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Kroakers brings house bar vibes to Rucker Avenue
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David Weston owns Kroakers in Everett.
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The Kroakers sign is based on the Red Bull logo. The bulls were changed to frogs and the red and gold color scheme became Sonics yellow and green. A Mariner compass was stamped in the background.
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Kroakers hosts $20 buy-in Texas Hold'em tournaments every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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Melina Alvarado, left, and Brooke Lane are bartenders at Kroakers.
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Brooke Lane, left, pours a drink as fellow bartender Melina Alvarado looks on. "You know you're taken care of here," Lane said. "I should be the person looking out for everyone — and I am — but every person behind this bar will tell you the same thing: everyone else is looking out for you."
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Kroakers has pool, darts and skee ball.
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Bryan Mueller, a "Founding Frog," has been instrumental in setting up Kroakers.
Weston looked at a stocky man in a brown leather jacket. "Gary, how long you been coming to this bar?" he asked. "Since 1907?"
"Since right after Prohibition was repealed," the man quipped.
"That's old man Gary," Weston said. "I inherited him. The first thing he told me was, 'Thank you for saving my favorite bar.'"
The bar used to be a dive known as PC's Pub. The owners called it quits in February 2012 and handed the place over to Weston, who renamed it Kroakers a few months later.
Having never worked in the industry before, Weston, 46, is an unlikely person to save a bar, but he's far from unqualified. He learned the ins and outs of the nightlife scene by working at Red Bull for eight years, overseeing accounts with distributors, restaurants, clubs, pubs and casinos.
"I know how to play the game," Weston said.
When he left Red Bull in 2011, some friends gave him a 12-foot outdoor bar for his birthday. He installed it in a breezeway of his home and surrounded it with VIP furniture he got from a nightclub that had gone out of business.
"All of a sudden this place became this little club," he said of his house bar. "It got popular, everyone heard about it."
Frogs could be heard croaking as they mated in a nearby pond, so people started calling the hangout spot "Kroakers."
Taking over PC's Pub meant simply transferring the spirit of the house bar to downtown Everett. That required leaving the dive bar identity behind; instead, Kroakers would be a neighborhood bar — a place with a constantly changing identity.
"A neighborhood bar can morph into anything it wants to be," Weston said. "A dive bar is pretty well set in its ways. If it's a dart bar, it's a dart bar. If it's a pool bar, it's a pool bar. They all have their niches."
Weston had bigger things in mind. "I want everybody," he said. "On Sunday, I want a bunch of football fans. On Monday, I want poker players. On Tuesday, I want darts. On Thursday, I want basketball fans."
He developed a knack for eventing during his days at Red Bull. As the on-premise manager for the state of Washington, he helped build and distinguish a burgeoning brand, once even renting out CenturyLink stadium for a football tournament.
Regulars come in to Kroakers for pool, darts, skee ball and $20 Texas Hold 'Em tournaments. Special events aim to reel in new customers: a redneck potluck for the Daytona 500, cabbage bowling for St. Patrick's Day, tortilla tossing for Cinco de Mayo. A partnership with the Everett Music Initiative brings in live bands.
Future plans include a room for off-track horse-race betting and busing patrons down to a Mariners game.
"There are so many people that buy a business and think, 'I bought it, the door's open, people are going to come through,'" Weston said. "That's not the way. You've gotta give a reason for people coming through your door 24/7. I tell my bartenders, 'It's my job to bring people through the door, it's your job to get them to come back.'"
Bartender Melina Alvarado, 22, greeted each person by name as a small crowd filled Kroakers for a poker tournament.
"Wherever you're at in the bar ― playing darts, playing pool ― you'll always meet one of the regulars," Alvarado said. "They're the sweetest people, the most down-to-earth people."
She looked out at the three poker tables, each with eight or nine players. "I know all of these poker players. I know everything they drink," she said.
"What they drink, what their name is, what their brother's name is," added Brooke Lane, 23, a fellow bartender who stopped by to say hi and was now behind the counter helping Alvarado. "You come in here and immediately you feel comfortable. You're taken in, no judgment ― everyone accepts you as you are. It's a big family here."
The nucleus of the family is "The Founding Frogs," a band of bar scene veterans that includes Weston and four friends who haunted the original Kroakers house bar. On any given night you can find them bouncing ideas off of each other, wondering things like, "Should Bryan bring in his ping pong table sometime?"
Weston said he's heard Kroakers compared to a little kid's rec room. "It's like somebody gave all of us a bar to play with," he said.
Still, it's not all fun and games. The early days were tough. Weston says he was overworked, he missed revenue tax payments and employees stole from him.
"A lot of people think it's so easy," Weston said. "If you go into the bar business thinking you're going to make money hand over fist, you're not. You better be willing to put in the time and effort every single day, especially in the first couple years. If you want to hire a manager and hire all these other people, you're going to be in the red for a while."
Kroakers has nearly tripled its business from the early days. Weston can now relax a little.
"I can finally spend some time with my daughter, and that's really important to me," he said. "But going forward, I'm still driven. I want this to be a million-dollar business. I want everybody to know its name."
Weston also leases a next-door storage unit with the same square footage as Kroakers. His long-term goal is to expand into the space and set up rooms for poker, gaming and off-track betting.
"The first year was getting our feet wet," he said. "Second year: What did we learn from our mistakes and how do we make things go better? Year three: Now we've got our base, we know what our identity is, we've got a staff that we're comfortable with. How do we expand on that and how do we maximize this space seven days a week?"
He pointed to the storage unit. "Then we're going to break through that wall."
Kroakers is at 3021 Rucker Ave., Everett, WA 98201. You can also find them on Facebook.
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This manual examines parental substance use disorders, their impact on children, and how child welfare and related professionals can best serve and support families affected by substance use disorders. It also highlights the importance of collaboration between child protective services caseworkers and alcohol and drug abuse treatment providers in the examination, screening, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders.
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CHAPTER 2 The Nature of Substance Use Disorders
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CHAPTER 5 Treating Substance Use Disorders
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Just recently, I heard someone on TV use the phrase "I kid of course". (I think it was The Big Bang Theory but I'm not very sure). Any way, is this phrase grammatically correct?
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Yes. One might quibble about not having a comma between "kid" and "of," but you are transcribing spoken dialogue.
"You are attacked by a tiger, what do you do?"
