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The 134-year-old Quakertown Band will bring not only history but Dixieland, Big Band and Swing music to the Pastorius Park concert series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6.
Composed of 45 amateur and semi-professional musicians of all ages, the Quakertown Band has a little something for everyone. Founded in 1877, the band has a close and unique connection with the music that they have been playing for decades.
The July 6 concert will focus on the music of John Philip Sousa Willow Grove Park by paying tribute to Sousa's 25th year of appearing there in 1926. That appearance was his last and marked the end of the era when the park was known as "America's Summer Music Capital".
Richard Karschner, the band's conductor, has been a high school band director for more than 30 years and recently retired as a supervisor of music at Upper Dublin School District. He has directed award-winning concerts, marching and jazz bands and more than 25 musicals.
The band will perform "With Pleasure" and "March of the Mitten Men" by Sousa, pieces that were composed specifically to be performed at Willow Grove Park. Further sections will feature swing-era performances, and baritone vocalist Keith Spencer will perform selections from the Duke Ellington and Cole Porter songbooks.
The Pastorius Park Concert Series is sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association, the Chestnut Hill Community Fund and Chestnut Hill Hospital.

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The cost of sending a child to college is increasing and shows very few signs of slowing. The reasons for these increases are many. Many states have been forced to reduced their support for public universities, schools have spent to improve facilities, there has been increased demand as more high school graduates choose college over entering directly into the work force and some say colleges have lagged in improving their productivity with technology as other industries have done.
College Costs of Today
As the chart from The College Board shows below, average costs have almost doubled over the past 16 years. You should also note that the costs reflected do not include additional costs like transportation, books and entertainment.
Estimate the College Costs of Tomorrow
For the past several years, college costs have been increasing at a rate faster than the overall inflation rate. While it is impossible to know what will happen in the future, here is a chart that demonstrates what happens at annual increases of 4%.
|Annual cost today
|Annual cost in 5 years
|Annual cost in 10 years
|Annual cost in 15 years
And do not forget, these are just the annual costs; and if your child attends for four years, you must multiple by 4. And, do not forget to include additional costs of books, transportation and entertainment.
Starting to Save Early is Critical
As with saving for any goal, the sooner you start and the more you save, the more you will have when you need it.
Choose the Best Way to Save
Starting to save on a regular and consistent basis is most important. The next decision to consider is how to hold the funds.
As Part of Regular Savings
One option for parents is to just consider saving for a child's college as part of their total savings program. This is simple, but doesn't provide an easy way to identify how much progress is being made toward a goal. Establishing a separate account for college savings helps with monitoring progress. However, the earnings on the funds will be taxable to the parents.
Custodial Accounts
Another option is to establish a custodial account for the child. Using a Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA) or Uniform Transfer to Minor Act (UTMA) account is an easy and legal way to transfer the ownership of assets to a child. With a UGMA or UTMA account, the parent creates a custodial account on behalf of the minor child. Assets are transferred into the account and the custodian, usually a parent, manages the account until the child reaches legal age. At that point, the child can do whatever he or she wishes with the assets. Transfers to these accounts are irrevocable. Earnings on the account are taxable to the child which may save some income taxes.
Coverdell Education Savings Accounts
These accounts function like an IRA with earnings not being taxed if the funds are used for qualified education purposes. The largest drawback to Coverdell ESA's are that annual contributions are limited to $2000. There are also income limitations for these accounts.
Section 529 College Savings Plans
These college savings plans are now offered by over 40 states and were also enhanced by the 2001 Tax Law. While the plans are offered by the state, there is no restriction on where the child attends college utilizing the funds. One potential drawback is that there are usually limited investment options. It makes sense to look at several states programs to find one that offers the investment choices you desire.
With a Section 529 Plan, there are no income limits on the donors and for 2018 contributions of up to $15,000 ($30,000 for a couple making a joint gift) per year can be made. In addition, there are special provisions to allow a "front-end loading" of up to five years of contributions to be made without gift taxes. Withdrawals used for qualified educational purposes are excluded from federal income taxation.
Enabling a child to attend the college of their choice and get an education that will prepare them for a successful and productive life is one of the greatest gifts you can give. However, the costs of providing that college education can be very large. Starting earlier rather than later can make the process easier, especially with some of the tax benefits a Section 529 College Savings Plan.
Developing a college saving habit can provide your children with the funds they need and provide you with the satisfaction of knowing that you are doing the right thing.


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recently i got a cd burned with few folders on it ..the problem is that when i put the cd in my 52x samsung derive then i m not able to see last two folders of something like 40Mbs..
now the intresting fact is that thoes two folders can be seen on my freindz CD drive.... AND HIS DRIVE IS OLDER THAN MINE !!
my drive is otherwise fine (i hope it does)


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A first-of-its-kind boutique-style steel residential complex, Restello has used the highest standards in steel design and construction.
Based on the winning design from Living Steel´s International Architecture Competition, Shrachi Group recently launched Restello, an Indian first-of-its-kind boutique-style steel living complex in Kolkata. A residential block comprising 12 luxurious boutique apartments within a perforated steel exterior, the idea behind Restello was to design and execute an environmentally responsible steel structure in terms of luxury, comfort, safety and cost.
As Sanjeev Agarwal, Director, Bengal Shrachi Housing Development, shares, ¨While designing the building, the team had a simple brief in mind: The main structure would be steel and the ´skin´ of the building would comprise perforated
steel screen and a second inner ´skin´ of floor-to-ceiling glazing. And, between the two layers lies the unique feature of double-storey terraces at the front of the apartments, providing a harmonious flow between the exterior and interior.¨ Taking a design cue from the traditional permeable architecture of Kolkata, the outer screens served to shade sun and rain, while maximising natural light and maintaining external views.
Design and construction
Working closely with a team of world-class experts, the project involved the highest standards in steel design and construction. The steel structure was high grade and manufactured to international standards with Tata Bluescope Steel and Tata Steel. Galvanised and painted steels were applied for corrosion protection and to ensure a long life for the apartments.
Also, ¨90 per cent of the construction material used was manufactured at the factory end and later assembled at site,¨ adds Agarwal. ¨The structure was envisioned as having a highly superior finish of steel walls. Also, while designing, it was ensured that the structure would also allow for long spans, creating uninterrupted living spaces, and the perforated facade filters the light while providing natural ventilation.¨
Steel advantages
Steel being the main construction element, the total steel used for building the structure was 500 metric tonne. Also, the perforated steel screen is a unique feature of Restello. It not only enhances the visual beauty and appeal of the structure but plays a significant role in providing the apartments´ interiors with abundant natural light and ventilation. And, the perforated steel sheets on the exterior give a unique fatade, provide greater thermal support and reduce the need for air-conditioning. Compared to traditional brick-and-mortar buildings, steel structures have many advantages and benefits.
Construction methods
For the project, steel frame structures were erected by cranes, followed by the installation of the outer wall and internal partition wall, and then the finishing work. Finally, the perforated sheet facade was put in place from the outside with the help of cranes and winches. The project primarily used a piling rig, crane, welding machines, torque wrenches and sand blasting equipment for construction. Along with being fireproof, statutory fire safety measures and arrangements have been provided, ensuring safety of residents.
