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UNIVERSITY PARK — Subscribers to Penn State's PSUTXT emergency messaging system may see an increase in the number of text and email alerts they receive in the coming months. In an effort to more closely match the guidelines of the federal Clery Act, police plan to issue all timely warnings via PSUTXT.
The Clery Act, a nationwide law related to campus safety, requires that a "timely warning" be sent to the University community to inform them of a reported crime that has occurred on campus or within a certain proximity of campus. The purpose of the timely warning is to let the community know of any ongoing threat. Each report of a crime or situation is evaluated by police on a case-by-case basis to determine if a threat still exists and if a warning should be issued.
"Text messaging is a fast, effective platform that is a critical piece of our emergency communications plans," said Steve Shelow, assistant vice president for Police and Public Safety at Penn State. "In addition to PSUTXT, we are pursuing options for the delivery of timely warnings and other emergency messages to all students, faculty and staff at their Penn State email address. To further strengthen our alignment with federal guidelines, we need systems that will reach as much of the campus community as possible, so that people can make informed decisions about their own safety."
Shelow explained that the nature of some criminal threats often is not limited to a single location, and a timely warning must be issued in a manner that will reach the entire campus community. For example, if a series of burglaries is occurring in one residence hall, this must be shared with the entire campus in case the burglar decides to strike another location at a later time.
There are some emergencies that are more localized, and a timely warning may not be needed if notifications are tailored exclusively to the segment of the campus at risk. An example would be a water main break in a specific building that requires evacuation of that building.
There are other reported situations where posting paper fliers in the immediate area are sufficient to alert that population.
University officials are now looking to add email alerts for the entire Penn State community as part of the range of options for all emergency notifications. In addition, officials also are re-evaluating the emergency communications platforms already in place to ensure that emergency communications are accessible in as many ways as feasible.
Currently, there are 142,000 people signed up for PSUTXT, a service provided by an outside vendor. In the event of an emergency situation, the University community would be alerted through PSUTXT, which sends emergency notifications via text messaging and email. Those text messages also are published on Twitter at https://twitter.com/psutxt. Depending on the situation, information also may be posted to the University's news Web site athttp://news.psu.edu/ and the main home page at http://www.psu.edu.


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BARKHAMSTED >> Despite ardent opposition across the border, Barkhamsted residents will decide if their town should give developers of a new medical building a break on taxes on Feb. 6. The Barkhamsted Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 during a special meeting Wednesday night to set a town meeting in two weeks. While the meeting will also settle concerns over a pair of ordinances, the meeting will primarily deal with the proposed tax abatement for the new facility, which will house Charlotte Hungerford Hospital's services and leave the Winsted Health Center upon completion. "The principal issue here is that we're proposing to provide a five-year tax abatement to the property," said Barkhamsted First Selectman Don Stein. Stein said the abatement would be lowered to 50 percent in the sixth year of the deal, dropping to 25 percent in the seventh and final year. Barkhamsted Economic Development Commission chairman Brad Martin said the abatement was necessary to push the project through. "In an effort to foster commercial development within Barkhamsted, the town initiated a program for awarding real property tax incentives to owners of new and expanding commercial and manufacturing enterprises in Barkhamsted," Martin said. The selectmen stopped short of approving the proposal for the property outright at Wednesday night's meeting, however. Stein said that the issue was simply a matter of standard operating procedure, since both Barkhamsted and Borghesi Engineering have made their own revisions and are trying to protect their interests. "As with any contract," Stein said, "we propose something, Borghesi looked at it and provided some editorial comments." Those comments came through the day of the special Board of Selectmen meeting, Stein added, so the town attorney had not been able to review them yet. Stein said that he did not expect anything to significantly derail the agreement, remarking that "there's no major issues that I'm aware of." "The consensus of the board is that we would approve it once Borghesi and the town attorney agree on the language," said Stein. The new building would be constructed west of Mallory Brook Plaza, sited just over the town line from Winchester. The idea of the facility was not received quite as warmly there, though, as Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is pulling its services out of the Winsted Health Center. The center would still provide heath services, which are not connected to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, such as VA services, but Winsted's Board of Selectmen united to express their disappointment with Charlotte Hungerford Hospital's decision. Despite the disapproval from Winsted's Selectmen, the town did agree to extend its water and sewer lines into Barkhamsted to bring this facility to fruition. "I believe that this new facility will provide substantial, long-term benefits to the town, including potential for additional economic growth with no additional costs," said Allan Borghesi of Borghesi Engineering in a previous interview. Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik
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I've been hearing a lot of 'WOW! This place is different!' and 'WOW! You guys have been busy.' as people walk into the store this season. Yes – we put on an addition – or more correctly Jared and Frank put on an addition. So…here's the story of what we did:
Between the 2012 and 2013 apple season we put up an addition the store. We just felt it was time to make it a bit roomier and easier to get around on those busy September and October Weekends.
The Amish came down for three days and helped Frank and Jared put up the steel portion of the addition. Then, Frank (aka Francis Charles) hauled up saw logs from various trees on his property to have the Amish for them to cut into boards. Jared and Frank used this wood to cover the interior walls of the shed.
Jared stopped at the Restore Shop in Madison to find the windows we needed to make the addition nice and bright.
Frank also had a building on another property with a mezzanine that wasn't being used. All of the materials used to create the loft in the addition were repurposed from the unused mezzanine. At this point the loft is meant to be a safe place for our three girls to play, study and relax during the busy days of apple season.
Meade Construction Company out of Lodi came and poured the concrete floors to finish the addition.
An overhang also now connects the two shed. We have some translucent roofing in to let the light in and help create a 'magic apple fairy walkway' feel (remember…we have three little girls…everything revolves around fairies). This way, if it's raining, there's still a place to hang out comfortably while you enjoy playing with the kitties or eating your caramel apples.
We hope you like the changes we made and that your visit to the orchard is a little less hectic because of it.
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Registration for the BOLD Conference is open, and spots are filling fast! Register here: www.tinyurl.com/boldconference
This conference is first-come, first-serve, so be sure to register soon!
What is it? The BOLD conference is designed for students who are interested in applying their leadership skills in professional settings. The conference will include presentations by local business people, a session about professional etiquette, and pragmatic workshops for students seeking a career in the field of business or organizational leadership.
