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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:35 (Read all of John 13)
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 15:12 (Read all of John 15)
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:17 (Read all of John 15)
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Romans 12:10 (Read all of Romans 12)
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Romans 13:8 (Read all of Romans 13)
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Galatians 5:13 (Read all of Galatians 5)
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
1 Thessalonians 3:12 (Read all of 1 Thessalonians 3)
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1 Thessalonians 4:9 (Read all of 1 Thessalonians 4)
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Hebrews 10:24 (Read all of Hebrews 10)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
1 Peter 1:22 (Read all of 1 Peter 1)
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 Peter 3:8 (Read all of 1 Peter 3)
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 John 3:11 (Read all of 1 John 3)
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:23 (Read all of 1 John 3)
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1 John 4:7 (Read all of 1 John 4)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:11 (Read all of 1 John 4)
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:12 (Read all of 1 John 4)
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
2 John 1:5 (Read all of 2 John 1)
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.


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Norwalk, CT, November 5, 2001—Richard J. Swift, the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler Ltd., has been named Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC), effective January 1, 2002. The Council advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on technical issues relating to the Board's agenda, project priorities and other timely and topical matters involving the FASB. The appointment was announced by the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), which has responsibility for overseeing, funding and selecting members of the FASB, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and their advisory councils.
In announcing Mr. Swift's appointment, Manuel H. Johnson, Chairman of the FAF and Co-Chairman of Johnson-Smick International, commented, "We are fortunate to have Dick coming on board. He has a wealth of experience—both as a leader of a major international corporation and as a participant in corporate governance and the business community. His broad expertise should complement the activities of the FASB."
Mr. Swift will succeed Robert C. Butler, former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of International Paper Co., who will retire in December of this year.
In reflecting on Mr. Butler's service, Mr. Johnson remarked, "Bob has done an outstanding job as FASAC Chairman, advancing the mission of that organization and providing important counsel to the FASB. He will be missed by all."
Mr. Swift joined Foster Wheeler in 1972 and rapidly rose through the ranks of that organization to become Chairman. He continued in that position until his recent retirement. Mr. Swift is a director of Ingersoll Rand Company, serving as Chairman of its audit committee. He also serves as a director of the Public Service Enterprise Group and is a member of its audit committee. In addition to those activities, he is the immediate past Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council and a past member of the Business Roundtable and the Trade and Investment Task Force of that organization.
Mr. Swift is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and earned an M.S. degree in engineering from Purdue University. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
About the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Foundation
Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting and reporting. Those standards govern the preparation of financial reports and are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Such standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because investors, creditors, auditors and others rely heavily on credible, transparent and comparable financial information.
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UFR 3-35 Test Case
Cylinder-wall junction flow
General Remark
The experimental and numerical setups applied in this study were described in detail by Schanderl et al. (2017b) (PIV and LES). The experiment is further described by Jenssen (2019), the numerics in Schanderl & Manhart (2016), Schanderl et al. (2017a) and Schanderl & Manhart (2018). Thus, the following will provide a brief overview only.
Test Case Experiments
In order to provide both numerical and experimental data acquired for the same flow configuration under identical (as much as possible) boundary conditions, we performed a large eddy simulation and a particle image velocimetry experiment. We studied the flow around a wall-mounted slender circular cylinder having a height larger than the flow depth an a flow depth of . The width of the rectangular channel was (see Fig. 1). The investigated Reynolds number was approximately , the Froude number was in the subcritical region. As inflow condition we applied fully-developed open-channel flow. The particular flow conditions were chosen to be as close as possible to the conditions of Dargahi (1989).
Experimental set-up
The experimental set-up is shown in Fig. 2. A high-level water tank fed the flume with a constant energy head. After the inlet, a flow straightener, a surface-wave damper and vortex generators as recommended by (Counihan 1969) were installed such that turbulent open-channel flow developed along the entry length of corresponding to 42 hydraulic diameters of the open channel flow. A sluice gate at the end of the flume controlled the water depth before the water recirculated driven by a pump. The experimental parameters are listed in Table 1:
|Cylinder diameter
|Flow depth
|Channel width
|Flow rate
|Depth-averaged velocity of approach flow
|Kinematic viscosity
|Reynolds number
|Reynolds number
|Reynolds number
Measurement technique
The experimental data were acquired by conducting planar monoscopic 2D-2C PIV in the vertical symmetry plane upstream of the cylinder. The PIV snapshots were evaluated by the standard interrogation window based cross-correlation of . Doing so, we achieved instantaneous velocity fields of the streamwise () and the wall-normal () velocity component. From these data the time-averaged turbulent statistics were calculated in the post-processing. We used a CCD-camera with a square sensor. The size of a pixel was , therefore the spatial resolution of the images was . The size of the interrogation windows was . The temporal resolution was , which is approximately twice the macro time scale . The light sheet was approximately 2mm thick provided by a Nd:YAG laser. The f-number and the focal length of the lens were and , respectively.
The PIV set-up is shown in detail in Fig. 3, including the qualitative size of the field-of-views (FOV) for investigating the approaching boundary layer as well as the flow in front of the wall-mounted cylinder.
At the measurement section, the flume had transparent walls. Therefore, the laser light, which entered the flow from above could pass with a minimum amount of surface reflections through the bottom wall. However, an acrylic glass plate had to be mounted at the water-air interface to suppress the bow waves of the cylinder and let the light sheet enter the water body perpendicularly (see Fig. 3). The influence of this device at the water surface was tested and considered to be insignificant at the cylinder-wall junction.
Hollow glass spheres were used as seeding particles and had a diameter of . The corresponding Stokes number was , and therefore, the particles were considered to follow the flow precisely.
The total number of recorded double frames was , the time-delay between two image frames was . Therefore, the total sampling time was or . During the experiment, seeding and other particles accumulated along the bottom plate, which undermined the image quality by increasing the surface reflection. Therefore, the data acquisition was stopped after images to allow surface cleaning and to empty the limited capacity of the laboratory PC's RAM. The sampling time of such a batch was or .
The data acquisition time and the number of valid vectors were validated by the convergence of statistical moments. In the centre of the HV the number of valid samples had its minimum. Therefore, the time-series at the centre of the HV was analysed as a reference for the entire flow field. The standard error of the mean was times the standard deviation, the corresponding error in the fourth central moment is .
The standard error of the mean value of the measured velocities was determined as follows:
the standard error of the higher central moments was obtained likewise:
The standard errors with respect to the standard deviation were quantified as follows:
CFD Code and Methods
We applied our in-house finite-volume code MGLET with a staggered Cartesian grid. The grid was equidistant in the horizontal directions and stretched away from the wall in the vertical direction by a factor smaller than . The horizontal grid spacing was four times as large as the vertical one. The time integration was done by applying a third order Runge-Kutta sheme, the spatial approximation by second order central differences and the maximum of the CFL number was in the range of 0.55 to 0.82. To model the cylindrical body, a second order immersed boundary method was applied (Peller et al.2006; Peller 2010). The sub-grid scales were modelled using the Wall-Adapting Local Eddy-Viscosity (WALE) model (Nicoud & Ducros 1999). Around the cylinder, the grid was refined by three locally embedded grids (Manhart 2004), each reducing the grid spacing by a factor of two (see Fig. 4). A grid study by Schanderl & Manhart 2016 demonstrated that the number of grid refinements was sufficient. The resulting grid resolution in the vertical direction at the bottom plate around the cylinder was smaller than approximately 1.9 wall units based on the wall-shear stress of the approaching flow in the precursor, averaged over the span (Schanderl & Manhart 2016). The distance of the first grid point in the finest grid level was less than 1.6 wall units based on the local wall shear stress. The fraction of the modelled dissipation is about 30% of the total dissipation rate (Schanderl & Manhart 2018).
