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Netanyahu says new universal draft law will bring about historic change (TIMES OF ISRAEL) By YOEL GOLDMAN 07/07/12)
Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-to-convene-likud-mks-to-discuss-plesner-committee-recommendations/
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Following mass protest on Saturday, Likud MKs meet to adopt recommendations of defunct committee
Hours after tens of thousands of people convened in Tel Aviv to call for equal service for all, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his Likud Knesset faction Sunday morning to discuss the recommendations submitted to him by the Plesner committee regarding the inclusion of ultra-Orthodox Israelis in military and national service.
If the Likud MKs agree in principle to the recommendations, Netanyahu will meet with Kadima head Shaul Mofaz to select a team that will draft legislation to replace the outgoing Tal Law, which for ten years provided ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students with a virtual exemption from service.
Initial reports from the meeting indicate the MKs will adopt the recommendations provided they are augmented by clauses addressing conscription to national service by Arab Israelis.
Ahead of the meeting, Netanyahu said that the new law would have to shift reality by gradually increasing the number of conscripts and be implemented responsibly to prevent a societal rift. Netanyahu pledged to grant incentives to those who serve and disincentives to draft dodgers. We are doing this 64 years after the issue was originally mishandled. This is a historic change, said Netanyahu.
Responding to the previous nights protest, Netanyahu said he understands the complaints of those who serve. Everyone must share in the burden, he said.
Early last week, the prime minister disbanded the Plesner committee following multiple defections, notably those of the right-wing nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party and attorney Yaakov Weinroth. Netanyahu reasoned that the committees recommendations could no longer garner a majority in the Knesset.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak congratulated Netanyahu on taking the initiative and moving forward with the committees recommendations.
The main issue is ultra-Orthodox service, said Barak. We will have to create a law to deal with Arab inclusion in national service at a later date.
Leaders of the Suckers movement, who call for the full enlistment of ultra-Orthodox men to national or military service, responded to Netanyahus announcement with disdain.
Its become difficult to keep up with the prime ministers daily announcements. Every day he wakes up trying out a new spin, read a statement issued by the movement. There is nothing to discuss, there is no reason to launch a new committee or to engage in additional consultations. There are recommendations that need to be implemented immediately.
An estimated 35,000 people attended a suckers movement protest calling for all Israelis to share in the burden of national or military service Saturday night. Among the noteworthy participants in the march were former Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin, former army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, former deputy chief of staff Moshe Kaplinsky, former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, former defense minister Amir Peretz and aspiring politician Yair Lapid. Politicians were not allowed to speak at the rally.
Mofaz came to the rally, but was booed and asked to leave by the activists.
The committees report calls for universal service for all citizens, including mandating the conscription of ultra-Orthodox men and a national service program for the Arab sector. It also calls for formulating an effective enforcement system and incentives for serving.
The report calls for individual financial sanctions against draft dodgers, and sanctions against yeshivas that prevent their students from enlisting.
In February, the High Court of Justice declared that the Tal Law, which allowed ultra-Orthodox men to defer service indefinitely, to be unconstitutional, and set Aug. 1 as the deadline for a new law to be passed. (© 2012 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL 07/07/12)
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Baxter announced that it is splitting into two standalone companies - a medical products one and the other a biopharmaceuticals business. What are the implications of this?
Following the suit of Covidien and Abbott, Baxter International is also splitting into two businesses, the company announced Thursday. By mid-2015, the company will split into a biopharma company and a medical products company.
The transaction would occur int the form of a ax-free distribution to Baxter shareholders of a new publicly traded stock in the new biopharmaceuticals company.
Here are key highlights of the announcement from a investor presentation:
There are some key takeaways from this announcement, based on a research note by Michael Weinstein, a medtech analyst at JPMorgan Chase, and the investor presentation that Baxter provided following the announcement.
Don't Believe Everything Management and Boards Say
Weinstein writes that investors had proposed back in early 2013 that Baxter be split into two companies. Company executives had basically beaten that idea down. Thursday's announcement that the very thing that was formerly proposed is being executed upon is a "strong reversa of management and board's recent position.l"
Another analyst described the announcement like this:
"We and many investors have always viewed a separation as an attractive prospect - especially after the Gambro acquisition provided scale in Dialysis - but have mostly discounted the idea in the near-term, given management's vocal and public communications seemingly to the contrary," wrote Danielle Antalffy, a research analyst with healthcare investment bank Leerink Partners LLC, in a research note Thursday.
The Deal Will Be Dilutive
Weinstein pointed out that these deals by their very nature are dilutive to shareholder value even though Baxter said that the deal would have no financial implact on 2014 earnings guidance, and that it would take a one-time charge related to it.
"The Abbott spin of AbbVie was, in retrospect, 15% dilutive with half of the dilution coming on the operating lines and the balance from tax," Weinstein wrote. "Our modeling of the [Baxter] spin assumes at this point 10% dilution for the Bioscience business and 4% for Medical Products, though tax leakage could certainly increase the impact."
The Medical Products Business Will Grow Slower Than Biopharma Business
From the chart below, it shows that Baxter expects the compound annual growth rate of the medical products business to be slower than that of the biopharma business. Taken as a mean of the CAGRs of four verticals in each company, the medical products business will roughly grow at a 5.5% CAGR compared with the biopharma business that will grow at 12% CAGR between 2012 and 2017.
[Photo Credit: iStockphoto.com user Philartphace]
-- By Arundhati Parmar, Senior Editor, MD+DI

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The plates are compared with a database of stolen cars, those linked to crimes or terrorism suspects. The system "read" 37 million cars and got 91,000 hits, leading to 550 arrests last year alone.
A team of five NYPD experts visited London in September to get an inside look at how the system works.
There are obvious similarities between the two financial districts -- both are about a square mile in area and lure about 300,000 daily commuters to a maze of narrow streets. The vast majority of people arrive and leave on subway trains.
There are differences, too.
New York is unlikely to narrow its already traffic-challenged streets to re-create the London-style chokepoints. And unlike the City of London, New York has no separate police force for the Financial District.
If any plan is put in place for Wall Street, officials here would also likely hope to protect midtown Manhattan, considered a top terror target.
By Alison Gendar and Dave Goldiner
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Crew abandoned a stranded container ship that's leaking oil off New Zealand's northeastern coast in the nation's worst such catastrophe, as the vessel was rocked by waves as high as 4 metres.
The stricken ship, carrying 1700 metric tonnes of fuel oil and potentially dangerous chemicals, ran aground on October 5 in the Bay of Plenty near Tauranga, 160km southeast of Auckland. While the vessel, named Rena, is more upright after shifting on the reef, it has sustained damage and is leaking a "significant amount" of oil, Maritime New Zealand said. "It is New Zealand's most significant maritime environmental disaster," Environment Minister Nick Smith told reporters in Tauranga yesterday.
New Zealand officials are seeking to determine how the vessel settled on the Astrolabe Reef. They interviewed crew on duty during the accident and seized recording and navigation equipment, according to a statement on the Transport Accident Investigation Commission's website.
"I want answers and we are entitled to those answers," Prime Minister
Bad weather is disrupting plans to remove fuel oil from the ship, while limiting the quantity that is escaping into the surrounding ocean and washing up on the region's beaches. Salvage experts are grappling with how to remove containers from the vessel and refloat it, while gauging the risk of the ship breaking up.
"The Rena is still intact, but it is moving around in the weather conditions," the agency said. "All personnel have now been taken off the vessel as a precautionary measure."
As much as 350 tonnes of oil may have leaked from the vessel, according to Maritime New Zealand. That makes it the worst oil spill the nation has experienced.
Recovery teams were able to pump about 10 tonnes of oil from the Rena to a bunker barge alongside it on Sunday before efforts were delayed by the changing weather. The barge had been damaged and was being repaired, while the weather would prevent a resumption of pumping, Maritime New Zealand said.
