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a. General Background
The traditional Polish Anti-Semitism that ran in the blood of the Polish leaders between the two world-wars (1919-1939) inflamed the darkest urges of the Polish people, who lost all humane and moral restraints in their relationships with the neighboring Jews, who had played an important part in the development of their land. The evil Polish behavior at this time of dire straits not only allowed the Nazis to perform their satanic scheme, but also assisted the criminals who willingly participated in the mass destructions of Jews on their land.
In spite of that, the short period between the two world wars was lively and encouraging for the Jews of Poland and Maytchet, for three reasons:
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Indeed, in spite of the difficult financial straits and the heavy taxation, which were not bereft of Anti-Semitism and discrimination, they endured this time with happiness in view of the possibility that they would live and strive for better days. The gloomy days of the Polish minister Graevsky expressed the situation in a nutshell. Responding to the radical Anti-Semites he said: thrashing the Jews with the financial whip and squeezing taxes out of this till they go bankrupt, Why not, that is a good idea! But physically hurting them? No!
This was the atmosphere in which Jewish life was led, and although the conditions were difficult and fluctuating, and perhaps for that reason, a wide network of public and national-Zionist activity had developed in order to fill the gap by adding toil and energy. The short sighted Jews accepted their decree, and their life force dictated their actions: do everything and live. Jews who were more far-sighted realized there was not room to live wholesome Jewish lives in any place but the Land of Israel, and gave all their lives and energy to work towards the ideal of a Jewish state. But neither realized that they were living on the tip of a smoking volcano, and whoever did not escape was doomed.
And still these years will remain engraved in our memories more than any other era. Specifically because it was close to us and in honor of our dear ones who lived during those years fighting for our existence and were killed for the sake of G-d and the People of Israel.
b. In Retrospect
After the many changes that took place on account of the shift in borders and the changes in government and regiment, one thing at least, which is the natural condition of the place, which no one had any control over, stayed unchanged, as engraved in our memories.
Near the confluence of the Svorta into the Molchadka river is this small place named Molchadz, or Maytchet by the Jews. Anyone who nears the place on the way from the village Mitskevitz, the train station of Maytchet and the train line of Vilna-Rovno, will see from a distance the Polish Catholic church buildings and the Belarusian Eastern-Orthodox church, and upon reaching the town, the Shul-Hof (street of the synagogues) with the big synagogue belonging to the Jewish community. The three holy places will attest to the fact that from the beginning of times, this place was intended for the three religions, but the Catholics and the Eastern-Orthodox, the eternal arch rivals, cooperated as did Midyan and Moab, assisting in the destruction of the Maytchet Jews.
For more than 400 years, over 400 Jewish families lived and worked in Maytchet and in adjacent villages. In the vast sea of hostile population they knew high and low tides of persecution and peace, of building and destruction. But with all the conditions and circumstances, they continued to share the burden
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of the difficult Jewish life, fulfilling the commandments, studying the Torah, placing efforts on education, culture, charity and benevolence, public and national activities, days of happiness and sorrow.
The only thing the Jews of Maytchet lacked in this fateful time was a prolonged peaceful period, in order to prepare themselves for what was yet to come. The Jewish youth especially regarded it as a desperate need to prepare cadres of pioneers and send them to Israel to build their new homeland. Also to raise consciousness with members of the Jewish nation who did not yet realize the danger they were in. But the peaceful times were not long; there was too much work and their life work was stopped in its prime.
c. Town Panorama
Physically, the town did not undergo many changes in the years before the Second World War. Its old streets remained unpaved and unlit just as they had always been, and the mud and puddles on rainy days were a common sight. Aside from the paved main road which led to the train station, all other paths leading to district towns were dirt roads in which transportation was mainly conducted by horses and carriages, except for one car, which was the only modern innovation of the time.
A few new public buildings like the slaughterhouse and the bath-house were built during this time at the demand of the authorities. Only few small stone houses and two story houses were built. The old wood houses stood erect, covered with wooden shingles, and some of straw. Only the stores were covered with tin roofs and clay shingles. Water supply to the houses was provided by water drawers (which was a device with two rectangular containers and a pole that was placed across the shoulders to carry water to the houses). The Jews of Maytchet remember Shalom the Water Carrier, who would charge less money when required to carry water to a more distant location, explaining that he got a chance to rest on the way. There were also some self-service wells and springs with fresh water from which to drink.
All these imparted Maytchet with a unique identity of a typical Jewish village, where the wealthy were scant, and the poor supported themselves off each other sparingly but with love and justice. It was distant from the din of civilization and all that goes with it, but its poverty was becoming to the Jews. There was so much Jewish grace to every small and poor home, especially on the Sabbath and on holidays, when the presence of peace and love prevailed over them. At these divine moments, every heart was filled with happiness, and every mouth cried in admiration How goodly are your tents, Yaakov, your dwelling places, Israel
d. Government and Administration
As Maytchet was a small town, there were only minor changes in its administration. The Polish government gave it the status of Gemina (local council). The head of the Gemina was a Russian Voyat (head of council), who was
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usually easy on the Jews and fulfilled his obligations towards the residents without discrimination. Among the members of council were always 2-3 Jews who were in charge of protecting Jewish interests. The Gemina controlled the jail house, the police house, the post office and the magistrates' court.
According to the civil administration rule which was set by Polish authority, the city of Baranovichi was stated as the county town and Maytchet was subordinate to it in all issues pertaining to the duties and rights of the citizens as well as the communal issues within the Jewish community. The city of Novogrudok served as the District town,
The Jews of Maytchet were famous for their affinity to centers of Torah and merchandise in the area, but because of government rules in small towns, they were forced to wander to the district and regional towns in order to take care of their personal day-to-day matters, big and small, from an appeal at the district court to reporting to military service and issuing a birth or death certificate. This phenomenon was part of the Jewish folklore in the villages, that one person belonged to several places, to the point that he could not give one answer to the question Where are you from, brother Jew? A Jew was born in Maytchet, registered in Baranovichi, reported at Slonim, married in Zhetl and a resident of Dvorets.
After many generations in which Maytchet was subordinate to Slonim and Grodno, the hegemony was passed to Baranovichi as the county town and Novogrudok as district town, and the confusion grew.
e. Public and National Activities
Among the social-cultural values that the Russian government passed on to the area after its long regime was a total lack of public organizations. The Russian government viewed any organization as an underground nightmare aiming to defeat the regime. And since the Jews of the area had not experienced any organizations over the generations, they did not realize they were lacking and stuck to the conventional miserable community institutions of the time: Chevra Kadisha, visiting the sickly, night's lodging, management of synagogue affairs, charity etc. The Zionist movement did not fare better at the time since the Russian officials did not differentiate between a socialist and a Zionist (purposely or inadvertently) and they were all liable for severe penalty.
A new leaf was turned in the social and culture life of the Maytchet Jews when the Polish regime took over and more freedom of action was granted. It influenced specifically the younger members, a fertile ground for every blessed seed that blew in with the new spiritual winds which appeared in the free Jewish world. Local public institutions changed only a little. The Jews of Maytchet fulfilled the renowned rule: hold on to this, but do not relieve your grip on that, and did not neglect the old institutions in light of the new ones.
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The Fire Brigade During this time a fire brigade and orchestra was established, constituted of volunteers. This was the only orchestra in town, and all members of it were Jews. Profits were used to maintain the brigade and renew its equipment as well as for support and help of its needy members. The orchestra played polkas and krakoviaks to the usadinks (Polish settlers) at New Years parties, etc. For weddings they would bring in special klezmer from Baranovichi. The head of the fire dept. was Yosel Schmulewicz who also played the clarinet in the band.
