Raven Rock Mine is a mine located in the settlement of Raven Rock. The entrance can be found by following the path between Ienth Farm and Alor House, past the ash yam field on your left and the wood chopping block and smelter on your right. There is a woodcutter's axe on top of a barrel by the chopping block. There is a wealth of crates, barrels and boxes outside of the mine all marked with the East Empire Company emblem. Both sides of the entrance are lit with braziers on stands. There are also two entrances via Bloodskal Barrow.
* Appears after the mine is reopened.
An Axe to Find: Retrieve an ancient Nordic pickaxe for Glover Mallory.
Black Book: Retrieve a Black Book from a dungeon.
Pain in the Necklace: Find East Empire pendants for Fethis Alor.
Descend into the mine, passing several boxes, barrels and crates bearing the mark of the East Empire Company. At the bottom turn west and enter a habitable area.
The first time you enter the mine you will overhear an argument between Aphia Velothi and her husband Crescius Caerellius. Crescius wants to search the mine and his wife is worried that he will get killed. Speaking with Aphia will give you insight into their relationship, the history of the mine, her husband and his family. Speaking with Crescius will initiate the quest The Final Descent. If the An Axe to Find quest is active, recover an ancient Nordic pickaxe from Crescius while talking to him. This will be of benefit when exploring the mine. Crescius will also give you the Raven Rock mine key during the conversation.
This area acts as a base camp for the mine; between two benches is a copy of History of Raven Rock, Vol. I, and a desk has two gold coins.To the left of the desk are some shelves with various items of clothing, two leather helmets, a copy of Lives of the Saints and The Red Year,Vol.I. A flight of wooden steps leads up to a loft. Under the stairs are more boxes, crates, barrels and open crates, one of which contains a sample of iron ore. In the loft, mechanisms for raising and lowering buckets into and out of the mine below are on the wall. There is a grindstone in the southwest corner, and a table with a copy of The Poison Song, Book III in the center. There is an expert-locked East Empire Company strongbox underneath the table. There are various crates, barrels and a sack behind the table and three pickaxes on the floor.
Down the wooden steps into the mine, you will descend several levels of wooden ramps. After passing an illuminated table with a mead barrel on a platform, you have a choice of right or left. To the left is some flammable gas, old exhausted ore deposits, a small table with an iron ore sample, and a skeever. To the right is the rest of the walkway down and three frostbite spiders along the way. Eventually your path will be blocked by wooden slats barring your way forward. Remove these with magic or a weapon and continue on to chamber with a locked gate. An expert-locked East Empire Company strongbox is on a crate to the right of the gate. The gate can only be unlocked with the Raven Rock mine key that you received from Crescius. Opening the gate allows you to enter the ruins mentioned in the letter received from Crescius at the start of the quest. Shallow water covers the floor of the catacombs ahead. Follow the wall to the left to find a chest in an upper burial compartment. A draugr is slumbering in a compartment close by. There are three other sleeping draugr in the area that will be roused by any fighting.
A pressure plate that activates a spike wall trap is in the middle of the passage onward. Pass by the spike wall and up a flight of stairs with a dead draugr at the top. The path turns to the west here and takes you to a chamber with four draugr-occupied thrones; two facing you, and two just behind facing the other direction. A fifth draugr is roaming in the distance. A random potion and a rare potion of waterwalking are between the two thrones. Of the draugr facing you, only the draugr on the left will awaken. This will likely alert the draugr in the distance. Once they are taken care of, round the corner and take out the draugr in the throne nearest you; the other is motionless. Climb the ramp through a doorway into a circular chamber with a metal grate covering most of the center of the room. Around the perimeter of the room are thrones occupied by draugr. Five of the draugr will rise while you move about the room. As you can see this can be quite a tough battle. On the south wall, tucked in the rubble from a cave-in, is a master-locked chest. The exit is to the west.
In the next room are two upright sarcophagi to the left with a filled common soul gem between them. The path twists around to the west to a raised area with two dead draugr seated on thrones and two embalming tables. On the tables are three random potions, a random strength potion, a random soul gem, a bowl of vampire dust, a sample of scaly pholiota, deathbell flower, a bunch of frost mirriam and a random poison. Between the two tables is a Stalhrim deposit, which you can mine if you have the ancient Nordic pickaxe. Mining this deposit uncovers another dead draugr. An alchemy lab is around the corner on the east wall with an ashen grass pod and two bowls of netch jelly on top. There are sets of shelves on either side of the lab; the one on the left holds a burial urn, a sprig of dragon's tongue, a sample of scathecraw, a bowl of frost salts, a sample of emperor parasol moss, a luna moth wing and a salt pile. The one on the right holds a burial urn, a sample of ash creep cluster, another luna moth wing, some fire salts, a boar tusk, some spawn ash, a bowl of void salts and a potion of waterwalking.
The path continues to the north, climbing to a plateau where two spellcaster traps shooting Sparks are, one on either side of the path. Knocking out or removing the filled soul gems will disable the traps. The path immediately descends down into shallow water to a pair of unlocked wooden doors. Through the doors is a multi-level room with shallow water covering the floor. At the far end of the room is a waterfall, behind which is an apprentice-locked door leading to a single room within Bloodskal Barrow which contains two large urns flanking an upright sarcophagus filled with Stalhrim which once mined reveals a dead draugr. There are no other exits from this room--(see notes). A raised area is on the right with a patrolling draugr wandering along it. Engaging the patrolling draugr will alert up to five additional draugr to converge and attack you. Climb up to the raised area, or use the stairs at the far end of the room, to access an overlook. Here are several upright sarcophagi, all but two of which have been opened. On your right in the south wall is a lowered portcullis. At the far end of the room is a lit fireplace with a wooden walkway connecting to the other side. Once you've crossed over you will find an arcane enchanter with an expert-locked chest underneath. A potion of waterwalking and a weapon are on the floor. A plinth with a handle on top opens the portcullis back on the other side.
Head back across the walkway and through the open portcullis with a choice of going left or right. To the left is a room with a plinth holding an Ice Spike spell tome surrounded by lit candles. To the right is a wooden spiral ramp leading up and onward. Before climbing, however, underneath the ramp is an adept-locked chest, a burial urn, and a half-buried urn. When you reach the top of the ramp, you will see three pots on a ledge in the northwest corner; if you jump to this ledge, behind the pots you will find the fourth and final potion of waterwalking. On the landing at the top of the ramp is a long bow and quiver of iron arrows. In the southwest corner is a small ledge you can jump to that has a small coin purse behind a bowl. A wooden wall ahead shields you from a spellcaster trap that fires Lightning Bolt spells at you, powered by a filled soul gem. In a darkened alcove to the right of the wooden blockade is a plinth holding a scroll of Fireball. Cross over the walkway, bypassing the spellcaster trap, where a bookcase is on your right with a bowl of frost salts and a sample of canis root. If you examine the eastern wall directly behind the spellcaster trap, you'll notice the outline of a secret door; the pull chain to open it is to the left of the door, obscured by cobwebs. This secret alcove contains a potion, a chest, and a coin purse. The path onward is through a door to the west, leading into a corridor and across a catwalk heading north. Once you cross, you enter a corridor with several upright sarcophagi on either side. Three pressure plates are on the floor in front of you that each activate a dart trap. The stairs ahead lead to an unlocked wooden door with an adept-locked chest. The second sarcophagus on the left has fallen over revealing a tunnel heading west.
Following the tunnel through the sarcophagus as it twists and turns, you will come out overlooking a large cavern far below. A large, strange door is at the far end of the room situated between two waterfalls. Jump down from your perch to the rocking landing below and make your way to the door. In front of the door you will find the remains of Gratian Caerellius lying upon a bed roll. He still carries his journal, which explains what happened to him and his assistant Millius. You will also need to search him for the unique two-handed greatsword, the Bloodskal Blade. Gratian's journal reveals what he has found out about the blade and his thoughts on how it can be used to open the strange door. Next to Gratian is a satchel and an elixir of vigor. If you explore the rest of the cavern, you will find several dead draugr, as well as an unlocked chest at the lower end of the cavern where the stream exits and several small cages hanging in front of the door containing skeletons and draugr that can be looted.
The strange door is opened by equipping the Bloodskal Blade, then performing a power attack in front of each of the red lines in the door that roughly match their orientation, either vertical or horizontal. Each time you perform a swing correctly, the door will slowly rearrange itself and extinguish that particular line. Once you have completed all the required swings correctly the door will open into a long corridor filled with seven sets of three swinging blades in a row. At the far end is a lever to stop them that also raises a gate in front of you.
This opens the way into a large water-filled cavern. To the left is a chest. Approaching the chest, which contains very little, will cause a dragon priest named Zahkriisos to rise from the water in front of you and start attacking you with powerful shock magic. Once you have destroyed him you can take his mask, which grants its wearer shock resistance of 50% and a boost to shock damage of 25%. Around the corner to the left, in the west corner of the room, is a portcullis with a lever. At the far end of the cavern is a word wall that contains a part of the Dragon Aspect shout. Under the water you will find five Nordic barnacle clusters and a cluster of slaughterfish eggs.
