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I use it all the time on my Windows Phone, sharing articles to email etc, great on a tiny screen with limited ways to send things, but on a PC with a mouse its fairly easy to copy / paste something already
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There's plenty of apps using it, you just need to know which ones.
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As a desktop user I have found no compelling reason to use Metro apps, especially given the inherent limitations. There are some worthwhile features, like the Share functionality, but they're not enough to make me put up with the usability issues and disruption to my productivity. I still despise the Charm Bar and the Switch List, which I frequently trigger accidentally during my typical workflow.
Have they fixed that ridiculous 'feature' to the fans, and 'bug' to us normal people, where the charms bar is still on the right of the main display even when you have another extended display to the right ?
Meaning you can no longer just throw your mouse to the top right, you have to carefully aim pixel perfect to get it to appear ?
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While I don't like the App Switch List at all either, I do like the Charm Bar, though devices is generally wasted.
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Part of the problem is that I am running multiple monitors. I have a 30" 2560x1600 display for my main monitor and a 42" 1080p display off to the right, which means that when I launch the Charm Bar and go to click an icon my mouse often disappears onto the other display and if I go too far then the Charm Bar disappears. It means I have to be relatively precise, unlike the Start Corner which is fine. I find the hot-corners quite irritating.
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Jealous of that 30" 2560x1600, want!
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Yeah, I love the amount of space I have to work on it - it's massive in comparison to my old 24" monitor. But that's another reason that I find Metro apps so constricting, as most apps aren't designed for monitors that big and are either filled with empty space or make everything appear larger - both are undesirable. Normally I snap two browser windows to each side of the monitor but you can't do that with Metro.


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(Australia 06 Feb 1915 – 16 Aug 1989)
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During his time in London as a young artist, Donald Friend was inspired to visit West Africa and see first-hand the tribal art that was influencing contemporary European artists such as Picasso and Braque. Travelling to Nigeria in 1938, he lived for a time at Ikerre in Ekiti province where, provided with a large house and servants in the compound of the Ogoga (ruler), Friend pursued his interest in the culture of the local Yoruba people. He drew, painted, observed their customs and way of life and recorded his impressions in a detailed manuscript that he intended for publication – but which was eventually abandoned. This is one of a number of drawings that he created to accompany that text. They illustrate a range of subjects from Yoruba artefacts or early brass heads, to Benin bronzes and contemporary wood-carvings incorporated into buildings.
Anne Gray, Art and Australia (Vol. 39, No. 3), 'Donald Friend in Nigeria', pg. 428-435, St Leonards, Mar 2002-May 2002, 432, 433. pg. 431 & 432 details influence and context of Friend's practice; pg. 435 describes the artist's Nigerian 'manuscript for which this drawing was intended as an illustration.
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A wall hanging, watercolours, drawings and oil painting by Donald Friend 1915-1989, Australian Galleries, Sydney, Paddington, 09 Mar 1992–28 Mar 1992


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Our first day here in Rapa Nui got off to a rough start. Mostly, because we were fighting the effects of serious jet lag and an acute hangover. Being that it took us over 30 hours to get to this isolated speck of volcanic rock, we felt that we had earned the right to celebrate. So, after we drank our way through our third 12-pack of Escudos we tapped into Marcus' duty free stash, a jumbo bottle of Vodka that was intended to last him the duration of the trip. It didn't make it through half of the first night.
Safe to say we were hammered drunk. And, in the process we scared the shit out of the two German foreign exchange students that are staying at the same guesthouse.
While completely inebriated, Freddy P, Marcus Hickman, Jesse Merle Jones, and Sean Moody decided to have an intense debate over who is more Hawaiian. Keep in mind, none of them have any Hawaiian blood and they are all as Haole as Nordic elfin. Yet, they decided to shout it out over their respective Hawaiianess based on the locations of their births. As it turns out, Merle and Moody, who are both as white as paper, were actually born in the islands. Meanwhile, Marcus and Freddy P, the two who could easily be mistaken as natives were born on the Mainland.
News Flash, North Shore super local Marcus Hickman and "Hawaiian" WCT Veteran Freddy P ARE BOTH HAOLE! Merle and Moody in their twisted drunken logic somehow felt they won the argument. And, you can only imagine the heckling that ensued. So, I'm sure our new friends, Zee Germans, after witnessing this debacle are going to return to Deutschland spreading the word that everyone from Hawaii is completely out of their minds.
Anyway, we we're all a bit groggy on our first morning. But, we rallied and got ourselves a sick little rental 4×4 truck and we we're off to explore the island. In the weeks leading to the trip, we had all been scouring the internet for information about the waves in Rapa Nui, trying to calculate the swell forecast with the limited information we found. Even though it was an educated guess at best, we were all in agreement that it looked like it was going to be pretty small the first day here. So, you can imagine our surprise when we drove to the southern side of the island and saw perfectly groomed corduroy lines and offshore plumes peppering the coast. The entire length of coastline that was pulling in the south swell was approximately the same length as the North Shore and amazingly there wasn't another soul around. There wasn't a single person surfing, there wasn't anyone else checking the waves, there wasn't anyone, anywhere.
We drove the length of the coast trying to get a feel for this new terrain. And, one of the first things we noticed is that even with a solid five feet of groundswell running, it looked as though the majority of the spots were just beginning to break. We all looked at each other with a nervous curiosity, and collectively asked, "Just how big does it need to be to break here?"
On our first pass of the coastline, we missed a little dirt turn-off. We took the unknown road, and as we crept over the hill our eyes became entranced by the six-foot right unloading in the distance. Could it be true? The last place we find just happens to be the diamond in the rough. This tucked away corner of the coast was pulling in every ounce of the swell. While the other breaks were burgering out, this right slab was jacking up and double in size.
However, on closer inspection, what seemed to be a blessing from the gods looked to be a cursed death trap from hell. For starters, the slab-right peeled over razor sharp sea-urchin reef that rapidly became exposed as the wave thundered in. And, there were occasional closeouts ready to slingshot you over the death-reef. Secondly, there was no plausible way to enter or exit the water in the near vicinity. Any right-minded person would have written the wave off as a mirage but Marcus, Freddy P, and Moody were fired up and gave it a go. Merle who hasn't surfed in a month due to an ankle injury decided to sit this one out. It probably wouldn't have been a good idea to have his first surf back in a death-slab right.
After negotiating the craggy coastline for nearly a half-hour, Freddy P and Marcus were able to sneak out. Meanwhile, Moody lagged in getting his board ready found himself on his own at the shore's edge searching for an entrance.
Freddy P and Marcus soon found that the waves were a lot bigger and heavier than they first thought. They caught a handful of waves, Marcus got a pretty good barrel, and that was all they were willing to risk. They were quickly out of there before Moody was able to find a way in.
"Ho, like grind?" Photo: Noyle/SPL
We we're all a bit overwhelmed by the maiden session. It was only halfway into our first day and Freddy P and Marcus' hearts were already racing at a maximum. And, it was supposed to get bigger in the afternoon.
