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Just why are there so many rabbit hunting scenes in early Haggadot? The Klau Cincinnati Library explores this question in their latest exhibit.
The term YaKNeHaZ—also pronounced YaKN-HaZ—is an acronym composed of the initial letters of five Hebrew words: yayin, kiddush, ner, havdalah, zeman. It is a "seman," a mnemonic aid to remembering the correct order of the blessings of the kiddush and the havdalah when Passover coincides with the conclusion of Shabbat. If we tum to the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Pesahim, 102b-103a, we learn that Abaye taught that the correct order for these prayers was YaKaZNaH; while Rabba maintained it was YaKNeHaZ, and the halachah is according to Rabba.
In the earliest manuscript siddurim and haggadot, including the Mahzor Vitri and the Seder Rav Amram Gaon, as well as the Birds Head Haggadahand the Kauffmann Haggadah, the seman YakNeHaZ appears either before or immediately after the kiddush and havdalah prayers. This practice of including this seman continued through the centuries in both manuscript and then printed haggadot, but began to disappear from printed haggadotin the nineteenth century
YakNeHaZ sounds similar to the German phrase "jag den Häs, hunt the hare." At some time unknown to us, and most likely in a German- speaking region, an artist illuminating a Haggadah decided that the insertion of a hare-hunt scene at this point in the liturgy was a suitably amusing piece of artistic whimsy, a punning pictorial witticism.
We have no data that reveals exactly when some illuminator first inserted a hare-hunt scene in a Haggadah adjacent to the seman yaknehaz or thekiddush which includes the havdalah.
Indeed, the attempt to find some solution to this question is potentially clouded by the prevalence of hare-hunting scenes in the broad genre of European manuscript illustration and in the narrower area of Jewish illuminated manuscripts. From the pre-Carolingian era, the hare hunt was a recurring motif in European illuminated manuscripts. In one type of image, a dog or dogs chase a hare or hares. In another, individuals, armed with various weapons and accompanied by dogs, chase after a hare or hares. In one style the hunter holds a boar spear—a spear with a large head and a cross-piece to prevent a charging boar "running-up" the spear and goring the hunter with its tusks—which certainly seems to be ironic overkill when hunting a rabbit!


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Kelly Killoren Bensimon was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the daughter of well-to-do parents. Her father was a lawyer specializing in taxes and estate planning, her mom a teacher and licensed interior decorator. She went to a small private school, Keith Country Day School, where she ranked high in a class of 20 students, and where she excelled on the Rockford Marlins swimming team. Her specialty was the breast stroke. The Marlins made it to the tryouts of the Junior Olympics and she swam the relay in that competition.
Growing up, she loved children and imagined herself becoming a pediatric surgeon. But then, at 15, in Seventeen Magazine, she read about a contest. Elite Models was doing a nationwide search. Send in a photograph and a bio and fill out a form. You could win a trip to New York City and a possible modeling contract. This was to change her life.
"I finished second to Cindy Crawford," she told me, "but Elite wanted both the winner and the runner up."
Her parents encouraged her and the school said she could be away for the five days necessary. There was only one problem. As a sort of teenage rebellion, she had cut her hair short on one side while leaving it long on the other.
"I'd try to cover it up. I'd figure it out," she told me. "Another thing was, I had a boyfriend at the time, but when I cut off my hair on one side, he said it was over. He wouldn't see me anymore."
Kelly flew to New York and stayed in an apartment provided by the agency with model Stefanie Seymour. At her initial interview with Elite, they told her they would be taking her out on "go sees," where she would be presented, with photographs, to various magazine editors at Vogue, Cosmo, Elle, Glamour and others. She wound up doing a fashion shoot for Sante D'Orazio of Italian Vogue on this trip. Then she went home.
"What did your school mates think of all this?" I asked her.
"They were fine. Everybody was doing different things. They weren't interested in what I was doing. It was a super-competitive school."
Thus, at 16 began her modeling career. Soon she was sent to Ireland for a shoot. She became the Face of the fashion chain Ann Taylor.
Graduating high school, and knowing the importance of education, she went off to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut to begin the first year of what she expected would be a four-year college education. But it was an almost impossible schedule. She had all classes on Tuesday and Thursday. But on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, she commuted on the train back and forth from Connecticut to New York.
"I'd be on the 4:20 a.m. out of Hartford," she said. "Then in the evening I'd be leaving Manhattan on the 6:10. This was too taxing. I felt like I wasn't doing either well. I wanted to go to school full-time, and have a college experience. But it was now or never for modeling. So with my parents' permission I moved to Paris and then to New York, with the promise that I would return to college at a future time. I wanted to be like my idol, Hemingway, and live like an American in Paris."
Kelly was 18 years old. She lived in the 17th Arrondissement for a while, then moved to the 6th on the Left Bank. She modeled there, and enjoyed both Paris, New York and Milan, for nearly three years, then returned to Manhattan and enrolled in Columbia University. "I promised the Dean, if he'd give me a chance, I'd prove to him I could balance work and school. Columbia was the place that was going to give me the formula and tools I needed to move beyond modeling.
"I was so lucky to have parents who encouraged me to get an education," she said. "I got my degree in English literature. In modeling, it was all about what I looked like. At Columbia, it was all about what I KNEW."
Her favorite studies were Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare.
During this time, she began writing for magazines. She was modeling about fashion and beauty. She could write about fashion. She also came out to the Hamptons, a place she had been to earlier in her career on modeling shoot, which she had never been able to forget. She recalled it very well.
"I had stayed at the Maidstone Arms Hotel for that shoot, which was at a small quaint hotel. I remember running down Further Lane. I thought, this is where I want to get married and raise kids."
"That's quite a thought," I said.
"The houses were so beautiful, there were hedges, gardens, such an understated elegance. It was unlike any other place I'd ever been. I'd run down Dunemere Road to the beach, and the trees, the elms, they just lead you down there."
On one trip to the Hamptons, when she had a house out here, she came upon a maple tree that had fallen, and she had its trunk cut, shellacked and made into the top of a coffee table with a glass top. She also began to study the history of this community—its natives, farmers, artist and writers, visitors.
At the age of 27, she married Gilles Bensimon, the International Creative Director of Elle magazine. She built a home on Further Lane in East Hampton, and was out here four days a week, in the city three. The marriage lasted 10 years. She has two children; Sea, now 15, and Teddy, now 13. A highlight of her life at this time was to be asked to give the commencement address at her high school in Illinois, and to speak to her Columbia University class about the Bikini Book she had published with Assouline.
In 2003, Kelly wrote a beautiful coffee table sized book called In the Spirit of the Hamptons. She had always loved photography, and has taken some pictures herself.
"There were incredible images in this book," she told me. "I compiled images of Teddy Roosevelt at Montauk, Jackson Pollock, Franz Klein and all the German artists, art dealer Peggy Guggenheim. I learned about how the artists maintained their hierarchy. I call it 'the towel hierarchy,' for they had developed this for themselves on the beach. I also added photos of gondolas in Hook pond and beautiful scenes of the dunes and the sea, the fishing boats, the people." This was all pre-Google, so it was challenging but exciting to compile all these diverse stories and
In the Spirit of the Hamptons, 10 years on, has been republished by Assouline and updated, with 90 new images and new text. This book has had sensational reviews.
