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London deems that some of Lebanon’s ministers are terrorists
Voltaire Network | 2 March 2019
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The House of Lords has adopted an amendment to anti-terrorist legislation passed in 2000. The effect of the amendment: every part of Hezbollah without exception will be deemed a terrorist organization. This text will enter into force on 1 March 2019 at midnight.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese network that is resisting Israeli invasion. Previously it was armed by Syria but since 2005 it has been armed by Iran.
Today Hezbollah holds a third of the seats in the Lebanese Parliament and three ministers in Lebanese government. An Israeli campaign aims at assimilating Hezbollah to a terrorist organization by attributing to it various attacks in Lebanon (such as the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri) as well as abroad: Ankara (1992) Buenos Aires (1992 and 1994), Istanbul (2011) and Bourgas (2012). Hezbollah categorically denies all responsibility for these attacks.
On the basis of the Israeli campaign, several countries, including the United States, consider the Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Cutting the pear in two, the European Union established a distinction between the armed and the civil branches of the movement. It classified the armed branch as a terrorist organization whereas it maintains relations with the civil branch. In its preparation to leave the EU, this move can be seen as the United Kingdom letting go of the EU’s hand and adopting the position of Washington.
The motion of the House of Lords was drawn up by the new Home Secretary, the anti-Islam and pro-Israeli Sajid Javid (photo). His hope is to take control of the Conservative Party and to become Prime Minister.
Refusing to draw any conclusions from the fact that 70 MPs of Hezbollah have been democratically elected, the US ambassador to Beirut, Elizabeth Richard, denounced Hezbollah’s presence to the government two weeks ago. She was part of the US State Department’s opposition to Prime Minister, Saad Hariri.
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Source : “London deems that some of Lebanon’s ministers are terrorists”, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 2 March 2019, www.voltairenet.org/article205417.html
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Mea She’arim - Israeli Police Probe New Campaign Against Haredi Soldiers
Published on: June 2, 2015 08:55 PM
By: Jerusalem Post
Mea She’arim - Israeli police are investigating the production and distribution of material inciting against haredi soldiers, in particular a booklet naming IDF officers involved in efforts to integrate haredi men into the military.
Approximately two weeks ago, a group of haredi IDF soldiers and officers submitted complaints to the police about the so-called “Hardak” campaign against haredi soldiers.
Hardak is a Hebrew acronym meaning a “weak-minded haredi” and used in reference to ultra-Orthodox men who enlist in the IDF.
The campaign began approximately two years ago as debate surrounding efforts to draft haredi men into military service intensified, and has included the distribution in haredi neighborhoods of posters and flyers of an extremely provocative nature, depicting haredi IDF soldiers as pigs, unintelligent, unclean, and as kidnappers of haredi children.
During 2013, there was a wave of attacks against haredi soldiers in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea She’arim neighborhood, and more attacks there in 2014 and in extremist haredi neighborhoods in Beit Shemesh as well.
In April this year, a national-religious IDF officer was attacked in Mea She’arim, where he was visiting two haredi soldiers under his command.
The campaign is thought to be the work of an extremist haredi group that has broken away from the mainstream community over the issue of haredi enlistment, but has declined in recent months after the issue left the media spotlight.
The campaign has since been renewed in the last few weeks and new posters and flyers have appeared once again inciting against haredi men who enlist to the IDF. Several weeks ago, a “Hardak” campaign booklet included names and pictures of haredi officers who are involved in helping integrate haredim into the military, and called efforts to recruit haredi men into the IDF a campaign of destruction against the haredi community.
This prompted the six officers to submit complaints to the police that the booklet constituted incitement to violence against them, while their wives submitted separate complaints, demanding that the producers and disseminators of the material be prosecuted.
According to an IDF source, there have been problems in the past prosecuting those who are producing this material, since it was not clear whether or not the flyers and posters constituted criminal incitement or were merely offensive.
The source said the recent booklet including the names and pictures of the soldiers was likely closer to being a criminal offense given the context and messages of the material.
In addition to approaching the police, a letter was also sent to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, Manpower Directorate head Maj.-Gen. Hagai Topolansky, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, and haredi MK and Deputy Minister of Health Ya’acov Litzman requesting their help in the matter.
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Jun 02, 2015 at 09:23 PM Anonymous Says:
May the Israeli government be MATZLIACH in their capture and prosecution and jailing of the sick minds behind these cartoons.
“ May the Israeli government be MATZLIACH in their capture and prosecution and jailing of the sick minds behind these cartoons. ”
Jun 03, 2015 at 12:58 AM BarryLS1 Says:
Just send them to Williamsburg.
Jun 03, 2015 at 01:12 AM Chuchem Says:
Any Jew who denigrates or threatens Jewish soldiers who are daily risking their lives to protect him and his family should automatically be deported to live his buddies in Gaza, Syria and Iraq. Or go home to Vienna, Poland or Germany where the local population loves Jews. These ignoramuses create the greatest chilul Hashem by publicly siding with our enemies before the world, endangering all Jews in Israel, and making religious Jews look like primitive, uneducated people who are totally ignorant of Jewish history both through 2,000 years of galus and Holocaust, and unceasing Arab persecution and terror throughout the centuries in Eretz Yisrael.
Jun 03, 2015 at 10:09 AM lavrenty Says:
they are probably Satmar/ Neturei Karta.
Jun 03, 2015 at 11:23 AM ShmutzVesh Says:
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Downton Abbey Recap: Baby Blues
By Jen Chaney
Photo: Nick Briggs/Carnival Films
Why does Julian Fellowes hate babies?
Sorry, that’s not a fair question. Let’s try that again.
Why does Julian Fellowes hate babies and pregnant women?
I’m sure that in real life, the creator and writer of Downton Abbey, who also happens to be a father, loves children. When a relative or friend announces she’s expecting, Fellowes is undoubtedly thrilled. He’s probably even the first person to send a card, bouquet, or Japanese netsuke of congratulations. But on Downton Abbey, he has consistently emphasized negativity regarding the having of infants.
Before getting into all that, first, let’s take note of this week’s big breaking news, which was hinted at last week, when Lady Edith popped into the doctor’s office: Edith is pregnant. She got a letter from that doctor stating that she has symptoms consistent with the first trimester of pregnancy, which is the 1922 equivalent of a Clear Blue Easy plus sign. That would be great news, if a) she were not about to be subjected to public shame for having sex before marriage, and with an already married man, and b) that already married man wasn’t missing. Ugh. Poor Edith.
Also: for the love of God, America, and Great Britain, is it possible for any woman in the Crawley family to become pregnant, carry the pregnancy to term, deliver the baby, and bask in the newborn’s existence for more than ten minutes without the specter of death creeping in and ruining everything? That was a rhetorical question, because we all know the answer: hell to the no. Just in case you forgot, here’s a helpful refresher on Downton Abbey baby moments gone bad.
Lady Cora: Pregnant. Miscarries due to soap sabotage.
Sybil: Pregnant. Gives birth to beautiful daughter. Immediately dies of eclampsia.
Mary: Pregnant. Gives birth to handsome boy. Mother and son are perfectly healthy. Therefore, father immediately dies in a car wreck.
Edith: Finally decides to do something crazy and have sex with the man she loves one time — one time! Gets pregnant out of wedlock. Husband is missing and presumed dead by a shamed, hormonal Edith.
Fine, we don’t know that Michael is dead. After not being able to reach her beloved, Edith is simply leaping to the worst possible conclusions about what could have happened to him. But Michael did father a child with a Crawley woman for whom he cares deeply. So, yeah: Probably dead.
Even when there’s an opportunity to show genuine happiness between children and their parents or grandparents, Downton Abbey opts out, as it did in this week’s episode right before we, for the first time, were about to see Isobel embrace her grandson. After the moving moment she shared with Tom and Mary — “Well, aren’t we the lucky ones?” she said to her fellow bereaved spouses; yes, we can feel your halo, Isobel! — I was on the edge of dissolving into a puddle of tears at the sight of her smiling into the cherubic face of the little boy fathered by the son who’s now gone. But then the scene just ended. WHY? WHY THE REJECTION OF JOY, DOWNTON ABBEY?
