text:
Cage Lights, Cage Lights Everywhere
From artful reproductions to the real vintage deal, these industrial style lights have been making their presence known, but finding the perfect fixture can be a little tricky and time consuming, so we've done the work for you. Here are my top picks…
First Row:
• White Flower Farmhouse's Trouble light designed by Robert True Ogden, $115.
•Etsy seller, Paddy Ridge's vintage workman's cage lamp. Added bonuses are the clip and the very reasonable $43 pricetag.
• B4 It Was Cool's upright industrial lamp base.
• Hudson Good's Industrial Trouble Light, $129. This one can be wall-mounted.
•Historic Materialism's Aluminum Globe Fixture . Selling for...deep breath...$3,200!
Second Row:
• Etsy seller, LampGood's Orrington Industrial hanging lamp, $59.
• Mothology's Oversized Open Frame Industrial Pendant light, $168.
• Pottery Barn Kid's Nautical light, $99.
•Wisteria's Pendant Cage lamp, $129.00.


text:
- Inside Athletics
- Tickets
- Fan Zone
- Media Zone
- Social
- Shop
- E Fund
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 14, 2014) – The ETSU baseball team wraps up regular season play this weekend when the Bucs host Mercer in a three-game conference series starting Thursday night at Thomas Stadium.
Saturday is Senior Day as the 2014 senior class of Will Chesney (Knoxville, Tenn.), Tyler Roach (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jared Burton (Knoxville, Tenn.), Derek Bushey (Richmond, Va.), Logan Rice (Erwin, Tenn.), Brandon Wilson (Sevierville, Tenn.), Dylan Tritsch (Boca Raton, Fla.), Matt Sorrow (Griffin, Ga.) and Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) will be recognized in a pregame ceremony.
Thursday – 7:05 p.m. – Game No. 52
RHP Jimmy Nesselt (6-5, 4.29) vs. RHP Brandon Barker (4-3, 3.28)
Friday – 7:05 p.m. – Game No. 53
LHP Jamin McCann (3-4, 5.09) vs. LHP Grant Papelian (5-2, 3.40)
Saturday – 1:05 p.m. – Game No. 54
Logan Rice (3-0, 3.51) vs. RHP Eric Nyquist (7-1, 3.33)
ETSU (24-27) had its four-game home win streak come to an end as Appalachian State rallied for a 9-5 win over the Bucs in 10 innings, which finished early Wednesday morning at Thomas Stadium.
The Mountaineers scored six unanswered runs – including four in the top of the 10th inning – which also snapped ETSU's extra-inning win streak. The Blue and Gold had won 10 straight games in extras, marking the Bucs' first extra-inning loss since April 14, 2012.
Clinton Freeman recorded his Atlantic Sun-leading 11th home run of the season by belting a two-run blast in the bottom of the first, while Tyler Roach and Kevin Phillips (St. Louis, Mo.) had the other RBIs for the Bucs. Roach ripped a two-out RBI single in the fifth and Phillips' two-run scoring single extended ETSU's lead to 5-3 in the fifth inning. Roach finished with a three-hit night, while Chris Cook (Kingsport, Tenn.) registered a two-hit game.
Appalachian State held the Blue and Gold scoreless following the three-run fifth inning and retired 15 of the final 17 ETSU hitters.
All four of the Mountaineers' runs came with two outs in the 10th.
Mercer (37-13, 17-7) defeated Georgia State 6-5 Tuesday night in Macon, Ga.
The Bears have four players hitting above .300 as Michael Massi leads the club with a .354 (68-192) average. Chesny Young (.348), Sasha LaGarde (.319), and Derrick Workman (.301) are also hitting above the .300 mark. Massi ranks fifth in the Atlantic Sun in on-base percentage (.439), is tied for fifth in hits (68), sixth in runs scored (48), and ranks 10th in batting average, while LaGarde leads the conference in runs (51), is fourth in home runs (9) and is sixth in RBI (43). Meanwhile, Workman holds Mercer's all-time hits record (270) and Young picked up a pair of Preseason All-American honors prior to the start of the 2014 campaign.
Mercer's pitching staff boasts the top ERA in the league (3.06), while also leading the conference in saves (16), runs allowed (178) and walks allowed (100). Barker (3.28) and Nyquist (3.33) rank fifth and ninth in ERA, respectively, and Nyquist is also tied for second in wins (7) and ranks fourth in opposing batting average (.231). Barker's 54 strikeouts are tied for seventh.
Mercer, the 2013 regular season champion, was tabbed to win the A-Sun and currently sit second behind Florida Gulf Coast.
Since ETSU joined the A-Sun in 2006, Mercer leads the series, 19-9, but the Bucs knocked the Bears out of the 2013 Atlantic Sun Championship with a 7-4, 10-inning win in DeLand, Fla.
ETSU won the series in Johnson City back in 2012, but Mercer is 8-4 all-time against the Bucs on the road.
Ten of the 28 games have been decided by two runs or less, with Mercer going 8-2 in those contests.
Clinton Freeman is 1-0 in three relief appearances against the Bears, while also not allowing an earned run in seven total innings. The southpaw has struck out six Mercer hitters. Jimmy Nesselt (Plantation, Fla.) has made two career starts against the Bears (6 ER/13.0 IP), while striking out 10 and walking five. At the plate, Kevin Phillips is 3-for-9 with two walks, one home run, and three RBI in three games (two starts) against Mercer. Phillips' solo home run in the eighth inning tied the game at four in the 2013 A-Sun Tournament.
Live stats will be available for this weekend's series via StatBroadcast by visiting ETSUBucs.com. Fans can access live stats on their computers, mobile devices or tablets.
Live video will be provided free of charge on ASun.TV.
Live audio will be available for all three games on WXSM-AM 640 The Extreme Sports Monster with "Voice of the Bucs" Jay Sandos handling the play-by-play. Fans outside the Tri-Cities region can access WXSM online at http://www.640wxsm.com/ or you can listen to the games via your mobile device(s) by downloading the iHeart Radio application.
Live updates will also be posted on Twitter by following @ETSUAthletics and @ETSU_Baseball.
The Bucs head back down to Ft. Myers for the 2014 A-Sun Championship, which is hosted by Florida Gulf Coast. The double-elimination tournament begins Wednesday, May 21 at Swanson Stadium. The tournament field is set (FGCU, Mercer, Lipscomb, Kennesaw State, ETSU, North Florida, Stetson and Jacksonville), but none of the seeds have yet to be determined.
Single-game tickets to ETSU baseball games are $10 for reserved seats behind home plate and $5 for reserved seats along the baselines.
Single-game tickets are $2 for groups of 10 or more people. Please call (423) 439-4828 for details.
Tickets can be purchased at the stadium, online at ETSUBucs.com, or by calling (423) 439-3878.
Come out to Thomas Stadium early and tailgate prior to ETSU baseball games this season. A designated tailgating area will be roped off in the parking lot where fans can enjoy a festive environment before the Bucs take the field.
Click here for tailgating guidelines.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
For more information on Buccaneer baseball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball page.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Posted on November 23, 2009
"Why can't you do this more than once a year?"
The simplest answer to this question about the Book Fair is "Are you out of your itty-bitty mind?" But people tend to react badlty when I give simple answers, so let's get complex.
The thing is that we've considered other sales. Someone once suggested a weekly book sale: "Just put some shelves and stuff outside on the loading dock every Saturday and sell books!" I had a one-word answer to that suggestion, but it wasn't the word you think. That word was "January". They saw the point at once.
Someone else suggested monthly theme sales. Instead of putting out 67 categories in July, we could do just ten categories each month (this would allow for some overlap in the more popular categories, or just for more categories.) I asked how they thought the turnout would be the month we set up Ruggles Hall for Sociology, Political Science, and Psychology. They grumbled a bit, but they got the point again.
Lest you think I have always been a bottleneck in these things (by the way, did I ever explain about bottlenecks? Bottles NEED necks. Otherwise they'd be jars.) I did help out in a summer of extension book fairs. The idea was to take a sampling of one section of the Book Fair and take it on the road: a selection of cookbooks on a table outside a cooking supply store in a mall, for example, or a selection of travel books in a train station. This would allow for some income, but also serve as an advertisement for the Main Event.
Everything would be handled by volunteers, I was told. All I'd have to do was pack up a selection of nice, pretty books in the subject requested, and send them away, and then, of course, take back the unsold books, "if any". I grumbled a bit, but I did it. (If you think packing up ten or twenty boxes of "nice" books in one subject is something that takes no time out of a normal workday, you are probably a supervisor yourself.)
I am sorry to say that this plan wound up in the "Who thought this was a good idea?" file. We had three mini-sales. I believe one involved Transportation and Travel books outside a car dealership. Most car dealerships tend to be in areas where this is little or no foot traffic, so the volunteer worked on his tan and took naps. The volunteer who worked the train station had almost the same problem, except that from time to time there would be swarms of people rushing past him. In the quiet, no-traffic periods people wouild sometimes come look at the books, but just as the conversation was getting to the point of purchase, along would come another trainload of commuters, and wash the customer away.
As for the third venue, let me pass along a tip. If you're planning to set up a table of merchandise in a mall, it is a good thing to let mall security know about it beforehand. It's even better to let mall management know about it beforehand.
Anyway, what's wrong with having a Book Fair once a year? Think of it as a compromise between the book people, who'd like to have it every day, and the people who just want a quiet life and would like to limit it to once a century.


