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Well, it's been while my fellow hockey fans since I have hit the keyboard to stroke out a few words about our Vancouver Canucks and other hockey related issues. It's mid-July and as I taken time off of writing due to this four letter word called work, I have to admit, my mind has shut off hockey the last few weeks since the Stanley Cup Finals as I watched Sidney Crosby captain his Pittsburgh Penguins to a Game 7 victory. Congratulations and well done.
During this off-season, I have heard and read a good amount of ridiculous rumours of which free agents were going where and what trades were going to be put in place. As usual, only about quarter of those actually came true,and even then, the deal that went down wasn't always the one that was predicted in the weeks prior to July 1st.
Double Our Pleasure
There were many rumours circulating that the services of Daniel and Henrik Sedin were no longer going to belong to the Vancouver Canucks. In fact, there were rumours of the Wonder Twins heading to my current home of Toronto and were contemplating offers from the man who drafted them, Brian Burke, GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Hearing and reading people publicly saying, " The Sedins are Leafs, book it." and "Vancouver is going to have to do a rebuild without their first line." "No one wants to play in Vancouver, Canucks on the rebuild." It sounded like Dan and Hank were already waving the blue maple leaf and were starting to plan out their float for the parade route down Yonge Street in Toronto. I guess all the 'expert' rumour aficionados were on the mark there.
So, after some good deliberation with agent, JP Barry, the Sedin brothers decided that Vancouver was the best option for their interests. I for one am glad to see the Sedins back in Canuck uniforms and will be on the first line with workhorse, Alex Burrows. Regardless of what some so-called 'experts' say about the Sedin twins, they are very good players who have now shown they can shoulder the responsibility of carrying their good play into the post season. Mike Gillis did well in ensuring their future with the franchise.
Parting is Bittersweet
The departure of long time serving Canuck defenceman, Mattias Ohlund, was bittersweet for this long time fan. Mattias Ohlund lived up to his billing of his draft year. A steady, smooth-skating defenceman who hit hard and positioned himself well to counter an offensive attack. Ohlund was nominated for the Calder Trophy in 1998, on March 15th of this past season, Ohlund also became the franchise leading scoring defenceman. His 12 year tenure with the Canucks has placed Mattias Ohlund not only as a leader in the record books but a fan favourite and will be missed.
Thank you Mattias and good luck in Tampa Bay.
Extended Invitation
Roberto Luongo's anticipated contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks is a hot topic not only amongst Canucks fans but the hockey world in general. I will not even sugar coat this, the Vancouver Canucks are a much better team with Roberto Luongo between the pipes than without. Anyone who says the Canucks are fine without the services of Captain Canuck are sadly mistaken.Remember the 20 some odd games without Luongo? Remember what happened when he came back? Yeah, enough said. I'm not saying the Canucks aren't a competative team and don't have some of the puzzles pieces in place, it's just that, well, Roberto is the center piece. He is the man, in my opinion, that keeps the team wanting to strive for more and brings that spirit into the dressing room.
Luongo is a workhorse and shows that he will do what it takes to find success not just personally, but also for his team. I am sure many fans would agree the Vancouver Canucks need Roberto Luongo. So in the famous words of Larry the Cable Guy, "Mike Gillis…GET'ER DONE!"
So, as we are now at the half way mark into my other favourite sport, baseball, I also mark it as a signal that hockey season is not that far away. I'm starting to get back in gear with all the hockey rumours, talks, and write ups. I look forward to a new season and of course the upcoming Olympics in my hometown of Vancouver, BC. So until next time…
This has been some Musings from the Mud
Justine Galo: Toronto,ON

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By Qadir Sediqi and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Two journalists working for The Associated Press have been shot in Afghanistan, one of them fatally, the news agency said Friday.
The Associated Press said the slain journalist was Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer. She was shot in the country's eastern Khost province.
The second journalist targeted by the gunman was Kathy Gannon, a Canadian reporter based in Islamabad, the AP said. She is said to be in a stable condition and is receiving medical care.
"Anja and Kathy together have spent years in Afghanistan covering the conflict and the people there," said AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll, speaking in New York. "Anja was a vibrant, dynamic journalist well-loved for her insightful photographs, her warm heart and joy for life. We are heartbroken at her loss."
In a letter to AP staff Friday morning, chief executive Gary Pruitt also praised her courage and skill, describing her as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
The two women were traveling in their own car in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots in Khost province, protected by the Afghan National Army and Afghan police, the news agency said.
A unit commander walked up to their car as it waited to move, yelled "Allahu akbar" — "God is great" — and opened fire on them in the back seat, the AP said. He then surrendered to the other police present.
The reason for the attack is unclear, but police have arrested the suspected shooter and the case is under investigation, Baryalay Rawan, a spokesman for the Khost provincial governor, told CNN.
The attack came amid heightened security on the eve of Afghanistan's presidential and provincial elections.
Taliban disruption
The third presidential vote since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, this year's elections mark the first democratic handover of power in the fragile country, with current President Hamid Karzai — who is term-limited by the constitution — handing over the reins.
The Taliban have vowed to disrupt the elections and punish anyone involved in them.
A series of attacks in the capital, Kabul, and elsewhere has marred the run-up to the elections.
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance gate to the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing six Afghan police officers, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
A day earlier, a provincial council candidate and nine of his supporters were killed by the Taliban in northern Sar-e-Pul province, said the province's deputy police chief, Sakhidad Haidari.
Other journalists killed
Last month, the names of two more journalists were added to the list of those killed in Afghanistan.
Sardar Ahmad, one of Afghanistan's most prominent journalists and a senior reporter for Agence France-Presse, was among nine people killed in an attack on the Serena Hotel in central Kabul.
That attack came less than two weeks after Swedish Radio correspondent Nils Horner was shot dead in broad daylight on a Kabul street.
In his letter to AP staff, Pruitt said: "As conflict spreads throughout regions of the world, journalism has become more dangerous. Where once reporters and photographers were seen as the impartial eyes and ears of crucial information, today they are often targets."
The Committee to Protect Journalists highlighted the risks faced by journalists, particularly women, in Afghanistan in a piece published in February.
Some fear those risks may increase as the planned withdrawal of NATO combat forces, including U.S. troops, looms at the end of the year.
Changed mission?
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force had just over 51,000 troops, from 48 different countries, in Afghanistan as of Tuesday. Of those, the vast majority — about 33,500 — are from the United States.
Karzai has refused to sign an agreement to keep foreign security troops in the country after 2014.
But Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour this week that he anticipates international forces will remain in Afghanistan after the currently scheduled withdrawal.
"I think you will see a very large ISAF combat mission changed to a smaller but continued resolute support, train, advise and assist mission at the end of the year," he said. "NATO's mission doesn't end (after 2014); NATO's combat mission ends, but our train, advise, assist mission begins, and this is very important to remember."
The three leading presidential candidates — Abdullah Abdullah, Zalmai Rassoul and Ashraf Ghani — have told CNN that they are in favor of signing a deal.
Abdullah, who was a vocal critic of the Taliban during their years in power, was a previous Karzai ally and served in his government as foreign minister. But in later years, he has been a thorn in the side of the outgoing President. He is seen as a relatively liberal candidate and advocate of women's engagement in public life.
Rassoul is seen as the establishment candidate. A Karzai ally, he received the backing of the current President's brother, Qayum, who withdrew his candidacy and endorsed the former foreign minister. Rassoul has a reputation for honesty, despite his years in an administration plagued with accusations of graft.
The third key contender, Ghani, is a former U.S. citizen and academic who gave up his passport to run for the Afghan presidency in 2009. He is seen as a moderate, with experience in development, but his past links to the United States may lessen his chances if voters see him as an outsider.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking Wednesday in Belgium, said the latest briefings from NATO commanders show that despite the Taliban's threats, overall violence across Afghanistan "is lower now than at any time during the last two years."
Rasmussen praised the work of Afghan security forces, which have taken over many responsibilities from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, saying they had "demonstrated commitment, courage and professionalism" during preparations for the elections.
CNN's Qadir Sediqi reported from Kabul and Laura Smith-Spark reported and wrote in London. CNN's Brian Walker, Euan McKirdy and Mick Krever contributed to this report.
TM & © 2013 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.


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'The Amityville Horror' (1979)
George and Kathleen Lutz and their three kids moved into 112 Ocean Ave., a large Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, N.Y.. What they didn't know was that Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot and killed his family at the house a year earlier -- and the house didn't like visitors. A rule of thumb: When a house tells you to get out, you probably should pack and go. They waited it out a while, and, well, don't flaunt the rule.
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Wolfs1-11 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 182 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Wolf's 1-11 Restaurant and Games
Were an restaurant pub and arcade. Our dinning area will include an elevated class of dinning featuring Table cloth dining. The Pub area will be sports driven with Lots of high definition televisions. The game room will include redemtion games. This is geared to adults and children.
Our target audience is middle aged adults( family) but must be kid friendly as well.
