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I recently opened LLC in California but I live in Oregon.When I pay myself salary as employee of LLC do I need to pay California taxes on the salary.
do I need to pay california taxes on the profit?
Thanks in Advance.
The way that an LLC is taxed depends on the way that you file your taxes for it. It can be disregarded or taxed as a corporation or partnership.
I'm curious why you would form a CA LLC if you are living in Oregon? That can really complicate things and if you aren't actually physically doing business in California you might be better of dissolving the CA LLC and starting again in Oregon. California is unique because they will take a small tax (franchise fee of $800 min.) on profit even if you operate a pass-through entity (disclaimer: I remember that from a few years ago), and the CA FTB is super difficult to deal with even by government tax agency standards
At the very least you'll need to register the LLC in Oregon and then take all of the income as OR income - that way you'll avoid taking any payroll taxes in CA. Why did you set it up this way?
Hi Sagewing
Thanks for your reply.My client is in California and go there every alternative week for 2-3 days. Initially I thought if I am doing business in CA I have to open LLC in CA or file DBA in CA.
Just to clarify ... so you mean even if my LLC paying salary to OR resident employee I have to pay CA payroll taxes.
another thing I dont mind closing my CA LLC but I have to sign contract with my client as soon as possible and opening a new LLC will take some time...so I am thinking I will continue with CA LLC for another 2-3 months and then will transfer CA LLC to OR
anybody know better solution to this situation?
That is a bad situation because you will have some 'nexus' in California and will therefore have to register the LLC as a foreign entity (or a domestic one) regardless. So, if you want to be 100% legal you will have no choice but to deal with the CA FTB.
That said, you will probably be better off domiciling your LLC in Oregon and then registering it as foriegn in CA. That way, when you allocate the majority of your income to Oregon payroll (or however you pay yourself) you'll have a more realistic basis for that. Also, being a foriegn entity may reduce your liability to the FTB.
But your situation still is not clear: are you ONLY doing work for this client in CA? or are you always doing work for this client but will only physically be in CA for a few days every other week? What kind of contract is this and are you certain that you even need an LLC or will get any benefit from it? If you are dealing with a single client/contract and it's not worth more than a certain amount, you aren't realizing any benefits from an LLC an dcan save yourself a lot of headaches by going 1099.
If you share with us the approximate value of the contract, the physical location where the work will be done (can be split between two places as a percentage), and your plans for the LLC (if any) beyond this particular client, then it will be easier to advise.
But your situation still is not clear: are you ONLY doing work for this client in CA? Yes this is only client I have.
or are you always doing work for this client but will only physically be in CA for a few days every other week?Yes thats correct
What kind of contract is this and are you certain that you even need an LLC or will get any benefit from it?Here is the my current situation.. I used to work for this client through other two companies..
Company A (My Employer) --> Company B (Direct vendor) --> Company C (Client)
Now I am going to sign contract directly with Company B using my LLC. Company B doesn't want to go with 1099 option as that raises flag with IRS..
If you are dealing with a single client/contract and it's not worth more than a certain amount, you aren't realizing any benefits from an LLC an dcan save yourself a lot of headaches by going 1099.
I don't think that's right. They will.have to 1099 you regardless if you are an SMLLC, and the risk of the IRS rejecting the classification is the same. I would dissolve the CA entity, form a OR entity and register it in CA right away. But, it also depends on the value of the contract.
Why it is dependent on the contract value? Current contract value is approximately 125K
and what is the difference between having company in CA or registering OR LLC in CA from saving point of view?
In my case I do not have any clients in OR
Revenues below a certain point aren't worth forming an LLC around. For 125k it can be worthwhile ,though.
You need to be registered in both states. So, you should look at the SOS site on both states and find out what the costs are for each state for:
Then just do the math. Probably it will be cheaper to hold the LLC in OR and then register it as foriegn in CA. I'd be willing to be on it Plus, it's just more natual and convenient to domocile the LLC in the physical location that you will operate it in unless there is some special reason not to.
In almost all cases, the pace where you operate the LLC is where you have to register it. So, even if you only have one client in CA you will still be servicing that client from both CA and OR. Check with a laywer for some nuances of these laws, but that's the general idea. If your client was in CA and you never went there, you probably wouldn't have to register in CA at all.
There are some tax gymnastics that you can use to get around these things, but they aren't that simple and at that revenue level it's probably easier to hire a good CPA and just let them deal with it. But, avoid CA taxation as much as legally possible!


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Mitral valve surgery is used to repair or replace the mitral valve in your heart.
Blood flows between different chambers through valves that connect the chambers. One of these is the mitral valve. The mitral valve opens so blood can flow from the left atria to the left ventricle. The valve then closes, keeping blood from flowing backwards.
In this type of surgery, the surgeon makes a large cut in your breastbone to reach the heart. Other types of surgery use several smaller cuts.
Mitral valve replacement - open; Mitral valve repair - open; Mitral valvuloplasty
Before your surgery, you will receive general anesthesia. This will make you asleep and pain-free during the entire procedure.
If your surgeon can repair your mitral valve, you may have:
If your mitral valve is too damaged to be repaired, you will need a new valve. This is called replacement surgery. Your surgeon will remove your mitral valve and sew a new one into place. There are two types of mitral valves:
Once the new or repaired valve is working, your surgeon will:
You may have a temporary pacemaker connected to your heart until your natural heart rhythm returns.
This surgery may take 3 - 6 hours.
You may need surgery if your mitral valve does not work properly.
You may need open-heart valve surgery for these reasons:
Risks for any surgery are:
Possible risks from having open-heart surgery are:
Always tell your doctor or nurse:
You may be able to store blood in the blood bank for transfusions during and after your surgery. Ask your surgeon how you and your family members can donate blood.
You may need to stop taking medicines that make it harder for your blood to clot for 2 weeks before the surgery. These might cause increased bleeding during the surgery.
Get your house ready before you go to the hospital so things will be easier when you return.
The day before your surgery, take a shower and wash your hair. You may need to wash your whole body below your neck with a special soap. Scrub your chest two or three times with this soap. You also may need to take an antibiotic to guard against infection.
During the days before your surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
Most people spend 4-7 days in the hospital after surgery.
You will wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU). You will recover there for 1-2 days. You will have 2-3 tubes in your chest to drain fluid from around your heart. The tubes are usually removed 1-3 days after surgery.
You may have a flexible tube (catheter) in your bladder to drain urine. You may also have intravenous (IV) lines to get fluids. Nurses will watch monitors that show vital signs (pulse, temperature, and breathing).
You will be moved to a regular hospital room from the ICU. Your nurses and doctors will monitor your heart and vital signs until you go home. You will receive pain medicine to control pain around your surgical cut.
Your nurse will help you begin activity slowly. You will go to a physical therapy program to make your heart and body stronger.
Mechanical heart valves do not fail often. They last from 12-20 years. However, blood clots develop on them. If a blood clot forms, you may have a stroke. Bleeding can occur, but this is rare.
Valves made from human or animal tissue fail over time, but have a lower risk of blood clots.
Fullerton DA, Harken AH. Acquired heart disease: valvular. In: Townsend CM, Jr Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 61.
Otto CM, Bonow RO. Valvular heart disease. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 66.
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Sometime in late september ( I didnt write the exact date) I past my eighth year past diagnosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and I am not a health guru or anything like that, I live a ordinary life and the only thing that seems to have really saved me was early discovery and a slow growing tumor. I am blessed with a supportive family and I had a good job with excellent health insurance and many good doctors and a ultrasound technician that called the soft tissue tumor in my bile duct "possible cholangioccarcinoma " in her report, sending my doctors in the right direction right away.I had my liver and bile ducts resected in january of 06' so my message is things can go well, you are your own advocate, listen close when any doctor or nurse speaks to you. More importantly, listen to your body, it will let you know when thing aren't right. My life has been rather busy lately but I am doing well and my mantra lately has been to help others that life has overwhelmed. I hope to have more time for online activity this month and it is good to be back, Pat


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SANTA CRUZ >> Mr. Sandman brought Santa Cruz a dream earlier this month. A vision of arabesque curves and human-sized yin yang circles surprised beachgoers at Lighthouse Field. The design, rendered in sand, extended from the base of the cliffs to the waves that eventually wiped it away.