Who is this conference for? This conference is open to all Ithaca College students who are interested in learning more about leadership in professional settings and is especially recommended for students in the School of Business. This conference will count as three Leading Self or three Leading Others sessions for the Student Leadership Institute.
What are the logistics of this event? This FREE, day-long, on-campus conference offers students an opportunity to attend several workshops focused on the skills needed to succeed in the professional world. A professional etiquette lunch will be provided. All participants must attend the program in its entirety. The BOLD Conference will be held on Saturday, December 8, 2012.
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GORE Protective Vents Improve Reliability of PureWave Constellation Base Stations
- PureWave Networks recently announced the latest addition to its portfolio of base stations - the PureWave Constellation.
ELKTON, MD, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 - - PureWave Networks recently announced the latest addition to its portfolio of base stations – the PureWave Constellation™. This family of advanced LTE small-cell base stations delivers unmatched capacity in densely populated areas by providing high capacity wireless data service to as many as 256 simultaneous users. GORE® Protective Vents help the PureWave Constellation™ base stations perform reliably in fluctuating operating environments.
PureWave Constellation™ base stations are engineered with a sleek design so they can easily blend into any environment and simplify the urban permitting process. Yet their rugged construction is sufficiently durable that they can be installed on walls, street lights or utility poles without the need of an additional shelter. PureWave designed the Constellation™ to withstand extreme temperature and weather conditions anywhere in the world. It also meets the IEC standard for full immersion (IP67) required by military and oil/gas applications. For maximum durability and protection, PureWave uses a cast aluminium housing with a closed cell gasket and 11 perimeter screws to provide a solid seal. Although this design provides excellent protection, heat builds up during operation of the electronics and can cause internal pressure differentials of as much as ± 3 psi. So, PureWave integrated a GORE® Protective Vent into the PureWave Constellation™ enclosure to equalize pressure.
The constant airflow enabled by GORE® Protective Vents equalizes the housing's internal pressure, thereby eliminating vacuum and preventing premature failure of the seals. At the same time, the vents provide a durable barrier against water, dust, dirt and other contaminants, with ratings that meet ingress protection up to IP67. Available in a variety of shapes and sizes, GORE® Protective Vents are engineered with a screw-in, snap-fit, or press-fit construction so they can be easily integrated into any housing design. According to Brett Catterall, Director of Operations at PureWave, they selected an adhesive vent because it was easy to install on the flexible aluminum housing.
Catterall described their experience with Gore's venting products, saying, "We expect our products to perform reliably for at least ten years, regardless of where they are installed. Therefore, we have integrated GORE® Protective Vents in many of our product lines, and we have not had any leakage issues in thousands of installations worldwide. This level of consistently reliable performance is why we continue to select Gore when developing all of our products."
For more information about the PureWave Constellation™, visit www.pwnets.com. For more information about Gore's full line of venting products, visit www.gore.com/protectivevents.
GORE® Protective Vents (right), installed inside the housing of there Purewave Constellation™ base station where indicated, equalize pressure -- eliminating vacuum and preventing premature failure of the seals. Photo: PureWave Networks / W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
About PureWave Networks
PureWave is a rapidly growing, privately held company headquartered in Silicon Valley. A small cell pioneer, PureWave has commercially introduced multiple generations of small cell and compact 4G wireless base stations, starting with the 2009 launch of PureWave Quantum™ 1000. PureWave's product portfolio includes the PureWave Constellation™, a family of advanced, small cell LTE base stations that deliver jaw-dropping peak data rates of up to 1Gbps of LTE capacity and offers an array of advanced options, including multi-channel and multi-frequency support, advanced SON and traffic shaping. The company's PureWave Quantum™ family of award winning, outdoor, mobile WiMAX base stations is selling around the globe and has been deployed in over 120 commercial networks.
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Photo by Mark Thomas
Toasted homemade croutons are tossed with a warm dressing for a stuffing that's lighter than the traditional Thanksgiving version.
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- Giblets (liver, neck, heart, and gizzard) from 1 turkey
- 4 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 10 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 11 cups 1/2-inch cubes country white bread with crust (about 1 pound)
- 1 6-ounce package crimini (baby bella) mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup 1/4-inch cubes celery
- 1/2 cup 1/4-inch cubes peeled celery root (celeriac)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, divided
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 2 1/2 tablespoons Sherry wine vinegar
- Chop liver and transfer to small bowl; cover and refrigerate. Bring broth, neck, heart, and gizzard to boil in heavy large saucepan. Reduce heat to medium; simmer 1 hour. Strain broth into medium bowl; reserve. Remove meat from neck; place in small bowl. Chop heart and gizzard; add to bowl with neck meat.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in medium skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté until tender, about 3 minutes. Add reserved liver; sauté until cooked through, about 4 minutes. Add chopped neck meat, heart, and gizzard, 1 1/2 cups of reserved broth, and 1/4 cup oil. (Dressing can be made 2 days ahead; cover and refrigerate dressing and any remaining broth separately.)
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Divide bread cubes between 2 rimmed baking sheets. Drizzle 2 tablespoons oil over bread on each sheet; toss to coat. Toast bread in oven until golden brown, turning once, about 10 minutes. Transfer to large bowl.
- Add mushrooms, celery, celery root, 1 tablespoon parsley, and oregano to bread. Bring dressing to simmer; remove from heat. Stir in vinegar. Pour dressing over bread mixture; toss. If desired, drizzle remaining broth by tablespoonfuls over bread mixture to moisten. Sprinkle remaining chopped parsley over. Let stand at least 10 minutes and up to 1 hour.


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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
More Ways To Annoy Your NeighborsPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 2:39 AM
by Bonnie Calhoun
I found some more...LOL...I have a few friends who like to torment their co-workers with these! And now for some more ways to annoy people!
Sing along at the opera.
Mow your lawn with scissors.
At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!"
Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."
Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."
Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
Never make eye contact.
Never break eye contact.
Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.
Make appointments for the 31st of September.
Invite lots of people to other people's parties.
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- Anonymous said...7:23 PMOLD LADY! in the picture! Dig Away! hehheheh
Joe and BJ wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed and safe New Year 2008.
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"The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse." -- Thomas Hardy
) -- It has been a wild November, as Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. elections, Europe, China and our nation's fiscal cliff dominated the headlines.
