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A Letter from R. Nathan Kamenetsky
In response to my last post on the Seforim Blog, R. Nathan Kamenetsky sent me a long e-mail. Because of its value to those with an interest in the Lithuanian Torah world, I asked Rabbi Kamenetsky for permission to post it here, and he graciously agreed – Marc Shapiro
The central figure, albeit a mostly passive one, in the story I shall tell below is R' Maisheh Finkel, one of the twin sons who were the youngest children of the Alter of Slabodka, born around 1887. The other twin was R' Shmuel Finkel, whose son became a caterer in Chicago and is the father of the recently deceased son-in-law of R' Bainish Finkel (son of the the Alter's oldest son R' Laizer-Yudel), R' Noson-Zvi Finkel, a namesake of his great-grandfather the Alter of Slabodka who served as the Rosh of the mighty Yeshivat Mir of Jerusalem for about thirty years.
R' Maisheh was far superior in Torah talent to his twin R' Shmuel. Someone described to me R' Maisheh's learning pose; he would pace back and forth the length of the beit midrash, and if someone asked a good question, R' Maisheh would give him one reply as he passed the questioner on the first time he transversed the beit midrash, then give him a second answer when he passed by him a second time, and a third answer when he passed him by for the third time. Raised by his mother – the Alteh lived in Kelem, not Slabodka, till the latter part of the first decade of the 20th century: see MOAG pp. 594-596 -- the Alter had at first sent him to learn under R' Baruch-Ber Leibowitz in Hlusk, and then brought him to Slabodka. R' Maisheh married Zlateh, the daughter of the Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, R' Moshe-Mordkhai Epstein, in 1913, and was appointed as a maggid shiur in the Slabodka Yeshiva.
When the Slabodka Yeshiva opened a branch in the city of Chevron in the winter of 1925, R' Maisheh was sent along with the first talmidim to be a maggid shiur there. The Alter himself came to Palestine in the summer of 1925 – not as the mashgiach, but as a retiree – and three months later, R' Maisheh died. Chiddushei Torah of R' Maisheh Finkel were published beginning in 1986 by R' Chaim-Dov Altusky, Rabbi Pinchas Scheinberg's late son-in-law, under the name "Chiddushei Hagram Mislabodka" (together with "Chiddushei Hamasbir", with the last word created from the acronym of Harav Morainu Soloveitchik Ber Yosheh, Reb) on various massekhtot. Rabbi Altusky had gotten R' Maisheh's manuscripts from a (posthumous) daughter-in-law of R' Maishe's.
Before we go on with the story, I will quote Rabbi Altusky from one of the introductions of "Chiddushei Hagram Mislabodka" where he quotes R' Yeruham Levovitz, celebrated Mashgiach of the Mirrer Yeshiva, as having written about R' Maisheh: "I always said that in a generation which has a great timber as he (ilan gadol kamohu), Israel is not yet widowed (od lo alman Yisrael), and in his light shall we see radiance (b'oro nir'eh or)." Rabbi Altusky points out that R' Yerucham wrote this when such greats as R' Chaim-Ozer, R' Shimon Shkop, R' Baruch Ber Leibowitz and the Kovner Rav fully functioned; but Rabbi Altusky does not explain why it was R' Maishe Finkel's presence that assured R' Yeruham that lo alman Yisrael. The Alter and his talmid R' Yeruham saw the ideal gadol baTorah, the ilan hagadol, as one who is equally great in Torah and in Musar – and this combination was very rare to find. They both saw that R' Maishe filled that prescription – also cf. MOAG pp. 805-806 on what the Alter thought of his son.
Verily, according to one of Altusky's introductions, R' Maisheh was "designated (m'yu'ad)" to succeed both his father as Mashgiach and his father-in-law as Rosh Yeshiva; this is surely something that his daughter-in-law had heard within the family and passed on, together with the manuscripts, to Rav Altusky. Also see MOAG pp. 756 and 765 that R' Maisheh would be his father's agent to carry through sensitive matters. [Do you, R' Mailech, have my Improved Edition or only the original MOAG? The Improved Edition has a asterisked footnote on page 1278 regarding the Alter's high estimation of his son and also pertains to the subject of your landmark book, viz., to R' Yehiel-Yankev Weinberg.]
Now to the body of the story. I shall tell it in the way it came to me. My father had said several times, "The (Slabodka) Yeshiva was so dear to the Alter, that he would be willing to sacrifice a child for it." I never understood what he meant by this Aqaidah metaphor (nor did I question my father about it) until I arrived in Israel and repeated it to R' Laizer Goldschmidt, a dayyan on the Beit Din Hagadol and husband of Miriam nee Plachinsky, a granddaughter of the Alter of Slabodka, asking him what my father had meant. He explained that Slabodka talmidim attributed R' Maisheh death at so early an age to his having broken his engagement to another girl in order to marry R' Moshe-Mordkhai's daughter. He had been engaged to Chava-Leah Hutner of Warsaw (who later became the wife of R' Tzvi-Yehudah Kook). (You may look up MOAG pp. 791-798 where I conjecture that this breakup brought about [in a convoluted way] R' Hatzqel Libshitz's decision to turn down the rabbanut of Kovno - thus opening the door for R' Avraham-Dober Kahana-Shapiro's appointment.) Incidentally, when R' Yitzchak Hutner, later of Yeshivat Rabbenu Chaim Berlin, came to study in Slabodka after WWI, the Alter was ill at ease with him because he was closely related to the jilted young lady, and had his major talmid R' Avrohm Grodzinsky, by then part of the Musar-hanhalah – see MOAG p. 806 – deal with the neophyte.
And why did R' Maisheh break up? Because the wife of the Rosh Yeshiva, R' Moshe-Mordkhai, insisted on it: she insisted that R' Maisheh marry her daughter Zlateh. The Alter of Slabodka felt that if he would enter into bad relations with (Menuhah Epstein, and hence with) R' Moshe-Mordkhai, the yeshiva would suffer. And he was willing to sacrifice his son on the altar of Yeshivas Slabodka. It is said that when the Alter was told of his son's demise, he repeated Job's words (3:25) "What I greatly feared is come upon me; what I had apprehended has come on me." In MOAG, I have an excursus on pp. 1061-1064 about the power certain wives of rashei yeshiva wielded in some old yeshivot – especially the Netziv's (niece, who became his) second wife, sister of R' Baruch Epstein. When R' Maisheh broke his engagement, R' Hayyim Soloveichik was angry with the Alter, saying, "For politics one does not embarrass a Jewish daughter" – see MOAG pp. 419-420.
