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Singles Parties, April 7 - May 12, 2012
April started out with a bang with a huge crowd at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, Saturday, April 7. Our singles love this venerable hotel atop Nob Hill!
- Miss Cougar America Contest & Dance, Lucky Friday the 13th of April, at The Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco. Nice turnout and high-spirited dance. Jaravee Vu, who immigrated to the US 20 years ago from Thailand, was crowned Miss Cougar America 2012. She won a free Western Caribbean Cougar Cruise in December. Details about the cruise on www.SinglesTravelCompany.com. More information about cougars at www.cougarevents.com.
- Silicon Valley Singles Convention, Saturday, April 14, at the Clarion Hotel Downtown San Jose. Suprisingly small turnout. Don't know why...
- Contra Costa Singles Convention, Friday, April 20, at the Walnut Creek Marriott. Big crowd in the huge ballroom!
- Speed Dancing Party, Friday, April 27, at the Hyatt Regency Burlingame. Nice turnout. Everyone loved the speed dancing, where you dance with a new person every 3 minutes! Due to popular request, we will do this theme again in a few months.
- Silicon Valley Meets Silicon Beach, Sunday afternoon, April 29, at Severino's Lounge in Aptos. Small turnout. I guess everyone went to the beach instead!
- Networking Mixer for Single Professionals, Friday, May 4, at Risque Lounge in San Francisco. Lots of new faces at this plush venue near Union Square.
- Cinco de Mayo Dance, Saturday, May 5, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in San Rafael. Nice turnout, high-energy dance. Larry Brooks of Vima Dance in San Francisco taught a popular salsa lesson to kick off the dancing!
- Name Your Price Mixer, Tuesday, May 8, at the Sheraton Petaluma. Small turnout.
- Blue Jean Ball, Friday, May 11, at the Los Gatos Lodge. Laura of Singles Supper Club, who ran this party, reports a big crowd!
- Wine Tasting at the Pleasanton Marriott, Saturday, May 12. Good turnout, but bad ratio. Guess many of our bachelors stayed home that night to watch the seventh and deciding game of the Lakers-Nuggets series, as well as both Giants and A's baseball games. Tough competition.
- Match Your Key Dance, Friday, May 18. This is the first-ever match your key in Solano County, at the Marriott in Vallejo. We're trying to make up for the fact that we have been neglecting the friendly singles of Solano County!
- Singles Day at the Mountain Play, Saturday, May 19, at the Mt Tam Ampitheatre in Mill Valley. If you have never attended this yearly outdoor performance, you haven't lived! Spectacular views of the city, and the opportunity to experience the wonderful Music Man musical alfresco. Be sure to sit in our special Singles Section. This is a benefit performance for The Marin Symphony.
- 1% Singles Ball, Friday, May 25, at the Renaissance Stanford Court Hotel atop Nob Hill in San Francisco. The wealthy need love, too, so here's a party for them! We are also sponsoring the first-ever 1% Singles Cruise in November, aboard the world's most popular cruise ship. Details at www.singlestravelcompany.com.
- Memorial Day Holiday Dance, Sunday, May 27, at George's Nightclub in San Rafael. Since the next day is a holiday, we are hoping for a big crowd!
- North Bay Singles Convention, Saturday, June 2, at the Flamingo Resort Hotel in Santa Rosa. Yours truly will deliver the Keynote Address: How to Be Irresistible to the Opposite Sex. Hope no one is easily offended, because this will be a no-holds-barred-politically incorrect presentation, followed by a fun dance party.
- Singles Cruise on the Bay, Sunday, June 3, 12:30-5pm, aboard The Spirit of Sacramento, the Bay's only paddle wheel boat. 3 parties on 3 decks!
- Comedy & Dance Extravaganza, Friday, June 8, at David's Restaurant at Santa Clara Golf & Tennis Club. Kevin Young & Friend present live comedy, A Hilarious Look at Dating & Mating, followed by dancing to your favorite hits.
- Summer in the City Dance at The Golden Yacht Club in San Francisco. This popular venue, Home of The America's Cup, is always packed!
- Art & Wine Tasting Party, Saturday, June 23, at Nieto Fine Art Gallery in San Francisco. Our singles rave about this lovely art gallery off Union Square.

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Salfati, C. G. (2013). Linkage Analysis of Serial Murder Cases Involving Prostitute Victims. Volume 3, Chapter 9, p. 211-228. In J. Helfgott (Ed.) Criminal Psychology reference set. Praeger Publishers.
Salfati, C. G. (2010). Serial Crime: The Psychology Of Behavioral Consistency & Applications to Criminal Careers and Linking, Chapter 12, pp. 201-210. In Matt DeLisi and Kevin M. Beaver (Eds.). The Life-Course of Antisocial Behavior: Aggression to Delinquency to Crime. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett.


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Manchester City are amongst the favourites to sign the 27-year-old alongside Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur. New City manager Manuel Pellegrini is keen to build a side that plays attractive football as opposed to Roberto Mancini's more defensive style and the addition of Negredo who scored 25 goals in La Liga last season could help acheive this.
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"Roberts is too elegant and maybe too classically-trained to go for 'filth', but a majestic bluesiness, with physicality and movement in the attack, permeated his Coltrane playing," says ANDY HAMILTONThe one-time Wynton Marsalis pianist hasn't been heard too often in the UK, so I was eager to catch him with bassist Rodney Jordan and drummer Jason Marsalis – Wynton's youngest brother – in the excellent Hall Two at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival. In 1985, at age 21, Roberts joined Wynton Marsalis's band where he remained for six years, appearing on, among other albums, the intermittently infuriating Marsalis Standard Time with its tricksy arrangements of standards. There were hints of that in the first part of this concert, whose two halves were played continuously over an hour and three-quarters – hardly short measure.The first half featured Cole Porter songs in engaging arrangements, pleasing enough but with no one really digging in – rather polite and on occasion twee. The opener, Night and Day, interwove its theme rather intriguingly with Coltrane's A Love Supreme – a hint of the Coltrane sound to come. I've Got You Under My Skin, What Is This Thing Called Love, Anything Goes and Just One of Those Things followed in similar vein, with the intensely bluesy Anything Goes the most successful. A version of Monk's Misterioso and a vivid impression of the New Orleans second line in a drum feature by Jason Marsalis provided a link to the second part of the concert, featuring a Coltrane suite based on Crescent. This is when things finally took off.I'd been thinking of Cecil Taylor's famous description of Horace Silver's playing, with "the real thing of Bud [Powell], with all the physicality of it, with the filth of it and the movement in the attack," and how this music didn't have these things. Marcus Roberts is too elegant and maybe too classically-trained to go in for "filth", but a majestic bluesiness, with physicality and movement in the attack, permeated his Coltrane playing. The gorgeous Crescent was followed by Wise One in a rather questionable Latin feel, but with Bessie's Blues deep in the pocket, the players were working towards peak performance. Spiritual, where Jason Marsalis reinterpreted the marvellous spacious feel that Elvin Jones created for Coltrane, was the high-point.The whole concert featured fine playing from a great American trio, whose time was an absolute joy. Roberts is never less than interesting, and one of most recent recordings, New Orleans Meets Harlem from 2007, shows how the ragtime, blues, and New Orleans roots of jazz can be the basis of a virtuosic new sound. That's what he realised in the best of his playing here, deeply and intensely informed by the whole history of the music.---------------------------
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009
So it all became too much
Dear [name of person in charge],
My husband and I have been approved by [assessing agency] to adopt from Ethiopia. Our papers were sent to the [department] on the 11th of February. Tomorrow, ten weeks will have elapsed, and we are still waiting for our Certificate of Eligibility. [ie, the thing without which we cannot do this thing. The thing that is stopping our papers going to country. And the thing whose delay means we won't be adopting before court closes this year. And no, these square brackets weren't in the original email]. In fact, we are still waiting for written acknowledgement of our application and an official case number! We are writing to let you know how unhappy we are with the wait times, and the way these wait times have been handled by the [department].