And why does Fellowes keep going back to the sad-pregnancy well? Is he further illustrating the slow decay of aristocratic, estate-dwelling families by repeatedly demonstrating that even the promise of new life always brings the whisper of death? Maybe, although it seems like that theme is already being addressed more directly with the economic pressures and management changes at Downton. Plus, both Sybbie and George have survived and can carry on the family name, so it’s not like there’s no hope for future generations. Honestly, I think pregnancies are consistently problematic on this show for the simplest of reasons: It makes for easy, emotional drama. Few things are sadder than a child who either doesn’t make it into this world or who makes it without the benefit of both parents. Fellowes knows those story lines will tug at heartstrings, so he keeps recycling them. The Edith plot serves that function, while also adding a sense of mystery (The Curious Case of the Missing Michael) and the potential for major conflict, given the high likelihood that Robert will pop his cummerbund when he realizes Edith is knocked up.
Then again, who knows how Robert will react to things? I thought for sure that he and everyone else at Downton would spontaneously combust when Jack Ross and his band showed up to perform, at Rose’s behest, as part of Robert’s birthday celebration. (“Surprise, Cousin Robert! We got you a black guy for your birthday!”) Indeed, for a couple of seconds, when Carson first saw Jack and, later, Lord Grantham did the same, it appeared both men might succumb to starched-shirt strokes. But they immediately recovered. And completely unexpectedly, Downton Abbey turned into a hub for British racial enlightenment.
Robert, apparently pleased to have Jack in his home, began to dance with Lady Cora and, after a couple of drinks, reportedly requested “Ignition (Remix)” by R. Kelly.
After asking Jack some dumb questions about Africa, Carson felt so proud of his intimate knowledge of the black experience that he decided to start the Yorkshire equivalent of the NAACP.
Mrs. Patmore got jiggy with it. (Seriously, she pretty much did.)
And after advising a semi-shocked Edith to be less provincial, the dowager countess retired to her parlor to pen an essay about why it’s terribly wrong to refer to Richard Sherman as a thug.
For real, though, actual question: Did the response to Jack’s presence feel unrealistic to anyone else? To me it certainly did. Sure, it was nice to see everyone display a welcoming and accepting attitude toward a black man. My sense of white guilt shrank three sizes this day because of it. But honestly, I’m not sure that’s how these people would have reacted to Jack in real life, especially given that they were blindsided by his presence. Rosamund’s response to him a couple of weeks ago, as comical as it was, seemed more believable.
To be clear: I don’t think Lord Grantham and Co. would have been rude to Jack’s face. But there would have been a more palpable sense of discomfort in the air, as opposed to a slight gasp followed by total sense of unease. Maybe that discomfort will become more palpable once everyone finds out that Jack and Rose are getting it on, as Mary discovered when she walked in on their frisky kitchen-ness.
Weirdly, as unrealistic as the Jack encounter was and as maddening as I found the handling of Edith’s pregnancy, I enjoyed this week’s episode of Downton Abbey more than last week’s. Maybe because Anna was no longer keeping secrets? Maybe I just enjoy hearing Dame Maggie Smith use the word netsuke? I’m not sure, but here are some of the small delights that prompted me to give this installment three stars instead of the two that last week’s got.
Lady Cora at the restaurant
It was so, so great when Cora swooped in and saved Anna Bates and her husband, John “I want to murder” Bates, from being rudely dismissed by Snootysnot Prisspot, Britain’s most elitist restaurant host. You know who Cora was in that moment? She was their Abe Froman. She was their Sausage King of Chicago. The only thing that would have made that scene more enjoyable — apart from Anna and Bates actually having an enjoyable meal — would have been for Bates, upon being seated, to look at that host and say, “You know, it’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person such as yourself.” If he had done that, I would have forgiven him for any and all future murders he may commit.
The continuing showdown between Isobel and Violet
Isobel and the dowager countess are clearly back at each other’s throats because Fellowes knows they’re more fun that way. And they are! When they started in about “young Pegg” again, I thought, good God, are they really going to fight over a letter opener and a figurine of a Japanese fat man for the rest of the season? But anything that gives Penelope Wilton an excuse to say “How you hate to be wrong,” and Smith to reply, “I wouldn’t know. I’m not familiar with that sensation,” is pretty much justifiable in my book. And the turning of the tables, when the countess actually put Isobel in her place by doing the right thing, unprompted, was satisfying as well.
Speaking of fights, let’s meet Mary’s new nemesis and inevitable passion-igniter
Even though Evelyn Napier still has the hots for Mary, he once again was stupid enough to bring another handsome companion with him to Downton, this time in the form of Charles Blake, who seems pretty determined to prove that estates like Downton are ruining life for everyone in England. Naturally, Mary immediately disliked him. Naturally, this means they’ll banter angrily a lot as an outlet for the increasing sexual tension between them, tension that will eventually be expressed with a kiss, then a slap, then another kiss.
The letter from Uncle Harold
Robert received a letter stating that Uncle Harold, Cora’s brother, is in some serious financial trouble, complete with references that imply Harold is involved in the Teapot Dome scandal that unfolded in America in the early twenties. This made me happy, not because of the scandal, but because this means Paul Giamatti’s Downton Abbey entrance is imminent!
Daisy’s sad good-bye
Turns out Alfred was recruited to train at the Ritz because one of the five budding chefs had to drop out, creating an opening for him. Upon hearing the news, Daisy went through several of the documented stages of grief — shock, denial, extreme sadness, yelling at Ivy — but said good-bye in a heartfelt, mature way that convinced me those two nerdballs will get together eventually.
Molesley’s back at Downton!
Because Alfred left and Carson gave up and let him back in. So, hooray! I guess?
The Baxter-tattling begins
Baxter kept her promise to become Thomas’s informant. So of course, when Cora told Mary that she overheard Bates tell Anna he felt he should have protected her, and then Cora told Baxter to make sure that information didn’t leave the room, the first thing Baxter did was run-tell-Thomas. Baxter doesn’t seem like a bad person, she just seems convinced that she has to do what Thomas tells her. Why, I am not sure. Couldn’t she just act like Cora never says anything interesting? Honestly: not that hard to believe!
This plot thread didn’t make me happy, really, but it made me laugh. Because as I pondered how wrong it is for Baxter to betray Cora’s trust, and how Baxter obviously realizes it’s wrong because she genuinely likes Cora, I realized that what Baxter is doing requires a new term: Baxter-stabbing. And that made me giggle. And giggling brings me joy. And therefore, this whole plot development brought me joy.
Look, on Downton Abbey, you have to take the joy where you can get it. Because it obviously isn’t going to come from the usual places, like love that blossoms unfettered, or newborn babies, or the hope that life will permanently become something wonderful for Lady Edith Crawley.
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NATIONAL: Boy, 2, dragged into lake at Disney World by alligator
The Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney World
Published: 10:57 Wednesday 15 June 2016
Authorities in Orlando are searching for a two-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says a family of five from Nebraska was on vacation and wading in a lake when the attack happened. He said the father tried to rescue the boy.
Mr Demings said more than 50 law enforcement personnel are searching the Seven Seas Lagoon for the boy and will keep looking.
He added there have been no other recent reports of similar alligator attacks at the lake.
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WARNING: UK kids at risk from virus that can leave victims paralysed
A health alert has been issued warning parents over an outbreak of a polio-type virus that can easily be spread through coughs and sneezes.
Cases of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), which has no known cure or vaccine, have more than doubled in the last year.
Linked to cases of very young children being left unable to walk, the virus can leave kids fighting to breathe or swallow.
The public are advised to take good hygiene precautions when sneezing and coughing, wash their hands and avoid close contact with people with colds and flu-like illnesses.
It is understood four young victims have been hospitalised in the UK, with a boy and primary-aged girl in the Edinburgh area in intensive care for more than a month.
The outbreak follows one in Wales during the winter of 2014-15.
Public Health England has now published a risk assessment stating the virus is associated with ‘polio-like’ neurological symptoms.
Last year only 14 cases of EV-D68 were detected in the UK, but this year has already seen 38 lab-confirmed infections.
Most young patients have been admitted to hospital with respiratory problems, with some suffering neurological issues.
While doctors have been notified, affected families fear too little has been done to alert the public.
One source, speaking to Mail Online, said: “There’s a real concern the spread of this virus isn’t being made public.
“GPs need to know this virus is out there so they can recognise symptoms and make quick referrals. Symptoms seem to start with a sore throat but, within a day or so, they are left unable to breathe as their muscles stop working and they become floppy.
“It’s a terrifying disease that leaves a lot of the children permanently paralysed. Health officials seem to be really keen this is kept secret but parents and doctors need to know.”
