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Wetherall, Jodie ORCID: 0000-0002-4786-5824 and Woodhead, Steve (2008) Investigation into a modular rule-based testing method for testing business rules in scheduling applications. In: Proceedings of the 12th Word Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics; Jointly with the 14th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis; WMSCI 2008. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 204-208. ISBN 9781934272312

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Last summer, the Bank of Canada and Federal Reserve in the United States said their overnight lending interest rates would remain near zero until at least the middle of this year. The reaction by Canadians was to buy houses with rates at historic lows, and party on.
But as economies in North America began rebounding, central banks hinted rate increases could occur fairly soon, especially in Canada.
Bond rates rose in anticipation and that was the catalyst for banks to lift five-year mortgage interest rates, generally by 0.6 per cent - the greatest single-day hike since 1994 - to 5.85 per cent. That's an increase of $88 in monthly payments on a $250,000 mortgage for 25 years.
And they've only just begun. The C.D. Howe Institute think-tank suggests the Bank of Canada should raise its overnight rate by 1.75 per cent in the next year, likely lifting five-year mortgage rates to 7.0 per cent, while other economists envision a five-year rate as high as 8.25 per cent in two years.
That presents a dilemma for prospective homebuyers. Should they join an anticipated rush to purchase homes now and lock in at low rates, although housing prices could climb immediately with a blip in buyers during this period? Or should they wait for the frenzy to die down, expecting house prices to be lower in 12 months than they will be in three, even though mortgage rates will be higher a year down the line?
A major consideration should be whether you think you can handle lower mortgage rates now in this recovering economy better or worse than you would be able to handle higher payments a year from now when the economy, we hope, has improved and the employment situation has stabilized somewhat.
The Conference Board of Canada released a report saying one-fifth of Canadians already cannot afford both good-quality housing and either nutritious food or healthy recreational activity.
And the Bank of Canada reported that if mortgage and consumer credit interest rates went up one per cent, a record-high 9.6 per cent of households would be deemed financially vulnerable.
The question is whether we will pass the tipping point from people being unable to get into the housing market to the state where existing homeowners are unable to keep the roofs over their heads. You don't need long memories to recall how prolonged low interest rates after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States eventually led to massive foreclosures there when homeowners couldn't afford payments once rates rose.
Finance professor Moshe Milevsky with York University in Toronto says that instead of just considering financial savings in whether to have a short-term variable or long-term fixed mortgage, a person should also consider debating whether going with a short-term mortgage will leave a person unable to qualify for renewal, say if they lose their job, at variable and short-term rates.
Adrian Mastracci, with KCM Wealth Management in Vancouver, says: "If you can stand the inevitability of higher payments, a variable rate can still make sense.
"But those that have no wiggle room on increased payments should look at a five-year rate."
He also suggests paying down lines of credit aggressively before rates climb, investigating the penalty to refinance your mortgage at a lower rate if possible, considering a mortgage that is partly fixed and partly variable, and shopping around and negotiating for the best rates.
With rates so low, financial institutions had little wiggle room to offer valued clients lower-than-posted mortgage rates, but that expands as posted rates go up.
And that segues into one of the three mortgage changes the federal government brings into force later this month. In the past, borrowers had to make enough family income to pay the three-year fixed mortgage rate to qualify for a mortgage, and the new rules mean you will have to earn enough family income to handle the five-year fixed rate. TD Bank said a person wanting a mortgage on a $337,000 home would need to make another $9,200 in household income to qualify. It will be more than that with the higher five-year rates.
But one question has been whether the qualifying standard would be based on the posted five-year-fixed rate, or on an actual reduced rate a borrower might get. A document by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. suggests the lower actual rate would be used. Even so, it is suggested some people wanting to lock in long-term may no longer qualify for a variable-rate mortgage or a term of less than five years.
On the positive side of rising interest charges, a widening spread between borrowing and lending rates means bank shares should do well and they may be able to increase dividends.
And for investors who turned to safety amid the volatility of equity markets in recent years, rising rates should start to improve returns on vehicles like guaranteed investment certificates and money market funds and high-interest bank accounts.
For borrowers, the party's almost over, but for many lenders it's only just begun.


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GUEST COMMENTARY: Skeptics are the new religious
(RNS) Except for presidential candidates and some parts of the Bible Belt, the days when church membership was necessary for social acceptance are long gone. Many Americans view religion as suspect or superfluous or both.
In fact, the latest data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life say that a record-high one in five Americans -- and one in three adults under age 30 -- are religiously unaffiliated.
So why did all 1,500 seats sell out for a debate I moderated a few months ago entitled "Has Science Refuted Religion?" at the California Institute of Technology? Why should the brilliant minds of the Caltech community even care, especially since skeptics, rather than true believers, made up the majority of the audience?
As the dean of a theology school, the question is of high interest to me, and I think I know the answer.
In my experience, most skeptics today are not dogmatic atheists or jaded cynics, though some are. Most are seekers. They include Caltech geeks but also a large swath of Americans who -- looking at our improved scientific understanding, changing social norms and increasingly pluralistic religious culture -- have decided that many rigid doctrines of the past are just no longer credible.
Critically, the majority of America's young people are also squarely in the doubters' camp, even the two-thirds under 30 who still identify with a religion. A groundbreaking survey by LifeWay Christian Resources found that an astounding 72 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds now consider themselves "more spiritual than religious."
While these young people are no longer members of traditional churches, they may still show up at a Sunday service now and then, looking somewhat awkward. They may pull away when pastors proclaim Jesus is the only possible way to be saved. But they are seeking, and they are finding others like themselves, and together they are beginning to change the face of American religion.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that skeptics are the new religious.
Within the Christian tradition, skeptics are often drawn to the Emerging Church movement, which is expanding rapidly. While Emergent leaders share a common admiration for the teaching of Jesus, the communities they form vary widely. Meeting sites range from homes to pubs to parks to churches to convention centers. The leaders are more often hosts and conveners than preachers and teachers of doctrine.
The Christianity they espouse is about doing and being, not creeds and orthodoxy. It's about making space to talk and question openly. These groups focus on a living quest rather than a frozen belief. They acknowledge an awe and ecstasy bubbling up from God-knows-where that empowers them to live by the words of that radical first-century rabbi: "Love your neighbor," "Blessed are the peacemakers," and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Many of our students are among these new emerging leaders. They minister to seekers ranging from Caltech brainiacs to recently released felons and just about everyone in between.
Mainline churches are also joining the movement. All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., offers inspirational Sunday services in its beautiful sanctuary, but also includes a myriad of groups engaged in social justice and compassion throughout the city. Their vigorous weekly forums include speakers from a broad range of religious and activist traditions.
The same trends are emerging in other faiths as well. One of my former students, an atheist who took theology classes (not as uncommon as you might imagine), is now the Humanist chaplain for Harvard University. He's founded a thriving community that enjoys probing discussions as well as significant humanitarian and interfaith work.
