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[Col. 547-548]
by the Suvalker Landslayt Fareyn in Buenos Aires
Some of those shown are: Leyb Masheznitski, President: Daniel Levkovitsh, Vice-President: Z.Levitas, treasurer: Hersh Rimatski: Zalman David Roznblum: Leyzer Shkolnik: Hayim Blokh: Binyamin Blokh: Avraham Glikson: Mrs.Levkovitsh: Leyzer Lubelski: Simha Yablonski: M.Dishman: M.Levin: Minister Sapir is seated in the middle
[Col. 549]
The conference chose a special executive committee: S.Sandovski (N.Y.), President: Dzsh.Dante (Detroit), Vice-President: Semuel Kriger (Chicago) recording secretary: L.Perlshteyn (N.Y.), Press secretary: S.Bernshteyn (Chicago), Executive secretary: Herold Gutkovski (Chicago), Treasurer.
[Col. 550]
The conference worked out a constitution to guide the relief work. It was decided to hold the next conference in New York.
The work of our relief committee received appreciative write-ups in the Yiddish press. On March 20, 1942, both The Morning Journal and The Day reported on the activities of the Suwalk Relief Committee, and also of its constituent organization and how they were preparing to help their landslayt {compatriots} after the war.
Although we had lost contact with our landslayet, we did receive sad reports from time to time. We learned, for example, that around 3000 Jews from Suwalk were murdered in Slonim by the bloodthirsty Nazis and that the majority of the Suwalk
Jews, who had escaped at the end of 1939 in Lithuania, were killed in the general slaughter, in the towns where they had sought refuge, such as Mariampol, Kalvarie, Lazdey, Vilkovishk, Trok and others. In the Slonim massacres, I lost my brother David Berl and his family; my sister Bashe Feygl and her family were killed in Trok, and my brother Yaakov and his family died in Lasdey, Lithuania. May God avenge their blood.
From right to left: Daniel Lefkovitsh, Mrs.Lefkovitsh; Zisko Levitas President of the Fareyn, Fanie Baygrodski, Leon Masheznitski
[Col. 551]
We learned of the great tragedy of our people only at the end of the summer of 1945, when the blood war with Hitler was ended. We could not imagine it, but it was the gruesome reality: Six million Jews were slaughtered by Hitler murderers. A small remnant survived. We waited with bated breath to receive news of the fate of the Jews of Suwalk and environs.
We understood that the dreadful fate of world Jewry had not by-passed our landslayt, yet we kept alive a spark of hope that perhaps some of our nearest and dearest would have escaped the murderers by hiding in the forest, or perhaps had escaped to Siberia. But we received now news {of such survivors}.
The first letter told us the dreadful truth. The great Jewish town of Suwalk, a city and mother in Israel, no longer existed. Only a few individuals returned from the various hells, and all of the Jewish homes and businesses had been taken over by the Poles. The names of these first survivors of whom we had news were:
Kopl Lubovski, brothers Kramarski, Shelomoh Golding, Hone Vinitski, Meir Fridman, Motl Polnitski, Shelomoh Podruzshnik, Hanah Altshuler, Mrs.Idleson and her son, Engineer Trotski, Caleb Khanovitsh, the Solnitski family, Yeshayah Kershkovski, Mishkinski and a few others.
Those who were rescued described their situation and their sufferings in their letters and asked for immediate aid.
Our committee sent out assistance immediately along with encouraging letters. We wrote that we were ready to do everything possible to relieve them. We also begged them to send us detailed lists of the names of survivors from Suwalk, and where they were now.
In response to our requests, we began receiving mail every week with lists of names of groups and individuals.
At the beginning of 1946, it was concluded, on the basis of all of the reports, that of the estimated 17,000 Jews of Suwalk and environs, barely 400 had survived. Most of the returned survivors had escaped or had been sent into the farthest reaches of Russia at the start of the war, and after the re-establishment of the Polish government, all Polish citizens were permitted to return to Poland. Some had
[Col. 552]
Been Partisans, and had fought the Nazis in the forests, and a very small minority had been liberated from the concentration camps by the Allied armies.
On Sunday, March 20, 1946, we convened a mass gathering and memorial in Manhattan Centre, in order to collect more funds for the survivors. The gathering was opened by L.Perlshteyn, secretary of the Relief Committee. H.Zeligson, the President of the committee gave a report on the committee'' activities and also read a list of names of survivors. Thus, some of those assembled learned of the survival of relatives.
The rabbi of Suwalk eulogized the martyrs and after he made a heart-rending plea to assist the survivors, the sum of $3,200 was immediately collected.
To help make the work of the relief committee more effective, two sub-committees were established; one to collect and the other to send food packages, under the direction of Dzsh.Saymon.
At the end of the winter, we were informed that the number of survivors who had returned to Suwalk had increased to about 90. We sent them all the necessities for Passover: matzos and other Passover foods, and even raisins with which to make wine. This made it possible for them to celebrate the traditional sedarim in Suwalk after a lapse of six years. They described in tear-stained letters how these sedarim revived their memories of the recent past and how they once more felt part of the Jewish people.
After Passover, at our request, a committee was organized in Suwalk to include the following: Shelomoh Gutman former member of the Vaad Hakahal, president: Engineer Trotski: Kopl Lubovski: Caleb Khanovitsh and Hanah Altshuler, secretary.
We sent about $1,500 to the committee and many large packages of food and clothing.
During the first summer months of 1946, more Suwalk Jews trickled back from Russia and were settled, according to the instructions of the Polish government, in the neighbourhood of lower Silesia; Dzsherzshanof, Rikhbakh, Lignitse, Shtetin, Vrotslav, and other places. A small number settled in Praga,
[Col. 553]
Bialystok and Lodz.
Because of anti-Semitism and attacks and pogroms in some cities after the war, the few surviving Jews in Suwalk became frightened. Most of them left for the lower Silesia area that summer. Most of the Jews were concentrated there. At the end of the summer, there were over 300 Suwalk Jews there. In order to make our work more systematic, a central relief committee was organized in Rikhbakh to include the representatives of various towns in lower Silesia under the leadership of Gedalyahu Smetsekhovski. He was in constant touch with us via telegraph and post. He worked tirelessly, devotedly and sincerely for the good of the Suwalk Jews. After the founding of the central committee, we directed all of our assistance money, food packages, clothing and various religious articles such as phylacteries, prayer shawls and prayer books, to the address of the committee. We were especially concerned to send clothing and shoes. Those most involved in collecting and sending food and packages were: Dr.D.Mirov, Y.Saymon, Y.Trop, Y.Silverman, B.Saliniski, H.Vladkovski and others.
In accordance with the resolution of the Cleveland conference in which everyone should cooperate in the raising of funds for the survivors, we asked all of the Suwalk landsmanshaftn in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Mexico, to organize their relief work on a broad base. Our request elicited a warm response.
[Col. 554]
The Chicago Suwalk group inspired by Rabbi Pinkus and S.Bernshteyn, carried out a strong relief campaign and sent large sums of money, packages of food and clothing to the committee.
[Col. 555]
The Suwalk group in Detroit headed by Frank Markson, Dzsh.Danta, Mrs.Gladshteyn and Aleks Gotlib, were actively involved in providing much assistance. In Buenos Aires, large sums of money were raised under the leadership of David Roznblum, L.Masheznitski and Z.Levitas.
In Montevideo, Uruguay, the Suwalk activities were led by Shelomoh Stutsinski and Yitshak Golumbievski.
Rabbi Rafalin, born in Punks, and A.Roznfeld, organized the relief work in Mexico.
In the summer of 1946, a Vaad Le-Yehude Suvalk vehaseviva[1*] was organized in Tel Aviv, thanks to the initiative of dedicated workers: Yehudah Koyfman, Moshe Goldshteyn and Shelomoh Shulkes, Shpunder and others. Even though the situation in Palestine was very difficult, the committee carried out some fundraising campaigns and sent immediate assistance to Suwalk Jews.
The relief committee was also responsible for saving some Jewish children from being converted to Christianity. For instance, the children of Haya Goldberg, daughter of Mordekhay Asher Epshteyn of Suwalk, were hidden in the homes of Christians in Paris, after her husband was killed by the Nazis. The Christians did not want to give up the children after the war and were only persuaded to allow the children to re-join their mother by the large sums of money which we sent, and the involvement of our landsman Adlson in Paris.
