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In Antioch, the Inn and Tavern is an institution. You hit the corner or neighborhood tavern a couple of nights a week, if not every night. You go, eat, drink, socialize.
Fort Port started as a military fortification on the mouth of the Antioch River at the Known Sea, three days West of Antioch (the city). Slowly a small community had sprung up around the Fort and its tiny port. After decades of watching for Wapti, the militia was pulled leaving the few River Clanners behind. The Rat Clan took The Fort for their own, making it their clan house. However things were not grand as the farming was poor and the fishing not much better. But, there is always ships along the waters here. A great deal of traffic in and out of the river and along the coast. And so many things seemed to just "fall off" the deck and docks in these waters… finding their way here. And well, someone has to sell them.
With a florish of his sky blue cape, he deposited his delectable bundle on the table. He efficiently began to serve those who where sitting about the table. After the clinking of a few coins, he was gone. It was scene repeated day in and day out around the city, such was the way of the SkyBlue men.
Though he like a bit of the drink, he is the proper organizer for the district.
Avalon is set among the beautiful green rolling hills of the biome. The homes here are right out of a Maxwell Parish or Thomas Kincaide painting, little Tudor styled cottages and a quaint temple. They cluster around the central plaza, which is really just the intersection of three undertravelled Imperial roads (South to Antioch, East to the Villages, NorthEast of GreatRidge road).
This is the Arth component of the Random Villages thread. These are not so random, but the named ones and with a smattering of real randoms
To call TearDrop City a city is to be generous. It is one of the largest collections of SkyFolk on the north part of the east coast of ThirdLand. It gains its name from the TearDrop shaped rock on the natural set of the stone pillars not far off shore.
Avon is the southmost city state in Thirdland, built in a natural protected harbor. The climate there is colder and wetter than most parts of Thirdland, so the buildings are sturdier and more utilitarian than in Amar or Antioch even.
Often called a jewel in the Imperial crown, Amar is one of the most beautiful cities in the Imperium.
Antioch is the most important city on ThirdLand. It is not the "capital", that is Amar. It is not the "heart", that is Avon. Antioch is it's "Center". It is where things "happen". Antioch and its' City State seems to be the "center of the modern universe".
The measurements on Arth center around The Emperor and the Imperium. The Imperium imposes certain standards upon its subjects to make communication and trade between areas easier. Some of the most important was how much each coin was worth (and its basic size), the common language (imperial-low and high), and a system of measures.
The Worship of Danu has changed over time. Originally, the worship of Danu, was a worship of faith, rather than respect/ miracle. The worshipers were magically transported to Arth, a world of many spirit beings. Upon travelling to Arth, they accepted that there were new and mighty spirits to respect, but continued to worship Danu and the principle of Masque. Now, they have found that the master of masques exists in Arth. Their worship empowers Danu and in turn, he empowers his priests. Most KnownWorlders do not understand why the MaskLanders would worship a mere master. They do not understand the word Masque.
Some people are going to be the "new guy" all their lives.
Every troop has a shifty eyed grumbler. This is ours. He is also The Captain's Second.
A natural leader of men, his troops would follow him to the nether realms, because they knew he would bring them back.
No one finds the Remover of Inconvient Things, The Remover finds you. So be careful about what you whisper in the dark, The Remover may hear it and come.
Two cynical and witty old pentioners watching the world go by and commenting on it.
Corina Archerus is a researcher and a wizard. She is also completely blind.
He is a merchant of fine wines and the only source for sparkling wines in the region. His formal politeness makes him seem like a friend.
The Hand is the most important tool in magic. It can be used to trace symbols, focus attention and concentration, and allow for easier manipulation of mystical flows by tying certain actions to similar hand gestures. It is the ultimate tool of civilization.
If it was a castle, it was the strangest one he had ever seen.
He of course saw the main tower - taller than anything he had seen outside of Stoneholt, the spire looked fragile and was topped by a glassed-in chamber.
The outer wall was so gently sloped that it would have only stopped a horde of hobbling old men, an able-bodied soldier could stride up to its crest with little effort. Within one saw a huge, nearly perfect bowl-shaped area with the base of the tower in the centre, covered in hundreds of mirrors.
This structure is a massive solar collector designed by the Wizard-King Aardwal in centuries past. He used the concentrated light in his investigations into the magic of light, and in the fashioning of flash crystals.


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Have you ever been asked a question and thought, "Oh, that's an easy question! It's simple." Questions like that might make me feel smart, but they aren't very interesting. They don't make me think and scratch my head. I don't learn anything from them.
Our friend from afar sent a real poser of a question. Not easy to answer, but much more interesting.
The Question
I have a question. Which choice is correct? Please explain your reasons.
"Mr. Johnson is a very knowledgeable English teacher. He can answer any ………….. about grammar."
a) question
b) questions
My Answer
Another tricky question. This question isn't about grammar; it's about context. A and B are both possible solutions, but the most likely correct answer is B, "questions."
"Any" can indicate one or more than one. For example, "Go get any book" means the same as "Go get any one book" and "Go get a book." However, "Go get any books" means the same as "Go get some books." In your question below, as with many issues regarding grammar and word choice, we have to look not only at the specific problem but also at the message being conveyed. We have to understand the context in which the problem occurs.
Now, why is B the most likely correct answer?
The answer is in the context. If Mr. Johnson is a very knowledgeable English teacher, he can answer more than one question, which means he can answer questions.
Let's think about the message being conveyed here. If you think of any (one) question about grammar, Mr. Johnson can answer it. However, if you think of a different question, Mr. Johnson can answer that question, too. Thus, Mr. Johnson has the ability to answer more than one question. Again, this means Mr. Johnson can answer questions.
"Mr. Johnson can answer any question about grammar" is most appropriate in one particular instance. Let's say that Mr. Johnson has just given a presentation and that people have questions about grammar. Although he has the knowledge to answer all their questions (any questions), he only has time to answer one question. Knowing this, someone says, "Mr. Johnson can answer any question," meaning Mr. Johnson, because of his time constraints, is only able at this time to answer one.
Let's look at similar case.
If a teacher asks students "Do you have any question?" then the teacher expects the students to have one question. This is the same as asking "Do you have a question?" (In this situation, "a" is more common than "any.") On the other hand, if the teacher asks students "Do you have any questions?" then the teacher understands that the students may have more than one question. In this case, as with Mr. Johnson, "any questions" is more appropriate because it allows the possibility for more than one.

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Tiger says he's trying to change his stripes.
Nearly a year after a car accident outside his home teed off an explosive sex scandal that wrecked his reputation and marriage, Tiger Woods has penned a touchy-feely essay in Newsweek titled "How I've Redefined Victory."
In the 600-word, first person account, Woods reveals he's "more grounded" than ever and "not the same man I was a year ago."
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But he writes that he's still struggling to come to grips and learn from his failings.
"The physical pain from that car accident has long healed," Woods writes. "But the pain in my soul is more complex and unsettling; it has been far more difficult to ease—and to understand."
Having taken to TV in February to apologize for affairs, Woods now fingers the game of golf itself for leading him to believe he was "invincible" and could "tackle the world" alone.
In a section on fatherhood, Woods describes the small pleasures of making mac and cheese and watching cartoons with his kids.
No longer the world's no. 1 golfer, Woods expresses gratitude to fans, who he writes have been "kinder and more supportive than I ever imagined possible" since his return on the links.
Woods explains he's opted not to comment on new rumors surrounding his personal life because "there's no way I can dispute each lie without provoking more."