We know, from reading the notes of a meeting held with prospective China adopters back in January, that the plan was for the ICA [intercountry adoption] team to take a maximum of three weeks for each stage of processing after the end of March. This seems like a perfectly reasonable time for this sort of paperwork to be processed, and we were really encouraged to read these notes when they became available. However, when I spoke to a member of staff this week (late April) and said that we had been waiting for our C of E for ten weeks, the response was 'well, the website says that it takes about eight weeks'. Her clear implication was that after ten weeks I shouldn't be dissatisfied! No interest, and definitely no apology. If the website said sixteen weeks, would that be okay? Twenty weeks? Similarly, I asked why we hadn't had a response to the email that we wrote two weeks earlier (stating that we had then been waiting for our C of E for eight weeks, and asking for an update) and again, the only response was 'well, the website says that it takes fifteen days to respond to written communication'. The fact that the website states it takes fifteen days to reply to written communication does not make that acceptable! Two weeks waiting for a reply to an email of this nature is astonishingly poor.
The person I spoke to then said that I would get my C of E this week. Or maybe it won't be the C of E. Maybe it will be the acknowledgement letter. And maybe it won't be this week. Maybe it will be next week. Can you see why this is frustrating?
I have now contacted (or tried to contact) the ICA team three times, and each time I have been fobbed off, completely ignored, or treated with indifference. From talking to other adopters, I know that others have had the same experience.
The people who are processing our paperwork need to understand how important this paperwork is is to prospective adopters. They need to understand that we aren't waiting for them to do something trivial. The paperwork they are processing is, for us, a key step towards being matched with our child. When I speak to members of the team, I want to be treated with respect, rather than indifference. It's hard to express just how upsetting it is to be waiting for something so important and be ignored or fobbed off by someone who openly doesn't care.
In short, it seems to me that there are two key problems: the processing is heartbreakingly slow, and nobody seems to care that the processing is heartbreakingly slow. I would really like the first to be fixed, but if that is impossible I would settle for the second!
So all of this leaves us with the following three questions:
1) When on earth are we going to get our C of E??
2) Will we have to go through the same torture waiting for our papers to be sent to country?
3) What is being done about the two problems above?
We would really appreciate a reply - preferably in much less than fifteen days!
Yours sincerely
[Claudia and Mr Claudia]
(waiting for C of E ten weeks tomorrow)
I'll let you know if we get a reply!
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Good for you, girl. I hope you get a response that is not heartbreakingly slow in coming.ReplyDelete
Great letter. I hope they take the time to address everything....and in a timely manner!! Hugs, hun. I'm sorry this is so frustrating.ReplyDelete
Ugh! They need to get their junk together so you can keep moving in this process. I remember hitting some serious bumps in the road through this adoption process and it feels like someone is choking you...b/c the feeling of anger & helplessness just don't go together very well. I enjoyed reading your blog this morning. I'll stop back in regularly to see swift movement.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately I can identify with you. It seems that government officials everywhere are slow and indifferent when dealing with adoptions. I hope you get a speedy response.ReplyDelete
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
|Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Devlin in Amsterdam, September 1986
|Member of Parliament
for Mid Ulster
|In office
|Preceded by
|George Forrest
|Succeeded by
|John Dunlop
|Personal details
|Josephine Bernadette Devlin
23 April 1947
Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
|Political party
|Independent (1970–1974),
|Other political
|Unity (1969–1970),
Independent Socialist Party (1977–1978),
Irish Republican Socialist Party (1974–1976)
|Michael McAliskey
|Róisín Elizabeth McAliskey
Deirdre McAliskey
|Alma mater
|Queens University of Belfast
|Roman Catholicism
Josephine Bernadette McAliskey (née Devlin; born 23 April 1947), usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish socialist and republican political activist. She served as a Member of the UK Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency. She lost her seat to John Dunlop of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, after coming third in a four-sided contest in the general election of February 1974.[1]
Political beginnings
Devlin was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone to a Roman Catholic family. She attended St Patrick's Girls Academy in Dungannon.[2] She was studying Psychology at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 when she took a prominent role in a student-led civil rights organisation, People's Democracy.[3] Devlin was subsequently excluded from the university.[3]
She stood unsuccessfully against James Chichester-Clark in the Northern Ireland general election of 1969. When George Forrest, the MP for Mid Ulster, died, she fought the subsequent by-election on the "Unity" ticket, defeating the Ulster Unionist Party candidate, Forrest's widow Anna, and was elected to the Westminster Parliament. At age 21, she was the youngest MP at the time, and remained the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster until the May 2015 general election when 20-year-old Mhairi Black succeeded to the title.[3]
Devlin stood on the slogan "I will take my seat and fight for your rights" – signalling her rejection of the traditional Irish republican tactic of abstentionism (being absent from Westminster). On 22 April 1969, the day before her 22nd birthday, she swore the Oath of Allegiance[4] and made her maiden speech within an hour.[5]
The Troubles
Battle of the Bogside
After engaging, on the side of the residents, in the Battle of the Bogside, she was convicted of incitement to riot in December 1969, for which she served a short jail term.[6] After being re-elected in the 1970 general election, Devlin declared that she would sit in Parliament as an independent socialist.[7]
Bloody Sunday
Having witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday, Devlin was infuriated that she was later consistently denied the floor in the House of Commons by the Speaker Selwyn Lloyd, despite the fact that parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it therein.[8] A full transcript can be read at Hansard.[9]
Devlin slapped Reginald Maudling, the Home Secretary in the Conservative government, across the face when he stated in the House of Commons that the paratroopers had fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday.[3]
Devlin helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party with Seamus Costello in 1974.[citation needed] This was a revolutionary socialist breakaway from Official Sinn Féin and paralleled the Irish National Liberation Army's split from the Official Irish Republican Army.[10] She served on the party's national executive in 1975, but resigned when a proposal that the INLA become subordinate to the party executive was defeated. In 1977, she joined the Independent Socialist Party, but it disbanded the following year.[11]
Support for prisoners
Bernadette Devlin stood as an independent candidate in support of the prisoners on the blanket protest and dirty protest at Long Kesh prison in the 1979 elections to the European Parliament in Northern Ireland, and won 5.9% of the vote.[12] She was a leading spokesperson for the Smash H-Block Campaign, which supported the hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981.