Defeating Zahkriisos will raise the portcullis, as does the lever in front of it. Beyond is a plinth holding the Black Book, The Winds of Change. Taking it will transport you to Apocrypha and The Winds of Change quest. To the right is an arcane enchanter with two soul gems in stands behind and a bookcase containing two random potions, a random helmet, a pair of random boots, a bowl with a petty soul gem inside, thirteen gold coins, a garnet and an amethyst. On the left is a sideboard with two burial urns on top and an unlocked boss-level chest beside it. In the center of the room is a waterfall flowing into a grate in the floor and around this is a wooden spiral ramp leading up to an unlocked iron door which will take you to Bloodskal Barrow. Either make your way through the barrow to the Solstheim exit, or backtrack through the mine to Raven Rock.
The four potions of waterwalking found here are the only ones in the entire game; no merchants sell them and they cannot be crafted.
When exiting back from the single room behind the waterfall, the door shows as opening into Bloodskal Barrow instead of Raven Rock Mine.
Completing The Final Descent allows the mine to open for business again.
Once reopened, this mine has the second-highest number of ebony ore veins in the game.
Crescius Caerellius partially supports his claims that his grandfather must have died by some means other than a tunnel collapse by stating his belief that the mine's tunnels are too sound for such an event to occur. Though he is right that his grandfather's disappearance was due to other causes, his confidence in the tunnels may be misplaced: a short distance down the tunnels from the entrance to the mine, you can discover a pair of skeletal arms protruding from beneath a boulder near the wall of the tunnel, seemingly the remains of someone killed by a collapse.
One of the East Empire Company Strongboxes here can be unlocked with a version of Brand-Shei's Strongbox key that's unavailable in the game.
If the player has the Wax Key Lockpicking perk and unlocks this strongbox, the Brand-Shei's Strongbox key is given to the player.
The remains of Millius may not spawn. ?
The Dragon Aspect Word Wall may fail to activate when you get close enough, where the word of power will stop glowing and all the words will turn red.
PC users can get around this by using "tcl" to turn off collisions before approaching the wall.
This bug can also be overcome by using the Whirlwind Sprint Shout, into the word, when the textures are normal. This may take a few tries from different places, so be sure to save first.
Learning at least one of the other words of Dragon Aspect before approaching the wall may mitigate this glitch.
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Lawmakers press Muilenburg about Boeing's role in certification of 737 MAX jets
By&nbspCat Hofacker|October 29, 2019
Boeing CEO defends process but expresses openness to refining it
Boeing CEO and President Dennis Muilenburg today resisted congressional calls for a complete overhaul of the FAA regulations that gave Boeing a large role in certifying the 737 MAX jets for commercial flights.
"We need to get the balance right" between government oversight and delegated authority to manufacturers, Muilenburg told senators during his first congressional appearance since the Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people.
In the aftermath of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes that prompted a worldwide grounding of the MAX, the certification process has come under fire from lawmakers. Of particular concern to members of the Senate Commerce Committee during today's hearing was the Organization Designation Authority, or ODA, program under which the FAA can streamline certification by delegating employees of companies like Boeing to sign off on many aspects of an aircraft's design, including the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, the anti-stall software implicated in the crashes.
Senators of both parties questioned Muilenburg about ODA certification and whether it needs to be overhauled.
"I support taking a hard look" at ODA, Muilenburg said during questioning from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
"I'm not asking you to take a hard look," Blumenthal snapped. "Isn't the certification process broken?"
Muilenburg said the delegation of authority process has "enhanced safety over the last couple of decades," but "that doesn't mean we shouldn't refine it." He said the "fundamental process is a strong process," although he also said, "I think [the corporate-government balance] can be improved."
Committee chairman Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., noted that ODA has been used to certify many aircraft, but he questioned if the program allowed for an "inappropriately close relationship" between the FAA and Boeing.
After the second crash, the FAA ordered Boeing to put the MCAS software through a recertification process that must be concluded before flights can resume. Muilenburg told senators that Boeing is in the "final stages of that process." The company has developed a software update for MCAS, as well as "some additional safety enhancements" that Muilenburg did not provide details about.
"This is all work we're proceeding on over the next few weeks and months," but the MAX return to service isn't "timeline driven," he said.
Even if the MAX jets are cleared to fly, the circumstances surrounding the MAX certification and the two crashes continue to be investigated by the U.S. Justice Department, multiple congressional committees and international regulators.
"This hearing will by no means end our inquiry," Wicker said.
Nor is it the end of Muilenburg's congressional testimony. He will appear tomorrow before the House Transportation Committee to discuss the MAX's design and development.
More from the hearing
Muilenburg also faced questions from senators about news reports that Boeing pilots knew MCAS presented a possible danger before the Lion Air crash in October 2018. Earlier this month, Reuters published an instant message conversation from 2016 between then-chief technical pilot Mark Forkner and a colleague in which Forkner said MCAS was "running rampant" in simulator tests of the software and he had "lied to the regulators (unknowingly)" about it. In both MAX crashes, the crews struggled to regain control of the aircraft after MCAS erroneously activated, repeatedly pitching the nose of the aircraft down.
Boeing turned over documents containing the 2016 conversation to the U.S. Justice Department in February, but Muilenburg told the Senate Commerce Committee he first learned about the specifics of the conversation "a few weeks ago" when the messages were published.
Given those messages, why didn't Boeing speak up about MCAS after the Lion Air crash, asked Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
It seems like "there were some people who know exactly or suspected what went wrong" in the immediate aftermath of the Lion Air Crash," Johnson said. "Why didn't you react faster?"
Muilenburg said he's "not sure what was meant" in those messages.
FAA relationship
At the heart of senators' criticisms of the Organization Designation Authority, or ODA, program under which FAA delegated Boeing employees to sign off on aspects of the MAX design is the question of whether Boeing had undue influence in the certification process for its own aircraft.
"It's absolutely clear it's too cozy of a relationship between the FAA and your airline, so what are you going to specifically commit to in terms of reform?" said Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M.
Boeing Chief Engineer John Hamilton, seated next to Muilenburg, pushed back.
"We have a respectful relationship with the FAA," and there are cases where "we do have our differences of opinion. It's not a cozy relationship. It's a professional relationship."
He continued: "In terms of things I think we need to change, we need to revisit some of these regulatory guidances and see that they're up to date."
Hamilton was referring to FAA standards for how quickly pilots will respond to cockpit alerts that Boeing designed MCAS around. Boeing assumed pilots would be able to respond within three seconds of an erroneous MCAS activation, an assumption that's been criticized in reports by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Joint Authorities Technical Review, an international group of regulators that examined the certification of the MAX.
The NTSB report found that in simulator tests that emulated an MCAS firing, Boeing did not simulate an angle-of-attack failure, "which would have led to numerous other alerts and warnings in cockpit" that wouldn't be present in other situations, NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt told senators during the second part of the hearing.
Changes to MCAS
During his testimony, Muilenburg told the committee that "we share your commitment to aviation safety." To that end, he highlighted three changes in the MCAS design:
In the MAX crashes, MCAS commanded the horizontal stabilizer on the tail of the aircraft to swivel upward in response to data from one angle-of-attack sensor that measures the angle between the aircraft and oncoming air flow. In the future, MCAS will only activate if it receives matching data from both AoA sensors on the fuselage of the MAX.
The new version of MCAS will activate only once. The accident crews struggled against the software as it activated repeatedly, driving the nose of the plane down over a dozen times.
Boeing assumed pilots would be able to override MCAS by flipping the thumb switches on the control column to pull the nose back up, which proved impossible during the crashes. Once MCAS is recertified, pilots will be able to override MCAS "at any time," Muilenburg said.
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Israeli vegan honey could leave Russia & Ukraine holding the honey bucket
March 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton
Lab-produced honey goes into industrial-scale production just as global supply from bees is disrupted by Putin's War
JERUSALEM, Israel––Regardless of whether Ukraine staves off the Russian invasion or suffers the genocide threatened by Russian use of heavy weapons against civilian targets, the biggest and perhaps only winner of what is now known worldwide as Vladimir Putin's War is likely to be the Israeli biotech start-up Bee-io Honey.
Bee-io Honey is reportedly now within days of marketing industrial quantities of actual bona fide honey made in laboratory vats without any use of bees.