"I run, of course"
In case this is the cause of your confusion, the work kid here is the verb meaning to talk (especially tell a lie) jokingly. Nothing to do with children; it does not mean "I am a kid".
So I kid means "I am joking."
I can't really explain why it is in the present tense instead of the present progressive, but this is very often seen specifically with kid (or jest or joke), and hardly ever with other verbs. Perhaps it comes from a historical utterance of the phrase, or such usage in another language. (I somehow associate it with old Jewish comedians.)
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Singapore's new LNG terminal will have an initial throughput capacity of 3.5 MMtpa with two tanks, and will be expanded to 6 MMtpa by the end of 2013 and 9 MMtpa at a later stage.
Singapore LNG said its LNG terminal has received its first
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The four poems presented here highlight Rodney Jones's relationship to his hometown of Falkville, Alabama. For Jones, place-bound memories of youthful pleasures frame meditations on mortality and mystery. His teenage years as a football player and rock and roll band member are a starting point from which to measure the distance that time and experience have created between himself and the region in which he grew up.
"An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University's Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
Recommended Resources
———. Elegy for the Southern Drawl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
———. Kingdom of the Instant: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
———. Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985–2005. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
———. The Story They Told Us of Light. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
———. Things That Happen Once. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
———. Transparent Gestures . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
———. The Unborn. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1985.
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The Atlantic. "Cathedral." (Sept. 2008).
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Blackbird 4.1 (Spring 2005): Three poems: "The Boomers Take the Field," "Common-Law Kundalini," "The State Line Stripper".
Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006): "A Conversation with Rodney Jones" (two-part audio interview with transcript).
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In Diablo III there are four different levels of difficulty:
- Normal
- Nightmare
- Hell
- Inferno
Obviously there will be more and stronger opponents, but apart from that: What exactly are the differences?
In Diablo III there are four different levels of difficulty:
Obviously there will be more and stronger opponents, but apart from that: What exactly are the differences?
There are a few differences that are known and probably more as well:
Keep in mind while playing that Normal is made to basically be the tutorial and break you into the game. Experienced D2 players will cut through Normal with ease. As you progress, the game does get very difficult, and you'll be wearing your butt on your head once you reach Inferno. Inferno was basically built to murder you. Jay Wilson stated that they took the hardest difficulty that their testers could handle and agreed was fair and they doubled it.
The difficulty also scales by having additional players affect monster HP. Monster damage used to scale, but no longer does as of patch 1.0.3.
Note: Because of patch 1.04 monster health per additional player now is not effected by difficulty.
Here is a table showing the amount of scaling that occurs based on the number of players in the game:
This table is now technically useless, but I will leave it here as a placeholder.
One important difference in difficulty levels that I haven't seen mentioned yet is the amount of monster scaling that occurs when additional players join the game. In normal, only monster health is increased as more players join, but
Here is a table showing the amount of scaling that occurs based on players in the game:
Note: The damage increase per player has been removed in the 1.03 patch. The table has been updated to reflect this.
Note: Updated with 1.04 values. Source
Diablo has always been expanded through the use of difficulties. As you progress through the game and complete the story, new difficulties are unlocked allowing for more playable content.
from: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/41359-recap-diablo-iii-difficulties/
To answer the question How is life steal affected by difficulty?
Per this post, Life Leech efficiency is scaled based on difficulty level
The other answers here contain a lot of text but no short and to-the-point list, so here goes. Click the links for concrete data.
The main difference is that monster level increases. A level 2 monster in Normal gets leveled up to a much more powerful level 32 monster in Nightmare. Higher leveled monsters have more HP and damage than their low-level brethren, and in addition, certain monster affixes (those titles that show up on rare and champion mobs) are level dependant. You will never see a pack of "Avenger" Champion mobs outside of Hell, for instance.
In addition, certain items only drop in certain difficulties - in addition to the level-based items (which obviously go up thanks to the increased monster level), non-leveled items like "Pages of Blacksmithing" will only appear on certain difficulties, and there is a new tier of crafting reagents as well.
Finally, on Inferno, bosses will have "Enrage" timers in addition to the level up bonuses. These are specific to Inferno and are essentially failsafes to prevent bosses being beaten by unexpected means. Kite the boss for too long, and he'll get a lot more aggressive.
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As part of a research project I ran a query on the Mergent FISD database using the WRDS website. The output included the CUSIPs of numerous bond issues (>10000). I am using this data to run event studies and I need to obtain the CUSIP of the stock of the company that issued the bonds. Since I have over 10000 data points, I need to automate this conversion or lookup process. Any programming language or method would be fine with me in this situation.
You can use this website here: http://activequote.fidelity.com/mmnet/SymLookup.phtml
I would recommend using a simple data manipulation language such as Python in order to solve your problem. You would need to write a code that read the webpage for specific CUSIP numbers and then find the specific portion of the HTML file that will contain the name of the company and pull that information out of the webpage.
For instance, in order to look up the CUSIP of 037833100, you will get the corresponding URL: http://activequote.fidelity.com/mmnet/SymLookup.phtml?reqforlookup=REQUESTFORLOOKUP&productid=mmnet&isLoggedIn=mmnet&rows=50&for=stock&by=cusip&criteria=037833100&submit=Search
Now your Python program could manipulate the URL by inserting different numbers for the criteria portion and then read the page and pull out the name of the company.
Here's some Python code you would use to get a specific stock:
if you have access to a Bloomberg terminal, you could use this function in Excel:
013926500 is the CUSIP for ABB
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Suppose you are given a closed subvariety $V$ of projective space $\mathbb{P}^n_k$. Let's say we fix the degree and the dimension of $V$. Can we then bound the arithmetic genus of $V$, or does no such bound exist?
Is there a bound on arithmetic genus of a variety in projective n-space in terms of dimension and degree?
I don't know about an explicit bound, but a bound exists in theory for arbitrary varieties. This follows from the fact that the set of cycles, and in particular subvarieties, in $\mathbb{P}^n$ of fixed degree $d$ and dimension $N$ are parameterized by a Chow variety $Chow_{d,N}$ (it needn't be irreducible, but it is certainly of finite type). More formally, consider the preimage of $Chow_{d,N}$ in the Hilbert scheme. This preimage has finitely many components, and therefore there are finite number of possible Hilbert polynomials for a fixed $d,N$.
This is a bit sketchy, but perhaps someone else can supply more details or precise references.
