Sunday, September 30, 2012

Tales of the Immortalis

Tales of the Immortalis

Help God and His Immortali to repel the Devil and his Immortali, and protect humanity in the Medeival Europe where a tyrant rules with an iron fist. Beware, as the beings you vow to protect will lash out against you in fear.

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Bailey pitches no-hitter, Reds beat Pirates 1-0

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Homer Bailey had a certain milestone on his mind when he walked to the mound Friday night. He wound up pulling off an even bigger feat.

Bailey pitched the seventh no-hitter in the majors this season, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 1-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The right-hander began the night with 195 innings pitched this season and was eager to reach 200 for the first time in his six-year career.

"I looked up at the scoreboard (after the fifth inning) to see if I had hit 200 and saw a couple of zeros," Bailey said. "That's when I knew I had a chance at a no-hitter. It's not something you think about doing."

It was the 15th no-hitter in Reds history and first since Tom Browning's perfect game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sept. 16, 1988.

The seven major league no-hitters match the modern record for one season, tying 1990 and 1991. There were eight no-hitters in 1884.

"I don't think there is any reason why there have been so many," Bailey said. "There is a real fine line there in throwing a no-hitter. A bloop can fall in the outfield or an infielder can be in the wrong position and there goes your hit. You have to be extremely fortunate to throw a no-hitter and we had luck on our side tonight."

Bailey (13-10) struck out 10 and walked one. He threw 115 pitches and retired the side in order in the ninth, striking out pinch-hitter Brock Holt before getting pinch-hitter Michael McKenry and Alex Presley to pop out.

When second baseman Brandon Phillips caught Presley's popup on the outfield grass, Bailey was mobbed near the mound by happy teammates and doused with water.

The 26-year-old Bailey improved to 5-0 with a 1.19 ERA in six career starts at PNC Park. All four of his complete games and both his shutouts have come against Pittsburgh.

It was the first time the Pirates had been held hitless since Hall of Famer Bob Gibson pitched the lone no-hitter of his career in 1971 for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Cincinnati, which clinched the NL Central title last Saturday, improved to 95-62. The Reds are tied with Washington for the best record in the NL.

Bailey has been touted as a future ace since Cincinnati selected him seventh overall in the 2004 amateur draft following his senior year of high school in LaGrange, Texas.

He has a 38-33 career record and has set a season high for wins. Reds bench coach Chris Speier, serving as acting manager while Dusty Baker recovers from a mini-stroke, thinks the no-hitter could serve as a benchmark moment for Bailey.

"He's always been a good thrower, but he's really learned how to pitch this season," Speier said. "You saw the evolution tonight."

The other no-hitters this season were thrown by Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox, Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels, Johan Santana of the New York Mets, Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants, Felix Hernandez of Seattle and a combined six-pitcher effort by the Mariners. Humber, Cain and Hernandez each had a perfect game.

Pittsburgh (76-81) made its own bit of history as it was assured of a 20th consecutive non-winning season with the loss, extending its major North American professional sports record.

Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said Bailey had more than luck going for him. Hurdle sensed Bailey and catcher Ryan Hanigan were on the same page right from the first inning.

"They were spot-on with almost every pitch," Hurdle said. "He kept throwing fastball up and away and breaking balls down and in and it was just an effective combination."

It was also the first no-hitter caught by Hanigan, who broke into the majors with Bailey in 2007.

"It's very special because Homer and I have been there every step of the way," Hanigan said. "It's great for Homer, it's great for the organization and it's just great for the team because it's another special moment in what has been a very special season."

Bailey retired his first six batters before third baseman Scott Rolen booted Clint Barmes' leadoff grounder in the third inning for an error. Bailey then set down 13 straight until walking Andrew McCutchen with one out in the seventh while clinging to the one-run lead.

McCutchen stole second but then was thrown out by Hanigan attempting to steal third. Garrett Jones flied out to the warning track in right field to end the inning.

Cincinnati needed to make just one above-average defensive play behind Bailey. Left fielder Todd Frazier ran down Presley's flare toward the foul line to end the third.

With the Reds employing a defensive shift, left-handed hitter Pedro Alvarez lined out to Rolen in the eighth.

"I thought the no-hitter was gone when Alvarez hit that ball, but fortunately the shift was on," Bailey said.

A.J. Burnett (16-9) allowed seven hits in eight innings with five strikeouts and one walk.

"The way A.J. pitched, it was going to take almost nothing short of a no-hitter to beat him," Hurdle said.

The Reds scored in the first inning on Frazier's sacrifice fly after loading the bases with no outs on singles by Phillips and Zach Cozart and a walk to Joey Votto.

Phillips, Cozart and Rolen all had two hits.

The loss continued the Pirates' downhill spiral. They have gone 13-36 since moving a season-high 16 games over .500 on Aug. 8 with a 63-47 record.

NOTES: Speier said he had a telephone conversation with Baker, who has missed the last nine games. Speier said the veteran manager "is feeling very, very good and looking forward to getting back." Baker is scheduled to rejoin the Reds on Monday night when they open a three-game series at St. Louis to end the regular season. ... Pittsburgh 2B Neil Walker will miss the rest of the season because of lower back soreness that has limited him to eight games in September. ... Reds LF Ryan Ludwick, who has missed eight straight games with tightness in his left groin, is expected to return to the lineup Sunday. ... Cincinnati RHP Mike Leake (8-9, 4.73 ERA) will face Pittsburgh RHP Kyle McPherson (0-2, 3.54) on Saturday night.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bailey-pitches-no-hitter-reds-beat-pirates-1-032417218--mlb.html

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5 Tips to Protect Your Deceased Relative's Identity - Estate Planning ...

Guest post by Jennifer K. Halford, Esq.

Having your identity stolen is a horrible experience. It can take months of corresponding with the three credit bureaus to fix your credit report. Plus, you feel violated and vulnerable.

Yet, it is even more heartbreaking when identity thieves take advantage of the deceased.

The increase of identity theft for deceased individuals is alarming. And it is the last thing you want to worry about when grieving the loss of a family member.