Initial manufacturing capacity is projected at about 3% of Israeli domestic honey consumption, but Bee-io Honey anticipates rapidly scaling up to compete in the global honey market.
Both Ukraine & Russia are leading honey exporters
The Bee-io honey-making process could not come online at a more opportune time.
Russia, under almost complete global economic embargo in protest of the Ukraine invasion, ranks eighth in the world in honey production, at just over 65,000 tons per year, about 750 tons more than Mexico and 2,500 tons less than India.
Ukraine ranks fifth in the world in honey production, at more than 71,250 tons per year, 2,000 tons more than the United States.
Only Iran, Argentina, Turkey, and China contribute more to the world honey supply. Only China, whose bees produce more than 457,00 tons per year, exports more honey than the combined output from Russia and Ukraine.
Non-bee honey won gold medal
The Bee-io method of producing genuine honey without the use of bees could help hugely to fill the looming gap between honey supply and demand.
Back in 2018-2019 a team of 12 students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology were reportedly looking chiefly at the market potential for vegan honey, made without any use of animal products, when they developed a way to "teach" the bacterium Bacillus subtilis to make honey from pollen in the same way that the gut bacteria of honey bees process pollen to produce honey.
The team won a gold medal at the 2019 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition held annually in Boston, against 300 other university teams from around the world.
This attracted the attention of Arik Kaufman, a founder of the Israeli biotech food companies Meat Tech and BioMilk.
Kaufman, reported Israeli journalist Shani Ashkenazi in June 2021, "presented the idea to Ofir Dvash, then vice president of technology at the startup incubator GKI Gro.
Bee-io Honey Ltd. team members Arik Kaufman, Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld, Offir Dvash, & Yaron Kaiser. (Beth Clifton collage)
Developers' names mean "honey"
"Ofir recruited his food technologist-biotechnologist sister Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld, a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science and postdoctoral fellow in metabolism and immunology from Harvard Medical School. Together they founded Bee-io."
Coincidentally the surname Dvash means "honey" in Hebrew.
Offir Dvash and Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld shared another connection to honey-making, Ashkenazi explained.
"When Efrat and Ofir Dvash were children in Moshav Hatzav in Israel's south," Ashkenazi recounted, "their father grew tomatoes in the family greenhouse. The siblings had a special role: they were the bees. Because the tomatoes were being raised in a closed, humid greenhouse, there was nothing to pollinate the flowers and induce growth. So, brother and sister would run through the rows and shake the plants," to release tomato pollen to drift through the greenhouse.
Offir and Efrat Dvash, now 36 and 41, respectively, established a honey-making laboratory in the Rehovot Science Park to perfect their manufacturing method and produce samples for potential investors.
Simultaneously they began talking up the potential of laboratory-made honey both as a health food and as a way to save bees.
According to the World Bee Project, headquartered in London, England, about 87% of all flowering plants, including 77% of the plants that produce food for humans, depend chiefly on bees for pollination.
Without pollination, plants cannot produce grains, fruits, or vegetables, all of which exist as part of the pollen-driven flowering plant reproductive process.
But the global bee population has steeply declined in recent years, partly because humans have cultivated only seven of the 20,000 known bee species as honey producers. These seven species have come to monopolize much of the niche for pollinators, to the extent that when the cultivated bee species succumb to disease, climate change, vulnerability to neonicotinoid pesticides, or any other factor, even giant Asian "murder hornets" in some habitats, less vulnerable bee species are not plentiful enough to rapidly replenish the total bee population.
Producing more honey without the use of inbred cultivated bees could allow wild bees worldwide to recover genetic strength and diversity.
But the "health food" aspect appeared to be the strongest selling point for the market that Offir Dvash and Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld initially anticipated.
"Global honey prices have doubled"
"When bees collect nectar," Dvash-Riesenfeld explained, "they bring large quantities of pesticides into the hive, and eventually to us, the consumers. Our product won't have these things."
By early 2021 Bee-io had applied for U.S. patents, expecting to move into the U.S. market soon after beginning to sell honey in Israel, and in June 2021 merged with the investment firm Whitestone Group, beginning to sell shares of Bee-io on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Explained the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, "There are many potential advantages to cultured honey. Aside from being vegan – no actual honeybees are involved – cultured honey could be produced on demand and would not be dependent on seasons, plants or the number of honeybees in the world.
"The world honey market was valued at $9 billion as of 2019," Haaretz continued. "With annual growth forecasts of 8%, it is slated to reach $14.4 billion by 2025.
"Global honey prices have doubled in the past decade, notes Bee-io, Haaretz said.
"We can't go on exploiting animals"
"We want to disconnect human nutrition from animals, and we can't go on exploiting animals," Ofir Dvash told Haaretz.
Headlined the Jerusalem Post Business & Innovation section on December 20, 2021, Bee-io "has announced that industrial-scale production of their product will begin by March 2022."
Continued Jerusalem Post writer Zachy Hennessey, "Bee-io Honey has begun scaling up development of its cultured honey production system."
(Beth Clifton photo/ collage)
First to produce 100% mono-floral honey
"We will be able to produce products that are very limited in nature," Offir Dvash told Hennessey, mentioning coffee honey.
"Even when we go to the supermarket and buy eucalyptus honey," Offir Dvash said, "it's not 100% eucalyptus honey: it's maybe 20% or 30% eucalyptus flowers, and maybe wildflowers, citrus flowers – but it's not 100%," since no one can absolutely control where bees go and what pollen they bring back to their hive.
"We're the first in the world to be able to produce cultivated honey which is 100% mono-floral," Offir Dvash asserted, while "keeping the same qualities that natural honey has. Natural honey is antibacterial, and our honey is the same. It has different vitamins, antioxidants, calcium, and many more materials that regular, natural honey has – but we're lacking the bad materials that are very common in natural honey," such as chemicals and toxins."
Honey attracts more Vikings than @#$%
Regardless of the success of Bee-io, conventional honey production using bees is likely to retain economic and cultural importance in both Russia and Ukraine when Vladimir Putin's War is over.
Finding and extracting honey produced by wild bees––and producing the alcoholic drink mead, fermented from honey––was already a major industry in the region when the Viking prince Oleg of Novgorod (845-912) united what are today Russia and Ukraine in the Kingdom of Rus.
Indeed, the abundance of honey from which to brew mead might have been a big part of what drew the Vikings into the area, far from the sea that was central to the rest of Viking culture.
Petro Prokopovych.
Ukraine produced most honey per capita
Before Vladimir Putin's War, Ukraine produced the most honey per capita in the world, with about 700,000 Ukrainians employed in the honey industry.
Conventional honey production as it is done today evolved largely from the inventions of Petro Prokopovych (1775-1850), a Ukrainian-born military officer who retired from the Russian czar's army in 1798 to help his brother, a beekeeper.
Managing 580 beehives by 1808, Prokopovych in 1814 invented the wooden-framed beehive, ancestral to today's "supers," and then improved it by adding wooden partitions with apertures passable only by worker bees, now called "queen excluder."
Beekeeping school
These two inventions allowed beekeepers to produce and extract pure honey, without contamination from bee larvae, and permitted honey extraction without smoking the hive to death to gain access to the honey.
His inventions also enabled Prokopovych to expand his holdings to a then-unheard of 6,600 hives in production.
(Beth & Merritt Clifton)
Prokopovych eventually established a beekeeping school that graduated 700 certified beekeepers over the next 53 years.
Nellie Saiom Shriver, 80, introduced Alex Hershaft to vegan activism
Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bees, China, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Russia, Ukraine, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bee-io, Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld, Merritt Clifton, Offir Dvash, Petro Prokopovych
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Lorraine says
This is a huge game changer!!!
Vasu Murti says
In his 1982 edition of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Dr. Richard Schwartz makes a case for Jewish vegetarianism, noting that throughout the Bible, Israel is repeatedly called a "land flowing with milk and honey." (Exodus 3:8,17; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27, 14:8; Deuteronomy 11:9, 26:9,15, 27:3, 31:20; Baruch 1:20; Ezekiel 20:15)
Dr. Richard Schwartz advocates strict veganism in his 2004 edition of Judaism and Vegetarianism, but admits 90 percent of American vegetarians do consume dairy products and eggs. Animal activists must realize, the religious community can hardly be blamed in this regard!
Olive oil is popular with vegans looking for a cruelty-free alternative to butter and other dairy products. Agave nectar is popular with vegans as well, as a cruelty-free alternative to honey. Animal byproducts like milk and honey can be obtained nonviolently, but usually aren't!
And it's doubtful if even animal byproducts could be produced cruelty-free on a massive scale to satisfy the demands of the world's affluent consumers, even if they can afford these luxuries. A transition to a vegan economy makes perfect sense.
Mark Caponigro says
Whoa, Beth, that Viking cat is superb!
As for Bee-io, it's a grand idea, but I'd feel a lot better about it if they collaborated with Palestinians, or employed a few and taught them the relevant science and the technology. As it is, there are people in this country who won't want to buy an Israeli product, even if it is not made by Israeli settlers in Occupied Palestine.