The East Side Jews of Los Angeles bill themselves as "an irreverent, non-denominational collective for Jews with confused identities." At one meeting the group invited Jewish and Muslim comics and professors from our Claremont Lincoln University consortium to take questions from the membership and their invited Muslim guests. The discussion ranged from hilarious to deeply spiritual, and participants were clearly moved.
So the answer raised by the Caltech debate is no, science has not refuted religion. Science has refuted a great deal of dogma and doctrine, but it hasn't stifled the quest for meaning. It hasn't diminished the way certain simple teachings intrigue us and inspire us to action. And it hasn't eliminated our desire to build that action into spiritual communities of investigation and change.
I see an immense yearning for these kinds of communities in America. And while it may sound strange for a seminary dean not to be bothered when these skeptics chuck traditional beliefs, I have to agree that doctrinal religion is often too rigid, too antithetical to the love and meaning that people are seeking. If science has refuted anything, it's the notion that any institution can own the absolute truth about God.
I'd challenge those who still believe religion is only suspect or superfluous. You are operating with stereotypes left over from the past. Something amazing is happening in American religion, and it's time to get involved again.
(Philip Clayton is the dean of Claremont School of Theology, a member of the Claremont Lincoln University consortium, where he is provost. His most recent book is "The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith," which he co-authored with Steven Knapp.)


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Syrian city leveled; people eat dogs to survive
ALEPPO, Syria — The Syrian military's dropping of "barrel explosives" on neighborhoods of Aleppo is the latest assault on rebels opposed to dictator Bashar Assad that is reducing this once thriving city to ruin and forcing some to turn to dog meat for food.
Assad's air forces have been dumping barrels packed with explosives on areas where rebels refuse to give up, the fourth day in a row of airstrikes on one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a former economic hub of Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one of the bombs exploded near the Ahmad al-Qassar school and another landed by a student dormitory. The group says more than 100 people have died in the bombardment, including children.
The attacks come ahead of a U.S.-backed international peace conference scheduled for late January in Switzerland. But whether this city, settled as far back as 5,000 years ago, will survive is in doubt, say people who have remained throughout a nearly three-year civil war.
A rare firsthand glimpse of Aleppo showed streets filled with concrete chunks, shattered glass, husks of cars, twisted metal, lined with buildings sliced in half by missiles. In a sign of some normalcy, a cat is curled up on asleep a chair asleep in a barber shop.
But it's dead, as is the shop. Small glass bottles still line shelves, one smells of jasmine when unscrewed.
Barefoot children in tattered clothes pick through the rubble between bombings. Many are disfigured with skin scores from Leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite from sand fly bites. There is treatment for it, but not here.
Their mothers, also barefoot and bony and suffering from diseases like typhus, walk with bowls in hand seeking water or bread from the nearby mosque or other charities.
"The only option is begging for help in a mosque," says Abu Mohammed, a charity worker.
When all is quiet, hawkers come out to peddle teapots, TVs, phones, light switches — activity that is far from where Aleppo has seen itself.
Seated at the crossroads of two major trade routes from India and Iraq, Aleppo has always been Syria's most developed commercial and industrial city. The largest covered souq, or market, in the world is here at about 8 miles long in total.
Industry was big, dominated by textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronics and even alcohol. More than half of all workers in the country's manufacturing sector worked here. Aleppo was the hub of Syria's precious metals industry, producing nearly half of all manufactured gold in the country.
Today, very little is being produced. Half of its 2 million people have vanished to escape the violence which not only comes from Assad but from the competing militias and Muslim jihadists who are fighting Assad's military and sometimes each other.
Although rarely expressly Islamist in the past, Aleppo is now filled with foreign men who impose harsh Islamic law on neighborhoods and provinces they control. The bodies of those who have crossed them can be seen floating in the Aleppo River.
The foreigners live in abandoned homes and steal from shops and warehouses to survive. Others sell copper and various materials stripped from apartment buildings and factories to buy food.
Abu Mohammed used to like to wear a hoodie printed with the name of the rock band Metallica when he was working for a Western charitable group in the spring. Since then, he's grown a beard because he works for a charity linked to al-Qaeda.
"We have no choice," he said.
Last month, he said, al-Qaeda fighters who belong to the Sunni sect of Islam burst into al-Zarzous hospital in Aleppo and beheaded a patient who had been whispering the names of Shia clerics while under anesthesia. Later they realized it had been a mistake, and that man was actually a Sunni rebel fighting on their side.
"We haven't lost only the revolution, we've lost Syria," said a prominent local activist who asked that his name not be used out of fear for his life from jihadists.
Ahrar al-Sham, whose members had been jailed for years in Syria, were the first jihadists to arrive here and fight. Then came Jabhat al-Nusra, a U.S.-designated terror group with allegiance to al-Qaeda that has members from Arab nations. Also here is ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaeda group that sent its killers to the hospital.
Liwa al-Tawhid, once the largest rebel group in the city, was crushed by Syria's military as it was trying to push out competing rebel groups.
All want to overthrow Assad but not for the same reasons. Native Syrian rebels want the regime deposed and democratic reforms installed. The foreign fighters seek to create a Sunni jihadist regime with Islamic law and a base for further attacks in the Arab world.
Assad has taken advantage of the infighting, as in the case of the now debilitated Liwa al-Tawhid.
Getting here and chronicling the conditions is dangerous. Around 30 journalists have disappeared in Aleppo since the war started in 2011, say journalism groups. Red Cross workers have been kidnapped by fighters on all sides for aiding wounded fighters on the other side.
The radical Islamists here have come from Afghanistan, Chechnya and Libya as well as London and even Marseille, France. The most widely spoken language among the foreign fighters is English, not Arabic.
The Islamists always decline interview requests and demand that journalists say they are not opposed to democracy. One fighter who said he was from Saudi Arabia referred journalists to his group's Facebook page for answers.
In these areas, women must cover their faces in black niqabs, or veils, which was never mandatory before the war.The jihadists have established an Islamic court system to replace the secular ones that once prevailed and enforce their versions of Muslim law.
While some here say the courts maintain some order, they judges are accused of going too far. This past summer a 14-year-old boy was executed for misusing the name of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, according to AFP and other media.
When people are asked why they stay, most say they don't have the money to get out. A taxi ride to the nearby Turkish border is $150, an immense amount of money for people scavenging for a living in what is now a barter economy.
United Nations relief funds, channeled through the Damascus government, don't reach Aleppo. And relief workers have been prevented by Syrian forces from delivering medical and food aid to the city.
In October, the city's imams gave Aleppo's hungry citizens permission to eat dogs, which is normally deemed haram, or sinful.
The latest air assault has overwhelmed Aleppo's medical facilities, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders warned. It said hospitals are running out of drugs and medical supplies.
"Repeated attacks often lead to chaos and make it more difficult to treat the wounded, thereby increasing the number of fatalities," said Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, the group's coordinator in Syria.
He blamed all sides for making life intolerable, pleading that they all comply with international humanitarian law.