I believe it was first proved by Kleiman (you only need to assume fixed dimension and degree, no need to assume a subvariety of some fixed $\mathbb P^n$), see Corollary 6.11
S. Kleiman, Exp XIII in A. Grothendieck et al., Theorie des Intersections et Theoreme de Riemann-Roch (SGA 6), Lecture Notes in Math No. 225, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (1971).


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I am looking at replacing some unmanaged 16 port store bought GB switches and wanted to go with Cisco but it may be cost prohibitive.
Instead I am looking at ProCurve or Dell's PowerConnect line up.
I am looking for SNMP, Management, VLANs, and SFLOW would icing on the switch cupcake.
I would get the 6224 or the 6248 and then maybe add the RPS-600 to it for redundant power.
I think the RPS-600 supports multiple switches.
Rackspace is also a little challenge so I am trying to do it with as little Rack Units as possible.
Ideally I would go with two 6224's or a single 6248 and then do two VLANs.
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6 Motivational Exercises That Went Horribly Wrong
If you're reading this, odds are you hate your job. You know it, everyone within earshot of your whining knows it and, most of all, your boss knows it.
As a result, companies are constantly coming up with ridiculous schemes to try and motivate their employees to at least pretend that they care about their job. Next time you find yourself humiliated by having to chant company slogans in the name of team building, just keep in mind, it could be worse. Much worse.
#6. A Waterboarded Employee is a Motivated Employee
Let's just cut to the chase here: Prosper, Inc. fucking waterboarded one of their own workers. Call us crazy, but this seems like a horrible way to get your employees fired up to come to work. But then again, we're not motivational technique specialists, and they are.
Joshua Christopherson, the manager who organized the waterboarding, told his staff that they should work as hard as employee Chad Hudgens was when he was trying to breathe. Christ, couldn't they have just made the IT department take the stairs instead of the elevator and achieve the same results?
We plan on strangling high costs, just like I'm strangling Chet here.
Now, for those of you who aren't entirely clear what waterboarding is, it's torturing a person by temporarily drowning them. It involves being placed on an inclined surface, with water being poured through a cloth over your mouth and nose and, if you have seen Christopher Hitchens from Vanity Fair being waterboarded, a seemingly never ending track of symphonic rock.
How did that turn out for them?
If you haven't figured it out already, Christopherson was a total dick. Aside from occasionally employing the enhanced interrogation approach to team building and motivation, he also used a variety of other methods; including pulling chairs out from underneath people and drawing fake mustaches on employees' faces.
Artist's depiction.
Suffice to say, before Christopherson could even consider getting his employees to form naked human pyramids, the waterboarded employee decided, "fuck this shit" and sued the company for damages.
On the other hand, it's worth noting that several of his co-workers worked together to hold Hudgens down during the waterboarding, and if that isn't a fine example of team-work, then, dammit, we don't know what is.
Say what you will about Agent Smith, but the man ran a tight ship.
#5. "Welcome aboard! Now walk across hot coals!"
According to sales people, a career in sales is not some kind of pansy job for the weak. Nobody believes this more than Eagle Star. That's why they decided that there was but one proper way to welcome sales trainees to the company: They made them walk over hot coals.
Of course, walking across hot coals isn't as hardcore as it sounds. It's already been picked up by a number of motivational and team-building groups and, as one such group puts it, it dispels that "deep-seated belief that fire will harm you." Because anyone who believes that fire isn't cute and cuddly, is clearly retarded.
Awwwww. It's so precious.
It's unclear how the skills learned from these sessions were supposed to translate into an office setting. Well, unless the sales floor at Eagle Star is run by twelve year old's who insist employees jump from one piece of furniture to another while yelling, "The carpet is lava!" Then it makes perfect sense.
How did that turn out for them?
Astoundingly, the combination of bare feet and fiery hot rocks did not end well. For some reason, the hot coals they were walking across were so hot that seven of the 10 staff members needed to be sent to hospital, two of whom needed to be sent to a hospital that specializes in burns. Given fire's aforementioned total inability to injure steel-willed sales reps, Eagle Star must have felt like they were dodging a bullet as the clearly unfit employees were rushed off in an ambulance.
Probably the same way these brats are chargrilled to perfection.
On the plus side, the fact that seven were injured instead of, say, just one proves that the employees were so motivated that they kept on running across the coals even after others had been burned.
Or perhaps they conga lined across?
This and the way the fellow employees assisted with the waterboarding above says something profound about people's tendency to mindlessly follow orders in the workplace. Not that Eagle Star's mangled employees can be blamed for repeated stupidity. The adorable kitten on their cubicle poster was very clear about what they were supposed to do if they didn't at first succeed at something.
#4. The Ultimate Employee Motivation Battle Royale
Motivating your employees is not a matter of fun and games. Except when it is, of course. But even then, it's only fun until someone loses an eye and/or is beaten with signs bearing the name of their rival companies.
That's exactly what happened at Alarm One. In an effort to inspire the troops, they had them beat each other with signs. Not as punishment for losing the game, mind you. No, that was the game. Beatings.
As for those who lost at this contest of barbarianism, they were forced to wear diapers, eat baby food, had pies thrown at them and were called abusive names. Basically, they were forced to actually do what most of us only feel like we're doing at work everyday.
How did that turn out for them?
Alarm One was eventually taken to court. An employee won a judgment against the company for the humiliation and pain she suffered, but that verdict was later overturned because Alarm One was harassing all of its employees equally.
A lesson David Letterman should consider.
As one attorney put it, "the court has taken the position that if men and women are harassed the same way, then it's OK." Sometimes, this stuff just writes itself.


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High school track: Six state records fall at BYU Invitational
Tom Smart, Deseret News
PROVO — Many eyes were fixed on the 800-meter races at the BYU Invitational on Saturday, and particularly the state-record pursuits of Davis' Shea Martinez and Park City's Ben Saarel.
Their attempts ultimately came down to mere hundredths of seconds, with Martinez breaking her record by 0.03 and Saarel coming up short by 0.02.
Martinez ran a 2:08.45, eclipsing the state-record mark of 2:08.48 that she tied the week before.
"I'm excited that I did it today, but I still want to get faster," said Martinez, a BYU commit. "I need to practice my kick a little more. It's gone a lot better, but I still need to practice and hopefully get stronger so by the end of my 800 I have more to push."
Martinez is hoping to run a 2:06 or a 2:07 at the state track meet in two weeks.
