Microwaves have come a long way since they first hit the consumer market in the 1960s. Today, you can purchase a reliable microwave at any department or home goods store, some for less than $100.
The low price of these standard microwaves is partly because they are mass produced overseas, even though surveys show that 8 out of 10 American consumers want to buy items made in the USA, whenever possible.
While many appliance manufacturers have taken to making their microwaves in China and other Asian countries, you can still find microwaves made in the USA – and some snazzy ones, at that.
If you have a little more room in your budget, and you like the idea of a microwave that really stands out and has cool features, look no further than these 5 super cool microwaves.
Big Chill's only has one microwave model, the Retro, which is still made in their Boulder factory, and sells for around $600. It's a 1,200-watt microwave with 1.6 cubic feet of space.
The retro microwave's outer finish features a mix of stainless steel and another color, so it fits into today's modern kitchens, as well as vintage-style kitchens. It comes with these little silver feet that give it a space-age look (although you can get it without the feet, if you're planning to put it above your range).
The coolest thing about this Big Chill microwaveis that it comes in your choice of eight standard colors, like turquoise and buttercup yellow (standard colors are for the price already mentioned), or one of 200 custom colors (for an upcharge).
If you're looking to spice up your kitchen with a colorful microwave, you've got to check this one out. It does everything a regular microwave does, it just looks cooler doing it.
Dacor is a kitchen appliance manufacturer that hails from Costa Mesa, California. They're well-known for their "Microwave In-A-Drawer"product, which comes in three models that sell for around $1,400.
You can install these drawer microwaves under a counter or above a wall oven. We can't help but love this concept; in the era of open concept, it just screams "modern kitchen".
In terms of practical uses, the microwave-in-a-drawer is ADA compliant when installed under a counter, meaning it is accessible for persons with disabilities, in particular those in wheelchairs who can't reach items on standard-height counters.
The unit features child safety locks, so you won't have to worry about your little ones (or your pets) getting into it if you install it under the counter.
You obviously can't just buy one of these Dacor models to replace your current microwave; a little re-modeling will need to be done if you don't already have the right size space with electrical components built in. If you're due for a kitchen remodel, though, you should definitely consider a Dacor microwave.
Wolf (part of Sub-Zero/Wolf) has locations in Madison, Wisconsin; Phoenix, Arizona; and Richmond, Kentucky.Wolf has been around for over 80 years and has a background in supplying quality commercial kitchen equipment.
They make three types of microwaves: standard swinging door, drawer, and drop-down door.The drop-down door microwaves look like a wall oven, and can be installed in a wall or under the counter, which makes for a great space saver.
A standout feature of the newest Wolf microwaves is the warming feature, which keeps foods at your desired ready-to-serve temperaturefor up to 90 minutes.
Wolf microwaves aren't cheap; the drop-down door models start at around $1,700. At that price, you'll get a quality, commercial-grade microwave with features that you won't find on a less expensive consumer-grade machine.
Viking makes most of its products in Greenwood, Mississippi. The company has spent the last few years reinventing itself and the quality of its products (and has won a number of awards as a result).
Like Wolf and Dacor, Viking makes a drawer microwave that installs under the counter or in a wall. The control panel on their Undercounter DrawerMicro Oven looks just like the control panels on most wall ovens you'll find in stores today, which is a nice change from your standard microwave design.
For $1,579, you get a sleek stainless steel drawer microwave with touch controls to open and close the drawer, child safety locks, a "warm" mode (up to 30 minutes), and a pretty impressive product warranty.
You might know the Amana brand for its consumer appliances, like refrigerators, ranges, and dishwashers, all of which are widely available at big retail stores throughout the United States.
What you might not know is that Amana makes a bunch of high-powered microwaves for commercial use. And most Amana commercial microwaves are made in Cedar Rapids, Idaho.
What makes these commercial microwaves so cool is that they look really basic on the outside, but have tons of high-powered programs that make cooking just about anything really easy. Check out this video to see how a huge bin of rice comes out perfectly cooked in just ten minutes (skip ahead to minute 1:00).
Amana also makes a model with a door that slides up , instead of out and to the side. This design is great for small restaurant kitchens, and keeps coworkers from the dangers of a swinging door!
While it's true that most of us have no need for a commercial unit like these, we thought that these cool designs and features deserved a mention in our list of super-cool microwaves.
It's nice to see that these high-tech appliance makers have continued to make microwaves in the USA, even though labor is cheaper abroad. A recent stat says that US output has doubled over the span of the last 30 years, so maybe the tables are turning.
Although they are pricy, we think these microwaves offer some impressive alternatives to the standard countertop units that you find at the big department stores.
What do you think? Do you agree that these are some pretty cool microwaves?Would you consider buying one for your home? Leave a comment or point us to other cool microwaves that are made in the USA.


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Because it's much more than just a building.
There are very few, if any, local residents who can remember a time when this beautiful stone and brick school was not a part of the local landscape.
The school was built in 1921 and opened for students in 1922. It was known as the Mindemoya Continuation School or the Mindemoya Consolidated School, depending on the dates of articles that have been written about it.
When it first opened, it was one of the first Consolidated schools in Ontario and provided an education for students from Grade 1 to Grade 12 in the same building. The rooms to the left of the staircase serviced the elementary students while those on the right were for high school. The basement was used as a community centre and gymnasium. The students utilized the gym but it was also available to the community for meetings, dances, badminton etc.
The outlying areas were serviced by the first school buses under contract in Ontario. These were canvas-covered wagons and sleighs drawn by horses. It wasn't until 1951 that the roads were plowed and at this time the first "factory-built" school buses were put into service.!
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(Mrs. taught Gr. 11-12)
In 1950, the Mindemoya Memorial Community Centre was built. The Continuation School basement was no longer needed for community functions.
In 1960, the Central Manitoulin High School was built on Yonge St. in Mindemoya so then all of the original school building became an elementary school.
In 1969, the New Manitoulin Secondary School was built in M'Chigeeng and the old original school transitioned into servicing grades 1-4 with the rest moving to the old high school on Yonge St.
When no longer used as a school, it wore many hats including dental offices, government offices, public library, health unit offices, law offices and a toy library.
Now this century-old icon is being given a new lease on life. A dedicated group of volunteers has worked tirelessly for the past few years to try and save it from the wrecking ball. Recently a number of these individuals came together and formed a new group known as The Friends of the Mindemoya Old School. This grassroots organization has now been officially incorporated as a Not For Profit under the umbrella of the Ontario Historical Society. The Ontario Historical Society has been instrumental in saving dozens of "at-risk" properties around Ontario.
This beautiful and strong old building has so many stories to tell. Now with this new beginning, people will be able to enjoy its past as well as its exciting new future!
© 2022 Friends of Mindemoya Old School - FOMOS

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Add wine and cognac and bring to the boil; cook for 2 minutes to allow alcohol to evaporate. Add stock and season; gently simmer for about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat grill. Cut bread into 2cm diagonal slices. Brush both sides with combined oil and garlic; toast one side under grill.
To serve, sprinkle untoasted side of croutons thickly with cheese. Ladle soup into bowls and top with croutons, allowing them to float on the soup. Place the bowl under the grill until cheese is golden brown and bubbling. Serve immediately and don't forget to warn the guest that everything is hot.