text:
01.29.13: The CCRI Knight and Lady Knights basketball teams hosted the Lions of Nassau Community College for a doubleheader on Saturday January the 26th. The Knights and Lady Knights were both victorious in their games with the Lady Knights winning 114-50 and the Knights 83-69. However, it was another event that happened that day that made everyone a winner which was the seventh annual CCRI basketball Special Olympics Day at the Cullen Fieldhouse located on the CCRI Knight Campus in Warwick.
Since 2007 the CCRI men's and women's basketball programs have been hosting athletes for the Rhode Island Special Olympics basketball program. This year CCRI hosted four teams who played in two games. The first game was at halftime of the women's game featured the Woonsocket Wolverines vs. The East Bay Avalanche. There was a second game in between the women's and men's game between another Wolverines squad versus the Avatars. Both games were very exciting and had the crowd cheering for all of the athletes. In addition, all of the Knights' and Lady Knights' basketball players were also on hand to watch so the day was a special one for everyone involved. The day was culminated with a medal ceremony for all the Special Olympians during halftime of the men's game versus Nassau Community College where each participant received a medal.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
This page developed and maintained by CCRI Athletics. Send comments and suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Robert Rauschenberg, Sky Garden (Stoned Moon), 1969
Part of the Rauschenberg Research Project
In July 1969, Robert Rauschenberg was invited by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cape Canaveral, Florida (then known as Cape Kennedy), to witness the launch of the historic Apollo 11 mission. Asked by the NASA Art Program to commemorate the first manned spaceflight to the moon, Rauschenberg enjoyed unrestricted access at NASA's Florida facilities. He roamed the buildings and adjacent landscape, met with astronauts and other personnel, and was granted access to official NASA photographs and technical documents. This trip profoundly impacted the artist, who came away from the experience energized and with a renewed sense of optimism after having been deeply disillusioned for several years by the course of the Vietnam War and the growing social unrest in the United States.
After the launch, Rauschenberg began work on Stoned Moon (1969–70), a series of thirty-four lithographs that juxtapose hand-drawn passages with imagery that pairs the lush Florida landscape with the crisp industrial aesthetic of the space race. (SFMOMA holds twenty-nine of these prints.) Created in close collaboration with the master printers at Los Angeles–based print studio Gemini G.E.L., the Stoned Moon works are alternately colorful and subdued, and they range in size from just over two feet to more than seven feet in height. This print represents an extraordinary technical achievement in printmaking, requiring two lithographic stones, four aluminum plates, and a silkscreen to produce the scale and visual effects the artist sought. At eighty-nine inches in height, Sky Garden was the largest hand-pulled lithograph ever created when it was printed in 1969.
Mind-boggling in scale, visual variety, and artistic ambition, Rauschenberg's Stoned Moon portfolio resonates with the sensory overload of the Apollo launch experience. The individual prints in the series are filled with scenes of astronauts, space suits, complex machinery, and various regional ephemera (tourist maps, orange crate labels, etc.), emphasizing the interconnectedness of nature, mankind, and the astonishing scientific and technological achievements of the space program.
Ownership History
Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, purchased 1970
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, 1977
Exhibition History
Exhibition history not provided for multiples.
Publication History
Robert Rauschenberg, "A 'Collage' Comment," Studio International 178, no. 917 (December 1969): 246–47.
Lawrence Alloway, "The Graphic Art of Robert Rauschenberg," in Rauschenberg: Graphic Art (Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1970).
Edward A. Foster, Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948/1970 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970).
Lawrence Alloway, "Rauschenberg's Graphics," Art and Artists 5, no. 6 (September 1970): 20.
Paul Richard, "Apollo 11 as an Art Form," Washington Post, October 30, 1970.
Robert Hughes, "The Revival of Prints," Time, January 18, 1971, 56, 57 (ill.).
"Falls Gallery To Exhibit Moon Series," Buffalo Courier-Express, March 5, 1980.
Mary Lynn Kotz, Rauschenberg, Art and Life (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990), 178, 179 (ill.), 251.
Kathleen Slavin, Robert Rauschenberg: A Print Survey in Themes, 1952–1992 (New York: Castelli Gallery, 1992).
Jerry Cullum, "Review: 'Robert Rauschenberg: A Print Survey in Themes, 1952–1992,'" Atlanta Journal–Constitution, October 23, 1992, (ill.).
J. Richard Gruber and Ann Rowson, Robert Rauschenberg: Major Printed Works, 1962–1995 (Augusta, GA: Morris Museum of Art, 1995), 8–9.
Jeffrey Day, "A Modern Print Master Rauschenberg Exhibit Looks at Enduring Art," State (Columbia, SC), September 17, 1995.
Christopher Knight, "2001: A Space Oddity," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2001.
Jane Kinsman, The Art of Collaboration: The Big Americans (Canberra, Australia: National Gallery of Australia, 2002), 13–15.
Robert Saltonstall Mattison, "Space Exploration Works," chap. 3 in Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003), 105–66.
Lewis Kachur, Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings from the 1960s (New York: Jonathan O'Hara Gallery, 2007), 15n18.
Lindsay Christians, "A Country in Conflict—Rauschenberg Prints Capture the 1960s in Sharp Detail," Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), September 13, 2009.
Jaklyn Babington, Stoned Moon Robert Rauschenberg (Canberra, Australia: National Gallery of Australia, 2010).
Larry Gagosian, James Lawrence, John Richardson, et al., Robert Rauschenberg (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010), 12 (ill.), 13.
Rauschenberg at Gemini (Pasadena, CA: Armory Center for the Arts, 2010), 10, 11 (ill.).
Sheryl Nonnenberg, "Celebrating the Race to Space," Palo Alto Weekly, December 19, 2014.
Jonathon Keats, "This Stanford Exhibit Shows How Robert Rauschenberg Boosted NASA Space Exploration . . . with Art," Forbes, December 29, 2014, n.p. (ill.).
This listing documents select references that provide general information about the print. It has been updated since the launch of the Rauschenberg Research Project and is complete as of August 31, 2016.
Recto: Bottom edge, signature with inscription in pencil in the artist's hand: "RAUSCHENBERG 6/35 69", followed by embossed chop marks for copyright and Gemini G.E.L. (© and zodiac symbol for Gemini inside a circle)
Verso: By chop marks, stamp in light gray ink: "GEMINI G.E.L. LOS ANGELES, CALIF."; below stamp, in pencil: "RR69-301"
Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Sky Garden (Stoned Moon)
- Artist name
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Date created
- 1969
- Classification
- Medium
- lithograph and screenprint
- Dimensions
- 89 in. x 42 in. (226.06 cm x 106.68 cm)
- Date acquired
- 1977
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
- Copyright
- © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.; published by Gemini G.E.L.
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/77.102.27
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.


text:
It's not everyday that you see a beaver, a dog, a tiger and turtle walking down the streets of Downtown Jacksonville.
But that's the adorable image Jacksonville musician and photographer Joshua Wicker assembled for his music video of "Royals," a cover of the song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde (aka Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor).
Wicker convinced four lanky dudes to don big mascot costume heads while hanging out on streets, parks and rooftops around town: Kyle Horton as the beaver, Reid Parrish as the dog, Blake Parrish as the tiger and Chandler Merritt as the turtle. In one scene, a couple of the cool creatures leap-frog on the Northbank Riverwalk.
The video popped up on Wicker's YouTube page on Oct. 17, and a photo by Cameron Korn was shared on igersjax's Instagram page the same day.
Check out the video for an amusing look at Jacksonville set to a seriously good soundtrack.


text:
Just Like Martha: Lyon Industrial Stools
When my alma mater's architecture school closed for renovations, many of their old Lyon industrial steel stools were thrown out. Thanks to a friend who still lives near the university, I now have two of them awaiting a little TLC before being put to re-use in my kitchen. My initial reservations about using them in that room were relieved when I remembered that it's exactly what Martha Stewart has in her kitchen in Bedford. Bring on the Lyon stools!
As for my own stools, I plan to strip or sandblast the paint, then give the raw steel a clear coat for protection from rust-inducing moisture. The feet may need some special treatment, too, as they're pretty rusted and worn. I am considering dipping them in a rubber coating.
What do you think of these simple industrial staples being used at the kitchen counter? For more on Martha's kitchen where these stools are featured, check out The Martha Blog.
Find them: Lyon All Welded Steel Stool at Amazon, $72
Related: Get the Look: Industrial Modern Kitchen Furniture
(Images: Martha Stewart, Apartment Therapy, I'm Busy Procrastinating)


text: A Silicon Valley analyst, named Tim Bajarin, claims to have insider info that Amazon's Android Tablets will come in 7-inch and 10-inch models during the Christmas holiday season this year, and will be sporting NVIDIA's newest Quad-Core Tegra processors. He also added that it looks like the "black and white E Ink-like display & color LCD" hybrid by Qualcomm and Pixel Qi, will not be ready until 2012 or even 2013. More than likely, Amazon will opt for a "Fringe Field Switching" LCD from Samsung with these first batches of Amazon Androids. It'll be interesting to see if his 'intel' turns out to be accurate. Source: AndroidTablets.net via Engadget


