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If you're one of the many tax-procrastinating thrill seekers who waited until the last minute to get cracking, there's a pretty good chance you spent most of that time cursing TurboTax's powers that be. It might have even been enough to make you yearn for a simpler time, a time when we weren't dependent on the capricious interent for our tax-filing needs. But this video detailing the various online tax prep packages of 1991 should put an end to any of that nonsense.
This episode of the fantastic and unintentionally hilarious Computer Chronicles helps you get your feet wet in the exciting, high-tech world of IRS e-filing. Sure, these programs essentially looked exactly the same as the paper IRS forms—but now they were on a screen. And purple. This was still a vast improvement, though, since moving to a computer meant that calculations were at least done for you. So go ahead and take a look at the tax filing of yore and be glad it's not you. Unless you still haven't finished your taxes, in which case, er, probably best to keep at that. [Mental Floss]

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Fit: Runs large
Went on cruise, used them for dancing. They were absolutely great, especially near the pool where the floor was slippery. Very comfortable and very attractive.
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Fit: True to size
The sneakers have a good fit and good arch support. They also look terrific!
Fit: Runs very large
I am a Ballet teacher who owns a ballet school and love having dance sneakers as my teaching shoes. They are very supportive while one can still demonstrate ballet fully in them which means one has to point the foot fully. The sizing recommendation is very far off on the website! Beside the shoe is almost falling off it also fits on the feet in a way that it is impossible to point.( The front part is way too long due to the sizing) Bloch or Discount dance please change the sizing recommendation on your website!!!! After I discovered that my size 8 feet does not need at all a size 9 shoe, I have heard from other professional dancers and teachers that this problem constantly happens to them also. Seems like people would size 8 need a size 8 or maximum an 8.5 shoe. Now I have to deal with returning 3 different pair of shoes, all Bloch, after I spent considerable amount of time to try to figure out how to convert regular shoe size. Could it be made that it just would be called the same size as street shoes? Sansa for example does that and it works completely fine. I don't think I can afford the time to just keep testing out sizes, this should be a simple task, so all 3 shoes are just going back. Frustrating!!!!!
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Age: 40 to 49
Have had these in past and were wonderful but since they changed dance spot to different material they don't slide like they did before at all.
Got these as a Christmas gift for my daughter in New Jersey and she absolutely loved them. Fit perfectly and she is already for her next Zumba class. So happy to get her something that she really loves.
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I bought a pair 3 years ago for when I practiced at home and when I taught classes and wanted something that didn't restrict my dancing. I wear them at least 5 hours/week.
I love these shoes, they're very light weight, durable, and comfortable. My only negatives about the shoes are they don't have much arch support and it's impossible to do pointe in them. I wear a women's size 8 in street shoes and bought a size 8.5 in these. They are snug, but not too tight (I like my toe to go to the end). The laces are very long, but my solution has been to double knot them and tuck the laces into the shoes.
Age: 19-21
I love these sneakers. I wear for zumba & have lots of foot problems. It is very hard to find shoes that provide adequate metatarsal support. These are very lightweight & comfy. They do run small. Luckily, I had read reviews & ordered a 9 1/2 (I wear a 8 1/2 in most street shoes). I probably would have been ok sizing up another 1/2. If you like room in your shoes I would size up 1-1 1/2 sizes. I don't know about durability because I have not had them long but plan on buying another pair.
Age: 40-49
The sole material is changed and not in a good way. You no longer have the hard pivot spot that made this shoe so wonderful. Gone! Replaced with rubber substitute that interferes with turning. The white and the black soles have changed and are now a poor substitute for what was a great shoe. I tried and returned two pair.
I now own two pairs of these great dancing shoes. I wear them for Hip Hop dancing and I love them. I workout 7 to 8 hours a week, so I need a good durable, comfortable shoe and this is it. I have it in the Silver and the Multi-color blue and red. I ordered a 1/2 size larger for both of them and that is perfect. You will be VERY PLEASED. Thinking about ordering another pair soon in a Purple.
I've worn the Bloch Boost for the past few years but decided to try something new since I found the Boost support to be a little than ideal due to the mesh upper. I've also almost rolled my ankle a few times.
I tried these because they looked lower profile and had fun colors for Zumba. The fit was very different than the Boost. I ordered the right Bloch size but the shoe material is different. They ended up feeling bulky through the laces/width but short since the leather toe accents interfere with how your toe fits into the toe box. I have a "normal" foot.
Like another poster said, the shoe laces are super long! I have to triple tie so I don't add to my slip risk. Part of the problem maybe be the width bulk which means I have to tie them really tight to feel supported.
These shoes are slippery because the spin spot is plastic! It also clicks a bit when you walk on wood dance floors. Leaping and quick lateral moves feel a little scary (esp when you've had knee reconstruction) despite the rubberized sections of the sole. I've worn them outside a few times hoping the plastic will rough up a little but I haven't noticed a change.
These also feel pretty flat. To address the overall big and flat feel, I inserted a old pair of Powerstep shoe inserts. That makes them wearable. I might have returned them but the night I tried them in a class they ended up with some wear marks in the plastic area.
I'm not sure about durability since i've only had them a month. The plastic/vinyl materials don't seem as solid as the leather/mesh Bloch Boost but only time will tell.
Pros? They are cute and I've had compliments. They are VERY light. The plastic spin insert is slippery BUT my painful patella issues have improved noticeably which is a major bonus for me. I'll keep trying to make them work just for that reason.
They could be great shoes if Bloch did a little tweaking to improve the overall fit.
I bought these for two reasons: to wear to Zumba and to practice clogging. The spin spot is TOO slippery for Zumba though! There is no grip to it at all and roughing them up on asphalt didn't help. I was sliding all over the floor. However, that does make it kind of perfect to practice clogging/power tap. So I will happily continue to use these to practice clogging, but I won't try wearing them to Zumba - I got Ryka shoes instead. For some reason the laces on these are crazy long - I am debating between just chopping them or buying shorter ones. They are very comfy, though, and I followed the size recommendations of going up 1.5 sizes. I wear a size 8 and the 9.5 fit perfectly.
Age: 22-29
For a split sole shoe there is not really any arch support. They seem too big and not true to size. I love the color combination but the materials seem rather cheap. I'll probably send them back and order a different brand. Disappointment'
We purchased these dance sneakers for our daughter who takes Irish dance lessons. We wanted a shoe that she could use in the house to practice her hard shoe dances. This shoe fits well, is comfortable and does not mark the hardwood floors. It definitely runs small. She wears a child's 1.5 (equivalent to a 3.5 adult), and we bought a 5 adult for her in these. They fit perfectly.
Bloch shoes are GREAT! However, you really have to be careful when selecting the correct size and style that best suits your needs. I have Bloch Boost DRT (pink & royal) in a 1.5 size larger than my regular shoe size and they work just fine. When I ordered the same size in this shoe, it was a little short. Also, this shoe was a little snug for my comfort. I like to wear cushioned socks, which probably contributed to fit. Although the "wave" didn't work for me, they worked great for my friend. Another concern is if you have flat feet like I do, this really isn't the shoe for you. There just wasn't enough arch support for me. I will be sticking to the Boost from now on. P.S. I didn't have to return since my friend got the same size. She bought my pair too.
I had to return the shoes because they were way too small. I followed the directions and orderer 1/2 size larger and they were not going to fit. Had to send back and pay way too much postage. yours being quite small.
Very disappointed that they didn't fit won't order again unless I am sure they will fit and you have no way of assuring me of this.
I asked if you had forms of the bottom of the shoes to measure?????would like to try again but do not want to take the chance, sorry for the negative feedback but this is the truth.
I feel that WITHOUT any socks, it feel ok. With any kind of socks or tights, it feel rather tight. Still, great shoes and very sleek!
My street shoe size is a 9 1/2 wide, so I ordered a 10 in these shoes. I was happy with the fit because I could tell they would stretch out and work with my feet. These shoes are solid and comfortable, while still being very flexible. I ordered them in black and will probably be ordering more colors. These shoes are worth the price.
I recommend this dance sneaker to anyone who does any kind of physical dancing. I love my first pair that I am buying a second. I have had many complements and people ask where I have bought them. I bought inserts for extra support because I wear them for Zumba, being an instructor. The sneakers have comfort and as opposed to the other review, do not slip on the wooden floor.
Fit: Runs small
I got these for Zumba and I love them. I use them on wood floors and have no problem. No more sore knees after these shoes! I love them
Age: 30-39
I ordered these for my entire dance team. My girls love them and they think they are very easy and comfortable to dance in. The gym floor they practice on is a bit sticky and the dancers have an easy time turning in them. They also love the purple color. We ordered a full size bigger than the street shoe and they fit great.
I followed the instruction to order 1/2 size larger and the shoes are too small. The soles also seem too slick for use on wood floors, so overall I'm not very happy with them
This is my 2nd pair of Blochs. The first pair I bought in a dance store and wore them out. I use the shoes for Zumba which i am addicted tooo. I love Purple and when i saw the purple wave i had to get them. I bought them a size bigger after i read the previous review , they fit perfectley Great product and they are great for Zumba esp for wood floors.
