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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Elmhurst College football team scored its first-ever playoff victory and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship by upending 10th-ranked Coe College 27-24.
"This is certainly a historic win for our program," said Elmhurst head coach TIm Lester. "We weren't going to be content to just make the playoffs and our guys kept fighting and found a way to win late like they have all season long."
Joe Furco's fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Corey Thonn on a fourth-and-goal proved to be the difference as the Elmhurst defense turned away Coe on their final two possessions of the game. The Bluejays' defense also stopped Coe on three fourth-down attempts in the contest while Elmhurst's offense was a perfect 3-of-3 on fourth down.
Scottie Williams rushed for 196 yards and a touchdown and picked up a key fourth down conversion near the end of the fourth quarter to put the game away for Elmhurst.
The two evenly matched squads posted almost identical numbers. Elmhurst (10-1, ranked 17th in the latest D3football.com poll) compiled 429 yards of total offense and 21 first downs. The Bluejays rushed for 265 yards and passed for 164. Coe (10-1) totaled 415 yards of offense and 24 first downs. The Kohawks rushed for 208 yards and compiled 207 through the air.
Elmhurst took the opening kickoff and promptly put points on the scoreboard. Williams ripped off a 61-yard run all the way to the Coe two-yard line, but the Kohawks stuffed Elmhurst's ground attack on the next three plays. The Bluejays settled for a 21-yard field goal from David Tomis to take a 3-0 lead just four minutes into the contest.
On Coe's first possession, the Kohawks drove to the Elmhurst 25-yard line, but Dan Vicari and Ryan Johnson stuffed Coe running back Brendan Leiran on a fourth-down carry, giving the ball back to the Bluejays' offense.
After an Elmhurst punt, the Kohawks evened the score by driving 59 yards on 12 plays and settling for a 23-yard field goal from Wes Anderson.
Elmhurst pinned Coe down at the three-yard line after a punt, but the Kohawks mounted an impressive 12-play, 97-yard drive capped by a five-yard touchdown run from Leiran to take a 10-3 lead.
The Bluejays answered immediately, evening the score on a two-yard toss from Furco to WIll Caspers. The 57-yard drive was keyed by a 31-yard completion to Ryan Maguire.
After both teams punted, the Kohawks went to work on offense late in the first half. Coe quickly moved downfield, marching 71 yards in just eight plays and taking a 17-10 lead on Jared McNutt's seven-yard touchdown pass to Jared Kuehner with less than a minute left on the clock.
Elmhurst managed to tack on three points just before the end of the half. After fielding a short kickoff from Coe, the Bluejays drove to the Coe 32-yard line with less than 10 seconds remaining. Tomis boomed a 49-yard field goal through the uprights as time expired, giving Coe a 17-13 lead at the half.
Coe took the opening kickoff and drove to the Elmhurst 18-yard line. The Bluejays' defense stopped the Kohawks on a fourth-down attempt, giving Elmhurst the ball at their own 18.
The Bluejays moved the ball down to the Coe one-yard line and facing a fourth-and-goal, Williams pounded his way into the end zone to put the Bluejays on top 20-17.
Elmhurst tried to catch Coe off guard with an onside kick, but Coe recovered at the Elmhurst 45-yard line and three three plays later, McNutt hit Kuehner for a 24-yard touchdown to put the Kohawks on top 24-20.
Elmhurst fumbled the ball away on its next possession, but the Bluejays defense forced Coe to punt.
"Our defense was aggressive today," said Lester. "They hit hard and played hard all game long. One of the big keys to the game was when they forced Coe to punt after we had turned the ball over and were trailing. It was a huge momentum boost for our team."
Elmhurst took over at its own two-yard line and drove down to the Coe 7-yard line. Facing a fourth-and-three, Lester sent the field goal unit on to the field, before calling timeout. The Bluejays sent the offense back on the field and Furco capped the 98-yard scoring drive with a seven-yard strike to Thonn over the middle with 11:41 left in the game.
Elmhurst's defense forced Coe into a three-and-out, and the Bluejays took over at their own 15-yard line. Elmhurst had appeared to score when Furco found Vince Gabrys open down field and Gabrys pitched the ball to Williams who ran the final 15 yards to the end zone, but the Bluejays were flagged for pass interference. Elmhurst still managed to run nine plays and eat up over five minutes before punting away to Coe.
With just 4:33 left on the clock, Coe took over at its own 25-yard line. Marvin Carr and Vicari wrapped up Leiran for no gain on first down. McNutt completed a seven-yard pass to Kuehner on second down, but McNutt's third down pass to Keaton Juergens was jarred loose by an Elmhurst hit. Facing a fourth-and-three from their own 32-yard line, McNutt overshot Juergens and Elmhurst took over on offense.
Facing a fourth-and-one from the Coe 23, Williams pushed forward on the right side to pick up a yard and a first down. On the very next carry, Williams broke free to the Coe three-yard line, allowing the Bluejays to kneel down twice and run out the clock.
Lester's confidence in his entire team allowed for some aggressive play calling on fourth down. "I have a ton of confidence in our offensive line, quarterback, running backs, and receivers, but I also have confidence that our defense will have our backs if we don't convert on fourth down," he said. "I always run any ideas past [defensive coordinator] Joe Adam before going for it on fourth down. Joe was actually the one who convinced me to go for it early in the fourth quarter when I originally had sent the field goal unit it."
Furco finished 15-of-24 through the air for 164 yards and two touchdowns. Maguire was his top target, catching six passes for 83 yards. Williams carried 35 times for 196 yards and a touchdown, averaging 5.6 yards per carry in the win.
McNutt led Coe through the air, finishing 22-of-34 for 207 yards and two touchdowns. Leiran carried 33 times for 181 yards and a touchdown while Kuehner caught eight passes for 110 yards and two scores.
Wayne Tuckson led the Elmhurst defense in the win, totaling 14 tackles. Jamall Lane and Johnson finished with 11 tackles apiece.
With the victory, the Bluejays move into the second round of the NCAA playoffs where they'll face fourth-ranked University of St. Thomas next Saturday. The game's location and start time will be announced tomorrow.
Elmhurst Upends Coe 27-24 to Advance to Second Round of NCAA Playoffs
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Elmhurst College football team scored its first-ever playoff victory and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship by upending 10th-ranked Coe College 27-24.


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The map of the city of Rovno was drawn by memory not to scale
Legend translated by Sara Mages
|High-School for girls
|Flour Mill
|Train Station
|The District Council
|Freight Train Station
|The new post office
|Match Factory
|Tarbut High-School
|The Stock Soap Factory
|Governor's Offices
|The Government Bank
|Maternity Hospital
|Cinema and Theater
|Bergschloss Brewery
|Jewish Hospital
|Military Barracks
|Government monopoly on alcoholic beverages
|Science School
|Jewish condominium
|Elementary School
|Jewish Cemetery
|Lubomirski Palace
|Tatar Cemetery
|Jewish home for the aged
|Christian Cemetery
|Housing for government officials
|Talmud Torah
|Power Station
|Brick Factory
|The Jewish Ghetto during the days of the Nazis
|Mass Grave
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Translation by Naomi Gal
With deep awe and heartfelt sorrow, separated by countries and borders from the mass-graves of the sacred deceased of Rovno, the big city, the largest community in Volhynia, we light a Yizkor-candle to our dear ones by publishing this memorial book containing the story of Rovno with its glorious past and bitter ending.
Active and vibrant were the Jews in Rovno, especially during the last century, a period of sustained growth. But bitter fate had it that the Nazi enemy, who brought extinction to millions of Jews around the world, did not spare Rovno and its ten thousands of Jews who were slaughtered and extinguished by various means, leaving nothing behind. The destruction of this community, and hundreds of other communities, is the worst annihilation the Jewish Nation experienced during thousands of years of Diaspora they were completely erased from the face of the earth. It is grim and shocking that while one-third of Israel was being annihilated, the enlightened world went on weaving its life without lifting a finger to help the millions of Jews sacrificed in Ghettos and death-camps. Indeed, never before did the entire world demonstrate such a cultural and moral bankruptcy.
