The million-dollar Gay Street fire
On April 8, 1897, a small fire began in back of a hotel in Gay Street's business district and quickly spread through the expensive establishments that were the pride of the city. The fire claimed five lives and a million dollars' worth of property. Citizens criticized the city council for spending money on a new market house and Centennial celebrations rather than spending more on the newly-established professional fire department. Ordinances regulating fire escapes and shared walls found new support, as well.


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For many people around the world, the flu and cold season is in full force. While the days become shorter (for those of in the Southern Hemisphere) there is less sunlight and thus warmth. As a result, we miss out on adequate vitamin D and tend to indulge in heavier meals and more food – not necessarily always making the healthiest choice.
Furthermore, many people suffer from seasonal depression as a result of shorter days; this increases stress while depleting our bodies ability to fight off infection – one of the reasons why so many get sick this time of year. Despite all the colds and flues floating about, we all have the ability to avoid catching them if we take the time to strengthen our immunity through prevention.
10 Tips to Keep Your Immune System Functioning Optimally
1. Always ensure that you’re eating a diet of whole foods (mainly raw).
By giving your body what it needs (i.e. vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutriets), it has a greater ability to produce the necessary t-cells and white blood cells to ward off any foreign invader.
2. Get plenty of rest.
It is important to get proper sleep. Some require more than others, but generally speaking, 7-8 hours for most is sufficient. Ensure that you are not eating at least two hours before bed nor drinking 1 hour before bed; by following this protocol, you can successfully limit gastrointestinal problems and your time in the washroom at night. Proper sleeping patterns give your body the ability to recharge; contributing to a stronger defence system whereby the body does not have to work so hard in keeping a foreign bacteria or virus out of the body.
3. Ensure that you keep exercising.
Our body is designed to move. In order to keep our internal organs functioning properly, we must ensure that we are assisting them in their job of eliminating waste and waste by-products. Exercising assists in our body’s ability to rid toxins form our body much faster and improves the overall performance of our cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal systems. It is also important to note that our lymphatic system is a very slow moving system; thus moving at least 1 hour each day can help keep the fluids within this system moving, thereby keeping the ducts clean and efficient.
4. Provide your body with an extra boost of nutrients.
It is not only essential to eat well, but we also must ensure we are receiving adequate supplementation. Increase your intake of vitamin D and C, zinc, magnesium, and a good quality vitamin B complex. Also ensure that you’re getting grounded to the earth and adding plenty of garlic, onions and mushrooms to meals. Many of the noble mushrooms (i.e. reishi and chaga) have plenty of immune boosting properties within them.
5. Try to stay home as much as you can.
Avoiding illness can be as simple as staying put in your own home. It is important to avoid area such as pharmacies where you can easily come into contact with air borne pathogens from people waiting in line. Also, ensure that you make your best efforts to keep your hands clean – most bacteria and virus are spread through direct contact.
6. Stay away from the sugar (all forms, especially processed).
As 70-80% of your immune system resides in your intestines, it is important to keep it functioning properly. Sugar inhibits phagocytosis, the process by which viruses and bacteria are engulfed and then literally chewed up by white blood cells. The immune suppressing effect of sugar starts less than thirty minutes after ingestion and may last for five hours. That’s a long time to experience a glitch in your immune system, especially if you’re considering going into public places where there are sure to be germs all around.
7. Avoid consuming processed foods.
Processed foods have little to no nutrient value. They usually do more harm than good to your body. By eating primarily processed/packaged foods, one becomes malnourished; this in turn weakens your immune system. Not only are processed foods void of any nutrients, they also have a host of unhealthy additives and preservatives which can further suppress your immune system from functioning properly.
8. Keep your stress levels down.
Too much stress in one’s life severely suppresses one’s immune system. Where ever possible, try to engage in some light stretching or yoga, or simply practice some deep breathing techniques to bring down your cortisol (stress hormone) levels.
9. Antibiotics should be used as a last resort.
Everything has its use, although some things tend to get abused. Ensure that you have exhausted all natural remedies possible before considering the use of antibiotics. If you have no other choice, make sure to follow-up your treatment with a good quality pro-biotic supplement to replenish the good bacteria in your gut as antibiotics both kill good and bad when ingested.
10. Avoid overworking yourself.
When we enter the fall and winter seasons, it is important to adjust our activity levels as well. Generally speaking, we should reduce our activity levels as we are supposed to rest more in the fall and winter months. Furthermore, exercising is certainly beneficial, however too much is not a good thing. Too much exercising can create unnecessary free radical damage in your body, making it even harder for your body to ward off foreign pathogens or viruses.
Nothing is ever easy; we must always make an effort when it comes to our health and wellness rather than looking for the magic formula or bullet. We must take responsibility of our actions and listen to our bodies needs. Break free from the rhetoric and allow yourself to reconnect to the beautiful, powerful being that you are.
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With the soon forthcoming release of Earl Sweatshirt’s new album Some Rap Songs, the 24 year-old rapper has a lot to say both on wax and in conversation. In a recent interview with Vulture, Earl, born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, opened up about the loss of his South African father, poet Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile in January and the complexities behind how simple he tries to make his art.
In the past the California native has been vocal about how dysfunctional his relationship was with his father, but his death is something that has been hard to process. “For a long time this year, I was still kind of in shock and still can be shocked by the fact that my dad died,” he said “That s**t really threw me the f**k off.”
“I’ve just been figuring it out,” he continued. “But at a certain point, all of the pressures just kind of broke me. Just the idea of having to perform while I was kind of in this weird space, it was like, no fucking way. Why would I risk it? That’s not some dice I’m trying to roll. I need to process and heal some things for myself before I can be presenting myself.”
Some Rap Songs is Sweatshirt’s first body of work since his 2015 project, I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside. And he choose the simple name of the project because he prefers something clean instead of a saturated pool of art. “Incomplete s**t is really stressful to me, and the concept of unsimplified fractions is really stressful to me,” he explained. “So, with things like the album title, how I structure shit, and even how I write, it was really just like, What is this? The album title was kind of a response to that question.”
The “DNA” artist also touched briefly on Mac Miller’s death. “He was moving real fast,” he said. “A lot of the shit that we hold on to that slows us down, that makes us care about different shit and makes us second-guess? It can make a man complacent.”
Read the full interview on here. Some Rap Songs drops on Friday (Nov. 30).
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A gem from the brilliant writer-director Billy Wilder, who fashions comedy gold from a fairly seedy premise with superb plotting and writing. Jack Lemmon is a lonely bachelor who rents out his apartment to married men so they can carry on affairs with their mistresses, whilst his own love life is restricted to an unrequited adoration for fellow misfit Shirley MacLaine, who works in his company. Both turn in endearing performances in a story that will tug at the heartstrings…

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Eddie George, the running back and nine-year veteran of the NFL, will make his Broadway debut in the long-running musical revival “Chicago.”
George, the 1995 Heisman Trophy winner for Ohio State University and a commentator on Fox’s college football coverage, will play the role of slick attorney Billy Flynn for seven weeks, from Jan. 11 to Feb. 28.
George is no stranger to the stage, having appeared in such works in his hometown of Nashville, including Matthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man” (Nashville Repertory Theatre), Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” (Amun Ra Theatre) and in the title roles of both Othello and Julius Caesar at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
He has also appeared in NBC’s “American Dream Builders” and in such films as “Best Man Holiday” and “
George spent nine years in the NFL, helping to lead the Tennessee Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in four consecutive years, and finished his career with the Dallas Cowboys under legendary coach Bill Parcells.
“Chicago” currently stars actress and “Dancing with the Stars” winner Rumer Willis as Roxie Hart. Actress and reality TV alum NeNe Leakes will join the production in the role of Matron “Mama” Morton for four weeks only, Nov. 23-Dec. 20, 2015.
With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, “Chicago” is now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. Director Walter Bobbie’s production won six 1997 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival.


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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for an end to his administration’s migrant family separation policy faces a series of legal hurdles, which legal analysts say could derail the new directive.
Responding to immense backlash over his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated migrant children and parents caught entering the country illegally, Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that reversed the practice.
But a key part of the order’s mandate to keep families together is contingent on federal courts agreeing to modify a decades-old court order that restricts the time a minor can be detained in an immigration detention facility alongside their parents to 20 days.
The odds are slim that a federal court judge will side with the Justice Department’s recently filed petition to amend the so-called Flores settlement, say legal experts who note that a request by the Obama administration amid a sharp increase in border crossings was denied.