NHS Lothian incident management team chair Dr Kate Templeton confirmed: “We have been investigating a possible cluster of patients infected with enterovirus D68. The patients are all now testing negative for the virus.”
EV-D68 is linked to a phenomenon called acute flaccid paralysis that causes patients’ muscles to rapidly weaken.
If the muscles needed to breathe fail, patients can die.
Children are more vulnerable because they have not built up immunity to such viruses.
An outbreak of EV-D68 in the US killed 14 people and infected 1,153 between August 2014 and January last year. Public Health England has confirmed the virus is circulating but said cases are in line with expected numbers.
Many people who contract the virus only ever have mild cold-like symptoms and do not suffer paralysis.
The public are advised to take good hygiene precautions to minimise the risk of infection.
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The 5 Healthiest Ways to Cook
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If preparing dinner means peeling back the top of a frozen prepackaged meal or opening a brand-new box of cereal, it’s time for a change. You don’t have to be an accomplished cook to create low-fat, healthful cuisine that tastes great. The main challenge to eating well while watching calories is to choose nutrient-dense food and avoid excess dietary fat without giving up flavor.
Following are five supereasy, low-fat cooking techniques you can master in about the time it takes to nuke a Lean Cuisine. Whether you choose to broil, microwave, pressure cook, steam or stir-fry, you’ll be pleased to know that each method is not only naturally low in fat (because they require little or no oil) but brings out the zest in foods. One caveat: Because these are quick-cooking techniques, you’ll need to ignore that well-known adage and become a cook who does watch the pot — to help keep it from boiling (or burning, sticking or charring).
1. STEAMING
Steaming is, simply, cooking food in an enclosed environment infused with steam. You can steam in a variety of ways: with a covered, perforated basket that rests above a pot of boiling water; with a parchment wrapper or foil; with Chinese bamboo steamers that stack on top of a wok; and with convenient electric steamers. Steaming cooks and seals in flavor, eliminating the need for added fats during preparation. It also preserves nutrients better than any other cooking method except microwaving. It’s perfect for fish and shellfish because it doesn’t dry out the delicate flesh. Halibut, cod and snapper steam particularly well.
Best candidates: Vegetables such as asparagus, zucchini and green beans, pears, chicken breasts, fish fillets and shellfish.
Equipment: A large pot in which to place collapsible basket steamers, Chinese bamboo steamers to stack on top of a wok (these steamers range from $10-$40), or electric steamers. The Black & Decker FlavorScenter steamer is a new electric model to which features a built-in flavor-scenter screen that you can add herbs and spices. It comes with a large 3.5-quart bowl and a 7-cup rice bowl and a handy timer with a signal bell and automatic shut-off ($35).
Cooking tips:
* To steam on top of the stove, simply bring water to a boil in your selected stove-top steamer, reduce heat so that a strong simmer sends steam escaping, add food to the steaming compartment, cover with a lid, and begin timing.
* A makeshift steamer can be easily created with everyday cooking utensils. Use any deep-frying pan or pot, such as a 6-quart Dutch oven, and place a rack inside balanced on two identical pieces of wood wedged into the bottom. (Make sure the lid is tight-fitting.) Spaghetti pots that come with separate smaller baskets that sit up high and fit snugly under the lid make good steamers as well.
* A 3/4- to 1-inch fish fillet takes anywhere from 6-15 minutes to steam, depending upon the fish; vegetables and fruit (such as a bunch of medium-stalked asparagus, a pound of green beans or two pears cut up) take from 10-25 minutes; a boneless chicken breast, 20 minutes.
Hold the salt: Don’t bother salting foods during steaming, as it just washes off.
Try this: Flavoring is as simple as a twist of lemon. Steam one fish fillet by wrapping it in foil with a few garlic cloves, grated fresh ginger, onion and basil leaves. After squeezing fresh lemon juice over the fish, wrap it closed and place in a steamer basket. Bring 2 inches of water to a boil in a pot, put basket over water and cover. Steam for about 6 minutes.
2. STIR-FRYING
Cooking at a very high heat for a very short time is the essence of stir-frying. Because food is cooked so quickly, it should be cut into small, uniform pieces to ensure every ingredient is cooked thoroughly. This is another method that requires your full attention, as continuous stirring and sometimes tossing of the ingredients are necessary to prevent food from sticking to the pan.
The best way to stir-fry is in a wok. The sloping sides and rounded bottom are specially designed so food can be quickly browned in the “belly” of the pan and then moved up to the sides, where it finishes cooking more slowly. Traditionally, Chinese woks are cast iron and take a while to heat up. Most woks today are made of carbon steel, which heats up and cools down more quickly. The wok is placed on a metal ring which sits over the burner. When it’s very hot, oil is added, followed by the food.
Best candidates: Broccoli, cabbage, eggplant, bell peppers, mushrooms, pork, chicken, shrimp, scallops and tofu.
Equipment: Wok or a large heavy-gauge skillet (from $20-$200, depending on brand). Calphalon’s flat-bottomed wok (model C155) features a hard anodized exterior, cool handles, a nonstick finish and a lifetime warranty ($100).
* Be prepared: Vegetables should be properly diced or chopped; meats should be trimmed of fat and sliced. Spices should be laid out on a plate and ready to go.
* If cooking a meat and vegetable dish, brown meat first, then push it to the sides of the wok before adding veggies.
* Use extra-virgin olive oil from a spray pump to coat your wok.
Try this: Heat a nonstick wok over high heat; spray with oil. Add 1/2 cup chopped onions, 1 minced garlic clove and a dash of red pepper flakes; stir-fry for about 30 seconds. Add 1/2 cup chicken broth and 1/2 cup white wine; simmer for about 2 minutes. Add 1/2 pound of medium-size shrimp; cover and cook for 5 minutes.
3. BROILING
One of the simplest of all cooking methods, broiling cooks by exposing food to direct heat in an electric or gas stove, usually in the bottom drawer of the oven. It renders the same results as grilling, but in grilling the heat comes from below, while in broiling it comes from above. Because the heat is constant, all you really need to do is move the food closer to or farther from the flame depending on how you like your food cooked. That means the thinner the cut of food, the closer the heat source should be so it quickly sears the surface of the food, leaving the interior less done. Because broiling is a dry-heat method of cooking (which means no additional oil), lean cuts of beef and chicken work best when marinated first or basted during cooking.
Chef Will Elliott, executive chef at the Regent Grand Spa, The Resort at Summerlin in Las Vegas, relies on broiling to create dishes that satisfy the palates of his health-conscious guests. “Some of the best foods to broil are beef and salmon,” Elliott says. “Salmon is an oilier fish and won’t dry out as easily as others.” Here are the broiling basics.
Best candidates: Salmon, chicken, Cornish game hen, bell pepper, summer squash, zucchini and onion.
Equipment: Gas or electric stove.
* Always preheat the broiler for 30 minutes with the rack in place so foods can be seared quickly.
* For a 1/2-inch-thick piece of meat, allow 6 minutes of cooking time for rare, 9 minutes for medium and 12 minutes for well-done.
* For bone-in chicken, allow about 15 minutes per pound.
* Turn all foods halfway through cooking time.
* To sear food, place it 1 inch below a preheated broiler for 1-2 minutes per side.
* For easy clean-up, line your broiler pan with foil.
Try this: For extra flavor and to keep food from drying out, marinate lean cuts (and even vegetables) an hour beforehand. Try this on chicken breasts: Combine three cloves minced garlic, 1 tablespoon olive oil, juice and zest of one lemon, 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil, 1 cup white wine, salt and pepper to taste.
4. MICROWAVING
“Microwaving cooks essentially by steaming,” says Victoria Wise, chef and author of The Well-Filled Microwave (Workman Publishing, 1996). “And like steaming, it lends itself to low-fat or no-fat cooking. The foods that do well this way are vegetables, which retain their color along with their nutrients, and fish and chicken, which plump up well compared to beef and pork.” Wise uses a 750-watt Panasonic model with a carousel that turns food, helping to cook it more evenly. The power of the microwave depends on the wattage per square foot of internal oven space: the higher the wattage and smaller the oven, the more powerful.
Best candidates: Beets, broccoli, fish, chicken, potatoes, spinach, carrots, cauliflower and apples.
Equipment: A medium-size, 750-plus-watt model with either a carousel to turn the food or a convection system that disperses the waves evenly throughout the oven will suit most needs. (A good one to try: Amana Radarange F1340 with 1,000 watts, 10 power levels and a 12.6-inch turntable for even heating, $209.)