The dominate feature must be a circular shape. The with "WOLF'S 1-11" below and "restaurant and games" being the smallest portion. The Logo must incorporate cream and chocolate brown. Other colors may be included but they can't be too flashy. There doesn't necessarily need to have a wolf on the design as that is the name of the street. I would like a circular logo with the wolf's 1-11 sticking out the sides.
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With support from IUCN's "Toward Pro-Poor REDD+" project, two provinces in Indonesia have produced customary land rights maps that are helping to facilitate REDD+ and broader community-based forest management efforts in the region.
In order to benefit from REDD+, Papua and West Papua Provinces in Indonesia have identified land rights and active participation of the community as key issues that need to be clarified and facilitated. Given this, IUCN's "Toward Pro-Poor REDD+" project, with funding from Denmark's Development Cooperation (Danida), has been working closely with the Samdhana Institute, the governments of Papua and West Papua Province, civil society and other NGOs to develop customary land rights maps.
Approximately 21 customary areas have been mapped at the local level to identify who owns the land and rights on the land. In addition to supporting REDD+ efforts, these maps have proven to be useful tools for broader land and resources planning, dispute resolution, as well as explaining community rights to the younger generation. Capacity building, facilitated by the development of guidebooks and training workshops, has been an essential part of this mapping work.
The maps were developed at the local level through a participatory process that engaged a wide range of stakeholders. Nineteen customary boundary maps have been produced in Baliem Valley in the highland area, and two for the Kaimana District, located in the lowlands.
To ensure the maps are not used to encourage investment from big plantations or forest industry activities that might seek to further deplete or degrade the forests, the Samdhana Institute and local government have identified the need to support broader, local-level economic development. To this end, they have piloted a community-based forest management scheme in one village in Kaimana District, West Papua Province. Using the map of their customary territory as a basis, the community has engaged in monitoring and managing their forest and land resources, and they are now seeking legal recognition of their area from the national government.
Next Steps
Building on the momentum and results of the "Toward Pro-poor REDD+" project, IUCN, the Samdhana Institute and other partners in Papua and West Papua Provinces will continue to develop maps for new customary areas to secure intergenerational tenure rights. The two provinces will also work to get land-use maps formally recognized and used by national and sub-national governments as central tools in REDD+ implementation. In the Baliem Valley, Papua Province, the maps will be legalized and used to develop customary boundary management plans based on cultural zones, as well as in the design of agro-forestry and reforestation activities in degraded areas.
In Kaimana, West Papua Province, the maps have been used to propose village forest licenses, which will allow community groups to continue to legally and sustainably manage their own forests. The districts and partners will develop forest measurement databases which will support the development of detailed forest management business plans and small-scale forest products trading. The province will also continue to invest in training more facilitators needed to ensure the maps can be effectively leveraged by as many stakeholder groups and communities as possible.


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The Hawk and Owl Trust 'completely and utterly' condemns the illegal killing of Hen Harriers
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2015 Chicks Hatch for the Peregrine Falcons in Bath City Centre
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First two chicks of 2015 hatch together at Norwich Cathedral Urban Peregrines Project
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Four 'Easter' Eggs for Bath Peregrines 2015
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First Peregrine Flies the Nest 2014
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Fourth Norwich Peregrine Hatch 2014
Norwich Cathedral Peregrine Chicks receive their identification rings | Press Release 19.05.14
Fourth Norwich Peregrine Hatch 2014
Norwich Peregrines hatch fourh chick at Hawk and Owl Trust Urban Peregrine Watch Point | Press Release 29.04.14
First Norwich Peregrine Hatch 2014
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Dramatic Return for 'DP'
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Nature Check
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Illini Hold Bulldogs To 28.6 Percent Shooting From The Field
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A distinct height advantage went a long way in helping No. 19 Illinois defeat Yale on Tuesday. The Illini, who started two 6-9 forwards and a 7-foot center, outscored the Bulldogs 44-20 in the paint and kept the Yale offense on the perimeter en route to a 73-47 victory before a predominantly orange attired crowd of 13,858 at Assembly Hall.
After making 12 three-pointers in last Thursday's upset of Boston College, Yale wasn't nearly as sharp against the Illini. The Bulldogs connected on just 4-of-20 treys, thanks in large part to an aggressive Illinois defense.
"We were open for shots for a split second, but they were able to recover quickly," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "I thought we showed a lack of understanding of when we were open."
Greg Mangano paced the Bulldogs with 14 points and seven rebounds. Austin Morgan added 12 points.
D.J. Richardson led three Illinois players in double figures with 16 points. Demetri McCamey added 11 points and Mike Tisdale contributed 10 points and 13 rebounds.
The Illini (5-1) scored the first five points of the game and led 12-3 after eight minutes. The Bulldogs, though, scored the next eight points. Illinois answered with a 10-4 run and built the advantage to 13, 30-17, at halftime.
Morgan's three-pointer cut the deficit to nine with 15 minutes remaining, but Illinois then went on a 12-2 run over the next five minutes to seize control.
"In key stretches, our defense wasn't what it needed to be," Jones said.
The Illini shot 61.3 percent (19-of-31) from the field in the second half.
The Bulldogs committed a season-high 22 turnovers.
NOTES: The game served as a homecoming for Yale senior guard Raffi Mantilla, a native of Mundelein, Ill., which is a suburb of Chicago. Mantilla scored two points and grabbed four rebounds in 14 minutes of action… This was only the second game between the Bulldogs and Illini. Illinois defeated Yale 71-67 in the 1949 NCAA Tournament at Madison Square Garden… The Bulldogs play their home opener against Army on Saturday at 2 p.m… Chris Hine, the Illinois beat reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was a roommate of Yale guard Porter Braswell in New York two summers ago. Hine, then a student at Notre Dame, was interning for the New York Times, while Braswell was interning for Goldman Sachs. Hine wrote this story on Braswell for the Tribune's website prior to the game.
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Welcome to the Village Of Ephraim!
ear for Fry Bal Festival, in order to provide a safe and enjoyable environmentfor the Festival attendees, a portion of Highway 42 as well as the Ephraim Marina boatlaunch will be closed in downtown Ephraim from 8 a.m..until 10 p.m. on Saturday June,17th. The closure will begin at Moravia Street on Ephraim's Southside and continue toCedar Street on the Northside of the village
Nestled along the scenic northern shores of Lake Michigan the Village of Ephraim's cultural and historical heritage is a blend of Moravian culture and Norwegian ethnic heritage. Founded as a Moravian religious community in 1853 by the Reverend Andreas Iverson, many of the historic buildings, The Moravian Church (1858), the Pioneer Schoolhouse (1880), the Anderson Store (1858) and warehouse, as well as the Anderson Barn (1880) and eight homes in the Village, are more than a century old and all still in use.
To ensure that Ephraim remains a historic and beautiful location, Ephraim's zoning is admittedly strict and is continually refined to preserve the distinctive atmosphere and character of the Village. Ephraim has an extensive Historic District with additional zoning regulations to preserve historic structures.
In the last decade, Ephraim has acquired and developed park and recreation land – the park next to the Village Hall, a park across from the Hall, and a waterfront park with a gazebo for summer concerts across from the Firehouse Marina to name a few. A wetland almost destroyed by a developer that is slowly regenerating was purchased by the Village and has been turned into a Wetland Preserve. Come visit us in Ephraim and you'll see why we call it home.


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At the baby shower I cohosted with Gia and Trisha at her lovely home this past weekend, there were gorgeous sprays of pink flowers just about everywhere you looked. Like the tulips on the buffet table, above. Or the gerber daisies and hydrangeas atop the mantel:
Or a fresh bouquet on a side table:
The food was every bit as pretty, with fantastic sandwiches, crudité, and baby potatoes with crème fraîche and bright orange Petrossian trout caviar….
In addition to bacon-wrapped dates (a riff on those served at AOC) and Jane Royale cocktails, I also made Mark Bittman's chicken laver pâté. More on that tomorrow. But let me leave you with a deliciously sweet bite made by shower attendee and former front woman for all-girls punk band The Red Aunts, Terri Wahl, who is also known as the force behind the delicious Auntie Em's Kitchen in Eagle Rock:


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When collecting coupons I have found that I get several coupons for the same products.
When collecting coupons I have found that I get several coupons for the same products. Because I do not believe in stockpiling items, a lot of these coupons simply get thrown away. I cannot tell you the amounts of coupons I have for personal hygiene products, laundry detergents and cereals. I simply cannot use all the coupons I receive for these items. However, I would encourage you not to allow your coupons to go to waste.
During the holiday seasons, countless amounts of charities will be hosting fundraisers to collect products for needy families in the area. This is when I find that my coupon skills come in handy. By using coupons I save money on the items that I buy. Therefore, I can donate more items to the charities.
I would encourage you to contact area charities. They can tell you what they need and you can make your selection of charities from there. I have been able to donate countless amounts of laundry detergents, toys, food items, toothpaste and more to several area local charities. I was able to purchase a large amount of products for a drastically reduced price and give it to various charities.
Organizations like the Alliance Against Family Violence, the Leavenworth County Humane Society, Samaritans Purse and charities for deployed soldiers are just a few of the organizations that come to my mind when I think about giving. Ever little bit helps and coupons can help your dollars go further for your organization.