As a Jazzercise instructor, I have tried many dancesneakers. I've been a devotee of the Evolution by Bloch for several years, but I thought I'd try the Wave for a change. Not only do they look cool, but I taught a class in them the very first time I put them on. That was risky, but the shoes proved to be perfect for teaching. They are supportive and flexible. I recommend that you size up 1 to 1 1/2 sizes from your street shoe, e.g. I take a 6 in a street shoe; in the Wave I need a 7.5. I'm going to order another pair in another color combo.
Shoe is a little snug. Was wondering if the material will Stretch a little after wearing? All my other dance shoes seem to mold around my foot after wear. Was wondering if these do the same. Thanks!
Thank you for your inquiry! As with most shoes, these should stretch slightly, with time.- DDS Customer Service (05/07/2019)
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The "Wave" split-sole sneaker is meant to worn and used on a dance floor. We can not Guarantee the durability if you are using the item outside or in a grassy area. - DDS Customer Service (08/31/2018)
This is a Unisex shoe, but it is fit for women. Men need to order 2 to 2 1/2 sizes larger than their street shoe size.- DDS Customer Service (10/16/2013)
I know my size for the Boost, but I want to get a pair of these (Bloch Wave) too. Is the fit the same? (sizing and width) Thanks!
The fit is different from the boost to the wave. The boost recommends (for women) ordering 1-1.5 sizes larger than street shoe and (for men) 3 sizes larger than street shoe size. In comparison, the wave recommends for women to order same to .5 size larger or for men to order 2-2.5 sizes larger. For the new shoe though we do not recommend sizing off of an alternate dance shoe but off of your regular street shoe size. The width should be relatively the same.- DDS Customer Service (07/16/2013)
The solid structured sole is the same.- DDS Customer Service (04/05/2013)
This shoe is designed for dancing, with the split sole design and offers support for dancing, should be ok for just walking around however it does have a different feel since its a split sole not a full sole design as most walking sneakers.- DDS Customer Service (11/20/2012)
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It might have been bad news for Democrats that hot-button social issues have burst forth in the run-up to the midterm elections.
A federal judge's ruling Wednesday overturning the California gay marriage ban moves the issue one step closer to a possible showdown at the Supreme Court. On immigration, a judge's ruling last week striking down parts of Arizona's tough new anti-illegal-immigration law also fuels the energies of conservatives. Talk is also growing that it's time to rethink the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees American citizenship to those born in the United States.
But the Nov. 2 midterms are already dominated by one overarching issue – the economy – that is energizing Republicans, so it's not clear that the news on gay marriage will make the political environment much worse for Democrats.
"I do think the biggest issues in the country are spending, debt, Washington takeovers, and now we're going to have a raging debate in September over whether or not it's appropriate to raise taxes in the middle of a recession," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) said at a Monitor breakfast Thursday, when asked whether he now expects congressional action on gay marriage. "So I think those are the issues that will be in the forefront of the fall campaign."
The longer term is a different matter. Gay marriage is growing in acceptance among the American public, and efforts to crack down on immigrants and remove birthright citizenship alienate Hispanic voters, who are a growing force in American politics. So Democrats could win in the long run. But for now, the issues work against them.
Of course, the calculus varies from state to state. In California, where the Proposition 8 anti-gay-marriage referendum was just overturned by federal judge Vaughn Walker, residents now appear to favor gay marriage by a slim majority. A poll taken last month by the Public Religion Research Institute shows 51 percent of Californians supporting same-sex marriage and 46 percent in opposition. That reverses the result of Prop. 8, which Californians passed in 2008, by a vote of 52 percent to 48 percent.
The principals in California's hot Senate and governor's races reacted immediately to Judge Walker's ruling. Democrats Jerry Brown, who is running to return to the governor's seat, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is locked in a tough reelection race, both praised the decision. The Republicans were a little more equivocal. Meg Whitman, the GOP nominee for governor, repeated her support for Prop. 8, but she has also asserted regularly that she supports civil unions. Senate GOP nominee Carly Fiorina stated her support for Prop. 8 but also highlighted the role of courts.
"The people of California spoke clearly on this issue at the ballot box in 2008," Ms. Fiorina said Wednesday, according the Associated Press. "That decision is being challenged through our court system and while I don't agree with the judge's ruling today, this is one in what will be a multistep legal process."
President Obama, too, is trying to thread the needle on an issue that makes some Democrats uncomfortable. He says he opposes gay marriage in favor of civil unions, but he also opposes Prop. 8, calling it "divisive and discriminatory" through a spokesman.


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The Best Pumpkin Muffins, which are by Isa Chandra... so THAT'S why they are to die for- I have never known her to create a disappointing recipe. I did make a few slight adaptions.
- Instead of 1/2 cup vegetable oil, I used 1/4 of cup melted coconut oil and 1/4 cup of apple sauce.
- Instead of soy milk, I used almond milk.
I have made several vegan pumpkin muffin recipes over the last few years and these are by far the best.
Make these in celebration of the new season!
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It's been another solid year for new releases, hundreds of bands have released new albums in 2007 and it's been very hard to keep up. I can't buy everything and the money I put aside for my music fix has to be spent wisely. Unfortunately, I've had the misfortune of spending my hard earned cash on some really bad albums. So here is my list of the 5 Worst Albums of 2007:
Absolutely the worst album I bought this year! I am a big Manowar fan and I have been since the early '80s but this tests my loyalty. One look at the deluxe packaging and everything looked promising, the band really put a solid visual package together for the fans. I wasn't big into translating the whole booklet but it gave me something to do while I listened. Unfortunately, the music was long and boring. Concept albums are hit or miss, for every OPERATION: MINDCRIME there are many subpar efforts. Even though the concept falls in line with the Manowar line of thinking, it's hard to follow. How many orchestral passages does one album need? How many sound effects? Half the albums was instrumentals and narratives, for an album over an hour long, that's a complete waste of time! The other half of the album was proper songs but even then they were too over the top and that's saying something because everything Manowar does is over the top. Even the accompanying DVD (available on the limited edition) didn't help.
What could you really expect from Vixen in 2007 anyway? Somehow, the nostalgia of my youth and the $9.99 price tag got the better of me and I bought this the day it came out. My big problem with this was that it just didn't sound like Vixen. All the members are different except for guitarist Jan Kuehnemund and the mix is awful. Maybe if Janet Gardner was still on vocals then LIVE & LEARN could have escaped this list but the record would still need better production and better songs. Oh well, you live and you learn (pun intended)!
At least I knew going in that this wouldn't be a Rock 'n' Roll album, that takes some of the pain away! This album was a must for me because I am a KISS diehard but I didn't get value for my dollar. Overall, the music isn't bad but the vocals are…..he's not Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett no matter how hard he wants to be. Knowing this album would be mellow and light with no Rock, I knew what I was getting.
This is not an Ozzy album. This is a Zakk Wylde/Black Label Society album. Don't believe me? Spin this CD once and compare it to any BLS album…..you get the idea. It's obvious that Ozzy is out of ideas and he needs as much help writing as he does from ProTools with his vocals. Obviously, Zakk Wylde is the driving force behind Ozzy's music even though the writing credits say different. Ozzy's vocals are enhanced by studio trickery more than ever and the overall packaging of the first pressing leaves a lot to be desired, even with the code for two free Ozzfest tickets. Ozzy had the opportunity to make a real kick ass record and he didn't. As I wrote in the review: "…..it's (the album) decent but it doesn't blow me away. And I expect to be blown away by Ozzy."
You wait 9 years and release this? I think the five songs on BRING'EM BACH ALIVE (1999) are much better than these songs and having Axl Rose as a guest star on three songs doesn't make it any better. So why did I buy it? Simple…..hope. I had hope that Bach would make a good solo record, especially considering he had plenty of time to write good songs. I think my biggest disappointment here is the vocals, they are not good. Sebastian Bach has been considered to have one of the better voices from the '80s and he just doesn't show it. If the vocals were better, I would have kept it out of the Worst 5. I have yet to properly review this album but I'm definitely done listening to it.


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Breanna Edelstein '14 (left) shares shots with Ericka Dupervil '14 as they create a video for the 45-minute Film Festival in Tom Haines's class.
Journalism has gone online, and the way we read, view, and understand news has transformed. Even the old "who, what, where, why, when, and how" has a different dynamic. Today, the reader enters the news realm as though ordering from an à la carte menu, choosing among a tweet, blog, slideshow, video, or article.
Tom Haines, who teaches Multimedia Storytelling this semester, thinks that this era is a heyday for journalists. While working at the Boston Globe from 2002 to 2009, Haines saw firsthand the many business challenges that the Internet posed to the traditional newspaper model. But he's also seen the powerful potential of producing journalism for digital platforms as the Globe and other news organizations have evolved.
"Telling stories, reporting, checking facts, and having that work ethic, curiosity, and empathy — that's still the same," says Haines.
Now on Video!
Shannon Reville '14 created this video about UNH student Kevin Ennis '15
Jake Deschuiteneer '14
A veteran journalist, Haines has written for the Boston Globe, The Atlantic.com, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and The Big Bend Sentinel, to mention a few. He has been named Travel Journalist of the Year in North America three times and his work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing.
Today, notes Haines, a key skill for journalists is the ability to create two-to three-minute video documentaries along with being able to write, tweet, and take great photos.
"For example, you might have a story about land use, but it could run with a short video about a farmer and what's changed on his land," says Haines. "Making those character-driven videos is what Multimedia Storytelling is about."