High-quality materials
Besides steel, the project also used other high-quality materials for construction such as PIR panels, also referred to as polyisocyanurate, polyiso, or ISO - a thermoset plastic, typically produced as a foam and used as rigid thermal insulation. These panels have been used on the building´s internal walls, ceilings and linings. Its low-density rigid foam gives it increased fire performance, lower combustibility and high insulation levels.
Further, non-asbestos fibre cement boards have been extensively used. These boards are composed of cement, cellulose fibre and refined sand and have the strength and durability of cement, the easy workability of wood and dimensional stability. This non-combustible multipurpose application fibre-cement board is suitable for various applications like ceiling, wall and floor, and can be used for exterior and interior applications.
Cost and challenges
The total project cost was Rs 14.98 crore. The construction process of this unique structure came with its own challenges. ¨The prime reason was that the technical specification was different from a contemporary brick-and-mortar building,¨ shares Agarwal. ¨Moreover, a few vendors and contractors had to be developed for this project. The acumen and experience of the team behind the project helped overcome these seemingly difficult issues.¨
Environmentally intelligent
Steel is the most extensively used metal in the construction sector. While it has been preferred in industrial and commercial construction, steel has also become popular in today´s residential market. While steel structures are common in other parts of the world, in India, they are rapidly becoming an alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar structures.
Undoubtedly, this environmentally intelligent building has created a benchmark for sustainable construction!
Project details
Completion: June 2016
Total cost: Rs.14.98 crore
Area: 43,000 sq ft
Building configuration:
Basement + Ground + 6
Frame: Steel structure
Partition walls: Non-asbestos fibre cement board and PIR board
Window: Aluminium
Facade: Perforated steel sheet
Master planner: Piercy Conner.
Website: www.piercyandco.com
Design consultant: Price & Myers.
Website: www.pricemyers.com
Construction contractor: Tata Bluescope.
Website: www.tatabluescopesteel.com
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Tampa Bay Lightning (17-22-2) At Your Winnipeg Jets (21-19-2)
Last Meeting: March 24th, Jets 3 – Lightning 2
Broadcast: TSN Jets Puck Drop: 7:00 (CT)
The longest break in the schedule is over, leaving six games left to play and the Jets down two points on 8th, and 4 points on the division leading Capitals. The Lightning come into town with nothing to lose and a lot of changes since opening day. A new coach in Jon Cooper, a new goaltender in Ben Bishop, and a new top line LW in Alex Killorn. Yep, you read that right. More surprises after the jump.
Jon Cooper took over in time for the Lightning's March 26th game against Buffalo and quickly went 2-0-1 before the trade deadline that brought in Ben Bishop to replace (or supplement?) Anders Lindback (acquired in the off-season for draft picks). Since then, the team has gone 2-4-1, and Bishop himself has posted a bizarre 3.21GAA and .916 sv% in six games. He's faced an insane 186 shots – a pace of almost 35 shots against per 60. The shots against pace with Lindback in net (2.88/.903) is almost eight shots per game fewer. In Garon's 18 games (2.90/.897), it reached just 25 shots against per 60. It seems they have found their goalie, but have invented a whole new host of problems.
Part of that is likely a new coach making things a bit disorganized, and part of it is a roster that has lost some gusto. Conacher was, of course, traded, and injuries have hit Benoit Pouliot, Lecavalier, and Ryan Malone this season. In total, 32 skaters and 4 goalies have suited up for Tampa Bay in this shortened campaign. Compare that to Winnipeg dressing 28 skaters and 2 goalies (including Scheifele's four games, Cormier's 39 minutes in 10 games, and Peluso's 25 in 5).
The season series favours the Jets 2 games to 1, but as will be told throughout the game – this Tampa team can score a bundle. The goal differential in those three games still favours the Lightning 11-8. The feared Tampa powerplay is awful with their tesla coil, and the Jets are a different penalty killing team at home than away (i.e. not miserable). Still, the Lightning are as advertised 5-on-5, and so are the Jets. So it's a problem.
The Jets need this win to stay in the march for a playoff spot, and have to take advantage of poor possession play by the Lightning to keep it 200ft from Pavelec. This game favours Pavelec's style, somewhat, as he'll be counted on to make a few incredible saves, no doubt, but can at least hope the Jets win in the shot advantage category.
By the Numbers
- Ladd – Little – Wheeler
- Kane – Jokinen – Wellwood
- Tangradi – Burmistrov – Santorelli
- Wright – Gagnon – Thorburn
- Clitsome – Byfuglien
- Hainsey – Bogosian
- Stuart – Postma
- Pavelec
- Killorn – Stamkos – St Louis
- Malone – Lecavalier – Pouliot
- Labrie – Panik – Purcell
- Crombeen – Thompson – Tyrell
- Hedman – Salo
- Carle – Brewer
- Aulie – Gudas
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A Visual Guide to Importing and Exporting Data Between Microsoft Excel and MySQL
In early 2009 we conducted our annual survey and what we found is that 66% percent of those surveyed used Windows for development and 48% ultimately deployed into production on Windows. Given that so many users deploy MySQL on Windows for production, it makes sense to recap how easy it is to work with data in MySQL and Microsoft Excel. With the power of the SQL language and MySQL's RDBMs capabilities, it allows users to leverage the data so that it can be shared by multiple users concurrently, in a more secure, and manageable manner through a variety of interfaces and front ends. For the purposes of this guide we will show you how easy it is to import and export data from MySQL and Excel using MySQL's ODBC Connector in conjunction with Excel 2007 and Access 2007's native import/export capabilities.


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In Jack Vance's pulp fantasy Cugel's Saga, keeping track of your items is a big deal. Cugel the clever loses his items almost as soon as he gets them - stolen, smashed, misplaced, or most often, abandoned as Cugel flees from an angry mob. Cugel doesn't track encumbrance, but placement; because his items occupy a definite space in the world, everything in the world can effect them.
By contrast, items in DnD occupy a vague hammerspace somewhere around your character, where they can be teleported into your hands at any time. Traditional encumbrance systems work to weigh you down, but not to define where your items actually are. It's almost impossible for a DM to fuck with items in this hammer-space - you have to ask where the player's keeping them, they have to make something up, and you have to shrug and say "Well, they're gone now." It feels like cheating.
No more! I present Matt Rundle's Anti-Hammerspace Item Tracker (I helped). This item-tracking sheet is designed to ground your items in the world without wasting a second of time at the table. Each character can carry 6 containers, and each container has 3 slots. The player defines what each one is - a sack, a utility belt, a backpack, whatever. Wearing Leather armour or better takes 1 container, Chain or better takes 2, Scale or better takes 3. The player just writes down or draws each item in a slot as they get it.
Stoner the Warrior
Cray the Thief
Some guidelines: A dagger is 1 slot, a short-sword is 2 slots, a longsword is 3 slots. 1 weeks food for one person is one slot. In my campaign you can get a +1 AC shield that takes up 1 slot, or a +2 AC shield that takes up 2 slots. Misc is for anything you're wearing, your animals, tiny objects, and anything else that wouldn't take up a slot. If you really want to add encumbrance, give them -5 feet of speed a turn per container. For mounts, use this same sheet and cross off containers based on the armour of their rider.
