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It's time to play ball, unless Mother Nature intervenes again that is.
The Callaway Cavaliers and LaGrange Grangers were supposed to face off on Friday in a preseason game, but that game was moved to today to give Callaway's field more time to dry off.
The teams will face off at 1 p.m. today, giving each team a chance to face off against another team before the season opens for real next week."
"We just have to hope we don't get any more rain tonight," Callaway coach Dusty Hubbard said on Friday afternoon.
If the game does go on, both coaches will approach it like the preseason game it is.
A bunch of position players will get a chance to play, and both coaches will empty their pitching staffs as well.
"We'll play everybody," Hubbard said. "For us, we'll probably throw at least five pitchers, maybe six. I think if you're capable, you'll probably pitch."
LaGrange coach Todd Herrington is approaching the game with the same mindset.
"Our plan is to throw at least seven pitchers," Herrington said. "A pitcher an inning is kind of what we're looking at right now."
Like every other team in the area, Callaway and LaGrange have seen their preparation for the upcoming season slowed because of the winter storms the past few weeks.
The first week of practice was interrupted by the snow storm in late January, and the ice storm last week further hampered the practice routine.
Teams have been forced to take days off, and field time has been limited because of the moisture.
"Everybody's going to be a little rusty," Herrington said. "Everybody around this area has had to take the time off. You practice, and you have to stop, and you practice, and you have to stop. It kind of breaks the momentum a little bit."
While the Grangers may not be quite as prepared as they'd hoped to be, Herrington said everyone is ready to take the field today.
"We're excited. We're looking forward to it, and we're ready to get out there and play somebody else," Herrington said. "It'll be nice to see a team in a different-colored uniform. It'll be a really good test for us to see where we stand, so we are looking forward to it."
The same goes for the Cavaliers, who will play for the first time since they lost in the second round of the state playoffs a year ago.
"It'll be good to play," Hubbard said. "It'll be good play somebody with a different uniform on."
Both teams will officially kick their seasons off next week.
LaGrange will begin its season on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. against Hardaway at Granger Park.
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An Oregon man said he was racially profiled and beaten by police while riding a bicycle near his home. Jermaine Robinson, who is black, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday that claims he suffered permanent injuries after he was stopped June 15, 2012, by Hillsboro police, reported The Oregonian. The 41-year-old…
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Twitter acknowledged on Friday that hackers may have had access to user information for a quarter of a million people.
"We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information – usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords – for approximately 250,000 users," the company said in a blog post.
Passwords and tokens for those users have been changed, Twitter said, and if you were affected, you were or will be contacted regarding the change.
"This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked," the post went on.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that it was continually hacked for four months from China, after the paper reported on the billions of dollars that the family of China's prime minister had made. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal claimed it was also hacked from China.
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CATEGORIES Movies"Evil Dead," a reboot of the 1981 cult horror hit, has been generating quite a lot of buzz about how gruesome, walkout-inciting, and faint-inducing it is proving to be.
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On June 22, 1940 the French Army was granted an armistice by its German conquerors. The unthinkable had happened and the sole bastion of liberty, equality, and freedom in Europe had fallen to the forces of tyranny, oppression, and racism. France, the nation where thousands of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria had flocked to throughout the 1930s, was now under the heel of the very people from which these thousands fled. With the Nazis came strict anti-Semitic regulations and eventually deportations, but anti-Semitism itself was not new to France. Anti-Semitism always had a home with the French and it was in the two decades before their defeat by the Germans that it began to take hold once again. With a failing economy and what were perceived to be threats to the French culture, anti-Semitism found the prerequisites necessary for its embedment in the consciousness of the population. While the native French Jews did little to try to stop its spread and kept themselves out of the public sphere as much as possible, the sudden influx of immigrants from the 1880s and especially after the end of the First World War and the beginning of Nazism injected a more radical and outspoken Jewish nationalism into the French political sphere. With the ascendancy of L on Blum, a Jew, to Premier in 1936, anti-Semitism became a national debate and not the private one it had been. When the factors of economic hardship and threats to the French culture are coupled with the increasingly noticeable Jewish voice and the election of L on Blum, it becomes clear why anti-Semitism grew in France and that why, after the Premiership of Blum, it became an increasingly widespread national sentiment.
By 1939, the population of France had reached 43,000,000, of which 300,000 to 330,000 were Jewish. Thus, the Jews made up less than 1% of the entire population of France. The majority of these Jews came from recent immigration from across Europe and two-thirds of the entire French Jewish population resided in Paris. In the 1880s, Jews from Russia, Romania, and Poland arrived in France, followed by, after the end of the First World War, Jews from the new states of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Hungary. Most immigrants arrived between 1919 and 1939, when the Jewish population increased by 150,000. When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, France accepted 25,000 immigrants from Germany alone, of which approximately 85% were Jewish. Organizations were soon set up to aid the increasing numbers of refugees but by the mid-1930s these organizations were concerned with ridding France of these foreigners. By 1938 and Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against the Jews, even the head Rabbi of Paris said that France "had no responsibility for the Jewish refugees bound to come." The Decree Law of November 12, 1938 placed severe restrictions on aliens and set up internment camps for those refugees who had no place to go. By the start of the war, France was no longer a safe haven for refugees, many of which were Jews escaping Nazi persecution.
The Jews of France could be divided up roughly into two groups. One was made up of Jews who were born in France and who considered themselves Frenchmen as much as Jews. The other group was made up of recent immigrants. The primary goal of the French Jews was the assimilation of the immigrants. According to Paula Hyman, French "Jewish leaders tried to keep Jewishness, especially from immigrants, out of sight and out of politics in order to slow the spread of anti-Semitism." They were loyal to the government in the form of political neutrality. For this reason, Jewish groups "organized no protest meeting against Nazism...opposed the boycott of German products...issued appeals to Jews not to participate in anti-Nazi street demonstrations." The French Jews had faith in the government and believed that they would be protected by it if necessary, as the resolution of the Dreyfus affair showed. But with the increasing number of immigrants, many of them outspoken, radical, and opposed to assimilation, the position of the French Jews was in danger. Jacques Bi linky of L'Univers israelite wrote: "the new immigrants, who in their lifestyle, their excitement in the street, their Yiddish...strongly disturb the French population." The strong Zionism of the immigrants was seen to be in opposition to the French Jewish drive for full emancipation as the establishment of a Jewish homeland would raise "the dangerous notion of dual loyalty." The Association of French Rabbis issued a statement saying that Zionism "cannot be reconciled with the principles of French Judaism and with the conception which the latter has always had of its duties vis- -vis world Judaism." This opposition to the immigrants led to the apathy of the French Jews to the needs of the refugees until it was too late.
