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Joe Branch is a founding partner of UWANTGAME Ventures. An expert in sports marketing and athlete education, Joe has served in many capacities in the sports industry and academic sector throughout his professional career. He was the Associate Brand Manager for Nike Basketball East before moving on to become the Senior Manager of Global Marketing Partnerships for the NBA.
In his current role with UWG, Joe oversees the mentor program in Brooklyn. He is also the Brand Manager for GameBreakers, a UWG initiative focused on effecting pipeline development of African-American male high school student-athletes and coaches.
Recognizing his acute sports marketing and business acumen, Five-Star Basketball hired Joe as a consultant to assist in the expansion of its Basketball Performance Academy by tasking him to complete a comprehensive business plan. Soon after, Joe was named Director of Youth Leaders of Emmanuel, a church-based organization dedicated to the positive growth of young people in the community. As Director of YLE, Joe is charged with rebranding the youth ministry as well as overseeing the annual operating budget and monthly programming.
An advocate of education, Joe has taken his knowledge to the classrooms of Long Island University–Brooklyn as Adjunct Professor in Sports Business where he focuses his curriculum on branding and sports marketing.
Joe's own academic career began at The Kinkaid School in Houston, Texas. Upon graduating from the college preparatory school, he matriculated to Northwestern University. There, he was a member of the Wildcats basketball team and an Associate Student Government Senator. He continued his studies at Rice University where he earned an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and served as President of the Black Graduate School Association.
During his spare time, Joe enjoys reading, working out, playing basketball, and golf.
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Many MP3 players and recent Android phones and tablets no longer appear as removable USB storage devices under Linux. Instead they use MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) and to enable these devices to be detected, mountable, and usable by Linux requires a bit of configuration.
This is how I setup my laptop to work with Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices. These steps should work with any MTP-enabled device with the only difference being Android-specific configuration and the relevant vendor or device IDs for each device.
To configure MTP under Debian:
0. Developer Options
On the Nexus I enable developer options by navigating to Settings->About {tablet,phone}, click to open and make +7 taps on Build number. Nexus displays You are now a developer.
Return to settings and Developer Options is now visible. Click to open and activate USB debugging.
Install MTP packages and assign USER to the plugdev group:
$ sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs
$ sudo adduser USER plugdev
Logout and re-login to activate new group permissions.
2. Udev
Connect the MTP-enabled device to Linux and make note of the idVendor and idProduct codes. Sample output from my Nexus 7:
$ lsusb | grep Google
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 18d1:4e41 Google Inc. ASUS Nexus 7 (MTP modus)
Google's idVendor=18d1 and the Nexus 7 is idProduct=4e41. Disconnect the device. Create a new udev rule for Nexus devices in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules:
# Google
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"
For a generic entry to handle all Google devices use idVendor. Otherwise add idVendor and idProduct codes to make a device-specific udev rule.
MTPFS is a FUSE filesystem that enables reading and writing data to the MTP-enabled Nexus. Create a mount point for the tablet and restart the udev daemon:
$ sudo mkdir /media/nexus
$ sudo service udev restart
Connect the (not in sleep mode) tablet and access onboard storage by running:
$ sudo mtpfs /media/nexus -o allow_other
Unmount the device when finished:
$ sudo umount mtpfs
Alternate options such as Airdroid exist for device storage management over wireless connections that are OS-independent. MTP is useful to setup if you plan to install development tools and root your device.
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Tokyo (AFP) March 4, 2013
A father froze to death while sheltering his nine-year-old daughter from severe weekend blizzards that swept northern Japan, two years after her mother died, reports said Monday.
Mikio Okada died as he tried to protect his only child Natsune against winds of up to 109 kilometres (68 miles) per hour, as temperatures plunged to minus 6 Celsius (21 Fahrenheit).
Okada was one of at least nine people killed in a spate of snow-related incidents as blizzards swept across Hokkaido island, police said Monday.
The latest confirmed victim was Kuniko Jingi, 76, who was found lying on the street late Saturday. As with many others, she appeared to have perished after leaving her stranded car, a local police officer said.
Okada's body was uncovered by rescuers looking for the pair after relatives raised the alarm. Natsune was wearing her father's jacket and was wrapped in his arms, newspapers and broadcasters said.
The pair had last been heard from at 4 pm on Saturday, after fisherman Okada picked his daughter up from a school where she was being looked after while he was at work.
Okada called his relatives to say his truck had become stranded in the driving snow, which was several metres deep in places. He told them he and Natsune would walk the remaining kilometre, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The two were found just 300 metres from the truck at 7 am on Sunday.
Okada was hunched over his daughter, cradling her in his arms and apparently using his body and a warehouse wall to provide shelter, the Yomiuri said.
He had taken his jacket off to give to the child, a broadcaster said.
Rescuers said she was weeping weakly in his arms, the paper said.
The young girl was taken to hospital where she was found to have no serious injuries. Her father was officially pronounced dead by doctors at the same institution near their home at Yubetsu on Hokkaido.
The Yomiuri said Natsune's mother had died two years earlier from an unspecified illness.
The paper quoted neighbours as saying Okada had been a doting father who would often delay the start of his working day to enjoy breakfast with his daughter.
His death came as families all over Japan celebrated Girls' Day, a festival in which they gather at home and decorate houses with dolls.
"He reserved a cake for his only daughter and was looking forward to celebrating Dolls' Festival together," a neighbour told the Yomiuri.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lexington's double crossover diamond on Harrodsburg Road is once again receiving national recognition – this time as one of the country's ten best transportation projects.
The interchange, which eliminates left turns across oncoming traffic, is one of ten finalists selected by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to compete for the organization's annual grand prize. Chuck Wolfe with the state Transportation Cabinet says, while the plaudits are nice, the goal is also to promote projects that make sense in challenging economic times.
"Given that environment, it's imperative for all states to be as innovative and efficient as possible with the resources that we have," Wolfe says.
The grand prize includes a $10-thousand award. Starting Monday, citizens can vote online for the double crossover diamond in the People's Choice Award category, which also carries a $10-thousand dollar prize for the state. More information is at AmericasTransportationAward.com.


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The Spin Doctors of Early Music
By RICHARD TARUSKIN; Richard Taruskin has performed early music as a choral conductor and viola da gamba soloist. This article originated with remarks at a symposium during the Berkeley Festival ''Music in History'' in June.
Published: July 29, 1990
What does early music have to do with history? In theory, everything. In fact, very little. At the beginning, the movement was frankly antiquarian - a matter of reviving forgotten repertories and, with them, forgotten instruments and performing practices. Nobody objected to that, nor did most musicians even pay much attention to it. Now, it seems, Early Musickers are performing almost everything. They have laid claim to the standard repertory, and attention must be paid. More than that, sides are taken - the movement in its present phase has become controversial.
But on closer inspection, it becomes ever more apparent that ''historical'' performers who aim ''to get to 'the truth' '' (as the fortepianist Malcolm Bilson has put it) by using period instruments and reviving lost playing techniques actually pick and choose from history's wares. And they do so in a manner that says more about the values of the late 20th century than about those of any earlier era.
Whatever the movement's aims or claims, absolutely no one performs pre-20th-century music as it would have been performed when new. This may be so easily verified that it is a wonder anyone still believes the contrary. Here are some examples:
* Frans Bruggen, appearing with his Orchestra of the 18th Century at Zellerbach Hall on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, tells the audience during an intermission feature at the open dress rehearsal that the purpose of his enterprise is ''to be obedient to the composer.'' He then conducts a performance of Beethoven's ''Eroica'' Symphony in which the composer's meticulously indicated tempos are all ignored.
