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Viola Park: Modular Kitchens by the Folks at Henrybuilt
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- Location: multiple locations
- Website: violapark.com
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- Founded: 2009
- Founded by: Henrybuilt Corporation
- Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
- Sister stores: Henrybuilt
Viola Park offers a fresh perspective on the design of the modern American kitchen and how it is put together. The product line has been designed by the Henrybuilt Design Group and is built in Henrybuilt's Seattle workshop. The line relies on sustainable materials, including strand bamboo and Paperstone and includes not only cabinets, but countertops, backplash systems and additional accessories. Viola Park is available only directly from the company, but can be shipped anywhere throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico using sister company Henrybuilt's delivery system.
We've been a fan of Seattle-based Henrybuilt kitchens since Maxwell used their cabinets in his apartment renovation a few years back, so we were intrigued to learn about Viola Park, their brand new sister company in Los Angeles.
Unlike Henrybuilt kitchens, which are highly customizable, the Viola Park collection is modular and more affordable. The collection also includes a series of islands, which can be purchased as part of a complete kitchen or on their own, as a piece of furniture.
Crafted from green materials like Paperstone countertops and strand bamboo panels, the islands include built-in details like pivoting under-counter boxes for utensils and in-counter storage for bread (or food prep, if you prefer). Everything is made in Henrybuilt's Seattle workshop.
The Viola Park showroom just opened this month across from the Pacific Design Center. If you're in LA, you can stop by and check out the islands shown above in person. If you're elsewhere, you can consult with them via email — Viola Park ships throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico using Henrybuilt's delivery system.
Base cabinets start at $1,100 and top out around $1,800 - $2,000. Detailed prices can be downloaded from the Viola Park website.


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Whatever the season, the Millet Triolet 30 Backpack is built to perform on technical mountaineering adventures. The climbing-specific back support and narrow profile allow for the freedom of movement necessary during technical routes on ice or rock. Strap your cord to the convenient rope holder, cinch down the compression straps, and get on the approach to your route.
- The ergonomic Climb Back provides the freedom of movement necessary for climbing applications rain, snow, or shine
- Ergonomic shoulder straps and waist belt provide a comfortable carry
- Top access main compartment with an extendable lid allows the pack to maintain a climbing specific narrow profile
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First time using this pack almost every single buckle broke - almost like they were too hard from the cold and became brittle? Easy use and a very light load.
Pack is built nicely otherwise with some useful features without being overbuilt. Sending back as my confidence is lost - and I don't feel like rebuilding all the buckles on a brand new pack..

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Schuylkill County District Attorney Karen Byrnes-Noon and Chief County Detective Dennis Clark are asking for the public's help in finding a Schuylkill Haven man who failed to comply with the conditions of his court ordered supervision.
Police said Dennis C. Shafe, whose last known address is 204 Center Ave., Apt. 1, pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance.
In Schuylkill County Court, conditions were placed on Shafe and the man failed to abide by the court order, police said.
Shafe is described as being about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 190 pounds.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Shafe or any other fugitive in Schuylkill County is asked to call the district attorney's office at 570-628-1350.
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How do you take a book that's non-fiction and make a fictional movie about it? Real-life stories are made into movies all the time, of course: Erin Brockovich, The Insider, All the President's Men -- all took real events and made them into films. But Fast Food Nation, the book, is not a story about a person. It's a painstakingly researched documentation of the history of the fast food industry and California car culture, and their collective impact on the way entire industries are run, the way people eat, and the way their food is produced. How to translate the vast amount of information Eric Schlosser presented in his book nearly a decade ago into a cohesive fictional film? The answer: It's not easy.
Schlosser's book, which started out as an article for Rolling Stone as a behind-the-scenes look at fast food, covered everything from suburban sprawl and changes in the meat industry destroying the American rancher; the meat-packing industry morphing from a crappy, but well-paid job with union benefits, into a crappy, poorly paid job with no benefits, mostly occupied now by illegal immigrants; teens becoming an underpaid and easily exploited workforce; and the rise of an entire industry marketing to children. The heart and soul of Schlosser's book is the focus on the plight of illegal immigrants -- a topic dear to his heart, as he previously spent a year following immigrant migrant farm workers for an article for The Atlantic on illegal immigration and its relationship with the produce industry. Schlosser's passion for this facet of the fast food industry comes across clearly in the book, and in the film adaptation, it's the segment imbued with the most passion as well. A lot of filmmakers wanted to make a documentary out of Fast Food Nation, and Schlosser spent years trying to make that happen, but it just never clicked. Enter Richard Linklater, and, in particular, producer Jeremy Thomas, who had the original idea to take Fast Food Nation and make a narrative feature out of it rather than a documentary. The end result -- based on a script co-written by Linklater and Schlosser, is heartfelt, although rather uneven. Schlosser and Linklater decided from the beginning that if they were going to make a narrative out of the book, they would have to basically toss the book aside, keeping its spirit, but creating original characters and storylines to reflect that spirit.
The script has three key segments. The first focuses on Don Anderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing exec for Mickey's (a McDonald's-like burger chain), whose team came up with the latest best-selling product, "The Big One." Trouble is, The Big One has more than just meat -- independent lab tests have revealed a "high fecal coliform count" -- in other words, there's shit in the meat -- even though the lab tests they've been getting from their liaison with the meat-packing plant don't show the same problem. Kinnear is sent to Colorado to investigate. The second thread follows a group of illegal immigrants who end up working for the meatpacking plant, where the demand for faster output is leading to workers taking drugs to keep awake, getting ground up in the machinery, and intestinal matter (that would be the cow poop) contaminating the meat. The third thread follows Amber (Ashley Johnson), a teen working the counter of a local Mickey's. The enormously talented Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) plays her co-worker, but he's sadly underused given what he's capable of. The problem with trying to cram this many storylines into a 116 minute film, though, is that there's just not enough time to flesh any of them out to the extent they deserve.
The Greg Kinnear piece is the vehicle that takes us to Colorado and the meat-packing plant, where Don meets a Rudy Martin (Kris Kristofferson), a grizzled, tough old rancher who is trying to hang on to what he's always known. Martin's Latino maid, who has relatives at the meatpacking plant, provides to Don a graphic description of how, exactly, the shit might end up in the meat; more chillingly, she notes, it happens all the time. Anderson also meets Mickey's liaison to the packing plant, Harry Rydell (Bruce Willis, who packs a lot of punch into his brief screen time), whose nonchalant attitude to the meat being contaminated ("Just cook the meat!") shocks Don. We get the strong sense that Don has never really considered the potential moral implications of his high-paying marketing job, and now he's suddenly faced with being responsible for marketing -- to families with kids -- food that he knows has feces in it. This is an interesting moral dilemma that I would have liked to have seen explored in more depth, but unfortunately, the segment with Kinnear ends up feeling a bit truncated to make room for everyone else.
The illegal immigrant segment of the film is chilling and eye-opening, as we follow Raul (Wilmer Valderrama), Sylvia (Catalina Sandino Moreno), and Sylvia's sister Coco (Ana Claudia Talancón) from their harrowing trip across the border, to their jobs at the packing plant (which Sylvia quickly departs for a less dangerous job as a hotel maid), to Coco's entanglement with a corrupt supervisor who specializes in plying pretty young immigrants with drugs and then using them as his personal harem. These are interesting people with important, compelling stories, but I couldn't help but think as I was watching it how much greater the impact would have been, had we been following real immigrant workers in this situation through the lens of a documentary. These are characters symbolizing the greater issue of treatment of immigrant workers, but ultimately, we know they are just actors, and therefore their plight, while interesting, just doesn't have the force of meeting real people facing real problems.
Think a moment about some of the films on the Oscar documentary shortlist this year -- Deliver Us From Evil, Jesus Camp, An Inconvenient Truth -- and then try to imagine any of those stories told as a narrative rather than a documentary. Imagine Deliver Us From Evil, minus the chilling impact of pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady smiling as he talks about being turned on by children in their underpants, or the gut-wrenching scene of a victim's father breaking down as he talks about the priest he trusted and allowed to stay overnight in his home for years raping his five-year-old daughter. Jesus Camp, without seeing the effect of the evangelical camp on those real kids; An Inconvenient Truth, with global warming shown as an action-packed environmental disaster directed by Michael Bay.
Their power and punch would be drained right out of them, and instead of Oscar shortlist docs we'd be dealing with largely forgettable films. Now imagine Fast Food Nation, with immigrant workers who have worked in meat-packing plants talking about the horrors of working there, with ranchers showing us how their livelihood and lifestyle is being destroyed, with families who have lost loved ones due to contaminated meat products, with hidden-camera footage inside the meat plants themselves. As a narrative, it's just a story we're watching that may or may not affect us. The book struck a chord with so many readers because it was real, because in reading it, we cannot escape the truth of what we're learning. The film, though it tries had to do the same thing, just falls short of reaching the viewer in the same way.
The fllm is further watered down with the inclusion of the third piece - suffice it to say that after an over-the-top rant by her one-time activist uncle, Amber develops a social conscience and gets involved with a group of college environmentalists dabbling in ecoterrorism. Like many of the threads in the film, though, this one ultimately goes nowhere fast. I believe that Schlosser and Linklater had the very best of intentions in making this film, and if the end result makes people like me think twice before cruising through the nearest fast food drive-through window to pick up kiddie meals, that's a good thing. The film could have packed a stronger wallop, though, if Schlosser had been able to find a way to make a documentary of his book and show us the real workers, the real ranchers, the real meatpacking plants -- and the real lies that come with those super-size fries.
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Backmarkers are part of the game. I agree with Narain it is very hard to get out of the way.
Hope to see fa win on sunday but it's sort of unlikely but possible!