We regrouped, and watched the right detonate on the shelf for another half-hour and it became clear that the swell had definitely picked up. With the jump in swell, we had a feeling that the spots that weren't quite working in the morning were probably firing. We headed back down the road and had our first encounter with other surfers on the island. We bumped into a jeep full of locals, who couldn't have been nicer, and they had us follow them to their "Pipeline."
Upon pulling up, we saw a solid eight-foot left lurch up and swallow itself in its own spit a 150 yards offshore.
Marcus, without a second of hesitation, was suited up and out there. Moody, who was shortchanged a session in the morning was quick to follow. Freddy P and Merle sat on the bench, as they both were seriously under-gunned. Not much of an excuse, considering the only local who did paddle out was on a 6?0?.
Marcus who has an uncanny ability in waves of consequence was able to get a few rides under his belt in no time. But, he was clearly frustrated as the barrel eluded him on all his waves. He told Moody they needed to be sitting deeper. As they repositioned themselves, a 10-foot set rolled in and had them scratching for safety on the right. This set had more waves in it than any other we'd seen all day. Marcus sprinted into position, swung around, and took an impossible drop on the fifth wave. Marcus' split-second bravado proved to be disastrous. He hoped to put himself deep enough to find one of the caverns on offer, but, instead found himself straightening out trying to outrun a triple-overhead closeout Niagara Falls lookalike.
Marcus, the seasoned waterman that he is, later admitted that he was counting the sets. He figured, by taking off on the fifth wave of the set he wouldn't run the risk of getting caught inside if he fell. As luck would have it, this set had 10 waves in it. After being absolutely steamrolled on the wave he took off on, Marcus was battered by five triple-overhead bombs. Each set pushed him in ever closer to disaster. Straight in from the peak was a little cove surrounded by 20-foot cliffs of razor sharp lava. At this point, the cove became a boiling cauldron of whitewater. Marcus was trapped with no relief in sight. We all watched from the cliffs, stunned in a helpless stupor. Our friend was a few waves away from being obliterated on the rocks and there was nothing we could do.
The set finally subsided and Marcus darted for the sanctuary of the channel. Once on the safety of land, Marcus admitted he would have been up shit creek if there were a couple of more waves in the set. Spent from an adrenaline filled first day, we made our way back to town and rejoiced that the forecast calls for a couple of days of smaller surf. So the boys will have a chance to regain their bearings and be firing on all cylinders by the time the next swell rolls in.
There was high drama on day one of the Rapa Nui Assault. We nearly lost a soldier but we're plugging along. So, stay tuned to see what happens next.—Andrew Oliver
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Hey, I'm just wondering I'm about to buy tickets for rock am ring just to see korn with head, but it seems he may also be playing download and hellfest as I am in the UK these will be easier and cheaper to get too, is head defiantly playing them?
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Head is definitely playing Download...but based on a quote by JD...it seems he is playing ALL of the European dates!
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Does anyone have an interesting story about using discworld quotes in real world situations?
I'll start with something that happened to me last night:
I was in a bar with the Hull university sci-fi/fantasy society when I heard a guy talking about the best things in life, which he listed as "a fresh horse beneath you,the defeat of your enemy and the lamentation of his women.Conan said that."
I semi-automatically walked up and declared "Hot water,Good dentistry and Soft lavatory paper.Cohen said that"
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MSJC leaders refute waste claims
Last week, the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting published a report that trumpeted the headline: "State's community colleges spend millions on duplicative administrators."
"The state's 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away," began the center's report.
The article then very quickly delved into its first example of such waste -- from our neck of the woods.
"Take the Riverside, Mt. San Jacinto and Desert community college districts, all in Riverside County," the report noted. "Together, they operate five colleges with three chancellor's offices, three human resources departments, three finance offices, three facilities departments and three academic affairs offices, not to mention three boards of trustees."
"If the three districts could consolidate and whittle their bureaucracies down to one chancellor, one board and one head of each big administrative office, the savings would total $4.9 million -- money that could, for example, pay for 960 additional class sections."
The article comes at a bad time for Mt. San Jacinto College, which recently informed the community that this year's summer school session will only offer so-called "mandated classes" due to its strained budget.
But in interviews with Mt. San Jacinto College leaders last week, they argued that the article's claims don't exactly add up.
Southwest County's recently elected board trustee, Tom Ashley -- who ran on a platform of offering more classes combined with fiscal austerity -- as well Roger Schultz, superintendent and president of Mt. San Jacinto College, said the article did not take into account the college's vast boundaries, its tailored efforts to meet local students' needs, nor its recent efforts to save money.
They both acknowledged there is always room for improvement, but added consolidating community college districts, at least for Southwest County, is not the best way to go.
They pointed out the Mt. San Jacinto Community College District encompasses a 1,700-square-mile area.
"That's a huge boundary," Ashley said, adding he is accessible in Southwest County, going to local events such as Chamber of Commerce meetings to network, brainstorm and improve.
He questioned whether a representative who lives in the desert-area of Riverside County would care so much about Southwest County if boundaries were joined.
"Do you really want to drive 2 1/2 hours to a board meeting to voice a complaint about something," he said. "I see the people in the city, saying, 'Hey, how can we share a swimming pool?' It's very locally oriented."
Schultz, in an emailed statement, noted the school finds ways to provide workers for local businesses, such as its emphasis on cultivating jobs for the region's booming wine industry.
"That's where local autonomy wins big for our students," he said.
Ashley also noted Mt. San Jacinto College's superintendent and president, Schultz, oversees both of the school's campuses and its two auxiliary learning centers.
"We don't have a Riverside model, where we have a chancellor, and then he has three presidents for each of his three campuses in Riverside," Ashley said.


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Marriage takes a lot of work, especially when your lives are the focus of the public eye, like country star Carrie Underwood and her NHL husband Mike Fisher. They've shared a few of their secrets to a happy marriage, and one of them involves … not being together.
Fisher tells Us Weekly that Underwood is super busy preparing for her next album, which is her follow-up to 2012′s 'Blown Away.' And when she's focused on writing and prepping for the album, the songstress' husband does something kind of funny. "I stay out of her way. I go golfing or go fishing or something," he laughingly admits.
Underwood confirms his actions, explaining, "He stays away. That whole creative process is such a weird thing, and I've talked to other people in the music business and friends and what they do and we all kind of have our own 'isms."
So, while Fisher gives his gorgeous wife plenty of space for her creative process, she chugs coffee and stays hyper focused … until she gets home. "I go in and I'm like caffeinated. I get jacked up on caffeine and then I come home and crash," she jokes.
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The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד) is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, second only to the Hebrew Bible in importance.
The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), a discussion of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Tanakh.
The terms Talmud and Gemara are often used interchangeably. The Gemara is the basis for all codes of rabbinic law and is much quoted in other rabbinic literature. The whole Talmud is also traditionally referred to as Shas (ש"ס), a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, the "six orders" of the Mishnah.