Experts also point to the Trump administration’s previous losses in federal court cases litigated on the West Coast, including rulings against Trump’s travel ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries and rejecting his termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides temporary legal status to immigrant minors who entered the country illegally as minors.
“The chances are close to zero,” said John F. Banzhaf, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, when asked about the likelihood of the federal court judge agreeing to the changes. “That same judge had a similar request from Obama and turned it down. I think it’s pretty clear that Trump is not very popular with members of the judiciary, and here the argument is ‘please modify the agreement so we can keep kids locked up longer with their parents and have a strict zero-tolerance policy.’ That to me would not be a winning argument with most judges.”
Republican House members are drafting a measure that would allow the Trump administration to override the 20-day limit, and will push for a vote on the bill this week, according to ABC News, which first reported on the development on Saturday. It remains to be seen if Senate Democrats, who have spoken out against the possibility of long-term detentions, will provide Republicans with the necessary votes for the measure to pass in the Senate.
In a court petition filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Department of Justice argued that the Trump administration should be able to hold children in detention facilities together with their parents as they await the outcome of their immigration proceedings beyond the 20 days outlined in 1997’s Flores settlement. The administration contends an increase in illegal border crossings has created a “destabilizing migratory crisis.”
“Under current law and legal rulings it is not possible for the U.S. government to detain families together during the pendency of their immigration proceedings. It cannot be done,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in their petition to U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee.
In 2015, Gee, who was appointed to her post by Obama, rejected a similar request by the Obama administration amid an influx of immigrants arriving across the southern border. Gee at the time stated in her ruling that the Obama administration did not provide “any evidentiary basis” that amending the Flores settlement would do anything to address the influx of those crossing the border illegally.
Should Gee strike down the Trump administration’s request, the Department of Justice could appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, a bench of 29 judges representing 15 western states, that previously ruled against the president’s travel ban.
If Gee were to side with the administration and allow for a longer detention period, the order could still risk lawsuits from immigration rights groups seeking to overturn any long-term detention of children. The ACLU vowed in a recent statement to fight the administration “every step of the way.”
“Trump is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place,” Banzhaf said. “The one possible solution for him is technology.”
Banzhaf said the administration should consider other less costly options than housing families in government detention centers that are currently being employed, such as using GPS ankle monitors to ensure those released return for their immigration court hearings. Banzhaf said immigration authorities have also used voice recognition software that allows for migrants to check in with immigration officers on their whereabouts until they are scheduled for a court hearing.
Immigration attorneys and activists say they are concerned that modifying the Flores settlement could lead to the indefinite detention of children as their parents navigate an already logjammed immigration court system. Lawmakers including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) have proposed legislation to add more immigration judges to address the influx of cases, but Trump has repeatedly spoken out against such an increase.
Lauris Wren, director of Hofstra University’s Asylum Program, which provides legal aid to immigrants seeking asylum, said the Flores settlement was reached to avoid “permanently damaging” children kept in correctional-like facilities.
The agreement, which set national standards for the treatment of detained immigrant minors, stemmed from a 1985 lawsuit filed on behalf of Jenny Lisette Flores, a 15-year-old unaccompanied minor who fled El Salvador’s civil war at the time. Flores was detained by immigration authorities in California and kept in an adult detention center with adults of both sexes, where she had to submit to strip searches.
“If the only thing that the government is willing to do is the detention of these people, we will continue to have a huge problem,” Wren said. “There must be rules for what is safe and appropriate for children.”

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European markets gave back much of Tuesday’s gains as strong earnings elsewhere could not offset oil companies’ retreat. How did markets perform? The Stoxx 600 (XX:SXXP) was down 0.1% to 390.9, after rising 0.
With some financial sector corporate earnings results out of Europe, another set of positive U.S earnings results may not be enough…
European markets struggled for direction on the first session after the long Easter weekend, with gains from oil names after as the U.S. ratcheted up pressure on Iranian crude output. Banks tugged in the other direction.
Looking at individual stocks, Umicore dropped more than 15%. The Belgian materials tech and recycling company downgraded its revenue and earnings forecast for 2020. The French retailer Casino announced Tuesday that it is expanding its partnership with Amazon, allowing it to sell via the e-commerce platform.
With the economic calendar on the lighter side. The focus will be on corporate earnings and Brexit… A softer EUR would likely be welcomed.
PARIS (Reuters) - L'Oreal's shares rose on Wednesday after the French cosmetics group beat first-quarter sales forecasts. The stock was up around 1.5 percent in early trading, among the biggest gains on ...
The DAX saw a 5th consecutive day in the green, with the CAC40 up for a 6th consecutive day. Today’s stats out of China could rain on the parade…
TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mixed Tuesday in Asia in mostly narrow trading in the absence of any major market-driving news.
A lack of economic data leaves corporate earnings in focus. Early support came from Asia, with little in the way of a positive start to the week.
A larger than expected slide in China imports raised a red flag for the European majors. Earnings will need to impress through the day…
It’s a quiet day on the economic calendar. While monetary policy continues to support appetite for riskier assets, earnings could weigh…
European markets crept higher, brushing off the office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s threat of tariffs on European Union products. How did markets perform? The Stoxx Europe 600 (XX:SXXP) rose nearly 0.
The European futures are in the red at the time of writing. Market sentiment could shift should there be progress on Brexit.
The futures are pointing to a mixed open later this morning. Off the back of an extended run, the markets may need the news wires to extend the run.
How will the EU decide on Brexit? Cornell Capital Managing Director Ann Berry joins Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman, Adam Shapiro, and Lending Tree Chief Economist Tendayi Kapfidze to discuss.


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FOX 45 Investigates: Social media safety for kids
MIAMI VALLEY, (WKEF/WRGT) - Do you know what your kids are doing online? What apps are they on?
Experts believe you'd be surprised at what your kids are being exposed to, and what it's driving them to do.
A post here, a tweet there; it's harmless, right?
Not everyone sees it that way.
"I have a 9 year old, I have a 13 year old, and I have a 15 year old," said Ginger May, a parent with Dayton Christian Schools.
May was one of dozens inside a Dayton Christian auditorium, learning what her kids are doing, and what they're looking at.
Katie Reynolds headed the discussion. Reynolds oversees the Guidance Department. She knows parents fear what they don't know is out there. The night's topic was also a tough pill to swallow.
"I think when people hear pornography and sexting, they think ,'That's not my kid. My kid would never look at that. They would never send a nude photo of themselves'," Reynolds said.
According to Reynolds, more than half of high school students have been asked to send naked photos, and 28 percent actually have. With apps that help students hide suggestive content, it leaves a difficult balance at home.
"I don't want to completely take them out of it," she said.
"Also still trying to be that nurturing parent, and protect them at the same time," May continued.
"It's continual because they're constantly posting, and they really do care what people think about them," Reynolds added.
The social platforms aren't the problem, Reynolds said. It's the emotional ties to views and likes that drives kids over the edge. There's dangerous dares, like the recent Tide Pod challenge that asked kids to eat laundry detergent. Peer pressure can push kids into suicide and violence.
In May 2014, two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls stabbed a classmate 19 times. They told investigators that they did it to please an online character called "Slenderman." Both were sentenced to a mental hospital, and the case proved how easily kids are influenced on the internet.
"It is very scary," May told FOX 45's Shavon Anderson. "You never think it's going to happen to you, or to your children."
So, how can you watch what's happening in your home?
"Just being made aware of what they're using, of how they're using it, and who they're using the social app with," May suggested.
Experts tell parents to look at each download in-depth, checking for third-party content in apps and online. Also enable filters if possible.
"There are things that pop up that if he were to click on one area or another, it could be detrimental, lead him down the wrong path," May said about her son.
"What are the privacy settings?" Reynolds asked. "Make sure they're keeping things private and not public, making sure they don't have their location services on."
The most important way to protect your kids is communication and honesty. Reynolds told parents to be honest about what's out there, building trust so they can make their own healthy decisions.
There are devices like "Disney circle" that connect to your home WiFi. Parents can monitor what sites and apps their kids visit minute-by-minute. Other parents suggest setting limits for how much screen time kids get, and keep records of all their passwords.


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Sound impossible? It’s not; there are many paperless banking options available today that will make an environmental impact by reducing paper consumption and your carbon footprint, all while saving you money. And they are so convenient to use almost anywhere. That’s a win for the environment and win for you.
First National Bank is constantly looking for innovative ways to enhance the banking experience for its customers, including paperless banking solutions.
