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Who cares if it's "less messy" or not? The point is that it's a common, widely understood scripting language, not some obscure bullshit like emac-lisp.
More importantly, it's common to all those who are the target users of Atom: Web developers.
Looks like Sublime Tex [sublimetext.com]t as a web browser. Now when you screw up, you're tab will show a frowny face.
Commenting to fix mis-mod - accidentally modded flamebait, but sublime was the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Off-topic - this was actually the one thing I thought the beta made better, the left/right split of positive/negative mods as well as larger hit boxes, I think it will reduce this kind of error in the future (I mean.... #betasux).
It is going to be supported on OS X, Linux, and Windows. It is in beta right now so only the OS X binaries are available.
I'm always amazed that someone will take the time to type in a comment telling us they don't know something and how they didn't use the same amount of time to look for it instead...
Man you do NOT want to be rushing into signing up for emails. That shit's like having kids.
It's OSX, Windows, and Linux. The editor will be available as proprietary but shared source. (i.e. in the sense of "you can hack on the core, but you can only legally use it if you buy a license, and we retain all rights to everything" kind of slavery license)
"The editor can not be downloaded anywhere. They don't even tell you what platforms it supports â" although someone on Reddit mentioned it only supports Macintosh. I am not signing up to their marketing e-mails before they actually tell me what I am even getting in return."
I got an invite, which took me to a page saying "Download for Mac"... which is not too unusual. But then I didn't find any links to any other OS versions. So, thinking I could only get it for Windows if it auto-detected Windows, I fired up a copy of Windows and went back to the page... which still said Download for Mac.
Maybe Windows version is in the works, I don't know.
It's a pretty nice editor, if a bit rough around the edges. I've been giving it a spin. It reminds me a lot of TextMate. But unlike T
How does this compare to Brackets [brackets.io]?
You get the privilege of paying GitHub for a proprietary mess whose source code will be just open enough for you to do work for them but not open enough for you to avoid paying for a license or fork the project if GitHub decides to do something evil.
"How does this compare to Brackets?"
Brackets is designed for editing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And its preview only works with Chrome.
Atom is more of a general-purpose editor. Although the internals of Atom are done with Webkit, and things like syntax highlighting is configured in simple CSS (LESS) files.
Before I was introduced to the wonderful world of *nix, the fact that nano has essentially no features would probably have drawn my criticism in a similar manner.
However, the first text editor I learned to use on Linux has changed my perspective somewhat. We all know which one it is most likely to be. There is one feature it had missing, that nano does have, and I consider it the most important feature of all - it's not completely batshit fucking insane.
However, the first text editor I learned to use on Linux has changed my perspective somewhat. We all know which one it is most likely to be.
There is one feature it had missing
Assuming you're talking about vi, what feature would that be?
Nano? NANO?! Eat flaming death heathen, vim for life!
...that even the source code editor is invite only. This is the future of "cloud"-based design.
No, this is not how I want a new generation to learn to code.
Javascript is the special-purpose scripting language du jour - for active web pages - whereas LISP has many applications.
And it still stands that every new language becomes a re-implementation of LISP.
Stick to what you do well, Github.
And it still stands that every new language becomes a re-implementation of LISP.
Try saying that to a Haskell programmer: you'll get a well deserved kick in the monads.
On the other end of the spectrum, Emacs and Vim offer extreme flexibility, but they [...] can only be customized with special-purpose scripting languages.
So, what, Python is a special-purpose scripting language now? What special purpose might that be? Pissing off whitespace fanatics? Confounding Javscript programmers with sensible behaviour?
If using web technologies to build a native application is the answer, then we've asked the wrong question.
If using web technologies to build a native application is the answer, then we've asked the wrong question.
I agree on that, but...
if you're trying out a new concept, then for the prototype phase, re-using existing technology is a good idea. So using a rendering engine that can display text and colour it and format it instead of writing all that from scratch sounds like a good idea.
If it takes off, I'm fairly sure someone who thinks alike will re-write the lower-level parts.
Web technologies today are a toy. Very true. PHP is a silly mess (Sidenote: ATM I develop PHP/HTML/C
While I agree with you, the end result of all this mess can be quite good. There are many great web applications that have very good UI, even with the limitations of the DOM and CSS.
In the end this mess produces what the users want. Hopefully soon the specs will add support something else besides the DOM on the browsers so the devs can also get what they want.
Also of note is that Javascript is not such an abysmal language. It has many little annoying things, but it has support for some very cool stuff. The
Shouldn't that be enough?
...instead of "special-purpose scripting languages" like Emacs
One of the least informed statements I've ever read on
Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language. It's implemented in the Emacs core and is not implemented any where else. It's in the same family as the 1958 lisp, but is none-the-less as different language from all the others.
It's actually quite a nice language; it has some nice data types good for editors. And being a lisp, you can layer anything you want on top of it.
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language.
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure.
If you tried it, you would notice that Atom doesn't have a language definition for C#.
So, for the moment, at least, Atom is just a "Oh, someone did that. That's nice." I understand I could write or port a language definition, but I am not going to do so just to try out a new pet text editor.
If you tried it, you would notice that Atom doesn't have a language definition for C#.
So, for the moment, at least, Atom is just a "Oh, someone did that. That's nice." I understand I could write or port a language definition, but I am not going to do so just to try out a new pet text editor.
No plans to try it. If I'm going outside my IDE, why not just use emacs?
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Jan. 22, 2010 - Combined Afghan and international security forces seized multiple weapons, explosive materials, fake IDs and cell phones when detaining suspects throughout Afghanistan yesterday. In Kandahar last night, a combined force searched a compound and found a building with extensive bomb-making components, including high explosives. The security force saw evidence that some of the explosives may have been rigged to detonate.
After ensuring the building was empty of all people, the combined force called in an air strike to destroy it and the explosives.
In other operations yesterday:
-- A security force searched a compound in Kandahar province and detained an undisclosed number of insurgents. The force found multiple weapons, including automatic rifles, a hand grenade and Taliban propaganda during the search.
-- In Logar province, a force searched a compound and captured a Taliban explosive operator responsible for attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. When confronted, the man identified himself and surrendered.
-- A force discovered a weapons cache while on patrol in Uruzgan province. The cache consisted of hundreds of rounds of small-arms ammunition, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher with warhead, hand grenades, hand grenade fuses, several pistols, a heavy weapon barrel and other bomb-making components.
-- Forces detained the nephew of a known bomb maker in Helmand province. The man was found with 15 cell phones, copper wire and two Pakistani forms of identification.
-- International forces engaged a number of insurgents with small-arms fire in Helmand province. Three children were seriously injured in the firefight. The force broke contact with the insurgents, provided immediate medical attention and transported a 5-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl to a nearby medical facility. The third child was cared for by its parents.
In operations Jan. 21:
-- A combined force responded to an imminent threat while searching a compound in Ghazni province. An undisclosed number of insurgents were killed, and one was captured.
-- A force searched a stopped vehicle and a nearby compound in Kandahar province. The force found three men, including one with fragmentation wounds he was unable to explain, who were attempting to bury a handheld radio. The men were detained, and medical care was provided to the injured.
-- In Khost province, a force searched a compound and captured a terrorist cell commander responsible for buying weapons, ammunition and directing attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. The force also captured other militants.
-- A joint security force searched a compound in Kunduz province and detained an Uzbek foreign fighter with close ties to the Taliban. The security force also detained other suspected militants.
-- Combined forces searched two compounds and detained five insurgents with explosive materials in Parwan province. The joint force seized 66 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a Russian-made rocket, three fragmentation grenades and grenade fuses.
(Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command news releases.)
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But it also remained an exceptionally good movie. Hellman tends to underrate it somewhat, since he was unable to have Willeford's script rewritten (by Earl Mac Rauch) to his complete satisfaction. Furthermore, from the exceptionally good commentary track on this outstanding DVD, it's easy to draw the conclusion that Hellman is slightly ashamed of inadvertently glamorizing this viciously bloody sport.
But the movie doesn't glamorize cockfighting. It focuses on Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), who breeds and trains fighting roosters, and who also personally handles them in the cockfighting ring. As the movie opens, he loses a major fight to longtime friend/rival Jack Burke (Harry Dean Stanton), who claims Frank's house trailer, Cadillac and girlfriend Dody (Laurie Bird) as prizes, while Frank heads back home.
There are strong clues throughout the film that Frank comes from a moneyed background -- his home town is actually named Mansfield, for example -- and that he could have held any number of other professions. He's drawn to cockfighting because, as his narration tells us, he admires the cocks for fighting to the death without making a sound. And he's good at the training of these birds.
Two years earlier, he'd lost another important -- but impromptu (in a motel room) -- match to Burke, who sardonically commented that Frank drank too much and talked too much. So Frank vowed (solely to himself) not to talk until he won a prized cockfighting medal. He hasn't spoken since; some people think he can't talk at all. (Oates, however, does narrate intermittently.)
