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Story about Angels in Revolution-era United States
An angel and his apprentice seek answers from a magical book in post-revolution America invaded by angels. Epic quest ensues.
The story started with an statement of the time frame, which (according to my poor grasp of history at the time) should have been just after the American Revolution. Sometime around that time, angels had come to earth and made themselves known. They ended up gaining some power and made some sort of colony in the United States, though exactly where I don't remember. The angels were human-shaped and sized, with similar anatomy, but had no wings as a whole, though I seem to remember several scenes with various angelic characters taking flight.
The story followed a young boy apprenticed to one angel as if it were a trade he could learn. His parents were honored that he was chosen by the angels to be an apprentice through a conversation the boy listened in on. He wasn't excited about it at first and gave the impression that most of the angels were arrogant and unapproachable, but found his master was different. The angel treated the boy kindly and fairly and did his best to teach him about the world and about angels as best as the angel knew. The angel used magic on a fairly regular basis, but the specifics of it I don't remember. It seemed like he was a scholar of some type by trade but I don't remember it being specifically mentioned.
Together they were seeking some magical book that had answers to the questions the angel had, the nature of the questions I don't remember. Their travels were opposed by other angels who didn't want them to find the book, because the questions he was asking would change things somehow in a way most angels didn't like.
I can explicitly remember a scene where the two are escaping on a boat and are being chased by a few angels. At least one of the chasing angels had some strange powers, and was able to turn into a large group of insects, like ants or wasps, but the protagonists were able to get away. One of the angels in their group was lion-like with a muzzle and mane but a humanoid form, or had the ability to turn into a lion, I don't remember. It may have been the same angel and I've mis-remembered and combined the two. There was also a female in the group chasing them. I believe this group was the main set of antagonists, but were being directed by another party, another angel who had some sort of political clout.
Near the end the two had gotten to some large magical angel city and recovered the book, which gave the boy some magical powers like the angels. I remember his powers being described as blue flames, and the book may have given off blue flame as well. The boy ended up using his new powers against their antagonists and everyone was surprised at how much power the boy had and he nearly destroyed the opposing angels in a fight in the city. The book answered the questions the angel was asking and revealed they weren't angels at all, but elves who had to escape from their magical realm due to some evil destruction. This was a big surprise to the protagonists, though I explicitly remember being un-surprised, as the magic they'd described as having used seemed more nature-based than what you'd expect angels to use.
The book came to a proper closure with the good guys beating the bad guy and getting their questions answered, but it seemed like it would have been an opening for a series, with the boy getting new untapped powers and the angel/elf knowing the truth and having the will to try to inform others. I can remember looking through the book for hints of a series, any of those advertising blurbs paperbacks will occasionally do like 'here's a sneak-peek of the next book!' or 'Other books by this author!' and I don't remember being able to find any.
The tone of the story was serious with fictional elements. There weren't any scenes focused toward comedy, but there may have been some comedic moments I don't remember.
Brief backstory about the book: I found it as a softcover in a truck stop gas station while traveling between the Midwest and East Coast sometime between 2000 and 2002. I found it in a spinning softcover display among other cheap softcovers, mostly romance novels. I wasn't interested in romance novels, but this book caught my eye. The cover had to have been visually stunning enough to catch my attention, but considering the competition it didn't need to stand out much. I don't remember what the cover looked like, but may recognize it if I see it again. It seemed new at the time, not a reprinting, and was not by an author or publishing house I recognized.
I read it multiple times and enjoyed it greatly during my trip, but sometime near the end of the trip misplaced it. I revisited the same truck stop on my way back and was unable to locate another copy.
It may have been directed toward the young adult group, since I don't remember anything explicit - language, sexuality, or violence - about it. My memories are vague now and I might be wrong.
story-identification young-adult
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Welcome to the site. You have a great start here. If you could take a look at this guide to help jog your memory and edit in any more details, that would be great. Every little bit helps us. – amflare Dec 20 '17 at 17:10
It's been a long time since I looked at this book, but I am about 99.9 percent certain that you are thinking of The Ways of Magic, by Scott Ciencin. Does this cover art look familiar?
Unfortunately, while it's listed on Amazon.com, they don't have "free online samples" of the first chapter or so. It appears that there is no e-book version available for Kindle, for instance. So I can't double-check portions of the text to confirm all the details of what you believe you remember.
However, I can confirm, from a combination of personal recollection and other people's online reviews (on Amazon, for instance), the following points that match closely with your recollections.
I'll quote bits of what you remembered, numbering them to distinguish them from anything else I quote which was not part of your original post. I'll comment on each point.
The story started with an statement of the time frame, which (according to my poor grasp of history at the time) should have been just after the American Revolution.
I'm not sure about the exact date, but online sources confirm that, in the alternate timeline of this book, the divergence from our history books seems to have begun when the "angels" appeared in the world around the year 1500, and this book is set a few centuries later, after things have long since settled down into a new status quo.
The angels were human-shaped and sized, with similar anatomy, but had no wings as a whole, though I seem to remember several scenes with various angelic characters taking flight.
I'm not sure about the "taking flight" -- my memory isn't that good, and I don't think I ever finished reading the book -- but I do remember that the "angels" were basically shaped like human beings. However, I have the distinct impression that anyone growing up in the angel-dominated world could, and did, easily learn to spot the differences between the angels he met and the humans he met, no matter how any of them were dressed.
The cover art, of course, shows one artist's conception of what a major "angelic" character is supposed to look like -- complete with pointy ears -- but at this late date, I can't swear as to whether or not the text of the book stressed the existence of pointy ears as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the angels.
The story followed a young boy apprenticed to one angel as if it were a trade he could learn. His parents were honored that he was chosen by the angels to be an apprentice through a conversation the boy listened in on. He wasn't excited about it at first and gave the impression that most of the angels were arrogant and unapproachable, but found his master was different.
I remember that the main viewpoint character was a boy who was taken "under the wing" of an angel. (I put that in quotes because, as you remembered, this angel did not literally have big white wings growing out of his back, such as we might see in artistic renditions of Biblical angels.) I remember that the angel in question appeared to be a thoughtful, reasonable person who was not harsh with his new apprentice (or whatever the exact relationship was called).
Regarding the names of the two major characters shown on the cover, the plot summary on Amazon says:
Yearning to become an artist despite the commands of the lords, who determine everyone's trades, young Tom Keeper finds a chance to fulfill his dream when Aitan Anzelm visits his town and recognizes Tom's inborn talent for magic.
The angel used magic on a fairly regular basis, but the specifics of it I don't remember. It seemed like he was a scholar of some type by trade but I don't remember it being specifically mentioned.
I'm in the same boat -- I know Aitan Anzelm had supernatural abilities, as did the other angels in Tom's world, but I don't recall exactly what they could do, or what Aitan's own field of expertise was among his kind!
The book answered the questions the angel was asking and revealed they weren't angels at all, but elves who had to escape from their magical realm due to some evil destruction. This was a big surprise to the protagonists, though I explicitly remember being un-surprised, as the magic they'd described as having used seemed more nature-based than what you'd expect angels to use.
Yes, I remembered that the angel thing was all a scam. It was established right away in the text that, by the time this story was taking place, virtually all of the humans, and implicitly a great many of the "angels," were, in fact, firm believers in the validity of the term "angel" for this nonhuman race. Which turned out to be self-serving religious propaganda invented by the original batch of elves who had taken refuge on Earth. Tom's master, as I recall, was definitely one of those true believers. After all, why shouldn't he believe what his elders had been telling him for all of his life? But, as you say, they were simply elves whose ancestors had fled to Earth from some other world.
Of course, it helped that the series title shown on the front cover was "The Elven Ways," which strongly suggested that some of the characters in this story would be some sort of elves. (Granted, as far as anyone knew when reading the first chapter, it might have turned out that "the elves" and "the angels" were two separate sets of people in the plot.)
