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by Kalman Liss
Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
I want to tell everyone
I do not want to be ashamed in front of anyone
To say something from my heart
All the old, dear names.
Of my Kovl - Volyner city
Lutsker Street of my birth,
Your low huts
Here as last night, I think last night
At the very beginning of the highway
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|Do not ask where, not when, from where
Who needs to ask ditches?
Everyone knows, to the Torya [River]
Streams storm after the rain.
And the old beloved bridge
Alas, the Torya, dear Torya,
Your shores very soft
In the summer, in the extreme heat,
Who needs seats and who needs brooms
Torya, Torya, they took leave!
I still carry enough love, praise
In my heart for your roads.
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|But let me run now
As you let them, your thoughts free -
I am a child again, and I am drawn
To the place of the carousel:
To the wooden church, the round one
Let the magician again draw
And the sand, the heaped
Do the bandora players still sing and narrate
And the lyre player, the grey one there,
I will tell everyone,
Translator's Notes
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by Yosef Avrech
Translated by Amy Samin
A memorial tribute to the Hebrew teacher of the Tarbut Hebrew Gymnasia of Kovel
Yosef Avrekh was born in Kovel in 1892 to devout and pious parents. His father, Ben-Zion the shochet [ritual slaughterer], possessed an upright bearing and a majestic appearance, and was one of the most experienced and respected shochatim in the city, and his mother Pasil the shochetanit was the daughter of a pious and good family, purely righteous and self-denying, and who knew all the writings of the sages of blessed memory by heart, and prayed the deliberately whispered prayer three times a day just like a man. Even as a young child Yoske the shochet's son, displayed lofty talents and a deep longing for study and scientific knowledge. Sensitive, impulsive, and full of movement,
Yoske was a standout amongst his friends and classmates in the heder [small religious school] in the neighborhood of the city (Stat) - the place where there stood the cramped house squeezed in amongst the crowded wooden houses of the neighborhood - and he was the accepted leader of the group of boys, the conductor of games and amusements, and the instigator of youthful pranks. However, his thoughts were not only of games. While still a boy he was not satisfied with his studies in the heder, nor by the stories of children's literature, which to him were unsatisfying. He searched for external books, books that were substantive and would reveal to him the mysteries of the world before which he stood, wondering and silent, to know the meaning of the great vision of the bush that burned but was not consumed… he sought, and he found them. He took a risk and snuck them into the attic, where concealed from prying eyes he would devour them, completely engrossed with all of his being. Refined and purified after a disappearance of several days, he was discovered by his friends, who gathered
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together in a group one night with the starry sky spread out over their heads and the pale moon looking down on them with the eyes of Yaacov our father, watching between the wide passageways and the far off distances. And in a mysterious whisper he revealed his hidden secret to them, after making them swear a sacred oath to keep the secret and never, G-d forbid, reveal it to anyone: Do you see those stars? They are not stars at all, they are worlds, just like our world… and that moon's eyes are not eyes. Those are wells in her soil - the soil of the moon… and the heavens - Shh! No one should hear… That is not the heavens, it is a cavity, an empty space of air.
Through reading a great many children's books, newspapers, and magazines for adults, Yoske acquired a vast knowledge of the Hebrew language, and he initiated the idea of resuscitating spoken Hebrew in the everyday life of society; and he implemented the idea in a consistently vigorous manner, showering his friends with spoken Hebrew wherever they went. With all of his soul and all of his might, he believed in the Zionist idea and the enchanting personality of Herzl captured his heart, and he prophesized while dreaming and while awake, and he included the subject at every opportunity in conversations with his friends.
In 1904, when the unfortunate news of Herzl's death was received, Yoske gathered his friends in the street and gave them a comprehensive speech about Herzl. At the end of his speech, he lifted his right hand and solemnly swore: if I forget Jerusalem, may my right hand lose its cunning… and that pledge came to be.
Yoske's mother Pasil the shochetanit, a housewife and owner of a shop in the marketplace of the city, an ink manufacturer, was constantly busy at home and in her shop - she often needed the assistance of Yoske. One day, she suggested to him that he go to the mill in the city where they ground grain into flour for sale. Yoske jumped at the idea, happy at the opportunity for a tour of the windmill with its mysterious, enormous wooden sails… With great curiosity and hurried inquisitiveness he left nothing untouched or undiscovered at the mill. He looked at the grindstones, at the upper stone and the lower, wondering about the rotation of the wheels and the straps wrapped around them, making their continuous way. He became enthusiastic about their movement and caressed them; he was caught up and suspended from them… The mill was stopped. Yoske came home from the hospital after about two weeks, with his right hand lost to him.
From then on, there was a fundamental apposition in his life. His parents began to think about practical matters. Yoske agreed to be sent to study for four years in a renowned yeshiva in Odessa in whose management a number of the great authors of the generation participated, including Mendele and Bialik. After four years Yoske returned home from Odessa a well-versed Torah scholar. After only a few days he went into teaching. He founded the first elementary school in Kovel and took
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one of the most important positions in the cultural and spiritual life of the city in general, and of the Zionist movement in Kovel specifically. He stood at the forefront of the instigators for the Tarbut movement next to Asher Frankfurt, and became a Judaic studies teacher in the gymnasia, educating the young generation of dedicated pioneers about their people, Zionism and how to actualize their nationalist ideals - his lifelong dream since childhood - until the outbreak of the war.
Yosef Avrekh was a lofty person, refined, meticulous and noble. He was a deep person, with a profoundly realistic outlook on life, viewing the world from a lofty vantage point, influenced by prophetic justice. A dreamer with his eyes wide open… A philosopher whose chief philosophy and view was the problem of the people of the world, the eternal abuse of the people of Israel, the deprived, downtrodden and supplanted by the nations of the world. He recognized and valued life. He respected nature and its charms. He appreciated and noticed the supremacy and the splendor in its revelation and what was hidden inside. He longed to find solutions to its mystery in all particulars, the purposefulness of creation which he never ceased pondering. He loved life, and was involved in it with every fiber of his being. He was impressed and enthusiastic about the zephyr, the sounds of silence, the enchantment of the scenery and the refreshing green carpet of the fields outside of the city, where he would walk every morning, taking in the essence of the day. The texture of the pale blue of the Turia River, where he would swim at the crack of dawn and would express his feelings and thoughts in conversation and wax enthusiastic about the creation of the world and everything in it.
With the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, when Hitler announced his well-known declaration
Avrekh is sitting third from the left in the second row (from the top down).
In the third row, fifth from the right sits the poet H. N. Bialik of blessed memory.
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to destroy all of the Jews of Europe, which announcement was broadcast on the radio, that same hour Yosef Avrekh ran around his room like a wounded lion, shouting: Who does this crazy, arrogant idiot think he is?! The world - abandoned, with no justice and no judge?! The world will allow him to destroy all the Jews of Europe?! It will never happen! He must fall, and he will fall!
In 1942 the Nazis crowded all of the Jews of Kovel into the field of the city in order to kill them in the village of Bachba, 6 kilometers from the city along the Brisk road, in graves that had already been dug. Who could have guessed and who would have said how deep and how fatal were the hellish torments of those about to be slaughtered, and who can describe the suffering of Yosef Avrekh, when he saw so clearly that: the world has been abandoned, that there is no justice and no judge! No one did anything to stop the murderous conspiracy against an entire people, of a magnitude and structure the likes of which had never before been seen in history! Or the volcanic tempest in his heart that burst its bounds and became a desperate cry of a plundered people in the light of day, for nothing. Weak and feeble, in everyday life, frightened and shaking before the violent rulers; this time Yosef Avrekh rose up from among the rows of thousands of Jews being led to massacre, with courage and mental strength beyond one's comprehension, and raising his voice and his only hand, intrepidly - as was told by eyewitnesses - approaching the murderous Germans, he filled their ears with his wrath, spitting bile and contempt in their faces and predicting their inevitable defeat on the crucial day soon to come!