Back home, he sells the family house out from under his stylish but alcoholic brother (Troy Donahue) and surprised sister-in-law (Millie Perkins), then teams up with calculatedly countrified Omar (Richard B. Shull) in a series of matches heading for the big one at which that medal is awarded.
At home, he also gets back together with Mary Elizabeth (Patricia Pearcy), who was clearly a long-time lover, but who has never seen a cockfight at all, much less one featuring roosters trained by Frank. She wants to get married, but he still wants to get that medal.
Things come to a head at the big match.
The movie is largely picaresque, a series of encounters between Frank and others orbiting the cockfighting business (the movie is mostly set, and shot, in Georgia). Longtime fight judge Ed Middleton (author Willeford himself) has agreed to his wife's demands that he leave the sport. Hayseed Tom Peeples (Ed Begley, Jr.) and his laconic father (Tom Spratley) try to trick Frank. Newcomer "Junior" (Steve Railsback) tries to cheat in a cockfighting match. Through it all, Frank maintains a kind of purity of intent and desire, even while ignoring the blood and death at the center of the sport.
This makes him a man who can be respected, but not admired. He's cold and efficient with the roosters; when one of Omar's cocks turns out to be slightly defective, Frank immediately beheads it (on screen). He's fond of White Lightning, his principal rooster, but utterly unsentimental in the long run. He admires roosters for their fierce tenacity as fighters, but that's as far as his affection extends.
We never quite know what he feels about people, either, partly because he never talks (Oates has a few lines in a flashback, and one at the end), partly because he's so focussed on cockfighting. It's clear he's in love with Mary Elizabeth, but it's also obvious he will not quit cockfighting because of her.
Earl Mac Rauch, the commentary track tells us, was largely responsible for the scenes featuring Oates and Pearcy, the only tender scenes in the film. The very ending, and Oates' last line, are tough but also somewhat sentimental, and ambiguous. But you're not likely to forget Oates' face in that last scene.
'Cockfighter' is graced by one of his finest performances, wordless though it mostly is. He was one of the most expressive actors in movies, using gesture, expression and posture as eloquently as dialog. He often played bad guys, but never villains; we always recognized his characters' humanity. The DVD includes an outstanding, must-see documentary on Oates, covering his career and technique, with commentary by many of the people who worked with him, and who wrote about him. Just this documentary alone makes this an ideal purchase for anyone who's ever been interested in him. It does not seem to be available to the public in any other form.
The home audiophile won't find anything special here, though the film is technically satisfactory; the roosters occasionally crow in the background, but their fights are grimly silent except for the spectators. (At one point, we can hear children sobbing in the audience.) The cinematographer was the great Nestor Almendros, who worked especially hard on this film. In his autobiography (the commentary track tells us), he devoted an entire chapter to shooting just this one low-budget movie. (And not long before his death, Willeford wrote an entire book about the making of 'Cockfighter.')
The commentary track is by Hellman, his 'Cockfighter' assistant Steven Gaydos, and film historian Dennis Bartok. It's even more interesting and thorough than the commentary for 'Two-Lane Blacktop.'
This is not a blood-sport movie; it does follow the standard sports film formula, though -- an early loss, dedicated focus on training, a final triumph. But the movie, as the title says, really is about the cockfighter himself, Frank Mansfield. As good as Oates is, we never quite get inside his motivations; the movie provides slightly detached view of its central character. This minor weakness is offset by the fascination of the cockfighting culture itself, by Oates' performance, the exceptional supporting cast, and the outstanding extras on this DVD.


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#SilentSunday 3rd April 2010
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2 birthdays! wow!ReplyDelete
ooh, two chidren's birthdays or a gran celebrating 94???ReplyDelete
Have a fab party whichever it is
Or is it one birthday for someone who is 94?ReplyDelete
Oooh scrummy sandwich cake! Happy Birthday to whoever it was xReplyDelete
Happy birthday in your house, lots of party teas and being treated how lovelyReplyDelete
They look delish but are there for a 9 year old and 4 year old or just a 94 year old?ReplyDelete
Oh yum! A double celebration or just one HUGE birthday perhaps?! xReplyDelete
what a day you look like you're having, fun fun fun, yum yum yumReplyDelete
Any time there are two cakes, it's definitely time for a party!! ;o)ReplyDelete
Blimey, 2 birthdays? Thats definitely time for cake then :)ReplyDelete
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ELSAH, Ill. – The volleyball team (16-5, 9-1 SLIAC) dug deep Saturday, Oct. 9, to edge out Spalding University (17-7, 10-1 SLIAC) in a 3-2 nail-biter and claim a share of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's top spot.
Greenville downed the Golden Eagles in the first set 25-13 behind a kill percentage of .320.
Spalding turned the tables in the second however, taking a 25-18 set win.
Greenville and Spalding split the third (25-17) and fourth (25-19) set to force a decisive fifth set.
In the fifth set, both teams showed no signs of surrender. The Panthers posted six kills and the Golden Eagles tallied seven in what was a very even finale. In the end, Greenville mounted enough of an attack to defeat Spalding 15-13.
Saturday's win extends the Panther's win streak to eight, and improves their overall record to 16-5 overall and 9-1 in SLIAC play.


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RINGWOOD – McHenry County Conservation District invites residents to view a special photography exhibit, "Connecting" by Donna Giovanni.
The exhibit will be on display through May 31 at Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood.
An artist reception will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. This exhibit is free and is open to the public daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sometimes people can overlook the beauty in their immediate surroundings, always looking for something better or different.
No matter where they go or where they live, there are things worth seeing and experiencing. The still image can offer a new perspective of familiar views and an exploration into the niches and moments of constantly changing surroundings.
For information, call the Prairieview Education Center at 815-479-5779 or visit www.MCCDistrict.org.


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Submission + - Wave Glider Robot 'Alex' Helps Forecast Hurricane Isaac's Path (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "Hurricane prediction is not always an exact science — back in 2005, Hurricane Rita was projected to hit Houston, but missed the region entirely — but the NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) is already on the case. A few weeks ago today, the agency launched an experimental Wave Glider robot named Alex into the ocean, hoping the unmanned drone can forecast the direction of future storms. The Wave Glider, which is completely powered by the waves and the sun thanks to solar panels and a unique thrust engine, contains a GPS unit, satellite communications systems, and sensors for measuring water temperature, wind speed, and various wave characteristics. With its ability to withstand strong winds and thrashing waters — which are typically prohibitive for humans and even aerial vehicles — and its ability to theoretically drift in the ocean endlessly without refueling, a single Wave Glider could be used to monitor not just one storm, but several hurricanes occurring over an entire seasonal period. The NOAA hopes to soon use more Wave Glider robots like Alex to help determine more accurate hurricane watches and warnings."


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ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, received a hero's welcome at a rally near Dallas as he pressed on with his battle to derail the nation's new healthcare law.
"Having spent the last month in Washington, it's good to be back in America," he told the crowd of Lone Star Tea Party supporters in Arlington Tuesday night.
"The purpose of tonight ... is to say thank you to each and every one of you," Cruz said, adding, "Nobody thought taking on the Washington establishment would be easy."
He urged supporters to stay involved in the democratic process.
"If we are going to stop Obamacare -- and I am convinced we are going to stop Obamacare -- it is going to be because we continue to elevate the national debate and focus on how this thing ain't working," he said in remarks quoted by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He called the bipartisan agreement that reopened the federal government and temporarily ended the debt-ceiling crisis "a lousy deal ... selling the American people down the river."
Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was among those at the rally and offered up a prayer.
"We thank you so much for the privilege of being Americans," he said, adding, "We are seeing freedoms eroded" and "none of us in this room are going to acquiesce."
"Give us the perseverance to restore liberty to America," the elder Cruz said.


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Greetings from Miami, FL I am a soon to be graduate student (location TBD), have extreme respect for nutrition and health.
I have been vegan for about three years or so, first sparked by my vegetarian roommate who started educating me on the agricultural/environmental impact that the "standard" ways of diets had on our earth.
Currently I am working (busting my chops, 2x/week) with my trainer in order to 'lean up' and define my muscles, albeit actual bodybuilding is not something I would strive for (still love going to the competitions!).
Although my nutrition grasp is pretty on point, I want to see different views on vegan foods when combined with heavy exercise/lifting.
*Quinoa and beans, although my favorite combination, are leaving me bloated and gassy! Have mild intolerance to soy doesn't help either *
Thanks, and I'm looking forward to reading more posts!
Hello from Miami!
Introduce yourself. Tell us about your training history, how long you've been vegan, share some of your goals and some of your interests.
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Hi, welcome to the forum.
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Hi veggietails, Welcome to the group here. On going nutritional education is important but optimal results from food vary from person to person. Eating a variety of foods is always best, and often you have to do a little self experimenting to find which foods your body responds to best. If you are always bloated and gassy I would try to change things up a bit. Gradual change is good, the body often doesn't respond well to cold turkey diet changes.
Hope to see you posting more with us!
Hope to see you posting more with us!