Before the curtain was raised and the tragedy revealed in all its atrocity, there were rumors about the horrors the Nazis were performing on Israel's dwellings, and Rovno amongst them. Incomplete reports found their way to newspapers and hinted about something horrible that was happening in this big community, but common sense refused to accept it; it was unimaginable. We were behind an opaque wall that separated us from our distressed community torn by the fangs of the beast, as we were vacillating between hope and despair, adding rumor to rumor, news item to news item, and the mystery was deep, harsh and depressing.
And then came the lightening, the mystery was solved; we found out that our worries and anxieties were not unjustified. The world of the sons of the Rovno was darkened, following torture and humiliations, they were exterminated according to the Nazi plan for European Jewry. From oppression and having to wear a badge, they went to slave-work, eviction and bondage and then to the Ghettos and to mass extermination.
Thus, with one wave of an axe, came the end of Rovno's sons, an unprecedented catastrophe. But we, the generation that witnessed the horrors in this time, will never forget the Jewish Communities that were uprooted. Especially Rovno's Community, where our roots lay.
We knew we had so much to tell future generations and ourselves about this bloody period and the preceding events. The goal of those bringing forth this book is to write a memoir for future generations about events and happenings from the life of the city and its Jewish inhabitants. We would like to shed light on the public, national, spiritual, religious and economic way of life and the developments and changes that took place in the city throughout the generations under the different regimes. This goal was only partially attained, since as much as we elaborated we could only convey a small amount of the stories and the history of the city, and all those who lived and labored there, forming a multi-layered, rich life. Those who endeavored and cultivated the idea of the memorial initiative are fully aware that one cannot depict in a memorial-book all the details of the past and that it is impossible to describe in-depth the horrible tragedy that happened during our generation in the anguished Diaspora.
To write about Rovno, the metropolis of Volhynia's Diaspora, after the Holocaust is to wonder about its past from the time it was a cultural settlement through the development of its Jewish Community with its trials and tribulations, and tell its history throughout the generations. However this book does not claim to be a history book, but mainly a memorial for a Jewish Community, vibrant, flourishing and outstanding in different ways under the rule of Poles, Russians and divers conquerors, till they were wiped away by our generation's archenemy.
In his foreword to History of the Jews historian Simon Dubnow indicates: The Jewish history during the last generations (1789-1939) is loaded with major political and cultural changes, with brief alternations of oppression and freedom for the individual and the national, as well as the assimilation of Western and Eastern European Jews, in the latest period (1881-1939), with the growth of anti-Semitism on one hand, and the national movement in Israel, there is a dramatic change in the life of the nation: since the beginning of the European exodus one part created a prominent center in America and the other, unfortunately smaller, sets the foundation for a national center in the historic homeland: Israel.
World War One 1914-1918, the following Russian Revolution and the horrible reaction of Nazi and fascist racism during the last years, destroyed large numbers of Jewish centers, and brought the nation to a crossroad, wondering about her future.
Alongside millions of Polish Jews and communities in Poland, Russia and other countries, Rovno center, with its active, creative and thriving members was annihilated as well. Yet the torn city still carries its previous name, and it is being rebuilt by others that restore her ruins and rule her, but we, the Jews, have just a tragic memory, mingled with burning pain and fury for losing our hold, and the loss of all that was created by Jews throughout the generations. Now all we have there are mass-graves that engulfed sons and founders close to thirty thousands souls. Our brothers, who entered the city as soon as it was freed from the Nazis, erected gravestones for the victims, but who knows what is the tombs' fate, are they still there, or did the locals destroy them, as was done in other places.
Among the different memorials for the Holocaust victims that are being established around the world, this book will be a tribute to Rovno's sacred sons, it will have its place among other books about the Holocaust, so that every generation, till the last one, will know.
Historians have to look back when they recount what happened in the past and they find information from available sources, so that they can shed light on the past. They research publications, documents and papers, as well as memoirs, when trust-worthy. The lesson learned from each period of time, the background and reasons based on available information, creates a data on which the historian bases his conclusions, that is why all the assembled details are important for the present and for the following generations, and they are more significant for us after the Holocaust, and the extermination of one third of our nation.
The life conditions in the Diaspora prevented keeping archives that generally help researchers, and very little was left after the Nazi destruction. The only material still available can be found in countries that were not invaded by the Nazis. In addition testimonies of Holocaust survivors help us restore a fragmented history of the ruined cities, including the story of Rovno, the large and blessed community. It is possible that much information and important details that deserve to be in this book are not included, either because they didn't reach us or were not trust-worthy, so the book might raise different complaints. But those in charge of publishing the book toiled and labored incessantly, wishing to render the material they assembled in a simple and honest way, and to use it with no further ado, so that they could at long last publish the Rovno book.
It is a pleasant duty to express gratitude to the main helpers of the publication. To Yacov Adini, who edited, to A. S. Amiel and H. B. Eilon and to all those who shared their writings, particularly to Y. L. Yonathan, Z. Dagany, M. Zinovitch, S. Izraeli, and Z. Scatz, and the activists: S. Rotenberg, S. Phisyouk, A. Rize, Y. Ben-Ari, Moshe Horowitz, and Y. Shactov. The publishing houses M. Newman Tel Aviv and Kiryat Sefer Jerusalem thank you all.
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by A.A.
Translation by Naomi Gal
In the past, Jewish Communities noted important public events in the public register and in Hevra Kaddisha's register. There were many entries in the registers of Rovno's Community and they are a source for its history. The Hevra Kaddisha register is from the mid 19th century and was kept by the inheritors of Rabbi Yom-Tov Weintrob, who was the synagogue's manager 50 years ago. The last public register was kept by the community board, and based on this register, Rabbi Zvi Heller, a local activist, published a Yiddish booklet titled The Notebook of Rovno (Assembled by Zvi Heller, from Rovno, with the help of Asher Shtil, the community scribe, Lublin 1923).
The booklet contained the history of Rovno and the biographies of the major personalities that lived there for the past hundreds of years till the present day, as well as the history of World War I till the Polish occupation. Mentioned as well were some of the city's establishments with footnotes by the editor in the style of synagogues' managers and scribes from previous generations. Most of the booklet is about the history of Rovno's Jews throughout the years.
In 1917 the Rovno branch of Tarbut set out to document the history of Rovno and its citizens. Meetings were held between activists and teachers, a plan was made and an intensive search began for materials about the city, its institutions and mainly its Jews. The idea attracted many who assisted: Dr. Yosef Shvidka, Moshe Kiper, Dr. Yakov Berman (Yardeny), Meir Kodish, Zeev Kornik (Degani), Zeev Zam, Nehemia Lutski, Arie Gerbuz (Avitachi), Hikel Kopelman, Leib Eizenberg, Ribenzon, Woldorski and others. A special committee was nominated, headed by Garbuz, and at the beginning of 1918 they started to organize the materials. It seemed as if the endeavor would be successful, but then the sky darkened for Rovno's Jews, as well as for all of Ukraine's Jews, and thus the initiative was hindered. In 1920 the regime changed, the Ukrainians replaced the Poles, and the Jewish life in Rovno changed; on one hand there were new worries, but on the other, a new horizon opened for national and social activities. The project of publishing Rovno's History, that could have been an important source for the Jewish history in the Diaspora was put on hold. One of the main reasons was the immigration of the activists to Israel: among them were Dr. Yakov Berman, Moshe Kiper and Arieh Garbuz. They had no followers so the publication of Rovno History, with all the assembled material, stayed buried in the closet of the Tarbut society and no one knows its fate.
Since we heard the atrocious news about the end of Jewish Rovno, and after all our illusions were shattered the need to publish became more urgent and the decree write as a memorial was constantly on our minds. The branches of The Rovno tree in Israel volunteered to the mission of bringing into fruition the initiative that began in Rovno many years ago.
May this memorial book be the last publication and a memorial-candle to the Rovno's community that was eradicated and exists no longer.
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by K. Shabtai
Translation by Naomi Gal
It can be said that Rovno is the essence of Volhynia's Jewry, of Jewish Volhynia. There are some basic reasons for its fame: the greatest luminaries of the Torah lived there and their words reached far, far beyond the borders of their towns. The Jewry of Volhynia was never sealed in its narrow world; its imagination was never in shackles.