The correction, which I had said was likely to begin in September, has accelerated following the worst October in four years. Investors are deeply disappointed post-QE3. The environment has kept people away from riskier assets, and I myself am surprised by the extent of weakness. It is as if QE3 marked the end of positive intermarket trends that pushed stocks to strong returns.
So how have prices behaved in this period? Every week, I run a screen on more than 1,000 ETFs/ETNs to identify which types of assets or industries are exhibiting extreme price behavior relative to their 20-day moving average. The idea is to see if there is a message beneath the surface by looking at the opposite ends of winners and losers over a rolling one-month period. Take a look below for the latest results.
The extreme winners this week are screaming one word and one word alone: deflation. The fact that the most extreme winners are low-volatility bonds tells you just how severe market internals have become. Treasuries across the board with ETFs such as EDV, TLO, and VGLT are among the biggest winners, and municipal bonds such as MUB and tax-friendly MLN are getting a bid due to the threat of increased taxes on the wealthy. Shorting bonds has been one of the most amazing "widowmakers" all year, as yields continue to stay depressed on persistent deflationary fears.
As to the extreme losers, the breakdown seems to be entirely a story about energy as ETFs such as URA, PBW and TAN fall apart. The smart money may be betting that the U.S. won't be as oil friendly under another four years of Obama, although this does not explain why alternatives have performed so poorly. Rather, I suspect this is a decline specifically due to the return of the global deflation pulse, which hurts commodities in general.
The bottom line? The acceleration of the deflation pulse has spooked markets across the board, and bonds remain the ultimate safe haven, along with the dollar (UUP). Caution remains warranted. Our ATAC models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts remain fully out of equities until conditions improve internally in the market.
Positions: none.
This writing is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation regarding any securities transaction, or as an offer to provide advisory or other services by Pension Partners LLC in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. The information contained in this writing should not be construed as financial or investment advice on any subject matter. Pension Partners LLC expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken based on any or all of the information on this writing.


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Elementary students retested as cheating investigation continues
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Students have been retested at a Davenport school where officials are investigating possible cheating earlier this year.
The Quad-City Times reports students at Madison Elementary School took tests again Monday and Tuesday, and those new assessments could be sent for scoring as early as Friday.
The new testing came nearly a week after Davenport school officials announced they had found an unusually high number of wrong-to-right erasures among tests given to third through fifth graders.
The district began investigating the matter in late February.
Superintendent Art Tate says officials have interviewed more than 30 people at Madison, but it remains unclear who altered the tests.


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PARIS (AP) — Without love, what is Paris? And yet what is a trip to Paris without unfettered vistas of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre or Notre Dame from bridges over the River Seine?
Concerns about scenery are clashing with sentimentality in this reputed City of Love over a profusion of padlocks hitched by lovers on bridges as symbols of everlasting amour — locks that some decry as an eyesore.
Part of a global phenomenon, the craze has grown in Paris recently and now two American women who call Paris home have had enough. They've launched a petition to try to get the city's mostly laissez-faire officials to do something. City leaders say they're exploring alternatives.
In urban myth, it goes like this: Latch a padlock to a bridge railing and chuck the key into the water as you make a wish. Some say the tradition has its roots in 19th-century Hungary. Others cite a recent Italian novel as the inspiration.
Campaigners Lisa Taylor Huff and Lisa Anselmo are denouncing what they call a padlock plague, warning of alleged safety risks and arguing the craze is now a cliche. Their petition, at www.change.org , says the heart of Paris has been made ugly by the locks and the Seine has been polluted by thousands of keys.
Plus, they say, tourists shouldn't be fooled: The locks aren't forever. City crews regularly remove them as they replace damaged structures. One strained rail weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) was recently taken down, a Paris official said.
But their campaign is a hard sell in a metropolis facing myriad problems from air pollution to a housing crunch, and where a polemic over padlocks in mostly tourist areas is a distant worry for many Parisians. French media has given the issue scant attention.
Plus, city authorities know well that tourism is a major money maker and have no desire to dampen Paris' reputation as one of the world's most romantic retreats.
The government of Anne Hidalgo, Paris' new mayor, is contemplating how to respond. Her predecessor generally sided with freedom-of-expression advocates. Options range from fines to signs encouraging tourists to be responsible. Enforcement in a city where bikers regularly run red lights could be tricky.
For now, it's the status quo — no restrictions.
It's spontaneous. And it shows tourists and Parisians are attached to the symbol of Paris as the City of Love, said a City Hall spokeswoman, who declined to be identified by name because of protocol.
We don't foresee banning them, but we're thinking about another form — an alternative — that tourists and Parisians can use to display their love in a way compatible with respect for city heritage, she said.
Anselmo's and Huff's top complaint is the Pont des Arts, a historic pedestrian bridge near the Louvre with incomparable views of the Seine's Ile de la Cite island. Locks also cling en masse on a bridge near Notre Dame Cathedral and some have even cropped up on the Eiffel Tower.
We were tourists ourselves once. We're not heartless, celibate people with no love in our lives. It's because we love the city, said Huff. Do we want this to be the city of locks?
As the native of Hackettstown, New Jersey, spoke on the Pont des Arts, the bridge shimmered in the spring sun from thousands of rusting locks on its rails. New ones were going up nearly by the minute.
We really can't blame the tourists for doing what they think they're allowed to do, said Huff, a writer who also works booking visitor reservations. If tourists aren't going to be responsible by themselves, it's up to the city to set the limits.
What qualifies as an eyesore depends on the beholder. Some historians once felt the Pont des Arts itself — whose origins date to Napoleon's wish in 1804 for a footbridge — impeded views of the Louvre, City Hall's website says.
The petition has garnered more than 5,200 signatures so far, mostly by French people, Huff said. She and Anselmo make their case on www.nolovelocks.com , but some comments posted there show not all are favorable to their crusade.
The city official said municipal architects have examined and generally discounted the alleged risk that bridge railings might not withstand the weight and could topple over onto tour-boat gawkers.
And now the locks have become an attraction in themselves.
That's the other sad part: People used to come here to look at the view, Huff said.
They just see the wall of metal, she said of young children too short to see over the railings. Is that going to be their memory of Paris?