Originally, Jewish scholarship was oral. Rabbis expounded and debated the law (that is, the Hebrew Bible) and discussed the Tanakh without the benefit of written works (other than the Biblical books themselves), though some may have made private notes (megillot setarim), for example of court decisions. This situation changed drastically, however, mainly as the result of the destruction of the Jewish commonwealth in the year 70 CE and the consequent upheaval of Jewish social and legal norms. As the Rabbis were required to face a new reality—mainly Judaism without a Temple (to serve as the center of teaching and study) and Judea without autonomy—there was a flurry of legal discourse and the old system of oral scholarship could not be maintained. It is during this period that Rabbinic discourse began to be recorded in writing. The earliest recorded oral law may have been of the midrashic form, in which halakhic discussion is structured as exegetical commentary on the Pentateuch. But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant about the year 200 C.E., when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah (משנה).
The Oral Law was far from monolithic, but varied among various schools. The most famous two were the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel. In general, all opinions, even the non-normative ones, were recorded in the Talmud.
The Mishnah is a compilation of legal opinions and debates. Statements in the Mishnah are typically terse, recording brief opinions of the rabbis debating a subject; or recording only an unattributed ruling, apparently representing a consensus view. The rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as Tannaim. Since it sequences its laws by subject matter instead of by biblical context, the Mishnah discusses individual subjects more thoroughly than the Midrash, and it includes a much broader selection of halakhic subjects than the Midrash. The Mishna's topical organization thus became the framework of the Talmud as a whole. But not every tractate in the Mishnah has a corresponding Gemara. Also, the order of the tractates in the Talmud differs in some cases from that in the Mishnah (see the discussion on each order).
Much of the Gemara consists of legal analysis. The starting point for the analysis is usually a legal statement found in a Mishnah. The statement is then analyzed and compared with other statements in a dialectical exchange between two (frequently anonymous and sometimes metaphorical) disputants, termed the makshan (questioner) and tartzan (answerer). Another important function of Gemara is to identify the correct Biblical basis for a given law presented in the Mishnah and the logical process connecting one with the other: this activity was known as talmud long before the existence of the "Talmud" as a text.
These exchanges form the "building-blocks" of the Gemara; the name for a passage of gemara is a sugya (סוגיא; plural sugyot). A Sugya will typically comprise a detailed proof-based elaboration of a Mishnaic statement.
In a given sugya, scriptural, Tannaic and Amoraic statements are brought to support the various opinions. In so doing, the Gemara will bring semantic disagreements between Tannaim and Amoraim (often ascribing a view to an earlier authority as to how he may have answered a question), and compare the Mishnaic views with passages from the Baraita. Rarely are debates formally closed; in many instances, the final word determines the practical law, although there are many exceptions to this principle.
The Jerusalem Talmud, also known as the Palestinian Talmud, was one of the two compilations of Jewish religious teachings and commentary that was transmitted orally for centuries prior to its compilation by Jewish scholars in Palestine. It is a compilation of teachings of the schools of Tiberias, Sepphoris and Caesarea. It is written largely in a western Aramaic dialect that differs from its Babylonian counterpart.
This Talmud is a synopsis of the analysis of the Mishnah that was developed over the course of nearly 200 years by the Academies in Israel (principally those of Tiberias and Caesaria.) Because of their location, the sages of these Academies devoted considerable attention to analysis of the agricultural laws of the Land of Israel. Traditionally, this Talmud was thought to have been redacted in about the year 350 C.E. by Rav Muna and Rav Yossi in the Land of Israel. It is traditionally known as the Talmud Yerushalmi ("Jerusalem Talmud"), but the name is a misnomer, as it was not prepared in Jerusalem. It has more accurately been called the The Talmud of the Land of Israel. It has also often been referred to as the Palestinian Talmud, especially in sources that predate the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Its final redaction probably belongs to the end of the fourth century, but the individual scholars who brought it to its present form cannot be fixed with assurance. By this time Christianity had become the state religion of the Roman Empire and Jerusalem the holy city of Christendom. In 325 CE Constantine, the first Christian emperor, said "let us have nothing in common with this odious people". This policy made a Jew an outcast and pauper. The compilers of the Jerusalem Talmud consequently lacked the time to produce a work of the quality they had intended. The text is evidently incomplete and is not easy to follow. Any further work on the Jerusalem Talmud probably came to an abrupt end in 425 C.E., when Theodosius II suppressed the Patriarchate and put an end to the practice of formal scholarly ordination.
Despite this, the Jerusalem Talmud remains an indispensable source of knowledge of the development of the Jewish Law in the Holy Land. It was also an important resource in the study of the Babylonian Talmud by the Kairouan school of Hananel ben Hushiel and Nissim Gaon, with the result that opinions ultimately based on the Jerusalem Talmud found their way into both the Tosafot and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.
There are traditions that hold that in the Messianic Age the Jerusalem Talmud will have priority over the Babylonian. This may be interpreted as meaning that, following the restoration of the Sanhedrin and the line of ordained scholars, the work will be completed and "out of Zion shall go the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem".
The Talmud Bavli was transmitted orally for centuries prior to its compilation by Jewish scholars in Babylon about the 5th century CE. Since the Exile to Babylonia in 586 BCE, there had been Jewish communities living in Babylonia as well as in Judea, as many of the captives never returned home. From then till the Talmudic period the Babylonian Jewish population increased through natural growth as well as migration. The most important of the Jewish centres were Nehardea, Nisibis, Mahoza, Pumbeditha and Sura. It was no longer necessary for scholars to travel regularly to Israel to gather authentic traditions.
Talmud Bavli (the "Babylonian Talmud") comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah in the Babylonian Academies. The foundations of this process of analysis were laid by Rab, a disciple of Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi. Tradition ascribes the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud in its present form to two Babylonian sages, Rav Ashi and Ravina. Ashi was president of the Sura Academy from 375 to 427 CE. The work begun by Ashi was completed by Ravina, who is traditionally regarded as the final Amoraic expounder. Accordingly, traditionalists argue that Ravina's death in 499 CE is the latest possible date for the completion of the redaction of the Talmud. However, even on the most traditional view a few passages are regarded as the work of a group of rabbis who edited the Talmud after the end of the Amoraic period, known as the Saboraim or Rabbanan Savora'e (meaning "reasoners" or "considerers").
The question as to when the Gemara was finally put into its present form is not settled among modern scholars. Some, like Louis Jacobs, argue that the main body of the Gemara is not simple reportage of conversations, as it purports to be, but a highly elaborate structure contrived by the Saboraim, who must therefore be regarded as the real authors. On this view the text did not reach its final form until around 700. Some modern scholars use the term Stammaim (from the Hebrew Stam, meaning "closed", "vague" or "unattributed") for the authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara. (See eras within Jewish law.)
There are significant differences between the two Talmud compilations. The language of the Jerusalem Talmud is a western Aramaic dialect which differs from that of the Babylonian. The Talmud Yerushalmi is often fragmentary and difficult to read, even for experienced Talmudists. The redaction of the Talmud Bavli, on the other hand, is more careful and precise. The law as laid down in the two compilations is basically similar, except in emphasis and in minor details. The Jerusalem Talmud has not received much attention from commentators, and such traditional commentaries as exist are mostly concerned with comparing its teachings to those of the Talmud Bavli.