- Online Statements. Sign-up for online statements to view at your desktop or on your phone or tablet. They look just like a traditional paper statement. Depending on your checking account type, you could save $4 month by eliminating paper statement fees.
- Mobile Deposit. Simply snap a photo of your check and deposit it into your checking or savings account. Save on gas by eliminating a trip to the bank and eliminate the paper deposit slips.
- Mobile Wallet. First National Bank’s debit cards are compatible with digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Just tap and pay…never write a check.
- Bill Pay. Use online Bill Pay and eliminate the need for paper checks. Pay your rent, utilities, credit card bill, and just about anyone.
- Electronic transfers. With online and mobile banking, you can transfer funds between your accounts at your convenience. Save a trip to the bank.
- Debit Card. Using your debit card to make purchases eliminates the need for paper checks. If you have a Simple Cash Back checking account, you will also receive $0.10 cash back each time you use your debit card to make a purchase. (See details.) You can also earn discounts or cash back by purchasing certain products and services with your debit card through our Purchase Rewards program. Wow, that’s a triple win!
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Yangjiajie is situated in the northwest of Zhangjiajie, covering an area of about 34 sq km. Yangjiajie is an area that is comprised of peaks, cliffs, waterfalls, streams, gullies and other natural landscapes. There are 110 scenic spots in total that can be viewed in the area. (8.4 thousand acres). Known only since 1991, the area is endowed with all the natural wonders found in the other areas but has more unique characteristics. It includes three main scenic spots: One step to the Heaven, Hawk Beak Peak. The area is also abundant in plants and animals, such as white cranes, macaques, ancient trees and rare flowers.
In this reserve you will find clear waters with spectacular mountains. It has unique peaks and cliffs as well as clear streams and brooks and waterfalls. One of the most amazing sites is the terraced fields that can be seen on the mountains. This area is also home to the world's first bridge. The bridge is located on two 300 meter high peaks with a natural stone linking the two peaks.
Yangjiajie Scenic Area is one of the must-see attractions in Zhangjiajie. At present, it is a sacred scene that enjoyed the same fames of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxi Valley and Tianzi Mountain.
● One Step to Heaven：“who can say heaven posseses the best scenery? Natural scenery of this area is even more fancinating.” Between Yangjiajie and Tianzi Shan, lies a wide canyon. A multitude of strangely shaped sandstone peaks form a veritable sea. When the gentle breezes blow, we can even taste the taste the flavor of the majestic mountains. Within this sea of peaks, six massive columns stand in a line, rising about 200 meters high from the base of the canyon. The two in the middle are a little higher than their comrades, and when the sun bathes the landscape after a rain, occasionally a brilliant rainbow will span the sky connecting the peaks like a celestial bridge. Such a “heavenly bridge” doesn’t appear often, but the six peaks can always be viewed, so this spot is called“One Step to Heaven”.
● Hawk Beak Peak: The peak midway along the hill looks very much like a huge hawk with its glaring eyes, and its beak is especially vivid. A poor family moved into the mountain and lived nearby the peaks for a short period. Some day, the family bought several little chickens from the market. As the owner released the chickens out of the cage, the little creatures ran back in a hurry. The owner turned them out again, but the same thing happened, and he was totally bewildered. Later ,he finally discovered: it was the Hawk Beak Peak that scared his little chickens
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Baihougu Valley is home to large flocks of macaque monkeys and egrets，cranes and numerous smaller birds as well as ground animals. There are many ancient trees in Baihou Valley, as well as rare flowers that blossom in season.
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It does sound like the ECM has failed because of this. Unhooking the battery cables with the engine running caused a large voltage spike which has done internal damage to the ECM. The battery is needed to smooth out the highs and lows of the charging system output, unhooking it has either allowed a small spike or it allowed it to quickly overcharge and damage the ECM. The alternator is capable of near 60 volts of output in some cases.
In your first question you said "removed the battery cables while the engine was running to make sure it wasn't charging". Now you're saying that you didn't remove the cables with the engine running? Either way if the ECM blows a fuse when plugged in but it's ok when it's unplugged then an ECM problem seems likely. If you didn't remove the cable with the engine running then some electrical testing may be in order before the ECM is replaced.
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I tried deleting a folder(about 2gig) from a portable hard disk/drive in windows unsuccessfully, i then removed the hard disk and connected to a Fedora 14 environment and deleted it successfully. Now when i connect the same hard disk to a windows machine i can't see the files. however everything appears in linux, what should i do to fix this?
It sounds like the hard drive is in the wrong format. It depends on the version of windows you are running, but all the latest windows needs an NTFS hard drive. If you are connecting it as an external then it will also work with the FAT format as well.
Do you know what format the hard drive is in? I need a little bit more information, like what are you trying to do with the drive and how are you connecting it?


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The Chocolate Hills in Bohol are one of the most famous landmarks in the Philippines. They create a truly unique geological formation – between 1260 and 1776 hills in varying shape and size. The hills are covered in grass, which turns brown during the summer – thus giving them their name.
It’s very easy to visit this place, one of the most beautiful and special destinations in the country. You can book day tours from anywhere in Bohol or Cebu. Add the Chocolate Hills day tour to your wish list, and we’ll organize everything needed. Alternatively, book a package and stay at one of the nice hotels in Panglao, so you can explore the place longer.
Most people book organized tours, which include transfers to the Hills from either Cebu or Tagbilaran. Guided tours allow to understand the history and significance of the place better, as well as make the most out of your day there. However, it’s certainly possible to travel to the hills by yourself and try out any activity and attraction you’d like.
If you are already in Bohol, then you probably booked an hotel at Panglao. Organized tours include a pickup directly from your resort. Otherwise, you’ll need to drive 30 minutes to Tagbilaran and find a guide there. It only takes 60 minutes from Tagbilaran to the Hills, so renting a motorbike and doing it by yourself is also a nice option. Travelling by bus in Bohol is generally not a good idea, since you risk wasting your whole day doing so.
From Cebu you have 2 options. First is to take the ferry to Tagbilaran and book a tour there at the pier. There will be many private guides waiting there to offer a custom tour of Bohol, and the Chocolate Hills are included of course. The second option is to take the fast craft from Cebu to Tubigon, which takes 1 hour. From there, grab a bus to Sagbayan – where you have a very nice view of the Hills from the view deck.
The most common choice is to book the trip to the hills from Cebu or Panglao, so you can include it in a package with accommodation there. Both places offer a wider selection of hotels and resorts, so you’re more likely to find something you like. During the day tour you can also visit other popular sites such as the man-made forest known as the Bilar Forest and the world’s smallest primate known as the Tarsier and Loboc River, so there’s really no need to spend the night at the Hills themselves.
However, booking a single night is also perfectly reasonable. You can stay at one of the resorts near in Loboc River. Selection is limited, but hotels are quite good and not too expensive compared to Mactan or Panglao. It will allow you to explore the area more thoroughly and try out more activities while there.
Apart from hiking through the hills and admiring the unique landscape, the amount of attractions is fairly limited. This tour is combined with a visit to the Chocolate Hills with other popular tourists spots in Bohol, such as the man-made forest known as the Bilar Forest, the world’s smallest primate known as the Tarsier and Loboc River. To do so, simply visit our Bohol day tours catalog and add the countryside tour to your Wishlist.
Below you can find information of the popular activities near the Chocolate Hills. You can pick the ones you like, and add them to your customized tour package. For more details and special requests, it's best if you contact us directly. We'll be happy to help build your entire itinerary to include anything you'd like to see or do.
|Day tour sample itinerary
|Arrival to Carmen
|09:30 - 12:30
|Tour of the hills - ATV and viewdeck
|12:30 - 13:30
|Free lunch buffet
|13:30 - 16:30
|Arrival back at hotel
Renting an ATV (all terrain vehicle) is the most popular way of exploring the hills. Suitable for the whole family, you can get all muddy and dirty in this extreme ride. You'll need to get to the Buenos Aires barangay in Carmen, because that's where the rental offices are. Once there, you can either rent a vehicle or take part in a guided tour.
The guided tour goes for either 30 minutes or an hour, depends on your choice. Both include the Three Sisters Hills, and the longer route will also take you through the Eight Sisters. You can choose between a bug car or an ATV, both compatible for 2 persons. The buggy has a roof and is more like a car, so it's the safer option for novices.
You'll be accompanied by a professional guide, and provided with all necessary safety gear. The guide will help you figure out how to drive, as well as give some insights on the sights around you. Make sure to bring extra clothes, and keep in mind children under the age of 10 can only ride in the back. Pay close attention to the guide's instructions, and you are guaranteed to have a thrilling yet safe experience.