Kelly also wrote a second beautiful book called American Style, about fashion, architecture and design from the turn of the century (the 20th), until now. More recently she wrote The Bikini Book and I Can Make You Hot!
She was asked to appear on the Real Housewives of New York for Bravo after the success ofher own show for Plum TV, Behind the Hedges, which was based on her column she had in Page Six magazine called the
"I was approached about co-hosting a fashion show with Tim Gunn, but the Bravo executives asked me to join Real Housewives of New York. It was only supposed to be for one season. But I was on for three seasons."
Kelly seems to have mixed feelings about being on the Real Housewives of New York. One of the first filmed scenes resulted in having an altercation with another wife, Ramona Singer.
"I had taken her to the very special Richard Meier model museum, and she tried to ruin the scene. I was so embarrassed when we were filming, but she made a scene, and it aired."
But Kelly stuck with it. "I'm from the mindset where you explore, celebrate and respect people, concepts, and things. But they saw me as the 'Socialite/Supermodel' and eventually, I guess because they needed a snobby socialite they wanted it to be me. I'm not a socialite; I've always worked all my life, but I'll take supermodel. That's a compliment."
Her third year on the show completed, she retired. This past year, she sold the house she built on Further Lane. She now lives in SoHo, although she will be renting in the Hamptons for part of the summer. She can't stay away. "New York is where I work, and the Hamptons is where I live."
"What's your day like?" I asked.
"I wake up at 6:30, drink a yogurt shake, workout, go running, or cycling. It's illegal to run on the sidewalks. I've always run on the street."
At the present time, Kelly is looking for a new challenge. After being a model, Editor of ELLE Accessories, columnist, author and TV personality, she's ready for a change, and made one in January. In anticipation of it, she is getting an MBA from Northeastern University in International Business and Marketing. Maybe she will help designers with financing, or maybe she will continue to consult for brands as their "secret weapon."
"I've always been excited by possibility. With the right tools, you can do anything. I have always believed in taking leaps of faith," she said.
"What is that?"
"Putting myself in a modeling contest, going to school and working, moving to Europe, going back to school, and always welcoming challenges. I don't like to look back. I just go for it. I'm lucky, for I know I can always go home."
Kelly is involved a great deal with philanthropy, mostly where it helps children. And this is not something new. She has been involved with it since high school.
"When I was 16, I worked for the Red Cross. I helped with food drives. I was a fund-raiser. I seem to have a knack for raising money in unusual ways."
Not long ago, she came up with an idea to raise funds for Hale House, an organization that helps disadvantaged children in Harlem. She created an event called "Get Your Jeans Off."
I was in the Screen Actors Guild," she said. "I went online and found out which actors were represented by whom. I contacted the agents and asked them to ask their artists/actors to use Sharpies to sign their denim jeans to auction them off. After I compiled Yoko Ono, Madonna, Michael Jordan, Julian Schnabel among others, I went to Peter Arnell and he created a catalogue of them, which won an art direction award. We then framed the jeans as art and sold them. That event raised over six figures, and created a database of over 4000 names.
Two years ago, Kelly took her oldest daughter to Haiti on a trip for Generosity Water. She works at Food Bank as one of their celebrity ambassadors in New York, packing boxes in the warehouses, serving food and stocking the pantries.
"Doing this work is a big part of our lives," she says. She pauses. "I love working with my kids. And I feel everyone deserves an opportunity. That starts with a meal and clean water."


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There are a lot of anxious graduate students at universities around the country right now.
That's because to help pay for more than $1 trillion in tax cuts for U.S. corporations, the House Republican tax plan would raise taxes on grad students in a very big way. These students make very little money to begin with. And many would have to pay about half of their modest student stipends in taxes.
"The past week this is what I've been talking about with other graduate students, with classmates. I think we're all shocked," says Tamar Oostrom. She's in her third year of getting her Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She and her classmates have been crunching the numbers. "This bill would increase our tax by 300 or 400 percent. I think it's absolutely crazy," Oostrom says.
In exchange for helping to teach courses or working with professors on research projects, MIT gives students such as Oostrom a modest $30,000 stipend. And as part of the deal she also doesn't pay tuition. The arrangement is typical for many students at MIT and other universities.
That tuition price tag at MIT is technically about $50,000, even though students like Oostrom don't have to pay it. Under the tax plan proposed by House Republicans, these students would have to report that tuition forgiveness as income.
Ryan Hill, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT, already pays taxes on his $30,000 stipend. But, he says, adding in the value of his free tuition, he'd have to pay taxes as if he made $80,000 a year. And that's a massive difference for Hill and his wife, who works part time on top of caring for their new baby.
"I wish we didn't have to stress about money as much as we already do," Hill says. "It's been already very hard to just emotionally get through this time of life because we have to be so frugal."
The couple already gave up dental insurance to save money. And Hill says his wife sews clothes for their baby so they don't have to buy clothes.
"As graduate students we choose between going to the dentist or going to the OBGYN," says Sarah Ehlke, an applied psychological sciences Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University. "I have a small hole in my winter boots, but had to get an oil change for my car, so new boots will have to wait."
"I never complain about these sacrifices," she says. "It is just my normal, and I understand I am choosing this career and education. However, to keep punching Ph.D. students when we're already down and trying to make the best decisions possible just seems mean."
About 145,000 grad students received a tuition reduction in 2011-12, the American Council on Education says.
Hill and other MIT students say the tax proposal is ill-conceived. So do economists, who say it would discourage Americans from seeking advanced degrees at a time when the country badly needs a better educated workforce.
Kim Rueben, a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, said the plan wouldn't harm just grad students. If young people opt out of graduate education, the damage would be felt throughout the economy.
"Dollar for dollar, this might be the most misguided part of the plan," she says. "What you're doing is increasing the cost of going to graduate school ... and ignoring the fact that the government makes much more money if people have more education."
So, Rueben says, the relatively small amount of money taken from grad students to pay for other cuts would stymie the country's growth in the future.
Larry Lyon, vice provost and dean of Baylor University's graduate school, was blunt. "I've been promoting graduate education for over 20 years," he said, and the plan is "probably the most serious threat to doctoral education we have ever experienced."
Other university administrators across the country appear to be just as appalled as students — the American Council on Education sent a letter to Congress decrying the plan. The letter was signed by over 30 academic organizations, including the Association of American Universities, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the American Psychological Association.
The provision exists only in the House tax bill, not the Senate version. Many graduate students are hoping that the proposal doesn't end up seeing the light of day.
Now to some numbers in the Republican tax plan - to help pay for more than a trillion dollars in tax cuts for U.S. corporations, the plan would raise taxes on some Americans, including graduate students. They famously make very little to begin with. And the tax hike on them would be huge. Here's NPR's Chris Arnold.
CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: A lunchtime talk about the Republican tax plan is getting underway at MIT. Now, a talk about tax policy might sound kind of boring, but the room is packed. Grad students are wide awake and focused on this tax plan because of what it would mean for them.
TAMAR OOSTROM: The past week, this is what I've been talking about with other graduate students, with classmates. I think we're all shocked.
ARNOLD: Tamar Oostrom is a third-year economics Ph.D. student. She and her classmates have been crunching the numbers. And the impact is pretty flabbergasting.
OOSTROM: This bill would increase our tax by 300, 400 percent. I think it's absolutely crazy.
ARNOLD: OK, here's how this works. Many grad students - on top of their studies - they basically have campus jobs. They do research for professors. They teach classes. And in return, they get a modest stipend, and they don't pay tuition.
RYAN HILL: I do a lot of teaching in order to get that tuition waiver.
ARNOLD: Ryan Hill is in his fourth year of getting a Ph.D. MIT pays him a stipend of around $30,000. Students pay taxes on that already. But tuition technically costs $50,000 a year. Hill doesn't pay that. He gets that for free. But the Republican tax plan would make grad students count the value of that free tuition as income, which means a big tax increase. Many would have to pay about half the actual money they get, their stipend, in taxes.
Hill and his wife just had a baby. She's working part time.
HILL: I wish we didn't have to stress about money as much as we already do. It's stressful for both of us and especially when you're so busy with your family and school. And it's been already very hard to just emotionally get through this time of life because we have to be so frugal.
ARNOLD: Hill says he and his wife gave up having dental insurance to save money. His wife is sewing clothes for their baby so that they don't have to buy them. So the grad students here might be studying super advanced stuff - artificial intelligence, nano materials - but they live very Spartan lives. Hill's from Utah. And he says everybody in his family's a Republican.
HILL: It's a very conservative part of the country. I was registered as a Republican.
ARNOLD: He recently became an Independent. But he says that this plan from Republicans in Congress for a big tax hike on grad students just makes no sense.
HILL: I just was shocked. From an economics perspective, like, a basic principle is that when you tax something you get less of it.
ARNOLD: Meaning this tax would mean fewer grad students - many young people just wouldn't be willing to go into massive debt, he says. They'd just go get a job instead of getting a Ph.D. And that would be a problem because any economist will tell you that the country needs a more highly educated workforce. That's where the good-paying jobs are. It drives innovation.
KATIE SHULENBERGER: Putting a tax on that and putting a barrier to us getting that education to be able to do that doesn't make sense.
ARNOLD: Katie Shulenberger's getting a Ph.D. in chemistry.
SHULENBERGER: What I want to do with my life is I want to be a professor. I want to teach.
ARNOLD: But right now she's huddled with other members of the MIT Graduate Student Council. They're planning a Call Your Representative In Congress event for fellow students.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We definitely want to be before any sort of floor debate.
SHULENBERGER: The House floor debate...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yeah...
SHULENBERGER: I don't know...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: ...We'll find out.
SHULENBERGER: ...I mean, I just read another article online that said, like, they're actually taking note of graduate students' mobilizing and response to this, so it's not...
ARNOLD: Their bottom-line message - don't slap a huge tax on low-wage earning grad students to help pay for a trillion dollar corporate tax cut. And university administrators across the country are calling Washington, too. One we spoke to said this is, quote, "the most serious threat to doctoral education ever." The proposal, though, is only in the House bill, not the Senate tax bill. So a lot of graduate students are hoping it doesn't survive. Chris Arnold, NPR News.
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NSSA joins forces with Drug Free Surf to promote drug-free lifestyle
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(HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA) Sept. 25, 2013 – Three months ago Huntington Beach surfer and National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) standout, 20-year old Chris Love overdosed on prescription drugs. His shocking death sparked an outcry from locals who, determined to prevent such tragedies from happening again, launched DFS, the Drug Free Sports movement to encourage young surfers and athletes to live a drug-free lifestyle.
Now, the NSSA has teamed up with DFS to help spread the drug-free message through the positive aspects of surfing, competing and education. To promote discipline and competitive excellence, the NSSA requires participants to maintain academic standards in order to compete. About 2,000 young surfers participate in more than 80 NSSA events nationwide that culminate with the annual National Championships, regarded as the highest profile, youth surfing event in America.
According to Janice Aragon, NSSA's executive director, a drug-free effort that specifically targets the surfing community deserves the full support of NSSA.
"Our youth are finding joy in the waves and in competing, and we need to help them carry that throughout their lives, without the need of drugs," said Janice Aragon. At NSSA events, there will soon be public service announcements and signage to help spread the anti-drug message.
Behind the Movement
At its foundation, the DFS movement is a sticker-campaign intended to showcase the positive lifestyle choices of the individual whose board carries the sticker.
Internationally known professional surfers such as Peter Mel, Nat Young, Reef McIntosh and Brett Simpson have stepped up to show their support and their surfboards carry a DFS sticker. Mel is also actively involved in the organization.
"Our goal is to create positive peer pressure and highlight the stoke of surfing, and any sport really, that gives you a great feeling of accomplishment and being part of something bigger," said John Salanoa, founder of DFS. "Kids want to emulate the surfers they look up to and having athletes like Peter Mel and Brett Simpson on our side helps give us a fighting chance to save lives."
To date, hundreds of stickers have been distributed to surfers throughout Southern California's beach communities, and across the world including Australia Japan, Brazil, Dubai and South Africa.
According to a recent The National Institute on Drug Abuse study showing the statistics on the general use of drugs, the overall use of illicit drugs was up in the last 10 years. According to the study, 8.7% of the population over 12 years of age had used or abused an illicit drug or psychotherapeutic medication (pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer), equating to a total 22.5 million Americans who had used drugs.
Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. Half of new drug users are under the age of 18. The age group with the highest concentration of drug users is the late teen years and twenties. However, ages 14-15 have a higher average rate of use than all of the age groups 35 and over, showing that drug use is affecting teens at a younger age than ever before.
This illicit drug use has permeated the surf community, and with devastating results. In the past 24 months, the surf community has lost more than two dozen members, all under the age of 23, to illicit drug use.
A University of Michigan study recently showed that peer influences have been found to be among the strongest predictors of drug use during adolescence.
"We know what's going on. We see it in the parking lots and alleys, and kids even brag about their drug use through SnapChat and other social media outlets. If we can create positive peer pressure and give kids the motivation and inspiration they need to not get started with drugs, then we will have accomplished so much," added Salanoa.
Over the past three months, DFS has been contacted by dozens of kids who shared their stories of peer pressure and see DFS as giving them that accountability and strength to continue to fight against the pressure.
For more information or to join the movement, visit www.dfsmovement.org and https://www.facebook.com/DFS-Movement. DFS has filed for non-profit status with the state of California.