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Commercial Support Comes to RHEL Clone CentOS
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CentOS has earned no small amount of interest thanks to its pedigree -- it's based on the source code powering the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) offering. Until now, CentOS has lacked the kind of commercial support that helped make RHEL popular among businesses, and hasn't really been viewed as much of a rival. That may be changing, however. Datamation looks at the implications for Linux users and for Red Hat.
Free, community-driven versions of Linux don't often benefit from commercial enterprise support efforts.
For CentOS, that's now about to change. The clone of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise Linux is now being commercially supported by services vendor OpenLogic.
It's unclear how Red Hat will respond to the new offering. The company told InternetNews.com earlier that it viewed CentOS positively for encouraging participation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux's development community and for broadening the distro's user base.
But now, OpenLogic admits that its addition of commercial support is likely to have some negative impact for Red Hat.


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by Emmanuel Legrand
It's the Internet, stupid!
Guess what? Consumers want to access the internet and web-based services through their mobile devices. Nothing really new here. That was on everybody's minds – especially people in the phone biz and those in the content industry – since the beginning of the century. But it took roughly a whole decade to get there.
In fact, the tipping point was the advent of smartphones, with Apple's iPhone as primus inter pares, and the new generation of 3G networks, capable – at last – to carry the volume of data required to offer these services.
So what we are seeing now is really the start of a new era, that of the web-based mobile business.
|M. Newman
"It's all about the internet and consumers want services from the internet," said Mark Newman, chief research officer at Informa Telecoms & Media, at the conference Industry Outlook 2011, organised November 25 by British media and events group Informa Telecoms & Media.
This quite low-key event was a great eye opener for those trying to figure out where the next big thing is going to come from. According to Newman, the demand for services, content and applications on mobile phone – 'stuff' that will make these handsets really smart – will be the drivers of the mobile business for the years to come.
His views were backed by the results of a survey across the telecoms galaxy in which 67% of the people polled believed that in 2011 "content companies will successfully start to develop new business models to monetise their services".
Newman pointed out that since 1996, mobile operators and internet companies were looking at each other without really knowing how one could benefit from the other. The mass-market adoption of smartphones makes this relationship possible now.
He also noted that the same survey listed among the key topics, companies or people in the telecoms world that will be important in 2011 the following: 'smartphones', 'cloud services', 'Google', 'Apple', 'network sharing' and 'Android'.
When it comes to mobile phones, the overall figures are staggering. Informa forecasts that by 2015, close to 650 million (yes, over half a billion) smartphones will be sold in the world, about 41% of all handsets sold on that year, with Europe and Asia/Pacific leading the way. So with these phones comes content traffic.
At the moment, revenues extracted by operators from internet-related services are in the region of $95 billion a year, to be compared with global revenues of $713 billion on voice traffic. Yes, phones are still primarily used to…make phone calls!
But that's going to change and Informa forecasts a major growth in revenues from web-based services. In a way, owning a smartphone encourages data consumption. And to provide what consumers want, operators will have to make partnerships with content providers such as Facebook (200 of Facebook's 500 million users use the service on their mobiles), Yahoo!, Skype, Last.fm or Spotify.
|K. Hart
Ken Hart, senior director, business development, at Yahoo! forecatsted one billion mobile internet users by 2013, up from 600 million nowadays. "We see very big opportunities [in mobile internet services]," said Hart. "What we see in the US is that people do not drop their PC but there are gaps in the day, and there are now usages patterns combining mobile and PC."
For Hart, the trend in mobile phones is towards simplicity. People want easy to access services, but he warned about having over-expectations. Consumers, he stated, do not need hundreds of services – they will turn to a small number of service sthat fit their needs. "The average smartphone in US has a few dozen apps," he explained. "A third are utilities, one third are brands like Google then there's a small number of Specific applications. There is only a limited number of things people are using on their phones. You've got to have something to differentiate you in the market."
|F. Galaria
Music and video were among the examples attractive content mentioned during the conference as good playgrounds for partnerships. French streaming audio service Deezer has a partnership in France with Orange. Spotify, the music streaming service, has partnered with operator Talia in Sweden and 3 in the UK. According to Spotify global head of business development Faisal Galaria, these partnerships can be beneficial to both parties. Operators can provide a much useful service to their customers without having to set up their own infrastructure and making deals with rights owners. In return, Spotify can leverage its brand and access new users. Sometimes, added Galaria, the partership can extend to operators taking charge of billings on behalf of Spotify.
"Telcos and mobile operators say that Spotify is an acquisition driver for them," revealed Galaria, who added that Spotify aims "to be ubiquitous because we are a cloud-based service."
Galaria quoted some Informa research forecasting that 5% of the $365bn of non-voice revenues in 2015 will come from music. "This is quite significant," he quipped. How these revenues are going to be shared and how much will be back to rights holders is obviously the $18 billion question!


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NEW YORK - Kids who get lots of antibiotics from their doctors are more likely to harbor the MRSA superbug, although it's still rare, a new study of British youngsters has found.
While that doesn't prove the drugs are to blame for the antibiotic-resistant bacterium, it would make biological sense, researchers say.
"This just provides more evidence to support redoubling our efforts to decrease antibiotic use," Dr. Daniel J. Diekema, who was not involved in the new work, told Reuters Health.
MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, first arrived in the U.S. in the 1960s. But it wasn't until 1980, when it infected a burn victim in a Seattle hospital and caused a devastating outbreak, that doctors realized how serious the situation really was.
It is estimated that in 2005, the bug caused severe infections in nearly 95,000 Americans and killed more than 18,500 of them.
While infections caught in hospitals have been declining in recent years, there is less certainty about those contracted outside hospitals -- so-called community-acquired MRSA.
"It remains a major public health problem, but the dramatic increase that we saw during the last decade seems to have leveled off in many areas and may be decreasing in some," said Diekema, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
To get a better idea about how MRSA infections arise outside of hospitals, Canadian researchers looked at data from more than 400 doctors' offices in the UK.
They'd already shown that adults with several antibiotic prescriptions were more likely to harbor MRSA later on, so this time they focused on kids who'd gotten the diagnosis between 1994 and 2007.
There were 4.5 MRSA cases per 100,000 children every year in the UK, although it wasn't clear from the data whether the children had active infections or just carried the bacteria on their skin, where they are harmless.
"In general, only a minority of people who carry MRSA go on to become infected," Diekema explained.
Of 297 children who tested positive for MRSA, more than half (53 percent) had been prescribed at least one antibiotic between 30 and 180 days before the diagnosis (the last 30 days were excluded to make sure the drug hadn't been used to treat
By contrast, only 14 percent of more than 9,000 kids who'd visited the same doctors but didn't have MRSA had recently been taking antibiotics.
After accounting for differences between the two groups of children -- such as hospital stays or other diseases they might have -- that amounted to a three-fold difference in the risk of harboring MRSA.
And the more antibiotics the children had been given, the more likely they were to be carrying the resistant bug. Those who got four or more prescriptions, for instance, had 18 times the risk of MRSA.
"Observational studies like this really can't prove causality," said Diekema. But he added that it was biologically plausible that antibiotic use would fuel the growth of resistant bacteria.