New Zealand's MetService has a gale warning in place for the Bay of Plenty coastal region, with very rough sea conditions, rain and limited visibility until at least late tomorrow.
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Egypt's government will meet with the International Monetary Fund [2] in Cairo on Tuesday to resume talks over a long-awaited $4.8 billion loan, Al-Ahram newspaper reports.
Finance minister Momtaz El-Said also said that some features of the country's economic reform programme -- demanded by the IMF to qualify for the loan [3] -- will come into effect during the current 2012/13 fiscal year. El-Said went on to confirm that the programme will be completed in the coming 2013/14 fiscal year. The Ministry of Finance also on Sunday said that it has prepared a draft budget for the coming fiscal year 2013/14 which includes serious steps to rationalise the country's public spending. The minister's statements came after his comments to Ahram Online last week that the government is in the "final phase" of drafting the reform programme. "Several new taxes will be applied, including a value-added tax and additional taxes on cigarettes and mobile-phone calls [4]," El-Said explained to Ahram Online at the time.
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/business/imf-egypt-plan-447620
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/business/imf-egypt-445655
[4] http://www.albawaba.com/news/imf-world-bank-arab-spring-446381
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French food traders are featured in a continental market in Barnsley this week.
The market, which runs from Wednesday to Saturday – ahead of the Tour de France's arrival in South Yorkshire on Sunday – includes French baked goods so people can get into the spirit of the cycling spectacular.
Cafés across the borough are also serving Le Tour-themed food and 15,000 pints of a special created beer called Sur Vorte Velow – French for 'on your bike' – have been sold.
Sue Thiedeman, Barnsley Council head of culture, said: "Barnsley has a great range of superb food and drink producers. It's fantastic to see so many embracing this."


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The antenna on-the-go goTenna is a 6-inch-long baton (oh my) that connects (mmmm) to your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and facilitates interaction (uh-huh) with other goTenna-connected smartphones.
Okay, let's get serious. It propagates on an extremely low-band frequency which science tells us means it's very long (stop it) range and navigates easily around obstacles. We swear, that's the last innuendo.
Daniela Perdomo, goTenna's CEO and co-founder, says its range is only limited by the horizon: signals can go as far as nine miles in open environments. The range decreases with increasing obstacles, but she claims signals can extend to four miles in forested areas and one mile in her densely-populated hometown of Brooklyn. In theory, goTenna could reach as far as 50 miles if the horizon is extended, as it would be on the top of a mountain.
A new meaning to radio-ing in
It's completely off the mobile/Internet grid so it's not terribly useful if you intend to tweet or surf the web. The bandwidth couldn't take it anyway. No, goTenna is about going back to the basics. The 151MHz network is best for transmitting simple texts and GPS coordinates (mobile networks are on the 700MHz band, if you were wondering).
These features are combined with an app that offers location sharing and downloadable maps. Together, it's a system light and flexible enough to accommodate communication off the grid between as few as two people, or as many as 5,000.
Think music festivals, hiking trails, mountain-climbing. Or you might not need to go that far. Even talking to friends while you navigate a concrete basement labyrinth on campus would work.
Perdomo admits it slots easily into many niche markets – including privacy advocates looking to avoid snooping governments and the survivalist/militia market. goTenna communications are readily encrypted, making specialised radio interception difficult.
Pre-orders are now available, starting at US$150 (£90) as a promotional price (full retail will be US$300).


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Stephen O'Driscoll
Assistant Professor
- Phone:
- (530) 752-0435
- Email:
- Website:
- http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~odriscoll
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2009
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2005
B.E. in Electrical Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2001
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2009-present
Analog IC Design Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, CA, 2001-2003
Microwave Design Engineer, Farran Technology, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, Ireland 1999, 2000
Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Group
Research Interests
Analog, RF and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, wireless power transfer, medical electronics and bioelectronics, system-configured analog circuits and automated circuit design. Signal processing, electromagnetics, and system design for medical applications are also a strong focus.
Research Activities
Professor ODriscoll develops analog, RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits for medical and other energy-constrained applications. The key objectives are to reduce power and size and increase robustness and reliability by many orders of magnitude compared to traditional communications circuits. To this end his group combines analog IC expertise with understanding of the biological signals and systems of interest. This work delivers new ranges of external and implantable medical devices.
Professor ODriscolls BioElectronics group also develops new methods and algorithms for wireless power transfer and location estimation for implantable devices and, most importantly, the circuit architectures and ICs to realize these schemes.
The BioElectronics group is also investigating bio-inspired design and optimization of analog circuits.
Selected Publications
S. ODriscoll, A. S. Y. Poon, T. H. Meng, "A mm-Sized Implantable Power Receiver with Adaptive Link Compensation," Technical Digest of 2009 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), paper 17.5, San Francisco, February 2009.
S. ODriscoll, T. H. Meng, "Adaptive Resolution ADC Array for Neural Implant", Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, pp. 1053-1056, Minneapolis, August 2009.
A. S. Y. Poon, S. O'Driscoll, T. H. Meng, "Optimal Operating Frequency in Wireless Power Transmission for Implantable Devices," Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, pp. 56735678, Lyon, France, August 2007.
S. O'Driscoll, T. H. Meng, K. V. Shenoy, and C. Kemere, "Neurons to Silicon: Implantable Prosthesis Processor," Technical Digest of 2006 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 552-553, San Francisco, February 2006.


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Outsourcing: The Answer to Automated Welding PM Needs?
Outsourcing preventive maintenance frees your staff to focus on core competencies while leaving this critical function to expert providers.
Robotic welding cells and other automated welding equipment require targeted, routine preventive maintenance (PM) programs to ensure proper operation and provide maximum in-service lifespan. Such a program involves a routine, systematic inspection, adjustment, lubrication and replacement of components, software upgrades, and performance testing and analysis.
But finding in-house resources – either in budget or staffing – to develop a targeted automated-welding PM program and follow through with it on dedicated, regular basis can be difficult or impossible for many fabrication shops.
So why not consider outsourcing? Third-party PM providers allow your in-house maintenance staff to focus on core competencies. In addition, outsourcing leaves inspections, cleaning and maintenance to seasoned experts well-versed in automated welding equipment.
While equipment providers do offer suggested PM guidance in their service manuals, these guides provide only an initial template for program development and execution. If you're not experienced with the nuances of the maintenance required, you'll likely find yourself faced with some frustrating guesswork once you are deeper into the process.
Outside PM services, on the other hand, will examine your operations and equipment, assess your manufacturing environment and help you determine the right course of action for your facility and automated equipment.
As PM experts will tell you, there really is more to maintaining an automated welding power source than simply blowing the dirt out of it. For example, special processes are required to fully clean and degrease a power source exposed to months or years of shop environmental contaminants.
As such, many general service centers don't always understand how this type of equipment functions or how it needs to be inspected, cleaned and serviced. PM specialists that focus on automated welding equipment know exactly how to care for such specialized equipment.
Your equipment manufacturer can help recommend maintenance providers, and some manufacturers even offer this service themselves. In fact, chances are good that employees at these centers have worked on the production line, designing and building the very machines they now service.
When considering the qualifications of potential service partners, be sure to ask: Can the service provider not only inspect and clean your equipment but also offer parts and repairs, computer diagnostics, service upgrades and weld testing on automatic equipment? Centers strictly focused on automated welding system maintenance and repairs typically offer a turnkey approach to PM, providing a full range of necessary services.
Also ask potential PM providers if their shops offer proper testing, diagnostic and calibration equipment. Do they test the machines upon arrival to see what errors might have occurred during operation? A good PM provider will troubleshoot both welding robots and wire feeders, using computer diagnostics and simulation of the robotic operations to identify potential areas of failure before they happen.
