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Daily Trojan, Vol. 23, No. 131, April 22, 1932
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phone RI. 4111 Editor Sta. 227 3u*. Mgr. 226 SOUTHERN C ALIFORNIA TROJAN Uni ted Pres* World Wide New* Service il. xxin- ____ Ftonight s SEASON §R ORATORS Debate Squad Faces of San Francisco 'in Final Meeting A California debaters tie 1932 season tonight in Porter hall when tw# speakers from the 0f <tan Francisco. Rich-HM and Glenn Jones will affirmative of the ques--Bftolved: that congress enact leflsalUon providing t> centraliz'd control of jj (constitutionality waiv- 3 |. a junior on the debate Van Ames cup winner, lu participated in 10 colle-debates. Jones, who is re--u-, s.C. on the forensic jjn for the last time time, BowfD cup winner, captain squad, and has debated it than 40 intercollegiate annual event tilt with the Bay city is an annual event and >i a closely contested according to I»ckwood r, varsity debate manager. jh for the debate are J. (Mom, debate coach at Glen-jasior college; Miss Lucille debate coach, Hunting-Piri high school; A. W. Doug-t business man and former at the University of Los Angeles, California, Friday. April 22, 1932. No. 131 U.S. Bank Loans Rise To $370,437,802 WASHINGTON, April 21. ~ (UP)—The reconstruction finance corporation has made loans to 1,757 corporations totalling *370,437,802 in the 11 weeks since it began operations on Feb. 2, Chairman Charles G. Dawes revealed today in the first detailed corporation report to the house ways and means committee. Replying to criticism that big banking Interests chiefly huve been benefltted, Dawes cited flgures showing that 69.2 per cent of banks getting loans arp in towns of less than 5,000; 88.9 per cent are in towns of 25,000 or less, and only 5.3 per cent to banks in cities of 1,-000,000 or over. C IS HOST TO II.C.L. A. COUNCIL Md; to end small squabbles m the two universities, the uernlty Council last night lined representatives of U. fraternities at a dinner 1 Student Union social hall. PEACE PRIZE SPEECH WON BY BERNARD Second Place Awarded To Baughn; Third Honor Goes To Tilden W orth Bernard last night won the first prise of $50 in the Crombie Allen-Rotary International Peace contest, held in Porter hail Alfred Baughn was given second honors and a prize of $25, and Richard Tilden was given the $15 prize for third place. Winners were chosen from group of five contestants, selected in the preliminaries, Wednesday. With Robert Heffner, president of the Los Angeles Rotary club, acting as chairman, the competition was judged by the following Rotarians; Rudolph Seller, of the I Los Angeles Times; Arthur M. Lockhart, vice-president of the Rio Orande Oil company; Richard E. Smith, advertising manager of the Southern California Edison company. SPEECHES ON ROTARY Speeches were given on the subject of the "Sixth Object of Rotary International" which Is "the advancement of understanding, god will, and international peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men united In the Ideal of service." Gold, stiver, and bronze medals were given to the three winners, along with the cash awards. The contest was created through an'endowment made by Cromble ■ Mother'' Mary A. Mooney told A"en 0ntar)o RotRrian. Terms of the competition provide that lt Political Rallies Draw Large Crowds To Hear Final Plans of Campaign ROLPH REFUSES MOONEY PARDON IN THIRD APPEAL Nation-Wide Attempt To Free Famous Convict Hints Retrial SACRAMENTO, Calif., April *2. — (UP)—Denial of an unconditional pardon to Tom Mooney by Governor James Rolph Jr. today may lead to a new trial for him in San Francisco in a dramatic effort to achieve executive clemency. the United Press an immediate attempt would be made to bring her son to trial on one remaining murder indictment In connection shall be held in a different col lege or university In southern California each year. It will not with the Preparedness day bomb- 15e hf.1(J al g c tgaJn for f(mr ing: iq IS 16. I years* Iu San Quentin prison, Mooney | was peeling potatoes when Rolph ruled, as three governors bad before him, that the prisoner deserved to remain incarcerated for life. He was bitter with disappointment when lie was advised that Governor Rolph had denied NEWMAN CLUB TO ENTERTAIN TONIGHT Knulity smoother the way his plea for pardon. He said he forming friendships. Presi-■ of both councils voiced their , that a common agreement would be reached by mem-of bo'h student bodies con-wlth university dignity, (Hat public "washing of dirty rould cease. -rtainment was furnished jpthering by members of the anta cant, included were Kappa Alpha Theta trio; Henderson; Cynthia Titus 'Berber Callaghan; Maxine : and Jack Swarthout. The Nu blackface comedians ) loudly applauded for their i*1 crick ing act. id L. McClung ill Represent C. at Buffalo Anting S. C. at a national meeting, Dean Reid L. of the College of Cornell leave Sunday for Buffalo, will attend the three-day ■••on of the American Asbo-* °f Collegiate Schools of Nipondt io au iuviiatlon ten-several weeks ago, Dean ? "in appear on the pro-one of the principal tspeak-« topic will be "The Alms -Poaeg of Collegiate Schools .'"V and the Character. "rganliation of the Cur-~ «« Accomplish Theae Pur- ^IcClung »ill return lmrne-iJlVhe Bessions on April Ifflv. i, ln ,,le stall*r hotel le1. 00 Muy 7 or 8-... 0ll',Hy known speakers itaion HI> ^an Emory ■ niversity of.Pennsyl-^ector Cheater L. Jones. c/ °f " >sc°nsin; and Dean v 01. I niversity of North Students To v,|'t Park On Trip H Pai k will be the K ,r*p t0 be taken *M1 * ,"y 8tudemB satur- •«. for iho ...______ ... might have expected the governo-to do wiiat he did, then he denounced Rolph and his political allies and finally lie held himself up as "the symbol of struggling labor." Apolliad Poetry On Program of Speech Recital As a preliminary to the Apolliad program to be given on May 7, the weekly School of Speech assembly at 9 a. m. today, in O.C. 333. will be devoted to the l eading of poetry selections from the 250 poems entered, it was announced by Dean Pearle Aiken-Smith. Poets wiio will read tlielr own work are Mildred Cline, William A. P. White, Audrey Raymer, Cynthia Titus, Howard Miller, and Arthur Strock. Students who will substitute for poets in interpreting their work are Elizabeth Bowers, who will read a poem by Anne Bartosh; James Jacob for Edward Goad; Milton Schwartz and Betty Snider for Mary Shoop; Janet Pelphrey for Bob StTange; Cynthia Titus and Margaret Bartow for Ted Magee; Virginia Huftins for Over-ne Abney; and Betty Snider for Mary Beatrix Arne. Poetry by Mary Ott Hawkins and John C. Higgins will be read by a group Choice of work to be used in the Apolliad will be made from that read. Judged by the audience and the faculty of the School of Speech. Anyone The Trojan Newman club will hold its annual spring informal dance tonight at 9 o'clock at Newman hall. Willowbrook avenue at Vermont. Members of the dance commit tee are Lora Ryan, outgoing vice-president, and John Raymond, newly elected president of the club. Bids are )1 a couple, and are on sale at the cashier's window in the Student's Store. OUTDOOR CLUB TO MAKE HELD TRIP The Outdoor club will make a field trip to study bird life thia week-end, it was announced by Bob Hormonson. president of the club. The party will leave the phys. ed. building at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and go first to the bird preserve at Griffith park, from there to Sunland, and then to Camp Arthur-Letts, boy scout camp, ln Hollywood. At each of these places Dr. Francis Bacon, dean of men, who ls a competent ornithologist, will lecture on the various birds and their habits. All students are invited to attend, and the club advises everyone to bring field glasses, or powerful opera glasses. Those coming should sign up in the physical educatiou office today. Transportation will be provided. GREAT FIRE IN TOKIO TOKIO, April 22. — (UP) — A great flre at Omlya. at the foot ot Mount Fuji, today destroyed J.200 houses. Boyle Feted By College of Architecture At Rally Meeting Sounding action and optimism as the keynote of their campaign, approximately 200 enthusiastic supporters of Bob Boyle ln the campaign for the student body presidency attended the rally given last night by the College of Architecture ln their exhibit room. Lauding Boyle as Uie "logical man to lead the Associated Students next year from the standpoint of logic and ability," campus leaders representing both organized and Independent groups on the campus praised the record of their candidate. Stressing Boyle as the "rtght-ful choice of the students for the piesidency," Ray Stevens, former president of the College of Architecture, opened the meeting by giving the record of the candidate since his entrance into Southern California. Stevens then introduced Boyle as "our candidate and your candidate.'