For Saarel, a day after shattering the 3,200 state record, his bid to set a new benchmark time in the 800 came up narrowly short. He ran a personal best with a time of 1:51.91, but it wasn't quite good enough to break the 1:51.89 state record set by Davis' Brad Nye last year.
"My hamstrings were pretty tight to start out, so I just tucked in behind and tried to relax the entire race. I've been working on my speed and had some hard training recently. I think I have another gear in there, but it just wasn't there today," said Saarel, a Colorado commit. "It's a new PR for me, so that's great."
In all, six overall state records fell at the prestigious 60-team BYU Invitational.
Along with Martinez's record in the 800 and Saarel in the 3,200, Sky View's Brenna Porter set a new record in the 300 hurdles, as did Bingham's Bethany Foster in the pole vault, Woods Cross' Jacopo Spano in the 200 and Riverton's 4x400 boys relay team.
Porter, who's committed to BYU, had extra incentive with her future college coaches watching.
"I'm so excited 'cause that's what I've been trying to get to to improve my scholarship to BYU. Hopefully I can keep it up to state," said Porter, who didn't run the 200 meters to focus on the 100 and 300 hurdles.
After winning the 100 hurdles earlier in the meet, Porter ran a 41.54 in the 300 hurdles, breaking her state record from 2012 by 0.71 seconds.
"It's just exciting to put in a ton of hard work throughout the past year, so it's cool to see things pay off," said Porter.
Two other overall state records nearly fell too.
Woods Cross' 4x100 boys relay team ran a 41.66, just 0.02 shy of the 1997 state record. Ogden's Sarah Feeny, who won the 3,200 on Friday, posted a time of 4:51.43 in the 1,600 on Saturday, just over a second off the state record.
"I love these big meets. You get to see all the runners from the state that you become friends with," said Feeny.
Overall, there were 20 2013-best times recorded at the BYU Invite, nine for the boys and 11 for the girls.
The boys top performances were: Woods Cross' Jacopo Spano (200), Davis' Trevor Leavitt (400), Park City's Saarel (800 and 3,200), Timpanogos' Jacob Heslington (1,600), Desert Hills' Brad Wulfenstein (110 hurdles), Bingham's Mitch Kalinin (pole vault), Jordan's Christian Shaver (discus), Woods Cross (4x100) and Riverton (4x400) and American Fork (sprint medley).
Girls top performances were: Timpview's Lauren Baxter (400), Davis' Martinez (800), Ogden's Feeny (1,600 and 3,200), Sky View's Porter (100 and 300 hurdles), Bingham's Foster (pole vault), Springville (4x100) and Davis (4x400).
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A Wide Angle on War
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Through Feb. 3
'War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is almost too gruesome to comprehend. An anthology of humanity's destructive imagination and lust for territorial conquest, the more than 450 photographs may illustrate more kinds of suffering than any exhibition ever assembled. Documented here are the lethal effects of machetes, swords, rifles, machine guns, torpedoes, gas chambers, atomic bombs, exploding suicide vests, IEDs and commercial airliners.
Walking over so much bloody ground in a museum—the trail stretches from the Mexican-American War to today's Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa—could easily be intolerable. Instead the co-curators, Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels, have designed, for those with the time and strength, a completely absorbing experience—visually, historically, morally. There is nothing gratuitous or slapdash about their selection of pictures; and there is even an exit strategy for visitors: an open path down the middle of the galleries.
Ms. Tucker and Mr. Michels had the luxury of spending 10 years on their project and reviewing more than a million photographs from archives on four continents. Divided into 29 sections, from "Refugees" and "Children," to "Exhaustion and Shell Shock," "Faith" and "Remembrance," the show was planned to examine armed conflict in its totality, across every level of society. Civilians receive nearly as much wall space as soldiers. Recovering from war is seen to be every bit as heroic as waging it.
These soaring themes in a populist 1950s-style—it's like "The Family of Man" seen through a glass, darkly—are supported by advanced scholarship. The reproductions, essays and footnotes in the nine-pound catalog should ensure it remains a widely consulted landmark.
The photographer's ambiguous role, as both eyewitness and intermediary within a global theater, is at the center of this story. Ms. Tucker and Mr. Michels have linked changes in this role to the galloping evolution of a technology that produces more images from more places, in finer detail and at a faster rate, seemingly every decade.
The first room, on "Media Coverage and Dissemination," puts some of these issues in play. Among the items are a salted paper print of Roger Fenton's horse-led portable darkroom in the Crimean War; stereographs from the American Civil War; a staged photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II inspecting a trench on the German front in 1915; and a set of "Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards" from 2003.
Vitrines contain a photo transmitter, used from the 1950s to '70s to send prints by radio waves, from Vietnam and elsewhere, to wire services around the world; and an iPhone, operated by Michael Christopher Brown last year during the Libya revolution.
Dominating the gallery is a mural by Robert Clark: a succession of four large inkjet prints that follow the second airliner as it flies toward and explodes into the South Tower at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Visitors are therefore on notice that these photographs (original prints, whenever possible) should be studied not only for expressive content but as products of the times in which they were made. Photography and information technology have grown up together.
But another of the show's intentions is to honor the adaptive skills of photographers who have worked in these arenas. No less than soldiers or writers, many have taken combat assignments to test themselves. In doing so they accept a bargain: risk of injury or death in exchange for the chance to record humanity in extremis. War presents dramatic material—for portraits and landscapes, action and even the male nude—unavailable to photographers at home.
One of the stars of the show is Dmitri Baltermants, the Soviet photojournalist (and propagandist) known for his exceptional bravery during World War II. Wounded twice, he fought at several battles and photographed many more.
He probably set up the 1945 picture titled "Tchaikovsky, Germany." The five soldiers (and their weapons) are neatly arranged in a bombed-out house where one comrade sits playing an upright piano. But the dust-filled light and the rubble on the floor aren't fake, nor is the homesickness this wartime scenario so strongly evokes.
There are numerous images here that visitors will find hard to forget and wish that they could. Ziv Koren's overhead, anatomical shot of a Tel Aviv bus destroyed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in 1994 shows the dead passengers spilling out of the vehicle's skeletal frame. Publication of the photo so enraged the Israeli public that a law was passed never to show casualties from terrorist attacks again. The camera's unpredictable alliances, its ability to go everywhere and report whatever it sees, is one reason photographers are so controlled by authorities when conflict breaks out.