The immigrants, on the other hand, tried to sustain their distinct culture and Jewishness. Israel Jefroykin, President of the Federation of Jewish Societies, said "the immigrant Jew sees himself as the bearer of authentic Jewish culture and sees the native Jew as neither here nor there." Whereas the French Jews had trust in their government, the immigrant Jew had arrived from nations that incited pogroms or enacted anti-Semitic legislation. Seeing it necessary to defend themselves, the immigrant Jews were more likely to be involved in political groups than the French Jews. Many of these political groups leaned to the Left which only served to
perpetuate the stereotype of the Jew as a force of disruption in the traditional order.
After the First World War, anti-Semitism in France had receded to the background. However, the Stock Market Crash and the worldwide depression soon hit France and its economy began a downward spiral. Before this event, however, the massive loss of life in the First World War meant that France was lacking manpower. Immigrants were needed and by 1931 there were 2,900,000 residing in France. When the depression hit France, there was no better scapegoat than these millions of foreigners. There was a clear shift in anti-Semitism in France during the 1920s and 1930s. In the 'Roaring Twenties', anti-Semitism was not a major factor yet by the 1930s it had reared its head once again. The immigrants once needed were later to be seen as a drain, and by 1936, the amount of immigrants had dropped by 500,000. The immigrants posed three threats to France, says Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton. "First, the threat to unemployment...[Second,] a threat to swamp French culture already under the assault...from the mass cultures of America and Russia...created and spread, it was alleged, by Jews...[Third,] the refugees threatened to involve...France in unwanted international complications." Jews also had a disproportionate amount of influence in the cinema and this was seen as a further threat to the French culture. Hostility to immigrants and, by extension, Jews was growing because of these perceived threats to France. Anti-Semitism was again on the rise.
According to Hyman, "economic depression, mass migration, the emergence of the Popular Front, and the threat of war combined to fuel anti-Semitic sentiment." When anti-Semites managed to establish that the Jews were a problem, it would be easier for them to convince the moderate French politicians and population of anti-Semitism. But to the French Jews, the anti-Semitism of the early 1930s was not of French origin. According to Ren e Poznanski, they "considered the anti-Semitism that would crop up at times to be a German import brought on by temporary social ailments; its nature was thought to be profoundly different from that of Russian or German anti-Semitism, which were considered chronic, traditional, and deeply rooted in society." They were not prepared for what would be widespread throughout France by the outbreak of war. France suffered from political instability for much of the early 20th century, and anti-Semitism was something the country could rally around. The proximity of Nazi Germany only aided in this spread. By 1936, anti-Semitic publications were produced in higher numbers than ever seen before. It was not long until this anti-Semitism spilled over from ideology into action.
This propaganda "led to sporadic attacks on Jews in immigrant Jewish neighbourhoods and on Jewish business in Alsace-Lorraine." Mass anti-Semitic demonstrations of 2,000 to 3,000 people took place in immigrant quarters of Paris. The Camelots du Roi, a paramilitary group not unlike the Sturmabteilung of Nazi Germany, took part in demonstrations against the Jews and harassed them at every opportunity. In 1938 widespread violence took place as foreigners were attacked in the streets in Paris, Dijon, Saint-Entienne, Nancy, and in other places in Alsace-Lorraine, the adjacent territory to Germany. While in the 1920s anti-Semitism was dormant, it grew in the early 1930s and, as can be seen with the escalating violence, by the late 1930s anti-Semitism was deeply rooted in the French psyche.
The shift to radicalism was chiefly motivated by two events that took place in 1934 and 1936. The Stavisky Affair of 1934, in which parliamentarians were implicated in various schemes to defraud the government of money, brought the issue of anti-Semitism to the national perspective. Stavisky was one of these parliamentarians as well as a Russian Jew. Marrus and Paxton say that "the connection was rapidly made: France's international weakness, its economic decline, its parliamentary disorder, its diminished sense of national purpose, its declining birthrate, its flagging bourgeois culture - all could be attributed to the Jews." While French Jewry attempted to stay out of the limelight, men like Stavisky thrust Judaism into the minds of all Frenchmen.
The second event took place in 1936. L on Blum, head of the Popular Front and a Jew, became the head of a government made up mostly of socialists and communists. "At times the French Israelites were worried that L on Blum was put in the limelight, for he did not hesitate to take clear and public positions on Jewish issues," says Poznanski. With the election of L on Blum to the Premiership, the Jewish Question was now a national debate. The anti-Semitic Action Fran aise, in reference to Blum in 1937, said that "here it is one year since France has fallen under the yoke of a foreign nation." Because of Blum's socialist bent, "Jews were deemed responsible for all of the ills of modernity, ranging from capitalist speculation to Marxist revolutionary ferment to Freudian psychology and modernised culture." Despite the assimilation of Jews like Blum, he was considered un-French. Blum responded by saying that "I was born in France, I was brought up as a Frenchman...I have a perfect command of the French language without the slightest trace of a foreign accent...I have the right to consider myself perfectly assimilated...And yet, none the less I feel that I am a Jew. And I have never felt the slightest contradiction, the slightest conflict between these two areas of my consciousness." French Jewry tried to support this sentiment. Raymond-Raoul Lambert, editor of L'Univers israelite, wrote that "none of us has the right to engage the responsibility of our fellow Jews by giving a Jewish meaning to a personal attitude." Nevertheless, anti-Semitism was a major factor in opposition to Blum's Popular Front. Opposition to the Popular Front originally did not extend to just anti-Semites, but with Blum at its head anti-Semitism began to appear in areas it had not been before. The Blum years "reshaped anti-Jewish sensibility into a political, economic, and social world view...an opposition movement attempting to defend France against revolutionary change." Jews, already linked with the evils of Bolshevism, Marxism, and communism, were now represented in the person of L on Blum who became, with his fellow Jews, symbols of the hated Left. Had it not been for the national exposure Blum gave to communism and the Jews, often inaccurately linked, the spread of anti-Semitism in France in the late 1930s may not have been so complete, which would have made it more difficult for the Nazis and Vichy France to impose their anti-Semitic rule.