This is a harsh system that will see fully-clad warriors carry little more than food, weapons and gold. Personally, I love that - Conan never had much more than a loincloth and a sword. You can still own as many items as you like - it's just that you'll have to write them under "Left it at home", rather than hulking all your worldly possessions around on your back as you fight.
I have never seen anything but a game show the protagonists worried about their items weighing them down. Worrying about where your items are, though, is a staple of Pulp. Your arrows fall out, your money-pouch is stolen, your food gets wet, a dinosaur eats your back-pack and your bedroll is set on fire. That's a pulp encumbrance system. A few items that matter, constantly under threat.
I've been trying to capture that feel for a while now. One of my PC's was suspended by vine-tentacles over a carnivorous tree, and decided to throw lighted lamp-oil down into it's maw. Instead of teleporting it into his hand, I had him fumble with his backpack, holding flint and tinder in one hand and oil in the other, precious food-packs falling out into the maw as he tried to light the oil.
Encumbrance systems have always tried to tie your items into the world. They fail, not just because no-one can be bothered to do the math, but because they track weight instead of where the items are. This system solves that problem, and it feels like the only thing I could ever use. I'm going to try it in my next session, so I'll tell you how it goes.


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Mastrad Bread Warmer
Item: Mastrad Bread Warmer
Price: $39.99
Overall Impression: Versatile for outdoor meals in the summer and holiday meals in the fall and winter. Worth picking up if you like your rolls warm and do a lot of entertaining.
Warm bread that's fresh from the oven is pretty much the best thing ever, no matter the occasion, no matter the time of year. Wrapping warm rolls in a clean dishtowel helps hold in the warmth for a little while — this bread warmer from Mastrad takes things one step further. With its heatable ceramic liner, this basket will keep our rolls toasty from the start of dinner all the way through to second and third helpings.
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Characteristics and Specs: A rattan bread basket with a ceramic warming stone that fits in the bottom. The stone can be warmed in the microwave and holds heat for up to 45 minutes. A cloth covering with drawstring closes over the bread and helps hold in warmth. (The ceramic stone is also covered with a cloth wrapping.) The basket holds enough bread at a time to serve 6 to 8 people. All cloths are machine washable; the stone itself can be cleaned with a damp sponge.
Favorite details: As someone who loves tearing into a dinner roll that's still hot from the oven, I do like being able to keep my rolls warm for longer. It's a little extra insurance if dinner doesn't get on the table right away and it's nice when one goes back for that second (or third) roll of the evening.
Potential problems: Opening the basket is a little confusing at first — rather than un-cinching the drawstrings, you pull on the little gray tabs that are in the middle. It looks a little strange, but it works!
Splurge-worthy? Yes, especially if you do a lot of entertaining
Good for small kitchens? If space is at a premium in your kitchen, this isn't an essential piece of equipment to have. However, it would stack well with other bowls and servingware, and it could double as a fruit basket or other countertop container when not in use.
File this little bread warmer under the "handy" category. Is it essential? Nah. But is it handy? Oh, yes! I think it's probably most useful in a buffet situation where people might be eating at different times or going back for seconds — or when setting out breakfast pastries for house guests who might be waking up at different times. I love the idea that everyone gets a warm roll or pastry no matter when they arrive at the table!
It may not be clear how this basket works — there's a ceramic, cloth-covered disk that fits in the bottom of the basket. You remove the disk (but leave it in the cloth wrapping) and microwave it for 30 seconds. The disk will be warm to the touch and can be picked up by cloth straps if handling it directly is uncomfortable. Fit the disk back inside the basket, pile on the rolls, and cinch the cloth over top. Guests pull on the cloth tabs (not the drawstrings) to open the basket and help themselves.
In my tests, I found this to be an effective way to keep bread warm for the length of a meal. It's a nice touch when having dinner with guests, whether the evening is formal or informal.
Find It! Mastrad Bread Warmer, $39.99 at Mastrad
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Google's Browser Is A Warning Shot At Windows, Not At Internet Explorer
from the browser-wars-get-a-new-entrant dept
Rather than being built on Mozilla, as many expected, it's been built on top of WebKit, which is also the core of Apple's Safari browser -- but which Google was also using for its own mobile browser. In the end, this isn't all that surprising. While many will interpret it as Google trying to take on Microsoft in the browser market, in reality, this is probably a lot more about Google trying to help everyone move beyond the operating system market. As we first suggested four years ago when rumors of a Google browser first came around, Google knows that the way to beat Microsoft is to become the operating system for the internet, and you do that by relegating the actual OS obsolete. And, these days, the path to doing that is through the browser.
So, yes, this is a shot at Microsoft -- but not at Internet Exporer. It's a shot at Windows.
That doesn't mean Google Chrome will be successful, but a quick look at the features itself show that the features it highlights (being able to run apps separately, better memory management, etc.) are the sorts of things that allow people to make browser-based apps much more useful, rather than feeling the need to rely on client-side applications. People have predicted for years that we're getting closer to a world where all computing can be done over the network, and it looks like Google is trying to push that process right along.


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"If you could go anywhere in the world right now where would it be?"
Right now? Somewhere it's not raining and where I don't need thermal socks on!
But really, I do have lots of travel dreams. And in honesty, most of them are probably just that, dreams. I'm afraid I'm not very proactive when it comes to travelling….I've never prioritised it, found much time for it, nor saved the funds for it. My fiance, Adam, has by contrast travalled lots, and I look on his amazing travel photos in awe! I think it's fair to say that if he'd not met me, he would probably still be going off on fun long trips, so I probably should plan on some travelling with him in the future, lest he resents me for spoiling his adventures!
I have a bit of a list of places I'd like to go to, and it's constantly growing! Here are my top picks though….
Adam is always saying we should move to Vancouver, and I suppose as it usually makes the top three places to live in the world, it must have quite a lot going for it! I do love the look of the landscapes there, the idea of good clean living, skiing and all the niceness!
State of Washington
Now don't judge me….it's probably fairly acceptable to love Twin Peaks as obsessively as I do, but I can't say I'm proud of how much I love the Twilight films! Still, that part of America has a real charm for me, and I'd love to go to the towns where these were filmed…and it would be an easy trip from Vancouver!
Just because of Twin Peaks (again).
New Zealand
It may be because the climate appeals to me more than Australia, or the incredible landscapes I see in the films (Adam is forever pointing out, saying 'I've been there, it's in New Zealand' when we watch things). It seems like an amazing way of life here too, and Adam speaks very fondly of the people there and how kind they were to him.
Ever since I first saw photos of Machu Pichu, I've wanted to go there. I would LOVE to walk the Inca Trail, and in fact as Adam does too we are quite likely to do so together!
Some of my favourite photos from Adam's travels were taken in Jordan, at Petra. I just adore the ancient architecture, and would be so excited to discover it one very early morning, imagining myself as one of those intrepid explorers who really did discover it after centuries!
