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(CNN) -- Driven by desperation, Marina and Lev Furman stepped out of their home in Leningrad and took a 20-minute walk into uncertainty. Trailed by KGB agents, they bundled up and set out in the weak winter light for Palace Square, site of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
They brought signs demanding freedom. And they pushed a baby carriage holding their 9-month-old daughter, Aliyah, who had already proved in her short life that she, too, could handle risks.
Friends told the Furmans they were crazy. Such demonstrations were forbidden in the square. The couple arrived in silent protest and spotted a mob of police and KGB agents waiting for them. Knowing they'd be taken away, they chained themselves to Aliyah's carriage.
For years, they'd asked for permission to leave. Each time, their requests were denied. Told once more they'd never be allowed to go, they were taking a final, calculated, bold stand.
On this day, though, they knew they weren't alone. The date was December 6, 1987.
Some 4,500 miles and a world away, 250,000 people were preparing to protest in Washington as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was preparing for his first White House summit with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The demonstrators wanted to make sure the Furmans and other Soviet Jews weren't forgotten.
Known as Freedom Sunday, the rally would be the culmination of a decades-long populist campaign the likes of which the world rarely sees. Americans of all stripes were coming together to demand human rights in a faraway land.
Driven by students and housewives and fueled by post-Holocaust guilt, civil rights activism and a newfound sense of Jewish pride after Israel's 1967 Six-Day War victory, the movement brought together Jews and non-Jews, religious and secular.
It's a part of a recent past that's nearly forgotten but that once enjoyed the support of top-tier politicians, congressional wives, Catholic nuns, actors, musicians and civil rights icons, including Martin Luther King Jr.
If a new coalition has its way, the Soviet Jewry movement will find its place in history books and serve as a model for change in a time when global human rights abuses continue.
"It created a unity that today seems impossible," said Gal Beckerman, a journalist whose 2010 book about the campaign won widespread praise. "For Jews, this was the movement that allowed them to bridge their American and Jewish identities. ... They were flexing their political muscle for the first time."
Their mission was to keep human rights issues on the table for as long as it took, even as diplomats and politicians negotiated nuclear disarmament and trade agreements. In the end, this relentless push would play a part in ending the Cold War, bringing down the Soviet Union and ultimately freeing more than 1.5 million Jews -- many of whom watched from afar as the Jewish state of Israel grew, even while their own religion and identity was suppressed under Communist rule.
Learn what led to the oppression of Jews
Among those working behind the scenes was Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz.
Part of the administration's agenda, when it came to negotiations, was human rights, said Shultz, now 92 and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
"We developed a way to put it that I wrote out and read very slowly," he said, describing talks with his Soviet counterpart. "The gist was ... any society closed and compartmented will fall behind. So you've got to loosen up if you're going to be with it. And part of it is respecting the diversity and views of your population."
Shultz also met with "refuseniks," the term used for anyone who'd been refused exit visas. He attended a Passover seder with them at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. And he unofficially slipped a list of refusenik names to his Soviet counterpart, asking for their release.
While Shultz said it would have been inappropriate for him to attend the rally in Washington -- then-Vice President George H.W. Bush was among the speakers -- he loved the idea of Gorbachev turning on his TV to see the crowd on the National Mall. The event helped mark the beginning of the end. The gates were poised to open.
"It had a very positive impact," Shultz said.
On all counts, the Soviet Jewry movement was a success. But somewhere along the way, Americans and Jews forgot to tell the story. A new push, led by a group called Freedom 25, is out to change this.
Its leaders realized this chapter in history was lost on people younger than 30 -- even those who'd been educated in Jewish day schools. So they began documenting stories, enlisted a coalition of organizations and created a social media-driven virtual "march" that has already reached more than 3 million people.
This movement is not only something Americans should be proud of, they say, it's a model for what can be done when people pull together, take risks and put aside their differences to focus on the needs of others. They plan to develop curricula and distribute tools to help "teach this crucial lesson in activism and mobilization, so ordinary people can be empowered to once again do extraordinary things."
"There is just so much cynicism these days," said Michael Granoff, 44, one of Freedom 25's co-chairs. "One person can make a difference. Your activism matters. ... You cannot be excused for not acting when a young mother sits in a prison in Tehran, jailed by a regime."
'Crazy enough to marry'
Marina Garmize-Gorfinkel became a refusenik in Kiev, Ukraine, the day her grandfather died.
They were a small family -- just Marina, her mother and her mother's father. Everyone else in her mother's family had been killed at Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev, where Nazis gunned down nearly 34,000 Jews in two days in September 1941. Marina's father had died of a stroke when she was only 7.
Now it was 1979, and Marina was 19. She had applied for exit visas for the three of them and been refused. With her grandfather gone, she would fight for herself and her mother. She began organizing protests against the government.
She was a small woman, only 5-foot-1, but the Soviet regime considered her activism a threat. She was warned to stop, arrested three times and beaten twice. In 1980, police forced her into a cell, sent in 30 drunken men and told them to rape her.
One of the men recognized her as the daughter of his own girl's beloved kindergarten teacher. He protected Marina from being raped but couldn't stop the beatings, which left her hospitalized for several months. When she got out, she and her mother left town and headed to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, another Soviet republic at the time and now an independent country.
The people there, she said, were kinder and the KGB and police less fierce. Through other refuseniks, she eventually met Lev Furman, an Orthodox Jew 13 years her senior. He was religious in ways she knew nothing about. He taught Hebrew underground when Zionism and teaching the language were forbidden. His first wife had left him when the KGB threats became too much.
"He said, 'Look, I need a wife. I need someone who can help me if I'm arrested,' " Marina remembered. Only immediate relatives could visit someone in prison or make appeals on their behalf. She told him, "Fine, we'll get married on paper. I'll help you." But Lev liked her and wanted a real marriage. She agreed. The two wed within a week, in July 1986, and she moved with him to Leningrad (which has returned to its historical name of St. Petersburg).
"We took big risks in life. Marrying someone you'd known for a week wasn't the biggest risk," she said. "We were both only children and never knew if we'd survive another day. And we'd both found someone crazy enough to marry us."
They continued their fight for freedom and were bolstered by visitors from around the world. Lev was committed to building a Jewish resistance where there was next to no Jewish life. He worked with young people and distributed textbooks and copies of Leon Uris' "Exodus" that had been smuggled in by others. Young women from Finland, which shared an open border at the time, brought Lev books sewn into the linings of their coats.
Almost immediately after they married, Marina became pregnant. The KGB found a new way to threaten her. They said they would kill Marina when she gave birth if the Furmans didn't stop their activism.
She was inclined to listen, but Lev wouldn't have it. The tide was shifting. Gorbachev was now in power, and his policies of glasnost and perestroika -- openness and reform -- were just beginning. Gorbachev had freed Anatoly Sharansky, the poster boy for the Soviet Jewry movement, in February 1986.
Sharansky -- who later changed his name to Natan and became an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author -- had been sentenced in 1977 to 13 years of forced labor in a Siberian prison camp, or gulag. But he was released four years early. Sharansky was now traveling the U.S., speaking on college campuses and drumming up support for a huge rally in Washington. All signs pointed to change. Now wasn't the time to give up.
Marina, who understood the importance of communicating with the outside world, had taught herself English by studying a dictionary and listening to the BBC and Voice of America. She wrote a letter to a contact in Great Britain about the latest threat against her. It was passed to the BBC, which broadcast the letter every day for a week.