23 Mar The Longchen Nyingthig Preliminary Practices (ngondro) are the introductory practices to one of the most well-known lineages in the Nyingma. Ngondro (Preliminary Practices) Program in a 5-Year Integrated Format The Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro 5-Year Program at Nyingma Institute includes three . August 22, klong chen snying thig gi sngon 'gro'i ngag 'don gyi 'bru 'grel. rnam mkhyen lam sgron. Unicode. PDF. UDP. TibetDoc. iPad. 93KB. KB.
From the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: I'm just doing the very beginning of the outer preliminaries right now, but it's a great feeling to begin and to follow such a profound text! The Excellent Path to Omniscience: Practicing at Bodh Gaya: Please note that there is longchen nyingthig ngondro separate materials fee. A Torch for the Path to Omniscience: Questions, obstacles, and solutions can be freely shared with the group and with Lama Palzang.
Done mixed into daily life longchen nyingthig ngondro might take years.
Part of a series on Tibetan Buddhism Schools. No registered users and 19 guests. A limited amount of partial scholarships are available.
The Casket of Siddhis: Please download nfondro form here and send your completed application to us email is specified on the form. So, my conversion nyingthit the Nyingma school is rapidly taking place! May 28 — June 9. The use of the practices of VajrasattvaMandala offering and Guru Yoga as preliminaries longchen nyingthig ngondro the practice of anuttarayogatantra sadhanas was well established in India.
The texts that were revealed by Jigme Lingpa, in their present-day form, comprise three volumes, known as the Nyingthig Tsapod Wylie: This poem explains the tell-tale signs for longchen nyingthig ngondro whether the common preliminary practices sngon 'gro have penetrated the mind of a practitioner.
With gratitude the watcher and the watched pass through longchen nyingthig ngondro barrier of duality. This page was last edited on 17 Aprilat Our program, however, lognchen especially designed for lay practitioners with a modern lifestyle, so that they can successfully complete these practices while continuing to longchen nyingthig ngondro their daily responsibilities. The retreat includes instructions, guided group practice, opportunity for questions, and work practice.
In-person dates for summer He also told me to ngondroo doing the other meditations I had learned from other teachers and just to focus on Ngondro for now.
This revelation, part of the Longchen Nyingtik, describes the pure awareness, yningthig rigpathat is the "natural state" gnas lugs of the mind, and how all the qualities of the path and fruition are complete within it. The Torch longchen nyingthig ngondro Certainty.
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This word-by-word explanation of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminaries draws upon and summarizes earlier longchen nyingthig ngondro, especially the most celebrated of them all, Patrul Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher Kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung.
If you find this site useful, please consider helping longchen nyingthig ngondro to achieve our goal of translating more classic works from the Buddhist tradition and making them freely available. TBA Summer Dates: Donate or volunteer today! Dzogchen Vajra Verses on the Natural State revealed by Jigme Lingpa This revelation, part of the Longchen Nyingtik, describes the pure awareness, or rigpathat is the "natural state" gnas lugs of the mind, and how all longchen nyingthig ngondro qualities of the path and fruition are complete within it.