This is true as well for the fertile and reviving spice that was part of Volhynia's Jewry the Hassidic movement. This elixir gave wings to the Jewish imagination, was like water to its parched soul and filled its yearning heart.
While Polish Jewry was still blocked from world's culture, education in Volhynia flourished, and bright stars like Isaac Dov Bar Levinzon and his friends, were the pioneers of a new spirit for all eastern Jewry.
Those movements stem from the healthy simplicity of Volhynia's Jewry, typical throughout all its history. Until the end of World War I Volhynia's Jews did not experience industrialization; hence, the Jewish folklore was kept in all the towns. Thus the communities were able to keep their tradition and not be influenced or integrated in neighboring cultures. In Volhynia there were no Russian who adhered to Mosaic Law nor Poles who adhered to Mosaic Law, and definitely no Ukrainian who adhered to Mosaic Law. In the towns and cities of Volhynia grew only whole Jews, Jews from the country of Jews. No wonder, then, that Volhynia was the only place in pre-Holocaust Poland that was a Jewish fort for Zionism and Hebrew and where the Jewish life was traditional as well as contemporary.
You will find these characteristics especially in Rovno. Rovno was first in all of Volhynia, not only in implementing Zionism, Aliyah and Hebrew, but also in every other aspect of Jewish life. Every time Volhynia was cut from its center because of ideological fights and disputes that disrupted communications, Rovno assumed full responsibility. It became a new center, a temporary one, till a bigger and more important one was established. This was true in 1919, when the main Zionist office was established and until the Holocaust, when Rovno, in the short period of time while under the enemy's sword, was responsible for all the smaller settlements around her. When the rumor spread that the policy of the archenemy is to liquidate the small settlements and leave only the big centers, Rovno planned to rescue all the Jews from the surrounding smaller communities. There was a call in Rovno for a consultation with the Jewish committees of the smaller settlements about moving thousands of Jews to Rovno, and Rovno, already in a difficult situation, worried about her brothers-in-suffering.
Rovno was a city of prominent personalities, amongst them activists and writers. And no wonder: this is part of the city's traits since her first day. As Rovno was the essence of her surroundings she encompassed all the glory of Volhynia's Jewry.
Another attribute that made Rovno stand out was her newness, stemming from her youth. Rovno was unlike the noble, old, traditional and respected communities of Volhynia, unlike the big Ostroh, Volodymyr-Volynski, Dubno or Tuehin, Korets, Turiysk and other smaller communities, minor in Torah and major in the Hassidic movement. She is no equal to aristocratic-intellectual Kremenets, since Rovno was actually a new city, and although she was born in the 15th century, she only became a real city and a center, The Center, at the end of last century. The reason was her geographic-strategic nature that attracted population, and as a new city she had her own character that made her stand out and outshine her sisters at once.
New settlements are usually built layer upon layer. First is the layer of people with no income or status in their community, and thus easier for them to change their place hoping to turn their luck. Later come vibrant people with energy and initiative who had no outlet to their energy and initiative in their older, sleepy, set-in-their-ways dwellings. You found them abundantly in Rovno. She was an old settlement, with all the institutions and enterprises of an organized city, and her rapid development opened a venue for young and daring forces and thus attracted the best from Volhynia and from outside as well: those who yearned for achievement in one of life's areas, and couldn't find it in the small sleepy towns of Volhynia, made their way to the center, to vibrant, lively, awake and bustling Rovno.
The larger a center the city became, the more people were attracted to her, and the more people she had, a bigger and more attractive center she became.
The way Rovno was the first in Volhynia's Jewish life, she was also the first to drink the poison to the last drop. The first ghetto in Volhynia was established in Rovno, and it was there the murderers (November 1941) made their first Action under the rule of the civil administration, when the Jews were still under the illusion that now when the military regime was over, a chaotic period of in-between their situation would improve. They believed that any regime that will reign is bound to protect them as well And Rovno was the first for a total loss, a final liquidation in the second action, July 12 1942, when she was annihilated with nothing left.
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by Zvi Yashiv (Fishbien)
Translation by Naomi Gal
The time elapsed since Rovno's Jews were slaughtered allows us to view their characteristics with a certain perspective. Rovno, the remarkable city in Poland, had between World War I and II a singular Jewish majority.
Rovno's Jews had hardly any communication with Jews elsewhere on account of the distance from other parts of Poland. Hence, there was no point of comparing and deciding what characterized Rovno and its Jews, and how different they were from others. But now, when Jewish Rovno came to an end and some of the city descendents acclimated in Israel and were meeting and still are with descendents of other places in Poland and other East-Europeans countries you can't help but compare and try to find out: what is special about Rovno's Jews?
Who are they really? Did they excel in Torah learning, in wisdom, and perseverance typical to Lithuania's Jews? The response is almost negative. There were no erudite scholars or world famous luminaries.
Were Rovno's sons especially dynamic, ambitious or outstandingly talented, as were the political Polish Jews? You can't answer yes to this question.
Did the Galicians seen as savvy, flexible and able to adapt to any conditions and circumstances, influence Rovno's Jews? The answer is again no. Also as far as we are concerned, you will not find in the sons of Rovno the characteristics of Russia-Ukraine Jews (who tend to have an extreme idealistic passion); very few of them give that impression.
Indeed Rovno's Jewry is a spiritual enclave between the four main blocks of the above-mentioned Eastern European Jewry. So let's try and catch a glimpse of the spiritual image of her sons, as perceived by the writers of these notes.
The Rovno Jew was not a complicated soul. He carried his Judaism yoke without being self-conscious or feeling inferior, that's why he saw no need to fight fiercely for its existence. He was always self-contained, without having any worthy role model to emulate or follow in the Goyish environment. For many years Volhynia was a provincial place politically and culturally, almost a no-man-land. The distance between Volhynia, the Russian cultural centers, and the important spiritual centers of Poland was hundreds of kilometers. The Rovno Jew did not excel in the Russian language, and he had no time to be fluent in Polish in just twenty years of Polish rule before the war. The Jews settlements of Volhynia savored very little European education and had no part in the battle to expand it, as we learn from history books and ancestors' stories. In the past the clash between Hassidism and objectors was not bitter, since Rovno's son favored both.
Thus, the average Rovno Jew was not prone to extremes; even in the last dozens of years when, in other places, the brawl among the Zionist parties and its objectors reached some peaks, Rovno's attitude was rather lukewarm. A wall to wall coalition in Zionist and national institutions were widespread in Rovno for one reason only: lack of an extremist attitude to the pressing Zionist issues. The Rovno Jew was considered weak politically and did not know how to fight for splitting hairs. This lack of extremism was at times accompanied by contempt for power-hungry politicians, since for the Rovno Jew what counted was the essence, and not the trivial-turned-into-essence, which required lots of time and energy. No wonder, then, that other Polish Jews regarded the Rovno Jew as provincial who wouldn't go with the flow. Rovno's sons disliked those who turned Zionism into a profession, a livelihood, instead of a system-of-beliefs.
On the other hand the generosity of Rovno's Jews was remarkable, especially when they contributed money to the victims of the Arab pogrom in the land of Israel in 1929. The operation encompassed everybody and there was no Jew who didn't give as much as he could. The donations for Jewish institutions in Israel back then were ordinary, but the donations for the 1929 victims were outstanding. Rovno's Jews felt that this was not about buying Jewish land or about helping the settlers in Israel, but about something that endangered everything established so far, so they gave openhandedly.
Another Rovno trait: one doesn't push oneself to the head of the line, not because one lacks ambition, but rather because of slight impatience. The Rovno Jew does not have the patience to advance slowly toward his goal, using the two ways that lead to power: groveling and flattering the prominent and hurting the equal. The Volhynia Jew was honest to a fault and Rovno's Jews even more so.
This honesty and innocence of Rovno's Jews naturally led them to prepare their sons and daughters to life in Israel and positively influence their surroundings. Thanks to the healthy instinct of Rovno's Jews the number of youth who immigrated to Israel was larger during different Aliyah waves, in various period of times. The Zionist plantings were bearing fruit. That is why we remember Rovno as a doting mother who gave her sons the very best and the ultimate, which is so crucial nowadays, when our nation fights for its survival and our state fights for its independence and sovereignty.