"Besides, everyone has probably heard more than they ever wanted to about my private life," he writes.
That doesn't mean he plans to stay out of the public eye.
On Wednesday, Woods reactivated his Twitter account, the New York Daily News reported.
He's also scheduled to appear on ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike" show Thursday morning.
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Syracuse deals No. 10 Louisville its first loss
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Nassib threw for 246 yards, Jerome Smith ran for 144 yards and Syracuse handed No. 10 Louisville its first loss of the season in a 45-26 victory on Saturday.
Playing in the last home game of his SU career, Nassib directed an offense that gained 524 total yards. Nassib was 15-of-23 passing and moved ahead of Marvin Graves as the school's career leader in passing yards.
BOX SCORE:Syracuse 45, Louisville 26
The Orange (5-5, 3-3) blew the game open with three touchdowns in the second quarter and Louisville (9-1, 4-1) allowed more points than it had in any game this season.
Teddy Bridgewater completed 36 of 49 passes for 426 and three touchdowns for Louisville.
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The Orange racked up 339 yards of total offense in the first half while breezing to a 31-13 lead at half. Smith piled up 72 yards of those yards on the ground, and Nassib completed 10 of 17 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns to Alec Lemon.
Syracuse gashed Louisville's defense deepest in the second quarter, especially on the three-play, 63-yard sprint that produced the Orange's third touchdown of that span.
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Louisville's John Wallace nailed a 35-yard field goal with 9 seconds left to set the halftime score.
Lemon roamed free through the Cardinals secondary all day, catching nine passes for 176 yards.
The Orange were content to trade scores with the Cardinals in the third. Smith rumbled for a 35-yard touchdown to make it 38-13 with 9:47 left in the third, and Louisville responded with a 44-yard touchdown pass from Bridgewater to Eli Rogers with 1:49 remaining to pull within 38-19.
In the fourth, Nassib hit Lewellyn Coker for a 3-yard scoring pass with 11:14 remaining, and Bridgewater countered with an 8-yard touchdown pass to DeVante Parker with 8:53 left.


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Genetic studies would solve this. One of the questions is how many of these mixes were not accepted into the white population.
How 'Pure' was the Average Afrikaner?
The ideology of Apartheid was based on segregation of races, yet if you look at the origins or heritage of the Afrikaner people the ideology is rather ironic. Just how 'pure' was the Afrikaner? Not very if you look closely at historical records.
An Era of Slavery
The first documented marriage between European settler and a slave was in 1656 at the Cape. Jan Woutersz married Catherine of Bengal – Jan was a caretaker on Robben Island and the family lived without discrimination in the community.
In 1664 a Danish soldier, Pieter van Meerhoff, became the first white person to marry a Khoikhoi, Eva. She acted as an unpaid interpreter and intermediary between Jan van Riebeeck, the governor of the Cape Colony, and various Khoikhoi chiefs.
It was also possible for a non-white to take a white bride. Christoffel Snyman, the son of a freed slave Anthony of Bengal and Catharina of Palicatte, married Marguerite de Savoy. The De Savoys were a prominent Huguenot family in the Cape.
Such 'mixed' marriages were initially more common amongst soldiers and lower grade Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) officials, but once burghers were allowed to pursue faming for their own account, rather than being directly tied to the VOC, it became more widespread. Senior grade VOC officials tended not to marry in the Cape since they would at some stage be returning home to Holland, where a mixed marriage would be frowned upon, or posted to another colony after a relatively short period. Soldiers and others tended to stay.
Genealogy of Afrikaners
Exhaustive research was carried out by Professor JA Heese for his book Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner (The Origins of Afrikaners) published in 1971. Professor Heese studied parish registers and numerous other sources to track down how many European (Dutch and German, mainly) settlers married non-European brides.
Between 1652 and 1800 over 1200 marriages were performed between white and 'black' or white and 'mixed blood' people. By that figure Professor Heese determined that approximately 7.2% of Afrikaner heritage is non-white. (Similar studies have suggested this might be as much as 10% in reality).
Professor Heese suggested a genetic mix for the average Afrikaner to be: 35.5% Dutch, 34.4% German, 13.9% French, 7.2% African/Asian/Khoi, 2.6% British, 2.6% Other European, and 3.5% undetermined. Hardly the ancestry you'd expect from such ardent segregationalists.


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Galicia is an Eastern European province, north of the Carpathian Mountains, belonging to various nations at various times in its history. The first Jews settled there in the eleventh century, but the part of their history with which we are concerned here began in 1772. Before that the Jews of this area led the normally harried lives of Jews in most Europe an countries, and the partition of Poland in 1772 merely began a new, not unusual, series of troubles. Poland was divi ded among Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and Galicia went to Austria, a circumstance which caused some Galician Jews to decide to emigrate to Slovakia. The Hapsburgs had the prob lem of contending with a number of nationalities within their empire, and they made strong efforts to assimilate these various groups of people; the Jews resisted this attempt at assimilation and were continually harassed because of this.
On October 13, 1780, Joseph II issued his Edict of Tole ration; although he was no champion of the Jews, he did not favor pogroms, which, he believed, were a threat to the political security of the state. He was an educated man, versed in liberal philosophy, and the Edict was supposedly a reflection of this, but in reality there was no improve ment in the Jewish situation - they were supposedly allowed to travel and live anywhere, but since they were not allowed to own houses, and since Christians were forbidden to rent to Jews, this was an empty promise. Jews were free to en
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gage in any of the arts, but they were forbidden to Join guilds. The situation was further worsened in 1782, when more laws were enacted; community government was dissolved, the rabbinical court was disbanded, marriages were controlled, bookkeeping in Hebrew and Yiddish was forbidden, government-sponsored education was made compulsory, a tax was levied on kosher meat, and young men were made eligible for the draft. The most serious restriction was the educational one. Herz Homberg, a progressive Jew, influenced by the ideas of Moses Mendelssohn, was appointed the inspector in charge of Germanizing the Jewish schools, but he was violently resisted by the Jews and eventually removed by the government. This, however, was an isolated and unusual victory, and it was plain that the Edict of Toleration was less a gesture of acceptance than an attempt at reforming the Jews and making them useful to the state whose harmony they were hindering. The Galician Jews, mostly shopkeepers, traders, and craftsmen, lived among both Poles and Ruthenians, peasants and landlords (who owned the towns they lived in and occasionally illegaly allowed them to be innkeepers), and the at best tenuous situation was only aggravated by the anti-Jewish laws, which forced many Jews into deviousness and illegal professions, poverty and immigration to Vienna, where things were not much better, and to America. After Joseph II's death, even nominal toleration was abandoned.
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With the advent of Napoleon, taxes were increased, books censored, and new petty laws were enacted to pressure the Jews into converting, as it was thought that Napoleon's Sanhedrin would attract the Jews to France, and the Austrian government, which expected the Jews to revolt, wanted to make sure that they knew exactly how welcome they were.
For a few generations, Austrian Jews lived in relative peace. There was more assimilation than before, specially among the upper classes, not because of harsh laws but rather because of the Haskala which was then spreading. There were even imperial-sponsored Jewish presses that provided literature for the Jews of Europe, the Balkans, and Russia, and deeply affected Jewish culture.
The Congress of Vienna (in 1814-1815), however, changed this. It limited the rights of the Jews to whatever countries were there at the time of the Congress, which, in effect, could mean that the Jews would have no rights at all-all rights formerly guaranteed could be revoked.[1] This was done by surreptitiously changing rights heretofore accorded to them in the several states to by the several states. In addition, the Holy Alliance among Russia, Austria, Prussia, and later France, formed for the stated purpose of creating a European community of Christian nations, did not concern itself with giving rights to Jews, and in fact removed some of the few already in existence.