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By: Arati R Jerath, a political commentator
Rahul Gandhi's fundamental flaw has always been a lack of credibility even as he tries to project an earnest and sincere demeanour. He pretends to be an outsider but is firmly ensconced as a privileged insider of the ruling dispensation. He talks of democratising Congress but tamely accepts dynastic succession and harps on the family into which he was born. He wants to unfurl an agenda of change but offers only homilies about women's empowerment.


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Current Rehoboth vision seems pretty good
Your reporters interviewed members of the business community on the Fourth of July weekend and the descriptions ranged from "best day we ever had" to "spectacular" to "just phenomenal and record setting" to "unbelievable" to "wonderful." Which is great and a testimony to how well run and welcoming Rehoboth Beach is, and how preserving our unique atmosphere is an important asset.
As Tom McGlone and his backers continue their unremitting assault on Mayor Sam Cooper and the sitting city commissioners and the hardworking municipal employees, saying we need a "new vision," whatever that is, I would submit the string of adjectives from the business community in your paper demonstrates the current vision seems pretty good.
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Let the Cape Gazette reporters ask RB business owners what has Mayor Cooper done for their business. Business owners I have spoken to say he has not even stopped in to their shop to say hello. It is time for a new vision!


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We are less than an hour before first pitch and the lines aren't long at the concession stands. Actually, this place is pretty dead. For a team in a pennant race, I would expect more.
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John any rain at Shea it's raining over here in Pelham.
My opinion is that met fans know there team and we have seen the hand writing on the wall since the Phils came in here and swept the Mets. It's amazing that some people actually still think the mets have a chance. Yes, mathematically they do but if you have been watching this team since last weekend than you would know that this team is in trouble and the weight on there backs have gotten heavier and heavier. I posted a blog a few days ago i didn't think this team would win another game this year and they haven't yet. I think a lot of Met fans feel the same way. Shea has been dead all week. look at the Phillies stadium, packed like it was the world series and that town isn't even a baseball town.
Joe D
I cant tell you how freaking uptight and tense I am right now. We really gotta pull this one out!
Joe D
I totally agree with you Tommy. It really sucks that our support has waned in the last few days. Maybe all that will change this weekend.
another thing also, people are blaming willie and I read somebody wanted Joe torre. Joe torre managed the mets once, he is not a good manager, lets get real, anybody could mange the yankees with a 230 million dollar payroll which is basically an all star team. Also everybody is getting on reyes but he is just a kid, fans forget that, where is the character on this team, it should be coming from the vets but it isn't.
Ray Sadecki
Only Masochists pay money to have pain inflicted on them. Thats why Shea is empty.
mota fan
i hope shea is hopping tonight… come on met fans.. there arent any words to express how i feel right now but come on lets keep fighting while we still can
Everybody just hang in for 3 more days. Then will either be in the postseason or meeting on the Whitestone Bridge (or the bridge closest to your home).
"It's not over till its over."
Dan Gurney
There was a caller in first hour of M&MD who said he was trying to organize 5,000 Mets fans to cheer the team as they came out for batting practice. I take it he fell about 4,995 short.
What happened in 1969?
Doesn't matter anymore. Biggest choke in baseball history is in 2007.
Was that Reggie Miller I saw in the stands? His hands grasping his throat…
07 is heaven, you're now the legend!
Russell W
Most fans can't watch them collapse. I know my girlfriend doesn't even watch them anymore and she is a HUGE mets fan. She had tickets for Thursday and decided not to go lol
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© Elwood Herring July 2001
She was a budding ballet dancer;
Handstands, poise and pirouettes,
She played in back streets just like yours -
With tower blocks and maisonettes.
She would have been a superstar
As famous as Madonna
And bring happiness to millions
As the Peckham Prima-Donna...
But she disappeared one sunny day
Whilst on a family picnic -
Just eight years old, she wandered off
to meet a fate horrific.
A funny man had offered her
A ride to see some ponies;
She climbed into his big white van -
So say the testimonies.
She never knew about the search
That lasted two whole weeks -
She never heard her mother's pleas;
Tears streaming down both cheeks.
They found her body in a ditch
Broken and molested,
The papers told the dirty truth -
"Local man arrested".
- o0o -
Little Billy, quiet and shy,
A boy of great potential.
Always reading, always learning...
A genius quintessential.
A surgeon's life was on the cards;
A medical magician -
Our world will be the poorer
With Sir William's omission.
For, aged just twelve, he walked from school
His usual route back home.
By five o'clock, no sign of Bill -
He wasn't one to roam.
A rock thrown through the window
Put an end to speculation -
It seems he was attacked by whites
For simply being asian.
- o0o -
And what about Nurse Alice, with
Her sunny disposition
Who'll make it known throughout the world
That she is on a mission
To bring relief to Third World ills
And find a cure for AIDS -
Without her help, we've seen the price
That millions have paid.
For baby Alice never told
All those that could protect her -
Her "guardians" fed her dog food
In the closet where they kept her.
The social workers found her body
Soaked with blood and faeces
With open sores and broken bones -
Her brief life cut to pieces.
- o0o -
Just one more tale, and then no more
About a special person,
He's out there somewhere in the world
Of that I'm very certain.
He never had ambitions much;
Born with a low I.Q.
But risked his life to save a child
That might just have been you.
But then it never happened, did it?
... Mown down in his youth
By a drunken speeding motorist
is the horrifying truth -
Who left him dying in the road,
And didn't even brake;
The poor lad never lived to see
His seventh birthday cake...
- o0o -
Each baby born into this world
Has rights to be attested:
To make it into adulthood
Without being molested,
Or tortured, cheated, sacrificed
Abused or plain neglected -
Until that happens, we can't claim
Our social conscience, moral aim,
Our way of life, our country's name…
is to be at all respected.
For Damilola Taylor, Sarah Payne, Stephen Lawrence, Victoria Climbié, Lauren Wright,
and all the other bright hopefuls
who will never know what they could have been…
and of course to their grieving parents who can never be consoled.
Also for Jude Akapa (15) who was killed on his way home from school
the same day I wrote this poem.
The list just keeps getting longer...
Addendum: Finally somebody seems to have got the message:
Click here to see a BBC news item dated October 2002