* "The splendid spirit and backing that you have shown," stated Boyle, "means more to me than winning or losing. "One of the most significant features of the campaign Is the organization of the Independents. I sincerely believe that their statement of policy is one of the fairest Btands that I have seen; one \Vhich a candidate must live up If he ls to maintain a solid front In the Internal affairs as well as the rushing program of the university. I am actively in support of this movement and their ideals and aims, and I believe a sincere study of our platform will show that we have provided for recognition of the Independents ln many more ways than they have asked." In seconding Boyle's stand thai the independents should be given their rigthful place in student government, Harry Proctor, campaign manager, declared that "the platform represents approximately the same aims as the Indepen dents have expreased In their policy statement." Maintaining Bob Boyle Is the (Continued on Page Two) Mohler Leads Backers In Meeting At Women's Residence Hall Stating that no campaign promises had yet been made by bis party, Orville Mohler, candidate for student body president, ad dressed 209 studeuts who gathered at the Women's Residence hall laat night "1 agreed to run for this offlce only on the condition that there be no promises,' he said. In Ills speech to Vis supporters, Mohler reiterated portions of his platform, adopted earlier in the campaign. Among them were the greater unification of the campus, and continuation of high scholastic standards for the university. Mohler also made mention of the recent Independent movement on the campus, and said that he endorsed the two resolutions passed by the orga nization. RUSHING IS ISSUE "We must Interest off-campus students In the extra-curricular activities of the university," said Mohler. '^Student* in the colleges of dentistry and music should come into closer contact with the main body. Their prob lems should be our problems." He went on to say that rushing should be done for the benefit of the university as a whole, not for any particular college. "Let us direct new- students first to the university, then let them branch out to the professional schools.'1 The Independent movement is a new power which will better the university, Mohler staetd. He endorsed the two resolutions pas Bed by the new organization requesting recognition ln the StU' dent Body government. "In such a large organization as ours progressive movements arise that must be coped with. A new situation has come up In the form of the Independent movement, and speaking frankly, there are two alternatives as I see lt, after much consideration, First, it may precipitate open conflict betwen fraternity and nonorganization students which we know would not be for the betterment of the university. Secondly, (Continued on page two) DANCERS SOUGHT Poet's Birthday FOR REVUE ACTS To Be Honored On S.C. Campus S. C. Journalists To Edit Out'of'Town Newspapers Two crews of students from the S.C. department of Journalism will edit the Fullerton News-Tribune and the Ventura County Star, Saturday to gain practical experience in newspaper work. Quentin Reger, managing editor of the Trojan, will be the editor of the Ventura County otar. Fullerton NewsTribune. Tony Mu satti will be new* editor, Phyllis Doran will edit the society, and Paul Van Riper, Betty Cox, Reeves Templeman, and Mary Shoop are to be reporters. John McCoy of the Journalism department will supervise the trip. These trips are taken by tne (Specialty dancers for the extravaganza "Suppose'' are needed, Jean Masciiio, dance director announced today. Anyone having a number to offer may see her on Tuesday afternoon in Bovard auditorium at 3:15. These numbers may include tap and toe variations and dances of an eccentric and exoctic nature. The eccentric numbers will be used to impersonate the inhabitants of an Imaginary race on Mars. Work on the three regular choruses, tap, pony, and show-girl, will continue at the scebduled times under the direction of Jean Maschlo and Audrey Walhaus. It Is suggested that those -who have specialty numbers have them prepared over the week-end so that they will be completed for judging on Tuesday. Women To Meet Loyola Debaters In Contest Today Dehaters from the men's varsity of Loyola college will engage the S.C. women's team in a non-decision tilt at 3:30 this afternoon in Porter hall. Coach Alan Nichols has selected Margaret Half and Anne Jenkins to uphold the negative of the centralized control question in opposition to the Venice dehaters. The anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth will be honored by a group of 2,000 Junior and senior high school sludents participating ln a festival organized by the Speech Arts association of Southern California, to be held on the S.C. campus tomorrow. Sixteen outstanding amateur and professional enthusiasts will act as judges for the six groups of contestants, who will recite from memory 30 lines from any play by Shakespeare having two or more parts. Earle McGinnis, former S.C. student body president, will preside at ihe luncheon to be served In the Student Union and at the afternoon program. Following this, a program Including three scenes from plays by the great poet, music of lhe Elizabethan era, and Morris dancing will be presented. S.C. representatives on the committee in charge of the celebration are: Prof. Paul Ritter of the history department, who will secure the afternoon program, and Mrs. Tacie Hanna-Rew of Ine School of Speech, In charge of publicity. DAWES SAYS DEPRESSION GOING AWAY Fiery Chairman Attacks Evils Of Bonus Bill In House Group WASHINGTON, April 21—(UP) | —Charles O. Hawes banged his j pipe on a table today and. with many explosive "damns" and "hells," said conditions are getting I better. The country should slop watching the "peanut stand' stock mar- , ket In Wall street because It Is a deceiving magnifying glass, Dawes said. The chairman of the recon j struction finance corporation de livered a lecture on sound sense 1 and confidence when he appeared before the house ways and means committee to start the adminis- ! tration onslaught against Ihe sol | dier bonus bill. WARNS SOLONS Passage of the Patman bill for Issuance of $2,000,000,000 in currency, he said, would "shake the soundness of the United Slates government Itself" and would be an Invitation for the United States to "start on that primrose path Germany followed until the mark went down." He said such an Issue of currency as proposed ln the Patman bill "would have a disastrous effect from the country's currency system, upon the credit of the federal government and upon tho entire credit structure of our country." Under the Influence of the reconstruction finance corporation, Dawes said, bank failures have been checked and he gave very encouraging flgures to prove it. "We in our positions are realizing that there is a marked change In tbe situation,'' he declared. "The banks are beginning to make loans." *'We don't aeed one more dollar in money," he said lo referring to the bonus. "We've got $900,-000,000 more In circulation than we had in 1919. The trouble ls lack of confidence." Doran Orders Elections Meet Today Unless the following girls report today at 12 o'clock ln the committee room, S. U. 234 to Phyllia Doran, they will not be •onsldered for wont on the all-University elections committee. Thursday. May 5. Alma Alvin, Barbara Ander *on, Ruth Bartow, Eleanor Bic-Kerton, Betty Lee Bonuer, Virginia Bowker, Irene Hrnnnais, Barbara Crulckshank. Betty Cranz, Virginia Daniels. Euge nie Edmunds, Beatrix Finston, Pauline Foster, Edith Gibbs, Mary Hargraves, June Holman. Virginia Harpelden, Margaret Hufford, Dorothea Jacrrkl, Elsie Jorgenson, Lyna Jorgenson. Barbara Ann Le Vltt, Jean Mil chell, Roberta Perslnger, Betty Price, Dorothea Purcell, Margaret Pyle, Florence Richer!. La Verne Rockwell, Helen Ross, Audrey Stanwood, Rnd Betty Stockwoll. RALLY TODAY WILL PRESENT NEW PLEDGES GRADUATE SCHOOL TO BE HONORED EDICK TO ASSIST IN SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST AT S. C. High School Students Compete For Awards In Journalism Marjoria Edick, society editor of the Dally Trojan, has been appointed by the department of Journalism n« the senior Journalism major to act as Judge with 1:raf. Roy French of the Journalism scholarship contest, in which 17 glrla nnd f$ boys from schools in southern California are competing. The four-year scholarships are offered annually, one to a high school boy and one to a high school glil, both of wiiom must major Iii Journalism at 8.0. Personal Interviews will be granted the contestants this Saturday and next Saturday, and announcement of the winners will be mnde soon after. ' Qualifications necessary for the contest aro that the candidate must be a member of the February or June graduating class of the year the award is made; must be in a southern California high school; murt have a high scholarship rntlng for all his years ln high school; must have contributed valuable services to his high school, publication; must have a professional Journalistic career aa bis goal; and only one candidate, either boy or girl, can be eligible from any one hlgli school each year. Past winnr ss of the Journalism scholarship have been Quentlu lleger and Vivian Rogers. Ill '29; Ernest Fost< r and Margaret Lloyd, lu 30; ond Jack Frankish and Bitty I<e* Bonner, In '31. Tho applicants are as follows: i Lorna Beauchamp, Manual Arts; Florentine Valentine, George Wasnlugton; Hetty Honebrake. | Kali fax; Audrey Hand, Inglewood; Anna Buss* Narbonne; Evelyn Edwards, Beverly Hills; Irma Hru-liaker, Huntington Park; Florence Jason, H.'