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Translated to English by Zvika Zmora Our town was known as a twinning town, divided by the river Nurzec that flows onto the Bug. The river bestowed a few advantages on the town some of them economic and some for the pleasure of the people.
The connection between the two parts was by means of bridges. There were de alte bricken (the Old Bridges) near the flour-mills of Zilberberg-Winer, that burned down together with the town in World War I. When the Germans entered the town, they built new bridges that were called de naye bricken (the New Bridges). Their location was not far from the former bridges. These bridges were burned down later, when the Polish army retreated under the pressure of the Bolsheviks in 1920, but they were renewed after some time.
For us, the youngsters, the river was a continuous source of aquatic entertainment bathing and boating. We used to rent boats from Yankel Der Fisher who lived in Dvoritz. It was an ancient building, built years ago by Graf Checherski, who owned the lands in and around the town. The house was built in the style of a castle in the middle of an orchard. Before WWI, the house was inhabited by officials of the Russian authorities, but after the town was burned down, the house was occupied by some poor homeless families among them Yankel Der Fisher . Near the house there was an anchorage for boats that once used to entertain the Czar's officials. Later on it accommodated Yankel's boats for our pleasure, the Ciechanowiec youngsters.
Each season we derived different pleasures from the river. In winter, when the river froze, the town's youngsters used it for winter sports. When summer arrived, the town would actually reside at the banks of the river and in its water. The banks were especially crowded on Friday afternoon. Then the river would be bustling with many bathers who came to cleanse themselves in honor of Shabbat.
In the Ciechanowiec school boys and girls studied together. When they arrived at the river, they split according to gender and bathed in separate parts, since in those days bathing suits were not known yet in Ciechanowiec. The girls used to bathe near The Kazarer Kartshes behind the tall bushes, and any man who controlled his impulse would not dare turn his head and peep beyond the permitted boundary. Yet, young people who would be overcome by their impulse, would sneak secretly and peep beyond the bushes. Contemporary jokers would say, They only tasted, but nothing was wasted. The town's elders would move heaven and earth, claiming that the river was inciting the young people and corrupting their good virtues. But that was a futile attitude, since even after bathing suits became common, bathing together remained illegal.
There was a prevalent myth in our town that every year the river demands its sacrifice. Indeed, I remember several cases of drowning. I especially recall the drowning of the boy Berele Steinberg, that left us grief-stricken.
The river constituted the main source of drinking water for the citizens of the Naye Stadt. There was no plumbing system, and water for drinking and washing would be carried in buckets. Most families used to bring the water from the river themselves; but people of means would use the services of Chayim ²Ïjbeh, who made a living this way. Those who lived far from the river used to pump water from wells. There were two wells one in the center of the market; the second on the hill in Wolya. People of refined taste pumped the water for boiling tea from the one on the hill, because it was distilled and tasted better.
The river also served as a collective refrigerator. At those times there were no electric or even regular refrigerators. In winter we used to saw big lumps of ice and store them in cooling cellars (livdavnayes). The ice was used for keeping cooked-food cool, for the soda pop industry and mainly for the tasty marojna (ice cream), that was made purely from eggs, sour cream and milk. Shloimele Gonsior was the owner of a cold drinks factory and also of a big cooling cellar. When somebody was sick and needed ice to lower his temperature, Shloimele would give the ice for free, as a mitzva.
At fall the river would change tremendously. It would be covered with a carpet of leaves and reeds, and it looked like one could slice its water. But in the season when the snow melted, the river would lose its temper, and the sight was dreadful.
Our town was abundant with beautiful natural sites of which the crown was the forest. It was a pine forest that spread over many kilometers and actually touched the outskirts of the town. Close to the forest there stood some wooden houses, which before WWI were used as summer dwellings for vacationers who came from Warsaw, the capital city.
The forest was divided by a road that led to Czyzew. At a distance of 3-4 kilometers the road diverged to two directions: one led to Czyzew, and the other one led to Danir (Nur). The one to Czyzew led a from there to Malkin and to Treblinka The crossing place was called Zakret (a turn). This place was the destination of those hikers who would take a longer trip.
