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You rarely see carts like this in the Garment District anymore.
I've had two prints of carts wrapped like this hanging above my desk. Â When I'm on the phone or daydreaming I let my eyes just run along the twisting, curving lines of this image.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
You rarely see carts like this in the Garment District anymore.
I've had two prints of carts wrapped like this hanging above my desk. Â When I'm on the phone or daydreaming I let my eyes just run along the twisting, curving lines of this image.
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Wonderful art form, the lines and symmetry and twisting of the metal, make this a perfect ,standing sculpture. Outstanding image.
Amazing ART-pic!
i like it! is it a new york thing? :)
That picture is so beautiful!
sooooo sharp
It looks like a piece of art!
Almost like barbed wire.
that's a wonderful piece.
Great !
lovely, so cool…
cool picture!!!
Great picture! very interesting!
Amazing, I have seen them rolling the carts around but never one that looked that this.
great picture and word picture :) a remnant of another age. thanks for sharing this moment!
Looks like a piece of art. Really nice!
It looks like some kind of torture device.
really so nice photo..
It reminds some torture machine… like something you could see in Saw! But it's an interesting photo.
Great photo, love these kind of industrial shots!
this reminds me of a street artist she works in bungie cords or something similar…r u familiar??She attaches to scaffolding
Really cool!!
Quite interesting! I also thought it was a piece of art :)
This is like … like … a photographic equivalent to a Jackson Pollock or something!
A readymade befitting a fashion blog.
I can totally see the relationship of this being a photographic equivalent of Jason Pollock. Very interesting cart!
Wow. Is that like steel?
I love posts like this! Keep writing with your photos. They make them very unique and very YOU!
I can remember seeing these being rolled down the sidewalks on 7th Ave. full of clothing. Usually a guy in front steering and a guy in back pushing. They were going from factory to warehouse, or sometimes from factory straight over to the stores on 5th Ave. Another day…
A strong image to be sure and also be default a commentary on the state of the garment industry in New York. I feel like in a way I am look at a ghost, skeleton, labyrinth and a cage. Hauntingly beautiful.
What's the purpose of wrapping them like so, and why isn't it done anymore?
This is so cool! I love how you can find things like this only in New york!
Carl Andre eat your heart out!!!
I used to be a production coordinator in the garment district when I first started my career in "fashion" and I used to always dodge those carts to save my toes from being run over while running back and forth from factory to design studios.
If you stand at the corner of 38th and 8th Ave, you'll still see a good amount of the fabric carts :)
I wonder how many of your young readers can remember when these were used. In my mind, it left a very romantic image, watching men push these all over the Garment District.
I remember working as a display stylist (window dresser) and we rigged up a cart like this to transport mannequins from A to B. Only issue was that sometimes our Amazonian mannequins on our cart were to tall to fit in the elevator! Beautifully shot, what a great piece of art!
You know I love your "people" photos. Who doesn't?! But also love when you get your lens turned to a different direction.
Thank you!
Beautiful! Stark yet inviting. The layering of shades and textures really draws one's gaze in. And yes, I love it when you write about your photos.
#nostalgia <3
Beautiful, with more than a touch of the macabre and maybe grotesque. It's not about the pretty; its supposed purpose makes you wonder…..
Good job. This image is one that I would revisit again and again. As I have…..
You gave my work a strong standing point… I m drawing pics with lines playing around elements and always been thinking of them like you wrote in the words about your photo. I was wondering about a book but wasn´t sure if anyone would see them as I do- a place for daydreaming and rest for eyes and mind. Thank you again for this post as it was good eyeopener and "opened" also a new door for me … The copy will come your way if it is done :D
So inspirational!

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In De Wulf
There's no such thing as trying to eat. One eats or one doesn't. And half-hearted promises are as loathsome as air kisses and limp handshakes. So when I told a guy named Kobe that I would come to a town called Dranouter, I meant it. Now I'm In De Wulf.
This place is in de middle of nowhere, so we'll stay the night in the guest rooms upstairs. But this afternoon, ambassadors from France, Spain, China and the US convene in the lounge — a UN of restaurant junkies. Friends old and new have just eaten lunch, while my buddy Jose and I await dinner. 3,600 miles from my house, I am at home. Continue reading
Le Grand Fooding New York 2011
I've just turned to page 44 in a book I can't read, written by a chef whose last name I can't pronounce. Pictured is a bird I can't believe he got onto US soil. And while his restaurant is one I can't wait to visit, for now this cookbook and this dinner will have to do.
At the moment, it's somewhere between one and four in the morning, and it's awfully damn hot in here. Could it be the abundance of candles? Or is it my displeasure that we are seated across from frat row, young finance types taking turns making fools of themselves? Twice in the last five minutes, their champagne corks have hit the ceiling. Why were these people even born? Continue reading
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The federal government wants you to know the world will not end on December 21 — or any other day in the near future — as predicted by the Mayan calendar.
Take this with a grain of salt, these are the same people who faked the moon landing, planned 9/11, assassinated JFK and hid all evidence of those aliens in Roswell.
In an official government blog post titled "Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors" the feds try to throw around big words like "astrobiology" to set the record straight.
False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won't), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others. (read more)
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10 Famous Authors That Could Easily Beat the Crap Out of You
Writing isn't typically considered a very macho occupation – you don't get ripped abs sitting behind a desk. But some of history's most famous authors have also moonlighted as seriously scary people.
In this feature, we'll spotlight ten pencil-pushers who could throw down if need be.
Shel Silverstein
The man responsible for children's classics like 'The Giving Tree' was actually a notorious bad ass. Uncle Shelby was a beefy bald bearded dude who served honorably in the Korean War. Silverstein split his time between writing books and putting songs together for a wide variety of musicians, including Johnny Cash. Although he was mostly a peaceable man, you know that Shel could take you out if he needed to.
Lord Byron
One of the first modern celebrities, Lord Byron was a dude who certainly lived life to its fullest. While a student at Trinity College, Byron kept a bear in his dormitory as a pet because the school didn't allow dogs. Even though he had a club foot, Byron was an accomplished boxer who faced many men in battle. Oh, and he also got more tail than you'll ever get in your entire life.
William T. Vollmann
Author William Vollmann could kick your butt simply because the man knows absolutely no fear. To compose his massive tomes, Vollmann travels to some of the most God-forsaken places on Earth, including Somalia and Iraq. Take a look at photos of his face. Notice that he has no eyebrows? That's because he burned them off when his stove exploded… in Antarctica. His book 'Rising Up And Rising Down' is all about violence and it's 3,300 pages long.
Arthur Cravan
Swiss-born Arthur Cravan took his homeland's reputation for neutrality and peed right in its face. The editor and publisher of 'Maintenant!', a magazine of arts criticism, Cravan tore stuff up everywhere he went. One of his most notorious spectacles was stepping into the ring with Jack Johnson, at the time the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Cravan was the kind of crazy who wasn't afraid to die, and those guys are always dangerous.