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[Is this landscape architecture? who cares?]
Perhaps McHarg would say that it is best understood as a pristine nature to be disturbed as little as possible. John Lyle and Joan Naussauer would say it is a complex system to be interpreted culturally and managed scientifically. Ann Spirn would argue that landscape is best understood as a language. Denis Cosgrove and Christine Boyer, among others, would argue for understanding the landscape as a cultural product. James Corner might call for reading the landscape as a narrative, Tom Leader as a palimpsest. Charles Waldheim, and Pierre Belanger vociferously state that it is to be understood as infrastructure.
And all of these might be correct, in a specific location at a given moment. Perhaps we don't need a framework beyond that; if each designer or group is competent in each of those methodologies, and can choose from them for any given project, perhaps that is just fine. Unfortunately though, designers, clients and their concomitant critics usually fall back into metaphor as a way to sell an inane and costly intervention. And lord, do we hate that.
[how, exactly, would you define this landscape?]
Readers of this blog will recognize the familiar bang of our favorite drum when we contend that the landscape is best understood through myth. It is something we typically drone on about every couple of months, but permit us 1000 words while we try to expound on why we think this approach is appropriate. (We should note that all of the above critics/theorists/practitioners and many more provide amazing insights and we recommend looking into their work, hence the links).
The difficulty with the above conceptual frameworks is that they are limited; ie sure, the landscape is infrastructure, but it is also a language, a cultural artifact, a product, a dynamic networked system. It is literally all of that and anything else you can put forth. There is nothing it is not, and there is no way to bound it (which is not to say that specific conceptions of landscape as palimpsest, artifact, narrative, ecology, etc are not useful at a given point in time). So how is mythology better? It is expansive.
Let's look at the definition of mythology (in the venerable oed):
mythology- the exposition of myth or myths
Not helpful. Let's look at myth:
myth- a traditional story, typically involving supernatural being or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon.
Okay, that is understood and a common definition. But this pre-post modern definition of myth(ology) dating from the 19th century places an undue emphasis on the notion of totalizing effects wrought through the common shared beliefs of a group of people. In The Wasteland, TS Eliot creates a mythology, through allusion, to all of historical western thought (and much of eastern, insomuch as it relates to western). The Wasteland is an epic in 433 lines, with something like 60 allusions to 40 different writers- bits of culture, broken up by the Great War, reassembled into a single frame, all reinterpreted. As elucidated by Nick Mount, when Eliot writes in the epigraph that "I had not thought death had undone so many" he is alluding directly to Dante, using him to build a new world; one in which a crowd of people waiting outside the gates of hell has become a group of daily downtown commuters (24th minute)- goddamn modernity! Throughout, Eliot shows that traditional, totalizing readings of ancient "narratives, artifacts, and palimpsests" are not appropriate now. So let's refine the definition of myth.
Creatively, we look to Roland Barthes and his work Mythologies to better understand what myth is about in this post-modern world in which old meanings have come undone and, as Joseph Campbell insists, everyone must make there own mythology. In it, Barthes describes 28 modern mythologies, ranging from "The World of Wrestling" (our favorite), to "Plastic", to "The Blue Guide" [of France]. He could just as easily written of George Washington Cable's New Orleans guidebooks or the myth of George Washington himself (as others have).
It is the last essay, "Myth Today", which is most helpful (though least interesting). In it, Barthes states that "since myth is a type of speech, everything can be a myth provided it is conveyed by a discourse."
Whoa! This sounds like Ann Spirn; the landscape as language with multiple readings, not limited to descriptive observations (ie, the formal qualities of a tree), but also lending itself to multiple and dynamic narratives. In The Language of Landscape, Spirn states "landscape has all the features of language. It contains the equivalent of words and parts of speech- patterns of shape, structure, material, formation, and function. All landscapes are combinations of these. Like the meanings of words, the meanings of landscape elements (water, for example) are only potential until context shapes them." This in turn, smacks of Joseph Campbell's assertions that "the ultimate ground of the individual character... lies beyond research, beyond analysis... intelligible character is unfolded only gradually and imperfectly through circumstance."
And this makes sense. For Spirn, the landscape is language, and for Campbell [though he's not speaking about landscape, I will construe it that way] there is a dialectic between different characters, be it the landscape and a culture or an individual and a particular event (such as a war, or a barn-raising). Landscape is forms, systems, patterns, yet it is also informing other characters in a larger story. The meaning that comes from its constituents (places, processes, objects) is influencing something else, in a dialogue. How is that to be understood?
Here, Barthes offers us a very ugly, simple diagram:
For Barthes, myth is a semiological system, as is language. But he argues persuasively that myth is a meta-language, a second-order system of signs. As such, it is both the specific structures, forms, and processes that make up a landscape and the "meaning" those have (number "3" in the diagram) but it is also part of a larger system of signs, an inflexion of and in the culture that created it. It is not a commodity created or a narrative pieced together, it is not solely an artifact of a historical moment. Rather, it is, but it is also then informing the ongoing dialogue, changing the patterns, structures, and lexicons. It is the embodiment of a historical narrative or reality, but as that embodiment (that "sign") it becomes a character in a larger semiological system. As Barthes states, "what must always be remembered is that myth is a double system; there occurs in it a sort of ubiquity: its point of departure is constituted by the arrival of a meaning... [and] motivation is necessary to the very duplicity of myth: myth plays on the analogy between meaning and form, there is no myth without motivated form."
[a barn-raising in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada]
Much more could be said (though not by us), but we think it is this expansive understanding of the landscape that may offer a conceptual approach that can keep us from hyperbolic en vogue conceptions of the landscape that only serve to ultimately limit both our understanding of landscape and methods for intervening in it. To be sure there are problems with myth as a means for understanding the landscape, (though not limits). Any quick survey of critical literature shows that conceptions of landscape are constantly redefined, and it is likely that we are now working during an incredible historical moment, one in which the landscape will figure just as prominently in our post-hyper-modern meta-narrative as the oceans did during the 16th century, monarchs in the 15th, industrialists in the 19th, or capitalists and engineers did in the 20th. Perhaps our understanding will be up to the moment.


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Bulldogs Head to Penn, Take On Princeton
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On Saturday, the Bulldogs will travel down to Philadelphia to take on Princeton and host school Penn in the annual tri-meet. This is the same track that several Bulldogs will compete on at the Penn Relays later this month. Yale has won two of the past seven meetings between the three schools, most recently in 2006. The small size of the meet will allow Yale to show off its depth.
The Bulldogs are fresh off a strong showing at Princeton's Sam Howell Invitational last weekend where they claimed three wins, two from sophomore Nihal Kayali on consecutive days. Kayali ran away with both the 1,500-meter run and the 3,000-meter run titles, after making her lifetime debut in the latter event.
If last weekend's performances are any indication, the team will surely be competitive with Princeton, the indoor Heps champion. Several Bulldogs bested Tigers in their events and many more were right behind. The 4x100-meter relay team was right on Princeton's heels, finishing in 48.66 to the Tigers' 48.25, as was the 4x400-meter relay team (3:56.96 to 3:55.28). Kayali outpaced Greta Feldman of Princeton in Friday's edition of the 1,500-meter run before going on to beat Alexis Mikaelian by over 20 seconds in the 3,000-meter run on Saturday. Mikaelian was first in the mile at indoor Heps this year while Kayali finished third. Freshman Emily Urciuoli tied with Princeton's Samantha Anderson for sixth place in the pole vault.
The Bulldogs have not yet competed against Penn this season.
The event will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, concluding at 1:45 p.m. Results will be available on www.PennAthletics.com and www.YaleBulldogs.com. The meet website is here.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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(Memories of my childhood)
by Juda Parasol
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
It was during the days when the sun was unsparing with its rays on the smelly open gutter of the boisterously noisy Okrzei Street and on the uncontrollable pranksters speeding across the dried out, muddy grooves of the very damaged unpaved street. The sun smiled heartily, as if announcing great joyfulness to the world, and the world also seemed to believe in the joyful news from the radiant sun
And yet the hot days of Tammuz [June-July] were already filled with rumors, from which a chill went across the body! From day to day rumors plainly disclosed the heavy misfortune that hung over our skies like a dark, heavy cloud, the approaching German-Russian War of 1914.
We, then still children of six or seven, did not completely understand the horrors hidden by the frightening word, war!! This had for us a sort of attraction, and overhearing the conversations among the grownups that the war was very close, incidentally, concerned us very little. It was very important to us that it would soon be Tisha B'Av [fast day in July or August commemorating the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem] and we had to take care of the nettles because this was an acceptable custom in the shtetl, to throw the nettles during prayers on Tisha B'Av, which would get caught in each wool garment and particularly in the long beards of the older Jews!
A group of pranksters from our street actually went to the neighborhood of the zielenieć [greenery] in order to gather nettles there. Not feeling that we were in danger, who among the carefree children allowed into their thoughts that the tragic beginning of the First World War hung so low over us in 1914.