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The 1848 revolution, a war between rulers and ruled, involved both Jews and Christians and was led by Adolf Fischhoff, a Jew. Jews were also in the new Parliament, which enacted liberal reforms and succeeded in removing trade, political, and land-owning restrictions and ensured full civic equality to the Jews. Franz Joseph, who was considered a benefactor, granted full citizenship to the Jews in l867. The lives of all Austrian Jews were much improved, Vienna was opened to Jews, many of whom settled there, and they became a vital force in politics and culture.
In 1878 the Congress of Berlin met to decide the fate of Turkey and the Balkans. Bulgaria, Serbia, and Rumania were already independent and were trying to persuade the European powers to recognize this. The Jews saw this as an opportunity to get England, France, Germany, Austria, and Russia to give Jews equality in the new states, especially in Rumania, which was notorious for harsh treatment of its Jews. The new states were compelled to promise equality but, as might be expected, they did not keep their promises.
The situation in Austria-Hungary at this time was especially turbulent. The Poles in Galicia, the Czechs in Bohemia, the Magyars in Hungary, and the Germans in Austria all wanted to control the people in their provinces, and all blamed the Jews for their inability to do so. The Jews had little choice; usually they fought on the side of whatever group
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was most numerous and powerful. The only exception was Slovakia; the Jews there refused to take sides and as a result felt the least repercussions. The situation was especially bad in Vienna, where Jews were harassed constantly by Germans, although it was the Germans whom they had traditionally supported. Franz Joseph was against this and insisted on equality in the universities and in the army, but he was ineffectual. Some anti-Anti-Semitic leagues were formed, but they were not much more effective.
In spite of this, Jews continued to leave the poverty of the countryside to try to improve their living conditions in Vienna. As emigration to America increased, emigration to Vienna for economic reasons decreased, but Galician Jews still came to study. They joined cultural and Zionist organizations, sometimes forming their own when they rejected the popular practice of dueling and focusing mainly on Zionist and cultural activities. While Galician Jews were emigrating, Russian Jews were fleeing to Eastern Europe after massacres in 1881-1882 and again in the 1890's after the enactment of the May Laws.
During World War I, the Jews of Lithuania, Poland, Galicia, and Rumania found themselves in the middle of the battlefield. Some Galician Jews fled to Vienna, but most of them stayed in their towns. As areas were captured and recaptured, each new victor in turn accused the Jews of siding with its
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enemy, and much violence resulted, both physical and verbal. Usually the truth was that the Jews sided with the country in which they lived, but they were routinely accused of disloyalty in cases of military defeat. In this case the situation was further complicated by the fact that Galicia was a Polish-nationality province under Austrian control, and its Jews were evacuated by the Russians because of their supposed support of the Germans. In spite of this, on their return they were accused of disloyalty both in Austria and in Germany, their supposed countrymen taking no notice of the alleged reason for their evacuation. The hardest hit by these shifting fortunes were the Jews in the border areas of Galicia and nearby Bukovina, where evacuations and accusations were always accompanied by atrocities coming from both the Russian conquerors and Polish neighbors.
The Peace Conference at Versailles was seen by some Jewish leaders as a place to settle the question of Jewish status. They organized a separate conference in Paris, with delegations from the United States, England, France, and several Eastern European countries. This Comite des Delegations Juives met to decide on a minorities platform. The Eastern European delegation presented a plan of minority rights that Jews should be organized as communities with separate cultures from the countries they inhabited but being nonetheless part of each country. The Western delegations
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objected to this on the grounds that it would cause charges of disloyalty to be leveled at these culturally autonomous Jewish communities; the Eastern Jews answered that they would be charged with disloyalty whether they adopted this policy or not, arguing further that within a stated system of minority rights, Jews could run their own schools and speak their own languages freely but be part of their countries at the same time. This was duly agreed upon and officially proposed to the Conference, which resulted in its being agreed to by Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, independent Ukraine and Germany, with added provisions for complete citizenship and cultural aid. Besides this, the League of Nations provided a place for hearings of minority complaints. Obviously, none of this was carried out.
After the liberation of Galicia and the withdrawal of Russian troops, many Galician Jews returned to their homes from Vienna, but a number of them stayed, many attaching themselves to the Social Democratic Party. It enacted some reforms which were regarded with disfavor by the land-holding church officials, who tried to offset land reforms by Anti-Semitic propaganda which resulted finally in the expulsion of its Jewish members by the Social Democratic Party they had supported. Many emigrated to Israel.
In 1919 the border areas of Austria had been partitioned, and Galicia was attached to Poland, being officially recognized as such again in 1923. This was of no benefit to the
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Jews in Galicia; accusations of loyalty to Austria and persecutions, both spontaneous and organized, were the result. The main opponents to this were members of the Social Democratic Party, which apparently was represented in Galicia even after its annexation by Poland, but ultimately the expulsion of Jews from the party put an end to any efforts on their behalf. Western Galicia remained a part of Poland after World War II; the eastern portion was kept by the Soviet Army.
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Man cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human; he can approach Him through becoming human. To become human is what he, this individual man, has been created for. This, so it seems to me, is the eternal core of Hasidic life and of Hasidic teaching.
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It is not my desire or my purpose here to present a full history either of Jewish mysticism or of the Hasidic movement that was part of it, but while I am placing the stories in a historical perspective, it might be well to examine the part of their people in the more specific scheme of Eastern European Hasidic history.
Hasidism is rooted in the mystical tradition of Judaism, from the Book of Creation of the seventh to ninth centuries, from which the Kabbala later developed, continuing with the Zohar of the late 13th century, but being precipitated, according to Buber, with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, where they had attempted perhaps most ambitiously to set up a real Jewish community in the Diaspora. Their expulsion from Spain provided some of the proper despair necessary for any sort of Messianic movement, and their treatment in the countries of their exile, together with numerous and frequent Messianic movements, intensified this.
One of the most important forerunners of the Hasidic movement was Isaac Luria, himself the center of some Messianic speculations. He emphasized personal ecstasy as a way for man to work with God to achieve redemption, rather than the number-and-word deciphering used by many Kabbalists. Based to a great extent on older Gnostic beliefs, his ideas used the Kabbalistic concept of a world emanating from God to say that man could influence God in his own life through
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ecstatic meditation and love of all. The movement around Shabbatai Zvi was a manifestation of this, stressing this ecstasy over reason and normal earthly life. This was offset somewhat by an exaggerated version of this ecstasy, an ascetic attempt to influence God by a kind of mystical ascetic atonement for the sins of the world, emphasizing heaven-and-hell fear rather than ecstatic love and climaxing in 1700 with a march of some 1500 people, especially Polish Jews, who went into voluntary exile in atonement. It was as a reaction to this tendency, among others, that Hasidism arose in the 18th century.
Hasidism seems to have been both a natural outgrowth of certain elements in Jewish tradition and a reaction to others. One reaction was against both false Messianic movements and the miserable and despairing conditions, both physical and spiritual, that preceded them. Another was a response to the increased formalization in the Jewish tradition resulting from the isolation of Jewish communities rather than from the current reaction to the limited access of Jewish learning to the richer and higher social classes among the Jews. Pshutei ha-am, the simple ones of the nation, the shopkeepers and waggoners, had almost no access to most Jewish learning, and they felt themselves isolated and comfortless in a hostile world that threatened them from the outside, while their inside hold on their culture became more and more uncertain.