Remember to use microwave-safe glass, ceramic or plastic cooking vessels. Most glass bowls and baking dishes are safe, Wise says, and ceramic and plastic items will say on the bottom and in the packaging if they are microwave safe. Never put metal, Styrofoam or plastic deli containers in the microwave.
* Cover food to contain the steam and moisture, which gives food its succulence. Although some manuals suggest using plastic wrap to cover, some studies show that molecules from the wrap can travel into the food. Use covered casserole dishes or cover with a flat, glass plate.
* You can cook two dishes at once by stacking them.
* Flash cook veggies to retain nutrients: 6 medium beets, cut up (12 minutes), 2 large sweet potatoes or yams (14 minutes), medium to large cauliflower or broccoli, cut into florets (6 minutes), 2 large bunches of spinach (3 minutes).
Try this: Wise recommends this basic fish recipe: Place 1 3/4-2 pounds of fish fillet (such as halibut, cod or snapper) in a large microwave-safe dish. Prepare a marinade of your preference (or try a combo of olive oil, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, salt and crumbled bay leaf). Add marinade to fish and set aside for 20 minutes. Cover the dish and microwave on high for 4-9 minutes (depending on thickness of fillet) until juices are clear and fish flakes in center. Remove and let cool for 2 minutes.
For quick, homemade applesauce, Wise cuts two pounds of peeled apples into 1/2-inch chunks, puts them in a large bowl and sprinkles them with sugar, cinnamon and a splash of lime juice. Microwave on high for 10 minutes.
5. PRESSURE COOKING
Food cooked in a pressure cooker requires very little water and time, which means that vitamins and minerals are kept intact. The cooker seals in steam created by the boiling liquid, which intensifies the flavors. This means that you won’t need to add any oil or fat for taste or richness. You barely need to season the food either. Soups and stews that would usually take hours to simmer on the stove or a whole chicken can be ready in 15 minutes, rice in five and most vegetables in about three.
Best candidates: Artichokes, potatoes, beans, beef, chicken, lamb, risotto, soups and stews.
Equipment: There are three types of pressure cookers: the old-fashioned “jiggler” or weight-valve; the developed weight-valve; and the spring-valve. All of these valves serve as a pressure regulator and tell you when it’s time to adjust the heat. (They all feature safety valves that allow excess pressure to escape, and most have safety locks that make them impossible to open until the pressure has fully dropped.) The spring-valve is the most precise and easiest for beginners to use. Pressure cookers range in price from $30-$300. (The Duromatic Non-Stick Pressure Cooker Frypan from Kuhn Rikon doubles as a conventional frying pan. It holds 2.1 quarts and is 9 inches wide. Made of stainless steel, this spring-valve model has a unique titanium nonstick system and a “helper handle” for easy lifting, and comes with a cookbook.)
* Use a timer when pressure cooking. This method cooks so quickly that every second really counts.
* Don’t fill your cooker more than two-thirds full. When cooking foods that expand, such as beans or rice, fill only halfway to allow for the buildup of steam and pressure.
* Be very careful when opening the lid. Never put your face over the pot because of the heat of the steam.
Try this: Beef Stew With Orange and Rosemary: In a 5-quart pressure cooker, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil on high heat. Add 1 1/2 pounds lean beef cut up into 1-inch cubes and cook until well browned on all sides. Remove and set aside. Reduce heat and add 1 chopped onion, 1 clove garlic and 2 tablespoons beef broth. Cook about 1 minute. Add 1/2 cup more of beef broth, 1/2 cup dry red wine, 2 tablespoons tomato paste, 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves, 1 teaspoon finely grated orange peel, 1 teaspoon dried thyme, one bay leaf and black pepper to taste. Stir well to dissolve tomato paste. Add beef. Close lid and bring pressure to high. Reduce heat as needed. Cook for 15 minutes.
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To some, indie rock is an aesthetic, something between Sonic Youth and Pavement that's played by people with in mop-tops and ringer t-shirts with cans of Pabst atop their amplifiers. Others, meanwhile, might define indie rock literally as music recorded and performed by musicians not signed or affiliated with major labels. However you prefer to slice it, here are ten tunes from the past ten years that continue to amaze. Feel free to weigh in with your own picks or tell us that ours are completely whack.
10. Jolie Holland "Palmyra" (2008)
She's on an independent label and she (sometimes) plays rock music, but Jolie Holland is really half country and half folk, with a twist of Mission hipster. "Palmyra," a tumblin' folk-rock ballad that alludes to Hurricane Katrina and the narrator's penchant for breaking her own heart and others, brought all of Holland's luminous talents to a fever pitch, from her desperate emotion and charmingly sexy southern vocal stylings to her impressive knack for guileless storytelling.
9. The Warlocks "Shake the Dope Out" (2002)
Recalling classic underground lines of self-abusive desperation such as Swervedriver's "my soul belongs to the dealer now" and the Ramones "I could've been rich/but I'm just digging a Chinese ditch," the Warlocks' "Shake the Dope Out" took Velvet Underground-descendant drug-rock to another level by indulging in hallucinatory lyricism. These guys might need professional help, but we'll enjoy the musical side-effects while they last.
8. Grizzly Bear "Knife" (2006)
"With every blow/comes another lie/you think it's alright/can't you feel the knife?" Brooklyn-based soundscapers Grizzly Bear successfully matched ghostly Beach Boys-esque harmonies and tender, poignant guitars, piano and percussion with casually vicious lyrics in "Knife," one of the highlights of Yellow House, its spellbinding breakthrough LP. It's a magical incantation of hurt that, if provoked, could easily take anything by Nine Inch Nails and softy lull it to death.
7. Spoon "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" (2005)
After about a decade suffering in bargain-bin purgatory, Spoon emerged with Gimme Fiction, a hypnotic sonic accomplishment that became a hipster classic, and "The Beast and Dragon" kicked off the twisted fun with a slow burn. "When you don't feel it at shows, they tear out your soul," singer/guitarist Brit Daniels sings just as the burn becomes a wildfire, "but when you believe they call it rock n' roll." I'm pretty sure that line isn't in the Bible, but it should be.
6. Deerhoof "Milkman" (2004)
Let's just get this out of the way: Yes, towering Deerhoof drummer/spokesman Greg Saunier has Tourette's syndrome, and it affects the genuinely virtuosic freak-jazz drumming we've heard on Deerhoof classics like "Milkman," which was eventually turned into a children's ballet in Maine. What's truly remarkable is how Saunier's percussive explosions juxtapose front-woman Satomi Matsuzaki's tiny voice and childlike imagination. By turns spastic and softy fantastical, "Milkman" is Deerhoof's "A Quick One While He's Away"-type masterpiece.
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2. Arcade Fire "Neighborhood #1(Tunnels)" (2004)
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1. Midlake "Roscoe" (2006)
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With an ASP women’s world longboard title added to her resume, Oahu’s Kelia Moniz has a lot to smile about.
It took a couple of days to for the collective surfing world to find out Kelia "Sister" Moniz won the ASP Women’s Longboard Championship at the Swatch Girls Pro. Perhaps it was due to the Facebook ban in the People’s Republic of China. Or, maybe the first jewel of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing overshadowed thesingle-event longboard championship. Whatever the reason, Kealia’s first world title at the age of 19 is a milestone achievement.
When she was born it took a month for her parents Tammy and Tony Moniz to name Kelia so she inherited the nickname "Sister" from her older brother, Micah, during those four weeks. The Hawaiian/Japanese/Chinese/Portuguese/Irish longboarder’s first name is actually Greek for "beautiful."
Although she splits time between Hawaii and California these days, Sister still considers Honolulu home. ESPN caught up with Moniz in Waikiki during a Roxy beach day to talk story about the Chinese surf scene, the world title, her legendary father, Tony, and what makes longboarding so cool.
What’s the surf scene like in China?
There’s no scene. It was only us, who flew in for the contest. The surfing scene is very new to their culture and that’s why they’ve been running events in China to kind of grow the sport within their culture. There’s so much potential there to be world class surfers because there are waves all over Hainan Island. We only surfed three spots on that island and there are so many pockets that are constantly breaking that nobody really knows of. They kind of keep it a little secret, but for the most part the Chinese government is trying to build a tourist attraction with Hainan Island and I think surfing can be a really big part of that.