Next, investigate what processes these providers use to perform maintenance, cleaning and repair. A good shop won't service a dirty machine and instead will disassemble and clean it first, using a proven washing and drying process.
Environment-friendly degreasing is another must in this era of environmental regulations. Not all shops offer this benefit, so ask your prospective providers if the processes they use are environmentally safe.
One of the most important parts of any PM program is the testing performed after cleaning. At many service centers, technicians simply power up the machine after maintenance to ensure that it works. – that's as far as testing goes, at least in their shops.
But, there's more to robotic welder maintenance than simply powering up a clean machine. The best providers perform thorough testing on all robotic components to ensure that the units are ready to go back online and do their job.
Lastly, make sure that providers can update equipment software to the latest versions as part of their PM activities. Current software keeps your production line running efficiently and smoothly and gives you access to the latest system capabilities.
Potential upgrades might involve updated communication protocols for use with other plant equipment, faster communication between the welding system components or updates to the welding waveforms for specific applications. Along with servicing the machine's mechanical and automation components, a provider might be able to provide a software upgrade for potential gains in productivity or operational efficiency.
Ask PM providers how they can help you avoid downtime while a machine is offline for PM service. Do they offer rental services to ensure that you can remain operational? Some providers offer a free rental unit for the time your machine is in their shops, billing only for the time when the machine is in transit to and from the service center. Such an arrangement means paying rent only for a few days even if your robotic welder is in the shop for a month.
While in-house PM may seem efficient at first, those maintenance dollars may be better spent when working with a provider specifically focused on welding automation maintenance and reconditioning. That leaves your team to focus on what they do best – manufacturing.
Bob Steinke is manager of Lincoln Electric's Regional Automation Service Center (RASC) in Nashville, TN. Bob Rickel is a service technologist at the RASC.
The Lincoln Electric Company, 22800 Saint Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44117-8542, 216-481-8100, www.lincolnelectric.com.


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Once upon a time, there was a tree. The tree was special, and it was alone. It lived with its mundane brethren and watched life parade around it. In its youth birds tried alighting in its branches, but they did not stay, and in time no animal came near the tree. One day, a young woman came to the glen by accident, for it was in an obscure place, and no man had been there and cared enough to tell of it. She spied the tree, the special tree, and sat beneath it; she let go a heavy breath and slept beneath it. When she awoke, she felt as though a whole night's sleep had filtered through her, and she returned home, light as down on the breeze.
For years, the woman would come under the tree to rest. She was a teacher, she was, at a schoolhouse nearby; and though she was gentle, she was under great stress, for the children were an unruly bunch. She was glad to live a spartan life, for it was her dream to teach, but every day, she would allow herself some time under the tree and rest. There was no tree quite like it; it seemed an acorn tree, and acorns indeed grew upon it, but looped about its branches were switches with sharp thorns. The woman called it the Stickertree, and she loved it for its shade (which always seemed to fall atop her, no matter the time of day), and because its scent made the stress melt away. She loved the Stickertree.
She did not know the Stickertree loved her too.
For all her life she came to the tree; when she retired from teaching she would spend afternoons beneath it, sewing, reading, dreaming, and the Stickertree would be rapturous. One unkind day, the woman did not come, and the tree knew she had died; for it had seen the grass die, and leaves die, when the winter came, and she had withered as grass did, and leaves did. Winter had come for her. And so the Stickertree wept.
For so long, the tree was alone.
One day a boy came. He carried books with him, books not unlike the woman's years before, but he dropped them in the grass, and ran between the trees, uncaring. The Stickertree remembered the woman (but it always did), and remembered how she talked to herself about the little girls (whatever they were) and the little boys (whatever they were) and how they could be a handful. She lamented when they were truant, and wished she could set them back on the right path; but they were so wily, and would not be caught and would not be taught. The Stickertree took it upon itself to, if only once, help set a boy-whatever-that-was right. It remembered the woman's words, for she spoke often, to herself and in her sleep. It knew its bark and flesh, and how to make them move, and how to make them seem to be other things. And so it took the teacher's shape as best it could.
Oh, how the boy looked when he saw a tree that, in shape, seemed to be a woman in dress, whose hair was the rich green of leaves, and whose hands were wrapped with thorned vines, and who stood so tall above her. The boy came close, and so the Stickertree took its chance. "An uncouth child!" the tree said, "How you shame your teacher so." And with a quick swat, the Sticketree slapped the boy across the backside. "Return, and don't you stray from school again." The boy cried and ran, clutching his behind in one hand and carting his books in the other. The tree took its true shape again, and, at peace, wondered if its long-lost woman would be proud of it.
The boy fell sick soon after returning to school. Days passed, and the illness grew worse; he was bed-ridden, running a most dire fever. His mother and father called desperately for healers; many nurses and herbalists and doctors came, but they were at a loss to help him, and called the thing in the boy both illness and venom, and kept him alone in his room. Of all those that came to help, there was only one who truly knew what harmed the boy. He asked the parents what happened to the boy; they told the doctor what their son had told them, that the boy climbed a tree and, by accident, sat on a thorny vine. The doctor, who was not really a doctor, apologized to the boy's parents, for there was no cure; the boy had been cursed by darkness.
Not a day later, burning up and raving, the boy passed from this world, and he, and his house, were burned to clear away the ruinous poison that coursed, hot and hungry, in his blood.
The doctor was not a doctor; he called himself a "researcher," but this was not his profession either. He was, in all truth, a collector, and he knew of the tree.
It was a Tree of Death. Where three good and blameless men are slain for a selfish cause, the seed is planted; when one of the darkest powers strides across the seed, the seed grows; when a mind close to breaking sits beneath it, it becomes strong. The veins in its leaves spell out blasphemies and curses; its wood, if burned, coughs black smoke that takes the shape of wickedness and sorrow; and the Venom-that-flies-as-Plague that coursed through its thorns flies forth from the bodies of its victims, hungry and waiting.
They think, too, and can change their shape; this is the extent of their power, and so many do not know how terrible they truly are.
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Metzger looked up at the eager-eyed guard.
"What then?"
"If you believed the villagers," Metzger said, lighting his pipe, "it happened that the doctor-who-was-not-a-doctor set forth and told the Stickertree of its nature; and because the tree was good at heart, it could not let itself live, and raked itself with its own venom, and perished. At death, it faded into ash; and in the ashes grew a sapling of a Tree of Life, for its sacrifice redeemed it of its nature."
"Really," the guard said, chuckling.
"We just left an apple-tree sapling behind." He puffed on the pipe, gazed through the plated glass into Garden 333. "The 'ash' was mulched-up soil from when we ripped it out. ...We lied about the venom being contagious, too."
"It was either that or mention the doppelgangers, right?"
"People have enough to worry about, y'know?" He shrugged, then glared at the thing behind the glass. "I loved my mom. I want you to know that. And that thing..." His voice broke. "I loved my mom. And that bitch took her away. And it gave me back a... a thing."
Behind the glass lay the only Tree of Death in captivity, known as the Stickertree to Amelie Metzger (and, until several years ago, her Gregory). It had his mother's shape, in a sense; it was too large, its "hair" too wild and leafy, to be exact. Thorned vines pulled tight across its form from its branches, down its face and arms and body, down to its pseudo-legs and roots. It stared at Gregory like it loved him.
The acorns grew two feet thick, hit the moist and blackened soil with wet thucks, birthed things that each looked like the little boy that fell to its venom. They pawed at the glass, at the walls, at the rough skirt of their mother's roots. When they starved to death, they collapsed into mulch.
"Think we'll ever get rid of it?" the guard asked.
Gregory laughed. Cold, hateful. Weary.
"Maybe when the price of barbed wire goes down."