The setup simulated was intended to be identical to the experimental one. To model the bottom and side walls, we applied no-slip boundary conditions, whereas the free surface was modelled by a slip boundary condition. Therefore, the Froude number in the LES was infinitesimal and no surface waves occurred. By conducting a precursor simulation a fully-developed turbulent open-channel flow was achieved as inflow condition. The streamwise boundary conditions were periodic, and the precursor domain had a length of 30D (see Fig. 4). The wall-nearest point of the precursor grid had a distance of 7.5 wall units.
|Level of refinement
|Cells per diameter
horizontal / vertical
|Grid spacing
|Number of grid cells
|Grid 1
|Grid 2
|Grid 3
Inflow condition
There is a strong influence of the oncoming flow on the flow around the cylinder (Schanderl & Manhart 2016). In this section we provide information on the inflow condition as obtained in the symmetry plane of the channel. The simulation data were taken from the precursor simulation and the experimental data were measured by planar PIV in the empty channel at the position where later the cylinder was placed. We provide only in-plane quantities which were measured by the PIV. The data are made dimensionless by the friction velocity in the symmetry plane of the undisturbed flow. In case of the LES it was determined by the velocity gradient at the wall and in case of the PIV it was determined by the method of Clauser (1954).
Figure 5 shows the vertical time-averaged profiles along of the
- streamwise velocity
- Reynolds normal stress
- Reynolds normal stress
- Reynolds shear stress
For comparison, the data of Bruns et al. (1992) are included at a comparable Reynolds number based on the momentum thickness .
The corresponding datasets can be downloaded from the data files given below. In these, the first 11 lines belong to the header and are indicated by the #-symbol. For both PIV and LES, each column refers to the data listed in Table 4 and is comma separated. For MatLab users, we provide a script at the end of the section Evaluation of this document as an example of reading the data, which can be used as a template to modify for reading the inflow data as well.
|Column number
- PIV data: Media:UFR3-35_X_inflow_data.txt
- LES data: Media:UFR3-35_C_inflow_data.txt
Contributed by: Ulrich Jenssen, Wolfgang Schanderl, Michael Manhart — Technical University Munich
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Prostate Cancer Researchers Begin Clinical Trial to Evaluate Cancer-Fighting Drug Therapy
Patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer and poor prognoses are focus of new Cedars-Sinai study
Los Angeles - May 16, 2013 - Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have launched a new clinical trial to investigate the effects of a cancer-fighting drug therapy that has shown favorable outcomes in patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer.
Doctors in the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute are studying the impact of cabozantinib (XL184) in men with prostate cancer that is resistant to medical and surgical treatments and has spread to other parts of their bodies, including the liver or lungs. Physicians and research scientists are examining the development of the disease among men excluded from other ongoing clinical trials because of the severity of their illnesses.
Cabozantinib inhibits various molecular signals, stemming the spread of cancer by killing tumor cells while blocking their escape pathways. It has been shown in early clinical trials to have an effect on men with the metastatic form of prostate cancer – both before and after chemotherapy – by reducing pain and improving bone scans.
Cancer researchers believe the new clinical trial of the drug offers an opportunity to make important scientific discoveries for treating the severest forms of prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death among American men and a leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide.
"Given the results of previous clinical trials, these patients represent a population that could benefit from the therapy," said Edwin M. Posadas, MD, medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and the lead investigator of the new study.
The Cedars-Sinai clinical trial will involve up to 40 adult patients who will all receive cabozantinib. During the first three cycles, patients will be evaluated twice per month so that doctors can adjust dosages. Participants will undergo imaging tests every two months to track their cancers. Patients can continue treatment for as long as they are receiving a benefit.
The FDA-approved clinical trial will allow physicians and scientists to focus on a blood- and tissue-based analysis of disease markers that will provide insight into how cabozantinib (XL184) works in patients with this specific type of cancer and other cancers as well.
Exelixis Inc. is providing cabozantinib (XL184) for the clinical trial but not contributing any other money or resources to the study. Posadas does not have any financial or proprietary relationships with the company.
For more information on urologic oncology clinical trials at Cedars-Sinai, please visit http://cancertrialinfo.csmc.edu or contact Amy Oppenheim, clinical research coordinator, at 310-423- 3713 or email@example.com.


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How 'social business' can create a world without poverty
By Muhammad Yunus Fri Feb 15,
I see traditional capitalism as a half-developed structure. It ignores the humanity within all of us.
Moneymaking is an important part of humanity, but it is not the only part. Caring, concern, sharing, empathy – all of these aspects also must be considered when developing an economic framework that takes the whole person into account.
Enter the missing piece of the global development puzzle: social business.
Social business – not a charity
A social business is not a charity. It is a nonloss, nondividend company with a social objective. It aims to maximize the positive impact on society while earning enough to cover its costs, and, if possible, generate a surplus to help the business grow. The owner never intends to take any profit for himself.
As evidenced every day by religious ministers and practitioners, social activists, and philanthropists, making money is not always the only driving force. They may be a special group of people who makes it visible, but the desire to help others exists in various degrees in every human being.
Capitalism's limits
Traditional capitalism doesn't tap into that universal desire. Capitalism delivers limited results because it takes too narrow a view of human nature, assuming people are one-dimensional, concerned only with maximizing profits.
Capitalism has long been a source of prosperity, spurring industrial,
technological, and social progress in North America and
While free markets have ushered in many benefits, these gains have bypassed too many of the world's people, especially the poor.
And yet, in recent decades, powerful tools have been developed that leverage capitalism's strengths to enrich the lives of those who get left behind.
Take microcredit. It has been a powerful tool in combating poverty, enabling the poorest of the poor to change their lives and provide for their families. Through these small, collateral-free loans with a nearly 100 percent return rate, borrowers – mostly women – have been able to harness entrepreneurial abilities inherent in them.
Microcredit is just one example of how a business approach can help alleviate poverty when we move beyond the idea that business by definition has to mean making financial profit for the owner.
We need social businesses to couple the human heart to the capitalist system. This is a sure way of meeting needs that either remain unmet or are met extremely inadequately through the efforts of philanthropy, charity, or welfare.
Traditional philanthropy and nonprofits generate a social gain, but they do not design their programs as self-sustaining business models. A charitable dollar can be used only once. A dollar invested in a self-sustaining social business is recycled endlessly.
A social business is designed to be both self-sustaining and to maximize social returns like patients treated, houses built, or health insurance extended to people who never had this coverage. An investor in a social business retains an ownership interest to hold management accountable and to get the investment back over time, but no dividends are expected, and any profits should be reinvested in the business or used to start new similar businesses.
Social businesses could be viewed akin to investment accounts, where the money is returned over time but the interest is paid in social dividends, rather than in economic profit.
Bottom line: affect on society
While both personal entrepreneurship and social businesses need to be profitable, the bottom line for a social business is how much impact it makes on society,not how much money it returns to the investors. This represents an opportunity for the extension of capitalism to meet the social needs that are not currently met.
As an investor in a social business, I expect my investment money to come back to me, but the real reason for my investment is to see that it benefits society, as opposed to my pocketbook.
A profit-maximizing business owned by the poor can be considered a social business. The Grameen Bank is an example of a social business that is both owned by its poor borrowers and that seeks to maximize the benefits for those borrowers.
Another well-known example of social business is Grameen Danone Foods
(known as Dannon in the
Groupe Danone produces and distributes Danone yogurt and Evian bottled
water throughout the world. The mission of Grameen Danone Foods is to
manufacture nutrient-rich, fortified yogurt in small local plants that
minimize the need for expensive refrigeration and to sell it at a low
price to improve the diets of rural children in
By investing in this joint venture with Grameen Group, Groupe Danone can
help to eradicate malnutrition in
The experiment is a win-win situation and the first of many multinational social businesses that Grameen would like to partner.
The current capitalist framework does not allow us to fully mobilize mankind's will to do good.
Tap into the urge to do good
Because we are creatures who are motivated to solve the problems of the world, we need to add a new component. Capitalism has the capacity to do good in the world, provided we recognize that the motivation for the entrepreneur need not be exclusively economic and personal.
The urge to do good exists in all of us – right along with self-interest. We can harness that urge to do good in addition to human ingenuity to help the world's poor become self-sustaining with dignity and self-respect.
Thirty-one years ago, when I launched the Grameen microcredit program, no one in the banking world thought low-cost loans for poor people would be viable on a large scale. I was not sure myself how large it could grow.
Just as microcredit has proved to be a success, so, too, can social business. Working together, we can expand the predominant view of capitalism and enterprise to include social business.
This new perspective will move us one step closer to bringing all people into prosperity, and one step closer to a world without poverty.