We agree with Shmuel Sharira who said about Volhynia Jews: if the Lithuanian Jews were considered the brain, Volhynia Jews should be justly considered as the heart of the Jews in the Diaspora.
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Lauri: Is there anything going on in your life right now that is bringing back memories of when you lived in your hometown? Or are you currently trying to deal with an issue that began when you lived there? The helicopter that is following you symbolizes something you feel you can't seem to rid yourself of, something that may even be causing you to feel pressured and "under the gun" so to speak. The quarters you find along the trail may be a reference to "change;" change that makes you feel uneasy but that needs to happen none the less. The more coins there are the more change that needs to take place.
Fred replies: I have been under deadline pressure with a novel that should've been finished and with the editor, but delayed for a variety of reasons. My editor has been supportive, but I feel like I'm letting her and my family down because I felt so disjointed last year with not just the loss of my father, but also the loss of a friend, both connections to my hometown. I believe you are correct in your analysis, the helicopter menaces, but never fires. I'm under the gun, although it is more self-imposed rather than actual. As for the quarters, I've consciously approached life differently lately and that has been both a blessing and a strain. You can teach an old dog new tricks, it just takes a little longer. I'm having to push through a rut, one built out of conformity and comfort. Thank you, Lauri, for a very thoughtful response to an odd dream.
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So now that we are finally getting the Tuono V4 here in the USA I am guessing the next few months are going to see a HUGE spike in the sale of Tuono V4 pipes from all manufacturers. This is a simple DIY thread about how to install you r own pipe in only a few minutes at home. Most of you probably need no guide but for those who are on the fence about whether or not this is something the average Joe/Jane can pull off at home hopefully this will help you decide. The first step is to get the bike secure, either on it's sidestand, a rear stand or a workbench. Most of the job is VERY straightforward but at least on the last two pipes I installed there was no real "manual" so I thought this might be of interest.
I do not have pics from installation of the Akro/Aprilia/Arrow/Austin/GPR/etc just yet but as you guys get those pipes add pics to this thread so if there are differences in the install process they can be seen by all. Basically what I am getting at is that this install series I am writing today covers ONLY the Leo Vince pipe for SURE, it probably also covers other pipes however.
Step one: Visualize your bike with a pipe...mmm, is it black? Carbon might be a good styling choice right? We shall use that color bike for this example but I will post pics of both the Ti pipe equipped yellow one I did this week and the black with CF pipe I also did on Saturday. To help you visualize we shall start with a couple of sample pics...
This is the yellow Tuono V4 with the Ti Leo Vince pipe:
This is the black Tuono V4 with the same pipe but in Carbon Fiber.
Both are obviously good looking and anything you do to make this motor sound better nets HUGE gains in aural pleasure!
When you open the box that arrives from Leo Vince this is what you will find inside:
Once you remove all the packaging this is what you will find from that same box:
There are some optional parts included by Leo Vince which include a carbon pipe hangar if you decide to ditch your passenger pegs or are using this in a track-only application. Pictured is the hangar and the hardware associated with it which will be left-over if you are using your stock passenger footrests to hand the new pipe from!
These are all the tools you will need to complete the job:
The stock muffler is held onto the chassis and headers by a combination of two bolts and a compression fitting the joins the stock muffler to the stock collector set, it has a 10mm hex drive screw that forces the clamp closed or when loosened allows you to move the muffler away from the header after the other bolts are removed, this is the first item you are looking for:
A 10mm socket on a long extension is how I like to get at this one, notice the orientation of this bolt, as you will want the same orientation for the new compression fitting on the aftermarket pipe:
The next bolt to go after is a 6mm Allen head bolt that is basically hidden from view if you are on the pipe side of the bike. It is very short and only screws into a rubber damper on the stock exhaust bracket. Remove it now, simple enough!
Plenty of room to get at it, no worries there and it is easy to see from the opposite side fo the bike if your head is low enough:
Now, onwards to the obvious bolt, this is the last one to remove. Your 6mm Allen driver and a 13mm box end wrench will come in very handy at this stage. Once this bolt is removed with the compression fitting at the header already loosened the pipe will be free to slide off, it may require a little more effort than expected or may not...I was working with brand new bikes both times so the assumption is that with age and mile racking up they will be a little harder to remove:
This is the simple removal process:
This is one area where I am not sure if all aftermarket pipes are the same. The bracket that joined the chassis to the exhaust can be removed when installing the LV pipe. I see no reason to keep it on the bike as after removing the stock pipe it no longer performs a function other than adding a small amount of ballast to the machine:
Now gently grasp the stock pipe and wiggle and twist and whatnot to get it moving off the stock collector pipe. It is not nearly as heavy as I expected. Just be very careful during this portion of the job to make sure you do not scratch up your new toy! Here I am removing the pipe:
The bike now looks like this:
I like to reuse the stock bolt that was used by Aprilia for the top pipe mount to fill in the hole left when removed, added ballast yes, but so stylin' for a fancy washer....
Now...you get to finally install a part, the link pipe. Just slip it over and make sure there is only enough tension on the 5mm Allen bolt that tensions the slip joint to keep it basically in place:
Wondering what in the hell this part is as you unpacked your goodies we shipped you? Wonder no more, it will make perfect sense in only seconds!
Well Aprilia was nice enough to leave pre threaded 8mm holes in the back side of the passengers footrests, before you add anything it looks like this:
That bracket has a home! At this point you need to install that little bit of alloy and the short 6mm Allen (8x1.25mm thread) bolt that came with your exhaust kit:
Slide the silencer strap over the silencer and look closely at how the rubberized edges fit, only one way is right and it will be pretty obvious, there are no marks however to confirm you have it right. This is also the point where you will start to see the reasons all those little alloy bits and that long 6mm bolts were included in your exhaust kit. Just loosely fit the strap and pipe at this point:
This next picture shows the correct stacking order as best I can tell for the assemblage of smaller bits....
Now you can start tightening stuff down and pulling the springs into place. Make sure the link pipe is fully seated and the silencer is fully seated onto the link pipe. once the silencer is tightened to the bracket you can go back and tighten the top clamp on the link pipe where it joins the stock collector set.
You are so close to done now you can feel it...BUT WAIT...there is one more very important step if you want it to look good for years to come, or at least not have bodily oils baked into your new metal goods! Break out a good polishing rag and a nice paper towel, i prefer paper but it does not really matter and hose it down with WD40...yes, I mean it, do it!
Now use that rag/towel to clean EVERYTHING you touched with your hands that will be at 700-900 degrees in a few minutes! It gives the metal a nice finish as the oil cooks into it, and removes all your fingerprints before massively cooking them!
Now, go ride the damn thing! If you have updated mapping and leave the db killer in place the bike compensates pretty well and sounds killer but not a LOT louder than stock, If you remove the db killer it gets WAY louder than stock under load! This is what you have to look forward to once mounted in a visual sense. I am done for today...been at this photo edit since 9am with over 900 pics spread between 4 memory cards from the last week, time for a killer dinner! I earned it this week!


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Following the fatal accident involving CHC AS332L2 Super Puma G-WNSB on August 23, UK operators have already returned their helicopters back to service. Four out of 18 passengers died when the aircraft came down in the sea two miles short of Sumborough Airport on the Shetland Islands.
On Thursday, Aug. 29, CHC returned its Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Pumas to normal operational service to oil platforms in the North Sea. On the same day, Bond Offshore Helicopters returned its EC225 fleet to scheduled service with the caveat that it would only use its fleet of "crew change AS332L2s for non-passenger operations (maintenance, positioning and training flights)."
On August 30, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority declared: "We have reviewed and assessed the evidence available, including the information already published by the Air Accident Investigation Branch and detailed information provided to us by the operators. Our team of specialists includes pilots who are experienced in flying the Super Puma AS332 L2 in the North Sea environment."
"Based on all the information currently available, we do not believe that the accident was caused by an airworthiness or technical problem, and consider that the decision by the operators to resume Super Puma flights is appropriate. We would not allow a return to service unless we were satisfied that it was safe to do so. We will review the position if any new evidence comes to light."