Be sure to do these five things to avoid the theft of you deceased loved one's identity:

1. Secure important documents: An individual has many personal and financial documents. Locate your deceased relative's bills, account statements, bank statements, and hospital records. Place those you need in a safe location and limit access to family members. Then shred the documents that are no longer needed.

Be sure to also gather the deceased's wallet, state issued identification card, and social security card. Place all of these items in a secure location.

2. Contact creditors: Notify all banks, credit card companies, and mortgage companies of your family member's death. Most will require a certified copy of a death certificate as proof that he or she is deceased.

Outstanding accounts and debts will need to be paid by the estate. But be wary of any debt collectors that contact you. Never provide any personal information about your deceased relative to anyone claiming to be a creditor. The executor of your family member's estate should arrange for payment and the closing of each account.

3. Notify the 3 credit bureaus: Request that the three credit reporting bureaus place a warning on your family member's credit report that he or she is deceased and that no credit should be issued. Then obtain a copy of your family member's credit report to make sure you have contacted all creditors.

4. Notify other governmental agencies: Notify the Social Security Administration, Veteran's Administration, and Department of Motor Vehicles of your loved one's passing.

5. Keep the obituary short: Don't give away personal information such as the deceased's birthdate or mother's maiden name. Identity thieves use this type of information to set up accounts.

Don't let your deceased loved one's identify be stolen. Take these precautions to protect his or her identity and to avoid further heartache.

Jennifer K. Halford is an attorney who has practiced in the areas of business law and estate planning.

Source: http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2012/09/5-tips-to-protect-your-deceased-relatives-identity.html

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Woods missing out on U.S. Ryder Cup party

MEDINAH, Illinois (Reuters) - The United States Ryder Cup team put smiles on millions of American golf fans on Saturday but Tiger Woods was not among them.

The biennial U.S.-Europe showdown has never brought out the best in Woods but the 14-time major winner slumped to new lows at Medinah Country Club, losing all three of his matches and being benched for the first time in his Ryder Cup career.

After being relegated to the sidelines by captain Davis Love III for Saturday's morning foursomes, Woods and partner Steve Stricker returned to duty in the afternoon fourballs.

But a one-up loss to Spaniard Sergio Garcia and Briton Luke Donald left them as the only members of the 12-man American squad not to contribute a point to the U.S. cause.

As a Ryder Cup party erupted around him, Woods had the forlorn look of someone who had been left off the guest list, standing alone in the twilight with his eyes closed and hands clasped above his head absorbing yet another defeat.

"I've played well the last two afternoons and didn't get a point," Woods told reporters after watching his Ryder Cup record dip to 13-17-2. "It's tough.

"Yesterday I made a bunch of birdies and today I made five on the back nine and it just wasn't enough. Feeling good about my game but just unfortunately haven't got a point."

Woods said he supported Love's decision to sit him down for the morning matches but the break did little to energize the former-world number one as he and Stricker watched Garcia and Donald race to a four-up lead in the fourballs.

Appearing down-and-out, Woods suddenly sprung to life at the turn after missing a four-foot par putt, throwing himself into a back nine charge that featured five birdies, only to come up agonizingly short.

He birdied the 16th hole to cut the margin to one-up with two holes to play then hit his tee shot on the par-3 17th to within four feet of the hole.

He made the birdie but his momentum was halted when Donald got his tee shot even closer and also made birdie to halve the hole then Woods and Stricker both missed birdie putts on the last that would have earned them half a point.

"We fought hard, unfortunately it just wasn't enough," Woods said.

"Strick's made a huge birdie at 12. We gave ourselves two good looks on 18 and didn't get it done."

Despite his woes, Woods will get a final chance to earn a point in Sunday's singles. While Woods has fallen flat in the team events, he remains an imposing opponent in head-to-head competition with a record of 4-1-1 in Ryder Cup play.

And the former world number one is still looming as a winner with the Americans holding a commanding 10-6 advantage at the end of the second day.

"Being up four is nice," offered Woods. "We are really looking forward to going out there and hopefully... we are in a great spot right now to win the Cup." (Editing by Julian Linden)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/woods-missing-u-ryder-cup-party-005704612--golf.html

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Interview with Violinist Mark O'Connor - Arts Desk

Violinist, fiddler, guitarist and mandolin player Mark O?Connor is something of a musical polyglot, or maybe schizophrenic. As a composer, his music blends classical music with jazz, bluegrass, Appalachian folk, flamenco, and whatever else he?s feeling at the moment, and his collaborators range from Yo-Yo Ma to Rosanne Cash. Apparently bored with simply performing music, then composing his own, O?Connor decided to develop his own method of music instruction, humbly called the O?Connor Method. It is, by his account, a more holistic approach than the punishingly repetitive Suzuki method, but it still sounds vague as to what exactly it entails (more on that below). Still, it?s an intriguing new trajectory for a guy who doesn't like to stick to only one thing very long.

O?Connor plays three nights in D.C. starting tonight. Appropriately, it?s not at a classical venue but at Blues Alley. O?Connor spoke with Arts Desk by phone.

How did you get into jazz?

I trained with [French jazz violinist]?Stephane Grappelli. I was 17 at the time and he was 71. That was a very formative training period for me. He died in 1997 and I missed him so much I put a jazz group together in 1998,?The Hot Swing Trio. It?s been 15 years and this is the group I?m bringing with me to Washington.

What do you call your music? Contemporary classical? Classical fusion?

I just call it American music at this point. I don?t try to separate the genres, I try to bring them together and not repeat the old.

Is the line that defines classical music becoming more blurred due to people like yourself?

When I started making a career out of it, people said what I was doing was impossible. You have to pick and choose one style. I didn?t listen to those naysayers. I wasn?t very anxious to take the academic route. I wanted to make American music more academic, to bring ragtime into the conservatory.

Historically, classical composers have had a hard time succeeding in the broader culture of music, unless someone got a breakout film score. But to put together a great career as a composer is harder and harder to do. I feel it?s because we?re ignoring our best source material: American music. The African-American musical experience especially should always have a central place in American music.

Describe your teaching method.