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Hi veggietails, nice to meet you, I'm new here too. I can't eat quinoa or beans either, doesn't sit well with me. I focus on vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Good luck with the training! Like you, I'm also working on obtaining more muscle definition.
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Hello! A little late but thank you for the warm welcomes!
Lore, isn't that the worst? Quinoa and beans are the best, my issue is with beans and BM (TMI).
Lore, isn't that the worst? Quinoa and beans are the best, my issue is with beans and BM (TMI).
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EAGLE?GROVE - The hopes of West Bend-Mallard/Gilmore City-Bradgate's Lady Wolverines for a trip to the state volleyball tournament came to an abrupt halt Wednesday night. The Lady Wolverines saw their outstanding season come to a close in a 3-0 loss to Janesville in a Class 1A Regional Final at Eagle Grove.
Game scores on Wednesday were 20-25, 14-25 and 11-25.
The Lady Wolverines battled hard in the first game, tying the game several times before the Wildcats earned the 25-20 win.
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POUND IT HOME - WBM/GCB's Sam Hartman, above, pounds a shot back over the net during the Lady Wolverines' Regional Final at Eagle Grove against Janesville. Hartman would connect on three hits against Janesville in WBM/GCB's 3-0 loss. -- Dan Voigt photo
In game two, WBM/GCB went down 3-9 early and then trailed 4-15 before trailing 9-19, but the Lady Wolverines scored five points before Janesville took the 25-14 win.
Game three saw Janesville jump out to an 8-3 lead that grew to a 14-3 advantage over the Lady Wolverines. WBM/GCB could never get the momentum back in the final match as they fell 11-25 to end their season witha 29-5 mark.
For the Lady Wolverines, Heather Fehr would make 14 of 26 hits with four kills, while handing out one assist and completing three of four serves with one ace. Ashley Schmidt would come away with 15 of20 hits and two kills, while digging out 10 shots and completing four of four serves.
McKenzie Grimm added 12 of 16 hits with five kills and dug out six shots while assisting on one block and making one solo block. Grimm added three of six serves to the effort.
Emily Borman would make seven of 11 hits with four kills and had two solo blocks on the night.
Courtney Bargmann came away with eight of 10 hits with a pair of kills and dished out 12 assists, while digging out two shots and assisting on one block. Bargmann also added seven of seven serves to the Lady Wolverines' effort.
Sam Hartman made three of five hits in the match, while Kayla Banwart dug out 10 shots and made 12 of 12 serves and Jennalyn Thul dug out six shots and made nine of nine serves with two aces.


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Release Notes: This is a minor bug fix release, but with added support for include directives in .conf files.
Release Notes: This release adds support for multiple runlevels, with a dedicated bootstrap level, one-shot tasks (in parallel or sequence), and multiple TTYs.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release. It cleans up the recorded PID of a service when it is lost (needed by callbacks). It fixes a segfault when parsing the new runparts directive in finit.conf (tried to free a static string).
Release Notes: This release supports a new "runparts DIR" in finit.conf, prevents endless restarting of non-existing services in finit.conf, and supports sysvinit-style start-stop scripts in /etc/finit.d/. As a security fix, it doesn't start services which don't start with a slash.
Release Notes: The last piece of the big puzzle, a plugin resolver, has been added, capable of sysvinit-style dependency handling.
Release Notes: This release fixes the plugin loader. It uses the RTLD_GLOBAL flag to tell the dynamic loader to load dependent .so files as well. It fixes the I/O plugin watcher and load plugins earlier for a new hook. The process of refactoring helpers.c into a libite.so (-lite) has begun. This means other user space applications/daemons can make use of the toolbox available in finit. Uses short-form (-s/-w -u) to work with BusyBox hwclock as well. Greatly simplifies the svc hook for external plugins and cleans up the plugin API. Heavily tested on Debian 6.0 (IA32) and in an embedded setting (ARM v5 little-endian).
Release Notes: This release featured a cleanup of the public plugin API, with some new functions. A plugin hook was added to the end of service startup. Installation now defaults to /sbin/finit and /usr/, not /usr/local. Makefile installation paths were fixes. Binaries and .so files are now stripped, and support for $(CROSS) toolchain stripping was added. Better support was provided for distributions and packagers with install-exec, install-data, and install-dev targets in Makefile. This is useful with different $DESTDIRs.
Release Notes: Build fixes were included for ARM eabi/uClibc. signal.h was renamed to sig.h due to a name clash with thr system header file. Use of #include_next is not recommended. Installation paths encoded in the finit binary were fixed. The README was updated with a section on building and the environment variables needed by packagers.
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"One on One" with UH President Dobelle Announces its 2004 Play ScheduleUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU — "One on One," a University of Hawaiʻi and PBS Hawaiʻi cooperative production featuring host UH President Evan S. Dobelle, began its second season schedule on PBS Hawaiʻi this month. The weekly show will air on Thursdays through the rest of May on local PBS channels at 7:30 p.m. After its May programming, the show will go on hiatus in June and return in July.
Shows scheduled to air on "One on One" this month include:
· May 20: One on One with Michael Shapiro — Author, distinguished professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
· May 27: One on One with Ian Wilmut — Professor and head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
Shows that aired earlier this month included guests James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer prize-winning professor, and Susan Dunn, renowned professor and author. Future guests this season include Alan Arkin, Tony award-winning and Oscar-nominated actor; Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service; Ed Lu, NASA astronaut; and Haig Mardikian, prominent Armenian businessman and philanthropist owner.
"One on One" is a cooperative production of the University of Hawaiʻi and PBS Hawaiʻi, featuring distinguished authors, actors and scholars who are visiting Hawaiʻi as guest speakers for the university and other organizations. The show originally started in fall 2003 with Paul Costello, former UH Vice President for External Affairs and University Relations, serving as host.
For more information on "One on One," visit www.pbshawaii.org


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Today marks the first day that Penn State's football team played a game without legendary head coach Joe Paterno since 1950. The long-time coach was fired earlier this week as a result of a university scandal involving Paterno's former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky who has been charged with 40 counts of sex crimes against young boys. NPR's Jeff Brady reports from Penn State on student and fan reaction after a bitter loss to 19th ranked Nebraska.
Penn State Loses First Game In Post-Paterno Era
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June Brightbill Zeller transitioned in her sleep Sept. 10, 2013. She was born April 4, 1918, in Reading, Pa., daughter of Carrie Sadie Yeagley and Harry Frantz Brightbill. She attended grammar school in Reading, Pa., near 12th & Greenwich streets and junior high, 7th to 9th at the Reading Jr. High on 13th Street, where she graduated in February 1933 as they had two class groups at that time. She moved to Lambertville, N.J., to live with her father and attend Lambertville High School, graduating in June 1936 as she claimed "a full 1/2 year later than I would've had I stayed in Reading!" In Lambertville she met, was courted by and married her life's love and companion Ludwig August "Mittnacht" Zeller on 'Roosevelt's T-day," Nov. 20, 1941, the only time, thanks to Franklyn Roosevelt's declaration, that Thanksgiving Day was held that early.
While in high school, she worked at the Lambertville Hosiery Mill filling bobbins and spools for 25 cents/hour. After graduating she attended Trenton Industrial Arts School and studied dress making while Ludwig, also in Trenton, was mastering auto mechanics and drafting. During World War II, while Ludwig served in the Navy, she worked at a rubber mill near Flemington, N.J., and managed a farm with Ludwig's parents.
After the war June, Ludwig and his parents purchased and settled on a farm in Holland Township near Milford, N.J., where they raised three sons, chickens and cows, and sold eggs, beef and milk. Her fondest memories were of the New Jersey farm. She loved being outdoors, raising animals and driving tractors. She always enjoyed the end of the week when she would meet Ludwig returning from his work and go dancing into Saturday morning. She was an avid bowler and belonged to a Riegle Ridge Bowling club during the '50 & '60s. She was a Cub Scout Den Mother during the late '50s, a Weight Watchers bookkeeper and a founding member of the Milford "Lazy Daisies" social club. After retirement, June and Ludwig left the Holland Township farm and split their time between Bernville, Pa., and St. James City, Fla., dancing, boating, fishing, building, puttering and enjoying friends.
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June Brightbill Zeller
She was the quiet, solid, loving companion behind her husband Ludwig's avid engagement with community and projects. She was a believer in and a master of the golden rule: doing unto others only what she would have done unto herself, in word and deed, no matter the situation.
A dedicated daughter, friend, wife, mother, grand and great-grandmother, Mrs. Zeller was her sweet and kind self to the end.
She is survived by her three sons, Karl Zeller of Wellington, Colo., Fred Zeller of Cape Coral, Tom Zeller of Baltimore, Md., nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
There will be a celebration of June and Ludwig's lives in Milford Sept. 28 and another in January in St. James City. Please contact Tom Zeller email@example.com for more information. Sympathy cards can be sent to the Zeller Family at 718 Dunkirk Road, Baltimore, MD 21212. In lieu of gifts or flowers, donations can be made to the Zeller Family Scholarship Fund, 9401 Shoofly Lane, Wellington, CO 80549. The fund gives annual awards to selected graduating high school seniors who plan to continue in technical or non-academic careers as manifested by Lud's and June's lives.