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We've looked at Rejected Pitches once before when they tackled Robert Zemeckis's hypothetical rejected Back to the Future pitch; now, the group behind the comedy series is taking a look at the failed proposal of another high-concept childhood classic with a Home Alone rejected pitch, starring Michael Delaney as an increasingly-frustrated John Hughes. It turns out not every meeting went as smoothly as Mr. Mom:
In fairness, Home Alone is sort of an insane, street-fight, house-torture fetish movie. And if you're going to make that, you might as well just make a Straw Dogs Christmas special.
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May 30, 2016
Youth under age 17 could not buy or rent violent or sexually explicit video games under legislation approved overwhelmingly by the state Senate.
The Senate voted Thursday to send four bills to the House aimed at keeping minors away from games that depict graphic death, maiming, criminal sexual conduct and other scenes.
Retailers who sell or rent such games to minors could face up to a year in jail, fines or both.
Federal courts have rejected laws and ordinances passed in other states as unconstitutional on free speech grounds.
But many lawmakers believe Michigan's legislation would hold up in court.
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In order to be eligible for the Erasmus scholarship, a student is currently required to study for a minimum of three months. For the academic year of 2015-2016, Örebro School of Theology offers two English speaking courses (7,5 ECTS each), and the opportunity to write a thesis in English (7,5 ECTS) with supervision in English. These courses will start in week 4, 2016 (and run from 18 Januari-17 April).
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Erasmus students should contact the Erasmus co-ordinator Tommy Wasserman before sending in their application.
The Erasmus scholarship is meant to cover the student's cost of living abroad. Örebro School of Theology agrees to do our best to help the incoming student to arrange lodging in Örebro during the three-month visit. However, the prior contact between the student and Örebro School of Theology should primarily take place via the Erasmus co-ordinators at respective institutions.
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The purpose of this lecture is to establish the fact that it is just as easy to prove Islam using a proof-text method of appeal to the Bible as it is to prove any of the forms of Christianity that use that method. It is not the intention to suggest that the proof-text method is sufficient or even valid. In a systematic review such as this, it is necessary to note all convolutions.
The desire to show to what extent the Bible is the common property of Middle Eastern religions, at least on some level, leads to the necessity of approaching the text from a proof-text point of view as well as from more sophisticated methods.
Before approaching the specifics, a pilot project that seeks to establish whether basic Islamic issues are to be found in the Bible is in order. If they cannot be found, then it is of no use to take the trouble of further examination. The specific issues chosen for this task are those fundamentals known in Shi'ite Islam as the roots of faith.
We have already examined the Sunnite pillars of faith in some detail. Rather that going into such detail at this point for the roots according to Shi'ite Islam, we shall merely make a brief mention of each one. However, some of them are amplified by related issues that appear important because of Christian doctrine.
These roots of faith are five. The first is the oneness of God. This is amplified here by texts relating to the belief that God does not incarnate, that there is no salvation in the son of man, and that God is changeless. The second root of faith is the justice of God. The third root of faith is prophethood. This has already been examined in general in the light of many texts above, but here the particular reference to Muhammad is mentioned. This will form the focus of latter discussion as well.
The principle of divine guidance is the fourth root. This is amplified by a Biblical reference to the word Ali. The final principle of faith is the Day of Judgment, which has also been dealt with in detail above, but is here amplified by its relationship to the gospel or message of Jesus (as).
I have given a transliteration of the proof-texts underlining the significant portions. This is especially necessary in the two or three cases in which I have radically disagreed with the commonly used translations.
Psalms 86:10 (Hebrew) atta Elohim levaddekha. For you are great, and do wondrous things: you are God alone.
Isaiah 45:5 (Hebrew) ani YHWH we-en 'odh zulathi en elohim: a-azerkha welo yedha'tani. I am the LORD, and there is no other, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me.
Isaiah 45:21 (Hebrew) Haggidhu wehaggishu af yiwwa'atzu yakhdaw: mi hishmia' zoth miqqedhem me-az higgidhah halo ani YHWH we-en odh elohim mibbal'adhi el tzaddiq umoshia' ayin zohathi. Tell it, and bring them near; indeed, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no other God beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
Numbers 23:19 (Hebrew) lo ish el wikhazzev uven adham weyithnetham: hahu amar welo ya'ase wedhibber welo yeqimenna. God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said so, and shall he not do so? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Notice that according to the text God is not a human being, not "the son of man," not any "person" or "persons" at all, not one person nor three persons.
Psalms 146:3 (Hebrew) al tivtkhu vindhivim: beven adham she-en lo theshu'a. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
pasa dosiv agayh kai pan dwrhma teleion anwyen estin katabainon apo tou patrov twn fwtwn par w ouk eni parallagh h trophv aposkiasma James 1:17 (Greek) pasa dosis agathe kai pan dorema teleion anothen estin katabainon apo tou patros ton foton par o ouk eni parallage e tropes aposkiasma. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
If God does not change, as this Bible passage and several others maintain, then God does not incarnate, since incarnation requires change. God does not change into anything, not even a man.
Amos 3:7 (Hebrew) ki lo ya'ase adhonay YHWH davar ki im gala sodho el 'avdhaw hannevi-im. Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he will reveal his secret to his servants the prophets.
Psalm 106:24 (Hebrew) wayyim-asu be-eretz Hamda: lo he-eminu lidhvaro. Indeed they despise the land of Muhammad, they do not believe his word.
The biased translator wishes to translate the name Muhammad, thus making "pleasant land" instead of "the land of Muhammad." But this is not possible, because the sentence goes on to say "his word." The possessive pronoun is masculine, showing Hamda to be a proper masculine name, rather than a feminine common noun as the ending might suggest. There are a number of such names in the Bible, feminine in form but masculine in meaning.
Genesis 12: 3 (Hebrew) wa-avarkha mevarakhekha umqallelkha a-or: wenivrekhu vekha kol mishpekhoth ha-adhama. And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Numbers 27: 16 (Hebrew) Yifqodh YHWH Elohe harokhoth lekhol basar: ish 'al ha'edha. asher yetze lifnehem wa-asher yavo lifnehem wa-asher yotzi-em wa-asher yevi-em: welo thiheye 'adhath YHWH katz-tzon asher en lahem ro'e. Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, 17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
The principle of a divinely appointed leader goes back earlier than Moses (as), but here we see Moses (as) praying on behalf of one such figure.
Exodus 8:5(9) (Hebrew) wayyomer Moshe lefar'o hithpa-er 'Ali lemathay a'tir lekha wela'avadhekha ul'ammekha lehakhrith hatzfarde'immimmekha umibbattekha raq baye-or tish-sha-arna. And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glorify Ali: when shall I intreat for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only?
The translation which says "Glory over me" simply does not make sense.
Numbers 21:17 (Hebrew) az yashir yisra-el eth hash-shira hazzoth 'Ali ve-er 'enu lah. Then Israel sang this song, Ali (the Exalted one) is a well (of water); sing to it.
The translation that says "Rise up, O well" only fits a surealistic painting. In reality, wells do not fly.
Psalms 29:11 YHWH 'oz le'ammo yitten: YHWH yevarekh eth 'ammo vash-shalom. The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with Islam.
The word Islam is cognate with the Hebrew word for "peace." It is the proclamation of reconciliation and peace, not only between God and humankind, but between one nation and another, one family and another, one individual and another. It also reconciles the opposing "parts" into which humankind would divide the impartial God into the one true God without parts and without limitations.
Islam, meaning peace, is peace in every possible sense.
1 Kings 8:30 (Hebrew) weshama'ta el tekhinnath 'avdekha we'ammekha yisra-el asher yithfallu el hammaqom hazze: we-atta tishma' el meqom shivtekha el hash-shamayim weshama'ta wesalakheta. And listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.
Forgiveness depends on the grace of the one true God alone, with nothing added, no sacrifice human or otherwise. It is offered to those who turn in prostration toward Him, repenting and asking forgiveness.
Deuteronomy 32:41-43 (Hebrew) im shannothi beraq kharbi wethokhez bemishpot yadhi: ashiv naqam letzaray we limsan-ay ashallem. ashkir khitz-tzay middam wekharbi tokhal basar: middam khalal weshivya merosh par'oth oyev. harninu ghoyim 'ammo ki dham 'avadhaw yiqqom: wenaqam yashiv le'atzaw wekhifer adhamatho 'ammo.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Revelation 14:6,7 kai eidon aggelon petomenon en mesouranhmati econta euaggelion aiwnion euaggelisai touv kayhmenouv epi thv ghv kai epi pan eynov kai fulhn kai glwssan kai laon. legwn en fwnh megalh fobhyhte ton yeon kai dote autw doxan oti hlyen h wra thv krisewv autou kai proskunhsate tw poihsanti ton ouranon kai thn ghn kai thn yalassan kai phgav udatwn.
Revelation 14:6-7 (Greek) kai eidon angelon petomenon en mesuranemati ekhonta evangelion aionion evangelisai tus kathemenus epi tes ges kai epi pan ethnos kai fylen kai glossan kai laon: legon en fone megale fobithete ton theon kai dote avto doksan oti elthen e ora tes kriseos avtu kai proskynesate to poiesanti ton uranon kai ten gen kai ten thalassan kai pegas ydaton.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
The Gospel in a nutshell is three commands: Fear God (that is, do as God commands instead of conforming to what the neighbor thinks), glorify God (that is, recognize God alone as the source of all good things and give thanks to Him), and pray to Him in prostration. The Gospel gives two explanations for these commands: everyone is going to be held accountable to God in the judgement, and God is deserving of worship and obedience because He is the Creator of all things.
Obviously it is necessary to go beyond a mere proof-text method. However, the experiment of proof-texting shows that Islam is clearly as capable of being established on the basis of proof texts as any tradition that has ever appealed to texts as evidence of its system of doctrine and practice.