The Jerusalem Talmud was never completed, as work on it was abruptly broken off in 425 C.E. In the Bavli, however, Gemara exists only for 37 out of the 63 tractates of the Mishnah: most laws from the Orders Zeraim (agricultural laws limited to the land of Israel) and Toharot (ritual purity laws related to the Temple and sacrificial system) had little practical relevance in Babylonia and were therefore not included. The Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud), by contrast, covers all the tractates of Zeraim.
The Babylonian Talmud records the opinions of the rabbis of Eretz Israel as well as of those of Babylonia, while the Jerusalem Talmud seldom cites Babylonian authority. The Babylonian version also contains the opinions of more generations because of its later date of completion. For these reasons it is regarded as a more comprehensive collection of the opinions available.
The influence of the Babylonian Talmud has been far greater than that of the Yerushalmi. In the main, this is because the influence and prestige of the Jewish community of Israel steadily declined in contrast with the Babylonian community in the years after the redaction of the Talmud and continuing until the Gaonic era. Furthermore, the editing of the Babylonian Talmud was superior to that of the Jerusalem version, making it more accessible and readily usable. According to Maimonides, all Jewish communities during the Gaonic era formally accepted the Babylonian Talmud as binding upon themselves, and modern Jewish practice follows the Babylonian Talmud's conclusions on all areas in which the two Talmuds are in conflict.
The Babylonian Talmud, comprising both the Mishnah and the Gemara, contains large swaths of both Hebrew and Aramaic. The central portion is in Hebrew.
While Aramaic was spoken for a long time by ancient Jews, Hebrew, in various forms and at various historical stages, was also continuously used. Hebrew was used for the writing of religious texts, poetry, and so forth, as well as for speech. Even after the introduction of Aramaic, and its influence on Late Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew continued to develop, and today scholars use terms like Mishnaic/Rabbinic Hebrew and Medieval Hebrew.
Not only the Mishnah, but also all the Baraitas quoted and embedded in the Gemara, are in Hebrew, so that Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of the Talmud. The rest, including the discussions of the Amoraim and the overall framework, is in a characteristic dialect of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. There are occasional quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as Megillat Taanit.
The first complete edition of the Babylonian Talmud was printed in Italy by Daniel Bomberg during the 16th century. In addition to the Mishnah and Gemara, Bomberg's edition contained the commentaries of Rashi and Tosafot. Almost all printings since Bomberg have followed the same pagination. The edition of the Talmud published by the Szapira brothers in Slavuta in 1795 is particularly prized by many hasidic rebbes. In 1835, after an acrimonious dispute with the Szapira family, a new edition of the Talmud was printed by Menachem Romm of Vilna. Known as the Vilna Shas. This edition (and later ones printed by his widow and sons) has been used in the production of more recent editions of Talmud Bavli.
A page number in the Talmud refers to a double-sided page, known as a daf; each daf has two amudim labeled א and ב, sides A and B. The referencing by daf is relatively recent and dates from the early Talmud printings of the 17th century. Earlier rabbinic literature generally only refers to the tractate or chapters within a tractate. Nowadays, reference is made in format [Tractate daf a/b] (e.g. Berachot 23b). In the Vilna edition of the Talmud there are 5,894 folio pages.
The text of the Vilna editions is considered by scholars not to be uniformly reliable. In the early twentieth century Nathan Rabinowitz published a series of volumes called Dikduke Soferim showing textual variants from early manuscripts and printings, and in recent decades the Institute for the Complete Israeli Talmud has started a similar project under the name of Gemara Shelemah. There have been critical editions of particular tractates (e.g. Henry Malter's edition of Ta'anit), but there is no modern critical edition of the whole Talmud. The most recent edition is by the Oz ve-Hadar institute: this is basically an updated version of the Vilna edition, but cites variant texts in footnotes.
From the time of its completion, the Talmud became integral to Jewish scholarship. This section outlines some of the major areas of Talmudic study.
The earliest Talmud commentaries were written by the Geonim (approximately 800-1000, C.E.) in Babylonia. Although some direct commentaries on particular treatises are extant, our main knowledge of Gaonic era Talmud scholarship comes from statements embedded in Geonic responsa which shed light on Talmudic passages. Also important are practical abridgments of Jewish law such as Yehudai Gaon's Halachot Pesukot, Achai Gaon's Sheeltot and Simeon Kayyara's Halachot Gedolot. After the death of Hai Gaon, however, the center of Talmud scholarship shifts to Europe and North Africa.
One area of Talmudic scholarship developed out of the need to ascertain the Halakha. Early commentators such as Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (North Africa, 1013-1103) attempted to extract and determine the binding legal opinions from the vast corpus of the Talmud. Alfasi's work was highly influential and later served as a basis for the creation of halakhic codes. Another influential medieval Halakhic commentary was that of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel (d. 1327).
A fifteenth century Spanish rabbi, Jacob ibn Habib (d. 1516), composed the Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov (or Ein Ya'aqob) extracts nearly all the Aggadic material from the Talmud. It was intended to familiarize the public with the ethical parts of the Talmud and to dispute many of the accusations surrounding its contents.
The Talmud is often cryptic and difficult to understand. Its language contains many Greek and Persian words which over time became obscure. A major area of Talmudic scholarship developed in order to explain these passages and words. Some early commentators such as Rabbenu Gershom of Mainz (10th c.) and Rabbenu Hananel (early 11th c.) produced running commentaries to various tractates. These commentaries could be read with the text of the Talmud and would help explain the meaning of the text. Another important work is the Sefer ha-Mafteach (Book of the Key) by Nissim Gaon, which contains a preface explaining the different forms of Talmudic argumentation and then explains abbreviated passages in the Talmud by cross-referring to parallel passages where the same thought is expressed in full. Using a different style, Rabbi Nathan b. Jechiel created a lexicon called the Arukh in the 11th century in order to translate difficult words.
By far the best known commentary on the Babylonian Talmud is that of Rashi (Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, 1040-1105). The commentary is comprehensive, covering almost the entire Talmud. Written as a running commentary, it provides a full explanation of the words, and explains the logical structure of each Talmudic passage. It is considered indispensable to students of the Talmud.
Medieval Ashkenazic Jewry produced another major commentary known as Tosafot ("additions" or "supplements"). The Tosafot are collected commentaries by various medieval Ashkenazic Rabbis on the Talmud (known as Tosafists). One of the main goals of the Tosafot is to explain and interpret contradictory statements in the Talmud. Unlike Rashi, the Tosafot is not a running commentary, but rather comments on selected matters. Often the explanations of Tosafot differ from those of Rashi.
Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir (known as Rabbeinu Tam), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel. The Tosafot commentaries were collected in different editions in the various schools. The benchmark collection of Tosafot for Northern France was that of R. Eliezer of Touques. The standard collection for Spain was that of Rabbenu Asher ("Tosafot Harosh"). The Tosafot that are printed in the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud are an edited version of one or another of the medieval collections.
Over time, the approach of the Tosafists spread to other Jewish communities, particularly those in Spain. This led to the composition of many other commentaries in similar styles. Among these are the commentaries of Ramban, Rashba, Ritva and Ran. A comprehensive anthology consisting of extracts from all these is the Shittah Mekubbetzet of Bezalel Ashkenazi.
