, they have found a permanent home. But when Sarah is brutally attacked by an unknown assailant, a deathbed confession turns Emilia's world upside down.
Seeking refuge as a dressmaker in the eccentric household of Princess Caroline of Brunswick, Emilia experiences her first taste of love with the charming Alessandro. But her troubling history gnaws away at her. Might she, a humble dressmaker's daughter, have a more aristocratic past than she could have imagined? When the Princess sends her on an assignment to London, she grasps the opportunity to unravel the truth.
Caught up in a web of treachery and deceit, Emilia is determined to discover who she really is – even if she risks losing everything . . .
What I Thought
I actually didn't read this one this month, but at the beginning of the year and ghave just realised I didn't let you know what I thought. This one gripped me withnin a few pages and had me hooked. I am a big fan of historical fiction and enjoy all the nods to actual events that happened during the time the book was set.
Emilia was a likeable lead, and this helped immensely as you read on to find out what happens to her. It was also great to read about Caroline of Brunswick and I always love a book which inspires you to find out more about a character, as I have been with her.
A great read which combines history and mystery with a dash of romance.
Thankyou to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group for the ARC of this book. In return I was asked to provide a review but all opinions are my own
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That's this month's round ups! I have an exciting post coming soon about a book I was sent and am LOVING so can't wait to let you all know about that. Fingers crossed I will be back with a bang and lots of great books next month. As always let me know what you have been reading and would recommend in the comments below. Happy reading!
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It would probably not be reasonable to think that judging by the other types of squid out there. In the case of the giant squid, for example, the female typically grows larger than the male. Thus, this might be the case for the colossal squid as well.
right now for science im doing a project on this squid. PLEASE FIND MORE INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many squids have you cautht
wow! the squid is so large! it is quite a confusion for me why eggs can't be any bigger?
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Fortunately this means there is no chance of either species becoming "commercial" – they are simply not edible
The colossal squid, with its huge tail fin, seems to be a much more active swimmer than the giant squid. As Jean notes, the giant squid is thought to 'hang' in midwater and therefore requires the ammonia to maintain neutral bouyancy. The ammonia level is higher in the mantle (which is the part that 'squid rings' are made from) as the squid hangs with the tentacles downwards
Deep Sea News: colossal squid vs. giant squid « Science Notes
Thank you Jean. So I assume the smaller squid have less ammonia, and thus scant traces of same.
Giant squid have ammonia in the tissue for buoyancy control. Ammonia is less dense than sea-water so the squid doesn't sink, it remains neutrally buoyant and can hang in the water column and not expend too much energy.
The colossal squid I think is a much more active animal and perhaps doesn't "hang out" so much 😀
Nobody ever answered the question as to why the "giant squid rings" would taste like ammonia. Te papa??
Awwwwwww f.
Nice to hear that it's a girl… a bit sad though to think of all those unused eggs that will never be… Hubby and I have been glued to this site also these past few days… what are we going to do now. 🙂
Does anyone know if the eggs are still good? They have been frozen. So I thought that if they could freeze my eggs, could these be good as well?
I'm so pleased it's a girl! 🙂
In response to Sarah I understand from talking to the scientists yesterday that the flesh of the colossal squid is very delicate.
The net that was used to bring the specimen up from the sea and into the boat actually caused quite a bit of damage to the squid's body – which explains the red and white patches you can see.
Thanks for watching.
Cause I heard a story about an octopus they caught stealing crab from a tank on the other side of the lab room, so they videotaped it. It would wait until every one was gone and it crawled out of its tank across the room up the table into the crab tank eat one and return to its own tank as if not to be noticed.
So they took the octopus and learned it could take a crab from a closed jar. So to see if it was a special octopus they put a control octopus on the other side of a partition of glass and they dropped a crab in a jar in to both octopus tanks at the same time. Their control octopus saw the other octopus once and opened his jar as well learning through the power of observation.
Are squid as intelligent as octopuses?
I'll chip in to let the crew have a very well deserved rest!
Re mssge 11 it is a shame she was killed but it wasn't for research as I understand it she got caught in toothfish longlines and could not be released so she was brought back for examination.
mssge 16…these squid can and do swim at the surface……that's how she got caught!
mssge 8, counting rings is the normal way to age a squid. Using the statoliths (similar to earbones) In small squid each ring generally translates into one day….dunno about these big guys though. It can be very accurate. In small squid there are also "rings" in the gladius which can be related to the body size of the squid at a given time. Haven't seen the gladius of a colossal though…I would like to……. I wonder how clear the "rings" are? 🙂
It is an amazing time to be alive! Not only in my lifetime have I seen the first monkey in space, then man planting footsteps on the moon, but now see Jules Verne vindicated once again by the netting of this deep marine child. Thanks for the cameras. Thanks for sharing the sense of wonder. Thanks for the joyful distraction from finals here at Smith College. Glued to the view from rotating camera angles I often caught myself not breathing….wow.