His single remaining hand was instantly amputated by the sword of the murderer. He was shot where he stood. He fell in battle. Wallowing in his own blood, he gave out one last battle cry: The people of Israel live! Death and vengeance to the criminal Nazis! In his service to his people, in his dedication of all of his might in life, and in his demonstration of the existence of the people in the face of the enemy's sword, and being answered by the sword on his head as a rebuke, he died a hero's death, the self-sacrifice of a proud and brave-hearted Jew, a hero protecting the honor of his people.
May his soul be bound up in the bonds of everlasting life.
May his soul be bound up in the bonds of the sacred and pure heroes, and may his memory never be forgotten!
Translated by Amy Samin
The Massorah [notations regarding the exact traditional text of the bible] explain to us the origins of the name Gilad, the important region on the eastern side of the Jordan River, which was frequently a rock in the dispute between the Hebrew tribes on the eastern side of the Jordan and the Moabs and the Amons from the south, and the Arameans from the north. It comes from the words: Gal-Ed, in other words, the heap of stones will stand forever
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between the children of Yaacov and the children of Lavan (Genesis 31:48); in other words, the pile of stones (and those scattered in abundance on the heap) must mark the eternal boundary between the Arameans (children of Lavan) and the Jewish tribes on the eastern side of the Jordan River. The writing thus emphasizes that what was done is a fact, because the eastern side of the Jordan was a permanent settlement of the tribes of the children of Israel and that other elders of the Israelites and of the Arameans already determined the borders.
The eastern side of the Jordan River - this was an ancient inheritance for the Israelites, the cradle of their cherished homeland, before they occupied the land of Canaan.
The song of Bil'am, who turned from one who curses to one who blesses; the marvelous song that says How goodly are thy tents, Yaacov and It is a people that shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the nations (Exodus 23, 24) portions of the eastern side of the Jordan River and its background, the hatred, the powerlessness and fear of the Moabites before the tribes of Israel.
At the beginning of the book you will find the name of the eastern side of the Jordan: These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan etc. (Deuteronomy 1:1). Soon after, you find another mention: Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moshe began to declare this Torah etc. (Deuteronomy 1:5).
The eastern side of the Jordan plays an important role in the influence of prophetic culture in the creation of poetry and the concept of the unity of faith, the people, and the land. It is clear to me that at the present moment, when evil peoples are calling for the destruction of our lives, not just as a group but as people, the annexation of the eastern side of the Jordan to the area of the homeland is an ideal, not the reality. But it is important for us that we do not, in our consciousness, diminish the value of the eastern side of the Jordan to the rest of the country, that we do not despair of it, and so - one day we will dwell there.
(From his articles: The Hebrew Irredenta and Reflection in the Tanakh Printed in Kovetz HaYovel in honor of the principal of the Gymnasia and the editor of the Tarbut magazine in Kovel, Mr. Asher Frankfort, on the occasion of his 50th birthday (1888 - 1938) and in honor of the 17th anniversary of the founding of the Gymnasia (1921 - 1938). The journal appeared in 1938, edited by Yosef Avrekh, may G-d avenge his blood).
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In honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Birth
of Mr. Asher Frankfort, may God avenge his blood
by Yosef Avrech
Translated by Amy Samin
As a student of the school established by Mefitzei Hahaskalah in Russia in the first decade of the twentieth century, who intended to assimilate at the time when many were fleeing from the heder and the yeshiva to Skalah and enlightenment, it was difficult to imagine
Mr. Asher Frankfort,
may God avenge his blood
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that the young man, Frankfort, a Skalah protégé, would serve up - along with the Tanakh and the Hebrew language - various delicacies from Karilov, Pushkin, Larmontov and others, going against the stream and making an inverse flight from the Maskil El Dal school to the yeshivas in Kovel and Brisk. And about two years later, to the Russian school in Kovel and later to the trade school and to the small gymnasia in Brisk. Afterward he graduated from the institute for commercial science in Kiev, in order to later establish a Hebrew gymnasia and become the guardian of its physical and spiritual development.
And when Frankfort left, crowned with the degree of bachelor of commercial science and economics, the World War was in progress. He tried to make use of his education obtained in the institute and did commercial clerical work. He was made a senior clerk in a large contracting office in the field of bridge and road construction.
Later, he also worked in commerce. In spite of that, he did not neglect the most important kind of public work of that time. He became a member of the aid committee for Jews impacted by the war. Later he joined the aid committee for the victims of the Ukrainian pogroms during the time of the Russian Revolution.
The entrance of the Poles into Kiev made it possible for him to return to the city of his birth as a repatriate, not just in its simplest meaning, but a spiritual repatriate to Hebrew culture in his former homeland. Soon after his return, he began his efforts to establish the Hebrew gymnasia.
He made a daring leap, causing amazement in the eyes of his acquaintances and friends. The alrightniks among them were astounded: respectable, profitable businessmen had been assembled, was Frankfort planning to open a religious school for girls? Even more, they were amazed by his lobbying efforts among the curators and ministers: a gymnasia where the language of instruction was to be Hebrew? It was indeed a wondrous riddle, whose solution would be extremely difficult.
And where would they find textbooks in the various subjects written in the Hebrew language? How can a language that has been frozen and lifeless for hundreds of years serve for all of the concepts and expressions of these times? How strange! People suggested that he open a gymnasia where the language of instruction would be Polish. But he, Frankfort, answered them with the words that Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakai said to Vespasian: Give me Yavneh and its sages.
And in the offices of the curators and the ministers, they were amazed. But the great miracle of the rebirth of Poland, which had been lively and filled the being of every Pole - served as a backdrop for he who explained to them the vision the revival of our culture, and that vision its place in the hearts of those who could make a difference. The idea of the culture was put into practice, giving it flesh and blood, like in Rovna, Bialystok and Vilna, so the gymnasia in Kovel was founded.
Of all of the awful problems the principal had to solve, the worst of all was
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the question of the sources of income for the institution. The accepted assumption was that an educational institution with the idealistic goal of changing values must rely on the means of the Tarbut company and be supported by them and by other public funds. Frankfort, however, solved the problem in an entirely different manner. The gymnasia was funded by tuition fees paid by the parents.
However, occasionally it had legal and moral support and, occasionally, also material help from the center. But the institution did not depend on the expectation of help from the center, if he had it would soon have the same destiny as Frishman, and would go bankrupt and perish.
Kovel was not a well-to-do city, not by its population and not by its finances, and there were more high school level educational institutions than were warranted. The paradox of Frankfort's activities was that the institution which logically should have depended on outside help, had a life of its own and paid taxes to the center.
The vitality of Tarbut institutions served as a typical sign of their right to exist, and the solid ground upon which the idea of Tarbut was based. But along with that it served to prove the administrative strength and talent of the gymnasia's founder and principal.
The days of crisis came, which even now have not completely passed, and poverty also came knocking on the doors of the institution. The faces of the teachers and their families bore witness to those lean years. But in spite of everything they were steadfast.
Thus he carried on, continuing his work up until the new Olympian leap - the construction of the building. First the building: the authorities would not allow the institution to carry on in its old building, which it was feared might collapse. On the other hand, it would be difficult to find another location in which the rent would not consume all of the operating income. Therefore, a new building must be constructed.
And if you say: the institution doesn't have enough money to clear its debts and the rent from previous years, how would it be possible to think about such a thing as constructing a new building? Some would say, that is why we must build, since the institution does not have the funds to pay large amounts in rent year after year.
It would seem that the answer is both paradoxical and lacking in logic: an enchanted circle without any opening. And here you discover the greatness of the man we are honoring. That idea, which garnered him supporters in the meetings of the go-getters of Tarbut, and with the community leader M. Pearl, to whom it seemed a nice hallucination lacking any basis in reality, took on an actual shape under the initiative of Frankfort.