.'itn Monica; Elaine France, Alhambra; Neva Haga i !-ian Sau Fernando; George Ro-At Sunday Meeting bort. L. > Poly; Frances Nelson, __John Muli; Genevieve Williams, A drama, directed by Mrs. Ce- Phinnens Barning; Stuart Fergu-cllla Smith, will Iw presented at uon. Puente; Roxle Willis, Ana-the University M. E. church next helw; Myrtli Burnell, San Bernar- Sunday evening at 7:30 as part of I dlno; Katherine Toier, Coronado; ^ ___ the program of evening meetings Mary Mintz, Roosevelt; James Ka j (ra'|)z<i(1 r(,Dlloi question. Earliei of the School of Spech. _ j gan, Benjamin KraukliiK Janet j |n th>. gl)glHn a ,ravpl|ng teaJ 14 Honoring all graduate atudents, Mrs. Rufus B. von KlelnSmid ls having a lea at her home, 10 Chester place, on Saturday afternoon, Apr. 30, from 3 to 5 o'clock. Mrs. von KlelnHmld will be assisted by wives of faculty members Saturday while Gertrude Tyson ls In charge of girls who are to serve. Jean Sellars, School of Speech post-graduate student, will present a part of her master's thesis play, iphlgenla In Taurls" and other entertainment will consist of selections by various members of the College of Music. It ls imperative that all those planning to attend leave their names in the Graduate school offlce on or before Thursday, April 28. Drama To Be Given Spooks and Spokes Join With Sigma Sigma For Ceremony At an all-unlverslty rally today at 9:56 in Bovard auditorium tha 15 new pledges of Spooks and Spokes, junior women's honorary society, and 26 men. pledges of Sigma Slgma, Junior men's honorary fraternity, will be presented to the student body. Thpse women nnd men, because of their profi-ciency tn leadership, student activities. a. d high scholastic re-J cords have been honored by these two organizations. Josephine Pelphrey, president of j Spooks and Spokes will officially (pledge Mie following; Mary Clan-I foni, member of National Collegiate Players, member of Zeta J Phi Eta, and active In all dramatics; Margaret Dudley, also ■ j member of Zela Plil Kta, and eec-I retary of the School of Speech: I Betty Gillen, who has served on (both the Trojan and E1 Rodeo staffs, member of Trojan Amaions, nnd recently elected vice-president of Y.W.C.A.; Gretchen Mayer. Trojan Amazon, president of Delta Gamma, and dance manager of W.A.A; Jean McCulloeli. member of the Trojaa staff, and publicity manager of the W.A.A. cabinet; Jacqueline Morehouse, secretary of tbe W.S.G.A.. who has served on numeroua W.S.G.A. committees; Genevlve Plagman, president of Pan Hellenic, member of Ath ena Literary society, and vice-president of Iota Sigma Theta. Dorothea Ellen Purcell, pros'., dent of the Junior class al tbe College of Music, member of Phi Beta and Phi Phi; Marloc Rich-ardson, member of the Cosmopolitan club, winner of the Bowen cup for extemporaneous speaking, and a member of PI Slgma Alpha; Lyda-Blythe Richman, president of Delta Zeta, president of Le Cercle Francais aud a member of Athena Literary society; Asilomar chairman of Ihe V.W.C.A. cabinet, a Pan-Hellenic representative, and chairman of many Y.W.C.A. committees; Harriet Louise Touton, president of Plil Beta, secretary of Alpha Chl Omega, past president of Y.W.C.A.; Roberta von KlelnSmid, member of Pbl Beta, member of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet, and a member of the Poetry Playhouse caat; Vesta Wiley, vice* president W.A.A. for two years, and editor ot th the W.A.A. handbook. and a member of the Pre-Med society; aud Virginia SmH.h, ataff member of the Trojan, treasurer of Alpha Chl Alpha and an Amason. Active members of Spooks and Spokes are: Josephine Pelphrey, president; Peg y Sweet, vice-pro-(Continued on Page Two) FROSH DEBATERS MEET SAN DIEGO Rov Johnston and Bob North, freshman debaters, take ibo plat, form this afternoou as represen. tii<iw-a of souiheni California be4 fore an assembly of the Sail Diego State Teacher's college stu<* dent body. The debaters left last ntghl wllh their coach. Gregson Hauu zer, to fulfill a return engagement against tile San Diego Slate van slty on the negative of the cen^ Last Sunday evening Dean Im mel of the School of Speech read Charles Rann Kennedy's play, "The Terrible Meek." Bdluerston, Glendale; John Wood' ward, Eagle Rock; Donald Tobin. •>ong Head. Poly; and Joseph Barnett, lustln. Plea for Slogans Is Made by 'Y' BANQUET HEADS MEET AT NOON In preparation for the annual recognition banquet to be given by the Woman's Self-Government association on May 12, tlie following committee heads are requested to meet with Marjorie Grewell, social chairman of W.S.G.A. and general chairman of the banquet. The annual Conference Theme !ln aI noon today, to dls- Coniest sponsored by the V. M C. CU8" tbe organization and develop A., closes on Wednesday, April ment of their comlmttees 27. The Trojan "V" ls asking | Betty Gildner, food; Roberta Under him he will have A Ha students in order that all campus men who are Interest- hou KlelnSmid. hall; Irene Brou worth. Gene Handsaker. Cisudis jo experience in the ed lo send in suitable slogans or nals, Mill. ScUUIer, decorations; Shirley, Dorothy D. Doak, \ ere- | tn y 7 « trios 1 themes upon w hich the next con- Grace Kdlck. guests; Maxine Set for Junior Class Play To Be Finished by Monday trom San Diego upheld the negs tive of thu same question on thi< campus. The trip Is the climax of th< freshman season, during widely the yes'lings have dropped bus one dedsiuu out of 12 debates. Superior Judges To Face Recall Action Circulation of recall petlllwas agalnts three superior Judges ii^ volved In the American Mongagj company receivership "acandalj was ordered today by the boars That the set for Dulcy" Juulor j or let-down moment. The drolli class play which wiil be given , tlea of Dulcy combln**il with the Friday, April "9, will be com I ectt.mricit|es of Vincent Leach and pleted by Monday, was announced . . today by Wallace Kraser, play I •»« uprising end of Schuyler productions manager. This will Van Dyck provide a uumorous con allow the cast one week to work Irast to the desperate efforts of of trustees of the Los Angelea with the finished scenery ao tha' Dulcy's husband aud C. Roger 1 Bar association. It will become familiar with all ' Korbes to do buslueas on a week The hoard said it consider^ tbe details and have It combined end intended for pleasure. A ro- 1 adequate lime had been given tha successfully with the w hole. The [ mantle element is supplied by An- ! judges. Dailey S. Stafford. Waltej setting will be the living room of gela, who Anally marries the right S. Guerin, and John L. Fleming ' ii.an. McDonald added 'hat the to accede to Ba: association dfl modern play covered all phases o.' trouble mauds for their resignations. with perhaps a few kinds of Dul- j Meanwhile, the Los Angela Invention. Lawyers' club turned down th student recommendation of the board o the resiguttl addiiion to tl he Bar assi go\ ernors Superior Dulcy's country home, Tbe play, which Is und well-known comedy, is excep
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Uni ted Pres* World Wide New* Service
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Rice is nice when the price is right
The main rallying cry of those opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotations, such as JA (National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations), is that Japan can no long feed itself with the food it produces, since its self-sufficiency rate is a meager 39 percent. But as attorney Colin P.A. Jones recently pointed out in his Japan Times "Law of the Land" column, this figure is misleading since it measures food consumed in calories.
In terms of production, Japan's self-sufficiency rate is 65 percent. Moreover, in terms of total volume of food produced, Japan is fifth in the world. The point is, Japan produces plenty of food for itself, and it also imports lots of food. It is a wealthy country by any measure. However, its agricultural sector is lopsided in that it doesn't produce food in a way that matches demand.
Rice is the culprit. Even without American threatening their livelihood with shiploads at the ready of cheap short-grained rice, farmers in Japan are already seeing prices drop precipitously. There is just too much rice being produced, despite the fact that the government still pays farmers not to produce so much.
According to Tokyo Shimbun the problem started in 2011 after the Great East Japan Earthquake destroyed much of the crop in the Tohoku region, a major rice-producing region. Consequently, rice stocks became low and the price skyrocketed. This situation lasted through the 2012 harvest. As a result, restaurants and prepared food makers cut back on the amount of rice they used. But by the middle of 2013, stocks of rice had increased to the point of a surplus, and a bumper crop was produced in the fall. But demand didn't follow suit and the surplus grew considerably. Again, the situation remained unchanged and the price has been dropping steadily since then to the point where it's lower than it was before the earthquake.


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"We are in favor of a National Convention"
Editorial in the Staunton Vindicator, November 23, 1860.
