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Is Kendrick Perkins the difference between Boston Winning and Losing NBA Title?
"The Boston Celtics might go to Game 7 without center Kendrick Perkins.
He landed awkwardly trying to haul in an offensive rebound midway through the first quarter of Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night and suffered a right knee sprain.
Perkins was hopeful, saying: "I'm going to try to give it a go [on Thursday]." But a team source told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan: "He's done."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Don't let his modest numbers deceive you. Kendrick Perkins could be the difference between the Boston Celtics winning and losing the championship.
The NBA Finals will be decided in the paint; the team that dominates down-low will host a victory celebration, while the team that gets dominated will spend their life wondering what could've been.
Perkins – despite his limited offensive skill and affinity for arguing fouls – is a throwback. He bangs. He competes. And he intimidates.
For instance, Perkins shut Pau Gasol down in game-five, which, not coincidentally, the Celtics won. In fact, Boston's five-man was so effective experts were again calling the Spaniard soft.
Gasol, however, was far more confident when Perkins left game-six with an injury. He ate the smaller Glen Davis up. Veterans Kevin Garnett and Rasheed Wallace weren't much better, either.
And the Los Angeles Lakers, as a team, successfully attacked the basket, in large part, because Perkins wasn't there to deter them. Guards Kobe Bryant, Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown were able to get to the hoop whenever they liked.
Right now, Perkins' status is unknown for game-seven. What isn't unknown is how important he is to Boston.
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Industries Licensing
In certain cases, projects may qualify for an exemption from licensing. Those receiving an exemption are exempt from the requirements of Part I of the Federal Power Act. However, the exempted project is subject to mandatory terms and conditions set by federal and state fish and wildlife agencies and by the Commission, and do not convey the right of eminent domain. Getting an exemption can be a more simplified process than applying for a license. Exemptions are issued in perpetuity.
» Active Exemptions updated 2/19/2020
The Commission issues two types of exemptions:
- Small hydropower projects, which are 10 megawatts or less, that will be built at an existing dam, or projects that utilize a natural water feature for head or an existing project that has a capacity of 10 megawatts or less and proposes to increase capacity.
(Note: Following links are to external sites and you will be leaving FERC's website).
- Conduit exemption that would be issued for constructing
a hydropower project on an existing conduit (for example
irrigation canal).
Conduit exemptions are authorized for generating capacities 40 megawatts or less. The conduit has to have been constructed
primarily for purposes other than power production.

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Firstly, let me say that the more that I play with NORMA, the more fascinated I become. The tutorials are clearly written, well paced, and cover an impressive range of the tool's features.
I have come across a very few situations where what I experience - using VS 2010 with Release 17 - doesn't exactly match the behavior described in the tutorials. I would like to know whether my results are typical or if I am missing something. It may simply be a version issue since the tutorials were written before the VS 2010 edition was developed.
On page 22 of the Lab5 tutorial it states that clicking a predicate in the Verbalizer window will select that predicate in the Diagram Spy. I don't experience this behavior - clicking the hyperlink does nothing. I can of course still access the predicate's Properties by locating it manually in one of the diagrams, I just can't use the Verbalizer as a shortcut to locating the predicate.
This is far and away the most significant discrepancy between the tutorials and my experience. The rest are trivial things that seem to suggest that a tutorial's screen shots were based on a more robust model than the one that is being built. For example, on page 23 of the same tutorial, the Gender entity appears shadowed even though this is the first reference of that entity in this lab.
All in all, impressive support for an impressive and FREE tool: thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!
We're glad you're enjoying the tool and tutorials. There may be occasional things in the tutorials that are out of date, but the vast majority should be current. You can see detailed changes (grouped by category as well as by change date) in the Readme.htm file that installs with NORMA, so any discrepancies should be addressed there.
A fairly recent change allows the shadows to be turned off, which can be useful for screen shots in mature models.
As for the main question, there are four things I can think of that could cause this behavior. I'm assuming you can manually 'Select in Diagram Spy' from the document window and Model Browser tool window:
Let me know if any of the this helps.
Matt -
Thanks for the reply; I read the Readme.htm file and found nothing beyond your suggestions, which I address below:
1.) Button was set to Diagram Spy, but toggling it made no discernable difference - both settings fail to highlight the predicate in either the Diagram Spy or the Model browser.
2.) I get the hand icon but don't notice any subtle background change when mousing over. (When I click on a link it gets a dashed border.) I have tried selecting the lab's Person entity type and have clicked each of its verbalization predicate links without result.
3.) see 2.) above.
4.) The setting was configured as Default; changing it to Default, No Hyperlinks (English (United States)) eliminates the hand icon and hyperlink.
Still puzzled.
- Chris
Hi Chris,
The background is very subtle (the a:hover style uses the infobackground backcolor, which is very light on most systems). It is easiest to see when hovering over a red model error description in the verbalization window.
I'm just not seeing this. I've tried VS2010 on two different platforms (XP32+IE8 and Win764+IE10) to see if the browser was the issue.
This is acting like you have some security settings and/or virus checker that is rejecting hyperlinks it doesn't recognize, which would definitely affect the browser control. The jumps are handled through a standard WebBrowser.Navigating event with a check for the 'elementid' scheme in the URL.Scheme property. If you view the source, you'll find that all of the hrefs look like href="elementid:SOMEGUID". The Browser_OnNavigating event handler always cancels the event for the elementid scheme, so you shouldn't be getting to the dashed-border-around-the-hyperlink stage if this handler is running (regardless of whether or not the jump succeeds). So, it doesn't sound like it is even running the jump code on your machine, which is very odd.
So, maybe you can give a little more data on your system?
Has anyone else see this behavior?
Matt -
I'm on Win7 32bit with IE8. I'm at a government site, so my security protocol is pretty strict (and often inflexible), being particularly paranoid about malicious hyperlinks. I'll pass this thread by the system engineers and see if it tickles anything with them. I would also be happy to check any configuration settings that you think may be affecting this although I generally don't personalize VS or IE much at all from our defaults. I just went through the advanced settings in IE and nothing jumped out at me as pertaining to hyperlink rejection.
View source reveals just what you describe for the hyperlinks, but you are over my head with the event handling / schemes. I am seeing the background now - a pale yellow that was definitely not there yesterday - and the dashed border is now gone. I swear I haven't changed anything that could affect that, but is that my credibility that I just heard crashing?... ;-)
Unfortunately, although there are other VS developers here, I am the only person using NORMA at my facility; are there any native VS components that would expose similar behavior?
Thanks again for your time,
chrobiso:I am seeing the background now - a pale yellow that was definitely not there yesterday
Clifford -
Interesting observation. At the office, running a monitor through a docking station, I don't see the background effect, and I do see the dashed border. At home running off the vga port I see the background effect and don't see the dashed border (but when I started this thread, at home, I am sure that I didn't see the background effect and did see the border). Dropping the brightness and contrast (both were 100%) at work does get me the background, and the dashed border remains. I will see tonight what similar fiddling will do at home.


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I arose on April 1st expecting to be bombarded with the usual tomfoolery and jokes from those attempting to make an 'April fool' of another. Hence, when I logged into my email account and fixated my eyes on a subject line which read, "Total Wrestling Magazine Shuts Down!," I figured it was a friend playing a joke.
