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Miss Pupko gave Tema a lacerating glance. Between the two of them, there was a long-standing entrenched tension. The teacher was exceedingly aware that Tema conducted her own private study of Tanakh and had even memorized entire books, including such long ones as Isaiah and Psalms, to the point that you could just spit out one word and this strange girl could supply the entire sentence that encased it complete with chapter and verse citation. Who would ever marry such a freak, and motherless besides? She was like some kind of illui, a prodigy who had mastered the complete Talmud, except that an illui was an honored category reserved exclusively for boys—in a girl such precocious flashes of brilliance were simply bizarre and superfluous and disturbing, there wasn't even an accepted feminine form for the term. Miss Pupko felt in her heart that Tema had nothing but contempt for her knowledge of the scripture, and she was keenly wounded. Tema regarded herself as too good for this review, Miss Pupko thought bitterly, there was nothing she could learn from it, that was why she had stayed out of the room so long, doing her business, whatever it was, in the toilet or wherever.
"Tema Bavli," Miss Pupko bellowed, "Read!"
Slowly and deliberately Tema turned back toward the stifling, puberty-laced interior of the room from staring outside through the grimy window down into the street where she had been observing Rabbi Manis Schmeltzer opening the door to his car illegally parked in front of a fire hydrant, removing the clergy sign from the windshield, flipping the sign along with his black fedora hat onto the front passenger seat, cupping his black velvet yarmulke and readjusting it on his head, hoisting the tail of his glossy black kaftan in order to slide his haunches more comfortably into the driver's seat—and then she pictured him jiggling his hindquarters, easing them into the bowl of the seat with a palpable sense of well-being, and jutting his chin forward toward the rearview mirror, drawing back his lips and baring his teeth like a primate to examine them proprietarily before inserting his key into the ignition and setting forth with a roar. Tema gazed at Miss Pupko in complete confusion. "Aha, so you weren't paying attention," the teacher said. "You don't even know the place."
When school ended, Tema walked to the subway station intending to make her way home to purge herself in privacy, to brush her teeth thoroughly and rinse out her mouth, to stand under the shower for as long as possible before someone started banging on the door. But since it was a Sunday, with no secular instruction, late afternoon in early summer but still daylight, Tema went instead in the other direction almost without being fully aware of her movements or that she had made any particular decision at all, and she boarded the train that would take her to the second train that would take her to the bus that would bring her to the Old Montefiore cemetery in Queens where, once, her mother could always be found waiting to listen to everything.
But ever since the stone had been unveiled over her mother's grave, a slab of granite with the minimal inscription entirely in Hebrew from right to left—name, date of birth and death in accordance with the Jewish calendar linked by a minus sign, and the generic double-edged one-size-fits-all compliment for females from the book of Proverbs, A Woman of Valor Who Can Find—Tema's visits had grown more and more infrequent. Her mother was no longer there, no longer nearby, she was packed away, sealed off, she no longer cared. And this was what Tema also felt now as she approached the grave in the twilight with the darkness beginning to descend, her mother moving even farther away from her to a cold point in the distance.
"Mama, Mama!" Tema began screaming into that distance, her cries bouncing from headstone to headstone in the cemetery emptied of all other living beings. She bent down to gather a handful of pebbles and small rocks and granite and marble chips that had cracked off the gravestones, but instead of setting them down on her mother's grave as a sign that she had come by to visit, she began throwing them, pelting her mother's monument with missile after missile. Horrified by her actions, Tema broke out in sobs, "I'm sorry, Mama, I'm sorry!"—and she fell down on the plot as if splayed on her mother's body with her arms hugging its headstone, crying so hard, crying like she used to cry when she was a little girl, her entire body heaving until the breath seemed to be sucked out of her and all her moisture drained, and she swooned, collapsed from sheer physical depletion.
She woke up in the pitch dark and began staggering around the cemetery like the abandoned children Hansel and Gretel in the Black Forest fairytale, only at least they had each other whereas she was entirely alone, utterly lost and with no bearings at all as to where she was in the world, groping in the darkness until she fell partway into an open grave awaiting its dead the next morning, grasping onto one of the two mounds of soft, freshly dug up earth that rose on either side. This is where she was found at dawn by the caretaker of the cemetery making his first rounds. For the remaining weeks of that school year Tema was sick in her bed. She never took the final exam on the second book of Samuel for the prophets class or in any other subject for that matter, and they didn't bother with makeup tests either since, as the principal Rabbi Manis Schmeltzer himself so wisely pointed out, "Who are we kidding? Let's face it, it really doesn't make a difference one way or the other in the overall life schedule of these girls."
