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Scientists have reached farther back than ever into the ancestry of humans to recover and analyze DNA, using a bone found in Spain that's estimated to be 400,000 years old. So far, the achievement has provided more questions than answers about our ancient forerunners.
The feat surpasses the previous age record of about 100,000 years for genetic material recovered from members of the human evolutionary line. Older DNA has been mapped from animals.
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These moms reveal the secret lives of their naked kids.
Author and Mom Stefanie Wilder-Taylor starts the conversation by revealing that her 3-year-old daughter likes to be nude. Shannon Fox, Blogger Yvonne, and Shaq's ex, Shaunie O'Neal, join in and the conversation quickly turns into how boys never seem to grow out of the love of their own bodies.
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If only girls could learn to love their bodies as early as boys do!
How come she thinks it fine when her daughter gets naked but doesn't like the boys doing it. Part of being a kid is that you should be able to be naked at home.
There are few things more wholesome or natural than simple nudity around the home. Take things NATURALLY!
Nudity = freedom let your kids be naked more. Boys or girls. I love being nude.
I agree children should be allowed freedom to be nude. Later they can make their own decision. If children see their parents nude from an early age they will get used to it.
women like this make me disgusted.
Every family is different. From as early as I can remember, I would get my night bath, get dried, and just be nude around the house till I went to bed. This began to lessen when puberty set in around 14, but even then, the walk between the bathroom and my bedroom, I was nude. If my mom, dad or one of my sisters was also in the hallway and saw me, it just wasn't even a thought to me or them. Interesting though, I don't remember ever seeing my sisters nude.
Like I said, every family is different.
Agreed with Robbie. every family is different. Kids are normally comfortable with nudity. Hope that most adults can feel the same way too.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The University of Louisville has received a nearly $3.5 million grant to study the effects of stem cells on the nation's number one killer -- heart disease.
The first real-world cases at the university started in the fall of 2012 when Dr. Roberto Bolli and his team infused 16 adult heart failure patients with their own stem cells.
Dead heart tissue in all 16 patients was successfully regenerated.
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Scott Goldsmith: "This is a truck-driving class in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, at a technical school. This woman is on video, saying, 'After I graduate from this class, I will not work for the gas companies after knowing what they do. This was my introduction to horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. fracking. After doing extensive research on the subject, I was shocked to find out how horrible it was for our land, water and air. I was saddened by how the gas companies try to hide the damage they are doing not only to the environment but also to the communities they polarize… As fracking increases around the world, an increase in truck driving is one of many ways the extraction of natural gas from shale leads to extensive and growing climate change problem."
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Here is a quick picture summary of WHAT NOT TO DO when your team is in position to tie the game with a field goal. Thanks again Philip for a KILLER interception.
The Bucs put pressure on Philip Rivers and Rivers extends the play by scrambling to his right. Any time you can get Philip to move his feet, the defense is happy. He isn't Robert Griffin out there. He isn't even Tom Brady when it comes to running the football. Philip may be the worst quarterback on the move.
As Philip is scrambling to his right, he misses seeing an open Antonio Gates in the middle of the field. As he gets closer to the sideline, it seems that he is just going to chuck the ball out of bounds and we are going to kick a field goal to tie the game, but Eddie Royal flashed open. Philip tried flip the ball over the defender to get the first down.
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Clementine Whitefield
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As a child, you knew that if another runt teased you, s/he liked you. But this isn't the case with Clem Whitefield and Niko Newton, perhaps eternal enemies at first flight. The only thing exchanged between this teenage pair is hate rays and insults. But their world around them unfolds underneath their glares. Pasts are revealed and their future stays hidden in await of the drum roll. Can they put aside their differences? Or, in other words…
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Virga City is a small town nestled between two sides of a great bay. As the crashing waves catapult themselves towards the seashore, endless rainstorms sweep through the tiny town, their clouds burying the town in moisture for a good part of the year. But in the summer it's residents receive a small ray of sunshine in their endless rain drenched society, and it's inhabitants leave the comfort of their homes and head to one of the many picturesque beaches. But besides being home to record breaking rainfalls, people also travel from afar to attend Floodplain University, one of the finest veterinary schools in the country.