This is a compound owned by the Camanayon Hill Development Corp, and a popular attraction among locals. It's especially suited for corporate events and bonding days, but that doesn't mean it can't also be a great way to pass half a day or so in Bohol.
The park has 30 different activities you can take part in. The most popular attraction is the zip line, offering a fantastic view of the hills. There's also a zip bike, as well as treetop rope climbing, horseback riding and other extreme adventures. Overall, the park is a great place for families and couples to spend some time together doing fun activities.
You'll have to pay a small entrance fee of Php 100, and then pay more for each ride you wish to take. Most of these rides cost Php 600 per person. Keep in mind though that most of them are prohibited to children under 6, and people weighing over 90kg (200 pounds).
If you already plan to stay at either Cebu or Bohol, paying a visit to the Hills is a must. It's one of the most unique sites you'll see in the Philippines, and offers plenty of options for a fun and exciting day. Bohol is a relatively small island, and the hills are not far from Tagbilaran, so including the tour in your package is very easy.
Book the Chocolate Hills tour package, or add it into a larger itinerary of the Visayas area. This can include other exciting locations which are great for the entire family, and offer a rich taste of nature in the Philippines. Once done with Cebu and Bohol, you could continue to Dumaguete and explore the beautiful islands around it such as Siquijor for example.
Our experts will be happy to help figure out the perfect plan for your preferred vacation. We'll help you build your entire itinerary, as well as book all hotels and tours you'd like. Use our cart system to build your own custom package, or contact us for expert advice and custom tours.

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Paysage d'Hiver is an ambient black metal band from Burgdorf, Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Formed in 1997, the sole member is Wintherr, an alias of Tobias Möckl, who also plays with Darkspace as Wroth. "Paysage d'Hiver" is French, meaning "landscape of winter"; indeed, their songs' lyrics address primarily winter, darkness, and astral projection. Wintherr has cited the Burzum albums Hvis lyset tar oss and Filosofem, among others, as an inspiration for his music. All of Paysage d’Hiver’s own material is released through Kunsthall Produktionen, a label Wintherr runs together with Nimosh of the band Nordlicht.
As described on the Kunsthall website, all of the band's releases are connected, in that they tell different pieces of a story describing a realm known as "Paysage d'Hiver", from which the band takes its name.


Back in 2005, The New York Times asked a number of contemporary thinkers what idea that is taken for granted these days they think will disappear “in the next 35 years.”
Professor Peter Singer, the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University’s Orwellian-named “Center for Human Values,” responded: “the traditional view of the sanctity of human life.” That view, he explained, will “collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.”
It’s been less than ten years since that prediction but the professor is already being proven a prophet.
The Journal of Medical Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of bioethics, established in 1975. A scholarly paper that appeared in its pages in 2012 has, for some reason, been receiving new attention. It deserves it.
It was titled “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” and was written by two academics, members of the philosophy departments of, respectively, the University of Milan and the University of Melbourne.
Its authors’ summary reads, in its entirety, as follows:
“Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that 1) both fetuses and newborns do not have … Read More >>
by Raphael Davidovich
In the latest attempt to quell the ongoing culture wars in Israel, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni last year gave Law Professor Ruth Gavison a formidable task. Gavison was asked to help prepare “a constitutional arrangement dealing with Israel’s identity” as “a Jewish and Democratic state.” The task is a fascinating one, one I love discussing because it is an area of personal interest for me. But it is a task that should not be fulfilled.
Whenever someone in the Israeli Leadership advocates a new constitutional arrangement, it should be mandatory to reread the history of why Israel presently has no formal constitutional arrangement as most other countries do. The brief history is as follows: The Constituent Assembly charged with the writing of a Constitution for the State of Israel ended its task in 1949, its job undone, and instead became the newborn State’s first Parliament. It would be simple to conclude that the document wasn’t written because of the machinations and political ploys of Ben-Gurion, or this group or that power-hungry faction. It would also be simple to argue that the group couldn’t come to agreement because of the old truism that Jews are argumentative, like that old joke about Ben-Gurion being the Prime Minister of two million prime ministers. But these arguments would be wrong. We need to properly understand what happened, and it says something about Jewry in Israel and throughout the world.
The constituent assembly could not write a constitution because a true constitution can only be a viable document when applied to a group that has certain basic outlooks and principles in common that they wish to codify and establish as axiomatic, virtually unarguable, to future generations of leaders who might be tempted by the need for political expedience to ignore those principles.
To be clear, what Israelis who say they want a Constitutional Arrangement really mean is that they want a two-tier system of laws: One set of Supreme Laws, which usually includes a Bill of Individual Rights, and one set of all other laws passed by the Knesset which would be subservient to that first set. This concept originated in our times with the American Constitution.
The American Constitutional experiment contained a feature that was novel to the world of political realism at the time, even though nowadays it’s so common that it’s taken for granted; that a State should have an upper tier of Law and a lower tier of law. The higher level of law, with fewer words, usually loftier, dominates; it insists that all other laws passed by the legislature conform to it or be declared null and void. This is specifically what is meant nowadays by people when they speak of a country having a Written Constitution. This is actually sloppy wording, as it leads to such sentences as “England does not have a written constitution”, or “Israel does not have a written constitution.”
The reality is that of course, both England and Israel have written constitutions. What they lack is the legal framework that mandates that some laws be subservient to other laws. Their constitutions are in the laws that set up the government. They have laws that provide for various freedoms, civil and political rights and limitations. They do not set up a hierarchy among those laws, one trumping the other. They adhere to the older principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty, rejected by the US Constitution, that one Parliament cannot limit another. For example, one Parliament cannot pass a law that states that it may not be revoked except by unanimous consent. All laws are equal to each other, even the ones that scholars call “constitutional”.
Why do countries, such as the USA, want a two-tier system? The answer, briefly stated earlier, is that the founding people and founding leaders of a nation want certain laws enshrined at a level that later legislatures or leaders will not be allowed to override because of the political expediencies of the moment.
Now in many countries, including Israel, it is well known that different groups of people have different ideals they believe are worth preserving at all costs. If a nation has several groups of people with conflicting ideals, the differences cannot and should not be resolved at the “Constitutional” level at all! Put another way, if one group that does not have behind it the true political will of the vast majority of the people, tries to take advantage of a propitious moment and attempt to enact certain reforms at the constitutional level, trouble will usually ensue for one of several reasons:
Continue reading → On the making of Constitutional Arrangements
by Rabbi Akiva Males
In the closing months of 2013, the American Studies Association (ASA) voted to boycott Israeli universities. This move is part of a much larger effort in the ongoing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement intended to isolate Israel. In the aftermath of this academic boycott, many of Israel’s supporters rightfully voiced our hurt feelings, disappointment, and/or strong disagreement with the ASA’s offensive maneuver.
In January, before my wife and I traveled to visit family in Israel, I read an important article in The NY Jewish Week by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin which reminded me of a crucial yet simple concept. As supporters of Israel, we need to find responsible ways to express our outrage with the ASA. At the same time, we also need to recognize the many American universities who found the strength to resist joining in this boycott.
It is not enough to scream “gevalt” when we have been wounded. We also have to call out “thank you” to those who are our friends, to those who stood up for truth, to those who have refused to have their educational institutions seduced by the all too common siren song of anti-Israeli behavior. We … Read More >>
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tJt.com
Recently, Yeshiva World News reported that one of the Rebbes of Satmar has been reporting an increase in cancer in his community rachmana litzlan. While no one can vouch for the accuracy of what was actually said, it seems that after some examination they (it is unclear who else was involved) concluded that it might possibly be due to a breach of tznius in their community – highlighting that it may be the wearing of excessive make-up. To this end, a new Vaad was created accompanied with a solicitation for funds.
It is this author’s opinion that such declarations are often counter-productive for a number of reasons. Firstly, it shortchanges the beauties of Torah Judaism, whose great commentators have offered fascinating insights into illness. Secondly, it is terribly insulting to a very fragile group of people that are looking toward Rabbinic leaders for solace and instead receive a brutal slap in the face. Thirdly, it may be a manifestation of a “blame something or some-one” mentality which diverts resources and attention from addressing other problems.