During the first stage of her illness Tema barely responded at all. But after about a week she returned from wherever she had been; she recognized that she was completely altered, that she had undergone an event terrible and undeniable, that she had given up one form of bondage in exchange for being bound to something else—she would never be free. She had come back from the dead with secrets, with forbidden knowledge, weighed down by a calling. The first person she saw when she opened her eyes was Frumie sitting with legs apart on a chair at the bedside in her pink chenille bathrobe stretched taut and pulled open to expose a patch of the great smooth mound of her pregnant belly with a dark line trailing downward from the plug of her navel. "Oh my God, why did you leave me?" Tema cried out, and her voice came up as if from below—deeper, riper, the voice of the blood of her mother crying out to her from the ground. Frumie's head sank low over her belly, her hair tightly bound up in a married woman's headscarf. "I'm sorry, Frumie, I don't mean to hurt you," Tema said. "Such a life is just not meant for me."
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No man - regardless of his physique - looks good in a Speedo. If you're proud of what you've got, then why cram it into a tight Lycra sling? Keep the ladies guessing and your dignity intact with something a little more subtle at the beach.
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This article confirms it: Fashion writer, Laura Lanktree, knows absolutely nothing about men's fashion. With the numerous digs, her writing leaves me with the distinct impression that she does not even like the male body. Bad break-up, Laura? or is it something more primal?
I am told I dress well, and many friends will drag me along when they need new clothes. I had one female friend beg me to take her husband clothes shopping.
#1 - I agree that socks with sandals is plain wrong, but then that's not just a guy thing.
#2 - Unless you're Charlie Sheen and performing a skit from Two and a half men, leave the Hawaiian shirts to tropical vacations and then only if you want to be recognized as a tourist.
#3 - Speedos are not ruled out "...regardless of physique"; they are physique-dependent. Take one look at any Olympic swimmer and tell me they look bad in a speedo.
#4 - One necklace at a time? Although "necklace" is the correct technical term, men prefer to call them chains; we buy necklaces for the women in our lives. Number isn't the problem so much as how long the chain is. If the chain reaches your belt buckle, it's too long.
#5 - Short shorts - maybe not Daisy Duke short, but Jogging shorts are pretty short. Like speedo's they are physique dependent. Men's legs not sexy? Try looking again, some men have damn-fine legs.
#6 - Put the right spin on this one - trucker caps are okay as long as the logo is situation/age-appropriate. Khakis and dress pants, do not go with trucker OR baseball caps. Logos for almost anything other than a sports team, is probably plain marketing and a poor fashion choice.
#7 - Pleating is both material and physique-dependent. They only go with dress or semi-dress (i.e., business casual) pants - never with jeans or khakis. Also, the more above the average male waist size, the helpful pleats are at making you look thinner. For guys with 36-plus inch waists that want pleats, keep them to one or two ,1/2 inch wide by 4 inches long.
#8 - Even if you're a cowboy, do not tuck your jeans into the boots (like the picture) unless you have a practical reason to. As for "silent and rounded", both traditional and classic men's footwear are rarely rounded and the heel is wood. Even with that little bit of rubber, they are not silent. Excepting highly fashionable styles, men's shoes are never as pointed as a woman's. Pick a style that goes with the rest (i.e. no basketball shoes with a three-piece suit).
#9 - Obviously and in addition to Laura's lack of knowledge of men's fashion, she is oblivious to why Levi's calls them "Ex-Girlfriend". Only a guy (or lesbian) could truly understand the underlying play.
#10 - I have noticed a strong trend in this article. Tank tops are ...yep ... physique-dependent. Guys, remember that tank tops are an undergarment first. If you don't have the body for it, then nobody wants to see you parading around half-dressed. As for the "tufts of armpit hair", consider this rule: If you can braid it or it's as thick as a shag rug, trim it.
Guys, here's the wrap up:
1 - Dress for your body's shape and size
2 - If you aren't comfortable in it, you will not look good in it.