The link inside to a news tidbit at pwinsider.com confirmed it was not a joke - just yet another unfortunate reality.
"British wrestling magazine Total Wrestling contacted its writers today to announce the magazine would be shutting down operations, effective immediately," read Mike Johnson's report.
Admittedly, I was a little disappointed at first that no one at the magazine had contacted me to inform me it was curtains. After all, I had contributed as an Australian correspondent/occasional feature writer to every issue of Total Wrestling since it hit the market in September 2002, and for six months preceding the launch had written a monthly column for Power of Wrestling - Highbury Publishing House's previous wrestling publication.
But any discontent was washed away when I found out Senior Editor and all-time writing great Bill Apter received no advance notice, no previous indications that the magazine would be folding. He found out the same day the whole wrestling world did. It appears in many ways he was totally blindsided.
"Well I'm out of a job and need to find one asap to pay the bills here!" Apter told SLAM! Wrestling's Greg Oliver. "Basically it happened today without notice. The UK office called to tell me that the magazine was not profitable. Don't know what route to take right now."
"I found out [the magazine was closing] through a post on the UK Fan Forum (http://www.ukff.com)," said Phil Austin, who penned a monthly "Total Defining Moment" column for the magazine, and had worked as a contributor since the days of Power of Wrestling. "Initially I was sceptical, however when I spoke to Bill online he confirmed the sad news that all was over with Total Wrestling.
"Everything came as a real shock. I had been talking to members of the Total Wrestling staff just days earlier about what to do for future issues, and had been given no indication of any problems. As far as I know even the top level Total Wrestling staff were shocked to receive the news just moments before I did!"
Chris Chisum, host of Voice of Wrestling radio show, who contributed transcripts of interviews with WWE stars on a handful of occasions to the magazine, was equally as shocked as Austin.
"I was absolutely shocked when I heard that Total Wrestling was ceasing operations," he told SLAM! Wrestling. "I had no idea. I wish I would have known more so if there was something I could have done to help, I wouldn't have hesitated at all."
Although the demise of the magazine was in some ways unexpected, there were signs that perhaps everything from the publisher's perspective wasn't going accordingly at times.
In mid-2003, the circulation of the magazine was sliced from 40,000 to 25,000. It's unknown whether the circulation was increased again when Total Wrestling increased distribution in North America, but the drop at the time, coupled with a 16% rise in price in the United Kingdom some months later were indicative of some struggle. Also, the first issue of Total Wrestling comprised of 100 pages. Since August 2003, no issue exceeded 84.
The future for Bill Apter at the moment is uncertain, although it has been reported he may be interested in working for the World Wrestling Entertainment.
"Bill Apter is one hell of a guy and I hear WWE isn't hiring right now, but honestly, they need to make room for him!," enthused Chisum. "He's one of, if not the most respected journalist in the business today and there's no reason why Bill should be looking for work."
Apter was offered a role with the WWE in the 1980s, but turned it down due to his involvement with the London Press produced wrestling magazines. Now, for the first time since 1971, he's a free agent, and becoming a part of McMahon's enterprise is one of the potential possibilities that may or may not be presented to him in the coming weeks.
But for now, the pain of such an untimely end to yet another mainstream wrestling publication will be felt.
"I enjoyed the small part I played in the production of each issue, and being given the opportunity to put forward a positive viewpoint of each subject was a rare thing in today's cynical wrestling society," explained Austin.
"My hope is that another publication can come and fill the void that Total leaves. The wrestling media needs more positive journalism in it, that's for sure."
I find it difficult to disagree with Austin's assessment. The tragic reality is, there probably won't be another publication to fill the void. Since the inception of the internet, professional wrestling magazines, for the most part, have failed to generate sufficient revenue. The sad thought to ponder is, who's next?
Mike "Kryptonite" Altamura, SLAM! Wrestling's resident Australian, would like to thank Bill Apter, and all the other Total Wrestling crew for being such top shelf guys during his time as a contributor. Mike can be reached at email@example.com


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Scrapbooking With Your Computer : Downloading, Unzipping & Organizing Digital Elements
Welcome to Day Two of a one-week series on the basics of scrapbooking with your computer. If you are just joining in today you can check out the previous posts here.
Below you will find a link for a small free element for you to download, unzip, and use. I will be incorporating it into the topics that will be addressed later this week - it's meant to give you a chance to actually practice going through the steps. If this is your first time downloading an element you may want to read the information below before clicking on the link.
Today we are diving in and addressing the topics of downloading, unzipping, and organizing digital elements. As with many things in life, there are a variety of different ways all of these things can be done - many different approaches that end up at the same final destination.
Let's take a look at my process for getting these digital elements into my computer.
After you have made a purchase from an online scrapbook site, or located a free element, the next step in the process is downloading the package to your computer. Most sites give you immediate access to your files. Check with the store you are purchasing from for specific details on how you retrieve your purchased files.
Depending on what browser you are using (such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.) when you click the link to download you will be asked what you want your computer to do with the file. Initially I save all my downloaded files to my desktop - I like seeing them there before I move them to their permanent home.
You can designate where your downloaded files are saved to in the Preferences window of your web browser. See the window for Firefox below:
Here's a look at the message I receive when I click on the download link above:
By selecting this option at download, when I double click the zipped file on my desktop it automatically unzips the folder using Stuffit Expander.
To unzip or "expand" downloaded files you need an unzip program. If you try to open the zipped file in Photoshop or Elements it will not work. It is likely that you may already have a program to unzip files on your computer. The program I use is called Stuffit Deluxe which allows me to both "zip" and "unzip" files. Unless you need the ability to zip files I suggest their free program: Stuffit Expander. Here's a list of more free unzip programs.
When you unzip the file (to do this I double click on that file) you should see a folder appear in the same location with the same name minus the .zip extension.
Inside that folder you will find something like this (click the image to view it larger):
NOTE : If by chance you end up with any files beginning with an underscore (looks like this "_") you can delete those files. For some reason when I zip files here on my Mac and they are opened on a PC they end up with these extra random files. If you purchase any of my products from Designer Digitals this will not be an issue as they are re-zipped before being added to the store.
The folder you are downloading today includes:
1. A preview file that let's you know what's inside the package you have downloaded. Sometimes this preview includes all the elements and sometimes it only shows some of the elements (meaning you will need to look inside the folder to see all the elements that are included). These previews are generally the same previews you see in the shopping section at online stores.
2. A "Terms Of Use" or "TOU" file that lists what you can and can not do with the elements depending on the license you selected at the time of purchase. This is often a PDF or a text file. At Designer Digitals you can select the Photographer's License which allows you to create custom photo cards, photo albums, and calendars for resale to your clients in a flattened/completed format.
3. The element(s). In the case of this download there is just one .png element. This is what you will open in Photoshop or Word.
4. Some products include an .abr file which is to be loaded into your brush palette in Photoshop or Elements (more about importing that tomorrow).
After I have unzipped the file and see the folder on my desktop I put the .zip file in the trash. Many people save all their zipped files or burn them to a DVD or store them on an external hard drive (which is smart if something happens to your main hard drive or the drive in which you are storing all your elements). I regularly back up my collection of elements to a second drive.
That's the basics of downloading and unzipping. Depending on what programs and operating systems you have on your computer things will likely look a little different.