Hunter S. Thompson
The 'King of Gonzo journalism' was a writer you didn't want to get on the wrong side of. Hunter S. Thompson was notorious for his drug-fueled missives in the pages of Rolling Stone, as well as his penchant for firearms. One of the most notable fights of Thompson's career was one he lost, when he got the turds whipped out of him by a gang of Hell's Angels over a book he was writing. The fact that he even survived makes him more bad ass than you.
Yukio Mishima
One of Japan's most famous novelists, Yukio Mishima was a man of many facets: literary genius, closeted homosexual and brutal fascist. Mishima practiced rigorous bodybuilding for most of his life, and in 1968 he formed his own private army to "protect the Emperor." A few years later, he actually attempted a coup d'etat in Japan and committed ritual suicide after it was unsuccessful.
Roald Dahl
The British author of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' brought an acerbic edge to his writing that came from his bad ass life. During World War II, Dahl was a fighter pilot for the British army, flying obsolete biplanes in combat against the Germans. He survived a hideous crash in Libya that wrecked his plane, fractured his skull and briefly blinded him. The notoriously curmudgeonly author could have taken you down easily.
Thomas Malory
Best known as the author of 'Le Morte d'Arthur', the classic work of English fantasy that so many bad movies have been based on, Thomas Malory was a total d-bag who feared no man. Some of his crimes included bushwhacking a the Duke of Buckingham, robbing houses and beating the tar out of whoever crossed his path. He was eventually tossed in Newgate Prison, where he wrote his famous book.
Norman Mailer
One of the most pugnacious writers of the 20th century, the dwarfish Norman Mailer had a fascination with violence. He was a huge boxing fan, but he also loved to take things into his own hands. During the filming of the 1970 movie 'Maidstone', Mailer got into an absolute slobberknocker with actor Rip Torn that only ended when Torn cracked him upside the dome with a hammer.
Ernest Hemingway
Probably the most bad ass literary figure in history, Papa Hemingway inserted himself into action all over the world. Whether it was serving in both World Wars, hunting big game in Africa, or escaping a plane crash by head-butting the door open, the author of 'The Old Man And The Sea' was bad ass to the core. The only person who could kill Hemingway was Hemingway, and he did himself in with a shotgun blast to the face.


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New Yorkers For Children Annual Fall Gala
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About iOS App Architecture
Apps need to work with the iOS to ensure that they deliver a great user experience. Beyond just a good design for your app's design and user interface, a great user experience encompasses many other factors. Users expect iOS apps to be fast and responsive while expecting the app to use as little power as possible. Apps need to support all of the latest iOS devices while still appearing as if the app was tailored for the current device. Implementing all of these behaviors can seem daunting at first but iOS provides the help you need to make it happen.
This document highlights the core behaviors that make your app work well on iOS. You might not implement every feature described in this document but you should consider these features for every project you create.
At a Glance
When you are ready to take your ideas and turn them into an app, you need to understand the interactions that occur between the system and your app.
Apps Are Expected to Support Key Features
The system expects every app to have some specific resources and configuration data, such as an app icon and information about the capabilities of the app. Xcode provides some information with every new project but you must supply resource files and you must make sure the information in your project is correct before submitting your app.
Apps Follow Well-Defined Execution Paths
From the time the user launches an app to the time it quits, apps follow a well-defined execution path. During the life of an app, it can transition between foreground and background execution, it can be terminated and relaunched, and it can go to sleep temporarily. Each time it transitions to a new state, the expectations for the app change. A foreground app can do almost anything but background apps must do as little as possible. You use the state transitions to adjust your app's behaviors accordingly.
Apps Must Run Efficiently in a Multitasking Environment
Battery life is important for users, as is performance, responsiveness, and a great user experience. Minimizing your app's usage of the battery ensures that the user can run your app all day without having to recharge the device, but launching and being ready to run quickly are also important. The iOS multitasking implementation offers good battery life without sacrificing the responsiveness and user experience that users expect, but the implementation requires apps to adopt system-provided behaviors.
Communication Between Apps Follows Specific Pathways
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Every task performed by an app has a power cost associated with it. Apps that drain the user's battery create a negative user experience and are more likely to be deleted than those that appear to run for days on a single charge. So be aware of the cost of different operations and take advantage of power-saving measures offered by the system.
How to Use This Document
This document is not a beginner's guide to creating iOS apps. It is for developers who are ready to polish their app before putting it in the App Store. Use this document as a guide to understanding how your app interacts with the system and what it must do to make those interactions happen smoothly.
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If you are new to iOS app development, read Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift). That document offers a step-by-step introduction to the development process to help you get up to speed quickly. It also includes a hands-on tutorial that walks you through the app-creation process from start to finish, showing you how to create a simple app and get it running quickly.
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Jennifer Nettles' Life on the Road Is Not Like It Used to Be
It's family first for Jennifer Nettles, who gave birth to her first child, son Magnus, last December. She took a career pause so she could enjoy life as a new mom, then decided to do a solo album all the while remaining a member of Sugarland.
Now, Nettles is starting to get back into that old routine of hitting the road and promoting her music -- in this case, the solo album -- albeit in a new way. Life on the road sure looks a little different for her these days!
Instead of dragging along lots of shoes and clothes, the Sugarland songstress needed to clear tour bus space for a crib.
Nettles, who revealed her baby weight loss secrets recently, shared a photo of the crib in the touring vessel, writing: "My how times change! Yep, that's a crib on a tour bus. Radio-land, here we come!!!"
With a new Rick Rubin-produced solo platter on the horizon, she needs to get out there and talk to radio and other media in order to get people talking about it and listening to it. Her first solo single, 'That Girl,' is out Aug. 5. Brian Mansfield of USA Today, who has heard it, says the song a similar perspective to Dolly Parton's 'Jolene.' The album release date remains TBD for now.
Needless to say, Magnus is one lucky little boy. He gets to go on the road with his cool mom, who makes sure he has all the amenities and comforts of home. That's love.


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3 Preface by Nathan Abramowitz, June/2002
Podu Iloaiei was the shtetl of my father and my ancestors. While doing family research, I came across and was able to obtain a copy of a book called The Jewish Community in Podu Iloaiei by Itzik-Schwartz Kara. Originally published in Iasi in 1925, the book was republished in 1990 in Bucharest by Hasefer Publishing House. I received permission from Hasefer to publish an English language translation of the book.
The initial translation was done by Eugene Hriscu of Iasi, Romania. Although English is not his first language, I was amazed at the quality of his English translation from the original Romanian text. KM Elias of Toronto clarified the Hebrew and Yiddish expressions, and, with the assistance of Dana Melnic of Toronto, resolved some of the idiomatic questions that arose as the work progressed. Catherine Richter, a professional editor, did an excellent job of editing and preparing the translation for publication. It was truly an outstanding group of people, and I gratefully thank all involved including my wife Lucile whose patience and understanding allowed me to devote a great deal of time to this project.