text:
|UFDC Home
|| Help
This item is only available as the following downloads:
|Full Text
A Handful of Leaves In memory of Leah Stupniker For the first year anniversary of her death Produced by the School for Girls in Jaffa 1924 Translated by Rebecca J. W. Jefferson, 2011
Very soon this blue sea will cause a separation between me and the Land of Israel. L. S. Contents: *** Y. Ye hieli From her Journal From her Writings In Memory of our Friend Yochebed Ben Meir, Rachel Tsabari.
Preface This remarkable bookl et first c ame to my attention thanks to a serendipitous email sent to the Judaica Library fr Stephen Isard. Stephen had borrowed the book let through the inter library loan system and wanted to know if he could photocopy it. As its contents comprised in part a childhood journal w ritten by his aunt, Leah Stupniker, it was probable that his family owned the copyright anyway but Stephen was asking for permission as a courtesy. I was intrigued from the outset by this booklet which told the story of an immigrant child who had died on Ellis Island from tube rculosis at the tender age of 14. Some of my own relatives had not made it past that port of entry and so this story struck a chord. Furthermore, when I discovered that the booklet ailable in U.S. libraries ), I was rather concerned for its safe return! I realized, however, that not only did Stephen have a genuine need to keep a copy of its contents, it could have potential interest for a wider audience and so I deemed it a perfect candidate for digitization. Upon receiving the book let back, it became apparent that the Price Library copy was a preservation photocopy; the original having deteriorated beyond repair. Fortunately, the copy held at the Klau Library in the Hebrew Union Co l lege, Cincinnati was an original and, thanks to the generosity and foresight of its librarian, Laurel Wolfson, we were able to establish a collaborative partnership to digitize their copy of the book let at the University of Florida. The original can now be consulted on the internet through both the Klau Library and the UFDC website s. Exchanging emails with Stephen and Robert Isard ( the sons of Leah s twin sister Sonia ) and with George Gould ( the son of Leah s older sister Alia ) about the background to this story, I realized that it was even more fascinating and more heartrending than I had at first realized. Reading rece ntly moved to Palestine from Russia, could write Hebrew with such a high level of sophistication, and I was saddened by this child who was clearly suffering distress at the thought of being uprooted from her new life there. My deepening interest in story and a feeling of growing personal attachment to it, led me to undertake a translation of the book let. I hereby offer a tentative Handful of Leaves) with the sincere hope that it manages to provide a first outlet for L poignant and perceptive voice. I am confident, however, that the reader will be as impressed as I am by this talented young girl with the mature mind, and as moved as I was by her ups and downs, her hopes and longings, her self chastisement and attem pts at self improvement, her humor, her unique poetic expressiveness, and the awful sadness of a story that ends with her tragic death, not to mention the untold story of the family left to mourn her.
The book let should also prove to be of great interest t o historians and linguists and with this in mind I have appended footnotes to the text where possible There is much to be gleaned here for historians of the Zionist movement in Palestine particularly the way in which Zionist principles and ideas manifes ted themselves in th e early school system. The contents of the book let can show how the Hebrew language was taught in pre 1948 Israel, and how it was absorbed by the first waves of immigrant children in the early 20 th century. Kometz Alim is also an immigrant story, providing a glimpse into the trials of immigrant life in general and the ways migration affected children in particular. Moreover, this booklet serves as an important example of the many long, arduous and emotional journeys taken by thousands of Jewish immigrants as they crossed oceans to find a more secure life, and it is a stark reminder that there were many who did not make it. Rebecca J. W. Jefferson Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica
By producing this small booklet, the School for Girls in Jaffa 1 is fulfilling a sacred obligation to one of its dearest students, who within two and a half years permeated it with a spirit of refinement, loyalty, an d pure honesty. We offer here a few fragments of her imagination fragments of her childhood reflections dreams, awaken ings, longings and aspirations, and from the thoughts stirred by her encounters with nature, the force of life and its complex questions and hardship s A tender child still, almost a baby, yet perceptible from her writings and the manner in which she expressed them it was clear that a defined spirit and a firm literary talent had already materialized Unusually f or someone of her age did this young soul know how to feel, to criticize, an d to convey; unusually for one her age did she delve into the questions that one encounters in life and in books. Life and the role of man within it, moral courage for the purpose of life, dedication of people these were always first in her thoughts and in her dreams. And how much she loved the Land of Israel, this new homeland that she discovered so unexpectedly! As though she were parting from life, she part ed from this land and boarded the boat bound for America. As though the silence of death awaited her there outside the borders of her beloved country, as if her heart had prophesized that her life would be ended with the severing of the tie between her lif e and the life of her homeland. This soul, Leah Stupniker, of blessed memory, was born in Vol hin, in one of the Russian villages near to the city of Lyuba r, 2 at the start of the year 5670 (1910). From when she was very small, it was clear that she had a pr odigious talent, her questions and her way of speaking were astounding. With an intense thirst, she would listen to the Mother but more than this she loved to tell stories herself. She had almost completely taught herself to read in Russian and with great delight read Russian stories for children the mother writes 1 The School for Girls was first founded in the late 1890s by the Alliance Isralite Universalle in Paris and headed by Rosa Yaffe Gradually, Yaffe substituted French in favor of a Hebrew curriculum, which outraged the Alliance. In 1903, the Girls S chool was transferred to the authority of the Hovevei Zion movement in Odessa. A year later the Odessa committee sent Yehiel Yehieli with a reputation as an outstanding teacher name eventually became synonymous with the school which was often referred to as t A new building financed by a philanthropist in Siberia was located in Neve Zedek in Jaffa ; it was considered the pride of the community In 1989, the building was renamed the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center ( see: http://www.jewishv irtuallibrary.org/jsource/Education/early.html ). 2 Lyubar is a city in the Ukraine near to O stropol (Leah is buried in the Ostropoler s ection of the cemetery)
at the time when after the Russian revolution, the Ukrainian peasants began to behave in a rowdy manner and destroyed everything that came to thei r hands, Leah, who was always listening to the grown up conversations, once turned to me with a question: Mother, what do you think, what would Socrates say now, were he to rise from his grave? It is certain that he would be very sorry indeed to see what m In the wake of the uprisings in Russia, Leah and her family moved to the city of Ekat e rin oslav 3 There she studied in a Russian Gymnasium and became very connected to the institution, to her friends, and to her Russian surroundings. Even after they left Russia, her soul was filled with She came to Israel with her family in 5681 (1921). Leah together with her sister entered the School for Girls. Apart from mechanical reading, they did not know a word of Hebrew so the teachers tested them in Russian. In spite of this, they were accepted into the sixth grade. Just a few weeks passed, and the children already began to understand their lessons in Hebrew and to engage in them. In a short while, Leah was top of her cl ass, especially in the Humanities. Her compositions which were written in the first weeks in Russian soon became Hebrew compositions perfect in content and structure. Her large clear eyes which were always a window to her soul expressed great attention a nd thought Modest in all her ways, she was adored and cherished by all the girls in the class who loved her with a profound love. An incalculable process of development and understanding passed over her during that short period when she was in the Land of Israel. Strong creative powers were awakened within her, they progressed and grew and progressed along and gave everything to God. Because of the material hardship that prevailed in the Land of Israel in 1923 4 her family, who had come to the Land of Israel in order to settle there, was forced to be uprooted again and migrate to America. Leah did not want to leave the country under any circumstances and devised stratagems in order to stay here alone without the help of her parents. These were childish and desperate 3 Ekaterinoslav in the Ukraine was named for the Tsar Catherine. The Jews of Ekaterinoslav formed the third largest ethnic group by 1889. The Jewish population was involved in trade, industry, the free professions and services. By 1913, there were 90 Jewish schools there. The city became an important center of Jewish political activity, particu larly Bundism and Zionism (see: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Dnipropetrovsk ) 4 Baruch Stupniker, father, also had a heart condition which was exacerbated by his physical work involving the transportation of building materials by cam el.
devices fused together in a place distant from reality. But in the end she agreed to bear the whole th Av depressed than any of us writes the Mother was, of course, Leah. Her huge eyes were full of such great sorrow She caught a cold on th e ship and developed a fatal di sease that put an end to her life and dreams. What appeared to be the start of a regular cold with passing fever was tuberculosis. In all the days of her illness she did not cease to meditate upon the books of the Bible, and in her final moments she recited passages from it. Sick, close to death, they took her to Island There she died after 24 days on the 7 th Heshvan, 1923 ; she was buried in Brooklyn. May her pure soul be blessed! Y. Ye h i eli 5 5 Yehiel Yehieli (1866 1952) taught at the Jaffa Girls School from 1904 and was its Director from 1918 to 1952. He came from Russia where he helped pioneer the method of teaching Hebrew in Hebrew. He published articles on language acquisition as well as one article that became the cornerstone of Jewish kindergarten education. In Palestine, he helped form a uniform curriculu m for all elementary schools. He served on committees for the Cities of Jaffa and Tel Aviv; a street is named after him in Neve Tzedek
[p. 9] From her Journal I love word s, word s that have in them at least something vital an d of the imagination; mathematics is so dry and simple. Bathsheva 6 takes great pleasure in solving puzzles but for me it is just a lesson Compared to this, how much I love essay writing --Tomorrow if it is a beautiful day, there will be a trip to the Garden C ity 7 But I have no desire to go. It is a shame to have to forgo composition class. If only it would rain tomorrow. --The situation has been very bad lately. There is no work and has proposed he 8 months. We will finish school during this time, and then we will come to him. Yet I do not want this. I think that I sho uld 8 it is certain that they will give me even 6 s twin sister, Sonia ( Hebrew name: Bathsheba ) Sonia went on to complete a medical degree in Philadelphia. She was primarily a family doctor who also specialized in allergies and published n umerous papers on this subject Upon her retirement she was honored by the College of Physicians in Philadelphia with the unveiling of her portrait and the presentation of a collection of her writings. The Sonia Stupniker Isard Lecture at the College of Ph ysicians was endowed by her husband 7 Tel Aviv Tel Aviv was originally founded in 1909 as a garden suburb of Jaffa. 8 There were two Teachers seminaries in Jaffa. The Ezra Hebrew Teachers Seminary founded in 1903 and the Levinsky Teachers Seminar founded in 1913.
Trans a place to sleep and three lira a month. If only I could get a position like this! --[p. 10 ] Again they are speaking about the journey, oh dear, oh dear, what will I do? I will not travel, but how sha ll I stay? Moth er will not let me stay, and even for me it would be difficult to do so I said to Mother that I could work and I suggested my idea to her, for which I have about three po unds. --Mother laughed at this. W d Esther my decision, she said that she was afraid that my morale would fail Well, there is nothing to fear about that! I feel myself to be strong enough in moral e, p erhaps even more than in the physical sense. I think I will slowly save money and in addi tion to this Moth er can leave me the cost of my ticket and the cost of the remainder of the journey. In this way I can finish the Seminar, and children. ----ll not travel. I do not --
Recent Tsheraskia. 9 How bea utifully this author writes! How natural are the descriptions of a poor girl who traveled from her home to study in the big city, and the re died from tuberculosis! How greatly she suffered the first time she stayed without her [p. 11 ] I know: I too will suffer and suffer greatly, but if that is all then it is not all bad. There are many who are suffering in the world; I will become one of them with my sufferings. I know that I will long for my home, for my family, for it is very have enough strength to suffer everything if only to stay in the Land of Israel. o h, how hard it is to have to [ At this moment I have arrived at a another way of thinking only who knows if it is good. I have devised a new solution Is it for the best ? 15 th Tammuz] --We a re going to Jerusalem, Jericho and Hebron f or a whole week. I am so happy that I can barely write. I will take my journal and note down everything. --9 Reference unknown
And so for the first time I will leave our home for a whole week. If I miss it and if I am very sad, it will be a sign that I will suffer greatly should I stay behind. --Rosh Hodesh [1st] Nissan (March April) 9pm Here we are already in Jerusalem --I cannot isolate my many impressions --The Mosque of Omar that stands i n place of the Holy Temple. How beautiful it is; how sacred We took off our shoes in order [p.12 ] the Jews could not recover its scattered p ieces and re build it; the Arabs wou ld need to help them. --But my heart is stirred with jealousy at the sight of such opulence that belongs to a stranger and is not ours Only one thing remains We went there too. Barren gloominess all around; sorrowful to the point of tears. Yet not everything about the Temple is d estroyed, for the wall remains. And this surely serves as a reminder of what comes of vanity --Not every holy thing needs to be on display for the curious. --for the Blind. --What if my eyes were suddenly shut forever and I could not see anything anymore, not the wide world over, not the shining sun, not my family nor my frie nds! How terrible that would be;
And it is not fair, for the blind suffer so much, t hey also have to tolerate visits from curious tourists too --Tuesday, 3 rd Nissan We traveled to Hebron --we saw the ghetto. Awful! How filthy and narrow! How can the people live? Rather, to be more correct: how do people live there ? --I am a little tired from the journey. And because of my sore spirits. Perhaps Jericho will dispel the bitterness and the gloom --[p. 13 ] The Sabba t h sundown 7 th Nissan I a m already writing at home. --O n the fourth day we visited the graves: the graves of the kings and the graves of the Sanhedrin. What majesty and awe is in these dark caves! To 10 we descended with candles. There I gave down upon t he dark grave. Tamar approached me and placed a candle near the remains of --I am not at all afraid of darkness or the dead. Death is not terrible like life. There 10 in law the wealthy Jerusalemite.
is mor e to fear from coercion than the quiet refuge of death. --a soft wind refreshed yet suddenly we developed home sickness. Shoshana was the first to get home sick --and soon after her me. I did not cry like she did, but I felt myself to be very sad indeed. The dark bitterness overcame any remaining vigor and any remaining strength. I ruminated all the way. --We came to the Dead Sea. I sat upon the stones facing the sun with my eyes closed and felt pur e pleasure The rays passed over my eyelids as though they were kissing my eyes. It was good for me. --Even after I got up and sat down in the motorcar it was as though my irrita tion had been removed by the sleight of a hand It was as though the bittern ess and dejection had sunk into the Dead Sea. --[p. 14 ] Even the Jordan River is not beautiful like they say. Narrow. We passed over the brid ge to Trans Jordan on the East: at the point where it spills forth into the Dead Sea. ----
9 th Iyar (April May) Wednesday And even now I am half sick. At least, M other will not let me go to school. How everything wearies me! Life already holds no worth for me. My hopes I already know will not be fulfil led, and after this is it worthwhile living? Things are --10 th Iyar, Thursday All day yesterday I lay down. I had a small fever during the night. Well it is nothing: it will pass. What vague feeling is pressing down on my heart? though desolate tears strangle my throat. Sometimes I have the desire to die, to go to sleep and the end Occasionally, I have a wish that a happy spirit will wake up within me, that I will want life, so that I may give something to every depressed and low spirited person. I have a desire to dry up all their tears. --But suddenly I remind myself that this thing is impossible, [p. 15 ] for I am 13 years of age right now. Ah! How long will pass before I can do what I want!
What is wrong with me all the time and the heart ache. ----Sabbath eve 3 rd Sivan (May June) Why d id I write previously with such despair? I read it and was shocked. Yes, occasionally it is difficult to suffer, yet right now I am trying to conquer my mood. Hope is the most important thing in life. --I t is good to go forth in the battle of life! Only the faint hearted run from the fight Brave is the one who stays living and endures who does not die be fore time. Do not despair! --P atience, patience! --I questioned myself not long ago: truthfully, do I love my country more than my parents? What co uld I answer? Even deep inside myself I do not kno w. The thing will become clear when the two magnets are pulled apart. If only they would not be separated ; i f only they would stay together! And if indeed they will be pull ed apart, I think, that my love for my country will become stronger. --I am bound to feel a connection to my homeland These longings were born with me, it appears. Perhaps pride is an element of this I cannot overcome this thought: that I am a stranger, that they ----
[p. 16 ] 23 rd Sivan, in the evening Oh, but this day I will remember forever! Today I received a first pound young girl for one month, a student from the 5 th grade It should fare me well: in Boston there is a Seminar for Hebrew teachers. back to Israel as a teacher of Hebrew. ----25 th Sivan Today Father and Rachel have gone. 11 In the morning the boat sailed off and that was that. What a strange feeling. A bitter juice stays in my heart and irritates me, irritation about everything. I am angry that things have played out this way, I am angry at myself, at the whole world Yesterday I was in a very bad mood, I cried in secret as well Such a moment of weakness was this ; no more not one tear will come out from my eyes. I wrote my last essay: The first and last day F or the path is fixed and unending before me: to be a help to my 11 Rachel was also known as Alia. Alia graduated from l Work. She eventually became the head of all child welfare in the City of Philadelphia.
people ; but even this I say is a narrow group A hel p to the world through my people : t his is the right way to say it. My people need to cause the noble aspiration of t housands of years to be realized. --[p. 17 ] what they are, let us shake our hands over them, to banish the evil near us! pamphl they are lost to us, dead and will not be resurrect Lies, lies! First, this person is not a traitor. No one wa nts to leave here willingly. Second ly the travelers are not lost They will come back and even a short time is not lost, for they can also work in exile But in spite of this my heart aches: to ascend to the land is a y penetrates the heart and who knows, what will be the end? A nd perhaps in truth I have already erred in my thoughts, for do I have --21 st Av (July August) Sabbath eve Today is the last day of my studies at school. How long have I anticipated this day, and now emptiness in my heart and
nothing more. There was a place in my heart that the school filled. Now it has been emptied out and nothing will fill it --It is not good to arrive at what one waits for i n life, not good! --underneath it (Shneur ). 12 I want to die before I sense t hat my work is at an end, before I feel that there is nothing more for me to do, or because I cannot do any more. But, I got sidetracked to what point have I arrived [p. 18 ] Tuesday deck I around us is just sky and sea, sky and s ea. The sea is beautiful, wild and free. In Israel I learned to love the sunshine and the sea It too absorbs the heat the cold; it is full of zest How beautiful it is now, for example: sparkling, shining from the rays of the sun, a sm all white wave revolves here and a small one there. It is as though a thousand wishes glimmer within it, and it is a live and roaring entity. Comp letely different is nighttime: b lack, deep black like the darkness itself; n oisy and grow ling with rage. The waves race, 12 Reference unknown; p erhaps a quote from Shneur Zalman of Lyady (1745 1813 ) the founder of Chabad Hasidism and the author of th e classic Chasidic text Tanya which deals with questions of happiness