This infuriated the KGB as much as it rallied the movement. After the threat became public, the Furmans had visitors from abroad nearly every day. Articles were written about them. Letters poured in by the hundreds, from not just activists but politicians, including U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy. Letter-writing campaigns flooded the heads of the Soviet government, the KGB and immigration officials.
"If your name was known, it was like insurance," Marina said.
Even with all the attention, Marina nearly died when an IV line feeding an overdose of medication, supposedly for a weakened heart, was given to her during labor. A doctor who found her alone in a room, away from the other new mothers, saved her. She remained in the maternity hospital for a week, but Lev was barred from seeing her or knowing what was going on. On a wall outside the hospital, he painted her a message: "Marishka, you are my hero!"
Their newborn baby, Aliyah, seemed to arrive determined not to add to her parents' stress.
She slept through the night from the day they brought her home. The KGB ransacked the family's small apartment when Aliyah was 2 months old, and she didn't even wake up.
"God gives everyone what they can handle," Marina said.
Finding a cause -- and a voice
People had tried for years to get Constance "Connie" Smukler and her husband, Joseph, involved. But the Philadelphia couple already had their causes, and these Soviet Jews were faceless, their issues foreign.
Starting in 1973, their perspective changed when the matter became personal. They were visiting Israel when they met and befriended a man who begged them to help free his brother.
Irma Chernyak had applied for an exit visa and been denied. The request to leave cost him his job. The aeronautical scientist was now operating elevators -- and going on hunger strikes.
Connie tried to bring attention to his story by calling media and speaking about him in synagogue. But she wanted to know more about the man for whom she was fighting. "I can't keep working for him without meeting him," she told her husband. So in July 1974, with the kids off to summer camp, the Smuklers made their first trip to the Soviet Union.
They spent their days meeting with refuseniks in apartments they found by memorizing addresses or referencing information written in code. Believing the flats were bugged, they brought magic slates, the child's toy that lets a person write on a plastic sheet, then lift it to erase the words.
In one Moscow flat, they sat and waited as, one by one, refuseniks came to see them. Having studied their faces, names and bios over the past year, they had become "like movie stars" to the Smuklers. "There's Slepak, Lunts, Prestin, Abramovich," Connie said, remembering that day. "It was an embarrassment of riches. We were seeing all of them."
When they finally met with Irma Chernyak, they fell in love with him, Connie said.
"When we said goodbye, we didn't know what would happen to him, and I started to cry," she said. "He said, 'Connie, don't cry for me. For the first time in my life, I'm a man, not a mouse.'"
They saw Chernyak again in the summer of 1975 and told him they'd return to see him a year later. But in February 1976, at 4 a.m., their home phone rang. The Israeli Embassy in Vienna, Austria, was calling. "We just want you to know that Irma Chernyak has come out of the Soviet Union, and he wanted us to call you."
The embassy planned to send him to Israel, but the Smuklers had other ideas. The couple was flying to Brussels, Belgium, the next day to attend a world conference on Soviet Jewry, and they wanted Chernyak to join them. They also suspected he had been released ahead of the conference on purpose; letting people go made the Soviets look better.
At the gathering, the Smuklers realized how global this movement had become. There were delegations from countries where they knew activism was strong, such as Britain and France. But there were also delegations from countries that surprised them, including Argentina, Mexico and Zaire (now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo).
As the lights went down, the Israeli delegation walked on stage. Among them were Israeli leaders such as Menachem Begin and Golda Meir. Each one held a candle.
What happened next still makes Connie cry.
"The last one was Irma (Chernyak)," she said, her voice cracking. "He was the newest Israeli citizen."
Soviet Jews had become pawns, author Beckerman said -- let go when the Kremlin needed good PR and refused when anger at the West was strongest. After the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, for example, the numbers dropped.
Much of the concern was about appearances. To let people flee in droves, Beckerman said, would be an admission that life under the Soviet regime wasn't paradise.
"The threat of people leaving was an existential one," he said. "The leaders didn't believe their own propaganda at the end, but they needed the people to believe."
In the 1970s, Connie became a target of Soviet propaganda herself. She began receiving hundreds of letters from citizens who'd been told by the KGB to tell her how wonderful their lives were. She had to sign for each envelope. Eventually, she told her confused and concerned postman the whole story. The letters kept coming for five years.
Connie, now 74 and recently widowed, was one of 12,000 who traveled from Philadelphia to Washington for the December 1987 rally. Like so many other American Jews at that time, the suburban housewife and mother of three didn't want to stand by silently as she believed her parents' generation had done during the Holocaust. In the process, she found her voice.
"I became a very independent young woman," she said. "My raison d'être for the rest of my life is to get this story out."
Threats of Siberia
The Smuklers were in this fight with others across the country, including Joel and Adele Sandberg of Miami, who raised their three kids in the Soviet Jewry movement.
People gathered in their home for meetings. When refuseniks got out and went on speaking tours, they'd stay in the Sandberg home. The kids were schlepped to protests whenever a Moscow-based circus, symphony or ballet came to town.
The Sandbergs enlisted the help of people outside the Jewish community. They armed hundreds of tourists with letters, books and jeans and sent them to the Soviet Union to meet with refuseniks and gather information. Selling a pair of jeans on the black market could feed a family for a month. The case histories of refuseniks were published and distributed to media, members of Congress and activists worldwide.
Joel, a 69-year-old ophthalmologist, was active in a group that tracked prisoners' health and made sure refuseniks got medicines they needed. When they learned the Soviet regime was forcing some refuseniks into psychiatric hospitals, having deemed them crazy for wanting to leave, they made noise.
"At one point," he said, describing the lengths they'd go to help someone in need, "we sent over a heart valve with a congressman."
In 1975, leaving their 6, 4 and 2-year-old kids with grandparents, the couple made their only trip to the Soviet Union.
Their unintended last stop was Kishinev (now Chisinau), the capital of Moldova.
After passing through a group of KGB men keeping watch outside an apartment building, they climbed the stairs and knocked on the door of Mark Abramovich, the leader of the city's refusenik community.
"We are friends from Miami," they said. They had arrived unannounced and were the first American visitors to Kishinev in more than a year.
Abramovich opened the door. "Are you afraid?" he asked.
"No," Adele remembered answering ("Of course, I was scared to death," she admitted later.)
"I, too, am not afraid," he answered. "Come in."
Over the course of four nights, Abramovich brought refuseniks to the apartment to meet with the couple. When the Sandbergs would leave, an escort would take them back to their hotel and point out the plain-clothed KGB agents. "See that lady on the bus? She's KGB."
Then it happened. The morning they were leaving Kishinev for their next stop, KGB agents stopped them as they left their hotel room with their luggage. The men led them to a small room in the hotel. They took their passports and said they'd be deported to Siberia. They were scared but believed the threat was empty. There were plenty of stories of Americans being tossed out of the Soviet Union, but none of outsiders being sent off to Siberia.
For 10 hours, the Sandbergs were peppered with questions. The three officials wanted to know who sent them, where they'd been, who'd they'd seen.
The agents played good cop, bad cop. One would scream a question in Russian. Another would translate it screaming in English. A third would offer them a drink. "Of course, we were afraid to drink," Adele said. They knew to stay vague and speak carefully.
