A home renovation is an exciting prospect, but it can also be an intimidating one. If you're considering remodeling your home, you're not alone. From 2013 to 2018, remodeling in the U.S. industry has grown by 6.4%, and reached revenue of $99 billion in 2018. However, even with the rapid growth of remodeling projects, there are plenty of stresses that go into this endeavor.
If this is your first go-around with a remodel, there are several questions you should ask before jumping in. Consider your answers to the following queries before construction gets underway.
Can You Really Handle Renovations Yourself?
Are you planning on DIY-ing your home renovations? You may want to take a step back and really consider what that might mean. While HGTV shows make a home renovation project seem fun and easy (and quick to complete), the reality is you'll run into an array of obstacles you didn't expect once demolition starts. Unless you have a background in home renovation, you'll likely want to enlist the help of a skilled contractor who specializes in your desired projects. This is your home after all, and the right renovations could make your family more comfortable and secure, and may provide better resale value in the future.
How Will You Pay For Renovations?
Home remodeling is anything but cheap. Even if your desired projects fit into your budget at the beginning, change orders can wreak havoc on your expenses. Do you have your finances in place? In an ideal world, you'd have all the money you need in-hand; for most of us, that's not the case. You may need to consider home improvement financing solutions that allow you to borrow funds in order to complete your desired renovations. If that's the case, shop around and determine your options.
Okay, this question sounds dramatic, but it's one worth asking if your planned renovations involve the kitchen. If your stove, oven, microwave, and sink are all out of commission, how will you prepare meals? Eating out at restaurants will be fun for the first day or two, but soon grow frustrating (and budget-busting). Note: if you do end up eating out a lot, make sure you're scouring the internet for deals – sites like Get 1 Free can help you save a lot more on restaurant fare.
Consider creating a makeshift kitchen in a separate area of the house that you can use to whip up easy meals. Don't have an eating area while renovations are underway? If it's warm enough, head outside for a picnic with the family.
If You Have to Leave Your Home, Where Will You Stay?
If you're planning on significant renovations that will make your home unlivable for an extended period of time, you may need to consider staying somewhere else. Hotel room expenses quickly add up, and staying with family and friends can cause tension – especially if the timeline on your renovations are extended. If your renovations are going to take more than a month, you'll likely want to consider renting a place to stay. You can also rent an RV or buy a used one to keep on site. When renovations are over, you can then sell the trailer.
Are You Prepared for the Upheaval?
No matter which way you shake it, a home remodel is bound to disrupt your life. When you're planning your timeline, make sure no big life events are going to occur during the renovations – that could mean weddings, the arrival of a new baby, or a retirement party. A home remodeling project can be a great source of stress, so keep that in mind before penciling in your dates and hiring a contractor.
Creating the home of your dreams is a worthy endeavor, but it can be costly in terms of money, time, and stress. Make sure you know the realities of a remodel before jumping in, and keep the above considerations in mind prior to hiring a contractor.
With that said, don't let these warnings prevent you from creating the house of your dreams! With the right attitude, team, and a whole lot of patience, your renovation may prove to be an easy breezy process, but it's important to have all your ducks in a row before you begin.
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Broadcast journalist Scott Wykoff '85 traces the start of his 30-year career to his first day on campus.
"I think the first thing I did after my parents dropped me off was to find out how I could get on the air at WRUC," said Wykoff. "I grew up with a passion for radio and it was so cool that my college had a station where I could walk in as a first-year."
A few weeks later, he was part of the play-by-play team for Union hockey, a good start for a career that would include a stint as an announcer in the American Hockey League. Next, it was on to writing for Concordiensis, and by his junior year he had a sports column.
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Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber on the Music of His Life
As he moves on from the company he began, the 42-year-old takes a look back at the songs and albums that have meant the most to him, five years at a time.
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If there's one thing that has stayed strikingly constant about Ryan Schreiber over the years—from when he founded Pitchfork in the 1990s in Minnesota through to its massive reach today—it's his appetite and advocacy for new music. He's still a romantic about the underground—passionately insistent that if people are doing what they love in earnest and without restriction, the end result will be worth hearing. It's the spirit that Pitchfork was built upon and an essential reason it still thrives today.
Even as we chat ahead of his final day, Schreiber's lifelong eagerness to talk about music discovery is clear. Here, he revisits the moments he found his all-time favorite records with the same bright-eyed enthusiasm as when he first heard them.
The Mamas & the Papas: "Dedicated to the One I Love"
I grew up in the western suburbs of Minneapolis and had this great love for music from the time that I was very, very little. My mom said she could get me to stop crying by playing music. I would just sit in front of the record player with their limited selection of records and I was fascinated by them. My parents didn't really have much of an interest in the arts in general but they definitely recognized that I was into music and did a really good job of fostering that. They started to buy me all these two dollar records from the cut-out bin of discount stores. They'd come home with stacks of records for me, and I would just get super excited.
A lot of those things were compilations from the '50s and '60s. The first song I can remember totally falling in love with was "Dedicated to the One I Love," by the Mamas & the Papas. It's like a lullaby. It has a maternal sound to it. It does all these unexpected things but it's also very sweet and has just an unbelievably beautiful melodic hook.
My godmother would also bring me more modern stuff like "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow, or Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," or even Stevie Nicks. My aunt used to buy me Elvis records for my birthday because she loved Elvis and she thought I should love Elvis.
I used to listen to the stereo in the living room with these heavy headphones because the TV was always on behind me. I remember that, when I was 3 or 4, I asked for a record player for my bedroom. Which is so weird! The reality of my childhood was that I always connected with music more than [I connected with] people.
A 4-year-old Ryan Schreiber in 1980.
Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain
Every week I would go buy records with my allowance money. It was two or three dollars, so I could buy a single and then occasionally beg my parents to buy me an album. I used to sit in my room with my cassettes and records, and go back and forth and pretend like I was DJing a radio station with the songs blending into each other. I definitely lived in my own world.
Having grown up in Minnesota in the '80s, Prince was everything. It was so weird to have a figure like that; who is such an alien, who wasn't like anybody I ever met or came into contact with, but whose presence was deeply felt in the culture. I bought Purple Rain when I was 8. I heard "When Doves Cry" on the radio and I bought that single; I was listening to that and "17 Days" obsessively. If there was one song on that record that I was totally floored by it was "The Beautiful Ones," because it's so angelic and sweet and it's got unpredictable chord changes and this strange structure, and at the end he's just breaking down, screaming! It's so cathartic and passionate.
To have that music come out of where I lived, it felt like anything was possible. I was very much on the fringe of the social totem at school. Prince's disregard for societal norms was a pretty big inspiration. Nobody could ever aspire to be Prince, but you could take from him that, wow, you can really do your own thing, even in an environment like suburban Minnesota, which is fairly conservative socially. I don't know if there's been anyone for me, at least in music, who is as singularly talented. Prince is my all-time. He's my absolute.
Schreiber in 1983, at age 7.
The Jesus and Mary Chain: "Head On"
I didn't really start to find like-minded kids until I was a teenager, but there was a series of mixtapes that my friends' older brothers and sisters would make for me and my friend Jim. One of them was a college radio DJ who made us this tape of industrial music. It was all Wax Trax! bands, like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and KMFDM, Foetus. That was revelatory.
Right before the commercial alternative radio boom, I also realized that Minneapolis had a radio station called KJ104. Once Nirvana happened, those types of stations were everywhere. But this was prior to that time, and they were playing the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine and Nick Cave alongside the big stuff like R.E.M. and U2. From listening to that station, I saw how you could take this thing that was deeply subcultural and make it feel more accessible. They played "Head On," by the Jesus and Mary Chain, and that was a huge song for me at 15. It was a world-changing anthem. I was just blasting it around on my bike and in the hallways at school.
Yo La Tengo: Painful
By 1996, I was frustrated by commercial alternative radio. As the primary conduits for new music for most people, I felt that they were not being ideal stewards of underground culture. Or at least of independent music, because independent music had spawned that entire movement. KJ104 had switched to a country format, so I was without any good radio or any good way to discover alternative music. So I started buying zines. I was picking up Puncture and Magnet and Ray Gun pretty regularly. That's why Pitchfork, as a name, sort of falls in line with that. To me, it also underscored that we were going to be tougher as critics.
At first, Pitchfork was monthly. It was first called Turntable, but there was a CD-ROM company called Turntable, and they sent me a cease and desist, which scared the fucking shit out of me. So I was like, "Oh shit, I better like change the name!"
Yo La Tengo's Painful was really big for me around then, because I was trying to present this music in an accessible way, while also valuing what makes it edgier and more experimental. Yo La Tengo represented all of those things: They could be noisy, they could be dreamy and romantic. Their dissonant but human style of music really carried the true spirit of what this music could be and what it could mean. It's a record that really represented a lot of what I wanted Pitchfork to be about, the kind of record that is emblematic of the idea that needs a bigger voice.
Schreiber in 2002, at 26.
Radiohead: Kid A
I had managed to get myself on the mailing list for, like, every record label in existence. That was a big part of my motivation early on. Once I found out that they could send me free music I was like, "Game over, this is what I'm doing." It was pre-file trading, pre-anything. I had so much music that I'd send out a list to writers, and I was like, "I'll get you these CDs in exchange for you writing about them," because CDs still carried value. Mark Richardson was one of the first people who responded to that. Amanda Petrusich, too.
It was really fun because it was about trying to be as adventurous and off-the-wall as we could be. We wanted to go against the grain of what I considered to be "professional" music journalism at that time. I knew that I wasn't a writer, per se. I didn't have a lot of experience but I did have a lot of opinions. I was inspired by the kind of reviews in zines where it would be partly about the music and partly about what you had for breakfast. Then I started to get submissions from actually talented writers and I'd get to the end of the review and be like, "That's really good writing, damn!" But at the same time, I wanted to stand apart from that world, so the writing definitely reflected that.
I'm going to be obvious and say Kid A was the album of this time. "Everything in Its Right Place": That's the song. That opening salvo is fucking amazing, it's like the whole mission statement of the record. It's really hard to understate how futuristic and next-level that record was, and that a band of Radiohead's stature would be willing to take such a massive commercial risk. Also, coming into a new millenium, it really shrugged off any sort of spectre of '90s alt rock. It was like: This is where music's going. And, you know, Pitchfork's love for Radiohead is… clear. It has almost become a running joke. Our review was so over-the-top. That dwarfed our traffic from anything we previously ran, with something like 5,000 readers in a day. That had been a goal of mine for a while, to get to 5,000 readers in a day.
Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury
What started happening in the pop charts at the turn of the millennium was surreal. You had the Neptunes and Just Blaze and Kanye West and Timbaland all trying to out-weird each other, like, "Who can make the craziest, most bonkers-sounding track and have a hit record with it?"
By 2006 we were at the tail end of that insane five year period of Beyoncé and Destiny's Child, even Lil Wayne's earliest records on Cash Money, and "Drop it Like It's Hot." One thing I valued was progressive music, things that really felt like they were pushing the greater narrative forward, whether that was Kid A or Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On." That was a point at which Pitchfork started to embrace a broader world of music.
The Clipse were always on the fringes. They never had massive radio hits other than "Grindin'." They weren't at the center of club culture, because it was the Neptunes at their weirdest. To me, Hell Hath No Fury embodies a lot of what was happening at the time, from a production standpoint. It was a period when we felt we had to listen and take note.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Round and Round"
I moved to New York a few years before I turned 35, and by then I was fully embedded in the scene—it was the peak of NYC DIY culture. It was such a wildly special time for me. [DIY venues] 285 Kent, Death by Audio, Glasslands were all on the same block. There was always a show happening every single night. It was the height of the chillwave era. You had bands like Girls, Real Estate, Toro y Moi, and Small Black bringing in a new sound for a new decade. It's funny, because I feel like chillwave was a blip on the cultural radar, but at the moment it felt like the center of the world.
This is music that evolved from Animal Collective and this sense of nostalgia and '80s breakdowns on an extended remix 12-inch. But it was also very much bedroom music—it sounded relatable, it was very consistent to the sense of community in independent music culture. It didn't even matter if you had the skillset [to make music], it was something that you could just go ahead and do.
At that moment, the song was Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's "Round and Round." It's a song that I've heard so many times, and I always think I'm burned out on it, but then, when I hear it again, it's so beautiful. "Round and Round" was really communal, you'd be walking down the street with your friends and go like, "nah nah nah."
Like any scene, that time was a moment that had a very distinctive beginning and a short, finite end. For a while, it did feel like the iconic scenes of New York that have happened throughout history. Nobody out of that scene went on to be an Iggy Pop, but it did feel like it was a product of the internet and a product of Brooklyn.
Frank Ocean: Blonde
A lot of people reach my age and tune out and settle back into the comfortable music of their youth. But I'm still fascinated by how music evolves and value what's progressive and what feels extraordinary. When Frank Ocean's Blonde came out, it was so wild how it crept up and became more universal than Channel Orange. When I first heard it, I definitely did not think that was going to be the case.
One is like a storytelling fantasy world with pyramids and character sketches, and the other is not a pop album and is really stripped down and intimate and very personal. To me, they are both really iconic records and they're both so transcendent. He has, bar none, the single greatest voice in pop music that I've heard this decade. It's a pure, amazing, crystalline, emotional, gut wrenching voice.
I'm always going to be this person who is super deeply engaged with what is happening with music and where it is going and how to fit into that. Doing the What's Good playlist every week, I've found more music that I felt was was worth sharing than I ever have before. I had more than 1,000 songs on that playlist by the end of the year and they're all good! That's exciting.


