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Fall 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Welcome Back Reception
Meet the Berkeley Institute's new visiting faculty, scholars, and fellows and learn about upcoming courses in Israel Studies, planned guest lectures, and student events coming up in the next year. We will also introduce various resources the Berkeley Institute can offer to undergraduate, graduate, and J.D. students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please RSVP.
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Berkeley Law
The event is open to all UC Berkeley, students, staff, and faculty.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Peace Economics: Commercial Diplomacy in the Middle East
Haisam Hassanein, Glazer Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Economic cooperation is often a staple of peacemaking and diplomacy. With today's increasing commercial collaboration between Israel and Egypt, Hassanein examines the role of commercial diplomacy between the two countries and its effect on the "cold peace" left in the wake of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. With an eye on the impact both current and future trade agreements have on normalization between Israel and Egypt, Hassanein will discuss the potential for closer formal relations between the neighboring states, as well as shifting the popular sentiment among Egyptians and Israelis from "the other" to "allies."
Please RSVP.
6:00 pm Reception 6:30 Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Berkeley Law
The event is open to all.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Robbins Collection Annual Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity: "The Boundaries of Judaism"
Donniel Hartman
President, The Shalom Hartman Institute
The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions. Consequently, attempts to identify beliefs or practices essential for membership in the Jewish people are almost doomed to failure. Aiming to go beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this talk will explore the ever contentious question of "who is a Jew." Through a historical survey of the shifting boundaries of Jewish identity and deviance over time, this talk will provide new insights into how Jewish law over the centuries has erected boundaries to govern and maintain the collective identity of the Jewish people and will discuss creating a structure of boundaries relevant for contemporary Jewish existence.
Please RSVP.
5:30 pm Reception- Donor Lobby/ Steinhart Courtyard
6:00 Lecture- 105 Boalt Hall
The event is open to all.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Ethnic Minorities and the Army: The Case of Minorities in the IDF 1948-1956
Rami Zeedan, Berkeley Institute Visiting Faculty; The Open University of Israel
This public lecture will focus on some of the most interesting findings that were published in Dr. Rami Zeedan's 2015 book: Battalion of Arab- The History of the Minorities' Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956. Ben Shemen, Israel: Modan Publishing. [ in Hebrew]. The book examines the establishment, and the history of, the Minorities' Unit in the IDF. It further examines the process that led to the recruitment of the Bedouins, Circassians and Druze into the IDF during the 1948 war. The book presents the activities of the Minorities' Unit in the 1948 War, discusses the activities of this unit during its early phase and operation "Hiram" of the 1948 War. The book continues with the activities of the Minorities' Unit until the "Suez Crisis", along with discussion on the controversial relationship among the various minorities in this unit that led to a fatal battle within the unit between the Bedouins and the Druze. A major part of the book is dedicated to the Israeli policy towards the recruitment of minorities to the IDF in the first decade, and the decision to implement the mandatory conscription only on the Druze and Circassians since 1956.
Please RSVP.
6:00 pm Reception 6:30 Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Berkeley Law
The event is open to all.
Monday, November 13, 2017
The Balfour Declaration and the World of Israel's Founders
Donna Robinson Divine
Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College; President Association for Israel Studies; Professor [Affiliate] University of Haifa
The Balfour Declaration helped shape a Zionist nation-building story that reflected a set of ideals rather than the realities of developing the Jewish National Home in Palestine. Nor did it reflect the trials, pains and losses of the nameless immigrants who deferred their own happiness to advance the Zionist cause. Divine's talk will explain how and why the Balfour Declaration widened the dissonance between Zionist theory and practice in British Mandate Palestine.
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6:00 pm Reception 6:30 Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Berkeley Law
The event is open to all.
Spring 2017
Film Screening "Wedding Doll" In Conversation with Filmmaker Nitzan Gilady
Directed by Dover Koshashvili
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Warren Room
295 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Public Lecture: "Till We Have Built Jerusalem" Speaker: Adina Hoffman
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Warren Room
295 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Film Screening "East Jerusalem/ West Jerusalem," Performance and Conversation with David Broza and Ali Paris
Directed by Dover Koshashvili
Monday, February 27, 2017
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Film Screening "A Borrowed Identity," In Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Directed by Eran Riklis
Monday, February 13, 2017
Warren Room
295 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law
Film Screening "On the Banks of the Tigris," Performance and Conversation with Yair Dalal
Directed by Marsha Emerman
Monday, February 13, 2017
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Poetry with Shlomi Hatuka
Shlomi Hatuka, Moderated by Ilana Szobel and Chana Kronfeld
Thursday, February 9 Barrows, 254
Is Israel Stuck Forever with its Political Fault Lines? A Project to Reorient the Left-Right Chasm
Nissim Mizrahi and Eilon Schwartz, Moderated by Claude Fischer
Wednesday, November 30 Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
Third Screening "Late Marriage"
Directed by Dover Koshashvili
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC LECTURE: "Threats to Democracy in Israel"
Itzhak Galnoor, Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (emeritus),
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Senior Fellow, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
November 16, 2016
5:30 PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way
Second Screening "Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem"
Directed by Eran Kolirin
Tuesday, November 1st
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
"American Judaism 2016: From Theory to Practice and Back"
Arnold Eisen, Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
October 27, 2016, Bancroft Hotel
First Screening: "The Band's Visit"
Directed by Eran Kolirin"
Tuesday, September 27th
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Robbins Collection Lecture on Jewish Law and Thought
Jewish Scholars and the Study of Islam: Reflections on Modern Jewish Identity
Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College
Tuesday, April 12
5:15 Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way
Co-Sponsored by the Robbins Collection
"A Look in the Mirror: Reflections on the Social and Economic
Issues Facing Israel Today"
Avi Weiss
Executive Director, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel
Thursday, April 7th
5: 3o PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Economics Department
Toward a Disability Critique of Torts: Case Studies from the U.S.
and Israel
Sagit MorSagit Mor
University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Israel, Visiting at University of Washington
Wednesday, March 30th
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for Law and Society and the HIFIS Disability Cluster
Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, & the Early
Zionist – Arab Encounter
Jonathan Gribetz
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University
Thursday, March 17th
5:30 PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
Building the Solar Revolution in Frontier Economies: Supporting Sustainable Development in Israel and Africa
Yosef Abramovitz
President and CEO of Energiya Global Capital, co-founder of the Arava Power Company
Co-Sponsored by the College of Natural Resources, and the Blum Center for Developing Economies
Tuesday, March 8th
5:30 PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Blum Center, Plaza Level
Israel at a Major Crossroad: Challenges and Opportunities
Avishay Braverman
Former President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Knesset Member (2006-2015); Economist; Former Senior Official, World Bank
Co-Sponsored by the Masters in Development Practice
Thursday, February 25th
5:30 PM Reception, Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
6 PM Lecture, Room 100, Boalt Hall
The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities
John Roth
Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College
Co-sponsored with the Human Rights Cente, the Human Rights Clinic and the Human Rights Program
Tuesday, February 23rd
5:30 PM Reception, Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
6 PM Lecture, Room 100, Boalt Hall
Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Israel: Changes, Inequality and the Quality of Life
Public lecture with Calvin Goldscheider, Ungerleider Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brown University
Thursday, February 4th
5:30 PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
From Secular Judaism to Jewish Renewal in Israel – A Personal Story and Public Point of View
Reception and Lecture with Ruth Calderon, former Knesset Member (2013-2015), Talmudic Scholar, Founder of ALMA Home for Hebrew Culture, and Shalom Hartman Faculty Member
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
5:30 PM Reception, 6 PM Lecture
Diaspora and Group Rights: The Jewish Constitutional Moment
Joint event with the Center for the Study of Law & Society- Reception and Lecture with Willy Forbath, a legal and constitutional historian.
November 9th, 2015
5 PM Reception, 5:30 PM Lecture
Golberg, Room 295 Boalt Hall
Public Performance
Identity Inside Israel and Out: A Conversation Through Movement
The Miriam Engel-Angela Dance Company, will perform "De-parts" a contemporary dance piece that relates to the connection between identity and land. Joint event with Berkeley Hillel.
November 5th, 2015
7 PM Reception, 7:30 PM Performance and Conversation
Berkeley Hillel
Israel Facing a Changing Middle East
Reception and Lecture with Itamar
Rabinovich, President of the Israel Institute, former Israeli Ambassador the the United States
October 28th, 2015
Reception 5:15 PM, Lecture 6:00 PM
Bancroft Hotel, Great Room
Do You Have a Plan for Saving the World? Ben Ferencz Does
Reception and Lecture with Ben Ferencz, former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor, Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case
October 13th, 2015
132 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Joint event with the HRC, International Human Rights Law Clinic, and Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Student Performance and Q&A
Identity through Art: A Multicultural Performance with Author and Slam Poet Aaron Samuels
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 6:30 pm, Goldberg Room, UC Berkeley
Reflections on the Legacy of Nuremberg: The 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials
April 27: Film Screening followed by discussion with film maker of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today at 6:15 pm
April 28: all day, at the Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way
Panel 1
Panel 2
Public lecture
Between Honor and Authenticity: Zionism as Theodor Herzl's Life Project
With Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish history, University of Toronto, Oxford University
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
See photos here
Link to Video
Public lecture
Jews and Judaism in France
with with Rabbi Daniel Dahan, Chief Rabbi of Aix-En-Provence, France.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Reception: 5 pm in the Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall.
See photos here
Link to Video
Student Conversation with Janine Zacharia
Reflections on the Israeli Election
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
6:30 pm in the Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
and Yiddish Music and Dance
Thursday, March 19, 2015
with Esti Kenan-Ofri and Michael Alpert
See video here
Public lecture
Like Dreamers: What I've Learned about Israel's Right/Left Divide
With journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
At 5:30 pm in Boalt 105
Video: Coming Soon
Student Event:
Zero Motivation
Film screening and discussion with Prof. Shira Offer
Thursday, February 26, 2015
7 pm in the Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall
See photos here
Public Symposium
The Private Sphere as Public Policy?: A Symposium on Law and Society in Israel
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
2:30 to 5:00 pm
Goldberg Room (297 Boalt Hall), Berkeley Law
See video recording here
End of Semester Performance
Jewish Nightlife: An Evening of Celebration with Poetry and Music
Featuring UC Berkeley Students and Piyyut North America Workshop Participants
Directed by Yair Harel, Schusterman Artist-in-Residence, The Magnes Collection
December 18, 2014
Performances by Berkeley Students: 5-6 pm; Piyyut Bay Area Project: 7-8:30 pm
Hosted by the Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Lecture and Performance
Piyyut: Hebrew Poetry and World Music
Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature , UC Berkeley;
Yair Harel, Schusterman Artist-in-Residence, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
November 13, 2014
At 7 pm at the Magnes, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Co-hosted by the Magnes Collection
See video recording here
Sixth Annual Robbins Collection Lecture on Jewish Law and Thought
Maimonides on Mourning: Jewish Law and Emotion
Moshe Halbertal, Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem; Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at The Hebrew University; Gruss Professor of Law, New York University
November 6, 2014
At the Bancroft Hotel; 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law
See video recording here
Moderated Discussion
The Future of the Peace Process
Abe Sofaer, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution, Stanford University;
Janine Zacharia, Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University
October 21, 2014
At the Bancroft Hotel; 5 pm
See video recording here
Exhibition Opening
Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food Rituals
A new exhibition exploring eating, identity and activism in Jewish life and beyond.