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September 30, 1936: Hoover Dam Dedication by U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Click HEREfor an audio recording of the dedication. New York Times headline–President…Speaks at Boulder Dam. "Standing on a platform perched high above the Colorado River at the eastern terminus of the great, towering Boulder Canyon Dam, President Roosevelt dedicated it today as a "splendid symbol" of employment-providing public works which he said have already given the necessary recovery spur to private industry while increasing the value of the nation's resources." Commentary: If we could only learn this lesson today. Building and replacing infrastructure would result in a better country and a huge boost to the economy. How can we get Washington to cooperate long enough to make this happen?
September 30, 1882– Paper manufacturer H.F. Rogers (Appleton, WI) opened the first hydroelectric power plant in U.S.at riverside paper mill on Fox River, in Appleton, WI (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company); powered by water wheel, provided 12.5 kilowatts, enough for 180 lights (ten candlepower each) to light Rogers' home, plant.
"On September 30, 1882, the first centrally located electric lighting system using the Edison system in the West and the first hydroelectric central station in the worldbegan operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The Vulcan Street plant (the Appleton Gas Light Co.), later named the Appleton Edison Light Company, powered the two paper mills of H. J. Rogers' Appleton Paper and Pulp Co. and his residence, Hearthstone. Rogers, also president of the Appleton Gas Light Co. had been inspired by Thomas Edison's plans for a steam-based power station in New York. With financial backing from three Appleton men, one a personal friend of Edison's, Rogers began building this new venture during the summer of 1882, harvesting the power of the Fox River with a water wheel. The water wheel, generators, and copper wiring took only a few months to install and test. Initial testing of the plant on September 27 was unsuccessful but the Edison "K" type generator powered up successfully on September 30."
Commentary: Interesting juxtaposition of topic and dates. On the same day only 54 years apart, hydroelectric power generation goes from beginning to one of the biggest in the world.


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A series of butterflies and peonies flowers painted in bright Chinese hobby (Chinoiserie). Exposition was held in London in 1851, Queen Victoria found this series was named the names from the dye, a favorite episode.
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Southwest 110 km, a bucolic village name is Herend from Budapest in Hungary. Small porcelain factory here were bought Mall and Fisher's in 1839. Since the switch to porcelain production, concentrating on the production of tableware. Suddenly European ceramic ware, as Herend closed in 1862, grown in Austria Empress Maria Theresia Vienna kiln, was allowed to inherit the design.
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Hmm "failures" must have been a cut and paste error. Enphase has been transitioning customer Envoys to only report at 15-minute intervals, reduced from the previous 5-minute intervals. It seems to be a gradual rollout, as different people get converted at different times. I was about 1-2 months after the first user reports I saw, and I've seen others report being switched 4-6 weeks after I was.RegGuheert wrote:Perhaps I am not understanding what you are saying by "only report 15-minute interval failures, down from 5-minute" as all my data is still available in 5-minute intervals.ltbighorn wrote:As an side, it seems Enphase has started making Envoys only report 15-minute interval failures, down from 5-minute, as a cost saving measure. This results in stair-stepping on the Enphase graphs (and anything that pulls from their API). Very annoying. In order to get 5-minute data back I've had to switch pvoutput from API polling to pushes from my local server polling the Envoy-S. Seems silly. If they want to cost save, they should just reduce the >30 day 5-minute interval data down to 15-minutes. Tiny savings either way, but the storage cost of the long-term data is going to way outsize the last couple weeks of data.
A couple users have reported getting Enphase Support to switch them back (I had zero luck with that), but at least some of those have reported that it only lasted a short while and they were converted by to 15-minute reporting intervals again within a few weeks.


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- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar, plus 2 tablespoons for sprinkling
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, split in 1/2, core removed
- 1 sheet puff pastry, store bought
- 2 cups store bought vanilla bean ice cream
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.Â
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In a large saucepan over medium heat, add the water and sugar and cook to caramelize the sugar, about 10 minutes. Add the butter and stir until melted.Â
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Take 4 large ramekins and pour caramel into bottoms and arrange 1 apple half, cut side down in the bottom of each ramekin. Take the remaining halves and cut them into 3 wedges so you can fill the gaps in the top of each ramekin to create a level surface on which the pastry will lie across. Sprinkle apples with some sugar. Roll the pastry out use a cookie-cutter to cut out circles the size of the ramekins and place over the apples folding it in at the edges. Make 3 or 4 holes with a knife and 1 in the middle to let steam out when baking. Bake for 20 minutes and then let it rest for 15 minutes. It is important that you do this otherwise the apples will fall apart when you turn it over. Take a dinner plate and put it over each ramekin. Turn it over and slowly remove the ramekin.Â
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Serve lukewarm with store bought vanilla bean ice cream.


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"LFM ICC 25. I don't care about your gear score, I just ask that you can stay out of the fire and follow directions. Vent will be required".
That was my cry last Saturday night as we decided to start an ICC 25 pug. And you know what, I took anyone and every one of the first 25 people to send me a tell indicating that they were interested in going. I didn't ask people to come to the well for inspection, I didn't ask for an achievement link, I didn't ask for a recitation of your raiding history since your birth. If you wanted to go…you went.
"I am a BM hunter, and I don't have any experience in ICC at all, but I'd love to go" /invite BM Hunter
*insert French accent* "Beeeeru…take my ghetto rogue, he just dinged 80 today" /invite a certain mage's ghetto fabulous rogue
And so I managed to mash the most rag-tag group ever together to venture into ICC. I truly didn't care about gear score, or even GEAR for that matter. I truly didn't care about experience. If you wanted to go, and were in the first 25 folks to send me a tell, you got an invite. We got everyone into vent, and as we started the raid we said "we don't know how far we will get, but we'll go until we can't make it anymore, we are all here for fun, so please keep that in mind".
We started on our way, and knowing that we had people with zero ICC experience, we gave an explanation before each encounter. And how did we do with our rag tag group of misfits that most people wouldn't give the time of day, that I have openly seen other people mock because their lack of experience or gear, that people twit negatively about when they get them in PuGs? Let's take a look, shall we?!
Lord Marrowgar – One shot, and no deaths. Bone spikes were brought down efficiently, and people largely managed to stay out of the fire! Alright, let's keep going!
Lady Deathwhisper – and the weekly quest! Well…ok. Let's give it a go, do we have someone that can suit up as a fourth tank for Darnavan? We do? Excellent! I think one or two people might have died, but it was still a one shot, and we snagged the quest! Awesome! Let's keep going! (Oh, and I should mention that our ghetto fabulous French speaking rogue upgraded his green weapon with this dagger…and we made him link what he was upgrading, and everyone laughed and snorted about how that one weapon alone probably just doubled his DPS, including him!).
Gunship – well…it's gunship. Although, I think we saw more deaths here than anywhere else =) Not sure what that says, but there you have it!
Deathbringer Saurfang – I don't recall if we lost a mark, or had any casualties. We probably did! But we still one shot it, and the "Storming the Citadel" spam in the raid was near epic.