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Project acronym ANTINEUTRINONOVA
Project Probing Fundamental Physics with Antineutrinos at the NOvA Experiment
Researcher (PI) Jeffrey Hartnell
Summary "This proposal addresses major questions in particle physics that are at the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics research today. The results offered would have far-reaching implications in other fields such as cosmology and could help answer some of the big questions such as why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter. The research objectives of this proposal are to (i) make world-leading tests of CPT symmetry and (ii) discover the neutrino mass hierarchy and search for indications of leptonic CP violation. The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will use a novel ""totally active scintillator design"" for the detector technology and will be exposed to the world's highest power neutrino beam. Building on the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance (that was made by a group founded and led by the PI at the MINOS experiment), tests of CPT symmetry will be performed by looking for differences in the mass squared splittings and mixing angles between neutrinos and antineutrinos. The potential to discover the mass hierarchy is unique to NOvA on the timescale of this proposal due to the long 810 km baseline and the well measured beam of neutrinos and antineutrinos. This proposal addresses several key challenges in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the following tasks: (i) development of a new approach to event energy reconstruction that is expected to have widespread applicability for future neutrino experiments; (ii) undertaking a comprehensive calibration project, exploiting a novel technique developed by the PI, that will be essential to achieving the physics goals; (iii) development of a sophisticated statistical analyses. The results promised in this proposal surpass the sensitivity to antineutrino oscillation parameters of current 1st generation experiments by at least an order of magnitude, offering wide scope for profound discoveries with implications across disciplines."
"This proposal addresses major questions in particle physics that are at the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics research today. The results offered would have far-reaching implications in other fields such as cosmology and could help answer some of the big questions such as why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter. The research objectives of this proposal are to (i) make world-leading tests of CPT symmetry and (ii) discover the neutrino mass hierarchy and search for indications of leptonic CP violation. The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment will use a novel ""totally active scintillator design"" for the detector technology and will be exposed to the world's highest power neutrino beam. Building on the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance (that was made by a group founded and led by the PI at the MINOS experiment), tests of CPT symmetry will be performed by looking for differences in the mass squared splittings and mixing angles between neutrinos and antineutrinos. The potential to discover the mass hierarchy is unique to NOvA on the timescale of this proposal due to the long 810 km baseline and the well measured beam of neutrinos and antineutrinos. This proposal addresses several key challenges in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the following tasks: (i) development of a new approach to event energy reconstruction that is expected to have widespread applicability for future neutrino experiments; (ii) undertaking a comprehensive calibration project, exploiting a novel technique developed by the PI, that will be essential to achieving the physics goals; (iii) development of a sophisticated statistical analyses. The results promised in this proposal surpass the sensitivity to antineutrino oscillation parameters of current 1st generation experiments by at least an order of magnitude, offering wide scope for profound discoveries with implications across disciplines."
Project acronym BESTDECISION
Project "Behavioural Economics and Strategic Decision Making: Theory, Empirics, and Experiments"
Researcher (PI) Vincent Paul Crawford
Summary "I will study questions of central microeconomic importance via interwoven theoretical, empirical, and experimental analyses, from a behavioural perspective combining standard methods with assumptions that better reflect evidence on behaviour and psychological insights. The contributions of behavioural economics have been widely recognized, but the benefits of its insights are far from fully realized. I propose four lines of inquiry that focus on how institutions interact with cognition and behaviour, chosen for their potential to reshape our understanding of important questions and their synergies across lines. The first line will study nonparametric identification and estimation of reference-dependent versions of the standard microeconomic model of consumer demand or labour supply, the subject of hundreds of empirical studies and perhaps the single most important model in microeconomics. It will allow such studies to consider relevant behavioural factors without imposing structural assumptions as in previous work. The second line will analyze history-dependent learning in financial crises theoretically and experimentally, with the goal of quantifying how market structure influences the likelihood of a crisis. The third line will study strategic thinking experimentally, using a powerful new design that links subjects' searches for hidden payoff information ("eye-movements") much more directly to thinking. The fourth line will significantly advance Myerson and Satterthwaite's analyses of optimal design of bargaining rules and auctions, which first went beyond the analysis of given institutions to study what is possible by designing new institutions, replacing their equilibrium assumption with a nonequilibrium model that is well supported by experiments. The synergies among these four lines' theoretical analyses, empirical methods, and data analyses will accelerate progress on each line well beyond what would be possible in a piecemeal approach."
"I will study questions of central microeconomic importance via interwoven theoretical, empirical, and experimental analyses, from a behavioural perspective combining standard methods with assumptions that better reflect evidence on behaviour and psychological insights. The contributions of behavioural economics have been widely recognized, but the benefits of its insights are far from fully realized. I propose four lines of inquiry that focus on how institutions interact with cognition and behaviour, chosen for their potential to reshape our understanding of important questions and their synergies across lines. The first line will study nonparametric identification and estimation of reference-dependent versions of the standard microeconomic model of consumer demand or labour supply, the subject of hundreds of empirical studies and perhaps the single most important model in microeconomics. It will allow such studies to consider relevant behavioural factors without imposing structural assumptions as in previous work. The second line will analyze history-dependent learning in financial crises theoretically and experimentally, with the goal of quantifying how market structure influences the likelihood of a crisis. The third line will study strategic thinking experimentally, using a powerful new design that links subjects' searches for hidden payoff information ("eye-movements") much more directly to thinking. The fourth line will significantly advance Myerson and Satterthwaite's analyses of optimal design of bargaining rules and auctions, which first went beyond the analysis of given institutions to study what is possible by designing new institutions, replacing their equilibrium assumption with a nonequilibrium model that is well supported by experiments. The synergies among these four lines' theoretical analyses, empirical methods, and data analyses will accelerate progress on each line well beyond what would be possible in a piecemeal approach."
Project acronym CGR2011TPS
Project Challenging General Relativity
Researcher (PI) Thomas Sotiriou
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Summary General relativity, Einstein's celebrated theory, has been very successful as a theory of the gravitational interaction. However, within the course of the last decades several issues have been pointed out as indicating its limitations: the inevitable existence of spacetime singularities and the fact that it is not a renormalizable theory manifest as shortcomings at very small scales. The inability of the theory to explain the late time accelerated expansion of the universe or the rotational curves of galaxies without the need of unobserved, mysterious forms of matter/energy can be interpreted as shortcomings at large scales. These riddles make gravity by far the most enigmatic of interactions nowadays. Therefore, the understanding of gravity beyond general relativity seems to be more pertinent than ever. We propose to address this difficult issue by considering a synthetic approach towards the understand of the limitations of general relativity and the study of phenomenology which is usually considered to be outsides its realm. The proposed directions include, but are not limited to: the study of quantum gravity candidates and their phenomenology; extensions or modifications of general relativity which may address renormalizability issues or cosmological observations; explorations of fundamental principles of general relativity and the possible violation of such principles; the study of the implications of deviations from Einstein's theory for astrophysics and cosmology and the possible ways to constrain such deviations; and the study of effects within the framework of general relativity which lie at the limit of its validity as a gravity theory. The deeper understanding of each of these issues will provide an important piece to the puzzle. The synthesis of this pieces is most likely to significantly aid our understanding of gravity, and this is our ultimate goal.
General relativity, Einstein's celebrated theory, has been very successful as a theory of the gravitational interaction. However, within the course of the last decades several issues have been pointed out as indicating its limitations: the inevitable existence of spacetime singularities and the fact that it is not a renormalizable theory manifest as shortcomings at very small scales. The inability of the theory to explain the late time accelerated expansion of the universe or the rotational curves of galaxies without the need of unobserved, mysterious forms of matter/energy can be interpreted as shortcomings at large scales. These riddles make gravity by far the most enigmatic of interactions nowadays. Therefore, the understanding of gravity beyond general relativity seems to be more pertinent than ever. We propose to address this difficult issue by considering a synthetic approach towards the understand of the limitations of general relativity and the study of phenomenology which is usually considered to be outsides its realm. The proposed directions include, but are not limited to: the study of quantum gravity candidates and their phenomenology; extensions or modifications of general relativity which may address renormalizability issues or cosmological observations; explorations of fundamental principles of general relativity and the possible violation of such principles; the study of the implications of deviations from Einstein's theory for astrophysics and cosmology and the possible ways to constrain such deviations; and the study of effects within the framework of general relativity which lie at the limit of its validity as a gravity theory. The deeper understanding of each of these issues will provide an important piece to the puzzle. The synthesis of this pieces is most likely to significantly aid our understanding of gravity, and this is our ultimate goal.
Project acronym COLORTTH
Project The Higgs: A colored View from the Top at ATLAS
Researcher (PI) Reinhild Fatima Yvonne Peters
Summary "With the ground-breaking discovery of a new, Higgs-like boson on July 4th, 2012, by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at CERN, a new era of particle physics has begun. The discovery is the first step in answering an unsolved problem in particle physics, the question how fundamental bosons and fermions acquire their mass. One of the major goals in collider physics in the next few years will be the deeper insight into the nature of the new particle, its connection to the known fundamental particles and possible extensions beyond the standard model (SM) of particle physics. My project aims at a particular interesting field to study, the relation of the new particle with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark. I aim to develop new, innovative techniques and beyond state-of-the-art methods to extract the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson, which is expected to be of the order of one - much higher than that of any other quark. I will analyse the only process where the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling can be measured, in associated production of top quark pairs and a Higgs boson. The Higgs boson mainly decays into a pair of b-quarks. This is one of the most challenging channels at the LHC, as huge background processes from gluon splitting contribute. In particular, I will develop and study color flow variables, which provide a unique, powerful technique to distinguish color singlet Higgs bosons from the main background, color octet gluons. The ultimate goal of the project is the first measurement of the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling and its confrontation with SM and beyond SM Higgs boson models, resulting in an unprecedented insight into the fundamental laws of nature. The LHC will soon reach a new energy frontier of 13 TeV starting in 2014. This new environment will provide never seen opportunities to study hints of new physics and precisely measure properties of the newly found particle. This sets the stage for the project."
"With the ground-breaking discovery of a new, Higgs-like boson on July 4th, 2012, by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at CERN, a new era of particle physics has begun. The discovery is the first step in answering an unsolved problem in particle physics, the question how fundamental bosons and fermions acquire their mass. One of the major goals in collider physics in the next few years will be the deeper insight into the nature of the new particle, its connection to the known fundamental particles and possible extensions beyond the standard model (SM) of particle physics. My project aims at a particular interesting field to study, the relation of the new particle with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark. I aim to develop new, innovative techniques and beyond state-of-the-art methods to extract the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson, which is expected to be of the order of one - much higher than that of any other quark. I will analyse the only process where the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling can be measured, in associated production of top quark pairs and a Higgs boson. The Higgs boson mainly decays into a pair of b-quarks. This is one of the most challenging channels at the LHC, as huge background processes from gluon splitting contribute. In particular, I will develop and study color flow variables, which provide a unique, powerful technique to distinguish color singlet Higgs bosons from the main background, color octet gluons. The ultimate goal of the project is the first measurement of the top-Higgs Yukawa coupling and its confrontation with SM and beyond SM Higgs boson models, resulting in an unprecedented insight into the fundamental laws of nature. The LHC will soon reach a new energy frontier of 13 TeV starting in 2014. This new environment will provide never seen opportunities to study hints of new physics and precisely measure properties of the newly found particle. This sets the stage for the project."
Project acronym DMEA
Project The Dynamics of Migration and Economic Adjustment
Researcher (PI) Christian Dustmann
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), SH1, ERC-2012-ADG_20120411
Summary The research proposed here is concerned with the dynamics of immigrant impacts and the process of economic adaptation in receiving societies. The immigration process is inherently dynamic: many new immigrants return home within a short time; and those that remain undergo a long term series of investments and behavioural changes that gradually alter the way that they interact with the economy of the receiving country. Moreover, in the longer run the presence of immigrants affects the choices of firms over new technology investments, and the choices of native workers over schooling and occupations. Thus simple static frameworks provide an incomplete and even potentially misleading perspective for understanding modern immigration patterns. The point of departure for this proposed research is the recognition that we need to reformulate the analysis of immigrant impacts in a fully dynamic framework, acknowledging the inter-temporal choices of immigrants, firms, and native workers and the ways that these three groups of agents interact over a longer horizon. Our approach involves treating immigration as a dynamic shock, where the dynamics relates to the different agents involved: immigrants, who change their position in the native skill distribution over time as a result of their life-cycle decisions; firms, who react by adjusting their technologies, product mix, and their involvement with institutions and regulatory environment; and native workers, who adjust by changing their career plans. Our work will combine highly innovative theoretical perspectives with state-of-the-art empirical analyses exploiting unique policy experiments and exceptional data sources, merging longitudinal administrative population data with data from firm and individual surveys. This agenda will enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of the adjustment process in response to immigration and open new horizons for future research on the impact of immigration in a dynamic framework.
The research proposed here is concerned with the dynamics of immigrant impacts and the process of economic adaptation in receiving societies. The immigration process is inherently dynamic: many new immigrants return home within a short time; and those that remain undergo a long term series of investments and behavioural changes that gradually alter the way that they interact with the economy of the receiving country. Moreover, in the longer run the presence of immigrants affects the choices of firms over new technology investments, and the choices of native workers over schooling and occupations. Thus simple static frameworks provide an incomplete and even potentially misleading perspective for understanding modern immigration patterns. The point of departure for this proposed research is the recognition that we need to reformulate the analysis of immigrant impacts in a fully dynamic framework, acknowledging the inter-temporal choices of immigrants, firms, and native workers and the ways that these three groups of agents interact over a longer horizon. Our approach involves treating immigration as a dynamic shock, where the dynamics relates to the different agents involved: immigrants, who change their position in the native skill distribution over time as a result of their life-cycle decisions; firms, who react by adjusting their technologies, product mix, and their involvement with institutions and regulatory environment; and native workers, who adjust by changing their career plans. Our work will combine highly innovative theoretical perspectives with state-of-the-art empirical analyses exploiting unique policy experiments and exceptional data sources, merging longitudinal administrative population data with data from firm and individual surveys. This agenda will enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of the adjustment process in response to immigration and open new horizons for future research on the impact of immigration in a dynamic framework.