There are lots of different ways you can go about organizing and storing your digital elements. What you choose will likely depend on a number of factors including hard drive space, time, interest, level of organization, number of products, amount of digital scrapbooking you plan to do, etc.
From reading a bit about this online I have found that people use a variety of different programs to organize their digital elements including ACDSee, iPhoto, Adobe Bridge, Picasa, and Shoebox. I believe the key in all those systems is tagging the products to make searching easier. This is a very informative thread on organizing your elements at Designer Digitals (it is a bit advanced if you don't have any experience...but reading is how we learn). JessicaSprague.com offers downloadable, self-paced organizing classes for ACDsee and Picasa.
To be honest, I have not tried any of those programs for organizing my digital scrapbooking supplies.
Rather than use a specific program, after I download and unzip I choose to store my digital elements (both the ones I create and the ones I download) in category folders on an external hard drive: LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk 1 TB. This drive is backed up to a second drive just in case.
This simple organization has been a really good system for me. I think part of the reason for this is that I don't have an overwhelming amount of supplies and I tend to know what I like and am fairly particular about what I download. Just as with my paper supplies, I have found that less is more in terms of getting the story told.
Here's a look at how I organize my category folders (click the image to view it larger):
My current categories include:
Brads, Etc
Embellishments (includes subfolders: Butterflies, Circles, Clocks/Time, Dates, Element Combination Packs, Hearts, Metals (no words), Ribbons/Strips, Stars, Tags, Words)
Journal Templates
Layered Templates
Negative Sleeves
Photo or Frame Clusters
These categories were created after I had started collecting supplies. From what I was using most I began making the folders and organizing products within each one. I have made adjustments here and there and combined or expanded folders based on my work flow.
As I was working on this post yesterday I made a few changes to my structure. One of the big changes was eliminating the Full Kit category. Instead of storing Full Kits (packages with a bunch of coordinating elements) together I went ahead and separated the contents out into other folders: mainly Papers_Patterns and Element Combination Packs (within the Embellishments folder). The reason I did this is that I have found that I rarely use a bunch of elements from one kit on the same layout. I am more of a mix-it-up embellishment user. I find that I like to take one thing from this package and one thing from another package and add them together.
The important point here is that your organization should match the way in which you work with the products. The other important point is to be flexible and ok to change things up when you find that they aren't working as well for you as you had hoped.
Here's a look at the sub-categories inside my Embellishments folder (click the image to view it larger):
Later this week I will address the way in which I go about selecting which supplies to use. I usually have a general idea of what I am looking for - such as a heart shape - and am able to go right into the Hearts sub-folder and select one.
As someone who does traditional, hybrid, and digital I find this method of organization to work really well.
I'd love to hear about how you organize your digital supplies. What works best for you? What have you tried that didn't work so great and what changes did you make?
WEDNESDAY : Working With Hybrid Elements (what I use the most and why)
Tomorrow we will take a look at using digital elements on traditional layouts. I will walk you through my process and talk more about the different products that tend to work best for hybrid scrapbooking.
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Sea Ice and Sunlight: Climate Change and the Arctic Sea Ice Cover
Donald Perovich, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
Sea ice covers much of the Arctic Ocean. Climate models indicate that this extensive, but thin, floating ice cover is both a harbinger and an amplifier of global climate change. Observations demonstrate that the Arctic sea ice cover is in decline. The areal extent of the ice cover has been decreasing for the past few decades and the ice has been thinning. The reduction in Arctic sea ice is a consequence of such factors as overall warming trends, changes in cloud cover, shifts in atmospheric circulation patterns, increased export of ice out of the Arctic Basin, and enhanced solar heating of the ocean. These changes are likely accelerated by the ice-albedo feedback. The diminishing Arctic sea ice has implications not only for the Arctic, but also for the global climate system, creating social, political, economic, and ecological challenges.
About the Speaker
Dr. Don Perovich received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Washington. He is a Senior Research Geophysicist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire and an Adjunct Professor at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. His primary research interest is understanding the role of sea ice in the global climate system, with an emphasis on the heat budget of sea ice and the ice albedo feedback. He has participated in numerous Arctic field experiments including serving as the Chief Scientist of SHEBA, a large international program studying the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean and participating in a 2005 trans-Arctic icebreaker expedition to the North Pole. He is the author of over 120 scientific articles on sea ice properties and processes.


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MARK Cavendish has claimed broken promises ahead of this year's Tour de France forced him to quit Team Sky.
The 27-year-old said he was left feeling like a "back-up rider" as Bradley Wiggins went on to claim a historic yellow-jersey success.
Cavendish, who moved to Omega Pharma-Quickstep last month, believes he could have also have captured the sprinters' green jersey and fulfil an ambition he thought Sky had held when he signed.
But the Manxman believes dreams of a Tour double were put on hold in the lead-up to the race as Sky instead focused on Wiggins.
"We didn't achieve what I thought we were setting out to achieve at the start of the season," he told The Daily Telegraph.
"Sky should have taken both jerseys. We could have done that without any risk or detriment to the yellow jersey. It's frustrating."
Cavendish, who won his only Tour green jersey last year, admitted Wiggins' success should always have been Sky's primary objective.
But while he was proud to be part of a famous summer for British cycling he suspected it would be his last with Sky after one of his support riders, Juan Antonio Flecha, was dropped from the Tour team.
"It was then, on the eve of the Tour, that I realised the promise I had signed to Sky on wasn't rally a promise," he said.
"I was a back-up rider. At the end of the day we weren't going for the two jerseys at all.
"It wasn't a failure, and I was very proud to be part of a British yellow-jersey winning team with Brad, but it wasn't the ultimate either."


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Summer is rapidly winding down – I blinked and the days are already getting shorter. In the Bay Area, its fully into the gloom and chill of Fog-ust. Meanwhile, back East where I'm vacationing, muggy heat is doing battle with torrential downpours. In either case, getting away to a tropical island under sunny, blue skies sounds just about right. Or the liquid equivalent – a tiki cocktail.
I've been wanting for a while to try this contemporary twist on the classic mai tai. Its intense color just grabs your attention – its such a bright deep…pink. Thankfully, the "Come to Your Senses!" theme for this month's Mixology Monday provided the inspiration. As host David Solmonson at 12 Bottle Bar describes it:
We all know that cocktails are supposed to taste good, and for this event, we're going to take that as a given. What we're looking for, instead, are drinks that truly excite one or more of the other senses: touch, smell, sight, or even hearing. Of course, it you want to get scientific about it – and why wouldn't you – there are even more sensations which can be played with (echolocation, anyone?)
In addition to the intense hue, it has a nice spicy citrus aroma and the large handful of mint garnish is always welcome. The flavor is definitely different – you can pick up the mai tai, but the bitter Campari is definitely playing equal billing. It adds a really nice lean complexity to a tropical drink.
Bitter Mai Tai
1 ½ oz. Campari
¾ oz. Jamaican rum (Smith & Cross)
1 oz. lime juice
¾ oz. orgeat
½ oz. curacao
Shake & strain into double Old Fashioned over crushed ice. Garnish with mint sprig.
Recipe courtesy of Jeremy Ortel, Dram via Imbibe.