* Roger Norrington launches a meteoric career as ''historical'' performer of the standard classical repertory with a cycle of Beethoven symphonies on CD in which the composer's metronome indications are not only (pretty much) followed, but also emblazoned on the containers in an act of pious bravado. Having set the tempos, however, the conductor adheres to them with dogged rigidity, contradicting every eye-witness report we have of Beethoven's own conducting, as well as the explicit instructions of 18th-century conducting manuals.
* Mr. Bilson and John Eliot Gardiner (the latter conducting the English Baroque Soloists) complete the first recorded cycle of Mozart piano concertos on ''original instruments,'' representing the pieces in their true colors at last. But the notes they play, for the most part, are just the ones Mozart wrote. They do not add all the extra notes Mozart's audiences actually heard.
These performers and others like them can be counted on to flout historical evidence whenever it does not conform to their idea of ''the truth.'' They do it knowingly. In fact, because they are so much more historically aware than conventionally trained musicians tend to be, they flout historical evidence more knowingly than do their ''modern'' counterparts. With the growing success of Early Music, we are increasingly surrounded by unhistorical sounds masquerading as historical - or ''authentic,'' to use a word that more sophisticated performers now shun but that musical salesmen and spin doctors still spout to seduce the unwary consumer.
Some of these unhistorical sounds are really central to the concept of historical performance. Take the ''contertenor'' (male falsetto) voice. It is the very emblem of Early Music. No Baroque opera revival can get by without it. All the best historical vocal groups sport it, whether they sing Renaissance madrigals (the Consort of Musicke), the music of the pre-Reformation and Counter-Reformation Roman Catholic Church (the Hilliard Ensemble, the Tallis Scholars) or late medieval polyphony (the Gothic Voices).
Unhistorical Sounds
A Vocal Model Born In English Choirs
There is no evidence that falsettists participated in any of these repertories when they were current. The voice was born in the English cathedral choir, and owes its modern currency to the success of Alfred Deller, an outstanding English cathedral alto, as pioneering protagonist of the modern Early Music revival in its antiquarian phase. It is no accident, then, that all of the vocal groups listed above are English, for they have founded their performing styles, as Deller did, on their own distinguished national traditions. Their excellence has bred emulation, establishing the English cathedral style as an international sonic norm for Early Music, and the model on which Early Music vocal production in all ranges is based.
The best one can do to justify the current vogue for countertenors in historical terms would be to say that, thanks to Deller's example, we now like to hear our Palestrina sung as it might have been sung by an Anglican choir in the 16th century. But in the 16th century no Anglican choir would have dreamed of singing Palestrina's music if they valued their lives.
There can be no historical justification at all for using an English cathedral voice in a Handel opera. Handel, who must have known what the falsettists of his adopted country sounded like, never wrote for them; when (like us) he couldn't get a castrato for an opera performance, he happily dressed a woman in trousers and plumed helmet. Handel's women, we can be reasonably sure, sounded nothing like Alfred Deller. We can use women, too, of course, and sometimes do, but unless the woman is Marilyn Horne, we seem to prefer countertenors, demonstrably unhistorical though they be.
A Higher Authenticity
Early Music Is The Sound of Now
So is Early Music just a hoax? Are the Bruggens and Bilsons deceiving us, or themselves? Is ''authentic'' performance as inauthentic as all that?


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Classy American diner in Westbourne Grove with great food, killer milkshakes and a happy neighbourhood vibe – and it looks great, too.
Most London restaurants calling themselves diners aren't really diners at all: diners have a long, diverse menu. That complaint is pretty much the only one we can make about this tiny outpost of Tom Conran's empire. The American-retro decor is a smile from floor to ceiling, with outsized, wildly kitsch figurines stealing the show. The menu is 90% breakfast, burgers and outlandishly rich desserts, plus drinks including craft beers, some cocktails and many shakes. We had one of the few salads, cobb with grilled chicken, and it was excellent: a variety of ingredients, tender, tasty chicken, exceptionally generous in portion. A cheeseburger was equally successful: flavourful beef cooked as requested, and with appetising garnishes. Fries were good, coleslaw thinly shredded and creamy. The menu also includes a few other sandwiches, hot dogs and eggy breakfast options (huevos rancheros alongside the traditional choices). The drawback is size – seating capacity is just a couple of dozen – and the no-bookings policy. So you'll often have to queue. But with quality this high, a queue is a small sacrifice. Tom Conran understands that when you work with food this simple, you need to get 100% out of every single detail. And he succeeds.
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Wouldn't rate it for breakfast/brunch. Has a grubby feel and the service is poor. The plates look old. They don't wipe the tables properly and were slow to clear away dirty plates. The servings are relatively small for the price. They don't do a flat white coffee, only filter. The sharing tables isn't great either. Too cramped. Definitely wouldn't recommend it if you are nursing a hangover. Won't be back.
Food was good, justabove average. Its been a while since I came here, but I don;t have anythign memorabel to share with respect to food. What is memorable wthough was the bad service. I tried to pay with my debit card, which was rejected, not because i did not have enopugh mioney, btu because these things happen every now and then, you just need to retry with the same card, it is sometimes down to bad connection of the payment unit. THE WAITER REFUSED TO RETRY, saying that I had no money in my accoutn and demanded I use another card or cash. TEven though I was with a friend and not a date, thsi was highly embarrassing, and unacceptable, and somethiogn i never experienced. Did he realyl suggest I tried to get free burgers or something? I understand people can have bad days, but just stay moody and miserable, don;t insult your customers.
WASTE OF MONEY Long time customer, rude staff. tonights delivery was a terrible also they got the order wrong and we had no chips.
Great Place! Without a doubt one of a kind. So much effort has gone into its quirky decor. With pool balls as door knobs and McDonald's figurines on the walls, this dinner is good fun! We had a burger each and tried three different kinds of chips. All great, especially the guacamole and the sweet potato chips. This is the kind of fast food that wont leave you feeling disgusting afterwards. The Oreao 'five dollar shake' (which I must add is 7 pounds) which we somehow managed to share as desert and it was to die for. Planning to go back for Huevos Rancheros for breakfast!
We started our day with brunch at Lucky 7 for a hen do yesterday and had a fab time. The food was so good, staff were amazing (with both helping me organise and service on the day) and the portion sizes were huge!! Definitely helped line our stomachs for a full on day. We finished off with some classic & strawberry margaritas - it was a perfect start to the day!
needs to buck its ideas up. eaten here loads. dont know why. burgers need a re think, milk shakes INSANELY OVER PRICED. other burger joints/diners all upping the game in london this place is going to be caught out. strange thing is its partner restaurant/pub the cow is great, awesome food, tom deli is good but again WOW the prices are a joke, i get its a posh area(these days) but the are quality at least. suggest the go to meatliqour and take notes


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST)
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Join us for a special evening of Valentine's Day "matchmaking." We'll taste a range of wines perfectly paired with our favorite cheeses, chocolates, and other special treats. Our pairings will range from classic (think sparkling wines with rich triple creme cheeses) to the more unusual, and we'll talk about what to keep in mind when creating your own pairings at home. Whether you're celebrating Valentine's Day alone or à deux, this promises to be a fun and informative class.
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Like I said I can hear them with my two year old 90 dollar headset with the headphones setting which amplifies low and high sounds. Give it a whirl
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zxrax_alt_1 4 years ago#42
From: Baseman | #004
I've tried everything as well. I really wish you could hear footsteps. Takes some of the fun out of the game IMO
Disagreed. Footsteps make things too easy, and it's another thing I have to worry about when I'm running around. I'm glad they're inaudible. This coming from someone with $300+ worth of audio equipment.
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slayerxelite 4 years ago#43
zxrax_alt_1 posted...
From: Baseman | #004I've tried everything as well. I really wish you could hear footsteps. Takes some of the fun out of the game IMO
This guy gets it.