The Public Library A public library was established, which held many books in Yiddish, Hebrew, and the native tongues. David Volinski was the librarian, and the library was at his home. This library did not have a name or affiliation, and it only had one aim to provide spiritual food for the seekers of knowledge in the town, from all classes and schools. At some point, the library moved to reside in the Tarbut school, and the new librarian was Noach Kosterovitzki.
Tending To The Sick at the initiation of Zelig Volinski, brother to Shifra and Miriam and with the participation of Yosef Skidelekovitz, Katriel Lichter and others, an Ezrat Cholim (tending to the sickly) organization was established to provide assistance with medicine and tools for the sickly and needy, as well as couples who made rounds sleeping besides the sickly.
A Charity Fund In accordance with Jewish tradition in every town and village, Maytchet too established a charity fund headed by Katriel Lichter. This fund was used as support to needy families, offering short term loans without interest to petty merchants and craftsmen to buy merchandise they needed for their business, or just to Jews in distress.
In the national arena there were Zionist institutions and organizations divided by parties and schools: The Shomer Hatzair movement, Ha-Halutz, the general Zionists, The Mizrachi, the National Fund (Keren Kayemet), the Keren Halysod Foundation Fund, the Hachshara Kibbutz etc. The wealthier Jews of Maytchet did not display any opposition or envy, but responded with much affection to all the Zionist movements and contributed generously to every national aim.
Maytchet was not lacking in small organizational cells, Zionists and non-Zionists: Dror, Tiferet Bachurim, Bunds etc.
f. Educational Institutions
As the custom of the Jews was in all villages at the time, the traditional Cheder served for many generations as the utmost source of education for every Jewish child, a workshop where the soul of the nation was created, though lately, in light of the modern educational methods, the Cheder lost some of it glory, but if we discuss unforgettable knowledge acquired in childhood, everyone admits that this can only happen at the Jewish cheder.
Thus, the pain
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and fury at the cruel and harsh hand of the killers who violated this last fort of Judaism and destroyed it along with the innocent children who did not sin, and silenced the voice the voice of Jacob and the hands of Esau.
These were the last cheders in Maytchet: (Cheder is a room or school where Jewish boys started learning Hebrew at the age of three and would study six to ten hours a day six days a week.)
Moshe Der Toiver (Moshe the Deaf One) The cheder of Moshe 'Der Toiver served the children who needed help from the big synagogue in the Shul-Hof (street of the synagogues Moshe was also the cantor for the morning prayers in the Bet Midrash (House of Study). Students who once studied in that cheder are full of longing for those days, with the good and bad. They relate the story of one winter day when the students of this cheder got together and declared war on students of a different cheder, holding heated battles until a truce was declared and they all went back to study.
Shimon Shak The cheder of Shimon Shak's was known as Der Lechevitsher (From Lechoviche, a shtetl about 30 miles from Maytchet) for advanced students of chumash and so on. This cheder was not located in the Shul-Hof but rather in the center of the village. He also had another innovation; he contacted with the Tarbut school, and his students received lessons in Polish.
Koppel Gorsky The cheder of Koppel Gorsky' was considered an advanced one, for it was aimed for children who studied the chumash. These students viewed themselves as full fledged adults, and they did not deem the students of the children's cheder worth playing with.
Talmud Torah In actuality, there was not such an institution in Maytchet, as in other villages and towns. Really, this was just a cheder, but the teacher who ran his cheder in the synagogue gave it the name Talmud Torah in order to make it seem more important.
The Polish School Povshachna This was an elementary Polish school that provided free education to all nationalities in accordance with the compulsory education law. Only a few Jewish students attended, as most of the Jewish parents willingly waived free education and sent their children to a private and expensive Hebrew school. Rabbi Belski's son-in-law, Rabbi Elchanon Goldstein, taught religion to the Jewish students in that school.
At the time the Russian ruled, till 1914, there was a Russian high school in the place.
Hebrew Kindergarten As part of the Hebrew educational system that included most of the Jewish students in Jewish and Zionistic Maytchet, kindergarten teacher Gonik ran a Hebrew kindergarten which also served as intermediate classroom and a gateway to the Tarbut elementary school.
Tarbut Hebrew School This was the main school in Maytchet and greatly appreciated by the Jews; so much so that it replaced the traditional cheder. This school was established approximately in 1925, when the Hebrew educational chain Tarbut was only beginning to grow. The Zionistic activists in the area put much effort, affection and devotion into this place, till it grew and flourished in its efficient organization and comprehensive curriculum,
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|Tarbut School building on Yorzika Street
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and with a talented cadre of teachers, the school won recognition of the government. Indeed, it was a lighthouse for the children of Israel in the darkness of exile, growing and being educated in the light of Torah and its values, to the love of Israel and the recovery of the nation of Israel to ritual Jewish law and action. The school went through various stages in development until it stabilized and ensured its honorable and glorious existence. To our terrible agony and sorrow, the enemy got to it and its fame was extinguished. The school was destroyed with its students, parents, teachers and activists in the catastrophe of the big Holocaust.
The school began under the directorship of Abraham David Zukovitski, who married into Maytchet and organized the school on Yorzika Street. Very soon it had seven full classes with 200 students, both male and female. With time, it moved to Beit Olam (Jewish Cemetery) Street in a building with a big yard and all the necessities required was rented from a Gentile (whose last name was Moshey). The great Chanuka and Purim bazaars were held there, as well as plays put on by the children and theatre clubs; theatrical productions which left an educational impression on the students and spectators. All revenues were directed, of course, towards the school maintenance.
In the drama club of the Tarbut School the actors and organizers were: Chezkel Rabets Yankel Gilerovitz, Leibel Gilerovitz, Gela Skolnikovitz or Skidelekovitz, Alta Boretcky, Feigle Boretcky, Esther Shmulewicz and others.
When the school expanded it moved to a third location in suburbian Pedlejan, in the house of Michael Shmulewicz. Among the teachers were: the principles' wife Malka Zukovitzki, Channa Boyarsky, Katz, Bossie Shepsenholtz, Keizer, Mrs. Bloch and others.
Religious School Chorev A religious school was established at the initiative of the orthodox parent committee, local teachers and several external teachers. The school principle was Mr. Teller. In the beginning, the school had four classrooms, but over time it grew and expanded and reached 120 students. In fact, this was a natural process of moving from the cheder method to that of the school and modern education in general.
The staff included: Reb Meir Teller, Reb Yossef-Shimon Gershovitz, Reb Shimon Harbrovitski, Reb Yakov Ginsburg, Reb Reuben Lamshevsky, the daughter of Yitzchak-Herschel Kaplan, Mr. Rabinovitz (from another place), a teacher of the Torah portion of the week on Friday night whose beautiful interpretations drew a large audience, Teacher Shimonovitz (from another place) for math and one student teaching the Polish language. In its last years, Chorev hosted six classes. chain Tarbut was only beginning to grow. The Zionistic activists in the area put much effort, affection and devotion into this place, till it grew and flourished in its efficient organization and comprehensive curriculum,
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To create income, the Parents Committee would initiate a play: The Selling of Joseph. The following participated in the play: Yechiel-Leib Rozansky, the synagogues' caretaker, Yehuda Leib Lamshevsky and Moshe Shmulewicz. The productions were held at the beit midrash in the beginning, and later, in the school's kindergarten.
|Laying a corner stone for the Chorev School
In 1933, the Chorev youth established a drama club, members of which were: Shmuel Noah Belsky (chairman), Meir Lazovsky, Yossef, son of Rabbi Velvel and the female teachers.
There was a small yeshiva for graduates of the Chorev in the Shul-Hof held in the Bet Midrash.