What hidden strength bubbled and flowed within him. Vigor overflowed his banks like a lava flow from a volcano, spreading out and inflaming everything in its path. Thus
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his strength ignited a tremendous bonfire of achievement and creativity. All of the members of the group of excellent businessmen were amazed at the shrewd combinations and transactions of the man we are honoring: purchasing and clearing the land, and making a down payment for the hauling of the building materials. They were enchanted by his marvelous ingenuity, like an eagle's flight, the tremendous initiative of seven miles in one step of A. Frankfort.
The derisive smiles and laughter in the mustaches disappeared. Where was the paradox? Everything was so real, so logical and sensible. The businessmen were electrified, and girded their strength for the gathering of subscriptions and contributions (financial, materials, and building blocks) for the building project.
And the results - the grand laying of the cornerstone before a large audience, and all mouths that had been filled with claims that his boasts of a tremendous initiative were unrealistic, and who had said that it would be worthwhile to see how and when the building would actually be completed, were suddenly empty. One of the official guests at the occasion said this: Now, this premise: Frankfort now stands at a miniature matriculation exam. He will take the full examination when construction is complete. In other words: There is still a long way to go. And hand to hand, back to back, and above all the taskmaster - the honoree - with his piercing glance, demanding work and effort from the members like a taskmaster. When people started to relax their will and or become impatient, his raspy voice would echo secretly in the heart and the brain: Get up and work! Get up and do!
Only through ruses, juggling, and infusions - that is to say, of money - from the jugs to the well, I mean the budget of the institution, its salaries, the salaries of its personnel, loans, deferred payments, did the construction work continue and the walls rise up, tile by tile, and after the affair of the bricks, the affair of the beams and the joists, and after that the affair of the tin. It was expected of the Tarbut building. And only the eyes of the honoree, blazing with a sickly glow, and his focused face and his heart weakening inside of him, his eyes rolled slightly with the irrational element in his vigor, which was inexhaustible, from the painful affront to our culture, the great culture of an anguished nation which has no shelter; this culture, which was not inherited from the sacrifices and did not win light in a windfall, but which was carved from its heart and its pain.
And the honoree dredged up strength from his personal pain and sorrow, if you do not do something big, the fruit of his work which he loved so well would be for nothing. The same personal insult, the same danger of disappointment that spurred on his initiative also spurred the act of construction until all was complete, and through to its decoration. The building was erected. Frankfort sat for the full matriculation exam and passed it.
(From the Jubilee File of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the birth of Asher Frankfort of blessed memory and in honor of the 17th Anniversary of the establishment of the gymnasia.)
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by S. Bama
Translated by Amy Samin
In the dim mists of time the prominent and upright figure of the editor of the Kovel Voice comes to life: his gaunt face, his bespectacled eyes, and his pointed nose gave him an ascetic appearance: his somewhat fragmented speech, his coarse, deep, cutting voice seemingly fashioned to convince you with its internal logic. His long legs bore him, a busy public figure, to every public gathering. As a faithful Zionist, he preferred national interest to inter-factional conspiracies. He didn't take anyone into account, and he criticized those who deserved it with his honed and witty pen.
A public figure: indeed he showed up everywhere he was expected to be, and everywhere he was not. He succeeded in gathering around himself a faithful group of workers who were altruistically devoted with all their hearts and souls to the newspaper. His agents could be found at all public activities, both general and Jewish. With his long sharp nose he sniffed out and found the right people for the city council or the starostwo (eldership) on the one hand, and the community council on the other.
He brought the very best of the intelligentsia of the city to the newspaper and still wasn't satisfied. He was in contact with well-known authors, and got their permission to reprint in his paper the best writings of the journalists from the general-Jewish papers, and every week he provided the city's residents with articles of both passing and enduring content.
He was an autodidact, but he was able to adopt modern ways of expression. More than once people were amazed at the phenomenon of a man of broad scope who was indeed active in the province, was involved in general political and public-Jewish life, and who remarked on every public event worthy of acknowledgement, both large and small.
His writing was simple and to the point, he knew every hidden wrinkle of the spoken language, and wove it into his written words. His written expressions were logical, detailed,
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comprehensive and convincing. It did not lack an iota of modernism on the one hand, and on the other was based on the popular and juicy gleichvertel (witticism). His articles achieved his goal: to stroke or caress those who deserved it, and to strike or injure those who deserved it.
The Kovel Voice had a general character, but everyone knew that it was a Zionist newspaper. Among the provincial newspapers in the region, it was the most notable and had the highest level of writing and journalists. And more than once it was quoted by the general-Jewish newspaper in Warsaw, the capital. And when political competitors appeared - such as the Bund - and wanted to muddy the city of Kovel's Zionist character, the Kovel Voice rose up with a fighting spirit and national pride, and in the end was victorious.
Well then, Mr. S.B., someone said to me, following my participation in the big memorial service for Herzl that was held in the Great Synagogue. Perhaps you could honor our newspaper with the fruits of your pen? You couldn't refuse the pleasant tone of Ben-Avinoam - such was his accepted nickname - and in the next Friday edition there appeared an article entitled Bein ha-Metzarim (Between the Straits), which was given pride of place.
It is the Friday before you make aliyah (immigrate) to Eretz Yisrael. The printing machine is spewing out the newspaper's last galley proofs. The fresh-inked letters dirty the hands of the editor as he fixes his glance on the greetings for the immigrant. Tears roll down his cheeks and fall onto the soft, fibrous paper of the newspaper. Send your list from there and I will be comforted by it, he says, and from his mouth escape words with many meanings: Who knows when I will have the opportunity to make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael? He always gave the lists from Eretz Yisrael a place at the top of the paper, though he never did have the chance to go there himself.
When you go to Eretz Yisrael and stand on Mt. Scopus in the journalism department of the Hebrew University, and page through the annuals of the Kovel Voice which are in the archives there, you are able to stand at a geographical distance and see the value of the newspaper and the position that it had in Jewish-general life. And if Jewish Kovel will continue to live on in the Jewish consciousness, the Kovel Voice and its editor will have played no small part in that.
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[Manga] Naruto Chapter 613 Discussion Thread
Welcome to the weekly manga chapter discussion thread. This thread is created early to discuss spoilers and speculation about the upcoming chapter as well as discussion of said chapter once it has been released.
As per the forums rules, please don't ask for or mention about where to download the (licensed) manga. Also remember not to post or link to any translations of the manga, since this is illegal as well. Posting a synopses or summary is fine (and welcome) but please do not discuss scans, raws, translation groups, etc. Additionally, if you are posting someone else's synopsis (or their translation of a synopsis), then please provide credit were credit is due.
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Spoiler are...now released.
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Yep they died, i am just wondering what message did Shikaku Nara delivered just before he died. I mean what in naruto's world can stop the juubi? Kishi's hand is the only thing that can save them, As of now there is no one that can fight the juubi and even if they do they still have madara and tobi to deal with. Everyone should just go to sleep or hope naruto goes ss1 or calls goku to save them.
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One would normally expect an upgrade to transform one into something more Hulk-like. But no, this is how you do really do it.
Even the tails have become much more menacing as hands, very nice as well.
But the best part has to be the new head.
See no, hear no, speak no evil.
A noticeable increase in power, I like it.
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Could they have not used a forbidden technique? is possible. also lets not forget Hashirama blocked a Bjuudama from the Nine tails with Mokuton, and Orochimaru used the demonic gates Triple Rashōmon to block Naruto's four tails bomb, so there must be something they can use to protect themselves. if not then by the reaction to the kids, the parents are indeed dead!
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Those guys at the HQ were not even kage level, so it is very muhc unlikely they could do something like that. Of course, they could have still just survived the explosion somehow.
Or as mentioned, the 5 kages managed to step in.