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The Hasidic movement was begun by Israel from Mesbisz (Miedjyborz), who lived from 1700 to 1760 and was called the Baal Shem Tov, the master of God's name, who himself had a good name among the people. He taught that God was the essence of all things, that the way to God was through living one's life towards God, through joy and not asceticism, ecstasy and fulfillment and not self-denial, living hasidut (piety) and not ceremony. This message of joy was very attractive to the Jews of Poland, who had a recent history of massacres to contend with and who needed a focus for their sorely taxed faith. The Besht began his work in Galicia, and after his death in 1760 his movement was carried by his disciples to Poland, the Ukraine, Hungary, and Slovakia. The only place where Hasidism did not become popular was Lithuania, which was the center of Rabbinic Jews. Elsewhere its group of followers grew in spite of constant opposition and harassment by the Mitnagdim, the opponents of Hasidism, firmly entrenched in a rationalist Rabbinic tradition. In 1772 the Rabbinic authorities put a Cherem, a ban of excommunication, on the Hasidim, possibly as a political reaction to the partition of Poland (marriage with Hasidim was considered in some areas to be intermarriage), but in spite of this the movement flourished, especially after the partition of Poland.
The decline of Hasidism in its early form had already begun, however, and this decline came from two primary factors:
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First, the nature of this monument demanded a strength and dedication too great for most people, and from this came the person of the Zadik, the righteous one, who lives both in the earthly world and the heavenly one and who is, for the simple folk, the mediator between the two. While it was a more secure thing for the Hasid to believe in a tangible and infallible Zadik, it meant also a lessening of the Besht's emphasis on the individual and his importance in God's world. This would have been a shift of emphasis rather than a force for decline had it not been for the decrease in quality, if one can use the word in this connection, of Zadikim, many of whom were motivated less by righteousness than by greed for material and honorable gain. The Ruzhyner Rabbi[2], the grandson of the Besht, said, What can I do? It is not my choice. I am forced from above to take the road of glory and honor, and it is impossible to deviate from it. By the end of the 18th century, the role of Zadik had become greatly commercialized, and dynasties of Zadikim were founded, the office passing from father to son - those of Belz (Galicia), Sadagora (Bukovina), Ger (Poland), and Lubovitsch (Russia) among them. There were among them many sincere, righteous men, but there were also a number of pretenders, and in some cases all one had to do to be called a Zadik was to claim to be a miracle worker.
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accepted by much of Eastern Europe, in spite of (or including) the false Zadiklm, but there were other elements that contributed to its decline. Elijah Gaon (Elijah the Genius), a Rabbinic leader of the second half of the 18th century, began it in reforming the Talmud and pilpul, the discussion of its meanings and intentions, which had degenerated in some degree to a pointlessly infinitesimal dissection. The disciples of the Besht dealt with this by a compromised rational Hasidism[3], eliminating many superstitions and encouraging learning; they were active well into the second quarter of the 18th century. The last internal Jewish threat to Hasidism was the Haskala, the Enlightenment. It was part of the greater movement including the French revolution and the German social enlightenment. The Jewish Haskala, especially in the person of Moses Mendelssohn, attempted to release Jews both physically and culturally from stagnation caused by their isolation. They did this by publishing books, opening modern schools, translating the Tanach into German with Hebrew and Yiddish texts parallel, so that Jews who knew Hebrew and Yiddish could learn German. This attempt at stimulation, instead of transforming Jewish culture, only succeeded in leading many to assimilation. Perhaps the isolation of the Jewish communities was the reason, or one of the reasons, for their survival.
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LOIS ANN GEARY July 25th, 1929 June 28th, 2014 Lois Ann Geary was born on July 25th, 1929 in Fort Wayne, IN, the second of six children. The family moved to Cincinnati, OH in 1938, where Lois spent the following 23 years. In 1961 Lois arrived in Santa Fe, NM where she lived until her death. Lois was a fixture in the Santa Fe arts community, where she acted in countless stage productions. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, she also appeared in numerous films including Silverado, The Astronaut Farmer, Sunshine Cleaning, and The Last Stand. Lois was also a tireless advocate for animals, volunteering at adoption clinics, animal shelters, and with animal habitat conservation groups. Lois passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, June 28th, surrounded by friends and family. She is survived by her daughter, Janice Bledsoe of Augusta, GA; her sisters Georgianna Tombragel and Joan Blumberg of Cincinnati, OH; her sister Dianne Davis of Tucson, AZ; fifteen nieces and nephews; and her rescued pets Lancelot, Mamie, and Penny. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 3rd at 11 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 107 West Barcelona Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505. All are welcome. Berardinelli Family Funeral Service 1399 Luisa Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 984-8600
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Again, the million dollar question is, "Who is the Real Party in Interest as Plaintiff in foreclosure cases?"
PPIP Funds' Toxic Asset Holdings Hit $10 Billion
04/21/2010 By: Carrie Bay DSNEWS.com
Private equity investment funds, in collaboration with the U.S. Treasury, have relieved the market of $10 billion in souring real estate assets, purchased through the federal government's Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP).
PPIP was unveiled just over a year ago, under the guise of the original intention of the government's $700 billion bailout package when it was sold to Congress – to remove so-called toxic mortgages from the system.
The program has been widely criticized for its slow start, though new data from the Treasury shows it's beginning to gain momentum. Still, some market-watchers say the delay means PPIP, at best, will have only a marginal impact, since private-investor appetite for distressed assetdeals is growing and the previously gridlocked secondary mortgage market is starting to show signs of movement.
The Treasury published its second quarterly summary of PPIP activity Tuesday, which showed that the PPIP fund managers' holdings nearly tripled compared to the previous three months. As of March 31, 2010, the eight funds participating in the program had acquired just over $10 billion in eligible assets, compared to $3.4 billion at the end of 2009.
About 88 percent of the PPIP portfolio holdings, or $8.8 billion, are non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Twelve percent, or $1.2 billion, are commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). Of the RMBS assets, nearly half fall into the Alt-A loan category.
By the Treasury's calculations, the PPIP investment funds have $25.1 billion of total purchasing power, which includes $6.3 billion in private capital. The Treasury has matched the private equity contribution dollar-for-dollar, and also provided $12.5 billion in debt capital.
The Treasury cautioned that because the funds are in the very early stages of their three-year investment periods, it's premature to draw any meaningful conclusions about individual performance, but the report did include some preliminary stats on each fund's returns so far.
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Italian mayor of the day, 2012Peter Pino chosen to serve as Torrington's Italian Mayor of the Day
TORRINGTON >> The Torrington Chapter of UNICO NATOINAL and the City of Torrington are proud to announce Local Italian born Artist Peter Pino Italian Mayor of the day.
Pino was born in 1922 in Asti, Italy. He was educated in Art School in Northern Italy. His artwork has been commissioned in Italy, France, Venezuela, Argentina and the United States.
In 1945 Pino applied for a visa to immigrate to the United States, where his family lived in New York City. It took nine long years for his application to be granted. Peter arrived in the United States on Oct. 12, 1954. He worked as a cover designer for a New York company "Divagando." In 1954 he moved to Torrington and worked for the Torin Manufacturing Company. In 1956, he left Torin and started his own business, Peter Pino Advertising and Art Service.
Pino married his wife Maria, in November 1971. They have one son, Dr. Paolo A. Pino, Chief Specialist of Infectious Diseases, who is affiliated with Norwalk Medical Group, in Norwalk. Dr. Pino and his wife Cristina, have two sons, Lorenzo and Matteo Pino.
