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January 30, 2015
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Do you struggle with cravings and wish you had the will power to cut out certain foods completely? When we work toward a healthy diet, so many of us think that making a list of food culprits and calling them off-limits will help us to succeed. However, if you take a deeper look at the psychology behind this flawed method, youll see so many reasons why adopting a "good food" or "bad food" attitude will never work. Restricting certain foods won't just make dieting miserableit can also ruin your good intentions of getting healthy and losing weight. Making arbitrary rules about good and bad food isnt the answer to lasting lifestyle change. Instead, use the tips below to build a better relationship with food, learn to master cravings, build self-control and enjoy all foods in moderation. Stop Labeling Foods as 'Good' and 'Bad'For decades, behavior analysts have studied the effects of deprivation on peoples preferences for food, tangible items and activities. The majority of literature on this topic says that, when were deprived of something, were more likely to select that particular item from an array of choices. In a recent study conducted at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, researchers found that participants who were asked to restrict either high-carb or high-protein foods for three days reported higher cravings for the banned foods. So, if you label chocolate as evil and forbid it from your menu, youll be more likely to want it in any form. The good news is that some level of satiation (satisfying your craving for a particular food) can actually help you to avoid overindulging more often than not. If you can be conscious about your eating and have just enough of your favorite chocolate bar to satisfy that craving, youll be much less tempted to dip into the candy jar on your co-workers desk or buy a sweet snack from the vending machine. This information about deprivation seems like common sense, but youve probably heard from friends or fellow dieters that the first step in avoiding high-calorie foods is putting them out of your mind altogether. Not true! Researchers are realizing that suppressing thoughts about a particular food can cause an increase in consumption of that food. In a 2010 study, 116 women were split into three groups. The first group was asked to suppress thoughts about chocolate, the second group was asked to actively think about chocolate, and the third group was instructed to think about anything they wished. Afterward, each of the participants was given a chocolate bar. The women who had suppressed their thoughts about chocolate ate significantly more chocolate than the others, despite identifying themselves as more "restrained eaters" in general. This just goes to show that "out of mind" doesnt necessarily always mean "out of mouth." Dump the Idea of 'Diet Foods'Often, when people are trying to eat better, they start to categorize foods into those that are on their diet plan and those that are not. However, banning specific foods from your weight-loss plan may just make you crave them more. According to an article published this year in the journal Appetite, a UK study of 129 women measured the cravings of those who were "dieting" to lose weight, "watching" to maintain their weight, and not dieting at all. The researchers found that, compared with non-dieters, dieters experienced stronger, more irresistible cravings for the foods they were restricting. Noticing the difference between healthy and unhealthy options is definitely key in establishing a pattern of better eating. And, when youre starting a weight-loss program, it does help to read food labels and menus carefully so that you can choose wisely. However, when you start to categorize specific foods such as candy, baked goods, alcohol and fried chicken as foods you cant have, youre setting yourself up for a backfire. The issue with labeling a food as a forbidden substance is that your thoughts immediately center on that particular item… and then you inadvertently start bargaining and rationalizing to get more of it. (How many times have you broken your "diet rules" to reward a trip to the gym with chocolate or a long day at work with a cocktail or two?) There are some diet plans out there that advocate choosing a particular day of the week as your "cheat day"a day when you can indulge in all the foods youve cut out during the week. But listing certain foods as "cheats" or "treats" can set up a scenario where youre depriving yourself all week long and constantly looking to the future, waiting on the moment that youll be showered with your favorite forbidden goodies (like those commercials where fruit-flavored candies fall from a rainbow). Besides causing you to crave, labeling certain foods as "forbidden" makes it really difficult to be mindful of and content with the healthy food youre eating most of the time. Instead of worrying about restricting foods, try to redirect your focus on creating the most delicious salad, grilling a succulent chicken breast or munching a juicy piece of fruit. If you turn your attention to the abundance of healthy options in front of you instead of weighing the pros and cons of particular foods, youll be more likely to really relish and rejoice in your everyday choices. Make Sense of 'Moderation'Youve heard the line a thousand times: Everything in moderation. But what does this phrase really mean and how can you apply it to your healthy eating plan? Usually, people hand this advice out when theyre indulging in unhealthy food and drink and trying to get you to join in, say at a wedding or birthday party. So is it just peer pressure? Or is there something to this age-old saying? Choosing to eat all foods in moderation works just fine for some people. If you have a healthy relationship with food (e.g., you have no trouble putting away the bag of chips after just one serving), then eating a little bit of your favorite food may satisfy your craving and leave you full until the next healthy meal. However, for some people, it just doesnt work that way. Sweets, salts and alcohol all cause biological reactions in the body that are hard to ignore. And, if youre someone who responds strongly to these reactions, even one small bite can trigger you to continue sampling similar goodies. If youre one of these folks, youre definitely not alone, and it is important to know which foods affect you in these ways. Perhaps youre a person who can have a bite of a sundae and pass the rest on to your spouse, but a fun-size candy bar can unravel your motivation and spark unhealthy choices for the rest of the day. Noting which tempting foods are your triggers can help you arrange your environment so that you dont overindulge. Rearranging your environment for success is the easiest way to change your behavior. If you do decide to indulge in a "trigger food" in moderation, opt to eat it in a place where there aren't any other snack options for you to munch on afterwards (a food-filled party would not be the best environment!). Choose snacks that you like, but don't love, so you're not tempted to eat too much but are still satisfied. Understanding which foods are likely to lead you down a slippery slope and preparing your environment and schedule for success will help you keep cravings at bay and keep your overeating under control. Keep Cravings in CheckCravings are a good thing. On a basic, biological level, cravings tell us when were hungry, thirsty, sleepy and even when we need some human attention. The problem is that, because were so accustomed to having easy access to eat whenever we want and were able to choose from many unhealthy foods, the ratio of our wants and needs are all out of whack! It is time to step back and become aware of what were really craving and why. When we can look objectively at our yearnings for soda, chips, cake and cookies, we can make much better decisions about what we put in our mouths. One of the best ways to get back in touch with your true cravings is to keep track of them. For a few days, keep a journal of the time of day, what youre craving, and whether youre at work, at home, on the road, with your kids, etc. You can still give in to temptationthis exercise will simply give you a clearer picture of how often you crave, what you crave and in what settings those cravings occur. In behavior science, before we try to change any habit, we do an assessment like this to look at the persons current patterns so that we can set goals for small, stepwise changes. Youll likely notice a pattern quickly (e.g., I always want something sweet with my 10 a.m. coffee). Then you can put some measures in place to deter this craving or make a healthy choice before it happens (e.g., Ill start bringing a piece of fruit to eat with coffee so I dont grab a muffin from the break room). With a little mindfulness, you can ditch the "good food, bad food" attitude! Plan carefully and stay in tune with your body to make sensible decisions that will satisfy your cravings and promote weight loss.
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Rather than improving quality, the barriers to entry exist simply to protect lawyers from competition with non-lawyers and firms that are not lawyer-owned — competition that could reduce legal costs and give the public greater access to legal assistance.By the way, if you want to become a lawyer without taking the bar exam, go to the University of Wisconsin Law School (or Marquette)... and stay in Wisconsin.
In fact, the existing legal licensing system doesn't even do a great job at protecting clients from exploitation. In 2009, the state disciplinary agencies that cover the roughly one million lawyers practicing in the United States received more than 125,000 complaints, according to an A.B.A. survey. But only 800 of those complaints — a mere 0.6 percent — resulted in disbarment.
What if the barriers to entry were simply done away with?
October 26, 2011
"Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Necessary?"
27 comments:
- traditionalguy said...
While we are at it let's do away with licensing of surgeons dentists, pharmacists, and Pilots.