Project acronym DropletControl
Project Controlling the orientation of molecules inside liquid helium nanodroplets
Researcher (PI) Henrik Stapelfeldt
Summary In this project I will develop and exploit experimental methods, based on short and intense laser pulses, to control the spatial orientation of molecules dissolved in liquid helium nanodroplets. This idea is, so far, completely unexplored but it has the potential to open a multitude of new opportunities in physics and chemistry. The main objectives are: 1) Complete control and real time monitoring of molecular rotation inside liquid helium droplets, exploring superfluidity of the droplets, the possible formation of quantum vortices, and rotational dephasing due to interaction of the dissolved molecules with the He solvent. 2) Ultrafast imaging of molecules undergoing chemical reaction dynamics inside liquid helium droplets, exploring rapid energy dissipation from reacting molecules to the helium solvent, transition between mirror forms of chiral molecules, strong laser field processes in He-solvated molecules, and structure determination of non crystalizable proteins by electron or x-ray diffraction. I will achieve the objectives by combining liquid helium droplet technology, ultrafast laser pulse methods and advanced electron and ion imaging detection. The experiments will both rely on existing apparatus in my laboratories and on new vacuum and laser equipment to be set up during the project. The ability to control how molecules are turned in space is of fundamental importance because interactions of molecules with other molecules, atoms or radiation depend on their spatial orientation. For isolated molecules in the gas phase laser based methods, developed over the past 12 years, now enable very refined and precise control over the spatial orientation of molecules. By contrast, orientational control of molecules in solution has not been demonstrated despite the potential of being able to do so is enormous, notably because most chemistry occurs in a solvent rather than in a gas of isolated molecules.
In this project I will develop and exploit experimental methods, based on short and intense laser pulses, to control the spatial orientation of molecules dissolved in liquid helium nanodroplets. This idea is, so far, completely unexplored but it has the potential to open a multitude of new opportunities in physics and chemistry. The main objectives are: 1) Complete control and real time monitoring of molecular rotation inside liquid helium droplets, exploring superfluidity of the droplets, the possible formation of quantum vortices, and rotational dephasing due to interaction of the dissolved molecules with the He solvent. 2) Ultrafast imaging of molecules undergoing chemical reaction dynamics inside liquid helium droplets, exploring rapid energy dissipation from reacting molecules to the helium solvent, transition between mirror forms of chiral molecules, strong laser field processes in He-solvated molecules, and structure determination of non crystalizable proteins by electron or x-ray diffraction. I will achieve the objectives by combining liquid helium droplet technology, ultrafast laser pulse methods and advanced electron and ion imaging detection. The experiments will both rely on existing apparatus in my laboratories and on new vacuum and laser equipment to be set up during the project. The ability to control how molecules are turned in space is of fundamental importance because interactions of molecules with other molecules, atoms or radiation depend on their spatial orientation. For isolated molecules in the gas phase laser based methods, developed over the past 12 years, now enable very refined and precise control over the spatial orientation of molecules. By contrast, orientational control of molecules in solution has not been demonstrated despite the potential of being able to do so is enormous, notably because most chemistry occurs in a solvent rather than in a gas of isolated molecules.
Project acronym DualitiesHEPTH
Project Dualities in Super-symmetric Gauge Theories, String Theory and Conformal Field Theories
Researcher (PI) Luis Fernando Alday
Summary The aim of the present proposal is to establish a research team developing and exploiting dualities arising in super-symmetric gauge theories, string theory and conformal field theories. These will also have many applications outside these fields. The overarching aims of the team will be: To develop established dualities into computational tools for physical quantities such as the S-matrix, correlation functions and partition functions. The construction of explicit examples of new dualities. To use such dualities to gain new insights into the mathematical structure of the theories involved. The proposal brings together researchers with different areas of expertise: super-symmetric gauge theories, string theories, conformal field theories, integrable systems and special functions. We divide it into two strands: Strand I. Deals with the AdS/CFT correspondence, scattering amplitudes and correlation functions. The main objectives are to compute scattering amplitudes of planar maximally-super symmetric Yang-Mills to all values of the coupling; extend these computations to the non-planar case; compute efficiently correlation functions in this theory. Strand II. Deals with new and exciting correspondences between four dimensional super-symmetric theories and two dimensional conformal field theories. We aim to find more examples of 4d/2d correspondences and to develop the established ones (and new ones) into efficient computational tools which will be used, for instance, to compute correlation functions in 2d Conformal Toda theories and other CFT's and even physical quantities in theories that do not admit a Lagrangian description. Progress in the first part of this strand will be used to understand the elusive 6d (2,0) theory. Furthermore, we will actively look for common mathematical structures between strands I and II.
The aim of the present proposal is to establish a research team developing and exploiting dualities arising in super-symmetric gauge theories, string theory and conformal field theories. These will also have many applications outside these fields. The overarching aims of the team will be: To develop established dualities into computational tools for physical quantities such as the S-matrix, correlation functions and partition functions. The construction of explicit examples of new dualities. To use such dualities to gain new insights into the mathematical structure of the theories involved. The proposal brings together researchers with different areas of expertise: super-symmetric gauge theories, string theories, conformal field theories, integrable systems and special functions. We divide it into two strands: Strand I. Deals with the AdS/CFT correspondence, scattering amplitudes and correlation functions. The main objectives are to compute scattering amplitudes of planar maximally-super symmetric Yang-Mills to all values of the coupling; extend these computations to the non-planar case; compute efficiently correlation functions in this theory. Strand II. Deals with new and exciting correspondences between four dimensional super-symmetric theories and two dimensional conformal field theories. We aim to find more examples of 4d/2d correspondences and to develop the established ones (and new ones) into efficient computational tools which will be used, for instance, to compute correlation functions in 2d Conformal Toda theories and other CFT's and even physical quantities in theories that do not admit a Lagrangian description. Progress in the first part of this strand will be used to understand the elusive 6d (2,0) theory. Furthermore, we will actively look for common mathematical structures between strands I and II.
Project acronym eEDM
Project A laser-cooled molecular fountain to measure the electron EDM
Researcher (PI) Edward Allen Hinds
Summary I propose to build an instrument that cools YbF molecules to microK temperature using laser light, and throws them up as a fountain in free fall. This will be used to detect CP-violating elementary particle interactions that caused our universe to evolve an excess of matter over antimatter These interactions cause the charge distribution of the electron to be slightly non-spherical and it is this property, the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM), that the ultracold molecules will sense. Laser cooling of any molecule is very new, with first results emerging from a few laboratories including mine. Developing a fountain of molecules will be a major advance in the state of the art. As well as being the key to the new EDM instrument, this will be important in its own right because ultracold molecules have major applications in chemistry, quantum information processing and metrology. In the fountain, the electron spin of each molecule will be polarized. On applying a perpendicular electric field, the spins will precess in proportion to the EDM. At present the (warm) YbF molecules in my lab precess for only 1ms. This gives us world-leading sensitivity, but has not been sufficient to detect the CP-violating forces being sought. The fountain however will achieve precession times of almost a second, giving over 1000x more rotation. The increase in sensitivity should reveal a clear EDM, providing information about the fundamental laws of physics, and the important CP-violating physics of the early universe, which is currently not understood. By advancing the preparation of ultracold molecules, this project will address a key question in particle physics and cosmology: the nature of CP-violating physics beyond the standard model. The approach is radically different from standard accelerator physics and complements it. The sensitivity is sufficient to detect some proposed new forces that are beyond the reach of any current collider experiment.
I propose to build an instrument that cools YbF molecules to microK temperature using laser light, and throws them up as a fountain in free fall. This will be used to detect CP-violating elementary particle interactions that caused our universe to evolve an excess of matter over antimatter These interactions cause the charge distribution of the electron to be slightly non-spherical and it is this property, the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM), that the ultracold molecules will sense. Laser cooling of any molecule is very new, with first results emerging from a few laboratories including mine. Developing a fountain of molecules will be a major advance in the state of the art. As well as being the key to the new EDM instrument, this will be important in its own right because ultracold molecules have major applications in chemistry, quantum information processing and metrology. In the fountain, the electron spin of each molecule will be polarized. On applying a perpendicular electric field, the spins will precess in proportion to the EDM. At present the (warm) YbF molecules in my lab precess for only 1ms. This gives us world-leading sensitivity, but has not been sufficient to detect the CP-violating forces being sought. The fountain however will achieve precession times of almost a second, giving over 1000x more rotation. The increase in sensitivity should reveal a clear EDM, providing information about the fundamental laws of physics, and the important CP-violating physics of the early universe, which is currently not understood. By advancing the preparation of ultracold molecules, this project will address a key question in particle physics and cosmology: the nature of CP-violating physics beyond the standard model. The approach is radically different from standard accelerator physics and complements it. The sensitivity is sufficient to detect some proposed new forces that are beyond the reach of any current collider experiment.
Project acronym EMF-FEIM
Project Empirical Macro-Finance and the Financial Economics of Insurance Markets
Researcher (PI) Ralph Koijen
Host Institution (HI) LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
Summary "My project consists of two lines of work. 1.Empirical Macro-Finance: Asset prices are informative about the macro-economic risks that matter to investors and about the welfare costs of economic fluctuations. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that leading asset pricing models cannot explain how risks are priced across maturities in equity markets, which is a key input to measuring the costs of business cycles. An analysis of what leading models miss will vastly improve our understanding of how the real economy and asset prices are related. Also, by expanding our empirical evidence about the term structure of equity to the firm-level, I plan to study how investment decisions relate to asset prices. My goal is to measure the firms' incentives to invest and how this impacts economic growth more broadly. 2.Financial Economics of Insurance Markets: Households in Europe and the US can choose from a wide variety of insurance products that insure health and mortality risks. Choosing between these products is no easy task and the costs from sub-optimal insurance choices are estimated to be large. My plan is to develop a comprehensive life-cycle theory of insurance choice that accounts for family structure, risk factors such as labor income and housing, and different institutional settings across countries. I also plan to study the supply side of insurance markets. The traditional view is that insurance prices are driven by life-cycle demand or informational frictions. However, as is clear from evidence during the financial crisis, insurance companies are in fact financial institutions. If financial constraints bind, it may affect insurance prices and ultimately consumers' welfare. My goal is to understand how financial frictions affect insurance companies. A policy implication of my research may be that the private supply of insurance is an imperfect substitute for public supply as insurance companies face different incentives and constraints than the government."
"My project consists of two lines of work. 1.Empirical Macro-Finance: Asset prices are informative about the macro-economic risks that matter to investors and about the welfare costs of economic fluctuations. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that leading asset pricing models cannot explain how risks are priced across maturities in equity markets, which is a key input to measuring the costs of business cycles. An analysis of what leading models miss will vastly improve our understanding of how the real economy and asset prices are related. Also, by expanding our empirical evidence about the term structure of equity to the firm-level, I plan to study how investment decisions relate to asset prices. My goal is to measure the firms' incentives to invest and how this impacts economic growth more broadly. 2.Financial Economics of Insurance Markets: Households in Europe and the US can choose from a wide variety of insurance products that insure health and mortality risks. Choosing between these products is no easy task and the costs from sub-optimal insurance choices are estimated to be large. My plan is to develop a comprehensive life-cycle theory of insurance choice that accounts for family structure, risk factors such as labor income and housing, and different institutional settings across countries. I also plan to study the supply side of insurance markets. The traditional view is that insurance prices are driven by life-cycle demand or informational frictions. However, as is clear from evidence during the financial crisis, insurance companies are in fact financial institutions. If financial constraints bind, it may affect insurance prices and ultimately consumers' welfare. My goal is to understand how financial frictions affect insurance companies. A policy implication of my research may be that the private supply of insurance is an imperfect substitute for public supply as insurance companies face different incentives and constraints than the government."
Project acronym FRICTIONS
Project Financial Frictions
Researcher (PI) Lasse Heje Pedersen
Host Institution (HI) COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL
Summary "Financial economics is at a crossroads: Academics are struggling to redefine the theory of finance and practitioners and regulators to restructure the financial industry. The current financial crisis will have significant impact on how we regulate financial markets and how we manage risk in companies and financial institutions. It will continue to inspire an intense discussion and research agenda over the next decade in academics, in industry, and among financial regulators and a central focus will be the role of frictions in financial markets. Nowhere are these issues more pertinent than in Europe right now. To take up the challenge presented by this crossroad of financial economics, my research project seeks to contribute to the knowledge of financial frictions and what to do about them. FRICTIONS will explore how financial frictions affect asset prices and the economy, and the implications of frictions for financial risk management, the optimal regulation, and the conduct of monetary policy. Whereas economists have traditionally focused on the assumption of perfect markets, a growing body of evidence is leading to a widespread recognition that markets are plagued by significant financial frictions. FRICTIONS will model key financial frictions such as leverage constraints, margin requirements, transaction costs, liquidity risk, and short sale constraints. The objective is to develop theories of the origins of these frictions, study how these frictions change over time and across markets, and, importantly, how they affect the required return on assets and the economy. The project will test these theories using data from global equity, bond, and derivative markets. In particular, the project will measure these frictions empirically and study the empirical effect of frictions on asset returns and economic dynamics. The end result is an empirically-validated model of economic behavior subject to financial frictions that yields qualitative and quantitative insights."
"Financial economics is at a crossroads: Academics are struggling to redefine the theory of finance and practitioners and regulators to restructure the financial industry. The current financial crisis will have significant impact on how we regulate financial markets and how we manage risk in companies and financial institutions. It will continue to inspire an intense discussion and research agenda over the next decade in academics, in industry, and among financial regulators and a central focus will be the role of frictions in financial markets. Nowhere are these issues more pertinent than in Europe right now. To take up the challenge presented by this crossroad of financial economics, my research project seeks to contribute to the knowledge of financial frictions and what to do about them. FRICTIONS will explore how financial frictions affect asset prices and the economy, and the implications of frictions for financial risk management, the optimal regulation, and the conduct of monetary policy. Whereas economists have traditionally focused on the assumption of perfect markets, a growing body of evidence is leading to a widespread recognition that markets are plagued by significant financial frictions. FRICTIONS will model key financial frictions such as leverage constraints, margin requirements, transaction costs, liquidity risk, and short sale constraints. The objective is to develop theories of the origins of these frictions, study how these frictions change over time and across markets, and, importantly, how they affect the required return on assets and the economy. The project will test these theories using data from global equity, bond, and derivative markets. In particular, the project will measure these frictions empirically and study the empirical effect of frictions on asset returns and economic dynamics. The end result is an empirically-validated model of economic behavior subject to financial frictions that yields qualitative and quantitative insights."


