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Heading toward the caregiving cliff
By Richard Harris
Injured Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg received a standing ovation during President Obama's State of the Union address in January. (Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS)
Perhaps the most memorable moment of President Obama's State of the Union address in January was when he introduced Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg. Nearly killed by a massive roadside bomb in 2009 during his 10th deployment to Afghanistan, the Army ranger was found facedown in a canal. After nearly three months in a coma and dozens of surgeries, Remsburg — who was blinded in one eye — tried to acknowledge the standing ovation on Capitol Hill by standing up. But he needed help. At his side was his father, Craig, who lifted his son from his seat. Once up, Cory flashed the cheering crowd a thumbs-up.
It was a high-profile spotlight on this country's tens of millions of family caregivers, whom Obama has called "humble heroes" who toil quietly, caring for loved ones: a child with autism, a parent or spouse with Alzheimer's disease, or a wounded warrior.
"We are heading toward the caregiving cliff," says John Schall, chief executive of the Caregiver Action Network. "Family caregivers are the backbone of long-term care services in this country, and I'm concerned that we won't have the capacity to meet the demand, especially as the country ages."
The Pew Research Center found last year that nearly 4 in 10 American adults identified themselves as a family caregiver and the need is only growing.
Once Craig Remsburg got the news that his son was going to have a "lifelong recovery" from his war injuries, the family scrambled to put a plan in place to help him 24/7 with family members and paid aides. At first, Craig and his wife, Annie, commuted from their home outside Phoenix to Tampa, where Cory was at a veterans' hospital. With the joy that their son survived came the challenge of helping him live — and no training manual for caregiving.
"As a father, probably my toughest moment was every time I had to get on an airplane and go back to work, " Craig Remsburg said. But while in Tampa, "I was able to watch my son come out of a coma, slowly emerge into consciousness and start doing things."
Annie Remsburg ultimately quit her job to help Cory with his physical therapy full-time. After more than two years in Tampa, Cory was transferred to a California facility for intensive physical and occupational therapy. Last year, he moved back to his parents' house and over the summer to a specially equipped home nearby to provide a "feel of independence," although he still needs someone around the clock to help him with daily living.
In some ways, Craig and Annie Remsburg are among the lucky ones. Their employers, Telgian and Kelly Services, have been flexible in allowing time off and Annie was given the chance to take an extended unpaid leave and work as a consultant.
Seriously wounded veterans are entitled to many benefits for caregivers that the private sector doesn't offer. In his State of the Union address, Obama urged businesses large and small to offer employees more flexibility to all types of family caregivers: "A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship — and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode," he said.
Schall said that in the past three to five years, businesses have begun recognizing the need to help employees who are also caregivers. "We've gone from zero miles per hour to 10 miles per hour," he said, noting that there is still a long way to go. But, he adds, "if businesses are smart, they don't want to lose employees who are caregivers, because to lose them, hire and train someone else, is actually more costly than providing flexibility."
For parents of the growing number of children with autism, "overwhelming" is the most common word used to describe caregiving. But that's about all that is common across the autism spectrum. Jennifer Berzok of Bethesda, Md., whose 9-year-old son, Ben, received an autism diagnosis at age 21 / 2, was told by a doctor, "When you meet one kid with autism, you meet one kid with autism." Unlike cancer or other diseases that have a prescribed treatmentbacked by science, caregivers for kids with autism face a bewildering menu of expensive therapies that may or may not be effective for their child's issues. Autism spectrum disorder may have some common behaviors — difficulty with social interactions and language deficits — but there's no one-size-fits-all standard of care.
"Given that autistic children often have sleep disorders, parents are exhausted," said Julie Fisher, executive director of the New York Center for Autism Charter School (NYCA) in East Harlem. But, she said, the "culture of the 'super parent' makes it hard for them to ask for help."
Shaniqua Gregg said she feels lucky to have "won the lottery" that allows her son Joshua, 14, to attend NYCA. But it's still difficult at home. "Each year becomes harder because his hormones are raging, he's unable to express himself and he's 5-8 and more aggressive," she says. "We don't have a lot of down time or a moment to regroup or get away from it."
Gregg works in the admissions office of a skilled-nursing facility near her home. When she interviewed for the job, she explained that she and her husband were raising a teenager with autism and a toddler. "At first, my boss seemed to have compassion, but she says when she needs to adjust her schedule slightly to meet her son's needs, "they make me feel as though I have to choose between caring for my child and taking care of my job."
As exhausting as it is now, perhaps the hardest part of caregiving for a child with autism is the realization, as Berzok says, that "this might be forever. Ben might always be dependent."
Younger-onset Alzheimer's
In 2006, when Jacques Benjoar of Silver Spring, Md., was 52, he was driving down a road he had taken countless times, but had to think about which exit to use. At the same time, he started to struggle with the bookkeeping part of his courier business. Without telling his wife, Kathleen Lockhart, he had a doctor do a full work-up, and eventually found out that he was one of about 200,000 people younger than 65 in whom so-called younger-onset Alzheimer's is diagnosed each year.
Because there is no cure or effective treatment for Alzheimer's, caregiving becomes increasingly challenging as your loved one loses the ability to communicate. "It was an honor to help him get dressed. He never said 'thank you,' but I knew he appreciated it," said Lockhart who had to split her time between her husband and making sure their two daughters weren't negatively affected by their father's illness, continually wondering, "Should I be up there with him or down here with the girls?"
The girls were 12 and 6 when Benjoar's condition was diagnosed, and as it worsened, Lockhart says, "our older daughter even joined me at asupport group. The kids helped Jacques change the channel on the TV, made him a sandwich or were always on the lookout for him getting lost in the house and they would redirect him."
Benjoar eventually transitioned to a care facility and died last spring at age 59. "We were supposed to grow old," Lockhart says. Given Lockhart's experience, she tells others dealing with loved ones with Alzheimer's: "Get help and get it early. There is often so much denial in many families it often takes an outsider to help."
One of the hardest moments for her came when she overheard an older woman at a pool talking about just getting back from a fjord cruise in Norway with her husband and another woman mentioned that she was doing this and that with her husband. "All I wanted was to take my hands and dunk these two senior citizens," she said.
Youth caregivers
Although some studies have shown that the typical American caregiver is a middle-aged mother, raising children while caring for an aging parent, many young people also are pressed into caring for a loved one. Connie Siskowski, founder and president of the American Association of Caregiving Youth, says, "We're supposed to be taking care of kids. They're not supposed to be taking care of us." There are no hard data on young caregivers, but Siskowski estimates that as many as 10 million young people have some caregiving role, given the economic pressures on families, including the rise in single-parent households and grandparents raising grandchildren.
The most recent study, from 2008, by the public policy firm Civic Enterprises, found that 22 percent of young adults (ages 16 to 25) who say they drop out of high school for personal reasons did so to care for a family member.
When Bernise Luzincourt was 10, she began caring for her younger sister, who was partly paralyzed. Luzincourt, now 19 and a community college student in Boca Raton, Fla., stepped in because her mother, a nurse, and father, a landscaper, were working long hours. Not long after her sister began to walk again, her mother, a diabetic, had a stroke. "Saturdays were the hardest," Luzincourt said. "I would wake up, clean the entire house, make my mom a low-salt breakfast, get her insulin, go in the shower with her, pick her clothes, help her put them on. It was overwhelming. I never had time for myself. There were times I would go to church just to get away."
As Jill Biden recently warned, "as baby boomers age, as injured troops return home from the battlefield, as more people live with chronic illnesses," the number of caregivers needed is only going to increase. But that won't be easy. As boomers age, fewer caregivers will be available for them.
An AARP study said that in 2010 there were seven potential caregivers (typically adult children ages 45 to 64) for adults older than 80. But by 2050, that ratio may drop to 3 to 1.
Unpaid family caregiving was valued at $450 billion a year by AARP's Public Policy Institute in 2009, more than the federal and state Medicaid budgets combined. To help family caregivers, legislation was introduced in Congress late last year that would guarantee up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave annually that would provide partial wage replacement for working caregivers. "This law is absolutely needed — it's just the right approach — but given the current climate, I wouldn't give it great odds," Schall says.
"It may be time for a bold idea," he says. Because of the coming demand for caregivers, he's mulling over a "Caregivers Corps," modeled after the Peace Corps. He thinks such a program could recruit from recent college graduates by offering debt forgiveness, retirees looking for new challenges or from the ranks of experienced caregivers who want to help others when their own responsibilities have ended because their loved ones have improved or passed on.
Experts offer advice: How to care for caregivers
When parents become kids again