chas e after the ship and in between the foam it seems the mermaids dance their wild dances. An d it seemed to me for I saw them that they were living in the foam. And it seemed to me, for I heard them between the soft sighs of the How long you have searched for peace. Jump to us and you too will be cold It is different for you. I do not long for peace. I have not yet labored and there is nothi ng from which to feel dejected. I will not consider being with you; And my heart felt so good a s though some sort of heavy burden had lifted from it. Wednesday, from below deck, 9 in the evening, from the electric light coming in through a crack from the corridor. Boredom. Life here is so monotonous. When will it be the end already! When will I know my future? From the conversation with the waves I understood everything: [p. 19 ] all about beautiful dreams, about difficult battles, about cr ises that have passed, about the wound that healed over. This is nothing. What will be ?
these cabins. A side from this the t let me rest. They whisper, rustle, bring my whole I cannot find any respite in them. Dreams a plenty. Oh, how much I dreamed until the coarse hand of life woke me, until I met with cold T here are those who love to dream, but they are few All in all I feel that my soul has strengthened, has fortif ied during this difficult time. I will lie down on my pillow, close my eyes, perhaps I will sleep. Thursday, 8 .30 pm in the cabin Today the constant monotony dissipated a little. In the morning we saw Italy, Sicily and Stromboli We came very close to the shore and the outlines were clear, particularly the beauty of Stromboli. An island entirely constructed from an extinguished volcano. Now in the valleys and in the furrows where lie the frozen lava, plants grow and people live. Life is built among the re mnants of death One small crater still emits smoke. Woe betide the people should this mountain ever do to them what the volcano did to Pompeii Well, in spite of all that, it is good to live there: far from the folly of life and its c orruption. [p. 20 ] At some other time, I would want to live there too but right now it is not the time to seek tranquility.
Tomorrow we will see Corsica and also maybe Sardinia. The day after tomorrow Marseille. --Sunday, Hotel Grossman, in Marseille. We saw Corsica fro m afar. A diversion from the planned route was arranged in order to get to Marseille in the morning and not to stand all night in the port. --Monday, 9 in the evening, in the hotel. You see we have not travelled for some time. We have stayed another mont h. They are not allowing travel to C herbo u rg. For the first time in my life I have felt the deceit and hypocrisy of the other trouble me anymore. I felt that sort of way before. But a month of days in the middle of the journe y! Far from that sometimes I cannot even write. Most importantly Mother is very angry and wea k; already this tragedy has taken it s toll on her. On the Sabbath and again today she was unwell Must look after her. --
[ p. 21 ] Tuesday, towards evening, in the hotel room fever, or something like it. Completely ridiculous Mother worries all the time. --Here we a re already at the start of the New Y ear. 13 What this new month will bring me much ahead that is work and struggle. It is difficult to leave the house and to set outside again, because everything is so gray and cold for me. For they will not see your f ace; not even the stones on the street and the sky over your head will become alien to you 14 It is so difficult to tolerate this after you have ceased to warm up fr om the heat of your homeland As I parted from Mr. T., he blessed me saying How very so Tena city is a necessity, and in even greater measure than I already possess ; apart from this strength is also necessary. Wit tena city. Strength still e ludes me. What shape will my new dreams about my life in A merica take ? Perhaps they will be shattered like my Israel dreams and only shards remain? And perhaps it will make me sigh to 13 Jewish New Year; 1923 14 A quote (recalled from her Mah Rav, Oy Mah Rav ha
r emember them and I will say as I often I say even now: how cruel and bad life is! With all th e preciousness, spirituality, beauty dreams they end in nothing hopeful, that it will not be so. [p. 22 ] The first dreams did not depend on me; the final dreams are just within my reach --In another three weeks with any luck we will be in America. In another three weeks my new life will begin for me in the new world. For the time being, I have lived a life passing between two worlds. Here it is autumnal and loathsome To re ad and be cre ative is impossible here. Also my fever bothers me. It weakens me greatly. All the time it is though everything is designe d to aggravate me. Firstly, Mother and Bathsheba will not go out of the house. Secondly, Mother has already spent 200 franc s on me. Th irdly, we could have journeyed to Paris, but because of me we stayed. How litt le do I tolerate this condition
[p. 23] From her writings The Tale of a Stream From the first rain, whose drops fell like silent tears, born between the soft earth: a hasty stream. It opened its eyes and looked around and here were blue skies, trees and flowers Very slowly, lovingly, with hi s gentle waves he caressed those flowers and they nodded to him with their small heads and told h im tales of the mischievous winds And how good it was and to run along ; one time with ease, another time with the tiny waterfalls At night, when all the world is tired and sleeping, our stream dozes too. Softly, softly whisper his lips as he sleeps. With compassion, as though in love, the m oon peers dow n on him from above, pouring out her soft radiance. The stars wink at their reflections in the stream. And the stream, after his day of games, will rest, sleeping without disturbing dreams in the bosom of his beloved mother. And it was day and the stream kiss ed his mother the green lowland, for the last time, and he ran on over the hills. For the firs t time, he look ed with amaze ment all around him ; for apparently the same blue skies and the same radiant sun [p. 24 ]
there, with his mother, are here too ; yet surely this wa s a new world before him: grey stones, burning hot, with little grass, without delicate flowers. And it seemed to him, that not before long he would b e suffocated within these dead walls. And so he begged to leave this prison ; his waves sighed, the foam rose but fell back without strength. And he determined to fight again and he made a strong effort, but it was in vain. And he turned over, to take withi n him without speaking everything that the mountain winds would sweep away: dust, stones, dirt, even precious stones came in to him, and occasionally, he wished to be filled with them and slowly, slowly submerge into a hole. ----Suddenly he woke up. Th e days had turned to Spring. From the snow capped mountain tops ran young brooks: impetuous and enthusiastic, with songs of freedom in their mouths. And they incited the stream to rebel: who crowned you by placing these stones upon you; who permitted them t o seal you up? Will you not grow with us ? Take courage, gather your strength, and rise up! The stream listened to their words from within his sl umber and whispered with a sort of inward stirring And his energy roused up inside him and he opened his eyes again to see and indeed there w ere rocks, rocks all around him; how I am sick of them, how I hate them, he thou ght in his heart. And the silent mountains had not sensed the agitation of the
many brooks : what is happening to us, we monarchs and to the sub ordinates bursting out before us ? [p. 25 ] And you add a rock to that stream Y listen to them! All the same the stream could not endure any more. He rallied his remaining strength and heaved out the mounds of dirt within him and ju mped yelling over the rocks you try to make a mockery of me?! Here, I will break down your walls, take heed you insolent ones! And he began to work in secret. He began to lick at the foot of mountain so as to undermine it and make it fall. Quietly he wo rked, but just occasionally a small wave would burst out and rush with a silence it immediately. Those giant lords were not aware of what was happening with in the souls of their servants. He i s excited, they thought when they listened boiling rage but we know how to subdue him With pity they watched the stream and scoffing meddle with us? We do not fall at the firs t contest And the stream strove hard. And the great day arrived when he broke through the barrier of his grey cage. The mountains were outraged, but it was already too late: the stream was gushing so far outside of them that even waves of fresh air appro ached him, absorbing the free light from the sun. The intoxication of happiness and the victory of deliverance molded dirt and gold together What did it matter to him and
what did it matter about old ideas Would not life begin again now! Many days passed The stream tired, exhausted, many of its waves lay broken with despair on the rocks. Many of his hopes had been dashed There was nothing more heard from the additional young waves Just one, who requested: rest. [p. 26 ] And he discovered her lying in a grave. Then o ne da y, at last, he joined the great river and together they fell into the sea. And in the midst of all that clamor and noise the sea did not know that it had received into it another living soul. On Life and Death N oon. And all were cast outside. As though the world had fainted from the heat. The intense hot air does not move. Not even a light breeze can mischievously tempt the soul to recover from its tiredness. Everything sleeps in a deep lethargy. But behold a small black dot appears on the horizon at the head of the rocky cliff It moves and grows; it moves and its outline becomes clear. It is an eagle, proudly spreading its wings soa ring with confidence and energy above everything. Its eyes are inclined upwards, towards the sun Cour ageous might shines within them. He flies onward, onward towards the light He arrives at his target. With glory he raises his head as though a golden crown were upon it
and everything bowed before him. he is king and life his kingdom. Happy is he who lives like this! Evening approaches. The cold air infuses a gentle longing for the dy ing sun. The west burns with fire as the sun leav es and hides. The lake too; slowly it moves its red waves. Suddenly foam appears on the water and a pure white swan comes into view. He stretches his neck out towards the dying sun and a song of death is heard coming from within his heart. [p. 27 ] It is full of longing and remorse for transient life But it is also strong: what has been determined shall be! Let us die now with honor and not with vain entreaties! And so it seems: the whole world beneath is listening to the song of the king of death. Happy is he who dies like this! 14 th Iyar, 1923
Extracts from her writing s in a book of friendship composed at the end of school, a s hort time before she left the Land of Israel To E R What shall I write to you E R? Shall I bless you with days of wealth and happiness, calm and rest? That you will fulfill all your wishes and live in peace? That you will never know to live and feel! For that is living to l ive and struggle in life, not to give up until the last drop of blood, to live life devoted to breath until the very last beat of the heart. --To R H my love and loyalty to you? If this is tr ue, does your heart not know then without words? Shall I ask you to remember me? Those who love in their hearts never forget Shall I write to you about waiting for you but you know that. --[p. 2 8 ] To S H I have written these l ines just for you Will you remember me? Will you remember those days in which we learned played and dreamed together? Of course you will remember.
You will remember me without having to leaf through your notebook. What the heart forgets, words will not b ring to mind. For Y D For the day will come, my sister, When you have grown tired, When you have wearied of the hard road, Scornfully disdaining life, When you s eek a path of truth but none shall you find Then come to me, my sister, come to me! We will dream together as we did in childhood. What will you need once we are as we were! Our childhood is a lovely light in our lives The memory of which shall please us in old age Gentle are the longings, if you teach your soul to yearn Come to me, my sister, come to Leah 5 th Sivan, 5683 [ 1923 ] [p. 29 ] To R L Were we friends? This I shall not know. I do know just this: that I always loved you. For me it was always lovely to look at your quiet face and your deep blue eyes. For me it was always nice to pour out my conversations to you, even if you --Behold, now we are separating Each one will go her own way. We will be dispersed along different paths, perhaps even opposed this one to that. Perhaps we will be divided by
a different purpose o f being and in spirit. But in spite of this --To M L M L! Will you not remember the final exam, the first test of your school Here you are, one bright morning, coming to school; suddenly in cl ass, a promise: a Bible exam! And you whistle at the news: upheaval: a long green table, cups for the teachers all set out for the exam. For a moment you sto od dumbfounded, And you attacked the poor table in a fury turned it over, hurled off the tablecloth and threw down the cups ; afterwards tir ed from your emotional exertion you fell on a complete; [p. 30 ] But here was the bell. The girls got into order and piled noisily into the clas sroom. After a moment silence. The teachers sat. With a shaking hand you held out your number Time moves on. Questions upon questions, it seems as You go up with a shaki ng, beating heart. In front of you the encouraging faces of the teachers and the whispers of the
This is so easy! ou can sit down decide the girls. The teachers smile. Your smile returns. Well, where did all that fear and anger go? A feeling of joy and gratitude floods your heart: you withstood the test! Soon, M L, you will be divided from all this, a nd you will take your pl tests and trials you. You will have to tolerate much in that you withstand all of these trials in the same way you stood up to the test of your childhood!
[p. 31] In Memory of our Friend 1 It is many days since departure and yet I remember the event as though it were today. I still remember her before me, Leah, so pale, giving me a last kiss a long kiss, nervous and mumbling on the sail boat I would not see her face again: she hid her face in her The days pass, and still the pain and sorrow do not lessen. The opposite: they increase I remember the day they came to our school. I entered and saw two new students, girls of about 11 or 12, wearing identical clothes blue coats and velvet hats. Immediately I recognized that they were Russian. I approached them and asked them for their names and where they lived. Immediately the little one hurriedly answered me as if she feare s Sonia, but in Hebrew they call me Bathsheva, and she is o need to speak Russian; for when we will learn to speak Hebrew we will explain Leah was self possessed [p. 32 ] And from then, until now until they left for America, we studied together, for nearly three years. We all admi red
Leah; we all felt that this child, with the doleful eyes, was from another world, a loftier and more exalted world. Once, and this was just two months after they came, the departme nt arranged a trip to the Judean moshavot 15 Leah was, in spite of her ti redness, happier and more cheerful than usual, and every fresh green hill and every blooming garden brought her close to excitement We stayed in Gedera overnight in one of the school rooms on beds made up for us by the members of the moshava 16 My sIeep was disturbed. It was the first time that I had seen a Hebrew farm and Jewish workers. In any case, I turned my head and there was Leah sitting on the bedding, her head propped up on her She li fted her head and when she saw me she came near me. I made a space for her next to me and we began to talk. And so she told me how she had passed her early childhood far she said an anomaly How hap We talked about m uch, much more that same night; i nto the early hours of dawn I told her what I knew about the sufferings. 17 15 Moshavot (s. moshav ): unlike the communal settlements of the kibbutz and moshav the moshavot were privately owned farms. 16 Gederah, a moshavah in the Coastal Plain of Israel was founded in 1884 by members of the Bilu movement from Russia. It was the only moshavah that did not depend on Rothschild (see: http://www.allgedera.co.il/). 17 The Bilu movement (the word is derived from the initials of the Hebrew verse in Isaiah 2:5: ) was a group of young Russian Jews who pioneered the id ea of the modern return to the Land of Israel. The movement grew out of a reaction to the 1881 pogroms in Southern Russia. They experienced a great deal of economic hardship through lack of support.
Yogli. 18 She did not know how to rei n in she called out deep in thought, silent. [p. 33 ] convinced that I was wrong. she replied that we have so many storytellers and poets that write Hebrew, and yet our young people do not know them at all. Even me, if I had not come here, I might ha ve only known the names of the writers. And even now, even with an enormous will to read all of the writings of every one of our writers, it is not within my grasp because I do not h ave a Nevertheless, a fter a few months had passed Leah could read freely the writings of Pere t z, 19 Sholem Aleichem and even Mendele Mo y kher Sforim. 20 She loved the folktales of Pere t I had never felt the full depths of this story until this time Leah stood up wi th blazing eyes and with colo rful description told the tale of the modest maiden who set forth then the last g subjugated Jew, with all his possessions stripped from hi m 18 The pseudonym of Judah Leib Katzenelson (1846 1917) story Adnei ha Sadeh is about a wanderer who comes upon a race of men tied to the soil by a living cord; the wanderer is envious and yearns to belong to them. 19 Isaac Leib Peretz (1852 1915): known as one of the three classic Yiddish authors and the founder of Yiddish modernism. He also wrote in Hebrew. 20 The triumvirate of Yiddish classic masters too; although Leah may have read their stories in Hebrew translation.
and just one small legacy remaining the hope of returning to Zion. For the sake of a small bag of ear th from the Land of Israel, the man was willing to sacrifice his life Pale and angry Leah finished her story. I thought that she would cry, but no her eyes were just defiant and resolute. This raised the question: fr om where did this child of the D iaspora get such a deep love of her land and her people! For this was the loftiest of ideal s to work for the good of the land and the people. [p. 34 ] But fate prevailed upon her to leave Israel ho did not see how much this child suffered in those last days before the journey has never seen suffering in his life. She distanced herself from all her friends. In th e breaks between lessons, she would stand by the corridor windows with a view of the Judean hills in the distance. Little by little her head would stoop and tear after tear would well up in those deep eyes. All our efforts to console her were as nothing. S he refused comfort. Whoever did not know Leah could not understand how much her heart ached, the heart of a 14 year old ch ild. She who had always hoped that her s mall hands c ould make her worthy of being a member of our established life h ere she would escape the arrangements being made for her At that time, when a secret longing awoke in her heart, she would find solace in reading the books of the Bible and in the poetry of H. N. Bialik. In his national folk songs she would find an echo for her despond ent voice. Oh, how much I would love to escape, she told me one time during those days, to one of the far off remote places in our
it would be a relief for me, and I my wor the country and to spend the days of my youth in exile! It was not enough the suffering that I had to endure in the horrible Ukraine ; now I must return to our state of emptiness and degradation My only remaining hope is that I can come back one day to the L and of Israel and that I will never leave her again for the world [p. 35 ] The tears choked I saw her cry a lot in those last days yet she would not cry like that again S he would fling herself at my neck and the two of us would cry together. Yochebed Ben Meir 2 An image of her floats before my eyes and my ears hear her quiet voice speaking: tell cannot look I am leaving our country and Tears filled her eyes and quietly she continued: And I was silent and I did not know what to say to her. What would help co mfort this deep sorrow? So I said nothing to
her. I did not speak even as tears poured down from her eyes. More I remember: the days were days of summer, the last days of school. The heat was stifling all around and an oppressive sadness spread over everyt hing. There was no desire to study; just a wish to sit and dream. And I remember holding her hand as we walked in the gard ens and quietly, quietly listening to the soft moans of her broken heart: ave me, and I will stay here. I will buy a tent and I will live here. I [p. 36 ] She left me; she walked away to the stairs crying. And after that, when she had calmed down, and her first agitation had passed and a sort of quiet after the storm settled upon her, I took her hand and in a beseeching voice she said: way, and in the e nd an idea has come into my mind: we will produce a newspaper between us. It will be issued one time in America and another time in the Land of Israel. The material will be shared, between here and between America: y ou as a member of the stalwart society here and me in the circle that I will acquire there. One time you will copy it and send it here to us, and another time, I will copy it and send it there to you
Pity then welled up in me. I wanted to gather her up, to hug her. She so badly wanted to keep a connection, so much so that any link even if it were a weak one would do ; so much so that it came to her mind to even try this idea. She had no doubt spent entire nights thinking about these ideas and entertaining them in the last days. --Oh, if only she had died here, at least, Rachel Tsabari 21 21 It is probable that this is MK Rachel Tsabari (1909 1995). Tsabari was born in Tel Aviv and studied at t he Girls School in Neve Zedek; s After school, Tsabari attended the Levinsky Teachers Seminary in Tel Aviv and then the Hebrew University in Jerusale m She was active in the Hagana h ( the Jewish Defense Forces) and later gained a seat in the Israeli Knesset as a member of the Mapai party.