The Tragedy of the Stickertree by KriegsaffeNo9Watch
©2006-2017 KriegsaffeNo9
The tone felt conversational and was about to be mentioned as a flaw in this comment until the segue to it being a tale told. Good timing, I'll start by saying, since I'd just had the impatience with your seeming lack of attention surface. Excellent story.
not bad jake. I liked it.
I liked it, although i think I'm a little emotionally scarred now ^^
Great job, super well written!!!
Good luck!
I liked it, although i think I'm a little emotionally scarred now ^^
Great job, super well written!!!
Good luck!
Nice story...good luck :3
Oh, wow. Very nice.
I liked it... Good luck.


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Tuesday, November 9, 1999 Published at 16:50 GMT
Lonely pets seek love on the net
GSOH, needs to come out of shell ...
Lonesome George may be the only member of his species left on the planet - but he seems to be far from the only member of the animal kingdom lacking a significant other.
Scientists working on a specialised DNA data base - known as the tortoise dating agency - for the 30 years celibate Galapagos Island-dwelling giant tortoise, hope they have pinpointed a suitable sub-species for him to get cosy with.
But animal Cupid is also at work for the less exotic, but almost as lonely, pets and animals of the globe, across the ether of cyberspace.
Sites dealing with the birds and the bees for four-legged friends are not all that common.
But as American dog-lover, Sandy, writes on Pets Forum: " ... pedigree sites are all very well, but I want a soul mate for Zuki [her dog]."
And so, would it appear, do the animal lovers posting personal ads for their pets.
Bradley, a house rabbit owner writing from the USA, is appealing for "a docile and friendly doe" to befriend his recently bereaved male house rabbit, Gordon.
His advert reads: " ... Jenny [deceased bunny] fought her cancer for nearly one year and bravely survived surgery for tumours."
Other pet personals are not quite so tear-jearking.
Suzy the Dobermann Labrador cross - a resident of California - wants to find "a life partner who wants to run on the beach and play fight".
Suzy's owner remains anonymous, but will presumably be on hand to vet e-mail from cyber-suitors and chaperone the coastal romance.
He or she might even enhance Suzy's chances of making a good impression by investing in anything from haute couture to customised canine water beds - all available online.
Future puppies could be named with the help of sites like 2000 Dog Names - what to call your puppy.
But it is always a possibility that the real lonely hearts are the pet owners themselves.
Indeed, a couple of dating agencies have realised the isolation that certain levels of pet devotion can impose, and have set up special services for "animal people".
The president of Pet Lovers Unite dating agency writes that he was inspired to create the service when his two "family members and best friends", Zorro and Samantha the cats, passed away.
Information on the site says that not only will members know their pet priorities will be understood - but that they will already have interests in common with other correspondents.
Animalpeople is an agency with a similar ethos - and attracts lonesome owners of everything from turtles to ferrets.
A woman from Arkansas writes: "Hey, doesn't anyone out there appreciate the loveable natures of the ferret? I own seven of the fuzzballs and I would love to meet someone else who is as obsessed and taken with them as I am ... looking for a friend with an affinity for nature, ferrets and animals in general with a good sense of humour ..."
And Holly from Canada writes: "I am looking for friends that love turtles as much as I do. I have two turtles, Zeke and Franklin. They are three years old and very handsome. I am obsessed with them. Please e-mail if you feel the same way about turtles."
But as the conventional agony aunts sometimes advise - just taking a walk in the park with your dog can lead to friendships being made. And that may be true for the dog too.
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An attorney representing Alaska's Legislative Council said John McCain's presidential campaign fears a statewide ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's vice presidential running mate, "would cause serious damage to the Republican ticket" if details of the probe were "publicly known before the national election."
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Broncos Say They'll Seek to Trade Cutler
The Denver Broncos have announced that they will attempt to trade disgruntled quarterback Jay Cutler.
Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said in a written statement released by the team that Cutler's agent, Bus Cook, indicated to club officials today that Cutler no longer wants to play in Denver. The Broncos will work to accommodate Cutler's request to be traded, Bowlen said.
"Numerous attempts to contact Jay Cutler in the last 10 days, both by head coach Josh McDaniels and myself, have been unsuccessful," Bowlen said in the written statement. "A conversation with his agent earlier today clearly communicated and confirmed to us that Jay no longer has any desire to play for the Denver Broncos. We will begin discussions with other teams in an effort to accommodate his request to be traded."
The New York Jets, Detroit Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are thought to be among the teams interested in possibly trading for Cutler.
Washington Redskins Coach Jim Zorn said at last week's league meeting that the Redskins were not among the clubs seeking a prospective trade for Cutler.
Cutler became upset when the Broncos considered trade offers earlier in the offseason for quarterback Matt Cassel. McDaniels, as the offensive coordinator in New England, had worked with Cassel last season when Cassel took over for the injured Tom Brady as the Patriots' starter. The proposed three-way trades would have put Cassel in Denver and Cutler in either Detroit or Tampa. But Cassel was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs instead.
A conference call and a meeting failed to ease the tensions between Cutler and Broncos officials. Cook said publicly at one point that Cutler had been told by Bowlen after former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan was fired that the team would keep its offensive coaching staff intact, and Bowlen instead hired an offensive-minded coach in McDaniels. Bowlen said publicly that he did not recall having such a conversation with Cutler.
McDaniels said last week at the league meeting that the Broncos would attempt to repair their relationship with Cutler. He did not rule out a trade even then, however, saying that the team would always do what's in its best interests.
The Broncos presumably will seek to trade Cutler before the NFL draft.
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Cutler is setting himself up for failure what if he's traded to Detroit for the #1 draft pick or to a bottom-feeder, what then? He has a high opinion of himself nothing wrong with that but to get upset because he was mentioned as possible trade bait, Whoa!! you need to get over your self now the pressure will be on you everytime you step on the field, now everything you do will be scrutinized to the enth degree, every pick you throw,every third down call you execute will be discussed ad nauseum on the NFL Network and ESPN is that what you want? Cutler has a great arm and has potential but he just put unneeded pressure on himself with his unwarranted trade demands.
Posted by: dargregmag | April 1, 2009 2:01 PM
im glad cutler is crying lol we need to bring him to detroit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: zwhite1221 | April 1, 2009 11:46 AM
Cutler is acting like a straight be-otch!
this is straight out the T.O. handbook here. MF you are a professional football player. you are disposable and tradeable at any and every time. Stop whining and play ball!