But I had a problem: if Menuha Epstein was intent enough on having the 'iluy Maisheh Finkel marry her daughter that she would have him break his earlier engagement, why did she allow him to get engaged to someone else to begin with? Why didn't she interfere with Maisheh Finkel's proposed shiddukhim immediately?. This was bothering me for a long time – until I heard another story about R' Avrohm Kalmanowitz, of Va'ad Hatzalah fame, from a son of his sister, R' Osher Katzman, an author of many popular articles in the Aguda monthly "Dos Yiddisheh Vort" (and whose son Eli'ezer is on the editorial board of "Yeshurun").
R' Avrohm Kalmanowitz had learned in Slabodka, having come there from the town of Aishishok (the town perpetuated by Yaffa Eliach) where he learned with its rav, Reb Zundel Hutner. In his famous speeches in the United States after WWII, Rav Kalmanowitz would often refer to his study sessions with Reb Zundel and would recall that they studied through the long commentaries of the Shakh in Section 25 of Hoshen Mishpat (about the laws of a judge who erred in his ruling) - and that Reb Zundel lamented that there is no one "nowadays" who learns thoroughly through the subject at which the Shakh had toiled so hard. R' Avrohm then studied under Reb Laizer Gordon in Telz (see fn. t on p. 964 of MOAG), and, by the time he came under the wing of the Alter of Slabodka, he was already close to 20 years of age. By that time he had already completed the 4 Sections of the Shulkhan 'Arukh. In fact, when he arrived in Slabodka, he would look down upon a bachur his age who had not completed covered as much Torah as he had. He was considered a 'iluy in the yeshiva, and there was an ongoing debate among the talmidim of the Yeshiva on who was the greater 'iluy, Avrohm Kalmonowitz or Aaron Sislovicher (later Kotler). In fact, when R' Avrohm died, in 1964, two years after R' Aaron Kotler, my father za"l remarked, "The last member of our chabhurah in Slabodka is gone."
According to "Kulmos Hallev", a volume about Rav Kalmanowitz and "his Da'ath Torah and spiritual fervor (sa'arot ruach)" (published by his family in Jerusalem, 1996), p. 4, R' Zundel had spread his pupil's fame as a "wondrous 'iluy" and the Alter sent a wagon to fetch him and bring him to Slabodka; the Alter then arranged that he should learn together with his talented son R' Maisheh. R' Avrohm's father, who served as rav in Volhyn, in the town of Barashi, near Rogachov, once came to Slabodka to see how his son was faring. When the Alter told him, "He can already lead half the world," he became upset, and said, "I sent him here to learn, not to lead."
The story Katzman told was as follows: R' Avrohm had gone home for Pesach, at a time when two shiddukhim were being proposed to him; one was a daughter of his rosh yeshiva R' Moshe-Mordkhai Epstein, and the other was an orphaned daughter of the Rav of Rakov, a town between Volozhin and Minsk, and he had already met both young ladies. From home, he wrote out two envelopes addressed to the two female candidates, and then sat down to write out the letters he was planning to send them. First he wrote the letter to the Rakov girl and he put her letter into an envelope and took it to the post office. He then wrote a letter to the Epstein girl, and as he was putting the letter into the remaining envelope -- woe is him! – he saw that the remaining envelope was the one addressed to Rakov. This meant that the letter to the Rakov girl would arrive at the home of the Epstein girl. He rushed to the post office and asked the postman to return the letter he had given him, but the postman refused. R' Avrohm went on to offer the postman up to 10 Rubles to get his letter back, but the postman explained that the law is that once a letter is in his hand he must deliver it only to the addressee. In short, when the Rakov girl's letter arrived in Slabodka, and the daughter of R' Moshe-Mordkhai saw that Avrohm had even considered another shiddukh but herself, the proud granddaughter of the famous Kovno philanthropist R' Shraga-Feivel Frank (cf. MOAG Index), was beside herself, and decided she would hear no more of Avrohm Kalmanowitz.
When I heard this story I pieced two and two together, to wit: in the winter of 1913, Rebbitzen Epstein was not interested in Maisheh Finkel because she had as good a catch, if not a better one, for her Zlateh in Avrohm Kalmanowitz, the latter being not only a great 'iluy, but a tall, handsome and charismatic leader as well. So why should she care if R' Baruch-Ber Leibowitz, by-this-time the Rosh Yeshiva of Knesset Beit Yitzchak, the "other", non-Musar, yeshiva in Slabodka, had cast his eye on Maisheh for his daughter (see MOAG p. 525), and why should she care if Maisheh gets engaged to Chava-Leah Hutner of Warsaw? At the beginning of that winter, R' Moshe-Mordkhai presented R' Avrohm with an effusive Certificate of Ordination (Smikhah) testifying that he is "a wondrous baqi in all of Shas with Tospoth, and in the posqim, rishonim v'acharonim, as one of the greats of the generation." The Certificate manuscript is pictured on the page facing page 1 of "Kulmos Hallev", and is laid out in print on p. 5, together with ordinations by R' Elya-Barukh Kamai, Rav of Mir, and R' Rephael Shapiro of Volozhin, both awarded to R' Avrohm about a month later than R' Moshe-Mordkhai's, the manuscripts of which are pictured on the page following p. 220 of "Kulmos", the last page of the volume.
It is worth noting that in transcribing the manuscript of R' Moshe-Mordechai, the family misread one word, for, after praising the ordainee as "yet from his youth he stood out as a wondrous 'iluy," the end of the fifth and beginning of the sixth written lines read: "Va'yiph va'yigdal va'yehi l'erez may'arzei Hatorah (he became beautiful and grew to become a cedar among the cedars of Torah)," while the printed transciption misreads the beginning of the quotation, that is, its first word, to: "Aph va'yigdal va'yehi (he also grew and became)." The family obviously did not realize that R' Moshe-Mordkhai used the language of Ezekiel 31:7 which describes "a cedar of Lebanon, that is Assyria (Verse 3)" which "Va'yiph b'godlo (became beautiful in its greatness)" to describe R' Avrohm who, after being a wondrous 'iluy in his youth, grew to become a cedar-like tall and handsome young man and one of the Torah cedars of his generations. (I had seen the manuscript Smikhah before "Kulmos Hallev" was published, and I immediately connected R' Moshe-Mordechai's expression to Ezekiel. I'll just add that R' Moshe-Mordechai used the expression from his by-heart knowledge of the verse, and did not look up the verse in a Tanakh before penning it, else he would have spelled the word "va'yiph" with two Yoddim - and the family would not have been mislead to read his Vav and single Yod as an Aleph, "aph" instead of "va'yiph".)