The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has stated that the helicopter's voice and data recorder has now been recovered for analysis. On August 29, the AAIB declared: "Preliminary information indicates that the approach proceeded normally until approximately three miles from the runway when there was a reduction in airspeed accompanied by an increased rate of descent."
To date the cause of the crash has not been made public.
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FULDA – Trinity United Church of Christ will hold an ice-cream social from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the church, one mile south of Fulda on Indiana 545.
Sloppy joes, chips and desserts will also be served. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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TELL CITY – The Lutheran Women's Missionary League will sell pork-chop dinners Sunday at the corner of 12th and Tell streets in Tell City. Serving will begin at 11 a.m.
Dinners will include pork-chops, green beans and creek fries. Homemade pies will also be available for sale.
Proceeds will go toward purchasing medical and school supplies to take on a mission trip to Guatemala.
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HAWESVILLE, Ky. – Central Baptist Church, 25 State Road 271 North, Hawesville, will host a fifth Sunday singing event at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Everyone is invited to the special service of singing, praise and worship.
A special offering will be taken for the Helping Hands Ministry. The Rev. Brian Adkins and congregation invite the public to the service.
Deer Creek to broadcast Beth Moore Sept. 18
TELL CITY – Deer Creek Baptist Church will host the Beth Moore live simulcast Sept. 18.
Beth Moore is an inspirational woman with a passion to minister to women of all ages. She will share her own life experiences and show how a relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important gift we can have. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast served prior to the event. Lunch will also be provided.
The event will run until 4 p.m. Tickets are $25 and should be purchased in advance by calling 836-2187, 836-4186 or 547-5561.
The congregation invites all women to join them for a day of fellowship.
St. Pius to hold annual fest set for Sept. 12
TROY – St. Pius Catholic Church in Troy will have its annual Fall Festival Sunday, Sept. 12. On the menu is their "famous" soup, by the bowl and gallon, fried-chicken or roast-beef dinners, hamburgers, Polish sausage and homemade pie.
Entertainment will include the band Crosswind, a giant yard sale and flea market, games for adults and children and a raffle. Serving will begin at 11 a.m. Those wishing to are asked to take containers for carryout soup.
Gospel Tabernacle announces new Sunday worship
CANNELTON – Cannelton Gospel Tabernacle Church will have new Sunday morning worship and Sunday school times beginning Sept. 4. Service and Sunday school will begin at 10:30 a.m. All other service times will remain the same.
St. Paul offers classes to become Catholic
TELL CITY – Classes for those seeking the Catholic faith are being planned and scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays starting in October and ending in April.
The classes will be held at St. Paul Catholic Church's ministry center. One-on-one inquiry sessions with Sister Mary Emma can be scheduled at the convenience of each person. Invitations are also extended to anyone who has drifted away or who has been hurt by the church.
Call Sister Mary Emma at 547-7994 for more information.
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At XF City we have vast experience working on Jaguar XF's and XJ's. In these times we all tend to be a throw away society and this also applies to most garages. We have a policy to repair policy before we replace. If a circuit board need some joint welding rather than a straight replacement then we will do this. We will replace worn bushes in a suspension joint rather than replace the whole unit.
The methodology has two effect. No.1 being it keeps the carbon footprint of the planet down. We should all be looking at doing this. No.2 by just replacing a worn part rather than a complete component it keep the cost of repair to a sensible level.
Without blowing our own trumpet we regularly repair Jaguars for other car dealers who's own mechanics can't find the fault. Be it a non working rear camera, a complete door electrical failure or a lack of power from the engine they bring the car to us.
Even our local main dealer sends us customers with older Jaguars as they know our repairs costs are far more cost effective for the customer rather than their replacement policy. An 3.0 diesel bare engine is £9,600 and not including the cost of fitting. We carry out a full a proper engine rebuild fitted back in the car for £4,300 give or take a few pounds. Takes about 10 days start to finish.
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If you need your Jaguar XF or XJ serviced, repaired, new tyres, 4 wheel alignment or bodywork give at us at XF City a try. We are sure you won't be disappointed and your invoices won't break the bank.
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Here we have a Auto 6 speed Gearbox for a Jaguar 3.0 Diesel TDV6.
This Gearbox came of a car that had covered 18000 miles.
All Plugs and wiring intact. Comes with the Drive shaft Doughnut (Rubber Joint) and Torque Converter with the rear gearbox mounting still attached.
This is not a rebuilt unit or taken from a damaged vehicle. This was removed under warranty from a misdiagnosed gearbox fault. The fault turned out to be an external electrical one on the end. It has never been taken apart or dismantled in any way.
The problem with rebuilt gearbox is 9 time out of 10 only the parts that were faulty are replaced leaving so many other parts that have pretty much covered the same mileage and wear and tear. A fully rebuilt ZF box with all the components that could possibly fail would cost at least £3,500. It can not be rebuilt correctly for £800 or £900.
The cost is fitted in you car with all oils and filters included. That is 9 litre of oil and a new filter. The gearbox will also be programmed to your car so you get the smoothest of gear changes and kick-down that works correctly.
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In a complex and fast-changing world, we remain focused and resolute in pursuit of our goal – to provide the most appropriate, effective medicine in the harshest of environments. As well as responding to vital needs, our aid is born of a desire to show solidarity with people who are suffering, whether as a result of conflict, neglect or disease.
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May 19 — Lashayra M. Angel, domestic assault: dismissed.
Travis Manis, possess unlawful drug paraphernalia -attempt: dismissed.
• Leroy Thornton III, driving while license revoked: dismissed.
• William Nicely, contributing to delinquency of a child: guilty. Possess firearm intent to go armed-dangerous felony: dismissed.
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Sept. 24 — John Charles Cline, 43, 165 Harvey Road, Kingston: domestic assault. Bond $1,000; court date Nov. 3.
• David Lawrence Holmes, 25, 3608 River Road, Ten Mile: violation implied consent law, DUI. Total bond $1,000; court date Dec. 8.
• Jimmy Charles Sexton, 44, 280 Big Mountain Holler Road, Oliver Springs: domestic assault. Bond $3,000; court date Nov. 3.
May 15 — Chiana R. Skidmore, financial responsibility law, drivers to exercise due care, seat belt 18 and older: guilty; traffic ticket paid in full.
• Adam C. McMahan, seat belt 18 and older: guilty; traffic ticket paid in full.
May 16 — Lori L. Lewis, speeding: guilty; traffic ticket paid in full.
May 5 — Shanna E. Thomas, simple possession/casual exchange: dismissed.
May 6 — Jeffery W. Fine, drink while license suspended: dismissed.
• Cavanaugh S. Mims II, speeding: guilty; traffic ticket paid in full.
• Sherman F. Burgess, speeding: guilty; traffic ticket paid in full.
Property deed transfers in Roane County:
May 13 — From McCurdy & Candler TN LLC, McCurdy and Candler TN LLC, David Bradshaw and Tammy Bradshaw to JPMorgan Chase Bank by trustee's deed, Dist. 5, Lakemont Heights, Lot 27, $34,200.
• From Housing and Urban Development of Washington, Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Housing and Urban Development of Washington and Housing and Urban Development to One Tennessee Ltd. by deed, Dist. 3, R.E. Sargent subdivision, Lot 2, $38,500.
Sept. 19 — William Matthew Clark, 27, 3360 W. Wolf Valley Road, Clinton: driving on revoked/suspended license. Bond $2,500; court date Nov. 17.
• Angela Gail Hale, 35, 632 Hathburn Drive, Rockwood: aggravated burglary, theft $10,000 but less than $60,000. Total bond $23,000; court date Oct. 27.
May 5 — From Edward Gallaher and Madie G. Gallaher to Roger Lynn Gallaher by quit-claim deed, Dist. 3, 19.58 acres, Lawnville Road, $0.
• From Barry Gregory to Steve E. Osborne and Hilda J. Osborne by warranty deed, Dist. 5, adjacent Molyneux/Smith, $35,000.
• From J. Rod Gimbel to Glenda J. White and Gregory D. White by warranty deed, Dist. 4, South Fork subdivision, Lot 3, $5,000.