Our parents searched for us throughout the shtetl and when we calmly returned with the gathered nettles a strong panic reigned in the city. People ran to the train with packs. Our parents closed us in the house and forbid us to go outside! Sweets were even left for us so that we would not have to go outside to buy them!!
Wagons of Russian soldiers and police, with loaded baggage, trudged throughout the day until late at night. Everyone went in one direction to the train! This lasted until late in the night. In the morning, the first German soldiers on horses, with bizarre helmets, appeared on Sobieksa Street near the Huta Bankowa [glass works].
But late at night the banging of the horses' horseshoes stopped and a dead silence reigned over the city; the fear of the unknown that I knew would come first emerged in the nighttime darkness and this was confirmed without a doubt for we children that our joy from the expected war was not so joyful.
But suddenly a bizarre shout was unexpectedly heard in the night's quiet; I got
out of bed immediately and with my parents sneaked out of the house in order to
learn what the tumult signified.
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This turned out to be Mama Hinda-Rajzl and her family from Działoszyce taking leave of their husbands who were going to the train in order to appear for the Russian military, mobilized for the zafas [emergency], but with luck the leave taking lasted so long that they were late for the last departing Russian train and, in the end, they with wives and children were behind the front that began near the cities of Wolbrom and Olkusz!
Since then I remember the house of the Mama Hinda-Rajzl well! And that is what we called her. For as long as I remember, with us in the shtetl, very few knew her surname Pamacznik. Her husband, Josef Szymon, was a very sympathetic man and, in addition, the best specialist in sewing men's shirts in our area. Up until the end of their lives in Dąbrowa, the firm remained in her name; we are going to Hinda-Rajzl's! And this was sewn by Hinda-Rajzl.
The house in which we were educated from the earliest years together with Mama Hinda-Rajzl's children was by far not the largest in our Dąbrowa shtetl, yet it was very colorful and this was thanks to the various pursuits of the residents of the house that was 95% inhabited by Jews starting with the indelicate porters of the shtetl, Aszer Plachte to Mosze Puter [butter] (Ajzenman), the fanatic with a wide range of various children.
The house had three shops, of which the food and imported goods store of Mosze Puter was very popular. Very few knew his correct surname (Ajzenman). I never knew from where he got his nickname Mosze Puter. On the ground floor, in addition to our family, there was a residence with a business of iron articles and paints, Abram Dawid Prezerowicz both Mosze Puter and Prezerowicz had large warehouses in the large courtyard of our house on Okrzei 16, where horses hitched to large wagons (platormes) arrived non-stop and created difficulties for the large number of children in our house to play games! In a large annex was found the only mechanized carpentry workshop in Dąbrowa that made so much noise in the house from the machines and motors that it even smothered the banging of the mangle [clothes wringer] that was the bread winner for the old widow of the Dąbrower Rabbi with her daughter. (The only son was already in America.)
But from my earliest youth, the music of the clattering of the machines had a power of attraction as it mixed with the well known Jewish melodies and folk songs sung by the working girls who drove the treadles of the sewing machines with their feet the entire day sewing wifrawes [outfits] for the rich daughters and sons of Dąbrowa and its surroundings.
These were with the Mama Hinda-Rajzl! Simple sincere people with whom we lived in such a family atmosphere and this was thanks to the sincere, good mother who created such a homey environment. I was like one of their own and, in addition, the best friend and comrade of their son, Alter!
The Pamacnikes were simple, hardworking people, artisans who acquired a good name for the quality of their work. But they still were different from the other artisans in Dąbrowa. The Mama Hinda-Rajzl had so much sincere, genial goodness towards friends, towards those close to her and mainly to people. She was successful in creating warmth around her and trust in her house!
An ideal coexistence existed in their house with its very quiet, modest
hardworking Josef Szymon, who was as silent as a dove, standing the entire day
with a long tape measure hanging over his shoulders and with the heavy scissors
in his hands with which he cut his famous men's shirts.
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A real old traditional Jewish way of life reigned in the house although far from an exaggerated fanaticism. To their praise it must be said that they never used any unacceptable expression in their house as among the other Jewish artisans in the city.
Hinda-Rajzl, whose door it was not difficult to recognize because of the characteristic clatter of the sewing machines and the simultaneous singing of the girls working there, lived on the first story.
Their residence was very modest and possessed one room and a kitchen. Although the house was large enough, I today still do not understand how they succeeded with their three children and a consistent half dozen guests. Thank God, there was never a lack of guests at Hinda-Rajzl's. Relatives from the farthest cities both on her side and on his side would often visit the Pamacnikes and were in no hurry to leave And the Mama, Hinda-Rajzl, had enough time to take care of everyone and to show them full cordiality!
There were three windows in the large room of approximately 40 square meters: two along the length of the room and the third along the width. The last window was divided by a curtain, under which was found their room for sleeping, with two beds, one opposite the other on each wall. Between the two beds, their only son, Alter, worked at a half mechanized workshop. He had learned to work with the special machines for embroidery, hemstitching, knitting and to mechanically embroider holes in various linens, from his uncle, Mordechai Fajgenblat in Częstochowa! In the middle of the room, the Mama, Hinda-Rajzl stood at one side of a large table and opposite stood her husband, Josef Szymon, who prepared work for the six to eight girls who were pressed together near the only window in the kitchen and sewed the outfits for the rich houses of Dąbrowa and its surroundings. One bed also stood on the other side of the not large kitchen that was found in the corner of the large room and for the remaining constant guests, beds were made on the floor! The tumult and shouts of the wagon drivers who maneuvered their flat wagons in the courtyard where the flour, sugar, rice and other food stuffs, as well as paint and ironware from Prezerowicz were loaded without stop at the storehouses of Mosze Puter was constantly heard through the windows in the large room.
At the window of the large room stood two large old fashioned trunks crammed with various expensive fabrics the constant supply that assured work for Hinda-Rajzl's workshop for a whole year.
And yet they barely earned a modest living with all of the work. Thank God, and not worse. This answer would be heard often from Mama, Hinda-Rajzl, to every question of how her life was.
While the work time for the girls was limited and had its set time, this did not include Hinda-Rajzl or her husband. They worked until late at night! However, Friday was an exception when at the lunch time hour all of the machines were moved into the corner near the kitchen window. That was until early Sunday when the smiling girls would again come, singing their tasty Yiddish folk songs, tapping to the beat on the iron treadles of the machines.
On Shabbat one would not recognize the Pamacnik family. Everything smelled of
Shabbat as if here in the house there had never been a workshop. And the large
table that had served for work the entire week was covered with a beautiful
white tablecloth, adorned with the Shabbat candlesticks. Josef Szymon with his
round, black hat, with a black, silk strip over the front of the visor, in the
special Shabbat long coat, did not rush his prayers then.
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His sincere Hinde-Rajzl also was not like the one from the rest of the week; she had more time for the children to whom she was an exquisite mother. She was particularly busy with the oldest, a little sick daughter, Chajale, as well as having time to dedicate to the frequent guests.
And thus life flowed from Shabbat to Shabbat! In addition to the arriving guests there were always the steady ones who lived in the house like their own children. When Hercke, the husband of her relative from Działoszyce, died before his time leaving her a widow with two children, she lived with the Mama for a long time until she learned a trade in order to be able to earn money and feed her children.
And when the children little by little grew up, they again came to Mama for a longer time to learn various work and lived there for years and all of this did not cause the good, sincere Mama, Hinda-Rajzl, to lose patience.
And in addition to the heavy toiler's life, she also had time and feeling for everyone; after a difficult day of work, to spend the entire night with a very sick person; to go across the city gathering donations for the needy and for what did Mama Hinda-Rajzl not find time? If a woman had a difficult birth, they came for Hinda-Rajzl. She never refused. And when my godly mother became very sick and left her children while still young, Hinda-Rajzl received yet another house with children. There was no day when she did not come to us two or three times a day to provide everything that was needed by we who had been hurt so early.
And thus flowed the time. The children grew up and the Mama, Hinda-Rajzl, lived to give her children, first the oldest daughter, Chajale, and then her only son, Alter, in marriage. She was particularly proud that her successful son became the son-in-law of the distinguished and well known Dąbrowa communal worker, Chanoch Szpilberg, and when Hinda-Rajzle had with luck given her youngest daughter in marriage, she and her sister, Chajale, took over the then well run business in Chorzów of their brother, Alter, who had decided in the 1930s to settle in Eretz Yisrael with his wife, Ester.
Remaining alone, the older people did not think for long about the invitation of their son, Alter, in the 1930's and left for Eretz Yisrael. No longer responsible for anyone with their work, they lived a pleasant old age. Alas, of their beloved daughters and their families, only grandson, Zysl, their daughter, Chajale's only child, survived.
When, after 10 years of wandering, I returned to my family in 1949, she still had time to exhibit her help for us.