text:
Mobile gaming seems to have given a whole new lease of life to some classic titles, with Speedball 2 being just one example how a top-quality retro game can make the transition from something like the Amiga onto the iPad/iPhone.
And so we come to our AOTD, where it appears that developer GlowPuff mobile has drawn a certain amount of inspiration from a classic shoot-em-up for its high-octane Windows Phone 7 effort Gridrunner Girl.
Gridrunner Girl
- Format
- Price
- Free/79p
- Where
- Marketplace
The classic 80s game in question is Space Harrier, and Gridrunner Girl borrows heavily both in terms of gameplay and graphics. However, plagiarism aside, the company looks to have done a damn fine job of reproducing this classic for the mobile audience; it's immediately obvious on firing it up that its quality with everything crisp and controls responsive.
For those not familiar, gameplay consists of working your way through a multitude of enemy-stuffed levels which you complete in the usual kill-everything M.O. Needless to say you do this by way of a huge gun, in this case strapped under your arm.
Controls are responsive and consist of either a virtual joystick or use of the accelerometer; for us the latter had the edge and as there's is no limit on ammo we'd also whack auto-fire on.
For your 79p you'll get 30 levels all wrapped up in some nice cel-shaded graphics and your destruction of the enemy hoards is accompanied by what the maker describes as an "edgy soundtrack". There are powerups aplenty and a load of boss battles to keep you entertained. There's also been a 1.4 update which has added new weapons.
This is a great one to pick up and play as and when as it takes zero thought and there's an instant save so you can drop it a come back to it whenever you like.
Highly recommended, if you like your shooters this is definitely one to take a look at.