Pino, a well-known Litchfield County artist and sign painter, has restored many religious statues throughout Connecticut. His work can be found in Torrington and around the world.
The Columbus Day Celebration will be held Oct. 12 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Columbus Square with the laying of the wreath and raising of the Italian flag. Followed by a ceremony starting at 9 am at Torrington City Hall, that will include the raising of the Italian Flag, signing of Proclamations by the Italian Mayor of the Day in the Mayor's office followed by entertainment and refreshments in the auditorium. This year entertainment will be provided by the Nutmeg Ballet Dancers, the Amici Singers, and
Italian music for listening pleasure. The public is invited to attend and celebrate this very special day with Peter Pino a very special gentleman who served his community through his Arts. Any questions may be directed to Peggy Hotchkiss, Torrington Chapter of UNICO at 860-601- 8508.
Through the years, painting signs for advertising purpose in the field of commerce represents Mr. Pino's main work in Torrington. However his most challenging work has been the painting of murals in churches, halls, theaters, and statuaries. Among the works that have given Pino international recognition is the trademark appearing on every bottle of Asti Spumante, the emblem representing Saint Secondo, the patron saint of Asti. Pino designed the logo for the coins and mugs for the 250th Anniversary of the City of Torrington. He also restored the murals on the inside walls of the Venetian Restaurant in Torrington, along with designing the backdrops for the Miss. Connecticut Pageant. He designed the scenery and the backdrops for the Torrington Civic Theater, and in 1969 he continued his work with a hand crafted Nativity that was displayed for all to see on Main Street in downtown Torrington. In 1977, Pino painted a 10-foot mural of Christ on the wall above the Altar of Saint Joseph Church in Winsted.


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Word 2007 can hang the indentation of every paragraph you type. A hanging indent is an indentation where the first line sticks out to the left and the rest of the paragraph is indented. To have Word hang and indent a paragraph, you need to complete five simple steps.
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The CBA Young Lawyers Division is looking for nominations for the 2019 Gary McPherson Award for Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year. Each year the YLD recognizes a young Colorado lawyer for his or her outstanding contributions to the legal profession and the community.
The award is presented in honor of Gary McPherson, a Colorado state representative who was killed in a plane crash at the age of 37. McPherson was a devoted public servant who was active in the bar association and the Young Lawyers Division. A memorial published by the state house of representatives recognized that "Representative McPherson loved politics and serving this state, and he will be remembered as one of the General Assembly's most highly regarded and popular members; . . . [he] was an honorable, hardworking public servant who was respected by both Republicans and Democrats." Gary McPherson was named Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year in 1993. After his death in 2000, the award was renamed in his honor.
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Canaries Come Up Short Against Fargo
FARGO, ND -- The Sioux Falls Canaries cracked 11 hits on Tuesday afternoon in Fargo, but it wasn't enough to top the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in a 6-5 loss. Fargo-Moorhead won their second straight, and they have taken the first two games of the four-game series.
The Birds (4-8) stranded 11 runners on base, including three leadoff men, while defensive miscues gave the RedHawks extra opportunities.
The Canaries built an early 4-2 lead through 2 ½ innings on sacrifice flies from John Alonso and Nick Van Stratten and RBI hits from Kevin Dultz and Jake Taylor. But Fargo-Moorhead rattled off four straight runs to overcome the Canaries. Ryan Pineda's single scored an unearned run in the fifth inning to tie the game, and Jose Garcia flared a single to right field in the sixth inning, plating the go-ahead run. Garcia later stole home for a 6-4 lead.
Taylor's sacrifice fly in the seventh pulled the Birds to 6-5, but the Fargo-Moorhead bullpen staved off Sioux Falls the rest of the way.
Neither starting pitcher factored in the decision. Fargo-Moorhead starter Ethan Opsahl, who played collegiately at Dakota Wesleyan University, exited the game in the third inning after yielding four runs in his first start. But the RedHawks' bullpen limited the Canaries to one run on six hits after that. Nathan Kilcrease (1-0) earned the victory, allowing one run in 2 1/3 innings.
Canaries starter Adam Champion logged five innings and gave up four runs, three earned, with four strikeouts. Kyle Vazquez (0-2) suffered the loss in relief.
Alonso, the Canaries' designated hitter, had his best game of the season, going 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Van Stratten's two hits extend a hitting streak to nine games.
Zach Penprase gathered his second consecutive three-hit game for Fargo-Moorhead, going 3-for-5 with two runs scored. Every batter in the RedHawks starting lineup collected at least one of their team's 14 hits.
The Canaries and RedHawks continue the four-game series at 7:02 p.m. on Wednesday in Fargo.
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JPNN/New Delhi/Mar 29, 2015/First Indian woman shuttler to achieve world number one ranking, Saina Nehwal today clinched her maiden India Open Super Series title after notching up a dominating straight game victory against former world champion Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand in the summit clash here today.The London Olympic bronze medalist played like a champion to get the better off a Intanon 21-16 21-14 in a battle that kept the crowd hooked from the first point to the last at the Siri Sports Complex.Coming into the match with a 5-3 overall advantage over her rival, Saina was not tested much as the Indian was prepared for Intanon's deceptive game.Saina encountered her rival with her better movements and powerful and accurate smashes to eventually wrest her second title of the season.The girl from Hyderabad, who has been on a roll ever since her victory at the China Open, played
like a champion as she anticipated her opponent's moves and caught her on the wrong foot during rallies.Intanon, seeded third, seemed to be affected by her marathon semifinal match against Carolina Marin of Spain which lasted for close to an hour and and half yesterday.The energy-sapping clash seemed to have made her movements slow on the court as she struggled with her returns.The deafening cheers of the near-packed house crowd which chanted 'India India' and 'lets go Saina lets go', seemed to disrupt Intanon's concentration as nothing went for her in the match.(REOPENS DEL 42)Saina used her powerful smashes and rode on her opponent's unforced errors to lead 11-5 early on. She was up for the deceptive drops and half smashes which Intanon used to trouble the Indian.After the break, Intanon gave a glimpse of her superb game as she engaged in a long rally with the Indian and her wristy dribbles to narrow the gap to 10-12.
However, Saina didn't allow the Thai to threaten her as she anticipated well and retrieved everything that was thrown at her end. She closed the points with a smash whenever there was a chance.Intanon had no answer to Saina's accurate and powerful strokes as she ended up sending them wide and long or at net to allow Saina gain a massive nine game point advantage at 20-12.Intanon saved four game points before Saina sealed the opening game when the Thai girl hit long.The change of side didn't alter anything as Saina once again rushed to a 5-0 lead. Intanon gained a few points with her half smashes and deceptive strokes but the Indian still managed to zoom into the break with a 11-6 lead.After the break, Intanon caught Saina a few times at the forecourt but those were few as Saina raced to a 17-11 lead.Intanon reduced the gap to 18-14 but the Thai girl once again hit out twice to first give Saina the match point and then the title.Saina won the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in Lucknow in January, before becoming the first Indian women to reach the final of the All England Championships. She achieved her dream of becoming the world number one yesterday after Carolina Marin lost in the semifinals.Agency
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60 seconds with Sue Noffke on market impact of Brexit vote
The referendum result comes as a surprise and markets will look to policymakers to provide stability.
It is a shock for markets – the result was not one that was anticipated. We'll see an unwinding of the rises we've seen in markets in the past five days, and some more.