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FBI Director James Comey testifies under oath before the House Oversight Committee to explain his agency's recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential candidate, over her private ... FBI Director James Comey testifies under oath before the House Oversight Committee to explain his agency's recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential candidate, over her private email setup during her time as secretary of state, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
By Josh Marshall
October 30, 2016 8:33 p.m.
James Comey's decision to send his letter to Capitol Hill seemed like a bad one from the start. But it did not seem as egregious at first as it does now because many assumed he faced a tough balancing act between informing Congress of significant new evidence and following longstanding DOJ/FBI guidelines about avoiding potential election interference. Even faced with that dilemma, he could have provided more information than a terse letter certain to drive wild speculation. But everything we've learned over the last 48 hours-plus suggests Comey had no basis to believe there was significant new evidence, indeed no clear reason to think there was anything new at all. At best, Comey combined extremely poor judgment with a decision to place a near-absolute priority on protecting himself from criticism over carrying out his professional and ethical obligations.
It is quite telling that even at this late stage in the election, when partisan tempers are naturally running at their fiercest, former career DOJ lawyers, former high level DOJ appointees and legal experts on both sides of the aisle are lining up to say this was an extremely poor decision and may even have violated the law. (Note here: President George W. Bush's top ethics lawyer suggests Comey may even have broken the law. Another example here.) As far as I can see, no one who actually understands Comey's legal, professional and ethical responsibilities can find a basis to defend his actions. Even Republicans who might be inclined to interpret ambiguous facts through a partisan prism don't seem able to come up with one.
I've said a number of times that I do not believe Comey acted out of a desire to interfere with the outcome of the election. I still believe that. But I'm not sure it matters. What seems inescapable is that Comey has made avoiding criticism from Republicans (and leaks by FBI agents that would generate such criticism) his top — almost his sole priority. That being the case, his intent seems all but irrelevant. It amounts to some professional equivalent of reckless disregard, perhaps with a smattering of largely irrelevant naïveté thrown in.
It is important to return to why these rules about law enforcement and non-interference in elections are in place in the first place. These rules are in place to prevent precisely the kind of situation we are now in: a potentially highly damaging blowup on the eve of an election. Those rules are there to prevent this from happening when nothing has in fact been proven or is even likely to be proven. But that is not even the situation here. In this case, there seems to be no basis at all — just the existence of other emails from Huma Abedin, which may even be duplicates of ones already investigated.
I may not be convinced of malice on Comey's part. But it seems extremely likely — indeed, we all but know it — based on information surfaced over the last forty-eight hours — that he is being played by people who are acting with malice. Or, perhaps more damning, he is unwilling to do the right thing because it could lead to criticism from Republicans. I've said it several times: self-protection seems to be governing his actions.
This is not some abstract concept of 'doing the right thing.' It is doing what he is specifically instructed to do in this case (by longstanding DOJ/FBI guidelines) and and what he should practice in order to avoid recklessly interfering with national elections.
Still more troubling is the information contained in this just-released article in The Wall Street Journal by Devlin Barrett. It describes a feud over the Clinton probe within the FBI, as well as between the FBI and the Department of Justice. It now seems clear that what are essentially rogue FBI agents have been looking for all sorts of different angles to pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton and her family. Indeed, they've presented their evidence to career public corruption prosecutors at DOJ and have been told they don't have anything. But it hasn't stopped. They clearly were not happy with the decision in the emails probe, even though Comey said it was not even a close call.
This seems to be the backstory of what happened on Friday. Agents pushed for more aggressive investigations on various fronts. Comey feared he'd be blamed after the fact for not notifying Congress, and he was specifically afraid that some of these agents would leak news of the (possibly) new Huma Abedin emails to Congress. These are not fun situations to be in, I am sure. But they are ones an FBI Director should — indeed must — be willing to stand up to.
Here's something to look at very closely. Last week we heard this story of how the Bureau's now-second in command, Andrew McCabe, might have been unduly influenced because Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) contributed substantial sums to McCabe's wife's failed state senate campaign. Virginia Democrats were seeking to reclaim control of the Virginia state senate. I won't rehearse the details of that article. But the dates and the logic of the argument simply don't hold up. The author of that article was the WSJ's Devlin Barrett, the same reporter who wrote the article I previously mentioned about agents at war with their superiors at the FBI.
It is quite clear those agents have Barrett's ear. Indeed, it seems extraordinarily likely that that article about McAuliffe's campaign donation was an effort to push the Clinton emails story back into the campaign spotlight, indeed to discredit the decision made in July to close the case.
Harry Reid is now out with extreme criticism of Comey and accusations that the FBI has information about Donald Trump and his connections with Russia. I noted a few weeks ago what is so damaging when people start violating norms and interfering in elections: it starts to seem rational for others to do it as well. I will suffice it to say that there appear to be at least two ongoing investigations into issues related to Donald Trump. Comey has felt no need to proceed with what we might call the extreme transparency he has chosen with the emails probe of Hillary Clinton. Again, he's driven by fear of Republican criticism and leaks by agents trying to strong-arm superiors.
All of this — the initial action and now these reactions — are precisely what these rules are meant to prevent. It might be better to say that they are meant to avoid developments in good faith-investigations being made public in close proximity to elections. What you have here looks more like a worst case scenario: rogue agents trying to rehash closed investigations or launch new probes in time to affect the election, whuch is only days away.
It is no secret that the the rank-and-file members of the FBI lean Republican, and much of the same can be said about law enforcement generally. There's no crime in that. But someone in Comey's position is charged with the pursuance of justice and administration of justice free from partisan motivation and in line with the policies and norms that govern them. He's failed in that completely, even after being warned about the consequences of his actions. His intent, the mix of self-protection or naiveté or even bad motive, if it exists, is basically irrelevant.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) is editor and publisher of TPM.
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Sofer, Sopher, Sofer SeTaM, o Sofer ST"M (ebraico: "scriba", סופר סת״ם) è uno scriba ebreo che può trascrivere i rotoli della Torah, i tefillin e le mezuzot, nonché altre scritture religiose. Il plurale di sofer è "soferim", , il femminile è soferet.