3 - Because it is comfortable, does not mean it looks good
4 - If you even needed to read this far, then stick with the classic styles until you have the time to learn and invest in fashion trends. Yes, invest, fashion done right is not a trip to Wal-Mart and requires replacement every season. Take a look at the average girl's wardrobe if you doubt that.
@Ken, no, I am not a gay frenchman, I am your average, run-of-the-mill, Canadian fag.
This article is moronic!! I am a woman and I am offended by this article! Some of the items I can see, like the oversized bling, but that is just to me. Some men like it and Women wear it ALL the time. Why can't men have a little fun with their wardrobe, they don't have near the options with all the women's clothing and accessories stores everywhere. As for cowboy boots GIVE ME A BREAK!! Most fine Italian shoes have the same look (the pointed toe) to them as the high end cowboy boots. My partner owns 5 pairs of Old Gringo boots and believe me they do not look like women's boots. As for muscle shirts I don't see what the problem is. Women wear tank tops all the time, what is the option men go shirtless everywhere instead? I think this article must have been written by one of two people; a controlling women, who likes to put in print what men should be wearing or shouldn't, to show her husband or partner that he is wrong in his choices. Or a really prissy male that thinks he is a style fashionista and only wears what is popular at the time and would wear any of these items, in a moment, if they were seen on the runway. Either way neither should hold any opinion over what men should wear.
I'm a woman and this list is STUPID!
though socks and sandals looks weird its ok, I don't care what men wear, if they look good in tight pink pants, muscle shirt , cowboy boots and hat good let them wear it men, like woman should dress to make themselves look good and most importantly feel good.
Just wondering if the author, Laura, even likes looking at men as it seems the sight of male skin above the knee or below the neck is forbidden. Well I do like looking at men, and there's nothing wrong with a guy showing off his body if he's fit. Honestly, what's not to like about a handsome guy in a muscle shirt, tight jeans or cowboy boots? That's a hot combo! And the comment about a speedo never looking good on guys is just wrong. I know that I'm right about this because speedos are proof that there really is a God in heaven! ;) I'm surprised leather pants didn't make this list too, though I suppose if they did it wouldn't matter if the guy owned a motorcycle or not, they would just be forbidden. Just like trucker hats on truckers whom it seems must all logically be bums. Though without truckers Laura couldn't go shopping for her husband's turtleneck!
i can agree that socks and sandals , Hawaiian shirts and tacky jewellery are not exactly on the chic side...
but give me a break, short shorts, armpit hair. what's wrong with that..
the most pathetic statement: "No man - regardless of his physique - looks good in a Speedo"
as someone said, this must have been written by a 15 year old!!!!
I just asked my wife& 4 of her f friends 30 to 67 yrs old about this artical!
Everyone of them prefer Speedos-mussel shirts, tight clothing on men including short shorts!
One of them asked if this was written by a 15yr old!
Thier opinion was that "Baggy" clothes are only for Verry young children!
Two of them(wife included )like men to shave legs& under arm hair!
The others prefer men hairy!
My wife dosn't enjoy cowboy boots but the others said they are fine on men
One comment was"if men can enjoy seeing more skin on women -Why can't women enjoy seeing more skin on men""?
This article is ridiculous...
This had to be written by some women. Only them cry about discrimination and can wear whatever they like male or female attire, show or not show legs, butts, whatever. I have much better looking legs and butts than 80% of these discriminatory females out there. I believe this write up and slide is just completely off the marks and quite retrograde and discriminatory... Fabric, style, cut etc have no gender to my knowledge, that for some it happens to cut it better than others: yes, both women and men.
This kind of write up only promote stereotype... but it does not surprise me. Written by a woman...Yes they can wear flat shoes, silk, nylon, satin, trousers (which is the max of men's attire), tight underwear etc... But Oh! God prohibit a male for having any of these deemed to be female tastes... he's got to be outdated, gay or whatever else... THUMBS DOWN Ms. Laura. YOU are old fashioned... update your hard disk or better change it: it is failing.
The author of this article is clearly the sort of person who honestly believes style is a formula based on the opinions of some select, nebulous, elite group of imaginary influential other people who gossip and slight and judge the great unwashed to be unworthy of their divinity. These people make great suckers for slick marketing. She is a delusional, snobby fashionista bonehead. Gosh. She probably thinks she's all that ... which is, amusingly to me ... so very tiresomely common. She is just like what she's implying all the so-called bad examples she rails against are: A walking billboard of dysfunction and immaturity.