The description of where he was perched, looking out onto the water as he fiddled with sand, was most definitely once written in a romance. It was most likely before the protagonist met the soul mate, or the slow motion narration before a kiss. They would sit with their toes dipped into the water that sent chills up to their heart, a stirring that made them even more unready, unstable, and ultimately steady for the next moment. Of course, this would be no regular moment, in fact this moment would last forever, a short amount of time in the future lovers' joined heart. Their soulmate's lips would gain speed, although it would still lose a race against the tortoise, and the protagonist would do the same.
And there the pairs of lips would meet forever in a harmless bliss even after the couple had gotten up and raced home hand in hand.
At least, that's what Nikolai had playing in his head as the pebbles rolled between his thumb and index finger. Iris, he knew, would be able to narrate it better. She would tell the story in a way that brought both the past that brought the people to the bay and the future of their romance into that present. His sister could make better pictures out of words like she was a spider weaving the web, and all the little details would get stuck….
No, that wasn't right. Even describing describing was difficult for him. One day he'd be half as good as her and when that happened he'd be famous.
For now, all he could do was dangle his feet in the water and stare at the nature that surrounded him.
Out in the distance on the bay water, a boat zoomed by. It was a long way from shore, merely a small white shape moving on the blue waves, but it was most obviously a boat. There was a bit of a rustle behind it, a line of intense slashing at the water. Nikolai leaned forward and squinted. He couldn't see it.
But he rationalized to himself what it could be. Maybe they were water skiing and the person was underwater now? No, no, the rope would break under all that pressure…right? Wasn't there that sport where you floated above it by a rope? Yes, Nikolai remembered joining Iris for an episode of The Simpsons. The fat yellow fellow with little hair and uncontrollable rage was flying above the boat, urging them over and over again to go higher without any care for what they said. And then the rope caught fire and he was cut loose. The loud mouthed moron flew over houses until he crashed into a house and landed on a celebrity and the C story began.
So…where was the person who was once connected by the rope? If it was a skier then they would probably be trying to swim way behind the boat. And if it was a flier, they were, like Homer, about to crash somewhere on land.
He couldn't find a skier so where was the flie-
A mixture of smooth sounds of the sand moving, human grunts, and objects breaking suddenly filled Niko's ears. He was responsible for probably half of the moans and groans and a few Oofs here and there. There was another body, however, making the other noises, and they sounded superbly feminine.
There was a few slashes against his skins and large amounts of pressure focused on one part of his body at a time. Sand seeped into his clothing, although that was barely noticeable with everything else going on. He felt air pierce cuts on his arm and legs, a stinging nuisance.
But even all that wasn't really notable. It was the confusion that swept over him. What was going on?
The attack of the unknown was over relatively quickly, and everything landed about 8 yards away from where Nikolai was previously relaxing. He was sprawled on the sand floor, a fabric with hard, compact structures concealed inside it over his chest. His eyelids dared to open, revealing a nearly cloudless light blue sky with a strong light coming from the left.
Nikolai breathed and heard other breaths from near him. His fingers found the ends of the structure and started to pull it away from him.
The other person was doing much better at this Houdini escape. He felt pretty useless, there was a lot on him and his feet, he realized after trying to move them, were tied together by fabric. He wondered if there was any possible way the other person could have landed better…because this was horrible.
While the girl uncovered his body, he unwrapped his lower body. She sounded just as hurt as him, maybe even more. He wasn't helping in any way, she was doing all the work.
But, really, he did have an excuse. Nikolai had trouble going to public restrooms, so what was he supposed to do in this situation? The cleanliness of the material and people. What if the other person had AIDs and their blood had somehow gotten on him? His cuts were open, probably dirtying and being succumbed by bacteria as the seconds passed by. In hours he'd end up in the hospital, a machine breathing for him.