Per definizione semplice, uno sofer è un copista, ma nel suo ruolo religioso nell'Ebraismo, è molto di più. Oltre ai rotoli della Torah, ai Tefillin e alle Mezuzot, gli scribi sono necessari anche per la scrittura di megillot (i rotoli del Cantico dei Cantici, Libro di Rut, Libro di Ester, Ecclesiaste e Libro delle Lamentazioni), dei Nevi'im (i libri dei profeti, utilizzati per la lettura della haftarah), e dei gittin – i documenti di divorzio. Inoltre, molti scribi funzionano da calligrafi - scrivendo documenti funzionali come i contratti di matrimonio (Ketubah), o edizioni ornamentali e artistiche di testi religiosi, che non richiedono nessuna qualifica di scriba, e ai quali non si applicano le norme in materia di scrittura e dei requisiti di pergamena.

La principale legge ebraica (Halakha) in merito allo "Sofrut," la pratica delle arti scribali, si riscontra nel Talmud, Trattato Maseket Sofrim (מסכת סופרים, "Trattato degli Scribi"). Nelle 613 Mitzvot (comandamenti), la 613ª afferma che ogni ebreo deve scrivere una Sefer Torah almeno una volta nella vita ()

Qualifiche e formazione

Il sofer, in quanto tale, deve essere religiosamente osservante, di buon carattere e ben informato sulle leggi in materia di sofrut. È un errore comune pensare che per essere soferim si debba essere rabbini – ciò in realtà non è richiesto dalla legge ebraica (Halakhah).

Le persone che vogliono diventare scribi rituali di solito imparano da un altro scriba esperto, sottostando ad uno shimush (apprendistato), in quanto sarebbe impossibile diventare uno scriba senza alcuna pratica reale. La parte più difficile per imparare ad essere un sofer non è la calligrafia, ma piuttosto ricordare le migliaia di leggi che si applicano a Sifrei Torah (rotoli della Torah), tefillin (filatteri), mezuzot e a tutti gli altri testi che sono scritti su pergamena.

Alcuni di coloro che vogliono diventare scribi rituali studiano presso il Vaad Mishmereth Stam con la possibilità di ricevere un certificato. La certificazione di questo tipo non è un requisito halakhico, né garantisce necessariamente la qualità del lavoro di un particolare sofer. Questo processo però assicura che il sofer certificato abbia ricevuto la corretta educazione e sia un esperto riconosciuto nel campo del sofrut.

Testi che insegnano il sofrut
I principali testi su cui gli sofrim imparano l'arte scribale includono: Keset Ha-Sofer, Chasdey David, Mishnah Berurah Volume I(B) — Le leggi dei Tefillin, Mishneh Torah: Hilchot Tefillin u'Mezuzah v'Sefer Torah. Hilchot Tzitzit, Mishnat Hasofer, Mishnat Sofrim, Likkut Sifrey, Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Likkut Sifrey Stam.

Le donne e il sofrut

A costituire la base per la discussione sulle donne che diventano soferim, il Talmud Gittin 45b afferma: "Sifrei Torah, tefillin e mezuzot scritti da eretici, idolatri, schiavi, donne, minori, samaritani, o ebrei apostati, sono inadatti all'uso rituale." Le sentenze su Mezuzah e Tefillin sono praticamente indiscusse tra coloro che osservano la legge talmudica. Poiché l'Arba'ah Turim non include le donne nel suo elenco di coloro che sono inammissibili a scrivere Sifrei Torah, alcuni considerano ciò come una prova che le donne hanno il permesso di scrivere i rotoli della Torah. Tuttavia oggigiorno praticamente tutte le autorità ortodosse contestano l'idea che alle donne sia permesso di scrivere una Sefer Torah. Ma alle donne è permesso di compilare Ketubot (contratti di matrimonio), STaM non intesi ad uso rituale e altri scritti di Sofrut oltre ai semplici STaM. Nel 2003 la canadese Avielah Barclay è diventata la prima donna al mondo addestrata tradizionalmente a diventare sofer. Nel 2007 Jen Taylor Friedman, una donna britannica, è diventata la prima donna sofer a scrivere una Sefer Torah. Nel 2010 è stata completata la prima Sefer Torah scritta da un gruppo di donne (sei donne soferim, proveniente da Brasile, Canada, Israele e Stati Uniti), nell'ambito del progetto "Women's Torah Project"

Dall'ottobre 2010 fino alla primavera del 2011, Julie Seltzer, una delle donne sofer del Progetto Women's Torah, ha scritto una Sefer Torah come parte dell'esposizione presso il Contemporary Jewish Museum di San Francisco. Ciò la rende prima donna sofer americana a preparare una Sefer Torah; Julie Seltzer è nata a Philadelphia ed è un'ebrea non denominazionale (non appartenente ad una specifica corrente ebraica). Dalla primavera del 2011 fino all'agosto 2012 ha scritto un'altra Sefer Torah, questa volta per la congregazione riformata Beth Israel in San Diego. Seltzer è stata un'allieva di Jen Taylor Friedman. Il 22 settembre 2013, la Congregazione Beth Elohim di New York ha dedicato una nuova Torah, che i membri della sinagoga hanno affermato essere la prima Torah a New York completata da una donna. Tale Torah è stata scritta da Linda Coppleson.

Documenti scritti dagli scribi
Oltre ai rotoli della Torah,  Tefillin e Mezuzot, gli scribi sono necessari anche per la scrittura delle Megillot (i rotoli del Cantico dei Cantici, Libro di Rut, Libro di Ester, Ecclesiaste e Libro delle Lamentazioni), dei Nevi'im (i libri dei profeti, utilizzati per la lettura della haftarah), e dei gittin- i documenti di divorzio. In alcune comunità, soprattutto quella del rabbino Chaim Kanievsky a Bnei Brak (Israele), i soferim scrivono anche gli altri libri della Bibbia, come i Salmi o il Esdra.

Calligrafia

Ci sono molte regole relative alla corretta formazione delle lettere ebraiche, che devono essere rispettate se un testo scritto è da considerarsi religiosamente valido. Gli aschenaziti, i sefarditi, i seguaci di Chabad (Lubavitch) e i Mizrahì hanno ognuno il loro tipo di stile scritturale per formare le lettere, sebbene le stesse regole valgano per tutto il testo. I documenti devono essere scritti su pergamena debitamente preparata e trattata, o su vellum noto come klaf ( קלף).

Lista alfabetica
Una lista indicativa (incompleta) di soferim (e soferet al femminile):

Note

Voci correlate
 Maestri ebrei
 Rabbino
 Scriba
 Sefer Torah
 Vellum

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
  Vaad Mishmereth STaM (arte sacra ebraica)