Another incident occurred with the daughter of Leyzer and Rahel Kuperberg, granddaughter of Shelomoh Gutman. The parents were in the Kovno ghetto. As is known, there used to be murderous attacks on young children. On the eve of such an attack, the desperate parents gave their one-year-old child to a Christian woman, to be hidden by her. The parents survived, miraculously. When they began to search for their child, they discovered that their daughter was on a farm in Poland, with a Christian family that did not wish to give her up. The parents appealed to us for money, and thanks to that, and with much difficulty, they were able to rescue her.
At the end of the winter of 1946, the first Suwalk survivors arrived in New York. Among them was Dr.Leon Smolenski
[Col. 556]
who had remained in Suwalk with our rabbi until the last moment, and had helped many people. After the deportation, he barely made it to Slonim where he remained until the gruesome massacre. At the last moment, miraculously, he succeeded in escaping from the Nazi guards, into the forest where he was a partisan for a number of years. Based on the reports we received from various sources and from the survivors themselves, we were able to publish a pamphlet in June of 1946 with the names of 284 survivors.
As our relief work branched out, we decided to call a national conference in New York of all of Suwalk landslayt in America. It took place on 4-6 July, 1946, at the Pennsylvania Hotel. The New York delegation consisted of: Hayim Zeligson, L.Perlshtyne, L.Perlo, Dzsh.Gladshteyn, B.Solinski, Dr.David Mirov, B.Gershen, David Silverman, Pinkus Silvershteyn, L.Sherer, H.Vladkovski, H.Gotlib, Dzsh.Ylius, A.Aynhorn and Dzsh.Glikman. Rabbi David Lifshits was the chairman of the New York delegation.
The Chicago delegation consisted of Dzsh.Bauer, Izidor Faynglas, David Gitlson, H.Gutkovski, Tsh.Kohn, David Livi, S.Reyn, Mrs. Diana Shtyn, A.Beylis, L.Bauer and Sh.Bernshteyn chairman of the delegation.
From Detroit, Al.Gotlib, Mrs.L.Gladshteyn, Mrs.Eker, Dzsh.Danto, Rozntal, Krause, P.Markson chairman of the Detroit delegation
From Pittsburg: Dzsh.Saul[2*]
There was a delegation from Augstow's Workmen's Circle Branch 77: S.Leyng; H.Levin and L.Buki.
The Suwalk Rabbi opened the meeting in a hall filled with hundreds of compatriots, describing the destruction of Suwalk and appealing for the rescue of the survivors of the Holocaust.
Reports were given by H.Zeligson, L.Perlshteyn (New York), Dr.Leon Smolenski a living witness of the Nazi murders, shocked the audience with these words: Before my eyes, my father was shot and my mother and sister {s} were buried alive along with thousands of Jews. The earth quivered over these buried alive for three
[Col. 557]
days. Men, women and children marched to the gas chambers. Woe is me, it is dreadful to believe, but it's true.
The meeting resolved to raise $40,000 for relief work. For various reasons, these plans were never carried out,
[Col. 558]
each Suwalk landsmanshaft continued to carry on its work independently.
First row, seated (from right to left): Lazar Perlshteyn, secretary: Leon Perlo, treasurer: Rabbi David Lifshits, honorary president: Hayim Zeligson, president: David Silverman
Second row, standing: Dzsh.Gladstaun: P.Silvershteyn, peace upon him: B.Gershen: B.Solinski: H.Vladkovski
[Col. 557]
As was mentioned above, a small group of Jews remained in Suwalk after the holocaust. We were in constant touch with them. The relief committee was not only concerned with the handful of the living remnant, but also with preserving the honour of the dead.
Kopl Lubovski, the oldest of the surviving Jews of Suwalk, reported to us that the Nazis had vandalized the cemetery. They had uprooted the tombstones and many graves remained open. The fence {around the cemetery} was broken. The large
[Col. 558]
building at the entrance to the cemetery, containing the room for cleansing the corpses and the synagogue, had been torn down by the Nazis. The monuments over the graves of the famous rabbis, Rabbi Ayzik Heber, Rabbi Yehudah Leyb Bakhrakh, Rabbi Moshe Betsalel Luria and Rabbi Yosef Yoselevitsh had been destroyed. It would take a lot of money to repair all of this, and we sent the money immediately to Kopl Lubovski. He and some of the other Jews, built a new fence, filled in the graves, and set up the monuments of some of the rabbis for which the New York Suwalk Committee provided the previous text.[3*]
All of the synagogues and kloyzn in town had also been torn down.
[Col. 559]
Some were completely ruined, but the big synagogue was only half destroyed - an eternal monument to the murdered Jewish population.
The few remaining Jews felt as if they were living in a vast cemetery. Not everyone could bear the burden of such grief, and sudden death, put an end to their deep sorrow. In a letter we received in New York, this happening was described:
A Jew of Augustow, returning from Sibera, and learning from his gentile neighbours about the murder of his family by the Nazis, died on the spot. Since there were no more Jews in Augustow, the Suwalk Jews brought him to be buried in the Suwalk Jewish cemetery. Since they could not cover the burial expenses, our Relief Committee had the mitzvah of hesed shel-Emet[4*]
M. Zaborovski, from Augustow, who visited the town in 1947, described Suwalk a year or two after the war. He was the only compatriot from abroad who visited Suwalk at that time, and he wrote in his letters:
Arriving in Suwalk from Warsaw by train, it seemed as if everything was as it had always been. The same train station, the same fields, the same gentiles around. But coming into the city itself what a scene of destruction! The streets are the same, but where are our brothers and sisters? Where are the Jewish faces? Where are the Jewish children? Gone. All gone! Later, I met with the few remaining Jews who had survived by a miracle. Old Kopl Lubovski, who alone remained of his large family; the widow, Hanah Altshuler; the widow Adlson; the two sisters Salnitski and engineer Trotski, and a few more. That is all that remains of Suwalk. Once a city and a mother in Israel.
Augustow was even worse because there, not one Jewish person remained. Such destruction!
One of the important aspects of our work was seeking and finding relatives of survivors and putting them in touch with their lonely friends.
[Col. 560]
We also advertised often in the newspapers for surviving Jews of Suwalk to contact us and we would help them. These advertisements appeared in the Yiddish newspapers which the survivors published in the camps. Based on replies we received, we were able to put together new lists of survivors from Suwalk, whom we helped to get in touch with their relatives. This successful effort was carried out for a number of years by our dedicated secretary, Lazar Perlshteyn.
In 1946-1947, the situation of Jews in Poland was not very safe. There were attacks upon Jews in many cities. It was dangerous for Jews to travel on trains and roads.
A particularly tragic fate befell our landsman, M.Kushel, who was brutally murdered while he was traveling on the train from Suwalk to Warsaw. May God avenge his blood.
This put dread into the hearts of the Jews in Poland and they began to flee en masse. The Jews of Suwalk also fled. They managed to reach the camps in the American and British zones in Germany, Austria and Italy, traveling over various roads and crossing the borders. The condition of those who came to the {D.P} camps was very bad. The only hope that kept them going was to be able to emigrate to Erets Yisrael, America or other countries.
But the conditions for emigration were very complicated, so they had to remain in the camps for a long time. The Suwalk survivors were concentrated in the camps at Dalsheim, Landsberg, Shvab-hol (Germany), Edelsberg, Haleyn (Austria), Cremona, Milano, Trani, Bari (Italy). They all appealed to us for help and the relief committee tried to respond to all requests and from time to time send packages of food, clothing and medical supplies.
At that time, the illegal immigration to Erets Yisrael increased. In its ranks, there were Jews from Suwalk as well, experiencing the heroic chapter of the struggle against the British Mandatory power which had barred the gates of Erets Yisrael. The ship, Exodus, was involved in a tragic incident. There were some Jews from Suwalk aboard, among them Hayim Grinshteyn, at present, the secretary of the Suwalk committee in Tel-Aviv.
[Col. 561]
As is well known, the British would imprison the captured illegal immigrants in concentration camps on the island of Cyprus. There, too, the number of Jews from Suwalk grew. They languished there in need, lying on the sand in canvas tents. Some of them fell ill.
When their desperate plea reached us, we wired them money until they could come, one by one, to Erets Yirsael.
After many Jews fled from Poland, during the winter of 1946-1947, there were still a few hundred Suwalk Jews remaining in various cities such as Lignitse, Dzsherzshanov, Rikhbakh, Stettin and a few in Suwalk itself.
[Col. 562]
They too received assistance from us. Since it was impossible to obtain ritual objects in Poland, the Suwalk rabbi sent phylacteries, prayer shawls, bibles, prayer books, holiday prayer books, tassels {tsitsit}, mezuzot and skullcaps. We sent them matzos, Passover foods and Haggadot for Passover. Thus our compatriots were able to celebrate the sedarim together.