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K-65 residues
K-65 (Kansas highway), a highway in Kansas
K-65 (1927–1933 Kansas highway), a former highway in Kansas
K-65 trailer

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Recently there was an article about the inheritance law in Islam and the effort among some Muslim women to do away with it. My initial reaction was disappointment with the Muslim Feminists in their lack of acknowledging that within a larger Islamic context the unequal share of inheritance Muslim women get is balanced out by the fact that men are charged with the financial care of women. As well as their insistence that a reformation was needed instead of an understanding and practice of the larger context in which this law made sense. But then I realized, what are we actually saying here? Yes, Islam states that inheritance is less for women than men and that men are financially responsible for women, and yes if both of those realities exist the outcome would be fair and balanced. But when men are no longer fulfilling that obligation are we really saying that women must simply live with the injustice of that outcome?
As anyone who's followed this blog or my social media for a while knows, I've discussed the issue of men's financial responsibility to women many times and have been met with lots of angry responses from men. Lots of men have zero issue claiming the rule no longer applies because times have changed and it's too difficult to survive on one income. Are these same men to be trusted to take care of the women in their lives with their larger share of inheritance? I recall a while back Tariq Ramadan (pre-scandal), called for a moratorium on the hadd punishment for zina. This is because despite they're being no gender bias in the punishment itself, women were somehow receiving the punishment far more often than men. Logically —though it could be proven otherwise, this smells of injustice. He was only asking that we put a hold on the execution of this punishment to investigate why this gender imbalance exists and what could be done to end it. Naturally, many in the Muslim community accused him of trying to change the religion and I'm not sure that any Muslim country ever took him's up on his suggestion.
So whether it's the livelihood or the actual lives of women at stake it seems there's a reaction among men that women just ought to deal with it and to even raise any concern is akin to apostasy. Without getting on the angry Feminist bandwagon how do we deal with these issues within the parameters of Islam? As laypeople we can't decide for ourselves to change the laws when convenient, yet if our shuyukh don't take these injustices seriously many Muslim women may feel that their only choice is to put up with the injustice or go outside of Islam to fight against it. Is it any wonder that the latter is becoming increasingly appealing?


