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Succah 13 - 19
- Schach that causes one to leave the succah
- What's in a name and what qualifies as eizov
- The status of vegetable stems re ritual impurity and schach
- How wide a board can be to qualify as schach
- Roof planks and bed parts converted into a kosher succah
- A succah in a heap
- Hanging walls in regard to succah and Shabbat
- When kosher schach fails to reach the walls
- How much non-kosher schach or air disqualifies a succah
- The concepts of a "slanted wall" and of lavud
- Combinations in regard to schach and ritual impurity
- When a roof edge can serve as a virtual wall
- Schach that extends beyond succah walls
- Problem of the roofless succah
- Using mats for schach
What's in a Name?
- Succah 13a
Does it qualify for use on Pesach as the bitter herb required by the Torah despite the fact that it has a different name?
Yes, ruled Rabbi Chisda in the name of the Sage Ravina bar Shela.
His ruling was challenged from a mishna which states that the eizov (hyssop) mentioned by the Torah as an ingredient in achieving ritual purity only qualifies for this purpose if it has no other name (such as Greek", Roman", "Desert" or "Bluish") attached to it. One of the resolutions offered is that of the Sage Rava who points out that whereas in the case of the eizov the surname indicates that it is a different species than the hyssop designated by the Torah, the d'agma surname is merely a geographical description of a place where the Torah designated bitter herb can be found.
Rashi defines mararita as the chazeret which is commonly used on Pesach and which is known to us as chassa or Romaine lettuce. Tosefot rejects this definition on the basis of what the Sage Ravina said to another Sage when he saw him searching for mararita to fulfill the mitzvah of maror (Pesachim 39a). Why search for mararita, he asked, when we know that chazeret is the preferable species for this mitzvah?
The conclusion of Tosefot is that mararita is a particular species of bitter herb that grows in lakes but is not chazeret.
What the Sages Say
"Why are the prayers of the righteous compared to a pitchfork? To teach us that just as a pitchfork turns the grain from place to place, so do the prayers of the righteous turn the attitude of G-d from justice to mercy."
- Rabbi Eliezer - Succah 14a

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STUDENT.―What is Occultism?
Sage.―It is that branch of knowledge which shows the universe in the form of an egg. The cell of science is a little copy of the egg of the universe. The laws which govern the whole govern also every part of it. As man is a little copy of the universe―is the microcosm―he is governed by the same laws which rule the greater. Occultism teaches therefore of the secret laws and forces of the universe and man, those forces playing in the outer world and known in part only by the men of the day who admit no invisible real nature, behind which is the model of the visible.
Student.―What does Occultism teach in regard to man, broadly speaking?
Sage.―That he is the highest product of evolution, and hence has in him a centre or focus corresponding to each centre of force or power in the universe. He therefore has as many centres or foci for force, power, and knowledge as there are such in the greater world about and within.
Student.―Do you mean to include also the ordinary run of men, or is it the exceptions you refer to?
Sage.―I include every human being, and that will reach from the lowest to the very highest, both those we know and those beyond us who are suspected as being in existence. Although we are accustomed to confine the term "human" to this earth, it is not correct to confine that sort of being to this plane or globe, because other planets have beings the same as ours in essential power and nature and possibility.
Student.―Please explain a little more particularly what you mean by our having centres or foci in us.
Sage.―Electricity is a most powerful force not fully known to modern science, yet used very much. The nervous, physical, and mental systems of man acting together are able to produce the same force exactly, and in a finer as well as subtler way and to as great a degree as the most powerful dynamo, so that the force might be used to kill, to alter, to move, or otherwise change any object or condition. This is the "vril" described by Bulwer Lytton in his Coming Race.
Nature exhibits to our eyes the power of drawing into one place with fixed limits any amount of material so as to produce the smallest natural object or the very largest. Out of the air she takes what is already there, and by compressing it into the limits of tree or animal form makes it visible to our material eyes. This is the power of condensing into what may be known as the ideal limits, that is, into the limits of the form which is ideal. Man has this same power, and can, when he knows the laws and the proper centres of force in himself, do precisely what Nature does. He can thus make visible and material what was before ideal and invisible by filling the ideal form with the matter condensed from the air. In his case the only difference from Nature is that he does quickly what she brings about slowly.
Among natural phenomena there is no present illustration of telepathy good for our use. Among the birds and the beasts, however, there is telepathy instinctually performed. But telepathy, as it is now called, is the communicating of thought or idea from mind to mind. This is a natural power, and being well-understood may be used by one mind to convey to another, no matter how far away or what be the intervening obstacle, any idea or thought. In natural things we can take for that the vibration of the chord which can cause all other chords of the same length to vibrate similarly. This is a branch of Occultism, a part of which is known to the modern investigator. But it is also one of the most useful and one of the greatest powers we have. To make it of service many things have to combine. While it is used every day in common life in the average way―for men are each moment telepathically communicating with each other―to do it in perfection, that is, against obstacle and distance, is perfection of occult art. Yet it will be known one day even to the common world.
Student.―Is there any object had in view by Nature which man should also hold before him?