This is my favourite country I've never been to! I know I'd love all the kitschness, the food, the cherry blossom season, the architecture (in all its varying forms!), the history and the efficiency! Adam has been but would happily return…and I'm fairly sure we'll have to go before too long!
As well as these destinations, I would just LOVE LOVE LOVE to go on a few road trips / super-deluxe tours! I'm crazy about the idea of a road trip for months and months to really explore all of North America (there is so much I want to see there….New York, San Francisco, the deep south, Niagra, Grand Canyon….), and it'd have to be in a huge classic American Car or with an Airstream! I also adore the idea of an incredibly luxurious trip all over Italy…I've loved everywhere I've been to in that country (Rome, Florence, Sienna and Pisa) and would jump at the chance to explore more cities there, as well as the coast and the countryside. I think another great travel project would be to see all the original Wonders of The World…I know they don't all still exist (or possibly some of them never did!) but to find the closest thing to each would be amazing. I'd also love to visit all the 'new' seven wonders, although I'm not sure I completely agree with all of the list!
If I won the lottery today though (the big bucks, obviously, not a tenner) I think I'd have to go wild and plan a round the world trip to see all of the James Bond film and book locations….I'm a bit of a James Bond nut and some of the places I've read about in the books and seen in the films just seem like the most exciting places on Earth! And with the big bucks lottery prize, I'd travel with Valextra luggage, sail about on yachts with hot crew, get jetted about in helicopters, stay in all the finest hotels, take photos on a vintage analogue Leica, and drink Champagne on my private balcony for breakfast. Just like James Bond.
Well, the title WAS Travel *Dreams*!
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PS. Thanks to Adam for the photos!


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The fallout over Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's purported racial comments continued Sunday as the NAACP announced he would not be honored with an award next month as planned, and encouraged its Los Angeles chapter to take back a previous award he received from the organization in 2009.
The announcement came as a new piece of audio recording purporting to depict Sterling engaging in a racist rant became public, on the heels of another recording published late Friday by TMZ.
Prior to the release of the recordings, Sterling was scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP at its 100th anniversary gala on May 15. He preciously received a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles NAACP in 2009.
"Let me make it clear, the NAACP will not be honoring Mr. Sterling at the upcoming Los Angeles branch event and we have strongly urged our Los Angeles unit to take the necessary steps to rescind the previous award they bestowed on him," NAACP Interim President and CEO Lorraine C. Miller said in a written statement.
"The remarks attributed to Mr. Sterling are outrageous and remind us that racism is alive and well at every socioeconomic level," Miller said. "With the election of President Obama, many were sold the idea that the United States would be instantly transformed into a post racial society and racism would be eviscerated. People who bought that idea were sold wolf tickets."
NAACP Chairman of the Board of Directors Roslyn M. Brock added that Sterling's alleged recent statements, along with others made by other celebrities, draw attention to a wider problem in American society.
"The current political climate in our nation has set the stage for the blatant bigotry we are seeing from the likes of public figures like Donald Sterling, Ted Nugent, Cliven Bundy and Phil Robertson," she said. "As Justice Sotomayer acknowledged in her dissent in Schuette v. BAMN, racism cannot be wished away and must be confronted. The NAACP will remain vigilant in pointing out and fighting against racism in all its forms to ensure it does not infect the next generation of Americans."
Hours before the Clippers were set to face off against the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of their ongoing playoff series on Sunday, the website Deadpsin released an extended version of a recording initially made public by TMZ allegedly depicting team owner Donald Sterling making racist remarks to his girlfriend.
The new 15-minute-long recording posted on Deadspin.com appears to pick up where the previous 9-minute-long video, posted late Friday by TMZ, left off.
"Don't come to my games. Don't bring black people and don't come," the man purported to be Sterling is heard saying in the newly released audio.
The recording made public Sunday was purported to be a continuation of the same April 9 argument with his girlfriend, identified by TMZ as V. Stiviano. In both recordings, the man identified by TMZ and Deadspin as Sterling, is heard telling the woman not to bring black people to Clippers games or post pictures of herself with black people on her Instagram.
The woman reminded him that the Clippers roster is primarily black.
"I support them and give them food and clothes and cars and houses," said the man alleged to be Sterling. "Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them?"
"Who makes the game?" he continued. "Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?"
But he maintained in the recording that he is not a racist.
"There's no racism here. If you don't want to be walking into a basketball game with a certain person, is that racism?," the voice alleged to be Sterling said.
"We don't evaluate what's right and wrong. We live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture," he said. "I don't want to change the culture because I can't, it's too big…"
The argument in the recordings stemmed from a picture the woman had posted of herself with Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who has since vowed never to return to a Clippers game so long as Sterling is the owner.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver promised an investigation into the TMZ recording Saturday, adding that the NBA needed time to look into the situation and the authenticity of the recording before taking any potential action against the owner.
Silver said Sterling had agreed not to attend Sunday's 12:30 p.m. playoff game in Oakland, which the Clippers lost by 21 points. They play again Tuesday at Staples Center.


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Singing, Dancing and Bluffing with Sara Chafak
Miss Finland Sara Chafak gained huge popularity in the poker world after she pulled off the bluff of the year against Ronnie Bardah on an episode of Shark Cage. We caught up with her at EPT 11 Prague and also talked about her music video with the Finnish rap group JVG and rapper Mikael Gabriel. Here are links to the discussed videos in the interview: The Bluff of the Year with Sara Chafak: http://youtu.be/jCO0c7fJ1pQ JVG Ft. Mikael Gabriel - $ara Chafak Remix: http://youtu.be/oBG2CtaMRyE 24Kitchen Best of Sara Chafak - http://youtu.be/11wGo7E7hIc
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According to a new report by Georgia Tech (in partnership with Google), the number of rogue DNS servers is steadily rising. Poisoned DNS servers have always represented a potentially potent line of attack, as we noted back in December, but this new study gives a concrete estimate on exactly how many poisoned servers are out in cyberspace. This study appears to be a follow-up on that earlier coverage, and gives more exact data than was previously available.
The biggest problem with rogue DNS server attacks is that traditional antivirus software won't detect the problem once the damage has been done. There are some software programs that can detect an attempt to change a system's DNS settings, but they aren't mainstream—at least not yet. Fortunately, there are still limitations on what web sites can be faked. If you use online banking, for example, your bank authenticates via an SSL certificate that the fake online banking site won't be able to provide. Even so, this method isn't foolproof—history demonstrates that a number of users would simply choose to initiate the login process anyway, even when warned of a certificate mismatch.
According to the paper, there are approximately 68,000 rogue DNS servers across the Internet, The authenticity of the sites such servers redirect to varies greatly, from near-perfect copies to laughably bad, but the problem they represent is quite serious. Once an end user's computer has been modified to use a poisoned DNS server, the system can be directed to any fake web site the malware author feels like serving up. Such attacks are typically aimed at gathering credit card information, login/password data to sensitive areas (think bank accounts) or the supposedly-secret Adult ID information for all those naughty sites you've been visiting. (Mmm. You have been naughty, haven't you?)