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30 January 1969
Beatles tribute show at gallery Nucleus. The Beatles have always played a great part of my life. I'm not sure how many times me and my sister saw the film Help as children, a good part of the references come from that film (even though I think the tiger in the film had a different color sceme)
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This is what I need to know. I don't want to comment, only listen.
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A guy in his office picks up an ornament on his desk, and a genie appears and says, "OK whats your third wish?"
The guy says, "Hang on, what happened to my first and second wish?".
Tthe genie replies, "Oh, you've had them, but after I granted your first wish, you went totally crazy, frothing at the mouth and screaming, and begging me to take it away, so your second wish, as I understood it, was to remove all traces of your first wish, and any memory you might have had of it. So what's your third wish?"
The guy thinks to himself, oh well, one wish is better than none, and ponders for a moment. Then he states, "I wish to fully experience how a woman thinks - what goes through her mind, what she feels".
Waving his magic pipe, the genie grants the wish and comments, "Funny, that was your first wish, too".
Haha :-D
They want equality but at the same time want special privileges...
What special privelages Yahweh?
like not paying on the first date
Do women really do that? Do women, on a first date expect the guy to pay?
Some nerve they have ...
and do the men pay?
If so ...then thats their first mistake ... Dont
I hope a girl would one day offer to pay:D
They never would. If you find a girl who says she has, she's lying :)
She wants her fantasy of her prince charming treating her like a princess. It's that simple. The BEST that you could possibly do is get her to pay her half.
Yes, they do. Even after talking over dinner about their feminism and their desire for equality with men along with anecdotes demonstrating the bad things they have to deal with as a woman. The check arrives and...deadly silence on their part.
The female can avoid the bill because generally she's there by invitation. Still, it's an opportunity to surprise the guy.
Yep, that surprise would be greatly appreciated. What a special woman that would be...I might even develop respect for her just from that offer.
Of course I've had females pay one date, I pay one date, she pays the next etc...but never her offering to pay the first.
Like my aunt who argued vehemently over a family dinner that they should be equal and treated equally but didn't think women should be drafted if there was ever a draft. Her answer? Because men are better fighters and women are better at tending to children and households. I gave up.
That's one of many examples. they just want all the good stuff that comes from being equal but don't want the bad that comes with it.


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Keeping a bird-friendly autumn garden will always merit a visit from feathered friends that are about to make their way south for the winter. Transforming your yard into a temporary home for birds can, however, be a challenge, especially for first-time gardeners. Tree Classics is featuring simple and practical tips on how to turn your autumn garden into an avian-friendly sanctuary.
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Step 3: Add Bird Baths
A bird bath will give your feathered friends a spot where they can drink clean water and take a refreshing dip. Some receptacles feature stylish designs that you can use to accent the look of your garden.
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Make birds feel safe if you want them to flock to your garden. A stray cat, squirrel, or even other predatory birds are a threat and can easily ruin your chances of attracting birds. The best way to remedy this is by carefully planning your garden setting. Set bird feeders and baths in places where it would be difficult for wild animals to intrude. Lastly, choose birdhouse designs that have steep roofs and no perches to deter any potential predators from raiding them.
Attract birds in your garden this autumn with these simple and practical tips from Tree Classics.


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|Author: Gideon Shimoni
Within the history of Zionism itself every ideological and political stream had its own Herzl, always designed in its own image.
No historical figure symbolizes the Zionist idea more than Theodor Herzl. He has attracted intensive historical research, exceeding any other biographical subject in the historiography of the Zionist Movement. Biographies of Herzl range from hagiographical works such as those of Sh. L. Tzitron (Vilna 1921, in Hebrew) and Jacob de Haas to the profound studies of Alex Bein, Amos Elon and Ernst Pawel, including the unique psycho-historical study by Avner Falk (1).
In an effort to contribute to the teaching of Zionist history in general and the history of Herzl in particular, this paper focuses on some aspects of contention between historians which might have problematic implications for teaching about Herzl in contemporary Israel.
The purpose of historical research, as of all science, is in the first instance to satisfy human curiosity. In the social sciences this means human self-knowledge. Epistemologically speaking, there is today a consensus that what the historian produces is not, of course, the past itself, but only a narrative representation of the past. This is to say that absolute truth about past reality is unattainable. However, beyond consensus on this point at least two major conceptions of the historian's task vie with each other today. One approach, which might be labeled "post-modernist, relativist", holds that it is impossible to attain objectivity in any sense. It draws on Michel Foucault's argument that knowledge is social power and functions as a means of shaping public consciousness according to the biases, and interests, covert or overt, of political elites, to whose ends historians in common with all social scientists are mobilized. Hence, according to this conception, the task of the historian is not to attempt the impossible -- and therefore deceptive -- uncovering of past reality, but rather to deploy historical narrative as a means for shaping present reality by changing, or alternatively reinforcing, public consciousness in accordance with pre-set values and interests.
A contrary outlook, which might be labeled "positive-empirical", argues that it is both desirable and possible to arrive at consensually adequate knowledge of past realities. Although the historian's narrative representation is vulnerable to subjective distortions, the convergences or divergences between different narratives nevertheless can advance knowledge in dialectical progression. Even if no narrative can be absolutely identical with reality itself, scrupulous and transparent observance of the empirical discipline of the historian enables objectivity; an objective datum being defined, in an unpretentious sense, as one consensually acceptable to all historians attempting to answer the same critical research questions on the basis of the same evidence.
Applying the distinction between these two rival epistemological approaches to contentious issues in teaching about Herzl and Zionism, one cannot but note an irony: A teacher who adopts the post-modernist, relativist approach, whether he seeks to credit or discredit that which he necessarily recognizes as the committed conventional Zionist narrative, has no great dilemma in handling controversial data. For such a teacher would knowingly treat them according to pre-set value preferences even if this requires one-sided perspectives and tendentious use of evidence. In other words, the postmodernist, relativist approach is compatible with indoctrinatory teaching one way or the other. The irony is that only the teacher who favors the positive-empirical approach faces a real educational dilemma: how to cope with morally or ideologically problematic discrepancies between contemporary values and interests, on the one hand, and data or contentious interpretations revealed through the advance of academic historical research, on the other hand. How does one cope with these teaching dilemmas? As a historian, I may suggest a few guidelines. It is the task of educationalists to cope more extensively with this formidable question.
The following discussion is not exhaustive. I shall not discuss the two best known, retrospectively eva luated, failings of Herzl's bold vision. The first is his prognosis that the creation of a state for the Jews would lead to the disappearance of antisemitism. Although most historians agree that Herzl's analysis of the causes of antisemitism as manifested in his own time was profound -- particularly his perception that it was largely a reaction to emancipation of the Jews itself -- his prognosis has certainly not been vindicated. As we all are today regretfully aware, much as emancipation itself generated racist hatred of Jews (that is to say antisemitism), so the very existence of the State of Israel has generated hatred of Jews mutated into so-called "anti-Zionism".
Another well recognized failing of Herzl's vision of the Jewish future after attainment of a Jewish state was his oversimplified prediction that the Jews would choose between only two options: on the one hand, Jews who suffered from one or other form of the Judennot would move to the Jewish state, joined by others who would choose to do so out of a sense of identification or a search for enhanced self-fulfillment. On the other hand, those Jews who wished to assimilate completely would now truly be availed of this option. The reality, as it has clearly unfolded itself in the half century following the establishment of the State of Israel, is at odds with Herzl's prediction. A significant section of the Jewish people chooses to remain outside of Israel, and most do not choose fully to assimilate. Rather, they seek no more than to acculturate in developed and liberal-democratic countries while at the same time preserving and cultivating meaningful forms of Jewish religious and ethnic identity.
These failings of Herzl's vision, however, detract but little from his protean significance in the history of Zionism. If we are to attempt the daunting task of retrospectively eva luating the role of Herzl's ideas and actions in the history of Zionism, we would do well to emphasize the extraordinary, almost incredible prescience of his vision as well as his absolutely paramount role in creating the Zionist organization, which so remarkably attained its primary objective: the establishment of the State of Israel. In this regard nothing is more rightly famous than his diary entry of 3 September 1897:
If I were to sum up the Congress in a word – which I shall take care not to publish – it would be this: At Basle I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today I would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in fifty years, everyone will perceive it. (2)
Territorialist or Zionist of Zion?