September 10, 2014
At the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and by the Center for Jewish Studies,UC Berkeley
Public Lecture
Canada and the Holocaust: The Untold Story
Irving Abella, J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry; Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto
September 10, 2014
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
At 12 noon
Yom Ha-Shoah Week Theater
If the Whole Body Dies: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty Against Genocide
A staged reading of the one-act play by Robert Skloot. Followed by a discussion with the playwright.
April 30, 2014
Durham Theatre
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Student Union with Special Thanks to the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Department
Co-sponsored Lecture
Soviet Documentary Film of the Holocaust: Why it was Marginalized and the Case for Reassessment
Jeremy Hicks, Reader in Russian Culture and Film/ Chair of the Department of Russian Queen Mary, University of London
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
4:00 p.m.
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
From India to Israel: A Multicultural Celebration
Hosted by the Jewish Student Union (JSU), the Hindu Student Union (HSU), Indus, Indian Students Association (ISA), Hillel, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Mishelanu and KALB Public Access
The Magnes Museum
April 10, 2014
Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
A unique three-day conference, bringing leading Talmudic scholars to Berkeley to discuss Jewish law and engage with the scholarship of Daniel Boyarin. See full program for list of topics and presenters.
April 8-10, 2014
Berkeley School of Law and the Graduate Theological Union
Co-sponsors: The Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union; the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University; the Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley; The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion; and the College of Letters and Sciences, Arts and Humanities Division.
Haluzah or Beauty Queen? National Ideals of Women in Israel after 1948
Julie Grimmeisen, University of Munich
April 7, 2014
3401 Dwinelle Hall
5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, and the Department of History
with the Paradigms of Jewish Identity DeCal, Q-Jew, and Miriam the IV
"Gender, Sexuality and Modern Jewish Identity"
Shaun Halper
April 3, 2014
145 Boalt Hall, 4-5:30 pm
Lecture Co-Sponsored with the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
"Between 'Man' and 'Woman': Talmudic and Contemporary Gender Diversity"
Charlotte Fonrobert, Visiting Professor of Rabbinics, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Graduate Theological Union Library
"Israeli and Palestinian Waterways: History, Politics, and Technology of Water and Environment in the Middle East"
Conference in
partnership with the College of Natural Resources
Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy; the College of Environmental Design; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES); the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE);the Institute of International Studies (IIS); and the Friends of the Arava Institiute.
March 11, 2014
Bancroft Hotel
Covering Israel:
Conversations with
Contemporary Journalists
Co-Sponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism
"My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel"
Ari Shavit
Senior Correspondent, Haaretz
February 14, 2014
Noon, Northgate Library
"Reporting Israel: the Personal, the Political, and the Press"*
Aluf Benn
Editor-in-chief, Haaretz
February 21, 2014
"Covering Israel: A Reporter's Notebook"
Janine Zacharia, Former Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Washington Post
Noon, North Gate Library
March 7, 2014
* This event is co-sponsored by the Israel Center, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties and the Israeli Consulate.
Public Panel and Networking Event in Co-Sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB), the Israeli Consulate, Berkeley Hillel, TAMID Investment Group, the Haas Jewish Business Club, and Jewse (Jews in Engineering)
"Israeli Start-Ups in the International Arena"
March 6, 2014
Room 105, Boalt Hall
Film Screening and Talk
with Berkeley Hillel
"Brave Miss World"
Cecila Peck, Director
7:30pm, 145 Dwinelle
February 19, 2014
Lecture Co-Sponsored with the Institute of European Studies
"Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Levinas on Ethics, Politics and Zionism"
Professor Michael Morgan
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington
November 20, 2013, 5pm
201 Moses Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture Co-Sponsored with
the Olive Tree Initiative
"Second Track Diplomacy and Prospects for Peace in Israel/Palestine"
Founder, Co-Chairman, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
November 25, 2013, Berkeley School of Law (Room 100
"Prospects for Peace: An Assessment by
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"What We Can Learn from the Jewish Political Tradition"
Michael Walzer
Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
November 12, 2013, Berkeley School of Law
Click here to view the video for "Political Theory and Social Criticism," from the Conversations with History series, hosted by Harry Kreisler (Executive Director, Institute of International Studies)
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Lecture: "Jews and Words"'
Fania Oz-Salzberger
Professor of History, University of Haifa
School of Law
October 9, 2013
Morrison Reading Room, Doe Library, UC Berkeley Campus
Student Roundtable: "Deliberative Democracy and the Law and Economic Approach"
Eli Salzberger
Professor of Law, University of Haifa School of Law
October 9, 2013
Berkeley School of Law
Summer Roundtable:
"A Green Bridge over Troubled Waters: The Israeli/Palestinian Initiative for Environmental Dignity in the Kidron/Wadi El Nar Basin"
Liora Meron
Chief Architect, Kidron/Wadi El Nar Basin and Master Implementation Plan
August 15, 2013
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall
Faculty/Graduate Student Roundtable: Maimondes and Islamic Law: The Case of Sufism
Gideon Libson
Professor Emeritus of Muslim Law, Jewish Law and Comparative Jewish-Islamic Law
Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
July 25, 2013
Berkeley School of Law
Dialogue:"Writing Identity" – A conversation with Dr. Leon Wiener Dow & Sayed Kashua
Novelist; Columnist; Creator, Arab Labor, Israel's Leading
Television Show
March 14, 2013, Reception at 5:00; Program at 5:45
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Faculty/Graduate-Student Roundtable: "The Reborn Jewish Community of Poland: Identities and Interactions"
Konstanty Gebert, Scholar-in-Residence, Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 12:30 – 2 pm
Institue of European Studies
Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Faculty/Graduate-Student Roundtable: "'Stop Looking at Me!' Talmudic Teachings on the Indeterminacy of Law"Dr. Leon Wiener Dow, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish Law, Robbins Collection; Schusterman Israeli Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Monday, April 8, 2013, 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Undergraduate Student Workshop :"Israel Following the 2013 Elections: A New Chapter or More of the Same?"
Prof. Yoram Peri, Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies,
and Director of the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies
at the University of Maryland at College Park
February 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Location: Morrison & Foerster Room (298 Boalt Hall)
Kosher refreshments will be served.
"The Future of Judaism"
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Monday, November 26, 2012
Reception begins at 5:00 pm; program at 6:00 pm
Booth Auditorium, Berkeley Law, 2778 Bancroft Way
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2012-2013 GILBERT FOUNDATION COLLOQUY :"Behind the Robe"
A discussion between former Israeli Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch and 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Reception at 5:00 pm; program at 5:45 pm
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ROBBINS COLLECTION LECTURE IN JEWISH LAW: Narrating the Law: How Stories Create Complex Law in the Talmud
Professor Barry Wimpfheimer, Northwestern University
Monday, April 16, 2012 – 5:15 PM
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall School of Law
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SYMPOSIUM: "Legal Heterodoxy in Islamic and Jewish History: Late Antique and Medieval Transformations"
April 23 – 24, 2012
Goldberg Room, UC Berkeley School of Law
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LECTURE: "Investing in Israel: How Innovation from the Start-Up Nation is Changing all of Our Lives"
Monday, April 23, 2012
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law
MUSIC: Jewish Music Festival
Bustan Quartet
Thursday, March 22, 2012 – 7:00 PM At the Magnes Collection,
2121 Allston Way Berkeley – (510) 642-3781
LECTURE: "Laws and Ethics: Jewish and U.S. Traditions"
Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rector and Prof. of Philosophy, American Jewish University
February 27, 2012 – 12:45 PM
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law
LECTURE: "Demonic Desires: The Evil Inclination ("Yetzer Hara")
in Rabbinic Thought"
Professor Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Dept. of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel-Aviv University
February 13, 2012 – 6:00 PM
Warren Room, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law
*Cosponsored by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, GTU
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "Israel Through the High Tech Lens."
February 1-2, 2012
Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley School of Law
Israel has been a uniquely and immensely successful hub of technology entrepreneurship. With the second largest number of start-up companies in the world (after the U.S.) and numerous NASDAQ listed companies outside North America, Israel is often compared with Silicon Valley. This spring, the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law Economy and Society will launch "Israel through the High-Tech Lens," an international conference which will focus on important and multidisciplinary aspects of the flourishing Israeli high-tech phenomenon.
LECTURE: "The State of the Middle East Peace Process"
Shmuel Rosner, Israeli Journalist & Blogger; author, Shtetl, Bagel, Baseball
January 19, 2012 – 4:30 PM
Boalt Hall, School of Law
ROUNDTABLE: "Biblical Law and Narrative: Leviticus 5:20-26, Fraudulent Transaction, and the Joseph Story"
Professor Calum Carmichael, Cornell University
December 6, 2011 – 12:15 PM
Dean's Seminar Room
DIALOGUE: Prospects for Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict… What is Next?
David Makovsky and Ghaith al-Omar
Monday, October 3, 2011 – 7:00 PM
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law
David Makovsky and Ghaith al-Omari, gave an informed perspective of the uncertain future for a peace in the Middle East.
* This event was co-sponsored by: Berkeley Hillel, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of International Studies, Israeli Action Committee, Real Partners, Real Peace and International House.
LECTURE: When Maskilim Went to the Spas: On the Recovery and Rejuvenation of the Jewish Body, Mind and Nation
Mirjam Triendl-Zadoff, University of Munich, Department of History
Monday, September 19, 2011 – Moses Hall, UCB
During the last third of the 19th century Marienbad, a fashionable spa town in Bohemia, became an intellectual and spiritual venue for Hebrew and Yidish writers from Eastern Europe. It became known not only for its amenities and luxuries but also for its Jewish sociability and infrastructure. The poets and writers who visited Marienbad and nearby Carlsbad on a regular basis assigned Jewish and Zionist images to the places. Judah Leib Gordon, David Frischmann, Sholem Aleichem, Rueben Brainin and Chaim Nachman Bialik paid considerable attention to the present Jewish groups, who represented almost every religious, cultural and social aspect of the Jewish nation at the time. Especially since the establishment of the Zionist congresses unofficial pre- and post-conventions of delegates in Marienbad and Carlsbad furthered the spas' character as places of intellectual Jewish encounters.
*This event was co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley
LECTURE: Israeli Intellectuals and the Six-Day War
Noam Zadoff, University of Munich, Department of History
Thursday, September 22, 2011 – Moses Hall, UCB
The Six-Day War is considered a turning point in the history of the State of Israel, in the Jewish world and not least in international politics of the 20th century. Within less than a week the geographical and political reality of the Near East was changed radically, and the extreme events left their imprint on the society of the young state. An almost apocalyptic fear, which had prevailed in the Israeli public opinion before the war, was overnight replaced by a victor's euphoria. Many Israeli intellectuals confronted the new reality and reflected this turning point in history of the state in their writings.
This talk focused on three central Israeli intellectuals, who represented different political and ideological streams in intellectual circles of post-war Israel: the writer Moshe Shamir, the politician and journalist Uri Avneri and the poet and linguist Yonatan Ratosh.
*This event was co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
LECTURE: Revolution and Change in the Middle East: Policy Challenges For The U.S.
Honorable Daniel C. Kurtzer, Former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, S. Daniel Abraham Professor, Princeton University
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 – Moses Hall, UC Berkeley
Revolutions, counter-revolutions and peace-process stagnation are presenting unprecedented challenges for the U.S. in the Middle East. Can the U.S. influence change or is the "American era" in the region drawing to a close?
*This event was co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law.
Institute Launch Reception
Hosts: Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau & Dean Christopher Edley Jr.
Keynote Speaker: Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 – Morrison Reading Rm, Doe Library, UCB
2010- 2011 Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law
Professor Suzanne Last Stone
Lecture Title: Law in the Nation/Law as the Nation
Monday February 14, 2011 – Boalt Hall
The Second Annual Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law was delivered by Prof. Suzanne Stone, University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, with comments by leading jurisprudence scholar Kathryn Abrams, UC Berkeley's Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law.
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Introductory Event: Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy, and Society
Thursday February 3, 2011 – Barrow Hall