Injured in loyalist shooting
On 16 January 1981, she and her husband were shot by members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, who broke into their home near Coalisland, County Tyrone.[13][14] The gunmen shot Devlin fourteen times in front of her children.[15] British soldiers were watching the McAliskey home at the time, but failed to prevent the assassination attempt.[3][16] An army patrol of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, entered the house and waited for half an hour. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey claimed they were waiting for the couple to die. Another group of soldiers then arrived.[17] The paramilitaries had torn out the telephone and while the wounded couple were being given first aid by the newly arrived troops, a soldier ran to a neighbour's house, commandeered a car, and drove to the home of a councillor to telephone for help. The couple were taken by helicopter to hospital in nearby Dungannon for emergency treatment and then to the Musgrave Park Hospital, Military Wing, in Belfast, under intensive care.[18][19] The attackers, Ray Smallwoods, Tom Graham (38), both from Lisburn, and Andrew Watson (25) from Seymour Hill, Dunmurry, were captured by the army patrol and subsequently jailed.[20] All three were members of the South Belfast UDA. Smallwoods was the driver of the getaway car.[21]
Dáil Éireann elections
In 1982, she twice failed in an attempt to be elected to the Dublin North–Central constituency of Dáil Éireann.[22]
Denied entry into the US
In 2003, she was barred from entering the United States and deported on the grounds that the United States Department of State had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States"[23] — apparently referring to her conviction for incitement to riot in 1969 — although she protested that she had no terrorist involvement and had frequently been permitted to travel to the United States in the past.[23][24][25]
Personal life
In 1971, while still unmarried, she gave birth to a daughter, Róisín.[3] This cost her some political support.[26] She married Michael McAliskey on 23 April 1973, which was her 26th birthday.[citation needed]
On 12 May 2007, she was guest speaker at éirígí's first Annual James Connolly commemoration in Arbour Hill, Dublin.[27] She currently co-ordinates a not-for-profit community development organisation based in Dungannon, the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme,[28] and works with migrant workers to improve their treatment in Northern Ireland.[3]
In 1969 John Goldschmidt, a director and producer, made the documentary film Bernadette Devlin for ATV, which was shown on ITV and on CBS's 60 Minutes and included footage of Devlin during the Battle of the Bogside. Another documentary, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey, directed by Leila Doolan, was released in 2011.[29] At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival a biopic of Devlin was announced,[3] but she stated that "[t]he whole concept is abhorrent to me" and the film was not made.
- ↑ Election results for Mid-Ulster (2011), belfasttelegraph.co.uk; accessed 16 March 2015.
- ↑ CAIN: Biographies of Prominent People – McAliskey
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Moreton, Cole (5 October 2008). "Bernadette McAliskey: Return of the Roaring Girl". Independent on Sunday. London. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Journal of the House of Commons, Session 1968-69, p. 217
- ↑ Maiden speech in Commons, 22 April 1969, hansard.millbanksystems.com; accessed 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "1970: "Violence flares as Devlin is arrested"". BBC. 26 June 1970. Retrieved 29 May 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ F. W. S. Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results, 1950–1973", Parliamentary Research Services, Chichester, 2nd ed. 1983, p. 687.
- ↑ Ros Wynne-Jones (9 March 1997). "Daughters of Ireland". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Transcript (31 January 1972), hansard.millbanksystems.com; accessed 22 March 2015.
- ↑ Holland, Jack; McDonald, Henry (1996). INLA Deadly Divisions. Poolbeg. p. 49. ISBN 1-85371-263-9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley. Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organisations, Pinter Publishers (March 2000); ISBN 1-85567-264-2
- ↑ Nicholas Whyte (18 April 2004). "Northern Ireland and the European Parliament". ARK. Retrieved 11 March 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Chronology of the Conflict: January 1981, CAIN
- ↑ Peter Taylor, Loyalists, p. 168
- ↑ CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict: January 1981
- ↑ Taylor, Peter (1999). Loyalists. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 168. ISBN 0-7475-4519-7.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ McAliskey shootings, people.com; accessed 23 March 2015.
- ↑ "Devlin is 'very ill' after shooting", The Guardian, 17 January 1981.
- ↑ Peter Taylor, Loyalists, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, p. 168.
- ↑ Murray, Raymond (1990). The SAS in Ireland. Mercier Press. p.263
- ↑ Lister, David; Jordan, Hugh (2004). Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C' Company. Edinburgh: Mainstream. p.221
- ↑ "Elections Ireland: "Bernadette McAliskey"". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2 June 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the United States", Counterpunch, 22 February 2003[unreliable source?]
- ↑ "World Socialist News". Wsws.org. Retrieved 17 June 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>[unreliable source?]
- ↑ Jimmy Breslin. "Finding Trouble in the US". Retrieved 22 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "1969: "Devlin is youngest-ever woman MP"". BBC. 17 April 1969. Retrieved 2 June 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ STEP website; accessed 22 March 2015.
- ↑ Galway Film Fleadh website, galwayfilmfleadh.com; accessed 8 August 2015.
External links
- McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin. The Price of My Soul (Foreword and Chapter Twelve), cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 8 August 2015.
- McIntyre, Anthony. "Knowing Too Much and Saying It Too Well: Bernadette McAliskey Barred from US", lark.phoblacht.net, 23 February 2003; accessed 8 August 2015.
- Interview with Peter Stanford, Independent.co.uk, 29 July 2007.
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It's time to set some alarms! For some reason, set your alarms much earlier than you ever actually wake up, as though the phone is seeing your alarm times and you need to impress it. Then when your alarm goes off the next morning, fumble around with the phone until it stops making noise, not realizing you completely turned the alarm off and somehow also deleted your clock. Oversleep badly.
Repeat this for the next 11-15 days. Eventually accept the fact that purchasing a new phone has not instantaneously reset your body chemistry. Change your alarms back to a time you'll actually wake up. Still secretly know that your phone is judging you.
What apps do people have? Uhh... hm. Well Shazam, obviously. Facebook and Twitter. And Candy Crush. Is that an app or a game? Either way, get it. Heard a lot about Grindr, too, should probably grab that. There's probably a local-transit one you'll want too, but just wait until you actually need that someday to be like "crap, I should've downloaded that Local Transit app but now I'm underground."
Cool! You should be good for now, but I'm sure you'll overhear people talking about other apps some other time and be like "that sounds cool, I should totally get that" then forget to.
Wow, the camera on this phone is SO MUCH NICER than the one on your last phone. You can't WAIT to try it out! Take a picture of yourself, then look at the picture and instantly remember how much you hate every picture of yourself. Wait, are you really THAT bald? How does a higher-res camera somehow make you look balder? Shut up, camera.
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You successfully imported your contacts from your last phone, but now your "Contacts" list is a giant jumbled mess of obscure email addresses, phone numbers you've never actually dialed, and people who only exist as weird nicknames and you can't remember who's who. There's literally one contact that just says "Big Eyes". When and why did you put a number in your phone as "Big Eyes"?
Should you call Big Eyes? Just randomly call them out of the blue and be like, "Hey it's me from the past - do you have large eyes or was that some weird inside joke and also what gender are you?"
This is getting off topic. There's a simple way to clean up the contacts list: Open your Contacts, start deleting the ones you never use, and then after 25 minutes when you realize you're only on the B's, then give up and be like "whatever, it's fine" and just search whenever you need to find a contact. Now your contacts list is a much more navigable list of the contacts you actually use, plus every single other one from the letter B on.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Week-end Simple: Drink chocolat chaud
I've had two snow days from school, and it's been satisfying being home, enjoying the snow, and indulging in late morning cups of rich hot chocolate.