In 1948, right after the establishment of the State of Israel, many Suwalk refugees arrived there. They came without means. Our compatriots, Shulkes, Koyfman, Gutkovski, Grinshteyn and others, with the committee in Tel- Aviv, helped lighten their burden. They carried out a big fundraising appeal and helped the new immigrants. The number of Suwalk immigrants kept increasing. They included elderly people, women and sick people. The tasks of the committee became increasingly heavier. Therefore, the Tel-Aviv council appealed to New York, Chicago and Detroit for assistance. Their request was heard and large sums of money were sent to the committee and to individuals, as well.
Because of many requests for clothing, we revived our previously constituted clothing committee. It carried out
At the head {of table} is Meir Gelbart
At the head is Gedalyah Smetsikhavski
[Col. 563]
successful appeals for clothing during the course of a few years and accomplished a great deal in this area. The members did all the packing and shipping themselves and sent thousands of pounds of goods to Israel.
In order to make our help more practical, the Tel-Aviv Committee established a free loan office, according to our plan, which gave larger loans. The relief committees of New York, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles sent the capital fund with which to start the loans.
[Col. 564]
Because of the desperate need, the relief work of all of the Suwalk committees increased during the years 1949-1950-1951.
The New York Committee held a lottery to raise a larger sum of money. It was directed by Dzsh.Gladstaun and brought in $1,300.
During 1950-1951, many landsmanshaftn began to memorialize their destroyed communities by publishing Yizkor books.
[Col. 563-564]
From right to left: Berl Kahan{Kagan}, Rabbi David Lifshits, Hayim Zeligson, Lazar Perlshteyn
[Col. 565]
Our committee also passed such a resolution[5*] about Suwalk and environs.
A special book committee was chosen which included Rabbi David Lifshits, Hayim Zeligson and Lazar Perlshteyn.
During the summer of 1952, Rabbi David Lifshits visited Israel. Our committee gave him a number of scripts[6*] to distribute to needy landslayt. We also gave him the authority to investigate the problems relating to our relief work in Israel.
[Col. 564]
On the occasion of Rabbi Lifshits' visit to Israel, the Suwalk committee in Tel-Aviv convened the first memorial meeting in which hundreds of Suwalk landslayt in Israel participated.
Rabbi Lifshits' talk, in which he described the dreadful destruction of the Jews of Suwalk and Suwalk province electrified the landslayt. They wept bitter tears as they remembered the time when this important rabbi was the leader of the now vanished Suwalk community.
[Col. 565-566]
15th of Menahem Zv, {5}712, August 5th, 1952
Seated from right: H.Zeligson, Rabbi Lifshits, S.Skibelski, A.Koyrsh, Skibelski
Standing from right: Dzsh.Yulius, L.Perlshteyn, L.Perlo, B.Goyrshen; D.Silverman, B.Solinski, L.Danski, M.Mishel
[Col. 565]
Among the participants in Yizkor meeting was Mrs.S.Gladshteyn-Kenigsberg, an active leader of the Suwalk relief committee in Detroit, who was visiting Israel at the time. She also brought along scripts for the needy, in the name of the Detroit landslayt and she promised to continue the relief work.
During the last few years, some of the Suwalk survivors in Israel have become established, but there are still many who must have our assistance. Besides,
[Col. 566]
we must continue to send help to our surviving landslayt in the various countries in Europe and to widows, elderly and sick.
Faithful to our landsmanshaft feeling, we are trying to continue our relief work for all of those who were uprooted from Suwalk and environs, who need our warm, brotherly help. May the future bring them joy in their life.
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Opinion: Racism Today, Racism Tomorrow
Columnist Dan Henninger on the Supreme court case of Shelby County v. Holder, which will determine whether the South can ever transcend its history of racism. Photos: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... South still races here to ... tells about that is the author of a peace with that headline I currently generating a lot of driving our website and then a lot of reader mail ever comments Dan Henninger thanks for being with us to be with him ... last week the Supreme Court to look at this question of voting rights Act of nineteen sixty five by among other things had a provision basically saying certain states where there's a history of racism ... the federal government has to walk ... test and approve changes to their voting laws ... um the of ... you've been reading about this cover him obviously and a seven question that before the court was about ... how long does this information on Indigo it's mainly been focused on the southern states to ... add to this point but Dom what and what to ... what the justices changes during oral arguments about this question brought up the big thing in a Potter's Janus was that the divide between liberal thinking on this subject and conservative thinking ... is so vast that it will never come together because they just cannot agree on some of the ... fundamental issues regarding the nature of the South today ... that the voting rights Act was passed in nineteen sixty five and was specifically directed at those southern states because in nineteen sixty five ... there were legal ... practices that disenfranchised black voters nobody questions right ... in the interim ... that has pretty much gone away ... the yet the liberal justices and I think most of old community of liberals to comment on the subject ... I think that ... still in twenty thirteen Nearly communal for decades later it is still necessary and we're talking about mainly Mississippi ... Louisiana and Alabama ... to hold their feet to the fire and made those three states something that changes in their voting practices ... to Washington ... my argument was simply to say ... no one ... disputes the fact that ... voting behavior in the cell ... is really not materially different than that of any were Nelson United States why do we have to continue ... to make this southern states ... are Ryan is in the world of civil rights and racial relations ... ditches in that country that tries to call itself the United States ... at this point in time I don't think it makes ... sense for the graphic with the these are called the section five states under the voting rights Act and now you mentioned of ... them primarily on in the ... in the deep South now the ... it's really the killer argument from the bench for a mother and chief Justice Roberts was pointing out that ... actually of some of the southern states like Mississippi has in ... a better and ... better stats lately at least those that were the subject of this of ... this and then the Massachusetts a male voices Enda ... in adventure did the doesn't have an answer to that question if they have the facts show that the Mississippian Massachusetts of roughly the same minority participation voting ... on better in Mississippi Qiao ... this reflects one of the problems of the heart of this the ... art issue which is to say that when ... the Justice Department or ... some liberal commentators look at the state it is now not so much a question of whether ... the people are racist in Mississippi ... the weather by some statistical analysis of boating practices and district ... you can still argue that people are being disenfranchised ... what Justice Roberts brought up was you could say the same thing about Massachusetts and D Massachusetts ... numbers look worse than those in Mississippi ... the attorney general Massachusetts went ballistic William Galvin and said that ... Justice Roberts was abusing the numbers ... COMMENTARY Some Suzie shown that if you look at the numbers for two thousand for the presidential election ... which is what floor courts had lookout in trying to make this assessment ... by any analysis of the census data at that point even including the margin of error ... Massachusetts does not compare favorably with Mississippi ... so to say that the South is still more races than the North which incidentally was Justice Roberts direct question for the solicitor General Donald are really ... is the Sol more races than the north ... and the answer is basically ... I don't think so but it might be and that's why we have to keep an eye on them ... I'm the thing is demeaning and insulting the people of SA okay so this on a counterattack from the Massachusetts AG is bogus Roberts actually had the numbers right for that ... the euro in the election that they were looking at two thousand the case none of her ... amazing price

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>>>full teams
COLUMBUS, Ga. – Rightfielder Shawn Ward (Evans, Ga.) was named the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Co-Player of the Year Saturday night at the PBC Baseball Awards Banquet, joining three other Bobcats in taking home All-PBC honors.
Ward shares the league's honor with Francis Marion University outfielder Buddy Sosnoskie.
Ward hit .392 with seven home runs and a league-leading 59 RBI during the regular season. The two-time All-PBC First Team selection becomes the first PBC Player of the Year for Bobcat baseball since Justin Mills in 2007. Ward is the fourth GC baseball player to receive the honor all-time.
Joining Ward on the first team was catcher Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.). Pirkle makes his third All-PBC Team, after coming in at catcher in 2010 and designated hitter in 2008. He hit .305 with a league-best 12 home runs this season, driving in 37. Pirkle is the first three-time All-PBC pick in GC baseball history.
Also on the first team was shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) and lefty starter Mike Guinane (Glenview, Ill.) earned a second team nod. Funk was a team-best .393 with two home runs and 54 RBI. He also led the PBC in doubles with 19. Guinane compiled a 9-1 record with a 4.04 ERA and 56 strikeouts over 84 2/3 innings. Both men are in their first year with the Bobcats.