• Muhammad Yunus is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank and the author of "Creating a World WithoutPoverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism." He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work on microcredit.


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Alaskans don't back Palin for prez
There would be no home field advantage in Alaska for Sarah Palin if the former governor made a run for the White House in 2016, according to a new poll released Friday.
Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democrats in 2016, would beat Palin 49-40 in a hypothetical match-up, according to a survey from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. Palin is the only potential GOP candidate Clinton topped in poll.
Despite it being her home state, only 18 percent of Alaskans think Palin should make a bid for the White House in 2016, with 77 percent— including 72 percent of Republicans — saying she should stay out of the election.
( PHOTOS: Sarah Palin's political career)
Earlier this month, Palin floated the idea of challengingDemocratic Sen. Mark Begich in 2014. A PPP poll released Tuesday showed Alaskans were lukewarm to the idea of Palin running for the Senate. She trailedBegich by double digits and Alaskan voters had a 58 percent unfavorable rating of Palin.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had the best edge over Clinton in a hypothetical 2016 election, leading her by 8 points in the poll. Clinton also trailed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by 7 points, Sen. Rand Paul by 6 and Sen. Marco Rubio by 3.
Despite Christie's margin over Clinton, he was not the preferred GOP candidate. In a sample that didn't include Palin as a candidate, Paul led GOP potentials with 20 percent, with Bush receiving 15 percent and Christie tied with Rep. Paul Ryan at 14 percent.
The poll surveyed 890 Alaskan voters, with an oversample of 507 usual Republican primary voters, from July 25-28. The margin of error was +/- 3.3 percent and +/- 4.4 percent for the Republican sample.


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The year hasn't been entirely smooth - my grandfather passed away in May - my Dad lost his father, my great uncle passed away in December, and my Dad was very unwell mid year (fortunately he is back to good health now). Sickness and loss has touched some of my friends and I hope 2013 is a better year for them. I was also very sick toward the end of the year - severe skin pain lasting for around six weeks - which was quite difficult to cope with. But overall I was quite well this year.
So what have been my highlights of 2012? Everything!
Receiving the Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars grant and mentoring, surfing, the ball and making friends with the grant recipients. Also, listening to then meeting Paul De Gelder, and getting Kirk Pengilly to call Camille at the Aim for the Stars ball.Becoming a finalist for the second year running in the Best Australian Blogs competition.
Successfully completing the massive project in my day job, and organising the International Day of People with Disability event.
Writing this post about skin hunger.
Completing my thesis and Masters of Communication.
excellent service!). That You can read about it in the archives of July and August and a little in September.
Speaking at the Appearance Matters conference run by the Centre for Appearance Research in Bristol.
Shopping with Maggie Alderson.
Meeting Jack Oldacres - the little boy with Ichthyosis (and his parents), and De - a mother of a little boy with Ichthyosis.
BlogHer - especially seeing Barack Obama and Martha Stewart speak. Overall I didn't enjoy BlogHer as much as I hoped though, and probably don't need to go again.
Meeting Rick Guidotti and being photographed by him.
Writing for Frankie Magazine.
Speaking at the hospital and at Scope in front of 600 children.
The Human Brochure trip to Canberra with Tash.
The six course dessert feast.
Interviewing Bob Evans, seeing him play and meeting him.Meeting great people including new overseas friends and blog readers.
Spending time with friends and family.
Volunteering at a community Christmas.
Wow! So many good times. I'm so grateful of every opportunity and to my body for letting me live such a full life.
I've received so much encouragement and support from those around me, and I am continually blown away by the strangers and friends who write to me to say they've read my writing. Thank you all - your words and actions really do mean a lot.
Yesterday I bumped into Fiona, my best friend at high school. Great to see she's the same girl as I remember - straight talking, genuine and not worried what others think. Fiona was one of the first to accept me for me, and she gave me much needed confidence and self belief. And she once loved Savage Garden as much as me!
We spent hours watching Red (now Channel V) and dubbing Savage Garden videos and interviews onto VHS tapes. We also once went to the Spice Girls movie wearing matching hand made silver lamé skirts.
We stopped being friends in the last year of high school. That was really hard for me, I missed her a lot. And so seeing her yesterday brought back the good memories of the time we spent together. She's doing well, and very happy. It was apt that we met in the department store where I worked for four years - the people I met there also gave me confidence and great friendship.
Fiona wrote the loveliest words on my Facebook after we met: "Im glad to see such a positive reflection of a time shared. I didnt and still dont believe i did anything special or extrodinary but am thankful for being led to believe that I had a small part on your road to awesome."
Seeing her again, and having a proper conversation for the first time in years, was a lovely way to end the year.
So farewell 2012. My resolution for 2013 is to make it as great as 2012.
Happy new year to you and your family. Be safe and happy. Make a wish for what you want in 2013, then make it happen!


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by L. Rachel (nee Ajbeszyc)
Translated by Avi (Abram) Stavsky
My father, Reb Majer Arje Ajberszyc of blessed memory, was one of the more important Jews of the town, and a Gerer Hassid. He was a real Hassid, fearful of G-D and a learned man, [and] a brilliant scholar. He was a descendant of Reb Jonatan Ajberszyc of blessed memory.
An honest man, he lived as a merchant. Everyone had the utmost confidence in him; they knew his word was [like] the Holy of Holies. My father, peace be upon him, often said: An honest hand goes over the whole country. My father never involved himself in communal politics. He was friendly to all, [and] raising his children in a path of integrity, a spirit of religion and exemplary morality. Always with a smile on his face, he never interfered with anyone's business but let everyone go his own way.
My mother, a virtuous and pious G-D fearing woman, Chaja Cyma daughter of Reb Lejbusz Kaufman of blessed memory, was an ideal wife of valor, one whose word was always trusted. She served everyone with advice and good deeds. Her involvement in business along with her honesty and punctuality gave her a commendable reputation.
I am reminded of a certain episode. At the beginning of every month, the merchants would visit the shops and advise [the owners] of their inventory. My mother constantly stood at the entrance to the shop and would ask the merchants, please come in, I want to pay our bill!. However the reply often was, for you there's always time. We know payment from you [people] is assured. With you we value your responsibility but with some of the others, if we don't get to them [on the first of the month], they'll pay another merchant and have the excuse that 'there's no money left to pay you'.
I am reminded of yet another story: to Dąbrowa, markets would set up once a week, [and the day they chose] happened to be a Friday. Jews came from the surrounding villages to sell their wares, and by the time they were headed home, it was already late.
As they didn't want to violate the Sabbath, they'd entrust us with their purchases or their money even without a receipt. My parents expressed their displeasure [at the extreme trust], but they'd be answered, Reb Majer, we have complete confidence in you, so what are you afraid of?
With her involvement in the shop, our mother, peace be upon her, allowed my
father, peace be upon him, to partake of Torah learning until late at night. I
still have this picture of my father at his usual spot with an open volume, his
eyes bright in intense study. He feels himself removed from the daily concerns
of life, spellbound in another world, one that is continuously illuminated.
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My parents strong belief in the Almighty helped them through some critical moments. I remember that [once] during the German occupation, I was called to the telephone at work. I had a premonition that something had happened, and indeed I was told to come home immediately. A German policeman had entered my father's shop to buy a cane (walking stick). When told the amount my father wanted, he immediately screamed out an exorbitant price. He demanded to see my father's ID papers and then ordered him to report to the police station. It was known that if a Jew with beard and peyot appeared there, he'd be immediately deported to Auschwitz. Just hearing what had happened caused my heart to pound [in fear], but I refused to despair and went by myself to the Gestapo. A neighbor told me that the SS man who had been in [my father's shop] had come with a big dog.
When I arrived at the Gestapo headquarters, I asked about the policeman who had come with the dog, as his name was unknown to me. The [Gestapo] receptionist said that he was in a meeting and that I should wait. He also asked for what purpose I had come. Meanwhile, a door opened and the German with the dog came into the room where I was. Gathering up my courage, I approached him and said there was a mistake: that my father had quoted him a price in Polish currency, while the German had understood it to be in German marks. Polish currency [then] had half the worth of German currency. He asked me if I was telling the truth. After my assurances, he took out my father's ID papers from a drawer and gave them back to me. It appeared that my words convinced him that what I said was true.