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text: CONTACT INFORMATIONBIOGRAPHYCREDENTIALSAWARDSPUBLICATIONSJonathan W. Mink, M.D., Ph.D.Neurology, PediatricsClinical InterestsChild, Pediatric Neurology; NeurologyContact InformationPhone NumbersAppointment: (585) 275-2808Administrative: (585) 275-4783Office: (585) 275-3669Fax: (585) 275-3683A member of the University of Rochester Medical Faculty GroupgroupAn Accountable Health PartnerassignmentAccepting New PatientsLocations200 East River RdRochester, NY14623Pediatric Neurology: (585) 275-2808Golisano Childrens' Hospital601 Elmwood Ave, AC-6Rochester, NY14642Pediatric Neurology: (585) 275-2808BiographyI am a Pediatric Neurologist who specializes in movement disorders starting in childhood. I was attracted to pediatric neurology when I was a medical student and realized that I had an intellectual interest in the brain but enjoyed the challenges and rewards of caring for children. As a movement disorders specialist, I care for children with a variety of conditions that impair voluntary movements, cause involuntary movements, or both. Such conditions include dystonia, chorea, tics, myoclonus, tremor, stereotypies, parkinsonism, and combinations of these such as may occur in conditions like cerebral palsy. In addition to movement disorders, neurodegenerative diseases are also a focus of my clinical practice. My research has been focused on understanding brain mechanisms involved in the control of movement or where disorders cause involuntary movements. The research involves neurophysiology, direct measurement of movement abnormalities, rating scales, and longitudinal assessments over the course of development and disease. More recently my work as included clinical trials and studies of factors that impact the function of children with movement disorders. In addition to my clinical practice and research, I direct the Child Neurology residency at the University of Rochester. I serve on a number of advisory boards including the Tourette Syndrome Association, the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, the Batten Disease Support and Research Association, the NINDS Board of Scientific Counselors, and the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the FDA. I am also an Associate Editor of Neurology.ResearchMy research program focuses on three areas. First is the function of the basal ganglia in normal control of movement and the pathophysiology of basal ganglia disorders characterized by abnormal involuntary movements. The basal ganglia are affected by many disorders beginning in childhood including cerebral palsy, CNS infections, metabolic disorders and other genetic conditions. It is well known that children with diseases involving the basal ganglia have abnormal body postures, slowing of movement, involuntary movements, or a combination of these abnormalities. However, the pathophysiology of these abnormalities is poorly understood. We have hypothesized that the basal ganglia normally act to select desired movement patterns and inhibit competing movements. Deranged basal ganglia output results in unwanted competing motor patterns or difficulty selecting desired motor patterns. Second, is Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease), a neurodegenerative disease of childhood. Our research has focused on the natural history of the disease and is now pursuing potential disease modifying therapeutics. Third, is the impact of Tourette Syndrome on children, their families, and the community. An additional line of research involves the study of children with a degenerative neurological disorder called Batten Disease (aka Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis). We are investigating the natural history and rate of progression of neurological symptoms in this disorder.CredentialsFaculty AppointmentsFrederick A. Horner, MD Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Neurology - Department of Neurology, Child Neurology (SMD) Professor - Department of Neurology, Child Neurology (SMD) - PrimarySpecialtiesNeurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology - American Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyEducation1980BA | Wesleyan UniversityBiology - Psychology1981MA | Wesleyan UniversityPsychology1989PhD | Washington UniversityNeuroscience1989MD | Washington UniversityMedicinePost-doctoral Training & Residency07/01/1989 - 06/30/1991Internship in Pediatrics at St Louis Children's Hospital07/01/1991 - 06/30/1992Residency in Neurology at Barnes Hospital07/01/1992 - 06/30/1994Fellowship in Neurology: Child Neurology at St Louis Children's HospitalVIEW ALL expand_moreAwards2015Oliver Sacks Award for ExcellenceSponsor: Tourette Association of America2015UR Nominee for 2015 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism Award2013URMC Diversity AwardSponsor: University of Rochester Medical Center2011Faculty Mentoring Award for Mentoring of Clinical Science TraineesSponsor: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry2011Commendation for Third Year TeachingSponsor: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry2011Compassionate Doctor AwardSponsor: Patient's Choice2009 - PresentAmerica's Top DoctorsSponsor: Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.2009 - PresentElected Faculty MemberSponsor: Alpha Omega Alpha2008 - PresentPatient's Choice AwardSponsor: Patient's Choice2008Teacher Recognition AwardSponsor: American Academy of Neurology2007 - PresentWho's Who in America2005 - PresentBest Doctors in AmericaSponsor: America's Best Doctors2005Neurology Faculty Teaching AwardSponsor: Department of Neurology, University of Rochester2004 - PresentFellowSponsor: American Academy of Neurology2002 - PresentFellow, American Neurological Association2002 - PresentFellow, American Academy of Pediatrics2002Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award, American Neurological Association1993St. Louis Children's Hospital Housestaff Teaching Award1989Irwin Levy Prize in Neurology, Washington University1987O'Leary Prize for Neuroscience Research, Washington University1980Walkley Prize for Psychology Research, Wesleyan University1980High Honors for Senior Thesis, Wesleyan UniversityVIEW ALL expand_morePublicationsJournal Articles6/13/2017Thompson Stone R, Tollefson T, Epstein R, Jozefowicz RF, Mink JW. "Education Research: Positive effect of scheduled faculty modeling on clerkship student bedside skills exposure and learning." Neurology.. 2017 Jun 13; 88(24):e236-e239. 11/22/2016Thompson Stone R, Mooney C, Wexler E, Mink J, Post J, Jozefowicz RF. "Formal faculty observation and assessment of bedside skills for 3rd-year neurology clerks." Neurology.. 2016 Nov 22; 87(21):2266-2270. Epub 2016 Oct 21. 10/2016Jaynes MJ, Schieber MH, Mink JW. "Temporal and kinematic consistency predict sequence awareness." Experimental brain research.. 2016 Oct 0; 234(10):3025-36. Epub 2016 Jun 21. Books & Chapters2017 Book Title: Non-parksinosnian Movement Disorders Author List: Hall DA, Barton BR., eds. Edited By: Gross RA, Mink JW Published By: Wiley-Blackwell2017 in Oxford2016 Chapter Title: Congenital, Developmental, and Neurocutaneous Disorders Book Title: Goldman-Cecil Medicine Author List: Mink JW Edited By: Goldman L, Schafer AI Published By: Saunders2016 in Philadelphia2016 Chapter Title: Movement Disorders Book Title: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics Author List: Mink JW Edited By: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW, Schor NF Published By: Elsevier2016 in PhiladelphiaVIEW ALL PUBLICATIONS


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a mixture of sugar, almonds, and egg whites used in pastries as a flavoring
The marzipan is made in two steps: first you make almond paste, and then use it to make your marzipan.
by 1751
In Sweden, they choose to party with Semla, a sweet bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream sitting in a bowl of hot milk.
If almond paste is not handy a small cup of almonds grated on a nutmeg grater may be used.
almond paste for Chapped Hands (which will preserve them smooth and white).
They were composed of almond paste, and coated with a brown sugary paper, which was always consumed with the rest.
Mix one pound of almond paste with one pound of powdered sugar.
Mix three-quarters of a pound of almond paste, one-half pound of sugar, and four whole eggs, and work until creamy and smooth.
Put marshmallows and almond paste in double boiler and stir until melted and well blended.
Three eggs (whites only), pound of pulverized sugar, pound of almond paste (which may be bought ready prepared).
Mix the almond paste with the sugar, add the whites of eggs, and work well.
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The Bolivian telecoms regulator, La Autoridad de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT), has said that it expects approximately 90% of the countrys mobile voice subscribers to have registered their mobile phone by 30 May, according to BNamericas. The watchdog, citing ATT technical chief Andres Zambrana, noted that as of 17 May 2010 87% of subscribers had registered their mobile numbers. Initially, having opened the registry database in November 2009, the cut-off date had been set as February 2010, but this was subsequently pushed back in order to allow mobile network operators to implement initiatives designed to focus on ensuring rural users had registered their details. Under the governments plans, all those subscribers that have not provided their personal details by 1 June will have their service cut off, with the ATT claiming that the move will help curb the use of mobile phones in criminal activity.
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Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day, died Friday night at his Beverly Hills home after a long battle with melanoma.
Melcher co-wrote the hit song Kokomo for the Beach Boys. The song was used in the movie Cocktail and was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1988 for best original song. He also performed on the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds.
In the early 1960s, Melcher began singing as a solo act and later paired with future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston to form the group Bruce & Terry. The pair had several hits, then went on to form the Rip Chords, which recorded the 1964 hit Hey, Little Cobra.
In the mid-1960s, Melcher joined Columbia Records as a producer. Working with the Byrds, he produced their top-selling version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and other hits, including Turn, Turn, Turn.
Melcher also produced hit songs for Paul Revere and the Raiders and worked with Gram Parsons, the Mamas and the Papas, and Ry Cooder.