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It's a good thing that President Barack Obama was not writing his law-school exams when he attacked judicial review. The administration is reeling from the Supreme Court's tough questioning of its signature legislative achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Rather than await the decision, as past presidents have done when facing high-court scrutiny, Obama decided to attack preemptively with error-filled claims about the place of judicial review in our constitutional system — claims that would have earned him a failing grade at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught, and Harvard Law School, where he studied.
Perhaps the president's overreaction comes from a hubris stung by an approaching fall. Just a few weeks ago, liberals were triumphantly predicting that the vision of an unbounded federal government would seduce all. Chief Justice John Roberts would not risk the Court's prestige by stopping President Obama's greatest political success. Antonin Scalia would follow his earlier vote in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), in which he agreed that Congress could use its Commerce Clause powers to ban the personal growth and use of minuscule amounts of marijuana. Anthony Kennedy, so sensitive to his position as the swing vote and conscious of public opinion (which he had trumpeted in his 1992 vote to reaffirm Roe v. Wade), would never put himself in the unpopular position of blocking economic regulation. Only Clarence Thomas, who ungrudgingly opposes the New Deal state, and perhaps Samuel Alito might stand against the latest effort at federal social engineering.
But the Court's oral arguments have thrown liberals into a panic. Kennedy declared that compelling purchases of a product (rather than regulating existing commerce) "is different from what we have in previous cases, and that changes the relationship of the federal govrnment to the individual in the very fundamental way." Scalia questioned whether the administration's claim that Congress's Commerce Clause power allowed it to require nationwide health insurance also meant that the government could force everyone to eat broccoli. Obama's solicitor general could not answer the question that every law student knew was coming: What is the Commerce Clause's stopping point? Based on the tea leaves, the odds have switched to slightly favoring the law's challengers.
President Obama's reaction was to go on the offensive. "Ultimately, I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," he said on April 2. "And I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law."
This is not the first time that President Obama has attacked the Court: Recall his 2010 State of the Union criticism of the justices (several of whom were sitting in attendance) for striking down caps on corporate campaign contributions in Citizens United v. FEC. Then, just as in his recent comments, Obama blunted his already clumsy rhetoric by making serious mistakes of constitutional law. It simply would not be "unprecedented" or "extraordinary" for the Court to strike down a federal law. The justices have exercised that power since 1803's Marbury v. Madison, in which the Court dismissed the case of a wannabe justice of the peace who sued to receive his commission of office, despite a statute giving the Court jurisdiction over such claims.
It is also simply wrong to assert that, in overturning Obamacare, the "unelected group of people" would be overturning a law passed by a "strong majority." Obamacare barely squeaked through Congress thanks to questionable parliamentary maneuvers (budget reconciliation was used to avoid a filibuster). In any case, Marbury struck down a section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which had passed the House on a voice vote and the Senate by two-thirds; Congress that year boasted many members of the federal and state conventions that had just ratified the Constitution.
#page#Nor did Candidate Obama similarly criticize the Court when, in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), it struck down the Military Commissions Act's reaffirmation that enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay had no right to seek habeas corpus from civilian courts during wartime. In fact, he had nothing but praise for the Court's rejection of a law that had passed 65–34 in the Senate and 253–168 in the House.
Obama further damaged his constitutional-law credentials in an April 3 walkback. "We have not seen a Court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce — a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner," he said. "The Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it's precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress."
This invocation of the Lochner case missed the mark. Lochner (1905) did not involve Congress's powers, but instead a New York State law imposing maximum hours of work and violating the constitutional right to contract. In fact, during the fight between the justices and the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the Court struck down several New Deal statutes, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act, as beyond Congress's powers. It is true that the Court's review of economic legislation remained dormant for many decades after, but the Rehnquist Court resurrected it in United States v. Lopez (1995), Printz v. United States (1997), and Morrison v. United States (2000).
Disappointed in decisions such as Roe v. Wade, leading conservative lights such as Judge Robert Bork have suggested that judicial review itself borders on the illegitimate. But they should not make common cause with President Obama. While the constitutional text nowhere mentions it, judicial review can trace its origins directly to the constitutional structure. The Constitution represents a contract between the principals (the American people) and their agents (the federal government). Each branch owes its ultimate responsibility to the people, not to the legislature, and must follow its own understanding of the Constitution. No branch, therefore, can force another to cooperate in an unconstitutional action.
Judicial review springs from the duty of a court, when deciding a case before it, to enforce the Constitution over a conflicting act of Congress. A court must follow the former, because it is the highest form of law. "No legislative act therefore contrary to the constitution can be valid," Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist 78. "To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Hamilton concluded: "The constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents."
This modest vision of judicial review, borrowed by Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, should lead conservatives to reject judicial supremacy. Contrary to Obama's statement, the Supreme Court does not get "the final say" on the Constitution. It interprets the Constitution only when deciding cases. Its precedents do not bind the other branches when they conduct their own duties, such as passing legislation or enforcing the law. Thomas Jefferson, for example, pardoned anyone convicted under the Sedition Act for criticizing the government and suspended all prosecutions — even though the courts had upheld the act. "You seem to think it devolved on the judges to decide on the validity of the sedition law," he later explained to Abigail Adams. "But nothing in the Constitution has given them a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them."
#page#Other great American presidents used executive power to advance their constitutional visions. Andrew Jackson waged a bitter struggle against the Second Bank of the United States throughout his first term in office. In 1832, he vetoed the bank's re-charter, even though the Supreme Court had upheld the bank in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). "The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges," Jackson declared. And, he emphasized, "on that point the President is independent of both."
Abraham Lincoln reached the pinnacle of executive vigor in constitutional interpretation. His party defined its existence through opposition to Dred Scott v. Sandford, which struck down congressional limits on the spread of slavery. In his debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln argued that the president and Congress could refuse to follow Dred Scott in other cases of runaway or free slaves. He continued his narrow approach to judicial review once president. "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," Lincoln argued, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln went even further under his commander-in-chief power to upset Dred Scott's holding that slaves were mere property.
Obama has decided to cede supremacy to the Supreme Court. Conservatives should not follow him. Under the proud tradition of coordinate constitutional interpretation, conservatives could refuse to accept any decision upholding Obamacare and seek its repeal by the president and Congress. Obama not only denies centuries of presidential leadership, he also funnels opposition to the Court into the kind of boorish threats launched by the White House and its supporters against judicial independence. If Obama is unwilling to oppose the Court by using alternative powers — such as enacting national health-care legislation through Congress's taxing and spending powers — then he is reduced to attacking the justices in the hopes of changing their minds.
In this respect, Obama's assault calls to mind nothing less than Franklin Roosevelt's war on the courts. Frustrated with judicial resistance to the New Deal, FDR used his stunning 1936 reelection to advance a court-packing plan. Because, he claimed, the advanced age of the justices prevented them from coming to grips with the modern economy, Congress ought to allow him to appoint a new justice for every sitting justice over 70 — which would have expanded the Supreme Court from nine to 15 judges. Under the pressure of the plan, it is commonly thought, the Court's majority made "a switch in time that saved nine": It began to uphold New Deal legislation, such as the National Labor Relations Act and minimum-wage laws.