Advanced Studies Upon termination of elementary school, many of the Maytchet children went to work. Those who had capability and initiative went to high schools in Vilna, Bialystok, Brisk, etc. The ultra-orthodox continued at yeshivas in Kletzk, Baranovichi, Slonim, Lyakhavichi, and Mir. A few of the Maytchet youth went to colleges in other countries and overseas. A list of the students can be found in a separate chapter of this book.
An important note in conclusion: there were no Yiddish educational institutions in Maytchet.
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g. Commerce and Business
The fact that commerce and business were always in the hands of Jews, wherever they resided, is an undisputed reality. The reason for this was the unique social conditions the Jews had in the Diaspora. The question is only the extent of commerce and the types of business which were suitable for the needs of the Jewish community in Maytchet, and who took part in what business. Despite a small number of wholesale traders, most of the Jews in the town took part in petty commerce and craft. Aside from the daily proceeds, their trade depended on sales on market days and fairs. Also, there were a large number of straggler peddlers who went around the local villages offering haberdashery of sorts to the wives of the farmers in return for cash or agriculture. In Maytchet itself there was a market every Wednesday, and the tradesmen would wander to the various markets in the area and outskirts.
Besides trading in textile, leather, food necessities etc., for the daily consumption of the residents, the wholesalers of Maytchet traded in rags and linen which were exported overseas, while the retailers resided in Red Kremen (Shop Street), where there were a variety of shops that sold confectionaries, leather, grains, many food stores, clothing, butchers and others. The small shopkeepers bought their merchandise from local wholesalers, while the prominent merchants traveled to other towns; specifically Baranovichi but also to Slonim, Vilna, Warsaw, and others.
Construction There was little building done in the town itself. Most of the structures were wooden homes with wooden or straw shingles, built by simple craftsmen or farmers. Fires in town were common, and from time to time the wooden houses would burn down. Naturally the citizens of Maytchet, as in other Jewish towns, would count their dates in relation to the big fire, until a bigger fire would come along and cause the previous to be forgotten. In 1924 a whole street caught on fire on a market day when most of the residents of the village were out of their homes. When the local fire brigade ran to get horses that would carry water to put out the fire, the farmers ran away from the market with their merchandise.
Only a few houses were made of stone, and even fewer were two-stories high. Construction was mostly done by Joshua Aharon Lozovsky and his sons. They built many public structures, i.e., the slaughterhouse, the fire brigade house etc, but mostly they built out of town in estates, etc. Another construction worker Mikal Shmulewicz, and among the wood merchants Moshe Shmulewicz was popular.
Other Professions Tar factories, a profession relative to the wood trade, also belonged to the Lazovsky family in Maytchet and just outside the shtetl to Mikal and Zimel Shmulewicz. They built with their wood
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in the summer and burned tar in the winter. Tar and tar products like turpentine and such were exported to Slonim and then overseas, coal to factories, etc. There were two windmills in the village, powered by the local river water. The big one belonged to the Boretcky family while the small one belonged to David Belsky. There was also a grits mill and a straw chopper, both of which served local residents and the farmers in the vicinity. Boarding houses were among the occupations of the Jews of Maytchet. There was an inn which served as a boarding house to the agents and merchants from out of town, as well as some food houses. A list of all the commerce and business can be found henceforth.
h. Agriculture
This uncommon occupation should be mentioned as well. It was scarce among the Diaspora Jews, but naturally in this area there were a recognizable number of Jews in Maytchet who dealt in agriculture and other jobs in farming and gardening. Some of them lived in the many villages adjacent to Maytchet and cultivated farms and raised produce. Some of them worked in estates as lessees or hired workers. Within the town itself almost all of the Jewish residents had pieces of land flanking their homes where they grew vegetables and fruits for their personal consumption and sale.
In 1919, as part of the efforts of the Jewish help organization HIAS to help rehabilitate the Jews who became impoverished after W.W. I, loans were given to the Jewish residents in Maytchet to cultivate their farms, gardens, housekeeping, etc.
i. Transportation
Complex transportation routes and elaborate roads are one of the hallmarks of states which have an advanced western-European culture. Czarist Russia was way behind in this area. The legacy of the Russian government for over 120 years was a total lack of paths and roads, and therefore there were not as many motorized vehicles. The streets of the town itself were only partly paved with coarse and sharp rocks, except for the train station, to which a paved road led. During the German occupation in WWI roads were paved out of wooden logs.
The main form of transportation between the villages was horse and carriage. The Jewish carters were therefore a prominent professional cadre. They drove the merchants to nearby towns and local passengers to Slonim, Baranovichi, the train station, etc. for their personal arrangements. Until 1930 the only stop the train made was in the village of Mitskiewicze, four km. from Maytchet on the Vilna to Rovno train line. From that point on, the station for boarding and getting off for travelers (Palstanak) was next to the town.
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After the previous generation of carters rode horses, one of their sons breached the gate and brought in the first Maytchet bus. The craters still used the dirt path to Slonim, but took the train or bus to Baranovichi.
j. Jews Of Maytchet
So thus the dear Molchad Jews pass before our eyes, their families and peers, their business and Jewish lifestyle, weaved in golden thread for centuries. Some of them were people of Torah and good deeds, public activists and loyal Zionists, people of trade and industry who negotiated in faith, righteous craftsmen who enjoyed the fruits of their labor - a whole community of men and women, old people and youth, whose homes turned into graves on account of the sins of their generation. And when we long for them, we leaf through the memorial volume of the Maytchet book, saturated in the blood of our hearts, and the dear community arises from the dead. Our thoughts rush through the pages which are read of their own accord, years and eras fly by like a dream. The lively folklore of the town passes before our eyes like a play, happiness and agony, spectacular visions and horrifying ones chase each other, till we can hardly keep up with them and absorb their content.
Here is a beautiful picture of Friday nights, flooded with light and happiness, Sabbath tables full of holiness and soulfulness; of Passover Seders and holiday meals, filled with a yearning of the soul and endless longing. In every house in Maytchet a Jewish family sits around a glorious laid table. The father sits majestically at the head of the table, next to his wife, the mother, dressed up for the Sabbath and holiday and like olive trees around the table, are the happy and glowing children and grandchildren who receive with happiness and good manners the abundance of love pouring out of the hearts of their joyful parents. And those late afternoons on the Sabbath and holidays, who will ever comprehend them? When satisfaction and the blessings of God wear them out, and they fulfill the tradition of sleeping on the Sabbath is pure pleasure, while the youth fill the town's streets with youthful din and the gaiety of life. Some of them are out taking walks, others visiting, some go to their organizations or clubs or to social-cultural meetings. They fill the town with fresh and bubbly life like a mighty stream of water which flows way beyond its borders, in the gardens and bushes, in the fields, in the mountains and valleys.
The pages are turning fast and the visions appear and vanish alternately. Here they are, the tormented righteous people of Maytchet, grim death on their pale faces ... trees are bending in terror and fear, bowing with deep sighs to mother earth, their howl escorting a whole congregation of Jews, big and small, on their last path of torment and death. The souls of their forefathers descend to earth, floating above the heads of those condemned to death, lamenting in a silent unearthly cry the untimely end to the lives of their sons.
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Breathless from evil and agony, we stand before the great common grave on blood hill, Chwoinik, where fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters and young children who haven't yet lived or sinned are buried. How terrible it is to meet the deathly terrorized gaze of babies who are being held to the cold bosom of their dead mothers. The pure eyes of Moshe'lech and Shiomo'lech, Chaya'iech, and Sara'iech are penetrating us with question, fear, and supplication!