Rotface – Well, this is where we met our match. Surprisingly, it wasn't from sloppy execution of the encounter. People followed instructions, took their oozes to the appropriate place, didn't make extra slimes…until the end, when we were far past the soft enrage. Our DPS was just a touch low (ok! A lot low!), but I think we got him down into the 20s before completely falling apart 😉 Acknowledging that we had probably exceeded what we could do with our ragtag-ness, we said "well, if you want an extra frost badge (yes please!!!), we can clear the Valithria trash before disbanding". And everyone was overwhelmingly happy to do just that, so off we went.
What I think is the most amazing thing about this experience is that earlier in the day I tanked an ICC 25 run where there was a "minimum" gear score requirement of 5300, and wiped three times before reaching Saurfang, and in the end only ended up killing those same 4 bosses. Yes, my little misfit run was technically more successful than the run I had done where everyone was dripping in their epic ICC gear…and egos.
In fact, overall it was just a cleaner run. People weren't cocky, thinking they were beyond reproach because OMG do you even know what my gearscore is?! People were eager to learn, listen, do a good job and just experience the instance. Frankly, I felt that a lot of people were just happy to be given a chance.
People didn't die to stupid things like standing in the fire or bonestorm, because they were interested in doing a good job which meant staying out of the bad things. People didn't kill Darnavan or freak out because of a change in strategy, because they listened to the strategy and didn't just assume they knew what to do, which meant they didn't blindly damage shit.
Sure, we had the 20% buff, making the early part of the instance fairly forgiving. Sure, we had some people with experience in the zone on terribly undergeared alts, had some people that were decently geared and experienced. Sure, we had some decently experienced people in key roles, such as tanks. But when push comes to shove, we had what can be termed a "successful" ICC run. It was done without asinine requirements to get into the raid and it was done just for fun. (Fun in a game…shenanigans!).
Every single piece of loot that dropped was an upgrade for those who received it. And chances are that it was loved and appreciated and will be well cared for in its new home!
When the raid finished, many of the participants were so grateful just to have gotten to see the instance, they offered their thanks. Not just for the run, but for giving them a chance. We came in with no expectations. We kicked some ass. And most of all we had fun (even with that rogue with his green dagger!). When push comes to shove, I don't think that you could ask for a better experience than that.
So what is the point of this story? Well, I suppose I wanted to just remind people that in this time of fast epics, sometimes it's OK to focus on fun, even if it means a little less gear.
When was the last time you've gone against the odds for success? I find it to be hugely rewarding, if you haven't tried it, I challenge you to try!
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Cardinal Fruit Bouquet
- Pears
- Pomegranate
- Apples
- Flowers
- Strawberries
- Grapes
- Various chocolate bars/Ferrero Rocher
- Plums/Nectarines/Peaches/Lime/Kiwi
This Edible Bouquet is full of life and love with a combination of fresh seasonal fruits, berries and your favourite chocolates.
We create our bouquets every day and we can never repeat an identical bunch, it's always unique and amazing. Some ingredient may vary in size and we put more or less into bouquets, while still maintaining the same size, value and design.
(Treat your bouquets as you do with veggies and fruits, stand in the fridge overnight to keep fresh. Flowers have its own water supply within the bunch structure)
All ingredients are handpicked and purchased every morning from our local markets and suppliers, so when they are delivered, they are all fresh and cooled down, this is the best time to enjoy them, otherwise please read below on how to get the best out from your yummy bouquets, if you need to hold them for a bit longer:
*Chocolate covered strawberries and other fruits and berries covered in chocolate shall be eaten within 1 day after you received it. The best temperature for chocolate is +9-12 degrees in a dry place. If you are picking up your order, please bring thermo bag or box to keep the temperature. Don't leave them in a car, on direct sunlight or next to a heating device, make sure you have your air-conditioner on before and during driving. Once you receive your order its best to cool it down in the fridge for 15mins before consumption.
**Bouquets with Chocolate bars, cookies and waffles, Zeppoles and Meringues should be eaten within 2-3 days (if not eaten at once, keep in an airtight container in a refrigerator for up to 3days, but keep them separate, so they don't absorb moisture from other ingredients)
***Bouquets with berries, fruits and vegetables could be kept in a fridge at +4-5 degrees for up to 2 days, except strawberries (they last less depending on the weather season they've been picked)
****Meat and Cheese bouquets shall be kept in the fridge and enjoyed within 2-3days
*****Dried fruits and nuts shall be kept in a dry cool place, not in a fridge though. These type of bouquets could be kept for months, they would look great all this time as a centrepiece and still be ok to eat. (But of cause if there are insects in the house or too much dust, don't keep it that long and, if you decide to do so, don't eat it, if you see something is not right)
******All our flowers and herbs are installed with some water supply inside of the bouquets, but in hots days some plants and flowers drink much more, so when you disassemble the bouquet, please refill them and you can enjoy your flowers for longer.
This is the reason, we believe that the best way would be that you actually tell your loved ones that there is a delivery coming with a surprise and make sure they are at the address for the delivery. You don't need to tell them what it is, we wouldn't either, but make sure that they know its coming. Otherwise, this surprise could be spoiled, as we take the bunch to their neighbours or have to leave it outside, the recipient might not be there on time to eat the yummy Edible Bouquet.
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PS: Common sense is the best judgment for these, if the weather is too hot - don't keep it in a space without an air conditioner. If you are camping or have an outdoor party - don't leave it for too long for ants and bugs to attack.
We deliver to all hospitals, military bases, universities, schools, commercials or as well to any residential addresses up to 40km from Eastwood.
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Up to 10km delivery from Lunch Bunch Studio. Cost - $16,
Up to 20km delivery from Lunch Bunch Studio. Cost - $26, etc ..
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We deliver 7 days a week from 10am to 5pm.
Cut-off time is 10am for the SAME DAY delivery, orders placed after 10am will be automatically delivered the next day (therefore, please choose correct date for your delivery taking time into consideration) or you can choose any other date from our drop down calendar on the cart page.
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We need min of 1 hour to create your arrangement, last order could be placed no later than 1:30pm for the SAME DAY COLLECTION and will be ready at 2:30pm, please don't be late for collection.
Our address is: 111 Glen Osmond Rd, Eastwood we have plenty of parking on the right side of our Studio (drive in through the open gate)
*Please knock at the front door on arrival, as our door is locked
We would like to mention, that our bunches are not only beautiful but first of all, they are Edible Bouquets and shall be enjoyed soon. This is the reason, we believe you should tell your loved ones that there is a delivery coming with a surprise and make sure they are at the address for the delivery. You don't need to tell them what it is, we wouldn't either, but make sure that they know SOMETHING is coming. Otherwise, this surprise could be spoiled, as we take the bunch to their neighbours or have to leave it outside, the recipient might not be there on time to eat the yummy Edible Bouquet.
Please don't forget to read this page on how to enjoy your LunchBunch.
We may contact the client before we deliver. We sometimes confirm the delivery address and specify the time frame if we are running late due to traffic jams or any force-majeure situations.
Our courier is delivering several orders at the same time and decides in which order they will be. The courier is planning his day aiming to cover as many addresses as possible and deliver the orders at the discussed time. Our sales managers are not allowed to change plans for the courier and deliver the order in priority form to any client.