Setting sandman folklore aside, human artists often begin such sketches at dawn, when beaches are less populated.
They quickly rake their designs into the flat expanse revealed by a low tide. After photographing the results as they walk away and leave their anonymous beach canvases to curious onlookers and the caprice of the sea.
Local beachcombers happen upon these sketches more often than do residents of other California seaside towns. There's something that sand artists love about Santa Cruz.
Jim Denevan, a renowned Santa Cruz artist, lives within a convenient early-morning commute to the shore. However, artists Brandon Anderton of San Jose and Andres Amador, of Grass Valley, also favor the sands of Santa Cruz.
Anderton, creator of the yin yang design, used to lay down a different kind of track as a motorcycle racer. Due to injuries, most of the left side of his body is now titanium.
"I come down (from San Jose) at odd hours because I have trouble sleeping," he said. "I live with chronic pain."
Anderton said he discovered that physical activity sometimes helps ease that pain. "I get into a different headspace, forget about pain," he said.
But it was the proximity that made Santa Cruz the obvious choice for his artwork initially, when he had to remain close to home. Although he extended his range from Monterey up through San Francisco, Santa Cruz became his favorite site for sand designs.
"The thing that keeps me coming back to Santa Cruz is really the community," Anderton said. "The people seem to resonate with the work and seem to enjoy it." People show their enjoyment in many ways and that's fine, he said. "Dogs or little ones run over it; it's a lesson on letting go."
Before moving to Grass Valley, Amador lived in Santa Cruz where he observed the "interesting culture, very diverse with definitely the elements of a bigger city in a small situation," he said.
Amador said he requires a big beach for his work, with nearby elevation for photography. Santa Cruz offers "only a couple of spots where something like that is possible," he said, but an aerial camera has introduced the possibility of new locations.
Locations aren't his only new possibility. Amador is working on a project with Daniel Stewart, music director of the Santa Cruz County Symphony. And he dreams of yet another possibility. "I wish that I could have that chance to be a stranger and walk up onto my own artwork to see it live. There is grandeur and mystery and wonder in the immediacy, even when it is in the process of washing away."


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Mice move as you pull toy how old & from which co or hand made? Any value? Can that small handle help to know if added on by someone or was it original to the toy? Since my father and grand-fathers used to sculpt wood especially when in the bush, was this therefore a Folk Art?


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WHY not do something a bit different to do to celebrate Valentine's Day this year?
At Marshfield Church Hall on Saturday you can enjoy a different view of the landscape of love, as through a medley of Shakespearean scenes and sonnets.
A team of performers from the wellknown local group, Shakespeare Live, will explore some of the many moods of love as represented in the work of the Bard, from the comic and the absurd to the dark and the tragic.
This captivating show has been performed to great acclaim at the Royal Shakes-peare Company's open-air space, The Dell, and at the Pound Arts Centre in Corsham.
With quick-fire changes of character, mood and setting ,Shakespeare Live's performers whirl you through a kaleidoscope of scenes from the poet's best loved plays and leave you pondering some of the searching questions he posed about the role love plays in all our lives.
Tickets, £7, from Central Stores, Marshfield, or from 01225 891441. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy a unique, entertaining and thought-provoking show.


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Hello folks,
I don't want to derail the other ACW thread so I am starting this one. My ACW gaming group consists of 6 or so players and a total of 7 brigades (3 union infantry, 1 union cav, 2 confederate infantry and 1 confederate cav). Yes, we need a bit more for both sides.
I'm trying to figure out the special rules we'll use most of the time and what size certain units (cav dismounts) should be.
I have the union cav and pretty much have them mount and dismount for free, marauder, and sharpshooter. When they dismount, should they be skirmishers as well? Should they have skirmish on horseback? Does that even work?
I have a question about unit size for cav. We've been playing with 12 model standard sized units. When they dismount, they should have (depending on who you talk to) either 8 or 9 dismounts. This is much smaller than a standard infantry regiment so do they go from being a standard cav unit to a small infantry unit (thus losing a shooting die and always fire 1 instead of 2 like the template says? Or is that 2 in the template already taking into account the loss of 1 die since infantry has 3 dice normally?
I'm guessing that the confederate cav should be pretty much the same as the union cav above. How about the infantry from the two sides? Should they just be vanilla? Should run of the mill infantry have anything special at all?


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A Vigil of Prayer will be held at the Women's Center abortion clinic at 419 Welshwood Drive throughout the 40 Days for Life. The Aquinas College community will prayerfully witness for life on Wednesdays during Lent, 4 p.m.–6 p.m. (March 5–April 16).
Faculty, students, and staff are all welcome to come and pray together in solidarity for the end of abortion and for the healing of all the men and women affected by an abortion. Carpooling opportunities are available. Contact Mario Martinez, Associate Campus Minister, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (615) 297-7545 x407.
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A 49-year-old man was shot during a robbery early Monday while walking to a gay bar on Oak Lawn Avenue, according to Dallas police reports.
The victim, Doug Tull, was taken to Parkland hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Tull was walking toward Pekers at 2615 Oak Lawn Ave. at about 1 a.m. when the three suspects pulled up in a car. One of the men jumped out and demanded Tull's money. When Tull said he didn't have any money, the suspect shot him.
Tull managed to make his way to Pekers, where someone called 911. Tull told police he didn't remember the exact location where he was robbed, but it was somewhere in the area of Shelby and Brown streets. The suspects are described as three black males in their early to mid-20s, weighing around 150 pounds and wearing white T-shirts and dark jeans. They fled eastbound on Oak Lawn Avenue.
Reports say Tull initially believed he'd been stabbed during the robbery. It wasn't until he got to the hospital that a doctor discovered that Tull had actually suffered a gunshot wound below his sternum.
The Dallas Police Department issued an alert Monday night encouraging people to travel in numbers in the Oak Lawn area. It marked the first shooting of a gay bar patron in Oak Lawn since 2007, when a man was fatally shot near an ATM on Throckmorton Street.
Below is the alert sent out by DPD, as well as the full police report from the incident. Anyone with information about the robbery can call DPD at 214-671-4071. This is a developing story. Stay tuned to Instant Tea for updates.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man has been convicted of aggravated theft for taking developmentally disabled people to bars and strip clubs while billing Ohio for providing services to the disabled.
Attorney General Mike DeWine says Marc Cox of Canal Winchester was sentenced last week in Columbus to five years of community control and ordered to pay $166,000 in restitution to the state.
Cox's attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.
Investigators say Cox was not an authorized care provider and billed the state using provider information of a nonprofit Columbus organization that served the disabled individuals.
Investigators say Cox also would drop off the individuals at a house to watch TV and play video games, and sometimes billed for more than 24 hours in a day.


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Game Wardens to promote safe boating through increased water patrol Memorial Day Weekend
Hoping to prevent boating injuries and fatalities, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens will be increasing their numbers on lakes and other waterways Memorial Day weekend.
In addition, officials in parts of the state will continue the tradition of the "no refusal" weekend to step up boating while intoxicated/driving while intoxicated arrests and citations.
During the "no refusal" weekend on-site judges work with TPWD officers and law enforcement personnel with other agencies to issue search warrants for blood draws when a suspect is under investigation for a BWI/DWI charge and refuses a breath test. The "no refusal" weekend also employs mobile DWI/BWI intoxilyzer units.