Recently this author was asked by a person who had experienced a tragic loss in his family to … Read More >>
This past week a terrible tragedy occurred in Scotland regarding a medical doctor. It seems a doctor who was moonlighting did not inform his hospital that he was working another job. On account of his over-tiredness, he did not check that a patient was overmedicated. Nor did he check on the patient. The patient died, unfortunately. This incident highlights an important point in halacha.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics informs us that last year seven million American workers were working multiple jobs. Out of a total employed workforce of 144 million in this country that means that one out of 20 people at work are actually working double jobs. The question is: Are there any obligations from a halachic perspective that these workers have to their day-job employers? Indeed, is having the extra job permitted in the first place?
It is also interesting to note what types of jobs most people have as their second job. Some babysit, others bartend. Some cater. And many run an internet website (more on this as the article progresses).
There is a fascinating Tosefta in Bava Metzia (8:2) which tells us that a worker is not permitted to perform his own … Read More >>
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Poor moral choices can be made by people of either gender, especially when it comes to behaviors involving divorce. Divorces can bring out the worst in people, and many believe that that is an understatement. There are angry wives seeking a divorce who cause their husbands to be incarcerated, simply because they have the ability to do so. And there are husbands who punish their wives by not allowing them to ever remarry. This, of course, is known as the agunah problem, where wives separated from their husbands are still chained to them, unable to remarry, because their husbands have refused to grant them a get, a Jewish divorce document.
The agunah problem has given rise, of late, to a new trend in how some people handle halachah. More and more, when facing obstinate husbands refusing to grant their wives a get, some rabbis are opting for a rather controversial method of relieving the problem. They are granting “Jewish annulments” of the original marriage.
The issue, however, is mired in controversy, where leading rabbis are aghast at both the ease and the extent of the annulments being granted. There … Read More >>
A fantastic recent essay in the New York Times brought to mind a fantastic Talmudic narrative. The latter [in Tamid 32b] describes the would-be world-conqueror Alexander the Great approaching the gates of the Garden of Eden. When denied entry (insufficient righteousness the grounds), he asks for, at least, a souvenir and is given an eyeball (or, perhaps, a skull’s eye-socket).
Seeking to somehow gauge the odd gift, he places it on one pan of a scale, with gold and silver in the other pan. The precious metal pan rises. And it continues to do so, no matter how much gold and silver he adds. Asking the rabbis accompanying him what is happening, they explain that the eye represents the impetus for human desire; it is that which sees and wants, and is never satisfied. He is skeptical but the rabbis then prove their point by placing some dirt, a reminder of the reality of mortality, atop the eye. Its pan then rises high, outweighed by, unconcerned with, oblivious to, all the precious metal.
All of us have likely desired to possess something we don’t. But I have always been confounded by the spectacle of very wealthy people consumed … Read More >>
The New York Post crossed a line today, even for a paper specializing in the sensational, with its offensive front-page cover and equally offensive coverage of the vicious murder of a young Hassidic father of eight, Menachem Stark, Hy”d.
The paper demonstrated the poorest taste by choosing to focus on anonymous accusations rather than on the human tragedy of a wife and family’s sudden and terrible loss, and on their, and their community’s, grieving. Particularly at a time when Jews have been attacked on New York streets and are regularly vilified by hateful people around the world, the tabloid has demonstrated unprecedented callousness and irresponsibility.
Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect very much from a medium like the Post, but one should, we think, be able to expect some basic human decency in the wake of a family’s terrible personal loss.
Agudath Israel of America and its constituents, along with decent people of all religions and ethnicities, extend our deepest sympathies to Mr. Stark’s widow and children.
We, further, commend the New York City Police Department for its active pursuit of leads to Mr. Stark’s murderers, and pray that they be apprehended and brought to justice swiftly.
A private business owner in Seattle has been told that he will face fines and penalties if he refuses to bake “wedding” cakes for deviant couples in violation of his religious faith. If it’s “racist” to discriminate against deviant couples having a “wedding,” then it’s wrong for a Rabbi to refuse to marry them, as well.
Following the time-honored if somewhat irritating tradition of speechmakers who begin by announcing that they are departing from the scheduled topic, I informed those present that instead of focusing on the media’s coverage of Orthodox Jews, I would make my presentation on cloud seeding.
The venue was Agudath Israel of America’s recent 91st national convention, which took place this past weekend at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in New Jersey, where thousands converged to hear words of inspiration and admonition from some of the Orthodox world’s guiding elders.
And, for some of the attendees, to hear words of lesser gravity from people like me, at various smaller sessions. Still, the Sunday morning one in which I participated, along with Rabbi Labish Becker, the session’s chairman; respected educator Rabbi Aaron Brafman and accomplished attorney Avi Schick; drew close to 500 souls.
A few voices in the back of the hall demanded that I repeat myself, for surely they had misheard. So I did, but, before puzzlement could turn to consternation, I launched into a pretty funny joke. No, I’m not going to repeat it here. If you’re really curious, you can get the CD from firstname.lastname@example.org .
But I will … Read More >>
Sarah Shapiro’s plagiarism suit against Naomi Ragen reached its denouement in the Israeli Supreme Court last week when Ms. Ragen withdrew her appeal of the judgment entered by the Jerusalem District Court in Shapiro’s favor. Withdrawal of the appeal left intact the District Court’s injunction barring Ragen from reprinting her novel Sotah in any language without removing material appropriated from Shapiro’s memoir Growing with My Children.
In return, Shapiro agreed to donate 97,000 shekels – her portion of the damages award against Ragen, after payment of attorney’s fees – to two charity organizations,Yad Eliezer and Yad Sarah.
As is her wont, Ragen claimed vindication by the three-judge panel, despite the fact that she remained without the 233,000 shekels awarded by the District Court to Shapiro and her attorneys, and is still subject to an injunction against reprinting Sotah. If that constitutes victory in Ragen’s view, one wonders what would be defeat.
In any event, Ms. Ragen will be back in court soon defending against another plagiarism action, this one brought by Mrs. Sudy Rosengarten. Rosengarten claims that Ragen interpolated her short story “A Match Made in Heaven” (which was published in the anthology Our Lives I edited by Shapiro) … Read More >>
The other day, waiting to board a bus, I was moved to think about empathy.
Unfortunately, the prod came in the form of the opposite, crass selfishness. A young woman approached the group of us waiting to step up into the vehicle and insinuated herself at the front of the long line. She had no visible physical impairment, made no request for anyone’s permission, offered not even a perfunctory “excuse me.” She seemed entirely oblivious to the fact that other people occupied the universe at the time, some even in her immediate vicinity.
I could read the minds of my fellow future passengers. Their faces telegraphed my own mental reaction: Who does she think she is? How would she like it if someone cut before her in a line? Yes, she would probably reply in puzzlement. “But that’s not what’s happening. I am the one cutting in here, not someone else cutting in before me.” The lady, in other words, was empathy-impaired.
“My sins I recount today,” as the waiter, just released from prison, told Pharaoh. I recall myself as a small boy armed with a magnifying glass on a sunny day, incinerating individual ants out of sheer curiosity. … Read More >>
For months, as the Women For the Wall fought for the right of women to pray at the Wall undisturbed, we have heard from many, even within the Orthodox community, that really W4W should just have ignored the Women Of the Wall. Or as one pulpit Rabbi put it, “The WOW were not proselytizing anyone, they were not trying to win converts, they were not trying to make a revolution.”
Oops. Actually, they were.
These rabbis, from Shlomo Riskin on down, are now left to contemplate their naivete about WOW. Since they ignored WOW founders Rivka Haut and Susan Aranoff, who wrote (many months ago) in the Times of Israel that the reason WOW must remain at the Kosel is because, in reference to religious women (esp. charedim), they will “change their worldview,” now they must deal with the reality of Anat Hoffman admitting that this poorly-hidden agenda was, in fact, their continuous goal. WOW’s leading cheerleader in the press, Judy Maltz of HaAretz, reported the following after Hoffman’s conference call with WOW supporters, in which she defended their recent decision to move (with a ridiculous collection of conditions, but that’s for another article) to Robinson’s Arch:
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It’s easy for many of us Orthodox Jews to look down our noses on our fellow members of the tribe who express their Jewishness only on the “High Holidays” and yahrtzeits, to consider them to have missed the point of the Jewish mission. Judaism can’t, after all, be “compartmentalized.” It’s an all-encompassing way of life.
There are, though, even Orthodox Jews, living what seem to be observant Orthodox lives, doing, at least superficially, all the things expected of a religious Jew – eating only foods graced with the best hechsherim and wearing the de rigeuer head-covering of his or her community – who also seem to religiously compartmentalize, who seem to leave G-d behind in shul (if they even think of Him), who seem to not realize that the Creator is as manifest on a Tuesday in July as He is on Yom Kippur.