On the other hand, nearly half of the children who had the bug hadn't received any antibiotics in the half year before their diagnosis, the Canadian team reports in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
"This is an intriguing observation that we expect will generate some research into the mechanism of MRSA development," said Samy Suissa, of McGill University in Montreal, who led the new research.
In an email, he said it's important to curb the inappropriate use of antibiotics, which fight bacteria but have no effect on viruses.
"Parents should freely discuss with their physician if they feel that antibiotics may be overprescribed," Suissa told Reuters Health.
SOURCE: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, online August 1, 2011.


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Not long ago, we had a visit from Director/Story Man/Designer Bob Kurtz. Bob started out working on The Alvin Show, Roger Ramjet and Linus the Lionhearted, and went on to a long and distinguished career directing commercials. He was kind enough to contribute copies of his commercials to our collection, and promised to come back again soon to do a taped interview for the blog. In the meantime, check out this reel of great commercials from Kurtz & Friends…
Kurtz & Friends Historical Reel (1970s-80s)
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Saturday, October 06, 2007
Summers' Last Hurrah?
This morning Topaz and I headed out for a 10 mile run. It was beautiful. Began the run with a flashlight, then watched the big red ball of a sun rise out of the ground. Beautiful. Put away the light, took out my sunglasses and enjoyed the next few hours. With all of yesterday's rain, the ponds and creek were nice and plump for Topaz to lay in.
Kimbot let me know that she knows of no one that runs a 10 mile run the day before the marathon. I had to chuckle, it hadn't crossed my mind!
Troy had his first Championship football playoff game today. They won every game during the season, so were given trophies today. They won today's game too, pretty sweet. Coach bought everyone Dairy Queen following the game.
After the football fun I had to go to the Expo mayhem. I hate Expo's. Especially the Twin Cities Marathon Expo. It's crazy crowded ( at least on Saturday at 230), traffic is a nightmare and it's just a big cluster fuck. I hate that I have to drive 75 miles one way to collect a race packet. I think I can actually have this mailed out to me. I'll check out that option. I don't like crowds, I don't like shopping, I don't like Expo's. I went in at 237 and exited the RiverCenter at 248. Pretty quick for all the complaining I just did.
On the way home I stopped at Trader Joe's. Now, Trader Joes, I just love. Fage yogurt, at 20 grams of protein per cup, Just Chicken that rocks, seasoned turkey breasts, chicken sausages, great herbed salad mixes. It took the bad taste of the Expo out of my mouth.
So,yeah, tomorrow is the Twin Cities Marathon. 26 miles of asphalt with crowds of people spectating and screaming 'you look good' 'just a bit further' 'keep going'. It has become tiresome.
I love ultra's. I love the no Expo crap. I love the trail. I love the woods. I love the handful of crew members along the way. I love the no hype. I don't know that I could do an IronMan because of all of the people and hype. Blech. It must be a marathon on steroids.
No plan for tomorrow. Just running a long training run .. for what, I don't know. No more Ed Fitz next week. I still can't believe Ed Fitz 100K is cancelled. I'll be running just to run. Take some pictures. Probably take me about 4+ hours. Will be home in time for Tyler's baseball games.
I'll have to drive to Minneapolis or St. Paul, park at a hotel, bus to the start, finish, bus to the hotel and drive home. That's kind of a pain, too.
This week was crazy busy. Between guitar lessons, baseball, football, township and county meetings, oh, and 14 hours of training..I feel like I've been going non stop. Well, I'll have 14 hours of training in as I know it will take me at least 4 hours to run tomorrow. Hey, if it takes me 5 hours, a big 15 hours of training for me. That will surpass last week's 14 hours. Rock on.
I guess this is the last race of the year for me. That's kind of sad. My next race isn't until the Northwoods Snowshoe Marathon, in Duluth, in January. Man, that seems a long way out.
I'm developing my training plan for October through December. I'll maintain at 50-60 miles a week, lift 3x a week, get in a few back to back long runs every other week. In December I'll find out about Western and then put together a crazy physco run hard and fast training plan if I get in.
Leanness Lifestyle Elite is going well. I'm .8 of a pound off my goal setter, have lost just under 5 pounds so far..very doable..not aggressive, slow and sure. Yeah, I have sugar cravings now and then and had a few mishaps with a certain cinnamon raisin bagel but, I'm not perfect!
Have a great run, Twin City Marathoners! See you out on the course.
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- Coach Jen said...
Help me understand. It sounds like you hate everything about the TC Marathon yet you still run it year after year. I don't get it. Why put yourself thru it when you can go to Duluth and do the Midnight Sun Grand Traverse the same weekend?
- Kim said...
I know what you mean about road marathons. I ran the Akron Marathon last week and it was tiring to hear "you're going to finish!" or "almost there" time after time. Oh well they meant well.
I'm off for some trail running today!
- Julie B said...
Lisa, I've never heard of the Duluth race. A marathon + Distance? I'll have to google it. I run the TCM each year because it is here, because it is an easy long training run before Ed Fitz, which I loved, the following week. I can usually use the asphalt training this time of the year after trail running most of the summer. That's why. No travel involved, just an hour away from my house. I enjoy the running part of the TCM, the lakes, the changing of the leaves, it takes me back to my second marathon ever that I ran at TCM. I guess those are the reasons why. I guess I better get into the car and drive to Minneapolis to get this run started :) Maybe today I'll find many more reasons why I run TCM year after year. Today is TCM #7 and my 20th marathon. Wow.
Hey Julie, I just did Great Illini iron distance triathlon. Very low key. You don't have to do the official Ironman if you want a low key event. There are generic iron distances that are smaller and cheaper to enter.


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This is a view from the Wadi Rum desert in the South of Jordan. It is located between Petra and Aqaba even if it's a 30 minutes drive away from the main road to join the entrance of the reserve.
That desert is very appealing with incredible rocks emerging from the sand. I've heard it's a climber paradise with many challenging spots.
I had a walk waiting for the sunset along a dune and found that camel skull. I guess I stayed something like 30 minutes crawiling in the sand and trying to create an attracting compo with the sand dunes, the intense blue sky and that large white skull.
The time I spent in that desert was quite short but it was a very good experience to feel the silence in these large spaces at night.
In fact, I found the place quite busy during the day with many 4-wheel-drive cars on the track but it was a marvel at night.
Following advices from the son of the Bedouin which hosted my wife and I for the night, I even wake up in the middle of the night to get pictures from the desert under the moonlight : an incredible experience.
It's not so often but we made a decision we regretted during that stay in Wadi Rum. To avoid any problem or surprise, we decided to use the services of the official "Visitor center" to visit the desert and spend the night. Apart for the evening with one Beduin which was very nice, we found it was a very expensive touristic package with not so much enthousiasm. Based on the discussions we had with different people, I would rather recommand people visiting Wadi Rum to try to meet local beduin instead and ask for help.
-> I tried a B&W Workshop, please let me know how to improve it, especially because I have some problems to both increase the saturation and leave the sand with enough details and texture...
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tontonjc (6623) 2005-12-04 12:04
Un paysage et des couleurs superbes. C'est digne de Lucky-Luke ...