Where would you could compare the Hainan Island waves that you surfed to in the U.S.?
The original spot they were supposed to hold the eventon a good dayis a perfect, left-hand point break that I would surf all day if it was breaking. Unfortunately, we had to move [contest] sites on the last day, and the second spot they [ran the contest] was actually like Queens a little bit.
Moniz on the podium after winning her title in China this November.
That wave seems well-suited for your style of surfing since you grew up sliding Waikiki.
It was perfect for me! I went in after my semi and before my final and Kai Sallas was kind of giving me feedback and said, "just pretend like you’re surfing Queens because it looks like it and you’re surfing it like it is and have fun." That’s what I did in the final and it worked to my advantage.
Beside Kai Sallas, who was your support crew in China?
My mom was my number one support. Then the other girls from the contest: Natalia Smith from Kauai and Crystal Dzigas. It was nice to have full-Hawaiian support there. And all the boys: Nelson [Ahina], Keegan [Edwards], Kai [Sallas], Uncle Duane [DeSoto] and Ned Snow.
What was your first thought after the horn sounded and marked the end of the final?
It was crazy because we didn’t have live scoring. We had to change the whole contest site so they only took over one tent for the judges and there was no P.A. So there was no live scores and I had no idea. I had an idea that maybe I won because Chelsea [Williams] wasn’t completing here waves, but it wasn’t official so I didn’t want to claim it yet. So I went in and once I got to the beach all the boys were on the beach and had their hands up cheering for me. Then all the cameras came over to me and then I had a good idea. Then the announcer came up and made it official that I won. I was on top of the world at that moment, and the boys chaired me up the beach. It was a really, really good moment for me and I was so stoked!
What was it like to be in the SWATCH Girls Pro China final with Chelsea Williams for the second consecutive year?
It was cool. It was kind of like a rematch I guess. Unfortunately for Chelsea — I was really bummed for her — because last year she won and she killed it, but she didn’t get a [world] title. This year we had waves and it was definitely fair because we both got waves, but I just got the better half this year I guess.
What is the future for your competitive career?
I don’t love to compete because I get into the zone and don’t know how to balance competing and just being normal. When I’m in the zone I really block everything out, I focus really hard and I don’t really have fun with it.
Moniz, grace and beauty in the water defined.
How was it growing up in your father’s shadow?
For my dad, it was a path he created for my brothers and I. He was well-traveled, and till this day now, I go anywhere in the world and people don’t know me for my name, they know me for my last name. Once they find out I’m a "Moniz" it’s a much different respect I get instantly and I’m so grateful for everything my dad has done in positive way for our family. When we go to different surf spots, wherever we go people want to give us waves and be extra nice. People have a respect for my family and it’s nice to have that when you come into the surf industry because it’s so small and so big at the same time. It seems like this ASP women’s world longboard championship title is helping you create your own identity.
Yeah, definitely even from my brothers because we were always recognized as a family group. Especially for me because longboarding is different from shortboarding. [Longobarding] is in the shadow of [shortboarding] so you really have to do something big to standout in longboarding. I do a lot of modeling with Roxy and it’s cool that I can see that I actually did something [by winning the women’s longboard world title].
What do you think it’s going to take for longboarding to emerge out of shortboarding’s shadow in the surf industry?
There’s so much potential in women’s longboarding because it’s so much more approachable for the average person. For the average girl who is watching someone longboard it’s like "oh wow, I can do that and maybe I can be a professional surfer one day." So I think there is a lot more to offer and we [female professional longboarders] can attract a bigger audience because girls will want to try to do that one day. I think there is so much potential for women’s longboarding to grow and with this world title I think I can help that and help women’s surfing to grow in general.
Why is longboarding cool?
I grew up longboarding. I grew up in Waikiki. I grew up looking up to longboarders and it was something that naturally happened. My brothers grasped on to shortboarding and went that route. I kind of did a little bit of shortboarding, but I always turned back to longboarding. I guess at the end of the day it was because [longboarding] was fun. You can get on a longboard on a flat day and have just as much fun as if it’s five-foot and perfect. For me it’s just more fun and there is more opportunity to be stylish on a longboard and that’s kind of what my whole deal is.
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SAWIP offers a friendly verbal peer-review environment for the presentation and discussion of journal articles, book proposals, research projects and any other kind of research undertaking, at all stages of production from ‘sketchy’ to ‘close to press’.
It aims to unite scholars from a range of disciplines and provide a space to explore both the craft of research and ways of approaching scholarship on South Asia.
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All Hail the World's Oldest Lab Rat
Updated Nov. 17, 1998 12:01 am ET
By Nicholas von Hoffman, a columnist for the New York Observer.
T hey have shot spiders, mice and chimpanzees into orbit, so why not John Glenn? To him goes the distinction of being the oldest laboratory animal to escape the earth's gravitational field. Score at least one more for Mr. Guinness and his record book. If he keeps it up, the senator/astronaut will, in the course of the next 50 years, doubtless set the record for most ticker tape parades (all age categories).
The New York ticker tape parade is the American equivalent of the Roman triumph. The according of a triumph to a victorious general started out as a rare and special honor but over the course of centuries scheming politicians and ne'er-do-well despots got them more or less routinely. In like manner, whatever ticker tape parades may have been at their inception, nowadays almost anybody may turn up in the back seat of a convertible brushing the confetti out of his heroic locks.
And speaking of despots, Emperor Haile Selassie got not one, but two ticker showers. Professional sports teams are accorded them de rigeur, so again, we ask, why not the space codger? All it takes to be strapped onto the tip of a rocket and sent hurtling into the Van Allen belt, or to wave at the adoring multitudes from a slow-moving limousine, is what the Germans call sitzfleisch--sitting on your fanny. As for the resultant traffic jam, it causes no more inconvenience than those created by President Clinton in his not infrequent money-scooping descents on Manhattan.
Those few among us who know that the stars are fixed in the very heavens where ye olde ancient astronaut rotated for a week or so nurse the suspicion that the timing of the flight had less to do with gerontological researches than with the proximity of election day. Naturally, if you were to ask NASA about the timing of the take off, you may be confident that the answer would be that the stars were in an ideal configuration at just that moment when the aged circumnavigator was propelled into outer space, but so were the politics.
A vote-needy president and a money-needy NASA had a little non-stellar conjunction of minds. But how to make a big show out of a routine blast off? Expensive manned rockets and inexpensive but highly productive unmanned rockets rip off these days almost with the frequency of freight trains leaving the coal fields. What was needed was a sojourn as attention catching as the Mars flight with its little robots and its fascinating pictures. Now that was indeed something to Ooooh and Ahhh about.
What a story line! The once vigorous, prime of life test pilot returns as an antique, offering himself up for the study of the weakening of old bones and the enervation of aged muscle mass.
There's a made-for-TV tale that's got more oomph than eensy-beensy robots scrambling around pebbles on Mars. It would stir up the rube news directors in the television stations, who in turn would get the country's blood abubbling by administering dripping tablespoonfuls of sticky patriotic claptrap. And with the politicians whooping it up for saving Social Security, picking Mr. Glenn, in the eighth decade of life, was right "on message," as the political consultants say.
Since nobody intends to do anything in the practical realm with Social Security or Medicare that might render further help to the 60-plusers, by all means order up a vast publicity stunt to distract people with a show in heaven for what has not been done on earth. Apply rouge to the cheeks of the corpse, so to speak, but whether or not the elderly are jet-propelled to an old folks home in the sky, the truth remains, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Nature abhors the old, and old age is the only disease."
To make us forget that lugubrious fact of life, Mr. Glenn was perfect for the part. A good man and a courageous one, a former test pilot who had starred in similar monkey shines nearly 40 years ago--there are so many glamorous old video clips of him. True, he talks with the same spell-binding hypnotic power of Al Gore, but nothing hideously embarrassing about Mr. Glenn, the exemplary family man, is going to blindside the impresarios of this space spectacular for the Geritol generation. Nothing can be brought up against John Glenn, save that in his 24 years in the Senate of the United States, he was, well, if not a party hack, then a party dray horse. But what the hay? They name federal courthouses after senators with yet less distinguished records, and federal courthouses cost as much as rocket rides.
As good luck would have it, the doughty octogenarian, Walter Cronkite, once more re-materialized on the nation's TV screens, thanks to CNN, to warble his baritone laudations for the space program. All of a sudden, the political personalities from the Minksy House of Burlesque, who had been occupying the center stage of public attention, were swept away and replaced by the words and deeds of these two virtuous elders. Whether or not the Cronkite-Glenn combo serves to rectify the behavior of youngsters under 50 remains to be seen, as does what becomes of all this.