Which explains how it is that an Orthodox Jew can engage in unethical business practices or abuse a child or a spouse. Or, more mundanely but no less significantly, how one can cut others off in traffic, act rudely, or blog maliciously. Or, for that matter, how he can address his Maker in … Read More >>
A lengthy piece at the online magazine Tablet describes “new Jewish rituals” that “offer comfort to women who have had abortions.” It begins with the story of a woman who, as a young graduate student, terminated two of her pregnancies and years later came to realize that a “spiritual, ritual way” of “marking the decision” to end the lives of her unborn children “would have helped in resolving” uncomfortable feelings she had experienced.
The woman discovered a group, Mayyim Hayyim, that utilizes a mikveh for that express purpose. A liturgical rite, written by three women – a poet, a psychologist and a rabbi – asks the Creator for help “to begin healing from this difficult decision to interrupt the promise of life.”
According to Mayyim Hayyim’s executive director, Carrie Bornstein, “Oftentimes it’s helpful for people to say, ‘I’m going to move to the next stage of my life, whatever that might bring, and I’m not going to let that experience define me or take me over.’ ”
Another “post-abortion ritual” was devised by a graduate student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Yet another is in a book edited by four female Reform rabbis.
Actually, … Read More >>
The recent “news” story about a bar mitzvah boy in Dallas who celebrated the milestone of obligation to observe the Torah’s laws by entertaining family and guests by dancing on a stage with a bevy of Las Vegas-style showgirls reminded me of an article several years ago in The New York Times about such crass missing of the Jewish point.
It introduced something that has become de rigueur in some bar and bat mitzvah circles, something called “motivators.”
While perhaps not on the level of the Dallas debauchery, what the article described was sad enough. It highlighted the profession of a young non-Jewish gentleman from the Virgin Islands clad in a form-fitting black outfit, who “regularly spends his weekends dancing with 13-year-olds… at bar mitzvahs,” according to the report. His is a “lucrative and competitive” profession – he is a “party motivator.”
Such folks are paid to attend bar mitzvahs and other events to make sure “that young guests are swept up in dancing and games,” according to the article. The Caribbean crooner was described as smiling ecstatically at one bar mitzvah “as he danced to Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez songs with middle school students” … Read More >>
A few months ago, Rabbi Shneur Aisenstark, one of the most veteran and respected educators in North America (as well as someone from whom I have gained much), published a Guestlines piece in Mishpacha Magazine entitled “Unconditional Love Has Its Limits,” which predictably generated a good deal of buzz. I return to that piece now in light of a pamphlet on the subject of parenting disenchanted teenagers by Rabbi Uri Zohar, Israel’s most famous ba’al teshuva and a highly respected talmid chacham.
Rabbi Aisenstark’s goal in writing seems to have been to empower parents to actually parent – to offer guidance and set limits – in an era in which many are so terrified of losing their children that they make that result more likely by giving in to every demand and succumbing to every pouty look.
The Mishpacha cover highlighting Rabbi Aisenstark’s piece read: “Do We Love Our Children More than We Hashem?” That eye-catching blurb was presumably based on the well-known story – cited by Rabbi Aisenstark — of the father of Rabbis Shimon, Mordechai, and Moshe Schwab, who banged his hand down at the Seder table at mention of the Evil Son and proclaimed, “I love … Read More >>
Chumros, or efforts to go beyond the letter of Jewish religious law’s requirements, have gotten a bad name over the years. And it is true, some stringencies can be unwise, even counterproductive. Some are even silly.
I recall a letter to the editor of a now-defunct Jewish magazine whose writer was deeply upset that an advertisement for a dairy product in an earlier issue had run face-to-face with one for a meat product. Many readers, I’m sure, like me, first thought it was meant as a joke. But it wasn’t Purim time and it didn’t carry any indication of wryness or satire. The writer was serious, and, of course, deeply misguided.
But when a stringency is adopted, either by a community or an individual, for a good reason, it should not be resented or mocked. Sometimes a person may feel a need to draw a broader circle than the next guy’s around something prohibited; sometimes a particular era or community will require the adoption of special stringencies. Generally, chumros present themselves in realms like kashrus or the Sabbath, in the form of refraining from eating or doing even something technically permitted. Other stringencies, though, consist of adopting as one’s … Read More >>
A new book, “The Anatomy of Violence,” suggests that “the seeds of sin are brain-based,” at least in a sense. Its author, psychologist Adrian Raine, isn’t speaking of sins like gossip or tax evasion but rather violent crime. And he makes the case that such criminalities may have biological roots, and that “neurocriminology” may provide society with ways of curbing crime.
Both genetic makeup and prenatal environment, Dr. Raine asserts, are factors that can presage a criminal mind. On the most basic level, it has long been clear that there is a correlation between certain “accidents of birth” (or of life) and proclivity to crime. Being born male rather than female, for instance, makes it much more likely that one will become a mugger or murderer. And certain types of damage to the brain have long been observed to yield changes in behavior, sometimes including a proclivity to violence.
Likewise, more mundane things, like an expectant mother’s smoking or consumption of alcohol (not to mention even more severe chemical insults to the brain of a fetus, like exposure to lead or use of other drugs), can contribute to the likelihood of eventual bad behavior on the part of … Read More >>
A number of years ago I shared the essential thought in the essay below with subscribers to my mailing list at the time. But I believe it’s a thought worth repeating, for the benefit of new readers, and worth re-pondering for the rest of us.
My wife and I recently accompanied our second son to the chuppah. It was an elating experience, understandably, and the sight of the new couple recalled to me the unsettling, if simple, observation of the Netziv.
The Netziv – an acronym meaning “pillar,” by which Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (1817-1893), the famed dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva, is known – noted that the first marriage in history differed in an essential way from all the matrimonial unions that came to follow. Because, according to a widely cited Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve were created as a single entity, a man-woman coupled back to back, with the “forming” of woman described by the Torah more accurately envisioned as a separation. The word often translated “rib” is in fact used elsewhere in the Torah to mean “side,” and so should be understood in the light of that tradition as referring to the woman-side … Read More >>
A discomfiting feeling crept over me as I watched the fellow remove his head.
Well, not his head – though that would have been discomfiting too, even more so. This was just a costume head, that of the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster. The scene: a small island of concrete in the middle of lower Broadway in Manhattan, where a moment before, Mr. Monster had been happily (at least his expression seemed to say so) posing with a pair of happy children (their expressions left no doubt), the latter’s parents pointing their phones at the photogenic performer and progeny.
My discomfiture arose from discordance, the jarring contrast between the friendly furry face, now dangling from a hand, and the entertainer’s actual own face, heavily stubbled and sneering. Grumbling and angry, he was clearly not enjoying his job.
It might be a professional hazard. A year or so later, an Elmo in Times Square began shouting anti-Semitic rants (with his head on, so to speak) and blocking traffic before being arrested. Another Cookie Monster in the same area stands accused of shoving a 2-year-old when he deemed his mother’s tip insufficient for his services. (“He was using words that … Read More >>
Some unwarranted criticism that was lobbed last week at several Orthodox writers greatly disturbed this one.
The target of one volley – though the shots widely missed their mark – was Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum, one of the preeminent representatives of the charedi world. He was harshly criticized in a magazine editorial for a column he penned in a different magazine wherein he sought a silver lining in the current political disenfranchisement of charedi parties in the Israeli government coalition.
Rabbi Rosenblum suggested that the current situation “affords new opportunities to meet our fellow Jews on the individual level” and that now that they know that “we no longer threaten them” in the political realm, “they may be more open… to getting behind the stereotypes that fuel the animus” against charedim in Israel. “On a one-to-one basis,” he suggested, “we can show them what Torah means to us, what we are prepared to sacrifice for it, and what it might mean for them as well.”
Astonishingly, the writer of those words was pilloried for that sentiment, and misrepresented, too, as having asserted that “the hatred secular Israelis have toward charedim is the fault of the hated rather than the … Read More >>
Amid the ongoing avalanche of political conversions, punditry and testimonials on behalf of redefining marriage was a recent op-ed piece in The New York Times by a professor of biology, David George Haskell.
The professor’s contribution to the effort to bring public pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears two cases concerning the meaning of marriage was to note that some plants, lichen, snails and bees do not mate in ways that we would characterized as male-female pairs. In fact, Dr. Haskell informs us, even apes in the rainforest may form same-sex bonds.