I believe that R' Moshe-Mordkhai wrote the extremely flattering Smikha when R' Avrohm was a candidate to become his son-in-law, but R' Avrohm obtained the other two smikhot soon thereafter because he was also interested in the Rakov girl whose hand was offered together with her late father's rabbanut of the town of Rakov - as you know from the case of R' Yehiel-Yankev Weinberg of Pilvishok, a town would keep its rabbinical post vacant until their deceased rav's daughter would find a match suitable to take over the rabbinate. Therefore, R' Avrohm sought out ordinations from well-known rabbanim who served in towns close to Rakov, not in faraway Slabodka. During the same winter that the Epsteins were sure that R' Avrohm would close a shidduch with their Zlateh, R' Maishe became engaged to the well-to-do and pedigreed Chava-Leah, daughter of R' Yehudah-Laib Hutner, a Motz in Warsaw who also owned a printing company. After Avrohm's Pesach blunder, Zlateh was left with a second-choice mate, one who was already engaged, Maisheh Finkel: her mother took care of the rest. Under the hand of the daughter-in-law who supplied Rav Altusky with R' Maishe's Torah manuscripts, I saw the ketubah of Zlateh and Maisheh: they were married two months after the Pesach debacle, in Sivan 5673 (June 1913), and one of the two witnesses thereon is my grandfather, R' Bereh-Hirsh Heller, the "younger" mashgiach of the Slabodka Yeshiva. Rav Kalmanowitz went on to wed the Rakov girl and its rabbinate, and became known throughout his lifetime as "the Rakover Rav". It is said that R' Laizer Rabinowitz, who succeeded his father-in-law the Minsker Godol, R' Yeruham-Yehudah-Laib Perlman, as Rav of Minsk, took no major action in that metropolis without first discussing it with Rav Kalmanowitz. The latter verily became a great Torah leader as the Alter had predicted.
I'll end by doing justice to the historically underrated Rav Kalmanowitz. During the First World War, Rav Kalmanowitz organized aid for the refugees who streamed from Poland into Russia, as recorded at length in "Kulmos Hallev". He also went on to become close to the Chafetz-Chaim and followed the latter's guidance in klal Yisrael activism. When the Mirrer Yeshiva underwent a financial crisis, he became the major fundraising representative of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Europe, and then traveled to America on behalf of that yeshiva. Because he was not a simple executive director but a great talmid chakham, he was given the title of "Nasi" of that yeshiva, and was promised that he would eventually deliver shiurim therein. (Nowadays, many religious institutions raise their stature by claiming to be uner the "n'si'ut" of one gadol or another. But the first to hold that title was Rav Kalmanowitz, who not only contributed his good name to the Mirrer Yeshiva, but earned the title by literally saving it from collapse.)
But delivering shiurim in the Mirrer Yeshiva never worked out for R' Avrohm. I conjecture that it was due to the opposition of Reb Yeruham Levovitz, the Mashgiach who shared at least equally with the Rosh Yeshiva, R' Laizer-Yudel Finkel, the adulation of the talmidim. As a ba'al Musar who sought to raise the stature of bnai Torah who devoted themselves exclusively to Torah study, R' Yeruham felt that super-activist Rav Kalmanowitz was an improper role model. (See MOAG pp. 573-576 that R' Yeruham disagreed strongly with the Chafetz-Chaim's approach to the training of yeshiva students.) Instead, the Mirrer Yeshiva fulfilled its obligation by providing a group of its outstanding talmidim to set up a kolel in Otwotzk (near Warsaw) for its Nasi to head. The Kalmanowitz family told me that R' Avrohm always looked back at that time in his life when he sat and learned in the Mir-sponsored kolel as the happiest period of his lifetime.
In spite of this, Rav Kalmanowitz could not bring himself to shun the public arena for long. He returned to his activism and became Rav of Tiktin, an ancient and highly prestigious rabbanut. His many activities on behalf of Jewry and his prolific writings about them are recorded in "Kulmos Hallev", a book which should be read by all bnai Torah. When the Second World War broke out, he happened to be fundraising in the United States, and there became the linchpin of the Vaad Hatzalah organization. Among other accomplishments, he raised the monetary means to sustain the Mirrer Yeshiva throughout its Shanghai exile. In connection with this supreme achievement, there is a famous vort which R' Avrohm expounded. He asked: why did the lion claw and injure Noah when he was once late feeding it in the Ark, when, after all, he had fed it in time all the other meals? And he answered: there can be no excuse for treating the very last lion in the world in any manner less than royally. Rav Kalmanowitz used this bon mot when asking people to contribute to saving the last yeshiva remaining when the Jewish world was destroyed with the onset of the war.
I'll end with an exchange between gedolim that R' Yankel Leshinsky witnessed and relayed to me. The three Slabodka talmidim, R' Reuven Grozovsky, R' Avrohm Kalmanowitz, and R' Aaron Kotler were meeting in the Vaad Hatzalah office, and a heated argument broke out between Rav Kalmanowitz and Rav Aaron Kotler as to which course of action to take. Rav Kalmanowitz lost his composure and said, "Listen R' Aaron, if I had sat and learned all the years as you did, I would have been greater than you." To which R' Reuven retorted, "Yes, R' Avrohm, but R' Aaron did learn!" The point is that Rav Kalmanowitz sacrificed the pinnacle of personal rank in favor of the public needs: and he was never properly appreciated for it.


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At this time last season, ETSU junior post Brad Nuckles was in pain. He was frustrated. And he was unsure of his future.
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Huggermugger is quite hard to find, as mentioned earlier. Your best bet is eBay. And don't you dare bid on that "Adult" version that's up there (as of 6/28/2001)...it's mine, damnit!