On one recent day, Chinese women snapped photos of the Eiffel Tower from the bridge, then posed for one with the locks as a backdrop. A young woman cried with joy and wiped her eyes as a kneeling suitor shouted in English, She said 'Yes'! to the applause of other tourists. A vendor quickly folded up a sheet showing his padlocks for sale and fled as four police officers approached.
Huff claimed the illegal vendors sometimes damage railings, prompting city crews to replace them for safety reasons — thus creating more space for the locks they sell.
Other cities have found ways to cope with the lock mania. In Russia, artificial trees offer a dedicated padlock area. A mayor in Florence, Italy, reportedly has threatened fines for those who put locks on the famed Ponte Vecchio.
Some have suggested lighter plastic locks, while a Paris website in English suggests that lovers can exchange e-locks instead.
Two years ago, contemporary artist Loris Greaud took about 130 kilograms (285 pounds) of locks off the Pont des Arts, melted them and cast a series of sculptures called Tainted Love.
When asked about the anti-lock campaign, tourists showed a mix of understanding and exasperation.
We saw on the Internet that this was one of the things to do in Paris, said Anne O'Connor, a 42-year-old government worker from Crofton, Maryland. She said a lock she put up with her son and husband symbolized love, family, commitments.
But she conceded the explosion of locks might be seen as an eyesore.
Some questioned why the Americans wanted to get in the way of love.
How could she? said Serkan Up, a 19-year-old security officer from London, after he and his girlfriend Claudia Foley put up a padlock that they had brought from home.
The bridge looks gold from a distance … for us it's special, Foley said. This is the City of Love.
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ERS data 'breathes' life into Etna
The radar onboard ESA's ERS-2 spacecraft is helping U.S. and Italian researchers better understand Mount Etna, along with supplying the data for an animation that shows the volcano 'breathing'.
Data from the ERS synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquired between 1992 and 2000 were used to produce more than 100 interferograms – images produced by analysing the phase differences between consecutive radar images of Etna – that provided the basis for the animation. Such interferometric SAR techniques, known as InSAR, can produce hyper-accurate measurements of terrain movement using satellite data.
The animation displays the surface movement of Mount Etna as the terrain shifts by as much as 14 cm between measurements. Etna initially deflates from 1992-93 at the end of a two-year-long series of eruptions from the volcano's flanks. The volcano begins to inflate again through 1995 as magma repressurizes its magma chamber. From 1995 through 2000, Etna commences a series of inflation and deflation episodes, a "breathing" process that reflects repeated activity in the summit.
"The goal is to understand the relation between the eruption dynamics and the surface deformation of a volcano," states Paul Lundgren, a research scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., and principal investigator on the project. "By correlating the amount of deformation and their sources with volcanic activity, we will ultimately improve our understanding of how volcanoes work and improve our capabilities to evaluate their hazards."
Lundgren is performing this work under contract with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The ESA data is being provided under the permanent announcement of opportunity for research and applications development using ERS and Envisat Earth observation data. The time series inversion approach used by Lundgren is partially based on an algorithm developed at the Institute for Electromagnetic Surveying of the Environment in Naples, Italy.
The series of flank eruptions in 2001, along with the present upsurge in volcanic activity, are being analysed now. "There was no significant, i.e. measurable deflation during the (2001) flank eruption, suggesting that Etna's magmatic system remains fully inflated and capable of continued activity, as is currently being observed," Lundgren added.
Such monitoring studies will continue with additional ERS SAR data and the enhanced capabilities of Envisat's ASAR instrument. For the Etna study, a baseline of information over a long period of time promises fruitful insights into the dynamics of volcanoes and their fiery, unpredictable displays.
"We hope to better understand how the volcano works, especially on longer time scales, such as decades, by connecting larger and larger series of eruptions," the JPL scientist said.


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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Race Identity & Ancestry
One of the things that's been striking me as very odd as I read more of Obama's speeches (since we're going through this campaign season without a TV, this is a campaign strictly of the written word for me -- which is an interesting experience) and selections of his autobiography is his tendency to talk about his mother and grandmother as being of another race, and thus not fully understanding him.
Now clearly, he's half Kenyan, and they're not, but I still can't help finding it rather odd that he in some ways seems to place more of a premium on his skin tone than his ancestry -- especially given that his father abandoned the family when Obama was two. To the extent that race is a matter of biology -- his father is as much "of another race" from him as his mother. And to the extent that race is a matter of experience and culture, you would think that his mother's would predominate, since she raised him. Yet he seems to identify entirely with the "minority" half of his ancestry, while considering his mother and maternal ancestors as somehow alien.
Clearly, he's not at all alone in this. One of the very odd experiences I had growing up was in dealing with a family among our set of close long term friends who had adopted a son from Korea. He was adopted as an infant, and they already had one biological daughter. Now the family was "liberal" in their leanings in a general sort of way and felt very strongly about ethnic identity. So as their adopted son grew up, they were always at pains to make sure he got enough Korean culture. He was always enrolled in Asian-American activities in school. As a teenager, they enrolled him in a separate Korean youth group (they were Methodists, I think). Eventually, he joined a separate Korean church.
Now clearly, they saw this as making sure that he wasn't cut off from the culture he was born in (though I can't imagine he soaked much up in the six months before he came to the US), but to me, as another kid, it always seemed like he was being treated as the outsider in the family. They were WASPs; he was Korean. To me, as the admixture of an Irish-ancesty father and a Mexican-ancestry mother (though admitedly, those are two cultures that may not be seen as very distinct in modern American society) the whole idea of identifying with one ancestry or the other seemed silly. So why treat an adopted child of another national origin as if he were somehow "other" than the biological child?
African ancestry has traditionally been cause for incredible amounts of discrimination and oppression in the US -- though I think one is justified in saying these have got much better over the last 40 years. So I can certainly see how Obama might well feel that he's faced challenges due to his skin color that his mother and grandmother did not face.
But at the same time, consistently referring to your parent and grandparent -- who were the ones who actually raised you -- as "someone of another race" seems very odd to me...
7 comments:
- Foxfier said...
Y'know...I admit that I tend to identify myself as "Irish" if folks ask, but that's mostly because it's the largest chunk that we know of--my mom's family is "basically" Irish. (most of it was in the country for so long, and got into enough various trouble, that we're not REALLY sure)
But I don't dislike my American Indian ancestors (although you can't tell by looking) and I'm quite quick to point out I'm an English Hicks, not a German one...and I'm quick to make jokes about my wallet screaming for my Scot grandmother.