You want to be a stylish original? Be yourself, be genuine, be real, see beyond the shell, and don't be a judgmental ass-hat. That's a lot more rare and elite than being a shallow twit, would you agree?
Frankly, if impressing this chick was something I did by accident, I'd want to re-evaluate my outfit AND my priorities.
Think I'd rather dare to be odd in her books.
Some people never outgrow high school. It's sad, really.
Not happy with this list.
Men's fashion is already lacking in variety, and they are asking to take away some of what little we have? No to tank tops? Socks and sandals is classic. And pleated pants don't look terrible. I'm already pushing the norm; I get comments from some friends about the style or pattern/colour choices I make. Now my 'never' list is longer?
I'll wear what I want.
P.S. I'm actually quite surprised they didn't have capris on this list... Not that I mind them!
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They're a ranged drug injection system and as such, you'd need a special permit to carry one. You'd never get hold of the rounds without it.
That's a safety measure. You're injecting anaesthetics into a living creature, and complications can arise from that. Anything from an allergic reaction to the drug, to an overdose stopping the heart. You need to know how to react of that occurs.
With a human target you would have the added complication that you don't know what medication they are currently taking and how the two would interact. Non-fatal but permanently dehabilitating conditions are possible.
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Q: You're surrounded by pastries and treats all day, every day. How do you resist eating them all?
MK: I am very lucky because I take so many little bites throughout the day to make sure flavors are balanced, that I am very satisfied by sweets when the day is done. There are certain things that are so amazing when they come out of the oven, I do have to have some willpower to resist eating them all. I just make sure if I am going to eat something decadent, it is going to be really good, and not waste my calories on junk.
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Seven Indiana school corporations are holding a special election May 7 to ask voters to approve tax levy increases.
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From The Elkhart Truth: Local schools are working to continue tightening their budgets, but some have already saved millions in energy costs through the last few years. Several local school districts have integrated an energy program that has teachers, maintenance staff and others chipping in by turning off computers, lights and other electronics, along with engaging […]
Voters in seven Indiana communities will go to the polls in May to decide whether they'll raise their own property taxes to raise money for schools. Four districts are asking voters for more operating dollars. The other three want voters' help in funding construction or renovation projects. Below is a full list of districts seeking to […]
Three school districts in northwest Indiana will hold a special election in May to try to pass referenda.
Even in the traditionally tax-averse GOP, Pence is having a tough time getting Republicans in the Indiana General Assembly to agree with his proposed tax cut.
We're starting to get a better understanding of what's at stake for Indiana students if federal lawmakers cannot reach a deal to avoid a "fiscal cliff" they'll hit at year's end.
If cuts like those called for in the Ryan plan were to pass, Indiana districts would lose a grand total of $280 million in federal revenues. But no single Indiana district would lose more than 6 percent of their total revenues.
If there's such a thing as a school district that's too small, is there also such a thing as a district that's too big?
"This is about our last time that we can do cuts and not impact programs or activities in our school district," Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Eugene White said Friday.
The Indiana University Board of Trustees approved an operating budget Friday that calls for $19.8 million worth of salary increases across the statewide system's campuses. The budget includes what amounts to an average 1.5 percent pay bump on all campuses, honoring a union-negotiated salary increase. But some of the IU system's more-than-18,500 employees statewide could […]
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Long Islander Jerry Seinfeld headlined special sold-out, packed-house shows in Westbury to stick by the community hit hard by Superstorm Sandy.
He is donating all of the proceeds of the shows featuring him and comedians Colin Quinn and George Wallace.
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Winners and losers in tax bill
Hedge-fund managers and affluent taxpayers mostly do well, but couples earning less than $40,000 may pay more taxes.
This post is by Laura Saunders of The Wall Street Journal.
House passage of a bipartisan tax bill resolves many urgent questions weighing on individuals and businesses -- but also creates vast groups of winners and losers among them.
Because the deal left in place many tax rates that otherwise could have jumped significantly, and lowers the payroll tax for all workers by two percentage points, most individual taxpayers should come out ahead, say tax experts.
Yet some bond investors, for example, could be left poorer. Concerns over the deal's long-term fiscal effects have prompted big selloffs in U.S. Treasury securities since the deal was announced on Dec. 6. Moody's Investors Service warned on Monday that the tax deal raises the chance that it would issue a negative outlook on the U.S. government's AAA credit rating.