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Russia needs shootout to beat Slovakia in men's hockey
SOCHI, Russia — With miserable memories of T.J. Oshie still fresh in their minds, the Russians were right back in another shootout.
An unknown Slovak goalie had blanked their powerful offense for 65 minutes, and Russia was one Oshie-esque moment away from a second straight Olympic loss.
Although Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Radulov were hobbled, they wouldn't let it happen.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 27 shots, Radulov and Kovalchuk scored in the shootout, and Russia beat Slovakia 1-0 on Sunday, bouncing back from that shootout loss to the U.S. one day earlier.
After Varlamov stopped both Slovak attempts in the shootout, Kovalchuk beat Jan Laco to seal the Russians' second win in the preliminary round. Kovalchuk, who missed the final minutes of the second period with a right leg injury, kissed his index finger as he skated back to his teammates through deafening cheers.
"That's every game here. It's very intense," Kovalchuk said. "Even if you play against Slovenia or the USA, or today against Slovakia, it doesn't matter. We couldn't find a way how to score, but we found a way to win."
Kovalchuk didn't appear to steal any tactics from Oshie, whose four shootout goals turned him into the hero of the preliminary round. After Radulov beat Laco with a diabolical top-shelf backhand, Kovalchuk deked Laco to the ice and beat him easily to the stick side.
A day after the Russians' 3-2 shootout loss to the unbeaten U.S. team, they barely emerged from a tense, defense-dominated game with Slovakia, which lost its first two games in Sochi in embarrassing fashion. Another boisterous sellout crowd at Bolshoy Ice Dome grew increasingly nervous as the deadlock stretched deep into the third period, but the Russian stars delivered — barely.
"Yesterday's game definitely had an effect, because we spent a lot of energy and emotions," Russian coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov said through a translator. "Guys found it difficult to play today, but I must say Slovakia was very hard to play against."
With one win, one overtime win and one overtime loss in the preliminary round, Russia probably must play a qualifying elimination game to reach the quarterfinals, likely failing to earn one of the four automatic berths. The Russians will know for sure after Canada's late game against Finland.
But perhaps the Russians shouldn't be worried: After all, Canada was forced to play a qualifying game in its home Olympics four years ago, eventually rolling through four elimination games in Vancouver to win gold.
Russia also got a stellar game from Varlamov, who started the opener, but sat behind Sergei Bobrovsky for the loss to the U.S. Varlamov stopped Milan Bartovic twice on a breakaway chance late in the second period, and Slovakia's shootout attempts from Michal Handzus and Tomas Tatar went nowhere against the Colorado goalie.
"It does not matter if we will have to play an extra match," Varlamov said. "The end result is that we will have to play against a good team eventually."
The result was practically welcomed by the winless Slovaks, who have struggled in Sochi. They fell 7-1 to the Americans before allowing tiny Slovenia to record its first Olympic victory.
Laco was a surprise starter in place of his winless team's two NHL goalies, and the Kontinental Hockey League backup nearly stole a win over the powerful Russian offense by making 36 saves.
"I really thought we had good bounce-back after yesterday," Slovak captain Zdeno Chara said. "We just have to build on that and get ready for our next opponent. You always have a chance in this tournament no matter what you do in your first games. You can still move along if you win that do-or-die game. We have to get ready for that."
The Russians had no time to stew over their narrow loss to the Americans — or that disputed call on a disallowed Russian goal in that game. Slovakia immediately mired the Russians' beautiful offensive game in a tight-checking positional contest that magnified every scoring chance and resulted in several injuries.
Russia's desperation increased in the third period, outshooting Slovakia 15-2 and barely missing on numerous scoring chances. Laco turned them all away, and defenseman Andrej Meszaros saved the game early in overtime by blocking a rebound shot by Alex Ovechkin, who hasn't scored a goal since the opening minutes of Russia's first game.
"It mattered to us," Meszaros said. "We wanted to prove to ourselves we could play better hockey than we showed in the first two games. I think we showed everybody that we can play with anybody."


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Shameful Security: StartCom Charges People To Revoke SSL Certs Vulnerable To Heartbleed
from the and-fuck-you-all-too dept
StartCom is a free SSL Cert authority, and on the company's website, it claims it offers this service for free "because we believe in the right to protect and secure information between two entities without discrimination of race, origin and financial capabilities." Except, that's not quite how things are playing out in reality. As is being actively discussed over at HackerNews and via the StartSSL Twitter fee, the company is trying to charge people to revoke the vulnerable certs. Update: And, yes, they're even charging those who are on their premium paid service tiers as well -- and often charging exorbitant rates.
While the company has generally charged for revoking certs, many people pointed out that with a vulnerability of this magnitude, that's both ridiculous and dangerous. However, the company doesn't seem to care.
It's upon the subscriber to take appropriate action since the certificate authority can't enforce which software to use. The terms of service and related fees will not change due to that.When it was pointed out to the company how serious a vulnerability issue the company started to get snotty with its own uses:
We do understand the situation very well, thanks.... This is not our fault as well. We do not see any reason to provide this paid service for free. We have enough other free services already if you didn't mentioned it.People began challenging the company on Twitter, and it's taken that same snotty "we don't give a fuck" attitude to them as well:


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Some levity for your post-Sandy (or, depending on where you live, mid-Sandy) doldrums: while the East Coast was being ravaged by the biggest hurricane in Atlantic history, local police in Suðurnes, Iceland had crises of their own to deal with. Namely: the feline scourge better known as "cat parties."
According to the Reykjavík Grapevine, Suðurnes police were "called out to break up a party being held by cats." This is all verbatim, people:
Morgunblaðið reports that residents living around a house known to be unoccupied for some time noticed several cats coming in and out of an open window. This piqued the curiosity of residents, who summarily called police to the location at around noon last Sunday.
Police arrived at the scene and, entering the house, found no people there. However, two to three cats - the exact number is still unclear - were allegedly occupying the house. According to police reports, the cats were "snuggling" on a couch that had been left behind by the previous residents.
Officers on the scene sprang into action, immediately evicting the cats from the house. They then ensured that all doors and windows into the house were securely closed and locked, in the hopes of preventing an incident of this sort from ever happening again.
Thank all the gods that Suðurnes law enforcement was equipped to respond as swiftly as they did.