There were other commentaries produced in Spain and Provence which were not influenced by the Tosafist style. Two of the most significant of these are the Yad Ramah by Rabbi Meir Abulafia (uncle of the mystic Abraham Abulafia) and Bet Habechirah by Rabbi Menahem haMeiri, commonly referred to as "Meiri". While the Bet Habechirah is extant for all of Talmud, we only have the Yad Ramah for Tractates Sanhedrin, Baba Batra and Gittin.
In later centuries, focus partially shifted from direct Talmudic interpretation to the analysis of previously written Talmudic commentaries. These later commentaries include "Maharshal" (Solomon Luria), "Maharam" (Meir Lublin) and "Maharsha" (Samuel Edels)
Pilpul practitioners posited that the Talmud could contain no redundancy or contradiction whatsoever. New categories and distinctions (hillukim) were therefore created, resolving seeming contradictions within the Talmud by novel logical means.
Among Sephardi and Italian Jews some authorities sought to apply the methods of Aristotelian logic, as reformulated by Averroes. This method was first recorded, though without explicit reference to Aristotle, by Isaac Campanton (d. Spain, 1463) in his Darkhei ha-Talmud ("The Ways of the Talmud"), and is also found in the works of Moses Chaim Luzzatto.
In the Ashkenazi world the founders of pilpul are generally considered to be Jacob Pollak (1460-1541) and Shalom Shachna. This kind of study reached its height in the 16th and 17th centuries when expertise in pilpulistic analysis was considered an art form and became a goal in and of itself within the yeshivot of Poland and Lithuania. But the popular new method of Talmud study was not without critics; already in the 15th century, the ethical tract Orhot Zaddikim ("Lights of the Righteous" in Hebrew) criticized pilpul for an overemphasis on intellectual acuity. Many 16th- and 17th-century rabbis were also critical of pilpul. Among them may be noted Judah Loew b. Bezalel (the Maharal), Isaiah Horowitz, and Jair Hayyim Bacharach.
By the 18th century, pilpul study waned. Other styles of learning such as that of the school of Elijah b. Solomon, the Vilna Gaon, became popular. The term "pilpul" was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting. Authors referred to their own commentaries as "al derekh ha-peshat" (by the simple method) to contrast them with pilpul.
Rival methods were those of the Mir and Telz yeshivas.
As a result of emancipation from the ghetto (1789), Judaism underwent enormous upheaval and transformation during the nineteenth century, (see Reform Judaism, Haskala). Modern methods of textual and historical analysis were applied to the Talmud.
The emendations of R. Solomon Luria and R. Yoel Sirkis are included in all standard editions of the Talmud. The Vilna Gaon emended many texts by genius alone. Many of the Gaon's emendations were later verified by the discovery of the Cairo Genizah. (See Solomon Schechter, Studies in Judaism.)
In the nineteenth century R. Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz published a multi-volume work entitled Dikdukei Soferim, showing textual variants from the Munich and other early manuscripts of the Talmud, and further variants are recorded in the Gemara Shelemah and Oz ve-Hadar editions (see Printing, above).
During the early 19th century, leaders of the Reform movement, such as Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim, subjected the Talmud to severe scrutiny as part of an effort to break with traditional rabbinic Judaism. They insisted that the Talmud was entirely a work of evolution and development. The proponents of the more moderate tendency known as "positive-historical Judaism", notably Nachman Krochmal and Zacharias Frankel, developed a new understanding of the Oral Torah. They described the Oral Torah as the result of a historical and exegetical process, emerging over time, through the application of authorized exegetical techniques, and more importantly, the subjective dispositions and personalities and current historical conditions, by learned sages. This position was known as the Historical-Critical school. This was later developed more fully in the five volume work Dor Dor ve-Dorshav by Isaac Hirsch Weiss. (See Jay Harris Guiding the Perplexed in the Modern Age Ch. 5)
Another aspect of this movement is reflected in Graetz's History of the Jews. Graetz attempts to deduce the personality of the Pharisees based on the laws or aggadot that they cite, and show that their personalities influenced the laws they expounded. This is only a valid method if one looks upon the Pharisees as independent exegetes rather than as transmitters of the Oral Law.
This clashes with the traditional understanding of the nature of the Oral Law. The traditional understanding is that in addition to the written law (the Bible), God communicated to Moses additional amplifications and explanations that were passed down orally until written in the Talmud. According to this belief, any attempt to trace a historical "evolution of Halacha" (with the exception of several later enactments) would be erroneous.
See Rashi to Leviticus Ch. 25 V. 1 (quoting a Sifra):
"However, this teaches us that just as the Sabbatical year, its general principles and its finer details were all stated at Sinai, likewise, all of the laws were stated, their general principles together with their finer details were stated at Sinai"
Because the modern method of historical study had its origins in the era of religious reform, the method was immediately controversial within the Orthodox world. In reaction, some Orthodox leaders such as Moses Sofer (the Chatam Sofer) became exquisitely sensitive to any change and rejected modern critical methods of Talmud study.
The leader of Orthodox Jewry in Germany Samson Raphael Hirsch, while not rejecting the methods of scholarship in principle, hotly contested the findings of the Historical-Critical method. In a series of articles in his magazine Jeschurun (reprinted in Collected Writings Vol. 5) Hirsch reiterated the traditional view and pointed out numerous errors in the works of Graetz, Frankel and Geiger.
On the other hand, many of the nineteenth century's strongest critics of Reform, including strictly orthodox Rabbis such as Zvi Hirsch Chajes, utilized this new scientific method. The Orthodox Rabbinical seminary of Azriel Hildesheimer was founded on the idea of creating a "harmony between Judaism and science". Another Orthodox pioneer of scientific Talmud study was David Zvi Hoffman.
Some trends within contemporary Talmud scholarship are listed below.
Modern academic study attempts to separate the different "strata" within the text, to try to interpret each level on its own, and to identify the correlations between parallel versions of the same tradition.
In recent years, the work of R. David Weiss Halivni and Dr. Shamma Friedman has resulted in a paradigm shift in the understanding of the Talmud (Encyclopedia Judaica 2nd ed. entry "Talmud, Babylonian"). The traditional understanding was to view the Talmud as a unified homogeneous work. While other scholars had also treated the Talmud as a multi-layered work, Dr. Halivni's innovation (primarily in the second volume of his Mekorot u-Mesorot) was to differentiate between the Amoraic statements which are generally brief Halachic decisions or inquiries, and the writings of the later "Stammaitic" (or Saboraic) authors which are characterised by a much longer analysis often consisting of lengthy dialectic discussion. It has been noted that the Jerusalem Talmud is in fact very similar to the Babylonian Talmud minus Stammaitic activity (Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.), entry "Jerusalem Talmud").
Shamma Y. Friedman's Talmud Aruch on the sixth chapter of Bava Metzia (1996) is the first example of a complete analysis of a Talmudic text using this method. S. Wald has followed with works on Pesachim ch. 3 (2000) and Shabbat ch. 7 (2006).