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(d) Northern Sunrise County;
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(a) County of Thorhild No. 7;
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(f) City of Edmonton;
(g) Improvement District No. 12 (Jasper National Park);
(g.1) Municipality of Jasper;
(h) Improvement District No. 25 (Willmore Wilderness);
(i) any city, town, village or summer village that is encompassed by the area described in clauses (a) to (h).
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(g) Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo;
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Brenner was among the keynote speakers scheduled to appear at the Waterloo, Ontario-based company's first ever BlackBerry Developer Conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. RIM showcased its new developer tools at the show, which drew an estimated 700 attendees.
Last Tuesday, RIM Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis gave the keynote opener, telling attendees that the BlackBerry is "one box it's wise not to think outside of."


This week, our discussions centered around how we can fix our practices to sustain ourselves on earth. Our first topic was the idea that the market or the government could transition to sustainability, but which of the two would do a better job at maintaining and enforcing new sustainable practices. The side I read was geared towards a market shift would spark sustainable practices. Most of the ideas from the author discussed the idea of incentives to shift companies to greener practices and taxes on carbon emissions. Mainly, becoming environmentally friendly should be economically friendly. The only issue with these ideas is would we also charge the average consumer? And how would we go about charging a consumer on their emissions? Large companies would also weigh their costs to go green against their costs to emit, and if it's more frugal to emit, they will. The other side to this is having governments come in and implement these changes, which can work, but political action can take time that the Earth just doesn't have.
Our second topic introduced sustainable practices. The last half hour of The 11th hour, it introduced many ideas in how to make our lives more so like nature, and how we can try to be more like our environment in creating no waste. The ideas about making our buildings like trees, which generate energy, and making our cities forests and being able to have a truly sustainable city seems like something unachievable. However, I do think that by beginning these sustainable practices in our lifestyles and becoming more like nature will be beneficial in our desire to save our species and the planet. In our wicked investigative reports, we all discussed multiple ways our industries can deal with issues facing sustainability, and by beginning to have large corporations and governments look at their wrong doing and star fixing these problems, we will be heading in the right step for saving our planet and our species.


<All right. Well, take care yourself. I guess that's what you're best, presence old master? A tremor in the Force. The last time felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her.


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require 'test_helper'

describe Hanami::Config::Logger do
  let(:logger) { Hanami::Config::Logger.new }
  let(:path) { 'path/to/log/file' }

  describe '#stream' do
    it 'contains a stream object' do
      logger.stream(path)
      logger.stream.must_equal path
    end

    it 'contains STDOUT value by default' do
      logger.stream.must_equal STDOUT
    end
  end

  describe '#name' do
    it 'contains name' do
      logger.app_name('test_app')
      logger.app_name.must_equal 'test_app'
    end
  end

  describe '#engine' do
    let(:engine) { ::Logger.new(STDOUT) }

    it 'contains name' do
      logger.engine(engine)
      logger.engine.must_equal engine
    end

    it 'contains nil by default' do
      logger.engine.must_equal nil
    end
  end

  describe '#level' do
    it 'delegates to Hanami::Logger when level is integer' do
      logger.level(0)
      logger.build.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::DEBUG
    end

    it 'delegates to Hanami::Logger when level is symbol' do
      logger.level(:debug)
      logger.build.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::DEBUG
    end

    it 'delegates to Hanami::Logger when level is string' do
      logger.level('debug')
      logger.build.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::DEBUG
    end

    it 'delegates to Hanami::Logger when level is upcased string' do
      logger.level('DEBUG')
      logger.build.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::DEBUG
    end

    it 'delegates to Hanami::Logger when level is a constant' do
      logger.level(Hanami::Logger::DEBUG)
      logger.build.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::DEBUG
    end

    it 'uses default Hanami::Logger level' do
      logger.build.level.must_equal ::Logger::DEBUG
    end
  end

  describe '#build' do
    it 'returns new Hanami::Logger instance' do
      logger.build.must_be_instance_of Hanami::Logger
    end

    describe 'when stream value is set' do
      let(:io) { StringIO.new }

      it 'returns new Hanami::Logger instance with changed stream' do
        logger.stream(io)
        builded_logger = logger.build

        builded_logger.must_be_instance_of Hanami::Logger
        builded_logger.instance_variable_get("@stream").must_equal io
      end
    end

    describe 'when user set engine' do
      it 'returns it' do
        logger.engine(::Logger.new(STDOUT))
        builded_logger = logger.build

        builded_logger.must_be_instance_of ::Logger
      end
    end

    describe 'when user sets level' do
      it 'returns it' do
        logger.level(:error)
        builded_logger = logger.build

        builded_logger.level.must_equal Hanami::Logger::ERROR
      end
    end
  end
end

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Rain on glass panes keeps me entertained, in pattern, in percussion. The view is dissolving in drops and the descent of darkness. An awareness flares, catches the heart of me in a healing flame: I picture it like a Christmas pudding, safe and warm under a dome of ignited rum. Maybe it is merely sleep hormones, maybe not; thoughts and feelings flicker in a balanced performance of shadow and light.
Baby brushes my hair with the wooden hairbrush. I have a bruised temple to prove it. Reminds me of the phrase 'that will knock some sense into you.' We harness Dog to the pram and walk around the block of fields. Here the hedgerows are magical habitats, winding with wild rose, tumbling vetch of many colours: so many flowers I have not time to name them all. I note how the rose expands: a shoot reaches up, flails in breezes until the weight of leaves and buds arc it back to earth, to pop open flowers, circlets of sparking colour: like the world's slowest firework.
Your prose is hypnotically rhythmic, like being rocked to quiescence by a magically semi-somnolent fae.
Jumped over from Suze's blog.
The rain here today was lovely, leaving pristine water-swept sidewalks & glistening grass.
Thank you Kim- Suze has marvellous taste- I was most pleased to discover your blog too!