  Arti scribali dei Soferim, su sofer.co.uk

Bibbia ebraica
Testi sacri ebraici
Calligrafia

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The site of the US State Department proudly announces on its front page: Newsweek backed down! The publication denied today that jailers at Guantánamo threw copies of the Koran to the toilets to psychologically damage the detainees. The weekly affirmed that, after all, its source was not reliable and it had to yield itself to the demands of the political State. Citizens were asked to understand that the case was closed. In Gulf News, analyst Linda S. Heard expressed her irritation for the denial issued by Newsweek. Actually, the article was not exclusive at all. Some NGOs such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, or journalists of the Associated Press or the Daily Mirror had already revealed such practices (and others) in Guantánamo. The only difference is that Newsweek has been the first of the big American newspapers to echo this. What is shocking is not the article as such for it reveals nothing but the publication's yieldingness to pressures. By yielding to the White House desiderata the press allows the crimes committed by the Empire's military and mercenaries to remain unpunished. Nevertheless, for neoconservative editorialist Claudia Rosett, the yielding of the press is not enough. In the Wall Street Journal, she reminded her colleagues the American media is the focus of the general attention and consequently, continuing with the State propaganda, stopping the reports of the crimes in Guantánamo and focusing on accusing Washington's future adversaries was convenient.
The debate about the prisoners' treatment on the war against terror has been shocking in Australia. The Age reports each professor's arguments.
The Law professor Mirko Begaric summarized the article he wrote along with his colleague Julie Clarke in the University of San Francisco Law Review justifying torture. For him, when a terrorist is arrested for preparing an attack, the use of torture can prevent it and lives can be saved. Therefore, in the war against terror, torture could be conceived as legitimate defense. When hostages are taken, the police is authorized to kill the kidnappers that threaten the lives of their prisoners, for an innocent's live is more important. So, the police should be authorized to intentionally hurt criminals to save lives.
The day after the publication of this article, Sarah Joseph and Marius Smith, from Monash University Castan Centre for Human Rights Law refuted the said arguments. In an investigation, you never know for sure if a person is linked to an attack and torture prevents from getting reliable information. Besides, such legalization would have an impact on the whole society: how could it be thought that forming a torture professional is a neutral act? Two days after the publication, Australian former prime minister, Malcolm Fraser condemned too Bagaric and Clarke's thesis. Legalizing torture would represent a backward step for the detainee's rights which have been fought for centuries and wouldn't provide new information because, according to the experts, information gotten as the result of torture is rarely reliable.
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Aous Shakra (also Aous Chakra) ()  (April 22, 1908 – April 1, 1992) was an existential philosopher and politician. He was the Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. in 1991; a position he held for 6 months.

Education
He was raised a Christian, and attended Catholic School in Safed during the British Mandate of Palestine. In 1935, he immigrated to Canada with his family where he graduated with a Bachelors in Philosophy.  He received his PhD in Law and International Relations from Harvard University and taught there until his return to the Middle East in 1965 after an absence of 30 years.

Politics
In 1967, Aous Shakra created the Arab Association for Freedom of Thought and began publishing a monthly magazine "Al Fikr Al Horr" in Beirut. He continuously argued against the religious extremes and falsely nationalistic tendencies he felt he found among Arabs.  While he despised the Nationalist right movements, he also found fault with the Arabist left. He claimed the Left was unable to build constructively upon its popular Arab support out of incompetence and greed, while the Right was based upon racist and highly deceived individuals. In 1985, Shakra declared his Atheism, a comment which angered Arab Islamists and lead to death threats and continuous harassment.
His views were considered some of the most controversial in the region, even long before his declaration of atheism. He was actively involved in campaigning for universal human rights in the Arab world, whether it was for women, children, refugees, or homosexuals. He repeatedly called for "Peaceful Civil Disobedience", a term he coined to label the confrontation of the state of affairs in the Arab world for the corruption, lack of freedoms, and tyranny of its leaders.

Philosophy
His best known writings are "What? When? How?," written in 1974, and "A Short History from Rex to Dex," written in 1952.  Shakra advocated smoking marijuana in his younger days, saying that it helped elevate oneself from a normal state of mind to a state capable of conceiving of the idea of "Existence precedes essence". He was a strong supporter of Darwinism, and was spiritual in the Humanist sense. His Humanism is seen in the first sentence in his book, "Masafi" (Distance)  describing humanity's failure to self-actualize.

"Humans were brought to this world for one singular reason: to live. Unfortunately, it is a task they have miserably failed at appreciating."

In his final speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City, he criticized the World for allowing itself to be controlled:

"If your well-being is not subject to anybody or anything, only then are you free. Otherwise whether you're in a prison or jogging on the beach, you shall always remain a prisoner within yourself. Break-free from the religious institutions that set you apart, and from the Governments that seek to control your every thought."

For all his achievements and intellectual contributions to society, Aous Shakra is also remembered for having quite the peculiar behaviour. For instance, it has been reported that in a sudden outburst in a meeting with his colleagues from "Al Fikr Al Horr" he famously held his cigarette bud and for absolutely no reason flicked it at his fellow thinker Hussein A.H.

Death
On the morning of April 1, 1992, Aous Shakra died in Amman, Jordan at the age of 84. He was still very active at this age both on the physical and intellectual level. The conditions surrounding his death remain mysterious, and several newspapers reported the possibility of this being an assassination. Despite being a man of many friends, Aous Shakra had a lot of enemies in the Islamists and the Israelis. In the aftermath of his death, members of his family and his lifetime friends created the Aous Shakra Foundation which rewards people for their contributions to the liberalization of the Arab world. The foundation continues its work till this day. On July 15, 2011, the late Mohamed Bouazizi was awarded the foundation's Golden Medallion and named "Arab of the Year".

Aftermath
With the Arab Awakening of 2011, and uprisings springing up in every corner of the Arab world, Aous Shakra was reborn. His writings were considered a main source of inspiration for the revolutionaries of Tunis, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain,  and Yemen. According to Dr. Saed Abdul Hamid, writing for Al-Najmah Al-Yawmiyyah:
"Arabs had finally realized the truly historic element in the life and activism of Aous Shakra, which lay in his insistence on challenging the prevailing school of thought, at a time when few dared to do so and instead spoke strongly of reform, democracy and modernity."
Consequently, and 35 years after it was discontinued, "Al Fikr Al Horr" magazine resumed its operations on August 20, 2011 from Tunis. The Editorial for its first new edition had been written by Aous Shakra himself in 1974:
"The thirst of the soul for freedom, is nothing but identical to the thirst of the body for water; hence if you get thirsty for nothing    but water, you will not be getting it from me."