On sunny days, especially on Saturdays, the forest was bustling with vacationers. In the evenings it was taken over by the youngsters.
The forest was especially beautiful in winter, when it was wrapped with snow and frost. In winter the road became a battle field of snowball (gomulkes) fights.
I was told by older people that in the time of the Czar, the forest had been used as a secret assembly place by illegal political parties. But sometimes, it also served as a hiding-place for bandits, who used to rob the cart drivers who traveled through the forest.
During those wonderful years of childhood and adolescence, when we drew plenty of joy and delight of youth from the forest, we could not foresee that on this same route, on the road that crossed the forest, the people of our town would pass on their last march to the crematoriums of Treblinka.
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Brian McLaren has grown tired of evangelicalism. In turn, many evangelicals are wearied with Brian. His most recent book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (HarperOne), must be understood as his latest iteration of a project of deconstructing the old and reconstructing a new kind of Christian faith. In it, he poses a question that this review will seek to answer. It is a question he asks of himself: "How did a mild-mannered guy like me get into so much trouble?" Or, as he asks one page later, "How did I get into this swirl of controversy?"
As a friend and a chronicler for two decades, I have watched Brian's work. Generous Orthodoxy gave us a critique of both sides and some glimpses of a third way, even if the book frustrated to no end by leaving too many loose ends dangling. I thought both The Secret Message of Jesus and Everything Must Change provided us with what could become an evangelical social gospel. Along the way, Brian has poked evangelicals in the eyes and chest by fixating on sensitive spots that bedevil them—not the least of which is the uneasy connection between the "spiritual" gospel and the "social" gospel. If evangelicalism is characterized by David Bebbington's famous quadrilateral—that is, biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and activism—then Brian has poked and, to one degree or another, criticized, deconstructed, and rejected each.
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I finally broke down and ordered a new laptop computer, and it arrived this weekend. This old one I've been using for the past four years has served me well — as has the software — but it was time for an upgrade. Bigger screen, better hand positioning, a key pad (oh, how I hate having to hunt and peck for numbers!) will all make my writing easier — once, of course, I get comfortable with the new machine.
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Michael Woo fenced with the Crimson's foil squad that highlighted a 4-1 weekend for Harvard (Gil Talbot).
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"I feel a little bit like in 2007; quite numb," Hamilton said. "It's quite mixed emotions at the moment; I feel sad that we were leading and we didn't get to see through the race - I love to always see the end of the race - and obviously because I'm leaving. But I'm excited also for the future, so I'm looking forward to just having a new start next year and hopefully eventually at some stage I'll have a little bit of luck going my way."
Hamilton revealed that Hulkenberg had also failed to apologise to him immediately after the race.
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Sadly, the poll plug in doesn't offer a "other" option along with the means to fill in an answer. But you're welcome to respond in the comments with ideas.
Shameless was brought about by mostly one or two regular persons who believed the forum (which originally had 100s of threads covering everything) had no right to point out how abysmal some ones' work was. In many instances the advice was very valid and even polite. But some rare ones did not welcome it. It seemed to shock them that people in an open forum were actually able to leave comments.
So was born Shameless, where still abysmal things were promoted. Some so bad they did warrant comments in the forums, which were still not welcome. But not by the promoter, but by just one regular to the forums. One common comment was very valid and helpful, such as - it would help if you actually linked to what you are promoting in Shameless! It was worryingly rare to see a name in Shameless that had ever appeared in the forum, asking for advice, when it was clear to all they needed some. Because Shameless seemed to be standalone place, not connected to the forums, I doubt some of the promoters even knew the forum exists, nevermind the Knowledge Base.
Anyway, the old one was hard to use. It seemed to be sectionalised. A part for text. A part for a picture, and another for a link. It was hard to manipulate. It used to sort of blog tool. There was also a strange default link in every posting to some Comments place that had no content.
If it is to be brought back then just create another forum thread, not some totally different area. I am sure they can be set to disallow comments if need be. User set even perhaps.
Then maybe it should be brought back. The qualifier is due to how often promotions were done without a marketing image, without a blurb, without a link and so on.