Sage.―Nature ever works to turn the inorganic or the lifeless or the non-intelligent and non-conscious into the organic, the intelligent, the conscious; and this should be the aim of man also. In her great movements Nature seems to cause destruction, but that is only for the purpose of construction. The rocks are dissolved into earth, elements combine to bring on change, but there is the ever onward march of progress in evolution. Nature is not destructive of either thing or time, she is constructive. Man should be the same. And as a free moral agent he should work to that end, and not to procuring gratification merely nor for waste in any department.
Student.―Is Occultism of truth or of falsehood; is it selfish or unselfish; or is it part one and part the other?
Sage.―Occultism is colorless, and only when used by man for the one side or the other is it good or bad. Bad Occultism, or that which is used for selfish ends, is not false, for it is the same as that which is for good ends. Nature is two-sided, negative and positive, good and bad, light and dark, hot and cold, spirit and matter. The Black magician is as powerful in the matter of phenomena as the White, but in the end all the trend of Nature will go to destroy the black and save the white. But what you should understand is that the false man and the true can both be occultists. The words of the Christian teacher Jesus will give the rule for judgment: "By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?" Occultism is the general, all-inclusive term, the differentiating terms are White and Black; the same forces are used by both, and similar laws, for there are no special laws in this universe for any special set of workers in Nature's secrets. But the path of the untruthful and the wicked, while seemingly easy at first, is hard at last, for the black workers are the friends of no one, they are each against the other as soon as interest demands, and that may be anytime. It is said that final annihilation of the personal soul awaits those who deal in the destructive side of Nature's hall of experience.
Student.―Where should I look for the help I need in the right life, the right study?
Sage.―Within yourself is the light that lighteth every man who cometh here. The light of the Higher Self and of the Mahâtma are not different from each other. Unless you find your Self, how can you understand Nature?
Path, October, 1894
There is no Religion Higher Than Truth - सत्यात् नास्ति परो धर्मः


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It's been almost a half-century since Julian Simon wrote "An Almost Practical Solution to Airline Overbooking," which was a two-page note in the May 1968 Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (pp. 201-2). Here's how Simon described the idea in 1968:
Perhaps the reader has suffered a fit of impotent rage at being told that he could not board an aeroplane for which he held a valid ticket. The explanation is clear, and no angry letter to the president of the airline will rectify the mistake, for mistake it was not. The airline gambles on a certain number of cancellations, and therefore sometimes sells more tickets than there are seats. Naturally there are sometimes more seat claimants than seats.
The solution is simple. All that need happen when there is overbooking is that an airline agent distributes among the ticket-holders an envelope and a bid form, instructing each person to write down the lowest sum of money he is willing to accept in return for waiting for the next flight. The lowest bidder is paid in cash and given a ticket for the next flight. All other passengers board the plane and complete the flight to their destination.
All parties benefit, and no party loses. All passengers either complete their flight or are recompensed by a sum which they value more than the immediate completion of the flight. And the airlines could also gain, because they would be able to overbook to a higher degree than at present, and hence fly their planes closer to seat capacity. ...
But of course this scheme will not be taken up by the airlines. Why? Their first response will probably be "The administrative difficulties would be too great". The reader may judge this for himself. Next they will suggest that the scheme will not increase net revenue. But the a priori arguments to the contrary make the scheme worth a trial, and the trial would cost practically nothing and would require no commitment.
What are the real reasons why this scheme will not be adopted? Probably that "It just isn't done", because such an auction does not seem decorous; it smacks of the pushcart rather than the one price store; it is "embarrassing" and "crass", i.e., frankly commercial, like "being in trade" in Victorian England.Simon's idea seemed a little ridiculous to a number of commentators back in 1968, the sort of hypothetical, unworldly, and impractical idea that only an economist could favor. After being enacted and around for a few decades, of course, it now seems obvious. In the classroom, it's a nice practical real-world example of what is arguably a Pareto gain.
As Cass Sunstein and others have recently written, the obvious solution to the overbooking problem--at least if you are thinking like an economist--is to change the regulations that limit how much airlines are allowed to pay so that a few passengers can take a later flight. Of course, airlines dislike the idea. When Simon asked why the scheme wouldn't be adopted in the first place, he left out one reason: "The airline already has the money you paid for a ticket, and don't want to return any of it to you if at all possible." But there's a social and political tradeoff here: if airlines want to keep having the freedom to overbook their flights, then they need to face the reality of paying a compensation level so that when a few ticketed passengers can't be accommodated on a given flight, those passengers are willing to postpone their flight voluntarily.


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UPGRADE Announces Date for Its Whitelist, Presale, and Public Sale Events
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A Unique Frame of Mind
Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box to reinvent the notion of "home"
Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box. In fact, he's been known to take a box, put it on stilts, add wheels and raise its roof—all in the name of reinventing the notion of "home."
Kundig, a 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner and partner in the Seattle-based firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, is known for designing sparse houses with understated materials—steel, glass, concrete and plywood—and overstated shapes and features. They are conversation pieces that whet the imagination.