The memorial volume for the righteous people of Maytchet, who have blood, fire and pillars of smoke inscribed on their bodies and souls, is not a conventional book but an alter on which we will sacrifice our afflicted hearts in memory of the righteous people of Maytchet. It is not a book but a memorial tombstone, in which we will lay to rest our holy community, and where we will come, and our children and grandchildren after us, to be alone with their holy memory, and our cry of despair will merge with the sound of our brothers' blood as it cries to us from the earth!
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Hello there! First of all, my dear friend Chris over at Just a Girl is hosting a bunch of bloggers to share their "must" lists – and mine was power tools (surprised??).
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Tonight I'm talking about our home…your homes. How long do you plan on staying in yours? Are you in your forever home? Did you plan on it being your the one you would stay in?
When we decided to build years ago, we made decisions thinking we would be here for a long time…we didn't know how long, but we knew for sure it wasn't going to be five years or less.
We were one of the first in our neighborhood and hand picked our lot because of these:
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From our understanding, there used to be a horse farm back there (the fence is still up). Now it's overgrown and there are hundreds of trees sprouting up. It's lovely and green and full of life.
There's a bit of wooded area back there, and in the fall especially, I sit at a window upstairs, look out and get lost in it.
Because it's an odd bit of land – it's a flood plain and not very large – we were told when we built that custom homes would go in back there, if anything. We were fine with that. We didn't have much of a choice. ;)
(We're ready for the hummingbirds. Are they even out yet?)
But over the years, nothing has gone in. And over the years, we've fallen more and more in love with that land. We listen to the coyotes howling and playing at night (it's freaky). Kids ride their four wheelers back there and the noise is awful but I've grown to love it. We've had deer in our backyard and my squeals of joy send them running. :) The bunnies are a daily event.
We love it. It's our little dose of nature in the middle of suburbia.
But since last year we've been preparing to lose this view, and a whole lot more. It's a long, boring story, but a developer wanted to come in and build luxury apartments on the land.
The problem was, they were three story apartments, lots of them (more than allowed), lining the edge of the lots, with balconies overlooking our houses and backyards.
Now. I've lived in apartments more years then I've lived in houses in my adult life. I have nothing against apartments or those that live in them. It's just the looming quality and the closeness that we were concerned about. Not to mention the tanking of the house values. (They already suck. I mean, really.)
I'm all for development, when it's done right. (This land isn't zoned for apartments, only single family houses.) And not a few yards from my back door.
As a neighborhood we met with the developer and with each meeting I wanted to cry a little more. The details just made it worse.
(Anyone know what this plant is? They grow like mad back there.
Watch it be poison sumac or something.)
So we toyed with what we would do…what if they went through? What would we do? What would you do?
My first thought was to MOVE. Immediately. Put the house on the market and get out of dodge.
But dang. We love our house. I mean, adore it. We don't want more house, we don't want a different house, and we're making this one into exactly what we want. Every year, the more time goes on, the more it becomes our forever home.
We would go back and forth, and usually between meetings or new info, we'd plan to stay. But on the way home from hearing the developer talk about the plans, or when a new email would come with bad news, we would talk about moving.
And that talk made me so, so sad.
Finally…we decided we weren't leaving, no matter what. We'd see what happened and then decide our plan from there. But the plan was staying put, at least for awhile.
We (the people in the neighborhood) worked hard – did tons of research, got petitions signed, 100 of us showed up for the planning meeting and thankfully the planning commission decided the idea of apartments in that spot were just a bad idea. (For a number of reasons.)
The developer completely pulled out last month, and I think that day was one of the happiest of my life. :) I know something will go back there eventually, and I don't expect to have our lovely view forever, but we have it for now. And in the process we fell in love with our house all over again. The thought of leaving was so depressing. It's not perfect, but we are smitten with our house. Our small yard. The bunnies. :)
It's made the past month even more fun – for the past few months we would walk out on our new patio and feel…trepidation? All we could think of was what we would see every time we walked out if we had new neighbors. ;)
Now we are feeling especially blessed every time we go in the backyard. I do not take that line of trees or the land or the deer for granted and I am so grateful for our home. A home we truly love. We are so lucky.
I don't know if it will be our forever home, as in for the rest of our lives. But it will be our home for a very, very long time. I look forward to my son growing up in this house – and what a gift that is. I had been in at least six homes by the time I was ten, and I love that we are grounded. This is the longest I've lived anywhere, by a long shot. I think that's why I'm so content to stay.
So you'll be seeing the same rooms and walls for a long time…I hope that's OK with you, cause it sure is with me. ;)
Are you in your forever home? Do you dream about what yours would look like? Did you grow up in one house or move a lot like me? My husband lived in one house for all but a few years of his childhood. I LOVE that and would be perfectly happy with the same for our kiddo.


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I am a Tribal, Musician, Writer, Artist. I try to walk the path and have studied the tradition of the "Wisdom keepers" like Lame Deer, Fools Crow, Black Elk, and Rolling Thunder from the tribes of this region, and Lao Tzu, Buddha, Bodhidharma, Yeshua, and other enlightened ones from the many various tribes of the earth. I understand the worlds religions and belief systems, and realize the division this can cause by the lack of understanding the "real message" from the Masters. My intention, and life's prayer is to try to live in harmony with Grandmother Earth, Grandfather sky, (Nature) and "the spirit that moves in all things," and help in any way I can to build a bridge between all men and tribes so they can walk their path in a manner that will benefit themselves, the Earth and others. I open up, and ask Great Spirit, The creator, The Tao, The Universe, to work and direct healing and positive energy through me by different means, like the Flute, drums, Words, Prayer, and Touch. I try to be loving and accept others from the heart, and practice forgiveness. I honor all people, the winged one's, and four legged ones considering us all equal, not one being above another. I honor the bountiful Harvest from Mother earth in the form of plant life, water, air and herbs which sustain our oneness with her. I pray all tribes should re-unite as one, so we may protect the planet and live in harmony. Within you, without you.
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VANCOUVER – Dozens of children, mostly aboriginals, formed a suicide pact in a downtown Vancouver community earlier this year that prompted police to step in and have some of them hospitalized for their own safety.
Other children blacked out from heavy drinking and participated in acts of self harm over several months this year, according to a document obtained by The Canadian Press.
While residents and professionals were able to respond to the crises between the spring and autumn, a community group is now calling for a major shift in how services are funded and delivered by the provincial government.
Troubling details of the incidents in the city's Grandview-Woodland area, which is located near the Downtown Eastside, are included in the report written by the Network of Inner City Community Services, a consortium of groups that helps co-ordinate the delivery of services to individuals, children and families.
Kate Hodgson, the group's executive director, did not respond to several requests for comment.
But Sgt. Randy Fincham of the Vancouver police said officers got involved after they were tipped off about youths who were chatting about suicide on social media.
"To my knowledge it wasn't suicide attempts, it was discussions regarding future suicide plans," he said. "So there was no intervention that had gone that far, to my knowledge, where any of these youths had attempted to commit suicide."
Fincham said officers intervened and got the youths the help they needed.
According to the report, the suicide pact included 30 youths, 24 of whom were taken to hospital in late September as part of a "preventative crisis response."
The report says the children were between the ages of 12 and 15, were mostly aboriginal and lived in the Grandview-Woodland community.
During the summer, parents and outreach workers learned about "increasing incidents of self-harm in group context by inner city children and youth" the report adds.
Between the spring and summer, large groups of children, mostly 12- and 13-year-olds from the same community, drank until they blacked out and had to be treated in BC Children's Hospital, the report says.
While the crises drew a response from youth and social workers, police and medical officials, the report says gaps in the system became apparent.
"(The system) has not provided an adequate, preventative, long-term response to children and families living in the community and their day-to-day realities," says the report.