Since when did the NYT become a Ron Paul libertarian clone?
- Curious George said...
"By the way, if you want to become a lawyer without taking the bar exam, go to the University of Wisconsin Law School (or Marquette)... and stay in Wisconsin."
And become black.
- Bob Ellison said...
This doesn't seem like a difficult question. The bar association is a guild. Guilds pretend to uphold quality but end up protecting access. The bar should have no official power. It might do just fine as a private entity that relies solely on the power of persuasion. Aren't lawyers supposed to be good at persuasion?
- Chip S. said...
Is there currently any requirement that you've got to have a law degree to take a bar exam? If so, abolish it.
I'd still offer certification via a bar exam, but make it optional. Without this kind of certification of competence, it seems like entry into the field would be harder rather than easier--established firms would have a huge reputational advantage. But if a firm wanted to take on newbies without law degrees or bar exam as apprentices, why prevent that?
- cubanbob said...
One million lawyers and only eight hundred disbarments? I wouldn't toss out the bar exam but I sure would remove the sanctioning body out of the hands of the guild. No if we had loser pays and the attorneys could be held liable for bringing junk suits, that would clear out a lot of the crap lawyers.
Lawyers are supposed to be officers of the court, not gunslingers so if they had professional ethics they wouldn't bring bogus suits to begin with.
- Tank said...
To the extent this he is correct (a large extent), it is also true of most of the licensing laws and regs.
A note on discipline. There are many levels of discipline short of disbarment. And if you could read through of representative sampling of ethics complaint, you would see that some large percentage are clearly without merit.
- Beldar said...
State bar associations vary quite a bit in how well they handle consumer complaints. Certainly all of them should do better, and there's no doubt that they are doing better, in general, now than they did even 30 years ago when I was admitted to the Texas bar.
But the statistic quoted in this post is not a useful piece of information. Indeed, if most lawyers are following the rules and the bar associations are doing a tolerably good job at self-regulation, you would expect the percentage of complaints resulting in disbarment to be extremely low -- especially because law, like medicine, is a profession in which the client/patient may have bad outcomes despite the very best representation/treatment, and in which there are a correspondingly high number of ill-founded or simply frivolous complaints.
As for the merits of Winston's and Crandall's arguments, I've left a series of comments at Prof. Caron's blog. I think they're full of bull. I'm very, very, very sure that neither of these two PhD economists would seek an unlicensed and untrained doctor to remove their brain tumors or an unlicensed and untrained lawyer to defend them from murder charges. As economists, they belong to a "learned profession" that has essentially no self-regulation at all, and their malpractice, while consequential, almost never results in a patient dying on the operating table or being sent to death row.
I strongly disapprove of those law professors who support this sort of "deregulation." I'm not sure they're fit to be in this profession, and they're certainly not fit to be teaching it.
Lawyers are not Doctors.
- Steven said...
The exam is at least an attempt to see if you actually know the law. The JD from an ABA-accredited law school requirement is the sillier half of most states' requirements for admission to the bar.
"No autodidacts or alternate education methods allowed! You have to spend all the time and money to go to a law school accredited by the ABA, no matter how well you've mastered the law through other ways of learning!"
- The Drill SGT said...
Law might be unique in that in nearly all the invocations of the service, half of the users will be disappointed in the outcome. e.g. somebody has to lose...
My youngest daughter attended UW Law School for her third year as a visiting student from Florida State. She had to graduate from Florida State and take the bar in WI, even though she was a resident of WI and was practicing here in WI.
It is strange coming from the NYT,agree with traditional guy for once.
- Chip S. said...
As economists, they belong to a "learned profession" that has essentially no self-regulation at all...
I consider this an admirable professional inclination to follow its own precepts.
The system of quasi-apprenticeship in medicine takes the form of internships and residencies. The quality certification is performed by hospitals.
In law, the same tasks are performed by the firms that hire and train and then cull associates.
Board certification adds but one thing to the mix. It allows the sort of mentality behind jeremiads like this...
I strongly disapprove of those law professors who support this sort of "deregulation." I'm not sure they're fit to be in this profession, and they're certainly not fit to be teaching it
to wield actual power over an entire profession.
Thankfully, universities are free to hire people as they see fit, and are not ruled by some small group of self-styled protectors of the faith.
- clint said...
traditionalguy beat me to it.
In most states, you need a license to cut someone's hair for money. Crazy!
- FleetUSA said...
We could go to an apprenticeship and post apprenticeship exam similar to MD boards. But to do away with everything would leave many people falling prey to the unschooled and unscrupulous. The state discipline boards would be overwhelmed or the unknowing client would just suffer in silence.
- Tank said...
Beldar said...
As for the merits of Winston's and Crandall's arguments, I've left a series of comments at Prof. Caron's blog. I think they're full of bull. I'm very, very, very sure that neither of these two PhD economists would seek an unlicensed and untrained doctor to remove their brain tumors or an unlicensed and untrained lawyer to defend them from murder charges.
Is gov't licensing the only way one can decide whether a lawyer has the training to perform the task at hand, most of which are not as critical as the defense of murder charges? Of course not.
And your kind of reasoning, always expressed in the most extreme terms, is exactly how we get licensing and trade barriers for thousands of businesses.
- Joe said...
I've dealt with a few lawyers in my fifty years. I see no relationship between experience, ethics & law school and quality. The highest paid lawyer I dealt with was the most dishonest and overbilled us in such an obvious way that when we refused to pay, the partners in the law firm dropped the matter.
The most frightening thing is learning that I know more about patent law than my current company's "patent" lawyer. (Then there was the lawyer at my previous company who couldn't write worth shit--his user agreement for a feature was so full of holes and incoherent phrases, I still don't understand why he was employed at all.)
Of course, then there's the management non-lawyer person in one company who cut and paste legal agreements. His employee NDA was the longest I've ever seen, contained obviously erroneous material and completely contradicted itself in more than one place.
- ndspinelli said...
When I lived in KC and worked for the prosecutors office there were always recent law school grads taking the bar. They would work as interns and have a job if they passed the bar. It was really tense for these folks. The results would come out on Saturday and one of the prosecutors would have a champagne brunch when someone was getting their results. Most of those scheduled brunches were celebrations. However, a couple were like funerals when the person didn't pass the bar.
Here in Wisconsin you just need to schmooze your way through law school and you be a lawyer..a gosh darn good one ya hey!
- Beldar said...
@Tank: I reject your attempt to re-interpret what I wrote as encouraging regulation of "thousands of businesses." Use my words, if you don't understand them well enough to paraphrase accurately.
Nor did I argue, nor would I argue, that "gov't licensing [is] the only way one can decide whether a lawyer has the training to perform the task at hand." Bar licensure represents a minimum qualification, not the only qualification.
Misrepresenting what I've written isn't honest. Please be honest in your discussion.
- Peter said...
"The exam is at least an attempt to see if you actually know the law. The JD from an ABA-accredited law school requirement is the sillier half of most states' requirements for admission to the bar."
There's a lot to be said for replacing academic credentials in general in favor of a comprehensive exam. The insistence that seat-time (credit hours) is a measure of anything other than an iron butt makes no sense.
So, Wisconsin's "diploma privilege" surely has it backwards. But, I'd also extend that to fields other than law.
Finally, it's hardly news that those who are regulated tend to capture the regulators. It's just that this is effect is more pronounced and obvous when it comes to regulation of lawyers than in most other fields.
- Zach said...
When I was in high school, a friend's mother was going to law school in the evenings at UMKC. Not the most prestigious law school, but well suited to her purposes.
If law schools are really providing no value, is there anything preventing a possible competitor from going to law school in name only? Sure you're out a couple thousand bucks, but now you can make a killing undercutting the lawyers who went to law school for real, just like you could if it were completely unregulated. You'll end up spending that much hiring secretaries and paying rent.