A note about Dr. Kara: I was directly in touch with him via Mr. Hriscu. He expressed delight about having the book translated into English and requested several copies to distribute among institutions and his colleagues. Unfortunately, Dr. Kara passed away in May 2001 at the age of 94. His obituary, as presented by Dr. Silviu Sanie, is reproduced at the end of the book[B-3].
4 Obituary for Itic-Svart Kara, May/2001
The following obituary was delivered by Prof. Dr. Silviu Sanie
The passing of Mr. Kara marks our separation from the representative of an elite generation that had among its last gone to join their ancestors from the Iasi community Dr. S. Kaufman and Prof. S. Friedenthal. It was a heder generation for which Yiddish was truly a maternal language. A generation for which life had prepared a road full of obstacles they were the actors and the witnesses of some great catastrophes for the Jewish community.
Itic Svart was born almost 95 years ago in Podu Iloaiei, in a large family where faith and customs were highly respected.
The Svart family gave three personalities to the Jewish culture Simha, Iulian and Itic a sculptor, a writer actor and one who was to manifest interest in many fields.
I.Svart graduated from The Faculty of French Language, but has also been a professor of Yiddish language and he followed this second calling for a longer time and it brought him great satisfactions.
These are some of the Yiddishist's accomplishments:
In 1948, he published a Yiddish language grammar. Within the short period of time when Salom Alechem's language was allowed to affirm itself in schools, his work proved to be most useful.
As the literary secretary of the Jewish State Theatre of Iasi, he translated from several languages into Yiddish and worked hard to improve the quality of the Yiddish language spoken by the actors. He loved the theatre and this is maybe the only area where his brother Iulian had an advantage he was also an actor.
However, Yiddish is the language of many of Mr. Kara's writings. Certainly, he could have said as Mircea Eliade did about the Romanian language that it is the language of his dreams. In Cernauti, he found himself in the proximity of several poets like Itic Manger (who later came to Iasi) and Eliezer Steinberg, in the very core of the cultural life of the small Vienna, in the period between the two WW. The writer brought to the public facts and events that he wrote about in the Yiddish papers in Vilna, Warsaw, New York, etc. He coordinated some volumes of the paper Bucarester Shriftn. The prose writer wrote many stories, some of them with autobiographic content. He later gathered them in the 1976 printed volume A Moldavis Ingl (A Boy from Moldavia) and, in 1987, Iurn fon Hofmung (Hope Years).
The man who traveled the world all the way to the Soviet Far East where Svart became Kara, the French professor who also spoke Russian and English continued to be the same Moldavis ingl, but accomplishing many. He received awards from the Israeli Yiddish specialists and FCER's J. Pineles award.
The man who started his journey from a stetl has also been a folklorist, carefully recording some of the things he felt would disappear together with the world that gave them birth. Proverbs, sayings, children's holiday wishings and many more.
He had a call for history. Like Iacob Psantir in the XIX-th century, I. Kara knew that he had to save for the history the documents and moments of the communities' lives; he also published different testimonies that some considered of minor importance, but he understood their significance. He permanently improved the method, the style as well as the critical apparatus of his works. His writings touched issues from the cultural and socio economical life. Historiography will remember him as the author of the monographs on Bacau, Podu Iloaiei, that was also published in German by the great humanist E. R. Wiehn, and Contributions to the History of the Jewish Community of Iasi. He published in museum and academic institutes' magazines.
He published, together with Dr. Stela Cheptea, Medieval Hebrew Inscriptions (aprox. 300) in Iasi which was awarded by the Romanian Academy. He was a bibliophile. A scholar.
An unostentatious believer, but possessing extensive knowledge from his childhood and adolescence years (as described in his books), Mr. Kara was one of the main counselors of the Iasi community. He discretely guided the cultural activities, he possessed the skill, the patience and the understanding needed to be a malomad and to prepare those who trained to put tefilim, he conducted the Seder on Pesach, etc.
He was at the same time one of the main men who attended the sil.
He could talk to people of all ages and professions. He also knew, together with the missed Mss. Tili, how to be a pleasant host.
He was a man with an ever strong will to gather knowledge, quickly to adapt to all kinds of situations and places from Podu Iloaiei. Iasi and Cernauti to the Soviet Far East and Berlin, as a soldier, professor, literary secretary, librarian, community activist and, above all, a writer and a historian. A full life that spread over almost an entire century.
The man we are saying good bye now to was a complex and important personality, a representative symbol of the Iasi community.
5 Foreword by Dr. S. Caufman, 1990
In the 1990 version of the book this section appeared at the back of the book as an afterword
As a good Moldavian Jew, and as the president of the Jewish community of Iasi, I have a special interest in the past, present, and future of the community of Iasi, without neglecting the other communities in the district and even those in the neighboring districts.
Since I was born and spent my childhood in a Moldavian shtetl, I am familiar with the way things used to be in those days of yore, in the Jewish borough, and I feel a part of the place, with its milieu, the concerns, the suffering and the joys, the strain and the victories of tens of thousands of Jews who lived in the towns and boroughs of Moldavia, its becoming a traditional, inextricable part of the Moldavian world, of the historic Moldavia.
As a matter of fact, the traditional culture in which I grew up and with which I have identified myself all through my life, and my interest for the life and culture of the Jewish population of Romania, make me totally capable of understanding and experiencing all that is depicted in I. Kara's writings dedicated to his native borough, Podu Iloaiei, which is located only 21 kilometers from Iasi and in whose cemetery, unfortunately, many of the victims of the death train are buried.
Finally, the person who is writing these lines has one more advantage: He knows the author I. Kara, alias Itic Svart, very well, Ithac ben Avi who for more than two decades was a member of the community's committee. Our relationship is not limited only to a long-lasting and close cooperation on the cultural and educational field. We are also familiar with his hard work and the results of his research in the field of the Jews' history in Romania, studies that have been carried on for more than half a century. We also know about his permanent co-working with the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Romania. This is one more reason to expect the most from the present monograph, a one of a kind piece of work in the field of monographs on the small Jewish communities of Moldavia, written by a qualified historian, the author of more than a hundred works published since 1939 both in the country and in prestigious international magazines.
I first read I. Kara's study as it was eight years ago, and I read it again with sympathy, curiosity, and exigency in its final form, and so I dare to make some observations.
The first chapter of this work is an incursion into the history of events of the Jewish community of Podu Iloaiei. The author has an open attitude when approaching the facts, placing them in the wider framework of the borough's development, the life of all of its inhabitants, and the activity of the entire commune. Thus, it provides a clearer image of the reality in its diverse aspects, with all of its contradictions and concords.
Regarding the tragic events of the years 1941 to 1944, some of my own personal experiences confirm the author's depictions.