Like a bolt of lightning, I [shot out the door and] began to run [to where my parents were]. Ever faster, I could hear my own heart pounding. At a distance, I made signs that I had information, and with my last strength, I fell into the arms of my parents with the joyful news: I [had gotten] my father's passport back. Our happiness is not to be described only with an angel's help could I have accomplished this.
With a heavy heart I remember [also] my two brothers and one sister. Unlike with my dear parents who died of natural causes, my brothers and sister, together with their children, perished among all the sainted [of our people].
With a painful heart I think about my elder brother, who was a Torah scholar and a G-D fearing man named Abram, of blessed memory. As great as he was in Torah, so was he great in good deeds. He dealt his business transactions honestly in support of his family. [And] in his free time he would engage in Torah study.
As an honest man, he conducted large transactions with only his word as his guarantee. His integrity was well-known among merchants. Already from his younger years, he amazed his friends with his acumen, phenomenal memory and honesty. Whatever he undertook to do he'd seemingly do it effortlessly.
Tears come to my eyes when I remember my second brother, Yonatan of blessed memory. He was a G-D fearing, quiet man who did everything with a smile and with constant readiness to help others. Acquaintances who were with him in the camps said he refused to eat the German-supplied soup, but survived on some occasional potatoes and bread. Even the German murderers called him The Rabbi.
Tears also form in my eyes when I remember my dear sister, Liba Rajzl of
blessed memory. She was known for her wisdom, modesty and good heartedness. She
was always ready to help the unfortunate. Her husband was a great teacher of
Torah subjects from the Auerbach family.
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Even as a young man, he was called Rabbi Hersz. They lived in Sosnowiec and she was taken to Theresienstadt in one of the first actions against the Jews. A short while later, her husband and child followed and suffered the fate of the [other] martyrs.
The year 1939 will remain with me forever. I'll begin with 31 August 1939, the last day I worked at the office in Sosnowiec. The office boss left Sosnowiec that day on the last train for Warsaw. He thought that would be a better place than being in Zagłębie. The next day, 1 September, special military directives came into force and civilians were forbidden to travel by train.
As I now had much free time, I decided to occupy myself with the operation of our store, which [then] lay in the city center, and where until then only my parents worked.
I immediately heard rumors the Germans were approaching. Chaos began as no one knew what to do, but everyone's chief concern was not to fall into the hands of the murderers. People packed their bags and prepared to leave town. People began fleeing in all directions with their wandering sticks in hand. Fear gripped the people and one shivered, but all had the idea of escaping from [an impending] hell.
Among the people in the city were those who didn't agree, for various reasons, that fleeing was the answer. Among these were my parents (G-D rest them), who were too weak to run, even to a nearby city. We resolved, along with our dear neighbor, Mosze Eliezer Zarnowiecki to remain where we were, and whatever will be, will be.
When I looked around at our street, a shiver ran through my body. The long and narrow street was filled with people running mainly in the direction of Olkusz, Kielce, etc.
My parents advised me to at least [try and] save myself and run to where the others were running. However, my answer was the same Ruth gave to Naomi, whither thou goest, I shall go too.
We were told by neighbors that the Germans were already in the nearby town of Będzin, and that they had burned the synagogue there to instill fear among the population.
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Soon I found myself with my father in the shop. I stood on a bench by the window and could see the [German] armored vehicles approaching. [Also] the murderers with their rifles at the ready. They created fear just by their very appearance, armored from head to toe.
Our hearts began beating faster and our whole bodies trembled. One just didn't know what to do: whether to lock the shop or not. We decided, along with our neighbor Mosze Eliezer Zarnowiecki not to close the shop, and the military column passed us by.
Daily life continued. In the large stores, Volksdeutsche were instilled as Commissars (overseers) and left us alone. But it was just a brief respite, and soon Germans controlled all the shops.
Before long a Judenrat was established to organize young Jewish labor for what they called Einsatzarbeit. They coordinated a Jewish police with the responsibility to insure the requested number of Jews.
|On the "selection" field in Dabrowa for deportation
of the Jews to Auschwitz
The Judenrat had a list of Dąbrowa's entire Jewish community. One Judenrat committee established a list of taxes and fees. Many people believed that giving money [to the Judenrat] ensured their survival, or at least would prevent them from being deported. Apart from the initial payment, each Jewish family had to pay a monthly stipend (i.e. head-tax) as well as rent money for their dwelling. This money was kept partly to pay the Judenrat's own costs and partly as a hedge for the next call the Germans would have for expenses.
The Dąbrowa Judenrat was very energetic in its operation, and performed with alacrity in carrying out German commands and edicts. By doing so, they believed they were working in the best interest of the community. Every Judenrat member had a specific function. For example, one was in charge of all [Jewish] tradesmen, carpenters and skilled workers, and made sure they had the proper equipment with which to do their work. Another's responsibility was to see the labor quota for Germany was filled daily.
Thus the Dąbrowa Jewish community participated in the first evacuations
from the neighboring towns and hamlets after the Germans came in. In the
meanwhile, the Jewish leadership thought that the forced labor program was the
only thing keeping the Germans from annihilating everyone. The idea was that if
Jewish labor was needed, survival could continue until some real salvation
happened, perhaps a miracle from heaven. The holder of a card [or pass] was
believed to be secure i.e. the key to continued existence. However,
the Germans already had a murderous plan in effect of which we had no inkling:
the concentration of Jews into designated areas, so that the brutal Poles would
find it easier to kill them.
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I remember it was on the 10th of October, 1939, when a relative from my previous job came to visit us. He said that since their bookkeeper was away in the Polish Army, I could probably have his job. It was at the mill of Waldliferant-Kleinberg in the area of Będzin, some 5-6 km from Dąbrowa.
I thus endeavored to take the position, in order to obtain a Kennkarte. That would enable me (at least temporarily) not to have to worry about being sent to a labor camp.
I began work there and traveled daily to my job; there were several others [from Dąbrowa] who worked there too.
After some days, a new German Volkskommissar took over, but kept the same body of personnel, including the Jewish employees. And as my parents (G-D rest their souls) had raised their children in religious belief, I thus immediately informed the commissar that I would no work on Shabbat, and he agreed to it. I traveled every day from Dąbrowa to Będzin with a special police permit, and worked 10-12 hours daily. The mill had been designated as a vital operation [to the war effort] and was required to run from morning till night.
The commissar did not keep his job very long. {Suddenly] more Germans came to work at the mill's office. The new Reichsdeutsche boss came with many of his own personnel, and we employees realized we'd not be working there much longer. And indeed, soon the new commissar read a list of names all Jewish who could no longer be employed at that operation. My name, however, was not included in the list. I later learned that the previous commissar stated that I was an important employee, and moreover a good bookkeeper with the ability to write Polish and German. I understood that the German who was supposed to replace me could not speak Polish and would probably take a long time to learn that language.
I'll never forget what happened next. I told my parents that a new Leiter took over the mill and they asked me if I had spoken to him yet about [not working on] Shabbat. I said I had resolved to talk to him about it on Thursday. My heart was pounding as I prepared myself to speak to him, and remembered my parents' blessing that my request should be successful.
I explained to him that I was raised religiously and had never, to that time, worked on the Sabbath. [Against all expectations] his answer was positive, i.e. that my terms of employment would continue as before.
After a few more another, the commissar was replaced by yet another German boss. This one however was known for his meanness, and it wasn't long before my not working on Shabbat cost me the job.
By this time, the Germans had segregated the Jewish population into special living quarters [i.e. ghettos] in narrow, confined streets. The idea was to reduce the effectiveness of Jewish life. I began working in a small shop in the Jewish quarter.
In the meanwhile, in 1941 my parents both died of natural causes. I was envied by many because my parents were able to this be buried peacefully in a Jewish cemetery.
Once, on a Shabbat, as I was walking through our quarter, I saw a man wandering
around. I recognized him as one of those employees laid off from the mill. He
said he had been looking for me. Unbelievably, that same commissar who had
dismissed me for not working on Shabbat was now asking that I return to work
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At first I thought he was joking, but then she showed me that the mill had advertised in the local newspaper for a bookkeeper and no one had applied for the job. He was thus compelled to seek the return of the [previous] Jewish bookkeeper and would insure I had a permit that would let me travel back and forth daily.