When it became clear that Adolf Hitler was set upon a programme of expansion the French populace supported appeasement such as that of the Munich Agreement in 1938. Jews were seen as in opposition of this policy as it was widely believed that the Jews wanted a war of revenge against the Nazis. The Jews, on the other hand, claimed they wanted peace. But in a growing climate of hostility against the Jews, it did not take long for a spark. That came on November 17, 1938 when Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew who's family had suffered at the hands of the Nazis, shot Ernst vom Rath at the German Embassy in Paris. This act was a clear sign, according to the anti-Semites, that the Jews were set on war with the Nazis. However, by the declaration of war on September 3, 1939, the "Jews had the chance to show their loyalty to France and would strike a blow against the Nazis." The Jews were now finally united. Nevertheless, with war came paranoia. Fear of 'fifth columnists' such as German and Austrian refugees, drove the French government into rounding up these recent immigrants, many of whom were Jewish, and placing them in special internment camps. Many French Jews lobbied the government to release the German and Austrian Jews, who were unlikely to breed sedition in favour of the country which had set out to persecute them.
By mid-June 1940, the back of the French Army had been broken. The British Expeditionary Force had been knocked off of the continent at Dunkirk and the Germans were moving all across the French countryside. There would be no Marne in 1940 and no stalemate as in 1914. The Germans occupied northern France while they left southern France under the control of a pro-Nazi government which had its seat at Vichy. Vichy, prodded on by its German masters, introduced anti-Semitic legislation as early as 1940. The property of Jews was confiscated, their movements restricted, and many of them were interned. Vichy France "became in August 1942 the only European country except Bulgaria to hand Jews over to the Nazis...from areas not directly subject to German military occupation." Undoubtedly, the roots of this willingness originated well before 1942. In fact, it is estimated that 3,000 Jews died in the internment camps of Vichy France.
When the dust had settled over the European continent in May of 1945, 6,500,000 Jews had been murdered by the Nazis. In France, 75,000 had been deported to the east. Out of these, only 2,700 returned. Including the deaths of Jews in France and outside of France, the total number is at least 80,000. The deaths of these 80,000 men, women, and children is the legacy of what happened in France during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Obviously, without the invasion by Germany of France and subsequent Nazi rule over half, and later all, of the country these 80,000 people would not have lost their lives. However, in every European nation the Nazis relied heavily on the local population to find, round up, and in some cases, kill their fellow Jewish countrymen. France was not an exception. As noted, France was one of only two nations to willingly hand Jews over to the Nazis and certain death. If anti-Semitism hadn't been implanted in the psyche of the French, would Vichy France have collaborated as much as it did? Would 3,000 Jews have died while in Vichy custody? It is impossible to know for sure, but in all likelihood had France not been infected with anti-Semitism there would have been many more French Jewish survivors.
The roots of anti-Semitism in France date back to the time of the Romans and before. However, by the end of the First World War it was on the decline. It only reared its ugly head in the years immediately before and after the Great Depression and the subsequent economic difficulties in France. This extra burden placed on the French, in addition to the prevailing fear of the swamping of their culture by Jewish-spread Americanism and communism, prepared them to accept anti-Semitism again. The Nazis, for example, only found success in times of economic failure, such as the early 1930s. In fact, in times of economic success, such as in the late 1920s, their popularity dwindled. In both countries, anti-Semitism found a welcome home in the disenchanted. Similarly, in both countries anti-Semitism hit the national sphere upon its introduction into politics. The coming to power of the anti-Semitic Nazis brought the Jewish question to the entire nation. Likewise, the coming to power of the Jew, L on Blum, had the same effect in France. However, unlike the Jews in Germany who had no power, the Jews in France still had much influence during the 1930s. Set in their traditional ways of assimilation and neutrality, they did not act when they had the chance and when they could have been listened to, unlike the radical immigrant Jews who were seen as a drain and a threat to the French nation. The story of French anti-Semitism in the period of 1919 to 1939 is one of a gradual progression. Economic hardships, the election of Blum, and the threat of war all factored into the growth of anti-Semitism in France, and it is in these elements that the antecedents of the crimes of the Vichy French regime can be found.
Works Cited
Hyman, Paula E. The Jews of Modern France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
. From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry 1906-1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Josephs, Jeremy. Swastika Over Paris: The Fate of the French Jews. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, 1989.
Marrus, Michael R. and Robert O. Paxton. Vichy France and the Jews. New York: Schocken Books, 1983.
Poznanski, Ren e. Jews in France During World War II. Trans. Nathan Bracher. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2001.
Ryan, Donna E. The Holocaust and the Jews of Marseille: The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic Policies in Vichy France. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.


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P4. Sanctifying & Redeeming the Firstborn Son [Make a Comment]
We are to sanctify and then ceremonially redeem our firstborn son from priestly service.
This precept is derived from His Word (blessed is He):
Exodus 13:1-2
(Maimonides RP79; Meir MP53; Chinuch C18)
ADONAI said to Moshe, "Set aside for me all the firstborn. Whatever is first from the womb among the people of Isra'el, both of humans and of animals, belongs to me."
Exodus 34:19
Everything that is first from the womb is mine. Of all your livestock, you are to set aside for me the males, the firstborn of cattle and flock.