The Talmud is the written record of an oral tradition. It became the basis for many rabbinic legal codes and customs, of which the most important are the Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch. Orthodox and, to a lesser extent, Conservative Judaism accept the Talmud as authoritative, while Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism do not. This section briefly outlines past and current movements and their view of the Talmud's role.
Orthodox Judaism continues to stress the importance of Talmud study and it is a central component of Yeshiva curriculum, in particular for those training to be Rabbis. This is so even though Halakha is generally studied from the medieval codes and not directly from the Talmud. Talmudic study among the Jewish laity was not widespread prior to the 20th century, but changes in education and leisure, the publication of study editions with translations and accessible commentaries in recent decades, and particularly the rise of Yeshiva and Jewish day school education among the Jewish laity, have made reading the Talmud more widespread in Orthodox Judaism, with daily or weekly Talmud study particularly common in Haredi Judaism and with Talmud study a central part of the curriculum in Orthodox Yeshivas and day schools. The regular study of Talmud among laymen has been popularized by the Daf Yomi, a daily course of Talmud study initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapiro in 1923; its 12th cycle of study began on March 2, 2005. See also: Orthodox beliefs about Jewish law and tradition.
Conservative Judaism similarly emphasizes the study of Talmud within its religious and rabbinic education. Generally, however, the Talmud is studied as a historical source-text for Halakha. The Conservative approach to legal decision-making emphasizes placing classic texts and prior decisions in historical and cultural context, and examining the historical development of Halakha. This approach has resulted in greater practical flexibility than that of the Orthodox. Talmud study is part of the curriculum of Conservative parochial education at many Conservative day schools and an increase in Conservative day school enrollments has resulted in an increase in Talmud study as part of Conservative Jewish education among a minority of Conservative Jews. See also: The Conservative Jewish view of the Halakha.
Reform Judaism does not emphasize the study of Talmud to the same degree in their Hebrew schools, but they do teach it in their rabbinical seminaries; the world view of liberal Judaism rejects the idea of binding Jewish law, and uses the Talmud as a source of inspiration and moral instruction. Ownership and reading of the Talmud is not widespread among Reform and Reconstructionist Jews, who usually place more emphasis on the study of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh. See also: The Reform Jewish view of the Halakha and view of the Talmud.
Christian accusations against the Talmud have tended to fall into several categories, including alleged:
Such accusations often shade into attacks on Jews or Judaism generally, and should be distinguished from criticisms of the Talmud (including some criticism by Jews) on grounds such as excessive legalism, strained reasoning, unhistoric content and superstitious beliefs.
The charge against the Talmud brought by the Christian convert Nicholas Donin led to the first public disputation between Jews and Christians and to the first burning of copies of the Talmud (Paris, Place de Grève, 1242). The Talmud was likewise the subject of a disputation at Barcelona in 1263 between Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman) and Christian convert, Pablo Christiani. This same Pablo Christiani made an attack on the Talmud which resulted in a papal bull against the Talmud and in the first censorship, which was undertaken at Barcelona by a commission of Dominicans, who ordered the cancellation of passages deemed objectionable from a Christian perspective (1264). Censorship of many topics by the Church was widespread during these centuries, such as Catholic censorship of the findings of Galileo.
At the disputation of Tortosa in 1413, Geronimo de Santa Fé brought forward a number of accusations, including the fateful assertion that the condemnations of "pagans," "heathens," and "apostates" found in the Talmud were in reality veiled references to Christians. These assertion were denied by the Jewish community and its scholars, who contended that Judaic thought made a sharp distinction between those classified as heathen or pagan, being polytheistic, and those who acknowledge one true God (such as the Christians) even while worshipping the true monotheistic God incorrectly. Thus, Jews viewed Christians as misguided and in error, but not among the "heathens" or "pagans" discussed in the Talmud. Nevertheless, in the anti-semitic climate of the age, accusations against Jews were widely accepted without the need for proof.
Both Pablo Christiani and Geronimo de Santa Fé, in addition to criticizing the Talmud, also regarded it as a source of authentic traditions some of which could be used as arguments in favour of Christianity. Examples of such traditions were statements that the Messiah was born around the time of the destruction of the Temple, and that the Messiah sat at the right hand of God.
In like manner, references in the Talmud to various historical figures were said to be coded references to Jesus, despite Jewish insistence that the Talmud refers to other, actual persons. A prominent example is Balaam son of Beor, a pagan prophet who lived approximately 1000 years before Jesus, whose actions are portrayed in the Bible, in Numbers 22 through 31. The Talmud's harsh words against Balaam echo the Bible's own condemnation in Deuteronomy 23 and Nehemiah 13. Yet, these references were said to be secretly about Jesus.
Two years later, Pope Martin V, who had convened this disputation, issued a bull (which was destined, however, to remain inoperative) forbidding the Jews to read the Talmud, and ordering the destruction of all copies of it. Far more important were the charges made in the early part of the sixteenth century by the convert Johannes Pfefferkorn, the agent of the Dominicans. The result of these accusations was a struggle in which the emperor and the pope acted as judges, the advocate of the Jews being Johann Reuchlin, who was opposed by the obscurantists; and this controversy, which was carried on for the most part by means of pamphlets, became the precursor of the Reformation .
An unexpected result of this affair was the complete printed edition of the Babylonian Talmud issued in 1520 by Daniel Bomberg at Venice, under the protection of a papal privilege. Three years later, in 1523, Bomberg published the first edition of the Jerusalem Talmud. After thirty years the Vatican, which had first permitted the Talmud to appear in print, undertook a campaign of destruction against it. On the New Year (September 9, 1553) the copies of the Talmud which had been confiscated in compliance with a decree of the Inquisition were burned at Rome; and similar burnings took place in other Italian cities, as at Cremona in 1559. The Censorship of the Talmud and other Hebrew works was introduced by a papal bull issued in 1554; five years later the Talmud was included in the first Index Expurgatorius; and Pope Pius IV commanded, in 1565, that the Talmud be deprived of its very name.
The first edition of the expurgated Talmud, on which most subsequent editions were based, appeared at Basel (1578-1581) with the omission of the entire treatise of 'Abodah Zarah and of passages considered inimical to Christianity, together with modifications of certain phrases. A fresh attack on the Talmud was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII (1575-85), and in 1593 Clement VIII renewed the old interdiction against reading or owning it. The increasing study of the Talmud in Poland led to the issue of a complete edition (Kraków, 1602-5), with a restoration of the original text; an edition containing, so far as known, only two treatises had previously been published at Lublin (1559-76). In 1707 some copies of the Talmud were confiscated in the province of Brandenburg, but were restored to their owners by command of Frederick, the first king of Prussia. The last attack on the Talmud took place in Poland in 1757, when Bishop Dembowski, at the instigation of the Frankists, convened a public disputation at Kamenets-Podolsk, and ordered all copies of the work found in his bishopric to be confiscated and burned by the hangman.