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Here's your first look at Idris Elba as Moreau, the French alcoholic monk in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (I can already hear the cries of some of you folks who'll ask, "why does the black man have to be an alcoholic?" See, I'm one step ahead of ya; I already asked the question, so you don't have to ask it again :))
Anyway... the film will see Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Nicholas Cage), "hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Ciaran Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son's body on the kid's birthday."
The flick opens on February 17th, 2012. I didn't at all care for the first Ghost Rider movie, so I won't be in any hurry to see this sequel.


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The roundtable members on Sunday's This Week derided or dismissed Sarah Palin, with David Brooks, the putative conservative columnist for the New York Times, declaring "she's a joke" and insisting "Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host" -- leaving it to PBS's Gwen Ifill, of all people, to come to her defense as a fellow woman.[MP3 audio available here]
Left-winger David Corn yearned for how she will damage Republicans while the Washington Post's Bob Woodward agreed with Brooks and George Will wondered: "Some conservatives think they have found in Sarah Palin a Republican William Jennings. Why they would want somebody who lost the presidency three times I do not know."

The derogatory take from David Books on the November 15 This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:

Yeah, she's a joke. I mean, I just can't take her seriously. We've got serious problems in the country. Barack Obama's trying to handle war. We just had a guy elected Virginia Governor who's probably the model for the future of the Republican Party, Bob McDonnell. Pretty serious guy, pragmatic, calm, kind of boring. The idea that this potential talk show host is considered seriously for the Republican nomination, believe me, it will never happen. Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host.

Bob Woodward:

I agree with David on this. You talk to Republicans and they say they voted for Obama because Sarah Palin was John McCain's pick.

Gwen Ifill:

As the girl at the table, I feel like I can say you cannot underestimate the degree to which women will be drawn to her story. And that's who she's speaking to. These are people who are ignored, who nobody counts into their thinking, it's why she's appealing to Hillary Clinton. It's why -- when she made her own a announcement, she used the term glass ceiling back in the summer. Don't underestimate that factor.

David Brooks Derides Palin as a 'Joke' and 'Talk Show Host'; Only Ifill Sees Her Appeal
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"When we revealed who the mole was to the cast, cast members literally got up from the table and ran around the table screaming, which was hilarious. Then when we revealed the twist on the twist of who the mole was, I thought I'd have to sedate cast members because people were freaking out, which was awesome. It's not just who the mole is, it's who the mole is working with and what's going on there that's even bigger than just who the mole is. We're really proud of who the mole is, that's a pretty surprising twist but it's even bigger than that."
Words from showrunner Shonda Rhimes talking to THR after last week's episode of Scandal.
Needless to say, I'd guess the above quote will excite fans of the series, as the series reaches the end of its successful second season, with just 2 episodes left before the summer break.
And with regards to this seasons final episode in next week, Rhimes added:
We're going to leave everybody over the summer, I hope, with their mouths hanging open a little bit asking how the hell they're going to get out of this, which is our goal. We know how we're ending the season and now we're trying to figure out how we're getting out of it (laughs). We end the season in a way that explodes the premise of the show in a way that's good and strong and hopefully sticks with bold story telling.
Rhimes also talks about last episode's ending, and what each key occurrence might mean for the series and its characters from here-on. Read the full interview HERE.