Practice, Practice
On this particular day, the class will participate in a 45-minute Film Festival. Haines designed this fast-moving assignment to circumvent beginner's butterflies. As students amble into the Donald Murray Journalism Lab they've got that wary but happy look — what is Haines up to today?
Since this course began in January, each student has learned to use an iPod Touch, a Nikon D5100 DSLR (digital single lens reflex camera), and to edit video with iMovie and sound with Garageband. They post their work on their own accounts in YouTube and Vimeo.
On the white board, Haines quickly writes out today's class schedule: 20 minutes to find a story and report, 20 minutes to edit, and 5 minutes to polish. And then, says Haines, "It's Showtime!"
Tom Haines, assistant professor of English, discusses camera techniques and the conversations that lead to great interviews.
Five teams assemble quickly and hurry out the door. They disappear like frosty clouds of breathe. Who knows where they've gone on this quiet, mid-morning campus? Whose story will they report on in the next 20 minutes?
Most of the teams return on the dot, park themselves in front of big computer screens, and begin to edit with one eye on the clock. After the editing frenzy is over, Haines asks, "Who's up?"
Annah Todd '14 and Craig Harriman '14 run a piece on WUNH. Clearly, they have a vision.
"You could go back and spend more time with them," says Haines. "Get more B roll. Show the station in action. Include a few more characters. It has potential. A lot of important work happens before the camera is even turned on. But hey, we're just jamming this through the food processor."
Next it's a HoCo egg extravaganza by Sam Burch '15 and Steven Galante '15.
"So you took it literally! You've got to break some eggs to make an omelet," says Haines.
The varying rhythms of edits and shots are fun plus Burch and Galante speeded up the sequences.
"I like that you got behind the counter," says Haines. "Access. It's all about access and showing the viewer something new."
Other videos include a waitress at Young's Restaurant, a true-life tour of the food court, and a chat with the front desk person at the Hamel Rec Center.
"When you work in a news room, there'll be a day when your editor says, 'Hey go get me a story, any story," says Haines. "You've got to embrace the awkwardness."
Skill Sets
Perhaps the biggest challenge for students is to translate writing skills into visual and audio skills. Haines maps it out: research, interviewing/filming, rough draft/rough cut, and creating a final draft/final edit.
With each class, Haines changes it up: On another day, students analyze a professionally made video frame by frame to study shot composition and a range of film techniques.
To provide a window into the profession, Haines brings in guest speakers including UNH videographer Scott Ripley, award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib of the UNH Institute on Disability, and former Boston Globe colleagues, Essdras Suarez, a Pulitzer Prize photographer, and Dina Rudick, photographer, filmmaker, and videographer.
By April, Haines's students will produce a final two-member team project and a solo project. By May, many will graduate.
Journalism students are a tough-minded bunch, and "The Plan" as some refer to it, is necessarily hazy. They have to hit the job market. All are clear that "being able to create and edit video is a required skill." But they also have a new openness critical to good journalism. As one student wrote: "Now, I walk down the sidewalk and I hear individual layers: someone's iPhone ringing, bus engines, leaves rustling, people talking, the slap of feet." These students are ready to discover the world.


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EDMONOTON - Kevin Lowe laughs off the cloak 'n' dagger suggestion that he brought over junior defenceman Ryan Murray for his Canadian world championship team so he could test-drive the 18-year-old for the Edmonton Oilers before the June draft.
Makes for a juicy story, but it's not true. He says people are jumping to conclusions. He may be the Oilers president of hockey operations, but he's not butting in and telling the Oilers scouts what kid to take in Pittsburgh on June 22.
Lowe's a Murray fan, like most people, though. Murray played the exhibition against the Swiss, he suited up against the Slovaks since P.K. Subban (knee) and Mark Methot (groin) are out for the tournament. He also dressed against the USA on Saturday, even though Kyle Quincey is being airlifted in as NHL help. That would give them eight defencemen, but Lowe said Murray might still dress against France on Monday with Canada going with 12 forwards with Alex Burrows (concussion) out.
"I know how tough this tournament is. I came here in 1982 when I was 23 years old, a third or fourth year pro, and I struggled. To have an 18-year-old doing what Ryan's doing is impressive," said Lowe, in a phone call from Helsinki, Finland.
"But I'm not going to tell our scouts what to do. They see a lot more games than I do. They're finishing up their scouting meetings in Palm Springs and I'm not getting on the phone to ask them who they like best," said Lowe.
While one NHL coach who has a fairly good team watched Murray and said "he could play in our top four right now," Lowe and chief scout Stu MacGregor won't be swayed by how a player looks today.
"What we're looking for is the best player 10 years from now," said Lowe.
If that's Murray, great. If that's explosive winger Nail Yakupov, fine. Heck, maybe Morgan Rielly (great acceleration), Griffin Reinhart (big body, big shot) and Matt Dumba (exciting puck-mover who likes to hit) might be better in the long run that Murray. He has drawn comparisons from Mark Howe to Glen Wesley to, yes, K. Lowe by some scouting bibles with the he's-going-to-be-a-captain-in-the-NHL-someday tag.
As he said, Lowe didn't bring Murray over from the Everett Silvertips to get a close-up look before the draft. They couldn't find Canadian defencemen playing in Europe to fill out the roster for exhibition games like they usually do, so somebody suggested Murray.
And why not? The Canadians playing in Europe aren't going to play in the NHL next year, but Murray could. While Murray's name is all over the map in various scouting lists (No. 2
in Central Scouting, No. 4 on Kyle Woodlief's Red Line Report, and not in the top 10 in Craig's List; former NHLer Craig Button's look at the best kids), he's a talent.
"He's an effortless skater. He's got very good hockey sense. There was one play against the Slovaks where the puck was along the boards and he started to go for it, then said no. It wasn't like he panicked. He just stepped back and accepted the rush. You could see a lot of scouts noticing that," said Lowe.
Lowe certainly knows the law of averages at draft time. You pick a forward in the top three in the draft, and it's about 99-per-cent certain they'll be a top-six player, a star or a superstar give or take the odd Alexander Svitov (Tampa Bay Lightning, third overall, 2001). He had the size, also a mean streak, but not the drive and has been playing back in Russia since 2007. That's radioman Bob Stauffer's continuous comparable and he's bang on.
You pick a defenceman in the top-five and they normally take longer to make their mark because the learning curve is steeper for blue-liners. Drew Doughty stepped right in, but Zach Bogosian, for instance, has taken a lot longer. Alex Pietrangelo was taken fifth in 2008, but didn't make the Blues until 2010. This past season he finished in the top six in Norris voting, he was that good.
"That's always a balancing act (forwards vs. defencemen)," admits Lowe.
"But it's tough for any 18 year old to play in the NHL, no matter what position."
Who's Hot: For those people who said Ilya Kovalchuk only cared about the money, have you watched him in the playoffs for the New Jersey Devils?
Who's Not: St. Louis Blues winger T.J. Oshie hasn't scored a goal in eight playoff games.
Why did Habs trade McDonagh to N. Y.?
There's been much talk in Montreal of beefing up the Canadiens pro-scouting department now that Marc Bergevin has arrived as the ever-smiling general manager.
Despite the dour Pierre Gauthier, the former GM, nobody can say Montreal's amateur scouts have failed in their duties in the last few years.
The 2007 draft brought the Habs Ryan McDonagh, Max Pacioretty and P.K. Subban in the first 43 picks. How is that for a trifecta?
Oh yeah, McDonagh isn't in Montreal anymore. He played 53 minutes for the New York Rangers in that triple overtime game against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday. Seeing McDonagh take that wallop from Matt Hendricks, the one that almost ripped his head from his shoulders, then see him play another 30 or so shifts as if the hit were, as the Monty Python actors used to say is "just a flesh wound," is to see a true warrior in action.
The trade of McDonagh to the Rangers to get Scott Gomez came on Bob Gainey's watch when he was the GM. This should tarnish Gainey's reputation for knowing who can play in the NHL and who can't, but several sources say Gauthier's fingerprints were really all over this one.
"Bob's daughter had died (swept overboard at sea while working on a training ship) before this and he was letting Pierre (his confidant) do a lot of the work. Pierre didn't like McDonagh, for some reason. Saw him play in the world juniors and didn't like him. The scouts loved McDonagh, though. When he was traded, they couldn't believe it," said a source close to the scene.
"At least make up your mind on McDonagh after he's played a few seasons."
Instead, McDonagh was dealt on June 30, 2009 while he was still attending the University of Wisconsin, after he had finished his junior year there. He had just turned 20.
"The scouts didn't think he was going to put up a lot of points, but he was big (213 pounds) and he competed," said the source.
How would he look as Subban's safety blanket in Montreal today? McDonagh, Subban, Josh Gorges and a healthy Andrei Markov on defence? Pretty good.
McDonagh for Gomez, who might well be buried in the minors next season so the Habs can save his $7.35 million US salary-cap hit, has to go down as one of the most one-sided trades in the last few years.
Bergevin, while too nice of a guy to shovel dirt on his predecessors, is probably grinding his teeth over that one.
Gomez has gone from 59 points to 38 points to 11 points in his three years in Montreal. He won two Stanley Cup rings in New Jersey and has 99 points in 140 career playoff games, but he looks done. How can that be? He's only 32. Ray Whitney of the Phoenix Coyotes turn 40 on Tuesday. Teemu Selanne of the Anaheim Ducks turns 42 in July.