But those who would embark on such political campaigns against the Court would do well to study the aftermath of FDR's scheme. The Court and constitutional law suffered. The Court's obvious flip-flop has deprived the New Deal state of the level of legitimacy that attended the Framing and Reconstruction, and thus led to the very constitutional challenges that beset Obamacare today. FDR also paid a political price. In the 1938 elections, his wing of the Democratic party suffered a resounding defeat and the New Deal effectively stalled. Were it not for his rise to the challenge of World War II, FDR might have ended a mediocre second term presiding over a listless economy. With his clumsy attack on the courts, combined with his acceptance of judicial supremacy, Obama may have set himself on the same course.
– Mr. Yoo, a former George W. Bush Justice Department official, is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a co-author of Taming Globalization, just out from Oxford University Press.


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Myristyl Alcohol
What: Myristyl Alcohol is a saturated fatty alcohol found in natural oils often used in cosmetics as an emollient and a stabilizer, preventing separation. Myristyl Alcohol smooths the skin and prevents moisture loss (Wiki).
Myristyl Alcohol may also be used as a foaming agent and fragrance ingredient.
Origin: Myristyl Alcohol is derived from natural fats and oils found in palm kernel oil, coconut oil, and nutmeg.
Products Found In: Hair care, skincare, body care, sunless tanners, perfumes.
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Toxicity: Myristyl Alcohol is generally classified as having low toxicity.(EWG).


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Engineered wood flooring is a really popular wood flooring option. Offering a credible and authentic alternative to solid wood flooring, engineered wood flooring is made from various layers of wood on a plywood base with a solid oak lamella or top layer. It's because of this solid oak top layer that engineered wood flooring is hard to distinguish from solid wood.
The construction of engineered wood flooring makes it a particularly stable wood flooring option. Resistant to moisture and temperature fluctuations, engineered wood flooring doesn't expand and contract in the same way as solid wood. This means that engineered wood floors don't feature gaps which appear and disappear in the same way as solid wood floors. Add to this the fact that engineered wood flooring is suited to installation over under floor heating and you begin to see why this flooring solution is so popular.
Tongue and groove engineered wood flooring, as the name suggests, means that each plank has a tongue and a groove. The grooves on tongue and groove engineered wood flooring planks are cut into one long side and one short side and the tongues protrude on the other two sides. The same is true on the short sides. In its installation, tongue and groove engineered wood flooring can either be secret nailed, glued down to a suitable sub floor or laid in a floating installation.


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scarf - Forever 21, t-shirt - TNA, shoes - Chinese Laundry, necklace - Joe Fresh, rings - gifts)
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Hot Chocolate
posted on: Thursday, November 18, 2010
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those boots are amazing!! So nice! The colour combo is great!ReplyDelete
The parking lot photos are so urban looking! the details for the jeans are very cool and beautiful!ReplyDelete
Ashley, I really meant to ask you about how you do your blog roll. How are you able to separate them into categories. I thought its high time I update mine and do my Canadian blog roll!
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Thanks for visiting my blog. Love your cardigan. And your scarf. And your boots. Great photos too.ReplyDelete
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omg ash, i am in love with these photos!!!! i wish we can actually take some outfit posts but in this weather? probably not! haha! get well soon xReplyDelete
you look beautiful in these photos && the photos are so lovely.ReplyDelete
that hot chocolate looks yummy right at this moment..i need some now.
Love the outfit, you look nice and warm with all those layers. I didn't realize you and JP were getting married in Cabo! Ahhh, how beautiful! When is the big day?ReplyDelete
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Mikhailia - Yep!! February 25th is the date!!! eeeeeeep :)
Awesome photos... and of course, your outfit rocks!!!ReplyDelete
I adore that scarf and cardi combo...the colors are gorgeous! Lovely, lovely photos as well...the lighting in the last two is amazing! xx MarisaReplyDelete


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Swing Components can contain html just fine, like so:
The above causes the labels to be underlined in the below screenshot:
I also use HTML to display the red "(-5 seconds)" in the "New Letters" JButton in the upper right corner.
This works fine when the program is run as an application, and it works fine when it is used in an applet- the first time around. However, when running from a cached version of the applet (after navigating away form the page, or simply refreshing it), the HTML no longer shows up!
Clearing the browser's and Java's cache fixes the problem temporarily, but the problem persists after the page is refreshed or navigated away from.
I found a bug report with similar symptoms here: Bug ID: 7032814 Swing HTML components after navigating back to applet page
There is an SSCCE in the bug report, but since it requires uploading the applet and viewing it in a browser, it might be easier to view my applet, look at the HTML JButton and JLabels, then refresh the page to see the problem:
http://code.kevinworkman.com/TimeFor...rdsApplet.html (applet)
Compare that to the executable Jar:
http://code.kevinworkman.com/TimeFor...meForWords.jar (jar)
Has anybody seen this bug before? Or, more to the point, does anybody know of a workaround for the bug?


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- Price$1,495,000
- Beds5
- Baths5
- SQ. Feet6,800
- Acres11.73
- Built2009
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- Price$1,495,000
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms5.00
- Full Baths4
- Half Baths2
- Square Footage6,800
- Acres11.73
- Year Built2009
- TypeResidential
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Croydon, situated in the heart of the Gulf Savannah country (Savannah Way), is a small town with a big history that started with the discovery of gold in 1885. Start at Croydon's True Blue Visitor Information Centre which houses significant collections of heritage items, information displays, an audio visual in its theatre and an internet service. The centre can direct you to the outdoor heritage displays, a mining machinery collection and grand old heritage buildings. Grab your self-guided brochure and enjoy the Croydon story.
Croydon's Heritage Precinct with police station, jail, Sergeant's residence, town hall and courthouse, the oldest building in Croydon (circa 1887) are open and free for visitors to wander through. The Mining Museum has an operable 'stamper' on the original Iguana Consul Mine.
Croydon had a large population of Chinese settlers. Archaeologists rediscovered the Croydon Chinese Temple site.
The Gulflander train travels from Normanton to Croydon weekly, providing an historic journey.
Lake Belmore, situated only four kilometres from Croydon, offers Barramundi fishing all year! It is the ideal spot for recreational activities.
The town has a range of services including accommodation, caravan park, cafe/supermarket, roadhouse/post office and the longest continuous running general store in Queensland (1894).
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Translated by Marsha Kayser My life in Orheyev, where I was born in 1885, goes no further than 1923. Then I traveled to America from Kishinev, where I had directed a school for young children and at the same time was a teacher in a professional school. And although it is over thirty years, memories from that place are still fresh in my mind, the mountain Ivanus on one side of the Reat River with the Shes opposite. I still remember when you could hear the springtime shushing of the water from the Yas channel in the stream, past the Ivanus valley, and how one would have to skip across stones to the other side to play. Quite often, slippery rocks were stumbling blocks from which I would fall, with new boots, into the noisy water, afraid that my parents would be angry with me for ruining my Passover clothes. I pause now and turn my thoughts to other dear memories of joyous suffering. To this day I still have a desire to climb up the mountain, the way our gang used to do from Ivanus Peak, from which I was sure, looking up, that one could reach and touch the sky.
Today the wide Reat which I used to swim across until the transverse . Good friends wailed to me about my parents, and they warned me, Be careful! Be careful! but I forgot, pushed it out of my mind, and embracing life, made a point with my feet up or entirely face-up on my back.