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I've just had a great experience, dearest Mildred, and, as usual, must tell you about it. "Usual" isn't quite the word, for such experiences as this come rarely, but when they come, I want to run to you with them.
I've just spent 6 full days on Mt. Athos. [1] Avenol [2] asked me to go as observer to the Balkan Conference at Saloniki, [3] and as I felt very tired, eyes especially, when I left here, I took a bit of leave after the Conference was over, and went to the Holy Mountain.
It turned out to be quite different from the accounts I had heard of it. I had been told that the monasteries had masses of Byz. treasures, of the most magnificent quality, and that the frescoes in the Churches were a revelation, without having seen which one couldn't hope to understand later Byz. art. I had also been told that one had better take one's own food with one, as what one got there was filthily prepared and indeed dangerous, and that one would be devoured unless one slept in a bug-proof bag. Well – as to the material side, I decided to risk it, and took no food of any kind with me – and I found I fared quite tolerably well. In fact I've often fared worse in Hungary; for the Greek monks, at any rate, if they see one in difficulties, never press one to eat, whereas the hospitable provincial Hunk ladies, and sometimes even the Budapestians, make an awful fuss and are insulted unless one consumes large quantities of what they offer one. As for bugs, etc, I took various powders and fumigators, and tho' it was very warm I didn't have to use any of them – didn't get so much as a flea bite. I'm sure the beds are often buggy, but there are, at any rate in the 3 monasteries I slept in, a few clean rooms, and if one gets one of them one is all right.
Then as to the art treasures. I hadn't really expected much from the frescoes, but reality failed even to come up to that little. They are dark and murky, they sprawl all over the interior of the churches, very few of them are above the level of tolerable industrial bondieuseries [4] in the pre-machine age, and there isn't one of them that I'd cross the street to look at again. There are a few at the Lavra, [5] dating perhaps from the XIVe, the most pretentious are of the XVIe – unless the Greeks are right in dating Panselinos [6] XIVe, which I don't believe – and most of them have been gone over in the early XIXe. There is only one church which has preserved any wall-mosaic, the Catholikon of Vatopédi, [7] and there isn't much of that, nor is it of the first quality.
Art treasures are few and far between. The whole contents of the Holy Mountain put together aren't worth the least of the precious Byz. objects in the Treasury of San Marco, [8] or the Cabinet des Médailles, or the Louvre, or the V & A; or the Brit Mus. There are a few portable mosaics; [9] one of them, if it weren't badly injured, would be rather better than Stoclet's [10] and not as good as the one at Athens. [11]
There are 4 or 5 miniature mosaics, none of which touch the one in the V & A, [12] or those in the Opera del Duomo [13] or the Bargello at Florence. [14] There is no enamel except at the Lavra, and there are two objects set with enamelled roundels, neither of them very good, and a book-cover with some little bits of enamel. [15] There isn't a single ivory on Athos, [16] there is one good steatite, which has frequently been reproduced, at Vatopédi, [17] and a pretty good, late and over-elaborate one, at S. Panteléimon. [18] There are a very few metal objects, none earlier than the XIIe, and none very remarkable. There are some late embroideries, the earliest XIVe - XVe, and not a single woven textile of any importance. Except at the Lavra there are no capitals or carved slabs, and very few at the Lavra. There is no marble revêtement anywhere, and hardly any fine columns. The architecture of the churches is invariable, monotonous. That of the monasteries, or some of them, is interesting from the military point of view, as they are all, except the quite modern ones, built for defense. The most striking of them are superb seen from outside: almost Tibetan in fact.
You will be wondering, as you read this, where my great experience comes in. It was two-fold, even three-fold. First, nature; second the survival to the present day of such a marvellous specimen of Eastern monastic life, unchanged in its essentials for a thousand years, and third the painted MSS in some of the Monasteries, particularly the Lavra, where there are 25 or so painted MSS, of which some 8 or 10 are of the first-rate importance, and 3 represent a school, dating in all probability from the Iconoclastic age, which Hayford [19] and I have felt sure existed but of which we have never before been able to find any first-rate representatives, and even humble representatives are very rare – so rare and humble that they have escaped attention so far.
But what a place Athos is! As you know, the Holy Mountain is an autonomous monkish State, depending for spiritual matters on the Patriarch of Constantinople, for temporal on the Greek Republic. It enjoys exemption from customs duties, and from the ordinary taxes. It comprises the whole of the eastern prong of the Chalcidian trident, which is some 50 miles long and only 3-5 broad. This promontory is very low at its base, so low that Xerxes cut a canal through it (I appreciated why Xerxes did this when I tried to go round the cape in a fishing boat); and thereafter develops a backbone which rises, in jagged masses, higher and higher as it proceeds towards the end of the peninsula, where it soars up to just short of 2000 metres in the Holy Mountain Athos itself: a most noble peak.
The peninsula is scarred and seamed with ravines, in which torrents brawl over the granite. It is covered with maquis of dwarf thorny oak, arbousier, holly and such like evergreen growths. Here and there are pockets of earth, or even an expanse of hillside, on which big trees grow: chestnuts, oaks, asiatic plane-trees (with the very deeply cut leaves as on Persian miniatures). Near the monasteries, every bit of cultivable ground is taken advantage of: there are olive groves, vineyards, orchards with apple and cherry trees. Few oranges, except in the sheltered courts of the monasteries. Vegetable gardens, of course.
No women, no female animals (en principe) but one sees plenty of cats and kittens, not a few dogs, I saw sows and litters of piglets. There are hens and chickens, not in the monasteries but in farms depending on them. But no cows, sheep or goats. No mares or she-asses. No milk or yoghourt – the latter a very serious deprivation in those climes.
There are no roads for vehicles: only bridle paths, and even those are in a shocking state: one doesn't know whether they are worse paved or unpaved. And one can rarely seek smoother ground off them, for they are usually cut through maquis so close that one couldn't advance a yard in an hour.
At this season the arbousiers [20] with which the maquis is studded are hung with their rather strawberry-like fruit, of all shades from canary-yellow to flaming scarlet, and also bear their waxy white flowers: the whole incredibly gay and sparkling in the sunlight. More brilliant in colour than the arbousiers I've seen in Spain, S. France or Italy. On the ground there are clumps of wild cyclamen, that most graceful and lovely of flowers. Also a big misty-blue campanula, rather coarse, and humbler flowers.
This is undoubtedly the time of year to go to Athos, for there are plenty of grapes, apples, tomatoes, cabbages and other vegetables to eat, and though the flowers in Spring must be marvellous I can't believe that anything could be more intoxicating than those arbousiers, with their brilliantly coloured fruit, or more touching than the cyclamen. However, I was told I had great luck, for in Nov. there are often rains and fogs, and I had lovely weather, so warm that when I bathed in the sea I couldn't lie in the sun for more than 10 minutes at a time, though I'm a hardened sun-bather. Late October would perhaps be the safest season.