A room of "Executions" presents atrocities from several countries along with government-sanctioned killings of war criminals in the post-Nuremberg era. No less wrenching to look at are Nina Berman's portrait of a scarred U.S. Marine's wedding, and Eugene Richards's close-up of a mother helping her son, maimed in Iraq, out of bed, in another room on "Wartime Medicine."
These sections are balanced by the many rooms about war before the violence begins: the recruitment and training of soldiers, a homogenizing process that, as these pictures attest, was much the same in 1920s Peru as it is in contemporary Russia and the U.S.; the logistics of supplying armies; reconnaissance and sabotage; and the boredom before battle.
A room about Iwo Jima rewinds the process by which Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi became an icon, cast as a sculpture and even as a trinket packaged with a G.I. Joe doll. The reconnaissance photos here of the island are also a reminder that Iwo Jima should be regarded not only as a case study in postmodern imagery but as a real, almost impenetrable fortress of rock where tens of thousands of Americans and Japanese fought and died.
That photographs often deceive, concealing as much as they reveal, is another theme. The label for Sal Veder's 1973 picture, of a released American POW from Vietnam being greeted by his jubilant children on an airport runway, notes that the man's smiling wife, jogging a few paces behind the rest of the family, had just written her husband a "Dear John" letter.
The final galleries, a brave attempt to include some fine-art photographers, are the weakest. David Levinthal's toylike re-creation of the Nazis invading the Soviet Union, and Simon Norfolk's romantic prints of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, are relevant to themes of media representation and memory. But the distancing effect necessary for art seems emotionally off-key with the urgency of photojournalism.
There is scant evidence here that wars have lessened in number or ferocity because someone was photographing them. To the contrary, every side documents assiduously its own acts of violence, provided ways can be invented to justify them. One of many archival finds is an aerial view from a Japanese plane of torpedoes fanning across the waters of Pearl Harbor toward Battleship Row on Dec. 7, 1941. Abu Ghraib would never have become a scandal had not some knuckleheads thought it would be entertaining to humiliate Iraqi prisoners and photograph them—humiliate them by photographing them.
"War/Photography" travels next year to the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; and, finally, the Brooklyn Museum, New York. But since those venues will all have a reduced number of objects, they will be hard pressed to match the impact of this version in Houston. I visited this marvelous show three times. I want to go again.
Mr. Woodward is an arts critic in New York.


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I'm level 22 and I bred 11 level flower/tree poison/earth and got 2 lava, 4 flover, 4 tree, 3 mud, 4 poison. Where is my Sakura? How is it I haven't got a single one? I remember why I stoped playing for almost 6 months, a while back I bred every recomended combination for rainbow ans sun and moon and got everything but... Though others got 4-5 breeding The same. Please advice me what is it that Im doing wrong?
Your chances are about 10-20% For Flower/Tree according to the wiki and the database. Other combinations seem not to work terribly well aside from clover/flower which seems somewhat promising.
If you don't have a Sakura, then it is nowhere as no such thing as your Sakura even exists.
You haven't gotten a single one likely due to poor luck. You were unclear how many of which of those 2 combinations you tried, but as I said, Flower/Tree seems the more successful. Dragonvale breeding is random. Even with a 99% chance of success, it is possible however unlikely to fail 1 million times and you are not guaranteed of anything.
Rainbow and Sun/Moon have much lower chances (something like 3% maybe as per the other question) so your tale is not uncommon. It's still random so others getting more of them through better luck means nothing to your situation.
There's not really much advice to give on what you are doing wrong as there's nothing wrong being done. The only advice to give when trying to beat a pseudo-random number generator is to keep trying. It's unclear whether the epic breeding island will help, but it might be worth a shot to increase your chances. You could try other combinations though and the ones listed on the database include some information about your chances, but most of the combinations other than Flower/Tree lack enough data to be reliable so try at your own peril.
Before my generic answer about your odds of success, I do want to point out something very important about Sakura. Tree + Flower is the only combination! The tricky devils at Backflip originally allowed any combination of Fire, Earth, and Plant, but that was changed in late 2012. If you are breeding with another combination, unfortunately, you are wasting you time.
As skovacs1 pointed out, there is no guarantee of breeding any dragon, so bad luck can always be involved. It is a common misconception, called the Gambler's Fallacy, that after doing something involving chance X number of times that your odds will be better on attempt X + 1. That is not actually the case. If you've failed X times, those attempts are over and the results are known. Your future chances get no better (or worse), so if you've had a 10% chance the whole time, then each attempt has a 10% chance no matter how many attempts you make.
Using the Breeding Sandbox combo finder, we see their prediction is a 10% chance, with an average fail time of 7.94 hours. That means, if you have average luck, and you started now, and you were available to cycle dragons and start new breeding the instant they finished, it should take around 79.4 hours to get one Sakura.
7.94 hours/attempt / 10% chance of success/attempt = 79.4 hours/success = ~ 3.3 days
Naturally, if you are using the breeding cave and the EBI you can cut that in half. Good Luck!


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Commentary: David Beckham was worth it for MLS
So, was David Beckham worth it? Did Major League Soccer and the Los Angeles Galaxy get their $32.5 million worth when they signed the global icon away from Real Madrid in January 2007? Upon his arrival, he appeared on a Sports Illustrated cover, standing on a red carpet, with the words: David Beckham, Will He Change the Fate of American Soccer?


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What are the specifications of Dina Dimalchusah? A more targeted question to answer would be: If I ripped off the label of my mattress — the label that says its removal is punishable by federal law — am I also doing a sin? If so, why; if not, why not?
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As stated, in the mattress example, that tag is there to prevent mattress manufacturers from putting all sorts of awful stuff in their mattresses and consumers not knowing. Once you've read the "ingredients label" and have bought the mattress, you can do whatever you want with it. (Well if you go to sell it to someone else it gets tricky ...) So rip away!
The Gemara's discussions of dina d'malchusa apply to paying your taxes (pay them).
Rabbi Aharon Soloveichik was of the opinion that dina d'malchusa means halacha absolutely requires you to come to a full stop at every stop sign, even at 3AM when there's no one anywhere in a mile radius.
Other authorities say it's limited to things vital to the state (such as taxes), or things significant enough that the state would actually punish someone for.
I heard this from Rav Shmuel Eliyahu:
Even if a consumer of a mattress were forbidden by law to remove the label there would have to be some kind actual enforcement of that law to bring it under DDD (at least according to this opinion).