On a very similar note, one of the reviewers on Amazon says, in part:
Yup. In the early 1500s elves escaped a dying and magicless realm and came to our world. They somehow got a copy of the Bible and set themselves up as angels, and thus, destroying any hope of technology as we know it. Without our guns and fighter planes, how can we win a war against high magic? Enter Tom Keeper, humankind's only hope.
On the other hand, the good news for you is that this was, in fact, always intended as the first installment of a trilogy, and the other two books were published afterwards. (Apparently spaced about a year apart -- 1996, 1997, 1998.) According to ISFDB, the Elven Ways trilogy consists of:
1. The Ways of Magic
2. Ancient Games
3. Night of Glory
Brief backstory about the book: I found it as a softcover in a truck stop gas station while traveling between the Midwest and East Coast sometime between 2000 and 2002.
The Ways of Magic was first published in 1996, so you could easily have run across it a few years later in a truck stop. And it looks like all three volumes only came out in paperback.
I believe your memory serves you well on that point. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to have explicitly been marketed as "Young Adult" literature, but I think I read at least half of it, and I agree that it was written in a way that was meant to be pretty "clean" -- not involving lots of foul language or sex scenes, for instance.
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Yes! That is it. Thank you! You mention that you read the book but didn't finish it - mind if I ask why? – Shionjin Dec 21 '17 at 19:32
@Shionjin - It's been about as long for me as it has been for you, so my memory is blurred, but I have a strong impression that I just plain didn't find the main characters, and the way they were written, to be all that appealing. Even though the basic premise of "elves are claiming to be angels with a divine mandate" was an interesting approach. So I simply lost interest and probably returned the book to the public library without finishing it first. (I suspect it was a library book, since I don't think I ever bought a copy, or else I would have seen it again in my collection since then.) – Lorendiac Dec 21 '17 at 23:36
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I Am the Tooth Fairy
"I know you're the tooth fairy." Noah, my 8-year-old, looks me dead in the eye. We are out to dinner. A large television hangs from the wall. Without blinking, he looks back up at the screen. A small, dry wing falls from my back and lands on the floor like a candy wrapper. The thing about not existing is that sometimes it's a lot like being a mother.
"Sorry, Mama," says Eli, my 6-year-old. He pats my hand and takes a bite of broccoli.
I think about all the elaborate notes in pink cursive, the 100 hundred shiny pennies in a cloth pouch, the blue stuffed cat, the five-dollar bill, the Superman, the glitter trails, the wooden hearts, the breath I held, the way I ever so gently lifted the pillow, the sparkle-stamped envelope with the tooth fairy's address: 12345 Tooth Fairy Lane, Moutharctica, Earth. I kept myself secret. I tiptoed. I used my imagination, and now I've been caught. Noah looks at me again with a mix of sadness and pity and suspicion. I turn around to see what he's watching. It's a cartoon about a sea sponge who lives with his meowing pet snail.
A little light goes out inside me. But I can't locate exactly what it ever lit up.
After Tinker Bell drinks the poison Hook left for Peter Pan, and her wings can barely carry her, and her light starts fading, and after she lets Peter Pan's tears run over her finger, she realizes "she can get well again if children believed in fairies." "Clap your hands; don't let Tink die," says Peter Pan. Many children clapped, some didn't, "a few little beasts hissed." Tink, of course, is saved. She flashes "more merry and impudent than ever." It doesn't even occur to her to thank the children who believed. Tink, whose name sounds like a penny tossed in a glass. Tink, whose name sounds like a wish that won't come true.
Often as a mother I am in a cold sweat juggling whimsy and delight. "Magic anyone? Endless fun? Astounding joy?"
"No," say my sons, "we're good." And they are. It's me who isn't good. It's me who wants it. And I don't even want it.
What I want is my sons' illegible, lyrical teeth. I want to turn them into an alphabet just for us. Letters with crowns and necks and roots. Milk letters. Deciduous letters. In this language I would draw a map that clearly marks where my sons' wonder is buried so they always know where to go on their coldest days.
Clap your hands; don't let mother die. My sons clap their hands and I brighten.
I've never seen a fairy. I've never looked up and seen a faint green glow. The closest I've ever come was once as a child — in a dream — I ran after myself, and when I caught up to me and turned around I wasn't there.
We take shelter in children to escape oblivion. We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the fairy. It's the child who is the fairy. It's the child who is enchanted, a metaphor, a shape-shifter. My sons keep bursting out of their skin. They smell like poppies, warm earth, milk. And then one day, out of nowhere, they won't anymore. They are losing their baby teeth at what seems an alarming rate. Adult teeth bloom in their mouths. Their limbs grow longer and longer like shadows.
For whom is a child's childhood? I think it's for all of us. But it's not for when we are children. Our childhoods are for later.
Some believe fairies are the discarded gods of the oldest faiths. Like shed skins of light. They continue to exist because they believe, like a child, that they exist.
The fairy isn't the fairy. The mother is the fairy. The fairy flits back and forth, uncatchable. Who is she? The fairy is the space between knowing and not knowing. It's the realization as it dawns. It's what glows between a mother and her child. It's Puck sweeping the dust with a broom behind the door. The fairy is the dust. The fairy is the door.
In 1691, Robert Kirk, a minister in the Church of Scotland, wrote a treatise claiming fairies were as real as you or me. It wasn't published, though, until 1851, when "The Secret Commonwealth" was printed in a limited edition of a hundred copies. We each, he wrote, have a fairy counterpart, a co-walker, an echo. He described fairies as "somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud and best seen in twilight." Their bodies are spongeous and thin. "They are sometimes heard to bake bread." "They speak but little and that by way of whistling — clear, not rough." "They hang between the nature of God, and the nature of man." Their body is "as a sigh is."
They do not curse, but among their common faults are "Envy, Spite, Hypocrisy, lying, and dissimulatione." They are prone to sadness because of their pendulous state. They can cure a sick cow. They steal milk, and when they are very angry they spoil it.
On May 14, 1692, Reverend Kirk took a walk in his nightgown on the fairy hill beside the manse. Later that evening, on the same hill, his body was found dead. The body that was buried, according to locals, was a changeling. The fairies had kidnapped the minister in his nightgown, replaced him with a dead fairy, and held the reverend captive in Fairyland.
The punishment, it seems, for believing too much in fairies is to be snatched away by them for eternity.
Three days after I give birth to Noah, I am nursing him in a soft, beige rocking chair when a goat walks in. "Hello," I say. The goat, being a goat, says nothing. Most likely, I am hallucinating from no sleep. Most likely, a little piece of this world has torn and through the rip a goat has walked in. The goat lays his soft head on Noah's head, like a kiss. The room fills up with wildflowers and then empties of wildflowers and then the goat is gone. Who am I to say there is no thin veil between this world and fairyland? I know this now, but I didn't know it then: I am the tooth fairy.
This is how you can tell if your baby has been replaced by a changeling: boil water in an eggshell. If your baby is a changeling it will laugh and reveal it's as old as the forest. In all its years, it will say when it suddenly begins to speak, it has never seen anyone boil water in an eggshell. If you wish to keep the fairies away, put the Bible, a piece of bread, or iron in your child's bed. And if you wish to see a fairy, take the rope that once bound a corpse to a bier and tie it around your waist. Bend over and look between your legs. A procession of fairies will appear. If the wind changes directions while you do this, it is possible you will drop down dead.
There are two kinds of fairies. There are the "trooping" fairies, who live together on a hill. And then there are the ones who attach themselves to individuals, like a haunt. If I were a fairy, I'm certain I'd be the second kind, but to tell you the truth I'd make a terrible fairy. A terrible mother fairy who writes about fairies, and by doing so angers them all.