Sept. 15 — Allen Clay Hall, 33, 953 Unaka St., Harriman: aggravated assault. Bond $2,500; court date Dec. 8.
• Liman Kan, 62, 112 Westview Lane, Oak Ridge: domestic assault. Bond $1,000; court date Oct. 6.
• Samuel Lynn Propes, 52, 531 Crescent St., Harriman: public intoxication. Bond $850; court date Oct. 27.
April 28 — Dustin A. Hamil, obedience to any required traffic control device, improper lane change, improper passing (no-passing zone), resist stop arrest search involving weapon, evading arrest of death or injury-vehicle involved, aggravated assault upon officer or any first responder, five counts reckless endangerment-vehicle, aggravated assault, disorderly conduct: bound over.
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A set of off-year elections Tuesday in three states could offer the first clues of a way forward for Republicans still staggering from consecutive presidential defeats and divided by a growing rift between the establishment and tea party wings of the GOP.
The two biggest races are expected to render a split verdict. Barring huge upsets, Republican Gov. Chris Christie is expected to romp to reelection in New Jersey, positioning him for an anticipated 2016 White House run, while former national Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe is expected to win the open governor's seat in Virginia.
A McAuliffe victory would snap a decades-old streak, in which the party of the president has lost the Virginia governorship in every contest since 1977. President Obama campaigned Sunday on McAuliffe's behalf, after it appeared the Democrat had broken open the race against Republican Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli.
A third significant election Tuesday pits a Republican candidate with blue-chip business and political backing, Bradley Byrne, against a tea party insurgent, Dean Young, in a runoff for an Alabama congressional seat vacated when the GOP incumbent stepped down for a new job. Polls suggest the race is too close to call.
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There is risk in drawing overly broad conclusions from political contests held in the off-season, when turnout is usually sparse and factors unique to a specific candidate or geographic locale can take on outsized import.
Off-year elections in 2005 and 2009 foreshadowed success for Democrats and Republicans, respectively, in the mid-term elections that followed. Not so, however, in 2001, when Democrats won the statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia, but Republicans gained seats in both the House and Senate the next year.
"These are three very different contests, different kinds of choices, different kinds of voters and it's hard to generalize," Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of a nonpartisan guide to elections nationwide, said of the races in Alabama, New Jersey and Virginia.
Still, many of the issues raised in those contests — including the tea party-led shutdown of the federal government and the fumbling launch of the insurance marketplace under Obama's sweeping healthcare initiative — are likely to carry over and be fiercely debated in 2014, when control of the House and Senate are at stake.
In Alabama, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce alone has spent nearly $200,000 to elect Byrne, who has served as a state senator and chancellor of the state's community college system. "I don't agree with a lot of the people in Washington and a lot of the things they do," Byrne said during a recent debate. But, he said, "At the end of the day, if we're not talking to each other, we can't solve many problems."
Young countered by cheering the government shutdown, vowed never to raise the federal debt ceiling and criticized attempts to work across the aisle with Democrats. "I need you to send a message to America," he said, "that we don't want to send another politician up there who's being supported by the same old people, to do the same old things."
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The intraparty fight to represent the Mobile area reflects a dynamic likely to play out in a number of GOP primaries next year, where establishment-backed Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — are facing challenges from tea party-backed rivals.
"Alabama is Ft. Sumter," said Charlie Cook, another nonpartisan campaign analyst. "The first battle of the civil war in the Republican Party."
The two statewide races, in New Jersey and Virginia, will be read for broader hints relating to the presidential contest in 2016.
Christie, who faced little competition from his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono, is hoping for a sizable double-digit win as a way to burnish his national credentials, a reelection strategy pursued by Texas Gov. George W. Bush in 1998 and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006 as each eyed an eventual run for president.
Christie is also expected to make the case that his political pragmatism and relative centrist positioning is not just a winning (albeit necessary) strategy in Democratic-leaning New Jersey, but also a model for Republicans nationwide, who cannot retake the White House without strong support from independents and cross-over Democrats.
Yet the most meaningful results Tuesday, to the extent they apply, are likely to come from Virginia, which has emerged as a national political bellwether and a toss-up state on a par with the traditional battlegrounds of Ohio and Florida.
McAuliffe has hammered Cucinelli over the government shutdown, which hit Virginia especially hard, given its proximity to Washington, as well as his conservative stance on social issues, which has boosted the Democrat's lead among women voters, a vital constituency.
"Ken Cuccinelli has spent his career creating gridlock from the political fringe," McAuliffe said during a Sunday appearance with Obama. "The question in this election is simple: Will the mainstream, bipartisan majority in Virginia be drowned out by the tea party?"
Cuccinelli, who filed an unsuccessful suit to block the 2010 Affordable Care Act, has sought to make the governor's race an explicit referendum on the president's plan.
"I say to Virginia, let's send them a message and say no tomorrow to Obamacare," Cuccinelli said at an election-eve rally Monday outside Washington.
Lisa Mascaro of the Washington bureau contributed to this report.


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Recently.. Okay for a pretty damn good time now I've noticed AF has come off as a declining website. AF has good members, a great admin, and a chat more active than most! Quite honestly, I can't say AF isnt a good forum, because it really is. Though re examine my sentence. I said the word good, not great. Lately, AF has seemed to decline much more, as in thread quality and activity. Really, the only relavant threads belong to a troll AND a thread being posted on by the same members. AF is basically a family to me, and seeing this really disgusts me!
Why am I ranting and risking myself to being completely bashed over the next few days? The answer is clear. I care. I hate seeing AF decline. If something isnt done, AF will continue to decline and lose importance.. Will it ever die? No, that is highly doubtful, but REALLY.. reaching the point of not dying isn't a good thing! Actually it borders risky. At one point, AF was stronger than A4\OC, but saying that now would be a work of fiction. How did A4 get stronger? How did A4 reach a point where any blog could get 25 blog replies and that look normal? How did A4 reach a point where 50+ people are on at once? One word. REVAMP. AF needs a revamp. Something to catch the guests' eye. Im no pro, but seeing how advance some forums are.. why can't AF do the same?
AF feels aged. Very aged. This is no one's fault, as forums looking aged is normal. Though not doing something about it IMO is wrong. How can I prove my point of AF declining? Which section is the most active? This, obviously. Actually that is why I posted this here. I knew people would click it! Some sections are dying, which is the fault of the members. AF shouldn't have near dead sections! It means interest has declined. AF is old, so seeing this isn't a shock.. Though AF is WAY TOO good for dying sections!
The banners need to be changed. Ive seen the same ones for years! At least to stay updated with anime out nowadays. Lucky Star is great, but why not an Acchi Kocchi one? It shows the site is stll being updated, and still cared about! Is making new banners difficult? I understand people are busy, but somebody should be able to.
Ive gotten four members to join in the past year, and ALL said the same thing. "Activity and Design". Toon stuck around, but I feel not for long. Why should we care? Every member counts. Thats why.
Guests viewing this. JOIN. I know me saying that isnt enough, but AF deserves the help. You'd love it here! At least give us a chance. Join the family OR even tell your friends. Every member counts. Im getting tired of seeing the same threads over and over. Complaining won't help, but doing work will.
Somebody had to say it. Honestly, its true. Denying it is only making matters worse. Reply or even make jokes, honestly its only keeping AF from progress. Go ahead. AF your take? Ace. Your take? I feel like this needed to be said. Really. Rest is up to you.


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RIGA, Latvia (AP) — A massive third section of the roof at a Latvian supermarket where at least 54 people were killed fell Saturday as emergency workers searched nearby rubble for more victims. Though no one was injured, officials suspended the effort as they considered the dangers of continuing the search in the unstable building.
Latvia's president described the disaster at the Maxima supermarket in Riga, the worst in the Baltic country since it regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, as "murder" and called for a speedy investigation into its cause.
Investigators are looking at faulty construction or work on the roof's grass- and gravel-covered surface as the potential cause of the initial collapse in the crowded supermarket on Thursday. Workers were installing a garden area and children's playground for an adjacent high-rise residential building.
Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman Viktorija Sembele said the latest collapse occurred in an area where firefighters were not working, but the service immediately recalled its people from inside to ensure there were no casualties. The service tweeted minutes later that no one was injured.