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Kol Hamevaser
The Jewish Thought Magazine of the Yeshiva University Student Body
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Why I Could Not Live Anywhere Else
By Rafi Miller | Published: May 20, 2012 | Comment ()
"Make aliyah!" call many Religious Zionists. As Jews, they tell us, we belong in the Jewish homeland, so every one of us who lives elsewhere must get up and move to Israel. How simple! But, unfortunately, most of us are not getting up and moving, even if we identify with the Religious Zionist movement. This tension has long provoked reflection among the American Modern Orthodox about aliyah.[1]
As I plan my own aliyah in the coming months, I wish to express why I personally cannot imagine living my life anywhere other than Israel. My religious and cultural heritage centers on this land. It is the home of God's plan, commandments, and immanence, the land for which our people has yearned and sacrificed for millennia, and the focal point of today's unique moment in our history and beyond into our future.
We find in the Bible that the Land of Israel is essential to God's vision for the People of Israel. The very first words that God speaks in His first appearance to each of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob concern the Land:
God said to Abram, "Go from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the Land that I will show you.…"[2]
God appeared to [Isaac] and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the Land that I will tell you.…"[3]
Behold, God was standing over [the ladder], and He said [to Jacob], "I am God, Lord of Abraham your father and Lord of Isaac. The Land upon which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants…"[4]
The Land is likewise a central point of God's early speeches to Moses about the nation he would lead.[5] Much of Prophets revolves around the nation's struggle to establish and maintain sovereignty in the Land.
The Bible identifies the Land as among God's priorities. Is it my priority?
God's Commandments
The mitsvot, which constitute the foundation of Israel's covenant with God, are closely tied to the Land.
First, many mitsvot can only be performed in the Land. R. Simlai presents this fact as the motivation of Moses' plea to enter the Land,[6] and the Mishnah associates these mitsvot with the Land's superior holiness.[7]
Furthermore, settling the Land is itself a mitsvah, obligatory even today according to many Rishonim,[8] most famously Ramban.[9] In his discussion about this mitsvah, Ramban quotes a powerful passage from Sifrei:[10]
R. Judah ben Beteira, R. Matya ben Heresh, R. Hananiah ben Ahi, R. Joshua, and R. Nathan were leaving the Land. They reached the border and recalled the Land of Israel. They raised their eyes and their tears flowed down; they rent their clothes; and they read this verse: "You shall inherit it, and settle it, and be sure to keep all the mitsvot that I am commanding you today."[11] They inferred, "The settlement of the Land of Israel is equal to all the mitsvot of the Torah."[12]
Ramban also asserts that any mitsvah performed in the Diaspora is inferior to one performed in Israel, "for the essence of all the mitsvot is for those who live in the Land of God."[13]
One of the chief goals of Judaism, achieving nearness to God, is best achieved in the Land of Israel. The Talmud describes the Land as ideally suited for prophecy[14] and Torah study.[15] The Land also merits direct providence from God: "It is a Land that the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of God are continually upon it, from the year's beginning to its end."[16]
The Talmud quotes stark words for those who live outside the Land:
Our Rabbis taught: One must always live in the Land of Israel, even in a town of mostly idolaters; and let no one live outside the Land, even in a town of mostly Israelites. For whoever lives in the Land of Israel is as one who has a God, and whoever lives outside the Land is as one who has no God. As it is said, "To give you the Land of Canaan, to be your God."[17][18]
This, then, is my religious motivation for aliyah: pursuing God's vision, will, and presence. But I also feel compelled by the course of Jewish history.
Longing for the Land
Ever since Moses pleaded with God, "Let me cross over and see the good Land," [19] our people has longed for the Land of Israel.
Rambam describes in his legal code the love of the Talmudic sages for the Land: "The greatest of scholars would kiss the borders of Israel, kiss its stones, and roll in its earth. And thus it says, 'Your servants take pleasure in her stones and favor her dust.'"[20][21] One sage, R. Zeira, even risked his personal safety to enter the Land at his first opportunity, explaining, "The place that Moses and Aaron did not merit to enter—who could assure me that I should merit to enter?"[22]
Many of the rabbinic giants of history ventured to settle the Land of Israel, including Rambam in 1165,[23] the "three hundred rabbis" from the Tosafists in 1210–1211,[24] Ramban in 1267,[25] R. Joseph Caro in 1536,[26] R. David ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz) around 1553,[27] and R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (Ramhal) in 1743.[28]
R. Judah Halevi composed about thirty-five "Poems of Zion" expressing his yearning for the Land.[29] In his Sefer ha-Kuzari, he castigates at length those who choose to remain in exile, including charges of shamefulness and hypocrisy.[30] R. Judah Halevi finally left for the Land of Israel in 1141.[31]
This yearning for the Land did not end with our ancestors. We ourselves pray every day in our davening[32] and bentshing[33] to return to the Land. I must ask myself: Do I mean the words I say?
Suffering for the Land
Jewish yearning for the Land of Israel has inspired much sacrifice. The Midrash identifies the Land as one of three "good gifts" that God gave to us through suffering.[34] Unfortunately, we find ample expression of this suffering in modern history.
The pioneers who founded the Yishuv in the 19th century faced poverty, starvation, plagues, and bloodshed. R. Israel of Shklov, a student of the Vilna Ga'on, describes in the introduction to his work Pe'at ha-Shulhan the unremitting suffering he endured from 1813 to 1836 while founding Jewish communities in Palestine. During the First Aliyah from 1882 to 1903, approximately 25,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, but conditions were so difficult that only about 10,000 remained in the Land at the start of the Second Aliyah.[35]
Defending the Yishuv has taken a difficult human toll. As of Israel's 2012 Memorial Day, 22,993 sons and daughters have sacrificed their lives since 1860.[36]
One moment that deeply impressed me as a high school student occurred on a visit to a small military cemetery in Israel. The soldiers buried there were casualties of the 1948 war; under the pressure of battle they were buried two or more to a grave. The headstones listed their ages. Many were teenagers, as I was at the time of that visit. Many had lived through the Holocaust. I imagined such a boy picking up a gun, running into combat, and collapsing mortally wounded on the battlefield. What drove him? The dream that Israel could be free for Jews to call their home; that now, six decades later, all I need to become a citizen of Israel is a passport and some paperwork. Standing in that cemetery, I wondered: What would I be willing to sacrifice?
Those generations of longing and sacrifice have led to a unique moment in our history. We now have a State of Israel whose Law of Return guarantees citizenship to any Jew who wants to return home. The Jewish army protecting the State is among the most advanced in the world.
The State still faces many challenges, but those challenges pale compared to the sheer fact of a Jewish State. I am blessed to have already spent about fourteen months of my life in Jerusalem. The daily joy of seeing its stone skyline, counting the construction cranes, and thinking, Today I woke up in Jerusalem, a bustling Jewish city, finds expression in Isaiah: "You will see, and your heart will rejoice; your bones will flourish like grass!"[37]
Journeying to Israel, which not long ago was fraught with risk, now amounts to less than a day of sitting in an airplane seat. Imagine how R. Zeira would react to the sight of air traffic at Ben Gurion International Airport!
Watching the Jewish population grow in our homeland stirs our historical consciousness. R. Abraham I. Kook saw the aliyah movements of early Zionism as fulfilling "anticipation of the salvation,"[38] one of the criteria upon which Rava says the soul will be judged in the next world.[39] Dozens of leading rabbinic authorities viewed the establishment of the State of Israel as the "beginning" of the final redemption of the world.[40] R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik described the events of the 1940s as the "knock of the Beloved,"[41] meaning God's call to the Jewish people after centuries of exile; he bemoaned that "we Orthodox Jews are still enveloped in a sweet slumber,"[42] when we should be seizing the opportunity to realize our "Covenant of Destiny" as a nation.[43]
Even without this lofty idealism, I see aliyah as simple self-interest: The future of the Jewish nation is in Israel. This is not just a dream but a demographic fact. And I want to live my life on the side of the future. Will I strive to raise a Jewish family in the eternal home of our people, or in a country with rampant assimilation and rising tuition costs? Centuries from now, where will my descendants point on their family tree and say, "This is when we returned from the exile"?
Far be it from me to moralize to those with no plans for aliyah. Many people far more righteous than I have chosen to make their mark in the Diaspora, where much important work needs to be done.[44] Many who wish to move to Israel find the practical obstacles to aliyah overwhelming.[45] But no matter the justifications, we ought to keep our ideal clear. Our home is in Israel.
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[1] For example, the 2008 Orthodox Forum at Yeshiva University focused on Religious Zionism. So did the Summer 1992 issue of Tradition (26, 4), as well as numerous individual articles in that periodical over the decades. In my own experience as a student in shanah alef at Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, rarely did a visiting speaker hold a question-and-answer session without someone asking a question about religious pressures toward aliyah; such questions weighed on many Anglo students there.
[2] Genesis 12:1. All translations in this article are mine.
[3] Genesis 26:2.
[4] Genesis 28:13.
[5] Exodus 3:8,18; 6:4,8.
[6] Sotah 14a.
[7] Kelim 1:6.
[8] Encyclopedia Talmudit asserts this as the opinion of "most rishonim and posekim;" see "Yeshivat Erets Yisra'el" (Hebrew), Encyclopedia Talmudit, ed. by Shlomo Yosef Zevin (Jerusalem: Mekhon ha-Encyclopedia ha-Talmudit, 2002), volume 25, 664–688, at p. 676. The ideology that this fact represents, not the technical law, concerns this article. As for how this mitsvah might obligate you le-halakhah, consult your local rabbi.
[9] Ramban, Shikhehat ha-Asin 4.
[11] Cf. Deuteronomy 11:31–32.
[12] Sifrei to Deuteronomy 12:29.
[13] Ramban to Leviticus 18:25.
[14] Mo'ed Kattan 25a.
[15] E.g. Bava Batra 158b, Bava Metsi'a 85a, Ketubbot 75a. See also Be-reshit Rabbah 16:4: "There is no Torah like the Torah of the Land of Israel, and no wisdom like the wisdom of the Land of Israel."
[16] Deuteronomy 11:12.
[17] Leviticus 25:38.
[18] Ketubbot 110b.
[19] Deuteronomy 3:25.
[20] Psalms 102:14
[21] Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Melakhim 5:10. Based on Ketubbot 112a.
[22] Ketubbot 112a.
[23] Louis Isaac Rabinowitz et al., "Maimonides, Moses," Encyclopaedia Judaica, ed. by Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, 2nd edition (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), volume 13, 381–397, at p. 382.
[24] Ephraim Kanarfogel, "The Aliyah of 'Three Hundred Rabbis' in 1211: Tosafist Attitudes Toward Settling in the Land of Israel," The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series 76.3 (Jan. 1986), 191–215. Note that key details of this aliyah might be apocryphal.
[25] Joseph Kaplan et al., "Nahmanides," Encyclopaedia Judaica, volume 14, 739–748, at p. 740.
[26] David Tamar et al., "Caro, Joseph ben Ephraim," Encyclopaedia Judaica, volume 4, 488–491, at p. 488.
[27] Hirsch Jacob Zimmels, "David ben Solomon ibn Abi (Avi, ben Abi) Zimra," Encyclopaedia Judaica, volume 5, 470–472, at p. 471.
[28] Joseph Dan and Joelle Hansel, "Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim," Encyclopaedia Judaica, volume 13, 281–286, at p. 282.
[29] Angel Sáenz-Badillos and Daniel J. Lasker, "Judah Halevi," Encyclopaedia Judaica, volume 11, 492–501, at p. 495.
[30] Sefer ha-Kuzari 2:23–24.
[31] Angel Sáenz-Badillos and Daniel J. Lasker, p. 494.
[32] E.g., in the tenth blessing of shemoneh esrei: "Gather us together from the four corners of the earth [to our Land]" (the bracketed words are omitted in nusah Ashkenaz).
[33] E.g., toward the end of birkat ha-mazon: "May He guide us [speedily] upright to our Land" (the bracketed word is included in nusah Edot ha-Mizrah).
[34] Mekhilta to Exodus 20:2.
[35] Itzhak Alfassi, et al., "Land of Israel: Aliyah and Absorption," Encyclopaedia Judaica, ed. by Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, 2nd edition, volume 10 (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), 329–373.
[36] Yoav Zitun, "2012: Number of Israel's fallen stands at 22,993," Ynet News, 22 April 2012, available at: http://www.ynetnews.com.
[37] Isaiah 66:14.
[38] E.g., Abraham I. Kook, "Orot Erets Yisra'el" (Hebrew), Orot (Jerusalem: Agudah le-Hotsa'at Sifrei ha-Re'iyah Kuk, 1950), 9–13, at p. 9.
[39] Shabbat 31a.
[40] For extensive citations see Yitshak Dadon, Athalta Hi: Yahasam shel Gedolei Sefarad ve-Ashkenaz la-Tsiyyonut u-le-Hakamat ha-Medinah (Hebrew) (Jerusalem, 2006).
[41] Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Kol Dodi Dofek: Listen—My Beloved Knocks, transl. by David Z. Gordon (New York: Yeshiva University, 2006), 31 ff.
[42] Ibid. 47.
[43] Ibid 65 ff.
[44] Cf. Herschel Schachter, Nefesh ha-Rav (Hebrew) (New York: Flatbush Beth Hamedrosh, 1994), 98.
[45] R. Aharon Lichtenstein discusses these challenges with great sensitivity in Aharon Lichtenstein, "Diaspora Religious Zionism: Some Current Reflections," Religious Zionism Post Disengagement: Future Directions, ed. by Chaim I. Waxman (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2008), 3–30, at pp. 15–17.
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Between Community and Communion
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History and Liturgy: The Evolution of Multiple Prayer Rites
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Eliezer Berkovits' Post-Holocaust Theology
Why Doesn't Halakhic Man learn Aggadah?
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The much anticipated ONRUSH Ranked Mode will make its way to the PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system and the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X on August 13, with the first official season: ONRUSH Summer Slam, beginning on August 27.
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This first-year module takes you on a journey of discovery about our world. How do we really know what we think we know about Earth?
A few hundred years ago everyone knew the world was flat, a few decades ago everyone knew the continents didn't move, today everyone knows that our Earth is in constant motion, but we are still learning how and why... imagine what you might know tomorrow?
This module teaches you about the scientific concepts and methods that have enabled us to learn what we think we know so far, and that point the way to future discoveries. At the same time, you will develop and gain confidence in essential numerical skills.