If Shameless Promotion could be modified so that the adverts had a minimal level of quality [i.e.: having an associated image / blurb / link], then I'd say yes whereas if not I'd say no..
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Kevin - if it came back it would be as a single thread with a "guide" for posting so the posts looked mostly uniform, but without all the non-working bells and whistles from the past.
Sphinx - if it comes back, I would sticky a "guide" at the top of the thread with minimum requirements and remove posts that did not adhere.
Yes, but please call it something more professional rather than the self-deprecating "Shameless."
Yes, the old one was hard to use and confusing. However. we need a place to promote. I have been at a loss for a place to promote recently.
I don't know a single successful author who would promote under a title like that. We have to dress the part before we become it. We are successful. We do not associate with the word "Shame."
wildwind PublisherI no longer care one way or the other. Has anyone ever made
a sale based on a Shameless Promotion? Probably not. Selling
books requires attention to detail, but most of all it requires
skill in using emotive language. You have to lure the reader in.
How do you do that? With your blurb. Most of the Shameless Promotion
posts seemed to run along the lines of ...'I've published a book.
Meh. Buy it, if you want.'
It was once useful because it reached Google feeds. Now only lulu users can see it. And, I just discovered that one can't even see our signature unless they are signed in. Furthermore, one can't read profiles or browse unless they are signed in. This is not the case with other forums. I say open it up. Help lulu authors sell.
Hmm..my signature is gone even when signed in...using Smartphone...
I believe signatures only work on a browser with the current mobile theme. I only added to mobile themes as the baseline when we started up the new forum, so I can look at adding more in time.
While I actually view these forums on mobile often, our data shows the vast majority of users are on desktop, so I tried to focus on that from the onset.
Unlike the old forums that required a sign in to view content, everything on here should be viewable by "guests."
I am seeing the profile viewing redirects me to sign in - I hadn't realized that and it wasn't set that way in our test environment, so I'm sure it's a setting I can adjust once I pin it down.
Hi Paul,
Using PC now. I can see my signature both when I'm signed and not signed in.
Ron Miller ProfessorI agree with Maggie that the name of the forum could be a little more dignified.__________________________________________
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At times they were shameless! Often with multiple postings of the same thing. The first, and I think the second also, incarnation of the forums, had a similar section, but I cannot recall what it was called, but not Shameless. How about something like My New Book? One problem was and still will be, is that as postings are added, they scroll off down the page. Although presumably those who wish to will have viewed them before they do. Although there should be some method of stopping multiple postings promoting the same thing, which is unfair because it just makes the rest scroll down faster.
Oh and another thing the original forum had was when one clicked on a poster's name it opened up their Storefront.
Hi Kevin, very nice to see you back. I agree that it would be good to be able to link profiles to storefront.
Thanks Maggie. It may only be temp though.
"Announce Your New Work!" or "Self-Promotion Lulu-Style!" might be good titles...
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Maggie said:Hi Kevin, very nice to see you back. I agree that it would be good to be able to link profiles to storefront.
I made a Wix page to be able to link all my books in one signature. That seemed the best solution.
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I like "Announce Your New Book" or About My Book. This will inspire people to explain what their book is about.
BksOfBrown CreatorSimply - New Book Released Announcements/Promotions!
I've got an idea about how to do this within the new structure that I think may work pretty well. I'm working on putting it together, but I think I might add it as a new category later this week or early next.
My one remaining question before I do anything: Do we bring back all the old content from Shameless? Or just start fresh?
Some of the old content lost the cover images associated with the post, but otherwise they are intact.
Em_Press ProfessorStart fresh.
I like New Book Released.A citizen of the world.
Actually, it seems to happen automatically (unless some kind human at Lulu places them there?) When I click Shop I am greeted with this just down the page > New UK Authors Showcase, and a very few books can be scrolled across. I assume the same applies to other countries. If Lulu's system places them there automatically, then they are already promoted. If a human does it, do they place them all there? There's just a few for the UK. (Ah, OK, looking at the US site it says > Up & Coming Authors. Which is not the same thing. But there is far more there.