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I found this brand new yard sign leaning against a trash can right outside the Spokesman Review building. I know just the yard to put it in.
Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers held yet another Facebook Q&A session today. This time it was two hours long. In her announcement she stated, "Please feel free to ask questions about the innovative policies I'm advancing to help Eastern Washington, or anything else that's on your mind."
What questions did she answer? Four times she pointed out that she lives in Spokane. She addressed the recent report of committee nonattendance and fixing the Veteran's Administration twice each. And she addressed individual questions about tax reform, the REINS Act, rural healthcare, EPA expansion of the Clean Water Act, go to gop.gov to see the Republican detailed jobs plan, and told one constituent to call her office for the help she needed.
Not one word about an innovative policy. And I even asked early on in the session.
But ask her where she lives and she's all over that.
The last rough part of North Addison south of Francis has new asphalt. Yay! It's still being worked on but it's easy for a bike to get passed the road closed sign. This morning I found the new lines marking the parking strip and bike lane. Oops!
The good news is that the bike and arrow will last a long time because they will not suffer the wrath of studded tires. The bad news is that once the house sells, the new occupants will probably cover it up when they park out front.
Kathy and I walked all over Chicago. There's no shortage of things to see.
Escalators to heaven in Macy's.
It's bigger than just 1.
Hardest working bike theft I've ever seen.
The bike share program is heavily used.
Even though vehicles must yield to pedestrians, I saw drivers, cyclists, runners, and walkers cutting it as close as possible.
Public transit is awesome but the el trains are loud.
Mom: "So what's the name of your band?"
The resulting devastation of a plate of ribs at Miller's Pub.
Kathy and I went to "My kind of town" last Wednesday to hang out, see some sights, and then run the marathon on Sunday. She ran. I took photos. On Friday we picked up her packet at the expo. There was a free shuttle from the hotel, which we rode. What we didn't know was that there were four different shuttles going to and from four different parts of the city. We took shuttle #3 to get to the expo. We got on #4 for the ride back and ended up about three miles from our hotel. So we had a nice walk and saw more of Chicago.
Honestly. With 40k+ people running, would they ever say the threat level was anything other than low?
Plenty of photo op locations at the expo.
Our runner before the start.
Teeming masses lined the race as well as participated in it. I missed Kathy at the two-mile mark. You can probably see why.
One of those people passed by while I was waiting at the halfway mark.
Doctor Dribble making a respectable showing.
I cannot tell you how many bright yellow shirts I looked at. I finally spotted my girl looking smooth midway through the race.
Doctor Dribble bringing it in with a mile to go.
I don't know. There's just something about this outfit thats screams "wrong" to me.
One of those people again.
I found the majority were not smiling at this point.
And there she is. Wrapping it up with a time of 5:07:07.
Here's the video I shot yesterday. Unfortunately, something came up and I couldn't make it up to the races today.
Crosstoberfest III Day 1 from hank greer on Vimeo.
I signed up for Crosstoberfest III in Sandpoint, which is held today and tomorrow. I rode One Greer in the single speed race and Top Greer in the men's 50+. The Sandpoint course is one of my favorites. There are difficult parts but you have time to recover after them. I love the technical parts better because that's where I make the most headway against the others. People complain about the spiral of death but I love it because I seem to get through it pretty smoothly. I range the chimes in the center each time.
I wasn't comfortable jumping the log with the single speed but I cleared it all five laps in the men's 50+ race. It's a good thing, too. This year it's a larger log.
I gave my friend my camera for the single speed race and he got a couple of me.
This morning I was at the intersection of Rowan and Addison counting bicycles and pedestrians for the Washington State Department of Transportation. Lidgerwood Elementary School is right there. My volunteer time was uneventful until with 30 minutes left a woman in a van stopped.
"What are you doing. You're standing on school property and you have a camera. I think that's pretty strange and I have a child that goes to this school."
I wasn't holding my camera in my hand at the time. It was hanging off my back. I told her I was a volunteer counting pedestrians and bicycles. She didn't have anything to say to that and drove off. But such is the state of fear in our country that a man standing on a street corner near a school with a camera hanging over his back is considered a possible threat.
Or maybe she got the idea I was strange when saw me taking pictures. Here's what I shot.
The rising sun skirting around a garage.
A bug with large round wings.
The remnants of yard sale..
...and lost pet sign postings.


It claims to weigh only 7 grams which is hard to believe. They are being sold on Ebay by someone in the UK.
Any other suggestions for light weight and low power GPS would be appreciated.
It is only a matter of time before Garmin is able to sell us a GPS unit complete with user interface in a very small package.
The advantage of units like the Garmin is that waypoints can be programmed, allowing us to use the unit for a failsafe come-home feature.
I haven't been keeping up with GPS, but just did a quick read about WAAS on the Garmin site. Ten foot accuracy would be fantastic.
I hear the gecko is even smaller, and with WAAS (available I think in version 2?) the resolution is supposed to be outstanding.
for $149... Not too bad.
and MAGNETIC Compass and runs on two AAA batteries for 9 hours.
I was impressed with this unit, very light, it is going on my next UAV!
It uses all the ETREX accessories.
Wow, the Geko 3 looks great!
Mike, is barometric air pressure presented on the serial port? Is it buried in one of the custom Garmin sentences? Have you pulled the case off?
This unit looks very promising for our tiny UAV's.
it would be more accurate on the altitude because it uses the baro.
pressure instead of the GPS altitude, they are switchable.
Havent taken the case off yet..
I wonder if this is the source of the $149 receiver. Check the specs. $89 sounds even better.
You can see a lot of small GPS stuff in GPS Worldmagazine. i.e. Motorola FS OnCore 12x16.6mm, Furuno GH80 21x21x9.6mm with antenna.
After looking at the specs on the first unit mentioned in this thread, I am a bit suspicious of that 7 gram weight. Has anyone bought one of these units and weighed it?
I just received some bare evaluation units from a Taiwanese company that tipped the scale at about 32 grams (one ounce).
I don't know how good of a price this is, but the Geko 301 is 194.49 ($35 off they claim) at Sailnet. I order from them quite a bit and like their service.
I use the Geko 201 on my plane since last spring with WAAS and am very pleased with it.