EatOut yesterday announced the winner of the 'Win a Trip to Bangkok' competition that took place over the fourth edition of the Nairobi Restaurant Week. This follows last years NRW 'Win a Trip to Dubai' competition which saw Valerie Lwile dine at Gordon Ramsey's Bread Street Kitchen Restaurant and the 'Win A Trip to Cape Town' competition which saw Grace Mburu visit the Nederburg Manor house.
Lenana, will enjoy a fully paid trip for 2 to Bangkok including flights and hotels for 3 nights courtesy of Holiday Bazaar and Emirates. Whilst in Bangkok, a food lover's paradise, Lenana will explore a foodie tour, discover breakfast on traditional Khao Tom at Bangrak Market, enjoy Thai sweets at Tha Chang amulet market, try Dim sum and other Chinese delicacies in Chinatown, visit colourful Sam Yan fresh food market, tuck into tasty Thai dishes at Sam Yan amongst other exciting adventures.
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Paul Nadal
Dept. of English / Program in American Studies
Nadal, Paul. "Cold War Remittance Economy: US Creative Writing and the Importation of New Criticism in the Philippines." American Quarterly 73.3 (2021): 557–595.*
Special Issue on "Language, Multilingualism, and Translation in American Studies," edited by Vicente L. Rafael and Mary Louise Pratt.
* Winner of the 1921 Best Essay Prize in American Literature from the American Literature Association.
Abstract This essay uses archival sources to reconstruct a literary genealogy of the impact of US creative writing on Philippine literature in English during the early Cold War period. It addresses the ways in which Filipino writers translated the New Criticism they learned in the United States into socially useful literature by engaging a concept of translation as economic exchange. The essay argues that this economic notion of translation not only names a rhetorical conceit of Anglophone writing; it also historically refers to a "Cold War remittance economy," that is, the large-scale foreign direct investments in postcolonial literary culture by American creative writing programs and private institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation. Focusing on three Rockefeller Foundation fellows—Edilberto K. Tiempo, N. V. M. Gonzalez, and Nick Joaquin—the essay narrates the story of the importation of New Criticism into the Philippines as a confrontation between competing yet analogous values of form: autonomy and organic unity in the literary realm, and sovereignty and fiscal balance in the economic realm. In so doing, the essay models a historicist and formalist reading practice that grasps the relationship between literature and political economy not as homology but as a mediated relationship of mutual determination.
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Nadal, Paul. "A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya's His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in English." American Literature 89.3 (2017): 591–626.
Abstract This essay recovers a once celebrated but now forgotten Filipino novel in English, Juan Cabreros Laya's His Native Soil (1941), which marked the emergence of realism during the Philippine Commonwealth's slow, decade-long transition to independence from the United States. Whereas the novel was originally praised as a landmark text in Philippine literature in English, His Native Soil was later dismissed by postwar critics as an imitative, formally flawed, and stylistically inferior work. Taking up Roberto Schwarz's challenge to advance a reading practice that takes into account the difference between literature and social structure in the colonial periphery, I argue that rather than viewing His Native Soil's improbabilities of plot and tonal dissonances as artistic flaws, they are more meaningfully read as the author's attempt to adapt the realist protocols of the bildungsroman to capture the double-edged nature of independence: the adoption of a trade policy that would economically bind together the Philippines and the United States and that would render political freedom impossible for Filipinos unless relations of colonial dependency were to be continued after independence.
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Lego Speed Racer er en produktlinje produceret af den danske legetøjskoncern LEGO, der blev produceret i 2008, der er baseret på filmen fra 2018, der igen er baseret på animationsserien Speed Racer. Det er et undertema til Lego Racers, og der blev udgivet fire sæt i serien.