Congratulations and a big thank you.The whole experience was so amazing for people world wide who were watching and listening and reading the blog.This enabled us to know every piece of information about all the squid specimens,especially the large colossal squid specimen,at the same time as all the scientists and squid experts etc found out.I could not get over that it had a lens and eye that huge and finding out that it was a female specimen and has all those eggs in its ovaries is yet another exciting piece of information.Well done to all involved for making this a world wide event and for making the experience so educational.
Ref. message 13 above – from Gabriel. Perhaps it might be kind of you to find her before she (or is it he?) completely loses her marbles and bring her into the real world.
Remarkable pictures. Are these the creatures which I've heard have left scars on large whales ( and depicted depicted in medeval maps and drawings attacking ships) or is there any possibily of an even larger relative?
PS, I've a few slightly smaller squid in the freezer. They dont taste of much but why should the big one taste of ammonia? Long time in the freezer or something more fundamental
Thanks for that Jeffrey, I didn't really think I would bump into one at Lyall Bay.
Michelle, you wouldnt anyway, they live right down the bottom of the ocean where it is basically pitch black. Thats why they cannot really go down with a camera and light to screen them in their natural environment, too many risks that they may not act naturally and we will not get to see what they are like in the wild.
Nice big squid rings for anyone? 😉
The lady has been found in February 2007 and kept frozen ever since, so that's one year and 2 months.
wow the eggs are amazing, thats a whole lot of colossal squids out there if they hatched. It is amazing that we do not see more of these creatures found, they certainly keep to themselves which isn't a bad thing considering their size…I certainly wouldn't want to come up against one in the ocean.
Great job everyone!
Those eggs look viable. How long where they frozen? Wow, they might be able to grow them in captivity. At least from the D.N.A. They could probably clone them. Why? You could train them to take out submarines. I imagine this has already happened accidentally but the events would be classified.
Then perhaps the tsunami was a nuclear accident, I don't suggest such an unlikely scenario to be humorous but to help expand understanding in the state of world affairs now. Not only are these ideas possible, because of the exponential rate at witch technology increases they are actually inevitable.
This has been fantastic. Thank you all so much.
I don't feel that they should have killed such an animal even though they are examining it for scientific purposes. It's a shame that this female had to be killed and her ovaries were full of eggs. There could have been many more. What a shame.
Another BIG THANKS for letting us watch you prepare and examine this big fascinating creature. This is truly living up to the promise of the web. Wonderful! Portland, Oregon, USA
Hey, thanks for the view! From Philly (PA, USA) it's a grand site!
🙂 Told ya, it was a girl — smile. Thought of any names for her, yet? I am most interested in knowing how old she is. It was mentioned that she may be around 2. Will you be looking into that? Counting rings(?) which seems such an unexact science when it comes to squid. And if she is so young, what would her growth rate per month/year be? A whole lot of growing, to be sure!!! All in all, though, it's been absolutely AMAZING and I thank you for all that it is that you do!
Bon Chance, in all of your endeavors,
okay.. this is fantastic! i have followed articles in the geo magazine and online and i even watched the bbc earth dvd collection. every time a report was finished i knew a lot more about squid and "monsters from the deep sea" but there were always just a few images or animations. so, thank you very much for sharing this one-time event! i hated biology in school after a couple of years and nothing but interesting facts about our planet and its wildlife, nothing is greater or more interesting than exactly this!
by the way, greetings from madrid, spain, even though im actually from germany and simply doing an internship here, i have been caught up online for the past days, just like a few here.. my bosses will kill me!
please keep sharing! thanks and good luck!
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This colossal squid will actually not be dissected in order to be as intact as possible for its display at Te Papa later this year.
Yay! a girl!
Would it be reasonable to assume perhaps she's as large as a female gets and perhaps the beaks found in sperm whale stomachs (ouch btw…) could be from males?
Oh and I have a question about the colour… was she originally dark red all over, or always the red and white irregular blocks of colour? I guess her skin could have been damaged quite a bit?
Very interesting viewing guys, keep up the great work!
That was a terrific way to spend the day – I've been watching nearly since it started! Goodnight, scientists, and goodnight, squid!