When the agents started to search Joel, Adele panicked. Hidden inside her underwear were all the notes they'd gathered about the refuseniks they'd met, information that was critical to their case histories and getting them help.
She pulled a tampon from her pocketbook and made a big scene about needing to use the bathroom. Once inside, she sat on the toilet and frantically memorized her notes. She struggled to keep the names straight, they sounded so alike, before ripping up the papers and flushing them down the toilet as agents came in to take her back for more questioning.
When Adele was given a piece of paper to sign and told to describe what she was doing in Kishinev, she wrote about wanting to find her roots.
The announcement that they'd be released came suddenly: "There's a train going to Romania, and you'll be on the train."
The Sandbergs foolishly asked if they could instead go to Moscow.
"Well, you can stay, and we'll do this again tomorrow," an agent said. So they got on the train to Romania.
For four days in Romania, while they waited for a flight to the West, they were followed. Even as the plane was about to take off, they held their breath. Two uniformed men walked directly to their seats, demanded their passports and checked to be sure the right people were leaving. After they landed in Vienna, the Sandbergs kissed the ground.
Comfort in 'social network'
The Sandbergs' oldest daughter, Sheryl, was raising awareness with her own brand of activism. She was only 1 when she attended her first rally for Soviet Jews, the Miami Herald once wrote. By 8, she was sending letters to her Soviet "twin," Kira Volvovsky, as part of a program that matched children of refuseniks with young American Jews.
Kira's parents first applied for exit visas in 1974. Within 48 hours, they'd lost their jobs in computer science.
Six years later, in advance of the Olympic Games, the family was among the "undesirables" exiled from Moscow to Gorky, a city 250 miles to the east and now known as Nizhny Novgorod.
Kira said she was the only Jewish girl in her school. She heard the jokes and guarded her words. She often felt alone.
She found comfort in letters she received from American peers.
With only so many children of refuseniks to go around, Kira had almost 100 pen pals. They'd write about their dreams, share anxieties about upcoming tests, worry about boys -- and realize they weren't so different. Her "twins" would say prayers on her behalf and tell her story at their bat mitzvah ceremonies.
These girls became what Kira called her "social network" -- a fitting description given that Sheryl is now the COO of Facebook.
"I remember feeling when I was writing these girls, and they were writing me, that we had the same issues," said Kira. "They wrote about the same stuff I was feeling."
Sheryl Sandberg declined to be interviewed. But Kira said what she remembers about her most "is she had such pretty handwriting and the stationary was so beautiful. I remember copying her handwriting because I wanted to write like an American girl."
While she and her pen pals often thought about the same things, Kira's path was paved with challenges her American counterparts couldn't fathom.
Her father taught Hebrew and Jewish studies underground. He wanted nothing more than to go to Israel. But in 1985, he was arrested for slandering the Soviet regime and sent to Siberia, where he toiled in a forced labor camp for a year and nine months.
His arrest aroused an international outcry. Author, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote about Kira's dad in The New York Times.
He worked in a plant making 70-pound stone blocks and, after an accident, sewed covers for tree trunks to be used during Siberian winters. Kira and her mother were able to see him only once, for four hours, during that time. They flew 11 hours each way for that chance.
His hands were ruined, she remembered, and "he was half of himself."
Kira's parents encouraged her to apply for a visa on her own when she was 19. She was granted one almost immediately in late 1987 and arrived in Israel four days after the rally in Washington. Her parents got visas two weeks later and joined her. She doesn't know whether the rally helped gain their release, but she suspects it did.
Now 44, Kira lives in Jerusalem with her husband and their three children; she works as a Web developer and designer. Her father teaches physics and math in a yeshiva. To this day, he still cannot make fists with his hands.
The path to freedom
As the Furmans approached their certain arrest that December morning in Leningrad's Palace Square a little more than 25 years ago, they weren't afraid. Lev, who'd found solace in his religion in a land where being religious was nearly impossible, believed God had put them on this path and would protect them.
Marina had learned long ago not to think about worst-case scenarios. In all their years of trying to secure visas to leave the Soviet Union -- 10 years for Marina, 14 for Lev -- they could have been sent to Siberia or "accidentally" run over by cars, simply forgotten. She'd survived an attempt on her life when her daughter was born. Little could rattle her now. She also felt like she didn't have a choice.
"I couldn't imagine my daughter having the same life I had," she said.
After the police and KGB tried to scare them by pretending to dump Aliyah from her carriage, the Furmans were shoved into a bus, taken to a local prison and interrogated.
"Who helped you prepare for the protest? Are you working for the Zionist lobby? Why do you say these horrible things about our country? Do you think your American friends will get you out of prison? Do you think they care? What are you planning to do next?"
The Furmans had played this game so many times before. Now, with hundreds of thousands descending on Washington for the rally, they played it once more.
Lev didn't say a word, the approach he'd always taken. Marina gave short answers. "No one helped us. We are not connected to anyone. We just want to live in Israel." That last sentence she'd say repeatedly, whenever they kept pushing: "We just want to live in Israel."
They were then put in separate cells. Even 9-month-old Aliyah was alone in a cell for several hours before being returned to her mother.
When asked whether Aliyah cried during all of this, Marina said, "She did better. We put her on the table in the interrogation room, and she threw up on their papers."
Marina and Aliyah were let go after five hours. Lev was detained for 10 days.
He got out the first day of Hanukkah that year, and on the last day of the eight-day Jewish festival, the Furmans were finally granted visas to leave the Soviet Union. Marina's mother came to Leningrad from Tbilisi to leave with them, as did Lev's father.
Marina has no doubt that the rally in Washington, and to some degree her own family's protest in Leningrad, forced the Soviet government to finally let her family go.
"It wouldn't have happened without that rally, or it would have happened much later," she said. "The D.C. rally showed Gorbachev how powerful the Soviet Jewry movement really was and that for the American people, it was a human rights issue and not just a Jewish issue.
"I don't think he had the courage to start the reforms, and when he found out about the rally, it really changed him."
A year after the rally, Gorbachev spoke to the United Nations about changes in the Soviet Union, saying "the problem of exit and entry is also being resolved in a humane spirit" and "the problem of the so-called 'refuseniks' is being removed."
And in late 1991, soon before the Soviet Union dissolved, Gorbachev ended what the Chicago Tribune called "three quarters of a century of official silence about the treatment of Jews."
In a statement tied to the 50th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar, Gorbachev admitted that "the poisonous seeds of anti-Semitism arose even on Soviet soil."
"The Stalinist bureaucracy, publicly decrying anti-Semitism, in practice used it to isolate the country from the outside world," he said. "The right to emigrate has been granted, but I say frankly that we, society, deeply regret the departure of our countrymen and that the country is losing so many talented, skilled and enterprising citizens."
The Furmans went to Israel, where they had a second daughter, Michal, now 18; in 1998, they moved to a suburb of Philadelphia. Lev, 65, an aviation engineer who'd been barred from his field in the Soviet Union, now works as a spiritual counselor to Russian Jews in hospice -- helping them find peace in their final days. He goes to synagogue regularly and studies Torah on the Jewish Sabbath.
Marina, 53, is a regional director of the Jewish National Fund, a nonprofit that builds parks, forests and reservoirs in Israel, in addition to offering education and desert revitalization programs. And, on occasion, she speaks about her experiences.
