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Chapter 21 -- Part 4
Public Schools: Mirror of Society
At times these values clash, as in the age-old contest between the idealism and impatience of youth and the conservatism and sometimes cynicism or even hypocrisy of some of society's elders.
The schools reflect events outside, not only outwardly (as in war and epidemics and depressions) but also philosophically, on such issues as federal aid and social and economic and political trends.
In some cases, some problems of society have largely disappeared. This includes the great epidemics -- from the flu epidemic of 1918, when Hampton schools were closed, to the dreaded scourge of the 1930s, infantile paralysis (polio). In 1935, school nurse Elizabeth Hay issued a warning about the infantile paralysis epidemic, cautioning children to keep away from crowds, stay in their own towns, and keep away from public gatherings.
Other societal problems reflected in schools have been around for a long time and indeed have become worse. Schools in the 1930s, just as they are today, were waging a battle against drugs. Reporting for the year ending June 30, 1930, for example, the headmaster of Hampton Academy and High School cited the importance for students of developing their "brain power" and the necessity for "a brain refreshed by sufficient sleep and free from the deadening influence of nicotine."
In addition to nicotine, schools continued to battle hard drugs, which were being used at a younger and younger age. By the 1980s, Hampton Academy Junior High School, for example, was participating in a pilot program on drug prevention.
Society's economic problems also affected Hampton's schools. During the 1930s, the Great Depression figured more and more in the annual reports from school administrators. In 1933, in support of a nationwide effort to cut public expenses, Hampton teachers voluntarily cut their wages by 5 percent. During this period, the federal government stepped in to aid the schools and the schoolchildren. The Child Recovery Program, financed by the federal government, distributed free milk to all underweight children and also partially financed hot lunches in the schools.
The wars also had their effect on education and the schools of Hampton. In some cases, as in World War I, when German-Americans were scorned and treated as pariahs, some citizens acted to their discredit. There was even hypocrisy, which youngsters were quick to spot, when the attitude of many townspeople toward a Pennsylvania "Dutchman," with the German name of Bernheisel (George H.), forced him to resign his post as headmaster of the academy during World War I. It was an incident that at least one student, describing it years later, found shameful for some Hampton adults.
Otherwise, both world wars evoked cooperation and a common effort from Hampton's schools, teachers, and administrators. Teachers mobilized to distribute ration books. The annual school report for 1942-43 noted: "The schools arc willingly fulfilling their part in waging a successful war. Teachers and pupils are buying war bonds and stamps -- regularly. Three national registrations, those of sugar, gasoline and oil, have been entrusted to the teachers of the nation."
At the same time, schoolchildren mobilized to collect rubber and scrap metal. Schoolchildren bought, as the school report for 1945 cited, war bonds and stamps to the value of $2,436 during the year. Hampton pupils also organized to collect and process milkweed pods. The seven towns of Supervisory Union 21 contributed 487 bags; it was estimated that two bags of the pods would furnish material for one life jacket.
Wars are fought by young men, mostly those just out of school, and while a town erects bronze street and square memorials to honor its sons and daughters who died serving their country, it is perhaps the schools and their schoolmates that most remember and celebrate their heroism and valor. Hampton, like most towns, has had its share of those who fought and died in overseas wars, from World War I to Vietnam.
After World War II, there was talk of preparing veterans for definite jobs, and so came the idea of offering evening courses in bookkeeping and typing -- the beginnings of an adult education movement that was to become one of the country's most powerful educational forces and is today an important part of Hampton's educational programs.
World War II ended, but the cold war and the threat of nuclear annihilation soon appeared. Students were taught how to hide under their desks in case of nuclear attack. The town's annual report for 1950 referred to the "national situation" and pointed out that teachers "will be trained to protect pupils in case of danger," and that teachers were "receiving directions as to their procedure in case of attack."
The sixties and seventies also saw the rebellion of youth against what they perceived as distorted values among adults, hypocrisy, and, most of all, the support of a war most young people saw as unnecessary, at best, and a crime against humanity, at worst. Students and even teachers protested against the war; at times, the values of the so-called Establishment clashed with the values of a generation less attached to the traditions, pieties, and unquestioning loyalties of the past.
The protests that disrupted Hampton education or occupied the attention of Hampton educators took several forms. In 1968, Robert J. Cushing, Jr., a popular 16-year-old Winnacunnet High School junior, a high-honor-roll student, president of his freshman class, and member of the school's football team, was suspended for his failure to comply with the school dress code. Cushing had appeared in school with sideburns an inch longer than allowed after Principal Eugene Hawley had told him to trim the sideburns or be suspended.
According to a contemporary newspaper account, Cushing appeared "to have received the support of the majority of the student body at Winnacunnet." Cushing later dropped his civil suit against the school, shaved his sideburns, and returned to school.
The Cushing case was followed by a much more protracted case -- and one much more expensive for the town of Hampton. In 1969, a Winnacunnet High School teacher named James C. Pechewlys, who taught a course called "Problems of Democracy," decided to protest the Vietnam war in his own way. He thereupon attached to the trunk of his car a sign that read "Vietnam Sucks," a sentiment easily visible on his car in the school parking lot. Someone also tried to set the car afire, an incident that also drew wide publicity to his sign.
Regarding whether or not the words on the sign were obscene -- as some thought -- Pechewlys countered that obscenity was in the eyes of the beholder; the word sucks was in wide use among younger people to indicate something despised or despicable. Be that as it may, the sign set off an uproar that led to a vote by the Winnacunnet High School Board, on August 18, 1969, to dismiss Pechewlys from his teaching post.
Pechewlys filed suit against the Winnacunnet Cooperative High School Board, Principal Eugene Hawley, and Supervisory Union 21 Superintendent Paul O'Neil. At the same time, members of the Winnacunnet High School Teachers Organization voted to take the case of James C. Pechewlys to the New Hampshire Education Association to test New Hampshire's antiquated tenure laws.
In the end, in what was termed a "compromise settlement," the Winnacunnet High School Board agreed to rescind the vote that dismissed Pechewlys; to reinstate him; to accept his letter of resignation effective June 30, 1972, with the interim period to be treated as a leave of absence without pay; to provide Pechewlys with a reference; and to give the former WHS teacher a lump-sum payment of $19,757, which included two years' pay minus deductions, plus damages of $2,750.
Other problems that affected society and were reflected in the schools were resolved more amicably. And Hampton schools led the way in their treatment of handicapped pupils. In 1963, showing society's increasing concern for the handicapped and also the greater initiative of handicapped people, Judy Cammett, a blind youth, enrolled in Hampton Academy Junior High School. According to a contemporary account, Judy was believed to be the first blind girl in the state to attend public school on a daily basis.
In the sixties, the frenetic pace of society, new standards in sexual behavior, and the use of drugs were all reflected in Hampton schools. Family planning became an elective late in that decade, and in the early 1970s, concern grew over the lack of instruction in the areas of sexuality and drugs. Concern over the use of drugs by students, as well as the implications of new sexual viewpoints, continued to increase through the 1980s as Hampton schools grappled with these issues.
At the end of 1980, a "sexuality session" took place at Hampton Academy Junior High to help parents and professionals initiate and maintain communication with members of the 9-to-18 age group. The seminar instructor, Jacquelyn G. Sowers, stated that today's youth had been inundated with pressures from a sex-saturated society. Meanwhile, drug education programs were held at both the academy and Winnacunnet High School.
Through the 1970s and 1980s, Hampton schools continued to reflect changes in society. One of these changes was the ruling by the United States Supreme Court that reciting the Lord's Prayer in public schools is unconstitutional. At the same time, a New Hampshire state law, RSA 194:15, provided that a school district may authorize voluntary recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public elementary schools.
This confusing situation came to a head in Hampton at the annual school district meeting on March 4, 1976, when it was voted 119-69 on an amended article to allow recitation of prayers in the public schools. "Their action," according to an article in the Hampton Union, "may have placed the school board in a touchy legal situation."
The issue was resolved when the School Board voted 3 to 1 to accept a motion by board member Daniel Bryant to postpone "indefinitely any action to institute prayer in the Hampton schools."
Another religious issue concerned the use of public funds to aid private schools. The issue arose over a Supreme Court decision in 1975 ruling that some portions of child benefit service aid to parochial schools were unconstitutional. The ruling affected Hampton because of the Sacred Heart School, a Roman Catholic elementary school, and the vote to provide the school with a measure of aid from public funds. This was resolved with a vote to provide limited funds to the school under the child benefit services section.