It?s only been around for three years but I?ve been thinking about it for a long time. The way they teach violin to kids, it?s almost like an indoctrination of thinking about music. I hear thousands of stories firsthand of people who quit playing the violin after learning it as a child. It?s usually something that was not a great part of their childhoods. My childhood included other things like basketball, skateboarding, so I wanted to make the violin part of that experience. If you took Suzuki lessons, you used the same temperament, the same tempo, the same few keys, the same expressions. What I teach is an all-inclusive, holistic approach that is embodied in the American music system.

Given your work with multiple styles, genres and instruments, do you worry about cultivating a ?jack of all trades, master of none? reputation? Do you ever feel the urge to focus on just one thing?

When you focus on one thing you don?t have to neglect the others. I had people tell me things like ?your bluegrass will hurt your classical.? I had heroes of mine tell me I shouldn?t play more than one instrument. It?s not accurate. What helps an artist is inspiration. I pick and choose what I want to express, and I see a lot more multi-instrumentalists out there today. So I advise my violin students, pick a second instrument. Why not? It gives you a chance to experience harmony.

O?Connor plays at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW on Friday Sept. 28, Saturday Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30 at 8 pm and 10 pm. $45. 202-337-4141.

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Source: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/09/28/violinist-mark-oconnor-on-playing-whatever-the-hell-he-wants/

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Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv on the privatization of Jewish identity and ...

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Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv on the privatization of Jewish identity and the tycoons of religion
Ayelet Shani ("Haaretz," September 27, 2012)

Talking to: Rabbi Gilad Kariv, 39, attorney and executive director of the Movement for Progressive Judaism. Married and father of three. Lives in Ramat Gan. When: Monday, 11 A.M. Where: In his office at Beit Daniel, Tel Aviv.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz had a harsh saying about you Reform Jews. He said: ?It?s very nice and all, but it?s not religion.?

Leibowitz is my teacher and mentor, and I respect his views in many areas, but certainly not in the area of religion. In Leibowitz?s Judaism, God is in the center and then ? and this is something he said explicitly ? there is no question of moral judgment. The human being does something not because it is the right thing to do from a humane point of view, but because it is the right thing in terms of God?s will. Now Leibowitz can say what he likes, but the Torah is filled with commands to kill the other because of his otherness. That?s it. In every other sense, Leibowitz was a prophet for us all, and it?s a shame that, as is always the way with prophets, his prophecy remained a voice crying in the wilderness, certainly in regard to the occupation. There?s a marvelous essay by Ahad Ha?am called ?Priest and Prophet.? We are a society that produces priests, not prophets. We as a society move between falling in love and being heartbroken, between falling in love and betrayal. We crown kings and then pull the chair out from under them.

Kind of like a soap opera.

Yes. There?s a collapse of spirit, there aren?t enough prophets. To me, Judaism is not some magic solution. I believe in the importance of Reform Judaism, because in Israel there is a camp that is raping Judaism. And there?s no point in using the prettified language of reconciliation here. There is a direct connection between the book ?Torah Hamelech? and the recent lynch in Jerusalem. To get a group of youths to carry out such an attack on an Arab youth, it takes a good few years of dehumanization of the Arab. We started the month of Elul with a Molotov cocktail that burned an Arab family in the territories, and with an Arab young man lying in intensive care as a result of a pogrom.

The threshold is going up. All the time.

And here there is a planned, orchestrated, ideological effort that relies entirely on the distorted structuring of relations between religion and state in Israel, which gives these rabbis immunity, and budgets, and public positions and status. There is a grand project of dehumanization of whoever is not a Jew.

And of the other in general.

The Arab is number one, although now he has competition for that ranking ? from the migrant worker. While we?re sitting here in this air-conditioned office, refugees and their little children are in tents in Ketziot.

Like the concentration camps Leibowitz prophesied.

Yes. There is also a detention facility where dozens of African youths have been sitting for many months because no framework was found for them. We?ve negated their humanity, we?ve removed them from the circle of human beings whom we must treat with dignity. And then this fellow ? You know, I don?t want to use such words in talking about Eli Yishai ...

Feel free.

So this immoral man, on the day of the first expulsion flight to South Sudan, goes to Ben-Gurion Airport, takes the hands of refugees and waves them in a victory sign. And I said to myself ? you know, there?s a custom at the Seder, that when you recite the 10 plagues you dip your finger in wine and take out some drops.

And Abrabanel, who personally experienced the expulsion from Spain, and went from the heights of being an advisor to the king to the low of being a refugee, said that we do this to show that the cup of happiness is not full. That your redemption came at the cost of their troubles. This is also why on the seventh day of Passover we don?t say the full Hallel prayer, because the Egyptians drowned in the sea on that day. And then this is what this representative of Judaism does.

Instead of sitting in sackcloth and fasting on the day of the expulsion and saying, ?I think, as a leader, as a politician, that this is the right thing to do, but I also understand the moral cost and therefore I am fasting on this day.? And he?s fond of fast days, this minister is.

Maybe he doesn?t understand the moral cost.

We let him become Interior Minister and we cannot disavow all responsibility. How do you train your soul so that you do not become cruel? You have to understand that there is a price that you pay for this decision. Now the question is, what do you do with this price? Do you give it a place so that the next time you don?t act like an automaton? Within a few months, Israeli society, this society of refugees, whose entire DNA should be sensitive to this story, became uncaring and indifferent. A consequence of years of dehumanization of the other. Years of giving preference to every Jewish Israeli who speaks a chauvinistic and aggressive language, of ?You ?(God?) chose us,? without anything about man having been created in God?s image. Where were Jerusalem?s Orthodox rabbis after the lynch? The ones that think we need to remain in the territories. They should be going out to Zion Square, sitting there on the ground and tearing their clothes.

The secular, too, fit the bill here as ?the other.?

Of course. Look what Ovadia Yosef said, about how judges are evil and unfit to serve as witnesses. And on Sukkot, a parade of Israeli officials, including the president and the prime minister, will go to wish this man a happy holiday. And don?t let anyone tell me that it?s just a matter of political interests. This parade of groveling to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a deep cultural matter, and one result is the parade of tycoons to the X-ray Rabbi and to Rabbi Pinto and all of those. Anyone who thinks this is just a political dance before Shas? 11 Knesset seats is mistaken.

So what it is about?