I am a whole--why can't Obama live that way? It's not like he grew up being treated that differently....
- Anonymous said...
I have a son adopted from Korea, and before this experience I thought the way you do. What I have learned, though, from talking to people in the international adoption community and from reading the thoughts of adult Korean adoptees, is that these children feel like outsiders in both cultures. They don't like kimchee and can't speak more than twelve words of Korean, but they are reminded every day that they look different from white kids.
One thing our social worker taught us is that our son's Korean heritage is his -- it's our duty to offer him some background into his history, but his choice how far to take it.
"Heritage" is a good word here to understand these issues. Nothing will ever change the fact that he was born in Korea to Korean parents, nor that he is an immigrant (though also an American citizen from the moment the adoption was finalized). He'll never be just one or just the other, but both, and that can't be changed.
As for Obama, I have very little to say about him that is nice. I find him disingenuous at best. Well, he's better than Edwards, who was downright creepy; I guess that's something nice.
- rose said...
See, this is the problem that I wish more people would talk about: the fact that our entire *system* of racial classification is basically racist. Why is Obama black? Because our ancestors were obsessed with racial purity, so they decided that any non-white ancestry polluted you and made you not white. It's STUPID.
- Anonymous said...
I remember a friend of mine in college who was a little bit of everything: Negro, Caucasian, American Indian and Asian. He had a great sense of humor and when asked his race used to say "All!".
- Rick Lugari said...
Yeah, I'm a mutt. I have Italian, English, French, Irish and American Indian in me. I regret that I don't have any African, Polish, and Jewish blood in me because it limits the jokes I'm "allowed" to use. I shouldn't complain though, there's still plenty of material available to me due to the French and Italian...and Catholic!
- CMinor said...
I think Rhinemouse has a point, but I think that history is less of a determiner today than it is a stick used by some persons claiming some sort of minority status to beat society into accepting their personal agendas.
I thought Obama's recent comments in reference to his grandmother betrayed a certain ingratitude and lack of empathy, as well as a willingness to exploit even those who have done him a kindness if it advances him politically. I think that these characteristics indicate a fundamental lack of character inappropriate to a head of state.
Say what you like about his difficulties because of his skin color; his grandmother was raising a biracial teenager during the '70's and I doubt the bigots in their community made her life any easier just because she happened to be white. Moreover, I'd bet she shielded him from unpleasantness on more than one occasion.
Regarding your Korean-born acquaintance, Darwin, it does seem to me that those parents went overboard in their attempt to preserve his ethnic identity. It's one thing to encourage your kid to join, say, a Korean class or Asian Culture club, but the church change makes it seem like they were enabling the kid to insulate himself to extremes from the culture in which he was being raised. I think that would have been a good time to give him the "Brothers in Christ" sermon and put the foot down.
- Louise said...
I think you really hit the nail on the head. I have been troubled by the same thing as I've listened to and read Obama's speeches.
As far as your story of the adopted Korean boy -- it seems today that it's so popular and politically correct to emphasize "diversity" that people will go out of their way to embrace ethnicity even when it really has no meaning for them (or for the person that they're forcing to embrace it). When I was in grade school, the US was a "melting pot"; by the time I reached high school it was rechristened a "salad," emphasizing that each person retained his or her ethnic/racial "identity" in the mix. I'm not saying people shouldn't appreciate their heritage and learn about the culture of their ancestors, but I think such attitudes sometimes become too strong, and can be very divisive.


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You can learn a lot about an animal by watching it eat, but sometimes scientists are more interested in the creature being eaten — especially when that creature is a human.
Researchers Katherine Spradley and her colleagues at Texas State University-San Marcos have conducted a pilot study examining what they describe as "the effects of vulture modification to human remains." Basically, they wanted to know how quickly and in what order various parts of a human corpse are picked clean, ripped apart, and dispersed throughout the surrounding area (i.e. the area surrounding the resting place of the original, intact body).
It's definitely gruesome research, but it turns out there's a perfectly practical explanation for the study: let's say a search team or a pack of unsuspecting hikers happen upon a human body (or body parts) in a wilderness area where vultures are known to scavenge. After the body has been discovered, detectives can have a difficult time determining the time of death. By studying how these carrion-eaters dismantle a human meal, researchers like Spradley hope to make these detectives' lives a little easier.
"Vultures throw off the time-since-death estimation significantly," explains Spradley to New Scientist's Paul Marks. "Prior to our study, if you came across disarticulated remains you would assume that they were dismembered by a carnivore — and then remain puzzled when there are no gnaw marks typical of carnivores."
Spradley and her team of researchers report that the "fully-fleshed individual" used in their study was reduced to a skeleton in just five hours, but more experiments must be done, and there are a lot of other details about the vultures' scavenging habits to consider. You can read more about them over on New Scientist, and in last month's issue of Forensic Science International.
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PORTSMOUTH — The nostalgia may be gone, but the Seacoast Basketball Tournament began its 64th season on Saturday without a hitch inside the new Connie Bean Community Center.
After 63 seasons in the small confines of the historic old building on Daniel Street, the annual tournament that features players from New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts competing in nine divisions took on a fresh feeling inside the new facility adjacent to the Portsmouth Middle School. With two courts and better amenities, the Seacoast Basketball Tournament started a new era with the same level of competition that has become expected.
"The first day of the tournament — especially as large as the one we have here — it's just making sure everyone shows up, and so far so good," tournament director Peter Goodwin said. "I think it's typical Connie Bean fashion. With two gyms, we're actually 30 minutes ahead of schedule, where in the old gym it seemed like we were always behind schedule. So it's going very well."
Goodwin said while it will be tough to match the atmosphere inside the cramped old building, everything the new building has should make the experience for the players and fans better.
"The facility here is awesome, it has everything," Goodwin said. "It'd be like the old Boston Garden versus the new Boston Garden."
Goodwin is particularly excited about the high school boys division, which got underway with a full slate on Saturday. In 11-and-12th grade division action, The Buckets defeated the Marshwood Seniors, 76-48. The Buckets are comprised of players from Spaulding, along with Winnacunnet's Sam Knollmeyer and Rich Ruffin.