There's probably some effect of making people go to law school in order to practice law, but I wonder if such an easily counterfeited credential is that important in the big picture.
- Zach said...
Looking it up, I find that UMKC law school now charges $16,000 per year for residents. That's for a real law school, so if you wanted to do a sham education you could probably do it even cheaper.
I've got to say, for all you hear about the high cost of law school, tuition in the KC area isn't that horrible. KU law school is $16,500 a year for residents. I know a lot of people living pretty comfortable lives with a KU law degree.
- jimbino said...
As an aerospace engineer, I have worked on design of nuclear weapons, doomsday teletypes, bombers, fighters and ICBMs without ever being certified.
Of course, as a nuclear engineer, you can always find work that doesn't require certification outside Amerika if need be. A lawyer often can't even work in the next state!
Certification is a crock.
The difference, jimbino, is that you had lots of people checking your work, as you checked the work of others. Through peer reviews, design reviews, test plans and procedures, and review of test reports. From fresh-outs grinding through the detailed calculations, through Chief Engineers giving your work the ol' stinky eye at the murder boards.
Whereas, if you're a licensed PE, once you sign off on a design and verify the construction, the law considers your signature to be the last word on the safety of the project. Your continued employment depends on you being right. Because if you're wrong, great damage can be inflicted on people personally and financially.
- Steven said...
is there anything preventing a possible competitor from going to law school in name only?
Yes. The laws in most states don't say you need a JD from a law school; they generally say you need the JD from an ABA-accredited law school.
Which currently means, no matter how well you actually prepare your students to become lawyers, it doesn't matter. You must jump through whatever hoops the ABA thinks should be features of a law school. Don't meet them, you don't get accredited. And no matter how well your students learned the law at your un-accredited school, they can't legally take the bar exam.
Your law school has an academic calendar year of fewer than eight full months (excluding breaks and exams)? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school lets students take more than 12 credit hours by distance learning, or any credit hours by distance learning before completing 28 credit hours? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school has a 30:1 or higher full-time faculty to student ratio, no matter how many part-time faculty you have? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school doesn't give full-time faculty tenure? Your graduates can't take the bar.
So your law school doesn't require an admissions test, instead relying on other measures to determine if a student is suitable? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school decides to allow people with an associate of arts degrees start their education in law? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school does not provide active career placement services? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school doesn't have its own law library, but makes alternate arrangements for student and faculty research? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Your law school doesn't provide on-site study space for students? Your graduates can't take the bar.
Which is why there'll never be, say, law school on the model of the University of Phoenix. No matter how well it prepared students for actual practice as an attorney, its graduates would be prohibited by law from becoming lawyers.
If apprenticeship was good enough for John Adams, it ought to still be good enough.
It's unclear to me why it fell into disuse. Probably for lots of reason, especially having to do with the new-found mobility that technological progress enabled.
- Toad Trend said...
I wish they weren't.
The fact is, good legal representation is priceless.
Just ask OJ.
- jimbino said...
Sandinista, you have a sanguine idea of how the testing really works. It was I who did the final testing on the last device, a medical device, for which I had written or modified the code, including kernel code, if only to "correct" errors.
If I had introduced errors or had an accomplice who designed in the errors, who would ever know? How the hell would our trojans be discovered in a software spec or high-level design review?
I didn't even have a security clearance when I wrote code for testing nuclear weapons triggers!

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SAN ANDREAS - The yellow-legged frog, a native of the high Sierra, will soon be listed as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
SAN ANDREAS - The yellow-legged frog, a native of the high Sierra, will soon be listed as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
The service also said that it will soon list the Yosemite toad as threatened with extinction.
The listings will mean new legal protections for two species of yellow-legged frog and for the toad, which live at high altitudes primarily on federal forest or national park lands.
The listings will be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday and will become final on June 30. The action caps almost a decade and a half of legal and political conflict over the amphibians.
For decades, the frogs and the toad have been in decline. Federal scientists say the primary culprits are habitat degradation, disease, climate change and predation. In the case of the frogs, introduced trout species in alpine lakes like to dine on the tadpoles.
Federal and state wildlife managers have already changed trout stocking patterns to help the frogs, in some cases removing the trout from certain lakes. Yet the toad and the frogs were among a long list of species believed to be in trouble that had not yet been evaluated for formal federal protection.
In 2000, environmental groups sued to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do the work necessary to determine if the species warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act.
In 2011, the Fish and Wildlife Service settled the suit by agreeing to speed up consideration of 757 imperiled species, including the yellow legged frogs and the Yosemite toad.
Since then, however, the proposal to protect the species has drawn criticism from some, including Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay. McClintock says he's concerned that listing the frogs will limit access to public lands and restrict activities such as grazing, mining and logging.
Environmentalists and federal wildlife officials disagree, saying that neither the public in general nor other interests will notice much impact from efforts to preserve the species in the remote alpine areas where they live.
Some time early next year, the Fish and Wildlife Service expects to declare approximately 1.8 million acres of critical habitat for the three species.
The Center for Biological Diversity led the legal effort to force the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the species under the Endangered Species Act.
Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, noted that the frogs and the toad live in areas usually considered to be pristine.
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[Pages 166-167]
Mendel and Leah Naychin (parents of Bendik)
Bendik Naychin
Mendel Naychin was a teacher of bible and Hebrew language for many years. He taught in the Talmud Torah of Orheyev for many years, and gave private lessons as well. Despite his weak body, he bore a heavy yoke of work to sustain his eight person family, and to provide his children with education according to the spirit of the times.
Hundreds of children from our city received their education from this illustrious teacher and educator. I also had the merit of being one of his students, and I see it as my duty to dedicate these lines to his memory.
Reb Mendel was short in stature, thin and sickly in his body, but healthy of spirit. He was full to the brim with the fundamentals of both the written and oral Torah, expert in Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and his command of grammar was great.
His pleasant mode of explanation, and his flowery language filled with natural humor attracted the hearts of his audience, and a strong bond was quickly formed between them and their teacher. During the class, he felt the obligation to present the material in a fashion that the student would be able to understand thoroughly, without being satisfied with a mechanical understanding. Therefore, the students loved the studies and we thirsted for his lessons. The time that we spent with Reb Mendel of blessed memory gave us great spiritual enjoyment. He knew how to instill his love of bible to his students. I recall his enthusiasm during the studying of the Book of Isaiah. His teaching of that book always aroused in us a deep feeling and a unique experience. We learned entire chapters by heart, and it was not too difficult for us. His stories about the poet Yehudah Halevi and his longing for the return to Zion ignited in us the first spark of love of Zion. The pleasant voice of Reb Mendel as he read sections of the poems of Yehudah Halevi still rings in my ears. Our enthusiasm grew when he reached the following stanza: To weep for you I am a jackal, and when I dream about the return to you, I am like a harp for your songs.
It is difficult to describe the soulful enthusiasm and special love of Reb Mendel for the poems of Ch. N. Bialik of blessed memory. As one of the enthusiastic fans of this poet, he dedicated the best of his strength to impart his poems to his students. It is no surprised that we also studied diligently and knew many of the poems by heart.
The educational style, the refinement of the soul and the unceasing dedication of the education ensured the maintenance of the bond between him and us even after the conclusion of the time of study. His home was always open to us, and we would visit his home willingly. We asked for his advice in private matters, and pleasantly discussed topics of sports and matters relating to the Zionist movement. All of the members of his household had a Zionist consciousness. To our dismay, not one of them succeeded in making it to the Land. The cruel Holocaust cut off the fate of this precious family: From the two sons and two daughters, only one (Sara and her family) survived. The youngest son Bendik worked in the offices of the Keren Kayemet in Kishinev. He dedicated himself completely to the Zionist movement (in Hanoar Hachalutzi), and prepared to make aliya. However the cruel fate ambushed him, and he was murdered by a Romanian policeman on May 1, 1924.