To that end, the winter repaid me when instead of sitting with a seyfer (ed. note: religious book) in school, I was skating on the frozen river. My father, trailing me to Khovodski Shul, where I had come from my crime with telltale evidence - a pair of flaming red cheeks, honored me with a slap, and I immediately got an old book as my dessert.
I remember another obstacle to childhood pleasures associated with the Shes. Studying in Yeshivah, which was in the same place as the younger children's schoolhouse, I went one Shabbos to my friend Itzel Yehudah-Moyshe's (Yitzchak Spivak), and we went out on the Shes to carry on, picking up a stork which had been rummaging in the swamp for food - going into a garden after fruit, and now had come along until The Chapel on the hill behind Matya Malmud, but to go further? No! because: on Shabbos one must not go on the grass, one could crush sticks or a blade of grass and with the transgressor violate a Torah prohibition. The strict piety had the opposite effect on me. What kind of service to God from good deeds and worship is this, I thought, which does not allow partaking of life?!
But were those notions, resulting in about six dozen strikes and maybe a spanking, obsolete? I will tell about a related matter - how I became a jargonist [ed. note: a contemptuous term used by detractors of the Yiddish language.]
Yes, what happened followed private Hebrew reading lessons and then in our Talmud-Torah (ed. note: Jewish school), not long after joining the local Safa Brura (Clear Language) group (see Stirrings of Redemption by A. Zenzifer) [ed. note Tel Aviv, 1952]. During the time that I was writing an article called This is My Name (Zeh Shmi) based on the first letters of the name Zev Shaposhnik, at the meeting of the local library, I suddenly proposed buying more Yiddish books before buying Hebrew books and was crowned with the name jargonist. How come? For what? Running a china shop in those days, my father ordered items along with his furrier materials, half and half, in the first place as a protection against poverty, secondly, so that I should not also have to become like him and my brother Pini (or Fini), may his memory be for a blessing, no craftsman, God forbid. I used to watch how my father struggled to talk to a Russian fool and could not. His face would redden and the veins in his neck would throb. I would then take pity on him and run to call my mother, who was a full Rusashke [ed. note: Russian woman]. She grew up in Kishinev near Katzapes, (Russian merchant who sold pigs and pork) and had therefore spoken Russian fluently. Neighbors and relatives would be envious and when they had to speak to a fool, they would come to her for help. But until my mother came to help, I saw how he suffered, unfortunately, from his not knowing how to talk. The sad picture of my father's helplessness made an impression on me, particularly when the tax collector (not the man from Yampol but the official one) in the company of two garadavoyen (policemen) would come to collect the taxes, usually when there was no money in our pockets - and he ordered the saboteurs to remove the samovar, the Shabbos candlesticks, and the like. My father, bless his memory, wanted to avoid the humiliation and took to pleading with the chump, as times were hard, no livelihood, not here etc. But go talk, with the tongue in Exile. My father would stand with his hat half in his hand and half on his head because of his head being uncovered, with his tongue floundering between half goyish (Kokhlotsky [ed. note: local dialect around Khokhol in S. Russia - also offensive ref. to Ukrainians]) and half Volechish [ed. note: lang. spoken around Walachia, Romania] (which he spoke quite well. But how to use such common talk for the official?) At the same time, I would think, is it not enough, that you rip us apart with your taxes when there is not even subsistence here, tormenting us in a foreign ignoble tongue. How easy it would have been, I thought, to argue things out in Yiddish, all the more so concerning such matters as subsistence, struggling, etc. - and the Yiddish language came to mind. Because of this, Yiddish, our mother-tongue, the language of our people, became dear to me, and I saw in it a partial solution, a help in social and public relations, in real life. From there a step further, that education for young and old is necessary for communication of a nation, for us in Yiddish, and for other people in their minority languages.
Later, when the Romanians had taken Bessarabia and began implementing language autonomy for minorities, I was delegated, with the Kishinev Culture-League and with one Ukrainian teacher, to go to Bucharest to demand from the education minister what was due to keep the promise of minority languages in the schools.
Today I acknowledge my sins: after graduating from the educational courses in Grodna, I came to the city of Elizavetgrad to a girls' school, where they taught half in Hebrew and half in Yiddish. I had the support of teachers' counsel and a somewhat more progressive liberal administration, as opposed to the chief assembly and rabbi, Vladimir Tyomkin, to replace the Hebrew classes with Yiddish. Successes mounted from the Yiddish opposition. The children's compositions in Yiddish developed quite a reputation, and the same V. Tyomkin, may his memory be blessed, subsequently advised the teachers from cheder (Jewish religious school) to take the example of their Yiddishist colleagues and make changes.
But forgive me, respected reader, I was getting off the path from Orheyev, therefore:
After my finishing the graduate teachers' courses at the first - Hebrew-Russian - ethnic teachers' institute, where I had, incidentally, together with a small group of Yiddishists led an intense fight for Yiddish, I was appointed as teacher in the Orheyev Talmud-Torah, where they taught boys and girls in separate classes. I finished morning lectures around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Then the young men would have Pentateuch study classes, where Mendel Naychin, of blessed memory, and I held forth, from which I derived no particular pleasure, and I taught Yiddish and Hebrew with a first class of almost eighty children!
Dear Avrum Barsutsky, may he rest in peace, worked in the school's management.
Although today I am very far from the ideological ties that connected us, (Hershel Chayim Maier - the furrier's son, thinking of the aforementioned Zionist matters) it brings back those pleasant memories of my visits to the 'relatively' wealthy home of dear Avrum Barsutsky and his wife Fania, both devoted Zionists and Hebrew speakers.
Their attractive house had a porch with chairs in front. The big rooms were nicely furnished. In the front room stood a big brown table with a glass cabinet of the same color and a couch, which had also served as a bed for the charming boy with dark hair, the famous Zionist Chayim Grinberg, of blessed memory, during his visits to Orheyev. Off the parlor hall, in the adjacent room, young people from Zionist and also from opposite Bundist camps would crowd in to devour Zionist theories of Sheynkin, Mosenzan, etc. and the opposing arguments from debaters like Yosel Suslik, etc.
The Barsutsky house was therefore a real Jewish meeting place (with no police interference) from which I, like the other members of the Safa Brura Society, derived intellectual satisfaction.
I also now remember with gratitude that home of my then spirituality. Holiday festivities, where one could really - around Simhath Torah - have a small glass from dear Avrum's delicious old wine, served with a generous hand, not only for worldly reasons.
Regrettably, the Jewish assistant Barsutsky, whose farm businesses fell into a miserable state, was crushed in Odessa by the people speaking about the awakening new way of life.
I should add, to keep things straight, that our Orheyev also had a small part in this new World Order. When I again enjoyed the hospitality of the aforementioned Zionist circles, as a frequent visitor I would, not without envy, observe what was happening on the other side by the Bund.