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I hope that you had an enjoyable St. Patrick's Day. It was a bright day and the parade could not be better. I remember in our Manhattan office how we changed every name plate, placing an "O" in front of our names, in this way we were all Irish for a day.
I've heard that many were taking the Woodhaven Business Improvement District's advice and eating out in Woodhaven or ordering in, for our restaurants prepared great corned beef and cabbage. It seems that St. Patrick's Day is always a great day for all to enjoy.
Our WBID still has free benches available for any of our Woodhaven's Jamaica Avenue stores or businesses. Give us a call at our office at (718) 805-0760 if you want one. Also, when you are shopping encourage your storeowners to call us regarding getting one of these durable attractive benches. They have separators, so no one can lie on them, they are for sitting and resting only.
If you are thinking of opening a business or store, our Small Business Resource has a program with free seminars for entrepreneurs, especially veterans. On April 1,from 8:30 a.m. to noon at 290 Broadway there will be a workshop. Please RSVP to email@example.com This workshop is free of charge.
The Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation still has 2 ½ and 5 percent low-interest home improvement loans available at our office. Please call me at (718) 805-0202.
The building at 78-19 Jamaica Avenue that collapsed is still in bad shape with rain pooling and tarp shredding. The next court hearing is on April 10. Tear it down!
As you have heard, I resigned after 40 years as a Board Member of the WRBA. I have always stated that I became involved in Community Activism because I wanted to "make a difference." I hope that I continue to accomplish this aim. I know that the current Woodhaven Residents' Block Association board will continue the hard work and good work that has been our hallmark since the inception of our organization.
I will continue to be an active member of our WRBA, but not as a board member. I also know that the board will continue to be, as I so aptly named tit a long time ago, "The Guardian of Woodhaven."
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12, for our WBID "Spring Promotion" with music and clowns from 1 to 4 p.m. along the avenue and free pictures with the Easter Bunny in Forest Parkway Plaza. Also. Look for our WBID staff members with their WBID hats distributing free quarters on our Woodhaven's Jamaica Avenue to parking cars, thanking them for shopping here by paying for their first 15 minutes on the meters.
May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans, and may God bless our America.