I don't have a favorite chocolate, though many swear by the French Valrhona. But, I think any quality chocolate with a high percent of cocoa solids will do. I also like to sprinkle a little salt on my chocolat chaud--strange, I know--but I enjoy the combined sweet and salty flavors.
So whether it's snowing in your world or not, wouldn't it be nice to enjoy a cup of deep, rich chocolat chaud this weekend?
Bon week-end!
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I would love a cup of proper chocolat chaud this weekend, it's going to be chilly and gray here. I'll have to take my anti-acid medications before but I'll enjoy it!ReplyDelete
I've been having nightly cups of hot chocolate. I've been given many fancy, expensive types but I still prefer swiss miss. My current starbucks fave is salted caramel hot chocolate.ReplyDelete
Add a red chili pepper and that would be my perfect drink!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Don't forget the whipped cream! Yum! ckReplyDelete
Chocolat chaud just isn't the same over here, is it? I still remember my first sip of "real" Parisian hot chocolate at Laduree -- I had no idea it could be like that. I needed to take a moment to compose myself. I've tried many, many brands over here, but could never quite recreate the experience. My sister sent me some sipping chocolate from Trader Joe's as part of my Christmas care package. Haven't had a chance to break into yet, but I love everything else from them. But then again, I guess I could always use a convenient excuse to go to Paris, n'est ce pas?ReplyDelete
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Protecting your house from bad weather is important if you want to enjoy a longer stay without spending on extensive repairs. Storm doors are one such item which not only protects the exterior door of your house from the rough weather but also provides ventilation. Storm doors are easy to install and available as ready to assemble kits.
You can select the storm doors in various colour combinations, finishes, styles, and materials. They even come with removable panels and screens to cater to different seasons.
Let us take a look at the main aspects of the storm door.
Storm doors have a layered structure comprising of three layers: two outer metallic layers and an inner sandwiched layer of foam insulation. They are hinged at three places along the top and bottom with latches and hooks. For added security, toughened glass, grilles and locking systems are also an option.
There are two standard sizes available these days 36 and 32 inches for the entry and back doors respectively.
You need to take precise measurements before you go out to buy a storm door to ensure a proper fit. Hence, measure the height, width and thickness of the exterior door, frame and the moulding. Storm shutters/doors are provided as ready to install kits including all the hardware required for the task. Most of them are supplied in a pre-hung configuration, i.e. the door and the frame are attached.
The level of customization:
Like normal doors, storm doors also give you the opportunity for customizing them according to your preference. Let's take a look at all the customization options.
Standard colours include white and almond or light beige. However, other shades like black, brown, green and taupe etc are also available.
From plain matte finish to highly glossy finishes are available apart from textured surfaces. Handles sets can also be in different finishes like satin, brushed nickel, bronze or brass.
There are three styles available in the frame namely full view, mid view and high view essentially indicating the kind of view offered when looked on. There are options of having the frame glass in several styles like clear, stained or beveled.
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Storm doors also come with door closer that are attached to the top of the door and the frame. Door closers control the extent and the way the door opens. Today all door closers are of the pneumatic type which consists of a small reservoir holding the fluid which facilitates gentle opening and closing of the door. An additional accessory is a sliding washer that helps in keeping the door in an open position to carry items to and from the house.
Screens are available in various materials like galvanized steel, aluminum, bronze or fiberglass. Galvanized steel is the affordable and very durable but coating can peel off after some time. Aluminum screens are highly corrosion resistant but somewhat weaker. Bronze is the most durable and the most expensive one. Fiberglass screens are completely corrosion resistant and lightweight as well.


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Himawari Matsuri (Sunflower Festival), Kitanakagusuku
The start of the new year marks the beginning of a whole host of flower festivals here on Okinawa. Traditionally, it begins with Cherry Blossoms. But in late January to early February starts another special flower occasion,...the Himawari Matsuri, or Sunflower Festival, in Kitanakagusuku Village (北中城村のひまわり祭り). This is relatively a recent installment of flower festivals here on the main island first starting in 2008. About 10,000 square meters of farmland are dedicated to these yellow beauties. At full capacity, they can hold up to 400,000 sunflowers. Special events during the festival period will vary from year to year. You will also see booths along the main street selling arts and crafts, vegetables, and other gifts for your enjoyment.
When: Late February/Early March (varies annually) (2018 – March 3 to March 18)
Time: 1000 - 1600 (this is a non-gated area, you can come and go as you please)
Fee: Admission Free
Website: himawaribatake.net or visit Facebook Page here
Phone Number: 098 935-2233 (Industrial Promotion Division )
YouTube Video: Click this VIDEO to see a past sunflower festival
Amenities/Facilities. Normally, portable toilets are dispersed near the parking lot areas. Be prepared to improvise if need be. Baby Strollers/Wheel Chairs: Around the sunflower fields are paved roads for ease of movement. However, it may be difficult to go inside the flower field itself with any kind of transport. There are areas that are padded down for ease of movement.
Directions/Parking (new location). The new field is in Waniya of Kitanakagusuku Village. Take Highway 329 south into Kitanakagusuku Village. The field is south of the Highway 81/Highway 227/Highway 329 intersection. There will be three (3) landmarks to the west side of Highway 329 to guide you in: Building with "Caleb" written on it, Family Mart, the ESSO Gas Station. At the next traffic light signal south of the ESSO Gas Station turn east (towards the ocean). You will be guided by signs. You will also see a large apartment complex. The sunflower field is walking distance to the west and across from this complex.
Directions/Parking (old location). Take Highway 81 from either Highway 329 (from the east) or Highway 330 (from the west). On the map above you will see a LandMark Pin. This is a JA-SS Gas station on the south side of Highway 81. On the opposite side is a Cocos Convenience Store. If you are coming from Highway 330 you will turn right just before the JA-SS Gas Station. If you are coming from Highway 329, you will turn left just after the JA-SS Gas Station. After you make this turn, you will see flag banners and road guards (during the day hours of the festival period) directing you to parking areas. Parking will be in close proximity of the sunflower fields (normally at the middle school nearby).
Source of information. Okinawa Times (Japanese Only), http://article.okinawatimes.co.jp/article/2013-01-27_44493, Official Website (outdated) http://himawari-in-k.jimdo.com (Japanese Only)


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NEW YORK — Choosing a faraway destination for a wedding may sound romantic and exotic, but it can take a financial toll on loved ones who don't have the time or money to participate. So how does a prospective guest decline when the bride or groom is a close friend or relative?
The choices are simple: Either suck it up and figure out how to economize, or be politely honest about why you're not attending, according to industry experts.
Americans still have mostly positive thoughts about weddings overall, but nearly 8 in 10 — or 79 percent — said in a recent AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll that they would prefer them close to home, as either inviter or invitee.
Last year, the average cost of a wedding was $33,391, excluding the honeymoon, according to The Knot's annual Real Weddings Study of nearly 13,000 U.S. brides and grooms married in 2017. As couples look to nontraditional venues — barns, farms, historical homes, parks, wineries, museums — spending per guest has increased from $194 in 2009 to $268 last year, the survey found. That comes as the number of guests has decreased from 149 in 2009 to 136 last year.