Since rogue DNS servers only return poisoned results a small
percentage of the time, they can be annoyingly difficult to hunt down
and disable. Adding to the problem is the fact that popular Web 2.0 "mashups" can draw on material from multiple sources around the 'Net, thus making it even more difficult to track an infection point. There are some security measures in place to prevent this type of attack, but again, such software may or may not be deployed at any particular site. Antivirus software can stop some attacks, and Vista's UAC
(as much as I hate to admit it's useful for anything) would prevent a
user's DNS settings from being altered, but it's not a bad idea to keep
an eye on these settings if you've a habit of playing with fire (or
visiting potentially dangerous sites). Nothing says "I Love You" like
turning your system into a botnet node spewing Valentine-themed Storm
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I hear that Spring is actually making baby steps toward Minnesota and Wisconsin and I am happy that I will be back in Wisconsin for Gene-A-Rama at the Plaza Hotel & Suites in Wausau on April 5 & 6. Wisconsin Genealogical Society events are always fun. I will be presenting four regular lectures:
- Organizing Your Genealogical Materials: Methods to Keep it Current.
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I think that all my Wisconsin ancestors from Douglas, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Waukesha, and Winnebago counties and the cousins in many other counties will be supporting me that weekend. Now if they would just tell when my Scottish paternal Great Great Grandmother Helenor (Edwards) Stuart's brother James Edwards and wife Elizabeth Cowie died I will be so happy. The last trace of them I have is in Omro (1880 census). Oh, they also need to tell me why my maternal French-Canadian Great Great Grandfather Arsene Daoust (Samuel Dow) ended up in Superior with small children and no wife. Did Georgina Margretta Reinhardt die in Quebec (Montreal or Rawdon) or on the way to Superior? I don't ask for much.
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Imagine if your worst fears came true ... again.
At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers. Her schoolmate Angie was not so lucky...
Now thirty-five, Jodie is a teacher and mother of two - and her past is a horror she's buried deep. When she sets out for a weekend in the country within three friends, all she has in mind are a few laughs and a break from routine.
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Located in Downtown Phoenix, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Children's Museum of Phoenix and Arizona Science Center. Phoenix Convention Center and Chase Field are also within 15 minutes. 12th Street - Washington Station is 13 minutes by foot and 3rd Street - Washington Station is 13 minutes.
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Along with an outdoor pool, this smoke-free hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and a spa tub. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a business center, and dry cleaning are onsite.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Springhill Suites By Marriott Phoenix Downtown provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to a business center. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Event facilities measure 500 square feet (46 square meters). This Phoenix hotel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Springhill Suites By Marriott Phoenix Downtown is a smoke-free property.
- Conference space size (meters) - 46
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
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PARIS, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- French supermajor Total announced it signed a deal to acquire a minority stake in production blocks off the coast of Mozambique.
Total announced it signed a deal with Malaysia's state-owned Petronas to take on a 40 percent stake in two blocks in the Rovuma basin off the coast of Mozambique.
Energy majors have flocked to Mozambique to tap into the country's oil and natural gas riches.
Italian energy company Eni said in August it encountered a gas pay that it said adds at least 10 trillion cubic feet to gas in place. In May, Eni announced its Coral 1 exploration prospect, in deep waters off Mozambique, contained 7 trillion-10 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
"The farm-in significantly strengthens our long-term presence in exploration and production in East Africa," said Jacques Marraud des Grottes, a vice president for Total's exploration and production in Africa, in a statement.
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Video Game Developers Continue To Ignorantly Attack Used Game Sales
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Still, it doesn't stop game developers from insisting that the sky is falling and the world is ending because of used video game sales (thanks to Silence8 for being the first of many with that link):
Game designer Richard Browne has come out swinging in favor of the rumored antipiracy features in the next-gen PlayStation Orbis and Xbox Durango. "The real cost of used games is the damage that is being wrought on the creativity and variety of games available to the consumer," Browne writes. "The real cost of used games is the death of single player gaming."The HotHardware post on this does a nice job debunking the claims, though it seems that earlier comments from the same site, noting that used game sales don't appear to be economically different than used books, should have ended this debate long ago. If video gamers are struggling to compete with the used market, they only have themselves to blame. Unless they want to overturn the first sale doctrine, they're just going t have to suck it up and learn to live with it. The idea that there's less creativity in the video game space because some people buy used games is simply ridiculous and not supported by any facts. If some publishers/developers are struggling to make money, then they need to work on problems with their own business model, rather than lashing out at the used market.


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The Report includes a comprehensive analysis of the present conditions in the United States Municipal Castings market. The report starts with the basic overview of the market and then goes into each and every detail.
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Chapter 1 Municipal Castings Market Overview
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Romancing The Chocolate: Cookies: Almond Nuggets with Chocolate Drizzle: From Denny: Chocolate and almonds are the ideal combination for a cookie. This is basically a sugar cookie with sliced almonds that makes for a stiff dough.
It is a simple exercise of dropping the cookie dough onto the cookie sheet - so that makes it easy even for beginner bakers. The chocolate comes in when you ice the cookie with bittersweet chocolate that has been melted together with real butter and almond extract.
What's amusing is how the recipe creator actually thinks these mere 24 cookies will last long enough to make it into a covered container. Bring your friends! :)


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Jimpatterson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 118 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
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Secret tribe of mysterious software engineers creating an unimaginably powerful Internet service that will either save humanity or destroy the planet.
Prospective employees, customers, and partners with courage and style.
Want a logo with mystique and drama and style.
Please minimize death/violence/evil imagery (i.e., don't want to scare prospective employees, customers, and partners with visuals of death or violence or evil or blood.) Suggest focusing instead on imagery of bonfire, ritual community, chanting/dancing, ancient maya/aztec/egyptian civilization. Looking for imagery that is mysteriously seductive, not scary or repulsive. Perhaps our logo is a powerful ancient artifact that can save the world.
At least one manifestation of the logo should be visually simple enough that it still looks good and remains legible and self explanatory when shrunk to, say, roughly, 200 x 75 pixels. Too much ornamentation compromises this.
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BRISTOL — As the new Bristol town plan quickly takes form, the Bristol Planning Commission on Tuesday continued to grapple with the level of detail necessary to pass and implement an effective plan.
Commissioners and residents have debated for weeks how specific they need to make the language in the draft of a new town plan. Individuals on both sides of the long-running debate over whether gravel extraction should be permitted in certain town zones have called for more detailed language.


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Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Explore the concept of "Bread and Roses" and ideas about work and dignity, with specific cases on education and culture, hats and clothing, poetry and song, as well as traditional Jewish texts about labor.
Enduring Understandings
- Basic human needs include those of the body as well as the soul.
Essential Questions
- What do human beings need to live, besides the basic necessities of food, water, and shelter?
- How do social and cultural activities nurture our humanity?
- How do human needs vary from individual to individual?
Materials Required
- paper on which you've written or printed out the Big Ideas listed in Part I of the lesson
- markers for each student
- 4 large sheets of paper for Part III of the lesson
- a copy of the Introductory Essay for each student
- 4 Document Studies with accompanying questions for Part III of the lesson
Notes to Teacher
This lesson is designed to have students explore what early labor activists meant by wanting "bread and roses." It was not enough to earn sufficient amounts of money to feed, shelter and clothe themselves and to have safe working conditions; they also wanted free time, dignity, respect and joy in their lives.