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Norwegian Bacalhau Losing Ground in Brazil
Economics Post-harvest Sustainability Environment
by Lucy Towers
15 November 2012, at 12:00am
NORWAY - New fish products have steadily entered the Brazilian market during recent years, which is challenging the position of Norwegian bacalhau (cod-fish), writes Finn-Arne Egeness.
The competition is coming primarily from dried and salted fish torn into smaller pieces and from frozen desalted bacalhau. The import of such products is increasing more than the increase of Norwegian bacalhau.
This has reduced the market share of Norwegian bacalhau over the last five years from 86 per cent to 61 per cent.
Norwegian companies export dried and salted fish of saithe, cod, ling and cusk to Brazil. Bacalhau of saithe and cod are the largest products measured in value.
The new products that have been introduced onto the Brazilian market have various advantages and are threatening various segments of the Norwegian bacalhau export.
Frozen rehydrated cod
The Portuguese are the largest producers of desalted bacalhau. This product is a convenient alternative to full salted bacalhau of cod. In 2011 Brazilian consumers purchased around 4500 tonnes of frozen desalted cod. That is equivalent to 10 per cent of the total bacalhau market. If you look exclusively at the category bacalhau of cod, frozen desalted products account for 20-25 per cent of the market.
Norwegian companies need to take this seriously. Convenience is the main explanation for this strong market change. Frozen desalted fish can be prepared after being thawed, meaning consumers dont have to plan the meal several days in advance, says Scientist Finn-Arne Egeness at the food research institute Nofima.
Egeness, along with other scientists from Nofima, has studied the Brazilian market over a period of several years.
The results of consumer surveys show that many people find desalting time-consuming. Using desalted fish makes it easier to cook a meal and explains the rapid market growth. The Brazilians like to invite their families and friends for a dinner of bacalhau. In order to have the best flavour, it is extra important that the bacalhau has the right salt content. Buying desalted fish increases the probability of a successful meal, says Egeness.
Frozen desalted cod is expensive in Brazil. At the supermarket chain Zona Sul in Rio de Janeiro, frozen rehydrated bacalhau loins costs NOK 195 (BRL 65) per kilo.
In comparison dried and salted cod loins cost NOK 150 (BRL 50) per kilo. If we take into account the fact that dried and salted fish increases in weight after desalting, the true price difference is actually a full NOK 80 (BRL 27).
Consequently, this product category is growing despite the higher price. This emphasizes the fact that the target market for frozen desalted products is the richest consumers, and that the willingness to pay is higher than for the traditional Norwegian dried and salted fish, says Egeness.
Alaska pollock
Chinese-produced salted Alaska pollock in smaller pieces has become a common sight in Brazilian supermarkets. The Brazilian supermarket chains that Nofima has spoken to say that Alaska pollock is an alternative to bacalhau of saithe. We often found saithe and Alaska pollock displayed side by side on the supermarket shelves.
A consumer study Nofima carried out in Brazil in 2008 implied that bacalhau of saithe has several limitations, primarily relating to dark colour, lack of thickness of the fish and a fibrous consistency of the meat.
As a result, the consumers believed that the saithe was better suited to bacalhau balls, known as bolinhos, and casseroles than portions. Skin and bones meant that bacalhau of saithe was regarded as time-consuming to prepare.
The advantages of the saithe were taste and price. The flavour was described as rich, while its low price meant the product was affordable to a greater proportion of the population.
Price is important for consumers of salted Alaska pollock. Price examples from Recife in Northeast Brazil showed that Alaska pollock sold in smaller pieces cost NOK 45 per kilo, while saithe cost NOK 51. The price difference was further strengthened by the fact that pollock was packaged in smaller packs.
Easier
The middle class eats bacalhau on festive and special occasions such as Christmas and Easter. Cheaper and more convenient alternatives give them the opportunity to eat dried and salted fish on a more regular basis. Many consumers think its hard to cut and tear bacalhau into smaller pieces so the Chinese products are easier to use, says Egeness.
Alaska pollock also has a lighter colour, which becomes extremely clear when they are placed alongside each other at the supermarket. Consequently, this fish has several advantages when compared with bacalhau of saithe.
The new products are here to stay and they have become a convenient alternative to dried and salted fish from Norway, says Egeness.
This means Norwegian companies need to have a conscious position in relation to positioning of existing products and assess whether they will produce frozen desalted products. They also need to work to ensure the consumers choose bacalhau of saithe in preference to Alaska pollock enough times in the space of a year.
This article is based on a research project financed by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund, the Norwegian Fishermens Sales Organization, Nordea and the Norwegian Seafood Council.
Lucy Towers
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Nearly $400,000 Stolen from Memphis Area Charter School
Three Former Memphis Academy of Health Sciences Leaders Indicted
Wednesday, December 01, 2021 | 09:00am
An investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller's Office, working in conjunction with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, has resulted in the indictments of Corey Johnson, Robert Williams, and Michael Jones. All three men held leadership positions at the Memphis Academy of Health Sciences (MAHS) charter school within the jurisdiction of the Shelby County School System. MAHS serves students in grades 6 through 12.
Investigators determined the three former leaders misappropriated a combined $398,365.27 from the school between July 2015 and February 2021. This amount includes the following:
Former Executive Director Corey Johnson stole a total of at least $337,955.13 from the school. Johnson used school debit cards, checks, wire transfers, and cash withdrawals to benefit himself. His $253,863.33 in personal purchases included Las Vegas trips, NBA tickets, a hot tub for his home, and a variety of personal items and services. Johnson also received $84,091.80 in unauthorized compensation including stipends, bonuses, duplicate and additional payroll payments, and salary payments that exceeded his contracted amount. His employment was terminated on December 3, 2019.
Former Finance Director Robert Williams received improper payroll payments totaling at least $35,295.95. Williams collected duplicate salary payments, excessive stipends, and a questionable buy-back vacation payment. His employment was terminated on February 12, 2021.
Former Nutritional Services Director Michael Jones stole at least $25,114.19 from the school. This included $21,586.05 in unauthorized food purchases for himself. Jones bought food including shrimp, crab legs, ribeye steaks, salmon, catfish, and lobsters – food that is typically not served to students. He also used school funds to pay $3,528.14 for auto repairs on his and another school employee's vehicles. His employment was terminated on September 28, 2020.
Comptroller investigators have also questioned another $400,521.45 in disbursements that were authorized by Johnson and Williams. These disbursements are further detailed in the investigative report.
In November 2021, the Shelby County Grand Jury indicted Corey Johnson on one count of theft over $250,000 and one count of theft over $10,000; Robert Williams on one count of theft over $250,000; and Michael Jones on one count of theft over $10,000 and one count of theft over $2,500.
"These thefts were carried out over a period of four and-a-half years without scrutiny by the MAHS Board of Directors," said Comptroller Jason Mumpower. "Board members have a duty to uphold the integrity and ethics of the organization under their oversight. Each board member has a fiduciary responsibility to ask tough questions, perform due diligence, and establish clear policies and internal controls related to financial activities."
To view the investigative report, go to: https://comptroller.tn.gov/office-functions/investigations/find.html
If you suspect fraud, waste, or abuse of public money in Tennessee, call the Comptroller's toll-free hotline at 800.232.5454, or file a report online at: tncot.cc/fraud. Follow us on twitter @TNCOT and Instagram @tncot
Media contact: John Dunn, Director of Communications, 615.401.7755 or john.dunn@cot.tn.gov
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RAD Torque Systems acquires 60,000 sq ft new facility in BC, Canada
Jonathon Harker
RAD Torque Systems has acquired a new 60,000 ft² facility, approximately 1.6 times the size of its current premises.
Scheduled to open in late 2020, the state-of-the-art facility is located close to the manufacturer's roots in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
The new site means all employees will be able to operate under one roof, and for RAD to meet with potential clients, customers and distributors in one central area.
"We're going to stay building in Canada, we're proud Canadians," said Dan Provost, President of RAD Torque Systems. "Everything is manufactured here and that's not going to change. We've expanded our facility, we're going to hire more Canadians and keep our business in Abbotsford and make our country proud."
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Pat McFadden, Vice President of Operations, added: "What this facility means to us is that we have much more space for our equipment, which means we can create more product faster. It's going to help us with our lead times for everybody, so that they're going to get their product faster."
Provost started the company over 25 years ago out of his garage: "The popularity of the RAD product just grew so much in the last couple of years. Working out of my garage, I was proud of the product, I knew I had something good on my hands, but I never expected the presence I have in the market now."
The torque wrench manufacturer celebrated its 25th year of business in 2019. Since its foundation, the Canadian manufacturer has gone on to produce pneumatic, battery powered and electric pistol grip torque wrenches, producing thousands of torque wrenches and torque accessories every year and used in sectors including aerospace, rail, wind energy and oil & gas, among others.
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A Xenops rutilans a madarak (Aves) osztályának verébalakúak (Passeriformes) rendjébe, valamint a fazekasmadár-félék (Furnariidae) családjába és a Xenopinae alcsaládjába tartozó faj.