Seriously, Sitrep Pro took soundwhoring to such an extreme level and too many people relied solely on that crutch to perform in game. Now that they cant, they are mad. Like stated, you cant hear them but they also cant hear you. Its a great trade off since its one less thing to worry about. Good players will still be good. Bad players will still be bad.
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LordofBallyhoo 4 years ago#44
Made_of_fail posted...
I'm glad footsteps are ****ed in this game because it's kids like you that made SnD a pain in the ass to play. Learn to rely on your sight and most of all MAP AWARENESS skill.
While your tone is likely to irritate everyone whether you want to or not, there's a lot of truth to what you are saying. Why does no one remember MW2 search and destroy? This deserves a topic...
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fatclemenza 4 years ago#45
Footsteps would be a good counter to the annoying fleas who sprint everywhere hipfiring SMGs with Lightweight and Dexterity. You can't even hear them coming and unless you pack the same loadout AND happen to be on the good end of the lag comp, you don't stand a chance. If you could hear them coming, it would level the playing field, not to mention give DS some actual purpose. I'd like to see footstep volume, but only if Awareness could not counter DS in any way. There needs to be clear-cut immunity from footstep volume.
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I for one am glad footsteps are non-existent. I don't have to use dead silence on every class anymore.
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Andrew_Ryann 4 years ago#47
slayerxelite posted...
zxrax_alt_1 posted...From: Baseman | #004I've tried everything as well. I really wish you could hear footsteps. Takes some of the fun out of the game IMO
No one in this thread is asking for Sit Rep pro....we're asking for something other than innate dead silence on everyone. That doesn't automatically mean the other extreme of the spectrum. Its not a crutch to use sound to protect yourself from angles your eyes can't see, such as a bad spawn coming up behind you. At the very least the current level of footsteps should require a perk. Almost every game of Hijacked, someone abuses the underground passage between sides to shoot people in the back. It takes ZERO skill to do this, because there's no possible way anyone could know you are coming (ghost) or at what time you will arrive. It sure would be nice to hear them coming up behind me so I at least have a fighting chance. Thats the entirety of having no footsteps; its literally a "pray you're facing the right direction at the right time". There's nothing competitive or skillful about that; its pure luck. If you're in favor of no footsteps, you're basically saying you're in favor of deathstreaks, random grenade toss deaths, spawning into lightning strikes, and anything else that is completely luck based in this game.
So no, I don't find it a "great tradeoff" as you say because it lowers the skill gap in the game. I don't want free kills given to me by virtue of chancing upon someone's exposed ass, and I don't want it done to me. You yourself even state "one less thing to worry about"; if listening to footsteps is such an easy and carefree thing to do, what are you worrying about? Let me guess, a camper hiding in a corner, waiting for the smallest sound, and then jumping out right? If they move, you can hear them too. If they don't move, its the same exact situation as now, that being that they will remain in the corner until you walk in, and then shoot you. If you're "worrying" because its such a taxing thing to do to manage your own footsteps and those of others, whats next in your world? It sure is tough to aim...lets take that out. Reloading too, what a chore. Just a few less things to worry about right?
All of the above aside, why is everyone so opposed to making dead silence actually do what its supposed to do, instead of it always being there?
IchibqnBriqn 4 years ago#48
The footsteps in this game sounds like you're walking on carpet. Maybe the soldiers just have their socks on, so you can't hear them.
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RiverofDenial 4 years ago#49
I've talked about this on these boards multiple times already.
If you want them to change it, go to the actual CoD forums.
Personally I hope to God footsteps get boosted, but we'll see what happens.
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slayerxelite 4 years ago#50
"One less thing to worry about" is because I now dont have someone camping in a corner just listening for me to come along. It has nothing to do with me sitting in a corner since that isnt my playstyle.
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THE CHICK in the egg picks at the shell, cracks open one oval world, and enters another oval world.
cheep is the salutation of the newcomer, the emigrant, the casual at the gates of the
new world.
from oval to oval, sunset to sunset, star to star.
It is at the door of this house, this teeny weeny eggshell exit, it is here men say a riddle and jeer each other: who are
you? where do you go from here?
(In the academies many books, at the circus many sacks of peanuts, at the club rooms many cigar butts.)
from oval to oval, sunset to sunset, star to star.
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This paper examines the demands for nuclear reactors, raw uranium, and fuel cycle requirements by the U.S. electric utility industry over the next twenty years, and under a number of different possible states of the world. The analysis is performed by using the MIT Regional Electricity Model (REM) developed by the authors. This model is an engineering-econometric-financial simulation model of the electric utility industry in the United States. It includes a supply submodel, a demand submodel, and a regulatory financial submodel. The analysis indicates that demands for reactors, raw uranium, and uranium enrichment will be substantially below the projections made by government agencies such as the atomic Energy Commission. These demands are shown to be very sensitive to the costs of air pollution control affecting coal utilization, the costs of uranium and uranium enrichment, the price of oil, and electric utility regulatory practices. It appears that in almost all cases existing plus planned expansion of government-owned enrichment facilities will be sufficient to meet domestic needs until the mid-1980s. However, the continued financial viability of the five reactor vendors servicing the domestic market is doubtful. Two or three of these vendors will either have to drop out of the market or obtain increased nuclear steam supply system orders from foreign countries.
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Green Beans With Butternut Squash, Tofu and Maple Syrup Glaze
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Great dish. A wonderful experience for your whole mouth, tastes even better served with salad and fresh crusty bread. My mother-in-law introduced it to me, and it is now one of my favourite dishes... It is from Crank's vegetarian cook book.
Top Review by justcallmetoni
This dish has two components and my reactions to each were a little different. Loved, loved, loved the roasted vegetables and green beans. They are among my favorite vegetables a but until now had never put them together. The combination of hot sauce and maple syrup was perfect as it accentuated the natural sweetness of the roasted squash and onions without the cloyingly sweet fare that is all too common. I would give that part 6-stars if I could. I am somewhat new to tofu but am trying to eat more as I increasingly move towards more meatless meals. I tried to make this low fat by cutting the oil in half and cooking it in a nonstick skillet. Thought it went well and I did get a nice crust on the tofu. Did I love it? Not yet. But I did think it went well with the veggies as the saltiness from the tamari was a good contrast to the sweetness of the veggies. Thanks!!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 dash Tabasco sauce
- 1 dash sea salt
- 1 dash ground black pepper
- 1 butternut squash
- 4 garlic cloves (unpeeled)
- 2 small red onions
- 150 g green beans
- 275 g firm tofu
- 2 tablespoons tamari
- 30 g whole almonds (optional)
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
Directions See How It's Made
- top and tail green beans.
- cut tofu into about 16 cubes.
- chop almonds into slivers.
- remove seeds from squash and cut into strips.
- Pre-heat oven highest setting.
- Mix 1 table spoon of olive oil, tabasco, salt and pepper.
- Put squash, garlic and onion into roasting tin.
- Baste squash, garlic, and onion with olive oil mixture.
- Tuck garlic cloves and almonds into and among the squash (so they dont burn).
- Roast for 25 minutes and steam beans.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in smal pan, add tofu and fry for a minute on high heat.
- Add tamari, reduce heat and fry until well browned and crisp in places. (this should take about 10 minutes).
- After the squash, garlic and onions have been in for 25 minutes, glaze with maple syrup and mix.
- Place tofu on top of roast mixture, and put it back into the oven for another 2 minutes.


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Spring into Running
By: James Hendricks, D.C.