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I'm trying to play a game and it doesn't quite work properly. I get the following error:
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
I have no idea where to set PYTHONHOME to - can anyone point me in the right direction?
man python
Change the location of the standard Python libraries. By default, the libraries are searched in ${prefix}/lib/python<version> and ${exec_prefix}/lib/python<version>, where ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} are installation-dependent directories, both defaulting to /usr/local. When $PYTHONHOME is set to a single directory, its value replaces both ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix}. To specify different values for these, set $PYTHONHOME to ${prefix}:${exec_prefix}.
Sounds like it needs to point to /usr/lib/python2.4/
I haven't tried it though, but maybe this will help.
I've tried that and that error goes away - but the game still doesn't work as expected. Which either means that the python thing was a red herring or that /usr/lib/python2.4 isn't right. I did also try setting it to /usr/include/python2.4...
I also get the following error regardless of whether it's set or not:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named random
Missing dependency?
What game are you trying to play? It looks like it can't find the random module which I assume would be random.py which is located in the /usr/lib/python2.4 directory. I don't know a lot about python so I don't know if I were to trust me.
Maybe the first step would be to confirm that the file is there. If it is not, try reinstalling python and see if that helps. Is this an official package or are you trying to package it yourself?
random.py is there. I had already tried reinstalling python though. I tried setting both PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH to /usr/lib/python2.4 and now the random module is found - but still doesn't work properly - it throws the following errors:
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
/usr/lib/python2.4/types.py:52: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/random.py", line 42, in ?
from warnings import warn as _warn
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/warnings.py", line 6, in ?
import sys, types
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/types.py", line 52
yield 1
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Vertex3f: 2
Normal3f: 1
TexCoord2f: 1
Some of that may be other output from the game and not all python.
The game is neither an official package nor one that I'm making - I just unzipped the tar file. Essentially it works perfectly except for when it's supposed to run python scripts in which case, with one exception, it just doesn't run them - but no further error is given...
Well I don't know if I can help you with a syntax error. It looks like a problem with the original program. You might want to contact the developer of the game about it or do a google search to see if anyone else has encountered similar problems.
The syntax error might be a red herring. I've tried running some of the python scripts and they all turn up the following error:
ImportError: No module named eventAPI
There is nothing called eventAPI in /usr/lib/python2.4 - I wonder if the lack of this module might be an issue...
I did a google search on "eventapi python" but it didn't turn up anything. The only thing that I can think of is that:
A) The Arch Linux python package is somehow missing it.
B) Missing dependency like snowman suggested
C) Something wrong with the program.
What game are you trying to compile? Maybe googling that will help.
The game is Devil Whiskey. I'm not even trying to compile it. I just downloaded binaries in a tar file and extracted it...
log out and back in again this can help sometimes with wonky python
if you have just downloaded it extracted it and are trying to run it, if you have already tried tis ignore me:)
deps show as sdl sdlmixer SMPEG and zlib....
do you have smpeg installed?
I have all of those installed and have rebooted since the install...
I know it's a big ask, but is there any chance someone else could install the demo and tell me if it works for them? I can get the game running but if I go into some buildings - which should trigger an event in python and run a script - I get nothing but an empty building.
If you don't get the same problem we can compare packages installed, and if you do then we can assume it's something to do with how arch is set up...
One of the deps is python 2.2 and I have 2.4. Is it possible that some deprectated APIs are being used or something like that...?
If so, what's the best way to install 2.2 and could I have both versions alongside each other. For example python 2.4 could be my base installation of python, but 2.2 would be installed somewhere and the script that starts the game could set PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH to the 2.2 installation...
Does that make sense? Would it work?
yep there were mass breakages from 2.2 to 2.3....
OK - so it sounds like it's worth trying then...
I went to the python page to see if I could download python, but it's only available as RPMs... also I want to be able to make sure I can install it in such a way that it doesn't overwrite my 2.4 install...
I'm a bit clueless at this point...
install it in /opt is your looking to make a pkg
or just extract to your home if its jusy for personal use
probalby worth adding the path to is to /etc/ld.so.conf
and /etc/profile.d
look at the other scripts in there for an example
usr rpmunpack to extract the files and copy thm to
I installed it in /usr/local and edited the script to use that for it's PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH.
Seems to have worked
and 2.4 is still the default python...
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Writer-director Whitfield is developing time-travel comedy My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time with producers Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers.
Al-Daradji is working on 3 Voices: In the Sands, a documentary drama based on the Iraq conflicts, which will serve as a prequel to acclaimed Son of Babylon.
Auerbach is to direct an adaptation of 1950s novel Black Rock.
Writer-director Whitney is seeking finance for The Valley, an Africa-set thriller about a British officer who leads a rescue mission of a disappeared platoon, while Terence Davies is gathering backing for previously announced Sunset Song, set to star Peter Mullan and Agnes Deyn.
Among 36 projects in various stages of development, the organisation has also backed features from shorts directors Esther May Campbell and Deborah Hayward, cross-over artist Joe Magee and musician/filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis.
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A stereo-blasting, rock 'n' roll-loving Texas banker finds his groove in an edgy yet elegant Houston home
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Dressed impeccably in suit and tie with neatly coiffed white hair, Jim Stein looks every bit the banking executive that he is. But then there's the Led Zeppelin-, Stevie Ray Vaughan-, Beatles-loving Jim who cranks up the stereo so loud it rattles the walls of his elegant Houston patio home.
Paintings of The Beatles accent the staircase wall.
Photography: Nathan Schroder and Ryann Ford
Produced by Donna Talley
Interior designer: Julie Dodson, Dodson Interiors, 675 Bering Drive, Suite 105, Houston, TX 77057; 713/780-9200, dodsoninteriors.com.
Portraits of Beatles (from street market in Europe): owner's collection.
Chandelier ("Scalloped Tole Chandelier" #41-0005-45): David Iatesta, davidiatesta.com.
Bright Foyer
Interior designer Julie Dodson tuned into those diverse personality qualities and quirks while helping Jim plan and furnish his new 5,800-square-foot home. "Jim is just so cool," says Dodson. "He's as structured as you expect a banker to be, but he loves classic rock. He has a vinyl collection that's insane."
Sunlight pours through the metal- and-glass entry doors, illuminating the white marble and gray granite floor. "Frost Marble Cylinder" lamps from AREA-Houston are trimmed in copper and have double shades; an inner fabric is ringed by a translucent material.
Floor tiles (marble, "Carrara White" #M701; and granite, "Absolute Black" #G771): Daltile, daltile.com.
Wall and trim paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626); ceiling paint ("Pure White" #SW 7005): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Console table ("Lina Console" #TA-2505): Bliss Studio, blissstudio.com.
Lamps ("Frost Marble Cylinder Lamps"): Area, area-houston.com.
Mirror (antique, Louis Philippe-style): Joyce Horn Antiques, joycehornantiques.com.
Ottoman under console (by Milo Baughman, reupholstered in mohair): owner's collection.
Pig figure (Wien Export brass pig): Round Top Antiques Fair, roundtoptexasantiques.com.
Piano: Yamaha, usa.yamaha.com.
Piano bench/ottoman: MAI/Memorial Antiques & Interiors, maihouston.com.
Entry Console
He's also an eighth-generation Texan and a proud and loving father of three daughters. The oldest, Jamie Safier, is married; the two younger girls, Jordan, 13, and Jade, 11, live with him part-time. "They're the cutest kids ever!" he boasts.
The wood "Lina" console table is from Bliss Studio. The mirror is an antique.
Music Room
Jim bought the three-level stucco home midway through construction, allowing him and Dodson to alter the floor plans and upgrade materials and finishes. One of the first improvements was transforming a first-level den into a music room, equipped with a high-performance, house-shaking sound system. ("There have been some great parties there. Jim loves to crank up the music," Dodson laughs.)
The doorway into the room was widened to better connect it with the rest of the house and was outfitted with barn-style sliding doors—a nod to Jim's Texas ranch upbringing. French antique wood doors with well-worn paint hang from the track system, creating an impressive entry from the central foyer. "I wanted something more elegant than typical barn doors," Dodson says.
Floor tiles (marble, "Carrara White" #M701; and granite, "Absolute Black" #G771): Daltile, daltile.com.
Wall and trim paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626); ceiling paint ("Pure White" #SW 7005): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Linen drapery ("Natalie"/Natural): Lady Fabrics Inc., ladyfabrics.com.
Doors to music room: Chateau Domingue, chateaudomingue.com.
Upholstered fauteuil; pillow; floor lamp ("Bone Reading Lamp"); acrylic table by fauteuil: Area, area-houston.com.