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The total water capacity of 220 litres doubles the boatweight in moments: you simply pull back a lever under the sole and the watertight compartment between sole and keel fills. We found the extra weight comforting on our bumpy ride to Cowes. Less satisfactory was letting the water out again, hard to do without a good head of speed.
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The ability to drop the gunter yard is a huge advantage for shooting bridges too, giving the 17 not just the shallow draught to explore the upper reaches of rivers, but a correspondingly low air draught for the progressively lower bridges that one encounters going upstream. There is a penalty: drop the gunter and you share the boat with a load of rigging, although this could be cured with the simple addition of a topping lift.
This first 17 was impressive on all counts, the only glitch being the water ballast outlet. It is easy to rig and row, self-tacking and well-behaved under sail with good locker space —and its light weight makes it easy to handle on the trailer. A rare boon is an outboard well with room for the motor to tilt back. A sprayhood and tent are on their way to make this a great little two-man raider. Available in kit form (?4,995 +VAT) or built (?11,995 +VAT).


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Sally Potter directs this experimental drama based around a series of 'talking heads' interviews recorded over the course of a week backstage at a New York fashion show. Assorted characters - from millionaire financier 'Tiny' Diamonds (Eddie Izzard) through to underpaid seamstress Anita (Adriana Barraza) - deliver their insights on events in the fashion world to a schoolboy who films them on his mobile phone and secretly posts the resulting footage on the internet. Meanwhile, offscreen, a catwalk accident gives way to a murder investigation. Jude Law, Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi and Dianne Wiest co-star.