We are at the pediatric dentist because Eli has flown off his scooter and landed on his face. The dentist, who looks more like a very old child dressed up as a dentist than an actual dentist, puts Eli in a chair and raises it with a crank to the ceiling. She climbs up a ladder and examines him in the air. "You okay?" I call out from down here. From all the way down here. She tells me his two front teeth will have to be pulled. "Bad news," she says, smiling. She lowers Eli and climbs back down. She hands me a brochure on sedation options. She is wearing tiny pink sneakers. I imagine a back room filled with sparkling white teeth. Nightly she grinds them. And stirs the powder into her warm milk. Unlike the rest of us, she will live forever.
"Can we err on the side of nature?" I ask. "I don't recommend that," says the dentist who clearly was once a fairy.
She shows me two fake front baby teeth attached to a wire. After she pulls Eli's teeth she can "cement the device into his mouth," she says. "I made one for my daughter," she says, her red cheeks glowing.
The dentist's office is decorated like an amusement park: vending machines filled with toys, televisions frantic with cartoons, posters of wide-eyed animals in pants. The instruments on the dentist's tray — forceps, mouth mirror, periodontal probe — shine as the only reminder of where we are. There is even a giant stuffed panda. All you need to do is leave your name and number on a small piece of paper for the chance to win. I am so distraught I almost enter. Would she deliver the panda herself? Would she knock on our door with the prize and then devour us?
"Let's get out of here," I say to Eli. "Let's run, Mama," says Eli. And we run. We run home where it's safe. Eli's baby teeth stay in for another year. And when they fall out naturally I add them to the rest. Between Noah and Eli I have twelve. Twelve teeth. Sometimes I just hold them. Noah's in one hand. Eli's in the other. Proof of their babyhood. Proof of the mouths they left behind. Those baby mouths that spoke words thickly accented by the land they came from. Maybe it's those teeth that are the fairies. The ones the children, in order to grow, must cast off. The teeth that made little holes in the air with new breath.
If I were really the tooth fairy, I'd lay each tooth, like a body, on a rose leaf. I'd carry them one by one over my head through the streets. The air would brighten, and grow sad and sweet. And I would sing, though I cannot sing, a lament for everything I must remember and everything my sons must forget.
Last night I slept with all my sons' teeth underneath my pillow. And when I woke up, Noah and Eli were leaving me notes. They each had a long white beard, and they were very old and wise and radiant. I had caught them. And then I woke up again.
First published in The Paris Review Daily.
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Featured image: Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, with Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1869)
The Rockwell Files: Love at First Fight
Three months after Rockwell's Day in the Life of a Boy appeared on the cover of the Post, he decided to document a day in a little girl's life, too. He chose his favorite child model, Mary Whalen, to pose for the 22 images of Day in the Life of a Girl for the August 30, 1952, cover.
Rockwell had to be imaginative in posing Mary for the photographs he would use to inform the painting. To give the impression of her racing off to the pool, her mother helped by holding her pigtails back while someone else pulled on her swim cap. To simulate the mutual dunkings of Mary and co-model Chuck Marsh, Rockwell used a bronze bust. The kids posed as if to dunk the bust's head under water so Rockwell could get their elbow angles correct.
Making Mary's hair look soaking wet was easier: "They poured a bowl of water on me," she said.
Now came the toughest challenge. Though the models got along when posing, Chuck absolutely refused to kiss a girl — no way, no how. He finally agreed to a compromise: Rockwell brought out the bronze bust again and photographed Chuck kissing it.
The finished cover resembled Day in the Life of a Boy except for one image. Rockwell had been criticized for not showing the boy saying his prayers before going to bed. So he removed one of the images in the sequence — Mary and Chuck thanking the birthday girl for inviting them to her party — to make room for Mary kneeling at her bedside.
(Norman Rockwell, © SEPS)

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One thing Apple doesn't like you to call its $99 tablet accessory (sorry, "creative possibilities opener") is a stylus. There's a good reason why the company's current CEO has always insisted this is "not just a stylus" and it dates all the way back to 2007's industry-revolutionizing announcement of the first-generation iPhone.
Well, Tim Cook's Apple may be about to "blow it"… again, reportedly "mulling" the addition of a stylus to the iPhone's skill set "as early as 2019." This is hardly the first such rumor we're forced to deal with in recent years, but while The Investor's "industry sources" are anonymous, vague and therefore somewhat shady, they seem to know a few previously undisclosed details.
That almost sounds too good to be true, so at least for the time being, let's keep our skeptical hats on.


Did the Rebbe Identify Himself as the Messiah—and What Do His Hasidim Believe Today?
The 20th anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's passing has triggered an outpouring of tributes, as well as three major books about his life and legacy—My Rebbe by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rebbe by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and Turning Judaism Outward: A Biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe by Rabbi Chaim Miller. All three are suffused with profound admiration. Steinsaltz's—I omit the honorific in deference to stylistic guidelines—is the most personal account; Telushkin's reflects considerable research in written sources as well as discussions with a wide array of informants reporting their personal interactions with the Rebbe; and Miller's is a full-fledged biography that, although written by an adherent and issued by a Lubavitch publisher, asserts its aim to maintain a large measure of objectivity.
I did not need these books to persuade me that the Rebbe was an extraordinary individual of almost irresistible personal charisma, immense learning, exceptional leadership skills, and profound piety. Yet all three drastically downplay the impact of current Lubavitch messianism as well as the Rebbe's role in generating the messianic movement that has survived his passing. My concern with an accurate portrayal of the Rebbe's role emerges from a historian's desire to counter a deep distortion of historical reality but also from the recognition that a failure to appreciate that role feeds the misperception that the current believers are a marginal, almost inconsequential group.
Steinsaltz affirms correctly that "the Rebbe made it his life's work to bring the Mashiach." His very first discourse as Rebbe affirmed that "it is this generation's task to bring Mashiach." In his last years his emphasis on this theme became "ever more intense" as he repeatedly declared that redemption is at the threshold and that the messiah could come at any moment. In 1991, he gave a talk lamenting the fact that his efforts to bring the redemption had been insufficient and placing the messianic mission in the hands of his followers.
As to the Rebbe's view of his own messianic status, Steinsaltz writes that he thinks that "the Rebbe considered it possible that he might be tapped to become the Mashiach. … Hasidim could pick up the hints that the Rebbe left about his messianic role. However, he never made the claim outright and tried to quash all speculation." When the Hasidim began a song that named him as the messiah, he "stopped them quickly" and said that he should really leave the room. In 1983, he strongly criticized Hasidim who fixed their gaze on "a person of flesh and blood" during prayer and indicated that excessive attention to his gestures even on other occasions was a waste of time.
What I came to understand while researching this issue is that when Lubavitchers use the word "Messiah" in referring to the Rebbe, they do not mean what people think they mean. Perhaps the most surprising conclusion I reached is that the Messiah issue is, in the final analysis, a nonissue.
Telushkin goes on to explain. Maimonides, he says, provides criteria for a presumed messiah and for a definite messiah (a messiah "beyond all doubt" in Telushkin's formulation). Since the definite messiah must gather all Jews to Israel and rebuild the Temple, it should be obvious that the Rebbe did not attain this status. What, then, do Lubavitch Hasidim mean when they call him the messiah? The answer is that they mean only that he was the potential messiah for his generation. How, then, do some continue to believe that he is the messiah even after his passing? The answer is that they found a few sources legitimating the belief in a messiah who returns after his death to fulfill his mission.
Thus far, I have been postponing any evaluation of these presentations. In this case, however, we encounter a problem of simple coherence that interferes with the continuation of straightforward summary. It is true that messianists provide some sources to defend their belief, but in what way does this address the issue of how the Rebbe could be merely the potential messiah of his generation after his death? Telushkin makes no genuine effort to address this glaring question.