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Fill The Land
Posted on January 10, 2007 (5767) By Rabbi Raymond Beyda | Series: Table Talk | Level: Beginner
The Children of Israel were fruitful, teemed, increased, and became strong – very, very much so; and the land became filled with them (Shemot 1:7)
The verse relates the transition of the Jewish settlers from a ghetto society in the restricted confines of Goshen to a cosmopolitan segment of Ancient Egyptian society After of the generation that came to Egypt with Yaakov Avinu A'H died the exile of Egypt took on a new form. The Jews who had up to now been a small group of immigrants living in isolation in Goshen began to multiply at a geometrical rate. As they also became very prosperous they began to frequent places they had not even attended when our Patriarch and his sons were still alive. The Midrash tells us that "they filled the land" does not mean that they traveled to many different places. It also does not mean that they merely expanded their places of residence to new neighborhoods. The reference is to the fact that they began to attend the stadiums and theaters of the Egyptians. They became wealthier and began to socialize and entertain themselves in the same way as the Egyptian hosts did.
The Keli Yakar points out that the verse has a grammatical inconsistency. When one wants to say "very much so" one should say "me-od me-od". The verse, however, says "Bimod me-od" He explains that "bimod" refers to material wealth as it does in Keriyat Shema when we say one should devote himself to Hashem "b'kol meodecha" – "with all of your wealth". He contends that the verse means that the Jews became very wealthy and the result of their social status was that they sought new forms of entertainment and social gathering. They became regular participants in Egyptian sport and theater. Eventually they started to behave more like the host country and to resemble them in more ways than one.
This he says explains the verse "A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Yosef" (Shemot 1:8) How could it be that a new ruler could not be aware of the Viceroy who ruled for 80 consecutive years of peace and prosperity in his own land? Some explain that he merely behaved as if he did not remember the great reign of Yosef. The Keli Yakar says he did not forget Yosef nor did he forget his great family of 70 who descended with Yaakov to Egypt. However, when the Jews changed their "look" and behavior he did not recognize the new generation as the relatives of Yosef. This enabled him to initiate his plot to subjugate them to centuries of servitude and suffering.
The lessons of the Torah are timeless. It is clear to one who studies our history that when we strengthen our modes of behavior and our dedication to a Torah lifestyle that we prosper and live in surety and safety. It is only when we imitate our host country so much so that it is hard to distinguish the Jew from the Gentile in his dress, speech and social behavior that woes befall our holy people. May this lesson gives u new clarity in who we are and how we should behave in all aspects of our lives, home, business and social as well as spiritual. We are the Chosen Ones who should serve as a beacon to the people with whom we share this planet. We should set the example rather than copy the ways and values of our neighbors.
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Ice skating becomes a popular winter sport in Bulgaria. Several well maintained ice rinks are available in Bansko, as well as all major cities in Bulgaria.
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Do not hesitate to visit the ice rinks in Bansko, Sofia, Varna, Bourgas and even Stara Zagora. Be sure that you will hear a real laughter of your kids, and see the happiness in the eyes of your friends, who knows – may be you will have the chance to kiss the person, with whom you will experience thousand more unforgettable moments, and then you will take several dizzy rounds on the ice.
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God and greed: a guide to religious giving
By EditorUpdated on Jun 19, 2014 . Posted on Nov 19, 2007
After politics, money is probably the most sensitive topic in religion, and one that gets much less media coverage than many other issues. Yet money is also the fuel that runs religion in the United States, and donating is a basic tenet of every religious tradition. How much believers donate to their faith communities, or to charity, and why, is only beginning to be studied in depth.
Reporting the details is challenging; government rules do not require many religious organizations to give public access to their records. Yet religious giving has profound implications for society, and studies show that American believers are making more money than ever but donating proportionally less than ever to churches and religious institutions and charities. On top of that, a greater share of those donations is going to support individual churches themselves rather than missions beyond their walls.
This source guide provides ample resources to help journalists report on financial giving – why people give, how much they give, and trends over time.
In general terms, studies show that American believers are making more money than ever but are donating proportionally less than they ever have to their church or to religious charities and institutions. Moreover, a greater share of those donations is going to support the congregant's own house of worship, rather than benevolences, the term used for money that funds overseas religious work or other missions beyond the walls of a single church.
The leading researchers on church giving are John L. Ronsvalle and Sylvia Ronsvalle of empty tomb inc., based in Champaign, Ill. Their studies tend to focus on Protestant denominations, which voluntarily provide the most detailed financial data. But empty tomb data does appear to hold true for many other denominations, and they collect some data on other church groups, including Roman Catholics.
Interpreting the data is, of course, the nub of all debates on this topic. Some argue that Americans are more materialistic and less attached to their churches than in the past; they buy more things and donate less. Other experts say that religion has grown more local than ever: Worshippers are more concerned with supporting their own congregation and are alienated from the wider denomination, if they are even part of a national or international faith group. Others say that economic uncertainty, rising costs and other financial stresses are leading Americans to withhold more from the offering plate.
Research from the Faith Communities Today 2005 survey from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that 57 percent of congregations report that their financial situation is good or excellent. That was a notable drop since 2000, when 66 percent of congregations said their situation was good or excellent.
Journalists reporting on religious giving should keep several factors in mind. One is that most research focuses on Christian churches, largely because the large number of Christian denominations and their systematic approach to data collection provide enough information to draw sustainable conclusions. Many other faiths tend to be smaller and thus more difficult to research. Also, many (such as Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs) include a large number of relatively recent immigrants who may be reluctant to provide financial statements. At the synagogue level, Judaism is generally characterized by a system of annual dues for membership (which grew out of prohibitions on handling money on the Sabbath, when communal worship takes place). Jews donate in other ways as well, but there is little data comparable to the Christian tradition of passing the collection plate. Contact local and regional Jewish federations for information on Jewish fund raising.
Non-Christian faiths do have important and long-standing traditions of giving, and these merit exploration even if a quantitative picture of giving is elusive.
While religious believers often talk about most any topic related to their faith, money is rarely one of them. But the amount Americans donate makes it a topic too big to ignore. Studies estimate that Americans donate upwards of $100 billion to religious organizations and causes each year. That is an enormous sum, and it shows that religion remains the chief impulse behind charitable giving
"Report says church giving on the rebound"
Read a March 27, 2012, article from Religion News Service (posted by The Washington Post) about an increase in church spending.
"Declining donations force Dallas-area churches to adjust strategies"
Read a May 22, 2010, article from the Dallas Morning News about the impact of decreasing church donations on church spending.
"How Religious Affiliation Affects Charitable Giving"
Read an Aug. 21, 2012, article from Time magazine about the correlation between religion and the amount of money people give to charity.
"Church giving turns digital"
Read an Aug. 1, 2007, Christian Science Monitor story about churches turning to electronic giving options.
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
The Hartford Institute for Religion Research at the Hartford Seminary is an excellent resource and includes a database of more than 800 megachurches in the United States. Contact Scott Thumma, professor of the sociology of religion at Hartford Seminary.
It tracks financial trends in the religious sector through its Faith Communities Today survey. A 2006 FACT publication, "Insights into Financial Giving" provides an invaluable overview of charitable and church giving along with resources and experts. The report also provides a summary of different religious groups' teachings on giving.
Contact: sthumma@hartsem.edu, 860-509-9542.
Resources for American Christianity
Resources for American Christianity is a website funded by the Lilly Endowment that "seeks to assist leaders and participants in Christian communities, scholars and other interested publics in better understanding the impact, trends and trajectories of Christianity in American society." Under the "Economics" category, the site has a series of excellent studies, papers and experts. They are under sub-headings that include: Church Finances, Giving, Materialism, Stewardship, Wealth and Work.
Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches
The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches is published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB)and contains detailed financial data from most denominations. The data is self-reported.
Generous Giving Inc.
Generous Giving Inc. is an evangelical ministry and foundation based in Chattanooga, Tenn., that seeks to encourage stewardship and financially sound practices among Christians. The group's Web site includes a page of "Statistics & Trends" that provides data and context for this issue. Contact through the website.
GivingUSA
Giving USA of Chicago, Ill., is the leading foundation dedicated to promoting overall philanthropy and ethical standards for charitable organizations. In its most recent annual survey, using data from 2006, Giving USA reported that Americans gave more than $295 billion to the nation's 1.4 million charitable and religious organizations, with the largest single share—almost one-third—going to the religious sector. Giving USA includes "in kind" as well as cash donations, which is why their overall donation figure is higher than those of other groups, such as empty tomb inc. The media contact is Jean Bean.
Contact: jbean@thesentergroup.com, 312-981-6794.
International Catholic Stewardship Council
The International Catholic Stewardship Council is a leading organization promoting increased stewardship in the Catholic Church. Research has shown that on average, Catholics tend to put less than Protestants — perhaps half as much — in the weekly collection plate. The ICSC, based in Dearborn Heights, Mich., is stepping up efforts to encourage giving. The group has an annual report on collections at the diocesan level.
Contact: info@catholicstewardship.org, 800-352-3452.
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc (FADICA)
FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc.) is a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of private charitable foundations and individual donors who try to foster stewardship and religious philanthropy. The organization has become increasingly interested in stewardship issues in recent years. Loretta Dees is the communications director.