Following Abraham Lincoln's election as president, South Carolina and other states in the lower South immediately called for conventions to determine their fates. Many white Virginians did not strongly identify with residents of the lower South states, especially in regions of Virginia where slavery was less important. Some residents in western Virginia and in the Shenandoah Valley, including the editor of the Staunton Vindicator, shared more interests with residents of the other slave states bordering free states. "We have no idea of 'hitching' on to the Cotton States, on any other conditions than those we may prescribe ourselves," the editor wrote. "They must come to us—we can never go to them without depreciating our position and losing our self-respect. We have all to lose as Border States—they, as Gulf States, nothing, comparatively." The Vindicator's editor called for a national convention including representatives of free and slave states to arrange a compromise to keep the union together. If the union dissolved, the editor hoped it could be peaceful, as was the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church into northern and southern divisions in 1845 over the question of slavery.


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London Public Library wants kids to know that reading isn't going out of style — not while they're around, anyhow.
London libraries make reading fun, engaging for kids this summer
London Public Library wants kids to know that reading isn't going out of style — not while they're around, anyhow.
All 16 branches are taking part in the TD Summer Reading Club, a free, national effort, sponsored by TD Bank, that aims to foster early literacy in a vibrant, welcoming reading environment. Children who sign up track their reading in a membership booklet, often personalized with stickers and doodles, and get curated reading lists based on their experience and preference.
And looks like a summer hit, if last month's kickoff event is any guide, said Lisa Manax, children and youth services co-ordinator.
"What was really special for me was the excitement of the families," she said. "We saw thousands of families . . . more than we've ever seen."
Manax visited hundreds of kids at London schools in the weeks before the launch to let them know libraries aren't just about reading — they're a place for kids to be kids.
"We want them to really feel like they belong here, that the library is their space," she said. "It's about the kids and what the library can be for them. We're a community resource and our staff take that to heart."
While TD provides the club's 2,200 participating libraries with basic materials, individual branches are free to tinker with the program and make it their own. In London, that means making trips to the library fun and exciting for kids — and easy for parents.
All the programming is free and most doesn't require advance registration, Manax said. "Families and kids can walk into their neighborhood branch and our staff has spent hours designing activities for them."
Manax said all 16 London branches offer events for families — from storytime to arts and crafts — every Friday.
At the kickoff, youngsters got a fine-free, kids-only library card — a first in London — and little reading flashlights to take home. There's also draw prizes handed out each week: the more kids read and the more books they list in their notebooks, the more prizes they can win.
Manax said the new cards, which don't charge kids for overdue books, reflect the library's overarching mandate: to get kids reading, and reading more.
"The idea of supporting your kids in reading over the summer, in reading for pleasure, is resonating with people more than every," Manax said. "It's like they're rediscovering reading."


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The ebook has a good example under "Lies in Extremis" of hiding a child from a murderer, and I accept his conclusion that you can tell the truth of "I won't tell you" rather than acquiesce when the murderer says "Is he here?" And yes, someone stronger, esp. if packing a handy weapon, can do better against this one guy than lying "Nope, haven't seen him".
However: what I'd like is a plausible justification for ANYTHING other than saying "No Jews hiding here, sir!" in the following situation, one or more of which apparently Sam heard in his college class:
Even with Nazis at the door and Anne Frank in the attic, [professor Ronald A.] Howard always seemed to find truths worth telling and paths to even greater catastrophe that could be opened by lying.
Are there *any* valid criticisms of this response, or (even microscopically) better options than this particular lie to a squad of SS troops? (This isn't a completely academic question: the situation continues to occur - see Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, southern Sudan…)
sam says himself that he can't take kant seriously on this point and that to truly stick to that principle would lead to results that only a psychopath would choose. and similarly, if you agree with violence in self-defence in certain circumstances then it seems nonsensical to rule out lying in similar situations.
perhaps kant's position makes more sense when combined with another of his formulations that "maxims be chosen as though they should hold as universal laws of nature". in other words - if everybody in the world were to stand up to the SS soldiers then they would eventually be overthrown., therefore that is the better way to behave in that situation.
in the grand scheme of things that would be better than lying to protect your own house while allowing the SS to continue murdering, but in the particular situation where to try that on your own would only result in you being killed and then your house searched and everyone inside killed as well, then i suppose you would have to allow the exception to lie in self-defence.
I'd agree ^^
I don't know that he would ever say that lying will always bring about more ethical consequences in all situations, although there will still be things to worry about it no matter what. The Kant part and that example of extremis weren't directly told in relation, but i think that that's what he means by saying you can't possibly believe one should never ever lie. I found lying to only make me more consciously aware of the ethics involved when about to lie, rather than make me seriously never tell another lie.
my critique on sam harris's lying.
i want to start by saying i read lying for free on scribd which was roghly 54 pages. it seemed the total essay but if i am missing some of his key points because of that, i acknowledge that.
to start off i find that sams evidence to telling the truth being the best route and the absence of it almost always leading to bad outcomes presumptious.in the examples he uses yes! but in life there are many outcomes and variables to these tales.
For instance an older friend of mine was told that his wife had only 4 years to live due to her medical situation. he decided to not tell his wife this as it would keep her more postivie and possible stronger immune system. in this circumstance it worked she overcame her cancer and is still alive.
on a slight side not sams says by lying to someone you are essentially saying you know whats best for their life.i think it is largely the opposite that is the case. I think they know the truth about themselves better than me, i tell them a white-lie on the backdrop of the clear and harsh truths they know of themselves.
yes some have been ruined for lies yet many have not and managed to live the good life with their practices of white lies and ommisions of truth. In my own life i lived my teenage years until 20's as a very bluntly honest person almost incapable of lies, this led to a great array of problems, but mostly utterly unsuccesfull relationships of every kind, which led to severe mental health problems such as depression.
i now strive to be honest and compassionate as much as possible but also with a heavy dose of realism to my environment and the consequences it will breed.
I feel that sam is not considering enough his own unique background and where his staunch attitude to honesty comes from. to my knowledge he grew up in a very secular and academic background.he continued to study at some of the best universities and be surrounded by highly academic and civilised humans.i can see how that environment may lead to the conclusion that lying is unnecessary. But is this the situation of most poeple, i would say no. Many are deeply entwined with deeply biased, irrational poeple.
i myself grew-up in a very religous environment and to my own folly thought that being honest would largely be respected and bring good fruits. and even i have suffered less, than friends who lacked less foresight than mine.
This brings me to a facet of honesty that sam did not discuss. To be honest is a privilage, are you powerful enough to be untouched for an honest controversial opinion. we all experience this to different degrees.The more controversial the more powerful your influence must be in its different forms to remain non-dentrimentaly affected.
There is a great deal of nuance to this situation and the landscape has shifted greatly, largely due to the internet.we can share opinions anonymously with largely little tax to our person. thus only now giving birth to such things as the arab spring and anonymous.
This ties into sams theme with the book, trying to make us more ethical by being honest. I feel this is largely an incorrect or largely inefficient way to galvanise humanity to be more ethically honest. You must design it into the structure of our relationships, this seems to me the only meaningful steps to progress with this ethical problem. This is a question of technolgy and how it can effect honesty, which i know sam is very open to but none the less has put his energies into writing a book to convert rather than a tech project.
lastly i challenge the very premise of the book, Will society really be better if we were more honest? i find all his suggestions to leave me actively unsure.He mentions the follys of tiger woods. but what would tigers life have been if he had always been open about his voracious and undiscerning sexual appetite, would his life have turned out better?
we can also imagine a situation were the social blow back throughout his life may have led to little or no sponsorships. Disruptions with his close family and colleagues leaving him regularly unpopular much earlier in his career thus affecting his mental game, confidence…..culminating in him being a little known of golfer and a reputation of being a creep without the finances to pay for his appetites.Is that outcome so implausible from an honest tiger woods, i think not.
and if not for our individual lives would society.
when i learned sam wrote on lying i wanted to read it asap cos i have always had problems with society cos i just don't lie. so i read it. i agreed with it fully until i talked to my son,who knows me well,together with my problems with society and probably knows the reason for it. my love for the truth and saying it to anyone who would listen. so he told me that it's all nice but whoever tells the truth and nothing but the truth can get even murdered by the society,thing that happened to socrates. i am greek.
so i thought of asking sam the following.
listen sam. i know you have a beautiful little daughter and you love her very much. so i'll put you in a hypothetical situation that your little beautiful daughter is instead of very beautiful,very ugly. yes plain ugly. so she asks you if she is pretty.
what would you say to her sam?
i know saying to her she is pretty would be a white lie,but as far as i remember you are against those lies too.
for your consolation,i fully agree with humans having no free will at all,in spite of what your opponent says. and also,i don't agree with the philosophy stand that the two can compromise.
simply said it's so obvious there is no free will.
in spite of random movements of microwhatever.
yours truly
That's a pretty good example.