Honor her memory.
by Baruch Symchoni
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
In the midst of an alert and the stressful period of May 1967, before the Six Day War, our attention was turned to a general call up. We anxiously opened up a newspaper and were anxious in the face of what was installed for us, in the face of a war that was going to break out and here on no account did we believe and didn't want to accept the black framed announcement, in the name of the Haifa port workers, on the sudden passing of Mordechai, and unfortunately, our doubt was affirmed.
|Mordechai Egozi zl (Nusbaum)
The writer of these lines was older than him, and I had the opportunity of observing him, and seeing how his personality was formulated. I see him in front of me going up to the bimah [platform in synagogue for Torah reading], sheltered under the wing of the prayer shawl of his father, Reb Dr. Dawid Nusbaum the Cohen. Standing amongst the great Cohanim [priests] and with ten figures stretched over his forehead, Motek blessed us, all the assembled congregation.
The education that he received, of moderation, of spiritual calm and sensitivity, formed his personality. His education in the Zionist pioneering youth movement, in the organized labor movement in Dąbrowa also contributed to this.
This background brought Motek to dedicate himself to his fellow man and serve the group of laborers in the Haifa Port. He invested his spiritual efforts and talents into this project with all his strength. He didn't speak a great deal and lived up to his principles.
These pleasant attributes were embodied deep in his soul, the foundations of truth and righteousness within him influenced all the laborers in the Haifa Port, and he helped them to solve problems in their work place.
I personally had the opportunity to follow Motek's activities through my relative Asher Cygelbaum, one of the laborers, and the port workers testify of him, that Mordechai was their representative without arrogance and without condescension to others.
How will we and his family be consoled?
When we came to the country he gave a few details about what he had gone through in the Holocaust years in the Nazi forced labor camp, together with my brother Mosze (Moniek), his friend, who was killed in the Holocaust.
If there is a next world according to the beliefs of our forefathers, his mother Mindel received Motek with open arms and hugs, caressing, and pampering that she didn't manage to give him in her lifetime, since she was killed when Motek was a young boy.
The pain and sorrow are great for the loss of this man beloved by his family
and us.
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by Kalman Barkai
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
He was born in 1902 in Be'er Tuvia. In the riots of 1929 the Zlotnik family farm was burnt down and they moved to Haifa, where they founded a metal workshop.
|Jakob Zahavi-Zlotnik
active in the Etzel resistance movement
After he ceased his studies and joined Etzel, he was forced to leave Haifa for fear of the authorities and wandered to Rehovot and Petach Tikwa. His friends organized work for him in Petach Tikwa as a clerk in the Ha'orez society.
He dedicated his nights to instructing his people. At the time he was head of the Nimrod group. His friends grew to know, like and respect this handsome young man, whose attraction was all over his face, his speech and manners were pleasant, and above all he was a talented and gifted commander.
Jakob was commander of the small band that assaulted the Ramat Gan Police fortress, and managed to silence the resistance of the police in the section of the fortress over which he was in charge of.
Whilst retreating from the fortress he was hit by a bullet and killed. This was three days after his twentieth birthday.
May the Lord avenge his death.
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by Baruch Symchoni
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
Chaim was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza, a town of coal furnaces, whose life tempo took place according to the sirens of the three shift changes.
It was a town of well-organized laborers in which the P.P.S, the Polish Socialist Party, was the strongest amongst the parties, founded wonderful cultural meetings.
The number of Jews there was small and they dealt in supplying services to the many laborers: in commerce and trades.
Young Chaim continued to dress in the typical Jewish attire. His parents concerned themselves with teaching him a worthy trade sewing.
Chaim joined the Z. S., the Zionist Socialists, when it was founded, which
managed to enroll many from amongst the Jewish youth, and served as a barricade
against of many Jewish youth secretly joining the Communist movement.
|Chaim Gruszka zl
The influence of the movement following its merge with Tzeirei Zion [Young Zionists], and its numeric size, was that it was the most active and ran all the pioneering Zionist movements; Keren Kayemet LeYisrael [Jewish National fund], the Hechalutz [Pioneering] organization, the Haleega lma'an eretz Yisrael ovedet [League for a working Eretz Yisrael], and also the elections for the Zionist congresses.
Chaim Gruszka found a wide field for activities amongst the vibrant youth.
The youths who studied in the Hebrew school as well as those who studied in the Polish government school, did not know how to read and write Yiddish (everyone knew how to speak). Chaim was recruited to teach and train so that they could learn this language, to enable them to read the works of the Yiddish authors Mendle Mus, Shalom Aleichem, Y. L. Perez and others. In addition to this he was drawn to activities in various committees, and in every place Chaim's gifted hand in clever writing was felt.
However his heart was drawn to realizing the idea of making aliyah.
At the height of the 1929 riots he organized a small group of six male and female members, to join the training kibbutz in Kłosowo, named after Josef Trumpeldor.
There, in a granite stone quarry, Chaim's character is prominent as a symbol of a man and a pioneer. He was an example of dedication beyond his abilities, enthusiastic about the idea of life in a collective [settlement].
Hundreds of members who were assembled during this period in Kłosowo quickly learnt to discern his personality and admirable qualities. Only after four months of his stay in the training camp, the kibbutz approved the right of Chaim to make aliyah, despite the limited number of certificates that the Jewish Agency had received from the Mandate authorities for all countries.
The Agency protested about the small number of certificates and responded by returning a thousand certificates, and in the meantime another year went by.
At the end of the nineteen thirties Chaim was sent home to prepare for aliyah. The meaning of the preparations was: to get funding for the outlay in making aliyah.
After a year Chaim reaches his destination, a kibbutz belonging to Gdud Ha'avoda [Labor corps] named after Yosef Trumpeldor in Ramat Rachel. Like most of the members of the kibbutz he worked in building and in the Dead Sea [plants]. Here he found a natural continuation of his life in Kłosowo.
He was aware of public life and quickly joined into the life of the collective, however together with this he kept in contact with his friends in the Diaspora. In his letters he spoke about the realization of the idea [of making aliyah] and the joy of creating.
Since he knew the international language, Esperanto, he was in contact with
distant and foreign peoples and explained the Zionist idea to them.
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Likewise he translated songs that were sung in the nineteen thirties into Esperanto. I have in my possession letters and rhyming poems, written in pencil, and amongst them working songs, apparently experiments, amongst them a song in the spirit of Y. L. Perez, since Bechel Tchelta was born in his hometown, Zamość.
On receiving news from his parents about the dwindling of sources for a livelihood and the financial degeneration, he decided to leave for a couple of months in order to earn a wage and help them out.
He left the kibbutz for a time was taken to work in the Bromide plant in northern section of the Dead Sea. In spite of the stormy life that he gone through he remained modest, mild in manners and speech. During six days of the week he worked in the Dead Sea and on Saturdays he returned to his home in Jerusalem, to his wife and son Amos.
As on every Sunday, I accompanied Chaim to the truck leaving with the laborers to work in the Dead Sea and I continued on my way.
For two years from then up until the day of his accident I didn't visit him; these were the years of riots 5686-5689 [1926-1929], and the period of maintaining the existing and the erecting of chomot vemigdalim ['towers and stockades' a system of building Jewish settlement in Mandatory Palestine], and I was located in the Jordan Valley, far from Jerusalem.
The newspapers in those days were followed in the main because of the riots and bloody insurrections, and almost no-one paid attention to a short article about Gruszka's funeral, who was killed when he fell from a truck carrying laborers from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea plants as it did at dawn on every Sunday.
I saw the vision of the parting from his wife and son Amos that I had witnessed two years earlier.
This vision did not leave my memory, up until now, thirteen years later, many of our common friends from Kłosowo still ask: Where is Gruszka?
His brother was unable to arrive from the Diaspora after the foundation of the State [of Israel], and his friends were unable to see him established and settled in Israel.
Chaim Gruszka was unable to see his son Amos as a successful doctor in the Hadassah hospital.
What remains is for us to immortalize his memory on paper.
by Dawid Krauze
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
The melamed [teacher in a religious elementary school], Reb Mosze Hercberg, was called Mosze Kop [head]. Why he was called this we never knew; he was always hoarse. The cheder [religious elementary school] was located in his home, two houses from the Dąbrowa synagogue at Chaim Ruszinek's house. The apartment was dark and the rebbe harsh. When parents wanted to punish their children, they threatened to enroll the child with Reb Misze*.
*[Translator's note: The melamed is referred to as both Mosze and Misze.]
Neither of my parents knew of any rebbitzen [rabbi's wife] she probably died earlier.
There were three children in the family. The oldest son, Szlomo Lejb, a lean, thin young man, the daughter, Ruchama, also was thin and tall. All three children always smiled. Szlomo Lejb, the oldest son, was not a rich man. As I remember, although he knew Tanach [the Bible] and the Psalms by heart, he was not occupied with Torah. He spent time with wagon drivers and they hired him for short trips he did not have his own horse and cab. Religious Jews would hire him to go to Będzin and its surroundings on business. Szlomo Lejb would recite chapters of Psalms and Tanach by heart on the way and the passengers would have great pleasure from it.
His [Mosze's] daughter, Ruchama, contributed very much to the fact that many
Jewish daughters knew how to write in Yiddish, to read and also to pray.
Possibly, she helped her family with this. At that time, after the First World
War, few Jewish girls were in organizations and, in general, there were no
Jewish schools for girls here.
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Ruchama married a young man from Wolbrom at the beginning of the 1930's and settled in Wolbrom.