"These children and youth need positive relationship-based connections to family, peers and workers to help them both navigate these systems and have positive, healthy outcomes."
The report recommends the adoption of a so-called "place-based strategy" to help deal with a high number of children with special needs, and a "culture of violence and failure in the inner city."
Other issues include parents struggling with addiction, family violence and abuse, and limited public resources.
The strategy would use schools, community centres and other public assets to provide ongoing mental-health and family support services, and also keep children not in school still connected to schools.
"This would require a major shift in the current funding and program delivery model by the province, including (Ministry of Children and Family Development) and their contracted services," says the report.
Stephanie Cadieux, minister of children and family development, was unavailable for comment, but her ministry provided a written statement on the incidents.
"As a government, we are continually striving to improve the way we work, across government and within communities, to prevent youth suicide," the ministry said in an email.
The ministry said government is extremely concerned any time youths face a potential of harm so officials acted quickly, contacting parents and working with partner agencies like the health authority and school districts to make sure services were available.
The ministry said a community-intervention session was held to educate parents about self harm, suicidal thoughts and pacts.
"Young people and their families need to know that if they are feeling alone, sad, or suicidal, help is available and they can speak to their family physicians, teachers or school guidance councillors," noted the ministry.


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Do sports video games deserve a spoiler alert? If I don't put one here, I'm sure someone will complain about it. Over the weekend I heard various reports of MLB 13 The Show being sold before it's supposed to hit shelves next week. Someone got their hands on a copy and have been feeding Operation Sports all kinds of good stuff from within the game, including that nice opening cinematic (above), which you'll probably watch once and then button through after getting the game. Still, I like the effects with Bryce Harper's eyeblack and cover star Andrew McCutcheon sliding into the scorebook.
Other tidbits: Ten classic stadiums are offered free on the disc (nine if you don't consider Sun Life Stadium to be a classic. It's a dump.) They used to be a premium add-on. Everyone's new batting practice cap appear to be among the uniform options. And there are the remainder of the seven new minor league ballparks the game gets this year. In addition to the previously announced Crystal Falls Stadium, Bayfront Park and Statesman Park, you get Water Ridge Field, Ironhorse Stadium, Industry Center Stadium, and Capitol Field (with a sweet statehouse dome in the distance).
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Chen Guangcheng in New York: An Interview
Following are excerpts from a recent conversation among Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist who was recently permitted to leave China and is currently a distinguished visitor at New York University School of Law; Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the US-Asia Law Institute at the NYU School of Law, who was active in securing Chen Guangcheng's release; and Ira Belkin, Executive Director of the US-Asia Law Institute. For this exchange, Professor Cohen would put a question to Mr. Chen in Chinese and then summarize it to the audience at the New School in New York City. Ira Belkin then translated Mr. Chen's replies into English.
Jerome Cohen: I wanted to ask Chen Guangcheng if tomorrow he had a chance to meet with the new leader of China, Xi Jinping, what would he ask him about with respect to law, human rights, the rule of law? What suggestions would he make about this?
Chen Guangcheng: First I just want to make sure, will Xi Jinping come to see me tomorrow? I just want to say that Xi Jinping probably understands the situation in China very clearly. I guess I would say to him that to have a truly stable and safe society you need a society that has fairness and social justice, and to have that kind of society you need to have a constitutional government, fairness, and free speech.
I want to use an old Chinese saying, the meaning of which is that a society has to allow the good in people to come out in order for that society to be stable. So in Chinese culture from a very long time ago there was a saying that if something is good, even if it is a very trivial matter, don't refrain from doing it, even if it's a small matter, and if something is evil or bad, don't do it just because it is a small evil. And this is part of ancient Chinese culture.
Today a lot of people are imprisoned just because they spoke the truth. This is not a good way. This is not a way to bring out the good in people.
JC: I'm saying so far Chen Guangcheng has given us a rather abstract simplified version of things. He can give us of course many more specifics and I asked him, for example, does he want to discuss the case of his nephew who was recently imprisoned for three years and three months, in what many people interpret as an act of revenge by the local authorities because of the embarrassment he caused them by escaping at the end of April 2012?
CG: I would say that in China right now there are many good laws that are consistent with justice and there are…
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Art in face: Are they artsy or just plain fartsy?
Published December 11, 2003 in issue #0249 of The Hook
Surely you have a favorite: Maybe it was the fighting lions who menaced the median of the 250 bypass last year. Or perhaps it's the bicyclist, forever careering down the hill toward McIntire Road. Or were you disgusted by the inside-out fish at the Locust exit of the 250 bypass?
Whether you love or hate the sculptures installed each year by the nonprofit group ArtInPlace, one thing's certain: They've stirred up strong feelings. And while that's just what the three-year-old project's founder, Elizabeth Breeden, hopes for, she's concerned that the criticism seems to have faded this year.
While she credits the "improved quality" of the pieces for their apparently more placid reception, she wants a little more griping.
"You worry that people just aren't noticing them," Breeden says.
Perhaps she needn't worry.
On the message board at artinplace.org, a slew of locals have weighed in on the new pieces, and more than a few aren't any happier with this year's batch of sculptures than the past years'.
"ArtInPlace is a wonderful idea, but the reality is not wonderful," writes poster John. "How would you like to be in a hospital for a necessary surgery only to discover that your surgeon was simply a self-proclaimed physician? Believe it or not, there exist criteria for the creation of transcendental beauty, achieved through discipline and no-nonsense learning about visual vocabulary. No, the things I have seen here are quite simply simple-minded and blind."
Lee Easton, a retired technical sergeant and teacher in the U.S. Air Force, is even harsher in his criticism and isn't a bit shy about going on the record.
"What idiot let the so-called ArtInPlace people put that trash in our city?" Easton rages. "Whoever it was should be made to sit and look at it for a period of time. Then they could put him or her in a rubber room where they wouldn't hurt themselves."
That "idiot" is Satyendra Huja, the city's retired-but-still-working director of strategic planning, who for the past 30 years has been one of Charlottesville's strongest proponents of the arts. In fact, the city's Percent for Art program, in which one percent of any capital improvement project budget is earmarked for public art, was Huja's pet project, and was passed by City Council in 1993. That program pays for the ArtInPlace.
When asked how he'd like to spend an afternoon in a rubber room, Huja laughs.
"I'm glad this man is excited," he replies. And he respects Easton's point of view. "Art does provoke," he says. "If it doesn't provoke, it's not very good art."
Easton disputes Huja's opinion of "good" art. A self-proclaimed art lover, Easton says he's seen masterpieces in the Louvre in Paris, the Rodin museum in London, and the Vatican in Rome.
"That is art!" he exclaims. "Not the things made out of junked car parts that they have placed where people have to see them in this city. The first time I saw those two lions in the median out on the by-pass, I almost wrecked my car."
Huja's response is simple: "People have different tastes," he says.
But for every vocal critic of the ArtInPlace project, there's a fan singing its praises. Consider those fighting felines, titled "Louisa Lions" by self-described folk artist John Anderson.
"Where are the beautiful lions?" asks one poster on the message board. "They were my favorite sculptures! I went to show them to my Mom-in-law, and they were gone! I hope no harm came to them!"
Barbara Chamberlain-Haynes, an art lover who works at the Chamber of Commerce, says she and her husband were also "charmed" by the lion sculptures. "It made the commute worth it," she says.
Even the piece that arguably attracted the most negative public response, "Fish" by Breeden's son, Christian, has its supporters.
Sally Taylor, a nanny, says car trips were made infinitely more exciting for the two-and-a-half-year-old in her care. "He wanted to switch his car seat so he could always see the 'monster fish,'" she laughs. In fact, since the fish was removed, Taylor has taken the child to visit it at Breeden's home, where it now adorns the driveway.