Confirming delivery details
We organise deliveries in a specific algorithm, which allows us to minimise any fails. Please leave any specific details we need to know for the delivery. As a client you don't need to worry about the delivery, while the courier wouldn't be wasting time waiting for the client at the particular address, looking for the entrance, hidden driveway or office, this will make delivery of your order smooth and effective.
When placing your order, we insist you provide the phone number of the receiving client. If there is no working contact provided, we cannot guarantee that delivery is going to be successful. If the courier, for any reason, couldn't locate the receiving client at the provided address or couldn't hand over the bouquet, your order will be considered complete. We don't do repeating deliveries.
Sometimes the exact address is not enough for fast delivery, maybe the courier needs to know where to park, how to get into the building, what the intercom extension number is, what documents need to be presented at the reception or the security controls. All this information speeds up the delivery process. Keep this in mind upon check out.
Confidentiality and the "WOW" factor
The manager never tells to the receiving client what exactly from our range is going to be delivered by the courier. This will leave the intrigue and surprise the client.
The manager and the courier never tell the receiving client the sender's details. Any questions about the sender, we address the card (if you wish to include one in the bouquet)
Confirming delivery
After the delivery, the courier reports to the manager and the manager sends you an email to confirm the delivery.
Troubleshooting for the deliveries
We always and immediately inform you, if there are any issues with the delivery of your order. We will definitely call you at any time. This is the most important condition for the successful delivery – please keep your phone on and be available to take our call.
If the receiving client is not there at the time of the delivery.
This situation is only possible if you have chosen not to provide the contact number for the receiving client. In this case, the courier will call you and discuss the available options. The standard solution is to leave the bouquet with someone or somewhere next door so that later this will be handed to the receiving client. Usually, we can leave it with the colleagues, relatives, neighbours or friends. All this will be discussed with you prior, but in a situation where we can't get a hold of you on time of the delivery, the courier will be making a decision on the spot. From this time we are not responsible for the order being handled to the receiving client.
If the address provided is not correct or the receiving client is no longer there.
We always check the delivery address on Google maps and also call the receiving client to confirm all necessary information with him/her. If we can't get hold of the receiving client, then we call you – the sender and confirm details with you. This is why, if we have the contact phone number of the receiving client, this situation is not likely to happen.
Though, if you have chosen not to provide us with the phone number of the receiving client, this scenario is, unfortunately, possible to happen. We often find out that the receiving client doesn't live in the provided address, doesn't work there, will not be there for a long time (several days), or maybe you provided a wrong address by mistake. In all these cases we will inform you about this, but the order is called delivered. This is why it's critical to provide us with the receiving client's working phone number!
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The Multicultural Fair is an annual event put on by the students of Akin Hall, Campus Living, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
On Thursday, August 14, 2008 President Tom Hochstettler and Marcia Glas-Hochstettler hosted the annual ice cream social for all Lewis & Clark employees.
From new roofs to new research laboratories, Facilities Services has completed more than 50 capital and operations projects in 2008.
More than 20 Facilities Services employees volunteered their time to gather campus greens and assemble 125 holiday wreath arrangements.
Hanna Neuschwander, director of publications at the graduate school, attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
The Pamplin Society of Fellows formally inducted seven new members in a ceremony on October 20th, 2008.
Ten students from the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling traveled to Mumbai, India in December 2007 as part of their coursework in the Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy and Community Counseling programs.
The sun shone brightly on 2008's incoming class of graduate students as they gathered in groups on the South Campus lawn for Convocation, which kicks off the academic year and the Core Program.
A Fall '08 exhibit at Watzek Library examines 500 years of bookbinding history, from the era of vellum through contemporary handmade books, revealing some of the lesser-known items in the rare book holdings of Lewis & Clark College Special Collections
For the first time in 10 years, the Fir Acres Theatre will be filled with the melodies of a main stage musical. Opening Nov. 6, 2008, "Urinetown, the Musical," is major collaboration between the theatre and music departments.
Every year, Lewis & Clark Professor of Education Zaher Wahab leaves Portland to devote four months of service to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. This photo slideshow features images Wahab captured during a recent stay in Afghanistan.
The work of 50 up-and-coming photographers from around the world will be on display at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art this spring. reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow, which opens January 22, 2009.
For many Lewis & Clark students, moving to Portland, Oregon is just one more stop on a lifelong international journey. These photographs were taken by junior Andrea Liamzon throughout her travels.
In March, senior Brendan Larsen, senior Alec Kerins, and Assistant Professor of Biology Greta Binford spent their spring break bringing lab research and global engagement together in Puerto Plata, a region in the Dominican Republic.
An accomplished artist and world traveler, Ross Christy '09 shares his thoughts about art and education and his hopes for the future.
With support from a prestigious grant program, Katie Walter '09 will devote her summer to promoting peace in a small community in India.
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology Andraé L. Brown joined rapper David Banner's USO tour to Iraq in January.
October 14Thirteen students spent their summer studying the geology, art, religion, and history of one of the world's most famous volcanoes.
July 25Lewis & Clark students and alumni earn a record number of Fulbrights, among other prestigious awards.
July 16Students share the important belongings they bring to campus.
June 26Alumni weekend gives graduates the chance to reconnect with Lewis & Clark.
April 16
Lewis & Clark hosts a conference to explore what college may look like in 2025.
December 13The 13 biggest Lewis & Clark stories of 2013.
November 11Ray Warren once wrote, "My vision is to do something positive with my life to improve race relations in the Portland community, to leave this a better world."
September 2318 tips all LC employees should know: A quick reference for accessing technology, saving money, and making community connections.
August 2A collaboration between a biology professor and her students is yielding stunning results.
June 24Our first venture competition educates students in the practical application of the liberal arts.
May 21Each year, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) recognizes faculty, staff, and students whose tremendous contributions make Lewis & Clark a more welcoming community.
February 25Students explore and learn from the environment of the Pacific Northwest.
September 19Experience collaboration, critical thinking, and creative expression at their best.
August 27Global engagement is an integral part of the Lewis & Clark experience. From our long-standing tradition of overseas programs to alternative breaks, students have many opportunities to learn and serve abroad.
August 6Biology professor's research shapes materials of the future.
July 16Named director of new media last month, Morgan Grether discusses why he loves working here and shares a selection of his favorite campus photos published on Instagram, where he has nearly 150,000 fans.
June 28For the second consecutive year, the Lewis & Clark Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) made a significant monetary donation to the Special Olympics of Multnomah County in honor of its continued partnership with the organization.
September 1National rankings give the College high marks for student experiences in the classroom and beyond.
July 19Student receives national award for establishing community service day
July 12Multimedia: Professor' s Afghanistan war exhibition draws media attention
April 21When Molly Hetz '11 first volunteered in the rural village of Guarjila in northern El Salvador as a high school student, she immediately connected with the people and knew she needed to return.