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CARSON, Calif. – Robbie Keane's sixth goal of the season and Gyasi Zardes' first got the LA Galaxy back in the winning column Wednesday night with a 2-1 victory over FC Dallas at the StubHub Center.
Keane's blast from the top of the penalty area to the upper-left corner of the goal and an open Zardes header goal put the Galaxy up 2-0 halftime, before FCD rookie Tesho Akindele pulled one back 20 minutes after the break. But the Galaxy (3-3-3) hung on for the victory, halting their four-game winless streak and pulling them out of the Western Conference cellar two points clear of Chivas USA, Portland and San Jose.
FC Dallas' struggles, meanwhile, continue with a winless streak now at six games. FCD (5-6-2) have lost five of six and six of their last eight outings.
The Galaxy, rotating their lineup for the second time in their stretch of three games in nine days and without US internationals Landon Donovan and Omar Gonzalez, reverted from its diamond midfield to a flat four. Kenney Walker – making just his second league appearance and first since 2012 – lined up next to Juninho in the center and Zardes and Stefan Ishizaki on the flanks. Keane returned to the frontline, next to Samuel, after starting in midfield in a weekend loss at Houston.
FCD were also shorthanded with Michel, George John, Mauro Diaz and Hendry Thomas all relegated to the training room. And midfielder Andrew Jacobson was forced off after a knock in the first half and replaced by Adam Moffat.
The Galaxy controlled action most of the way, and it paid off on Keane's strike.
Following a nifty build-up, Zardes sent a long, low ball from the left that split three defenders and found Keane just beyond the Dallas box. The Irishman, who has six of the Galaxy's 10 league goals, quickly beat Jair Benitez on the dribble, then cut inside between two defenders and rocketed a shot to the upper-left corner.
Zardes deposited his header just before halftime, finding space among three defenders at the top of the 6-yard box to easily nod home a Juninho chip.
FC Dallas used its speed to fuel an intermittent counterattack but reaped little from it. Before Akindele's goal their best opportunities were in the first 20 minutes, when LA goalkeeper Jaime Penedo tipped a Je-Vaughn Watson blast over the crossbar and a long run by Fabian Castillo was cut off at the right post.
But Akindele finally found pay dirt when he slipped behind LA's backline to finish a diagonal ball from Benitez, who had taken away a Walker pass a few yards behind the Galaxy box.
Dallas pressed in the closing minutes, but the equalizer wasn't forthcoming.
FC Dallas next head straight to Utah ahead of a Saturday match at Real Salt Lake, while the Galaxy are home Sunday evening against Philadelphia.


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If you liked Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, you're probably a Republican. The First Lady delivered a speech that could've come from just about any GOP mom, even Ann Romney. Talk about integrity and work ethic? Check. Mention the importance of community and helping our neighbors? Check. Share cute stories about growing up, date night with your husband, and how tiring motherhood can be? Check, check, and check.
I notice that Mrs. Obama left out the parts about how women now have to work harder and longer to pay out the nose for gasoline due to Barack's energy policies. That is if they can find a job at all. Women in the workforce have been disproportionately affected by Obama's economy.
The stories about Michelle's dad struggling to work and back every day while living with M.S., and how Barack's grandmother hit the glass ceiling while working at a bank (must have been before the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was enacted) were incredibly touching. They reminded me very much of a speech I heard last week at the Republican National Convention by Condoleezza Rice. The former Secretary of State told a story of growing up in Jim Crow Alabama, and although she couldn't have a hamburger at Woolworth's, her parents had her convinced that she could become the president if she wanted to.
Michelle also talked about not playing by your own set of rules, a concept that Republicans have been hounding the Obama administration on for years. Between the Solyndra payouts, the Obamacare waivers, gutting Medicare, ending the work requirement for welfare, the leaked national security emails, Fast and Furious, meetings with lobbyists, hiring a former Bain Capital employee as a budget director ... wait, what were we talking about again? Oh yeah, truth, integrity, and not playing by your own rules.
We learned about dignity and decency ... We learned about honesty and integrity -- that the truth matters ... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules ... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square ... Those are the values Barack and I -- and so many of you -- are trying to pass on to our own children. That's who we are.
Because liberals are all about family values, you know. Except when they're not. Like that time Barack Obama, multimillionaire and leader of the free world, refused to give $1,000 for his nephew with a chest condition to receive medical treatment.
All said and done, it was a great speech. Now if only the Democrats would only practice what Michelle Obama preached, maybe 23 million out-of-work Americans would have jobs, and the national debt wouldn't be racing past $16 trillion.


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WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today joined his colleagues in presenting 33 Native American Tribes with the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their military service during World War I and World War II as code talkers. The ceremony took place in the Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center where Inhofe delivered remarks along with Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, as well as other members of Congress.
"Native Americans who served as code talkers during World War I and II are true American heroes whose ingenuity helped propel the Allied forces to victory and saved countless lives in the process," said Inhofe. "These awards recognize the dedicated service performed by those that have been honored here today as well as the men and women who were lost on the battlefields and those who have since passed. After nearly a decade of working to secure the gold medal award, in 2008, Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren and I were finally able to see the Code Talkers Recognition Act enacted, and I am proud this long awaited ceremony has finally occurred."
Edmond Harjo of Seminole Nation in Oklahoma was in attendance and recognized with a congressional silver medal. During the ceremony, Inhofe thanked Harjo for his attendance and for his service to our country, and said: "It was men like Mr. Harjo who made a real difference in the fight for freedom during World War I and II."
The following tribes from Oklahoma received congressional goal medals: Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Comanche Nation, Pawnee Nation, Osage Tribe, Kiowa Tribe, Seminole Nation, Muskogee Creek Nation, Ponca Tribe, and Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
Since 2002, Inhofe has introduced legislation and worked to honor Native American Code Talkers. In Feb. 2008, Inhofe worked closely with former Congressman Dan Boren to pass H.R. 4544, the companion legislation to Inhofe's Code Talkers Recognition Act (S.2681), through Congress. Later that year, the President signed it into law (Public Law 110-420).