Contact: info@fadica.org, ldees@fadica.org, 202-223-3550.
National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management
The National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management is a Catholic organization founded in 2005 out of concerns over financial mismanagement uncovered during the sexual abuse crisis. The NLRCM says its mission "is to promote excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resources development of the Catholic Church in the U.S. by greater incorporation of the expertise of the laity." Jim Lunholm Eades is the director of programs.
Contact: info@nlrcm.org, jle@TheLeadershipRoundtable.org, 202-635-5820.
Material History of American Religion Project
The Material History of American Religion Project was a Lilly-funded program, based at Vanderbilt University, that ran from 1995-2001. The program produced a series of papers and books on the topic of believers and money, and it still maintains a useful website with links to programs and participants. James Hudnut-Beumler was director.
Contact: James.Hudnut-Beumler@Vanderbilt.edu, 615-343-3961.
Lake Institute on Faith and Giving
The Lake Institute on Faith and Giving is a public forum for exploring connections between faith and philanthropy. It is part of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. David H. Smith is the chair of the Board of Advisors to the Lake Institute.
Contact: smithd@indiana.edu.
The National Center for Charitable Statistics, based in Washington, D.C., is the national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. It is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
Contact: nccs@urban.org, 866-518-3874.
Independent Sector
Independent Sector is a leadership forum for charities, foundations, and corporate giving programs with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It published the 2001 study "Giving and Volunteering in the United States." and posts links to recent studies on giving and volunteering. Kristina Campbell is the media contact.
Contact: kristinac@independentsector.org, 202-467-6144.
Wall Watchers is a evangelical-oriented ministry that encourages financial accountability and increased stewardship among Christian churches and organizations. Founded in the 1990s, Wall Watchers expanded with an adjunct group: MinistryWatch, which aims to provide "the donating public with access to organizational and financial profiles on 400 of the largest Christian ministries in the United States."
Contact: info@wallwatchers.org, 866-364-9980.
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability was formed in 1979 in response to a wave of church financial scandals. Based in Winchester, Va., the ECFA has 2,000 member evangelical Christian organizations that adhere the ECFA principle, or Standards of Responsible Stewardship, which "focus on board governance, financial transparency, integrity in fund-raising, and proper use of charity resources." Anna Hutsell is the media contact.
Contact: ahutsell@demoss.com, 800-323-9473, 540-535-0103.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy covers nonprofits.
Contact: ginnie.titterton@philanthropy.com, 202-466-1750.
Jewish Reconstructionist Movement
The Jewish Reconstructionist Movement, previously the Jewish Reconstructionalist Federation, contains hundreds of resources based on the values, beliefs and history of Reconstructionist Judaism. It is operated by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Council. Email through the Reconstructionist Judaism website.
Dean R. Hoge
Dean R. Hoge was a professor of sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His books include, as co-author, Pastors in Transition: Why Clergy Leave Local Church Ministry (Eerdmans, 2005). Read a 2003 speech he co-authored, posted by Pulpit & Pew.
He is a leading expert on money and giving in Catholicism and other denominations. Publications he has authored or contributed to include Money Matters: Personal Giving in American Culture and More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History.
James K. Kelley
James K. Kelley is director of development for the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina and president of the board of directors of the International Catholic Stewardship Council. Kelley is the author of "Stewardship Manual: A Guide for Individuals and Parishes Developing Stewardship as a Way of Life" and the book Sustaining and Strengthening Stewardship.
Contact: chancery@charlottediocese.org, 704-370-3301.
Mark Noll
Mark Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and one of the most cited authorities today on evangelicalism in America. He co-founded the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, where he taught for many years. Noll's many books include America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.
He has written about the tradition of religious giving in American history.
Contact: Mark.Noll.8@nd.edu, 574-631-7574.
Abdullah Saeed
Abdullah Saeed is a professor of Arab and Islamic studies and director of Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has written widely on the role of money in Islam.
Contact: a.saeed@unimelb.edu.au, +61 3 8344 6861.
Paul G. Schervish
Paul G. Schervish is a director of the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy and a sociology professor at the college in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He directed the studies "The Moral Biography of Wealth: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of Philanthropy," "The Contradictions of Christmas: Troubles and Traditions in Culture, Home, and Heart," and "The Emerging Material and Spiritual Determinants of Charitable Giving by Wealth Holders."
Contact: paul.schervish@bc.edu, 617-552-4070.
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow is director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He wrote the book Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business and Money and was the editor of the 2006 Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. He is also the author of After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion and Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland. He can speak about hot-button issues including abortion, the separation of church and state and gun control.
Contact: wuthnow@princeton.edu, 609-258-4742.
Charles E. Zech
Charles E. Zech is a professor of economics at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He wrote the article "The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations" for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1998).
He is a leading authority on finances in the Catholic Church.
Contact: charles.zech@villanova.edu, 610-519-4371.
Stephanie Clintonia Boddie
Stephanie Clintonia Boddie is senior researcher at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington. She specializes in the role of religious congregations in providing community services and has published two reports on giving for the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Center on Social Development.
Contact: sboddie@pewforum.org, 202-419-4550.
Ahmad S. Dallal
Ahmad S. Dallal is dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. His research interests include early modern Islamic societies, the causes of 9/11 and the relationship between Islam and science.
Contact: asd6@georgetown.edu, +974 4457 8100.
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Peter Dobkin Hall is a lecturer in public policy and a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He does research on social welfare policy and civic engagement and has held a teaching appointment in the Divinity School.
He is an expert in the history of religious philanthropy in America.
Contact: pd_hall@harvard.edu, 203-782-1842.
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Sharon L. Miller is associate director of the Center for the Study of Theological Education at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a sociologist of religion who specializes in evaluation research and data analysis. Miller co-edited a collection of essays on religious giving titled Financing American Religion.
Contact: smiller@AuburnSeminary.org, 212-662-4315.
Jonathan D. Sarna
Jonathan D. Sarna is professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is co-author of Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience and author of American Judaism: A History, which won the Jewish Book Council's Jewish Book of the Year Award in 2004.
He can talk about Jewish attitudes and practices on religious donations and charity.
Contact: sarna@brandeis.edu, 781-736-2977.
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Ron Sider is founder and president of Evangelicals for Social Action, which promotes Christian engagement, analysis and understanding of major social, cultural and public policy issues. He is also Distinguished Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary in St. Davids, Pa. He is the author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger and Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America.
Contact: esa@eastern.edu, 484-384-2988.
Mark A. Chaves
Mark A. Chaves is professor of sociology at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He is an expert on religious organizations in the United States and leads the National Congregations Study.
Contact: mac58@soc.duke.edu, 919-660-5783.
James Hudnut-Beumler
James Hudnut-Beumler is a professor of American religious history at the divinity school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He co-edited the book The Future of Mainline Protestantism. He directed the Material History of American Religion Project, which focused on material objects and economic themes. He is an expert on the church, ethics, philanthropy and general money issues.
Steven Jacobs
Steven Jacobs is a professor of religious studies and holds the Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He can comment on altruism as a scholar of modern Jewish thought and from a post-Holocaust perspective.
Contact: sjacobs@bama.ua.edu, 205-348-0473.
Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He has researched economic issues involving Islam, and his books include Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Contact: t.kuran@duke.edu, 919-660-1872.
Charles McDaniel
Charles McDaniel is a former businessman and now the associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He wrote God & Money: The Moral Challenge of Capitalism, and he writes and teaches on "the developmental parallels between Muslim economic thought and Christian economic ideas as they evolved over the course of Western history."
Contact: Charles_McDaniel@Baylor.edu, 254-710-4138.
David Schroeder
David Schroeder is a professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock who has explored whether the motivations for helping other are egoistic or altruistic. He co-wrote The Psychology of Helping and Altruism: Problems and Puzzles (McGraw Hill, 1995).
Contact: dave@uark.edu.
Michael David Bonner
Michael David Bonner is a professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has written on money and Islam, including the entry "Wealth" in the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an.
Contact: mbonner@umich.edu, 734-647-0093.
Roger J. Nemeth
Roger J. Nemeth is a sociology professor at Hope College in Holland, Mich. He has written about finances and congregations, including an essay, "The Religious Basis of Charitable Giving in America: A Social Capital Perspective" for the volume Religion, Social Capital and Democratic Life.
Contact: nemeth@hope.edu, 616-395-7964.
Craig Blomberg
Craig Blomberg is a distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado and author of Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions, a study of prosperity theology.
Contact: craig.blomberg@denverseminary.edu.
Alicia McNary Forsey
Alicia McNary Forsey is a research professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif. She authored an essay, "Attitudes About Money in Theological Schools."
Contact: cyoung@sksm.edu, 510-845-6232.
Gregory Schopen
Gregory Schopen is a professor of South Asian Buddhism in the department of Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written on the role of money in Buddhism, especially in India.
Contact: schopen@humnet.ucla.edu, 310-794-4411.
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Хосе Альфонсо Бельосо-и-Санчес (, 30 октября 1873 года, Сан-Сальвадор, Сальвадор — 9 августа 1938 года, там же) — католический прелат, второй архиепископ Сан-Сальвадора с 22 декабря 1927 года по 9 августа 1938 года.