Now that it seems spring is here and warmer weather hopefully not far away, many people are itching to get out of the house, kick the dust off the sneakers and hit the pavement. There are many factors that attribute to running longer distances or at a faster pace. Some of these factors can be controlled, like: sleep, nutrition, proper foot wear, training, desire/passion for running, over all muscular strength and proper mechanics. However, sometimes the most important factors like; natural athletic ability, VO2 Max (how much oxygen your body is able to consume), pain threshold and economy of motion (the ratio of how much energy you actually use & how fast you go) are ones you are born with. It is any one of these in-born or "genetic" factors that are the differences between your every day runner and the elite runners say like a Freeport, ME favorite Joan Benoit Samuelson.
While all the above controllable factors are important, today I am going to focus on mechanics alone. Improper mechanics can not only hold back your potential but more importantly cause injuries. While there is no such thing as an "ideal" or normal running form, it is more about having an efficient stride. An efficient runner is relaxed, smooth, quick, powerful, and light on their feet.
In contrast, an inefficient stride looks labored, sloppy, and uncoordinated. These same qualities that define an efficient stride also make good mental cues. Thinking about relaxing or being light on your feet is very helpful towards improving your stride.
It is important to learn the stages of the gait cycle before trying to improve your running.
The foot-strike should be light and quick and your foot should not be extended too far out in front of you with a locked knee, but remain under your center of mass. Having your foot hit the ground close to your center of facilitates the transition from mid-stance to propulsion.
The power in your stride should come during the drive phase. Focus on driving your leg straight behind you using your hips and not reaching forward with your leg during the swing phase.
As you run, think about "floating" over the ground, use hip extension (pushing leg back) and a quick cadence to make your body feel as if it were just gliding along the road. As your foot leaves the ground, resist the temptation to "pull through" and extending your knee immediately.
The swing phase is the time to think about relaxing. Simply let your leg swing underneath you and unfold beneath your body.
Improving running form is a combination of targeted strengthening and repeating good movement patterns. A recent study suggests that mindfulness about body positioning can lead to better mechanics. Work on one aspect of form at a time for small portions of runs. For example, pick a nearby landmark and run toward it while concentrating on keeping your shoulders low and aligned with your hips and head. Return to your normal running form, and then pick another element of good running form, such as a quick, light cadence, to focus on until another landmark. Over time, the improvements should come more naturally.
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The key to being able to improve mechanics many times lies with having a detailed assessment completed by a professional. From an analysis of running gait, walking gait and mechanics of the foot, including the arch, much can be derived in terms of possible muscular weaknesses or structural deficiencies contributing to poor overall mechanics, pain or injury. Most commonly, I find that there are similar areas that continually plaque many patients I evaluate. The majority suffer from any one or more of the following: weakness of the gluteus group (butt) or the quadriceps (front of your thigh) and dropping of the arch of the foot causing over pronation of the foot. While these are the most common, there of course can be many other structural issues leading to poor form or injury.
The biggest take home from this article should be if things are "not feeling quite right" or you are starting to have discomfort or pain on your run, it may be more than just an "off" day. Best have it checked out before something minor turns into significant injury, causing you to have to stop running.
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In late October, Jamie Munro and the 3d Lacrosse staff welcomed a couple dozen lacrosse coaches (and me) to their headquarters in Denver to check out some of Jamie's teaching methods, many of which pull on his experience and observation of the box/field hybrid system that he's helped to popularize. Here's Jamie's dodging and shooting instructional.
Below, check out my notes from Notre Dame assistant Gerry Byrne's lesson on individual defense.
We spend about 5% of our practice time on 1-on-1s. I'd say our players get 20 1-on-1 reps from August to May. We take that approach because in a game, they spend about 99% of their time on defense off the ball and, when we go through the recruiting process, players bring their ego into guarding the ball. Our assumption is that you're getting that player's best self when he's guarding the ball.
What we work toward is getting our best self when we're away from the ball.
Our theme our mantra is unrelenting — we want to exhibit being unrelenting with passion, with humor, regardless of our mood, throughout practice — because being good away from the ball is about being unrelenting.
We let out players know that you can get run by; good players will make good plays. We plan and prepare for the convergence of his greatest move with your greatest mistake.
Predictability We have to know what you'll do 100% of the time; what you'll be 100% of the time. You can't throw an over-the-head check once out of 100 times because that's unpredictable. You can't play for a rollback 10% of the time you're guarding the ball because that's unpredictable.
It makes sense to tailor this conversation toward the style of offense that Jamie discussed. One of the big differences that I see is that his players don't run by you guys, they get by guys.
We like to force offenses to play for a long time. We don't hunt for takeaways; no lead wrap checks, no pinning hands. We poke and lift; we don't take a lot of penalties.
With the offense working on the goals at either end of the field, I break the 20 or so guys I've got that day into four groups and they work in the alleys while I stand in the middle of the field and can watch all four groups. I work with the upperclassmen in each group to be leaders, to teach and correct throughout the drills. We have a lot of drills, more than a dozen, and a handful that we do at least once per week, some a couple times per week
We want our drills to work on the choreography of slide decisions, to teach that chop/initial point of contact and the second point of contact. We like to teach technique and concepts at the same time. There is nothing more important than the approach. In sliding read the head of the stick of the defender you're sliding to as a barometer of whether or not to go. When you decide to slide, see the man, see the scouting report.
Lastly, we teach communication in our drills. Being loud/having the confidence to be loud is a skill that needs to be taught and learned. In our opinion, not saying anything is worse than saying the wrong thing.
Here are two drills that we do regularly to help teach those principles.
This is a basic drill in which a defender is covering an attackman who's trying to hold, pick and otherwise obstruct his defender while the three other players move the ball around the perimeter and can dodge into the sliding defender. The drill used to practice shedding an offensive player trying to get position or screen a defender. It's good for communication and getting used to properly orienting yourself to the ball.
Cone Touch/Umbrella
In this drill a ball-carrier throws skip passes to dodgers set up on the opposite side of the defender, and each one knows which dodge he'll do off the catch. When the dodger throws the ball back to the original distributor, the defender retreats to the cone and resets, then practices his approach on the next dodger. The repitition of approaches is most valuable, but it instills other good communication and on-ball defensive habits, as well.
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Hello and welcome to the FT's live blog on the European Central Bank's monetary policy decision and press conference. All eyes are on the ECB as policy makers wait for an improvement in the eurozone's recession-bound economy. By Claire Jones and Lindsay Whipp in London.
The governing council's vote is due at 12.45 (BST) and ECB President Mario Draghi will meet the press at half past one.
Hello and welcome to the live blog on today's European Central Bank governing council's vote. The ECB is widely expected to hold its main rate at 0.5 per cent.
The decision is due out at 12.45 BST.
The ECB has, as expected, held its main interest rate at 0.5 per cent.
Here's FT Frankfurt bureau chief Michael Steen's take on the governing council's decision to hold: http://www.ft.com/…-00144feab7de.html
The euro has edged slightly higher on news of the decision to hold.The FT's currencies correspondent Alice Ross thinks bigger moves in the currency are yet to come:
Fast FT has prepared a handy guide on what to listen out for from ECB president Mario Draghi, who will begin speaking around half an hour from now.
With a "big bazooka" to boost lending seemingly out of the equation, something important to look out for is Draghi's response on whether or not the governing council has given any more thought to negative rates.
Markets moved in reaction to Draghi's comments at the May presser, which were taken as indication that the ECB is giving serious thought to cutting the rate it pays on deposits held at the central bank below its current level of zero.
A couple of data points out in the eurozone this morning. In Germany, factory orders dropped 2.3 per cent seasonally-adjusted in April, reversing the previous month's gains. Here's what Alexander Koch from Unicredit had to say about it:
The correction was driven by a setback in domestic intermediate and capital goods orders as well as in EMU demand. In contrast, foreign orders from other regions held up well.