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RIP... Shikaku and Inoichi... and whole sensor team...
time for Shikamaru to finally shine in this war!
that 'dama-blaster' is overpowered...
all the ninjas only watching their town got destroyed to ash...
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Mom has been describing me as 'impossible' for about 25 years now, but it wasnt official until just recently. My research focuses on basically 3 things:
- The evolution of HIV-- IMPOSSIBLE
- Endogenous Retroviruses-- IMPOSSIBLE
- Epigenetics-- IMPOSSIBLE
Having dismissed efforts to explain development from a purely genomic perspective, Wells then claimed that epigenetics is a neo-Darwinian concept because it is genic, and rejected that as well.Hmm-- This doesnt seem right. Epigenetics is something Creationists *love* to exploit. Its new (well, to us, not new to life), most people dont totally understand what epigenetics is, so its a perfect gap to cram a god into. I googled a bit to try to figure out what Wells deal is with epigenetics, and found 'Icons of Evolution' on Google books:
According to the standard explanation, cells differ because the genes are differentially turned on or off. Cells in one part of the embryo turn on some genes, while cells in another part turn on others. This certainly happens, as we saw in the case of Ultrabithorax. But it doesnt resolve the paradox, because it means that genes are being turned on or off by factors outside themselves. In other words, control rests with something beyond the genes-- something "epigenetic."See! Epigenetics is 'beyond the genes' *cue Handels Messiah* If we are created in Gods image, God is a deacetylated histone! Hurray! But wait-- theres more!
This does not imply that mystical forces are at work, but only that genes are being regulated by cellular factors outside the DNA.AWWWW! Dammit! But, um, 'cellular factors outside the DNA' are still encoded by DNA... Unless God is poofing methyltransferases into embryos.
But wait-- Theres more!
Many biologists during the first half of the twentieth century investigates epigenetic factors in their attempts to understand embryo development, but the factors proved elusive. As the neoDarwinian synthesis of Mendelian genetics with Darwinian evolution rose to prominence between the two World Wars, biologists studying epigenesis were increasingly marginalized.Ooooooh there we go! A variation of the Galileo gambit. Fantastic.
But Im still confused. Does Jonny accept epigenetics or not? I need to know before I waste another day trying to cure cancer!!! DI Fellows, please, show us the way!!!


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Central Planning has crippled the real estate market to "save" their core constituency, the banks.
If you were head of Central Planning (howdy, Ben!) and were tasked with crippling the real estate market, here's what you would recommend.
1. Choke the market and banking sector with zombie banks. Central Planning creates zombie banks in one easy step: it allows insolvent banks to mark their impaired "real estate owned" to fantasy rather than to market. This enables the banks to survive in a deathless state, propped up by free money from the Federal Reserve and lax regulations that enable fantasy accounting and all sorts of off-balance sheet trickery.hosuing
Zombie banks have no incentive to auction off their holdings of real estate with defaulted, underwater or otherwise impaired mortgages, for having the market discover the price of these properties would immediately reveal the insolvency of the bank as properties it held on its books at (say) $400,000 were actually only worth $200,000. Since the mortgage is (say) $350,000, then the bank would be forced to recognize a $150,000 loss (actually more with transaction fees, repair of the derelict property, etc.).
If the bank's entire portfolio of phantom-value properties was auctioned off or its price discovered by the market, the bank would be declared insolvent and closed.
So instead the zombie banks' impaired properties clog the market, unlisted, unsold, indefinitely held off the market until unicorns arrive and valuations return to bubblicious 2006 levels where the bank can unload them with no loss.
Since those valuations haven't arrived, millions of properties are being held off the market. This "shadow inventory" is well-known (tens of thousands of people are living rent and mortgage-free in homes that the banks have yet to even put in the foreclosure pipeline), so no one has any confidence that "the bottom is in." Confidence cannot be restored until the market clears the inventory and a real bottom is established.
This destruction of confidence undermines the entire market. Zombie banks create zombie valuations. Who can say valuations won't decline once the shadow inventory finally hits the market? Keeping zombie banks alive via bogus valuations and shadow inventory of derelict and defaulted homes has another consequence: banks themselves cannot be confident that prices won't decline further, so it makes no sense for them to put capital at risk by issuing mortgages on real estate.
2. Have the central bank (the Federal Reserve) buy up $1 trillion in toxic, impaired mortgages. If these mortgages were such a great deal, then why didn't private buyers snap them up? Exactly: they were fetid garbage no private buyer would touch except at steep discounts that would have sent the banks into insolvency. (That isn't allowed in crony-capitalist State-run economies.) The market was thus denied the opportunity to discover the price of all this mortgage debt, and this effectively destroyed the private market for mortgages. Literally 99% of all mortgages in the U.S. are guaranteed by the Central State. Suppressing market price discovery works just as well in the mortgage market as it does in the housing market.
3. Lower the rate that banks can borrow from the Fed to zero, and then pay the banks interest on all funds deposited at the Fed. I wish we had this option, don't you? We could borrow $1 billion from the Fed at zero interest, then deposit the $1 billion with the Fed and skim risk-free interest. But the real-estate effect of ZIRP (zero-interest rate policy) is to lower the mortgage rate to such a low level that it makes no sense to take on the risks and unknowns of real estate valuations for such a paltry return. After all, what if the bank loans $300,000 on a $400,000 home, the value subsequently drops to $300,000 and the buyer defaults? The bank will lose capital it can't afford to lose dumping the property at auction.
Better to avoid the mortgage market altogether by refusing most applicants as risks--and given the high debt levels of most households, they may indeed be poor risks.
4. Try to prop up the housing market by giving poor credit risk buyers loans with only 3% down. This generates a new pool of ready buyers, but since the government is guaranteeing the loan, qualifying is easy and the buyers only have a few thousand dollars of skin in the game. This means defaulting is not very painful, especially if it takes the lender a few years to foreclose on the property.
The net effect of subsidizing poor credit risks to buy houses is that another pool of uncertainty is created, as these buyers are defaulting in droves, dumping inventory that had just been cleared back on the market. (The default rates of FHA loans is skyrocketing, and now the taxpayers will have to bail out the FHA.)
This is what happens when you try to prop up the market with unqualified buyers and 3% down mortgages--those buyers bail out in huge numbers and the homes return to the inventory. The clearing of inventory was as phantom as the real estate valuations on the banks' balance sheet.
5. Load young people up with the equivalent of a mortgage in student loans. That insures that the majority of potential new homebuyers won't be qualified to buy a house--they're already indentured to the banks for student loans. Those fortunate few who get good-paying jobs will qualify for a mortgage when they're getting grey hair; most will never qualify, having been buried by impossible-to-default student loans.
OK, let's see how our Organs of Central Planning are doing: check, check, check, check, check: a perfect score! they're doing everything possible to cripple the real estate market. Do they care? Of course not; the only goal is to keep the zombie banks alive, regardless of the cost to the nation. Great work, Ben, Barack, Timmy and the rest of the gang at Central Planning: thanks to your policies, the real estate market will never clear and therefore it can never be restored to health.
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The United Football League folded its franchise in Hartford on Wednesday, leaving the four remaining teams each to play a six-game schedule this fall.
Players from the Hartford team will be dispersed in a draft Aug. 15. Former Colonials coach Jerry Glanville will become a consultant to the league.
Training camp for the remaining four teams, including the Virginia Destroyers, will start during the week of Aug. 22. Opening games are the weekend of Sept. 15.
According to the UFL, Omaha and Sacramento will host season-opening games when the Nighthawks debut at their new TD Ameritrade Park home in Omaha against the Virginia Destroyers on Thursday, Sept. 15.
The Sacramento Mountain Lions will play host to the two-time reigning champion Las Vegas Locos at Hornet Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 17.
The move leaves the Destroyers as the only remaining team east of Omaha.