He was going to die. The uncertainty of what the hell was going on certainly didn't help. He'd tried rationalizing with himself. By the process of elimination…he was screwed! His heart beat quickened but he did his best to breathe normally or else he'd use up all of his oxygen. Death by lack of oxygen? What was that like? That had to suck. Damnit, why wasn't this girl working faster? Earth to girl: loss of oxygen!
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:|It's going to be okay|:
:|No it's not, no it's not|:
:|What's happening?|:
:|I can't breathe|:
:|I can't breathe…|:
He'd managed to calm down by the time his partner in crash unveiled him. She looked at him in a weird twist of amazement and confusion, probably the same face he was giving her. Overall, she appeared a plain jane chick; brunette, green/blue eyes, white, average height, etcetera. But even with her confusion she felt…confident. Something like that, he wasn't that great at the thought process right then.
The same words he was about to emit she beat him to, "Who the hell are you?"
He groaned, sitting up and pulling away from the debris, "Right back at you. I'm Niko, the guy you smashed into, if you couldn't tell. But thanks for helping me out…same question."
"My name's Clementine. But don't you dare call me that. Only my mother does. It's Clem to you."
He raised his eyebrow, wasn't she just a ray of sunshine? Who called their kid Clementine, anyway? That was like naming a kid Pineapple. Niko urged to say, 'Don't worry, I wouldn't be tempted to use such a stupid name,' but the girl was unraveling herself and that would probably make her storm towards him but then fall on her face in the process. That would just be pathetic.
Well…actually, maybe he should…
But it was too late, she emerged from the fabric and looked out onto the bay. Her eyes scanned the whole place silently, Nikolai marveled inwardly that it was like watching a wolf stare into the forest for prey. Suddenly, like the first stomp before a chase, she stomped her foot into the sand. He stifled his laughter. What was she…five? Having a tantrum? Oh, this was priceless.
With a weary voice she asked him, "How far away do you think those docks are?"
Well, he did live about that way. It had taken him three hours to walk to the bay yesterday, although that was walking and he did live at least a mile farther than the other side of Seagull Bay. Today he had brought the car since there had been an accident earlier and he had worried he'd step on glass.
"Two hour walk," he estimated as he came to his feet. "Why?"
He reckoned this was all a pretty good excuse for killing her brothers. No sarcasm whatsoever. But, even though he understood, he knew he would never even have the thought of murdering his sister, even if he was kidding. Niko just wasn't a violent person. That was probably the result of being raised by Spencer, the level headed man who took Nikolai and Iris in.
With a hand on his hip, he watched her gather all of the debris. He was amazed when it actually rested fully in her arm, but it was probably going to fall out piece by piece as she walked. She would be Gretel and drop little pieces of her equipment so she could drag her brothers bodies back where she had to start so they'd have to do the same. What a murderous Gretel, that witch would never stand a chance.
Clem bid him adieu, "Well. Nice meeting you," he doubted she meant it, "But I have to go now. Or else my brothers are going to leave without me. Bye."
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:|Is she actually going to try and carry that for two hours?|:
:|How self-righteous can you get?|:
What was she on? Was there any insult in that? It would take her two hours to walk there with that jumble of that thing she had flown in with. To say she would make it was a compliment. Especially if her brothers were as much of the asses as she let on, leaving without her and everything. If there was a chance for her to make it without all of the dragging it, it was way too small to see.
He watched, concrete feet. She had to come back, she wasn't that stupid. Well, he wasn't too sure about her intelligence. And, just as Niko expected, all of the structure fell out of her arms and took her down with them.
Of course he couldn't fully stuff his laughter. It probably infuriated her to hear his chuckles, but she just dusted herself off and stood straight before coming to her senses and asking for a ride. Actually, all she did was wonder aloud about his car's location.
Niko did his best to keep a straight face, "Oh…it's that way," he tilted his head slightly to the nearby parking lot, "why do you ask?"
But he quickly started off for the car because he was sure this Clem chick would pummel him. She may have come to her senses, but she was going to beat him senseless. "You can carry the stuff," he stated, a few feet from the car, "just to prove you can to yourself."