Numbers 3:40-51
ADONAI said to Moshe, "Register all the firstborn males of the people of Isra'el a month old and over, and determine how many there are. Then you are to take the L'vi'im for me, ADONAI, in place of all the firstborn among the people of Isra'el, and the cattle of the L'vi'im in place of the firstborn of the cattle belonging to the people of Isra'el." Moshe counted, as ADONAI had ordered him, all the firstborn among the people of Isra'el. The total number of firstborn males registered, a month old and over, of those who were counted, was 22,273. ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take the L'vi'im in place of all the firstborn among the people of Isra'el, and the cattle of the L'vi'im in place of their cattle; the L'vi'im are to belong to me, ADONAI. Since there were 273 more firstborn males from Isra'el than male L'vi'im, in order to redeem them, you are to take five shekels [two ounces] for each of these (use the sanctuary shekel, which is equal to twenty gerahs). Give the redemption money for these extra people to Aharon and his sons." Moshe took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the L'vi'im; the amount of money he took from the firstborn of the people of Israel was 1 (365 shekels)
Numbers 18:15-16
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"Everything that comes first out of the womb, of all living things which they offer to ADONAI, whether human or animal, will be yours. However, the firstborn of a human being you must redeem, and the firstborn of an unclean beast you are to redeem. The sum to be paid for redeeming anyone a month old or over is to be five shekels of silver [two ounces], as you value it, using the sanctuary shekel (this is the same as twenty gerahs)."
Deuteronomy 14:22-23
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"Every year you must take one tenth of everything your seed produces in the field, and eat it in the presence of ADONAI your God. In the place where he chooses to have his name live you will eat the tenth of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, so that you will learn to fear ADONAI your God always."
This Mitzvah #P4 is formulated by joining together two commandments (directed to Israel) that were priesthood-related - the second reversing the first. Subsequent to God having saved the firstborn sons of the Israelites when He slew the firstborn males (both sons and cattle) of the Egyptians (Exodus 11:4-6), He declared that all firstborn of the womb belonged to Him (Exodus 13:1-2, 34:19; Numbers 3:13). We understand that to mean that each Israelite family was to sanctify their firstborn son (i.e., dedicate him to be a cohen), to serve God in the Tabernacle (and later the Temple). After Moses rebuked the Israelites for worshiping the Golden Calf and only the Levites stepped forward to repent (Exodus 32:25-29), God took the priesthood away from the Israelites and gave it to the Levites (Numbers 1:49-53, 3:12), appointing the sons of Aaron to serve as cohanim in place of the firstborn sons of the Israelites (Numbers 3:10). He did this, not by revoking His previous commandment to sanctify each Israelite firstborn son, but by commanding that each Israelite family redeem their firstborn son from priestly service by paying a Levitical cohen five shekels of money (Numbers 3:40-51, 18:15-16).
Because underlying this Mitzvah #P4 are commandments with which Levites they can no longer comply, I could easily have omitted #P4 as being obsolete. I chose not to do so, however, because (1) the ceremony of Pidyon HaBen (redemption of the firstborn son) is universally performed among the Orthodox and many others of the Jewish people today, and (2) Yeshua's consecration (and possibly His simultaneous Pidyon HaBen) is recorded in Luke 2:22-32.
Here is how sanctification and the Pidyon HaBen ceremonies are accomplished today. There is no special ceremony for sanctifying the firstborn son, although circumcision may be thought of as a sanctification of all male Jewish children; the firstborn is simply assumed to be specially sanctified. Regarding the Pidyon HaBen: When the firstborn son of a Jewish family (not a cohen or a Levite) is 30 days old, he is taken to a Levitical cohen who receives the money equivalent of five shekels from the father, and then proceeds to bless the child with the Birkat Cohanim (the Priestly Blessing, i.e., the Aaronic Benediction). Since Temple shekelim are no longer in use, their equivalent value in silver is substituted - either special coins made for the purpose or, in the U.S., five pre-1936 silver dollars (26.73 grams of 90% silver).
This Mitzvah #P4 is based upon Scriptures that assume a functioning Temple priesthood (and there is none today). Nevertheless, I believe it is important for Messianic Jews to comply ceremonially in the classical Jewish way for three reasons: (1) without it, there is no closure regarding the priestly status of firstborn male Israelites beyond their general Jewish identity; (2) without it (and one or two other functions reserved for cohanim), there is ambiguity regarding the continuing priestly status of today's descendants of Aaron (i.e. Levitical cohanim); and (3) there is value in our being in solidarity with the rest of the Jewish world on this. I do not, however, believe that failing to comply with this Mitzvah #P4 in this New Covenant age is sin.
The ceremony of Pidyon HaBen only has meaning when performed within non-Levitical Jewish families. Although it is traditionally the responsibility of a firstborn son's Jewish father, in Messianic Jewish families it may also be performed by his Jewish mother or by himself when he comes of age. The Pidyon HaBen has no historic or spiritual value at all for Gentiles, and no New Covenant parallel.
Although Meir quotes Scripture that speaks of our need to sanctify the firstborn of men and animals, his remarks refer only to kosher animals, of which we are to say: "This is hereby holy." He says that if we do not consecrate a firstborn kosher animal it is, nevertheless, holy. He also says that because there is no Temple, the firstborn animals must be left to graze until they develop a defect, and must then be given to a cohen. Regarding the Pidyon HaBen, Meir confirms that it is to be performed after thirty days by families who are neither cohanim nor Levites and, if a firstborn son has no father, he must redeem himself after he comes of age; Chinuch says this also of a son who has a father, but the father does not redeem him. Maimonides and Chinuch agree with Meir on all matters, and specifically state that the Pidyon HaBen is to be performed by the father - not by the mother. Both Maimonides and Chinuch state that the consecration of cattle is to occur only in the Land of Israel, whereas Meir is silent on that.
JMm JFm (non-cohanim); KMi KFi GMi GFi
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It happened around 1:30 Saturday afternoon on Highway 1788, north of Highway 158.
DPS troopers say a Volkswagen driven by Deborah Beck of Andrews drifted into the on-coming lane and collided head-on with a truck. Both vehicles then caught fire.
Beck was killed along with her three grandchildren who were with her. Troopers identified the children as 8-year-old Tiffany Klein, 3-year-old Jeremyah Rodriguez and 2-year-old Sebastian Savage.