Биография
18 декабря 1897 года был рукоположён в священники для служения в архиепархии Сан-Сальвадора.

18 декабря 1919 года был назначен Римским папой Бенедиктом XV вспомогательным епископом архиепархии Сан-Сальвадора и титулярным епископом Созусы Палестинской. 30 мая 1920 года был рукоположён в епископы ординарием епархии Санта-Роса-де-Копана Клаудио Марией Волио-и-Хименесом в сослужении с епископом Санта-Аны Сантьяго Рикардо Виланова-и-Мелендесом.

22 декабря 1927 года римский папа Пий XI назначил его архиепископом Сан-Сальвадора.

Скончался 9 августа 1938 года в Сан-Сальвадоре.

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I read an article on CNN today about five peoples' experience in this special needs world. Although Gracie is different than all those other kids, there were things in each person's interview that resonated with me. One of the things that clicked with me most, though, was the person who talked about the stress that having a special needs kid placed on his marriage.
Chad and I love each other very much, but we have had some very rocky moments. Truth be told, we would have had rocky moments regardless of whether we had a special needs kid, but there is extra stress that comes with the financial worries, school worries, worries about our child's future, and the worrisome fear that our child won't have a future. It's extra hard because we are going through this together – when our little sweet daughter is in the hospital with a scary life-threatening infection, we are both devastated, and neither of us wants to burden the other by unloading all our fears and woes. When I look at Chad during these dark times and see my own sadness etched in his face, I can't confess my fears to him. He is my best friend, but I can't bring my bestie down.
And then, there are the fights about inequities in the marriage. I am the one who goes to all the doctors' appointments; I am the one who can speak the medical language and I am the one who can answer all the medical questions, so I am the one who needs to go (and wants to, too). I take time out of my workday to trundle to all the medical appointments, many of which are very stressful and scary, and then need to make up the work time late at night. It takes a toll. The chronic sleep-deprivation, the constant feeling of being behind at work, and then the stress of whatever happened at the doctor's – it is hard. Add to that the regular household work befitting a wife and mother, and it is not long before the inequality becomes frustrating. I often feel like singing "Under the Bridge" – or at least the first line.
This post may make it seem like my marriage is troubled. That is not completely true. Chad and I love each other so much. He and I were meant to be together – what God has joined together, may no man rend asunder. We have weathered so many storms, and we grow closer with each one. We are on this journey together – even if, sometimes, we are walking down opposite sides of the street. We are rock solid, even on the rocky roads. He is my rock.
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World War Z (2013), based on the best-selling novel by Max Brooks (yes, he's the son of Mel), takes a global perspective on the zombie horror genre.
Where most films take the microcosm approach, with the zombies as handy metaphors for whatever strikes the fancy of the filmmaker, this film straddles the entire world as Brad Pitt, playing a former war crimes investigator, is drafted by the U.N. to search for the source of the virus burning through the civilized world.
That alone sets the film apart from most zombie movies, which are almost exclusively about survival, which frankly is a losing battle when the world is quite literally overrun with undead eating machines infecting everyone they bite. This is about staunching the spread of the plague, searching for a cure, and saving not just a few hardy survivor but the entire human race. It's also about the moments of generosity and kindness and sacrifice in a time of fear and chaos, an essentially hopeful portrait of humanity in a hopeless situation.
The screenplay preserves the episodic structure of the book (which reads like a fictional history of the coming plague) while adding the action thriller / mission odyssey storyline to create a narrative backbone. Pitt was a producer on the film and brought on director Marc Forster, a director with less than stellar action credentials (he fumbled the Bond franchise with Quantum of Solace) but has proven himself sensitive to intimate drama and emotional turmoil (Monster's Ball). Forster proves adept at choreographing the chaos of a world overrun by the hive behavior of zombie masses and creating a cinematic order to the presentation, and along the way he contributes a few stunning images that capture the unreal horror of the situation with startling immediacy.
What could have been an awkward mix (and pre-release articles were predicting disaster due to last-minute reshoots and an entirely re-conceptualized third act) is in fact quite effective in putting the focus on the human equation of the horror. It turns out that Pitt is a pretty savvy producer in his own right. He helped bring the film back to Earth.
A number of talented screenwriters contributed to the screenplay over its long development (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof, and J. Michael Straczynski) and the supporting cast includes Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Peter Capaldi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ruth Negga, and Moritz Bleibtreu.
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'The 6th Day' – Arnold Schwarzenegger faces himself on Hulu
Leaving soon: 'The World's End' – pub crawling to the end of the world on HBO Max
'Warm Bodies' – young zombies in love on Hulu and Peacock
Leaving soon: 'Fast & Furious 6' on HBO Max
'Side Effects' – Steven Soderbergh's pharmaceutical noir on Netflix