Take, for example, the 1,000-square-foot, three-story cabin called "Delta Shelter" that was built in Mazama, Washington. It looks like a modern tree fort. Or perhaps a chimney—maybe even a periscope—sprouting from the earth. I mean, Mark Robbins, a juror in the National Design Award competition and dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture, did refer to a similar work of Kundig's as representing the "dual American obsessions of industry and nature."
Other works look like robotic creatures. His four-legged "Rolling Huts" (photo at top), built on the same Washington property as "Delta Shelter," have been called the "baby chicks of Mother Delta." (There is some family resemblance.) Kundig himself calls the six upscale campers, which are fed electricity from RV hookups, a "herd."
And signature to Kundig's homes are his gizmos. As a kid, I had a make-shift pulley to reel in the rope ladder on my tree house. Kundig's "Delta Shelter," has a snazzy hand crack to gently slide the steel shutters closed. A house he designed in Northern Idaho has a 30-by-20-foot window that tilts with the turn of a wheel, opening the main living space up to its lakefront, and another in Seattle boasts a flat screen TV rigged by a pulley to hang from the ceiling.
See more of his wild designs, here. Kundig and the eight other National Design Award winners will take part in a panel discussion on design and be honored at a gala at the Cooper-Hewitt in October.
(Photograph of Rolling Huts, Mazama, Washington, 2008, courtesy of Tim Bies/Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. Photograph of Delta Shelter, Mazama, Washington, 2005, courtesy of Benjamin Benschneider.)


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4. Paris Workers' Revolution & Thiers' Reactionary Massacres
Armed Paris was the only serious obstacle in the way of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Paris was, therefore, to be disarmed.
On this point, the Bordeaux Assembly [National Assembly] was sincerity itself. If the roaring rant of its Rurals had not been audible enough, the surrender of Paris by Thiers to the tender mercies of the triumvirate of Vinoy the Decembriseur, Valentin the Bonapartist gendarme, and Aurelles de Paladine the Jesuit general, would have cut off even the last subterfuge of doubt.
But while insultingly exhibiting the true purpose of the disarmament of Paris, the conspirators asked her to lay down her arms on a pretext which was the most glaring, the most barefaced of lies. The artillery of the Paris National Guard, said Thiers, belonged to the state, and to the state it must be returned. The fact was this: From the very day of the capitulation, by which Bismarck's prisoners had signed the surrender of France, but reserved to themselves a numerous bodyguard for the express purpose of cowing Paris, Paris stood on the watch. The National Guard reorganized themselves and entrusted their supreme control to a Central Committee elected by their whole body, save some fragments of the old Bonapartist formations. On the eve of the entrance of the Prussians into Paris, the Central Committee took measures for the removal to Montmartre, Belleville, and La Villette, of the cannon and mitrailleuses treacherously abandoned by the capitulards in and about the very quarters the Prussians were to occupy. That artillery had been furnished by the subscriptions of the National Guard. As their private property, it was officially recognized in the capitulation of January 28, and on that very title exempted from the general surrender, into the hands of the conqueror, or arms belonging to the government. And Thiers was so utterly destitute of even the flimsiest pretext for initiating the war against Paris, that he had to resort to the flagrant lie of the artillery of the National Guard being state property!
The seizure of her artillery was evidently but to serve as the preliminary to the general disarmament of Paris, and, therefore, of the Revolution of September 4. But that revolution had become the legal status of France. The republic, its work, was recognized by the conqueror in the terms of the capitulation. After the capitulation, it was acknowledged by all foreign powers, and in its name, the National Assembly had been summoned. The Paris working men's revolution of September 4 was the only legal title of the National Assembly seated at Bordeaux, and of its executive. Without it, the National Assembly would at once have to give way to the Corps Legislatif elected in 1869 by universal suffrage under French, not under Prussian, rule, and forcibly dispersed by the arm of the revolution. Thiers and his ticket-of-leave men would have had to capitulate for safe conducts signed by Louis Bonaparte, to save them from a voyage to Cayenne[A]. The National Assembly, with its power of attorney to settle the terms of peace with Prussia, was but an incident of that revolution, the true embodiment of which was still armed Paris, which had initiated it, undergone for it a five-months' siege, with its horrors of famine, and made her prolonged resistance, despite Trochu's plan, the basis of an obstinate war of defence in the provinces. And Paris was now either to lay down her arms at the insulting behest of the rebellious slaveholders of Bordeaux, and acknowledge that her Revolution of September 4 meant nothing but a simple transfer of power from Louis Bonaparte to his royal rivals; or she had to stand forward as the self-sacrificing champion of France, whose salvation from ruin and whose regeneration were impossible without the revolutionary overthrow of the political and social conditions that had engendered the Second Empire, and under its fostering care, matured into utter rottenness. Paris, emaciated by a five-months' famine, did not hesitate one moment. She heroically resolved to run all the hazards of a resistance against French conspirators, even with Prussian cannon frowning upon her from her own forts. Still, in its abhorrence of the civil war into which Paris was to be goaded, the Central Committee continued to persist in a merely defensive attitude, despite the provocations of the Assembly, the usurpations of the Executive, and the menacing concentration of troops in and around Paris.