"Memorial Day weekend kicks off our water safety season, and we want to start things off right and make sure everyone is safe and doing the right thing," said Game Warden Lt. Cody Jones, of TPWD's marine enforcement section.
Overall boating fatalities are down 26 percent from 2009 to 2010, decreasing from 38 in 2009 to 28 last year. So far this year 12 people have lost their lives in boating accidents. Jones attributes this decrease in fatalities to increased enforcement. He said officials made 316 arrests in 2010 associated with BWI/DWI charges as compared with 220 in 2009.
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Weta announces that they will be releasing a new range of collectibles for Paramount Pictures' motion capture animated film, The Adventures of Tintin. A 1:6 scale statue of Captain Haddock is the first product to be launched in this line, with pre-orders currently being accepted at wetanz.com. Standing 11.8" tall and weighing in at 2.2lbs, the sculpture is scheduled to ship 4th quarter 2011 priced at $199. No more than 2,000 are being produced.
As reported in our story HERE, The Adventures of Tintin is being produced by Peter Jackson with Weta Digital on Animation and Visual Effects and Weta Workshop on Conceptual Design. It stars Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, Defiance) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Defiance) as the nefarious Red Rackham. The Adventures of Tintin opens in theaters December 23rd, 2011.


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Valentines Day: Gifts and Ideas
Valentines Day strikes again! Here's my top tips for lovingly hand crafted gifts, special jewellery and ideas for romantic outings... accompanied with lots of lovely Valentines inspired illustrations.
Written by Amelia Gregory
Valentines Foxes by Bex Glover.
By now if you have any interest in the upcoming consumer fest that is Valentines Day you will probably already have read Hannah's slightly bah humbug Valentines blog post, which nevertheless gave some great tips on how to best celebrate this festival of luuuurve.
Peacock Heart by Jenny Lloyd. Available to buy as a print over on Society 6.
Last year I detailed how Valentines has been for me in the past - in almost every instance a non event unless I went to the trouble of sending friends and family something special.
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LOS ANGELES — Sony unveiled the final name and pricing — but not a launch window — for its next-generation portable game system Monday at its E3 2011 press conference. Officially called PlayStation Vita, the handheld formerly code-named the NGP will cost $300, or $250 for a version without 3G connectivity.
[eventbug] Sony announced — to audible groans from the packed stadium crowd here — that it had chosen AT&T as its exclusive service provider for the system's 3G data plan. It did not say how much the service would cost.
The PlayStation maker spent a great deal of time showing games for Vita, announcing that new BioShock and Street Fighter x Tekken titles would be released on the system, as well as previously announced games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss.
Sony briefly addressed the continued partial outage of the PlayStation Network following a massive security breach in April. The company made no further announcements about increased security, and simply apologized to consumers for the length of the down time. It said the network is 90 percent online at this time.
Sony did not talk at all about any new home game machine, as expected. Instead, the company shored up the lineup for its PlayStation 3, announcing that the highly anticipated BioShock Infinite would feature support for the Move motion controller, as would many other games.
Wired.com's live-blog coverage of the event follows:
4:52 p.m. — We're in the venue. The Wi-Fi seems to be working not very well and this place is kind of a cellular dead zone, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed I'll be able to live blog effectively throughout the whole show.
4:57 p.m. — I'm right that E3 has been pretty disappointing so far, right? Lots of deeper dives on games we already knew about, tons and tons of shooters, and no surprising big announcements. It would be great if Sony would come out and change all that with some shocking PlayStation news. But no pressure or anything.
5:05 p.m. — This event is getting started on Sony time, which is somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes behind the rest of us.
5:10 p.m. — Oh, did I mention we all got pairs of 3-D glasses as we came into the venue? This is gonna be like watching one of them newfangled movies they have now.
5:12 — They want us to put the glasses on now. Show begins in two minutes, they say. "They" is the disembodied voice of a woman. Not GlaDOS.
5:15 — No, really, it'll start at some point apparently. Like, any minute now. Yep. Aaaaany minute now.
5:16 — Hey, it started! My seat is rumbling because the sound is so loud. Oh, there's a 3-D video of the PlayStation family of products. Sizzle reel of games kicks into high gear. Uncharted, God of War, Mortal Kombat, Green Lantern. Was that all NGP? They're not saying specifically. No, here's some NGP games: Little Big Planet, Hot Shots, Little Deviants, etc. PlayStation Move games. Looks like Sony's doing a dance game. And Carnival Games. And now they're showing Captain America, Sonic … tons and tons of quick snippets of games.
5:19 — Sizzle reel keeps game snippets coming. There was definitely an early-looking God of War game shoved in there — maybe NGP? It looked a little rough, unfinished from the two seconds of footage. But anyway, the video's over now!
5:20 — "What a crowd," says Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton. Well, you did invite them. Lots and lots of applause at this show from the audience, more so than other conferences. Lots of Sony members and their partners in the house?
"To our esteemed members of the press, I say: 'You're welcome,'" says Tretton about the PlayStation Network outage, implying that journalists were happy to cover the bad news. Big laugh. Tretton addresses consumers: "I want to apologize both personally and on behalf of the company for any anxiety we have caused you."
5:24 — "Virtually anything" Sony talks about today will be playable immediately following the conference, Tretton says, segueing straight from the apology about PlayStation Network directly into selling today's games. "Recent studies show that PlayStation 3 is the leading device for streaming Netflix," he says. Interesting. Announces partnership with CinemaNow content.
5:26 — To show us the latest stuff from Naughty Dog, here's … Naughty Dog. They're going to show us Uncharted 3.
5:28 — Uncharted 3 demo continues to play. Nathan Drake is being all stealthy and killing guys. Now he is being totally not stealthy but still killing guys.
5:31 — OK, this is honestly impressive stuff. The (oil tanker?) that Drake is on tips over, flooding with water and sending him and several cars spilling into it, and he just keeps on going. The things that happen are very cinematic, surprising stuff. This is fun to watch.
5:33 — Multiplayer beta begins June 28. Working with Subway restaurants — you'll be able to go to Subway and get early access to the entire competitive part of the game before it hits stores in November. Now they want us to put on our glasses again and watch another movie of this game! It'll be out Nov. 1, 2011.
5:36 — "We are going to sell a few copies of that," says Tretton. Now it's time for Insomniac Games. They'll be showing off Resistance 3, which as you may have heard is a shooter.
5:41 — Sony will be bundling Resistance 3 with the Sharpshooter and PlayStation Move (and a Navigation Controller and a PS Eye camera) for $150, in case you want to play it with the full motion-control setup.
5:41 — God of War Origins Collection for PS3 is a remastered version of the PSP God of War games. Both this and the previously announced Ico/Shadow of the Colossus remaster edition for PS3 will be available in September. Well, that explains why that God of War footage they showed looked a little janky, anyway.
"We're going to break the mold on pricing for 3-D this year," Tretton says. Two new 3-D hardware products available in PlayStation family, he says. A PlayStation-branded 24-inch 3-D display — perfect for dorm rooms and bedrooms. Allows two people playing a game to see individual, unique full-screen images rather than a split-screen image.
5:45 — The PlayStation monitor package, which includes the TV, a pair of glasses, HDMI cable and Resistance 3 will be available this fall for $500. Additional glasses will cost $70. Trying to drive 3-D adoption.
5:47 — 2K Sports is here to talk up NBA 2K11, which sold incredibly well last year, in great part because Electronic Arts screwed up its basketball game and had to cancel the title. They're showing how the new game will work with PlayStation Move motion control to quickly target a player and pass the ball to them.
5:49 — Kobe Bryant walks out to play the game. He wastes no time in referring to the PlayStation Move as "the remote," and then as "the thing." Branding!