Money key issue in Smyth-Oilers talks
Edmonton Oilers winger Ryan Smyth hoped to have a new contract before the season ended and while there is a two-year deal being discussed, money is the issue.
How much is he worth?
"He wants to remain in Edmonton and they know that," said Smyth's agent Don Meehan.
Nobody thinks this will get to July 1 when Smyth can be an unrestricted free agent. However, this has gone on longer than it should have.
An annual salary that's comparable to Smyth, based on his age (36) and his points (46) this pasts season, might be one-time Oiler Jason Arnott, who is 37.
Arnott had a one-year contract with the St. Louis Blues for 2. 5-million, signing as an unrestricted free agent last summer. He has career points in 1,244 NHL games.
Smyth has 806 points in 1,151 games. He likely would be paid for what he can still do on the ice — he may be a third-line winger next season, with power-play time — and some goodwill for playing 852 games as an Oiler.
If not Arnott, then how about winger Milan Hejduk, 36, who signed a one-year $2.6 million deal with the Colorado Avalanche this past season? Hejduk only had 37 points, nine fewer than Smyth, however. There's also talk he may retire.
Smyth, who may not want to take less than $3 million, played all 82 games in 2011-12. He started with a bang, getting 30 points in his first 38 games, but had just 16 in his last 44.
Days of long deals may soon be over
Everybody expects the Vancouver Canucks will have to eat somebody's bad contract when they trade goalie Roberto Luongo, who'll make $6.7 million the next six years as part of that huge 12-year contract.
"I'm sure they'll have to take back somebody else's misstep or mistake, but I don't think he'll get traded for (Rick) DiPietro," one longtime agent said jokingly.
The days of giving staggering 10-, 11-, 12-year deals to players, so teams can keep the average annual cap hit down, likely won't be in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, with the contract running out on Sept. 15.
"I'm pro player and I'm out there to do the best job I can for them, but who can predict the future 10 years down the road? You're lucky if you can do it next season," said the agent.
Agents love hitting the home run, but when one guy gets $70 or $80 million over 10 years or so, then maybe another of his clients can't get a job three or four years down the road because those dollars have been taken out of play.
"The thing that bugs me about the CBA is you can't game-proof anything. The owners were chirping about how they won the war in the last CBA (2004-05), and two years into it they're crying the blues because they're getting killed.
"If there's one thing about the CBA, if I tried to look at it from the owners side, where I'd be more sympathetic, it's with the small-market teams having to spend to the salary-cap floor which has got so high ($44 million). But when the owners say the players are getting too much money, then run it like a fricking business," said the veteran agent.
Today's NHL game all about defence
Cam Neely has watched enough hockey to realize that scoring goals today is like trying to walk across broken glass. It's agony.
Today's game is all defence, which is no fun for players with offensive gifts.
The Bruins Bruins president and Hall of Famer even wonders if the Wayne Gretzky-Mark Messier Edmonton Oilers would have even found a way to score more than two a night in today's goal-stingy era.
"It's coached so differently now. What surprised me when I first started travelling with the team in 2007 was the coaches pulling out their laptops to dissect the game as soon as they got onto the plane.
"It's a lot easier to coach not getting scored on, than it is to coach how to score a goal. A team like Edmonton ... teams and coaching staffs are so good at trying out how to shut down a team. I think it would be hard to create that kind of offence again," said Neely.
This 'n' that
• While former Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish waits for the next coaching gig, he's likely watch NHL playoff games, such as the Philadelphia Flyers-New Jersey Devils series, and focus on rookie forward Matt Read. "Craig was working for us last year (scouting colleges) and the Flyers and us were chasing Read (Bemidji State in Minnesota). I guess they offered more dollars," said Kevin Lowe, president of hockey operations for the Oilers.
• The Boston Bruins figure on bringing in Niagara IceDogs Dougie Hamilton, the best CHL junior defenceman this season, to their back end in the fall. He had 72 points in 2011-12 in only 50 games. Joe Corvo won't be back, which opens up a spot.
• The Oilers aren't saying much, but they can't be happy with the low fan turnout in Oklahoma City for the playoffs. They had a pitiful 1,922 fans in a 13,000-seat arena for Game 4 of the first-round AHL playoff series against the Houston Aeros, and 2,833 for the first game of Round 2 against the San Antonio Rampage. Those are AJHL crowds, folks. I get it that people stayed home to watch the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder playing the Mavericks in Dallas in the playoffs, but they must have known they'd be bucking the NBA when they decided to go there from Springfield, Mass.
• Norm Maciver, the former Oilers defenceman who helped Dave Manson as his defensive partner, has a shot at the assistant GM job with the Chicago Blackhawks after Marc Bergevin took the GM job in Montreal. M aciver, who got his name on the Stanley Cup with Chicago in 2010, is the Blackhawks director of player personnel. If it's not Maciver, then Mark Bernard, who looks after their minor-league affiliate, might get the job.
• Doug MacLean, never at a loss for words, figured Nashville Predators' Andrei Kostitsyn and Alex Radulov could have found other work in Music City if they couldn't play after being told to suit in the press box after missing curfew last week. "They could be in a yellow suit, picking up those catfish (thrown onto the ice). If they do a good job, maybe they can practise with their team," said the Rogers Sportsnet commentator.
• The Detroit Red Wings loved Darren McCarty's pugnaciousness as the fighter on their Grind Line with Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby. They're definitely looking to find a reasonable facsimile of McCarty when the free-agent marketplace opens on July 1. They need some sandpaper in the bottom six. The best UFA out there is Rangers' Brandon Prust, who can play, fight and disturb. He's represented by local agent Ritch Winter, who funnels lots of clients to the Wings. Jordin Tootoo, Travis Moen, Cody McLeod, Tom Kostopoulos, Adam Burish and Greg Campbell are also unrestricted. Heck, Tootoo might look good on the fourth line with the Oilers next year as an energy guy.
• As much as goalie Brian Elliott has come unhinged in the St. Louis Blues-L.A. Kings' series, giving up 11 goals on 71 shots, his defence hasn't done him any favours. Barret Jackman, Carlo Colaiacovo and Kevin Shattenkirk have really struggled and that's three/quarters of their top 5 defencemen, with Alex Pietrangelo the other and he's hurting.
• Marc Pouliot has been playing for the Phoenix Coyotes this round against the Nashville Predators, but he'll likely come out of the lineup when Lauri Korpikoski (slight injury) returns. Phoenix misses Korpikoski (37 points) and his speed and head coach Dave Tippett is a big fan.
• Watching Blues forward Jamie Langenbrunner fight the much younger Mike Richards in Game 3 in L.A. was tough to see. Langenbrunner, who has won two Stanley Cups, with the Dallas Stars and New Jersey Devils, and has played 1,105 NHL games, is on his last legs. He turns 37 in July.
• Goalie Cristobal Huet, who was banished to the Swiss League two years ago by the Chicago Blackhawks to save salary-cap room, just finished a banner season in Fribourg, playing 39 games, and sporting a 1.99 goals-against average. He's dying to get back to the NHL. Huet was making $5.625 million with the Blackhawks, but he'd gladly play for $750,000 as a No. 2, according to sources. The Kings, who say they want a veteran backup if they're moving Jonathan Bernier this summer, might do well to consider Huet, who has a 2.46 GAA in 272 NHL games.
• Owen Sillinger, the son of Mike Sillinger, the Oilers head of player development, was picked in the 10th round of the WHL bantam draft by the Vancouver Giants. Dave Babych's son, Cal, went to the Calgary Hitmen in Round 4. The selection of Matt Barzal (Burnaby Winter Club) at No. 1 overall gave the Vancouver area five of the last 10 first picks. Oilers farmhand Colten Teubert (2005), Gilbert Brule (2002), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2008) and Ryan Kerr (2004) are the others. Jansen Harkins, the second pick in Thursday's draft, is the son of Todd Harkins, who played for the Calgary Flames. Edmonton Oil Kings winger Stephane Legault, who turned 19 last month, slipped through last year's NHL draft with no takers. But nobody would be surprised if some team doesn't have him on their radar now. "I think he's better at this age than Fernando Pisani," said one NHL scout.
• Steve Bartlet, Doug Weight's former agent, represents feisty Oil Kings centre Henrik Samuelsson, who has to be on the Oilers' second-round screen along with teammate Mitch Moroz. They pick 32nd overall. Moroz skates better and can fight; Samuelsson is six-foot-three and has better offensive skill.
• When you watch Portland Winterhawks' antagonistic Brad Ross, a second-round draft of the Toronto Maple Leafs, it's not hard to see who he plays like. "He's Darcy Tucker," said a longtime NHL amateur scout. Ross had 69 points and 171 penalty minutes this past season.
• Petr Nedved, now 40, is playing for the Czech Republic in the world hockey championship in Finland and Sweden.
Matty's Short Shifts:
• I know people are looking at Alex Ovechkin's hit on Dan Girardi Saturday as a possible suspension, but he hit him with a shoulder. He didn't target his head and he had just lost the puck. And Ovechkin always leaves his feet. I agree with former Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau, who says that Ovie, who only played 15 minutes and not a second after Mike Green's slapper/winner with six minutes left, was protecting himself. He may get fined, but that's about it.