It may be that in the not too distant future we shall be enjoying the voyage of the first child astronaut, the first handicapped astronaut, the first openly gay couple astronauts, first centenarian astronaut, first child born in space. The, ahem, sky is the limit for freaky firsts.
As for Skywalker John, his fortune is made back on earth giving television testimonials for laxatives, rheumatism medicaments, diapers and walkers. If those images are unsettling, please to remember the old saw that senectitude is not for the faint of heart.
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Magazine Fall 2014
Third Place 2014 Fiction Contest Winner
First the eyes, he thought. Watch the eyes—where are the eyes watching? Forward, searching over heads, sorting out the familiar ones ahead on the rickety gangplank? Or backward, back to the steamship, the eyes glancing over the shoulder—the right shoulder, usually, which sometimes even turns to accommodate the search? Or, luck willing, do the eyes look only down?
The train from Philadelphia took a long time to get to New York City, and the horse-drawn trolley took a long time to get to the docks for this unplanned return to Castle Garden. That was a long time to think, so Aaron had it all decided. First, the eyes, where they were watching. That was the most crucial thing, more important than any pretty face the eyes might sit in, or an attractive body that, as it was December, would be swaddled and hard to judge in any case. Second, the question. He had rejected many questions. He knew—recalled—he would have time for only one question before the vendors closed in to sell a million cheap wonders of their New World, before the makeshift porters pressed in to snatch the bags.
There was a woman coming down the gangplank now, a small stranger, very young—a girl, maybe. And the eyes were in the right direction. Although downward eyes might have been merely caution, for the flimsy gangplank swayed ominously underneath the back-to-belly packing of the greenhorns. But the question would sort things out, would ratify what the eyes suggested.
Aaron approached the gangplank on the dock as the woman approached the dock on the gangplank. “I can help you find your family?” he inquired. In Yiddish, this having the benefit of establishing her fitness in an additional regard.
The eyes dropped farther, if this were possible. “It’s only me,” she answered, a little sadly.
“An orphan?” he asked, struggling to hide his delight that maybe he was not going to have to ask a second griner kuziner to find somebody without a family temporarily invisible somewhere on the ramp behind her, or on the dock ahead.
He did not need one more family.
Also, he noticed, the face was not unattractive, an additional plus. Pale, but that was understandable—he remembered there was often not much sun on the ocean in December, or in steerage. Heart-shaped, he guessed such a face was called, the result of a little brown widow’s peak showing under her babushka, and at the bottom a sharp chin. A smallish nose, dark brown eyes. He guessed they were dark brown, for the eyes were still so downcast that he was catching only the shortest glimpses. She was half a head shorter than himself, and he was no Goliath; however, she was carrying two bulging satchels, one in each hand, and she was not even puffing.
Maybe, he thought, maybe that should come after the eyes. If—luck forbid—I have to try again. Maybe whatever burdens and how they’re managed should come before the question.
Now she was explaining at him, shyly, hesitantly. She is one of three daughters, the oldest and also—she blushes—maybe the smartest. At least her father thinks so. Her mother being dead. She will work—they say there is work here in New York—and bring her family here, home.
This was what anybody thought, what anybody planned. It didn’t have to happen; often these particular plans fell through. So Aaron was maybe not hoping a false hope.
“A shame your plans are made,” he told her, walking her away from the gangplank, through the vendors, past the porters, though both bags were still in her own hands. It was all going so smoothly, he could not quite believe his luck.
She looked back to where they had come from. The gangplank was gone, all folded up and gone, and even now a sailor on the dock was throwing up the last rope and the steamship was huffing away. Her eyes were down again. “No plans,” she murmured, “Not exactly.” Then, looking up to smile at him, or at a memory, “Addresses. A couple addresses.”
“Your father gave you these before you left?”
She nodded a tiny nod.
“But by now those addresses will be pretty old.” He made his tongue go, “Tsk.” He elaborated, “Here in New York now, things are bad.”
“Bad?”
He shook his head to indicate that she could not imagine how bad things had gotten in New York.
Suddenly, as if hired for the purpose, a beggar slipped through Aaron’s invisible cordon that had until now miraculously held off the world. The beggar had an intelligent face and, worse—or better, from Aaron’s perspective—he was dressed in a tweed coat that appeared to have once belonged to a gentleman. Except now lining showed through a large rip in the left side seam and strips of lining hung down below the woolen hem. And the hand that was extended toward them, palm cupped to hold the coins he hoped for, was covered with a formerly-fine leather glove, two of whose fingers had come unsewed.
She shivered; Aaron took one menacing step at the beggar, who disappeared in nothing flat without a word. Aaron greeted the departure with an open, up-turned palm pointed in the man’s direction plus a shrug, and these were words enough. He had proven his point: things were awful in this New York. She drew a little closer to him.
They walked; he gave it a minute or two then he went on, “What I meant to say was, since things are bad here, maybe the people at those addresses are gone by now—left a little early in the month—you catch what I’m saying here?”
Quickly, she thought this one through, then edged away from him a step or two.
“But these are good people, my father said!” she disagreed, a tiny bit less than mildly. “Not somebody who tries to cheat a landlord.”
Now both of Aaron’s hands were up in protest, palms facing her. Simultaneously, both shoulders were hunching toward his ears.
“You think some landlords don’t deserve the worst?” He drew a sharp breath; this familiar street was not the one to be on. He swerved, “Who said cheat? Did I say cheat? No, no, things are so bad in New York, what I meant to say was, maybe the people your father knew were put out on the street. Or knew they would be on the street tomorrow, and so they already left today. Maybe it was all they could do.”
This caused, to his intense gratification, a gasp of horror. And then, “You think?” The eyes were worried now, the hands clenched around the handles of the heavy satchels.
“Here, let me help you with those,” Aaron offered.
Slowly, her eyes running over him, evaluating him, she offered him the smaller of the bags.
He said nothing. Experience told him he’d better let her think she had the choice of whatever should come next. They walked; she asked into his silence, “So, what else could I do?”
He pretended to weigh her options. Slowly, as if he had not thought all this through a hundred times, he answered, “Philadelphia.”
“Filadelfer?” It was a long word. She had trouble saying it, and it was no surprise to Aaron when she added, “But I don’t know from this Filadelfer.”
“This is my home, Philadelphia.” He puffed his chest out with pride of ownership, though in truth it had not been his home for long, comparatively, and he knew the lack of a New World accent must betray him to her if she, despite her alarm, was still capable of thinking. Which, luck willing, she was not. Then he took the great leap: “I am a doctor there.”
It was while studying himself in the tiny mirror in the tiny bathroom on the train that he became a doctor. He looked the part: the expensive-seeming borrowed suit, the carefully trimmed triangular little beard and the moustache that flowed into it. The watchful, deliberately kindly eyes. The neatly cut hair, receding a little, graying a little more than that, but all of it adding to the impression of a man who is carrying the cares of too many other people on his shoulders, though a man who is more than adequately reimbursed.
And this was true—the first part. The number of people he hoped to carry once more on his shoulders was eight. Plus a memory, one year old.
Of snow. Of so much white snow, so much already fallen, so much falling as he tramped from place to place, peddling his shoes. The year’s luck had been good to him, and he had managed to build the capital he earned from selling just a few shoes into a little more and a little more, until, when he started out that day, he had as many shoes to sell as he could carry. But this meant he must walk farther from his home and stretch the truth more often. Because he hadn’t enough capital or strength to carry every single size in every single style.
So sometimes the genuine shoe did not fit the real-life foot, and therefore something had to be manufactured out of words. This was not so much a sin as a necessity; the fault was with the buyer, after all, if she believed him instead of her own cramped feet. And there were nine lives depending on his shrewdness, nine beloved lives. Nine lives plus one, his own. And each of these was familiar to him, was not some credulous stranger. What else could a husband and a father do?
So it was still snowing this other December morning, snow that to him was seeming a wet curse. But as it would turn out, the snow would be a white blessing, because it was mounded up three feet thick near the old brick wall of the row house where they were living on the third floor. Lived.