5:55 — We're watching a demo of Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest, a Move game in which you play as a skeleton who uses a sword and shield to play through a cute, haunted castle. Realistic sword-and-shield gameplay. Arrow-shooting, puzzles, etc. Looks pretty fun. Playable in Sony booth.
5:58 — Infamous 2 demo. This is a game that is coming out Tuesday, so it's not like there's anything major we don't know about it yet. I personally am really looking forward to leaving Los Angeles and playing this.
6:00 — Oh, here's the new bit of information then: Sony won't be adding the much-touted user-generated levels to Infamous 2 until this fall. It is also adding Move support to LittleBigPlanet 2, as in you'll be able to create levels that are played with Move. The next game comes from the Warhawk team — a run-and-gun third-person shooter (!) called Starhawk.
6:03 — Oh heck, they're doing another Sly Cooper game. Nice. Animated intro movie is playing now. Called Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, available 2012.
6:05 — CCP, makers of Eve Online, doing Dust 514, a game exclusive to PlayStation 3 that will connect to the Eve Online PC MMO game. Will support the Move and "extend the experience to NGP," they say.
6:07 — Dust 514 is — I know you will never believe this — a shooter.
6:10 — Ken Levine of Irrational Games walks onstage to talk about BioShock Infinite. Ken said he expressed some "skepticism" about PlayStation Move and motion control in a recent interview. But Sony, he said, called him up and said that they wanted to "make him a believer" in motion control. Levine said Irrational didn't do waggle. Sony responded by saying they want to "remove the barrier to entry" and get more casual players to play BioShock Infinite who don't like to use a usual controller.
6:13 — We're going to have PlayStation Move in BioShock Infinite, he says. He's not going to talk specifically about that. But he is going to talk about how they're making a game in the BioShock universe for the NGP! No, wait, he's not, but he did say they were making one, and then left the stage. Wow. BioShock on NGP.
6:15 — The PS3 version of Infinite will include a free copy of the first BioShock on the same Blu-ray, Jack Tretton says. They'll also do exclusive content for Saints Row 2. Paramount will be releasing a PlayStation Move-compatible Star Trek game, he says, as well as a PlayStation Move accessory in the shape of a Star Trek phaser. They'll also be doing a downloadable prequel of sorts for the game, also Move-compatible. Coming in 2012.
6:17 — Three exclusive offers from Electronic Arts on PlayStation 3. SSX will have a "death-defying race down Japan's iconic Mount Fuji" only on PS3. Need for Speed: The Run will feature a special Blu-ray disc with seven additional cars. Battlefield 3 will be bigger on PS3 too — EA is using the extra storage capacity of Blu-ray to add Battlefield 1943 on the disc. Sony's all about getting publishers to put exclusive freebies on the PS3.
6:18 — Kazuo Hirai takes the stage to discuss the NGP. Here we go.
6:21 — Looks like Hirai will be talking about "networked entertainment" for portable devices. How do we deliver a PlayStation-level experience to a wider audience, he asks. Answer is PlayStation Suite. Android smartphones and tablets. More information on this in the "very near future." It's "only a matter of time," Hirai says, until consumers who "get a taste" of PlayStation with Suite will buy a PlayStation 3.
6:23 — OK, now he's talking about the NGP. Running down the feature set.
6:25 — It's official: This thing is actually called PlayStation Vita (pronounced "vee-ta").
6:26 — AT&T will be the exclusive 3G data provider for Vita, Hirai says. First actual boos of the conference. Of E3. Of any E3, possibly.
6:27 — Two different social network apps for Vita are called "Party" and "Near." These are about your friends lists, what you're doing online, etc. More info coming soon.
6:30 — They're showing a demo of Uncharted: Golden Abyss. You can read our hands-on impressions of the game for more info.
6:32 — Just in case you guys don't want touch controls cluttering up your Uncharted experience, you don't ever have to use them. Just a PSA from your friendly local liveblogger.
6:35 — Ruin is an action-RPG for the Vita. They're showing how the combat works. It's a standard top-down, loot-oriented ARPG.
6:38 — I am going to blow your minds. You can save your game on the Vita via "cloud saving" and then pick it up again on the PlayStation 3. This is like Transfarring [sic], and yet somehow better because you can do it over the internet. And on the Vita, which is something that Kojima was only dreaming about doing some time in the future. And yet … how could anything be better than Transfarring [sic]?
6:39 — Mod Nation Racers announced for Vita. You can draw on the touch panel and make a course just by dragging your finger around, then play it.
6:41 — I actually tried Mod Nation at Sony's pre-E3 preview event. Impressions were embargoed until right now. Here are my impressions: The track editor didn't work very well. When I dragged my finger around to make the track, it wasn't very responsive at all. It was clearly very early in the development cycle. Perhaps the game will shape up a little better when it is released — it needs to be a lot more responsive to be fun to create.
6:42 — An extensive video of LittleBigPlanet on Vita.
6:48 — Capcom will now show us Street Fighter x Tekken on Vita, apparently. Yoshinori Ono from Capcom is here to talk about it. This is the first time I've actually heard somebody speaking Japanese this entire E3.
6:49 — Cole from Infamous will join the Street Fighter vs. Tekken party on Vita. We're going to check out what he's like in the game. You know, with his electricity powers, he actually fits in well. Who would win, Cole vs. Blanka?
6:54 — Oh hey, Sony dropped a press release 24 minutes ago (!) with the Vita's price in it. $250 for no 3G, $300 for 3G. A bit lower than I predicted. I wonder how many people will go low-end, and what the data plans will cost.
6:56 — And they officially announce it. $250, 249 euro, 24,980 yen. 3G model will be $300, 299 euro, 29,980 yen.
6:57 — Jack Tretton is back onstage. Surprise announcement, maybe? They're showing a sizzle reel of stuff we've already seen … huh. The conference is over, but the whole venue just seamlessly segued into a performance by Mix Master Mike. The arcade is open, and people are filtering down into the stage area to play the hands-on games. Sony said that "virtually everything" will be playable, so here's hoping that means all the good stuff! Signing off for now.


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The Flimsy Case Against Clay Buchholz
As you've probably heard, pitcher-turned-commentator Jack Morris has accused Red Sox hurler Clay Buchholz of throwing pitches with illegal substances on his hand during his start on Wednesday against Toronto. Buchholz, his manager, and his catchers have taken turns explaining that that's a ridiculous proposition.
I'm strongly inclined to defend Buchholz, given what amounts to pretty weak evidence for a strong accusation. Morris himself has said "I can't prove anything," but still "know[s] he was" throwing a doctored baseball.
The evidence consists of what Morris identified as a suspicious substance on Buchholz's left forearm—identified by the Red Sox as rosin, a completely legal substance on the mound—and Morris's apparent unfamiliarity with the tailing fastball. Here's how Morris describes the discovery:
Morris seems very confident that he can identify a tampered pitch based solely on how it moves. Now, I don't know exactly sure which pitch Morris means, but there's a good guess as to one example, which was flagged by ESPN's David Schoenfield. It's a sinker on a 2–2 count to Jose Bautista that perfectly paints the outside corner. As Morris indicated, it "darts swiftly down and away." View it in GIF form below:
Turns out, that's a pretty ordinary sinker as far as movement is concerned—just extraordinarily well-located, and perhaps a little better than a typical Buchholz sinker. That pitch to Bautista had 8.6 inches of "tail," or horizontal spin deflection, and 5.5 inches of "rise." Blue Jays starter R.A. Dickey throws a sinker, too. For his career, it averages 0.6 inches more movement both horizontally and vertically than Buchholz's pitch to Bautista. Is Morris ready to indict Dickey for tampering with the baseball?