The detailed presentation of the borough's economic life, based on novel, Hebrew sources, makes a chronological and synchronous analysis of the data at hand, confirming the general impression, that is not only mine, regarding the paramount role played by the Jewish population in the development of the town and the boroughs and even in the foundation of some of them.
In the chapter dedicated to the community life, the author resorted to considerable autobiographical data as well. This chapter is written more colorfully and sympathetically, with more emotional involvement, a style that the undersigned prefers to the author's sober tone that characterizes the other chapters. Reading the chapter on education, I felt a justified nostalgia. Fundamentally, many of the elements of the life and history of the Jewish community of Podu Iloaiei are common to most of the Moldavian towns in the 19th century and even in our century too, at least until 1940.
The chapter on folklore and ethnography was also quite meaningful to me. The author used to collect Yiddish folklore, ever since his high-school years, and has published it since 1933. He has pursued this sin of the youth until now. You do not have to be a historian to realize that the author has not used up all the available data in his monograph and that there is still money to be made in this field by future researchers.
I am particularly satisfied with the anthology of literary works dedicated to this town. The author offers translations of some Yiddish literary works. The Rabbi of Podu Iloaiei appeared in the volume A Moldevish Inghl (A Boy from Moldavia) by I. Kara, published in 1976 by Kriterion Publishing House in Bucharest. The great poet Itic Manger dedicated a wonderful ballad to this noble rabbinical figure. The anthology also includes a translation of the short story Podu Iloaiei by Simcha Schwartz (1900-1974), the author's older brother and a great playwright and famous sculptor recognized as such in France and Argentina. He is also the author of the delightful Hotchpotch and Podeloier Times, dated 1920. The funny character Dudl Consul was also portrayed in A Boy from Moldova.
I am sure that researchers will be very glad to find the numerous and substantial documentary appendices that include novel material gathered with much effort, meticulousness, and skill from archives and libraries. Qualified historians have made this last appreciation. How could I dare contradict them? Actually, this chapter is also written in a lively, fluent, convincing, and accessible style, without losing any of its strictly scientific value.
The Federation of the Jewish Communities should be praised for publishing this unique and highly valuable work. It can, of course, be improved upon and new material added, but it will surely set an example for others to write such valuable monographs for some of the country's other communities.
They will undoubtedly have the support of the communities and the Federation, which has published so many excellent historic works in the last years.
6 Introduction by I.Kara, 1990
While working on the essay The History of the Jews in Romania until 1917 that was completed in 1976 and recently revised, I felt the need for such an incursion in the history of the Jewish community in my native borough. The first part, following the events until the year 1848, appeared in a short version in the Yiddish-written anthology Bukarester sriftn, volumes I-VI (1978- I983). The writing of a history of the Jewish population of Romania proved to be a difficult task considering the relatively limited amount of information that survived in the community archives, the insufficient material in the public and private archives, the small number of monographs dedicated to some communities and institutions, and the difficulties in consulting information, sources and studies.
Still, the historian Dr. M.A. Halevy has published in 1931 the monograph The Jewish Communities of Iasi and Bucharest, volume I, (up to the year 1821), while Iuliu Barasch History Society supported (during 1886 - 1889) the elaboration of monographs of the Romanian Jewish communities. The History the Ploiesti community by Israel Sapira (1889) was the only one to be published; the monograph on the Bacau community by A.D. Birnberg remained in a draft form and I revised it in 1947; the monograph of the Botosani community by H. Ghinter could not be found.
In our century, there have been only several modest attempts to write monographs regarding our communities or some of their institutions. I mention here Nisim M. Derera's monograph (1906) and S. Semilian's (1931) regarding the Jews in Braila. The community in Craiova has been described in the works of Leon de Askenazi and M. Staureanu; short monographs were dedicated to the community in Roman by E. Schwarzfeld and I. Kaufman. Iosef Kaufman is the author of a two-volume work, The Chronicle of The Jewish Communities of the Neamt District (1928-1929), which includes a lot of valuable data and materials, but much insignificant detail as well. There are several incomplete monographs on the communities in Transylvania: Alba Iulia, Oradea, Timisoara signed by Dr. M. Eisler, E. Fleischer, Dr. I. Singer.
The articles that were once published by the press and even some of the articles that appeared in The Magazine of the Mosaic Cult have mainly a popularizing character; the original material that they sometimes bring can not replace the necessary scientifically-based monographs. The lack of information cannot be compensated even by the work of monumental proportions Pinkas Hakehilot Romania, volume I (1970), volume II (1980) published by Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem or by the anthologies of occasional articles, memoirs, and memorial articles that appear in Israel and the U.S.A., in Hebrew, Yiddish, Romanian, English, German, Hungarian.
Putting together the comprehensive monographs regarding the Jewish communities that exist or existed in Romania between the two WWs remains an objective for historical research. For now, there are still to be collected materials and information from the people who spent their childhood in the towns and boroughs of the beginning of the century, as well as trying to find papers, documents, photos, objects that can prove useful for the study of our history. The importance of these monographs has been repeatedly emphasized by a great personality as His Eminence Dr. Moses Rosen, Chief Rabbi of the Mosaic cult and the president of' the Federation of' the Romanian Jewish Communities.
It has been pointed out that the monograph of a certain community, no matter how small it is, clarifies some aspects of the life of other similar communities. In fact, most of the events, situations, structures, activities, and mentalities were almost the same within the small communities in Moldova. The study of one community could end up in the drawing of conclusions that remain valid for other communities as well.
Several annexes were added to the present text, presenting in extenso original sources, many of them unpublished before, together with an anthology of the literary works that depict the life of this modest Moldavian borough. Several photos and illustrations have also been added.
I express my gratitude to the Iasi and Bucharest State Archives, The Library of the Romanian Academy, The Library of the Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, the library and the archives of the Federation of the Romanian Jewish Communities (FRJC) as well as to all the people who supplied me with materials and information, thus contributing to the writing of this monograph.
I want to thank especially the FRJC and His Eminence Dr. Moses Rosen who showed a special interest in the publishing of this work.
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Tela Burnett appeared in 22 matches and 58 sets in her first season as a Matador ... finished seventh on the squad with 50 kills (0.86 kills per set) while hitting .150 for the season ... ranked fourth on the Matadors in total blocks with 54 (0.93 per set), which included a pair of solo blocks ... also added four aces, three assists and 19 digs ... knocked down a season-high nine kills while hitting .615 against UC Santa Barbara (Oct. 25) ... had seven kills in a season-high 14 swings to go with six blocks in Northridge's five-set win at CSU Bakersfield (Nov. 6) ... posted a season-best eight total blocks (all assisted) in the Matadors' 3-1 win over Pacific (Oct. 18).
Burnett spent two seasons (2006, 2007) at Salt Lake Community College in Taylorsville, Utah ... earned honorable mention All-SWAC Region 18 honors as a middle blocker in 2007 ... the Bruins (44-2) finished third at Nationals in 2007 ... was a two-year starter and posted a .321 hitting percentage while averaging .66 blocks per game in 2007 ... played both seasons for coach Shay Goulding ... accumulated a 3.0 grade point average.