He was probably bluffing with his life on the table, but that was okay for now. She spat some more at him, stuffing everything in the backseat before adjusting herself into the passenger seat. Niko had disinfected his cuts, they had been on his mind, while she did, and wiped all the small pieces of debris off of him before buckling himself.
"Sit tight," his hands were at ten and two o'clock on the wheel, "you'll be back to your kin soon enough," and drove.
As far as Niko could tell, when she saw the whites of her brothers' eyes she was out the door. She had something about a thank you and then shoveled everything out of his backseat in one swipe. He stopped his head from jerking at all the movement and looked through the passenger window at her brothers.
:|2…4…6…|: :|Is she going to take that?|:
He watched the scene. This was way too interesting to just drive off. She had seven brothers? Had they all been on the boat? Maybe one of them was her cousin or something. Distant relative. There had to be a few twins in there.
How did you mother that many children? Their dad must've been ecstatic to have a whole baseball team, though.
Clem dumped all the pieces and parts on one of her brothers' heads, "What the hell were you thinking?" she cried.
One of the younger males told her to, "Chill Clem," as he lied down, "It was just a joke." He pointed to Niko, "What happened anyways? Did you land on the poor guy or did he just feel sorry for you and offer you a ride home."
He heard her distant reply, "Shut up."
:|No, no she can't|:
:|She couldn't possibly have the capacity|:
Niko was tempted to walk out and go talk to the eight. Give them all a good ol' chat. But he didn't have any reason to…wait. Was that some remaining debris? Did she forget it in her hurry to escape? Come on!
That was his excuse to leave the car and he took it. The door clicked open and shut, the soft tool sound that's easy to recall, and then the passenger door in an alike rhythm. He laid the pieces across his arms, laying them down where the others had fallen off her brother's head.
He turned to face her, "Are you seriously gonna take that? You were so close to bustin' out my lights and you're just going to let your brother screw with you like that? Who are you?"
In a swift motion, he then spoke to her brothers, "You guessed right, by the way; she landed on me," he stated, glancing at her and her balled up fists. What was she going to do, fight him? Yeah right. "And like an idiot she was goin' to walk all the way over here with all of that broken crap," he nudged in the direction of the pile next to Jason, "in her arms," Niko's eyes rolled. "Seriously."
:|Is she going to take that?|:
He really had no respect for her brothers anymore, but that didn't mean he didn't like them. They were all going to team on one person? Were they that weak? He doubted they were…so what was up with that?
"Good one Clem. Just like you land on someone when there was miles of ocean for you to choose to fall into. She's such a klutz, I swear. Your probably lucky you didn't break something. You didn't let her walk all over you did you? She's been known to do that, Clem has."
Niko started worrying again and he had just gotten over it with his disinfectants. Maybe he had broken something and he just hadn't realized, although he was pretty sure the pain would make him cry. And there was now a bone broken in his body, cutting his muscle open, blood spreading around. Later all the pain would finally reach his nerves and it would cause him to faint and he would have to go to the doctor and the doctor would tell him he had lost the ability of that limb and, and, and…
"Wait," he paused, a slow-motion rotation of his head until it stopped dead at Clem's face. "You didn't even look when you were fallin', did you?" Niko's body shook off all the emotions that started to spread
That. Stupid. Little. Girl.
"You just thought, 'Hey, let's triple the chance of killin' someone else and not look! Yeah! Casualties!'" His eyes bore bullet holes in her, "Let me congratulate you on ajoooob well done!"
His fingers traced the middle of his skull, where the individual arks started. The pink and blue streaks pulled back in unison as the frustration tried to boil in him. But he would let it go, it was just a bad day. In ten minutes it would just be a funny memory.
Well, probably not that funny.
He patted his shorts before waving, "Well, it was nice meeting everybody…but I think I'll take my leave."


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Marathon County district attorney Ken Heimerman used his more than 90-minute closing argument to ask the out-of-county jury to bring justice for the victim Breanna Schneller and her family.