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HS seals, available in solid and split executions, are all-rubber seals, designed without any reinforcement. They are manufactured oversized relative to the housing bore diameter and depth to enable proper compression and stability. A cover plate (fig 1 and fig 2) is required to compress the seal axially, helping to stabilize the seal in the housing bore.
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HS6 seals (fig 11) are designed with a spring-loaded sealing lip and an SKF Springlock (fig 12). They feature a separate loose spring and a hook-and-eye spring connection for shaft diameters > 455 mm (18 in.) unless otherwise specified (fig 13). Smaller sizes of HS6 seals come with a threaded spring connection. For a proper fit in the housing bore, a cover plate (fig 14 and fig 15) is required.
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NHL players wouldn't have voted down the proposal put forth by the league this week.
At least I don't believe they would have.
Neither does Don Fehr. Otherwise there would have been a vote. And there should have been one. Maybe there still should be.
I understand Fehr's job is to get the best deal for his players and holding a vote could undermine his bargaining position. But we're at the brink. The season is on the line. If the NHL loses the season, the next offer it makes will very likely put next season in jeopardy as well. I'd say it's time to take the temperature of the players as a whole.
There's lots to lose. If I was a player, I'd want a vote. Not a show of hands but an anonymous vote.
I'm in a union. Sometimes the agendas of leadership and its constituents don't coincide. It happens for many reasons. They can be practical, ideological or sinister. Take your pick.
Both the union and ownership will be happy to spin things their way right now. My job, and yours for that matter, isn't to buy everything or anything they have to say. It's to listen and sift and sort and come to an opinion.
Long ago in this process I took the position that a 50-50 split of hockey related revenues and less player mobility was best for this market and the Winnipeg Jets.
In case you don't recall, this city once lost its NHL franchise and its fans paid a heavy emotional debt for 15 years. Excuse me if I care less about the rights of millionaire NHL players that move in and out of our community and more about the people that shop at my grocer and buy this newspaper and pay taxes that support our infrastructure.
Call me pro-owner. I'll look you in the face and tell you I'm pro-Winnipeg and be very happy to do so. Don Fehr doesn't care about the health of this franchise. He cares about player rights. That's what he was hired to do. But I don't have to sing from his song book.
Fehr has fought a good fight. Brilliant at some points. But he's on the verge of flying too close to the sun. Some of his players, and my guess is a majority of them, realize this.
There comes a point when the loss of real dollars outweighs the victories of principle Fehr is chasing. He's out-bluffed the owners again and again. But sooner or later he's going to get called.
Right now he's telling the players there's more to be had. It's easy to see Fehr's argument and he's been consistently right. The owners have continually caved.
But when he's wrong the price will be staggering. Some players will be unable to return from the abyss. So, shouldn't they decide if they want to make that blind leap?
Fehr says he works for the players and they make all the decisions. Again, I don't believe that. There is a tight power base that controls the rest of the group. Not every player in the league has a say. Unions simply don't function that way.
The players bristle at the suggestion they are cattle but in every union there has to be some shepherding. Leadership bullies those that don't fall in line.
Right now the players are projecting a united front. It's what they've been schooled to do. I just don't think it's entirely authentic.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Certainly some of the more vocal players Thursday night on Twitter would suggest so. But I believe there is a silent majority that is afraid to use its voice.
A deal was there to be made this week and it had a little something in it for both sides. It should have closed, but Fehr and his lieutenants, for their own reasons, didn't like it. Their voices were loudest.
The union likes to say every player has a voice. I say it's time to hear them all.
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It is time for a public debate on whether and how to wage war in cyber space
A chorus of alarmists is raising the specter of cyberwarfare and urging the militarization of the Internet to ensure our national security against online attacks.
"The United States is fighting a cyberwar today and we are losing it," former National Security Agency chief and national intelligence director Mike McConnell wrote in a recent op-ed column in the Washington Post. "It's that simple."
It is neither simple nor true. Failure to distinguish between real acts of war and other malicious behavior not only increases the risks of war, but also distracts us from more immediate threats such as online crime. Before we plunge into a Cold War-style arms race with perceived online enemies, we should engage in a public dialog and decide exactly what cyberwar is, who should fight it and how to do it.