The dramatic cave-in came as rescue workers were attempting to complete an operation in a particularly dangerous part of the building. The rescue service said it wants to consult with engineers before renewing the operation and that all search efforts will be put on hold until Sunday morning.
Fifty-four deaths had been confirmed by Saturday afternoon. Police spokesman Dairis Anucins said there were still seven people missing who might have been in the store at the time of the collapse.
Associated Press video of the scene showed a large portion of the roof crashing down as rescuers worked close by. A massive boom can be heard as the section hits the ground in a cloud of dust.
President Andris Berzins spoke bluntly about the disaster in an interview with Latvian television, though he did not single anyone out as culpable.
"This is a case where we need to say clearly it is the murder of an enormous number of defenseless people, and that's how we should proceed," Berzins said.
He called for a fast investigation to prevent those responsible from covering up a paper trail and "coming off as pure as angels."
Pictures show that a large amount of building materials, including bags of soil for the garden, were left in areas of the roof that Riga city officials say could have been vulnerable to heavy loads.
The store was filled with shoppers when an enormous section of the roof caved in. Slightly over an hour later, while rescue workers searched for survivors, a second and larger section of roof caved in, killing three firefighters.
Laila Rieksta-Riekstina, head of the state's child welfare department, told Latvia Radio that 16 children lost parents in the accident. Three of them lost both parents. Police said there were two Russian citizens and one Armenian among the dead.
Some 40 people were injured, including 13 firefighters who rushed to the scene, and 23 people remained hospitalized as of Saturday afternoon, police said.
The government declared three days of mourning starting Saturday. Latvians streamed to the site in a densely populated neighborhood between downtown Riga and the airport to lay flowers and light candles.
The Fire and Rescue Service has said only 80 square meters (850 square feet) of debris remained to be searched as of late Saturday afternoon, but they said it was a difficult section with rubble piled up to 4 meters (12 feet) high.
Police said the investigation could take several weeks to complete. Riga Mayor Nils Usakovs tweeted Saturday that once the investigation is over the supermarket's ruins would be razed and a monument built to the victims. He also suggested that the incomplete residential building might be torn down.
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"I say, imagine in your private life, if you decided that I'm not going to pay my mortgage for a month or two—first of all you're not saving money by not paying your mortgage. You're just a dead beat. "
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Thanks for providing with textual support!
I think one of the difficulty for many people to accept this approach is that they don't see how correct intellectual understanding and wise consideration lead to direct awareness of reality. That's why there is usually the reaction like: "ok, we learn about citta and citasika in theory, then what? how to apply into practice?"
Do you have any material about that at hands?
robertk wrote:I think there should be some knowledge of the conditions for right view, which are of course, hearing and considering correct Dhamma.mikenz66 wrote:Hi DF,
Thanks. Of course those are all the same arguments I've seen many times before, so I'm afraid I'm a bit jaded...
I guess it is useful to see explicitly spelled out that, according to these arguments, believing that reading Dhamma book, visiting Kuhn Sujin, or discussing the Dhamma with friends will help to develop right view is just as misguided as thinking that deliberately watching body, feelings, etc, will help to develop right view.
Some of AS's students seemed to be denying that, but I may have been misunderstanding them. It's hard to get my head around the idea that people can have the motivation to fly to Bangkok to visit AS without developing some expectation that it will be helpful to do so...
Only a Buddha can be enlightened without hearing Dhamma, and even he must have heard it in past lives.
Hence if one has the opportunity to hear Saddhadhamma - especially if it pertains to the heart of the teaching, anatta, then that is something worthy of making effort to travel and listen. As said In the Samyutta nikaya V (Sayings on stream entry p347 The great chapter Dhammadina ) 5oo rich merchants came to see the Buddha . They asked how they should live their lives. The Buddha suggested that they train themselves thus:
"Compare this with people like the Indian yogi who is revered for holding his hand up in the air for over 15 years. He believes tapas is the way to go beyond. Some people would even rather sit in a jungle than listen to Dhamma-..as to those discourses uttered by the Tathagatha, deep, deep in meaning, transcendental and concerned with the void (about anatta) from time to time we will spend our days learning them. That is how you must spend your days."
It is not about action as DF said, it is only about understanding- and that has to become firm at the theoretical level.
Again as DF has stressed Right View is key:
Only if there is right view is the eightfactored path being developed: "Bhikkhus, just as the dawn is the forerunner and first indication of the rising of the sun, so is right view the forerunner and first indication of wholesome states. For one of right view, bhikkhus, right intention springs up. For one of right intention, right speech springs up. For one of right speech, right action springs up. For one of right action, right livelihood springs up. For one of right livelihood, right effort springs up. For one of right effort, right mindfulness springs up. For one of right mindfulness, right concentration springs up. For one of right concentration, right knowledge springs up. For one of right knowledge, right deliverance springs up. Anguttara Nikaya 10:121"


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Plane crashes into primary school playground
Two men walked away uninjured when a light plane crashed into a playground at Cape Clear Primary School, near Ballarat, about 1.30pm today.
No children were in the playground when the twin engine Cessna crash landed, clipping a powerline on the way down.
Cape Clear Primary principal Christian Brown said the men were very lucky.
"They hit the power line and they got out alive," he said.
"The plane didn't break up, so they were very, very fortunate."
Mr Brown estimated both men were aged in their 60s and said one was from Western Australia.
"There were two pilots and they came over to the school after the crash and we gave them a bit of TLC," he said.
Mr Brown said both men had minor bumps and bruises.
He said the men had left Jamestown in South Australia this morning on way to Avalon Air Show in Geelong.
"They struck bad weather over Cape Clear and circled the school looking for somewhere to land," he said.


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Hanford nuclear cleanup slow, workers frustrated
The government's multi-billion-dollar effort to clean up Hanford, the nation's largest former nuclear-weapons site, has become its own dysfunctional mess, critics say.
For more than two decades, the government has planned and worked to dispose of 56 million gallons of nuclear and chemical waste in underground, leak-prone tanks at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
But progress has been slow, the budget is rising by billions of dollars and a long-running technical dispute has sown ill will among some of the project's senior engineering staff, the Energy Department and its lead contractors on the vitrification plant, where waste will be treated for disposal.
The waste is a legacy of the Cold War, when the site housed nuclear reactors churning out enough radioactive plutonium for thousands of atomic bombs. To clean up the mess, the Department of Energy started building the vitrification plant 12 years ago to encase the nuclear leftovers in stable glass for disposal.
Today construction of the plant is only two-thirds complete, after billions of dollars in spending.
Technical personnel have expressed concerns about the plant's ability to operate safely and efficiently, and some of them say the government and its contractor have tried to discredit them, and in some cases have harassed and punished them.
There's an urgency to treating the waste before more of it leaks from aging underground tanks, making its way toward groundwater and then slowly toward the Columbia River.
Some lawmakers say Hanford has been an early test of whether Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, previously a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can turn the problem-plagued Energy Department around through improved scientific rigor and better management of its faltering, costly projects. They've accused his aides of standing by while a well-known whistleblower was dismissed last month.
The Hanford project is one of a half-dozen or so uncompleted DOE construction efforts that the Government Accountability Office said earlier this year "continue to experience significant cost increases and schedule delays," including a plutonium disposal facility at Savannah River, S.C., and a uranium storage facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that are each billions of dollars over their initial budgets.
Meanwhile, DOE officials are considering spending an additional $2 billion to $3 billion to help the Hanford plant safely process the waste. Doing so might delay the cleanup's completion for years, the GAO estimated in December.
In an Oct. 9 letter, Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., demanded that Moniz take new steps to ensure that the project's technical experts are well-treated. Four organizations have reviewed their complaints, he said, and "all have agreed that the project is deeply troubled, and all have affirmed the underlying technical problems."
Last week, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said at a confirmation hearing for the DOE's general counsel that he worried "the message is out departmentwide that when you speak truth to power and come forward and lay out what your concerns are, you face these kinds of (retaliation) problems." If that's true, he said, "I think it's going to be very detrimental to the safety agenda."