The wholesaler he bought the shoes from once called them Trinity houses. Three floors, he’d amplified: the Father; the Son; the Holy Ghost. And laughed. Aaron did not get it, but he laughed too, because it was not his habit to be caught out by anything and because the wholesaler seemed to expect it. And afterward he asked around discreetly, but no one knew. No one among the immigrants like himself in the tenements on his block could understand the joke.
Later, when he had worked around a while, gone a little farther away to sell in some of the less Jewish neighborhoods, he unraveled it. The meaning, but more than that, the poverty inherent in these Trinity houses, and the shame. Once the buildings had housed one family only, when they were new—or newer. But now so many people were coming in and needing housing that the smart men with some money were buying up these buildings and breaking them into thirds—one family to a floor. At least in theory.
Where he was living—lived—there were streets full of Trinity houses, one beside the next, rows of them with no space between, sharing their side walls, making, as you looked at them from the street, solid walls of red brick pockmarked with door and windows, door and windows, door and windows, twenty five or thirty on each side of the street all down the block. Block after block. Filled with hard-working, honest people like himself. Plus the occasional gonif. Which it had been, unfortunately, his luck to encounter for a landlord.
How was he to know his landlord was in trouble? Aaron always paid the rent on time. The families who lived in this house of their landlord’s had all paid the rent. So how was it that their landlord went and chose their house to try to ease his tsorres?
Aaron had been a mile or more away that snowy morning when the landlord’s fire started. It was daytime luckily, school time for the two who were in school, work time for the oldest two who had already completed the third grade. But that left four at home with Hannah—and the little one was only three months old, the next, two years, the next one three, then, finally, the four year old. All on the top floor of the building. With its ancient stairwell, open top-to-bottom, clogged with the debris of years.
What happened next Aaron kept constructing over and over again from what he had been told. Waking, sleeping, now leaving Castle Garden in New York, where what he was doing was no more nor less than fighting a war to win his family back. The fire blazed. Hannah and the children were caught upstairs. She tried to send the older ones down the steps, but the fire was already climbing up that way.
There were spectators now, standing on the sidewalk. There were children at the window, his children. And also Hannah. She opened the window. “Jump!” screamed the people on the sidewalk.
She whispered to the oldest little one. He was one of their brave ones. He edged out the window, sat on the ledge for just a moment, took the gamble, jumped. And someone caught him.
Their second now, this one more timid than poor Hannah herself. He did ease himself out the window, he got that far, the neighbors would tell Aaron, but then he sat and measured off the distance between himself and the snow, and sat still, paralyzed.
Inside their room, the smoke was seeping beneath the door, was growing thick enough for the people on the street to see. Hannah whispered to the second one. He would not go. She whispered again. She saw he would not go. She gathered all her courage, the tiny store she’d borrowed from her husband’s excess. She pushed, though gently. He fell and he was caught.
The little ones were easiest—they did not know from fear. Hannah seized the blanket from the bed and then a pillowslip. She wrapped Miriam in the blanket and kissed the two-year-old on her yellow curls and dropped her from the window. And she was caught. Bluma, the baby, went into the pillowslip and over to the window and was dropped. Into the deep snow, which cushioned her fall. The four-year-old ran to her, expecting a corpse, but came up with his baby sister, squalling and alive.
Hannah had stayed too long. By the time she jumped, coughing, her lungs were wrecked. She died three days later, and so the children were dispersed, no longer at home to be with Aaron, to serve him cool water in the summer, his glass of tea in winter, to amuse him, love him.
This stranger on the dock, this little woman, was tugging at his sleeve, a fish waiting to be reeled in, a customer begging to buy shoes that might not fit. He knew every one of his customers by name; he realized now that he did not know this stranger’s. No matter.
“A doctor?” she was asking. “What kind of doctor?”
He weighed her words: curiosity or suspicion? Curiosity, he decided. Luck willing. “How many kinds of doctor are there?” he asked her in return.
He watched until she smiled.
“Married?” she inquired.
He shrugged. “Widower,” he corrected.
“There are children?”
“A couple,” he told her without a second’s hesitation, though fear coursed through him at the thought of how much she might force him to explain. Whether he would have to tell her about his oldest two, left in Europe to fend for themselves because they could; about the two who had been working when the fire started, and worked today, and the two erstwhile schoolchildren, the boy now already working, all four of them now bedding down at night on that staple of immigrant life, the foldout lunchka. And the two who jumped, also farmed out to relatives who had some use for them. And the two who were tossed? Too small to do anybody any good. But somebody in Hannah’s family had heard about some nuns. Who knows how a Jew finds out about nuns; luck excavates the strangest knowledge from the mines. So the two youngest were living with some nuns. Which made Aaron unhappiest of all.
It had been a year. He was here in New York City on borrowed money and borrowed clothing and a profession borrowed until he could achieve the right result. “Well,” he said, as if the idea had just struck him, “you could come with me to Philadelphia.”
The idea, he saw, had not occurred to her until he said it. But she was smiling; she was buying the idea. This is even easier than shoes, he thought. A shame I’ll only get to do it once. Luck willing.
“But I don’t know anybody there,” she said.
“You know me.” He seasoned his voice with hurt. With the hand that did not have possession of her satchel he fingered the watchless chain that Hannah’s cousin’s husband had lent him. He waited. He recognized this as the crucial moment, that he must hurry nothing or the sale would disappear.
She was looking at her satchels, first the one in her own hand, then the one in his. She was looking at his face, examining his clothes. “I know,” she said, then, “I have heard that in your America they do things different. But still—to go with you to this Filadelfer, and I am not, that is, we are not …”
“Married?” He hoped the smile he felt on his lips appeared a kindly one, not the gloating one he’d share only with himself after a pair of shoes was taken. A person should be smart, but the smartest person was the one who knew when to keep from revealing truth.
The little nameless stranger nodded once, sharply.
“But getting married is easy,” he explained. He corrected himself, “Or so they say.”
“You can find somebody right here in New York?”
“So they say,” he answered.
He knew there was, and where—the exact address.
fiction and poetry contest
Marilyn Shapiro Leys
Marilyn Shapiro Leys was born and raised in Philadelphia and migrated to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin. Like her husband and younger son, she majored in journalism; like her older son, she was a teacher.
Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny by Thomas D. Peacock
Little Faith, by Nickolas Butler
A Sweet Thing
Wisconsin People & Idea 2018 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading
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Authorities: Missing Texas man was eaten by his own dogs
By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press |
Updated: Thu 10:48 AM, Jul 11, 2019
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who had been missing for months was eaten, bones and all, by his pack of dogs, sheriff's deputies said.
This May 20, 2019 photo provided by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office shows a medical examiners truck on the property of Freddie Mack's home in Venus, Texas. Authorities said Tuesday, July 9 thatthe 57-year-old Mack, who had been missing for months, was eaten, bones and all, by his dogs. Johnson County Sheriff Adam King says Mack had serious health problems and it's unclear whether his 18 dogs killed him or consumed his body after he died from a medical condition. A relative reported Mack missing in May. (Johnson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Medical examiners said Tuesday that DNA testing determined that pieces of bone recovered from the dogs' feces were those of 57-year-old Freddie Mack, according to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office.
Deputy Aaron Pitts said the 18 mixed-breed dogs apparently devoured all of Mack's body, his clothing and his hair, leaving nothing larger than 2- to 5-inch bone fragments.
"Never have we ever, or anyone we've spoken to, heard of an entire human being consumed," Pitts told The Associated Press. "The bones were completely broken up and eaten."
Mack had serious health problems, and it's unclear whether the dogs killed their owner or consumed his body after he died from a medical condition. "Either way, it is a very gruesome event and we extend our sympathy to Freddie Mack's family," Sheriff Adam King said in a statement.
In May, a relative reported the reclusive Mack missing from his home near Venus, a community of fewer than 4,000 people about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of Dallas, saying the family hadn't heard from him since mid-April.
The aggressive dogs stopped the family from entering Mack's property, and posed problems for deputies, who were eventually able to look around while keeping the dogs away with a "distraction method," according to the sheriff's office.
The deputies couldn't locate Mack and, after days of searching, investigators returned to comb the property. Amid the high grass, they found animal feces containing bits of human hair, clothing and bone. The larger fragments were sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Remains Identification, and were eventually matched to Mack through family DNA testing.
Pitts said two of the dogs were killed by their mates, 13 were put down because of their "aggressive nature" and three have been put up for adoption.
The deputy said that Mack kept his dogs well fed and cared for. The only other time the deputies had dealt with him was in 2017, when Mack called from the hospital to ask if someone could check on his dogs, Pitts said.