It?s about the self-negation of Israeli secularism, or Israeli liberalism, before what they perceive as something more authentic, something deeper. And in this sense a terrible process has occurred in the State of Israel.

Because of the identification of the state with religion? We feel guilty about our secularism?

Because we?ve privatized Jewish identity and put it in the hands of the tycoons of religion, such as Ovadia Yosef. There?s the famous story about the meeting between Ben-Gurion and the Chazon Ish, where the Chazon Ish said: ?It is known that when there is a narrow bridge, and on one side there is a full wagon and on the other side an empty wagon, the empty wagon will let the full wagon pass.? I?ve always thought that this was a somewhat problematic allegory, because chances are that if the bridge is going to collapse it will collapse with the full wagon on it. These visits to Ovadia Yosef reflect an adoption of the allegory of the full wagon and empty wagon by Israeli secularism, which deep down feels that it is an empty wagon. To me, any politician who makes a pilgrimage this Sukkot to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is committing an act that disqualifies him from leading the public.

You think that Shimon Peres, say, doesn?t get this? And yet he goes.

There?s something deeper here. Because of this collapse of spirit in the democratic and liberal camp, with our almost built-in difficulty in producing prophets, in producing philosophers, in producing ideologues, I think that there is self-negation. Just look at the superlatives that were heaped upon Rabbi Elyashiv after his death. A person who throughout his leadership showed a fierce hatred and deep scorn for all that you represent. What was this unbelievable fawning all about, as if he represents some ancient truth, some great source of wisdom? A person who preached hatred his entire life.

I wonder how much the alienation of post-modern life plays a part in this.

It certainly plays a part. Israeli secularism gazes with admiration upon this human stream of 100,000 people marching after the coffin of Rabbi Elyashiv. But this is 100,000 men. They won?t follow a woman?s coffin this way. So remember that this option is an oppressive option.

How did we get to the point where our wagon is empty?

The wagon is empty because it threw things off, not because it is empty by its very nature. The non-Orthodox side of the Zionist enterprise was a wagon filled with pioneering and with Jewish creativity and sharp Hebrew, and a full wagon in terms of vision and a sense of mission to establish a model society here.

So what is the process? Is the dilution and weakening because of divisiveness, or did it happen on its own?

If you?re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: ?Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,? then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing.

Over everything.

The tragedy of Israeli Judaism is the Orthodox monopoly. But it can?t be blamed for everything. The sacrifice of a deep bond with Jewish culture is one that we make. And this causes two very serious things, in my view. One is that it makes our wagon less full. I am the first to think that it?s better to drive a wagon that has in it values of wisdom, critical thinking, equality. Our wagon is filled first of all with 52 percent of the Israeli public, which sits in the front seats and not in the back. Why are there mehadrin bus lines? Because 50 percent of ultra-Orthodox women go out to work. And so the ultra-Orthodox establishment tells them ? okay, go to work, because someone has to earn a living, but on the way we?ll remind you where you really stand. Because, God forbid, as a result of your contact with secular people, the hierarchy that?s been imprinted in you might be upset. So there?s an attempt here to prevent a reaction. We non-Orthodox Israelis have to invest in loading up our wagon. Not only with Judaism but with other things. Look at our schools. What does the graduate of the state education system look like? Is this a renaissance man? Someone who has broad cultural knowledge?

Of course not.

So in the state-education system and the ultra-Orthodox education system, I don?t like what they fill the bookbag with, but the focus on values there is much more dramatic. If we don?t wake up, we?ll lose the battle.

You don?t think we?ve lost it already?

No.

You really are an optimistic Jew.

Yes. Yes, because I truly believe that wisdom and critical thinking and education and freedom of choice and self-fulfillment ? that these are stronger forces in the end. I once talked about this with Amos Oz. The ultra-Orthodox world?s success is the secret of its collapse. The demographic growth, the political standing ? these are what will make it impossible for the old ultra-Orthodox world to survive.

That?s the opposite of what is generally thought. Can you explain what you mean?

This thing is too big for the ultra-Orthodox control mechanisms, which kept the ultra-Orthodox behind the walls of the ghetto, to succeed.

Because too many mines have already been buried there.

Yes. The larger the population gets, the stronger and more sophisticated the control mechanisms need to be, even if they?re not governmental, even if they?re just psychological. This story is steadily crumbling. Much of the extremism that we?re seeing is a reaction, just as has always happened. No argument is as untrue and easy to refute than the one that says that until the modern age Judaism was monolithic and maintained a united front. Contrary to the Orthodox myth, it wasn?t Judaism?s stagnation that preserved it. Just the opposite ? Judaism survived because this people had the ability to preserve a deep and vital and authentic connection to what we inherited from previous generations. In prayers, language, customs, lifestyle, beliefs, folklore, and at the same time to always be in a process of movement, of renewal, of change.

The wandering Jew.

Yes. The wandering Jew isn?t just someone who wandered from one land to another, but someone who knew how to move. Rabbi Yehuda Halevi wrote the Kuzari in Arabic. Maimonides wrote the Guide to the Perplexed in Arabic. [Martin] Buber, Rosenzweig ? the most important books in Jewish philosophy in the modern age were not written only in Hebrew. Also Herzl?s ?State of the Jews? and ?Altneueland.? So this whole idea that something there is more authentic, more worthy, is our disaster, because we don?t see that our wagon is not filling up. The loss of prayer, for example, is a very sad thing. Leah Goldberg prayed, Yehuda Amichai prayed. I?m not blaming the secular parents ? when the kid comes and says, they taught us about the siddur in school, then all the antennae that are on guard against missionaries and religious coercion suddenly shoot up. And rightly so, because this is what is happening in Israel. There is religious coercion, there is corruption of the religion.

The ones you say are corrupting religion would say that you are the one doing that.

True. But you know what we have to our credit? That we do not try to impose our way on others by force of law. We don?t claim that we have the truth and that others are sinners. We are ready to subject ourselves to critical thinking and to self-examination. Despite everything, I am optimistic because I think that what?s happening on the other side cannot endure.

I?d never thought about it that way.