In Part I of the lesson, Big Ideas, students make personal meaning of significant words about work, life and humanity, and they discuss these ideas in Part II of the lesson. If you do not read the Introductory Essay with your students, make sure that they are aware of the time period and historical background. In Part III, students read, look at, listen to, analyze and discuss primary source documents.
The following biographies can be used in connection to this lesson:
Introductory Essay(s)
Bread and Roses: Introductory Essay
Between 1881 and 1924, two million Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe, fleeing persecution and seeking freedom and economic opportunity.[1] Some came from small, traditional shtetls, while others had already migrated to urban centers in Eastern Europe and encountered radical movements such as the Socialist Labor Bund. Many settled in New York City's Lower East Side, where they lived in tenement housing and worked alongside other Eastern and Southern European immigrants in the area's sweatshops and textile factories. While some immigrated with their families, many young men and women came to America on their own. They frequently sent money home to help support their families and to bring relatives over from Europe.
Though Jewish immigrants in this period faced difficult conditions in housing and work, their experiences in America were still an improvement from their lives in Eastern Europe. In America, they were able to find jobs, even if they were harsh and low-paying, and they could move freely across the country and practice Judaism openly. In Russia, the May laws of 1882 restricted where Jews could live and their right to practice their religion. Political activity and union organizing were legal in the US, and while immigrants could get in some trouble for their activism, they would not be executed or sent to labor camps. In Russia, Jewish boys and men risked being conscripted into the Tsar's army for 25 years of service; there was no parallel in the American military.
The tenements Jewish immigrants lived in when they arrived in U.S. cities were large, crowded apartment buildings built to house the multitude of workers immigrating to the U.S. in the late 19th century. They were characterized by lack of light, air, and sanitation. Families often could not afford an entire apartment to themselves, and would take in boarders to help pay the rent. Even with this additional income, in many families, every member had to work, even the littlest children.
Sweatshops were often the first workplaces for new immigrants. Frequently operated in the tenement buildings, sweatshops were small workplaces where workers did "piece work." This meant that workers were paid by the piece, usually doing one specific part of the garment-making process. For example, one worker might be responsible for sewing collars onto shirts, another for sleeves, and yet another for finishing a garment by sewing hems or snipping loose threads. Sometimes a whole family did "piece work" in their own tenement apartment. In other sweatshops, unrelated workers were hired by a boss, usually from the same ethnic group as the workers.
Sweatshop work was tedious and was done under difficult working conditions—poor lighting, uncomfortable chairs, stifling heat in the summer, and frigid cold in the winter. Workers were fined for such infractions as arriving late to work and for damage to their machines. In order to increase their profits, sweatshop bosses, would reduce the pay per completed piece of work, so that workers either had to work faster—and risk injury to themselves for which they would lose pay—to complete more pieces or lose part of their weekly earnings. These tactics were used in the larger factories, as well.
Some garments were produced in larger factories rather than in sweatshops. These factories might employ hundreds of workers, and the working conditions could be just as bad or worse than in the sweatshops. Workers were not to talk to one another as they worked; they could not go to the bathroom unless they were on a formal break; the noise of hundreds of sewing machines was deafening; doors and windows were locked until the bosses opened them. In both the sweatshops and the factories, workers often worked fourteen hours or more a day, six or seven days a week. There was no minimum wage, and children and women were paid less than men.
Working men had begun to organize themselves into unions of laborers in the 19th century, and by the early 20th century, there were unions of needle trade workers, such as the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), the United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers union, and the Cloak Makers Union. The unions negotiated pay rates, working hours, and safety conditions for all members with the managers of the companies for which the laborers worked. Women were generally not included in the union and so did not benefit from the collective bargaining between unions and managers on behalf of the male workers. The male union leaders mistakenly assumed that women would not be interested in the union because they would only work until marriage and therefore might not be committed to improving the workplace; they underestimated women workers' ability to take themselves and their work seriously.
Despite the lack of support from male union leaders, women—led by Jewish immigrant workers such as Rose Schneiderman, and Clara Lemlich—were aware of the benefits and protection that unions offered and began to organize themselves. In 1907, the women who dominated a garment shop making underwear walked off the job together to protest "speedups, wage cuts, and the requirement that employees pay for their own thread."[2] After they won relief from most of these indignities, they were allowed to join the ILGWU.
With parts of the garment industry dominated by women laborers, their entry into the unions as members and organizers was crucial for the growth and success of the unions. The unions not only addressed worker grievances; they tried to support workers in every aspect of their lives, offering educational programs in subjects such as English language, literature and politics; social and cultural programs such as dances, shows and concerts; and even opportunities to get out of the city and enjoy vacations in the country at union-run camps. In part because of the contributions and insights of women workers, the unions came to understand that they needed to address not only workers' basic needs of higher wages and safer working conditions but also the greater human needs for education, community, beauty, and dignity—a concept captured in the phrase "bread and roses." Though the origin of the slogan is unclear, it was expressed in a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim, popularized by Jewish labor activist Rose Schneiderman in the context of a women's suffrage campaign in 1912, and was later applied to a strike of primarily women workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, that took place earlier in 1912. In the 1970s, singer-songwriter Mimi Farina set Oppenheim's poem to music and it has since become a labor anthem recorded by many artists.
Lesson Plan
Big Ideas
Write each of the following words on 8 ½ by 11 sheets paper and place them on the floor around the room. Or, you may choose to print the Big Ideas Handout Pages document.
a. Work b. Leisure c. Need d. Want e. Pleasure f. Fun g. Joy h. Labor i. Culture j. Play k. Living l. Wages m. Money n. Sustenance o. Choice p. Education q. Fresh air r. Drudgery s. Beauty t. Oppression u. Rights v. Respect w. Dignity x. Free time y. Strike z. Labor union
- Give each student a marker. Direct students to walk around the room and write whatever word comes to mind as they arrive at each new word. They can also make a quick drawing, if pictures are easier than words. Be sure that everyone writes something on every word.
- When the students have written something on each sheet, invite them to pick up whatever word is particularly calling them at that moment, for whatever reason, and to bring it back to their desk. Direct students to turn the papers over and to write about whatever comes to mind about the idea behind the word they chose. Tell them that they will read their responses aloud in the whole group.
- Have students share their responses. You may choose to create a found poem (a poem created from components of something written elsewhere) by writing words that stand out for you as you listen to each student, writing those words on a sheet in whatever way makes sense to you in the moment, and then reading the poem after each student has shared their writing. (You can find detailed instructions for creating a found poem from the National Council of Teachers of English here.) Alternatively, you may choose to write on the board whatever themes seem to be emerging from their responses. Some themes may be: the value of humanity; the reasons we work; what we expect from work, treatment on the job; leisure time versus work, etc.
Use the following questions to guide a discussion about values of humanity, work and the soul. Use either the found poem or the themes as a jumping off place for the students to discuss their values. Keep notes of the discussion, using the themes from Part I of this lesson as organizing ideas for the discussion. Ask:
- What is work? Why do we work? What does work fulfill for us?