It's this kind of attention from diverse members of the community that make the project "thrilling," says Leah Stoddard, director of Second Street Gallery.
"It makes you kind of snap out of your day-to-day grind and notice something different," Stoddard says. "You're perfectly free to like it or hate it."
Stoddard also thinks the future of ArtInPlace looks bright. "Every year the quality of the work has increased, the interest has increased," she says. "This group currently is very strong."
Breeden says the success of ArtInPlace is unusual in a city the size of Charlottesville. She attributes that to the support from the city, which allows the organization to lease the land on which each piece sits.
"We've gotten calls from cities in the northeast wondering how we've done it," she says.
The city provides ArtInPlace an operating budget of "up to $10,000," says Breeden, who adds that the organization has never charged the city more than $6,500– just enough to cover expenses. Breeden and ArtInPlace's two other co-founders, brothers Charlie and Blake Hurt, work on a volunteer basis, as does the webmaster for www.artinplace.org
Each of the 10 artists is given $300 to transport the work to the site, a small figure that eliminates many out-of-town artists.
Breeden cites one Connecticut artist who had sculpted a ballerina, but it didn't get displayed. "She wanted $36,000 to transport it," Breeden explains with a laugh.
Despite the shoestring budget, ArtInPlace does have one additional source of revenue: 25 percent of the sale price of any of the pieces on display that sell. For instance, the Lousia Lions now have a home at a residence in Albemarle County, though their owner requested anonymity for fear of vandalism.
And the city government has purchased one piece each year– at a cost of $2,500 to $5,000, according to Huja– for a permanent installation. In 2001, that piece was the bicyclist on McIntire; the second year was the stainless steel tree on Preston Avenue; and this year the City bought the towering metal daffodils on Monticello Road near the I-64 interchange.
Huja says that input to the ArtinPlace website helps determine which pieces the city will buy.
Breeden puts it a bit more succinctly: "They make fairly mainstream selections," she says.
And chances are the city won't have a bigger pool to select from anytime soon.
Although the number of applications from artists wanting to place works grows each year– this year 55 artists vied for 10 spots– Breeden says the program won't grow much bigger. Instead, she and her fellow ArtInPlacers are in talks with the city about some new public art projects, one involving painting fire hydrants, another a collaboration between residents and UVA's architecture school on a new building. Both projects, she stresses, are still in the early planning stages.
In the meantime, Breeden says, every year is a learning experience. This year, the pedestal for an entry by her husband, David, "A Graceful View of the World," is too large, she says. But the budget constraints make a pedestal switch impossible.
She also faults the placement of the briefcase-carrying suit, titled "A Bad Case of the Mondays," on the 250 bypass.
"You don't really see it right until it's in your rear view mirror, or until you've seen it three or four times," Breeden notes, adding that the piece may be moved to the hillside by McIntire Park.
Breeden says Aaron Fein, whose sculpture "Transformer" occupied the 250 median two years ago, summed up the problem with roadside art. "It's hard to see something at 45mph," he told her.
Apparently vandals didn't have a hard time seeing Fein's sculpture. After only two months on display, the piece was knocked down and destroyed in December 2001 [see sidebar]. City crews carefully removed the piece and returned it to Fein, who then restored it. It's now on display in the sculpture garden at the county's Baker-Butler Elementary School.
Fein's piece is not the only ArtInPlace work to have been vandalized. Breeden says each year someone has painted a smiley face on one of the works.
And although one driver's letter printed in the Daily Progress portrayed the placement of the bicycle sculpture as a road hazard, no accidents-as-a-result-of-art have been reported. Should that happen, the artists are protected. Breeden says each artist must carry a $1 million liability policy (in addition to the $1 million policy carried by ArtInPlace). Any additional insurance to cover the cost of restoring vandalized pieces is at the discretion of the artist, Breeden says.
Jill Hartz, director of the University of Virginia Art Museum, formerly the Bayly, says that while she's a staunch supporter of public art (she serves on UVA's public art committee), she wishes the city would go a step farther in supporting the ArtInPlace artists.
Forcing artists to cover things like insurance is "taking advantage," says Hartz. "I'd like to see more commitment, involvement, and more of a structured program that would bring permanent art pieces by major artists that would be major draws in this community."
Breeden knows that no amount of work or planning will get everyone to agree about the merits of the works.
"People have complained it's not very good art," she says, "but it's a little audacious to think that your estimation is the estimation."
But she believes that support for the project is strong. People in Charlottesville are "sophisticated enough that they get abstract," says Breeden.
And she points out that, love them or hate them, the sculptures have one added thing going for them: They go away.
"It gives you more flexibility about what it is you're putting out on the public street," says Breeden. "If it's not aesthetically pleasing, perfectly conceived, that's okay because it'll be gone in a year."
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2001 - the bicyclist on McIntire
2002 - the stainless steel tree on Preston Avenue
2003 - the towering metal daffodils on Monticello Avenue near the I-64 interchange.


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I think by now you've lost me forever.
I'll never be on your side again.
I'll never look at you the same way I used to.
You will never look at me the same way you used to.
I will always want us to be happy together.
But this will never happen.
You have crossed the line in losing faith in me.
I can't trust you anymore.
I won't trust you again.
I hate how you make up stories in your head.
I hate how you believe these stories.
I hate how you get the nerve to tell me these false stories.
I hate how you accuse me of things I never said.
I hate how you never say what I want you to say.
I hate how I can never be true to you ever again.
You will never understand the problem that lies within you.
I will never be able to explain to you what's wrong with you.
You will never listen to me even if I tried.
So I will not try and just be mad at you.
You will stay mad at me.
We will hate each other.
You will never understand why I don't do what you want me to do.
You will never know what is really important to me and what is not.
You will never acknowledge how much you hurt me.
My tears hate falling because of you.
They will never fall, because you will never even care.
You always have your way of saying what you want.
I never have my way of saying what I want.
You always force yourself on me thinking it's "okay" because you're older.
You will never understand how hateful this is to me.
I'm so used to your methods of deceiving me that it's not working anymore.
You're getting crazy because nothing is shaking me anymore.
I will never abide by your rules.
You will never get what you want anymore.
We will always hate that we hate each other.
Our hearts will always stay broken.
We will never try to fix things again.
We both lost this match.
I hate how I lost you forever.
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BCMS MBI deal nominated for prestigious award
BCMS is delighted to announce that the recent management buy-in of Cooper Callas Ltd has been nominated as Deal of the Year (sub-£25m) in the forthcoming Thames Valley deal awards. Judged by a panel of experienced industry peers, the award will be presented on April 23 at an event hosted at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, Berkshire.
The deal involved Philip Carr, a high profile industry figure, negotiating a majority shareholding in Cooper Callas Ltd, a leading distributor of kitchen and bathroom brands. BCMS acted as lead advisor to the vendors, with the deal completing in August 2014.
This nomination comes the same week as another BCMS led transaction, the acquisition of Tew Engineering Ltd by L.B. Foster company, was announced as a finalist in the 7th Annual International M&A Awards, which will be presented at a Gala reception on 28th April at the New York Athletic Club.
BCMS is also sponsoring the Bank of the Year award category, which has seen leading commercial banks RBS, HSBC, and Santander, nominated as finalists.


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The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey has been recognised by the music industry for his achievements in raising millions of pounds to help young people with cancer.
The 70-year-old singer was honoured for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust, which he has helped since its inception in 1990 and has organised an annual series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall featuring an array of big names.