The percentage of destination weddings, defined as 200 miles or more from home, amounted to 25 percent last year, said The Knot's editor in chief, Kristen Maxwell Cooper. She said the wedding website has seen a decline over the last several years in international destination weddings, though destination weddings in the U.S. are on the rise.
About 60 percent of all destination weddings in The Knot survey for 2017 were domestic, up from about 55 percent in 2013, Maxwell Cooper said. About 40 percent were international, down from 45 percent in 2013.
"Couples really want to be close to home and they want all their guests to be able to come," Maxwell Cooper said. "As for guests, we all get to that point in life when we're invited to like 10 weddings in one year and we can't go to 10 weddings on the Amalfi Coast, or the equivalent."
For most destination weddings, she said, couples do not cover travel and accommodation expenses, and plan multiple events spread over a weekend.
The top international destinations, according to The Knot's 2017 survey, are the Caribbean, Mexico and Europe. The study did not break down locations to specific countries or regions. Florida, Hawaii, California and Colorado were the top U.S. domestic destinations.
Guests looking to decline a destination wedding invitation, for whatever reason, "should be honest and up front about it," Maxwell Cooper said. "Couples more and more are expecting if they're throwing a wedding that is super far away that not all of their guests are going to be able to come, but if you're immediate family, you should definitely try to make it happen."
For those who simply can't, send a bottle of Champagne to the couple's room, or a favorite sweet treat, to let them know you're thinking about them on their special day.
As for the couple, don't turn a "no" RSVP into World War III.
"They have to take it graciously. We all have a million things going on in our lives. We all have to make choices," Maxwell Cooper said.
Money is not always a factor. Candice Coppola, a luxury wedding planner in both Connecticut and the Caribbean, is co-author of "The White Dress: Destinations," a guide to planning destination weddings. Her clients are spending between $700 to $1,000 per guest. From where Coppola sits — focusing on quality over quantity — luxury destination weddings are doing just fine.
"We have no less than probably 15 inquiries a week, most of which we can't facilitate because they're not necessarily in our budget bracket," she said. "In terms of people coming to the Caribbean, and Barbados in particular, we're seeing a steady stream interested in having that destination wedding experience."
Some of those clients help keep down costs for guests by providing airport transportation, activity fees, reduced-rate rooms, multiple meals and airfare for any close loved ones who can't afford it.
"Guest experience to them is a huge priority," Coppola said. "We've noticed a generosity uptick."
Photographer Erum Rizvi specializes in South Asian weddings, often large and flamboyant affairs that can last up to four days. Because such weddings pull out all the stops, he said, Indian Americans looking to stretch their U.S. dollars routinely marry overseas, scheduling up to four days of hectic dinners, breakfasts, and such activities as hiking and snorkeling for their guests.
"For guests, they're able to combine a vacation away from home with a fun and important celebration," Rizvi said, noting that the Indian wedding industry is also booming in such places as Thailand, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, all locations where base costs are considerably less and the U.S. dollar has more spending power.
Heidi McBain, who lives outside Dallas, recalled her guilt in deciding against going to a first cousin's wedding in Guatemala about 11 years ago, when her daughter was less than a year old. Her family is close-knit and she had been to all her other first cousins' weddings.
"As much as we would have loved to go to support the couple and to visit a new country, we were financially strapped at the time and didn't want to bring our young daughter to a third-world country," she said. "Turns out we made a great decision as almost everyone got sick with food poisoning on this trip!"
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Originally, it is said, Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes were suppressed, for since they were held to be mere parables and not part of the Holy Writings [the religious authorities] arose and suppressed them. [And so they remained] until the men of Hezekiah came and interpreted them.
While Artscroll sees a literal interpretation of Song of Songs as blasphemous, Ashkenazi (together with Breuer and Barth) sees the book as teaching the values that make for a successful marriage. This viewpoint is also expressed in the introduction to the Soncino translation:
The main moral of the Book is that love, besides being the strongest emotion in the human heart, can also be the holiest. God has given the gift of love to sweeten the toil of the laborer, as in the case of Jacob to whom the fourteen years in which he toiled for Rachel appeared but a few days, for the love he had for her (Gen. xxix. 20). Love transfigures and hallows, but it's a boon that requires zealously to be guarded and sheltered from abuse. This Book pictures love as a reward enjoyed only by the pure and simple, a joy not experienced by the pleasure-seeking monarch and the indolent ladies of the court. It is a joy reserved for the loyal and the constant, and is denied to the sensual and dissolute.
Ashkenazi concludes with these strong words:
גם אם נפרשהו ע"ד הפשט, נוכל ללמוד ממנו דברים נאותים. . . . רק אנשי חונף העושים מעשה זמרי ומבקשים שכר כפנחס יטילו בו דופי, בעוד שהם בשבתם על השולחן בבית חתן וכלה יוציאו מפיהם דברי נבלה המלבינים פני כל אדם ישר השמועה; והלואי ואולי היו משוררים שיר נחמד זה בסעודת חתנים. ויופי הקולות והנגינה ישמחו הלבבות ויגדילו חשק חתן וכלה זה לזה, ויגביהו לבות הבחורים והעלמות ברחשי הכבוד הראוים והנאותים להם.
I would assume that if a Modern Orthodox Machzor for Passover is ever published, that Hakham's perspective will be the one to be included rather than what we find in Artscroll.
R. Zvi Yehuda has the same perspective, writing that the literal meaning has an independent existence, and "it too is raised to the level of holiness, not just on account of the nimshal, but on its own strength."[4] He quotes Rashi who in his introduction to Song of Songs stresses that the allegory must be attached to the peshat of the verse:
ואף על פי שדברו הנביאים דבריהם בדוגמא, צריך ליישב הדוגמא על אופניה ועל סדרה.
The fact that the mashal needs to reflect reality is seen in another Rashi as well (not cited by Yehuda). Song of Songs 7:5 reads אפך כמגדל הלבנון. Rashi writes: "I cannot explain this [אפך] to mean a nose, either in reference to its simple meaning or in reference to its allegorical meaning, for what praise of beauty is there in a nose that is large and erect as a tower? I say therefore that אפך means a face."
If the allegory is all that is important, then Rashi would not have a problem. He could translate אפך as nose, which is the literal translation,[5] and offer the allegorical explanation. Yet precisely because it is important that the peshat be coherent, Rashi is forced away from the literal meaning, for what man can praise his bride as being beautiful for having such a nose?[6]
One other interesting point that I learnt from Yehuda's article is that the rishon, R. Avigdor Kohen Tzedek, gives the following strange explanation for why God's name doesn't appear in Song of Songs.[7]
ולא נכתב שם קודש בשיר השירים לפי שנאמר כל הספר בלשון חשק ואהבה ואינ' דרך כבוד להזכיר השם ב"ה על דבר חשק.
ואחרי אלה ההערות אינני רואה שיסופק שום משכיל בדברי הספר לחשב בם שהם כפשוטם, ואלו היו כפשוטם לא היו חולי חולין בעולם כמותם, ולא היה נזק גדול לישראל כיום שניתן להם שיר השירים, כי פשוטו יעורר תאוה וביותר תאות המשגל אשר היא המגונה מכלם
שיר השירים, על כל בחינותיה ורבדי מובניה – ואף לפי פשוטה – היא "קודש קודשים". האהבה האנושית המתוארת בה – מתרוממת לגובהי קדושה.