• How big was that needle full of cortisone they shoved into Ilya Kovalchuk's herniated back disk so he could skate and be the best player on the ice for the New Jersey Devils in Game 3 against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday? Resting up, they said, between games? Hmmm. No bad smell with Kovy's treatment. I remember when Glen Sather (wink, wink) had that awful smelling DMSO (dimenthyl sulfoxide) that they used on horses in the mid-1980s to treat Andy Moog's knees (ligaments) and Grant Fuhr's shoulder.
• If Calgary Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff suddenly comes available after the June NHL entry draft, do you think Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke goes hard for him because he only has two years left ($5 million, then $1.5 million) on his contract. Then there's Roberto Luongo, who makes way more but is 2-1/2 years younger than Kiprusoff. With Luongo, Burke could unload a contract on the Vancouver Canucks that he doesn't want. Not so with Kipper. This would be a hockey deal.
• Has there been a better undrafted player in the last half-dozen years than Dan Girardi, the league's top defensive blue-liner? He's an absolute warrior, who has missed just two of 410 games for the New York Rangers over the last five years. In his draft year, he had a ruptured spleen and teams took a pass on him. But when he later won a Memorial Cup with the London Knights, alongside Corey Perry (Anaheim Ducks), and played with a broken hand for almost the entire playoffs, refusing to get it X-rayed, that was the tipoff how tough he was.
• In the next CBA, you can bet the players will want an independent judge or panel of three to hear appeals. You're fighting city hall when you appeal a suspension to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. Just ask Raffi Torres of the Phoenix Coyotes. It's the same in the NFL, where commissioner Roger Goodall handed out stiff suspensions to the New Orleans Saints for their bounty program, then sat in judgment as the appeal voice. I thought Torres deserved to get whacked for the hit on Marian Hossa, but I'm not sure he deserved 25 games. He should have received something like what Matt Cooke got (17 games) for his sneaky hit on McDonagh.
• The Oilers were sniffing around Roman Cervenka, the Czech forward the Flames just signed for $3.375 million for one year, a small base salary and lots of bonuses (which he may not achieve), even prior to the Vancouver Olympics. They liked Cervenka's offensive numbers, but were a little leery about his size (five-foot-11, 185 pounds) back then. The Toronto Maple Leafs were also in the hunt for Cervenka two years ago. I suspect unrestricted free agent Olli Jokinen's time with the Calgary Flames is over now that Cervenka's coming aboard. Jokinen just had abdominal surgery.
• I agree wholeheartedly with his eminence Red Fisher of the Montreal Gazette that the Habs can't get lured into any absurd 10-to-12-year deal for their top gun goalie Carey Price as the Canucks did with Roberto Luongo, who is basically now available. Give Price $6 million a year for five years. That's dollars and enough term. That's the right Price.
• Oil Kings head coach Derek Laxdal had Capitals centre Jay Beagle, who is their prime defensive-zone faceoff guy, for eight games in 2006-07 in Boise, Idaho. Beagle, who had left school at the University of Anchorage and hooked up with the Steelhawks, is proving that every dog has its day. "I tried to get Dallas to sign Jay (when he was a free agent)," said Laxdal, who coached the Stars' East Coast Hockey League affiliate back in those days.
He said It
"Slats looks more like Dame Judi Dench every day. Looking forward to Ms. Dench in The Glen Sather Story with Dick Van Dyke as John Muckler."
— Witty commentator Ray Ferraro tweeting as he watched Sather sitting in the press box during three overtime Ranger-Capitals game.
By the numbers
6 Goals by the St. Louis Blues against Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick this season in six games, including the regular season.
12 The Detroit Red Wings have an even dozen players in the world hockey championship.
Marquee Matchups:
Sunday: Can the Devils put the Flyers in a 3-1 hole? Time for Claude Giroux to step up again, or is he hurt?
Sunday: Will the Kings put the Blues out of their misery, winning four straight?


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This technique allows the user to transfer chakra to another person. For example, Tsunade and Katsuyu used this technique in tandem during Pain's invasion of Konoha, with Tsunade first transferring her healing chakra to Katsuyu, and then Katsuyu herself transferring it to the wounded villagers. Tsunade used again this technique during the five Kage's fight against Madara Uchiha to give Ōnoki some of her chakra so that he could use a massive Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique to defeat Madara's wood clones.
Zetsu's Spore Technique creates clones, which feed on chakra to grow are also able to transfer chakra to people they come in contact with. Dan Katō was able to use this technique as a spirit in Tsunade's consciousness to restore her chakra and Yin Seal.
The Magaki Group uses this technique in a different way. First Nangō sends his chakra to Benten and Chūshin, and then both of them send it along with its own to Akaboshi, greatly enhancing the power of his techniques.
The tailed beasts are also all able to freely share their chakra with whomever they choose, and as Kurama has noted, is a less complicated process for them, than it is for humans.


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Translation of Travnik chapter
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[Pages 162-165]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic
Translated by Osnat Hazan
Edited by Sandra Krisch
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A town located in the Lasva river valley, at the foot of Mount Vlasic, in central Bosnia. An important transportation junction connecting Bosnia with Dalmatia and enabling the flow of goods through Adriatic seaports.
The town was under the rule of the Ottoman Turks until 1878, when it was conquered by Austria. Since 1918 the town has been part of Yugoslavia. Most of the residents are Croats, with Muslim and Serb minorities. From the middle of the 17th century until the middle of the 19th century, the town was an administrative center of the Bosnian wilayet (provinces) and housed the residence of the Turkish vazir (governor).
Sephardic Jews arrived in Travnik at the end of the 17th century. These Jews had escaped from Sarajevo, which was mostly burned during the military campaign of Prince Eugene of Savoy.
The first Jews did not settle immediately. Jewish money-changers resided temporarily in the town before that, making money deals with the ruler and his dignitaries. From the middle of the 18th century there was a continuous Jewish community in the town. In his book Travnik's Chronicle, The Yugoslav writer and Nobel Prize winner, Ivo Andric, cites Davil, the French consul, who served in town at the beginning of the 19th century. In his opinion, the Jews were the most enlightened people among the local population. It is interesting to note that the consul established his residence in the house of the Jewish merchant Joseph Baruch.
Community Institutions
The first synagogue was built at the end of the 1860s, but it burned in one of the large fires that plagued the town and it was subsequently rebuilt. It should be noted that it was constructed by the Jews themselves, who built it between Mincha (the afternoon prayer) and Ma'ariv (the evening prayer). Construction of the esnoga or kal santo took three years. The women's gallery was called znogita, meaning the small synagogue, a name derived from the Portuguese esnoga.
Jews actually settled in Travnik before 1762, as indicated by old tombstones from that time at the Jewish cemetery at the Bojna site.
The first families that settled there, according to memory, were: Atias, Maestro, Altarac, Shalom, Gaon and Konforti.
At the beginning of the 19th century a serious blow occurred. A Jew who converted to Islam and became influential urged the authorities to destroy his people. That decree was retracted, thanks to the intervention of a Jew from Sarajevo, Raphael Levy, and the active help of Muslim notables, who released Rabbi Moshe Danon and ten other community leaders from their arrest. Also, a memorandum (mahzar) was written to the sultan in Kusta, which was published in our time. The informer himself was executed and the ruler, Rushdi Peha, was deposed. This happened in 1819, and many years later the event was still cited in prayers of thanksgiving.
Jewish Economy during Ottoman Rule
Travnik was a trade junction by the 18th century. Trade convoys passed through the town on their way south to the port town of Split. Another important trade route went to Trieste, to the northwest. The roads were paved and commerce was very active. There was a customs station in the town and, as was usual in those days, one could lease customs receipts in exchange for an annual fee. Indeed, most of the customs officers and appraisers were Jews.
Jewish merchants dealt with centers of commerce in Sarajevo, Split, Ragoza (Dubrovnik), Venice and Trieste. Imported goods included, among others: cotton and cotton fabrics, coffee, pepper and dried fruit. The Jews also dealt in the export of the area's agricultural products, such as wheat and barley, cheese (which was famous) and irrigated growth [?], and they sent their goods in convoys to Sarajevo and to Adriatic ports.
Until the arrival of the Ashkenazim, following the Austrian occupation, only Sephardic people lived in Travnik, most of them craftsmen, tinkers, shoemakers, carpenters, locksmiths, tailors, barbers, and goldsmiths; some were small merchants, such as brewers. Among the shoemakers, some specialized in sewing strong shoes for farmers, while Jewish tailors specialized in sewing special clothes for the rural population. The Jews excelled in two other typical local professions: ironing of the taboosh (also fez in the local dialect), also worn by Jews, and trading in and healing with medicinal herbs. The latter group specialized in collecting, processing, and selling medicinal herbs.
Until the arrival of modern medicine, those merchantspharmacistswere considered popular doctors and were recognized by the authorities. Among those healers (hecimi) were mentioned the names of Mordechai and Isaac Atias and Shlomo and David Abinun.
The synagogue, which as mentioned above was constructed by the Jews themselves, was in use until the Holocaust (it still stands today, abandoned and unused). Torah lessons were held beside the synagogue. All males studied from the age of four or five in the maldar (cheder). The object of the lessons was to impart knowledge in reading the sidur (prayer book) and machzor (holiday prayer book), understanding the portion of the week, and translating it to Ladino. Thanks to all this, the Sephardic Jews of Travnik managed, in spite of their small numbers, to fulfill the commandments and retain their uniqueness. They had a strong sense of belonging to the community and of mutual support. Hence this small community left its mark on the history of the Jews of Bosnia, even during the Ottoman era.