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using System.Threading.Tasks;

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        private readonly Document _response;

        /// <summary>
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        public SendResponseMessageReceiver(ISender sender, Document response)
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Q: pydub audio playback is *extremely* loud for non 16-bit files I have some some audio samples (from SampleSwap) which I am working with in pydub.  Most of them have a sample-depth / bits per sample of 16, while others are 24 or 32.  Looks something like this:
import pydub

a = pydub.AudioSegment.from_file('16bit_file.wav')
b = pydub.AudioSegment.from_file('24bit_file.wav')

The problem I am running into is when I try to get them to play back:
from pydub.playback import play

play(a)
play(b)

While the 16-bit files play normally, the 24-bit files are all Earth-shatteringly loud, like seriously to the point of potential speaker damage. With my computer set to minimum volume, the 24-bit play back is about as loud as regular music would play back on maximum volume.  It's super distorted, sharp, and clipped.
I'm pretty sure I've isolated it to be a problem of bit-depth.  The sounds all play normally when played in other software.  I can convert the problem sounds to be 16-bit either using sox or using pydub.AudioSegment.set_sample_width(2) and the issue goes away.  I have also gone directly through simpleaudio to do the playback (copying the code from pydub, here) and get the same issue.
The main problem is I am writing some code for working with audio which I would like to share, but I do not want users to experience the physical or mental damage from hearing one of these busted sounds.  My only idea of a workaround is to immediately convert the bit-depth of any use loaded sounds/lock audio playback to 16-bit files only; this works for the files I am testing, but a) I don't know if it holds true for all sounds/computers, and b) I thought this shouldn't be an issue in pydub anyway.  I also thought to somehow check the volume of the sound before playing (using e.g. a.dBFS or a.max), but I haven't found anything that seems to be reliable (either the metric isn't really correlated with the volume, or the value seems to be more of an indication of the dynamic range provided by the extra bits).
So my questions are:

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*Why do I get this alarmingly loud, distorted playback in pydub when playing non-16-bit files?

*What can I do to prevent it?

*Am I missing something obvious here about audio playback?

I understand this is (hopefully) not so reproducible; I could try to record it and post if that would be helpful.  I can also point out the sounds I am using on SampleSwap, but the problem really seems to be caused by any file that is not 16-bit (i.e. I can convert a sound to be 32-bit and generate the issue).
Here's some version info:

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*ffmpeg 4.4

*PyAudio 0.2.11

*pydub 0.25.1

*simpleaudio 1.0.4

And the issue is on a 2019 MacBook Pro, Catalina 10.15.7.  I've also tested my Windows 10 Desktop (with similar versions as above), but rather than the issue above, I just get silence.