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If stable speed of the air motor is important you should avoid working with speeds below the point of maximum power. This assures that there is some "reserve power" in the case of load increase. It is also a good idea to work closer to the idling speed when there is uncertainty about the torque demand.
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How can I properly reference the copyright lecture?
I have studied PHP I : Foundation with Zend. I have to refer to this electronic pdf lecture. There is no link provide since it handed out in class.
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Zend, 2011, PHP I Foundations-Participant Guide, copyright 2006-2011 Zend Technologies Inc.


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Kixeye has fired a manager and three other employees after investigating claims of racist behavior, CEO Will Harbin said in a blog post.
The company is also instituting sensitivity training, Harbin wrote.
Kixeye is known for its take-no-prisoners attitude towards competitors like Zynga and EA, and a recruiting video which mocked FarmVille players was viewed by some as sexist.
"I am doing my best to create a company where our employees love to work, with a culture of openness and tolerance to different points of view, styles, races, gender, orientation, religion and cultures," Harbin wrote. "It turns out that a few bad apples weren't living up to the standards that the rest of us have set for our company."
A contractor who goes by Qu33iousity online spurred Kixeye's investigation when he alleged that a manager made offcolor remarks about black and Hispanic employees, then told him Kixeye didn't tolerate complaints about racism. Harbin vowed to investigate those remarks.
Qu33iousity deleted his original post, and wrote a new post on Friday saying " I cannot speak out further on the matter at hand in any way, shape, or form."
He continued: "Here's to a future where we no longer blame, suspect, silence victims, and instead hold those in power accountable for their actions."