It may be—though I reiterate that Telushkin never addresses the point—that he is relying on the fact that current messianists continue to use the phrase "prince of the generation" about the Rebbe, inspired to some degree by the fact that he used this phrase (as we shall see) about his deceased father-in-law. However, once it is applied after the death of the prince it loses its limiting force. For the believers, the Rebbe's generation is defined by his leadership, which persists after his passing, and that leadership will continue until he reveals himself as the messiah. As to the use of the term during the Rebbe's lifetime, the assertion that he was the messiah of the generation was coupled with the absolute conviction that this was the generation of the redemption, and so there too the limitation was bereft of significance. Thus, Telushkin has not shown—and has barely even provided an argument—that "when Lubavitchers use the word 'Messiah' in referring to the Rebbe, they do not mean what people think they mean." They certainly do.
Another section of the chapter on messianism addresses the question of the Rebbe's reaction to messianic claims made about him. It presents an unequivocal account of opposition to such claims and provides a bill of particulars, which I reproduce in its entirety. In 1965, he required a Hasid in Israel who had distributed a letter identifying him as the messiah to find all the copies and send them to the Chabad secretariat. In 1991, he prohibited the editor of the journal Kfar Chabad from publishing "an article explaining why the Rebbe was worthy of being considered the presumed Messiah." He rebuked messianic activists, saying, "They are taking a knife to my heart." Although he encouraged the standard messianic chant on one occasion in 1991, he refused to come down to the synagogue the next morning unless assured that it would not be recited again, and a few months later, when a similar song was sung, he declared that he should really leave. Later still, he reacted to a letter from an activist declaring him the messiah by saying, "Tell him that when the Moshiach comes I will give him the letter." More explicitly, when a woman from an Israeli newspaper told him he was the messiah, he responded, "I am not." Finally, in 1992, he told one of his secretaries who raised the issue, "The one who is the Messiah will have this revealed to him from above. This has not been revealed to me." In addition to all these statements, there is the incontrovertible fact that the Rebbe prepared a will after his wife's passing that clearly envisioned an unredeemed world after his death.
As to the messianic belief after the Rebbe's passing, Telushkin notes that some of the "mainstream" Hasidim recognize the possibility that the Rebbe will return as the messiah but feel that there is no way to know, while others do not even acknowledge the possibility. The full-fledged messianists are a "shrinking" movement and have been denounced by the mainstream. In any event, the entire matter is a nonissue because even the messianists continue to observe Jewish law.
Despite its length and its status as a full biography, Miller's book contains remarkably little discussion of the messianic vision that stood at the center of the Rebbe's consciousness. We are presented with the passage in the first official discourse. After that, with the exception of two pages of little substance, we find virtually nothing on the theme until a 10-page discussion of the messianic emphasis in the last years of the Rebbe's life of which only the last four or five address the key issues. What we learn is the following: The preparation for the messianic age that the Rebbe advocated was increased mitzvah observance and broadening the study of Hasidism and the messianic doctrine. He encouraged his followers to do everything they can to bring the messiah primarily through such study. He affirmed the Maimonidean position that one can be sure of the messiah's identity only after he builds the Temple and gathers the dispersed of Israel. He denounced people who sang a messianist chant for alienating people from Hasidism. He wrote the above-mentioned letter to the editor of Kfar Chabad magazine and a similar one to the author of a prospective article.
From my perspective, it is especially remarkable that the five-and-a half-page Afterword on the success of the movement after the Rebbe's passing and his influence on Jews of all stripes contains not a single allusion to the persistence of messianism. The reader of this book would have not the slightest inkling that anyone believed that the Rebbe was the messiah after his death.
If we look back at all three books, I think it is fair to say that readers would be puzzled if confronted with a realistic picture of the intensity and scope of the messianic movement that swirled around the Rebbe in his last years and continued after his death. Yes, he preached that the redemption was imminent and that it is the task of this generation to actualize it. He was arguably the most impressive figure of the generation. But, we are told, he made it clear that the identity of the messiah is unknown, and for all the talk of imminence, he spoke after all of the task of the generation and said—in a passage quoted by Steinsaltz—that though the redemption is at the threshold, we have to pull it in. We get no sense that he provided unequivocal assurances that the redemption would come in this generation. The main reason that readers will not be too puzzled by the widespread messianist belief is that they have been informed that the messianists believed only that the Rebbe was the potential messiah of the generation (Telushkin) and were convinced in his last years only of the "urgent possibility" that he "might" be the messiah (Steinsaltz). In fairness, Steinsaltz drops these qualifiers in his allusion to the current messianists.
In fact, the Rebbe's assurances were far stronger than this portrait suggests, and the messianists' belief that he is the messiah is far less equivocal. What I am about to present here is material provided with his mother's milk to every child in a messianist family but remains virtually unknown to all but a minuscule sliver of the outside community. It is impossible to understand Lubavitch messianism or assess its staying power without awareness of this information.
I must begin with what seems like a digression. The Rebbe's spiritual, even metaphysical relationship to his father-in-law is a key element in understanding him—and no one will ever grasp it fully. Throughout his discourses, he referred to his predecessor as the prince (nasi) of the generation and periodically noted that he is also the messiah of the generation, but the Rebbe also affirmed that this status is continued through the one who took his place. He also said of his predecessor, "His soul is in me." Thus, all the Hasidim understood the Rebbe's depictions of his father-in-law as references to himself. It is difficult to avoid this conclusion, nor would I want to avoid it, since the alternative is to affirm that the Rebbe believed in a deceased messiah. In any case, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the Rebbe knew that his Hasidim, virtually without exception, believed that he was referring to himself. At the same time, his apparent perception that he was in large measure an instrument of his father-in-law's leadership means that some of the exalted characterizations that he expressed were consistent with preservation of a significant measure of humility.
Here then is a sampling of statements made by the Rebbe that combined to generate a deep conviction among the Hasidim that he is the messiah. Except in some cases where I provide a link to a website, all of these statements—and many more—appear with precise annotation in one or more of the following Hebrew collections: Ve-hu Yig'allenu (Brooklyn, 1994, translated into English as And He Will Redeem Us [Brooklyn, 1994]); Ha-Tekufah ve-ha-Geullah be-Mishnato shel ha-Rebbe mi-Lubavitch (Kfar Chabad, 1999); Be-Emunah Shelemah ed. by S. Shmida (Jerusalem, 2000); Ha-Nekudah ha-Habadit 2 (Marcheshvan 5764 ).
4. Commenting on the phrase, "They will be redeemed immediately (miyad)": "So will this happen to us in actual reality, and with actual immediacy, with all the interpretations of miyad…and particularly with respect to this generation of ours…For the [three-letter] acrostic of MiYaD represents the three periods associated with my teacher and father-in-law the Prince of our generation in the order of their proximity to us: Mashiach (whose name is Menachem), Yosef Yitzchak, Dov Baer." The last two are the names of the Rebbe's predecessors in reverse chronological order. This is the closest he came to an explicit assertion that he is the Messiah, and one can plausibly argue that it is in fact fully explicit.
6. There is a rabbinic text that prohibits full-throated laughter in the pre-Messianic age, though not all authorities took this quite literally and observant Jews have generally set it aside. The Rebbe asserted that this prohibition is no longer applicable because it applies only through the moment before the revelation of the messiah. "But since the Prince of our generation [referring explicitly to his father-in-law] was the Messiah of our generation and he was revealed in full force," it follows that untrammeled laughter is now permitted and even encouraged.
7. Messianists have posted a video of a discourse by the Rebbe after which, as Telushkin noted, he briefly encouraged the singing of the messianist chant. Of perhaps greater interest is the posted section of the talk itself, where someone who understands Yiddish or the Hebrew titles will see the vigorous, unequivocal assertion that this is the generation of the redemption and the last generation of the exile. "The true and complete redemption—without forced interpretations [that would dilute the plain meaning of this depiction—un pshetlakh]" is arriving "right away—literally and literally literally" (in transliteration appropriate for Yiddish—tekef umiyad mamesh umamesh mamesh).