Pitchers can do lots of things with baseballs thrown at 95 mph without having to cheat. There's nothing in the spin charts from Buchholz's start in Toronto that indicates anything unusual about his pitches, and that's probably why the Blue Jays didn't say anything about it after the game. Morris should have followed suit.
If you need any more assurances that Buchholz's pitches behaved quite normally in his last start, check the game logs for yourself on his Brooks Baseball player card.
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Richard Bergstrom
The thing that gets me is how many people on comment boards are saying no one would be using a spitter or scuffing the ball thanks to HD television...
May 03, 2013 12:01 PM
Hah, that's a funny view of things. It didn't stop Joel Peralta from putting pine tar in his glove last year.
May 03, 2013 12:16 PM
Check out Verducci's take... It's actually pretty convincing in the opposite direction.
May 03, 2013 12:05 PM
I didn't find his take convincing at all. Verducci says Buchholz's sinker has much better movement this year. That is totally unsubstantiated by PITCHf/x data. He also says Buchholz was cagey with his answers. I didn't get that impression. It's a lot of smoke and mirrors, nothing based on any real evidence.
May 03, 2013 12:15 PM
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I agree. I like Verducci but honestly, I thought he was way off base.
May 03, 2013 13:46 PM
and I didn't mean to disparage your article...was typing on my phone. I just meant that if Verducci's claims are true about a glistening white substance - and the various uncorroborated claims he makes, that's rather interesting information. It's offset though by what you found in PITCHf/x.
May 03, 2013 16:14 PM
That's not rosin, that's sunscreen and I've heard a MLB pitcher talk about how it's pretty common to use sunscreen to doctor a baseball.
May 03, 2013 12:15 PM
How do you know that's sunscreen? It looks like it?
May 03, 2013 12:18 PM
What does liquid rosin look like? Is it white? Yeah it looked like sunscreen to me and based on the conversation I heard during the summer I put 1+1 together... but I could be wrong or so my wife tells me.
May 03, 2013 12:23 PM
And I didn't mean to disparage your whole article with a one sentence retort. It's a well-written exploration/explanation of the topic. Personally I think you can do lots of things to make the ball move differently, but I think that unless it's a pretty common substance/technique it would be difficult to make it do what you wanted reliably. I think the consistency issue would be the biggest hindrance to doctoring the ball.
May 03, 2013 12:27 PM
You could be right. All I'm saying is people shouldn't speak in such certain terms when by Morris's own admission he has no real evidence.
May 03, 2013 12:27 PM
Without a doubt he was using a "substance". MLB network had a still photo where you could clearly see that his glove side arm was absolutely glistening, while his throw side arm was dry as a bone. He also kept tapping his index and middle finger on his forearm.
May 03, 2013 14:44 PM
"What does being in the Hall or not being in the Hall have to do with anything?"
May 03, 2013 14:52 PM
I just find it ironic that Toronto broadcasters (Hayhurst and Morris) are implicating someone as a cheater, when their team has been accused of cheating on several occasions for stealing signs at the Rogers Centre.
May 03, 2013 15:48 PM
While your look at pitch movement has merit, could there be a difference in *when* the pitch moves, as opposed to by how much?
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I have long been a fan of CBS' hit show NCIS, although I have been disappointed, to say the very least, by some of the anti-transgender plotlines/comments that I have seen on the show — specifically in the 19th episode of the first season, titled "Dead Man Talking."
But one of the main reasons I like NCIS so much is the character of Abby Sciuto, played by Pauley Perrette. Abby is the NCIS team's goth girl forensic scientist, who is addicted to a soft drink called Caf-Pow, loves heavy metal music, is heavily inked, sleeps in a coffin, is amazingly loyal to her friends and is a VERY outspoken liberal. Pauley Perrette is pretty goth herself. And she is a VERY outspoken liberal.
This week Perrette confirmed to her fans via Twitter that yes, she is definitely engaged to her boyfriend, former British marine Thomas Arklie. But she also confirmed that she and Arklie will not be getting married until Proposition 8 — the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in California — is permanently rescinded.
"Me & #MyMarine [Fiancé] are totally engaged now but will NOT GET MARRIED UNTIL #Prop8 is OVER," Perrette declared in one Tweet. She later followed up with this clarification: "We're Not getting married because Prop 8 is unjust. But having blast being engaged. He re-asks me everyday & I say Yes."
Now this isn't the first time Perrette has spoken out in support of LGBT rights. She has participated in Adam Bouska's NoH8 photo campaign against Prop 8. And last January, she attended the People's Choice Awards wearing a dress emblazoned with the NoH8 logo.
And while I don't expect Pauley Perrette will ever read this blog post, I wanted to take a moment to say congratulations on your engagement; here's wishing you many happy years ahead. And I want to say thanks for your support for our community and our rights. We won't win this war without the support of non-LGBT allies like you.
And while I'm at it, Pauley, I'm going to go ahead and ask if maybe you could have a word with the writers or the producers or whomever over at NCIS about the trans-bashing on the show. The trans people are often the most victimized and marginalized segment of our community. They don't need NCIS adding to the bashing.


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NEW YORK -- In an effort to take better advantage of his speed, Astros outfielder Brandon Barnes has been asked to show bunt more by manager Bo Porter. Even if Barnes doesn't bunt, Porter says putting the idea into the minds of the defense can be beneficial.
"If you're a guy that can, there's no way you don't at least show bunt a couple of times," Porter said. "Any time you get the fielders to move up and give up a portion of their range, from a hitter's standpoint, that's to their advantage."
Barnes, who's starting in right field against left-handers -- Rick Ankiel starts against right-handers -- has taken the advice to heart and has shown bunt on occasion.
"It's just one of those things to bring the third baseman in, and it opens up some holes," Barnes said. "It's another weapon in my pocket I can use any time that's nice to have."
In Monday's lineup against the Yankees for his ninth start of the season, Barnes entered the game hitting .375 with one homer and two RBIs, and he boosted his stats with a two-run double in the fourth inning and an RBI single the following frame.
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Getting to the Core of Bankruptcy
To understand the importance of economics professor Mary Hansen's efforts to preserve and digitize bankruptcy court records, a good place to start is to understand what we don't know about bankruptcy, including its relationship to business cycles.
"We don't really have any clear idea of how financial crises and bankruptcy and credit all fit together," says Hansen. "We don't have any idea whether using the bankruptcy law is at all related to long-run growth. We have a pretty good idea that having a bankruptcy law is essential to long-run growth at the national level,. . . but we don't really know beyond that whether there are aspects of bankruptcy or using the bankruptcy law that can enhance growth."
Moreover, data sources for information on the finances of bankruptcy filers—whether they're credit card data, publicly available federal court databases, or others—are incomplete.
And the amount of wealth being transferred from debtor to creditor via declaring bankruptcy is huge, about as much money as is transferred from taxpayers to poor people and uninsured people through Medicaid, Hansen says.
Research into bankruptcy, Hansen argues, has been held back by a lack of ground-level data. The best source for such data is U.S. District Courts' bankruptcy case files. But the sheer mass of the records is daunting, and the expense of maintaining 2 million cubic feet of archives is becoming prohibitive.
So Hansen and her collaborators initially helped the Federal Records Centers and the National Archives to design a sampling scheme to preserve 2.5 percent of the records. In pilot studies they tried to digitize all records, but that effort proved too expensive. The current goal is to get a 1 percent sample of cases filed since 1898. Records from every court and from every year will be photographed, digitized, and made available for scholars from any discipline to use.
To show the potential merit of the data, Hansen and her co-investigator, Michelle McKinnon Miller of the Rutgers Business School, have started two pilot programs. Those pilots are looking at a sample of the bankruptcy case file data for Mississippi during the Great Depression and a sample from the District of Maryland and Eastern District of Virginia from 1940 to 2000.