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Ports of call include Dresden, a glorious treasure of art, Meissen, one of the world's renowned names in porcelain and Wittenberg where Martin Luther founded the Protestant Reformation. Extended stays are highly recommended in Berlin and Prague prior to, or following, the Elbe cruise.
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Fred Olsen Cruises vessels each have a limited number of cabins specially adapted for disabled passengers; however passengers with a severe disability must be accompanied by an able-bodied companion. All public rooms and decks are accessible by wheelchair. Ports of call where tenders are used to go ashore may not be accessible to wheelchairs or severely disabled passengers.
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I will just let all of you know what is happening in British Columbia, in regard to the many brigade trails around our province. There has recently been an upsurge of interest in these old trails, with many people volunteering to rediscover them and open them up. Michael K (Donald Manson descendent) has been interested in this for some time, but as a result of the recent trip my sister and I took around the province following the brigade trails, he has taken up the torch again.
The group who is opening up the brigade trail between Hope to Tulameen has, in hand, a lot of money from the Provincial Government. Their work on the Hope-Tulameen trail over the Coquihalla is already almost finished, and they are (I am told) even finding some of the old blazed trees that marked the original trail. But, in addition to finishing the Hope-Tulameen trail, they are spending some money in opening up the Harrison Lillooet Trail (really a road) which A. C. Anderson was responsible for building, and which followed the route of his first 1846 exploration through Anderson and Seton Lakes to Harrison Lake. Moreover, they are spending money on relocating all the old portions of the Caribou Road that led all the way up to Barkerville. This is all in the works -- but Michael K. has also approached them to ask them to spend some of that money on locating and geo-mapping the new brigade trail from the north shore of Kamloops Lake all the way past Loon and Green Lake, to Lac La Hache, Williams Lake, and Fort Alexandria.
There is a meeting in Hope on Thursday afternoon and Friday of this week. I cannot get there but Michael K. will be there, as will Ken F. who is another brigade trail researcher. Both of these men are historical-geographers (a profession I didn't know existed before now.) I expect great things out of this meeting, and will keep you all in touch. I think that to celebrate the opening of the trails, we should find all the fur-trade descendents we can find, and ride them -- on horse-back, as our ancestors did. Are we all ready for a massive family re-union, on horseback?
And you must realize the importance of Alexander Caulfield Anderson's 1867 map of British Columbia in this process -- his is the only record of the location of the new brigade trail from Kamloops through Green and Loon Lake. Now that the B.C. Archives has scanned in A.C.'s map and made the brigade trail's location accessible, people who are interested in the early history of the fur trade in this province -- or the gold rush -- will locate the route of these old trails.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Brigade Trails
Posted by Nancy Marguerite Anderson at 4:05 PM
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Family Reunion? Horseback? I'll be in that! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
Charles Hou has already offered to guide me over the Anderson River trail from Alexandra Bridge (Kequeloose) over Lake Mountain to the Anderson River at Boston Bar, then upward to Coldwater River and the Nicola Valley. If you're ready for that maybe next summer, we could arrange that and we would get all the stories from the man who worked to publicize and preserve the trail.ReplyDelete
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Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of "exploiting" the Trayvon Martin tragedy to "racially divide this country."
"His family should be outraged at the fact that they're using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions," Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton "race hustlers" and said they are "acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy."
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At BFD, everything is made in house and with lots of love. We use only the freshest ingredients and locally bought products. Stop by and see for yourself!
At BFD, everything is made in house and with lots of love. We use only the freshest ingredients and locally bought products. Stop by and see for yourself!
Some soups are seasonal. Soup comes with pirozhok (puff pastry filled with onions & meat or a vegetarian filling)
Ukrainian Borsch (v)
(available cold in the summer)
Our Best Seller and a Classic... Beets and cabbage predominate topped with a dollop of sour cream and fresh dill.
Chicken Noodle Soup
Mamachka's Best Creation..Made with organic chicken and vegetables, seasoned to perfection topped with fresh dill.
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Pickle Soup??? Classic Russian soup made from pickled cucumbers, rice and potatoes topped with a dollop of sour cream and fresh dill.
Pelmeni Soup
Russian/Ukrainian dumpling soup in our homemade broth topped with fresh dill.
Soup Sampler..10
Choose 3 soups. Comes with pirozhok.
Salad Olivie...4.5
Russian style potato salad.
Venegret (v)...4.5
Beet salad.
Blini (v)...4
Served with sour cream. (order of 3)
Mini puff pastry stuffed with meat or a vegetarian filling. (order of 2)
House Salad (v)...5
Tomatoes, onions, cucumbers & fresh dill dressed with sour cream or oil vinegar.
Young Potatoes (v)...5.5
Served with fresh garlic and dill.
Herring & Onions (v)...4.5
If you are a real Russian, you must try this... Pieces of herring with fresh onions seasoned in olive oil and vinegar.
Stuffed cabbage/halupkis served over garnish.
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Homemade pierogies stuffed with your choice of potato or sauerkraut topped with fried onions and dollop of sour cream.
Kapusta (cabbage) and noodles.
Breaded chicken breast seasoned to perfection served over a garnish. Comes with a side salad.
BFD Chicken Paprikash...9
Chicken simmered in broth with onions and paprika. Served mixed in with a little sour cream over a garnish. Comes with a side salad.
Russian crepe filled with homemade farmers cheese, topped with homemade fruit compote, drizzled with chocolate.
Noodles & raisins cake topped with fresh fruit and topped with sour cream.
Homemade pierogies filled with seasoned fruit.
Fruit Plate (in season)...5
Compot ..3
homemade fruit juice
Kvas ..3
Fermented beverage made from rye bread
Meet the mother/daughter duo Vica and Milana (mamachka) who own and manage the day to day tasks at BFD. Immigrating from Kiev, Ukraine about 20 years ago, Vica graduated from Seton Hall University with a BS in International Relations and Diplomacy. That major landed her a job with the United Nations in Manhattan for a little while and then Lucent Technologies offered her a great job.
While attending high school and college, Vica had always worked in the food industry which she learned to love, and has owned this 'local gem' for the last 8 years. Our entire business has been based on word of mouth as well as our appearances on TV, written articles in newspapers, magazines as well as being rated a top food place on YELP. This is not just your regular deli - we call this place "Cheers" - most likely when you are here, you will know someone that walks into the door. So if you need some breakfast, lunch, catering for that special event or if you want to join us for our Famous 5 Course Russian/Ukrainian dinner, just stop in and say Hi!
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The mother daughter duo have been featuring on NBC, WFMZ and other local networks.