Do you remember that dark time before gifs? When we were handcuffed from sending messages to one another without a looping 2-second clip of a celebrity being accidentally profound? We don't want to go back to that place again, do we. Thankfully, we can now add this wonderful imagery to help our Google Slides have even more punch than before. here's a gif to show you how to add the gif to Slides.
I'm the type of person that likes to keep my hard drive and file system as tidy and free of junk as possible. What I've learned, however, is that it's difficult to randomly delete files in macOS. That's why Clean My Mac is one of my favourite desktop apps. On a monthly basis, I probably clean up around 15 to 20 GBs of data off my device. The other day, using the app, I went from almost 400GB of data to around 150GB. This app is a must for power users.
If you're an Apple product user who also deems Gmail essential, then you've probably faced the frustration of having your contacts in one place and not the other. You can get this essential app for either macOS or iOS. Never worry about the dreaded "who this?" problem again when you change devices. They're sure to be backed up in iCloud, Google, or both.
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I spend much of my summers reading and reflecting on the prior year (as many of you do, I bet), but my reflection readiness always comes to a halt around the time of faculty meetings. Bulletin boards, posters on wall, lesson plans, syllabi, curriculum, meetings, gradebooks, LMS pages, AND IT MUST BE DONE RIGHT NOW! If you're in this headspace right now I encourage you to take a step back.
Gradebooks and LMS Pages: Follow your syllabus grading guidelines to set up your gradebooks or other forms of summative assessment communication at your school. Also, if you use a Learning Management System such as Canvas or Schoology, what's the minimum amount of material you could add so that students have some point of reference without you spending hours curating something students may not use? I want my LMS pages to be tricked out, but is this something that can wait for me until I wrap my head around everything else? Yes.
First Week of Lessons: What's your communicative task? How are you getting to know your students and build community? When I plan week to week I can easily adjust to the interest level and topic of my students. Planning far ahead gives me the illusion of preparedness, but doesn't help meet the goal of novelty and personalization of class.
Classroom Setup: A well-decorated classroom can send students a strong message about how much you care for them before you even say hello. But, what are the absolute essentials you need for the first week? Since I teach Novice-Intermediate learners that means numbers, colors, structures for our first couple of classes, seating arrangement, and books/readers displayed for students. I got an early start this year, so I'll add to my list this year a few covered bulletin boards (blank slates), perhaps some cute frivolity like hanging lanterns, and labeling of class objects in French. The rest can wait.
Help Colleagues: Does someone need help hanging something? Picking up copies? Laminating? By taking the burden of perfectionism and overachieving in this pared-down take to a new year, I have time to build community and help others. We are each other's keeper.
In years prior I've worked myself to sickness in preparation for the school year by prioritizing lists of things to do with false deadlines I've created that have very little impact on those first few weeks with students. Since I've finally started considering my health, time, and energy a finite resource, I've got to be wise on how I allocate it. And with that, I wish you the most peaceful, centering, and prioritized school year ever :).
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Hemp oil and CBD oil are two popular natural oils in the botanical world you have probably come across. While these two oils are similar in some ways, they are different products that are consumed and used for different reasons. In this article, we're going to explore cannabidiol oil and hemp extract, including where these two oils come from and there uses.
Hemp oil is made from hemp seeds of an industrial hemp plant, a form of cannabis sativa commonly grown for industrial purposes. This natural oil is regulated in its production and tested to ensure it is free from cannabidiol and tetrahydrocannabinol. It's non-psychoactive because it does not contain intoxicating ingredients found in cannabis.
Hemp extract from most hemp stores can be added in food due to its high level of vitamins such as vitamins E, vitamins B, vitamins B1, and vitamins B2, and essential nutrients such as omega-3 and omega- 6 and antioxidants. The oil also contains minerals like magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, phosphorus, and calcium.
The extract is also used in lotions, soaps, shampoos, body creams and other cosmetic or beauty products. It is used in these products thanks to its vitamins and omegas, natural moisturizing effects and anti-aging properties.
It can also be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of bio-diesel fuel, lubrications, dressings, paint, plastics, and other industrial products.
Cannabidiol oil, commonly referred to as CBD oil, is extracted from stalks, leaves, buds, and flowers of the hemp plant. It has a significant amount of cannabidiol. CBD oil has become extremely popular in the medical industry as it can be used for the treatment of various medical conditions.
Athletes, such as footballers and basketball players, use cannabidiol products to manage pain and inflammation. This natural oil has also become popular lately because of its effectiveness in the treatment of muscle spasms.
CBD oil has also been approved by the FDA for the treatment of epilepsy, sleep issues, depression, IBS, Crohn's disease, and other bowel issues.
Cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy can use CBD oil to increase their appetite or to reduce nausea.
It contains potent antioxidant properties, which have been found useful in promoting bone health and supporting blood sugar control.
As you may have already discovered, the main differences between hemp extract and CBD oil include where they come from, their cannabinoid content and their uses. CBD oil is used primarily as a health solution for alleviating symptoms of most ailments, while hemp extract is used as a nutritious dietary supplement. Hemp products contain a lower concentration of intoxicating ingredients of cannabis than CBD products.
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Headquartered in Kennesaw, GA, Ryla provides call center services and other customer care solutions for large- and medium-sized corporate customers. Service is delivered by a highly motivated workforce, which is trained to focus on courtesy and empathy when interacting with customers. The agents' friendly attitude is ideal for clients that strive to differentiate themselves through superior customer interactions.
In 2002, SJF Ventures provided the first institutional investment in Ryla and followed on with additional equity infusions in subsequent years. When looking at the investment opportunity, SJF was struck by a large market, respectable customer traction, innovative workforce policies, and management's strong sales and marketing skills.
While serving on the board of Ryla, SJF acted as a sounding board and trusted advisor, which proved to be especially helpful in the company's early days. SJF helped to refine workforce strategies, especially by helping to implement a broad-based stock option plan that generated strong financial results for some long-time employees in 2010. SJF assisted in management and board recruitment and helped to orchestrate additional growth capital from Frontier Capital and CDVCA. SJF also assisted in arranging lines of credit and public relations connections.
In April 2010, Ryla received a large investment from California-based Alorica, Inc. The extra capital will help Ryla continue to grow and serve its customers with industry-leading customer interactions. Ryla will remain a stand-alone entity and continue to be managed by Mark Wilson. Ryla and Alorica together represent over 10,000 customer care employees located throughout the United States. Both companies are certified minority business enterprises. As part of the transaction, SJF Ventures and all other investors realized exits on their investments.
Led by Mark Wilson, a talented African American CEO who serves as an inspiration to many, Ryla has improved the lives of thousands of individuals. Ryla's commitment to provide employees with the best job they have ever had translates into a work environment that is uplifting and inspirational. Furthermore, Ryla has provided numerous concrete improvements for many entry-level workers. They receive significant training and benefit from promote-from-within policies. Employees are eligible for health coverage after their first 90 days of work, and some long-time employees who started at entry level received stock options that created meaningful value during the recent transaction.


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St. Anthony Catholic School is a historic school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is located at 820 Northeast 3rd Street. Saint Anthony Catholic School is the parochial Catholic school of  St. Anthony Catholic Church in Broward County. On September 26, 1997, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The school building was built in 1926 by John Olsson. The architect was Francis Abreu.

Notable alumni

Athletics
Chris Evert, former professional tennis player, member of International Tennis Hall of Fame
Jeanne Evert, former professional tennis player
Sarah Lihan, Olympian who placed 9th in women's sailing 470 at 2012 Summer Olympics
Brian Piccolo, former professional football player, inspiration for film Brian's Song
Mike Stanley, former professional baseball player and 1995 American League All-Star

Arts, entertainment, and civil service
Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer and former president of Mystery Writers of America
Charles Liteky, former Army chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient
William J. Zloch, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida

References

External links

 Broward County listings at National Register of Historic Places

Catholic schools in Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Broward County, Florida
Schools in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Private elementary schools in Florida
Private middle schools in Florida
K–8 schools in Florida
Private schools in Broward County, Florida
1926 establishments in Florida


Melbourne can seem overwhelming during the day, but after dark the crowds thin and shop fronts become illuminated to draw focus on subjects you would normally walk straight past.
Sometimes you need a hand. Most people have two of them. If you had four things would be twice as easy right? I mean it's simple mathematics. Wrong. If you had four hands you would be labeled a freak and would have to live in a sewer somewhere with pizza loving turtles. So sometimes it's nice to help people out so their life is easier and they don't feel like freaks. Remember this commercial?