Thiers opened the civil war by sending Vinoy, at the head of a multitude of sergents-de-ville, and some regiments of the line, upon a nocturnal expedition against Montmartre, there to seize, by surprise, the artillery of the National Guard. It is well known how this attempt broke down before the resistance of the National Guard and the fraternization of the line with the people. Aurelles de Paldine had printed beforehand his bulletin of victory, and Thiers held ready the placards announcing his measures of coup d'etat. Now these had to be replaced by Thiers' appeals, imparting his magnanimous resolve to leave the National Guard in the possession of their arms, with which, he said, he felt sure they would rally round the government against the rebels. Out of 300,000 National guards, only 300 responded to this summons to rally around little Thiers against themselves. The glorious working men's Revolution of March 18 took undisputed sway of Paris. The Central Committee was its provisional government. Europe seemed, for a moment, to doubt whether its recent sensational performances of state and war had any reality in them, or whether they were the dreams of a long bygone past.
From March 18 to the entrance of the Versailles troops into Paris, the proletarian revolution remained so free from the acts of violence in which the revolutions – and still more the counter-revolutions – of the "better classes" abound, that no facts were left to its opponents to cry out about, but the executions of Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas, and the affair of the Place Vendome.
One of the Bonapartist officers engaged in the nocturnal attempt against Montmartre, General Lecomte, had four times ordered the 81st line regiment to fire at an unarmed gathering in the Place Pigalle, and on their refusal fiercely insulted them. Instead of shooting women and children, his own men shot him. The inveterate habits acquired by the soldiery under the training of the enemies of the working class are, of course, not likely to change the very moment these soldiers change sides. The same men executed Clement Thomas.
"General" Clement Thomas, a malcontent ex-quartermaster-sergeant, had, in the latter times of Louis Philippe's reign, enlisted at the office of the republican newspaper Le National, there to serve in the double capacity of responsible man-of-straw (gerant responsable) and of duelling bully to that very combative journal. After the February Revolution, the men of the National having got into power, they metamorphosed this old quarter-master-sergeant into a general on the eve of the butchery of June – of which he, like Jules Favre, was one of the sinister plotters, and became one of the most dastardly executioners. Then he and his generalship disappeared for a long time, to again rise to the surface on November 1, 1870. The day before, the Government of National Defence, caught at the Hotel de Ville, had solemnly pledged their parole to Blanqui, Flourens, and other representatives of the working class, to abdicate their usurped power into the hands of a commune to be freely elected by Paris.[B] Instead of keeping their word, they let loose on Paris the Bretons of Trochu, who now replaced the Corsicans of Bonaparte.[C] General Tamisier alone, refusing to sully his name by such a breach of faith, resigned the commandership-in-chief of the National Guard, and in his place Clement Thomas for once became again a general. During the whole of his tenure of command, he made war, not upon the Prussians, but upon the Paris National Guard. He prevented their general armament, pitted the bourgeois battalions against the working men's battalions, weeded out officers hostile to Trochu's "plan," and disbanded, under the stigma of cowardice, the very same proletarian battalions whose heroism has now astonished their most inveterate enemies. Clement Thomas felt quite proud of having reconquered his June pre-eminence as the personal enemy of the working class of Paris. Only a few days before March 18, he laid before the War Minister, Leflo, a plan of his own for "finishing off la fine fleur [the cream] of the Paris canaille." After Vinoy's rout, he must needs appear upon the scene of action in the quality of an amateur spy. The Central Committee and the Paris working men were as much responsible for the killing of Clement Thomas and Lecomte as the Princess of Wales for the fate of the people crushed to death on the day of her entrance into London.
The massacre of unarmed citizens in Place Vendome is a myth which M. Thiers and the Rurals persistently ignored in the Assembly, entrusting its propagation exclusively to the servants' hall of European journalism. "The men of order," the reactionists of Paris, trembled at the victory of March 18. To them, it was the signal of popular retribution at last arriving. The ghosts of the victims assassinated at their hands from the days of June 1848, down to January 22, 1871,[D] arose before their faces. Their panic was their only punishment. Even the sergents-de-ville, instead of being disarmed and locked up, as ought to have been done, had the gates of Paris flung open wide for their safe retreat to Versailles. The men of order were left not only unharmed, but allowed to rally and quietly seize more than one stronghold in the very centre of Paris. This indulgence of the Central Committee – this magnanimity of the armed working men – so strangely at variance with the habits of the "Party of Order," the latter misinterpreted as mere symptoms of conscious weakness. Hence their silly plan to try, under the cloak of an unarmed demonstration, what Vinoy had failed to perform with his cannon and mitrailleuses. On March 22, a riotous mob of swells started from the quarters of luxury, all the petits creves in their ranks, and at their head the notorious familiars of the empire – the Heeckeren, Coetlogon, Henri de Pene, etc. Under the cowardly pretence of a pacific demonstration, this rabble, secretly armed with the weapons of the bravo [i.e. hired assassin], fell into marching order, ill-treated and disarmed the detached patrols and sentries of the National Guard they met with on their progress, and, on debouching from the Rue de la Paix, with the cry of "Down with the Central Committee! Down with the assassins! The National Assembly forever!" attempted to break through the line drawn up there, and thus to carry by surprise the headquarters of the National Guard in the Place Vendome. In reply to their pistol-shots, the regular sommations (the French equivalent of the English Riot Act)[E] were