He served as the executive producer of his mother's CBS show, The Doris Day Show, from 1968 to 1972 and co-produced her mid-1980s show, Doris Day's Best Friends.
Melcher also helped run his mother's charitable activities, including the Doris Day Animal Foundation.
In 1969, his name became linked with the grisly Charles Manson murders.
Melcher once rented the home where actress Sharon Tate and a group of her friends were murdered by Manson followers. Rumors circulated that Melcher, who knew Manson, was the real target because he had turned Manson down for a record contract.
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August 25, 2012 – 7 Elul 5772
Annual: Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9 (Etz Hayim, p. 1088; Hertz p. 820)
Triennial: Deuteronomy 18:6 – 19:13 (Etz Hayim, p. 1094; Hertz p. 825)
Haftarah: Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12 (Etz Hayim, p. 1108; Hertz p. 835)
Prepared by Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser
Temple Emanuel of North Jersey - Franklin Lakes, NJ
In what is likely its best known verse, parashat Shoftim provides its own synopsis:
"Justice, justice, shall you pursue." Judges of reliable character are to be appointed for all
Israelite jurisdictions. The godliness of administering justice is contrasted with three
prohibited idolatrous practices: the use of sacred posts, idolatrous stone pillars, and the
sacrifice of blemished animals. Cases of apostasy are to be thoroughly investigated. This
is the original context for a general principle of biblical law: no uncorroborated testimony
is to be accepted. Only the testimony of two or more witnesses may be treated as
dispositive. Major cases are brought "before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in
charge at the time." The verdict of this high court is to be carried out in its every detail.
Undermining justice by disregarding the verdict is itself a capital crime.
The appointment of an Israelite king is permitted within carefully prescribed parameters.
The king must be an Israelite, not a foreigner. He may not amass untoward wealth, nor
may he marry many wives. The king, too, is subject to the law: he must write (or, some
say, commission) a scroll of God's law, to be kept with him throughout his reign. The
levitical priests, too, are defined by both perquisites and restrictions. They have no
territorial inheritance among the tribes; the tribes provide for them through sacrificial
offerings and related emoluments.
A variety of abhorrent and idolatrous practices, attributed to Canaan's indigenous
population, are forbidden the Israelites: child sacrifice, witchcraft and sorcery in its
various forms, and necromancy – inquiring of the dead. Unlike the practitioners of these
banned activities, Israel must be "wholehearted" in its service and worship of God. The
religious duty to heed the words of God's prophets is prescribed, as is the analogous
commandment to identify and eschew the false prophet.
The distinction between unintentional homicide (manslaughter without malice
aforethought) and premeditated murder is central to Israelite criminal law, and cities of
refuge are to be provided for hapless perpetrators of manslaughter. This is necessary
because of the institution of blood vengeance by a relative of the victim – even though manslaughter carried no death penalty, bereaved family members would summarily and with impunity kill anyone responsible for a loved one's death. Premeditated murder,
however, is punishable by death.
False witnesses are subject to the penalty that would have befallen the accused, in both
capital and noncapital cases. The prohibition against moving a neighbor's property
markers is an analogous safeguard against people who would deprive others of their legal
rights and immunities.
Laws about warfare follow: the priestly exhortation of combatants and announcement of
deferments from military duty; the obligation to offer terms of peaceful surrender before
attacking a city; the inapplicability of this provision to indigenous Canaanites, who are to
be proscribed; the law against destroying a besieged city's trees, which later is expanded
into a general prohibition against wanton destruction of any useful resource. The final
provision of the parashah is the legal and expiatory ritual response to an unsolved murder.
"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like me; him shall you heed." (Deuteronomy 18:15)
"Moses served as the model for all later prophets, even though no prophet has as close
contact with God as he did… The Hebrew speaks of the prophet in the masculine, as this
is the linguistic default; but that does not exclude female prophets. The Bible refers to
four female prophets by name: Miriam (Exodus 15:20), Deborah (Judges 4:4), Huldah (II
Kings 22:14-20), and Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14); other passages mention unnamed female
prophets (Isaiah 8:3; Ezekiel 13:17; Joel 3:1)." (Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Rabbi Andrea L.
Weiss, The Torah: A Women's Commentary)
"The prophets appear to me as an unrepeatable phenomenon. Men of great intellectual
and literary gifts, who attained profound moral and religious insights, they were not yet
sicklied o'er with the pale cast either of theological speculation or of psychological
introspection." (Rabbi Bernard Bamberger)
"We would like our children to know that if they burn with righteous indignation, if they
have the true feeling of brotherhood, if they place humanity high in their scale of values, if
they despise hypocrisy, if they are impatient with poverty and corruption, if they are
frantic at the slow pace of social reform and the complacency of their elders, at such times
to know that they are in the company of men like Amos, Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah and
Ezekiel." (Rabbi Sheldon Blank)
"Let the Holy Spirit (ruach ha-kodesh) rest upon them. If they (the People Israel) are not
prophets, they are the sons of prophets." (Hillel – see BTalmud Shabbat, Tosefta
Pesachim, etc.)
"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist." (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Has the role of the Israelite prophet outlived its usefulness (see Rabbi Bamberger)? Or are
Moses and his prophetic successors still suitable religious role models for today's Jews (a
la Rabbi Blank)? Or all human beings (as per Sartre)? Do we all have a potential for
prophetic spirit (as Hillel seems to imply)… or is this gift reserved for rare spiritual
What is the primary function of the Israelite prophet? Foretelling the future? Addressing
social and spiritual ills? Binding fellow Jews to the purposes of God? If the latter, how
does the prophet differ from the priest addressing Israelite troops prior to battle (see
below, especially Rabbi Plaut)?
Are the prophets (male and female) the Biblical characters to whose example we would
most want our children to aspire? What did their prophetic missions mean to their
personal lives - their families – their happiness? Who are the heroes (and, especially,
heroines) of the Bible whose "company" we want our children to share? Might Israeli
parents answer this question differently than those living in North America?
Why did Moses specify that God's prophet would be "from among your own people" –
i.e., an Israelite? What concerns might this reflect? How are we to relate to "prophetic"
thinkers of other faiths and nations?
"Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops. He shall
say to them, 'Hear, O Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your
courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread of them. For it is the Lord your
God who marches with you, to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you
victory." (Deuteronomy 20:2-4)
"Even if your only spiritual merit is reciting the Shema, for this alone you are worthy that God should deliver you." (Rashi)
"Why do these assurances of military victory follow the discussion of administering justice? Only when the People Israel practice justice at home will they be victorious in battle." (Midrash Tanchuma)
"Since Israel's existence in this world was bound up with God's will, the nation's wars
were ultimately His wars: they were holy struggles. Hence, the preparations for war were
ritualized, as were the distribution of booty and the treatment of the enemy, and the fight
itself was directed by the One who was called 'Lord of Hosts.' The priest was a kind of
antique army chaplain, but his service was not designed to assist the individual soldier;
rather, he aimed at binding the fighting men to the purposes of God, and thus he literally
'consecrated' or 'sanctified' the war. Hence his status approached that of the High Priest."
(Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, The Torah: A Modern Commentary)
"The true role of the Kohen Mashuach Milchamah (the priest specifically anointed for the
purpose of addressing the Israelite army -- JHP) is to address the raw, seemingly vulgar
and overall secular nature of war and convert milchamah (war – JHP) into an operation of
Torah and kedushah (holiness). Thus, the it is necessary for a kohen - one whose existence
must be pure and centered on mikdash (Sanctuary – JHP) service - to encourage the
troops, so as to demonstrate the sanctity of their mission." (Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer)
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party." (Henry David Thoreau)
Rashi calls to our attention the force of the phrase "Hear, O Israel!" (Shema Yisrael) in the
priest's formulaic charge to Israelite troops. How does this change the nature and tone of
the priestly statement? How does the role of the Shema as a death-bed prayer impact your
reading of this passage?