What it means in terms of economies is a shock to growth. We've seen a significant fall in sterling – that's going to have major impacts for UK equity companies but also people's appetite for risk. We might see a downgrade to debt in the UK and all these things are going to be working through.
Sector winners and losers
We'll see winners and losers in the markets – the losers are likely to be financials, consumer stocks, particularly housebuilders, and retail stocks, and the FTSE 100 is very international, so some of the stable, more international facing companies will be relative beneficiaries in what is likely to be a very difficult market today and in the immediate future.
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I think markets are going to be looking for stability and action from policy makers – particularly central banks.
Much is up in the air, but we are likely to see Mark Carney and other central banks, not just the Bank of England, provide liquidity to markets and look to really comfort investors with some actions probably around quantitative easing, possibly some unprecedented moves around fiscal stimulus, but very much co-ordinated action.
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Moon Origin
Over the years, there have been various hypotheses about the origin of the Moon. Historically, the major theories have been fission, capture, giant impact, and co-accretion. A chemical analysis of lunar rocks may force scientists to revise the leading theory for the Moon's formation: that the satellite was born when a Mars-sized body smacked into the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. If that were the case, the Moon ought to bear the chemical signature of both Earth and its proposed second parent. But a study published today in Nature Geoscience suggests that the Moon's isotopic composition reflects only Earth's contribution.
Junjun Zhang at the University of Chicago in Illinois and her colleagues used a mass spectrometer to make the most precise measurement so far of the relative abundance of titanium-50 and titanium-47 in Moon rocks gathered by the Apollo missions in the 1970s. The authors report that the lunar ratio of the two isotopes is identical to that found in Earth's mantle, within about 4 parts per million.
This presents a conundrum for the lunar-formation model, Zhang says, because any Mars-sized body that might have collided with the fledgling Earth is believed to have been chemically distinct. Studies of meteorites — the modern stand-ins for planet-sized bodies that once roamed the Solar System — indicate that such objects had an isotopic titanium abundance that could have deviated from the terrestrial value by as much as 600 parts per million. And because simulations suggest that the second body contributed more than 40% of the Moon's bulk, the lunar isotopic ratio shouldn't mirror the terrestrial value so closely.
Zhang and colleagues chemical analysis is not the first to challenge the impact theory. Researchers have long known that the isotopic ratio of oxygen in Moon rocks bears the same signature as Earth's mantle. But because oxygen is easily vaporized in a collision, it could have been readily exchanged between Earth and the cloud of vapor and magma that was produced by the impact and coalesced to form the moon, allowing both bodies to reach the same isotopic abundance. Titanium does not vaporize as easily and it would have been more difficult — although not impossible — for both bodies to have reached the same ratio, notes Zhang.
Other models that merit consideration, Zhang says, include the fission model, according to which the Moon was spun out of Earth's mantle early on, when the planet's centrifugal force might have exceeded its gravitational force.
But Canup says that although the collision model may need revision, it need not be abandoned. She has modeled a collision between Earth and a renegade protoplanet about twice the mass of Mars — heavier than previously considered. A more massive second body would have substantially altered Earth's original isotopic composition, leading to a newborn Moon and evolving Earth that are more similar than in previous simulations.
Zhang agrees there are still ways for the collision model to work. If the fledgling Moon had cooled more slowly than assumed, there could have been enough time for an exchange of titanium isotopes between the cloud of vapor and magma and the Earth.
The Giant Impact Hypothesis emerged as the leading model after a conference about the Moon origin in Kona, Hawaii. In the 1990s, Robin Canup picked up the research and created simulations to determine possible scenarios that might explain the formation of the Moon. The theory does explain many matters such as lack of iron, oxygen isotope ratio, and angular momentum.
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The last time Clyde Edgerton did a reading for the Virginia Festival of the Book, he had the audience at Culbreth collectively about to wet its pants. And this was with Lee Smith, no slouch in hilarity herself, the pair of them blowing poor, serious Paule Marshall off the stage.
Edgerton proved so popular a draw that he sold out this year's festival luncheon in a matter of hours.
Some writers chafe at being labeled "Southern." Not Edgerton, a North Carolina native and proud of it. "Everybody has to be from somewhere," he points out. "As long as I'm not described as a bad writer, I'm happy."
Edgerton is as quick to poke fun at his own foibles as those of his characters. When he was an undergrad at the University of North Carolina, he contributed columns to the Daily Tar Heel supporting Barry Goldwater. By 1972, he was campaigning for George McGovern.
Writing wasn't even Edgerton's first career. He was an Air Force fighter pilot in southeast Asia during the '60s. And when he returned to get postgraduate degrees in English in Chapel Hill, he planned to teach literature, not write it.
"I had to do something so I'd have something to write about," says Edgerton. "I was 33 when I seriously started writing."
The stories he wrote during his four-year apprenticeship got rejected "202 times." He sent a couple of chapters to UNC literary critic Louis Rubin, who liked the stories and, coincidentally, was starting a publishing house called Algonquin Books.
The 1985 publication of Raney, a story about the marriage of a Free Will Baptist and an Episcopalian, brought critical acclaim and some heat from Campbell University, where Edgerton was teaching at the time. The Baptist college did not take too kindly to his depictions of Baptists, and did not renew his contract.
Campbell's loss was ultimately UNC-Wilmington's gain, where Edgerton now teaches and writes.
The day he speaks to The Hook, he's babysitting his 10- month-old son, a three-year-old nephew, and letting the dog in and out. And he'd just finished revising his newest book about airplanes, tentatively titled Dusty's Air Taxi.
The author of The Floatplane Papers hasn't flown since 1991, when he crashed his plane. No one was hurt, but he concedes it was an expensive hobby, "when I probably had more time and money than I do now."
So Edgerton probably won't be flying up when he comes to the book festival to hang with pals from the Fellowship of Southern Writers like Richard Bausch, Madison Smartt Bell, and George Garrett.
And it was Southern connections that brought him back to Charlottesville. "I was asked to do a luncheon by [program director] Nancy Coble [Damon], the sister of a fellow I used to play baseball with."
In Southern writerly circles, there are no six degrees of separation.
Age: 59
What do you like best about Charlottesville? College atmosphere
What do you like least about Charlottesville? Bad traffic
Favorite hangout? Don't live here.
Most overrated virtue? Don't live here.
What would people be surprised to know about you? That I have a 10-month-old son.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My body would be more flexible.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? Publishing eight novels
What do people find most annoying about you? I don't know.
Whom do you admire? Jimmy Carter and Noam Chomsky
Favorite book? Blood Meridian
What subject causes you to rant? The war in Iraq
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? The same as any century... the freshness of springtime in North Carolina
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? The military-industrial complex and the tunnel vision and political power of fundamentalists worldwide
What do you drive? A pickup truck
What's in your car CD/tape player right now? Backporch music– bluegrass.
What's your next journey? To Durham from Wilmington
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? Controversy over first novel at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina
What do you regret? That I didn't interview and audiotape more of my relatives
Favorite comfort food? Vanilla ice cream and hot apple pie
What's always in your refrigerator? Vanilla ice cream
Must-see TV? None
Favorite cartoon? Boondocks
Describe a perfect day. Writing in the morning, with family during the day, friends in the afternoon, fire in fireplace–with wife at night.
Walter Mitty fantasy? To be a jet pilot– it was realized
Who'd play you in the movie? Me
Most embarrassing moment? Too embarrassing to repeat
Best advice you ever got? Follow no advice that doesn't make sense to you.
Favorite bumper sticker? The more I know, the less I need.