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Pickled Cabbage:
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Chipotle Sauce:
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1 tub sour cream
2 fresh tomatoes
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In many cases, the answer is: poorly.
The report says:
Students who use computers very frequently at school get worse results
Students who use computers moderately at school, such as once or twice a week, have "somewhat better learning outcomes" than students who use computers rarely
The results show "no appreciable improvements" in reading, mathematics or science in the countries that had invested heavily in information technology
High achieving school systems such as South Korea and Shanghai in China have lower levels of computer use in school
Singapore, with only a moderate use of technology in school, is top for digital skills
When countries invest heavily in information and communication technology (ICT) in schools, "PISA results show no appreciable improvements in student achievement in reading, mathematics or science," according to the report. Some of the world"s top performers in math and digital reading, like Korea and Shanghai, have low rates of computer usage in school. Countries where students most often used technology for schoolwork saw an overall decline in reading scores from 2000 to 2012.
Contrary to popular wisdom, the heaviest media users reported spending a similar amount of time exercising as the light media users. Nonetheless, other studies have established a link between screen time and obesity.
While most of the young people in the study got good grades, 47 percent of the heaviest media users " those who consumed at least 16 hours a day " had mostly C"s or lower, compared with 23 percent of those who typically consumed media three hours a day or less. The heaviest media users were also more likely than the lightest users to report that they were bored or sad, or that they got into trouble, did not get along well with their parents and were not happy at school.
The study could not say whether the media use causes problems, or, rather, whether troubled youths turn to heavy media use.
Currently, I am in high school, I'm fine with the fact that we use computers everyday. However, I see kids that use them to not focus on their schoolwork and mainly use them for social media/video games.
Good news for the Class of 2018: There"s way more to the job market than just tech.
In fact, the hot jobs of 2018 through 2025 will include other fields such as health care; research and development, and sales and marketing " something to keep in mind as you begin your college years.
New opportunities for nontechies are being created by rapidly changing technology, according to a new report by Challenger Gray & Christmas.
"The way we use technology, where we use it, and what we do with technology is creating all types of opportunities, and you don"t have to be a computer science major to take advantage of them," Challenger, Gray CEO John Challenger told the Daily News.
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3 points to Con (Arguments). Reasons for voting decision: Pro forfeited. Pro argues that computer save time and that computer skills are required in the future, Con argues that schools who frequently use computers have worse results than those who do not. Con argues that computers can be used outside school and many major jobs don't require you to be an expert on the computer. Pro doesn't rebut.
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Excerpt from ebook, Architecting Data Lakes: Data Management Architectures for Advanced Business Use Cases, by Ben Sharma and Alice LaPlante.
If you use your data for mission-critical purposes—purposes on which your business depends—you must take data management and governance seriously. Traditionally, organizations have used the EDW because of the formal processes and strict controls required by that approach. But as we've already discussed, the growing volume and variety of data are overwhelming the capabilities of the EDW. The other extreme—using Hadoop to simply do a "data dump"—is out of the question because of the importance of the data.
In early use cases for Hadoop, organizations frequently loaded data without attempting to manage it in any way. Although situations still exist in which you might want to take this approach—particularly since it is both fast and cheap—in most cases, this type of data dump isn't optimal. In cases where the data is not standardized, where errors are unacceptable, and when the accuracy of the data is of high priority, a data dump will work against your efforts to derive value from the data. This is especially the case as Hadoop transitions from an add-on-feature to a truly central aspect of your data architecture.
The data lake offers a middle ground. A Hadoop data lake is flexible, scalable, and cost-effective—but it can also possess the discipline of a traditional EDW. You must simply add data management and governance to the data lake.
Once you decide to take this approach, you have four options for action.
Address the Challenge Later
The first option is the one chosen by many organizations, who simply ignore the issue and load data freely into Hadoop. Later, when they need to discover insights from the data, they attempt to find tools that will clean the relevant data.
If you take this approach, machine-learning techniques can sometimes help discover structures in large volumes of disorganized and uncleansed Hadoop data.
But there are real risks to this approach. To begin with, even the most intelligent inference engine needs to start somewhere in the massive amounts of data that can make up a data lake. This means necessarily ignoring some data. You therefore run the risk that parts of your data lake will become stagnant and isolated, and contain data with so little context or structure that even the smartest automated tools—or human analysts—don't know where to begin. Data quality deteriorates, and you end up in a situation where you get different answers to the same question of the same Hadoop cluster.
Adapt Existing Legacy Tools
In the second approach, you attempt to leverage the applications and processes that were designed for the EDW. Software tools are available that perform the same ETL processes you used when importing clean data into your EDW, such as Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, and AB Initio, all of which require an ETL grid to perform transformation. You can use them when importing data into your data lake.
However, this method tends to be costly, and only addresses a portion of the management and governance functions you need for an enterprise-grade data lake. Another key drawback is the ETL happens outside the Hadoop cluster, slowing down operations and adding to the cost, as data must be moved outside the cluster for each query.
Write Custom Scripts
With the third option, you build a workflow using custom scripts that connect processes, applications, quality checks, and data transformation to meet your data governance and management needs.
This is currently a popular choice for adding governance and management to a data lake. Unfortunately, it is also the least reliable. You need highly skilled analysts steeped in the Hadoop and open source community to discover and leverage open-source tools or functions designed to perform particular management or governance operations or transformations. They then need to write scripts to connect all the pieces together. If you can find the skilled personnel, this is probably the cheapest route to go.
However, this process only gets more time-consuming and costly as you grow dependent on your data lake. After all, custom scripts must be constantly updated and rebuilt. As more data sources are ingested into the data lake and more purposes found for the data, you must revise complicated code and workflows continuously. As your skilled personnel arrive and leave the company, valuable knowledge is lost over time. This option is not viable in the long term.
Deploy a Data Lake Management Platform
The fourth option involves solutions emerging that have been purpose-built to deal with the challenge of ingesting large volumes of diverse data sets into Hadoop. These solutions allow you to catalogue the data and support the ongoing process of ensuring data quality and managing workflows. You put a management and governance framework over the complete data flow, from managed ingestion to extraction. This approach is gaining ground as the optimal solution to this challenge.
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Passengers on the South West Train service from Basingstoke to London Waterloo were left in shock after an announcer took to the tannoy to say that fat people should remain standing because of lack of space, the Daily Mail reports.
On the packed commuter service, a member of staff reportedly said: "We are going to be like sardines on this train, so can I ask that only slim people sit on the three-seaters. If you are fat then it is simply not going to work."
One passenger was left furious by the announcement, saying: "I am not necessarily a big person but most people are larger than those seats anyway. It's pretty disgusting. I would get fired if I said that at my work."
The train company apologised, and said that if the comment had been made it was "unacceptable".
"All passengers are welcome on board our trains and we would find it unacceptable if that comment had been made by one of our employees," a spokesman said.
"We run some of the busiest trains in the country and we do appreciate that space on some of our trains is limited.
"To provide extra space and seats for our customers, we are in the process of investing £250m in extra carriages and new trains."
However standing rather than sitting burns three times as many calories.
Last year Conservative MP Anne Milton, a former health minister, sent a series of tweets during an uncomfortable journey into work.
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"If you are going to sit on one of those seats for three people, you need to take up one third of the seat.
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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Twelve students who participate in the Port Chester Public Schools' After School program at the Carver Center received bicycles and helmets this week from volunteers who work at Pfizer Inc.
The 12 students (six from Edison School, six from John F. Kennedy Magnet School) were selected randomly to receive the bicycles, which were assembled by employees of Pfizer as part of a corporate team-building event.
The lucky students were Jennifer Farias, third-grade; Ruben Gudino, fourth-grade; Anyeli Morales, fourth- grade; Ian Orellana, third-grade; Samantha Pena, second-grade; Alexa Perez, second-grade; Michael Pulla, fourth-grade; Jennifer Reyes, fifth-grade; Denys Rivera, fourth-grade; Sean Salazar, fifth-grade; Kimberly Ullaguari, second-grade; and Axel Villed, third-grade.
On Tuesday, March 24, the After School program coordinators brought the 12 students to Pfizer's facilities at Doral Arrowwood in Rye Brook to see the bikes and meet the employees who built them. Each student followed this visit by writing a thank you note to the Pfizer team.
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A man performing a skit with a two-story-tall robot in front of 8,000 fans at a "monster truck" show at the Baltimore Arena was killed Saturday night when a pyrotechnic device strapped to his chest exploded.
Robert J. Murphy, 36, of Painesville, Ohio, was rushed to University of Maryland Medical Center, where he died on the operating table about 45 minutes after the 10 p.m. accident.
Most of the crowd watching the show, which was nearly finished, was apparently unaware of the accident, said an event sponsor and a spokeswoman for the arena.