He was given the inaugural outstanding contribution to charity title at the Music Week Awards, with his recent collaborator Wilko Johnson - who has cancer and has refused treatment - among those attending to pay tribute to his work.
The TCT concerts have raised more than £17 million since their launch in 2000, with acts such as Oasis, Coldplay and Sir Paul McCartney performing over the years, with the 2014 show last month featuring the likes of The Cure and Suede.
Noel Gallagher and Robert Plant were among those who recorded messages praising Daltrey's work at the ceremony in north London, with Paul Weller handing over the award.
The lifetime achievement prize, known as The Strat award, went to former Sony Music executive Rob Stringer who is now the chairman of Columbia Records in the United States.
David Bowie sent a message in tribute to Stringer's support over the years, saying: "If you become the object of his enthusiasm an artist will find a genuine long-term support that is sadly missing in the recording industry."
Joking about Stringer's willingness to go the extra mile for his acts, Bowie's message went on: "Rob had not only guested as an executive third Daft Punk member at a lunchtime gig at a club in Manhattan, but had also led a Dylanology symposium at Barney's clothing store, sung falsetto on a new London Grammar track and choreographed a touching interpretative dance number to One Direction's They Don't Know About Us for the cast of Glee."
The Manic Street Preachers, whom Stringer championed during his years at Sony, performed at the event in his honour.


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Hspec is a Behaviour-Driven Development tool for Haskell programmers. BDD is an approach to software development that combines Test-Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test-Driven Planning. Hspec helps you do the TDD part of that equation, focusing on the documentation and design aspects of TDD.
Hspec (and the preceding intro) are based on the Ruby library RSpec. Much of what applies to RSpec also applies to Hspec. Hspec ties together descriptions of behavior and examples of that behavior. The examples can also be run as tests and the output summarises what needs to be implemented.
The three functions you'll use the most are
describe, and
it. Here is an
example of functions that format and unformat phone numbers and the specs for them.
import Test.Hspec import Test.Hspec.QuickCheck import Test.Hspec.HUnit import Test.QuickCheck hiding (property) import Test.HUnit main = hspec mySpecs
Since the specs are often used to tell you what to implement, it's best to start with undefined functions. Once we have some specs, then you can implement each behavior one at a time, ensuring that each behavior is met and there is no undocumented behavior.
unformatPhoneNumber :: String -> String unformatPhoneNumber number = undefined formatPhoneNumber :: String -> String formatPhoneNumber number = undefined
The describe function takes a list of behaviors and examples bound together with the it function
mySpecs = describe "unformatPhoneNumber" [
A boolean expression can act as a behavior's example.
it "removes dashes, spaces, and parenthesies" (unformatPhoneNumber "(555) 555-1234" == "5555551234"),
The pending function marks a behavior as pending an example. The example doesn't count as failing.
it "handles non-US phone numbers" (pending "need to look up how other cultures format phone numbers"),
An HUnit Test can act as a behavior's example. (must import
it "removes the \"ext\" prefix of the extension" (TestCase $ let expected = "5555551234135" actual = unformatPhoneNumber "(555) 555-1234 ext 135" in assertEqual "remove extension" expected actual),
IO() action is treated like an HUnit TestCase. (must import
it "converts letters to numbers" (do let expected = "6862377" let actual = unformatPhoneNumber "NUMBERS" assertEqual "letters to numbers" expected actual),
The property function allows a QuickCheck property to act as an example. (must import
it "can add and remove formatting without changing the number" (property $ forAll phoneNumber $ \ n -> unformatPhoneNumber (formatPhoneNumber n) == n) ] phoneNumber :: Gen String phoneNumber = do nums <- elements [7,10,11,12,13,14,15] vectorOf nums (elements "0123456789")
- data Spec
- data Result
- type Specs = [IO Spec]
- describe :: String -> [IO (String, Result)] -> IO [IO Spec]
- it :: SpecVerifier a => String -> a -> IO (String, Result)
- hspec :: IO Specs -> IO [Spec]
- hspecB :: IO Specs -> IO Bool
- hspecX :: IO Specs -> IO a
- pending :: String -> Result
- descriptions :: [IO [IO Spec]] -> IO [IO Spec]
- hHspec :: Handle -> IO Specs -> IO [Spec]
|:: String
The name of what is being described, usually a function or type.
|-> [IO (String, Result)]
A list of behaviors and examples, created by a list of
|-> IO [IO Spec]
Create a set of specifications for a specific type being described. Once you know what you want specs for, use this.
describe "abs" [ it "returns a positive number given a negative number" (abs (-1) == 1) ]
|:: SpecVerifier a
|=> String
A description of this behavior.
|-> a
An example for this behavior.
|-> IO (String, Result)
Create a description and example of a behavior, a list of these
is used by
describe. Once you know what you want to specify, use this.
describe "closeEnough" [ it "is true if two numbers are almost the same" (1.001 `closeEnough` 1.002), it "is false if two numbers are not almost the same" (not $ 1.001 `closeEnough` 1.003) ]
Declare an example as not successful or failing but pending some other work. If you want to report on a behavior but don't have an example yet, use this.
describe "fancyFormatter" [ it "can format text in a way that everyone likes" (pending "waiting for clarification from the designers") ]


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LSPA Broadway Musical Theatre Class for Middle School
January 22, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
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An event every week that begins at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until May 14, 2019
Learn the fundamental skills necessary to perform in musicals. Classes will work on dancing and singing every week, inspired by a variety of popular musicals throughout the year. Half of class will be focused on learning dance technique where the students will be taught the fundamentals of jazz, ballet, and tap. The other half will focus on singing technique, including proper breathing, posture, pitch, diction and timing. The students will learn ensemble music from various Broadway shows and this class will culminate with a Spring Showcase.
This is a weekly class on Tuesday from 4-5pm for 7th and 8th grade students.


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Welcome to Si Yuan – International
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In Chinese, Si Yuan 思源 means "thinking of the source". This expresses the forever respect, homage and gratitude of disciples Delphine Armand and Paul Wang towards their late Master. Thank you for your interest, trust and participation in these precious teachings. Welcome to the Si Yuan Balance Method lineage. We hope to see you soon!About Si Yuan
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A major financial services company wished to manage and improve the customer experience in the call center, seeking to turn dissatisfied customers into satisfied and loyal customers. They also sought to maintain and grow their client base and, as a result, increase revenue by 30%.
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of New Jersey
Order #30
WHEREAS, September
11, 2002 marks the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York,
Washington and Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, on this
date, remembrance ceremonies and other memorial events, both public and
private, will be taking place;
WHEREAS, more than
one quarter of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were New
Jerseyans, with nearly seven hundred of our residents killed in the attacks;
WHEREAS, the lives
of hundreds of New Jersey families have been drastically affected, through
the loss of a parent, spouse, child or other loved one; and
WHEREAS, it is fitting
that this day be observed with appropriate solemnity, in tribute to the
thousands of innocent victims who perished in the attacks;
I, JAMES E. MCGREEVEY, Governor of the State of New Jersey, by virtue
of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes
of this State, do hereby ORDER AND DIRECT:
The flag of
the United States of America and the flag of the State of New Jersey
shall be flown at half-staff at all State departments, offices, agencies,
instrumentalities and all public buildings during appropriate hours
on September 11, 2002 in recognition and mourning of all of those
lost in the September 11th attacks, and particularly, those lost from
our home State.
State employees
who lost an immediate family member in the attacks on September 11,
2001 and who wish to take the day off from work on September 11, 2002
shall be granted a paid day off on that date, upon written notice
to the agency or division at which they are employed.
Immediate family
member for purposes of this ORDER means an employee's spouse, child,
legal ward, foster child, grandchild, father, mother, legal guardian,
grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law and other individuals residing in the
employee's household.
