I went to New York and defeated Broadway with my plays.

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Mamdami is here and we are ready? I'm anxious, giddy, but he sure looks like the man of the hour!

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I am very special, I can fall in love with microbes and mites.

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New bubble bath toys won't be on the market for another six months due to privacy changes.

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Philanthropy via the Gates FoundationThe vast majority goes here—the world's largest private foundation, with an endowment over $80 billion.In 2025, Gates committed to spending $200 billion over the next 20 years (doubling annual payouts from ~$6–8 billion to $10 billion starting around 2026), then shutting down the foundation by December 31, 2045. This is the largest philanthropic pledge in history. Key focus areas in 2025–2026:Global health: Eradicating polio, ending preventable maternal/child deaths, fighting infectious diseases (AIDS, TB, malaria). Includes a major pledge to the Global Fund (2026–2028 cycle) and leveraging AI for diagnostics. Women's health and gender equality: Additional $2.5 billion over five years for maternal, menstrual, gynecological, and sexual health innovations. Poverty reduction and agriculture: $1.4 billion over four years to help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia adapt to climate extremes. Other: Economic mobility initiatives (e.g., part of a $1 billion coalition for U.S. low-income tech tools), vaccines, and education. The foundation has already disbursed over $100 billion lifetime, with 2024–2025 spending at $8+ billion annually.Clean Energy and Climate InvestmentsThrough Breakthrough Energy (founded 2015, personal commitment ~$2 billion+) and related ventures:Heavy focus on innovative tech like advanced nuclear (via TerraPower, which he founded—contributed to raises like $650 million in 2025, including his funding; first Natrium reactor under construction in Wyoming, aiming for 2030 operation). Investments in startups for green steel, cement, geothermal, hydrogen, methane-reducing animal feed, and more (over 150 companies funded). In 2025, shifted some strategy toward adaptation (protecting lives from climate impacts) and entrepreneurial scaling, amid policy changes and layoffs in policy teams. Other InvestmentsWealth managed via Cascade Investment (diversified holdings: stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, Canadian National Railway, Deere; some real estate/energy). The foundation's trust also holds mission-aligned stocks. Occasional venture bets, e.g., in mineral exploration (KoBold Metals) or AI-powered energy demand. Gates has emphasized urgency: stepping up giving amid global challenges (e.g., aid cuts, rising child deaths). He lives relatively modestly (famous mansion, private jet, book habit) compared to his scale—most money fuels measurable impact on health, poverty, and climate. 56 web pages

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I think we have made it though a challenging time period, but there are some serious challenges that remain for 2026. We can not become a simple 0-1 culture with out stagnation.

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Regardless of what the future brings, horrors and nightmares and freaks, always believe in the beauty of your dreams.

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Focus on the Future And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.” — Genesis 50:25 Each week in synagogue, Jews read through the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. The Torah portion for this week is Vayechi, which means “and he lived,” from Genesis 47:28–50:26. In our home, vibrant colors adorn all of our walls—except for one. One wall is covered in simple white Jerusalem stone. Like most Jewish homes, we have dedicated a wall to remembering Jerusalem, as it says in Psalm 137:5, “If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.” Until God’s city is restored and the Holy Temple is rebuilt, we dare not forget that there is work to be done on this earth. Read Full Devotional Learn Hebrew In honor of Martin Luther King Day this month, visit our Fellowship library to learn Hebrew words and phrases relating to this leader of the civil rights movement. Learn More Renew Your Support Begin the new year by blessing impoverished and elderly Jews with winter necessities. Help Now Take a Moment Did you know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found inspiration in the Bible and the story of the Jewish people? Learn more about the bond between African Americans and the Jewish community.

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Between being perfect and specialized we at me suggest well rounded interesting people.

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Jews to land their space ship on the most unwanted part of the moon only to find, they are winners of the Nobel Prize for New Frontiers.

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Aliens look down on the earth all the time, and share thoughts about the hairy ones below. "They are so hairy, especially on top of their heads!"