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Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 provides an MPI hybrid development suite that targets developers on high-performance clusters. The suite includes Intel MPI Library version 4.0 Update 3, which provides interoperability with OpenMP. Thus, you can develop and optimize hybrid MPI/OpenMP applications to take full advantage of the capabilities provided by the high-performance clusters that you target.
When you decide to use both MPI and OpenMP with Intel MPI Library, you must use the
-mt_mpi compiler command option to link the thread-safe version of the Intel MPI Library. This setting will be automatically applied when you use either the
-Qopenmp or the
-Qparallel options for the Intel C/C++ compiler, and therefore, those options will link the thread-safe version of the Intel MPI Library even if you don't add the
-mt_mpi compiler command.
When you work with the thread-safe version of the Intel MPI Library, any of the following three levels will have the thread-safe version linked:
It is also necessary to set the appropriate value to the
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN environment variable. This variable allows you to control the process pinning scheme for hybrid MPI/Open MP applications. The possible values for this variable allow you to define a number of non-overlapping domains of logical processors on a node and a set of rules on how the MPI processes are bound to those domains. You will always have one MPI process per one domain, and each domain will be composed of certain logical processors. Each MPI process can create threads that will be able to run on the logical processors within the domain assigned to the process. When you set a value for the
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN environment value, any value assigned to the
I_MPI_PIN_PROCESSOR_LIST environment variable will be ignored.
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN environment variable has the following three syntax forms to define the domain.
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=<mc-shape>— Define the domain by using multi-core terms. For example, the
I_MPI_PIN_DOMIAN=coreestablishes that each domain consists of the logical processors that share a particular core. If you set this value, the number of domains for a node is going to equal the number of cores for the node. Other options allow you to define the domain by socket, nodes, or the different cache levels that the logical processors might share.
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=— Define the domain by specifying the domain size and the domain member layout. It is also possible to define only the size. The size value determines the number of logical processors in each domain. You can specify the desired number of logical processors to determine the size. However, the most convenient option for hybrid MPI/OpenMP applications is usually
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=ompto make the domain size equal to the
OMP_NUM_THREADSenvironment variable value. This way, the processing pinning domain size is going to be equal to
OMP_NUM_THREADSand each MPI process can create
OMP_NUM_THREADSthreads for running within the corresponding domain. If
OPM_NUM_THREADSisn't set, each node will be treated as a separate domain, and therefore, each MPI process will be able to create as many threads as the number of available cores. In addition, you can specify the ordering of the domain members in the optional layout parameter. The default value is compact, which means that when you specify
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=omp, it will be equivalent to
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=omp:compact. The compact option determines that domain members are located as close to each other as possible according to their common resources; e.g., cores, caches, sockets. The
compactvalue benefits MPI processes that take advantage of sharing common resources; e.g., cores, caches, sockets. On the other hand, the
scattervalue determines that domain members are ordered so that adjacent domains have minimal sharing of common resources. The most convenient value depends on the available hardware, the kind of application, and its specific needs.
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=<masklist>]— Define the domain by using domain masks. For example, you can use a comma-separated list of hexadecimal domain masks that establish whether processors are included in each domain or not based on the BIOS numbering.
So, if you set the
-mt_mpi compiler command option, set
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN=omp, and configure
OMP_NUM_THREADS to establish the desired number of threads for OpenMP, you will be able to execute hybrid MPI/OpenMP applications that can take full advantage of all the possibilities and configurations offered by the high-performance clusters. You can simply set different values for both
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN and
OMP_NUM_THREADS with the
mpiexec job startup command. For example, you can use
-env I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN omp as part of the
mpiexec options to establish the value for
I_MPI_PIN_DOMAIN to
omp. In addition, you can use
setenv OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 to establish the value for
OMP_NUM_THREADS to
You can create threads that execute code in parallel with OpenMP and use MPI to coordinate higher-level communications. You can have different levels of optimizations, and you can tune them with the tools that Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 provides you, such as Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector, Intel VTune Amplifier XE, Intel Inspector XE, and Intel MPI Benchmarks. You can run the application with different options, analyze, and then tune your code and the configurations.
Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 is a commercial product, but you can download a free trial version here.


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says as many as seven inmates have tried to use forged documents to escape from prison over the past couple of years and more arrests are imminent.
The revelation comes as investigators probe how two convicted Orange County killers, Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, were able to walk out of a Florida prison three weeks ago.
According to FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger, a confidential informant told investigators the phony court papers are being sold for as much as $8,000 apiece.
Plessinger says so far they have only identified three inmates who were successful in getting out of prison: Walker, Jenkins and a third man. Plessinger says the third inmate was caught one day later in Pinellas county. However, additional information on the third inmate's name, conviction and escape was not immediately available.
According to FDLE, a fourth inmate who unsuccessfully tried to use the same scheme was Jeffery Forbes. Forbes is serving a life sentence for trying to kill an Orange County deputy. Officials say his escape plans where thwarted this past spring by an alert detective.
Plessinger did not have an exact timeline on when all seven attempts were made, but she did say they all occurred over the past couple of years, and like Walker and Jenkins, five of the seven inmates were all housed at the Franklin Correctional Institution.
Plessinger said computers, printers and other office supplies have been confiscated from the Franklin prison as part of the ongoing investigation, but she did not know whether inmates, employees or both had access to that equipment. She said analysts are using touch DNA and other forensic tools as part of the investigation.
Plessinger added that FDLE investigators have identified suspects who helped Walker and Jenkins escape, but she did not know whether those suspects are other inmates, prison employees or people from the outside. She also said detectives are still working to identify whether those suspects are connected to any of the other known cases.
Plessinger said Walker and Jenkins are not cooperating with investigators, but their relatives are speaking with detectives.
The FDLE has scheduled a press conference for noon on Tuesday.


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Many of our favorite superheroes are wealthy, sponsored by the government, or otherwise manage to scrape together the funds to keep up their crime-fighting lifestyles. But what if superheroes instead took on corporate sponsorships, bearing the colors and logo of whichever company paid their way? Would city-shattering battles turn into scenes of corporate warfare?
That's the question that Roberto Vergati Santos invites with his Sponsored Heroes series. Santos takes images of familiar superheroes from movies, television, and comics, and assigns each one a brand. It's a simple execution, but one that forces us to contemplate how easy it could be to see superpowered folks sporting Adidas exclusively or earning a little extra income from Red Bull. What happens when superheroes stop fighting for the American way and start fighting for the American corporation?
Check out the entire series at Behance.
Sponsored Heroes [Roberto Vergati Santos via Twisted Sifter]