Even if one dislikes lying, would there be any benefit to telling your daughter: "I'm sorry sweetie but you're about the ugliest baby a woman ever gave birth to." There are two options; you lie or you crush your kid. Eventually side-stepping the question with a "You're special as you are" isn't much different from lying.
People lie all the time and if they didn't, society would collapse. A degree of lying is required for it to function. If you meet someone in the street and ask them how they are, they'll probably say "fine" while in reality they could feel like shit, had a fight with the wife last night, are behind on payments and so very much hate their kids right now. But they lie and answer "I'm fine" because they know you don 't want to be overwhelmed by their misery. Or they don't desire to share how they feel. And you didn't ask to hear the truth either.
People lie all the time. "No, your ass doesn't look too fat in those pants." "You're still as pretty as the first day I met you." "That new shirt indeed looks pretty." "I love working here boss." "I'm the right candidate for this job." "Yes we can."
I'm a blunt person but learned that often it is better to not say anything at all or simply tell a lie. The lie usually doesn't cause problems. The truth more than often does.
It isn't the lying which is the root of any problem, it is the emotions triggering or requiring these lies.
To add.
In a social context a lie might appear negative, even if it is a white lie. And while I somewhat agree society would be better were some more brute honesty applied, the view we have upon lying is largely defined by our morality.
If you think about lying in the context of competition you realize that there is a strategical benefit to it. It gives you a direct benefit while honest behavior has no direct benefit at all. Some monkeys "cry wolf" to scare the competition into the trees in order to ensure that snack they spotted. That's basically lying. Of course when caught this lie, or cheat, can very well turn into a disadvantage. Nonetheless it can make a serious difference, especially when the lower ranked use it to momentarily out-compete their superior.
Our whole society is constructed upon lies, some well-intended, some not so much. Many of them too are purely for strategical benefits and often the higher one is ranked in our hierarchies, the easier it is to get away with them, even when exposed as a liar and as such, the more tempting it becomes to use them strategically. Look at politics as an example; everyone knows politicians lie and we don't even think twice about it and thus, neither will they.
White lies are more often than not done purely for emotional reasons. Either the one telling the lie can't bring up telling the truth or they don't because they know the other can't handle such truth. That's the root of the problem; most humans are emotional creatures and lying is just a symptom of that. As long as their emotions rule their rationality, lies are needed.
As it is now, honesty doesn't last longest but too often it takes longest. And more often than not it ends quickest too.
not because you are special is another lie cos it may not be but because she knows that every child is special to her father but she wants to be special AND PRETTY. she know that being pretty is VERY important.
there have been conducted two galops polls with very large samples.
both showed that most people want their match to be
good looking
with good social status themselves or of their family and preferably both
then a big gap
to be well educated
to have social graces
and finally
to have good character and other human virtues that reside in the brain
they forgot the religion and other such…
and smoking alcohol and drugs
and HEALTH
i forgot to say that i believe that lying in the world as it today and as it has always been,is inevitable. otherwise you are done with. and,again in my opinion,lying 'could' be stopped only if more than fifty percent in ones region stopped lying. and it is impossible to arrange. not to say a ward about that most of people dont want to stop lying.
one more thing. lying is in nature of human beings being a part of animal world. its a way of survival.
and finally,as water runs only where it CAN run,as human affairs and nature developed in evolution and history. as they only could. some accidents made the things as they are in personal and global scheme,but accidents are part of the causes of events to happen an human character to develop…
Indeed, a truth not spoken equals a lie being told. If someone asks me if they're pretty and I tell them they are special as they are, I am basically stating that I think they're not but they, or I, are too emotionally fragile for that to be outspoken. Thus I dodge that fact with a platitude that, hopefully, makes at least them feel good about it. Even if I'd not answer the question at all, that could very much equal a lie. When I think something, whether I say that in the open or not, does not make that much difference in such context.
Of course beauty not only is in the eye of the beholder, and even while there is a biological basis in relation to health or reproduction, that what we consider beautiful is largely culturally defined. But in a culture in which the visual tends to be put on a pedestal, being brutally honest seldom leads to less "pain". Such would first require a culture in which the rational is put on a pedestal.
i do not agree with that beauty is only in the eye of the beholder,in the context that i had described. i meant the beauty in the eyes of the mean person,the average person. when a littles girl asks her daddy if she is pretty she means if she is pretty in the eyes of 50 percent viewers and not in her dads eyes. she knows she is pretty in his eyes. she wants to know if she is pretty in most mens eyes,when she grows up,the objective beauty she wants,not the subjective,of her parents and the people who know her and love her. they are not objective. i dont think there is one mentally and emotionally normal person who would say that garry cooper and elizabeth taylor were not the most beautiful people on the planet.
Beauty is indeed not only in the eye of the beholder but, as I mentioned, largely culturally defined. Here in the West, Hollywood and fashion have an enormous influence on what has become our standard of beauty. Any objective judgment of beauty is largely a judgment of what society considers beautiful.
I guess I'm that one person that doesn't consider Cooper and Taylor the most beautiful people on the planet. I prefer faces that breathe life. The option that I'm not mentally or emotionally normal I won't exclude.
well i am sure you know what i meant. alain delon is there too,and also merylin monroe.
if you insist that you don't know what i meant i'll tell you. i meant the physical beauty. what you said is some other kind of beauty,beauty of soul.
i myself consider alain delon very beautiful but i am not attracted to him at all. i am not attracted to garty cooper either. too cold. both of them. the same goes with elizabeth. bur not with merylin. she is warm. and not so beautiful as elizabeth.
so beauty in its physical only sense is cold. beauty in the sense that you described is warm but is not physical. its of the soul.
and finally i am also sure that you knew i was joking saying that all the normal eartheans consider garry and elizabeth the most beautiful people on the earth. if for no other reason,many people would disagree for spite and many illogical reasons. i am logical at the cost of emotion. i am afraid of emotion. logic is safe. emotion brings disaster. that's why.
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Isn't it nice to know that hedge funder John Devaney, once ranked by Time magazine as one of the "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis" is back on track? Having lost over $650 million for investors, Saturday's WSJ interviewed him about his new bounce back to half his $250 million peak.
Devaney conceded in the interview it was a rough couple of years. He discarded the $36 million jet, the $45 million art collection and the more modestly priced $10 million helicopter. While investors walked away with nothing, he reminds the WSJ he put in over $14 million of his own cash when the fund was crashing.
Presumably, the more serious aim of the interview was to confirm publicly his regulatory clean bill of health. Having emerged from multiple SEC investigations, the case against him has been closed with no finding of wrongdoing. Devaney confirms the SEC sent a "very nice letter thanking us for our cooperation."
The PR Verdict : "C" for Devaney for setting the regulatory record straight. But failing to add anything resembling humbling wisdom or lessons learnt, means this PR exercise didn't do what it set out to do.
PR Takeaway: Rebuilding trust requires more than simply saying the SEC didn't catch anything. Making it clear a regulator has no enforcement action planned and no ongoing investigation is worth clarifying but how about adding some humility and personal learning? Devaney, at the age of 41, gave no insight as to how his own actions might have contributed to a 100% loss for investors. Next time a handful of personal observations, skilfully worded to avoid new legal liabilities, might minimize the nagging concern that this could all happen again. And just a tip, stay away from palm trees when being photographed. They send the wrong message when talking about other people's money.
To read the WSJ article (for WSJ Subscribers) click here. What's your PR Verdict on this comeback article?
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Becoming a Surrogate Mother - What Are the Pros & Cons?
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Your first step to find out if you are at a healthy weight is to find out what your BMI, or body mass index, is and what your waist size is. For most people, these are good clues to whether they are at a healthy weight.
What's your BMI?
A healthy weight is one that is right for your body type and height and is based on your body mass index (BMI) and the size of your waist (waist circumference). If you are age 20 or older, use the Interactive Tool: Is Your BMI Increasing Your Health Risks? to check your BMI when you know your height in feet, weight in pounds, and waist circumference.
- If your BMI is less than 18.5, you are in the underweight category. Talk to your doctor to find out if your weight is a symptom of a medical problem. A registered dietitian can help you learn about healthy eating.
- If your BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9, you are in the recommended weight range for your height. But your health may still be at risk if you are not getting regular physical activity and practicing healthy eating.
- If your BMI is 25 to 29.9, you are in the overweight category. This may or may not be unhealthy, depending on some other things, like your waist size and other health problems you may have.
- If your BMI is 30 or higher, you're in the obese category. You may need to lose weight and change your eating and activity habits to get healthy and stay healthy. See the topic Obesity.