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Just in case you want to shoot some of your own pix, here's what I used. A Canon 5D Mark II body with a Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L zoom lens, a tripod (monopod would be better) and a polarizing filter to bring out the color of the water. In some cases I added as much as one full stop of exposure to compensate for the polarizer. I shot in shutter priority mode, and used iso settings between 160 and 300, that gave me f stops between 5.6 and 9 depending on the shot.
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(CNN) -- MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi says he talked with Ferrari about driving the team's second car in the Italian Formula One Grand Prix next weekend - but decided against it.
Rossi is a national hero in Italy and has toyed with racing in F1 in the past.
Ferrari needed a replacement for the sidelined Felipe Massa after previous stand-in Luca Badoer failed to impress in his two outings.
Rossi, who is headed for a sixth MotoGP world title, has a massive following amongst motorsport fans in his native Italy and would have been a popular choice.
"I talked with Ferrari about racing at Monza. But without testing... it would not have been logical," he was quoted in Gazzetta dello Sport.
Ferrai have opted instead for Force India's Italian driver Giancarlo Fisichella, who will race for the famed team until the end of the season.
Seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher was the original choice to replace the seriously injured Massa, but a neck problem caused the German to abandon his comeback plans.
Any replacement has a massive disadvantage because of the rules which prohibit testing during the course of the season and this was a major factor in Rossi's decision.
"We already decided that to enter Formula One without testing is more risky than fun. You can't go there and do everything to understand the car in three days," Rossi added.
"I also don't know if I could have finished the race with my neck. And also, because we're fighting for the MotoGP championship, the race at Monza would definitely have been a big stress and it's better to stay in MotoGP."
Rossi has tested for Ferrari in the past and was reportedly close to joining them at the end of 2006 as a test driver, but decided to stick with two wheels.
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This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.
Lots of doom and gloom here.
Barry Eisler has a non-ebook post on his blog about establishments, and how people within establishments serve one of two functions: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work to sustain the organization itself. The latter are those who wind up running the organization.
Publishing is a perfect example of this behavior. This industry began as a way to bridge the gap between readers and writers. That was its goal. But somewhere along the line, legacy publishers began to worry more about sustaining themselves than connecting readers with books.
That's one of the reasons power corrupts. You begin to believe your own hype, which leads to a disconnect between your decisions and their results. If you have the power, you must be infallible, right? And even really stupid business practices, such as treating your content providers badly, allowing full credit for returns, never doing focus groups or pre-release testing, using purposely obtuse accounting practices, windowing titles, DRM, erights grabs, the agency model, etc. can't possibly hurt you, because You Da Man.
Publishers began to really believe that they were essential. And they managed to convince a lot of unpublished authors of the same thing. There are a whole bunch of people in the publishing industry, and trying to get into the publishing industry, who are confusing acceptance by that organization with what the original goal was: getting books in front of readers.
But publishers have always been middlemen, even though they had a lock on distribution and a filter on content. And middlemen tend to eventually get streamlined out of the Circle of Money.
Their locks and filters are now disappearing, and this is naturally scaring them. It's also scaring a lot of the brainwashed writers who work in the industry, or have been struggling to break into the industry. No one wants to believe the god they've been worshiping is about to die.
Enter the memes. Publishers, and their supporters, keep trotting out the same old BS about how the future will be bleak without them.
"You'll be nothing without me!" is the mournful whine of every jilted lover.
One meme is that the lack of gatekeepers will result in a tsunami of crap. Another is that writers can't succeed on their own. The meme I want to focus on is that continual price dropping will result in all ebooks being free and no writer able to make a living.
Let's look at some of the flaws in the race to the bottom meme.
1. There are still plenty of ebooks priced over $4.99 on the bestseller lists. Check any genre list, and they're there. So while it is true people would rather pay less than more, there are plenty of people willing to pay more. But, as we'll see, not too much more.
2. The sweet spot for ebooks may be changing. I've been charging $2.99 for novels because I've been making a lot of money. But I may be doing myself a disservice and leaving some money on the table. The goal is to find that perfect point that balances sales and profits. That means experimenting. In the past, I've been against charging more, because my own experiments showed it didn't work. But I've now seen other authors who it is working for, and that encourages me to experiment some more.
3. Some people may be conditioned to avoid lower-priced ebooks. Maybe they got burned on a shitty 99 cent novel. Maybe they equate higher price with higher quality (something we're all guilty of.) As long as there are folks willing to pay more for something they perceive is better, some authors will be able to charge more.
Another way of putting it: even if all ebooks are fungible and created equal, there can still exist a spectrum of prices. Take Blu-Rays. Some are $4.99. Some are $39.99. How new something is, how popular it is, the extras it has--people will pay more for these things.
4. If all ebooks become free, we'll still make money. There has been a lot of talk about subscription models, or ebooks funded by ads. Either way, the content creators (the writers) are still the essential part of the business. We'll find a way to get paid.
5. Legacy publishers aren't helping anyone but themselves by pricing ebooks $9.99 and over. This high price is to protect print sales, and suck as much money from readers as they can before the house of cards collapses.
Readers don't want to pay $9.99. They've been very clear about this for several years. The $9.99 boycott, and associated 1 star reviews, is still widespread. As a result, books priced at $9.99 or higher don't sell as many copies as they could, and the author misses out.
$9.99 isn't the sweet spot.
6. There can't ever be a true race to the bottom, because books aren't in competition with each other. This isn't a zero sum game. Never has been. When readers find something that interests them, it is never either/or. If they find two books to be interesting, they read both books. And since ebooks are cheaper than paper, and it has been widely reported that those with ereaders buy and read more, the pie is actually getting bigger. We can sell to a smaller percentage of ereaders and still make a killing.
Sure, we all have limited leisure time. We all have limited lifetimes.
But if you like reading, you fit it into your life. Just like you fit anything else you like into your life. I've never met a single reader--and I've met thousands--who said, "Well, I can read this OR that, but I'll certainly never have time to read them both, because time is finite."
But if you like reading, you fit it into your life. Just like you fit anything else you like into your life. I've never met a single reader--and I've met thousands--who said, "Well, I can read this OR that, but I'll certainly never have time to read them both, because time is finite."
That "not enough time" meme is bullshit.
Now, we're still in the early adopter phase of ereader sales. The prices haven't sorted themselves out yet. Which is why experimentation is essential. As self-pubbed writers, we need to try different price points, and compare notes, in order to find that sweet spot. I just released a 35k word novella, EXPOSED, for $2.99. My next novel will be $3.99.
Lower prices may sell more copies, but they leave money on the table because people would have paid more. Higher prices may have a larger profit, but they also leave money on the table in missed sales.
Your goal, as a self-published writer, should be to keep an open mind, and always remember this is a business, not an ideology.