Music Room
Another upgrade was finishing the walls of the music room with wood paneling painted a soft, enveloping gray. Sharing is part of the joy of music, so the room is furnished for entertaining with a sink-in sofa covered in an indoor-outdoor fabric and two bergères upholstered in leather. A trio of open cubes wrapped in linen and trimmed with nailheads functions as a cocktail table. "I lean toward French styling in my interiors, but this needed to be a place where a man would feel comfortable, where he could sit, relax, and listen to music and have a glass of wine," Dodson says.
Classic-rock album covers are framed by paneled walls painted in Sherwin-Williams' "Pewter Cast." Cube tables are from Century.
Wall and trim paint ("Pewter Cast" #SW 7673); ceiling paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7636): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Sisal area rug ("Natura"/Silver, with cotton binding): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Drapery ("TS-Kalahari"/Driftwood #02KH/C): Rodolph, rodolph.com.
Sofa (custom): The Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Sofa fabric ("Lakeshore"/White Cloud #206/07, by Great Outdoors): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com.
Skull pillow: Area, area-houston.com.
Pair of patterned pillows on sofa ("Pelligrina"/Lys #0485-01, by Lelievre): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Tiered sofa end tables ("3-Tier Nickel-Plated Table with Mirrored Shelves" #FN3TNM): Worlds Away, worlds-away.com.
Table lamps (custom); sculpture on coffee table ("Infinity Rings"): Area, area-houston.com.
Coffee table ("Fully Upholstered Bunching Cocktail Table" #499-612U): Century Furniture, centuryfurniture.com.
Pair of chairs: owner's collection.
Chair leather ("Caledonian"/Grey #7500/17, by Bridge of Weir): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com.
Art on wall behind chair (Tra Slaughter album covers): owner's collection.
Wine Room
An additional mid-construction adjustment was converting a 10x14-foot storage space adjacent to the music room into a fully insulated and climate-controlled wine room. In the original floor plans, the room was accessed from a single door in the back of the garage. That entrance was eliminated and a glass wall with a hinged glass door now separates the music and wine rooms. Reclaimed barn wood was used for shelving and wine storage bins, adding a rustic, down-home Texas vibe.
While Jim approved Dodson's furnishing choices, he was most involved when it came to art—particularly tributes to his rock icons. Adorning the wall above the glass door are portraits of the Led Zeppelin band members painted by Houston artist Tra' Slaughter. "The paintings are so perfect in that room," Dodson says. "You walk in and it's like, whoa! They look alive." Hanging on the opposite wall are two more Slaughter paintings—oversize renderings of The Beatles' "Abbey Road" and Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" album covers.
Paintings of 1970s-era Led Zeppelin top the glass wall that opens to the wine room.
Stools (iron stools with hide seat): Area, area-houston.com.
Throw on stool (Cashmere Milano in Beige, Grey): owner's collection.
Tall amphora jar at entrance to wine room (olive jar): Watkins Culver Antiques, watkinsculver.com.
Art above doors to wine room: by Tra Slaughter, traslaughter.com.
Wine bar: custom.
Wine cabinets: barn wood.
Ladder: owner's collection.
Butler's Pantry
The staircase wall is also decked out with rock-inspired art—painted portraits of The Beatles that Jim found at a street market in Europe. Dodson artfully blended the funky with the formal in the foyer, hanging a crystal chandelier above the winding staircase.
A butler's pantry across the foyer from the music room leads to the combination kitchen and great room that spans one side of the house. Dodson covered furnishings there with durable and stain-resistant, indoor-outdoor fabrics so Jim and his girls can use the room without worrying about spills.
Wallpaper ("Feather Fan"/Midnight #89/4019.CS, Frontier Collection by Cole & Son): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Cabinetry ("Madison Raised Panel Inset" in Lace 39 finish, by Brookhaven); hardware (#F19): Wood-Mode, wood-mode.com.
Flooring: walnut.
Art on left wall (by Charles Ford): owner's collection.
Swiveling bar stools at the kitchen island are wrapped in vinyl that can be wiped clean and are accented with nailheads for a tailored style befitting the homeowner. Graphic encaustic tiles in blue and taupe shades span the range wall, creating a stunning focal point and showcasing Jim's high-performance cooking appliances.
Homeowner Jim Stein with his eldest daughter, Jamie Safier. Duquesa Collection tiles from Walker Zanger create a dramatic backdrop for the Vent-A-Hood, Thermador range and ovens, and Wood-Mode cabinets. Island lanterns are from Bliss Studio.
Cabinetry ("Madison Raised Panel Inset" in Lace 39 finish, by Brookhaven); hardware (#F19): Wood-Mode, wood-mode.com.
Countertop ("Chandelier White Marble"): Omni Marble, 214/428-1000.
Range: Thermador, thermador.com.
Oven hood: Vent-A-Hood, ventahood.com.
Backsplash behind range ("Jasmine Decorative Field"/Mezzanotte, Duquesa Collection): Walker Zanger, walkerzanger.com.
Island faucet ("Country Kitchen Deck Mount Column Spout 3-Leg Bridge Kitchen Faucet with Sidespray" #A1458WS): Rohl, rohlhome.com.
Bar stools (custom): The Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Bar-stool fabric ("Kinetic"/Hailey #1850-03): Joseph Noble, josephnoble.com.
Hanging lanterns ("Bruges Lantern" #LA-8516-B): Bliss Studio, blissstudio.com.
Linen window shade ("Natalie"/Natural): Lady Fabrics Inc., ladyfabrics.com.
Window-shade trim ("Octavius Tape"/Bleu Marine #66162): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Great Room
Dodson accented rooms throughout with blue—one of Jim's favorite colors. The hue is repeated on rugs, Greek key trims on draperies, lamp bases, and art. One of Dodson's favorite finds? A blue pillow embellished with a smiling skull wearing headphones. "Too perfect," she says. That, of course, landed in the music room.
Family Room
The sofa and swivel armchairs are covered in easy-care fabrics from the Great Outdoors collection by Holly Hunt. The painting above the cabinet is by Laurie Levin.
Wall paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Area rug ("Balza"/Indigo): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Linen drapery ("Natalie"/Natural): Lady Fabrics Inc., ladyfabrics.com.
Drapery trim ("Octavius Tape"/Bleu Marine #66162): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Drapery hardware (Modern Collection): The Finial Co., thefinialcompany.com.
Sofa (custom); swivel lounge chairs (custom); pair of wooden armchairs (custom): The Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Sofa fabric ("Sandcastle"/Fleur de Sel #208/05, by Great Outdoors); lounge-chair fabric ("Across the Horizon"/Wet Sand #207/02, by Great Outdoors): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com.
Armchair fabric ("VO-Veluce"/Nougat #05VE 8358 C): Rodolph, rodolph.com.
Cream-colored pillow on armchair; taupe-colored pillow on armchair; upholstered ottoman with nailhead trim: MAI/Memorial Antiques & Interiors, maihouston.com.
Fabric on lumbar pillows on lounge chairs ("Zebrano"/Beige, Aqua #GWF-2643.13, by Allegra Hicks for Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Blue plaid pillows on sofa ("Postage Liberty"): Zak + Fox, zakandfox.com.
Champagne-colored pillow on sofa; pottery holding plant on coffee table (brown crème jar); boxes on coffee table (Zebrawood): Area, area-houston.com.
Throw: owner's collection.
Table lamps ("Tamaso Small Table Lamp" #TOB3710, by Thomas O'Brien for Visual Comfort): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Coffee table: owner's collection.
Tall candlesticks on coffee table (19th-century French Altar Stick/Candelabra): Joyce Horn Antiques, joycehornantiques.com.
Cabinet behind lounge chair (French buffet, late 1800s): Back Row Home, backrowhome.com.
Small urns holding topiary: MAI/Memorial Antiques &Interiors, maihouston.com.
Art behind cabinet: by Laurie Levin, laurielevinart.com.
Dining Room
Slipcovered chairs from RH are embellished with "Miami Braid" trim from Houlès. The "Rivets" wallcovering from Phillip Jeffries adds a tailored feel to the room; artwork is by Laurie Levin.
Wallcovering ("Rivets"/Copper on Elephant Manila Hemp #5709): Phillip Jeffries, phillipjeffries.com.
Ceiling paint ("Pure White" #SW 7005); trim paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Art above mantel: by Laurie Levin, laurielevinart.com.
Chandelier ("Valeria" #LA-2411): Bliss Studio, blissstudio.com.
Area rug ("Marco Polo" #11227, handmade reproduction of antique Khotan rug, woven in Afghanistan): Creative Flooring Houston, 713/522-1181.
Table ("Avery Dining Table" #CT514701): Zentique, zentique.com.