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Coile, D. Caroline
Pit Bulls For Dummies®
If you think Pit Bulls should be purged from the face of the earth, Pit Bulls For Dummies will enlighten you. Perhaps you're curious about this breed and want to know what Pit Bulls are really like; if so, this book is for you. Who else needs this handy reference?
- Smart people who realize that all breeds have good and bad points
- New (and not so new) owners who need help with training
- Owners looking for just the right veterinarian
- Potential owners looking to adopt from a breed-rescue group
- Pit Bull owners who need help identifying Pit Bull health problems
Too many dog care books are filled with unrealistic scare tactics that would cause anyone to just give up, while others are filled with hand-me-down dog lore that has no basis in reality. You won't find any of that in Pit Bulls For Dummies. Here's a sampling of the handy information you'll find in this essential guide:
- Understanding the Pit Bull's origins and characteristics
- Caring for a puppy or older Pit Bull
- Keeping your dog healthy with diet and exercise
- Dealing with bad behavior: Biting, barking, jumping, and more
- Training your Pit Bull in the basics such as sit, stay, heel, and come
- Understanding Pit Bull body language
- Helping your dog become a social animal
Owning a Pit Bull isn't easy, but that's not because of the dogs. A special commitment to the breed and a special dog owner are needed. Pit Bulls are pretty special dogs, and they have to prove it every day.
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Saturday January 19, 2019
Case of the Week
Barbara Banker's Youth Center
Case:Barbara Banker started with nothing. She did not own a bank, nor did she have anything to place in the bank. Barbara lived in a midsized town and worked in the local hardware store where the store owner noticed her industrious efforts and strong work ethic. When he decided to retire, he suggested that Barbara could take over the hardware store and pay him over a term of 10 years from store profits. Barbara did exactly that. In fact, when the town drugstore owner wanted to retire, she bought it under a similar plan. Later, Barbara started buying apartment buildings in town. Since she needed financing, Barbara became good friends with the town bankers.
Two bankers approached Barbara about starting a new local bank. She agreed to be one of the initial directors and they all invested in the local bank (with the name LoBank). Years later, the bank's services and value have greatly increased. Barbara is a respected businesswoman and now owns a large block of stock in LoBank.
As a strong community supporter, Barbara gives regularly to her favorite local charity. She would like to make a large gift of bank stock to a local charity for a new youth center. But, as a director, she knows that LoBank is discussing a sale of all stock to MegaBank from a nearby large city. Barbara met with her CPA to discuss the gift.
Question:Barbara explained, "My favorite charity would like to name the new youth center after me. I am interested in supporting youth, and this center would be a fine addition to our town. The LoBank stock has gone way up in value, but I have heard that there may be problems with gifts when bank negotiations are underway. Can I make this gift? Are there any problems?"
Solution:Barbara's CPA explained that it is possible to make a gift of LoBank stock at this time. Negotiations for sale of a bank can be protracted. The acquisition of local banks and other companies may be subject to specific federal regulatory rules. Therefore, the negotiation period may be quite lengthy in order to comply with external requirements.
Since there is no binding agreement under Rev. Rul. 78-197 during the negotiation period, outright charitable gifts or transfers to a charitable trust are usually permissible and will bypass capital gain. In some cases, the directors may have restricted stock. With restricted stock, the charity may need to wait the applicable period of time before actually selling the stock. However, there is no restriction on Barbara's stock and it may be transferred and sold.
Since LoBank is not publicly traded and the stock gift is for $100,000, substantiating the charitable deduction will require an appraisal by a qualified independent appraiser. In addition, the few stock sales that occur each year are usually to other current LoBank shareholders. Because the charity and Barbara do not have a binding agreement to sell to other shareholders, she may make the gift, bypass the capital gain and deduct the appraised value. This will be a 30% type appreciated gift. If she cannot use the full $100,000 deduction amount under the 30% limit for this year, Barbara can carry forward the remaining gift value for up to five additional years.
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Blogging has done wonderful things for me. I have a creative outlet that rewards me with instant gratification. I've met (and gotten loaded with) lots of smart, interesting, funny, and generous people. I've reconnected with other people who I thought had floated out of my life forever. I've worked on my writing and reached the point where reading my own work doesn't make me want to pull my face off my head.
I've also landed a few writing gigs. For cash money. That I have lovingly handed over in lump-sum format to Robert's preschool, proud sponsor of the Drop-Of-A-Hat Closing Policy. It closes on Election Day. And the two days after Easter. And the two days before Thanksgiving. Apparently the faculty all have pressing holiday engagements around the world, and they're all traveling by paddle boat.
Sometimes, blogging is the only way to find out whatever the hell my wife is thinking. Seriously. Some nights -- especially on weekends, when we've had a full day of releasing the Kiddie Kilowatts -- we'll have just gotten the little homunculi to bed and be sitting dazed on the couch, staring off dumbly. Suddenly I'll say, "So. I really enjoyed that post of yours on rectal thermometers." And a conversation is born.
I'm very grateful to blogging, but with every light there is also shadow. Every so often you discover something through another blog, and it crawls inside your brain and sets up shop like a squatter in a tenement. The current culprit is Matthew, who thrust the game "Funny Farm" into my life. All you do is think up words or phrases that are associated with one another and follow the threads as they intertwine. It's addictive and maddening. And now, instead of sleeping, I'm sitting here at 2 a.m. trying to think of three words that are somehow linked to "Viagra."
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After a Shawnee citizen approached the city commission with concerns regarding a rezoning near Bryan and MacArthur streets, the request is being sent back to the planning commission for a new hearing.
After a Shawnee citizen approached the city commission with concerns regarding a rezoning near Bryan and MacArthur streets, the request is being sent back to the planning commission for a new hearing.
The man identified himself as James Brennen at Monday night's meeting, and said he had not been properly notified of the public hearing.
Brennen added that he had concerns regarding the building plans, and possible liability on his part in regards to his farm animals. He expressed concerns about his liability if a child were bitten by his horse or another animal.
Brennen requested that the commission defer action until he could review building plans.
The planning commission voted unanimously to approve the request at their May 1 meeting. Greg Brown Homes requested the rezone to allow for a 72-lot neighborhood development, which would not be allowed under the current agricultural zoning.