- What kinds of work do you do, imagine yourself doing in the future, would never do?
- What is leisure? Why do we humans want and need it? What is the relationship between work and leisure?
- What is the meaning of life beyond work?
Conclude Part II of the lesson by reading the Introductory Essay with them. As they read, ask students to note (or highlight) examples of how people's human needs were met or not met. If your students already have an understanding of and information about the mass immigrations of Jews and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tenement housing, sweatshops, the garment industry, and unions, you can recall this information with them and then move directly into Part III of the lesson.
Document Studies
Break students into four groups and give each group of students one of the following document studies: Education and Culture, Poetry and Song, Hats and Clothing, and Traditional Jewish Sources. Each group will become "experts" in their set of documents and will report their analyses of their documents back to the whole group.
Tell students that their presentations of their document analyses should
- Explain the document category (Education and Culture, Poetry and Song, Hats and Clothing, and Traditional Jewish Sources) and the sources they examined
- Answer the questions: How were workers' bodies and souls jeopardized by work in sweatshops and textile factories? What did the workers want for their bodies and souls from the work they did? What evidence is there that the workers' bodies and souls were nurtured?
Document Studies
Education and Culture
Education and Culture
Excerpt about the ILGWU from LIFE Magazine
I.L.G.W.U. objectives lie in three fields, whose 1, 2, 3, both in importance and chronological sequence are 1) Economic; 2) Educational and Social; 3) Political.
The union's clubrooms, its dances and its games fill a social gap which might elsewhere be filled by a church or Y.M.C.A. The most spectacular manifestation of the social aspect is…I.L.G.W.U.'s million dollar Unity House.
…Yetta Henner lives in New York City, is poor, works as a finisher (she snips loose threads off rayon panties) in the Mitchel Schneider shop and belongs to I.L.G.W.U.'s Local 62. So Yetta…exercises, learns, dances within her union.
Discussion Questions
- Why do you think the Union has social and cultural objectives for its members that go beyond what happens in the workplace?
- How do these union-provided services benefit the union and how do they benefit workers?
Discussion Questions
- What do you see in this picture? What do you notice about the people in the picture? (Don't analyze, infer or describe. Just tell what you see.)
- Read the text in the box on the picture. Does this caption add to your understanding of the picture? If so, how?
- Look again at the picture. What else do you notice about what's happening in this picture now that you've read the caption?
Discussion Questions
- Why do you think the union had its own theater and why would workers be involved in it?
- How are the values you identified in the first question demonstrated in the picture itself?
- How do the pictures of the past union leaders (behind the dancers) relate or connect to the rehearsal?
Discussion Questions
- Why do you think the ILGWU's Unity House recreational facility sponsored talks on topics such as social psychology, as pictured here, or art history, for example?
- What do you notice about the people in the audience?
- What do you think the union members attending such lectures together in the Unity House setting brought back to their work lives from these experiences?
Poetry and Song
Poetry and Song
Ale Brider
Lyrics to "Ale Brider"
All Brothers
And we are all brothers,
Oh, oh, all brothers,
And we sing happy songs, oh, oh, oh,
And we stick together, oh, oh, together,
Like no one else, oh, oh, oh.
[Chorus] La la la la…
All together, brothers and sisters, all.
And we are all sisters, oh, oh, all sisters,
Like Sara, Rebecca, Ruth and Esther, oh.
And we are all united, oh, oh, all united,
Whether we are many or few, oh, oh, oh.
Ale Brider
Un mir zaynen ale brider, oy, oy, ale brider,
Un mir zingen freylekhe lider, oy, oy, oy.
Un mir haltn zikh in eynem,
Oy, oy, zikh in eynem,
Azelkhes iz nito bay keynem, oy, oy, oy.
[Chorus] Day day day day…
Ale tsuzamen, brider un shvester, ale.
Un mir zaynen ale shvester, oy oy, ale shvester,
Vi Sore, Riveke, Rut un Ester, oy, oy, oy.
Un mir zaynen alel eynik, oy, oy, ale eynik,
Tzi mir zaynen fil tsi veynik, oy, oy, oy.
Discussion Questions for "Ale Brider"
- What is the central message of this song?
- How does the sound, as opposed to the words, deliver this message?
- When do you think a song like this might have been sung?
Mayn Rue Plats
Lyrics to "Mayn Rue Plats"
My Resting Place
Don't look for me where myrtles grow,
You will not find me there, my beloved.
Where lives wither at the machines,
There is my resting place.
Don't look for me where birds sing,
You will not find me there, my beloved.
A slave am I, where chains clang.
There is my resting place.
And if you love me with true love,
Then came to me, my good beloved,
And light up my gloomy heart,
And make sweet my resting place.
Mayn Rue Plats
Nit zukh mikh vu di mirtn grinen,
Gefinst mikh dortn nit, mayn shats.
Vu lebns velkn bay mashinen,
Dortn iz mayn rue plats.
Nit zukh mikh vu di feygl zingen,
Gefinst mikh dortn nit, mayn shats.
A shklaf bin ikh, vu keytn klingen,
Dortn iz mayn rue plats.
Un libstu mikh mit varer libe,
To kum tzu mir, mayn guter shats.
Un hayter oyf mayn harts, dos tribe,
Un makh mir zis mayn rue plats.
Discussion Questions for "Mayn Rue Plats"
- How does the message of this song compare with that of Ale Brider?
- Why do you think the song's sound is so sad?
Discussion Questions Comparing the Songs
- How might each of these songs speak to one's experience as a worker?
- How might these two songs contribute to a worker's feeling part of a larger, collective experience?
The following lyrics are to the song "Bread and Roses." The words were written by James Oppenheim and originally published in The American Magazine in December, 1911. Oppenheim's poem was set to music by singer-songwriter Mimi Farina in 1974 and has been recorded by many artists since then.
"Bread and Roses" poem
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: Bread and Roses! Bread and Roses!
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; bread and roses, bread and roses.
Discussion Questions for "Bread and Roses"
- What does "Bread and Roses" mean in Oppenheim's poem?
- What does "the rising of the women means the rising of the race" mean?
- Why might women have been particularly drawn to this term, "bread and roses"?
Hats and Clothing
Hats and Clothing
Written in 1925, Bread Givers is a novel about the Jewish immigrants who lived in the tenements of New York's East Side and who worked in the garment industry.
Excerpt from "Bread Givers" beginning "You heartless thing!"
"You heartless thing!" cried Bessie. "No wonder Father named you 'Empty-Head.' Here you go to look for work, and you come back with pink roses for your doll face."
Undisturbed by the bitter words, Mashah finished the last stitch and then hung up her hat carefully over the door.
"I'm going to hear the free music in the park tonight," she laughed to herself, with the pleasure before her, "and these pink roses on my hat to match out my pink calico will make me look just like the picture on the magazine cover."
Bessie rushed over to Mashah's fancy pink hat as if to tear it to pieces, but instead, she tore her own old hat from her head, flung it on the floor, and kicked it under the stove.
Mashah pushed up her shoulders and turned back to the mirror, taking the hairpins carefully from her long golden hair and fixing it in different ways. "It ain't my fault if the shops are closed. If I take my lunch money for something pretty that I got to have, it don't hurt you none."