The first pilot project studies a district that received bank bailouts during a financial crisis versus one that didn't. The second project tries to figure out how changes in federal garnishment law may have dramatically raised bankruptcy cases in Maryland.
"They're hard to access, they're scattered across country, but the bulk of them are in Kansas City because that's where the biggest storage facilities are," Hansen says of the records. "If you don't have a legal history background, you open these boxes and say, 'What is this stuff?'"
So it's a labor intensive, hands-on process.
And that's only the beginning. Once the data are digitized they must be put into a format useful for researchers. Hansen hopes to develop procedures to use optical scanners for printed information, but older, handwritten records require the human eye to discern the information.
The projects have received five separate grants, including faculty grants from American University and Rutgers University and funds from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment for Education. Funding from non-AU sources amounts to about $333,000.
But Hansen's sure the project is worth the trouble. Beyond their obvious academic benefits, she notes at least two potential policy uses:
- Since we're in the dark about fundamental questions involving bankruptcy, we can't know the effects of proposed changes in credit law. How will the Dodd-Frank Act, especially as a result of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, impact bankruptcy cases? We have no idea.
- Do minorities and women suffer inequality in bankruptcy proceedings? We don't know.
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Except for some Bundists, the town was almost totally Zionist. In the days of the first Russian Revolution [1905], we also had a Bundist movement, but with the strengthening of the Reaction, and the waning of the revolution, the activity of that party was on the wane as well, and it had only a few remaining members, with whom we had, at times, stormy arguments in the synagogue (in the "Ezrat Nashim" [the women's section]). These arguments did not always end peacefully, and the hands, rather than the mouths, did the talking, and fights would break out. But most of the times, these stormy arguments would end in an orderly fashion, and we would have the upper hand. As a rule, the sympathy of the town's Jews and of the youth was with us, the Zionists.
Zionist activities, just like any other political activity under the Czarist regime, were carried out in secrecy and under difficult conditions, and there was always the need to take many precautions, lest we encounter the police or other agents of the authorities. More than that, even the reading of a book could raise the suspicion of a revolutionary activity and rebelliousness. It happened to my brother and his friend, who were sitting on a tree trunk in the Barbina, involved in reading a book which had not been approved by the censor. By chance, an "oradnik" (police officer) was passing by, and saw two Jewish boys reading a book. He arrested them on the spot and put them in jail in Rakov, and from there they were sent to the Minsk prison. Only after much effort, and some bribe, we succeeded in obtaining their release. We immediately sent my brother to America, and he is there to this day.
The migration from Rakov to America grew stronger in those days of the
Reaction, after the first revolution. The immigrants were mostly young, but
there also adults, even whole families. However, the town remained Zionist.
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Years passed. The days of the First World War arrived. Rakov was suffering and hoping, together with the rest of humanity, for better days, for the coming days of peace. Finally they, too, arrived, and the joy was great. And a great dawn came to Jewish people: the Balfour Declaration! Eretz Israel was promised to the Jewish People. The Jewish street was stirrd, and the Zionist Movement and the migration to Eretz Israel were on the increase. Just like other conscientious and faithful Zionists, we my husband, David Lifshitz, and I went through soul searching, and decided to fulfill our life dream. In 1924 we 'ascended' to Eretz Israel and settled in the Montefiore Quarter, near Tel Aviv.
|David Lifshitz
|Tema Lifshitz
Rabbi Avraham Kalmanovitz, aman in his thirties, tall, shapely, with a nice face adorned with a still growing light beard, welcomed me, at first, very coolly and with reserve. But, as soon as he heard that I was a graduate of the Slovodka Yeshiva, and learned my 'ethics' there, his eyes shone, and he cried enthusiastically: "If that is so, then you are one of us, and deserve a second 'Shalom Aleichem' [welcome]".
He, Rabbi Kalmanovitz, was a 'veteran' of the "Knesst Israel" yeshiva of Slovodka, and was well known as one of its diligent and learned students. In addition, he was an ethical person through and through, and one of the disciples of the "Old Man", Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh, the head of the Yeshiva. He covered me with questions upon questions, about everybody and everything, about the Yeshiva, its heads, and its neighborhood. It was obvious that my presence awoke very pleasant memories of Slovodka, from where he had been away for more than five years, and with whom he had had little contact. It seemed that his soul was yearning to the Yeshiva, where he had been studying until the day of his wedding to the granddaughter of the rabbi of the K"K [Kityat Kodesh Hallowed Town] Rakov, where he received the throne of the rabbinate as a dowry. As a man in his thirties, young, always energetic and full of vigor, he assumed, as befitting the "Mara deAtra" [the town Rabbi] the appearance of solemnity, and the composure of an older, more mature, man. But, if the truth be known, he felt lonely and alone in the town, among the 'ba'alei batim' [well-to-do] with whom he was in daily contact regarding town matters. No wonder then, that when God chanced him to meet a man of 'pure Slovodkaite breeding', there was no limit to his joy, and he insisted that I stay at his house, near him. The next morning I sat in the old Beit Midrash [house of study], clinging to the pages of the Gmara, where I found refuge from all the hardship that had come upon me, forgetting my distress, and calming my nerves.
Rakov, this lovable town, welcomed me with all its Jewish warmth, as the first
refugee to come there. Rabbi Kalmanovitz arranged for two private students,
whom I taught Torah and Gmara. The tuition was sufficient for my bare
necessities. Each day, as soon as he discharged his public duties, which were
more than usual during those days, he [Rabbi Kalmanovitz] would escape to the
synagogue, sit next to me, and say: Come, let's study a page of Gmara. There
and then he would be sitting, immersed in his daily portion of the Talmud, and
studying with warmth and enthusiasm, the way all Slovodkaites do. And the
Slovodka chant would be heard in the synagogue: Tanu Rabanan! [our Sages
Oy, Rabbi Akiva said
and he would tap his middle finger. And
again and again, with warmth and enthusiasm, completely absorbed. This was
Rabbi Kalmanovitz.
The sight of the refugees brought confusion and fright to the town. Nobody knew
what the next day would bring. It seemed that the catastrophe was approaching,
and Rakov's turn would come next. Many started packing their belongings and get
ready to flee. And, indeed, many did leave the town and fled with the refugees
to the interior of Russia. Others sent their wives and older daughters to
Minsk, temporarily, until the danger would pass, lest they fall prey, Heavens
forbid, to the lust of the soldiers and the Cossacks. Only the males stayed
home, to guard their meager property. However, not much could be saved, and
when a soldier or a Cossack entered a shop and reached his hand to the shelves
to grab the goods, they would stand, the so-called guardians, frightened and
pale with fear, with only one prayer on their lips: "Please, Lord of the
Universe, let me save my soul, and You may take my property"
Rabbi Kalmanovitz entered into 'the thick of things', and as was usual with him with energy and with a great organizational skill. A Refugee Aid Committee was selected, which got in touch with the Red Cross and the "Zamski-Siuz", and these organizations provided the needed help, and distributed food and clothing to the Jewish refugees.
My friend and I were 'harnessed to the yoke' of the practical work. We became the "drawers of water and hewers of wood" [responsible for the 'dirty' work] for the Aid Committee. Every morning, at dawn, we drove a wagon to the offices of the Red Cross, and were apportioned food according to the list of refugees which we had: loaves of bread, sugar, flour, grits, salt, oil, and more. We would store all of that in a warehouse, next to the Rabbi's house, and there the refugees would go to receive their portions. To the credit of the local Red Cross and "Zamski-Siuz", it has to be said that their treatment of the Jewish refugees was very fair, and that they distributes to the refugees whatever they had, just as they did to the Christian refugees.