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The Coming of Reform
The events of the 18th century in Jewish life marked the beginning of modern Jewish history.
There are three personalities in particular who help define this era: Frederick the Great, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and Moses Mendelssohn. All three lived in Germany, and each of them had a profound effect upon Western civilization, not just upon Jewish civilization.
Germany was the seat of Protestantism in Europe. It is where the Protestant Reformation began. From the moment of the Protestant Reformation onward, Europe became less and less religious. And that raised a new culture — the culture of secular Enlightenment, of Humanism, of the attempt by man to straighten out his problems without Godly reference or interference.
In the Middle Ages, and as long as the Church held sway in Europe, the policy of governments was not to try to right the wrongs of the society. Somehow, those wrongs were sanctioned by God (otherwise, they wouldn't be there). As idiotic as that sounds, that was the belief of medieval man. Medieval man was preoccupied with Paradise and Hell. Take a look at medieval art: it is filled with depictions of angels and devils. Only the top echelon of society — the kings, emperors, knights and very wealthy — had any real interest, so to speak, in this world. Everybody else was only working for the next world.
The Church, to a great extent, encouraged that process. It fit in with Christian theology, which was always other-worldly oriented, and it helped justify some of the awful things that the Church did.
With the coming of the Protestant Reformation that type of thought system began to change. The age of Enlightenment in the 1700s is that period in Western history when the thought process changed completely, and where civilization collectively said, "This world counts."
Not only did it count, but there were many people who said, "It's the only world. There is no other world. That's just Church propaganda."
Therefore, they focused on fixing up this world. Furthermore, not only was it incumbent upon human beings to fix it up, but they were the only ones who could fix it. Either there was no God, or if there was, He did not interfere. Therefore, it was within our hands to improve the lot of man.
It is not an accident, therefore, that many of the founding fathers of the United States — the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence and fought in the American Revolutionary War — were agnostics or atheists. That includes Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and the Adams brothers. They were all non-believers. Even though America is a Christian country — and stamps its money with the words "In G-d We Trust" — the separation of Church and State is ironclad.
In France, the revolution was the product of Voltaire and Rousseau — non-believers, atheists, bitter anti-clericalists and haters of the Church who in their own way were as oppressive as the Church was. When Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, he expressed the idea of secular Humanism. He and the others saw religion as a hindrance to human progress. Religion, as it came down from the medieval times, only lulled people into not doing anything to improve their lot, not attempting to rebuild themselves, to make a new world. Therefore, religion was the enemy of progress in terms of politics and social progress.
Germany in the 18th century was made up of small principalities. At one time, there were as many as 80 German princes, each ruling a little piece of Germany. It was a fractious country. That was best for the rest of the world, because once Germany united, the world embarked on almost 85 years of war.
Frederick I, who was the grandfather of Frederick the Great, formed a small empire out of the area around Berlin, Brandenburg, and Prussia. When Frederick I died he left the throne to his son, Frederick William, who was not much of anything. The father, in fact, on his deathbed said, "What a nincompoop they are going to have for a king." However, Frederick William had a number of sons, and his third son was Frederick II, who would be called Frederick the Great.
He was raised to be a military man and an autocrat—but that was not his nature. He was a very great intellectual as well as a musical composer. He was a person of emotion, of great culture.
He was impressed by the ideas of the 18th century — of Humanism, of the improving the lot of the country. The emperor was, as he said it, "Not the first officer of his people, but the first servant of his people."
Frederick the Great was impressed by the ideas of liberalism that existed in the rest of Europe, and he decided, in one of his strange decisions, that the area in which the matter could be tested best was on the Jews, since the Jews were the most downtrodden. They were people who had no civil rights, and who lived under terrible oppression.
A New Type of Anti-Semitism
Given what we know about the Holocaust, it is ironic— "ironic" is not a strong enough word—that the first country in Europe where Jews gained any sort of political or social freedom or rights was Germany. In fact, Germany was the leader in human rights in terms of Europe. A great deal of the French Revolution, which brought freedoms to the rest of Europe, especially to France, was patterned upon German ideas, influence and methods.
Nevertheless, for all Frederick's good intentions it was this decision of granting rights to the Jews that introduced a strange phenomenon which still exists in the modern world: racial anti-Semitism.
Whereas the anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages was almost entirely religious, the anti-Semitism of the modern world is not. The idea was articulated sharply by Moses Hess, a colleague of Karl Marx. Although Hess was assimilated and non-observant, he considered himself Jewish. He wrote in his book, Rome and Jerusalem, "The Germans hate us not because of our peculiar religion but because of our peculiar nose."
That is the difference between medieval anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitism of the modern world. The anti-Semitism of the modern world is racial, genetic. It has to with Jews, not with what Jews believe.
Racial anti-Semitism helps explain the paradox how a man like Frederick the Great could open the door for Jews in Germany while at the same time feel that the Jews were an inferior people. He was not a friend of the Jews, but he experimented with allowing the Jews rights because that was the direction secular Humanism was going.
Frederick's son, William I, befriended a strange Jewish philosopher. Through the Crown Prince this philosopher gained entry into the court of Frederick the Great and became one of the most well-known intellectuals in all of Germany. His name was Moses Mendelssohn.
Many times history judges people far differently than their contemporaries. Moses Mendelssohn today, at least from the perspective of traditional Jewry, is not only portrayed as persona non grata, but as a traitor and someone who brought a great deal of destruction to the Jewish people. However, that is not how he was viewed by his contemporaries, even the traditional ones. In his time, Mendelssohn wrote questions to many of the great rabbis, and they answered him with respect.
None of these rabbis foresaw that 30 years down the line Mendelssohn would be considered the founder of a radical anti-traditional movement and that all his grandchildren – as well as many of those of his movement — would convert to Christianity.
Mendelssohn was born in the city of Dessau. At an early age, he enjoyed the reputation as a genius and for being a great Talmudic and Biblical scholar. His father was a scribe and he was one of the few who benefitted from Frederick the Great's experiment.
One of the first experiments was to allow Jews to enter schools of higher secular learning. Until that time, it had been forbidden for Jews to attend what they called the "gymnasium" or superior high school, and certainly not university. Under Frederick the Great for the first time the doors were opened and Mendelssohn enrolled.
He went to the university in Berlin, and other places, received degrees, learned Latin and Greek, and engaged in some of the greatest philosophical debates of the time. Mendelssohn was seen by the non-Jewish secular world as the defender of the Jewish people, and he saw himself in that role as well.
Mendelssohn himself was an observant Jew. He wrote in a memoir that he was once late to visit the Emperor because he had to pray the afternoon prayer, and it was just before sunset. He mentions offhandedly that he never missed the afternoon prayer in his life and he wasn't going to miss one now. So he went late to the Emperor.
The Errors of his Way
Despite his personal commitment to observance, he made a number of fundamental errors.
The first was that he thought that every Jew could be Mendelssohn. He really thought that every Jew could do what he did: engage in secular studies, rub shoulders with aristocrats and kings, debate philosophy and stay true to Torah values. He did not realize that for everyone else it would be the beginning of a greased slide away from Judaism.
A second thing that he obviously did not see was the pressure for getting out of the ghetto. The ghettos of Europe were not pleasant, and the Jews wanted to get out, which meant, to a great extent, dropping many of the traditions and ways of life that they had in the ghetto. The fall of the ghetto walls in Germany led the vast majority of German Jews to discard Jewish life completely.
Mendelssohn was also at the forefront of the movement away from Jews using their uniquely distinct language, Yiddish, and replacing it with German. He did so by composing a translation of the Bible into German, which many people said was far better than Martin Luther's, even though Luther's translation is the main translation of the Protestant Church. The introduction of German as the language of the Bible, or as the language that scholars and teachers taught Torah in, was a radical departure. In Jewish circles, until then it had been taught in Yiddish. A German translation of the Bible, along with German-speaking teachers, represented a radical departure.
A century later, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, in effect, reaped all the benefits of these changes but kept the people Torah observant, i.e. Orthodox. Rabbi Hirsch had also translated the Bible into German. His followers also spoke German, dressed like the Germans, got a secular education (in the Realschule in Frankfort) and integrated themselves into German society. They were part of Germany, but they were devotedly religious and Orthodox.
That was 100 years later. When the genie was let out of the bottle here in the middle of the 1700s, it was a complete destruction.
It also became fashionable for a short period of time, until German anti-Semitism set back in, for German intellectuals to marry Jews. That provided a rate of intermarriage that in a short period of time proved astonishing. Also, it led to a great many conversions of German Jews to Christianity. These dramatic changes took place within a short period of time and can be traced to the personage of Moses Mendelssohn.
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
The third person whose influence had a major impact on the period is Amschel Mayer Rothschild.
Rothschild's success in the late 1700s in establishing the main international banking firm in Europe, and of being able also in a relatively short period of time to reach a position of enormous prominence throughout Europe, propelled Jews into this assimilatory process, even though he himself was a very observant Jew. Everybody thought that he could be Rothschild. That underlying belief, combined with the pressures of secular Humanism of the 18th century, is what brought about the birth of Reform and its enormous success for its first 150 years.
The Reform today is a different brand completely. We will discuss the movement next time, but it is important to understand that it was a radical departure in Jewish theology. It made a completely different religion out of Judaism, to the degree that it was almost unrecognizable.
Berel Wein adapted by Yaakov Astor
YOUR THOUGHTS? [2]
2 Responses to "The Coming of Reform"
Art Ward, MD says:
The more-powerful word you want for "ironic" is "paradoxically:.
Yaacov T says:
Rabbi Wein,
Would it be correct to say that there really is no difference between medieval and modern anti semitism. The root cause is 'Eisav soine Yaacov.' Period. The excuse changed throughout the centuries?
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import React from 'react'
import { View, Text, AppState, TouchableHighlight, Image } from 'react-native'

import {
  createCost,
  listCosts,
  deleteCosts,
  listCategorys,
  deleteCategorys
} from './storage'
import sync from './sync'

import Category from './components/Category'
import Header from './components/Header'
import TextInput from './components/TextInput'
import Actions from './components/Actions'

import { primary, accented } from './style'

class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    categorys: [],
    category: '',
    cost: '',
    newCategory: false,
    costCount: listCosts().length
  }

  render() {
    const { categorys, category, cost, newCategory } = this.state
    const isValidCost = category !== '' && cost !== ''

    return (
      <View>
        <Header
          newCost={isValidCost}
          onAction={() => {
            createCost({
              cost: parseFloat(cost.replace(',', '.')),
              category
            })
            this.syncCosts()
            this.setState({
              cost: '',
              category: '',
              costCount: listCosts().length,
              newCategory: false
            })
          }}
        />
        <TextInput
          onChangeText={cost => this.setState({ cost })}
          value={cost}
          placeholder="Cost"
          keyboardType="numeric"
        />
        <View
          style={{
            flexWrap: 'wrap',
            flexDirection: 'row',
            justifyContent: 'space-around'
          }}
        >
          {categorys.length > 0
            ? categorys
                .slice(0, 8)
                .map(category =>
                  <Category
                    onPress={() =>
                      this.setState({ category, newCategory: false })}
                    name={category}
                    key={category}
                    selected={this.state.category}
                  />
                )
            : <Text>Please connect to costa to view categories</Text>}
        </View>
        <View
          style={{
            alignItems: 'flex-end',
            marginTop: 15
          }}
        >
          {!newCategory &&
            <TouchableHighlight
              style={{
                backgroundColor: primary,
                borderRadius: 5,
                borderWidth: 1,
                padding: 5,
                justifyContent: 'center',
                shadowOffset: { width: 3, height: 3 },
                shadowRadius: 3,
                shadowOpacity: 1,
                shadowColor: '#ccc',
                marginRight: 30
              }}
              onPress={() => this.setState({ newCategory: true, category: '' })}
              underlayColor={accented}
            >
              <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }}>
                <Image
                  style={{ height: 20, width: 20, marginRight: 5 }}
                  source={require('./images/plus.png')}
                />
                <Text>Add Category</Text>
              </View>
            </TouchableHighlight>}
        </View>
        {newCategory &&
          <TextInput
            value={category}
            placeholder="New Category"
            onChangeText={category => this.setState({ category })}
          />}
        <View
          style={{
            alignItems: 'center',
            marginTop: 15
          }}
        >
          <Actions
            newCost={isValidCost}
            onAction={
              isValidCost
                ? () => {
                    createCost({
                      cost: parseFloat(cost.replace(',', '.')),
                      category
                    })
                    this.syncCosts()
                    this.setState({
                      cost: '',
                      category: '',
                      costCount: listCosts().length,
                      newCategory: false
                    })
                  }
                : this.syncCosts
            }
            costCount={listCosts().length}
          />
        </View>
      </View>
    )
  }