In order for a rezone to be heard, the party requesting the rezone must provide a list of people within 300 feet of the property, City Planner Justin Erickson said. The list must come from a bonded abstractor, and Brennen was not included on the list provided.
"It was an oversight on the title company's part," Greg Brown, who requested the rezone, said.
Brown added that he didn't expect this to set his plans back far.
City Attorney Mary Ann Karns said the matter must be sent back to the planning commission because the notice was not adequate. This way Brennen will have a chance to appeal to the planning commission and voice his concerns.
The matter is going to be heard at the June planning commission meeting, Erickson said. After the planning commission makes their recommendation, the matter will be brought again before the city commission.
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Shut Up, and Keep Digging
October 13, 2009
Anybody else old enough to remember "Mommy, Mommy!" jokes?
Q: Mommy, Mommy! I don't want to go to China!
A: Shut up, and keep digging.
That's how I feel researching my family history sometimes. I keep digging and digging, and the hole gets bigger and bigger, but I never seem to arrive.
Case in point: my great-great grandfather, William Thomas. I've been searching for his death certificate for twenty years. It doesn't help that both of his names are very common, but even so … twenty years? It's in the 20th century, for heaven's sake!
But I am a bulldog, and once I get a hold of a bone, I keep digging at it.


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Search for Vehicle of Interest in Bayshore Mall Stabbing
Vehicle of interest in stabbing at Bayshore Mall on Monday(photo provided by Eureka Police Dept.)
Eureka Police Dept. Press Release:
On 02/11/13 at about 1500 hours a male adult was delivered to the Saint Joseph Hospital Emergency Department by a friend. The male had apparently suffered multiple sharp-force injuries and required emergency medical treatment.
The injuries reportedly resulted from an incident that occurred in the parking lot of the Bayshore Mall. At this time, robbery does not appear to have been a motive and there is no suggestion that the victim was engaged in any kind of criminal activity with the suspects (i.e. there is no information suggesting this was what is sometimes referred to as a drug rip-off).
Based on information received from witnesses, William WHIPPLE (age 23) was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for attempted murder in connection with this investigation.
The vehicle depicted in the attached image is believed to be related to the suspects. Anyone with information about who may have been in this vehicle on 02/11 is asked to contact Det. Wilcox at 707-441-4315.
- Bayshore Mall Stabbing Suspect Arrested before for Murder
- SoHum Man Stabbed in Bayshore Mall Parking Lot


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The drone secrets we should see
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency may no longer refuse to acknowledge something that everyone knows to be true: the agency has "an interest" in the use of drones to carry out targeted killings. The CIA is unaccustomed to courts rejecting its secrecy claims, but in asking the courts to pretend that the agency might have no connection whatsoever to the targeted killing program, the agency dramatically overreached. Unsurprisingly, the appeals court was unwilling to give its "imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible."
The immediate consequence of the appeals court's ruling is that the CIA must answer a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union more than three years ago — the agency must disclose records about the program or supply a legally sufficient justification for withholding them. But the ruling should trigger some deeper reflection within the Obama administration. Is the secrecy surrounding the killing program truly necessary? Shouldn't the public know who is being killed, and why?
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The administration owes the public a fuller account of the program. It should begin by releasing the legal memos that supposedly justify the program. In litigation, the government has acknowledged the existence of three memos; it has shown other memos to some members of Congress. Disclosure of the memos to the public — redacted, if necessary, to protect intelligence sources and methods — would help the public better understand who the government considers to be lawful targets and why the government believes the program to be consistent with domestic and international law.
The government should also disclose more information about how it selects its targets. Who decides what name is added to a "kill list"? Who reviews the decision? Who, in other words, should the public hold accountable?
Right now, the public does not know which officials to hold accountable or even what, exactly, to hold them accountable for. News stories have indicated that most deaths attributable to the targeted killing program are the result not of "targeted killings" in any literal sense, but of so-called signature strikes — strikes aimed at individuals or groups whose identities are unknown or unconfirmed but whose observed behavior matches certain profiles. The U.K.-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported that in Pakistan, the CIA's signature strikes have targeted rescuers and funerals. The administration should explain, with far more specificity than it has done so far, who it is that the CIA and Defense Department are actually trying to kill.
The administration should also release basic information about the program's actual human impact. A senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee recently acknowledged that the program has resulted in the deaths of 4,700 people; independent research groups estimate that as many as a quarter of those killed were civilians. To the extent the government knows who has been killed, it should disclose the names.


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Quite a few years ago I was asked to take this sad, sweet, elderly pit bull. Really, we didn't think she would be around long. She flew from New York where she had been in a shelter for two years. The night I picked her up from the airport she seemed to be everything they had told me. I should have realized I was in trouble later that night when I went to crate her for the night and I could have sworn she tried to bite me.
She spent most of day two relaxing. Then she started pacing. She kept going to the door and whining. I kept letting her out and having to coerce her to come back in. Then as the day came to an end I went to crate her again. Yup..this time she definitely tried to bite me. This was the beginning of a beautiful friendship and a huge learning experience for me and my family.
Kya was not human aggressive. But she was strong willed and determined to get her way. She threw temper tantrums when we would close her kennel. Or otherwise tried to change things up. She HATED being in the house. HATED it. I would force her in when the weather got really bad but otherwise, she liked her outdoor dog run.
The summer Kya was about 13/14, we started training her to do weight pull just trying to burn off some energy. She was a wild one. Walks and runs didn't cut it. and fetch wasn't her bag because once she went and got anything, it was hers to keep.
Over the years Kya was sick a few times..scared us quite a bit, but always prevailed. To the point my vet told me "This dog is going to die when she's ready. And not a day sooner. Would you stop running her in every time she has a rough day?" Kya was kind of a pain in the ass at the vet. I didn't blame him. We stopped removing lumps and numps after awhile. Stopped paying for biopsies. None of it mattered anyways. Kya was pushing 17 years old and aside from a few rough patches, was still going strong.
Kya was dangerous with other animals. And the older she got the worse she was. But her unfailing good mood and sweet nature with us made it worth it.You could NOT be around Kya without laughing.