Hey Team,
I would just like to say thanks for letting us watch this fantastic event! Until now I had never been much of a squid fan (found them a bit yuck to be honest), so I was shocked to find myself glued to the computer for the last three days! Looking forward to seeing her at Te Papa.
Congratulations on your achievement!
Wow thats awesome, are u guys preparing the table for the disection of the squid?


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I love Marilyn Monroe. She was a great actor and fashion icon – I'm up for that old style glamour of perfectly coiffed hair, beautiful gowns, cheekbones like wing mirrors and her trademark slash of lipstick to set the look off. Absolutely stunning.
In fact, I'm such a fan that I have a lovely photograph of her in my loo:
But please don't tell me Marilyn waved the flag for full figured women.
She had breasts and hips, yes – giving her that figure of eight hourglass shape – but the reality was, Monroe shimmied about in very small dresses indeed, depending on how her weight fluctuated.
Folklore dictates she wore size 16, but it wasn't the British size 16 of nowadays, but the one from the American 1950s which instead was far smaller. Any full figured woman who has ever tried on vintage clothing with a promising size label will be familiar with the crushing disappointment of simply being way too big for the dress or top in question.
I'm a size 16/18 depending on an outfit's cut, and there's no way I'd get anywhere near one of her figure hugging frocks, even with the help of the tightest Spanx! Not without cutting off a major blood supply, anyway.
Fans who go to exhibitions of Monroe's clothing often express surprise at how tiny her clothes were, because she was indeed very slender.
Marilyn was this week voted queen of the fuller busts by British lingerie shoppers, who also named Kelly Brook and Holly Willoughby amongst their favourites. All very beautiful ladies, but it's such a mistake of labelling women who have any noticeable curves at all as full figured.
According to one of Marilyn's dressmakers, she wore a 36D bra (although of course that's variable – every woman knows different brands and styles of bras give different sizes for the same breasts!) which is a pretty average size.
The truth is, Marilyn was heavier than our current celebrities but she wasn't viewed as unusual back in the mid 1950s to early 1960s.
Gorgeous, yes. An icon, most certainly. A tremendous actress, very much so. But full figured? Hmm, you decide…


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- Madonna Badger's parents and three children were killed in a house fire two years ago
- The Christmas tragedy left Badger mentally and emotionally unmoored
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- She shares in a personal essay for Vogue magazine the steps she took to rebuild her life
It's been two years since Madonna Badger lost her three children and both of her parents in a Christmas Eve house fire. This fall she was finally able to bury her daughters' ashes. It's the kind of tragic loss that strikes people speechless.
Badger writes about the horror and healing she experienced in the December issue of Vogue magazine, on newsstands November 19.
Almost every morning, she says, she thinks about that night, a Christmas Eve filled with singing, decorating with her girls, feasting on her mother's homemade sugar cookies and wrapping presents late into the evening. She wakes up wondering what she could have done differently.
The family had seemingly done everything right. A picture-perfect winter holiday had been warmed by a roaring fire in Badger's Victorian house in Stamford, Connecticut, which was undergoing a massive renovation at the time. They swept up the fire's ashes at the end of the night, made sure they were cold, put them in a bin in the mudroom and everyone was in bed by 3:30 am.
That's when Badger's life changed in unimaginable ways. She woke up choking on smoke. She opened her bedroom window and climbed the scaffolding outside to her daughter Gracie's bedroom window. She tried to get to her daughters, but the fire was too intense. She remembers being taken off the scaffolding by firefighters and taken to a hospital.
On Christmas Day, a doctor told her that her children were dead and her parents, too.
Badger was moved to a psychiatric ward soon after her friends arrived at her bedside. When she was released some days later, she was thrown headlong into her children's funeral. She managed to eulogize her girls, 9-year-old Lily and twins Sarah and Grace, who were 7.
"My girls are in my heart," Badger told fellow mourners in Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. "They are right here. This is where they live now."
The funeral service focused her, Badger says, but two days later, she was suicidal.
She was hospitalized again and sought trauma therapy that brought no relief. So she called a college roommate who lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, and begged for help. Her old roommate, Kate Askew, soon came to take Badger home with her. There was one stipulation: Badger had to promise she would not try to kill herself.
After nearly a year of therapy and recuperation in Little Rock, Badger decided to return to her life in New York.
By then it was once again the holiday season. Badger decided to join a friend on a journey to Thailand, to volunteer at an orphanage. It was one way to escape the pain of Christmas. She brought the girls in this far away place some toys of her daughters' that had survived the fire. Their thanks had a profound effect.