Armchair (custom): The Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Leather seat fabric on armchair ("Essence"/Cream #3952-02, by Brentano): Donghia, donghia.com.
Fabric on back of armchair ("York Castle"/Blue #GWF-2723.50, by David Hicks from Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Armless side chairs ("Belgian Camelback Slipcovered Side Chair"); fabric ("Perennials Classic Linen Weave"/Natural): Restoration Hardware, rh.com.
Trim on side chairs ("Miami Braid" #31150-9665): Houlès, houles.com.
Containers on table: antique.
Dining Room
The dining room chandelier is from Bliss Studio. An antique trumeau, sconces, and sideboard lend a sense of history.
Sideboard (antique, Louis XVI, painted); sconces ("Mirrored Wall Sconce"): Joyce Horn Antiques, joycehornantiques.com.
Lamps; art (by Michelle Y Williams): Area, area-houston.com.
Trumeau (early 19th-century trumeau with lions head): Watkins Culver Antiques, watkinsculver.com.
Bedroom Hallway
Designer Julie Dodson quieted the palette in the second-level master suite to create a serene environment. The upholstered headboard is trimmed with a Greek key braid from Houlès.
Paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Hanging light; chest of drawers: owner's collection.
Area rug (antique): Creative Flooring Houston, 713/522-1181.
Pair of lamps ("Puzzle Lamp"/Hand-Rubbed Antique Brass with Natural Paper Shade #SC3202, by Eric Cohler): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Mirror (antique, Louis Philippe): Joyce Horn Antiques, joycehornantiques.com.
Lounge chair in bedroom (custom); ottoman (custom): The Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Chair fabric ("Plushy"/Grey Matter #990-217): Perennials, perennialsfabrics.com.
Ottoman fabric ("Channels"/Ebony, Ivory #GWF-3101.816, by Kelly Wearstler for Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Bedside table ("Milan Commode" #MH561F02): Modern History, modernhistoryhome.com.
Flooring: walnut.
Master Suite
The "Cane" rug in Desert Night is from Stark. For a touch of Texas, the Vieux Interiors bench is covered in cowhide. An abstract painting by Tra' Slaughter and orange antique Fortuny pillows add pops of color.
Wall paint ("Zurich White" #SW 7626); ceiling and trim paint ("Pure White" #SW 7005): Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com.
Drapery ("Wrangler 16" #2715408): Fabricut, fabricut.com.
Drapery hardware (Modern Collection): The Finial Co., thefinialcompany.com.
Area rug ("Cane"/Desert Night, Sherrill Canet Collection): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Art on left wall: by Tra Slaughter, traslaughter.com.
Bed (custom): the Joseph Co., josephcompany.com.
Bed fabric (#14738.21): Kravet, kravet.com.
Greek key trim on headboard ("Athena Braid"): Houlès, houles.com.
White duvet and pillow shams (ivory king shams and duvet): Tribute Goods, tributegoods.com.
Charcoal blanket; throw on bench: Longoria Collection, longoriacollection.com.
Pillows, back row ("Channels"/Ebony, Ivory #GWF-3101.816, by Kelly Wearstler for Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Orange-patterned pillows; blue pillow and trim: Watkins Culver Antiques, watkinsculver.com.
Bench (chrome bench with cowhide upholstery): Vieux Interiors, 713/626-9500.
Bedside table ("Milan Commode" #MH561F02): Modern History, modernhistoryhome.com.
Lamp: Area, area-houston.com.
Owl bookend (vintage): owner's collection.
Great Linens
An ottoman and bed pillows are covered with "Channels" by Kelly Wearstler for Groundworks.
The patio home is part of a small Houston development.


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RE: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:40:08 -0400
Message-ID: <21469B88E0EA11498818517F210335310C03C940_at_EPRI17P32001A.csfb.cs-group.com>
Or maybe don't grant to public, but just those users who need it.
Paul Baumgartel
Information Technology
Prime Services Databases Americas
One Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Phone 212.538.1143
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Goulet, Richard
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Roger.Xu_at_dpsg.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?
Connect to database as sys
grant execute on dbms_lock to public
The standard install scripts don't do the grant.
Dick Goulet
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Xu, Roger
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:27 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?
SQL> exec dbms_lock.sleep(10);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> show user
USER is "SYS"
SQL> connect tsuser
Enter password:
SQL> exec dbms_lock.sleep(10);
BEGIN dbms_lock.sleep(10); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_LOCK' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
SQL> Thanks
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This is an excerpt from Core Assessment and Training by Human Kinetics with Jason Brumitt, MSPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS, *D.
When someone says "abs," the first thing that comes to mind for many people is the six-pack. For many, including fitness clients, the abdomen has been marginalized to include just one muscle—the rectus abdominis. However, the abdominal region is composed of several key muscles that contribute to core function. The abdomen is the region lying between the proximal chest and the distal pelvis. This region is served by several muscles that contribute to spine stability in a variety of postures, providing the ability to flex, side bend, and rotate the trunk. These muscles also serve to protect the abdominal organs. Four muscles provide shape and movement to the anterior abdominal wall (figure 2.9). Three of these muscles are described as flat muscles (the obliques and the transversus abdominis), and one is described as being straplike (the rectus abdominis).
The rectus abdominis (RA)—the muscle made famous in movies and television—provides both core stability and trunk mobility (figure 2.9). The RA is a trunk flexor. This muscle arises from the xiphoid process and adjacent costal cartilages, and it attaches distally into the pubic bone at the crest and symphysis. The RA muscle is trained when an individual performs an exercise such as the crunch.
The transversus abdominis (TA) is the deepest of the three flat abdominal muscles. The TA originates from the lower six costal cartilages, the thoracolumbar fascia, and the iliac crest; this muscle attaches medially at the linea alba (figure 2.9). The TA is reported to play a significant role in core stabilization, especially during rehabilitation (Richardson et al. 1999).
The external and internal oblique muscles rotate and side bend the trunk. These muscles also contribute to spinal stability.
The external oblique is the most superficial muscle of the three flat abdominal muscles (the external oblique, internal oblique, and transversus abdominis). The external oblique arises from the front lateral portion of the lower seven ribs, and it inserts into the linea alba, the pubic tubercle, and the anterior portion of the iliac crest (figure 2.9). Acting alone, the external oblique can flex the trunk, side bend the torso toward the same side (i.e., the side of the contracting muscle), and rotate the trunk toward the opposite side.
The internal oblique originates from the thoracolumbar fascia, the inguinal ligament, and the anterior iliac crest. The internal oblique also functions to provide spine stability, and it flexes and rotates the trunk toward the same side (table 2.4).
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Received Harvard's Rookie of the Year award ... Scored first collegiate goal against Villanova at Harvard Invitational (Feb. 6) … Netted two goals in wins over Villanova (Feb. 6), Siena (Feb. 6) and Iona (Feb. 7) at Harvard Invitational … Recorded a hat trick against New York Athletic Club (Feb. 7) at Harvard Invitational ... Scored twice against Iona (Feb. 20) at Princeton Invitational ... Recorded a hat-trick against Maryland at the Elite Eight (March 6) … Scored a goal against Princeton at the Elite Eight (March 6) … Netted a goal against Fresno Pacific (March 15) … Recorded four steals against San Jose State (March 17) ... Notched two goals in Harvard's win over No. 19 Cal State East Bay (March 19) … Netted a goal against Cal State Monterey Bay (March 20) … Tallied a hat trick against Marist (March 27) … Registered a four goals against Brown (April 18) ... Scored twice against No. 7 Michigan at the Eastern Championship (April 30) ... Tallied a goal and recorded six steals against Bucknell at the Eastern Championship (May 1).
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Wine and Chocolate Tasting Kicks Off Salem's So Sweet FestivalPosted: February 7th, 2011 | Author: KN | Filed under: Coven, Drinks, Event, Milk & Honey, Salem, Sweets and Treats | Tags: 9th Annual Chocolate and Wine Tasting, Chocolate, Hamilton Hall, Salem's So Sweet Chocolate and Ice Sculpture Festival, Wine, Wine Tasting | 1 Comment »
We threw all caution and calorie counting to the wind upon entering historic Hamilton Hall on Friday night. The reason? The 9th Annual Chocolate and Wine Tasting, the kick-off event for Salem's yearly Chocolate and Ice Sculpture Festival, running through the 14th.
We had a terrific time at the tasting, getting to see old friends and make a few new ones while sipping and nibbling our way across the room. The participating restaurants went all out with beautiful displays and an insane amount of sweets.