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by Brian Robbins
Railroad Earth, Up North Festival, Hiram, ME- 8/10
Around The World (And Beyond) In An Hour
"They're like a really tight contra dance band only with drums."
"I saw them at All Good great jams; really great rocking jams."
"Oh, man wait til you hear em super wicked bluegrass."
Next time you're at a Railroad Earth show, keep track of how many different ways you hear folks describe the band it's impressive. And better yet it's most likely all true.
A rundown of the stringed instrumental lineup acoustic guitar, mando, upright bass, violin, banjo, dobro would lead any basic-grasp-of-things gearhead to say, "Sounds like a bluegrass outfit." But for years now, Railroad Earth has done a decent job of remaining difficult to label (in the nicest of ways) while maintaining a recognizable sound throughout an eclectic catalog of tunes.
After experiencing Railroad Earth's first visit to Maine at the recent Up North Festival, I humbly submit my own description of their sound: to me, it's like sitting on the front porch of the whole world, having a tune with some friends. (When I mentioned that to RRE's violinist Tim Carbone, he replied, "I like that front-porch-of-the-world part would you mind if I stole it?" Go ahead, I say you earned it.)
In the confines of an hour-long set at the Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds in Hiram, ME, Railroad Earth managed to do that thing they do, spinning the crowd in at least one good rotation around the planet with occasional detours into uncharted atmosphere.
Before we go any further, we need to acknowledge the engine room of Railroad Earth, the guys who lay down the rhythms that skip from the tops of the Appalachian Hills to Tibetan mountain peaks and back. Carey Harmon's drum kit doesn't feature an array of djembes or tabla drums, but the fairly standard setup that surrounds him doesn't limit him in the slightest. Harmon can get behind a down-home foot stomper just as easily as he can a Far East drift, all the while wearing a look of utter bliss. Meanwhile, the upright bass of Johnny Grubb holds down the fort, Grubb knowing when a little is just enough and when a lot is perfect.
Guitarist/vocalist Todd Scheaffer started the afternoon's odyssey, strumming the intro into David Bromberg's "New Lee Highway Blues." As the band fell in behind him, Scheaffer began the road tale of "dirty bars," "cold back seats," "another sour coffee cup," and "one more piece of cardboard pie." A short instrumental break gave multi-instrumentalist Andy Goessling (on guitar for the moment), mandolinist John Skehan, and fiddlehead Tim Carbone a chance to toss it around and limber things up. Back round to Scheaffer's vocal, and with a final, wistful " and we'd ride " the music held on the V chord and the tempo intensified ever so slightly. The train left the station and the band headed into "Fiddlee".
Andy Goessling doesn't move much over on his end of the stage (usually only to swap out instruments) but he makes amazing things happen. When Goessling placed his acoustic guitar in the stand and picked up a mandolin, you could see John Skehan grin and with good reason. Skehan slowly approached Goessling from the far end of the stage and the two of them began bouncing mando licks off each other, Skehan the much more animated of the two, laughing and rocking to the tune's beat, while Goessling stayed firmly planted in his spot, firing off ripping little passages with an occasional shy smile. Tim Carbone got into the fray and the music whipped and whirled around, chasing its tail, finally winding down. Those who had come to hear hoedown had to be happy.
With a pause for a quick breath, all hands with stringed instruments began plucking (including Carbone and his violin) the intro to "Like A Buddha." The chorus of muted strings sounded almost steel drum-like during the song's opening minute. And then a good rule of thumb for the afternoon became clear: whenever you saw John Skehan make his way towards Andy Goessling, look out something was about to happen.
Goessling was now on his third instrument of the set a flute and wove his way out of the opening theme as Skehan pursued him with his mandolin. Goessling would let fly a few handfuls of delicate notes and the pony-tailed Skehan would answer him back, grinning and shaking his head.
Schaeffer launched into the vocal, with the crowd joining in for the song's sing-along "Whoa-ho-ho" choruses. The mood was set; the audience was ready to go wherever Railroad Earth wanted to take them. Swinging out of the song's bridge, there was a pause and then the band took off into an almost Dark Star-like break led by Skehan's mando suddenly Scheaffer's guitar emerged, its acoustic tone supplemented slightly by some spacey effects. Were we going to get lost for a little bit? No back to one more verse and a chorus drop away to Grubb and Harmon driving home the rhythm then off we went with Tim Carbone at the controls. We soared for a minute or two on the violin's song, then the band let us touch back down gently on the grass. Nothing reckless; we were safe and sound.
"Well thank you folks thank you," said Scheaffer. "Nice to see you we're Railroad Earth it's our first time in Maine. It's good to finally be here." The crowd roared.
The band eased into "'Neath The Stars" from The Good Life, keeping the vibe gentle and the arrangement pretty close to the original, and featuring a pretty dobro break by Andy Goessling.
Next came "The Forecast" from Railroad Earth's latest album, Amen Corner and a chance for us to get a taste of Tim Carbone's guitar talents. Carbone, who says he's "been playing guitar (in my own way) for years," unveiled his picking skills on the new album most noticeably on the tune "Hard Livin'" where he doles out some fine bluesy riffs on the song's outro. His guitar on "The Forecast" was subtler: little fills and accents throughout. To pull the feat off live, Carbone had to sling his guitar over his shoulder and let it hang while he played the opening violin riff a la the String Cheese Incident's Michael Kang (only instead of Kang's modestly-sized mando, Carbone was wearing a Tele-bodied custom electric built by Saint Blues Guitar Workshop) with his pick between his teeth. Throughout the song, he'd make the swap back and forth cleanly and looked to be having fun doing it.
A couple verses in, the band eased into a break, led by Scheaffer on guitar and Skehan following with a little gentle mando a build-up in tension for a moment then gave way to Carbone's electric. No wild wailings here just gentle, tasteful licks. The mood eased; Carbone switched back to violin; and the song drifted to a close.
All was well everyone was happy. Now twas time for some funk.
Todd Scheaffer started bouncing slightly as he began the riff to "I Am A Mess," a man's confession to his mother of some decadent living. The mood caught on and built with Goessling (now on banjo), Skehan, and Carbone all throwing in their lot. Each verse of the reckless tale concluded with Scheaffer's yell of "But I feel fine!" much to the crowd's delight. Two verses in, everyone everyone laid into their bass strings for a short Zappa-like break before Schaeffer's admission of wearing "a dress into a redneck bar in Colorado" while Carbone started firing off eerie violin trills things were starting to get a little weird. With a grin.
A sing-along "doo-doo-it-feels-good" gave way to Andy Goessling's banjo which gave off its own version of funkiness; Skehan made his way over and went into the huddle emerging grinning and carrying the jam himself. Up the neck of his mando he wove, exploding in a fast tremolo on the upper frets while tossing the lead to Scheaffer.
By this time Harmon and Grubb were laying down some serious thump; the raunch was almost too much for Scheaffer's clean tone as he ripped away at it.
And then along came Tim Carbone.
Starting down low, Carbone let things subside a little, then began to build a climbing riff that wound around Johnny Grubb's low-end beat. Up we went; one peak, then a drop back, then another, crazier spiral a pause and then another; this time with Skehan chasing Carbone with the Zappa feel back again. Up up up end of the world? Naw this is Railroad Earth, folks. The chaos quickly gave way to a soft landing.
The Up North folks were doing a great job of keeping acts in line and on time. You could tell the band was aware of the time after touching down from "I'm A Mess" and wasted no time in launching into "Bird In A House."
The instrumental break during "Bird" was perfect no extended moments, but a beautiful circle described by first Skehan, then Scheaffer, then Tim Carbone's fiddle. One realized that this band could easily take a song as long as it wanted without losing momentum or play it close to the vest without dampening its emotion.
It was getting close to the end: one more with no encore, for sure. "Thanks for having us here," said Todd Scheaffer. "We're going to finish up with a little dance party, all right?"
"It's a little wet out there," said Tim Carbone, referring to the rains earlier in the weekend, "so you can't kick up that much dust but kick up as much dust as you possibly can."
And off we went to the hoedown again, with all hands throwing the lead around on "Little Rabbit." (Goessling was back on guitar, nailing a fine flat-picking break, at one point doing a wild back-and-forth swap with Skehan.)
A couple turns around and the lead landed back with Tim Carbone as he turned to face drummer Corey Harmon, his intentions were clear: one, two, three, four passes through the verses each one faster and wilder. Carbone's bow began to shred its horsehairs as Harmon met the challenge; Grubb's fingers were a blur as he drove the bass line in pursuit of Carbone's wild playing.
A pause a breath and down it all came in a happy tumble. As the crowd roared, Timmy Carbone looked at his poor violin as if it might burst into flame.
It had only been an hour, but Railroad Earth looked slightly winded as they grinned and waved goodbye.
But why wouldn't they? You'd be winded if you'd just gone from Appalachia to Tibet with a detour to Zappaland in an hour's time, too.