After the jump in orders in the preceding two months of a total 4.5%, a breather at the beginning of the second quarter is no surprise at all. On a less volatile basis, new orders were basically flat in April versus 1Q13, confirming stabilization in industry. The strong up and down over the last two months was predominantly caused by bulk orders in the other transport equipment sector. Excluding this volatile component, orders were even up a solid 0.8% mom in April versus 1Q13.
French unemployment in the first quarter reached 10.8 per cent, the worst levels since 1998.
While we wait for Draghi to take his seat, let's nip across the pond to the US, where Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian has just published his expectations for Friday's all-important non-farm payroll data. Writing for FT's A List blog, he says:
With global equities selling off, tepid job creation would end up creating more turbulence and uncertainty.
This meeting will also see the ECB unveil its latest quarterly forecasts for growth (or the lack of it) and inflation. Watch out for what the forecasts say on where inflation is likely to be next year. Any indication that they think it's more likely to undershoot the target, could be interpreted as a sign that the ECB is more likely to ease policy.
The previous round of forecasts, from March, are here. Forecasts for inflation next year were for something between 0.6 per cent and 2 per cent. The ECB's target is for inflation that's below but close to 2 per cent in the medium term.
Super Mario has just begun speaking.
Here's a transcript of his remarks from the previous presser. Be on the lookout for changes in his rhetoric on negative rates, the plight of the eurozone's small and medium-sized businesses and the euro's strength.
The questions are about to begin. Here are the highlights of Mr Draghi's opening statement.
On the forecasts, real GDP will shrink by 0.6 per cent this year — that's more gloomy than in March. However the ECB's more upbeat on growth for next year, expecting an economic expansion of 1.1 per cent. In the near term, economic survey data have "shown some improvement". Export growth will be supported by a recovery in global demand, he says.
The midpoint for the inflation forecast for 2014 is unchanged at 1.3 per cent. The forecast for 2013, at 1.4 per cent, is slightly lower, reflecting the fall in oil prices. Inflation expectations are "firmly anchored".
The rhetoric on government action on the fiscal crisis is largely unchanged, though Mr Draghi adds that countries should not backtrack on commitments to meet deficit targets unless there are "exceptional" reasons for doing so.
And here is the first question:
What is happening with possibility of doing something to restart the ABS programme and was the decision on interest rates unanimous?
Draghi responds that had ample discussion on various measures that could be utilised to repair the transmission channels of monetary policy, whether ABS, enhancing additional credit claims framework among others. He adds that there was also a discussion on the possibility of negative rate on deposit facility and that the bank is now technically ready for that. However, he said there are several unintended consequences. And at this point in time he sees no reason to act, so the various measures are being kept in stock.
On the rate decision Draghi said that "by and large" they agreed there wasn't anything that justified taking action at any time.
Are central banks responsible for volatility in financial markets? Draghi's response: the ECB isn't, but the Fed is.
"Frankly the ECB hasn't done anything to increase the volatility in financial markets…we are taking a much more conservative stance [than the other major central banks]," he says.
He adds, however, that there has been an increase in global volatility stemming "from the announcement of decisions that may be taken in the coming months". Ie, the indications from the Federal Reserve that it could taper its bond purchases.
He also says that the flexibility of the labour market has been "placed squarely on the shoulders of the younger population." The ECB president offers little on solutions however, saying only that it "requires investments in human capital."
On the fixed rate full allotment, he reiterated that it would be maintained for whole of next year until July 2014 and as long as needed. He adds that it it needs to be prolonged beyond that date that would be done.
The decision to not take further action today was not unanimous. Draghi says only that there was "a consensus" among members of the governing council.
And on capital controls in Cyprus, Draghi says that the ECB is aware they distort the market profoundly in the euro area and it made its view clear at time. The sooner can be lifted the better but it is not the central bank's responsibility.
Wow. Note to journos: don't dis the OMT otherwise you get Draghi in full braggadocio mode.
"The OMT has been probably the most successful monetary policy measure undertaken in recent times," he says. Deflation risk is "over", he claims. Look at the Target2 balances, he adds.
The ten year bond yields have "declined spectacularly" in several countries but went up in Germany. "The OMT has brought stability not only to the markets in Europe but markets worldwide. Looking backwards one can only be quite satisfied," he says.
He also warns to not get too optimistic about current market conditions. If there are no structural reforms from government, no improvements in competitiveness, then the recent gains will unravel.
Alice Ross notes the rather unusual reaction in FX markets to Draghi's (stronger) rhetoric on negative rates:
We're back to the German constitutional court issue: Draghi says that he wasn't specifically asked to speak at the hearing. But that the ECB decided that executive board member Jörg Asmussen would be the best person to do so as he in charge of legal affairs on board and knows German legal system better.
And to LTRO repayments. Draghi says there is a continuing decrease in excess liquidity, and continues to experience repayments in LTRO, reaching slightly below 60% of the net injection that took place in early month of 2012. He argues that this is a positive sign because shows that financial conditions continue to normalise and banks don't need to rely only on ecb for funding as they can get from other sources as well.
What are the drivers of economic recovery? For Draghi there are three: exports, the ECB and lower inflation.
Exports have increased in almost all countries, he says, noting Germany, Spain and Italy "especially". Accommodative monetary policy "will find its way through the economy". Low inflation, notably in oil prices, were increasing purchasing power.
Draghi is clarifying the rates decision. He says that the discussion was not on whether to cut rates, but whether there had been enough of change to grant action now. The prevailing consensus, he says, was a common assessment that the changes taken place over the month were not sufficiently one directional to grant action now.
On the forthcoming stress tests, Mr Draghi acknowledges that officials must avoid a repeat of the mistakes made in 2011 when governments agreed to the tests without having a backstop to plug the capital hole that the tests uncovered. "We want to make sure there is an explicit commitment [to cover any capital shortfall]," Mr Draghi says.
And on the ECB being "technically ready" for negative interest rates on the deposit facility, he again refuses to go into what might happen in the months ahead. He reiterates that "all the preparation" for venturing into the negative territory on deposit facility is there, and is not in a position to say whether that could be combined with other measures.
Mr Draghi is quizzed about the IMF's mea culpa on Greece.
Does the ECB have any apologising to do? "Not really," he says.
More on that IMF mea culpa. He notes that the Fund does not criticise the ECB in the paper.
He adds: "Often these mea culpa are mistakes of historical projections. You tend to judge things that happened yesterday with today's eyes. When discussions were first taking place [four years ago], the climate was much worse than it is today."
The ECB president also parries concerns over deflation. Not a problem, he says.
El Pais gets the last question and the reporter asks what more the ECB can do regarding inflation in light of the pain in Spain. Draghi repeats that he doesn't see a problem with low inflation at the moment as it enables people to buy more things and that it isn't as if the spectre of deflation is lurking.
He then goes onto talk about the importance of fiscal consolidation and how it's unavoidable. He makes similar comments to last month talking about the ways to fiscally consolidate that doesn't hurt growth – ie don't raise taxes, but cut them, reduce unproductive government spending and make industry more competitive.
And he wants everyone to know that the ECB is aware of just how painful all this fiscal consolidation is.
That's it for the questions. The main takeaways are:
– The growth forecasts for 2014 are slightly more optimistic.
– Draghi reiterated that the ECB stands "ready to act" on negative rates. The rhetoric was slightly stronger than last months, but oddly the euro rose on his comments.
- The decision to do nothing today was not unanimous. It was not just a discussion on interest rates, but on whether to take other forms of action now.
- Draghi was indignant when he was defending the OMT and the ECB's records on Greece.
Thanks for tuning in. Bye from Claire Jones and Lindsay Whipp.


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'Mooning' is political protest, court told
An Australian court has been told that "mooning", or baring buttocks, is a legitimate political protest.
Defendant James Albert Ernest Togo, 20, was charged with behaving in an indecent manner for baring his buttocks at a police car in August.