Knollmeyer poured in a game-high 23 points for the Buckets, while Ruffin added 13 and Grayson Waterman netted 17. Danny Veino led Marshwood with 19 points and Alex McLean added 12.
The Buckets jumped out to a 17-3 start in the first half following back-to-back 3-pointers by Ruffin and Waterman. Marshwood went on an 11-5 run to cut the lead to 31-22, but that was as close as Marshwood got.
Carrying a 34-22 lead, The Buckets opened the second half with a 10-0 run, capped off by a steal by Ruffin, who fed Waterman for a layup. The Buckets led 49-32 before Veino drained a 3-pointer.
"It was pretty fun to come out and play with new kids," said Ruffin, a WHS junior. "We just got off to a good start and rolled. I just want to come out here and get better; that's what I'm focused on."With only five players compared to The Buckets' eight, Veino noted a major difference from playing in the old building than the new one. Marshwood hasn't played in over a month since losing to Sanford in the preliminary round of the Western Maine Class A tournament.
"None of us have played in a while, so it was kind of interesting to see what would happen," Veino said. "The score didn't show it, but it's always fun to come back out and play. If we had five guys in the old building it'd be easier, but here we have to run up and down."
Veino will be playing at Division III Thomas College (Waterville, Maine) next fall and this was his fifth time playing in this tournament. Despite the rough start for his team, he was impressed with the new facility.
"It's cool because you can jump a lot higher than the (old) Connie Bean," Veino said. "I'd like to play here a little bit more. I want to win one game here this year. That's my goal."
Marshwood will play a game in the loser's bracket today, while The Buckets will play in the winner's bracket next Saturday.
Ruffin is playing in his third Seacoast tournament and is also a fan of its new surroundings.
"I like it. It's fun here," Ruffin said. "The fun of the (old) Connie Bean was the history of it, but this is better because of the court."
Upon entering the new building on Saturday, Goodwin's 10-year old daughter, Kayla, remarked to her father: "This ain't the Connie Bean," but Saturday marked a new start to what is a strong tradition.
"We don't have to worry about the stuff we had to worry before like the short walls when kids would go out on breakaways or layups," Goodwin said. "This place is unbelievable. We always have good, quality teams that come here and the level of basketball is always the same."
In other action from Saturday, Dover defeated Marshwood, 60-40, in the ninth and 10th grade boys division. Matt Mulcahy scored 21 points for Dover and Marshwood's Dan Longtin had seven. The Somersworth Running Rebs defeated Secure Planning of Portsmouth, 37-24, in a fifth and sixth grade boys game. Jake Ducharme scored 10 points for Somersworth and Alex Tavares had seven for Secure Planning.
In a fifth and sixth grade girls game York, Maine, topped Greenland 19-10. Abby Laurent scored four points for Greenland.
Also in 5th-6th girls, Portsmouth downed Dover, 22-10. Mia Saurman had six points for Portsmouth.
York beat Farmington 45-16 in a girls seventh and eighth grade contest. Shania Chapman had eight points for Farmington,
Also in 7th-8th girls, Greenland knocked off the Fuzzers of Portsmouth 45-17.
In seventh and eighth grade boys action Rye beat York, 53-41; Rochester defeated Harvey's 62-45; and Stratham stopped Seaport Fish, 46-14. Brad Simas scored nine points for Seaport Fish.


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Union: NYC school bus strike starting Wednesday
A strike by New York City school bus drivers that had been threatened for weeks will start Wednesday morning, affecting 152,000 students, the president of the union representing the drivers announced Monday.
Michael Cordiello of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union said more than 8,000 bus drivers and matrons will participate in the strike, brought about by a dispute over job protections in any new bus company contracts for the bus routes. Matrons accompany the children on the bus and make sure they get on and off the bus safely.
"With its regrettable decision to strike, the union is abandoning 152,000 students and their families who rely on school bus service each day," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. "As Chancellor (Dennis) Walcott and I have said, the City will take all steps available to ensure that those who are impacted have the support they need, and we are now activating the protocols we put in place in the event of a strike."
Cordiello said, "Safely transporting our children back and forth school today has, and always will be, the top priority of every man and woman who make up ATU Local 1181."
Under the city's strike contingency plans, students would receive free MetroCards for mass transit. Parents or guardians of younger children also would get the cards.
Families of special needs students would be reimbursed for private transportation. Of the 152,000 students who use the buses, 54,000 are disabled and would face extra hardships in trying to find alternative transportation.
There are 1.1 million students in the New York City schools. While the majority don't use school buses, those that do are among the youngest ones.
The city wants to cut transportation costs and has put bus contracts with private bus companies up for bid. The union is decrying the lack of employee protections, saying current drivers with skills and experience could suddenly lose their jobs once their contracts are up in June if the companies they work for aren't the ones getting the new contracts and the new contract holders don't hire them.
The mayor said the privately-contracted drivers were demanding job security, or Employee Protection Provisions.
However, such a guarantee is not allowed in contracts between drivers and companies chosen by the city to provide bus services, the city says. The state Court of Appeals in 2011 barred the city from including EPP because of competitive bidding laws. Hence, the mayor said, the city cannot accept the union demand for an EPP clause.
"Let me be clear: the union's decision to strike has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with job protections that the City legally cannot include in its bus contracts," Bloomberg's statement said. "We hope that the union will reconsider its irresponsible and misguided decision to jeopardize our students' education."
The drivers' contracts expire on June 30, and Bloomberg said the city must seek competitive bids that would save money.
Cordiello refuted the idea that the EPP was not allowed. He said the 2011 Court of Appeals ruling was based on the fact that the city at the time did not offer the judges enough evidence to support its contention that the EPP job-security clause does not push up costs.
The union president also challenged the mayor's assertion that both sides in the labor dispute had been talking "all along."
Not true, Cordiello said. He said he'd met the chancellor for only 20 minutes last week, and the deputy chancellor for an hour.
He said Bloomberg and Walcott refused "to engage in any sort of productive dialogue" and had "forced our hand to strike."
Among those who showed up at the union news conference was Susan Valdes-Dapena, the mother of a 10-year-old boy who is bused from their home in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria to Roosevelt Island. Her son will now have to be driven to and from school.