Heimerman described Raul Ponce-Rocha's version of events as "a bunch of lies."
"He lied to the cops from day one. He sat here and lied to you," Heimerman said.
Heimerman said Ponce-Rocha planted the seed for the murder when he went to pick up a co-worker from Schneller's apartment complex on his way to work the morning of the murder. The seed bloomed into a full-fledged plan when Ponce-Rocha returned to pick up another co-worker, Heimerman said.
Heimerman said Schneller was enjoying a lazy Saturday morning in bed, something he said most hard-working people like her only dream of.
Ponce-Rocha entered Schneller's apartment with the intent to steal her underwear and killed Schneller after she caught him, Heimerman said. The attack began when Ponce-Rocha beat Schneller with an iron and ended when he decided to kill her by stabbing her to death with two kitchen knives. Heimerman said the stabbing was worse than butchering an animal.
Heimerman recounted the evidence against Ponce-Rocha as he delivered his last pitch, including Ponce-Rocha's DNA found under Schneller's fingernail, on the iron handle used to beat her, on a striped glove he wore during the crime and on the plastic bag with the glove that police found in a Dumpster outside the Mexican restaurant where he worked.
"Every thing that would link him to that murder, he lies about," Heimerman said.
The defense was scheduled to deliver its closing argument after a lunch break.
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The read ensures that whatever document you are going to update is in RAM. This means the update, which will happen immediately after the read, always updates the document in RAM, which is super fast. I think of it as warming the database for the document you are about to update.
This makes it sound like upserts and field level updates are just syntactic sugar in MongoDB, their real value being lost if the system is fetching full entries1 in memory for an update.
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Dr. Bedi took his B.A. and M.A. from the Punjab University and LLM and LLD from the Catholic University of Brussels and Doctorandus from the University of Amsterdam. His areas of specialization and interest include Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law, International Environmental Law and Global Governance. In his 45 years of legal, academic and diplomatic experience he has altogether worked in
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2. Guru Nanak Dev University (1-1-2012 to 1-8-2010).
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7. Besides Dr Bedi has since long been a Visiting Professor of International Law at numerous universities and other high institutions.
He has several publications to his credit including his two books
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Besides being a member of numerous learning societies, he had been appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, India, as a member of (i) General Council; (ii) Executive Council (iii) the Academic Council; and (iv) Internal Quality Assurance Cell of theRajiv Gandhi National University of Law and was holding these positions at the time of his demise.
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Dr. Shiv Bedi's untimely demise on 3-10-2012 in the midst of his active role in the organization of the 1st conference was a rude shock and earth shattering news for the organizing committee and all those who loved him. Dr. Shiv Bedi was a great human being with a warm and pure heart and an academic scholar who was sincere at heart and full of compassion for others and was willing to go an extra mile to help his fellow beings.
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Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr and Mrs Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's 'A Prayer for My Daughter' with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flim-flammers, fixers and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.
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There was something surprisingly calm about the tiny Brooklyn courtyard of 770 Eastern Parkway, the address of the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Groups of Hasidic men passed by talking, clutching cellphones, laughing, carrying boxes of books. One morning this past March, I knocked on a heavy wooden door; someone inside the building buzzed me in.
Down dark hallways and anonymous stairwells, the library of the Agudas Chasidei Chabad was eerily silent. Only the third floor offered a sign of life: a simple exhibition room with an assortment of glass cases, documents from the 18th century enclosed, rebbes' walking sticks, streimels, phylacteries, portraits, shtenders, and grandfather clocks. The descriptions are in a mix of Hebrew and English, a jumble of cards and numbers that is barely decipherable. This is the kingdom of Rabbi Berel Levin, chief librarian and archivist in charge of over 250,000 books on the premises.
But these 250,000 works constitute only some of Chabad's official library. There are another 15,000 books, which have been housed for the past century in the shadow of Moscow's Kremlin and which have been the center of a decades-old property dispute between Russian officials and Chabad representatives based in the United States.