9. On two recorded occasions, the Rebbe provided encouraging reactions to representatives of the Chabad women's organization who had organized explicit affirmations of his messiahship. For one of these, click here.
These are some of the "hints that the Rebbe left" that could be "pick[ed] up" by the Hasidim. There is far, far more along these lines. Not a single one of these citations or anything resembling them appears in these books. Readers of the books would not imagine in their wildest dreams that such material could exist.
Lubavitch non-messianists have understandably attempted to mitigate the impact of this evidence. In key instances, they say, we are dealing with rhetorical exaggeration. Thus, the discourse in No. 7 above also affirms that the redemption would come that very day before the evening prayer. Since everyone understood that this was rhetoric, they should have also understood that the assurance about this generation was rhetoric despite its emphatically unequivocal language and the fact that it is part of a series of such assertions over the years. Alternatively, the affirmations of immediate redemption should be understood as prayers. When the Rebbe spoke about his father-in-law's prophecy of immediate redemption, he did not mean full-fledged prophecy.
Even if one accepts the plausibility of these arguments—and it is a great struggle to do so—there is not a shadow of a doubt that the Rebbe knew that the large majority of his audience took his statements literally, i.e., they understood that he was informing them that the redemption would definitely take place in this generation and that this assurance is based on prophecy. There is similarly not a shadow of a doubt that the Rebbe knew that when he spoke of his father-in-law as the messiah of the generation, his audience took for granted that he was appealing to his partnership with his predecessor and effectively affirming that he would be the redeemer. It is hardly surprising that in the period shortly after the Rebbe's death, heartrending Hebrew signs proliferated that read, "The Rebbe promised. The Rebbe will fulfill." (Ha-Rebbe hivtiach. Ha-Rebbe yekayyem.) As one messianist spokesman put it, the Rebbe said that the prince of the generation is the Lubavitcher Rebbe of the generation, and he said that this is the generation of the redemption. The spokesman went on to say that one does not need to resort to the recognition that two plus two equals four in order to draw the inexorable conclusion; it is enough to know that one plus one equals two.
Since I am convinced by the evidence of the will that the Rebbe—at least at some point—was not fully certain of redemption during his lifetime, I cannot easily explain why he would issue such unequivocal assurances. My best guess is that he believed that the final push had to come from the efforts of the people and that only unequivocal statements would provide the incentive necessary to galvanize them to a sufficient degree. But I do not know. What I do know is that he conveyed a message that did not suggest a modicum of doubt. At the same time, the preponderance of evidence indicates that for the most part he was opposed to public declarations of his messiahship because he believed that they would interfere with the spreading of the message of Hasidism.
And so we move to the posthumous movement.
In assessing the size of the messianist sector, we must first understand that within Lubavitch, the term "meshichist" is reserved for people who declare the Rebbe's messiahship in public and proclaim it in the liturgy. A significant number of these believe that the Rebbe is physically alive. You can be a non- or even anti-meshichist while maintaining the firm belief that the Rebbe will be revealed as the messiah, and many of the Hasidim fall into this category. In light of the sort of passages cited above, it is worth contemplating the obstacles that face a Lubavitch hasid who considers the possibility that someone other than the Rebbe will be the messiah.
Let us first back up and consider an assertion made by Telushkin. "All [my emphasis] Lubavitchers," he tells us …"recall a story told by the Rebbe. During a public speech [near the very beginning of his tenure], he spoke of an incident in which the Alter Rebbe, Chabad's founder, was asked, 'Will the Messiah be a Chasid or a non-Chasid?' " He replied that he would be a non-hasid, because non-Hasidim would not join a Hasidic messiah while Hasidim would accept a Messiah who was not a hasid.
In this passage we find not only a denial of our belief that the Rebbe is the Messiah but a decision that the Messiah has no connection to the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov God forbid [emphasis in the original]. Not only this, but the author is convinced that the Rebbe will confirm for us that the Messiah, who is divine truth, is a Litvak with no association with the teachings of Hasidism! And this is the divine truth for which we have been waiting two thousand years! And for this all the sufferings of exile were worthwhile.
To move to the moderates, a vigorous polemical work was published in 2003 by prominent Lubavitch rabbis criticizing believers in the Rebbe's physical survival (Ha-Nekudah ha-Habadit 1). They had to contend with the argument that Lubavitch theology affirms that the world survives through the intermediation of a supremely righteous human being who serves as a conduit for the divine energy. If the Rebbe is not physically alive, how does the world endure? Their answer is that in these extraordinary times before the redemption, a spiritual figure can serve. That figure is, of course, the Rebbe. And so we ask ourselves: If the messiah could be a non-Lubavitcher or even a non-hasid, why must we conclude that the basic pattern by which the life-force of the world operates has been suspended? Why could that potential messiah not serve as the righteous man of the generation? It is also worth asking how it is that a non-Lubavitch messiah will announce the redemption from the roof of 770 Eastern Parkway.
This is not to say that there are not some Lubavitch Hasidim who recognize that someone other than the Rebbe will be the messiah. It is certainly the case that the people who want to be seen as the mainstream, i.e., the leadership that administers the global enterprise of emissaries, does not project the messianist belief and strongly discourages its overt expression. Nonetheless, it seems clear that the "non-messianist" sector contains a very large component of believers.
It is difficult to determine with full confidence the percentage of unabashed messianists among full-fledged Hasidim. But it is certainly not a "narrow slice," "an extremist fringe," a "messianic margin." The largest population of Lubavitch Hasidim is almost certainly in Israel, where messianism is extremely powerful. The largest Lubavitch yeshiva in the world is probably the one in Safed, and it is vigorously messianist. I did some random Internet searches of Chabad yeshivas in Israel and found the following: In Safed, virtually every student wears a skullcap adorned with the messianist slogan, "May our Master, Teacher and Rabbi the King Messiah live forever," which begins with the Hebrew word yechi; in Netanya most do; in Bnei Brak about half do; at a 2010 event in Torat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem a giant yechi poster adorned the wall; yechi appears at the top of the home page of the Herzliya and Ramat Aviv yeshivas; the yeshiva of Mitzpeh Yitzhar is clearly messianist; in Lod, Kiryat Gat, Tiferet Menachem Jerusalem and Kfar Chabad, the photos that I have seen indicate that students do not wear yechi skullcaps and/or the website does not say yechi.
The presence of the slogan is determinative. Its absence is not since concerns about the Rebbe's opposition to public pronouncements as well as considerations of fundraising can play a role. It should be noted that the chief rabbi of Kfar Chabad is one of more than two hundred signatories of a rabbinic ruling that one is obligated by Jewish law to believe that the Rebbe is the messiah. The grounds for this ruling are that the Rebbe is a prophet, he clearly indicated that he is the messiah, and one is obligated to heed the words of a prophet. (See psakdin.net for the Hebrew text with a link to an English translation and the list of signatories.) This explains, by the way, why the fact that the Rebbe has not built the Temple or gathered the dispersed of Israel does not prevent messianists from being certain that he is the messiah. They do not abrogate fast days because the Temple has not been rebuilt, not (as Telushkin suggests) because they entertain doubts about the messiahship of the Rebbe.
That letter also uses another expression in reference to the Rebbe: avinu malkenu (our father our king). This is a term reserved for God in standard Jewish usage. One of those mashpi'im, Rabbi Sholom Charitonow, wrote an article that I discussed in my book as an example of the conviction that the Rebbe is fully divine, a belief that is not confined, as most observers assume, to a small number of unbalanced individuals. In the case of this letter, one could conceivably argue that the term is intended to refer only to God and not the Rebbe, but to insist on such a reading given the context would be a manifestation of willful blindness.