56-year-old Edwin Timmer, who was driving the truck, was also killed in the crash.
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The Champion SE dry freight vans combine innovation and affordability for an unsurpassed return on investment. The SE offers value, long-term quality, and increased productivity and reduced maintenance.
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An optional swing door access system includes a fixed step on the curbside, roadside, or both, or an intermediate step centered and a surface-mounted grabhandle between the hinges on the roadside. Optional roll-up rear door access systems include a fixed step on the curbside, roadside, or both, and either a surface-mounted or recessed grabhandle.
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Sidewalls are 0.25" exterior grade hardwood ply, and the frontwall is 0.5" ply for protection from forklift damage Slotted A-punched logistics posts are optional Full 110" height throughout the interior of the trailer Massive 0.25" steel gussets support the top rail-to-rear frame connection to minimize racking
The nominal 101" interior width provides up to 80 cubic feet more interior space The white-colored, heavy-duty plastic lining provides a snag-free, non-plywood interior. This plastic lining is resilient and provides superior puncture-resistance. The simple sheet-and-post construction eliminates the need for special repair
The patented, extremely durable SSL lining is four times more corrosion resistant than galvanized steel The puncture strength is nearly six times greater than 0.25" plywood and over, four times greater than MDPE plastic The rigid core is bonded to steel ply to prevent damage from repeated forklift impact
As standard, the Champion SE's interior sidewalls are lined with .25"exterior grade hardwood plywood, installed horizontally with wafer-head metal drill screws for a snag-free lining. Slotted, A-punched logistic posts are optional. The lower plywood across front wall is .50" thick for extra protection against forklift damage. An available option for interior sidewalls is the extremely durable SSL lining, which consists of a layer of 0.019" 80,000 psi galvalume steel over a rigid core to produce an interior lining far superior to plywood or plastic offerings. The puncture strength of the SSL lining is nearly six times greater than 0.25" domestic plywood and over four times greater than MDPE plastic. The SSL lining is four times more corrosion resistant than galvanized steel. The panel's rigid core is bonded to steel ply to assure the interior will not wrinkle or easily crumple from repeated forklift impact. The top rail design creates a square corner in the upper sidewall without protruding into the cargo area, allowing for a full 110" height throughout the interior of the trailer. Galvanized steel, anti-snag roof bows on 24" centers are permanently bonded with a premium two-part epoxy to a one-piece .040" aluminum or .075" ETR fiberglass roof sheet. Roof bows are double-riveted to the top side rails for increased strength. Optional aluminum bows are available for weight savings. Massive .25" steel gussets support the top rail to rear frame connection, minimizing racking and ensuring that the frame remains square throughout the life of the trailer.
A 10.25" high-strength corrugated galvanized, roll-formed steel scuffband is installed as one-piece extending the full length to the front wall, additional heights are available for added protection. Additional methods of protection for interior walls vary in types and materials, as well as heights.
A 1.38" laminated hardwood floor is installed with two 5/16" screws per board in an alternating pattern for increased strength. A smooth steel 12-gauge, 3" threshold plate is standard. Deeper threshold plates are available as an option. Air and electrical lines are routed above the crossmembers in a recess of the bottom rail, providing easy access and protection. By eliminating a commonly used floor channel costly repairs are prevented.
The Champion SE is available in a maximum-width offering that provides up to 80 cubic feet more interior space than traditional sheet and post trailers. The top rail design creates a square corner in the upper sidewall without protruding into the cargo area, allowing for 101" interior width the full height of the trailer. White-colored, heavy-duty plastic lining provides a snag-free, non-plywood interior. The lining runs full height and is secured to the logistic posts without mechanical fasteners using Great Dane's unique "hook" design. The recessed sidewall rivets are exposed on the interior allowing for the replacement of side sheets without having to remove the interior plastic lining. This plastic lining is resilient and provides superior puncture resistance. With this great ability to withstand impact, cargo damage is significantly reduced and the need for lining replacement is greatly diminished if not eliminated. The simple sheet-and-post construction eliminates the need for special repair. Standard slotted, A-punched logistic posts allow for cargo shoring in 12" or 16" increments and cargo securement to the extreme rear of the trailer. The posts are roll-formed from heavy-duty, 14-gauge galvanized steel with 80,000 psi yield strength
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The Champion SE is available in a maximum-width offering that provides up to 80 cubic feet more interior space than traditional sheet and post trailers. The top rail design creates a square corner in the upper sidewall without protruding into the cargo area, allowing for 101" interior width the full height of the trailer. White-colored, heavy-duty plastic lining provides a snag-free, non-plywood interior. The lining runs full height and is secured to the logistic posts without mechanical fasteners using Great Dane's unique "hook" design. The recessed sidewall rivets are exposed on the interior allowing for the replacement of side sheets without having to remove the interior plastic lining. This plastic lining is resilient and provides superior puncture resistance. With this great ability to withstand impact, cargo damage is significantly reduced and the need for lining replacement is greatly diminished if not eliminated. The simple sheet-and-post construction eliminates the need for special repair. Standard slotted, A-punched logistic posts allow for cargo shoring in 12" or 16" increments and cargo securement to the extreme rear of the trailer. The posts are roll-formed from heavy-duty,14-gauge galvanized steel with 80,000 psi yield strength.