text:
Atradees wrote:Eww. Imagine the fear we could instill with 200 points in four games!
TJH wrote:The Rams are better than you think.
TJH wrote:The Rams are better than you think.
BGHawk wrote:TJH wrote:The Rams are better than you think.
I clearly remember them beating us, but that was a different era. Some things have changed
The Seahawks 50-17 win over the Bills this weekend appeared to be just another blowout in a weekend full of lopsided wins. However, it was their second-consecutive game scoring 50 points, making the Seahawks just the third team in NFL history to accomplish the feat, and the first since 1950.
But more importantly, it was the seventh 50-point game seen in the NFL this season. There were just four such games in the previous three seasons combined. In fact, since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, the NFL was averaging just 2.0 games per season in which a team scored 50 points...
Hawks46 wrote:No one's lit the Rams up this year. It won't be that easy.
That being said, if the team is motivated (and I think they are) I think they are capable of anything at home.
Return to [ THE OFFICIAL NET NATION FAN FORUM ]


text:
SACRAMENTO — After five years of crippling deficits, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that the state is in the black as he proposed a $97.7-billion budget that would increase funds for education and healthcare while still leaving money on the table.
The governor's optimism followed an unanticipated leap in revenue that helped cancel the $1.9-billion deficit estimated only months ago, according to the administration. And the state this year will begin to reap the benefits of tax increases he championed last year.
Brown would increase overall spending by 5%, buoyed by forecasts of an improving economy and higher tax receipts. His plan includes few of the spending cuts that have characterized recent state budgets.
DOCUMENT: Read the budget summary
"We're talking about living within our means," Brown told reporters at a Capitol news conference. "This is new. This is a breakthrough."


text:
Yulia is very sexy! Her round butt is so cute and she knows that her boyfriend loves it! All that this guy wants now, it's just to bury his fat throbbing cock to her tight pussy, and then stick it to her tight arsehole! She loves it, and she screams from the pain and from pleasure!
Cute young girls love anal sex from guys with big cocks


text:
14 Upcoming Seth Rogen Projectsby IMDb-Editors | last updated - 14 Nov 2017
As "Future Man" hits the airwaves and 'The Disaster Artist' approaches, take a look at what Seth Rogen has in store on the big and small screens.
14 images
The Disaster Artist (2017)
This fictional behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult movie The Room is all about James Franco's performance as Wiseau. But we're also looking forward to Seth's turn as Sandy Schklair, a noted script supervisor who helps guide Wiseau's vision during the notorious production. In fact, Schklair is still battling Wiseau for a director's credit on the picture.
The Disaster Artist opens on Dec. 8, 2017.
Like Father (2018)
Seth has an unspecified role in this Kristen Bell comedy about a workaholic woman who's left at the altar by her fiancé (Rogen, we're assuming) and then opts to take her honeymoon anyway — with her equally career-driven father. Fun fact: The movie is written and directed by Seth's spouse, Lauren Miller Rogen. The couple is seen here at the 2017 Oscars.
Zeroville (2018)
Seth has had another collaboration with James Franco in the works for a while. In Zeroville, an adaptation of Steve Erickson's novel about an autistic man who comes to Los Angeles in the late 1960s to realize his dreams, they co-star with Franco directing. The movie was originally set for a 2016 release, but Franco has been tinkering with this indie production, which now appears to be set for 2018.
The Lion King (2019)
Rogen will step into the hooves of Pumbaa the warthog for Jon Favreau's reimagining of The Lion King. Together with Timon the meerkat, who will be voiced by Billy Eichner, look for this fan-favorite duo to chew up the homeland scenery and deliver plenty of laughs as Simba's best friends.
Meet the Star-Studded Cast of The Lion King (2019)
Flarsky (2019)
Rogen tends to divide his time between a clutch of filmmakers. For Flarsky he'll reunite with writer/director Jonathan Levine (50/50 and The Night Before) for a comedy about a political journalist who tries to get a romance going with a high-ranking government operative who just so happened to be the journo's babysitter back in the day. Rogen will star opposite Charlize Theron. Expect a late 2018/early 2019 release date for this one.
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (????)
Though we doubt this shelved project will ever get revived, we'd be remiss if we didn't include B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations on this list simply because of its mysterious properties. Before a big shakeup at DreamWorks Animation, Rogen was set to co-star alongside Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray in what sounded like a fun movie that even goth kids would enjoy with their parents. We'd still love to see this story about an army of ghost aliens who attack Earth and are fought off by a secret group of government operatives who happen to also be ghosts.
"Future Man" and Other Behind-the-Scenes Roles
In terms of acting work, that's what Rogen has on the books at the moment, though he's incredibly busy as a director/producer. In fact, "Future Man," his new show with creative partner Evan Goldberg, hits the air this week. (Prepare to read Goldberg's name a lot from here on as he and Rogen are inseparable, creatively speaking.)
Josh Hutcherson starts as Josh Futturman, a janitor who finishes an unbeatable video game, bringing mysterious visitors from the future to his door. The time-traveling adventure-comedy series debuts Nov. 14 on Hulu.
Watch the "Future Man" trailer
A Continuing Alliance With Snoop Dogg
It's no surprise that Seth and Snoop Dogg are pals, but did you know that Rogen's production company, Point Grey, has been making a web series called "Talking Buds" for Merry Jane, Snoop's cannabis news-and-lifestyle media platform? In November 2017, Point Grey signed on to produce more episodes of the series, which provides insights on the various strains of marijuana on the market.
A New Partnership With Amazon Studios
Thanks in part to the steady-footed success of "Preacher," Rogen and Goldberg have some other comic-book adaptations in development, the most noteworthy being "The Boys," their take on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic.
Amazon Studios has signed on to bring to life the story of a black-ops team that tries to stop the corrupt superheroes of the world from abusing their powers. Amazon picked up the project from Cinemax, and we understand that Rogen and Goldberg will also look to direct episodes from the series alongside "Supernatural" creator Eric Kripke.
Directing Duties on "Ball Street"
Seth is looking to get behind the camera to co-direct the pilot episode of the proposed series "Ball Street" at Showtime. (Goldberg will squeeze into the director's chair with him.) The comedy is centered around a ragtag group of Wall Street outsiders who look to take on the financial industry in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash. Don Cheadle and Andrew Rannells have already landed roles in the ensemble.
"Singularity": A "Silicon Valley" Connection
The Rogen-Goldberg juggernaut has one directing project already in the can. "Singularity," written by "Silicon Valley" vet Sonny Lee, pictured, is a future-set comedy set at the point where artificial intelligence eclipses human intelligence. There's no air date yet for the project that counts Damon Wayans Jr. and Amanda Lund as its leads.
Rogen and Goldberg Get Superheroic With Invincible
One project that many insiders have their eyes on is Rogen and Goldberg's desire to bring Robert Kirkman's superhero comic Invincible to the big screen. Could this story of a young hero whose father is the defender of Earth disrupt the MCU/DCEU? With an alien heritage that feels similar to Star-Lord and Superman, there's a chance the movie could perform well in its own universe.
A Sweet Arrangement With Sugar Lyn Beard
It's a Sausage Party reunion for Rogen, Goldberg, and actress Sugar Lyn Beard, who voiced the Baby Carrot and the Cookies in the raunchy animated hit. Rogen and Goldberg will produce the untitled comedy about a young doctor who loses her medical license after a breakdown in the OR. The project seems to have mint roles for the doc's hippie mom and her two best friends, who all become the physician's new roommates.
Creating Some 90's Nostalgia With Kelly Oxford
Kelly Oxford, who pretty much rules at all things social media, is developing a comedy with Rogen, Goldberg, and James Franco with a logline that's been kept under wraps. All we know is that it's a teen show set in the 1990s, and that's good enough for now since "Freaks and Geeks" technically was a '90s show.