Such meat as one gets is old goat, and I didn't even attempt to eat it. And there is hardly any fresh fish – apparently because the water off the shores of Athos is very deep, and there's nothing for fish to feed on. One does get some salt cod, not very good, but it's better to stick to fruit and vegetables, and now and then an egg. The bread is good – whole wheat bread baked on the spot. The olives, unfortunately, aren't very good, having huge stones and thick skins, but their flavour is all right.
It appears that holy men started living as anchorites on Athos as early as the IIIe cent., and that their number increased, and also the varieties of forms of association, until in the Xe cent. St. Athanasius the Athonite [21] induced Nikephoros Phocas [22] to clear out the lay population altogether, and unified the monastic organisation of the religious, which up to that time had no doubt been chaotic. It was St Athanasius himself who founded the Great Lavra as a model to be followed by the other houses, and to this day the Lavra is to the others – say as Harvard is to other American Universities: not the biggest, probably not the richest, but possessed of a tradition, a dignity which the others don't have. The Lavra is most beautifully placed on the S.E. flank of the headland, about 200 metres above the sea, with the mountain Athos rising behind it to 1926 metres. The spot was chosen with care and great discernment by St. Athanasius himself, having all due regard to exposure, air-currents, soil and water supply, which is abundant, so much so that it is carried in pipes, by its own impetus, up to the top floor of the monastery and runs there night and day from taps that don't shut. It turns the oil mill, and could perfectly well generate electricity, if the genius of the Lavra allowed it. As it is, there is only electricity at Vatopédi, which is the richest and most mundane of the monasteries, a regular Athenian Monte-Carlo, where they have an electric light plant worked by imported coal.
The Lavra is surrounded by olive-groves, and gardens on little terraces, and it has depending upon it many farms, little prieurés [23] occupied by from 2 or 3 to 30 or 40 monks who lead the life of Greek peasants.
Besides the Lavra, there are 19 other monasteries on the Holy Mountain, and each one has a greater or smaller number of dependencies, skites as they are called. The Lavra itself has about 200 monks, and Vatopédi about as many. The biggest monastery is the Russian, St. Panteléimon, where there were once 1500 and still are nearly 400. All are Greek except 3: St. Panteléimon (Russian), Chilandári (Serbian) and Zográphou (Bulgarian).
Originally, each monastery or foundation by Byz. Emperor, Serb Tsar or whoever the pious founder, received grants of lands, scattered all over the former Byz. empire, the Balkans including Rumania, and Russia, the whole orthodox world, in fact. The Turk respected these pious foundations, and under his rule – which lasted till 1912 – the Holy Mountain did pretty well. The World War laid a heavy tax on it: the Russian foundation, which at its zenith represented 1/3 of the whole population of Athos, lost all its property in Russia, and is now, apparently, doomed to disappear, as the Gk. Govt. (partly out of fear of Bolschevik propoganda) does not allow new arrivals from Russia to join the community. Then the various land-reform measures adopted in the various Balkan countries have resulted in the loss of most of the monasteries' property outside Athos: without compensation in the case of Roumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, and with some compensation in that of Greece.
In these circumstances the Holy Mountain cannot support the numbers of monks it formerly nourished: estimated at some 5000 before the war, of which 30% Russians. At present the number seems (no one knows exactly) to be about 2500, and the total no. of Russians (about 30%=) 800: 400 at St. Panteléimon and 400 in the various skites belonging to it.
Assuming that the Russian community is reduced eventually to a couple of hundred, the monks might be stabilised round 2000, and I should think Athos would be able to support that number by its own resources. It grows all its food except wheat, and it exports enough wood to pay for that. Then there are the offerings of pilgrims and the private property of a certain number of the monks, which I dare say provide for their clothes and boots. They don't spend anything on razors, shaving soap or shaving brushes, very little on soap and nothing on eau-de-cologne.
There are two types of monastic organisation, both under the general Basilian rule: a) the Cenobiac, each monastery being ruled by one Abbot, whom all have to obey, and b) the idiorythmic (from idios = own and rythmos = rule) ruled by a council of half a dozen members of the community. The Cenobiac rule is much the stricter: the monks are not allowed to keep any private property, whereas the idiorythmic may. Also the rule of life is stricter with the Cenobiac, and the night offices have to be attended by all, except in cases where a dispensation is obtained for some special reason.
All the monasteries except the giddy Vatopédi have stuck to the Old Style Calendar, and all without exception keep the Byzantine time: i.e. the day begins at sunset: zero o'clock changes by a few minutes every day. Matins begin at 5 or 6 o'clock (i.e. our 1 or 2 a.m. at the time of year I was there) and last 3 hours, after which there is Mass. In practice this means that for most of the monks there are two periods of rest: one from after Mass, towards the end of the night, for a few hours, and one from soon after sunset until towards 1 a.m.
The affairs of the Holy Mountain as a whole are managed by a Synod of 20 members, one from each monastery, which resides at the little capital: Karyés, the only approach to a town on Athos, where there is no monastery, but shops, pharmacies and administrative offices, 2 filthy inns, a P.T.T. and a poste de gendarmerie grecque, [24] and another of the special gendarmerie of the Holy Mountain, under the orders of the Synod. Karyés is also the seat of the representative of the Greek Govt., who has the title of Governor but depends not on the Ministry of Interior but on that of For. Affairs, and is regarded by the Synod as a diplomatic agent. He seldom remains in office more than 5 or 6 months: the lack of female society, together with the incredible disputes that are continually going on between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Synod, and between individual monasteries and the synod, and between one monastery and another, in which the Governor, Greek tho' he be, always gets involved, making life so odious that by that time he'd rather lose all prospect of a job than continue to reside on the Holy mountain.
The distances between most of the monasteries look like nothing on the map, but as the Holy Mountain is so mountainous and ravined it takes a long time to cover the ground on mule back, or on foot. Much the best way to visit most of the monasteries, weather permitting, is to take a fishing-boat fitted up with a motor.
I landed, the journey from Saloniki taking one night, at the little port of the Holy Mountain, Daphni, at 4.30 a.m. one fine morning, long before sunrise, happily by a calm sea, for the steamer doesn't even anchor and one climbs down a rickety ladder to a row-boat, carrying one's own belongings. The only other visitor to Athos arriving by that boat was the Minister of For. Affairs of Abyssinia, [25] as black as one's hat, who is a great theologian in his own land and was visiting places mentioned by St. Paul (e.g. Saloniki). His only European language was a little English. We made friends, waited together for dawn, and then set out on mules for Karyés, where every visitor to the Holy Mountain has first of all to present himself to the Synod, and obtain a pass-port which he must show at each Monastery – where he may then expect hospitality. We were sumptuously entertained by the Holy Synod at lunch, and afterwards rode on to Vatopédi, on the other (E) side of the peninsula. The holy men of Athos, seeing me arrive with the black Excellence, very naturally assumed that I was his little friend – a relationship not unknown on Athos – and I had a great time explaining, at each halt, in my Greek, that I did not belong to him. He left Athos next day.