One issue of historiography that has implications for teaching on Herzl's Zionist legacy is the undeniable fact that Herzl's vision, as represented in his seminal statement of the Zionist project, the book Der Judenstaat, was not tied exclusively to Eretz Israel. Of course, Eretz Israel was the obvious and desirable choice. "Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland", wrote Herzl:
The very name would be a marvelously effective rallying cry. If his Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We should there form a part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We should as a neutral state remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.(3)
However, he was open to territorial alternatives, most notably a region in Argentina which had already become the magnet for Baron de Hirsch's massive colonization project. He wrote:
Is Palestine or Argentina preferable? The Society [the institution Herzl suggested for implementation of the Zionist project] will take whatever it is given and whatever Jewish public opinion favors. The Society will determine both these points. Argentina is one of the most fertile countries in the world, extends over a vast area, is sparsely populated, and has a temperate climate. It would be in its own highest interest for the Republic of Argentina to cede us a portion of its territory.
In fact, Herzl's prodigious (but unsuccessful in his own lifetime) efforts concentrated on Eretz Israel from the outset. However, in light of these early statements, scholars differ in their understanding of Herzl's intentions in regard to the East Africa (Uganda) proposal, which raised a storm of controversy at the 1903 Zionist Congress. One view is that after abysmal disappointments and failures of all Herzl's frenetic diplomatic efforts to obtain a charter for Jewish settlement in Ottoman Eretz Israel, and impelled by the terrible plight of the Jews in Eastern Europe in the wake of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom, Herzl returned to his earlier essentially territorialist position. A contrary view, argued particularly persuasively by one scholar, Isaiah Friedman, is that Herzl remained true to Eretz Israel alone and regarded the East African proposal merely as a tactical measure. In this view Herzl had no doubt that the East Africa proposal itself would fall away but not before it had raised the Jewish problem as a national question to the forefront of international attention. Zionism would thereby have attained international recognition, above all by a great power – Great Britain – for the Jews as a nation eligible for and deserving of a sovereign state of their own. This would then pave the way to ultimate attainment of Eretz Israel. (4)
Treating this issue within the context of teaching on Herzl, one would do well to stress the existential and ethno-symbolic distress that lay at the heart of the entire "Uganda" controversy, which led to the apparent paradox that the national-religious Zionists in particular supported Herzl's proposal at the 1903 Congress, whereas the majority of secular Zionists opposed it. Also important for contextual understanding of this issue is knowledge of the split that led to the creation of the Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO) and of continuous but wholly futile "territorialist" efforts to find an alternative region in the world for autonomous Jewish settlement.
Colonization and the Arab Population
Perhaps the most problematic and controversial of all the issues raised by the study of Herzl as a Zionist leader are questions concerning Herzl's project of colonization and how this relates to his attitude toward the local Arab population and the Arab Middle East at large.
There can be no doubt that Herzl's views reflected the highly Eurocentric outlook normative for most of the European intelligentsia at the turn of the century. It was taken for granted that the European powers had the right and indeed the moral duty to "civilize" the non-European world. Only within the conceptual confines of this Eurocentric imperialist outlook is it possible to say that Herzl was a liberal. He was certainly also very much a legalist. As a liberal he favored paternalistic benevolent colonialism and as a legalist he sought above all to attain international legal recognition and support for the peaceful attainment of a project of Zionist colonization leading to the creation of a national state for the Jews. It is related that when the young Egyptologist, Abraham Jehuda, met Herzl in 1896 in London and cautioned him that Zionist plans would require the acquiescence of the local Arab population which otherwise was bound to resist it, Herzl's answer was that the local population had no influence; the future of the country was solely in the hands of the Ottoman Sultanate. Herzl consistently expressed the opinion that the economic prosperity which the entry of Jews would bring to all the inhabitants of Palestine would outweigh any other considerations for the local population.
This much is abundantly evident in his written records, including Altneuland, and in his response to Youssuf Zia al-Khalidi, a former mayor of Jerusalem, in a very pertinent exchange of letters in 1899. Al-Khalidi's view was exceptionally evenhanded in so far as he recognized the justice of the Zionist cause but warned that it was bound to provoke equally justifiable Arab resistance. Herzl answered that he was sure the Arab population would come to appreciate the great material and welfare benefits that Zionist settlers would bring. In his utopian novel, Altneuland, Herzl has the story's Arab protagonist, Reshid Bey, reciting blissfully the "blessings of Jewish immigration" for the country's Arab citizens: "Employment, better food, welfare... these people are far better off than before; they are healthy, they have better food, their children go to school. Nothing has been done to interfere with their customs or their faith – they have only gained in welfare." (5)
Although Herzl's view was crystal clear – that the benefits Zionist settlement would bring the local Arabs would outweigh all other Arab considerations, further questions remain without definitive answers: was this Herzl's genuine belief, albeit extremely na?ve or patronizing? Or, was this simply a case of disingenuousness on his part? Or, is this an example of what psychologists refer to as "cognitive dissonance"?
Related to these questions is a single bit of rather equivocal evidence that Herzl contemplated transfer of part of the local Arab population by means of creating attractive work opportunities in neighboring countries for impoverished Arabs in Palestine. This is a diary entry of 12 June 1895 which stated:
We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. The property owners may believe that they are cheating us, selling to us at more than [the land is] worth. But nothing will be sold back to them. (6)
This quotation has been seized upon and paraded by anti-Israel propagandists. eva luation of its significance is also the subject of considerable controversy among scholars. It is noteworthy that no specific mention of Arabs is made here. Some scholars have argued that given Herzl's state of mind at the time he wrote this note, and within the context of this particular section of his diary, it represents Herzl's speculative ruminations about concentrated settlement possibilities wherever they might become available by legal charter. In his mind at that time this would most likely have meant a region in Argentina, rather than Palestine. (7)
This issue is closely related to the more basic question of the relationship between Jewish colonization in Palestine and colonialism; a phenomenon which conventionally connotes a reprehensible stigma. Scholars are divided on this question. One side argues, in support of the staple polemical claim of the Arab world, not only that Zionism indeed is a form of colonialism, but that only by treating it as such can there be true historical comprehension of Zionism's nature as well as of the Arab-Jewish conflict. A contrary view holds that this postulate stems not from academic integrity but from the tendentious purpose of stigmatizing Zionism. According to this view, the colonization method of Zionist settlement differs in essentials from the phenomenon of colonialism in history. Zionism can only be genuinely comprehended within the context of patently nationalist ideology and purposes. The essence of Zionism's nature was existential self-liberation. Non-violent, legal acquisition of land and colonization was the only morally possible method; the Jewish settlers were never the agents of any external state or power; self-labor was both a national necessity and social value; and Zionism never sought to exploit the local population or Palestine's resources to the benefit of external interests; to the contrary, it only invested material and human resources in Palestine.
Herzl's Nationalist Conception and his Vision of a Jewish State
All historians agree that Herzl's vision of the state was in many respects the realization of basic values that he had adopted when he believed in the civic emancipation of Jews as individuals and their integration into the states of Europe. When he turned towards a national solution for the Jewish problem he redirected and applied these same values to the Jews as a collective. One basis of Herzl's diagnosis of the Jewish problem was rejection of the notion that mere civic emancipation of the Jews could enable their genuine integration into European societies and states. At the same time, he envisioned the future Jewish state as a model for the very same ideals nurtured earlier in favor of the individual Jew's civic emancipation and integration. Hence, his ultimate vision of the Judenstaat was less a unique state of pervasive Jewish character than an ideally perfected version of the contemporary secularized West European state.
Altneuland is the essence of what Jews might learn from the experience of the European state in order to perfect and even subsume it. It is an exemplary product of the most advanced technology and a model society reflecting the highest values of tolerance, social welfare and enlightenment. Culturally it is rather inchoate; secular, cosmopolitan and pluralist rather than exclusively Jewish. Even the Hebrew language is limited to the role of prayer and other traditional functions; Yiddish is spoken in the rural areas but German predominates as the language of commerce and culture. Religion is respected but kept in its place as the private affair of its adherents. Altneuland is far more a state for the Jews than a Jewish state.
Additionally, Altneuland's political system is simplistically voluntary, almost anarchist. The presidency is described as a purely honorary position for a seven-year term. The legislature, although an elected congress, sits only a few weeks each year. The country is devoid of ideological mass parties. It is run by enlightened, talented bureaucrats rather than politicians. Indeed, we are told that "politics here is neither a business nor a profession", and "our courts have repeatedly ruled in slander suits that the term `professional politician' is an insult." (8)
In all, what Herzl described was a "New Society"rather than a conventional nation-state. It is a post-national state, a polity that transcends and betters the contemporary European state. As David Littwak (a protagonist modeled in Altneuland on David Wolffsohn, who was to succeed Herzl as president of the Zionist Organization) tells the European visitor Kingscourt: "We have no state, like the Europeans of your time. We are merely a society of citizens seeking to enjoy life through work and culture... We are not a state... We are a commonwealth... We are simply a large cooperative association which is called the New Society." (9)
For the educator, teaching about Herzl, all of this may pose dilemmas in the light of contemporary Israeli public issues concerning the place of Jewish religion and Israel's relationship with trans-national Jewish peoplehood as a whole. It is not surprising that at least one scholar has gone to great pains to prove, however tendentiously, that Herzl must have knowingly approved the translating of the German title Der Judenstaat as "The Jewish State" (rather than State of the Jews?) in its English version. It is argued that he truly intended its public and cultural character to be distinctively Jewish. (10)
In like manner, Herzl's Altneuland vision can be enlisted to support a wide range of other contemporary civic, political and cultural advocacies. Thus, supporters of what has come to be termed a "post-Zionist" ideology could, if they wished, draw on Herzl's Altneuland vision to show that it is highly compatible with their advocacy of Israel jettisoning its Zionist purposes, accepting the prospect of Jews becoming a minority, and transforming Israel into a so-called "state for all of its citizens." (11) By contrast, from an entirely affirmative Zionist point of view, Herzl's vision has also been interpreted as advocacy of a form of multiculturalism, praiseworthy in the context of contemporary Israeli society. (12)
What then are the implications for teaching? I would suggest that the very fact that Herzl's legacy has so many differing significations can provide the basis for meaningful discussion of Israeli society's major contemporary civic issues. It requires, however, perceiving Herzl not as the sole arbiter of Zionism's meaning, but as no more than one component of Zionist thought, intention and practice, in some respects seminal, but in other respects very idiosyncratic.