While addressing Jewish college students recently, she asked them to raise their hands if they'd heard about the genocide in Rwanda. Every arm shot up. She asked if they'd heard of the Soviet Jewry movement. Only one student had. For this reason, she'll keep speaking.
Aliyah, the baby who once threw up on prison interrogation room papers, is now a 25-year-old financial adviser living in Philadelphia.
When people ask where she's from, she doesn't know where to start.
Aliyah means "ascent" in Hebrew and is the term used to describe immigration to Israel. She can't separate herself from what her parents fought for even if she wanted to.
"The story is tied to my name. It's who I am," she said. "My life now is enchanted, and it's thanks to them."
While she carries her parents' past with her, she also thinks about those who came before them. The relatives who were gunned down by Nazis at Babi Yar. Others who died in the German siege of Leningrad. A grandfather whose first wife and twins were killed by Nazis, and his home taken over by others while he was off fighting for the Soviet Union.
When she thinks about her ancestors, her emotions catch on one theme: "I so wish they could see us now. Look where we are. Look at how proud we are to be Jewish. Look at the life we're living and how much love our family has," she said. "I just have to believe they're looking down from heaven and seeing."
There's a funny tension inside Aliyah. She knows her parents struggled so she could have a normal life. When they were her age, they were being trailed and arrested by KGB agents, risking their lives in the struggle for a people's freedom. Today, Aliyah runs half marathons, can't get enough of Pitt football and hangs out with friends in bars.
"They fought so I wouldn't have to," she said.
She knows the normalcy she enjoys gives her parents great pleasure. When they cheer her on in races, she says they yell louder than anyone. Still, Aliyah feels an obligation to look beyond herself and be a part of change. Her parents had no choice but to fight. They couldn't have succeeded, though, without others across the globe who chose to be engaged.
"It sometimes feels like life is too easy, and we forget that there are things that are important to stand up for," she said. "People hate controversy and hate making people uncomfortable, so they're silent -- and that's dangerous. We need to remember the world is bigger than us."
It's a lesson she hopes she, her peers and others -- no matter their cause or passion -- will be strong enough to embrace and keep teaching.


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BOSTON – September 16, 2013 – The reopening date for the Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, located at 500 Columbia Road in Dorchester, has been moved to 10 a.m. on Monday, October 21.
New carpeting and interior painting has been added to the project scope since the branch was temporarily closed in May of this year for building improvements.
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Helping a new type of rural enterprise that can support a transition towards a green, diversified rural economy. Coillte Sláintiúil provides services to protect, rejuvenate and replace native woodlands.
EAFRD funding enabled the Monemvasia Winery to relocate to meet growing demand for Monemvasia-Malvasia wine.
A community project in which young people actively participated in shaping their environment and strengthened the cohesion of their community.
An initiative to sensitise companies in the Northern Eifel region to the problem of management succession at an early stage.
A Local Action Group (LAG) helps coordinate the climate and energy strategies of its municipalities.
An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.
Development of an online platform and an app that allows beekeepers to more efficiently maintain their intervention records and exchange know-how.
A LAG organised a series of tailored workshops to combat digital exclusion among people over 50 years old.
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As chief consultant and enterprise architect at the National IT and Telecom Agency in Copenhagen from early 2001 to late 2005, Dr Gøtze was involved with developing the Danish national policy for a government-wide enterprise architecture. He was responsible for the Danish interoperability framework, which recommends government to adopt a service-oriented architecture and open standards. In the EU, he has been involved with developing the European Interoperability Framework under the Europe 2005 programme. From 1997-2001, he worked for the Swedish government as head of section in the Swedish Agency for Public Management, and helped launch the Swedish e-government strategy. He holds a M.Sc. in Engineering and a Ph.D. in participatory design, both from the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Gøtze has lectured and written extensively about standards, e-government and enterprise architecture over the years. As a civil servant, he has co-authored several Danish and Swedish official policy documents, for example, White Paper on Enterprise Architecture in Government (2003, see www.oio.dk) and The 24/7 Agency: Criteria for 24/7 Agencies in the Networked Public Administration (2000, see www.statskontoret.se). As a member of the Open Policy Group, he is co-author of "Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems" (Harvard, 2005, see www.openization.org).
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The final preseason game, time to make a name for yourself. Go big or go home for many players on Thursday night.
Isaac Redman, James Harrison, Jason Worilds, Mike Wallace will not play. Casey Hampton may play a little bit.
The starters, most of them will only play a few series and some simply won't play at all. Brett Keisel and Jerricho Cotchery are also banged up and may not play.
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One of the early discoveries on my Wilder line was found in the Historical Society of Cheshire County, New Hampshire. I made at least four trips, because there was a wealth of information, including seeing the house my 4x grandfather, Able Wilder built and his cemetery stone.
"HANDERSON HOUSE : 124 Washington Street Circa 1827 Abel Wilder, called the "happiest man in town,"settled in Keene near the close of the 18th century, kept a wheelwright shop, was jail keeper, and built several houses on what was then called Prison Street.
The one numbered 124 Washington Street was built by Wilder and bought in 1833 by Phineas Handerson, the first to practice law in Chesterfield." The above information is from, Smith, Marjorie W., Historic Homes of Cheshire County New Hampshire, Brattleboro, VT: Griswold Offset Printing, 1968. Pg. 57.
I wonder what made him so happy, he died at age 91.
124 Washington St., Keene, N.H. (spring and fall)
But, it wasn't all that easy researching him. The death record stated he died in Bridport, Addison Co., Vermont...a rather long way from Keene, New Hampshire. Of course, we went to Bridport, roamed the cemetery, found stones for his daughter and other family members, but nothing for the 91 year old. Well, wouldn't you know, his family brought the body back to Keene, and he was buried about 2 miles from the Historical Society!


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Watch Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) : Full Movie Online Free Two boys face an onslaught from witches, monsters, ghouls and a talking dummy after they discover a mysterious book by author R. L. Stine.
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By Distorted Humor out of Belle's Good Cide, by Slewacide
Breeder: WinStar Farm LLC.
Owner: Sackatoga Stable
Trainer: Barclay Tagg
New York Breeders' Award for Champion 2-Year-Old (2002)
U.S. Champion 3-Year-Old Male (2003)
Champion New York Horse of the Year (2003, 2004)
First gelding to win the Kentucky Derby since 1929
Won the Eclipse Award for 3 Year Old Male of the Year, the first New York-bred to do so
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Bertram F. Bongard Stakes
Sleepy Hollow Stakes
Kentucky Derby (G1)
Preakness Stakes (G1)
Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap (G3)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1)
Kings Point Handicap
Dominion Day Stakes (G3)
Wadsworth Memorial Handicap
Life at the Hall of Champions
Resident of the Hall of Champions since December 2008
Funny Cide is known to be a little bit grumpy. He loves to be scratched in the right spot and he loves naps. If his handlers have to wake him up from a nap, they usually bribe him with a carrot which is his favorite treat. Funny doesn't like to be hot and will gladly be sprayed with a hose in his paddock on a hot summer day. He is a great traveler, so he periodically makes appearances at Saratoga, Churchill Downs, and Keeneland racetracks.
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A graffiti piece by Shamsia Hassani and Qasem Foushanji on a wall in Kabul, March 5, 2012.
Reuters reports from Kabul — Encased in a head-to-toe burqa, the image depicts a distraught woman slumped on a cement stairwell, the work of Afghanistan's first street artists who use graffiti to chronicle violence and oppression.