"It's easy to have lots of winners when you're giving up this much revenue," said Michael Graetz, a former Treasury official who is now a professor at Columbia University Law School. "But we can't finance the government by borrowing forever."
The bill is notable for a couple of things it leaves out. For example, among the big winners are private-equity and hedge-fund executives who prevailed in their battle against "carried interest" provisions that would have taxed their earnings at higher ordinary-income rates rather than as capital gains. Small-business owners, by contrast, lost their push for "1099 relief" that would have eased the requirement to issue Internal Revenue Service forms to vendors receiving $600 or more in a year.
Individual income and payroll taxes
The bill extends through 2012 the Bush-era tax rates enacted in 2001-2003, instead of allowing them to return to pre-2001 levels, effectively preventing a rise for nearly all U.S. taxpayers. Some 15 million lower-income workers now off the tax rolls will not be restored to them, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Affluent taxpayers also benefit from the two-year repeal of the "Pease" limitation (named for the congressman who sponsored it) and personal exemption phase-out (PEP). These are deduction limits that functioned as back-door tax increases for many affluent taxpayers. The Pease provision cut itemized deductions by 3% for incomes above a threshold; PEP eroded the value of the personal exemption.
For 2011 only, the bill imposes a historic reduction in Social Security (FICA) taxes, cutting by two percentage points the employee's portion of the 6.2% tax. Savings per worker will vary with income, but could be as much as $2,136 for those earning more than $106,800, the maximum amount subject to Social Security tax. Both members of a married couple can receive the benefit.
Some see the payroll tax cut as a partial replacement for the Making Work Pay income-tax credit of 2009 and 2010, but it benefits a broader range of workers with higher incomes. For 51 million low-income households with married couples earning less than $40,000 ($20,000 for singles), however, the payroll tax cut doesn't make up for the loss of this credit. On average it costs them $210 each, according to Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center.
The bill also contains a two-year patch for the "alternative minimum tax" retroactive to January 2010. The AMT, an alternate tax regime originally meant to ensure that people with high incomes pay taxes, isn't indexed for inflation, and has come to include middle-class taxpayers. The patch spares an additional 21 million taxpayers this year.
Investment taxes
The bill extends for two years the current tax rates on long-term capital gains and dividends. The top rate for both will remain at its historic low of 15%. The rate will remain zero for couples with taxable income below $69,000.
According to the Tax Policy Center, more than half of the benefit of this extension will go to people with incomes above $100,000. Absent the extension, the top rate on long-term gains would have risen to 20%, while the top dividend rate could have risen to as high as 39.6%.
Deductions and credits
Among the benefits extended through 2011: deductions for teacher expenses and for state sales taxes in lieu of state income taxes. Lawmakers also extended through 2011 the provision allowing taxpayers over age 70½ to make tax-free donations of IRA assets to qualified charities.
Several education benefits were also extended through 2012. Not renewed was a property-tax deduction for non-itemizers.
Estate and gift taxes
For 2011 and 2012, the top estate-tax rate falls to 35% and the exemption rises to $5 million an individual. Some in Congress had sought a top rate of 45% and $3.5 million exemption.
The bill also allows executors of 2010 estates to elect whether to use 2010 rules or 2011 rules. The choice will help heirs who would pay more as a result of the lapse of the estate tax in 2010 and a corresponding rise in capital-gains taxes.
The new provisions will cut by at least a third the number of estates subject to the tax, which was paid by about 5,500 estates in 2009, according to Tax Policy Center estimates.
Also for the first time, estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes will be "unified" so that one $5 million exemption per individual applies to all three. "This will make it much easier for wealthy taxpayers to make gifts during life to grandchildren," says estate attorney Beth Kaufman of Caplin & Drysdale.
By the way, you can thank your generation as well as your children for their irresponsibility towards savings and government spending for screwing the lives of my generation and those after me. I can only hope my generation learns for your mistakes and gets the ship in the right direction for our children before it is too late.
While I am far from the brightest bulb in the lamp, at first blush it would seem that all of the goodies are being given to the most affluent amongst us. Who ultimately will pay the bills? We, who always do; the senior citizens and the rapidly disappearing Middle Class!
While I have seen no COLA in my Social Security now, for 2 years, my actual costs are still skyrocketing being led by the cost of Medical and Food which have not been frozen as my income has!!
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