The external history of the Talmud includes also the literary attacks made upon it by Christian theologians after the Reformation, since these onslaughts on Judaism were directed primarily against that work, even though it was made a subject of study by the Christian theologians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1830, during a debate in the French Chamber of Peers regarding state recognition of the Jewish faith, Admiral Verhuell declared himself unable to forgive the Jews whom he had met during his travels throughout the world either for their refusal to recognize Jesus as the Messiah or for their possession of the Talmud. In the same year the Abbé Chiarini published at Paris a voluminous work entitled "Théorie du Judaïsme," in which he announced a translation of the Talmud, advocating for the first time a version which should make the work generally accessible, and thus serve for attacks on Judaism. In a like spirit nineteenth century anti-Semitic agitators often urged that a translation be made; and this demand was even brought before legislative bodies, as in Vienna. The Talmud and the "Talmud Jew" thus became objects of anti-Semitic attacks, for example in August Rohling's Der Talmudjude, although, on the other hand, they were defended by many Christian students of the Talmud.
Despite the numerous mentions of Edom which may refer to Christendom, the Talmud makes little mention of Jesus directly or the early Christians. There are a number of quotes about one or more individuals designated "Yeshu" that once existed in editions of the Talmud, although details about Yeshu do not match the known facts about Jesus' trial and death. The Talmud says Yeshu was hanged, not crucified, on the eve of (before) Passover. (This is when Jesus was crucified according to the Gospel of John, but the Synoptic Gospels indicate that the crucifixion occurred on the first day of Passover itself. Scholars have debated the reasons for this apparent discrepancy.) Yeshu had 5 disciples, whose names are different from the 12 apostles of Jesus, except for Matthias (a very common name). The Talmud primarily discusses the legal requirements of how to conduct a trial, and mentions the trial of Yeshu as an example of how a trial should be conducted. In giving those details, a trial that bears no resemblance to the trial of Jesus is described. For example, it claims that Yeshu's execution was preceded by a herald going forth for forty days proclaiming the charges against him, an event of which there is no record in the New Testament and which contradicts the New Testament's assertion that Jesus was arrested by stealth the night before his execution. In another disparaging example Yeshu is identified as a student of Rabbi Joshua the son of Perachia, this was in the times of King Yannai, 5 generations before the destruction of the second temple and the period closest to that of the historical Jesus.
These quotes were self-censored from the main text in order to be able to continue to print the bulk of the Talmud, and were removed due to accusations that they referred to Jesus. Although they were not available for many generations, the removed sections of the Talmud, Rashi, Tosafot, and Maharsha, were preserved through rare printings of lists of errata, known as Chesronos Hashas ("Omissions of the Talmud"). Many of these censored portions were recovered ironically enough from uncensored manuscripts in the Vatican Library. Some modern editions of the Talmud contain some or all of this material, either at the back of the book, in the margin, or in its original location in the text. These passages do not necessarily refer to a single individual and many of the accounts differ significantly from anything written in the New Testament.
Criticism of the Talmud is widespread, in great part through the Internet.
The Anti-Defamation League's report on this topic states:
Rabbi Gil Student, a prolific Internet author, writes:
Schottenstein Edition of the Yerushalmi Talmud Mesorah/Artscroll. This translation is the counterpart to Mesorah/Artscroll's Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud (i.e. Babylonian Talmud). Mesorah/Artscroll's website for the Schottenstein Edition of the Yerushalmi Talmud


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Steve Solomon should be Steven Solomon. Thanks!by Solomon - SN Tournament Information
DeSoto County Disc Golf Club Dues: $15 includes bag tag Random draw doubles on Tuesday and Sunday. Bag Tag Singles on Thursday Current BoD: Pres- Blake Dyas VP - Derek Baker Sec - Jeff Ma Tres - John Maddux At Large - Josh Miller At Large - Chad Otts At Large - Steven Solomon On Facebook search DeSoto County Disc Golf Club Courses- Central Park (Southaven), Latimer Lakes (Horn Lake)by Solomon - General Discussion
802.03 D. If the position of the thrown disc is in-bounds but within one meter of an out-of-bounds line, the lie may be marked by placing a mini marker disc on the playing surface at any point on a one-meter line that extends perpendicularly from the nearest point on the out-of-bounds line and passes through the center of the thrown disc, even if the direction takes the lie closer to the targetby Solomon - General Discussion
^^^^ Yup. Like the idea of ratings meaning something.by Solomon - General Discussion
I hate that this is going to be scrapped! I liked the design and really wanted one. This year my name was going to be spelled correctly. :) Too bad we couldn't get enough interest in sponsorship. Will funds be returned via Paypal?by Solomon - General Discussion
. None of us want to see baskets taken up, but we don't want to piss the State of Mississippi off. One way of looking at it...if we loose 18 holes at Doxey we might gain 18 at a state park that doesn't have a course. Which would actually grow the sport. Case in point it would be great if we got a course at John Kyle State Park at Sardis Lake. Or if the baskets got moved to a part of the state thaby Solomon - SN Tournament Information
I tried my D1 and D4 out today. The D1 flew well with a dependable finish to the left. So far I've had problems figuring out my release on the D4. Either I'm turning it over to much or I'm releasing it too much on a hyzer. I'm going to have to work on it. Both are fast and I can see them finding a place in my bag. I just have to work on the growing pains of learning a new disc. I like how the plby Solomon - General Discussion
Knowing my luck I'd be the one they weigh. Wait...we are talking about disc weight not golfer weight.by Solomon - General Discussion
Prodigy announced on their Facebook page that some of their disc were released overweight and therefore out of PDGA compliance.by Solomon - General Discussion
Everybody hating on blue. :)by Solomon - General Discussion
I vote for royal blue/gold.by Solomon - General Discussion
We ran out there for a quick round because it is close to the inlaws. Was a little confusing at times but we managed. Didn't shoot great playing it blind. Almost hit a person's car. She was nice when I apologized. I don't think she noticed as she looked like she was busy with a "customer".by Solomon - General Discussion
Sweet thanks! I've played Ashe Lake, Paul B (not when the water is down), and Tatum (the old 9 hole only). I was wondering about Duncan.by Solomon - General Discussion
I will be coming to town for Christmas and hope to sneak away for some golf. What would be the best course to hit if I only had time for one round?by Solomon - General Discussion
Yes. All the same tees.by Solomon - SN Tournament Information
I hate the decisions he made cause it was obvious he had what it takes to be an impact college player. Not sure that could carry over to the NFL especially without the training discipline of a college program. That we can see from the pictures after his arrest. It was clear that he had let himself go some. Really is a shame. It was fun watching him play last year.by Solomon - Off Topic Discussion
They almost didn't get caught. Jefferson tried to throw the weed in the toilet, but he missed!by Solomon - Off Topic Discussion
Agreed. However, if it was a special disc that I tried to find and couldn't I would give someone a couple of bucks for finding it for me. As for requesting money. I would never do that. I figure if I do the right thing and get a disc back to it's owner then next time my disc will come home. What bothers me is when you call and let someone know that you have their disc they don't call you back orby Solomon - General Discussion
Funzyby Solomon - General Discussion
Seriously thinking about coming over for this one. I really like that course even though in the past I haven't shot my best.by Solomon - General Discussion
That logo looks great! I'd love to see that full color on a shirt.by Solomon - General Discussion
^^^^TRUE I went to sleep pissed thinking I'd feel better in the morning..... Nope.by Solomon - Off Topic Discussion
Ok. Let's define service animal. An animal that performs a specific service. So train your ferret to be able to locate your Lost Pole Cat and you are good to go! :)by Solomon - General Discussion
^^^^^ true. At my daughter's old school a child who was an extreme diabetic had a dog that could smell when her blood sugar was getting out of wack and alert. Service animals would not be a problem they are so trained that no one would notice. It's the dogs that run around crazy that would be a problem. I'm curious about the service animal allowance. I don't remember seeing that in the rule bookby Solomon - General Discussion
One card or multiple cards....it all comes down to one thing. Honesty! It's sad that we even need to think of ways to deter cheating. If people feel the need to cheat at a game then they really should reevaluate things.by Solomon - General Discussion
Multiple scorecards is an option. I guess one could argue that it is a bit more for the TD to keep up with, but not really. It's done in ball golf with one person keeping the score of the other. Most of the time it is only two in a group though.by Solomon - General Discussion
Crap after Towson we need a big body on the line. Maybe then Met will have more protection!by Solomon - Off Topic Discussion
DeSoto County Disc Golf Club has random draw doubles on Tues. @ 5:30 @ Central Park in Southaven (until it gets to where it's too dark) and on Sun. @ 2 @ Latimer Lakes in Horn Lake. Come on out and get to know folks and just start playing! There are plenty of people who would be glad to give tips and pointers.by Solomon - General Discussion
My home course. I will check with some folks today. Is there a name and # on it? Also we have a flipup today at 5:30.by Solomon - General Discussion
I definately do not condone what he did. However, I do love him as a player and am going to miss watching him this year. I hope he gets himself straight. Honey Badger Rehabby Solomon - Off Topic Discussion


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And Microsoft isn't in all sorts of product markets???