The female-male duo surreptitiously spray-paint the crumbling and dilapidated walls of buildings in the capital city, abandoned and destroyed during 30 years of war that still rages today.
Talking of her woman on the steps, Shamsia Hassani, 24, said: "She is wondering if she can get up, or if she will fall down. Women in Afghanistan need to be careful with every step they take."
Omar Sobhani / Reuters, file
Shamsia Hassani signs one of her works in Kabul on Dec. 19, 2010. A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolise cleanliness, while further down the factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul's appalling public transport.
The somber depictions of Afghan women on Kabul's rutted streets offer rare public insight into their lives, still marred by violence and injustice despite progress in women's rights since the Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.
In an abandoned textile factory, Hassani spray-painted a wall with six willowy figures in sky-blue burqas, who rise out of the ground like ghosts.
"In three decades of war, women have had to carry the greatest burdens on their shoulders," Hassani, who also works in the faculty of fine arts at Kabul University, told Reuters. Read the full story.


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Then you need to have Werner Herzog read them a bedtime story.
Then you need to have Werner Herzog read them a bedtime story.
jackiepaper says
I liked the Samuel Jackson version better.
It was less terrifying.
tombloom says
Truly weird, but he does have a track record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog as a movie maker and as an 'avowed atheist'.
The Grim's Fairy Tales in German are horrible, so maybe that is the source.
ronster666 says
Reminds me of Tim Minchin's Lullaby. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFANzZTdYM
rq says
I prefer Werner Herzog reading Where's Waldo?
And to wash out the brain, here's a cute little bedtime story.
Hairy Chris, blah blah blah etc says
Absolute loon and complete legend. Most of his work is somewhat gruelling…
Antares42 says
I believe the correct term is "harrowing", and I say that as a German.
thomasmorris says
I love Herzog a great deal – he has made a lot of great movies in the last 45 years – but I've gotta agree that the Samuel Jackson version is better.
Most of his work is somewhat gruelling…
I've gotta disagree with you there. I've probably watched about a dozen of his fiction films and another dozen of his documentaries, and I've enjoyed almost all of them to varying degrees. His films can definitely be intense (and weird,) but I've never been bored by them. In both his fiction and documentary work, he has an incredible knack for finding the most fascinating subjects and stories.
Rescue Dawn and Signs of Life were probably my two least favorites among his films, but even they had quite a bit to recommend them, in my opinion. Aguirre, Stroszek, Kaspar Hauser, Lessons of Darkness, Grizzly Man, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams would all rank pretty highly if I were to ever to make a list of my all-time favorite films.
petermountain says
1:47 sounds like he took a bong hit.
SidBB says
Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere already, but it looks like the Pharyngula RSS feed isn't being updated. The latest item in the feed is Chris Clarke's "I hate the word moron as an insult" post which is more than 24 hours old.
azpaul3 says
Got any children you really hate? Then you need to have Werner Herzog read them a bedtime story.
I realize this is supposed to be humor but doesn't anyone feel "hating" innocent children, even in jest, a bit disturbing? That there are better topics than to give air to such feelings?
Not the best form for an enlightened blog.
01jack says
I, too, have a problem with the "hate children" bit – appearing in the title it gives a distateful air to the whole post.
alektorophile says
I just managed to get my toddler to sleep 10 minutes ago. I can soooo identify with the sentiment expressed in this book. And with Tim Minchin's Lullaby lyrics, already mentioned by others, which I highly recommend.
Werner Herzog reading it is great, but somehow I think a Tom Waits version would be even more interesting…
Ben P says
I realize this is supposed to be humor but doesn't anyone feel "hating" innocent children, even in jest, a bit disturbing? That there are better topics than to give air to such feelings?
Not the best form for an enlightened blog.
Get over yourself.
Gretchen says
I realize this is supposed to be humor but doesn't anyone feel "hating" innocent children, even in jest, a bit disturbing?
But where did the "innocent" come from?
strange gods before me ॐ says
Not the best form for an enlightened blog.
it gives a distateful air to the whole post.
I lol'd.
jackiepaper says
#12 OooOOoo…Tom Waits would be cool.
strange gods before me ॐ says
Tbh I was expecting a different post, though. Something like "send them to this [horrible fundie school or degaying camp]."
Rev. BigDumbChimp says
Got any children you really hate?
you mean I have to narrow it down so some?
yazikus says
@7 thomasmorris, I couldn't agree more. I loved Grizzly Man, and Fitzcarraldo was not one you mentioned but one I enjoyed very much as well.
neutrinosarecool says
Sure this might be terrifying for adults, but I think any child's response to this would be:
"Ha ha ha ha he said fuck! Can I say fuck? Why can't I say fuck?"
At least, that's how I dimly remember my childhood.
Steven Brown: Man of Mediocrity says
I see no reason you can't a hate a particular child. Children are people too and if a particular individual gives you reason to hate then so be it.
But as far as the title goes… I interpreted it as "You'd have to hate a child to inflict this on them."
neutrinosarecool says
The best reason to hate children is that they remind you of your own mortality, which is looming up, coming to meet you, implacable, and not all your prayers and hopes will stop that final appointment with the Grim Reaper, and yes, your mortal coil will be shuffled off and the worms in the grave will feast on your eyeballs – and children laugh about it, so yes, hate them!
Werner Herzog!
Here is his take on Unspoiled Nature: "It's a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger. . . It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder – and we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle . . . and we, in comparison, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel."
Get 'em, Werner! Or, as a child would say, "All you pathetic bastards are gonna die, and there's nothing you can do about it, so submit to your fate, ha ha ha, look, I'm young and have years ahead of me that you don't, good cause to hate me, right?"
scenario says
I wonder if any of the people complaining are parents. I remember putting my kids to bed when they were 2 years old. Most of the time it was fun. Every once in a while it was a battle. My son or daughter seemed determined to stay up all night. I knew if they stayed up past about 9pm they were going to be totally awful to deal with the next day. Crying at any excuse, getting angry for no reason, etc. While I was very patiently reading the fourth bedtime story, inside my head I'm screaming, Get The Fuck To Bed And Go To Sleep.
I hear this video as the voice inside every parents head when they are on the verge of losing it and trying desperately not to yell at they child they love dearly.
andrewscott says
I certainly can sympathize. For those of you that are horrified, I'd say either you were damn lucky or not a parent.
My first child would generally go to sleep readily (now it's trying to wake him up for school that's sometimes a bit of a battle). But my second boy didn't sleep through the night until about 1.5… And yes being sleep deprived and my wife being sleep deprived and both of us needing to get up 1-3 hours later to go to work… I can totally relate to "Go to the FUCK to sleep"…
Skeptical Jackal says
I realize this is supposed to be humor but doesn't anyone feel "hating" innocent children, even in jest, a bit disturbing?
Why? Are we supposedly obligated to love every children? I detest children in general, yes. Do you have a problem with someone despising children?
bad Jim says
The funny thing about the Samuel L. Jackson version was that he did another one during the presidential campaign titled "Wake the Fuck Up!"
A variation on the standard airline safety instructions ran something like "If you are traveling with a child, put your own oxygen mask on first. If you have two children, decide now which one you love more."