There is considerable additional evidence of the prevalence of unqualified messianism in Chabad today, but I will stop here. Whatever the precise percentages, it is evident that this belief is widespread and is being transmitted to the next generation in a host of educational institutions. When we add the firm believers among the "non-messianists" to the large number of overt messianists, it is difficult to avoid the impression that believers constitute a majority of full-fledged Lubavitch Hasidim.
No mainstream Jews affirmed that the descendant of David sent to redeem Israel would return from the dead to fulfill his mission, and only a nugatory number regarded this as a possibility. Maimonides ruled this out in principle in a highly authoritative work. Polemical and non-polemical texts insist on this position as a defining element of Judaism.
With the exception of Christians and Sabbateans, no Jews at all believed that this descendant of David might initiate a messianic mission in which he would promise imminent redemption and then die in an unredeemed world. We must remind ourselves that the Rebbe, addressing multitudes of followers, repeatedly and emphatically affirmed that his generation would be that of the ultimate redemption; his audiences manifestly understood these affirmations as an unqualified promise or prophecy. None of the sources cited by believers in the Rebbe's Messiahship to validate the possibility of a Messiah from the dead lend even a scintilla of validation to the absurd proposition that the Messiah, whatever his good intentions, might be expected to provide the Jewish people with misleading information about the time of the redemption. Messiah son of David does not fail in his first attempt. Messianic candidates almost always expressed, as the Rebbe did, assurances of imminent redemption that turned out to be incorrect. The affirmation that such an individual is Messiah son of David despite his death in an unredeemed world is precisely what mainstream Jews have unanimously, passionately, and unhesitatingly declared to be false messianism.
In sum, the assertion that it is even possible that the Lubavitcher Rebbe will be revealed as the Messiah undermines the parameters of the classic messianic faith of Judaism. Lubavitch messianism goes beyond this to declare with certainty that he is in fact the Messiah.
There is no question that the Lubavitcher Rebbe left an impressive, even awe-inspiring legacy. Nonetheless, an assessment of that legacy must take account of the fact that he bears primary responsibility for the development of a messianic movement that turned out to be misguided and persisted after his death as a movement of posthumous false messianism. The greater issue is whether or not admiration and sympathy for Chabad will lead to the legitimation by the larger community of this betrayal of the historic messianic faith of Judaism.
The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not represent those of his institution.
David Berger is the Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University.


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Breakfast and lunch are served daily in the cafeteria. An excellent variety of entrees, fruits, vegetables, and milk are offered each day. Free and reduced priced meals are available to those who qualify. Contact the school office for a simple form. Meals may be purchased on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Daily meal purchases are handled at serving times. Weekly and monthly tickets must be purchased in the cafeteria before school.
Parents and families are welcome to join us for breakfast and lunch in the cafeteria. Please notify the office before 9:00 a.m. so that we can add you to our lunch count.
We welcome continuous communication with your child's classroom teacher to find out how he/she is doing in school or to give the teacher important information. We send home academic progress reports and report cards four times during the school year and schedule official parent/teacher conferences in October and March. Teacher look forward this time to share successes and address any areas of concern.
The Flowing Wells Family Resource Center provides many services to our families, such as educational, health, mental health, recreational, and social services, including emergency food boxes and a clothing bank. Call Jackie Franco at 696-8614 for more information. If you need help, we are here to offer assistance.


A unit of Fokker Technologies of the Netherlands, a leading aerospace company and Pentagon contractor, has agreed to pay $21 million in penalties to settle accusations that it repeatedly violated American sanctions on sales of aircraft parts to Iran and Sudan, the United States government announced Thursday.
The Treasury statement said that from 2005 to 2010, the company indirectly exported or re-exported aircraft spare parts to Iranian or Sudanese customers without the required licensing by government authorities. The settlement covered 1,112 apparent violations of Iranian sanctions and 41 apparent violations of Sudanese sanctions.
the Akhoond regime still plead to the Big Satan and Western countries for materials. Pathetic!
You should first of shame for those idiots who first of all put us in this situation. Why is Iran not manufacturing Iran-140 and the next version 148 in a massive way? many of these aircrafts are regional and can easily be replaced. I understand if Iran cannot produce Boeing 747 but these small aircrafts, especially turbo engines are so easy to manufacture and Iran has the know-how, but in one or another way it does not move forward. I think they need to change the management and put some IRGC/Army generals in the civilian aviation field to see the same success as in the missile force of Iran. How can those guys without any prior knowledge can today produce ballistic missiles with cutting edge technology in masses but not Iran-140? This is not all due to sanctions or lack of money but rather incompetent managers with poor planning and lack of performance.


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Belize City Council to proceed with retirement exercise, says Christian Workers Union
Published by BBN Staff at July 6, 2021
Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2021. 5:35 pm CST.
By Aaron Humes: The Belize City Council has insisted with proceeding on its retirement exercise of scores of Council employees, including 33 belonging to the Christian Workers' Union (CWU), in two phases.
City Hall says keeping these workers over the retirement age of 55 "represents a ballooning liability on the books and [it] has to be dealt with."
But according to CWU President Evan "Mose" Hyde, the news "fell from the sky" on the workers and has turned their professional lives and plans upside down.
The CWU's various appeals – that at least a year's grace period should be given, that the collective outstanding loans of the union-affiliated workers is more than $337,000; 11 of the 33 have rented accommodations; half of them will be denied gratuity, mainly sanitation workers, who had their terms of service disjointed by privatization of the service in 1999 and subsequent re-joining of the Council in 2015; that fair consideration of these matters be given – was ignored by Mayor Bernard Wagner's team, and that employees have started receiving their letters.
The Council had boasted of being able to hold on to its 400-plus-member staff during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, and being able to pay short salaries, especially to sanitation workers. Nonetheless, it acknowledged that revenue had practically dried up as collections of taxes, fees and other revenue fell to almost nothing.
Central Health Region continues vaccinating against COVID-19 this week in the Belize City


As soon as I hopped into my car, the GPS system was flashing red to show queues of stationary traffic on my regular route to the office. Thankfully, the alternative offered allowed me to arrive on time and keep my scheduled appointments.
In the same way as a GPS combines live traffic data with an accurate map of the city, Simio Software connects real time data sources with a modeled production situation. Just like a GPS, Simio can also impose rules, make decisions, schedule and reschedule.
The major difference is in the scale.
Simio Simulation and Scheduling Software can model entire factories, holding huge quantities of detailed data about each resource, component and material. It leverages big data analysis to run thousands of permutations of scenarios, finding the optimum outcomes for specific circumstances. Lightning fast, it can detect and respond to changes with suggestions that will keep everything flowing in the best possible way.
Thank goodness for Simio, because Industry 4.0 is here.
Smart Factories employ fully integrated and connected equipment and people, each providing real time feedback about their state. Data is constantly collected on each product component, for process monitoring and control. Every aspect of the entire operation is managed through its associated specifications and status data. This large, constant stream of information coming from a known factory configuration can be received, stored, processed and reported upon by the powerful Simio software.
With Industry 4.0, nothing is left to chance. Everything is monitored and optimized, and performance is predicted, measured, improved and adapted on an ongoing basis. Management of so many interconnected components requires a scheduling system that is specifically designed to operate in this dynamic data environment. Simio Production Scheduling Software can be relied upon to provide the integrated solution for enabling technology in the Smart Factories of the future.
We are already seeing a rise in robotics and the increasing digitalization of the manufacturing industry under the effects of Industry 4.0. Soon all components of the factory model will be interconnected, just like my future driverless car that will communicate directly with my GPS to take the best route using current traffic information.
All I will have to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
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In the [http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/ BioHackathon 2008], we have focused on the standardization of bioinformatics web services and the exchange data formats to create bioinformatics workflows. To make these global efforts to be fully utilized by the biologists, we need to integrate these services into the various end-user applications.