Ce crane et ces détails sont splendides.
clarkzor (379) 2005-12-04 12:04
Hi Steven!
What can I say, beautiful picture, warm nice colors, good composition and the "not-straight" (sorry, donæt know the english word) angle in the picture works very well! Nice captured!
jp80 (8443) 2005-12-04 12:05
Bonjour Steven,
super cadrage, le sujet ressort parfaitement et parait énorme au premier plan. L'arrière plan est très esthétique également, et l'utilisation du polarisant est tout à fait opportune. Bravo !
mlopes (494) 2005-12-04 12:08
Hi Steven,
You did well, the compo is just as it should be i think, nice framing of the skull, and good contrasts with the sky.
cherryripe (21033) 2005-12-04 12:35
Hi Steven
Very dynamic shot thanks to the position of the skull which looks so big in the foreground. The sharpness, contrast and colours are superb. Thanks for your informative note. You must have got your clothes all stained red but it is was worth it.
naxius (16685) 2005-12-04 12:43
Salut Steven,
Des couleurs magnifiques et contrastées du désert du Wadi Rum!! Avec des ossements qui font presque peur!
MiKa2000 (2432) 2005-12-04 12:51
Grande finesse ds cette photo.
Elle devrait etre très sympa en n/b. a voir
jbweasle (9393) 2005-12-04 13:00
A very evokative shot, Steven. It shows well both the beauty of the desert and its deadly side. Good colour and lighting.
Ina (2687) 2005-12-04 14:08
Wow what a powerful picture... The clearnes and strong colors fits this motif perfectly...TFS...Ina...
JanArie (657) 2005-12-04 15:48
Hello Steven
You take a great photo with beautifull colors and interesting composition and subject.
Well done!
Greetings Jan-Arie
capa (743) 2005-12-04 17:56
Excellent shot \o/
cam (9043) 2005-12-04 20:52
Hello Steven
A very good cmposition with the skull filling the foreground and diagonally place,taking our view towards the incredible colors of the desert.
I like it very much
tjanze (5674) 2005-12-05 3:17
Hi Steven!
Good captured detail in front and fantastic background.
Colours,sharpness,lightning,angle of view ++++.
deud (1920) 2005-12-05 4:40
beautiful image. very good saturated colors! amazing dof. very nice composition.
dolin (7369) 2005-12-05 4:54
Hello Steven.
Pas une grande différence avec celle-ci http://fr.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Jordan/photo243508.htm :)
Cela dit....ca reste une superbe photo avec de très belles couleurs et une belle lumière dorée.
Le cadrage vertical lui va très bien et la pdc est tip-top.
J'aime bien cette texture et cette couleur au niveau du sable.
Excellent d'avoir trouvé cette tête...et tu en as tiré une très belle compo.
Bien joué
(je repasse pour le smile)
Albrecht (11283) 2005-12-05 13:33
Wauw Steven
What a spectacular shot. Great POV and DOF. Beautiful colours. Have seen this before, don't know where, don't know when, but yours is excelent.
Greetings Albrecht
Didi (61587) 2005-12-08 17:27
Le Pays de la Soif ! Disait le Capitaine Haddock.
Une bonne présentation de cette composition macabre où l'on apprécie la texture du sable et les couleurs.
Il ne manque plus que la présence des vautours.
Luko (14000) 2005-12-13 18:16
c'est très beau en termes de couleurs et de rendu mais tu as quand même joué avec le feu avec du 1/50!!
ça a une qualité presque perdue, un présence de VRAIE diapo Kodachrome 64... j'aurais pas craché sur un bédouin passant dans le cadre quand même...
pitai (3985) 2005-12-27 8:29
Wow! This shot looks taken from any action movie. Great perspective, colors and definition. The sand looks like a fine carpet given that smooth texture. Great contrast of colors. A good example of what one can achieve with a polarizer. Very well done, Gabriel
P.s. I like more the color version.
Danzi (2461) 2005-12-30 2:52
Absolutely fantastic shot Steven!
A remarkable very impressive shot with well saturated deep coloring. The skelet hard contrasted in the desert that contrast sowell with its warm color to that blue sky. The rocks at the horizont is very nice and the blue sky too.
I enjoy it a lot and thanks for sharing!
jluca (10377) 2006-01-03 18:04
Belle composition, belle lumière, belles couleurs, bref c'est une belle photo !
GSHodg (104) 2006-03-15 9:49
Lots of colour saturation, great composition.
euryan (8442) 2007-09-15 23:11
I was searching through desert photos here on Trekearth and I found this amazing photo, posted before I had even joined. I just have to tell you that this is an awesome photograph. The skull is perfectly composed in the foreground. The lighting is great and so are the intense desert colors. Even the stick in the camels mouth is interesting (looks like he is smoking).
difty93 (545) 2007-12-17 7:58
Hi Steven,
This is a great photo for me and the colours are amazing!!
CiaoCiao, Vivi
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- Date Taken: 2005-09-21
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Every presheaf (let's say on a topological space) comes with restriction maps. The open sets of a topological space are ordered by inclusion and these inclusions yield the restrictions. Now a sheaf satisfies a gluing condition: that you can glue along elements which coincide on common restrictions.
Every simplicial object (let's say a simplicial set) comes with face maps. The simplex category is ordered by faces & degeneracies and these maps yield simplicial maps. Now a Kan complex satisfies a gluing* condition: that you can glue along simplices which coincide on common faces.
Is there a deeper theoretical framework to relate these 2 notions? I guess that this is the case, and that it is rather trivial.
Side-question: Can we define "degeneracies" for presheaves?
*it's not a gluing condition, but "somehow similar" (see answers below)


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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tight race in Alberta in new polls as by-elections loom
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Wildrose anyone ??ReplyDelete
Definitely time for a change bede but whether the public wants to go further right with Wildrose or try a bit left with ??ReplyDelete
Be interesting to watch anyway from back here East.Replies
Jim Prentice is extraordinarily talented. He isn't your average Alberta Joe. That was recognized recently by CIBC. Many of us knew that way back when. Watch the new broom sweep -- like never before. Danielle Smith needs to take nothing for granted.
No argument Ron but time may be against him as well. So what happens in the next month or two could be extremely important. as is the public mood !!Delete
It would be nice if Alberta could develop a genuine two party system with left and right but, Alberta doesn't work that way. 75% of the people are conservative, as the polls today show Wildrose is the only credible alternative to the PCs. The Liberals and NDP need to at least talk about a merger for publicity's sake if nothing else. Splitting 9 seats between them is almost the definition of futility.Delete
Prentice is extremely talented but, the problem runs so much deeper than the premier or cabinet or PC caucus. Alberta is imbued with 3 generations of PC cronyism and the mechanism of this quid pro quo are indelibly marked in the mindset of Albertans. If that was the only problem perhaps a new beneveolent government would be the solution but, Alberta has never had an effective two party system or opposition. The whole party system in Alberta needs reform. As the price of oil sinks the greater the chance of such reform occuring.