From Vatopédi, where I spent 2 nights, I visited, by mule, Esphigménou [26] and Chilandári [27] (Ch = jota). Then I hired a fishing boat, and visited Ivíron, [28] Stavronikíti [29] and on to the Lavra, where I also stayed 2 nights, hoping to be able to double the cape and see a lot of monasteries on the W. coast by boat. However, a big wind came up, and my monkish sailors gave up the attempt to double the cape, wisely I expect. I returned to Ivíron and went from there by mule to St. Panteléimon, [30] the Russian monastery, which is very near the landing place (Daphni) where I took boat again for Saloniki.
I was tolerably comfortably at Vatopédi, which however is too bristling and mundane: travelling salesmen and touts [31] and all sorts of queer people are there in numbers, and one has to have meals with them. At Lavra I was the only guest, and I adored the place: such sweetness and gentleness, and such incredible beauty of surroundings. Another time I'd make straight for Lavra, hire the motor boat and keep it in attendance, visit other, monasteries by sea when it was fine, and stay there as long as I could. The journey to the Lavra by land is a terror – about 10 hours by mule from the landing-place.
At the Lavra my quarters were at the top of the guest house. I had the whole floor to myself, and there I was locked in for the night soon after my evening meal, which I took just after dark. Outside my windows a huge balcony, looking right over the Aegean, with Thasos in view, and Samothrace – such an incredible shape that one thinks it's a cloud at first – and Lemnos, and in certain lights Imbros and Tenedos and the Bythinian mountains in Asia Minor. The beauty of the night was so entrancing that I stayed out on the balcony for a couple of hours, hearing the jackals howl round the monastery walls, and now and then the song of a monk from one of the little priory-farms that are dotted round the Lavra. The day-time I spent on the painted MSS in the Library, and in the Ch. treasure.
In my 6 days on Athos I only saw 8 of the 20 monasteries, but I saw the most important: indeed the Lavra is worth the lot rolled into one, and far more.
2 Dec.
This letter has had to be interrupted several times, but that hasn't prevented it from growing to an inordinate size. About Athos, I'll only add this little detail that gives a spice of adventure to one's journeyings there: there is only one entrance to each monastery, the Great Gate, which is closed every night soon after sunset, and is not opened again until dawn. If one doesn't reach the monastery where one expects to spend the night before the Great Gate is closed, one is out of luck, and one has to spend the night either in some farm – if one can find one – or with the jackals, who don't attack human beings, I'm told, unless there happens to be a mad one among them...
But think of the joy of roaming over the Holy Mountain without being assailed by the hoot or the smell of any motor, without even the noise of wheels! And the place is safe, as far as I can see. It would be extremely expensive to build roads, so broken is the country, and the roads wouldn't pay. There's no even ground where a plane could land – but of course sea-planes might amarrer [32] off its coast.
[1] Mount Athos, a mountain on a peninsula in Macedonia, Greece, that is known as the "Holy Mountain" due to the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries located there.
[2] Joseph Louis Anne Avenol (1879–1952), a French diplomat who served as the second general secretary of the League of Nations between 1933 and 1940.
[3] The fourth Balkan Conference (Conference Balkanique) was held in Thessaloniki on November 5–12, 1933.
[4] Devotional church ornaments, especially those having little artistic value.
[5] The Monastery of Great Lavra, the first monastery built on Mount Athos and founded in 963 by Athanasius the Athonite.
[6] Manuel Panselinos, a painter that has been associated with frescoes and icons of ca. 1300, but from sources that are no earlier than the seventeenth century. See Anthony Cutler, "Panselinos, Manuel," in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium: http://www.oxford-byzantium.com/entry?entry=t174.e4064&srn=1&ssid=728352016#FIRSTHIT (accessed April 12, 2011). At Mount Athos, his work has been associated with the artist or artists who painted the Church of the Protaton of Karyes, the katholikon of Vatopedi, including two icons of St Demetrios and St George, and the katholikon of the Great Lavra, including a portable icon of St Demetrios. See also Dimitrios Salpistis, Euthymios Tsigardas, et al., Manuel Panselinos from the Holy Church of the Protaton (Athens: Hagioritiki Estia, 2003).
[7] The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos, Greece, was founded in the latter tenth century. The Katholikon has mosaics dated to the eleventh or twelfth century.
[8] The Treasury of the church of St. Mark's in Venice houses many objects from the churches and palaces of Constantinople brought to Venice following the 1204 conquest of Byzantium by the Crusaders.
[9] These include portable mosaic icons of St. Demetrius, late twelfth century, Xenophontos; the Crucifixion, ca. 1300, Vatopedi monastery; and St. Nicholas, fourteenth century, Stavronikita monastery.
[10] Adolphe Stoclet (1871–1949), a wealthy Belgian engineer, financier, and noted collector, who was married to the daughter of the art critic, historian, collector, and dealer Arthur Stevens (1825–1909) and niece of the painter Alfred Stevens (1823–1906). Through her father and uncle, the Stoclets were connected with avant-garde art circles in Paris. They lived in Italy and especially in Vienna, where they met Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), who designed Stoclet's famous house in Brussels. Gustav Klimt (1862–1916) painted the murals in the dining room. The Palais Stoclet was the lavish setting for an eclectic art collection that appealed to the latest avant-garde tastes. This included Egyptian and Chinese sculpture, late medieval Italian painting, medieval metalwork, enamels, and relics, Byzantine art, Pre-Columbian art, and Japanese, Cambodian, and Tibetan art.
[11] See http://www.byzantinemuseum.gr/en/collections/icons/?bxm=990 (accessed March 11, 2013)
[12] See http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93208/the-annunciation-mosaic-unknown/ (accessed March 11, 2013)
[13] See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opera_del_duomo_(FI),_arte_bizantina,_le_docici_festivit%C3%A0_cristiane,_mosaici_portatili_montati_su_argento_dorato_e_samltato,_1310_circa_01.JPG (accessed March 11, 2013)
[14] Miniature mosaic of the Christ Pantocrator, twelfth century, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, inv. mosaic 3.
[15] What he saw is not clear. The bookcover probably was the lectionary kept in the skeuphylakion of the Lavra Monastery. See S. M. Pelekanides, ed., Hoi Thēsauroi tou Hagiou Orous: eikonographēmena cheirographa, parastaseis, epititla, archika grammata 3 (Athens" Ekdotikē Athēnōn, 1979): 24.
[16] There is an ivory plaque of the Crucifixion at the Dionysiou Monastery: Katia Loverdou-Tsigarida in Athanasios A. Karakatsanis, ed., Treasures of Mount Athos (Thessaloniki: Ministry of Culture, Museum of Byzantine Culture, 1997), 338. If Royall Tyler had been shown this ivory, he would have recognized the resemblance to the Bliss Crucifixion, BZ.1929.2. It does not appear in the corpus of Goldschmidt and Weitzmann, published a few years later: Adolph Goldschmidt und Kurt Weitzmann, Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X-XIII Jahrhunderts 2 (Berlin: Cassirer, 1934).
[17] See Ioli Kalavrezou-Maxeiner, Byzantine Icons in Steatite (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985), 101–02. Also at Vatopedi, there is an icon of the Twelve Feast Days in steatite, fourteenth century (ibid., 217–18). http://protostrator.blogspot.com/2013/01/soapstone-warriors-military-saints-in.html
[18] Panagiarion, steatite, fourteenth century, formerly at the Panteleimon monastery, Mount Athos, now lost. Ioli Kalavrezou-Maxeiner, Byzantine Icons in Steatite (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985), 206–08.