TEXAS ARTS ALLIANCE. The Texas Arts Alliance, a private nonprofit arts advocacy organization, was founded in 1976 and ceased to exist in 1987. The organization developed from a group called Concerned Citizens for the Arts. The members set as their first priority raising the rank of Texas from fiftieth of the states in per capita state funding for the arts. To stimulate public and private funding of the arts, they determined to develop a broad-based, well-informed arts constituency in the state; to publicize the quality and diversity of the arts in Texas; and to cooperate with other Texas arts organizations to meet mutual goals. Prominent Texans involved with the organization from an early date included Jane Sandlin, Steven C. Oaks, John Ben Shepperd, Nancy Brown Negley, Charles Scarborough, and Lou Ann Temple. The Texas Arts Alliance was governed by a board of forty-five directors who met four times a year. They were assisted by the board of governors, a much larger advisory group. Both boards were statewide, with members elected to three-year terms on a rotating basis. The alliance was funded by memberships, corporate and foundation grants, and earnings from programs, and was independent of all government agencies. In January 1978 the alliance hired Susan Morehead to direct the organization. Under her leadership the Texas Arts Alliance developed a membership that included about 1,000 individuals; city arts organizations; corporations; and the state's major museums, symphonies, and theaters. Staff size fluctuated from one to five persons throughout the eleven years of activity of the organization.
The Texas Arts Alliance developed a number of services that were successful in stimulating increased funding for the arts. Organized for the first time in 1979 was Arts Day, a biennial grassroots lobbying effort in which artists and arts enthusiasts from across the state met at the Capitol for a briefing, followed by meetings and lunches with legislators. In that year a 150 percent increase was passed for the two-year budget for the Texas Commission on the Arts. By 1987 more than 500 people from thirty-five cities across the state were traveling to Austin to participate in Arts Day. To focus public attention on arts activity in the state, the Texas Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts cosponsored a biennial Texas Arts Showcase, scheduled to coincide with the legislative session, during which Texas Arts awards were bestowed upon outstanding businesses, organizations, schools, communities, and individuals who had supported or advanced the arts in Texas. To further educate the state's arts constituency, the alliance published a newsletter (the schedule of which varied through the years) and legislative updates that were sent to members during legislative sessions. The Texas Arts Alliance also formed informal coalitions with other arts groups to support legislation such as the Sixty-eighth Legislature's House Bill 72, a school reform act that included art education in the state's core curriculum (it became law in 1984).
In 1986 the Texas Arts Alliance strengthened grassroots arts advocacy by launching an arts district program, in which thirty-one arts districts corresponding to senate districts could inform constituents on public arts funding issues. However, this and other programs sponsored by the Texas Arts Alliance were undermined by the economic slump in Texas from the middle to late 1980s. The organization ceased to exist after July 15, 1987. The Texas Arts Alliance subsequently sold its membership list to the Texas Arts Council, which promised to continue the work of the alliance. Arts supporters formed two lobbying groups, a political action committee called Pro-Arts, Incorporated, and a lobbying group, the Texas Association for the Promotion of the Arts; these groups have continued the fight for public support of the arts.
Austin Files, Austin History Center. Marilyn Good, "The Battle of the Arts Budget," Austin Arts and Leisure, August 1979. Texas Commission on the Arts, Record Group 183, Texas State Archives, Austin.
Handbook of Texas Online, Kendall Curlee, "TEXAS ARTS ALLIANCE," accessed April 18, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kit03.


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West End Eco-Fishing Camp Association (WEEFCA)
West End Eco-Fishing Camp Association (WEEFCA) is a youth oriented community based organization dedicated to the promotion of sustainable use and conservation best practices of marine and coastal resources in West Grand Bahama Island. The WEEFCA program started in 2009 and continues today with specific programs geared toward eco-tourism and pathways to careers as eco-guides, and is the logical step of our next phase of training and education on sustainable jobs for the young residents within the community.
WEEFCA is optimistic that through our various programs, activities and the continued support and involvement of the community, we will succeed in implementing a number of green initiatives in the weeks and months ahead.
WEEFCA has made great strides towards becoming a prominent conservation organization in West Grand Bahama Island and a key supporter in the conservation field, at a time when many threats face the environment.
Through the generous support of businesses and individuals throughout the island, we have offered a curriculum of marine life, swimming, boating, fishing, and environmental conservation. Our educational programs were taught to more than 230 children that have graduated from the camp to date.
In 2013, WEEFCA was selected by the Bahamas Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture as the leading organization on Grand Bahama Island. We have been successful in implementing hands-on learning in the areas of plant and fish identification, swimming and hand-line fishing lessons, solar and wind power, sailing, field trips to national parks, and partnering with community improvement projects along the coastal shoreline with the construction of four ecology focused mini-sea parks.
How to Support
Your donations to support the educational programs will benefit our youth Eco-experience and provide fishing and Eco-guide training programs for youths 8-18 years of age.
For more information contact Keith and Linda Cooper - weefca@gmail.com or call (561) 370-7583 (U.S.) or (242) 602-0641 (Bahamas).
Mr. Keith Cooper
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#5 Bayshore Road, P.O. Box F-44585, West End, WG
Mrs. Linda Cooper
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We Need Your Immediate Help to Close an Extraordinary Budget Gap!
For many years, an anonymous donor has provided very generous support to the Council for Secular Humanism, an affiliate of the Center for Inquiry (CFI). In recent years, this donor has given $800,000 annually. This sum is equivalent to about 25% of the annual combined public support for CFI and its two operating affiliates, Council and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI).
It appears this donor will not be providing any gift this year. No information has been forthcoming from the donor concerning the donor's intent, and repeated efforts to contact the donor have elicited no response.
In recent years, this major donation has been received within the first few months of the year. Through the first four months of this year, the deficit for our combined operations has been over $300,000, so the absence of the donation is already being felt. Moreover, without the donation, we are on pace to have a deficit in excess of $900,000. We cannot possibly maintain operations with a deficit of this magnitude.
Given the significance of this donation, and the silence of the donor, CFI and its affiliates have had no choice but to undertake immediate drastic reductions in expenditures. It has been extremely difficult to do so because last year we made a concerted, successful effort to streamline our operations and make them more efficient. In fact, we reduced costs by over $600,000, without materially affecting our work, with the exception of the suspension of The Jesus Project.
Now we are forced to cut down to the bone. We are making very painful decisions — we are laying off several employees, and, although programs will continue, we are moving out of our offices in Tampa and Washington, D.C. We are reluctant to take these measures, but as indicated, we have no choice.
We are trying to take as conservative an approach to this crisis as possible. Our cost-saving measures will save us only about $120,000 in 2010 and about $330,000 in 2011. We are reluctant to slash more because of the adverse impact further reductions would have both on our programs and our staff.
But this means that if we are to sustain our operations and avoid further reductions, we need our supporters to rally behind us. Given the extraordinary situation, we need an extraordinary outpouring of support.
Religious dogma and pseudoscience are not going away. Today, more than ever, there is a need to defend science, secularism, and humanist values. Together, CFI, CSI, and the Council do more to advance humanism and science than any other organization.
And together, the supporters of CFI, CSI, and the Council can ensure that this important work continues.
as generously as you can—today.
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I ain't switch up I just leveled up 🔥 I just want to thank the man up stairs for blessing me so much this year! 🙏🏾🙌🏾 #blessed it's all about being consistent , I made a lot of sacrifices this year to get to the next level !! And now that I'm here it's only the beginning of my million dollar journey ! Will make my first million in my New Penthouse condo ! Would also like to thank all my non-supporters and haters and everyone that turned they back on me when I was fucked up !!! I'm up now all the way up !! Time to hurt some feelings cause I'm just getting started !
Hafid! Graduating student Hafid Abdelmoula has presented his narrative feature thesis film, BROKEN GAIETE, and wow, just wow! What a layered crazy ride with luscious visual texture and symbolism—a monumental accomplishment! *** A Man and a Woman pass through a village that lives by a strange set of rules. How they survive depends on the decisions they make.
Vermont may be one of the smallest U.S. States but it is certainly big on variety. Where else can you climb a mountain, mourn the loss of past ice cream flavours, and visit one of the least populated capitol cities? Bet you didn't even know you wanted to do that last one! 10/10 would Vermont again. #vermont #mountmansfield #montpelier #benandjerrys P.S.- I shot a good chunk of this trip with film so more to come later.
A battle cry! Graduating student John Valadez's thesis doc film, AMERICAN EXILE, is a beautiful story that will—no doubt—be a catalyst for political change in the near future. While politically charged, the film is also a moving and quietly heroic testament to our base desire to belong. *** As teenagers in the 1960s, brothers Valente and Manuel Valenzuela volunteered and fought in Vietnam. Now fifty years later, they are being deported to Mexico; a country they have not been to since childhood. The brothers were shocked to discover they are not alone, across the country there are thousands of honorably discharged US Military veterans who also share their fate. Outraged, they decide to don their uniforms for one last fight, a battle to stop the deportation of military veterans that will go all the way to the White House.
"There is a person inside every one of those boxes. Everybody in here has a family that wonders what happened to them." *** Graduating student Jeff Bemiss's powerful and heartbreaking documentary MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY (co-directed by Lisa Molomot) tells the story of two families searching for loved ones who went missing in Brooks County TX (70 mi north of the US/Mexico border), where some 300-600 migrants die annually from dehydration and exposure while attempting to circumvent an immigration checkpoint. MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY is a portrait of a struggling American town, caught in the middle of a shameful death-as-deterrence border policy that has become a proxy version of the national immigration debate. *** While a truly devastating story of love, loss, and injustice, we are so thankful these stories are being told. Congrats Jeff! This film is full of compassion, lyricism, and beauty, and will surely have a big impact on all who see it!
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