He concludes (p. 481) that it is a mistake to think that the Sages explained Song of Songs allegorically because they had a problem with its literal meaning. According to Yehuda, the opposite is the case, and it is precisely because the Sages valued the literal meaning of the book that they explained it allegorically. It is because they saw the human love described in the book as so exalted that they were prepared to also view the book as an allegory for heavenly love.
שכל הלשונות שבמשל הן עצמיים ובשרשם העליון ענינם נשגב למאד, אלא שהענינים הרמים אלה משתלשלים ויורדים מעולם לעולם עד שמגיעים אלינו מצטיירים לנו צורה זו הנאותה לפי מציאות האדם בעולם הזה.
With regard to Artscroll, everyone knows that the "translation" they provide of Song of Songs is allegorical. In the Passover Machzor that is all you get, but in their separate edition of Song of Songs they do provide the literal translation in the commentary, for those who wish to look at it. Artscroll's approach vis-à-vis the Song of Songs has been the subject of harsh criticism in the Modern Orthodox world, especially from its intellectual elite. In fact, I think when people criticize Artscroll, this is one of the things that is high on the list of what annoys them.
Yet what about Israelis? We now have a situation where "the masses" can understand the Hebrew Bible since Hebrew is their vernacular. This is a completely new phenomenon. How are these masses to be protected from reading the text literally, for as we have seen, Artscroll tells us in the Pesach Machzor that "the literal meaning of the words is so far from their meaning that it is false"? In the Introduction to the Artscroll Shir ha-Shirim, p. lxiv, we are told that when the words שני שדיך, "your bosom" [Artscroll won't use the word "breasts"] refer to Moses and Aaron, this is not
departing from the simple literal meaning of the phrase in the least. Song of Songs uses words in their ultimate connotations. Just as geshem, rain, means the power of stimulating growth, shodayim, the bosom, refers to the Heavenly power of nourishment. . . . They [Moses and Aaron], Israel's sources of spiritual nourishment, are not implied allegorically or derived esoterically from the verse; the verse literally means them.
(Speaking of haredi circumlocutions, since the Agudah convention is in a few days I can't resist mention of the following. A letter was sent out to attendees inviting them to a breakfast at which they will be addressed by a psychologist and and rabbi-lawyer. You can see the letter here. Notice that the letter speaks about how "the issue of child abuse has become a major topic in our society and children in our community have been and continue to be at risk." Of course, child abuse is not the issue at all. We are not being confronted on an almost weekly basis with stories of children in our communities being beaten or anything like that. What we have is child sexual abuse, and yet the author of this letter can't even bring himself to say the word "sexual." It's like we are all in grade school and this word is off-limits.)
There was, in fact, one person who did refuse to change his mind, even after I presented him with the evidence. I refer to the late R. Meir Amsel, editor of Ha-Maor. Amsel is deserving of his own post, having edited Ha-Maor for over fifty years. If I were to ever write a history of Orthodox Jews in America, this journal would be an important source, together with its competitor, Ha-Pardes, because in these journals one finds most of the important issues that were part of the American Orthodox experience. Ha-Maor was the more extreme of the two journals, and all sorts of polemics were carried in its pages. But it would also contain all sorts of surprises, and Amsel's viewpoints were not always predictable. Yet as I mentioned, he didn't accept what I told him, and changing his mind even in the face of evidence to the contrary was not something he was prepared to do.
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The custom on Rosh ha-Shanah is to sound additional shofar blasts towards the end of the morning prayers. Most sound these blasts after Musaf of Rosh ha-Shanah, while some sound thirty of them during the silent Amidah. There is no talmudic source for this practice. Why then do we do it? Here is how the Artscroll Machzor explains the matter, citing Eliyahu Kitov's Sefer ha-Toda'ah as the source:
The source of this custom is the Scriptural narrative of the triumph of Deborah the Prophetess over Sisera, the Canaanite conqueror. In her song of gratitude for the victory, Deborah noted that Sisera's mother whimpered as she worried over the fate of her dead son. Her friends comforted her that he had surely won a great victory and was apportioning spoils and captive women among his officers and troops (Judges 5:28-30). According to the Midrashic tradition she whimpered and groaned 101 times. Although one cannot help but feel sympathy for a worrying, grieving mother, one must be appalled at the cruelty of a mother who could be calmed by the assurance that her son was busy looting and persecuting innocent victims. The Jewish concept of mercy is diametrically opposed to such barbarism. By sounding the shofar one hundred times, we seek to nullify the forces of cruelty exemplified by Sisera and his mother, and bring God's compassion upon us. Although she whimpered one time more than a hundred, we do not sound the shofar 101 times, because we, too, feel the pain of a mother who loses a child, even one as loathsome as Sisera.
והנה אם סיסרא פעתה ובכתה מאה בכיות, ואנו תוקעים מאה תקיעות ועוד אחד, כדי לבטל הקטרוגים הנמשכים מהבכיות שלה . . . וזהו "הן אתם מאין ופעלם מאפע." "מאין" = 101 הן ה100 פעיות של אם סיסרא שבמאה ואחת תקיעות שלנו ה' מכפר לנו, ומתקנים אנו את הפעיות ["אפע" נוט' פעיות אם] של אם סיסרא.
When Abraham returned from Mount Moriah in peace, the anger of Samael [Satan] was kindled, for he saw that the desire of his heart to frustrate the offering of our father Abraham had not been realized. What did he do? He went and said to Sarah: "Hast thou not heard what has happened in this world?" She said to him: "No." He said to her: "Thy husband, Abraham has taken thy son Isaac and slain him and offered him up as a burnt offering upon the altar." She began to weep and to cry aloud three times corresponding to the three Tekiot, three howlings corresponding to the Teruot. and her soul fled, and she died.
In this text we have a connection made between the cries of Sarah and the blowing of the shofar. Here it states that she cried three times corresponding to the Tekiah and three times corresponding to Teruah. (What we call Shevarim is one possibility for how the Teruah should be sounded.) Alternate versions have Sarah crying aloud six times or ninety times.
In the Machzor for Sukkot, p. 132, in discussing the different practices when it comes to wearing tefillin on hol ha-moed, it states: "It is not proper for a congregation to follow contradictory customs. Thus, if one whose custom is not to wear tefillin during Chol haMoed prays with a tefillin-wearing minyan, he should don tefillin without a blessing. Conversely, if one whose custom is to wear tefillin prays with a non-tefillin-wearing minyan, he should not wear his tefillin while praying but may don them at home before going to the synagogue." The source for this ruling is the Mishnah Berurah. Yet with the exception of hasidic synagogues, where I presume everyone does the same thing, this ruling is no longer applicable. In all the synagogues I have ever been in, both Modern Orthodox and non-hasidic haredi, there is no one minhag and everyone does what his family practice is. In other words, the minhag today is for everyone to follow his own personal minhag, and shuls do not have a "custom" in this regard.
Also in the Sukkot Machzor, p. 957 (as well as in the other Machzors), it writes as follows: "It is virtually a universal custom that those whose parents are still living leave the synagogue during Yizkor. This is done to avoid the 'evil eye,' i.e., the resentment that might be felt by those without parents toward those whose parents are still living." Can one conclude from this that Artscroll has a Maimonidean approach to the concept of the "evil eye"?