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Current concepts for management of soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities.
Wide resection and limb-salvage surgery remain the gold standard for the management of patients with soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities. Innovations in understanding tumor biology and limb-salvage techniques have led amputation rates to decline. Radiation therapy and novel chemotherapy agents and dosing regimens are supplementing oncology-related surgical treatment. A multidisciplinary team approach with input from oncologists, pathologists, radiation oncologists, and orthopaedic and plastic surgeons is necessary for the management of patients with soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities.
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Skeletal osteochondromas or osteocartilaginous exostoses represent the most common of all benign bone tumors and 10% to 15% of all bone tumors. Osteochondromas are solitary or multiple, pedunculated or sessile exophytic outgrowths from the bone surface that are composed of cortical and medullary bone with an overlying hyaline cartilage cap. Marrow and cortical continuity with the underlying parent bone defines the lesion. Osteochondromas usually occur in children or adolescents between 10 and 15 years, and increase in size throughout childhood, ranging from 1 to 10 cm. After adolescence and skeletal maturity, osteochondromas usually exhibit no further growth. In adults, growth or imaging alterations of an osteochondroma suggest the rare diagnosis of malignant transformation; however, extensive growth of osteochondromas without histological evidence of malignancy has been reported
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The end of the story "Not my father?" Maia tripped over the threshold, but Jackson held her up. "But he looked just like--"
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- Kelly Bryson said...
That was fun! My girlfriends in Jr high and I used to have a 'mystery notebook' and we would write mysteries and the next person would have to write the solutions. Thanks for taking me back;)
- May 18, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Angela McCallister said...
Yes, lots of fun! I do this with my kids when we go camping. It gets crazy :)
- May 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Myrna Foster said...
It does need another chapter. Thanks, Krista!
- May 18, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Krista Van Dolzer said...
Wow, Kelly, all my friends and I did back in junior high was write inane notes to each other - and invent a thousand different ways to fold them up. Your writing exploits sound like a lot more fun:)
Angela, what a fun game to play with your kids! I'll have to remember this...
And thank you, Myrna, for playing.
- May 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Unknown said...
That sounds like a great idea for when they kids are off school. :D
- May 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Krista Van Dolzer said...
I agree, Stina. Of course, I may want to wait until the one can talk and/or write - and until the other stops using "pee" in every other sentence... :)
- May 19, 2010 at 12:35 AM
I am 13 years old,but a big reader, so if you could help me pick a book, I would be grateful.
- May 21, 2010 at 4:26 AM
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Esther, I loved, loved, loved WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead. It's about a sixth-grade girl who discovers a note that asks a favor of her: write a letter describing the events of that school year, and then deliver it to the note's unknown sender. It's a fantastic mystery, and it also won the Newbery Medal this year. Highly recommended.
If you'd like something with a bigger story, you might try THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan. It's the first in the Percy Jackson series and was recently made into a movie. Lots of Greek mythology, lots of wacky adventures. Great.
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Isaiah 14:12 mentions the name of "Lucifer." I've heard it said that this is Satan. Are Lucifer and Satan one and the same?
It is sad, but nevertheless true, that on occasion Bible students attribute to God's Word facts and concepts that it neither teaches nor advocates. These ill-advised beliefs run the entire gamut—from harmless misinterpretations to potentially soul-threatening false doctrines.
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No, he is not. The context into which verse 12 fits begins in verse 4 where God told Isaiah to "take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, 'How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!'" In his commentary on Isaiah, Albert Barnes explained that God's wrath was kindled against the king because the ruler "intended not to acknowledge any superior either in heaven or earth, but designed that himself and his laws should be regarded as supreme" (1950, 1:272). The chest-pounding boast of the impudent potentate was:
I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High (vss. 13-14).
As a result of his egotistical self-deification, the pagan monarch eventually would experience both the collapse of his kingdom and the loss of his life—an ignominious end that is described in vivid and powerful terms. "Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming," the prophet proclaimed to the once-powerful king. And when the ruler finally descends into his eternal grave, captives of that hidden realm will taunt him by saying, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?" (vs. 16). He is denominated as a "man" (vs. 16) who would die in disrepute and whose body would be buried, not in a king's sarcophagus, but in pits reserved for the downtrodden masses (vss. 19-20). Worms would eat his body, and hedgehogs would trample his grave (vss. 11,23).