HappyNat says
I have kids and sometimes I hate them, especially when they won't go the fuck to sleep. Don't get me started on other people's kids.
coragyps says
One of my lullabies when a couple of my kids were quite small went:
"Hush little baby don't you cry
Daddy's going to buy you a tsetse fly
If that tsetse fly won't bite
We'll be rocking here all damn night."
Crooned very sweetly, with the "go to fucking sleep" undertone suppressed, y'know.
Eamon Knight says
Yep: dedicated to every sleep-deprived, or really hoping for a quiet evening cuddling with the spouse you dimly recall making love with (which ironically is how you got into this situation in the first place) but with whom you now barely ever have a conversation that doesn't concern the latest childhood illness or misadventure, parent.
Koshka says
There is a song that roughly goes;
What do you do with a baby
That won't go to sleep
Wrap her up in calico
And give her to her daddy.
I would change the last 2 lines to
Put her in a hessian sack
And throw her in the river.
It helped me deal with lack of sleep.
musical beef says
@Skeptical Jackal #25:
I don't think there's a problem with the post's title, but "I detest children in general, yes. Do you have a problem with someone despising children"? I'm pretty sure the terms for irrationally hating an entire category of people simply for being in that category are "prejudice" and "bigotry." Try replacing "children" in your comment with "immigrants" or "gays" or etc.
Lindwurm says
I detest children in general, yes. Do you have a problem with someone despising children?
I don't know about azpaul3, but I certainly do. How is saying that you despise children different than saying you despise groups of people based on other biological characteristics such as race, sex, sexuality, etc? Certainly, young children can be obnoxious and nerve-fraying to deal with…but deserving of hate? Hatred is a powerful emotion with potentially terrible consequences for the target of said hatred.
The rational adult also realizes that young children are not entirely at fault for their sometimes poor behavior. Their brains are still developing and learning the appropriate ways to interact with others and the world around them. Especially pathological antisocial behavior can usually be blamed on poor parenting. The only other alternative is that the child's behavior is the result of a neurological disorder, in which case they surely can't be held responsible.
So yeah, I do have a problem with saying you despise children in general, and I'm curious as to how you justify such a sentiment.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
Your CONCERN is noted.
Agent Silversmith, Honey Powered says
chigau (違う) says
Anyone who thinks children are 'innocent', doesn't know any.
bad Jim says
W.C. Fields – "There's no such thing as a tough child – if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender."
Thylacine says
Babies are lovely too, but I couldn't eat a whole one on my own
bad Jim says
Chigau, I respectfully disagree. Children really are pretty innocent, in their savage way. Innocence can't be considered a virtue, though, as John Milton pointed out in "Areopagitica" and Mark Twain in "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg": it's just inexperience. Purity is an even more ridiculous idea to apply to an actual animal.
Apologies for the inappropriate seriousness. Two old chestnuts:
"Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids."
An elderly couple meets with their lawyer to arrange a divorce. Finding them resolutely irreconcilable, he asks why they waited so long if they hated each other so much. They answered, "We wanted to wait until the children were dead."
texasaggie says
Anyone who doesn't identify with that video doesn't have a kid whose internal clock shuts off at two in the morning and starts ten hours later.
=8)-DX says
I agree with this sentiment entirely. It is my regular nightly monologue when putting my daughter to sleep. Essentially the tactic is to 1) ensure the child has its needs met (fed, emptied, washed, comfortable) and 2) bore it to sleep through various repetitive methods. One of these methods involves providing the same boring answers to the child's contention of 1).
It's a patience game.
tombloom says
scottlesch says
Not to be confused with the wonderful The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats , read your child Snow Day! by Lester L. Laminack, in a menacing TV news voice. Then lights out so they can't see the scary clowns.
unclefrogy says
yes he was using "that "word but he kept reading and did not start screaming and yelling. You could hear the struggle to stay in control it was a very funny reading. Little kids have two states only they are either on 100% or off and asleep very little in between. Parents small children on the other hand have also 2 states tired or tired and frustrated.
uncle frogy
scenario says
I take the title as that you hate the kids at that moment. You haven't slept more than 3 or 4 hours a night in a week, never more than two hours in a row and your kids woke you up for the third time that night, yeah can see it. Get a good nights sleep and you love them again.


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Dollars and Sense
In an October 26 on-line chat about the 2007 draft (subscription required to read), Baseball America analyst Jim Callis made this interesting observation:
Q: Jerred Gracey from York, Pa asks:
Why don't more teams spend on the draft? It would make sense to get a lot of good young talent, they will play for several years for dirt cheap and you can always trade some of them to get a veteran?
A: Jim Callis: I answer this question all the time, but it keeps coming up because it's an important question in this era of draft slotting frenzy. I think some teams use the commissioner's mandate as an excuse to not spend on the draft, but the real answer is that any team that doesn't take advantage of the system is just hurting itself. MLB has it set up so that anyone who wants more than slot money will fall to a team that will pay the freight, and only a few teams will do so. Why not take advantage? The average big league team spends $70 million on big league salaries and $5 million on the draft. If you made that $65 million and $10 million, you wouldn't notice much difference at the big league level but you'd grab a ton more talent in the draft. This is the only way for smaller-revenue teams to compete with the larger-revenue teams for talent, but only the larger-revenue teams are taking advantage of slotting.
Bottom line, it's a lot wiser to invest your money in future talent than it is to stuff it down the rathole for some "name" veteran with a bloated salary.
(This means you, A-Rod.)


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 2, 2008) - Morgan Beck (Coto De Caza, Calif.), an opposite on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Training Team, has provided the following responses to questions posed to her as part of a "Getting to Know" feature.
What are the top songs in your iPod?
Dota by Basshunter; Little Black Sandals by Sia; Colbie Calliat; Taylor Swift
Name three things that most people do not know about you.
I love to travel; I hate not being tan; I don't like the snow.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Play on my computer! Facebook. Spend every second possible at the beach. However in C. Springs I am usually limited to my computer :)
Other than family, who would you like to invite to complete a dinner foursome (individuals can be dead or alive)?
Kari Pestolesi, Matt Proper, and CJ Macias
Who was your club coach prior to going to college?
George Carey
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation?
Italy or somewhere tropical and warm.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Orange County…the most amazing place in the world!
What is your favorite room in your house and why?
Kitchen! It has all the food. Plus it has a big sofa in the room right next to it with a fireplace and a television!
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
Cell phone, car, or my computer
What luxury item do you wish you could invent?
A calorie counter for every bite of food you ate or a transporter like in Star Trek
What is your favorite television program?
What is your favorite movie?
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
All of the above…I'm not a big sleeper. I'm up early and awake late.
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
Anything to make the time pass. I do not enjoy flying.
What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women's National Team?
The girls and the competition.
What is your favorite volleyball drill?
What is your favorite food?
Breakfast burritos from Nick's in seal beach, but I LOVE FOOD in general.
What is your favorite restaurant to eat at?
TK Burger, Nick's, Ichi Berries, Pedros
What is your hometown best known for?
The TV show "The Real Housewives of Orange County"
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for?
A house on the beach.
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
To fly!
What is your favorite holiday?
Christmas, 4th of July, and My birthday!
What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall?
What are your most prized possessions?
My friends! Life probably would be horrible without them. And of course my cell phone.
What is your pet peeve?
I hate it when people tickle me. Also when you are in the middle of a texting conversation and the person disappears!! HATE THAT
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail?