In past posts I have offered a quiz and given out prizes to the ones who answered the questions. People have wondered why I stopped doing this. The answer is simple: I didn't have anything to give out. But now I have a few items so I can do some more quizzes. For the winner of this one I can give a CD of the music of R. Baruch Myers, rav of Bratislava. Rabbi Myers is a trained classical musician and his music is very different from what you think of when you think hasidic music. Unlike in the past, I will not give the prize to the one who answers the question first. This is unfair as due to the different time zones, some people won't see the question until it has already been answered. I will give people a couple days and if more than one has answered correctly, I will randomly choose a winner. You will also have to answer two questions, in different genres. Yet even if you only know the answer to one, send it in, for if no one gets both answers, I will give it to a person who got one correct. Send answers to shapirom2 at scranton.edu
Question 2: There is a rabbinic phrase that today is used to praise a Torah scholar, but in talmudic days was used in a negative fashion (at least according to Rashi). What am I referring to?
Some people have asked me if I am leading a Jewish history trip to Europe this summer. Actually, I am leading two trips, one to Italy and the other to Central Europe. (The latter is a repeat of the sold-out trip from last summer). Both trips are sponsored by Torah in Motion and details will be available soon.
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[4] "Shir ha-Shirim" Kedushatah shel ha-Megilah u-Farshanutah," Sinai 100 (1987), p. 475.
[5] Soncino explains: "The comparison is between the well-proportioned nose and the beautiful projecting tower."
[6] This point was made by R. Isaac Jacob Reines. See R. Judah Leib Maimon, ed., Sefer Rashi (Jerusalem, 1956), vol. 2, pp. 12-13. See also Rashi to Song of Songs 1:2 "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth." Rashi comments: "In some places they kiss on the back of the hand or on the shoulder, but I desire and wish that he behave toward me as he behaved toward me originally, like a bridegroom with a bride, mouth to mouth." Artscroll does not mention this Rashi. The Vilna Gaon has an interesting comment on this verse. He notes the plural "kisses," and explains: כמו שנושק הבעל לחשוקתו א' על מה שמתחברת עמו והב' על שאינה מתחברת באחר
[7] Perush Shir ha-Shirim (Jerusalem, 1971), p. 11.
[8] See also Ibn Ezra's introduction to Song of Songs: וחלילה חלילה להיות שיר השירים בדברי חשק Despite saying this, he still feels it is important to explain the peshat.
[9] See also Rav Pealim, vol. 4, Sod Yesharim no. 11, where R. Joseph Hayyim explains why God's name does not appear in the Song of Songs.
[10] Since we are speaking of love, I should also mention Elhanan Reiner's provocative claim, put forward in very stylistic Hebrew, that R. Yair Haim Bachrach's responsum, Havot Yair, no. 60, is not a real case, but simply a fictional love story that Bacharach inserted into his responsa. See here. For Raphael Binyamin Posen's response see here, and Reiner responds to Posen here.
[11] Incidentally, the opposition of haredi gedolim to these concerts is often portrayed as if the only issue is tzeniut, and therefore, when men and women sit separately there should be no problem. This is a complete distortion of the issue, for even without tzeniut concerns, the main reason for the opposition, and I know this will be hard for American haredim to stomach, is that the Israeli haredi gedolim are opposed to all musical entertainment, and "fun" in general, when not connected to simchah shel mitzvah, such as Purim, a wedding, etc. Concerts are doubly problematic since these gedolim believe that is forbidden to listen to live music when not connected to a seudat mitzvah. Here is one proclamation that makes this clear (from Hashkafatenu [Bnei Brak, 1985], p. 77).
See also p. 404 for the following incredible statement: "Rav Ahron told his son that it is not right to print his brother's דרשה of יוסף ואחיו about the Mizrachi because his brother regretted saying this דרשה " This is perhaps the most important derashah the Rav ever delivered and is a basic text of study for religious Zionists. It explains how the Rav could break from his family tradition and become a Zionist. It is also the derashah that R. Shakh attacked, saying that it contained דברים שאסור לשומען וכש"כ להפיצן ברבים (Mikhtavim u-Ma'amarim, vol. 4, no. 320). What are we to make of R. Ahron stating that the Rav regretted this derashah?
Among other passages that caught my eye, see e.g., p. 6, where R. Ahron tells a bubba maisah about a rabbi in Auschwitz who killed some twenty Nazis with a chair. On p. 327 R. Ahron claims that Bible Criticism "paved the road for the Nazi ideology." On this page he also states that Catholics do not support Bible Criticism. This is incorrect. The Catholic Church accepts Bible Criticism and does not see this as harming the holiness of the Bible. In fact, there are only two religious groups that do not accept the academic approach to the Bible, namely, Christian fundamentalists and (most) Orthodox Jews. (In a future post I will explain why I use the word "most".
Why do I say that this is an unfortunate publication? Because there is a way to write and a way not to write, and someone who is very upset about how his father was treated is not the best person to review important incidents in his life. I can't see how anyone could believe that the book brings honor to R. Ahron. I am impressed, however, that despite the harshly polemical tone, the author included documents directed against R. Ahron, as this helps with the historical record.
When publishing the letter of the other faculty members of Hebrew Theological College stating that they do not want R. Ahron in a leadership position, the author would have been wise to explain the different perspectives of the protaganists, rather than heaping abuse on them. The same is true when it comes to how he describes the haredim. There is no question that many of his complaints are justified. This is especially the case when he deals with the support given by the haredi gedolim to Elior Chen, which makes everything else pale in comparison. Yet despite this, the language Soloveichik uses in is really over the top.
I also can't imagine that the family of the Rav will be happy to see how he too makes appearances in the book. Is it really appropriate to quote the Rav's harsh comment against a certain Agudah leader? And I have a more fundamental question with regard to this last example. When two people agree to take their dispute to a beit din, not a government beit din but a private beit din, don't they have an expectation of confidentiality? This is especially the case when one of the disputants is still alive. What gives the author the right to reveal the content of a private dispute brought before a private beit din, even if one of the participants did act in a disgraceful manner?
[14] Otzar ha-Hayyim, Tevet 5695, pp. 87-88.
[15] Ner Maaravi 2 (1925), pp. 227-228; Divrei Menahem, vol. 4, no. 13.


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- n. A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
- n. Slang A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.
- n. Computer Science A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
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- n. A small flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in.)
- n. A specifically American-style biscuit.
- n. a bun.
- n. An HTTP cookie, web cookie.
- n. A magic cookie.
- n. A young, attractive woman.
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Mr. Harrison also testified Monday that he never heard Mr. Beatty use the term "cookie jar" to describe the company's accounting reserves, and said Mr. Beatty never asked him to do anything dishonest.
Like many people who have attained global recognition, the word cookie is of Old World ancestry but born and raised in New York.
A cupcake with the flavors of an oatmeal raisin cookie is topped with maple cream cheese frosting and what else?
The oatmeal raisin cookie is a particularly good over-the-top combination with ice cream.
More so because I know how damn smart that Mia cookie is and how persistent she can be.
Some nasty stuff in here, and the cookie is the most notable example.
This BS about people being able to turn it off with a cookie is arrogance.
For instance, the word "cookie" descends to us from the Dutch - the British use the word biscuit.