The Ezrat Dalim association (help for the poor) was established in 1902. At first, the association helped poor young women get married; later it also engaged in cultural activities, such as performing shows (Bar-Kochva, King Solomon, Shulamit, and others).
Austro-Hungarian Rule (1878-1918)
The occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Habsburg monarchy in 1878 brought far-reaching political, economic and social changes. The Jews of Travnik immediately perceived advantages implicit in those changes and thus succeeded in integrating themselves in the new situation: merchants and craftsmen who until then had functioned within a primitive economy found a wider arena for their skills and initiatives. Wholesalers broadened the scope of their activities, especially in the food products industry, exporting agricultural products and importing cotton and a wide range of manufactured goods. However, most merchants were limited to retail trade in a variety of goods, mostly industrial products, which started to appear in the market. Craftsmen also added newer and more efficient working methods, such as printing in color; one even invented a special padlock. When his patent application was refused, he immigrated to the United States and had great success there.
The Ashkenazim in Travnik
Until 1878 Ashkenazic Jews did not live in Travnik. With the establishment of the new regime, Ashkenazic Jews arrived from all over the empire. They occupied various positions in the government structure, such as judges, engineers, veterinarians and officers at high and middle levels. They had a substantial influence over the lifestyles of the veteran Jewish community. The new lifestyle, the desire for modernization, the German language, new social ideasthese all charmed the Sepharadim, especially the younger ones; within a short time relationships were established between the two communities, which were reflected in joint activity.
Lawyers and innkeepers were also among the first Ashkenazic Jews. Especially outstanding among the doctors were Dr. Leopold Glück and Dr. Bernard Zauderer, who came from Galicia and received honorary citizenship in the town in recognition of their work. It is also important to mention the hospital's directors, Dr. Zigmond Schweiger and Dr. Fischel Rosenzweig. Dr. Zauderer was also among the first Zionists in the area. He bought the shekel ha-zahav in exchange for half his wealth and collected donations on behalf of the Jewish National Fund.
The Jews dealt in most fields of commerce, especially in the commerce of wheat, leather, textiles, and jewels. According to one statistic, 20 of the 68 shops in town were owned by Jews.
During this period, a few Ashkenazic families settled in small settlements in the area of Travnik. They were experts in the management of industrial plants, especially sawmills, which were established then in a major wave. These Jews, who settled in Turbe, Vitez, Gornji Vakuf and Fojnice, belonged to the community of Travnik.
However, the Ashkenazic Jews were a temporaryif impressivephenomenon in the life of the community. After the collapse of the Austrian monarchy most of them left, and only Sephardic Jews remained in Travnik under the Yugoslavian monarchy.
Education and Zionism
As mentioned earlier, the education of Jewish children was limited to prayers and the Torah during the Ottoman period. With the opening of public schools during the Habsburg rule, Jewish children also started attending them. A few students completed their studies at the first gymnasium (secondary school) and continued in Europe's universities. Others made do with primary education and joined their parents in the shop or in the workshop.
For the first time, girls also started to attend school and some of them were even sent to boarding schools in Zagreb, Vienna, and Budapest.
In the field of religious studies, a turn for the better occurred with the arrival of the teacher and scholar Shabtai Jain. The new teacher, who came from Bulgaria, emphasized the study of the Hebrew language and the history of the Jewish people (see: Bitula).
Zionist activity also began during those days. With the arrival of William Nathan Rosenzweig in 1908, Ezrat Dalim (help for the poor) became a focus of social and Zionist activities. Jewish students who studied in Vienna and were organized there in the Bar Giora and Esperanza student associations established a youth association called Bar Giora. Adolf Banau (later a doctor at Kupat Holim in the district of Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Chaim Altaraz were among the founders of the new association. Those two groups worked in coordination: Ezrat Dalim developed a variety of social activities (a drama class, an orchestra of stringed instruments, a chorus) and Bar Giora, Zionist activities (Jewish National Fund, Shekel, etc.). The local Zionist branch was established in 1919 under the leadership of Abraham Solomon. In 1920, an association of Zionist girls named after Sara Aharonson was established. The chairwoman was Palomba Kalderon. During the 1920s there was a youth association named Degel Yehuda (flag of Judah), headed by Shlomo Abinun, Mordu and Danku Shalom. Klemi Altaraz and Tilda Konforti were also active in the association.
We will mention two more prominent persons during this period: one was the scholar Rabbi Abraham Abinun, a person of religious knowledge, who was subsequently chosen to be chief rabbi of Sarajevo. The other person, the teacher and writer Moshe D. Gaon, immigrated to Israel even before WWI and settled in Jerusalem, where he published his important book, The Jews of the East in Israel, as well as other texts.
During the Austrian rule, the Jews maintained normal relations both with the authorities and with the population.
The community was represented in the directorate of the town council by one representative among 11 council members, and it also sent a representative to the sabor (parliament). During the 1930s this representative was the merchant Shlomo Altarac. In Yugoslavian politics local Jews voted for the ruling parties, headed by the Serbian radical party, to the dissatisfaction of the Croats.
During WWI, which caused a paralysis in Zionist, cultural and social activities within the community of Travnik, many (Jews) were recruited, commerce was reduced, and an abrupt deterioration occurred in the material well-being of community members. The number of Jews declined and by the end of the war, at the end of Austro-Hungarian rule, when the Ashkenazim started to leave, Travnik's community was significantly reduced.
The Yugoslavian Monarchy (1918-1941)
The civil rights of the Jews were not harmed with the establishment of the new country, Yugoslavia, the kingdom of the Serbs, the Croats and the Slavs. However, Travnik's community gradually declined under the new economic and social circumstances. Young people who did not find jobs left the town and went to large urban centers (Sarajevo, Zagreb). Most of those with academic educations found no place to practice their skills in their hometown, and this hurt the work and level of the community.
The life of the community continued in the Sephardic tradition. At the end of the 19th century the scholar Abraham Avitan held the leadership position in the community and, during the 20th century, Isaac Baruch, nicknamed Dudu, Daniel Danon, Samuel Abinun, Shlomo Montiljo and finally (from 1929 until the Holocaust) the physician Dr. Joseph Konforti, who was the last chairman. The cantors were David Elkalay and Moshe Romano. At the head of the hevra kadisha (Jewish burial society) was Leon Y. Konforti; the gabbai (manager) of the synagogue was Ezra. Between the two world wars there was also bikur holim, (visiting the sick) managed by Meyer Schniterpel. Religiously, the Jews of Bogojno and Yajze were related to this community.
From the 1920s there was also an association of Jewish women, mostly for welfare purposes.Ashkenazic Jews integrated into the life of the community and there was neither difference nor conflict between them and the Sepharadim, as occurred in other mixed communities in Bosnia.
The position of the Jews in town was respectable. With the rise of Nazism in Europe, the Jews of Travnik, like others, experienced anti-semitism, perhaps for the first time. Internal changes in Yugoslavia in the 1930s and the open organization of nationalist Croats against the Yugoslavian monarchy manifested themselves in anti-semitic uprisings. Nevertheless during those years, the last before the Holocaust, from 1936 to 1941, Travnik's Jews built the Jewish Club (Jevrejski Klub), which became the center of social and Zionist activity in town. Despite a decline in numbers, activity in the Jewish Club increased.
The cultural life of the community was varied. It was rooted in Sephardic folklore, its heritage and customs. The righteous Y. Konforti and Moshe D.Gaon wrote sketches and plays, for example, La Hermoza Rahel (Beautiful Rachel), which were presented on holidays. At Purim it was customary to send a Purim gift and, in Ladino, platikos de Purim. These are but a few examples.
The Period of the Holocaust (April 1941-1945)
With the collapse of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and the establishment of the independent state of Croatia, the Croat Nazis Ustasha terrorized the Jews of Travnik with their well-known methods. The process of final extermination was rapid: forced labor, confiscations, the yellow patch, restrictions on movement, humiliations, and then began the physical annihilation. Within ten months, the community was wiped out. On October 20th, 1941, the first transport was sent to the concentration camps of Krushchicha*, Stara Gradishka, Jasenovac and Okucani. The second transport took place on January 25th, 1942 and the third on March 24th, 1942.
Only a few dozen of the Jews of Travnik survived: those who succeeded in escaping the area to reach the Italian occupation or to join the Partizans. Most of the Jewish fighters, Travnik natives, died in action. Outstanding among these was the revolutionary physician, Dr. Moni Levy, who achieved the rank of general in the army and was released.
The Jewish community of Travnik no longer exists. The property of the community, the synagogue, the building of the Jewish Club, as well as possessions and real estate belonging to murdered Jews, were nationalized by the new government established in Yugoslavia after the liberation in 1945. Torah scrolls and ritual objects ravaged by the Ustasha and deposited in the Jesuit seminar in Travnik were returned. These are situated in the community of Belgrade. Only the Jewish cemetery in Bojna survived as a memorial and testament to this community, which existed for more than 250 years. In 1979, a special monument was established by the citizens of the town. On the monument they wrote: For the Jews of Travnik, 19411945the citizens of Travnik.