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Hmmm a strange one that but it actually sounds to me if the actual monitor is at fault rather than malware. It could very well be failing. There is a specific test we can try to check if your monitor is faulty. I will advise about this once satisfied your computer is malware free.I forget to mention also that my monitor is having difficulty turning on, or resetting back on after it turns off for sitting idle. I'm having to turn off the monitor switch on my surge protector, turn it back on and then my monitor will turn back on when I hit the monitor switch.
:Reg [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\shared tools\msconfig\services] "AVP"=- :Files C:\setupdlx c:\program files\PC-Doctor for Windows XP c:\documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\BitDefender c:\program files\Common Files\BitDefender c:\documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\SafeNet Sentinel C:\Program Files\DNA C:\Program Files\uTorrent :Commands [Purity] [EmptyTemp] [Reboot]
OK fair play that explains the extra partition on your hard-drive. That will be what is known as a recovery partition, which is used in lieu of a actual installation CD-ROM used by some computer manufacturer's.On the XP SP3 Recovery disc, I do not have a CD. Windows came pre-installed on my system. BTW - My computer crashed and was no longer functional and I did a system reconstruct in August 2008. Apparently, there was a hot key on the keyboard that allowed me to do this. It took days to upload updates as it was restored to original specifications and all personal data was lost; and I only now got my drivers updated.
Hopefully not. Please bare in mind you asked/posted here in Malware Removal for assistance with both a malware and system related problems, which in turn is provided free of charge on a volunteer basis. I am not the cause of your computer issues. At any time you prefer not to heed my advice feel free to take your computer to a IT Repair Center in your locality.I hope you are not referring to repeating that long process.
No do not attempt to use the backups as the actual chance of them being able to restore the system to as was before the Scan for Issues component used are quite slim and could very well create more problems system wise.I only recently did a registry cleanups through CCleaner, but I kept backups. I would suppose that if this is a registry cleanup issue, that it will be found in the original backup that was taken about a week or two ago. Should I restore that backup?
OK be wary here, they may just carry out a system reset or if they actually wipe the drive make sure they do provide a genuine XP CD-ROM afterwards otherwise you will be left with no means of ever reinstalling the operating system again as the recovery partition thats holds the system reset will no longer be present.I actually found a couple of very reasonably priced techs this morning who will wipe out the system and reinstall it, drivers, windows SP2. One claims he will accomplish it all in one day, and the other within 3 days.
Aye as far as I able to ascertain they are indeed gone. Be aware though the Wild Tangent application if the system reset used will be back on the system again. It is not actually malware persay but does have some undesirable characteristics.And the first thing I will make sure is done is to get rid of Wild Tangent (and BitTorrent?) that came installed on this machine! lol
You're welcome and stay safe!I very much appreciated your help. I learned a lot through this process. You were very thorough.
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Making money using binary options. Without having finding into especially esoteric types of binary options signals, you will find five principal models forms of binary options signals may follow: cash-or-nothing, asset-or-nothing, one-touch, no-touch, and double-one-touch/double-no-touch. The truth is, obviously, that the only real ones who make cash online and acquire rich pretty quickly are the gurus themselves. .
This might be considered the asset in fact becoming released, instead of a legal contract being removed towards the asset however it is essentially a semantic distinction. Essentially, it\'s really a calculated bet and should be treated as such. What are Contracts?.
You don\'t need specialist knowledge, you don\'t need a large amount of money, the earnings are virtually instant and also you can trade from home. It had not been among those scams where it is said it cost only $1 and then they sneak charge your credit card $200 bucks, it was the real deal. With most trading being conducted via the net nowadays it is an easy task to get going on market trading as suppliers of binary option signals are mainly based online.
These types of investments operate from the principle of \"yes or no\" which basically means you either choose correctly or fail. Since by definition I repeat \"by defection\", I the mighty Arthur as I call myself on my site, have decided that people who begin using these sales strategies are scammers, I am not investing in a single one of the products they are selling. One can now earn money somewhat easily and with minimal risk in market trading courtesy of binary signals unlike depending on a betting website where risks abound.
The payout for these options is determined from the investor and also the trader gets the predetermined payout in the wedding the conditional scenario is fulfilled. Or even, merely request a return. In the big event the investor was incorrect, they lose their stake, maybe in certain instances are given 10% to 15% back. You put in a certain quantity of money, wait a specific amount of time, so when you withdraw your investment you have additional money than you had whenever you first place it in.
This might be considered the asset in fact becoming released, rather than a legal contract being taken out to the asset however it is essentially a semantic distinction. Essentially, it\'s really a calculated bet and really should be treated as such.