For this purpose, we will organize the second !BioHackathon gathering software developers of mash-up services and web service providers. Additionally, to solve the real world use cases, we will also involve semi-wet biologists to apply their data for testing these services and applications in combination.
For this purpose, we will organize the second !BioHackathon gathering software developers of mash-up services and web service providers. Additionally, we will also involve semi-wet biologists to apply their data for testing these services and applications in combination to address the real world use cases.
* Arek Kasprzyk for "Database"
* Alfonso Valencia for "Bioinformatics"
* Alex Bateman for "NAR"
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Paris, 1932. Three friends meet at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. From the bestselling author of HOW TO LIVE, this personal journey through the story of modern existentialism asks what existentialist ideas might have to offer us today.


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Obórki – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim, w powiecie brodnickim, w gminie Osiek.

Podział administracyjny
W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość położona była w województwie toruńskim.

Demografia
Według Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego (III 2011 r.) liczyły 140 mieszkańców. Są dwunastą co do wielkości miejscowością gminy Osiek.

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2021 Events and Attractions We're Excited About
June 23, 2021 December 30, 2020 | Travel Updates
There is plenty to be excited about as we enter the new year! The travel industry looked pretty different in 2020, but there's hope for beloved attractions and events to return in 2021. Tourism destinations around the country and the world are working hard to welcome back guests safely as travel restrictions loosen and many people look to satisfy their travel itch. If the travel bug has hit you, our Disney vacation planners can help you plan your dream trip. Here are all the wonderful things travelers have to look forward to in 2021!
Walt Disney World's 50th-anniversary celebration
The entire WDW community plans to celebrate its golden anniversary with special events and celebrations that will begin in October 2021 and will likely continue throughout 2022. Much remains unknown about the specific offerings that will be part of the celebration. However, whatever Disney has planned is sure to be spectacular! Previously, Disney announced several attraction updates and offerings ahead of the 50th celebration. These included an overhaul of Future World at Epcot—which is well underway—and updating Cinderella Castle with a new color scheme, which is already complete. Other offerings ahead of the 50th anniversary include the opening of the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel, which will offer "passengers" an all-immersive Star Wars lodging experience from the airport to check out. The hotel opening is still on track for 2021, but reservation dates haven't been released. The Epcot nighttime show, HarmonioUS was also scheduled to open in 2021, but the opening has been pushed back.
Typically, Disney celebrates anniversaries for 12 to 15 months at a time, and some speculate that WDW's 50th anniversary may last even longer. That means there's plenty of time to plan your Disney vacation and celebrate with Mickey and pals!
Planning your Disney vacation around one of Epcot's many festivals held throughout the year is a great way to enjoy a special time at Walt Disney World. The Taste of Epcot International Festival of the Arts starts on January 8th and runs through February 22nd. This festival celebrates the culinary, visual, and performing arts with interactive experiences, exhibits, and photo ops throughout the park. The International Food and Wine Festival in the fall is another excellent time to visit!
A must-experience festival for any Disney lover is the International Flower and Garden Festival, held every spring. In 2021, the festival will run from March 3th until July 5th. This festival celebrates nature's beauty with gorgeous gardens, flowers, topiaries, and garden-inspired food selections from around the world. Take advantage of Florida's excellent weather and visit Epcot for this flowery festival! Our Disney travel agents can make a customized package that is perfect for your dream vacation. Book a long weekend getaway at Disney's Yacht Club Resort and enjoy a Garden View room and three-day base park ticket for $3,538.70 for two adults. Take all the time you want to (literally) smell the roses with a short stroll from your hotel room and enter Epcot through the International Gateway located between the UK and France pavilions. Or, stay at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, where you can ride the Skyliner to Epcot for a bird's eye view of the park. Book a Standard room for two adults and a three-day base park ticket for $2,176.32.
Final pricing is subject to change and based on individual package details. Contact our Disney travel agents at Wishing on a Star Travel to book your package today!
New attractions
Most major theme parks in Orlando will open new attractions in 2021. At Epcot, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure at the France pavilion is still on track to open in 2021. This family-friendly attraction uses 3D simulations and high-tech ride vehicles that allow guests to view Gusteau's restaurant from Remy's perspective. Universal's Islands of Adventure is set to open a new Jurrasic World-themed roller coaster in the summer of 2021. The VelociCoaster will launch guests at 70 mph through velociraptor paddocks and down a 155-foot drop. SeaWorld Orlando also plans to open a new coaster called Ice Breaker in the spring. The coaster is SeaWorld's first launch coaster and will take guests up and down a 93-foot spike at a 100-degree angle.
Cruises set sail
While cruises were forced to stop operations throughout much of 2020, many major cruise lines have announced that they plan to start limited operations in March 2021. This brings hope to avid cruisers that sailings will return by the summer or fall of 2021, with new safety protocols in place. Cruise lines like Disney and Royal Caribbean have opened bookings for sailings in fall 2021 and into 2022.
Other notable offerings
There are many other travel offerings to look forward to in 2021! Disney announced the reopening of Blizzard Beach water park on March 7th—just in time for its 25th anniversary. The park boasts one of the world's largest body slides, Summit Plummet, and Florida's first chairlift.
Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan will open on February 4th. Though you may not be planning a visit to this park any time soon, similar worlds have been announced for Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal's Epic Universe in Orlando. The opening of this land in Japan is a preview of what's to come when Mario and friends make their way stateside.
Disney guests will see park hopping return to ring in the new year starting on January 1st. Guests will still need to make a reservation using Disney's Park Pass Reservation system for the first park they plan to visit. Then, guests can enter subsequent parks during selected timeframes throughout the day, subject to park capacity guidelines.
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South Korea's new, $109 million stadium, which sits in Pyeongchang, will play host to a total of four ceremonies for both the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games—and then it will be destroyed.
The thought is that tearing the soon-to-be iconic arena will prevent it from becoming both a white elephant and a standing reminder of the over-the-top nature of the events, Huffpost reported.
South Korea strived for a type of restraint that has rarely been seen in recent Games—the estimated $13 billion spent to ready Pyeongchang to host the event falls well under the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia, which cost a record-breaking $50 billion. But even so, this stadium, which was built solely for just four ceremonies (no actual sporting events) embodies the lavishness that goes hand-in-hand with Olympics of the modern day, Huffpost reported.
According to researchers, the cost of the Olympics rise to 109 percent over projected costs—just about where Pyeongchang sits with these Games. Typically the excess can be found in unnecessary construction projects, Huffpost reported. For example, Pyeongchang officials built a new ski resort, knocking down part of an indigenous forest, although there were other ski areas readily available. As of now, the site will likely go unused after the Games are over.
What's more, there are no projected plans for three more facilities that were built just for these Games.
One major positive this time around is that Pyeongchang seems well-prepared for the Olympics, with the necessary facilities all complete and ready for athletes, judges and spectators alike. This is a far cry from Sochi, where the construction projects that made life miserable for local residents weren't even complete in time for the Games themselves.
However, despite the cost and the temporary nature of these structures, there is a lot riding on the 2018 Winter Olympic Games for South Korea. The hope is twofold: First, that these Games provide an opportunity to bolster much-needed improved relations between North and South Korea, and second, that they help make the Korean Peninsula into an "Asian winter sports hub," Huffpost reported.


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Virga et Lapillus was an installation commissioned by Penrith Museum as part of the "Stones, Circles, Landscape" exhibition. The exhibition was curated by Aaron Watson (Simon Gallery) and juxtaposed contemporary artwork against prehistoric artefacts and archaeological research.