He attends The Child School/Legacy High School, a state-chartered private school for children with learning disabilities.
"I'm here because I'm concerned about what happens if the drivers lose their seniority, if they're less experienced," Valdes-Dapena said.
"You can teach someone to drive a school bus, but what happens when all hell breaks loose behind them?" she asked, explaining that it takes experience to deal with situations like bus breakdowns, medical emergencies of kids with special needs or traffic, when kids get frustrated or unruly.
"The drivers we have now - I'd trust them with my own life," she said.
The head of another union, Teamsters Local 854, said its members would not go on strike with the bus drivers because their contracts don't allow it, but they would not cross any picket lines. Local 854 represents drivers, matrons and mechanics, some of whom work alongside members of ATU.
Dan Gatto, president of the local, put the blame on Bloomberg. "For weeks now, City Hall has refused to discuss the job-killing provisions they are insisting on as part of new contracts with bus contractors," he said. "We urge Mayor Bloomberg and his administration to work with the ATU to resolve this dispute before a job action is required."
In 2011, the city said the union was threatening to strike over bus route contract bids, but the union said the warning was a false alarm. No strike took place.


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America's infatuation with YouTube will likely not fade for the foreseeable future, as it continues to enjoy prolific traffic and viewer popularity for an intriguing spectrum of amusing, quirky, educational and sometimes controversial vignettes. Depending on the nature and scope of your organization, YouTube has the potential to be your third-most powerful online marketing channel, assuming your website and Facebook page are your primary and secondary online assets for distributing information to your customers, stakeholders or communities (although, enewsletters may actually be second, but for now I am thinking more of display venues rather than mass distribution).
With the technology available in consumer-grade video cameras and user-appealing functions of YouTube, it is not too daunting to have staff assume the omnipresent "multi-media journalist" role and produce compelling video to bolster your online marketing efforts. Who doesn't love to spend a few minutes on YouTube anyway? Once your channel is up and running, invest some time to promote and grow it, and your viewer traffic will surge dramatically. Below are seven elements that can enhance your marketing by harnessing existing video or planning future filming within your organization. If you don't have the budget, resources or personnel to produce video, consider collaborating with a video production agency or local public-access television station; or solicit portfolio-building contributions from a school video production class.
1. Take stock in your inventory – What do you have available without contracting with a video production agency? Do you have amateur-style footage, smart phone recordings, professionally edited B-roll vignettes or full-length programs? All of these formats can have a place on your YouTube channel, provided you organize and label them accordingly.
2. What makes good video for marketing? – If you don't have a supply of ready-to-air video, consider developing a plan to produce samples gradually, including topics like recaps of groundbreakings or press conferences; video tours of your companies, stores, facilities or expert interviews or renderings of a project (i.e. create buzz with updates or countdown to an opening).
3. Maximize YouTube's features and display options – Keep your brand and logo consistent on YouTube so it is aligned with your website and social media profiles. Include a brief (about 30 words) description of the agency so it fits nicely in the header box. Similar to Twitter and the new Facebook "cover photo", you also have the aesthetic option of uploading a customized background (consider a notable company photo or iconic image).
4. Optimize videos for search – For every video, include a short caption and description; this is an opportunity for boilerplate information, website and phone number. You should add tags for each video to target certain demographics for online search optimization.
5. Cross-pollinate videos – Any time you post a new video, cross-promote the link on your website and social media. This is great content to keep your customers interested, informed on the latest news and engaged to share and re-post in their networks.
6. Make regular adjustments to main viewer – Periodically switch the featured video that pops up first; plan your promotional calendar so that the main viewer depicts your next event or program. Once it is over, change the settings to show a more evergreen video, such as a tour of a park or public safety announcement with tips for water safety or youth fitness.
7. Create a "library" with playlists – As your archive grows, you can make separate playlists according to categories, facilities or activities. The benefit of leveraging playlists is to sort content so that it can be distributed accordingly to your different audience interests, including teen programs, aquatics promotions or nature classes.
Do you use YouTube currently as part of your marketing mix? Do you have plans to include video and YouTube in your marketing efforts? What types of videos have you found to be most engaging and successful for your agency? Do you have any tips or success stories to add?
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It remains to be seen why so many stories are popping up now. It's possible that there has been a recent surge in activity, or perhaps some recent change has made it more visible to various parties involved. However, that kind of behavior is normally kept under wraps. That several stories are leaking out, with similar elements, suggests that there may be some kind of political positioning also going on — the stories are being released to create leverage in some other situation.
Cynically, we can conclude that once some deal is concluded everyone will go back to quietly spying on each other and the stories will disappear for a while, only to surface again at some later time when it serves anoher political purpose. And once again, people will act surprised. If government and industry were really concerned, we'd see a huge surge in spending on defenses and research, and a big push to educate a cadre of cyber defenders.
You might also be wondering if the West and its allies is engaged in a "cyberwar" with China. Some might be asking if this is "information warfare." Here is my perspective.
DoD Joint Publication 3-13, Information Operations, differentiates between two sorts of offensive information operations.
- Computer Network Exploitation. Enabling operations and intelligence collection capabilities conducted through the use of computer networks to gather data from target or adversary automated information systems or networks. Also called CNE.
- Computer Network Attack. Actions taken through the use of computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy information resident in computers and computer networks, or the computers and networks themselves. Also called CNA.
You can think of CNE as spycraft, and CNA as warfare. In the physical world, the former is always occurring; the latter is hopefully much rarer. I would place all of the publicly reported activity from the last few months in the CNE category.
So why the war in the media over Chinese activity? I think this is part of the answer: what else can the West or China do? Consider similar situations and their consequences.
- The UK seeks the extradition of Andrei Lugovo for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Russia refuses, so the UK expels four Russian "diplomats." Russia responds by expelling four UK "diplomats."
- Russian bombers encroach on the North Sea. The UK scrambles interceptors.
- The FBI discovers Robert Hansen is a Russian spy. The US expels six Russians, and the Russians seek to match that with their own expulsions.
This is how the international relations game is played. When the players have no way to express their concerns or make their intentions known, they are left with making statements to the media. The question is whether anything else might happen.