In the meantime, Dr. Nahum Gergle arrived in town a representative of YEKOPA (the Petrograd Central Jewish Refugee Committee), a known and learned public figure. Dr Grgle was the right man for the task; and a very responsible and difficult task it was. He was one of "our" Jews: with a warm Jewish heart, and nice manners toward those who needed him. He excelled in organizational skills, and was very energetic. He settled with his staff of helpers and coworkers in Minsk, the closest city to the Northwestern front, into where a 'river' of refugees was streaming. Wherever he went he would spread optimism, encouragement, and good spirit. He attracted the intelligentsia and the local public figures, and helped those refugees who expressed the desire to settle in town or in one of the villages near Rakov. In fact, most of the refugees chose to move to the interior of Russia.
One fact should be noted: In our work we often had to get in touch with the local military authorities a request for a license to be out-of-doors at night, a permit for a visit by a physician, and bringing in medical supplies and we were always received with exceptional politeness, at times better than what we had expected. The chief medical officer, Polkovnik Vlasavski, deserves a special mention. He was always distinguished by his warm, humane, and cordial response. When he was asked to see a sick person, he would do it willingly, even in the middle of the night, and would examine the patient, prescribe medication, and at times even give the money [for buying the medicine]. We viewed him, very properly, as one of the Just Gentiles. And this gave us a small comfort during those very bitter days which we had to endure.
Taken from the book "BaNechar"
[in the Strange Land],
published in Canada, 1945
Some interesting details from the proceedings of that meeting were engraved in my memory: The first to mount the stage was the representative of the Bund a young man, not local, wearing a short coat (kurtka). His friends the Bundists surrounded him. He took off his coat, gave it to one of his friends, and started his speech: "The situation of our Jewish brethren in Russia is terrible and dreadful" But he was interrupted by the vopice of Yitzhak Yakov, nicknamed "The Big": "Sheigetz [an unruly young man], get off the stage!". A commotion ensued. Someone intervened, quieted the audience, and the speaker started his speech again: "The terrible situation of" and, again, he was interrupted by "Big" Yitzhak Yakov. And it was repeated several times, until Yitzhak Yakov was calmed down, and the Bundist managed, finally, to finish his speech.
By the end of the meeting, the heads of the community agreed to the principle of self-defense, and to fund the purchase of weapons. With the agreement of all present, the writer of these notes was elected to head the defense and to coordinate the purchase of weapons. I still had to correct one small defect, that up to that day I had not held a pistol or a rifle For two weeks I went to the Zdizhovski Forest every day, accompanied by the grandson of the heder teacher R. Neta Yitzik, and practiced holding a weapon and shooting it. My teacher had just returned from the front in Port Arthur [on the Pacific, where the Russian suffered a humiliating defeat by the Japanese] and was an expert in the use of weapons. Having acquired the skills of aiming and shooting, all obstacles were removed, and I could devote all my energy to the task which had been placed on me.
Two of the respected members of our town were sent to Minsk to purchase weapons: Avraham Ze'ev Merin and young Velvel, the son of the carpenter. The market day was, then, on Monday, and therefore we convened a meeting of the Defense Staff in my home, every Sunday night, to take the necessary precautions, in case a riot would break out. Upon the return of the 'emissaries' from Minsk, we held a special meeting in my home; with the brothers Pesach and Shaya Starovin, Polya Guts of the Bund, Ze'ev [Velvel] the Leatherworker, Avraham Ze'ev Merin, and Bonya Abas participating. The town people were represented in the meeting by Yitzhak the Baker, and I represented the Zionists. From the report of the 'emissaries' it turned out that they had purchased (illegally, of course) two Finnish knives, and some seventy rubber clubs. The mention of the "Finnish knives" made the representative of the town people very angry: "These knives would bring a catastrophe upon our heads!" he shouted, "Even the mere possession of this horrible weapon by Jewish men could start a riot." And he insisted that the knives be destroyed and disappear immediately. We did not want to cause a schism in our group, and that very night I buried the knives in the cellar of the Merins.
When the meeting calmed down, we made our plans. The defense force of Rakov numbered about one hundred young men, trained in the use of weapons, capable of defending the town if necessary. We divided them into three groups: the first was positioned in Vilna Street, the second in Minsk Street, and the third in the market square. They had to be on guard on market days. I had but two responsibilities: to provide them with the weapons when necessary, and also the herring and bread
The meeting proceded in the spirit of general agreement and with understanding of the seriousness of our situation. But as it was ending we received a shock: Just before the meeting concluded, Velvel the Leatherworker, stood up and turned to the participants in a conspiratorial voice: "This is all well and good, but in my opinion we have to employ the trusted and true mean, used by Jews for generations: a handsome gift to the Pristav [mayor] of the town would surely be of great benefit, and save us from rioters." Bonya Abas supported him, but the rest of the participants expressed their disgust at this suggestion, especially Polya Guts who shouted: "Aren't you ashamed? Don't you know, what is obvious to all of us, that the authorities themselves are the organizers of the pogroms against the Jews?" The proposal of Velvel the Leatherworker was taken off the agenda.
We continued to prepare the youth for the fateful day. The preparations and the
purchase of the weapons could not remain secret, and the whole town knew its
hiding place. All of this treasure, on which the defense of the town depended,
was stored in a small suitcase under my bed. But, in the end, the alarm proved
to be a false alarm. The peace in the town was not disturbed, and the arms
cache remained in the suitcase, unused until it rusted.
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We held prayers three times a day; on weekdays, on the Sabbaths, and on the HolidAys. We each had an opportunity to utilize our cantorial talents as 'emissaries of the congregation' and leaders of the services. Surely, we felt good, and were well satisfied. We were even considering inviting a rabbi to conduct evening lessons in "Ein Ya'akov" and "Menorat HaMaor" [religious-ethical texts]. Until the following event happened:
One wintery, snowy, Friday night, when we were all together for the prayers welcoming the Sabbath, a young man appeared in our House of Prayer tall, handsome, with a "pensana" [mole] on his nose and a pleasant smile spread all over his face. After the greetings of "Shalom Aleichem" and "Aleichem Shalom", he came right to the point, and said that he brought some pamphlets, and requested that we would read them that night. As for the morrow [Sabbath day], he asked permission to come again to the synagogue, as he wished to talk to us on current events. We had not heard of the new breed of "Orators" and "Renders", and therefore thought him to be a young 'magid' [traditional preacher], and willingly agreed to his request. After the services he distributed the pamphlets, and with a smile on his face he said: "Read it! Please, read! But, I ask you, not in the presence of your parents."
Until late in the night, each of us was immersed in this thin pamphlet, and something new, strange, and not understood, came to us from its pages. It seemed to be written in Yiddish; yet it was not the familiar language or the familiar words. What words! Beyond understanding! Words like "conspiracy", "expropriation", "conference", and many more strange and unusual words which we had never heard.
Next morning, the Sabbath day, when we met in our peaceful House of Prayer, the pamphlet was, of course, the main topic of conversation: Did you read? I did read. And what do you think? I did not understand. Was the answer.
The young man showed up even before the service began, greeted us, removed his overcoat, took off his hat, and stood before us with a red "rubashka", and a red band around his waist, with the same charming, heart capturing , smile on his face. All of that his cloths, the way he carried himself, his appearance made an unforgettable impression on us, the likes of which we had not known. None of us dared tell him that he was standing in a sacred place, and that he had to put on a hat Suddenly, he asked our permission to speak, and immediately started to talk. He spoke enthusiastically, with clarity, and very convincingly, until he wrapped us with his thoughts, enchanting us with every word he uttered.
Finally, he told us that a new organization was established in Minsk, the Bund, and that it was sending "agitatorim" [propagandists, agitators] to the neighboring towns and villages, to recruits members, and to establish new branches. And that was what he wanted to do here to establish a branch of the Bund in Rakov. For that purpose he was willing to remain with us, teach us, and explain the goals and ways of this new organization.