Another year passed by, and large contingents of Jews were shipped out, only now not to work camps but to extermination camps, like Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka and others, where hope for survival was slim. As I returned daily from work, friends would tell me that Jews were now being taken from workplaces, offices and shops and deported. My acquaintances advised me not to travel to work anymore, as the same fate would be mine [if I did].
One day when I came to work, the commissar told me the police were looking for me, and suggested I hide somewhere in the mill. I was sure he wanted to shelter me. However it wasn't long until he handed me over to the Gestapo, on the 19th February, 1943.
I was sent to a Dulag [Ger. abbreviation for Durchgangslager] in Sosnowiec, that is, to a transit camp, together with other women from neighboring towns.
Once, a limping German came (named Höschel). He assembled us for an Appell and told us he'd be sending us to a work camp. He announced as follows: I need women with office experience, and if there are any here, let them come forward. I wasn't prepared to be the first [volunteer], but when two other women stepped out, I was the third. Then a forth joined us and our contingent was formed. He then told us that if we worked hard, we would not be lacking for food, but if we sabotaged instead, he'd send us to the worst camp, in Beuten [Bytom].
|Mass grave
That same night at 02:00, the Germans conducted an Appell
[rollcall], and we had to scurry to assemble immediately. The night was dark;
the Germans ordered us to line up in rows of four. Everyone grabbed their packs
from home, but the order was given to leave everything. One cannot imagine the
anxiety we all felt, that we would now be sent not to a work camp but to an
extermination camp. Without looking at one another, we began to move in rows,
followed by Germans with dogs behind us, so that no one would attempt to
escape. We got to the train station and entered the carriages. In each
compartment was a watchman. I picked up courage and asked him where we were
going. His reply: to the Paulbruck Arbeitslager, but we didn't believe him. He
gave us a sign that we were not headed in the direction of Mysłowice (i.e.
Oświęcim). By saying this, he gave us a new soul
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Late at night we arrived, hungry and thirsty. They asked us to gather up [empty] cans of preserves which littered the ground near the train and began to dole out a kind of soup. I had resolved [not to eat any], but when the hunger became acute, my resolve failed me. The women who had been designated for Paulbruck had to hurry to organize themselves. It was a sugar factory, and with a common effort, we cleaned the place up and arranged beds for ourselves. We, the four women chosen to work in an office, were waiting for a miracle. Unable to wait, I once asked the German [overseer] why we weren't assigned to the [office] work. The answer was they hadn't gotten that kind of an order yet. Instead we were given other work to do. Then finally the German called for us. It was practically a dream that Jewish women would be called to do office work in a camp, but that was the reality. Actually, four men had occupied those positions, but because of an order than men were to be excluded from office work, we filled their places.
The Germans were satisfied with our work. It was a German office, and we four Jewish women We sat in a special room [and worked]. The foreman and German bookkeeper were decent fellows. From time to time, they brought us food from the Aryan kitchen. The German Leiter would travel home every Sunday to Breslau, and on Monday when he returned, would open our door and give us some cookies, apples, [or even once] a clothes bin with which to wash our clothing. It sounds unbelievable [but that's what happened].
Thanks to the German Leiter we slept in a separate room. Before that, we slept in a large room with around 150 other women. There it was bad because we weren't able to rest. Many women returned late at night from their work and made a lot of noise. We had complained to the Judenältesten and asked that she get us the little storeroom which was usually empty and not in use. We argued that unless we had proper rest at night, we'd be prone to making mistakes, and if so, the slightest mistake could be interpreted as sabotage. Thus the Leiterin was convinced of our reasoning and gave us that small room.
The Judenältesten was insanely jealous of us after that and schemed ways to vent her anger [at us].
Once, as we returned from work, she stood in front of us and told us in Polish:
Girls, a wagon of material has arrived and we have to unload it, and walked away. I told the girls, don't do it because she's just trying to burden us down with extra work. After a long while, the material remained outside where it had been unloaded. So she warned: if this material has not been brought into the spare room in the next 10 minutes, you will get no supper nor will mail be delivered to you. However when the German Leiterin had intervened, her approach was quite different, and she promised us extra bread with butter, etc.
As office workers we received extended rations, and these we sometimes divided up and gave to men who came from other work camps.
In 1944, the camp [where the sugar factory was] was reduced in size, and we were ordered to the Gröditz camp, which had inhumanly unsanitary conditions. The Jewish foremen didn't concern themselves with this, and [consequently] a typhus epidemic broke out, causing hundreds to die. We four women volunteered to clean and disinfect the rooms. We were given all honor for doing so.
At the end of 1944, we were transferred to Peterswaldau [Pieszyce, Lower
Silesia], where there was an ammunition factory. From there the Russians
liberated us on the 9th of May, 1945.
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Frankly, I think most of what Java 8 is planning to do is let the fanboys dump every feature they can think of into the language.
I'm not against those features per se, and the JVM itself should support them, but I'm less enthusiastic about the mangled syntax that is the Java Lambda project. It isn't the features that are bad, but if you stick too many ingredients in any soup, you end up with stew. Keep going and you hit some kind of food sculpture.
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That seems to me to be the general direction of the Java language. Then again, I never got over how cracked the Java Generics syntax is, at least at the edges (not for using generic classes, but for making them).
Java was supposed to make things simpler
Java was supposed to make things simplerI don't believe in hierarchical ontologies. I believe in tags. When C++ came out, a lot of developers felt the need to use its features and often created horribly monstrous code that overused inheritance, virtual functions, operator overloading and templates, and all of the nonsense.
Java began the trend toward simplicity by dumping many of the more complex features in C++, such as operator overloading and multiple inheritance, sidestepping much of the need for the latter by introducing interfaces.
Many of Java's adds over the years were either workarounds for an overly persnickety and initially somewhat useless type system (such as Java 2 classloading, generics) and a lack of a read-write language metamodel (annotations, instrumentation, java.lang.reflect.Proxy).
What if we dropped class inheritance entirely?
What if we dropped class inheritance entirely?This got me thinking about what I could live without. What could we take out of Java? As cracked as it may seem, I could live without the extends keyword.
What the frak, you ask? Well, inheritance isn't tagging -- it's enforcing a hierarchy. Pure hierarchies don't tend to exist in nature, business, or anywhere else but in the human mind. There have been languages with objects but no inheritance. OK, fine, extends Object is probably useful, but do I need to go any further?
What could I do instead? For one, annotations are frequently used for AOP (aspect-oriented programming)-style instrumentation at compile, classload, or runtime. You can use interfaces. Static imports were already added to Java, so why not imports of template methods (of sorts)? Would I really miss a superclass? I use it sometimes, but rarely is it something I absolutely couldn't live without. Its absence might actually do us some good. No one could ever create anything that even remotely looked like EJB 2 ever again. Strangely bad APIs would have to be rewritten.
Crazy? Consider the Java Servlet: Have you ever thought about why it is you override specific methods in one class rather than, say, MyServlet implements
HttpGet? Or better yet, use annotations -- none other than Oracle agreed with you. In Servlet 3.0 you don't need to extend anything and can just use said annotations. Where do we need extends really?
Chalk one up for the aging AOP fanboys. As it turns out, cross-cutting concerns are a more common case than actual lineage, à la inheritance. Frankly I'll do anything to not see code that has something like
AbstractSecureAndAsynchronousBlobbyThing next to its kin
AbstractSecureBlobbyThing and
Will Java 8 drop the extends keyword? Almost definitely not. That said, I stopped using it a while ago, except for workarounds or where required by legacy code.
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Coronavirus: Tokyo governor says Japan can host Olympics despite virus spike
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike remains firm about being able to safely hold the Olympics next year despite growing concerns about Japan's recent resurgence of COVID-19 infections.
Japan has experienced an uptick of the infections this month with a nationwide daily total exceeding 2,000 as the government tries to balance preventive measures and business activity without further hurting the pandemic-hit economy.
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"As the host city, I'm determined to achieve the games whatever it takes," Koike told a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Her comment comes a week after International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach's visit to Tokyo, where he held a series of talks with Japanese Olympic officials, including Koike, to showcase their determination to pull off the games.