His lawyer told Coolangatta Magistrates Court that mooning police was a protest and should be protected under the constitution.
But police prosecutors said the authority of the police would be threatened if people were allowed to flash their buttocks freely.
Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Michael Purcell said Mr Togo's defence was a dangerous argument.
"How can the action of someone dropping their pants and exposing their buttocks become public comment or a political protest?" he told the court, in the eastern state of Queensland.
"If we allowed everyone who wanted to drop their pants and moon police officers, we are undermining the authority of the police."
Mr O'Sullivan, who is from Togo's Aboriginal Legal Service, said the incident involving his client reflected hostility between aboriginal youths and police in Queensland.
"They don't like what you coppers stand for," he said.
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Issue 3 - Summer 2006 - The Magic Issue
With their vans blaring trance music, their bouncing street antics, their guerrilla graffiti, their disdain for rabbis, and their transcendental take on Judaism, one ultra-Orthodox sect is taking Messianism to new heights. It's beyond the establishment. A
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Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman — it is everywhere in Israel, the most ubiquitous graffiti in the Holy Land. It is scribbled on the sides of neglected buildings, spray-painted in colossal letters onto the rocky bluffs that rise above the highways, and scratched or scrawled on the concrete of army roadblocks. This particular progression of letters and words can be seen glued to the backs of cars, pasted on apartment doors, and slapped on the walls of falafel restaurants and on marketplace stands. Stuck in Israeli consciousness as something between a joke and an incantation, Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman has become an indelible part of the Israeli mindscape, an infectious motto that is a kind of counter-current to the tide of Coke ads and political slogans that daily wash through the Jewish state.
But what does Na Nach mean? Most Israelis have only a vague idea. When they hear the words, some may recall a van festooned with Na Nach stickers, often parked on a bustling commercial city street, with posters plastered to its side featuring a white-bearded elderly man in a blue-and-silver-striped robe, his arms reaching toward the sky, and with a loudspeaker perched on its roof, blasting tinny-sounding Hasidic electronic trance music. Near the van, a little table will have been set up, displaying spiritual and devotional books for sale at cut-rate prices. Five or six young men will be dancing in the street with abandon — men with long side curls, and at least the tufted beginnings of beards.
But instead of normative ultra-Orthodox dress — the severe-looking black suits — they are wearing scruffy jeans and sneakers, and maybe a big white tasseled knitted skullcap with Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman printed around the perimeter. These men are leaping and twirling freestyle, kicking their heels into the cement and flying upward, twisting in the air, inviting passersby to join in, creating a whorl of delirious energy in the asphalt drabness of the street.
I recently caught one of these Na Nach performances in Tel Aviv. At one point, the crazy trance music stopped and a recording of a raspy, ancient voice came from the staticky loudspeaker: "The whole world, the whole government doesn't know who I am," the voice said. "I'll tell you who I am. I am Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman." And then the voice broke into high-pitched, cackling laughter that continued when almost anyone who witnessed this display thought it would end. It almost felt like it continued after the music, with a sudden blast, rang into the street again and the gangly boys resumed their spirited dancing.
The voice on the tape recording — like the face on the posters siding every Na Nach van — is that of Rebbe Yisroel Odesser. Rebbe Yisroel was born sometime toward the end of the nineteenth century in Tiberias, an ancient city in Ottoman Palestine that hugs the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. His disciples say he was 106 years old when he died in 1995, but his family believes his age to have been closer to 97. He had already passed 80, by all accounts, having lived a hardscrabble life as an unskilled laborer when, as if out of the blue, he was "discovered" living at a senior citizens' residence by first one young returnee to Judaism, and then a widening circle of them. By the year of his death, his life story, and in particular a single strange incident that he had spoken about only to close friends and family until well into his senior years, had become the focal point of an ecstatic new religious movement with a magical, redemptive phrase — Na Nach — at its core. With adherents in cities spread across Israel (and congregations cropping up in such places as Paris and Los Angeles), Na Nach is a potently Messianic Jewish group that has emerged as a kind of fusion of Israel's secular, raving youth and the country's traditional ultra-Orthodox.
With their focus on ecstatic dance and religious experience rather than Torah study, the Na Nachers are an extreme example of a growing trend in Israeli spirituality, in which "the body has inherited the place of the text," as the academic Avraham Elqayam has formulated it. "It is mysticism as dance, as music, as prayer," says Elqayam, who heads the Shlomo Moussaieff Center for Kabbalah Research at Bar-Ilan University, "but not prayer as text — textual prayer is being shattered."
Almost entirely made up of formerly secular Jews, or so-called "returnees to Judaism," Na Nach is unlike other ultra-Orthodox sects, which characteristically sequester themselves in tight-knit communities. Na Nach is rather obsessed with spilling the waters of faith into the most godforsaken crannies of Israeli society. On one of the rides I took in one of their vans, the Na Nachers slid open the van's doors during a traffic jam on the Ayalon freeway and blasted out their Hasidic trance music, to which half a dozen men began dancing wildly on the clogged highway. If previous versions of Israeli-bred Messianism — such as the religious Zionists, like those in the settlement movement — have been modernist, seeing redemption as an orderly process that began with the founding of the state, then the Na Nachers' Messianism is postmodern. They are interested not in history but in the spiritual potential of each moment, in disclosing each crack of our broken, seemingly random reality as a portal through which the Messianic light can shine. With their use of graffiti and bumper stickers for their mnemonic, their urban-nomadic lifestyle, and their rave-worthy music, they are keenly attuned to contemporary Israeli culture — and yet can also feel like its very opposite. While Israel has grown increasingly capitalistic and commercial in its orientation since the 1970s, the Na Nachers, as a rule, live from hand to mouth, relying on "miracles," which in pedestrian terms can mean charity, to feed themselves and their families.
In some ways, the Na Nachers bear a resemblance to one other Jewish group — the Chabad Messianists, who believe that their grand rabbi, or rebbe, is the Messiah, and that his death in 1994 was merely an occultation — that he remains on earth, "soul within body," hidden from the eyes of man. Though neither the Chabadniks nor the Na Nachers like to have it pointed out, there seems to be a hidden competition between the two groups. Both have inscribed reality-altering phrases at the center of their movements — for the Chabad Messianists, the skullcaps they wear bear the motto "Long Live Our Master, Our Teacher, Our Rabbi, the King Messiah Forever and Ever." The Na Nachers have sloganeering kippas, too. They have also fashioned a Na Nach amulet, which, when worn around the neck, they believe heals disease and protects from misfortune. Both sects have an all-consuming focus on a Messianic holy man, or tzaddik, who serves as the primary conduit through which God shines light into the world — an idea that strikes many Jews as foreign to Judaism or, worse, as more than faintly Christological.
There are also important differences between the groups. Key among them is that whereas the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, had, for forty-three years, been the leader of the massive and powerful movement that has pedestalized him, Na Nach's Rebbe Yisroel Odesser, at the time of his death, was still nearly unknown, as was the religious movement he founded.
Today, twenty-five to thirty Na Nach vans, filled with dancers, swing through Israel's towns and cities daily. Over a million Na Nach books have been sold or distributed throughout Israel, largely through the fleet of vans. Youth in
Na Nach is now poised for the next step: an international presence. With the appearance of a few synagogues in France and America, Na Nach activists are hoping to soon fill the world with their slogan, their amulets, and their books. When that happens, they believe the soul of the Messiah will be revealed.
If one of the most typical postmodern cultural narratives is a movement from the margin to the center, then Reb Yisroel's story can be seen as a classic. It begins with a small book he found in a garbage bin, its cover and title pages torn off. This was somewhere near the early 1900s, and Reb Yisroel was a kid in Tiberias. From a young age, Yisroel, who was born into a poor Hasidic family, yearned with a precocious intensity to serve God, but could not, so he writes in his classic Sipur Hahitcarvut, "find a healing for the wounds of my soul."