It was in this context that Isaiah referred to the king of Babylon as "the morning star" ("son of the morning"; "son of the dawn") to depict the once-shining-but-now-dimmed, once-lofty-but-now-diminished, status of the (soon to be former) ruler. In his Bible Commentary, E.M. Zerr observed that such phrases were "...used figuratively in this verse to symbolize the dignity and splendor of the Babylonian monarch. His complete overthrow was likened to the falling of the morning star" (1954, 3:265). This kind of phraseology should not be surprising since "[i]n the O.T., the demise of corrupt national powers is frequently depicted under the imagery of falling heavenly luminaries (cf. Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7), hence, quite appropriately in this context the Babylonian monarch is described as a fallen star [cf. ASV]" (Jackson, 1987, 23:15).
Nowhere within the context of Isaiah 14, however, is Satan depicted as Lucifer. In fact, quite the opposite is true. In his commentary on Isaiah, Burton Coffman wrote: "We are glad that our version (ASV) leaves the word Lucifer out of this rendition, because...Satan does not enter into this passage as a subject at all" (1990, p. 141). The Babylonian ruler was to die and be buried—fates neither of which Satan is destined to endure. The king was called "a man" whose body was to be eaten by worms, but Satan, as a spirit, has no physical body. The monarch lived in and abided over a "golden city" (vs. 4), but Satan is the monarch of a kingdom of spiritual darkness (cf. Ephesians 6:12). And so on.
The context presented in Isaiah 14:4-16 not only does not portray Satan as Lucifer, but actually militates against it. Keil and Delitzsch firmly proclaimed that "Lucifer," as a synonym, "is a perfectly appropriate one for the king of Babel, on account of the early date of the Babylonian culture, which reached back as far as the grey twilight of primeval times, and also because of its predominate astrological character" (1982, p. 312). They then correctly concluded that "Lucifer, as a name given to the devil, was derived from this passage...without any warrant whatever, as relating to the apostasy and punishment of the angelic leaders" (pp. 312-313).
Barnes, Albert (1950 edition), Barnes' Notes on the Old and New Testaments—Isaiah (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker).
Coffman, James Burton (1990), The Major Prophets—Isaiah (Abilene, TX: ACU Press).
Jackson, Wayne (1987), "Your Question & My Answer," Christian Courier, 23:15, August.
Keil, C.F. and Franz Delitzsch, (1982 edition), Commentary on the Old Testament—Isaiah (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
Zerr, E.M. (1954), Bible Commentary (Bowling Green, KY: Guardian of Truth Publications).


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Through the valuable objects in its collection, the museum offers a journey into the history of these two islands, from prehistory through to the Christian re-conquest. It is situated in Dalt Vila, in Eivissa's area of monuments, and occupies several different buildings. The permanent exhibition displays objects covering more than 3,000 years of history and is divided into six themes: Prehistory, Phoenician Colonisation, Punic Times, High Roman Empire Times, Low Roman Empire Times and Late Antiquity, and Moorish Medieval Times.
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Police plead for clues to supermarket break-in bid
Baw Baw detectives are asking for public help to find two men involved in an attempted burglary at Longwarry.
Police say the pair tried to break into a supermarket on Kennedy Street on October 8.
It is alleged they used an axe and a jemmy bar to try to force open the supermarket doors.
Police have urged anyone with information about the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.
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The exclusive social networking app Path laid off 13 workers, or 20 percent of its staff Wednesday, according to a report.
The company confirmed the layoffs and told Valleywag, "We're working to realign the company to support continued innovation and Path 4.0."
A company representative also said that it was part of a company realignment and "I wouldn't read anything into it" because Path has 20 million users. (A story from the Next Web in August, states that Path had 12 million users, but the New York Times seemed to confirm the 20 million figure last month.)
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Path is a social network that limits one's friends to 50 to create a more intimate space for "close friends." Currently Path also has an "inner circle" for one's closest friends, and founder and company chief Dave Morin said that it's that trust that makes users share more, according to the Times. Path also has a $15 premium membership to add more revenue to its business model. Previously Path's source of income was based on sales of photo filters and electronic stickers, so the premium membership gives users the filters, stickers and a premium badge.
Currently, the company has a $400 million valuation, and is looking for a new investor, according to Valleywag.
So Path is using the old realignment chestnut rather than admitting that it's not making the revenue it needs? It's not surprising. The thing that makes Path unique, its intimacy and smallness, makes it difficult to monetize.


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Ready to get crafty? Here are some lovely ideas for Hanukkah crafts from around the Web. Try one each night!