I'm wondering how much affect this sudden crash in oil prices will have, Given Alberta's really poor financial situation it could be a disaster.Delete
Alberta's royalty scheme is based on price, the higher the price of oil the larger the share of the royalty. For example if oil is at $100 a barrell the royalty may be 4% but at $80 the royalty may fall to 3%. If oil remains around $80 a barrell for a extended period it will become difficult for Alberta to balance its budget.Delete
A larger problem for Alberta is that Alberta bitumen is cost prohiobitive. Alberta oil needs to be pureified before it is salable consequently the cost per barrell is high. Costs range between $50-90 per well. At $80 some wells become unprofitable and will be shut down at least temporarily and that means lay-offs for all those who work at marginal oil production wells.
Today WTI spiked below $80/barrel. Now as you know Alberta oil gets less than WTI. So this says hard times ahead for Alberta as the rest of the country does better because ob the low value of the loonie which means bigger exports !!Delete
Don't forget bede that Canadian crude sells for less on the world market than WTI.Delete
So if WTI is $80 Alberta crude will get about $70. So the impact of the current crash in oil prices is more severe here !
Alberta's financial situation doesn't need to be poor. When Ralph balanced the budget in 1994, oil was at $12/bbl.Delete
Improving Alberta's finances doesn't require more revenue. It requires disciplined cuts to spending.
I am well aware that Alberta oil (Western Canadian Select) sells for a discount. At the moment WCS sells for 85% of the WTI price. For Alberta producers the selling side is not the problem, some wells make money with oil at $30bbl the problem is the cost. Buying WCS at 85% of the WTI price is great but, often further refining is required and costs to produce are high (Synthetic crude sells for 98% of the WTI price). The differential between WTI and WCS has declined over the last year from $31.71 to $14.16 as has the differential between WTI and synthetic crude. It is not easy to explain how this has occurred in a environment of falling oil prices. As of today however, the decline has been felt less severely in a relative sense in Alberta than other oil producing regions.
If Alberta cut spending a deficit could be avoided but, it is difficult to do in a province with a growing population. Alberta's tough environment also increase costs for maintenance and repair and frankly, wages need to be higher in Alberta to attract work. I'm not saying efficiencies can't be found but, there are few obvious places to start cutting. The other problem; Alberta is heavily reliant on oil royalties accounting for about 25% of revenues.
Thanks for that bede, I knew there was a differential but the actual details I didn't know. This helps !Delete
And if Alberta, as most Govts, works on a percentage of price system for its revenue then Alberta is in real trouble with this price crash. Which Jim Prentice said the other night.
No seat projections?ReplyDeleteReplies
Seconding that! would love to see a projection if you have a chance, especially given the regional breakdown in these polls!Delete
I did run it through the model (I made a brief mention of the seat implications at the end) but didn't include the numbers in the post.Delete
The Lethbridge College poll gave me 46 PC, 25 WR, 8 NDP, 8 LIB. If I added the standard kind of ranges to that, a PC minority scenario would doubtlessly be very possible.
The PCs may lose some seats in the by-election. However, I think Prentice can turn things around for the PCs and form government again after the next election.ReplyDelete
I believe PC support hit rock bottom after the Redford scandals. She is gone and Prentice is competent and skilled enough to move the narrative beyond past scandals.
The Wildrose does not seem to have this the bag. If the Wildrose is seen to have momentum, Liberal and NDP voters may hold their nose and vote PC again to block Danielle Smith from being premier.
The center-left in Alberta need to organize themselves better. Alberta is one jurisdiction where the Liberals and NDP are better off as a merged political entity. With the right leader, organization and policies this entity could form government. A strong party in the center-left, along with Wildrose on the right would mean the end of the PC dynasty for good.Replies
Pretty unlikely the PCs will lose a by-eelction with these poll numbers. Surely voters aren't going to reject a premier, Mandel for some strange reason is popular amongst Edmontonians. All the by-elections are in what should be safe PC seats and the polls do not indicate PC not opposition momentum.Delete
If NDP and Liberal voters are foolish enough to vote PC instead of holding the balance of power in a minority Legislature they deserve the government they get. It was absolutely shameful in 2012 when Liberals who waited several generations to have a say in government abandoned the party and vopted for their traditional PC opponents. What they got in return was a government far worse than any danielle Smith could have conjured and demonstrated the foolishness of "strategic voting".
There are four by-elections occurring in Alberta. The premier can only run in one of them. There is a chance the PCs may lose a seat or two.
Thanks Big jay I am well aware of how many by-elections will take place on Oct. 27th. Cabinet ministers will run in three out of four. The oppositions' best hope is probably Calgary Elbow but, its history is hardly one of radicalism or even a gentle nudging of the boat. depending on the poll the Tories are either up by 10 points in Edmonton or Calgary or down by a point in either case the advantage probably rests with the incumbent party-the Progressive Conservatives.Delete
There is of course a very small chance the Tories will lose one by-election but, it would be very unlikely, momentum is with the PCs along with nearly three generations of history.
A Red Tory is the last thing Alberta needs right now. I really hope WR manages to pull out a victory in at least one of these byelections.ReplyDelete
Would anybody here on this site be interested in the creation of a Canadian Politics forum on Delphi ??ReplyDelete
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Amanda & Kris feel its Kisha & Jen who U-Turned them, but also speculate it's Luke & Margie.
Mark and Mike offer the cab driver their watch but he has a Rolex.
Amanda & Kris are out. Should be interesting to see their reaction at Elimination Station. They're going to be bitter.
Quote from: TARAsia Fan on March 08, 2009, 07:54:27 PMAmanda & Kris are out. Should be interesting to see their reaction at Elimination Station. They're going to be bitter.Question, since I haven't seen it. Did they ever find out (like at the mat) who U-Turned them? Because if not they might not have ever found out (until the race was over), imagine either of the girl teams going out next and their reaction to it.
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I always liked drawing ponies ...
A series of small sketches with watercolour wash, to see how good I can get at it after 100 days of practice. I started a while ago and for a few days I had gusto and enthusiasm, but as with previous hobbies, once I started being critical and disappointed, I lost confidence and stopped bothering. I might add a journal entry here and there, but for the most part it will be the pencil and the watercolour. I am looking forward to the discipline that commitment - to the 100 Days Project - brings out in me. I have way better staying power with a bit of a push.
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Global warming isn't happening, you guys! That's why Colorado's on fire and the rest of the country is roughly the temperature of the inside of an Easy Bake oven, and the parts that aren't on hot or in flames are being rained on with the force of a peeing god who drank a Big Gulp during the first half hour of Magic Mike and then held it for the rest of the movie. But how is a lady supposed to dress appropriately for sudden, extreme weather changes? And what if she forgets her provisions at home? A little bit of elbow grease, a lot of pluck, and no shame.
If there are any lessons to be learned from the weather in 2012, it's that only thing we know is that we know nothing. All that we can predict is that it is unpredictable, like Mitt Romney's stance on basic questions about his core beliefs. That being said, the best way to address moody weather is to prepare for all of it. All of the weather.