The tragic event completely destroyed the weak health of Reb Mendel, and it was difficult for him to overcome this until his last day.
The bitter fate also overtook the older son of Reb Mendel, Nissan Naychin and his noble family. The hand of the murderers reached him as well during the tragic circumstances of WWII.
Sara and Nissan Naychin
A. Malovchki
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Yosef and Yehudit Naychin Geler
Yehudit was born in Orheyev. She was attracted to the activities of the Zionist movement from a young age. She married Yosef Geler, an intelligent and handsome man. Yehudit's heart strove for greatness, and she did not find satisfaction with the provincial life in the four ells (ed. note: in the minutiae of Jewish Law) of her family. Communal work was a necessity for her soul. Her talents and character spurred her on to action. With the little money she saved, she moved on to study in the Faculty of Law at the University of Iasi. When she finished, she received her permit to serve as an attorney. The family moved to Kishinev. There, their home became a meeting place for activists of the movement. Yehudit and Yosef, with their joy and pleasantness, attracted the hearts of anyone who thirsted for vigorous conversation and pleasant company. The stormy Yehudit played an important role in the Zionist center, the Young Zion center, and the Aliya center, and became the president of Young WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization). This task suited her the most. She won over many with her pleasant countenance and nobility of spirit
Yehudit Geler of blessed memory was a woman with Jewish-Hebrew cultural inclinations that she inherited in the home of her erudite father. She enchanted the audience in her appearances with her deep knowledge, her polished oratory, her fine, flowery language, and her soft, pleasant voice.
Even though she was well accepted in the circles of lawyers in Kishinev and had the opportunity to forge for herself a stable economic status, she abandoned the work and spent most of her time on communal affairs, especially with WIZO and the Keren Kayemet. She was willing to fulfill her duty at all times that she was needed. Her visits to cities and towns were always crowned with great success. More than one city awaited her visit impatiently. The time that she remained in such a city was like festival days for the Jewish population. With all this, Yehudit dreamed of a new life in the Land of Israel. However fate did not desire that this dream be actualized.
The Red Army invaded Bessarabia in July 1940. All of the dreams of Yehudit Geler were hidden away
When the Red Army camped in Bessarabia, Yehudit maintained the hope that she would be able to extricate herself and make aliya to the land. She did not exhibit depression like the others. On the contrary, when she met her friends and acquaintances, she exuded optimism and encouraged others. She waited to meet them in Israel, for despair and doubt were foreign to her spirit. This was the manifestation of her high character.
When the Red Army left Bessarabia, Yehudit remained in Kishinev. She had her own reasons for this. To her, going to the depths of Russia meant parting forever from the idea of making aliya to the Land. In Bessarabia, there was hope that she might make her way there.
In time, when she lived in the closed ghetto of Kishinev and her husband was dragged from there to death (she did not know of this), she continued to believe in a miracle, that she would be able to arrive in the Land from the ghetto this time she placed her hope in the activists of Bucharest, hoping that they might redeem the active Zionists. However, the Zionists of Romania did not succeed in their efforts, and nobody made aliya.
All of the afflicted people were deported to death camps in October, 1941. She walked on foot along with thousands of orphaned deportees on the long, difficult route to Transnistria, in rain and cold. Broken and crushed, ill with typhus, with swollen feet, dripping with blood, the refined Yehudit was dragged along with her last strength on the long route to death, and she still hoped for a miracle
Yehudit Geler was shot in Transnistria along with many others by the Fascist beasts. She suffered a cruel and painful death
May her memory be a blessing!
Y. Shildkroit: On the Ruins of Bessarabia
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Dr. R. Nirenberg
Dr. Nirenberg was his name as known to everybody, young and old. This name encompassed his essence love and honor.
I do not know from where Dr. Nirenberg came. One clear day, he appeared on the streets of the city. He had a solid body, broad shoulders, with the uniform of a high army captain, an army cap with an insignia (kokarada in the vernacular) sprouting from his head. He was splendid of countenance, and won the hearts of all who saw him. As he passed through the streets, people whispered to each other: This is the new doctor who has just now (1904) returned from the war (between Russia and Japan).
Within a brief period, he became the most popular person in the city, both as a doctor and as a man of the community.
However, his nobility and splendid countenance with which he was blessed separated him to a large degree from the wide community. He was even somewhat strict with his fellowman. Nevertheless, everyone loved him and revered him.
On account of the spirit of reverence that surrounded him and his fine relations with all strata of the community, the communal activists crowned him as head of the community. They imposed difficult and even unpleasant tasks upon him, as the times required. Dr. Nirenberg has the power of forging compromise and straightening out the obstacles that came up within the community in our city.
For example, when a dispute broke out among the activists of the loan fund of the small scale merchants, Dr. Nirenberg was invited to make peace between the disputants.
He was once again drafted into the army during WWI. At the end of the war, he returned to Orheyev and once again was asked to stand at the head of communal affairs.
At times one would ask oneself why did men of greater experience and influence than Dr. Nirenberg, more active than him, such as M. Ravich, Yosef Yoelich Pagis, Moshe Kalmanovitz, Aharon Gluzgold, Gershon Weinstock and others, activists with great communal vision why were they not called to the helm of the community despite their important and effective activities in many communal areas of our city, and only Dr. Nirenberg was given the mantle of head of the community?
This is what we answered: His splendid countenance, his combined internal and external nobility, his boundless integrity, his level headedness and even his insistence on the truth all of these positive characteristics caused the leadership of communal affairs in our city to be given to him.
At the outbreak of WWII (1940) he was again drafted by the Russians as a physician. He was close to 70. He overcame all of the difficulties that faced an army doctor during wartime. He returned to Orheyev filled with suffering and weakened, widowed from his refined and noble wife who perished on the way. He returned to the place where he dedicated the vast majority of his life to both the sick and the healthy However, he found emptiness and nothingness Orheyev was destroyed, abandoned, desolate and ruined There was nobody, no friend or acquaintance
A few months before his death, he answered the writer of these lines with a letter written in Russian, as follows:
23 February, 1955.
Dear M. Rotkov!
I received your letter on the 10th of this month. I was very glad to hear the news that old acquaintances are alive and well, and take interest in me. I am already very old and severely ill. I am 83 years old. The Yonovitz family is well. I gave them your regards and told them of your wish to correspond with them. The elder Yonovitz and his daughter live in Kishinev. Both of them work. To those in whose house you saw a picture of my granddaughter and from whom you received the news about us and about the death of my wife, please give them our best regards. I wish you health, long life, and all good things.
Dr. Nirenberg
Fate was favorable, and his words will be perpetuated in the book of the community to which he dedicated the best of his efforts.
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Avraham and Charna Spivak
One of the activists about whom is said those who faithfully work for the welfare of the community. One of the few maskilim in our city, and the only one in the city who subscribed to the Hamelitz newspaper. He also possessed Sifrei Agora which was published by Tushia, and he generously lent them to whomever wanted them. He viewed this as a national duty, that he was able to benefit the public.
He was a native of Chinisheutsy, a large village in the region of Orheyev. Later, during the 1930s, it became a town. Then, the Jewish population grew to 100 families. A Jewish community was formed that established a synagogue and set aside a place for the cemetery. Avraham was the gabbai of the synagogue and the head of the Chevra Kadisha (burial society).