The youngest son, Abram Chaim, was a typical yeshiva-bocher [student in a religious secondary school], emaciated and bent. He was a belfer [assistant teacher] in the cheder of the Talmud-Torah [religious primary school usually for boys from poor families] in Dąbrowa, in Herszl Glikstajn's courtyard. Shortly before the Second World War, he became a teacher in the same Talmud-Torah and also married someone from Olkusz and moved there.
As I learned, no one from the family survived after the Holocaust.
Honor their memory.
by Juda Londner
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
A Jew, short, a round face with a sparsely grown goatee, smart eyes that always searched for something. He lived on the then Królowa Jadwiga Street, a house after Ruwen Grosfeld and there he had a hair salon. One could also receive leeches from him when suffering from high, strong blood pressure; have teeth pulled and he was a terrific specialist. To stop the pain, he smeared a little peppermint cordial and the smell masked the pain. He also dispensed various purgatives. He applied various salves against rashes on the head, gave enemas and placed bankes [cupping glasses]. He did everything with an easy hand like a specialist.
A story went around the city about a poor, sickly girl and there was no one to
heal her. Mordechai* Feldsher took special care of her, healed her and then he
also married her. When Jews asked him: Mordechai, she is sick; why are you
marrying her? Mordechai answered: If I do not marry her, she will, God
forbid, remain an old maid.
*[Translator's note: Motl, the given name in the title of this article, is a diminutive of Mordechai.]
Mordechai had 4 children with her, two daughters and two sons Gabriel and Szlomo. He cherished his wife vi an oyg in kop [as an eye in his head i.e. he cherished his wife greatly]. He gave the children a very strict upbringing. When his wife ate, he did not permit the children to disturb her, even when they cried: Veyn, veyn kinderlech [cry, cry children], he would say, Because of it, you will have a healthy mother!!!
Mordechai Feldsher also had artistic capabilities; he would go to weddings and perform various badchn [wedding entertainer] pranks. On Purim, he would conduct a production of The Selling of Joseph with the help of the boys from the Bet haMidrash [house of study and prayer]. Jews would be delighted with his capabilities, particularly when they saw the Torah portion about our Patriarch Yakov with his 12 sons face to face.
When a sefer Torah [Torah scroll] was taken to the synagogue, Mordechai (and we Bet haMidrash boys) would all be disguised as clowns on horses and ride through the Jewish streets with a bugle in his mouth, to trumpet and announce that another sefer Torah was soon coming to the synagogue.
Young wives would pay money for permission to glance at a sheet of Torah
parchment as a remedy for themselves and many children.
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Mayor Don Wesely and the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation today kicked off a $1 million fund-raising project to renovate the City's aging Sunken Gardens at 27th Street and Capitol Parkway. The campaign, called "Polishing the Gem: Preserving Our National Treasure," will fund the first major renovation of the Gardens in its 73-year history.
"The Sunken Gardens is one of the public's favorite park areas in our City," said Mayor Wesely. "With this renovation, we will increase the safety and accessibility of the Gardens and preserve this important part of our history for future generations to enjoy."
Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson said the Gardens' aging infrastructure is creating safety concerns, limiting accessibility and increasing maintenance. The renovation will include a new handicapped-accessible entrance, an entry pavilion, a restored cascading water feature, new sculptural elements, restrooms, maintenance storage, renovated lily pools, an automated irrigation system and lighting.
The total cost of the project is $1.7 million. The City has committed $100,000 in funds from the Capital Improvement Program each year for two years. Another $536,000 has been donated from individuals, foundations and businesses, leaving about $1 million to be raised.
In a public opinion survey conducted in 2000 by the Parks and Recreation Department, nearly two-thirds of the respondents indicated they had visited the City's display gardens during the past year. When asked about what types of park services the City needed more of, display gardens finished first, with more than half of the respondents choosing that category.
"This renovation is a priority for the City, but our budget resources cannot fund the entire project," said Mayor-Elect Coleen Seng. "I want to commend the Parks and Recreation Foundation for taking the lead on this important project."
Co-Chairing the campaign for the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation are Mike Seacrest and Roger and JeNeane Dodson. They hope to complete the campaign by the end of 2003.
The beds would be under construction in 2004 and would not be planted during that year. The newly renovated Sunken Gardens would be unveiled in the spring of 2005.
More information is available on the campaign web site, www.lincolnsunkengardens.com. Tax-deductible contributions can be sent to the:
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Confusing. If the boy is indeed Griffith does it mean the boy has some evil intentions and protects Guts and Casca because he plans something?
Is that really the Ganishka tree?
On page 14 is it Schierke interpretation of the King of Flower Storm?
The branches do look like those of the Ganishka tree to me, though there is one thing about them that makes me wonder:They seem translucent. The last time we saw the Tree, it appeared solid. So is there something to the tree we don't know about?
Is it growing even now in the very deep layers of the world and the new branches slowly appear as the layers continue to merge? I was under the impression that the merging was complete after the light swept the earth...
Maybe I read to much into this (hell, I don't even know what they are saying), but the thought that there might be things around now that are even comparable to the God Hand is just too fascinating to dismiss it.
The king was always presented to us as a being of extraordinary power though. But the way I see it, I don't think it'll necessarily be comparable to a member of the God Hand. For example his powers might be awesome, but not in a way that can be used for violence. I.e. being able to cure Casca or preserve someone from death (like a certain Gaiseric) doesn't mean he could (or would be willing to) also slay apostles by the dozen.
I wasn't suggesting that the king would or could do any of that.But to me this is indication that the god hand might just not be as far above everything else as I used to think, so by comparable I didn't mean in terms of actual abilities but more in terms of magnitude.
On page 5 - usually, I chuckle whenever I see Puck or Ivalera making expressions like that. This time around however, seeing them so exhausted, I'm actually concerned for their well-being. Considering what happened to Chich after she overworked herself in order to save Guts, what kind of long-term negative effect a post-Sea God healing of this huge scale may have on Puck and Ivalera?
Question: On page 19, when Guts is looking out of the window, can he see the branches going across the moon? Obviously I can't read the text by that panel, but I don't see any question marks or anything that hints that Guts is questioning what it is he's seeing. If he can't, I'm definitely curious as to why. Any thoughts?
Yes, it seems that way. No professional translator here, but Guts says something to the effect that the injuries he's sustained sure have taken a toll on him. As in, I must be seeing things.
Great episode! Just a couple things;Why is the kid naked on page 13, and has a bit of cloth on him on page 22?
I think that the star at the end is the kid, that has been coming and disappearing, maybe when someone travels through the branches they appear like falling stars?
I've been looking at this episode for a while. Is it me or is Guts' face a bit different - in a good way? It looks a little less thin.
I definitely love how he looks in this episode. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that Miura had just finished drawing Guts younger and he's transitioned back to an older Guts suddenly. Somehow I doubt it was a "mistake" knowing Miura's professionalism.
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As the founder of DailyWorth, I have, perhaps, an abnormally obsessive determination to improve my financial standing. To me, that means growing my net worth.
On one front I've made significant progress:
Since resolving my Money Coma drama, I've made a serious shift in my life to build our "curveball account", i.e. savings to cover unexpected items like broken iPhones and split crowns.
This year alone, my husband and I have transferred a whopping $1,200 into that account, and I'm far less worried about money. Credit cards are no longer our back-up plan—our curveball account is. Thank you DailyWorth! (You're welcome.)
But lately I've realized that there's another barrier standing in the way of us taking our saving to the next level:
Our three-year-old son.
While I'm not blaming my child for my money problems, the truth is that my darling son knows how to push my financial buttons.
Here's how a typical conversation goes with my three-year-old:
Him: Mommy, I want a new yellow Power Ranger.
Me: You lost your yellow Power Ranger. Just because you lost it doesn't mean you have the right to buy a new one.
Him: Whyyyyyy?
Me: Because Power Rangers cost money. We don't have money for a new yellow Power Ranger.
Him: But Mommy. You go to work to make money so that we can go to Target and buy Power Rangers.
(Yes, dear readers, the explanation I gave him about why I work is coming back to bite me in the ass.) Now, at this point, all reason is lost:
Him: But I want a yellow Power Ranger. I NEED a yellow Power Ranger!!!!!!!!
Here's my confession. Rather than teach my three-year-old lessons in self-control—lessons in budgeting even—I often buy him things to quiet him, and calm myself.
From gummy candies at the supermarket to Power Rangers, I bet I spend about $30 a week to get him to just STOP THE WHINING. Is indulging him the best way to help him learn patience? No. Is spending a smart way to ease my frustration with him? No, it's a short-cut and not a cost-effective one, and I'm actively seeking a personal transformation.
Do you spend money to quell your anxiety (or prevent tantrums)—money that you could be saving? Leave your comment, insight or thoughts.


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From the department of reclaimed modern ruins, artist Heather Benning took a derelict Saskatchewan farmhouse and transformed it into a life-sized version of a child's dollhouse.