The is no race to the bottom. It's just a bunch of scared people who need to regurgitate false memes in order to feel safe.


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Hoke's Run
Other Names: Falling Waters, Hainesville
Location: Berkeley County
Campaign: Manassas Campaign (July 1861)
Date(s): July 2, 1861
Principal Commanders:Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson [US]; Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson [CS]
Forces Engaged: Brigades
Estimated Casualties:114 total (US 23; CS 91)
Description: On July 2, Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson's division crossed the Potomac River near Williamsport and marched on the main road to Martinsburg. Near Hoke's Run, Abercrombie's and Thomas's brigades encountered regiments of T.J. Jackson's brigade, driving them back slowly. Jackson's orders were to delay the Federal advance only, which he did, withdrawing before Patterson's larger force. On July 3, Patterson occupied Martinsburg but made no further aggressive moves until July 15, when he marched to Bunker Hill. Instead of moving on Winchester, however, Patterson turned east to Charles Town and then withdrew to Harpers Ferry. This retrograde movement took pressure off Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and allowed Johnston's army to march to support Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at Manassas. Patterson's inactivity contributed to the Union defeat at First Manassas.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: WV002
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In the 1840
, Allen and his wife and 3 children are listed. However, by 1845, one of his children was born in Edwards County Illinois , and by 1850, Allen and his family (now with 8 children) are listed in Crawford County Missouri (under A. Adsun). Missouri
Records were located from December of 1858:
"Friday Dec. 10, 1858:
Estate of Elizabeth Adamson Dec.
The Bond of Peter Sanders as Adms of said Estate is approved and Letters to be issued to said Peter Sanders upon said Estate.
It is ordered by the Court that Peter Sanders be appointed Guardian of the person of Josiah, Isaac, Elijah, John Wesley, Catherine, Mary Ann and Edward E. Adamson, miner (sp) heirs of Allen and Elizabeth Adamson, Deceased."
"Tuesday Nov. 8, 1859
It is ordered by the Court that Alen Adamson aged 17 years and John Wesley Adamson aged 15 years and Josiah Adamson aged 11 years they be bound unto Peter Sanders as apprentices and that the said Sanders enter into articles of agreement for the same.
Peter Sanders administrator of Elizabeth Adamson decsd.
Now at this day comes the administrator and files his inventory and
bill for $45.00 and by the Court ordered to be charged. Sale
Thursday Feb. 7, 1861
Annual Settlement of the Admr of Elizabeth Adamson continued.
In 1860, all of the children were living with relatives of
's, indicating that she must have died between 1857-1858. Her husband, Allen, is listed as living in Elizabeth with his father in 1860. Crittenden County Kentucky
Allen's wife, Elizabeth, had died. Her brother Peter Saunders was named guardian of the seven youngest children. Two of the other boys (along with one of the boys under Peter Sander's guardianship) were made apprentices. However by 1860, the twelve children were scattered among six different families (all were with
's siblings, except one who was working on a farm). Elizabeth
So where is Allen? He is listed as living in Crittenden County Kentucky in 1860 with his father. That is about 300 miles from
where the children all are. Which would take a week to travel by horseback, give or take. What is he doing so far away from the children???? Texas County, Missouri
William Adamson, Allen's father, was listed as blind in the 1850 census. His wife, Polly had died by 1860. Apparently, Allen went to care for his father. Crittenden County Deeds show that in August of 1863, William deeded two tracts of land to Allen.
Witnessed that the said Wm. Adamson hath this day for and in consideration of the fact that the said Allen Adamson has taken care of and provided for the said Wm. and has agreed to take care of and provide for the said William Adamson Sr. in a Manner Suitable to his situation in life during the Remainder of his lifetime and the further consideration of his peculiar Kindness to One for the last three years or more and one Dollar(?) by himself.
Okay, so that is all well and good and nice of Allen to care for his father. However, there are three of William's children living with their families in
, and two of his children living in Illinois with their families. Wouldn't you think that they would have helped take care of their father? Why would Allen feel compelled to take care of his father, but not his children? Kentucky
Added to this, of course, is the War of the Rebellion. By mid-1862, Allen's five oldest sons had enlisted to serve in the Confederacy. Did Allen know, or come to see them? It's unknown. What is known is that only one (Isaac) of the five survived and returned to
after the war. Again, I wonder if Allen ever saw him upon his return? Texas County Missouri
I have located only a couple more records regarding Allen. It appears that he remained in
for the remainder of his life. Five of his remaining children married between 1868-1876. Did he attend any weddings? See any grandchildren? Allen is listed in the Crittenden County Kentucky Tax Records from 1861-1866. He is not found on any 1870 census, so it seems that he may have died between 1866-1870. A deed was found from 1877 where his property was sold. Crittenden County Kentucky
Deed Book N. p 263 FHL 558381: Crittenden County KY
14 March 1877 J.W. Adamson sells his entire interest in the lands belonging to Allen Adamson known as the homestead of William Adamson, on Adamson Branch.
JW Adamson was Allen's youngest brother.
What became of Allen's twelve children? Most of it is pretty tragic. They were all raised in homes with their aunts and uncles. As reported above, four never returned from the War. The son, who did survive the War married, had three children and was killed in a mining accident in 1880. Allen's youngest child, Edward, married in 1875, and reportedly killed himself in 1879. Two other children married and that is the last that I have been able to find them. Another two of Allen's children have not been located after the 1860 census. Two of his daughters married, had children and lived to ages 80 and 83. Did they ever know what became of their father?
All this leads me to wonder, how did Allen walk away from his children and seemingly, never return? Nothing has been found to indicate that any of the children ever went to see him. He could not read or write, so it is doubtful that there was any mail communication.
I have found researching this family fascinating and disturbing. The events that happened to this family are so tragic, and yet, probably pretty typical for the times.
Does walking away from children indicate a mental illness? Not necessarily, but it does lead one to wonder. Of course, it is impossible to know all of the circumstances involved.


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- What do you love about your bedroom?:
- I love all of the light (barely any in Portland) that comes in through my windows. From my bed I look onto my neighbors mossy roof, and I can see the stars and the sunrise too. I moved here from New York, so things like bedroom windows, a walk-in closet, and my own bathroom were kind of unheard of. I made a light fixture out of twin light bulb adapters, and use about 20 low-wattage Edison bulbs with a dimmer to create a dynamic environment. This house is over 100 years old and has strong bones.
- What are your tips for creating a beautiful, healthy and organized bedroom?:
- The older I get the more I appreciate white walls and warm (non-florescent) lighting. That way I can focus more on the things I like to look at; artwork, books, plants, rocks, etc. I cut flowers and clippings from alleyways around here too, to bring the outside inside. I try to put everything away so I donât stress about mess. Iâve been using more practical office items to stay organized such as folders, files, and baskets under my bed. My favorite cleaning tool is a sheepskin duster from Ikea. I love to sleep with my windows open as much as possible, to breathe clean air.