Until we exist in a world where all humans are provided with gigantic, air conditioned human sized hamster balls that they're to use as means of conveyance (that world will also need special hamster ball lanes, as human sized hamster balls on sidewalks are disruptive to pedestrian traffic), the most pragmatic, sensible thing to do here would be to carry a big ass purse around and fill it with everything you might need for the summer we've global warming'd ourselves into — a portable, compact rain poncho, something to cover your shoes in the event of a rainstorm, a sweater in case you end up having to sit in an office where the thermostat constantly hums along at Giant Man in Heavy Suit/Popsicle temperature. A small umbrella that totally can't withstand a gust of wind but can withstand being folded into a very small space and fit into your purse, which is now expanding at approximately the speed of sound. I've heard great things about Shuella, flexible, foldable, portable waterproof rain ponchos that slip on over shoes (even heels) and protect your feet from rain.
But (to use a phrase that when they haven't really proved their point and are too lazy to go back and write something better) let's face it: there are going to be days when you haven't prepared for the possibility of the sky opening up and raining all over your new shoes. There are going to be days where it's not practical to carry a duffel bag full of waterproof junk around. And those are the days that will really test a lady's resolve.
If you're caught in the rain without an umbrella, consider utilizing several umbrella alternatives. You know those free newspaper kiosks on street corners? I love those, because FREE UMBRELLAS. Sure, your hand will get soaked and you might get ink on your clothes, but you shouldn't wear white on days when rain is in the forecast, anyway. Heavier rain requires more protection. I once ducked into a Walgreens in downtown Chicago so that I could cut a hole in the middle of the bag and wear it over my shoulders like a waterproof shawl; I was on my way to a job interview and couldn't get my jacket wet. A friend who attended the University of Florida says he used to cut a facehole in a garbage bag and wear it like he was a child in a picture book dressing up like a ghost for Halloween. Strange looking, but gale-proof. And it looks cool to rip it off once you get to where you're going.
Shoes are another matter entirely. An old friend prefers carrying something she calls "second shoes" around everywhere she goes. These are disposable ballet flats that cost like $10 at Target and can get wet without causing her grief. They're Taking One for the Team shoes. But if you're stuck without shoe covers or Second Shoes, consider taping plastic bags around your feet, like how a surgeon wears those things over her shoes during surgery, except without the whole "looking cool and saving lives" thing. If you're thinking of taking your shoes off and walking home barefoot in the rain, think twice, Manic Pixie Tetanus Girl — those shoes better be at least worth stepping in rain soaked dog shit, and if you're in an urban area, rusty nails and rat corpses infected with The Plague are just waiting to embed themselves in your feet. Not so carefree with gangrene, are you?
Another important lesson to learn in this Summer of Birds Exploding in Midflight: makeup will do nothing but cause pain, so it's best to just learn to accept your face for how it really looks or get that shit tattooed on. Wearing excessive makeup in the heat will inevitably result in that makeup sliding off your face in a sad Tammy Faye Baker esque homage to how you wish you looked, and wearing it in the rain will produce the same result. Don't be shy to go more bare-faced than usual — everyone's too hot or rain-soaked to care.


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On Thursday, November 6, 2003, the Human Resources Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, held a hearing to examine "a recent failure to protect child safety". The hearing was to investigate an alleged child abuse case in New Jersey involving the starvation of a family's adopted children and the subsequent dismissal of social workers who had been investigating the family but missed the alleged abuse. Accountability was the Committee's focus since in 2002, federal taxpayers provided the states $3.1 billion to support children in adoptive and foster settings, and an additional $2.8 billion in administrative funding to help vulnerable children.
Prior to this hearing, HSLDA contacted the Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Wally Herger of California, to inform him that the family at issue was reported to be a homeschooling family, that certain legislators in New Jersey had cited this case as highlighting a need to pursue new regulations on homeschooling (-Click Here-), and why this call for new regulations was in error. Our efforts were not in vain.
Carla Katz, the president of the Communications Workers of America, a union representing social workers in New Jersey testified at the hearing. In her remarks, President Katz stated the following: "Home schooling creates gaps. Nearly 20% of all abuse cases are reported by schools. When children are outside the school system, extra protections are critical. There are no home schooling regulations that would require homeschooled children to see anyone from the public education system. There is no cross-referencing with the Department of Education to look for children who are in the 'system' but have not been seen by anyone."
Fortunately, the hearing did not turn in the direction of whether homeschooling is in need of further regulation. Chairman Herger kept the Committee on its principal task of investigating the use of taxpayer funds and did not develop the homeschooling issue.
At the core of the union's position is that homeschoolers should have greater involvement with the public school system in order to catch child abuse. But this is not the function of the public schools. It has long been held that the government's legitimate constitutional interest in education is literacy and self-sufficiency, not to detect child abuse. Wisconsin v. Yoder 406 U.S. 205 (1972). Moreover, it has been long understood that the government may not require all students to be required to be a part of the public school system, as children are not "mere creatures of the state". Pierce v. Society of Sisters 268 U.S. 510 (1925). Even though some parents might abuse children, it is still a presumption in America that parents act in the best interests of children. Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584 (1979).
As the recent CBS series on homeschooling demonstrated (-Click Here-), there is a growing trend to link homeschooling with child abuse. This trend poses a significant threat to homeschool freedom. Should it be accepted, it will pave the way for significant homeschool regulations. HSLDA will be working with Congress to make sure that the truth is presented in the final record of this hearing. Thank you for standing with us for homeschool freedom.
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Sunday night between mincha (afternoon prayers) and maariv (evening prayers) the synagogue was over-flowing. Among the people there was a whispering, Bundists in the synagogue? This smacks of being something new suddenly a strong bang (knock) could be heard at the table, it hurts, Jews, important news! A dead silence dominated the synagogue, it felt like everyone would be holding their breath. At the platform (lectern) stands the chairman of the Bund, Peretz Freitag. (He is) a young handsome man, with burning black eyes. He is known in the town not only as the bookkeeper of the large textile factory of Peretz Freitag **, who had gone to study for many years in Paris, but also as one of the nicest (best) speakers. This counts itself (as something) separate from his open stage performances in Polish.
Brother Jews he began with a resolute sure voice I have come before you to report (declare), tomorrow a pogrom is being prepared against our town. The Bund, together with other political parties, and also in communication with the Polish workers, has done everything to stand up against the possible pogrom initiators. Tomorrow morning, as on every Monday morning, you all must put out your tables (hucksters), no one should be missing. Remember Jews, we are being put before an exam, let us not shame our town.
When he had finished, the synagogue rocked like a cradle. Everyone commented on the peace that was presented by the chairman of the Bund. It was divided among 3 main commanders that must carry out the eventual resistance: from the Bund the writer of lines, from the communists Mendel Szimkiewicz (Shimkevich), and someone who understood the Polish workers Wojczechowski (Voitshechovsky). An armed militia was prepared (arranged) that was composed of all the known strong youths in the town, such as wagon drivers (teamsters), horse dealers, and others. Naturally no wealth could be derived from sleep that night. Everyone had belabored the question: would the Jews put out their tables? Will they weigh in (the pogrom initiators) to come? If they do (come), from what direction (will it be)? Above all, the terrible responsibility that we wore on that day for the Jewish people.