To start, it is pretty settled that dina d'malchusa dina applies to paying taxes. According to the Ran's commentary to Nedarim 28a, "paying taxes is like paying rent, it is the cost you pay for living in that country." C.f. Ramah to Choson Mishpat 369:6. Rabbi Joseph Solovechik also held that one should not shop at a store where you know the owner does not pay taxes because you are being lifnei iver (assisting him to sin).
Unfortunately, there are many people, rabbis included, who hold that dina d'malchusa dina applies only to financial laws. That argument, more or less, coincides with the Mechaber who says that dina d'malchusa dina is limited to government interests.
The Rama disagrees and says that it applies to anything that is designed to promote the well being of society. According to Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, most poskim agree with this definition which includes but is not limited to, criminal law, minimum wage laws, environmental laws and child labor laws. My Rav, Rabbi Gedaliah Anemer, zt'l, held that secular laws designed to keep people safe -- e.g. traffic laws -- are especially important to observe. Crossing against the light, for example, was not only illegal under Jewish law by application of dina d'malchusa dina, Rabbi Anemer told me, but the act might be a hillul Hashem if observed by non-Jews as it appears to demonstrate Jewish contempt for the civil laws. That issue was especially personal for Rabbi Anemer who lost his brother, sister-in-law and their entire family in a car crash eruv Pesach in 1957.


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In consequence of last month's Supreme Court ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry, California has rejoined twelve other states and the District of Columbia in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. That leaves thirty-seven states that still refuse to recognize same-sex marriage. Does that refusal violate the Constitution—and if so, why?
The Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry avoided answering that question. Instead, the Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction over the case because the state officials who would ordinarily defend in court a state law challenged as unconstitutional declined to do so and the private parties who wanted to defend the law in court lacked "standing" to do so. The Court therefore left in place (without affirming) the ruling of the federal trial court in San Francisco that Proposition 8, a referendum-approved constitutional amendment that excluded same-sex couples from civil marriage, violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the other case handed down on same-sex marriage, United States v. Windsor, the Court ruled both that it had jurisdiction over the case and that the Defense of Marriage Act's exclusion of same-sex marriages from the federal definition of "marriage," and therefore from the many federal benefits granted to married couples, was unconstitutional. In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy, speaking for himself and Court's four more liberal justices, concluded that DOMA violated the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. DOMA violated equal protection, reasoned the majority opinion, because the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage was based on a demeaning view of such marriages as "second-class," as morally inferior to opposite-sex marriages. As the majority put it, "[t]he differentiation demeans the [same-sex] couple... whose relationship the State has sought to dignify. And it humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples. The law in question makes it even more difficult for the children to understand the integrity and closeness of their own family and its concord with other families in their community and in their daily lives."
In my judgment, the Court made the right decision in Windsor, but the majority was much less clear than it should have been about why DOMA's exclusion of same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. Kennedy's opinion for the majority should not have put any weight on the alleged "animus" of those opposed to same-sex marriage. "Hate your neighbor or come along with us," was how Justice Antonin Scalia characterized Kennedy's reasoning. Scalia's indignation was understandable. Kennedy's suggestion that DOMA was based on the view that gays and lesbians are inferior human beings is tendentious in the extreme, and demeaning to all those who for a host of non-bigoted reasons uphold the traditional understanding of marriage as an essentially heterosexual institution.
Kennedy should have avoided casting such stones, for there were ample grounds for his judgment in the protection the Constitution affords to the individual's right to religious and moral freedom.
To be sure, some persons oppose same-sex marriage because they judge gays and lesbians to be inferior human beings. As the Connecticut Supreme Court has noted, gays and lesbians are often "'ridiculed, ostracized, despised, demonized and condemned' merely for being who they are . . ." Justice Kennedy was right to argue that such "demeaning" views cannot be the basis for marriage laws in our constitutional system. However, many who oppose same-sex marriage—including the magisterium of the Catholic Church—do so for a different reason. The church teaches not that gays and lesbians are inferior but that same-sex sexual conduct is immoral. Moreover, the bishops insist that their condemnation of same-sex sexual conduct is not based on revelation but on natural law reasoning, and in that sense it is not a sectarian religious belief. Indeed, according to the magisterium, it is immoral not just for same-sex couples but for anyone and everyone—even a man and a woman who are married to one another—to engage in any sexual conduct that is "inherently nonprocreative." Because "[w]hat are called 'homosexual unions' . . . are inherently nonprocreative," declared the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, they "cannot be given the status of marriage."
I accept the bishops' argument regarding the nonreligious nature of their opposition to same-sex marriage. The burden for the bishops, however, is the high bar set by the Constitution's protection of religious and moral freedom—often called freedom of conscience. That right, recognized in international law, protects one's freedom to live one's life in accord with one's religious and/or moral convictions and commitments (see my Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States). Of course that right is not unconditional. Government may interfere with one's freedom to live one's life in accord with one's religious and/or moral convictions and commitments in order to protect "public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others." Protecting public morals is undeniably a legitimate government objective. The crucial question, of course, is what morals count as public? Does a state's refusal to grant same-sex couples access to civil marriage protect public morals? If those laws are based either on a religious belief that certain conduct is immoral or on the nonreligious belief of a minority—a narrowly held belief that is widely contested—government is not truly acting to protect public morals. It is acting, instead, to favor a minority's moral convictions, and that is not a legitimate government objective.
Admittedly, it is not always obvious when a particular nonreligious moral belief is a minority moral belief. In answering that question, it is helpful to keep in mind what the celebrated American Jesuit John Courtney Murray wrote to Boston's Cardinal Richard Cushing in the mid-1960s about laws decriminalizing access to contraception. "T]he practice [contraception], undertaken in the interests of 'responsible parenthood,' has received official sanction by many religious groups within the community," Murray noted. "It is difficult to see how the state can forbid, as contrary to public morality, a practice that numerous religious leaders approve as morally right. The stand taken by these religious groups may be lamentable from the Catholic moral point of view. But it is decisive from the point of view of law and jurisprudence."
Murray's reasoning offers a reliable guide when it comes to the legalization of same-sex civil marriage. At this point, not many people would dispute that the church's teaching about the immorality of inherently nonprocreative sexual conduct has become a conspicuously minority moral position. In this regard, it bears emphasis that the teaching is famously controversial even among Catholic moral theologians, not to mention the larger community of religious ethicists. In this decades-long moral and social debate, the church has been singularly unpersuasive.