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Hi, what do you think about giving APR users (like Apache) the ability to specify exactly what for thread implementations (if at all) they want? The default is 'best'. This means we choose whatever the system can give us. Currently this is: 1. POSIX threads 2. No threads If ac_cv_enable_threads is set to 'yes', we understand this as an requirement to provide threads. The configuration stops, if no thread implementation is found. If ac_cv_enable_threads is set to any other value, we interprete it as a reference to either a specific thread implementation (i.e. "pthread") or to no threads ("no"). - Sascha
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Homicide Watch D.C., a journalism project that covers every murder in the District of Columbia, relaunched its website last weekend with new tools, a comprehensive map, a photo gallery and individual pages for each victim, says Laura Amico, the founder and editor. She says the project is committed to covering every homicide from crime to conviction, based upon original reporting, court documents, social media and the help of victims' and suspects' friends, family, neighbors and others.
Amico describes website as "the area's most complete public resource" for anyone affected by violent crime in D.C. She says it includes a searchable library of law enforcement and court documents related to homicide cases. Homicide Watch D.C. was launched a year ago. Amico, a former daily news beat reporter, says, "As D.C. residents, we believe that how people live and die here, and how those deaths are recognized, matters to every one of us.().If we are to understand violent crime in our community, the losses of every family in every neighborhood must be recognized. And the outcome of every trial — be it a conviction or an acquittal — must be recorded."


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Game Name: Mega Man 7
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Added by: Pong64 Added: 2000-08-19 File URL is http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/16-ShadeMan.mid Uploaded by (Jarel Jones) File Type: MIDI Game System: Super Nintendo Game Name: Mega Man 7 Song Title: Shade Man's Stage (2) Sequenced by: Jarel Jones Information: Now you guys know what I've been doing over the past few months that I haven't submitted a midi. This is the entire soundtrack of MM7; 34 midis. I'm more proud of this set since they're as close to the originals as you'll ever find on the net due to the new way I make SNES midis. Have fun folks. :) Midi TrackName Analysis: By Capcom, Remixed by Jarel Jones Generated by NoteWorthy Composer Staff Staff-1 Staff-2 Staff-3 Staff-4 Staff-5 Staff-6 Staff-7


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Which is the Most Difficult Language?
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We are often asked what is the most difficult language to learn, and it is a difficult question to answer because there are a lot of things to take into consideration. Firstly, as a first language, or mother tongue, the differences are unimportant, so the question of how hard a language is to learn only arises in the area of second language acquisition. Read the rest of this entry »


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Apparently while the girls and I were gone to the convention last weekend the laundry soap ran out. I only found this out by going to use the washer and finding a load of dry towels in the washing machine. When I grabbed the empty jug of what should have been soap to pour in I also solved the mystery of why someone had put towels in but not run the machine! So it took a little longer to get laundry going today as I had to stop and make the soap.
Do a quick search on the internet and I'm sure you'll find a dozen different recipes and procedures for making laundry soap but this is how we've been doing it for several years now. I have tweaked the recipe to work for us. We prefer Zote soap which we find at our local Big Lot for .90 cents. I know a lot of people use Fels-Napa and we tried it once but went back to Zote. I also add Borax where the original recipe I started with didn't call for it. We have found it takes the odors out of the clothes better. Before we started using it our workout wear didn't smell quite how we liked it!
It saves us a lot of money, the box of Washing Soda for instance has the Rural King sticker on for $3.49. As I mentioned the Zote was .90 cents and the sticker is not still on the Borax but I don't think it was more than $3-4 dollars and I'm still using the same box I originally bought 2-3 years ago. Each box of Borax probably does 10 or more batches of detergent and each box of Washing Soda probably at least 5 batches. I'd estimate that's about $3 per batch (and that's probably a high estimate) which fills 5-6 laundry jugs which used to cost $3 or more EACH. Huge savings!
Oh, and I've mentioned a couple stores but we've found the supplies at Rural King, Big Lot, Meijer and Wal-Mart. Not all of the stores have all three items but some do. Look around where you shop and I bet you'll spot what you need fairly easily! Beauty of it is I keep them on my laundry shelf and have the ingredients ready to make. It only takes about ½ hour start to finish and it last us (family of 6) about 6 months before I have to make another batch.
You'll need:
Bar of Zote soap grated (14.1 oz.)
1 Cup Washing Soda
½ to ¾ cup borax
First grate the soap then put in a large stockpot and cover soap with water. Heat and stir till soap is dissolved. Remove from heat and add in the Soda and Borax, stirring as you go. Continue stirring and add in 2 ½ gallons of water.
Once you add the water most recipes say to let it cool and gel then fill the jugs. We never do we go ahead and fill the jugs while it's warm and more liquid. It's much easier. Just be sure to stir it up as you fill so the soap doesn't settle.
Use about a ½ cup per load. We use old liquid laundry detergents as the lids double as measuring cups so it works nice. I know other people have also used old milk jugs. If you can try to use the laundry ones as they have a larger opening for filling and dispensing.
Happy clothes cleaning!


text: Hi, I'm in Iran and I'm 25 years old and currently working like 4 months on a game at a company that developing a game as their part-time job with OGRE, I'm making particles scripts for them. As you may know, we don't have game industry here and were hare developing like one of first 10 games but I have to say our game is the best developed in Iran. The problem is I don't like how they behave with me and treat me like I'm not something that important there. I was so enthusiast to work there that I suggested that I work there for free so I don't get money from them. I got so frustrated in last weeks that I was thinking of quiting. the game is done in like 4~5 months but I don't like it like as I did in first days and most of problem is our cold-hearted manager. So I was thinking alot about quiting. before going there, I was developing my own 2D engine with Flash (using Flash as my graphic library since I don't know C++ much) for like 6 months but I put it aside for this project. I know I'm getting experience from being there but do I need that experience now? Isnt it better for me to go and risk being on my own and be something rather than work for someone and let him do all the work? Its very irritating that being under his roof and risking nothing and living safe, you know what I mean. My question from you is what would you suggest, would you suggest staying there through the end of the project and have this game in my resume or me quiting and going indie and making games for like Xbox Live Community Games. what I get from this company are: 1- having that game in my resume I think is very good for going to USA or Canada since that "would" be considered a published game in my resume. 2- we have a very talented C++ programmer there that I can ask questions about C++ but my current work is not coding so I can't ask much from him. 3- getting experience for such 10 to 12 people project sizes. The game is called Soshiant and have a topic here at OGRE forums. So what would you suggest.


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Unlike a number of companies in the Sound System business – who vastly exaggerate the services and equipment that they have – we actually tell you the truth about what we are capable of supplying!
We have seen so many instances of our competitors vastly exaggerating their companies on the Internet, when in fact they do not actually own the equipment they advertise in their catalogues.
It seems to be the fashion these days to make out you are a major player in the events industry but not risk any of your own capital by investing in your own equipment. These people tend to contract in other companies and their equipment and then make out to their customers, what a good company they are – and that they can supply anything! Unfortunately, this system does not always work, particularly when orders have not been confirmed and the sub contractor does not turn up!
There also seems to be an ever increasing amount of people out in the wide world who go out and purchase a few loudspeakers, have very little knowledge, no experience and then tell you – the customer – that they can do a good cheap job for cash! These people have NO experience, only cheap inferior equipment, not at all reliable, do not know what public liability insurance is – and then, because they are cheap – you trust them with an important event. Only on the day, when some of the equipment does not work, or cannot be heard where is was supposed to be heard and some of them even pester you for payment BEFORE the job has even started!
The difference with us is………………..
We own ALL our own equipment – so we have total control over all of it, so there are no issues with delivery or setting up.
All our equipment is the BEST you can buy for the job. Although budget equipment is tempting – it is not reliable enough and also has a short life span, so would you risk your important event by using this type of kit?
All our systems are not only powerful, but also extremely reliable, plus on the exceptionally rare circumstance that something fails – we carry spare equipment, so you will not be let down. Even in the 21st century anything that utilises electronics can fail at any time – we therefore always carry spare equipment that we can speedily change within minutes!
All our staff have many years experience behind them and can cope with any problems that may be put before them!
We are good – in fact very good – our sound systems actually WORK and do what they are supposed to do! Do not take our word for it – ask our clients and customers!
Finally – we work WITH you – not just for you!