The full 2011 UFL season schedule -- in which each team will play a home-and-home series with the others -- will be announced next week. Games will be aired through a combination of broadcasts on HDNet and regional sports networks.
"We are moving forward as projected, having revised our strategy and realigned the makeup of the United Football League," said UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue. "We are disappointed to have suspended operations in Hartford and are grateful to the Colonials' fans for their support. We have not closed the door on Hartford and will review the viability of returning to the city at the end of this season."
"The September 15 start date will allow teams to retrieve players who are in NFL camps but do not make final rosters," said Huyghue. "Our shorter season will allow players to pursue their dream of making an impact in the NFL by joining teams earlier in the process once the UFL season has concluded."


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DEA's Sixth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) - - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration'(DEA's) sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, April 27, 2013, turned in 10,055 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This number was more than the last take back event held in September, 2012, which yielded 7,949 pounds.
Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented, "DEA's sixth Prescription Drug Take-Back campaign was a huge success. More than 742,497 (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at more than 5,289 locations manned by 4,312 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies that partnered with DEA. When added to the collections from DEA's previous five Take-Back events, more than 2.8 million (1,409 tons) of prescription medications have been removed from circulation. I again, would like to thank the multitude of (both law enforcement and non-law enforcement) who worked tirelessly to make this event a success."
The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.
According to the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and (NSDUH), twice as many Americans regularly abused prescription drugs than the number of those who regularly used cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin, and inhalants combined. That same study revealed more than 70 percent of people abusing prescription pain relievers got them through friends or relatives, a statistic that includes raiding the family medicine cabinet.
The DEA's Take-Back events are a significant piece of the White House's prescription drug abuse prevention strategy released in 2011 by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Disposal of unwanted, unused or expired drugs is one of four strategies for reducing prescription drug abuse and diversion laid out in Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis. The other strategies include education of health care providers, patients, parents and youth; enhancing and encouraging the establishment of prescription drug monitoring programs in all the states; and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills.
Shortly after DEA's first Take-Back Day event two-and-a-half years ago, Congress passed, and President Obama signed, the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amended the Controlled Substances (CSA) to allow the DEA to develop permanent, ongoing, and responsible methods for disposing of controlled-substance medications. Prior to the passage of the above-cited Act, the CSA provided no legal means for transferring possession of controlled substance medications from users to other individuals for disposal. On December 21, 2012, DEA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Disposal of Controlled Substances that seeks to implement the above-cited Act.
SAC Sommers encourages parents, along with their children, to educate themselves about the dangers of legal and illegal drugs by visiting DEA's interactive websites at www.justthinktwice.com, www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com and www.dea.gov.


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January 19, 1881
From Loretto
Mr. G.G. Thompson and lady gave the young folks a cotillion party last week which was well attended by both ladies and gentlemen. It proved to be a very enjoyable affair, and would be long remembered by those present if it was not to be followed in quick succession by so many others of the same kind.
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Buck Commer was convicted of kukluxing and punishment fired at ten months imprisonment, but the judge granted him a new trial.
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130 years ago
January 5, 1881
Residence partially burned
About 11 o'clock on Tuesday night the house of Dr. M.S. Shuck, on the Bradfordsville Pike, was found to be on fire. The fire broke out in a little room at the end of the porch. Word was sent out at once to some members of the fire company, who arrived promptly, but when they arrived on the scene the engine would not work.
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Griping a long time ago
A Washington correspondent of the New York World writes: "It cost the people of the United States about $10,000 a day to support the House of Representatives. A session of the House consumes from three to four hours. Every hour's work is done at the expense of $2,500. Every minute of the session cost $40."
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Dec. 15, 1865
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"Mrs. Henry," said John to his wife the other morning, "If you give me a Christmas present this year, please arrange it so the bill won't come in till the next month. It's just as well to keep up the illusion for a short time."
Old complaint
We like to see a man hanged, because then we are sure he will never come around to beg exchanges which we haven't even looked at ourselves. (Quoted from an exchange.)
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Progress report
From the Bradfordsville correspondent: Our mill at this place is doing a fine business, running day and night. And its new owner, Mr. Terhune, judging from the way he makes things move, expects to make it grind if there's any grind in it. This mill is now new and splendidly equipped, having a force pump that sucks water from the Rolling Fork, a distance of 350 yards. This certainly is a great improvement as, heretofore water had to be hauled in wagons.
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Our dispatches indicate that James A. Garfield has been elected President of the United States.
This result we cannot help but think this a disgrace to our civilization, a public scandal, a national disaster. No man with such a record as Garfield's as never before been a candidate for the presidency, and his triumph is well calculated to throw discredit on popular intelligence and to weaken faith in the discriminating justice of the American people.
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In Valencia this weekend at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, MotoGP™ fans the world over will enjoy a final-race title decider for the first time in seven years, as Repsol Honda Team's Marc Marquez looks to hold off the charge from Yamaha Factory Racing's reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo.
The last time such a showdown occurred was in 2006 when Honda's Nicky Hayden claimed the ultimate honour as Yamaha's Valentino Rossi made a rare mistake. Seven years on, more drama is certain as Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo go head-to-head at the climax of what has been a riveting season. Marquez heads to Valencia with a championship-leading advantage of 13 points, meaning a single fourth place would guarantee the title no matter what Lorenzo is capable of.
Looking at the rookie's track record this looks to be a certain, however if Valencia's rain-hit race of last year is anything to go by, anything can happen. It was Repsol's Dani Pedrosa who won the race last year, and will this year be out to prove a point, as he saw his title chances go after his third place in Motegi. Yamaha's Valentino Rossi could prove to be a big factor in the outcome of the race, as he looks to hold off Marquez's charge and help out his teammate Lorenzo.
Another player could be Monster Yamaha Tech3's Cal Crutchlow, who has not only cemented fifth place in the championship, but also contests his last race on board a Yamaha before his switch to Ducati. GO&FUN Honda Gresini's Alvaro Bautista has been continually improving throughout the season and will hope to impress his home fans, whilst LCR Honda MotoGP's Stefan Bradl should be much closer to full fitness after fracturing his right ankle in Malaysia.
Nicky Hayden will aim to have a good weekend on his last for the Ducati Team and get one over on his teammate Andrea Dovizioso, whilst the Ignite Pramac and Energy T.I. Pramac machines of Yonny Hernandez and Andrea Dovizioso will hope to hold off Power Electronics Aspar's Aleix Espargaro. Espargaro has already collected top CRT honours, but will aim to celebrate that with another spot in Parc Ferme in front of local support. The grid will be two riders stronger, as Michele Pirro lines up for the Ducati Test team, and Austrian Martin Bauer makes another appearance with his S&B Suter with the Remus Racing Team.
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Several members took a field trip in May to visit the Alba Library and Museum, Alba, Texas, and the Parrott Park and Museum at Lindale. We were impressed with the collections of late 19th and early 2oth Century artifacts housed by both locations. It was a type of trip back in time with some of the tools and household furnishing our ancestors had and experienced from home to farm to local businesses and professions.
Of special interest at the Alba museum were exhibits of family information, pictures, and belongings. As well, items such as store sales logs, doctors records including an old birth log by one doctor, and exhibits of soldiers from the Alba and Wood County area serving in war and peacetime during the early to late 20th Century and including up to more recent military conflicts.
On the trip were members Ronnie Vance, Shirley Patrick, Dorothy Harbin, Shirley Bates, and Deason Hunt. In addition to the museums, the group held an outdoor picnic where they were alarmed (briefly) by the noon whistles at Parrott Park. In all, it was an enjoyable and informative field trip.
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Jeanloup Sieff, refined and light photographer of sophisticate taste, is well-known for his peculiar fashion photographs. During his life he works on: journalism, portraits, nudes, landscape and fashion photography. For many years he has been working with the most important magazines in Europe and in the USA.