Words have consequences. War entails specific risks and responsibilities and should not be entered into lightly. The Constitution lays out requirements for engaging in war, and the United States is a signatory to treaties that impose legal restrictions on conducting warfare, such as distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants and military and non-military targets. And once a nation engages in an act of war, it invites retaliation, regardless of its motives.
As of now, we have no workable definition of what constitutes cyberwar, and more often than not we lack the ability to accurately distinguish it from act of online vandalism.
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Recent comments by White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt in a Wired magazine interview were a breath of fresh air. "There is no cyberwar," Schmidt said. "I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept."
What the United States and the rest of the world deal with on a daily basis in cyberspace typically are crime and espionage. These are bad things, but they are not warfare. James Lewis, who helped lead the Center for Strategic and International Studies' study on cybersecurity for the 44th presidency, recently called cyberwar a "loaded term."
"No one has yet entered into cyberwarfare," Lewis said. Warfare consists of more than vandalism, inconvenience or even theft, he said. "As you move toward damage and casualties, then you cross the threshold."
None of these reservations means that the threat of actual cyberwar does not exist. The United States and a number of other countries are actively pursuing the capability to wage cyberwar as well as defend against it. "They have done the reconnaissance, they have done the planning and developed the tools," Lewis said.
A good way to prevent the use of these tools is to have a clear understanding of the rules under which they are to be used and the consequences for using them. To date we have not done a very good job of this. Former presidential advisor Richard A. Clarke, in his forthcoming book, "Cyber War," likens the situation to the nuclear proliferation of the 1950s.
"In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the U.S. developed and systematically deployed a new type of weapon, based on our new technologies, and we did so without a thoughtful strategy," he writes. "We created a new military command to conduct a new kind of high-tech war, without public debate, media discussion, serious congressional oversight, academic analysis, or international dialogue."
Not only would such a dialogue help to define the conditions and rules for cyberwar, but they would free us to better deal with the very real threat of cybercrime. If we are not able to see cybercrime for what it really is, we will not be able to effectively deal with it. If the so-called war on drugs has taught us anything, it is that declaring war against a criminal activity is likely to fail.
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Cyber warfare has already occured, back in the 40's. We didn't have the internet as it exists today but we did have a world-wide network, web if you will, of telphone, telegraph, and most important, radio, that comprised the 1940 WWW. It's the same thing it just used cutting edge tech of the day. When you target the perception of an enemy in an effort to prevent them from knowing the truth or warp their concept of reality, or when your computer reaches out to the bad guys computer and changes data that affects his descision making capability, that is cyber warfare. What about all the manipulaiton of information and perception management that occured during the conflict in Kosovo, Serbia? Anybody remember the headless baby tht was used hundreds of times to show how barbaric the US was? That is Cyber warfare my friends and Lewis needs to take off his coldwar blinders. He still lives in the SAC-B-52, missile in a hole targeting mentality. I once went toe-to-toe with an Air Force General with a pocket-rocket who told me I knew nothing about targeting and that targeting could not be done using a computer to attack another computer and not considered warfare. He told me "I used to put coordinates in a missile computer aimed at the bad guys, that, Sergeant, is Targeting!". I rest my case.
It makes no difference if attackers are causing vandalism, theft (of funds or secrets), or causing catastrophic failure - it's criminal and needs to be stopped. If it is another government it's war. We need proactive IT strategy now to stop this through defensive and offensive capability that actually works. The US Government should be hiring the best of the best to do this, right now.
Lewis contradicts himself with these statements from his article. ("No one has yet entered into cyberwarfare," Lewis said. Warfare consists of more than vandalism, inconvenience or even theft, he said. "As you move toward damage and casualties, then you cross the threshold.") The problem is that "vandalism, inconvenience or even theft" is "damage". A lot of business and organizations are "casualties" of the damage done due to these cyber attacks. The problem with people like Lewis is that they are usually in a position that they never have to really suffer from "vandalism, inconvenience or even theft" because all those costs were passed on to someone else. That additude is prevelant in this administration which only has 8% of its appointees having private sector experience. (The norm is typically in the 40 to 55% range.) They have never had to take much responsibility or suffer the consequences of the real world - so it is easy for them to say we are not in a cyber war.