  syncCosts = () => {
    sync({ costs: listCosts(), update: this.setState.bind(this) })
      .then(isSynced => {
        this.setState({ costCount: listCosts().length })
        if (isSynced) {
          deleteCosts()
          deleteCategorys()
        }
      })
      .catch(err => console.error(`Could not sync costs due to ${err}`))
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.setState({
      categorys: Object.keys(listCategorys())
        .map(categoryKey => listCategorys()[categoryKey])
        .map(({ name }) => name)
    })
    this.syncCosts()
    AppState.addEventListener('change', appState => {
      if (appState === 'active') {
        this.syncCosts()
      }
    })
  }
}

export default App


Gabriela and Reinaldo came from far away: Brasil! They never visited Sardinia before but have heard about it and keen to discover this italian jewel in the middle of the mediterranean sea. A nice group of parents and friends followed them in this dream of getting married abroad and we organized three days of events in Alghero for all of them.
Gabriela and Reinaldo came from far away: Brasil!
They never visited Sardinia before but have heard about it and keen to discover this italian jewel in the middle of the mediterranean sea. A nice group of parents and friends followed them in this dream of getting married abroad and we organized three days of events in Alghero for all of them.
For the wedding they chose a panoramic venue with stunning views of Capo Caccia. A symbolic ceremony was celebrated at sunset by the Humanist Celebrant and was followed by a rich apeiritif on buffet at a panoramic terrace with the sound of a string duo.
An elegant sit down dinner and a party with music till late made the rest for an unforgettable wedding day.


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Most of these game types are balanced towards the war including
two teams. You can always add more teams for a diverse and challenging addition to the battle. Rules can be tweaked as you
practice and gain experience.
ATTACK & DEFEND
This simple match mode requires one group of players to defend a pre-specified base or point, while the other team tries to capture it. Usually, this game type comes with a time limit, giving an added thrill to players who are required to rush to the finish. If the defending team continues to defend the point until the time runs out, they win. If the attacking team captures the point and is holding it while time expires, they win.
Capture the flag gives an extra goal for players. Each team is given a colored flag, which is placed on their side of the field. The goal is to defend their own flag while also attempting to capture and steal the enemy's flag. The first team to capture the other team's flag a certain number of times (typically once) is the team to win.
This is an extremely thrilling match option for those who want to take their Nerf wars to the next level. Each team is given an unarmed player to play the hostage, who will be hidden at the enemy's base. The opposing team must successfully rescue their hostage within a certain time limit in order to win. The hostage cannot move until one of the friendly players taps them with their hand.
Deathmatch is one of the most popular – if not the most popular – forms of Nerf wars. This is a standard combat match, where players must simply tag out the enemy team and take them down before they are taken down themselves. Each team has a certain amount of tags, or "deaths", until they are out for good. The last team to have any remaining players wins the match.
Similar to "attack and defend", the control points Nerf war match adds a dynamic challenge to the game. There are a pre-determined amount of points set out among the field, and the teams must fight each other to take control of these points. In order to capture a point, a player must stand next to the point and count to a certain number, typically 10 or 15, in order to capture it. If the player counts to the number without being attacked or tagged, they are then able to switch the control point's colors with their own team's colors. The first team to capture the other team's home base wins the challenge.
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The communications module is based around your student and staff member's contact information. It gives the user the ability to choose individuals or selected groups to send information out to via email, SMS or letters. You are also able to generate student labels from this area.
Upon loading the communications module you will be presented with the Contact List. The first step is to select the person(s) you wish to send a message or letter to.
The contact list is the means by which you identify the students and therefore the contacts you wish to communicate with. From various options on the left hand side you can choose whether to look for staff or student contact details.
For students, you can choose individuals from the Student Search drop down box or you can choose groups of pupils from the various available options including Year, Form, Club or Dynamic Groups. You can expand sections such as 'Year Groups' by clicking on them.
Once you have selected the group of interest by clicking on it, you can then either add all of the students or click on individual students. Once chosen they will appear on the right hand side along with their listed contacts.
You can remove individuals from the list by clicking on the red cross.
You can then choose which contact order(s) you wish to send the text, email or letter to by ticking the box(es) next to the chosen contact(s).
If you want to clear all the students from the list, use the 'Clear All' function or if you had multiple year groups selected and wish to delete whole year groups, these can be removed from the Include list.
You can create groups of students, for example for visits. The first stage is to generate the list of students by choosing them from the student search bar and once you are happy, select 'Save Group'. Give the list a unique name and save it. You can also update an existing group.
Note: Updating an existing group will erase the old group and save the current list you have selected.
To send text messages from Comms you must first select the intended recipients. This is done by selecting from the Contact List as above.
Once recipients have been selected click on the SMS tab at the top of the page. The box underneath the SMS tab will tell you how many texts are going to be sent.
Type your message in the large text box (up to 160 characters), adding in any of the Dynamic Fields by clicking on them. You can then preview the message for a certain student by selecting them from the 'Preview SMS for' dropdown.
Once you are happy with your text you can then either 'Send SMS' or 'Save as Template'.
Any templates you save will appear on the right hand side of the screen. You can 'Use' or delete these by clicking on the corresponding link.
Note: If you type an SMS message that exceeds the maximum 160 character limit you will get a warning message and the 'Send' button will be removed.
To check back on what texts have been sent you can click into the Usage/Logs tab.
To send emails from Comms you must first select the intended recipients. This can be done from the Contact List as above or you can email directly.
To email directly click onto the Email tab. You will see a box entitled 'Email Directly'. Within here you can type in single or multiple email addresses.
Next, add an Email Subject and then in the box below write and format your email message.
You can add attachments by clicking on the corresponding blue button. If you wish to save your message as a template, click onto the 'Templates' button and save. You can insert previously saved templates from here if needed.
Once you are happy with your message click 'Send Email'. A pop up box will appear to inform you how many emails are about to be sent. Click OK and a confirmation pop up will tell you that the email has been sent.
To check back on what emails have been sent you can click into the Usage/Logs tab.
To send letters from Comms you must first select the intended recipients. This can be done from the Contact List as above. Click onto the Letters tab at the top of the page. Dynamic Fields can be added from the options available above the letter area in a similar way to a Mail Merge, for example add student first name. surname, student form etc.
Once you have typed, formatted and added Dynamic Fields to the content area, choose Print Letter. This will merge the letter for all chosen recipients which can then be exported as a Word document using the blue icon on the top right of the screen under the search bar.
To insert a template from Word, you will need to highlight the text you would like to copy and choose CTRL and C, then in Comms select the letter tab and click the Paste from Word icon.
Once you have selected this icon another window will appear. This window will allow you to paste the selected text by using CTRL and V into the text box then Insert.
Once back to the main body of the letter You can make adjustments before adding the dynamic fields if necessary in the main formatting window.
*The best method for pasting documents from Word is to use the paste keyboard shortcut (CTRL and V) - certain browsers will not allow the user to paste text using the mouse.
To save this template you will need to click the 'Templates' tab in the main text box window at the top, once you have selected this you will be presented with two buttons. Clicking 'Save Template' allows you to give the template a name, category and a brief description.
To load a saved template click on the 'Templates' tab above the text box window and choose Insert Template. Your saved templates will be listed here. If necessary you can also delete templates in this area.
Within the Comms area labels are not editable, however once exported they can be amended in Word. If you wish to create your own customisable labels this can be done through Reporting>Reports>Student Labels.
Once text messages or emails have been sent, the Usage Logs area keeps a record of the date and time the message was sent and by whom, the subject and content of the message and importantly, the status of the message whether it has been sent or failed to send. There are a number of reasons that would cause a message to fail, examples being an invalid number, a service provider blocking messages or parents and contacts having ended contracts or having changed their number without keeping the school updated.
Within the Usage/Logs table are columns that can be expanded to show more detail, for example the column headed Total Sent will show the number of messages sent. You can click onto this number and it will expand to show you the names of the contacts that the message has gone to and which child they are attached to. In the case of SMS it will also give you the message status. For emails you are able to choose to 'Show full message' for future reference.