All of us, as one, signed up for membership then and there. And thus, instead of a rabbi to teach us the lessons of "Ein Ya'akov", that young man was teaching us, every evening, the lessons of the Bund and of the revolution.
Printed in "Di Shtima fun Rakov
Froyen Klub", United States, 1939.
Even those boys and girls who yearned for some romantic literature had some one who catered to them, namely, R. Arre the Matchmaker. Arre had a small private library, in which one could find all kinds of 'meisse bichlach' [simple-minded stories] such as "Ali Baba", "Di Farchishefte Moid" and so forth, and the popular books of ShM"R. In addition to the private library of Arre the Matchmaker, the town was supplied with 'meisse bichlach' by the book-selling peddlers. They would come and turn the tables of the synagogue into stalls for selling their storybooks next to the siddurs [prayer books], tzitzits [fringed garments], and so on, whatever they had in their haversacks
This ideal and innocent situation changed as the times changed, with the introduction of the Zionist idea and the Bundist-Socialist movement to the town. At one and the same time, at the end of the Nineties of the last [nineteenth] Century, two libraries were established: the Zionist library, by the group centered around Yitzick the Baker, and the Socialist library, by a group of workers in town. It is interesting to note that the first books in the Zionist library were volumes of the Bible, which were donated by the society "Tif'eret Bahurim" [the glory of young men], which had been founded by young men of both working and bourgeois families. They used to meet every evening at the home of David the Potter, where R. Leib Yosephs would teach them a chapter of the Bible, and would end the lesson with preacing a little "Yiddishkeit" [Jewishness].
In 1904, a third, Hebrew, library was established. In those days, the Hebrew teacher Sh. Y. Re'uveni, the son-in-law of R. Mordechai Yehudah, opened a "revised heder". He took upon himself the goal of implanting the love of the Hebrew language in the hearts of the pupils. For this purpose he needed some easy Hebrew children books. Funds were raised by individual donations and by fundraising parties which were held from time to time, and the library grew and developed into a full fledged Hebrew library, of significant importance to the Hebrew movement in town.
During the years 1907-8, when the Reactionary forces in Russia grew stronger, the authorities placed obstacles to the establishment and growth of libraries in general, and Jewish libraries in particular. The library they most disliked, most like a thorn in the flesh of the authorities, was the one called the "Socialist" Library. It was run by Re'uven Yoshua and his sons. People started considering the idea of merging the three libraries, and putting them under the wing of the "Bikur Holim" [visiting the sick] Society, the only society which had been approved by the authorities. A committee of two was selected to effect the merger: Eliezer Stolovitsky, and the writer.
After long and tedious negotiations with all the parties involved, and with the representatives of the "Bikur Holim", Avraham Yitchke Isaacs, who was much afraid of the "Tzezilestelach" [The Socialists], the merger took place under the auspices of the "Bikur Holim Society", and received the approval of the authorities. This was the golden age of the library. Under the joint effort of everybody involved, of all the parties, the library grew and flourished, and had hundreds of books in the three languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. This happy period ended with the breaking out of the First World War, when the library was forced to shut down, the books put into boxes and transferred to a safer place than a town next to the front.
Printed in "Solominka", published by the
Organization of the Rakovians in America
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Asparagus and Potato Salad
Love Thy Asparagi: Springtime Potato Salad
We couldn't agree more with Food Orleans: the sight of grass-green asparagus is a sure sign of Spring.
Do you love asparagus like I do? 'Cause I really, really love it. I also love that it's a harbinger of spring eating, and even though we can technically buy it at the store year-round, I try not to. Waiting until the spring for asparagus is one of the first seasonal-buying lessons I learned when I started learning to cook. Plus, I like the fact that I can get excited about a vegetable.
It's like the beauty pageant version of broccoli. The diva of the vegetable world. I scan the market for its stalks as if I were checking for grass shoots. It's tall and lean and might be usable as a paintbrush, in a pinch. Plus it's awesome in salads of all kinds, especially this yummy potato salad full of herbs and lemony, light flavors. All it needs is a quick steam and a plunge in some ice water to set the color, and you've got spring in a bowl!
For her creole-inspired asparagus and potato salad recipe, keep reading.
P.S. We added some shredded roasted pork (with cane syrup glaze on it instead) to this potato salad for a main dish version. YUM.
Springtime potato salad
- 2 1/2 pounds waxy yellow or white potatoes (I used Yukon golds), in 3/4" cubes
- 1/2 a bunch of asparagus (about 15 stalks), in 1" slices
- juice of two lemons, plus the zest of one lemon
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup minced Italian parsley
- 1/4 cup minced fresh mint
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- 2 or 3 shakes of the Tabasco bottle
- 2 teaspoons Creole mustard (or other grainy mustard)
- 1 bunch green onions, thinly sliced
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- Bring 1" of water to a boil in a pot with a steamer basket set over the water. Reduce heat to a simmer, add the potatoes to the steamer basket (in batches if necessary), and steam for about 15 minutes, until cooked through but not mushy. Drain the potatoes on paper towel-lined plates until they stop steaming, then place in a shallow container and chill in the refrigerator while you prepare the other parts of the salad (chilling the potatoes helps them keep their shape).
- Add the asparagus to the steamer basket and steam for about 6 minutes, until tender with a little crispness left to them. Drain and drop in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking and set the color. When they're cool, drain the ice water and put in the fridge to chill.
- Combine the lemon juice, zest, olive oil, herbs, salt and pepper, vinegar, Tabasco, and mustard in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Shake vigorously to combine, then taste; add more salt and pepper, vinegar, or Tabasco if you like.
- Add the potatoes, asparagus, and green onions to a large mixing bowl; pour the dressing over and toss very gently (hands are best for this). Chill again if desired. Stir in the cherry tomatoes just before serving.
Makes 6 side-dish servings
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What Brought Us Here
When our guests check-in and know that we moved from Italy a little more than 3 years ago, many of them ask us the same question "What brought you here?".
If we feel on the funny side we answer "the plane!", but of course soon after comes the real answer. If we feel a little more serious (which doesn't happen so often!) we go directly to the serious answer.
We started travelling in this wonderful country in 1996. Our first trip was to Arizona and California. After that experience we came as tourist almost every summer to explore a different part of the States. Every time the love for this country and its people grew more and more. We always felt at home. And while we were discovering the majesty of the Grand Canyon, the beauty of Louisiana's bayous and plantation, the incredible Yellowstone NP, the wonders of Arches NP and Bryce Canyon NP, the surprising beauties of the south-western deserts, amazing towns like San Antonio, San Francisco, New Orleans, San Diego etc. we felt the wish to make a change in our life.
Then our vacations brought us to New England, where we really discovered the life we wanted to live. We loved New England at once, its freshness, its relaxed way, the amazing four seasons, the beauty of its landscapes, the smell of its air and… no traffic at all. So we found the place where the dream which grew in Roberta and moved to Claudio could be realized: Maine. It's impossible to describe the beauty of its coasts, its little towns, its woods, its islands and the splendor of thousands of lakes. And what about the gorgeous summers and the unbelievable Autumn's colors? You have to experience them to believe them.
So briefly (but probably not so much!) this is why we're here. And if you want to know more we are here waiting for you!


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I like the wood case this guy built for his Minimax ASB. Although he does a convincing job of making you believe the old and new synths sound the same I'd still need to hear the uncompressed ala YouTube sound to make a judgment. Nothing beats the real thing right? In the end it's the song that matters, the notes you play and the story you tell. Still this is a fun comparison!
"This is a direct comparison between my Minimoog (1976) and a Creamware Minimax ASB, trying to use the same settings on both instruments and playing them together or one at a time." – zioguido
A review of the Minimax ASB in Sound on Sound magazine: click here
Visit the Moog website: click here
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