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Conversations with MyselfMichael Wood
Vol. 40 No. 14 · 19 July 2018
Conversations with Myself
The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Serpent's Tail, 413 pp., £9.99, August 2018, 978 1 78125 864 4Show More
In 1968, when not too many people outside Portugal had heard of Fernando Pessoa, now regarded as one of the great Modernist poets, the linguist Roman Jakobson, in collaboration with Luciana Stegagno-Picchio, wrote an essay centring on Pessoa's use of oxymorons. The piece was a complex formal study of a poem from Mensagem (1934), the single volume of verse Pessoa published in Portuguese in his lifetime. The complete poem, 'Ulisses', an elaboration in Pessoa's best cryptic style of a myth that associates Ulysses with the founding of Lisbon, reads as follows (my translation, to borrow Jakobson's expression for his own into French, is 'literal in so far as possible'):
The myth is the nothing that is everything.
The sun itself that opens the skies
Is a brilliant and silent myth –
The dead body of God,
Alive and naked.
This man, who landed here,
Was because he didn't exist.
Without existing he was enough for us
Because he didn't come he came
And created us.
Thus the legend fades
As it enters reality,
And in animating it trickles away.
Down below, life, that is half
Of nothing, dies.
O mito é o nada que é tudo.
O mesmo sol que abre os céus
É um mito brilhante e mudo –
O corpo morto de Deus,
Vivo e desnudo.
Este, que aqui aportou,
Foi por não ser existindo.
Sem existir nos bastou.
Por não ter vindo foi vindo
E nos criou.
Assim a lenda se escorre
A entrar na realidade,
E a fecundá-la decorre.
Em baixo, a vida, metade
De nada, morre.
We see the oxymorons immediately – nothing is everything, a dead body is alive, being has no existence, non-arrival is arrival, there can be half of nothing, life dies – and Jakobson shows in detail how they play out. I want to take them a step further, though, and suggest that for Pessoa they are just a beginning, one way of troubling language's comfort, of indicating what we might call the truth of nonsense, or the importance of the impossible. The Book of Disquiet, for example, which is not a poem or a riddle, is full of them: 'Everything wearies me, even those things that don't'; 'Not even here, where we were happy, were we happy'; 'this immortal but dying evening'. At one point the author – Pessoa and/or his literary representative, we'll come back to this partnership – highlights the 'two principles' on which his 'stylistic system' rests. First, he will match his language to his feelings, be clear when things seem clear, obscure when they seem obscure, and confused when they seem confused; and second, he will 'understand that grammar is a tool not a law'. 'An ordinary person' might say of a boyish-looking girl that she 'looks like a boy'. Another, using an oxymoron, might say, 'That girl is a boy,' but Pessoa prefers a genuine violation of the agreement between noun and pronoun: 'She's a boy.' In a more intricate move he decides he might want to use 'exist' as a transitive verb. Self-creation could be worded as 'I exist me,' and Pessoa claims that the phrase will have 'expressed a whole philosophy in three small words'.
Needless to say, he doesn't write like this, and he is never obscure or confused. But he is very lucid about the discreet war we need to wage with logic if we want to approach the actual tangles of the self and the world. The multiplied self is not an oxymoron or a grammatical problem, but it is hard to talk about. Anticipating Woody Allen's joke about how many people inhabit our psyches, Pessoa writes: 'Each one of us is two, and whenever two people meet, get close or join forces, it's rare for those four to agree.' But quite apart from making the ordinary shifts of consciousness we all know – those moments when we start to address ourselves as 'you' – Pessoa acted out self-difference with actual names. The scholars Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari list 136 heteronyms for him. A heteronym, for Pessoa, was a pseudonym that went beyond pseudo, it signalled the work of 'an author writing outside his own personality … the work of a complete individuality made up by him, just as the utterances of some character in a drama of his would be'. Pessoa said this in an anonymous article; and we note that whatever the names, and whatever 'outside' may mean, there's only one person doing the writing. Not the death of the author then, but as Adam Phillips shrewdly said in these pages (17 July 1997), we do see a writer who was 'acutely aware of how the author got in the way of the writing'.
Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888 and died there in 1935. He spent much of his childhood in South Africa, returning to Portugal when he was 17. He worked on The Book of Disquiet for large patches of his life, leaving two trunks full of drafts carefully written but not definitively collated or sifted. The earliest passages are dated 1913, the latest 1934. A version of the book appeared in Portuguese in 1982, and was at that point attributed to Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper working for a fabric firm in Lisbon. The name is a pseudonym rather than a heteronym, because although he is not exactly Pessoa – the name is not a transparent mask – he does write in a style which is, Pessoa says, 'for good or ill, my own'. 'In prose,' he adds, 'it's hard to other oneself.' Pessoa's best-known heteronyms are all poets, one of whom, Alberto Caeiro, he described as his 'master'. The effect of all this, as Pessoa well knew, is to turn his own legal name into a fiction. If we could express our surprise to him, he would no doubt ask us what else we thought a name, or indeed a personality, was. There is an engaging moment in The Book of Disquiet where Soares quotes Caeiro and identifies strongly with a particular line: 'Because I am the size of what I see.' A fiction strengthens itself through another fiction, which declares a creative relativism. Caeiro is not denying his own size, or the smallness of the rural world he likes to celebrate; only claiming that small worlds help us to imagine large spaces.
This first version of The Book of Disquiet was translated into English four times in one year: in 1991, by Margaret Jull Costa, Alfred MacAdam, Ian Watson and Richard Zenith. The last of these texts started out as The Book of Disquietude, but the longer word was soon dropped. As Jull Costa says, desassossego can be rendered as 'unease/disquiet/unrest/turmoil/anxiety'. The prefix 'desas' means what 'dis' means in most Latin-derived languages, and sossego, meaning 'calm', is remotely related to 'sedere' and our word 'session'. It is a book about not being able to sit, supposedly written by someone who, apart from his occasional walks around town, does nothing else.
Every passage in the new version, based on Jull Costa's earlier translation with new material from Pizarro's 2013 Portuguese edition, is identified by its date. Most of the early dates have question-marks, as do quite a few of the later ones, so we can no doubt look forward to many exchanges of scholarly fantasies about where to place which bit of text. There is a lot more material here, and above all there is an additional author, also a bookkeeper, also the inhabitant of a fourth-floor Lisbon flat, but a little more strenuously romantic about his non-project. 'I am the great defeat of the final army that sustained the final empire,' he writes. 'I taste of the fall of some ancient master civilisation.' Excusez du peu, as they used to say. He is called Vicente Guedes. He wrote the drafts from 1913 to 1920; those of Soares are from 1929 to 1934.
It might be hard to distinguish Guedes from Soares in the flesh, if either had flesh, and it's not unreasonable to think they both look like Pessoa. Guedes is 'a man in his thirties, thin, fairly tall, very hunched when sitting though less so when standing, and dressed with a not entirely unselfconscious negligence'. Soares describes himself as he appears in an office photograph: 'I look like a rather dull Jesuit. My thin, inexpressive face betrays no intelligence, no intensity, nothing whatever to make it stand out from the stagnant tide of the other faces.' No, there is a difference, and it's the same as the one we find in the writing. Guedes is working at being no one, Soares has already got into the habit.
'This book is the autobiography of someone who never existed,' a third-person prefatorial passage asserts, a more complicated remark than it seems, since the sentence means not only that the author as presented is fictional but that the supposedly real person behind the text didn't have much of a life – he was a sort of reverse Ulysses, failing to be although he did actually exist.