If you are Asian, your recommended weight range may be lower. Talk to your doctor.
It's important to remember that your BMI is only one measure of your health. A person who is not at a "normal" weight according to BMI charts may be healthy if he or she has healthy eating habits and exercises regularly. People who are thin but don't exercise or eat nutritious foods aren't necessarily healthy just because they are thin.
What's your waist size?
After you know your BMI, it's time to look at your waist size.
Measuring your waist can help you find out how much fat you have stored around your belly. People who are "apple-shaped" and store fat around their belly are more likely to develop weight-related diseases than people who are "pear-shaped" and store most of their fat around their hips. Diseases that are related to weight include type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
Measure your waist size with a tape measure. The tape should fit snugly but not press into your skin.
For most people, the goal for a healthy waist is:1
- Less than 40 in. (102 cm) for men.
- Less than 35 in. (88 cm) for women.
If you are Asian, the goal for a healthy waist is:
- Less than 36 in. (91 cm) for men.
- Less than 32 in. (81 cm) for women.
|If you are ...
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In the underweight range on the BMI chart:
See your doctor to find out if you have a medical problem that is causing your low weight.
Within the recommended BMI range and your waist size is within the recommendations:
Your weight is not a problem for your health.
At or above the recommended BMI range and your waist size is higher than recommended:
See your doctor to find out if you have health problems that might be related to your weight.
You may need to change your eating habits and get more active.
In the overweight category on the BMI chart but your waist size is within the recommendations:
Your weight may be right for you. But you need to see your doctor to find out if you have health problems that might be related to your weight.
In the obese category on the BMI chart, no matter what your waist measurement is:
You may need to lose weight to be healthier, as well as change your eating and activity habits.
Your doctor may want to take another measurement, called a waist-to-hip ratio. This measurement is a comparison of your waist size to your hip size. A higher waist-to-hip ratio means that you are more "apple-shaped" than "pear-shaped" and therefore at a higher risk for weight-related disease.
Body fat testing is sometimes used to help find out if a person has a healthy percentage of body fat.
Do you have other health
If you are in the overweight or obese category and your waist size is too high, it's important to talk to your doctor about weight-related health problems you may have, including:
- High cholesterol.
- Heart disease.
- High blood pressure.
- Sleep apnea.
- Type 2 diabetes.
- Metabolic syndrome.
- Osteoarthritis.
- Some forms of cancer, such as colon, breast, and prostate cancers.
If you have two or more of these health problems, your doctor may advise you to make some lifestyle changes and/or lose weight. He or she may also refer you to a dietitian, an expert in healthy eating.
Are you unhappy with
your weight?
If you're at a healthy weight but are still unhappy with your weight, you're not alone. Lots of people are.
It can be hard to be satisfied with how you look when TV and magazines show unrealistic images of what it means to be thin. Here are some things to think about:
- There is no "ideal" body shape or body size. We let society tell us what "ideal" means. But the way a skinny model looks in a magazine or TV ad is not normal or "ideal."
- Do you feel good and have plenty of energy? Can you do the activities you want to do? That's what healthy living is all about, no matter what your weight is.
- Trying to lose weight when you don't have to can actually be bad for you. Most people who diet end up gaining back the pounds they lost—and more.
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Frank De Winne's Odissea mission diary: On board 'my' spacecraft
Internet chat with children
I just had a chat session with children for the Belgian children's TV channel Ketnet. Mostly they ask me the usual questions. What do I eat in space? How do you go to the toilet up there? What am I going to do in the Space Station and on board the Soyuz? What did I study? They tell me that the children were very satisfied and enthusiastic. A one point there was so much interest that the server crashed.
Today we had a complete medical check-up for the last time, the so-called 'Klinicheskiy Fisiologicheskiy Osmotr' or KFO. Tomorrow, based on all our exams, the 'big commission' will decide if we are ready for our mission. Normally I would have departed for Baikonur on Wednesday, but that will probably happen a few days later.
In this way I will have some extra rest days here in Zvyozdni Gorodok (Star City) near Moscow. I should have had a few days of rest last week, but as a consequence of the extra lessons and procedures for the Soyuz-TMA, for which I had to study, we missed these.
Sunday 20 October 2002: a short delay
My space mission probably will be delayed for just a few days. This depends on the conclusions of the commission, which is investigating the accident at Plesetsk. Their findings will be known next Tuesday.
Friday 18 October 2002: some minor changes to the Soyuz spacecraft
I had to study a number of changes which have been made to the Soyuz-TMA spacecraft. Today I'm taking exams that cover these changes. One of the instruments which controls the on board computer did not function in the way it was supposed to. This is nothing to worry about. The Soyuz-TMA will fly for the very first time and it is not unusual that a problem of this kind is found during the last integrated tests. My experience as a test pilot is also very useful in dealing with this matter.
Thursday 17 October 2002: in Baikonur
Yesterday and today I visit the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where I will be launched into space. This is a place of historical events, like the launch of the first Sputnik satellite on 4 October 1957 and the flight of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961. Gagarin made his flight just a few weeks before I was born. I will leave Earth from exactly the same spot where the Sputnik and Gagarin were launched.
Today I will have a look at the Soyuz-TMA spacecraft in which I will fly into space and do a number of tests. My spacesuit will also be tested again.
In fact we will be rehearsing the whole procedure of launch day. It is the first time that we see our own spacecraft and this gives me a special feeling. I went inside and could really touch all the buttons and the equipment on board. This gives a different feeling than the simulators. Everything looks more 'real'. I thought we had just a little bit of space in the simulators, but the interior of the real spacecraft looks even smaller.
This is the second time I have visited Baikonur. In April this year I saw the launch of my Italian colleague Roberto Vittori. The third time I visit Baikonur will be for my own mission!
Wednesday 16 October 2002: reaction to the news
Today I'm leaving for Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When I get on the plane in the morning we briefly discuss the news of yesterday's failed launch. In Belgium this seems to get relatively a lot of attention. Our reaction is a rather quiet and serene one. This was an older rocket and another type of rocket than the one I will be launched with.
Tuesday 15 October 2002: failed launch
At the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the north of Russia a Soyuz rocket with the unmanned research capsule Foton M-1 on board fails. A commission will investigate the cause of the failure and report its conclusions. After that I will know what the consequences will be for my own flight.


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Lochte comfortably prevailed in the opening round of his heavyweight clash with Phelps when he won the 400 metres individual medley, slowing down near the end and gliding into the wall in four minutes 07.06 seconds.
Phelps, who had led after the opening butterfly leg but dropped back to third place heading into the final freestyle leg, finished second in 4:07.89, while Tyler Clary, the silver medallist at last year's world championships in Shanghai, came third in 4:09.92. Only the top two go to the Olympics.
"The first race is always the hardest," said Lochte, who already has six Olympic medals, including three gold, from his previous two trips to the Games.
"It feels great to be on the team. Now I can take a deep breath and relax ... I've still got so many events left in this meet."
After winning five gold medals in Shanghai last year to surpass Phelps as swimming's new standardbearer, Lochte is expected to swim in at least six events at London.
Phelps won the 400 medley at each of the past two Olympics and holds the world record at 4:03.84, which he set when he won his record eight gold medals in Beijing.
But the 26-year-old, who had struggled for motivation after the last Olympics, had initially planned to drop the gruelling event from his programme before having a late change of heart.
"I was very pleased with that," said Phelps, who is set to go head to head with Lochte in up to five events at the trials.
"There was a lot of discussion about this race but in the end I wanted to do it. This is an event I have done my whole career and I want to finish my career with it."
Peter Vanderkaay, who teamed up with Phelps and Lochte to win gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay at each of the past two Olympics, also secured his place for London when he won the 400m freestyle final.
The 28-year-old Vanderkaay was the oldest man in the final but charged through on the final lap to beat his younger rivals and win in 3:47.67, just ahead of Conor Dwyer (3:47.83).
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Could space jumping be the next extreme sport? After all the objects that have gone into suborbital space: teddy bears, Lego men, plates of sushi, one man plans to send himself up to the edge, and then leap back down again.
We first told you about Felix Baumgartner's quest to be the first supersonic man two years ago, and now it looks like his potentially record-breaking jump has a date. This week, Baumgartner's jump team will announce plans to send the sky diver up with a suborbital balloon this coming August. He'll travel 120,000 above ground, and then spend ten minutes traveling (we hope safely) back to Earth. It's believed that he will travel 690 miles per hour, allowing him to break the sound barrier.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2003 News Releases > February 2003 > Big Weekend scheduled for March 21-22
Big Weekend scheduled for March 21-22
PLAINVIEW - Wayland Baptist University will host Big Weekend, a college for any high school junior or senior, or college transfer student. Scheduled for March 21-22, the weekend is for those who want to experience college life at Wayland.