Rendszerezése
A fajt Coenraad Jacob Temminck holland arisztokrata és zoológus írta le 1821-ben.

Alfajai
Xenops rutilans chapadensis Zimmer, 1935
Xenops rutilans connectens Chapman, 1919
Xenops rutilans guayae Hellmayr, 1920
Xenops rutilans heterurus Cabanis & Heine, 1859
Xenops rutilans incomptus Wetmore, 1970 - Panama
Xenops rutilans perijanus Phelps & W. H. Phelps Jr, 1954
Xenops rutilans peruvianus Zimmer, 1935
Xenops rutilans phelpsi Meyer de Schauensee, 1959 - Kolumbia
Xenops rutilans purusianus Todd, 1925
Xenops rutilans rutilans Temminck, 1821
Xenops rutilans septentrionalis Zimmer, 1929 - Costa Rica és Panama

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Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad és Tobago, valamint Argentína, Bolívia, Brazília, Kolumbia, Ecuador, Francia Guyana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname és Venezuela területén honos. A természetes élőhelye trópusi és szubtrópusi síkvidéki és hegyi esőerdők, valamint lombhullató erdők.

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Kurahts, kurehat ou kurahits est un terme du penjabi, dans le sikhisme, qui désigne les vœux d'abstinence pris par tout sikh lors de son baptême l'Amrit Sanskar, lorsqu'il rentre dans l'ordre du Khalsa. Dans son étymologie kurehat se rapproche des mots Rehat Maryada: le code de conduite sikh. Le mot ku amène la négation, l'opposé. En fait Kurahts veut dire: de ce qu'il faut rester éloigné (d'un point de vue religieux).
Ce sont les quatre prohibitions majeures. Il s'agit: de ne pas se couper les cheveux; ne pas commettre d'adultère ; ne pas manger de chair animale (des Gurus du sikhisme ont écrit : ne pas manger du tout de viande) ; ne pas boire d'alcool, ne pas fumer de tabac, et ne pas prendre de drogue .