His large home stood in the center of the town. Anyone passing through the town would stop at his home, whether for conversation, for rest, or to obtain news about what was going on in town. Whenever there was a dispute between residents of the town, they would turn to him, and whatever he decided would stand. This was not only for his community, but also for the gentile community, who also related to him with honor and trust and regarded him as an expert not only in monetary matters, but also in religious matters. On one occasion there was a dispute in their church about the setting of the date of one of the holidays (at that time, they transferred from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar). The dispute was growing stronger. One of them advised turning the question over to Avraham. They all agreed (including the priest). His advice was accepted by all of them, and the storm in the church abated.
Another incident took place at the time of the change of regime. A Romanian official arrived in town and set up residence in his home. Obviously, the relations between him and the official were very friendly. It happened that a certain Jew was caught smuggling sugar across the Dniester from Rybnitsa to Rezina. The smuggler was brought to the police, where they treated him as a guilty prisoner. The relatives immediately turned to Avraham, who went to the official and explained to him that the captured man was about to get married, and the sugar was brought for the wedding celebration. The official accepted this, ordered that the prisoner be freed and that the confiscated sugar be returned, on condition that he too is invited to the wedding. They did this
During the years of 1918-1920, when the refugees were streaming in, his home was open to every refugee who came through the town. There they received assistance and support as was needed, whether with food, clothing or lodging, as well as legal advice relating to the preparing of the documents that they needed to continue along their route.
In the interim, the family prepared to make aliya to the Land. They decided to send the children first (three daughters and two sons). Two daughters remained at home and waited their turn
When the Holocaust arrived in 1940, the lot of this family was the lot of all of their exiled brethren. Their lot included hunger, want, and all the tribulations of the journey that afflicted the rest of the exiles. Avraham died of hunger and tribulations of hell on 25 Elul 5702 (1942) enroute to Astrakhan. His wife Charna died a few months later (23 Iyar 5703).
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Starting Saturday, Boulder County residents participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as food stamps — can buy twice as many fruits and vegetables when they use their benefits at the Boulder County Farmers' Markets in Longmont and Boulder.
As an example, if SNAP recipients withdraw $20 from their SNAP accounts in exchange for "SNAP Bucks" to spend them at Boulder County Farmers' Markets, they'll get an additional $20 in "Harvest Bucks" from local government-subsidized funding.
Those Harvest Bucks, however, can only be used to purchase fruits and vegetables from local farmers.
"Everyone in our community deserves access to fresh, local fruits and vegetables, but unfortunately not everyone can afford them," said Rachel Arndt, a Boulder County Public Health planner, in a news release.
"Our hope is that by making these foods more affordable, more people will eat them, and our community will become healthier," Arndt said.
The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department and Boulder's city Human Services Departments each has provided $10,000 to the project to increase access to locally grown fruits and vegetables for SNAP participants, county officials said.
As part of the funding, $2,000 will be used to bolster access to fruits and vegetables at the Boulder County Farmers' Markets for participants of the WIC program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
"We felt this was a great opportunity to help our community eat healthy while supporting our local farmers," Boulder County Parks and Open Space director Ron Stewart said in a news release.
Officials said incentive programs like the one being launched at the Boulder County Farmers' Markets have been implemented in other communities across the country, with more than 90 percent of participants reporting increased consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.
In Boulder County, food assistance enrollment has doubled since 2008, and 8,500 households — 20,200 individuals — now receive food assistance benefits.
SNAP participants can access Harvest Bucks using their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards at both the Boulder and Longmont market locations and on both Wednesday and Saturday market days. As part of the project, a nutritionist will host cooking demonstrations at the markets.
The project is a collaborative effort between Boulder County Public Health, Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department, City of Boulder Human Services Department, Boulder County Housing and Human Services Department, and the Boulder County Farmers' Markets.
For more information about food assistance and SNAP, go to BoulderCountyFood Assistance.org or call 303-441-1000.
For more information about Boulder County Farmers' Markets, go to bcfm.org or call 303-910-2236.


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ViewSonic has announced the launch of the VSD220, a 22-inch Android all-in-one PC.
The ViewSonic VSD220 pairs a 22-inch 1920 x 1080 resolution touchscreen display with a Texas Instruments OMAP 4 dual-core processor, resulting in what some might call a giant tablet. Or an Android monitor.
Best of all, the VSD220 comes running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which is fully Google certified -meaning you'll get to experience the best of Android on your display.
"For consumers, the VSD220 is perfect for surfing the web, engaging on social networks and enjoying a world of Android apps", says Mark Lufkin, managing director of ViewSonic Europe.
ViewSonic hasn't supplied the full specifications of the VSD220, but it does seem to be well connected. With micro HDMI (so you can use it as a touchscreen monitor), 3x USB connections, microSD, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and Bluetooth, it provides plenty of flexibility when it comes to connections.
There is also a 1.3-megapixel camera to get you chatting on Skype (other video conferencing applications are available) as well as packing in SRS speakers to bring some oomph to your movies.
Given that Ice Cream Sandwich supports a range of peripherals, like keyboards and mice, there's nothing to stop you setting this up as a full computer, albeit running a mobile OS. Happy with Evernote, Chrome and Gmail? Perhaps this is the cloud computer for you.
There is no mention of the capacity of internal memory (we're assuming there is some user memory available), but you could also connect an external drive without too much difficulty.
So tablet, AIO PC or Android monitor? Either way, it will cost you less than your average smartphone at £359. It will be available from mid-October.
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Despite some minor glitches, new voting machines in Maine credited with speeding vote count
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � New vote counting machines many Maine communities received as part of a federal initiative were a hit with many town clerks, dramatically cutting down the time it took to count ballots on Election Day.
Sidney Town Clerk Shawna Foye said the town's votes were counted by 9:30 p.m., while hand counting would have taken until 4 or 5 a.m.
Megan Sanborn, spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, tells the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/TGfepa ) that most of the 64 municipalities that received the machines had been hand-counting ballots.
Not everything ran smoothly.
Some town officials reported minor problems with the machines.
The election staff in Waterville was concerned initially when one of the machines that accepts ballots appeared to stop working. City Clerk Patti Dubois says it was simply being "finicky."
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Sequencing our seasUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Dave Karl, (808) 956-8964
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
"By reading the information stored in the genomes of entire microbial communities, we can begin to measure the pulse of this marine ecosystem," said MIT's Ed DeLong, who led the research team. "These new DNA sequences from microbial communities will help us paint the picture of how that world works and provide important details on the players involved and their biological properties and activities."
DeLong and his coworkers report their findings in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science.
The interdisciplinary research team sequenced a total of 64 million base pairs, or subunits, of DNA from microbes and viruses they collected at each depth. In the process, they discovered thousands of new genes from novel and ecologically abundant microbes and found evidence of frequent gene exchange between organisms. The study also revealed variations in genetic composition at different depths--including differences among genes involved with carbon and energy metabolism.
"Although they're small, these tiny microbial species are the engines of the biosphere, and in large part drive the cycles of matter and energy in the sea," said DeLong.
Microbes near the ocean surface, for example, had more genes devoted to taking in iron, a major element necessary for growth in that zone. Genomes from organisms below the ocean's deepest and darkest layers displayed almost epidemic levels of DNA associated with "jumping genes," or pieces of DNA that can move from one part of the genome to another.
Microbial ecologists have had fairly rudimentary tools and techniques to bring to bear on their research to date, DeLong said. But now with the ability to sequence vast amounts of DNA in shorter time periods, the science is pressing forward.
DeLong and his colleagues saw a unique opportunity for a "proof-of-principle" study by combining new microbial genomic profiles with decades of data collected at Station ALOHA, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) research site. Since 1988, HOT investigators have catalogued information about the biologic, chemical and physical parameters of the surrounding ocean, making it one of the most comprehensively characterized sites in the seas.