Kya had a large pen in the yard where she loved rutting in mud like a pig during the summer. She would literally dig herself a trench and roll around in the ensuing mud. My *responsible owner* side decided if someone saw this, they would probably report me to animal control for my poor dog living in such muck. (mind you..this was a very small section of the dog run. It just happened to be the part she loved most) I decided to cover the mud. SO out Kya came from the kennel to go tear around the yard while we laid flooring. When I went to put her back in her kennel Kya was PISSED off. It was the first time I thought she was seriously going to hurt me. We had a brief come to Jesus moment. I won. sort of.
Kyas favorite thing in the world was fresh hay. When I brought home new hay or went to put fresh hay down in the kennels she was beside herself. She tossed it into the air and dragged tons into her already well padded dog house and was just joyful over it. Such a simple pleasure.
When we got new kennels and dog houses, I decided to upgrade Kya. Since there was astro turf, we werent going to use Hay except in the winter. So Kya got her new dog house. And a bed. Upon checking out her new digs, Kya was quick to share her opinion. the new bed was promptly pooped upon and drug out of the dog house. Then she went back into the dog house and left another pile of poop there. Then for the next two days, Kya barked non stop. I finally gave up and returned her old, chewed up,, ratty looking dog house and filed it with hay. She immediately went and laid down and slept for a full day .
I never turned Kya into a house dog despite my best efforts. I never got her to be comfortable with dog beds. Never got her to walk properly on a leash unless she damn well felt like it. She listened when she wanted to and ignored us when she didn't/ She was opinionated and stubborn and sometimes downright obnoxious. Kya liked big knuckle bones, rope toys and tennis balls. She hated other dogs, being inside and dog beds.
The last night Kya spent with us I put a nice comfy dog bed in her kennel. She was thin and clearly losing ground and my human side just HAD to do something..we knew decision time was upon us. But as usual, Kya did things her way. She used the new bed for a toilet and contentedly laid next to it and died. It was her final message to us.."MY way people..I do things MY way!"
Rest well you crazy old broad. Our world feels much emptier without you. Please don't poop on the other dogs beds at the bridge.


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Lightbulbs make terrible load banks for precision testing. They are much more difficult to start. A cold filament has a very low resistance. This is why if you have a tungsten driver that ramps up the power (as opposed to direct across the line starting) the lamps will last MUCH longer. Inrush current on a tungsten lamp is very high. This makes them candidates for tweeter diaphragm protectors too.
The wattage is the max the resistor will handle. Beyond that it breaks down and becomes for all intents a fuse. Since the resistor is a fixed value (and we are going to deal with purely resistive loads here and not get involved with impedance etc.) the wattage detemines the maximum voltage that it can handle before the current passing through rips it apart. Your example of the 120 W and 120 ohm resistor is a special case. We all know ohms laws etc. but you can see how special this case is if you look at it as P=I^2 R. Thus 120=I^2 120 or 1=I^2 Thus Max current is 1 amp. 120 V is the point at it will start to turn into a fuse.
If you are thinking about a tester then you will be dealing with a constant Voltage (IE 12V). With this you want to use the formula of W=(V^2)/R. Thus W=144/R. Thus if you want 100 W @ 12 V you plug it in and get 100=144/R or R=144/100 or 1.44 Ohms. Since resistors only come in standard sizes you never get an exact match. Most test equipment is probably set up as an active circuit which is sinking or sourcing a constant current. In this case VI is the easy solution. If you want to put a 100 watt load on a 12V source you need to have a circuit that will sink 100/12 =8.3 Amps.
Using an active circuit with a transistor to shunt the current makes more sense and is probably an easier and cheaper alternative to using a bank of resistive loads. This is because it can be set up with a variable resistor and probably an op amp so that you can dial in what you want. With resistor banks you run into the problem of being limited to just the designed load for each bank. If you want each load to be 100 watts you need to create a bank that matches 1.44 Ohms and make sure that the current through each resistor in the bank does not exceed it' s individual wattage. To get near a 100 watt load at 12 volts using standard sizes you need to do the following. 1/R = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 ... a quick try is to use the standard values of 3 and 2.7 Ohms. 1/3 + 1/2.7 = .703 and 1/.703 gives 1.42. Current through the bank is 12V/1.42ohm = 8.45 A. 8.45 x 12 = 101.4 watts. Close enough to be within the allowed tolerance levels of components. Current through the 3 ohm resistor is 12/3 = 4 and its watt rating should be no lower than 4x4x3 or 48 watts. That through the 2.7 Ohm resistor is 12/2.7 or 4.444 A and its wattage should be no lower than 53.333 watts. (Always choose the next higher watt value to give headroom) Obviously we are starting to involve precision resistors and high wattage values. It only becomes more difficult when you consider that if you want to be able to test to 1000 Watts (which is what some PS are coming out at today) you need an effective bank resistance of .144 ohms that can handle 1000 Watts and is handling over 83 A.
I am sure that the above is known in general if not specifics for many of those frequenting this site.
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Wattage ratings
Actually, this is a bit more complex than you think.
The wattage rating of a resistor is the maximum heating power that you're allowed to pump into it assuming "normal" heat sinking. Given a voltage V across it and a current I through it, which are related by V = I*R, the heat dissipated in the resistor is P = V*I. This must be less than the resistor's power rating or the resistor may be damaged. Since V = I*R, you can shorten the computation using the equivalent formulas P = V*I = V*V/R = I*I*R. You'll get the same answer all three ways.
A brief digression about Ohm's law. Ohm's law is, as its name says, a law of nature, and applies at all times and all places. Human laws say what you may do, what is permitted. A law of nature says what you can do, what is possible. You can't (it is not possible to) break it any more than you can break the law of gravity. At high frequencies, you need to add complex reactance to the mix, which turns your simple resistance into a more complicated impedance, but with that detail, it's still true.
(The entire complexity about "power factor" and "VA" vs. "Watts" is because Ohm's law holds true at each moment, but if current and voltage are changing, then the average current times the average voltage is not the same thing as the average (current times voltage).)
If you ever do a computation with Ohm's law that gives you a ridiculous or impossible answer, then it's telling you that building the thing you're trying to compute the behavior of is ridiculous or impossible. You've made a mistake and overlooked something. If you could build it, Ohm's law tells you what would happen, and if that can't happen, that means that it's not buildable.
(This happens a lot if you assume resistances that are zero or truly infinite. Wires have a small, but non-zero resistance, and air and insulation has a large, but non-infinite resistance.)