April 1Slideshow: Admissions spirit week processes a record-breaking number of applications
March 30Bringing together artwork made by 13 graduating seniors in the Department of Art, the Senior Art Exhibition opens April 1 at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark.
March 1The spring main stage production, opening March 4, challenges audiences to consider how war affects those who fight and those who stay behind.
January 18The recent work of two Lewis & Clark faculty members will be on display at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary art January 20 through March 13.
November 18Focus on social justice informs graduate programs, inspires collaborations
November 11Among the 144 students who entered the Master of Arts in Teaching program this year, 11 plan to specialize in teaching art. This represents the largest cohort of arts teachers ever for Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
May 25Each spring since 1986, Lewis & Clark students have hosted the SUNBURN Music Festival, bringing local bands and major acts to campus for a full day of performances.
March 29This spring, the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art will feature the work of 19 graduating seniors in the Department of Art.
January 19This spring, the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark is hosting an exhibition that poses contemporary questions about the effects of the global marketplace.


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A truth-teller gets punished in Montana
There's an old college cheer: "Lean to the left, lean to the right, stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight!" For former Montana Democratic Congressman Pat Williams, it seemed that no matter which way he leaned, he found himself smack in the middle of a controversy, one that had been building on the University of Montana campus in Missoula for several years.
Blame The New York Times for starting the flap. In February, the paper asked Williams what he thought about the rash of alleged crimes attributed to some college football players. He replied, "We've had sex assaults, vandalism, beatings by football players. The university has recruited thugs for its football team, and this thuggery has got to stop."
Whatever the truth of that opinion, Williams apparently forgot that football is one of the most sacred of sacred cows in Montana, and his comment immediately raised the hackles of supporters of the wildly popular Grizzly team. Williams was accused of giving the university a black eye, and a petition circulated online demanding that Gov. Steve Bullock remove him from the Board of Regents. Williams had been appointed by former Gov. Brian Schweitzer during the biennial Legislature's off year in 2012.
It probably didn't help matters that Williams' comment was published while yet another trial was under way -- this one to determine whether the team's star quarterback was guilty of rape. He was later acquitted of the charges and reinstated to his position on the team, though trial testimony pointed to, at best, less-than-gentlemanly behavior on the part of the gridiron hero.
Williams' straight shooting actually began shortly after he was appointed to the Regents board, as he told The New York Times: "I'm very sorrowful one of the premier universities in the Rockies has been scandalized by a few knuckleheaded students."
At the time, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the U.S. Justice Department, and the U.S. Department of Education were all investigating the university's handling of student crimes. National attention was focused on the community's apparent tendency to sweep athletic stars' misdeeds under the rug, and some online comments at the time chastised Williams for being too soft on the perpetrators.
At a hearing conducted by the State Senate's Montana Education and Cultural Resources Committee this past March, Williams sought to clarify his "thuggery" comments by saying the Times only asked for his opinion on some football players – not all of them. He was referring, he said, to those who had already been convicted of various crimes, including rape, assault, vandalism and robbery.
But the committee members were not mollified, and passed the confirmation decision to the entire Senate without their recommendation. Williams sent a letter to all the senators, apologizing for not anticipating that his remarks would be taken out of context by the Times reporter and for not realizing that they would be published during an ongoing rape trial in Missoula. And though he had widespread support, the criticism of Williams also continued strong.
On April 4, Senate members voted 26-23 against confirming Williams to the Regents board. Since then, reaction to his rejection has been heated, ranging from support for his ouster on the grounds that he's been "divisive," to fierce anger at his punishment: "It just goes to show you that if you criticize the criminal thugs on the sacred football team, their apologists and enablers will do what it takes to destroy you."
In any event, the brouhaha has led to the removal of a highly qualified advocate for the quality and integrity of Montana's university system.
Meanwhile, investigations continue into how the Missoula community and university administration have handled the alleged crimes of student athletes. One former football player has pleaded guilty to rape, and another has been charged with viciously assaulting a convenience store clerk with a baseball bat. The head football coach and the athletic director have been fired. The university has resorted to television advertising touting students' academic accomplishments in an attempt to focus attention away from the unsavory details broadcast by the news media.
The University of Montana's situation, however, is hardly unique. Talented student athletes are often allowed to get away with bad behavior –– even during their high school years -- and some never learn the hard lesson of accepting responsibility for their actions. Fans are also reluctant to jeopardize the success of their teams by setting high moral standards for the best players. Pat Williams, by recognizing the danger of this approach, paid dearly for speaking the truth.
His parting words were: "I also hope that this vote will not chill the voices of all administrators from speaking clearly about obvious excesses of much of college football and the criminality of some players."
Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She writes in Roundup, Montana.


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Holocaust survivors working in conjunction with an Israeli archaeologist in Lublin, Poland have found jewelry and other artifacts that were apparently hastily buried by prisoners at the Majdanek death camp.
By Mark Hoerrner
Majdanek is one of the most complete WWII concentration camps still in existence. Despite the large expanse of land, it smells heavily of the pitch and tar on the buildings that once held Polish Jews and captured Soviet soldiers. It's the smell of death. From the small museum to the giant pile of ash and bone recovered from the no-longer working ovens, the camp is filled with the ghosts of its dark history. Now, an excavation taking place at the former death camp is writing a new chapter in Holocaust history.
Four Holocaust survivors have unearthed jewelry, coins and other heirlooms which were buried by hand, hidden by desperate camp prisoners over 60 years ago. The four survivors who took part in the archaeological dig traveled from Australia for the making of a documentary about the Majdanek death camp.
The survivors brought forth amazingly clear memories, including pointing out a place where more than 2000 prisoners were forced to stand for more than a day before Nazi officials herded most of them into the gas chambers. It was during that day that the prisoners most likely buried the treasures. An Israeli archaeologist coordinated the initial three-day dig and hopes to resume digging next month.
"An archaeological dig allowed us to find, around 35 centimeters below the surface, some 50 objects: rings, wedding rings, watches, earrings, and coins, including a 10 dollar coin minted in 1894," Majdanek Museum Director Edward Balawajder said in an interview with foreign news agencies.
An interview with Abraham Lewent, a former prisoner at Majdanek, describes his experience when his family was taken from the Warsaw ghetto and delivered to the camp.
"Where we're going, we don't know," he said in an archival interview conducted by the United States Holocaust Museum. "They put us on trains. I was together with my father, and with this man, and his wife, or his sister, was it? And they took us to Majdanek. Majdanek was a camp near Lublin, and over there was five fields. That means every field had eight or nine hundred people and it was barracks and there's nothing to do."
Lewent was among many Jews forced into hard labor at the camp.
"The only thing you were Majdanek you did, you sit sometimes all day long, and sometimes they took you out to work and a half of them never came back," he recalls. "They make you sit all day long and breaking up from big stones to make little stones, or digging holes, digging ditches, and covering the ditches up. That was the work. That's what you call, uh, a camp what actually is annihilation...they annihilate people, actually."