Facebook and text messaging…..I send about 10,000 text messages a month


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Apples, like almost every fruit in the Pacific Northwest this year, were late in becoming ready for harvest. The mild spring and summer seasons slowed ripening, decreased size and maybe even limited sweetness of the crop. I love tart apples so I am not at all discouraged.
As the weather cools and the leaves turn I begin to crave the fragrance of apples cooking in the kitchen. I look forward to a weekend of making Homemade Apple Butter and Applesauce overnight in the Crockpot. Now that apples are finally dominating the displays at the produce market where I shop I am delighted. They are beautiful, perhaps more so for making their appearance fashionably late this year.
Making Apple Butter is both fun and nostalgic but for a smaller dose of apple goodness, and a quicker outcome, it is easy to prepare a quick batch of cooked apples stovetop. Basically a crustless apple pie, served over pancakes or as a side dish with dinner these cooked apples add a nice taste of the season to any meal.
Chunky Stovetop Apples
4 large tart apples (I still use Granny Smith)
½ cup sugar (or less, according to taste)
3 Tablespoons flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
pinch of salt
1 cup water
Core, peel and roughly slice apples.
Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Pour over apples and mix thoroughly.
Place apples in a 3-4 quart saucepan. Pour 1 cup of water over. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until soft. Serve warm.


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MOUNT WHITNEY – I am a thousand feet up a near-vertical ridge on the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, and there's still another thousand feet before the summit.
Rock climbing expert Dennis George watches closely as I loop our climbing rope into something called a belay device.
George is about to lead what we think is the toughest stretch on Mount Whitney's East Buttress, a Cadillac-sized boulder perched on this granite rib that dwarfs the Empire State Building.
George climbs, hesitates, sees tiny protrusions and indentations that I can't see and disappears over the other side of the 5.7-rated crux.
I breathe to calm jangled nerves. After several hours of battling doubts, my mind somehow finds peace. I ignore the thousand-foot drops on both sides and focus only on the smooth boulder which, somehow, is no longer smooth.
Years of mountaineering and four months of technical rock climbing kick in. I find nubs and scoops in the rock that I couldn't have found only weeks ago. Relying on nothing but friction to counter gravity, I move with confidence, power and grace.
Meeting George on a ledge the size of a few coffee lids, we celebrate with fist bumps. I glance down, way down. Mount Whitney's Iceberg Lake looks like a turquoise puddle.
But neither George nor I realize there is another crux above, a 5.8 slice so smooth and steep it will test my outer limits.
And there is one more thing after that crux that we also don't expect, something that could end our climb in a bad way.
The East Buttress on Whitney has attracted climbers since 1937 when the route was first established.
There are a variety of factors which make this classic climb especially challenging. One is that you need to carry all your gear from Whitney Portal to Iceberg Lake, a brutally steep hike up 4,000 feet.
Also, the technical part of the ascent starts above 12,000 feet. At that altitude, the air is thin enough to send veteran climbers into cerebral edema, something I once dealt with tending to a delirious and vomiting friend.
Finally, the route, dotted with snow and ice on this day, requires nearly 2,000 vertical feet of ascent.
This is not an environment for error.
We hit the second crux. George tosses out a question he has never asked, a question which reveals much. Although he knows the answer, he asks if I'm on belay; prepared to stop the rope should he fall.
"Yepper," I chirp, confident about my belay ability while silently questioning my ability to follow.
By now, we've been pushing our minds and bodies for nearly eight hours. We are nearing exhaustion. As George climbs out of my line of sight, I glace back at the vast floor of the Owens Valley, nearly 10,000 feet below.
A massive shadow creeps over the desert floor – the shadow of the High Sierra from the setting sun.
We are about to lose daylight.
Midway through the second crux, I can't find anything for my shoes to stick to or the slightest protrusion for my fingers.
I finally spot something to hold, but it's beyond my reach. I've got to thrust myself up, grab and pull.
With one hand.
If I fail, George and the rope should – hopefully – keep me from cascading into forever. But I don't think I have the strength to repeat the move.
I consider George's words before he cleaned the crux, dismissing exhaustion: "When you climb, you flip the switch."
Flip. My fingers wrap around the hold. I haul my body up.
I jam a shoe into a crack. The sole starts to separate like an open mouth.
I ram my arm into a split in rock. Blood drips.
Gasping for oxygen, I know I can't stop. Momentum is my ally against gravity.
Suddenly, I'm next to George. Believing what's above is little more than a scramble over a series of huge boulders, we grin, fist bump.
George looks at the darkening sky.
"We've got to move, fast."
As night falls, the temperature drops and the winds pick up. Snow is in every nook and cranny.
But with only 30 feet to go, the height of a two-story house, I figure soon we'll either be descending the Mountaineer's Route or we'll be safe in the summit hut.
George tries to climb straight up, through granite blocks the size of a Suburban tipped nose to heaven. He goes left, right. But the Aliso Viejo resident can't find a way to ascend.
George, who also guides, disappears around a wall on the left. The minutes tick by. I consider the emergency bivy bag I left behind. If we coil the rope and use it for insulation, could we stave off hypothermia until first light?
"On belay."
The words are a whisper carried by wind. They mean George is safe, secure, and it's time for me to follow. But something is very wrong.
With George ready to belay, the rope should be relatively taut to prevent a long fall. But there are coils at my feet. The rope is stuck somewhere.
My headlamp shines on slack rope swaying in gusts. It shows where George went. There's a small platform, then an inky void, then another small platform the size of my foot.
The maneuver requires what's called a "step-across." It's a move a climber can only accomplish with total commitment, landing perfectly on the other side.
I have no choice but to succeed.
I gather the rope in my left hand. Shadows from my headlamp dance on granite.
I find a crack with my right hand, steady myself, let go and step.
I land firmly. I inch my way around the corner. There is nothing to hold. At least the ledge is a beautiful 5 inches wide.
George has put protection into a crack that is level with my feet. I'm thankful for the pro, but hate the position. I bend down, one foot in front of the other, balance, and gingerly pluck out two cams.
Finally, I spot George above, illuminated by both our headlamps. With blasts of freezing air sweeping the summit, he shivers.
We scout around the starlit summit for the Mountaineer's Route but decide to pass. Too steep, too dark, too icy.
George wonders if the summit hut is locked. I tell him it's not, ever – praying I'm correct.
I push the hut's wood door open. We enter a small room with rock walls, metal roof, and a rough wood floor.
George smiles, "This is pretty warm."
"Wait until 3 a.m.," I advise, laughing because I now know that we'll live and that is a very wonderful feeling.
"It's going to be a very long night."
I tell a story about John Muir, the famed naturalist. Caught on Mount Whitney one October night in 1873, Muir wrote, "Had to dance all night to keep from freezing."
It's time to boogie.