"Station ALOHA is a well-studied region of the open ocean with regard to plankton ecology, biogeochemistry and physical oceanography, making it an ideal collection site for this work," said Philip Taylor, director of NSF's biological oceanography program, which co-supported the work.
"The HOT program provided the opportunity to place new information about the depth distribution of genes in an environmental context. This approach transformed what we know about the ecology and evolution of microbial life in the ocean," he said.
Earth's microbes help clean water and air and regenerate nutrients used by all life. Planktonic microbes, microscopic organisms that float freely in the oceans, help maintain environmental balance and drive the planet's biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur.
"Plants and animals are twigs on the tree of life when compared to the diversity of microbes that surround us," said Matthew Kane, director of NSF's microbial observatories and microbial genome sequencing programs, which also supported the work. "By approaching ecology through genomics, we are starting to get a truly paradigm-shifting view of all life on the planet."
A better understanding of these microbial communities and how their genes allow them to interact with the environment underpins the larger study of biology. "The open ocean is Earth's largest and, perhaps, most complex ecological community," said collaborator David Karl, a biological oceanographer at the University of Hawaii. "The diversity and depth-defined characteristics of marine microbial communities revealed unexpected genomic patterns and metabolisms--our findings are just part of why it's such an exciting time for all ecologists."
The researchers will continue to investigate the significance of these and other findings in more detailed studies.
In addition to NSF, the U.S Department of Energy Microbial Genomics Program and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided support for the work.
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Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior
Science 27 January 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5760, pp. 496 — 503, DOI: 10.1126/science.1120250
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NDSportsFan wrote:
Wow! nice going 92/96, you are quite the football historian! My head started hurting when I tried to make my own list. So I'll cheat, with apologies to 92/96, I'd probably go by that list because I couldn't make an intelligent argument against any of those. The only one I'd probably change would be at rb with either Tony Satter or Dave Osborn.
Oh, and I add another coach like Al Dosch, or Bob Feeney.
CLASSB2001 wrote:Kicker? Jeff Glass? Is this Rich?
UMMM...Steve Myhra from Wahpeton kicked the game-tying field goal in the 1958 NFL Championship Game that is commonly referred to as pro football's "Greatest Game Ever Played." Myhra's field goal sent the game into overtime. The Colts won the game against the New York Giants, 23-17.
Oh, I forgot, Glas beat St.Cloud once.
I'm sure there are several players who played before I was born who belong on the list. It's nothing personal if I neglected to mention them. I had the benefit of college accomplishments for players like Lince, Farris and Stroup, even though I never saw any of them play. I didn't have that with Maris. He's clearly one of the greatest ATHLETES in ND history and maybe one of the best football players, but since I wasn't alive to judge his high school football prowess, nor is there a college career to look back at, it's difficult for me to say for certain.CLASSB2001 wrote:UMMM...Roger Maris, Fargo Shanley?
In one game against Devil's Lake his senior year, he scored four touchdowns on kickoff returns to set a national high school record. A record that still stands.
Maris was recruited by legendary coach Bud Wilkinson to play for the University of Oklahoma, but with a professional baseball contract looming, Roger gave up his scholarship at the University of Oklahoma to pursue a career in baseball.
Maris belongs on the all-time football list in ND. No question about it.
Maybe you should ask to see his list so you could pick it apart. It's all in fun though, but hey if your gonna player hate, you gotta put up. ;)
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Edentulism Doesn't Have to Ruin Your Smile
Why Does My Dentist Wear a Mask?
Have you ever wondered why your dentist wears a mask during your examination or treatment? Masks protect both of you. Although your dentist wouldn't work with patients if he or she was sick, diseases and viruses can be spread before any symptoms of illnesses appear. Wearing a mask that covers the nose and mouth helps your dentist ensure that illnesses aren't passed on to you during the treatment.
Masks also protect your dentist and the entire dental team from coming in contact with saliva and blood. Donning a new mask for every patient prevents you from being exposed to germs or blood-borne diseases from other patients. During your treatment, you and the dentist will also probably wear protective eyewear. Although those goggles might not be very fashionable, they keep blood, debris, saliva and germs from entering your body through your eyes.
Edentulism, the loss of all or most of your natural teeth, can have a profound effect on your life. Fortunately, dentists offer tooth replacement options that can restore your smile.
The Facts About Edentulism
Thanks to increased awareness of the importance of oral hygiene, edentulism isn't quite as common as it once was, but still affects a significant number of people. The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research reports that 3.75 percent of adults ages 20 to 64 have lost all of their teeth. The number of people who have experienced total tooth loss rises with age. Just over 27 percent of people over 65 have no teeth, according to the Institute.
What Are the Risk Factors for Edentulism?
Several factors can increase your risk of losing all of your teeth, including poor oral hygiene and lack of dental care. You're more likely to develop cavities and gum disease if you don't brush and floss regularly. Unfortunately if your cavity isn't treated promptly, the decay will spread to nearby teeth.
Visiting the dentist every six months is the best way to ensure that cavities are spotted and treated quickly. During those visits, plaque and tartar will also be removed from your teeth. Tartar, a hard deposit that forms when plaque isn't removed, can cause gum disease. The disease not only causes your gums to pull away from your teeth, which can loosen them, but may also trigger an infection in your jawbone.
Other factors that may increase your edentulism risk include:
- Smoking or Chewing Tobacco
- Poor Nutrition
- Infections and Diseases
- Lack of Dental Care
- Trauma
- Chemotherapy, Radiation and Other Treatments
Why Is Edentulism a Serious Problem?
It's not surprising that total tooth loss can lead to lower self-esteem. After all, society places great importance on a bright, perfect smile. Tooth loss is only part of the problem. Without teeth to stimulate and strengthen your jawbone, your facial muscles will begin to sag, making you look older. In addition to concerns about the way you look, you may also find it harder to communicate. Teeth play an important role in your ability to pronounce words and speak clearly. Without them, you may struggle to make yourself understood.
Tooth loss also affects your health. When you can't chew foods, you may resort to eating a soft diet or swallowing foods without chewing them. In many cases, the foods you can eat comfortably won't contain all of the nutrients you need, which may affect your health and your body's ability to fight off infections. A review published by the International Journal of Dentistry discovered that edentulism raises the risk of peptic ulcers, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, heart disease, stroke, gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers, and kidney disease.
What Tooth Replacement Options Are Available?
Both full dentures and dental implants can help you restore your teeth. One denture consists of a row of artificial teeth embedded in a pink base. Removable dentures rest again your gums and are held in place with denture cream and suction.
Dental implants offer a more permanent solution to edentulism. Titanium implants replace tooth roots and actually bond to your jawbone. Once bonding occurs, dentures can be attached to the implants. Denture wearers usually need four to eight implants to support one denture. Both removable and fixed implant-supported dentures are available.
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Pitch to contact guy on the mound with XP in Left? Oh boy.
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Modi must become an institution like Vajpayee to become a symbol of India
The old BJP is dead! Long live the new BJP! The operatic anointment of 61-year-old Narendra Damodardas Modi as the BJP's new helmsman doesn't reflect just a generational shift. He epitomises a new breed of politicians whose words speak louder than their work. The Modi marvel is an antidote to Vajpayeeism—the pause generating a faster pace of political acceptability. It also marks the end of L K Advani's agenda based on evolving and tweaking ideology according to the need of the times. Modi is now the BJP's modern mascot and mantra. He is seen as the most visible, decisive and credible alternative to the Gandhis. He is also perceived as a leader who would sacrifice systems and formalities for the Modi Model of Governance. For him, the democratic process is just another exercise to acquire legitimacy and authority to achieve his targets. The new BJP under Modi is sure to run politics on the lines of a business model, in which time-bound achievements and not excuses will decide the fate of the stakeholders. His track record in office is the envy of his adversaries. He knows how to sell an idea to both the masses and the classes. The villain of 2002 is now the hero of 2013.