Monday morning, the first pleasant surprise, before the designated hour, all of the tables in the market were already put out. Not even one was missing. By (before) Hershl Plowner's (Plovner's) gate (the point from which the road to the woods goes out) is found the central point. Here you find the main commentator. Here is where all news must be picked up. From here is where the different orders must be sent out. The world of the market began putting out their different things to sell. The tailors also, who are pictured in a separate section, are hanging out the suits, jackets, and cloth pants. The same (was true) for the hat-makers, (and) farther down near the firefighter's headquarters, the shoe-makers and harness (saddle) makers had already put out their goods. The assorted wholesale stores, shops, butcher shops and bakeries opened today earlier than usual. Everyone is conscious of a noticeable nervousness. There began to circulate various rumors, one more fantastic than the next. One was known to speak of a concentration on the Gochaliczer (Gochalitzer) road; others reversed the same thing putting it on the Piotrkower road. The smallest incident, by such tension, can provoke a conflict. Patrols were right away sent out (dispatched), to search (weed) out how much the information matches (what is happening ). A day that seemed to go on forever, such that it has remained that way in my memory.
They never came, perhaps it is that they had a premonition of what a fiery reception was prepared for them, and perhaps it was only a test to throw out fear and see how the Jewish people would react. This all has remained a story. Pride filled my town of Belchatow that held out against that pogrom test that was placed before them.
* Bund the Jewish socialist organization
** Peretz Freitag was a large textile factory named for its' owner. Peretz Freitag, the chairman of the Bund, was a relative of the owner and was employed at the factory.
|The old market in Belchatow,
as it looked in 1930. (page 11)
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Belchatow had suffered badly from the war between the Nazis and the Polish army. A third of Belchatow went up in smoke. While the Nazis were in the half-destroyed shtetl, their first work was to make a pogrom against Jewish businesses and homes. Afterwards, they went in and confiscated every valuable object. The searches took place mainly at night, and therefore not a blow [klep] was omitted.
Later the Jews were rounded up for forced labor. They conscripted Jews to clear up the war ruins, to do other work in the shtetl, and to serve every German. The Jews were humiliated in the ugliest ways, and were struck and tormented.
The Nazis also organized special mock-demonstrations to humiliate the Jews. For example, they forced a group of Jews to carry a ladder, and on the ladder a Jew had to sit, wearing a tallis and tefillen. A large crowd of Jews had to follow them, singing prayers and Jewish songs, and they were made to cry out that the Jews were responsible for the war and other similar things [affecting the gentiles].
The Nazis turned Yom Kippur of 1939 into a day of pain and suffering for the Jews. Early in the morning they drove the Jews out into the public squares. There the Jews had to carry religious books from the synagogue, from the Hasidic house of prayer, from the rabbi, and from other Jewish homes. In New Market Square logs were piled up, and a mountain of books was burned on the square. And around the fire, the Jews had to dance on unfurled Torah scrolls. These barbaric disgraceful acts of the Nazis were attended by the Germans and the Poles. When the Jews were allowed to go home, they went broken [in spirit], with their heads hanging down.
The Jews had no rights or protection. Any German could murder a Jew and not be punished for the act. The Nazis made a game out of shooting the Jews. From time to time, one of them would shoot a Jew without any reason. During the time of the German occupation, many Jews were shot in this German game. Among others shot this way, was Aharon Pinchas Borenstein a quiet modest intelligent man, who had belonged to the Rightist Poale Zion [political party].
One of the Nazi atrocities was the sending away of men to work. Those sent away had to perform the most difficult work under inhuman conditions. The food consisted of only a bit of warm soup. In a short time scores of Belchatower Jews died because of the harsh conditions.
The fiendish Nazis made the weary, wavering existence bitter day in, day out, and night after night. But early one morning in March 1942, after obtaining by fraud a large sum of money contributions to ransom 15 Jews who had been arrested, the Nazis declared the ransom money sufficient for only 5 and that the other 10 would be hung.
The following morning all the Jews had to report to the market place. If they didn't report to the market place, the German order threatened them with death. All the Jews stood on one side of the gallows. On the other side were festively and flamboyantly attired German men and women, and behind them stood the Poles. Upwards of an hour, the ten condemned Jews stood with nooses around their necks, which a Jew had been forced to place on them. A Jewish elder had to read from a paper that the Jews were responsible for the war, that the Jews were swindlers, robbers, liars, murderers, and similar accusations. At an order from an SS man, several Jews had to pull away the board on which the Jews with nooses stood, and suddenly the ten Jews were hanging in the air.
Four months later, on the 11th of August at dawn, Belchatow was surrounded by German police and SS troops. The Jewish population was driven out, and a selection was made 80% of the Jews were forced into the synagogue, and 20%, the younger ones [in good health], were loaded into trucks and driven away to the Lodz ghetto, where the majority later died from starvation and disease and even later, [those who survived] shared the fate of the Lodz Jewry who, in August 1944 were exterminated in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
The other 80% were immediately taken to Chelmno, where the Germans had built their first gas chambers. The pictures of their mass extermination curdle ones blood.
The few Belchatower Jews who still live are scattered and dispersed over the whole world. But wherever they find themselves, in whichever land they turn up, they mourn Belchatow and carry in their hearts their love for their home shtetl and for those whose lives were cut short by the cruelty of the German monsters.
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|Yosef Gliksman
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|Zainwel Przedborski
|Heszke Goldman
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|Velvel Napartstek
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|J.M. Pokacz
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|Chaim Grunwald
|Ari Wilheim
|Naftali Huberman
|Lezer Huberman
|Yankel Lieberman
|Feivel Wilheim
|Hersz Wigdor Zilbersztajn
|Avraham Rozental
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In spite of this being an anniversary publication, we consider how we must publish manuscripts that remember (recall) our town of birth, as it was before (in the past). There will also not be lacking the unpleasant memory but that we must not forget for a single instant the destruction of our city by the Nazi-Fascist hordes that now threaten to be revived.
We take advantage of this number to send a greeting to all the residents of Belchatow, in what ever part of the world they may find themselves, and a message to our members so that they may make efforts one more time, as up to now, to maintain a living bond that unites us with our brothers from Belchatow in the whole world.
Summoned by our eternal optimism, we hope that in future publications, for other joyous and happy opportunities we will be able to speak of (about) the landed properties of our residents in their new homes, in circumstances of re-construction and of peace for the Jewish life.
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For more than a century, the Arnold Arboretum has been an international leader in botanical research by collecting, distributing, and studying unique species from all corners of the Earth. Today, many species in the living collection have become threatened in the wild, as habitat destruction and climate change escalate. These rare specimens are of great conservation value, and the Arboretum maintains that value by properly caring for living specimens, keeping detailed records for each plant on the grounds, and documenting plants with herbarium specimens and digital images. Staff also distribute germplasm and related information to researchers around the world.
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