Both Guedes and Soares pause quite often to tell us what they are doing. The first says: 'This book is a single state of soul, analysed from every angle, traversed in every possible direction.' The second asserts: 'These are my Confessions and if I say nothing in them it's because I have nothing to say.' Are they telling us anything? Surely these are 'conversations with myself', as Soares says. Or as Guedes more wittily puts it, 'Only business letters are addressed to someone.' But then the wit itself gives the game away. There are plenty of writers without actual readers, there are no performers without imaginary audiences. And both of Pessoa's autobiographers situate themselves very precisely within their own history, telling themselves what only other persons would need to be told.
'I belong to a generation,' Guedes says,
or rather to part of a generation, that has lost all respect for the past and all belief or hope in the future … We are convalescing … The truth is … that the things we love most, or think we love, only have their full value when we merely dream them … We would be anarchists had we been born into the classes that describe themselves as underprivileged, or into any other of the classes from which one can fall or rise … Those of us who are not pederasts wish we had the courage to be so … Bereft of illusions, we live on dreams, which are the illusions of those who cannot have illusions.
Soares says: 'I was born at a time when most young people had lost their belief in God for much the same reason that their elders had kept theirs – without knowing why.' They believed in science, Soares says, because they saw it as a form of fate, and 'like feeble athletes abandoning their training, we gave up the struggle and, with all the scrupulous attention of genuine erudition, we concentrated instead on the book of sensation.'
There are echoes of Baudelaire and Wilde here, parallels with figures to be found in the work of Eliot and Virginia Woolf. And throughout the book, early, middle and late, there are grand posturings about the horrible necessity of having to do something, or anything. 'Living seems to me a metaphysical mistake on the part of matter, an oversight on the part of inaction.' This tone is more Symbolist than Modernist perhaps, and Soares himself speaks of Decadence. I'm thinking of the great line in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axël: 'As for living, our servants will do that for us.' Guedes and Soares often seem to be saying something like, 'As for living, we can pretend we don't have to do it.' Or more fearfully: 'Above all, let's not become indistinguishable from our servants.' Soares does write of 'the suffocating quality of the ordinary'.
These lofty, wilting claims are repeatedly qualified by the intimate movements of the prose of the book, its sly consciousness of its own posturing. Guedes accuses himself of asking too much of the impossible: 'If only I knew how not to act and how not to abdicate from action either.' 'Tedium itself grows old,' he says, 'and does not fully dare to be the anxiety that it is.' This sounds pretty desperate, but is he perhaps cultivating his distress? He plays with his sensations, he remarks, 'much as a bored princess plays with her large, quick, cruel cats'. Bookkeeping may be a long way from royalty, but those brilliant adjectives are also a long way from bookkeeping. The following line is a wonderful giveaway: 'I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.'
Soares doesn't reveal himself quite so much, but he has a stronger analytic sense of his own condition, which in many cases is ours as well. 'We are all accustomed to think of ourselves as essentially mental realities and of others as merely physical realities.' 'I am more like myself than I would care to think.' 'After us the deluge, but only after all of us.' The idea of knowledge haunts him. A 'sudden notion of the true nature' of his being 'weighs on [him] as if it were a sentence not to death but to knowledge'. This sentence would then itself be a terminal miscarriage of justice. 'To know oneself is to err … . And to consciously unknow oneself is the active task of irony.' Even writing is no way to deal with 'the dissatisfaction of the bourgeois I am not and the sadness of the poet I can never be'.
Or so he says. There are moments in his prose that approach the poetry of his non-namesake Pessoa and other heteronyms. Like this one:
Where did I find the strength in my solitary soul to write page after lonely page, to live out syllable by syllable the false magic not of what I was writing but of what I imagined I was writing? What spell of ironic witchery led me to believe myself the poet of my own prose, in the winged moment in which it was born in me, faster than my pen could write, like a sly revenge on life's insults! And rereading it today I watch my precious dolls ripped apart, see the straw burst out of them and see them scattered without ever having been …
Or this one:
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book … I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, among the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me.
It's astonishing to see how precisely the Ulysses poem answers these cries, confirms and refutes them. The myth is everything because it's nothing, it wouldn't be a myth if it was real. But we wouldn't need myths if so-called reality didn't let us down so frequently. The mythical founder of the city, like the spellbound writer and his precious dolls, like the unreal outskirts, the windy prologue and the unwritten character, will stay with us as long as the myth holds, the false magic is actually true for a while. Or true in its way all the time, just not practical or verifiable – we know that the myth is a myth and that the novel isn't written.
Another poem signed by Pessoa himself addresses this question in the form of an epigrammatic challenge to the reader. The piece is called 'This/Isto':*
They say I feign or lie
In all I write. No.
It's simply that I feel
With the imagination.
I don't use the heart.
All that I dream or experience,
All that fails me, or that finishes,
Is like a terrace
Looking onto something else beyond.
It is the latter which is beautiful.
For this reason I write in the midst
Of that which isn't to hand,
Free from my surprise,
Serious about that which is not.
Feelings? Let the reader feel!
Dizem que finjo ou minto
Tudo que escrevo. Não.
Eu simplesmente sinto
Com a imaginação.
Não uso o coração.
Tudo o que sonho ou passo,
O que me falha ou finda,
É como que um terraço
Sobre outra coisa ainda.
Essa coisa é que é linda.
Por isso escrevo em meio
Do que não está ao pé,
Livre do meu enleio,
Sério do que não é.
Sentir? Sinta quem lê!
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Music Beta from Google or Amazon Cloud? What do you think?
So have you heard of these new services? I think they are pretty sweet. I am going to try them out for a bit. What do you think of them? What do you think it might do to the life of the ipod? Check them out:
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Music Beta from Google
Building a New Recording Studio! Check it out!
So as we were in the process of remixing the Balance Acoustic EP (which I know is long overdue, I apologize for the delay, I was just not totally happy with some elements of the first versions) my buddy Aaron mentioned that he wanted to turn his upstairs music room into a studio. But he wants to really do the best he can with what he's got. So, we are embarking on a project to build a studio that will be the real deal. We are in the process of sound-proofing the room now, hanging mass loaded vinyl (which you can see below) before we put in the acoustically insulated drywall. It's a big job but it's exciting. Keep checking back for updates as the project rolls along! Check out some of the before photos.
Fleet Foxes Show Was Fantastic!!
On Friday night I had a the pleasure of seeing one of my favorite groups, Fleet Foxes, live at the Spreckles Theater in San Diego. It was an amazing show and Spreckles is such a perfect venue for a band like Fleet Foxes! The whole vibe of the night was incredible and the Foxes played through a solid amount of material that spanned songs off of their first full length debut, early EPs, as well as the new album "Helplessness Blues" They absolutely nailed their sound live and their rich vocal harmonies were just inspiring to listen to. They also packed great energy into some of the songs that may have had a more laid back vibe on the recordings. It was a fun, interactive crowd and a great night of music. Check out their new album Helplessness Blues! You can stream it from a link off of their website HERE. Or you can stream the whole album from HERE.