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LOCH SHELDRAKE — A community college administrator from Oregon will become the next president of SUNY Sullivan, the school announced this week.
LOCH SHELDRAKE — A community college administrator from Oregon will become the next president of SUNY Sullivan, the school announced this week.
Karin Hilgersom, vice president for instruction at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, Ore., beat out three other finalists to succeed interim President Bill Murabito.
She will officially take over Feb. 18 under a tentative agreement that calls for her to be paid $141,000.
"This is a really prime candidate, and the staff and the chancellor seemed to totally endorse her appointment," said Nick Speranza, chairman of SUNY Sullivan's board of trustees. "We're very excited about her."
Hilgersom's hiring caps a process launched in April when a 20-member search committee began reviewing more than 40 applications.
Nine applicants were chosen to be interviewed by video. Four finalists were invited to visit the campus and meet with faculty, staff and students.
Her resume includes stints as executive vice-president of instruction at Walla Walla Community College and dean of arts and sciences at Spokane Community College, where she also been interim dean of liberal arts and vocational related education.
Hilgersom will take over a school burdened by the financial challenges facing many campuses. SUNY Sullivan's board is looking to not only expand enrollment. Its members are also seeking to play a greater role in meeting Sullivan's employment needs, such as in health services.
"We want to produce students that can go out and get jobs in our local community," Speranza said.
Hilgersom will become the school's first permanent president since President Mamie Howard-Golladay announced her retirement in August 2011.
Golladay's departure ended a 14-year tenure marked by new programs and student housing, but marred by the high-profile failure of a wind-turbine project and charges of poor communication, especially from county legislators.
Murabito has been credited with re-energizing the campus and with strengthening the school's relationship with legislators. Murabito will leave at the end of the month to become interim president at Morrisville State College, Speranza said.
"He was an outstanding bridge," Speranza said. "The last thing we were looking for was a caretaker, and he was not."


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Quote from: hecma925 on December 30, 2019, 07:25:46 PMOCnet is KGB.I hail Mor Ephrem as our Secretary General.
OCnet is KGB.
Oh you Greeks, you are all dumb!An Athonite
It should be noted that the above "Syriac Hours" is one abbreviated version of the daily prayers for use by laypeople who haven't the time for the full office.
Quote from: falafel333 on November 22, 2007, 10:18:12 PM Assyrians.Assyrians?This community is NOT Oriental Orthodox.
As far as standard prayers said on a regular basis, the Ethiopian Orthodox highly regard the Marian hymns of St Ephrem the Syrian and have a tradition of assigning various of these hymns to various days of the week. They are somewhat analogous to the Coptic weekday Vigil Theotokias. They are called Wudasse Maryam (trans., 'prayers of praise to Mary') and can be downloaded in English translation at the following link: http://tewahedo.org/WedaseMariam.pdf
As a quick aside, what is the language difference in the first two columns in the Amharic script?
It should be noted that the above "Syriac Hours" is one abbreviated version of the daily prayers for use by laypeople who haven't the time for the full office. The latter is not available online (to the best of my knowledge) because of its length.
I'm not aware of anything on line with the canonical hours for the Armenian Church. The only thing in English I am aware of is the Book of Hours listed here, that has Matins, Prime and Vespers (toward the bottom of the page:)http://www.stvartanbookstore.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=402
Syriac prayerbooks in english?
thanks for this thread!sheenj, what does 'barekhmor' mean?does it mean 'bless'? (just guessing from arabic)
and how do u say 'kirie eleison' in malyalam and syriac?
how can you tell which anaphora they are going to do? does it depend on the season or do i have to ask the priest in advance?(so i can print out the right one)
he said he didn't think they had a translation of the liturgy available. i told him he should sort that out!
This should be a sticky
In looking around, it appears that this topic has been covered before, complete with links, so perhaps reviewing the existing thread on OO prayer books would help. I thought this thread was meant to be limited to liturgical texts.
Syriac Orthodox - The Spiritual Treasure of Canonical Prayer
By popular demand, I've merged the two topics and made the new thread a sticky.Good idea.
Quote from: Suryoyutho on August 29, 2012, 01:32:27 PMSyriac Orthodox - The Spiritual Treasure of Canonical PrayerDo you know someplace where we can find the full sh'himo with hymns? The link you just posted only has the abridged prayers for each hour.
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Is Studying Abroad Still Worth it?
You may not pay more, and it could help you land a job.
American students are shying away from studying abroad, discouraged by cost, natural disasters, geopolitical instability and the challenge of meeting credit requirements toward their degrees. Participation grew a slim 1.3% in 2010–11, reports the Institute of International Education, the second-worst showing in more than a decade.
SEE ALSO: Smart Ways to Study Abroad
But students should reconsider, says Institute president Allan Goodman. The experience could pay career dividends. And, says Goodman, "despite the perception that it costs more, studying abroad generally isn't more expensive than staying at home." More campuses are making financial aid portable, so you can use it to cover expenses overseas. Look for scholarships at www.studyabroadfunding.org. Goodman also suggests trying shorter-term summer or winter foreign-study programs.
That's what recent grad Chris Standley did. His credit-intensive aerospace engineering major at Texas A&M might have prevented him from traveling abroad. But he found a summer study trip to Brazil that earned him 12 credits toward his major. A competitive scholarship covered some of the cost, and the trip helped him land a job with a Korean car-parts company. "They asked what it was like to work with others who didn't share the same culture or language, and they were happy to see that I had that experience," Standley says.