"(Big Weekend) allows them to see first hand what Wayland has to offer," said WBU Director of Admissions Shawn Thomas.
Students will participate in special events where they get to know some of the University's students, faculty and staff. They will be offered mock classes, financial aid seminars and admissions counseling.
"Essentially, they are a Wayland student for a weekend," Thomas said.
Students will have the opportunity to attend baseball games, take campus tours, sleep in the dorms, eat in the cafeteria, try out for various athletic teams and take part in voice, theatre and band auditions for scholarships.
A Friday night concert featuring Switchfoot will highlight the weekend. Switchfoot may be most noted for its work on the soundtrack to "A Walk to Remember." Five of the band's songs were used in making the film. The concert will also feature Noise Rachet and Denison Mars.
The weekend will be capped with a Baptist Student Ministries led worship service at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
The cost is $20 per student and $15 per sponsor for the full weekend with an optional $8 T-shirt. Meals are included in the registration fee. Students must bring sleeping bags and all personal items, including those things needed for tryouts and auditions. Students will stay in the dorms, while sponsors and parents can take advantage of special rates available at select Plainview hotels.
The concert is open to the public and costs $10 for those not participating in Big Weekend. Tickets are available at the Wayland bookstore; at Mardel, Family Christian Store and Lifeway Store in Lubbock; at High Plains Religious Bookstore and Family Christian Store in Amarillo; and at The Master's Books and Gifts in Clovis, N.M.
For more information or to register for Big Weekend, contact the WBU Office of Admissions at 806-291-3500 or 1-800-588-1928 or visit the Web site at www.wbu.edu .


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Prepared by Myrna Siegel
Edited by Jerrold Landau
Maytchet, my village and the memories of my birthplace the Jewish population was eradicated from the face of the earth by the hands of the sick inhumane nation, may their names and memory be erased Yemach Sheman from history. After being separated from it for 35 years, memories of my distant childhood come to my mind, awaking in my heart strong emotions and yearnings for the near as well as distant past the warm house, the extended family and all that goes with it.
Maytchet was a famous city in Poland. It had mountaintops blessed with scenery and was a vacation city. A forest stretched out in a huge area near the city. Fresh air, the smell of pines and the forest, and fruit of all kinds attracted many thousands of summer visitors who came for their health from many Polish cities. Some came for pleasure and enjoyment, and others on doctor's orders for recuperation. Near the forest was the large inn of the Margolin family, which was booming with business from many people day and night. Not far from there flowed a wide river for whose clear water came thousands of people, including the local residents, to recuperate and relieve their fatigue.
The river had a close connection with the largest flourmill in the area, which belonged to our family, Boretsky. My grandfather of blessed memory, Moshe Aaron Boretsky, came from a very large and respectable
|Moshe-Aharon Boretsky the miller and his grandchildren
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family. The sons and daughters and their families lived together in close proximity in Maytchet. From there some immigrated to the States and many other branches were set up in cities and other small towns most of them in Slonim. The closest ones were concentrated around the mill and frequently gathered. They even bought a large boat for the grandchildren to go boating together on the river.
On the right of the mill was a narrow street that ran between rows of high trees. This was wonderful expansive scenery that was enchanting to behold. On moon-filled nights the young people would gather and, accompanied by mandolins, would row on the water until the early hours of the morning. And they were in constant fear of the unexpected surprise from the gentile boys. Right next to the mill was a very large stone bench which, during the day, provided for a short rest and a breath of fresh air. And at night for undisturbed romance with the exception of a few cases when a Polish police officer on duty would approach them out of curiosity or more correctly jealousy to look and see who was there. But when you identified yourself by name, there was no unpleasantness.
I remember the train station from the days of the horse and buggy. And later, the bus line to Baronovichi that Yichael Shoptick managed. Afterwards it was renovated and turned into the famous train station which contributed greatly to the quality of life. At dusk despite the relatively far distance, many would walk out to accompany and to receive passengers and some just for an enjoyable walk.
On Shabbos, after resting from eating cholent [the Sabbath midday meal], when the weather was good the Jews went out en masse in the direction of the forest for a stroll. With the approach of shalosh sudos [the third Sabbath meal] the street emptied of its walkers with the exception of couples in love who found it difficult to part.
Our Tarbut school was one of the most important institutions in the city. It had in it most of the children in the town and it gave them knowledge and education. It produced many alumni groups, some of which continued on in Vilna. The respected memory of our teacher and principal, Abraham Shukhovitzsky, who was one of the school founders, was concerned about all of its needs, with whom he invested all of his energies. Among the graduates of the school were the best youth in town.
Maytchet was a Zionistic town. The blue box [Keren Kyemet collection boxes] was found in most homes. Achieving aliyah was one of the highest goals to the youth movements. A branch of HaShomer Hamtzair absorbed many of the youth and set up a teacher's club and had many activities. During summer vacations in the surrounding village areas they set up regional summer camps in which hundreds of Shomrim participated. This also contributed much to the enjoyment and way of life. The results were Hachshara and Aliyah. But only a few merited this and most died in the Holocaust. Discord, the Jewish disease, affected Maytchet where many political parties were set up. Independently they set up their own dramatic club that was worthy of praise, with a group of outstanding actors.
I lived a couple of kilometers away from the main part of town or more correctly to the entrance to it. All the Polish institutions were near our house and we lived house to house with our gentile neighbors. On the surface the relationship between the neighbors were good, but nevertheless you felt at times the anti-Semitism that oozed from them. From the days of my childhood I remember an unusual occurrence when one of the farmers married off his daughter and invited his Jewish neighbors to the party. He made available a large room, bought new dishes,
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brought in a Jewish cook and set up Kosher tables based on laws of Kashruth and Yiddishkite to the joy of the surrounding Jews and the host family.
In the center of town all the stores were centralized on both sides of the road. That was the local center of trade. Dvorzecky's Pharmacy, Karawczok's Barbershop, Idel's grocery store, Sirshka's accessory and notions store, (zawad) of the Balinsky family, Romanovsky family grocery store, etc. etc. I remember them all by name and by sight; they all remain in front of my eyes. The large and fancy synagogue whose ground floor was designated for the men and the upper one for women. On Shabbot and holidays especially, they streamed there from the oldest to the youngest. I loved to stand next to my Aunt Dvorah and to quickly repeat seven times the prayer Lamenatzeach Livnei Korach[1]. It was a special experience to come and greet our parents after the fast and tell of the day's events on Yom Kippur. The treifniks were well known when, after following them into the forest, they were discovered with full plates of food.
A special memory was the Purim experience with Shaluch manos [Purim gifts]. We went from house to house with a frightened heart that someone would take an orange off the plate.
Pesach with all of its glories and its laws, remain indelibly etched in my memory. Turning the house inside out, the painting, making the dishes kosher for Passover, baking the matzo, the traditional beets in a wooden barrel. The wine, known as Mead, then washing of the Pesach dishes.
The Jews rented land from the non-Jews for the purpose of planting potatoes, which they filled their cellars with a full year's stock. They also stored in their cellars barrels fi
lled with pickles and sauerkraut. They made homemade wines (Vishniak) and different drugs that were prepared in case they would be needed in sickness and emergency. Every house had a cow, chickens for eggs and ducks for fat with gribines for Chanukah latkes, Pesach, etc. For the most part we existed on homegrown produce, baking of bread, meat, all milk and egg products, vegetables, fruits, etc. My mother, of blessed memory, with her own capable hands, planted the seeds for all the vegetables and took care of the house needs, and these were not small quantities for a family of eight people and also for the winter storage. In our garden the first tomato appeared, which many had never seen and did not know what to do with. The name of Maytchet also became famous for it's sour milk that you would cut with a knife, which acquired the nickname of Maitchata Sour Milk.
Every Wednesday was market day. Farmers from near and far would come in mass, some on foot, some in vehicles, with baskets overflowing with agricultural produce. They had sour cream and cheese, vegetables and fruits of all kinds, eggs, chickens, cows and horses for sale. For these items they would barter or purchase what they needed mostly vodka, which was poured into their stomachs like water. Towards evening, as the last farmers left the town, and the echo of their singing reached out to a distance, we knew that the time had come to gather the children into the house, to close the windows and the doors, and to be prepared for the results of their wild drinking. They would knock on the Jewish doors and scream, Open the door we are going to slay and massacre the Jews. When we didn't answer they would go back and fall drunk on the side of the road. The last night of the market was always a source of fear for us because we lived on the main road between the town and the villages.
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Translated by Jerrold Landau About the former life in Maytchet and the region.