This Order shall
take effect immediately.
Given, under
my hand and seal this
28th day of August
in the Year of our Lord, Two
Thousand and Two, and of the
Independence of the United
States, the Two Hundred and
/s/ James E.
/s/ Paul A. Levinsohn
Chief Counsel to the Governor


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Many small earthquakes often precede a volcanic eruption, and they can sometimes happen in such rapid succession that they create a harmonic tremor similar to the kind created by musical instruments, though at frequencies lower than humans can hear.
New research on an eruption sequence at Alaska's Redoubt Volcano in March 2009 showed that a harmonic tremor rose to higher and higher frequency until it paused just before six of the eruptions, with five of those coming in rapid succession.
Scientists at the USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory have dubbed the highest-frequency harmonic tremor at Redoubt Volcano "the screams" because they reach such high pitch, at 30 hertz, compared with a 1-to-5 hertz starting point. In humans, the audible frequency range starts at about 20 hertz.
"The frequency of this tremor is unusually high for a volcano, and it's not easily explained by many of the accepted theories," said Alicia Hotovec-Ellis, a University of Washington doctoral student.
Some volcanoes make sound when magma forces its way up through rock, but Hotovec-Ellis believes the harmonic tremors are the result of magma being forced through narrow passages in the rock.
Magma sticks to the rock surface in a narrow passage until the pressure is high enough to force it along a bit, before it sticks again, pressure mounts, and it moves again.
Each of these sudden movements results in a small earthquake, ranging in magnitude from about 0.5 to 1.5, Hotovec-Ellis said.
"Because there's less time between each earthquake, there's not enough time to build up enough pressure for a bigger one," she said. "After the frequency glides up to a ridiculously high frequency, it pauses and then it explodes."
Hotovec-Ellis, lead author of the study published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, is also co-author of a second paper in Nature Geoscience that uses a "frictional faulting" model to explain the tremors.
The model addresses the brief pause in the harmonic tremor just before the volcanic explosion. "We think the pause is when even the earthquakes can't keep up anymore and the two sides of the fault slide smoothly against each other," Hotovec-Ellis said.
Hotovec-Ellis created two recordings of the seismic activity. A 10-second recording covers about 10 minutes of seismic sound and harmonic tremor, sped up 60 times. A one-minute recording condenses about an hour of activity that includes more than 1,600 small earthquakes that preceded the first explosion with harmonic tremor.


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Was Saif al-Adel, a senior Al Qaeda commander wanted by the US since the bombings of US embassies in Africa in 1998, arrested today in Cairo? Probably not.
Confusion between Mr. Adel and another Egyptian militant (a far, far smaller fish) who may have shared a similar alias is probably to blame for the stories coming out of Cairo today. Very little is known about the man who ran training camps for embryonic Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1990s, helped set up the group's operations in Africa later that decade, and has been described as the leader of Al Qaeda's military committee since shortly after Sept. 11, 2001.
Saif was incorrectly reported to be the new Al Qaeda leader after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year, and was also said to be held for a time by Iran, which means his capture could shed a lot of light on Al Qaeda's present, and recent past. Even more stunning would be the fact that he had effectively turned himself in, by notifying authorities and flying home, eventually giving up on the cause to which he'd devoted most of his adult life.
The man arrested is an Egyptian by the name of Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi. "Makkawi' is an alias that Saif has used in the past. But the age of the Makkawi in custody doesn't appear to line up with what's known about the Al Qaeda leader. The man arrested at the airport was also allowed to speak to reporters, and implied that he'd gone to Afghanistan to fight in the jihad against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, but that he'd broken ties with militant groups in 1989.
"I decided to return to Egypt to live in peace, without making any deal with the Egyptian authorities and to confirm my innocence of all charges directed against me," he told reporters.
The wilderness of mirrors
Hundreds of Egyptians and other Arabs fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and many have remained in exile since. Home states like Egypt, Jordan, and Libya viewed the returning jihadis as radical security threats, but many of the those men have been trickling home in the last decade, promising to give up on the militant ways of their youth.
Even the birth name of the wanted Al Qaeda leader is uncertain. "Saif al-Adel," which means the "Sword of Justice," appears to be a nom de guerre. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, in its book "Al Qa'ida's (Mis)Adventures in the Horn of Africa" devotes a chapter to Saif and this is how it begins: "His date of birth is April 11, 1960 or April 11, 1963. Since the identity behind his nom de guerre is unknown, it is impossible to say anything about his family or childhood. There is some indication that he did not have a traditional Islamic education, or if he did that it was not very extensive."
The FBI, in its most wanted listing for Saif (which offers a $5 million reward for information leading to this arrest), is likewise uncertain about his date of birth or his height, weight, or build.
Most of what's known, or thought to be known about him, comes from the writings and memoirs of jihadis, including Saif himself. He's claimed that in 1987 he was a colonel in the Egyptian Special Forces and that he was arrested that year. He fled his homeland in 1988, he's said, and soon linked up with jihadis on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
In addition to the US embassy bombings in Africa, Saif appears to have been instrumental in bringing on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant responsible for dozens of atrocities in Iraq before his death in a US airstrike in June 2006. The (Mis)Adventures book explains:
"In 1999 that Saif began his–and al-Qa'ida's–relationship with Abu Mus`ab al-Zarqawi. In his Zarqawi memoir Saif writes that he had learned about Zarqawi from articles by Abu Qatada al-Filistini in the latter's London-based magazine al-Minhaj, and that he subsequently followed the news of the court case and imprisonment of Zarqawi and other Jordanian and Palestinian militants. Upon his release from Jordanian prison in 1999 Zarqawi moved to Peshawar, and soon thereafter traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan to meet with al-Qa'ida officials. After meeting with Zarqawi and finding that he was a "hardliner" and in disagreement with certain aspects of al-Qa'ida's ideology and practice, Saif asked Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri for the task of liaising with Zarqawi and overcoming their differences. The two al-Qa'ida chiefs appointed him to this task, and it was later agreed that al-Qa'ida would provide support for Zarqawi to establish an independent but al-Qa'ida-associated training camp in Herat, Afghanistan."


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June 30, 2014
Celebrating 25 Years of the Windermere Foundation
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In honor of this anniversary, we want to take a moment to reflect on some of the milestones the Windermere Foundation has achieved over the past 25 years. We also want to recognize and thank everyone who has helped us get to where we are today – especially our agents who continually embody the notion that service to others is not something you do, it is who you are.
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June 10, 2014
Windermere First Quarter 2014 Summary
Posted in News from the Foundation by Christine Wood
The Windermere Foundation disbursed $276,547 to non-profit organizations during the first quarter of 2014, including 117 grants, with an average grant size of $2,364.
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HAMPTON — Rockingham County authorities are reporting a drug arrest of a Hampton man last week.
Police arrested Bruce Rubin, of LKA 36 Ocean Boulevard in Hampton on Wednesday at approximately 4:07 p.m. on two counts of sale of a controlled narcotic drug.
The arrest of Rubin is the result of a three-month investigation by the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration into the sale of the controlled drug oxycodone.
Rubin was arrested without incident at 9 Circuit Drive in Kingston with the assistance of the Kingston Police Department, the Plaistow Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office Dug Task Force.
Bail was initially set at $10,000 cash. Rubin was arraigned Thursday, May 2, in the 10th Circuit Court in Plaistow at which time his bail remained at $10,000 cash only.
His next court appearance is scheduled for May 13 at the 10th Circuit Court in Plaistow.
Hampton man facing oxycodone charge
HAMPTON — Rockingham County authorities are reporting a drug arrest of a Hampton man last week.