Even when his notoriety was at his peak and his photographs exhibited all over the world, Sieff refused to theorize on his work and remained out of the critic art context. In this sense, he kept a certain distance from the majority of the photographers of his generation. Jeanloup Sieff expressed his sense of irony and his personal point of view on life and photography in his writing. Many of his books are composed by images and texts, full of brilliant quotes and with original and evocative titles. In 1990 he published Demain le temps sera plus vieux in which he outlines backwards his career as a photographer, telling many anecdotes about his private life.
The exhibition at Galleria Carla Sozzani is focused on a precise period of Sieff's long career: the fashion photographs made for Harper's Bazaar from 1692 to 1966. In 1961 Sieff left Paris to try to make his fortune in New York and he had a precise goal: working for the most popular fashion magazine of that period, Harper's Bazaar. He shared a studio with Frank Horvat, who was already at Harper's. At that time, he shot sophisticated and ironic photographs where fashion became the pretext of creating surreal and elegant atmospheres with a Hitchcock-like echo. The dresses, and most of all, the female body, became lines and material that the photograph valorised using eccentric and surreal framings.


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Chicago Teachers Vote to End Strike
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CHICAGO (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of Chicago schoolchildren will return to class Wednesday after the teachers union voted to suspend its strike.
About 800 union officers and delegates met for just over two hours before there was an overwhelming voice vote to suspend the walkout, according to delegates who attended the meeting.
The contract agreement with the school system still needs to be ratified by the more than 29,000 teachers and support staff who are members of the union.
Union President Karen Lewis said before the meeting that she was hoping teachers and support staff would go back to work soon.
"Well, I think it is the best deal we could get at this moment in time," she said.
Parents and city officials will be happy to send about 350,000 children back to class.
Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. school system, and the union struck a tentative bargain Friday afternoon. But on Sunday, union members decided to continue the walkout while they reviewed the proposal.
"We have 26,000 teachers, and they're all able to read this document and take some time to discuss its merits or its deficiencies, and that's going to happen today," union spokesman Jackson Potter said Sunday. "We're just asking people to be patient and let the process run its course."
Q&A: What's behind the Chicago teachers' strike?
The school system went to court Monday morning, arguing that the walkout violates Illinois labor laws.
"State law expressly prohibits the CTU from striking over non-economic issues, such as layoff and recall policies, teacher evaluations, class sizes and the length of the school day and year," the district said in a statement. "The CTU's repeated statements and recent advertising campaign have made clear that these are exactly the subjects over which the CTU is striking."
The strike also prevents "critical educational and social services, including meals for students who otherwise may not receive proper nutrition, a safe environment during school hours and critical services for students who have special needs," the district continued.
The union responded to the filing Monday by saying it "appears to be a vindictive act instigated by the mayor."
"This attempt to thwart our democratic process is consistent with Mayor (Rahm) Emanuel's bullying behavior toward public school educators," the union said.
Teachers walked off the job September 10, objecting to a longer school day, evaluations tied to student performance and job losses from school closings. Parents have juggled their families' schedules for more than a week to make sure their children are attended to while schools are closed.
This contract calls for longer school days for elementary and high school-age students, 10 more "instructional days" each school year and a single calendar for the entire school system, as opposed to the two schedules now in place, depending on the school.
The pay structure would change with a 3% pay increase for the first year of the contract, 2% for the second year and 2% for the third year. If a trigger extends the contract to four years, teachers will get a 3% pay increase. Union members would no longer be compensated for unused personal days, health insurance contribution rates would be frozen, and the "enhanced pension program" would be eliminated.
As is, the median base salary for teachers in the Chicago public schools in 2011 was $67,974, according to the system's annual financial report.
CNN's Kyung Lah reported from Chicago and Greg Botelho from Atlanta. CNN's Ted Rowlands, Chris Welch, Katherine Wojtecki and Ed Payne also contributed to this report.


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Professor Amanda Spink Joins Loughborough University
Professor Amanda Spink Appointed Chair in Information Science at Loughborough University.
She joins the Department of Information Science from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, where she was Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Science.
Professor Spinks research focuses on developing theories, models and empirical studies of information behaviour. She has over 330 publications and six books. Her most recent book, Information Behaviour: An Evolutionary Instinct (Springer), provides a new evolutionary and interdisciplinary theoretical and research framework for understanding information behaviour.
Professor Spink has been noted as an intellectual leader for Library and Information Science and for having the second highest citation h-index in the field. She has also recently been appointed Editor of the Emerald Library and Information Science book series.
Speaking about her appointment, Professor Graham Matthews, Head of Loughboroughs Department of Information Science, said: The University and Department are extremely pleased to have appointed Professor Spink, a renowned scholar in the field. Her international reputation for research in information science goes before her. Colleagues are looking forward to working with her when she takes up her appointment in September. We are looking for her to make considerable impact.
Loughborough's Department of Information Science is ranked as the top institution in the UK to study Library and Information Management (Times Good University Guide - June 2009) and has consistently achieved very high ratings in the National Student Survey and the Research Assessment Exercise.
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I have been trying to get support from Poco for almost 3 weeks now. No response to emails sent via the Poco menu and the form on the support page doesn't work - pressing "submit" results in an error message "Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/support/helpspot/lib/class.notify.php on line 66"
Half the forum doesn't seem to work either.
Even emails sent to <email@example.com> do not get a response!
Pocomail (was) a brilliant piece of software. Sad that it seems to have died. Support now is non-existent.
I would have been happy to have paid an annual license fee if it was a low number like maybe $20 a year. That would have transformed Slaven's finances. He was obviously a gifted programmer, but not a businessman. Too late to discover that now!
The task of finding a replacement for Pocomail that comes even close is a daunting task - particularly since I must export/import all my folders into the new client!
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kryton wrote:Valarya wrote:kryton wrote:silent_death wrote: ... With this, I would also proclaim that I would like to bring the members of the church together to vote for a permanent pope, to make us stronger! My humble vote goes to Kryton, for founding the Church and believing into the Newpix since the dawn of time.
The nomination has been recorded in the book of all wisdom, "A Dummy's Guide to TIME" http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Eastern ... #Hierarchy
Is there a second?
As a long-standing member of the Eastern Unorthodox TimeWaiters and She Who Stands With The Trinity - alone, together... I second the nomination/vote.
Accepted Valarya.
Since I am currently about 5 pages behind, I can temporaly ordain the results of conclave and ratify my past self as fully vested and ordained Pope of the Eastern Unorthodox TimeWaiters. *waves hands in a sideways figure 8 representing infinity*
Habuerint Papa Spatium (Will have had Space Pope).
Rise Pope Kryton the first.
Now that my past self has been ordained, I will leave matters of the church to him, I'm going to retire early , some place nice, I hear the weather in Florida is nice, my old friend Benny opened a bakery there, he makes such good kiniches, ...*dotters off into a cloud of space paradox on loan from the westerners*
Having finally caught up to myself, I accept this ordination as was proscribed by vote of conclave, and offer to my future self the honorary posting of past pope emeritious, defender of the tv remote, guardian of past things half remembered, accepter of blame for flatulence, and crazy cat guy at the end of the block.
Cogito ergo Popem.
My second official act will be to have previously posted accolades for Blitzgirl.
My first official act will be to offer asylum, sanctuary, and legitimate awarding of titles to disenfranchised knights just put a sufficiently large offering in the plate, thank you of the order temporal and send them on a quest to find my brother helper. He was last seen out west leading some group or tent revival thing that thought he was pope or something.


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We are an online chapter of the Embroiderer's Guild of America, Inc. (EGA). Our approximately 250 members come from around the world to participate in a lively and vibrant community of embroiderers. We are a diverse lot ranging from new embroiderers to seasoned stitchers. CyberStitchers is a group dedicated to embroidery in all in its facets: skill, education, community, and outreach.