The young workers and employees, whom I had very much wanted to see on our side and did not know how to reach - I even tried to get them at least as Labor Zionists - used to gather by Yankel Stolyar in The Teahouse down from Talner Shul. Their director was my yeshivah-mate, Hertz Gilishensky, the crooked Governor, as the city bosses had crowned him, to fit his physical imperfections. I would sometimes drop into the so-called inn where the air was thick with cigar smoke and steam, sounding like a boiling kettle. Sometimes a celebrity from Kishinev would come, like the very charming brunette Susi Fikhman or Nechame, a strong speaker and skillful debater. Also a guest from time to time was the Masavik Yankel Kavval from Rezina (a Yiskravitz [ed. note: member of the Iskra communist org]). One time this Yankel, in a Zionist assembly in the Shnayders' Shul, grabbed the Torah-reading platform and began hammering about class struggle on the Jewish street, which the Zionists, according to him, had disrupted. Through the window of the women's shul, someone had scattered proclamations against Zionism and self-rule. The crowd began to run and jump through the window. This Bundist chutzpah had been brewing for some time, to hold a meeting which had been called for the Zionists.
On the other hand, in October 1905 they held off capture. The street belonged to the people. The shaken czarist regime was forced to make concessions to the revolutionary movement, which they had quickly suppressed while at the same time fomenting the revolutionary tide. A demonstration with the Red flag had marched through the Lithuanian street to the small synagogue. Doors and gates of the tailors' and shoemakers' small Hasidic houses of prayer stood wide open. Young people, in holiday clothes, hurried into the line, adults following at a slower pace. They were so crowded into the synagogue's wide court that you couldn't get through. On their shoulders the demonstrators had thrown Yankel Krasner - then a Bundist, who would come holidays or as a delegate from his hometown - and when he made a fiery speech, I began to understand the praise I had heard about him as a burning agitator.
The ongoing tragic events and pogroms against Jews, when the czarist dynasty incited the Black Hundreds against the Jewish workers, had slowed the revolutionary movement and called for defense and self-protection.
Orheyev had also raised defense forces, in which there could also be counted non-Jewish workers who understood the cause. And Kastia Cossack, who was said to be the organizer of the Orheyev-Kishinev gang, was left holding the bag. As after the terrible Kishinev pogroms of 1903, and thus also in 1905 in our town, thanks to the combat-readiness of the Freedom-Force, we were protected from becoming, God forbid, a copy of the Kishinev massacre of Jews.
The czarist regime had made of Russia a prison of people and had conducted pogroms but could not withstand the struggle for freedom on the part of all people, when in 1917 they acquired the power of weapons. The czarist regime was destroyed, and the power from capitalism proceeded to crash.
In that summer my wife and our tiny child left for Orheyev from my workplace in Elizavetgrad in the country, and I stayed over vacation with the remaining teachers and intellectuals - conducting political education, I read in Odeskaya Novosti (Odessa News) that in Orheyev a pogrom was already in its second day. I left everything and everyone and traveled to Orheyev. I was sure, that I would not find a thing standing with a two-day pogrom. But driving over the bridge, I saw all the houses were untouched. I mean: the Jew killing had not yet reached here. But also the higher streets were not damaged. Reading the news in the respectable and trustworthy newspaper, I learned as follows: in the town were soldiers, households and families who had left the front and were on their way home. Among them were influential people with Menshevik [ed. note: Bolshevik adversaries] and Bolshevik aspirations. The last, more conscientious and responsible, were afraid that the local wine source, from which the soldiers would indulge, would cause total drunkenness, and so that unrest would not break out, they decreed - using influence and force - to let out the wine from the wine cellars, in order to prevent a pogrom. That was how the reactionary divisions from revolutionary Russia would spread incendiary information with the purpose of exploiting the sinister views of the ignorant masses.
Actually it is appropriate to record the heroic deeds and fathers of the progressive worker-youth in Orheyev. This was in the fateful struggle between the revolutionary and capitalist divisions from Bessarabia. Our Orheyev Fisia ( or Pisia), a son of Yankel and Rivka Levinson - the eminent community leader, particularly for children's institutions - took a job at the top of the revolutionary army. A second, Moyshe Gilishensky, was condemned, in his refusal, by the reactionary Romanian-Bessarabian might - to a death sentence. Although he offered his services, incognito, between the borders of Romanian Bessarabia and revolutionary Russia. We need also to be reminded of Yosel Fleshler - Shprintza's - dear Moyshe Fleshler, Chana Abramovitz, and also, those having with youthful ardor thrown themselves into the arms of the liberating revolution and heroically bearing the torture rack of the ruling clique.
Under the fiery speech of the struggle for a better order you were destroyed, my shtetl, and beyond that were destroyed our dear brothers.
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The street and the house had no attractive scenery. However, they did possess warmth and childhood joy. Eight children grew up and were educated in this warmth, four sons, two daughters, and two of our cousins who were orphaned.
My father, of blessed memory, worked in agriculture and business. He leased a plot of land in a village near the city. The villagers would work the field for a low salary. He himself would supervise the workers to ensure that they did not steal vegetables. However, only rarely did agriculture provide a sufficient livelihood for the ten-person family. He also did business with Arbshike (fishing rods), but this business was also only rarely successful.
His partner in supporting the family was my mother of blessed memory. She would get up at dawn to prepare the meal for the children. She sent them to cheder, and immediately went down to the cellar. She purchased all types of vegetables and fruits from the farmers and sold them to anyone who wanted. Aside from this, she would obtain fine, kosher butter, white cheese, Katshkobel and Kash (types of cheese) from the Jews who were dairymen and keepers of sheep. Everyone who wanted such things would turn to the cellar that was known as the bashke of Esther the Pole, and would enjoy tasty food.
My first visit to the cheder of Reb Leibele is an experience that is never erased from my mind. One bright morning, Zalman Tekel the belfer (cheder assistant) came to us, took me on his back and brought me to the cheder on Litvisher Street. The street was covered with puddles and mud for most of the year, and at times it was impossible to cross the road by foot, but rather only by wagon. What did Tekel do? He took two or three children on his shoulders and brought them to the cheder.
When I was brought to the cheder of Reb Leibele, I saw children by the long table, of my age or older. The Rebbe was waving a strap at them and issuing threats through the cheder. Sounds that I did not understand traveled through the air. Everything was boring and strange to me. One day, he started teaching me the Alef Beit (ed. note: the alphabet).
The students were mainly from poor, working families. Some were also of the middle class. It was easy to discern the class differences from the meals that the students brought with them, or that their parents sent them at noontime. The children of the poor would bring dry bread with the head or tail of a salted fish, and at times a bit of halvah. The children of the more wealthy families would bring a warm meal and two Kopecks with which to purchase some sweets. Despite these differences, the relationship between the children in the cheder was friendly.
We had a great festivity on the day of the march for Kriat Shma. On that day, the Rebbe and Zalman the Belfer wore their Sabbath clothing. They asked us to organize ourselves in rows of five, with both of them beside us. We marched through the streets toward the house of the midwife, proud and happy. I recall how Baba grandmother Tzeviya the midwife gave us sweets with such happiness. The day of the march and the image of Baba Tzeviya are deeply etched in my memory.
I reached the age of six years, and came to the level of studying Chumash. Then my parents transferred me to the modern cheder of my uncle Matityahu the teacher. There, the students were mainly from among the wealthy. My uncle Reb Matityahu set a goal for himself of introducing innovations in teaching in accordance with the spirit of the times. Aside from traditional learning, he invited teachers for general studies. Many of his students who took government exams continued on in the public school. About 1908-1912 he set up a modern school in partnership with Baruch Shalom Naychin, Yosef Pagis and Pini Gelbrukh. This was on Alexander Street, in a large dwelling of four classes. Many of the students later continued their studies at the university.