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Roses belong into every garden and have at the same time always been inspiration for advertising. This nostalgic metal advertising sign for Roses is suitable with its vintage appearance for both indoors and outdoors. 4 mounting holes nostalgic look for indoor and outdoor use


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Steak, Dockers, patriotism: This 1991 Sizzler ad has it all
Steak, Dockers, patriotism: This 1991 Sizzler ad has it all
Social media is usually abuzz about a commercial only one day a year -- Super Bowl Sunday (yes, we are looking at you, Nationwide).
You know you're about to view something special when your Facebook feed gets inundated with posts from friends and family who are sharing a YouTube video of an old Sizzler ad.
This commercial, made in 1991 as the restaurant was undergoing re-branding, will transport you to a different time, when Dockers were king and cellphones weren't so smart and tiny.
We hope it is the best 4-plus minutes you spend on the Internet today.
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Built in 2002, this hotel offers a total of 174 rooms spread over 4 floors. Of these rooms, 72 are double rooms and 1 is a suite. Amongst the facilities count a spacious reception hall with 24-hour reception desk, a currency exchange desk and lifts. Dining options include a bar and an air-conditioned restaurant that has a separate non-smoking area. Guests may also make use of the Internet terminal.
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This evening is part of the 2017 Dogs NSW Royal Canin International Spring Fair event.
There are many myths about the nutritional requirements of dogs. This talk will address the feeding behaviours of dogs, including their digestive capability and nutritional needs for general health and wellbeing. This will follow into a discussion to uncover the truth behind some common myths surrounding nutrition.
Bio: Dr. Mina Magelakis graduated with honours from the University of Melbourne in 2011 and practiced for close to four years in a busy small animal hospital in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne. During this time, she worked with a variety of small animals, including reptiles and specifically offered consultations in cat and dog behaviour under the mentorship of a renowned veterinary behaviourist.
After completing her Masters in Small Animal Studies, Mina began with Royal Canin in June 2015, starting in scientific communications and now transitioning into scientific affairs and stakeholder management.
Date: Friday, 1st September 2017
Venue: The Bill Spilstead Complex for Canine Affairs, Orchard Hills Amenities Building
Time: Following Best in Show judging
Schedule: Pre drinks and nibbles, lecture, Q&A time
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University Police Lt. Skip Frost confirmed that more arrest warrants were served in an ongoing operation to find drug dealers on campus.
"The majority of these cases were felony warrants, it's not as if we're going out and arresting people who are sharing a dime bag with a friend," Frost said.
"We're not going to stand by and idly allow known drug transactions to occur on this campus. It's completely contrary to what the mission of what the academic institution is."
Frost said the department's goal is to address the "street-level dealers" who sell to University students.
He said the police have strong cases against those who were arrested.
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." -Frederick Douglass
I met my best friend in the public library when we were 14. I thought she was rude, aggressive and too foreign. She thought I was bossy, loud and too intense. In high school she'd call at 6 am to ask to borrow my textbook. I never understood why she couldn't just meet me at school.
Today, she is a practicing physician. She's wanted to and has prepared to become a doctor since before she was born. She speaks about epidemiology and public health with such passion and zeal that it inspires me to actually learn science! She can commit to a task—no matter how complex or mundane– for as long as it takes to achieve mastery or to get the job done. She is relentless and unflappable.
Her wisdom and our friendship have helped me
1. Reflect on my sense of purpose and vocation.
2. Understand how to be less of an ugly American.
3. Respect and appreciate the impact and importance of community on identity development.
4. Aspire— set goals and develop the discipline and grit to actualize them.
I first became an educator because I struggled with issues of representation. When I graduated, I was determined to help bridge the gap, to work in under-served communities with students who looked like me and who would've been on their way to becoming inspiring leaders, exemplary students, and committed, life-long learners if not for the low expectations and cultural insensitivity that plagued education.
Working for institutions that support students' intellectual and academic development (and the economic opportunity that accompanies that progress) has given me great joy. Yet and still I'm perpetually concerned that such institutions are lacking socially-conscious critical thinkers who reflect on their own social location, and reflect on the ability of that location to be a barrier against quality care and customer service.
The Hippocratic Oath is attributed to Greek physician Hippocrates, who is affectionately known as "The Father of Medicine." Although the oath does not explicitly state, "first, do no harm," it has served as a reminder to health professionals that life is important and should be protected; that we should recognize our limitations; that we should maintain sound ethical standards in the care of others, and that we should be careful not to create or to exacerbate personal harm, social harm or injustice.
The social service community at large would be greatly improved
- If we treated students in GED programs with the same courtesy and reverence as those in ESL programs.
- If we treated students in vocational certificate programs with the same grace as undergraduates.
- If we believed that emotional and mental health were as important as physical health.
- If we believed that the quality and care that we show have the ability to impact others' emotional health— for better or for worse.
- If we understood that our prejudices and biases, if left unchecked, can negatively impact our professional courtesy and care.
- If we put individual's dignity ahead of our deadlines, administrative challenges and egos.
- If we pursued and maintained relationships with people who challenge us and hold us to a higher standard.
If we respected everyone's struggle.


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Remember the Saturn Ion? GM hopes you don't, because it's widely regarded as the General's nastiest product since the Aztek. The Delta platform introduced with the Ion received a deep therapeutic massage in anticipation of its use under Chevrolet's new Cobalt. Upgrades include a steel-sandwich firewall, a molded cover to quiet engine ruckus, a cast-aluminum oil pan to stiffen the engine-to-transmission interface, improved door seals, and higher-grade tires. Except for being two inches taller, the Cobalt is slightly smaller than the Cavalier it replaces. It weighs 200 pounds more, confirming attention to structural integrity and crashworthiness since the Cavalier was engineered more than twenty years ago. There are coupe and sedan body styles and a new SS Supercharged coupe. Notable in the powertrain lineup is the addition of a supercharged and intercooled 2.0-liter four-cylinder identical to the Ion Redline's engine. Internal components originally engineered for the Saab 9-3 whip out 205 hp and a husky 200 lb-ft of torque. In 2006, a normally aspirated, 2.4-liter Ecotec rated at 170 hp also will be offered in the SS. GM is praying the Cobalt's fresh face finally will help Chevy make headway in the highly competitive compact segment.
ON SALE: Fall 2004
Price: $15,000-$20,000 (est.)
ENGINES: 140-hp, 2.2-liter I-4; 170-hp, 2.4-liter I-4; 205-hp, supercharged 2.0-liter I-4
BOTTOM LINE: Chevy's latest warrior, armed to battle Civics and Corollas.


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Venus Pluvia
Here are some photos of a recent sculpture. The title is Venus Pluvia. That is latin for Venus of the Rain. Venus exiting from her bath covers herself from the rain. This is the terracotta model that I have mounted on a base of pietra leccese: a sand stone from the Puglia region of Italy. I will soon be starting work on the bronze version. Let me know if you would be interested in one of the limited edition.