We love what we do. Cyberstitchers welcomes all manner of needleworkers. From cross-stitch to canvas, surface stitches to stumpwork, traditional techniques to modern mixed media, if you can or want to stitch it with needle and thread – we welcome you. We love to learn new things and we are eager to see what everyone is working on. We enable encourage our members in their embroidery endeavors and challenges. If this sounds like a place for you, come join us!
CyberStitchers is dedicated to increasing our knowledge of needlework. We offer members multiple educational opportunities throughout the year, from EGA's Group Correspondence Courses to online classes to Petite Projects. Our members also share their projects and knowledge on special interest lists and on our general chat list. With opportunities to learn a variety of techniques at all skill levels, there is something for everyone.
Our chapter meetings occur via email or web page in a Groups.io group. Meetings happen every odd-numbered month (January, March, May, July, September, and November) beginning on the second Thursday of the month. Because members are spread across the globe, our meetings last five days so that everyone can participate. We take attendance by poll, so you attend at you convenience. Our officers meet for board meetings on even-numbered months.
CyberStitchers is also dedicated to community outreach. With members world-wide, we have countless opportunities to reach friends and neighbors through embroidery. One of our most popular outreach programs is the breast cancer ornament auction held every year at The Attic Needlework in Arizona, U.S.A. We also stitch bookmarks for Project Literacy (a program that supports libraries with literacy programs) and kissing pillows for U.S. and Canadian service members (a program that provides deploying troops with a remembrance for their family until they return from deployment. Individual members also perform Outreach for One: projects not organized by the chapter but performed by individual members.
CyberStitchers was the first online chapter of the EGA. We were chartered in March 2000 in the Tennessee River Valley Region as a full fledged chapter. Our members receive all the benefits of the EGA and chapter membership from the comfort of their own homes. Many of our members are also members of their local EGA chapters.
So whether you are looking for an on-line resource, a supplement to your face-to-face chapter, or an online EGA chapter because you live in a place that doesn't have one, come check us out. CyberStitchers is a fun, lively place. We're happy to welcome you.
CyberStitchers is happy to announce the newest class offer, Fleur de Lis by Lorene Salt. There are three different colorway options; check them all out on the store tab under items. Registration continues until August 15th. Remember, you must be a chapter member to participate - you can join under the membership section of the store
In this video Renaissance art meets technical tapestry brilliance. Raphael designed several tapestries for the Sistine Chapel and weavers in Brussels produced the vision. In 2010, Raphael's cartoons (the paintings from which the tapestries were made) and the finished tapestries were displayed together for the first time in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. See the history and journey of these magnificent pieces.
Video http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/videos/a/video-a-tale-of-two-raphaels/
Vatican Museums http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/z-Info/MV_Info_Arazzi.html
Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael
More information https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Raphael_Cartoons
(Photos & text provided by Meg Welch)
These photos were taken at Palas Mall (http://www.palasmall.ro/) in Iasi (pronounced Yash), Romania on March 14th, 2014. Iasi has had an annual book fair for about twenty years, and this exhibit was part of it.
The dresses are all made out of magazines, newspapers, and books. The sign in last photo gives a list of all the dressmakers. The dresses are all full sized and very well constructed. With no guard and not even a roped off area, they had already survived the whole week on display and looked this beautiful.
Iasi is an industrial town that is attempting to become the 2027 European Cultural Capital. Palas Mall was built in the past two years, and the name refers to the Iasi Cultural Palace that it is adjacent to.
Meg says, "We go to Iasi periodically since, now that we can't go to Odessa, it's the place we can go to get a bit more sophistication than in Chisinau itself."
Joanne M made these bookmarks for last year's President's Challenge. The bookmarks were donated to a local library in Ohio. Aren't they beautiful?
Mary D, one of our members, made this passel of bookmarks for our literacy program. They're cute and will be loved by the children who get them. Thank you, Mary, for your dedication and time!
One of the chapter's charities is stitching bookmarks for literacy programs. The President's Challenge this year is to ask each member to stitch one bookmark and one Christmas ornament for the breast cancer fundraiser. Here are six! bookmarks stitched by NancyAnn W., one of our members. We will be featuring more of these in the next week, so keep looking.
As announced in the meeting, you have the chance to win this beautiful beeswax heart!
Just complete the "A Little Gem" canvaswork project and post a picture in the Chat4 folder!
Here's the underside:
A bit of background on the heart: It was made in Moldova and was bought directly from the beekeeper. She molded the heart herself, and you can see from the back that it's truly handmade. It weighs about a hundred grams and measures two inches across and down, with an inch in depth.
As a benefit of membership in CyberStitchers, our members get a discount on one Group Correspondence Course per year. This is called the BEE program (Big Education Event), and for the BEE, the chapter will pay the postage and course fee for one of the 10 (on average) GCCs we register under this program each year. We'll begin registering for our 3Q BEE (Big Education Event) courses in the next few weeks. Our 2Q BEE registrations are now closed. The ten courses (and the quarter they're offered) this year are...
2Q GCCs (CURRENTLY UNDERWAY) -
Cleopatra's Cat
How To's of Swedish Naversom
Spring Splendor
3Q GCCs (REGISTRATION OPEN - ASK ABOUT SPACE AVAILABILITY) -
Brazilian Embroidery Purse
Embroidery with Mixed Media
Finishing with Flair
Floral Whimsy
Japanese Temari Basics
Spring Splendor
If you want to register for one of these classes AND have paid your 2012 CyberStitchers dues, send an email to our Education Chair, Ellen Sedlak. Put your name in your email, along with the GCC you want to register for!


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This paper presents a preliminary investigation into how introductory physics students justify their knowledge in an investigative science learning environment (ISLE). ISLE attempts to help students learn physics using the same strategies that physicists use to construct their knowledge. A coding schema, from naive to scientific knowing, is used to analyze students' justification of knowing, probed by open-ended and multiple-choice "convincing" questions. Results of the study support the assertion that students' epistemological beliefs are made as "context-sensitive resources." The results further suggest that the way that students develop the resources in a particular context may affect their justification of knowledge. ISLE helps students not only understand the concepts, gain the knowledge of the experimental evidence supporting the concepts, but also may enrich their epistemological development
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BWW Interviews: Debut of the Month - PICNIC's Chris Perfetti
Chris Perfetti is currently making his Broadway debut in the role of 'Bomber' in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of William Inge's PICNIC. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play is helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar) and stars Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn and Emmy Award winner Mare Winningham. The story follows a handsome young drifter named Hal who arrives in a small town on a balmy Labor Day morning. His combination of uncouth manners and titillating charm sends the women reeling, especially the beautiful Madge. When Hal is forced out of town, Madge must decide whether their fleeting encounter is worth changing the course of her life.
Perfetti's stage credits include Roundabout's off-Broadway production of Sons of the Prophet. Regionally, he has performed at the Geva Theatre Center and the Hangar Theatre. The talented, young actor recently spoke with BWW about his Broadway debut experience which he calls, "nothing short of an extreme pleasure."
Your path to professional theater took a rather quick turn when you were cast in Roundabout's "Sons of the Prophet" just months after graduating college.
Yeah, it's been kind of an amazing year. And Roundabout really has been such a big part of it. It's been two of my jobs but it's also been such a major influence. Doing 'Sons of the Prophet' two falls ago was kind of like a dream job at any point in your career, but to have it at the beginning, it was really kind of the greatest way to be welcomed into the theater community and to New York.
How did that come about so quickly?
I became attached to the play that Roundabout was doing in the black box which was called 'Suicide Incorporated' and that was going on at the same time as 'Sons of the Prophet.' And I had auditioned for Roundabout's casting director Carrie Gardner a couple of times for 'Suicide Incorporated' and just loved her and loved the play and I will always prize working on a new play above all else, so it was really fun to be doing that. And then I went in for 'Sons of the Prophet' around the same time and it was just a really good fit.