Clyde Edgerton<br>PHOTO COURTESY ALGONQUIN PRESS


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Raising livestock is one of the main sources of income and livelihood for many people living in rural or farm areas. Most people get their food from the animals that they are tending. But because of certain diseases, many of these animals are dying. Here are some of the most common diseases that cows, cattle, and sheep may acquire.Blackleg is very fatal young cattle disease. This disease is caused by bacteria called Clostridium chauvoei. These bacteria may enter your cattle through ingestion and is able to penetrate into the body through small holes in the digestive tract. The disease cannot be acquired from infected cattle to a healthy one just by mere contact. Some of the early symptoms of infection of this disease are loss of appetite, fever, depression, lameness, and quick breath rate. Swellings may also occur in the hip, chest, back, neck and all around the body. Death for the animal may occur from 12 to 24 hours upon infection. Vaccines are already available against this deadly disease.Bangs Disease aka brucellosis of cattle or contagious abortion is a disease caused by a bacterium called Brucella abortus. An animal infected with this disease will suffer from premature calving, usually on the 5th or 8th month of pregnancy. Milk coming from an infected cow may contain the bacteria and may present harm to humans, because this is the bacteria that causes undulant fever in humans.Caseous Lymphadenitis is a highly contagious infection in goats and sheep. The bacterium is able to enter the animal through open wounds, punctures, shearing, and oral ingestion of pus from abscess that has ruptured.Mad Cow Disease is caused when abnormal proteins occur in the cow's brain, spinal column, small intestine, and even in their blood. They can also be found in lymph nodes, and bone marrow. It is believed that this disease is able to enter a cow when that cow is able to eat a product which is made from other animals that have the mad cow disease. Humans are also vulnerable to this disease. Humans may acquire this disease by eating a meat or drinking the milk of the infected animal. Some of the early symptoms that cow displays if they are infected with mad cow are: difficulty in standing and walking, poor muscle coordination, changes in behavior and attitude, sudden weight loss, and lesser milk production.Knowing the symptoms of some of the animal diseases will greatly help you prevent an outspread of that disease. Once you find out that your animal has a disease, immediately ask for help from your veterinarian.
Colorado Springs Real Estate – Black Forest Homes | Real estate
Find your dream house property in the Colorado Springs real estate area of the Black Forest. This part of the Colorado Springs real estate area is located in northern El Paso County. The Black Forest is a rural area that is situated on approximately 200,000 acres of land. The area is heavily wooded with mostly Ponderosa Pine trees. Black Forest is a mix of older homes and newer homes. The northwestern Black Forest real estate area includes: High Forest Ranch established 2001-2004, Walden established 1965-2002, Hawk Ridge established 1994-2000, Wissler Ranch established 1996-1999, and Elk Creek Ranch established 1980-1993.Home Prices & DescriptionsMany of the homes for sale in the Black Forest real estate area are 5 acre house properties. There are mostly ranch style homes and 2 story homes. Some of the homes are custom homes and reflect "country style" living and some of the homes resemble houses that blend into "city living". Many of these Colorado Springs real estate subdivisions include features such as: multiple decks and fireplaces, slate floors, barns and garages, granite counters, and theater rooms.The minimum sales price for homes in 2008 in the Black Forest is $375,000. The minimum size Black Forest home for sale is 3,408 finished square feet. The minimum home for sale is 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, and a 3 car garage. The average sales price in 2008 is $650,000 and is 4,527 finished square feet. The average size home for sale is 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, and a 4 car garage. The maximum sales price in this Colorado Springs real estate area is $925,000 and is 5,646 finished square feet. The maximum size home for sale is 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, and a 5 car garage.One of the newer communities in the Black Forest real estate area is the prestigious High Forest Ranch. The Ranch has rustic custom homes for sale. There are close to 20 different custom builders to choose from. Some of the homes in this Colorado Springs real estate area are situated on 2.5-5 acres of land. Residents in the High Forest Ranch area have community lodge at their disposal for those special occasions. The custom homes for sale in this Colorado Springs real estate area range from $499,900-$3.5 million. Amenities for some of the homes include: multiple fireplaces, slab granite counter tops, vaulted ceilings, great rooms, family room, master retreats, theater rooms, billiard rooms, wine rooms, travertine flooring, outdoor covered decks, and wet bars. Many of the Colorado Springs homes for sale in this area have extensive timber and stone features.The Walden real estate area has beautiful custom ranch style homes with lots between approximately 1/2 acre and 1 acre in size. Many of the homes have stucco exteriors and resemble more of a "city look." Some of these Colorado Springs real estate neighborhoods include: custom cabinets, molding and trim, granite slab kitchen counter tops, hardwood floors, multiple fireplaces, 5 piece master baths, vaulted great room, stucco exteriors, perennial gardens, offices, recreation rooms, game area, formal dining rooms, wood decks with hot tub, walk-out rancher, and gourmet kitchens. Homes for sale in this Colorado Springs real estate area range from the high $200,000s to just under $600,000.In the privacy of the pines is the prominent Hawk Ridge real estate area. Hawk Ridge has homes for sale on approximately 2.5 acres or less. Many of the homes are custom homes with features like: hardwood floors, walls of windows, multiple fireplaces, French doors, granite kitchen islands, custom cabinets, hand crafted banisters, ponds, walk-out dining area, and large decks. The homes for sale in the Hawk Ridge community range from the approximately the mid $500,000s to 1.3 million dollars. This part of the Colorado Springs real estate area borders the Black Forest area.The Wissler Ranch homes for sale range from the mid $400,000s to $900,000. Some of the homes have luxurious living and family rooms, huge open kitchens, spacious master suites, home theaters, wine cellars, exercise rooms, recreation rooms, and 5 piece master baths. Many of the homes are on approximate 3 acre lots. Some of the homes are gorgeous cottage style houses with old world charm. The homes for sale in this Colorado Springs real estate area range from the mid $450,000s to the mid $800,000s. The Wissler Ranch community also borders the Black Forest area.There are some homes for sale in the Elk Creek community in the low $200,000s. The homes are located in meadows and in the woods. Most of the homes are on five acre lots and are zoned for horses. Some of the homes have beautiful mountain views and some are located in the meadows and have natural streams running through the properties. Many of the homes include barns, storage sheds, fences for horses, RV parking. There are custom homes in this community. Find your perfect dream horse property in this Colorado Springs real estate area. Amenities include: vaulted/beamed ceilings, large kitchens, fireplaces, skylights, multiple decks, oversized garages, and covered stalls.Schools.The schools of attendance are: Lewis Palmer Elementary School, Ray E. Kilmer Elementary School, Lewis Palmer Middle School, Creekside Middle School, and Lewis Palmer High School. The schools are part of the Lewis Palmer School District 38 boundary area.Neighboring Communities.The Southwestern portion of the Black Forest is located to the south and contains the Black Forest Regional Park. The Black Forest extends to the east. The Kings Deer, Canterbury, Fox Run, and Cherry Creek Crossing subdivisions are situated to the west.Commuting.The northwestern Colorado Springs real estate area of Black Forest is located near Highway 83 and County Line Road. It is convenient for commuting to Colorado Springs and Denver. This part of the Air Force Academy real estate area is located approximately 30 minutes or 22 miles from the USAFA main gate and is a possible Colorado Springs military relocation choice.Recreation.The High Forest Ranch community has miles of hiking trails and open space. It is close to the Tri-lakes real estate area. Three lakes and multiple golf courses are located in the Tri-lakes area. Shopping is close by in Monument, Castle Rock, Denver and Colorado Springs real estate locations.