As the record in United States v. Windsor amply confirmed, DOMA's denigration of same-sex marriages was clearly based on the judgment that same-sex marriage is morally inferior to opposite-sex marriage. For some, that judgment rests primarily on the religious belief that same-sex sexual conduct is contrary to the will of God; for others, the judgment rests primarily on the nonreligious belief that all "inherently nonprocreative" sexual conduct is immoral. Neither belief, however, is a legitimate basis of government policy under the right to religious and moral freedom, a right that for almost fifty years—under the name "the right of privacy"—has been part of the constitutional law of the United States.
We may fairly say of state refusals to recognize same-sex marriage much the same thing Murray said to Cardinal Cushing about laws forbidding the distribution of contraceptives: Same-sex marriage "has received official approval by various religious groups within the community. It is difficult to see how the state can refuse to countenance, as contrary to public morality, a relationship that numerous religious leaders and other morally upright people approve as morally good. The stand taken by these religious groups and others may be lamentable from the Catholic moral point of view. But it is decisive from the point of view of the right to religious and moral freedom."
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"Moreover, the bishops insist that their condemnation of same-sex sexual conduct is not based on revelation but on natural law reasoning, and in that sense it is not a sectarian religious belief. Indeed, according to the magisterium, it is immoral not just for same-sex couples but for anyone and everyone—even a man and a woman who are married to one another—to engage in any sexual conduct that is "inherently nonprocreative."
I think this belief that the natural law should be the slam-dunk winner in a deciding what the civil law should be keeps the bishops from engaging in effective argument over these issues. You would have to start with getting agreement that natural law should control and then agreement on what natural law is and how it should be interpreted. Their assumption is that it is natural law as defined and interpreted by the Catholic Church but other people will have other definitions and interpretations or may reject the whole premise of a controlling natural law and argue that the law should not forbid actions unless they harm other people.
Perhaps unintentionally, the article gives he impression that majority support is enough to make a law valid. However, the purpose of a Constitution, and particularly a bill of rights, is to protect the minority against what was called "the tyranny of the majority". If a majority of Americans believed that mixed-race marriages were wrong, the laws forbidding them would still have fallen because thy were unconstitutional.
There are lots of useful arguments the bishops might make, but a bare assertion that the civil law must conform to natural law is not enough.
So much blather on why we need same-sex marriage. So little intelligence. Everyone, absolutely everyone, knows that physically the unions are not the same. All humans are equal, but we are not all the same. Justice demands that those differences be recognized.
Justice demands that people have a right to marry those whom they choose to marry. If a man is incapable of performing the physical sexual act and, therefore, his physical union with his wife is not the same as that of a couple both of whom are physically capable of the sex act, should the marriage not be allowed?
This non-lawyer has probably missed some of the subtleties, but is seems that, 1) by saying that the federal government must abide, in its treatment of benefits, by whatever the States say is a marriage; and 2) that marriage is essentially a contract like any other, whose conditions can be negotiated -- that polygamy may not be far behind. If marriage is no longer defined as between one man and one woman, but rather between one individual and another, why should that second definition be allowed to stand? Why just "one"? Especially in light of 1) the biblical evidence that the patriarchs and kings of Israel had multiple wives (and concubines), and 2) the growing population of Muslims and others (e.g., Hmong) in this country who practice polygamy elsewhere in the world, the case may well be made that this is a matter of religious liberty. Brigham Young and the Mormons of old may yet be justified.
Let's not pretend to be surprised when it happens. (And I apologize for the tortured syntax!)
A brief coda: One reason that the bishops' argument has been unpersuasive is exactly because of the biblical evidence mentioned above: Were those patriarchs and kings flouting the natural law? If so, why did God bless Ishmael, son of Abraham and his wife's maid Hagar? Why did God allow the illegitimate offspring of David and the wife of Uriah the Hittite to become King Solomon?
The natural-law argument needs a little more work.
"There are lots of useful arguments the bishops might make, but a bare assertion that the civil law must conform to natural law is not enough."
Indeed, it is not. "Outside the Catholic Church, the Theory of Natural Law has few advocates today. It is generally rejected for three reasons." (James Rachels, "The Elements of Moral Philosophy," 2012.) It presumes that what is natural is good; the opposite is easily demonstrable. It confuses "is" with "ought" and thus fails the test of human reason and experience. And, finally, the theory of Natural Law conflicts with modern science. It is fraught with hubris--presuming that nature has made all things for the sake of human beings.
Mr. Perry might have pointed out that the basis of the bishops' position,
"that same-sex sexual conduct is immoral. Moreover, the bishops insist that their condemnation of same-sex sexual conduct is not based on revelation but on natural law reasoning, and in that sense it is not a sectarian religious belief. Indeed, according to the magisterium, it is immoral not just for same-sex couples but for anyone and everyone—even a man and a woman who are married to one another—to engage in any sexual conduct that is 'inherently non procreative.'"
is a minority opinion among US Catholics.
Moreover, even accepting that same-sex conduct is immoral, it still does not follow that people of the shame sex should not, as a matter of secular law, be allowed to marry. Plenty of immoral "sexual conduct that is 'inherently non procreative" occurs among heterosexual married couples, too.
Indeed, when there is a demand by a significant number of polygamous couples for regognition of their unions as "marriage" and if no one is able to find any harm ensuing from such unions, I would expect them to be recognized as marriage as well.
While that seems unlikely, it would mark a return to the traditional marriage so often depicted in the Bible.
Marriage is a privilege not a right. Justice does not demand that everyone receive the same privilege. And gays can exercise that privilege by choosing someone of the opposite sex. Or they can cohabitate. And there is certainly no 'right' to government benefits. That concept is nonsensical in the extreme.
Justice allows things which are different in essence to be treated differently.
What one person thinks is immoral is the civil right of another person. A key factor is whether or not negative consequences are personally visited on a different person, i.e, violence against the person, theft, discrimination, etc.
Some Catholics think that birth control abortion and divorce and remarriage are immoral. In this pluralistic society, that point of view has not been adopted by the large portion of society.
If there is "certainly no 'right' to government benefits," why are they automatically bestowed on people of the opposite sex who enter into any form of marriage?