The play had been done in Boston and they were bringing it to New York and our writer Stephen Karam, who is so amazing, did all this fantastic work in between the two shows. They asked me, kind of as a call back, to come in and do this reading for all of the Roundabout literary staff and producers and casting to kind of hear the new version of the play. And I was so nervous. I was the only one there that had not already been signed on to do the show in the fall and so I was kind of auditioning with the whole production, which was pretty amazing but kind of scary. So that's how that came about.
I'm learning more and more that timing is just really the answer to everything. The part was originally written for a good friend of mine who was doing a movie at the time and couldn't do the show and that's the only reason that I got to do it. It kind of makes functioning in this business a little less stressful, just knowing that there's kind of a higher power!
True, but I think that talent has a bit to do with it as well! Were you familiar with William Inge's play before you were cast?
I was. I read it in school at conservatory and I don't know if it was because I was in love with so many other writers at the time, but I didn't really think twice about it. I thought it was a beautiful play, I thought it was a simple story, but it's only been working on it with Sam [Gold] and all these amazing actors that its depth and its nuances and its heart has really been revealed to me.
You mentioned the cast, which includes such theater legends as Ellen Burstyn. What has that experience been like and what have you learned?
It's very difficult to articulate it. It's been nothing short of an extreme pleasure. Something that I'm so grateful for. It's been so fulfilling, personally and artistically. Of all of the shows to have a very small part in, this has been something that I will never ever forget. It's been a real joy and that's because of all these actors. Ellen just brings so much into the room as a person, as an actor, so it's been really nice to be around her. She's such a great storyteller, it's a total gift. And she's such a good person and I think that really good people do some of the best work.
What do you think it is about 'Picnic' that still makes it relevant today?
It's so funny because I ask that question to my family and friends. Not because I don't know, but because I'm interested in what people have to say about it. I want to know what resonates for them. I think especially now, politically there's a cool sort of grasping the American dream where this country is now. I think there's something about taking charge of your life, if you really want something you can have it. I think a lot of people in this play think that way, especially Hal.
And I think what it brings up in terms of physical beauty and what's really important in life, I think that is huge. And functioning in society and equality and passing judgement on people. Hal and Madge don't have a good time of it in this town and it's because of all of that moral upbringing and that sexual suppression, and while we are certainly not living in the 1950's now, it's still there. There will always be a ceiling to butt up against. And I think it's really interesting that this play has preserved what that was like back then.
What was it like to make your Broadway debut?
It was just incredible. We were working really hard so it just kind of happened, but I will never forget walking into the theater from rehearsal for the first time. Moving into the space and seeing that incredible set that Andrew Lieberman has designed. Just being in a house that big and that beautiful, the American Airlines theater is such a beautiful theater. It's emotional, but it's so fantastic. This play and this company of people have really made it extra special.
PICNIC runs from December 14, 2012 to February 24, 2013 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street). This will be a limited engagement through February 24, 2013.


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The Environmental Protection Agency announced a clean air proposal that would reduce sulfur emissions by two-thirds and impose new tailpipe emission standards for 2017 cars and later – but reducing sulfur levels could be difficult and expensive for refineries. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
The Obama administration on Friday frustrated the oil industry by proposing tighter restrictions on sulfur in gasoline and pollution from cars and trucks — rules that the government said would be equivalent to taking 33 million tailpipes off American roads but that angered the oil industry.
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the regulations would have almost no effect on the price of gas, but the industry, citing its own research, said the price could be driven higher by as much as 9 cents per gallon.
The proposed rules were reportedly delayed until after the election because of concern over their tricky politics.
Environmental groups called the restrictions a strong step to protect public health. The administration said the standards would prevent as many as 2,400 deaths a year and save $8 billion to $23 billion a year in health costs by 2030.
Car companies also support the restrictions in part because they create a nationwide standard for sulfur, cutting production costs.
"The only ones against these standards are the oil companies," said Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club.
The main trade group for the refiners, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, said the standards were "completely without merit" and too burdensome for the industry.
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents oil companies, said the rules were part of a "tsunami of federal regulations," and would ultimately raise greenhouse-gas emissions because of the energy-eating equipment it will take to bring refineries in line.
"We urge the administration to bring common sense back into the regulatory process," said Bob Greco, director of the API's Downstream Group. "Unnecessary regulations just mean higher costs and lost jobs."
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Automobiles pass by giant wind turbines powered by strong winds in Palm Springs, Calif.
The Obama administration has already required the auto industry to double fuel efficiency by 2025.
In every state but California, gas can contain sulfur at a measurement of up to 30 parts per million. The proposed rule would reduce the nationwide limit to 10, bringing the other 49 states in line with California.
Sulfur in gas makes catalytic converters less effective, and when catalytic converters are less effective, cars produce more of the gases and fine particles that cause harmful smog and soot.
In addition, the EPA wants to reduce tailpipe emissions beginning in 2017 — cutting certain smog-forming chemical compounds by 80 percent and harmful particulates by 70 percent.
Car prices could be driven higher by $130, the EPA estimated.
House Republicans lined up against the idea and vowed to review it. Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky, chair of the House subcommittee on energy and power, said the administration "cannot be more out of touch."
Citing EPA research, deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One that the impact on the price of gas would probably be a penny or less.
Trading that "for tens of thousands fewer cases of respiratory ailments like asthma in children and thousands of lives saved is an indication that they've done a lot of work on this and a lot of analysis," he said. "But again, we're in the proposal stage, not in the final rulemaking stage."
The precise impact on the price of gas from the restrictions proposed Friday is impossible to predict, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service and GasBuddy.com, which tracks gas prices around the country.
Since the beginning of last year, refiners in North America have had it pretty good: They have enjoyed the cheapest natural gas in the world and, from Canada, cheap shale oil. That has meant fatter profit margins.
Several years ago, though, when prices were higher, refinery closures were common. And if refineries are under pressure as they are asked to convert to the new sulfur standards in five years, more could close.
That would leave the price of gas more vulnerable to price spikes.
"We've got plenty of time to prepare," Kloza told NBC News. "In truth, there are many, many moving parts in the oil business right now."
Lately, the price of gas has been falling. Since rising almost 50 cents to an average of almost $3.75 a gallon, it has fallen steadily this month and is almost back to $3.60.
A senior administration official told The Associated Press that only 16 of the 111 refineries in the United States would need to invest in major equipment to meet the restrictions.
Of the remaining 95 refineries, 29 already meet the standards because they sell cleaner fuel in California or elsewhere in the world, and 66 would need to make more minor modifications, the AP reported.
"It's been very prosperous," Kloza said of the refineries. "But history tells us it can turn very challenging very, very quickly."
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Senate Years of Service: 1953-1957
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DANIEL, Marion Price, a Senator from Texas; born in Dayton, Liberty County, Tex., October 10, 1910; attended the public schools of Liberty and Fort Worth, Tex.; reporter, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1926-1927 and Waco News Tribune 1929-1931; graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Tex., in 1931, and from the law school of the same university in 1932; admitted to the Texas bar in 1932 and began practice in Liberty, Tex.; co-owner and publisher of two weekly newspapers; member, State house of representatives 1939-1943, serving as speaker in 1943; enlisted as a private in the United States Army in 1943, serving in the Pacific Theater and in Japan until discharged as a captain in June 1946; attorney general of Texas 1946-1953; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term beginning January 3, 1953, and served until his resignation January 14, 1957; Governor of Texas 1957-1963; practiced law in Liberty and Austin, Tex. 1963-1967; appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Assistant to the President for Federal-State Relations 1967-1969; also served on the National Security Council and as President Johnsons liaison with Governors; served 8 years as a member of the Texas supreme court; resumed the practice of law; died in Liberty, Tex., August 25, 1988; interment in the family burial ground.