What is the difference – if any – between Rabbi Plaut's discussion of "holy struggles" and the Muslim concept of "holy war"?
How does Rabbi Gordimer's view that the priest functions to raise warfare above its
inherent vulgarity compare to, say, the role of clergy in accompanying
condemnedprisoners to execution? Does it humanize the process or simply cover up
unseemly and morally problematic act of violence… assuaging well-placed guilt and
recriminations by a troubled body politic? What might Thoreau say to this question?
Verse 4 ("…For it is the Lord…") is incorporated into the prayer for Tzahal – soldiers of
the Israel Defense Force – prescribed by the Chief Rabbinate. How does the Biblical
context (and the "commentaries" here provided) change your understanding of this
Parashat Shoftim, read on August 25, 2012, clearly distinguishes between the
punishment for the perpetrator of accidental homicide and treatment of "a person who
is the enemy of another, lies in wait for him and sets upon him and strikes him a fatal
blow" – that is, the premeditated murderer. On August 25, 1981, Mark David
Chapman was sentenced to twenty years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
Parashat Shoftim's prohibition against the destruction of fruit-bearing trees during the
course of a military siege (Deuteronomy 20:19) has been expanded into a broad
halachic category – bal tashchit – forbidding the wanton destruction of any natural
resources or, indeed, anything useful. The Sefer Ha-Chinuch (#350) treats the
mitzvah of Bal Tashchit as a central and paradigmatic principle of Jewish piety. The
message of the Biblical injunction teaches us: "…to love that which is good and
worthwhile and to cling to it, so that good becomes a part of us and we will avoid all
that is evil and destructive. This is the way of the righteous and those who improve
society… that nothing, not even a grain of mustard, should be lost… if possible they
will prevent any destruction that they can. Not so are the wicked, who rejoice in the
destruction of the world, and they are destroying themselves." See the discussion of
this principle in Walking With Justice, edited by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson and
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I am testing monowall for a remote office running a SIP mitel 5055 VoIP
phone. I like monowall because of it traffic shaping options. I found very
good documentation in the mailing list archives about that.
But I am experiencing a problem I can't solve yet. I have a warp board with
only two nic cards and no DMZ. Can I run the VoIP phone in the LAN? I have
had it working with a linksis router and have forwarded the ports required.
But we only get one way calls now that we have the monowall firewall.
This is what my supplier tells me.
The Mitel SIP phone is behind a remote, NATing firewall with a private IP
address. If that's the case the remote firewall must be SIP-capable.
NATing or Portforwarding solutions simply won't work (with the exception of
1-to-1 NATing). You'll get one-way audio.
You can portforward and/or NAT the call setup, and even the RTP, but the SIP
packets themselves will not reach the calling end, as the SIP headers from
the phone will still contain a non-routable IP address. This is a problem
universal to SIP.
From you archives other people have had SIP working with monowall. But all I
could find had a dmz. Do any of you know of another way to use it? Could I
use 1-to-1 nat with only one public IP? Thanks in advance for the help.


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On Thursday, the speculation of Joe Girardi potentially not returning as the manager of the New York Yankees started to ramp up as he declined to commit to a return to the team following the 2013 season.
Girardi has been the team's manager over the last six seasons and has made the postseason in four of them and is hoping for a fifth trip this season, but the Yankees are 3.5 games out of the Wild Card race and could be staring at a second missed trip to the postseason as Yankees skipper under his watch.
Despite that, with everything the Yankees have encountered this season with the injuries suffered to a great deal of their roster, Girardi could be in line for the American League Manager of the Year Award, but there could be a few different managerial jobs available next season; such as the Washington Nationals or the Chicago Cubs; where there is less media pressure, but equal opportunity for Girardi to win in the big leagues.
If Girardi, who is a free agent after this season, steps away from the Yankees manager job, who would the team look to replace him with? Lets look at the potential possibilities at who could take the manager's seat in the Bronx if Girardi were to bolt out of town.
Tony Pena, (198-285 career managerial record); Pena was a candidate for the manager job after Joe Torre left the Bronx in 2007, but lost out to Girardi. Pena has been Girardi's bench coach since the 2009 season, but has been with the Yankees since the 2006 year as the first base coach and is a player favorite in the clubhouse. Pena has experience as a manager with the Kansas City Royals from 2002-2005 and won the 2003 American League Manager of the Year Award. Pena was a candidate for the Boston Red Sox job after the 2011 season, but the job was eventually given to Bobby Valentine. If the Yankees were to look internally for their next manager, Pena would be the most obvious choice.
Willie Randolph, (302-253 career managerial record); Randolph is an extremely popular choice among fans and would be a popular choice if given the manager duties. Randolph knows all about New York, as he played for the Yankees from 1976-1988 and then was a coach from 1994-2004 before getting his first ever manager's job in 2005 with the New York Mets, where he held for nearly four years. After being fired in the middle of the 2008 season, Randolph has bounced around as a coach with the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers, but is currently out of work right now, but would likely love to get back into baseball, and what better way then with the Yankees.
Mike Scioscia, (1229-1029 career managerial record); Scioscia isn't on the market yet, but he could be after the 2013 season as looks like it will either come down to him or general manager Jerry Dipoto being let go from the team due to friction between the two. With Dipoto just getting to Los Angeles, Scioscia may be the one shown the door after 13 years with the Angels, which includes the organizations one and only World Series championship from back in 2002. Mnay consider Scioscia to be the best manager in baseball today, even though management has spent a lot of money to bring in high-priced talent but has under-performed over the last couple of seasons. If Scioscia is let go from his current contract, which runs through the 2018 season, he will definitely be a favorite by a lot teams, which could include the Yankees.
Don Mattingly, (256-220 career managerial record); Back in May, when the Los Angeles Dodgers were in last place of the National League West, Mattingly was almost sure to be a goner and be fired by Los Angeles management, but the Dodgers went on one of the most memorable runs in the sport, going from worst to first and have captured the National League West and will have a chance to manage the Dodgers to the World Series. Mattingly has yet to be given a contract extension though, and will be a free agent at season's end. Mattingly may have been one of the most popular Yankee players in history from 1982-1995 and also interviewed for the Yankees job in 2007 after Joe Torre left, but lost out to Girardi and then followed Torre to Los Angeles. If Mattingly doesn't re-sign in Los Angeles, the draw of coming back to New York will certainly be calling him.
Dave Miley, (125-164 career managerial record); A lot of fans might not know who Miley is, but he's currently the Yankees Class-AAA manager at Scranton and has been since the 2006 season. Miley does have some managerial experience in the major leagues, as he was the Cincinnati Reds manager from 2003-2005, but was let go during the middle of the season and went down to the minor leagues, which is where he has been ever since. Miley has won the Manager of the Year Award in 2007 and 2012 and also won the championship in the minors back in 2008. If the Yankees wanted to look to the minors and reward someone for their loyalty, Miley could be considered a name to consider, but given the names around, he could get overlooked.
Jason Giambi (0-0 career managerial record); Giambi is the ultimate underdog, but could sneak up as a potential managerial candidate because he is interested in getting a job in the majors. The former Yankee interviewed with the Colorado Rockies and nearly won the job, but lost out to Walt Weiss and was offered their hitting coach job, but chose to play another season with the Cleveland Indians. Giambi could always serve as a player/coach if he feels like he can still play and serve as a pinch hitter off the bench, but his value has been being a mentor to young players as an older and experienced player. Giambi might not seem like an overwhelming choice for the Yankees job, but he could be a dark horse given that he was a former Yankee player from 2002-2008.