[19] Hayford Peirce (1883–1946) was born in 1883 in Bangor, Maine. After graduating from Harvard College in 1906, he spent considerable time in Europe, especially in Paris. He met Royall Tyler in 1918 in Paris, where, as a captain in the United States Army, he joined Tyler's intelligence unit. Like Tyler, Peirce was part of the American delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference after the First World War. Royall Tyler influenced Peirce's interest in Byzantine art, and Peirce became not only an amateur scholar but also a collector, especially of Byzantine coins. He collaborated with Royall Tyler on various books and articles about Byzantine art for the remainder of his life; these included Byzantine Art and L'art byzantin.
[20] The arbousier (Arbutus unedo), a tree with strawberry-like fruit.
[21] Athanasius the Athonite (also known as Athanasios of Trebizond, ca. 920–ca. 1000), a monk who went to Mount Athos in 958 and organized the hermits there into what would become the monastic community of the Great Lavra, which Athanasius built with the financial assistance of the emperor Nikephoros Phocas (ca. 912–969). The monastery was dedicated in 963.
[22] Nikephoros II Phocas (ca. 912-969), Byzantine emperor between 963 and 969. Very devout, he helped the monk Athanasios found the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos.
[23] "Priories."
[24] "Greek police station."
[25] Heruy Welde Sellase (1878–1938), the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (known often as Abyssinia) between 1930 and 1937 and a prolific writer.
[26] The Esphigmenou monastery, the northernmost of the Mount Athos monasteries, dates to the late tenth century.
[27] Hilandar monastery, a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos founded in 1198 by the Archbishop Saint Sava and his father Prince Stefan Nemanja.
[28] The Holy Monastery of Iviron on Mount Athose was built under the supervision of Ioannes the Iberian and Tornikios between 980 and 983 for Iberian clergy.
[29] The Stavronikita monastery on Mount Athose, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was built on a site first used by monks as early as the tenth century, although the monastery was not consecrated until 1536.
[30] St. Panteleimon monastery, a Russian Orthodox monastery founded on the southwest side of Mount Athos by monks from Kiev Rus in the eleventh century.
[31] In British English, a tout is a person who solicits business in an importune manner.
[32] "Moor."
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Packers all-time leading receiver Driver to retire
NEW ORLEANS No other uniform would fit Donald Driver.
The Green Bay Packers all-time leading receiver announced his retirement Thursday morning, with a public ceremony planned for Feb. 6 at the Lambeau Field Atrium.
"I've always said I never want to wear another uniform. I've always said that I owe it to the fans to retire as a Packer," Driver said. "I feel like I can still play, but if I can't play for my organization, then I can't play for anyone else."
Driver finishes his 14-year career as Green Bay's all-time leader in yards receiving (10,137 yards), catches (743) and 1,000-yard seasons (seven), and is third behind Don Hutson and Sterling Sharpe with 61 touchdown receptions. A four-time Pro Bowler, he was Green Bay's MVP in 2002 and was part of the team that won the Super Bowl following the 2010 season.
Only Brett Favre played more games in a Packers uniform.
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Drafted by Green Bay in the seventh round of the 1999 draft, Driver became one of the most popular and prolific Packers. He had six straight 1,000-yard seasons from 2004-09, averaging 14 yards per catch during the stretch. He made at least one catch in 133 straight games from 2002 to 2010, another franchise record.
He's one of only 18 wide receivers in NFL history with 700-plus career catches and 10,000 or more receiving yards in 200 games.
"It was a pleasure to share the field with you for 4 years! Great player, tremendous person. (hash)retire80," offensive guard T.J. Lang said on Twitter.
Aaron Rodgers added, "Thanks for the memories quickie, you will be missed (hash)Packer4Life."
Quickie is Driver's childhood nickname.
Green Bay fans have a close bond with every Packers player, but they had a particular soft spot for Driver. They loved his bright smile and infectious laugh, and were moved by his story of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds. Growing up, Driver and his family were so poor that he, his mother and siblings sometimes spent the nights in a U-Haul. He and his brother stole cars to get money, and Driver sold drugs, too.
Packers fans embraced him - his jersey is a popular sight at Lambeau Field, right up there with Rodgers' No. 12 and Clay Matthews' No. 52 - and he happily returned the love. He's been active in the community throughout his career and said that won't change. His annual community softball game will be played June 16.
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Though Driver had said he hoped to play until he was 40 - he turns 38 on Saturday - his retirement was hardly a surprise. He had restructured the final year of his contract to come back this season, but played only a bit role in the offense with Greg Jennings, James Jones, Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb ahead of him on the depth chart. Driver's eight catches for 77 yards were his lowest totals since his rookie season, and he was inactive for four games, including the NFC wild-card, his final game at Lambeau Field.
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So now I know why Bec Hewitt was looking like a schoolmarm at Wimbledon: she was hiding something under that tent.
Apparently the former Aussie soap star and her hothead hubby Lleyton Hewitt are expecting their second child and sold their story for $100,000 to gossip rag OK! magazine - pennies in this day and age:
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Hewitts expecting second child, sell story for $100K
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- AnonymousJuly 1, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Looks like the $100,000 may just come in handy seeing that he's going nowhere with his tennis! :pReplyDelete
I wonder if they give that money to charity? Seems random to announce something for that kind of cash, that's just going to be an obvious fact soon anyway.ReplyDelete
it's all PR for them - even if it means selling some of their private life. maybe they figure it's going to get out anyway like you said b2012 so they might as well control how it comes out AND make some dough.ReplyDelete
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>> BlackBerry pushes encrypted BBM for security-conscious industries
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>> Mobile usage, advertising on the rise in U.S. market
Mobile usage surpassed desktop usage in the U.S. market for the first time last year, according to the latest stats from comScore cited by Mobile Marketer. "The rapid evolution in mobile usage will only expand," says Adam Lella, marketing insights analyst at comScore. The shift to mobile is evident in social media advertising. For example, mobile accounted for 53 percent of Facebook's fourth-quarter 2013 ad revenue. In addition, three-quarters of Twitter's advertising revenue came from mobile. Read more
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>> Tablet sales to explode in Latin America over next four yearsAp
By 2018, tablet sales in Latin America are forecast by Pyramid Research to reach 37.7 million units, which will equal nearly 9 percent of the total global tablet market. This compares with last year, when 14.2 million tablets were sold in Latin America, accounting for 6 percent of global tablet sales. Read more
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Before I started this site I had a much smaller blog on another site and Matthew Woodson was one of the first artists I blogged about. He is one of my favourite illustrators. I dropped by his portfolio this week and found a bunch of new work since I'd last stuck my nose in.
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