*A village, 17 km from town, which belonged to the Gutmann family. In this village, a terrible detention camp was established by the end of August and beginning of September 1941. Jews and Serbs were transported there and left without food. Intervention attempts made on behalf of the town council with the authorities, including the Italians, were to no avail and at least 3,000 people, among them 2,000 Jews, met their deaths there.
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Bagpipe music--several compilations.
Can you tell us what this link represents and where it will take us? Many of us are kinda wary of unidentified, blind links on an internet discussion board.
Dude, I have that on the playlist! Along with "White and Nerdy" ...
Hey, I resemble that song!
So you were...First in your class here at MIT Got skills, you're a champion at D&D M.C. Escher, that's your favorite M.C. Keep my 40, you'll just have an Earl Grey tea your rims never spin, to the contrary I'll find that they're quite stationary All of your action figures are Cherry Stephen Hawking's in your library your MySpace page is all totally pimped out Got people beggin' for your top eight spaces Yo, you know pi to a thousand places Ain't got no grills but you still wear braces you order all of your sandwiches with mayonnaise you're a wiz at Minesweeper, you could play for days Once I've see your sweet moves, I'm gonna stay amazed Your fingers movin' so fast you'll set the place ablaze There's no killer app you haven't run (run) At Pascal, well You're number one (one) Do vector calculus just for fun You ain't got a gat, but you got a soddering gun (what?) Happy Days is your favorite theme song You could sure kick my butt in a game of ping pong you'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on you're fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon?
Hey can you link some recommendations for bagpipe recordings?
I'm listening to our dear Pirate's game...waiting for them to blow their slim lead, again.
Dont Eat the Yellow Snow by Frank Zappa
Anybody heard of Gogol Bordello? I love their song "Start Wearing Purple". Both the song and the lead singer were featured throughout the movie "Everything Is Illuminated" with Elijah Wood... Apparently it's Gypsy/Punk music (which caused a strong negative reaction from my Romanian gilrfriend, which in turn, prompted me to download it as a ringtone ). It's a really up-beat song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM
Lately Wagner. "Tannhauser," Lohengrin," "The Flying Dutchman..." Divine.
I just discovered a Lebanese gal name Maya Nasri (Hubbaaaa hubba!).
After 6 pages or so, no one has pointed out my future wife (it's nice to dream sometimes), Nancy Agram. And yes, she can definitely sing as well.
You mean, her?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ7Ns6UxyA
She reminds me of an arab version of Desi Slava (Bulgarian).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y5QlGRdBs
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It is definitely the only fair thing to do. Africa has consistently been jerked around by the "developed" world. Just because we don't understand their culture, so many westerners (in particular, Europeans) have decided they're inferior and worthy of "colonization". It's simply unacceptable, and relieving them of their debt so they can be on even footing with the rest of the world, so that they can at least have a CHANCE to improve things, is the right thing to do.ZAP
How'd you change the name of the topic? That's hilarious!ZAP
I've never done it, Savannah. I've never even seen it done before. Don't give me a hard time! ZAP
I must admit this thread has successfully confused the hell out of me.
HIJACK is so much fun when typed in full caps. Add an exclamation mark and hilarity ensues.HIJACK!


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I am not sure what I expected to be doing at this point in my career. I have been blessed to have been at the center of the changing, blossoming technology landscape of the last 20+ years. My earliest days were at an advertising agency called NW Ayer which gave me a broad perspective on Corporate America's practices, problems and possibilities for triumph. I then gracefully made my way into the tech stars of Corporate America itself with stints at AT&T, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Computer Associates. I also had the great good fortune of working at small innovative technology companies led by visionary innovative leaders. Two prime examples include Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO of Comodo and Jason Katz, CEO of Paltalk.
This unusual combination of corporate marketing experience coupled with the feet on the streets training born of working at tech startups, gave me a balanced perspective of how the marketing business is evolving in this technology driven world.
So here we are.
The marketing business is going through a fundamental shift that throws into question almost every tactical practice built over the last 20 years. And, amazingly, it seems that just as marketing becomes this new discipline that weaves creativity into an interactive user experience that is tech heavy – it's a perfect fit for my peculiar type of networking meets technology marketer experience.
This seems nothing short of extraordinary. Which is why I am all the more stunned at the work I am doing today. I had not planned on any such seismic move in marketing, so I certainly did not plan on launching a marketing tech venture.
But here I am.
My journey has been one of surprising excitement at the possibilities in marketing excellence that was simply not possible before. The vision of this venture, therefore, is to take advantage of these new trends to deliver a sustainable and productive "marketing machine" (a phrase I attribute to Melih) that can turn the tables on how marketing gets done.
In our vision, we don't approach monetization like Google or Facebook's who are about pushing more accurate marketing messages to consumers. We are looking to deliver a marketing platform that lets consumers decide what content they see, what ads they see, how their social networks are managed, how they conduct commerce, even how they communicate within the social networks. The organizing principle for this platform is not ad-driven monetization but oriented around Judy Consumer. Our vision is to create the kind of system that we want to live with for the next 10 years . In effect, we want to give Judy Consumer the tech power to create her own personal "Trust Web."
To the few friends we have shared our vision with – all have come to a similar conclusion – it is an ambitious (maybe too ambitious) vision. They are correct. But as I entered marketing in the 1980s most of marketing at first was human powered with marketing systems emerging later on.
And here we are – again.
This next generation collection of marketing technologies is rich in creativity but is not organized for sustainable marketing programs for brands. This is work that I, among others, are focused on – creating v1.0 systems to operationalize the business of social marketing.
We are all at just at the beginning of this journey and it's a journey I didn't expect to be taking at this point.
But here I am – and much to my surprise – I am having the time of my life.
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Paddy Hill kindergartners experienced how their blind classmate learns.
Wednesday was just like any other in Marilyn Thrall's kindergarten class at Paddy Hill — except for the TV cameras, reporters and extra teachers on hand to meet student Madison Bennett.
Madison, 5, soaked up the attention, showing everyone how well she draws and uses the Braille system to read and write. Madison is blind. Her classmates spent the morning learning about Braille and how blind people navigate the world. January is National Braille Awareness month.
The students have been curious about how Madison learns, said Thrall, and talk to Madison about how she reads and writes.
"They seem to know internally that she doesn't learn like they do," Thrall said. "They read her books with her and she reads books with them."
The kids heard a story about Louis Braille, who developed the writing and reading system for the blind, and did activities using Braille. The system uses raised dots for letters, numbers and words.
At her table, Madison dug through a container of Braille dots, rubbing them furiously. She asked her mom, Lori Bennett, to find her one that indicated a space.
"Is this a space?" mom asked daughter. Madison handled it thoughtfully.
"No," she sighed. "I'll find it for you."
Madison wasn't feeling well but wanted to make the trip to school to be with her friends. They help her when she's walking and isn't sure where she's going "so I don't bump into anything," Madison said.
Her daughter isn't treated any differently, said Lori Bennett. "It's such an everyday part of her. It's just kind of normal for them," she said. "Marilyn has done a great job teaching the kids that we're all different but we're all the same."
Indeed, Madison, who her mom called a "social butterfly," is one popular kid. A few, including MacKenzie Graus, 6, said they are best friends with her.
Madison showed her classmates how to arrange Braille letters on the boards. Zachary Fousse, 5, eagerly fingered the small, colorful blocks with raised dots. He placed them on his Braille board.
"Look it! I spelled my name!" he announced.
The students also tried a Braille writer, similar to a typewriter, that types Braille on paper. Thrall showed them how to type their names. She asked the kids what they noticed.
"On the paper, it's all bumpy," said Megan Pum, 5, touching the dots lightly.
Madison also tried a tool that makes Braille imprints on paper.
"MacKenzie!" she called out.
"What?" her friend replied, looking up.
"Watch this," Madison told her, happily banging out words, giggling the whole time.
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Until now, Larry David played the proverbial Fifth Beatle to the "Seinfeld" Fab Four: a driving, behind-the-scenes force, unseen (but not unheard – he provided the show's booming George Steinbrenner harangues).
With the new season of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which kicks off Sunday and centers around a fictitious "Seinfeld" reunion show, we'll finally get to see the co-creator interact with all of his old comic collaborators.
The inevitable collision of two interrelated shows about "nothing" – and populated by characters who are self-absorbed losers – offers the tantalizing promise of a win-win for the casts and fans.
For Jerry Seinfeld & Co., "Curb" provides the perfect cover for a reunion of sorts while avoiding the familiar routes of a mawkish clip show – or worse, a one-off special or TV movie bringing the old gang back for a new adventure, potentially marring the memories that will live on in syndication.
"Seinfeld" was never about learning lessons, group hugs, happy endings or other sitcom mainstays – "Curb" will give the cast a chance to sate an 11-year-old reunion jones while sneering at TV convention.
"It's the anti-reunion reunion, and I'd like to copyright that," Julia Louis-Dreyfus told Entertainment Weekly last month.
For David, he gets a strong story arc for his seventh season – the most promising premise since the brilliant Season Four, which traced his journey to Broadway for a disasterous starring turn in "The Producers."
Jason Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus figured in past "Curb" episodes, and Seinfeld made a solitary, soundless cameo – cringing and fleeing after watching David in "The Producers." But the sum is greater than the parts, raising hopes of some explosively funny moments.