But they are doing will in most of those markets.
It should be clear that revenue does not mean profit. Zynga is in there at $1.2billion and I remember a week or so ago that they're slashing like half of their workforce? So what does that actually say? I'd like to see a breakdown of profits and not just how much money they initially pulled in.
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1770 — Birthday — Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy), (d. 1827)
1775 — Birthday — Jane Austen, novelist (Pride and Prejudice, Emma), (d. 1817)
1944 — Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
1953 — First White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters)
1962 — Birthday — William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1963 — Birthday — Benjamin Bratt, California, actor (Miss Congeniality, Law & Order)
1966 — Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its first single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
1972 — Miami Dolphins become first undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
1980 — Harland Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
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|A Kosher Wine Chat with Daniel Rogov - Part 1
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KosherEye had the pleasure of speaking with Israel's noted wine expert, Daniel Rogov. Even though 6,425 miles and a seven hour time difference separated us, we felt as though we were sitting with, and speaking to, a long–time friend. All that was missing was a glass of wine.
Rogov is the food and wine critic for the Israel newspaper Haaretz and the author of numerous books on Israeli restaurants and wine, including the acclaimed Rogov's Guide to Kosher Wines 2010. He resides in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Our chat with Daniel Rogov was fascinating, informative and extensive. He shared so much with us so that we could share it with our KosherEye readers; we are presenting it in a two-part series.
When did your interest in wine begin?
What that does has several effects. It gives children the love of the culture of wine when they are young...by the time they reach adolescence, children that have tasted wine growing up tend to drink moderately (which I advocate for everyone) - it eliminates the forbidden fruit notion."
Isn't that (drinking wine at a young age) very European?
How do you evaluate wine (for a review)?
Food makes all wine taste better. Cheese makes all wine taste better. An old saying from Tunisia goes 'When you want to sell wine, give them cheese to eat. When you want to buy wine, eat an apple first.' "
What about the pairing of chocolate and wine?
Numerical ratings - what do they actually mean?
Scores are subjective...when a critic gives a score, it is his/her opinion of the wine...you don't have to agree with a critic, it is important that you find a critic that gives direction to your personal taste. People often ask me, what is the best wine? The answer…"it is the one you like the best! Critics can give direction but can never dictate your taste."
What do wineries do with a bad wine batch?
How do you make vinegar from wine? (KosherEye loves this tip!)
When making wine vinegar or cooking with wine, never use a wine that you don't want to drink. The faults in the wine will become more exaggerated as the wine cooks and becomes concentrated and can spoil your dish."
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Mets de Guaynabo made official the signing of former NBA forward Joey Graham. Graham replaces James Maye in the roster of the Puerto Rican team. The forward has played 377 games in the NBA averaging 5.9ppg and 2.8rpg and in 2010 -11 for 39 games he wore the jersey of the Cavaliers (5.2ppg and 2.2rpg). Graham has played 12 games with the Erie BayHawks in the current year scoring 19.3ppg and adding 6.5rpg.
The Erie BayHawks have added former NBA player Joey Graham from the NBA Development League player pool, sources close to the situation confirmed today.
Jason Lloyd: Cavs release complete training camp list. Joey Graham is not on it. He has been waived.
The Cavs will likely waive forward Joey Graham before July 16. If he's on the roster after that date, his $1,106,941 contract for next year will be fully guaranteed. Center Ryan Hollins must exercise his option for next year worth $2.48 million by June 30 (which he's expected to do).
Graham is not the typical NBA player. He graduated from Oklahoma State with a degree in aviation management. He is a licensed pilot and a trained chef, he can play the saxophone, drums and piano and he even sings a little. "There's not too many things I can't do," Graham said. "I was blessed with a great father and great mother. My father tried to make us as versatile and well-rounded as possible."
Standard NBA contracts prevent players from flying or other hazardous activities such as skydiving, but a Cavs spokesman said individual teams have the ability to change that language depending on the circumstances. Graham wasn't even sure if his contract allowed him to fly, but he hasn't done it in Cleveland because the winds off Lake Erie make for tricky landings. And landing, Graham said, is the most difficult part of flying. "It's a little nerve-racking," he said. "You're up there looking around like 'You guys got my back if something happens?' But you're all alone. You look around and it's only you. You're in control."
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Graham, 28, signed a two-year, $2.1 million deal with the Cavaliers on Friday. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound small forward is entering his sixth season in the NBA. "Joining Cleveland marks an exciting, brand new start for me," Graham said. "This is a great opportunity and I'm excited to come in and help the team as much as possible."
The Cavaliers and small forward Joey Graham have agreed to terms on a two-year, $2.1 million contract. The second year of the deal is a team option.
Joey Graham agrees to a two-year deal with Cavaliers with terms undisclosed, his agent Byron Irvin tells Yahoo! Sports.
Sources said Tuesday that Cleveland is one of four teams giving strong consideration to signing free-agent swingman Joey Graham. The others are Denver, Golden State and Miami. It remains to be seen if any of those teams will be willing to offer more than a minimum deal for Graham, who averaged 4.2 points last season for the Nuggets but scored 21 points in Denver's final game of the season, a Game 6 first-round playoff loss at Utah.
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