A troubled past
Government officials and environmental activists agree that Hanford needs to be cleaned up as soon as possible. But the timetable keeps slipping: Thirteen years ago the DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Washington agreed to start turning the waste into glass by 2011.
In 2010, the deadline was extended to 2019, with a completion date of 2047. Moniz announced last month that the agency is likely to miss the project deadlines to start and commission the plant. Meanwhile, the estimated cost of the plant ballooned from $4.3 billion in 2000 to $13.4 billion in 2012, according to the GAO, with just some of the cost increase due to the plant's capabilities being expanded.
On Sept. 30, the DOE's inspector general, Gregory Friedman, issued an audit that said Bechtel, the project's prime contractor, had repeatedly changed the design of plant equipment without a proper safety review, a problem Friedman called "systemic." The DOE's Office of Environmental Management responded that Bechtel has begun addressing these shortcomings, and it promised to monitor the company's actions.
The report came 13 months after Gary Brunson, then the DOE's plant engineering division director, told superiors in a memo that Bechtel had made at least 34 technical decisions that were incorrect, infeasible, unverified, unsafe or too costly, according to a copy. Frank Russo, Bechtel's project director for the plant at the time, responded that the issues weren't new and had all been addressed in concert with the department.
In addition to the cost increases, construction delays and critical reports, employees and independent agencies have said the DOE and contractor officials who are overseeing the project created a workplace climate that discourages employees from raising technical and safety concerns.
They say project supervisors have relentlessly pushed over the past two years to shorten testing and "close" technical issues by deadlines, meeting their benchmarks to gain financial rewards, even though the problems aren't fully resolved. A DOE spokeswoman, Carrie Meyer, responded that "closing" a problem means only that a decision has been made to move forward with a credible solution.
One whistleblower's experience
The most prominent of the plant's whistleblowers is Walter Tamosaitis, the project's former research and technical manager for URS, the prime subcontractor to Bechtel.
Tamosaitis' troubles began after a 2010 meeting with Bechtel and URS managers at which he turned over a list of technical issues that he said could affect plant safety, including continuing uncertainties about how the wastes should be kept mixed to stop them from settling into a critical mass and causing a chain reaction.
Two days later, on July 2, URS, acting under orders from a Bechtel executive, pulled Tamosaitis from the project, according to a federal court complaint he filed in November 2011. He was reassigned to an available office, which was in the basement, and he did no further work that required major supervisory responsibilities.
The complaint includes an email written by Bechtel's Russo to the company's president on June 30, 2010, that "a clear way to kill momentum within the project and with Congress re funding would be to declare m3 (the mixing issue) as not complete." The next day, he wrote another email saying, "Declare failure and high probability that the $50 mil goes away."
Bechtel engineering managers said they'd consider improving the design once the issue was closed, Tamosaitis said in his legal complaint. "They were trying to justify their design," he said, "but their design led to safety issues."
Tamosaitis has filed three lawsuits. All were dismissed before trial and are on appeal.
Similar disputes occurred repeatedly that spring, as management officials struggled to meet their deadline. On June 16, Perry Meyer, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist at the time who now works for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, wrote an email for the record relating "three potential threats I have heard" from managers toward technical staff.
Tamosaitis' federal court complaint includes emails that show Russo ordered his removal July 1 after communicating with Dale Knutson, the DOE's project director of the plant at the time. "Use this message as you see fit to accelerate staffing changes," Knutson said in an email to Russo.
Russo, after receiving Knutson's email, sent a message to URS plant manager William Gay that said, "Walt is killing us. Get him in your corporate office tomorrow." Gay responded, "He will be gone tomorrow."
Bechtel and URS have denied allegations of retaliation, saying Tamosaitis was already scheduled to be reassigned because his job was coming to an end. Tamosaitis had prior performance issues and he sent an inappropriate and inaccurate email to project consultants, Bechtel has said in court filings.
But after Tamosaitis complained to the DOE's nuclear safety board, it affirmed in a June 2011 report that his removal "sent a strong message to other . . . project employees that individuals who question current practices . . . are not considered team players and will be dealt with harshly."
Reassignment, then dismissal
After Tamosaitis' forced departure from the plant, he was assigned to URS's main office in downtown Richland, Wash. Then last month, URS managers told Tamosaitis _ a 44-year company veteran with a Ph.D. in engineering _ to clean off his desk and leave that day.
URS required _ as a condition for all employees who receive severance pay _ that he give up the lawsuit he'd filed against the company. He refused to sign the release.
In an interview with the Center for Public Integrity, Tamosaitis, 66, said the layoff was "clearly retaliatory." He said he was particularly surprised by URS's decision because he'd met with Moniz three months earlier to discuss his concerns about the plant's design and safety culture. Moniz had promised at his April confirmation hearing to meet whistleblowers at Hanford.
Tamosaitis also had been encouraged by a memo Moniz sent to department heads in September that said the DOE must "foster a safety-conscious work environment" that does not "deter, discourage or penalize employees for the timely identification of safety, health, environmental, quality or security issues."
After Tamosaitis' dismissal, Markey and Wyden each sent letters to Moniz that say it appears little has changed. Tamosaitis' "termination within days of your pledge can only be seen as perpetuating a culture that would plunge DOE employees and contractors who dare to raise safety issues into the deep freeze," Wyden wrote in his Oct. 9 letter.
DOE officials didn't respond to requests by the Center for Public Integrity for comment about the letters or the dismissal. Wyden spokesman Keith Chu said Moniz hadn't replied to the senator's letter.
URS spokeswoman Pamela Blum said in an emailed statement that, "While we will not comment on specific employee matters, in recent months URS has reduced employment levels in our federal sector business due to budgetary constraints." The company, she wrote, "encourages its employees to raise concerns about safety." She also said URS asked all laid-off employees to sign severance agreements absolving the company from legal claims.
Other technical managers also have alleged retaliation for expressing safety concerns. Donna Busche, a URS employee and the plant's manager of environmental and nuclear safety, sued Bechtel and URS in February claiming that the companies treated her as a "roadblock to meeting deadlines." URS and Bechtel officials excluded her from meetings and belittled her authority, she alleged. The companies deny it.
Busche said her troubles escalated after she questioned the DOE's judgment at an Oct. 7, 2010, safety board hearing about how much radiation might escape in the event of an accident at the plant. Board officials had expressed concern that the DOE's calculations may underestimate the threat, but Ines Triay, then the department's assistant secretary for environmental management, defended them.
When a board member asked Busche whether she supported the DOE's method, Busche replied, "Short answer, no," according to a transcript of the hearing. Afterward, Triay told Busche that if her "intent was to piss people off, (she) did a very good job," according to Busche's complaint.
Triay, who's now the executive director of the Applied Research Center at Florida International University, didn't respond to requests for comment.
Tom Carpenter, the executive director of Hanford Challenge, a nonprofit agency in Seattle that's assisted Hanford whistleblowers, said URS "created the conditions" to lay off Tamosaitis. "He was turned into a symbol by them that this is what happens to people who raise concerns," Carpenter said. "It'll be a cold day indeed when someone tries to follow in his footsteps."
Cleaning up the mess
In August 2010, the department announced that the mixing issues were closed. Partially as a result, Bechtel and URS received more than $4 million in bonus funds.
But problems persisted. In 2011, DOE scientist Don Alexander expressed new concerns that the mixing vessels could erode and spring leaks. Last year, the department halted construction on key parts of the plant as it worked to resolve technical problems, including ensuring that the wastes will be adequately mixed. Alexander said DOE and contract officials were planning full-scale tests of mixing vessels.
Bechtel spokesman Jason Bohne said in a statement that the company's "focus remains on safely designing and building the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant to the highest nuclear safety standards. We remain committed to working with DOE to achieve the permanent solution for Hanford's aging tank waste."
In a Sept. 24 report, Secretary Moniz told Washington state officials that officials want to start encasing some low-level waste in glass while resolving other problems with the treatment of high-level waste.
Tamosaitis says he's sorting through his papers and figuring out what to do next. "I want an environment where the foot soldiers can raise issues without fear they're going to be put in a basement office for 16 months and then laid off," he said. "This issue is a heck of a lot bigger than me."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong name for the Government Accountability Office.