My friend Cookie is delightful.
"Cookies" caught up to "crackers" in popularity around 1940, then surpassed them by 1970.


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Homeland star Claire Danes has admitted that she was "anxious" over returning to the show for its third season after becoming a mother.
The actress revealed that she suffered from a number of "exaggerated fears" ahead of her return from maternity leave, the London Evening Standard reports.
Danes and husband Hugh Dancy welcomed their son Cyrus in December last year.
Speaking at Showtime's Summer Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills, she said: "I was anxious about returning. I was so in my mommy bubble and I had all sorts of exaggerated fears. But it has been great.
"The material is very dark and it is so nice to come home and be jarred out of that state by this buoyant butterball - this bundle of love.
"I have this beautiful little boy to just kind of go 'bing' and just erase it all very quickly. [On set, our director Lesli Linka Glatter] will hold him and direct. She's literally bobbing him [in her arms] and says, 'Action'. It's very cool. It's very sweet."
Danes revealed that she and Dancy share childcare duties, with her husband now filming his show Hannibal in Canada.
She added: "It will be my turn to be holding down the domestic fort. We feel so fortunate that we get to work in tandem like this. There is, like, a month overlap but basically it is 'his turn, my turn'."
Homeland's third season returns to Showtime in the US on September 29 and will air shortly after on Channel 4 in the UK.
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Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
Antelias, Lebanon;
October 18, 2003
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Greetings to you all with the spirit of Christian love and fellowship.
We, Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, Patriarch Mar Ignatius Zakka I, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, and Catholicos Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenians of the Great House of Cilicia, give thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for granting us, once again, the opportunity to pray together and to reflect together on issues of common concern, at the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, in Antelias, Lebanon. This is the sixth time that we come together as Heads of Churches, with the members of the Standing Committee we had appointed, within the framework of our fellowship that we initiated in 1998.
At our meeting here in Antelias, we have reaffirmed our unity of faith that, for centuries, has been the basis of our common doctrinal positions and theological teachings. Deeply rooted in the Holy Scriptures, the Apostolic Faith and Tradition, the three Ecumenical Councils (Nicea, 325, Constantinople, 381, and Ephesus, 431) and the teachings of our Church Fathers, our unity has sustained the life and witness of the Churches of the Oriental Orthodox Family and became a living source of spiritual strength and missionary engagement in the midst of the upheavals and vicissitudes of our respective histories. For the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the unity of faith is the basis of eucharistic inter-communion and the manifestation of the visible unity of the church.
The unity of the Church is a gift of God; it must be preserved and deepened. It is also a call and a responsibility; it must be responded to seriously. Hence, our unity of faith must acquire concrete manifestations and touch the life of our people through common witness and joint engagement, particularly in the area of religious and moral education, theological formation and social diakonia.
Our unity of faith must also be shared by other churches, both in the Middle East and in different parts of the world. Indeed, the visible unity of the church is a common Christian goal. It is with this spirit and commitment that our Churches are actively engaged in bilateral theological dialogues and in ecumenical collaboration with many churches, world Communions and regional and global ecumenical structures. The World Council of Churches, as a global ecumenical fellowship, and the Middle East Council of Churches, as a regional ecumenical fellowship, are of particular importance for our Churches. We will continue our active ecumenical role in these ecumenical structures.
Besides the inter-church collaboration, we consider inter-religious relations and dialogue to be imperative. Being integral to the history, civilizations and cultures of the Middle East, our Churches have been in constant and existential dialogue with Islam. This dialogue of life, based on mutual understanding, trust and respect, must continue with renewed emphasis and broader perspectives, particularly on the level of the people.
The Coptic Orthodox, the Syrian Orthodox and the Armenian Orthodox Churches have played a significant role in all major initiatives, processes and actions in our region leading it to greater justice, peace and prosperity. We cannot remain aloof and indifferent in the face of the prevailing situation in the Middle East.
We believe that the peace process must be reactivated, and that the Palestinian people must have its independent state and the right to return to its homeland. Israel must implement all Resolutions of the U.N. Security Council by withdrawing from the occupied Arab and Palestinian territories, including the Farms of Shabaa in South of Lebanon, Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Only justice will bring about comprehensive, real and permanent peace in the Middle East.
Iraq must regain its independence, integrity and sovereignty. All occupying forces must soon leave Iraq and the nation-building process must start with the participation of all the communities in Iraq.
Our region is at a critical juncture of its history. We must be alert and exercise utmost responsibility in addressing the issues and concerns of the Middle East. We condemn all kinds of threats against the Arab countries and especially attacks on Lebanon and Syria.
We also condemn all forms and expressions of violence in our region and everywhere in the world. Religion, in its proper understanding, is a promoter of love and reconciliation, peace and justice. We urge all those who, for one reason or other, are in conflict to resolve their problems through dialogue and mutual understanding.
We warmly greet the President of the Republic of Lebanon, His Excellency General Emil Lahoud, the Heads of all communities and the people of Lebanon. We give thanks to God that, after a long period of destruction and conflict, Lebanon now is in a promising process of reconstruction and reconciliation. As Spiritual Heads we extend our full support to this process. Indeed, the Christian-Muslim co-existence constitutes the very identity of Lebanon.
As we conclude our Sixth Meeting in Antelias, we appeal to our Churches to remain faithful to the Gospel by living out its values and imperatives in their daily life, and by participating more actively in the life and witness of the church. Our collaboration must continue to give a renewed efficiency and vitality to the witness of our Churches, especially in its educational, moral, theological, diaconal, evangelistic and ecumenical aspects.
The family is a sacred institution established by our Lord Jesus Christ. The sacredness and integrity of Christian family must be preserved. Hence, we condemn all practices and behaviors related to marriage and sexual orientation that are not in accord with the biblical and moral teachings. In view of the emerging trends and challenges that jeopardize the credibility of Christian moral teachings and spiritual values and traditions, we appeal to our people to preserve their Christian identity and keep their faithfulness to the Gospel message.
We also appeal to our communities living in different parts of the world to remain firmly attached to their native lands by supporting all initiatives and actions that promote peace with justice in the Middle East, as well as mutual respect and understanding among religions and nations.
May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Pope Shenouda III Patrirach Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Catholicos Aram I
October 17, 2003,
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
Antelias, Lebanon
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Joanna Lumley has said that returning to the role of Patsy Stone to celebrate Absolutely Fabulous's 20th anniversary was "extraordinary".
Last month, it was confirmed that Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks would reprise their roles for three special episodes of the award-winning sitcom.
Lumley told ITV's This Morning: "We are doing just three, and Jennifer Saunders - its like luring some amazingly strange creature out of a cave because out she came and said she'd like to do three more.
"So we've done one for Christmas, one for the New Year and one for next year's Olympics which is going to be shown the same week as the Olympics."
Lumley continued: "It's the same cast - the five J's; Jennifer, me, Julia, Jane, June, and then some faces from the past from other shows which people will remember."
On stepping back into the role, she told hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby: "It was just extraordinary! Just so great - the hair goes up and voice goes down a bit and out come the old cigarettes and there she is again!
"I think she's a part of what everyone wants to be - I think there's just a 'don't care' attitude that's rather lovely. I have to say I don't drink like that, and I don't smoke like that - I don't do those things - but part of us just likes them for being 'yeah, well, who cares'."