More than 360,000 people were murdered at Majdanek by the Nazi regime between 1941 and 1944. More than half were Jews. Jews from Poland made up nearly half of the over 6 million Jews exterminated during World War II. Overall, Nazis conducted a campaign of slaughter that saw the deaths of more than 11 million people.
Balawajder called the find significant not just because of the value of the items found, but as additional evidence of the Holocaust that can be preserved for future generations. Some of the found items, including a gold wedding band, are being shipped to various memorials around the world including Yad Vashem in Israel, the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Melbourne Jewish Holocaust Center in Melbourne, Australia.


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The 85th annual ceremony will be broadcast live on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT on ABC.
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"Imagine you don't have a well-paying job. Imagine you don't have a nice apartment, or your home. You have three kids. You're working part-time at McDonald's. Then you have another job on top of that. You have one child in childcare, two in school, and you're paying more than half of your income for rent. But you know your child has food at school."
That's the situation many of our clients face, as described by Venus, who runs a grocery pantry supported by SF Food Bank. It sounds bad enough – but this time of year, it gets even tougher:
"Now, imagine that the summer comes. You now have to find someone to take care of your children, and you need to make sure they have three meals every day. Can you imagine yourself working two more jobs, or another job just to barely make ends meet? Can you imagine yourself letting your children go hungry?"
While most of us are looking forward to camp, vacations and fun in the sun, thousands of children are at even greater risk of going hungry this summer – a staggering 38,000+ in San Francisco and Marin alone.
Summertime means that children who normally receive free or subsidized school lunches are suddenly minus a meal – in many cases, the one meal they could count on. The San Francisco Food Bank will make every effort to fill in that gap.
We've added an additional program to our plate, partnering with the Department of Children, Youth & Their Families to provide healthy snacks daily for 4,000 kids.
Our Programs Department also works hard to help keep our school grocery pantries open, or redirects school pantry visitors to other locations, as needed. And we make sure those pantries that serve an increased number of families have enough food to go around.
Through the coming months, we'll distribute enough food for 93,000 meals every day, including fresh-picked summer produce: corn, tomatoes, peaches, plums, watermelon and much more.
So as we head into summer, please help us ensure that every child has enough to eat. Because for so many, in summertime the living is not easy.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver Republicans' response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, GOP leaders announced Wednesday.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., selected Rubio -- an influential Latino conservative who was first elected in 2010 -- to speak for Republicans in their official response to the president's speech.
The State of the Union response slot is often seen as a potential launching platform for politicians who harbor national ambitions; fittingly, Rubio is one of the most-hyped figures in the GOP, and is thought to have designs on the party's presidential nomination in 2016. The honor carries a degree of risk, however: many past figures to deliver their party's response have been panned for their performance.
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Republican Sen. from Florida Marco Rubio speaks at the BuzzFeed Brews newsmaker event in Washington on February 5, 2013.
"I'm honored to have this opportunity to discuss how limited government and free enterprise have helped make my family's dreams come true in America," the Florida senator said in a statement. "Limited government and free enterprise are the very foundation of what makes America special and separates us from the world, particularly through our strong middle class. I look forward to laying out the Republican case of how our ideas can help people close the gap between their dreams and the opportunities to realize them."
Rubio has also helped take the lead recently in working with a bipartisan group of senators to craft a comprehensive immigration reform bill that allows a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Rubio has worked to sell that legislation to conservatives, just as immigration is sure to figure prominently in Obama's yearly address on Tuesday.
"His speech will focus on the Republican Party's agenda to grow the middle class," a Rubio aide said. "Immigration will likely be mentioned as one way to grow the economy, but the speech really is about the Republican Party's commitment to limited government as the best way to help the middle class, and how it differs from the President's plans for bigger government."
"Marco Rubio is one of our party's most dynamic and inspiring leaders. He carries our party's banner of freedom, opportunity and prosperity in a way few others can. His family's story is a testament to the promise and greatness of America," Boehner said in a statement.
Added McConnell: "Marco Rubio embodies the optimism that lies at the heart of the Republican vision for America. On Tuesday, he will contrast the Republican approach to the challenges we face with President Obama's vision of an ever-bigger government and the higher taxes that would be needed to pay for it."


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Throw the Book at Me!
What could possibly be funnier than a holocaust-denying bishop exchanging blows with an Argentinian reporter?
I can think of many things.
Like this video, or this picture, or these fans.
But in the end, what is making my side split today is the announcement that Condoleezza Rice (what's the second "z" for anyway?) has signed a book deal with Crown Publishers to write three — count 'em three — books detailing her tenure in the White House as well as delving into her oh-so-saucy personal life.
Crown issued this statement:
"Rice will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story
of her time in the White House and as America's top diplomat, and her
role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during
the extraordinary period from 2001-2009."
Extraordinary? You betchya! That was an extraordinary, poorly structured sentence!
When Crown Publishers says "candid", what they really mean is "bullhickey" and when Crown Publishers says "acute analysis" what they really mean is "a cute anal cyst".
I am going on record with that.
Ah yes, the moment we have all been waiting for, my friends: the inevitable onslaught of uninteresting, embellished memoirs (see James Frey) from Bush administration cadres who would be much better off hiding under that blanket of destitution they collectively weaved over those eight long years.
What's next?
Dick Cheney's memoir: I Screwed Over My Own Country and Got Away with It
Donald Rumsfeld's memoir: Blowing Up People Is Fun
Dubya's memoir: I Am Smarter than a Fifth Grader Because I Am Way More Educationified
I suspect these tell-alls will not tell all and that they will all be as candid and truthful as an Alex Rodriguez/Katie Couric interview.
If you want the truth, read the battery of explicit facts spewed by one Jose Canseco. He seems to be the one with all the info and up to this point, he has been the most accurate when disclosing the inner workings of a poorly policed administration.
Plus, he knows where to get the good stuff.
Speaking of good stuff, I am and always have been a reader (how else do you think I became so intelligent?) and though I enjoy some good fiction every now and then, my true passion is reading about real life. These days I can be found reading Jane Heller's Confessions of a She-Fan. My busy schedule of Cub fan hounding and John Mozeliak thrashing has allowed me to only read a little bit each day, but I can honestly say that I am thoroughly enjoying it.
And since we are all about telling the truth here at RSBS, I am not going to withhold the fact that while reading Jane's book during my commutes on the Chicago Transit Authority, I do my absolute best to hide the chick-lit-esque cover boasting a female fan donning a Yankee cap, looking up at an invisible monster whom I can only assume is Theo Epstein. The cover lady's eyes are dreamy. She's definitely into me. But I still force myself to cover it up. I live in Chicago after all. Like the rest of the blue collar cities, we hate 'dem Yankees… don't get me wrong, the book is great and all…
Just remember: I have an image to uphold.
Luckily, my stealth allows me to take in Confessions and really enjoy it. And while I may not have the desire to date a Yankee, as author Jane Heller once did, I sure would not mind dating some of the Yankees' leftovers.
Believe me, that would be way more interesting than any Condoleezza Rice book.
So go ahead. Throw the book at me; just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.