And while we are "defining" we get our butts handed to us on a plate. I think I'll go with the real expert on this . . .namely Mr. McConnell
A tremendous critique of sexy new buzz words. I would love to hear your opinions on "Transparency in government". I sometimes feel like I want to scream everytime I see the phrase in an article. I have read several definitions and they don't satisfy me. I, for one, don't want my government to be "transparent". I want it to be solid, relevant, truthful, accountable. I want to know that what my government is telling me is the verifiable truth.
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Even film fan favorite "Avatar" isn't immune to the "Saturday Night Live" treatment.
The NBC program lampooned the James Cameron hit Saturday as "Avatar" star Sigourney Weaver hosted the show for her second time in a quarter century, joining pop stars The Ting Tings on the "SNL" stage.
Weaver and the rest of the "SNL" cast poked fun at Cameron's new flick in a sketch during the show, satirizing "Avatar's" sci-fi premise with a bit about mating rituals of "Avatar's" blue-tinted alien cast.
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The episode also featured a skit that jabbed at the late-night shuffle involving NBC talk-show hosts Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, bringing back "SNL" impression guru Darrell Hammond to play Leno opposite Bill Hader's frantic O'Brien.
The two mocked Leno and O'Brien during a bit that also featured Jason Sudeikis as David Letterman, caught in the middle of the NBC scheduling shuffle that could see O'Brien bolt to another network and leave the peacock behind, according to Associated Press sources.
Seth Meyers addressed the issue of the Leno-O'Brien debacle more directly during his "Weekend Update" segment, joking that viewers didn't have to subscribe to "Cinemax to see someone get screwed on TV." Meyers' self-deprecating NBC rant also invoked ex-"Update" star Jimmy Fallon, whose late-night program follows O'Brien's and could itself be in danger of being pushed back, according to sources.
Weaver was also featured in a new sketch, "Riley," that starred Fred Armisen as a flamboyant teen, and had her own turn at self-deprecation in the last part of the show, when she mocked her well-known obsession with Internet message boards.
Pop group The Ting Tings played two songs on the show, including international hit "That's Not My Name."


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She has appeared in concert in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New York. While living in the New York area, Shaffer performed with the Light Opera of Manhattan, 92nd St. Y, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Choral Symphony Society of New York and as a soloist and section leader for many area churches and synagogues. Her oratorio roles include Handel's Messiah, the Haydn Creation and the Lord Nelson Mass, and Requiem settings by Fauré, Dubois and Rutter. She appears frequently as soprano soloist with the Southeast Missouri State University Choral Union and Symphony, including the world premier of David Fanshaw¹s orchestrated Dona Nobis Pacem, an Anthem for Peace.
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Your crews and equipment are out there day after day. Butts get sore, hands callused, and necks sunburned, despite baseball caps and sun block. The next job is always waiting, and the one after that. You find yourself doing clock and personnel management like an NFL quarterback on a last-minute drive as you think, what can I do to squeeze in one more property before the sun sets?
Bottom line: It's one thing to have your crews in the saddle of their mowers that first job of spring. It's another thing to have them there 800 hours of seat time later, sometime in the late afternoon of a blazing August day.
As crucial as it is to have reliable workers, providing your crews with comfortable mowers can make the difference between enthusiastic employees and crews who dread coming to work. Crewmember satisfaction is a big reason that zero-turning radius (ZT or ZTR) mowers—whether operated from a mounted saddle or from a standing position—have made impressive market inroads.
Kirkville, Missouri landscape service provider Shannon Snyder knows the importance of crewmember satisfaction. In business for 26 years as Snyder's New Lawn Service, Snyder is one of those owners who's out there himself cutting grass, every single day.
"In mid-summer, I run two crews," Snyder relates. "One crew has five guys, one has three. I'm always part of one of those crews, and I know what it's like for the guys. Believe me, when you're mowing large pieces of property with little time for breaks, and have been in the seat for seven hours straight, you're a tired person at the end of the day."