In the United States, religious marriage may be viewed as a privilege. Religious institutions can decide whether to marry a particular couple in accordance with the institution's religious convictions. Civil marriage, however, is a right, not a privilege. This fundamental aspect of American law was established by the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia (388 U.S. 1). In his decision for the Court in Loving, Chief Justice Warren wrote the following:
"Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man' fundamental to our very existence and survival." (citations omitted).
Of course, people have advanced arguments as to why this basic civil right should be denied to same sex couples, just as people once argued that it should be denied to interracial couples.


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On a previous question that I asked, one correspondent pointed out the existence of a Mishnaic index, which lists every page of the early rabbinic literature on which there is a reference (or allusion) to each individual mishna. I would like to know if in the course of discussing individual mishnayot, the Bavli ends up referencing every single mishna altogether, or if some go totally unmentioned. Would a person who learns Mishna only through Shas Bavli still end up encountering the entire text?
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Not every Mishna is mentioned in the Bavli. As a counterexample (selected at random) the opening phrase of Keilim 14:3 does not appear in the Bavli.
I misread the question and I wish to amend my answer. I did Shas with Daf Yomi during the 11th Cycle, and I did half of it again during the 12th. But I would never claim to have learned Shas Mishna based on that amount of study.
First, it is clear that there are no Bavli Tractates following many tractates of the Mishna. Only one tractate in the Seder of Zeraim, Brachos, has a Babylonian Gemara associated with it. That leaves Pe'ah, Demai, Kil'ayim, Shevi'is, Terumos, Ma'asros, Ma'aser Sheni, Challah, Orlah and Bikurim just from that seder! Mo'ed and Nashim are fully represented, I think in the Bavli. There are no Bavli gemaras for Avos and Eduyos in Seder Nezikin. From Seder Taharos, the Bavli is missing Keilim, Oholos, Negaim, Taharos, Mikvaos, Machshirin, Zavim, Yedayim, Tvul Yom and Uktzin.
Second, it may be true that many mishnayot are covered in discussions by reference, and one commentator has already pointed out that there is a major work that tries to track down all of the mishnayot cited therein. I have not reviewed that. But I have learned several of the mishnas listed above and there are some that come to mind, some in Challah for example, which I can't recall ever seeing in the Bavli.
Third, even if every mishna is somehow mentioned in the Bavli, I do not think that it is an appropriate way to learn the Mishnayos. They should be learned in the order that Rebbe placed them -- within context to each other.


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Rise and shine: Enjoy Cape Town's best breakfasts
Continental, English, health and American – Cape Town serves every type of breakfast. Whether you crave hot croissants and fancy cheese with rich yoghurt and fresh fruit or a plate of poached eggs and steamed haddock, you're sure to find each one of these breakfast bests as delicious as the next.
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For a taste of upper-class, some fresh sea air and outstanding views you'll praise throughout the meal, head to the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant. The breakfast menu is a little slim, but by no means lacking. Try the full English breakfast with poached eggs, or the delectable scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on bagel, and be sure to order some freshly squeezed orange juice.
Breakfast is served seven days a week from 9h00 till 11h00 and the meal alone will cost you anything from R30 to R60.
Chic cuisine and a gorgeous display of interior design savvy is what you'll find at Hemelhuijs, an upmarket eatery-cum-showroom in Waterkant Street that serves as an intimate venue for that special breakfast occassion. The breakfast menu isn't extensive, but it's unique. Try a warm bowl of cinnamon and oats with double thick yoghurt, or order the sumptuous poached egg with smoked trout.
Breakfast is served from 09h00 to 16h00 Monday to Friday and dishes cost between R30 and R95.
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If you suffer from food allergies or want to avoid meat, milk, wheat and eggs, then finding a place to enjoy the most important meal of the day can become rather daunting. Thankfully Dear Me bistro on Longmarket Street caters to just about any picky customer. Try the homemade yoga muesli and the scrambled tofu for a feel good start to the day. Their eggs benedict is a winner, too.
Breakfast is served from 07h00 – 11h00 Monday to Friday and costs between R20 and R80.
For a smoothie or a bite of muesli on your way to yoga, pop in at Skinny Legs & All Luxury Café on Loop Street. Open Monday to Friday from 07h00 to 16h00, this sparse setting is the perfect start to any hispster's day.
Trendy but still reliable
One of the worst things (and best things) that can ever happen to a restaurant is that it becomes the most popular place to eat. Facing an unprecedented crowd of hungry customers, most establishments fail miserably in their mission to deliver the same level of service and sumptuousness as before, when it felt as if you were the only one who knew about it.
Thankfully Lola's in Long Street hasn't faced a similar fate. This stylish bistro serves divine omelettes and an assortment of freshly squeezed juices.
Breakfast is served from 07h30 to 12h00 seven days a week and will you cost you anything from R30 to R60 a meal.
Muizenberg's favourite, Empire Café in York Road opens early and is just a stone's throw away from the ocean. Serving one of the best cups of coffee in Cape Town, this welcoming eatery is renowned for it's simple signature dish – scrambled eggs of toast.
Breakfast is served from around 07h00 to 12h00 seven days a week and will cost you anything between R40 and R60.


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ATLANTA - Georgia's governor is proposing an increase in the state's college scholarship fund. Republican Nathan Deal says revenues are up now.
"I'm really pleased that we are going to be able to increase the hope scholarship by 3%."
Those words have not been spoken from a Georgia governor's lips in years.
Governor Nathan Deal says starting in the fall, HOPE recipients will get 3% more tuition money than they got this year. The governor says lottery revenues, which fund the popular HOPE scholarship program, are not only steady but continue to grow.
"We do have the money in the lottery, and we're hopeful it will continue to grow."
Two years ago that wasn't the case. Deal had no choice but to make drastic cuts to the HOPE.
Most recipients got 90% of tuition paid rather than a full scholarship, and for the first time if tuition increased the amount of money in the scholarship did not.
There's also good news for Georgia's Pre-K program, which is also funded by the lottery. Two years ago the governor and lawmakers shortened the school year to just 160 days, adding back another 10 last year.
"We are restoring an additional 10 days in our budget proposal this year to the Pre-K calendar and that will bring it back to a full 180 days to the full calendar year," Deal said.
This week one lawmaker proposed allowing school principals to carry concealed weapons.
Deal had no comment, but when asked about proposed legislation to loosen gun restrictions he made it clear it's not a priority.
"It is a time that is fraught with a lot of emotion from both sides of the issue," he said. "I've heard of proposed legislation, but none of that is a part of my agenda."


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