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|Overall Height
|13' 6"
|Overall Length
|53' 0"
|Overall Width
|Upper Coupler Height
|King Pin Location
|36" from Nose
|Landing Gear Location
|104.5" From Kingpin
|Amount of Wedge
|Front Corner
|6" Radius
|Front Corner Sheet
|Aluminum, 0.050"
|Radius Corner Protectors
|Front Sheets
|Aluminum, 0.040"
|Front Upright
|Zee, Aluminum, 2.00"
|Vent, Front
|Anti Nose-Dive Device
|Electrical Connector and Gladhand Location
|Offset Roadside, Overlaid
|Hose Couplers (Gladhands)
|Tramec Control and Tramec Supply
|Standard Document Holder
|Truck-Lite #97859 W/ Great Dane Logo At Roadside Front
|Additional Manifest Box
|Side Sheet Material
|Aluminum, 0.050"
|Side Sheet Texture
|Bottom Rail Rivets
|.38" Aluminum Rivets
|Side Upright Type
|Hat, Steel 1.10" (16 Gauge)
|Side Upright Locations
|24" Centers
|Rub Rail Type, Side
|Protection Package, External
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|EnduroGuard Swing Door Comb-type Frame
|Rear Frame Header
|2" Narrow Header without Rain Deflectors
|Rear Impact Guard
|Carbon Steel Bumper, Bolt On Vertical, Weld On Horizontal
|Dock Lock Bracing
|Rear Bumpers
|Rubber Dock Bumpers
|Rear Bottom Rail Reinforcing
|Rear Access System
|Handhold Roadside Door (With RIG Intermediate Channel When Clearance Allows)
|Tag Bracket Location
|License Plate Installation
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|0.50" Composite Swing Door, Dual-Seal Gaskets, White Galvanized Steel Cover Sheet
|Lock Rods
|1 per Rear Door
|5 per Rear Door
|Rear Door Holdback
|Rear Door Vent
|Hazardous Material Placards
|Roof Bows
|1.00" Galvanized Steel, 24" Centers
|Roof Sheet
|0.040" Aluminum
|Rows of Side Scuffband
|1 Row
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|12" Galvanized Steel, 18 Guage
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|Installed at Floor Level
|Side Scuffband Position (Row One)
|No Lining Behind Scuffband, Lining up to Top Rail
|Rows of Front Scuff
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|Hardwood Laminated, 1.38"
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|2 Scerws per Board
|Threshold Plate
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|Hardwood Floor Finish
|Prolam 'Waxin' Coating
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|Front Lining
|Hardwood Plywood, 0.25" Full Height
|Side Lining
|0.25" Full Height Hardwood Plywood
|Ceiling Lining
|Unit Numbers on Lining
|Sidewall Cargo Restraint
|Quantity of Rows of Logistics Track
|Upper Coupler Type
|3.50" Channel
|Bottom Plate Thickness
|Landing Gear
|GD60 (NonFast Gear)
|Landing Gear Foot/Shoe
|10" X 10" Cushion Foot
|Landing Gear Handle Location
|Landing Gear Lube System
|No Special Lube System
|Tire Carrier
|No Tire Carrier
|Floor 20,000 Pound Package
|Crossmembers Ahead of the Landing Gear
|Steel Hat Type on 12" Centers, 2" Deep
|Front Tire Protector Plates
|Crossmembers Over Landing Gear
|4" Steel I-Beam Over Landing Gear, 12" Centers
|Bay Area Crossmembers
|4" Steel I-Beam on 12" Centers
|URG Crossmembers
|4" Steel I-Beam on 12" Centers
|Extra Crossmembers at the Rear
|Extra URG Rail Length
|Rear Tire Protector Plates
|Aerodynamic Fairings
|Side Skirts- Prepare for Future Side Skirt Installation
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|Holland Duralite (LS4)
|3 Leaf Springs
|Bogie Location
|Pintle Hook
|Without Pintle Hook
|Walkramp at Rear
|Locking Mechaism
|Non Air Assist Pin Puller
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|Brake Actuators
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|Brake Lining
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|Standard Service
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|Dust Shield Type
|Tire-Inflation-Systemn/Tire/Wheel Option
|Axle System Lube Type
|Anti-Lock Brakes
|Wabco 2S/1M Easy Stop
|Optional Diagnostics Cable
|Brake Valves
|Air-Tank Drain Valves
|Great Dane, Smooth Black with Logo
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|Mudflap Mounting Location
|On Undercarriage
|Rim/Disc Wheel Size
|22.5" 8.25"
|Hub/Wheel and Drum
|Great Dane Hub Piloted Universal 10 Stud Hub with Outboard Cast Drums
|Brake Drum Balancing
|Wheel Type
|22.5" Steel Disc Wheel, Hub Piloted, 5HH
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|Great Dane
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|Wheel Spacer (Corrosion Barrier)
|Tire Size
|Tire Brand
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|Spare Tire
|Wheel Lubricant
|Kendall EBL Grease
|Wheel Seals
|Stemco Guardian
|Stemco Sentinel Hubcaps
|Axle Spindle Nuts
|Pro-Torq Nuts
|Exterior Lighting Package
|All Lights LED, Long Life Lighting System, Grote MicroNova DOT LED
|Electrical Connector
|Great Dane 7-Way Solid Pin
|Rear Header Light Locations
|Center Cluster of 3 with 1 Each Side Outboard Corner
|Buckplate Light Type
|Grote Series 40, LED Flange Mount
|Buckplate Light Qty and Loc
|2 Each Side
|Midship Turn Signal
|Grote MicroNova DOT LED Combination Turn and Clearance
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|Roadside and Curbside,Center of Trailer
|Installation of Turn Signal
|Install Below Bottom Rail
|Rear Gusset Lamp
|Grote MicroNova DOT LED
|Rear ABS Lamp
|Grote MicroNova DOT LED
|Front Top Rail Lights
|1 Top Mounted on Side Roadside and Curbside
|Additional Side Top Rail Lamps
|Side Bottom Lights
|1 Each Side
|Side Bottom Light Locations
|1 at Rear
|Supplemental Turn Signal
|Dome Light Quantity
|Spot Light Quantity
|Front Finish
|Pre-Painted White
|Side Finish
|Pre-Painted White
|Rivet Color
|Rear Frame Finish
|Great Dane White
|Rear Door Finish
|Pre-Painted White
|Installation of Custome Decals
|Undercarriage Finish
|Black Undercoat
|Wheel Finish
|White Enamel
|Conspicuity Treatment
|Great Dane on Side Sheet
|Great Dane Logo Installation
|Red Logos
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|Paint Load Line
|Top rail Paint
|Bottom Rail Paint
|Additional Undercoat
|Front Insulation
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Ambush Bug here. I had some commitments this weekend, but the fellow @$$holes pressed on with a Podcast without me. The below hour-plus long conversation took place between my fellow @$$holes Matt Adler, Optimous Douche, Poptards regular Kire Carlson, and our host Johnny Destructo of PoptardsGo.com as they talked about SUPERBIA #1, FAIREST #1, ACTION COMICS #7, AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1, NIGHT FORCE #1, & RACHEL RISING #6, and of course, more general jack@$$$ery!