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- Bluetooth 3.0
- Firmware Upgradeable
- Light weight and ultra slim profile
- Bluetooth Intercom up to 900 meters or 980 yards
(in open terrain)
- Four-way conference intercom
(total of 4 persons can communicate in conference mode)
- Conference phone call with intercom participant
- Multipoint for mobile phone+GPS
- Voice prompts
- Bluetooth stereo headset for Bluetooth audio devices such as MP3 players etc…
- Bluetooth music playback control by AVRCP: Play, pause, track forward and track back
- Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Sufficient sound level with integrated audio booster
- Bluetooth hands free for Bluetooth mobile phones
(only for phones with hands free capability)
- Bluetooth headset or stereo headset for Bluetooth GPS navigations (motorcycle friendly GPS units only)
- Water resistant for use in inclement weather
- Crystal clear and natural sound quality
- Up to 8 hours talk time, 7 days stand-by time
- Can be used while charging on road trips
- Detailed instructions and setup guide included
- Two year manufacturers warranty
- Manufacturer Part #SMH10R-01
- (1) Headset Main Unit
- (1) Speaker Set
- (1) Wired Mic
- (1) Attachable Boom Mic
- (1) Battery Pack
- (1) USB Power Cable
- (1) Cigarette Charger
- (1) Set of Double Sided Adhesive Tapes for Main Unit
- (1) Set of Velcro Pads for Main Unit
- (2) Mic Sponges
- (2) Velcro Pads for Speakers
- (2) Speaker Pads
- (1) Velcro Pad for Wired Mic
- (1) Velcro Pad for Boom Mic
- (1) Velcro Pad for Battery Pack
There are several How To Videos on Sena's Youtube channel that you might find helpful
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The Sena SMH10R is an ultra slim version of the SMH10.
So what's different about the SMH10R compared to the SMH10? To accomplish the ultra slim profile of the SMH10R Sena removed the jog dial (which is used for toggling between modes/functions) and the battery is not inside the unit, it is designed to be installed somewhere in the liner of the helmet (click on the "View Larger Pictures" link above to see the line art drawing of the unit installed). There is no auxiliary "in" port on the SMH10R so audio must be streamed to the unit using a Bluetooth enabled audio device. Lastly, up to 8 hours talk time with 7 days stand-by time with the SMH10R vs. up to 12 hours talk time with 10 days stand-by time with the SMH10.
Featuring Bluetooth 3.0 that allows 4 separate riders to be paired together and communicate in conference mode.
Pair 4 separate riders together using the "daisy chain" method (the instructions/user guider will go over this) rider 1 pairs to rider 2 and then rider 2 pairs to rider 3, etc… If rider 1 gets further than 900 meters from rider 2, the connection is lost. If rider 2 gets further than 900 meters from rider 3, the connection is lost and so on. The good thing is the SMH10R is set up to automatically reconnect when pairing is lost. Example, when you have 4 riders in conference mode (using the "daisy chain" pairing method) and rider 4 loses connection from rider 3, rider 1, 2 and 3 are still in conference mode. When rider 4 gets back in range, his SMH10R will automatically pair back with rider 3 and in turn, join back into the conference conversation with the other 3 riders.
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The visual observer will enjoy wide views of deep sky objects. Actual groups of nebula or clusters can be viewed at the same time with this instrument.
The telescope's large aperture and compact body make it ideally suited for astrophotography of nebulae, star clusters and comets. The use of the optional coma corrector allows for a sharp coma-free image from edge to edge, and the rack and pinion focusing mount, with an adapter, accepts 2 eyepieces.
The R200SS comes standard with the 7x50 finder, 232mm tube rings, dovetail tube plate and new focus design with more distance for photographic equipment and makes a great companion to the Sphinx mount.
The SPHINX equatorial mount and STARBOOK controller have been intelligently engineered for high-speed automatic location of celestial objects. It is now possible to explore the beauty of the night sky with greater ease and stability. The SPHINX comes standard with built in motors and the world's first star chart go-to controller, STARBOOK, with a large full color LCD display. The Sphinx's design is exceptional and the exterior styling is equally attractive.
Features of the SPHINX equatorial mount: 180-tooth worm gears for fine full circle motion. 22lbs. recommended loading capacity for a wide range of optical tubes. Built in DC motors allow for improved motion of the polar axis rotation and reduce the need for heavy counterweights.
A retractable counterweight shaft enables easy storage and transportation. The mount is available on a SX-HAL130 heavy duty aluminum tripod. An optional illuminated polar axis scope can be easily added to the mount body.
Features of the STAR BOOK controller: Large color liquid crystal display. (4.7 inch, 320x420 pixels, STN, 4096 colors) High Speed Internal CPU (32 bit RISC processor, 75MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash ROM upgradeable) Zoom-In/Out buttons for the color star chart display also control the motor speed. As you zoom in closer to an object on the display, the motor speed becomes finer and as you zoom out, the motor speed increases to cover larger distances.
Features and menu options are displayed on the large color screen and are navigated with simple buttons on the controller. The STARBOOK is easy to use and makes the SPHINX available to a wide range of ages and experience levels. A large astronomical database with 22,725 celestial objects is stored. A LAN Port within the controller allows for computer control and network connectivity. The STARBOOK is also compatible with an auto guider (including SBIG ST). The auto-guider port comes standard on all controllers.


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While I don't have kids, I have had a lot of experience with them, and thus know the importance of occupying them from time to time. Still under your watchful guise of course. Unfortunately, you don't always have something on hand, or sometimes you do, but it doesn't really hold any real value for your toddler.
If you constantly find yourself in this situation, there is a piece of "edutainment" in Apple's App Store that iPhone-using parents might want to take a look at. Preschool Adventure from 3DAL, LLC is a $0.99 application that should provide your toddler a good deal of entertainment, saving you from a tantrum-induced splitting headache.
The application features four different activities: Colors, Shapes, Body, and Sounds, each of which feature a whimsical graphical style with bright colors and a "narration" provided by what sounds like an eight-year-old girl. The Colors activity urges the user to interact with some colorful paint splats in standard colors. When a paint blob is activated by a touch, it turns into a sea animal. The color and the name of the animal are then stated aloud. When the blue blob is touched, a whale shows up, squirts water out of his blow hole, and the voice says "blue whale." The animal does not turn back into the paint blob, but it is touchable with the same result. There are seven colors in all, along with amusement for you while listening to your child try to say "pink sea anemone."
The Shapes portion features some differently-colored creatures who live in the cratered surface of some far off planet. Each creature is one of five different shapes, and when they are touched, they fly out of their peaceful crater with a whimsical sound effect. The now-familiar voice says "orange rectangle" (or whatever), and the creatures drop back into their original homes.
The body portion of the app features a dismembered monkey whose body hangs from a banana tree by the tail, surrounded by its floating body parts. When a body part is touched, it floats to the appropriate part of the monkey with a sound effect and the name of the body part. There are eight pieces of the monkey that need to be reattached before the monkey becomes animated and gives you the classic monkey sound. Hopefully, this won't teach your toddler to tear apart animals thinking that they can easily be put back together again, but if it does, Ars Technica is not responsible for the injury or death of any monkeys, chimps, or any other primates.
It's only disturbing if you think about it.
The final section of the software is Sounds. Here, you are presented with a farm yard with six cute little animals. Upon being touched, they sound their animal sound and the girl identifies the animal. There are even two little Easter eggs hidden among the farm animals that sport more sound effects. This is probably my favorite, all though I am also a fan of the Colors portion and I'm not exactly of the intended age range.
The game is cute and your kid should enjoy it for at least a few minutes. If I have any complaints, its the poorly-rendered text and perhaps the fact that the sea animals don't turn back into the colors they started out as, but your kids won't care. While I did review this app using an iPod touch and headphones, I have no reason to believe the sound effects won't work through the iPhone's speaker.
Name: PreSchool Adventure (iTunes Link)
Publisher: 3DAL, LLC
Price: $0.99