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A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. Yet had she oft been chased with horns and hounds, And Scythian shafts; and many winged wounds Aimed at her heart; was often forced to fly, And doomed to death, though fated not to die. Not so her young; for their unequal line Was hero's make, half human, half divine. Their earthly mould obnoxious was to fate, The immortal part assumed immortal state. Of these a slaughtered army lay in blood, Extended o'er the Caledonian wood, Their native walk; whose vocal blood arose, And cried for pardon on their perjured foes. Their fate was fruitful, and the sanguine seed, Endued with souls, increased the sacred breed. So captive Israel multiplied in chains, A numerous exile, and enjoyed her pains. With grief and gladness mixed, their mother viewed Her martyr'd offspring, and their race renewed; Their corpse to perish, but their kind to last, So much the deathless plant the dying fruit surpassed. Panting and pensive now she ranged alone, And wandered in the kingdoms, once her own. The common hunt, though from their rage restrained By sovereign power, her company disdained, Grinned as they passed, and with a glaring eye Gave gloomy signs of secret enmity. 'Tis true, she bounded by, and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight; For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen. The bloody Bear, an independent beast, Unlicked to form, in groans her hate exprest. Among the timorous kind, the quaking Hare Professed neutrality, but would not swear. Next her the buffoon Ape, as atheists use, Mimicked all sects, and had his own to choose; Still when the Lion looked, his knees he bent, And paid at church a courtier's compliment. The bristled baptist Boar, impure as he, But whitened with the foam of sanctity, With fat pollutions filled the sacred place, And mountains levelled in his furious race; So first rebellion founded was in grace. But since the mighty ravage, which he made In German forests, had his guilt betrayed, With broken tusks, and with a borrowed name, He shunned the vengeance, and concealed the shame; So lurked in sects unseen. With greater guile False Reynard fed on consecrated spoil; The graceless beast by Athanasius first Was chased from Nice, then by Socinus nursed; His impious race their blasphemy renewed, And nature's king through nature's optics viewed. Reversed, they viewed him lessened to their eye, Nor in an infant could a God descry; New swarming sects to this obliquely tend, Hence they began, and here they all will end. What weight of ancient witness can prevail, If private reason hold the public scale? But, gracious God, how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe thee, thus concealed, And search no farther than thyself revealed; But her alone for my director take, Whom thou hast promised never to forsake! My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights; and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame! Good life be now my task; my doubts are done; What more could fright my faith, than three in one? Can I believe eternal God could lie Disguised in mortal mould, and infancy? That the great Maker of the world could die? And after that trust my imperfect sense, Which calls in question his omnipotence? Can I my reason to my faith compel, And shall my sight, and touch, and taste rebel? Superior faculties are set aside; Shall their subservient organs be my guide? Then let the moon usurp the rule of day, And winking tapers show the sun his way; For what my senses can themselves perceive, I need no revelation to believe. Can they, who say the Host should be descried By sense, define a body glorified, Impassible, and penetrating parts? Let them declare by what mysterious arts He shot that body through the opposing might Of bolts and bars impervious to the light, And stood before his train confessed in open sight. For since thus wondrously he passed, 'tis plain, One single place two bodies did contain; And sure the same Omnipotence as well Can make one body in more places dwell. Let reason then at her own quarry fly, But how can finite grasp infinity? 'Tis urged again, that faith did first commence By miracles, which are appeals to sense, And thence concluded, that our sense must be The motive still of credibility; For latter ages must on former wait, And what began belief, must propagate. But winnow well this thought, and you shall find 'Tis light as chaff that flies before the wind. Were all those wonders wrought by power divine, As means or ends of some more deep design? Most sure as means, whose end was this alone, To prove the Godhead of the Eternal Son. God thus asserted, man is to believe Beyond what sense and reason can conceive, And, for mysterious things of faith, rely On the proponent, heaven's authority. If, then, our faith we for our guide admit, Vain is the farther search of human wit; As when the building gains a surer stay, We take the unuseful scaffolding away. Reason by sense no more can understand; The game is played into another hand. Why choose we then like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep, When safely we may launch into the deep? In the same vessel, which our Saviour bore, Himself the pilot, let us leave the shore, And with a better guide a better world explore. Could he his Godhead veil with flesh and blood, And not veil these again to be our food? His grace in both is equal in extent, The first affords us life, the second nourishment. And if he can, why all this frantic pain, To construe what his clearest words contain, And make a riddle what he made so plain? To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry; Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small; For who would break with heaven, and would not break for all? Rest then, my soul, from endless anguish freed; Nor sciences thy guide, nor sense thy creed. Faith is the best ensurer of thy bliss; The bank above must fail, before the venture miss. But heaven and heaven-born faith are far from thee, Thou first apostate to divinity. Unkennelled range in thy Polonian plains; A fiercer foe the insatiate Wolf remains. Too boastful Britain, please thyself no more, That beasts of prey are banished from thy shore; The bear, the boar, and every savage name, Wild in effect, though in appearance tame, Lay waste thy woods, destroy thy blissful bower, And, muzzled though they seem, the mutes devour. More haughty than the rest, the wolfish race Appears with belly gaunt, and famished face; Never was so deformed a beast of grace. His ragged tail betwixt his legs he wears, Close clapped for shame; but his rough crest he rears, And pricks up his predestinating ears. His wild disordered walk, his haggard eyes, Did all the bestial citizens surprise. Though feared and hated, yet he ruled a while, As captain or companion of the spoil. Full many a year his hateful head had been For tribute paid, nor since in Cambria seen; The last of all the litter scaped by chance, And from Geneva first infested France. Some authors thus his pedigree will trace, But others write him of an upstart race; Because of Wicliffe's brood no mark he brings, But his innate antipathy to kings. These last deduce him from the Helvetian kind,