Of course, that hardly constitutes “nature’s case for same-sex marriage,” the title that ran above the professor’s piece. At least not if society wishes to continue to disapprove of things like thievery, murder and cannibalism, all easily spotted in the wild. (There’s a reason, after all, it’s called the wild.)
To be fair, Dr. Haskell’s true target (despite his piece’s misleading title) is only the argument that, as the 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone wrote, marriage should be “founded in nature.”
That’s a straw man, though, and one that might benefit from a lit match. What is or is not “natural,” at least from … Read More >>
[This week’s posting is a shortened version of a piece I wrote a number of years ago. I thought it might merit recirculation. – AS]
A typical offering included a close-up of the deformed face of a Jewish man above the legend “The Scum of Humanity: This Jew says that he is a member of God’s chosen people.” Another displayed a cartoon of a vampire bat with a grotesquely exaggerated nose and a Jewish star on its chest. In yet another, a Jewish butcher was depicted snidely dropping a rat into his meat grinder and, elsewhere in the issue, the punctured necks of handsome German youths were shown bleeding into a bowl held by a Jew more gargoyle than human. At its peak in 1938, print runs of Hitler henchman Julius Streicher’s vile tabloid Der Sturmer ran as high as 2,000,000.
“All our struggles are in vain,” Streicher told a Nazi student organization in 1935, “if the battle against the Jews is not fought to the finish. It is not enough to get the Jews out of Germany. No, they must be destroyed throughout the entire world so that humanity will be free of them.”
We approach the … Read More >>
Like the repeatedly pummeled victim of depraved bullies who decides it might just be best to stay away from the schoolyard during recess, Israel recently opted to not show up to be judged by the United Nations Human Rights Council, a body with venerated members like Congo, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Malaysia and Qatar.
The UN body and a number of individual countries, including the United States, pleaded with Israel to not be the first country to refuse to appear for an HRC “Universal Periodic Review.” But the Israeli government, in its chutzpah, decided to just say no to presenting itself for assault yet again by a group that has demonstrated a deep and troubling fixation on one political dispute in a world in which, elsewhere, authorities routinely amputate body parts, blithely murder citizens, incarcerate innocent people without trial and look the other way as human beings are enslaved and sold like sides of beef.
The New York Times, predictably, did its own huffing, munificently conceding that the HRC is “not without faults” but asserting all the same that the Middle East’s only stable and free democracy was showing “an unwillingness to undergo the same scrutiny as all other … Read More >>


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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Miguel's twin brother
This is Miguel with his twin. We call him "Carlos." He was born the week that his senior nursery class studied the different parts of the body. His teacher Mitch traced out his outline with a crayon as he lay on a piece of manila paper. (Kinda like the one that you see at a crime scene on TV, yeh.) Then she sent the outline to mom, with instructions to mount it on a piece of cardboard or styrofoam, cut it out, then dress it up. 'Course she gave me just 2 days' notice to do it, but anyway it was nice to see the school decorated with all these carbon copies of the kids.


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Jan 21, 2017 ~ Women's march. Millions in cities day after inauguration dressed as genitalia, protesting supposedly losing their rights. Madonna says she dreams of blowing up the white house. Tells Trump to 'suck a dick'. Ashley Judd, 'I feel Hitler in these streets' Pro Life women not welcome.
Feb 13, 2017 ~ Susan Stamper Brown, 'Leftists are Fake Feminists' - Linda Sarsour, one of the Women's March organizers says 'Sharia is reasonable' and hates on real feminists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel who bravely fight for truly oppressed and brutalized women.
May 12, 2017 ~ The so-called 'March for Science' just another left wing, anti-Trump rally disguised as a support for science. Same hateful intersectional nonsense the women's march embraces. Women's march advises: dress as genitalia and demand tax free tampons if you want to be taken seriously.
Jun 4, 2017 ~ Kurt Schlichter, 'The Left Freaks Out As Everything It Tries Makes It Look Stupider' from trying to overturn a democratic election, to parading around dressed as genitalia, to going all in on a ridiculous Russian Collusion conspiracy theory. Trump Derangement Syndrome
Jun 10, 2017 ~ Pro Life Women are not allowed to march in the Women's March. Ridiculously claim you can't be pro-life AND pro-woman. They and the left allow no diversity of thought. The March says, 'Nonsense, The Women's March welcomes all pro-choice, non-white women who hate Trump... and Jews.'
Aug 20, 2017 ~ David French, 'Media, Tell the Truth: The Women's March and Black Lives Matter Embrace Terrorists' True hatred and violence is on the left; Women's March and Black Lives Matter support cop killers, domestic terrorists, antisemites, jihadists, dictators, terrorists against Israel.
Dec 18, 2017 ~ Linda Sarsour accused of enabling sexual assault as director of the Arab American Association. Asmi Fathelbab said, 'She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women' Sarsour called Fathelbab a liar, body shamed and intimidated her. Man was 'a good Muslim, always at Mosque'
Oct 8, 2018 ~ The Women's March, which once called Trump's pick of XX 'a death sentence for thousands of women in the US' before they even knew who XX was proving they couldn't care less about the facts, is calling Susan Collins a 'rape apologist' and a 'traitor to women'.
Nov 10, 2018 ~ Dems are furious at white women for mid-term losses. Say white women who vote for the GOP are stupid at best, racist at worst. 'There's a lot of work to do, white women. A lot of learning. A lot of growing' says the racist, condescending Women's March. 'white women gonna white'.
Dec 16, 2018 ~ Tablet magazine has published a deep-dive on the genesis of the Women's March - Anti-Semitism a part of the Women's March from the start - Far beyond close ties to Farrakhan - 'in bed with the Nation of Islam since day one'.
Dec 28, 2018 ~ Jeff Dunetz, 'Farrakhan Is Only A Tiny Part Of Women's March Leaders' Anti-Semitism'. David Krayden, 'Venessa Wruble Says She Was Muscled Out For Being Jewish'. Ties to the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT Nation of Islam. Claims that Jews ran the slave trade
Dec 29, 2018 ~ Ben Shapiro, 'The Left Lends Cover to Anti-Semitism'. The left's anti-Semitism problem goes way beyond ties to Farrakhan and the Women's March. Shapiro gives many other examples. Alice Walker, David Icke, Marc Lamont Hill, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Al Sharpton.
Dec 31, 2018 ~ The Northern California Women's March in is canceled by organizers because the participants would be 'overwhelmingly white'. That is unsurprising as Eureka is in is 74% white. The women who wanted to march will be silenced for having the wrong skin color. Dem identity politics.
Jan 14, 2019 ~ The DNC and others drop partnerships with the Women's March over the group's anti-Semitism. The Women's March insists that it is still a welcoming and inclusive place for all pro-choice, non-white women who hate Trump... and Jews.
Jan 19, 2019 ~ Women's March' occurs with a tiny fraction of its original numbers - Almost entirely a vulgar hate fest directed at Trump - signs had lots of profanity and often referenced their genitalia - 'Pussy = Power', 'Pussy is God' for example. Sad what feminism has turned into.
Jan 22, 2019 ~ Linda Sarsour links to an article that says the Jewish community is waging a 'profound war on black people' Mercy Morganfield, former head of the Women's March D.C. chapter had enough, 'Linda Sarsour is an anti-Semite. She can't help it.'
Sep 16, 2019 ~ The Women's March cut ties with three of its co-founders: Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, and Tamika Mallory over issues of anti-Semitism. They also dismissed Zhara Billoo who denounced 'all terrorism, including all that regularly committed by the US military and Al Qaeda, the Israeli Defense Forces and ISIS.'
Nov 7, 2019 ~ Protesters from the Women's March harass guests and visitors at the Trump International Hotel. Recruited for a 'Noise Protest' for the GOP strategy meeting. 'BYO pots, pans, whistles, drums'. Used all of those. Chanted at visitors. Blocked the path of people. Police had intervene
Sep 26, 2020 ~ As usual, the left goes right to racial slurs and attacks whenever a black person does not do as they say. Tamika Mallory, who had to resign from the Women's March' for Anti-Semitism said 'Daniel Cameron is no different than the sell-out negroes that sold our people into slavery'
Oct 18, 2020 ~ The Women's March is BACK BABY, for an important cause: Preventing a woman from getting on the Supreme Court. Thousands in close proximity with no social distancing. But its OK because their message (calling Trump a 'penis') transcends safety. #WomensMarch2020 #WomensMarch
Nov 26, 2021 ~ Not to be outdone by #BLM, the Women's March pens their silly hate filled Thanksgiving message: "It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection ($14.92 donation) to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving."