Now the question is what do we do with this? Do we let the reactionary forces lead? There?s a lack of action. Gideon Sa?ar is considered to be a reasonably good Education Minister, right? But consider how throughout his whole tenure nothing has genuinely been done about the matter of the core curriculum. Last Sunday, 50,000 ultra-Orthodox pupils entered exempted schools that receive half their funding from the state and yet do not teach the core subjects at all. And because they receive half a budget, they sit in dilapidated and dangerous buildings, in conditions that none of us would want to see our children studying in. What have we done? We?ve put them in a trap of ignorance and poverty. And because there is no state-Haredi education today, the state-religious education system is becoming more extreme. Why aren?t the exempted schools being shut down? In the past three years, we?ve nearly doubled our number of communities. We?re not a large movement, but more and more Israelis are realizing that if we don?t become proactive, if we don?t retake command ? in our egalitarian, open and critical-thinking way, then our wagon will not be full enough and the wagon coming from the opposite direction will just run us off the road.

How did a boy from north Tel Aviv grow up to be a rabbi?

I grew up in a secular family that voted Labor. My first political phase was sort of rightist, Orthodox. As a 12th-grader I used to correspond with Yosef Burg. There was a debate over who would be the right?s candidate for president. And I wrote to the Mafdal leader telling him to run for president.

Where did that come from?

Hard to say. For as long as I can remember, I?ve been very attracted to the traditional thing. For me, to go see my great-grandmother, who was ultra-Orthodox, in Jerusalem, was incredible. My grandfather and grandmother lived in Tzahala and we were with them every weekend. They were secular. I started going to synagogue alone, as early as second grade. I was the kid of the Orthodox synagogue in Tzahala, and I was happy there. Intellectually, emotionally, as part of the community.

Did you have social problems?

No, not at all. I did the whole popular thing ? head of student council in elementary school and high school, young coordinator in the Scouts and head of the leadership council.

It?s like a mutant gene.

Yes. I grew up in a super-secular environment, a home that was never anti-religious, but where there was bread every Passover. My parents ? until I started going ? had never set foot in a synagogue. I started going to synagogue on my own, I started studying intensively. I remember going with my mother when I was in fourth grade and picking out Jewish books and then sitting and studying alone at home. I started eating kosher.

A double life.

Yes, that?s one of the arguments, that Reform Judaism is a Judaism of convenience. And I don?t understand where this bizarre idea comes from that religion has to equal suffering. What in our education about religion makes us think that religion has to be filled with agony and suffering?

That?s not exactly the question. The question is what is the essence of religion. What are we here for? Are we here to serve some lofty purpose, or is the lofty purpose supposed to serve us? Is this a kind of buffet Judaism where I can just pick and choose what pleases me?

I?m through apologizing. Whoever wants to call it buffet Judaism, be my guest. So yes, I do continually make a choice as to what I take on my plate. I dearly hope that my choice to be a member of a community, to be a man of faith; someone who studies and observes mitzvoth is not related only to what?s pleasant for me and serves needs that are very focused on the here and now, but to what I should do. To what the society around me should do.

Where does faith fit in to the story?

At the synagogue here upstairs, one of the walls is decorated with the verse from Micha ? ?Do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your Lord? ... In other words, the most meaningful outward expression of our Jewish life should be in

doing justice and acts of kindness. In these challenging times we live in, faith is something that is personal and intimate, and also something that involves questioning. I have a very hard time with people whose faith is followed by an exclamation mark. For me, faith is first of all the foundation upon which rests the recognition of man?s free will, of his obligation to be a moral person, to see the other.

How far does it go? Does God exist?

I?m a believing person. I believe that behind the word God there is something real. I can?t give you a whole neat two-hour lecture here about what God is. It is truly beyond my comprehension. But I feel God?s presence in the imperative for morality, for justice, for seeing the other, for acknowledging the equal value of every person.

Are you ready to acknowledge the possibility that God may not exist? What if I said to you ? I want to join your community but I want you to know that I don?t think God exists. Would you be ready to accept me?

Yes. Absolutely. I have no problem praying in a community in which there are people who believe and people who don?t. People who believe with an exclamation point scare me more than people who say in a gentle way ? I don?t believe.

Is there any red line for acceptance into this community?

The conditions for entry into this club is first of all the desire or the commitment to the Jewish people and to the future of Judaism. But there are other conditions, too. A racist person has no place in our community. You won?t find a Reform community that will decide to restore the mehitza ?(divider?) between men and women, or prohibit women from being called up to the Torah. It?s not that everything is permitted, just come on in.

Perhaps you?re an imaginary community, in certain ways?

No. We just believe in a communal life that, by choice, is less stringent than the traditional models. I?m telling you just the opposite ? I want to be in a community where one person drives on Shabbat and another doesn?t. I think strength based on homogeneity is rotten to the core. Either it collapses in on itself or it constantly needs to swallow up more victims in order to justify itself.

How liberal are you? Would it be fine with you to officiate at your daughter?s wedding to another woman?

Yes. I marry same-sex couples.

Your daughter.

My daughter?

Yes.

Yes, yes.

Totally fine with it?

If I think it?s good for her, then yes. Strange as it may sound, the more challenging question as far as I?m concerned is what would happen if my daughter came to me and said that her true love was a non-Jew. That would be a more challenging question in terms of my liberalism.

And what would you do?

First of all, I would respect her choice. It would make me sad, because I am very dedicated to the continuity of the Jewish people, but I would do everything to see that, despite her choice, Judaism would play a very significant role in her life and in the lives of my grandchildren. But yes, it would be hard for me.

This may be a little simplistic, but try to explain to me a particular choice. For example, why do you drive on Shabbat?

Because driving on Shabbat helps me very much to fulfill and achieve things that, without them, Shabbat wouldn?t be Shabbat for me. For example ? to get to the Shabbat meal with my family, or to our synagogue. I could walk to the Orthodox synagogue near my house, but there?s nothing for me there with my daughters and my wife. These are essential layers of my religious Shabbat. For me, not driving on Shabbat doesn?t add anything to the holiness of the day. My approach is to ask what are the values, what are the ideas, what are the reasons for keeping this thing called Shabbat, and what is the right way to do it. And I go to the tradition.