No such parallel exists anywhere in the democratic world of a minimised leader becoming the maximum leader by nudging out all his contemporaries within and outside the party. Modi's propulsion to the national stage is the sign of a new India where degree, pedigree or an elitist social tag can no longer dictate a leader's destiny. Modi is the first state satrap who has been chosen to lead the national party, superseding the claims of upper caste, well-spoken and elitist national leaders who have no state to call their own.
Though the choice of Modi was finally dictated by the emotional fortissimo of political necessity, both the BJP and RSS had found it difficult to spot a leader who could energise a demoralised cadre and defend Hindutva's core ideology. They saw in Modi a commander who could communicate with the people directly and connect with the aspirations of the youth. Vajpayee could, with oratory and an affable persona. Modi has done it with his performance and aggressive personality. He is neither a team leader nor a team player. Modi is the team and the leader all rolled into one because he firmly believes that democracy ends when action begins. Ever since he won the Gujarat Assembly elections for the third time, he was projected as the only saviour of the faction-ridden BJP in which there are more candidates for prime ministership than the number of national parties in the country. By choosing Modi, the Sangh Parivar has closed the door on others—at least for now.
Both the BJP and Modi have taken a big risk. The party has handed over its leadership to a person who trusts only his spoken words and his tested wisdom. No one can find fault with his decisiveness, clarity of thought, personal integrity and missionary zeal. It is because of these unique selling points that the entire party ignored Advani's well-reasoned opposition to Modi's elevation. Advani was never against projecting Modi as PM, but was dissentient on the timing, as he felt that the 2014 election should be fought on the issues of corruption and non-performance of the UPA government. Advani and others were also of the view that once Modi became the face of the party, the Congress and other parties would sweep their poor governance under the carpet and turn the election into a Mahabharata between secular and communal forces.
But the patriarch's objections were ruthlessly overruled because of the massive pressure mounted by impatient cadres and middle-level leaders on the party high command. They are convinced that Modi would run the party like the chief executive of a big corporation whose targets and means are well defined and result-oriented. They think that he is the only one who can expand the market share of the BJP by promoting it as a unique product, bearing the distinctive Modi brand name. The Gujarat chief minister has already mastered the art of communication using cutting-edge technology. He always thinks out-of-the-box and comes out with schemes and ideas that has never been seen before in politics. For example, projecting holograms using 3D technology to ensure that his presence is felt in all districts in Gujarat is a device that has never been used by any political leader to connect with voters. Such persuasive instruments prompted foreign diplomats, who abhorred him for over a decade, to seek a minute of his indulgence now. Modi's novel delivery mechanisms also forced leaders of India Inc who once shunned him as a political bezonian to seek photo-ops with him.
Achieving status is altogether a different ball game than living up to it. Now that Modi has crossed internal hurdles within the party, he has to soothe all genuine fears about his style and substance. Running a state government with a brute majority is not the same as managing a coalition at the Centre in which every leader is a kingmaker. Modi's first challenge is to ensure that none of his senior leaders are ignored in the party and he doesn't run the BJP with the help of corporate paratroopers. After all, party workers and middle-level leaders are not shareholders looking for monetary dividends. They want an ideology to dictate governance. Modi is labelled as a divisive leader. He has to get rid of this lethal label because the BJP is unlikely to win a majority on its own in 2014. Since Modi has taken a big risk, he has to learn to respect the ones with genuine differences of opinion. With the birth of new BJP, a new Modi, too, has to be born. The idea of a 'Modi from Gujarat' cannot become a symbol of India unless he becomes an institution like Vajpayee.
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Yeah iddees very wise, he even understands women
Yeah iddees very wise, he even understands women
Home of the ventilated and sting resistant Ultra Breeze bee suits and jackets
Gentle MEN:
It's NOT (repeat NOT NOT NOT) about *servos* and *motors* and *clutches* and *speed*!!!
It's about *CREATIVITY* and *ART* and *SATISFACTION*!!!
You boys are missing the point. It's about HER and what SHE wants to create, not how big a vroom-vroom it makes.
I haven't heard (read) a conversation like this since I was dating Tim, who re-built Pontiac GTOs in his spare time.
But it's been funny to watch!
Seamstress Summer :-*
....i don't really sew (learned to use a machine in jr high home ec.....once in a while i've done a quick thing or 2)...but my wife is an expert (did costumes for the hasty pudding at harvard for many years, won awards as a kid, made her own wedding dress, made wedding dresses for others). she has an older singer which does quite well...i have my mother's old kenmore (which i haven't used since it came here to live). my niece got a newer walmart singer last year, and it doesn't work all that well (even winding a bobbin requires constant attention/tweaking). i think there is something to be said for buying an older machine that is all metal, and having it serviced by someone who is good.
that said, i've seen the new pfaff's that do embroidering (and can import images from the computer)...i'm drooling. if your wife wants to do 'crafty things', but not make quilts or do really heavy duty sewing, this might be a good (though expensive) option...as at least she could do things like custom embroidery on towells, shirts, etc....and these things can run unattended!!!
I would take her shopping and buy what suits her. After all I wouldnt want my wife picking out my bee equipment
Well folks, I'm off work for the afternoon to watch kids so that she and my mother and her best friend can go shopping for sewing machines. They even had a meeting last night and researched every store within sixty miles that has ever offered sewing machines...
I gave her cash to buy lunch and a hand full of trinkets and "borrowed" my credit card back from her for the day to minimize the damages.
Thanks all for your thoughts.
Between Iddee and Summer that's all the info and
expertise one could want. Summer you have as many
sewing machines as I do fishing rods!!!!
Closing in on retirement.......
I'm sure Summer wouldn't, and I know I wouldn't EVER say "I told you so."
I think it will be based on what she wants to do with the sewing machine.
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I wish I had asked. Married 1 month, what to get her for our first Christmas. I know! All women like to sew, right? Well I found out shortly after Christmas she hated sewing. 42 years ago. I learned.
Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.


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Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Bold as it is to say, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn is my favorite movie of all time. For me, it teeters in competition with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And to be clear, just because it happens to be my favorite movie doesn't mean that I think it's the best acted, best scripted, best directed movie ever. (Although the directing is top-notch. More on that in a bit.) Movies are entertainment; their sole purpose is to entertain us. So for me personally, in terms of sheer entertainment value, I find nothing more entertaining than Sam Raimi's sequel to his own break out independent hit, The Evil Dead.
The first Evil Dead was the culmination of years and years of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tappert honing their filmmaking skills by cranking out numerous short films together in school. Pooling together a budget from investors primarily consisting of dentists, they managed to make a little indie movie touted as "the most grueling experience ever!" An endorsement from Stephen King early on solidified The Evil Dead's cult status. So several years later, after Raimi and the Coen Brothers had a creatively unsuccessful studio experience making the feature Crimewave, Raimi went back to the ol' cabin and decided to sequelize his big break out movie with Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn.Continue Reading
Could you imagine what it would be like to finish an exhausting shift at a retail job, only to find upon closing that there is a killer who wants to use the abundance of box cutters and deli knives to expose your innards? Well, that's where this slasher movie begins, and that is just the beginning of its craftiness. Slasher films are usually really good about having slaughter come in the most inopportune times: swimming, camping, love making, eating and so forth. I think this adds that special tension that comes along with horror films—the old "don't go up the stairs" warning you try to tell the characters by squirming in your seat. Intruder lacks this tension at first because you're not exactly sure what's going on, and with the large cast and lack of character background with any of them, it's hard to decipher where everyone is and who is still alive. Perhaps that's a good thing. Surely when the movie's awesome kill scenes surface, you really don't care who gets the ax; you just want to see how many horrible ways someone could be murdered within an hour at a supermarket.