Koike said widespread use of masks among the Japanese is one of most effective safety measures that have spared Japan from the high rate of infections that have taken place in the United States and Europe.
Many Japanese used them as "moral duty" in trying to cooperate in disease prevention efforts, she said.
The recent steady climb in cases, however, could call into question plans to hold the Olympics. Bach said "participants" and athletes would be encouraged to get vaccinated in order to protect the Japanese public, but it is unclear how that would be addressed if cases surge in the host country.
Koike has met with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to discuss how to mitigate the recent resurgence of infections. Tokyo's daily cases have also spiked in recent weeks.
Suga on Sunday announced a decision to partially suspend the government's GoTo campaign that encourages travel and eating out with discounts to support the pandemic-hit businesses, after a wave of criticisms that his government was too slow to take steps despite experts' repeated calls for government action.
Japan, during its seven-week state of emergency in April and May, had non-binding stay-home and business closure requests but still did better than many other countries.
Japan had about 134,000 cases with nearly 2,000 deaths as of Monday, according to the health ministry. Tokyo, after topping 500 cases last week, reported 186 new cases on Tuesday for a total of nearly 38,200 cases.
Coronavirus: Japan's Tokyo reports high of 539 COVID-19 casesTokyo confirmed a record 539 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, beating its previous high of 534 cases, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ... Coronavirus
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We oughtn't pray for what we've never known
Unbroken peace
Unmixed blessing
Better to pray for. . .
The will to see and touch
The power to do good and make new.
— Rabbi Stanley F. Chyet
In 2000, Stuart Manley, a bookseller from Northumberland, England, was rummaging through boxes of materials that had been shipped to his store. There was nothing remarkable in the loot except for a quirky poster with an image of the British Crown and the words "Keep Calm and Carry On."
Manley had never heard the phrase before, but found it sufficiently entertaining to display it on the walls of his store, Barter Books in Alnwick. He later learned that the poster came from a World War II propaganda campaign designed by Winston Churchill's war cabinet in 1939 to bolster public spirits while families were being separated, with men going off to war and children being sent to safer locations in the countryside. A million copies were printed but never distributed.
Some local residents took notice of the poster on Manley's wall and asked for copies. That led to a small story in a British magazine in 2005. Then, as Manley once put it, "all hell broke loose." The poster became a timeless icon of British resilience and the capacity to bounce back with a stiff upper lip and a good cup of tea.
But the lesson of "Keep Calm and Carry On" isn't that inspiring slogans can really alter the public mood in times of pain. Rather, the story of Manley's poster reminds us that the desire to persevere — whether against an existential threat, a lone criminal, or something in between — isn't created by a slogan. "Keep Calm and Carry On" never guided anyone's response to World War II. The posters weren't displayed. And yet the British kept calm and carried on.
There has been a lot of focus on resiliency in Boston these last few days, but less on what it actually means. True resilience is a function of competence, not psychology, and the ability to learn from the past.
Years of planning went into the response to Monday's Boston Marathon bombings, bolstering the city's capacity to bounce back.
Immediately after the bombings, runners who could see the finish line were diverted to Commonwealth Avenue, sparing Boylston Street from more confused crowds and greater panic. That quick move helped to preserve a massive crime scene; otherwise, explosive materials and other crucial evidence could have been stuck in a runner's shoe. Then authorities immediately put out a request for home video or any other source of clues.
Those actions by authorities were the product of a constant process of learning from horrors in the past. The lessons learned from the terrorist attacks on 9/11 prompted the quick reactions of first responders in Boston. The skills that soldiers mastered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan created competencies that saved lives, and limbs, at the bomb site. The plea for public participation came from a government that has learned that an insular national security apparatus is limited in its capacities.
A resilient society is one that will absorb what it can from this week, and emerge wiser, if still wounded. So many Bostonians have lost so much. And in their honor we should not simply wish for a return to the relative peace of April 14. We should embrace the lessons of this week, study them, regroup, and adapt, in order to create a new baseline that then becomes the starting point for whatever might, one day again, happen to us. And that whole process will repeat itself, if it must.
Resiliency is not a sprint. It is a marathon.
Juliette Kayyem is a Globe columnist. She is former assistant secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security and homeland security advisor to Governor Patrick. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and Twitter @juliettekayyem.


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LONDON—At a press conference Tuesday, 89-year-old Rose Biggin, a grandmother from the Camden Town neighborhood of North London, announced that she was in fact the internationally renowned graffiti artist known only as Banksy. "Those drawings? Oh, yes, those are mine," said the diminutive octogenarian, who admitted to scaling buildings and climbing fences in order to put up life-sized stenciled images that satirize modern society's mores and its inherent political power structures. "It sure does help to pass the time." Biggin then returned home, where along with some of her "dearest friends," she sipped tea, sampled some nice ginger cake, and planned the necessary destruction of dominant capitalist paradigms.
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- Travel
- Traveler
The Lies We Tell
Real Travel
From the September 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler
Posing as a gem dealer (or jazz singer or archaeologist) can open whole new worlds.
"I'm interested in carved gemstones, but nothing too large."
Bangkok's pounding heat has helped chase me into a jewelry store for relief. The dealer wears a turban, has the untrimmed beard of a Sikh, and sports a large gold-and-diamond ring on his middle finger. At the mention of gemstones he nods, pulls a leather case from a stack beneath the display counter, and flips it open with a flourish. It is brimming with eye candy—chunks of peacock blue sapphires, cherry red rubies, and green emeralds, carved by artisans from Jaipur, India. "Are you a wholesaler?" he asks. I hesitate for a split second, and then the words spill out so effortlessly, it's as if I am listening to someone else speak. "A designer," I say. "I have shops in Hong Kong and New York. My clients like unusual and special things. I buy a lot of my jewelry in India but I also shop for stones in Sri Lanka and Tanzania."
He smiles, warming up to my shop talk. "Only in India does one find the prettiest handmade gold work. Gemstone carving in Jaipur is unique in the world. Let me show you something you'll truly appreciate. But first, would you like some tea?"
I sip his tea, feeling a twinge of guilt. I'm not a designer or even a dealer. I'm shamelessly lying. Not because I want to get a better price (who knows if I'll buy anything?), but because...well, I'm not sure what has gotten into me. Since I was a little girl I've loved jewelry, and I've wondered what it would be like to travel the globe from Africa to Antwerp, buying gorgeous shiny stones from exotic strangers.
Now, here in Bangkok, I'm not just imagining another life. I have morphed myself into a jewelry designer. I spend time visiting the sapphire mines of Thailand and chasing after emeralds in Colombia. A few minutes of conversation in a tiny shop, and I've ditched a certain too-familiar companion who, frankly, becomes a bore after I travel alone with her for weeks on end. The farther my stories take me from the person I am, the more terrific it feels.
I'm not recommending that we all start lying as a strategy to enhance our travel experiences. Indeed, because I was raised to believe the truth is golden, I'm slightly ashamed of the way I enjoy altering my profession, background, nationality, and life story when I'm far enough from home to get away with it.
I wasn't always so footloose with the facts. For a very long time, the only travel lie that crossed my lips was the one that is necessary in every traveling woman's toolkit: "I'm married." However, when I began to travel to more off-the-map destinations, I started prevaricating about my profession for security reasons: In many nations, identifying yourself as a journalist, even when not working as one, is tantamount to putting a big sign on your back that says, "Take me to the nearest police station now."
One lie, two lies, and soon I was tumbling down the rabbit hole. The next thing I knew, I was in a café in Salvador, Brazil, drinking a caipirinha and telling the owner I was an ex-jazz singer who'd come looking for a school teaching the martial art capoeira. Disconnected from my everyday self, I exhilarated in the freedom of trying on new lives, new personae.
Isn't that one of the reasons we travel? A little harmless story here and there, a bit of identity makeover, is part of the romance of the road. Plus, if I had not become a jazz singer and capoeira enthusiast, would the waiter have spent so much time giving me tips on where to hear great music in Salvador?