And what do you conclude?

I am humbled by 4,000 years of Jewish creativity. I think that despite major mishaps along the way, humanity is progressing morally. The whole Orthodox theory is the opposite. A famous Haredi saying is ?If our forefathers were angels, then we are as human beings. And if they were as human beings, then we are as donkeys. And if they were as donkeys, we are as grasshoppers.? A theory of decline over the generations. And we say ? if despite the experience that our forefathers bequeathed to us, and the ability of one generation to learn from another, we are still declining, then something in this whole story of human civilization isn?t working. I think that even though technology today gives man much more extreme tools for wreaking destruction, from a moral perspective, humanity is progressing. Too slowly, very slowly, but progressing. Look, I am willing to attest to many big challenges for Reform Judaism. For example, the question of boundaries. If everyone chooses, then what is the boundary? The question of commitment. Let?s be honest, too many of our people don?t take commitment, and knowledgeable choice, to the fullest.

It?s just very easy to board this wagon, and for all the wrong reasons. You take a lot and give a little.

It?s easy to be a free-rider, I admit. But this exists in Orthodoxy too.

In Orthodoxy the price is higher. Even if it?s just for show.

There?s always a trade-off. As the head of the Reform Movement, my greatest concern is the attempt to make the Reform community in Israel more meaningful, deeper, more involved in society ? for a Reform rabbi to be able to preside over weddings in Israel, for our conversions to be accepted, and for the ultra-Orthodox to learn a core curriculum. You?re asking me if I prefer the existing reality, with all its drawbacks, or to choose between these two extremes of all or nothing. My problem with the Orthodox Shabbat is not that it?s forbidden to squeeze out a rag. It?s something else entirely. It?s the fact that the halakha says that you [violate Shabbat] to save a Jew?s life, but not a non-Jew?s life. The thought that I?m a Reform Jew rather than an Orthodox Jew because I find some of the mitzvoth inconvenient is bullshit. I?m not willing to accept that a woman cannot be a rabbi, I?m not willing to accept the concept of ?You chose us? in its Orthodox sense. Anyone who thinks that there aren?t plenty of sources in Judaism that say God commanded us to hate the non-Jew is mistaken. In Judaism there are peaks of humanity and abysses of hate. The question is what you choose.


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How do you cope with losing your best friends? - gabriella alejandra ...

Ok, so i know this isn't my normal type of blog post, but i feel like once and a while you should be able to get personal and if something affects you on a day to day basis, it's something worth talking about.

when i moved back to boston, i knew no body. i had few friends back home but they all seemed uninterested in commuting into the city for lunch or evening fun. and the trek back home to hang with the few people who didn't feel i neglected them by going to school, was a 4 hour long commute.?it was miserable.?i didn't/don't own a car, and all my friends did.?

?::i'll let that sink in a bit::

good? k.?

when i started to work (literally the day after i moved. talk about exhausted.) i was hopeful to meet new people and make new friends. my place of employment had a variety of?characters, and most of them were older men. the only girl within my?vicinity had a -to this day-?unknown grudge against me the minute i stepped foot in the department.

-no luck-

a month or so in, i got the?opportunity to do something a little more fun involving photoshoots.

there i met a few people who i would never thought would mean the entire world to me.

it took a while, but a friendship struck with one that would eventually blossom into something more.?

i had made a friend, excelled at work, got promoted into a position that involved what i went to school for, basically helped start up a website, and had what seemed to be a good relationship going.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?my heart was happy

this isn't going to be about my relationship, what happened, what didn't happen or any of that.

i'm heart broken to say it didn't work, but i felt i had made a life long friend.?

there were 3 of us. and i felt like we were a pact. we were awesome. they were the best people i knew and i felt so blessed to have them care for me as much i cared for them. i didn't think i could ever be happier.

things happen: breakups, arguments, fights, breakups within your other friends, new people, new lives.

i met someone new. someone great. someone who was nothing i've ever had before. and it was?exciting.

i was once in a relationship where we were both so involved with each other that we forgot about our friends, our family, everything but us. it ended horribly and i vowed that day on i would never leave behind the people i loved and have loved for a budding new romance. and i didn't. no matter who i was dating, i always, ALWAYS made time for my other friends.?whether it included my guy or not. i never wanted to get sucked into another relationship where i forget everyone else.?

so i was now in this new relationship, but never ever forgot about my 2 best. they were still my two best and would always be my 2 best. nothing had changed and we did all the same things we had always done. we got together for dinner and drinks a few times a week. we spent weekends having?BBQ?when it was nice out, going to amusement parks, shooting the shit at the park on sunny days or just hung out at one of our places. it was as if nothing changed. i spent time with my new guy, and kept my 2 best still as close as ever.

again, things happen: jealousy, feeling of?betrayal, doubts. new girlfriends. new boyfriends. whatever it was. who knows.?

i never wanted things to change. but that's just what happens and you have very minimal control over it, and no control over other peoples feelings.?

anger builds up, you hold grudges over minimal things. the friendship wasn't what it use to be.

i've had this happen before. when you're a girl in high school, you get sucked into girl drama pretty easily. if you didn't, lucky you.

but my 2 best were guys. this would never happen. we argue and then forget.

but i'm still a girl, and part of me still holds girl grudges like in high school.

one friendship ends, and that's when everything else unravels.?

the pact you thought would last forever slowly dies. and because you all drift apart, you seek other places for comfort and joy.?

but i still had one other person. one other friend. what about him??

well, it gets a little tricky when you go from you and your 2 best friends to you and 1 best friend, who also happens to be your ex.


he has someone new, but ?i feel like a new girlfriend meant he couldn't be friends with me.
i didn't do that to him. why would he do that to me?
i also felt like he had?chosen?sides in our "best friend pact". and it's wasn't mine. is that what changed everything? is that why i feel so alone?

as a couple, i put my all and everything into him. i'm not saying i was the best girlfriend ever, what i'm saying is i put all my trust and secrets into this one person. was i dumb for doing so? i was sure we would always be the best of friends. even with new relationships and our lives obviously going to new paths. but why would i ever stop being your friend because you met someone new? i wouldn't. was he uncomfortable being my friend? was everything he said to me a huge big lie?questions unanswered that i have little hope of ever knowing. but that's not what i'm here typing about.