text:
AIFF calls-off Mohun Bagan's next I-League match
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS):
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) Wednesday called off Mohun Bagan's next I-League encounter pending a decision on whether the Kolkata giants should be banned for two years.
I-League chief executive Sunando Dhar told IANS that Mohun Bagan-Pailan Arrows match, slated for Saturday in Kolkata has been called off.
"The match has been called off pending a decision," said Dhar.
Mohun Bagan are staring at a two-year ban from the I-League for abandoning Sunday's Kolkata derby against East Bengal mid-way after their key player, Syed Rahim Nabi was injured. Nabi was injured after being being hit by a stone on his face from the crowd.
AIFF president Praful Patel wants to tread cautiously before slapping a two-year ban on top I-League club Mohun Bagan. Patel is seeking legal opinion before taking the final decision.
According to AIFF constitution's Clause 22, Mohun Bagan stands banned for two years.
Though AIFF wants to go by the rule book but is also aware of the fact that if banned. Mohun Bagan will move court seeking Force Majeure.
But the federation doesn't want other clubs to cite the example of Force Majeure in the future.


text:
Woodress v. Hattiesburg Police Department et al
Plaintiff: Quincy Deshun Woodress
Defendant: Hattiesburg Police Department and Kyle Stewert
Case Number: 2:2017cv00183
Filed: November 9, 2017
Court: Mississippi Southern District Court
Office: Eastern (Hattiesburg) Office
County: Forrest
Referring Judge: Michael T. Parker
Presiding Judge: Keith Starrett
Nature of Suit: Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983
Jury Demanded By: None
Access additional case information on PACER
Use the links below to access additional information about this case on the US Court's PACER system. A subscription to PACER is required.
Access this case on the Mississippi Southern District Court's Electronic Court Filings (ECF) System
- Search for Party Aliases
- Associated Cases
- Attorneys
- Case File Location
- Case Summary
- Docket Report
- History/Documents
- Parties
- Related Transactions
- Check Status
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


text:
Helping Grandpa
Liz blahh 12/28/2010 4:06:55 PMWonderful! #1339249
Tammy Espino 12/30/2010 11:23:51 AMPrecious :) #9133198
Tammy Espino 1/18/2011 9:05:45 PMCongrats on your great finalist! :) #9171853
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 1/18/2011 9:14:54 PM
Nancyj E. Hovey 1/19/2011 4:14:54 AMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Nikki McDonald 1/19/2011 6:21:23 AMJust browsing and was stopped cold by this one, Kimi. It's wonderful! And your decision to convert to sepia is just right. It's an instant favorite for me.
Patrick Rouzes 1/19/2011 2:14:56 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this endearing & exceptional Finalist, Kimi! WTG! #9176586
Kimi A. Phillips 1/19/2011 2:27:18 PMThank you!!!:) #9176639
Jessica Jenney 1/20/2011 8:19:35 AMCongratulations, Kimi on your beautiful finalist! #9180114
Merna L. Nobile 1/20/2011 10:48:06 AMI can only imagine how proud you must be feeling right now. What wonderful news! CONGRATULATIONS, Merna #9180556
Irene Colling 1/20/2011 6:56:35 PMA tender story photo.
OUtstanding image Kimi.
Congratulations on your excellent Finalist. #9181990
Cassie L. Woodlee 1/23/2011 4:39:08 PMWTG Kimi Congratulations!!! #9188128
Exif: F Number: 3.5, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/160 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 23.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
Uploaded on 12/28/2010 12:32:15 PM
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi (400D/Kiss X) Digital SLR Camera
Copyright for this gallery photo belongs solely to Kimi A. Phillips. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.
Log in to follow or message this photographer or report this photo.


text:
Home Topics Emotional Situations
Emotional Situations
Sokoto Hisbah records 30,160 cases of domestic violence in 16 months
The Sokoto State Hisbah Commission says it recorded 30,160 cases of domestic violence from January 2017 to April 2018.
Recent Stories
Femi Falana advises EFCC to stop sealing up suspects' assets
Senior lawyer Femi Falana advises Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop sealing up assets belonging to suspects of financial crimes
Electoral Bill: Don't override Buhari's veto – Solomon Adeola
Lagos APC Senator Solomon Adeola kicks against any attempt to override President Muhammadu Buhari's veto on the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2018
Six Israeli settlers wounded in drive-by shooting in West Bank
At least six Jewish settlers wounded in drive-by shooting in occupied West Bank
Bukola Saraki: How PDP will defeat APC in 2019
Senate President Bukola Saraki says People's Democratic Party (PDP) has all it takes to win next year's general elections
John Owan-Enoh: APC will sweep polls in Cross River
Cross River governorship candidate John Owan-Enoh says the party will sweep polls in 2019 general elections in the state
Most Popular
Court: Kano Assembly lacks power of investigation
A Kano High Court presided by Justice Ahmed Tijjani Badamasi has ruled that the state House of Assembly does not have the power to investigate or invite or summon the governor over any alleged criminal case.
CNPP accuses 'cabal' of using Muhammadu Buhari to frustrate electoral bill
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has warned that the negative impact of not assenting to amendments to Nigeria's Electoral Act as contained in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill (2018) before next year's general elections will endanger the deepening of the country's democracy.
SDP, GDPN, Kowa: CUPP lied, we didn't endorse Atiku Abubakar
No fewer than three political parties that were said to be members of the loose Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, have dissociated themselves from the reported endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Military recovers N17 million fuel from vandals
The Defence Headquarters has revealed about 120,000 liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) valued at N17 million illegally siphoned from vandalised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines have so far been recovered.
EU set to prolong sanctions against Kabila's chosen successor in DR Congo
The European Union is set next week to prolong sanctions against Congolese President Joseph Kabila's chosen successor just two weeks before a historic election in the resource-rich Central African country.


text:
Islanders' Martin to work red carpet at MTV VMAsby Brian Compton
Matt Martin is no stranger to being surrounded by stars. After all, he plays in the NHL.
He'll be surrounded again by stars on Sunday, only this time he'll be working at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Martin, a left wing for the New York Islanders, will be a red-carpet reporter for Barclays Center's BCTV, working alongside Alyonka Larionov, daughter of Hockey Hall of Fame member Igor Larionov.
The Islanders' future home -- they are scheduled to move to Brooklyn in the fall of 2015 -- is site of the MTV Video Music Awards this year, and BCTV will be showing interviews inside the arena and on its website (www.barclayscenter.com).
"I knew originally I wanted to go to the VMAs, and Barclays Center was running it and they wanted to get a player over there," Martin told NHL.com. "Obviously, I was excited to just kind of go on the red carpet and walk the red carpet. Just the other day, they asked me if I wanted to co-host it, and I thought that'd be a pretty cool opportunity. It all kind of unfolded nicely."
A fan of country music, the 24-year-old recently attended a Kenny Chesney concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. He's hoping he gets to speak with some of his favorite artists; more importantly, he's looking forward to seeing some of them perform.
"I'm not sure who I'll get to talk to, so I'm not getting my hopes up on talking to anyone in particular," Martin said. "I think it'll be cool to really just talk to any of them. There's a lot of good performers. I know Macklemore is playing, and Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus … these are all songs that I listen to, so it's going to be pretty cool to kind of get all these performers in one concert. I'll get to say I watched them all play."
This will be Martin's first foray into the reporting business. He's expecting to have a few jitters but said he plans on having fun with a new experience.
"I'm usually getting interviewed. I've never interviewed anyone before," Martin said. "So it's going to be interesting. Obviously, I'm going to have to roll with the punches a little bit and get used to it. But I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun. The main thing is to just kind of stay loose, I guess, and enjoy it."
Barclays Center, the home of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, opened in the fall of 2012. It was the highest-grossing venue in the United States for concerts and family shows between Nov. 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013, according to Billboard Magazine.
The Islanders will play at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for two seasons before moving to Barclays Center for the 2015-16 season.
"It's beautiful. I've been there a few times now," said Martin, who led the NHL with 234 hits in 48 games last season. "They really did an amazing job with the Barclays Center. We're definitely excited to play there. They were the highest-grossing arena last year in the U.S. Obviously, it's state-of-the-art."
The MTV Video Music Awards will be shown live Sunday on MTV at 9 p.m. ET.