Looks for more of the Holes rambling about comics on Poptards and in future AICN COMICS columns!
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March 13, 2012, 10:24 a.m. CST
by xega
March 13, 2012, 10:27 a.m. CST
Best. Trailer. Ever
by 3774
March 13, 2012, 10:29 a.m. CST
Sigh. Harry, fix your goddamn site.
by 3774
Let's try that again. Check out the Best. Trailer. Ever. http:// tinyurl .com/7qktak2
March 13, 2012, 11:19 a.m. CST
by Greg Nielsen
Yippee? I haven't listened to the podcast cause I am stuck at work.
March 13, 2012, 11:40 a.m. CST
Arifacts Please
by Greg Nielsen
Hey Artifacts comes out this week. Just saying. Reviews would be cool. We're allowed to ask right?
March 13, 2012, 12:59 p.m. CST
About Superman's uniform...
by Snookeroo
Superman dons the uniform because it's indestructible, not because it's armored. The fact that it was designed as armor is beside the point - Kal is practically naked, having just burned up the remainder of his clothing achieving orbital velocity; and so the opportunity to wear clothing that is as durable as he is motivates him to put the thing on.
March 13, 2012, 1:01 p.m. CST
BTW, the latest issue of Superman
by Snookeroo
in which he fights Supergirl is the best of the series so far. A welcome change from the talking heads issues that have proceeded it.
March 13, 2012, 2 p.m. CST
I don't get George Perez's drawings
by Greg Nielsen
Is it just me or are his drawings the most boring house style drawings ever. I mean if I want out of control detail I could read something by Juan Jose Ryp and it wouldn't be boring. It could have something to do with Warren Ellis writing though. Maybe I missed something by coming to comics really only in the last 5 years.
March 13, 2012, 2:01 p.m. CST
Oh and anything could be an improvement on the last 5 issues of Superman
by Greg Nielsen
Seriously was looking forward to it and I was so bored I gave up. Oh and it looked weird too. Just like when Perez was working on Green Arrow with Jurgens.
March 13, 2012, 2:16 p.m. CST
Nice choices . . .
by oaser
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on Supurbia (which I personally loved), Age of Apocalypse (which I dug), and Rachel Rising (which has made me a HUGE fan of Terry Moore's art -- he's probably my favorite artist right now; simple inks and shadows but great characterization through his illustrations). I passed on Fairest, but I'm regretting it. Great picks, Poptards.
March 13, 2012, 6:38 p.m. CST
AICN Comics--please come to the rescue of the Golden Age!
by Gremlin517
Please, just do a spotlight on the Golden Age History and Earth-2--come to the rescue of Fans who have followed DC long before Dan Didio decided to deconstruct and destroy it. Have you asked other Professionals how they feel about the changes? Jerry Ordway, Alex Ross, Roy Thomas--even Geoff Johns--most of these guys are strangely absent of anything having to do with the JSA--and in Ordway's case, Captain Marvel. I know that DC says that they are doing this to court younger readers, who supposedly don't care at all about history, but I don't think that's true at all. When I was a small child I used to slip into my dad's boxes of comic books and I was always intrigued by these characters that sort of looked like Batman, Superman, Robin and others who looked nothing like the others, but who had even cooler, brightly colored costumes and stranger names like Hourman, Sandman and Starman. Over time, I learned that these guys were actually the first, they were created before World War II and they had families, lots of stories and adventures together and seperately. I was especially intrigued by the boy wonder who became a man and his yellow, green and red outfit always made me extremely happy. Basically, I was a Golden-Age kid from the start--they just seemed so much cooler than the new kids--at the same time more fantastical, more magical, but also more realistic. Over the years some of these characters died, sometimes the whole gang was put in hibernation--and during these times--I stopped reading comics, for the most part--but there was always hope--some glimmer of a spark of promise that these characters would return. They were never replaced or eradicated wholesale--til now. Fast Forward to Dan Didio's DC-- the DCNUwbies paradise. A place that has shown that it doesn't really care too much about us old farts--anyone over thirty being an old fart--btw! Changing the main DC was fine with me, but now they have thrown out, not just the JSA--but basically all of DC's vast history--in such a way that the Golden Age is simply gone--done away with in one fell move. In the new DC--there simply never was a Golden Age. Earth-2 is something like an elseworld's vomitorium of mix and match, pod characters (for those that don't know in comic geek jargon--a pod person is a character that comes into a series, looks exactly the character he/she replaces, but act or is completely different--in this case all of the Earth-2 characters have been either replaced, reworked or just plain gotten rid of,) and costumes that look so bad that they have already doomed this series to a short run. In fact, it is almost certain that this series is doomed to be in the 10cent bins in two years time that I almost shouldn't be working so hard for the return of the Golden Age characters. But the truth is that when these things--like Peyer's Hourman, etc. die out it takes about five years for things to be rectified and I don't want to have to stop reading DC for another five or ten years--that would suck. No, I thinkk the best way to solve this would be an in-continuity fix--fix it narratively, DC. I won't give you the answers, but when it becomes clear that this experiment has failed--when enough of us Golden Age fans have defected--as I and many of my friends plan to do--can't you just give us this one thing, give in this one time and give the fans what they want. Give us the grown-up Dick Grayson as commissioner of Gotham City, Give us Hourman and Starman and a working fix and just make it so none of DC's characters get older--just lock that part down. Is that really asking so very much? Grem--
March 13, 2012, 7:45 p.m. CST
Y'all know I'm not listening to the podcast, but as a Fables reader I enjoyed Fairest
by Jaka
It moved a little fast for me, actually. It's an ongoing, so they could certainly take their time with it. But overall I thought it was great. Maybe not quite as funny overall as Willingham thought it was, but a couple of Jonah's (the bottle imp) pop culture jokes did make me chuckle (particularly "The first six seasons of Firefly. Didn't buy the seventh. The new skipper sucked." Paraphrased.) The art was great, though. Wished I could have looked at it in a larger format a couple times.