Some people seem to think that voltage and current are independently controllable parameters of a power supply or other circuit. That you can somehow change one without changing the other. They're independently controllable if and only if you're allowed to change the resistance. If the resistance is fixed, then voltage and current are in lockstep.
Anyway, a "12 V, 18 A" power supply rail will deliver 12 V at up to 18 A, or 18 A at up to 12 V, but you will get both simultaneously if and only if you use a 12/18 = 2/3 Ohm resistor. If the resistor is higher, you'll get 12V at 12/R amps. If the resistor is any lower, you'll get 18*R V at 18 A. The power supply can't force you to connect a particular load to it, so it can't force the output to 12 V and 18 A simultaneously, despite what some people seem to think.
Anyway, back to resistors... the real limit on a resistor is how hot it can get. If you can keep it cool enough, there is no limit on the amount of power you can pump through it. On the other side, if you put something in a perfect thermos flask, even a little bit of heat will build up and up until you'll eventually melt something.
The power rating of a resistor is assuming some sort of "normal" heat sinking. If you wrap it in insulation, it will stop working at a lower power. If you bolt it to a giant block of finned aluminum in a wind tunnel, it will take a staggering amount of power.
For a classical axial-lead resistor (those little things with the color codes and a wire sticking out each end), most of the heat leaves through the lead wires. the power rating assumes they're connected to some other wires or circuitry that isn't too hot. Making sure those wires don't actually get too hot is the problem of you, the user. Go see the Yaego CFR series datasheet for an example: Notice the spec on "ambient temperature" and "resistor rise above ambient". If you let the resistor heat the ambient above 70 C, you're no longer allowed to put full load through the resistor.
Higher-power resistors assume they're bolted to a heat sink or have a certain amount of air flow to cool them. Typically "in still air" is used as a test standard, so air flow is generated only be convection from the resistor's heat. Any moving air (from a fan or whatever) will help, but additional heat-generating components nearby will make things worse. It often comes out in the wash.
So you can dump 1/4 watt into a 1/4 watt resistor indefinitely, as long as air can flow to it, and it's got some clear space around it. If you put 100 1/4 watt resistors shoulder-to-shoulder and try to pump 1/4 watt into each of them, without serious cooling effort, your little experiment will glow like a 25 watt light bulb and if you complain to the resistor manufacturer, he'll laugh in your face.
Then there are things like surge ratings: you can put much more power into a resistor if you stop quickly enough; this depends on the thermal mass of the resistor. This is generally higher for lower-precision resistors. 0.1% metal film have low thermal mass, while good old fashioned 20% tolerance carbon composition can tolerate staggering surges.
I just wanted to put my $.02 in on this since I've been trying to build my own load tester.
Lets say i want to put a 1A load on the 12v rail. According to Ohms law i need to have a 12 Ohm resistor. Now since P=I*E we know at 12V there will be about 12W on the resistor so the resistor would have to be rated to handle 12W or better. In the case of one of my load designs I'm using a 12 Ohm 12.5W resistor. So when given proper cooling and a HS the resistor will easily handle the load. I have a 6 Ohm 25W resistor to give me a 2A load. 12v/6 Ohms gives me 2A. 12v*2A=24W so a resistor rated at 25W will be sufficient for my needs. All the resistors i'm using as +/-1% tolerance but there will still bee a margin of error. So even if i have both the 12 Ohm and 6 Ohm resistors on my load may be under or over 3A. Course the higher the load the more heat is involved inside the load tester and the further off the load can be from its expected value so measurements must be taken to maintain accuracy. My new idea adds a way to tweak the load a bit to get a more accurate load.
If i'm way off base here please let me know.
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It's all a matter of what level of precision you're trying to achieve. 1% is generally pretty good. For example, if your power supply voltage varies by 1% (and it's allowed to vary by ±5%, so it will change 1% as the load changes), then the current varies by the same 1%, and the power in the load tester changes by 2%.
So if you only have a 0.5% voltmeter, that's 1% of power measuring error right there, and there's no point making everything else better.
How do you intend to measure the current to better than 1%? I noticed you took the shunts out of the design, and even if you still had them, high-power shunts better than 1% are expen$ive. You can measure them with a good meter when not in use, but the resistance might change as they heat up in "real use". The manufacturer will assign part of that ±1% error tolerance to initial manufacturing, and part to change with heating. So it'll stay within ±1% over temperature, but it might be -1% when cold and +1% when hot.
If you have a spec, it's possible to make something to meet it, but as you get below 1%, it may involve more manual steps. (NIST can measure resistance down to 0.1 part per million, but see NIST TN1458 for how much work it is.)
For example, if you want to calibrate your 1% resistors yourself to the 0.1% level, then you need a 0.1% ohmmeter and should arrange to use double-throw switches to switch them into the circuit. The common should go to the resistor, and the other side should switch between the power supply and your ohmmeter. Then connect the resistor to a power supply, get it nice and warm, then switch it over to the ohmmeter, and quickly take a measurement before it cools down.
Repeat this several times to convince yourself that the resistor's value, when warm, is stable at the 0.1% level. For a wire-wound resistor, it should be.
The other question is how settable you want your load. Is it okay if you can only set it within 5% of the desired load, but you know what the value of that load is to within 0.1%? Or do you need (this will be notably more expensive!) to be able to set it to any 0.1% value?
Do you need continuous adjustment over a range, or is it okay if you have to flip three switches to go between 8 A and 11A, so you'll never be able to make a glitch-free transition?
It will never be a smooth transition since the Load will be created by closing 2 or more switches to get the desired load as i have mapped out in my other thread.
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The voltage stability of an resistor is not related to the power rating. Most low wattage resistors can not sustain a higher voltage then 60v to 100v. So they are not rated for AC lines or similar high voltage. But most power resistors are in fact wire wound resistors, which can handle high voltage without problem.
For an accurate and adjustable load, I would simply use a high power MOSFET bank.
Then put an 1k to 10k pull down resistor, a potentiometer (for accuracy i would suggest some cermet types) and a voltage source (5v for logic level MOSFET, 10v for standard N channel types) at the gate pin.
With this setup you would have an adjustable power resistor. The higher the voltage, the lower the resistor of the transistor until a short (the lowest RDSon the MOSFET could have).
A small power resistor in series with this load, would be not a bad idea to add a little short protection.
You realize this is a seven year old thread, right?
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