- In modern homes, bedrooms have become more than just a place to sleep; they can be a retreat, a home office, a library, a relaxation zone. What are some ways you make the most of your bedroom?:
- I paint and draw in here at my desk, and itâs easy to get carried away and overflow my studio area, into my sleeping area. But there is a definite line (maybe i should make a chalk line?) dividing my work zone, and my relaxing zone. I stretch out in front of my mirror and treat my room like a ballet and yoga studio. And dance around at night in my underwear with incense to keep things fresh and celestial.


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The minstrel man was back in town last night, taking the stage like he stepped from the Manet painting with a vandalized face, a ravaged Salvation Army soldier boy in a brass-buttoned coat and red-seamed pants with a flat boater hat-a sartorial update of the mariachi-esque stage suit of last season's appearance.
The cynical sour-souled prophet came again to tell us how we feel.
Didn't he?
We picnicked next to an Italian man who had flown from Venice to follow the 2010 Never Ending Tour from Lincoln, Nebraska to the West Coast. He says the songs are different every night.
In Sturgis, Dylan started with Rainy Day Women # 12 &35. Everybody must get stoned.
Was it a coincidence that Dylan's Deer Valley set, sung to the well-heeled ticket holders eating brie in their REI stadium chairs on the hill under the St. Regis and its silly funicular, started with Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat and ended with Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man)? This must be one of the most bourgeois of Bob's latter-day audiences.
Well, I'm not exactly pointing fingers without, you know, the other three pointing back at me. Here's our Deer Valley-supplied picnic basket.
But this is surely one of the most politically reactionary periods since he started singing in the sixties. Racist border wars. Anti-gay fascists. Nativist hate-mongers. And this is a songwriter whose metier is the zeitgeist, whatever that happens to be. Last night, he growled out Masters of War against the emphatic artillery of George Recile's drums and the migraine thump of Tony Garnier's bass, with Charlie Sexton's guitar not gently weeping but wailing and gnashing its teeth.
And most of the audience, except for those down in front of the stage, sat.
I've seen Bob Dylan play maybe ten times. It's always the same in that it's never the same. He only plays guitar or he never picks one up. He talks to the audience or keeps to himself. He's got 50 years of genius songwriting to choose from and in performance you can't tell Just Like a Woman from Things Have Changed. Every song sounds like Like a Rolling Stone or all the songs sound like The Levee's Gonna Break.
Last night's show was no different-as my new Italian friend said, Dylan's set list changes every night but they all sound the same. Every number is another round of Name That Song. Old fans mutter to each other in the dark, "Which one is this?" and whoop when they finally realize the chopped-up phrasing belongs to Tangled Up in Blue. This time. But This Wheel's On Fire was set to the same insistent pace in the same guttural tone.
Bob can mutter and grumble, swallow great lines and parody others as long as the band, like Lebowski's rug, ties the whole thing together. They hold the show up and let Dylan bounce around on their musical trampoline, always there when he lands and ready to send him soaring again. Amazingly tight and talented, they would have been worth a pricy ticket even without the Pulitzer-winning protest singer-poet out front.
And for the first time in years, since the Planet Waves tour, maybe, Dylan was having fun with his band (if not the audience) jumping from keyboard to guitar (which he seldom plays lately), wailing on his harmonica and trading licks with the incredibly gifted (yes, and super hot) Sexton.
The wild beat never slowed significantly; last night's show crescendoed in complexity, not intensity. Without slowing down, Donnie Herron picked up a violin. When Dylan sang Nettie Moore, there were notes of tenderness, even melancholy, in the middle of the rocking. He played classics like Highway 61 and All Along the Watchtower, songs now identified with other musicians-Johnny Winter and Jimi Hendrix-and made them Dylan songs again. He sang songs the audience couldn't sing along with—semi-obscurities like Under the Red Sky and Cold Irons Bound. Does any other performer have such depth of their own material to pull from?
No wonder the tour is never ending. I'll probably never stop going to hear it, either. Bob's an old guy, now. He's what, 69. But I still want to be him when I grow up. He makes me proud to be part of the Boomer generation.
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FORT WORTH — The former naval reservist named as the gunman in a deadly shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard was twice arrested on gun charges — once while living in Fort Worth — and discharged from the reserves for multiple disciplinary infractions, according to police records and military officials.
One of 34-year-old Aaron Alexis' neighbors told Fort Worth police that he terrified her. Another said that he liked Alexis and that his only flaw was that he often immersed himself in violent video games for hours at a time.
But many who knew him said Monday they were shocked that a man they considered friendly and helpful was responsible for the massacre at the government installation. Alexis died at the scene.
"He never had a threat in his voice or anything like that," said Michael Ritrovato, a close friend.
Federal investigators said they had not established a motive for the two-hour massacre at the sprawling naval complex. The FBI took charge of the investigation and is seeking information about Alexis.
"No piece of information is too small," said Valerie Parlave, assistant director of the FBI's Washington field office. "We are looking to learn everything we can about his recent movements, his contacts and his associates."
Monday's shooting was not the first involving Alexis.
In 2004, he was arrested in Seattle after allegedly shooting the car tires of a construction worker building a house near his grandmother's home. Two construction workers said Alexis stared at them every morning for about a month before the shooting. They said he never spoke to them but displayed his gun as he walked to his car.
Then one day, Alexis allegedly fired three rounds at the wheels of a car outside the construction area. One of the construction workers told police he believed Alexis was angry about parking problems near the work site.
Alexis told officers one of the workers disrespected him, which prompted a "'blackout' fueled by anger." He told officers that he was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, and "those events had disturbed him."
His father told Seattle police that his son had anger management problems that relatives believed were associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. He said Alexis was "an active participant in rescue attempts" of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Seattle police records say that Alexis was charged with damaging property and discharging a firearm, but a court clerk Monday said there is no record of either case being filed.
It was not known Monday how long Alexis lived in Seattle or when he moved to Fort Worth. Federal authorities on Monday were in Fort Worth interviewing people who knew him.
Alexis enlisted in the Navy Reserve in 2007. While in Fort Worth, he was with the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base.
The petty officer third class worked on electrical engineering systems of aviation equipment. He had no overseas or combat duty.
Alexis "had a pattern of misconduct" and was discharged in 2011 after multiple disciplinary infractions, a Navy officer said Monday.
Records also show Alexis was arrested on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in DeKalb County, Ga., in 2008. Details of the case were unclear late Monday, and charges were apparently either dismissed or expunged from Alexis' record.
Fort Worth police arrested Alexis in 2010 after he shot through the floor of his upstairs neighbor's apartment. Alexis told police he was cleaning his gun while cooking and it accidentally went off. The neighbor told police she believed the shooting was intentional.
According to a police report, Alexis complained often that the neighbor made too much noise and confronted her in the parking lot several days before the shooting. When police went to Alexis' apartment, he didn't answer their knocks. After paramedics arrived, he came to the door and told police the shooting was an accident.