Moreover, in overall perspective, the Herzlian component was not the most determinative of all in the unfolding of Zionism's history. Indeed, the idiosyncrasies of Herzl's political and social ideas, while of great historical interest for understanding the person, are hardly material for appreciating his overall ideological influence on Zionism. As a matter of fact, the book Altneuland aroused at least as much disagreement and controversy amongst Zionists as it did enthusiasm for the Zionist Movement. Above all it provoked the irate reaction of Asher Ginzberg (Ahad Ha'am) and his school of thought. As my own comprehensive study of Zionist ideologies and many works of fellow historians have shown, Herzl must be seen in the broader perspective of Zionism's genesis and development as the outcome of several streams of thought and their social carriers. (13)
This discussion has necessarily focused on points of critique arising from the study of Herzl's ideas and on attendant controversial issues, which are apt to pose dilemmas for those who teach about Herzl and Zionism. It should therefore be reiterated that none of this effaces the colossal significance of Herzl in the modern history of the Jews in general and the history of Zionism in particular.
Within the history of Zionism itself every ideological and political stream had its own Herzl, always designed in its own image. Thus the General Zionists regarded themselves as the true heirs of Herzl's political Zionism, while the Revisionist Zionists projected their image as a return to the pristine political Zionism of Herzl in contrast to the misguided diversions from Herzlian policy perpetrated by Chaim Weizmann and his Labor Zionist allies. Even National- Religious (Mizrahi) Zionism held Herzl in high esteem, despite his deeply ingrained secularism, partly because he supported its demands that the Zionist program refrain from educational-cultural activity. Given the complexity and ambiguities of Herzl's legacy, teaching it constitutes a formidable educational challenge. In sum, non-doctrinaire intellectual integrity requires a pedagogical approach that would treat of Herzl and his ideas in dialectical relationship with other ideas and trends that contributed to the overall historical development of Zionism.
1. Sh. L.Tzitron, Herzl, Hayav u-peulotav, Vilna, 1921; Jacob de Haas, Theodor Herzl: A Biographical Study, Chicago, 1927; Alex Bein, Theodor Herzl, Philadelphia, 1942; Amos Elon, Herzl, New-York, 1975; Ernst Pawel, The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl, New-York, 1989; Avner Falk, Herzl, King of the Jews: A Psychoanalytic Biography of Theodor Herzl, New-York, 1993. Other noteworthy works are Steven Beller, Herzl, London, 1991; Jacques Kornberg, Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism, Bloomingdale, 1993 and Gideon Shimoni and Robert S. Wistrich, eds. Theodor Herzl: Visionary of the Jewish State, Jerusalem, 1999.
2. The Diaries of Theodor Herzl, ed. and trsl. Marvin Lowenthal, London, 1958, p. 220.
3. Extracts from Herzl's booklet The Jewish State, are easily accessible in Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader, Atheneum, New York, and later editions. This and the following quotation are from p. 222.
4. See Isaiah Friedman, "Herzl and the Uganda Controversy", in Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms, eds. Austrian Studies, vol. 8, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 39-53.
5. Theodor Herzl, Altneuland, trsl. Paula Arnold, Haifa, 1960, p. 95.
6. Herzl, Complete Diaries, ed. Raphael Patai, trsl. Harry Zohn, Herzl Press, New York, 1960, pp. 88-9.
7. See Ran Cohen and Baruch Kimmerling, "Theodor Herzl: 'Devarai Hutze'u Mi'heksheram' He'ara Be'shulei Ha'historiographia Ha'tzionit", Yisrael, 6, Stav, 2004: pp. 163-171. Also Benny Morris's counter-argument, arguing that the passage does refer to Palestine. Ibid.: pp. 171-174.
8. Theodor Herzl, Old New Land (Altneuland), trsl. Lotta Levensohn, New York, 1960, p. 256.
9. Ibid., pp. 79-284.
10. See Yoram Hazony, "Did Herzl Want a Jewish State?", Azure, Spring, 2000: pp. 37-73.
11. See the discussion of these issues in Rachel Elboim-Dror, "Herzl as a Proto - 'Post Zionist'", and Shmuel Almog, "Was Herzl a Jewish Nationalist"? In: Gideon Shimoni and Robert Wistrich, eds. Theodor Herzl: Visionary of the Jewish State, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 165-181; 240-264.
12. Natan Sharansky, "The Political Legacy of Theodor Herzl", Azure, no. 21, Summer 2005: pp. 83-99.
13. See Gideon Shimoni, The Zionist Ideology, Brandeis University, University Press of New England, Hanover & London, 1995, especially chapters 1 & 3.
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You're just shooting yourself in the foot otherwise.
Agreed. The closed nature of the app store has some semblance of keeping things in order...but really all it does is limit innovation. It isn't too hard to tell when an app is going to be a crapp (see what I did there?), but that's Apple for ya...iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove.
Oh Apple, let the Apps through already! You're just shooting yourself in the foot otherwise.
Sorry, but I keep seeing people say this but I have yet to see any evidence to support it (and, quite frankly, have seen nothing but mountains of evidence to the contrary...).
_YOU_ may be annoyed with Apple because they operate in a closed garden but the _VAST_ majority of users really don't care all that much. Slashdot reader =/= average consumer.
Slashdot reader =/= average consumer.
iPhone consumer =/= average consumer.
I see more Windows Mobile phones than iPhones every morning when I'm on the train to work. iPhone is the largest group, though, because of the diversity of WM devices.
Yes, but you're on the train to Microsoft.
Jesus Christ - please actually take the time to check some basic market stats before throwing such a ludicrous insult. Apple have a few percent of the market, RIM are better, although just about every other company - LG, Samsung, Motorola - are way ahead, with Nokia the market leader. Those are the facts.
I don't know where you get out, but it isn't a typical representation of what people actually buy.
bingo. if they know how to install apps, they already know how to google their problems and are definitely more skilled than the average consumer.
dont you mean bing?
Since we'll know for sure tomorrow, I'd just like to toss out a crazy conspiracy theory. I think tomorrow there's a chance, perhaps not a very large one, that Apple will announce integrated Google Voice support in iPhone OS 4.0. I think it's just the sort of curve ball Apple likes to throw, especially since it makes their past bad behavior/decisions look magically justified to the fanboys. That's exactly the sort of thing Apple likes to do:
"You know how we've stuck with the single button mouse all these years? It wasn't a display of terrible judgment and stubbornness at all! We just wanted to do the mouse *right* and do multi-touch with it! This was our plan all along!"
"I know we said we didn't think people wanted a video ipod -- but that's because we knew nobody would want it without the amazing video service we're now prepared to offer via iTunes. Now everybody WILL want it!"
"We were always going to add Copy and Paste! We just wanted to take our time and and ensure we delivered the quality, simple Apple experience that we knew you'd want!"
etc, etc.
Apple loves turn their negatives into positives and get carried off the stage by packs of rabid apple fanboys. So it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Apple did something completely unexpected like built-in Google voice support if it scores them a win, catches the press off guard, and gets the FCC off their back. When you think about it, there's really no good reason not to. Sure they might want to stick it Google now that they are direct competitors, but it won't honestly make much difference either way. Frankly, they're better off in that competition supporting anything that android can already do since it's not like Apple has a competing product to Google Voice.
Ok, I'm grounding enough in reality to realize that this probably *won't* happen. But I do think it *could* happen and it definitely *should* happen. Fingers crossed!
I switched to Mac so I wouldn't have to use a Microsoft product ever again.
I'll keep using Google as my search engine, even if it means I have to use a bookmark instead of the search field!
iPhone gives you the option of using Yahoo as the default search engine, too. If Apple makes a deal with Bing, it's likely that the option to use Google will still be there, but it won't be the default for new devices.
Yes. I seriously doubt they're replace google, except as the default setting. Bing will be the new default on new or re-imaged devices. Hopefully Bing is not hard set in an update to 3.2/4.0 though, that would REALLY piss me off. NEVER change my active selections...