When I explained my reasons for coming to 770 Eastern Parkway, Rabbi Levin sighed. He agreed to speak with me, but only to discuss the history of Chabad's missing books; the current status of the absent library of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, was strictly off-limits.
"A very sensitive time we are in now," he said, watching me carefully from across his desk. Over the past four years, the fate of the Schneersohn library has had its international consequences, as American-Russian relations grow increasingly strained. Since February 2011, Russians have refused to loan any artwork to American museums, fearing the pieces will be used as ransom for the Schneersohn books. The Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow have effectively canceled all loans, the New York Times reported in January; American museums have been left scrambling for alternative pieces to fill major gaps in their exhibits. Walk into any major American museum's exhibit and you'll see the blank spaces: The Metropolitan's most recent Matisse exhibit lacked the painter's iconic goldfish (housed in the Pushkin Museum); the National Gallery of Art's upcoming 2014 exhibit of Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt will probably not include the Degas' "Blue Dancers" or a Cassatt version of "Mother and Child." "We are all caught up in a political situation that is not of our making," Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, told the New York Times at the time of the Russians' unparalleled decision to halt art traffic.
"All right," I replied, just as carefully. "Tell me about the past, then. What brought us here?"
The white-bearded rabbi looked down for a long moment, and then he began.
The story of the Schneersohn library is the stuff of a novel, or a movie—a sacred centuries-old collection of rare and holy books at the center of a longstanding and ever-widening dispute among an international cast of characters: rabbis, American lawyers, unsmiling Russian government officials, the heads of major American museums, Al Gore, and Vladimir Putin. The library in question was originally owned by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe and father-in-law of the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Housed in Lubavitch, Russia, Rabbi Schneersohn's personal collection amounted to 12,000 religious books and 25,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts. During the upheaval of the Russian Revolution, half of the books were seized by the Bolsheviks and nationalized according to the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of 1918, eventually landing in the archives of Moscow's national Lenin Library.
In 1927, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn was sentenced to death by firing squad for "counterrevolutionary activities"; after protests in the West, his sentence was commuted to exile from the Soviet Union. As he fled, he managed to salvage the remaining half of his collection, mostly thousands of pages of handwritten Lubavitch manuscripts and responsa, and settled in Warsaw. At the start of World War II, as the German army approached, Schneersohn found himself fleeing yet again, leaving his letters behind in a warehouse. The Nazis looted the warehouse and transported the library to Berlin; in 1945, the Red Army captured the collection from German hands and proceeded to place the texts in the state's military archives in Moscow. The books—both those kept in the national library and the manuscripts kept in the military archive—were unheard of for decades.
But ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, with perestroika and the resurgence of Chabad's presence in Russia, representatives of the Crown Heights' library of Agudei Chasidei Chabad began a tireless battle with the Russian government for the return of its books, a battle affecting the heads of state, court judges, and Chabadniks on both sides.
"We just want the thing itself," Levin told me, handing me with trembling hands a photocopied handwritten catalog of the books. "We just want it. There's a cheshbon, a reasoning, for holding the physical sefarim, simply because our rabbis wrote them, held them." But the dispute over ownership of the Schneersohn library isn't simply a game of chess, or an unlikely cause of Russian-American political tension. It's also a collision of an American way of negotiating—dominated by justice, law, courts—with its Russian counterpart—grand speeches, followed by abrupt silence.
In the late 1980s, when Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev showed some willingness to negotiate the ownership of the collection, Chabad turned to the Russian courts, who ultimately ruled in favor of the collection's transfer to New York. Schneerson dispatched a delegation of his close disciples to Moscow, a group that would include Rabbi Levin. "We went there for several days," Levin says. "It was on an official invitation by the Russian government to help identify the books, but the Russian library didn't permit us to even look at the books, just to look at the catalog. Now, how can you study like this? We had to do all of our research from the reading room only. I took the catalog, and I picked from there the 12 most rare books. I gave the librarian the list, and said, 'Do me a favor, take the catalog and look for these titles. Bring back this list with details about the shelf and department of each title.' And what do you know? The librarian brought back the list, and all of the titles were cataloged in the same department. In that moment, I knew where our collection was. They were kept together, deep inside."