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2019 Lexus LS 500 F Sport Review
The 2019 Lexus LS 500 F Sport isn't your grandfather's LS, or your father's. It's all-new and ready for the modern world.
Lexus knows what it's doing these days. It's at the top of the rankings for quality and reliability. Gone are the days of people bemoaning the brand's bland styling.
Lexus is hip. Lexus is doing a lot of things right, and the LS 500 is the perfect example of that.
However, in an automotive age when the cash cows are pickup trucks and SUVs, it's somewhat surprising that the company would spend so much of its time and effort on another car instead of another crossover SUV.
Still, I'm not complaining. The market still needs sedans, and I like them. The LS fills a hole in the market, one that lies below the Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars, but above the new players from Genesis.
You might think you know what to expect from an LS, the 2019 LS 500 F Sport will surprise you. It's different than the LS that came before it, and in all the right ways, it's very similar, too.
Based on the same GA-L platform as the Lexus LC 500, the LS 500 is the Lexus' flagship luxury sedan.
What's Underneath?
It comes with either a 415 hp twin-turbo V6 under the hood or a 345 hp hybrid powertrain that combines a V6 with two electric motors.
You can get the sedan with either rear or all-wheel drive. Our tester came with all-wheel drive, and we could feel it making a difference on twisty roads.
A Modern Car With Modern Styling
Lexus offers the sedan with an F Sport package, which adds F Sport-tuned suspension, F Sport seats, and various other F Sport cosmetic additions to the interior and exterior of the car. Our tester came with the F Sport package, and it adds visually to the car.
Speaking of visuals, the LS 500 takes cues from the LC 500 coupe. It has the large Spindle corporate grille, curves, and creases that make it stand out from its siblings without placing the model outside of the family.
In short, it looks like a modern Lexus. It's the best-looking Lexus with four doors.
An Interior Fitting for a Flagship
The interior is a high-class but busy place to be from a styling standpoint. The materials Lexus uses are superb—Soft, smooth, and durable leather covers the seats, steering wheel, gear shifter, parts of the doors and dash.
The rest of the interior is made up of machined or brushed aluminum, wood trim, piano black plastic, and "kiriko" cut glass should you choose it.
Will It Satisfy the Technophiles?
The technology is modern and up to date, too, with the latest iteration of the Lexus Enform infotainment system with Wi-Fi, Amazon Alexa, Apple CarPlay, dynamic navigation, Enform App Suite, and Enform Service Connect.
The optional Mark Levinson 23-speaker system in the car is simply superb and offers good sound quality at any volume. We assume the base system to still be quality, though not quite as good.
Unfortunately, Lexus continues on with its touchpad infotainment controller. The system is better than ever before. It's slightly more precise and easier to use, but it lacks the precision of its competitor's controllers and requires far too much of your attention while driving.
Plenty of Safety Technology
From a safety standpoint, you get 10 airbags, road sign assist, vehicle dynamics integrated management, vehicle stability control, brake assist, traction control, ABS, electronic brakeforce distribution.
You also get the Lexus Safe System+, which bundles most of the advanced collision sensors and pedestrian sensors and driver assist features together.
You can expect a Luxury flagship sedan to be larger than most cars on the road, and the LS 500 is no exception.
Big On The Outside
If there's one thing true about the Lexus LS 500 it's that it's long. The wheelbase is long, which makes for a smooth ride, but the sheer length of the car can make it difficult on tighter roads and parking lots.
Having said that, its competitors are close if not longer, though. For comparison, the LS 500 measures about 206 inches or more than 17 feet long.
That's still shorter than the Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan, which is about a half an inch longer. The Audi A8 is longer, too, at nearly 209 inches long.
Big On the Inside, Too
Interior dimensions are comparable, too. The Lexus LS offers 41 inches of legroom up front and 38.9 in the rear.
The Mercedes-Benz edges out the Lexus for front seat legroom but comes up short against the LS's generous rear seat legroom. The Audi A8 wins by a landslide here, offering 41.5 inches of legroom up front and 44.3 inches in the rear.
Where the A8 comes up short though is in the trunk space. The Audi only offers 12.5 cubic feet whereas the Lexus offers 16.95 cubic feet. The Mercedes wins by offering 18.7 cubic feet in the trunk.
Overall, the LS does a good job when compared to the competition in terms of size.
Having said that, the much less expensive Lexus ES sedan actually offers more front and rear legroom, headroom, shoulder room, and hip room than the bigger LS. Its trunk is only a quarter of a cubic foot smaller, too.
In a word, yes. The LS 500 fulfills its mission.
It's a unique Luxury sedan that offers most of what any other flagship luxury sedan can but at a lower price. Also, if the Lexus reputation for quality and reliability holds true with this model, it's a car you can drive until you're too old to drive.
The Lexus LS is happy leisurely traveling around the city or suburbs. It is a consummate highway cruiser with plenty of power and fantastic seats for those long drives. It even offers more than a modicum of sportiness on even the most challenging of twisty roads.
The twin-turbo engine is smooth, strong, and sounds good. The 10-speed automatic transmission knows what it's doing and never feels like it's in the wrong gear.
The car is heavy but doesn't let you know it too often, and it gets a respectable 19 mpg city, 30 mpg highway, and 23 mpg combined—right on par with the competitors, and better than some.
It's a fantastic car, and when you compare it to the competition, it not only holds up but does so in a way that helps it stand apart, especially in the price department.
The new design for the Lexus LS came out in 2018. Sales in that year more than doubled the previous year's numbers in America. That would suggest that people found it to be a car worth buying.
Also, worth noting is that sales for 2019 are going strong so far. The model is on track to perform well again in 2019.
With a $75,300 starting price tag for the rear-wheel-drive model, the LS is more affordable than its immediate competition. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan starts at $91,250. The Audi A8 starts at $83,800. The BMW 7-Series starts at $83,650.
If you want to beat the Lexus LS 500's price tag you have to go to Genesis or Cadillac.
Is There a Better Option?
Well, that really depends on what you want. If you want a well-appointed, luxury sedan and don't care if its front-wheel drive, I'd suggest looking to the Lexus ES instead of the LS 500.
The ES isn't quite as powerful or prestigious, but it offers more interior space and only gives up a tiny bit in terms of cargo space.
The Lexus ES is the best it's ever been, too. Lexus reworked it on the new Toyota Camry platform. It may be a front-wheel drive car, but it's sportier than ever before and easier to maneuver due to its smaller overall size than the LS.
However, if you must own a flagship sedan and are looking for something that you know will run forever and still offers good value, then the LS 500 might be a good choice for you.
The Lexus brand comes with plenty of prestige and the LS is a true presence on the road.
The Lexus LS 500 F Sport is the kind of car you're going to smile at almost every time you come out to the garage. Its demanding presence, stylish good looks, high levels of comfort, and superb fit and finish make it an excellent car.
It's not the sportiest large sedan out there. It's also not the smoothest pillowy-riding sedan out there. The model walks a fine line between comfortable cruiser and sports sedan, and it does so while swaddling you in some of the best interior materials in the business.
For the money, this sedan is an excellent choice. It gives you much of what the most expensive models at a noticeably lower price. It's not perfect, but the complaints are few, and the pros far outweigh the cons.
Note: This car was provided for review by Toyota USA for the purposes of this review.
Price as Tested: $88,605
Engine: twin-turbocharged V6
Transmission: 10-speed automatic with paddle shifters
Power Output: 416 horsepower and 442 lb-ft of torque
EPA: 19 mpg city, 30 mpg highway, and 23 mpg combined
Optional Equipment: F Sport package, 24-inch head-up display, Mark Levinson audio system with 23 speakers
2019 Lexus LS 500 review


This is one of those recipes that you try and your like "this is a new staple in our menu". We first had it when our friends Eric and Cynthia invited us over for dinner. He told us that his favorite dish was Spicy Cashew Chicken from Cheesecake Factory. I had never had it before so I wasn't sure how close the recipe was to C.F. But, he had made up this recipe to match it. When we started eating my husband and I were like "We NEED this recipe".
Combine 1 tablespoon soy sauce with the cooking sherry* in medium sized bowl. Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces, put chicken pieces in soy/sherry mixture. Let sit while you prepare the other ingredients.
In a small bowl, whisk 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 1/2 tbsp corn starch, 4 tsp sugar, and 2 tsp vinegar. Set aside. Slice the green onions, and measure out the red pepper flakes and minced garlic.
Drain chicken in strainer to get the marinade off as much a possible. Heat oil in a wok over high heat. Add red pepper flakes to oil,stir a couple times. Add chicken all at once, let sit for a minute or two till golden,then turn chicken. Add garlic to chicken. Cook chicken till golden on all sides and cooked through. drain oil if there is still an excessive amount. Add cashews. Move wok off hot stove and immediately pour in sauce while constantly turning chicken over to cover everything in sauce. Sauce should thicken quite a bit, if you want it thicker put it back on medium heat for about 5-10 seconds, and stir, stir, stir. Sprinkle toasted sesame seeds and add sliced green onions. Serve over Rice. ENJOY!


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Development and Optimization of a Produced Water, Biofilm Based Microalgae Cultivation System for Biocrude Conversion with Hydrothermal Liquefaction
Benjamin L. Peterson, Utah State UniversityFollow
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Extraction of oil and gas in Utah's Uintah Basin results in large quantities of wastewater, or produced water, with nutrients and residual organic chemical that represent a significant resource for producing energy-related and value-added products. Produced water was obtained as a biomass producing nutrient source from industries operating in Utah's Uintah Basin. Within the Uintah Basin (defined as Uintah and Duchesne Counties within Utah) approximately 93 million barrels of water were produced in 2013 while only 11% of the water was disposed of through evaporation, with the national average at 2%. The rest is reinjected into the subsurface.
The goal of this project was to design a system that utilizes produced water as a nutrient source for growing microalgae biomass in a biofilm form using a Rotating Algal Biofilm Reactor (RABR). The biomass would then be harvested and converted into biocrude oil using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). The objectives were to (1) cultivate biomass on produced water, (2) optimize the reactor to reduce energy costs to operate while increasing biomass productivity, and (3) increase feedstock quality for HTL.
The RABR was constructed out of polystyrene disks, and experimentation was carried out to optimize rotational speed of the reactor. Two strains of algal biomass were identified as biofilm formers and grown using produced water as the nutrient source. The biomass was then utilized as a HTL feedstock that gave an average yield of 34.5% ash free dry weight.
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Peterson, Benjamin L., "Development and Optimization of a Produced Water, Biofilm Based Microalgae Cultivation System for Biocrude Conversion with Hydrothermal Liquefaction" (2018). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 7237.
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Me I Understand... Her? Not so much.