If you were to look at a potential favorite now, Pena makes the most sense since he has managerial experience and is the next in line as the Yankees bench coach. However, the Yankees could always look outside the current coaching staff and look at either Randolph, Scioscia or Mattingly as the next manager for the team. But until then, Girardi has to say he's officially not coming back next season, and we're still a long ways away from that happening. Until then, let the speculation continue.
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(Hot Pot Cuisine, including Sumo-Style)
Cuisine Summary
Hot Pot Cuisine is a conglomerate of ingredients cooked together in a hot pot, or "nabe" (nah-bay). Generally a number of people will eat together from a single pot.
A wide range of ingredients can be used in hot pot cuisine, with one main ingredient usually boiled together with vegetables and tofu. The ingredients are cut into bite-sized pieces for an enjoyable meal. Except for special cases, an earthen pot is almost always used for hot pot cuisine. A portable burner is placed on the table for the pot to sit on, and the food is generally boiled on the spot while everyone eats, periodically adding new ingredients. Hot pot cuisine is most often consumed in the winter months to keep warm.
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Long ago, a sunken fireplace called an "irori" (eee-low-lee) was at the center of the Japanese home. Families would place a hot pot above the fire to boil their food, eating while periodically adding new ingredients. This is thought to be where hot pot cuisine first originated.
As time passed and kitchens were added to the home, irori fireplaces were no longer necessary. A clay charcoal stove was then used for cooking, but today a simple portable burner is the norm.
How to Eat Hot Pot Cuisine
Occasionally, small hot pots are used for individual diners, but generally one large pot is used, with everyone at the table sharing it. This is considered an important form of communication in Japan.
A large pair of chopsticks is used to transport food from the hot pot to your own dish, and smaller chopsticks are used for eating. Condiments are also available for individual use, but are not to be added to the hot pot.
Once all the food has been eaten, a flavorful broth remains. Some people like to add rice or noodles to this broth to make soup.
Ponzu Sauce
Rich hot pot cuisine usually has more than enough natural flavoring, but plain-tasting cuisine is sometimes seasoned with condiments. Chief among those is "ponzu sauce," a thin, citrus-based liquid often mixed with soy sauce for a potent, sweet-and-sour flavor.
Typical Ingredients
Hot Pot Variations Abound
There are many hot pot variations to choose from.
Types of Meal Sets
Popular beef-based variants include sukiyaki and shabu-shabu, while others are described below. Some shops offer a wide variety of hot pot cuisine variations, but most tend to specialize in a certain type. First decide on what type of hot pot cuisine you'd like to experience, then search Gourmet Navigator for just the right restaurant.
Yose Nabe (Chowder): An undetermined mixture of seafood, vegetables, and tofu are boiled in spices. Typical ingredients include codfish, salmon, and scallops, with Chinese cabbage, green onions, or garland chrysanthemum. Rich broth is enjoyed as is, but if a bit watered-down, ponzu sauce adds a nice kick.
Sumo-Style Hot Pot: Also known as "chanko" (chawn-koh), sumo wrestlers will often eat this dish to condition their bodies for competition. The younger, less-skilled wrestlers must prepare it for all sumo wrestlers in the stable. Meat dumplings are often added to the pot, but a wide variety of ingredients and condiments can be used. Some sumo wrestlers have opened their own sumo-style hot pot restaurants once retired.
Anko Nabe (Angler Hot Pot): Angler fish is a deep-sea delicacy that can only be caught in the winter months, limiting this particular dish to winter.
Motsu Nabe (Giblet Hot Pot): Beef or pork intestines are the main ingredient of this well-known local dish originally from the Hakata region of Kyushu. Chinese cabbage and green onions are often used, as are cabbage and Chinese chives. Garlic or miso can be added as well to rid the intestines of their potent smell.
Chige Stew with Kimchi (Kimchi Chige)
Crab Hot Pot (Kani Nabe)
Chicken Broth Hot Pot (Mizu Taki)
Duck Hot Pot (Kamo Nabe)
Boiled Tofu (Yu Dofu)
Oyster Hot Pot (Kaki Nabe)
Miso Salmon Hot Pot (Ishikari Nabe)
Kiritanpo Hot Pot (Kiritanpo Nabe)
Riverbank Hot Pot (Kaki no Dote Nabe)
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Money Demand in Romania
Finding a stable money demand relationship is considered essential for the formulation and conduction of an efficient monetary policy. Consequently, numerous theoretical and empirical studies have been conducted in both developed and developing countries to evaluate the determinants and the stability of the demand for money function for various monetary aggregates. This paper briefly reviews the theoretical work, tracing the contributions of several researchers beginning from the classical economists, and explains relevant empirical issues in modelling and estimating money demand function for Romania. The paper models the empirical relationship between broader definition of money, output, interest rates, inflation and exchange rate in Romania and examines the constancy of this relationship, especially in the light of financial reform and deregulation of financial markets. The demand for broad money in Romania has been stable between 1996 and 2002 despite of a pronounced financial liberalization. The analysis suggests that, in Romania in the long run the inflation is weakly exogenous for the money demand, which means that inflation is not a monetary phenomenon.
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Can you please check my answers? Thanxs!
Write an equation that expresses the relationship. Use k as the constant of variation.
20. f varies jointly as b and the square of c.
-I got: f=kbc^2
22. r varies jointly as the square of s and the square of t.
-I got: r=ks^2t^2
Find the variation equation for the variation statement.
31. z varies jointly as y and the cube of x; z=96 when x=2 and y=6 (I don't understand this one. My answer choices are: a.y=2x^3y,b.y=2xy^3, c.y=-2x^3y, or d. y=-2xy^3)
Determine the constant of variation for the stated condition.
40. z varies jointly as x and y, and z=84 when x=28 and y=12.
I got: z=xy, 84=k*22*12, 84=336k, I divided both sides by 336 and I got k=84/336, but it can be reduced, so k=1/4
Solve the problem.
46. h varies jointly as f and g. Find h when f=27, g=12, and k=3.
I got: h=kfg, h=3*27*12, h=972
Write an equation that expresses the relationship. Use k for the constant of proportinality.
50. p varies directly as r and inversely as s.
-I got: p=kr/s
53. r varies directly as s and inversely as the square of t.
-I got: r=ks/t^2
Determine the constant of variation for the stated condition.
58. z varies directly as x and inversely as y, and z=2 when x=30 and y=60.
I got: z=kx/y, 2=k*30/60, I multiplied each side by 60, and got 120=30k, I divided each side by 30, and got k=120/30, it reduces to k=4
60. z varies directly as x and inversely as y, and z=4 when x=77 and y=28.
-I got:z=kx/y, 4=k*77/25, I multiplied each side by 25 and got 112=77k, I divided both sides by 77, and got k=16/11.
Solve the problem.
66. y varies jointly as a and b inversely as the square root of c, y=24 when a=6,b=4, and c=49. Find y when a=2, b=5, and c=16.
-I got: y=kab/ sqrt of c, y=2*5/ sqrt of 16, y=10/4, which reduces to y=2.5


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Now that Joan McAllister (Judy Davis) has gotten herself clean and sober, Pappy, her much older husband, has signed her up to work part-time at Destinies, the swanky rehab center she sprung herself from with Molly's help.
That wouldn't be so bad if her first client to pick up from the airport weren't David Shea, the dashingly handsome yet perpetually sloshed British actor who has just been arrested�again. But she'll do anything for Pappy since he stuck by her during her vodka-fueled behavior, even if it means chasing down runaway drunks. The question is: will he do what she needs to make her happy?


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Another baby question :)
Does anyone know if NCL has High Chairs available for babies...I have been on many cruises, but don't remember seeing them (seems like I just see kids in strollers in Windjammer (RCCL~don't know what it is called on NCL)...
Royal Caribbean has a limited supply of high chairs and booster seat available for both the main dining room and the Windjammer. I'm sure all other cruise lines would supply them also.
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