made, and, proving ineffective, fire was commanded by the general [Bergeret] of the National Guard. One volley dispersed into wild flight the silly coxcombs, who expected that the mere exhibition of their "respectability" would have the same effect upon the Revolution of Paris as Joshua's trumpets upon the walls of Jericho. The runaways left behind them two National Guards killed, nine severely wounded (among them a member of the Central Committee [Maljournal]), and the whole scene of their exploit strewn with revolvers, daggers, and sword-canes, in evidence of the "unarmed" character of their "pacific" demonstration. When, on June 13, 1849, the National Guard made a really pacific demonstration in protest against the felonious assault of French troops upon Rome, Changarnier, then general of the Party of Order, was acclaimed by the National Assembly, and especially by M. Thiers, as the savior of society, for having launched his troops from all sides upon these unarmed men, to shoot and sabre them down, and to trample them under their horses' feet. Paris, then was placed under a state of siege. Dufaure hurried through the Assembly new laws of repression. New arrests, new proscriptions – a new reign of terror set in. But the lower orders manage these things otherwise. The Central Committee of 1871 simply ignored the heroes of the "pacific demonstration"; so much so, that only two days later, they were enabled to muster under Admiral Saisset, for that armed demonstration, crowned by the famous stampede to Versailles. In their reluctance to continue the civil war opened by Thiers' burglarious attempt on Montmartre, the Central Committee made themselves, this time, guilty of a decisive mistake in not at once marching upon Versailles, then completely helpless, and thus putting an end to the conspiracies of Thiers and his Rurals. Instead of this, the Party of Order was again allowed to try its strength at the ballot box, on March 26, the day of the election of the Commune. Then, in the mairies of Paris, they exchanged bland words of conciliation with their too generous conquerors, muttering in their hearts solemn vows to exterminate them in due time.
Now, look at the reverse of the medal. Thiers opened his second campaign against Paris in the beginning of April. The first batch of Parisian prisoners brought into Versailles was subjected to revolting atrocities, while Ernest Picard, with his hands in his trousers' pockets, strolled about jeering them, and while Mesdames Thiers and Favre, in the midst of their ladies of honor (?) applauded, from the balcony, the outrages of the Versailles mob. The captured soldiers of the line were massacred in cold blood; our brave friend, General Duval, the iron-founder, was shot without any form of trial. Galifet, the kept man of his wife, so notorious for her shameless exhibitions at the orgies of the Second Empire, boasted in a proclamation of having commanded the murder of a small troop of National Guards, with their captain and lieutenant, surprised and disarmed by his Chasseurs. Vinoy, the runaway, was appointed by Thiers, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, for his general order to shoot down every soldier of the line taken in the ranks of the Federals. Desmaret, the Gendarme, was decorated for the treacherous butcher-like chopping in pieces of the high-souled and chivalrous Flourens, who had saved the heads of the Government of Defence on October 31, 1870.[F] "The encouraging particulars" of his assassination were triumphantly expatiated upon by Thiers in the National Assembly. With the elated vanity of a parliamentary Tom Thumb permitted to play the part of a Tamerlane, he denied the rebels the right of neutrality for ambulances. Nothing more horrid than that monkey allowed for a time to give full fling to his tigerish instincts, as foreseen by Voltaire.[Candide, Ch. 22](See news articles)
After the decree of the Commune of April 7, ordering reprisals and declaring it to be the duty "to protect Paris against the cannibal exploits of the Versailles banditti, and to demand an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," [G] Thiers did not stop the barbarous treatment of prisoners, moreover, insulting them in his bulletins as follows: "Never have more degraded countenances of a degraded democracy met the afflicted gazes of honest men" – honest, like Thiers himself and his ministerial ticket-of-leave men. Still, the shooting of prisoners was suspended for a time. Hardly, however, had Thiers and his Decembrist generals [of the December 2, 1851 coup by Louis Bonaparte] become aware that the Communal decree of reprisals was but an empty threat, that even their gendarme spies caught in Paris under the disguise of National Guards, that even sergents-de-ville, taken with incendiary shells upon them, were spared – when the wholesale shooting of prisoners was resumed and carried on uninterruptedly to the end. Houses to which National Guards had fled were surrounded by gendarmes, inundated with petroleum (which here occurs for the first time in this war), and then set fire to, the charred corpses being afterwards brought out by the ambulance of the Press at the Ternes. Four National Guards having surrendered to a troop of mounted Chasseurs at Belle Epine, on April 25, were afterwards shot down, one after another, by the captain, a worthy man of Gallifet's. One of his four victims, left for dead, Scheffer, crawled back to the Parisian outposts, and deposed to this fact before a commission of the Commune. When Tolain interpellated the War Minister upon the report of this commission, the Rurals drowned his voice and forbade Leflo to answer. It would be an insult to their "glorious" army to speak of its deeds. The flippant tone in which Thiers' bulletin announced the bayoneting of the Federals, surprised asleep at Moulin Saquet, and the wholesale fusillades at Clamart shocked the nerves even of the not over-sensitive London Times. But it would be ludicrous today to attempt recounting the merely preliminary atrocities committed by the bombarders of Paris and the fomenters of a slaveholders' rebellion protected by foreign invasion. Amidst all these horrors, Thiers, forgetful of his parliamentary laments on the terrible responsibility weighing down his dwarfish shoulders, boasts in his bulletins that l'Assemblee siege paisiblement (the Assembly continues meeting in peace), and proves by his constant carousals, now with Decembrist generals, now with German princes, that his digestion is not troubled in the least, not even by the ghosts of Lecomte and Clement Thomas.