Levin chronicled his time in Russia in a meticulous 400-page Hebrew diary, which he would later publish upon returning to New York. "The Rebbe did not permit us to come home without the books. So, we stayed there for a year and a half," he says matter-of-factly. "I was there in Moscow for a year and a half, without anything, we thought we were going there for only a few days. I didn't even have a coat with me. But the Rebbe had a policy: You don't come back until you come back with the books." Levin closed the collection catalog, ran a hand across the cover and said wearily, "I'm running this library already 35 years—these books, they are my life."
While Levin and his colleagues Rabbi Shlomo Cunin and Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan worked to negotiate with the Lenin Library, Lubavitch also began employing efforts in Washington, the most famous of which in Chabad lore is the story of how in 1991, Rabbi Cunin sent his teenage sons, yeshiva students at the time, to lobby on Capitol Hill. After a week of knocking on doors, riding the underground subway between the House and Senate with congressmen, the Cunin boys managed to secure letters of support from 70 senators.
But it was in vain. In Moscow, negotiations had come to a standstill. "At one point, after more than a year, the Russians didn't talk to us anymore," Levin said. "We exhausted all our efforts. So, for two months we were there not doing anything about the sefarim, and then came the stroke [of the Rebbe]. Then I asked the secretaries of the Rebbe what to do; they asked the Rebbe and he shook his head, and I came back. We lost." The Rebbe died in June 1994.
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OK, the very next article in this column will go through the process of designing IP solutions. The how to's, the where to's and the what to's. After that, we will take one column for each process of the system and slowly, over the next few weeks, we will design a fairly in-depth IP solution. Will this make you an expert? Probably not. But it will open your eyes up and make your job easier and more profitable. See ya in a couple of weeks.
About the Author: Richard R. "Charlie" Pierce has been an active member of the security industry since 1974. He is the founder and past president of LRC Electronics Company, a full service warranty/non-warranty repair center for CCTV equipment. In 1985, Charlie founded LeapFrog Training & Consulting (Formally LTC Training Center), a full service training center specializing in live seminars, video-format certification training programs, plain language technical manuals and educational support on CCTV. He is an active member of: ASIS, ALAS, CANASA, NBFAA, NAAA and SIA. He is the recipient of numerous security industry awards, and is a regular contributor to Security Technology & Design magazine. Look for his columns to also appear regularly via SecurityInfoWatch.com and this website's e-newsletters.
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The first part of Christina Aguilera's plans to promote her new album (on sale today!) didn't exactly go as planned:
She's canceled her North American tour.
But that doesn't mean she won't have a chance to perform for fans at all, as evidenced by this morning's Today Show concert.
As part of the Toyota concert series, Xtina appeared at Rockefeller Center and sung "Fighter," "Bionic," "Not Myself Tonight" and "Beautiful." Watch her in action below, first in still images and then via video...
Will you purchase Aguilera's new CD? Ponder that question and check out her rendition of "Not Myself Tonight" right now:
ok yeah your opinion is very true Christina has been performing way longer.
Whatever, Logan Cheney. Christina Aguilera is far from a poser. If anyone's the poser, it's gaga. Christina is more talented than her and has been doing sexy long before Lady GAG was even heard of.
She is such a poser. she really shouldn't perform this song because if you haven't noticed she is being lady gaga, with kissing girls and wearing those clothes like lady gaga.
i think she did better then miley
The critics don't know music from a whole in the ground! Dirrtty is my all-time favorite Xtina song and the critics bashed it, just like they're giving Bionic a generic 3 out of 4 stars! However, the fans are coming through! Sales are booming and everywhere I've gone in my city to get it is SOLD OUT! Thanks Xtina fans for making this yet another smash album!
LOVED the performance. Sad the tv station split up the performance so much but it was great and made me watch the news. BIONIC is amazing!!! Get it.