I myself was born in Navahrudak, but I spent my childhood years in Maytchet. I arrived in Maytchet in 1917, and I remember a great deal about life in Maytchet. I had family there: Zelig Leizerovich the tailor was my father's brother; Chana, the wife of Mordechai Alperstein the tailor was my father's sister; and Michael Shlomovitz's wife Sonia was his cousin. Thus, our family was well represented in Maytchet. I therefore come to take part in the Yizkor Book and write about my early childhood years, which form a part of Maytchet Jewish life.
In our house, we heard word that the need in Maytchet was not as great as in Navahrudak. I therefore spoke to two neighboring children and set out with them by foot to Maytchet to seek help from our relatives there. We were ten children in the family, so when I set out, they would certainly not take notice, and that is indeed what happened. One of the children had a pair of old shoes, the other was wearing one shoe and one boot, and I was s barefoot. Thus did we set out on our way in the bitter cold.
Along the way, we stopped in the village houses to beg for food from the farmers. Some of them would give, and others threw us out, until we came to a village in which a Jew lived. The woman of the house took pity on us, gave us a supper of dairy soup, and put us to sleep on the ground with a bit of straw. Early the next morning, they woke us up and told us to go to a nearby village, Svorotva, where there were Jews who would give us
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something to eat. We set out on our way. My bare feet stuck to the frozen ground. I was going along and crying from the cold and hunger, until we arrived in Svorotva. There, we went into the house of a Jew named Reb Shlomo, who told us to sit by the table and gave us bread and butter, and an egg for each of us - a food that I had never seen before at home. After we ate, Reb Shlomo hitched up a horse and drove us to Maytchet. He left me off near Uncle Zelig's house, and my two friends went to their relatives. Reb Shlomo took me into my uncle's house, introduced me as his brother's son, and left. They treated me well with food and drink. In the meantime, Aunt Chana came, and when Uncle Zelig told her who I was, she took me to herself, for she did not have any children and wanted to have me as a child.
Uncle Mordechai was very stingy, and demanded that my aunt send me back home, but my aunt treated me as a mother would and delayed sending me back day by day, until a change took place. Uncle would go to worship with a rabbi who was paralyzed. He would help him get dressed, and he held him in great esteem. When he went there on the Sabbath, my uncle took me along to the rabbi, and I carried his tallis and siddur. The rabbi asked who I was, and my uncle explained everything to him. The rabbi then blessed him and wished him that this merit should help him have children of his own. The rabbi's blessing worked very well with my uncle, and when we came home from the services, he told my aunt that I can remain there, and that they would enroll me in a cheder.
On Sunday morning, my aunt took me to the cheder of Hirshe-Yudel the teacher, who lived in the synagogue courtyard, and I became a student among the other students. They made me an outfit and a pair of shoes, but they only let me wear them on the Sabbath. With regard to eating, the entire family participated. On Sunday and Monday I ate with Uncle Zelig, on Tuesday and Wednesday with cousin Sonia, and the other days with
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Aunt Chana, who used to also concern herself with me on the other days. She would go to Shmaya in the restaurant and get me pieces of herring, hard pieces of bread, and other leftovers, thanks to which I was sated with the participation of three families in providing food for one young child. Then, when I began to get accustomed to life and would eat to satiety, my parents came to take me home, but I strongly refused and remained in Maytchet.
|Maytchet youth enjoying a sleigh ride during the winter
I settled in well in Maytchet, and already had friends with whom I played kneplech [buttons]. And there was no shortage of buttons at my uncle the tailor, until he realized that I was carrying away all the buttons to play with. After that, when he threatened to send me home, I found another source for buttons. I would go to the Beis Midrash and when everyone was standing to recite Shmone Esrei, I took a small knife and cut the buttons off the coats - one day in the large Beis Midrash, the next day in the Hassidic Shtibel, etc. One Sabbath
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I won all the buttons from my friends. A big fight broke out during the time of joy, and I ripped my Sabbath pants. I was afraid to go home until my aunt got involved. The pants were fixed, but the era of playing kneplech was over. However, G-d does not let one down, and I found another game - taking loops of belts and running with them through Podkriszer Street to the hill, and going up the hill, or in the winter riding on the sleds that traveled in the town, as well as well as other pranks.
Mosheke the peddler was my uncle's brother-in-law. He had a weakness for serving as a cantor, and was always called to the prayer leader's podium. However, as usual, there was no shortage of pranksters. Someone would start rabblerousing, and another would stand by the podium. This caused great resentment, and after the services, there was a strong exchange of words. A celebration took place in the Beis Midrash on Sabbaths afternoons, where Yankel would be reciting Psalms. He would recite chapter after chapter by heart, and everyone would repeat after him with a sad but heavenly melody, that warmed the soul, especially in the winter. On the other hand, the youth would go to the Zavad to drink seltzer water and lemonade. I also went and saw that they drank, paid no money, but rather left some kind of little notes. I also wanted to take without money, but they did not give me, and my childish mind did not understand why.
There were also many other things that I did not understand at that time, and evoked great wonder. When my uncle would bring a hen from the village, he would not slaughter it during the day. Rather when everyone was already asleep they would wake me up and send me to David the Shochet to slaughter the hen. When my aunt went to the butcher shop to get meat for the Sabbath, she would purchase only half of what she needed, for she was afraid of an evil eye. She would send me for the other half at a different butcher shop. It was the style in Maytchet that every Jew had a pair of goats, and Henoch would go to the hill with all the goats to graze them. It was a wonder to me how he became obligated to go
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with the entire town's goats. I recall with wonder the miller's daughter who had two long, thick braids, and when she went on the street, it seemed that there was more braid than girl. I am no longer a child and I have traveled the world, but I have never seen such beautiful braids as I had seen on the miller's daughter in Maytchet.
Maytchet was a small town, but a true Jewish town which I will never forget. The Jews of Maytchet would go with their tallis bags to the synagogue to worship and study both on weekdays and on Sabbaths. Even in the evenings, there was never a shortage of a minyan [prayer quorum. Thanks to Maytchet, where I spent the years of my youth and was educated, I grew up as a Jew who could take the pen into the hand. Maytchet Jews did not live in wealth, but rather in great unity with each other both in joyous times and times of suffering. When there was a wedding in town, the joy could be felt everywhere. When they led the young couple to the chupa [wedding canopy], the musicians would go in front, and the entire town, young and old, would follow from behind. In my life, I have witnessed various weddings, but I only recall a true, joyous Jewish wedding from Maytchet.
The heart is full of sorrow and can find no comfort when one recalls that the virtuous and ideal Jews of Maytchet were so tragically murdered at the hands of the fake, murderous neighbors. They should be well recompensed for their worth, and the martyrs should be granted a true rectification.
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The home of the Al Abbasi family in Ein Al-Lozh neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem was demolished by the Israeli military on Tuesday in spite of a stay of execution from the Israeli courts.
The Israeli army arrived at around 8:30 am on Tuesday February 10 to destroy the 200 square meter house, constructed at a cost of NIS 700,000 (approx. USD $180,000). The house had been under a demolition order for a year, but the family had appealed the decision to the Israeli courts while they sought to get a building permit. The army decided not to wait for the court decision, suggesting that at times one arm of the Israeli occupation doesn't know what the other is doing.
The Palestine Monitor spoke to Majd Ghaith, a photographer and filmmaker with the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan who tries to document home demolitions in occupied Jerusalem. "Actually it isn't that unusual for them to carry out demolitions without the court's permission," he said.
Majd explained that the Israelis came up with "a new tool" for carrying out demolitions in 2012. "We built a cultural center in Silwan and they came to demolish it a few days later. So we asked for a demolition order from the courts and they said, 'No we have a cleaning order, we don't need court approval.' They consider our center to be like rubbish, so they cleaned it up," he sighed.
With regards to the demolition in Ein Al-Lozh, Majd said that the warning signs were there. "The police had scouted the area four or five times in recent weeks. The streets are very narrow so the bulldozer cannot enter at any time." He explained that the Israeli police don't normally enter the area or carry out patrols, but their presence in recent weeks indicated to the community that they were assessing when it was best to come back to the area with bulldozers.
The Palestine Monitor spoke with the Al Abbasi family in Ein Al-Lozh about the demolition. Mohammed Al Abbasi cut a forlorn figure as he pointed down at the ruins of his home from the porch of a relative's house where his family have taken shelter. "We have women and children and they demolished our house… They demolish our homes but still we will stay. Allah will suffice me and he is the best guardian," he said.
Separately, a small factory where six families were living was demolished on the Mount of Olives in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday February 11. The Israeli army confiscated NIS 400,000 (approx. USD $103,000) worth of materials for fashioning gravestones, before demolishing the factory, the residences and the families' animal shelters, according to Majd Ghaith from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center.
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