In the years before the First World War, there was an improvement in the development of Orheyev. New buildings were built for civic and regional institutions on Alexander and Gogol streets. Two Gymnasiums (ed. note: high schools) were set up for girls and boys. The main roads and sidewalks were paved. A movie theater was opened. The road to Kishinev was paved. Many people tore down the original walls of their stores on Torgovia Street, and set up fine display walls and large viewing windows in their place, as befits a large city. All of these attracted the residents of the area to the central city. Its business expanded and economic institutions were founded that benefited the city.
The world war broke out in August of 1914. The army draft frightened the community. Many families were left without means of livelihood. The anti-Semitic persecutions in the army added to the suffering of the families of the draftees. I remember a characteristic episode of that spirit: Reb Meir Kira visited his estate one day. One of his Christian workers asked him what is being heard from the front. Reb Meir answered him Partea noastra câºtigã (It seems to be that we are winning). The worker reported on Reb Meir to the chief policeman of the village, claiming that Reb Meir said Porcul nostru câºtigã (Our pig is winning). Reb Meir was immediately arrested and turned over to the heads of the gendarmes. There, they tortured him for a long period of time. Finally, the chief of the gendarmes received a large bribe, and Reb Meir was freed, broken and crushed from embarrassment and suffering. He died shortly thereafter.
In February 1917, the Russian revolution proclaimed: freedom, brotherhood and equality for everyone. Our city as well arose from its lowliness. The Jewish population began to set up communal organization on democratic foundations. The left wing parties, mainly the Bund, saw themselves as most appropriate to conduct the matters of the workers. However, nationalistic feelings and tendencies also took over the community. Inflammatory activities could be seen in all factions. The elections for the Utshereditielnia Soborania (The Founding Meeting) approached. There were meetings and debates. Life was turbulent. At that time, the well-known lawyer from Peterburg, and a fine speaker, Alexander Goldstein, came to us to conduct publicity for Zionist List number 9. The meeting took place in the Zemskaya Operava hall. Representatives from all sections filled up the large hall. Goldstein enchanted the audience with his fine abilities. When he finished, the shoemaker Chayim Gildin, who was sent to organize the workers and employees for the elections, ascended the podium. With cutting, fiery words, he advocated for national autonomy in the motherland of Russia, and against the Zionist option. Both of them left a deep impression upon the large audience. They both described the rising sun with great ability, one in the Land of Israel and the other in Russia that was freed from the yoke of Czarism freedom, brotherhood, and equality would pervade in wide Russia and our portion will be equal with that of the other nationalities in the country. However, the new reality contradicted the vision very quickly. The dark days of October 1917 arrived. Army battalions returning from the front passed through, causing disturbances in our city along with others, and cast a pall of fear upon the Jews.
At the end of December 1917, the Romanian army invaded Bessarabia, including Orheyev. The appearance of the invaders instilled fear upon the city, particularly upon the youth. Many fled across the Dneister. However, in Russia there was a great chaos, and a civil war. Those who fled returned to Orheyev, and once again fell upon persecution and tribulation from the Romanians. Imprisonment and bloody beatings were regular occurrences during those days. Many of the youth left the city and immigrated to America. With hopes for a free life, I myself also joined the stream of immigrants.
From Yiddish by M. R.
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However, a worry crossed his mind. From where would he be able to provide his wife with the sums necessary for preparing for the holiday? Indeed, he has lots of friends. They would certainly honor him with visits. If his salary is not sufficient to meet the regular expenditures, how much more so would it be deficient for entertaining guests? It is indeed impossible to arrange even one party with such a dismal salary. To all the spirits!, he uttered, There are people born to fortune! For example, there was his old friend Mr. Mishkov, the head of the civic police. How fortunate of a person was he. In addition to his regular salary, other sums of money flow into his pocket without effort. As the guardian of order in the city, he was responsible also to ensure that the Jewish workers or shopkeepers would not Heaven forbid violate the Sunday or holiday rest. Apparently, on every day of rest or holiday, Mr. Mishkov had to go through the streets and the marketplace to ensure the observance of the day of rest. However, the head of the police did not behave thus. Due to his great courtesy, he restrained himself from bothering the merchants of the city. They, as a token of thanks to the benefactor, would give Mr. Mishkov all of his heart's desire. They would give him presents for himself, his wife and his children, such as textiles and shoes throughout the year. When the holiday arrived, they would surely give him everything that he needed for his house: food, fine wines, etc. Mr. Mishkov certainly has no worries for the holiday! Not so I, said Mr. Popesko in his heart. I have to find an additional source of income no matter what!. He recalled something. Yoska his faithful friend, visited him and advised him something indeed certainly a bright idea! You will get benefit from this without hesitation, he pressed the button. Panush, the head of the detectives, entered. Mr. Popesko got worked up, and turned to Panush angrily: Listen, lad! Matters between us are not okay! I have received word that secret groups of criminal Yids are conducting Communist activities by mouth and in print. They are issuing proclamations and interfering with the security of the state. You and your officials are not standing on your guard. You are not imprisoning the criminals. The matter will reach the ears of the central government, and I will be punished because of your negligence. Panush attempted to prove that all of the suspects had already been in jail for some time. However, Mr. Popesko was not assuaged. He demanded immediate serious activities to expose all of the Yid Communists to the Sigurnatza, whatever will be. Of course, Panush had no choice but to listen to the commands of the chief and go out on the hunt The task was carried out with simplicity. Panush and his people went out at night like hungry wolves searching for prey, and snatched any young man who returned home late at night. They conducted inquisitions until they finally decided to turn him over the secret police for additional deeper questioning.
Woe unto any person who was snatched and turned over to the care of the Sigurnatza. On the first night, he was beaten indiscriminately. On the second night they used more convincing methods: scorching the feet, and other cruel tortures until the prisoner fainted. This cruel treatment lasted for at least three nights. All efforts by the parents to save the prisoner from torture did not succeed, until Yoska the friend appeared at the parents' house and offered his assistance. It was known in the city that Yoska, was able to influence the Poretz with a sum of money. Woe to the parents who were lacking in means. They went into debt in order to pay Yoska the required sum. The sums that Yoska received from several incidents were sufficient to convince the head of the secret police about the innocence of those under inquisition. After due protocol, the prisoners were sent home, downtrodden and oppressed in body and soul. And the head of the secret police and his family had a merry Christmas
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Progress Report for Adapting APASS Data Releases for the Calibration of Harvard Plates
Edward J. Los
Harvard College Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 8, 2011; received November 21, 2011; revised January 31, 2012; accepted January 31, 2012
The Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) has scanned over 19,000 plates and developed a pipeline to calibrate these plates using existing photometric catalogues. This paper presents preliminary results from the use of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) catalogue releases DR1, DR2, and DR3 for DASCH plate calibration. In the optimum magnitude 10–12 range of the DASCH patrol plates, the median light curve RMS with APASS calibration is 0.10–0.12 magnitude, an improvement from the 0.1–0.15 magnitude median light curve RMS with GSC 2.2.3 calibration.