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The oldest sources for the liturgy mention Ruth, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, and Esther, but not Ecclesiastes (Soferim xiv. 3). It is clear from Soferim xiv. 8, where the last-named roll is again ignored, that this is no chance omission. On the other hand, its name is found in the Maḥzor Vitry (p. 440, below): "The entire congregation while seated read the book [
Liturgical usage necessitated manuscripts which should contain not only the Torah and the Hafṭarot from the Prophets, but also the Five Rolls. For the same reason the so-called Midrash Rabbah was gradually collected for the five Megillot as well as for the Torah. The allusions to the individual feasts which Müller ("Soferim," p. 187) finds in the Haggadah furnish no proof that the rolls in question were read at these particular festivals; for by the same process of reasoning it might be inferred from Yer. Meg., end, that the Song of Solomon instead of Ruth was read on the Feast of Pentecost. But Yalḳ., Ruth, 994, says: "Why is Ruth read at Pentecost? Because the Torah was given only through suffering." This statement is not found, however, in any of the parallel passages; and it is, therefore, evidently a later addition, and not an ancient midrash.The late origin of this usage ("minhag") is reflected in the discussions of scholars up to the sixteenth century regarding the form of the benediction and other questions (Isserles, "Oraḥ Ḥayyim," p. 490, end; idem, Responsa, No. 35). Soferim xiv. 18 states that at the terminations of the festivals the proper rolls were read twice on the two evenings (Song of Solomon at the Passover; Ruth at Pentecost), or on the Sabbath of each demi-festival, the latter being the custom among the people. It is now customary in Jerusalem to write the Five Rolls on parchment like the other Biblical books, and in reading them to pronounce over all the benediction which is generally used in the case of the roll of Esther, making the proper changes (see further on the Song of Solomon at Passover and Ruth at Pentecost, Maḥzor Vitry, ed. Hurwitz, pp. 304, 344).
Although the Feast of Purim was celebrated long before the present era (II Macc. xv. 36; Josephus, "Ant." xi. 6, § 13; comp. John v. 1), it is doubtful when the custom of reading the roll of Esther publicly was introduced; but it was at all events before the destruction of the Temple (Tosef., Meg. i. 6, where Zechariah ben ha-Ḳaẓẓab is quoted). Although the oldest tannaim are not mentioned in the rules for reading Esther, yet the detailed character of these regulations, and the fact that there is a special tractate on them, show that the usage was developed before the common era. On the other hand, the license allowed villagers on the day of reading, the discussions among scholars as to whether one was required to read only from ii. 5 or iii. 1 or iv. 1 (Meg. ii. 3; Tosef., Meg. ii. 9), together with many concessions as compared with the lessons from the Torah (e.g., minors might read; ib. ii. 11, iv. 1), and the fact that even in later times large scope was granted to popular custom, justify the conclusion that the origin of the reading of the roll of Esther must not be dated too remotely (Meg. 2a). The custom of reading it in the month of Adar had become general probably by the third century of the common era, and had been sanctioned (Yer. Meg. 70a, 2); but the public reading of the book for those unable to read had apparently been introduced a century before. In the third century (ib. 73b, 28) the entire roll was usually read, but only once and in the daytime (Meg. ii. 4, 5), while during the persecution by Hadrian a scribe read it at night (Tosef., Meg. ii. 4). In many places in Palestine it was read on two days (Yer. Sheḳ. 46a, 8). The custom of reading in both the evening and the morning, which now generally prevails, was not established until the post-Talmudic period (Soferim xxi. 8; comp. also Maḥzor Vitry, pp. 207 et seq.). The Karaites read the roll at the ends of the two Sabbaths which precede Purim, a reminiscence of the original custom of reading it throughout Adar until the fifteenth. The Megillah was wrapped about a rod (the Maḥzor Vitry mentions two rods); and in the Middle Ages it was often illuminated.
In the Talmudic period Lamentations formed no part of the service; and, strictly speaking, it hasnever become such. In Ta'an. 30a, below, the baraita states that on the Ninth of Ab the Bible may not be read nor the tradition studied, but that "Job, Lamentations, and the sections of Jeremiah which deal with calamity," may be recited. In post-Talmudic times, however, the custom of reading Lamentations had become general (Soferim xiv. 3). The book was also read responsively (Maḥzor Vitry, p. 226); and in many synagogues, because the Ninth of Ab is a day of mourning, only one light was lit by which it might be read (R. Asher, Ta'an. 9, end). The persecutions of the Crusades strongly influenced the gloom of Tish'ah be-Ab and its liturgy (see Maḥzor Vitry, p. 227, and Oraḥ Ḥayyim, § 554). See, also, Ecclesiastes; Esther, Book of; Lamentations; Ruth; and Song of Songs.


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In the NewsWednesday, January 28th, 2009
I have cold. More than that, I have a bad cold, complete with laryngitis and the feeling, as my mum has always said, of "the utter lack of cheer". My having laryngitis means that I can't talk which is one of the things I do on a regular basis. Oddly, not being able to talk also makes it difficult for me to write. As I write I tend to speak out loud to nobody in particular. It helps me focus. Focus isn't happening today. Mrs. Grass's chicken soup is, as it has been every time I have been sick since I was a child.


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Whatever similarities you may find with regards to scientific evidence or lack of same, there is a very large difference in cosmology and orientation between Tibetan Buddhism and Icke. The latter is making totally unsubstantiated claims against real people, there is a link to his site portraying the Dalai Lama as a Nazi crook for instance (not as a serpent though). Icke is feeding off people's basic hates and fears. It's paranoiac populism of the worst kind. No offense intended to anyone.gad rgyangs wrote:you mean like claims of termas being dug up after being buried by Guru Rinpoche, footprints left in stone of various buddhist saints (every monastery in Tibet has a bunch of these), spontaneously manifest statues, the Garuda claw in Drigung Til Monastery, mediums channeling various Buddhist "spirits", divinations, and about 80% of actual Tibetan Buddhism as it is practiced by Tibetans? Or maybe the TB weenies here are willing to either A) overlook this stuff because Western Tibetan Buddhism is so much more evolved, we can live with the mild embarrassment of Tibetan Buddhism as practiced by Tibetans? or B) believe in all that stuff, even though it has no more basis than most of David Icke's claims?Jikan wrote: The problem with making unsubstantiated claims, or claims that cannot be verified by reason or evidence, is that it amounts to wrong speech.
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