i'm wondering how you cope with losing your best friends.

people you were so close with you considered family. someone you looked up to as a big brother. people who want nothing to do with you and you want everything to do with them. am i being over bearing? i don't think so. maybe i am. i'd just like to have my 2 best, sitting at our usual spots on?Thursday?nights or?Sunday?mornings, having drinks and?indulging?in food.

how do you make your heart calm knowing you'll never do those things again with those people?

how do i stop my brain from reenacting memories when i walk by places that meant something? how do i forget all those sunny days, late nights, big smiles and laughter? how do i forget?every restaurant, every bar, every appetizer shared, every story told, every laugh, every photo?

how do i stop my heart from aching?

how do i stop the pit in my stomach when i see these?people?who at one point were my 2 best?

how do i stop myself from bursting into tears passing by places with?memories?

How do i forget 3 years of my life?

i wonder if they feel the same. i doubt it, because their actions towards me make me feel like they had stopped caring at one point. but i'm hopeful that they miss me as much as i miss them.

xoxo

Source: http://gabriellaalejandra.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-do-you-cope-with-losing-your-best.html

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Learn more about Healthy Diets for Losing Weight Fast :- Good Food ...

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Physical fitness experts, medical professionals and weight loss advocates have different recommendations on how to remove those extra pounds. Regardless of the methods, the most important thing is to lose excess weight to remain fit and healthy. Many forms of healthy Diets to lose weight fast are being promoted. However, there are several pointers from professional health gurus that you can possibly adopt.

It is advisable to prepare your own meals because you can control the servings. Besides, home cooked meals are both clean and nutritious. eating at home is more practical than dining in restaurants since the portions are larger and the quality is questionable most of the time. You can start with a breakfast that is low in calories such as oatmeal, vegetable salad and boiled eggs. These will go well with green beverages with low sugar content. You can also learn how to prepare healthy dinners by doing research on the healthiest foods that will help you lose weight.

You need to find out the standard servings of poultry, meat, fish and carbohydrates. Likewise, fiber is indispensable in your bid to achieve healthy weight loss. By consuming more fiber, your digestive system will function efficiently and your body will be able to detoxify naturally. As a result, your metabolism will increase and you will feel healthy all over. It is important to check out the list of foods that are rich in fiber before you go through the process of losing weight.

There are also different healthy diets to lose weight fast that can work well for expectant fitness buffs. While the methods and results vary, it is worth looking at some of those being endorsed by health counselors. However, the essential factor is developing wholesome eating practices. Likewise, keep in mind that if you take in more calories, it is important to burn them so you will avoid gaining too much weight. Establish personal goals that are down-to-earth and will serve to motivate you. It should be a long-term weight-reduction program and not just a short-term achievement.

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What To Do When Your Business Is In Danger Of Bankruptcy ...

When your business?s finances have taken a turn for the worse, you may be tempted to invest additional funds in marketing, new merchandise or new technology. These sorts of moves can actually be counter-productive to the success of your business. Instead of continuing to spend more money to save your business, it is in the best interest of a business to meet with commercial lawyers to discuss the possibility of bankruptcy and other debt management solutions. Here are some reasons to get you started:

By meeting with business lawyers, your business may discover that other debt management solutions are available aside from filing for bankruptcy. Your business may be able to sell significant assets, such as real estate or valuable equipment, in order to stay out of debt. A business lawyer can also discuss the possibility of selling a part of your business to another company in order to avoid the danger of bankruptcy. These are all options that lawyers who have an expertise in bankruptcy can help you weigh.

In some instances, filing for bankruptcy may be the easiest way to deal with outstanding debts that have become too much of a burden to handle. Filing for bankruptcy allows your business to have a fresh start. This will allow your business to reorganize its debts and continue its operations.

Most businesses are not able to obtain a discharge when they file for bankruptcy. If you have a sole proprietorship, then you may be able to obtain a discharge of all of your debts. Instead, your business will be given a repayment plan that will last for three to five years. The repayment plan will require your business to steadily pay back creditors. At the end of the repayment plan, then a judge may wipe out the rest of the debts that your business owes.

When your business can not afford to continue its current operations, then this is a sign that your company may be headed for financial disaster. It is important to meet with a bankruptcy solicitor who will be able to negotiate with your creditors and fully explain your legal options to you. While filing for bankruptcy may not be your preferred way of dealing with your financial situation, it may ultimately become the best option for helping your company regain financial stability. A bankruptcy solicitor will help your business regain control of its finances.

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Backpack-toting birds help researchers reveal migratory divide, conservation hotspots

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? By outfitting two British Columbia subspecies of Swainson's thrushes with penny-sized, state-of-the-art geolocators, University of British Columbia researchers have been able to map their wildly divergent migration routes and pinpoint conservation hotspots.

"Birds of a feather do not necessarily flock together," says Kira Delmore, a PhD student with UBC's Department of Zoology and lead author of the paper. "Our teams of thrushes took dramatically different routes to get to their wintering grounds, either south along the west coast to Central America, or southeast to Alabama and across the Gulf of Mexico to Columbia."

The study, to be published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, is the first to collect a complete year's worth of data from individual birds to document such a migratory divide.

"This detailed level of migration and stopover data helps us pinpoint vital feeding and rest habitats that the birds rely on at key points during their long journey -- just before crossing the Gulf of Mexico, for example," Delmore adds.

The researchers say the study also raises the possibility that migratory behavior may play a role in speciation, the process by which one species evolves into two.

"Given that migratory behavior is under genetic influence in many species of birds, these results raise the question of what hybrids between these two subspecies would do," says Darren Irwin, associate professor of Zoology at UBC and co-author of the paper. "One possibility is that hybrids would take an intermediate route, leading to more difficulties during migration. If so, the migratory differences might be preventing the two forms from blending into one."

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About Swainson's thrushes

Swainson's thrushes, with olive-brown feathers, lighter mottled undersides, and distinct light eye-rings, are typically 16 to 20 centimetres (seven inches) in length with a wingspan of 30 centimetres (one foot). They are not endangered.