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Danya Cebus to build North Jerusalem bus station
17 October 2019 - globes
The new bus station east of the Ramot neighborhood will relieve congestion at Jerusalem's existing central bus station.
Moriah Jerusalem Development Corp. has chosen Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. unit Danya Cebus Ltd. to build the new central bus station in North Jerusalem. The new bus station will serve as a major terminal for both urban and inter-city bus lines.
The bus station will principally serve passengers in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of North Jerusalem and will be located west of Har Hotzvim and at the eastern edge of the Ramot neighborhood at the major interchange between Road 1, Road 443/50 (Begin highway) and Road 436. The new bus station will help relieve congestion at the Central Bus Station at the Western entrance to the city and thus help promote the new Sha'ar Ha'Ir (city gateway) business district.
The new North Jerusalem bus station will be underground and will include a large car park and 'park and ride' project for passengers and commuters preferring to enter the city by bus. There will be a 2,000 square meter passenger hall and 800 square meter administrative building as well as 20,000 square meters with parking spaces for 215 buses.
The project will be entirely covered over with a landscaped garden roof so as not to destroy the surrounding environment. Danya Cebus estimates the cost of the project at NIS 212 million and that it will take three years to complete.
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Michigan Civil Rights Commission acknolwedges indigent defense crisis and officially supports reform and State Bar of Michigan Eleven Principles of Public Defense Delivery Systems.
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