March 13, 2012, 7:46 p.m. CST
As always, I love Terry Moore and I'm glad people are into Rachel Rising
by Jaka
But I still feel like the women in all three of his books have looked very similar. It's still hard for me not to see Francine and Katchoo in every female he draws.
March 13, 2012, 9:04 p.m. CST
Poptards podcasts are infinitely superior to Comic Book Men or Marvel Podcasts...
by 3774
...because they actually *talk about comic books*, and give honest (if sometimes off-base) personal opinions. Comic Book Men is nothing but a show for Kevin Smith fans, with lame attempts at mass appeal with a vaguely nerd-based freakshow. Marvel podcasts are promotionals with nothing of any real critical value. I'm not sure why some people avoid podcasts. Maybe it's because they've been listening to bad ones with little substance. I caught Rachel Rising last week. It was very good, but I felt a little bit lost as to what was going on. I'm tempted to just let it be and pick up a future trade, since I'm spending too much catching up on some things as it is.
March 13, 2012, 11:02 p.m. CST
Oh my god! Comic Book Men is horrible...
by Gremlin517
I wanted to like that series--but it is just horrible, ignorant, borderline racist and worst of all amazingly boring. These guys don't even seem to know all that much about comics...yeesh, I mean, maybe it got better after the fourth episode, but I have given this show three strikes and it just sucked...
March 13, 2012, 11:13 p.m. CST
Pink, I explained it to the 'Tards previously
by Jaka
I don't listen to talk radio, either. Podcasts just aren't my thing. I've been online constantly since 1996, before that I was on periodically back to 1993, and I've never understood their attraction. If it was a video podcast, maybe. But if it's just a bunch of people talking I'd rather read it so I can listen to some interesting music at the same time. <p> That being said, I still dig that they're promoting comic books, which is why I always check this column and comment if it seems appropriate. Columns need comments, yes they do.
March 13, 2012, 11:14 p.m. CST
Yep. Cancelled my comic book men series recording after two weeks.
by Jaka
I really wanted to like it, too. It's not getting terrible ratings for the type of show that it is, though. So they'll probably get a chance to do another season and make some improvements.
March 13, 2012, 11:47 p.m. CST
I'll probably check back in a year if its still on!
by Gremlin517
Maybe it'll be better by then--but I think they'd almost need a whole cast change... Grem-
March 14, 2012, 7:31 a.m. CST
Thx For Listening and/or Commenting & Other Stuff
by optimous_douche
Comments good...listen good....both would be exceptional but any love is good. Thank you guys. ON COMIC BOOK MEN It's Pawn Shop in NJ. And I'll tell you now, I grew up in Jersey, all of these fuckers hocking stuff are not just from Red Bank. Actually I would bet none are from Red Bank, just people coming from afar to get their 15 minutes of fame. It's good/bad for the comic industry. While it's riding the Walking Dead wave to talk real comics, it puts the hobby in an insanely unfavorable light. Management through the lowest margins, propagates the "Nerds can't get girls stereotype" and actually presents the entire hobby as an exercise in futility. Now, with that said, I've watched every episode, because its comics on TV and must be supported if we ever hope to grow this waning base of fans. I've also watched every episode with my finger on the fast forward button (especially the hockey one). ON EARTH -2 Unnecessary. Earth 2 was originally birthed from need. This is the after birth.
March 14, 2012, 10:06 a.m. CST
Ouch. Harsh (if mostly true) Earth 2 assessment!
by 3774
So much for a plea of help to the All-Star Ginger Squad of Power!
March 15, 2012, 6:14 a.m. CST
Holy Sheeit. "infinitely superior to Comic Book Men or Marvel Podcasts"
by Poptard_JD
If the show was a book, I would totally use that as a pull-quote! Thanks for the kind words! For the longest time, I wasn't entirely sure people were even listening, so it's really nice to hear that people are enjoying it :)
March 15, 2012, 6:15 a.m. CST
I haven't seen Comic Book Men yet...I haven't heard many good things about it so far
by Poptard_JD
March 15, 2012, 6:17 a.m. CST
Jaka: yeah, people have requested that it be a video podcast, but ..
by Poptard_JD
it just seems extraneous to make a video of people sitting around talking into microphones... plus, when I'm working, I like to have something that's only audio to listen to, so that I'm not tempted to look away from what I'm working on..I can concentrate on my work better that way.
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Capturing household-level spatial influence in agricultural management using random effects regression
AbstractData on agricultural and natural resource management typically have spatial patterns related to the landscapes from which they came. Consequently, econometric models designed to explain the determinants of humans' natural resource management practices or their outcomes often have spatial structure that can bring bias or inefficiency to parameter estimates. Although econometric tools are available to correct for spatial structure, such tools are largely lacking for use with discrete dependent variable models. While one obvious solution would be to develop the necessary tools, an alternative is to identify conditions under which spatial dependency can be managed effectively without formal spatial autoregressive models. This study examines conditions under which spatial structure corresponds closely to defined agro-ecological zones, making it possible to model spatial effects by random effects regression. Using household survey data sampled along agro-ecological zone strata, this article develops two models of links between farmer assets and agricultural natural resource degradation in southern Peru. The first stage model looks at determinants of crop yield loss over time (an index of soil productivity), while the second stage model looks at determinants of the extent of fallow cycles in crop rotation, a key agricultural practice reducing crop yield loss. Diagnostic statistics for spatial dependency reveal spatial structure, particularly in the fallow model. This spatial dependency is eliminated in the ordinary least squares (OLS) models by inclusion of the agro-ecological zone random effects. In the spatially dependent fallow model, comparison of coefficient estimates between OLS and the spatial autoregressive maximum likelihood models showed OLS with random effects to give virtually identical results to the spatial autoregressive models, making the latter unnecessary. These results show that spatial structure in natural resource management models can sometimes be ca
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