That is until he opened the coverless book he had rescued from the rubbish heap. Although he did not yet know it, the book was Outpouring of the Soul, by Rabbi Alter Tepliker, a third-generation follower of the Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, one of the most original and controversial of the early Hasidic masters, who died in the town of Uman, in Ukraine, in 1810. Written in simple, heartrending prose, Outpouring is a meditation on one of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's key teachings: that pouring one's heart out to God regularly in passionate sessions of personal prayer, preferably late at night alone in the wilderness, is the one guaranteed method of rising to new levels of spiritual awareness and achieving closeness to God. Reb Yisroel read the book obsessively. He writes that he felt its pages emanated "a new light" that had "changed him completely." But when a curious friend in his yeshiva had a look at the book, and realized that it was Breslov literature, the friend wrestled it away from Reb Yisroel in order to destroy the text completely.
Being Breslov literature is what had landed the book in the garbage in the first place. Until a few decades ago, Breslov Hasidism was scorned throughout most of the ultra-Orthodox world. First and foremost this was because of Breslov Hasids' claim that Rebbe Nachman surpassed in spiritual greatness all the great masters of previous generations, and that his teachings alone could usher in the Messianic era. In addition, Breslov's leaderless structure — after Rebbe Nachman's death no one inherited his mantle — and its emphasis on unrelenting, spiritually intense personal ritual rather than communal prayer in the synagogue, gave it a reputation for anarchy, even madness. Even on their home turf in Ukraine, Breslov Hasidim were a tiny group and were often harassed by other Jewish sects. When they reached Palestine, where they were even fewer, they were spurned and despised as crazy counterculturalists even more.
Rebbe Yisroel, who encountered the word Breslov for the first time when his found book was commandeered away, prayed to encounter a teacher from the sect. And, miraculously — or so he experienced it — the teacher appeared, in the person of Reb Yisroel Karduner, a mysterious Hasid who had immigrated to Israel from Ukraine and who spent most of his time praying and singing in the woods. From their first meeting in 1914 until Karduner's death six years later, the two men, both generally outcasts from the greater ultra-Orthodox community, were nearly inseparable. Odesser moved with his wife, Esther Mind'l, to Sfat to live near his teacher, whom he described in later years as "like no one I ever saw … a person for whom this world had no existence at all … a person whose face shone with the charisma of holiness."
The summer of 1922 brought the crucial event in Odesser's life — and in the Na Nach movement. On the seventeenth day of Tammuz, an important fast day on the Jewish calendar, Odesser awoke with an uncontrollable urge to eat and to drink. He satisfied his uncommonly strong craving and then fell into an inconsolable depression. For several days, he lay in the synagogue of the yeshiva in which he studied, shrouded in his sin, speaking to no one and eating nothing, his despair compounded by the comments he overheard: Yisroel's gone mad! This is what happens in the end to all Breslovers! Eventually, Odesser found it in him to pray to God for forgiveness. He then experienced what he calls "a compelling thought, found as if someone had entered my head … it said to me, 'Go to your room, open the bookshelf [which Odesser locked because his Breslov books would otherwise have been vandalized], place your hand on a book, take it from the shelf and open it — there you will find a healing for your soul.'"
Odesser opened one of his books, and found a slip of paper between its pages. At first, he thought it was a bookmark, but then he saw that there was something written on it:
About twenty-seven years ago, Aharon Patz was a thirty-one-year-old bureaucrat at the Israel State Income Tax Authority. A spiritual seeker who had become interested in deepening his Judaism, he had heard about a Breslov Hasid who resided in an old-age home in Raanana, not far from Kfar Saba, where he lived. Today Patz, 58, still lives in Kfar Saba. When I visited him, a bedecked Na Nach van was parked outside his modest home. "On a hunch," Patz told me of the day he met Reb Yisroel, "I paid the old man a visit. As soon as I walked in, Reb Yisroel, who was confined to a wheelchair because of ailing legs, said to me: 'I see you have ants in your pants. You are a man of action, not a philosophizer. I need people like you.'" Patz found the assessment to be preternaturally accurate. Soon afterward, Reb Yisroel told him about the note he had received some fifty-seven years beforehand.
Until then, the news of the note had been kept mainly within a close circle of Reb Yisroel's family and friends. His grandson, Uri Kreuzer, a Jerusalem high-school teacher and carpenter, recalls his grandfather showing him the note when he was a child. During the years preceding the Holocaust, Reb Yisroel had also sent the note by mail to a group of Breslov Hasidim in Poland who had heard about it and asked to see it. It was passed from hand to hand and, remarkably, given the fate of most of the Polish Hasids, returned safely to Palestine in the middle of World War II.
To Patz, Odesser began to disclose what he felt was the true significance of the note, something he had meditated on deeply over the years. Odesser told Patz that he had chosen to work lonely night jobs — as a baker, or as a night watchman at a factory for kerosene heaters — occupations where he could slip in some study or prayer as he worked. He showed Patz the note, and Patz took it away, and then brought it, along with samples of Odesser's handwriting, to a graphologist in order to ensure that Odesser himself had not written the note in some liminal state. The note checked out.
Odesser told Patz that the key aspect of the note was its intriguing signature: Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman. First one letter of Rabbi Nachman's name — n — then two — cn — then three — mcn — then four — Nmcn — and so on. Odesser recalled a precedent for this kind of unfolding of a name in the Tiqunei Zohar, a thirteenth-century kabbalistic text. At the time of the redemption, the medieval text said, a new song would awaken in the world. The song would be a single, double, triple, quadruple song — the progressive unfolding of God's unpronounceable name, the tetragrammaton, as y; hy; vhy; h-vhy.
Odesser surmised that the fourfold signature in the note indicated that Rabbi Nachman's name, the name of the true tzaddik, was the fourfold song that would awaken the world to redemption.
Rabbi Natan of Nemerov, Rabbi Nachman's closest disciple, had already explained that "the name of the tzaddik is united with the name of God" — and that pronouncing the names of tzaddikim was a segula, or white magic. The magic worked because the staggered name of the tzaddik contained within it the essence of God's constant renewal of the world. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's note indicated a way out of a catch-22: if the condition of Jewish exile was characterized by God's absence from this world, and if the unholy state of the world meant that Jews were commanded to impose strict restrictions on the writing and pronouncement of God's name, how was redemption to be called up? Rebbe Nachman's answer was: through the name of the tzaddik, that is to say, through his own name, which could be pronounced freely, even as a mantra, and sung in a thousand tunes, and written anywhere.
Odesser had also decoded a more obscure fragment of the note: Full and heaped up from line to line. He told Patz that he believed this meant that Rebbe Nachman wanted him to fill the earth — from one end to another — with his books and teachings. Everyone should reap magic from a book, just as Odesser had.
"What were you praying for?" Reb Yisroel had once asked his own teacher, Reb Yisroel Karduner, after watching him pray a standing prayer for four hours straight. "I was praying," Karduner answered, "that the whole world become Breslov." Odesser realized this was an extraordinary, even revolutionary idea: though amply present in the teachings of the biblical prophets, the notion of the Jews actively spreading their message — even to the gentiles — had been suppressed during centuries of exile and minority status.
By the early 1990s, he had even become distanced from the tiny Breslov community (whose center had moved to Jerusalem from Eastern Europe after World War II) by convincing the president of Israel, Chaim Herzog, to arrange the transfer of Rabbi Nachman's remains from Uman to Jerusalem's Mount Zion. Odesser believed that this was an essential step toward Messianic redemption. But when Herzog, unaware that Odesser was a maverick, announced the transfer, there was a huge outcry from the Breslovers, for whom the pilgrimage to Rebbe Nachman's grave was an entrenched ritual. The agreement was cancelled, but Saba's relationship with mainstream Breslovers remained strained: posters went up all over Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem neighborhood where the Breslov institutions are based, denouncing Odesser and impugning his note from heaven as a practical joke played on a naive youngster.