We can't even begin to mention everything we tasted. Coven had an impressive table stacked with huge, beautiful chocolate cupcakes. Coffee Time Bake Shop offered vast array of luscious baked goods, presided over by a fabulous Barbie cake that induced pangs of nostalgia. (My mother used to make them!) Those that stopped by Ye Olde Pepper Company's table were urged to choose chocolates from the largest heart-shaped box we've ever seen.
We got a kick out Chef John Andrews of Victoria Station playing with fire as he expertly flambeed cherries for a tasty dessert, and we chatted with Chef Steve from the Regatta Pub at Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites (one of the event sponsors) about his hand-made truffles. They were all rich and decadent, but our favorites were the ginger and cayenne,both set off nicely by the bubbly being poured at their table.
Speaking of cayenne, we really enjoyed the Caliente Cafe cocktail the ladies of Finz were serving. Made with pablano-infused espresso, vanilla vodka, and creme de cacao and then rimmed with white chocolate and cayenne, it had a spicy zing but wasn't too sweet.
Some of the wines that stood out were a vegan Malbec being poured by the Gulu-Gulu Cafe and the fun Apothic Red on sample from both Victoria Station and Busa Wines. It was lush and spicy yet smooth, a perfect companion to the chocolate we were consuming. Ian from Isaak's of Salem was on hand pouring his Popp Road Raspberry, which paired nicely with the chocolate cake being served by Green Land Cafe.
We also caught up with Sharon Driscoll, owner of Milk and Honey, who was scooping ice cream. She reminded us that as part of the festival, the green grocer is running a great special—20% off all products with chocolate listed in the ingredients.
In fact, that's just one example of the tasty specials available throughout the festival. For a full listing of events and savings, pick up a brochure or check out the Salem Chamber of Commerce website. Even if you missed Friday night's event, there are still plenty of opportunities to savor Salem. With fabulous ice sculptures and sweet deals, it's the perfect date destination for Valentine's Day.


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- Exploitation of new oil fields
- Development potential of the agricultural sector (50% of GDP)
- Very high poverty rate (40% of the population in 2019 according to the World Bank)
- Over-reliant on oil (about 20% of GDP and 60% of exports)
- Business climate not conducive to thriving private sector; high level of corruption
- Geographically isolated
- Worsening security conditions at both national and regional levels (role of Boko Haram)
- Worrying drought of Lake Chad, with negative effects on cotton, fishing and the environment.
Growth and structural efforts
Chad experienced a series of positive events in 2018, the benefits of which should continue to be felt in 2019 with the consolidation of the economic recovery. The high price of oil, which the country exports, will continue to contribute to growth in 2019. Looking to take advantage of the upbeat economic conditions and the extra fiscal leeway gained in 2018 through the rescheduling of the debt owed to the Glencore mining company, the country has decided to maximise the sector's potential by financing seven new oil projects in addition to those already underway, including the Rig-Rig refinery, which should start production in 2019. To restore its public finances, as requested by the IMF, the government has agreed to sell CotonTchad, a state-owned cotton company in serious financial difficulty, to Olam International, a Japanese Singaporean company. The purpose of this sale is also to revive a flagging sector whose production hit a 75-year low in 2017 (25,000 tonnes of seed cotton), with a target of 300,000 tonnes in 2023. The cotton sector and, more generally, agriculture, which has been affected by the rapid drying-up of Lake Chad, are at the heart of the Five-Year Development Plan (2017-2021). Increased agricultural production and yields are expected to contribute to the recovery of the economy through private consumption channels (75% of the working population works in agriculture and 85% of the total population depends on it) and exports, which are expected to expand for a second year, thanks in particular to the slight improvement in the Nigerian economy, which has boosted external demand.
Debt rescheduling and IMF financial assistance are helping to ease fiscal pressure
For the second year running, the public accounts will show a surplus in 2019, again providing debt relief. Oil revenues are expected to increase, benefiting from global economic conditions and rising production. These revenues, which until now have been 90% used to service the debt (USD 1.36 billion) owed to Glencore, may be used to finance investment, notably thanks to the debt rescheduling obtained in early 2018. Shortly after the rescheduling, the IMF, reassured by the easing of fiscal pressure, decided to release disbursement of the next stage of funding under the ECF negotiated with the country in 2017. In return, the government was asked to continue fiscal consolidation reforms, including better management of the wage bill, which resulted in the sale of CotonTchad.
The current account is expected to deteriorate slightly. Although the trade balance is structurally slightly positive thanks to oil, livestock and cotton exports, it is largely offset by the deficit in services (particularly oil-related), which is much larger, at close to 20% of GDP. The deterioration in the current account balance should be mitigated by the continued high level of transfers (10% of GDP in 2017), mainly by expatriates, and by the positive impact on the income balance of the debt rescheduling with Glencore. A strong performance from net FDI (4% of GDP) should ensure that financing is provided for this small deficit. Foreign exchange reserves, while continuing to increase, will remain at the low and potentially risky level of about 2.5 months of imports.
Fighting insecurity is the top priority
The parliamentary elections, which were due to be held in November 2018, after being cancelled in 2017 due to lack of financial resources, were again postponed to May 2019.
The social and security situation remains extremely fragile. The terrorist group Boko Haram, which rebuilt itself after its military defeat, remains very active in the west of the country, killing 17 farmers in June and six in September 2018. These attacks have triggered internal population movements, in addition to inflows of migrants from surrounding conflict-struck countries, including Sudan and the Central African Republic. The country has therefore decided to step up in the fight against terrorism by participating in the G5 Sahel force and by making insecurity a central theme of its presidency of the CEMAC from 2017 to 2022. Increased security spending, combined with demands for IMF budgetary efforts, have led to delays in payment of civil servants' salaries, resulting in strikes and protests in 2018. The situation could therefore continue to worsen in 2019 if budgetary pressure returns.
These uncertainties about the social and security situation are having a significant impact on the business environment, with the country coming 181th out of 190 in the Doing Business 2019 ranking.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
My logo up until now has always just been the site name 'toolspot.co.uk'. I need new logo to convey a brand and personality, not just the site name.
EDIT: NO MORE ENTRIES WITH TOOLS FORMING LETTERS! I'd maybe like to see more emphasis on the word 'SPOT' than the 'TOOL'. So any clever ideas with spots/circles etc might be interesting.
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The site has been established for several years with a regular customer base, so I don't want the new logo to be too far removed from the existing plain lettering, but I would want it to convey much more personality.
The website will be staying essentially the same with the blue header bar. So the logo must be designed to either:
a) be on the same background colour: #527da8 (bit of a random colour, I know!)
b) be on some sort of background which will complement/or fit onto the blue bar - entirely up to you!
I might be interested in the logo forming the edge of the blue bar, or even extending a little outside the bar. I don't mind removing the curved corner on the bar if you want to do something clever with the blue bar in your design.
It must also fit or be close to the height of the bar - 62 pixels high at the moment, but I don't mind stretching it a little if you're desperate for a bit more space!
The font I used was Century Gothic - I don't mind if you want to use a different font, but I think I'd want to keep it a fairly round-ish looking font. The logo must also include ".co.uk" as a reminder of the domain name (I tried to get the .com but failed!).
The brand needs to convey: easy, fast and non-nonsense, and some sort of play on the word 'spot' as a reminder of the name. I would like it to show personality - i.e. that there's people behind the site.
Possible ideas include (but not restricted to!):
- Any use of circles or part-circles - as a play on the word 'spot'
- The use of images of people - i.e. building contractors.
- A cartoon-style M&M like man wearing a hard-hat and holding tools('Mr Spot' - sad I know!), Maybe with a 'thumbs-up'.
- I quite like the idea of a 'thumbs-up', so either on it's own, or encorporated with a person or tools
- Subtle use of tools - I think it's best to avoid too much use of tools in the logo to avoid it becoming cheesy. But things like screw-heads in the 'o's might be an idea.
- Use of parcels
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Please don't use all those ideas - that would be way to much!
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Violent Crime Wave Makes Downtown NYC Slightly Less Not-Dangerous!
How bad is it out there? So bad that innocent citizens are being assaulted in fawncy downtown NYC much more than they were last year! Panic! How bad is it really? It's not that bad:
The Post reports: It's time to get your fucking guns out, downtown party people:
Downtown Manhattan, the city's party mecca, has been hit by an alarming spike in vicious street violence.
Assaults in Greenwich Village lead the frightening upturn, with a whopping 43 percent increase so far this year compared with the same period in 2008.
Crime's also up in Tribeca and the East Village and the LES! Is it the angry poors finally seeping out of their own neighborhood and doing some reverse gentrification? Probably not! Police blame it on drunk party people—not a classic sign of a painful recession!