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When our daughter was born, we received a voucher to the Perth Baby Spa from my brother and sister in law. This voucher was quite possibly the BEST present EVER. Instead of a lovely bouquet of flowers or another adorable baby onesie (which were all still extremely appreciated), this voucher was a unique idea that would allow us to create a special memory as a new family. Five months later and we have been to the spa a total of five times, if I could I would have taken Alaska every week since since birth she's loved it that much.
One thing I would recommend is to buy the packages of multiple spa days as it saves you money. We opted not to do this but ended up going back AGAIN and AGAIN and paying the full amount. Silly us should have just purchased five visits at once. Anyway, will know for the next baby ahah.
This baby spa experience is TOTALLY safe for babies. All the information on the Hydrotherapy sessions can be found on their site here . There is a one on one service here so the same lady is with you and your baby during the entire session. They are very gentle and soothing and they form a wonderful relationship with your wee ones in such a short time. They begin with dressing your bub in a water proof nappy supplied by them, they carefully place the neck floaty on (with your help) they then free float for roughly 15 minutes before they receive a relaxing body massage. Alaska always sleeps sooooo well after her spa days.
Great idea for a baby shower gift or if you're looking to buy new parents a little something that's different and special. Going to the spa doesn't have to be a gift though, we chose to keep taking our girl because she thoroughly enjoyed her visits.
Make sure you choose a time AFTER a sleep, you want your baby fully rested to enjoy their experience. Get there a little earlier so you can sit in the waiting room and feed your Bub. It's always best for them to float on a full tummy so they are not irritated or hungry.
Also be prepared to spend a little extra as they have some seriously CUTEEEE baby and Mama gifts in the waiting areas. Also just be aware that parking is limited but we always managed to find a spot behind the spa or close by on the street.
Last week when we went was our last visit. We absolutely loved seeing her float around, splashing about and soaking in all the attention. We highly recommend this spa as a gift for either yourselves or someone you know who would totally appreciate it.
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Heroines – Kate Zambreno (first thoughts)
This may end up being one of my last book/reading posts of the year, so it is a happy coincidence that I'll finish up by writing about Kate Zambreno's Heroines – a book I only recently came across (thank you Anthony) but which speaks to so much of what I've been thinking about in recent years – namely literature and women and women's writing and its place in/displacement from the canon. This entire year here at Pieces was dedicated to reviewing women writers and a feminist approach to the whole literary universe.
I think my reaction to Heroines is going to take a few separate posts – I have a lot to discuss. So today is just one initial reaction. I'll try to get the others written up before the end of the week (although my daughter's daycare is closed now until the 7th of January – I am not unaware of the irony of this fact keeping me from writing again more quickly about this particular book).
Before I say anything else, I will say that Heroines is a Before/After book, meaning that reading it has broken my literary perspective into a "Before I read Heroines" and an "After I read Heroines." I will not be able to look at that long line of canonized male writers in the same way ever again, nor will I be able to make the same assumptions about the women who were connected with them and women writers in general – and I want to send a huge heartfelt thank you to Zambreno for doing this. I've always been aware of the sad exclusion of so many wonderful and talented female writers from the canon and other generalized literary discussions, but she's gotten me to think about why this happens in a very particular way.
In brief, Heroines is a hybrid work: part criticism, part literary biography, part personal memoir. Zambreno is interested in the "modernist wives," women like Zelda Fitzgerald, Vivien(ne) Eliot, Jane Boyles, Elizabeth Hardwick, Sylvia Plath, and, to some extent, Virginia Woolf and a handful of others. Women who were used as muses for their famous spouses but forbidden their own artistic expression, often diagnosed as mentally unstable and eventually silenced and/or institutionalized.
Just a few words on the hybrid form of the book before I write about the content. This kind of fractured nontraditional narrative is beginning to feel more and more comfortable (and Zambreno makes a case for it as a particularly feminine form of writing – an idea which I found quite interesting), and I think that as postmodern readers we have come to enjoy it—I certainly do—and also expect it. The book as a whole feels very accessible, and yet it remains rigorously academic as well.
In her acknowledgments, Zambreno thanks her editor for supporting the idea that we should not be "erasing the self in our criticism." It's obviously something she thought a lot about – how to put herself into the book, how to structure the narrative while keeping herself woven through it. This, I think, is where the book will be contested. It is where she minimizes (on purpose, by invoking her own fragility) her writer's authority, and it puts her in a vulnerable place. I am still working out my own reaction to it.
One thing I can say now, however, is that I think the book's blog-like structure, with the reader following along as Zambreno makes all these connections and bridges, jumping from subject to subject and exploring the various writings, biographies and other disjointed textual and anecdotal evidence on the lives of her heroines and their connections to her, means that some of her overriding arguments and ultimate conclusions become hidden at the end of the book – and this is a bit of shame, because they're brilliant.
I'm not arguing for a traditionally structured work of academic criticism, not at all, but an awareness of the risks inherent in this kind of jumping, fractured, and personalized narrative – and then somehow the ability to undercut it, to insure the reader doesn't get lost in the mix of personal and academic, to get right away to the heart of the argument.
Which is this – and it's undeniable and brilliant:
That a male writer's emotional excess/singular artistic focus is glorified and lauded, it becomes his genius, his ability to embody the other, his "transcendence of the self" – while a woman experiencing/attempting the same is diagnosed and institutionalized, it becomes her madness, her inability to live in normal society, her loss of reason.
Zambreno fills the book with examples – Scott Fitzgerald actually using lawyers to keep Zelda from writing (his case is nearly the most egregious, I may never be able to read him again), Virginia Woolf's carefully allotted writing time (by doctors and Leonard) – no more than an hour a day, Flaubert lecturing Louise Colet against excess, Robert Lowell idolizing then demonizing his women as he fell in and out of love, and more and more, example after example… the book is composed of interwoven case studies of this kind of violence/oppression and the denial of the worth of a woman's artistic creation.
So overall, what Zambreno puts forward is an extremely compelling idea – and a way to re-envision what have been considered "minor" works and place them back on equal footing with similar novels and poems and stories created by male writers all along. This, to me, is the greatest contribution that Heroines makes to the literary discussion.
I'll have more to say about the book – specifically about the personal part of the narrative and about Zambreno's romanticism of the silenced woman writer (a romanticism she acknowledges and addresses), and about the different feminist approaches to the problem of the female writer, approaches which fascinate me and provoke a lot of questions – but I'll have to do it another day. More soon.
Tagged: books, literary biography, memoir, modernism
Jean Louis Fournier – Where We Going, Daddy
Today at Necessary Fiction I reviewed Where We Going, Daddy by Jean Louis Fournier and translated by Adriana Hunter:
Where We Going, Daddy is not a memoir in the traditional sense. This is not Fournier's attempt to work his way to some form of catharsis through well-structured essays, poetic descriptions of his suffering and a philosophical attitude toward Thomas and Mathieu's handicap. This slim book, written in part as a letter to his sons and in part a collection of vignettes of remembered moments, is appropriately stark.
Tagged: contemporary French literature, memoir, translation
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