But sometimes the harmless white lies of travel can boomerang, especially when we tell them to people who end up being more than transient friends. When I was in my twenties, I met another traveler while walking along a road to a beach in Yucatán, Mexico. We chatted, and he mentioned he'd gone to a certain well-known university in the U.S. So had I! The coincidence drew us together and we ended up talking long into the night. We spent the rest of our vacations climbing Maya temples...and eventually dating. Back home, we moved in together. It wasn't until two years later, when I was planning a dinner with former classmates, that he admitted he hadn't attended my college (his father had, so he was familiar enough with the place to make his fiction plausible).
It was a small, seemingly harmless thing. By then our relationship had a history that went deep; I didn't care where he'd gone to school. But it mattered, a lot, that he'd lied to me—and, even worse, that he kept up the fiction for years. We parted soon afterward.
That's why when I travel, I'll improvise extravagant new identities for myself only with shopkeepers, hoteliers, and strangers I'm absolutely sure I'll never see again. I try on the hats that, but for a few twists of fate, I might have worn (as well as some I would not have): anthropology professor, Peace Corps volunteer, Hare Krishna devotee. If I meet someone who my gut tells me could become a friend (or someone who—hello Facebook—might know one of mine!), I make sure I keep it real.
Anyway, as the Buddhists love to remind us, reality is an illusion. Or at least a moving target. In a shop in Bangkok, the dealer, smiling, places a small plastic envelope on the counter. The stone inside is spectacular, the blue of a summer sky at twilight.
"It's the most beautiful Jaipur sapphire I have in the shop. Not a perfect stone, but as you know, that's where the carver's art comes in, to create the illusion and draw your eye away from the imperfections."
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He quotes a price that is a third of what I expect. I buy it without hesitation. "For a client," I say, trying to sound professional.
For months, the gem sits in my drawer—until I'm seized with an idea while planning a trip to India. The next thing you know, I've sketched a picture of a fabulous gold ring. A few days after landing in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, I take it, along with the sapphire, to a jeweler on the street lined with shops that make pieces for local brides.
"You are a jewelry designer?" the goldsmith asks.
This time I don't hesitate.
"Yes, I am." The traveler's tale I tell isn't quite real, I know. It fits into the twilight space between truth and fiction—between the traveler I am and the traveler I might be. But the gold ring he'll craft with the hand-carved Jaipur sapphire now sparkles on the hands of both of those travelers.


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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge began hearing a lawsuit alleging the abuse of circus elephants, including the use of heavy chains, tethers and sharp tools called bullhooks.
A Ringling Bros. circus elephant steps out of a train and onto a wooden ramp in this file photo.
Defense attorneys for Ringling Bros. deny any abuse and hope the trial will disprove what they call years of "misinformation" about the treatment of circus elephants.
Several animal rights groups are seeking an end to practices they say violate the federal Endangered Species Act. The treatment includes "keeping (elephants) chained for many long hours each day and using bullhooks on them," attorney Katherine Meyer said Wednesday in her opening statement.
Meyer displayed to the judge what she said was an example of a bullhook -- a device with a wooden handle and a curved metal tip used to prod the animals along. Meyer also held up a length of heavy, galvanized metal chain she said circus handlers employ to restrain the elephants.
The suit, which seeks an injunction, alleges that endangered Asian elephants used by the circus spend most of their lives in chains. They also travel for hours, chained in boxcars as they are transported by train from city to city. Watch why people love elephants »
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is hearing the case without a jury. The case is expected to last about three weeks.
The judge asked Meyer whether the chains might also be used at the zoo. She acknowledged yes, "but not for this amount of time."
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus and its parent company, Feld Entertainment, deny the elephants are mistreated.
"There's been no abuse of these animals," lead attorney John Simpson said during his opening statement. Simpson told the judge the bullhook is also known as a "guide" that serves "as an extension of the handler's arm" to cue the elephant to perform a desired behavior.
Simpson played several video segments for the judge and used first names such as "Karen" and "Lucy" to refer to the elephants.
"This is a family-run business," Simpson said, referring to Feld Entertainment. "Elephants are part of that family."
Simpson told the judge the Endangered Species Act does not apply to elephants in captivity and that the control of such animals rests with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He said the USDA, through its Fish and Wildlife Service, has long validated the treatments now questioned by the animal rights groups.
But Meyer said she plans to show video later in the trial showing a circus elephant named "Lucy." She said the video shows the animal "dripping blood during the show after she was bullhooked."
Circus attorneys said there's no evidence any wounds are the result of mistreatment. They accuse the animal rights groups of using the case for a broader purpose.
Lawyer Michelle Pardo told CNN "the agenda of these animal special rights groups are that they want elephants out of captivity but they are starting here with the circus."
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Funeral Consumers Alliance of Texas is pushing for long-overdue rules to protect funeral consumers from unfair practices and overcharges on the worst day of their lives. Here's their press release:
CONTACT: Jim Bates 817-360-4727
March 25, 2013 Austin, Texas
Rulemaking petition to be presented
to the Texas Funeral Service Commission
Jim Bates, representing the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Texas (FCAT), will appear before the Texas Funeral Service Commission (TFSC) at the Commission's regular meeting at 9 am, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at 333 Guadalupe Street, Suite 2-110, Austin, Texas 78701, to publicly present a rulemaking petition to clarify and protect the rights of funeral consumers. On March 21, 2013, Bates submitted to the TFSC a rulemaking petition to update and modernize certain rules that must be followed by funeral vendors in Texas.
The FCAT petition proposes rule changes in four significant areas:
1) Provision of consumer information by TFSC about the absolute legality of home funerals in Texas; including the disposition of a body from medical and skilled nursing facilities directly to family members;
2) Embalming, an unnecessary and costly funeral option that is poorly understood by most
3) Quarterly reporting by the TFSC about complaints against funeral vendors in Texas.
4) Requiring funeral vendors with websites to include price lists on their websites.
These rule changes will help families understand what rules apply to funerals in Texas, will
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FCAT is a federation of four affiliates of the national Funeral Consumers Alliance: the
Austin Memorial and Burial information Society (AMBIS), the Funeral Consumers Alliance
Funeral Consumers Allianceof San Antonio (FCASATX), the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Houston (FCAH), and the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North Texas (FCANT). All four nonprofit, volunteer-run organizations educate the public about funeral costs, consumer rights when dealing with funeral vendors, and end-of-life options.


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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Racing on the Ridge - Palo Alto Vista Marathon, 3/05
Breathtaking views of the Skyline Open Space Preserve
Eric Gould and the Redwood Trails volunteers put on a wonderful event. For racers, there was a well-marked and well-stocked two loop course with 5k, 10k, 1/2 marathon, and marathon distances. Guests were treated to live acoustic music as they soaked up the sun in their beach chairs, with kids and dogs exploring the landscape speckled with the first signs of Spring. It was a great way to spend the morning.
I entered the marathon, joining a handful of others at the starting line at 7:30am. The sun hadn't quite dried up the muddy trail, so the first 10k loop was a slippery run up and down two 800' vertical foot mountains. I had pulled out far enough I couldn't see the other runners behind me, but I knew they were back there. Thomas Workman was running second, holding a steady pace through the ups and downs. Not too far behind him were the inseperable Beatrice Song and Rich Hornstra, smiling far too much for a marathon morning. Just a few steps behind them was Chuan Gao, a 12-time Boston qualifier (ran it twice) trying her hand at only her second trail marathon. On mile four, I had a local pacer join me as well - a fox jumped out on the trail and led me out for about 200 yards., kicking up mud and water as it turboed away. Looking at the petite paw prints I realized that, under all that red hair, a fox isn't much bigger than Rocky the pug. But a heck of a lot faster!
The second part of the first loop was pleasant, although there were a couple of 18+ degree hills to keep your training honest. I came in at the halfway point at around 1 hr 40 min, feeling pretty good. The second loop was going to be much dryer, as the sun had warmed enough you could see the the steam coming off the trail. The 1/2 marathoners and 10k runners had already started, so we had more company on that second loop. There were some fast runners careening down the trail - Delphine Verde, John Burton, and the super-fast Mara Rieden were setting the pace for the 1/2 marathon, while Ronald Little and Redwood Trail regular Amy Chi were upstoppable in the 10k. Eric Gould had given me the number 1 bib, and he must have said something at the start, for everyone I passed was giving me a high-five and calling me by name. As marathoners can attest, that's just the kind of thing you need around mile 18.