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The Water of Life | A Whisky Film
Aurora Spirit Distillery and Arctic Whisky Festival invites you to join us for an evening of celebration of Scotch Whisky.
The event hosted by Aurora Spirit Distillery and Arctic Whisky Festival will give you the opportunity to see The Water of Life Film .
The Water of Life film tells the story of the rebels, alchemists and craftspeople who create the beautiful amber liquid. And the Bruichladdich Distillery is at the heart of the story of how a once stagnate industry grew into the mammoth it is today.
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A few hours from Tromso (Norway), at the foot of the Lyngen Alps, you’ll find the world’s northernmost distillery; Aurora Spirit. Located deep within the Arctic Circle, and surrounded by alpine peaks, nearby fjords and with views of the arctic wilderness and Northern Lights, the setting for making whisky is truly stunning!
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The Arctic Whisky Festival is the northernmost whisky festival in the world. Every January, when the polar night is at its darkest and coldest, the city of Tromsø is visited by whisky lovers from the whole region, eager to taste, learn, and discuss whiskies from all over the world.
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More About The Water of Life – A Whisky Film
The Water of Life – A Whisky Film is a feature documentary that focuses on the craftsmen, chemists, and renegades at the heart of the whisky revolution that turned the stagnant scotch whisky industry of the 1980s into the titan it is today.
Starting behind the locked gates of an abandoned distillery, Jim McEwan and Mark Reynier share their personal experiences of the risk-taking and wild experimentation they used to turn Bruichladdich into a creative and financial powerhouse.
The film also takes you on the journeys of visionaries like Gordon & MacPhail, Billy Walker, Dr. Rachel Barrie and David Stewart, whose mixture of talent, chemistry, hard work, grit, and a little sprinkle of magic paved the way for the next generation of innovators like Adam Hannett, Kelsey McKechnie, Liam Hughes, Iain Croucher, and Eddie Brook.
The Water of Life – A Whisky Film is a uniquely personal perspective on the evolution of whisky by those who lived it – the story of those who played a key part in rediscovering the crafting of the ancient spirit.
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Regina swallowed hard, looked up at Astral for any hope – any sort of response. But he was a statue of rigid terror.
Doane snapped his digits. "Taylor, go and see what treasures have come our way."
"Gladly, yeah." The muskrat drew a long and greasy tongue over chapped and blackened lips. "An old pig and a little skunk named Regina. Regina. That's a pretty name. Pretty name for a pretty skunk. Easiest pickings we've ever head, eh, Doane?" He drew a wide dagger free from a scabbard hanging above his tailbone, and started towards the cart on slow steps. "Pig, she sprays me face, I'll gut her wide open, get me?"
"Don't do this," Astral begged them. "Please. We've got nothing to—"
Astral cringed against a sudden force that threw him against the cart's bench seat. A pained groan left his lips as he fruitlessly tried to grip around the black bear's arrow, now buried deep into his chest. He sagged forward in his seat, tried to reach for Phalanx's reins, but fell side-long out of the cart and collapsed motionless in the dirt.
"Mister Ages, no!" Regina dove across the bench to go after him, when suddenly someone grabbed her by the tail. She swung around with a sharp yelp, and fell hard onto her back, nearly knocking the wind from her lungs. Taylor the muskrat towered over her, grinning down with wild, feral, eyes.
"C'mere, pretty Regina." Drool rolled down his lips in thin strands that pattered against the wooden bench. He drew Regina closer with another hard yank on her tail. Pain raked across her backside as he dragged her towards the edge of the bench seat. The serrations of his dagger glinted hungry in the sunlight. "Let's see what treasures you lot have offered to us!"
"Let me go!" Regina kicked and thrashed at him. He found great amusement in this, and only started laughing even more. He wrangled Regina by the front of the poncho and dragged her completely off the bench seat, despite the rich scent of skunk fear on the wind. With a strong grip on the wood frame, he leaned out the side of the cart in a sweeping arc, with Regina squirming in mid-air and screaming for help at the top of her lungs.
"Lookie here, fellas! She's a feisty one!" Taylor cried out. "How old, ya think? Wonder if the underground will take her?"
"They won't take her so long as she reeks like that," Doane said, clamping a paw over his muzzle. "It's a gland, I think, that's how it happens. That's what I've heard, anyway."
Taylor pulled Regina in close and grinned deep into her terrified gaze. "Well then ... we'll just have to cut it out of you, won't we?"
"Please, no!" Regina sobbed. "Please—"
"Oh, Goddess, just kill her already," sighed Jonas as he thoroughly inspected a terrified Phalanx Andromedon head to toe. "Can't stand screamers. So unsightly."
"Lyla will love to hear those words outta your mouth. Those're words that get you killed on yer wedding night," said Doane.
"Lyla knows how I feel about children. Disgusting little beasts."
"And lose out on a bloodline? Risky talk, there, old boy."
"I'm sure it'll be a happy marriage." Jonas tilted Phalanx's chin, studying the visible veins in the mule's neck that pressed out against his grey tufts. "I dunno 'bout this one, boys. He's a bit old. What'd'ya say? Work? Trade? Or eat?"
"Been a while since breakfast. I could go for some stew," Doane said.
Phalanx let out a sharp bray of horror, and bit the air centimetres away from the black bear's groping claw.
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The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” (Matthew 21:6-9 ESV)
Today, we celebrate Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus back into Jerusalem, and the beginning of Holy Week. Upon entering the city, it is now just days before the Last Supper, His betrayal, crucifixion, and resurrection. But before these events, Jesus boldly rode as the King of Peace entering Jerusalem, and the crowd gladly joined Him.
But these same people would soon bow to political pressure and desert Him. Prior to His arrest, Jesus would cleanse the temple, continue teaching through the lessons of parables, and give the great commandment, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37 NKJV)
He also condemned the religious leaders, grieved over Jerusalem, talked about His return and the Final Judgment, and predicted His betrayal saying, “As you know, the Passover is two days away – and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified." (Matthew 26:2 NIV)
The days were busy with many events, and Jesus fully knew what was coming, His horrible death on the cross, serving as the perfect sacrificial Lamb to take away the sins of the entire world.
That’s right – the sins of everyone who will confess Him as their Lord and Savior. Praise be to God for loving us so much that He sent his only Son into the world to die for our sins!
Ride on, ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
O Christ, thy triumphs now begin
O'er captive death and conquered sin
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California Investingating Insurance Brokers Kick-Backs
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is cracking down on what he says is conflict of interest among insurance brokers.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Garamendi told reporters that recent investigations in New York State have raised the possibility that insurance brokers nationwide are steering clients to major insurance companies in return for large “contingent commissions,” all without regard to what’s best for the customer. Garamendi says California policyholders should ask themselves if they’ve been cheated. CUT: Garamendi10 :10 Garamendi says he’s issuing new regulations requiring brokers to reveal all compensation they receive from insurance companies – before a sale to a customer is completed. He says all lines of insurance are involved as are some of the nation’s largest insurance companies. And Garamendi says he’ll file civil lawsuits next week against brokers who did not fulfill their fiduciary duty by putting clients first. SOC

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Introduces students to the basic concepts of epidemiology. Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in specific populations and the application of this knowledge to the evaluation and control of health problems in the community.
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On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Recall common population health/social indicators and calculate common measures of disease/death frequency, and crude, specific and standardised rates.
2. Recall the range of sampling strategies and determine which is optimal to recruit subjects for a particular study.
3. Differentiate between the types of descriptive studies, and identify their importance and limitations.
4. Distinguish between association and causation, and identify the errors that can weaken the demonstration of a causative link.
5. Apply the Bradford Hill criteria of causation to an association to evaluate if this is likely to be causal.
6. Construct and use a 2X2 table to calculate and interpret measures of effect from cross-sectional studies, case control studies, cohort studies, and randomised controlled trials.
7. Interpret a forest plot, pooled effect size, and measures of heterogeneity and publication bias from a systematic review and meta-analysis.
8. Identify strengths and limitations related to the quality of a case control study, cohort study, randomised controlled trial and/or systematic review and meta-analysis.
Learning modules covered in this course include:
Module 1: Descriptive epidemiology
Module 2: Analytic observational studies
Module 3: Error
Module 4: Systematic review and meta-analysis
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Quiz: Online Quiz 2 - 25%
Quiz: Online Quiz 3 - 25%
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