Take a look at the Post's scary crime chart , at left. The first thing you should note is that the figure for the East Village should be 27.7%, not 42.9%. [You can look these things up, too!].
Now, consider the very, very worst neighborhood on here: the shadowy streets of Greenwich Village. Yes, year-to-date felony assaults are up by almost 43%. What does that mean? It means there have been 40 assaults so far this year, 12 more than this time last year. That means that, on average, there have been about two more assaults every three weeks, in the entire precinct. Not exactly South Bronx 1985 numbers. Oh and look, in that same precinct, robbery, burglary, and grand larcenies are all down by double digits, and the murder count for the year is 0. Facts which did not find their way into the Post's public service piece about the "VIOLENT CRIME WAVE."
Although I did once see a dude get knocked the fuck out in broad daylight on 14th and 6th!
In conclusion you are still much safer walking around Greenwich Village than, say, trying to steal Col Allan's drink.
[NYP. Also Alex Balk has a theory on this stuff. Pic of typical downtown NYC crime via Flickr.]


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Consolidated storage management drives data efficiency, delivery
Consolidated storage is efficient. But what about effectively managing all that data? With platform-agnostic management tools and new technologies, such as virtualization, deduplication and thin provisioning, the divide between efficiency and effectiveness is closing.
Ask Dave Dillehunt, CIO of FirstHealth of the Carolinas Inc., what it cost to consolidate storage at the three-hospital system over the past seven years, and he hedges.
The initial investment, which required board approval, was close to the half-million dollar mark. Three years later came a major upgrade, then more purchases. Now Dillehunt's team is adding sophisticated management tools to track and manipulate the stored data. Maybe $2 million, all told?
Of this he is sure: "I am totally convinced that had we not done it, we would have had to add staff and never realized the improvements we've gained in user downtime."
Consolidating storage drives efficiencies. But when it comes to storage, CIOs have often felt caught between the need to optimize their IT infrastructures and the organization's demand for high-performing, accessible applications. There is a growing consensus that the divide is closing, however, thanks to new technologies such as virtualization, deduplication and thin provisioning, as well as a small but growing trend toward platform-agnostic storage management tools.
"Conceptually, everyone wants to consolidate," said Phil Brotherton, general manager of the enterprise applications business unit at Network Appliance Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif., unified storage provider.
Many companies are seeing storage grow 200% and 300% annually, and the data is all over the place. The costs associated with that growth -- in personnel, in compliance risks, in business continuity and energy usage -- are significant. Putting structured and unstructured data to bed under one blanket can drive many efficiencies.
But CIOs also have a mandate to deliver their organizations' critical applications to the people who need them. Application performance and uptime is job 1. "If you can't do that, it doesn't matter how efficient your infrastructure is -- you won't be a CIO for long," Brotherton said.
The big challenge in consolidated storage management, he said, is providing the service-level guarantees and benefits to the applications people, so the infrastructure side of the CIO's job can be optimized.
EMC Corp. does a good job, he offered graciously. Network Appliance Inc. has made it its business to bridge the divide, he said, from its "FlexShare quality-of-service software, which ensures the most business-critical applications get high priority, to the company's recent acquisition of Boston-based Onaro Inc.
Out-of-control DAS, with lives at stake
At FirstHealth, the case for consolidated storage was pretty clear-cut, Dillehunt said. In addition to the three hospitals, the Pinehurst, N.C.-based health care system includes a skilled nursing facility, three sleep disorder clinics, fitness centers, four charitable foundations, emergency medical services and an insurance plan. In 2001, the system had several hundred servers, most of which had direct-attached storage (DAS) and more than 650 applications. Storage was doubling every year and was likely to increase, as the hospital was installing new high-capacity applications, such as radiological images and electronic medical records.
"The design of choice was when you bought a new application you put it on a new server, and you bought disk storage that was physically attached to that server" Dillehunt said.
FirstHealth looked at several of the major players, including EMC Corp. and Compaq (now Hewlett-Packard Co.) before consolidating on a NetApp fabric-attached storage series platform. The hospital liked the depth and breadth of the product line and the consistency and ease of use of the operating system. People learn one tool that works across the product line -- a big costs savings in training.
One of the goals was to distribute data across all three hospitals, in case something happened at one, and to deal more efficiently and effectively with disaster recovery. HealthFirst was able to accomplish both goals by spreading out and duplicating the data at the hospitals. It requires much less time to back up the protected data than when everything was tape-based, Dillehunt said. With consolidated storage, the health care network can now take advantage of deduplication. It can also better execute and enforce its records retention policy. And, most important, it can put the data -- such as a radiological image -- in a physician's hands in a matter of minutes instead of the hours it might have taken with the old system.
"The only convincing we had to do was with the vendors of our applications," Dillehunt said. The hospital's core information systems vendor, McKesson Corp., for example, was initially reluctant about having some of its data managed in "a more global state" rather than on its own servers.
"We moved ahead anyway, and those who were reluctant eventually signed on," he said.
Dillehunt said CIOs should know that they will be looking at either a fairly significant upgrade every three years or a spike in maintenance fees -- a not-so-subtle tactic to get you to move to the next platform. "But if you are any good at negotiating, it is still a fairly economical process to go through," he said.
Mark Peters, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc., agreed that storage, like other pieces of IT infrastructure, is coming full circle: While it had been effective but expensive -- if not downright wasteful -- it has become both efficient and effective. Consolidation is a start.
"CIOs understand, however, that there is no point in just consolidating all these boxes; you've still got to manage them properly," Peters said.
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Public Notices
Advertisement to Bid Mount Vernon ISD 2008 Bond Program 5/28/2009
- Details
- Category: Public Notices
- Published on 27 May 2009
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
BID SECURITY: Bid security (bid bonds) will not be required on this project. However, Gallagher Services reserves the right to require bid security from the bid package contractors to ensure that their bid remains valid for sufficient time between bid submission and contract finalization.
BID FORM: ALL bids shall be submitted on the Construction Bid Form provided in the contract documents. NO attachments to the bid form will be allowed. Each bidder shall include unit prices and alternates in the proper location on the bid form, as applicable.
BID EVALUATION: In accordance with the Texas Education Code, bids will NOT be opened publicly and will NOT be disclosed to anyone other than members of the project team (Mount Vernon ISD, Corgan Associates, Gallagher Services). The bids will be reviewed and ranked by the team to determine the best value for the District using ranking criteria similar to that used for selection of the Construction Manager at Risk. Bid tabulations
BONDS: Performance and Payment Bonds WILL be required of any Bid Package Contractor awarded a contract of $25,000 or more. The cost of these bonds HALL be included in the base bid.
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS: General Liability, Automobile, Workers Compensation, Excess Liability and other insurance WILL be required of each Contractor performing work on the project, WITHOUT EXCEPTION. Refer to the contract documents for insurance requirements. All cost of required insurance coverages and endorsements SHALL be included in the base bid.
in any way affect the cost and/or execution of the Work to be bid. Addenda will be posted on Gallagher Services website, www.gallaghertx.com. Contract documents will also be furnished to area plan rooms. SCOPE OF WORK: EACH PROSPECTIVE BIDDER SHALL REFER TO THE BID PACKAGE MANUAL FOR THE SPECIFIED SCOPE OF WORK REQUIRED FOR EACH RESPECTIVE BID PACKAGE. NO EXCLUSIONS WILL BE ALLOWED TO ANY BID PACKAGE SCOPE OF WORK, UNLESS APPROVED BY GALLAGHER SERVICES.
SCHEDULE: This project is scheduled to commence on July 6, 2009 and must be completed no later than June 1, 2010.
PERMITS & FEES: ALL bidders shall include the costs of all permits and fees required for their scope of work in the base bid.
SALES TAXES: This project is exempt from sales taxes, DO NOT include sales taxes in the base bid. Refer to the contract documents for details.
PAYMENT PROCEDURES: Payment applications will be due to Gallagher Services on the 4th of each month and will be paid promptly upon receipt of funds from the Owner.
CONTRACT FORM: The delivery method for this project is Construction Manager at Risk. This method requires that all contracts to bid package contractors and material suppliers be with Gallagher Services. We will use our standard form of agreement, a copy of which is included in the contract documents. Modifications in any way to the standard form of agreement will NOT be allowed. Additional information pertaining to this project is contained in the contract documents.
Mount Vernon ISD and Gallagher Services appreciate interest in this project and will work diligently to assure a fair and competitive bidding process to obtain the best value for the District.
( Gallagher 42-2tc09)