While living as the Artist-in-Residence at the community of Redvers, Saskatchewan, in 2005, Benning launched on her Dollhouse project. It's a curious thing, making a house look like a full-sized version of a miniature version of itself, but Benning pulled it off with soft colors and carefully selected furniture. One wall of the farmhouse was completely removed and replaced with clear plexiglass, revealing the house's staged innards. The result is a child's plaything blown up, if not grown up.
Dollhouse [Heather Benning via Laughing Squid]


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Combining elliptical motion and CrossRamp technology solves two problems with indoor aerobic workouts - high-impact exercise that stresses joints and equipment that works too few muscle groups.
Most cardio equipment does not provide a true cross-training benefit - aerobic conditioning that simultaneously strengthens, or cross-trains, different muscles.
In 1995, Precor unveiled the first elliptical trainer, the Elliptical Fitness Crosstrainer™ (EFX). It reduced impact by replicating the natural elliptical motion path of a running foot and worked a variety of lower-body muscles using CrossRamp technology
The result? A patented design that revolutionized the fitness industry.
When running, the human foot follows an elliptical path. Precor Crosstrainers are the only equipment that match this elliptical shape with a patented mechanism that weds a rear flywheel with a forward foot pedal, creating a smooth, elliptical movement that mimics a natural running motion.
The patented Precor motion keeps your heels in contact with the pedals, reducing muscle and tendon stress. And because the EFX is low impact, helping you move fluidly, you'll have lower Relative Perceived Exertion (RPE). That means your workout is so smooth that you don't feel like you're working as hard as you are.
CrossRamp technology is what makes a Precor EFX a true Crosstrainer. The adjustable CrossRamp on all Crosstrainers, whether automatic or manual, alters the height of the elliptical path that your foot travels. Called Variable Stride Geometry™, this allows you to focus on specific or all major lower body muscles, so you can work the muscles you want, when you want, while minimizing muscle fatigue.
By changing up your workouts, you'll also stay more engaged and motivated, making it that much easier to get back on your EFX with energy and enjoyment.
How this science works naturally with the human body.
Designed to reduce impact on joints –Taking the impact out of jogging requires knowledge about how feet move when running. Precor engineers traced the motion of a running foot and identified an elliptical path. They then created a machine that matched the elliptical motion by combining a circular flywheel with a pedal that moves along an adjustable diagonal ramp.
Emulates changing workout conditions– To further enhance an already ground-breaking design, Precor added a cross-training benefit with patented CrossRamp technology. You could now adjust the CrossRamp angle, which alters the elliptical path, and emulate different workout courses, such as hiking or cross-country skiing. In addition to building lower-body strength, the CrossRamp feature keeps workout routines fresh and energizing so you can reach new exercise levels and fully achieve your fitness goals.
Engineered to work with all body types– Once that natural motion of running was successfully replicated, Precor tested the invention on people of different weights and heights. By adjusting the distance between the flywheel and the pedals, we refined the equipment to allow any sized person to achieve results on the same machine.
Promotes workout ease and comfort – Relative Perceived Exertion (RPE) is the difference between how hard your brain says you're working and how hard your heart actually works. If you're jogging, the perceived level of exertion drops when impact to your ankle, knee and other affected joints is reduced. Our patented elliptical technology absorbs much of the impact of each foot strike. So you experience a more comfortable workout that keeps you motivated and moving toward your fitness goals.


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KLBuettner needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 332 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
Mila Bean Baby Boutique
Young (late 20s), hip, modern mother of a 1 year old is opening an eco-friendly baby boutique. I have my B.S. in Environmental Sciences and am very passionate about "trying to save the world". BUT now that I'm a mother, I've been transferring my passion to "keeping my baby safe" from all the toxins, chemicals and potentially harmful ingredients in conventional baby wares. Yes, this means cloth diapers, making my own baby food and investing in furniture made from FSC wood that will last through many stages of life.
So along came Mila Bean Baby Boutique.
My target audience is those mothers & fathers who shop at Farmers Markets, Whole Foods or Trader Joes for their family's food, and Anthropologie, JCrew, or Gap for clothing.
So basically, I am targeting upper middle class fathers and mothers that have the extra pennies to spend and the desire to be more "Green".
This logo design is open to your creativity!!! I really don't have a certain idea floating around in this crazy head of mine.
My only requirements are:
1.... That I want it to read "Mila Bean" (as the title) "Baby Boutique" (as the byline)
2.... The design to be clean, unique, classy/modern, eye catching and bright.
3.... That it states "this is an eco-friendly baby store" with out outright saying it.
4.... This logo will be used for website & on a store front.
5.... "Mila Bean" is just a nickname for my daughter, it has no significance to green beans or any kind of bean in general.
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2013-02-04• Alfred Prior
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vkn: anybody home guess I am too early howdy
Selma: Afternoon vkn Guess some of us are moving slower than others.. lOL
vkn: daviss is having java issues
Selma: Ah..I notice she said the other day she couldn't get in the room
vkn: heyyyyyyyyy alt
alt: hello ladies, Selma & vkn .. what's up?
Selma: Afternoon alt.. Just talking about aching joints..you know typical conversation of AARP members
alt: I notice... he/she was quiet for quite a while.
vkn: i see him on facebook also
alt: oh, those kind of "joints" LOL LOL LOL
vkn: have you tried the proquest open access I need a lesson on using the new search things
alt: vkn, with all of the BHM freebies I'm "accessing' all over da place LOL
vkn: howdy seventites and teach me alt The formats all seem new to me alt ouchies
alt: I just 'tinker' until I find sumpin vkn
Seventies: Hello!
alt: Hello Seventies
Selma: Afternoon seventies
vkn: okies Jimmie Lee still holding child in Alabama
Seventies: Hi alt, Selma and vkn Still???
alt: if y'all want to read some good interviews Ohio Historical Society has opened up the Siebert Collection for UGRR studies during BHM
Seventies: Sounds good alt.
vkn: Great alt
Selma: Write a post for the History Forum
vkn: alt did you catch the Randall Robinson interview
Seventies: dang! You know I forgot... at the gym... lol I'm going to look it up online. That's going to be my new 'hangout'... pray for me!
Selma: New Year's resolution seventies?
vkn: The snag film series is interesting
Seventies: Yes, Selma. Too much time, weight and excuses..
alt: missed Randall Robinson vkn I was Super Bowling it LOL
vkn: lol he was quite good
Seventies: I saw that on facebook vkn how many hot wings and chips did you eat alt?
alt: a good 5 page interview with an AA UGRR operator.... http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/siebert/id/3076/rec/1 none Seventies ... Mrs. Thomas did a Ribs & Sauerkraut thingee.
vkn: gonna make a bowl of oatmeal brb its all relative selma lol
Seventies: ah okay alt, sounds delicious! lol
alt: vkn, I see Alva has had real success in researching her Conrad ancestor and his CW activities in Ohio. she posted some of her findings on Facebook
vkn: is that facebook alt for alva
alt: I think so vkn
vkn: klassicglass howdy
Selma: Afternoon klassicglass
klassicglass: Hello everyone I haven't been on in a long time, trying to get back at it.
alt: Hello klassicglass
Seventies: hi klassicglass
vkn: klassicglass welcome back
alt: welcome back klassicglass & good to 'see' ya.
klassicglass: thanks everyone
Seventies: I've never 'met' klassicglass.. how are you?
vkn: who you be seeking and where klassicglass
deannie: Late as usual ...Hi everyone
vkn: howdy deannie
alt: Hi deannie
deannie: I going to do a little chat catch first
Selma: Afternoon deannie
Seventies: hi deannie
klassicglass: fine and yourself. I got stuck on a few things and now I am trying again. still trying to find a slave owner for Alfred Prior, but I did find out that my aunt Mary Williams married Allen Womack and he lived right next door to them in 1940, but I can't find anything else on him..Everyone help me out a few years again on some things (yes it's been that long)
Seventies: okay where??
Selma: Where, state and counties
klassicglass: in pulaski illinois
alt: ah so, that's around or near Cairo, Ill right?
klassicglass: yes
Selma: What year was Alfred Prior born..how old was he in 1940?
alt: klassicglass, dunno about Prior, but many folks from that area came out of Henry Co., TN and the surrounding TN counties.
klassicglass: for alfred prior going by the death cert. born 1844? cehcio leo tenn....mary and allen is the one I found in 1940, mary was living with her mom bertha williams
Seventies: Could Alfred have served in the USCT?
alt: born 1844.... might do a quick look for Prior/Pryor slave owners in TN for the 1850 & 1860 slave schedules. and UST thought is a good one too
klassicglass: yes and I have his pension records about 50 pages you can't make out but the ones I did they say he was a slave but don't lis any names.
Seventies: Ok let me share my expertise here. there are several types of records within the USCTs... Pension file is only one type. There are CW military records regarding AAs in RG105, Regimental Records and loose military records. that should show up in the pension files, but do not. Also Freedman's Records have some limited information in them. Though I've gone down to the Nat'l Archives to look at these records, you should able to get them through the FHC... Sorry let me rephrase, there are several types of military records dealing with the USCTs.