As mentioned before, the cast is considerably large for a slasher, and they are killed rather swiftly. I couldn't really catch most of the characters' names or tell Ted and Sam Raimi apart, but it really doesn't matter. Jennifer (Elizabeth Cox) and her coworker Linda (Renée Estevez) are the only two employees at the registers when it comes time to close at their supermarket. Meanwhile, all the male workers are busy cleaning, butchering meat, and adding numbers in various parts of the store. The last customer to be rung up is Jennifer 's ex-boyfriend who was recently released from prison. Their breakup has left him a little disgruntled, and he picks a fight with her. When the fight turns physical, all the male workers attack and kick the brute out. The police are called and can't find him, so everyone goes about their routine closing, which seems to take much longer than it normally should. They all get together and one of the veterans there expresses his disappointment that the store will be closing and the property handed over to the government. A little more prep work is done for the following day, but when it comes time for everyone to leave, no one is able to make it out of the front door. Using meat hooks in the cooler, table saws, box cutters and various knives, a mysterious killer has infiltrated the store and intends on leaving no one standing. But is Jennifer's woman-beating boyfriend the culprit or does someone else have a score to settle?Continue Reading


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The retrial of baseball great Roger Clemens began in earnest Monday after a week of jury selection. Clemens is charged with lying in 2008 to a congressional committee when he denied ever using steroids or human growth hormone.
He will be judged by a jury of 10 women and 6 men — 12 jurors and 4 alternates — who will decide whether Clemens lied under oath about using the drugs when he testified before a congressional committee investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
Prosecutor Steven Durham in his opening statement to the jury said Monday that Clemens, unlike other baseball greats who owned up to their mistakes, told lies and "other lies to cover up those lies." The prosecutor used a string of pejoratives to describe what he called the "Clemens story" — "deceit ... dishonesty ... betrayal ... hypocrisy ... vanity ... ego ... and pride."
The prosecution's main witness is onetime trainer Brian McNamee, who is expected to testify that he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and HGH. Clemens' defense lawyers will argue that McNamee made up the steroids allegations and then cut a deal for immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony.
The defense will also highlight McNamee's character warts, which include him parlaying his position as a Yankees trainer into a job promoting dietary supplements and marketing himself as Dr. Brian McNamee — a title he earned from a diploma mill in Louisiana that has since been shut down. He was also investigated on a rape charge in 2001 involving a near fatal dose of a date-rape drug, but police dropped the matter after questions were raised about the alleged victim's credibility.
Because of McNamee's past, the prosecution will try to buttress his testimony with physical evidence such as syringes and cotton swabs that have traces of steroids, HGH and Clemens' DNA. The problem is what lawyers call "chain of custody." McNamee claims he kept these syringes and cotton swabs for two years in a closet, while the defense will likely suggest that McNamee doctored them.
The prosecution is also expected to call a more stellar witness: fellow pitcher and teammate Andy Pettitte, who was one of Clemens' best friends. Pettitte has admitted using these drugs, and says Clemens once admitted to him that he used HGH. Clemens doesn't say his old friend is lying. He says Pettitte either misheard or misunderstood something he said.
Clemens' first trial was aborted last summer when prosecutors showed the jury evidence that Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible, and a mistrial was declared.
Jury selection for the second trial took a week, with many jurors dismissed when they said they thought the prosecution was a waste of the government's money. The ones who made the cut appear to be largely uninterested in baseball. Of the 12 jurors and four alternates, seven said they had never heard of Clemens.
Neither the jury nor the public has been told which jurors are alternates. The group is roughly two-thirds female; seven are white, nine African-American. The group includes a Treasury Department employee; an art historian with the Smithsonian; a program analyst with the D.C. government who loves to read Christian romance novels and bake; a retired political science professor; a supermarket cashier; and a Nuclear Regulatory Commission analyst who grew up down the street from a house rented by baseball greats Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
Take two of the trial of baseball great Roger Clemens. It began in earnest today after a week of jury selection. Clemens is charged with lying to a congressional committee about his alleged use of steroids and human growth hormone.
The seven time Cy Young Award winner has steadfastly denied using performance enhancing drugs. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg was at the federal courthouse here in Washington, D.C. today and she joins us now. Hi'ya.
NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Hi'ya.
SIEGEL: And we've seen this movie before.
TOTENBERG: Yeah. Clemens' first trial was aborted last summer when prosecutors showed the jury evidence that the judge had very explicitly ruled inadmissible and Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial.
SIEGEL: So, today the prosecution and defense began presenting their opening statements to the jury. Give us an overview, first, of the prosecution's case.
TOTENBERG: Well, we only got as far as the prosecution's case today, but we know the defense's case, sort of.
SIEGEL: Right.
TOTENBERG: So, remember, Clemens isn't charged with using steroids or HGH. He's accused of lying about it under oath when he testified before a congressional committee that was investigating the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.
Prosecutor Steven Durham told the jury that Clemens sought to pump up his sagging career in the three-year period between 1998 and 2001 by having himself injected with these drugs and that he then lied about it to maintain his reputation.
The prosecutor told the jury that the Clemens' story is one of - and he used a string of adjectives - deceit, dishonesty, betrayal, hypocrisy, vanity, ego and pride.
SIEGEL: And what's the prosecution's proof of all this?
TOTENBERG: Well, principally, two witnesses and some physical evidence. The main witness is one-time trainer Brian McNamee, who is expected to testify that he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and HGH. But McNamee has enough character warts that the prosecution will try to buttress his testimony with a more stellar witness and with syringes and cotton swabs that have traces of steroids, HGH, in Clemens' DNA.
SIEGEL: And you mentioned McNamee's character warts. What are his alleged warts?
TOTENBERG: Well, to start with, he parlayed his position as a Yankees trainer into a job promoting dietary supplements and marketing himself as Dr. Brian McNamee, a title he earned from a diploma mill that has since been shut down in Louisiana. He was investigated on a rape charge involving a near fatal dose of a date rape drug, but the woman wouldn't testify so the police dropped the matter.
Most of all, of course, McNamee cut a deal for immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony, so the defense is basically going to say he made all this stuff up to save his own skin.
SIEGEL: And then there's this very unusual dimension of the physical evidence.
TOTENBERG: Well, the problem is - and that is if you could call it that - the problem is what lawyers call the chain of custody. McNamee says he kept these syringes and cotton swabs for two years in a closet and the defense will likely suggest that he doctored them.
SIEGEL: And the other witnesses you referred to?
TOTENBERG: The big one, of course, is pitcher Andy Pettitte, who once viewed Roger Clemens as a brother. He's admitted using these drugs. He's viewed as a stand-up guy. He was - these two men trained together and Pettitte says that Clemens once admitted to him that he used HGH and Clemens doesn't dispute - he said - he doesn't say that Pettitte is lying. He says he either misheard him or misunderstood something that he said.
SIEGEL: Now, this Roger Clemens trial, take two, begins after a week of jury selection. What was going on?
TOTENBERG: Well, interestingly, a lot of the jurors who were dismissed for college said they thought it was a waste of the government's money to go forward with this. The ones who made it 16 in all, 12 jurors and four alternates and we don't know which are the alternates.
So the group of 16 includes nine African-Americans and seven whites, 10 women and six men. Among them a Treasury Department employee, an art historian, a program analyst with the D.C. government who loves to read Christian romance novels and bake but hates baseball, and a guy from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He used to live down the street from a house rented by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
SIEGEL: Well, thank you for those details. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg on the trial of former major league pitching great Roger Clemens. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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