[A] A town in French Guiana (Northern South America), penal settlement and place of exile.
[B] On October 31, 1870, upon the receipt of news that the Government of National Defense had decided to start negotiations with the Prussians, the Paris workers and revolutionary sections of the National Guard rose up in revolt. They seized the town hall and set up their revolutionary government – the Committee of Public Safety, headed by Blanqui. Under pressure from the workers the Government of National Defense promised to resign and schedule national elections to the Commune for November 1. The government then, with the aid of some loyal battalions of the National Guard, seized the town hall by force of arms and re-established its domination.
[C] Bretons – Breton Mobile Guard which Trochu used as gendarmes to put down the revolutionary movement in Paris.
Corsicans – constituted a considerable part of the gendarmes corps during the Second Empire.
[D] On January 22, 1871, the Paris proletariat and the National Guards held a revolutionary demonstration initiated by the Blanquists. They demanded the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a Commune. By order of the Government of National Defense, the Breton Mobile Guard, which was defending the town hall, opened fire on the demonstrators. After massacring the workers, the government began preparations to surrender Paris to the Germans.
[E] Sommations (a preliminary demand to disburse) – under the laws of most bourgeois states, this demand is repeated three times, following which the armed police are entitled to resort to force. The Riot Act was introduced in England in 1715. It prohibited "rebel gatherings" of more than 12 people in a group, giving the authorities the right to use force if the crowd did not disperse within an hour after the reading out of the sommations three times.
[F] On October 31, Flourens prevented the members of the Government of National Defense from being shot, as had been demanded by one of the insurrectionists.
[G] A reference to the decree on hostages adopted by the Commune on April 5, 1871. (Marx gives the date of its publication in the English press.) Under this decree, all persons found guilty of being in contact with Versailles were declared hostages. By this decree the Commune sought to prevent Communards from being shot by the Versaillists.


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Brooks Brothers S/S 2011 Preview
16 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 6:25 PM
yeah i'm liking that sport coat...second to last pic...
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 8:16 PM
Loving the toggle coat. Didn't expect I'd be checking out BB stuff this fall but this drop is pretty dope.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 13, 2011 at 9:22 AM
OldSchool - thank the lord that time is over.
Kicklighter - Still breathing? What a shame as per usual. - andyboyceJanuary 13, 2011 at 11:23 AM
What do pplz think bout the desert boot pic (#2 from top)? circa ralph fienes engrish patient.
ReplyDelete - Patrick KicklighterJanuary 13, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Anon @ 9:22 AM -
Why don't you identify yourself so I can beat the bad taste out of your pathetic ass. Fucking clown. - AnonymousJanuary 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Okay Patrick, there's no easy way to do this so I'll just come out and say it. It's your Mummy. Now I know I bought you those dresses and Ken dolls when you were seven so you wouldn't feel left out when your sisters played "make-over" and barbies but your sexual ambiguity and flamboyant bad taste have gotten out of control and someone just had to do something about it. Please know that this is very hard for me to say but, as your mother, I really think you should take my advice from before and kill yourself. You'll be making your father and my life a lot easier.
Love (always),
Mom These guys all look too much like preppie asshole Stan Gable from the 1984 flick Revenge of the Nerds.
I couldn't wear this look without without worrying I'd get beat up by a guy named Ogre, and have my girlfriend stolen by some nerd.
Besides, didn't everybody who dresses like this lose their trust funds to Bernie Madoff?- AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Last anon, you're part of the reason that people who don't conform to *your* standards do end up killing themselves.


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She's a good one - that Princess :<)
One house, Two people, Five Rabbits! (Oh - and a cat.)
She's a good one - that Princess :<)
Awww, Princess! She rules the House with an iron paw, but yet she's such a sweet, lovely bunny at heart :)
What a good girl that she goes back home on her own! I always have to chase mine for half an hour to get them in:)
Do you ever just leave her out, since she's so trustworthy?
We should all be more like Princess.
When its time for Hef to head back to the Bunny Lounge I let him hop up the stairs and he turns right and into his cage. All I have to do is shut the door behind him. Hef's Dad did this the other day but hadn't left the cage door open and Hef kept hopping around the whole cage looking for the door!
It must feel secure knowing your house patrolled by a rabbit.
Look folks .. she's a rabbit. NO we am not leaving her out unattended ... I have a fear of what "house patrolled by Rabit means"! We have a couple of friends with that service .. they have plywood floors and old ratty throws on all the furniture ... the drywall is gone to four feet up. They are nice people.