Make sure your business is compliant by taking the CILT(UK) Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC). One requirement for the granting of a standard National/International O-Licence for either road or passenger transport operations, is that the licence holder either holds or has access to the services of someone who holds, a CPC. Current legislation imposes restrictions on the number of operator licences and vehicles on which an external associate CPC holder can be named. The CILT CPC programme, for road haulage and passenger vehicle sector, involves seven days of tuition and an one-day revision workshop plus the examination day. The course provides a solid understanding and knowledge required to complete the examination and therefore hold the Transport Manager CPC. Dates available at Corby are a date range for the training days, all dates including the revision day and exam day will be specified when official registration has occurred. Please contact the Professional Development team directly for more information.
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Kinect SDK And Windows 8 Metro-Style Apps
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For a master degree thesis project about NUI (Natural User Interfaces) by Marina Sabetta, student at the Polythecnic of Turin, a home-entertainment embedded system is in development stage: its purpose is to let elder and non-technologic people browse the web, send/receive e-mails, interact through Instant Messengers and use a mobile phone, in a simple and intuitive manner. The prototype is based on Windows 8 Developer Preview and consists mainly of a .NET Metro-style app which acts as Windows system shell.
Lots of development and integration problems have been faced and brightly solved by Marina through ad-hoc solutions and workarounds - they existed because of the new operating system, the new (and yet incomplete) WinRT system APIs, missing samples and lack of documentation - but one problem among the others has been really though to solve: using Kinect in a Metro-style app.
The project still uses the Kinect SDK Beta 2 version with a Kinect for Xbox sensor: according to the documentation, Windows 8 Developer Preview is supported, but just for desktop application. Some tests have been performed in Windows 8 desktop environment and no issues have been found (we also tried the brand new SDK Kinect for Windows 1.0, released just two weeks ago, with the Kinect for Xbox sensor). Nevertheless, the target was to use Kinect sensor to control the embedded system shell which, as already stated, it's a Metro-style application.
Ignoring the official documentation, a number of attempts have been conducted in order to directly reference the SDK libraries into a Metro-style app. At the end, following a trial-and-error approach on a little Metro test app, adding all the required references and implementing some missing classes/interfaces in WinRT, a successful build has been obtained. But at the first Kinect Runtime initialization call, the app silently crashed, raising no exceptions or meaningful errors.
Having no clues on how to proceed to solve the problem, some alternative architectures have been designed: since a Metro-style app runs in a sand-box as Silverlight apps (web and Windows Phone) do, a way to make it communicating with the external world is via Web Services or sockets.
Here's the idea: since the Kinect SDK works well in Windows 8 desktop app, a client-server solution has been designed, where a .NET application (Windows Forms, console or WPF) interacts with the Kinect sensor and exposes its features and data to a connected client (i.g. a Metro-style app). This way, we made a remote abstraction of the Kinect sensor, exposed through a WCF service. After a number of tests, we found that the WCF overhead is huge, so the server has been redesigned in order to handle socket connections and transfer data via a JSON-formatted textual protocol.
In a next post, we'll see some details of the implemented solution. At the moment, you can see it in this short video, shoot in our laboratory.
Potentially, if the server is exposed publicly on the Internet, the client could be everywhere in the world, implemented in any platform (Windows, Mac, smartphone or tablet) and use data from a remote Kinect sensor.
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IDF Arrests Hamas PA Parliament Member
The IDF continued with its campaign of rounding up Hamas terrorists, arresting a Hamas member of the PA parliament.
Jul 3, 2014, 9:34 AM (GMT+3)
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Despite Wednesday's riots by Arabs in Jerusalem, the IDF continued with its campaign of searching for the murderers of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha'ar, and dismantling the infrastructure of Hamas, the terror group responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the teens.
Overnight Wednesday, the IDF said that it had arrested 13 terror suspects. Among them was Imad Nofal, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. Nofal was arrested in Kalkilye, an Arab city near Kfar Sava. In addition, the IDF said, it had closed down two Hamas institutions in the Hevron area which collected money from "donors" and using it for terror purposes.
Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted 15 terror sites in Gaza on Wednesday night. According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the airstrikes targeted concealed rocket launchers, training compounds and weapons storage sites, all of which belong to the Hamas terrorist group.
The statement said that the airstrikes were in retaliation for the latest escalation in rocket attacks on southern Israel. "The IDF is prepared to defend the citizens of Israel from any threat and will continue to act decisively and as long as necessary until peace is restored," said the IDF, noting that Hamas is directly responsible for the ongoing rocket fire.
A barrage of at least 20 rocketswere fired at southern Israel on Wednesday, and three more were fired on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, at least eight more rockets were fired at Israel, with one hitting a building in Sderot used as a day camp for children. Miraculously, no one was injured, but there was extensive damage to the building.


It could do that on Sept. Dell Precision M6800 - 17. But I did uninstall it after backing up my email data just in case. The company pegged the launch of the suite during the second half of the year. If you open the files from the start and jump to the bottom of each file you will see that they report successful install of a component. Office 365 is always-up-to-date version of the Office apps, and subscribers already have a version of Office that has all the functionality that's in Office 2019 and more.
Second, don't be in a rush. Why is it important that Microsoft ship Office 2019 this year? Additional processing time may be required. Manually running update a couple of times should find it. Gift Messaging will be made available during the checkout process. All of the log files after that point will be reporting the uninstall of previously installed components in reverse order. Microsoft now issues two Office 365 ProPlus feature upgrades — ProPlus is the standard suite that provides rights to the locally installed applications, including Excel, Outlook and Word, for 365 subscribers — annually. By shortening 2019's support lifespan — something Microsoft has never done to Office for Windows — it will be able to wash its hands of both suites at the same time, ending the decades-old purchasing option and making the subscription-based Office 365 the only way to license the applications.
Office for everyone For many customers, Office 365 is the way to go. Dell and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. The change from Office 2016's beta release date May 2015 to Office 2019's mid-summer 2018 was probably necessary to accommodate the March feature upgrade timetable; Microsoft didn't until after the launch of Office 2016 in September 2015. Search for your school above to get started. Okay, so we'll just move our Windows 8. Also not in the instructions.
It is most likely to be the one reporting the error that caused the install to end and back out. Windows installer returns codes during the install which will indicate if a particular function was successful or not. To find your Product Key, look for the 25-character alpha-numeric code on the back of the card inside your Office product packaging. Windows installer returns codes during the install which will indicate if a particular function was successful or not. Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Office 365 subscription plans. You decide what works best for you: , , , or.
First, look in update history to make sure you do not have any unsuccessful updates. Office as a one-time purchase does not include any of the services included in Office 365. Find out what savings your school is offering with our! In 2017, Microsoft slashed the rights of users running non-subscription Office when it announced that perpetual-licensed versions of Office 2016 will be barred from connecting to Microsoft's cloud-based services, including hosted email Exchange and online storage OneDrive for Business after Oct. Sometimes the Product Key may be printed on your retail receipt. In other words, the license has no expiration date, and users may run the suite as long as they want. Enable verbose logging before collecting the log files. For a longer list of the new end-user features, see the.
Extra online storage Not included. Office 365 is always-up-to-date version of the Office apps, and subscribers already have a version of Office that has all the functionality that's in Office 2019 and more. Available for students, faculty, and staff who want classic Office apps and email installed on one computer for use at home or work. To support those customers, we have Office 2019, a valuable new release of Office with a subset of features from Office 365. Free technical support exclusive to Costco members for select electronics and consumer goods.
Hi Shelly, it is best to start again. Securely store your files in the cloud and access them from anywhere. Great Price and so far it has worked out great. Upgrades to major releases aren't included. For Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, get premium features with an eligible Office 365 subscription.
For Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps, get premium features with an eligible Office 365 subscription. All of the log files after that point will be reporting the uninstall of previously installed components in reverse order. To join the Office 2019 Commercial Preview, sign up. To do this, start Office Setup. So, I called Microsoft Support and was connected to a fairly understandable, very adept and knowledgeable tech in the Philippines. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.