Michael Richards' racist rant meltdown will be explored. Promos show sad-sack Marty Funkhouser (Bob Einstein) trying to tell a joke to a squirming Seinfeld. There's alway the danger that David and Alexander will morph into a Mega-Costanza that could destroy the world with a tidal wave of neuroses, if it only would move out of its parents' house.
David helped create the "Seinfeld" universe, but now the cast is entering his world, where there are no set rules – only the ones David makes up as he goes along. The shows are improvised, for the most part, and populated by stars playing variations on themselves (Ted Danson and Richard Lewis, to name a couple) and characters like Susie Greene (Susie Essman), who spews creative curse combinations at David.
It's a sign of how far "Curb" has come that the "Seinfeld" reunion is just one enticing subplot in a season set to tackle David's efforts to repair his broken (TV) marriage, and his ongoing relationship with the Black family.
This season, Larry David is getting what he no doubt variously wants, dreads and deserves: the chance to be the star of "nothing."
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Merck Hepatitis C Drug Shows Promise in Study; Abbott Updates Data
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A regimen containing an experimental Merck & Co. (MRK) drug suppressed the hepatitis C virus in most patients in a new clinical trial, and appears to be more potent than the company's Victrelis treatment.
The mid-stage study included the injectable drug interferon that Merck and its rivals hope to drop from future regimens. Merck now plans to conduct new studies of its drug, MK-5172, as part of a potential all-oral hepatitis C regimen that eliminates interferon, which can be difficult for patients to tolerate.
Merck is among a pack of drug companies--including Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) and Abbott Laboratories (ABT)--racing to tap what's expected to be a multibillion-dollar market for all-oral regimens. Current standard therapies, including Merck's Victrelis, are typically given with interferon.
Hepatitis C is a viral disease that attacks the liver, and is believed to afflict about 180 million people world-wide, with more than four million in the U.S., according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. At-risk groups include people who had blood transfusions before 1992, when a screening test for the virus was developed.
Merck is presenting clinical data for MK-5172 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston, which began Friday.
MK-5172 is a so-called protease inhibitor, the same class of drug as Victrelis, which went on sale last year and generated $387 million in sales for the first nine months of 2012. But MK-5172 is designed to be more potent and to carry a higher barrier to treatment resistance than Victrelis, said Eliav Barr, vice president of infectious diseases with Merck's research arm.
In a phase 2, or mid-stage, clinical trial of about 330 patients with hepatitis C, patients were given various dose levels of MK-5172 in combination with the drugs ribavirin and interferon for 12 weeks. One group of patients received Victrelis plus ribavirin and interferon--which is now a standard treatment.
The study found that 96% of patients who received the 100-milligram dose of MK-5172 had sustained virologic response 12 weeks after treatment ended, the highest response rate of the various treatment groups. Sustained virologic response is roughly equivalent to being virus-free or having nearly undetectable viral levels.
Higher doses of MK-5172 were associated with liver toxicities, said Dr. Barr.
Because the study contained interferon, additional studies are needed to test whether MK-5172 is efficacious without interferon.
Merck plans to conduct phase 2 studies of MK-5172 in combination with another experimental oral drug, MK-8742, plus ribavirin, which is also an oral drug. If testing goes well, Merck may consider removing ribavirin from the regimen and pursuing a combination of MK-5172 and MK-8742, he said. Ideally, they could be combined in a once-daily tablet.
"We're looking for something highly efficacious, short duration, well-tolerated and all-oral," he said.
Dr. Barr declined to provide a timeline for when Merck might be in a position to submit a new hepatitis C regimen for regulatory approval.
Analysts generally view Gilead as leading the all-oral hepatitis C race, with Abbott Labs and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) also still in the hunt. Bristol experienced a setback this summer when one of its hepatitis C compounds failed because of safety issues, but it has others in the pipeline. These companies are expected to present additional, updated data on their drugs at the AASLD meeting.
Abbott Labs reported some results for its hepatitis C drugs in October. Updated results show that a combination of three experimental Abbott drugs--ABT-450 combined with the boosting agent ritonavir, ABT-267 and ABT-333--plus ribavirin led to 12-week sustained virologic response rates of 97% in patients who hadn't received prior treatment, and 93% in patients who had received prior treatment.
In addition, a group of patients who received the Abbott drugs without ribavirin had a sustained virologic response rate of 87% at 12 weeks. These patients hadn't received prior treatment.
"We think the efficacy is a very exciting result to see," said Barry Bernstein, head of hepatitis C development at Abbott.
About 1% of patients discontinued study treatment due to adverse events, Abbott said.
Abbott has begun phase 3, or late-stage testing, of its hepatitis C regimen, with and without ribavirin.
The company expects it may secure regulatory approval for a regimen by early 2015 if further testing is positive.
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Ship 'n shore: Subtle colors heighten pleasure
The artistic statement Roy K. Patterson wrote to accompany his oil paintings tells you all you need to know about his work. The actual aesthetic and personal statement– the why-my-paintings-look-a-certain-way-and-all-about-me-as-an-artist part of the statement– comes at the very bottom, and is only a couple of lines long.
Patterson instead devotes the bulk of his statement to detailing the mid-Atlantic seafaring culture. Patterson's no-nonsense, information-dense prose all about ships and sailors reads like a cross between an encyclopedia entry and text from a museum brochure– a remnant, surely, of Patterson's past life as a philosophy and history professor.
Patterson really likes boats, which is very clear considering his paintings are packed with them. And his paintings are every bit as no-nonsense as his prose– workman-like renditions of the boating life with titles that sound like journal entry headings.
Something about the defiant verticality of sailboats on the water, an unrepentantly horizontal place, attracts Patterson. His paintings tend to frame his boats rather tightly, often cutting off the very tip of the mast, as if to suggest that these vessels are just too big to be fully captured in oil paints. (This particular compositional quirk also turns up in the few non-seafaring works on display, as with the pointed and truncated church steeple in "Congregational Church, Harpswell, Maine.")
Most boats appear in profile or straight on, all carefully placed line and detail, which are all marks of an enthusiast's eye. The painterly side to Patterson's work emerges in the color schemes, which do not strive to be realistic or fall into the most familiar sailboat painting clichés. In other words, no bleeding orange-red skies or swollen, billowing clouds over wave-cocked sailboats.
Patterson likes to work with complementary or adjacent shades– often blue, blue-purple, and green, giving his paintings a color-mood, a certain cast, which he likes to break up with streaks of mildly contrasting color. A salmon red turns up in both "Lobster Boats with Staysails" and "Seiners, Menemsha Harbor, Martha's Vineyard" doing just that. In the former, a long, thin strip of salmon-colored shoreline splits the blue sky above from the blue sea and blue-green ships below. The ribbons of salmon reappear in the latter on the underbellies of the herd of docked ships, once again splitting the scene horizontally.
It's a subtle touch– there are no broad or bold gestures here. Patterson's boating scenes are almost studiously unspectacular, and the pleasures his work offers are those of craftsmanship. Still, this is an exhibit without pretension– a rare, refreshing thing. And sometimes craftsmanship is enough.
Roy K. Patterson's "Ships and Shorelines," an exhibit of oil paintings, runs through November at the New Dominion Book Shop, 404 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 295-2552.


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Usually on Wednesdays, this: Welcome to Writerhead Wednesday, a weekly feature in which a brilliant, charming, remarkable author talks about her/his writerhead…a precious opportunity for looky-loos around the world to sneak into the creative noggins of talented writers and (ever so gently) muck about.
But today…
I'm prepping to speak at The Write Stuff Conference in Allentown, PA, this weekend, and I'm buried under:
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- handouts
- thumb drives
- travel reservations
- conference clothes (who the heck is going to iron my post-scrunched-up-in-a-suitcase conference clothes!?)
- business cards
- dance routines (well, not really, but that would be fun)
- & whatnot
In Allentown, I'll be yik-yakking about a couple of things I love to yik-yak about: "the geography of a novel" and "social media & writers." Can't wait! Raise your hand if you'll be in Allentown! (Am I the only one who can't say "Allentown" without putting on my best Billy Joel & belting out, "Well, we're living here in…"?)
In May, I'll be speaking at the 2012 Pennwriters Conference in Lancaster, PA, where I'll be giving my first "writerhead" workshop! Whoop! Whoop! So, so, so psyched about that.
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Once again, Congress has ignored the will of the people.
For weeks it has been obvious that millions of Americans are steadfastly opposed to CISPA, the so-called cybersecurity legislation passed by the House last night that will allow the government to surveil Americans and deny them Fourth Amendment protection while on the internet.
Congressional leaders and members have come up with all kinds of lame excuses in order to push the bill through, including the absurd claim made by the House Majority leader that CISPA will create jobs.
Our supposed "representatives" need to hear from you about their traitorous effort to subvert and undermine the Constitution.
Follow this link to Govtrack to see if your Congress critter voted for or against H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. If they did, let them know you will not sit idle and allow them to trash our constitutional rights.
Stories pointing out how CISPA destroys the Fourth Amendment – something the establishment media has all but ignored – need to go viral before the bill makes it to the Senate for a vote.
If the Senate is barraged with demands that CISPA be tossed before it can reach Obama's desk, we may still stand a chance of foiling this draconian police state effort.
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