I kept the sub-8 pace right up until mile 20, when a mild stomach discomfort quickly turned into a vomit-fest. This was a new experience for me, but in retrospect, it was the first time I had tried to take in over 350 calories an hour. Turns out, that's something you want to test before a race. I got back on the trail, but within a few miles my legs started seizing with cramps due to the loss of water and electrolytes. It was dawning on me that vomiting was causing a whole chain reaction of issues, and it wasn't something I was going to be able to fix in the next four miles. My 7:45 min miles quickly turned into 11 min run/walks, and I felt lucky to cross the finish line in less than 4 hours. Soon after, I sat in the parking lot and watched my legs sieze out of control for the next 10 minutes. To all my friends whom I scoffed at when they said they had cramps, I take it all back now. It's very hard to keep a pace when your legs don't do what you ask them too and scream back in pain with every step.
The win was enough for 104.8 points in the Trophy Series, a great way to start the season. But clearly I have some fine tuning to do before the Catalina Marathon in a couple of weeks.
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- Anonymous3/06/2005 01:14:00 PM
Scott didn't mention he was picking up trash and dropped water bottles the whole way. He was the only runner "dropping off" at the aid stations!ReplyDelete
Keep your head up and feet down,
I should also mention the extraordinary performance by Roger Baylon. 80 years young, and tackling the 1/2 marathon in three hours!ReplyDelete
Nice work, Roger!
Great narration! It's nice to hear about the things that don't go as planned. Way to gut it out to the finish.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/08/2005 07:12:00 PM
Nice job Scott. Descriptive details of your problems at the end may have embellished the story. I ran the Envirosports 1/2 Marathon in Woodside so I missed you at this race. The glow in the dark shoes have worn out, and I've ditched them. Maybe that's been my problem.ReplyDelete
Take care and see you on the trails sometime,
Derrick Peterman
Glad to hear you replaced the shoes, Derrick! Congrats on the Woodside race.ReplyDelete
Those who want to hear more about the shoes can read about Derrick at Castle Rock in May, 2004.
- Anonymous7/29/2005 03:23:00 PM
Thomas has a funny blog too about this race - http://www.livejournal.com/users/saxy2/88956.htmlReplyDelete
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Check this week as done. For us around here, it's been a week of great highs punctuated by distinct lows. How amazing that we can pray through and lean in to God and each other for the lows…and celebrate the highs, in quiet and in company. Life is good and real.
1) Solitude – Writer, philosopher Zat Rana caught my eye with his article The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You. Turns out his view of that most important untaught skill is solitude. That ability to just enjoy being alone. Sitting or walking alone. Lost in your own thoughts. Except for a self-portrait for a photography class, you won't see many signs in my life that solitude is something that comes easy.
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." – Blaise Pascal
The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You – Zat Rana
According to Pascal, we fear the silence of existence, we dread boredom and instead choose aimless distraction, and we can't help but run from the problems of our emotions into the false comforts of the mind.
The issue at the root, essentially, is that we never learn the art of solitude. – Zat Rana
[My husband who often sits by himself at dawn and dusk to recharge. For him, solitude is something that has come naturally.]
Rana talks about how technology has connected us in a myriad of ways but the connectedness is more virtual than real. – "We now live in a world where we're connected to everything except ourselves."
"Our aversion to solitude is really an aversion to boredom…we dread the nothingness of nothing. We can't imagine just being rather than doing. And therefore, we look for entertainment, we seek company, and if those fail, we chase even higher highs. We ignore the fact that never facing this nothingness is the same as never facing ourselves. And never facing ourselves is why we feel lonely and anxious in spite of being so intimately connected to everything else around us." – Zat Rana
Everything I Have Learned in 500 Words – Zat Rana
2) A Culture Wall – Benjamin Hardy is a writer, organizational psychologist dude. I am reading his book Willpower Doesn't Work: Discovering the Keys to Success. This week he posted about having a culture wall, and it totally engaged this visual learner. Designed by Gaping Void, this is an art-as-inspiration tool for the workplace.Photo Credit: Benjamin Hardy, Medium; Gaping Void
Looking at Benjamin Hardy's culture wall got me thinking of the truths that keep me going at work and at home. Coming up with those sayings or mantras, as a team, or family, would be an excellent exercise…and then making the art happen would flow naturally out of that. It doesn't have to be 20 pictures, like Hardy's. Even one is a good start.
[Sidebar – Guitarist, YouTuber Nathan Mills, at Beyond the Guitar, in his videos, often features a "nerd shrine" with striking wall art. I wonder what a culture wall would look like in his studio.]
These 20 Pictures Will Teach You More Than Reading 100 Books – Benjamin Hardy
3) Like a Mother – Serena Williams – American tennis champion Serena Williams made it to the Wimbledon final this year. She didn't win but she played #LikeaMother. The expression "like a mother" brings all sorts of images to mind…and makes for marketing genius… Two examples are a Lysol commercial and one by Gatorade, the latter featuring Serena Williams.
Here's to Serena Williams…including a couple of interviews where she and husband investor Alexis Ohanian describe how they met.
4) Our Children – Writer Frederica Mathewes-Green could have been a buddy of mine in college. In those days of the Vietnam War, we were those conflicted ones who wrote our high school sweethearts away in the military and we vocally protested at the same time. The Roe v. Wade decision was very new and felt very progressive to all of us, in those days…the "make love, not war" crowd. I was young and being pro-life or pro-choice wasn't even on my radar…until after that court case divided us into mostly two camps. Mathewes-Green has written the most definitive piece on abortion and the legacy we are leaving our children in the article When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense.
She writes:
"Whatever your opinion is on abortion, I ask you to read this article. Fresh eyes. Mathewes-Green was around when that court decision was made. She was also feminist, as were so many of us in those days. She is still very pro-women…pro-human.
We expected that abortion would be rare. What we didn't realize was that, once abortion becomes available, it becomes the most attractive option for everyone around the pregnant woman. If she has an abortion, it's like the pregnancy never existed. No one is inconvenienced. It doesn't cause trouble for the father of the baby, or her boss, or the person in charge of her college scholarship. It won't embarrass her mom and dad.
Abortion is like a funnel; it promises to solve all the problems at once. So there is significant pressure on a woman to choose abortion, rather than adoption or parenting.
A woman who had had an abortion told me, "Everyone around me was saying they would 'be there for me' if I had the abortion, but no one said they'd 'be there for me' if I had the baby.""
"No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg."
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Her article frames this Friday Fave. Why "our children" as the heading? When I read Mathewes-Green's article, she reminded me that our children or our children's children may judge these decades very differently than our culture has – these decades of thousands of babies not delivered alive. Definitely, if those not delivered alive could speak…those silenced by their own mothers (out of desperation with no one offering to help them in life-giving ways)…if they could speak, we might see things differently today. Thankful for women, like Frederica Mathewes-Green, who provide a call to reconsider and a platform for the voices of all our children.
When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense – Frederica Mathewes-Green
Video – 50 Mums – 50 Kids – 1 Extra Chromosome
Tending your Garden – Colleen Searcy
5) Food With a Friend – Don't you love surprise visits with a friend, now living states away? When I got Nikki's text to meet up for a lunch this week, it was like a healing balm on my heart. She suggested a restaurant new to me: Mezeh Mediterranean Grill.
How have I missed this yummy place? All the food memories of our years in the Arab world mixed together in a big bowl. Pretty much my experience that day.
Add a long conversation between friends (including one other who joined our happy table)…and it was like Heaven here in Richmond, Virginia. Any such happy occasions come to mind for you this week? Hope so.
That's the week. Please comment below on any of these faves of mine or introduce your own… Have a restorative weekend… whatever that means for you and those you love.
Here's Exactly What to Do If a Tick Bites You – Kate Sheridan
I Love Jesus But I Want to Die: What You Need to Know About Suicide – Sarah
The Space Between – Marilyn Gardner
Paris, the evening of the World Cup FinalPhoto Credit: Nikaley Chandler
Tour de France – The Climbers and Rapid Descenders – the stages through the Alps happened this week – so incredibly exciting watching these riders – their toughness and endurance:Photo Credit: Cyclist
Happily Ever After – 100 Wedding Songs for Your Ceremony and Reception – Music Notes
Photo Credit: Jimmy Lee Thompson, Facebook