text:
"Have you met the cretins we have in Westminster? Do you think we can be worse than that?" --- Nigel Farage
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Pi in the sky
It is a very cool device and its creators are obviously well intentioned, I doubt that it will encourage anything significantly educational. The "device" is not a complete computer. At the moment it is just a single board computer laid out on a PCB with all the right device connections but no case and no connections. OK, so you don't really need a case for a bare bones computer, but you probably need a screen - count $50 for that, plus a keyboard ($10-15) and a mouse ($5-10), power supply ($10), a video cable ($5) and at least one SD card to boot from ($5), so right now this $110 computer with less computing power than a Pentium 4 (but probably the same amount of memory-256Mb) is going set our aspiring student at least $115. For much less than that the same student could probably pick up a not very worn out second hand PC with higher specs.
Well not quite higher specs because the Raspberry Pi has a very high end GPU for a device that is basically mobile phone technology with the phoney bits thrown away, but our aspiring computer scientist doesn't really need that to printf("Hello world!")
Rather than try to wrestle with Linux, gcc, X11 and all manner of baffling complications, if young kids really want to learn to program they will get an old PC, a copy (probably free) of some ancient C or C++ compiler or maybe some newer variant such as Java or Python, and prove to themselves that they can write programs that show 3+4 really does equal 7.
So who was really up at 6 o'clock in the morning yesterday trying to buy the 10,000 that went on sale, bringing down the websites of RS and Farnell? Not schoolkids, who don't have credit cards. This Raspberry Pi thing is going to be bought up by people who can afford to buy a more expensive computer and probably already own one. It is useful to people who are looking for low power consumption PC's or nifty toys. Will it turn poverty stricken countries in to educational proving grounds for teams of developers? No.
Will it work for schools, when the average IT teacher knows and cares about little more than Power[point and Excel? No, because the quality of support will so abysmally poor and the Raspberry Pi Foundation which claims to be a charity (they are registered) seems to think that all the support will come from the geek user community. In practice current policy in schools is that PC's are shipped in in boxes by box-shifting companies, who may give little user advice, but they know how to get the boxes up and running? Will there be any similar support from the R-Pi "user community"? Dream on.
Worse than that the Raspberry Pi Foundation to think the fact that they don't intend to trade at a profit means they can avoid any commercial responsibility for their product. You can tell that from their behaviour when the board was "launched" yesterday. It seems that at 6am hundreds of thousands of hobbyist geeks were lined up with their credit cards, ready to respond to months of BBC hype, only to find that the distributor's websites were either jammed or not actually sellin the products yet, but taking pre-order to be fulfilled later. And what did the R-Pi group do? The shutdown their servers and responded to the likely hundreds of thousands of complaints by whining on Twitter that their customers didn't appreciate them.
Well probably not because although the R-Pi techies may have spent tens of thousands of man hours trying to decide where and how to glue all the various components onto a PCB, in the first few hours of selling their potential customers wasted hundreds of thousands of man hours pressing F5.
Meanwhile one of the founders of R-Pi, rather than sorting out the mess they had created (they could have had a more orderly procedure if they actually honoured the pre-registration procedure that they had been running for weeks before), was actually out media whoring with the BBC and anyone else who would listen, ramping up demand for a product when demand was already way higher than they could fulfill. So much for customer service.
"It has been six years in the making; the number of things that had to go right for this to happen is enormous. I couldn't be more pleased," Eben Upton, of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, told the BBC. He said that the organisation had been overwhelmed by the interest in the tiny computer, and urged customers who had missed out to pre-order now to ensure they get hold of one. Demand for the device was so strong that the website of one of the main suppliers actually crashed. "We didn't realise how successful this was going to be," Mr Upton added. Obviously.
But the real issue is that for all the fuss, having a stripped down PC doesn't actually make computing power any more accessible. There are plenty of old clapped out PC's that people are willing to give away and while they may not be able to keep up with the World of Warcraft,. they are perfectly capable of running whatever sort of programming environment a beginner may need. And because they are cheap and easily repaired, they can be fixed. I have lost count, but I think we have had 7 desktop machines in this house, three still here, and the others passed on to a good home when asked. The world is full of PCs available for young hackers and it doesn't need another one to get young people programming.
In fact, you don't need much in the way of a computer at all. I attended the same Cambridge College as the aforementioned Mr Upton, indeed it was the alma mater of Prof Maurice Wilkes who built one of the fiurst electronic computers. What did we use for programming? An IBM 370/165, one of the biggest and fastest computers of the time with a 80 nano second clock cycle (call that a 12.5MHz machine) and a main memory of 3 megabytes later upgraded to 4 at great expense.
All that shared between about 150 users at a time and a generous weekly allowance of "CPU time" amounting to 30 seconds! yes 30 whole seconds a week for an undergraduate course at supposedly the top scientific university in the country, and some say in the world. Or to put it another way, about the same amount of computing in a week that the Raspberry-Pi could achieve in half a second.
But that was not the problem with the course. The main issue was that keen as the world was to have new computer scientists, and as keen as the university was to provide them, there were no tutors available who knew the evolving syllabus. I was offered a choice of tutors, one who was nominally responsible for the computer in the engineering department but knew nothing about computers beyond that, and another, a mathematician and a very nice man who worked in the Computer Department, spent many years developing and supporting the line editor used on the university mainframe, but knew nothing about the subjects that we were taught.
And that is the same problem we have today. We can supply schools with the whizziest and cheapest hardware, load them up with all the open source software they are going to need, but if you don't have teachers with the right expertise, then the whole exercise will grind to a halt.
5 comments:
- Ed P said...
Perhaps of interest: Raspberry Pi were unable to fulfill their original aim of manufacturing in the UK, due to our absurd & anti-business import taxation rules. If they had purchased the component parts and brought them into the UK for assembly, they would have had to pay import duties on them. But having the entire unit made off-shore avoided these duties. Just one small example of how our confused government is failing to encourage UK businesses!
- 2 March 2012 at 18:42
- Alex said...
The import duties are marginal and are much less than the extra shipping charges. The main reason was because no UK manufacturer could compete on timing for such a small order.
- 2 March 2012 at 23:12
- Demetrius said...
Once upon a time I recall one David Blunkett talking about any computer ownership or use having to be licencsed and run by local authorities under the control of a council sub committee. Also, he believed that schools should not touch computers, this was a matter for post 16 and graduate education. It could have been worse.
- 3 March 2012 at 07:56
- Ed P said...
I took the duty information from Raspberry Pi's website. Were they "being economical with the truth"?
- 4 March 2012 at 16:34
- Alex said...
"Were they being slightly economical with the truth?"
Slightly, but to be fair the truth is a big story when you are selling these beasties world wide. The position when the assembled units are being sold to the Hong Kong or the Philippines will be very different from sales in the UK or EU or US.
- 4 March 2012 at 17:45


text:
Orly Frisky
5 reviews
100% would repurchase
Package Quality: 5.0
Price: $$
Package Quality: 5.0
Price: $$
Where to Buy
- When you make a purchase through these links, we may receive a commission from the eBay Partner Network or other affiliates.
Start your review
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
A gorgeous creamy shade of turquoise. Quite bluer compared to popular turquoise polishes such as For Audrey and Aquadelic from China Glaze, Zoya Wednesday, Essie Turquoise and Caicos, etc.
Turquoise is my all-time favorite color and I've been looking for a shade that matches the color of the stone but still haven't founded "the one" haha. They are all either too green, too light, too dusty. So I've accumulated quite a few turquoise polishes in my collection but Frisky stands out compared to the rest, amazingly enough. It also doesn't match the stone, but it's still a beautiful, unique color. The formula a little thick but self-levels nicely as it dries. Opaque in 2 coats.
It is now part of the permanent collection, available at Ulta.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is my favorite blue to wear! I love it! It's a very unique blue and I haven't seen any other colors that would be exact dupes for it. It's like a creamy aqua blue color. Opaque in 1-2 coats. A must have for your nail polish collection.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
This color is AMAZING! It's a perfect Tiffany Box turquoise! It's like China Glaze's "For Audrey" (a color I adore) but this shade a bit more on the blue side, whereas "For Audrey" leans more towards green. I can't decide which of the two I prefer - I love them both. This gorgeous nail polish is a spectacular medium creme limited edition color from the "Happy Go Lucky" collection and this color is one of my favorites at the moment. The application wasn't as good as the other polish I have from this collection but it ended up looking fine. It was slightly on the thick side and it streaked on the first coat which I wasn't impressed with but then as it dried it self-levelled! After the second coat I though I had huge brush marks on my nails but again, as it dried it self-levelled and looked great! It has the wonderful Orly rubber lid that makes the brush super-easy to grip and the brush is the perfect size to achieve neat, accurate application in 3 strokes per nail. This color is cheerful and fun! I'm going to buy more so that I have a supply when they stop making it. I think it's a MUST HAVE.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
This is a gorgeous matte/creme aqua teal blue! It's a Tiffany kind a blue. The formula is great. Two thin coats look fab and doesn't streak at all. It has a nice smooth and creamy application. It's the perfect fun Summer color. If you love China Glaze For Audrey like me then you will most likely love Frisky too! I'm glad I got this!! It's absolutely stunning on tan skin!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
Beautiful colour, GREAT aplication
however it sort of left a stain on my cuticles/around my nail where my hand slipped a little which ended up looking really messy and gross but it came off with a "wonder soap" but not polish remover - weird
but overall great
This was a pain in the *rse to remove!, the polish came off easy enough but it stained like a m*ther f*cker which I think is odd considering it's a fairly pale colour - however it's very pigmented and left a blue stain on my nail and the surrounding skin it touched during the removal - while I did manage to eventually remove the staining - it was a lot of effort - it's up to you whether its worth it
Popular Polishes
Popular Polishes
Where to Buy
- When you make a purchase through these links, we may receive a commission from the eBay Partner Network or other affiliates.