Selma: What year did he die klassic?
klassicglass: thanks, He died in olmsted illinois 20/10/1921. I also have this from the packaged " that he married lucretia marshall year 1854 at lake washington, ms. by Rev Ruben Davis. then after the civil was they were advise to re-marry because the first one was performed when they were in slavery, the second one July 4th 1865 by rev brown in columbus ky.
alt: he was born in 1844 and married in 1854?
Selma: So he was enslaved in Mississippi..although according to the date of birth you gave he was age 10
deannie: back...the computer kicked me out
klassicglass: that's the part I'm confused on....on death cert. it states he is from tenn. but then on the paper I have it says he married in ms.
Selma: So what do you know about Lucretia Marshall..do you find the 2 of them together in 1870?
alt: sounds as if Columbus, KY is in western KY near the tri-state area of KY, Ill and MS/TN
klassicglass: yes in pulaski illinois
Selma: Info on the death certificate is only as good as the person giving the info..who was the informant?
alt: so that multiple state thing is not uncommon for that area klassicglass
klassicglass: I believe one of his sons
Selma: Do you find the family in 1870 and 1880?
klassicglass: yes I did, 1870 the age is 30 on census and 1880 the age is 50 with est. birth date of 1830?
Selma: How old were the children on those census records.. What states were they said to have been born in
Seventies: Best of luck klassicglass... see y'all tomorrow.
alt: later Seventies
klassicglass: 1870 it list one child mary b est 1869 age 1 in 1880 mary 12, grant 9, daniel 8, andrew 6 and george 3
deannie: back again
alt: wb deannie, rough ride today, huh?
deannie: yes.....
klassicglass: did I lose a connection in the room
alt: no, we just got quiet LOL LOL Selma asked... what was the birth state for the children on the 1870 & 1880 census klassicglass
klassicglass: illinois
alt: okay, thanks so they were 1st married in MS and the re-married in ILL (?) where the children were born .. and this was following the CW, right?
klassicglass: 1st marriage in 1854 lake washington, ms. then re-married in columbus, ky july 4th 1865
deannie: I have to run also until next time
alt: ah so, okay..... then you might look for slave owners in MS.
klassicglass: taking notes..
Selma: What state does he enlist in and what year?
klassicglass: enlistment date 01 Jun 1863 and location Island No 10
Selma: What is Island No. #10?
klassicglass: i believe some part of TN
Selma: Did you find his service record online? His USCT service records online?
klassicglass: yes
Selma: What is his name again?
klassicglass: this is on the military service record alfred prior
Selma: and what unit?
klassicglass: alfred prior, birth location, tennessee, enlistment 1 jun 1863, location Island No 10 svc. 4th U.S. colored heavy artillery roll M1818_72 side Union, company B
Selma: Ok..I will take a look later.. Sorry but I have to go
klassicglass: thank you.
Selma: Have a good day
klassicglass: everyone have a good afternoon...


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2010 Dodge Ram HD First DrivePosted in Project Vehicles on March 1, 2010
First Drive Last month we discussed the new '10 Dodge Power Wagon in our 4x4 of the Year test, but what of the other Ram Heavy Duties? The Hemis and Cummins, the regular, crew, and Mega Cabs, the short, long and dualie trucks... What of these? Well, they too have been redesigned for the better, and we're interested.
The Dodge Ram Heavy Duty and especially the Cummins-equipped trucks are some of the most revered trucks in the towing, hauling, and working truck arena. They have been honored since the first straight-six oiler began rattling under a Mopar hood in the late '80s. The Cummins engines have progressed from a loud tractor torque monster to a quiet, civilized, and responsive powerplant, capable of great long-haul towing and daily driving with even more tearing-a-house-down torque.
The new '10 HD trucks take that great Cummins engine and the proven drivetrain and dress it up in one of the nicest-looking bodies to ever receive the bighorn Ram badge. In addition, the new interior of these big work trucks can be optioned from a vinyl seat and rubber floor mat ST all the way up to the leather-adorned Laramie package. Seating is comfortable in the regular cab, expansive in the new crew cab, and sell-your-house-and-move-in- it's-so-darn-big in the returning Mega Cab. Also new for 2010 are the fully stamped dualie bedsides helping with aerodynamics.
In our first chance behind the wheel of these fresh-faced pickups we got a chance to tow heavy trailers, haul big loads, and run at highway speeds for a few hours. The ride quality has improved greatly over previous HD Rams, but the interior upgrades are what really stand out.The power and towing numbers are up slightly from '09 models, and the freshly tuned suspension and new hydrodynamic body mounts have improved the ride. A plethora of great towing options, such as a trailer brake controller, a standard Class IV hitch, tow/haul mode transmissions, and the standard exhaust brake, had us dreaming of loading up even our heaviest trail rig on the trailer and hitting the road in the comfortable driver's seat of a new Ram HD.
TECH SPECS 2010 Dodge Ram Heavy Duty 2500/3500 Prices: Starting U.S. MSRP are $28,165 for regular cab, $31,415 for crew cab, $36,865 for Mega Cab Engine: 6.7L Cummins I-6 diesel (350 hp, 650 lb-ft), 5.7L Hemi V-8 Gas (383 hp, 400 lb-ft) Transmission: G56 6-speed manual (diesel), 68RFE 6-speed automatic (diesel), 545RFE 5-speed automatic (gas) Transfer Case: NV271 (manual shift) NV273 (electric shift) Front Axle: AAM 9.25. Ratios: Gas 3.73, 4.10, 4.56; diesel 3.42, 3.73, 4.10 Rear Axle: AAM 10.5. Ratios: Gas 3.73, 4.10, 4.56 AAM 11.5 single or dual rear wheel; diesel 3.42, 3.73, 4.10 Suspension: (front) Live axle, Quadra link leading arms, track bar, coil springs, stabilizer bar, gas-charged shock absorbers; (rear) Live axle, longitudinal leaf springs, stabilizer bar, gas-charged shock absorbers, auxiliary springs Cab: Regular, crew, Mega Bed: 8-foot regular and crew cab, 6-foot 4-inch crew cab, 6-foot 3-inch Mega Cab


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Oncological diseases are on the increase as a result of changing lifestyles and demographics and could soon replace heart disease as the most common cause of death in humans.
The Department of Haematology, Oncology and Rheumatology at Heidelberg University Hospital is run by one of the world's finest experts in this field, Professor Anthony D. Ho, who set up and managed blood stem cell transplant centres in Canada and the USA. Patients suffering from oncological diseases of the blood such as lymphoma, leukaemia, soft-tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma can expect the best possible medical care reflecting the latest scientific findings.
The European Pancreas Centre in Heidelberg is among the leading centres in the world for the treatment of pancreatic disease. Under the stewardship of Professor Büchler, the European Pancreas Centre is able to offer the very highest level of treatment thanks to its highly qualified staff and state-of-the-art equipment.
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Aside from the intensely polarized debate about health care reform, perhaps no issue raises more hackles nowadays than climate change legislation.
Ironically, while there is widespread opposition to the measure in the agricultural community because of the high costs that have been projected, the secretary of agriculture has been going around the country beating the drums for it.
A study by Texas A&M University's Agriculture and Food Policy Center, based on 98 representative farms in their database, showed 71 of the operations would be worse off under Waxman-Markey, the 1,500-page, almost $850-billion measure that narrowly passed the House earlier this year and is now being debated in the Senate.
Of the 27 farming operations that would realize benefits under the bill, nearly all are in the Midwest Corn Belt, and their gains would come primarily from increased revenue due to higher prices that would result from fewer acres planted (it's projected that more than 7 million acres would come out of production in the first five years, nearly 50 million acres by 2050).
Virtually all cotton and dairy operations would be worse off, the study found, and there would be no benefit to rice or cattle operations.
Secretary Vilsack, putting the administration spin on things, has been saying in speeches around the country that the measure would bring a $20 billion yearly increase in farm profits. "That's a lot of money, and it's an awful lot of opportunity," he said. "I think we need to find a way to make this work for rural America — and it can work for rural America."
Senator Saxby Chamblis, R-Ga., ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee, says Vilsack's wrong. "Despite what he says, the bill doesn't benefit U.S. agriculture, and in fact will make it harder for farmers and ranchers to make a living under cap-and-trade. We need to pursue legislation that reflects the realities of producing food, fiber, feed, and fuel … and not favor one geographic region.
"Clearly the data are troubling," Chambliss says. "This bill, particularly the cap-and-trade provisions, will undoubtedly raise production costs for farmers and ranchers."
Following a Vilsack pitch for the program at a forum in Oklahoma, State Representative Phil Richardson, a veterinarian/farmer, noted: "Although the secretary said Oklahoma farmers are 'excited about the possibility that energy and climate change legislation will reward farmers,' my neighbors see the legislation as a catastrophe for rural America.
"Agricultural production requires energy, and anything that dramatically increases the cost of energy, like cap-and-trade, will harm farm families and consumers who depend on us for food. Cap-and-trade is a job killer."
R-CALF USA, which represents thousands of American cattle producers, says the legislation would be "economic suicide," noting that the Treasury Department has estimated the program would bring $200 billion per year in new taxes and would be equal to all existing environmental regulation.
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