And yes Ilex ... if everyone was like The Princess I would be quite happy ... except for the part where she gives me that "Look".
My buns love their oats too! I have 3 free roam bedroom buns. They have various handicaps so they arent destructive at all. My other trio live in a huge house. There is room for people to get in with them.They are allowed out for 5 or 6 hours a day and all go back in their house for supper. Your bunnies get out for exercise, that is the important thing. They are obviously loved and well taken care of.


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I need to set up a couple of ssh-tunnels from a shell script. I've tried running them as bg tasks using:
ssh -L 3000:server1:5029 me@server2 &
ssh -L 3001:server3:3306 me@server2 &
but the tunnels don't seem to work correctly when I launch them that way.
They work fine when I manually set them up in their own tabs, so my next idea is to have the script open new tabs in Terminal and run the commands in there as foreground processes.
Note: this question was originally "How do I launch a new terminal tab from the shell and then run a command in it?", but I got two answers about dealing with the tunnels. For the "opening a shell" question, I found this on SuperUser, which will work , though new tabs in the background would be preferable to the foreground windows that it opens.


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The Greenwich Meridian separates east from west in the same way that the Equator separates north from south. Inextricably linked with Greenwich Mean Time, it also sits at the centre of our system of time zones. Its path is determined by the location of an historic telescope, the Airy Transit Circle, which is housed at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Such is the Meridian's fame that each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from all around the world make their way to the Observatory to stand astride the Line.
But its position is marked in hundreds of other places too. On its path from pole to pole, the Meridian passes through England, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Antarctica.
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'Sliding Billy' Hamilton a pioneer of basestealing
The 5-foot-6, left-handed-hitting Hamilton played for three different teams in his 14-year-career. First was the Kansas City Cowboys (1888-89) of the American Association, and then two National League clubs, the Phillies (1890-95) and Boston Beaneaters (1896-1901), who were later called the Braves. The Phillies purchased Hamilton from Kansas City on Jan. 7, 1890, for $5,000-$6,000, according to online sources.
Regarded as one of the fastest runners, Hamilton trails only Rickey Henderson (1,406) and Lou Brock (938) in stolen bases.
Hamilton's final total? That's where it gets complicated, depending upon the source. His Baseball Hall of Fame plaque in Cooperstown lists 937. Baseball-Reference.com says he has 914, while MLB.com reports 912.
Hamilton is also the Phillies' all-time leader with 508 or 510. The first figure has been in the team's media guide for ages, and the second is from Baseball-Reference.com.
Why the different totals?
One, verifying stats from that era is difficult since play-by-play of those games rarely exists.
Second, stolen-base rules were different at one time. Starting in 1886, official scorers credited runners with a stolen base for every extra base he advanced on his own; for example, a runner going first to third on a single was credited with one stolen base. In 1892, a provision was added that stated a runner would only be credited with a steal if there was an attempt to put him out. In 1898, the modern stolen-base rule was implemented. This piece of history was supplied by Freddy Berowski, reference librarian of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Basically, Hamilton was playing under the rules of his time. Regardless, he stole a lot of bases, topping 100 or more in four different seasons.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau Book of Baseball Records, Hamilton stole seven bases in one game on Aug. 31, 1894.
Hamilton was more than just a basestealer. He won two batting titles (.340 in 1891 and .380 in '93); he led the league in runs scored three times, hits once, walks five times and on-base percentage five times. His career-high average came in 1894, when he batted .404.
He hit .300 or better 12 times and finished with a career average of .349. He's one of the few players to finish with more runs scored than games played (1,697 runs in 1,594 games). With the Phillies, he batted .360 with 880 runs in 732 games.
Hamilton also set a Major League record that still stands for runs scored in a season, 196, for the 1894 Phillies. Since 1900, Babe Ruth has the most with 177 runs in 1921.
Hamilton is also one of the few players to have hit a leadoff and walk-off home run in the same game, having done that in 1892. He hit 38 other career home runs.
Born on Feb, 16, 1866, in Newark, N.J., Hamilton died in 1940 (age 74) in Worcester, Mass.
He was inducted posthumously into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1961 by the Veterans Committee. Hamilton was added to the Phillies Wall of Fame in 2004.


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On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Biden administration would diplomatically boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights.
"Given the People's Republic of China's ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses, the Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games," Psaki told reporters.
Psaki added that Team USA athletes will "have our full support" as they cheer them on from home.
The news of the diplomatic boycott comes after lawmakers pressured the Biden administration to take a stand against China's human rights abuses, NBC News reported.
China responded to the news by saying that it would take "resolute countermeasures" if the diplomatic boycott took place, CNN reported.
According to the media outlet, pressure mounted of a diplomatic boycott after Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared from public view for three weeks after accusing a senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party of sexual assault.
Beijing is set to begin hosting the Winter Olympics on Feb. 4.


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I made this jam over the weekend with local peaches and anise hyssop from my herb garden. I loved it for brunch yesterday with homemade popovers.
I am having a hard time chatting about jam right now, though.
Last night I learned that my friend Jennifer Perillo's husband had passed away suddenly. My heart is so heavy today.