Research methodology

UBC researchers caught 40 thrushes in June 2010 -- 20 each of a subspecies from Pacific Spirit Park near UBC in Vancouver and another from locations near Kamloops, B.C. The birds were lured into six-metre-wide mist nets with mating calls.

The geolocators used weigh 0.9 gram and with attachment materials they weight approximately four per cent of the body weight of a thrush.

Researchers then attached the newly invented geolocation devices, which record sunrise and sunset times, on the birds with special harnesses before releasing them. To collect the data, Delmore undertook the process in reverse a year later.

This research was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Environment Canada, and the Wilson Ornithological Society.

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  1. Kira E. Delmore, James W. Fox, and Darren E. Irwin. Dramatic intraspecific differences in migratory routes, stopover sites and wintering areas, revealed using light-level geolocators. Proc. R. Soc. B, September 26, 2012 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1229

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Entry Level Jobs in Hotel Sales Are Profitable and Supply Speedy ...

If you?re trying to find a career you might need to contemplate a revenue supervisor work within the hospitality industry. A lot of people take into account hotel sales one of the greatest careers out there. What?s interesting is the fact that not lots of people know these careers exist.

The hotel company gives good surroundings to function in and about. They normally supply free of charge meals to workers, you have the chance to entertain shoppers in the hotel restaurant and lounge, and numerous hotels will inquire you to entertain clients at enjoyable events like basketball games or at the golf course. Fast advancement is available. Quite a few sales positions advance to Director of Product sales and Common Supervisor positions inside 3-6 decades.

Motels will hire entry degree income reps so long as you have a great knowing from the organization. Hotels do not prefer to spend useful time training candidates; thus, it is a fantastic notion to study the area and get a great comprehension with the company prior to you interview. Do not visit an interview and expect your prior gross sales expertise in one more discipline to have you by way of the interview. It won?t work.

It?s also not required to have previous product sales experience, but for those who have some, this may be an benefit for you. Make sure and make your resume revenue oriented and location any hotel certificate systems you might have in the leading of the resume so they do not get ignored.

Entry degree income positions are landed by these people today which have a passion for sales, enjoy inside revenue too as outdoors sales careers, and comprehend the hotel organization. At the interview, make sure and exhibit your information with the hotel gross sales supervisor place you are applying for. Show that you have an understanding of the way to land group company accounts, SMERF enterprise, IBT markets, demand generators, income blitzes, etc. Do your research!

Gross sales Affiliate employment is usually discovered at hcareers.com in fact.com and hospitalityonline.com. Make sure and lookup for hotel income positions, or hotel income supervisor positions. Position possibilities are nevertheless great within the hotel revenue and catering home business. Throughout these difficult financial occasions, hotels give inside revenue employment too as outside income careers.

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Vampire squid sucks up garbage, not blood

Despite their name, vampire squid are not deep-sea bloodsuckers. In fact, new research finds these mysterious creatures are garbage disposals of the ocean.

Using long, skinny tendrils called filaments, vampire squid capture marine detritus hovering in the water ? from crustacean eyes and legs to larvae poop ? then coat it in mucus before chowing down, according to the new findings.

The discovery is a first for cephalopods, which include squid, octopus and cuttlefish, said study researcher Henk-Jan Hoving.

"It's the first record of a cephalopod that doesn't hunt for living prey," Hoving, a postdoctoral scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, told LiveScience.

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A mystery squid
Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), which grow to be about a foot (30 centimeters) long, are widespread but not well-known. Even their life spans remains a mystery. Their name comes from their dark coloring, red eyes and the cloak-like webbing between their arms. And as namesakes of the undead, vampire squid apparently have little need for breathing. They thrive in oceanic oxygen minimum zones, where the oxygen levels are sometimes less than 5 percent that of the surrounding air. ?

Adding to their mystique, vampire squid are capable of bioluminescence. They use this self-made light to blend in with sunlight filtering down to the deep sea.

Along with their eight arms, vampire squid have two long, whiplike filaments. Researchers have long suspected that these long tendrils might help the squid feed, but the new study is the first to clarify how. [ Under the Sea: A Squid Album ]

Hoving and his colleagues observed captured vampire squid in the lab and also pored over 24 hours of videotape of vampire squid seen between 1992 and 2012 in their natural environments in Monterey Bay submarine canyon off the coast of Northern California.

Hoving said he first noticed that after researchers added some food to a tank containing a captive vampire squid, the animal retracted its filament and wiped it off on its suckered arms. And in the videos, Hoving noticed vampire squid with "amorphous masses" in their mouths.

After Hoving examined the digestive tract contents of museum specimens of squid, he began to put the pieces together. Instead of containing chewed-up fish or crustaceans as the stomachs of most cephalopods do, the vampire squid stomachs held bits of flotsam and jetsam: fish eggs, bits of crustacean antennae and eyes and legs, larvae and even larvae feces, among other things. These scraps were cemented together by chunks of mucus.

Vampire feeding strategy
An anatomical examination of the squid revealed their suckers have no suction power; rather, they excrete mucus. What appears to happen, Hoving said, is that squid hover in the water, extending out a filament (which can be up to eight times as long as their own body). Such behavior was seen in 33 percent of video observations.

Marine detritus, including bits of dead crustaceans, larvae, eggs and even tiny jellyfish-like creatures called salps, fall and float past the filament, getting caught on sticky hairs on the structure. The squid can then pull in the food and brush it onto their arms, which coat the food with mucus to stick it together. Finger-like appendages called cirri then move the food toward the mouth at the base of the arms. [ 10 Scariest Sea Creatures ]

This passive eating style enables the squid to live in low-oxygen zones in the ocean, Hoving said. Vampire squid also have extremely low metabolisms and a specialized protein in their respiratory system that clings strongly to oxygen molecules, he said.

With this knowledge, Hoving said, researchers can study how fast the squid grow and how long they live.

"It shows again that cephalopods are extremely adapted in a wide variety of ways to the ocean habitat," Hoving said. "They're very successful in the world's oceans. It's amazing that some of these cephalopods have even found ways to live under conditions that are adverse to most other animals."

The researchers reported their findings Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.?

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