"This man loved his animals," he said.
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Our commitment to conservation and a sustainable dive industry
AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO
An integral part of ZuBlu’s business model is a commitment to conservation and sustainable business practices. As well as working with resorts that strive towards more sustainable dive travel, we seek out and showcase conservation projects, organisations and individuals that are making a real difference in the areas where our guests dive.
Our Commitment to Conservation
The marine environment is at a tipping point, struggling against enormous challenges that threaten to destroy the environments and species that first attracted us all as divers to the underwater world.
As such, ZuBlu believes responsible and sustainable practices should be right at the heart of what we do as a travel agent and the travel industry as a whole. If we want our own children to experience the places, environments and cultures we have been lucky enough to explore - the same ones we share with our guests - then we have to ensure that every effort is made to protect and conserve these unique experiences and environments.
Throughout the dive travel industry, there are companies and resorts that are reducing their environmental impact and making their business practices more sustainable, and communities and NGOs striving to protect the reefs, turtles and sharks on which they depend. It is these resorts and communities, and the work they are doing, that we hope to share with you - those that are making a difference in the destinations we ourselves want to dive.
At ZuBlu, we aim to become the first dive travel agency committed to bringing sustainable businesses and local conservation to the fore. We will showcase the resorts that are helping to protect the reefs and jungles that we love; the organisations that are rehabilitating injured turtles, or encouraging villages to stop using plastics; and we ourselves will directly support projects that are making a difference in the areas where we want to dive.
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Green Fins encourages dive centres and snorkel operators, local communities and governments to work together to reduce their environmental impacts. By adopting a Code of Conduct, those business best able to act can minimise negative impacts on the marine environment created by tourism.
The Code of Conduct consists of 15 points, which target environmental threats posed by the tourism industry, both under water and on land. Green Fins members receive training and the tools to promote environmental education and awareness and tapping into both tourists and the dive travel business community.
ZuBlu directly supports the work of Green Fins by donating a portion of its income made from bookings to Green Fins member resorts and dive centres. ZuBlu also encourages its guests to make a similar donation at the time of booking.
Sustainable dive tourism is at the heard of ZuBlu’s business, and by supporting and promoting Green Fins, we believe we can create a positive change in the destinations we feature on our site, and help preserve the marine environment for future generations of divers.
To help our guests make a more informed choice who they would like to dive with, ZuBlu in conjunction with ClearOceans has designed a simple set of 'Environmental Criteria' which we use to assess the sustainable practices employed by a business. Our aim is not to mark down a resort in any way, but to encourage resorts in making the transition to more sustainable practices. We use the following broad categories:
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The Maldivian Manta Ray Project (MMRP) was founded to learn more about the life cycle, population dynamics and habitat usage of the Maldives manta pop...
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RAJA AMPAT RESEACH & CONSERVATION CENTRE
The Raja Ampat Research and Conservation Centre (RARCC) was set up by one of the pioneers of diving in Raja Ampat - Max Ammer of Papua Diving. Max has...
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MALDIVES WHALE SHARK RESEARCH PROGRAMME
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Smithsonian-Affiliated 5-Museum Complex
Tori Peglar
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody with rifle and saddle, ca. 1900.
Photo hand-colored by Adolf Spohr, 1958. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Gift of Richard I. Frost. P.69.1483
He rode for the Pony Express. He knew Queen Victoria. He called Mark Twain a friend. And he entertained thousands with his Wild West shows.
But Buffalo Bill Cody, whose Wild West shows brought him tremendous fame, came from humble beginnings, growing up largely in Kansas. His unlikely rise to international fame seemed to prove that even on the rugged frontier the American Dream was possible. Honoring him, along with the history of firearms, western art, Plains Indian history and natural history is the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyo.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Courtesy photo
Courtesy of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
With five separate museums, the Smithsonian-affiliated complex spans 300,000 square feet, which is equal to five football fields. Your pass is good for two consecutive days, and you may need just that to see everything.
Displays include a lock of Buffalo Bill’s hair, a costume worn by Annie Oakley in the Wild West Show, Bear 104 (a grizzly often seen on U.S. Highway 14 between Cody and Yellowstone that was eventually killed by a car), paintings by Charles M. Russell, 16th-century dueling pistols and the Draper Museum Raptor Experience, which allows guests to see real-life birds of prey including a golden eagle, bald eagle, great horned owl and more.
Meet Amelia and Her Raptor Friends
Amelia the owl. See her at the Raptor Experience where visitors get an up-close-and-personal view of some of Wyoming’s most recognized birds of prey.
Courtesy the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Opened in 2002, the Draper Museum of Natural History portrays the natural world as it appeared to early inhabitants and explorers. Trailing down a circular walkway from the alpine tundra to the plains, one hears the far-off cry of the wolf, the crackle of a forest fire, or a gust of wind whisking the pine trees. Along the way, one develops a keen understanding of the ways humans interact with their environment, especially in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This first natural history museum of the 21st century employs high-tech and interactive audio and visual display panels and open spaces for hands-on entertainment and education for the whole family.
Draper National History Museum
Courtesy Buffalo Bill Center of the West
The Draper Museum Raptor Experience is a live raptor education program that allows us to share some of our area’s most spectacular wild animals with visitors. Get an up-close-and-personal view of some of Wyoming’s most recognized predators, the birds of prey.
See Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (1830 – 1902). Geysers in Yellowstone, ca. 1881. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. 4.77
While at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, do not miss seeing the work of Albert Bierstadt. A western landscape artist, Bierstadt captured scenes from Yellowstone, along with the West's most iconic landscapes, native peoples and animals. Through his art, he hoped to preserve the dignity of native peoples and draw attention to the decimation of American bison.
His work and that of others in the Whitney Western Art Museum offer visions of the American West through the eyes of its master painters and sculptors. Landscapes by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran share gallery space with paintings of the classic West by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, N.C. Wyeth and W.H.D. Koerner.
Learn About the Remarkable Life of Buffalo Bill
Vintage poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London, May 11, 1887.
An understanding of the environment of the West sets the stage for a fascinating look at the life and times of Buffalo Bill Cody in the Buffalo Bill Museum. Visitors of all ages are inspired by the story of this courageous scout who achieved fame throughout the world as a showman and forged a civilization on the barren plains.
Experience the Culture of the Plains Indian
Overlooking the Seasons of Life Gallery in the Plains Indian Museum
The timeless beat of the Indian powwow and the powerful recitation of stories handed down through the ages are among the audio experiences awaiting visitors to the Plains Indian Museum. The use of audio-visual exhibits in combination with one of the nation's largest collections of Native American art and artifacts have created what Crow elder and historian Joe Medicine Crow called a "living, breathing place."
See the Massive Collection of American-made Firearms
Firearms in the American West exhibit.
Courtesy of Buffalo Bill Center of the West
With a projected opening of July 2019, the second-floor renovation of the Cody Firearms Museum in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will be a must-see. Until the renovation is completed, 500 of the museum's top firearms will be on display throughout the rest of the museum's complex.
Why see them? The museum has the world's most comprehensive collection of American firearms, and it reveals insights into the impact of the firearm on history. From Civil War revolvers to Buffalo Bill's Winchester 1873 lever action used in his traveling show "Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" to guns used in Hollywood, you'll learn the stories behind them all.
The fine art of engraved firearms and revolutionary advancements in engineering are among the surprising elements of the story behind one of the world's largest and most important collection of American arms, as well as European arms dating to the 16th century.
As you tour the most comprehensive collection of American-made firearms in the world, see how firearms factories, competition, and production innovations have as much to do with the West as the guns themselves.
720 Sheridan Avenue Cody, Wyoming 82414
centerofthewest.org
Portions of this text are excerpted from Road Trip Yellowstone by Dina Mishev.
Tori is the Co-Brand and Content Director for National Park Trips Media. She specializes in writing inspiring national park travelogues, foodie adventures and personal, heartfelt stories of people who shape our culture.
Wyoming Museums
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Utah Museums
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Idaho Museums
Visit the Rexburg Teton Flood Museum and the Idaho Museum of Natural History.
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Top Museums - 6 On the Way Plus 2 Inside Yellowstone
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Of Cattle and Queens: Buffalo Bill Cody
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National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson
Perched above the Elk Refuge and two miles from Grand Teton National Park, the National Museum of Wildlife Art features more than 5,000 items of animal art.
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