Snyder is all about comfort, and loves his ZT mid-mount with the spring-loaded seat, spring-loaded forks, and flotation tires. "I feel like I'm driving a Cadillac," he says with a laugh. "The big flotation tires not only stop the mower from tracking in the ground, but help a lot with the ride. In addition, of course, because it's a zero-turn, the cutting process is super-efficient."
The earliest model year in the Snyder mid-mount fleet is from 1988. "All the factory stickers are still on it," Snyder says proudly.
He attributes his ZT's longevity to careful engine maintenance, and one little personal wrinkle. "A lot of folks hose down their mowers every week. We don't. We just blow them clean with air, and rub the grass off, of course. I try to limit the amount of water that hits the machine. Twice a season works for me."
A much bigger "operator" just as happy with his ZTs is Dave Long, district manager of city-side park maintenance for the city of San Diego, California. Long runs a fleet of 65 mowers of different types and styles. Some of those 65 mowers are ZTs.
"We added them about three years ago," Long relates. "I manage 34 crewmembers and one of our jobs is to mow a 22-acre cemetery. By their very nature, they're rough. Believe me, the guys want to use those machines when we do the cemetery."
"If you own a lawn care company and don't own a ZT, you're thinkin' small," declares Fred Brummett, who has operated Brummett Lawn Service in South Haven, Mississippi, for eight years. Brummett started out with a pickup truck and two push mowers; he grew his business to where he now owns two zero-turn mowers.
"I bought those machines three years ago, and they are easily 30 to 50 percent faster than a regular riding mower."
Brummett calls the ZTs the workhorses of his company, and praises their reliability. "Any day the mower is down is a day I can't make money."
All the major ZT riding mower manufacturers are keenly aware of the requirements of the operator, and want the person at the controls to be as comfortable on an August dog day as he is at the start of the season. Brad Unruh, product manager for Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, ticks off some of the features geared to the rider, and not just to the cutting.
"There are suspension seats, both with the suspension visible or builtin," Unruh explains. "We've got flexible forks at the front of the mower designed to absorb the punishment of bumpy terrain. We don't want that punishment transmitted to the driver at the controls."
Over at Bloomington, Minnesotabased Toro, marketing manager Chris Hannan underscores Toro's commitment to operator comfort in extended cutting conditions by pointing to the three-dimensional isolation mounts that separate the operator from the frame. These mounts, made of hard rubber resin, absorb fore and aft motion. Up and down action is picked up by the springs in the seat itself. "We also use large flotation tires that absorb shock," says Hannan.
Walker Manufacturing mowers have a similar focus on the person at the controls, reports marketing manager Tim Conway, speaking from company headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado. "Our biggest focus at Walker is the center of gravity for the driver. On our mowers, the operator is at the center, with a low center of gravity. A lever on the right- hand side locks in speed, so the driver doesn't have to change position much. It's a bit like cruise control."
Mower builders agree that ergonomics are as important as a comfortable seat, a strong frame, and good shock absorption. Each goes at ergonomics slightly differently.
"Over a long summer of cutting, our theory is that a lot of little things add up to whether mowing is comfortable. At Walker, we think those things are operational more than functional," Conway declares. "It's why we've sought fingertip controls, instead of having to put a lot of strain on your arms moving bars forward and backward."
Toro takes similar pains to make the operator experience simple, efficient, and comfortable over a long summer of cutting. "We understand that the operator might have to raise the cutting deck a dozen times on any given day, to negotiate curbs, move past stumps, and the like," observes Hannan. "That's several hundred times a season. We put a foot-operated pedal on the operator's right side that raises and lowers the deck without any kind of bending."
Excel's ergonomic innovation is to build the parking brake right into the twin level controls. "The idea is to eliminate one motion entirely. When you think of how often the driver has to set the brake, it really adds up," says Unruh.
In addition to suspensions, seats, and ergonomics, most zero-turning radius mower manufacturers offer add-on options for operator comfort, such as sun canopies that attach to the roll bar.
Today's ZT is both efficient and comfortable. However, they are a serious investment. For the landscape maintenance contractor who wants zero-turning radius speed and func tionality but at a lower price, there are the "stander" ZT mowers, where the operator stands on a low platform behind the mowing deck.