There is actually a very good Google app that not only gives you quick access to Google features (Gmail, maps, search, etc) but also has a voice search. Talk into your phone and get Google search results.
If I run out of minutes I can use my data package?
If I had an Iphone, which I don't...
Calls initiated from your cell phone using Google Voice are carried over your wireless carrier's network and are not VoIP calls, according to reports.
However, two advantage for the iphone is immediate apparent to me:
2. Free call to Canada.
Well thats why I'm wondering. Its no longer a native app - they're saying its a web app. Meaning you access it... Through the Web... So I imagine its like browsing the net on your IPhone.
HTML5's local storage feature means that this app, if written correctly (which I suspect is the case), can be used offline without a data connection at all.
For example, see Neven Mrgan's GlyphBoard [mrgan.com]; this is a web app which you can add to your home screen and use offline. The iPhone's new online user manual is another example of a fully offline web app.
Makes no sense to use offline. It's purposes are to access voicemail, edit calling groups, manage contacts, control forwarding, and place calls, none of which work without a connection. (placing calls requires an IP signal to Google to program an available pass-through number for you to call with your device to route the call).
Yea, having access to your google contacts offline might be handy, but there are already easy ways to sync google and you iPhone contact list...
GV doesn't seem to use the HTML5 features - or at least every time I've tried, it does plenty of reloading and refreshing. Maybe it only tries to pull from local storage when there's no internet connection. Hell, they don't even have it set up so that saving it as a web app (the home screen bookmark thing) hides the navigation bar - and that's literally one line of HTML to implement provided their AJAX is rigged up correctly, which seems to be the case.
Still, a great start. I certainly see myself using GV
Well thats why I'm wondering. Its no longer a native app - they're saying its a web app. Meaning you access it... Through the Web... So I imagine its like browsing the net on your IPhone.
Using the app UI is. Actually calling isn't like browing the web, though, as it uses the hooks Apple provides to the dialing functionality for web pages (originally, Apple focussed on web apps as the primary apps for the iPhone, and when they added native apps, they didn't remove that functionality.)
Note that you could use
No, Google Voice is NOT a Voip technology. The app simple helps you place/connect calls to your multiple phones. The advantage of the app on the iPhone really boils down to a) managing your Google contacts better and b) when you place a call from your cell phone, the target sees your Google voice on their caller ID, not your cell number, so when they call back, it;s routed through Google voice. With a native app and notifications, if you choose not to pass through caller ID the app would be able to tell
when you place a call from your cell phone, the target sees your Google voice on their caller ID, not your cell number, so when they call back, it;s routed through Google voice.
Just to be clear about this -- Google Voice does not and cannot change the outgoing caller ID of any of your phones. Instead, the Google Voice server calls both of you at the same time (the number you're "dialing" using the Google Voice interface and the number of the phone you want to use on your end) and conferences them. That's how they can control what caller ID your callee sees.
Google Voice does not and cannot change the outgoing caller ID of any of your phones. Instead, the Google Voice server calls both of you at the same time (the number you're "dialing" using the Google Voice interface and the number of the phone you want to use on your end) and conferences them.
Google Voice does not, in fact, call your phone with the new app, which is the change from the previous mobile web app (which used the same model as the regular, non-mobile web interface, which calls back to one of your registered phones.)
The new app gives your phone a number to call and invokes the dialer of your phone, so you make an outgoing call, but to Google Voice, not the final destination of your call. Otherwise, it works the way you describe.
Aha, makes sense.
That's how it works from the website or from the real app, yes. However, in this case, Google is providing a number for YOU to call and preprogramming the call redirect. It them uses your caller ID from THAT number to the target, so, my phone number I'm calling from (outgoing call) does NOT appear to the person I'm calling, my google number does. They clearly can modify caller ID as well as incoming calls can pass through the callers ID or simply display your google number to you.
I think you'd set the call up over the web, but then Google Voice will call you, then connect you to whoever you're trying to reach. I think the downside for AT&T is that on some plans you can pick 5 or so numbers that don't count towards your minutes, so if you make your Google voice number one of those you'd have unlimited calling & never touch your minutes. (Except for people not on your list who call you, I guess.)
Hmm.. first complex HTML5 app maybe?
I'm probably not the first person to say it, but thank GOODNESS somebody is pushing HTML and web markup tech forward again. Even though some folks don't like some of the new elements present in HTML5, at least it's progressing again. Let's hope this continues!
Apple computer:
Total dicks to the competition, and therefore driving innovation!
Way to go Apple.
Wait, you consider this to be a positive thing? HTML, CSS and JavaScript provide the least-desirable development platform that I've worked with in the past 20 years. I mean, compared to late-1980s technology like NeXTSTEP and its class libraries, the web is a massive step backwards. Even MFC development was more enjoyable.
And really, how is this progress? I mean, they're doing something that was possible using Flash five years ago, Java applets 10 years ago, and NPAPI plugins 15 years ago. That's not progre
Yeah, this is impressive, but it will not function properly on an iPod Touch. Google needs to have a way to switch to a different mode of operation that is Touch compatible.
Yeah, I could use the Skype App....but then I'd have to pay.
That's because Google Voice is not a VoIP app, but a call redirection service. On a touch, the ONLY features it has are managing voice mail and contacts, it can NOT place calls.
On an iPhone, from the web app, if you select a contact to call here's what happens:
1) Google generates a "one time" number in your local area if possible.
2) Google programs this number such that an incoming call from your selected phone to that number is routed to your selected contact's phone number
3) it presents you a UI button to press to have the iPhone call the Google one-time number.
4) when you click the button, you iPhone calls Google's selected one-time number (not your contact). This call will appear on your bill as a call from your cell phone to Google and uses airtime (which depending on your plan and time of day might be free).
5) Google routes the call and rings your contacts number, presenting your Google voice number on their caller ID screen.
Yeah, this is impressive, but it will not function properly on an iPod Touch. Google needs to have a way to switch to a different mode of operation that is Touch compatible.
Google Voice isn't a VoIP service, its an SMS, voice mail, call routing and contact management service that requires an actual phone line to route voice calls to (or take them from); the only "mode of operation" that would be Touch compatible is the dial-back mode used on the basic website where placing a call has Google Voice call one o
Anyone have some first-hand experience with Google Voice willing to share their thoughts? I find it very intriguing but am very hesitant to use it without knowing more...
What do you want to know?
1 good thing, i can now call any of my contacts in my google contact list, and on their caller ID they see my google number, not my cell phone number. there's also a generic dilaer so i can call anyone.
The individual pages from the app have unique icons if you save them to the home screen (dial pad, voice mail, contacts), so you can have single click equivalents to the native iPhone apps.
It;s a nice interface to the voicemail system as well, and you can also access your call history on the run (and block t
I use it, and I quite like it. I don't use the number that google provides, but I have linked my voice mail to gvoice so that rather than going to my Tmobile vmail messages go to Google voice. The transcriber is not so great. You can usually get the gist of a message, but it makes a lot of mistakes. That said, the other voice mail functionality is much better than Tmobile's standard offering, so on the whole the voice mail is much better.
Also, even without using the google voice number I can initate cal
Arstechnica [arstechnica.com] has a pretty good write-up on what it is and how it works. I've been using it for several months now. I don't give out my real number anymore and trying to get people to delete my old number and use my Google Voice number to reach me. As It gives much more control.
And yeah, it's somewhat cumbersome to initiate a call from the website but (much) less so than it is to do that from your phone. A native iPhone app would solve most of the hassles of initiating calls..
Love it. I have one phone number, and it rings all of my phones based on a schedule I set up. When I'm at work, I get no cell signal at my desk, so I answer my work phone. When I'm on the road, my cell is the only one I'm near, so I answer that. When I'm at home, I answer my Gizmo line so I don't use cell minutes.
The beauty is, if you want to reach me, you don't have to know where I am. You don't have to keep track of three or more numbers to reach me. You just dial my Google Voice number and, if I'm reachable, I answer. And if I'm not, you leave me a voicemail. I get an SMS on my phone with a transcription of that voicemail, and a copy of the transcription is sent to my Gmail account. Plus I can always call Google from any of my phones and listen to your voicemail directly, or listen to it over the Web.
And if you are a telemarketer who calls me a lot, you get my "go away" message and I never have to be aware of your existence again.
"Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice."
Really? There's a patch for that.
Use GV Mobile [seankovacs.com], available through Cydia. Much much better. An actual app for starters.
We do have wifi, and a mic.
But, you don't have phone capability... which is what is required for this. The "app" just uses the phone capability to place a call to a Google-owned number, which then routes the call to your destination such that it shows as coming from your Google Voice number, rather than your iPhone number.
That is why i asked, i was hoping it was a real VoIP that we could use, without jailbreaking first.
And Google has (Temporarily) killed the best VOIP service out there: Gizmo5.
I only wish I picked up a Gizmo SIP while I had a chance. I'm extremely depressed that I didn't.
Google, please bring it back!