Hanukkah sun catchers. These beautiful sun catchers, brought to life by the Creative Jewish Mom, are simple to make. You just need beads, glue and the recycled lid from a take-out container. Kids can get creative with their designs and patterns to make a Hanukkah craft that is truly unique.
Dreidel placecards. Having folks over for the dinner? These cardstock dreidels are a snap to put together using this template from Martha Stewart Living.
Dreidel card. Here's another cute idea from the Creative Jewish Mom, a card with a pop-up 3-D dreidel inside. Looks great to give as part of a gift or to keep as a decoration.
Hanukkah treat bags. I love these treat bags from Design Megillah. Make eight bags for each night of Hanukkah. The labels help kids know which bag to choose depending upon how many candles were lit that night. Fill each bag with small, simple treats, and you've got yourself a new holiday tradition!
Dreidel gift bags. I'm always a little nervous about crafts from Martha Stewart Living as she tends to post craft ideas that are beautiful but far too difficult for mere mortals to make. But these velvet gift bags were too intriguing to pass up, and I'm glad I gave them a second look. If you can do a simple sewing stitch — by hand or on your sewing machine — you can make these lovely little bags.
Hanukkah catch-all tray. Here's one more from the Creative Jewish Mother, a decoupaged catch-all tray that can be used to hold dreidels, cookies or other holiday treats. Just pull together your leftover scraps of tissue paper and some glue or mod podge, and you'll whip this colorful craft up in no time.
Milk carton dreidel. This cute craft from Kaboose turns the lunch room milk carton into a festive holiday dreidel. It might make an easy and inexpensive craft for teachers or scout leaders who can easily collect an armload of milk cartons. Just add a little glue and paint and these dreidels are ready to play!
Homemade menorahs. It just wouldn't be Hanukkah without a few homemade menorah crafts! Whether you choose plastic spoons, egg cartons, toilet paper tubes or marshmallows, there are lots of creative ways to light the menorah this year. Better yet, let the kids be the menorah with these cute Hanukkah headbands!
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Back in the early eighties when I bought my first silver,
not knowing a thing I was reluctantly directed by my bank, Detroit Bank & Trust,
towards Englehard bars.
I finally sold them five or six years ago when I needed funds,
and got no extra premium just spot,
despite their being in pristine still in the vinyl condition.
Reconsidering, it seems that getting spot was better than I would have gotten at the LCS for other brand bars like J-M.
Back then, seeking variety I was into the commemoratives,
and my favorite was the 1987 4 coin U.S. Constitution commemorative set.
Most government's regular bullion coins were conservatively designed and did not vary much.
Chinese pandas, the exception, were just starting out, a quaint curiosity, and not yet on my radar.
Fast forward to today, where there are many more varieties of coins to select from,
Here are a few of them that have caught my attention.
The first two of the Rwanda Lunar Coin series are outstanding works of art.
2017 Rwanda 1 oz Silver Lunar Year of the Rooster BU
2018 Rwanda 1 oz Silver Lunar Year of the Dog BU
It's too bad that the next one in the series looks so stupid in comparison.
Oh well, as a set collector I'll have to take the bad with the good,
Last year the first time that I saw the Liberty medal I knew that I wanted one.
Yikes! I just saw the new price. Last year it was only 60 or 70 Federal Reserve notes.
2017-P American Liberty Silver Medal Proof (w/Box & COA)
If I ever buy some gold, that design is high on my list.
This next one seems the prettiest of the bird ATBs, but the Georgia coin being released in a couple of weeks is close.
2015 5 oz ATB Bombay Hook Silver Coin (BU)


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Cheryl Cole has reportedly turned to Video Games star Lana Del Rey for help with her music comeback.
The former X Factor judge is planning to release a song written by the 25-year-old newcomer in her latest bid to storm the charts, The Sun reports.
Cheryl is said to be a big fan of Lana, whose debut album Born To Die entered the UK charts at number one in the UK and number two in the US, and has asked the singer-songwriter for one of her unreleased tracks, to put her own stamp on.
The song 28-year-old Cheryl has picked is described as an "urban, mid-tempo ballad".
It is expected to be one of the first singles released from Cheryl's highly-anticipated third album, the follow-up to 2010's Messy Little Raindrops.
The Girls Aloud star is also said to have been collaborating with Rihanna, Taio Cruz and Usher on her new record.
Singer Cheryl recently tweeted amid rumours Simon Cowell had asked her to return to the UK X Factor panel: "X Factor was a great experience and time in my life and career but it is part of my past. Let's move on now."
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