Bad Graphic Design – A Must Read Guide For Serious Web Masters and Graphic Designers | design web
Bad graphic design is obviously something you want to avoid at all costs. Sometimes when you hire an individual or a graphic design or web design agency or artist to do a graphic design job for you, as a client you end up with an unprofessional website or design, leaving you without a proper website or design and without the money you initially invested in the web project. If you are a graphic designer or web designer, then make sure to give a 100% on every design project that comes across your desk. If you get a reputation for creating awesome work, you'll be able to charge a substantial amount more, which would then lead to the occasional referrals from the business's. If you create poor web design or poor graphic designs than you probably won't get any business or will have to retain your business at much lower rates than your competitors.What you can do to beef up you're graphic designs or web design business, in order to retain a larger clientele, is to start a small marketing campaign. Try experiment with new things, adjust what works and what doesn't You can also create ads and distribute them through various mediums like e-mail, door 2 door, flyers, banner ads, etc. When doing so make sure you are targeting the correct audience. It's important for every business to learn about demographics and analyze and research what you're client's are looking for and trying to fulfill your clients actual needs.The method to obtaining business and retaining it is real simple; it's a combination of many types of marketing strategies and having a great web presence and company Identity. Many companies have a professional web designer or graphic designer to design a corporate identity package for them because its permanent. You're identity cannot be changed later down the road, if a company changed their logo or identity than customers would not recognize or identify the old company identity with the new one, this can be extremely damaging for a business. Having a poor Identity design or web design from the start can ruin a business for life and anyone who has a business should avoid having a non professional design their identity or website at all cost.What set's a great graphic designer apart from a poor graphic designer is the motivation and the willingness to complete the work that's needed to be done. Ambition is the key to my success as a designer I enjoy what I do and am constantly investing in my skill by learning new graphic design and web design software, tips and tricks or whatever I need to know to make my designs better. It's important that potential clients, or anyone in the web design or graphic design business understand that while some individuals may have been trained and hold degrees as graphic and web designers, It does not certify them as a good designer. A professional web designer or graphic designer already knows the concepts of good design this cannot be taught in a classroom. So if you are looking to hire someone to design websites or graphic design make sure you review their online graphic design or web design portfolio before you go into a contract for web design or graphic design services or pay them to complete any design services.If you are looking to hire a graphic designer as a part of your full time staff, then a suggested practice is to give them a demo or dummy project to design as a test of skill. There is nothing worse than hiring an individual on the basis of their online portfolio but only later to find out they did not design what was In their portfolio. When hiring anyone its best to check their previous employment background and preferably you should require a letter of recommendation from either their University or their previous employer, this ensures you're recruiting efforts are a successful one.Why is bad graphic design all over the web? This is mainly because business do not want to invest the initial cost in creating a proper web presence or corporate identity. Many companies don't realize how important the two really are. Bad graphic design or bad web design gives you're customers a cheap impression. Would you buy from a physical store that was messy dirty or had an unprofessional look or feel? No you wouldn't, you probably keep your physical place of business in tip top shape. So why wouldn't you want to do the same for your web presence and Identity?You must understand as a business your identity and web presence is just as important as your physical presence if not more important. Studies show that more than 90% of the population do online research of a business before they buy. If you're business is non-existent or you're site is poorly designed, chances are that potential client or business will not even consider buying anything from you.Think about bad graphic design for a minute, than browse the web for at least an hour go ahead and randomly type different words in the search engine, visit as many sites as you can. Then go ahead and write down what the first thing comes into your mind when you see these sites copy the URLS as well. Then go back and review the information you collected.You will realize from the study that opinions are formed based on the visually appeal of site and not necessarily on products offered. So having bad graphic design or web designs associated with you're business identity is not a very profitable one at all. What is even more potentially damaging to a company is having no identity or online presence at all.Bad graphic design and bad web design can be prevented by investing in the right graphic designer or web design freelance contractor, or graphic design agency. Bad graphic design or bad web design can potentially harm or put you at risk of losing potential customers or clients. Avoid bad graphic design or web design at all costs. For more information and more articles containing valuable free Graphic design Resources please visit 99 Graphic Design Resources.Click here to get instant access to cutting edge graphic design resources: Bad Graphic DesignCharlotte Payan-salcedo has over 10 years of experience in web design, web development, and the Graphic design field. Please visit a popular blog created by the infamous Digital graphic artist Charlotte Payan-salcedo.


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Adam & Joe's Song Wars was the highlight of their last BBC 6 Music season. Each week the indie comedy darlings would pick a topic, or a topic was suggested, and they prepared a song for the next week. Amidst a flurry of Garage Band activity, the following week the indie faithful craned their heads to swallow up three minutes of hilarity, or shit in accordance with comedy's dependence on polemics. It was a revelation to hear Roger Moore on the show declaring his enjoyment of Adam Buxton's 'Quantum Of Solace'.
With this second collection, Adam takes side one and Joe side two. It has to be said Adam kicks Joe's ass. 'Festival Song' hits the yippiefication of festival-goers (and promoters, at the expense of band fees probably) as Adam gorbles "Load up the 4x4/It's festival time/We're stuffing the chill bag/With nibbles and wine" to a backing track that would cosy up nicely to a runaway shopping trolley scene from Last Of The Summer Wine. When Adam raps "Everybody over to the advert stage/Moby's on, oh yes/Then it's Groove Armada/With the theme from M&S/Then it's a bloke, that I don't really know/With a tune from a phone campaign/Then it's Suggs with the Iceland theme/Then Moby's on again" the hilarity breeds anger.
Adam's side is prone to toilet humour too - 'Nutty Room' contrasts mad scientist villain Hannibal Lector to gypsy lounge jazz and 'Special Bath' offers a pleasingly irrational hatred of backpackers. 'Bob Dylan's DVD Box Set' will strike a warm chord with Wire lovers when Dylan declares "My favourite one is Omar/But I love Stringer Bell/Did you know that he's English/And McNulty is as well." These moments of belly-laugh escapism were far more anticipated than a hot new band or sound.
This isn't to put Cornish down. He fights well. But he's a bit more grown up. The best song on the whole collection is probably his 'Bathtime for Bowie', the chorus of "Splish, splosh/Tonight's gonna' be Bowie bathnight/Splosh splish/Bowie is having a bath" is catchy fun and a Bowie impression can't fail to win. 'Antiques Roadshow' highlights how entertaining said show really is, whereas 'This Week In Grazia' uses a grace/swing snare, reigniting a love of long-lost rolling D'n'B, as Cornish reads out the magazine's contents page (surely literally). It's an index of word rubbish ("Winter's palette/This week's fashion fix/The fifteen new secret wrinkle busters have landed/Beauty bulletin/ Your new seasons beauty hot list") that rightly sends Cornish-as-reader into an anxiety attack.
'Song for Margaret Mountford' places the stern adviser to Lord Sugar as the focus of a slush ballad ("Standing at Sir Alan's side/A Trusted employee/A Handsome woman/With such dignity") and works a treat, and 'Dr Sexy' rollicks in soul samples and feels like a Flight of The Conchords song.
It's great when comedians can handle more than one brush, which Adam and Joe have done for ages. Song Wars Volume 2is only one feather in their Native American head dress but it's a nice one. These songs are far more than mere novelties and the faux Dave Brubeck/jazz sleeve pastiche is brilliant. The prospect of another Adam and Joe season was the determining factor in my voting to save 6 Music, I'd imagine I'm not alone.
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