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Old familiar tunes like "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Jolly Holiday" and "Let's Go Fly a Kite" harmonize with new tunes penned to bulk out a Broadway musical. The result is the Disney and Cameron Mackintosh version of Mary Poppins making a tour stop at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford through Sept. 23.
Madeline Trumble flies into the title role here (literally) as the mysterious nanny who works her magic on the unruly Banks household in London at the turn of the 20th century. Michael and Jane (Eli Tokash and Julianna Rigoglioso the night I attended) are incorrigible – too much for their insecure mother, Winifred (full-voiced Elizabeth Broadhurst) or busy banker father, George (Michael Dean Morgan) to handle. Mary arrives on the scene with her never-empty bag of magical surprises and when she teams up with chimney-sweep friend Bert (Con O'Shea-Creal), fun ensues.
Costume and lighting effects (Crowley and Natasha Katz, design) that create the realistic-looking park statues deserve kudos, but the choreography that has Neleus (Leeds Hill) and his sculpture friends doing ballet borders on the absurd. The scenes where the statues and dolls come to life have a creepy feel to them in a sharp contrast to the otherwise typical, over-the-top cutsey direction that gives a too-large spoonful of sugar. You can almost imagine a finger inserted in the dimples of the two youngsters as they pose and smile to evoke "awwws" but the dolls are seeking vengeance for the cruel treatment they have received….
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Library Building Renovation and Expansion Program
About the Program:
- Claire T. Carney Library: The Heart of Knowledge - A video describing the library's place on campus and the possibilities that the building renovation and expansion program promises. See news release associated with the release of the video.
- Other Sites of Interest Related to the Program and Projects
New Library Expansion & Renovation News and Updates:
For the latest news and best pictures of the library during the project, please follow our Carney Library News Blog, our Facebook, and Twitter sites:
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Claire T. Carney Library Renovation & Addition
Highlighted in American Libraries Magazine Library Design Showcase
The Carney Library is highlighted in the Library Design Showcase Section of American Libraries magazine Sept./Oct. 2013!
Color in the Library - New Works:
Banners hung from the ceiling, new art pieces, colorful lettering along library ramps and fabric art.
Before & After - Images at the opening of the new library addition:
Just for fun, check out a few of these before and after pictures and try to remember it as it was when you're in the new space!
What was outside, is now inside - Views of the Library Plaque, before and after.
Looking at the 2nd floor entrance to main section of library. You can see the differences, both inside and out.
Remember the moldy cement seating just outside the library. Looks a little different now!
Now if you can remember looking straight ahead when you came out of the old library entrance … well, now you're still inside, right near the new Circulation service point.
And, speaking of the Access Services Circulation Desk … It's now in the new space!
It'll be a little different walking from the Charlton College of Business towards the new library entrance.
It be a little different approaching the library from the other side too!
So I'm in the middle of the new addition looking out eastward? Wha ..?
West Side of Carney Library Looking South at New Exterior Metal Curtains
Visions of the New Library:
September 2012 - Just Before the Opening...
South Reading Room
Learning Commons
Art Books and Workstation Area - 3rd Floor
Library Instruction and Computer Area
Grand Reading Room Being Setup
Past Library Expansion & Renovation News and Events:
The Changing Scene.
Can you dig it!
Claire T. Carney Library Building Changes in January 2012
Campus announcement on Dec. 12th, 2011 from:
Terrance Burton, Dean of Library Services
Donna Massano, CIO and Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
Take a look at what is to come. Behold the design renderings by designLAB architects/Austin Architects.
Changes, Changes, Changes: The New Library Entrance and Circulation Desk Revisted
The library renovation and expansion project is well underway. The most obvious changes are:
- the new entrance to the library;
- the outside stairs to the second floor have been removed;
- the circulation desk has been moved and expanded;
- and the four and fifth floors of the library are closed.
See the Library News Blog for more detailed information on these changes.
Construction of the expanded and renovated library is underway!
Services, collections and staff have been consolidated to floors 1-3 and a portion of the lower level. A new temporary entrance has been created on the first floor. During construction, there will be some inconvenience but we are doing everything possible to minimize it under the circumstances. There will be several phases of construction. Services, collections and staff will be relocated during each of these phases. The end result will be a state of the art facility at the heart of the campus. Expected completion is set forFall 2012.
Isn't it fantastic?
For more details and information ...
Books on the Move Project - COMPLETED!
The first phase of the library book move is complete!
- A core collection of reference and general books is located on the 1st and 2nd floors.
- Other books are located at the UMass Law Library.
- Journals are located on the 3rd floor of the Carney Library.
Phase 2 will take place during the winter of 2011 - 2012
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Books on the Move - April 2011
The library construction and renovation project is underway! In April, the core book collection will be relocated to shelving on the 1st and 2nd floors. The law library will also hold some books from the Claire T. Carney Library for the duration of the construction project. All of these books will be available for browsing and borrowing. The remainder of the book collection will be moved to off site storage for the duration of the project. The last day when the entire collection will be available in the Claire T. Carney Library building is April 3, 2011. (more info ...)
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Sites of Interest About the Project:
- UMassD - View the Future Library Site
- UMassD Construction Project Site
- Library Construction Map: Carney Library Logistics (PDF)
- Library Construction Site Signage (PDF) - 6/13/11
- Massachusetts Division of Administration & Finance - DCAM -
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UMass Dartmouth Library Expansion & Renovation Plans
The $43 million expansion and renovation of the Claire T. Carney Library is now underway. This will be a multiphase project that will greatly enhance the user experience of the building. The library will be bright and spacious with a variety of different spaces to accommodate the learning styles of different people. It will be the center of campus learing, discourse and scholarship. The basic concrete structure designed by architect Paul Rudolf will remain but the "new" library will be one that is designed to meet the current and future needs of the learning community.
The library is redesigned to support collaborative learning in numerous ways including formal and informal group study spaces, an expanded Learning Commons, an enhanced Scholarly Commons, a cafe and improved access to collections. A new state of the art reading room and presentation area as well as smaller technology enhanced spaces will be available. Spaces will be provided to showcase important academic initiatives. The library will be a center for academic and scholarly pursuits, social interaction and special events.
The mechanical systems of the building will also be improved. The elevators, electrical, heating and cooling and plumbing systems will be replaced. Windows will also be replaced where possible. This will provide greater energy efficiency for the building.
The library will remain open during the construction and renovation but there will be interruptions in services and some inconveniences. Collections and staff will require temporary relocation during the project. Disruption will be kept to the lowest level possible.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this time.
Vision: The Library as Place
"The University Library is at the center of campus discourse, learning, and scholarship. With the addition of the space that connects the Library to Group II its welcoming presence is more humansized, more open. Although the basic concrete structure is there as Paul Rudolph designed it, the library is a beguiling mixture of action, color, and real life captured in the moment all visible as you approach either from the inner or outer campuses."
Suggestions or questions related to the Library's renovation plans? Send them in ...
Library Archives & Special Collections
The library's renovation and expansion planning included the Archives & Special Collectionsdivision. This part of the plan has been completed with the new Archives and Special Collections opening celebrated on September 18, 2009. Archives & Special Collections has a unique mission of preserving access to records created by the university faculty, staff, administrators and students, as well as manuscript collections which document the history of the people, industry and institutions of southeastern Massachusetts. It also maintains a reference and rare book collection.
Archives & Special Collections is one of the university's centers of excellence. The Archive's include the records of the two 19th century textile schools, the New Bedford Institute of Technology and the Bradford Durfee College of Technology, that combined to form the university and special collections of Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Franco-American, Italian and Jewish, and personal and family papers of important local individuals, such as Earl P. Charlton, one of the founders of F.W. Woolworth, and Fall River born state senator Mary L. Fonseca. The Archives is also home to the world-renowned Robert F. Kennedy Assasination Archives.
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives
A focal part of the plan was the construction of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives and the renovation of the University Archives & Special Collection.
Accessible, Comfortable, Environmentally Sound, and Secure
The newly renovated space includes a reception area, staff offices, exhibition room, storage with compact shelving, a processing room and an attractive reading room. The addition of appropriate security and climate controls insure that the expanded and updated archives is an environmentally sound and secure facility.
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Specialties: biblical criticism, deuteronomistic history, hebrew bible studies, hebrew prophets, integration of synchronic and diachronic approaches, methodology, old testament, pentateuchal narratives, poetic and wisdom literature
PhD, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (King's College), 2001
ThM, Academic Ministries: New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1996
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I read a lot. And I listen to a lot of music. Most recently I was reading Alexander Rofé, Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation (London; New York: T&T Clark, 2002); Edwin H. Friedman, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (New York: Guilford Press, 1985); and Peter Green, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture and Society 1; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990). At the very moment of writing this, I am listening to Miles Davis, but tomorrow it might be the Allman Brothers, fond as I am of southern rock and blues. As for movies, today I watched The Magnificent Seven for the umpteenth time. Love the score. Most favorite movie is probably Jeremiah Johnson. Favorite TV show is Psych.