Excerpt on hats from Clara Lemlich article about 1909 strike
"Sometimes a girl has a new hat. It is never much to look at because it never costs more than fifty cents, but it's pretty sure to be spoiled after it's been at the shop. There are no dressing rooms for the girls in the shops, no place to hang a hat where it will not be spoiled by the end of the day. We're human, all of us girls, and we're young. We like new hats as well as any other young women. Why shouldn't we? And if one of us gets a new one, even if it hasn't cost more than 50 cents, that means that we have gone for weeks on two-cent lunches—dry cakes and nothing else."
Excerpt about clothing from Sadie Frowne article, "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl"
Some of the women blame me very much because I spend so much money on clothes. They say that instead of a dollar a week I ought not to spend more than 25 cents a week on clothes, and that I should save the rest. But a girl must have clothes if she is to go into high society at Ulmer Park or Coney Island or to the theatre. Those who blame me are the old country people who have old-fashioned notions, but the people who have been here a long time know better. A girl who does not dress well is stuck in a corner, even if she is pretty, and Aunt Fanny says that I do just right to put on plenty of style.
Discussion Questions
- What do you notice about the illustration of the working girls on the cover of The Masses? What conclusions can you draw about the women selling newspapers in the photograph? What do you think they are trying to say about themselves through their clothing?
- What kinds of sacrifices did the character Mashah in Bread Givers, Clara Lemlich, and Sadie Frowne describe making when these working women chose to buy clothing and hat decorations for themselves? Why do you think they were willing to make these sacrifices?
- How were Mashah and Sadie Frowne perceived by others because of their clothes buying?
- What is the real issue behind Clara Lemlich's demand that the working girls and women have a decent place to hang their hats at work?
Traditional Jewish Sources
Traditional Jewish Sources
Deuteronomy/Devarim 24:14-15
14 Do not oppress the hired laborer who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your people or one of the sojourners in your land within your gates. 15 Give him his wages in the daytime, and do not let the sun set on them, for he is poor, and his life depends on them, lest he cry out to God about you, for this will be counted as a sin for you.
Mishnah, Bava Metzia 7:1
One who hires workers and instructs them to begin work early and to stay late—in a place in which it is not the custom to begin work early and to stay late, the employer may not force them to do so. In a place in which it is the custom to feed the workers, he must do so. In a place in which it is the custom to distribute sweets, he must do so. Everything goes according to the custom of the land [minhag hamakom].
A story about Rabbi Yochanan ben Matya, who told his son, "Go, hire us workers." His son went and promised them food (without specifying what kind, or how much). When he returned, his father said to him, "My son! Even if you gave them a feast like that of King Solomon, you would not have fulfilled your obligation toward them, for they are the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. However, as they have not yet begun to work, go back and say to them that their employment is conditional on their not demanding more than bread and vegetables." Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel said, "It is not necessary to make such a stipulation. Everything goes according to the custom of the place."
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot 3:17
Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah says: If there is no Torah study, there is no derech eretz (worldly involvement); if there is no derech eretz, there is no Torah study. If there is no wisdom, there is no fear of God; if there is no fear of God, there is no wisdom. If there is no reason, there is no understanding; if there is no understanding, there is no reason. If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah, there is no flour.
Discussion Questions
- Paraphrase the excerpts.
- Discuss and agree upon the main points of each excerpt.
- Describe the relationship between worker and boss or employer in the excerpts from Deuteronomy and the Mishnah from Bava Metzia.
- What is implied about Torah by tying "flour" to it? Why might the two be interdependent? What does work have to do with this?
- What do the Torah and the Rabbinic Sages teach us about the meaning of work?
Big Ideas Activity Pages
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Teacher Resources
A collection of educational resources about child labor and reform.
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Full-patch Hells Angel Mike Robatzek, 41, has been kicked out of the biker gang's White Rock chapter, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
His unceremonious removal from the notorious motorcycle club came just four months after a young Abbotsford man was killed in a house owned by Robatzek's company, Ram Properties Inc. Ryan Saint-Ange, 21, was fatally shot Jan. 14 while alone in the house, at 27790 56 Ave. Two young men known to Saint-Ange have now been charged with killing him.
Robatzek didn't live in the home, but had young people staying there who were renovating it for resale.
Court records indicate Robatzek had fallen on financial hard times, with several suits alleging he had reneged on loans or left debts unpaid.
Robatzek had been in the Hells Angels for about 12 years. He was sergeant-at-arms of the White Rock chapter and was previously a member of the Vancouver chapter.
Reached on his cellphone Thursday, Robatzek hung up when asked about his departure from the Hells Angels.
Several police contacts told The Sun that he was kicked out in late April.
And Robatzek confirmed it to a friend on Facebook.
"oh shitty bro ya it is true I am out tof the club," he said on April 29.
His friend pledged his ongoing support in response: "I liked chilling with ya and helpn ya cause Ur a good guy not cause u had a patch."
Port Moody police Insp. Andy Richards, a bike gang expert, said Robatzek's removal will change the Lower Mainland gang landscape.
His former White Rock chapter has been linked to ongoing gang tensions in the aftermath of last August's Kelowna shooting, which saw Red Scorpion Jon Bacon killed and White Rock Hells Angel Larry Amero seriously wounded.
As sergeant-at-arms, Robatzek "would have figured prominently in whatever response or reactions they may have had to Amero's shooting," Richards said. "While I can't say definitively how his expulsion may impact the ongoing tensions, I can say that it has probably changed the landscape. We'll have to wait and see exactly how."
Richards also explained that in order for a full-patch Hells Angel to be forced out of the club, "chapter members unanimously believe that they can no longer be trusted or relied upon."
He pointed to the case of Juel Stanton, a Vancouver resident expelled from the Angels in 2010. He was later gunned down outside his house near Vancouver city hall.
"We've seen Juel Stanton kicked out because he was seen as a loose cannon and a liability," Richards said.
"The circumstances have to be pretty egregious to be kicked out, but the threshold for expulsion is not well-defined. It really depends on the circumstances and different rules seem to apply to different members."
He said some influential B.C. Hells Angels such as Lloyd Robinson have been allowed to "retire," even though Robinson was held partly responsible for bringing a police agent around the East End chapter.
The efforts of the agent, Michael Plante, "led to significant law enforcement consequences and embarrassment for that chapter," Richards said.
"In my opinion, because of his position and longevity, Robinson was directed to retire gracefully in good standing while other members would have likely been expelled," he said.
Richard said that when members are kicked out of the HA, they must give up their vests and any possession with the club insignia, as well as remove or cover up their Hells Angels tattoos.
Robatzek showed off his tattoos at the Hells Angels anniversary party in Langley in 2008, wearing just a pair of shorts during a heated argument with police over his monster truck.
His entire back and chest were covered with Hells Angels tattoos.
Life can be rough after the Hells Angels, Richard said.
"Members of the HA that have been kicked out typically don't have a lot of enviable options — they now have to deal with the enmity of the club and any enemies outside the club they've made along the way; all this without the protection and reputation that comes from being a member," he said.
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