(The transfer of the body remains an issue to this day. In the past decade, there have been several attempts to steal it from Uman. At present, one of Na Nach's stalwart followers, Sharon Talzur, is set on bringing it to Israel by diplomatic means — he runs a one-man parliamentary lobby devoted to that end.)
In any case, now at odds with most of the Breslov community, Saba had evolved into a true free agent, as evidenced by his odd nomadism. He would rarely stay more than a few days in any one place. Though confined to a wheelchair, he was known to ask his disciples to drive him all over, in a kind of endless sojourn, its significance a mystery to all but Odesser. From Jerusalem to Tiberias to Ashdod, he would often stay with people he hardly knew. Sometimes it would be for a few hours; sometimes a few days. And then he'd move on to a new place.
One effect of Odesser's wanderlust was that it prevented any kind of formal, institutional community from developing around him, which kept this movement underground, pretty grassy in its roots. Uri Eliav, a man of Iraqi descent who had grown up in Tel Aviv and was around thirty when Odesser began gaining speed in the 1980s, was the first of the Rebbe's followers to actively spread the five-word Na Nach mantra. "After I returned to Judaism I began to think about the advertising slogans that were plastered everywhere in the streets in Israel," says Eliav. "I thought: why can't something holy — something that brings joy and hope — be spread like that? Like commercials?" Eliav met Saba, and, on his own, began to fashion giant banners painted with the Na Nach motto and hung them on freeway overpasses.
"But then I got discouraged and felt that what I was doing was meaningless," says Eliav. "Saba told me to continue. He said what I had done had caused great delight and amusement in the higher worlds." Soon after, the graffiti began and Israeli society noticed. Several years ago, Eliav says, a convention of advertisers decided to award "Na Nach" with their "commercial of the year" prize. Given the illegalities of defacement of public property, "No one came forward to claim it," he says.
The whole world, the whole government, doesn't know who I am. I am Na Nach Nachma Nachman from Uman. A few weeks before his death in 1995, Odesser's followers recorded him speaking these words that are today played from the Na Nach vans. Before his death, the mythology around Saba grew along with the Na Nach movement. With Saba's prodigious age — maybe in his late nineties; maybe past his centenary — as proof, his followers began believing that Odesser, the recipient of a "note from heaven," was destined to live to see the coming of the Messiah. Many followers decided that Odesser had received into himself the soul of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, in order to prepare the world for the Messiah's birth. "For does it really matter," as one pamphlet expressed it, "who is Na Nach Nachma Nachman from Uman, Rebbe Nachman or Rabbi Yisroel Odesser? For they shine forth together, with one light, the full and complete redemption."
"If he hadn't said, 'I am Na Nach Nachma Nachman' before he died, I would have gone crazy!" says Aharon Patz. "In declaring it, he was saying 'I've done the job. I've brought Reb Nachman's light into the world.'"
Some of the Na Nachers go so far as to believe that Rabbi Yisroel Odesser, united with the soul of Rabbi Nachman, is the Messiah, period. They no longer travel to Uman in pilgrimage on the Jewish New Year, instead praying at Saba's gravesite in Jerusalem.
It remains unclear which of the Na Nach followers tried to steal Reb Yisroel's body at his funeral, whether the culprits were of the group who believe he is the Messiah or those who think he is just the precursor. Uri Kreuzer, Odesser's grandson, says he had been forewarned of the plan to nab the corpse: some of his grandfather's followers were claiming that he had expressed a wish to be buried in Tiberias, beside the grave of his teacher, Reb Yisroel Karduner. As the funeral procession turned down Meah Shearim Avenue before heading for the cemetery, a big Chevy GMC station wagon backed suddenly toward the casket, and two young men jumped out of the car prepared to grab Saba. Kreuzer tried to block them with his body, and one of Saba's sons-in-law began to scream bloodily. The coffin-snatchers retreated, but left a whiff of the idea that Saba's penchant for unexpected travel extended beyond the grave.
Uri Eliav is dozing in the back of a Na Nach van parked on a corner of Sheinkin, Tel Aviv's hippest street. There is a plan to later drive to Haifa to "distribute" — Nach lingo for dancing and selling books. Eliav, today in his mid-fifties, has long, elegant, silky side curls and beard, and blue, otherworldly eyes. "It's all divine providence," he says when he wakes up. "That's what the new song — 'Na Nach' — is about. Seeing the light of divine providence. And we see it all the time, but we never know where we are going to end up."
The other young men around the van are young, in their twenties. They are drumming and leaping in the air, with seemingly inexhaustible energy — one Na Nacher told me he had once danced an impossible twenty-four hours straight. Eliav is their elder, their living patron saint. He places great emphasis on "throwing away the mind," a concept from Rabbi Nachman's teachings, and one which will not be unfamiliar to students of other mystical faiths, from the meditative Buddhism to ecstatic Sufism. I ask one of the younger men — Yaniv Na'ar, who got aboard a van six months ago on an impulse, and never got off — what it means in the Na Nach context.
"We follow the tzaddik," he says. "We throw away our mind in order to gain a much greater mind, the mind of the tzaddik."
Eliav provides a somewhat different explanation. "It means not to care that I seem like a clown, dancing on the street, or even in clubs and parties when people invite us, thinking we are fools." For Eliav, as for many of the Na Nachers, following Saba means rejecting not only secular life, but also rabbinic authority. Although the Na Nachers follow Halacha, Jewish law, they reject rabbinic spiritual leadership. "The tzaddik allows you to listen to your own unique inner point of godliness — the rabbis try to take this away, to grab it and enslave it for themselves," says Eliav. "There are many rabbis in Breslov [Hasidism]. They forget that Rabbi Nachman's Torah is something new, totally new. We, Na Nach, are the only ones without a rabbi."
As I watch the young men going wild on this most secular of Israeli street corners, I ask myself whether this strange amalgam—ultra-Orthodox, anti-rabbinic, trance-dance Messianic universalistic Judaism — could have originated anywhere but in today's Israel. Many, perhaps a majority, of Na Nach's adherents are Sephardic Jews whose parents emigrated from Islamic countries. To some extent, the same is true of the Chabad Messianists — who, while marginal as far as Chabad groups go in America, are the dominant Chabad faction in Israel. The Israeli Chabad Messianists have a Sephardic majority so prominent that some of their detractors have nicknamed them "the Hezbollah."
Is it just coincidental that in Israel — where Jews no longer feel the need to defend themselves psychologically and spiritually against the influence of the non-Jewish majorities of their former lands — urges long repressed have risen to the surface? The impulse toward magic, largely taboo after the Enlightenment, no longer seems to scare. And the taboo about preaching, especially to gentiles, seems to be coming down as well.
Earlier this year, in the Times Square subway station in Manhattan, I saw two young Chabadniks handing out pamphlets. They were giving them to blacks and whites, Hispanics and Chinese. Here in Israel, Chabad Messianists have sent pamphlets in Arabic to every resident of East Jerusalem. Now, Aharon Patz is on the same page. He says that through practices such as the distribution of Na Nach amulets, gentiles can be introduced to "the truth of Reb Nachman" without having to learn anything about Judaism. In the week I spoke with him, he said he was waiting for news of a giant business deal involving oil fields that several American Na Nachers — people whom Patz had introduced to the faith — were involved in. Seventy percent of the profits, they had promised, would go to translating, printing, and distributing the books. The American Na Nachers spoke of a new kind of printing technology that could produce half a million books a day. Within several years, they said, the whole world could be covered. &