The standers won't match the speed of a mounted-seat ZT, though most move along nicely at eight miles an hour. With decks up to 61 inches and the operator just a few feet from the action, standers shine in spaces with lots of trees, picnic tables, flowerbeds and the like. Their lower center of gravity also makes the stander a good choice for hilly property, since they can cut grades that are normally too steep for riding mowers. Some standers even have an optional drop-down seat.
Though the operator is standing on a deck instead of sitting at the controls, it doesn't mean that manufacturers didn't try to maximize operator comfort. Ross Hawley, product manager for the standers at Toro, points out that the company has moved from a rigid standing platform to one where there's something of a suspension. "There are rubber bumpers of different shapes under the platform, so that the operator won't bottom out on rough terrain. Plus, we've got a heat shield now in front of the platform, to block heat from the hydraulic system from reaching the operator."
Chad Williams, of Chad's Five Star Lawn Care LLC in Wooster, Ohio, has been operating standers since he entered the business six years ago, while he was still a student. With a business that focuses on commercial accounts, he sends out two cutting crews and one landscape crew in peak season. He operates a fleet of three sit-down ZTs and six standers.
"The standers are functional," Williams maintains. "They get in and out of tight spots, they can still stripe up a yard, they make those quick 180-degree turns, and they're easier on the turf when the ground is wet. We don't send out a trailer unless it has a stander on it, in addition to all the other equipment."
Williams confirms that the standers generally can't match the ZTs for speed, but what they lack in speed they make up for with versatility. Some of his leaf-blowing crews even use their standers like souped-up Segway machines, carrying their blowers on their backs and firing away on the go. Since the standers can do eight miles an hour while people walk at three miles an hour, his workers do their leaf-blowing job in less than half the time. This application is probably not in the operator's manual.
As for the comfort factor, Williams admits that if you're on a stander for three hours without a break—especially some of the older models with rigid frames—you're going to feel beat up if you're riding over choppy terrain. "But there's an advantage on hot days," he suggests.
"Standing up? You've got more wind in your face."
Lawn cutting may look easy. The first job of the year isn't tough. As the jobs, acres, and stripes add up, and the mid-afternoon thermometer goes up, the work gets challenging. Zero-turn mowers, whether sit-down or stander, can make it more than just a little bit more palatable.
In the dog days of summer, after months of cutting, "more than just a little bit" goes a long, long way.


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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Plymouth State College's men's basketball team built a 20-point first half lead Tuesday and went on to knock off Southern Maine, 92-66, in the opening round of the Little East Conference Tournament at Foley Gymnasium.
The win advances the Panthers, 19-6 overall, into the LEC semi-finals Friday in North Dartmouth, Mass. The second-seeded Panthers will face the third-seeded Keene State Owls, a 99-98 winner over UMass Boston in another first round game Tuesday. USM completes its season at 8-17.
Junior guard Adam DeChristopher (Brockton, MA) paced the Panthers with 21 points in just 23 minutes of play. He hit five of eight field goal tries, including all three three-point attempts and all eight free throws. Senior Doug Stokes (Wyckoff, NJ) added 14 points with a 7-of-10 shooting performance, and senior Ace Elefteriadis (Belmont, MA) and junior Jamodi Robinson (Framingham, MA) added 11 points apiece.
The Panthers went up by 20 points at 44-24 on a dunk by Robinson with 3:25 to go in the first half. The Huskies cut the lead to 14 at the half at 48-34, but PSC went on a 25-9 run to open the second half and cruised to the win from there. PSC registered a 44-27 advantage on the boards.
Junior Mike Fennessy (Lewiston, ME) led the Huskies with 17 points, three below his 20-point average. Senior Frank Billings (Concord, NH) added 15 points, including four three-pointers, and Jim Cole (Portland, ME) chipped in with 13.
The Keene State-Plymouth State game Friday at top-seeded UMass Dartmouth is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m., followed by UMD vs. Western Connecticut. The championship game is Saturday at 4:00 p.m., with the winner earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
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