Police arrested Alexis, but the Tarrant County district attorney's office decided not to prosecute. According to Tarrant County court records, Alexis was evicted from the apartment weeks later.
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Alexis made friends with a group of Thai Buddhists who worked with him at the military base in Fort Worth. He began going with them to the nearby Wat Busayadhammavanaram Meditation Center of Fort Worth. That's where Alexis met Oui Suthamtewakul, whom he lived with as recently as July.
"We became best friends," Suthamtewakul said. "He's like my big brother."
The two lived together in several locations for three years. Suthamtewakul said that Alexis owned a handgun and "can be tough" but that he wasn't a violent person.
Alexis would help out at Suthamtewakul's Thai restaurant, Happy Bowl, on White Settlement Road. Friends say Alexis had a valid concealed handgun license and often carried a .45-caliber handgun while working there. He also became fluent in Thai from watching Thai dramas and talking to others who spoke the language. He traveled to Thailand at one point.
For the last year, Alexis was an online student pursuing a bachelor's degree in aeronautics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Ritrovato, a handyman at Happy Bowl, said Alexis couldn't be torn away from video games he played in solitude.
"He stayed in his room all the time playing these online shooter games," Ritrovato said.
But Suthamtewakul's wife, Kristi, said that in recent conversations, Alexis had expressed frustration with the government for not paying him money he believed he was owed, either for his contract work or for veterans benefits.
"He wanted to move out of the country," she said. "He acted like he was tired of America."
Move to D.C.
When the Suthamtewakuls got married in July, Alexis moved out. Oui Suthamtewakul said Alexis, who had been unemployed, got a job working for a Navy subcontractor that eventually led him to Washington.
Alexis had worked much of the year as a computer contractor for a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary, The Experts, and had a government contractor access card that would have allowed him onto the Navy Yard and other military installations, the company's CEO, Thomas Hoshko, told The Washington Post.
He was working as an hourly technical employee on a massive subcontract with Hewlett-Packard to refresh computer systems worldwide at Navy and Marine Corps installations. Alexis had a security clearance updated in July approved by military security service personnel.
Alexis had finished a contract with the company in Japan as part of the work and was about to be reassigned to do additional contract work at the Navy Yard.
"Nobody could have done anything to prevent this except Aaron Alexis," Hoshko told The Post. "Maybe he snapped. I don't know."
Back in Fort Worth, Kevin McDaniel said the news of Monday's shooting made him "literally physically ill." McDaniel, who owns a furniture store next to Happy Bowl, said the last time he saw Alexis was the day before he moved to Washington. Alexis tried to get him to buy his furniture, he said.
"He seemed like he was real happy and excited about what was going on," McDaniel said.
McDaniel said the shooting left him puzzled because he had conversations with Alexis about Islamic extremism and the Fort Hood shooting. They both agreed it was a horrible tragedy, he said.
"It could have all been a ruse — I don't know," McDaniel said.
Staff writers Tanya Eiserer, Matthew Haag, Kevin Krause, Jeff Mosier, Samantha Shaddock, David Tarrant, Tasha Tsiaperas and Robert Wilonsky contributed to this report.
BACKGROUND: Aaron Alexis
Age: 34
Hometown: New York City
Enlisted in Navy: May 5, 2007
Rank: Aviation electrician's mate 3rd class
Duty summary: Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill., May-July 2007; various professional training, July-September 2007; commander, Fleet Logistics Support Wing, January-February 2008; Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VR) 46, Fort Worth, February 2008-January 2011
Awards and decorations: National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
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Rachel's Teeny Terrier Sanctuary Bedroom
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- I think it's really important to limit the amount of glowing gadgets in the room - they really disrupt your sleep! I covered up the light on the fire alarm, and we recently enacted a bedroom cellphone ban. Let's see if I can get the laptop completely out someday! Especially in a small space, editing is a constant battle and a huge necessity to reduce clutter and distractions. I also think it's really nice to have a limited color palette in soothing tones, but I let way more coral and orange sneak into the room than I was originally intending, which is nice in it's own way.
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Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR)Vaccine
The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine protects people from 3 serious viral diseases. The diseases are spread from direct contact with droplets from sneezes or coughs of persons with the viruses or from droplets that are in the air.
Measles. Measles is an infection caused by a virus. It starts with cold-like symptoms including runny nose, inflamed, red eyes, cough, and fever. A rash that starts on the face and then develops on the body follows 2 to 4 days later. It can result in serious complications, especially in those with weak immune systems.
Mumps. Mumps is also caused by a virus. It affects the glands. Swollen saliva-producing glands in the neck, fever, headache, and muscle aches are symptoms. It can affect the testicles in males and cause sterility as well as cause other complications.
Rubella (German measles). Rubella is an infection caused by a virus. It causes mild fever and rash in infants and children. Pregnant women who get rubella have an increased chance of having babies with birth defects.
A combination vaccine provides protection against all 3 diseases. Another vaccine, the MMRV, protects against measles, mumps, and rubella, but also against chicken pox (varicella).
When are MMR vaccines given?
MMR vaccines are given in 2 doses to babies and children at the following ages:
12 to 15 months
4 to 6 years
7 to 18 years, if 2 doses were not previously given
Children with mild illnesses, even with fevers, can get the vaccine.
Some children should not receive MMR vaccine. These include:
Children who have ever had a severe allergic reaction to gelatin or to the antibiotic neomycin
Children who have had a previous serious reaction to the MMR vaccine
Some children with immune system conditions such as HIV/AIDS or cancer
Children taking medicines that weaken the immune system, such as steroids
Your child's healthcare provider will advise you about vaccines in these and other situations.
Pregnant women, or women who plan to become pregnant within a month, should not receive the MMR vaccine.
What are the risks from MMR vaccines?
As with any medicine, vaccines carry a small risk of serious harm, such as a severe allergic reaction or even death. Receiving a MMR vaccine is much safer than contracting any of the 3 diseases. Common reactions to these vaccines may include the following:
Soreness where the shot (injection) was given
Mild rash
Swollen neck glands
Severe reactions are very rare.
How do I care for my child after immunization with MMR vaccines?
Give your child over-the-counter pain and fever-lowering medicine, as instructed by your child's healthcare provider. Do not give your child aspirin.
If your child has symptoms of a severe reaction, call 911 or get emergency medical help. These symptoms include:
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Co-ordination test apparatus, Cambridge, England, 1942
The Sensory Motor Apparatus (SMA-3) was an electro-mechanical test for measuring eye, hand and foot co-ordination. SMA-3 was one of many pilot aptitude tests given to aircrew candidates of the Fleet Air Arm, the Army Air Corps and the Royal Air Force. Designed by the University of Cambridge and the Central Medical Establishment during the Second World War, SMA-3 has seen service in many Air Forces. It was in continuous use in the UK between 1943 and 1985. The original machine was updated in the 1970s and finally replaced by a computerised version in 1985.
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