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By chance this morning, while searching for a photograph of Quercus by Alfred Rehder, I stumbled upon this 1908 image by George R. King of Galen Clark posed with a large specimen of Quercus chrysolepis. The label on the back of the mount says in part, "Galen Clark, first white man to see the big trees."
Galen Clark (1814-1910) was born in Quebec and immigrated to Missouri as a young man. There he married but after the early death of his wife he moved with his children to California, probably during the gold rush of 1849. After a bout of severe illness in 1853, which his doctors diagnosed as Tuberculosis, Clark decided to go up to the mountains, to the town of Wawona, for a cure in the clear air and natural environment. While exploring the area in 1857 with Milton Mann, they became the first people of European descent to see the grove of giant Sequoia trees which Clark later named the Mariposa Grove. The grove, which is now part of Yosemite National Park, contains approximately 500 Sequoia trees, some of which may be as much as 3000 years old. Clark's advocacy, along with that of Frederick Law Olmsted, was instrumental in the creation of the Yosemite Grant–signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1864–which protected the Yosemite Valley and appointed Clark as the park's guardian. In the following years he ran a hotel in the park and acted as a guide but spent his later years in poverty. In his 90s he wrote three books, Indians of the Yosemite valley and vicinity, their history, customs and traditions (1904), The big trees of California, their history and characteristics (1907), and The Yosemite Valley, its history, characteristic features, and theories regarding its origin (1910). Clark died at age of 96 at the home of his daughter, Dr. Elvira M. Lee, in Oakland, California, in 1910. He is buried at the Yosemite Cemetery.
I have included a second photograph, also by George R. King, of a portion of the Mariposa Grove, taken a year after that of Galen Clark. The library has a rich collection of historical photographs of the Big Trees. We will be featuring others on Library Leaves in the future.
—Lisa Pearson, Head of Library and Archives


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The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper
Published by Simon & Schuster
Most of Professor David Ullman's life has been dedicated to the story of Milton's Paradise Lost. He central thesis is that Satan is the true hero of the work, along with demons. Of course he doesn't believe in the veracity of demonology, this is the 21st century and he doesn't even believe in God, let alone the Devil. But David's disbelief is challenged after a strange person he refers to as the Thin Woman comes to his office one afternoon and requests that he come to Venice, Italy, because her employer needs for him to experience a phenomenon. As he and his wife are on the verge of divorce, David travels to Venice the next day with his twelve-year-old daughter, Tess. What happens while the two are in Venice will send David deep into study – and belief – of demonology with deeply personal consequences.
Ah, I loved this. Pyper has a way with words, and in The Demonologist he has created a beautiful and truly disturbing work of literary horror. David is very believable as a distressed father, as well as someone who has been melancholy and generally a little lost his entire life. I also adored the Milton angle, that is what makes The Demonologist special (plus I'm just a sucker for academics and historians – other than Robert Langdon – tracking down monsters, a la The Historian).
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I also expect a few IANAL posts too ;-)
I was wondering about encryption the other day and am interested to know how New Zealand law would or has handled cases in which alleged computer criminals have encrypted their hard drives with TrueCrypt or something similar.
Can (or has) a judge compel a person provide the keys required to decrypt the contents of the hard drive assuming it was evidence or potentially evidence?
How well would a "lol, I forgot da password" defence go down with a court? Is there really any way to punish someone (e.g. contempt of court) if it is impossible to tell whether they are lying or not?
As with many crimes of an electronic nature, if the evidence is on the encrypted drive in a computer and you have 'forgotten' the password would the case have to be dropped?
I remember reading about this case in which the police went to incredible lengths to secure an offender's computer while it was on and decrypted so they were able to analyse its contents. Would this mean a judge could not have ordered the drive's decryption or simply that the police wanted an easier time gathering evidence?
My interest is based on the rising number of crimes being committed online, from hacking to child pornography to copyright infringement, and the technical inability to crack such encryption systems when administered correctly.
TIA for any insight :)


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a nuts-and-bolts story about insurance concerns in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and all of the lessons apply here in Washington.
The biggest one -- and something that we repeat often -- is that a standard homeowners policy does not cover flooding. For that coverage, people typically buy a policy from the federally-run National Flood Insurance Program.
The problem is that unless required to by their lender, many homeowners simply don't get flood coverage. (And even those whose mortgage requires it often later let it lapse.)
The article covers things like who pays for tree removal, will you be reimbursed for living costs if your home is uninhabitable, and will an insurer cover the cost of ruined food when the power fails.


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I'm trying to use the TCC0 on my atmel board SAMR21 XPLAINED pro but I faced many issues, specially with the configuration.
First I found that the Library I downloaded(BitCloud) On atmel is not complete and contains some mistakes(samr21.h)
Here is the Amel website where I downloaded the library BitCloud:
So I corrected the incomplete file but my TCC0 is still not working.
I would use the TCC0 simply as a counter, so I used the following configuration:
When I read my timer I always find 0
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PM_APBCMASK_s.tcc0 = 1;
GCLK_CLKCTRL_s.id = 0x1A; // enabling clock for TCC0
GCLK_CLKCTRL_s.gen = 3;
GCLK_CLKCTRL_s.clken = 1;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.enable = 0;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.swrst = 1;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.cpten0 = 0;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.runstdby = 0;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.prescsync = 0x01;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.prescaler = 0x03;
TCC0_32_WAVE = 0x01;
TCC0_32_CTRLA_s.enable = 1;
TCC0_32_CTRLBCLR_s.oneshot = 1; // clearing one shot mode
TCC0_32_CTRLBCLR_s.dir = 1;
TCC0_32_COUNT_s.count = 0;
TCC0_32_PER_s.per = 2710;
Could any help my please, if need any clarification, please never hesitate
Thank you