It was obvious to all who are friends and fans of Jennie that she loved her husband very much- I know I am not the only one who smiled when she'd talk giddily about their date nights on facebook, or tweeted about how excited she was about their upcoming vacation. I met Mikey once, too; he was most definitely a great guy.
Jennie is one of the people who inspired me to start making jams because she's written frequently about preserving foods on her blog. She's a passionate advocate for purchasing seasonal produce at Farmer's Markets, and she's always cooking up wonderful creations with her market finds. Her boundless enthusiasm for preserving the seasonal bounty has rubbed off on me big time.
So this jam is for Jennie, and my thoughts and prayers are with her and her two girls, as well.
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Recipe for Peach and Anise Hyssop Jam
- *3 pounds ripe peaches
- *1 cups organic sugar
- *2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- *2 tablespoons fresh anise hyssop flowers
- *2 teaspoons calcium water
- *1.5 teaspoons Pomona Universal Pectin powder
- 1. Cut a small, shallow "x" in the bottom of each peach.
- 2. Blanch peaches in a large pot of boiling water until skin loosens, 1-2 minutes. Place peaches in a colander and run cold water over them.
- 3. Peel the peaches and cut the flesh away from the pits. Combine with sugar, lemon juice, and anise hyssop flowers in a large bowl and allow to stand for 30 minutes. Add the calcium water and the pectin.
- 4. Transfer fruit mixture to a large heavy pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low-medium, and cook for about 20 minutes. Stir briskly to dissolve the pectin at first, then stir every now and then until the jam reduces and thickens.
- 5. Skim any foam from the surface of jam, then ladle into sterile 1/2 pint jars. Wipe rims, seal, and process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.


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Possible Duplicate:
Why do some people answer in comments?
(Despite the similar title, I don't think this is a duplicate of this question.)
I often encounter the following situation: high-rep user A
comments on B
's question with something which is actually an answer. It is not uncommon then for B
or other users to ask A
to re-post their comment as an answer, and A
usually accepts.
However, I think A
's behavior should be avoided from the beginning. While I appreciate the noble gesture of not asking for a rep increase (?), such a habit often results, for instance, in cluttering the Unanswered tab with actually answered questions. You may argue this is not as important as the converse (answers should really answer questions), but still…
Question: Should this behavior be discouraged more seriously in official policies/FAQs?
One could recommend a community wiki answer instead of a comment, in all those situations where you have an answer for which you don't want to take credit, for whatever reason.


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You strive to maintain harmony in relationships, and usually succeed. Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections. Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down. You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine. In love, you are very protective and supporting. However, you do need to "feel special" - and it's quite easy for you to get jealous. At work, you are a natural leader. You can help people discover their greatest potential. You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist. How you see yourself: Trusting, idealistic, and expressive When other people don't get you, they see you as: Bossy, inappropriate, and loud |
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Otomycin HPN Otic Alcohol interaction, generic name Hydrocortisone, Neomycin Sulfate, Polymyyxin B Sulfate, is also sold under many the brand names. These drugs belong to the family of drugs known as Antibiotic Corticosteroid Combination.
This drug is prescribed for superficial ear infection, ear inflammation or itching and other problems of the outer ear.
Moderate alcohol consumption is advised while taking this drug.
At this time the medical community defines moderate consumption of alcohol as no more than two drinks per day and no more than 14 drinks per week. Anything more than that, is considered an unhealthy dependency on alcohol that may have adverse social, family and health consequences.
If a person drinks only once or twice a week but drinks on the same days each week and more than two drinks this is considered as an alcohol dependency.
If a person binge drinks at any time during the week this is also considered as alcoholism.
Some consider alcoholism as a disease while others consider it an addiction which is the result of personal choice and character fault. This school of thought blames the alcoholism on life style choices.
Personally I consider alcoholism a genetic tendency as I have seen families of alcoholics even when they live far apart. These unfortunate people are probably dependent on alcohol from the first drink.
When alcohol interacts with prescription over the counter drugs it usually results in negative health effects most especially liver damage as the main organ affected.
Before starting advise your physician of any allergies, if you have untreated or uncontrolled epilepsy, a bone marrow disorder, paralytic ileus, intestinal blockage, clozapine infection or immune suppression medication, heart disease, heart rhythm disorder, high blood pressure, history of heart attack or stroke, epilepsy, seizure, lung disease, liver disease, kidney disease, diabetes, bone marrow disorder, blood cell disorder, enlarged prostate, urinary problems, glaucoma or a history of smoking.
Do not use if allergic to this drug.
Common Side Effects
Local irritation, such as itching or burning, may occur if you are sensitive or allergic to one of the ingredients in this medication.
This site serves as an information source only and does not dispense medical advice or any other kind of advice. If you are seeking medical advice you are advised to consult your own physician.
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This morning I've been as responsible as I could be, revising 5 pages before breakfast. However, it's all Harry-chauffeuring today, to the orthodontist this morning and then to get a referral and a wrist X-ray this afternoon. What is it with my sons and their wrists?
Anyway, I will take a tender morsel or two around with me in case I get any time in the waiting rooms.